The Edmond Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1911 Page: 4 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 22 x 17 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
CL HATH HE
CDmRD D. CLARK
QOf*Yfi/CS/T 3Y W.A PATrfffJOrt
their own hands they dug the
graves for the dead and with
their own lips repeated over
them the burial service.
Captain Langdon In the far
north heard of the yellow fe-
ver
Btantly relinquished his leave
of absence and hastened to
return to his station. Pome
months before the outbreak of
the fever Lieutenant Bell had
put In an application to be de-
tailed as instructor of military
science at the University of
Vermont The application had
heat was fearful. There was
not a pound of Ice on the
Island and many of the deatha
that followed one after anoth-
i
□
TH£ /?fPO/?r /m$
mi/MOE/tOU3
i tfc
mm
I HHSw" 1 ■
MRhrr
In the Three-Room Flat
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
r THE war and navy depart-
incuts would publish in book
form the records of the serv
Ice of officers and men in
times of peace the read en
thereof would be dlaposseaed
of the thought that all the
hardships undergone and all
the heroism displayed by men
' of the armed forces were of
necessity connected with deeds
of warfare. There ure many
thrilling stories and many hu-
man interest stories In the
"peace records" of the army
and navy.
Recently the monitor Purl-
tan. a heavily armored craft
of one of the older types, was
used for purposes of experi-
ment with a new high explo-
sive. Willard 3. Isham. an ordinance engineer.
Invented the explosive, and his claim was that
with it a vessel could be destroyed from the
outsldo Just as well as from the Inside. It has
been held that high explosives lose their force
unless more or less confined. It was known to
be the rule that the effect of the explosion
generally went upward and outward away from
the object against which it was discharged.
Mr. Isham believed that a charge of his ammu-
nition against the side of a vessel would open
the armor and would not expend Its force In
the air.
The monitor Puritan was chosen for the ex-
periment. A charge of 200 pounds of the ex-
plosive was placed In an unconflned condition
against the Puritans armor plate near the
atern. Capt. A. M. Knight, president of the
Copyright. 1910, by Aaaociuted LJterary
Tin sick of boarding!" Bob Drake
er were duo to the lack of this threw himself Into the big chair In
necessity. There were 20 the first floor front room and glow-
cases of the fever and for days ered at his room mate.
and nights continuously the "Well—I'm not a boarding house
devoted lieutenant command- keeper, am I? You needn't look at
er the surgeons and the me as If I had gotten the clam In the
nurses knew no rest. With chowder tonlght-1 swear 1 didn't."
Jimmy Rogers took his pipe from
the mantel and lighted It leisurely
while he looked at Drake through
half-closed lids. Why don't you get
married—If you—"
"Cut It out—the only girl threw me
a neuru ui mo ;onwn
nt Fort Jefferson He In- down yenr and a ha" Bgo and 1 m
at Fort Jefferson. He ^ ^ bach£,or for the rest o( my
days."
"I'm sorry, old man—I didn't
know—"
"It's all right, only—" Drake looked
out Into a sunlit sky—"there's no other
girl for me."
"Some other fellow I suppose?"
"No." Drake laughed a short, harsh
laugh, "she gave me up for a box of
THE NOTTS J T f=LACJ? Qfi A BATTLE JH/P *
special ordnance board, with four volunteer
sailors agreed to stay on board the Puritan
when the explosive was detonated. More than
this. Captain Knight had the task of punching
small holes in the explosive with a lead pencil
to permit the introduction of fuses. This was
an exceedingly delicate operation and because
of the fact that the explosive was a new com-
bination It was possible that something might
happen during the puncturing, lightly as It
was performed. After the fuses were inserted
Captain Knight connected electric wires with
thom and then went forward to a position on
the berth deck with the four enlisted men
who elected to stay on board with him.
The ordnance board officer turned a switch
and the explosion took place. The report was
thunderous. "It felt like an earthquake," said
Captain Knight afterward. With his men the
venturesome captain escaped injury, but their
heroism was JuBt as real as if they had been
blown to atoms, for because of the fact that
the explosive was a comparatively unknown
quantity, no one could tell definitely what
might happen.
Writing of the Puritan, which Is a monitor,
brings to mind the fact that officers and men
serving on vessels of this typo undergo hard-
ships of which the people of the country know
little. The monitor gradually Is passing as an
active service vessel and it Is not likely that
anybody connected with the service from ad-
miral down to cook's mate is sorry for it. The
heat In the monitors Is something intense, and
as the waves wash over the low decks of the
vessels when any kind of a breeze Is blowing
the men are confined below with no air except
such as is pumped down tc them by way of
the engiue room, and this air is hot. oily and
productive on many occasions of sickness,
•called sea sickness, but which In reality Is
nothing of the kind, although It has all the
attendant symptoms ot the real article.
