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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURd. PA D Built By Order of James Madi son in 1814. nPCCMriru nc ti ir nrnni r- UCrtSlNUtK Ur UlLrfcUrLh Fulton's Masterpiece, That Startled England, But Was Never In a Fight. "Terror of the Seas" Threw Red-Hot Shot and Squirted Boiling Water. Even la a day of wars and rumors wars, with articles upon the rela he strength of navies as common as iock quotations or weather reports, Is seldom recalled that the first li am battleship the world ever Baw was built by an American for America. The story of thu Uemologos is an all but forgotten incident In naval annals, yet she was the wonder of her day aud her career, before her myste rious and tragic passing, quite pic turesque enough to warrant the re telling. Planned by Robert Fulton, built by order of James Madison, the Demo logos appears In hlsiory In 1814. Thote were days when the good folk of the towns a!o::g the Atlantic sea board walked In tear of attack from English ships and slept lightly through troubled dreams. Our fleet of pri vateers had borne themselves gal lantly and well ut sea, but the coast lay unprotected. The strange little craft of his sug gestion corresponds most nearly per haps to what we of to-day might call an unprotected gunboat for coiiht and harbor service, but she had "freak" features. In addition to the boilers that were to supply steam for the first time to a fighting ship she was to be fitted with furnaces In which her shot might be heated before fir ing. In addition to her tweuty-six 32 -pounders she wa3 to carry four guis, two forward and two aft. which It was planned should be hung over bow or stern, as the case might be, with the Idea of discharging heavy shot into the side of an enemy well below the water line. She was to be fitted with pumps and pipes through Which large quantities of water might be spouted upon the decks and into the ports of her adversary. "She will be the most formidable fighting ship ever constructed," wrote Mr. Fulton In conclusion. The scoffers laughed and the objec- i tors argued, but James Madison ap proved and worked to such eood nnr- oso that on March 14. 1814, the louses' of Congress appropriated 220,000 to build the craft. Fulton '?a named engineer, and before June tad passed the keel had been laid n the New York yards of Adam & 'oah Brown. On October 29 she was sunched, the focus of a national cele- br On, with thousands gathered along the river fronts and upon the hipping that filled New York Bay to cheer, not the "Fulton the First," as the President had suggested the vessel be christened, but the "Demo logos," or "Defender of the People," a name chosen by the designer him ' self, who turned to the classics as well as to the elements for his In : splratlons. She was a mighty craft. The boiler ' over which the doubters shook their - heads in fear was 22 feet long, by 12 wide and 8 deep. Her 2,475 tons were 'to be driven by a water wheel 16 feet in diameter. She was 156 feet over all, 56 feet beam and her greatest depth was 20 feet. ' This Is how the commission in trusted by President Madison with her construction described the Demo logos: "She la a vessel resting upon two keels, separated from end to end by a canal fifteen feet wide and sixty- six lone. One section contains the caldrons of copper to prepare her cteam. The vast cylinder of iron, with its piston, levers and wheels, occupies the other. The great water wheel revolves in the space between. She Is propelled by her enginery alone. "The main, or gun, deck supports her armament, and Is protected by a bulwark four feet ten inches thick of solid timber. This Is pierced by port holes to enable her 32-pounderd to Are red-hot shot; her upper, or spar, deck Is plain." Small wonder that England was ter rified! One of the London Journals whose agent In New York had gath ered his information through many devious channels gave this account of the Demologos under the line "Ter ror of the Seas:" "Length on deck, 300 feet; breadth, 200 feet; thickness of sldea, 13 feet, f alternate oak plank and cork wood ; carries 42 guns, four of which are 100 founden, the quarter deck and fore castle guns being 44-pounders. Fur ther to annoy an enemy attempting to board hor, she can discharge 100 gallons of boiling water a minute, and by mechanism brandish 300 cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales; works also on an equal number of Iron pikes of great length, dashing them from her sides with po- dlglous force and withdrawing tbem every quarter of a minute." But this marvelous and dreaded ves sel never faced English foes. She made her trial trips, three of