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Did you ever read Twen
ty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea, the story
about a sub mar me, which
Jules Feme wrote forty
odd years ago? The ves
sel he described, "Nau
tilus" is a most a counter
part of the Gernian
merchant submarine,
"Deutschand," which
came to this country sev
eral weeks lago .
OH weeks tlic Gorman undersell
boat Doutschlnnd occupied thu
llrst pngu of, every newspaper
In tlio land, to tho exclusion o
tliu Muxican problem and a
considerable part oC tho Euro
penn war news. Her Journey
across tho ocoan from Bremen,
lior uvolimnco of tlio Kngllsh and French war
vessels and hor theatrical dlHcosuro of lion
Identity nt Cape Charles constituted tho sen
sation of n century.
Mr. Charles l Tower of tho Now York
Xrlbuno has written an artlclo compnrlng the v
DoutsWilnnd with tho Nautilus, tho submarine
bout of Imagination which Jules Vcrno, tho
grcnt French novelist, described In "Twenty
Thousand Leagues under tho Sea," published
ihout 45 years ago. No doubt many of you
have read tho story. It Is n grout boy's book, llko
"Tom Sawyer" or Fonlmoro Cooper's "Leather
Htocklng Tntes."
Mr. Tower assumes that tho Nautilus was never'
destroyed, ami that tho Detitschland. Is tho old
boat of Action rebuilt. lie snys:
"But tho sensation will bo tho greater when It
becomes generally known that tho boat Is not of.
dermal) design or build; that she Jh really tho
original submarine boat Nautilus, designed by
:tmt wonderfully skillful navnl architect, engineer
i ml sclcutlst-nt-lurgo, Jules Verne, built and navt
fated over and under many seas by Captain
Nemo, and for many years supposed. to have
been engulfed In the whirlpool between tlto
Islands of Fnroo and Lofotfn, off the coast of
Norway, In June, 18(18; tho sumo vessel, rebuilt
In somo degreo and refitted In n German ship
yard, but tho Nautilus, ns truly as she was the
Nautilus when bIio was launched, In 1805 or 1800.
"It has been only a supposition that thu boat
was lost In tho whirlpool, based on tho fact thnj
no survlyorH of her crow, excepting Mr. Aronnux,
who wrote the log on board tho vessel on her
Sensational and somewhat erratic voyage of
Twenty Thousand Leagues Undor tho Sou,' and
his two porsonul associates, Consult mid Nod
Land, never appeared In public or over told any
thing to tho contrary, llut It will bo remembered
that Mr. Aronnux declared In his edition of the
tog, which wus published lu 1871. that ho did not
positively know whether the boat was lost or
not. 'What has become of tho Nautilus?' he asks.
'Did It resist the pressure of tho maelstrom?
Docs Captain Nemo still live?
"Don't bellevo it? Why, It Is so thoroughly
mio as to bo axiomatic ItctiU such u description
of thu boat that arrived at Baltimore on a Sunday
evening; then rad Mr. Aroumix's logbook;
mako careful comparison of the description of tho
Nautilus which Is contained therein with that of
tho so-called Deutschlnnd and daro to suy that
they nro not ono and tho snmo vessel. Tho power
plant Is new In part, and lu part reuowed. Mr.
Verno designed tho Nautilus to bo driven by
electric power generated by primary batteries,
something that would bo out of tho question to
ruuy, but possible in tho cuso of tho Nautilus, bo
tauuo her owner was u man of enormous wealth
Mid becuuso he had .discovered an Inexhnustlblo
pourco of supply of tho materials required to
renew his butteries.
7fbe primary buttery was the only available
menus of providing power for underwuter pro
pulsion, un tho Diesel motor, now lu use on nil
submarine vessels us a power plant for uso on
tho surface nnd for generating eloctrlclty for
power to bo used under wuter, had not been de
veloped. In fact, neither tho Germans nor any
oho else made any considerable uso of thu Diesel
principle of motor construction until tho Diesel
patents had expired. Resides, Mr. Vcrno bad no
'dynamos' with which to trmsinto tho power pro
duced by motors Into electricity, although ho had
Iho essential principle In tho electric motors with
which ho turned his propellor.
