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J DOl!( S LGi.G TRIP Roes straight thiou^ii w*Uhcftit«ntop, I AS A MEDICINE] In bollevod, however, th.'Vt'tho dock tviil | FRUIT 1 he five or six months on the cruise. The u ^ iv... 1 cost of the trip can only He surmised. I How the Huge Dewey Is Being | Jt , 8 report - ;, lilt tJle du , 8 Towed to the Philippines. ; through the Suez canal will he $r/).o00. Tlie Dewey was built at the plant of I Why. European Authority Bars Mark Twain’s Works. the Maryland Steel company In a great excavation near the* water front Just outside of Baltimore. Wnen It vVus com- ! ■pleted* a bulkhead that separated thy Batapseo. froift tho hole in the ground Iiik o>« it .i»Ue nnu a Uuu»t»*r t ^. as cu j nvva y ji ad ^jie water yan in and floated the huge mass of steel, w’hile Miss Maud Endicott, daughter of Bear Admiral Endicott, christened the dock Dewey with a bottle of champagne. The dock was not only pom pleted ! ahead of contract time, but in excess of the requirements, for it will lift a 20,- HAWSEES OF GEEAT LENGTH USED Powerful Alavnl Vesaols Are Strain* Alii'iul of the Steel Doeli—It» lie- naarl.nblc Lifting Power—Coin for in For the Ollieer* and Crew—Thor- oaKh Ventilating S>-Mtera. injueious as a mental diet The great steel dry dock Dewey, which recently left Solomon’s island. In Chesapeake bay, to he towed H.oun I qoo ton battleship^whereas the contract miles to the Philippines, is now wed i called for only 1(5,000 tons. It also ex- started on her voyage, and if nil goes ■ eeeded the speed requirements In lifting well the powerful naval vessels which a ship. ar° hauling (be immense and unwieldy structure will not stop until they reach ; the entrance to the Suez canal, says a special dispatch from Baltimore to the New York Herald. In towing the dock hawsers having a total length of 1,220 fathoms, or 140 yards more than a mile and a quarter, will stretch between the ships and the d sck. This great length of hawser, to gether with the lengths of the ships and When the big cruiser Colorado was placed in the dock to test it in the Pa tuxent river the contract called for the lifting In four hours. The Colorado waa lifted until her keel was six feet above the water in a few minutes more than two hours. Then the dock broke all rec ords by lifting the battleship Iowa of 16.000 tons, with heavy weights in her turrets and amidships, in one hour and thirty-seven ruiuutes. A novel feature of the dock is its abil- tae dock, makes a tow of about one mile and three-quarters. ; ity to dock itself. All steel vessels toko These giant machines hooked up will on a marine growth on their bottoms, present a dazzling spectacle on clear which necessitates hauling them out i ’ghts. The four ships convoying the every year or so, as their life depends dock are fully equipped with electriei- on receiving paint to protect the hulls, ty in the way of search and signal Docks now afloat are so gigantic that lights, and each ship and the dock are they cannot be docked to be cleaned or equipped with wireless telegraphy, so repaired, with the exception of the that communication should be perfect Dewey. The Dewey can release tho two side walls and disconnect the three pontoons There are spare hawsers and chains, and a vast quantity of coal will be nsed. To tlie dock are fastened forty-Uve fathoms of two and a half inch chain for a bridle. To this are fastened 121 fathoms of hawser made up of two Uf teen-inch manila hawsers seized to gether. From (his go to the ship near est the dock 200 fathoms of six inch steel hawser. From ship to ship stretcli 100 fathoms of .'ifteen inch manila and 200 fathoms of six inch wire hawser. Each of the towing vessels has steam towing/nwchhiery, a contrivance de signed to idyaeu the awful strain of towing in a hdQ' y sea. One of the most important factors in the towing of the dock are the ^utomatic towing ma chines, which ai\ an American inven tion. These are <itepended upon In a large measure to malw the undertaking comparatively safe. Tl^® resistaccM^ of the tow is borne entirely vby the stea'iM pressure in the cylinders or the towing machine, which consists rl a reel or tSrijm upon which the sten wire haw- •ers wind and unwind rutomatically. This drum Is driven by a pinion gear in the crank shaft of the engine, which meshes with the gear on the drum •haft. The machine has a regulating reducing steam valve, in which the opening is increased or diminished ac cording as the strain on the towing hawser Increases or diminishes. In a seaway, as the vessel rises on a wave or sea, thus Increasing the strain on the hawser, tlie drum begins to re volve and to pay