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Monarch of _____ _ Retvizjvn. Greatest of The Sea^s Battleships, Just Completed | I—HWL ■ JBlffBBfcMMnc? When the Russian unfurls the blue cross of St. Andrew on Its field of milky white over the taffniil of the Retvizan, a few weeks hence, he will possess the greatest battleship. In many respects, of which any navy can now boast. To And out If all this Is ho. the Cramps, who created the ves sel, are* ready to take her to sea for a preliminary trial, which promises t.r> he of world-wide interest. This ship, more than any other that is even approaching completion, em bodies every development of the mon ster man-of-war which had for its first model Ericsson's tiny monitor; and the czar's officers, who have watched her grow from the simple • enter keel plate smile now and are impatient to exhibit their prize to naval Europe. A battleship of nearly 13,009 tons, that can run as swiftly as an ordi nary accommodation train on a first class railroad; that will house neary S00 men. and which, at a distance of ten or a dozen miles, can hurl 3,400 pounds of chilled steel and high ex plosive against an enemy from the four great guns that peer o it of tur rets of steel, which resemble in shape nothing so much as the skull of an considered that the United States government proving course off the \ew England roast is only fifty knots long and that Uncle Sam's ships steam it over twice to prove their me~it the difficulty of having deep-sea room enough to run a vessel twelve hours on a stretch and ail the time at eight een knots an hour must be evident. Builder*’ Tent Is Interesting. Iiut there is a way to overcome this I difficulty. The modern battleship is nothing if not a piece of machinery, ] and machinery writ geared, like figures j ccrivrtly totaled, never lie. So they 1 will run the Retvizan over the meas ured course, and knowing the exact distance from mark to mark, will keep a record of the revolutions of the big j twin screws until the time comc3 when j a carefully measured space is covered i exactly at the required speed. Then the time will be ripe for the j main lest, and for twelve hours the ship will lie forced onward over a course laid anywhere in the sea that ■ gives the required area of deep water, I and throughout the revolutions of the j propellers must average at least up to the turns that were found necessary j to make the contract speed. NEW RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP RETV1ZAN, LOOKING AFT. I orang-outang—elliptical balanced tur rets, the plans call them—that is the Retvizan. Warship builders the world over knew that the czar wanted ships a few years ago, and all figured on how best to please the Imperial marine ministry. But the czar not only wanted vessels— he wanted them of a type vastly Im proved and. moreover, he wanted j them quick. Then it was that Charles R. Cramp figured out the pos sibilities, first of the Variag, now the crack protected cruiser of the Russian navy, and second of the Retvizan. A Hard it was the latter which needed the , most figuring. To build a ship of the j speed required, displacing approxi mately 13,000 tons—12,775 to he exact —and float it in less than twenty-six feet of water, was the proposition, and its answer is the huge craft now about to seek the sea to try herself. The hull, which carries the typical sweep ing American lines that mean grace i and speed, is 384 feet long between perpendiculars, and seventy-two feet two and one-half inches wide, and as she lies now there are nine inches of Krupped armor spread over the mas sive sides for two-thirds the entire length. Above this belt there is six inches to the deck line; the gun posi tions, in casements above, have five inches of plating. Back of the armor is the curved protective deck, which covers the vitals of the ship. To keep out any stray raking snot that might go through and disable a gun or two, heavy armored bulkheads are worked In at the ends of the main and ease mate belts. This is the first battleship built in this country with a complete installa tion of water-tube boilers. This was one of the novel features Involved in the Cramp plan and all the machin ery is particularly adapted to this type of boiler. They will make the steam that will give the two ponder ous triple-expansion engines the pow er to whirl the shafts with the strength of 16,000 horses. Then the twin 25,000 pound propellers will be called upon to push the ship ahead at the rate of eighteen knots an hour, though It would he hard to find a man at Cramps' who does not believe that the indicated horse power developed will he much In excess of the require ments and that the speed will he nearer nineteen than