DEADLIEST GUN YE1
WEAPON THAT THROWS 1.000003
BULLETS HOURLY.
! Um Has Asked UmM
BiwiwiiK a Hie a
cmo em a T What
States
H Claims for It.
A Macaw gum wkk will
fc.aM.aM ballet aa soar and not. get
heated Is a weapa which, it would be
wall tor any aaiiou to Investigate, aad
at tn etaiass which Iwtar Baugei
bar snakes for his eWice prow tra
th Catted States will aot be stow Sa
twain complete control of it. The
taeniae, which, because of its de
structiveness. Is expected to prevent
war. is aot fired by powder. It Btkw
a aotse, ao smoke, so flash, ao odor
or fames. No crank has to be taraed
by hand.
Coat pressed air U aot the force
ased, sa that there is aot eve a
hfamiag soaad produced. No dyna
mite, guncottoa. aitro-glyceriiie nor
etber cbemk-al or explosive is em
ployed to seed the Niagara of ballets
barillas mile through space at 'the
rat (Uta second. SO.) a minute
the rn is worked at ordiaary
- aad 2.QM.0M aa boar if
to its maximum rapacity.
Th Telocity of the projectiles is
from L500 to S.000 feet a second, ac
cording to the will of the operator.
is ao recotL the ana never
heated. It cannot explode aad
sea can operata It.
The cost of firing 1.Q00.M9 ballets
bait aa lack la diameter would be
about tea dollars. The expense of Br
ine 1.00.04 ballets requiring powder
aad abeOs is more tbaa M..
Th plaa of lb Inventor is to mount
taa aew sua on a track similar to aa
automobile, to bo run by a hundred
borsa power motor, which would give
taa carriage a speed of e miles aa
boar. The outfit ready for action
weald weigh about S.00 pounds.
Tbera are to be two dutches on the
una oa to start aad stop the eer
riage, the other to operate the SA-A.
Taa sum motor that runs the car
riag famishes the power to fire the
(aa. which csa he worked while the
is ia motion as well as
It Is staadtac stilL
Tba (u works on a swivel, aad caa
Be ivast aroaad so as to sweep aa
ara oC TS degrees. The masxles Of the
aa be elevated or de-
o that the operator csa det-
with ballets aay spot he may
fortaae oat of the gun aobody els
shaH.
The atteatioa of President Roose
velt having beeai called to the Baa
gerter gen. a corespondeace has been
opened betweea the war department
aad the inventor with a view to hav
ing a. deawmstratioa asade ia the pres
ence of representatives of the govern
ment. This might lead to farther ne
gotiations. The French government
has alse written to Mr. Baagerter
requesting information about the gun.
When asked how much money he
expects for bis secret, Mr. Baagerter
replied that be thought about
No application has been made to
ateat the deadly machine, aad none
will be. for Mr. Baagerter says that
ba baa bad experience ia that line. He
he does aot propose to
of bis ideas stolen.
if be does aot nako bis
yj
000 would be a reasonable sum for a
government to pay for what be bad to
offer. '
The work ins model used by Mr.
Baagertr-r for purposes of demonstra-
tioa carries a round bull S.S2 of
inch ia diameter. Placed at a dis
tance of 104 feet from the weapon is
a target of eight thicknesses of heavy
paper aot pasted together, bt
hanging so that the sheets touch each
other. Six inches from the paper is
a backstop made of pine boards.
One object of the paper is to preveat
bullets from rebounding after strik
ing the boards aad possibly injuring
spectators. The projectiles used in
demonstrations are solid steel, and.
therefore, are so much tighter than
lead that they do not bury themselves
ia the wooden target after having gone
through the paper screen. They entsr
the backstop to a depth equal to
about one-third of their diameter, aad.
rebounding as far as permitted by the
paper screen, fall to the floor, where
I they can be collected for ase again.
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Unchanged by Time
ITALIAN TOWN STILL AS IT WAS
IN MIDDLE AGES.
Oatly the Ptosis of Vitacbo Appear
Rasa, Patron
ta Unique Way.
ui j thine changes except Ttterbo,
nam would be prone to exclaim if be
were ba visit the Italian town which
bears the stamp of the middle ages
atm upoa buUdlags aad streets aad
easterns, tor the city retains ta this
day at push aad progress aa its ate-
Cbaracterists aad aaodera
safe"-- i--t-.s; -
Sit .?rrt"Yv latjM
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I ue--1 .-a "IF al
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Tb "blaecbiaa of Santa Rooa."
pauejeas aad inflnence have practical-
y tatted to chanjte its aspect.
