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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

! There are runnors that automobile
trains will be the thing next summer.
Our good roads out here won't do a thing
to them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

. King Solomon the clairvoyant, Is locked
up for trying to shoot his wife. a man
ought not to shoot his wife. 1t Is wrong.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

United States Marshal Grimshaw says
that newspaper interview, on which
an article in this column yesterday was
based, made him say too much. He has
not been told by the senators that they
want to be %de1egates-a t-large to the Chi
cago convention. He believes, however,
that they would like to go, and would
appreciate the compliment Of a selection
by the state convention. He feels sure
Of his ground in making this statement.EE
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

When two girls Of 16 meet the sub
dued chorus of "And he said,7' -"And I
said" that goes up makes an old man Of
55 feel that he is way out of the race.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

Minneapolis. Feb. 20, 1904.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

Only eleven or twelve more weeks Of
the glorious old winter! Make the most
of it while 1t lasts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

: We have feared this for several days.
WI. MCGEE Of the anthropologicaI de-
partment$of the, worlds fair, tells the st.
Louis Post-Dispatchs that the japanese
brain is larger in proportion to the body
than that of any other race His head is
mesaticephalic for the most part, with a
tendency to brachycephaIy in the gross
types, and dolichocephaly in the fine type.
We do mot know exactly what these are
but they sound to us fatal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

The lady who: wrote >s'Irs. Wigs and
the Tobacco. Patch has just bought
$40, 900 house in Louisville.
P, S.-No mortgage
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

when Mr.. Alexander Gun was dis
charged from the Edinburgh custom
house, the entry made against his name
was: "A Gun, discharged for making a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

= And SO on, down to the present day
and to Minneapolis, where the local hui
morists are now putting out the best
brand of hurnor in the United States--for
the money they are getting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25

If the city would sink an artesian we'll
in every schoolhouse yard, a we'll similar
to the Bryn Mawr well. it would not only
accommodate the children but about every
family in the city. 1t would, however,
interfere with the profits of the water
commands. hence it will not be done
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

to preserve her from an enemy's shot,
when employed to defend harbor,
etc"
The Spaniards endeavored to i'm
prove on this and in 1882 hoped great
things from the celebrated floating bat
teries employed at the great siege Of
Gibraltar by the Duke de Crillon.
The fate of these experimental ar
morclads offered no inducement to the
naval constructors Of the day to make
further researches in the direction OF
protection, so that till comparatively
recent times we find our sailors de-
pending only on their wooden walls"
to resist the projectiles OF the enemy.
The Oaken sides Of the British ships,
we may note in passing, were often
exceptionally stout and difficult to
penetrate.
In the fight between the Citation,
fifty -six-gun ship, and four French fri
gates, a brig, and a cutter, mounting
220 guns between them, their twelve
and twenty-four Founders failed to
penetrate her sides, and she beat them
all off with great loss at the cost Of
one officer and one man wounded.
But the Americans, from the very
commencement Of their existence as
nation, set themselves to make i'm
provements in naval warfare. David
Bushnell constructed a practical sub
marine boat in 1913. TorpedoeS were
used by him and others in the war
with this country, and for the purpose
Of towing these contrivances alongside
our ships, they invented and built, in
1914, a paddle-propelled turtle-backed
boat lying low in the water and COW
cred with 'half-inch iron plates, not
to be injured by shot"
About the same period the celebrated
inventor, Robert Fulton, who had al
ready constructed one or two submar-
inc boats and various classes Of tor
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29
WISE WORDS.

We are never so happy or so unhap-
by as we .-RochefOucauld.
Fault-fnding busybodies are like
common candles-they want well
snuffing.
Self-sacriicing workers, and not
self-satisfed critics, are needed i'll the
world to-day.
A man may not be able to do one
great thing. but he can do many little
things which will make the world bet
ter.
Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore, get wisdom; and with all
thy getting get understandlng..Pro-
verbs.
He that has never known adversely
is but half acquainted with others, or
with himself. Constant success shows
us but one side of the world.
We are firm believers in the maxim
that for all right judgment of any
man or anything, it is useful, nay, es-
sential, to see his good qualities before
pronouncing on his bad.-Thomas Car'
lyle. 'sat ~ ssssss 49, ---syt
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

