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THE FIELDS OF CLOVER, , Oli, for ono moro hap;>y day, ,*. i. To run ami romp and play, 'y * Out lathe Holds, where over and over I could roll ouco moro in I ho Irugr clover! For uovor was joy J.iko being n boy, Out in the Holds of clover. r Oh, for ono moro l?nro-foot run, After the long hot day Is done, Down In the Holds of fragrant clover, While by my side my old dog Rover Runs after the cows i Who stop to browse. Out In the Holds of clover! rOh. for one moro vigorous swim In the deep old pool wlioro the light dim. Wlioro down I plunge, over and over. AU<i vt nun 1 come up I smell of clover. As the wind blows fresh, On my naked llesh, Out from the Holds of clover! Oh, for ono more rest nt night With my heart as free and light As In the days now long passed over When I played in the I' -Ids of fragra clover; For never was joy Like being n boy, , Out In the fields of clover! ?Everywhere. ^p?09c;ofe<o^K^ete(e(eiefef3?o(Of036{@fototefGK 1 MR. TEMPLETON'S CHOICE, j & BY r.\ri.lXE MOXTACCB. l!oi?!Oi?K5'?eiOi?i0sesoee!e:c(ejojoioK>.'OjOJOteieKS us Templetoi leaned bacl \ fy A\ v o r y comfort ably in his crim chair, rested lib elbows on tho arms, brought his linger ^^^^^^^^^^^^her^nnl looked very benign rich inun?what some people would all n very rich man; ami tho beauty of it is, I made my fortuno myself. Wlrcu 1 started out for myself, a lad of ten?that's liftv years ago or more ? I had all my worldly goods in a red handkerchief, slung on a stick over my shoulders. To-day ?T say it without boasting?there's not a finer line | of steamships afloat than the 'Clyties,' and I own 'eui all every blessed baker's dozen of 'em." Fred Warrington listened respectfully?a handsome young fellow, with a wide-awake, frank look in his blue eyes, and general mauly bearing about ! ' him that recommended hitu wherever he went, very especially to ladies. "And yet, with all your wealth, your beautiful home, your kindly, affectionate nature, you have'used all your life in accumulating riches. You have never married?never had a reul true home," he observed. "That's tho rankest kind of nonsense, my hoy. I never married be- I .... T a ' - vuunu 1. n-vcr VCl saw tllO worum, 1 , . r ^ ^ V .IIIU^ lUi il young follow to settle down?I believe that, if I didn't practice it. I kopo you'll marry early, Fred." A little twinkling look was in Warrington's handsome face. "I agree with you tkero, sir, to a T. I think I shall marvv early." Mr. Teiuploton bestowed a satisfied j look on him. "All right, mv dear hoy! Marry early, and marry to please me, and i I'll remember yon handsomely. I'll j give you a country house to live in in ' summer time, and the town residence ! for winter. I'll give you ten thousand j a year income, and your wife shall j have the handsomest diamonds Street's can collect." Anyone in the world would have thought Fred Warrington was transported to the seventh heaven of rapture at the bewildering prospect held out to hiin; but he merely looked a little graver as he bowed courteously. ?'f know you are just as good and generous as it is possible for man to he. Uncle Phil, but " Fred hesitated in his speech, and a thoughtful frown gathered on his forehead. Mr. Tomplcton looked tho surprise he felt. " 'Hut!* Where can tho 'but' bo to such an offer as that? You've only to j marry to please me. By Jupiter, Frederick! it isn't possible you're already in love?" "Already ; and engaged to the sweetest and dearest little dar " M ! . T? mpleton remorselessly cut short the 1 iver-like enthusiasm. "(>. of course?of course! iJut who is she? What is her name?" "She in Miss Itnssic Fleming, and she is a music teacher, and her eyes are " Mr. Tompleton tooked sternly across ' the library table. "I don't care whether they are black ' or green, you can't marry her. I've 1 picked oat a wiI'e for you. and tin* | 1 lnicker you get clear of your mil ie teacher tho better." 