TAI,MACK’S SKRXON.
“STONING OF STEPHEN.*’ SUN
DAY’S SUBJECT.
Irom flic Text, Act** VII. \«r :•* r>0 to
r»o hh Follow** i tiio
II(mkiih liOpeuMl." I.tf# — A Sermon
in I ivlurcu.
Stej.lien hail been preaching a rotts
Ing sermon, and the people could not
stand ;t. They resolved to do as men
somaimes would like to do In thU
day, 1/ they dared, with some plain
preacher of righteousness kill him.
The omy way to silence this man was
to knock the hreath out of him. So
they rushed Stephen out of the gates
of the city, and with curse, and whoop,
in I b How they brought him to the
el'ff, as was the custom when they
wanted to take away life by stoning.
Having brought him to the edge of ttie
cliff, they pushed him off. After he
had fallen they came and looked down,
and fee ing that he was not yet dead,
they began to drop stone:; upon him,
stone after stone. Amid this horrible
rain of ini •.'•lies, Stephen clambers up
on his i i:m and folds his hands, while
the blood drije from his temples to his
died, i, from his cheeks to his gar
ments. from his garments to the
ground, and then, looking up, lie
make: two prayers- one for himself
."iid one for his murderers, “Lord Je
Mi, r>• < ive ray spirit;” th it was for
h.m. -If. “Lord, lay not this sin to
their charge;” that was for his assail
ants, Then, from pain and h as »f
blood, he swooned away and fell
asleep.
I i to : how von today five pic
tur'.-c Kl'plif-n gazing Into heaven.
Stephen looking at (Ihrisl. Stephen
stored. kepheii in his dying prayer.
Stephen asleep.
Klr.-t, look at Stephen gazing Into
heaven. Before you take the leap you
want to know where you are going
to land. Hi fore you climb a ladder
you want to know to what point th"
ladder reaches. And it was right that
Stephen, within a few moments of
le aven, should be gazing Into it. We
would all do well to be found In the
same posture. There Is enough In
heaven to keep us gazing. A man of
large wealth may have statuary in the
hail, ami paintings in the sitting-room,
and works of art In all parts of the
house, but ho has the chief pictures in
the art gallery, and there hour after
hour you walk with catalogue and
glas:; .nd ever-increasing admiration.
Weil, heaven is the gallery where God
has gathered the chief treasures of his
realm. The whole universe is his pal
ace. In this lower room where we
;:'op 'here are many adornments; tes
sellated floor of amethyst, and on the
winding cl ud-stalrs are stretched out
cunv. :•« on which commingle azure,
and purple, and saffron, and gold. But
heaven is the gallery In which the chief
glories-. are gathered. There are the
brightest robes. There are th" rich
est err wns. There are the highest ex
hilarations. John ays of it: "The
kings of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory into it.” And I sec
th" procr.on forming, and in the line
come ill emi ires, and the stars spring
tip into an arch for the hosts to march
tinder. The iiosts keep step to the
round of earthquake and the pitch of
avalanche from the mountains, and
the flag they hear is the llame of a
consuming world, and all heaven turns
out w;th harps and trumpets and myr
iad-vciccd acclamation of angelic do
minion to we-come them in, and so
the kings of the earth bring their
honor and glory into it. Do you won
der that good ueoDle often stand, like
S Stephen, looking into heaven? We
have many friends there.
Then ;s not a man in this house
today :,o isolated in life but there is
some one in heaven with whom he
once shook hands. As a man gels o'd
ed, he needsr of his . dcstlal ac
quain anu s very rapidly multiplies.
We have not had one glimpse of them
since the night we kissed them good
by. I they went away; lint still we
stand gazim: at heaven. As when
some of our friends go across the sen,
v • :vnd on the duck, or on the si"am
»t; ud watch them, and after avvhlie
the h .;k of the vessel disappears, mid
then there only a patch of sail on
the h!.v. and soon that Is gone, and
they ,.ii ail out of sight, and yet we
stand looking in the same direction; •<>
when nr fiends go away from tls into
th • future V , id I we keep looking down
thrmb he Narrow*, and guiing and
gaging. to though we expected th:r
they would come out and stand on som
cloud, and give Us nile glimpse of then
blissful ind '.lansflguu'if faces.