"And the vessel U now fitted with periscopes,
uroentYaoa
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which tho Nautilus In her early days did not
have. If she had been equipped with periscopes
In 1800 nnd 1807, It Is probablo that sho would
not lmvo been In collision with the Columbus, tho
Shannon, tho Helvetia and other ocean steam
ships during those years, much to the nnnoyunco
of their owners nnd the mystification of tho
public. Also, tho Nautilus in her reincarnation
bus wlrolcss telegraph equipment, something
which sho did not In her early days, because
Marconi had not then been born. For the rcBt of
lt tho Nautilus Is tho Nautilus still.
"A very full description of tho Nautilus Is con
tained lu tho log as written up by Mr. Aronnnx
from the dictation of Cnptaln Nemo. lie men
tions that the captain showed him tho plans,
sections and elovntlon of the vessel; doubtless
the original drawings made by Mr. Verne, Or
perhaps tracings of tho originals. If they had
been blue prints, Mr. Aronnnx would doubtless
havo sjioken of them ns such ; but, of course,
they wore not, as bluo prints wro not In use In
those days. Tho captain, went on:
" 'Hero, M. Aronnnx, nro tho several dimen
sions of tho boat. It Is an elongated cylinder
with conical ends. It Is very llko a cigar In
bbape, a shapo already adopted In London In Sev
eral constructions of tho same sort. Tho length
of this cylinder, from stem to stem, Is exactly
282 feet and Its maximum breadth Is 20 feet. It
Is not built quite like your long-voyngo stenmers,
but its lines nro sufllclchtly long and Its curves
prolonged enough to allow tho wntor to slide oft
easily and apposo no obstacle to Its passage.
" 'When the Nautilus Is atloat one-tenth Is out
of tho water. Now, If 1 havo mndo reservoirs of .
n size equal to this tenth, and If I till them with
water, tho boat, weighing then 1,507 tons, will be
completely Immersed. Theso reservoirs aro In
tho lower part of tho Nautilus. I turn on taps
and they fill, and tho. vessel sinks.
" 'Also, when I lmvo n mind to visit tho depths
of tho ocean, I make uso of slower but not less
Infallible means. To steer this boat, following a
horizontal plan, I use an ordinary rudder tlxed
on tho back of tho sto npost, and with ono wheel
and somo tackle to steer by. But I can also make
tho Nautilus rlso and sink, nnd sink nnd rise, by
n vertical movement by means of two Inclined
planes fastened to Its sides, opposite tho center
of -notation, planes thnfc move by powerful lovers
from tho Interior. If tho planes nro kept parallol
with boat it moves horizontally. If slanted, tho
Nautilus, nccordlng to tills Inclination nnd under
tho Influence of tho screw, either sinks diagonally
or rises diagonally as It suits me.'
"Set aside tho obvious errors In tho log or In
tho translation, and tho description of tho Nau
tilus might ns readily pass for that of tho so
called Deutschlund as any that havo been printed.
Look It over In detail. Tho Nautilus was 232
foot long; tho length of tho undersea boat at
naltlnbro wub "guessed" at nnythlng from 200
und somo odd feet to 800 feet Of course, as
Bho has beeu rebuilt, tho boat may havo bee.T
lengthened, to suit modern Ideas.
"IJut tho Nautilus had a conning tower, In
place of tlio present superstructure. Tho beam
Sept. 2C-Oct. 7 Ak-Sar-Ben Fall Festl
val at Omaha,
Oct 2 nnd 3 State Equal Suffrage as
sociation convention nt Hastings.
October 2 to 7 National Swlno Show
nt Omaha.
Oct. 3 to 6 State Federation of Wo
mon'a Clubs convention at Hastings.
October 11-12 Stato Mooting Grand
Lodgo Degreo of Honor at Lincoln.
October 17-201. O. O. F. State Con
vention at Lincoln.
Oct. 31 Northwbatorn Nobraska Med
ical Society meeting, Long Pino.
Nov. 2-G Nobrnska Christian En
deavor Union stato convention at
Omaha.
Nov. 8-9-10 Nebraska State Teach
ers' association meeting at Omaha.
of the Nnutilus wus 20 feet. That of the Doutsch
land Is "guessed" at something less than 80 feet.
