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DYNAMITE OUN VESSEL VESUVIUS IN ACTION. «5: ! TARGET FOR ALL EYES. The Dynamite Cruiser Vesuvius Muy Revolutionize Naval Warfare. Its armor, which Is but 8-10 of an inch thick and could easily lie pierced by a shell. The lnqxict would lie llalrfe to set off the dynamite on lxxird the vessel and that would be the last of the Vesu vius and the nervy men wls> man her. The destroyer ts designed principally for night attacks, stealing up under cover of the darkness, noiselessly dis charging a few shells and then rushing lock. at a high rate of speed, out of ltarra's way. I | "I1 ; rtyj ¡1 Pl! . I Hi “UNCLE REMUS.“ Joel Chandler Harris Bexan Life ns a Printers* ** Devil.*’ DEATH PENALTIES IN WAR. WON LAURELS AT MANILA. Crime. Which Muy Oring Ignomini- oux Punishment. Bnt Fate Forbade that Captain Gridley Should Come Home. “Martial law” is a vague term to the gr«»at txidy of our citizens, lnd«x»d, not one In a thousand of those who have recently donned uniforms and march ed away to fight for their country have any Just conception of what It means. Not only does the soldier face death at th«» hands of the enemy, but he stands in danger of meeting it, attended with eternal disgrace, at the hands of his friends. If he violates any one of sever al urtlcles of wur. The Impetuous volunteer, burning with hatred of Spain, who falls to re spect a flag of truce tiorne by an aie preaching enemy, to whom It vouch- safes protection, merits and generally receives death. A court-martial has no discretion in the matter. “Br«»aking a safeguard” Is reg;ird<xl ns one of the most serious crimes known to military law. "Sleeping on post” figures ns No. 39 In the articles. Most yonng soldiers are familiar with the provisions of the law. Art. 21. “Striking a superior officer.” According to the wording of this stat ute it Is open to a senior officer to in sult or humiliate a Junior, or for tho junior officer to goad a private to mad- Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley, who died In the Asiatic seas, presumably ¡is a result of injuries received In the battle of Maulla, was one of the heroes of the glorious battle fought on May 1. It was his ship, the Olympia, that led the line of luartle and tirisl the first shots. The captain himself stood In the conning tower throughout the bat tle and Spanish missiles tlew about him. It Is __________ ^surmised in Washington that he reH-lved some Injury there which led to his death. He was In healthy condition before the fight and for several weeks aft«»rward. Card. Gridley was born in Logans port. Ind., in 1845. The family moved to Hillsdale, Mich. from which State In I860, at the age of a little over 17 years, he was appolntel to the naval academy. When still a cadet at the academy he was appointed by the Pres ident as acting ensign, and served with signal distinction on board the United States ship Oneida at the famous bat tle of Mobile Bay In 1864. In 1872 Grid- ley was ordered to the United States steamer Michigan at Erie, I‘a., and re mained there until 1874, when he was ordered to the Monongahela, on the South Atlantic squadron. lie has serv«*d at all the American foreign naval sta tions except the North Atlantic. He was ordered to duty as instructor In seamanship at the Naval Academy in 1877, where he remained three years, anil was then ordered to the Trenton, the flagship of the European squadron, as executive officer, and served In that was In the employ of that company when lie originated the Idea of the Equitable. Hyde unfolded bls scheme to President Winston of the Mutual, but the latter frowned it down, say ing no man connected with the Mutual could be interested In any other com pany Ilyde promptly resigned ami began the work of organizing the Equitable Life. It is owing to his great service that the company thinks $100,- 000 a year Is a moderate compensation nEXHY B. HYDE. The naval authorities of the world Mr. Harris will always lie known, | for him. It amounts to about 10 cents are anxiously watching the dynamite first and foremost, as the author ot a year from each policy holder. He the “Uncle Remus” tales. Few men cruiser Vesuvius, that tiny craft whose believes In insurance himself and car make two literary hits In one lifetime. pneumatic guns did such terrible exe ries al>out $200,000 on his life. He It was genius that induced this South cution at Santiago. The Vesuvius is tn wastt's no time, so far as his company ern newspaper writer to give the worhi a class by herself; there Is no other ves go«»s. lie thinks his pay warrants him the negro folk