Wilin' you long to Join th. Ir com
pHOnonhtl and the )i‘»i» and the diys
go with »u*!i tedium that they break
yon tie.irt and lit*- vI|h*i of (xiiti uni
mi.—aw ..l.d l.ereav .«ent I en» gnaw
,n ; at m or vital* )**u stitr.il *1111, like
tiiepb'h, vicing Into heev ii You
wonder if hvy ha. w i h inge.) dnee you
*sw '1. in <*i You word . if they
would remgitue ) ur face now, >o
rlit»g<‘l tivya it been with trouble. Yon
w .liter f, sir >t tbs mi..ad delights
they 1 *ye -t , y car* a* m *1. trr yon
as th-» u»e l to when the .me you a
helpi ig t*i.| ,«nd pot Hut. shoulder
u . j,.i *c't,* lit <k>iis \ on * iit.li i ft
Ih-y beg sfc>' elder. t*l»d *«-M»*»|ni.»
th» tvinitv* c't. when the n».o>-. u all
4|. , .. u wtigdef if you sb* old rail
thetn t» tfeei# ltr«l lotbi tf ia * w. aid
y.,1 anwit. and yeiax • >
ymc 4*. oak** '-'ll# eapeftoseu* atn4 wh Ml
bt>a» but >t<vl nod |#*tr' f <(e tiyio
yo*l 4u'i>. tty all their no in. * s. I )'*•
I n ad lit ggiiog Into bo i ’0
IVna . i> boa and see dingh-a tmk
tag Ok- « brill VI> text Ml • he w»
■ be b«b «t Man a* th* »**•»« tud d
Oad * i' how Clhtt k j‘ «| ig Ih't
world. Just how lie looks In heaven,
we cannot say. A writer in the lime
cf Christ . ays. dcs'-ribing the Saviour’s
personal jure. that he had blue
eyes and light complexion, and a very
graceful structure; !:•!* I suppose it
was all guess work. The painters of
the dlfleient ages have tried to Imagine
the feature, of Christ and put them
upon canvas ;but wc will have to wait
until with our own eyes we t:ee him
and with our own ears we can hear
him. And yet there is a way of seeing
and hearing him now. I have to tell
you that unless you sic and bear Chrl.it
on earth, you will never see and hear
him in heaven. I»ok! There he Is.
Behold the Lamb of God. Can you not
see him? Then pray to God to take
the scales off your eyes. I/>ok that
way- try to look that way. Ills voice
comes down to you this day comes
down to the blindest, to the deafest
soul, saying: "Look unto me, alt ye
end i of the earth, and he ye saved, for
I urn God, arid there Is none else,’’
Proclamation of universal emancipa
tion for all slaves. Proclamation of
universal amn< ty for all rebels. Bel
shazzar gathered the Babylonish no
blcn to hit; table; George I entertained
the lords of Kagland at a banquet; Na
poleon III. welcomed the czar of flu
sla and the Sultan of Turkey to his
feast; the Kmpcvor of Germany was
glad to have our minister, George Ban
croft, all down with him id his table;
but tell me, ye who know most of the
world's history, what other king ‘-wr
asked the abandoned and the forlorn
and the v/n t"heel and the outcast to
come and sit besliJi him?
