Exeter Advocate, 1906-07-19, Page 3THE BIGGEST BAT I LESH1P
bREADNOUGUT TUE MOST POWER
FieL WAIIISEUP.
eebeeies .IRSSOCIS Taught by Itele 'Se;
,
apanese War 0( 18,000 Tens
Displacement.
Not for many years bee the huildind
It7OT letteileT TO ,Etteee' AWA.Y.
The Breednought thD firet hattteeeip
evithout a ram coneteeteted for the
nevy since , the battle of Linea., in
etee0. The British 'Admiralty has finally
(keeled that no British, reeptein egeuld
ever think of employing, such a weapoe,
.view of the (tangs which ,any ship
it4CUE'S when it reme fuel -tile At e fee.
Tae bow of the ,Dreadnought, in view
Of the, elimieettion of the rent, hat; been
geeetly etrengthened, and tele ship • ie
provided With, an armee belt running.
prectically .its fell length, and varyine
in teickeees from .6..to •11..tnelles. :rho
eSI a anareof „war excited ;such witespread 'belt Is leafleted some distance below the
enterest tugt a IL M. S. Dreafinouget: water and rises very high, to give
in many, respects Iles -ship has as: ample •pitotection to all the vilal parts,
Owned a eensational characterg-she is and an armor deck is provided of a
the largest vessel &elf constrected for thickness of twO inches.
*Ay war fleet; she was the first to be It terns out that there- is no tilde
theemencee 'after the recent great stUF
gk in tne Far East; her design, which
embodies many new features, has heli.
erto been kept an oflicial secret, and the
work of construction has been pressed
_forward with so muchsuccees that it is
hoped she will be in comnaission withba
fourteen months- of the laying of the
keel plates.
4-11,111esenfactsee says Cassier's Maga-
- eine, have ecntubutd to arettse 7durio-
Sity, particularly as it le well known
that British naval enemies were act
ecgded special privilege's by the Japans
ese, and were enabled to wetch the
progress of the war to greater advent-
, age than the representatives of other
povvers.
" The essential feature of the Dread-
nought which distinguishes her from all
battleships now incommission in the
'world's fleets is that she is at huge size
and Inounteo only one type of gun for
uee in battle.
•The war between Japan and Russia,
'conclusively showed that the intermede
at( armtunent carried by vessels flying
•European flags was not effective at
modern battle ranges. It has been cal-
eculated that the effective ranges for bat-
tle have been raised from 3,000 yards
to 7,000 or 8,000 yards.
• CAREFUL CALCULATIONS
show that at such a distance the strik-
ing power of 7.5 Melt and 6 inch guns,
which have been the favorite hiterxnedie
at Weapons in the British Navy hither -
• is coreparatively useless. '
--Prior to the war Great Britain was
mounting in each of the King Edward
VII. class four 12.irich and four 9.2 inch
guns, but since the battle of Tehushe
• ma she is inclined to depend altogether
On the, 12 inch gun.
It is understood 'that originally the
Dreadnought was to have carried twelve
guns of the 12 inch type, but it was
. eventually decided to drop out two of
these weapons in order to mount effec.
• tively ten pieces of this colossal striking
power so that eight of them could fire
ten the eroadside, six ahead and four
astern, without endangering either the
stability of the ship or running undue
risk oevitig to thegblaste
Th armament of tne Dreadnought has
encountered some criticism on account
of the slowness Of fire of the 15 inch gun
in comparison with the rapidity which
.eare be obtained by the 7.5 inch and 6
inch weapons. With the best gun crew
the 12 inch gurt of the 9.e ineh gen can
fire' only abont two rounds at minute,
ne while the 75 inch weeper -teen discharge
gett-- asmany as three or four, and „the . 6
Irieh, gun candischarge in the serhe
unit of time as many as eight projectiles.
It has been urged that though the
. smaller gaps may not be able to pierce
the armor .plates elf battleship or crui-
ser at modern ranges,4the effect of a
series of 100 pound shells falling on a
ship eis of' great value in demoralizing
a• foe, driving the crew from exposed
positions and bringing down top 'ham-
per �f one kind and another, thus fre-
quently setting up local fires.
On the other hand, it is urged that the
rapidity of fire claimed for the smaller
guns is largely imaginary at the range
which will obtain in future battles. Ow.
Ing to the lithited' supply of ammunition
which can be carried in a modern man-
of-war, ,
THE FLIGHT OF EACH SHELL .
must be carefully watched, with a view
to correcting the range _*fore another
L e discharged.