1 ?. i i .1 1 ^ ,ni niioii'ii- -t I1IMI 1110 lor. i. tit \V 11 1 - ] ovc I defiance T licit' I'liil was no- 1 tp'.aiiited with came into hi - eyes,malt- 1 i:i?r thorn deep nnd)dnrklv l?luo. ' J hog your pardon, sir," ho saitl ' ' quietly, "hut a follow prefers t<? pick 1 out his own wife, I have chosen Miss x Fleming." I ' "The douce you have! Well, then, I let's hoar what you have to say when I ' toll you the latiy I have in my eye for , ' inV future niece is the most beautiful, j cultured, refined girl who ever flasht d ' into West r.ml Hoeioty. She's rich, i* too, ant I just the very daisy for you. A ' music ftueii':* itnlccd, when lit at rice ' Lovett is to he ha I for the asking!" "Which ih csu't raise her in my t * tin atii.n," Fred avowed serouely. "What: ,M r.'I'euipletou sc.it) j tern- | ]y. "Fred, you're a a fool!" And then Fred laughed, which heel ! 1 is most cxasperatif' ? fe et upon t ho > !?1 s gentleman. I i -av \n.i i.fiM inavvy lie.-. :u i I : v. : .it you to i i;t on you:- hat ;.;ol p v. it '.i i? V H* V V .i b ? ?M?* ?*?mvV4 kV **V? . ^ jl Slug's staying; at Mrs. "axony's. Cj along, sir." Frcil roso promptly. "Certainly; I'll go ami bo proson1 aul to lior, ami I dnro-say there will be reason why I shall not admire Iter i mensoly. Hut ns for falliug iu it with Miss Lovett???" lie laughed and shrugged his bvc shoulders, thou put on his hat, a went out with Mr. Temple ton to mi the oliaruiing young lady intended uis destiny. It was a beautiful little villa, not 1 from Mr. Templeton's stately mansic jri a little back from tho Parade, ami i made n very prettj picture, with i white laee draperies floating iu t still sea breeze, and the spray frc the fountains blowing in a ruinlx shower, and th.e guy striped awnin fluttering their scalloped borders the July sunshine. Tho liveried footman bowed lii? be at and regretted to be obliged to infor tho gentlemen that Mrs. Saxony wi not in. A swift look of dismay c Mr. Tcmpletou's face perhaps touche that functionary's tender heart, for li hastened to assure them that "Mis Lovett was in the drawing-roomie would they walk in?" But that Mr. Templeton decline doiiig, as he was not personally ac >j> quainted with Miss T.?w?ff ' ?w . v w, <%v i uub ijr not sufficiently acquainted with her ti ^ present himself. He hnd known he when she was a girl of ten, and lia< . always been her father's most clier n islied friend, and had been in corrcs i pondenee with Mr. Lovctt when tlia . gentleman died so suddenly in Indin . but all the same, with an old bache , lor's characteristic shrinking fron . pretty young girls, he declined the in T vitation until Mrs. Saxony should be , present. "It's too bad?too bad!" he said, as they went through the beautiful little were not be recognized afterward as fate, Mr. Tenipleton paused midway down the path, and turned to look back nt Mr?. Saxony's house. "13v .Tove! There she is at. the window?Miss Lovctt! Isn't she a ! beauty.' Isn't she sweet enough to j turn any fellow topsy-turvy? Look, 1 Fred there's the wife I've picked out ' j for'you! Can your music-teacher ' beat that?"' And Mr. Tompleton seized his unoffending nephew bv the sleeve, and gesticulated emphatically toward the open window where a girl sat, beautiful indeed?marvelously beautiful! fair and dainty?with dark, lustrous hair, braided 011 a proud little head, and straight, heavy dark brows, that made the purity of her complexion still more dazzling. A rosebud of a mouth, a round, handsomely chiseled chin, a white dress, with creiumy lace and a pink rose at her throat,\ made a picture fair enough to indeed h*-turned any man's son" .oJl'SJ '".Vhe tlitl not rniso her eyes from her book, and she was uneouscious of their espionage, or of Fred Warrington's transfixed gaze. ".So you're struck, eh? So you'll give the old man credit for having good taste, wilt you? You wouldn't mind having her for your wife, after all. L suppose!" Fred drew a long breath, thou quickly linked his arm in Mr. Templeton's, and drew that gentleman away. ".She is the sweetest, most heauii- ! ful girl I ever saw. I'll marry her tomorrow if she'll have me," he said. And how the old gentleman laughed. "Music teacher notwithstanding, eh?" he said. And thou Fred laughed, and Mr. Templeton generously decided not to he too sarcastic on the poor hoy. Almost at the same moment a tall, lovely girl, several years older than the fairy in white l?y the window in | Mrs. Saxony's drawing-room, entered and went up to her. "Absorbed