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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-17

or.s.o-ia Is the best remedy for children of
Lsisb I am acquainted. hope the day is not
l;-,,r+ ,.heu motb6-s will consider the real
-, If their children, and use Castoria in
r...3 n the squack noStrums which are
..s,rovin, their loved ones, by forcing opium,
s.o.nbine soothing syrup and other hurtful
. - down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR.. J. F. KINCHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-17
Castoria.

"Castolia is sowell adapted to children that
recomm end it as superior to any prescription
known to me-"
Fl. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

strengthened by the knowledge that
his vessel is practically invulnerable to
hostile guns.
The tactics suggested by Admiral
Ammen with these rams is to send
them forward at the beginning of the
battle, letting them bear the brunt and
take the first shock of the conflict.
When they had performed their mission
that is, when they had sunk or dis
abled as many of the enemy's ships as
possible-the reserve squadron of bat
tleships and large cruisers would come
up and complete the victory.
The contract price of the ram is
$3.50, 900; the cost of first-class battle
ship is over So, 900, 900, to which must be
added an expensive armament of guns
and torpedoes. The rams are compar-
atively cheap to maintain; the battle
ships extremely expensive.
Yet, on the other hand, the rams have
but one sphere of usefulness. They are
useless for cruising purposes, for bonn
bardment, for commerce destruction.
The battleships are not only of immense
Importance in coast defense, but they
are adapted for the three forms of naval
operations named.
The question is a deep one, and the
most rational view of the matter would
seem to be, as Admiral Ammen sug-
gests, to construct a number of rams to
be added to the remainder of the naval
establishments
Described in semi-technical language,
the rams most important features are
follows: Her extreme length, over ALL
is 251' feet; extreme breadth, 43 feet 5
inches; total depth, from bottom OF
keel to crown of deck, % feet 10 inches
Under normal conditions she will draw
IA feet II inches of water, and at this
draught her displacement is 2,155 tons.
When going into action, however, she
is lowered in the water to fighting
draught of Is feet inches, and her dis
placement is then increased to 2,240
tons.
The feature which is apt, at first
glance, to strike the observer as most
remarkable, is the peculiar shape of the
hull, as shown in the cross-section.
The lower portion of the hull, instead
of being parabolic, as in other vessels
is dish-shaped up to sharp ''knuckle,"
which runs completely around the YES
sci, forming sharp blade, the edge of
which is ordinarily six inches beneath
the surface of the water, but one foot
below at the fighting draught.
This blade-like side is most notable
characteristic of the ram. 1t was
adopted not only to facilitate exit from
an enemy's hull after ramming, but in
order that, after striking an antag,
onist's side, the latter might be ripped
indeed, literally cut-away. 1t also
increases the destructive effect of
glancing blow and at the same time in
creases the rams structural strength.
Above this ''knuckle" or blade the
shape of the hull is that Of circular
arc, with radius amidships Of about
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

JnlrUy Ieet. Inere IS mus formed
curved deck. or ''turtle-back, which ia
armored throughout, the thickness OF
armor tapering from six inches at the
''knuckle" to two inches at the crown
of deck. Below the ''knuckle" extends
an armor belt five feet deep, the thick
ness of this belt tapering from six to
three inches The walls of the coming
tower are eighteen inches thick. The
lower portions of the srnokestack and
the ventilators are protected with six
inches of armor. All the armor is of
steel
The framing of the hull is remarka-
bly, strong, and is particularly adapted
to resist the strains incident to ram
ming.
This framing consists Of a series OF
stout longitudinal girders, which are con-
tinuous from end to end of the vessel,
gathering at the bow and stern. They
extend below the turtle-back deck as
well as in the hull proper.
Between these longitudinals trans
'serse frames are worked in at intervals
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

In raising the level of ground by fill
ing the question often arises whether
trees which are thus covered to a con-
siderable height around the trunk will be
killed or not. Country Gentleman says
that trees which have green and tender
bark may be killed by banking up the
earth around them, if the soil is of such
a character as to hold water for some
time wherever it is drenched by rains;
but older trees, with stiff and dry and
thick bark, and with the soil about them
sufficiently dry and porous to allow the
water to drain away soon, will not be
injured. Trees which have coarse
furrowed bark will favor this drainage
better than those with smooth bark.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02
THE CAPTAIN IN HIS COMING TOWER.

