I * 1 r ARINE SHIPS HE STOPPED SHORT, TREE TRUNK CANNON, Wonderful Wooden Hide Wound Guns Rsason For the Peculiar Signature on of the Antilles. the Hotel Register. The mention of wooden guns sug Many peculiar signatures in the tard These Craft gests a company of boy soldiers com course of a season find themselves ma tided by a captain who wears a tin upon the register of a hotel. There Biscomforts. sword. The revolutionary soldiers of are foreign fists of all sorts in script Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Re that none but the Kytka could un public, however, have from time to ravel. The most curious of al), how NOVICE time FOR made cannon from trees and ap ever, was placed on the book only re plied them to practical purposes. In cently. It Is this: “Wm." S Choking For Air and Suffo- the Antilles there grows a peculiar tree Only that and nothing morel ■ From the Fumes of Gasolina with u winding grain, so tenacious of There Is no surname, no address, ^Lony Is Excruciating—Added fiber that to split it by ordinary means is almost au Imposslbilty. nothing at all but just “Wm.” K When Caught In a Storm. When wanted for artillery purposes This Is the way It happened: ■rlne boats have been develop- the tree is felled, a section some five A well dressed man entered the ho K point where they can cover feet In length and one foot In diameter tel the other day and followed his ■ own power a radius of 800 Is selected and cut. the bark is remov bags to the desk. The register was ■ effective fighting trim. In , ed. and uneven places on the surface swung around into position for him Eid calm the submarines are ■ are dressed down. and a pen banded him by the gentle ■ of navigating the seas with i The embryo cannon is then placed manly desk clerk. Then, lu a free, L their Inventors and construe- on rude trusses and a bore burned In swinging hand, he wrote the accepted Kith a fleet of these vessels sta- it. n process that serves further still to abbreviation of his first name. "IVm." E the vicinity of any of our i harden the wood. While the bore ts As If a thought had suddenly oc Kgst cities It would be difficult ! being burned green ox hides are ent curred to him. he stopped writing and into long strips by beginning In rhe ■lesbips to get within effective looked up. tenter and working toward the outer ■ distance. “What do you charge for a single ■rst Impressions received on de- edge as one would peel an apple. room here by the day?” he asked. K into the hold of a submarine When all Is tn readiness oue end of "Three, four, five and six dollars." Ke of discomfort and suffoca- this rawhide band, which is about answered the clerk. ffbe accommodations for a crew three inches In width. Is spiked to the "Ain't you got no dollar rooms?” ten seem about right for half a wooden caunon near the breech. A “No. we have no dollar rooms I Oue Is In too close proximity ! lever or bar is attached to the butt. Three, four, five and six." Bring machinery, too, to enjoy Two or three negroes grasp the arms “Gosh!” he said, and he didn't look of the bar and slowly turn the hollow Isation. the part either "This Is no place for ■ I sides are arranged electrical ed log on its supports. The band of me. Gimme my luggage.” [ and machinery to operate the green hide Is kept under a strain, and And he sneaked out of the hotel ns Ind the torpedoes. A thin shell In this way the core of the cannon Is one who had trodden on sacred grouud I separates the visitor from the wound with one of the toughest ma i i Which Is why on the register today les, and the outside water is so terials. wire excepted, in the world, is the odd signature: The first layer of hide is tightly that one can almost feel its “Wm.”—San Francisco Chronicle. wound to the muzzle of the growing fe ta under way on the surface the gun and back toward the breech ERIN ANCIENT rlne bums and trembles. The again until a number of layers have [of gasoline are almost suffocat- thus been wound on and the promis there Is no escaping from them, Ing piece of artillery has grown Bev- Untimely Death Was the Rule For Monarche of Old Ireland. if the men contract what is call- eral Inches In diameter. ’Tis ould Oireland can bate them all. It Is then placed In a draft of dry, isollne heart." if under water ig the fumes make one sick and hot air and allowed to harden. When begorra. when it comes to talkin' of the hardening and curing process is kings and coronations! For there was Bovlce cannot remain in a sub- complete the persevering Inhabitants probably a king of Ireland when Noah was building his ark. There certainly |e under water for any great have a really serviceable weapon. One of these homemade wood and was one In 1300 B. C. To be sure, J of time without suffering ex iting torture. In time, however, rawhide cannon used during the last though. Ireland's ancient monarchs its used T5 It, and a trip may be Cuban Insurrection Is said to have mostly came to unhappy ends, either withstood 104 charges of powder be dying of the plague, being assassinated ■ enjoyment. lit is when the submarine dives fore becoming useless. The projectiles or killed in battle, says London An Rhe most unpleasant symptoms for It were made of scrap Iron, broken swers. For Instance, King Lugbaldb. who I There are ten compressed air stone and fire hardened clay balls.— reigned in the second century, was [ supplied, and these furnish suf- St Louis Republic. i killed by being thrust through the eye k air to keep the crew alive a with a spear during a conspiracy. His ■nany hours. successor. Feargus. was assassinated [did you ever live on compressed by order of the uext comer. Cormac- Ilf not it will be a new sensation, May Get a Cup Almost Any Place (Jlfliada, who. however, was merely [ally if you are fifty feet below You Exc.pt In Java. choked to death by a fish bone at nrface of the water. There is a It seems strange that in the far east, supper. ng sensation all over the body, where tea and coffee come from, it is “Slain by his successor," iDdeed. was tndlng of the eardrums and pos- very difficult for the traveler in nearly the fate of very many Irish kings, but a sense of nausea. all places In India, the Straits Settle the air is automatically regulat- ments and elsewhere In the orient to of Congal Cionmaglialr. who