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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-17
when IRONSIDES
WAS ~TORPEDOED
Lieut.. Commander TOmb'S Father
Figured In Daring Exploit
ESCAPED UNDER HEAVY FIRE.

Officers of Atlantic Battieship Fleet
While at Charleston, Where the AS
sault Occurred, Hear Thrilling Story
From Lips of a Survivor, Who Gets
a View of Modern Ships.
Eleven battleships of the Atlantic
fleet, the Utah, Florida, North Dakota,
Delaware, Ohio. Idaho, New Hampshire,
Illinois, Virginia, Georgia and Rhode
Island, were at Charleston, s. c., re-
Gently in connection with a celebra-
ton at that place. While the officers
OF the feet enjoyed their visit to the
southern city, the trip had an added In
terest to Lieutenant Commander James
III. Tomb, on duty on the North Dakota.
as his father came on from Jackson
vile to see his son, and also to view
the vessels of the modern navy.
Back in 1863 Lieutenant Commander
Tomb's father was engineer of a Con
federate torpedo boat. This vessel was
called the Little David by the south
erners and was designed by DIR. st.
Julien Ravenel of Charleston.
The Little David was commanded
by Lieutenant William L. Glassell, a
graduate of the United States Naval
academy of the class Of 1913, who was
dismissed from the navy on Dec. G.
1861. On Oct. 8, 1868, the torpedo boat
steamed out of Charleston harbor TO
make an attack on the United States
frigate lronsides.
First Submerged Torpedo Boat.
The little vessel was practically he
nrst submerged torpedo boat ever used
In naval warfare. At 9:15 o'clock that
night a small object was seen by n
sentinel on the Ironsides and hailed.
No answer was received, and the SEN
try fired. The ship almost immediate.
ly thereafter received a very severe
blow from an explosion which threw a
column of water upon the spar deck
and into the engine room.
The object was afterward known to
be a torpedo boat. shaped like a cigar,
Hfty feet long and five feet In diam
eter, and so submerged that the only
portion visible was the coaming of her
hatcn, two feet above the water sur
face, and about ten feet I'm length.
When the Little David exploded the
torpedo she lay helpless under the
quarter of the frigate, her fires auench-
ed by the volume Of water caused by
the explosion. Lieutenant GlasseIl and
the fireman, James Sullivan, swan off
toward the Ironsides, which all the
time was directing a heavy fire upon
the torpedo boat.
Returned to Disabled Craft.
Lieutenant Glassell hailed a schooner
as he was drifting past and was taken
on board and was then made a prison
er by the northerners. The pilot. Wal
ter Cannon, remained in the Little Da.
yid, and Engineer Tomb, DOMINIC a
life preserver, leaped overheard, but
swan back 10 the torpedo boat.
There, in spite of the heavy fire of
the enemy, he rebuilt his fires enough
to move the machinery and, eludine
the Federal ships, took the vessel back
to Charleston I'm safety.
The marine guard and musketeers
~ tho snar deck of the Ironsides saw
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-17
Coughing At Night.

One bad cough al keep the whole
family awake at night. Phil. Disor
neau. Schaffer, Mich, says: | could
not sleep on account of a bad cough,
and / was very weak. l used Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound, and soon
the cough left and ! slept soundly al
night" For sale by all druggists. -
Adv.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-17

Bring your good fresh butter and
eggs to James s Slack
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

eminent and the public right unavail-
ingly before one convention; the other
is fighting the same battle before the
convention Of his party today and the
prophecy is for the same result.
History is in the making. We made
it at Chicago. 1t is to be made at
Baltimore. The signs are for great
upheaval and mighty change In polit-
ical partisanship. And the people
await the result at Baltimore.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
Topics Of the Times

