The West Side Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 9, 1894 Page: 4 of 4
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WEAKNE9S OF BIG IRONCLADS.
Tftloable Lcahou* Taught by the Mcturii
DIuMtcr Id the Itrltlnh Nary.
The following are tho principal
points of tho speech in which L rd
Armstrong, at the meeting of sharr
holders of his famous company, e\"
pressed his views concerning the
dangers involved in the construction
of gigantic ironclads
The ram of the Camperdown, al-
though striking with a restricted
momentum, was buried deep in"
the side of the Victoria, and :t can-
not be doubted that while armor 1-
in a great measure effective against
projectiles and netting against tor;-
does nothing can withstand tho pow-
er of tho rain. But although in tho
case of this dreadful accident the
blow of the ram was inflicted with
incomparably less foiw than that
due to the full speed of tho ship the
damage done to the ramming ve—il
was such as to place her in imminent
danger of following her vi< tun t■ >tli«-
bottom. It npi>eai-B, therefore, that
the strength and stability of the
prow and ram of the Camperdown
aro quite insufficient to enable her
to deliver an effective stroke against
an adversary without at the - imo
time imperiling her own flotation.
This is like having a great ;.'iin that
cannot be fired for fear it should
burst, and I apprehend that what ap-
plies to the rain of the Camperdown
would apply equally to the ram of
every great battleship in the British
service.
Vessels specially designed for ram-
ming need not tie large nor costly,
and they would be free from all the
complications of battleships. Per
sonal dash, of which there is no want
in the British navy, would bo the
chief quality required in directing
their use, and the occasional loss of
such a vessel would be of small ini
portance in comparison with that of
a battleship. I am theroforoof opin
ion that a considerable numlierof in
expensive ram ships should form an
item in ,.:iy future shipbuilding pro-
gramme.
While on this subject I cannot re
frain from expressing my apprehen-
sion as to tho disastrous effect of
high explosive shells discharged in
vast numbers from quick firing guns
against the unarmored portions of our
battleships. The experiments made
some years ago with such shells
against the Resistance, which was
an armored ship of small value given
up for experiment, proved that such
shells would be competent to wreck
tho unprotected plating down to or
possibly bolow the water level, and
that even where a streak of armor
was applied at tho waterline the
damage might be low enough down
to cause the ship to lie flooded by
the wash of the sea. It was proved
also that armor of small thickness
insured the burstiug of these shells
harmlessly outside of the ship, which
of course raises thequestion whether,
if armor has to be used at all, it
ought not to be applied m varying
thickness over the whole ship Chi-
cago Herald.
Cleaning by Sand IIIait.
A successful method of applying
the sand blast to thecleaning of pub-
lic buildings externally is found to
bo by the use of an apparatus in the
shape of a sheet tin tubo of Be ime :i
feet length and 2J inches diameter,
this being lient into a goose neck
at one end and terminating in a 2
inch nozzle. A second tube, an
inch in diameter, enters the first at
the upper bend of the goose neck and
terminates about three inches inside,
being thus central with tho nozzle.
The sand is fed with the proper de-
gree of directness and force through
this tube from a hopper and is pro-
jected steadily against the work by
an air blast through the outer tube.
It is stated that with an air pressure
of two pounds per square inch at the
nozzle one square foot of marble will
be abraded to a depth of one thirty-
second of an inch to one sixty-fourth
of an inch in one minute, leaving a
fresh clean surface. New York Sun.
FuneraU In Scotland.
In Scotland the custom still pre-
vails of taking down the window
blinds at tho death and hanging
white sheets across tho windows.
The custom also prevails in tho
north of England, and in many fam-
ilies a special sheet reserved for tho
death chamber is kept lor the pur-
pose and often used from generation
to generation.
In many parts of Scotland, too, it
is still customary for the nearest rel-
atives of the deceased to lower the
body into tho grave and wait by tho
sido until the grave is filled up.—
Westminster Gazette.
Horace Greeley ami 111* lirlde.
