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Show ELECTRIC CANNON OF projectile leaving a gun at terrific speed, yet having no backward push. Whether powder or compressed air is used in the ordinary gun. there Is a powerful recoil, proportionate to the THE BALLADE OF THE THIN MAN. , 8a Coast Cities Could De Destroyed charge and the weight of the weapon. by Shells from Ships Far Out It may be surmised that the electric I can do nil that most men lo. at Sea Beyond Range of projectile is not driven, but drives it- I That Is In common run of things; shave nrys-lf. nJy It, loo. self by means of propellers, constitutOrdinary Guns. Can take a clock ami mend Its springs. ing an aerial torpedo or a Can mow the lawn at break of day, An. electric cannon with a range of aeroplane of destruction. Full many a poker haml Ive dealt; 200 miles Is said to bo one of the rethe way There is no sound or smoke. Tho But. (. I've never To wear my trousers with u belt. cent developments In war equipment, initial velocity is 20,000 feet a second. tidings of such a tremendous weapon This is traveling close to six miles a I smoke until the air Is (due. And I can blow u dozen rings; With second, a speed heretofore undreamed having come from England. Sometimes I'm out at night till 2, such a cannon France could easily of for projectiles of any sort other im p I take my flings. Half a mile a second is about the AtLike destroy great cities of England, and 40, baseball I still play. I can welt; England could as easily do ths same limit for powder-driveThe swiftest projectiles. . by France. never learned the way Ive O, But, could her Germany , plant To wear my trousers with a belt. batteries 200 miles from the French .. .border and blot out great cities, and At fishing I'm a wonder, too, I am the man that always brings . the French could give them tit for tat. when my sport Is through. A Homewards, on of could the gun placed top Alps t The largest tlsh, the biggest strings. destroy countless millions of dollars What other men can do, I say. . worth of property. To undertake no fear Ive felt; But I have never learned the way would Boston 200 If a fleet .. .JIowj feel To wear my trousers with a belt. ...miles, out In th,e Atlantic were able to train guns on her?. . Or. how would LENVOI. Canada feel If from, a position well .! Prince, If you youre thin as I ; If nature stingily hath dealt : on the United. States gjd of the Cana-,.,Ia- q With you, 1 need not further say, .boundary we. were able to hurl I can't depend upon a belt. huge she.Is at her? Detroit Free Press. . .Some wireless scout might report that a missile was on the - way. It Disconcerting Candor. would take a full minute, eTen with I was very glad," said Dr. Goodthe' enormous Ibitial velocity of six man, to see you in church last Sun: mileja a second, for the destructive vls-- ? day glad, and also flattered. I had ; ltor to arrive. A minute Is long enough hardly hoped that my eloquence would :get thoroughly scared In, but prove more attractive to you than Hostile at of Boston Fleet. Mercy scarcely gives the opportunity for an your regular Sunday morning game of entire population to escape. to The electric weapon is able propel golf. If there were any sound accompany-In- g missiles of any desirable dimensions Oh, replied the man who believed the discharge, it would be heard and weight up to 2,000 pounds. in being candid at all times, it wasnt 16 about minutes after the arrival of It is imaginable that at a distance your eloquence, exactly. I have re... the projectile. Probably no warning of 60 miles the velocity would be suf cently been having a severe attack would be given.' ficient to bore any battleship or build of rheumatism in my right shoulder. Let the wireless buzz and the aero- Ing with a solid projectile,. while the Chicago Record-Herald- . planes go scouting at all points of the mere conveyance of high explosives compass in search of the destroyer at a greater range would be sufficientHER CANDID OPINION. ' of cities. Boston might be blotted out ly destructive. In the i few' hours required, with the It Is assumed that 200 miles will be best luck, to find the enemy. And if the effective range. At this estimate the location of the enemy is known at the natioio of Europe could mutually the beginning, and fire fights fire, the devastate their cities without overenemy has a city for a target, while stepping frontiers. A small anarchishe defenders must aim at a tiny bulls- - tic state could blow up half a dozen Bombs could be diseye.' metropolises. Such speculations would seem to be-- - pensed from London to a circuit of ong to the school of novelistic dream-r- s cities including Liverpool, Amsterdam, of the future. However, they are Brussels and Paris. The channel as matters no advanced to a duel not obstacle would joberly very interpose far over the future horizon by Col. between the French and English capiFrederic N. Maude, C. B., a military tals, torpedoes flying through the air . authority and lecturer in military his-tor- y In opposite directions to destroy Westat Manchester university, in