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- -__..-_,uu- nuuucy ll Ulty I311. 5oc box. .6 boxes for 32.50. at your drugzis or direct from mt 301.5 Baud co., wmun-:6. rm a th `til I 1 I I "9 8T3tSt help that sick kidneys can have` The? relieve the pain, strengthen th_ weak Parts, and completely cure all Kldnev Tronhlpc 'm.... ...... ._._.,._..a ....1.1.. they cannot dq, natMu1:e ~s work-' that they want help to get well and strong again ! Jtnm2 ` The new. six-inch gun` appears; on the "scene" at this opportun etim`e.- .l`~he bursting of guns recently in our` navy has resu`lted~ in some surprising kiiscoveries as to the efficiency of four be*st.ty-pes of built-up guns; and `some experts have calculated that {the existing types of. w da,pdns.upon' _;;Wfhich -our national defence `depends l.7arlB from thirty-threefto .thirt.y-`eighty. cent. less ef1eq,tife,. than ~Brit- : ` j';V_;`-i9r;mn-. a1;"Frengh_ %g;i1n.. Tlikuy ,, . 1 ; many: to is :~' uypull? v LU an r uoqdi.ti'on `oi `Q11; 3 u9,v_al'L old.-` ` 7 v-v..- ....a-J oonupf ""I:`he -results are so iastcnishixkg that I have hesitated to give them. since I` feel sure that no one` will believe `them, `However. I have made no mistake in my calwlationis. `and loyalty to my methods and tables should give me coura.`g`e - so here` they are." ' V ` ` A`-fter `col. Ingalls had` verified and reverified this calculations and was !forw.arding the results to the inven- tor of A-`the gun. he himself _was amazed at the range_ of his computa- 'ticr_r, saying.- u1'l`l-L- _'._-_'IL_ It is possible, Amorover, according to the inventor. J. Hamilton Brown. to construct _ a. sixteeniinch, or twenty-inch got the same type with" increased pro~port'ionsT and additional` layers of wire, enlarged Qowder chamber, etc.. which would have a range of a hundred miles. `.-....u-gqvu v-. ..--.u_, annanv nnnnsv-J: mine sh-ell at its higesth poi-nt or flight, would be seventeen `aniles above. the- surface of the earth. The, Amonster shot, as it left the muzzle, hwvould have an energy in its blow which would be equal to lifting six- ty of-the biggest freight locomotives ten feet in theo air. ` --O"- -..-,vvv 1'\l\CJI\lD~'I | m l-`hisV weapon has been concstructed >acco'rd`i_ng to the calculations of 21 12(31- E-istic engineer of authority, 001. T `John M. Ingalls, U. S. A., retired. His predictions` for this six-inch gun new `on the lathe are startling e:nough-a r'an'g'e of thirty miles with an elevation of 45 degrees. More startlin-g_are his figires for a ten- 'inc']i gun of the same kind; built in `proportion. `having a powder oham-D `her of 14,259 `cubic inches and usinagia charge of 360 pounds of smokeless `powdier. This, 'he ' declares,` at I an elevation of forty-five degrees, would `send 9. 600-pound projectile with a velocity of 3,900 feet a second to s the distance of fifty-nine miles. 7f\L- -`L_`II _L 1 A This is the new rapid fire, six-inch Brown. wire-tube gun. composed throughout its entire length solely of rolled sheets of steel and super- imposed by layers of polished steel wire. It is to be finished by May -1 and taken to Santdy Hook to `be tested. Its completion, some experts say}. will mark a meinorabl't>. era in the system of artillery manufacture,- and, owing to its solidity an4d:its al- leged `tn-on--burstirrgj uuulitir-.s,_ .thq ' great velocity of its shell and its stupenduous range, hopes are bright that it will, prove itselselftd be the most formidable`death-dealing "engine `of warfare in existence, and that the famous gun kings of Europe will now-Wbe outclassed by American ingenuity in! the production of `a: fighting machine far excellincg their: latest weapons and` almost double in! power and range those-now in user in thiscountry. A Tribune report- er recently visited the` plant of the , Scott Iron Company of Reading Pa., `to look_ at this leviathan as it `day "cradled in "the lathe" , wr,appe`d in .. its mantle of twenty-one miles of `steel wire. It is 313 inches long. and weighs 20,000 pounds. IDLE- ____ 1What Icertain.exper'ts declare `to be the record-breaking gun of the world , the safestin construction and most pow'ver`full in range, capable of hurling a 100-pound projectile `through space with a velocity of 35 feet a. second. it says, is now mearly completed (for the United Stateisl Government. The shell. at its high- est possible point of flight. would be" about ten miles Qibove the (earth. bearing `four miles above the top of -Mount Everest, in the Himalayas. be- lieved to he the highest peak on the `globe. The swift pace of this shell would the sufficient to girdle the `earth in ten hours. This projectile`, after going` thirty miles. would have rpower enough left to po`ne`tratc six inches of steel. - In a. recent issue the Ne`w York Tribune {gives `a d`esorip1:ion of the! new `gun now being manufactured for the United States.