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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
Ask Me No More.

Ask me no more. The moon may draw
the sea
The cloud may stoop from heaven and
take the shape.
With fold to fold, of mountain or Of
cape;
But o too fond, when have answered
thee?
Ask me no more.
Ask me no more What answer should l
give?
p love not hollow cheek or faded eye.
Yet, o my friend, l will not have thee
die,
Ask me no more. lest ! should bid thee
live;
Ask me no more. -
Ask me no more Thy fate and mine are
seal'd,
/ strove against the stream and all In
vain;
Let the great river take me to the main.
No more. dear love, for at touch | yield /;
,. Ask me no more.
Alfred Tennyson.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
Business as a Diversion.

One OF the modern versions Of the
need of distraction" theory is found
In the following story from the Wash
ington Star.
you don't seem to be making much
progress In golf,'
NO. replied the player. ut worries
me Do you know, sometimes wish
was back at business so as to have
something to take my thoughts of the
game"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
a Bold CHALLENGE,

1t had been explained to n man that
nastics sis" The plural form bothered
him until somebody said, We'll, did
you ever hear of a mathematic, a
polite, an ethic or n gymnasticT
The doubter retired in confusion, but
came back triumphantly from retire
ment after awhile.
Say, you wise guys" said he. 'tell
me the singular Of dandruff. Chicago
Post. O.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16

The four submarines authorized by
the last naval appropriation bill are
designated K-j, K-G, K-T and KS.
They may destroy the individuality
of the submarine by designations hard
to remember, but the thrilling work
OF men whose will 1t obeys IL the
mechanism responds to the labor ex-
pected of 1t always will remain as
hazardous as the day the little craft
first proved success. A thoughtless
moment OH the part OF one careless
member of the crew might send the
sea explorer with its twenty or thirty
men on an unexpected lengthy visit
to Davy Jones' locker.
Within the sho' time submarines
have been considered practical dsas-
tor has followed In their wake Time
and again one sinks. never to rise
again with Its own power, while the
crew lives perhaps for hours before
the foul air and noxious gases prove
fatal. As long as life remains these
men are fighting with every nerve and
muscle strained to the utmost. seeking
to remedy the defect which holds
them prisoners under the sea.
A DIARY OF DEATH
A graphic, description Of the acct
dental sinking OF submarine was
given to the world In May. 1910, when
No. of the japanese navy was rails
ed from It's watery grave Lieutenant
sakuma after the fatal sinking Of his
boat with himself aud fourteen men
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
PRAYER on the Run.

One day last week two little girls in
Parsons were hurrying TO school and
were afraid they would he tardy. One
little girl said. Lets kneel right down
and pray that we won't be tardy."
"Oh, no." said the other; lets hike
on to school and pray while were hik-
in'."-Parsons Sun.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
Poodle Xaraua Baby.

Myles-You must have an expensive
household. What does that young girl
do? Styles-Oh, she looks after the
baby. We only pay her 81 month.
well, then, there's that French maid
who wears the capT "Oh, yes; she's
expensive. We pay her $50 a month
She takes care of madam's dogv'-Yon-
kers Statesman.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
ONLY the Best.

A social leader was arranging for n
musicale and called local professor
into consultation.
81 think" he said. "we'd better have
two first violins, two seconds
NO." said the prospective hostess.
81 wish to spare no expense. Let us
have only first violins, II you please
Philadelphia Ledger.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
The P.yohoIoaieaI Moment.

Mr. Flubdub-You women are mighty
slow. During the time 1t took you to
select that Int went out and made
$500"
Mrs. Flubdub-I'm so glad, dear.
You'll need it.-Puck.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
Sure Enouoh.

II wonder why Solomon was consid.
cred the wisest 2" asked Mr.. Meek.
toms wife.
Probably, my dear. because he had
so many wives to give him good ad-
vice. Washington Star.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
ThankIs.sness

Mrs. Peck Really. we never knt -.
who our best friends are. Peck--Th1&
true. There's the fellow I won you
away from. He hasn't spoken to mo
since.-Boston Transcript.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
An Inherited LEGACY.

