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Show THE BEE I fHG DEAD 5URH THING. kliaI alwuy take the chance E In our i out Important fccheme, For the fellow win who linger in an utiuother of dream Ye, lie w in hen eer the v erd lo come along on airy wing, For there' nothing o uncertain a a DBD SURE THING. i , . It' the man who never worrle who it never throwu ker flop. Cal Inf not a continental i what keep him on the top. Of the fate of au Investment he will never groan or ing, For there' uothliif so uncertain a a DEAD SURE THING. It'a th'e wiftet horse that itumhle and the bknte the shekels feta. And the oaatie raoat E'en Divorce endurinf in t lie f rewaoino presence the aprinf, For there nothluf so uncertain The biggest guns in the navy are forty-ninfeet long, big enough for a man to crawl into; four feet iu diameter at their largest part aud weigh 1115,500 pounds or thereabouts. Sorje of them may be tired 12 miles, farther than a man can see, for they are aimed and sighted by machinery. It costs $500 every time one is fired. The fastest vessels in the navy are the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont, each of which can travel 27.5 knots a hour. But Spain has a torpedo destroying boat that makes K) knots an hour and this fact is causing serious reflection ou the part of our naval officers. Great Britain has 201 torpedoes and torpedo-boa- t destroyers; Uncle Sam has only eight. Spain has six destroyers and seven torpedo boats, a most formidable squadron when the speed aud capabilities of such a flotilla are considered. But iu a storm this week she lost one boat and was otherwise slightly crippled. Sixty-on- e merchant vessels belong to the auxiliary navy. These ships are subsidized and by contract must be given to the United States on demand. The amount expended by the navy department in 1897 was $31,501,510. This is a larger sum than has been expended in any year since 180G. The armor covering of a battleship is of nickel steel from five to seven inches thick, beneath which there is a padding of either corn pith or cocoa husks. In a battle the woodwork aud all articles of wood are either stowed below or thrown overboard lest the men be injured by splinters. e i cyclone pirouette; thrill the love song of ns n DEAD 8UKE THING. If. K. MlNKIXThK K. ADVERTISING. Thn merchant swore by all the' gods benenth the starry skies That, though he lived u thousand years, hed never advertise. Buterea year, deipite the boast he confidently flaunted. He ran an ad. beneath the head of Situation Wanted. Denvek Post. NOTES OF OUR NAVY. Wars of the future will be on water. The United States ranks fifth as a naval power. Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy rank ahead. Germany and this nation are about the same strength. The land forces of Germany are much strong- er, however. We have four battle ships of the first class and three of the second class. We have two armored cruisers, eighteen cruisers, fifteen gunboats and one ram. We have six double turreted monitors, one dynamite gunboat, one transport and eight torpedo boats. We are fitting up newly purchased yachts for torpedo boat destroyers, naval scouts and dis-datc- h boats. Five battle ships are now building and two submarine terpedo boats are in course of construction. The Brooklyn and the New York are our armored cruisers, the Indiana, Iowa, Texas and Massachusetts armored ships. Battle ships are for heavy fighting, cruisers are commerce destroyers, monitors useful for coast defense and torpedo boats for general destruction. Smokeless powder is used and shot weighing 1,200 pounds can be thrown from five to ten miles at the rate of four a minute. Each battle ship has on board an electric plant capable of lighting a town of 5,000 inhabitants, and the boilers of the Iowa hold thirty tons of water. The powder used is brown and in chunks the size of a caramel. A charge for the biggest guns weighs 500 pounds and is hoisted to the breech by a derrick, the powder being sewed up in burlap bags. Armor plates are tested by firing steel weighing from 100 to l,o00 pounds at them from guns'charged with 500 pounds of powder and at a distance of about a city block. Our battle ships have a speed of from fifteen to seventeen knot3 an hour. Cruisers make nineteen to twenty-fou- r knots, while the monitors can travel only five to seven knots. pro-jectile- s According to the Herald there was something said in the Tabernacle last Sunday particularly worth preserving. In the course of President George Q. Cannons remarks he said: Members of the church will stand steadfast even if the presidency might fall, and there will always be enough of the faithful remaining te Another adcarry on the work successfully. vantage referred to by President Cannon was that most of the male members of