Show y"V ' 'j THE INTRUDERS ANNIE By iOW much arj l offered fcr this fins steel cruiser Detroit — built In 1880 coat me 912S38030 almost as good as new only a bit and I'm sacrificing my old naval stock so as to make room lor a couple of 31) battleships I’ve Just How much asked congress for Do for the Detroit? bear Well $50000? then $25000 No? you Why gentlemen couldn't buy a tugboat at that figure $20000? Is that all? Going goTwenty I am offered ing — gone at $20000!" ' Tha auctioneer was Uncle Sam and tbe occasion was one of his little naval rummage sales held at the navy yard last January Uncle Sam has from $140000000 to $150000000 worth of battleships cruisers monitors gunboats and other miscellaneous craft piled up In hlg naval That Is to say' obsolete the discards or obsolescent types cripples back numbers and total wrecks at present on bis hands cost him tbe tidy sum Indicated for construction alone not counting guns and equipment These latter represent a more or less perishable value too but that’s another story It was doubtless owing to Uncle Sam’s reputation for unsentimentality In regard to superannuated war vessels that general credence was given to a recent rumor that Turkey proposed to purchase trom the United States the four armored cruisers Olympic Saratoga Brooklyn and Kalelgh This rumor was promptly denied from Washington Uncle Sam has no authority In law to dispose of naval vessels to any foreign government Otherwise the Idea was not so very far removed from possibility Three of the four cruisers named are at navy yards or the Naval Academy the fourth one the New York (or the Saratoga as she Is called now) The vessels are being with the Asiatic squadron all of obsolete type but each has contributed to naval history The Saratoga was Hear Admiral Sampson’s flagship at Santiago the Brooklyn was Rear Admiral Schley’s flagship In the same bat (Copyright iu by father?" "No But I am sure this Is my “I am etrnally sure that It Is mine I have no however to your objection using the cabin you hkve chosen as your home? “You have my permission to remain in the cabin In which you are living It is my property but I shajl permit you to remain there” Tbe young man clenched his teeth on the stem of his pipe and stared The girl wrathfully out at the river watched his handsome wrathful profile “Why did you come hre?” she asked presently "A man has a right to visit his own property Why did you come” “A woman has a right to spend a few weeks on her own estate I came here because I was tired of people and places My father bought this land years ago and built the two cabI brought ins my housekeeper and a quantity of supplies and came here to spend a month’’ ”1 came here for a rest and for the I fishing thought I should find my Island unmolested by Intruders" ”1 am not an Intruder” She rose to her feet and stood looking down at him Her white linen hat was pushed to the back of her head and her reddish brown hair waved about her tanned forehead Loose strands of It blew across her dark eyes and on her b 1907 that In December of that year sailed out of HampRoads on the famous cruise — the Alabaha Illinois Maine Missouri Ohio Kearsarge Wlscon-- j Kentucky sin and New Jersey —are out of the front line now Some of them in the recent theoretical coast maparticipated neuvers against New York and Boston but they were technically "sunk” by the submarines and torpedo boats Into For an example of rapid tobogganing look at the three stately protected desuetude Milwaukee and Charleston cruisers St Louis which cost about $3800000 apiece when they s were built In 1902 Even then certain Dick of the navy declared that this type was obsolete before the cruiser triplets went Into commission Be that as It may at the present day these $11000000 worth of crulers are generally regarded as three white elephants which tbe navy Is bothered to know whatTto do with Tbe monitors stand for a picturesque but expensive fad dating from the infancy days of Ironclads In the Civil war of fifty years ago when on a raft” In HampEricsson's small "cbeesebox ton Roads put the Confederate Merrlmac out of If It were not for business and saved tbe nation "past performances” prestige there would not be ten million dollars’ worth of monitors rilstlng In the rivers today Four of these curios which have been within a decade reomdeled Into singleturret coast defenders are the Cheyenne once the Wyoming the Ozark formerly the Arkansas and the Tallahasse and the Tonopah which used to be respectively the Florida and the Nevada