TUorbo la moreover the birthplace of
Santa Rosa, who obtained her position
aa pat rout ji of the city rather through
pontics than piety. Her feast, which
Is celebrated on September . is oae
of the am characteristic ia Italy.
Saabs Rosa was aot a professed aaa
but only a Fraaciscaa tertiary. She
was bora la the beginning of the thir
teenth century when Ylterbo was un
der the oppressive domination of Fred
erick IL of Germany. At the age of
tea. clad ta the habit of the Third
Order of St. Francis, she preached la
the public streets against the crimes
at the moaarch.
Tb emperor banished aot only the
work she bad undertaken survived her
departure aad the people of Yiterbo
rose as oae atan against their foreign
oppressor aad drove bias from the
town. When the emperor died she 1
returned triumphantly to her native
city, aad a few years after her death
(May S, 1SS1) she was canonised by
the pope she bad setved aad iavoked
by the party she bad advocated.
Pope Alexander IV, instructed by a
vision for three nights in succession.
t ba procession ta Yiterbo fol
lowed by all the cardinals aad ex
humed the body of the saint and trans
ferred it to a newly built church.
ubeie It rested for several centuries.
Om night, a legend says, she rose
from her grave when tb chapel was
oa fire, rang the bell of warning for
the people aad quietly returned to her
resting place.
The people of Yiterbo of to-day show
as much devotion to the town's-patroa
saint as their forefathers. The fes
tivities in her honor last three days.
A huge, heavy shrine, representing the
saint, her miracles and the incidents
from her life, is carried ia procession
by 54 of the strongest mea of the
town.
The "Macchina of Santa Rosa." as
the shrine is called, is the most won
derful contrivance of its kind, aad as
it winds through the narrow streets of
Viterljo It. overtops 'the bouses and
gives oae the impressioa of a moving
tower. Besides the procession, the
feast of Santa Rosa is celebrated for
its races, run through the narrow
winding streets the same as ia the
middle ages.
Perhaps Yiterbo affords the only in
stance ia Italy ta which the monu
ments of the past are aot ia ruins aad
crumbling into dust, but are still serv
ing the purpose for which originally
they were intended. Thus, for ex
ample, the papal palace is inhabited
by the bishop aad the conclave bail is
never empty, as here assemble at the
aooa hour the recipients of the bish
op's charity just as they used to do in
the time of the Pope John WT vrno
is accused of toweriag the dignity of
the pontificate by conversing ia a
familiar way with people of bumble
origia.
The knights aad aobles have disap
peared aad only their bouses remain,
yet these are inhabited as of yore, aad
one has the illusion that the modern
Inhabitants of Yiterbo are using them
only provisionally until their original
owners come back. One imagines that
the town did aot look different when
it was emptied on the occasion of wars
or the Crusades. It was empty then
&s now. its streets were silent aad its
Fit Well and
Wear Wei
That's a pretty good combination
to tie to, especially in the clothing
line. The dothing that fits well
and wears well, and is sold at a
price within reach of the man who
wants new clothing, is the kind of
clothing to buy, and the kind of
clothing sold by this store. If you
are not already numbered among
our regular customers, you owe it
to yourself to make personal in
vestigation " of our claims. We
especially invite Union Men to in
spect our line. line. of-
UMI(Q)W-MA1D)E
LOTM(
We again bought largely of the;
handsome spring styles and fabrics
mrnufactured by Henry J. Brock
C8t. Con of Buffalo, the makers of
the finest union label clotliing in
America. c-4n inspection is convincing.
I Afms
Good Clothes Merchants
em
6ENERAL MENTION.
girl bag the. entire family. SUk the bouses dull aad dreary.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
Wt the Scmaora.
Look for tb unioa labeL
Tb union label that's aU.
it it is not labeled, refuse it.
Cnioa made shoes are sold by Bas
es dc Perkins.
-Labor Sunday." May 3. Watch for
snnonncement.
Boost the Labor Temple benefit at
the Auditorium next week.
Mrs. T. Krafts has fully recov
ered from her recent severe illness.
The louder the demand for labeled
goods the easier it will be to get
them.
Sanderson is showing a splendid au
tomaton la the display window. It is
attracting big crowds and is well
crth seeing.
Manager Green of the Lincoln team
announces that every Friday will be
"Ladies' Day" at Aatelope Park when
the team is at home.
"The Nebraska State Band organisa
tion is coming along in elegant, shape.
When it blossoms out ia full force it
will make Lincoln sit up and take
cotice.
Mrs. W. M. Maupin aad the two lit
tlest Manpins visited with relatives at
Xortit Bend last week and the fore
part of this week. Taey returned
heme Thursday afternoon.
By the way. the Easter decorations
:u tie Armstrong Clothing company's
store are mighty fetching, aad reflect
great credit on the artist who exe
cuted them. It will py you to see
tliem.