in your hook still, Eossie? It is time for my lesson, isn't it?" And Uossie Fleming laid down her hook, and for an hour she and Miss lieatvix Lovett devoted themselves to ' the music lesson, to he interrupted by ! a gentleman who had bribed the footman to permit him to outer the music room unannounced, and to whom | Hossic tlew, with n little shriek of tie- I 1 light. ^ I? "Fred- O Fred! How did you know I \v:ts in Brighton? I only came j yesterday to assist Miss Lovett with 1 her inusic. This is Miss Lovett, j Fred -Mr. Warrington, Miss Lovett." : And Before he had finished his very , ^ delightful eall Mr. Warrington re- . . lated to tiie ladies the mistake his ; iinele had made. "And I am Mire Miss Lovett will ' not hlnme me it' I insist thai I shall ! , inarry you, little llossi.>, ? id the I i.ioiirr the halt Before I' i de 1'hil liseovers his mistake.'' And the ne\t weri; there was a quiet 1 .re Idiug at the loeal registrar's olllee. I . iviiile Mr. Teinpletoii was taking hi< | . oioo/e in his chair, with his hnndker liief over his faee, dreaming of the j lavs when Beautiful Miss Lo'ett , vould reign royally in his 11 phew's mine. At S o'eloek the same night ho was deetrilhd By the receipt of u note j j; rom Fred. j s "I have Been and gone and done it. \ | "nele I'hil." it said. "I promised js i,u I would inarrv ti e lair v?.n > - tvtoil for mi1, ami I h 1 nil! present her o you in an hour. There's nothing iko striking when tho iron's hot, is j luTO'?" | Ami punctually t > time i'r? 1 u x-arcd. Iiis liriilo on his arm lovely ti t i> morniii", Mushing iikt a , s o r itltic t'jf . Iiinin ; like tars, her li wect red laoitth (piiverihg as t he I >.ik< <1 wistfully up into Mr. Temple oil's fare when IT. 1 presented lie,'. p "We'\e ijuite dolen u ii;ar *ii .j u i! 1." it" ' ' ?.! vy illV-lII ? 11II6S1 arc pliilnr.?"Mrs. Frovl Warrington, asul sure." "I'm astonished and dumbfound tod and {delighted, my dear. ?IIowe no j did you do it, Fred?" irn- But before Fred could mako tlio jve piauation be deemed incumbent a 1 vant anuounoed a lady, who en >ad caiuo sweeping ic iu garments of d nd purple velvet?u girl with starry e act and hair as golden ns sunshine, for "Miss Beatrice Lovett!" .paid servant. fr>r And then?well, the^sceno is ind m eribable, but with two V.J H UU ta bosccching him to forgive, and it8 pansy-purple eyes making him f h0 the queerest around his heart ho o1 >m had felt, somehow?he "uever ku >w how?Theophilus Templeton simmei jyS quietly down, and accepted the siti ju tion with the best grace at his eo nnuid uutil six months afterwai Rt, when he triumphantly announced m his nephew that tho luckiest day ls his life had been when he misto liossie for Miss Lovett. 1(] "For since you wouldn't hnvo h 1C for your wife you shall have her f ,8 your aunt, and help yourself if y< _ can!" Hut as no one was at all anxious help it, Mr. Templeton married h beautiful young wife, and it is a que t tion who of tho quartet is tho happ 0 est.?Sparo Moments, r j Tho Wllil Hlrtls of Kuropc. Tf it were not for tho climate's s.nli . birds of passage would do well nev< t to cross the Alps. In Germany, i . Switzerland, in northern Europ ' generally, tlicy are inoro or less pre j tected by the laws, but as soon n . they have reached tho Latin ? liioir slaughter begins. Ticino await their coming with net, snare ami guu ami the war of devastation spread from Italian Switzerland to Italy X'rom south Italy it begins again is of KtV^ou? feathered favorites the lark, tlio nightingale, the swallow and the thrush sutler most. The Berlin Society for the Protection of Wild Birds 1ms fought for many years against tlio evil, and while other < onntries liavo been legislating for the birds a* home, this body has sought to attack the mischief i:i Italy, its very heart and center. Some years ago a petition was addressed to Oueeii Mnrgherita asking for her pity and protection in behalf of the bird emigrants, and to the queen of Italy such a prayer would not bo addressed in vain. But the Italian peasant cannot bo reached by tlieso means. The same society in Berlin proposes now to try religious pressure} and has petitioned the pope to thri same ctlect. His holiness is implored