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<OL. XI V. MACE HATH HEJW B. CLARK irf ~v><4 Coby/umt by iv a a > att~b>?bo/v .-/v \\y *W X7 W Y? F THE war and navy depart ments would publish In book form the records of the serv ice of officers and men In times of peace the readers thereof would be dispossesed 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 are many thrilling stories and many hu man interest stories in the “peace records" of the army and navy. Recently the monitor'PugL tan, a heavily armored craft of one. of the older types, was used for purposes of experi ment with a new high explo- i slve. Willard S. Isham, an ordinance engineer. Invented the explosive, and his claim was that with it a vessel could be destroyed from the outside 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 uncouflned condition against the Puritan's armor plate near, the stern. Capt. A. M. Knight, president of the I’J ®Xau -&®f‘- J®' '^msay%hftb> ■■* • A-®- ■'&• ■■vtpßss? f' ‘M< tiKffiftt* TTbAffi; il® ? i3B ■ *®' Me ■-»-;-/ -- W riL?- ww Ivm/ w»ww & r: > WiwFL x . mwßF*" ■ ■•- - ~5. *: L--vt.'fek- <i2 \ SfS ■• ■ •. > IWr*‘¥a* s -? BfrwWiMrti-' w ■- • ♦*•■ •• «?*• - EaBSaE L •■ gMaK ml > f~; fc .y\ VJgpR a/811^ 7 gy W£ HOTTEST PLACE O special ordnance board, with feur volunteer Bailors 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 them 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 just 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 ami men nerving on vessels of this type 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- Ipiral 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 •uch as is pumped down to them byway of the engine room, and this air is hot, oily and productive on many occasions of sickness, galled sea sickness, but which in reality is nothing of the kind, although It has all the attendant symptoms of 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 pipe 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 •i -grees. Some years ago an officer who was sta tioned on a monitor was found dead in his berth and the 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 e thermometer in the cabin of the officer zho died stood at 140 degrees and that the 1 eath v, as due solely to a heat stroke. During the Spanish war the monitor Mian t-nomah was on blockading duty off the port j's Havana, Cuba. The Mlantonomah is an old .teel monitor cased in metal and with the The Miller C 'canty Liberal jfivTi j \\ W, i ! I' L w r ■ ! ■' PW4 ' ' <wbrk-it 1 l/| hi i/ h / \ I nKoßOifil T "£ n&ofir mis ZC) \ fl ini* l/yp?y z y/i1 Jr \ >- A BATTLEDH/P * + * deck just peeping above the water. When the sea was calm and the sky was clear the sun beat down on the metal and the men who had stood the night watches and were trying to sleep suffered more severely than do the 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 me 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 be 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 bld naval officer recently, a man who served on the 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 bis 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 ships with sail power only, there was no heat on board (except that given out by the galley and by the small stove which occasionally was to be found in the captain’s cabin. The old-time 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 Commodore Perry, who opened the ports of Japan to the commerce of the United States, 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 the 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 tor a few moments the cold of the quarters. COLQUITT, GA., WEDN A f ELi i GARY I, lull was tow g the glnlus back to America Midshir an Li i wood was one of two or three fleers .0 were assigned to the Virginius to ok rt< it while the towing process was on. The life on board the Virginit is c- ie t .at It is impossible to describe. T Span uds had left her in such a filthy, stat that ng on board was intolerable even a n cl; using processes had been tried. After s’ w ay son board that ship the men looke as though they had been through a siege f sickness. Finally when off the Virginia c: es the Vn glnius gave every evidence of be 4 in a sink ing condition. She foundered qn kly an 'i l,!e officers and men on board escape to the Os sipee, being obliged to leave tin i belongings behind. The beneficent United -y»tes govern ment, because of some red tr. . eason or other, declined to make good tie devoted sailors the property