The Helena independent. [volume], May 15, 1892, Morning, Image 11

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N5 NOR TI3 'V.A.IN STREAEMT.
SPECIAL BARGAINS, BABY CARRIAGES. LACE CURTAINS.
FOR THIS WEEK.
Ladies' Muslin Night Robes, best quality, New York We are strictly headquarters for Baby Carriages, this
mills. Plain 6oc season, having shipped a carload, embracing all colors, quali- We have a large line of popular priced lace curtains of
Ladies' Muslin Night Robes, embroidery and tucks, ties and patterns. We can suit everyone, and would call the latest patterns and styles at prices from $r.oo to $r5.00
Regular price $1.25, this week 85c attention to our immense line. We sell a full size Carriage per pair, and solicit an inspection of our line. 'Tlhese goods
Lafine qulin y. Regular priob hem stit.oched and tucks $ with best iron wheels, parasol and upholstered, as low as are new and fresh, and prices are lower than ever before
Better and finer styles, all grades. Prices, $1.25, - -. offered.
$1.50 $x.6o and $z.85. $ 6 .5 0 .
Children's white checked Muslin Aprons, neck and
sleeves trimmed with Hamburg edging; worth And prices range from this price to $35. We guarantee
$1,25, this week" .' 75C a saving of 25 per cent. to those desiring a carriage. Also
Children's white 'Lawn 'Aprons, e ly tr mmed in full line of Children's Iron Wagons, Velocipedes, Tricycles LA D IES'
HanIburg; worth $1.40, this week 85e and Doll Cabs.
Children's Lawn Aprons, tuck yoke, Hamburg trim- and Doll Cabs.
ming, with row of tucks on bottom; worth $1.75, U N DERW EA R
this week $1.25
Foster Kid Gloves, in Tans, Drabs and Black, fitted to SPRIN G
the hand, this week $1.25
Large line of new novelties in Stamped Linens, includ- U M BRELLAS
ing Pilllow Shams, Table Mats, Table Covers, Tray
Mats, Bereau Scarfs, Splashers, Bibs, Doylies, Swiss ribbed cotton Vests ........................$ . o
Squares and Pillow Slips at EASTERN PRICES. Swiss " Balbriggan Vests, in cream, ecru, white
Heminway's Knitting Silk in new shades, for gents' and black.....................................25
ties, per spool, 35c and black ............................'........ .25
ties, per spool, 35c
Heminway's Roman Floss, Japan Floss and Rope 26-inch Gloria Silk Umbrella, with oxidized handle, at $1.5o Swiss ribbed Balbriggan Vests, high neck, long sleeves,
Silk, in all of the new shades. Price, per dozen, 45c 28-inch heavier handles, at........................ I.75 full fashioned ecru............................ .35
One lot imported, fast black, Ladies' Hose, Hemsdorf 26-inch Imperial Sisk, natural wood handles........ 1.75 Ladies' extra spun Silk Vests, cream and black ...... .90
dye, warranted, at 25c Silkefancy Silk Vests long sleev
One lot imported fast black, Ladies' Hose,.Hemsdorf 26-inch Twilled Silk, fancy crook silver and horn Ladies' extra spun Silk Vests, long sleeves, black only, 2.oo
dye, spliced heels, at 3oc handles ..................................... 1.90 Ladies' heavy Balbriggan Vests, and drawers to
One lot imported, fast black, Ladies' Hose, Hemsdorf 26-inch Carola Silk, horn crook handles ............ 2.oo00 match, each.................................. .35
dye, spliced heels, double soles, worth 6oc, special 26-inch Taffeta Silk, with gold-plated handles........ 2.50 Ladies' extra Balbriggan Vests, with drawers to mtach
price 35c 28-inch Carola,Silk, natural handles, silver trimming. 2.50 a regular 9oc article, for .........................6o
Heavy Ribbed Hose for children, fast black, sizes six 28-inch Carola Silk, fancy assorted handles......... 2.75
to ten, only 25c
*.THG +. B'EE HIME*
SOL. GENZBERGER & CO., 5 NORTH MAIN ST.
ON AN AFRICAN CRUISE,
How the Good Ship Was Rid of All
of the Rats and Cock
roaches.
The First Three Years' Cruise of a
Young Middy From
Boston.
Trloks of the Boys Who Were Required
to Fuarish a Complement of
Roaches Each Morning.
(Written for TarE IIELENA INDEPENDENT 1
T WAS MY FIRST CRUISE, AND
many years age, when I was a boy, a
young middy, that the ship I served
aboard sailed from the good old Boston
navy yard on a three years' cruise; in those
days it was the custom for the fiabship of
the African station to spend half of her
craise on the African coast and adjacent
islands, and the other half up the Mediter
ranean.