Mrs. Givem-What makes you so
tiredf Weary Willie Heredity, mum.
Me father was the original tired bust
ness mdn.-Judge. ~
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
Numbers Instead of Fishes
Names Adopted For Uncle
Sans Diving Demons-They
Have Been Fortunate In Point
of Accident, While Other Ma
tons Like Vessels Have Met
With Disaster.

of new whale we WERE and he nosed
us as a dog might sniff at stranger
to see if he could make friends with
him or not"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
Aunrehanainn-

fear thy kisses. gentle maiden.
fear thy MEN, thy tone. thy motion.
Methinks thine eyes are heavy laden
with thoughts about this leap year no.
tion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
kept Il record Of events while await
ing his inevitable end. This record is
pivpn I'm mart.
given in part :

given in part:
Words of apology fail me for having
sunk his majesty's submarine No. 6. My
subordinates are killed by my fault, but
it is with pride that inform you that the
crew to a man have discharged their du-
ties as sailors should, with the utmost
GOODNESS until their dying moments.
We now sacrifice our lives for the sake
OF our country.
II was while making a gasoline dive
that the boat sank lower than was in
tended, and In our attempt to close the
sluice the chain broke We endeavored TO
stop the thrush OF water with our hands,
but too late The water entered at the
rear. and the boat sank at an incline of
% degrees
When it touched bottom It was at an
angle of 10 degrees. The current SUBJ
merged the electric generator. put out the
light, and the electric wires were burned.
In a few minutes bad gas was gener-
ated making it difficult for MS TO breathe
II was at 10 a. m. on the 18th inst that
the boat SANK. Surrounded by poisonous
gas, the crew stroye to pump out the wa
ter. n
We have worked hard to pump out the
water, but the boat is still in the same
! position. II Is now u O'Clock. The depth
Of water here IL about ten fathorns.
! The Pluviose OF the French navy also
sank i'm May, 1910. with all on board
! twenty-seven souls. She was gen, 10
/ her doom by the cross channel steamer
/ Pas de Calais.
UNITED STATES FORTUNATE
The French navy bas suffered se-
verely In the development Of the su'y-
marine. One French crew was r1-.<usd
after living in compressed air for sey.
enty-two hours. The Russian, British
and German navies have all expert.
enced submarine calamities, while the
it has been more fortunate in this re
spect than the others.
On Feb. 2 last a crew of eleven men
and three lieutenants, the latter going
through course Of instruction, per-
ished on the British submarine A-3,
which was lost in collision with the
British gunboat Hazard off the Eng.
fish coast.
Notwithstanding the venturesome life
that home on the submarine offers
1t is replete In interest. Ensign A. III
Miles, who commands the 105 foot zoe
topus) CT, had a three day race with O
school of porpoises on deep sea trip
The porpoises darted after the craft
without fear, evidently regarding 1t as
u living creature. Another story Is
told by Ensign Smith of the Salmon
now D-3. He says: Just before darl,
one day the Salmon was bobbing NJ
and down the waves off No Mans
Land and getting ready to dive when
something Jared the side Of the craft
To our amazement we discovered a
fifty foot whale edging alongside in the
most friendly manner imaginable. The
huge animal was not afraid of It's new.
found water mate and playfeIlow and
kept along for miles. apparently salts
fed ut finding a friend in this lonely
section Of the ocean. When IL was
quite dark the monster gave the sub
marine friendly nosing over by way
of farewell. dived deep and was gone
"The big fellow hnd acted rs though
he were curious to discover what kind
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16
UNDERWATER SENSATIONS