which 1 y i'a-3 * ost through no fault of their own ar.lm lire it line of duty. Captain Underwood was for wo years in command of the United States gJernrnent sta tion in the Samoan islands. ri was consid ered one of the handsomest mer ‘h th service' of his country. He was over tlx fe-t high, finely proportioned find a .fine yivslC’ti speci men generally. No war with mat went on in the Samoan islands, but the hea and the food and the devilishness of the clinate generally did the work of the battlefieh. If Captain Underwood had never been givm an assign ment at the Samoan islands : is probable that he would have continued in the active service until the age limit of ixty-two years was reached. The dangers of ’arfar» are not the only ones by any means :bat navy and army officers are obliged to me'. It may do no harm here to ecal! the story of the heroism of Lieut. JanusiE. Bell of the United States army, who died.localise of his devotion to duty, died at a Unit when no bul lets were flying, but when an even deadlier foe of necessity must be met. .’llls story has been published many times, butM has Its ever lasting lesson. Fort Jefferson, on the Tortlgas, in August of the year 1873 was garrisone by Battery M, First United States artillery. Outside of the surgeons there was only one .ffleer, Lleuten. ant Bell, at the post. Capt. L.L. Langdon had been granted a leave of absece to go north to the bedside of his dying fat er. On August 28 yellow fever appeared at tie post. Within two days four of the garrison .ad died. Upon the first announcement of theapjjearance of the scourge Lieutenant Bell sc t all the women and children and some of the married men to an island three miles away. Vithin a day or two he sent to the same plan nearly all the well men of the garrison, retaining only enough to nurse the sick. Tiere could have been no criticism of Bell’s cotlse had he gone with the garrison, leaving the lick to the care of the surgeons and the nurse He stayed and devoted himself to the sick in :he hospital, as sisted by the men who had v lunteered. The PV< Capt. ’ in nd A He cal. iln his first lieutenant and said: “1 Underwco -'nit I have h- . 1 orders transferring you immediately States nai , Rivet to Verm. t. You have done a noble work here.! from the' <■ 'o nl There is > reason whj you should Btay longer. : cently «•’ > fort.>v,. You hav- been through enough of this awful years’ ser oin the\ thing. G- ’ line. Ju 1 'tarCap-' Bell gj <1: "Captain, I don’t want th- order., tain Uni r woo d If 4 read it 1 suppe; ' 1 shall have to obe;- simply ' came 06' 1 ; i»'txc it is an m 'er. »You keep it in your -•4, 'J**- ' Y o, ’Aocket until the feve is pv-r and then 11l read t J it ;’t >. -h, . „K»»d »o.’’.- A ..... ' | -I nt ■- 1 vgCv ' aMJs,.. . . s lip OstliSe. which, went to tuba to bring backk vessel <-tiled the 'llglnlus , which mil bee: dzed I>'< tip Spa' 1 rds in Clba t- 1 i s crew of Am' ■ tans pu « d<’ This co )try c near hu hg a v ith Sp a 1 over a Virginius i-rci When t s Ose heat was fearful. There was »t a pound of ice on the land and many of the deaths mt followed one after anoth i were due to the lack of this n cesslty. There were 20 ■■i :es of the fever and for days and nights continuously the devoted lieutenant command er, the surgeons and the nurses knew no rest. With 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- Fort. Jefferson. He in s' . relinquished his leave sence and hastened to : tn to his station. Some months before the outbreak of tb ■ fever Lieutenant Bell had put in an ripp'd.-a I ton to' be de tailed a:, instructor of military science at the Lniversity of Vermont. The application had been granted, and Captain Langdon, hurrying southward to join his command, carried in his pocket the order reliev !ng Lieutenant Bell from duty at Fort Jefferson and detailing him for work In Vermont Langdon reached his post. YU. ' . J " 1 ’.IS wos 1 ;n> VeiiTSn wit if '-is '.wrk. xi. a . ,• r he felt the Lot hand of the scoffirge ou-. ):h brow. He went to hts tbnt.kpulled up his lit le camp table and wrote an offic: J letter to the assist ant adjutant general at .oadquarters , the de partment of the gulf, Il 'lb Springs, Miss. It was a long letter, coverim. many pag< There was in Bell’s heart that the fear '.hat he might die and lea e undone an act of duty tc others. Ho cherished the t- ignt of the loyalty of the surgeons and the enlisted men who bad so nobly performed their duties to the sick and dying, facing the fever and death Itself without flinching. He