When a special class craft Is tried out such for example as the Vesuvius dynamite gunboat of nearly twenty years ago she soon either goes to the lumber attic herself or else puts some other type in the obsolete class In either case Uncle Sara’s grows larger and more miscellaneous Such Is the universal law of naval evolution France and ’Germany’ are In this same England naval Junk business on a vast scale and Italy and Austria In a smaller way The excuse Is the general one of modern milIs the itarism — that competitive war preparation From the financial viewpoint of price of peace the taxpayer the high cost of peace Is about the same as that of active hostilities At any rate the most recent practical lessons of war are applied with marvelous results dt progress to the world's navies and In no country than In the Is this more strikingly exemplified United Stales Walter S Meriwether the naval has shown In Illustration of the deauthority of gunnery since the SpanlBh war velopment tuat hi the target practice of United States warships today the percentage of misses Is actually smaller than the percentage of bits was at Santiago According to the same authority tbe Idea of the modern dreadnought or gun battleship In our own nay Years before tbe originated ton n t ' tle the Olympia was Admiral Dewey’s flagship at Manila Bay and the Kalelgh also of the Manila squadron was under command of Capt Joseph B Coghlan of “Hoch der Kaiser’’ fame The is at tbe Naval Academy the Brooklyn Olympia at the Philadelphia at yard and the Raleigh Mare Island The armored cruiser Brooklyn built at Philis the largest of the vessels adelphia In She Is of 9215 tons’ displacement and named was completed at a cost of $3067915 The next largest of tbe four vessels Is tbe Saratoga York) an armored cruiser of 8200 tons displacement built at Philadelphia In 1891 and costTbe Olyming almost as much as the Brooklyn cruiser built at San Franpia is a cisco In Is a The Raleigh cruiser built at Norfolk at about the same time Both are of the protected type Some of the big armorclads are but recently out of commission or "In reserve” — that means headed for Davy Jones’s locker though as yet the price tag has not been attached Others — for Instance the $20000000 Job lot of monitors — would probably be unsalable at any price as floatable or fighting vessels Admiral Jack Philip’s old battleship Texas which bore the brunt of the fighting at Santiago was rechristened the San Marcos so that her state name might be given to one of the new dreadnoughts Then last spring the venerable was ’towed out Into Chesapeake Bay and set up as a target for the New Hampshire’s big guns and dynamite shells to batter Into scrap Iron from twenty-fivWhat a years constructed ago when the Texas at a cost of was a beauty of the new squadron! $4202121 old flagship Is now the Saratoga— Sampson’s her name to the newer New having surrendered York She has been rebuilt at a cost of more than half a million dollars and Is now In tbe Philippines —the only one of the Santiago fighters In actual commission today Schley’s famous Brooklyn In her declining days reposes peacefully In the League Island navy The Iowa "Fighting Bob” Philadelphia yard Evans’ ship Is in reserve as are also the Massachusetts the Indiana and the Oregon — tbe gallant battleship that Captain Clark brought around the world In record time without a break These' and other good are not yet "all in” by any means Still they couldn’t bold their own In the fighting line with such husky youngsters as say the Connecticut or the North Dakota today much less with the of the Florida type of tomorrow Therefore according to standards they are In the obsolete class When a vessel once gets there as a rule the rest Is silence Even the proud Atlantic fleet battleships of HINRICHSEN Awocutod “It la my Island” ehe said "I beg your pardon for the contradiction” said the young man firmly “It Is my Island” “My father left It to me" “My uncle left It to me" “You have camped on the wrong land There are hundreds of Islands In the river You have chosen by mistake one which belongs to to me” were very "My uncle’s descriptions vivid His Island was a long narrow one with a cabin at each end" “My father’s Island was a long narrow one with a cabin at eacb end Were you ever here with your uncle?” “No Were you ever here with your land” ' first English dreadnought was put In commission plans for two such vessels tentatively called the Feasible and the Possible r In the navy depart posed In dusty pigeonholes ment at