Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 July 1890 — Page 2

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muny white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the Ivory.' They are not, but like all counterfeits, they lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for

Ivory Soap and insist upon having it. 'Tis sold everywhere.

DAILY JOURNAL.

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1800.

rim**** cf Human Nature.

They woro waiting for tho train ftt a country station. There was dreary looking waiting room, 14 by 14, nnd thorn was a platform 70 feet long by 8 broiuL Tho scenery consisted of ono water tafik, five freight cars, two fields, one pile of lumber, tlireo telegraph poles and a small hoy. The rain poured outside. The two women sat as far from each other an possiblo and regarded each other with suspicion and distrust.

Ono semnt'd to lie saying to herself: "If she is going to the lunatic asylum she sliould bo looked after. Who ever saw any one come out in such colors and mix things like that? Such persons are dangerous." And tho other one remarked: "Must 1 wait here long in the company of that thirig? What a looking head! What big lYut and hands! Looks as if she was going to work on a farm."

Tho two men who are strangers to each other and to the women were fair, mild eyed specimens of tho human race. They stood and looked at each other, and might have said to themselves: "Looks as if ho had overdrawn his account at tho bank- Seems to have an innocent look, but that is all put on." And the other might have mused: "So here's the 'Rubber Kid' out on another expedition, but IH spoil his game. My, but hasn't lie got a hardened look!'1 But they did nothing rf the kind. While those women ait several feet apart, huddled up in an exclusive sort of way and their veils drawn, tho men walked arm in arm, joked and smoked and talked Btoriiss and said they were glad to meet. They poked each other in the ribs, called each other "old boy," borrowed Bome fine cut and every match they had was shared in lighting cigars.

Ono of the women got up enough courago to ask the other for tho time. The latter might bo addressing the cook of an Erio canal scow, she thought, but replied that she had not the time. Then "both shrank away under their veils and turned up their noses. When the train come along the men got into the same car and the same seat. The women camo out with respective looks of disdain, entered separate coaches, and as the train moved away they were sorry they h*d noticed or spoken to each other and failed to stand on their individual dignity.—Albany Journal.

Writing for this Newspapers. I am very frequently asked whether tho newspaper is tho best starting point for young authors, and in this question lies, in nine cases out of ten, a grave mLsixjneeption. Many young writers believe that work rejected by the monthly magazino will find a market with the daily newspaper. It seems to be taken ior granted that the same degree of care is unnecessary for newspaper work as for magazine writing. "The newspaper dies with the day, the magazine lives for a mouth," is tho general feeling, and hcnco the impression that ephemeral work will find a ready market with the newspaper.

It has Iteen my pleasure to write for the newspaper press of America for six or seven years, and I give young writers a leaf from my experience when I say to them, do nut allow yourselves to lelievo that, minor work will find favor with the modern A merit-in newspaper. There is just as much demanded of a writer in tho newspaper editorial office as in that of the monthly magazine. A writer commits the greatest mistake of her life when she looks upon tho newspaper as a graduating school to the magazine. Tho same standard o[ grammar and expression sot by the magazine holds good with newspaper:?.—Edward W. Bok in Ladies'

Home Journal.

Says the Soutncrn Medical World: "Mother's Friend" is crowing in favor throughout tho South and is highly recommended by physicians. Wc consider it iu-1 (lispeusablo to those who know they must I pirns through the ordeal of child-birth. I Write liradJBold lies. Co., Atlalta, Ga., for particulars. Sold by Nve &Co.

—Hnvo you been nt tho great mark down sale at Louis Biscliof's, if not go at onoo and seo the bargains.

—If you nood anything in tho dry goods, notions or millinery lino don't ail to call on us. Wo guarantee a saving on every purchaso.

A

UG EVTSSOK,

Firm Name Changed,

Gilbert & Co. have ohanged tlieir 11 rm name to Gilbert Brothers (Charles and John) and are giving their customers the benefit of a big cut sale for a few days to culebrato the evont. Go buy a cool suit.

