I WIRELESS MESSAGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. | -ri ~r O scientific development of re |\ cent times lias caused miore interest throughout the (J world than the announce ment of Gugllelmo Marconi that he had received at St. John's, N. P., wire less electric signals from his station in Cornwall, England, a distance of about 1800 miles. That Slarconi re ceived these signals is generally ac cepted as a fact in the scientific world. The Marconi station in Cornwall is MARCONI, THE WIZARD OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. —From New York Tribune. a most powerful one. An electric force a hundred times greater than at the ordinary stations is generated there. Before ho left England Siguor Marconi arranged that the electrician in charge of the station, which is lo cated at Foldliu, should begin sending Signals daily after a certain date, which Marconi was to cable to him upon perfecting arrangements here. Marconi arrived at St. John's in about two weeks. He selected Signal Hill, at the entrance to the harbor, as an experimenting station, and moved his equipment there. The next Monday week he cabled to the Poldhu station orders to begin sending signals at 3 p. m.daily and to continue them until (J p. in., these hours being respectively 11.30 a. m.and 2.30 p. m., St. John's time. During these hours on the following Wednesday Signor Marconi elevated a kite, with the wire by means of which signals are sent or received. He re mained at the recorder attached to the receiving apparatus, and, to his pro jfound satisfaction, signals were re ceived by him at intervals, according to the program arranged previously .(With the operator at I'oldliu. These signals consisted of the repetition at intervals cf the letter "S," which in Marconi's cede is made by three dots or quick strokes. This signal was re peated so frequently and so perfectly in accord with the detailed plan ar ranged to provide safeguards against the possibility of a mistake that Siguor Marconi was satisfied that it was a genuine transmission from England. Again on Thursday, during the same ! | S * j I-*"" fc zi r.; j 0 MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION Lours, the kite was elevated and the Bauie signals were renewed. Should Marconi perfect his system pf wireless messages across the ocean the results, of course, will be far-reach ing and wonderfully important. Elec trical experts have great confidence in Marconi, and there is a general belief that he will "make good - ' his claims. Guglielino Marconi was born near Bologna, Italy, April 25, 1574. He is, therefore, not yet twenty-eight years old. In 1800, when but twenty-two years old, be came into prominence. Prior to that time lie had demonstrated in Italy the possibility of signalling j Without wires by means of the Hert-' eian waves. His experiments in his INSTRUMENT AND APPARATUS FOB SENDING LONG DISTANCE MESSAGES BY Wilt ELKS S TELEGRAPHY USED BY SIGNOIt MARCONI. native country attracted but little at tention. It was not until lie went to England In IS9G that be secured scien tific and financial backing. Since that time in this ronntrv mid Hutiland be has received unstinted encouragement. His recent success in signalling ves sels at sea is a matter of general knowledge. In discussing his system not long ago Signor Marconi said: "To Mr. Hertz, of course, belongs the distinc tion of having discovered the electric waves, and by his experiments he proved that electricity in its progress through space follows the law of op tics. Many others have made esperl- mcnts in the same direction as I, but so far no one lias obtained such re sults at anything approaching the ins tance as I have doue with Hertzian waves. "FOR has no effect upon the signals, nor has even the most solid substance. The waves can penetrate walls and rocks without being materially af fected." "Is it possible," was asked, "to send SIGNOR MARCONI. many messages in different directions at the same time?" "It is," was the reply, "but care must be taken to time the transmit ters and receivers to the same fre quency or 'note.' "—New York Com mercial Advertiser. Country Boy Squelches Uncle. He was a typical small boy, who lived in a well-to-do town in the west ern part of the State, with pride in his native home, and a vague idea that city people considered all outsiders as small potatoes and few in a bill at that. Now, when his mother brought him to Milwaukee to visit her brother, he held his head proudly and intended to convey the idea that be and his were of some importance. His uncle took him to see the differ ent big buildings, including the Pabst Theatre, the library, the