- T GUN BUILT TO THROW] INTERESTING biascarprxon or A PIECE or ORDNANCE NOW UNDER oousmuc r1oN. `rues, PAILS, v(Is_I-_I BAsINs,&c. -v -- ---v ------------ v- --v--- -- . . ucmums umug n.n.L1.u, SOME I1I_A1>PEA-RANGE, ITmSITI}PXsSES AL OTHERS for` DURABILITY and in ALL POINTS ESSENTIAL TO A FIRST CLASS ARTICLE. % % , Is in use in thousands of homes in Canvas. Besides being HAND. ROME TN AP'PF.A'RAN(`!F.. VI` RTTPDAQQFYB ATT nmu-mun 4---- A SHELL THIRTY MILES. % Insist on being supplied with E. B. EnnY"s. can '.ED2DY"B augments F1 BRE WAR E Can be had from any rst clas TDQaler, Ain ,,___-..-.. uuuuLug.U1'UuI;1.l strength. "A faintv idea of thedestructive.` qualities and ptriking advantages claimed fer the new weapon 'may.b`e .g_leane-df from the fact that. a hp!- tile.-`tleeA_t,% ha.v'in8a Jiroadside of tgqt. } i5e::ie`s;.1%o1' heise:e~:'~min` .cbu1d~ site on ~ some manufacturers declare that it is impossible to avoid them. These difficulties and dangers cannot oc- `cur, it is asserted. in a wirefvtube gun. for the reason that all parts upon which the great pressures come are composed of thingrolled [steel plates and drawn` wire. in: which all A cross strains and imperfections are `worked. out during the procem of rolling and drawing`. The fibre of the metal in the main tube of the ` wirengun . runs'_lcug thwise `of the iwire, and as it is wound on runs, around the gun giving the greatest` `possible circumferential strength. faint" irlnln -at I-L4 .I.'_L,,,, -- _v-o- vvvbl LOCI: long `with a series heavy. ste|el springs, which immediately return the gun to its original position. The steel in existing gms is cast and `f-orgedin large steel pie'ces, and it is well known to steel workers that the handbomest forging may contain weak places within`, its structuxte. These gather in streaks making` streaked forgngs. which are much weaker than `clear ones. amd manufacturers i ifh'h1\n:1k1n LA` A---9 5' In the glun recoils wit tr-em-endlous energy. of 160.000 _f tons. but this force is checked : ydidtance of twenty inches by `heavy steel recoil bars, fourteen series ;of st which ret position; .lI'II , -- The elastic limit of the-st-eel plates is 80,000. of the wire 150.000. The breaking or bursting strength of the plates is 120,000, and that of the wire, 125,000. The gun is said to be `safe for pressures far exceeding those "which `will ever be used in action; and can stand 50,000 pounds pressure to the srquare inch at the muzzle and 100,000 pounds to the` square inch at the breech. a muzzle strength which exceeds (the bre'cch strength of the "built-up guns now used in our army. and navy. 'r . .-..uu; u, ouuuux al.1'ulIl. - I. On fthe'cut.side of the `wire is shrunk 21 forged 'jacket_Lo cover the uowder chamber for a distanceof ztr) [bout `twelve feet from the breech. The rest of 5 the gun is covered with a sheet-steel jacket, which is not in- tended to give the gun any addition- al strength to resist rupture. but merely to impart to the gun a fin- Fished appearance and to protect the wire from the enemy s shot while in action. ' i ' cr-oiss-s'ection at any an`d" every point shall be the curve known as the in- volu't(e. Thirty-flour of these plates are then -usse 1'nbled so as to form In T tubve. Into this tube is forced a. lin- ingtube made of forged steel. Then the wind`ing is1beg'un. The wire'is `wound on under a constant pull of 2,500 pounds. vThe_nu1n`ber` of layers is increased from seven at the` muz- zle to twenty-one at the breech. As Ithe wire is square in crosas-sqction ,` and there are fortylynin-e wires to the inch, n tensi~c-n of winding of about a hundred and vtwenity thousand` lbs. %to the s`qi1are" inch is produced. This tension of winding places the plates and lining tube under a com- `pression so `great that` no powder pressure, -it is calculated will ever put them under .1 similar strain. (`an U~Ln- ...