eighteen knots. Kusfllan* Kequlre Sfvrrf Truly. When the Russians accept a *bip there is no chance of their g tting any thing but what they order. A Pnited States government trial, severe as it is, when the vessel is forced at top speed over the deep course between Cap Ann and Cap Porpoise for four hours, would never satisfy the czar's men. They have a set of tests of their own devising that, if practiced on all the ships of foreign navies, would likedy result in hair of them being declared failures. First they wanted no assisted or forced draught used; next they insist that the vessel shall maintain the eon tract speed for twelve consecutive hours, and incidentally they stand about to watch the indicator cards and see that it is done. When it is The coining first trial of the big bat tleship is called a preliminary, or builders' test, hut it is much more interesting, and far more important than the final acceptance trial of twelve hours, for it really shows the qualities of the ship for the first time, and in addition, every gun will be tested, a feature totally eliminated from I'nited States warship trials. Their guns keep silence until long after the vessel is in commission. then the firing trial is ordered. Hus u Terrific Hatt»rjr, The Retvizan carries a terrific bat tery and the big guns are novel to American eyes, for the Russians manu facture all their own heavy ordnance at the Obrukoff works. They are really a modification of the famous French Canet type and have practically the same style of breech block and. like all such weapons, are fired by electricity and loaded bv machinery, except for the pushing of the shell into the yawning breech. There are four twelve-inch, twelve six-inch and twenty three-inch guns in the main battery, while the second ary group is made up of twenty forty seven-mi Hi meter Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannon. Every one of these has to be tested, not because the Russians fear the efficiency of the guns them selves, but to enable them to learn just how the carriages and the fittings stand the strain and also what sort of a gun platform the vessel Is. Therefore the Cramps will man the ship with a crew from their yards, all of them skilled engineers and firemen, and Capt. Stechenanovitch. the future commander, will take aboard gun crews made up from the 100 or more men who arc here as a part of the crew that will take the ship home. Once compasses are adjusted the j nose of the Retvizan will he pointed 1 out of the Delaware capes to the open sea and she will be run slowly to the deep water that lies Just beyond thi Five Fathom hanks, perhaps sixteen nilles off shore. Then, between the northeast and southwest, light vessel, of the Hank, known to be juat It1,4 knots apart, the first speed run will b made, and when all is found satlsfac tory a northwest, course will carry the vessel far away from the track of any regular liners or coasters and the swarthy Russian sailors will be given their chance to participate in the af fair. This they will do by firing each gun at nothing but the water, first with half a service charge of powder and (hen with the regular war charge and projectile. The effects of each shot on every plate, beam and stanchion will bp noted, for the great guns us.» 210 pounds <■:' the highest power smokeless powder to hurl neir 850 pound pointed ciy'nders of ft ■•el, and the crush and shock of such a dis charge is little les- then a small earthquake. There is one thing sure in connection with the Rctvizau. She* will never catch fire. The lessons of the Yalu river. Manila bay and Santiago are now too deeply routed in the minds of the Russians to permit them to use wood in any form in the construction of their ships. So site has asbestos bulkheads in all the living spaces and the et tire interior is sheathed with tite same fire-proof material. Even her boats will be of metal, a step which has not been taken by the United States yet, though the newer ships have precious little wood about them. It will b* only a few days before the world will know whether this >3,000,000 combination of steel Is a success or a failure, and if she proves the test, as everybody believes she will, then the world must bow, for the era of the 18-knot battleship has come. HAUNT OF WILD BIRDS. Cranite Cliff Near North Cape, riollnml. Literally Covered With Them. One of the greatest haunts of wild birds in the world Is Hjeimso-Stauren, a mighty cliff of granite rising from the ocean near the North Cape, Hol land. It is a precipitous wall nearly 4,000 feet in height, whose surfaces are broken by niches and shelves and little crevices evidently caused by the disintegration of the rock, writes Wm. K. Curtis In the