THE CAPTAIN IN HIS COMING TOWER
of four feet throughout the vessels
length. There is thus formed very
rigid structure.
There is a double bottom, the inner
bottom being two feet from the outer.
The space between these two bottoms
is subdivided into no less than seventy
two water tight Compartments.
1t may THUS be seen that the injury
that would result to the vessel from
grounding or from the explosion of a
torpedo has been minimized
The main body of the vessel. within
the inner bottom, has also been subdi-
vided into numerous watertight com
partments by both longitudinal and
transverse bullSheads.
The vessel is fitted with twin screws,
the machinery consisting of two hori-
zontal triple expansion engines, with
combined indicated horse power of fif-
ty-four hundred. The high, intermedi-
ate and low pressure cylinders are
twenty-five, thirty-six and ffty-six
inches in diameter respectively, and the
stroke of all pistons is thirty-six inches.
A speed of eighteen knots is conf
IDENTIFY expected. The contract requires
seventeen knots, aud if this requirement
is not complied with, the vessel will be
rejected.
There are two double-ended and one
single-ended Scotch boilers, 1917 feet in
diameter. -
The coal bunker capacity is $50 tons.
The vessel will be equipped with all
the modern devices for artificial venti-
lation, drainage, ETC., and will be
lighted throughout by electricity.
It has been previously stated that she
will carry four small guns on her deck
as a protection against torpedo boats.
These weapons will be 6-pounder rapid
fire guns.
The rams crew will number ninety
one all told, officers and men.
The boat outfit will comprise a steam
cutter, working launch and two whale
boats.
The president of the Bath iron works
is Gen. Thomas W. Hyde, distin-
guished volunteer officer during the
civil war, with a fine record.
The superintendent of ship building
is Mr. Charles r. Hanscom, and his
chief assistant is Mr.. w. c. Besselievre.
The government inspector, who super
vises the work as it proceeds, is Naval
Constructor John B. Hoover, United
States navy.
1t is interesting to note that there is
but one vessel in the world which bears
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

was obedience to one leader. This was
Loyola himself-the first general of the
Jesuits. The Office was to be and has
continued to this day, a perpetual one,
invested with absolute authority, ac-
knowledging no superior but the pope
himself. The revenues were to be en-
joyed only by such colleges as the soci-
ETY. might establish for the maintenance
of students, religious or otherwise, but
the members, individually or in COM
mon, were not to hold property. The
Roman college of cardinals objected, at
first. to the recognition of the order,
but finally gave in, and Pope Paul Ill.
issued his bull confirming its authority.
The administration of Aquaviva
carried US well into the seventeenth
century, and the growth and achieve
ments of the Jesuit order were very
great during his incumbency. Their
college at Rome attained the fame of
a great university, with thousands of
students, and the number of Christian
converts in Japan increased from 200,-
600 to nearly 100000, the missionary
work being almost solely conducted by
JeSultS Cnlna was also INVADED DV
them and Robert de Nobili, dispatched
to India in the same cause, succeeded
by his tact and skill in securing nu
merous converts Ricci and De Nobili,
the two Jesuit priests who respectively
proselytized in China and India, show
what wonderful gifts the~Jesuits pos
sessed in approaching Oriental people
upon that most delicate question-their
religion. The attack made not long
since by Japanese missionary upon
Sir Edwin Arnold, and the reply of the
latter to the structures passed upon his
proceedings while in Japan, is peculiar
" apropos here. Sir Edwin claimed
that the average modern missionary does
not succeed in the Orient because of his
failure to get in touch with the mag
inative and aesthetic temperament of
the people among whom he labors. The
thorough knowledge of human nature
and adaptability of the Jesuits to their
surroundings. at ali times character
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