The first impressions a "landlubDer'
gets upon descending into the hold of
submarine are those Of discomfort
and sutfocation. The accommodations
for a crew of twenty seem about right
for half that number. On all sides are
arranged electrical devices and ma
chinery to operate the craft and tor
pedoes. \ thin shell Of steel separates
you from the torpedoes, and the out
most feel the moisture
When under way on the surface the
submarine huns and trembles. The
fumes of gasoline are almost suffocat-
ing. There is no escaping from them.
Some of the men contract what is call
ed gasoline heart" If under water
too long the fumes make one sick and
dizzy. a novice cannot remain in a
submarine under water for any great
length of time without suffering excru-
ciating torture.
But it is when the submarine dives
that the most unpleasant symptoms
come. There are ten compressed air
tanks supplied. and these furnish suf-
ficient air to keep the crew alive n
good many hours. But did you ever
live on compressed air? II not Il will
be new sensation, especially IL you
are fifty feet below the surface Of the
water There are a tingling sensation
all over the body and pounding Of the
eardrums
GOING DOWN.; COMING UP
The chiig-chug Of the gasoline engines
! c'.ase@ when the submarine Is about to
make plunge and the electric motors
/ take over the work. A negative buoy.
ancy must first be obtained. Stuff
I dent water is drawn into the tanks.
Z then inch by inch you sink, until there
/ loft.
Then The captain gives the order and
Nh" craft disappears. The hand on the
Indicator takes on life and shows five
ten. fifteen feet. Then the boat stops
a peep through the eye piece, and you
can see the condition of the sea above
Then again you start descent. A
few feet down, and suddenly some
thing blots out the vision on the peri
scope, something green and oily. il 1.
the water closing over the lens above
shutting out the world. You are Who'll
ly immersed now. Perhaps a storm |.
raging overhead, but all Is quiet In tn,
submarine save for the smooth purrint
of the electric motors and an occasion
al sharp cry of command. Soon tn,
craft rests on the bottom.
Going up into the coming tower
where there are several eye ports GOV
cred with glass five-eighths of an incl
thick, you can see the ocean. 1t Is like
being on view In the aquarium your
self with all the fish Of the sea looking
In mt you. Fish of all kinds and colors
pass before your bewildered view
Fearlessly they poke their noses
against the glass. A school of bright
ly colored fish might pass in wonderful
array while sea growths meet the eye
everywhere.
The ascent Is obtained with the re
verse of the levers. Up, up, you &c
until you have reached the sea level
The water is pumped Off. the matches
opened, and the trip is over. You have
seen with your own eyes that truth in
deed is stranger than fiction and that
there are realities TO match the imag
! inings Of Jules Verne.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16

RULES VERNE'S fantastic vision
OF a generation ago has become
q commonplace experience to
Uncle Sans undersea Jack tars.
After 100 years of experimentation, the
expenditure of many millions Of dol
lars, the loss of hundreds of lives and
the suffering Of martyrs and pioneers
as grewsome as the horrors of the me-
dieval chambers Of torture the sub
marine now is recognized as an essen
tial craft. Germany, France, England,
Japan, the United States and other
nations are each equipped with fleet
OF these ironclad fish.
When England some time ago decid-
ed to give up the idea Of calling sub
marines by the names of fish, distin-
tinguishing them with number and let
ter instead, British nautical poet
broke forth in the following strain:
Only a number, not even n name!
How shall posterity hear of my fame?
Perchance II may still live after the grave
in the name of an ironclad under the wave.
FISH NAMES DROPPED
This can now apply to the diving
vessels Of the American navy. No
more fish names are To be given to the
submarines. The practice instituted
by Charles Bonaparte while secretary
OF the navy Is now held TO he confus-
ing and useless. AS rapidly as possible
the picturesque names hitherto used
by all these little fighting craft are
being painted out and numbers and
letters being substituted in their stead
Here is how the changes are being
made.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16

Adventure and Risk Are the Por-
ton Of Jack Tar Under Surface
of the Sea = Nature Rebels
Against First Uncanny Dips.
Sensations Experienced by the
Novice.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16

RULES VERNE'S fantastic vision
Of a generation ago has become
! commonplace experience to
Irnnlo Snn l,s, unlnrSnn InnE tars
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-03-16

Judge.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
THE GREASE AND MOISTURE


waste trade, can be reclaimed. The city
receives a cash bonus weekly, and also
all the labor necessary for this work OF
trimming from the contractor. in return
for his right 10 reclaim saleble waste.
Brooklyn, because OF its geographical
conditions, necessarily has a different meth
od. There the contractor for final DISPOSE
ton Of ashes and rubbish furnishes the
dumping points operates them and takes
the material away In scows or railroad
cars These stations are furnished with
incinerators, so that non-salable, combustl-
BILE waste does not go into land fiji. Under
this contract the total amount of ashes
and rubbish Becomes the property of the
contractor This includes any benefit from
reclamation Of salable waste, and without
any portion going into the fill at Riker's S
Island
Some idea OF the variety and quantity of
salable material found may be gathered
from department test of sample two
thousand carloads OF ashes and rubbish.
In these two thousand loads We're found
81, 900 pounds of rags, 81 tons OF paper 10
tons of tin cans. 102 barrels OF broken
glass. $500 empty barrels. l07O0 bottles. II
tons of old iron and 1886 pounds Of rubber
and miscellaneous metals.
The paper and rags go TO the paper stock
trade and are used in the making OF paper
board. Tin cans are desoldered and de-
timed The solder is used again. SO Is
the tin. In making poor quality tin cans
Lately the improved methods Of can manu-
featuring reduce tin and solder, 90 that
this form OF reclamation is growing less
profitable. After the detinning and de-
soldering the cans are rolled into sheets.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

