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Is the Battleship : Failure?
If it is within the discretion of the
secretary of the navy to delay lae
building of battleships for which appropriations-
hove been made it will
be well for him to exercise that dis
cretion. It can do no harm to await
the outcome of the naval struggle in
the far east.
That the Russian ' battleships ha"e
displayed little effectiveness in the
operations at Port Arthur may or may
not be due to the inefficiency of of
ficers and men. Certainly the Japan
ese have handled their battleships
with considerable success. But the
disasters which have befallen battle
ships in modern times must bo taken
into consideration by naval con
structors and navy department. Dur
ing the war between China and Japan
one of the Chinese battleships "turned
turtle" in much the same manner as
did the Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur,
and the world will not soon forget the
terrible catastrophe of the Camper
down and Victoria. The Camperdown
crashed into the Victoria, which
turned over and went down in a few
minutes. The loss of life in each of
these disasters was appalling, and this
is something that should be reckoned
with in the building of modern ships
of war.
That the armament of battleships is
so heavy that the vessels cannot be
handled with success in, naval opera
tions except under the most favorable
circumstances would eem to be Ue
lesson conveyed by these disasters.
They are too valuable to attack, toi
heavy in case of serious mischance and
too slow to run away from dangei.
On the other hand, the value of the
protected and armored cruisers was
fairly well demonstrated by the re
cent raid of the Russian admiral with
the Vladivostok squadron. On the
first day Admiral Yeszen sailed as far
as Wonson, 350 miles from his base,
and blew up a merchant vessel. Fear
ing the approach of the Japanese fleet
he put back to Vladivostok in all
haste, arriving there within forty
eight hours of his departure. On the
night of April 2Ghe set sail again,
and on the following day he destroyed
another merchant vessel and a Ja
panese supply ship, capturing over
200 prisoners in all, and succeeded in
regaining the protection of Vladivo
stok harbor without mishap. Al
though the Japanese were within
striking distance, their presence be
ing betrayed by an Intercepted wire
less message, the Russian admiral
was able to reach port safely, thanks
lo his fast cruisers and torpedo boats.
When Admiral Sampson started for
Porto Rico during the Spanish-American
war his fast vessels could make
no better time than the slowest ves
sel in his fleet, the monitor Puritan.
Had all hig vessels been fast cruisers
and torpedo boats or destroyers he
might have intercepted Admiral Ccr
vera on the high seas. While the re
sult could scarcely have been -more
satisfactory to the Americans, it wil.
be understood that the celerity with
which anfenemy can be destroyed will
count for much in naval warfare, espe
cially when it is possible to defeat the
enemy in detail.
A. fleet of fast cruisers can fight and
get away, but battleships must stanri
and take it. The inability to avoid
danger, or being in danger, to escape,
Is always a "weakness in ships of war.
Altogether, the battleships have 'failed
to prove their worthiness, and the
distrust with which the gallant Ad
miral Markardff regarded th'pm has
communicated itself, to laymen as well
as to naval experts.
Kansas Girls ar Not Cattle.
Every true mother in the land, ev
ery decent, self-respecting woman,
irom-. Plymouth Rock to the Golden
ate, ana from the grtat akcs tQ lhe
sujr, owes a, debt of deepest grati
tude toMrs.rj. t. Harding of Kansas
"ity, JCas. i rm
A Certain whwnn nf fVizi aitilnitrA
State not long ago proposed to have a
"beauty show' of Kansas girls at the
St. Louis fair, whereupon Mrs. Hard
ing sent to the Women's club of To
peka the following breezy note:
"What mother wants her innocent
and pure-minded daughter to be made
a show of for the gaze of the public?
AH the world will be at the St. Louis
exposition, and our Kansas girls are
not for the inspection of all tbo
world. It is all right to have a fine
stock show from Kansas, but not a
'beauty show' of our girls."
We have never met Mrs; Harding,
but if we ever do meet her we intend
to bow low.
The young women of Kansas should
rise up and call her blessed, for if in
all the limits of the state they have a
true friend it is Mrs. Harding -Mr s
Harding, the foe of the beauty show.
Beauty sliow! In what shallow,
crazy, depraved mind did the idea
have its birth?
It may have originated in the mind
of a man, it may have originated in
the mind of a woman but the manli
ness of the man, if it was a man; the
womanliness of the woman, if it was
a woman, could not have been any
thing to boast of.
A manly man, a womanly women,
would never have thought of such vul
gar and degrading thing as a "beauty
show."
Imagine a really refined and inno
cent young girl sitting upon a plat
form at a great exposition, to be
gazed at and ogled and discussed and
commented upon by the great mixed
multitude.
The supposition is quite impossi
ble. No truly refined young girl
would for a moment submit to such a
thing. The bare thought of it would
drive her well nigh mad. She would
rather die than be subjected to such
vulgar publicity.
True womanhood is not on exhibi
tion. By the eternal law of nature it
draws about itself the veil which the
world must not lift.
The true woman may be beautiful,
and for that beauty she may devoutly
thank God, but she is not forever call
ing to the world to come and look at
her and to compare her with all the
other women in creation.