Chicago Record Her ald. The sea birds of the Arctic have found it of great convenience and make it their headquarters. The wall is protected from the wind by its pe culiar position, and the instinct of the feathered populaton of this region has taught them that it is the safest place they can find. Hence every lit tle niche contains a nest. Nobody knows how many there are. but dur ing the season when little birds are matting and nesting and until the lit tle ones are old enough to take care of themselves the cliff is covered with them. The captain of the approaching steamer gives to his passengers notice of his nearness to the place, creeps up to the side of the cliff as quietly as a steamer can go, and when in the prop er position blows a whistle, fires a can non, lets off a lot of skyrockets and makes as big a noise as possible, which frightens the birds, and everything with wings starts shrieking into the air. The sky is filled with them like a cloud of smoke, covering the vessel for a few moments until they scatter in the distance, and after a while re cover their courage and come back gradually and congratulate themselves upon their escape from death and dis aster. A photograph cannot give any kind of an idea of the scene. The birds are so small and the rock is so large that they are mere atoms in the at mosphere. But those who have wit nessed the avalanche of frightened birds, and have heard their plaintive, wailing cries, will never forget it. This colony, the captain declares, numbers millions. They consist of gulls, sea swallows, eider ducks, loons and puffins. “Oh!" gasped the beautiful woman as she fell back, clutching at her ONE OF Tin-: RETVIZAN'S POWERFUL GUNS. heart and permitting the telegram to flutter to the floor. Her fashionable guests rushed forward, crying: “What is if Has your husband met with an I accident?" "No—no," she moaned; 1 "it Is from my son-in-law. 1 am a ; grandmother.’’—Chicago Hecord-Her j aid. Sitting upon its haunches, with its head laid hack on the knees of an at tendant, "John,” tile prize monkey of the IJncoln park "zoo." submitted to a painful operation at the animal house !u the park, says the Chicago Daily News of recent date. When Cy DeVry. the veteran animal keeper of the "zoo.” t ailed to “John” the animal “teemed to know what was coming, and hesitated when DeVry first culled him. Then, summoning all its courage. It walked slowly to the front of the cage, crawled into DeVry's arms and was carried to a bed prepared for it in a sink. John has liatl n bad abscess on i the upper part of (he left cheek reach- I mg from the eye nearly to the ear and I (he little face was badly swollen. Indl- , eating the pain which the animal has i suffered for many days. It was feared that the life or the monkey could not be saved, and. as a last resort, an op eration was determined upon. Kroper Arts l.lk«* u Sur/cnou. DeVry, surrounded by lances, curettes, i tiny saw, bottles of antiseptic anti an assortment of syringes of various bet! which had been prepared and laid its head back v. it It a look ns ranch as to say: "Now 1 am ready; go ahead." First the swelling was cut open and then a copious wash or antiseptic was applied. As to septic conditions, as much care was used as though the op eration were upon a man instead of a monkey. Then the bone was carefully scraped ami another syringe full of antiseptic used. portion of lion** Ttftken Out. Next a small piec e of the* check hone? was removed, anti then more antisep tic. Then the cut was sewed up. leav ing a small aperture for future dress ings. Fast of all, a generous quantity ,-f iodoform was put on the wound to help it heal, and then "John" was lut ed tenderly and put in the cage, but not until the monkey had licked the hands of its surgeon and kissed his face, as though trying to show an un derstanding of It all and gratitude for the tender earn snown. The intelli gence which "John" showed this morn ing and the patience with which the monkey has borne hit; suffering were PERFORMING OPERATION TO SAVE A "ZOO” MONKEY’S LIFE. sixes and shapes, looked like a typical | surgeon. When Cy was ready to pro- I teed with the operation it was a pa retic sight to see the look of trust in the monkey's eyes and the courage and fortitude which it displayed were w ell nigh human. At the first touch of the knife it pressed its head ha’d against ti.o knee of the assistant and grabbed the forefinger of each of his hands with its paws, just as a person does v;ht> is about to undergo a painful op eration. The moukey sat upon the railed remarkable by the animal keeper. Opera tlon nn Hu tire Miiitmi. Film every viewpoint the opera tion was successful, and it is probable that “John” will live to