B!C GUrrCHARGES
Handling Shells and Powder at a
Nayal Ammunition Base.
SAFETY FIRST IS THE RULE.
All Workmen on Ion liland, Undo
Sam'e Station In th Hudson River,
Var White Serge Suite and Moo
caaina, and Copper Toole Are Used.
lona Isliimt. the Cnitcd States naval
ammunition tmse In the Hudson river,
cover 1 ItS acres. Wtthla Us limits are
stored about 3.00 uhju pounds of
smokeless powder and over 1.000,000
pounds of bluet powder, besides many
thousands of shells. This war ma
terial Is kept lu lnr(:e briek aud stone
powder aiuKaziuvti aud shell bouses.
The jiowder uiagtuiues all have four
separate fireproof walls and are divid
ed up Into compartments In order to
prevent a fire or an explosion from
reaching or destroying the entire con
tents. Tbe loaded shells are kept sep
arately from the empty projectiles and
re stored In two fised ammunition
mnjniztuea. Each shell Is weighed and
numbered before being put away. The
weight Is recorded In chalk oo the
hell.
Magazine attendants Inspect tbe shell
bouses and powder magazines many
times during tbe day aud night At
uight each visit is recorded on tbe disk
of tbe magnetic clock In the adminis
tration building. The temperature In
the shell bouses and powder magazine
is kept between 85 and 00 degrees.
Just how many shells for the big
battleships are stored away at lona
island is a secret but there are lots of
them. They are expensive. Thus tbe
fourteen Inch shells, weighing 1.600
pounds and requiring a charge of near
ly 400 pounds of powder, cost about
$000 eacb.
Oue of tbe principal activities at ;
lona Island Is the manipulation of
smokeless powder for charges for the
large and small guns of the navy and
of black powder for bursting charges
for " the shells. The powder filling
houses are situated at widely separat
ed points. They are small one story
wooden structures. Isolated owing to
tbe possibility of an explosion. The
men working in them are required to
wear wbite serge suits and moccasins;
so metal or other articles are allowed
In their pockets which might In any
way canse a spark.
All tbe tools, funnels, measuring
cups, scales and other appliances used
' are made of copper. Here tbe delicate
and somewhat dangerous business of
weighing out tbe various smokeless
powder charges Is carried on. The
weighing has to be done very carefully.
At tbe Indian Head proving grounds
tbe naval ordnance experts by tests
determine the powder charges best
adapted for the various guns, and at
the annual target practice the results
as to range and velocities of the vari
ous charges are recorded. Then slight
changes in the composition of the pow
der lead to changes In tbe weight of
tbe charges.
THE E ELL AT LtOYO'ST"
i Tolls When a Ship le Poeted In the
I Chamber of Horrors,
! One of the most Interesting of bells
Is tbe one at Lloyd's, the great Lon
dou marine Insurance exchange. Its
ringing lia more significance thau tbe
sound of most bells, for it Is rung
only when a vessel Is reiwted lost or
when a ship '"'is overdue and consid
ered lost unexpectedly reaches port
The bell now used at Lloyd's belong
ed to the I.utitus which was wrecked
near the Stuyder In Octolier. lV'.Ki,
while taking specie from Eugllsh mer
chants to Hamburg.
There is a room at Lloyd's known as
the cli.itiiber of horrors, aud here are
posted the telegrams that report casu
alties at s-a. I'uimpuriiint accidents
are not entered lu the loss book, but
the most serious are not only eutered
there, hut are cried aloud by an of
ficial who stands In gorgeous uniform
beneath the sounding hoard.
When after a week's disappearance
It Is feared that a vessel has gone
down the owners make an application
to the committee at Lloyd's to have
the ship po'd. That Is done by post
ing up a notice lu the chamber of hor
rors which says that the authorities
would be glad of Information concern
ing tbe boat
A week elapses, and then a second
notice Is put up, saying that the bout
bus not since beeu heard of. When
you read that a ship has been "post
ed" as misslug you may know tbnt
declaration Is upou the notice board at
Lloyd's. On that day the lusurance
money is payable, and all who were
upon ber are legally considered dead
When a ship Is posted the old Lutlue
bell Is tolled once. In tbe very unusu
al .event of a vessel arriving In port
after beinu posted tbe bell is struck
twice, and tbe caller makes bis an
nnnnremeut from the rostrum amid
a breathless silence.-Youth's Com
panlon.
FOOD FOR LONDON
The World's Largest City Is Ever
on the Verge of Famine.
COULD DE EASILY STARVED.
