Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1894, Page 11

OMAHA DAILY BEE: UNDAY, SEPTEMBER ¢ TRADITIONS OF ANERICA As They Are Viewed by Bishop Ooxe of Westcrn New Yo SOURCES OF LAW AND GOVERNMENT American 1dens of Both Traced to Thelr Origin—Danger of Constitution Tinker- Ing-~Mistakes of History—Maxims o (Copytighted by the Irving The daughters of Pellas made mince meat of their father and put him into a kettle in order to boil the old man to a jelly and 80 bring him out again in the freshness of youth, tender as a baby and good as new. The fable, like many & myth of the Greeks, has a moral in it for nations that wax old Let them beware of the kettle of rash experi- ment and refl.ct that there is “death in the t" of factious revolution. Recent events us that even a youthful nation may be subjected, by fanatics and theorists, to schemes of amelioration quite as fanciful as those which Med:a taught these ladies of Pelias’ family. 1s it possible that with the example of France before us our young re public ean be persuaded to subject its con- stitution to radical changes, in the name of fvprovements, with the certainty that to abandon the terra firma of institutions that have made us great and strong for the quick- sands and quagmires of theoreticul progre 18 to Invoke the Dantons and the Marats of discord and social dissolution? Recent events make this inquiry—or rather, this interjection—not wholly irrelevant. Nobody can deny that the Louls XVI. demanded most fundamental; and the urmise i not unworthy of credit that had Mirabeau lived long enough to perfect the schemes he appeirs to have concelved for educating the people to sober views of what they necded and guiding them to wise meagures of improvement the noblest successes might have been achieved. Still, we must reflect that whil. Montesqueiu had provided them with a text book of political sclence, which Mirabeau might have made their catechism, they had become too wise in their own conceits to take lessons in any school of philosophy teaching by example. It was too late. The Huguenots, the Jansenists and the grand civilians who had maintained the traditions of St. Louis had Yeen eliminated. Rousseau and Voltaire had succeeded to a mastery over the popular mind, which greater and better men had been unable to attain, because a suicidal Aespotism had pereecuted them to death, and by this method had ensured its own retribu- tive destruction. Enough, the ax had been driven to the root of the national life by these professed ‘‘philosophers.”” The p:ople had lost all inherited ideas, and, in a word, had become prodigal sons, grasping at im- aginary claims in the patrimonlal estate, and were ready for all riotous living, under the inspiration of their now creed, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, They had learned to envy the freedom of England, but had not profited by any in- dcetrination as to the sources of its exiat- ence or the processes by which it had bein wrought out. That it was a secular growth and not the product of any one age Gr crisis they had mo conception. One terrible scene in English history had impressed itself _upon the dramatic temperament of the French populace; they knew that England had brought its king to the block, and every- thing tended to magnify this event in their imaginations till imitation of the trag:dy secmed the one grand step toward the at- tainment of what they passionately desired. Chaos came in conséquence. A century has worn away since then and nothing satls- factory to France has been achleved. The republic of Thices and Gambetta is not yet a foundation, though enough has been attained to inspire our hopes. But Pelias is not alive again. The France that now exists has forfeited identity with the France of Charlemagne. She s the stripling of a new race, and, as such, “‘has no past behind her back.” WE ARE THE PRODUCT OF TRADITIONS. It was one of Emerson’s sounding plati- tudes, not one of his oracles, if, as is re- ported, he said the same of our republic. A moment's reflection, to say nothing of pro- found study, suggests that we are the prod- uct of traditions that go back to the revolu- tion of 1688; back to the commonwealth; back to the reformation; further back to the par- llaments of the greater Plantagenets; nay, further, to the epoch of Magna Charta; nay, beyond ‘that, to the institutions of Alfred the Great; and beyond all that to the conversion of the Saxons of Kent, and the earliest plan- tations of Christianity in the mother isle. To the traditions of these several epochs we trace the maxims of political sclence that have made us a great people. CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The American revolution was the logical consequence of the convention that introdaced Willlam and Mary to the throne of Eng- Jand, and that was further instrumental in placing the crown upon the head of a petty German prince. Washington was an English Whig to begin with, and the principles of 1688 were profoundly embedded In the char- acter and conduct of those who were united under so great a leader in the establishment of American Independence and draughting our constitution. That Hollanders and Hu- guenots bore an active part in this grand work s memorably true; but Willlam IIL was a Hollander and the Huguenots were the allies of the prince of Orange, in spirit it not in fact. The whole movement was ho- mogencous, and was based upon the principle that if we could not enjoy the hereditary rights of English freemen under George III. we were entitled to enjoy them without him, under a government of the people’s choice. This our forefathers regarded as the theory of the British monarchy, as established by the settlement of the crown upon the stadt- holder and afterwards upon the house of Brunswick. These princes reigned by a com- pact with their subjects, which the colonies regarded as broken by a ministry which im- posed taxation upon freemen without their consent. WE ARE A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE. The traditions which are thus our ftance, and not less our creators, are em- bedded in the common law, in the legisla- tion of the colonies, in the decisions of our supreme courts and in the laws and con- stitutions alike of the republic and of the several states. And thus, it is apparent that the judgment of the supreme court in February, 1892, was the simple assertion of the undeniable fact that we are a Christian people. By this it Is not implied that dog- matic Christianity is part of the common law, but only that Christian civilization is the base of all our institutions; fundamen- tally so with respect to the family; the moral system of the new testament, and the re- spect due to the bible and the first day of the week. We take it, the Christian day of vest Is not honored by our laws as a re- ligious, but only as a clvil ordinance, useful to religion and morality, and on this ground only to be enforced upon those who violate the peace, by profaning its civil sanctity and the rights of the people at large to enjoy it, in different ways, as a day for the cessa- tion of labor and of the distracting duties of the week. It Is noteworthy that even in France this idea is taking root, and ordi- nances favoring the better observance of Sundays have recelved the votes of profes- slonal” atheists and other infidels. They have eloquently supported the bills upon two grounds, viz., (1) that such observances have promoted the welfare of peoples that haye maintained them, and (2) that as one day must be selected, comman sense would dic- tate the preservation of the day which Is \dentified with our civilization and for aif- ferent reasons accepted by the population in general. THE REJECTION OF MEDIAEVALISM. Not dogmatically, again, the traditions of our clvilization are those of Protestant na- tions. Nobody would more earnestly re- sist than 1 do the idea that religious Pr testantism has any part or lot in our Ameri can system. Our institutions, however, are suoh as are nowhere maintained or liberally tolerated, save among peoples who on widely different grounds Lave rejected fyndicate) Frauce reforms inher- 'mmmmmn In practically developing & modern eivilization for modern soclety, Agaln, in our own country, we adopt, by common consent, the Englith language an the base of social utterance rud of popular education, and the fact that this is assumed by our constitution strengthens the argu- ment for a like assumptiom of Christian clvilization. It was not necessary to legis- late sunshine or alr, earth and water Into recognition by organic laws and an instru- ment dated “in the year of our Lord" and written in the English tongue Is more forel- ble by what It takes for granted and makes “self-evident” than It would be If words were wasted upon what nobody can success- fully refute or withstand. THE MAXIMS OF WASHINGTON. 