The Jacksonville Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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TEXAS TRANSPIRINGS.
Officers of Our Navy
Who Are
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gan Secretary Long recommended to
Congress an appropriation to build a
big powder factory for making smoke-
less powder. At the same time he an-
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Astronomers tell us that in our solar
system ttere are at least 17,000,000
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table Com- d?
Strange as it may seem, few wom-
en have been known to make a for-
tune from the frying pan.
Work is the best panacea for the
heart that is sore.
Few smokers of cigarettes are pos-
sessors of matches.
Bachelor teas are now being given
by the stay-at-home men.
it is a sign you are getting old
when crowds annoy you.
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braining harbors and clearing channels
land many other devices more or less di-
rectly connected with the ships as a
fighting machine.
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Menstruation, the balance wheel of
woman‘s life, is also the bane of exist-
ence to many because it means a time of
great suffering.
While no woman is entirely free from
periodical pain, it does not seem to have
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countries have been working for the
ideal smokeless powder containing no
nitro-glycerine, and we are the first
to get it. As in many other matters,
our Navy Department stayed behind
Europe in the adoption of a smoke-
less powder until we had one that was
perfect.
Lieutenant B. A. Fiske, prolific in-
ventor in electrical devices, made some
A Great Scheme.
Browne—“What is your object in vis-
iting Spain at this time?” Towne—“I
want to be on the ground early so I
can have first choice of castles.”—New
York Journal.
Seventh Day Adventists are
ence. It relieves the condition that pro-
duces so much discomfort and robs men-
struation of its terrors. Here is proof:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—How can I
thank you enough for what you have
done for me ? When I wrote to you I
was suffering untold pain at time of
menstruation; was nervous, had head-
ache all the time, no appetite, that tired
feeling, and did not care for anything.
I have taken three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, one
of Blood Purifier, two boxes of Liver
Pills, and to-day I am a well person. I
would like to have those who suffer
know that I am one of the many who
have been cured of female complaints
by your wonderful medicine and advice.
•—Miss Jennie R. Miles, Leon, Wis.
J If you are suffering in this way, write
as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass., for the advice which she
offers free of charge to. all women.
navy is particularly proud of
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years of experiment, and that this
powder was superior to the smokeless
uowders made abroad. “Lieutenant J.
B. Bernadou showed special aptitude
for this work and capacity for the solu-
tion of the problems involved in the
prosecution of the experimental work
of this nature,” said the report of the
inspector in charge of the torpedo sta-
tion at Newport. This Lieutenant Ber-
nadou is now at Key West recovering
from wounds received while in com-
mand of the Wilslow at Cardenas. It
was in fact Lieutenant Bernadou and
Commander G. A. Montgomery ’who
invented the smokeless powder just
adopted by the Navy Department. The
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The American navy has supplied
hundreds of the inventions which have
(played important parts in the develop-
ment of the modern navy. The first
essential step, the introduction of the
ironclad and the monitor, was Ameri-
can born. Another initial advance
quite as important in its way was the
construction of the modern high-power
rifles, requiring in their design a high
order of mathematical ability and an
intimate knowledge of the characteris-
tics of modern steel. All guns in the
navy have been designed by Professor
(Philip R. Alger, a former graduate of
Annapolis, who has since been trans-
ferred to the corps of the professors
of mathematics in the navy, and who
is the highest authority on ordinance
(matters in this country, if not in the
world. Professor Alger received a di-
(ploma from the World’s Fair Commis-
sion for his system of gun construction,
(now in use in the navy.
In order to make these guns efficient,
(methods had to be devised for handling
them on board ship; opening and clos-
ling the breach for loading, mounting
(them on carriages for sighting and
(training, protecting them with armor,
(supplying them with powder and shell,
(developing smokeless powder for their
(use, designing primers, fuses, telescopic
(sights and a hundred little accessories
used in connection with their services.