Thero are women with pretty faces
who have little else to boast of little
sense, and, what is still worse, little
character. Such women may see
nothing out of the way in exhibiting
themselves to the gaze of the public,
male and female, but the women who
have sense and decency as well as
pretty faces will not consent to the
proposition which places them on a
level with the cattle.
The coarse materialism of our Amer
ican life has gone far enough", and it is
high time that we had begun seriously
to listen to such warning voices as
that which rings out so clear in Mri.
Harding's letter to the Topeka Wo
men's club.'
Womanhood is the purest, holiest
thing on earth, and we cannot cheapen
or vulgarize it except at our peril.
This America of ours has nothing
to depend on for its perpetuity ana
continual greatness but the woman
hood of its women, and therefore we
cannot afford to do less than pay
that womanhood the highest reverence.
Wo cannot exhibit our women like
cattle and expect them to remain mod
est, refined and self-respecting.
And so let us hope that Mrs. Hard
ing's voice will be heard" and heeded,
so that there shall be no "beauty
show" at the World's fair. Rev.
Thomas B. Gregory, in Chicago Examiner.
Curious Condensation.
The southern states are producing
half the lumber cut in America.
Public benefactions in America dar
ing ten years aggregate ?610,410,000.
The Russian population of Siberia
now numbers not far from S,000,000.
British India now employs over one
million people in its cotton industries.
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy
has a lace handkerchief worth ?10,000.
The reach of a searchlight for prac
tical use is 700 'yards, but torpedoes
can be used effectively from 1,200 to
4,000 yards.
While the consumption of Belgian
cast iron shows an Increase of 193,
487 tons, the production increased onlj
147,450 tons.
The result of a cricket match in
Melbourne was cabled' to London, 17,
000 miles, through nine relajs, in two
and a half minutes.
The production of steel Ingots In
Havre, France, in 1903, was 1,854,020
tons, against 1,508,302 tons in 1302,
an increase of 280,317 tons.
According to a magazine devoted to
engineering the ukon river, which is
2,400 miles in length, is navigable by
Hiearaer ror over z.uuu miles.
Eight hundred voimcr men and v
men, representing 20 universities, at
tended a recent conference of student
volunteers at Edinburgh to discuss
"The Tvangelization of tho World jn
This Generation."
The increase in Belgian coal mines,
as compared with 1900, amounted cO
408,000 tons, or 1.75 per cent; with
1901, to 1,657,410 tons, or 7 per cent,
and as compared with 1902, to 993,350
tons, or 5 per cent.
A recent United States labor bureau
bulletin states that trade unionism in
England is 25 years in advance of
that of this country in its methods.
and that sympathetic strikes are be
coming unknown in England.
Within the past three years the ex
port of pig iron from Germany to the
United States has jumped from 5.J39
tons in 1901 to 125.980 tons in-l9u3.
Excopting Belgium, the United Staler
is .Germany's best customer in this
line.
The Tamarack copper mine in the
Lake Superior region, Is said to be the
deepest shaft in the world. It is now
down 4,973 feet. The same company
has another shaft which comes within
35 feet of being as deop as the Tamar
ack. An official document has just been
issued by the Italian government dis
suading skilled mechanics from emi
grating to the United States, as it is
expected that the industrial prospect
of this country will be much de
pressed in tho near future and the
number of unemployed enormously in
creased. The piercing of the first Hudson
river tunnel, which is parallel to the
first, will proceed moro rapidly. It
Is smaller in diameter, passes only
through silt, and has a shield 70 per
cent more powerful. It has advanced
1,300 feet at a rate of nearly 30 leet
a day.
A Norwegian chemist has discovered
a new and cheap process for making
alcohol from sawdust. Sawdust is
created under pressure with diluted
sulphuric acid, by which the celluloipo
Is transformed into sugar, which, by
adding fermentation producers, is con
verted into alcohol In the old manner
and then distilled. Pittsburg Dispatch.
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point tne way to biceer profits.
Send In you name.
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BleomileM, N. J. Chicane, III.
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FOR SALE
The homo and farm of Richard P. Bland.
Brick residence; three stories; slate roof; 10
rooms nnd amo; two lino cellars; m good con
dition. 280 acres of land; 80 acres in apple trees;
5 acres in small fruits, strawberries, cherries,
pear and peaches. Farm well watered with three,
cisterns and lour ponds. Large barn 70 by GO
feet, two tenant bouses, hen houses, carriage;
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ther information address, Mrs. Richard Bland
Lebanon, Mo., LaClede Co.
Grover'8 Idea of Sanity.
Mr. Cleveland fs generous In his
compliments. He says that the 6,
500,000 democrats who have not been
voting the republican ticket have
been "insane" and "unpatriotic." San
ity and patriotism, according to the
Sage of Princeton, consist in voting
for and with the party of imperialism
and the trusts. Johnstown Democrat.
An Associated press dispatch, un
der date of Washington, April 29,
says: The committee directed by con
gress to investigate and report on the
best methods of restoring the mer
chant marine of the United States
today chose Senator Gallinger for the
chairmanship and decided to hold a
general meeting nt the chamber of
commerce, New York, May 23.
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