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TfTTtru tiy T:rrr.TTr Forty Thousand Bluejackets on Uncle Sam's Warships! What Ails You? Do rou feel weak, tired, despondent, have freq-telt hesd ach, coaled tnnae, hitler tit had taste in morninf, "heert-hiim," belching ol (m, arid rininO in throat after citing, stomach fnaw or burn, (mil breath, Oiaxv spells, poor or veriahla appetite, aausea at times and kindred' symptoms ? If von have aar considerable nasnher of the okT sTwiptoons yna are r.iiffring Irons bih'ooe- , nes. torrml liver witb indigestina, or dyspepsia. Dr. TSereo'a '.Ua Ktcdioal Diieoverv is made s of the snoet valoabla medicinal nristeinlea kaowo In medical aeiaaeo for the psrnaeaenl core of sacb abnormal oadirions. It is aaawt efftcient liver iovigorator, stoniack teaie, bowel rcal4or and nerve strengtbtaer. Tlie "CnlaVa Medirsl r;co-.-err " is aat a patent medtotM or seerat sostnnn, a Ml li.f of its iniredieets hia printed en its hotlU-wrappar and attested under osfh. A glseoe at these will show that it aontaias no alcohol, or harm ful hehit-forniios drugs. It is a fluid extract nWe wtth pura. tripla-reflnetl ilTcerine, of prooer strength, from the roots ol attire American ssedicsl. pteau. World Dispensary Medical Aseoeiettoa, rrops., oubbio, i-s. a 1 1 1 rr"mnvi irrTMu:n r. r. fir E r '. i A. . 3f Ja JWn. erP rTJ t ;.'("" : - JIJM'KJUIIIM.IIlia !, IV f I Wast SaJv.. li - (Copyright, Ifflf, 'in' Frank (!. Carpenter.) T IS good to have business men and Su ness m at th head of L'ncle, !im'i great Institutions. This i es pecially so of the government departments. Our' fiitldrial expenditures tire now ahfrut t,0,G0t0i n y(ar, ,,., according, te Senator. Aldrieh. whether the monev l opsrly handled may mean n vavInK or 'sa of more than Sl.ooo.wo a clay. Take, for IrtMance. the frtited NlAtes navy, with whose chief I have )ad a long taJk this afternoon. Its expenditures during. the last. five. year have been up ward of Il0.000.00n a month, or move than J120,oro.oo a 'rear. It Is building baitfe hlps which- t-oct . JS.OOtt.dPO or llD.rtO.W) apiece, and Its schemes of potential war. tare acioat necessitate the employment and handling of more than M).000 men. Such a department needs a Rood bi;s;- ness man ar Ha head, and that, it is be- Vved, we- have In Secretary Meyer, Horn oji Boston family which waa largely. in terested in business, he was educated in the Boston schools, and after graduating from Harvard began a business VareeK His first employment was outside' Iris relatives. He wanted to start at t lie bot tom and make his own way without fear Or favor; and he did this so well that in the course of two yeara he was able to tike a phice in his father's business and hold hie awn. To show something of Secretary Mey er' a business connections, he is. a trgstca for the Provident Institution for Savings, a director" of the Old Colony Trust com pany and also of the L'ulted Ele-ctrlc Se curities company. All these are. of Bos tan. He in also. a director of. the Amos keag cotton mills at Manchester, N. H.. one of the largest institutions of the kind in the world, and lie has other business interests of many kinds. Ha has learned by personal experience how great cor porations and factories are managed, and also how to handle men and money so as to bring forth results It Is this ability which forms the keynote of his work in the avy. and it is this business sense which will be found running through the conversation which follows. Oar Aavy la American. was by appointment that 1 met the secretary in his home facing Scott Circle, and our talk was more In the shape of a chat between business men than cut-and-dried Interview, The secretary has the navy on the end of his tongue and he overflows with Ideas respecting It and how it may be Improved. My first question was as to what I'ncle sam navy, is doing for his American children. The secretary replied: "The navy Is doing a great deal for I'ncle Sam's children. It is not only tiding ships to protect them, but through ganlzation and training It Is doing to build men and American patriots. About twenty years ago a large propor tion of our bluejackets were foreigners. Today all but about 2 per cent of thein are American-born. We do not pick our sailors up from the wharves as was dona in tho past, bin we are now going out over the union and gathering bright, active young men from every wafk in life. It used to be hard to get Americans to tnllit. Now we have only to advertise for volunteers and we get them. The popularity of (lie serv e