To have left Sherman off that ticket
would have been the height Of incon-
sistency.
The next thing II to put tho steam
roller or some other squeeze upon
those who should contribute to Taft
Sherman campaign fund
Neither does Mr.. Bryan propose to
be crucified on the double cross Of a
Parker craftsmanship.
Some folks at the convention couldn't
see the difference between a hearse
and band wagon.
A horticulturalist at the convention
would naturally think of root grating.
If Lorimer had callers the other
night they found hiEa smiling de-
lightedly.
Other democrats rise and fall, come
and go, but Bryan stays. There's a
reason.
Alton B. Parker no doubt can be de-
pended upon as Root was depended on
to take care of his own clients.
Perhaps by the time the next repub-
lican convention comes together the
bosses will find i. necessary to use
chloroform or knockout drops in order
to get away with it.
The most superstitious natives IN
Alaska are the Diomede islanders, &C
cording to the teacher who is in charge
of the government school maintained
by the United States bureau OF educa-
ton at that point. Along with their
belief in witch doctors and ghosts, they
used to believe that they could not
wash when the north wind blew, nor
comb their hair till the south wind
came. But then the average Iowa
school boy is a superstitious being who
hates the neck and ears" business
whichever way the wind happens to be.
Complaint is made that it costs an
average of 10 cents a school day per
child to put the rising generation of
this country thru the elementary and
high school But it is worth it, if the
child is worth raising at all.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
DRAGGED II.

Maybe the fact that Ed Chassell has
been state binder for some years helped
h into his recent defeat" says the
Iowa City Republican. The Cummins
wing Of the party used the possession
O fthat lucrative office by LATE Young
to injure his political fortunes. and
some Of the odium attached to 1t has
probably been automatically trans
ferred to Chassell."
The Republican drags this suggestion
in by the hair Of the head. There is
nothing to 1t unless the desire to throw
a bit Of post ELECTION mud at good
man. For be 1t known there has never
been flaw to find in Ed ChasselTs adj
ministration Of public or private trust.
The suggestion from the Republican
is utterly gratuitous and probably never
occurred to any other person in Iowa.
Certainly not to any who know ChasseN
personally or who have taken the
trouble to look over his record to in
quire as to his reputation.
Moreover the Cummins wing did not
"use the possession Of that lucrative
office by Lafe Young to injure his po-
litical fortunes" Somewhat there was
in Mr.. Young's administration of the
office which injured his political for
tunes, but the widest supporter OF Mr.
Young will scarcely accuse the Cum
minis wing In seriousness of response
bility for the NAL administration for
which Mr. Young himself is chargeable
Ed Chassell was defeated. more's the
pity. It is less pity for Chassell than
for the state which he has served with
complete faithfulness and ability. But
any attempt to cheaper or derogate
Mr.. Chassell before Iowa will meet the
disgust it deserves. The explanation
lies elsewhere.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
WHX1 OF 4 COINS BusINEss2

The third party movement while re-
ceiving much acclaim in the streets
just now, is giving grave concern to
progressive leaders as well as to ma
chine Office holders. There is no argu
ment as to the need of new deal
within the party organization, not
much concern as to what becomes of
Taft but in those states in which the
progressives are in control Of the re-
publican party, in which they hold the
offices and control the machinery, the
proposition to abandon a going bust
Eess to take sloch i'll new venture
not yet Incorporated, causes investors
to hesitate. Established business means
something in politics as we'll as in
commerce. Those who have small re-
sponsibility, nothing to lose, as it were
can easily encourage the new venture
in the old organization, would far
rather see the established company
adopt modern machinery and modern
methods than to permit the rev COM
pany to be launched.
But there are stormy times just now
for the progressive spirits within the
superintendent, manager snd direc-
tors who realize the mistakes of the
past are suboriil ated to q corrupt in
ner ring who rule by reason of the
support of the fossijized contingent
which reveres the achievements of
fifty years ago.
men, of the modern business spirits. OF
the rising generation within great
corporation is as to whether to stay
with the old company and fight the
gang, or go with the more venturesome
who propose nee company and mod
ern methods. clean CT the corruption
Of the old concern. What is to become
of the branches in the several states,
is the serious problem. Some Of them
are we'll manned, clean and strictly
modern. They are getting the business.
There is little need of new concern
to go against them. If the ring could
be ousted from the national board and
remaining branches cleaned and mod
ernized the going concern would offer
the ideal business prospect, but with
the general corporation fossilized and
corrupt so far as the inner ring is
concerned, it may become absolutely
necessary to incorporate a new COM
pany to take over the modern spirits
within the old and to pursue the same
business along modern and clean
lines, but the problem of how TO save
the desirable branches and the desir-
able branch managers is difficult
one. Not all will have the faith or the
nerve to go with the new company.
Can any afford to go without the as
surance that all viii follow? That is
the problem which has ever distin-
guished between fortune and failure IN
commerce and it's solution today deter
mines success or defeat in politics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
TWO GREAT FORCES IN AMERICAN LIFE.