This operation' of waiehing each shell
'find its billet severely limits the rapi-
dity .of fire and experienced artilleriste
say that in battle action eot more Ulan
two shells a minute can be fired fr-ltrn
any One gun with any hope Of niakeig
good firing: Under these circumstances
the advantage of the 6 -inch and 7.5 _inch
weapons disappears. .
The 12 inch gun which is to be moue -
ted in the Dreadnought is not, -however,
the weapon hitherto carried hy British
nien-of-war. A., the' result of long ex.
pertinent, a 12 inch weapon of 45 calibre
has been evolved, which is claimed to
• be the best yet constructed for use afloat.
It May be lueed that the newest 12
Inch gini of the British navy, though it
fires the same weight of projectile as the
gun which is being mounted in the Am-
erican ships of the Connecticut and New
Hampshire classes, does not altain•quite
tis high a velocity by about 100 foot see-
onde.
The new 12 inch gun, like all of those
Mounted in recent British ships, has
ben built on the wire system, The ad.
vantage of Meet' is held to be so con-
siderable in Great Ilettain in assuring
the strengili and soundness of matere
el as to outweigh all the advantages
which have been urged by foreign gun
manuftletinerse Many early 12 inch
gime built on.
the wire system gave
eenle trouble, but the newest weapons
are being made with a shoulder,so as
te prevent the inner tube 'from slipping
terward under the great pressure to
which it IA stihjeeted, and inereased cate
13 being exereised in the testing of ma.
terial.
The prineiple adoplea in the "design of
the Dreadnought has been to 'conetrect
five entirely seperate redoubts, each car.
feint: 0 revolving turret filled for two,
gime. Each of these ciroutar re-
doubts will fie heavily armored over jte
full length, and for flghting purposes
they will be entirely distinct.
Around Oleo five fortresses the ship
has been eorist rueted in steel a way as to
plane two eif the 12 Intel tums on the
foreenelle ee feet nbove the water line,
Iwo redouble in elle ;after pert, tie the
eine and two others on the broadside.
The effete of this arrfuegement ie to keep
tie of else len gene on the centre line,
but the errangereient has the dieadvant-
ette tte eaueing Iwo of the 'guns fo be
.treaelcNi for fire astern. The Dread -
*Wight, however. has
ketitietele
'LUMBER IN B16 DENIANir:g'i,"'ti",74"2.11,','-,':r17',J.5(:1',VHP;!',.-Jt.',1,''',.0'..''
le)101:20f30T37 fo V1130 powerful denecy
flettereitON DAYS FOE TUE OWN
OF TUE MILLS'.
Its
Rig Ships Ceetrse the Seven Seae (*Jerry -
drag Rritish tesetenebiet
Wienber.
T4e.se ar,e baloteo .daye £iottate
ers of lite • big " doing bueineee
along leurard Inlet, Vancouvee, -and the
reunite of their tall .chitriaeys befogs
Itis sity, as the hugs saWS eat and rip
through millions of , feet ofetbe fineet
lumber in the world. Day and teglat
the statement that .. the Dreadnought, they are at it,. workIng double shifts oe
etteuld not carry torpedoes. 'As it mat- Inert in the vain endeavor to keep peen
fer of fact, he will have five eubtneegee
tubes. With the enornaotts ' demand for lumber,
&,
Mere limber.
For the first time in any British ship To. see one of . these htxge establish
-
Elle bulkheads have not been Pierced by merits running is an inWresting sight
doors. In the Dreadnought there is no
coMmunication of any kind between the foe Anyone used to the comparatively
several compartments; but elevators small mills of ° the east, for the logs of
British Columbia are whales for size, as
have been constructed, and officers and everyone .knowes. and consequently no
rnee .in _one _eompartmerte who desire to
t latlyeatet•handitnet; „For basteece, a lee
'pee -4 -to 'aiiether,-"witee it let emitendedtelete
able to do so with little loss of time and "() Very ordinary' Proetiftionet Wille itiea--
parison with ihe great advantage due
sure 40 inches in diameter, to say no -
al very Alight inconvenience in com-
thing of tele innumerable big sticks that
the machinery bee to ,grapple with.
to the invulnerability of the bulkheads.
An unusual amount of attention has
also been devoted to the construction of
the bottoni of the Dreadnought, with a
.view to minimizing the effects of mine
e.e.plosions. The Russo-Japanese war
showed that the greatest danger woe
from attack not directly at the bottom
of the ship, but at the skies.,
The magazine and shell rooms have
been placed as far as, possible from the
skin of the ship and have been proved -
ed with, armor protection,so that al
though the Dreadnought might be seri- .