mentioned in this official com munication each doctor and man byname,recom mending them for recognition at the hands of the department. Os himself he said nothing, his whole thought was that recognition should be given to others. Lieut. Janies E. Bell put down his pen. v. ent to the hospital and in three days was dead. MARKED BY A MIRACLE Extraordinary excitement has b--e 1 caused among tlie peasants in the neiglibc hood of Kiltiraagl- County Mayo, this we- by a series of -.hat are described as mir. ious hap penings .it the convent there, a .r. corre spondent of the St. Louis C Democrat writes. Amour ibe children who ar- . educated by the <od nuns of Kilt!m:f> i 1 girl of thirteen, who has been an inma'i. of the con vent school for the las. tree c four years. She is describee as extremely lie and af fectionate and more than usually eligious. A few nights ago one _-tl the nuns was awakened by fearful screams from the dormitory where the girl slept, and on going to her she was told ihat 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. The nun comforted her and she went to sleep, but in the morning she complained that her arm was sore and on examination it was found to be marked with a cross in red and underneath the cross were the letters “I. H. S.” A few days later a crown of thorns ap peared below the cross and the letters “I N. R. 1.,'” and these were followed by the appear ance of a chalice surmounted by a host in red. The marks have been examined by the parish priest. Rev. Father O'Hara, and by Dr. Madden of Kiltimagh, who vouch for their be ing there, but decline to express any opinion as to their cause. It is said that during the doc tor’s examination the stigmata bled freely. The nuns maintain stoutly that the child had no op portunity of inflicting the injuries, if injuries they be, on herself, and I understand arrange ments are being made for a thorough investiga tion of the mystery by a committee of ec clesiastics and medical men. Another case illustrating in another way the credulity which still is to be found in some parts of Ireland has just come to light by the prosecution at Grauard of an Australian who had been traveling the country extracting money—not teeth—from country people who are afflicted with toothache. Thomas Kiernan said that the man told him he could cure him 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 laid what looked like a little white caterpillar on his sleeve, saying this was the nerve and that he would never suffer from toothacne again. Os 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. .■■ y ■ ’■-W fS i .W&-V.. x |F/ - : —. \ !«/ <v. - . ;i/ - . ■■■■'■ B'E '- - . ‘z - ' i i I V**'* . ~ | • ■ *.. hdRf 8 \'ft*/ste«-»•. . .. - I ' E'e>'. - , ->■ J j A-Apparatus Penetrate Sea Bed and Locate Vessel. B—. Section Pump t Raise Sn ail Treasure. C- Sand Pump. D—Diver Probing. E—Boreh Bringing Up Mud. r—Hull of Gai'eon. G—Suction Pipe, H—Pump. , i —Treasure n Sand J- Pieces of Eight” (Drawn on Large Si ale;. K- ' Treasure Chests. tWISTORY repeats i with ’ E strang - reversals st tthne« j And now and then, embedtit d Jt in otherwise prosaic facts. , lie i records romancer, and acts of I heroism worthy of great novels. Such 1 ' I a reversal of history and act of hero ■ I ism was found the other day aner.i 1 | the “Treasure Ship of Tobermory - ' ; A-woru regarding the parallel. Amer : ' 1 lean newspaj ~-rs have been telling ' J Js’-iy e’’ fV” rijw'ixg'' the b:,ttjf-p h,-<.... . ■ the part that ; ‘■'■k- ' So.-mieh-w 'wy played in t s The 'Tret.sure Ship I of Tobermory. ’ me < f the Spanish \r- . : mada, was bl. a n up in a Scotch loch j ’ I more than two centuries ago. Span | : ish treachery caused the disaster. The | i ancient gailee the hull of which is i being uno >ver' ' was one of the fleet. : j sent by Spain to humble England ami j : change th destiny of the Anglo-Saxon ' I peoples. In the modern parallel, the ' | destruction of the Maine ended Span ! ish rule in America, and forced the I United States into the far east byway lof the Philippines. The parallel and I reversal may go still further —but let 1 the facts shape the romance. Details have recently reached Amer- I ica as to how the treasure seekers in I Scotland ar>- recovering the loot of the ! j Spanish galleon. The picture and the | ! synopsis tha> goes with it explain I I themselves. They disclose three meth- I : ods for bringing to light the beams of ! African oak. cannon shot, swords, ! I arquebuses and lend shot, the silver ? plate and