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AN ,INDIAN KITCHEN. ., a. Fodof ta 1Wa M.ni. PRIMITIVE METHODS. 11101 1owr Was% Their Coaing Vrsolt. ame Cmasqusetly Everythiug Uses a Mied eU a" Taste-TkPy Appsetate Goed hig.eg has nfthUe the Work. HAVE SEEN RUN dreds of meals prepared in the Indian fashion by the savages themselves .-. during the lat twenty years while traveling between British Colum - bin and Mexico, up and -jr down the Rockies, but I can my in all honesty that I hare never seen or smelled an Indian stew or roast that I wted to partake of in all my wandering." aid a gentleman to a raS writer. "No. not oea-that's not the reason at all. for I have baen hungry enough. often, but the feet is sim ply this: an Indian wants a great deal to eat and wes littlk about the details of cooking. while a white man is much more concerned about the manner in which his meal is to be served than be is about the quantity of it. "A great dleal of nonsense has been written about the depraved appetites of Indiana, what musty measee of putrescent meat. &b and oil tey make way with. and other like feasts; but jst atop a moment. Go down to that restaU mnt across the street from us and the chances awe that if oun are not used to it I can order up a dish of ifimburger cheese that will turn your petite adrift or a plate of 'gamey' deer meat wIIh ill drive you from the scene. 5)e3 PcCrLIAR TASTES. "With the exception of rotten fish and roe sepasts I have never smelled anythingworse than the odor of a portion of that particular Dutch cheese I have just referred to in any Indian .peed that has been under my eves. An Indian. aangely- enough. likes putrid fih. but he does not relish ha. fiesh after that fashion or his fowls; a distinctly rotten egg he never ests. but =that are wei advanced toward hatching he prefers: shell fish are always eaten fresh by garages. and I know that if there was any method not involving great care and labor by which animal and 1h vils could be kept sweet by their savage consumers these oils would be. for they know and appreciate the diference Joel as keen I' as we do in the case of Sweet or rancid butter. Oil takes. the place of butter with them; but though they know how to wender the fats, and how to preserve the Fraduct thereof so a4 to be sweet, yet the labor as never undertaken. and the strong 1smell which hangs over all the Indian kitchens is due to this eat itself or its res idum in th-e unwashed wooden or netal utensilA where it is kept. TUET LIEE ENTRAILs or ALL EINDM. "Inldians have a marked liking for the en trails of all bird". beu.; andi fisher-these are Te real glout morceaax; they pluck and singe the feathers froum most of the land fowls and shin ducks. geese and other water birds. skin ae aai=mle and wcale all fiwhes which are dis timsety scaled: no bird. animal or hsh is ever wasted after these steps are taken by the squaws. who either put the result of their rude dressing into a stew kettle or spit it for roasting before the coals or under the embers: they object to washing the gane and t-b. saying that water spoil it! They use nosalt in cooking or pepper; as sices; no conhments whatever. Indian in his daily search for food takes most everythiug that he comes acroes and he has quite a large variet, but when it comes out ftm the kitchen the result is that it all tastes about the same -venison today boiled in a battle where fish were stewed yesterday, and a geese goes into this kettle somorrow-in the momtime the kettle has never been cleaned or emptied fully of the leavings of Ihis day's re mstere the materal for the next day's diner Isrown into it! Naturally, this curious, shift Ies -okig gives an inde-scribably fat and re %"tS davor to everything that comes from b t dy after day-at least, it is so de ied by our palates. But the Indians are ea4nsed-thev simpi esat to live, and the of the table they count of less vaine teawe of their labors in the cuisin. TURT APPA3C ATE GooD COOKINoL "ill Indians appreciate good cooking and wes in the fell knowledge of aking a variety at fest dishes which were very good. They desatsod the making of gravies, thick soups ad og bread and the baking of 16b and ses to a term long. long before a white man ever set foot on the American continent, but te weoden dibmes. such as platters. birch bark battles and spoons of nile or bass wood were Venaly so charged with ancient odors as to amh a disagreeable impression upon every h that was served in them when offered to the white visitors, and neutralized all the skill f the squaw's culinary efforts. The fact was Sdh wa-%in eas an undertaking much ~ ndweldeam thoroughly done in the kitchen. and a rude scraping of the b@eUs was about all that they ever got before being recharged with a fresh supply of the saw smtrial1 - I "A small Ire ad a slow simmering, stewing of inets and Ash. regetcbles and berries was ~.invatable feature sof lodge aires when the * Arst louked in upon thema. The woodan pas or kettle.. were liberally charged with meat get into chunks and partially tilled with water 1whieh was made to boil by reason of hot stones segulerly thrown in and taken out as they eahid to make way for freshly heated derricks, wih were kept in reserre among the embers ot a steady a. "As soon as the Iro, kettles of the white -e wee shown to our Indiana the labor-vring qeauaiis of three vessels were at once appreci ated by Le, who made the utmost haste to poe sam s Mr of them, Bunt he did not change th remilt at all of his cooking. lie smmered ad stewed everything as heretofore and failed in was the irounpos The act of roasting and bshin meaand vegetables inrolved a rest melsore hmher for the squaw., and the slow enly and espedittoes stew whereby enough for a hegenmber of voracious feeders was as lyprepared as If for only a few eaters a masa sw became well established M the ravages loug before white msen wee hnewu to them,. "hA Jadam, warrior or buck when