- shout. Then the chain moves slowly
ously endangered by mine explosion upward, bearing several of these nuge
under the very elaborate cellular bottom, forms
The topmost is relied off, and
m
the detonation of a torpedo or surface forms one of the row waiting 'for the of-
the
at her.side would net heve screous ffices of the two circular saws, which,
effects. '• one above the other, hum unimpeded,.
driven by the titanic force of an engine
The Dreadnought has been designed
for Parsons turbines, calculated to pro-
pel her at the
RATE OF 21 KNOTS AN. HOUR,
-
two knots more than the speed of any
existing British battleship. • There are
to be two high pressure and two low
pressureeturbines" and four propellers.
In settling the lines of the Dewed -
nought great care was exercised to ob-
tain, a htill which would • be handy in
evolutions. • The stern of the Dread.
timber, and as such is conveyed to the
nought is probably more cut away than
band saw, which speedily turns it into
that tif any big ship hitherte launched, a pile of planks, to be shot down into
and naval officers who have seen the
the yaeds. Here a swarm of, Chinamen
vessel, in dock say that in spite of hei
and Saps are everlastingly busy, piling
great size-shedisplaces nearly 18,000
and unpiling, or pushing go-carts and
tons -she will peeve the handiest battle- trucks up and down the alleyways. ,
ship in the British fleets. . The laps look upon their.cousin sMon.
• The simplification -.of armament • hae '
gols from the. Land Of _the Dreamweb
led to the reduction in ,the -weight of, considerable contempt, doubtless en.
spare parts and to the installation of a .
hanced by the late triumphs over the
more simple and effective method of
Tartar: On a recent visit to the yards
the writer was , amused to see- one of
these smart little brown men from Nip-
pon, energetic and impatient., directing
a lazy 'Chinaman, who • was leisurely
toying with a push cart All the ,eatis-
smaller than that of- any battleship now
.- faction that the little rap got. was a suo.
serving in the Britjsh fleets. . •
cession . of guileless smiles from the
• Another gain hes been the °rearrange -
Heathen Chinee. Had the Jap been able
meht of the •quarters for the officers and
to inveigle thie Chink friend behind oee
men. Tile Admiral, Captain and cone
of those big lumber piles, there would
missiOned officers instead of being at
probably have been a most ,edifying
the after parts of the ship, whereas their
demonstration of jiu-Sitsu. . •
work is mainly forward, will in future
hov' their cabins and messrooms al -
mast direetly under he foryvard and.
only bridge, ' Everything about these millitig plants
The Dreadnoeght has been fitted With
windows tis large as. those of an ordin-
ary house. She re,eembles American
built ships in 'arrangments for .the com-
fort of the men of the lower deck.
PILES OF LUMBER.
After wandering through a yard
'stacked with countless piles 'of lumber,
you reech the end of the mill, where
the process of manufacture begins. Here
the big logs are bobbing about in the
salt water of the inlet, in what is known
as the pocket, waiting their turn in the
massive bull -chain With its eleven -inch
links, which is to glide them up to the
saws. The man at, the top gives
which serves them • alone. Presently
iron arms rise from the floor, and slam
the heavy mase of wood with a re-
sounding thud upon tne sliding cradle,
which then creep § forward to meet the
saws. There is a prolonged roar; a
shoteer of sawdust .fllis the air, and a
monstrous slab is dragged away.
CHINAMEN AND JAPS.
In a fete minutes the lOg has been
transformed to a piece of large, square
• fire contnel from.a high platform on the
ship's on mast.
It has resulted also in a great eeduc-
tion of the personnel. The comple-
ment of the Dreadnought will be far
COLOSSAL SHOW TREES.
The best possible systems for heating
and ventilating have been adopted. A
commodious bakery has been instelled
so as to provide bread at all times in
place of the hardtack which has hitherto
betriggeteend_out, in British ships.
In cost the Dreadnought will be one
of the cheapest battleships built for
manyye ears ,past. •
Besides her ten 12 -inch guns she car-
ries twenty 12 -pounders of a new anel
powerful type for defence against tor-
pedo craft. She is expected to attain
a rate of ,over *21 knots', with a reditis
of action sufficient fo carry her twice
across the Atlantic.
In fighting strength she is equivalent
to any two battleships .built for the
British fleet prior to the construction, of
the 'King Edward Vile yet her total
cost, complete with mins. will be only
£1.797,497. while ille ships of the King
Edward VII. class. carrying only 'four
le -inch guns and the same- number of
9.e inch gunsrepresent an outlay of
just under a, million and ,a half sterling.
4
TIIE JAPANESE AS GARDENERS.