It was also essential to provide the
necessary appliances for using the mod-
ern automobile torpedoes to be fired
(from our ships and torpedo boats; ap-
wparatus for signaling orders from the
conning tower to the guns and to ev-
ery part of the ship, for measuring
(the distance of the enemy, for counter-
Save Baby’s life and yourself many sleep-
less nights of anxiety by giving Dr. Motets
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What will Become of China?
None can see the outcome of the quar-
rel between the foreign powers over the
division of China. It is interesting to
watch the going to pieces of this race.
Many people are also going to pieces
because of dyspepsia, constipation and
stomach diseases. Good health can be
retained if we use Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters.
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that nine-tenths of the ailments of living
have their origin in the liver, and in con-
stipation caused by its derangements.
Keep the liver lively and it will be well.
Modern science points out Cascarets as ths
only perfect, gentle, positive liver regula-
tor fit to be used in the delicate human
organism. All druggists sell Cascarets 10c,
25c, 50c, and we recommend them most
heartily.
When a woman makes up her mind
to do a thing she will do it.
Shake Into Your Shoes.
Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the
feet. It cures painful, swollen, smart-
ing feet and instantly takes the sting
out of corns and bunions. It’s the
greatest comfort discovery of the ago.
Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight-ftting
or new shoes feel easy. It is a certala
cure for sweating, callous and hot,
tired, nervous, aching feet. Try it to-
day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
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id-fire guns are now placed ou this
gun-mount and the World’s Fair Com-
missioners awarded it a diploma. Brief-
ly described and without technical
terms, this gun-mount is the applica-
tion of ball-bearings to the upper car-
riage of the gun, with a hydraulic
check to take up the recoil after firing,
and a spiral spring to return it to its
place. There is also elevating and
training gear of a complicated charac-
ter.
Mr. Fletcher is the inventor of sev-
eral other devices. One of these is a
breech mechanism for heavy guns.
This mechanism is used for handling
all the heavy breech plugs, weighing
from 500 pounds to half a ton, of our
8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch and 13-inch
guns. The army has also recently
adopted it. These plugs were formerly
handled by hydraulic machinery, but
Fletcher’s device enabled this to be
done by hand power by one man. So
successful was the device that one man,
with his left hand turning a crank,
can unlock from the breech of the gun
its plug, weighing 1,150 pounds, with-
draw it to the rear and swing it deal
in seven seconds.
Finally Mr. Fletcher is the inventor
of a rapid-fire gun which is now the
standard of the navy. His device is
being used on all the 3-inch, 4-inch, 5-
inch and 6-inch guns in the service.
To perfect these devices in foreign
(navies the government have had to pay
millions of dollars for improvements
and inventions that tended to make
their guns and ships more powerful
(in their keen competition for upre-
macy. In this country, the home of
the inventor, our government had paid
little or nothing. Nearly every im-
provement has been invented by its
Inaval officers. One instance of a naval
officer who received compensation for
an invention was that of Chief Con-
structor Wilson, now retired, to whom
the Navy Department paid $10,000 for
an air port-hinge. But most of' the
work of naval officers’ brain have been
given tto the government free.
How much the inventive faculty of
Its keen-minded officers has meant to
the Navy Department is illustrated
in the case of Lieutenant Frank F.
Fletcher, now on duty in the ordinance
bureau. It was said at a hearing be-
fore a committee of the Senate last
("winter, on a bill to give naval inven-
tor’s compensation, that a gun-mount
of Mr. Fletcher’s had saved the gv-
rnment more than $500,004. All rap-
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2eNin6 APPARATUSCE3
holding their nineteenth camp meet-
ing and conference at Fort Worth.
Over one hundred tents have been
pitched and about 1200 persons are in
attendance. Elder C. McReynolds of
Keene, president of the Texas confer-
ence, preside. Several noted minis-
ters from abroad are present.