The ship was almost new, having only
made a previous cruise, and was consid
ered at that time one of the finest vessels
of her class in the navy, if not in the
world.
The history of the ship from the day she
was launched has fully proved this fact, as
she is in commission this day, and doing
geod serviee after a lapse of forty-three
years.
Reaching the station, we were very com
fortable on our good, new ship, excepting
for two nuisances that required a great deal
of ingenuity to overcome; one was cook
roaches, the other rats.
No ship could be cleaner than she was,
but the heat of the climate was favorable
for the rapid increase of the roachee, and
our never going alongside of a wharf or a
pier prevented any loss of the rate by emi
gration; so they both thrived and in
creased.
On our distant station no insecticides nor
"Rough on rats" could be obtained. Evon
if they could have been procured, we could
not have used them, because the rats and
roaches would have died in the ceilings and
between the timbers, and rendered her un
inhabitable.
Eo something else had to be done to at ate
the nuisance. After a great deal of thought
and consideration on the part of our firat
lieutenant, thu following plan was deter.
mined on:
We had on board about eight or ten
bright mensenger boys. As was the custom
of the service, they weoe rigidly iaepeated
every morning watch, with their trousers
rolled up to their knees, their frock-sleeves
to their elbows, and their collars open and
thrown back, all toeing a seam with their
saps in their hands. This inspection was
held by the officer of the deck and the
master-at-arms, called by the crew "Jimmy
Legs."
One fine morning it was announced to
these messenger boys that hereafter eaeh
one was to muster at the morning inspec
tion with twenty-byive roaches, and that
they had permission to visit and search
any part of the ship to obtain their quota;
in ease of failure to produce the prover
number, the delinquent (unless some good
reason was given) was to reseive as many
strokes of a rattan as he was short of the
number of the roaches required.
Operations were to commence at onee,
The next morning the counting took place,
under the supervision of Jimmy Legs.
Each boy after the countiag was found to
have his proper number of robechee. After
inspection they were marched to the gang
way and threw their collection into the sea.
This they did every morning for a long
time.
Finally it became a hard matter to mse
tar with twenty-lve huge every morning.
Consequently the number required was re
duced to twenty; after another lapse of
time to fifteen; then to ten; then to five;
and finally to three apiece. But long be
fore this latter number was reached the
bays resorted to all sorts of devises to get
their complement of roaches-for they well
knew the penalty hanging over them.
To avoid punishment and preserve their
game each one provided himself. with an
empty mustard bottle and eork, and slung
it around his neck inside of his shirt, and
every time he caught a oeach he bottled it,
At the inspections the boys counted out
their quota from the bottles, which we a re
corked and returned to their bosoms with
what was left over, to be ready for the next
call.
Of course, by the time the complement
required was reduced to three roaches,
they had very hard work to keep their
number up. So they resorted to a device
that prospered for some time before it
was discovered. It was this: When they
were marched to the gangway to throw
their bugs into the sea, by a tarn of the
wrist they threw them into the main
chains; and when the master-at-arms dis
missed them they quietly, when unob
served, went into the chains and picked
up and returned to their bottles all of the
roaches that had lodged there, and this
picking was honorably divided amongst
the squad for the next morning's count.
The operation, being dangerous and liable
to bring detection and punishment, was
taken in turn by the boys.
After this had been going on for some
time it was discovered and stopped.
However, they resorted to another de
vice. It was customary in port on Sunday
afternoon to allbw visiting parties to no
about among the ships that might be at
anchor in the harbor. So one afternoon in
the harbor of Porto Prayn our boys were
allowed to pay a visit to one of the vessels,
a topsail schooner and quite a celebrated
vessel in her day; at this time she was som
manded by an old lieutenant who afterward
became an admiral and lost his life on the
Asiatic station he commanded at the time.
This officer the next day made a visit to
our ship, and calling on our grand first
luff he said: "Well, T., you have a lot of
the strangest boys in your ship that I ever
saw! Yesterday afternoon they canme on
board of my vessel, and "na soon as they
went forward they commenced catching
roaches and putting thorn in bottles which
they had in their shirt bosoms: they went
through the ship, over anti under the boom
covers, hammock nettines, galley, berth
deck, mesa chests nud everywhere! They
were not still a minute. Such n equabbling
and striving for roachesI never saw. What
does it all mean?"