out or slack the haw ser. This action of the hawser opens the regulating valve and increases the steam pressure in the cylinders until the pressure is sufficient to equalize the •train on the hawser. Then as the •train on the hawser decreases the pressure in tlie cylinders will revolve the drum and wind in the slack of the hawser. In this way the machine is prevented from paying out the whole of the haw ser, and only enough is paid out to re lieve tlie extra and momentary strain on the line and tlius prevent Its injury or breaking. The regulating valve, which admits and cuts off the steam to and from the cylinders, Is entirely au tomatic and requires no handling what ever. An independent admission valve is provided, by which steam is admitted to the cylinders and the hawsers length ened and shortened at will. The colliers Brutus and Caesar and the supply ship Glacier are to tow the Dewey. The tug Potomac is to be used partly as a rudder for the dock when necessary and for emergencies. The Po tomac will run on sea errands, such as putting into ports for supplies. In addition to the great 9,000 pound anchors, there are four mushroom, or “nmbrclla,” anchors of 4,000 pounds each on the Dewey. These are design ed as the permanent anchors of the dock and are to be used on each corner. To each of the great anchors are 125 fathoms of two and a quarter inch chain cable. The amount of gear is enormous; for the great bridles for the dock are In quadruplicate and are in addition to the towing hawsers, regu lar and extra, and tho regular and ex tra chains for the anchors. Commander ii. II. Ilosley has the Glacier for his flagship, and tlie great white vessel shows in sharp contrast to the others in black paint. J. D. Wood, a veteran pilot master and tug boat man, is sailing master of the dock, which is otherwise In charge of Boat swain Philip Mtillin. J. H. Deitweller, formerly of the Pensacola dock, b. dockmaster and will continue as such at Olongapo. Otto Werner is chief en gineer, Mr. Me Murray flrst officer and Mr. Straub second officer. The Brutus is under command of Captain Hendricks, with a merchant crew, and the Caesar under command of Captain Hutchison. Only the Gla cier and the Potomac carry naval offi cers and crews. There are thirty-six men ail told on the dock. In the com plement are three engineers, a wireless telegraph operator and electrician, four flrem n, twelve* seamen, a steward, a cook and two mess boys. The dock carries 4(i0 tons of coal designed for the use of tlie dock machinery only. It is generally calculated that the Dewey will make about 100 miles a 'jay, which would require 124 days for grttlnh Medical Journal Say* Humor- iat'tt Hooka Not Only Cheer, bnt In ebriate—American PhynleluiiM Who 1'reaerl he Them For ConvaleaceutM Tell of Their Value—Hots- John M. f'attiNon 'took the Haaffb Care, ' The British Medical Journal, a lead ing European an ^crity, in a recent is- A Genuine OrcbardUt Han It, Saya N. K. llnny “Seedless oranges and godless ap ples are freaks, fruit defoimilles that the genuine orchard 1st has nj use for,’* ■aid Professor N. E. Hansel of South Dakota Agricultural col lego fat Brook ings, who was at the Coate< House in Kansas City the other night says the Kansas C^y Star. “Of couise in the way of working for legitimite varie ties every grower can be bisnwn Bur bank, but no one is looking touch for crippled specimens. We will get seed less fruits some day, but liture will produce them for us. Agrictjtural sci entists are contented to waifefor that j In tlie meantime we have flund that the laws of heredity have a.very great sue declares that EngtVh convalescents Influence on the growth and qjaljty of miiaF o i-rvi/l \f n vvr o I tv no n ♦ <> 1 A*..-: TT’ , I. -»-. ~^ --l V ^ »— — that are joined together in the flooring ; or hull. Thou the two smaller pontoons ; are filled witli water and sunk under | the larger or center pontoon. They are then pumped out. and the two smaller steel pontoons rise with the larger one on top of them. When it is desired to dock tho smaller pontoons the condi tions are reversed. The big center pon toon is sunk and tlie two smaller ones placed on it and the big one pumped out to raise the little ones. When heavy weather comes on at sea the bottom sections of the Dewey will be fillfcd with water until the body of the mass gj. steel is submerged and on ly tho side walls extend above the sur face. She will present a large surface to the wind, which, It has been calcu lated, may reach a pressure pf thirty pounds to-tb* square isch. There will be no effort to tow the vessel while It is partly submerged. The towing ves sels will simply hang