BEGIN ‘ ' _ THE YEAR UBSCRIBI FOR THE WTTKLY TAZTTTE AND ‘ 11.1. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Havana is nonsense. BOTH P APERS Sent to any Address FOR. One — Dollar! ADDRESS ALL ORDERS To GAZETTE. TOR. ACTION AT ONCE President is Determined That the Cuban Quest: on —Be Settled. WASHINGTON TALKS WAR Potent Reasons Why a Step liIust Be Taken ‘Vithout Delay—The ‘Malne Court of Inquiry Report Will Be. in “'ashington Next \Veek. iVashington, March 12.—There will be important developments in the Cuban question within the next Week. The President has determined to act promptly and his course is about out- lined, although it may be subject to change, after the full text of the re- port of the Court of Inquiry on the ex— plosion of the Maine is laid before him. The 1eport of the court will arrive in Washington next week, and immediate- ly upon its receipt the President will act. While it is a fact that the President and his Cabinet have not seen the text of the report, nor has the court inti- mated what the wording of its verdict will be, it is nevertheless true that the President and the Cabinet have been informed as to the character of the ev- idence, and that the verdict will be an explosion from outside agencies. The fixing of the blame and t e responsi- bility will be shown by the evidence, and the indications in "Washington to- day are that the President is fully war- ranted in making all the present prepa- rations for the events of the next three weeks. Must Be settled. The President has about concluded that the entire Cuban question must be settled at once, and therefore, when he calls upon Spain, if the report of the court is received, the answer is 'ex- pected to coVer the whole question. The Presidents expects that the message sent to Spain will be answered and that peace will ensue. But he is determined that, no matter what the consequences are, the question shall be settled one way or the other before the lst of April. There are many reasons for this desire, chief ‘among them being that the ten- sion upon the people of both countries is getting so great that unless some- thing is done a disturbance may occur which will precipitate War, and upset the plans now being pursued for peace. Another potent 1 ”mt the President and his 1 3 been advised by the medit- _.. of the Government that should hostilities come a beginning should be made at once to save thousands of lives, which otherwise might be sacrificed. By this is meant that the unhealthy season in Cuba begins about the 1st of May, and as that island will, beyond doubt, be the base of operations, the sending of thousands of unaccli- mated men there would mean a whole- sale slaughter by disease, and this can be avoided, because should war come soon it would not last many weeks and would be over before the un- healthy season arrives. Spain’s Torpedo Boats. Another reason for immediate action and the settlement of the question is being urged by the Navy Depa1tment, and it is the most powerful one from that standpoint—should Spain be al- lowed to procrastinate any longer it would give her time to send her fleet of torpedo boats across the ocean and rendezvous them at Havana. It is not denied that the Navy Department fears Spain’s strong torpedo fleet more than it does her fleet of war ships. F01 some time past the Secretary of the Navy has doubted the reports from Madrid that the torpedo fleet would not start for Havana, as announced some days ago, and to make. sure of this he has had his-agents investigate. His fears seem to have been realized, for the dis- patches from Madrid announce that the torpedo squadron will sail from Cadiz to-day for the Canaries, and that the two torpedo destroyers bought in Eng- land will leave that country direct for Cuba. The Department also realizes that the report sent out that it would take forty days for the torpedo squadron to reach It would take only half that time, even if the boats made but 200 miles a day, which is very slow going. The 'Navy Department is anxious to prevent this fleet reaching Havana, and this. explains the haste in preparing the flying squadron for ac- tion. Should the President make a de- mand upon Spain looking to the settle- ment of the Cuban question at once, and there should be no answer or a re- fusal to this request, our Government would be able to use its flying squad- ron to interrupt and prevent this for- midable fleet from reaching Havana. If peace is secured before the torpe- do fleet reaches Havana, the trip across the ocean would be a most pleasurable one for the squadron, but should these boats be allowed to reach Havana be— fore war was declared, our squadron in Southern waters would be at a terrible disadvantage. We have a very respectable fleet at Lisbon, which could be utilized in pre- venting the Spanish torpedo boats leav- ing the Mediterranean if their sailing is postponed, and should they get out into the open Atlantic this fleet might be utilized to attack the Spanish squad- ron. . Our Torpedo Boats. Meanwhile, work is being pushed in this country on the torpedo boats now building. A telegram has been sent to the Columbian Iron Works at'Baltimore to hasten theywork on the three boats building there and ordering that the Rodgers be finished within a' week, the McKee within a month and the Plunger put into commission at once. The Rod- gers and McKee are surface topedo boats, while the Plunger is a submarine torpedo vessel. It is expected that the latter will be ready for service by the 15th. She has been practically com- pleted for a year, and needs only the finishing touches and her armor. This submarine vessel is designed to dive out. of sight in twenty seconds, and while submerged, tire torpedoes into the hull of 'an enemy’s ship. The Rodgers is a. twenty-six knot boat, and has al- ready had her trial trip. The McKee is a twenty- -knot vessel, and under 0.111- nary circumstances would take three or four months to complete, but w01k 5 being rushed night and day, and she is expected to be ready by the lst of Apiil. x. .