"When ho was first married and
brought his bnde home on a visit,"
said an old acquaintance, "a sugar
party was given in their honor on a
neighboring farm. All the guests had
arrived, and wo were looking out,
watching for the belated bride and
groom At last we saw something
appearing in the distance. As this
samo object ?ame nearer we discov-
ered it was the old white horse of the
Oreeleys, slowly picking his way
through the mud. On his back sat
tho bride in a brilliant yellow frock,
with a green velvet belt, and behind
her, wrapped in his famous white
overcoat, the editor of the New
York Tribune. It was the funniest
sight I evei -aw and set us off in tits
of laughing I remember." conclud-
ed my inform.int. laughing again at
I her recolle<■:1 >ii. "that 1 simply lay
down and i d upon the floor in a
spasm of mirth
Mr (tree: ■ •amo home every year
and after i d iy or two on the farm
would star; out to walk miles and
call on iieo].!e lie was never known
to kuoi-k at n farmhouse door. No
matter win ier lie knew the inmates
or not, lie v i uld push open the door,
walk right in, sit down by the tire-
place and full to discussing crops and
other t-/pi> - ileal- to the farmer's
heart Evt i . > h was glad to wel-
come this :■ itie, brusque intruder.
— Pre*?-. anil Printer.
IMrkiiiN and Ills Wife.
My first x i -\v of Dickens was at an
evening pai l : when he was standing
intliemulst of a circleof ladies re-
lieving himself in very energetic
terms of hi- impressions do voyage.
His ha'i v..'- long and light ami
looked as if it had not recovered
from the tangle incident to days of
seasick misery. Ho Imd brought
with him two velvet waistcoats of
full dress, one a vivid green, the
other a brilliant crimson These
xvero further ornamented by a pro-
fusion of gold watch chain. In 1841
a black satin waistcoat was almost
the national costume of a gentleman
in America, so that Mr. Dickens' viv-
id tints weii) very conspicuous.
Mrs. Dickens was a small woman
of about 30 Her position as tho
lion's mate seemed embarrassing to
her. She was not accustomed to
dwell in "the fierce light'' that shone
upon every deed and word of the
popular idol, and she evidently found
satisfaction in quiet talks with mo
concerning the best shojis in Oxford
street and other such homely and
familiar matters. There was no sign
then of any disagreement or incom-
patibility between husband and wife
On the whole I should have said that
in those days Mrs. Dickens showed
signs of having been born and bred
her husband's social superior.—Eliza-
beth Wormerly in Lippincott's Mag-
azine.
Ilow to Atcetid Stair*.
The manner in which people go up
stall's is proiluctiveof many ailments,
and a careful observer who under-
stands the anatomy of the body would
not wonder that it is so. Notice how
much of tho "dead lift" there is about
it. The feet and legs are made to act
us levers, not only to force the weight
of the body up, but also the addi-
tional weight which is tho result of
inertia. Instead of raising the chest
and animating the body to lift its
own weight, we liend the body near
ly double, cramping the organs, bin
i dering free circulation and eonse
quently easy breathing. Panting for
breath we reach the top, but in the
effort what a sjieotaele we present!
Going up stairs is easy and healthful
when properly done. We will not
say that it will not quicken the pulse,
for in this as in any other exercise
tho rapidity and force of muscular
action determine the rate with which
the blood is forced to and from tho
heart.—Good Housekeeping.
HE FORESTALLED COLUMBUS.
|fuw America Wm First Discovered by m
Scandinavian Bey.
Almost 450 years before Christo-
pher Columbus was born America
was discovered by a Scandinavian boy
named Biorn, son of Hergolf. He
was known by no other title, for in
those days sons did not share the fa-
ther's name.
In the year 1002, Hergolf, an Ice-
land colonist, fitud out two small
vessels for a trading voyage to the
Greenland settlement and placed
one of these under the command of
his win Biorn, a youth of lfi years,
who having been bred to the sea al-
most since infancy had mastered the
details of Ins profession by the time
that he arrived at an age when other
boys commence their apprenticeship.
