Qt)ev Ocean
a Wonderful
W CLHJ€ Indention
Great things are promised for the
new century by G. Marconi, the au
thor of wireless telegraphy, says the
New York Prc3S. Before the first
Christmas in the 20th century he will,
he declares, have England and Amer
ica on speaking terms without the aid
of submarine cables. One big pole
erected at Southampton and another at
Montauk Point will, he says, be all
that is needed. The cables which now
coDDec. Europe with America will, if
Marconi fulfills his promise, become as
obsolete as the stage coach became
when the railroad came in.
Conddcnco In the Work.
The optimistic electrician is confident
that he can establish telegraphic com
munication between the eastern and
western worlds by his system at a hun
dred-thousandth part of the cost of
laying a cable and maintaining it.
Marconi says he has discovered a meth
od of controlling the sound waves so
that the messages from continent to
continent will be flashed back and forth
close to the surface of the ocean over
tie whole distance.
Heretofore the curvature of the earth
has presented a dreaded difficulty to be
overcome in the transmission of wire
less messages over long distances.
Marconi's new control of the sound
waves, it is asserted, has obviated the
difficulty. How it is done Marconi
docs not explain—that is his secret—
but ho says that he is confident he has
found a method of doing it. He con
tends that the inasts erected at Mon
tauk Point and at Southampton need
not be higher than a New York "sky-
G. MARCONI.
s--Taper" in order to make the working
of the system effective. He has in
vented a new appliance by which he
says ho can lengthen the air waves
to an almost unlimited extent.
A Commercial l'mponltlon.
If Mr. Maroon! can fulfill Ills prom
ises, what a revolution there will be
in the commercial world! The mil
lions invested in cables would become
lost capital, for no one would use a
cable at tbe rates charged for mes
sages .vhen for a fraction of the cost
he could telegraph by the wireless sys
tem.
it not only costs millions to manu
facture and lay cables across the At
lantic, but keeping them in repair
costs hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. Cable ships aro kept In commis
sion all the time, and they find con
tinually something to do In the v.'ay of
repairs on the great oceanic telegraph
lines. Repairing a cable Is a work of
skill, science and money. A defect In
the cable having been located by means
known to the telegraph experts, the
cable ship steams away to the part of
. tbo ocean where the difficulty is and
" drags for the cable with its grappling
irons. When finally the cable is picked
up the repairs are made and it is again
deposited upon tile oozy bed of the
sea. The Initial expense and the cost
of maintenance make It expensive to
talk with Europe, but it does not cost
much to erect two poles and buy a
Marconi outfit. It Is obvious that if
the great Italian keeps his promise the
cost of talking with the old world
will be trifling compared with what it
is now.
California to IWnnlla.
The United States is now preparing
to lay a cable ncross the Pacific ocein
from the Calif.ornia coast to Manila.
If Marconi can make his promise good
of telegraphing without wire across
the Atlantic then there would be no
need for laying the cable.. The wire
less system could ho used and all the
tremendous cost of establishing cable
communication obviated. The distance
from Montauk to Southampton 1b over
8,000 miles. From San Francisco to
Y* Honolulu Is only 2.C00 miles. From
Honolulu to Manila it is about 4,000
miles. If that is too great a distance
over which to operate the wireless sys
tem then away station might be es
tablished on Wake island, a little piece
of property something more than half
way over to Manila from Hanwaii,
which the United States owns.
Work of the Government.
In fact, the possibilities of the sys
tem, if Marconi keeps his promise, are
almost infinite. The war department
of the United States has been for some
time experimenting with wireless tel
egraphy independent of Marconi, whose
system, the officials thought, did not
meet the requirements of the service.
So successful has the signal corps been
that now all the forts around New
York are connected with each other by
a wireless system, which is constantly
being experimented with and improv
ed. The weather bureau, also recog
nizing the advantages which would re
sult to navigation by the establishment
of a wireless electric communication
between vessels at sea and exposed
points on our lakes and sea coasts,
and also between islands along the
coasts and the mainland, has made a
systematic investigation of the various
systems of wireless telegraphy. The
progress made has been eminently sat
isfactory. New appliances have been
devised by the bureau experts for the
transmission of signals and receiveri
have been constructed that are prob
ably more delicate than any heretofore
made. Messages have already been
sent and received over 50 miles of land
which presented a rough and hilly sur-
face—conditions most unfavorable to
the transmission of electro-magnetic
waves.
kriun Sea to Shore.
Marconi also promises that before
long ships at sea will be able by the
use of his system to communicate with
the shore. Navies are now experiment
ing with his system and considerable
success has been obtained. Meantime
In England they are trying to telegraph
without the use of wire from Dover to
Belgium. It looks as if in a short time
a message might bo sent around the
world without the use of wires and that
all the parts of the earth and the sea
would he in telegraphic communication
with each other. Deserts, mountains,
oceans, time and space all seem to be
dissolving before the advance of sci
ence. The world could not desire a
better Christmas present for 1901 than
the fulfillment of Marconi's promise.
Stood All Night In Water.
The allied column marched to the at
tack of the walled city of Tientsin on
tho morning of July 13, and after a
very hard day's fighting, the brunt of
which fell on the Japanese, the latter
found themselves in the evening at a
distance of about 200 yards from the
walls and without any hope of captur
ing the place that night. Maj.-Gen.
Fukushima then issued orders that the
men were to hold their position,neither
retiring nor advancing a yard. His
belief, derived from his knowledge of
the Chinese, was that after the losses
they had suffered during the day they
would probably abandon their posts
under cover of darkness, provided that
they did not detect any sign of retreat
on the part of the assailants. The
ground then held by the Japanese
troops was almost wholly under water.