-A_:,I_ 1- .u - , ...v__- vvua hi uaxu '1 vu-an kill-I-UU$3 in the metal. plates forming the central tube are brought from the mill 308 intchesolong, 26 inches long. 26 oinches_wide and about the {same thickness as the wire -- one`- seventh-_of -an inch. 7 Those plates are cut diagonally across so as to-form two plates of trapezoidal cross-sec- tionc four and a `half iwchos wide `at one and twenty-one and a half wide` `at the other. These are` then rolled! or `bent into what experts call in- volute shoots of se'g_mchts; that is, `they are bent or _ro1-led-.' so that the .....v....... .__,-L -_ ._...-., -wJ Y3`; v;. uvvun 111100` - The wire is put on by a.=specia1 machine invented f_or_the purpose, which is, in fact, an automatic _test- ;er of the ,wire ` at the same gtim-34 detecting any flaws and weak places in +1: ......4.1 ma.,.- ..1-L-- -n-_m- -...---- v- y v_Iv'v\IvI gonv Alva; LJ VlJl.l..llJl.Vb" ed one his being` built under an es- oial appropriation of $41,000. includ- ing mcount anId' ammunition for trial "tests. and is to` be adopted on lthd report of the Board of Ordnance anld Fortifications. The main feature of the gun. wherein lies the secret of its strength and` ranige, is in the'.em- ployment of flat steel sheets to -form the central tu'be round which are built layers of steel wire. VIII..- ___!.__ , ' ` ` u`4\AA O-III-AJ.I\/11. ! __.__,_, V ' I ' ' The new wire -gunsexs the fnrst ome ;of twenty-five* 6-inch and twenty.- hfive 5-inch weapons for which the Government has set aside an allot- ment of $75,000. 'The nearly complet- cu-If xnno -:d n'|rL::nn4-an Luill. .-..._`l.._ __. -_ nance gain some support from the recent action" of the Ord'nianc'e Burl? in issuing a.m'order lowering` the muzzle velocity of naval gunsfby re- `ducing the powder charg'es so as to give the projectiles from one to three hundred feet a`s:econ1dhless_ ve- locity than -formerly. VH1-`.1. .....--.. __..!_- .___,-__ -, 41 , an g'un' with a rgy. _foot- )rce~ at `a nty two I `suntan: 3--'--1--`A fl at the polls, and of undoinvg partial- ly. though not completely, [the wrongs committed by the governs: ment in connection with this con- ttria.-ct., For `these reasons. I think we 0 have good grounds for submitting , these amendments to the considera- tion of . the House. It the_ mat- ; ter _.'stood as it did ; `last session`, there would be abundant reasons for 1 saying that there should be an ap- _ peel to the people; but. bad as `the b contract was last year, it is more y d'ou'bly bad to-today, owing to the a- mendments made in. it. Looking at these amendments in the contract, we 'find`the most glaring" instances` of the government surrendering` not{ only, everything the company asks, but in many inlstances more than they ask. Where lastsession we` had $20,000,000 :of rolling stock provid- } ed for, it is now reduced-to $15,000.-' ooo. The guarantee of` $5,000,000` 3 which was to remain as security ,for the performance of eve`ry_part `of the contract is now; to be released` at early stage -and is oncly security for -`the .per.formance _c'f a part of 1 the contract by ,the `company. ..'].`he( 1 haste which `was described_.in such.` 1 graphic-` langiage by the right hon. | 1 I `leader (of "the governments last ses- _ - -._. .- w....v v\l 4.AlJ.|\JLI can territory; We need- this also as a means of expressing and efl'e`ctu-at- ingthe peo-ple .s will." I ' hope by means :of the vamendment which I have moved to. give the people an opport`unity,,la.te as it will be, of pronouncing on `this question as soon as theig-overnment dares to submit the `matter to the people. I- hope with the Conservative party to hold iout to the people that there is xyet a. chance of having their voice heard ..+ Lug. ..-n_ - - -_.- . ...... 'ur\~ClUV\.AlI.LI` run 90` They have practically viabandloned the contention: that.we can. by any means which lie within the four` corners of this statute or this.con- tracl:,i compel the Grand Trunk Pa- cific -or the. Grand` Trunk to carry V our produce to a, Canadian shipping port. Therefore. I "say that import- antias the money .qnestion= is, of trans- cendent ir'nportan'-ce is the question of,.controlling the - transportation of . this country across Canadian! terri- t-cry: andvvhatever might have `been done had the government zndopted a wise policy in the beginning`, there appears `to `be no remedy Ie ft `now but the adoption of the_system' which is provided "for by_ the amendment which I have `moved , _ namely; tak- ing- control of this matter into our lown hands. anld th'us,preventing` any diversion of our traffic to Ameri- nu.