to move the clergy throughout Italy to speak in the cause of the birds, and to urge them "bv doctrino and by r$... mis wuuioii siafiyuVci. The poor Italian is himself an exile in all lands. He should feel somo touch of pity for his fellow wanderer, tlio guest of many nations.?Pall Mall Gazette. To Market l>y Trolley. An English trolley line plying bctweon Bcssbrook and Newry through a rich farming district makes a substantial addition to its receipts by llillllim* fnrm iromm <ln 15. taehed to the motor ear in placo of tlio trailer which is sometimes seen. In order to keep the wagons on tlio track a second pair of rails is laid inside the working tracks and slightly higher. Tlio towns at either end of the line are both market towns, and the lino runs directly to the business centres, where the wagons are drawn aside and run into their places hy a liaif-dozcn sturdy men, who uro paid a few pence each hy the countryman for this service. It is, theref ore, possible for a farmer to bring his produce to market and dispose of it without the aid of his horses. It is not an uncommon sight, and always a rather amusing one, to see a lumbering farm wagon, loaded with hay or produce, dying along behind the motor car on its way to market. The farmers take kindly to the scheme, as it is a saving M money as well as horse llesh.?Kauaas City Architect and Builder. A Melancholy Fljurp in History* Behind all this drama stand the melancholy, tragic; figures of the house >f liupshurg. It is said that tlio llapshurgs regard the United States ivith superstitious feelings. The . evolution that sent the daughter of Maria Theresa to her death in Franco was in -piled in part l>y the earlier upusing in America. The Monroe doetine wu a blow tit the holy alliance, n which Austria led. Maximillian died in Mexico because >f American intervention, and now the >iiccn Cogent of Spain, a daughter ol he llapshurgs, Inula the possessions >i nor son threatened l?y this same remit! ie. The Onec.i llegcnt is a mthetie figure. Not Spanish in raoo >r breeding, slu; limls thrown n})o:i n i" elf the enormous harden >f saving or lior son hi", crown in days wh.cn Jpain is distracted hv the gravest roubles. -Springfield ^ ) Kopuhican. Snrrilllc Mi'tluiila lliiilr Aixit'.'il. Mr. Hrndlnugh, tin' uHl-known in* idol, was once engaged in a discusion with u dissenting minister. 1 irudlnugh insisted that tlie minister hould answer a question by a simph 'Yes-'or "No." without any eircummotion, asserting that every qiiestioi ould he lvitlicd to i;i that innnuer. 'lie tweiv.id gentleman rose. a'.:d in ?1 n11 * manner said: "Mr. f hadlnugh, ii! you allow me to k yon *i (,.i i<..i otl those terms.' ' . tri .iv.' aid Urndhmgh. ' Then, i.e.y 1 n !;, 1 ive.vou given up 1 eating \ our v. i.. i 1 'Jim v.:. :t |!? ( r, i'<>r ii iinswcn i i.% j 'Vex.'' i; wo.iM inn.lv tim' lie li;'< ( vii.'nIv in . 'i licr, snnl 1 v ' f l:o v.'i.'.!i..u i Ij (1 j s.. ? A... . { ? u mon? S. C., Fi - 1 TERRORS i cx- ?p > serklU0 |%S V Torpedo Boats ac ye3 /O^UUkio V)' 3\J /o^O di^joVijirJJouyosl 4UA IUO * Of tho torpedo boat the publi [es- o fairly accurate notion? nnd k ion that her chief purpose is to planl the or more fatal stings against the oel of an .enemy, but the torpedo bon ver stroyer rangos, in imagination, nl ow way from u oouuter-mining mat ed to something just short of a good-i ia- cruiser. The torpedo boat, deaf i m- is really a magnificent torpedo bo rd, great speod, better sea-keeling q to ties and with a battery of rapid-ti of guns of fioiu live to eight aix-ponm ok She is built purposely with an ward appearance closely akin to ier natural quarry, that she may the be or approach unsuspected within stril au distance. She also carries a torj: outfit, aud in her tho battleship to the cruisoiv have even a more dan; ia ous enemy than in tho simple torp s- boat, for where the . small craft, ii- stress of weather, limited speed restricted endurance must halt, destroyer may continue with all more certainty of carrying out :o murderous mission. ?r Of the eleveu boats 011 which u may count iu a short while, two 0 them may bo classed as destrovr >- me i^arragut. nnd the Rowan; two 3 them as thirty-knot torpedo boats, I 3 Craven and *' s rest as boats of ovUniar , speed. - v; * s the Fai^rnt| Rowan, Davis an Yt?K I11 011 the Pacific 00.... 