postoitice, and the various churches. One Sunday they were seated in St. Paul's. The mother turned her head to take in the beauty of the pictured windows with their pretty colorings, and secretly wished her lot had fallen in the city, but the boy sat bolt up right as though such surroundings were very common to him. When they reached home his uncle remarked: "Well, Tommy, the church is something grand compared with your buildings in C ." With an impatient toss of his head, Mr. Impertinece announced: "It wouldn't make a woodbox for our Baptist ChurcU." —Milwaukee Senti nel. Sometimes we only see the worst side of a man because his wife gets the best of him. The Sycamore flour mill in Upper Providence Twnsblp, Pennsylvania, which was burned recently, was said to be the oldest in the country, having been in 1717. [ A NOVELTY IN SAIL BOATS. tt Has Twin Sheets Equally Balanced Side by Hide. I Tlie queer-looking craft illustrated | below has been designed by James P. j Pool with the intention of Improving j the facilities for handling the sails j and steering the boat. In place of the TWIN SAILS ON ONE MAST. single sail projecting from one side of the mast on a long boom the inventor provides a pair of sails equally bal anced on either side of the mast, and capable of adjustment in tacking or sailing with the wind to obtain the maximum speed with minimum strain on the mast. The sails are set in swiugiug frames secured to horizontal booms on the mast, with the free edge of each sail turned toward the mast and under easy control of the boat man in the stern of the vessel. Instead of easing off or drawing in the long main boom of a single sail in tacking or changing the course, the sailor swings the shorter booms of the new craft around on the mast until tliey reach the same angle that the old sail would have occupied, when the sails are adjusted in parallel planes and ?ach receives an equal amount of wind, and consequently divides the strain and pulls evenly on the mast. MACHINE POTATO PEELER. die Tuber's Skin Kubbetl Off by a Nuiii ber of Brushes. Here is the machine which is in tended for use iu hotels and boarding houses, where large quantities of po tatoes must be peeled every day to supply the demand for the table. It Is a French Idea, invented by Justin Blanche, and is operated in the follow ing manner: The vegetables to lie peeled are placed in a kind of barrel, the inner periphery of which is fur nished with brushes of special con struction, while the movable bottom, which is likewise provided with brushes, receives a rapid rotary motion about a vertical axis, causing the culiers to revolve in the same direction, and in consequence of the centrifugal SKCSHES THE JACKETS OFF TIIE TUBERS. force thus developed, to be constant ly thrown against the fixed brushes, which divests them of their jackets, lie tub meanwhile being partially tilled with water to aid in the scrubbing and cleaning process. The brushes are made of either whalebone, bristles or horn, their stiffness serving to better peel the tubers. First McKinley Memorial. Accompanying is a picture of the monument to the late President Will iam McKinley, unveiled at Tower, Minn,, a few days ago. the first me morial to the murdered President. The shaft, which is of iron, resting upon a base of iron ore and a foundation of I sl eonerete, was erected by the citizens 3t Tower and Soudan, Minn. There is a brass plate on each of the four sides, bearing the following inscriptions: "William McKinley. Born January 29, 1843. Elected President in 1890. Re-elected President in 1900. Assas sinated September 0, 1901. Died Sep tember 14, 1901." "The sturdy miners of Soudan and their children." "Tlie hardy lumbermen of Tower." "The citizens of Tower and their children." Value of Mustaches. The manager of a Berlin cafe re cently engaged some fourteen or fifteen waiters on the condition that they shaved off their mustaches. On being paid off, however, the waiters in a body demanded some equivalent for their sacrificed hirsute adornments, and after a long discussion the manager consented to allow six marks for eacH claimant.—Paris Figaro. 