A few mornings ago Rev. Bartow
B. Ramage, rector of St. Andrew’s
Episcopal church, Fort Worth, united
in marriage W. J. A. Elliott, store-
keeper on the Espuela ranch, and Miss
Annie E. McDade. Mr. and Mrs. El-
liott were child sweethearts in Scot-
land. Ten years ago the groom left
his native land to seek his fortune in
“the states,” locating eventually on
the great west Texas ranch. During
the ten long years the lovers kept
Cupid, the postal authorities, etc.,
busy wafting pledges of undying af-
fection over the Atlantic. Finally
Miss McDade, accompanied by her
mother, left bonnle Scotland’s hills
and proceeded to Fort Worth, where
“love’s young dream” was consus-
mated by Hymen’s holy bond*.
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Cleburne is entitled to free mail
delivery.
Sherman is to, have more electric
street lamps.
McKinney’s mammoth steel elevator
is nearly completed.
A board of health has been organ-
ized at Texarkana.
The Womack flouring mill at
Whitewright is fast approaching com-
pletion.
“Admiral Dewey,” Greenville’s new
chemical fire engine, has arrived at
that city.
Walter Caro, a young man, was
drowned in Red river, near Texar-
kana, on the 22d.
T. J. Stevenson, who fell from a
switch engine at Texarkana several
days ago, died from his injuries.
Ildefonso Guerro was found guilty
of the murder of Miguel Satozar at
Laredo and given ninety-nine years.
Orange county courthouse bonds to
the amount of $35,000 have been ap-
proved by Attorney General Crane.
J. W. Addis of the Texas and Pa-
cific railway has gone to Paterson, N.
J., to receive twelve locomotives for
his road.
Rev. C. H. Garrett, pastor of ine
Wellno Street Methodist church,
Sherman, is holding a series of tent
meetings.
The Dil Well Supply company of
Pittsburg, Pa., has been granted per-
mission to do business in Texas. The
capital stock of the company is $1,500,-
000.
The Bates and Bowling brothers en-
deavored to settle a former quarrel
Saturday at Cuero by a six-shooter
battle. One of the Bowlings was seri-
ously wounded.
A 14-year-old boy was found .guilty
by a jury at Oak Cliff of stealing some
watermelons out of a farmer’s field
and fined 1 cent and costs. The latter
amounted to $19.
A street car collided with a farm-
er’s wagon at Fort Worth a few days
ago at the Railroad avenue crossing.
The occupant, an old man named Ca-
mira, was thrown from the wagon and
badly hurt.
All the family of H. F. Hawk, ex-
cepting the latter, residing at Dixon
Bridge, near Texarkana, were poisoned
by eating a watermelon. A hired man
named Glenn died. Timely remedies
saved the others’ lives.
George R. Ritenour, a Confederate
soldier, and one of the Virginia mili-
tia who stood guard over John Brown
prior to the latter’s execution at Har-
per’s Ferry, died at Sherman on the
18th instant, aged 60 years.
The charter of the Deepwater Gin
company of Deepwater, Harris county,
was filed with the secretary of state at
Austin. Capital stock, $5000. Incor-
porators: W. E. Jones, J. B. Hill and
A. J. Schureman.
The residence of Mrs. Nannie King,
in the northern part of Ennis, to-
gether with its contents, was totally
destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 18th. The house was insured for
$1000 and the goods for $800.
A very deplorable runaway accident
occurred to Mrs. John Denny of Bed-
ford at Fort Worth. Her team be-
came frightened, ran away and at the
corner of Third and Elm streets she
was thrown out and seriously injured.
The magnificent residence of Capt.
F. W. Ball, at Fort Worth, which with
its furniture was valued at $40,000,
was almost totally destroyed by fire at
an early hour on the 20th. It consist-
ed of ten rooms, and the furniture was
achievement. Foreign governments
possesss a smokeless powder, but it
contains nitro-glycerine, which makes
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it unreliable and dangerous,
besides develops a high
which soon ruins a gun.
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years ngo a range finder for automat-*
ically finding distances at sea. It is
one of th© most useful contrivances on
shipboard, and is werth an immense
sum to the navy. Another of Lieut.
Fiske’s inventions was the stadimeter
—very clever modification of the sex-
tant, by which it is possible to measure
the distance of a ship from the height
of its mast or smoke stack. Still anoth-
er was a range indicator—an electrical
device for signaling from the conning
tower to the gun captain the direc-
tion and distance of the enemy. This
is fitted on nearly all our ships.