‘ i- “ MILLIONS To "BURN. HOW UNCLE SAM DISPOSES OF SOIL- ED AND MUTILATED BILLS. Every Day Difl‘erent Banks Throughout the Country Send Packages to the U. S. Treasury for Redemption—Two-flftlis of a Note Can Be Redeemed. A million dollars a day. This is the amount that Uncle Sam makes away with. Every piece of money which becomes too dirty or too dilapidated for use may be presented to the Uni-’ ted States Treasury for redemption. Each day there is sent from the differ- ent banks tlnoughout the; country, fully a million dollar‘s w01th of this soiled or torn papei. Eve1y bundle of money received is turned over to an - expert, who, after carefully counting and inspecting the nores to see that no counterfeits are among them, places them together in small pack- ages, and marks on the wrapper the amount contained in each bundle. They are then passed under a machine which punches a hole in each corner of every package; and cut into halves, lengthwise, one-half is sent to one di- vision and the remaining half to an- other, to be recounted by twovother people. All counts must tally with each other before the bills are ready for destruction. The next move is to transport the money to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where it is reduced to pulp by what is called maceration. Into an immense revolving cylinder containing several disintegrating chem- icals, the bills are thrown. The pfilp thus produced is pressed into sheets, which strongly resemble white card— board. This substance, which is used for various purposes, such as newspa- pers, writing paper, and souvenirs, is sold by the Government for about $40 :1 ton, the-money received paying the entire expenses of maceration. The only kind of money not de- stroyed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is that issued by Na- tional Banks. These notes are not inken charge of by those having the cure of bank currency. Every after- noon these bills, representing from a hundred thousand to half a million dol- lars. are destroyed in the basement of the Treasury Building. the maceration room is secured by huge padlocks, and can be opened only by the three officials who hold the keys. Nothing less than two-fifths of a note will be redeemed. To the holder of this fraction of a bill, the Gov- ernment will allow half of the original face value. For three-fifths of a note, full value will be given. It occasionally happens that scraps 'of hills which have been almost entire ly destroyed by fire, or otherwise, are presented for redemption. So expert are some of the Treasury clerks in de- terming to what special note, or kind of note :1 scrap of money belongs, that the owner of the damaged bills usually receive some considerable part of their face value. A majority of the Gov- ernment clerks are women, who are said to be more honest and trust- worthy than men, besides having in a more marked degree the delicacy of touch required for the detection of bad money. Some of these women are the most expert and accurate counters and tie tectors in the World. touch is so highly educated that the instant they pass a bill through their fingers they know whether it is a gen- uine or a bogus note—J. 0. Henderson, in Succe'ss.~ Feeding Plant. Artificially. A French horticulturist, M. George- Truiffent, gives artificial food to plants in tfle following manner: ,“After an analysis of the ash of the living plant, the necessary salts for a given time, T such as six months, are weighed out and inclosed in 8. metal cover to form what is called a ‘pill,’ which is pre- sumably inserted in the pot, diffusion of the salts taking place through the folds of the metal, and the thicker the metal the slower the diffusion. As the salts dissolve and disappear they are replaced by a core which expands until it completely fills the ‘pill' The salts have no action on the metal cover, which remains firm and hard. It is stated that the solubility” of the salts can be so regulated that a ‘pill’ may be made to last three or six months, as may be desired. By this method of feeding, large well-colored plants are grown in pots of less than half the usual size.”—New York Jour- nal. Jean Ingelow as a Child. Miss Jean Ingelow came of a clever family, and when she and her brothers and sisters were children they got .up a little magazine of their own, the type being set by school-fellows of her brothers at the house of their clergy man-schoolmaster, who owned a small printing machine. As a child she used also to write poems on the inside of the shutters of her bedroom window. of all odd places, and after they were one day accidentally discovered by her mother some. of them found their way into print. A peculiar feature about Miss Ingelow’s life was that she never entered a theatre, and an equally remarkable one about herself was that she could remember events in her life from the time she was 17 months old. Not Afrlld of Lightning. Smith—I was reading in the paper this morning about a. Texas man who was-struck by lightning while he was swearing. Remarkable occurrence, wasn't it? . ‘ Brown—011,1 don't know. If light- ning was to strike a Texas man when he wasn’t swearing it would be much more remarkable—Chicago News. ' The door of. Their sense of. '1... 'E—. - ._.__ NORWALK' BUSINESS DIRECTORY. / Norwalk Fire Insurance Co. ——IN——~ SUCCESS SFUL OPERATION SINCE . " 1860. L @ NO OUTSTANDING CLAIMS. Pie] Bros’ Real German Lager, ON DRAUGHT AND IN BOTTLE ——at———- RATCHFORDS’ 44 Main street. 8. B- WILSON, PRACTICAL CONTRACTOR &« BUILDER. Estimates cheerfully given. Large buildings a. specialty. Cont ts taken in any part of the Cohutry. 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