at hoeae,or when eews surround hian, never gives the ts n tste to the bitches-not a blat or a em hut takes whet the weoman or wo ras of hisbe..ehold brn himn without a mar me. Emt after these bc.have lived in com beet with white mes they oftem cook at their es lesides, the pattern set theme being too L0etie, snce the white trappera and pioneers ee ahlfal and particular sa the preparation ot ther meals when they had the lisure. s rna ean son Tan PeOTnac. "I order that a sear idea of the mann=e='in uW b h e ladiam kitchen wee -aae every uhoe in thin ecintry ot ours before our civi batm broke It up,1let us leok baek a little mere than a esseury ad regard an Nadine m home er ledge as it stood there en that w here the asmaseis heohated today at the ' f the Potomace and the "lantern bemeh. This ledge in the shelter et a member of Peuhatan's bad, a hater, who, with his Me er thes seaw, in or seveer ch~drs. and mgse relatsve or two, has, ehdit for the merhess, and who willi down in N. wember ad raterm to the winter village of bin met ndec tatheabBlay by for Dinalamand aSs . ? the ... bsE 't . eavems 6 See t la gmt ofifein this iyae' the imats, eiand yoamg, are all g~m~onegag;but as the day epeus and the ~3veeme or tweof the saa srine. he banewt they mp asy in ey dawns ht nh hem ofs to .he sqn fesa hpet o the beay heaite or teaeser, est B~a e as thyhdaied. -eh hew maki'etee hetnse as esA visnbais, the ge and sestwmay a ereaas e wo inbse n , a of ef ~a pesth ft~gm:... ..ne IGlIb maies meemnU an m. e-ms -s I= s Ina en "'h aIre is w wall ander way, and to ht tle is either hung over is or passed on a stea tripod, and an interval of twety =m. ea lowger new cesse hedir. the cents begin t seethe and ad the odor eo the anl podrida spredb One et the sqw now take up the bbirch ark waterpe which she has emptied Ateo te and go outto the sprmg.r the river for I fresh supply. This 0 brought is ad furnishe with a wooden. di . Another ito th seafold is made. a ,m beset ot lrrisI handful of dried inner pine bark I and a little trencher of a quart or me of i erous rancid fis or bear eS-eB1 these ar brought in and deposited squat down an th earth. close by the fire. "The =ms in the kettle baying after half a hour's stewing begun to how signs of totat die integration, the kettle is taken from the Ar and st down along=is of the easia or partlali on them. Three or four wooden or harm spoom are thrust into the contents and a India breakfast is served. During the entire time c prtion the squaws have not said a wo te occupants of the l e, who have bo sleeping all around this bekare A, so eles some of them that their feet are almost in i1 have given no sign of awakening or anythin else, beyond snoring, that betokened life. No thas the Ntew is ready, the cooka my so in bref declaration, which ca==e= most of th family to roll over and lazily and eeatA gather about the kettle and the ire. VKELDIN TUs CILSUY. plattes, upon which their mothers ldie out i quan-ity of the sh stew, sprinkle a modieus of the oil, and with this intheir hands the either run outside of the lodgar sit dow Indian fashion on their heels with their parent arord the kettle. The elders dip into th mes with these long-handled spoons aforessii and, holding the bowl of this steel in hot] hand they alternately blow upon its content to cool the broth and gravy, what they can not suck in they take up in their Ongers.ome times a lodge baiing fifteen or twenty Inmate will be short of spoons. Then one or two a these useful vehicles will be passed from Indli to Indian. each one sucking in turn of its cos ten* or thrus ' his or her fingers into them "'Tme solid of ash that come on of this stew and the slips of dried pini cabum are usuall dipped wit] COOKING SREAKPAT. the fingers of the eaters Into the panikin a oil. All eat in this manner, and heartily with 4 great sound of soup sucking and reeate4 Gage wiping on the hair and scanty clothes of th< feed-n s. They all eat in silence. Hardly a worc passes and by the lapse of half an hour the have finished, all winding up with deep pulls i the water pail and porcine grunts of satifaction "The famil havng dispersed from breakfas the squaws Z pthat kettle again with fish, i they have it, or. not having it, with anythin4 else they have in their larder, set it on to stey again, and when settled to the usual point thea take it of and stand it up in its no-a place by the fireplace. There it remains all day, ope and free to every member of the lodge, and al day long it is be' sampled first by one an then the other, no more cooking is don until toward eveningor sundown,when the hedm of the lodge returns from the day's chase a ishing. I hen, whatever he brings, be it flesh fowl or fish, most likely it will be served up iH that kettle just as breakfast was prepared, witi the mine simple accompanimeate. VEZ3SON Aan ra. "But maybe one of the squaws takes a fame; to roast a piece of venison or to roll a Anm S in gra and green leaves, then to bake it i the hot ashes and coals of a hard-wood Sra She knows how to do this, and do it very well but it makes hera great deal more work whm she hai to prepare food in this fashion for #f teen or twenty ravenous months. She think about it, and if she thinks twice she use resorts so the stew hettle. "ouch in brief was the routine of an nisaw kitchen vear in and year out, and it will be ob served that the great bugbear of dish wmahin never troubled Mrs. Lo. But freadom in thi respect did not save the aboriginal woman from far heavier burdens and tell than that eve borne by her white sister. "I thnk outaide of the buffao fease of on red men that the only real unalloyed easu that they ever took in eating was w the: went at stated mis--on of the year for berris and mute and when they were able to piek as roeAt their green corn. These ocessien. wer truly epicurean, as we understand it. and th pleasure arose in their minds because there we no kitchen work connected