The modern battleships are frightfully hot
below decks, especially when they get into
tropical and sub-tropical waters. A civilian
who went to Panama with President Taft said
that in his cabin when dressing for dinner he
was obliged to stand directly In the draught of
a blow pine to prevent the profuse perspira-
tion from so "melting" the bosom of his dress
shirt that It would be unpresentable when he
appeared at the president s table. The ther-
mometer In the staterooms stood at about 112
degrees.
Some years ago an officer who was sta-
tioned on a monitor was found dead In his
berth and tho surgeons pronounced his death
to have been caused by apoplexy, heat apo-
plexy the officers of the ship called It. An old
naval officer In Washington has told me that
the thermometer In the cabin of the officer
who died stpod at 140 degrees and that the
death was due solely to a heat stroke.
During tho Spanish war the monitor Mlan-
tonomah was on blockadlug duty off the port
of Havana. Cuba. The Miantonomah Is an old
stael monitor "aaed In metal and with the
deck Just peeping above the water. When the
sea was calm and the sky was clear the sun
beat down cn the metal and the men who had
stood tho night watches and were trying to
sleep suffered more severely than do tho
people In the crowded back tenements In New
York city on a hot July night when death
walks through the streets. An officer who
served on a monitor during the Spanish war
told ine that the average temperature for a
long period of time In his cabin was 104 de-
grees.
Recently two young officers not long out
of the naval academy were forced to resign
from the service because they were constantly
seasick while on service on the battleships.
The young fellows stuck It out for several voy-
ages, but when It Is remembered that a seasick
man as a rule Is so sick that he Is perfectly
willing to die, it can bo understood what these
young fellows suffered during the weeks of
the voyaging. They resigned from the navy
simply because they could not be of any serv-
ice. They were sick from the moment the voy-
age began until they were back once more In
port. They were competent officers and since
their resignation they have been given land
berths as officers of heavy artillery In the
United States army.
I asked an old naval officer recently, a man
who served on tho old frigate Constitution. If
he knew of any cases of chronic seasickness
among officers and men during the old days
of the service. He said he knew of only one
case, that of an officer who developed seasick-
ness after some years of service, but that it
was thought that a slight Injury to his spine
had affected his stomach and that It was this
more than the motion of the vessel which was
the cause of his ailment.
This same veteran officer said that there
Is considerable seasickness today In the navy,
although comparatively few cases that could
be called chronic, and that they were due, he
believed, more to the heat of the modern steel
vessels than to the motion caused by the
waves. In the old days of wooden Bhlps with
sail power only, there was no heat on board
except that given out by the galley and by the
small stove w hich occasionally was to be found
In the captain's cabin. The cld-tlme ships in
winter were kept In warm climates as much as
possible or otherwise the men would have
frozen to death.
The old wooden vessel, Jamestown, once
commanded by Commodoro Perry, who opened
the ports of Japan to the commerce of the
United 8tates, Is anchored In Hampton Roads,
where It Is used as a marine hospital service
station. A surgeon stationed on the Jamestown
once told me that In tho old days, when the
vessel was In commission the only way the
captain could warm himself without going to
the galley was to have a roundshot heated In
the stove, then dropped Into a bucket of sand
to be carried aft to his cabin, where It gave
out Just enough warmth to temper for a few
moments tho cold of the quarters.
Capt. Edmund B.
Underwood, United
States navy, retired
from the service re-
cently after forty
years' service In the
line. Just aftejr Cap-
tain Underwood
came out of the na-
val academy and
was serving as a
midshipman he was
assigned to the old
ship Osslpee, which
went to Cuba to
bring back a vessel
called the Vlrglnlus,
which had been
seized by the Span-
lards In Cuba and
Its crew of Amerl?
cans put to death.
This country came
near having a war
with Spain over the
Vlrglnlus incident.
When the Ossipee
was towing the Vlr-
glnlus back to America Midshipman Under-
wood was one of two or three officers who
were assigned to the Vlrglnlus to look after It
while the towing process was on.
The life on board the Vlrglnlus Is one that
It Is impossible to describe. The Spaniards
had left her in such a filthy state that living
on board was intolerable even after cleasing
processes had been tried. After a few day8 on
board that ship the men looked as tnougn
they had been through a siege of slckneai .