Captain Sigsbee of the St. Paul, is an
inventor. The navy now uses a deep-
sea sounding apparatus and parallel
rulers for navigation of his invention.
Lieutenant Dashiell invented a
breech machanism which was a great
improvement on all that had preceded
it. It was adopted by the navy depart-
ment in 1892, and was introduced on
many rapid-fire guns. This device en-
abled the man at the breech of the gun
to do with one motion what had always
taken two. In the breech mechanism
the plug had to be turned with one
motion until it unlocked, and then
withdrawn with another motion. But
by an arrangement of cogs Lieutenant
Dashiell made the pull of a lever turn
the plug until it was unlocked and
then withdraw it. The reverse mo-
tion of the lever drove the plug home
and then turned it until it locked. The
Dashiell machanism has been supplant-
ed by the Fletcher mechanism, but it
is still to be found on some rapid-fire
guns.
Lieutenant W. H. Driggs and Lieu-
tenant Seaton Schroeder are the inven-
tors of a rapid-fire mechanism, which
is of the same class as the well-known
Hotchkiss gun. It is applied to one-
pounder and six-pounder guns. This
invention is owned by a private cor-
poration, unlike most of the navy 'in-
ventions, which belong to the govern-
ment.
Commodore John A. Howell is the in-
ventor of the automobile torpedo,
which bears his name. Its. mechanism
consisted chiefly of a heavy cog wheel
made to revolve at a high rate of speed
before the torpedo is put in the water.
Commodore Howell sold this invention
to the Hotchkiss company, and for a
time drew a royalty on it. Of late it
has been supplanted by the White-
head torpedo.
Lieutenant Joseph Strauss is the in-
ventor of improvements in mounting
turret guns. He conceived the Idea of
the double turret, having an eight-inch
turret placed on top of a thirteen-inch
turret, as used on the battleships
Kearsarge and Kentucky, which were
launched not long ago at Newport
News.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn in-
vented the Franklin life buoy, and sold
it to a concern in Bath, Me. It is a self-
lighting buoy. Two small tin cases at-
tached to it contain.phosphide of cal-
cium. Stoppers to these cases are, at-
tached to the ship, so that when the
buoy is thrown into the water the stop-
pers are withdrawn, and when the buoy
strikes the water the combination of
the chemical with the water makes a
bright flame.
Lieutenant Very, late of the navy,
devised a set of signals which are now
in use, not only in our navies, but in
all the navies of the world. Lieuten-
ant Herbert O. Dunn invented a stock-
less anchor, which is now in use on
some naval vessels. Lieutenants Van
Duzer and Mason were the inventors
of an ingenious electric steering gear.
Lieutenant Fiske and Lieutenant Lu-
cien Young are the joint inventors of a
boat detaching apparatus. Chief Engi-
neer Harry Webster invented a clino-
meter, used to determine the angle roll
of a ship. Chief Engineer Nathan P.
Towne is the inventor of an improved
boiler. Lieutenants Diehl and Gibson
are inventors of a “compensating bin-
nacle," designed to neutralize the mag-
netl f a steel ship’s hull. Passed
Assistant Engineer Tobin is the in-
ventor of the famous Tobin bronze,
much used for hulls of racing yachts
and for the shells of torpedoes, and
Prof. E. C. Munroe, of the navy, is
the inventor of the high explosive
"jovite."
These are only samples of the many
contributions to inventions which naval
officers have made. Their inventive
talent and their skill in designing have
made the ships of the United States
navy superior in every convenience and
efficiency to those of Europe. In fact,
many foreign governments pay tribute
to the superiority of American ideas
in royalties on the inventions of Amer-
ican naval officers.
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Company is the true stimulus to
genuine mentality.
An Ideal Wotan.
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mann is “a muscular giant, bearded
and blue-eyed,” resembling “the ideal
Wotan of Wagnerian drama.” He is
a native of eastern Prussia.
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