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. TARGET PRACTICE AT SEA.
The Navy Likely to Use $700,000 \Vorlh
of Powder and Shells Next Year.
Target, practice at sea by ships of the
new navy costs the Government an-
nually half a million of dollars, and
with the completion of ships now
building the cast will approach $800,-
000. 'This includes only the cost of
powder and the cheap variety of shells
used. Were full powder charges and
> the regular armor—piercing[projectiles
employed the cost would be at least
$3,000,000. None but the best kind of
powder can be used in the big guns,
but the shells need not be of the finest
workmanship. , -
Erom not more than $100,000 a year
for target practice to nearly one‘ mil-
lion is a. big jump in the cost of main-
taining the navy, and yet oflicers claim
that there is not half enough practice
ash: is. Economy has prevented the
frequent use of the batteries, and the
. marksmanship records show that gun-
ncrs are not so proficient as they
should be. The fact that the navy has
has been well supplied with either
powder or shell for years is the cause
of the poor scores made by some ships’
companies, say the officers. The Presi-
dent recommends in his annual mes-
sage the appropriation of $1,000,000 it
provide a reserve supply of powder.
. Recent regulations provide tl:.::
every vessel in the navy at sea shall
have a certain amount of target prac-
tice annually. The limited supply 01
powder and shells prevents full ser-
vice charges from being fired often and
in all target practice the charges are
greatly reduced and the shells used are
of the cast steel variety. All practice
is to be conducted on or off soundings
' at ranges varying from 800 to 3,000
yards, the ship circling the target at a
speed of not less than eight knots, such
practice being intended to simulate,.as
nearly as possible, the conditions of
battle under a. spirited and continuous
fire. At two sea practices each year
all vessels are to be cleared for action,
and men are to be stationed as in act-
ual battle, with necessary officers, aids,
and quartermaster in the conningtow-
er, andall other officers at stations.
Projectiles used in practice are either
semi-armor piercing or simply cast
iron with little power to break through
heavy armor. The powder, however, is
of the best furnished the navy—New
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A HARVEST‘OF HUMAN HAIR.
12,000 Pounds Used Yearly—:3. Reg-var
Market Day for It In the Pyrenees-.1
Perhapsther‘e is no staple article of
commerce about which less is known
(by the average person than human
hair. It will doubtless surprise many
to learn that the dealers in human hair
do not depend on chance clippings here
and there, but there is a regular hair
harvest that can always be relied 111:»-
on. It is estimated that over 12,000
pounds of human hair are used annu-
‘ally in the civilized world for adorning
the heads of men and women, but prin-
cipally the fair sex.
The largest supply of hair comes
from Switzerland, Germany and the
French provinces. Thereis a human
hair market in the department of the
lower Pyrenees, held' every Friday.
Hundreds of hair traders walk up and
down the one street of the village,
their shears dangling from their belts,
and inspect the braids which the pea-
sant girls, standing on the steps of the
houses, let down for inspection. If a
bargain is struck the hair is cut and
the money paid on the spot.
Dealers inhuman hair can tell in a
moment whether the locks offered
them have been cut off or combed out.
They do this by rubbing the hairs-
through their fingers. If the hair has
been cut from the head and has not
been misplaced, it remains in its orig-
inal position. If it has been pulled or
combed out and put together rcgard~
less of the direction in which it grew,
one portion of it will slip to the right
and the other to the left. It does this
because the jagged edges catch upon
each other and pull in opposite direc-
tions—London Mail.
Deceitfulness of Appearance.
“My poor man, I have nothing for
you. Why‘don’t you—” ‘
“Poor nothin’! I’ve got dollars to
your cents. I’m just back from the
Klondike, and I’m lookin’ for my sis-
ter. Are you the slim-legged little
whipper snapper she married?”—-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Attorney—“Have you formed or eXm
pressed an opinion concerning this
case?” ‘
Venireman—“No, sir. I haven’t
{ormed or expressed an opinion about
anything for eighteen months. I’m
:he janitor of a. woman’s club.”—Chi-
:ago Tribune.
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TO BANISHWORRY.
socssrlss FORMED .ALoNG THE
LINES OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
A Cousin of Lincoln‘s Secretary of State
Promnlgates the Rules Upon the Prin-
ciple, That Worry Never . Has Done and
NeVel'Can Do‘Aughtbut Harm.
A cousin of Lincoln’s Secretary \of‘
State promulatos the rules upon the
principle that worry never has done
and never can do ought but harm.
Drive dull care to the winds! Away
with worry! America is to be trans-
formed into a perfect Utopia, in which
every person will pursue the‘ even
tenor of his way, and in which there
shall be neither worry nor the fruits
of worriment. All you have to do is
to buy a copy of Mr. Seward’s little
book, “Den’t \Vorry; the Scientific Law
of Happiness,” join one of the circles
and spend the remainder of your exis-
tence without a thought of the mor-
row, what you shall eat or what you
shall drink, or wherewithal you shall
be clothed. The secret of happiness
_shall be yours. If you are a tailor, and
your patrons forget to pay their bills,
and you will learn to get along without
worrying about it. And if, as a con—
sequence of the forgetfulncss of your
patrons, you are unable to meet your
own obligations, you must get your
creditors to join a “Don’t,Worry” cir-
cle, and then you will be all right. * -
The founder of this crusade against
brain exhaustion and nervohs pros-
. lration is a cousin of former Secretary
of State William H. Seward. He is a
musician by profession, and until re-
cently taught music in the Teacher's
College. He has long devoted his at-
tention to Christian science, and in
1891 organized the Brotherhood of
Christian Unity.