with the serving a thse items." DONT LIKE CoNimENTa. Indians like the cooking of the whites E every respect save the use of pepper, much sal or picklee; they did not like our salt meat, be a cornbeef hash is a great favorite. broad when soft and warm. is highly relked, am pastries and sweets of all hin's. Te and coe they cared for very little, but acquired atedt for rum rapidly. tsqpy it was out quickl when first taken into their with alon of great surprise and disgust, but when th peculiar efect on their brains was anderstoo they invariably beame earnest bga to Iudians never had regular mesl hours; they after rallying in the morning at breakfat, at again whenever they felt hungry thereafter dar ing the day, men, women and childree. If th family- ketl becasme empidby the lack s provision during the day thhney ember of that lodge would goitoa negbrnos if not far of, and freely helpthmr te. 'If the stores were exhantae in al dretcs thn thefafrt of gal. to bd superls ws 'nthing to thema-it only served to stimulate them t energetic hunting, and thay never referred t hesbetamong th.....sves as being th fault of any one that thsre was nothing to eat I the horne bat rather regarded iteae somethin that ought'to happen once in a while. wrtten se The Eveutas sta. - ofe Thy Lies." "Out et thy lIfe,'' eoeld I Int mad wher the wates of Letbe rsa, lIke some pilgrm of old witheat diver er geld, I would journey froma sea to eaa. In quest of that fouat I bath not seem, Yet fabled In soag ad prose, Bat with waters as sweet ad limpd, I vein, ha dew on the heartofta res. 3 would journey aided save by the aa, Scarce pasing to break may fast, O'ereemlag ani my progream berm, I would drink ad gorges at las. Oaward, faamisbed for itrE' swestem giae, Ouward thess aradeen and gea, In seerob of lathe, that piteeleam feed per the som and S..tms.ot ma W--ges-D. c. f. I. A. A wenenrflse Set f s Bee Tosk Dams JemmaL. A rinakse set of shesman has just bas e--pl-t-a by em Ame.rissa ---e-a Ta pisems are mnde ot ilvered brene, and tI parted of eetas and agqsalant is A. D. us all the eharastee. being himer..i and em, temaey. n4sritly aseate in every dets of heraldie blasonry and eostre. The knihasm ae in ehain-ual armor, wil sisid, an, sword ad dgr. Their fur ea have each the individeal baet o the me The bihp a eee onnt with r Thae ar e-temsi aai men ae Iw the hinkh French. The El - se ebart Wala, ere et (meby, and Wi ha f Ey;ad th hight e Uhyand Moen of Weseester. Th1es nea a.bo.. w..i........., tweih eteup and m se in 1.Euse am. ha mm e.upUo a AWhoWas *maqPo Usg ad NOVELTIES IN WAE Frs& Moak of Doftya ERO. I...t.a wa MILITARY BALLOONS. -ossens e 1s amar, nam Ar..es 'Iuens n m. --- ehe o ea se wsmiiftlEtek Kasampasslvee-lwaysgVwar - amasepea 1 s. 7 NORVM IT WAS, f whether hains or Air . Anris , that kept th camntry oset war with Chil, the fanure of . - lght was a great disep - pointmenttoexperts in warfare an over the - -- world, who vainly 01 fora coamot that will .-~ aford some sort of test at the value of monden navl aad. military aethods. There ha been no battle om th On since the days of a wooden battle ships, and ampid-Aring weapons, I Ash torpedoes, high explosives, submarine do troyers and other devices for soieutido and a wholesale killing have had no chance for a pr5e Meal triaL The United States government is tak ingative I larly qf late intheline of lleUzie and Christian nations are engaged r with for the purpose of discovering more k effective meansnout hostie armies - And Seets. While basy olpowder., the chief object of which is to make the foe I visible, the War Demartent has been keeping I an eye upon the ' e grenades" that are a now exciting aVention in England. They are filled with chemical substances which, on ex plosion, produce clouds of dense black smoke, and are to be carried in advance by skirmishers and thrown so as to conceal the troops following. Not less novel and remark. able are the illuminating bombs which are being tested by the Italians. One of them cast among the enemy at night will burst and imnediately light up be darkness with a power of 100,000 candles. One of the most extraordinary of new inven tions in warfare is the French explosive called "melinite," which is not only effective for rend ing and destroying when thrown in a bomb, but also serves a purpose similar to that of the "atinkpots" of long ago. Those latter, sup poed to have been originated by the Saracens uuing the middle ages, were utilized as late as the last century by the British, Frencb and S6a4i01h Sme.ed among the enemy, they set free volumes of poisonous and asphyxiating gases. Melinite is only three times as werful as gunpowder, but it has the great vantage of belg entirely safe to handle. Its base is a coal-tar product termed picric acid, and it has about the consistency of molasses, being poured into shells and hardening. The fumes liberated by the bursting of one of these bombs are most deadly. Not long ago, for the purpose of ex periabent, a single one was fired at a vessel on the deck of which had been placed a number of sheep and goats. All of the animals not killed by the fragments of the exploded shell were os'ocated to death. One day a French work man digging out of the ground a melinite bomb that had been fired three days before was so far overcome by the gaes which it still ex haled as to be with difficulty restored. wrever ENa Von TO St1a?. The object of civilized warfare being not to kill, but to disable and capture the adversary,it has been suggested that shells, instead of being loaded with destructive and deadly explosives, should be filled with powerful though harmless drug, which on bursting would spread a sleep p ,dig vapor. Thus an entire ship's com -: migt be plunged into involuntary slum a ebomb, and in like manner whole regiments and brigades could be forced to re sign themselves to sudden and helpless repose to be revived later by their humane captors. The