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Show e 'V 4 & S ?a Ti rfr WEAPONS USED AGAINST OUR 'SOLDIERS IN. THE PHILIPPINES. (f rOTPW UWW kJW ywkgM'iuo'jwiar'wwnuH (Special Letter.) HE National Balloon Park v which our army la building Fort Mver, across the Potomac, near Washington, til be the moat modem post of the kind In the world. It will concentrate signal corps instruction to one place, the poets at Fort Logan, Col., the Presidio. San Francisco, and San Antonio, Tex., having oeen abol- nan . Balloons for Warfare. cw Thank to the efforts of Prof. Paul Beckwith, curator of the historical collections, the National Museum has just Received a complete set of the various types of cutting, slashing and decapitating weapons used in the Philippine Islands. The major portion of this collection was purchased from a Mr. plarklns, a young Georgian collector at present serving with the army In the Philippines. In making this collection Professor Beckwith and Mr, Markins have for months applied themselves to the Study of the extensive lore of these yreapona. As a result Prof. Beckwith the classification and nomenclature of their makers is accepted throughout the Philippines, Borneo and surrounding Malay islands. The blades,' made of steel, rivaling the famous swords of Japan, are made la rude furnaces out of the excellent "bog iron found on their Islands. The various weapons, usually called "bolos In the United States, are known by the natives under the following names: The borong, a weapon denoting civil rank to its owner, such as officer of the council, judge or administrative Sulu, and officer. back and ends of No. 1 are ornament- tWik prong running upward, making ed with fluting and small holes per- pi(kaadle almost as long as the blade, forated In the metal, while on the pint one attempts to strike with this finds a 'Ms this prong comes in contact handles of all campilans one "sword-breakers. ' 1 the users elbow, preventing free set of staples," known as 4 the implement Professor Beck- - ished. One of the largest 'balloon bams la heHevet that tbla weapon may bt Prof. Beckwith explains the swor the world has been erected within the eeremonlal purposes and used bj breaker" was found bn every sworn we I'm priests. new park. This is a great, rectangular, used In Europe , during the middle The terclada Is the In the weapon carried corrugated Iron building with a slantages, and has survived only the commanding officers, and has a ing roof and great doors which throw Philippines In the campilan. In battle of the handle of ornamental woods open the entire front end of the strucSorjeous catch point the soldier seeks to ture. The stse of these swinging doors the blade of his enemys weapon Inn, M4 of few jewels. The bolo Is carried this staple oa the handle of his cam-pllaby the crews of gives some hint as to the proportions when by n quick turn he snaps vessels and is the favorite weapon of of the monster which will make ita exthe Malay pirates. ' its and Its entrances through them. the blade of his opponent In two. A dragon is to abide within the Iron walls of this great barn. This dragon Is to be employed to help fight Uncle Sams future battles. If all things come to pass as they are now being prophesied by army officers, this war dragon will belch forth fire, like tta mythical ancestors; will devour men by tbe hundreds; will wipe formidable fortresses from the face of the earth. Uncle Sama war dragon Is the twin brother of tbe flying monster with which the German army lately equipped ItselL -- It Is an airship which combines all of tbe virtues of the kite and captive balloon; which eliminates the evils of both. To stray rather broadly from classical simile. It may be best described as a giant sausage, tilted up on one end and having a smaller sausage curled up over Its lower extremity after the fashion of the squirrels talk This smaller envelope sucks up air which presses against a diaphragm or partition within the larger envelope and thus keeps the covering of tbe latter,, always snugly tight, regardless of how much the gas contained therein may expand or contract: The entire balloon la held by a cable and remains poised at the same angle which the kite presents to the upper air currents. Like the kite, it files higher and higher the fasterths wind blows, whereas the ordinary captive balloon dips lower and lower at the speed of the breexe quickens. Inside the great barn le to be Installed every equipment for filling the monster and his consorts with gas. For Inflation hydrogen will be employed. A complete plant for Its manufacture will be an Interesting adjunct to the big balloon bouse. A smaller corrugated iron building has already been erected. Tbe gaa manufacturing and compressing plant will later be Installed within It The hydrogen will be compressed Into cylinders eight feet long, three or tour Inches la dlamether, end with con ' tents of one cubic foot of the gaa, very highly compressed. Hundreds of these tubes, after having been charged at the The weapon marked talibong, No. 2,, The qulnbasl is the weapon of gen-.- 1 new compressing plant, will be borne is nearly four feet In length. It Is utility, the Jackknife carried by to the balloon house In wagons and used with both hands. The handle Is ery Fillplna, while the pun&l de krls connected to the main valve of the new of wood, half the length being wrapped !