1t may be truly said that “the maxims of Washington” are a text book of our tradi- tions, such as might well be collected, and made a school study of political ethics for the American people. And we observe with pleasure that such a compilation has re- cently appeared and is commended as the re- publication of an old manual, all the better for having first appeared long before the ecivil war, and hence as free from any admixture of partisan issues pecullar to our own times A. CLEVELAND COXE. Buffalo, N. Y. e A PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, Children’s motives should always be under- stood, says Harper's Bizar. “WiIL' said Will's grandfather, sternly, vdid you pull up one of my little pear trees by the ro sir,’ sald but a culprit's face “Well, what did you do it for?” pursued the grandfather. “Well, grandpa, do you want the cow to eat green apples off your trees and get sick and poigon the milk?"’ “No, certainly not.” . “Well, I pulled up the pear tree because it was just the right size for a cow whip, and drove off your cows from your apple trees with it,” said Will, with offended dignity. the boy, with anything “Johnny,” said the lad's father, have you been? Your head's wet.” el xclsimed the boy, his cheerful expression vanishing. “It certainly is. And your hands and face are cleaner than they have been for a week.” “Well, I jes’ washed ‘em.” “And that isn't your shirt ing. “Father,’ said the boy, “the beautiful story of George Washington which you and mother have 50 oft related to me sank deep in my heart. I have heeded the lesson. Father, T cannot tell a lie, I have been in swim- min “where you are wear- Mamma—What ere you trying to draw. Little Ethel—A elephant. “Rather a difficult subject.” “I'd_rather draw elephants than anything else, because my friends can always tell what it is. They knows a elephant is the only animal wif two tails. Jimmy—What is this moral courage that the Sunday school teacher was telling us about? Tommy—As near as I kin guess it, it's the kind of courhge that kids has that’s afraid to fight. ittle Dot—Some folks don’t know o much as they think they do, do they? Uncle George—Why ¢ Little Dot—Prof. Llnmnfll who sp2aks six- teen languages, was here last evening and he had to get me to tell him what the baby was saying. *Have you any “what it is to ides,” asked the teacher, ‘square the circle?’ reckon payin' for your wheel comes mighty near to it said Tommy Tucker, after some moments of severe thought. His Fath your new buy. Tommy (surveying it eritically)—It's awful nice. But I'd like to know how it's going to be broke—strong thing like that. - —Tcmmy, tay horse? how do you like It's the best I could DAYS GONE BY, James Whitcomb O, the days gone by The apple in the orc through the rye The chirrup of the robin and the whistle of the quail, As he piped across any nightingale; When the bloom was on the elover, and the blue was in the sk And my happy heart L days gone by. Riley, O, the days gone by! rd, and the pathway the meadows sweet as immed over, in the In the days gone by were tripped the honeysuckle’s tangles, water lillies dipped, And the ripple of the river lipped the mos: along the brink, Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cat- tle came to drink, And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truamt’s wayward cr: And the splashing of thé swimmer, in the days gone by. when my naked feet By where the 0, the days gone by! O, The mus of the of the eye; The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's magic ring, The simple, sSoul-reposing, everything, ‘When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the olden, golden glory of the gone by. the days gone by! aughing lip, the luster glad belief in days CONNUBIALITIES. Divorce notices are now published like births and deaths in New York papers. He—Why do you think they are married? She—I hcard her ask him for a kiss last night. Senator Gorman's two daughters are en- gaged to marry two department officials in Washington. Mrs. Cumso—So they married in haste, did they? Mrs. Cawker—Yes; and now they are repenting in Sloux Falls, After auctioning off his wife for $100 in cash and a likely colt Mr. Cardwell of Oklahoma is certainly entitled to take rank among the leading financiers of the country. “Is It true that Banker Gotcash has bought him a typewriter?” “Well, I wouldn't put it as harshly as that. Everybody says, though, that she married him for his money The attorney general of Indiana has de- cided that county clerks in that state have no right to issus marriage licenses and then withhold them from the public in any manner whatever. Joe Jefferson's niece, Miss Josephine Jeffer- son, has recently become engaged to Mr. C. J. Rolfe, son of Dr. W. J. Rolfe, the Shakespcarean editor of Cambridge. Mr. Rolfe is at present a guest of the Jeffersons at Buzzard's Bay. Ten thousand dollars for a wife! That is the price pald by Louis Potter, a banker of Bowling Green, Ky. Mr. Potter paid the $10,000 to the friend who arrang:d the match and the wedding took place at b