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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
A DIVERS WORK.
THE DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES OF
WORKING UNDER WATER.

rho Strange Equipment That ia Used--
Captain Everett, who Worked on the
Maine, Has Had Remarkable Experiences
During His Career OF Thirty-one Years.
Captain Charles Everett, the most
expert diver OF the Merritt & Chapman
Derrick and Wrecking Company, who
went to Havana at the head of band
Of divers to take charge of the work on
the Maine, is recognized everywhere as
one of the most successful men In his
profession, and has been diving now
for thirty-one years without an acci-
dent. He is very modest in speaking
Of this fact, and merely says:
IL have been fortunate so far. There
Is a great deal In that. or course,
am always careful not to run any un-
is examined to see that it is in perfect
working order before diver descends,
but even then there are certain chances
of accident. Personally, don't think
they are very great IL diver knows
his business. l feel just as safe when
working under water as should on
the deck of vessel. have been div
ing for so many years that every phase
of the work is an old story to me
now"
The diving suit which Captain Ever.
EFT wears, and which is the one gener'
ally used by all divers, is made of In,
dia rubber, with helmet and breast
plate of copper. Outside Of the rubber,
to protect 1t from hard usage, an extra
suit Of canvas overalls is worn, and af-
ter rough piece of work this canvas
is frequently torn to shreds. Around
his waist the diver wears belt made
of bars of lead fastened crosswise on o
leather band. His shoes are of metal,
heavily weighted, so that he can main.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
nArrLEsHrp KENTUCKY.

The Kentucky with her sister boat
the Kearsarge, was built by the New
port News Ship Building and Dry
Dock Company, at Newport News, Va
In the plans for these two ships the ex
perts were guided by the latest ant
best features of naval architecture ana
marine machinery as exemplified in
construction at home and abroad.
While the Kentucky and her mate
will resemble in many particulars the
Iowa and the Indiana, which are the
crack battleships of Uncle Sam al
present in commission, they will bt
eminently superior to those two stee'
fortresses.
Comparing the Kentucky and heI
mate and the Illinois and her two sis
ters with their nearest rivals in for.
eign waters, it is clearly necessary
to say that no vessels of their tonnage
built abroad will have an armament
so elaborate or an armor Of such re-
sisting power.
The heaviest of the guns to be sup.
piled to the Kentucky and the Kear.
sarge are four feet in diameter at theii
thickest point, thirteen inches in di.
ameter at the aperture OF the smaD
end Of the barrel and forty feet IL
length. The projectile they will carry
weighs LOO pounds, and when hurlet
with full charge, say $50 pounds O.,
the best prismatic brown powder, will
penetrate thirty inches of wrought iror
or twenty-five, inches of the best ar
NOR, and no vessel afloat, it is claimed
carries armor which they could moi
pierce at an ordinary fighting rang,
of 1000 yards.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

Poor OLD John Sherman; Han
ma worked IL pretty slick on him.
Rooted him out of United States
Senatorship, where he could have
drawn his salary without work
and placed him in rail .mauling
job where they knew he could MOI
maintain. Well, the old cuss has
done devilment enough anyhow,
let Hanna wear the horns awhile.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
TEACHERS.

The School Examiners of Hooking County
Ohio, will meet at the Union School Building
Logan, Ohio, on the first Saturday of Sept
tember. October, November, and December
1897, first Saturday of March, first and third
Saturdays of A pril and May and first Satur-
day of June 1885, examinations beginning al
s O'Clock a. NJ. Testimonials required OF
those unknown to the Board. Boxwell ex.
aminations. Will be held first Saturday
April and May 1898.
f, d. RICKETTS,, Pres.
A. l.. O'NEIL,
A. NJ. BROWN, Sec.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
mission"

