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CIS NAVY NEEDED
TO PROTECT CANAL
Does Giisft Sirengfli8n or Weak
en Military Power?
LIVE TOPIC FOR A DEBATE.
Advocates of Two Battleship Plan
Point to Necessity For Strong De
fenses at Both Atlantic and Pacific
Ends—S^one Points to Folly of
Twisting the British Lion's Tail.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, May t4.—[Special.]—De
bating societies iu small towns have
used nearly every question possible
under the suu ns a subject of discus
sion and dispute. They should have
something new. and they might take
tip this question: "Does the construc
tion of the F'anama canal strengthen
or weaken the military power of thu
United States?" This subject has been
debated at considerable length, and no
one has been able to determine it;
heui'e It will make a good subject of
debate in the various societies that are
educating young men and women to
disi-uss various questions.
The Panamu canal would not now be
so near completion if it had not been
for the trip of the Oregon around South
America to Join the Atlantic licet dur
ing the Spanish war.-v'fhe sending ot
the Oregon was a foolish tlsinu because
it was unnecessary, as the l.'nited
States had three times the force ou
the Atlantic side that was nceessarj
to cope with anything that Spain could
scud against us.
Does It Double or Diminish?
Following the Spanish war. the canal
advocates began a systematic and
strong effort for the building of the
canal. Nearly all of them said that it
would double the effectiveness of the
navy. It was claimed that the navy
could be used either in the Atlantic or
the Pacific. as it was needed.
Since the canal has been almost com
pleted. there has been the strongest
kind of demand for Increasing the
navy In order to protect the canal. Ad
voeates of more battleships have in
sisted that in order to protect the canal
in time of war with any great power It
will be necessary to have a strong fleet
-at each end of the canal. Xo wonder
that certain members of congress are
bewildered when they read the rea
sons for the canal and then the rea
sous for a mnch larger navy in order
to defend the canal.
Stone and Tail Twisting.
After it severe illness Senator Stone
of Missouri spent a lor.g time in Vir
ginia recuperating. In his speech on
the Panama canal tolls he referred to
certain phases of discussion of the snb
jeot as viewed from his retreat "Look
ing from that distance." he said, "I
was amused as I watched the antics
of those who resorted to the antiquated
and now almost harmless trick of
twisting the knotted tall of the British
lion.
"It was apparent that all these spec
tacular and ferocious tricks on the old
lion's rear defeuses and all the fusil
lades of eloquence fired at him by In
flammatory congressional orators *nd
all the extravagant expenditure of
space devoted to him by old tomcat
newspaper romances had but one chief
Inspiration and purpose, which was to
stir afresh the ancient and Justly In
herited hostility of the Irish people."
A Judgmatical Man.
During the (liscusslou of a bill in the
house Congressman Mann had some
thing to say about the committee oc
interstate and foreign commerce, of
which Adamson of Georgia Is chair
man. and which brought out the fol
lowing from the Georgia member: "5
would not for the world differ with my
distinguished friend on matters of
judgment, for he is an exceedingly
judgmatical man." Jim Mann has
been called almost everything in the
house, but Adamson's statement fit*
him very neatly.
Fitzgerald's Demand.
The chairman of "the great commit
tee on appropriations," as it is fre
| quently called in the debates In the
I house, was sitting In the house res
taurant surrounded by a number ol
friends and was concluding his lunch
eon. Presently the voice of Mr. FItz
gorald was heard, as it Tie was turning
down a request for an increased ap
propriation In the house, as be said tc
a waiter:
•'Bring me a piece of pie. Bring It oe
a clean plate. Bring a clean piece ol
pie and bring a clean piece of cheese."
"What have you been up against
Fitz?" asked one of his friends.
Mileage Again.
One day last week Congressman Cos
of Indiana and Congressman Humph
rey of Washington had a little tilt ovei
mileage. Cox was miffed because
Humphrey had criticised his course
and charged Humphrey with being n
mileage grabber because he came from
a distant state Humphrey came back
j and said - that he had never "stood
j upon the floor of the house and made
a speech condemning mileage and then
I fie<-n the first man at the window to
| j:rab what was coming to him."
j Humphrey insisted that th_ man who
fought mileage ought not to take mile
i age. but there has never been a man
, yet that has turned down the mileagj
I appropriation.
A DIAMOND
RING •
By M. QUAD
Copyright. 19H, by Associated Lit
erary Press.
If any one had told my friends that
I was possessed of the slightest spark
of romance at the age of forty-five the
Information would have been received
as a base canard. A bachelor of that
age. who has drifted about with all
sorts of people and bumped up against
all sorts of adventures. Is pretty sure
to have had all romance knocked out
of blin.