o'clock last Monday afterncon. Mr. Potter is 84 year of age and is a great-grandfather. Count Pullman’s daughter, Florence, is engaged to be married to the prince of Isenburg Birstein, a cousin of Franz Josel of Austria, Im- perator. The count thus allies his family with the blue-blooded Hapsburgs and may find Chicago too small a town to hold his accumulating dignities. Twenty years ago a Pennsylvania young man was jilted by a girl to whom he was engaged 1o be married. He met her again the other day. She was a widow again, but anxious to Keep her former contract. The wedding day was fixed oncs more and this time the man failed to appear. I am not prepared (o say that this was a manly re- verge, but, certainly, the man would have been foolish to have married the woman in the circumstanc:s. A woman who knew she had been waited for twenty years would have been so puffed up with vanity that there would have been no living with her. A romantic w:dding occurred at a resorter's cuttage near Detrolt last week. Miss Clara Doeltz of Loulsville has been staying with some friends at thelr summer cottage. Sun- day evening Harry Bingham, from the same city, was rowed from the stcamer landing, and, valise in hand, visited Miss Doeltz. He showed no signs of departure in the evening, and the hostess in jest informed Miss Doeltz that all the beds were occupled and that Bingham must find quarters else- where or the two must be married at once, WkEen the young woman informed her friend of the situation he immediately proposed marriage. He was accepted, and an hour later, a preacher having been secured from the village, the two were made one. They bad been lutimate friends in Loulsvill 1 The prize, $12. $5.00. Wednesday, Handsomest Boy Baby; same prizes. Handsomest Gir will be there on Tuesday. First 50; second, $7.50; third, | DOUGLAS COUNTY AIR AND ACES. 50 Cla, 2. Foals 1¢ Foals, Baby Foals 1803, 2:22 Class, Pacing.......... Foals, 1801, Fcals, 1892, Free-for-all, Pacing.. 0 Class, 2:00 Class, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th. Trotting...... , Lrotting Pucing. . WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th. Free-for-all Trotting 1892, Pacing, 0 Clas: 2:24 Class Pacing. rotting, THURSDAY, SEP Trotting, 2:50 Class Trotting, 3:00 Class. otting. FRIDA Trotting. Pacing... " » SEPTEMBER 7th. .Purse, & Stake, #400 ... Purse, £500 500 8500 £450 2500 500 Purse, $500 ...Purse, $500 .Purse, $500 -+ Purse, 8500 Thursday, Handcomest Tv $7.50. Friday, Handsomest Tripl Handsomest $10.00; ats, Colored Baby, $7.50; Handsomest Col~ ored Twins, $10.00. B B T T S S T WA SR M PP S ——> TOMORROW < @K Held by the Douglas County Agricultural Society and Nebraska Trotting Horse Breeders’ Assoc.a:ion. FIVE GREAT DAYS - SEPTEMBER 3, 4, 5, 6 AND 1. ePREL CL&SS OFEN TO THE WORLD THE FASTEST HORSES WILL BE THERE. - The Premium List embraces all the production of Douglas County, including Stock and Manufactures. The best showing Doug- las County has made in years. IS A FLOATING VOLCANO Outside and Tnside of the Nearly Completed Battle Bhip, Orcgon. WILL BE WITHOUT A PEER-ON THE SEA lendid Specimen of Uncle Sam's New War Vessels—Carcies a Terribly De= structive Battery—How she Wil Be Armored—A Fast Traveler. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28.—(Special Cor- respondence of The Bee)—There is some- thing intensely interesting in the sight of one of Uncle Sam's tremendous battle ships resting in her dry dock, particularly to a res- ident of an interior state like Nebraska. 1 was one of a party the other day to visit the Oregon, the newest of the great battle ships built at the Union Iron works, Presi- dent Henry Scott of the company having invited a few friends to accompany him on his tug, the Rockaway, to Hunter's Point, where the Oregon was resting, receiving its quantam of new paint and getting into shape for the trial of its engines. In addition to Mr. Scott, who has the distinct honor of being president of the finest ship yards in the United States, there were in the party Mr. Prescott, one of the directors of the com- pany, two lieutenants of the navy having charge of the construction and inspection of the Oregon, and Mr. Ernest Riall, formerly an Omaha man, now engaged in putting in smoke consumers in many of the leading establishments of San Francisco. The party was thoroughly congenial, and the ride down the bay took on the appearance of a holiday outing rather than an official tour of inspec- tion on the part of the naval officers, who were compelled to pass upon the engines and bollers of the Oregon prior to her official trial trip. The day was really ideal, for an August day