Ye editor" and H. E Grimm went
fc-hing last Tuesday. They were not
entirely -skunked." Ye editor caught
one- bullhead less than three inches
long, and Grimm caught a suufish tha'
would have weighed a pound if It ba j
teen, sixteen times heavier. And that
wss all. x
APPEALS TO RAILROAD MEN.
Lawyer Urges Then to Unite to Op
pose Hostile Legislation.
- John H. Clarke, general counsel for
the New York Chicago aad St. Louis
Railroad company addressed a largely
attended meeting of railway employes
at Bellevue, Ohio, last week, taking for
bis subject recent railway legislation
and Us result. Mr. Clarke said in part:
There are 150 bills now pending in
the two b noses of congress, every one
of which proposes in some manner to
regulate the control of the owners and
managers of railroads over their prop
erty- When we add to these the much
greater number in the aggregate of
similar bills pending in the legislatures
of the various states it needs no appeal
to the 'imagination to make it clear
that the widespread hostility to rail
road property which this rage for leg
islation shows exists throughout the
country must, unless it be speedily
arrested, result in legal conditions in
many, is not all the states, comparable
to what may now be seen in Oklahoma
and Texas, where the consification is
receiverships within the protection of
the courts.
"The wages of fully itKW.OOO men
are directly dependent upon the pros
perity of the railroads of the country,
and the welfare of fully 2.000.000 more
is indirectly also, in a large measure,
dependent upon them. How mistaken,
therefore, mistaken beyond measure,
are the men who continue to assail the
railroads of the country as if they
were a public enemy which it is their
duty to embarras or destroy.
"1. for one, gentlemen, am not will
ing for one moment to believe that it
is not possible to unite the railroad
forces of the country in defense of
their employment, in such manner as
to meet and defeat the canning of the
politicians of the country in their un
just assaults upon this greatest single
industry of the land, with the excep
tion only of that of agriculture. --
"I have been widely represented as
favoring a new political party to be or
ganised with the 1.500,000 railroad em
ployes of the country as a nucleus.
Nothing could be farther from my
thought. What I should like to see is
a league of the owners, managers, and
employes of the railroads of the coun
try organised, not to act independent
ly of the two great parties, but to act
with utmost independence within them
both in choosing for support only can
didates for state and federal offices
who have capacity enough to see that
capital and labor are not enemies.
RAILROAD EMPLOYES PROTEST.
Missouri Valley. Ia., April 10. Five
hundred railroad men from all
branches of the service at a mass
meeting here tonight adopted resolu
tions protesting against any further
reduction in railroad rates. The reso
lutions say the loss must eventually
fall oa the railroad employes. The
resolutions are addressed particularly
to the Nebraska commission, and a
committee was appointed to present
the commissioners a copy.
was unmarried and the other bad
wife and three children. The local
agent was notified to discbarge one of
the men. The unmarried man had bee
longest in the service, and was entitled
to be retained. The agent called the
two men in and explained the Titan .
tion. Without a minute's hesitation
the unmarried man tamed to his com
rade and said:
-You keep the job, old man. ToaOe
got a wife and a bunch of kids to sup
port, and rre nobody but myself. It's
up to me to nit the pike."
Then the two comrades clasped
hands, and the unmarried mam drew
his pay and left '
That's the real spirit of unionism.
And it is a spirit that yon would search
for more than a thousand ya
out getting within gunshot of it :
a crowd of President Eliot's heroesv
the strikebreakers.
TRUE UNIONISM.
Here's a True Story, and It Carries Its
Own Moral.
Here is a little story of two union
men, and it is a true story, too. It is
Touched for by the Little Rock. (Ark.)
Gazette. The scene of the story is a
town in Arkansas.
There were two railroad men hold
ing jobs- under the same local agenL
and both were brotherhood men. One
CAPITAL AUXILIARY.
Capital Auxiliary No. 11 to Typo
graphical Union No. 209 .will meet
Friday. April 24. at the home of Mrs
W. E. Moore, Til South Eleventh
street.
A committee was appointed at the
last meeting, with Mrs. Freeman as
chairman, to assist the committee
from the union in the aw ikes at
Wynka on ""Printers' Memorial Dny."
the third Sunday in May.
The last social being a tionv. it
h3 been decided to give another the
last of April or first of May.
Ia view of the fact that Capital
Auxiliary has such a number of good
cooks among its members, we are
about to publish a cook book, aad
arc busy securing material.
Mrs. George Metsker of South
IndL. who early Friday asorning fired
the shot that killed Carietoa Morgan
of South Bend, waived
and was bound over without bail.