The Nnutilus was cylindrical In shnpo; the ves
sel that has created the sensation during past
weeks Isi not nulte cylindrical, in thnt her top-
sides ure' carried up for a space nearly vertical,
and then tumble home with an easy curve; or, at
least, it Is so Indicated by such photogrnphs ns
have como to light. The change was undoubtedly
mndo In tho I'cbulldlng, In order to Increnso the
carrying capacity; for It Is to be remembered
that tho Nautilus was not built to carry cargo,
and had no great excess of buoyancy. The motivo
power of the Nautilus was electricity. That of
the vessel from Germany Is electricity when
submerged, while for uso above water tho Diesel
engines supply the power. Thnt Is tof no Im
portance as bearing on the Identity of the vessel.
It Is a common thing In rebuilding n ship to
make some changes In tho propelling mechanism.
"There Is still more to come. Both boats or,
rather, tlio same bout In tl two periods of her
career were was Is fitted up In some degree
of luxury. Listen to wbnt Mr. Aronuax snys
about a room into which Captain Nemo con
ducted htm:
'"It was a library. High pieces of furniture
supported upon their wide shelves u great number
of books. Tho electric light flooded everything.
It was shed from four unpolished globes, half
sunk in tho colling.' And again, In speaking of
tho shloon, filled with treasures of art beyond
price, Mr. Aronnnx mentions tho organ, of which
ho snys later In tho chronicle: 'At that moment
I heard the distant strains of tho organ, a sad
harmony to an Indefinable chant, tho wnll of a
soul longing to break these earthly bonds."
' The Organ on the Nautilus.
"One may not approve of Captain Nemo's tnstc
In music; some of us may prefer tho 'run of mill'
music which ono may linvo with a phonograph
and a selection of records mndo haphazard; but
he Was musical, at. all events, and had provided
himself with mentis with which to gratify his
taste, llut tho orgnn tins given way to a phono
graph, with which tho crew of tlio boat enter
tained themselves on tho way ncross or under tho
Atlantic. And when they were 'full up' on music
there was tho library, with fewer books than that
of old, but with Shakespeare ns a foundation of
literary satisfaction,
"Still skeptleat? How was the food of tho crew
of tlio Nautilus cooked? By electricity. Says Mr.
Aronnnx : 'Then a door opened Into n kitchen nine
feet long, situated between tho Inrge storerooms,
There electricity, better than gas Itself, did all
the eookliig. The streams under tho furnnces
gave out to tho sponges of platlna a heat which
was regularly kept up and distributed. They
also heated n distilling apparatus, which by evap
oration funllshed excellent drinkable water. How
was tho 'grub' of the crew of the so-called
Duutschliind cooked? Ily electricity, said Captain
Koeiilg, although he did not glvo a description ol
tho cooking apparatus in anything llko as full c
detail ns does Mr. Aronnnx of that of the Nnu
tllus. Tho bout that Captain Koculg commanded
was furnished with nil the comforts of home, nc
cordlng to tho ono man who was aboard of her
In any other than an otllclnl capacity, and who
does not consider himself held to secrecy.
"It's n clear case. In every essential the
Deutschlund Is the Nautilus. In size and form,
exceptlug as any vessel may bo modified In proc
ess of overhauling nnd refitting, In power plunt,
excepting as the Diesel onglnes take tho place
of ulectrle motors for surfneo propulsion, for
economy's sake; In the Intricate electrical equip
ment for lighting, cooking nnd In tlio control nnd
movement of nil parts of tho ship; In the means
provided for going below the surfneo of the
water at will, nnd lu returning to the surfneo at
plcasuro; even In tlio provision for tho comfort
and entertainment of tho crow, tho Deutschlnnd
nnd tlio Nautilus are ono nnd the snmo. Only
in tno uso mnuo or tno emit Is thero n difference
Tho Nautilus was built nnd operated to sntlsfv
the whim let's call it a whim and forcet tho
trogedy of it all of a man wealthy enough to
nfford It; while as to tho Deutschlnnd. sho cruised
tho ocean to bring a few pounds of dyestuffi of
which wo are in need. It Is tho enso of a ihnr.
oughbrcd' hnrnesscd to un express wagon ti his
old ago.'
Seward county is soon to havo a
woman county ngent. Only four
states in tho United States have wo
man county agents. Hor work will
bo with tho hundreds of women ol
tho county and will bo in conjunction
with tho work of County Agent
Charles Gunnels.
Sunnysldo at Hastings, said to bo
tho finest and most practical and up
to dato homo for old people in tho
United States, was formally opened
last wook with a public reception un
der tho auspices of the Hastings wo
man's club, leading members of which
form tho Sunnysldo board.
