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SEC. LONG WILL MAKE A NEW NAVY Secretary Long and Assistant Secre tary Roosevelt are busy these days try ing to make a modern navy out of a few new battleships and a great many old ones. Both gentlemen believe that in time of peace It Is best to prepare for war. And they are making their aids do a "step lively" at the work of getting ready. The old adage, "Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you," may be all well enough for landlubbers, but it Is far too old-fashioned for the secre tary of the navy and his vigorous as sistants. In a report Issued by the assistant sec retary of the navy and published in this newspaper Mr. Roosevelt says: "It Is better by far to havf a smaller number of ships, first class and equal to any foreign ships as regards their bat teries, rather than have a large number of ships really Inferior to foreign ships that are nomlnnlly their equals. "The real lighting efficiency of ships like the Raleigh, Cincinnati, Marble head and Olympla, compared with for eign vessels of the same nominal class, A LETTER FROM ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROOSEVELT'S AIDE Stands high, while the reverse is the case of ships like the Baltimore, San Francisco and Yorktown. "If hostilities had occurred and we had lost a ship like either of these ((Balti more or Philadelphia) ln a simple fight with another ship of the same nominal force, we could never erase its memory from our national records." This means that he is going to in crease the fighting efficacy of the Balti more, the San Francisco tyid the York towiy.and make them equal to the Ra leigh; Cincinnati, Marblehead, Mont gomery and Ulympla. To bring these old warships up to date there Is only one thing necessary, and that is the additions of the Daschiel rapid-firing device. This is of compara tively recent invention, and, as its name Indicates, provides for the quick dis charge of a cartridge from the mouth of the guns of a warship. In a letter to congress Secretary Long recommends that $50,000 be appropriated A LETTER FROM SECRETARY LONG for the cruiser Chicago, and many per sons supposed this to be for an entirely new armament and battery; but those connected with the naval department laugh at the'idea and say that this sum would be wholly inadequate for the put pose. The $50,000 Is undoubtedly for the purpose of the rapid-firing device for the cruiser. The United States navy consists of more than 150 warships. These include cruisers, torpedo boats and what are technically known as battleships. The term "battleship," however, is a loose one and can be applied to any boat that goes to war. In a recent Cuban serlm tnage a large row boa t fired upon a Span ish cruiser. The rowboat had a small (qulpment of guns and a few shells. Hut by Its action it became a warship and was immediately classified In the Cuban lleet. The term "warship" is so conflicting that naval Officers rarely use it, substituting for it "battleship" and "cruiser," both of which have their spe cial significance in naval parlance. The 850,000 recommended for the Chi cago would Just about purchase an equipment of rapid-firing guns, and with these almost any of the old battle ships that were a part of the navy at the beginning of the present administration would be complete, but without them the United States navy, as Secretary Hoosevelt says in his above quoted re mark, would be Inferior to foreign ships, though nominally their equal. The Daschlel device,about which there is so much talk, consists of a mechan ism, partly electric, by which the guns are loaded and fired automatically with startling rapidity. By the movement of a lever which Is pulled by the arm the gun is loaded and discharged. It takes two men to operate it; one to feed it and the other to move it. At each motion of the arm the gun is quickly is it done that it can be loaded fired by an electric battery; and so and fired live times before the first shot has reached Its destination. This is for use In a close engagement, and is what Is known us a secondary battery. All the warships have a pri mary battery, but to be ready for mod ern work they must also have this sec ondary battery. The gun that is used carries a cartridge of five or six inches. These guns make admirable "coast" guns around the sides of a warship, and if it is sufficiently equipped with them there is no reason why a battleship should not be able to plow its way through any hostile fleet, discharging its secondary battery of rapid-firing guns right and left and ahead of it. It was stated that this device was an Invention of Secretary Long, and that the talented secretary had also invented other devices for remodeling 'warships and making them better for modern purposes, but when asked about this the. secretary replied: Assistant Secretary Roosevelt is tak ing the most vigorous steps toward bringing the navy where it should be. He now lakes the point that we have a sufficient number of warships to meet, without any embarrassment, any navy that could conveniently be sent to these shores. His embarrassment over the Bhiladelphia, as compared with the Jap anese cruiser Nanivva, has been lessened by a view af the new magnificent cruis ers which met his eye on his last tour of Inspection, LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1898 An idea of the cruisers as rated by Secretary Roosevelt can be had from this official document, sent by his rep resentative: The work of bringing all of the cruis ers up to'the standard of the Brooklyn w ill be pushed as fast as appropriations can be secured from congress, but, as a western congressman remarked to a southern representative: "Fifty thou sand dollar bills don't grow on trees." "No, nor on cotton bushes, either," re plied the southerner." And so the work will have to go slow. But we are