In the convention at Baltimore there
rises one commanding figure Wh1cn
looms above all others, strong man
who stands four square While the
eddies of minor men and minor mo-
tives circle and Whirl about his feet,
a force in the politics Of his party and
of the nation-William Jennings Bryan. |
1t is not long as the years go that
another convention of the democratic |
party met in Chicago, peculiarly con-
stituted convention. 1t was one pc
culiarly constituted as regards its dele
gates. 1t was a period of unrest and
the delegations who came to the con-
vention of 1896 were seeking public
betterment. They had come direct from
excited and disconnected assemblages
of democratic voters with the sense of
popular demand upon them. 1t was a
convention so directly selected by the
and desires of the common voters of
the party that it was more populist1c
than democratic as the party term then
stood for. 1t remained for young
and unknown man to fire that conven-
ton. with the idea that the common
man on the farm and in the work
shop is, aggregated, the voice Of gov
eminent and to be himself nominated
as the fit representative of his party
to carry the banner he had unfurled. So
William Jennings Bryan became not
able figure in American politics and
the leader Of that element of his party
which tustifies the party nomencla-
ture.
Perhaps It was a turgidly fervid
speech Bryan made that memorable
day. possibly it's rhetoric bordered on
tho hysterical but 1t was the early
open announcement in great poliu-
cal convention Of the basic principle Of
ahe square deal. Crude and uniformed
st may havs been but it carried the
Adea, Cs1t3cixe that speech in any way
that & Offers itself to criticism the fact
1smaans that It carried the punch. it
Dtx008 = A9yAk u1io <AAlSAiC3AAAoiA ca"
,swsred,tt.
8lnce that day Bryan has become
= ueat force in American life as in
poil31cs. Many men have attained
lnsce In msrs politics az we understand
che term. Bryan has done more: he
Has s1nAsaibly impressed himself upon
thosaiSe OF the American people by
kaean consistency and high citizenship.
Nhs- two citizens who lead American
Wrought moro than any others today
nxs Thoodore Roosevelt and William
{ Vsnn1nGU 2Fyan.
Bstwoen the Two men and between
Aho potl41eal and personal and public
iaoeal1sy they-represens the differences
hro nj vital. In politics the one haa
NDo - s3sxtIe Ior nonees sc: = SSnv-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
Thu Face, in tho Street.

The countless faces of the crowd
Rudy with health or pallid broWed,
Eager with youth, or wan with age,
Glowing with JOY. deep lined and sage,
Work worn, or satin smooth with ease,
Repellent, or with lines that please,
With eyes that dream back thru life's
tears,
Or forward flash to coming years
These make the city's streets to me
A living. Turing pageantry.
The countless faces of the crowd
Fore them in awe my head is bowed.
For lifes great forces carve each hne'
And warning passions-low, divine
Upon them write mute tales that show
The secrets all that seek may know.
Suffering love, despair, delight,
Dim or Hume them day and night.
Tho nature charms with glow and
CLEAN.
Gods masterpieces still they seem.
-Oreola w. Haskell in Leslies
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
They Put m End to Il.