Though there wero 150 applicants
for tho vacant pastorate, tho First
Congregational church at Hastings
has extended n call to tho first and
only ono of tho candidates' heard in
tho pulpit. Tho minister chosen is
Rov. Joseph Toms of Cambridge.
Firo completely destroyed the Oak
land roller mill, built in 1872. Tho loss
is well over $20,000, with no Insur
ance. It was built by Fred Itenard,
sr., and was one of tho early land
marks. Tho stock of flour and grain
was saved.
Tho homo of Elmer Sprague at
Wymoro has been quarantined for in
fantile paralysis, tho 5-year-old son
of Mr. Sprnguo being afflicted with
tho diseaso. This is tho first case
developing in Gngo county for sev
eral years.
Joe Stecher of Dodgo easily
threw Ed Davis of Indianapolis in
straight falls at North Platte. Stecher
conquered his opponent in soven and
four minutes, respectively. Davis
claims tho title of intercollegiate.
champion of tho world.
Fred Furman and crew made a rec
ord run of threshing for Delos Fow
ler, on tho Mrs. Haston placo, south
of Marlon. Beginning at 10 o'clopk
one morning they threshed an even
2,300 bushels of wheat by 10 o'clock
tho next day.
Georgo Scholl baa made a record
for returns per aero in wheat, accord
lng to J. L. Slocum, banker at Stella.
Mr. BchoH's wheat netted an average
of $51 an aero this year. His averago
yield was thirty-eight bushols to an
aero.
Emma, tho infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank H. Wendell, crawled
off the back porch at the homo in. Lin
coln, felt head first in a Jar contain
ing three inches of water and was
drowned. Tho child was dead when
tho mother discovered her plight.
At a meeting of tho Gage county
board of supervisors plans for a now
county Jail wero submitted, which call
for a building to cost $33,000. Tho
matter was discussed at length, but
no action was taken.
Frank Myers of Fremont, rcpubll
can nominee for the stato legislature,
has announced that he will with
draw from tho ticket. Ho has ac
cepted n position as manager of
farmers' elevator in Omnha.
Range cattle made tho record price
of $10 per hundredweight at the South
Omaha stock market last week. This
1b the highest price over paid for
grass cattlo on that market.
Four persons wero injured, two ser
iously, when an automobile In which
they wero riding was hit on a cross
Ing near Eaglo by a Missouri Pacific
passenger trnln.
August Schrler of Chambers, a very
prosperous farmer, was killed by hav
ing his neck broken when his automo
bile upset near Columbus.
Military drill in the Norfolk high
school is looked upon favprably by
tho board of education of that city,
Georgo Rutledge, near Brock, Nema
ha county, has clovor seed that will
not him nearly $40 an acre. From six
acifjs of ground his ylold wbb twenty-
two bushols and twenty-pounds or
seed, in addition to a largo crop of
hay cut earlier in the season.
Hailstones lay seven inches deep
on Iho ground near Ashton, in Shor
man county, nfter a heavy storm last
week. For a stretch two miles wldo
and flvQ miles long tho corn stalks
wcm stripped of tholr loaves and
bo&ten to tho ground.
Seventh Day Adventlsta during
tholr convention at Hastings recently
agreed to a plan to build an inter
mediate school by August of next
year, It has not been located. Tho ad
ventlsts went on record favoring stato
and national prohibition.
The old Hlndln Craig orchard on
the western edgo of Fort Calhoun
Washington county, sold recently for
$10,000 or $500 per aero.
Tho Wostllchor Krlegerbund at
their recent meeting at Lincoln se
lected Omaha as the place for tin
I 1917 sewlon.
Whllo excavating a collar neaf
Stella, tho remains of a woman and
child wero unearthed about firs
feet under ground. Tho box contain
ing tho remains was pulverized, only
n few Uttlo pieces of wood being left.
It Is supposed that long ago, before
tho country was Bettled, that tho
woman and tho child had died whllo
traveling through, this Bectlon of tho
state and wero buried. An old trail
runs closo to where tho box was
found.
Judge A. A. Welch of Wayno hand
ed down a decision at West Point in
the case of tho Bancroft Drainage
District vs. the Chicago, SL Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railway com
pany. Tho road refused to pay tho
assessments lovled against it and the
drainage district was compelled to
commence suit to forco collection.