Only a narrow causeway leading to tho
gate of the city stood above the level
of the water, which covered the area
on either side to a depth of some twe
feet. In that water the Japanese had
to stand tho whole night—and thej
stood.—Chicago News.
Unless you have faith In your ability
you can never win a battle.
AN ITALIAN FABLE.
I
About tli® Poet, th® llrain, tlio Pen and
tlio Inkstand.
A poet obtained prodigious success;
. seated at his table, he indulged in the
glorious idea of his triumph. This |
love of glory, common to all men. j
kindled in his heart a secret fire. The !
idea of the praises bestowed upon him i (
made the blood circulate with violence 1
I through his veins; joy filled his entire
I being. His brain, stung with jealousy,
thus addressed him: "You are indebted
to me for your success. It was I who
1 furnished the ideas which have gained
j you so much honor. Surely, without
me you could not have written a single
word."
I The pen overhead this claim to ex
clusive praise, and, full of indignation,
thus addressed the brain: "What van
ity! Without me what could you have
| done with all your fine ideas and fine
; imaginations? It is to me he is in
-1 debted for them; to me who have com
■ mitted them to paper." ]
The Inkstand then put in its word:
J "Without me you could have written 1
I nothing. What could you have done '
I had I not bathed you in my ink?" The 1
j poet, stunned by these clamors, which ! 1
j would tear from him all the glory that j 1
I he had acquired, said to them: "I am |
I equally obliged to you all; to you, my |
j brain, for suggesting ideas; to you. my j
1 pen, who wrote them; and to you, my |
j inkstand, who supplied the means to |
| do so." Thus the dispute ended. | ,
| A few days later the poet published j
a new work: but its fate was the re- '
verse of the former. Everybody ;
i turned their hack upon him; some I
! wrote satires, others made invectives I
I against him. In a short time he. be- |
came the laughng-stock of the world, j
i The poet then complained of his brain |
| for having suggested the nonsense. He '
flew into a passion against the pen \
and inkstand for having contributed to 1
j nut it to paper; but they all denied ! ■
; that any blame attached to them. The j
| brain said he did not know how to ! .
choose among the ideas which it had 1
suggested. The pen and inkstand re- j
I proached him for being a bad poet,
alleging that they had done nothing
I but obey his will, and written only j
j what he pleased. The poor, unfor- i
tunate poet had no other resource but '
to hold his tongue and weep over his 1
disgrace in solitude.
Moral.
Such Is the common fate of man. j
When an undertaking succeeds, all 1
are anxious to claim a share in the
event. But does it fail, everybody
abandons him; nobody admits that he
had any share in the business, and all
maintain that the fault was entirely
his own.
A DUaertution Upon Winking.
No satisfactory determination has
been made of the reason we wink.
Some suppose that the descent and re
turn of the lid over the eye serves to
sweep or wash it off; others that |
covering of the eye gives it a rest from
the labor of vision, if only for an in
appreciable instant. This view borrows
some force from the fact that the rec
ord of winking is considerably used by
experimental physiologists to help
measure the fatigue which the eye '
suffers. In another line of investiga
tion Herr S. Garten has attempted to
measure the length of time occupied
by the different phases of a wink. He
used a specially arranged photographic
apparatus, and affixed a piece of white
paper to the edge of the eyelid for a
mark. He found that the lid descends
quickly and rests a little at the bottom
of its movement, after which it rises,
but more slowly than it fell. The
mean duration of the downward move
ment was from seventy-five to ninety
one thousandths of a second; the rest
with the eye shut lasted variously, the j
shortest durations being 15 hundredths
of a second with one subject and seven
teen hundredths with another; and the |
third phase of the wink, the rising of 1
the lid, took seventeen hundredths of a ;
second more, making the entire dura- I
tion of the wink about forty bun- 1
(lredths, or four-tenths of a second. !
The interruption is not long enough to '
interfere with distinct visipn. M. V. '
Henri says, in L'Annee Psychologique, '
that different persons wink differently j
—some often, others rarely; some in !
groups of 10 or so at a time, when they j
rest a while; and others regularly, once j
only at a time. The movement is mod- i
ified by the degree of attention. Pe
riods of close interest, when we wink 1
hardly at all, may be followed by a '
speedy making up for lost time by
rapid winking when the tension is
relieved—Appleton's Popular Science
Monthly.
Tli® Clmciim Baboon.
Two officers escaping from Pretoria
were about to cross a river, when they
saw on the opposite bank a troop of
baboons coming down to drink.
They were so sensible of the danger of
irritatng these beasts, or of makng the j
troop utter their barks and yelps of
alarm, that they remained for two
hours up to their necks in water until
the troop retired. Some surprise was j
expressed that the officers should pay !
regard to "a troop of monkeys." Any I
one who shares this feeling may see j
at the Zoo, probably for the first time ;
in 15 years, a full-grown male Chnc- j
ma. A soldier writing home from the '
front described a locust as "something ;
between a bird and a fly." This bab- : '
oon is 'something between a monkey j
and a boar." Its head, shoulders, , '
tusks and muscles show immense j
strength, and its size is greater than j
the measurements given in a recent J
work on South African mammals. It Is j
three feet eight inches long from the 1 :
nose to the end of the body, and when ;
it stands upright its head is four feet, \
four inches from the ground. The ba- j
boons have maintained their place In i
South Africa against all enemies, In-'
eluding man, and are likely to do €0 1
for some years to come.—The London
Spectator. 1
A 40-foot channel is to be dredged
in New York harbor, and the work will
be done by the two largest dredgers
in existence.
A Missouri judge has hit upon an ef-
I fcctive plan for getting tramps to leave
town. He sentences all brought before
j him to 30 days' work on the streets and
I gives them half an hour to get their
' tools. That half hour sees them well o;i
their way.
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