Muster Rolls are in the hands of
A. e Huls and 'Cul' Martin. The
Recruiting headquarters are at the
Buckeye Club Rooms. Persons
who have given their names to Mr.
Acker will have to be prompt in
signing or they will get left.
There will be meeting of the
Company at the Buckeye Club
Room Saturday evening, May 2lst
at p. NJ, for the purpose of organ.
ling.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18


tain an erect position easily, and the
entire suit with which he enters the
water weighs about one hundred and
seventy-five pounds. This is necessary
to enable him to sink to the required
depth. The helmet is supplied with
windows of thick glass, one in front
and two others at each side of 1t, 30
that by turning his head slightly in
side the helmet the diver can see for
some distance around him.
The air tube, upon which his ability
to remain below depends, is of strong,
flexible rubber, through which the
fresh air from above is driven down by
means of a pump. This tube, before
reaching the opening in the helmet
through which the air is supplied to
the diver, is carried through ring on
the breastplate at the divers left
shoulder. This is SO that he may be
able to grasp it quickly, without hav-
ing to grope for it, in case he needs to
signal to those at the pump above.
One pull on the tube means that he
wants more air and two pulls warn
the bumpers that he is getting too
much. If the air were supplied in ex-
cess, the suit would become SO buoy
ant that it would tend to rise, and
thereby interfere with the divers oper-
ations. After being passed through
the shoulder ring the tube goes around
and enters the helmet at the back.
From here the air passes through a
fiat rubber tube to the top of the he'll
met, where the single tube divides into
three branches. one Of which goes
down to the nostrils and the others to
the ears.
After the air has been breathed II
passes on down inside the suit, inflat-
ing this sufficiently to overcome to q
certain degree the hydrostatic pres
sure. Without air inside 1t, the rubber
would be pressed against the divers
body and limbs by the weight of the
water, and would drive the blood up
into his head. There Is another OPEN
ing in the back of the helmet through
which the foul air finds its escape.
This may be seen coming up to the
top OF the water in the form of bub-
bles.
The liferope by which the diver is
lowered and raised is about as thick as
an ordinary clothesline. 1t is wound
securely about his waist and fastened
under his arms. Three pulls upon it
signify to those above that the diver
wishes to come up.
1t is possible to use electric lights
under water, but, as matter of fact,
1t is not widely done. Captain Everett
prefers to work without light rather
than to be put to the trouble of carry
| ing and looking after one. "a diver
| has only two hands," he says, "and If
| he has to use one to carry his light, he
is badly handicapped in his work.
| When / am in places where cannot
see at all, either by reason of the great
depth or because the water Is muddy or
| foul, l work by the sense of touch
Often I can do just as well that way as
II could see what am handling, and
this faculty Is useful in night work."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Lnnguage of fthe CONTAIN.

When you see the lower half section
Of coattail missing It means: II have
been introduced to her fathers dog"
If the coattails look like a porous
plaster full of holes: Il didn't get the
shot at a hardware store"
Coattail with large. open-faced
tear ON the bias: Il scaled the back
fence"
Dust on the coattail; Il had pain
full interview with her papa's boot"
Coattail ripped up to the collar: II
had two leap-year proposals at the
same time"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
The nnect Of wiae rlres.

The effect OF wide tires on roads has
been shown clearly on a street in
Springfield, Mass, over which heavy
quarry wagons are driven. The road
was formerly badly cut up, but a
number Of years ago it was the un-
derstanding that wide tires should be
put on the wagons carrying the quarry
stone. This was done, the tires being
four to five inches wide, and since
that time the street has been In good
condition, although little has been
done to II.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Little Thing. worth Knowing.

That bag of hot sand relieves neu-
ralgia.
That warm borax water will remove
dandruff.
That salt should be eaten with nuts
to aid digestion.
That milk which stands too long
makes bitter butter.
That a hot strong lemonade taken
at bed time will break up bad cold.
That 1t rests you, in sewing. to
change your position frequently.
That rusty fat-irons should be rub
bed over with beeswax and lard.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Astoni.hing Condition Of Ano,r,.

A census which has just been COM
pleted of Lost Springs and Ramona
two Indiana towns, shows an almost
ideal state Of existence. They have a
population of 200 each. There is not
a vacant house In either place. not an
idle man or boy, not tippler, and not
dog. The claim is made that there
never was drop OF intoxicating L.
qlor sold in either of the towns. A
crusade against the use of tobacco will
be the next move by the women of Ra-
mona.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Long scnrfs ard small noxs.

