Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, July 12, 1912, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Textmm OLD .M477SVO w .IEX the Monitor steamed In to Hampton roads half a century ago and played "Delilah" to the Merrlmac's "Samson" an Important era In the life of the confederacy, also in naval architecture, was marked. The United States began building more monitors with feverish haste. Wooden Bloops, cruisers, corvettes and rrlgates were hurried Into the discard. A navy wasn't the real thing unless It had a lot of queer looking Ironclad vessels resembling "the cheese box on a raft." Naval historians say that the build ing of the Monitor was an illustra tion of the adage, "Necessity is the mother of invention." The United States was threatened by an uncon querable Iron coated foe. A new style of fighting craft was needed. Ericsson beard and Interpreted Mother Neces sity's call. The Monitor was the re sult, says the Kansas City Star. All well and good! But Ericsson's success caused a score of embryo naval designers to strain their eye sight and hearing searching for an other Mother Necessity. Navy de partments, admiralty ofllces and ship building iirms were besieged by ar chitects. Specifications for all sorts of odd appearing war vessels were produced. Most of these met a pro saic death In the waste paper basket; many got as far a3 the experimental stage; some were actually built and launched and once or twine the sea Soing military establishments of the world have been given hair raising scares. Two Notsb'e Marine Freaks. The Katahdin and the Vesuvius were the names selected by the United States for two of its more noted sea freaks. Both were radical departures from accepted naval construction. Both were expected to revolutionize oaval warfare. And both failed. Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen was responsible for the Katahdin. He lived and died believing that he had given to his country its most valuable weapon of defense. Admiral Ammen was a studious sort 3f a chap. He was interested In his profession. He knew how seamen had (ought and how ships bad been built since the days of Phoenicia. Partic ularly he liked the methods used by the valiant sea fighters of Rome. He was Impressed with their naval ar rhltecture, the sharp ramming beaks in solidly built craft Why, the admiral probably reason ed to himself, could not this ram be ased in modern, warfare? He began a juiet search for Mme. Necessity. He look the ram Idea of the Romans, the ' irtnor plated Idea of his own day and the compact machinery plan of Erics ion and began work. He rolled and CLING TO THEIR PRIVILEGES .mbassadore Enjoy Many Rights That Have Been Accorded Them for Centuries. "Ambassador" and "minister" mean aretty must the same to the average nan, but there li a very great differ ince between the two, Inasmuch as an imbaaaador possesses many privileges ibroad that do not pertain to a mere clnlster. Perhaps the most curious privilege of in ambassador, who Is accredited to iie ruler of a country and not merely o the government thereof, as Is a min ster, is that the ambassador may when ' llsmlssed turn bis back to the sov irelgn to whose court he has been isslgned. Briefly described the mode f procedure is as follows: When the audience Is at an end the embassador waits to be dismissed by lie sovereign. When dismissed the am assador bows, retires three paces, tows again, turns on his heels and talks to the folding doors. But when he reigning sovereign Is a woman a core polite method Is employed. To ' urn his back would be to resign a IF MAW rOJ2 hammered and welded these three Ideas together and produced the Katahdin. "It won't work. It is Impractical." said the navy department officials Then Admiral Ammen smiled and be gan to explain his theory again. Am men coaxed, exhorted, demanded and besought. Also he persisted. The navy department said go ahead. The Katahdin was built. The ram looked like a cross between a great lake whaleback grain boat and a water logged cigar of monster pro portions when it was launched In 1889. I Then for four years the Katahdin was put through all the trials naval officers could devise. The boat did everything its Inventor claimed. The government paid $930,000 for the Katahdin and then waited for an enemy to humiliate. In 1S9S Spain balanced a husky chip on its shoulder. Uncle Sam promptly slapped it. Here was the Katahdln's opportunity. Along about March, 1898, things looked pretty dark for the United States navy. Spain's fighting ships still had considerable standing. Great things were expected from the Katahdin. "We have in our navy," one enthusi