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
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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