died in pm the compressed air tanks one procure a cup of really good tea or 693, it is simply but eloquently re bls share of the oxygen, but some- coffee. This, says Sir Frederic S corded that he "died suddenly.” ne was a "cruel persecutor of the Irish I the supply may vary, it cer- Isham, the novelist, although seem In 398 Klug Dathy was r does in different parts of the I ingly paradoxical, is only on a par with church.” i One may be choking for lack of i conditions in so many of our little killed by a thunderbolt, while Klug air in one part and be exhllarat- American hamlets and vlllagea where Connor died of grief in 837. And one ’ a too abundant supply tn anotb- good butter, rich cream and good of the greatest of them all. the valiant Brian Boroihme, was assassinated in chickens for the residents are practl ■n, times when the engines are cally nonobtalnable. nil of them baring 1014 while at prayer after he bad de feated the Danes at Clontarf. Eng to charge the batteries the It Is hard'y surprising to learn that Es of the gasoline become so strong been "sent to town." In Calcutta I beard an American In four of Elin’s kings resigned their ■ men are rendered unconscious. the best hotel there say to the waiter: crowns to become peaceful, cloistered E must be taken up on deck then to "If this." indicating the contents of monks. E whiff of fresh air. E this reason the batteries are only a cup before him. “Is tea. bring me coffee. If it Is coffee, bring me tea " Water Necessary For Crops, fced when above the water. But And the waiter (an Eurasian^, who A grass plant will in the course of a Bine of war it might be necessary had no sense of humor, took away the ■barge them while running below. drink and phlegmatically brought some hot day exhale Its own weight of wa ter. and a young leaf of wheat or rye E. tudeed. the man aboard the sub exposed to the sun may even exhale line might envy the aerial nad thing else— equally bad. no doubt Ro after India. Burma and Ihe Malay Its own weight in an hour. Expert- ir flying above the sea with his peninsula we waited with bated breath ments summarized by Storer indicate ■idance of fresh air to breathe, loking under water is a pretty un for tile coffee of Java "Jara coffee!" that "more than 300 pouuds of water lain and disagreeable work. The The excellence of It was a childhood pass through a plant and are tran I appliance for this purpose is a tradition. The coffee "mother used to spired from Its leaves for every pound 111 electric beater. This is Just make" was compounded of real Java of dry matter fixed or assimilated by kt big enough to heat water to In Java surely we should find a nectar the plant.” In Wisconsin. King found of the gods What did we discover? the mean amount of water used by Be a cup of coffee and nothing else. An extract of coffee served in little barley, oats. corn, clover, peas and po I crew have their food cooked casters! It would bare made the gods tatoes in producing a ton of dry mat ■ rd the tender. 111 Another illusion gone! ter ranged from 270 tons for corn to Ihe submarine is built on the prin Don't go to Java for real Jara cof 576 tons for clover, "the average for i ks of economising space in every- fee You may find it io Ypsilanti. the six crops being nearly 450 tons, or Bg. There is no room for anything Mich., or Faria. O.. but you won't un four acre inches for each ton of dry Bpt the actual necessities. Every matter.” — Agricultural Department earth it In Java—not for money. t> of space Is given over to ma- Year Book. pery. This la everywhere compact Too Much For Him. I efficient, but multiplied so often Ths Magnetic Needle. Voltaire could not speak much Eng It one wonders what it is all for. There ore two places on the earth's [here Is machinery for running the llsb. The reason why he refused to surface where the magnetic needle kt. for guiding It under water, for atndy the language la this: It was must point due south They are not [trolling It when it dives, for com- drilled Into him that "plague" was pronounced "plaig." which be thought easy places to reach One is In the last ng the air tanks, for operating very pretty and acceptable. But right arctic regions north of the northern I torpedoes and even for regulating on top of It he was introduced to magnetic pole, on the line between that I power of vision abort and below •ague." which bls teacher said must pole and the geographical north pole. har. be called “a go«." Finding It Impoe The other ts In the antarctic regions, Fben caught tn a storm in a aub- sible to reconcile the difference, he south of the southern magnetic pole, Irine life is really not worth living. went off into a philosophical tantrum on the line between that spot and the Consists of a series of intense strug- geographical south pole. In the first and dropped the study. s to prevent death by being batter case the point of the needle Is attract against steel walls or to keep from ed to the northern magnetic pole. In A Bit af a Brag. toning Involved In whirring wheels Lawyer—Are you acquainted with the second case the other end of the d dynamos. If you survive the or any of the men on the jury ? Wltncas- needle Is attracted to the southern U you conclude that it Is not oeces magnetic pole. Yea. sir; more than half of them ty to wait fee war to find hades. It Lawyer—Arv you willing to swear that with you all th« timo.—Harper’s Rsaseneble Fear. you know more than half of them tekly. “John. Is that yool" Wltneaa— 8ay. If it comes to that. I m "Yeah, Mary.” willing to swear that 1 know more "Wh.it In the world are you doing than all of them pot together-Mil down there? Why don't you come up waukee Journal. to bedr “I'm afraid of gettln' bnrt on three O.Mrving ef Pity. darned revolvin' stairsh Chicago •There rose Roxham Every time Record Herald think of that mac's financial ember War I ASTORIA CENTENNIAL SERVICE Is luence of E he J he, e« d. I iq <1«, lllji»; ■ ffti irtii oil cord ii :of| nil It of i n pk sedi ‘8 M idjrn leplj itti use. do j THE ’S )f Ti A m ler i thia i six a Will a nei utrty i il. aii »1 »! he Si hi<k • o’di ateìi ovai lp«i wnent ntinji ndtì ase ■ he hJ ed m and il 1 noti ¿forti p«r«i ngll lidltol Codi folM eh isÉ ..t. h ■ , to )W® I fed ritKi M R. * ied « I. 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