• -
Many Vegeteble, Delicacies Cultiveted
by Them. ,
The Japanese excel as much in gar-
dening as in warfare. This' has long
beetr recognized hi Europe, and, seeing
how similar the climate of that Country
is to our own, it is a little remarkable
that some of the Japanese "specialtiee"
ill vegetables have not been introduced
more freely over here, eays the 'London
Globe. For instance, they grow,a kind
oe bean known as "Munyo," each pod
de which contains a dozen beans ,of dif-
ferent colors. Among other ways elf us-
ing them is that of pounding up the
beans and making of them a delicious
preserve, known es "lcolcau," 11)0 1(0005-
GAN
• consistence being obtained by the
eneenee-tehten, by the wey eget atenat
$3,efee-inetetett of often. to) pull out tle)
One lumber gee may hue ae muny
thiElg dCditheY engirws, 3 itflCUMVS.
THROUGH MILES OP BUSH.
1_. 32:"a OpOr3l1i()I35 are. going on
in the vieinity 411 o.freelewater item
tlte loaci eve floeetd down thiS af3 fee ee
possiblete veliere an -entente end train of
Vit ,cat. ts axe,, ready to hani them over
a .logging' railway; which_leade elfreue'h
melee ef bush to the sea., Froze here,
in booms containineg from 700,00.0 to le
filletteX) 'feet, they are eventually lowed
to Vaitcouver.
There are nearly 4e -witty lumber Mills
and as manymore shingle pants along
the shores of the inlet, and its tributary
Which form, Vancouver's harbor. An
idea of the volume of business transact.
e1 may be formed when it is known
that one of the large mills is producing
ite 350.000 feet per day.
-LUMBER IllSb'S IN PRICE -
During the last year rough lumber has
risen in price from $12 to $15 per thou-
sand and the demand keeps increasing,
especiallyeeroneethe North-west,t with it.
thousands of immigrants going in ore
wild lands, where houses and barns are
yet to be bunt and its scores of new
towns. There are orders on hand at
present that it will take from six to
eight menthe to fill, and ° dealers else
that• the 1,112,000,000 to 1,114,000,000 feet
Of timber that the coa,st and mountain
mills (those -situated in the interior) will
produce this year, would be doubled,
were the mills able to turn out the stuff.
IMPORTATION WILL CENSE:
GAN TELL BY THE SOUNDS
11AD
IN WHICIT DEAF PE e'0„
UAW NO CHANCE.
'Many Dangers on flaitettete and In
Mines' Ate Averted by ib e Teets _
of Ifearing.
Railvtay engineeleivere7have need of
as Iteen a scree' of hearieg as they, Wee
Of Espeeially is this •-the.eatet in
foggy weather. Then their vision Is of,
little use to them, and they have to de-
pend upon the "song' of the road" -the
sounds,' pectiliar to certain sections of
the line -in piloting their teate-loade of
passengers to safety.
It is also possible to- detect faults in
the perManent way by the sounds, ef
the wheels. ._ -
nits sixth sense, which is morethan
mere hearing; 1.5 of the utmost value to
others besides engine -drivers. During
foggy weather at sea the pilot aboard
a vessel has neteingabuteeseeartte nettle:
ifim'es lb tfie directieli tetrece, " -
There is no rhythmical sang of the
road for him, but he manages to avoid
collisions all the seme.' Should the
vessel be in a dangerous neighborhood,
where bell -buoys are situated, and
swhere there is dangeetef colliding with
traffic; a man is sent deep down into
the hold of the ship with an instrument
very much like a megaphone.
With this instrument to his ear tee
faintest, sound from a bell -buoy can be
detected, a fairly accurate idea of the
vessel's distance from it can be esti-
mated, and a safe course adopted.
Without the megaphone, or in any other
plaoe iti the ship, it is impossible to hear
ANY INDICATION OF DANGER.
The experienced engineer, and those
in • constant charge of machinery, can
tell by the sounds made whether wheels
and belts and pulleys are running in
perfect order. The rhythmic regularity;
besides the ,tone emitted, are sufilcient
guides that the engine is working
sweetie'. Any unfamiliar noise at once
warns the engineer, who • is not content
until the cause of it is detected and rec-
tified.
It i, expected that the imnortation of
AmeriCan eimber to the Northwest, will
cease, for San Francisco will draw heav-
ily on the, mills of Washington • and
Oregon for building material. In fact,
the U. S. Government removed the duty
on any donsignmente of Canadian
luniber that might be shipped to Frisco,
bee the market elsewhere being se good,
13 C. men are not looking for an out-
let across . the line.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EViDENCE.