THEY BRAVED THE DEEP

RISKS AND DEATH ROLL OF AN EXPERIMENTAL WAR CRAFT.

Tho Charleston Cigar ISoat—She Met with *IJl«ustT Again antl Again—Crew After Crew AtltU'tl to the Ghastly Lint—Bh#

Weill i) the ltottoni at LnHt. [Copyrlfrht by American I*rcs3 Association.) Oil instances of individual daring of tile sublimcst type wc need not go farther li an the pages of naval history of the civil war. Gushing, tho crew of the Confeilerate Allemarle, the commander and men of the Confederate ram Arkansas, the Confederate hoarders of the Underwriter in the North Ciiroli.ia waters, the Union defenders of the Harriet Lane in Galveston harbor, the participants in the battle of Mobile—these and many others deserve to live in history, not alone for the grand results accomplished, but liecause of their deeds of unexcelled bravery. The Confederates, being on the defensive, and for that reason having ample incentive to heroic outbnrsts, prol«bly put on record more instances of individual flaring tl.au did their antagonists. They had the desperate end of the conflict to bear up. Unfortunately for history their rccords are sparse, survivors of tho hour have since passed away, and much is left to nnautlienticated tradition.

The story that follows, however, is true and it Is substantiated in detail by records of undoubted truthfulness. Seven men, five being seamen of tho Confederate navy and one a captain of artillery and the other a lieutenant of infantry, volunteered for an enterprise that had been attempted five times and had met with disaster. On three occasions all hauds had perished, and on one other seven out of eight, and again six out of nine had met death. The hazardous business was nothing less than being confined in a submarine boat, exposed to a variety of dangers without one possible way of escape in cose ot disaster. The time was the scene Charleston harbor during the formidable operations of the powerful Union army and navy.

The waters were full of Union blockaders and every foot of vantage ground around the harbor was either occupied or Ijesieged by I'nion troops. The port was blockaded almost effectually, and many daring attempts were made by the besieged to destroy Union vessels by infernal devices. The New Ironside.s was attacked twice, tho second time receiving very serious damage. A companion vessel of the New Ironsides was the Housatonic, a noble now ship, lying in North channel and completely blockailing that passage. If she could bo removed by stealth soores of blockade running vessels could pass in and out in a night, giving comfort to tho beleaguered army and people of South Carolina.

The several experiments in destroying vessels by torpedoes that had been made in the harbor pointed to the torpedo afloat as the proper method. The Now Ironsides, which wiw so seriously damaged by a torpedo Ijoat, had once stood for an hour over a fixed torpedo of 2,000 pounds of powder, hut tho wires connecting the torpedo with the shore would not work and the gunboat floated away safely. Soon after the IronBides wos successfully attacked (October, 1803) a little boat was bronght by rail from Mobile ar.d accepted by the Confederate commander, Gen. Bean regard, for Charleston harbor. Beauregard was an engineer, a scientific fighter and believed in skillful methods, and promptly accepted the new machine, although she came with a forbidding reputation. She was to plow the deep like a fish, but had no provision for storing air, and on an experimental trip in Mobile bay sunk and all her crew, eight men, were suffocated before they could be rescued. That was disaster number one. Lieut. Payne, of tho navy, soon found a volunteer crew of eight men and took charge of her for a series of experiments in tho harbor, which were tragic in the extreme, but which by tho advancement of knowledge made amends for the dole of blood exacted.

The new craft is known in history as the cigar boat." She was made of boiler iron, was 30 feet long and 4 broad, with a vertical depth of 0 feet, approximately. Access was by two manholes covered by hinged caps having bull's eyes for steering purposes. While the vessel floated these caps were about a foot out of water. Tho propelling power was the hands of the crew, operating on a shaft by means of cranks. On tho exterior there were vanes or win lis, that could bo adjusted at any angle by interior manipulation, and when the boat was to move on even keel the vanes were kept level. To descend at an angle of 10 degs. the vanes were fixed at that angle and tho propeller put in motion. The resistance of the water against tho vanes caused tho bow to dip and the boat to descend on an inclined plane. By reversing the vanes the opposite direction could be ti.ken until surface was reached. A tube of mercury told just how far under water she was at any time.