DR.. Lucy Hall-Drown of Brooklyn
marvels that the lives of so many
small boys are spared, when they are
oppressed by the abnormally large
scarfs which appear to have become
part OF the modern small boy. She
finds dificulty herself In looking
over bit OF laco she wears in the
front of her gown, and how the small
hoy can guide his footsteps when his
eyes are Obliged t, take observations
over mountainous mass of big bows
and ends she doesn't know.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
izis re,ItaIe Trace.

Never marry scientific woman!"
"Why not?"
when | get home late my wife can
tell next morning with a microscope
and few chemicals In just what por-
tion of the city l spent the night"
How the dickens does she do that p"
by the mud on my shoes"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

THE Bushnell crowd in Logan
are slowly but surely getting their
reward. Stallsmith, the Kurtz
winner of the bloody Third ward
goes to Columbus next week to fill
two year appointment.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
eATTLEsHIP KENTUCKY.


Equal In the world.
Whoever suggested the name Of
Kentucky for the new marine mcnstel
that is expected to discharge G,O0c
pounds of irresistible metal at tine
ought to feel as happy as derlky in
the other fellows watermelon patch
1t is credit of no mean order to name
a battleship that will have no equal
here or abroad.
A poet insists that It was under the
influence of his verse that the powers
that were decided the name of the
craft. This is what the fellow wrote. I.
II name you want that's sure to be
lucky,
Let the next battleship be called the
Kentucky;
No doubt her guns would do terrible
slaughter,
And though full of holes, she'd never
take water.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

IT Is always very pleasant TO
h I've some poor deluded pimp GO
ing the rounds telling the COM
mitteemen who are Democrats and
who are not. OF course they run
up against a snag once in awhile.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Announcements.
COMMISSIONER

COMMISSIONER
We are authorized to announce the name
O1 HENRY TIKI IN NJ Err as candidate for
county commissioner subject to the decision
ofithe Democratic primary election.
We are authorized TO announce the name
of ID. W. HOWDYSHELL, of Benton, as a
candidate for county commissioner subject
election,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

ANNOUNCEMENTS are coming in
for the county primary. Good,
solid men are entering the contest
and we are sure of a choice that
will happily stand the storm of
next falls campaign.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

Now THAT Axline and Colt are
in war together perhaps they can
make misslip and settle their diff
ferences They chewed the rag in
the newspapers until every body
was disgpsted,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

PERHAPS ere we go to press the
greatest naval battle of all time
will be taught between the Spanish
Cape Verde fleet and Admiral
Sampson near Jamaca.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

ELI WEST and 9. M. Bowlby
We're appointed to their respective
positions In the O. p. again. We
congratulate them on being smart
enough to belong TO The right crowd
when there Is pie to be dished out.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

THE administration has at last
walked up to the idea that there is
a war on with Spain. Dewey in
formed them.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
To Keep Lemons,

Lemons will keep for weeks If placed
in stone jar and covered with wa
ter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

WHAT become of the "peace-at-
any-price" crowd?
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
MApRIs DoNAHUn, of PerrY.wiIl

find his Logau friends II the zanes-
yilie jadieisi eouYention, doing all
IN tAelr e9ga iag bis spccesg Is
Is noble fellow, the jurist for the
place and we wish hlm glorious
SUCCESS,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

We are authorized TO announce the name
of ]. H. KILN Il as a candidate for the nomi-
nation for second term as County Treasur-
er.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Democratic Primary Election.