A Case in Which the Jury's Foreman
Saeed the Accused. e
Very eminent legal authorities agree
that as to the facts of a case the jury
is more to,. be right than the
judge, says the London Standard. This
weelc, however, we have had another
addttion to the lengthy list of enstences
of the jutege censuring a jury upon lie
finding. "As clear a case as had ever
come before him," he said, as he order-
ed the jury to go home. Possibly the
judge was right. It was well to' remem-
ber, however, that tied all the cases
which have appeared so clear to the
judges gone as their lordships desired,
more than a Jew innocent men would
have been sent to the gallows, An in-
stance comes to mind, one of the most
_extraordinary in .the history of our le.
gal system, the account of which we
owe to the man who triedeand presid-
ed over the trial, Lord, .Chief Justice
Dyer. This was a "clear' case"- of mur-
der. The victim was found stabbed
death in a field wood, by his side the
pitchfork with which' the deed had been
done. The matt who owned the fork
was arrested, and the blood-stained suit
he had worn was found hidden in a
mattress.
• Sbort of testimony from an.y one who
had seen the crime actually committed,
there was • not a link missing from the.
is on so largeia scale that the usual run chain of evtdence against the prisoner.
of logs looks quite normal in size. The It was in vain that he pleaded not
guilty; everything was so conclusively
clear agaihse him. A verdict of guilty
was expected immediately from the jury
hut the foreman asked that as "the life"
colossal show trees of the tourist adver-
tisements •areenot commonly met with,
careering up the bull -chain on their way
to be sawn up. But it is interesting to
riote that there has recently been cut up of a fellow creature was at stake the
country, by one of the "logging out- jnry might be allowed to retire. The
judge did net understand why they
should do so in so simple a case; .still,
the jury bad its wish. It did not return.
The 'court adjourned for Itmcheon; the
jury did not come back. in the afternoon,
and, in spite of several anxious inquir-
ties from the bench, it had not made up
• its mind when the court rose for the
day -there was one man holding out.
Theejury was looked up for the night,
Mid in the morning was brought into
rourt to return a verdict of not guilty!
This was a poser. , and the judge dis-
missed the jury, saying, "The blood of
the deceased ties at your door."
Private inquiry by the juke. elicited
the fact that the foreman, a man of
unblemished reputation and of coneid-
erable estate, had been the cause of the
verdict; which the rest had 'been stare.
Ni info accepting. The judge sent ler
this gentleman, and in his.private room
fits" of 'a big Vancouver mill, a leouglas
fie ,measuring„ 11 feet 6 inches in dia-
meter at the butt, and tapering off in
its 99 feet of „ length to 4 feet 10 inches
'at the smell end. This Mesh Colum-
bia toothpiek, .according to calculations
of men in the business, will yield , 'the
trifling sum of 18,500 feet of good, Auer-
•chantable thither. They say le contains
more -Maiketehle stuff than any other
tree ever 'cut in British Columbia.
. • .
' •• ..FOR C. P. R. -BRIDGES. '
Along the docks and railway sidings
•
of the.. 'yards, lureber n of. all sorts lies
stacked' for all. claseee- et ' custoreers.
Hero are cars piled with heavy beams
to be shipped to Toronto, or loaded with
toothpicke,, looking like whole trees
squared 011, which will take their places
as bridge timbers at .some point on the
timber sheds ig the, most interestiref
But over beyond the long rotes oil begged 'hin-1
his obduracy 'and the. amazing finding
to explain tbe mystery of
telght. of all; for there under a forest of 1 of his fellows. first pledging - himself to
-masts, yard -arms and rigging, lie Inc preserve invielato-any confidence which
steel built sailing ships which 'course. the other might repose in him. .Then
the seven ems,: and carry the staple ere- the foreman told how" he himsell had
duce of Beitish. Columbia to the four vco-r. met the victint . for whose ,murder the
ners of the world. One has .come seven prisoner had been tried, how this man
thousand miles across the Pacific from line sought to take edvantage of his
New Zealand; one Pe loading for Japan. °Real position and exact unjust tithes,
another le 'bound for a port' in South how they quarrelled • and fought, how
,.thefmtnn,lidahdAr;tithe,mpted to kilt him with
(the foreroan of the
America. .and still another hails from
F,ngland vie Cape Horn. Strange thouge e ""-e' e--.--"'" --
It may eteem, of the hell dozen snips in jury) 'had killed his antagonist with his
dock, loading lumber at the same time. °Wig pltcheork, then fled. The prisore
each, almost invariably,, hails from a Aer_.hiertomirie along. had 'found the men
port far distant from her neighbor. „e„n„ and in endeavoring to suecor him
PREFER TO BUY DEALS. had got blood upon his elothes. and in
his ennfusion had taken the dead man's
Some coludries prefer to buy deals, fork and left his own in its plaee, This
others dimension stuff, as for instance, was why the foreman had held out, and
eng, but their choice to a grea t extent why the prisoner escaped.