somniferous gas ought to have as nearly as pouuible the same specific gravity as the atmo sphere, so as to be reed in the latter and gin clouds about enemy, neither rising in air nor falling to the ground. High explosives, hitherto untried in either military or naval contests, will play a large and important part in the warfare of the future. The most werful at present known is "ex r plosive ; =," being fifteen times as strong as gunpowder. It is node by dissolving gun cetton in nitro-glyearine, the hay ing the consistency of honey. U tnly i is very nsfe stuff to use In battle, because a bullet t init will set it of by concussion. No explosive isgood for fighting purposes that ea be touched of by shock or otberise than by actual contact with fire. A novel kind of bomb is Alled with what the inventor cals "helhits." The two chemical ingredients, a biaitro-bensole and nitric acid, are in separate lssvessels, which are broken when the shot ired, their contents being mixed together by the rai revolution of the shell and exploded by a fuse. Wonderful accounts are given t the havoc ereated by the bursting of pro ' jsctiles of this description. Up to the present ' time no method of throwing high-power ex F = vas from guns by means of gunpowder has proved successful although one scientife * gentlea n has wasted 63000 of Uncle sm', pmoney in experiments, which only resulted in r bursting maany valuable cannon. However trials that are being oeduoted under govern eat asices with a new mixture termed *"emmensilo" seem likely to solve this problem. Until now orpnemati gun have bess El maeha- for use inwrhaveegae ' no attention of late on the part of inven Stors. Mai, the deinrof the famous gun, - emain to have produe one which can be con I roled H declares that he een Ill his aerial F car with explosives and hover in it over the city of London, holding that great merplsat a ransom to the extent ofa mnany mie of a pounds as he chooses tmaantton. Thus sit. S usted he can announce his terms by dropping I nhishmtumof'chorra! " i eantrivance is a cylinder of aluminum contain lng three-fourthe vacuum, its collapseben prevented by strong riba humde. Itia rple and steered byelectric gear, and is frhrsue tadned and be==noe by the wing. of a great asropaisa, with an automatic arrageen of a Immd hael bekt h ol tal when I tendisto vary therefrom. naxeoome von wnn. The War Dsepareent has been recently con dusting experiments with balloons for militar purposse. It wiBl exhibit at the Colamblan ex position one of ite new "balloon trains," eon. sisting of three wao.One of the wagona earries a balloncke in a basket, while the ether two esavey c1nescharged with hydro. , itis taken est ofthe basket,'connete with one er more of the c~lindera, ad isred to akhe the ascent in fifteen minutes. Ite tahas a elevation et 2,000 fset, re-m-ining at. tashed to the earth by awire rope,thog which a coprwire runs. The sopaperwi se-n-sts a tlpnein the balloen car with lameheron the sod~ that dire.t is amaindesired, the a telpheme wise'lmay be eonti==sd to the head. Sqarisofw emmWu e neme ear -a overlook the poiinand ifitreeh Smet et the eay, bigat a sege distan.a - tem the hostile Muss. Uktbmaps they ca. * sen dwn msneeofthe whreps.Aph Seameras, w coemid be werhed ..to....B fhos as grmd. would be ellowed drit oer heforann ofthe fee,each es ~ eIa mciss ot piseres of whatever ws be. the sesme of wrmthe heeet ad es wepe e this et is tes invaatiu et Mr. t siad en a pvet and I ~edent~r eynm naue, who peib thu tawhaterer e ud~s No hsas to a, hes. am ta e adr h Qa a is he-se - si as to he asy. ese mash sbangier ese. A 1H.en esh WS It. swag. see fis U s&whhaa. ftha it is s afterit has ht umbee -f arojeettl s, 0.Ai b-a i- aseeige .t t Ob i saad of eotts 'Od"nsk aht 4 e het @B, witheet the poder sad projoctis, ech estY more. atee. budred and Ayft delhis a pep I a deal to pay. 'It is tras that wham a f=1m seak a weepem hit. asythig the latter is likel Ie es1ricy aete& One e al Wwitha110M Sun amnt the pWe = fLougl 2inches ao steel, 8 inebs* of wrought rcmn feet ot eid Go SGeet at te,1 feet of eneree and f of briek of @A the reat. The sein ergy et the emieal ballet =ntmed to "4. foot tOrA, whik wa quivls the power to lft A giat ships at the szeof the sea=r==t of New York 1 foot out of water. It wil be re membered that the fsinous "jubilee shot," Aed from a shmilhrgun an theocemnlo of the quee's jubilee, fel at a distance of 13 mles, attaining at the highest part ot its trajectory an elevatlas of 4 mies. NAN-& CALKDUm ams. , It is a remarkable fact that the caliber of the riAes suppled to the armies of Europe has diminiaed within the last four years from 4-100 to W1-9 of an inch. Several very inter olng resUlts are acompllshed by this change. O1 With, owing to the less resistance op the air to the smaller bullets the straighter ad the marksman can use his sight for point-blank rane up to 500 yards. Improvement in accuracy Is very great and the velocity of the projectile is so far increased that, the latest pattern of weapon will kill a man at a distance of three mile. So much geater is the etrati power of the smaller bullet that Itwil go the bodies of four men in a row when fred from a distance of one mile. This was ascertained by the French, who for the purpose of accurate experiment, stood up four dead men in a line and practiced upon them. Another advantage of the new departure is that one soldier can carry as many m 160 rounds of cartridges. Last, but not least, the smaller bullets are much more humane for use in war. Individuals wounded by them, if not killed outright, are likely to recover. During the late civil conflict in Chile an excellent op portunitv was afforded for comparing the rela tvely slight injuries inficted by the new fashioned projeciss when contrasted with the wounds caused by bullets of the old size. Modern warfare is at the same time more humane and more cruel than any style of