The bout was designed to dive and imss under the war vessel it was intended to destroy and drag a torpedo after, to be ex-

A SI'ECKY DAKGKIt.

ploded by violent contact with the bottom of the vessel ns soon as it touched tho keeL Lieut. Payne and his crew of eight men were preparing the boot for an expedition ono night and had her at the wharf near Fort Johnson when the wave of a passing steamer washed over her and swamped hor. Payne escaped, but tho crew were all drowned. She was raised and eleared of her dead and Payne secured another crew, and sho went down In tho samo manner at Fort Sumter wharf, Payno and two men escaping. It was plain that tho cigar boat wus simply a coflln.

The craft had earned such a bad odor In Charleston harbor that it was decided to try her in new waters and she went to Stpno river, whore eoyercd successful

were mad* At last, however, she went down and did not come up, and after search it was found that she had got fast in the mud at the bottom and all on board had perished by suffocation. Once more she was raised, tho dead re.noved the fourth ghastly cargo from her iron bound hull—and she returned to tho harbor.

Every disaster to the loat had had something about it that was hold to be a warning for the future, and anew crew went on board and resumed experiments. Sho dived beautifully, and, barring accidents, would carry a toriedo anywhere in the deep. One more accident led to a change of plan.

For

an experiment she dived un­

der the Confederate receiving ship Indian Chief, fouled a cable and all of her crew perished. Wli&i she was recovered ono Lieut. George IS. Dixon, of the Twenty-first Alabama regiment, secured Gen. Beauregard's permission to try the famous David against the Ilotisiitonle. Beauregard stipulated that she should be rlKKed as a torpedo Iwmt on the surface of the water nnd not. as a submarine device. He believed that the water 'was too shallow in the harlxpr to admit of successful diving under a heavy ship.

A spar was then set on the bow having a torpedo that would explode by concussion with the object aimed at. The new method of operation may have seemed to lessen lie danger, but in reality tho boat had met disaster as often when on the surface as when submerged, and the chances of her riding tho convulsive wa*e.s produces! by a torpedo were very narrow. Yet, although some thirty men had jierished in her, Lieut. Dixon found a crew ready to volunteer nnd destroy tho Housatonic. Fivo of tho crew were men of tho navv—Arnold Becker, James A. Wicks, F. Collins, Ridgway and C. Simpklns. They were joined by Capt. J. F. Carlson, of tho South Carolina artillery.

Tho Housatonic WILS riding at anchor on the evening of Feb. 17, her olllcer of tho deck, Master J. F. Crosby, pacing mechanically to and fro, scanning around as far as tho darkness—it was 9 o'clock—would permit. Suddenly he saw about a hundred yards away what appeared to lie a plank moving swiftly toward his ship. It was so strange that, anxious though he was, ho waited a short time before giving alarm over so contemptuous an object. Then ho sounded the

fry,

and all hands were willed

to quarters. But he was a few seconds too late. The little boat had sneaked along tho beach the night liefore, and been hidden during the day not far from the doomed vessel. Then in a twinkling she had darted out of hiding, eluded the lookouts, and even while the

cry

was sounding through

the ship Lieut. Dixon rushed upon her sides and fired the torpedo. He struck forward of the mainmast, and tho hole extended below the water line, sinking her in four minutes. Five men went down in her the rest clung to the rigging and were rescued. But the "plank," as the Housatonic's officer called it, disappeared In the commotion of the waters. The fate of tho crew could only

A DAVID.

be surmised. The boat had set out secretly to destroy the Housatonic, but no one could tell tho tale of hor experience. There were other Davids In tho waters, and hundreds ot fixed and floating torpedoes in tho channels. The men of the Housatonic could give no account of the a flair other than the shadowy "plonk" Btory, but whether the plank WOTO an automaton, a floating torpedo impelled by cog work, or the missing "cigar boat," no ono knew. It had disappeared with tho vessel destroyed.