On the day of his death, Stephen
spoke before a few people in the San
hedrim; now he addrc.-.se.i all Chi ic.i.m
dom. Paul Up Apo.-tle stood on Mars
Mil) auwjt' Jii , a naaui m
1 phi rg who knew not r.o much about sci
ence as a niodei:; school ; III, To-day
he talks to all the millions of Christen
dom about the wonders of Justification
and the glories of r. sui re Hon. John
Wesley v. as howled down by the mob
to whom lie preached, and they threw
bricks at him, and they denounced
him, and they Jostled him, and they
spat upon him, and yet to-day, in all
lands, he is admitted to be the great
father of Methodism. Hooth's bullet
vacated the Presidential chair; but
from that sp ;t of coagulated bb.od on
the floor In the box of Ford's Theater
there sprang up the new life ot a na
tion. Stephen stoned, but Stephen
alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his
dying prayer. His (list thought was
not how the stones hurt his head, nor
what would became of Ills body. His
first thought was about hia spirit.
•'Lord Jrstia, iccelve my spirit,” The
murderer standing on the trap door,
the black cap being drawn over his
head before the execution, may • rlni
ace about the future, but you and I
have no shame in confessing to some
anxiety about wlie:e we are going to
come out. You ure not all body. There
is within you a soul. 1 see it gleam
from your eyes, and 1 see it irradiating
your countenance. So nr times i am
abashed before an audience, not be
cause | come under their physical eye
sight, but because I realize the truth
that I stand before so many immortal
spirits. The probability is that your
body will at last find a sepulchre in
l some of the cemeteries that surround
your town or city. There is no doubt
but that your obsequies will he decent
and respectful, and you will lie able to
pillow j our bead under the maple, or
the Norway spruce, or the cypress, or
the blossoming fir; but this spirit
about which Stephen prayed, what di
rection will that take? What guide
will escort it? What gate will open lo
1 receive it? What cloud will be cleft
for its pathway? After it lias got he*
; vend the light of our sun, will there be
I torches lighted for it the rest of the
v nv? Will the soul have t. travel
: through long deserts befci- ' it tea. lies
the good land* If we should lose our
pathway, will there ue a castle at
i whose sate wo may ask the w.-.y to the
I city? Oh. this mysterious spirit with
in us! It has two wings, hut It I- in
a cage now. It is locked fast to keep
it: hut let the door of this ease open
the least, and that soul is off. Kagh-'s
win.' could t.ot catch it. The light
nings are not swift enough to take up
with it. When the soul leaves the budy
it takes fifty world.- a! a hound. And
have I no anx.ety about it? Have you
no anxiety about It?
I do not i it.- what you do with my
body when my soul la gone, or wnether
you believe in cremation or Inhuma
tion. I shall sleep lust a.) well in g
wrapping of sackcloth as in satin lined
with eagles down. Hut my soul be
fore this day passes. I will find out
where it will iatnl. Thank tlotl for
the Intimation of my text, that when
we die Jesus take us. That answer*
all question* lor me. What though
there were mtuslve bats betwcun here
uud the city of light. Jesus could re
move them. What though there w*-re
great Sahara* of darknea*. Jesus could
Illume them What though I g-t
weary on the wav rTrust >ou!d lift rue
on til* omnipotent shoulder, What
though lire.* w re chasm* to cross hi*
ha nil could iiat.* .' m Tien let
K:epin nv prater he my dying litany
laud Jc«i|- I«e mv qi r.t ‘ |!
mav W tu that hour a • will I" tco fe*»
M* tu a a tong pr*»,-r. It 'nay ha
in that li i*r We a 111 Hot |.e a toe to a *y
the ' l.crd* l*rav r, for It ha* raven
petition* IVrhap - ** iti.iy I* too
t ebtc . .p'i tu at in Infati p< , «r »nr
mot he i * taught o* sis- H John qilkl •
■ y Vita in* *ey»n*y > >r* ol ••id
,*v»rv night ali u ‘ - put fe . t heu up 4
hts pillow
,V * | 11% m down to *:-*n.