WOMAN IN HISTORY.
Micaw&er Wouldn't
Shine as a Gymnast,
Would lb?
She Appears to Have Got Herself on
I a Good Many Pages,
Rome advocates of equal suffrage and
I feminiue progress seem to think that
I woman has not been given ber proper
i elm e and due credit In history,
And vet don't Ton know, we bad
I not observed tbe historic dlserlmlna
, tion against woman! On the contrary,
, tbe place of woman In history has look
ed pretty good to us.
What about Joan of Arc? And Char-
lotte Corday? And Rebecca the Jew
ess? Anything namby pamby In them?
i Who said Martha Washington and
Florence Nightingale? Then there are
don't let everybody speak at once
Ituth and Rachel and Fotiphar's wife,
not to mention Lot's.
You bet Caudle bad no contempt for
Mrs. Caudle, nor Manullni for the
madame.
We need not go so far back as Cleo
patra aud Aspasla except to remark
that In their day they cut a rather wide
swath around Alexandria and Athens,
and apear no small' bunch of radishes
on both the dramatic stage and the
historic page. Moll Pitcher was a hum
mer in American history and Sal Jen
nlngs a loller in English history; Meg
Merrllies was no slouch. Does Cath-
Each morning the day's supply of arine of Russia count for nothing, nor
vwiwrtor Is broucht from the magazine i Maria
to tbe filling bouses iu lead colored
wooden boxes. These are zinc lined
and air tight The boxes of powder
are emptied into a long wooden trough
and with a copper scoop the powder is
dipped out, accurately weighed and
tied np in quarter, half and full charges
lu bags of white muslin.
These bags have several wide stream
ers for fastening them, and each is
tagged with the date of filling and tbe
amount of powder it contains. A small
Ignition charge of quick burning black
powder, to set off the" smokeless. Is
stowed In tbe bottom of each bag. The
hags are then placed In large copper
cans and returned to tbe magazines,
where they are held in readiness to go
aboard tbe ships.
The big charges of 400 pounds for the
fourteen Inch guns are arranged In
four charges of 100 pounds each. The
bags when piled on top of one another
reach to tbe top of a man's bead and
present a formidable slgbt of bottled
p destruction.
One of tbe important operations per
formed in tbe magazine houses is load
ing tbe projectiles with tbelr bursting
charge. For the fourteen inch shells
fifty pounds of black iowder Is used
and about thirty pounds for twelve
inch shells. To hold the shell steady
and to get at the base of these huge
teel missiles some of tbetn weighing
1,000 pounds they are roped in a sling
and hoisted clear of tbe floor by a pul
ley and ebaln. The point Is then low
ered a foot or so into a stout wooden
frame with an opening a trifle larger
than the shell. Then a long nar
row bag is inserted In the shell cavity
and tbe measured amount of black
powder Is poured through a funnel Into
the shell. Some fifty of these huge
projectiles can be loaded In a day.
Several of tbe smaller filling bouses
re nscd to assemble the cartridge
eases and the bursting charges of the
three-Inch rapid fire shells. New York
Sun.
A Hardened Criminal.
1 Mrs. Gotrox Vou have shadowed my
husband for two weeks. Did he do
anything wrong? Society Detective
."Wrong, "madam! He ate peas with a
spoon, pie with a knife and drank cof
iee from the saucer. I will spare yon
farther anguish by not mentioning his
cloibes. Chicago News.
Theresa of Austria, nor Eliza
beth and Victoria of Britain, among
feminine sovereigns?
Gracious, here come trooping In at
the door, tbelr bright eyes shining and
their rosy cheeks glowing, Jessie
Brown of Lucknow and Jeanie Deans
of Midlothian, and Ethel Newcome and
Lucy Fontain and Florence Dombey,
God bless their sweet souls, each and
every one! LonUvllle Courier Journal.
Protect the House Wren.
Tbe rich, bubbling song of tbe bouse
wren Is one of tbe sweetest sounds in
country life. It beboovee tbe farmer's
boy to provide wren boxes, tbe en
trances to which are about an inch
In diameter, nailing these in tbe ga
bles of barns and outhouses and or
chard trees. Grasshoppers, beetles,
caterpillars, bugs and spiders are the
bird's principal Items of food, but cut
worms, weevils, ticks and plant lice
are eaten in large quantities.
Exaggerated Evils of Insomnia.
