Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — Page 2

_—JBrest-, dent Wilson had signed A JTS the congressional war H resolution on April 6an Aww® officer of the navy department, on orders from Secretary Daniels, went Mx.bL'/W to tlle naval wireless station in Washington, /C 3 sat down before an in--7 strument, and sent crackling out to the four corners of the earth and over the surface of the Seven seas the word that the imperial government of Germany and the United States of America had come to grip of battle. On every American Warship and at every American naval or military station, some scores and ipmp t hou sn nri s of miles a way, r eee Iving antennae tingled with the news as it came sputteringly but quickly to its aerial destination. " A few. djjys later another governrnent order was set forth declaring that the authorities at Washington had decided to take over control of the wireless facilities of the nation and that all privateapparatus for sending and receiving must be demolished. Police officials all over the land got busy at once, and thousands of amateur telegraphers found themselves without avocation the next morning. In New .York ‘city alone 998 wireless stations were silenced, an index of the enormous growth that aerial telegraphy had achieved.' These two instances witnessing the indispensability of this mode ef—communicationmake difficult of belief perhaps the statement that it is just 45 years ago that the science of telegraphing through the air without wires was for the very first time brought to the attention of the congress of the United States,, and that the application for permission to incorporate a -company to try out the “crackbrained” scheme so tickled the risibilities of the honorable representa-' fives that the proposition was very “nearly laughed out of court. Eventually, however, the idea seeming harmless, if entirely mad, the desired authority was given, and Mahlon Loomis, a dentist of Washington, ,D. C., was told- that- he could go ahead and do anything of the kind he liked. So In a spirit of entire levity the lower house accorded the initial recognition to what has developed into one of the most marvelous and most serviceable of all manifest work of genius. The name of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian, is inseparably associated with wireless telegraphy in these days, and as is so often the cage the men who blazed the trail are forgotten. So “Mahfoir _ Ta)omTs“an<rrmany“nke“Tilfii have passed into the obscurity of memory, their achievements receiving only scant mention even in the books which give the history of the science as it developed.The Washington dentist was, however, a pioneer in one respect which has reserved for him a modicum of fame; he first of all scientists proposed to use the present method of conducting the electric impulses by means of long masts and even erected a structure for the purpose on the banks of the Potomac river in Maryland, where he for a time carried on experiments. Therefore the records mention him in a long list of illustrious men as one who really did something to advance the cause of wireless investigation, g-There are few men now living who recall the debate in which the leading men of congress took part when Representative Bingham of Pennsylvania Introduced a resolution to incorporate the Trftomis Aerial-Telegraph company. The brilliant speeches, the flowery periods in which the wits of the house

CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS

A Montana forestry official has devised a light and compact-telephone Instrument which is portable and will be part of the equipment of all government rangers in the future. Mayor Amos Iladcliffe of Patterson, N. J., helped lower a boy on a rope from a bridge to rescue a cat on a “rock in the river. Kitty sank tier claws in the seat of the boy’s trouaers. The breeches buoy rescue was auecessful. - - -

AND RONGESS ONCE EAUGHED AT WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

rlboutforty-fiveyears agoa Washington dentist who had experimented with wireless and suspected its marvelous possibilities applied for the right to incorporate a company. The comedians in our national legislature had a lot of fun over the “crackbrained” idea and joshed the newspaper which supported the inventor—»