I pro the l. *4 mv . I in -ep
tie to* be too lev q. to ayt.iv
either ol (base lamillar 1 rn» > hot th a
prnyar «t tttrpkvu p» ut abort <• *•
coWi *e U an aarpeat. t* ew »..rap > Ik.-a
airs, we ami) slit be *bt* <a wy t|*t
- laird l*«u* • «««ry* mv •girl* ' u*
tl tbit »'T»t U rtra -tytl, by * *«rrt
It will he to die! This worlJ is clevi •
enough to it.;. IVrhaps it ha.-, treated
us a great dial letter than we deserve
to lie treated; bet if on the dying pillow
there should break the light of that
better world, we shall have no more re
gret about leaving a small, dark, damp
bouse for one large beautiful and ra
pacious. That dying minister In I’lill
adelphla, some years ago, beautifully
depicted it. when In the last moment,
lie threw up his hands and cried out:
"1 move into the light!"
Pass on now and I will show you
one more picture, and thjt is Stephen
asleep. With a pathos and simplicity
peculiar to the Scriptures, the tout
says of Stephen: "He fell asleep."
“Oh," you say, "what a place that was
to sleep! A hard rock under him.
stones falling down upon him, the
blood streaming, the mob howling.
What a place It was to sleep!" And
yet my text takes that symbol of slum
ber to describe bis departure, so sweet
was It, so contented was It, so peace
ful was It. Stephen had lived a very
laborious life. His chief work had
been to care for the poor.
How many loaves of bread he
distributed, bow many bait* feet
lie had sandaled, bow many cots
of sickness and d!s:ie<.; be blessed with
ministries of klmlwss and love, I do
not know; but from the way lie lived,
anil the way h< pi cached, and the way
he died, I know lie was n laborious
Christian. Hut (bat Is all over now.
lie lias proved the Clip t,> the last
fainting lip. He has taken the last In
sult from bl : iie mics. Tin* la t stono
to whose ■ rushing v. eight lie Is suscep
tible has been hurled. Stephen is dead!
The disciples roiiu They take him up
They wash away the blood fi m the
bruised limln. They buinh bark ili(;
; tangled lialr Irani flic brow, ami then
they pars around to look upon the etilrn
1 countenance of hitn who h d lived for
the poor and tiled for th. truth, Steph
en asleep!
I have not the faculty to tell the
, weather. I can never tell by the ret
ting sun whether there will be a
I drought or not. I cannot tell by the
blowing of the wind whether It will be
fair weather or foul on the morrow.
Hu! 1 can prophesy, and I will prophe
sy what weather it will he when you.
'' the Christian, iomo to die. You may
have It very rough now. It may bo
this week one annoyance, the next
another annoyance. It may be this
I year one bereavement, the next another
, bereavement. Before this year has
! parsed you may It ve to beg for bread,
! or ask for a r,cuttle of coal or a pair
of shoes; but at the laxt Christ will
| come lit and darkness will go out. And
though there may he no hand to close
j your eyes, and no breast oil which to
i rest your dying head, and r.o candle to
j lift the night, the odors of Cod’s hang
i Ing garden will regale your soul, and
' at your bedside will halt the chariots
of the King No more rents to pay, no
1 more agony because flour has gone up,
! no more struggle with "the world, the
I flesh, and the devil"; but peace—long,
deep, everlasting peace. Stephen
r« leep!
'■ Asleep In Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A c alm and und'stur! e<l repose,
Uninjured by the last of foes.
Asleep in Jc huh, far from lliee
Thy kindred and tbelr graves may be;
But the re is .still a blessed sleep.
From which none ever wake to weep.
Yon nave seen enough for one morn
ing. No one can .a cessfully examine
incite than five pictures l:t a day. There
fore we stop, having seen this cluster
I of Divine Raphaels—Stephen gazing
! into heaven; Stephen looking at Christ;
: Stephen stoned; Stephen in his dying
prayer; Stephen asleep.
DECAY OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
TIm* AviT.iKf Suml:*>nf To-lhv
Is u to lnt<’lllj;i’iir<*.