Judge Welch gavo Judgment for
$2,707.58 against tho railway company.
The 1917 meeting of tho Nebraska
Stato Poultry association will be held
In Kearnoy tho third week in January
in connection with the annual exhibi
tion of the association and Nebraska
brcedors. This was decided on when
tlio ofllcers and board of control of
tho Nebraska association met In Lin
conl. Several other towns of tho
state had mado strong bids for tho
show.
Mrs. Margaret Anderson of Piorco,
has brought suit against N. H.
Neuens and William F. Smith, two
saloonkeepers oil that city, and tlio
Southern Surety company, a corpora
tion, on their bonds, for $10,350 dam
ages for pain and suffering and per
manent injuries received by her as a
result, sho alleges, of her husband
being debauched by the saloonmen.
Tho services of an expert auditor
have been secured by Beatrice busi
ness men for the purpose of auditing
tho books of tho city's light and wa
ter department to determine what It
costs tho city to produce electric cur
rent. They desire this information
before an election is called to voto
on tlio $25,000 bond proposition for
an electric lighting plant
In less than thirty minutes, with
out any previous preparation, York
citizens subscribed $40,000 toward tho
erection of a $100,000 hotel. Tho ar
ticles of Incorporation wero then
adopted, and with $GO,O0O already
subscribed by York capitalists, work
on a new $100,000 hotel will begin
immediately.
Miss Mabel Evans of Hastings has
brought suit in tho Adams county
district court for $53,474 against tho
St.Joe & Grand Island Railroad com
pany for alleged personal permanent
injuries in nn auto-train collision near
Hastings November 30 last. When Ba
las Young, her escort, was instantly
kilted.
Tho Hastings city council Is con
templating the purchaso of an auto
fire engine truck. With no funds
available for tho purchase of the
equipment tho council will either
make provision when tho annual levy
is ordered next May or by tho voting
of bonds.
Mrs. S. Stebblns was sorlously In
jured at hor homo In Pawnee City by
a bullet from some rubbish whicht she
had thrown into tho stove. Whllo sho
wns bending over the stove tho cart
ridge exploded, tho bullet entering
the top of her head.
48,634 feeder cattlo wero sent to tho.
country from tho South Omaha stock
yards during tho month of August.
Asldo from August, 1910 and ,1911,
theso shipments were tho heaviest for
the month in tho yard's history.
Word has Just been received that
Rov. J. P. Trites, former pastor of the
First Methodist church of Hastings,
will return soon from Sutherland,
Ore., and enter tho Methodist evan
gelistic field with headquarters in
Hastings.
John Wilson, 35, was fatally injured
and Vincent Schrolner, 17, waB dan
gerously hurt when an automobllo in
which they wore riding, was struck
by a Missouri Pacific locomotive in
tho yards at Union.
Peoplo of Blair accepted tho gift
of a Carnegie library at a special
election by a majority of 79 votes. A
plot of ground, has boon secured and
work on the structure is expected to
commenco early In October.
At Cook of Barneston wns killed by
Jumping from a load of hay when his
team started to run away. Ho struck
on his head and sustained a frac
tured skull, dying almost instantly.
Hastings has been assured a dato
for Governor Hughes if tho presi
dential candidnto comes to Nebraska
on his campaign trip.
Ben Konort, a young farmer near
Cedar Rapids was driving homo in
his automobllo when tho steering
gear broke and tho car turned turtlo,
throwing him twenty feet His skull
was fractured and his neck was
wrenched. Ho died in an hour.
Pleading increased prices of feed
and tho cost of inspection Imposed by
a recent city ordinance as tholr ex
cuses for taking action dairymen serv
ing Hastings havo raised tho price of
milk to 9 cents a quart. Tho old prlco
ranged from 6 to 8 conts a quart
Ropresentatlves of tho English and
French war departments in Pawnee
City lust week purchased two car
loads of horses to be shipped to their
governments and used by the armies,
now in tho fleTd.
With tho brldo und groom more
than a thousand miles apart, Miss
Laura Peterson, a Norfolk girl, and
Harry Lavlgno in Mexico with the
Twelfth United States canlry, were
married by mail.
North Platte has a case ot Infantile
paralysis, tho first to appea in the
vicinity.