ishing to find that the Japanese pos
sessed a paddle propelled armorclad
in the year 1000. This quaint craft,
like the old leatherclad "barbotes" Of
the twelfth century, was turtle
backed, with ports for firing from. She
was covered with iron and copper
plates fitted together like the cells of
a honeycomb, mounted ten guns, and
like the Ark of Delft. was moved by
a central paddlewheel. Though there
is no record of any more irOnclad ships
before the nineteenth century, our own
navy, at any rate, used various de-
vices to protect its ships in the eigh-
teenth. According to a French writer
the sailors of his country were aston
ished at the perfection to which the
English had attained in this direction
"Old cables" he writes, "held in place
by pieces of iron, barricaded the whole
length of the bulwarkS; mantletS of
old rope hung over the ships sides to
diminish the shock of our cannon balls.
and beneath a thick rope netting,
stretched from poop to bowsprit, the
English fought under shelter, maneu-
wiring without ceasing out of musket
range, so as to riddle our detachments
Of fusieers with their cannon shot. So
we lost 200 men for every thirty of the
English put out of action
This system of armoring was, how
ever, soon adopted by the French, as
in Lescallier's "Vocabulaire DIES
Termes de Marine Anglois ct Fran
co.'s" published in 1777, we find the
following:
Binder un vaisseau,' to cover the
ships side with tenders Of old cables
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

kind called the Santa Anna"
launched at Nice in the same year. The
Santa Annals leaden armOr plates were
attached to her sides by bolts of brass,
and it was claimed for her that she
could resist the artillery of a whole
army" and at the same time could
sail or row as fast as any of her I'M
armored contemporaries. She was a
big ship, with six decks, a reception
saloon, Il chapel, a specially construct
ed powder magazine, and a bakery.
She was present at the taking of Tunis
in 1875, and played an important part
in its capture.
Lead, it may be remarked in passing,
was not infrequently used at this Pc
riod for sheathing ships under water.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

"turtlebacks." They would appear to
have been small craft covered with
strong leather protected domed roof,
through portfolios or openings i'll which
the archers and crOSSbOwmen could
fire without exposing themselves. They
proved very effective against the Sar-
acens, and in 1918 the entrance of the
Nile was forced by seventy Of these
little armorclads.
But in the meantime the Saracens
seem to have gone one better" in the
evolution of armor protection, for it
is said that the Great DrOmon"-
whose capture by Richard Lion-Heart
is still COMMUNICATED by the stars and
crescent in the arms Of our greatest
naval pOrt-was equipped with leaden
armor. This was in 1191 and probab
ly lead was occasionally used for pro-
tective purposes throughout the next
two or three centuries although there
is no record of any ship so protected
until 1880
In this year the Knights of st. John,
those sworn opponents Of the Turk,
built one or perhaps two ''leadclads."
At any rate, one account says that they
built such ship in this year at Malta,
while another describes a ship Of this
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

constructed in Antwerp in 1885, with
Of the Spanish army under Alexander
of Parma, which was at that time
closely investing the city. 1t was a
large flat-bottomed craft, with a CEN
trail caSemate or battery built of thick
balks of timber and plated with IRON
1t was intended to be, and very likely
was, impenetrable to any artillery that
the Spaniards could bring against it,
and in hopeful anticipation that their
ironclad ship would raise the siege
and put an end to hostilities, the men
of Antwerp chriStened her the Finis
Belli. In addition to a heavy battery
Of guns, the Finis Belli carried Il large
body of muSketeers, some of whom
We're stationed alOft in her four fight
ing tops, while the rest were well pro-
tected by the loopholed bulwarks on
the upper deck. Unluckily for the be-
sieged Dutchmen, she ran aground be-
fore she had effected anything at all,
and fell into the hands of the Span
jamula, or as we would say, DOGGY"
They cOntrived to keep her atloat and
brought her down to the camp of Alex
ander Of Parma, where she became a
great attraction to the sightseers of
the period. AS for the Dutchmen in
the doomed city, they henceforward
only referred to their fruitless expert
ment as the "Perditae Expensae," or
Wasted Money" Ten years previous
to this, others of the Dutch patriots
had built a somewhat similar contriv-
ance, which very possibly was also ar
mored. This was the ARK of Delft"
a twin vessel supporting a floating
fortress, which was propelled by three
hand-worked paddle wheels placed be-
tween the two hulls.
1t is a curious but well known fact
that if we go to the far East we can
find parallel to almost any western
invention. 1t Is therefore not aston
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29
Cold Weather Hard on Sparrows.