Finally when off the Virginia capes the v r-
glnlus gave every evidence of being In a sin
ing condition. She foundered quickly and the
officers and men on board escaped to the Os-
slpee, being obliged to leave their belongings
behind. Tho beneficent United States govern-
ment, because of some red tape reason or
other, declined to make good to the devoted
sailors the property which they had lost
through no fault of their own and In direct line
of duty.
Captain Underwood was for two years In
command of the United States government sta-
tion In the Samoan Islands. He was consid-
ered one of the handsomest men In the service
of his country. He was over six feet high,
finely proportioned and a fine physical speci-
men generally. No war with man went on In
tho Samoan Islands, but the heat and the food
and the devlllshness of the climate generally
did the work of the battlefield. If Captain
Underwood had never been given an assign-
ment at the Samoan Islands It Is probable
that he would have continued In the active
service until the age limit of sixty-two years
was reached. The dangers of wnrfare are not
the only ones by any means that navy and
army officers are obliged to meet
It may do no harm here to recall the story
of the heroism of Lieut. James E. Bell of the
United States army, who died because of his
devotion to duty, died at a time when no bul-
lets were flying, but when an even deadlier
foe of necessity must be met. This story has
been published many times, but It has Its ever-
lasting lesson.
Fort Jefferson, on the Tortugas, In August
of the year 1873 was garrisoned by Battery M,
First United States artillery. Outside of the
surgeons there was only one officer, Lleuten.
ant Bell, at the rost. Capt. L. L. Langdon had
been granted a leave of absence to go north
to the bedside of his dying father. On August
28 yellow fever arpeared at the post. Within
two dajjs four of the garrison had died. Upon
the first announcement of the appearance of
the scourge Lieutenant Bell sent all the women
and children and some of the married men to
an island three miles away. Within a day or
two he yent to the same place nearly all the
well men of the garrison, retaining only
enough to nurse the sick. There could have
been no criticism of Bell's course had he gone
with the garrlscn. leaving the sick to the care
of the surgeons and the nurses. He stayed and
devoted himself to tho sick in the hospital, as-
sisted by the men who had volunteered. Th«
been granted and Captain palntg but , would take her back—
I-augdon. hurrying southward pajnts anJ rfl_)f sh(,,d hav0 me ,
to Join his command, carried fcer #t tha (lm0 j never would.
In his pocket the order reliev- but_j bav8 had eighteen months in
lug Lieutenant Bell from duty wMeh to thl])k out her B,d0 of the
at Fort Jefferson and detailing qU(,6„on ..
him for work In Vermont. ,.j BUppose jt was the time-worn
Langdon reached his post .career or love'—to tell you the truth,
Bobby, I think you are better ofT with-
out a girl who goes about with the
career notion In her head, tempera-
ments and things." Jimmy was get-
ting interested In his own argument.
"Some day you will run across a nice
little fluffy girl who won't know a Ru-
bens from a Gibson and she will make
you as happy as a clam."
"Thanks. But the domestic kind
don't make any hit with me—I would
much prefer to pay a housekeeper and
be—"
"By Jove! You've hit It—let's get
a good housekeeper and take a fur-
He called In his first lieutenant and said: 1 nlshed flat!"
have here orders transferring you Immediately Jimmy was up and looking for the
to Vermont. You have done a noble work here, i niorning paper before Drake realized
There Is no reason why you should stay longer.
You have been through enough of this awful
thing. Go."
Bell said: "Captain, I don't want the order.
If I rend it I suppose 1 shall have to obey simply
because it is an order. You keep it in your
pocket until the fever Is over and then I'll read
It and go."
Langdon ehook hands with him.
Bell went on with his work. In a few days
he felt the hot hand of tho scourge on his brow.
He went to his tent, pulled up his little camp
table and wrote an official letter to the assist-
ant adjutant general at hea quarters of the de-
partment of tho gulf, Holly Springs, Miss. It
was a long letter, covering many pages. There
was In Bell's heart that day the fear that he
might die and leave undone an act of duty to
others. He cherished the thought of the loyalty
of the surgeons and the enlisted men who had I
so nobly performed their duties to the sick and |
dying, facing the fever and death Itself without 1
flinching. He mentioned In this official com- j
municatlon each doctor and man by name.recom- j
mending them for recognition at the hands of j
tho department. Of himself he said nothing, '
his whole thought was that recognition should ;
be given to others.