tales which he had sel like her in the world. This Is the in giving all his time In return, and teisti heard os a boy ulxiut the wide, old-fash- first time In the history of warfare that this he does. He is very quiet In his high explosives have l>een used in pneu tastes and is not very widely known in LIEUTENANT VICTOR BLUE. matic guns and the success that attend New York, so far as personal acquaiut- ed the trials of the Vesuvius at San I ance Is concerned. Went Ashore at Santiago, Traveled 72 tiago will in all probability revolution Miles, and Spied Cervera*. Fleet, ize the construction of warships. With WORLD’S BIGGEST WHEEL Lieutenant Victor Blue, whose bold tour of Santiago de Cuba Bay won for First Exhibited to the Public in Ber him high praise from Admiral Samp lin by Inventor Karl Jatho, A MILITARY EXECUTION, son, has taken his place beside Hobson, Probably te biggest bicycle ever built Rowan, Fre.mout and the other young was first exhibited to the public at the ness, but the latter may not strike a aien who have distinguished them Sport Park Frledenau, near Berlin, by blow ou pain of death. Following are selves In the wur with Spain. Blue the Inventor. Karl Jatho, of Hanover. a few of the other offenses for which made a tour around the bay of seventy The rear wheel stands over nine feet death Is provided; miles, and counted the four armored high and two seats are provided, one Art. 22. Inciting a mutiny. “ Any of cruisers and the two torpedo boat de at each side of the large wheel. The ficer or soldier who begins, excltis, stroyers of Oerveru's famous armada. front wheel Is of the ordinary bicycle causes or Joins In any mutiny or sedi Young Blue had no lack of exciting ad pattern, and by comparison the im tion In any troop, battery, company, ventures after Sampson’s ships got Into mense size of the larger wheel becomes party, post, detachment, or guard shall Cuban waters. He was In charge of evident. The inventor, Jatho, has suffer death or such other penalty as a REGULATING THE PRBWUBB» the Suwanee (the transfornuxl May quite a reputation as a wheelman, and court-martial may direct. ” is probably the best amateur fancy rid a greater range of fire, which It Is be- flower) when hostilities began, and he Art. 41. Giving false alarms. “Any CAPTAIN CHARLES V. GRIDLEY. er of Germany. Riding on his large lleved by experts can ium I will be ob accompanied the Gussle on her expedi officer who by any means whatsoever tained by Improvements Ln pr umma tic tion. The Stiwanee, backed up by the occasions false alarms in camp, garri capacity until 1882, when he again wheel is not difficult as It might ap guns, the Vesuvius, or a vessel carry gunboat Newport, tried to entice th«» son or quarters shall suffer death or came back to the Michigan at Erie, pear at a first glance, however. The MR. J. C. HARRIS. ing similar guns, would be more than Spaniard« Into a fight, trot they refund such other punishment as a court-mar where he remained a short time, or un center of gravity Is placed somewhat til his promotion to commander, April below the axle of the large wheel, and a match for the best battleship afloat the bait Blue’s boat ran on a reef near loned fireplace. It was literary Instinct tial may direct.” 3, 1882. He was then ordered to the therefore It Is an easy matter to keep The Vesuvius was built by Crumps Cape Francis, and would have made nn of a high order which enabled him to Art. 42. Mlstiehavlor before the ene at Philadelphia In 1886 and was accept« easy prey for the Spaniards. She did reproduce so perfectly the dialect of my-cowardice. “Any officer or sol Boston navy yard, where he remained the wheel going steadily. The wheel was brought Into public ed by the government and placed In not get away until after twelve hours the Southern negro and at the same dier who misbehaves himself before until April 3, 1887, and was then as commlisskm four years later. Its ar had passed. Blue ran the gantlet of time make It clear to one who never the enen»y, runs away or shamefully signed to the command of the training mament consists of three pneumatic five Spanish gunboats, and reached the lived In the South. Since "Uncle Re abandons any fort, post or guard which ship Jamestown, and afterward to the guns, which are In the forward part of outposts of General Gomez, where he mus” gave Harris a world-wide fame he Is commanded to defend, or siieaks command of the Portsmouth. On leav the vessel. The guns are built Into the planted the American flag. On his re he has written many stories, all of words Inducing others to do the like, or ing the Portsmouth Gridley