"Of course, this has been an unusual
ly cold winter, everybody knows that"
Said the Germantown policeman. The.
Weather Bureau can furnish the sta
tistics; don't just know What they
are, but do know this-that never in
my experience have I seen so many
dead sparrows as during the past
month. The sparrow isn't a migra-
tory bird. He makes his home in
certain spot, and there he stays, year
in and year out. A snowy winter like
this is particularly hard on him. I've
sort of made a study of the little bird,
and l know his habits pretty well. He
doesn't mind the snow for a day OF so.
In fact, l rather think he likes it for
a change, being q hardy sort of bird,
but when there is snow on tie ground
for a week at time he suffers. He
wants warm perch once in while,
and when everything is frozen he gets
chilled through and l really think he
loses control Of his legs to such an ex-
tent that he topples over and freezes
to death. At any rate, Eve seen more
dead sparrows lying around in the
snow during the past month than ever
before in the same period of time
Philadelphia Record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

Samuel r. STREET. a travelling man
whose work has taken him a number
of times into the South seas and the
Philippines, diScoursed eloquently on
the wealth acquired by the United
States in cocoanuts in the new pos
sessions.
Several million pounds" be said,
"will make up the export this year.
The cocoanuts will be cut in halves
and dried, and are known commercial
ly as copra. Not long ago they pressed
the oil from the kernels and put it
into earthenware jars; but the jars
frequently broke. SO barrels were SUBJ
stituted, but the barrels leaked. Final
ly an ingenious Yankee devised the
scheme of drying the kernels and ex-
porting them in that shape. This plan
is now almost the only one used. a
thousand nuts yield about twenty-five
gallons of oil. 1t is used for cooking,
Illuminating and for the toilet.-Louis-
vile Herald.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29
Marriage Service Blunders.

A Hampshire clergyman relates some
of the blunders he had heard made in
the marriage services by persons Of
the class who have to pick up the
words as best they can from hearing
them repeated by others. He said that
in his own parish it was quite the
fashion for the man when giving the
ring to say to the woman, with my
body l thee wash up, and with all my
hurdle goods l, thee, and thou" He
said the women were generally better
up in this part of the service than the
men. One day, however, bride star
tied him by promising, in what she sup
posed to be the language of the prayer
book, to take her husband ''to ave and
to old from this day fortni't forbetter-
er horse. for richerer power in sig
gerness health, to love cherries, and
to bay" What meaning this eXtraor-
binary VOW conveyed to the wOman's
own mind. the incumbent said, 1t baf-
fled him to conjecture.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29


pedoes, built a steam frigGte which he
called the Demologos," or Voice OF
the People," but which is sometimes
known as the Fulton l. This, the first
steam warship ever constructed, had
her sides no less than thirteen feet
thick of alternate layers of oak and
ash wood. a thickness absolutely i'm
penetrable by any gun then a1loat In
1929 this vessel was blown up by ac-
cdent. and was succeeded in the
American Navy by the Fulton II, a
ship which appears to have been pro-
tected by some kind of iron armor.
Various proposals were made to use
iron plating to protect the sides of ships
of war from this time forward, but
until the French constructed a num-
Der of armOr- plated batteries for use
in the Crimean War, nothing practical
came of the suggestions of inventors.
Their success at the bombardment Of
Kinhrrn demonstrated the value Of
arin0r pic eng. England at once fol-
lowed suit with others of the same
kind. some of which are still doing
duty as hulks Then came the French
La Gloire, the British Warrior, the
ironclads and monitors of the Ameri-
can war, and henceforward the steady
evolution of the armored fighting ship,
which has provided us with the ma
jectic battleships of the present day
Scientific American
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

netting of iron was suspended TO the
sides of men-of-war, which were also
strengthened by plates in the time Of
Henry VIII. and Elizabeth" No au-
thority is quoted nor is the material!
Of the pilates" specified.
The Spaniards attempted to protect
their galleons OF the Invincible Arma-
da by building their sides four or five
feet thick, but the heavy English guns
dashed them through and through"
But now at last we arrive at a real ar
mored ship in the present day accept
ance of the word. Not only an armor-
clad, but a real ironclad This was
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

: THE FIRST IRON CLAD, 'FINIS BELLI.
the construction of the turrets and
towers with which the fighting ships
of ancient and medieval times were
bltted, especially when used for harbor
defense as in the Venetian turret ship
of the ninth century here illustrated.
Felt made an early appearance as de-
fenSive armOr on ShipbOard, as we
find that in sea fight off Palermo in
1911 between the NormanS and Sara
Gems, the former hung their galleyS
with this material by way Of de-
fensive cuirass. The Norman knights
had probably adopted this device from
their enemies for felt had been used
for some time for this purpose on board
the huge "dromons" of the Saracens.
These, the 'battleships" of those days
III the Mediterranean, usually rowed
fifty oars a side, each oar being
manned by two men, so that here we
have q couple of hundred seamen ac-
counted for at once. When the soldiers,
sail trimmers, and artificers who
worked the war engines and siphOns
for Greek fire are added. it is evident
that the crew must have been very
large, and have required ship Of
considerable dimensions. These great
Warships were armOred with wooden
10th soaked in vinegar to render it
fireproof, and hung with mantlets of
red and yellow felt so that their cut
rass was not only useful, but orna-
mental as well. At this period, and for
many hundreds of years later, addi-
tional protection was afforded to those
on deck by the ranging of the bucklers
and shields of the warriors on board
along the gunwales. Later, in the fiji
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