In the Ladles’ Home Journal Ed
ward Bok writes on “The Decay of the
1 Sunday-School." anil points out the
r. isnn therefor. "I have in mind." Iie
ays, “nut lens than twelve different
men v. ho are tu ting as siip.>rln:->ndi nta
of our Sunday schools. Not one of
' these men lias even a suggestion of
’ force; not a speck of personal magnet
! i.-m, not a per oio.l pos -vion which
goes to draw chlldri n to him or to the
• ituol over which hr presides. In
live of these rases the men luve leen
failures in busiti* s; by men In the
outer world thev are parsed over anil
ret the church places them In post inns
vhlch call pre-t*nibu utly for every ole
•pent which they so distinctly lack To
; Ire n successful herd of n Sun lay- .bool
• ■■ills for it man with the instincts of
leadership; n man who will Infuse Ilf*
Into the school; hope ami courage into
Ills teacher.- who Is fertile of mind
and Infinite In capacity, who can draw
children * • hint and tot tin their In
ter* tit Not only most lie elevitti his
hi Id mi lu a ‘ptrilnsl s-tue, hot leg
son* of the highest morality must lie
• aught, an influence r-lining to alnd
and nature mn») be evhaled and all
the tint*' the Interest of th-* children
timst t*e arrested ami held It;Units*
variety of method must be sought The
voting quickly tire of anything which
, _ i. * t.i the - nr.* is*.I th. tt is
*h* *V\* re ilrlkg uf th** ttunuty*
-t head It kit »<>o l.iita remained the
*'ue T has fallen Into a tut, and the
fa lit lies lustwen th * t.r** dl:»g iptrlt*
of the .hied v he ft we go sb lit) fur
their !.•**(• •* tti. .*i i (he * k'tf- to * tkt*
has* pi**«*t them there ... allowed
• hef •*» r*tit> t " Mr thih ti.tuludes
h« ft*, t .sum with th* aswrtlotv that
o s-ohukr to tat t’l *a * ai t * J .r«dt
Uk. ft* re»i • th • U k*i» •
<th«' it and skd •• * i*. u as. t
t s he
latts t« he « soiel w< ,* <4 silt
It * i o’ t« -s hi*
THE
Ships, Men and Money Uncle Sam
Strength. . i
Congress Authorizes V;ist Ad-1
ditions for New Battleships
—The Maine to Be Re
placed—Marines Also Being
!
All Along Our South At
lantic Coast - Movements
Of Our Warships.
The navy department ha* now reason to
believe that It ha* Hccured the two war
ahlp*, Amazon*# and her winter nhij*. now
building In Lngland for Hrazlh It s a» |
Mtuled at the cabinet meeting by H«»i •
fury Long that the naval utta ho at Ljii
don. Lieut* mint <*olwe||, had almoM * oiu
plote<) the negotiation* for the purchase.
Ho far. howe\< r, the llnnl notill •:itl>n Mom
him that Ida offer ha* hern accepted hi,*
not yet reached the navy department.
Authorize?, Three* New ship*.
Thrte n. vv I at11* *hlp* of the stan»’he*t
type utJoat were? authorized by the lioii*.*
eommlttee on naval affair* Hattmbiy. i ud
a provision for llu lr cotistru ulon wa* in
ner ied in the nasal approprlatl.m bill. At
ib* r.imc time, the committee agreed on
a maximum price of H'#l per ton lor ar
mor plate for our v•sach-:, In-Tea* I tie*
forto of naval marble i by iYA r.u u and pul
matter* In fair shape for a *lecdrtlon to
morrow' on the location of dry dock#,
prul ably four in number, capable of ac
commodating the large*! Ml/.ed W.tl V* -
lid*. The committee wa# In *<*#*1011 prac
tically ail day and bofor© iti dccl low on
the increase of #hipN was reached ther*
wa# a long and lni**r«ting dlhcii-Mlon.