them, in the summer of 1815, establishing a "record" of fifty-three miles In eight hours without her armament, and of Ave and a half miles an hour when fully fitted. And then Just as she might have cut for herself a place In history, with her red hot shot and boiling water and "submarine" guns, peace with England was declared! The good Demologos was never put Into commission. WARWICK JAMES PRICE. LEAP YEAR PENALTIES. What a Man Muit Pay If Ha Rejecti Proposals. It's all very well to entreat th pleading maiden to firrne from her knees, and to tell her Kindly but firm " l 'uu WI" De a "roller to hor, though you cannot feel that you love ly that you will be a brother to hor, ner well enough to trimi vnnr nm., heart in her keeping. It's all very well and very eaE.v to do that. but have you thought. wan, uuoui me penalty you must pay for rejecting the lady's offer? ! Do you know what you have to give every woman whose nand you spurn, in the year when the feminine sex Is permitted to take the first leap into matrimony? Well, brace yourself up, then, and prepare to bid farewoll to a consid erable portion of your patrimony, es pecially If your fascinations are like ly to bring down upon your head a number of proposals. For the forfeit you must pay for each rejection is nothing less than a silk dress! Fly whose authority? ny the author ity of tradition, young sir! That same tradition which sets apart all the Leap years for me benefit of mums who want to marry. This punishment seems in no wise to fit the crime, but it's the punish ment that has been handed down through the ages, and It's got to be taken manfully. Tradition is mute upon the subject as to whether it has to bo a rainbow taffeta at 39 cents a ward, or a lus trous, regal silk at $3. It is merely Ptated in the bond that it mu.-t bo silk. In order to avoid mistakes, it would be best to take your sister Into your confidence; tell her what color eyes and hair the rejected lady has, de scribe her height and figure, and then be guided by your sisters advice, only being careful to pay at least four times as much as the price she sug gests, because if there is a piece of silk to be had for ten cents a yard, that's the piece your sister will sug gest for that other woman. This is curious, but you will find It a fact. Really, you can afford to pay some thing for that dress. Consider how much more economical It Is to buy one gown now, at any price, than to have to go on buying gowns for her all your life! And the best thing you can do is to pray that your proposals may all come right now, "in a heap," when there are bargain sales of silk in all the shops. That's the cheapest rate at which you can have to escape from a per plextng situation. Town-Crier In Tennessee. "I thought this country had out grown the town-crier until I struck the town of Paris, Tenn., last week," said the traveling solicitor of a New York railroad company. "I went there to see a man about a contract, but failed to find him in his office. "'Want to see him mighty bad?" asked a man who was warming his foet against an old-fashioned stove. "I said my time was very valuable,, and I should like to meet the person mentioned as soon as I conveniently could do so. " 'Bettor go over to the court house then an ax the sheriff. He'll git for you, lively." "I went to the court house In the center of a square, and finding the sheriff made known my mission. I wondered as I did so how the sheriff would know. While I was wondering the sheriff raised the window of hta room and sticking out his head he called the name of the man I wanted three times In a very lusty manner. Then pulling down the window ha said to me: 'If he don't show up In five minutes I'll call him from the other side of the court house. If he'a In town he's bound to hear me. "The man I wanted showed up In less than five minutes. I had never seen him before. As he came Into th room he said to the sheriff, 'Did you holler?' 'Yes,' replied the sheriff, 'I hollered three times.' 