ight ing adopted among nations in times past. It stopent nothing that will injure or destroy the enemy. During the rebellion when the south began to use torpedoes there was a cry of pro test throughout the north. It was said that such an abominable me hod of killing men was not consistent with the laws of war recognized by civilized peoples. Nevertheless it was not long before the north adopted and employed torpedoes extensively. Up to the present time explosive bullets have been distinctly set down as being beyond the e of recognition by civ ilized belligerents. Te very notion of firing a shot into thesbody of an antagonist that would burst and tear him all to pieces was regarded as horrible and barbarous to the point of savagery. But now, forsooth, such sentimental views are put aside altogether,and in the next war ietween great and Christian powers explosive bullets are to be a c6mnion form of projectile, not fired singly,but discharged into the ranks of the fee in streams. At the same time bombs filled vith diabolical combinations of chemicals many times as powerful as gunpowder will rend whole regiments limb from limb, while those who may happen to escape the dying fragments will be smothered to death by poisonous fume. A eommodore in the United States navy said to the writer yesterday that only two means of destruction were regarded as impossible in war-namnely, poisoned bullets and the poison ing of wells. Surely it will not be long before the prejudice against even these will have van ished. TOAPZDOES AND TORPEDo nOATs. One of the most astonishing inventions of modern times is a new torpedo boat now under going trial at Detroit under the eyes of govern ment expert.. It fairly realizes the design of the imaginary Nautilus created by.the fancy of Jules Verne. In fact photographs of the craft as it lies on the surface of the water and nearly submerged strikingly resemble the pictures of the submarine boat iwhich illustrate the ro mance of the French author. - It is cigar shaped, pointed at both ends, and has a small dome-like turret on top, through a glass in which the steersman looks along the level of the waves. While running thus the twin screws are driven by a steam engine. When the vessel wishes to sink the little smokestack is unshipped and down the cigar boat goes beneath the water, which closes over it while it pursues its way at a depth of ten feet or more. It can stay under for half an hour comfortably, the supply of air suficing for that length of time. While it is submerged the screws are run by batteries in which electricity is stored by the steam engine. The Interior is lighted by electricity. A new kind of automatic torpedo, which does not earry men is called the "Victoria," and has been receni offered to the Brilish govern ment. It. motive power is compressed air, contained within it, and it is steered and con trolled by means of an electric wire from shore. It moves beneath the water, aprcing the object of its hostility unseen. Iflthe operator wishes to see just where it is on its course he toues a button and it jumps out of the waves like a dolphin. The torpedo most favored by the Navy Dpartment here is the invention of Capt. ow. U. S. N. It is worked on the principle of the gyroscope, having a wheel, which is spun up to a tremendous rate of speed before the torpedo is discharged from the gun. Owing to thi device it maintains a perfectly straight course. The trouble with the cele brated Whitehead torpedo is that it is hard to guide and is very apt to go croshed. If it strikes the object aimed at, however, some thi Is sure to happen inmediately. On Api12, 1891, the Chilean Insurgent battle ship Ulno Encalada steamed into the harbor of Valparaiso far the uroeof doing some dam age. After accomplsigthis object to a con siderable extent hecame to anchor for the night, not taking the trouble to put out her torpedo nets or even to keep a good watch. Presently along camne two torpedo boats, the Almirante Lynch and the Almirante Condell, belongngto the other side in the war, and they fired hafa dozen Whitehead torpdere aembling so many big steel fish, at he Rinco Encalada. One or two of the torpedoes hit the ship, and the latter was blown up, with ra loss of life. But this is not deemed a godtest of the effectiveness of torpedoes In warfare, o to the fact that she was an old-fashioned w eraft.It is very doubtful whether such a torpedo would sink a man-of-war of the modern type, provided with separate water tight compsrtmsnts. nana iN FUTUBE NAvAL nATTLEs. Naval authorities assert that rams will be the amost efoective weapons in the naval comMets of the future. In the building of every battle ship nowadays much attention is given to mak ing the stem as powerful as possible In order that eh nmay ram an adversary efoectively. Methods of conflict on the sea are reverting, eeriosly enough, to those practiced 3,000 years aowhen Bome was mistress of the waves. Thnvessels of war were poeldby/two or three banks of oars; now thyare driven by two or three screws. Te, as now, the most dedy blow was struck with a ram. Te, as now, the coin meanding offier stood in a "conigtower" directing the movemeuta of the siissuing orders for the launehing of men gins the eeasmand at te ritical amment "giigthe esive the pwrof a modern rmag ie a w 6 toas drvnat a speed of nit,~ The force of thi~eane atao Ibymm.1 .the mesms Into thto -the vlet. Twnscrewshepuiksern se much taveesse is hardt 1kib, but practises In ti etmaneuver is ebtained by iu~a fe~r. with twin - rei-mh w with weB-padded bows, rush at each other and fight as mie. de with The me man-'-ma's -a is ather a sldisr and usmi than a ar. A battls shiparries Oa lls. ~It has oniye he"military ame," wihtwo ra gd- aiuns he einedmy, aja s thne dmye eselis-se the a4 sP~Thmeanormossiet an f verman immsee esm tain~r poine rel Reald 90ste oee Neesed ha -. to..r.w the h..ber er New s-a.. he wea I ~ted~t.Ib 1 be Uft ima with mof A-ftm idems a . Anmer asseed des i 6 ' ses - thiephesed. Thee see M-r-- cna at how and *9 efte at to stern, mah 1a et a ma whme soe dut is to beep histremM pebiasd asthe -s's OeNK. MW eseanes-- by wise wite a dubs us assm m b t &dprse dies o .dver.r5,,....7....