among our new mea began with the trip of our fleet around the world; tiat stirred their imaginutlon. They began to take a nor'.d view OC affairs and they ' are now glad to eome." Fori Tboasaiid Ulnejac-krts. ' "I suppose you are referring tu the rank and file of the navy?" "Yen, I meau lie sailois, the bluejack et. We have 47,tti of them and they are as fine fellows as can be found any where. I will put them up againxt the men of any country or any nation. The mot of them come from the farms', they ouug men of from 17 to a. and the v erase is a man of hiph Intelligence and more than ordinary ability. In the first place, he must be physically sound and must have a certain height ami weight, the examination fixes that. As soon as gt hold of him we begin Ills develop ment. We teach him how to handle him eelf, how to stund straight and walit straight; he learns clcnnllea and order. nd If he has a taste for meviiauica he eta an industrial education: he learns how to handle machinery unit tn ,1,, wl. iricai work, we study him Individually to what he can do bent. Three months after he enlists we usually put him on a battleship or cruiser and his time la kpent with machinery, electricity and gun firing; he has to do with all the require ments of the great floating machines which the man-of-war Is; 'this gives him 4 trade, as it were, and If he leave the ervRa he haa ae trouble In getting a place in the private work shops of the country. His training makes him an In- (luVrlal asset to the natlnn li n Nr nun a, man km m toiatntt " ou fpak i.f machinery. Is this not U ssr.ere ifr Hie sailor? mot H vei "Yes, perhaps, for the sailor of the pat. the man who's business was made up of climbing mats, siHclng ropes and the mending of sails, it Is different with the modern bluejacket; his work Is ut a higher type; he has to deal with Iron and steel of delicate workmanship, and has plenty of ne fur his brains as well as his muscles. Our battlexhlps. as I have said, are now moving industrial work shops: they are mighty floating power plants, whoxe efficiency depends on their niKchlnery and trnw It is managed." "Then you think the navy Is a good place for young men?" "it is one of the best places to make men. Our sailors are clean and healthy; they ore men of character and they form excellent citizens." "lion- about rvagea? Tan a young man do as well In the navy as at home?" "In most cases, yes. As a proof of this many men who hn left the navy are coming back to It. They sometimes find that they receive higher mar.es out side, but at the some time their expenses are greater and their savings are less In the end." "What are the wages?" "The average pay of all enlisted men In the United States (navy la about $:! per month. There are some who receive more than $100. several thousand who re ceive from JiM to 124 and several thousand more who receive $17.H) per month. "We have also advantageoua regula tions for retirement. After an enlisted man has served thirty years he may, opoil application to the president, be re tired on three-fourths of the pay which be is then receiving plus $15.S In lieu of quarters, light and heat. We have also a service pension for those who have been disabled after having served a period of twenty years, and the men may also receive pensions under the general pension laws." Scientific Management at e, "Are the bluejackets Interested In their work?" . "Very much so. The members of each crew feel that they are a part of their own ship, and the different, trews are pitted against one another as to which can show the best results. This refers not only to guns, but .to the handling of the coal in order to create the great est efficiency. It applies to gun practice, to economy of coal, of supplies and to everything conected with the ship. You have heard of scientific management. Well, that Is what we are using In the highest degree In the battleship. We are getting the most out of each man and each effort. We are bending all our ener gies to bring forth results. We are doing this on the battleship not only by a study of the Individual, but by the selec tion of men, the putting the light men together and by working them as teams, thus making a taring of mlnuies, and even seconds." Improvement la Marksmanship. "But are the. results satisfactory?" "Yes. Take the improvement in the efficiency of our gi:ns over those of the past. Scientific management experts who have recently witnessed our target prac tice nay that tho American battleship is the finest exhibition of scientific manage ment they