1 T hy the Union Iron Works, < ul wey j^ncisob; the second by Mora k brothers, of Heattle, and the Inst tw by Wolff wicker, of Portland, On Ron. The Dahlgren and Craven ar building at the Rath Iron Work; Rath, Me.; the Morris, Talbot an Gwin at Horreshoff's, Bristol; th Mackenzie at Charles liillman's van Philadelphia, and tlio McKee at th Columbian Iron Works, of Baltimore nnd it is of interest to note that thes last two boats are of the type reeow mended by the chief constructor an engineev-in-chiof as the most readil susceptible of rapid duplication i event of need. DISCHARGING A TO1IPEDO FROM THE BO\ of the r.torpedo boat stiletto. Til a prolonged conflict, that typ< will survive that can be easiest re placed or repuired, and from all wt know now of the complicated nutun and time demanded in building nr mored ships, it is easy to see the po sition torpedo vessels id all sorts wil till. They may be called the mo meat's most effective lighting machine but can hardly be confused with tin greater defensive qualities of the battleship. The whitehead torpedo is no louget | the secret mechanism it was some years ago, owing principally to it? general adoption by nearly all naval powers, and its inside workings are commonly understood by all well versed military and naval men. A knowledge hot* to work it, though, is another inatteT, and, briefly, it may be said that every torpedo of the Whitehead type has its own individuality, its own idosyncrasics; and it is the duty of every qualified torpedo officer .to learn tho characteristics of those "steel babies" that some day may win him glory. The largest of our torpedoes, the cighteen-iiicli, so known because that at its greatest diameter, is a blunt-headed, cigar-shaped body of steel a trifle over sixteen feet long, propelled by '-I ' $ >" 1 % ...J" A TORPKHO-C ^: .;< siiicim is a ,h.si> miter steel wall ami |> dniijowous and miiDOMa miniature engines, capable of developing within the limited space of an iveragccized cheese-box, a driving miergv of thirty horse-power, Willi Ihat force turning its twin screws, the miniature craft can be turned for a mile and a half at the rate of thirtylive miles an hour, ('oinprc ,-ed air s the tin.five power; and it is crowded 1111> the ten-foot boiler of this small cat till' n pre-sure of ninety times I it of the air we breathe is reached. I'lte ? :idn'ion of that boiler is a danpious pu biliiy t'j be guarded icfay, M|20, 189S V5?>>\5j a'caoWoV)i/ooa e?v> J ooooV OF THEIEAN. M L ||| id Torpedo BoatfiycrG. !f| J 6 6"&0.40 iw: j uV3 jov) J Cf^i?vU <iv) ! o^? o o\3 c has against. Be^boiler compartno ws meat and the* compartment, t one tlieye are foV*r subdivisions. I sides Ouo for the cj? * that murder-1 it de- ons load of 22W of gnu cotton j 11 the at the head, aifcUtbera for regu-1 1110 air the engines I sized and for lnaintr^ho torpedo at | oyer any determine <V of submergat of onee. .^t uali- When nttackfedols at anchor iring and likely to 1 dbted with torlers. pedo nets, the i vtfhe torpedo is out- fitted with a cute no ordinary her fabrication of s^ie and chain itter could withstandjepping force of king that instrument wvby the rush- | ?edo ing force of nearlt founds. The and torpedo is ejector^ the tube by ger- tho discharge of >ur ounces of edo powder. In pir >ut, a little by trigger or clip power for OV ' - , 1..U ougines, and, ~^ttlie time the \ the torpedo has dived ^igiues, with- ' the ' Us ;[ wgr^gi * A TEUFECn T1IE T o ; out jar, are running u" speed. ; I. i When clear of the boat!" Wards, a e ! safety device drops frol^? nose and 1 ; i leaves the plunder boi*' Jetouato e ! the fighting charge wit-*6 JBtriking t- I a ship from ten or fourP ? et below d the water line, it willy* .4 wound y with such awful force heavi u est of armor must yield.yy *' In the hands of eithemR'Snornnt _ or heedless, the moderil 8P*h? is a i menace to friend or foFtft in the hands of the skilled and WeTe, it is ! the wickedest implomenlp^'varfare i ?wicked in threat jind wiVl^ i deed. I It is to bear the modesAcc\n of a ! 2 half dozen such "babielor ^ the ~ largest of our torpedo botlT?