Of the five minor exciting causes of
functional nerve disease insomnia is
the chief, and its intrinsic evil effect Is
invariably exaggerated by tbe Impor
tance attached to It by the sufferer
himself. If a man does not mind lying
awake quite half the mischief Is ob
viated, but lu nervous people the Idea
of fatigue doubles the actual exhaus
tion. Schofield's -Functional Nerve
Diseases."
Ground Flat.
An old couple from the country were
In town on a holiday, and on going
along oue of tbe streets they saw above
one of th" stair doors "James Simpson,
Ground Flat" when the old woman
was beard to remark: "81c a death.
Surely he's been run oor wT a steam
roller."-Londou Mall.
Joy is the ray of sunshine that
tatehtens and opens those two beau
tirul flowers Confidence and Hope.
X Souvestre.
Making Sure.
"How sball 1 express my sentiments
toward yon 7" said the infatuated
young tun ii tenderly.
"On paper, please," said the lovely,
but clear sighted, girl. ."Then there
can be no chance of your wriggling out
of lt"-l.ondon Telegraph.
Where They Differed.
"I always try to look at everything
from both sides."
"Your wife tells a different story."
"How's that?" ,
"She says you naven't seen the in
side of a church for years." Chicago
Herald.
If Supplies From Abroad Were Cut Off
For a Few Weeks Death Would
Ravage the Great and Wealthy Me
tropolisSources of Its Provisions.
London Is a city and a county, but It
is so immense nun so uivcise nun ii
mh.lit almost be said to be a country,
one ot the must stiiUilig tilings shout
London is Its utter Inability to feed
tM'lf lu the matter of food Its very
immensity is the cause or Its utter oe
prudetictt. If supplies were cut off
from without It would starve to deutu
in a few weeks.
It Is the richest city In the world
It has palatini s!iom, thousamia of
stores anil countless warehouses, tun
t produces practically uotlilug lu the
shape of foodstuff. It Is like a great
baby that has to be fed by lis mother,
the world, and the produce of the world
fills the mouths of Its 7,500.000 Inhabitants.
l!y tbe rail, the river and the road
all that Londoners eat aud drink Is
brought to them, aud three-quarters of
It all is conveyed in ships from abroad.
I'titil the begluulng of the ullieteeutb
century Loudon had uo docks. 1 inlay
they cover au area of twe.ity-two miles,
and wheat from the United States,
Russia. Camilla and the Argentine Is
disgorged Into their granaries from the
holds of ships like so much saud
Many Londoners have uever seen the
docks, but two loaves out of every
three that they eat are made from tbe
grain that cornea to tbetn through those
docks.
Most of tbe grain ships berth In the
Victoria docks, but since tbey are so
necessary to the city's welfare they
have tbe right to moor at any quay In
the port or London, a privilege uo oth
er vessels possess.
The London hutcbers never cease to
sound tbe praise of English beef and
mutton, but they sell little tbat Is real
ly English. All tbe cattle that are
shipped to London alive pass ashore
at Deptford Into tbe market which
stands oo the site of tbe- dockyard
where Peter the Great learned ship
building. Every animal Is Inspected
by a government official, and those that
are In any way diseased are killed and
cremated straightway.
Cattle come by train from all parts
of tbe kingdom to tbe Metropolitan
cattle market at Islington, traveling
through tbe night, and on Mondaya
and Thursdays the market opens at
dawn and continues till 3 o'clock in
the afternoon. The cattle that are
sold are driven to tbe slaughter bouses
and killed, and the meat Is on sale at
Smlthfield early next morning
At 2 o'clock in the morning this
market Is ablaze with light and the
streets in the vicinity are blocked with
railway vans. At 4 o'clock the sales
men are In their places, and soon aft-
erward the buyers from tbe big shops
arrive, and tbe sawdust strewn ave
nues of red and yellow carcasses are
thronged.
Smithfield's dally supply of beef and
mutton Is about 1,600 tons, tint only a
fifth of this meat Is British, and much
of the mutton comes from New Zea
land via tbe Victoria docks.
Tbe county of Ken? is noted for Its
fruits and vegetables, but London
would be nnable to satisfy Its craving
for green stuff without the aid of otb
er countries. The miscellaneous vege
tables annually brought into England
from abroad are worth close to $5,000,-
000.
There are several markets In the
metropolis for such wares Bpltalflelds,
the Great Northern potato market and
tbe Farringdon fruit and vegetable
market-but tbe bulk of tbe apples,
oranges, lemons, onions, potatoes and
other roots that are brought from
France. Italy, Spain and Algiers find
their way from the docks of Covent
Garden in common with the home
grown fruit and vegetables which
reach London from all points of tbe
compass In boxes and baskets piled
blgb on lumbering vans.