When near the southern coast of
Greenland, Biorn's ship encountered
a heavy northeasterly gale, which
lasted several days and drove his ves-
sel far to the south and west. The
storm broke in the night, and when
morning dawned he discovered a
strange land close aliourd. Sailing
along the coast for some distance he
found a large bay into which he
steered and dropped anchor Upon
landing the country was seen to lie
clothed with vegetation and the
streams swarming with fine salmon.
Trees of large growth grew in great
numliers just back of the shore, and
the climate was balmy and delight-
ful. Of natives they saw nothing
and believed the land uninhabited.
Rejoiced over his important dis-
covery Biorn returned to Iceland and
communicated the news to his friend
Lief, son of Eric the Red, who had
founded the colony on the coast of
that island. Tho two ambitious
young meii immediately entered into
an agreement to share the expense
of equipping a suitable vessel, sailing
to this newly discovered land and
bringing liack whatever cargo prom-
ised to reimburse them for fitting out
the ship.
Their first sight of the new land
was not calculated to impress Lief
with a promise of its fniitfulness,
for it was rocky, barren and gloomy.
This gave rise to openly expressed
disatisfaction on his part, but Biorn
assured him that farther south they
would meet with green fields and
woodlands. After the fashion of the
early navigators in naming geogra-
phical discoveries according to the
features first presented, this place
they called Helleland, and to the low
sandy shore which they observed be-
yond it and which was covered in
spots with clumps of small trees they
gave the name of Markland. Two
days later they fell in with anew line
of coast, and sailing along this for
several hows Biorn made out the
bay in which he had anchored on his
previous voyage. Into this harbor
they brought tho ship and moored
her
TUtJ All Marrlod H«r.
"You see that woman going along
there f" said a well known mining
man, whose office is in the Mining
Exchange building, to a reporter
with whom he was talking. The
friend nodded inquiringly.
"Well, that woman was at one
time my wife," responded the first
speaker. "Most people think I am a
bachelor, but I will say to you confi-
dentially that I am a sort of a wid-
ower. The peculiar part of it is that
there were three of us young fel-
lows who all courted the same girl
back in our little country town, but
I was fortunate—or unfortunate-
enough to marry the girl.
"Well, we lived together about
three weeks when the woman frank-
ly admitted to me that she loved
Frank, one of the other admirers,
tietter than she did me. There was
no quarrel, and although I naturally
felt aggrieved we concluded to sei>a
rate. At first I refused to give her a
divorce, but after a year's separation
1 thought better of the matter, and
the separation was legalized.
"I soon camo west, and shortly aft-
er my departure I learned that she j
had married my rival. Sho lived
with him ouly a year when he died,
and in less than 18 months afterward
she married the third one of the lov
ers who liad courted her when she
was a girl, and she is now living with
him on Capitol hill in this city.
"We are all good friends now, and
I have dined in their house several
times. The first time I called at the
house the situation was somewhat
embarrassing, but no mention was
made of our former relations, the wo-
man treating me as she would any
other friend."—Denver Times.
THOMAS & HOBBS.
Livery, Feed,
Sale Stable
ENID, O. T.
Special Rates to Commercial Men
EL RENO BOTTLING WORKS
The Leading Bottling Works in the West.
Manufactures all kinds of :
Soda Pop, Mineral Water,
Ciders, Etc.. Etc.
Can Supply the Trade at all points on short notice.
E. S. DOUGAN&CO
A Family Affair.
When I was about 18 years old, I
had a neighbor who made a regular
practice of getting drunk Saturday
afternoon and whipping his wife
when he got home at night. I talked
to tho good woman about it, and she j
felt she was badly abused. Finally
I decided I would collect a crowd of
young men to go to his house on the
next Saturday night, and if the old
man should again attempt to whip
liis wife we would take him out and
whip him.