to ridicule, ns set forth in the Con- “ gressionsil Record. givi* a falr Tdeii of how serrously the prop, isnl was taken. One of the chief points of the'debate was made upon the question of "Whether the feSblutloti shonld be referrod to the committee on foreign affairs of the house or to the committee on commerce, the decision being rendered in favor of the latter body after a discussion which was carried on with burlesque solemnity for some hours. It is Interesting to note that the -presiding officer on that occasion was none other than Representative James A. Garfield of Ohio, who later became president of the United States. Incidentally there Is a strange similarity in the conduct of the house • •their.- ns rrlarcTl , d , n~Tfrr~Rrrrmrh"7rnd in its actions in the present day. Representative Conger, read an article from the since defunct Sunday Chronicle of April 14, 1872. which, despite the fact that it was laughed at by congress, seems to have had a realizing sense of grace in considering the project of wireless. The serious attempts of the Sunday Chronicle to plead the cause of wireless was the signal for a chorus of presumably humorous remarks somewhat like those leveled at the two absurd Wright boys, Orville and Wilbur, when they gave up a profitable bicycle business out in Dayton, 0., some years ago and started fussing around with a ridiculous contraption that they ~fiy a dfke grf ar bird, whereas all the wiseacres thereabouts knew it was all plumb foolishness and couldn’t be done. Everybody knows what a ghastly failure the Wrights made of flying. The butt of most of the jokes hurled at the Loomis invention was Representative Holmes of Indiana, who had helped Mr. Bingham introduce the resolution, and who was one of,the few to believe that wireless communication was really possible. He made a speech amid a chorus of groans, jeers and interruptions of all sorts, representa..tLveS—continually insisting upon read-, ing articles from publications not so farseelng as the Sunday Chronicle, and all poking fun at “Wireless Loomis.” Mr. Bingham also had his turn, an<f~ his speech, like the others, appears in the Record, although the disorder in the house made it impossible of hearing for most of the members. He, too, could see the possibilities of wireless, and stoutly maintained his position. Mr. Bingham’s extreme earnestness carried with it a measure of conviction, and the unruly house at the end accorded him some measure of serious attention. Whether It was owing to _hbr-speech- or—a certain feellng-that it would do no harm to let Loomis try Ids stunt, since -it could not hurt any-thing.-atany rate the resolution, was passed a few nights later and the dentist-electrician started in to form the company to exploit his idea. In many respects Doctor Loomis’ plans for wireless development were more ambitious than any proposed before or since. He not only aimed at communication by telegraphic methods, but he likewise expected to utilize the power for lighting and heating purposes. In July, 1872, he secured a patent from the United States patent office which so far as is known was the first ever granted of. its kind. The text of it is interesting. “Be It known that I, Mahlon Loomis, d(ffitiSt,ofWas'hlngron.*Districtof-Co--lumbla,” it says, “have invented or dlscovered a new and improved mode of telegraphing and of generating light, heat and motive power, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full description thereof: “The nature of my invention or discovery consists, in general terms, of utilizing natural electricity and establishing an electrical current or circuit for telegraphic and other purposes, without the aid of wires, artificial bat-teries-or cable tn,form_such electrical current, and yet communicate from one continent of the globe to another. “As in dispensing with the double wire” (which was first used in telegraphing) “and making use of but one. substituting the earth instead of a wire to form one-half of the circuit, so I now dispense with both wires, using the earth as one-half the circuit and continuous electrical element tar above the ehrth's surface .for the other part of the circuit. I also dls-

Welsh coal owners have refused the workmen’s application for a new audit of their books to regulate wages. A system of shorthand writing for the Chinese language has been invented in Hongkong, a speed of 140 words a minute having been acquired by the inventor, who is teaching his method. Francis Jones, New York negro subway porter, threw a bucket of water on what he thought was burning paper and went back to work. When he discovered It was a bomb he fell down a flight of stairs. ~ ■