1 THE DEATH'S HEAD CARRIAGE. A Strai go Vehicle Which Napoleon De clined to Accept. A carriage has been preserved iu the Armory of Sehloss Friedeustein, (Jot ha, which has been called the "Death's Head carriage," says tlio Golden Pen ny. This strange vehicle was built by order of Duke August of Saxe- Coburg and Alemburg (1801-1822). Whether it was meant to represent a death's head is not quite clear, as it bears no other emblems of death, un less, perhaps, the "Mors Imperator" should be represented by the dia dem-like lozenged wreath. A. Beck is the only writer who reproduces any history of the "Death's Head carriage," and he says:"After the conclusion of the peace of Tilsit, the Duke August and his brother Frederick came to Dresden in order to meet the Emperor Napoleon (July 17, 1807), who was afterwards, oil July '23, at the Castle Friedenstein. where lie was festively received and magnificently entertained. THE DEATH'S HEAD COACH. The use of a splendid State coach, sent by the Duke for the Emperor, which had, however, the shape of a death's head, was refused by Napoleon." The carriage is marvelous in color— the upper part of the body dark green leather, the lower painted in red, crim son, and gold, representing draped cur tains, and the coachman's seat is in velvet of sage green and red, with old gold fringes. The rest of the carriage is painted gold, picked out with green; the inside is furnished with silk: the top, or ceiling, representing the sky, in blue, with gold stars. Colonel Arthur Lynch. Colonel Arthur Lynch, who has utrcn elected to Parliament from Galway City, and whose right to take the seat will be contested because of his service COLONEL LYNCH. (Boer ally elected to Parliament.) in the Boer army, is an Australian by birth. He is about forty years old, and was educated at Melbourne Uni versity. For a time lie was an in structor of mathematics, and then en tered tlie service of the Victorian Rail way in the engineer's department. He drifted into journalism, and when tlie war broke out. iu South Africa he went to the front as a correspondent for a Paris newspaper. Prior to that lie had been the Paris correspondent of a London paper. In 1892 lie was candi date for Parliament iu the Galway dis trict, but was defeated by the anti- Parnellite candidate, Pinkertou. Chicago's Taltloi<l Restaurant. Even more expeditious and more deadly than the quick-lunch counter is tlie "tabloid restaurant" which an ingenious Chicagoan plans to estab-, lisli. Instead of spending three miu4 utes thirty-seven seconds in gulping l i piece of pie and a cup of scalding hot coffee, one can there swallow a 'compressed beefsteak" or a "protose| hash" in only one minute nineteen see siuls, thus in a single year of 31.1 work ing days adding eleven hours fifty-nine aiinutes fifty-four seconds 10 one's bus iness life. Of course the scientists who devise food tabloids carefully explain that they are useful only in emergencies; uul will harm tlie health if used stead ily; of course all the pleasure and the poetry of the table would vanish it" nan could really be nourished by chok ing down a pill with a glass of water. But what is a little thing like that if a man can gain twelve hours more in a year to "jack up" wheat" or "put down" rye? Speculation as to tlie "food of the future" is always interesting. No Joubt after a fair trial of the Chicago plan there will be a great deal of cu riosity in the complete report—of the coroner.—New York AVorld. Fast railroad speed is regularly made between Milan and Varese, in Italy. By the use of an electric third rail the fifty miles are covered iu fifty min utes. The surest way not to prevent a marriage is to oppose it. ! rat. TALMAGES SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Grace of Courtesy—Christian ThouKUtfulncss is Horn In tile Heart liy the Power of tlio Holy Ghost—Speak Well of One Another. WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln this discourse Dr. Talmagc urges thoug'utfulness for oth ers, and shows how such u benignant spirit may be fostered; 1 l'eter it, 8, "Be courteous." In an age when bluntness has been ca nonized as a virtue it may be useful to ex tol one of the most beautiful of all the royal family of graces—courtesy. It is gractousness, deference to the wishes of others, good manners, affability, willing ness to deny ourselves somewhat for the advantage of others, urbanity. But what is the use of my delining the grace of cour tesy when we all know so well what it is? The botanist might say some very inter esting things about a rose, and the chem ist might discourse about water or light, but without ever seeing a botanist or a chemist we know what a rose is and what water and light are. Do not take our time in telling us what courtesy is. Only show us how we may get more of it and avoid what are its counterfeits. Mark you, it cannot be put on or dramatized sucess fully for a long while. We may be full of bows and genuflections, and smiles and complimentary phrase, and have nothing of genuine courtesy either in our make-up or in our demeanor. A backswoodsman who never saw a drawing room or a danc ing master or a caterer or a fold of drap ery may with his big soul