Most of tbe market gardeners sell
their own wares at "the uarden,
while tbe foreign stuff Is sold at auc
tion. For 300 years this place has
been tbe premier market of London for
vegetables, fruits and flowers, and
there are firms who have traded be
neath Its glass roof for generations.
Some of the fish tbat feeds London
is landed on a floating pontoon at the
river front of Billingsgate market and
at a very early hour in the morning
one may, if he chooses, gaze upon fish
ing smacks from the North sea, little
open barges loaded with fish that have
been lightered from larger vessels in
the docks and clumsy looking Dutch
gallots loaded with eels which are en
titled under a charter granted by
Queen Elizabeth to sail op the Thames
and moor below London bridge.
Tbe railway companies convey 79,
000 tons of fish from different parts of
the coast In the course of a year, while
the boats convey 57,000 tons. The
tolling of a big bell announces the
opening of tbe market at 5 o'clock, and
thereafter the fishmongers are busy
buvttiz. and the fish porters In their
long smocks and flat topped hats scur
ry from the stalls to the carts bearing
Hsh boxes on their heads.
Tbe provision hunlness Is n network
of commerce In Itself, hut there Is o
hlg dally distribution throughout Lon
don, because without It London would
have to live on dry bread, meat and
vegetnblea.-New York Truss.
By MOSS.
OU remember
how Mr, Ml-
n i
sr. cawbci. in Dick-
,M"4 'i,"'v, Wl,!
'rv" - u-iivm wtitflnu for
something to turn
"I' 10
l,"vUI CopperllMld:
' i ii are uo
stranger to llie fact that there
have been periods of my life
when It has been requisite that
I should pause until certain ex
pected events should turn up.
when It lias been necessary that
I should full back before mak
ing what I trust l shall not bo
accused of presuntptloti In term-lug-it
spring. The present I
one of those momentous stages
in the life of uiun. You find me
fallen back for a spring, and I
have every reason to believe
that a vigorous leap will shortly
lie the result."
Some Mieawbors sll back In
similar utter self complacency
waiting b l'l UIK, K"''"'"
opiMirtunlties that their more
alert neighbors really Hiunn
iiihiii In the advertising columns
of this pa(ier.
DON'T liea MICAWIlER. Act
I'liOMITLY when you see bar
gains advertised here. Really
LEAP UMn them. You'll be sur
prised to find how much it
PAYS. THOUSANDS OF OTU
ERS DO.
tPtofessfcaat Cards,
Uke M. Bechtell
LAWYER t
Crook County Hunk HulldtK
IMiiuville, Oregon
HOWARD GOVE
DENTIST
Crook County Bunk Building
Bennett, Sinnott & Galloway
AUornt'VA'ttt-Law
(ienernl Practice.
Till? l'AI.I KS, OllK.
N. G. WALLACE
Attorney-t-Law
Rooms 3-4-5 Kamtlra Bld'g
Prineville, Ore
J. II. Itell A. W. Sim
Crook County Abstract Co.
(liu'(irporuttnl)
rrliiovtllc, Oregon
Atwtrm-U Insurance
Fruit Trees!
Central Oregon Grown
The only kind yon can n fiord
t plnuf, ILLUSTRATED
....TALOGUE FREE. WiIIm
fur one. Trice low ihioukIi
to surprise, you,
Lafollctte Nuriery Co.
PrlnnvlIU, 1 fi Oreaon
" RECEPTION
Prof. A. W. Grater,
Divina Hnlar
Utiles in Morris Building three doom
son til of Journal ollieo.
PrinevilU. Oregon
J. Treadles l ox
M. II. O. M. Kiik: and L. K. A. London;
I.teeuew Oregon Stain Mullen I Hoard.
Sim'tiillat lu Humxrv: Uvuli'iie: All
nietitary Canal, women and children's
ttlMnai-a. Mo.
OflW and nwUlcnw Third atnwt nrarfourt
tbiuiw. 'rl.: Itonmr, 1"hII nn'won-d
liromtillv. ntaliturdnr. Climt imdirau
Champ Smilh, Propr
Oh. wonla ara trlflr Hint aa airt
And ytt It'a vry plain
That If thy'ro not rwtralnad with eara
Thay'U atart a burricana.
SVanhlngton Star.
st mm aV
Points of Viaw.
Patleut-Thls Is an III days wort.
Doctor-To me. It Is well done.-Balti-
more American. v
Psychology of Draama.