*jbiiilt. The torpedo boat or the lafl 'yer is > i,jil n pt!?s I sea-green hulls, the absenfcOffright work, the presence of thosaric'does, ' : and a knowledge of their s?oVt* misj sion of stealth and destructi\>" tamp j with them tho impress off Milling! v akin to otlicial piracy. Thej m> i odds ottered tho enemy. I*. ot()t aj - ; struggle between equal powUfiere | ? skill and facility of handlingWwin with open honors. Instead, if \ \taso ? of a giant and a jiigmy ari \ 'ike 5 with one common implement^ \ blc - of ruining either. The weaken \ qrh - many times more agile, cann \ ,ke 1 the chances of equality: but, \ \(d, - must creep upon the adversl \tnl , compel his surrender only w? i\jo 5 sense of his dying condition ih? W > in upon him with the force of tp? I conclusive blow. What are tho t|e" <? I of succor offered in return? - i > pedo boat has done her frightful^'**, i i and now is too small to bear (he?; j I tho hundreds she has doomed jot?. ! : | has not only subdued, but slf ?. 1 : poisoned her victory with the of desertion. In turn, she fae^hftl i I promis'o of ahsolute destmotionis\0* ! of prompt detection; but tlis jiW ' fulls U'itll n ronaAii.1.1- -? ....... WW mm. mm * XJ |? C*\J II <1 1 / 1 UH|M* C)l III111] ! for the wounded ami the living r, the larger craft. j Death lies precious close at times on hoard a torpedo bout in t times. The crew must face death'<.et i the destruction of the boat; death I foundering; death by the bursting' 1 the throbbing boilers or pulsing ste^' pipes; death by collision; or death ^ the premature bursting of their o\> petards. She must face the storm p r 1 \ ' I / \ Bpflsiil - -.. ^ ? - ?? " ' V.v? ATCIIINC. NET. rotects th" l-ntted States tvarslilps fr.nn the s ."-j|>:111i-!I turpc lo boats.) ; lip'nt projectiles every modern battleship can send from Iter batteries, our pounders, six-pounders and patlinp puns, nil of which may brinp dcntli. >1111(1. witll llio "Vm.1>li>.? '-t ?' ' - ?? ? |m i*'ii in i iii- f;ui lilies* bullets, all of which limy pierce tin* sides and boilers of any of these boats. When running ?t top speed, the boub quiver from stein to stern with a wearing; vibration hard to bear in coin puny with the nervous tension of -erions woi!;, Down in the stokehold the biv hicn, before t!io blinding L ' glare of the white-hot furnaces, feed the ceaseless voracity of tbose blistered mouths with endloss shoveling** of coal, that tlio pressure may be kept up to supply the greod of those driving engines lying just behind in the next compartment. The uir is full of dust ana grime, ana one s lieaa swims because of the heat. In the engine room the roar is thundering, and the parts move back and forth, up and down with the velooity of 800 changes a minute. A stray shot in there, well placed, may burst a cylinder teeming with the pressure of more than 200 pounds of scalding steam or liberate the hammering weight of u driving piston and send it tearing through every neighboring part with the stuuning violence of many tons of rending, ripping force. Such are the odds that must bo faced for the safe carriage of those other forces she has at her command; and to the youngest ofliccr in the service may full the honor of that accomplishment before which even a battleship might hesitate. Tl? work cut out for the torpedo boat is quito akin to that of leading a forlorn hope; but when the time comes good men and cool in plenty will be found ready to forget themselves and laugh at death in even tins ureaa service lor our nag s uefeuse. . v Torpedo warfare began during tlio OUPEDO BOAT DESTHOYIilt. American civil war, but so crude wore the early torpedoes gnd so little opportunity has there since been to study the action of modern torpedoes in actual war that naval otlieers ull over Europe have looked forward eagerly to a war between the United States and Spain as an object lesson. That the torpedo years ago passed the experimental stage and stands to-day as the most wonderful and terrible of mod orii engines oi wur is not to he doubted, but it has had no real test of its power. Not one torpedo has been tired in warHO'U'ITAti SHIP SOr.AOE KKAHY FOR WAlt. [.