have cr seen. For instance, take our marksmanship. At the battle of Santiago, out of every 100 shots fired only 3 and one-hnlf hit the mark; now, nut of ever lOo thirty-three and one-half are effective. At Santiago It took five minutes to each shot; now we can fire one shot every thirty seconds and keep it up. The range then was 3.000 yards, or much less than two milea; now it Is 10,000 yards, or almost six miles. In short, our present efficiency in gun-firing la 1,J00 times bet ter than It was at the battle Of Santiago. This has come from competition in gunnery anions the (un crews and from the training and de veloping of the individual and the teams. In modern warfare the battle efficiency of any ship Is Its stilllt.' to deliver the greatest number of hits In the shortest possible time, with the. least expenditure of ammun.tl n, after tie ene:ny sighted; Indeed, our hitting efficiency is now the eiual, if not the superior, of that of any navy of the world." "What Is the secret of a successful navy?' "The fleet," was the emphatic reply. "The fleet Is the navy and the navy the feet. The navy yards are ineiely the adjuncts, the iejtr shops for the fleet. We are trying to make the fleet aelf suMainlng. We hate on each vessel of war a foundry, and are able to make ordinary repairs. It it only for serious repairs that the ships have to go to. the yards." "What kind of ships should we have?" "The most powerful. We want the big gest ships and the biggest guns. One volley from a single one of the American battle fieet lately returned from Europe would, it if said, bad it been In the hands of the confederacy, been able to deitror the whole northern navy. If we had had four addition ll battleships similar to the : t7 V J SJI resher Bros. Feature Fur Gleaning and Restoring It Isn't alwas that a Pry Cleaner and Iiyrr features hish class cleaning and restoring of ladies' and Kentlrmou's fur garments, irm It may nut be generally knenvn that luexlier Urns., Dry t'li-aiiel'S I ami lvers at 1 1 I :' h'arnam ft, are : past uiaHtors in tills work. Hut nucti Is the cane, n4 the. only approved fur cleaning tro e.x Is made hip of her. ) W"hn your "nrsare returned to you they! will have the life, lurtre and spiuKle of j new furs. Try In ewliers on the work i you will Iiimi dime this seafun and ar range to bring In the woik now, for the j pre-w inter rush Is almost at hand. And Dresher . wish It tinderstomt that they employ a corns of proficient furriers, lailv dressmakers, ladles' tallora and men's tailors, and that assure a grade of work and inspection hitherto rare at cleaning simps. Leave your work at the plum or at Ureahers' tip town branch In the rompeian Room of The Brandela Xtores or at Presher, The Tailors, IMS Ka ni ni si. Fxpress paid one way on oiil-iif lown shipments of. II or over, flione Tyler U00i or Auto A-5 and a Preslier stiton and a welt Informed man wllj call for your work. Health and Beauty Hints Hf MRS. MAR MAltTYN Oregon on the Atlantic at the time the Spanish-American was began we would have had no war. Spain would not have sent over its fleet. Now the Oregon cost in the neighborhood of lii.WKl.OOO. and "four additional Oregons would have cost per haps n'I.OrtO.000. The Spanish war cosf over $600,000,000 above that amount. So that had those Oregons been in commis sion we might have saved the. cost of that war and have still had our invest ment Intact. One of the greatest advan tages of a strong navy Is that It prevents the other fellow attacking you. A strong navy Inmires . peace and therefore we miiwt have the strongest." "Ioes It pay to have anything else?" "No. Small ships are like the Lilli putians aealnst an army of Gullivers; they are like one petty policeman against a mob of touitln. It Is the strong man who is not attacked. Of course, we must have auxiliaries and scouts and destroy ers, too." "Give me some idea of our big guns." 'This Is the day of the big gun, and of the all-blg-gun battleship. We huve now twelve-inch guns and are about to make some of fourteen Inches. A four. teen-Inch gun uses a projectlbtc weighing 1,400 pounds: its bore is so big that a good-sized man could easily crawl Into it." "Are other nations building such gunsg" "Yes, all the great Kuropean powers and Japan are making big guns. The British navy has guns which are thirteen aril a half lnche. 