was made vessel, which acts as a movable gun turn from hts hazardous expedition which are marked by perfect simplicity casts away his arms or ammunition Inspector of the Tenth Lighthouse Dis carriage. Their muzzles are carried for and clearness of style and by admir or qnlts his post or colors to plunder or trict, which Includes Lakes Erie and ward and project aliove tlie deck, near able character-drawing. One long story pillage shall suffer death or such other Ontario, and from there to the com the bow, at an elevation of 18 degri'es. he has essayed, but It was not a suc punishment as a court-martial may di mand of the Marion at the Asiatic sta tion. When the cruise on the Marion They are made of thin cast iron, are 15 cess, It will interest yonng writers rect.” Inches In dlam««ter, and are 54 feet long. to know that Mr. Harris' favorite book, As a matter of course the penalty of was ended the commander was again They are not rifled, the van«»s upon the when he was a boy, was "The Vicar of death applies to simple desertions as ordered back to the Tenth Lighthouse projectile being rcll<»d upon to give the Wakefield," and that he read Gold Indicated In article 47. The officers or District, where he remaln«»d until his desired axial rotation. The full-sized smith's story so often that even now soldiers who shall force the command promotion to captain, March 14, 1807. shells for the guns are 14% Inches In. he can repeat many pages of It He er of a garrison to yield the fortress tn In July of last year he was ordered to the Olympia, the flagship of the Asiatic dfanwter an«I about 7 f«“«.»! long. A tall began life as a printer's boy at 12 years dishonor will meet a like penalty. BIGGEST BICYCLE IN THE WORLD. Is fitted at the end of the shell with of age, and it was at the printer’s case, “Communication with or relief of the squadron. Erie Is his home residence. spiral raiMX, which secures Its ollgn- like Ben Franklin, that he first felt enemy” is classed under articles 44. 45 His family consists of his widow, two daughters. Miss Katherine V. and Miss view for the first time In a rather In ment and rotation. They are designed the Impulse to put his thoughts luto and 46. Penalty, death. Ruth W., and one son, John P. V. Grid- teresting manner. The inventor had to carry a charge of 150 to 200 pounds writing. been requested to attend the cycle ley. of dynamite or guncotton, and th«» ef In a I,ally’s Autograph Album. cvrso arranged for a special occasion KING OF GUIDES. fect of the latter charge the results at A valuable lady’s album was recently and promised to come with a startling LOOKING INTO A CANNON. Santiago attest. Experts say that If offered for sale Ln London. It was the feature. When he did come with his Fnmon. Old Swiss Who Piloted Many one of these giant sh«»lls exploded with ordinary quarto volume, with embossed View Through the Muzzle of a 13 sister mounted on the novel wheel there Travelers Over the Alpe in twenty feet of an armored vessel, a pages, gilt-edged, and nicely bound, Inch Gun Which Is Forty Feet Long. was a general surprise; even his most Of all the guides who have helped like those with which our grandmoth large section of the bull would disap I i Did you ever look into the muzzle of Intimate friends had no Idea of the ex American travelers to love the Alps ers used to victimize their friends years pear. the chief, perhaps, was Christian Aim ago. It was an ordinary book, but It a seventy-two-ton cannon? If not, istence of the new conveyance, which LIEUTENANT VICTOR BLITS. The shells are hurl«»d from the guns here Is your opportunity. Of course, he had built quietly in a large shed at by compresstxl air and so powerful Is around Santiago Buy he brought with er. He was the king of his tribe. He had extraordinary contributors. Among the picture here shown can give no the rear of his dwelling. The wheel this fo»ee that they «ui be sent with him a copy of a Santiago niwvspaper. enjoyed his calling, and pursued it from the writers might l>e found Douglas definite realization of the wonder and has since been produced a few times at accuracy a distance of two anti a half Ills daring trip Into tin* very homes of boyhood with the zeal of an artist. Jerrold, Mark Ix-mon. William Mac- Until he was <iulte an old man the ready, Mrs. Amelia Ople. Mrs. Ilowitt terror that come over you when you cycle festivals. It will not be possible miles. The air Is compressed into res the Spanish set at rest the fiction that thrust your face into the gaping for the occupants of the wheel to ap ervoir« containing a large number of the Cape Verde fleet wus