'I didn't hear you holler but twlct,' said the man. "Turning to me the sheriff said. This is the man you want. When they hear me holler they come." Ugliness Secured a Pardon. When he was governor of Illinois Uncle Dick" Oglesby, while making a tour of inspection or ine jouei prison, came to a cell In which a hide ously ugly man was eoaSned. The man was so 111 favored that the gov ernor stopped to ask about him. "What's he In for?" he asked. "He forced a young woman to elope with him at the point of a pletol," the keeper replied. "Well," said Oglea by, "I guess I'll pardon him." "Pardo him!" protested the warden. "Why, governor, the proof against him la ab solute." "I know," said the governor, "but he couldn't get her to marry him any other way." Chicago Chronicle. Master of the King's Muslo. Many good stories are told of Sir Walter Parratt, the master of the king's music. Here Is one Illustrative of his extraordinary memory. Some eight or ten men were assembled one evening In one of the lodges attached to St. Michael's College, Tenbury. Sir Walter Parratt and Herr von Hoist played in turn upon the piano suoh music aB was asked for. This went on for some time, until at last the chessboard was brought out. Sir Wal ter then proposed to play two men at chess In consultation, still remaining at the piano and playing from mem ory what was demanded, either from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, or Mendelssohn. Without even a glance at the chessboard he won the game In an hour. Ixindon Tlt-Iilts. II I IPS Twenty Seven Per Cent Greater Than Any Preceding Year. ' PRICE PAID REASONABLE Navy Used 487,036 Tons In 1903 In 1892 They Burned 73,467 Tons. Aver fes $5, and Is Largely the Product of American Mines. New Coaling Stations. The amount of coal used bv the United States navy Is or Interest to everyone; the fart thnt fuel forms to Important a featnre in the movements of the fleets of all countries is brought home by the recent Tieavy purchase of coal In this country and abroad by the representatives of the nations in the eastward. Tho no of coal has grown with the growth of our mod ern navy from 73,417 tons In 1892 to 487,036 tons in 1!)0X At the same time It Is agreeable to note that the average cost Is less than at any other time, with one exception that of 1898 and that this Is duo to rile fact that i so large a portion of fh tonnage used is the product of American mines and sent to our aratlons In stead of being purchased abroad tfnd being the product of other countries, and that costing a round prire, for tSe average for 1892 shows $7.49 per ten, while for the last year it fa but $"5 : per ton. I Of the total last year 3S3JD17 tnf was American coal, which, with the transportation thereof, cost but $4.50 per ton; tho amount of foreign being 102,010 ton, at an averago owt of $6.99 per too. The amount f coal used during the past year was 27' per cent, greater than during the preced ing year, and1 the cost of the co.il was eighty-one cents, or 16 per cenl less per ton than during the preceding year, and this was due to exuding the fining of contracts by producers,, for notwithstanding the great delating, the departure of transatlantic mall steamers and otherwise paralysins, the business of the country, and th' very great Increase In cost, the Bur eau of Equipment was able to supply all the coal required by the fleet with out exceeding the regular approprra tlon for this purpose, and at an aver age price per ton less than that of any year 6lnce JSH8. At the sama time. It would not hi.ro been able to achieve the above man tioned results had It not carried a large amount of coal in Btock. There were 60,000 ton a in stock at Manila alone; this was reduced one-half a--fore additional supplies could be seuti there. Other coal depots were largely depleted, bat are now, as a rule, well1 supplied. During the year 220. C50 tons of coat have been shipped to foi? eign and domestic ports, the greater., amount to. the Asiatic station. Of tHi amount 130,017 tons were sent in, chartered vessels, mostly foreign, aod 96,643 teas In navy colliers. There are many coaling stations la the United States, and those on itw Atlantic are well known. On the Pai cific there is at Sitka a storage plant built for 5,000 tons, at Puget Sonnd 20,000 tons, at Mare Island 20,000 toss and it is said this should be Increased to 200,060 tons' capacity, and facili ties in accordance therewith. Tthea we have San Juan, Porto Rico, Caun tanamo, Bahia Honda, Hawaii and Samoa. Guam Is the latest proposi tion for a eoal depot In that part of the Pacific The navat station at Ca vlte, P. I., is supplied with American coal for the use of the Asiatic fleet. A coal depot with a capacity of 30,000 tons at Sangley Point, near the naval station Cavlte, has been receutly com pleted. The capacity of the cor storage houses, however, should be 'joubled aa soon aa practicable. It is. necessary to carry at least 60,000 toes in stock at this station. Of the seven Insular naval coal depots four are now pro vided with Indifferent facilities for storing a very moderate amount et coal. The remaining three have ae facilities whatever. It Is stated In the report of the Bureau of Equipment, that while the total amount of coal purchased for the navy during the fiscal year waa 27 per cent, greater than during the preceding year, the amount of foreign coal was 21 per