delight hun dreds of i bildren with antics as in the past. The money never uttered a sound from the time the knife llrst touched it till it was put bark in its cage, and then it chattered a few "words.” which DeVry said meant that the animal was glad It was over. ROMANCE OF A BANK BOOK. Saving* Account* That Have J.aln Dormant for Many Tear*. The Bank for Savings, which is «2 years old, has the heaviest dormant account in New York, about $300,000, in which 2,000 accounts are tied up. Of these the ownership of about 200 arc solved each year, and fo this ac count are added about fifty, which, ifter the lapse of twenty-one years without being touched, are entitled to enter the dormant class. Hut in these I days tlie bank does not allow accounts ' to rest so long, and after ton years have elapsed a search is made and the depositor located, .'iter that the bank keeps informed of their whereabouts each year. In 1810, the year when the bank first opened its doors, a church mission in New York made a deposit In the name of “Mission to Jerusalem. The amount, deposited was small, but it was sixty-one years before that amount and interest was paid to the | proper church authorities. "One of the j oldest cases which 1 have seen since j l took hold of this work,” says Mr. De | Lisser, of the Bank of Savings “was j that of a colored girl who lived four I miles from Jamaica. The pastor of the ■anilly. while making a call one day, I »aw the children playing with a soiled ■ind torn bank book. They had scrih- ; bled over the leaves and were tossing the book about. No one in the family j jeenied to understand what the hook was. and the pastor, looking at it and ,eeing that it was one of our pass books, advised them to bring it to the ! yank. This girl, who was 17 or 18 roars old, brought it to me, and on ooking up the account I saw that It -ailed for several hundred dollars, de j posited by a woman who afterward j proved to be the girl's grandmother. Eventually the girl got the money, and ‘he incident, I thought., was closed. But several months afterward she came 'n and said: I was just goin' by. and 1 thought I'd drop in and tell you how much good the money did us. And ■say, do you know. I've been married on ' It.’ And she left beaming all over as ! I congratulated her.’’—New York Press. “You said you were going to marry an artist, and now you're engaged to a dentist” ''Well, isn't he an artist? I He draws from r^al life.”—Fun. OCCASIONALLY AMUSING. Ifo|>rli*fti»ly Igftorunt lirllish Critic II.ii I»♦*<• 11 ret It .Iguiri. Our cheerfully, carefully, completely, densely and hopelessly ignorant Brit ish critic lias been at it again. This time his foolish little brain spread its drippings in the columns of the Lon don Leader in this no less witty than accurate remark about a newly discov ered old-rooted dietary habit of Amer icans: “ ‘Dagonet’ was at Stratford on-Avon last week. He had an excel lent lunch at one of the hotels, and lie met some Americans. Apparently he had not met many before -at any rate, at the luncheon table. His surprise at their mixed menu was great. They ate hot meat and drank iced water. 1’hey had cheese and jam and pots of hot tea. Nothing extraordinary in that —for Americana. That is why they are such a dyspeptic nation. There is hardly a sound digestion among them. Hut where were the molasses and treacle which go to make up every Yankee’s meal? If they were missing the meal was indeed incomplete, it is simply indispensable In the States A story is told of an American lady traveling to India who insisted upon a Jar or golden syrup being placed on her table at each meal. The vessel had to be searched high and low before this soothing syrup could be found. At ttrst it amused her fellow passen gers. Bv and by they grew sick oi the treacle and the lady, and there was an exodus from her immediate vicinity to other tables until she was left se verely alone.’’ A*la t» WorlU In Herself. According to the National Geo graphic Magazine, Asia is the conti nent of continents—a giant land to which Africa is bu* an appeudage and a" Europe only an excrescence. Larger as to mainland than both Americas combined. Asia with her insular ex tension south-eastward might swallow the great landniass of Africa with Eu rope in addition. Of the 50.000.000 square milfs of land on the face of the earth. Asia holds fully 15,000,000, or j three-tenths of all—indeed, stretching, as she does, from the equator to the very shadow of the pole and within a ■ few degrees of half way around the ! globe, she is a world iu herself. Soclwtjr ffimmn Ralm Track. Near the pretty little town of Derby, Conn., is a farm which is managed by a gifted society woman who in her flay has figured conspicuously