lStlc of the order, was finely shown IN
the methods adopted by the two priests
Just referred to. Nobili gained the
confidence of the Hindoos by assuming
the dress and manners of a Brahmin
and by strictly respecting the preJudlces
of caste The result was complete sue
cess in his mission. Ricci spent twenty
years in China, and actually had savoir
faire enough to gain the friendship of
the emperor, whose protection enabled
him to extend his labors. This period
was also marked by the troubles of the
order in Venice and in England. 1t was
expelled from the former, and in the
latter country many members were ex-
ecuted by the government through Sec
tartan prejudice.
North and South America each had
an early acquaintance with the Jesuits.
They began preaching to the Huron In
dams in 1926 and assisted in the found
ing of the colony of Maryland eight
years later. Most readers are familiar
with their extraordinary career in Par
aguay, where they practically converted
whole nation to Christianity.
There seems to have been more than
one reason for the unprecedented action
of the Jesrits in holding their conven-
ton outside of Rome this year. 1t used
to be said that there were two popes in
the Catholic church-the white and the
black pope, the former being the recog-
nized pont:ff of the vatican, the latter
the head of the Jesuits This saying
arose from the pswer and Independent
constitution of Jesuits, which, while it
certainly acknowledges the authority
of the pope at Rome, makes the order
independent of diocesan control. The
local bishops or archbishops do not in
terfere with the order in any way. The
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02
A TERRIBLE HITTER
Admiral Ammen's Ram, to Be
Launched at Bath.
interesting Details in the Construction OF
This Remarkable Craft-Her Method
of Fighting Compared with
That of the Warship.
COPYRIGHT, 1892. I

The Ammen ram is decidedly unique
specimen of naval architecture.
Her general shape, the details of her
construction and her means of offense
and defense are quite unlike those OF
any other vessel yet designed. as will
be seen further on.
But these wide departures from the
usual practice of a naval construction
are due to the fact that she is intended
for one specific warlike object, and that
object is to sink her adversary by
ramming. In designing her, every
feature that would tend to adapt her
the better to this single mode of attack
was carefully considered and developed
to the highest practicable degree.
Other warships, it is true, have
powerful ram-bows, and the reader has,
doubtless, not failed to observe the
dangerous spurs projecting from the
bows of all our new cruisers. The val
ne of ramming in modern naval war
fare is not overlooked in any of the
vessels now built.
But other warships also carry power
full batteries of guns, and, as a rule,
torpedo outfits. The gun, the torpedo
ard the ram are the three great marine
weapons, the greatest Importance be-
ing usually attached to the gun.
The Ammen ram, however, will have
no torpedoes, nor will she carry any
guns, save four small rapid-firing pieces,
added to her equipment as an after
thought, with view of affording some
protection against boat attacks.
She is ram, pure and simple, and
nothing else She is not intended to
cruise or to capture prizes or to bonn
bard cities and forts.
Her single mission is to sally forth
from a threatened home port and to at
tack the hostile vessels, sinking them
by means of blows from her deadly
beak.
Lying low in the water, she offers a
poor target to the enemys guns, and
even if struck she is impervious to pro-
jectiles, which would be harmlessly de-
fected from her curved "turtle-back"
deck, clad with thick steel armor.
Upon sighting the enemy, the captain
of the ram would enter his coming
tower, the walls of which are formed Of
eighteen inches of solid steel, and in this
safe retreat he would direct the move
ments of his destructive craft, his atten-
lion undiverted by guns or torpedoes.
,rd his confidence and GOODNESS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

order was the election OF vicar gen.
eral to replace the late Father Ander-
ledy.
The selection of the monastery OF
Azpeytia as the place of meeting was at
once appropriate and significant. Near
there Ignatius Loyola, the founder OF
Biscayan family. Hence the place is
one of sacred memory to the Jesuits
Again, in holding their congrega-
ton at Azpeytia the order has estab-
lished a portentous precedent, for this
is the first times in their history that
they have ever held it outside of Rome.
During the three hundred and three
score years which have passed since the
vow was taken by Loyola and his fol-
lowers that constituted the order, not
one of it's elective meetings for the af-
fairs anent of general has ever been
held outside of the Eternal city. Here
lies, the significance of the congregation
of 1892, inasmuch as it is supposed to
signalize the elimination of centuries
of secret friction between the vatican
and the Jesuits. Not in Rome has the
new chief of the order been selected,
but in comparatively remote part OF
romantic Spain, near the wild waters
of the bay of Biscay, and not very dis
tant from the ancient walls of Pampe-
luna, under whose shadow the chivalric
Loyola, defending the city against
France, received the wound that con-
fined him to his couch for months and
was the indirect cause of his forsaking
the sword for the cross.
So far as history and every known
record can advise us, the Jesuit order is
eminently representative of the Catho-
lie church militant. In its conception
the product of soldiers brain, its first
tenet was the preaching of the faith
wheresoever and in whatsoever manner
the church might require. Duty was
its watchword and hesitation unknown
in it's lexicon. At the time the Jesuits
started in upon the mission as an order
affairs in Europe were disturbed and
critical King Henry VIII, of Eng
land. had just destroyed no less than
six hundred monasteries, and was at
war with the vatican, which gladly
welcomed the proffered services of a
disciplined body of fearless and de-
voted men ready to undertake any
thing in the cause of religion to
which they might be assigned,
and who possessed one priceless
qualification they were organized
under constitution whose keystone
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02