in this latitude is far from be- ing pleasant or agreeable. There was little or no fog. The sun shone delightfully, and the sea breeze was just cool enough to make a light overcoat bearabl, To the Man from Nebraska the ride was an ever recurring series of surprises, for the shipping in the bay was al- most as vari:d as the nation- alities one meets with on the streets of San Francisco. Never, so Mr. Scott sald, had the harbor been so full of vessels, nor had he ever seen before so many ships un- employed, for no matter in what direction you might chance to look brigs, brigantines, ships, three and four-“masters,” with iron and wooden hulls, schooners, barks, barken- tines, some flying the English jack, others the tri-color of France, or the yellow ensign of China, with a flerce dragon looking at a small red sun, with here and there an American jack (0 add its blue fleld and stars to the picturesque effect, met your gaze on every side. PARADISE FOR SHIPS, From the time of its discovery down to the present the bay of San Francisco has been celebrated as one of the finest bodies of water in the world, and, viewed from any standpoiut, it is fully entitled to that de- scription, even under the seaman's view of a mere harbor. But when you see the acces. sory advantages which belong to it—fertile and picturesque tributary country; mildness and ealubrity of climate; connection with the great interior valley of the Sacramento and Son Joaquin; its vast resources for ship, timber grain and cattle—when these advar tages are taken into the account with its geographical position on a line with Asia, it rises into an importance far above that of a mere harbor and deserves particular notice in the history of maritime places of the world. Even the staid, solid men of business, Mr. Scott and Mr. Prescott, could not help but remark the picture presented to the little party aboard the tug, for the white sails of the vessels, some flapping 1dly in the wind, others drawn tightly into the yards arms, with the dark colors of the hulls and th deep blue of the water, made & never to be forgotten marine study early ten years‘ago,” sald a member of the company, *'I drew Into the bay of Naples with a romantie notion of its beauty, which the travelers lof twenty centuries had heightened beyond measure. But,” and his eye turned seaward, “there is no comparison between the bay of Naples and this ba You have Vesuvius at Naples, but there is no other sign of life in the whole surround- icgs, I missed the colors and clouds of San Francisco bay entirely. ‘Tnstead, T was satis- fled with the blue of the bay, the blue of the sky of Naples, the blue of all things about, mysell included. Vesuvius was a constant comfort to lift my face toward, and see its perpetual banner of smoke flutter and fly away; but Vesuvius is small, a strangely small affair to have such a name, especially to a man on terms of intimacy with the peaks of snow on the Pacific The Oregon was a formidable object to look at, as it rested upon its blocks in the dry dock. It was awe-inspiring to look upon this engine of death, and contemplate its future, whether for war or peace, to think of its destructive power, and how it would stand when armored and complete in every part, the finest example of the battle- ship among the navies of the world. WHAT IT IS SUCCESSOR TO. I believe that It was after 1880 that a well known American, upon rising to respond {0 the toast: “Our Navy," prefaced his speech by saying: “If the length of my reply is to be governed by the size of our navy, I have already said too much.” But many things have happeced since then and the country, which brought consternation to our British cousins in 1812, upon the high seas, after England had unmercifully trounced France and Germany, and later allowed its navy to become the wreck of its former proportions, has, in fourteen years, erected a navy which, though small in numbers, is upon the whole remarkably powerful, and, thanks be to wise secretaries of the navy, is idly growing. In marked contrast with the fifty-eight battleships, coast defense ironclads, ar- mored cruisers, armored sams, (protected cruisers, other cruisers and gunboats and torpedo boats, which compose the navy of the United States today having a total ton- nage of 183,051, carrying 1,034 guns and 174 torpedo tubes, or ejectors, was our navy at the outbreak of the civil war, Then we had one ship of the line, six screw frigates, four- teen screw sloops, thirteen paddle steamers, seven sailing frigates, twenty salling sloops, three brigs, three sailing store ships and two steam tenders, or sixty-nine war ships in all, besides