After the war the secret came out the "cigar boat" had justified her inventor. The wrecks of tho harbor wore cleared by divers, and while exploring the depths around tho Housatonic they found the rusty Iron machine partially buried in drifting debris about a hundred feet away from tho hull of tho man-of-war, her prow pointing toward it. Of course her daring crow had paid tho penalty and were securely coffined inside. The liousatonic was one of tho new war vessels. She was a screw sloop, mounting eleven gnns, and had been in the South Atlantic squadron since 18(53. Her destruction was a warning to the whole fleet and an encouragoment also to the Confederates, who after this made several efforts, some of theni successful.

Notwithstanding the reality of this submarine engine, such boats are at this date deemed chimerical, and popularly supposed to exist only In the brains of crazy inventors or the imagination of romancers. Jules Verne puzzled and amused tho reading world with Capt. Nemo's strange craft in his "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under tho Sea." Gen. Lloyd Brice, in a recent satire on American defeasclessness, brings into action a wonderful lish boat, invented and mnnnged by an erratic shirt manufacturer, as though no sane man of science would waste time on a scheme of that nature, What has been considered a creation of fancy, however, has been proven a fruitful reality, as in the case of this Charleston boat.

Jules Verne's submarine vessel was cigar shaped, and recently a Spanish naval officer constructed a boat over which he !\ad dreamed for many years. Tho Spanish government thought so well of the plan that the inventor, Lieut. Pcral, was given the means to experiment, and his boat, El Purnl, was successfully launched and made several trips, justifying tl3 hopes of her projectors. This boat is a 'ittle more than double tho size of the Confederate boat, being 74 feet long and OX feet broad, Sho is fitted out as a torpedo boat, and can run six knots an hour under water.

The torpedo 'ioat had its origin in the civil war, and the Confederates developed it to a greater degree than did their adversaries. Since that timooll first class powers have been experimenting, but no satisfactory result has been reached. There are at present boats of throoorfour hundred tons armed with torpedoes, small boats carried upon war vessels to 1)0

lowored when in

close quarters with tho ad'-u.-sary, and a coast torpedo boat, having its hull sub merged. All of these are liable to detection and destruction by tho enemy. Tho situation calls for a noiseless, Invisible engine that can work in all weather and at any hour, day or night, as tho Confederate David was intended to do. Tho problem when solved will bo by a submarine craft not unlike the ill fated one whose story is told here. But snrely no contriv ance of this character over had more dovoted adherents, more venturesome and painstaking operators than tho "cigar boat" of Charleston harbor.

GEO. L. KILUEB.

No. 201.—Numerical Knlgma. My whole in a proverb of 30 letters.... My 3(5, 5, l'-i 17 is a hard tumor. My 1, 11, 23. U, 20 is to "-hake. My 10, 2,0, If. 4 is to impel. My 24, 21, 10 is to cut. Mj 83,15, 00 is to decay. My 3, li), 13, 22 is a tumult. My a), !*, 27.14 an- bullets. My 8S is a vowel.

No. 20-2.—A Delation.

To whole or Inst—that caused tho strife li.nwtren John IJowman ami hid wjfo For John, a jvacouUe bread winner. Had brought a chicken homo for dinner, And while in tti.» kitchen looking, Kxpre«s«tl his profi-rence for the cooking "Yon must vhob it." Raid Jolm Uownian. ••I will last»U" said tho woir-ui. "I will not «»t U- \t y»u las: it, Hut through the window I will cart Jt," Said the hunband in loud voioa. Said Mrs. B.: "I'll have my choice, Aiul 1 would sooner Uiko lickirT Than at your bidding wholo the chiekrm." lie said no more—She gained the day, Which prove* tho adage* I should say, That VOIIKMI always liave their way.