and hard hand and awkward salutation exercise the grace, while one born tinder richest upholstery and educated in foreign schools, and both ered to know which of ten garments he will take from a royal wardrobe, may be as barren of the spirit of courtesy as the great Sahara desert is of green meadows and tossing fountains. Christian courtesy is born in the heart by the power of the Holy Ghost, who has transformed and illumined and glorified one's nature. Mark you, I am speaking of the highest kind of courtesy, which is Christian courtesy. Something like it —or- dinary politeness—may grow up with us under - the dineetion of intelligent and watchful parentage, but I am not speaking of that which is merely agreeablcness of conversation and behavior. All that may be a matter of tutelage and fine surround ing and show itself in lifting the hat to passers-by and in a graceful way of asking about your health and sending the right kind of acceptance when you cannot go and understanding all the laws of prefer ence at table and parlor door, all of which is well. I am speaking of a principle of courtesy so implanted in one's nature that his suavity of conversation and manner shall be the outburst of what he feels for the happiness and welfare of others, a principle that will work in the next world as well as in this, and will be as appro priate in the mansions of heaven as in earthly dwelling places. Now, you know as well as I do that some of the most undesirable people have been seeming incarnations of courtesy. In our early American history there arose a man of wonderful talent, an impersonation of all that can charm drawing rooms and cultivated circles. Aged men who knew him in their youth have told me that he was the most irresistible man they ever met, his voice silvery, his smile bewitch ing, his glove immaculate, his eye piercing, his high forehead wreathed in curls, his attire a fascination. He became Vice-Pres ident of the United States and within one vote of being President. Men threw away their fortunes to help him in his political aspirations and to forward him in a con spiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States, he trying to do in America what Napoleon at that very time was trying to do in Europe—establish a throne for himself. But he was immoral and corrupt. He was the serpent that wound its way into many a domestic par adise. He shot to death one of the great est of Americans Alexander Hamilton. The world found out long ago, before he loft it that th'.' olTcnder I speak of was an embodiment of dissoluteness and base am bition. He was the best illustration that I know of the fact that a man may have the appearance of courtesy while within he is all wrong. Absalom, a Bible character, was a speci men of a man of polish outside and of rot tenness inside. Beautiful, brilliant and with such wealth of hair that when it was cut in each December as a matter of pride he had it weighed, and it weighed 200 shekels. He captured all who came near him. But, oh, what a heart he had—full of treachery and unfilial spirit and base ness! He was as bad as he was alluring and charming. In the famous Athenian Alcibiades his tory discourses of the same splendor of manner covering utter depravity. Noble pedigree, transcendent abilities, radiant personality, eloquent tongue, triumphant warrior, victor at Olympic games, but a debauchee and an impersonation of all the vices. Alas, that all up and down history and clear on into our day there are so many of what Christ called "wolves in sheep's clothing" "whitewashed sepul chers, full of dead men's bones and all un cleanness!" Gilded abominations, walk ing lazerettos, attired in Vermillion and gold. Perdition hanging out the banners of heaven. As far as possible are they re moved from all genuine courtesy. I like what John Wesley said to a man when their carriages met on the road. The ruffian, knowing Sir. Wesley and dis liking him, did not turn out, but kept the middle of the road. Sir. Wesley cheerfully pave the roan all the road, himself riding into the ditch. As they passed each other the ruffian said, "I never turn out for fools," and Mr. Wesley said, ' I always do." I like the reproof which a Chinaman in San Francisco gave an American. The American pushed him off the sidewalk until he fell into the mud. The Chinaman an rising began to brush off the mud and paid to the American: "You Christian; me heathen. Good-bye." A stranger entered a church in one of the cities and was al lowed to staml a long while, although there was plenty of room. No one offered a seat. The stranger after awhile said to one of the brethren, "What church is this?" The answer