useless vessels of various classes. During the war there were constructed or ordered sixty-four iron clads of different types and 147 unarmored vessels, ranging downwards from_sloops of the largest size to small tugs. While a considerable navy was thus created, it was to a large extent a navy suitable for only home service and much of it having been hastily bullt of im- provised materials, was not durable. Up to 1880 nothing was done to improve the char- acter of our coast defenses and our mavy continued to be the laughing stock of the world. But an awakening came in that year and it has been constantly growing ever since. The Interior resources of the country were not then equal to the entire construc- tion and fitting of large men-of-war, but, pending the establishment in the United States of rolling mills and gun factories and the organization of well formed dry docks, designs and materials, 80 far as these could not be obtained at home, were imported from Europe and the buflding of a new navy was begun. Today there s’ mo branch of ship- building that cannot, fn every one of its processes, be carried ot in the United States with American materifl and by means of American brains ang hands. In less than fifteen vears the ‘courtry has achieved a new independence {hrough its equipment of & navy that today fs the pride of the world, But it is not o yjuch of the navy that I wish to speak as of the Oregon, Which In all Its parts is the best representative of the battleship designed, by any government for its protection upon, the seas. As the Oregon lay in the dry dock at Hunter's Point and. I walked under the hull I was struck with ifs fine lines, a compromise between the Frengh apd English hulls of battleships. It is 348 fegt in length, With an extreme breadth of §9.4 feet and a draft of 24 feet, displacements 10,200 tons. Designed for a maximum speed of 16.2 knots, in the trial trip of her engines the other day she easily sustained a speed of 17 knots, although she is only required to sustain & sea speed of 15 knots, IN THE BOILER ROOMS. The engines are twin screws, vertical and triple expansion of the direct acting and In- verted cylinder type, placed in water tight compartments, separated by bulk heads. The dlameter of the cylinders at high pressure is 344 inches, intermediate pressure, 48 inches, low pressure, 76 inches, with a 42- inch stroke, In this chambered Nautilus, for it is that and much more, there are four double- ended main bollers, two single auxiliary bollers, all of the Scotch type, and as for the number of engines used, not only In driving but performing the different functions of making ice, raising asnes, there are twenty-four steam engines, exclusive of pumps and hydraulie drivers. The water line belt amidships of this leviathan measures 7% feet, 3 fect being | above water and 414 feet b:low, covered by an nch steel Harveyized armor. This. is connected across the ship at the ends of the belt by 14-inch diagonal armor of the same character as the armor enclosing the water line belt. Then comes the barbette armor for the 13-inch guns, and is 17 inches thick, while the turret armor carry- ing the guns is 15 inches thick. The side of the ship above the belt is pro- tected by a casemate armor b inches thick conn:cted at the ends by dizgonal casemate armor and also connecting the 13-inch bar- bette armor amldships. The 6-inch guns are mounted in armored sponsons b inches thick, while the 6-pounder guns on the main deck, 2 in the sponsons, and the 1-pounders on the berth deck fore and aft are protected by 2 inches of steel. The other rapid fir- ing guns are surrounded by shields resting on the carriages. The conning tower and shield is 10 inches in thickness, with a 7T-inch tube leading below and protect- ing voice pipes, electric wires and steam con- nections. The citadel, formed by the belt and diagonal armor, is protected on top by a two and three-quarter inch deck, the un- armored ends beyond the citadel being shielded by a protective deck three inches thick, starting from the botom of the diag- onal armor and running down into the bow and stern, thus forming the ram of the bow The deck above the armored ends is closely subdivided and coffer dams are run along the sides of the ship above the pro- tective deck, which are filled with cellulos>, a material made from the fibre of the co- ccanut, which swells very rapidly on being wet by the water. This cellulose is a very new discovery, its function being to close up any shot hole which may occur In the wake or the coffer dams. It is put into these chambered apartments betwe:n the skin of the ship and the armor by hy- draulic