'How do our ahtiM compare with those of the other great powers?" "S'tip for ship, they are as good. In number and armament Great rlriinin leads. We are now second and in a few months we 'will be third. Germany has u numrii r of great battleships under way. and its navy will soon be superior to curs." "I low many ships -.have we In our fleet?" "We have twenty-one vessels of ' the firs-t line, and they me of the highest degree of efficiency. We do not have them scattered as they were In the past; they aie now massed as divisions, of which there are four; they are known as divisions and not as single vessels." Our Bis Meet. "What Is the fleet?" "It Is composed of these twenty-one battleships. One of the-e Is for the commander-in-chief and the other twenty are In four divisions of five ships each. We expect to keep four ships of each division in active commission, and the fifth will be at the navy yard for over hauling." "But Is tills fleet large enough?" "We think so." "But suppose. Mr. Secretary, you could have a navy regardless of cost. Suppose you were Aladdin and by tubbing the lamp could call upon certain genii to create a navy for you In a night. What would you order so as to make an abso lutely sure and safe protection fur the ('lilted Statea?' "You mean without regard to congress, without icgard to cost and for the sole protection of our country and the pre vention of war?" "Yes," raid I, "that Is Just what J mean." "Well. In that raxe I would have Ino fleet like the one who have now. One of three would be for tho Atlantic and the other for the Pacific. I don't think there would be any danger of any power upon earth attacking us then; that would insure pear for all time to come." ' Reergsslilsg the er. "Can you tell me something of the changes you have made as to the ieor (anltation of the navy since you became secretary?" "We have practically leorganized the service, and that along modern business lines. When I took hold of the depart ninu I found It mado up of bureaus which were acting independently of one another; every bureau was its own mas ter, and eiieh did as seemed best to Its chief. The Fame syntem was In opera tion that had been used since 1M2, and that notwithstanding the enormous growth of the department, it seemed to mn that the organization was had; and after a ciireful study of the other great navies of the world I reclassified it. We grouped the business under four natural divisions and apiHiliited an expert at the heud of each division to act as the eyes and curs of the secretary and to form it staff of exiwrt and responslvln advisers. That Is what we have today. We have a division of inspection, of materials, of personnel nnd of operation. Admiral Walnwiiulit Is st the head of the latter. He has charge of, the fleet at sea, and of having It always ready for war. In connection with the War college and tho general board he gives his entire .at tention to movements of the vessels, and with them makes studies and plans of possible wais and of how the nny should aet in case of uttnek. "We 'have investigated the business of the navy," continued Secretary Meyer, "We have had expert accountants intro ducing new systems of bookkeeping and trial balances; we have consolidated the stores, and by thiM means alone have turned back 700,000 into the treasury. I think we have mado a great gain In economy and In operative efficiency. We have increased the number of shle, have Increased the power of the, motive machinery and have Increased, the rruik ing speed of the fleet without additional consumption of coal." ( uttlnar Ont h Navy Yards.' "How about the navy yards? I under stand there is great oposlllon to your proposed reduction of them?" "That Is only natural," replied the secretary of the navy. "Knch statu and city which has a navy yard would like to keep It, and the xenators and retire, sentatlves are forced to urge Its retention on the ground of local patronage and local pride. Nevertheless, there Is an enormous waste in keeping up these yards, and Inst year I proponed that eight of them be abolished. That would hnve resulted In a raving in annual mainte nance alone of more than $t.f,oo.om. We do not need mora thhn three navy yard on the Atlantic coast, and we should have two on the Pacific. The others should be sold or otherwise disposed of. Many of 1 1. em could he turned to com mercial uses. As for the dorks, the government might retain many of them. Yon sec It used to he I hat our war ves sels spent more time In tho yards thnn now. The present policy Is to keep thi fleet on the seas and to allow the ships In the yards only when they need serious repairs." "How nbotit Panama? Should we have a yard there?" "I think not. There will probably be dry docks and mating docks In