even the remotest resemblance to the
Ammen ram.
This is the British torpedo ram Po-
lyphemus, a vessel built some eleven
years ago. She is slightly large than
the Ammen ram, displacing 2,64o tons.
She is of steel, with twin screws, and
mas speed of about eighteen knots.
She has a .'turtle-back" deck, and
possesses certain other points of resem-
blance to the Ammen ram, from which
she differs, however, in the underwater
contour and construction Of her hull,
and also in the fact that she is not ex-
clusively ram, but is intended largely,
if not mainly, to fight with torpedoes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-02
THE JESUIT CONVENTION.
For the First Time They Assemble
Outside Of Rome.
Jealous of Vatican Influence-Rumors as
20 the Future Policy of the Order
Tendency to Adopt Reactionary
Methods - Brief Jesuit History.
lcoPYRIGHT. 1897

He general con-
greg a ito n o f
the Society OF
Jesus, w h i C h
has just been
held at Azpey-
tia, in Spain, is
worthy of at
tention fro m
several points
of view. The
object of this
great meeting
of the Jesuit
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-15
DASHED TO THEIR DEATH
RUNAWAY ELECTRIC TRAIN LEAVES
Tue TRACK IN ST. LOUIS.
One Man Instantly Killed and Seventeen
Men and Women are Mashed and
Ground by the Overturned Car.
A Scene of Terror.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 13.-A trailer
car of the Union Depot Electric street
car line, loaded with passengers, cap
sized at 7:45 O'Clock this morning
while rounding the curve at Ninth
and Russell avenue at high rate of
speed, que to the inability of the mo-
tor man to control the train, the track 8
being very slippery. The passengers
were hurled one on top of another into
the street. One was instantly killed
and seventeen more or less burt, some
it is feared fatally. The horri'
BILE scene that ensued is al
most indescribable. The motor car
continued to drag the capsized trailer
several yards before it was stopped.
The trailer ground and rolled beneath
it the crushed and mangled human
beings. Strewing the road were a
score of PROSTATE men and women,
some apparently lifeless, others
shrieking in terror and agony. One
lady of advanced years was sitting on
the pavement completely dazed while
blood streamed down her face and
dress. Three men and two women
lay piled high upon one
another like sticks in q
wood pile. A man arose from the
heap, stared dumbly about him and
then gave shrek of pain as he tried
to move his arm and found it broken.
Near by was man with broken leg,
who, after trying in vain to rise, roll
ed back with groan of agony. I'm
derneath the car lay man whose
livid, rigid face showed that life was
extinct. His breast had been crushed
in by scraping along the road beneath
the moving car. One ear had been
rubbed off and was hanging only by a
shred of flesh. A dozen strong men
rushed to extricate and help the suf
ferers who were carried into adjacent
stores until ambnlances and carriages
could arrive to convey them to their
homes.
List of injured: Louis Ganobl,
Richard Kargerth, John Fohr, Mrs.
Lizzie Stemmer, Mrs. Barbara Cerney,
Adolph Soell, III. Koenicker,
Henry Blaiu, Henry Kauffell,
Charles Boyer, J. G. Dunstord, Peter
Hoffman, Miss A. M. Jones, Mts. Ros-
alind Barns, Charles Martin, Rudolph
Hartman, Louis Heine. Several 9TH
ers of the fifty-one passengers aboard
were severely bruised. The unknown
dead man was conveyed to the morgue
and had not been identified at late
hour last night.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-15
TEXAS CROP REPORT.
WEEKLY REPORT OF WEATHER AMI
CONDITION 0P CROPS.
Temperature Below Normal all Over the
state-Heavy Rains in Eastern Portion
Of State-Weather Has Been Fsv-
orable for Growth Of Cotton.