surprised to know that garbage is OF any
use They supposed as they carelessly
tossed their meat scraps and empty cans
into the pail and sent ii down the Dumb
walter in response to the ianitors whistle
that they had seen the end of bad matter
Not so. Garbage, like the cat of unap-
preciated fidelity celebrated in song, is quite
likely to come back.
Peradventure, the meat scraps may loom
up again In sweetly scented soap and the
empty can as a winoow weight in the sum-
mer bungalow. Those empty beer bottles
that were so often tucked coyly away in the
bottom OF the garbage pail, under the bread
scraps lest the neighbors on the shaft get
wrong ideas" may live again to cry out
accusinrIy from the briqucttes in that same
bungalow.
Indeed. should you take to prying around
among those cute little foreign restau-
rants on the East Side and eating their
queer. fussed-up, hashy dishes, that Biblical
paraphrase about the returning bread and
things is likely to become all TO literally
true A word to the wise is sufficient along
such unsavory lines.
A Harlem cliff dwellcr paid a South
Brooklyn contractor his price and gleefully
took title to a cosey. detached, 'niHe-room-
and" with green grass growing all around.
Then he invited a. friend out to inspect It..
The friend knew the contractor. Also the
friend was sanitary expert, He carefully
looked the place over from lawn and gar
den to near-tie roof.
"What do YOU think of it?" asked the
owner
Garbage" quoth the friend, laconlcally.
What do you mean?" gaspcd the disap-
pointed praise seeker.
Just what / say, garbage" persisted the
friend But" he hastily added, don't feel
hurt about It, You don't understand? Wen,
look This whole lot of yours is made
land Made of what? Why, some years
ago this building site was a swamp. 1t
was filled in with the citys rubbish. Don
look mad, as If you had been imposed upon.
Not a bit of IT,
This garden is fine and the lawn couldn I
look better. But those choice Killarney
roses and those thrifty looking vegetables
would never have hourished in the dry
street sweepings and other sterile accumu-
lations OF the dump cart. COpious use of
fertilizer, probably .hailing from the gar
bage disposal plant at Barren Island, has
furnished the magic touch.
"Why, man, the foundation for your fine
cellar floor and for your front walk came
from the dumps. The top layer of cement,
too, as we'll as that used in building your
cistern, Your brick foundation wall is eX-
ceilent, and, coming at a small cost, prob
ably had the same origin.
Il like your house all the way through.
have no doubt, though, that the cement in
its walls, the weather sheathing, the sound
proof filling in the partitions; yes, the fancy
tile in the bathroom and the nlaid blocks
OF your kitchen floor. the kitchen tubs and
these sound proof covers, were all yielded
up by the garbage disposal system. I'm not
sure, by the way. but that the cheap cloth
coat worn by Bridget has in IL 'shoddy'
from the same source.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

We left IN the revolving drums after iis
naphtha bath is practically free from
grease. It Is now returned to the dryer
and thence through a screen, and comes
out a iaky mass like feathers. 1t IS now,
after the drying process, useful as base
fer high grade fertilizer. because capable
of absorbing chemical properties essential
for plant life. Some plants need nitrogen,
for instance, and others other elements.
This vegetable matter is not valuable by
Itself alone, as 1t Is only a low grade fer
tllizer ready market Is found for all
this material,
Processes by which gas. electricity. am
monia and other by-products have been
produced directly or Indirectly from garb-
age have SC far proved only minor features
OF the system, mainly In the experimental
stege,
So much for the garbage proper the
ashes and rubbish OF Manhattan and The
Bronx are received by the contractors on
scows. which are unloaded either at RiKer
Island or at some other hll which the con-
tractor may have on hend. From 30 to tc
per cent OF this material Is placed in the
fll at Rikers Island which so far has
made complete an additional area OF sixty
three and half acres One hundred and
seventy-three acres more Is now being
filed I'm. This has cost the city nothing
further than the contract cost Tor towing
and unloading. This material, OF course
includes only such part OF the ashes and
rubbish as cannot be made OF other use.
The remaining 10 or 50 per cent becomes
the property OF the contractor, TO dispose
OF as he sees A.. When the seews ar,
| trimmed. much material. valuable In the
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
THE BARREN ISLAND PLANT.