his reign in 1876 covered two Of the
largest ships Of his fleet with leather
before sending it against Charles of
Anjou.
These, by the way, were not the first
"leatherclads." We have already seen
that leather, probably iii the form Of
rawhides, formed a portion of the ar
NOR OF the Saracen dromons, while
Conrad of Montferrat, at the siege Of
Tyre, in 1887, either invented or at all
events caused a special class of leath-
or protected vessels to be built, which
We're called "barbotes" or "duckbacks."
They would now probably be called
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

A0& THOUGH armorclad ships
u wy d are generally considered
@ ~ . to date only from the mid
i die of the last century. ac-
i T0F$ cording to high authority,
' armor, in the general extended use of
the word has been used for the pro-
lection of ships for hundreds nay
thousands. of years. Not, of course,
nickel-steel or even iron armor, but
protective covering of various mate
rails; for as the warriors Of the past
wore steel, iron, brass, leather. and
even quilted cotton armor, so have
ships been protected by a variety of
different substances. The modern
WORD ''cuirass," which we apply solely
to body armOr as worn by the Life
Guards, and which is of French deri-
walton, is used also in France for the
armOr of battleship and reminds one
at once that armor was originally made
of leather or CUR
AS with men so with ships. The
ships of the ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans were often fortified with a thick
fence Of hides, which served to repeI
Rhe missiles Of their enemies and af.
#ord protection to their own crews.
Hides, possibly brass and iron, and
certainly thick timber, entered into
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29
THE ADVERTISING ACE.
Wise Business Men Know That Publicly
Brings Prosperity


As the present age is un. iue in hay'
ing n prevalent competition system
which requires advertising, says the
Houston Chronicle, and as this system
has begun to be displaced by a COM
bination system, the effect of the con-
fiict between the two systems has
been to heighten the necessity fer adj
yertisement.
Every business p-ospers in proper
ton as it is known. The length of
time a business has been in existence
is, Of course, great factor But ad-
vertisement is the main factor. OF
course, the cheapness and the excel
lence of goods, and the quality of
service which concern gives to its
customers. are essentials of success.
People buy of the concern that adver-
tiseS, because the advertisement not
only gives the necessary information
as to where articles needed can be
bought, but to a great extent creates
the demand by exciting the desire Of
the public through published lists Of
desirable things
Therefore. the wise business man adj
vertises, because experience proves
that advertising brings prosperity. SO
great is the prosperity Of business
that is largely advertised that when
the time comes for the great combina-
lions and mergers Of our day to abb
Sorb lesser concerns which are their
rivals, they adopt towards the we'll adj
vertised concerns Il different course
from that pursued towards concerns
which have not the strength with the
public that much advertisement brings.
Towards the weak and non-advertis-
ing concerns the great trusts adopt a
policy of suppression. They undersell
them and take the business over to
themselves. With largely advertised
concerns, however, this cannot be done;
the great trusts, as recent business his
tory has shown, are forced to buy them
out at Il large price.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

in the same way that copper is still
found so useful. Thus, the French
ship. Grande- FRANCHISE. launched in
1927, one of the largest and most ia
nous ships of her day, was sheathed
with lead from her keel to the first
vale above her waterline.
According to short paragraph in
Hayden's Dictionary of Dates, "chain
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

Grizzly Doesn't Care For Human Flesh.
In the old days, before the deadly
magazine rifle was invented, hunting
the grizzly was very different affair
and no animal on tile American CONT
nent was more dreaded, his fierceness
and vital force when wounded filling
the most reckless hunters with Il
wholesome dread 1t was not at all
unusual for a grizzly with a bullet
through his heart to pursue and tear to
pieces the hunter, whose long single
barrelled muZZle-loading rifle, with its
one round lead bullet, was altogether
inadequate for such contest. 1t is a
strange thing, too, that While the griz-
Fly bear is an omnivorous feeder. living
on anything from roots and nuts to
steer and buffalo meat, he has never
been known to deyour human flesh
st. Nicholas.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

teenth and sixteenth centuries, special
"paypgades." or bulwarks, were pro-
vided In lieu, composed OF large OBJ
long shields supplied for the purpose.
In addition to felt. the time-honored
leather armor also entered into the de-
fensive panoply Of the 'dromons,"
and in the war of the Dicilian Vespers,
Pedro Ill of Aragon, who commenced
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-29

re United States sold $103, 100000
worth of breadstuffs abroad last year,
an increase of $6,0000OO over the best
previous year.