==-s ..u~n dsee. direst the h Sadlpg of the gun aeeo ,m Dow wnetr s smkeepowde awe rpdy.me universal adepties. Theyare expecte tbe espeslaly advantag m In naval msiuss, mbling the captain of a h 1t0 e s enemy we in view maneuver = % Q wantage, judge of A moent to mas his ram and see tha goine to avoid them. Such dersare made ia I swi s ,being out is the farm at sheut ie maps, which are ea ret late long square trj@ and dually into t eubes. The very latet thing in the way of a defsesiwe armor is a lyrof aconut tbr and grau lated cocoanut husks inie es ue am of a vessel. A Danish cruiser the BEkli, wa tixed up in this manner and a big shot was 1red edean through her below ts water line. The layer of woody stff closed up baAnd the great bulletso that scarcely any water en tered. A fairly sucesssful trial was made the other day on thame dass at Nrfolk, Va.. a shot being fred through a task wilk such a lining In Bulwer's novel entitled " Coming Rae" the strnge pe aesUing themseve the Ti-Ya were repres ose ssiDg such tremendous mea. of d.esu: o cotolabl* b the merest infant, that they never thought making war among themselves, since to do so would have signified univerm salhlaton. One i tempted to imagine that some such state of affairs upstactually arise inthe world beftre very long. nations will no lnges, dre to fight becaue of the JrfuI power at their own wespoen. When eannot come within sight of one another without being literallywied out en masse,when submarine boats have aln bat tle ships at their meroy,whenairships can hover over fortsications and cities and reduce them to ruins by dropping explosives, there will be nothing for the huan race to do butot abandon for good the great and noble institution called war. Then in truth the much-looked for mil lennium wil have arrived. Rams Rac= A FLOOD OF FKE. Reief lNeeded er the sumabres at oil City and Titesile. It has already been announced that Mr. Pred erick L. Moore, the treasurer of the fund con tributed for the relet of the sufferers along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal several years agd, had decided to turn over the balance of that fund to the relief committee in the oil regios. The terrible disaster which fel upon the people of Oil City, Titusville and vicinity has aroused general sympathy throughout the country. I Contributions have been sent in and while the citizens there are bravely attempting to meet the emergency unaided, yet it is known that help from the outside would be more than wel- a come. Tza STAn will take charge of contribu tions and see that they reach the proper authorl ties. The following letter received by Mr. Moore during the past week from Mr. J. IL Campbell, one of the leading citizens of I Oil City, Pa., gives a graphic view of the it- I ation: Your telegram, just received, was a cheery light of sympathy in the midst of our gloom. Since last Sunday morning we have been too busy buging the dead, feeding the hungry, clotng ne naked and finding roofs for the homeless to fully appreciate the extent of our disaster. No specific appeal has been smde by our cities to the country, for heretofore the oil region has taken care of itself in its many mis fortunes and responded liberally to all outide call. But this casualty came upon as when a long riod of low prices for our counodity had ned the resources qf our wealthiest, and we must have liberal aeistance for the desti tute homeless ones, not only for imm=edias needs, but to carry them untdl self sustaining. Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Erie have al sent money and committees of investigation, and, impressed with our noeds, have returned home to raise further funds. I wired you lyte the situation and will mail you newspaper with local details, but the hal cannot be told nor a forecast be made of the poverty, siekness and deaths that will be caused by the catastrophe. Titusville, about eighteen miles north of ol City, on Onl creek, is mite amauatr an oil-refining pint h of the work ing ple were scattered over the fat lands b-o ring the creek. Rowe of pretty little houses, with their gardens and surroundinga, 1 extended for nearl a mile. 9 An immense of rain (somme my a elond burst) near the top of the water shed some twenty miles away tore away several das and the liberated waters repeated the Johnstowndis aster. Tanks at the refineries were lfted from their foundations and their contents, almost in stantly fired, were carried in immmen ames in every direction. In the little time that had elapsed between the first rush of water and the awful dame many had been rescued and Oar ried to the higher lands. You may imagine the fate of those remaining in their houses. They were licked up, almost literally, and their charred and disfgured bodies were only eaved from utter cremation by sinking under the water. The game story almost Is to be teld t Oil City. We were tulating cravsthet h lood had re t height, w the fou dation was washed out from under a tank con taining 17.000 barrels of bensine at a refnery 1 about a mile above us. The swift current car ried it rapidl olng, churnin the volatile Auid nearly simultaneousy Houses wr down and mn, women and children thrown Into the water or burned to death In s In=ta. At one point, where a narrow road runa ander a high bluff and the channel was close to shore, mny ae tators had gathered and others were ryg hep the submergedadnts. Inan instant the sir was fullo flame and but few eesped alive. Our firemsen worked nobly, but oudnot help the submnerged. They prewented the tread pf flames on dry lend. C We had a wellorganised relief --ssocian, composed of our best citisens. They at eose opned