! the city beautiful is to keep it clean at
the least possible expense.
Nor is this by any means simple
problem. 1t involves the handling at the
present time of over three million tons OF
refuse a year. figure which is increasing
by a good percentage annually. This in
cludes. besides garbage proper, which
means the animal and vegetable waste of
kitchens and markets, ashes, light refuse
and rubbish
The disposal of garbage proper is perhaps
the most serious consideration. Improperly
handled II is a menace to public health.
Some cities bury II. Others dump II in the
sea Others burn it up. New York City
turns it to use and thus makes it pay part
of the expense Of It's removal.
Utilization depends largely on quick
handling, for the swll or food waste must
be sterlized shortly after receipt owing to
the fact that It is so putrescibl-. The sue
cess Of the system in this particular is evil
denced by a low death rate among the en-
! ployes who, at Barren Island, daily handle
one thousand tons of the stuff
! There are probably few visitors to ia
| maica Bay who take the trouble to visit
/ desolate Barren Island. unsavory of repu-
! tatiOn. But one who does finds much Of
interest in those rambling sheds and helCh-
/ ing furnaces.
/ Contractors receive the garbage on hoard
their scows at the waterfront dumps and
| tow il 10 the island, where II Is put through
! the reduction process. Here are that extra
chop YOU ordered at breakfast the other
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

! Here, alas. Is where the careless house
wife causes trouble. In spite Of courteous
requests from accredited officials and dis
courteous threats shouted ur the dumb
waiter shaft by discrcditcd janitors, she
will chuck into what the department clas-
SITES as garbage chat is, the purely AMI
nal and vegetable waste Of tho kitchc2j
bottles, rags, papers and tin cans. Even
her last seasons hat. stripped Of its Will
low plumes, may iauntily top OF a morn
inCs refuse and escape the vig!lant eye
Of the assorter till it's reaches this final
place Of Judgment. II householder and
janitor would be careful to observe the
departments classification o. ashes. rub
bish and garbage city cleaning would be
simpler and cheaper. I'm the garbage prop
or that reaches Barren Island there Is still
Gbout per cent Of rubbish that has to be
assorted and sent to other fields OF useful
ness.
In what is left there Is about % per cent
fbrous matter, s per cent grease and 20
per cent moisture Practically all but the
water is utilized at the Barren Island
plant and fair profit made
After it has thus passed under the last
assorter's eve the garbage IS carried hy
feeders to huge cylinders, called dicesters.
each holding from eight 20 ten tons These
steam-tight tanks are sealed bv holtcd
caps. and the contents arc cooked about
eight hours by steam. introduced at
pressure Of about seventy pounds. The
mass that comes out looks to a country
housewife like apple butter
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
Yol Mvr;ad Households Is Goconda to Those Who Mine It
From the Heap Ofa Pile Come Materials for "ch
You Have Once Them Away You Later Fay 1oody
Sums When They Appear in the Form OF Building
Materials Home Utensils

morning and found, after YOU nibbied IT,
was cne too many; the quarter of a cake
that somehow got dry before even the chiI-
dren found 1t in the back of the cupboard
the scorchad potatoes, sent back TO the
kitchen with your husbands blessing ana
tho fag end of a roast that the cook for
cot TO put in the soup kettle as YOU or
dered. Here they all are, with millions OF
other household relics Of the great city
They are about to suffer, not exactly
sea change" a Jamaica Bay change, let
ms say. And they'll return to YOU. per-
hans to your very kitchen, in the form
of soap or ammonia TO clean the shelves
or mans or sinks that they left in greasy
disorder.