GALVESTON, Sept. 13.-The weekly
weather and crop report of the Texas
state weather service, was issued to-
night for the week ending Sept. 12. 1t
is as follows:
Temperature-The temperature for
the past seven days has averaged be-
low the normal for this season of the
year in all parts of the state. The
temperature for the season from
March l., however, continues above
NE average.
reeipitation and sunshine-Heavy
rain are reported from eastern parts
of the state, ranging from to 6 inches;
over other portions except in q few
scattered localities where heavy
showers have fallen no rain ofany
consequence is reported. The amounts
ranging generally from zero to one
fourth of an inch. The rainfall
for the season from March / to
date is generally below the
average, although some localities
nave udu tu0 uOIDldl dulOuub. 1u6T6
has been an excess of sunshine over
all sections except the eastern portion,
where it has been deficient.
Cotton-The weather has been fa-
vorable for the cotton interests over
the greater portion of the cotton
area of the State, and picking has
progressed rapidly except ever
eastern Texas, where it has
been retarded by wet weather which
has also slightly damaged the crop.
So far the cotton is clean and the
staple Is generally good. No COM
plants are made this week in any re-
spect regarding the plant, except that
worms are reported as doing some
damage in Comal county.
Other crops.-Corn gathering has
been pushed during the week, and for
this work the weather could not have
been more favorable. A great deal of
land is being broken for wheat, and
the prospects are that o large crop
will be planted this fall. The grass
crop is good over the western and
southern portions Of the State.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-15
Grand Populist Rally in Kansas.

WICHITA, Kan, Sept. ia great
Democratic rally was held here today
the occasion being the opening of the
Democratic-P Populist campaign in this
Jerry Simpson's) congressional dis
trict. The feature of the occasion was
the farmers parade, there being in
line some 1900 farm wagons appropri.
ately decorated and bearing on the
sides streamers on which were inscrib.
ed political legends. Twenty-six
wagon loads of wheat were in the pro.
cession and were donated to the
finance committee for campaign pur-
poses. They will net about 5000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-15
Presenting Carnegie Strikers i.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 13.-The trial
of the Homestead workmen who have
held to the grand jury on various
charges of murder, aggravated riot,
conspiracy, etc., will not begin In the
criminal court until the first week in
October. Fifty-five men have been so
held, and against some of them there
are four and five charges. A large
number of arrests are still to be made,
including many women. The charge
against women will be disorderly con-
duct and melting riot. Lawyers on
both sides of these prosecutions are
now hard at work arranging testi-
mony, and preparing for what must
be o memorable series of trials.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-15
General Weaver in Mississippi.

TUPELo, Miss, Sept. 13.-General
Weaver spoke here yesterday. About
two thousand people were present,
half of whom it is claimed were
Democrats. He refused to divide
time with any one. His speech was
devoid of special features and con-
sisted in an arraignment of the two
other parties. At the close of Weav-
er's remarks he asked his party
friends to leave with him which they
did, refusing to remain to hear Con-
gressman John Allen, who then spoke
in scathing and denunciatory terms of
Weaver. General Weaver left here
for Birmingham.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-15
SENATOR PEFFER TALKS.
He Says That Either Cleveland or Weaver
Will Be the Next President.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 13.-Sennator
PETER passed through here today on
his way to Pleasanton, Kans., where
he will open his campaign tonight.
He said: "We shall carry all the sill
yer and many of the Southern states.
Our majority in Kansas will be any
where from $4,000 to 10000. L think
there is no doubt of Jerry Simpsons
election. The present state Of national
politics is mixed. 1t may be Cleve.
land and 1t may be Weaver. Harri-
son has very little prospect of election,
If settled outside of the house Cleve.
land will be the man, but If decided
In the house the great popular upris-
ing in favor Of Weaver may change
the minds of many Southern Demo.
Gratis already elected, and make them
fear the will of the people and vote fol
Weaver"