` &n_.`.!A-_._-` `Y7 (Gonti_nue4d from page 2.) pushing that line down` to Monctom. If `this measure is -'ad~opte'd and if we h-ave `these exproipriation powers there will be yet time to prevent` the government from going on with such` a reckless waste.-of money as to: push But; above and beyond all this, a- ib-ove and-beyond the mere` question of money, and I do feel that there has been a most recklessly extrava- gant 'barg'ain made by the govern- ment. that they have ,u`tterlyqfail- ed to" safeguard the interests of the , rpe-oapl-e:-t'here is one` matter that is of greater and of more far reach- ing `importance and that is the ques- tion of securing a national highway such. as was proclaimed by the right hon. _=gen'tlem-an who leads the gov- ernmentrof makinig this in- fact as well as in name a national highway. I `the-reiftore. -in introducing this .a- ` amendment. have in mind, that what- ever `waste of money there may be, and there will inevitably be. I sup-' pose, a waste of money by the man- ner in which the government have` procee(dedy with this work. the pro- vision which I introduce is now the only remedy that is now. left us ;by which we can secure what the right hon. `gentleman promised when he introduced this 'mveas_ure. namely. the ( traneSportation_ "of Canadian produce: 1 aerc-ss {Canadian territory an`d _- through Canadian. ports` I I mL;__ 1.,.__.: _ Moreover. `if ea six-inch `or a 20- ` (inch wirevgun of the new style should be constructed and should fulfil the expectations of Colonel Ingalls by throwing a_ shell _a hundred miles, one of these piece mounted on the coast of France, in._case of war be- tween that country and . England, -could send [av shower of shells clerar -across the English phanmel into the heart of London. I 1:. 1:. Games , M. 1-. 1-. and J. P. Dowrl \ nevalll. P. P.. at the opernllouu on * Fri an evening. Flint gallery reserved for ladies and their eucorll. --' _.._-. -. .. ..-.a. `'`6}[ the othervhand: if sandy Hook were `supplied with guns of thirty mile range. long before an'_attaok- ingV fleet `armed with the best Euro- pe'a.n-made guns could approach` our shores within shooting distance, the Sandy `Hook batteries could easily de- stroy it. i .fect i ve.rea.'oh of any of th"fH;t -type,` Sindy -`.HookL. qle1_1,rT "out . .df;_-the - ` er-fi-' of guns now moumted there. and; from a. distance of thirty miles could bom- bard this cit`y as far as Harlem.`Jer- 'sgz_City and Newark. T ` nu: +1.- -n..-.. 1.......1 an d._..1__ 77- 3n59n7e THE NORTHEIEN ADVANCE I Doilelo Ieuuro of Joy. But your hero and heroine get maz- ried in the middle of the story. How do you expect the public to keep on = being interested in a book like that?" to fun, and the new author, butthey get divorced in`, the last chapter and olive happily Iexerl .dtt'er..1 so .. you no. the in win` ,_ l_a`.dv_to.1';onI.' ' lnilnn .0 '..I...a....a.;. nu` 4(later)-Harold, dear, I` guess` Caught at the First Trial. Mr. Cleve:-ly-I have a great joke on` my wife. I've just bought her a hat for $5 and had it sent home with a tltteen dollar mark on it. She'll never i know the difference. Mrs. Cleverly, I I would better buy my own hats after thin. I could have done a good deal better for 818. ._ You've been awfully cheated." Why, I saw this very same hat in the window with a the dollar mark on it. _ ,..., -_-- ---\n ouv IJ\._\lIn nuu L (IUIIU sac and yer cable had broken doun I % micht hae lost ma thruppence; but, an ` it Is, I canna lose malr than no penny!" -London Standard. A Taking No chances. , A.` canny Scot got on a tramcar, tn- ` tending to make the full journey, cost- 1 mg 3 pence,` but only took `a penny, ticket and renewed it twice at the end - of each stage. On the last stage the conductor remonstrated with him, say- he ought to have taken out-a threepen- ny ticket at the beginning or his jour- ney_ and saved. unnecessary trouble. Na, na!" said the Scot. Had I dune nan n Inna nahln 1.