pressure, jand then is securely bolted down, so that should an enemy suc- czed in putting a shot into the side, the cel- lulose swelling would effectually stop up the hole made until repairs could be effected. Then again the minute subdivisions of the Oregon is a further protection to the in- terior against injury, and localizes the dam- ages. But while the ship 1s an object of interest to thousands who have seen her since her launching, October 26, 1893, when she gets her armament she will be additionally in- teresting. When equipped the Oregon will carry four fifteen-inch breach loading rifles mounted in the turrets, eight elght-inch rifles, mounted also in the turrets, four six-inch breech loading rifles mounted in the armored sponsons, twenty six-pounder rapid fire guns, two mounted in the armored sponsons and eighteen mounted on the up- per works, protected by shields; six one- pounder rapid fire guns, four mounted with armor protection, two in the military tops and two gatlings in the same position. In addition to this array of guns, there are six torpedo tubes, two fixed fore and aft with four broadside training tubes All the guns for this destroyer of com merce, If made necessary by the exigencies of war, are made in the Washington navy yard gun factory, and some of them are already at Santa Cruz being tested, COMPARED WITH FOREIGN SHIPS. Taking the best types of foreign battle ships as a comparison, the arrangements of the battery on the Oregon will be found su- perior to any battle ship afloat. By this ar- rangement an exceedingly severe bow and stern fire may be obtained, as well as a broadside fire,ihe guns being so placed that they will not interfere with one another's fire Special attention has also been paid to the amicunition supply, & new idew Liing put in effect which is considered far in advance of the systems now in vogue. In addition to these manifold advantages the ship is fitted with & complete electric plant of the most modern style. It has four search lights and a complete system of ven- tilation, with a perfect refrigerator service, 80 that' Jack may have his ice water at sea, his commodore an old-fashioned cocktail, and a powerful arrangement of wrecking pumps. She will carry 415 tons of ammunition, her battery, with mounts and equipments, weighing 662 tons. 1 asked a lieutenant of the line the rela- tive welghts of powder charges for the dif- ferent guns and he told me that the char, for the 13-inch guns was 690 pounds, the shell welghs 1,150 pounds and i the gun is prop- erly elevated has a range of fifteen miles. For the 8-inch guns, 163 pounds of powder will be used, the shell weighing 250 pounds, with a gun range of ten miles. For the 6-inch “thunderers,” sixty-seven pounds of powder will be consumed to throw a shell weighing 100 pounds six miles, The Oregon Is provided with a double bot- tom throughout the major portion of its length as a protection against damage from torpedo tubes. The whole portion of the ves sel under the water ls minutely divided by water-tight bulkheads, connection being had through water tight doors which can be opened or shut from the upper decks in case any one compartment is opened to the sea and the injury dome the ship can be con- fined to this one compartment simply by clos- ing the water tight doors from above. The general plan of the Oregon is accord- nig to the modern idea of concentrating tne armorweights into the central portion of the ship, thus fixing a thick armor over the engines, boilers, magazines and principal guns, at the same time protecting the ends under water with protective decks and coffer- dams. This style of battleship has supplanted the old style where the armor was spread from stem to stern. At the trial of the engin:s the other day she developed a speed of seventeen Kknots, which, though unofficial, shows the spzed ca- pacity of this modern marine terror. For every quarter of a knot over fifteen knots the builders will get $25,000, and from these trials it is safe to assume the Union Iron works will recelve at least $160,000 extra for the fleetn:ss developed PREPARED FOR ANY WATERS Viewed in any light the Oregon promises to be superior, offensive and defcnsive, to any battleship in the world, her draft being suitable to work in a shallow harbor and able to take sea in all weather. Luncheon followed the inspection of the Oregon at the Union Iron works, Potrero, at which the secretary of the company, James 0'Brien Gunn, did the honors, and afterward a trip through the ship yards and work was mad While only 800 men were at work in the different departments, Mr. Gunn stated that his full complement was 2,000 