Representative Tate, while favoring an
Incn-aMC, believed two venae!* would be
ample, and that further exp rnllturc h*
solid t In* pollll of lic<'c**|t y should be
a voided Repi " '••ntatlv*1 Louden#! ig r of
.Ww Jersey protested that if 1 he strength
of the navy wa# to I*'* increase] at all
it Hhould he to the extent of three new
vit'hcIh, built und urmed to tin < any s
k«*1 alloat,
Hawley Want* One CruUcr*
Hcprctentative Hawley .if Texas . r>v d
that a cm! • r !»*• «-n *lifui*,<l for * in* of
the battleship*, but .•cib***»|ti»*ntly with
drew tho motion. Wh »n tue vot * wa* tnk
c»i there wa* hut one dissenting voice. Mr,
Tate in .i. t *J (hut two lot'tlv.slilpa would
ant of the marine corps, ami to each of
tin* bureau chiefs of the navy department:
'Sir I’nder the emergency appropria
tion of $'<0,000,Oo) made Wednesday you
will Incur no expense or liability except
after written statements and estimate
made by you und approved by the presi
dent and secretary, all tn writing, A
special record must be kept of every such
requisition. If any such liability or ex
pense has been Incurred by you by oral
direction make such written statement
Mini estimate and submit It at unco lor
such approval. __
"iJy Older of the president. ^
"Very respectfully.
j JOHN !>. I.UN'J, Bec'y.
Ill* Item fi»r Carnegie.
Lieutenant Mou<\ representative of tho
<*uirng> rttee| Company, hum at the navy
department In conference with tb»* offi
cial.* r» • pe ting he naval work in prog
ress.
The torpedo flotilla lit Ley West will |
soon he re-enforced by two fine boms,
which have been under repairs. Tho
Wli.dov sailed this morning from I
Churl* don for Key West und the Foote
from Norfolk for the Ham*.
The rornmandant of ihe Mare Island
navy yard reported that the erulfer Mo*
hlcsn ha*I called with her cargo of am
munition, which she will tranship at Hon
olulu to th* lialilrnoro for the Asl.ittr
squadron. The nav. I oflb'ern who are en
deavoring to e|Y< "i the purchase of ahipM
abroad hn\c encountered an ob;<a*le ♦ hu*
promises to give some irouhle, This Is
found III the difference heiwren the «*t*II
b*us of tlw gun.i mounted on foreign built
ship ; and the Cnlfed Slat* a navy stand
ards, Not only do tlnve guns differ in cali
ber from our own In mo. i < •*•>* s, bul as
they are ahao t all designed tor the uro of
smokeless p »v.d< r flu-lr eombtisMon chain
h* are too email to lire the ordinary
lirowui powd«v with v/hi !i the Annul an
navy is rtill /applied.
Mind liny Fonder Abroad.
This obstur !e is serlmin, but not Imvir
ftiouuluhle. It will i'quite the proeitre
n * ni tn liurcp** of » I n,,- quantity of am
n.tiiiH ion In special Mixes for Hn;/.c ships,
as it would require a good dr ;tl of time
for our domestic ammunition makers to
change their plants arid make the special
Com a si, tub r William If. Lnn’iy has
volunteer'd to command the auxiliary
cruiser tft. I.ouhi In ih<* event of that v< . -
eel’s lmpre,,*jij**ut into the naval service,
and lit* will la* ordered o join her be
fore !<r departu!e from New York next
Wednesday. In a cHpucfly similar to that
which caus'd CtniMttnt,»i’ Hrovvn/un to
sail o;i the Ht. Paul, f’or.ima.'.drr Pinery
has ! • lected c* l:bi immediate staff Lieu
tenant Nathan Hurgent as exe ntlve ofil
ccr. at present recorder of the board of
Inspection ami survey of the navy depart
ment. and Lieutenant Frank F. Fletcher
THE ORDER NOW OFTEN HEARD ON OUR WAROHIPC.
f^h
"SPONGE AND LOAD”—A CHARGE OF THIS KIND WHEN PROPERLY
DIRECTED WILL BLOW UP ANY WARSHIP.