-.: s._-I_--- -~~ Re R GCIIIOVQ Ma P0; P0 and J: P0 now` way, M. P. P... at the opera. House on Friday evening. Flrn gallery reserved for ladle: and their escorts. Let not`those who read forget . ' The fair but mouldering form; And live and act ashe has done, To die in peace `like him. ' For` `there I trust his . voice heard: A ` That v~oice`so sweet` and clear. In binging` hymns he used to s 7|`... .I!..:.....1- __.I ' __ ___ -.,...,. \a\a\A' vv1.|\J'50LVU 111111} `birth. And still thought He was kind. When on the locomotive, his com- ipanions were by his side; i `AndI can t see why this Sunday work 7can t be left for some I -other day, - ' i, For it seems as if it s just brought To call our friendsaway. No words of sorrow could he speak, But justcalmly passed away; And in the churchyard `now he lies Beneath [the churchyard clay. His friends and his relations May still his loss deplore; Yet, we hope in Heaven to meet`. again. . Where `parting is no more. ..-.. --rIALl.V\lA 111.5 1.1015 U11` Gill LU} Hg: had a_ peaceful mind. \ For` he loved God, who gave him 11:.-+1. ' -In loving memory of John Reym-: olds, who _was_ killed at South Riv- May 2. 1904. V T Just in the morning of his youth.. Arid in his youthful bloom. Johnnie Reynrolds to-day was called away, T M ' And his form lies in the tomb. ~. \ In all his` suffering here on` e'artl.'1.\ Ho had 0 .m......42.-I ...:..J --.....--_, .\r\J\.I' uuv uu BLLU UI-Ll` er hand not allowing them to un- duly profit-the Opposition are doing their duty by the people. The adop- tion of such a measure will not of- fer a complete remedy because there would still be large concessions made to this company. We cannot escape serious loss in any event.bbut we sh-ould submit the question to the peolpe. and if the people approve the policy, the government should has- ten to szive effect to their desire. To V - V- .q.uuva.au nu VGAG UVUL LLIU IIUU5 of railway on giving reasonable com- pensation-nIot allowing the compan- ies t-o actually `lose. but on the oth- nuu L.._.I __-1, 1! I is??t11.&:e9h sin '. -. about the ~t i` 'iqi "iii add `the retention on: thegycommon stock for the rotection-of the people of the] = mun I`7,:':? and gins order--:tha-t _Tthe ; rates `might ' be effectually control- led .inCthe interetsts of the people. Yet with all these professions of a:' year ago the government; as an ad- diti-onalpmisfortune for. the people.- have completely surrendered that ypro'tiection-.-so far as it was any pro- l:ee`ti-o4n,-whether `in the matter of rates or in the -general control of traffic, through Canadian channels to Canadian ocean ports. Now. if there r is anything that should` add to the` condemnation which I feel ought td be meted out out to the government in regard to this measure, it is `the time they selected for introducing this measure last session, and for forcing onthe people. unnecessarily `this greatly increased burden. The time when they introduced it was _just about the time when the Can- adian Northern~Railway had got into uzposition that if we simply ad`ded equipment. it would be able to con- trol and handle a large proportion of the trade of the W'e(st. Germany, Italy, France, Belgium. Russia. Australia and South Africa had all adopted the principle" of government ownership. Government ownership is in the air. "VI... J, 7 .--v-..._-:: an; an; \lJ\l El-L10 `The doctrine of government own- ership, of public utility is being discussed in every part -of Canada. I therefore feel that in proposing an amendment which will enable the `government to take over the lines wun:`-.-.-._ _- ~---` - inging` he ihg_' `friends and comrades here. In Memoriam. . A4-`Walter _ Maiel. I ,__ coffins and GISKUIS of all kinds in stock or made I to order. Robes, Grape and `all Funeral Requisites furnished.` Orders by Telegralph or otherwise promptly attended to. ,_ V G. . O. DOLMXGE, Manager, Stroud. I-.'__A.(, I Q. - ` is more than tiredness. Hard work "does not bring sharp, `shooting pains. And a dull, nagging pain---that a night s sleep won't drive away-is never due to. Weariness. Nine times in `ten, backache says Kidney Trouble. Pain is nature s way of telling you that your Kidneys are weak--that T'*~for its Subscribers at Backach; BARRIE AND s:rF}ou|5._ THE ADVANCE What shrunk your woolens? Why did holes wear so soon P [You used` common soap. IN THE DOMINION Clubbing Rafves