Washington were resurrected They later hi the light of developments abroad seagoing battleships and dread noughts— beginning with the Indiana Massachu setts and Oregon group laid down In 1891 and In eluding the new $8900000 dreadnoughts New York and Texas yet unborn — may be said to constitute the main line of Uncle Sam’s sea fight ers The other battleship groups and types In are 2 Iowa 3 chronological succession Illinois sarge and Kentucky 4 6 Virginia consln Maine Ohio Missouri Rhode Island New Jersey Georgia Nebraska Kansas Connecticut Louisiana Vermont New Hampshire Minnesota Mississippi and Idaho After these beginning In 1905-with the neardSouth Carolina and Michigan come readnoughts the present dreadnought series: North Dakota Delaware Florida Utah Arkansas Wyoming Texas and New York In the meantime as demonstrated In the mlmlo "Battle of Block Island” this summer the submarines have practically proved the battleships vulnerable therefore outclassed and obsolescent These maneuvers may be said to have borne out the prediction of a plank In the "Proposed Platform for the Amerlcan Party published in J907 “We deslr that the American navy shall be the most powerful and efficient In the world but we consider that new Inventions have displaced or are about to displace the battleship cruiser and monitor and therefore hesitate to make further appropriations for these types of fighting craft” Conservative statesmen In the United States senate have denounced the vast appropriations for armored ships — sums estimated In tbe aggregate at more than $10000000 — as a bad Investment They have stigmatized the United States to navy as "a lot of old tubs more dangerous those on the Inside than to those without” Even In Is of the the dreadnought day England to submarine— while beginning to decline the say nothing of the war aeroplane — Is yet in Infancy At this rate ere long our congress may bear the cry of the advocates changing to "Millions for development of the not one cent more for dreadnoughts!” The naval men themselves are not slow to read tbe sign of coming change It may be only a question of a very few years when the gun capageneral adoption of a ble of shooting with accuracy at a distance of fifteen miles will revolutionize naval warfare and 8ch a gun Is now In rardeess of U It proves a success it will make all the coast defenses of today practically useless "There Is no doubt” declares Rear Admiral Francis T Bowles U S N retired "that a fleet equipped with the new gun of the latest type could raze New York or any other seaport In less than an hour It seems to me that the answer to this problem of coast defense is made I believe that tbe submarine by the submarine going to be taken more seriously every year by naval experts It 1b the most deadly enemy the battleRhl an She Sat Up and Listened rounded cheeks “I shall return to my cabin” she announced "If at any time you wish to consult me In regard to matters such as a tenant usually desires to discuss with bis landlord with me Otheryou may communicate wise do not address me" The young man Jumped to his feet “Oh I say Miss Sheldon” be pleaded all the wrath gone from bis face “don’t be cross Just because I Insist that I own this Island Won’t you come out for a row with me? The water is fine and I’m awfully lonesome" Miss Sheldon looked from him to tbe river Tbe setting sun threw a golden light over the river and the trees Tbe steady soft lapping of the water on the sand the occasional call of a bird tbe splash of & fish were the She looked only sounds on the Island back at the young man "I’ll go” she agreed A week later they were sitting on the sand at tbe water’s edge near the cabin “Ethel” be said “these have been We came here stranglorious days gers to eacb other and now — ” She shook her head slowly There were tears in her eyes “We quarrel all tbe time” she began "Only on one subject” be Interposed "But we shall never agree on that so do you I one I claim tbe Island don’t care for tbe property But tbe serious fact is that we cannot compromise Neither will yield to the other Just now tbe Island Is the cause of between us Later somedisagreement thing else will be equally provocative of trouble" "I’ll deed you tbe Island and then we need never quarrel over it again" "It Is not yours to give away It Is mine and I shall give It to you” "You can’t It Is mine and I shall give It to you for a wedding present We’ll come here every summer after we are married” You may "We shall not be married have tbe Island I shall give It to you But a