was. "Christ's church, sir." "Is Me in?" said the stranger. The officer of the church understood what was meant and gave him a seat. We want more cour tesy in places of business, more courtesy in our homes. But heart courtesy must precede hand and head and foot courtesy. Cultivation of it should begin in the father's house. Vou often notice that brother--, and sisters are often uruff and snappy and say things »nd do things that they would not have the outside world know about. Rough things are sometimes said in households which ought never to be said at all—teasing and recrimination and fault-finding and harsh criticisms, which will have their echo thirty and fo-ty and fifty years afterward. In the sleet driven bv the east wind no iweet flowers of kindness and geniality will grow. Let children hear their parents picking at each other, and those children will be found picking at each other, and far down the road of life will be seen the same dis position to wick at others. Better than this habit of picking at children, which so many parents indulge in. would be one good, healthy application of the rod. Bet ter a shower that lasts a few minutes than the cold drizzle of many days. We never get over our first home, however many nouses we may have afterward. I,et us all cultivate the grace of Chris tian courtesy by indulging in the habit of praise instead of the habit of blame. There are evils in the world that we must de nounce, and there are men and women who ought to he chastised, hut n n-er let us allow the opportunity of applauding good deeds pass unimproved. '1 here are two .sides to every man's char acter —a good side and an evil side. The good see only the good and the evil only the evil, and the probability is that a me dium opinion is the right opinion. Most of the people whom 1 know are doing about as well as they can under the cir cumstanees. When 1 see people who art worse than I am, I conclude that if I had the same had influences around me all my life that they have had ] would probably have been worse than they now are. The work of reform is the most important w irk, but many of the reformers, dwell ing on one evil, see nothing but evil, and they get to anathema they forget the usefulness once in a,while of a benedic tion. They get so accustomed to excor iating public men that they do not realize that never since .John Hancock in boldest chirography signed the Declaration of In dependence, never since Columbus picked up the floating land flowers that showed him he was coming near some new coun try, have there been so many noble and splendid and Christian men in high places in this country as now. You could go into the President's Cabinet or the United States Senate or the House of Representa tives in this city and find plenty of men capable of holding an old fasnioned Metho dist prayer meeting, plenty of Senators and Representatives and Cabinet officers to start the tune and kneel with the pen itents at the altar. In all these places there are men who could, without looking at the book, recite the sublime words, as did Gladstone during vacation at Hawar den. "7 believe in God, the Father Al mighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ," and from the Senate and House of Representatives and the Presi dential Cabinet and from the surrounding offices and committee rooms, if they could hear, would come many voices responding "Amen and amen!" Christian courtesy I especially commend to those who have subordinates. Almost every person has some one under him. How do you treat that clerk, that servant, that assistant, that employe? Do you accost him in brusque terms and roughly command him to do that which you might kindly ask him to do? The first words that the Duke of Wellington uttered were, "If you please." That conqueror in what was in some respects the greatest battle ever fought in his last hours, asked by his ser vant if he would take some tea. replied, "If you please," his last words an expres sion of courtesy. Beautiful characteristic in any class. The day laborers in Sweden, passing each other, take off their hats in reverence. There is no excuse for boorish ness in any circle. As complete a gentle man as ever lived was the man who was unhorsed on the road to Damascus and be headed on the road to Ostia—Paul, the apostle. I know that he might be so char acterized by the way he apologized to Ana nias, the high priest. I know it from the way he complimented Felix as a judge, and from the v.ay he greets the king, "I thank myself, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews, especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews." I know that Paul was a gentleman