Dreams to by contraries, but the
nearly always airree wltb what we eat
Hlrmlnuhiim Aue-IIerald.
Get our prices on Milwaukee
binders, mowers and rakes.
C W. Ukins' Store.
We give double Brown Trad
ing Stamps on all purchases for
Fruit Jars. A complete variety.
O. C Claypool & Co.
Call for Warrants
Notice Is hereby irlven tlmt nil
ri'irlsteri'il (ienernl tuml Warrants
up to nnd Ineludlnit resistor No. li'J,
will tie pulcl on present in ion. niter
est stop" Atijj;i",t 27, 1914.
KAI.I'II I.. .lOHOAJi,
8-27 Treasurer anil Tax Collector.
Oi'CUMKTH
Belknap & Cdwards
(County Hiyilclan.)
T. Ii. J. DUFFY
fir. m
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lion of I
liirrlaf U
Enntt if I
Ti i
5f-l.y
Early Lift
la IM
fir W:tl
mw
i VT' IS P.
etytis vj.uu
Fi VWASrHMOIOrl
stnarcH n, ic. is, iau
A VltZKW SHOW UMTS THE REAL THINS
LOW ROUND-TRIP FARES
Far Full Infnrmaii'Dn
Ask Any jjsnt
of (In
flnrM-VSHIKGTCil RAIL-
rcASifU'-rATicsccKrar
Ortfm
Imported and Domestic
Cigars
Famoui Whiskies
Old Crow, lennitage; Red
Top Rye; Yellow Stone;
Canadian Club; Cream
Rye; James EL Pepper,
Moore's Malt
Porter, Ale and Olympia
Draft Beer on Tap.
4 Imported Wines
Liquors.
and
J
Attorne-at-Law
(NuwWMor t W. A. Boll)
'kinkvii.i.s
Ohkoo !
j(ttmrnfmijC mm
(Vrtictt Iiulltllni;, Ituom 6
iPrimtmJIU, - ' Ortfn
D. H. PEOPLES
Civil and Irrigation Engineer
Koorn 11 Ailsinson Illd'f
Prineville, Ore.
The Oregon Bar
At tha Old Stand
G.W. Wiley & Co., Prps
All kinds of Choice Liquors
Wines and Cigars.
Famous Ranier Beer in
Bottles and on Draft
OS
SPtifitian mmtt tSmrytam
Cams Asuwiasn faonnri.v lv oa nioin
Orrica 0 los south or adawkih
Dl' STusa. Both offlca an ro)
duaoa Ivittpboiii'S.
Print-ill: . - Owrn
W. A. HELL
Lawyer
Tlie Dalles
OrcRon
CllloH,
m.
jfittrmtf-ml-jCmm
will;
Ormgen.
. ttrink
Xawytr
iPrintvillt,
Ortfom.
Willard II. Wirtz
District AUorny
Office in Crook County liank Bldg
PltlNBVIt.I.K Ohkoon
The Brosius Bar
Finest Brands of Wines,
Liquors and Cigars.
LAGER BEER ON DRAUGHT
F. E. BROSIUS, Proprietor
You need the Journal, 1.50 a year
Notice tor Publication.
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Oliice at The Dallea, Ore.
Auitimt 2'J. 1U14.
Notice is lierebv siven that Claudi
j. VVonderly whooe post office ad
dress is I'rineville. Oregon, did
the 3d dav of November, 191 J,, file
in thii ortlce awnrn statement and
nnlic.ation No. 012193. to rtirctiae
the e, Heotion 6. townHlnp 15 south
ranse 19 east, Willamette meridian
and the timber thereon, unner the pro'
vieions of the act of June 3, 187H, and
acts amendatoiy, known as the "Ttraber
and Stone Law," at such value as
miulit be fixed bv appraisement, and
that pursuant to such application, the
land and timner ttiereon nave neen ap
praised, $805 00, the timber estiniateil
1,075,000 board fent at -fiOc per M, and
and the land at tlliO.OO; that said appli
cant will offur final proof in sup
port of her application and sworn
statement on the (Ith dav of November,
1914, before Warren Brown, county
clerk, at Prineville, Oreuon.
Any person i at liberty to protest
thia nurchase before entry, or initiate a
contest at any time before PHtent
issues by flllnir a corroborated allldavit,
in tiiiajoffice, alleutnK facts which would
detent the entrv.
9 3 II. Frank Woodcock, BetjlHtor.
K. B.DUFUR W. P. MYERS
DUFUR & MYERS
Attorneys-at-Law
Offices at 312 Abineton Wile, Portland
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