The Democratic Voters of Hooking County
Ohio, are hereby notified TO meet
on the 18th day OF June, 'SS
at their respective voting precincts, rs de-
.signated by order of the Central Committee
of said county, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the following named offices
One candidate for County Auditor
One candidate for County Commissioner,
One candidate for County Treasurer,
One cand date for County Recorder
One candidate for County Itf Director,
Also for the purpose of selecting delegates
10 the State, Congressional and Circuit
Judicial Conventions, providing such con-
ventions ar not held prior to the day of said
County primary, In w ich case the delegates
shall be chosen by the Central COMMITTEES.
Also each preciuct shall select central COM
mitteeman for the ensuing year
'The polls In Logan and Falls township
shall be open from 9o'c.oclt a. m to O'Clock
m. III all other precincts from II o'clock
moon to o clock p. m. standard time.l
u, Nj. SoLIUAY, Chairman.
A l.. ON ELL. Spprptnry
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
OFF TO THE FRONT!

viii Ackei has received the fol.
lowing communication from the
Governors:
"You can select about
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18
Central Committee Meeting.

,r, .
Ine Democratic Central Committee of
Hooking County met ut the Court room in
Logan ON saturday May IL, in adjourned
session FOR the purpose of fixing time of hold
ing county primary and transacting any
otner business tha1 should come before said
committee. On cgul OF roll eighteen MEM
pers were present, The chairman asked for
expressions as 10 the probable best tune for
nolulng salu convention: After Remarks
were hai, on motion the iSth day of June
was liked as the time for holding said
primary,
me ioIl0wlne SUPERVISORS were chosen for
the several precincts:
Benton .;..... 49,. -. E.E. Chilcote
Logan ana rails, voting at Court :....
po,u ,r house .;''''.'.... 'Johnathan Shaw
rams Ip., (Gore) .........A A. j. Burgess.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-05-18

We are authorized to announce the name
OF T. ID. SLOAN ms candidate for a second
term as County Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
PECULIAR EXPLOSION.
Horses Mangled in a Cofey County
Swamp.

Burlington, June ga most peculiar
accident is reported from Leroy. Arch
Johnson, who lives a short distance east
of town, started home by way of a short
route through the fields along the Mis-
souri, Pacific right of way to see how
the wheat harvest was progressing. The
way led him through clum of timber
and across slough or ravine that was
filled with mud and water. AS the
them sank a foot or more into it and
there was a loud and most startling ex-
plosion which literally blew off the
front hoof of one of the horses and
broke the hind leg squarely off at the
ankle. The other horse was so badly
injured in the abdomen that it died the
next morning. The occupants of the
buggy were stunned by the report and
completely covered with mud, which fell
over them in perfect shower. They
were not injured, however.
What it was that caused such a re-
markable occurrence is not definitely
known. Many think the explosion was
an ordinary railroad torpedo which had
been f1oated down into the ravine by the
high water. They think it was fred
by the conclusion of the horses shoe
and the remarkable force exerted is
accounted for by the fact that it was
closely confined in the mud. If true
there is more power in them than many
suppose, for this one tore out a large
cavity in the mud as large as a busheI
miles away. 1t is quite certain that the
Internal machine was composed of glass
as fragments of that substance were
found in the bodies of the horses. If
the explosive was not such a torpedo,
the accident is indeed hard to explain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
A KANSAS IDEA

The Globe-Democrat prints the fol-
lowing comment on suggestion COM
ing from the Sunflower state:
A Paxico CKansas) reader of the
Globe-Democrat, himself a eolored man
OF education and influence, suggests
that when the Uunted States takes
Porto Rico the government should col
onize the island with negroes from this
country, and allow them to form an
autonomous regime similar to that of
Canada under the British Empire. to
be known as the Afro-A merican Re
public, and he asks US if there are any
legal impediments to this scheme
There are none. When Porto Rico comes
into American hands congress can, I'M
der the constitution, set up in the is
land any sort of government which it
CcongreSs) chooses, with the restriction
or course, that it shall not be monarch
zeal In a decision just rendered by a
United States court in San Francisco it
Is set forth that territories ARE not
subject to it's the constitution COM
pick distribution of the powers of gov
eminent as to the organic law, but are
the creation exclusively of the legisIa-
tive department. and subject to it's sup
erVlSion and control Congress can If
II chooses, create the Canadian style of
government in Porto Rico when we get
the island; can call the government by
any name it likes, and can offer es-
peclal Inducements for negroes to settle
an the island. The obstruction in the
way of the colonizing scheme is moral
and not legal. No large proportion of
the negroes. however, would be likely
10 accept the offer and go out of the
country permanently, and congress
would have no right to put them out
against their will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
YOUNGEST VOLUNTEER
Kansas Gets the Honor Through
Senator Harris Son.