connec tion with the cunal, but they will be also for commercial purposes." "Should the canal he fortified?" "Moel certainly It should. What Is the use of spendli.g nm.OOO.nou for a water way like that If we cannot protect It? The fleet must bo kept Intact for meet ing and destroying the enemy's fleet." f KAN K. U. CAItPKNTKIl. Hack lo the I 'arm Enterprise, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president gen eral of t lie National Society of liaugh ters of the American Revolution, is the owner of a traet of lO.Omi acres of land In Illinois on which she Is conducting a back to the farm enterprise. Only a short time ago Mr. Hrotl was elected president of a coal mining company to succeed foimer Vic President Adlal K. Slovenson. Kthyl: You mol her Is right In con demning face powder, a It will In time ruin any complexion, hy clogging the pores and cunning, the ekln In become rough and wilikled. If iwi desire yinir face to retain us smooth, rosy appear auce, tiae. the fo'loulng loilon and I am sure your nuniier will not ohtect nor win you ever ivgret it: Plsmilve four eunce of sniii-inux In a half pint hot water ami ami tui teasnnntuli glvrer. Ine. This loilon iakes isav that slilnv. allow appearand ami will make your skui smooth Him velvety without giving to 11 a powdered, look. Siniiiiiax Imioit stays on much hii'ter than powder, does not snow, ami in uneiiualed for remov ing tan, freckles and sKIn pimples. Ustia .V.: N'eitln-r vaseline nor '.vn oil will correct your scalp i mimics. Koep your scalp 4-lean with tiviiucnt shampoos, and us the following tonic about twice .1 week, mn ssaglng li gently Into the Iiii.1i- roots- Mix one ounce of quluxoin int a half pint alcohol, then add a hatr pint xild water. This In vigorating tome will destroy every par ticle of dandruff, eliminate scalp Irrita tion, stop your hair from coming out, and promote a healthy, uhunilani growth, its regular use makes the hair soft, glossy anil free from that stringy, dead looking condition. - Mildred: Io not deslr. You en rid tl:e skin of those Ixit neraoin ha'ra and wear low-neck gowns, if you get an ounce of detalone. at the drug store and witli a link- mix enough water to form sufficient pant to cover the hairy parts. j-t remain two or three minute, then run off, wssli the skin and the halra will have vanished. While delatona coats a dollar an ounce. It Is well worth the price, an a second application seldom Is reipilred to permanently remove hairy growths. . y. It. A.: Dieting and exercising will not rertrice weight permanently. The or.ly ssfe remedy I know of that will not injure one's health, la made by dis solving four ounces ut paruutla In ' a pint and a half of hot water. A table spoonful taken before meals reduces superfluous i lend at an amazing rat nnd does not leave i he skin flabby and wrinkled. A friend of mine wrote m tint In five yeeks she reduced her weight 37 pound with this simple remedy. It I inexpensive. (.'horns Oiiis: Your dull, weak, x preionles eyes can easily h made bright and sparkling by putting In eacti eve twice dally a few drop of a tonic, mad hy dissolving an ounce of crystoa In a pint of water. It will not smart but will prove wonderfully strengthening to tired, Inflamed eyes. Jt I a great aid to those who wear glae. and a flna remedy for granulated eyelids and eya troubles generally. P. It.: Your sallow, pimply skin, lack of eneigv, poor appetite, sleeplessness and other marks of III health are due to Inipui blood. The beet way to tone up your system and get back your nod health. Is to take before each meal a taliletoonful of this simple, home-made tonic: In a half pint of alcohol dissolve a half cup sugar and one ounce kardene, then add hot water to make a quart. This old-fashlnned medicine la very strengthening to a run-down system, and will soon put you In the best of condl t'on. As a lit er regulator. It is very fine and la indispensable for general lamlly use. Mrs. H. W.: If ordinary creams do not help In removing your wrinkles, try massaging your face with thla grease less cream-Jelly: Htlr together and let atand over Light before using, two tea spoonful glycerine, one nunc of almo sotn and a half pint cold -water. Thla almosoln .tally will clear and smeoth your complexion, leaving your akin soft, velvety and free from black head, large pores, phnple and roughness. For treat ing freckles and- tan, 1 find thla prepa re) Ion very flu. Qrace T, : Do not be deluded Into be lieving that soap I good for shampoo ing. 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