ready for Spain just the same. C. S. RUSSELL. FLOATING DOCKS Interesting Facts About the Beds of Ships In very early days ships of any size were dockee? by grdUndlng them at high water, and then waiting for the tide to recede, work hetng proceeded with un til the tide again rose. This method was improved upon by hollowing out a berth or small basin, and then, when the water was down, a temporary dam would be made across the entrance to the basin where the ship lay, so that work could go on uninterrupted by the rising tide Here, then, we find the germ of the idea of a graving dock, the esesntial factor of Which was the existence of the rise and fall of the tide, and It was due to the absence of tide that we owe the original floating dock. In the time of Peter the Great, the captain of a British ship, finding that his vessel, in Cronstadt harbor, was in want of docking, and that, owing to the absence of tide in the Baltic sea, the then orthodox method was Impracticable, he obtained a hulk named the Camel, and completely removed the whole of her decks and Internal work, cut off one end and fitted it with a gate. He then berthed his ship inside the hollow hull of tho Camel, closed the gate and pumped the water from its interior. This is the very first instance on rec ord of the use of a floating dock, and it was directly brought about by the ab sence of the hitherto essential tide. Tho almost tideless shores of the United States may be termed the nursery of the floating dock, and even to this day we find there are 23 floating docks in the port of New York and only five graving docks. Another natural feature favor ing the growth of these docks in Amer ica is the extreme difficulty experienced in many ports in obtaining a good foun dation for a graving dock; floating docks are quite independent of such consider ations. A true floating dock may be described as a structure which utilizes its dis placement for lifting a ship so much above its normal draft line as to bring the keel above the level of the water's surface. In the case of a graving dock, the water is taken away from the ship; and in the case of a floating dock, the ship is taken away from the water.— Sidney F. Staples in Cassier's Maga zine. MAKING GLOVES LAST Lining of Fine Oil Silk Is a Protection Against Perspiration A plan which adds greatly to the life of kid gloves has just been brought out in New York. A manufacturer of fash ionable gloves, who occupies a little shop on Fifth avenue, has hit upon something that makes the glove persipration proof. So many of his customers complained about ruining their gloves that he set to work to find something to eliminate the trouble. It occurred to him to line a pair of gloves with every thin oil skin, of which tine dress shields are made. He tried lining the inside of the palm and fingers and found that he had a glove which perspiration could not penetrate. His customers are enthusiastic over his discovery. They say he. is a true phil anthropist, or, w hat is better, a genuine humanitarian, or else he would never have given them the benefit of a dis covery which is bound to be detrimental to his sales. The manufacturer's discovery will be welcomed by a large number of women of both large and small incomes in Chica go and elsewhere, who have been unable to keep well'gloved because of the annoy ing affliction mentioned. — Chicago Chronicle. Married Three Sisters Lexington, Virginia, Jan. 6. —In the Presbyterian church here this morning Mr. Thomas P. Calbreath was married to Miss Sarah A. Brownlee of Roanoke, Va., a daughter of the late Mr. James C. Brownlee of Natural Bridge, Va. Dr. Thornton Whaling officiated. Only a few friends were present at the wedding. This is the third sister of the same fam ily that Mr. Calbreath has married.— Baltimore American. According to recent published state ments, since 1880 the American Bell Tele phone company has expended $2,348, --435 in litigation. This appears to be an enormous expenditure for the sake of upholding an incomplete monopoly, but the dividend returns of the Bell com pany do not reflect this view of the matter. Birds of a feather llock together until they get on tho ladles' high hats; thon they're scattered all over tho theater.— Chicago News* I HINTS FOR TRAVEL TO KLONDIKE 11. Preparation for the trip to Alaska'will of course require many points of special knowledge, but there are many others that will apply to all travel and camp ing that one never thinks of until one has wasted much time and patience. Suppose, for instance, you have fifty pounds of oat meal down on your list. You would probably bother with the extra bulk over many a league of hard road without it ever occurring to you that running it through the coffee mill in yonr grocery store just, once would reduce It to less than half its bulk and not damage It ln the least for food. In the same way one will carry so many pounds of water and tin when he carries canned meat. And even dried meat should be pressed Into as near solid cakes as will be safe from spoiling. Well seasoned bologna sausage specially made according to taste, heavily smoked, and well dried can be pressed solid enough for building blocks without danger of spoiling, and will be about the most solid thing you could carry. There ought to be on the market dried meat ground and pressed into cakes, out I do not know of any. For a party intending to carry a large amount for a long time it would not be much of a task to kiln dry beef and grind and press it. Well seasoned and kept dry it will last almost forever. The difference ln freight alone should repay the cost, to say nothing of the convenience. Meat so fixed can be eaten dry like hard tack, and also makes a fine stew with evaporated vegetables. If you will set your wits to work you can apply like principles to many things that will enable you to carry twice