The matter was satisfactorily explained
to him. And the fact became now appar
ent that roaches in our ship had almost
disappeared, as only occasionally one would
be observed, when itd fate w~v scaled on
sight. For durinlg the remainder of our
cruise those boys had become so habituated
and expirt at catching them that never
afterward did a bulg sccnrr, and to all in
tents and purposes the ship was considered
free from them.
No one not shut up in a ship with these
vermin can conceive what a great nuisance
these zoaches ware. They would destroy
brushes, shoes, binding of books, eat the
toe and finger nails of persons sleeping
down to the quick, and would at times live
in sueh qumbers and emit such a pungent
and penetrating odor as to drive the occu
pants of the state rooms out.
But the heroic measures described above
answered the purpose, and I have no doubt
but that eah of those boysoarried with him
ever after a decree of energy to whatever
vocation he fblluwed that rendered it a
suceses. Certainly, at the end of the
eruise they were admitted to be the smart
esat boys in the squadron and several of
them served with me years afterward as
petty oftoiers.
I will now discuss the question of rats.
It was in this same ship and same cruise.
We had stopped at Norfolk some time,
which gave the Virginia rate an opportunity
to come on board and find quarters, and
when the ship hauled out into the stream
they had to go to sea nolens volens. They
found no objection to the Boston rats al
ready ensconced in the depths of our holds
-in fact, they struck no a copa tnership,
joined forces, increased rapidly and aveed
ily became bold and aggressive.
By the time we had finished our eighteen
months' cruise on the African coast and ar
rived in the Mediterranean, it was deter
mined to commence proceedinags against
them. Matters had become so bad that it
was diffcult to get a good sleep below.
They would consume and spoil a bar;el of
flour in forty-eight hours. They went
alott at night and ruined our sails when
furled. Many of the crew suffered from
their bites. We had a number of cats on
board, but the rats had no fear of them.
It was determined to smoke them out.
Our first lieutenant took the matter in
charge. He took the ship to Spezzia, at
that time only a small town, its shore as
wild as if it were situated on our northwest
coast, instead of Italy. A place well
adapted to our purpose.
Upon anchoring we commenced opera
tions by bringing up from the berth deck
to the main deck all of the messgear, men's
bags and officers' clothing, bedding and
enough provisions to last a week. The
awnings were spread on the spar deck, the
curtains got up, the deck divided off into
mess rooms by canvas screens-everything
made as comfortable as could be.
After all had moved to the spar and main
decks, the holds were broken out, and every
box, bar el, coil of ro; e. etc.. was stowed in
the wings of the berth deck. Gratingswere
placed over the hatches and covered with
tarpaulins; in the center of each was itted
a pane of glass, so that all below it on the
berth deck could be seen.
On this deck, directly under the pane of
glass in the hatchway above, a shallow
wooden box, about four feet square, weas
set and filled with sand. On this sand was
placed a drying stove filled with charcoal,
and around it was placed low-sided vessels
rilled with water.
When all this had been completed on the
berth deck, every soul except the men sta
tioned to light the fires was order ed up from
below. Then the Lires were lighted and the
men who lit them canms up. The hitch
ways were closed and cemented so no air
could get below.
For three days the hatches remained
closed. On the fourth day the tarpaulins
were taken off and wind sails put down
each hatchway. On the evening of this
day a man was sent down in a bowline to
take out the air ports. .But as soon as he
was down he became insensible and was
immediately hauled up. No one was suf
fered to go below again until next day,
when the air ports were taken out and the
air allowed to circulate.
Upon inspection it was found that each
fire was suerrounded by rats that had gath
ered there, as being the last place where
air could be found to breathe. Bucketful
after bucketful of these creatures were
passed up of all ares and size until three
hundred and sixty odd rate were counted
antd thrown overboard-togRtlrer with the
six cats that could not be coaxed from the
holds to the upper decks.
After a general overhauling below and
renovating, the holds and store-rooms were
restowed and the people moved back to
their quarters on the berth deck. As far as
we could discover only one rat escaped with
its life; it found safety in the timbers un
der the quarter galleriy, where some flesh
air entered through a crack in one of the
seams.
The remainder of the cruise was a most
delightful one. But even now. I never
think of that cruise without remembering
these incidents, and also that of all the of
ficers who were serving on board that ship
during that eruise, 1 am the only living one
remaining in the service.
L. A. KiMtnatLY.
Copyright.
Deserving Praise.
We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling Dr. King's New
Discovery for eonsumption, Dr. King's New
Life Pills. oucklen's Arnica Salve and
Electric Bitters, and have never handled
remedies that sell so well, or that have
given such universal satisfaction. We do
not hesitate to guarantee them every time
and we stand ready to refun the purchase
price if satisfactory iesults o tnot follow
their use. These remedies have won their
great popularity on their merits. It. .