ast declared, "one boat which alone could fight the whole much vaunted Spanish fleet." He meant the Katah din. But the Katahdin was a failure. It was designed to chase an enemy Into a corner and then puncture a hole In the side of the hostile ship with the 400,000 ton blow the Katahdin ram could deliver. Of course the enemy would fight back; but the conical armored deck of the Katahdin was made to shed shells like a duck sheds water. It took only a few days to learn that the Katahdin couldn't steam fast enough to ram a rowboat and, most any old popgun could punch holes in its armor before it got under way. In addition the ram was not seaworthy. -Vesuvius Terror of the Navy. So the skipper of the Katahdin brought his boat back to Washington navy yard and the junk pile. The ram became a curiosity of naval construe tion Instead of a revolutionlzer of na val warfare. Quite recently the Katahdin met a prosaic end by acting as a target for a new style of naval artillery. The Vesuvius came nearer fame. It was launched In 1886. The Spanish American war also heralded its death. The Vesuvius was a dynamite crui ser. Its weapons were three bronze tubes projecting amidships and for ward. Prom these tubes dynamite shells containing 250 pounds of gun cotton were hurled by compressed air. It was expected that a "few of these monster charges would destroy a whole continent privilege; therefore the ambassador re tires sideways. He keeps one eye on the soverlgn and with the other he endeavors to find the door. By this unique means be contrives to show all poUteness to the sovereign and at the same time retain his ambassadorial privilege In retiring. Another privilege of an ambassador Is that of being ush ered Into the royal presence through folding doors, both of which must be flung wide for blm. None save an am bassador can claim this privilege, the greatest favor In this respect that can be shown any non-ambassadorial rep resentative consisting In the opening to him of one door only. There Is one privilege of the ambas sador, a privilege that sometimes oc casions great Inconvenience to the ruler, which consists of his right to demand admission to the sovereign by day or by night What 8usls Was. The Mexican was showing his new ly arrived New York guest to a room, and after the usual courtesies he paused on the threshold to say: "By the way, we always turn Susie loose for the '-alghtv and ' she will pass And they might have had the Vesu vius been able to fire accurately. The tubes were Immovable and the only way to aim was to point the ship at the target and then regulate the air pressure. In the language of one na val expert. "Sometimes we hit the Isl and of Cuba." The Vesuvius saw real war service in 1S3S. it has the Katahdln's record beaten. The Vesuvius would sneak close in to shore at night near Santi ago and fire a few. dynamite shells. They made a frightful noise when they exploded and won the sobriquet of "the earthquake maker" for the ship, but nothing more. To quote a naval officer: "The Vesu vius was turned out to be the terror of the seas and became the terror of the American navy." Officers were afraid the dynamite magazines would explode in a heavy sea. ECHO OF TITANIC TRAGEDY Mrs. Bucknell Had a Premonition That Something Dreadful Would Happen. One of the echoes of the Tltank tragedy concerns Mrs. Bucknell. wife of the founder of Bucknell University In Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bucknell was In a most unhappy frame of mind when she reached the long pier at Cherbourg. "I feel eo strange about sailing," she told a friend. "I know I ought not to go on this boat. I have a premoni tion that something dreadful will hap pen." "Nonsense!" laughed the friend. "Why, how can anything happen In these days of splendid boats and wire less communication? I feel as safe crossing the ocean as I do the street yes, safer, for there are no. motor cars."- "I wish I did," sighed Mrs. Buck nell, "but I feel very nervous. I am half tempted not to go." However, she did. and as the friend to whom she had voiced her fears was embarking In a lifeboat, after the crash, she saw the white face of Mrs. Bucknell. "What did I tell you at Cherbourg?" said the latter. "If ever I have another premonition I shall heed it." "Bluebird" Luncheon. Bluebird luncheons are one of the pretty fancies of the spring, and Mrs. Edward McLean recently extended such a courtesy to Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, who was visiting her mother, Mrs. Richard Townsend of Washing ton. Bluebirds of exquisite plumage fluttered about on. wires which were gently swayed by an electric current, and many