Spanish “pieces-of-elght" bu- ' ried in the sea mud that has been ! piling up on the sea bed for genera 1 tions. First the diver probes the sea bed i with a long steel rod. When he finds | indications of wreckage the well-boring apparatus is moved up. It is like < those used here in making artesian - shafts, only attached to a boat. The ■ I pipe and anger are driven downward through the sea bed until splinters of j 1 ancient, oak or metal in the bore hull- , cate the presence of wreckage from ; the galleon. Then the other boat of the treasure hunters is moored over i the spot. It is provided with an iron pipe reaching to the bottom of the loch. On the deck this is connected ' with a powerful centrifugal sand : pump. The pump sucks up sand, mud ; and water from the sea bed. The out- i let curves over the side of the boat and under it are wire screens which 1 have retained shot, some sword hilts, j and stilettos from the Spanish wreck I that were burled in the mud. This is not a search for treasure at i haphazard, either. Enough is known , ■of the Spanish galleon, how she • came to be in a Scotch loch, and of J her destruction to warrant all this ex pense and trouble. That you know about the Spanish I Armada goes without saying. This'; story begins after the English navy J met the Spaniards in a running sea 1 fight In the British channel, and the I Armada drew out of the battle lines I and came to anchor off the coast of i Flanders. The truce was a short one. j Drake's fireships appeared, threaten- i Ing destruction of the Spanish ga.l- I leons. The Armada, still numbering j 120 battleships, troopships and con- i voys. slipped their cables and fled up the North sea. There more than half 1 of them were wrecked in a great storm j or were driven, crippled, asbere. Only fifty-three shattered hulks of the 120 j limped back to Spain. Some of the Spanish ships went to pieces on the coast of Scotland, others to the west of Ireland, and some as far north as the Scotland island". “The Treasure Ship of Tobermory" escaped N 9 ■ 'lie ravages of etc: is ar I th- re-fs nd ellil's of dangerous <o, v ..ts to be ile t.royed by a Scotchman's act of 311 ' preme revenge. The galleon, rounding the nort’ eru capes of Scotland, put into the Loch of Tobermory on the west coast 01 sn plies. Food was running short, storms of the North sea meant -<»nt spars and tackle, which must b ■ r> nowed for the voyage to Spai:. The Spaniards intended tc help themselves fro,ru t’’c 'Lgniar : s • -■ .it ■ Loe-'’;- knew the Sj .. . i j found that Si. Lan ' lan had dragged l some of bls gqns 1 ■ n r ' hanging Tobermory n ; ’he gal- I leon covered. “Pay for wha: yo’ : . H o: i ■ . i you." was his ultimatum. Tll pan lards came to terms Sir Lachlan war 1 -e ■ ■’ Spaniards' pleces-c’ • -ig.,t I : -a lor his sheep, beeves, s: ; rs ': woodlands, and fresh ' •’.ter ship’s casks But he milt- .! n •lans Mar ian and >'• ar lit raid v - b I enemies. He saw a' e .g m. soldiers arms to crit-.h it. • jof rhe payment be i-.t u;ne> i’- j the rest in a ius.n id ini ir '-. •< I the Marian and He. This seem '1 ' tit As they laid In paired their rpa.-s r : ’ f.achlan led a leta-a --i marines again ■< '' ri laid waste tin slai Eigg. and Meiek and ; mainland : : Ardam 1 j sieged Military cas'..e Mull. The siege w is st I ' came to the S; arm ship, as she was Laucblan demur:-. | pit ces-of-elght had Spaniards could no' ■ returning to th. ir - I lan held three of •!. I tages—pledges if t r til the mone' was , : . The Spanish . ■ smooth-tongued am! ‘ but did not pa these promises 1.0 1 of his men. Don: I galleon for the 1: •< ' Scotch lead r had .p aid Gias had no ' ship than he was -•« ’ : oned below . ecks j That night te ;. ing their three he I Lauchlan, made re I As the day broke i j timent or erm I 1 brought 01. le< k a, ■ his home i r th" I Scotchman was ■■ 1 1 tion at sight of the > . Highlands. H< . back to his celt. t!> ' I. I more. 1 The Spaniards wi : Highlanders on sh:>- s . t I just beginning to fii ' i-b I the end came —an aw. d rm • i Donald Gias had four I hat . ' was near the pow-ler .... z;. I the night be had laid n t’-um of .< from one to the other Now ... I i the magazine. When Ihe column of flame and 1 bris ami the clouds of smoke had I cleared away Sir Lauchlan saw- a bru I zing, dismembered bulk drift a littlw i while toward the sea, then sink, a com j plete loss. An Illinois young man is reported to have recently beet, winning 4JI),OC(i a day at Monte Carlo. But it appears that be remains at Monte Carlo