On a certain Tuesday I took a train
at Elmer Junction for London, and as
there were but few passengers 1 had
a compartment to myself. 1 had been
busy with a newspaper for half an
hour when I noticed a small package
i lying under the opposite seat I found
' It a plain pasteboard box and was pre
pared to find a specimen of free chew
i ing gum or a new brand of troches In
side. It was something different, how
j ever. It was a lady's diamond ring,
made up of Ave stones of the purest
water, and on the inside were the In
itials "B IV The ring was a double
j hoop of gold and had probably been
made to order. It was lying closely In
the bos, and the box had once contaln
• ed steel pens. I argued that It must
have been some careless person wtio
carried a valuable ring in that fashion.
1 am only a fairly honest man. My
first idea was to keep the ring to my
own profit, but I remembered that I
was knowu to the railway porter and
that the property might be traced to
me.
If not strictly honest I am prudent,
and I therefore gave up the Idea of
converting the ring. I would bold It
for a reward, however. Half an hour
later I felt a curious sensation stealing
over me. I began to feel sentimental.
I began to connect that dear little ring
with a dear little blond haired, blue
eyed girl. 1 got up and kicked myself
three times and called myself a fool,
but the feeling did not go away. To
I my astonishment and Indignation I
i found It growing stronger, and before
j I knew It the grip of romance had got
me by the neck.
j I was a man of leisure, though I had
| no great amount of money to my cred
it 1 would hunt up the owner of that
' ring, and if all things went well I
I would marry her. For a week I wateti
I ed all the newspapers, but the ring
j was not advertised. This seemed to
j prove to me that the owner was either
("rich and indifferent to her loss or that
; for some reason the loss had not yet
been discovered. Ilomanee made me
anxious, and 1 therefore went to the
I expense of advertising in five different
papers. I simply stated that a dia
mond ring had been found on a rail
road train and asked the loser to cor
respond.
! insiae or taree uuyB i recuvni awui
I 150 letters in reply. The 150 writers
j were fakers and liars, and the true
loser had not answered me. 1 was a
! bit nettled at this neglect on her part
I 1 advertised again. This time 1 ask
] ed "B. P." to communicate witn me in
I ease she bnd lost anything. There
I were Just 107 "B. P." answers, out
I among them 1 selected one which ap
peared to he genuine. This "B. P."
had lost a double hoop diamond ring
containing Ave stones. It had been
lost on a railroad train and was a
birthday gift from a dead mother. I
was asked to call at the chambers of
j a certain solicitor to have tbe ring fur
ther Identified. 1 was on hand at the
appointed hour. So was a stern faced
and aggressive looking householder, to
gether with a slick looking villain
whom I had once spotted for a detec
tive and a young woman whose hair
was red instead of blond. The ring
was speedily Identified by the stern
faced man and red beaded girl. "B.
P." was Bertha Perkins, and her fa
ther and her maid were before me.
Perkins was a country squire, and on
the nisht previous to my finding the
ring bis daughter's Jewels had been
stolen. The hoop ring was part of the
plunder.
Of course 1 was ready to hand over
the ring, but it wasn't to stop there.
The red headed maid was sure she
recognized me as the man who was
hanging about the grounds a few hours
before the robbery, and that villain of
a detective was only too glad to snap
! the handcuffs on my wrists and hurry
me off to Jail.
| it took me three days to prove my
| self respectable and to establish an
j alibi. They had to give me my liberty,
| but It was grudgingly done, and the
detective said he'd have an eye on me
all the rest of my days. The romance
j had departed when I was locked op. I
j came out of Jail determined to secure
reparation. Old Perkins had helped
the red headed girl to conclude that
I was the robber, and I went down to
his country seat to receive an abject
apology or pull bis nose. He not only
refused an apology, but threatened to
kick me off the grounds, and the red
I beaded girl declared I had a cast in
my left eye, and by that cast she
would swear me In any court as a
man who would not stop at murder.
There was one more thing to be clear
•d u;» 1 wanted to find out about
•B 1'" herself. Was she the blond
mired blue eyed girl of my dreams,
md was she worthy of my love? I
nart not long to wait I was walking
from the country seat to the village
wheu :t dogcart knocked me down and
rolled me all over the road, and the
driver halted to call me a tramp and
threaten me with the law. The driver
was "R P." Her hair was bleached,
ber eyebrows colored and her nose
turned up. She had a big mouth, bad
teeth and milky eyes, and when aba
drove on she whistled like a man.
It's a Way the Russian Peasant
Has, and It's an Enigma.
A UNIQUE WAY TO MULTIPLY.