Lieut. James E. Bell put down his pen, went
to the hospital and in three days was dead.
MARKED BY A MIRACLE
Extraordinary excitement has been caused
among the peasants in the neighborhood of
Kiltimagh, County Mayo, this week, by a
series of what are described as miraculous hap-
penings at the convent there, a Dublin corre-
spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
writes.
Among tho children who are being educated
by the good nuns of Kiltimagh is a girl of
thirteen, who has been an inmate of the con-
vent school for the last three or four years.
She Is descrlbec as extremely docile and af-
fectionate and more than usually religious. A
few nights ago one of the nuns was awakened
by fearful screams from the dormitory where
the girl slept, and on going to her she was told
that the child had had a terrible dream, in
which she saw Christ on the cross and a sol-
dier driving a lance into his side.
Ruth Herself Appeared.
that he was serious. "Wonder why
he never thought of that before?"
"You're a wonder, Jimmy, and I sup-
pose you are going to spend this lovely
Sunday climbing up dark, dingy apart-
ment stairs and dragging me along."
Drake's voice had a hint of eagerness
in It. The scheme appealed to him
and In a moment two heads were bur-
led In the "Furnished Flat" column of
a morning paper.
"This sounds good!" Jimmy cut
out a paragraph and read: "Three
rooms and bath artistically furnished
Elevator. Fifty dollars a month. That's
6hort and to the point, and It Is on
Mornlngside, Just a couple of squares
up. It is early, but what do you say
to going right up and looking at It?"
"I'm on!" Bobby Drake Jumped up
and the two were soon out In the
The nun comforted her and she went to brisk April air.
sleep, but In the morning she complained that i
her arm was sore and on examination it was
found to be marked with a cross in red and
underneath the cross were tho letters "I. H.
S." A few days later a crown of thorns ap-
Wlth the clipping from the paper
safely in hand, they rang the bell of
the advertised number. The card on
the door read. A. Ivery.
There was a scurrying of feet from
peared below the cross and the letters "I N. I wlth*" and a Jlm^onP^to look
R. I.," and these were followed by the appear- ! *>o. Alice y
ance of a chalice surmounted by a hdst In at*ie al[)ar !n°" - _
. . . , . . The hearts of both men gave a
red. The marks have been examined by the 11 . nnanaA .n<« a
parish priest. Rev. Father O'Hara. and by Dr. fl^P "'a ZZlZlZ
Madden of Kiltimagh. who vouch for their be- , J'1™- y ' ,h
Ing there, but decline to express any opinion a. lB_thal ls_we Baw an adver-
to their cause. It is said that during the doo | cnt_,. Jlmmv was stammerlng,
tor's examination the stigmata bled freely. Tho
ward then and met the hand whlcn
took hers aa In a viae.
"Are you flat hunting?" The very
foolishness of her question In bo tens®
a moment snapped the cord and alL
four young persons laughed. And
Jimmy so far forgot the fact that he
did not know either girl that he an-
swered glibly:
"Why, no—wo are hunting mush-'
rooms with wabbly eyes."
Alice Avery's silvery laugh rang out
and she cast a demure glance at
Jimmy. "Perhaps you would like to
seo the view from the fire escape,"
she said, looking pointedly at Drake
and Ruth Denning, who looked aa If
a new world had suddenly sprung up,
before them. Jimmy took the hint
and followed the little blue figure to
a miniature kitchen, where he perched
himself upon the enameled tubs to
enjoy the novel situation.
In the other room Bob Drake was
speaking.
"Why are you renting your apart-
ment, Ruth? Does it mean that you
are—that you have failed?" The tru©
sympathy in Bob's voice brought un-
told triumph to Ruth Denning. When
she spoke she had gained command
of herself and her steady gray eyes
met his without flinching and telling1
no tale of her Innermost feelings.
"No, I have not failed. On the con-
trary, I have succeeded even beyond!
my greatest expectatlfcns. Didn't you.
hear Alice Ivery tell you—"
"I heard nothing after she had
8poken your name."
"Bobby, I have won the great Ley-
Ian prize, and they are sending me to
Paris for three years—" The last
note ended In a sob and she was In
hib arms. She had kept up bravely
during the long, hard competition, and
now for the first time she fully real-
ized the greatness of her achievement.
Bob Drake had learned much about
Ruth and the depths of her moods
during their long separation, and novi
he held her quietly until the heavy-
sobbing had ceased.