Hale & Co., druggists.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
A convention of the delegates from the var
ious wards of the city of helena and the pre
cincts oa the osunty of Lewis and ('larke. is
caled to meet at ..lectric hall, in the city of
Hlelena. on t'hursday. June 2, at 12 o'clock m.
Said convention will be held for the purpose of
electieg forty delegates and forty alternatis of
Lewis and Clarke county to the democratic state
cunventisn, to be held in the city of Bozeman
on Thursday, June 9, 1892, and for the transac
tion of each other business as may come before
it. The ward and prebinct primaries, of the
wards and preoincts hereinafter named, will be
held at the places designated below. on datur
day, May t', for the purpose of electing dele
gates and alternates to the Lewis and Clarke
county democratic convention. The number of
delegates to which each ward and precinct will
be entitled, and the places of holding the several
primarlea are as follows:
irt ward, city 11ha .. .. ....... .. ....... 10
Second ward. Hendricks club rooms......... 10
1 bird ward. Payne's hotel................ 10
Foosth ward, Gerhauser block ............... 10
Fifth ward, west side school house........... 10
Sixth ward, hose hose........................ 10
Seventh ward, hose house . . .................. 10
Maryaville, Maree hall ................... 15
Unionville, Phil Constas's store. ....... 5
Baxendale Erwin's place..................... 2
Month of Nelson, Mattie store............... 1
Rimini and Little Jennie mine, Coway'e
hotel ........................ ........... ... 4
Bthler, section house ..................... 1
Kessler's. shoolhol us.. .................... 5
Empire, store ......... ........ ..........
Jay Gould and Stemple, Willbom's......... .2
Canyon Creek, 's n. ............... 1
oodwine schol houe ............... .... 0
Silver Station. depot.. ...................... 8
Valley. Warren school house.................
East H elena ............................. .... 10
French Bar end Spokane..................... 2
Mitchell's ranch, M Ort Mitchell.............. 1
cartersville. Kioselpaugh .....................
Craig, hotel ................................... 1
Dearborn Milot store ... ....... ........... 1
Hlogan. Hogan'e rancth ............. .. ..... 1
Augusta, Phil Manlix store.................. 6
Dearborn Canyon............................ 1
poek Crsek Basin ...... .... .....
Middle Fork Dearborn ....................... 1
Bld Butte ................................. 1
DAVID .MAKS,
T. E. CnuTrcEu. t hairALLs.
Secretary.
IoNUMENTs
APIE FORE EHDU1(I$(
ANTED -W H FOR
-r DESWlSc s & RIClCS
MOIUMEITAL BRONZE CG,
BRIDGEPORT, CON 4
IS ENDORSED BY EMINENT SCIENTISTS,
'Will recist thle atmsphtore for all time."-
'Watt'Dt' l)ctlonry.
' ho necIteity for a mormers nuring ntletrial
than atone ha', lIng been felt. I Ie rdtlrinlg ele
ilite Oe rtfieetld sinc (W'lite I ronoe't) sll its
pec, inradahtenthilit' tsaks. it excollent for ti.
pirpose."-t:'clientitic American.
A Few More Local Agents Wanted.
E. S. HALL,
1It1LLINGS. MONTANA.
Gen. Agent for Montana and Idaho
1'ANTIIED -'IWO hIOliES F1OR FIIR, 1)1
tertuont. Notice is hereby given that theo
city of Ihelnen ie deelros of purchasin g for else
on-eeet cart, two htorees. nelt, syouner thali treo
Iltre noc eler tih' n ll cecen, nutL iOee thaltI lxte ii
and one-haltf hatles high. nor to welgih less than
I,20l) sioundte when in goodl rulnnilleg ceuetitiitt.
'I hetly Ihllt bit Ihecturothtly lsellltound Of glt ction.
well bred Iasd of tgoodieeHn C. (twwnetr r heroFS
hevinu te above iettlreeecnte deelisiet
ti roll then[ are invitedto echlibit
said horses at the citle hell, to tee fire
ecareha' et tin tt. '. . tnller. ehalrllla ef tice
ceeteittel e aon tre department, duriug the buti
nose hours of the day.
Dated 1{l . ,M'lKINNUN, biro Marshal.
eatod leloeln May I 18092.,
Glarke, GoRrad & Gurtin.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H7xRDwTARe.
Ranges and Stoves.
We are now ready for the Spring, with the very best stock of
House Furnishing Goods ever offered to the public. We are head
quarters for Lawn Mowers, Lawn Sprinklers, Hose Reels, Brass
Nozzles, Rubber Garden Hose, etc.