$ the small knife carried by women by rubber pipe. with planted bamboo. Tho tali bong and children, Chicago Tribune. The army now has two other new Is carried by every fifth soldier, and Is captive war balloons. Both of these are used for decapitating the enemys d bed late, al class. The larger to went Victoria of the Queen wounded left on the ground. j, The sundang Is carried by the labor- though she was a comparatively early Is 40 feet In diameter, has capacity of A was deputed 14,000 cubic feet of gas and will carry ing classes and used for cutting cane, iker, ' four men. The smaller holds 13,000 cuclearing land, etc.,: much as the ma- t4 read her to sleep. bic feet of gas and will carry three chete la used In the West ..Indies,- -. -The pira is the strangest of all FilNo heroine on the stage can hope men, with all necessary signal apparaipino weapons, and thus far Professor to get applause from Abe women in the tus., , . Beckwith has been unable to determine sudienee when her virtue triumphs unThe envelopes of these two ita use. The handle Is made of cara-bo- a, less she shows her happiness by crying balloons are made of goldbeaor water buffalo horn, with a long, in a gurgling way. ,, ters skin, a membrane taken from tbe entrails of tbe bullock and subjected to various stages of curing. Each animal furnishea one piece, about 15 by 24 Inches in diameter. Ultimately, regularly scheduled balloon drills will be held, at the new post Some time ago it was prophesied In the public prints that Uncle Sam would have to equip himself with a fleet of modem war balloons If he man-carryi- rjjai AKZI? ' Was enabled. In an address' before the American Anthropological Society recently, to present for the first time In history, the correct classification of these weapons. He explained that every form of Philippine weapon denoted some rank, , or had some significance; that each form was known under a distinct term,' and that the Filipino, as he rose from lower to higher rank, saved the ' weapons that-ha- d. jna rked his station, gnd placed them successively over the main entrance to his house, with those of his ancestors. These weapons are manufactured ; chiefly by the Moros of Mindanao and - The krls, worn by the Datos or Sultans, au extremely ornate weapon, with wavy blade and handles of carved ivory. In the krls market No. 2 the lower part of the handle is set sometimes with pigeon-bloo- d rubies, diamonds and Btar sapphires. The blade' of kris No. 1 is Inlaid with small disks of haliotis shell, giving it a curious, flashing appearance. The campilan, like ttye borong, has handles xif. ornamental, wood. This weapon, with a tuft of bright red hair attached to the handle. Is carried by officers below the rank of Major, while the campilan, minus this tuft. Is the weapon of the common soldier. The , kite-ballo- pear-shape- pear-shap- ed eoncelved by the world's military aeronauts, is for the transportation of 'bodies of soldiers over rivers not spanned by bridges. Imagine, for Instance, that our army wishes to Invade', Mexico and that it Is concentrated oa this side of the Rio Grande, ma ay miles from the nearest bridge. The greet dragon balloon, together with d the two vehicles, which make up our aerial fleet, are anchored so that they overhang the center of the stream. Numerous ropes hung n from each, are fastened on the side. Soldier after soldier grasps a rope swings himself to the Mexican bank. All the ropes thus used are fastened Jn the latter side until the last has been used. Then all ropes are unfastened and the positions of the balloon are shifted until the next detachment of men selected for cross- ing can reach the ends of tbe great cords Then the balloons are moved over the center of the river again, until the second body of soldiers has swung itself across. By such 'means regiments can cross not only, unspanned streams, but precipitous canons and threatening abysses. Tbe new dragon balloon will perhaps be used by navy. Its prototype was lately flown from a German with reat success. The object of this experiment was to test the dragon balloons value at a floating maritime observatory. The dragon balloon will be the eye of the commander of our land forces In ths next war. If flown 1,200 above the earth, it will command a view of the horizon fifty miles away on a clear pear-shape- Am-tca- man-of-w- ar i t t 4 t I t I day and over level country. Althongh It be miles and miles away, the floating craft will communicate directly ail that It sees. A long electric nerve emanating from the observer In its basket will descend the controlling cable of tbe big airship and connect with the field telegraph line reaching the commanders post st tbe front. Wireless telegraphy will be a feature of the new ballooning schools curriculum. The advantages of this new mode of transmitting thought would be Infinite in case of war, and In connection with aerial fleets of war craft Drill In the dropping of explosives will be another feature of the new work, but such experiments will have to be made far from populated centers. Fifty pounds of dynamite dropped by the dragon balloon so as to explode within 200 feet of the moat powetful battleship would wipe the latter cl tbe bosom Of the deep. Dtvere end Solotds, A German statistician has been collecting facts regarding the relation that suicide bears to divorce, la Prussia it seems, out of 4.000,01)0 persons 848 women committed suicide after being divorced, as compared with only sixty-onmarried women, while the men were in the proportion of ten diDivorced to one married suicide. vorce, It would appear, is a sign of unheppiness, and tbe unhappy are naturally most prone to It Ls also shown that many of those who do not commit suicide go mad. in Wurttemberg there are in tbe