We let the good woman know that
we were coming, and that she would
be protected. This seemed to meet
with her approval, and she thanked
me profusely. On the appointed Sat-
urday the old man came to town and
got "full" as usual. When he start-
ed home, we followed him at a dis-
tance, so that he did not know of our
presence. When he reached the
house, he began cursing and abusing
tho woman, and finally got a clap-
board and commenced beating her
cruelly. So in we rushed and took
hold of the old man, but quicker than
a flash the woman seized a kettle of
ATTENTION
VETERANS
This Vinlaud of the early voyagers | water and threw it all over
is known at the present day as New- U6, course we left, but I ve got
After making several 8carB on m-v back yet that ahva>'8 re
PENSIONS,
BACK PAY.
BOUNTY
AND
foundland
short cruises to the southward and
westward and sailing through the
Gulf of St. Lawrence until the river
of that name had been reached the
ship returned to her first anchorage,
where the explorers passed the whi-
ter.
In the account of this remarkable
voyage, made five centuries before
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
bade godspeed to the Italian naviga-
tor in the Spanish harbor of I'alos, it
is recorded by Biorn and Lief that
the length of the shortest day during
the winter of the year 1002-3 was
eight hours. This proves conclusive-
ly that this Vinland of theirs was no
farther north than Newfoundland,
otherwise the length of
mind and warn me not to interfere in
family troubles.—Meade County Mes-
senger.
COMMUTATION
would have lieen shorter.— Harper's
Young People.
Heck's Narrow Kirape.
David Beck, the celebrated por '
trait painter and pupil of Vandyke,
while traveling through Germany
was suddenly taken ill, and to all ap
pearance died and was laid out a
corjise. His servants sitting round
the lied grieved heartily for the loss
of so good a master, and as grief is j
thirsty drank as heartily at thesame |
time. One of them, liecoming more I
befuddled than the rest, then ad- j
dressed liis companions thus: "Our
master when alive was fond of his j
glass. Let us now out of gratitude
the day j then give him one, now he is dead.''
OR RATIONS OBTAINED.
Certificates of Service Procured.
Till' Toad In MrrtitBTBl Medicine..
Strange as it may seem to some, the
ingredients of the witches'raldron in
"Macbeth," at least a part of them,
were once standard remedies among
Europeans. In tho tenth and elev-
enth centuries a sovereign cure for
ague was the swallowing of a small
toad that had been choked to diath
on St. John's eve, and a splendid
remedy for rheumatism was to fast-
en the bands of clothing with pins
that had lieen stuck into the flesh of
either a toiul or a frog. Physicians
frequently recommended the water
from a toad's brain for mental affec-
tions, and that a live toad be rubbed
over the diseased parts as a cure for
the quinsy.—St. Louis Republic.
One Thing at a Time.
"When I was a little boy helpin
mother to storo away the apples, I
put my arm round ever so many o'
them an tried to bring them all. I
managed for a step or two. Then
one fell out, an another an two or
three more, till they was all rollin
over the floor. Mother laughed.
"'Now, Dan'el,' says she, 'I'm goin
to teach you a lesson.' So she put
my little hands quite tight round
one.
" 'There,' said she, 'bring that, an
then fetch another.'
"I've often thought about it when
I've seen folks who might lie doin
ever so much good if they didn't try
to do too much all at orce. Don't go
try in to put your arms round a year,
an don't go troublin about next week
"One day at a time
Giiare oi Desertion removed
Assent was given, the head of
the dead painter was raised up
and some wine poured down or
spilled about, the fragrance or spirit
of which caused Beck to open his
eyes, upon which the servant, who . .
being drunk, half forgetting his mas Years Experience lmlension Office Work
ter was dead, forced down the re
mainder of the glass. The painter
gradually revived and thus escaped '
a living interment.—Sala's Journal
CALL ON OR ADDRESS
EipenRlvu JapaneNc Newspapers.
Everything is cheap in Japan but
newspapers. Those printed in tho
English language are 20centsacopy;
weekly editions, 50 cents a copy;
daily papers for one year, usually
to |25. Tho newspit]x>rs quote and
copy largely from tho American
press, and when a mail arrives from
America tho next day 's Japan Mail,
Gazette and other English printed
newspapers contain a digest of all
the topics of the day, troiu Judge
Goggin's decision down to the last
railway iccident—Chicago Record.