Iio mifTUdent to meet pr sent re* da. The
now wurunlpM provided ‘ >r will l«c* <«f the
ilnest pattern. It will bo two y^ant,
doubtle:-,s, before they can be placed in
com mission.
One Will He Named the Maine.
One of them, the ominitteo decided.
I should bear the name of the ill-fut* d
I Maine. Tiie appropriation for their «on*
! at ruction \vu < not fixed. being referred to
tin* subcommittee on appropriated-/a 1 'ch
will report to tit full committee to-mor
row. The ror't. it Is exp * *toil, a i!1 be
about each. though l »;• tic t a!
year loven i In the HU the n.ti'rtiil o! ex
penditure may not exceed <».• each.
An Importa: t i|U*: tiOn was raised as to
whether the expenditures for the i«*w
ships should be defrayed out of the SoO.
(Hr).M u enn rg» ncy bill, but tills subject v. us
pa s d over.
The committee also uxreed on a provis
ion authorising the ye. r t:uy of ti; tuvy
tt» purchase armor plate, by eon fa * • »'
otberwis* . at u cost >f not »*x • •• ‘hi.; S-lt/l
per ton. This was Agreed to. however,
only on the express proviso that u. * it m
Include the nit gel n - d in the armor. t»*r
which a large outside percen t^.- hereto
fore has been paid by the gov * mile n t.
This limit of armor conr.it I v
been generally expected and. with the ex
ception of the tmertinii of t.te provl- »
as to nickel, tm t with lift! opposition tn
the discussion
lucre tie Number of Mirlms.
One of the most lm|M»rtani feature* of
; th w »rk oil the bib was aii agreement on
an ippropriathm of |bi'» *s«j for outhttlog
: tatlontUM and uitifoi mttig additI n.al
1 ftiarn t’s This lyit'iams *n the naval tor *
was minis th* subject of a special ac-l ur
j geat r«'«|uvst sent to the house afivr the
(ttibMU* 4tt of the r*4iUr cocm-nda
| tb>l»* The %|uest!on of •* CilUtMti nt of
! i<rw dr> d k* w atl over t .»*• i tion i»*«
j n am- ■ 1* w r» thar eighty d*#atMM* | to*
i isv a*- I th ,i til <»k U that tour ie‘ s *|» v
■ dnefcs Would t*e at* homed two Mil the
I At!**!!* . .**' tn# on the l*a* t » • oast
I and angthwf stt the xulf If th# present
1 » X|» rto' MMb ale at «t* i ,#1.4* d Is tn alow
j iio *, t... .» »!.: bo iutd>)M'd »*• »**' i'«ti
• it'etcd #t 11 - %t-o ktu %;#' »r* N’ v
( «rtb#4 *<» 1 HW/mu l« !«♦%*
HflDt live ltd Mail to W (Mil t i »r dry
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t «le| * |« ( * - I < »! «At |g» i.1 if* in, 9.
!«‘»b AM **• |*#w*'" M c I »sswOl|.
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tk« fund# ,»* * ..**«»*»» pro*fcM tg mm*
I gfwws. >s vat# «s I b# kt« 4 > tc twd
I th# t-dr >wtt*g twttgf t*t Ik# a#1*5
I »**W I -f Ike M4%|. t”.# * <M»I
I
as navigator, now on duty ut the torpedo
station ut Newport.
M»y Arm Wlialebuck*.
1 Captain Alexander MeRougall of the
American Steel Rarge Company at l>u
lutli has received a telegram from Assist
ant Secretary Roosevelt of tin* navy de
partment. ashing his opinion a:: to the
feasibility of converting whulebuck steam
ers into vessels of war.
The captain says, how* v< r, that there is
not mr. dt probability of lie government
taking anv. as it would require some time
to K *t many of the larger type through
tin* Welland canal.
