| Show william foulk treasurer or it the morlean A bible society wants wanta contributions to send new testaments to uie the army no ho says pays tho the mon man are for tho the moot part eager car for or them and only it a few ew a vory very lev few it will III not hot tike take them tho the nral shipment erat of 0 P IX fla to none hand end and almost gone wo bent beat 3 buc o ilo aou u to tho the transports and tho ilia mon men rambled to ret get thina tied hail we me shipping no me could ha litho a uncil lined emio on as bally TO iiii s mr W laird clou cloies eg in the last engineering gi magazine points out tho the detects defects of the lie american navy in power of 0 rapid mobilization it seems seeing to us that the ilia brilliant critic has missed tho the main aniala I 1 point the trouble mass mas that there were not net ships enough when the sampson squadron started out in order to make lubko it elicie efficient nt some boine ships not intended for anything but coast tie dc ense en sewera were obliged to join his squadron ati and as their speed was but ten knots the weed speed of 0 the tha fleet had to be reduced I 1 to that pace with ships enough to have made up the squadron either with battleships or cru cruls iscis cis there As hat hai e been no delay consul general blanco must be a little daxl daal in ills his troubles in If havana avana one day ho he wants to commit suicide tho the next he grieves because ot of his nee age and he could spend a long life in 1 the service of 0 spain and row cow survey I 1 ing a starving stan trig army and atar ing city in the grandiloquent adjectives ot of his race he a proclaims how hon he n v III surely drive the invader back in defeat find and dismay v ile iia la Is another spanish wallar wall cr with chlde opan eyes lie he sees bees nothing but he reflection of ot a glory bat la Is set bet and babbles 0 oft triumphs Y fr ajr bill nation which are alov nevermore I 1 r mare to lie be realized vt unit the tha nation breaks the otters fetters that ait upon it anti and goes through something like a second birth admiral dewey dewcy has not tailed failed in any particular since he be reached manila ile ha abw he Acet liand the shore batteries order Ile convinced the ger wan ciari that if lie ho continued jn jis hla his course it would be liable to be ve varr r daral tat sc blechl for him and now we are arc expecting lo 10 hear that he Is 13 putting some clamps on the head of if that young air Agur who must to an old salt sail like the admiral seem the he least bit fresh ile he may wait for gen merritt to that duty but it need surprise no lie one it if he ha attends to the matter mailer himself as a reminder that lie la is there to put lonn insurrection and lauless fes no matter in bhae form it may be developed prime minister Sa sagasta gastil raid eald the other day to a represent athe 0 of EL 1 millton Mill tor the americans americana have bavo no stood need to light fight they havo have only to sit down doaa patiently and iva wait it until starvation tion furica our bravo men to surrender that Is no doubt true but why does ho he not say that to the queen regent hegent and the spanish people why does docs he not FOLY eay our fleets have bave been destroyed st the very strongest power in this world is blockading tile tho harbors of oc our colonies behind the block i fleets a great army is standing an in army that can be increased to 10 millions self preservation dictates that we ask for peace lit ha does not do it because he dare not lie he Is a moral and physical coward I 1 tile the other morning a correspondent asked us if scotland and ireland had independent flags we answered the question but wo me have received a protest from bome sons of old asking ills DB bihy ihy by we did not also explain thit that england angland has no flag th the 0 reason wait waa because we were not asked about england but a fair reading of the article wo ind think will establish that asland no more has haa an air independent nag flag than either of the other I 1 two we nationalities england had bad it a national flag so hall had scotland so had bad ireland cut but when scotland gale england a wing king and a union of 0 the two countries was waa perfected the two flags were blended and when later behind ii eland was vas included in tho the union then three thice flags I 1 were blended into what is 16 now it a sign for all the billish elitists union jick and it if the welsh are satisfied there ought light to be hari harmony nany till all around A misapprehension emia exists a aa to the cost of firing the bis big guns euna on our wallis ships it la Is frequently stated slated that ench each discharge disi I 1 costs cost about 1000 that calculation lation as rests upon the assumption that the life of a great gun in 19 ech awaited in I 1 about one hundred shots an and d the cost of the gun was included in th the e cost ot of trine firing one hundred rounds put but by practice it has bas been demonstrated that a big gun will like a pistol last indefinitely ina ins tho this cost of a HOO 1100 pound cast steel shell Is about afao SOT but this shell Is tor for armor piercing and Is 14 only used against ships thi the or binary also shell 11 costs much less the smaller gun chaides art are of course proportionately cheaper lit in angland the big gans bans after about it a hundred discharges begin to aae at the muzzles les but our bursi tire are of better belter materile man mater ild our cousins across the tea soft have not net cl I 1 caught carlat the to malke perfect curs c i t tile the toughest problem belfore befits ca tho the 6 of our caan country io oday ay Is the establishing wieck wick ot of three hundred years ot of I 1 blanish misrule honest honc st and progressive governments in the west indies and philippines the memory or oc man not net back to the time when either had an honest captain general with wholesale stealing at the head of course all tirades grades of grand crand and petty larceny have been practiced steal iny ing long ago became the settled rule slid and the people undisturbed fall oa oathy ha expert expect nothing eloe ele taa chil chances cea ato arc fen an 6 to cane that the people 1111 rebel against it a chano change of that scale iule and that mat a modern modern non butler mill III be needed as in III every considerable toun fonts in tile the islands for a year or two at least after american occupation the borrup lion goes to every department dupart ment and the work of redemption will bo be a tough one it all require resolute magistrates and they flioy will MIR have to 1 b backed by either cither police or military protection |