on, drifting along with the giant where the wind chooses to send it and waiting until the storm blows itself out, for no headway can be made with such a tow in heavy weather. Three twenty-four Inch centrifugal pumps, the steam for which is furnish ed by three separate 225 horsepower boilers, will pump out or flood the Dewey. Those pumps are controlled In the engine room. On the port side, forward, is the valve house, where there are twenty-four levers. The three sections of the dock are divided into sixty water tight compartments, and each of these levers controls the flooding and pumping of several com partments. A telephone gives commu nication with the boiler room, and a pneumatic valve in the valve house an nounces the amount of water In the dock. y On the starboard side is a machine shop, quarters for officers and crew, kitchen and bathrooms. Tlie machine shop is forward. It is fitted with ev ery appliance for minor repairs. On this side of the dock Is the distilling ap paratus, which has a capacity of 2,50*) gallons of sea water a day. I* will be used principally for feeding the boilers. Three tanks contain tlie dis tilled water. An electric light plant on the port side gives light for the en tire structure. Everything possible for the comfort of officers and crew has been provided. Their quarters are on the starboard side. The officers will occupy large staterooms, that of the dockmaster be ing big enough for an office as well as a sleeping apartment. Next to the row of officers’ state rooms Is the messroom. Between this and that of the crew is the galley, which is fitted with a large range and with hot and cold water. It has. like tlie boiler and engine rooms, a ce ment floor. The pantry adjoins, and next to it ts the crew’s messroom. and farther on, between their messroom and the machine shop, is the bunk room of tho crew. Accommodations are provided for officers and thirty men. Bathrooms, with hot and cold water, are provided for officers and crew. On the port side, Just aft of tho boiler room, Is a shower bath for tin firemen. Running clear through the side walls of the dock is a thorough ventilating system, a large fan whirling fresh air into every corner. It is propelled by steam. Ventilators are thus dispensed with except over the boiler room, where there are two. At tlie forward end of tlie dock a bridge connects the walls. Two lifeboats are carried. The mem bers of the crew will get double pay and free passage home. > Qneatlon of Nanica. By what name shall the proposed united church be known? Tho Presby terian, the Methodist ami the Comgre- gationalist bodies will be In tlie church if the project should go through, ami none of these churches can afford) to be entirely forgotten, says the Torotito Mail. One Idea would he to call tlie church the MPthopresbyjOttlonal. Wut If it should lie considered deslnible\tG give the Presbyterians the first coni •radon why not call It tho Presbyjm ogntlonal? must avoid Mark Twain as a mental diet, says the New York American. It says: “Convalescents must not read Mark Twain’s books; they not only cheer, but inebriate. Twain’s books may pro voke side splitting laughter and so re tard the union of severed or lacerated parts in the healing process.” But two of New York’s foremost physicians, both nerve specialists, one of them Charles Weston Brandenburg, professor’ at tlie New York Medical College and American institute, and J. Carleton Simon, former president of the One Hundred Year club, agree that Mark Twain as a mental diet can hard ly be surpassed. “For years I have prescribed Mark Twain, Bret Hartp and Artemus Ward as regularly for my patients, most all of whom are sufferers from neurosis, as I Lave prescribed the accepted food diet,” declared Dr. Simon recently. “It Is rather startling to have Twain re garded as too vigorous. I fancied him a more subdued writer than Ward, whom I regard ns one of the most luxuriant humorists. I seldom differ entiate between good humorous books because I regard the vigorous stirring up of a melancholiac's humorous sensi bilities as a good thing for the patient’s progress. “As I have always prescribed Twain and Ward so I have always proscribed depressing books—Hamlet, for instance. In the same way all nerve specialists select or restrict the plays which their patients shall see. “The explanation of the effect of humor—clean, wholesome humor—upon physical health is simple. Laughter— the heartfer- Ahe better—increases the iVudd pressure, stimuho.te>s thf' projec tion of red corpuscles and thus in creases the patient’s strength. There’a au old adage, *Laugh and grow fat* "The Medical Journal may be right from an English point of view, as hu mor Is not an English characteristic. In America every Individual cracks fruits. Environment is found to tJac t large part in the quality of fruits. “Even the apple has a moral cuarao- ter that can be corrupted by associat ing with loose or common companions. It’s becoming a case with them, too, of ‘show me your companions and I’ll tell you what y »u are.’ ” Professor Hansen, who came to Kan sas City to lecture before the Horticul tural society, has been a great traveler. He went through Tashkent, in central Asia, to find a species of alfalfa that 1 would grow in the cold northern states, went to Japan to study rice growing, and to tlie far interior of China for the primitive peach. He spent ten months Giore, traveling 1,300 miles in wagons and 700 miles in sledges. Professor Hansen’s foreign travels were undertaken for the department of agriculture. TRAILING REYNARD IN AUTO Hovel Scheme of a Fox Hunting I^atli uaiaat. A Nashville (Tenn.) fox hunting en thusiast, Professor J. F. Draughon, puts his automobile to a novel use whenever he starts out on the trail of wily Reynard, says the Motor Age. He designed and had built a trailer for car rying the dogs, and tills he attaches to his motor car and bowls away to the best fox hunting grounds, some fifteen miles distant Nash- or twenty ville. The trailer holds twenty an upper deck. Tents this pa t, while undomei partment which is used ing utensils, in thf^^^^^Vlong hui * planned and cxe^^^^^B pro- frosor hit G/ion tv-o a trailer to his car to h<- friends to leave Nash^^^^HBn the afternoon and yet re^^^^Hvuntlng ground without worrji^^H^^ftf time from hia business and tu^^wls dogs loose fresh and ready for the sport When he arranges for a trip at some With Combined Capital, Surplus and Profits of ;$ 120.344,80 With Deposits of $316,078.25 and With Resources of $450,923.05 Tfie Nationaf Banft of (iaffneu AiNl I> Tfie Gaffney Savinos Banf: Respectful!/ Solicit Your Banking Business Assuring You That Their Faithful and Untiring Service is Yo Command. distance he sends his horses to the Jokes. Messrs. Ryan and Harrlman, if hunting place or some convenient ren- they should meet at a directors’ meet- dezvous In the afternoon, and when he , Ing, would immediately start to tell- ^ his friends arrive the horses are ] Ing funny stories to prove their sur- M ddled md' the face indifference and hide any subway animosity. In England it Is harder to launch Jokes.” “When I was a student In Cincin nati, perhaps thirty years ago,” said Dr. Brandenburg, “the new governor of Ohio, inaugurated recently, John M. Pattisou, was my roommate. He was studying law; I medicine. He was blue and 111 one night, and I read “Tom Sawyer* to him. He laughed himself well. “Each faculty of the mind has a rela tion to a particular part of the brain whieh it teuds to develop and energize. Without the higher stimulus of litera ture the sensual faculties in the pos terior brain would develop only a gross and degraded humanity. “The monotony of convalescence may be relieved not only by the stimulus of Mark Twain’s books, but by gentle, harmonious music and social sur roundings. “Laughter is one of the best, most natural forms of exercise l know of. The Idea that side splitting laughter may retard the healing of wounds Is, I am afraid, a trifle far fetched. trailer fresh and the fox Is soon going. After the chase by special signal the dogs come In, get Into the trailer, and the hunting pai-ty is soon on the return trip to the city. USE OF GOLDFINCHES. TOm Audabon Society Shows Bow They Help Farmers. A leaflet on the American goldfinch, accompanied by a colored plate, has re cently been issued by the National Aa> sociatlon of Audubon Societies as the flrst of a series of educational leaflets on our common birds, says the New York Post. This is a practical meas ure for the protection of the goldfinch l»y educating the public into sympathy by an Intimate account of Its manner ' at life and by showing how useful It Is | In exterminating weeds. The leaflet reads: < The goldfinch belongs to the thick billed, seed eating class of birds and la extremely fond of the seeds of thistles, a most noxious weed. The agriculturist should be Interested In this bird. Every j thistle along the highway Is a prolific really think that granulation might be gently stimulated instead. Of course, people have burst their hearts by laughing, but (lie instances were most exceptional.’’ LOCKET IN COLD STORAGE. Girl Lost It Skating—It Came Back la a i'iere of Ice. By a strang ■ freak of fortune Miss Mary Silliman of Danbury, Conn., re cently recovered a locket she lost while skating last winter, says a Danbury sp cial dispatch to the New York World. Miss Silliman. with a party of friends, rt'us skilling on Old Mill pond one even ing last February. When she arrived home a small gold locket she had worn on a chain around her neck vms rniss- iu source of future trouble, but when you see It ornamented with an animated bit of gold and black you may know that nature Is Interposing one of her potent checks to the too rapid Increase of weed pests. Every goldfinch saves the farmer much hard work by destroying weed seeds, which form the bulk of Its food supply, although during the breed ing season il gives its young considera ble animal food, consisting of insects of various kinds. Beer Bottle* to Tent Ocean Currents, A now use lias been discovered for empty beer bottles—that of testing the direction of ocean currents, says a spe cial London cablegram to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In fact, one won ders that the ocean liners and the larger ships have got long ago adopted ‘We Don’t Pay Rent Any More” Have you ever heard this beautiful, soul ihsjtfring little ballad? V^ell u ought to hear it. There are several homes in Gaffney now,where it lung daily. Twelve months ago they didn’t know the tune. TUNE. “We are Living on Easy Street Now,” PITCH. Your own strings will do to go by if you have a heart. Now please everybody sing “We don’t pay house rent any more, I And we are not afraid to go to the door, Morning, noon or night, Let the door bell ring, we continue to sing” • WHY? 'Cause we’re in the Building and Loan all right, all right. Thext chance to get in is now and any of the stockholders will takeeasure in explaining the method. See about it at once. Qnerolcee £3- & 1^. Cha:A. Jefferies, Prest. W. H. flooding, Secy, and Treas. similar tactics. Much might have been Several inches of snow fell that i accomplished in this direction during night, so the piece of Jewelry was given . up as lost. After the iceman had made Ida cus tomary visit to the Siliiuian bouse the other morning Miss Silliman went to the refrigerator. She chipped off a piece of ice which she was about to place in a pitcher when she saw a strange object in It. The ice was melt ed, and the object was found to be the locket. A Hew Year Creed. To keep myself from having hate For the ., that through their efforts rise; To have tlie strength to recognize The qualities that make them great; To sit not idly blaming fate When I. shortsighted or unwise, Have weakly failed to grasp the prise And wait alone outside the gate; To pierce the gloom w*th shafts of fflM, To try again wnen i have tried And. though n hundred times denied That which Is fair, to bravely be Undaunted and uncrushed;,to see Their worth who struggle at my sldst And at the end with decent pride To meet whatever faces me. —8. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. the past few years without more than nominal expense. Captain Alexander gimpson, who commands tlie Moravian of the Aberdeen line, which runs be tween Plymouth, South Africa and Australia, throws overboard every day a tightly corked beer bottle. Inclosing a scroll giving tl e latitude and longi tude jmd date. One of these bottles has been washed ashore at Praln Bran ca, on the coast of Portugal, near Tor res Vedras. The note inside asked the finder to "Please forward to Cap tain Simpson, 7 Billlter square, Lon don, E. C., stating when and where It was found.” I STOP JOST A MOMENT! Say, do* friend, will you stop just a moment and let me tell you aboutll the good things I sell that jpou may need. I am selling fit) and cheap Rugs to go on toe floor ; fine Counterpanes and Blanks for your bed; Lace Windtjw Curtains, double and single forour windows; Water Sets fo’ your private rooms ; Table Clois for tho dining table ; Scarfs for your bureajff and mantle ; Ijitures for the wall; Trunks or your clothiifg and Stoves toeep you warm ; Lamps to giveyou light, and Fresh Meat wheiyou want it. Groceries of ev?ry kind. ^ * Don’t 111 to come to see me and buy vith money or without money, ad hear the greatest Victor Taking Machine in the county, f’hone 183 for V. J. MANESS’S Bijc Store. A man who gives a chattel mortgage should always examine It carefully to make sure it is not “on demand.” Sharp money lenders who loan funds on chat tel mortgages often try to have this clause Inserted, and when It is the bor- hewer may expect to part with his chat tels st almost any moment It Is s trick by which advantage Is oftaB tak as of the unwary. JONES J. DARBY PROTECTS j' Business, Income, Salary ad Family DSTRICT AGENT I Acident and Liabilitf Dipt. Alto Lifi Ins. Cn., •I Hartford, Conn. afhey, S. C.