asylums 3,024 divorced persons, against 283 married, 416 celibates and 676 widows and widowers. But here, again, facts and common sense are in perfect harmony. Mental aberration, apparently, Is likely to lead to a crazy choice In marriage, a craxy choice to divorce and a divorce to that Intensification ofcrazlpess which Is official , e insanity. Keeantrlcltlee of Qsnlna. Tbs following statement Is made Havelock Ellis from the study of by-M- women of note men and forty-thrThe upper and middle In Britain. classes, according to Mr. Ellis, are rich In geniuses. The country and small towns produce genius more often than cities, and the clergy father children. the mogt distinguished Geniuses tend to come of large families, to be the children of elderly parents, to be precocious, feeble in health In early life, but fairly long-liveThey have usually excellent education; a large proportion travel extensively In early years. There is among geni' v uses a. tendency to remain unmarried Paul Seat's War Dr or to marry date In life. Persons of wished to be ready to cope with Eurounusual Intellect are often subject to This of case In boRtilltlsj. pean powers, asthma or angina pectoris (nergout, General necessity was soon realized by to stammering, melanvous (Unease), Greely, the chief signal officer of the cholia or insanity. whils that army. Some months ago, officer was traveling distinguished SIocxIImi Surgery Poedble, abroad, be happened to wltnesa the Joktchl Tak&mlne, s Japanese, Dr. performance of the German dragon claims to hsve discovered the possibilballoon. He atraightway ordered a duity of bloodless surgery through ths plicate of the Kaisers monster from its medium of a chemical composition inventor, a lieutenant In the German called adrenalin. By the local applicaarmy. in aolution, operaof adrenalin, tion Our war balloon fleet Is ths newest in be performed, it la said, on tions may beneath the is world. It the directly the nOse, ear and eye without the pill-in- g Bi!- ''n ted may be had from the chief signal officer, end Is a part of tbe of a drop cf blood. Thus baa it train. fol.u. rrsion of the Lords Prayer flying demonstrated that the discovery been new Fort at The as It a. , fdra jn the Eliot Bible: ' signal corps post Noothun kesukgut quftianatamu-nae- h Myer is under ths command of Major la tbe most powerful medicine known, he said Joseph E. Maxfleld, U. S. A. Just now and at the same time It might It costs koowegnonk. Peyaumooutch At most present the expensive. It has the double function of a training kuttenantamoonk a nach ohkeit neane kegukqet, school for raw signal corps recruits un- 4 shillings a grain, or 1,400 a pound. assa dergoing Instruction for the Philippine asekesukoklsh Soldiers. malnneaa yeuyeu kesukok. Kah service and of a depot for signal corps Earth Rt Under favorable conditions of peace nummateheseon-gas- h, supplies of all kinds. ne&ne matchenehukoweaglg su- A large "barracks, with all modern the mortality among soldiers Is practahquontamounnonog. Ahque improvements, has lately been erected tically tbe least known, With a death en qutchhuanouganlt, upon the crest Of a hill rising in front rat of only fhe In every 1,00ft. Comwehe wutch of the balloon house. In this cheery pared with a soldiers life the placid Pohquohwusslnnean matchltut Newutcbe kutahtannn and building are full ac- days even cf a clergyman ar full of kah menubkesuonk, commodations for 110 men. danger, for his death rate Is eleven In kah sotsuixioonk mlcheme. Amen. The most unique employment of 1,000, or more than twice as great as New York Journal. captive war baloong like ours lately that of hla military brother. 859 ee d. i i - The history of the first Bible printed a monumental record of ithe devotion and persistence of John Eliot. Not quite 300 years ago Eliot reached New England filled with the ildea of relieving the minds of the In idlan races from their spiritual dark-mes- s. - At the sale of the Brinjey library In T. Bruce. . When his books were sold In 18C8 John A. Rice of Chicago paid $1,130 for It In 1870 J. W. Bouton secured it at the Rice Bale for $1,050. He sold it to William Menzles, from whom J, J. Cooke of Providence obtained it for $900. Brayton Ives paid Bernard Quarltch bought for the late $1,250 for this Bible at the Cooke sale, ; He encountered difficulties that are Mr. Kalbilelsch of New York an Eliot and at the Ives sale It passed Into the Almost Incredible, but by force of In- Bible of 1663 containing tbe English ti- hands of Bowden & Smith (Mitchell's) domitable will he overcame all obsta- tle pages and dedication to Charles II, for $1,650. for 580, or about $2,900. cles and In 1663 gave to the Indian It is magnificently bound by Bedford Mr. George II. Richmond of New (Bible In their own language. and the price Is now as much ss one now a has of this Bible that copy To collectors of rare books the Eliot York Bibles are coveted treasures. Only was at one time in the Bodleian Li- would have to pay for a modest house, About 100 copies are known to exist, brary. Its subsequent history U quite Vlh, $1,500. It Came to this country Some idea of the appearance of the as time passes the price of these Interesting. Kd about 1863, and was bought by Mr, J. Algonquin language In which the Eliot steadily Increases. n America la New York In March, 1879, an Eliot Bible of 1663 was sold for $1,000. At an auction in 1S84 a Bible of 1685, which is far less desirable from a collectors standpoint, brought $950. In London, at a sale held July 2, field-telegra- sagkore-piigunaiinne- i ( f ! t an well-light- ed Or I |