marriage between us Is Impossible You are too obstinate too unwillyour mistakes —" ing to acknowledge A moment later her cabin door ft Literary Press) slammed but Bertram Hay was walkbis cabin that ing so rapidly toward be did not bear tt was Sheldon That night Ethel Some one was awakened suddenly She sat up and shaking the door The listened housekeeper slept Tbe soundly shaking continued Heavy blows were struck on the door voices There was a growling of men’s A m'an’s bead appeared at the window The attack on and then vanished the door ceased There were footon tbe sand and then the ratsteps tling of oars and the swish of a boat Ethel ran Into tbe next room and shook the housekeeper into terrified wakefulness Two frightened hastily dressed women ran down the beach to the other cabin half a mile away At the first call under his window Bertram staggered up and threw on his clothes Far down the river they could hear the regular dip of oars The boat was going toward the town two miles In tbe distance Bertram rowed Ethel aud the maid "I shall sleep In back to their cabin the hammock on your porch the rest “You of the night" he announced will rest better if you know there 1b a protector on guard” The next morning a skiff landed before Ethel’s cabin A man wearing on star his flannel shirt a stepped from the boat ‘Tve brought you notice to move” he announced “Tbe owner of this island wants to move In and you young folks are to leave" “The owner?” Tbe question came from two pairs of lips "Mr John Brown owns this Island He came here with some friends last night and found his cabin occupied He banged on the door and nobody answered One of the men looked through the window and saw In the moonlight a young lady looking scared to death left then and They all Mr Brown sent rowed back to town me out this morning to tell you folks he’d like bis property" "But It’s my Island” exclaimed two voices The officer of the law grinned "There are lots of Islands around "None of ’em are here" he explained worth much under water half tbe time and people camp on ’em In the summer and are not too particular about whose Islands they help themselves to Why don’t you folks camp on your own Islands? You've each got one with two shacks on It Miss Sheldon yours is a mile north of the town and Mr Hay yours Is Just beyond the next bend of tbe river" After tbe officer bad gone they sat for some time In silence “It la net my Island” said Ethel "It Is not my Island and I am glad of It The cause of our trouble tbe ownership of the Island is gone — It never existed” be something “But there would else” “It would vanish as this has done Besides you need me or you would not have run to me last night when You need a proyou were frightened tector” “A landlord may go to a tenant for But the rest of the sentence help—" murmur against was an unintelligible his coat USE FOR OLO MAGAZINES Periodicals Serve as Amuseand for ment for Children Decorative Purposes Discarded deal of good can be done after the family old magazines finished reading them Let tbe children in the family or in your have the maga family neighbor’s zinea from which they are allowed td cut pictures for paper dolls scrapCut out all book or toy furiture Interesting articles that you will wish to refer to in the future and paste them In a scrapbook for that purpose Pictures that are good enough to be kept lay away in a flat box soma day these may afford the children or yourself a great deal of happiness in framing or for decorative purposes One woman has her attic bedroom papered with good pictures cut from magazines They are arranged in an artistic manner and are the Joy of all the children In the neighborhood who her weave rodelight In bearing mances about each picture are then The magazines relegated to the kitchen where they are used to rub off the hot irons or as a pad under hot pots and pans that are taken from the stove and set upon the table When the pages are scorched or soiled they are torn off and thrown away leaving a clean one underneath Lastly they are used to start the fire or to produce a little extra heat for the browning of a cake If the oven Is not quite hot enough A great with have at First a character speech as might be Let me supposed quote one example In England we choose tbe short but will not plagiarize and say uglier word "motor” wbereae In America the word “motor” le never used but the longer and more difficult one “am tomoblle” la— Rev Dr John Clifford of London And Mispronounced so much Brevity Is not stlc of American V J l! |