from the way he onened his sermon on Mars hill, not insulting his audience, as King .Tames's translation implies, but saying. "Ye men of Athens. I perceive that in all things ye are very devout." I know he was a gen tleman from the fact that when he with others of a shipwreck, on the Island of Melita visited the governor of the island he was most impressed with the courtesy shown them and reported that visit in these words: "In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius, who received us and lodged vis three days courteously." And then see those words of advice which he gives: "Bear ye one another's burdens;" "In honor preferring one another;" "Hon or all men." What a might? means of usefulness is courtesy! The lack of it brings to many a dead failure, while before those who pos sess it in large quantity all the doors of opportunity are open. You can tell that urbanity does not come from study of books of etiquette, although such books have their use, but from a mind full of thought fulness for others and a heart in sympathy with the conditions of others. If those conditions be prosperous, a gladness for the success, or if the condi tions be depressing, a sorrow for the un favorable circumstances. Ah, this world needs lighting up! To those of us who are prosperous it is no credit that we are in a state of good cheer, but in the lives of ninety-nine out of a hundred there is a pathetic side, a taking off. a deficit, an anxiety, a trouble. By a genial look, by a kind word, by a helpful action, we may lift a little of the burden and partly clear the way for the stumbling foot. Oh. what a glorious art it is to say the right word in the right way at the right time! If others lack courtesy, that is no rea son why you should lack it. Respond to rudeness by utmost affability. Because some one else is a boor is no reason why you should be a boor. But how few show urbanity when badly treated! Human na ture says: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, retort for retort, slander for slan der, maltreatment for maltreatment." But there have been those you and I have known who amid assault and caricature and injustice have maintained the loveli ness of blossom week in springtime. Noth ing but divine grace in the heart can keep such equilibrium. That is not human na ture until it is transformed by supernal influences. To put it on the lowest ground you cannot afford to be revengeful and malignant. Hatred and high indignation are stages of unhealth. They enlarge the spleen; they weaken the nerves; they attack the brain. Rage in a man is one form of apo plexy. Every time you get mad you dam age your body and mind and soul, and you have not such a surplus of vigor and en ergy that you can afford to sacrifice them. ho 1 applaud Christian courtesy. 1 would put it upon the throne of every heart in all the world. The beauty of it is that you may extend it to others and have just as much of it —yea, more of it— left in your own heart and life. It is like the miracle of the loaves and fishes, which, by being divided, were mul tiplied until twelve baskets were tilled with the remnants. It is like a torch, with which fifty lamps many be lighted and yet the torch remain as bright as be fore it lighted the first lamp. But this grace will not come to its coro nal until it reaches the heavenly sphere. What a world that must he where selfish ness and jealousy and pride and acerbities of temper have never entered and never will enter! No struggle for precedence. No rivalry between cherubim and sera phim. No ambition as to who shall have >he front seats in the temple of (>od and the Lamb. No controversy about the place the guest may take at the banquet. No rivalry of robe or coronet. No racing of chariots. No throne looking askance upon other thrones, but all the inhabitants per fectly happy and rejoicing in the perfect happiness of others. If I never get to any other delightful place 1 want to get to that place. What a realm to live in forever! All worshiping the same Cod. all saved by the same Clfrist, all experiencing the same emotions, a'.l ascending the same heights of love and exultation, all celebrating the victories. Courtesy there easy, because there will be no faults to overlook, no apologies V> make, no mistakes to correct, no disagrteableness to overcome, no wrongs to right. In all the ages to come not a detraction or a subterfuge. A perfect soul in a perfect heaven. In that realm, world without end, it will never be necessary to repeat the words of my text, words that now need oft repetition, "Be courteous." [Copyright, 1902, L. lUopech. 1
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