Jerry—Say, Tom, when are you
going to pay me that $10?
Tom—I'd give a dollar to know my
self, and if you can tell me you may
ehaage thnt due bill to $11. Detroit
Ww
ige ti
i Pre
Australian Nickname*.
The Now South Wales men aro
called "Cornstalks," because they aro
tall and slim; the Victorians are
known as "Gumsuckers," in allusion
to the eucalyptus or gum tree;
Queensland folk are "Bananahind
ers," for tho banana grows plenti-
fully there; and the South Austra
bans are dubbed "Croweaters," lie
cause, so it is whispered, the early
lolonists shot down crowsaud fed oi>
diem when no other food could be
got.—London Tit-Bits.
Mi act liens.
Jess Jack's entire thoughtlessness
was what captivated me.
Bess—What did he say to you when
he proposed to you
Jess—It ran thus, I have never
loved a woman as 1 do you since—
since—ireferring to his notebook)—
since—let mo see—Tuesday, the 18tb
of Julv."- Boston Globe
minute—yes, one second is all the
time wo get at once. So our best
course is to 'do the next thingnext.' "
—Rest Islander.
Canniballvni.
Polack relates an argument with a
Whangaroa chief on the subject of j
cannibalism. "If I do not eat my J
enemy when I catch him," argued)
the Maori, "he will not show the j
same self denial when he catches me.
In short, what in nature is there that
is alive that will not eat readily of j
its kind! There," continued the sub-!
tlo dignitary, pointing to a hawk,
"tho kahu will eat other birds, and 1
one hour, one I tho larger species will devour him."
T .F. HENSLE Y & BRO.
418 2d Street, N. W
WASHINGTON. D. C.
A hog passing by closed the argu-
ment. "Would you eat that pig f" j.
I nodded significantly in the affirm
A Hay of Light.
The straiglitest thing in nature or
art, says Engineering Mechanics, is a
ray of light when passing through a
medium of uniform density. Hence
the eye is enabled to test tliestraight-
tiess of an edge or tube by holding it
as nearly as possible coincident with
a ray of light, such parts as depart
from straightness then intercepting
a ray and causing a shade to bo cast
upon other parts. It is not known
at what early period in the history
of mankind the discovery was made
that straightness could be thus deter-
; mined. It is certain that thousands
of mechanics use tho method daily
without being able to give a rational
explanation of it—New Orleans
Times ' icrat.
ative. "Well," continued the apolo-
gist for cannibalism, "bait him and
see if he will refuse a piece of your-
self."—Auckland News.
C. B. WEEKS,
W. S. DENTON.
T. G. CHAMBERS.
Attorney - at - Law,
Enid, -
He Told the Truth.
An Irish gentleman had a splendid
looking cow, but she kicked so much
that it took a very long time and it
was almost impossible to milk her, so
he sent her to a fair to lie sold and
told his herdsman to be sure not to _________
sell her without letting the buyer
know her faults. He brought home 1 TTf")TTQrPT'M'
a large price which he had got for it j
His master was surprised and said,
"Are you sure you told all about
hert" "Bedad, I did, sir," said the
herdsman. "He asked me whether
she was a good milker. 'Begorra, sir,'
says I, 'it's you'd lie tired milking
ber.'"jJeveutyYears < >f Irish I.ifiv "
Okla.
Will pruetlrc 111 all ihi' i-oujU, bt'fnri' il.e
I s. Innd ami (1rpnrtmt>nt lit WftHhln^-
DENTON A CHAMBERS,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW.
ENID, - OKLA.
Legal business in all courts and be-
fore tho land office carefully at-
tended to.
AT I'ORNKY-AT-LAW.
okku k Neak Democrat Okkick.
Kit id, 0. T.
JAMES.1 F. E. McCLANE,
'Physician * Surgeon
orrics Nram Land Officb.
h
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Enid,
Okla.
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