employes, with an_average pay roll of $65,000 per month, Every portion of the ship is made here with the exception of the armor and guns. Every chain is moulded, every iron and steel fitting, evegy piece of wood and brass entering into e comstruction of the vessel are made in these works and to see immense hydraulic cranes at work in the machine shops, lifting fifty tons as easily as Sandow lifts a twenty-pound weight, one realizes what it means to reduce the man- ual labor of lifting heavy objects to the minimum. Finishing the works, which were quite as interesting as the Orcgon, Mr. Gunn gave me my first glimpse of an armored cruiser in the Olympia lying at the Potrero wharves awaiting its turret armor and guns which, were they completed, could be put on in six weeks and the vessel made ready for o protracted cruise in two weeks more. With the exception of the Columbia and Minnesota the Olympia is the largest of the cruisers and has been designed for great speed and handiness. She made in her trial trip of four hours a sustained speed of 21.69 knots, her highest speed attained with the sea in her favor being 22.15 knots, the fast- est time made by any of Uncle' Sam's battle- ships, and a credit to an “infant industry" whicli has in fifteen years placed Itselt abreast the greatest ship building works of the world. E. C. SNYDER, The Roman Catholics in England are to have & cathedral at Westminster, Cardinal Vaughn has arranged with an’ architect for the design, which it is said is to he not Gothie, but Roman The oldest prelate in the Church of Eng- land is the bishop of Chichester, who Is 91. According to the latest statistics of the Free Church of Scotland therc is a total membership of 344,082—an increase of 6,884 for two years. In the Sunday schools there are 222,644 young people and 18 938 t hers. There are 269 theological students, of whom thirty-two have volunteered for foreign service. The subsidence of earth at Elsleben, the birthplace of Martin Luther, and the con- sequent drying up of a huge salt pond in the nelghborhood, which commenced many months ago, still continues. The district is about 1,000 feet in diameter, Including Zelsingstrasse, which has now almost en- tirely sunk out of view. Up to recently Zejsingstrasse has been the only part greatly affected, but within the last few days there has been a further subsidence noticeable in the same district, a little distance away from the locality mentioned, and the towns- folk are in the greatest alarm, fearing that the entire town will disappear. Numbers of the richer inhabitants are leaving the place. ( The erection of the magnificent canopy over the high altar of Our Lady in the shrin of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, has been completed. The pillars to support it are each of a solid block of polished Scotch granite welghing seven tons. The diameter each pillar s three feet and the helght twenty feet The altar will be ready for dedication on December 12 (Guadalupe day), and will be the most elaborate and costly one in America, The additions to the church edifice will not be completed for LA FRECKLA The Three-Day Frsckle Curs. ATTENTION, gggilxg%@s and Ladfes and Gentlemen: Mme. M. most wonderful woman chemist, has discovered a medicine that will remove Freckles from any face in three days. Hark ye, doubting Thomases, every bottle is guaranteed and money will promptly refunded in case of failure. It re- moves Tan and Sunburn in one application. I8 matters not If the Freckles have been from childhood to old age La Freckla will clear them In every case. Price $1.00. Sent to any part of the world. Yale, that Manufactured by MME. M. YALE, Beauty and Complexion Speclalist, 146 State St., Chicago. FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST CLASS DRUGGISTS. DOCTOR SEARLES& SEARLES, SPECIALISTS, TREATMENT BY MAIL. CONSULTATION FREE Catarrh, all Diseasas of the Nose. Throat, Chest, Stomach, Liver, Blood —~8kin and Kdney Diseasss, Los Nanhood and ALL PRIVATE DI3- EASES OF MEN. Call cn or address Dr. Searles & Searles, 1416 FAKNAM ST OMAHA, NEB. A Amors Brome-Gelerg. Spleadid oura Bplaid carative agent tor n-.:m’n-lb. x uu-uun.l" recial or gencral Neuralgia; also st }{mul ‘KlduA«.J'L‘llol‘uI Imh fie D R il THE ARNOLD CHEMICAL CO. 161 8. Western Avanua. CHICAGY For sale by all drugggists, Omaha. nearly two years at the present rate of progress. When finished the shrine of the Lady of Guadalupe will be one of ths notabld ‘athollc chureh edifices of the world. The solld silver altar ralling welghs twenty-sig tons and many millions of dollars are im other ways represcated in the palatial of worship, L.