Charles Sable, 80 Cook street.
Rochester. n. T.. says he recommends
Foley Kidney Pills every opportunity
because they gave him prompt RELIEF
from a bad case Of kidney trouble that
had long bothered him. Such rec
ommendation, coming from Mr.. Sable.
is direct and convincing evidence OF
the great curative qualities OF Foley
Fills. Mcbride & VIII Drug Com
pany.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

STEEL FURNACE MA.ls
SUCH POWERFUL AEA
WARMED COMFORT
TWEEN THE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
BUSINESS AND PTETY.
George ID. Perkins in Sioux City Jour-

nall
Business is a most exactfng master.
There are two ways with it-a way
forward and a way backward; and the
way backward IL \ way Of mockery
and way of encouragement. Sue
cess turns its back on the man content
to stay where he is. There Is no limit
to what he may do, to what he may
! accumulate. and to the power to which
he may attain in business life-that Is
to say, there is no limit except the
limit Of his strength and ability; and
the last thing men are disposed to
acknowledge is inferiority. Men may
deplore their lack of opportunity, the
wrong which stands in the way OF
achievement the artificial handicap,
whatever it may be under the def1ni-
tons they supply; but they are unwill-
ing to admit they could not do all that
| other men are doing if they had equal
| chance. 1t is possible they forget they
are not fervent in spirit 1t Is possible
| they forget that they must supply
their own mastery-that they must go
in and out before themselves and not
another The man who acts from
his own initiative is said to be original.
He follows his own thought, trusts
dIESiS 10 Ills oNA JoNSAASAAeb OASASS
conditions to his plans, and borrows
with amendment the best he can dis
cover in the plans of his contempora-
ries. A patented device may be the
source of large wealth. but the devices
| originated in the brains of men. by
which they have taken precedence.
tho unprotected by the law, have
brought princely fortune to many men.
There is much in the homely philoso-
, ply Of getting there first.
The power Of the spirit, however
applied, is the greatest power known
to men. When the spirit is broken
the life is wrecked; and the only hope
remaining is that the broken spirit in
some way may be patched up, and be
made to serve again for the propulsion
of life; but never again with the speed.
the energy, the confidence in self and
the confidence of others, as before.
It is of utmost Importance to guard
with patience and unfaltering courage
the life of the spirit.
But how shall men not slothful in
business and fervert in spirit main
tain themselves and make gain ad
yet serve the Lord? Men are far from
being clear as. to how they can do
that. and above all things they shrink
| from the taunt of hypocrisy. A prob
.-lem is involved which fs- more in
| human consciousness than ever before.
That it is related to the brotherhood
of man end the fatherhood Of God
there need be no doubt. There is
sufficient excuse for saying that COM
merciaiism is yet to be recognized az
/ a powerful agent for the promotion
! of Justice, the defense of the common
rights of men. and for the spread OF
! amity among all the peoples OF the
earth. To large extent now. 1t Is the
! servant Of the Lord. however blindly.
/ and it will be more SO. and with re-
/ ioicing. in the better days to come
mot slothful in business; fervent IN
spirit; serving the Lord"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

"Will Colonel Roosevelt be able to
secure a respectable republican follow
ing for his new party plans subse-
auent to the Chicago convention. as
sl,ming, of course, that the final out
come of the convention shall move him
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER.
rsloux CITY JournAl.l

Local dealers are willing to dsliver
anthracite coal between this time and
the hrst Of October at $10.75 q ton.
Patrons are advised to get busy. and
they are assured that just now coal 10
on the bargain counter. 1t doubtless 10
true that the time is at hand when
provident families should consider how
they may escape freezing during the
perils OF another winter, while at the
same time they have Immediately be-
fore them the problem of the flies and
degrees Of heat to tax endurance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

TO carry out his threats?" inquiries the
Sioux City Journal. "A positive an
swer to tht9 question must wait "a DE-
velopmeItSS at and after the cSnverl-
ton" cokcAudes the Sioux City paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