rooms and con ced to oas tfr the Our hoejaa .asscitin has besn for amots hoa eanttd i upwithcoe A&.. and at noon the.next day had It filled wt patients. Doctors and nurses ten 5 nale servie and soothed the agonise of the suffering and c1l=g-d the eyse of the -baltary matters hae bees looked after b an ecient board .of health. As seen asth upiers subsided the debris was toogl r===Ad ad many bodies-taken out.Toa the entire city is in Aist-rate sanitary for which we hae bees bythtatives of tat of: helha h overnor of the stats, who hae bess with us inper-a ApTitasyille theuam action bus beestn , eg ei f east--trust isto the country to hepus out. We asdms atwill00 bereuie to pay the bills so incurred and in hldgthe peer to a sef-usai h aittisi tetwo aitis and the ntr ealgiteen milas. So tar net ever 0160,666ha provided. If ye u de for us aogyear it will received adand jadi ---bins houses and better ohm... et ~ dences wets not affected by eithsr fue or goed, but sme of ow rgestmnaseiries wee4 either destroyed or dmnsdthuadinsg to owr lead the eare of many tusprowidest am plae ita a aoedaeltds I es itheids yo afneedilbs e ad -ehaea theeten t ~eiaswhomIght Es sd waikte IMegs sbse wOm gagasgms A1eSy. Andetisl eew et . end as sn -n e wnam e Urmen se inem~SluasresCegee eqa es b nue Q esser e Ureehedm a O Sbserpa~ms i SOLDIER HERKIT. ing the Lifeof a lainmi UET1ED FROM THE WOBL. 'he emmeerse a Broom" 1sa. - A o9 he st.. =mn sv inthe Uema end G1 Wae -5gm oe et. Pasemal Cbmntestes. IONX 1 A GIEAT emy; pastieay a her mIts d the ,reus et as ais'mncapial; mv Ing a ue of esofort and cntentment, but a life of sio and e ofh"" Vetiremt." sea Was the -aswe given In reply to &a In quiry a few days pst regarding the welfare and wherenabout at Major Genea AUred '%'m.fntom, whose se and fame a few yeas go were on the lips of nine-teath. of the Amer mR people, and the records of whose exploits a em o the gretest avalky ladte of our Iate par would fl volumes of graphic history. Ap mraMtly in the ful possession of an his mental = mdwith no serious ams, o s a soldier o gr wes ad explorer nearly fiftyT years ago at tse then mondomain of our great mes ter sri Dry-eun Indian figter of greet renown, a aveler whose face and figu wee at oe time ell known in every court of an the great owers of the old world, a scholar, boa vivant, eit and mast copeniomble or an the agree. b p'ublic men of his day-voluntarily betook de to Mi private apartments in a sag ittle hotel in the very hea6 of Washington on he 15th day of Kay, IO, and has not mince en seen by r talked with, all told, mare than daen of h fellow beings. And wt two or hree riceptions those who bave seen or talk.d nith him since that dafta bare bees of thoe ucseary to kim in administeing to kis per awul wants. SOON COMPANION5. Years ago an Irishman amed Greason, a ma f peculiar temperament W well as of quser bysical build, opened a hotel and restaurant at he Corner of Mb ad E streets neLhwest. Wen. Pleasanton was a favored guest, or stron who besides eating and drinking, i tdgin with "Oul Greases," as he ris inthebaIt or Calling himself And ft mas through a combination of the afforts of bat sty arted pair that the exclusive is of the dainty litle old-fsimd hostelrie m. kept up i o thoe days. -0.M Gremo." ad a way of making ayone he or Am* aoswae be did not desia fed dos '% was or weoe ome th a kin elince," and the general had kis own mma ler of demnsra-n a social **eeee at" that was equaly a efective. Bat there RAs One thing beside the eating and. drinking hy had in oammas each with other end hat was hare, the love of the hares. If there sanything ta" the old cfaarmn did isoe now about a hose it was eriyc h at worth knowing, and If there wee onethn have all others that the old Irihman - lanself om it was his tharoughbred trotter, the set and the best kept sad best eqipdreed .e in th Di.trict of Col.oa- di eased horse adairs by the hour and told and otold horse tales bte day, week and moath. No @"wsad had thndopdout 'fltis hereint he er did "a *e:m u n Wide out afthe stream of faneb.s. odr A e life, wherea he had Geated ad sailed from the days of his cadetsiopa West PO. down to the per2odaoa his fesrly socfinin with kin fellowiem eamr7 C long swimmingly together A maoeTI Wlos familiar sights out on de 14th atest read a thase days wea Greasea's sisek and easa top may, in which he drove a bright hay rotter ase esek and CAma. otemims withhis chuma, thegenealat kin s. There. pa a arked otast betwees t two-the -ueral being sin of buid. eret an Iways soldierly in every agtgoe, empnh Wee thick set, humhac with a quattNo atitde hi ahntrown fowar so hat hig short fat neck Ire down against kin soad chst in the usely poa Oto s-you-please. Both were an Inc or two eaverage hegt.Ti c ."alshi a -a died and th general fell into ae==.. sat the "Gvao m and in te .w-.llngsm. smafl-wiadowed, southwest third oeof ceases, ththe erishbmself to -a aasnitm. Years peesed after old ma Geeseon's d~ea earssof .d...-ert asi- privalos for th gea sal. There wa bMl pending i Csemges to e muh as thtMcsntonwe i u at the mnde of the esatry ha had servee fa ith a117 Be had bees a ume eea eism had is ee avalry .any esme oto Eght edsve hattie of when ut and patriotim a e hin pree f"aa.r hka h a...~ we...s.. seant and &d ata f~e Nyhatil he Sin r e to that most remrhe gg 'tudat, "Old leeh," was eedy "the end m ar. him if brvt n rm th..h . thee ad bai, ea eetdwt moe a seeerasmeseemLtesm estermiss Qir h easerm Q e ik tw bnas poee albS e dsisteleOW m"l - . b mn hewing been ste t -fob -m et 40 s 0* stoWAu M 1-1 hem 6b MWm sonny . UK Wa-"0 beae iyI s ee = ma . A., Oaleatn 1 Of ' lb s er. T u 1e 4 W" 0" Mak o lo. bis hbeet he bad hr hetmt, o me)., gsihml "dn ervs ut .e wetam. 