cent, as compared with 23 per cent, the year before, and the amount of domestic coal corre spondingly increased. Lota of Room Yet. At this time, Europe, which Is the center of the world's civilization, has an area of 3,555,000 square miles and a population of 380,000,000, or nearly 107 per square mile. The United States, on the other hand, with an area of 8,015,600 square miles, nearly equal that of Europe, has only 80,000,000 in habitants. With a percentage of In habitants per square mile as large as ' Europe's it would have a population of 320,000,0X10. This country, there fore, has reasonable capacity of 240, 000,000 more Inhabitants. Since 1820 the total number of Im migrants who have come to the shores of the United States la 21,758,000. Large as that number may seem, It is Insignificant, indeed, as compared with the capacity of this country for more population. Last year 857,000 immi grants arrived, the largest number on record, and yet If that number should hereafter land every year, It would take 279 years to make up the 240, 000,000 required to make the popula tion of the United States per square mile equal that of Europe, this esti mate, of course, allowing neither for deaths or births. Wall Street Journal, NEW BULLETPROOF CLOTH. Wonderful Things Related of an Italian Invention. The world la at present Intensely Interested In a new Kalian bulletproof cloth, and since the Italian govern U,,,M- 18 negotiating ior us use u is r lnilrtniico thnt we ce Jut what ment Is neeotlatlne for Its use It Is the results are, although it Is necea- snry to state that the Invention re mains a secret, and this notwithstand ing attempts to discover Its details. Thus we Khali have to deal with a general description and with the re sults of experiments. The armor Is a sort of felt, the stuff being capable of adaptation to any form whalevei; for example, a breast plate with a collar or a sort of coat which completely envelops the wearer and absolutely guarantees him froau gunshot wounds. Tho thickness the protector vaTles from one-six teenth to seven sixieenlli of an Inch, according to tho arm the effects of which It Is designed to destroy. Against the armor of seven sixteenths of an Inch the rogalar ordnance re volver with steel covered bull Is pow erless, and also the gun of the 1891 model charged with smokeless pow dor. Xn tho numeroaa experiments whlrlt' have been made in firing at a distance of several ya.vis the ball, whether It be of lead r,r steel, when It striKis the protector fi arrested and deform d'. In some case rebounding and In rthrr being almost reduced to a pulp. Thus there is not only an arrest of the bail but deformatlo as well, and in this d i formation tho force of tlw ball is converted. While thera should be a high degree of temperature ae the point touched by the bail; It scviiig that the tall alono feels the effcrts, for the pr.it ector does ntt' seenr to bo burnt In- the slightest. These results are not limited to ballistic elTVets, for In the- recent ex periment It was sought to pierce :be armor with a dagger driven with all possible fnrrv. The point uf the arm. however, couid not penetraftr the frit and was bent into a shapeless mass. It Is natural to suppose that the force of the uaH would be stmmuni Cirted to the armor and that ttiirwould be driven violently backward,, resulting- In a dlsugrccahlo shock and on wltfch at times would be danpr-rous to the- wearer. Td demonstrate the In correctness of thTs view SIgnor Bene dettl attached ills protector to a horse anrf fired upon- the animal oaly- six feet away with an ordnance revolver, the ball falling at the fee! of the horse, while he, freed from his Hal ter, walked aay as if nothing- had happened. It is to be noted t.Jaf with tho aame revo.ver a piece of stCel had been? previously-.- pierced. Tlie same experiment wi made with a chicken covered with a breast piece- of the felt, tlie cock,, after being rMlofrfcSe new shell, quietly pursuing uhe- even tenor- of his awy. Philadelphia- Bec ord. Table Winners In Siberia). A traveler !h Siberia has tte- fallow ing to say In regard to table -manners which he me with: "In eating-you must? reach far what Is passed' durfng this first stage of a meal. Toil' woald never suggests to your neighbor-oni the right to pass-yon the cheese, but you woultr rise ia- your place and.' with a firm grasp cw your knife, reach over his plate aod Impale the tempting morsel. If this is not possible you leave your- place and go around the tahlb and sweure your locti. My Rus Rlun natura-nst, Alek, was-a fair sam ple of an educated Russian and be turned to mo and said: 'Psee-yua eat with a font.' 'Yes,' said1 I; 'and: I see that you do not.' 