-the has been painted white with a green s r in* along t lit) water line. Three largo rod or oases are on each side ot till) voiscl. | fare by any of the lending naval powers iu more than twenty years, and so great has been tho advance in torpedo construction within this time that the early tests are of little value to the present student of naval affairs. Since the torpedo became a machine <>i [ncciniuii it hum nueii used in warfare only by insurrectionists and weak Nations. Tho war between China and Japan three years ago gave some idea of thevahieof the torpedo, but neither its full value nor its place could be determined in that short and unequal contest between two half-civilized Nations. Thirty-seven torpedo attaeks have heen made thus far, sinking a dozen ships and damaging 0110 other. Six assailant boats have been lost. X-K:i.v* in War Hospital*. A Milwunkeo man, one Lyndo ilradley, appears t<? be tlio first man I < use the X-ray in the war hospitals In ease of hosti ities with Spain. Tho treat easo with which a hullet or spliuW could be found in the human Vodv with this strange light commends use a* once. It would seem that l" Government ofllcials would aptovc of its a loption. According to r. Dradley, it would be a very sim! matter to provide for the ray on a Ir vessel, but the introduction of r. icliine 0:1 the field would be attend- ( I (lwith eo.isidernble difficulty. For , iIu11;-o, a small engine, b.>ih;r and \ j <^111110 and the maehiue itself would ; h(e to be put on wheels for field i sfy.-r. This outlit, however, would , hoitiueh lighter and more easily ! triVllorlbfl i 11 ? 11 vvnlll'l ii.vioin...! j anemone .Mr. llradley has designed em, 1>(. Imilt in u week. Mr. (trail- \ ! !v-nis long hoen an enthusiast. in tin' le of the X-ray and has done I son rxccllnnt work with it. In case of \ h" proposes to Iniild a niaehino andBer his services to tlio Governm ?:* < f - - , litem) in/; Oilnrs. Road experiments have demon- > shalilthat odors rati he mixed ae- < c'irditlto 'he law 1 ?y which colors are hlendl One odor completely masks anotInl because of its intensity, tint l?v t .A .no this intensity the other | odor cl In- I'elt. A ny two odors can ( ini'J o as to produce ',i:o c!o ct of t a simplo i >r, v I m ' I I [IIWSM DECISION. Chairman Jones, Head of Prohibition Movement, Gives His Views. FIGHT WILL NOT BF AFFECTED. I Says the Dlspensury Lnw Is Not a Pro-i hibltloa Measure and Prohibition Is >Vhat They Are After. The following from the chnirmun of the State Prohibition executive committeo deals with a most important question aud explains tho attitude of the Prohibitionists of the State in the light of the recent decision of the State (J.. . n i. oui>iuiut) violin; Xewbkrky, 8. C., May 1'2, 1898 In reply to u number of inquiries from all. sections of the State, as to the effect of the decision of the supremo court upon the campaign of the Prohibitionists nguinst the salo of liiiuors as a beverage, I would say, that, 1 anticipated the decision in the statement { I made several weeks ago when I said "that) it was the old light of 189*2 over agnin, ex-i cept that at that time it was ngalnst the sa^y loon, under the old barroom system, now itr Is against the dl-pensary, with Its beer prlvl-) leges, hotel privileges, tho origlnnl package stores and blind tlgors, which have sprung! up with the diepeusary system." The only' effect of the decision is to close tho original? packago stores and remove them from the?! Held ns competitors of the dispensary, but it?, gives individuals the right to order as much. as they please for personal use from outsider the State, without tho interference of the law ; uuder which the dispensary Is operated. J5 Th<v*?vt tttill remains, that in 189*2 the poopie of the State without regard to faction,^ presented an appeat to the Democratic party* to bo permitted to vote upon the question of$ prohibition with tho view of making it a State law. Permission was given, aud thef party pledged itself, If 11 majority of the voters voting at that election, voted for prohibition, that tho party would pass* the prohibition law. They failed tos redeem that pledge, and the same Deo-V pie came again to the Democratic? party, asking them to give them a legists- , ture