the amount in nearly half the space you otherwise would. The be setting sin of all green campers is taking too much and too many things. One says, "I am not going to live like a hog because I am going out of civilization." He ends up by having everything so "mussy" that he Is living far more like a hog than If he had left half the rub bish home. Stanley bears the reputation of being the greatest of modern travel ers. He certainly Is. How he ever got through Africa with that stupendous mass of rubbish is a mystery. There are thousands of men in America and especially in Mexico who would have laughed at half his troubles. If you want trouble make it your study to see what you want to take. If you want comfort study what you can leave be hind. Throw out every surplus knife, spoon, plate, bottle, can and everything bulky, clumsy, hard to pack, or liable to spoil or get "mussy," like canned milk. Go without any milk, and you might do well to leave the sugar and butter be hind. For you will find this principle to hold good. If there are half decent facili ties for packing you will find milk and sugar and butter there about as cheap as you could carry them. If there are no such facilities, if it is impossible to get such things in at a reasonable price it will be because the road is so difficult that you will yourself need every atom of horse energy to get in the absolute necessaries. After going without sugar, milk and butter a few days you will never miss them, and they take much more w eight and room in propor tion to their nourishing power than many other things. I would as soon think of carrying eggs on such a trip. The same principles may be applied to a long list, and though you may at first groan over the deprivation, in the end you will be a great gainer if you are ln any such bad country to travel as Alaska has been represented. Another thing to avoid as much as pos sible is too many packages, even of the best things. For instnace, butter, sugar and milk would make at least three packages. The same amount of bulk and weight put Into so much more bacon, beans or flour would not only be more substantial but would not Increase so much the number and clumsiness of the packages. But If you must have more variety use the space with choco late, old dry cheese or similar substan tial stuff. Few things equal chocolate weight for weight and bulk for bulk, though like cheese it cannot be used long without something else. Whether you do most of your packing on foot or on horses you will in any event find you have too much stuff and in too many packages, and that they are most all too clumsy. The amount of time lost in packing and unpacking every day on a long trip, to say nothing uf the wear and tear on patience, is very great. Few things bother the novice like packing a horse so that the pack will stay well on rough ground, and it is one of the things that are not very easy to explain, except by an object lesson. The main thing is to have good pack animals to start with, animals that will follow the train without everlasting chasing, and that will keep a trail, in stead of always trying to make a new one for themselves. Animals raised in the city, that have had no experience in rough country, at c as helpless wretches in mountains as one can imagine, and if you allow anyone to sell you such stock you may have trouble. If they do not understand the picket rope, horses may burn their fetlocks and lame themselves badly the first night out, and do all manner of tricks when they get on very rough ground. Tying a horse by the fetlock Is a trick that is often very useful. A very small rope tied In a bowline knot to the fore foot in this way will hold any horse, provided he does not get running under full headway before he understands It. As soon as he finds out it Is there he will never pull twenty pounds on It and can be tied with a handkerchief and a bit of twine. The diamond hitch, about which so much fuss is made, is a fine thing to make a tenderfoot think a high-priced guide Is earning his money, but a very poor thing for a novice to begin stern business with. It is a first-class hitch, but no better in any w ay than the Mex ican hitch, which you can learn in ten minutes, get perfect on the third or fourth trial and cannot forget if you should try. The diamond is very hard to learn, takes long practice and Is easily forgotten. There are very few who can put It on alone, and it generally takes two men with an extra cinch and rope. The Mexican, commonly called the "squaw hitch" in California and In Oregon the "digger hitch," takes no ex tra cinch, but only a single rope, and can be put on perfectly by one person ■in three trials. There are no better packers in the world than the Mexicans nnd there are no better American pack (rs than the people of the San Joaquin valley, who go every year to the high Sierras to escape the heat. Amng the latter you wlll see no diamond cinch used. The Mexicans know it, but rarely use It. I never used it again after seeing the Mexican hitch) because It takes such toughness and hardness of the hands to draw the ropes tight enough. For the Mexican hitch the pack is ar ranged in the ordinary way, with the heavier stuff in the large pouches on each side the pack saddle and the blankets, etc., (folded once) on the top. Over the top a single rope is then thrown across the center. On one side and high up a single loop is then turned in the rope exactly like the lirst half of the common square knot. The lower edge of this loop is then passed through the cinch ring Just far enough to run the loose end of the rope through the part passed through. The sides of the loop are then adjusted around the ends of the pouches and the rest of the pack in the ordinary way before drawing tight. Then the loose end of the rope is brought down from above and run through the new loop