Eng-lan- minster and the Pantheon, the houses ' of parliament and the louvre. !v It appears to Col. Maude, writing in The dirigible balloon ,nd the aerothe Contemporary Review, that ' the plane are the only means suggested to " Invention of the electric gun is the cope with the new terror. They might greatest discovery of; the age. It is explore the country, locate the enemy ' the invention of Mr. Simpson, former-- . and drop packages of dynamite on him De Auber How do you like my Uy .'known as a Metallurgical expert. It unless he annihilated them first with is unlike any gun ever known, since it an aerial torpedo. The airships, how landscape? Do you think I can imhas no recoil. The lay mind can ever, will likely become complement- prove it any? Miss Cutting You might try. You hardly conceive the possibility of a ary to warfare by electric gun. cant make it any worse! WAR ENGINE WITH RANGE TWO HUNDRED MILES. , self-directe- " d n THE PEBBLE HIS SHOE. IN Down along n prlmrouc way Where gentle bivcz.-A peuslinlst fared all the day And wore u pt bble In one blew aui-i-tl- ho Hit fare wan blackened by a frown. He seemed to bear a nameless dread; He heard no music sifting down Through leafy brunches overhead. Although the wot Id was nt It best. With Penre untroubled on her throne, lie carried sorrow In his breast And hopelessness was In his tone. pP.-hln- . along a primrose way Where gentle breezes sweetly blew The pessimist fared all the day And kept the pebble In his shoe. 8. E. Kiser. In Chicago Kecord-HeralDown d. SHE KNEW THOSE FRIENDS. to-da- y, .to . . ! d. ! ' 1 MARITIME ADVICES. rh(e Vhoneymooners, of Hymens Line, Set sail for the Matrimonial Sea, . Clearing the Port of Saint Valentine, y we see, The fourteenth instant. By our advices, the bark was blown By the gales so sure in the early cruise, For which these waters are badly known, But the storm was weathered without a SHORTSIGHTED. The peasant in the fable was elected justice of the peace, and he hadnt fined more than a motorist or two be fore he got an idea. Theyre so blamed easy, bgosh, soak quoth he, quaintly, why not ' ' to build a new em for enough bruise. , town hall? .Later: we learn she spoke a fleet It looked good to him, and straightOf Hymen Liners and held their course, But nearly fouled with a craft that beat way he began imposing such enormotorists Across her path for the port Divorce. mous fines that soon Soon after,, passing a wreck, they lent were actually reducing their speed to The one survivor a friendly lift; the legal limit. Then, warned by the fall of the glass, Alas! Ive killed the goose that 'they sent, The interloper once more adrift. laid the golden egg! he cried, hereand dolefully wondered how he One' year from sailing the stores were upon, ever look his constituents in should ' seen " the face again. Puck. To be decreasing by far too fast. The. ipate took hold, and the skippers been It Might Have Been. Amazed at the fashion the rations last. I think, said the ordinary citizen, Our last advices report the boat Is sailing happily on a sea that I have met you before. note and further (All;warm sunlit;, they Perhaps you have perhaps you crew has recently grown to three. The d ' young have, replied the Layton Brewer, in Puck. t ' To-da- , , . . i: , . . . ' . , . long-haire- I . Shakespeare: Oh, what a goodly side falsehood hath. out- man who had at last succeeded in selling one of his poems to a magazine. Chicago Record-Heral- d. Mistress early to-da- y, must get dressed Jane, for I have friends You coming to see me. Jane Yus, mum. An shall I move the humbrellas? re-- Why He Didnt Go. The German emperor recently canceled an engagement to take luncheon with Prince von IIohenlohe-Bar-tenstein. Prince Von Prince von Solms-LIch- , Prince von Stolberg-Rossia- , Prince von Prince von Benthelm-Stein-fur- t . and Prince von The people of Germany cant understand why he didnt go. It Is probable that he was afraid of getting hyphenated. Stolberg-Wernl-gerod- e. Salm-Hostma- r, Salm-Salm- Chicago Record-Herald- . Necessary Work. Your wifes away, Isnt she? Egbert She is. And who Is her understudy? Her what? Her understudy who darns your socks when shes away? Yonkers Bacon Statesman. HOPELESS. How She Lost Her Prestige. Mistress (angrily) How dare you talk back to me in that way? I never You have a heard such impudence! lot of nerve to call yourself a ladys maid. New Maid I dont call myself that now, maam; but I was a ladys maid before I got this job. Her Only One. You ought to be Crimsonbeak Mrs. arrested for making me go on the street with that same old dress an- other season! Mr. Crimsonbeak Well, dear, youd probably be arrested if you went on the street without wearing , it! Yonkers Statesman. Didnt Broaden Him. They say that travel broadens a man, said the dark woman. Well, I dont know about that, reEditor (as a manuscript falls on My husband plied the light woman. a car on floor, instead of in the waste basket) has been a conductor trolley Even that basket wont accept it! for seven years, and see how thin he U! Yonkers Statesman. Meggendorfer Blaetter. |