Washington, D. C., June pa good
deal has been said about the youth of
some of the volunteer soldiers who re-
sponded to the call of the president for
troops for the war with Spain. Sew
era1 of these volunteers have been re-
ferred to as the youngest of these 200, 900
men, but the distinction of being the
most youthful of this great army prob
ably belongs to Craig Harris, the son of
Senator Harris of Kansas. Young Har-
rtS took from the first a great interest
in the war, and when the call for vol
unteers was issued he promptly enlisted
in the First District of Columbia regi-
ment, although only having reached his
fifteenth year last February.
When hearing that his son had enlist
terfere on account of the boys youth.
but the young soldier was so anxious to
go to the war that the father let him
have his way. Craig Harris was made
a corporal shortly after enlisting, and
has been promoted to be a sergeant in
Company L of the District of Column
bia regiment, and has been at Tampa
waiting to embark for Cuba or Porto
Rico. Although but fifteen years of
age, Craig Harris weighs 140 pounds
and appears to be of more mature
years. He has always had a penchant
for military life, and had a good mill
tary training at the military school at
Salina, Kas. Just prior to his enlist
ment he was a pupil in private school
in this city. In volunteering his service
lowed in the footsteps of his father.
Senator Harris having entered the rebel
army during the civil war when Is years
old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
GYPSIES ELOPE.
Nomadic Beggars Furnish Chicago a
New Romance.

Chicago, June 22.-Sorrow was added
to the peaceful and solemn Sunday at
the gypsy camp at Forty-seventh street
and Western avenue by the mysterious
disappearance of two young people who
were we'll liked by the tribe and loved
by some of it's members.
Not a word has been heard of New
ton Palmer, the youth who had left his
mothers camp the night before, nor
was there any sign of life from pretty
dark-eyed Lottie Smith, who had sto-
len from her fathers tent in the night
under the pretense that she was going
to visit her cousin, whose tent is only
SO feet away.
The simultaneous flight of the young
people is construed by their relatives
all the features of a romance among
people who live in palaces. 1t was
openly said that Lottie and Newton
had been lovers since their childhood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
KANSAS NEWS.
WellingtOn's Episcopal Minister
Volunteer.
Resigns and Enlists in the
American Navy.
A WINFIELD SUICIDE.
Young Woman Ate Phosphorus
From Matches.
Geo. III. Anthony and Wife Re-
united in Chicago.

wellington, June 22.-Rev. F. Duncan
Jaudon of this city, left Saturday for
Washington, D. c., to enter the navy.
He spent Sunday in Wichita and
preached at the morning services of St.
Johns Episcopal church.
Rev. Jaudon resigned his position as
rector of the Episcopal church of this
city last week. He informed a few of
his most intimate friends that he had
written to Washington for a place in
the United States navy. He desired a
position as chaplain on a warship.
When Rev. Jaudon left Wellington Sat
urday he stated that he would return
Tuesday morning, but he has not done
so. Rev. JaudOn is now on his way east
to enter the navy. His failure to return
confirms the belief that he has secured
a position in the navy and has gone east
to accept it. Rev. Jaudon advised no
one in Wellington that he had been sue
cessful in his attempt to secure the po-
SitiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22

A revised list of the military organi-
cations composing the Santiago expedi-
ton shows a muster roll of Ia, 646 enlist
ed men and 767 officers all told. All
are regular army troops except two
regiments of volunteer infantry-the
Seventy-first New York and the Third
observation-disclosures two squadrons of
dismounted cavalry from RoOsevelt's
rough riders" 1t is a picked force;
but scarcely large enough, in the esti-
nation of the war department officials,
to undertake without reinforcement
the task of reducing and occupying
Santiago and the Spanish posts in east
ern Cuba Accordingly three thousand
additional troops are to be sent on to
strengthen General Skaters army