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pense with artificial batteries, but use the free electricfty of the atmosphere, co-operating with that of the earth to supply the electrical dynamic force or current for telegraphhxg" airtt"' for otherusefulpurposes, such as light, heat and motive power. “As atmospheric electricity’ is found more and more abundant when moisture, clouds, heated currents of air and other dissipating Influences are left far below and a greater altitude attained, my plan Is to seek as high an elevation as practicable on the tops of high mountains and thus penetrate or establish electrical connection with the atmospheric stratum or ocean overlying local disturbances. Upon these mountain tops I erect suitable towers -and apparatus to attract" ttiF-etectTtrv ity, dr in other words to disturb the electrical equilibrium and thus obtain a current of electricity, or shocks, or pulsations, which traverse or disturb the positive electrical body of the atmosphere above and between two given points by communicating it to the negative electrical body in the earth below to form the electric current.” After declaring that the inventor did not utilize any new keyboard or alphabet, the patent concludes with the assertion that he claims: “The utilization of natural electricity frqm elevated points by connecting the opposite polarity of the celestial and terrestial bodies of electrlcity at different points by suitable conductors, and for telegraphic purposes relying upon the disturbance produced in the two electro-opposite bodies (of the earth and the at-, mosphere) by’ an interruption of the continuity of one of the conductors from an electrical body being indicated upon its opposite or corresponding terminus, and thus producing a circuit of communication between two without an artificial battery or the further use of wires or cables to connect the co-operating stations.” The fate of the Loomis invention was not —long—In--being determined. His company was formed and experiments were carried on, but the (in this day) manifestly impossible scheme was soon found to be impracticable, despite the several advanced ideas presented, and the proposition presently went to smash, adding another name to the great roll of disappointed and disillusioned pioneers. Although Loomis was the first man to get recognition in the American congress for wireless discovery, men had inklings of the possibility of the thing 50 years before him. Abqut the first to take up the work was Doctor Steinheil of Munich, who in 1838 evolved some of tlie basic features of. the science. Morse in 1842 saw that telegraphing without wires would some day be. possible, but he was too busy with tlie wire method to spend any time on the other plan. The credit for the successful application of the principles of wireless communication of course belongs to Marconi, who has had the wit and the resource to employ the work of his predecessors in the field and actually to produce the now wonderful result. Marconi’s real accomplishment is of comparatively recent date and it owes much even to the dreamings of Doctor Loomis, not to mention the experimenting of such eminent minds as J. Trowbridge in 1880, Sir W. H. Preece in 1882, Willoughby Smith, Sir Oliver Lodge, Alexander Graham —Bell, Thomas A. Edison and numerous others who contributed to the general result. The employment of the Hertzian waves, discovered by Hertz in 1886 and 1887, by Marconi and then the Italian’s Invention of the antennae, for the detection of electric Impulses, resulted finally in the commercial wireless ol today, which in seeming perfection is still but In its infancy. Greater marvels are yet in store for the world t han even the direction of torpedoes by wireless and the sending of messages from New York to Honolulu, and than even wireless communlcation between fighting airplanes and ground stations far back of the battle lines. Yet these accomplishments are a far cry from that day in 1890 when two British cruisers at maneuv* ers were able to communicate with each other by telegraph and the world thought that the summit of wonders

Indians Good Orchardists.

The American apple owes much to the care of the Indian farmers, for the Indian was an able pomologlst. It was not unusual 150 years ago for Indian orchards to have 1,500 trees, which ail had been duly pruned and cultivated by the people we are prone to regard as nomadic savages. The peach and quince’ were also cultivated by them in later years. To the world the Indian introduced such fruits as the persimmon, the pawpaw, the pineapple and the Virginia strawberry.

HOME TOWN HELPS

MAKES TOWER AN ORNAMENT

Gatekeeper Transforms What Is Usually Unsightly Box Into a Thing of Beauty. A bldt upon the “City BeaiiTiful," yet a very necessary blot, is every gatekeeper’s tower at a railroad crossing. It must be high and unsheltered, consequently.sunbaked and windswept. But with the heart of a poet and the skill of a landscape artist, T. J. Jones, a Southern - ’Pacific —gatetender, has transformed his conning tower at Pomona, Cal., into a town ornament. “ The; bare, bleak, stilts-perched box that must be Ills abode day after day through long hours of duty now looks like a vine-covered bird cage. The unsightly posts are completely hidden ; on

Unsightly Tower Transformed.

one side the road’s initials appear in living green? while the other sides bear quaint designs, and vines outline each ledge. Inside he has window boxes and potted plants wherever they will not interfere with “business.” The wee space around his castle between the tracks he has fenced with smooth, whitewashed stones, and within it has done such systematic, intensive farming that he has raised more tomatoes, potatoes, onions, peas and carrots than he can use. The sturdy young man with the spade is a happy specimen of a thrifty American; certainly he* is a standing rebuke to all lazy neighbors with w’eed-covered lots. -

GLARING STREET LIGHTS BAD

Best Results Obtained From Globes Which Are Dense Enough to Soften the Rays. “Illuminating engineers are now turning all their energies toward a system for the proper distribution of street lighting," writes Walter R. Howell,, in Good Health. “They have unanimously agreed that the best light is that from a globe that is dense enough not to reveal the form of the actual light within, but to give the effect of light streaming forth from the globe.” The reason for this is that street lamps are necessarily against a dark background, and the amount of glare upon the eyes depends to a great degree upon the background against which the light is seen. An electric light, unshaded, against a dark velvet wall covering, for instance, will be found much more trying to the eyes than would the same light with a ■white wall paper behind it.