A Carload of Refrigerators and Ice Cream Freezers,
cO..E AI.D SEE = S.
Telephone No. 90. 42 and 44 S. Main St,
t OW SIOUX CITY ROUTE
EAST.
Passengers for the East from
Helena and other western points
will find the NEW ROUTE via
SIOUX CITY and the ILLINOIS
CENTRAL R. F1. not only doe:irable
as to time and equipment, but one
of the most attractive, puss:nc
through Sioux City, the only Corn
Palace City of the world; Dubuque,
the handsome lKey City of vowa;
Rockford, Illinois, anew manufac
turing city, that has become a
"world within itself," and Chicago.
whose growth and enterpriee is
the wonder of the world. With
elegant free Chair Care, and Pull.
man Palace Sleeping Cars on every
train botween Sioux City and Chi
cago, and xvi' h a close connection
with the Union Pacific trains at
Sioux City, the
Illinois Central R. R.
respeotfully presents its claims for
the new and every way desirable
SIOUX CITY ROUTE.
For folders and further partlcu.
lars call upon local ticket agent,
or address the undersigned at
Manohester, Iowa.
J. F. MERRY,
Asst, General Passenger Ahent.
STUDY LAW
AT HOME.
TAsx A COUnse IN T5U
Sprague Correspondelel
SIhoob of Law.
(lacerporated.)
Bond ton cent (stamras)
for partiulare to
J. Oatner, Jr~, Se'y.
I*ie SjU Wklmeo Blctk., Detretl. qeLb.
lIFERlF'S S-\LE-MA~QRGARET F. ]A'E
plaintiff, vs. Mary M. 1teessrenr, Charles Meo.
en.wr. 1. Wlitohead and Edward Whit.ahad.
letendants.
I udur and by virtlo of ant order of salo and
teroo of forraolottte and talo issued out of the
lntriot court or the ltreL judliti:il diatriuL of the
state of Montanla. in atrd for the ronnty of
I ewia and Clarke., on the 0th day of May, A.
D. 1812, in the abov e ti(t led act.on, wIhonia
MNargiro. V. I on. the above natmed plaintiff,
obtained a judgment t and docree of for.nltoure
Lad v!e s.ainst Mary hd. lMeatouger. ('harlea
Mes'ouror, I,. \\hi:ehoad and ndwvard \\'hre
chad, dofendant.. on the tih day of May,
A. i). lt!. for tho aunt of $1.:0ot.
Ltities nllItle. t, oat anld altl.rno fOas, whilch
toot deOree was on the 1th dayl of May. A. D.
.tl2. r.worded in Jt:dgtlenat book No. Gi. of said
lourt at rots , I anm Courattattnded to soil all
tLat v : t .i. lot. p.te ·r pareul of land,
s.t .ale, t I: and ;teit Iln the counlty of Iowi
and ('lark., ; t:te of IMlontaua, and boundod and
descrIbod as foll ow., to-wit:
1.,t, rutlbord six i'.|. in bootk numberoed
nihrt. .u, of ti:e .orthrn Pai'antio addttion to
the 'it of Hlelena, county end nlate aforesaid.
.aol lot having a frontage of tifty (51i) fatt mud
I depth of on. hutu.,rrd and forty (141) feet. at
,rdiil:t to, an, tas o.r.bolatd upon the oficial
ltt of ho raidt namted addition, which plat is
f," o:: ile it, t.ho rnater provtided by law, in
I o tltire of the county ratordler or the said
tt:ltl orf I ewisl and Ilarko.
c'gother withl all andi luular the tontemtonts,
h'it.niltOlln ,, antl oaturnttanttrp IthretttLn be
thltt I+ r in .0i "n o. appnrtainittg.
thiti " noltiec ia lthrbty iivrtl that tl oat atlday,
h,, ,h aI.a', tf Mas.- A. It. ,Irm. at is o'ctlck as.
f that day at the front ldo(r of the o 'trt hotLuse
ltl ola,. L.ewin anl1 ( la' kO county. Alouttana, I
ih;. in tototltnn to ami ulotlerort .,o anlt tldetree
of f" etloasuree and tale, tell ith aibvetlesc+rilbod
rltterly, or t, much thereof a matay be
noaursory to ttatiifX alli judgtaent. with interect
and ,otals, to the hitghosnt and beast, bidider for cash
in Itand.
G1iron under msy hand this 6th day of May. A.
i('hAS. M. JEkFFERIS,. heriff.
By I.tALR I . Jttnoix. , Deputy b1horlT,
Room No. I, Power Block. Postofflee ka S toI
HELENA. MONTANA.