Even the Perry Chief is rapidly
coming to the conclusion that the
southern delegates are the curse and
shame of the republican party. Why
not secure representation upon the
basis of the party vote?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
Good Idea,

"Who is the patron saint OF music?"
inquired the student. What kind OF
music?" reioined the professor. IF
you allude to ragtime I should say st.
Vitus. Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

First, the people tried the case OF
Roosevelt VS.. Taft. Their verdict was
unmistakablv clear. Then the national
committee had a .ryoCt with this YER
dict The committee passed 1t up 20
the convention and the convention
handed il over to a credentials COM
mittee, and this committee referred
or will refer it back to the conven-
ton sums UP the Council Bluffs Nom
pareii. After the convention it will go
again to the court of last resort, the
people. for final approval or rejection.
Regardless of the outcome in this case
never again will presidential nomina-
ton be made by passing thru such a
gauntlet
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

1T was a we'll oiled roller. Such
suueaking as there was did not come
from the roller" chuckles the Sioux
City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-25

"old King Corn" says the Iowa City
Republican, doesn't care whoop
whether Taft or Roosevelt wins out.
1t is engaged in a contest of its own,
to get knee high by the Fourth OF
July and it is lot safer to bet on its
success than on any political candi-
date"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-03-28
That Patent Decision

The latest important decision
of the United States supreme
court will not add to that tri-
bunal's popularity. This deci-
sion was rendered by a minor
ity of the court and yet it be-
comes the supreme law of the
land. Many times five Judges
have fixed the policy of the
government, but this time four
render a decision that will cost
millions Of people considerable
sums of money and force them
to pay more for articles than
they are worth on the market.
Only seven judges took part in
the patent law case, four of
them were majority, and the
effect of the decision is that
many hundreds of articles that
the people must have, will be
sold at a price far beyond their
just value.
While the people have SUBJ
mitted to the rule of a major
ity of the court they will be
less inclined to submit to the
rule of a minority, especially
when the decision is so severe
ly criticised by the chief JUS
tice, aud is so generally disap-
proved by the whole popula-
|tion. They do not consider
that any reasonable interpreted
ton of the patent laws would
give to the patentee the right
to stipulate the use and price
of other articles not patented.
That is the effect of this recent
decision, and if the court can
make a law of that kind, what
may it not dc?
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-03-28

DR.. Warren returned from
Omaha, Saturday evening
where he Rad been since We'd
nesday morning finishing up his
lectures in the public schools of
that city. He spoke to the
High School students, Thursday
over two thousand in number.
Last Sundays Omaha News
and also Wednesdays World
Herald contained a portrait of
the doctor and an article on the
teeth embodying his original
directions for the personal care
of the teeth.
DR.. Warren now has a record
of having spoken to more per-
sons on this subject than any
one on earth, as he has been
before more than $4,000 pupils
and over 1000 teachers.
DR.. Warren is making quite
a name for Mo. Valley as he is
one of the best known dentists
in the state and the work he is
doing is attracting wide atten-
ton. The care of the children's
teeth is serious question and
all dentists make it a point to
instruct all children with whom
they come in contract but sew
eral dentists have been dele
gated by the State Society to
lecture before the schools and
DR.. Warren of this city has the
honor of talking to more child
rem than any man in the coun-
try.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-03-28
Aid Society Supper

Tie Ladies Of the Christian
church served a delicious sup.
per to the public on Saturday
evening last al their tabernacle.
ia large crowd attended the
supper and tveryone had the
highest praise for the
splendid supper. We are in
formed that It's the intention
of the president Of the Aid to-
continue such events each
month during the summer and
fall months, which il they do
speak for them unbounded sue
Cess.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-03-28
How Cold Causes
Kidney Disease

Partly by driving blood from the sur
face and congesting the Kidneys, and
partly by throwing too much work up
on them. Foley Kidney Pills strength
en- the kidneys. give tone to the urin-
airy organs and restore the normal ac-
ton of the bladder. They are tonic in
action. quick in suits. Try them.
m28 Robt. w. Harvey.