The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25

l burdened with a, great many sedec~ ments followed by Not that's" an ab- surdness that mars the pleasure of 1 reading, as: Tt had never been Mrs. | Mulvaney's way to notice who her l nta ghborg were, | Not that Mrs. l MuIvaney cared,'' etc. Children should | be given good style in writing from | the first, how else form any knowledge or appreciation of the best. No child sh ,uld be allowed to read sentence like this: When Hannah acted sur prised and ventured question: her mother boxed her ears"
 Hannah wishing to say that she will not repeat her work is made 10 say | "T don't chew my cabbage twice" Slang should be kept from -child's story II | possible especially such uncouth slang. | A child reader has the most inconveni- ent way of seizing upon the rough ex- pressions thrown in its way and adopt
 ing it with its own conversation. IL seems a pity that so excellent little story as this of the way the Mulvaneys under leadership of Sallie Brown went forth and found Santa Claus could not have been told in more graceful man. ner. '.-
 Life i'm the Confederate Army and | Some Experiences and Sketches by A P. and NJ. ]. Ford. Books of fact nave always a lasting value. There is no
 
 mirthful to say if he relate his own experiences. There are few human be- ings who have genius enough to entitle | them to dispense fiction to the world
 The publishing house of Neale IS sly- ing out many books of actual experi- ences, true narratives which are or great value. Arthur P. Ford tells very simply the story of the daily life of
 private in our army.
 His narrative is frightened with many a jovial little anecdote:
 'Lieutenant Webb of our company, had just got a new negro man servant who was inexperienced in warfare. One afternoon, a a few shells were being thrown at the fort from the gunboats
 he was very much scared, saying, Dem
 people t'row dem t'ings about we're so careless. dey don't mind dey'll hurt
 somebody Just then shell passed
 over the fort, and exploding in the
 rear, a piece cut off a leg of Lleuten-
 ant Webb's horse Dere, now, wat
 tell you" exclaimed Sam, Dey done kill
 Marse Ben's horse. ''' :~
 Good description is given of the first
 submarine boat ever built Necessity,
 the mother of invention, and the ge- nius of our Confederate men brought into being several important new things in warfare. Was not the chain covered old Merrimac the first iron-clad war ship? ....-: -:-.. .. l give the story or the f1unQl6y UT
 Fish boat Was there ever written on the pages of history story of more complete heroism than that of the twenty eight men who lost their lives in the Hundley? =-.. Tt was about this time that I saw that celebrated torpedo submarine boat the Hundiey, the first submarine boat ) ever built. As I was standing on the
 bank of the Stone River, I saw the boat passing along the river, where her . builder, H. L. Hundley, had brought . her for practice. She made an experl- ? mental dive, stuck her nose in the mud and drowned her entire crew.
 She was built in Mobile by Hundley and brought on to Charleston in 1863.
 She was of iron, about twenty feet long four feet wide, and five feet deep-in fact, not far from round, as l have seen 1t stated; and equipped with two fins by which she could be raised or lowered in the water. The first exper-
 iment with her was made in Mobile . Bay, and she went down all right with her crew of seven men, but did not ' come up, and every man died. asphyxi- ated, as no provision had been made for storing a supply of air. As soon
 as she was raised she was brought to Charleston, and a few days after hel s accordance by General Beauregard [ Lieutenant Payne, of the Confederate s' Navy, volunteered with crew of six
 men to man her and attack the Fed - eral fleet off Charleston. While he hac her at Fort Johnson, on James Island
 and was making preparations for tho
 attack one night as she was lylng al
 the wharf the swell of a passing steam
 CT filled her and she went to the pot
 tom, carrying with her and drowning c the six men. Lieutenant Payne hap
 pened to be near an open manhole
 the moment, and thus he alone escaped
 another crew of six men volunteered D under Payne and took charge of her
 But only week afterwards an exactl!
 similar accident happened while she wa
 alongside the wharf at Fort sumter
 and only Payne and two of his men es
 capped. H. l.. Hundley, her builder II ?, Mobile, now believed that the crews di'
 not understand how to manage tn
 "Fish,' and came on to Charleston t
 see if he could not show how 1t shoult
 be done Lieutenant Dixon, of Ala
 bama had made several successful eX
 periments with the boat in Mobile Bay - and he also came on, and was put il o charge, with a volunteer crew, ant Q made several successful dives in tn n harbor But one day, the day on whlcl I saw the boat Hundley himself tool it into Stone River to practice tn s crew. She went down all right, bu y did not come up. and when she wa
 searched for, found and raised to tn c surface. all of her crew were dead. Sh Il attempted to dive under the Confeder r ate receiving ship Indian Chief, whe
 she got entangled with an anchor chai | and went to the bottom, and remaine s there until she was raised with ever - one of her crew dead.
 ,, No sooner had she been raised thal If a number of men begged to be allowe n ;p give her another trial. and Lieuten
 ant Dixon was given permission to us e her m an attack on the U. s. s. Hous 10 atomic a new Runboat that lay of if Beach Inlet on the bar. on the condi IF ton that she should not be used as
 submarine vessel. but only on the sur e face with a spar torpedo. On Febru e ary IT. 1894. Lieutenant Dixon. with lt crew of six men. made their way witt y the boat through the rreeks behint
 Sullvans Island 10 the inlet,
 2 The night was not very dark. ant u the Hous atomic easily could be per It ceived lying at anchor, unmindful O r. danger. The Fish went direct fo d her victim, and her torpedo striking e the side tore a tremendous hole in th n Housatonic. which sank 10 Inc bottom
 in about four minutes. The "FisL" va e not seen again. From some unknowi {, cause she again sank, and all her crev ., perished After the war. when th' i, Government was clearing the wreck
 and ohstrUctions out of Charleston har