Just made by passing the lower part of tho big loop through the cinch ring. This loose end of the rope is drawn slightly and then se cured. Going to the other side the same operation is repeated, but the rope is now drawn more tightly before se curing. Returning to the first side, the rope is made tighter and well secured, and then you may put the final pull on the other side and secure that. You can hardly miss it if you try a few times and do not allow the loops on the sides to be more than twelve or fifteen Inches apart at the top of the pack. This hitch will save you avast amount of trouble, and you can put a draw rope across the top between the two main loops and tighten there if you wish. More loss of time and annoyance come from bad packing than from any other thing in travel, and if you can find some one to show you all this, you w ill do well to take a few lessons. And if your ex perience In knots Is limited to the world renowned "granny knot" and the slip knot, by all means go and spend a week with some sailor and have him teach you the square knot, the bowline, the clove hitch and the timber hitch, until you can make any of them quickly. Not that you need these to fasten a pack, but there Is great loss of time and some times loss of stock from not knowing how to tie good knots. You can choke a horse to death on a rainy night with the silly knot so common in our livery stables, and have to cut It to get It off. You can slacken or tighten a proper bowline In almost a second, and it will never slip or bind. The clove hitch is Invaluable for the picket stake and many other things, while it should be indict able to tie a granny knot In anything. Green hands are apt to be too fast with the horses and in the end lose more time than is gained by pushing them. Pushing horses too hard on scanty feed is very unwise, because if they fall off It is very hard to get them up. And you cannot overcome this very long by the brilliant expedient of feed ing them plenty of water. If you are traveling in very rough ground, and es pecially in bad windfalls, where the horses must climb many logs, they must be kept as strong as possible and in good cheer, or they will not make half-time and may at any time fail. Almost every camper gets "left" two or three times on the horse that "never leaves camp," and especially the horse that "never leaves the other horse" or the "bell mare." There are such horses, but they are like the Inside ring In a political deal. The trouble is to know when you are in it. After being left on foot a few times, one concludes that it is not safe to bet on such faithful ani mals. The perversity with which a horse will leave the best of grass and wander mile after mile In search of still better nothing is one of the marvels of the brute world, although it is possible to get stock into a country so outlandish that they will not attempt to move un less made to. There are a thousand tricks about the details of camping that make a vast dif ference in the pleasure and comfort of all parties, but are too long to detail. Such, for instance, as the fact that two small fires on a very cold night will keep a man warm between them, whereas, with one large one, it will be alternate roasting and freezing on one side or the other. It is simply a question of which is the more easy to make and keep going. But it Is often better to get up frequently to fix two small fires than to turn over at a big one every five minutes to roast the freezing side. A big fire Is also a nuisance to cook by, but the tenderfoot is quite sure to make as large a one as the fuel will justify. He is also quite apt to pitch a tent in a hollow, and then for get to drain it until the rain has proved it needs draining. He is quite likely, too, to have tent pins that will go in just far enough to come out easily as soon as the ground is wet and the wind blows a little. And stretching the tent so tight that it will not sag and leak where It touches anything Is something he seems to learn only by experience. If there are blow-files or similar in sects there, you should carry among your medicines calomel or similar stuff, so that you can keep the files out of sores on the animals. I have seen hun dreds of sores doctored with calomel on man and beast and never saw it fail to heal. A fly will never touch a sore that has a little poydered on it and it Is death to every egg if any are laid. I have saved two horses in my time that would surely have died but for the calomel I had brought along, but one should know how to throw a horse with ropes for its application in the worst cases. It seems a sure cure for all kind of festered or ulcerated wounds of any kind and there Is probably nothing better. The matter of Insects may be a serious one if they are as bad as reported. I have seen mosquitoes and black Hies so bad in the big woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin that It was impossible to fish or hunt at all. There was nothing to do but leave. Tar, pennyroyal, kerosene and all similar stuff that you can imag ine or that wit has so far devised are all ineffectual when the flies and mosqui toes are very bad and nothing but a net will save you. There is no net that you can keep away from your skin so far that the mosquito cannot bite through It except a double not. Every kind of frame to keep it distended is either a 4pP*» OR. MEYERS & CO. bbß W DISEASES and WEAKNESS OE MEN |M J Sixteen Years Successful Experience yy \ % s \< a Ini, ttfli* what your age, ailment, or '//, \S /// condition miiy be, theae great doctors ' V * ' HU rlir " " l " eH ' ore y° u < Speedily and CONSULTATION FREE ' 2,tt S " BRO/U,W/ * Y < LOS ANGELES Jp--*, >' "Wee °r by mail. Private book for men W It Jr " nlv sent sea ' eJ without charge. "no money required jjgrm yon are cubed j , ! 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