tint will carry out the wishes, and an ' administration to enforce It. The morn! 1 principle is still tho same. The dispensary is a whiskey measure, not a prohibition men-f. sure. The prohibitionists protest against be- * ing made in the eyes of the law partners in the sale of whiskey us a beverage, and if thai Ktute insists upon it as a revenue measure. that tli?? Statu of South Carolina cauuot pay its running expenses without thu revenue from thesuluof liquor. Let this question bo fairly understood t?y thu puoplo and not pretend that it is n pro- ? liiiiition measure, wliuu tlm statu is into it for the profits in it ami thu hensflt of thu < politicians who control it. 1 submit, as u prohibition measure, it Is a failure. uu<l tlint as n busiiicss investment for thu Statu is also a failure, aud it is destined to wreck thu politicians who are trying 'o keep and get r olTlce by the influence of the machinery con- ? nected with it and that 110 man can touch It without his character being injured by it. The question at last resolves itself down to this: is it right for me to engage in or en- t courage the manufacture or sale of liquor as I a beverage in any form, and no man who J* has the good of his party or State at heart can do it. A. C Jokes. -? ?- ? ? Kullroud Assessments. The hoard of assessors for railroads held a session iu tlio oflico of Contptrollor-Geiieral Derhnm, :it Columbia, Inst week. The assessments remain practically as Inst yeur, but the follow ing changes were made: Asheville aud Sparrt ait burg, raised from $0,000 to $7,000 per mile; Chester aud Lancaster, raised from 31,700 to $2,000 per mile; (Jeorgia, faroliuu and Northern,raised from >10,000 to $ I'J, 000 per mile; I'ort Royal and Western Carolina divisiou of the Charleston and Western Caro- linn, raised front SO,000 to $7,000; Spartanburg, Uuion and Columbia, raised from $7,00 to $s,ouo tier mile; Wilson and Smnmertoii, changed from $.'{,000 pur mile on thirty utiles and $1,200 per mile on sixteen and ouo fourth utiles to $3,000 per mile for the entire )llilt*norrk 1 iltin /?! 1-_A ? w. xiitdi i till i i lui" i oki () ii, raised from $.1,000 to $10,00(1 per mile. ? -? ? TIib Lake ('lly Ou'rngB Rill. A Washington dispatch of recon* date says : Congressman Norton was before the poatoffico committee on tho bill to pav the wife of Baker, the negro postmaster at Lake City, one thousand dollars. He explained that it was not the idea of h inself or his colloagues to opposo this appropriation, but to urge as a part of same bill a similar appropriation bo niiulo for tho wifo of the former postmaster at ('lark Hill, who was killed a fow days before the Buker murdor at Lake City. The postmastor at Clark Hill was u white man und u Democrat. . * ? ? Smallpox Danger Considered Over. Tho board of health officers of Columbia feel now thai the smallpox epidemic is practically under control. There was not a singlo new enso reported ou the 1 *21 h. and only olio was reported the day before. The result of wholesale vaccination is now beginning to bo apparent. Dr. Habeock estimates that thro are fully 'M.ooo people in the city who have been successfully vaccinated. ? ?Tlie Wintlirop t-lrls The young ladies of tho Winthiop Collego, Bock Hill, 5100 strong, held their annual outing last Friday at Davidson Colloge, X. ('., where tliov were royally entortained bv the college. Dn their way back from Davidson they slopped over in Cliarlotto and "took in the tow*i," to tho delight < 1 not a few young men of the "Queen City" of North ('urolimi. ? Appointed to West I'oint. Congressman Stokes has appointed Mr. W. II. Hawes. of N'? w l<t ../-u-I....U Loxinirton county, to the cadetship at West l\>int from tho Seventh district. Mr. ). A. Nuek, of Oraii^obhrjj, wan named us ultcrunte. flon/.iilcs tiets an Appointment. The State of tho 18th envs Mr. N. <i. ion/ales, of Coltunhiu, has been upminted on tho start' of (ie.i. Kmilis Suae/.. It is an appointmout *'under n rentleinuu nud anions prcntlonien," as ' f ieu. Castillo snui in pi ollei in^ it. Steamship Sold. Tlio coudomed Austrian stcainnhip \iiuoii, which grounded recently ut "apo Lookout, was sold at VVihninson, X. C., to Walter :Sinal!bu::es for f2e,3.r?0. I