Mr. Seward claims that Americans
Mr. Seward claimsthat Americans,
,above all others, are slaves to the
,worrying habit—that it is a national
vice, a disease which he calls Ameri-
’cantis. If worry can be conquered
nearly all the passions that destroy our
happiness will disappear.
“The habit of worrying cannot be
overcome,” says Mr. Seward in his
book, “without resolute and persorver-
ing effort. But with such effort the
vhabit certainly can be mastered. If
the following suggestions are intelli-
gently observed the habit W‘ill lose its
power, and quietness and peace will
take the place of the feverish anxiety,
the undercurrent of restless feeling
which robs the human heart of its
natural happiness and raises the ques-
tion so often heard, whether life is
really worth the living.”
1. Consider what must be involved
in the truth that God is infinite and
7 that you are a part of His plan.
2. Memorizm‘some of the Scripture
promises and recall them when the
temptation to worry returns.
3. Cultivate a spirit of gratitude for
daily mercies. '
4. Realize worrying as an enemy
which destroys your happiness. .
5. Realize that it can be cured by
persistent effort.
6. Attack it definitely as something
to be overcome.
7. Realize that it never has done and
never can do the least good. It wastes
vitality and impairs the mental
faculties. > .
8. Help and comfort your neighbor.
9. Forgive your enemies and conquer
your aversions. ' .
10. Induce others to join the Don't
Worry movement.
Mr. Seward’s earnestness is shown in
:1 later work on the subject, Which has
not yet appeared. “A don’t worry Cir--
clc,” he says, “may be large or small.
Any family may agree to resolve itself
into a don‘t worry circle, and many are
doing so. On the other hand, members
need not even live in the same place.
There is one circle of three members,
two of whom live in New York and the
third in Michigan. They study the
scientific principles of the subject and
help each other by correspondence.
Usually members live in the same
town and have regular meetings.”
It has been suggested that school
teachers form circles and that the prin-
ciple be applied to their work in the
schoolroom.
Slightly Peasonal.
Mrs. Wallace—Did you read about
that poor man who stole a loaf of
bread and made the defense that he
was starving? -
Mr. Wallace—Was it homemade
bread? -
“What has that to do with it?”
“Because, if it was, he was lying. A
starving man would not have the
strength to run away with a loaf of
homemade bread—Cincinnati Enquir-
er.
Theatrical Note.
“The stage,” said the sallow minis-
ter, “should be exterminated, root and
branch.”
“You can do away with ’em root and
branch if you want,” said the florid
landlord, “but I propose to hold on to
their trunks.”—-—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Sloumhlsof the \Vhite' Ants Form Quite a
Feature at. Northern Australia. ,
'~ -’I‘he_..moundsof the termites or white
ants form quite a feature of the north-
ern regions of Australia. Each mound
is a great city in itself, a city in which
the houses and 'streets are heaped one
upon the other in orderly sequence,
.and the whole enclosed in a common
dome. Its streets are» busy as the
Strand at midday, Workers hurrying
'along on urgent business, and here and
there a soldier or policeman, ferociously
armed, to see that law and order are
respected. In thecenter .is’the royal
chamber, with the king and queen,
surrounded by the royal nurseries and
apartments, with battalions of flunkeys
and nurses. Each kind of ant has a
school of architecture of its own. One
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reproduced here represents the cathe-
dral style, and is seen from the side, .
but it is an'example of the less ornate
forms. At times they are fringed with
pinnacles and crowned with spires or
minarets.
The white ants have a robust diges-
tion, favorite articles of diet being
wood, hard siliceous stalks of grass,
and even glass and metal do not come
amiss. Their special taste for cork
leads to a great waste of wine in the
more northern settlements, and, with-
out giving the least sign from without,
they reduce the woodwork of a house
to a shell that crumble-s todust at the
least touch.
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i A Peculiar Lodge.
9 Rushton is a village near Ketter-
ing, England. This peculiar building
is in a secluded part of the grounds of
Rushton hall, which was built by the
Tresham family in the fifteenth centu-
ry. This wonderful lodge was intend-
ed to typify the fundamental doctrine
of the Trinity. Many things led up to
it. The Tresham arms are triangles
and trefoils in threes. The very name
is derived from‘ “trei,”——old French
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Sir Thomas Tresham, were two three-
limbed crosses (“’11. T.”). Each side
of the lodge is 33ft. long, the ground
plan being an equilateral triangle.
There are three floors: also three win-
dows on each side near the ground,
each window being of trefoil shape.
Above are three much larger windows
on each side. There are decorative an-
gels bearing tri-angcls and three in-
scriptions of thirty-three letters each.
The three gabled roofs on each side
meet in the center, from which springs
a. massive triangular chimney. It is
said that beer was used instead of wa-
ter in mixing the mortar for the con-
struction of this lodge.
A Glimpse of Peshawur,
The war city in the present rebellion
in India against English rule is Pesh-
awur, capital of the province of that
name. It; is only about twelve miles
east of the Khyber Pass. It is favor-
' ably situated for commerce, lying in
the" great route from Bokhara and Ca-
bul to India, and its proximity to the
Khyber Pass makes it a very import-
ant strategical point of British India.
The population, including the military
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', TlVE-QUAWEQ-OvafioflAwna-
cantonment tw0 inileswest of the city
proper, is nearly 80,000.,"The canton-
ment accommOdates a large force, the
population in it'being” about 20,000
persons, including camp followers and
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