others were placed on the handle of a mammoth basket of vio lets. Each place card had a minia ture bird in genuine feathers, the ar: tlstlc work of the Mexicans, and the suggestion was further carried out by bread, ml'k, sugar and other charac ters In Maeterlinck's exquisite play, being decked In flowers and blue gauze and placed at intervals on the daintily spread board. Bluebird lunch eons may "be given on less expensive lines by having birds of blue velvet and flowers of the spring, jonquils or tulips, and pretty place cards on which the symbolic bird of happiness is painted. New York Press. Lincoln's Superb Oratory. In an address by Joseph H. Choate on the occasion of his eightieth birth day, Mr. Choate spoke thus of Mr. Lin coln's celebrated speech In Cooper Union, in 1860: "With an awkward form and most ungainly address, he stood there with a little trepidation, not very prepossessing; but when he came to speak It was as a flashlight Not only his whole personality and his face lighted up, but he seemed to lighten up the audience, and for one hour or an hour and a quarter he dis cussed the great questions of, the day and held the audience In the hollow of his band." through the hall on her way to the top floor, where she catches rats. You'd better be careful and not step on her, as that Is the only thing that makes her cross." "It wouldn't be very serious If I did make a cat cross,", ..was the laugh-. Ing response. But the host shook his head. "I don't know much about cats," he said. "Our SuBie Is a boa constrictor. She's as gentle as a baby, unless you step on her. Sometimes she takes a short cut through this room, so don't be surprised if you see her. Good night" His Dilemma. "What do your folks think?", asked the poor but respectable young man of the heiress. "They have no objection to the mar riage," she replied. "They will con tinue to support me and will take you in, but you will be expected to pay your own board." Not That Part of It "Did you say I was a dead beat?" "Nope. I never said you were dead." Houston., Post IBP: BOOKS THAT THE BOYS ENJOY hlladelphla Press Makes Denial That Children of Today Are Wiser Than Parents Were. An English trade publication, aftei a prolix and profitless discussion of the risks of Issuing juvenile literature, makes this portentous statement: "The simple fact is this children to day are wiser than their parents were. They don't want Robinson Crusoe or Alice in Wonderland. They are up to the Iliad and Dante's Inferno while their parents are reverting with de light to the Immortal books they scorn." We doubt that says the Philadel phia Press. A healthy boy wants and enjoys a boy's books.. Jules Verne wrote them for him; so did Henty, by the score, so did Noah Brooks. The beauty about the boy Is that his lit erary taste If he Is properly reared matures with his years. . He cannot be always tied to apron strings; he escapes from the Swiss Family Robin son to the search for Treasure Island; presently his adolescent eye widens to the clattering hoofs of "The Three Musketeers." Then, as he has aged he has saged; In the words of Robert Louis Stevenson himself, "be takes horse with D'Artagnan." Thenceforth he may open with Impunity the pages of Vlrglnlbus Puerlsque. Meanwhile bis parents have re traced their steps. They are reading again with astonished minds the class. les of their childhood. They see amaz ing beauties, forgotten or un perceived. They are harking back. They are boys again. GOOD . SANITATION IN HAWAII Washing Trough Placed In Dormitory of School Building for Boys to Cleanse Their Feet That the inmates of a boys' school Jn Hawaii may not suffer from un cleanly habits, a unique contrlvanc Is Installed In Its new building. Tht Hawaiian Star tells about It: In the dormitory a new feature hai been adopted, which Is the putting In The Boys Walk Through. of a washing trough. In which the boyi can, cleanse their feet before retiring for the night The trough Is some thirty feet long and ten Inches deep. The boys wall through the troigh and each of them Is handed a towel as he emerges. At the floor all around is cement the ladi walk clean footed to bed. Victor Not Ashamed. Tommy, you have been fighting again," exclaimed a South Side lady to her six-year-old son. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself." T don't see why," proudly responded the young hopeful, "I licked Mm." Water Cure. Here It a pointer to the women: An Atchison woman, seeing that worry wouldn't keep her boy out of the creeks and river, gave her full con sent e'en urging the boy to go. As a result he has lost all .desire for the water. Atchison Globe. Would Go Unwashed. "I'll be glad when I get big enough to wash my own face," said little Wil lie, as his mother finished the opera tion. "Why so, dear?" she asked. " 'Cause then I won't wash It" replied the precocious youth. Would Have Given Warning. - Papa "I hear you hava been a bad girl today and had to be spanked." Small Daughter "Mamma Is awful strict If I'd a known she used to be a school teacher, I'd a told you not to marry her." Jimmte "Dey tell me dat you sale you wus goln' to break my face If I nidnt watch out" Tommy "Well you're watchln' out ain't yer? You're been watchln' fer me ever since I said dat" - : I FOR SPRAINS. C M. Northrop, BUbea, Aruu, writwi "I harebeenusiner Mexican Mustang Lin iment for a Drained foot with area! results. It's an awful line remedy for such ailments. ' ' It penetrates oulcklr. remoreaall inflam mation and reduce the swelling. I 25c 50c $labottle at Drat A CenT Stores C0ULDN7 REPEAT THOUGHTS Newly Married Man Would Not Tell Wife What He Was Thinking of When He Missed Train. "Alfred," she asked, cuddling up t blm, "do you tell me all yoiu thoughts?" "Why do you ask that, you foolisl little girl?" "Because I love you so. You prom Ised that you would tell me every thing. Do you?" "Oh, you wouldn't want me to tell you everything, would you?" She drew away from him In sudden fright Her worst suspicions wer verified. "You are deceiving me!" she ex claimed. "You " "No, no, my dear, don't think that I wouldn't deceive you for the world." "You have just admitted that you don't tell me all your thoughts." "Well, there are some that" "Don't! Don't!" she cried. "You are going to lie. I hate lies the worst of all things. I" Her feelings overcame her, and she covered her face with her hands. "Don't be silly," he begged. "Silly!" she tragically replied. "Do you call It silly for me to refuse to be deceived?" "You are not deceived. I never " "You have Just admitted that you have thoughts which you cannot tell me!" "Oh, I could tell them to you; but I don't think you would care to have me do so." "Then what are they?" 'They are the thoughts I think when I have to run to the station In the morning owing to a late breakfast, and see the train moving out of the station." When Your Eyes Need Care Try Marine Eye Remedy. No Smarting Feels Fine Acta Quickly. Try it for Red, Weak. Watery Eyea aud Uramilated Eyelids. Illu trated Book in each Package. Murine la compounded by oar Oculists not a "Patent Med icine'' but nsed In successful Physicians' Prao Ilea for many years. Now dedicated to the Pub lic and sold bylruitKlMs at IBo and 60c per Bottle Murine Kye Salvo In Aseptlo Tabes, 2So and 600 Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago Primrose Day. Primrose day (in England), the an niversary of the death of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfleld, had 1U origin lb the tribute, a modest wreath of primroses, sent by Queen Victoria for the funeral of Beaconsfleld. The general Impression that the primrose was Beaconsfleld's "favorite" flower came from a misunderstanding of the words attached to the queen's tribute: "P. Victoria. His favorite flower." The publio thought the queen meant that the primrose was Beaconsfleld's fa vorite flower, when In truth she meant that It was the favorite flower of the Wince consort Emerson on Woman Suffrage. if a woman .demands .votes, offices, and political equality with men, as among the shakers an elder and elder ess are of equal power and among the Quakers It must not be refused. It Is very cheap wit that finds It so droll that women should rote. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Red Crca Ball Blue will wash double as many clothes as any other blue. Don't put your money into any other. Caution's Choice. "A man of your enerrr and tni.nfi should take an active part In politics." -wo, replied Dustln Stax. "I prefer Mg business. In politics when you leclde to forget the details of a trans action some one Is sure to pull an old tcrap book on yon." Pineapple for 8ore Throat A Honolulu remedy for sore throat is fresh Dlneannla. much digest The effect Is said to be mar reious. Bach's Place In Muslo. Bach was known as the master a the organ. He is responsible for the present system of piano playing, the use of all the fingers. 8ome Mosquitoes Don't Sting. It Js the female mosmiito that rlnoa all the biting. Those that have the feathery, plume-like antennae are the tnaies ana taey are harmless. Fashion's Dangers. Fashion is dangerous, not only be cause it swallows UD fortunes anil vir. lues, but because It reveals vonr mn.f intimate thoughts to all who can read- And Then They . Envy Others. Most men An not ...