'No, If had' a sister who studied at an English- oonrent In Japan for a year or so. When she eame back she ate with a- fork, but we soon laughed her out op It The end of tae Russian knife-1 broader than the portion next to h handle and It Is used both as a knife and an a spoon. They complain that the American knives do not 'holif enough." After this It Is not surprising that "the Russians were highly amused" at tho author's "use- of the toothbrush, which they consider- a peculiarly fem inine utensil." Simple Life- of the Pope. One morning early a friend of mln. a Venetian nobleman, called on hinu Vgr. Sarto had said mass and settled down to work. His sisters had gma out to mass or for the household mar keting, which they wore doing at the HIalto on Aug. 4, 1903, the day of won ders In their simple life. "Has the count talcen coffee?" asked the bishop. "Well, to tell the truth, no, because the business was urgent, and I have came straight from the railway sta tion," the guest replied. No excuse availed, and Mgr. Sarto rose and went Into the kitchen. 8o the bishop of ducal Mantua and his guest might have been seen there talk ing and laughing, wnlle monslgnor coaxed the charcoal with a black kit chen fan, the coffee fizzled In a tin pot on the range and the count got out cups and saucers In order to save hta, distinguished host what mental service he could. Then they hart coffee togother at the kitchen table. Cen tury. 8lze of Manchuria, Manchuria corresponds In latitude to Manitoba, North Dakota, Minneso ta and Nebraska. Its area of 302,310 square miles is only 10,000 square miles less than the combined area of these great grain states. It is two and a half times greater than California, and Is as big as Texas, Alabama and Louisiana combined. In the northern part of tho province are thousands of square miles untouched. Manchuria has a possible wheat area as great aa that of tho United States, i ." 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The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years TH Olflrr un 4 mm, new o emr. New Stxle Automobile Law.. Alter J-inuary 1st Next, Highway Depart i ment Will Have Charged Licenses. I State Highway Commissioner ; Hunter is fornnilatin his plans for the enforcement of the new auto mobile law which goes into effect January ist vx-xt. II. M. Cut shall, a former member of the legis lature from Crawford county, will have charge of this bureau of the department and will probably have one or two assistants. The new law transfers the issu ing of auto licenses from prothoao taries to the highway department and after January ist nobody will be allowed to tun an automobile i a Pennsylvania without having first obtained a license from the high way department. With this license will be furnished two number tags one for the tront and one for the rear of the machine. All oilier tags will have to be ire moved so that hereafter all machines operated anywhere in this State must carry only the numbered tags bearing the license number. The number tag in the rear of the ma chine must be lighted at night so that it can be plainly read. The new law also regulates the speed of autos in cities, boroughs, and town ships aud makes a radical change ia existkig la a s on this subject. Found Skeleton! of Giant SAillt Twice at Large as Those or. Mlnarf Adults Two skeletons, each measuring: mor than seven feet in kngth, weri discovered recently in, a grav el pit in a forest near Fon-du-Lac Wis. The skuSis are twice as, large as those of an, ordinary adult and the thigh boucs are almost six inches longer than those of a six-foot man. The bone are in a gocd state of preservation. It is probable the skeletons, which are thought to be remains of some psr-historic race, will be sent to Milwaukee for examination. School Board Deadlocked- Owing to a deadlock in the School Hoard of Conyngham Town ship, Columbia County, the schools did not open at tbe time agreed up on by the board. u A Pf'wity oi this deadlock is that the hitch is not against the ap pointment of any particular teach ers but against the appointment of any teachers at all. The board is composed of six directors, three of whom, it is alleged, are determined to force the matter into court, which will cause a dissolution of the old board and the appointment of six new members friendly to the side javonng such action, thereby plac ing them in control. " A professor has discovered among some ancient ruins what is suppos ed to be the eleventh commandment. The text is as follows: "Etnas rof yltpmorp tseyap tioht sselnu repaps weu a daer ton tlahs uoht." The commandment is easily translated by beginning at the end of the sentence and reading backward. all