It Is Simplicity Itself and Absolutely
Accurate, but the Why and Whoro
fore of the Method and Its Resulti
Are a Puzzle to Mathematicians.
Tbls Is not a meaningless, frealqr
twister of a puzzle. But It Is a puzzle.
It Is the method by which Russian
peasants multiply, and as yet the
boasted mental superiority of America
oanuot solve the simple riddle of the
Slav.
Suppose you want to multiply two
numbers together. Divide one of the
numbers by 2, ignoring the frac
tions. Continue the process until the
divided column reaches one. Then dou
ble the other number and continue the
process until it equals in lines the first
column. Then whenever a number is
even in the llrst column strike it out.
together with its corresponding num
ber In the second column. Add the sec
ond coluinu. and. lo, the answer! Now.
why does it do it? There seems to be
no reason for it, but what Is it? Can
you work it out?
It is infallible. It has never been
known to fall. Hut what principle of
mathematics is behind it all? Perhaps
it is some^queer freak of numbers,
some one says, but such things are not
to be turned aside with such generali
ties. Mathematics is not built upon so
.as a system. There is some rule be
fiind It ali.
Take (he simple multiple 12 by 10.
Obviously the answer is 120. Try It
the Uusslan way Place 12 In the first
column and 10 in the second. Divide
12 by 2 and multiply 10 by 2 and place
the respective answers beneatb the
sums from which they were derived.
It will stand 0 and 20. Dividing 6 by 2
equals 3, and multiplying 20 by 2
equals 40 Continuing, 3 divided by 2
and throwing away all fractions will
be 1. while 40 multiplied by 2 will be
80. Now strike out all the numbers in
the first column which are even and
with it their parallels in the second
column-12 ami •> will go out, leaving
the last two parallel results. Ignoring
the first column and adding the num
bers in the second, the auswer will be
the result of 40 and 80. or 120.
The questions are: Who ever worked
It out? llow did he start?
Now try working the problem by put
ting 10 in the lirst column and sul>
jectlng it to the dividing and 12 to the
multiplying It will result like this:
Ten and 12 will become 5 and 24.
which will in turn be changed to 2 and
48 and Unaliy Into 1 and 96. Then,
striking out the numbers 10 and 2 with
their corresponding numbers 12 and
48, leaving the second column flguret
24 and 90 to be added—this becomes
120
mere is uo esc.iiuug *v. *w »■.»»
how large tbe score, it conies out righ'
with distressing surety. Take the odd
numbers. Perhaps there is some twist
in the scheme that applies to even
numbers. Take 25 and 15. Going
right down the column they become 12
and 30; then 0 and 00; then 3 and 120:
then 1 and 240: 12 and C go out, taking
with them 30 and 00. Add 15, 120 and
240. Answer, 375. Multiply 25 by 15 ac.
cording to our methods. Correct—375.
Now, why Is it that the even numbers
must be eliminated ou the right side
when they do not count at all in the
addition?
It Is plain to be seen that all the
numbers in the second column will be
even, but by what freak of calculation
are those corresponding to the even
numbers in the first column of no con
sequence when the correct sum is to be
obtained?
Where no even number results in the
first column, as in 15 x 13. there is no
complication; 15 and 13 in tbe process
become 7 and 20. then 3 and 52 and
finally 1 and 104. Adding 13. 26. 52
and KM equals 195. the correct sum
There can be no multiplication In tig
ures which will divide down to a place
where there are uo odd numbers, for
the final number must always of neces
Hity be 1. in the sum 16 x 4, 16
divides itself into 8. 4. 2 and 1 succes
sively. while 4 becomes 8. 16. 32 and
04. All of the pali-s are crossed out
with the exception of 1 and 64. In that
case the addition of the second column
will be 61.
Despite tbe puzzling nature of this
formula, there is some mathematical
principle by which it can be explained.
There is some rule awaiting the fertile
minds of the workers by which this
"stumper" can be demonstrated to be
simplicity itself.
Another quizzer: Why must frac
tions be discarded? How Is it that the
result will be true when several units
nre cast aside? For example, consider
the number 47. Dividing by 2 the
result will be 23. One whole nnlt Is
thrown away. Twenty-three becomes
hv the same process 11. another unit
discarded. Eleven resolves itself Into
ft. making tbe third unit passed by The
next step results In 2 and then 1. but
why is it that these three nnits count
for nothing?
The mere fact that the explanation
Is near, that the whole thing is simple
if the key can be found, is one that
cannot help but draw attention to this
novel means of adding.—Philadelphia
North American.
Tbe more 1 study the world the more
I am convinced of the inability of force
to create anything durable.—Napoleon
Bonaparte. ;
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