60 hate si.k hewmeISe carviesat the b ew e, d1.ebeat mea J bay a . e Bes~m blot Iaem- Oa "no doer er y . s=4 A., to dar)obus wiel car, 18i6 ' er OgulsAt Of a dW Ofrseim servce mlrenop e. Pres ine Mem. ea eet .A., "fthm etmmd mArttdaom At baotte at Ar."eam, " 4at from 1S7.k i 11t1h." of ab@elel U. L A.. "foe la th d modr 'mrserriage at lboatte of t i o4"fome July . M." of buivadi thee U.fL A., to datba o e during the camp.ina ht ter h forhes meee lb rnd e Ge .. n.al A. ad of Nowfederael, U. & A..ean the fa "fr gallant d mertes gdrIes In sh alt during e war." @tb ta reb ouan or bole meta hof b e in the mirry enm11sae ebahbioy rihder it te W rqis a ad dow and obWic ntemied ep oay havi s paIaer to bwe o. my 016Mgstreet, co ande during lb heatow o at has dams for som unknown veamoax be am e his dy ndeati to Maitry Acadmy_.tA= hi. ibema he.weGe.GaS *G. Jabal A. Ealy of eamfeat fame , a nown tbe ow mow as "taft Ratty - Ow lbe very good -eaI that WWIe he wea aways arlyervdy he loeaee hats an brol aldl age otfuseiosa bestor fe any. laesa h mrn, teler upr ane imaie othaem when a certels d= In l at.1l a t mi. ldeoubarbi at guiltau oftef eptet Ya am poran fctr is ar to effed bestociuseasth aed pture at dol "aptal The toontr, has Use. Jia hLomogtreet, eam manly cown ee bFt" th d Gem f dobwihai glam and Gem. Hecrous, wbo Un a ir. maia wben Plento wee a l 6ea. need to tench him metbgematim as well a sant of Othyer of has day end d e1t,6 ta ny of whom have, elo! pyrigd away, b wo peal a nde will always ev rte Ot beatsr thel rpae t p ogs a Ametican beslat huoo nd erou sotios.Bt!i Ges. Plasa.to ene i r whiner toP aned hrig PS with eoth, bet hbeleas heb mot galilea ot the at erlbf i Teav ger beoore lb now femillar ozeleminan "GroW hoet" dotted the columns of lb saoperena o! le ooun o, he uea it as hig most freajuon etpran o th esproeion of a meaningtm wrally conveyed by lbe um ao downright 91 grity and ofan Ht ws u hdeam be in etr of t odve pise, qoed by t woner rol campaign os Gem. 8et in xo, ad itisa pity. iah~ ht he aid net fie a veat to eahter t hr have atcopyrighted for his own especial mwe and beagalt At any raft. it Waa erved lb pmrpoee lbouands of m hoe. ia rotat otlrys of giving vt 6o botl andn arieous eaoto bat hea ('lsr's Gboet." Wham hewul. at hiege thogg word. throgh his teeth, albeit his vows "I t and plbeassiat to the eae or hI. Wnners he convey. am improd of earmi ~ndkogwtiomo Surprise #Mat do not h other Gvehett and Pinmito eNptosi. With big eyese. o med. with iaygu botr caonet aor deeral, M who Ive-r feature, with his dainty little ge. l lbadr, so to e , W his d d an.n thrown uh, above hi. head, combined wit lb pemuia mvomn mnotons at i. body, the me who haur fI utor atemn at - eboimshof of his thoughts and - go i ocabulary of vituperetin bohoehntd l"itta a nyam bee"d lsbmubject Juoioe," bAd t he he noIhte lbolbd yemo wheannte blm-glancemam aotity, he i at overweeedea - 1eedulo 4h ehelam, asm "orea SetS no, are. I - not bt ma. NO, the. de0 in my brothe, a mieitia major gnoeal, who e [n Philadelphia. Gneat Cue..'. ghetman watM do you Wa m far? Who do you ms? Gra r@'g g hot ; no. ir!" And them, If h" humor is inclined Gtha e wller hcto thintea tream of = emefthe "bemr andeh n iovokidn itmetion be wd eibjeoyed to It t t odd year. go, when lb blue-gl r wee at itp height elt over lb hem eave and .lmioe Peol. r -e he amint knw oo* bot blue glgis bnlb. te boo l pon. lb rea man, who B ramnp" aea atudes during lbe war. Conatus" 'un! Mm Cbrod , mcuenrgbai; etht w And w hb to "wetws beer a atomma lbarmly "aware in radaMnW"b haGU 1oMlm moba, his sleped Mal more dooalvely. In dab bbetief hse ecemriy grow eot of a r -P- plwl-m10 nmewhc beea othw.gr ita-.--atmringsam meadinrry oowihe egmLae TO 110ente1 maning. let me explain hat - bine Mdd of a pri "bow, o remeatt feadier atee Tbe Sde in Nspae... .r i N. we Jimee printed h ie Opmead t at ghread about lb agoe be h a e med. Nothing delhth==om* bthe ln $a %%l abut lb Omer of that rmaable gm TN B o ite gra alae ine er is fgemn .aity with even lb glmi detW.l. e am.-.d with i. In... a..r g e ..., ... verml.e. in-=ate- bapolehos atiet tHelI weesedl i.aeeae madbt.e lb..-.-. we... ...mqu.oe.e.d..,..rfe.n o..i woyM e haing.,n aetie meend be e meEa atdee r. D.W to hiad el diseg as threo pe ed ereeted es 'Wed ' i aeIse hewe Inel chmkr h a reemd ogt mmm ei rBemde, o esotedt reard. eras ,b "ma. of lb hat prompte. him. Hne h igh alaf een a pn e- e had a horroay lbt has int ngtebasmehr an vdehinpigd eyaegdare a beean -m--ad iprt, a is eeeysd ue, hre he denywa embg b socatetr asehdmmate of Me. Ie who eem eve f. ri 1g mb he a sem bler manlsetwses a punch.samm mur m ser alb tra ed l de~~ am be. i e aw,ima . am ob o 6 aVS O - n e e 4 msa lseb g s ma. Ww a. bl wm -t bon~bb meqe ~ ..m.a . eke, b labs eenDse n em and bs se- hind of en me SSeeumlr demeesse b e abus et SONs meephe mbe n Am m4n aM gmi, m rue emese saw,~ ~ MAe, ma~m =Aas T=etew fAr Im. 0h Ebing. sah eut elve a.e m b be t o mea~ r he . et anitm haver be a e mmisW a- bkerw adtoe as a es er mao" aor *a Iftw be a pm a wat dee oew, t. br. m bae ma a teo* eaeraythag er bedm. My haem bias bea : "aesei. yeo ram wetta boea sptb dm as" ew sear be wio aa Pe hr. -"o.w . ee a ...ee as e. waat "Gesrt rh..vef . s asem me 1--, A, lewba lke 66ma uid tobn Pesgte xu imins. Vbeme e Pueisbeook ye he suls WN be ..aea es8myo has beea be "mbget et Abmeh s in Emga thi wk. A. b ea a gernema bsewt 3S *W. =- el be the seeims i e e p --.~S party he is feat ha mesi mud OeA , a Prernch newaper eee e em if e Aericas @om. wi h tht Prim S marek. supposiag that bhis beAms be a-e be b''ra of the - eapeer s 6be bas bhe. aner Ldeeo h and Gmut, emsed t be se me- pwars it-r is M. ... .e,. s. lb. me id not eztbe thereie bhe of tMw isseof be Eopam pems. neergeom nses weraybe ebrsed by heemeas bepm. deut-ia aetiha mese mber. o. bArn. sbd eeesioe ihatGrmeoss. be be ame as for e Paemdet es-iainer WMeo did n od odr e iese aw winon th. u....ee.I eber me......sa.we of eteengeh aot he repubnam tibet. om It .ea gemern " elif at mr. ne.. p deert. esid at ?bri, aud be Renm. 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