Japan. who does most Of 'het' owe saw-
clepends on the state of the nierket.
Vessels .are loaded by tneans of a TIIE CROWN AND wOlIKING CLASSES
edition of a kind ef flutel Produced from long chute or slide, slanting up from
the wharf over the stern of the ship, up There is, in -fact, no barrier to -day
Which steep, gangway the lumber is between, the crown and the working
seaweed. A.nother kind of clitebing
means of a long classes; says the London Times. If
Vegetable, the "kudzu," is used both for
it; roots arid its fibre, from the forxnee hauled in piles, by there ever was one, Queen Victoria may
len
from the latter a species of cloth which which wheeke eaell d along deck be said practically to have broken it
a kind of flour being obtained, ' and wire rope attached. to a donkeythe . engine,
he cargo le down tete Ilea unfailing courtesy to ell
IA absolutely waterproof. te where fine wanted,Ioof. The bulbs of ranks and her ronstant readiness, se
Certain lilies are a favorite fruit in Ja. 'leaded te) earetully that not an melt et often ,hown at Osborne or Balmoral, to
held room ie wateed and 'I enter into personal intercourse with the
as et,000,000 feet , of lumber. humbleet of her subjects. King Edward
.;ail out into the Pacific, sill e as ineeit
Lumntmor is, EXPENeTifl
it. and Queen Alexandra have gladly fol.
owed that example. Thus 0011)05 about
tile ,weleome result that (he, centvn is,
politically speaking, as near to the work.
ipg eines foretto anr otter hi the country,
and that,no Class cherielies a more live -
1' or j Apentaneeus loyalty toteards its
eovereign.
pan. After being carefully peeled arul
wesheel, thesr are blanched in boiling
Milt water ante cooked either in "butter
Or in a, gravy sauce. The flowers' are
treated ise vegetables or used as a flav-
oring for soup, A large white melon
Indigenous. to Japan, '.','hen cut into elic.
ee fried in butler, and powdered with
sugar, Is eeteenied a great., delicacy,
tastieg scfreewhat like pineapple. Other
.Thpaneee Vegetable' delieriehee which
may be Mentioned are the edible fl. tv-
1
ero, of a 'kind of garlie much used or
ealade; the yoting ,shoots of beta 0,
which are eaten aS WO '`eat aeparagus;
Bee the "paikotlet which reeembles our
entail l'elt rediehers. a
Lumbering in British Columbia, ac -
'cording to tee old-timers in the end -
nese. requires a much greater outlay
then In former dam when the genets of
the foreet bordered Het ehoree of the
(mast and Anlete. At that time re few,
lemma of oxen could drag the felled freee
the short distanee to the 8hore, whew
it was eaeily floated fenny with a ries
ing tide. Though eeetningly plentifid at
that thew. VIP rietivityof the lumber
trade AW
wl' hetted out' theu convent.
The only reeeon many people ere petty.
hie; for the vietory is becauee they want
to get out of the fight.
The rtleAt as to ehool
learning to wake hricke Irefoee lie sete
to Welding liteuem ' '
It is, so with. the watch and block re-
pairer. . 13y its tick the. experienced
workman can tell 'instantly, , 'What is
`wrong with the worlcs of any timepiece.
The Wheel tester employed by railway
companies is' another, whose sense of
•hearing is all important in helping him
to earn a livelihotel. As he passes from
carriage to carriage, giving each wheel
a smart tap with his hammer, ,he can
judge by the. "ring" of the metal, not
only whether treis important pate is free
from flaws.or 'cracks, but also whether
it has recently been subjected to. any,
severe strein. . • .
Brickmakers and builders test the
-soundness of bricks mainly by the ear.
If a brick gives a dull sound when
struck a quick blow* with a trowel or
other instrument, it is a: sign that there
is some fault In its manufacture, • but a
sheen metallic ringing eseund is proof
• that 11 is 'both strong and well made.
One of the ways, too, by which tb.e
Admiralty test small steel castings ire
'tended foe machinery is by dropping the
articles from a height of twelve feet or
• more on a hard, maclidamized ,eoadt
If a good, ringing seund doestnot re-
sult, •
THE CASTINGS ARE REJECTED.
There are thousands of telephorie
girls .who may, truly be said to Jive, by
their ears, and telegraph operators 'are
in the.saine category. Should the this -
fortune, of deafness ,overtake any 'of the
workers in these oecupationse he or she
must immediately relinquieh the busi-
ness, ,
And the same,applies, to a smeller
extent, to those men who climb to the
roof -tops' and see to the arranging of
telephone and telegraph wires. By the
sound given out by the wires, more-
over, they, e'en tell whether any fault_
is present in any eine.t, .