iu most European courts. The woman is Miss Frederica Sanford, daughter of Henry S. Sanford, at one time United States minister to Belgium. Miss Sanford personally supervises and works the place, raising "garden truck" and chickens. These she taken to Derby regularly, finding ready sale in the markets and hotels for all she can of fer. Her widowed mother and her younger sister, Wilheiinlna, live in the old Sanford homestead in town. Here Miss Sanford generally passe* her nights, but from early spring till late iu the fall she 1b up and away to her truck farm at daylight, often re maining there till sundown. In thli way she makes a comfortable if sim ple living for the family, besides be ing able to indulge in some of the ele gancies. Fighting Tempera!ure I* 8ft Professor Dexter, of the University of Illinois, has been investigating the effects of weather on morals and finds that the desire to fight rises with the thermometer, but stops at 85 degrees; wilts after that as the mercury rises. Assault cases are therefore commonei in summer than in winter. Drunken ness. however, lessens with summer and increases with the coming of cold. Suicides are at a minimum on bright days with a high barometer and in creases as the wind rises. A FEARLESS PHYSICIAN. Renton. III., Sept. 20th.—Much com ment has been caused by the action of Dr. R. H. Dunaway, a physician iiere who for over a year past has been rec ommending Dodd's Kidney Pills tc those of his parents who suffered from Rheumatism, Bright's Disease. Dia betes or other Kidney Troubles. Dr. Dunaway also published an open letter last May stating positively that he himself had be“'i cured of Diabetes hy Dodd’s Kidney Pihs, and (hat, after he had concluded be was going to die. He is a well man today and says he feels it his duty to do as he has done and Is doing because Dodd's Kidney Pills saved his life Swig* Autl-Svrrarers. In Switzerland and Italy good people 50 about with little cards containing pledges against swearing. These are presented whenever the bearers hear iome one indulging in profanity. The penalty for violating the pledge is a imall self-imposed line, to be paid to charity. The way for a man to keep a secret from a woman is not to let her guess there is a secret to keep. Brooklyn. N. Y., Sept. 3fth.— Informa tion has been received regarding the won derful curative powers of the Clarlleld Headache Powdery; people everywhere are using them and writing the manufac turers of the good results obtained. A Big Tree for St l.nnlu. An effort is to lie made to remove a large red oak tree from the wildest section of Arkansas to Forest park. St. Ixjtiis. for the Ixiuisiana Purchase exposition. The tree is 160 feet high and 12 feet in diameter at the base. A double tramway will be built from the tree to the river, where it will be floated and towed to St. Louis. The tree will be dug up by the roots in stead of being cut down, and none of the branches will tie trimmed. lie is lull. I)r. Charles Smith, a physician of Philadelphia, contends that he was born in Cairo. II), in 1775—126 years ago. He says that ho can produce indisputable proof that he was more than 20 yeaers old when he was grad uated at the medical college at Jena In 1808. Schmidt, Champion lllfl* Hlmt. Private Schmidt, of Company t>. Fourteenth United State infantry, now camped at the riile range near Mount Clemens, Mich., made a score at shoot ing at COO yards that the broke the record of the whole army. The target was a dummy man. Nineteen out of twenty of his shots took effect, any of which would have caused instant death in a living man, while the twen tieth shot would have inflicted a seri ous or fatal wound. Schmidt's achieve ment is said to be not only unparal leled in United State arm riile shoot ing records, hut also without precedent A IIUItop'H Tin I n Talk. Bishop W. A. Candler has been talk ing to the St. Louis Southern Metho dist ministers on the higher criticism aud the tendency or ritualism in the church. He deprecates special mu sical programs and paid choirs and soloists. The higher criticism, ho de clares, insists on "a sort of polka dot revelation.” WISE PAINTING Not much wise painting done; poor paint, mostly; too cheap. Nobody wants it poor; everybody wants it cheap. Devoe ready paint is cheap because it isn’t poor; it’s un like any other; because we guarantee results instead of materials. Wise painting is—Paint in the fall and use Devoe. Ask yoar dealer; he'll get It for you. Book on painting frra If yon mention this pajier. GOOD-PAINT DLVOIC. CHICAGO. hum *' 111(x r tia.!i , tad SSSmS ^yP^vritor ltibbong for all Ma-^B IWH I'M'or.’anil rniacothuJeous Type' Hi I writer Supplied and Furniture. BH 1619 Farnara Bt., Omaha.