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The Inference we inny further draw That every wonmn'd will is law.

No. 203*—Hurled Author*.

1. Tliere have been vandals who were willing to rob urns of their sacred ashes. This is his cottago who wrote the "Lady of the Lake." 3. We brought from Aleppo pears nnd pistachio nuts.

No. 204.—Rhymed Wonl Squave. My first means to nelze to lic-itl with the hand To take forced possession of chattels or luud.

M.v second's a term in arithmetic used, iViid oft with proportion its meaning's confnscd. My third is to expiate. iimUo an amend To make reparation to foe or to friend. My fourth is a trigonometrical word. And often with cosiness 'tis coupled and heard. My fifth is a gift which few person* possess. Ko more will I tell you. but leave you to guess.

..No. —Kcbus for Idttlc Folktu

No. 207.—Half Square.

1. Took a winding course. 2. Effort. 8.1 Charged on oath. 4. A plant with neither 1 stamens nor pistils. -6. Ventured. &. At I an 7 A & A ix 0 A| letter.

No. 2OS.—Central Acrostic.

The words described are of unequal I length, but when rightly gnessed tho initial letters will all DO the same, and the central letters will spell the name of an American poet.

Cross words: 1. Those who carry. 2. Be-1 lieves. 3. A kind of parrot found in the I Philippine islands. 4. Troops that serve on horseback. 5. Grows smaller. 0. A wading bird. 7. A division of a Ixvik. S. A kind of pleasure carriage. 0. To sear with hot iron.

No. 2(K).—Initial ChanRCfu

Change the initial of a deceiver, and make a place of entertainment Of a suite, and make a kind of writ or action

Of to derogate, and make to recant Of small cords to fasten sails, and make smidl boxes for jewels

Of a plank next to a ship's keel, and| make a river fish. Of a reading, and make tho act of cut-1 ting.

S- No. 210.—Beheading** Of letters five I am composed, A food within me is inclosed Behead ino once and Til reveal What lazy people hate to feel Behead again and you will know What every day you have to do Again behead me and you'll see A preposition I will bo.

Modern Versions.

People

110

longer laugh—they Indulge In

merriment. They don't walk—thoy promenade thoy never eat any foal—thoy partake of refreshment. Nobody has a tooth pulled out—It is extracted. No one has his feelingH hurt—they are laccratod. Young men do not go courting the girls—they pay the young ladies great attention. It is vulgar to visit any oue—you must only make a calL Of course you would not think of Kolng to bod—you would retire to rest or seek your pillow. Nor would you build a house—yon would erect it.

Key to the Pauler,

No. 105.— A Rhomboid:

way disabled.

*Jf!VER WASTE

Jfo. 200.—A Letter Puxxte.

1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 The fifteen circles represent tho fifteen letters of the alphabet which can be formed by straight lines. Tho words make a sentence referring to theso letters. 5 represents a personal pronoun. 10, 4, 5, 9, 0, "to have an idea." 12, 2, a personal pronoun. 4,1,11,2, a verb in frequent use, denoting possession. 10, 4, 2, 8, a personal pronoun. 1, 7, 7, an adjective. S 8, 6, 0,1, 7, 7,14, "at last." 2,11, 2, 0, "level," "smooth," "equal." 13, a prefix denoting "past." 15, Dutch word for "sea."

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No. 100.—AnHourGlttflsi^Oeiitrals, Gladstone. Crosswords: 1, Straggles 2, Garland 8, Bland 4, Oae 5, S ft, Utc 7, Stone 8, Corners 9, Expressly.

No. 107.—Transpositions! 1, Calm, clam 2, Salt, last 8, Spot, tops 4, Law, awl 6, Save, vase fi. Fits, flat 7, Sneak, snaket 8, East, seat 0, Flesh, shell

l£. 108.—Double Letter Enigmar Wo*

End. No. 109.—A Puzzling Story: Ijassa, Milan, Moon, Auburn, Hue, Amber, Black, Red Wing, Ojgan, Orange, Coffey, Goldoo Horn, Asp-in-walL Peking.