The inspector for e. water company
is another whose heating must be keen
for him to be' succeeeful in his duties,
and partietilarly in locating leaks in
mains and pipes. Going to the .area
which the inspector knows to be at
fautt, he places a steel bar about a foot
long, and half an inch thick, ,which .acts
as a sort of stethoscope, upon the sus-
pected , pipe, and is able by ites means
to determine exactly where the leak oc-
curs.
Underground workers, such as sewer -
Men and miners, have to depend very
lageely upon their hearing for detecting
faults and dangeys. The ominous
"swish, swish," as the water rushes
along the sewer with increasing volume
and- noise, is suffloient warning ot the
esewernian to tie once climb the ladder
leading to a manhole.
A IE 1r4 TIIE PIPES
eanbe similarly discogered by the sound
of the "plosh" made by the falling
wa ler.
To the 'miner. strange noises under-
ground are synonymous with danger.
One of his greatest :fears is of falling
walls. roofs and floors. Particularly is
this se 'in the mining of thick beds of
salt, gypsum, eoal and the like, by
means M. 'what 18 imown---as "'square.
work," where rooms -about 15 feet
'square, and having pillars; 30 feet thick
as supports between them, .are opened
out from tile gangway. In these, cross -
galleries are 'driven as high as the vein -
matter will allow and within them lies
the danger from tottering .wells and
unsteady •floors.
Ilere. •aboveall places in the mine,
the worker may be said to toil with his
ears. Any meter noise he regards as it
warning. The merest "creak" Will send
him scampering to a safe place in the
galleries until it is, advisable for him to
return and remedy the fault as quiele
trained ear lute detected.
The handy men employed on subt
marines are others 'who muse rely large-
ly upon theiv hearing for discovering
leake and 'faults aboard., In this they
are reseeded by white Otte. which 'are'
kept in the neighborhood of the gaso-
lene tanks, and serve ae the eentriere et
the tleever regions. 'Whenever a leak
0e011V3 the miee commence to squeal
lotidly, and thee() who hear it promptly
Dusk beloter to stop the eat' epee -Pear.
eofee, Weekly.
LEADING I4ABXETS
ISlIf t.,A Melt Ville.
Tomato, July ie.-- leger-teietarf
es, e er4* E"A',T05 eFe t (iOt
'Pongee eteet, fee enesere
tette* to el -Ate fee fent gatctet .3, 84 td
Stele fet' rgeonsie teed Seefte to $e eer
.$15 to $15.50 ift
hue:, onteiee; eltotea, $1-`2.90 to$P3.
0/1,tar.11)---No. 1,1,110- rui
i5. held 1steel etith Tete to 791a ;
sprhoo, 7,a`c„ and gootet "41 to rte. ,
()ate-- Feeder, No. '2 White ,cttiqtca' tt
33 to 30t.1 outside.
'
Pi -Nominal, 62 to GbOuteide.
Barle,y-Nominal, 49 te ouleide for
No. 2;
Peas -Dull, 80 to 82c4 outside.
Wheat - Itlanitoba - Unchanged, 850
for No. 1 Northern and 83e for No. 'a,
lake ports.
Corn-Arnerican No. 2 yellow, 59% to
60e, Toronte
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Receipts of, butter continue.
ifeavi and 'prices 'arS-at-hcia.age'd„
Creamery, prints ... .... . . - 200 to 210
do, solids 19c to 20o
Dairy., prints ....... 10e to 17e
nolls ... . 15e to 16o
Tubs ....... 14c to 160
Cheese -12% to 123/4c per lb.
Eggs -18 to 19c per dozen. •
potatoes -Quotations are unchanged
at $1 for ()uteri° and. $1 to $1.10 for
Quebe,e.
13aled Hay -No. 1 timothy is queted
at 810 per ton in car lots here end
• mixed at •$7.50.
• Baled Straw -$5.50 to $6 per ton for
car lots here, •
• MONTREAL MARKETS.
•elontreal, July 17. -Oats --No. 2, 43 to
43%c ; No. 3, 42%6; No. 4 41% to 413/4c:
Peas -73c f.o.b. per bushel, 78 per
cent. at 51c. ,
Corn -No. 3 mixed,0563/4,,ce No. a yel-
low, 57%c ex track.