Captain Thin .,,11 says he las a plan
now whereby he thinks he •■an attain
greater speed with tin* whabh;n k type,
which might make tins** vessel* of use.
aside from defending a harbor, lie sug
g. is .t st* * I rani and two turrets u.» requi
site changes for war purpo.-■< *.
I orrtgu \V,ir*>lii|n Needed.
Speaking of the possibility or the I'nited
State* obtaining naval v*s-.c|* abroad.
John IMatt of Thorpe. IMatt *Vr Co,, of New
York. American n pr* seniativ-s «,: John
I. Thornv« ruft »v Co. of Chiswick. Kng
l.ind. one <.r th.* large*! constructor* of
torpedo boats Mild torpedo boat destroyers
in tlreat Itritaiit, »-ai«t I iinve just re
turned from Washington and I was assur
• «i that till* government dealr*-* now more
titan anv otlici -las* of vens»l a fleet of
torpedo boat destroyer*, ami had It been
considered practical by the navy fiepart*
men* to have tin* beats built in Riigiaud.
the Th*M n>ctaft company nuuiii have by
WHAT MAV HAPPEN,
umtmixu \ WH'NUMI TO lim HICK iHT UM X HAH-W'Wklk
[hi* time begun work on several vessels
>f the Thornycraft type for use her** Act
ng tipovi suggestions receiver! In Wash
ngton. however. I have consulted mem*
fu r* of three or four shipbuilding concerns
In this country relative to the quick con
it ruction of vessels of the Thornycraft
type. 1 have been assured by them that,
with the detailed working plans of tb»
vessels In their possession and under an
ordinary commercial contract—that la. a
contract free from all unnecessary rer|
tape they could collectively complete, by
working night and day, a fleet of ten such
vessels within seven mouths. The repre
sentative of one firm assured me that It
rould send out the first vessel within s'x
months. 1 am authorised by cable by the
Thornycraft company to offer to dlsposo
iff complete plans of the Thornycraft ves
sel to this government at practically
moment's notice. The vexa-l* are 210 feet
TUB V PBRANOA.
(On* of tho Now Warflhipfl tflkted for
Purr base by the United States.)
low* and 2T.'» tons displacement, mountin'*
four nix-pounder* and one thirteen-pound
er. und equal to thirty knot*. They arc*
roiiMld*,red the moat succeNsful type of
torpedo boat destroyer* ever constructed.
Hngland ban alnudy about wixty of them
and othem building and Thornycraft & Co.
are constructing a number of them for
(Jermany and Japan. The plan* of thin
type of VPiwtel can tm obtained from the*
r'hlMWlek yard* within three day*, and l
have every reason to believe that this
government will order them."
*** — • 'Sm
*** A Magnetic I(laii'). ;Vtvi
A most phenomenal Island is that a
Bornholm, in the Baltic, belonging to
the kingdom of Denmark. It is fa
mous for its geological peculiarities,
consisting aa It does almost entirely of
magnetite, and Its magnetic influence
Is not only very well known to the
navigators of those waters, hut also
much feared by them, on account of
Its Influence on the magnetic needles,
whit h make the steering of a ship
correctly a matter of much difficulty.
In fact, this Influence Is felt even at a
distance of miles, and so palpably
that, on the Island being sighted by.
mariners on the Baltic, they at once*
discontinue steering their course by
the needle, a-d turn, Instead, to the
well-knov/n lighthouses and other
holds to direct their craft. Between
Bornholm and the mainland there is
also a hank of rock under water, which
la very dangerous to navigation, and
because of its being constantly sub
THE (WISER PHILADELPHIA.
(Ordered to .loin the South Atlantia
Squadron The Swiftest Armored
Vessel in the Wurltl.)
merged. ve.aela have Iwen fre
quently wreaked ut that point. The
peculiar fact in this ease la that
the magnetic Influence of this
ore hank la so powerful that ti
magnetic needle suspended frwly in
a host ovr the hank will imint down,
and. If not disturbed, will remain in *
perfectly perpendlculur Hue.