No. 200,—Curtattiienti Poet, Poe, Po,

MAKES,

L0

We Are Moved

And are selling lots of goods and want to

more. We have the

Largest Stock!

To select from in Crawfordsville. Do not fail to see the new

QUICK MEAL

Gasoline Stoves F0R1890

The best store in the market. Come and look through our nn rooms. -Whether 'ou want to buy or not you

A®*:

are always welcome.

Barnhill, Hornaday & Pickett

Thomas Block. Half Square east of old place.

The New Pension La

Proyides Pension of not less than $6 nor more, than $12 month'to all Soldiers or Sailors who served 90 days during the war, and

were

BRADFIELD REGULATOR C0.tfUrfi%

SOLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

Sold by Nve & Co.

LA VETA

122. 124, 120 South Green Street, Scott Steele, Proprietor.

Lunch Counter open till after Midnight.

ICE CREAM PARLORS Accessible by a separute'entrancc. Sunday Dinners a Specialty.

A. D. LOFLAND,

Real Estate, Loan, Insurance.

GOOD NOTES CASHED.

1191 East Main Street, with Ezra Vorls

CRAWFORDSVILLE

TRANSFER LINE,

R. C. WALKUP, Prop.

Passengers nnd JliiKKHfro to Depots, Hotels, any purtof the City. Also proprietor of the

Bayless Ten-Cent Hack Line. Tho Cheap Prices will be maintained and Satisfactory service rendered.

Leave calls at Stables on Market street, or on slate at Snodgrass & &! urphy's. Telephone No. 47. 0 ^.

C. B. NELSON'S

-SECOND PATENT-

CRESTING

A great improvement over the

first, is now on market. Severa

designs offered. Office first door south of Elston Bank at W. Hardee's tobacco store. Builders see and get prices before buying.

honorably discharged from service, who are

This Pension is granted without any reference to when or how the disabL was incurred either iu or out of the service, if not the result of his own vicii habits.

Provides, also, per month for the widow of every Soldier or Sailor who ed 'JO days, without regard to tho time or cause of her husband's death, if she dependent on hor labor'for support. Also, S2 additional for each child under years of age and the child's pension Is to continue if it is Insane, imbecile, or tirely helpless, although the mother remarries or should die.

Provides, also, that any soldier's parent who is without other means of sup than his or her own manual labor,-if the Soldier died In tho sendee, or from disease or wounds he resolved while in the service, may obtain a Pension at rate of $12 per month.

Applying fcr or accepting Pension under this law does not prevent the clal~ from prosecuting a claim under tho old law. Pension under the new law mencesfrom the time the application Is (lied.

If an application is made under this law the claimant can select any attonw doslres without reference to his old claim, and If a Soldier is now drawing 1MS $G per month he can be increased under this law.

The attorney's feo Is Umitod to S10 In each cabe. We are now prepared with necessary blanks to prosecute all claims under, •aw. Address or «all on

Stilwell & Stilwell,

Pension and Claim Agents, Crawfordsville, Ind'-

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sell

in:

Fruit Can

GLASS AND TI"

Extra Lids and Wax.

Jelly Giasses.T umbl

Porcelain-Lined

Preserving Kettl

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McKeen

McKeen & Son, formerly 0!

celebrated Pillsbury Fio

Mills, of Minneapolis.

More recently o£ Indiana,-

have purchased the

Brown & Watki

AIXXjXJS,

And propose to do a big bs

in Crawfordsville. They

PRACTICAL MILLERS

And only want a fair d® prove themselves worthy liberal patrons^

For a good family flour,

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HONG CUA*

LAUND

Green St., opposite I'osto

Wiflfcuoranteo work equal to brought to, 01 dono In. I use Chinese starch w'1',?' tlful gloss and finish to tne Give

Me

a Trial

and you 1 will

fled with my work.