"I'm awfully silly." Ruth looked up
at Drake through shining tears. "The
struggle has been long and hard. Bob-
by, dear, and I have wanted you to bo
here so terribly at times."
"Dear," Drake asked, tenderly,
"when do you sail?"
"I am not going—now." Ruth looked
up quickly.
Bobby smiled. "Yes you are." He
knew that this withdrawal of tho
stronger Ruth was but momentary.
"You are golnc over to the land of art
and work even harder than you havo
here—because you have more at
stake."
"More at stake! How can I havo
now that I have won—you?"
"Winning is only the first step." ho
answered with a quizzical light In his
eyes.
"Robert Drake! Do you mean to
tell mo that you would cease to lovo
me If I failed at the last minute and
gave up my art?"
"I mean exactly that. The girl I
have always loved Is not made of tho
stuff that gives up." He lifted her
face and looked Into her eyes. "You
would not be that girl If you gave up."
"I have indeed won." the girl
breathed softly.
"Oh, I say—excuse me!"
Jimmy Rogers had burst iuto tho
room, followed by a girl with flushed
cheeks and happy eyes.
•'1 suppose the trip to Paris la In-
definitely postponed and that Drako
and I are done out of this dandy littlo
fiat."
"Neither." put in Bob. "we will
take the flat and also make one trip
a year to Paris."
Jimmy Rogers and Alice Ivery ex-
changed glances. She was the flufTy,
dainty kind who knew not a Gibson
from a Peter Paul Rubens.
"I suppose Ruth will always need
me." she sighed, "to keep house for
her—"
"Not on your life." put In Jimmy,
more firmly than eloquently.
tlsement-
when tho glcl herself came to the res-
nuns maintain stoutly that the child had no op- j
portunlty of Inflicting the Injuries. If Injuries cu.y Want to look at the
they be, on herself, and I understand arrange- . she „ld, I(,ad|ng ,he way
ments are being made for a thorough Investiga- £Jde „We don., want to ]eave.. Bhe
tlon of the mystery by a committee of eo- 1
cleslastlcs and medical men.
Another case Illustrating in another way tho
credulity which still is to be found in somo
parts of Ireland has Just come to light by tho
prosecution at Granard of an Australian who
had been traveling tho country extracting
money—not teeth—from country people who
are afflicted with toothache. Thomas Kiernan rjze or something and we are go-
said that the man told bim he could cure him to Franc, -
by extracting the nerves of his teeth and that
when he consented to undergo the treatment
the man took an Instrument like a long
needle, picked at his teeth awhile and then
began In a voice decidedly near tears,
"but Miss Denning—"
"Denning! What Miss Denning?"
Bobby Drake had turned so suddenly
on the cirl that she was startled into
answering him without a thought of
hla rudeness.
Almost a Record Family.
E. C. Carnett of Hazard, Perry
county, Kentucky, was born March 8,
1822, and was married to Miss
Cynthia Grigsley, June 8, 1844. To
them were bom eleven children, six
girls and five boys. These children
are all living, and the father and
mother are also living at the rips
ages of eighty-three and eighty-eight.
The old pair have sixty-eight grandt
children and seventy-one great-grand-
children, which added to their eleven
children, make a grand total of 168
souls In the four generations.—Bud.
Margan, In the Christian Herald.
Papa's View of It.
Gladys—But he writes such beai>
tiful poetry, papa.
Papa—Now, see here, young lady,
I'm not going to let you marry any
man that I've got to support."
Ruth Denning—she has won some
In Error.
"He said for all he cared, I might
Wbere Is she now?" Drake's I 6° to Farukhabad."
roice was unsteady. "And you are consulting an atlas.
There was no time for answer, j 1 presume, to find out where that Is?"
Ruth Denning herself appeared. She "Not all. I merely wish to dis^
laid what looked like a little white caterpillar Bton(3 between the portieres with a cover if Farukhabad has a Carnegie
on his sleeve, saying this was the nerve and j ^and gr|pp|ng Pach one In the effort library."
to steadv herself. )
"Bobby—" She smiled In a war Both, Maybe.
thnt Alice Ivery had not seen her "What's the matter with you?
snile even when the great Loylan
prize was given her. She came for
that he would never suffer from toothacu©
again.
Of course, he did suffer, and when he went to
a medical man for relief and told his story he
learned how he had been swindled.
"I feel a little ureasy."
"'Lection or winter underwear?"
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Hazlitt, Harry. The Edmond Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1911, newspaper, February 9, 1911; Edmond, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc140809/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.