not bottled up famous old Swiss was actively engaged and W. M. Thackeray. The artists oom- mouth of one of these steel monsters proach too near each other, for the big In “guiding.” Ills eye was keen, his prtsed Sir David Wilkie, Westall. Sir wrought Inin tube«. Each shot that Is In the little bay. foot sure, his judgment unerring and Edwin Landseer, Cattermole, Prout and look through it a distance of forty wheel Is constantly tietween them, and fired at a mile range takes 150 pouDds it will certainly be more reliable than his delight In crossing the most dlffictfft John Leech. Sir John Tennlel and The Soldiers ’ Gxxsl-By. of air. any other chaperon In keeping the of the passes and mounting the steep Thackeray. There were many sketches The guns are loaded and han«1l«xl She bravely bad«» her Horace g«xxl-by, proper distance while riding. est of the peaks was great long after by the last-named, In which might be That girl with the auburn hair. with ease. Under th«» rear of ea«’h gun are two “n'volvers,” t»nch containing And smiled through the tear that dimmed most gnldes have retired to the chim recognized some of the original de Transplanting Wild Flowers. her eye, ney corner and given their business up signs for “Pendennis” and other of his five chambers for the shells. When the In digging the wild flowers, especial Thnt girl with the auburn hair, to their sons. Aimer lived at Grludel- books. After a spirited competition, gun Is to be loaded the breech is unfas- And she kissed him, and kissed him, ly those having bulbous roots, be care the volumo was knocked down at £180. tened and falls on a pivot at the ex ful to go deep enough to get all of the kissed him, -Tit-Bits. treme tear end. The opening In th«» gun roots. Leave as much soil clinging to That girl with the auburn hair, com«»s directly In lltu* with th«» lowest And kissed him, and kissed hhn, the roots as possible, and after wrap Amen and Amen. chamber In the “revolver.“ A hy kissed him. ping them In damp moss or grass, roll A Scotch minster while on a visit to draulic ram pushes the shell forward And kissed him, and kissed him, the plants up in paper to exclude tin England noticed that when the minis kissed him. into the breech, which Is at one«' swung air. Gather a basketful of leaf mold ter stopped praying th«» choir Ring Upward, completing tb»» continuity of And his soldier comrade« hnd to assist hitn from under the trees where no grass To leave that girl so fair. “Amen.” The first Surulay after bls the barrel. Tin» ‘’revolveri’ Is thus turn grows, the first inch of the ground bA- — Chicago Tribune. arrival home he arranged with his pre ed forward on«» division so as to be ing the best, and use this freely In mak centor that at the end of the prayers he ready to supply the next shell. Hydrau Another Powerful Ana.'sthctic, ing up the bed for the reception of the would drop a p«»a on his head. wlum he lic power Is us«»d to exeeut*» all th«» According to th«» British and Colonial wild flowers. After planting them In was going to sing “ Amen. ” When Sun maneuvers. The compl<«te armament Druggist a Russian chemist has discov their new quarters, water liberally day came, about the end of the first of each gun Is ten pcojectil«*. ered a most powerful anaesthetic. It and shade from the sun for a week or prayer, the precentor felt a shower of When th«» gun Is to lie llr«xl the air Is Is several thousand times more power feet to the open breech. Y'ou can get more. A rather shaded location should peas fall on his head, and began sing admitted to the chamber by means of a ful than chloroform, volatilizes power- ing: “Amen! anran! amen! amen!” as a fair Idea of the damage such a big always be selected.—Woman's Home readily and acts, when freely mixed fast as he could, when the minister gun can wreak, although you can’t be Companion. with air at great distances. Experi leaned over the pulpit and whispered: gin to Imagine the shock and heat and ments an» being made at St. Petersburg Growth of Girls and Boys. "Whist! whist! Jock; the poke’s burst.” noise which the discharge of such a to six» If It cannot la1 Inclose«! In bombs, gun creates. It Is not often supposed that, as a —Golden Penny. which would have the extraordinary This cannon has a recoiling force of rule, boys In growing keep ahead <»1 effect of annex the ticking instead of 225 tons. The projectile leaves it with girls, but a recent measurement of very Big Prices for Fiddles. wounding the enemy. Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha n velocity of 2.100 feet per second or many children of l>oth sexes Is against (Duke of Edinburgh) has Just given. It 1.400 miles per hour. The force Im this conclusion. The boys, up to their At Waterloo. CHRISTIAN ALMER AND IlIS WIFE. is said, £1,400 for a Stradlvarlus. The parted to the projectile or cartridge. If eleventh year, were found to run about One hundred mid forty-nine thon- wald In Switzerland. He was photo best known, according to Italian con properly applied, would life a battle a quarter to half an inch taller than the wmd men were engngetl at Waterloo, graphed then* a year ago with his wife noisseurs, belonged to Sir Charles ship bodily three feet In the air, and girls. They were then overtaken by of whom 51,000 were killed or taken on their golden wedding day. lie died Hall«*, on«] is said to be worth £2,200. i yet this great machine of death and the girls, who surpassed them In height prisoners. In proportion to th«» num- recently. The price lias recently gone up. as Sen destruction, weighing 143.000 pounds. till their sixteenth year, when the boys tier engage«! Waterloo was one of the again grew faster than the girls and ator Hawley, of Connecticut, has been Is as accurate as a high-grade watch. bloodiest battles of history, net less Disproved the Slander. came to rhe front In Italy seekLng everywhere for fine old DRAWS A BIG SALARY. than 35 per cent, of th«» whole nurab«>r There Is a Mexican bull fighter—El fiddles. In which he Is said to have being plac«»d hors de combat. The Curlta—whose enemies have tnade the Fined fl>r Causing a Wreck. made “a corn«*r,” having bought about of Equitable Life Amnrance British artillery finxl 9,426 rounds, or statement against him that he had 500, for which he has given £16,000.— President Hansen, the engineer of the excur- LOADING HIE GVXA Society Get. 9100,000 a Year. one for every Frenchman klll«»d in the been beaten by a woman. He denied Elgin Courant. that was*wrecked near Co nenry B. Hyde, president of the slon train valve. Th«» distance that the shell will battle. this and notified the local newspa|»ers penhagen last summer, having been Y Equitable Life Assurance Society of that the actual facts were that he had be thrown «lepeuils upon the anraunt of Dribbler—In my opinion, a num who New York, draws the highest salary in held responsible for the disaster, has Spaniards Arc Romanists. air admlttfd into the pneumatic tube, The state religion of Spain Is the knocked the woman down four times writes an Illegible hand does It be the United States. The President of been «entenced to four months’ impris which Is controlled by the valve. Th«» Roman Catholic, which Is tnnlntalm»d with a chair. Morvot^r, he had been cause lie thinks people are willing to onment and to a fine of 44,875 crowns, firing can take place as rapl«lly as th«» by th«» government The Constitution sentenced to Jail, but his elght-day puzzle over IL In other words, he is a the country receives $50,000 a year for or $1X026.50. his services. Mr. Hyde Is paid Just shells can be loedtd into the tube«. permits non-Cathollcs to worship as sentence had l>een commoted on the chunk of conceit. Scribbler—Not al The Vesuvius Is particularly well they ph*as«>, but they must do so pri payment of a fine, which he construed ways. Sometime« a num write« Illegi double that sum annually for the work No Women In Parliament. he does for the Equitable. He was adapted for blowing up mtn«'« by ex vately and without making any public ns a vindication of his character. No woman has ever actually sat In bly net because he Is conceited, but be ploding dynamite shells In the mine announcement of their religious cause he Is modest. Dribbler—Modest! born, one may say. In the Insurance the English Parliament though several •er- The fates are really very kind; every What about? fields. A shot from one of her gqns. It vices. Scribbler—About bls business. Hts father was the leading have been returned as niemliers. worthless man gets along better than spelling.—New York Weekly. insurance man In New England, and Is estimate!, will set off every mine he deserves. the son absorbed a thorough knowledge Were the equal suffragists made suf within a radius of fifty f«»et from the Why doesn’t someone name a boy When a man’s business runs down of the business. He launched out for fragists by marriage, or did they get point where the sh«Hl explodes. The baby Dewey? Here Is a chance for Dressmakers say that every really the sheriff cotnet along and winds it himself when he became the cashier married to find out the real facts about great weakness of the Vesuvius lie« In fame. Hurry up. good figure Is manufactured. of the Mutual Life of New York. He men? up.