the church hold the priesthood, and will remain faithful even if those high in authority apostatize. Park Record : This is the way the editor of the Provo Enquirer is paying for his recent appointment to the postmastership, aud it simply stamps him as a cringing old sycophant; Perhaps the bolters will be buffeted so Beverly by Democrats that they will yet conclude to come back into the Republican party for the coming campaign. Had not Senator Cannon not voted against protection and so severely denounced the administration, he could have been a leader iu the re united Republican party and perhaps been re elected. CHAMP CLARKS EULOGY. From the Congressional Record is culled an excerpt from the speech of Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri that should endear him to the heart of every country editor, of whom he says: He is the packhorso of every community, the promoter of every laudable enterprise, the worst underpaid laborer iu the vineyard. Counting his space as his capital he gives more to charity, his means considered, than any other memler of society. He is a power in politics, a pillar of the church, a leader in the crusade for better morals. He is the friend of humanity. Line upon line, paragraph upon paragraph, dav after day, he is embalming in cold type the facts from which the Herodotus. Tacitus, Sismondi or Macaulay of the future will write the history of our times. He fully chronicles our advent into the world, briefly notes our uprisings and downsittiugs, and sorrowfully records our exit. We are all more or less generally more his handiwork, and the creature should not be imgrateful to his creator. Without his generous and enthusiastic labors most of us would never have been here; and, when he tires of us, most of us will retire to private life amid rural scenes propitious for secret meditation and silent prayer. pre-eminentl- y Working night aud day during the campaign, when the election is over and the time comes for the distribution of the loaves and fishes now by some strange lapse of vulgarly called pie memory he is generally forgotten. Manager McGarvie has taken hold of the St. Joe carnival in earnest and the papers are full of his doings. Mr. J. B. Bloor who accompanied him is in charge of the press bureau and has decided to remain permanently in St. Joe. Jim is one of the best all round newspaper men in the country and.wil make his mark in old Missouri if he goes ati6ut" it in the right way. CANNON AND HIS CHANCES. The Provo Enquirer is sore on Senator Cannon. It asks for a Republican reconciliation in this State and offers to meet the Tribune and Ogden Standard more than half way, but it washes its hands of Frank. It is understood that Hon. John Henry Smith whose name appears daily at the head of the Enquirers editorial page as of its publishing company, is also opposed to the senator not only seriously but bitterly. The Enquirer says After the election, the silver Republicans were again divided. There was a class entirely disheartened, who could see daylight only through Democracy. Senator Cannon was the leader of this class, and he has sought to lead his followers right into the Democratic ranks. His first step was to denounce protection and finally to vote against it. Then later he wanted admittance to the Democratic party on the entente He went so far as to promising his tell the Salt Lake Herald, after his return from China, that he was no longer a Republican. But with all the humiliating acts on the part of Senator Cannon, the Democracy of the state wants nothing to do wyith him. They call his work, with some justification, an eleventh hour repentance which does not entitle him to the honorable recognition which he covets. They say he should have entered the party, as did other Republicans in 1896, instead of fighting it until he saw himself hopelessly defeated. The other wTing of the silver Republican party was unwilling to follow Senator Cannon in his warfare against protection and the administration, and it stands with the Republican party today. So the party is in very good fighting trim, considering the blunder of 1896, and will carry most of the southern counties of the State. If the Cannon contingent, which included the Salt Lake Tribune, would also come back, Republicans would stand u splendid show of carrying the State. vice-preside- riORE GEHS FROn THE HERALD. : 'Spain asks for delay because she wants the earth. What more appropriate than that Cain(e) should be placed in water, which is its natural element. If war comes, and it looks as though it would, every banner state. state in the Union wrill be a A submarine torpedo boat to be known as the Plunger is now under construction. Like all plungers it will go in star-spangl- ed (the) deep. n. THE BEE i IS ON . THE WING. LOOK OUT FOR IT. |