Flour -Manitoba speing wheat pa-
tents, 54.60 to $4.70; strong bakers*,
$440 to $4.20; winter wheat patents,
$4.10 to $4.30; straight rollers, $2.90 eo
$4.20; do, in bags, $1.85 to '52; extras,
51.50-10 $1.70.
Millfeed-Manitoba bran, in bags,
$16.50 to $17; shorts, $20 to $21 per ton;
Ontario bra,nnene $17; shorts, ,5210
to $20.50; milledmouillie, $21 to $25 ,
straight grain mouillie, $2.5 to $27 per
ton.
Rolled Oats -Per bag, $2,10 to $2.20
in ear lots.,
Cornmet11-$1.30 to $1.40 per bag.
Hay -No. 1, $9.50; No. 2, $8.50; clover.
mixed, $7.50; and puro clover, $7 to 58.
.Provisions--13arrels. short cut, mess,
'52350; half 'barrels do, $12; clear fat
hack, $22.50,; long cut heavy mess, .
521.50; half barrels do, 811.25; 'dry salt
Jong clear bacon, 11% to 12%o, barreles
_plate beef, at $13.50; half barrels dos
$7.25 ; barrels heavy mess beef, $11.50;
half barrels do, $6.25; compound lard,
7X 10 93/4c; pure lard, 113/4 to 123/4c;
kettle rendered, 12% to 14c; hams, iet
to 15eec,- =dieting_ to ` size ; breakfast
bacon,16, lo 1.7e ; Witidear bacon, 16 to
ineec; fresh killed 'abattoir' dressed
hogs,_..e1g,75 het $11 ; alive, $7.75 to $e
per 100 pounds. -
Eggs -19 to 20c for .selected 'stock, 13 -
to 14c for No. 2te, and 16%c for straight
vecelp ts.
leUFFALO MARKETS.
Buffalo, July 17. - Flour. - Quiet.
Wheat -Spring, strong; No. '1 lelorth-
ern, 83c. Corn -Firm; No. 2 yellow,
58c; No. 2 corn, 56% to 57ce Oats -
Dail; No. 2 white, 42%e.; No. 2 mixed,
400. Canal freights -Steady.
NEW YORK 'WHEAT MARKET.
Neve York, July 17. -Spot steady ; No.
2 red, 83%c elevator; No. 2 ifed, 84%c
f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth,
873/4c f.o.b-. afloat; No. 1 Northern Man-
itoba, 89c f.o.b. afloat,
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Toronto, July 11.--Ano11uer light run
of stock at the City Cattle Market this
'morning resulted ih a rather firmer tone
for the better classes ef stock. • ,
Export Cattle -Choice are geoted at
from '$4.80 t� 55; medium to good $4.-
60 to $4.75, bulls $3.75 to *4 bufls, light,
0.5 to $3.75;.cows, $3.50 to $4.
Butcher Cattle Choice, $4.60 to $4.8e,
medium lo good, $4..25 to $4.50t bulls, $3
to $3.25; cows, $3 to $r; Canners, $1.50
to $1.75. • •
Stockers and Feeders -$3.50 to $3.85;
common, $2.75 to $3.e5; short -keep feed-
ers 54.60 to $4.80; heavy feeders, $4.e0
to 51.70; stock bulls, $2 to $2.25.
Mitch, Cows -Choice, $40 to $50; com-
mon, $30 to $35; springers, $25 to $40.
Calves -3c to Go per lb.
Sheep and Lambs -Export ewes are
quoted at 51 to $4.25 per cwt., bucks at
$3 to $3.50, and .culls $3 to $3.5e.
Spring lambs are quoted firm at 7c to
per,lb.
Hogs -Despite the fact that about a
thousand hogs were onthe market,
prices werefirm, advancing another 106
per cwt. Selects are quoted at $7„70 •
and lights and fats at $7.45, fed and .•
watered.
FEMININE HOPE.
• Jones --"It is just impossible for me to
keep a lead pencil. • People, are always
borrowing, you know, and tney alwaye
ferget to return." Brown -"Why„ 1,
never have any trouble.. See, ree got
a whole pocketful of pencils." Tones
-"Doesn't that prove just what I, saide"
°Net TO teTAIIT WITH.
Teacher -.Suppose I gave Yott, four
pigeons, and then five more pigeons, '
how many would you have, Teintny?
Tommy -Ten.
Teactier-gilow do you make itt
Tommy -I've got one pigeon hottie &t-
reacly.
METAL DOES 'NOT MIST.
e,eleial does not' rust in take Titicaee,
etotith Anierica. A. ehain, an arichoit, Or
any article of iron, 11 thrown in WS
lake and allOwed 10 remain eset Weeks
Or monthe, is as bright: when taken up
as when it came fresh from the fount
drge