Work for Chambers of Commerce.

In civic work the inauguration of clean-up, beautification and safety-first campaigns are properly n part of the yearly work of chambers of commerce. This work, done under the supervision of experts, brought to a community by a chamber of commerce, is productive of more lasting benefit than when carried on by willing, but more or less Inexperienced, local workers. The. bet-., terment of housing conditions is an important feature of this work, andthose cities providing housing conditions and living conditions for employees that are above the average are reaping rich returns in contented workmen and a stable labor market.

Wood-Block Pavement

An official Inspection of wood-block pavement laid in Minneapolis during 1906 shows that in only two out of 13 sections were more than 5 per cent of the blocks depressed asunuch as onehalf inch below the general level of the street. The two exceptions were in the heaviest traffic districts of the ~ctiyrgnd one of them showed 13*5 per cent of the blocks depressed as compared with 16.5 per cent in the other made with long-leafed pine and birch showed only 2 per cent of the blocks depressed after ten years’ service.

Good Business.

A Los Angeles business man has transformed the unsightly back yard of his expensive store by clearing it of rubbish, planting it with and vines, placing bright Navajo rugs on the ground and setting several comfortable chairs about tlfe place. A vlctrola also adds to the attractiveness of the yard* Thus the owner has, at small expense, doubled his available space

Taxidab Driver Was Human.

No one has ever accused a taxicab driver of doing anything but his fare, but a hard-faced clock nurser showed the-other day that he has a tender spot under-his money pocket. He stopped at Bellevue hospital and helped a raggedly dressed old woman and a raggedly dressed little girl out of his cab, after which he called to an orderly to ask: “Where d’ye take sick people here?” The orderly indicated where the reception wa’rd was, and the chauffeur led the aged woman‘and the little girl into it. “The lady,” said the chauffeur to the doctor, "ain't'feeling none too good. I sees her leaning against a post on the Bowery, and the little one tells me they’re flat broke and live way uptown. She don’t feel good enough to even go along up there, but you can fix her, doc. Here, miss, this half buck’ll get her home.” After which the stone-visaged person whistled his way out -to the taxicab.—New York Herald. ——-

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“Say, Elmira, who’s that chap, comink' here so much evenings?" “He’s a man, pa, I’ve engaged to Improve my mind. He’s a professor in the school of Eros.” “What were you doing last night, when Benny said you and he made a noise that sounded like'kissing?” “Why, pa, we were only going through some osculatory exercises.” “That so? I’ll tan that little rascal’s hide, blame him!” At best a wise man can only bring in a minority report.

Canada’s Liberal Offer of Wheat Land to Settlers “h is open to you—to every fanner or farmer’s son ; who is anxious to establish for wCtfw himself a happy home and gMNgF prosperity. Canada’s hearty ySja I invitation this year is more attractive I I than ever. Wheat is much higher but A I her fertile farm land just as cheap, and jFIJI * n the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta K* id « 1 60 Acre Homestesds Are Actuelly Free t# Settle, A Cwi A fill snd Othtt Sold at from S IS ’ 2O P<r AC ” J M HE The great demand for Canadian Wheat will —keep up the price. Where a farmer can get ■ 1 near $2 for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to flsFTsn ■ Ike acre he is bound to make money that s t'/yO yjrr» nYfs\ .H what you can expect inWestern Canada. Won- ■MifT**-.* derful yields also of Oats, Barley and Hex. H.Wipg Tjfc, Mixed Farming in Western Canada is fully as .. -y profitable an industry as grain raising. ZcZ" The excellent, granges, full of nutrition, are the only BbWukl food required either for beef or dally purposes BW/mlm- a? -AT fcq V—Good schools, churches, markets convenient, climate ■BMwX VimiwJAA t - MMCHm excellent. There is an unusual demand for farm KI mm * JJB rivl Will ra«H labor to replace the many young men who have ZjL 1W HUB volunteered for the war. Write For literature and BI®IJ.VS\ M k' \ • I IhIiII iIK particulars as to reduced railway rates Co Supvol 1 ■■ Immigration, Ottawa* Can.* or to . -• < C. J. Broughton, Room 412. 112 W. Adams Vmß Street. Chicago. Ill.; M. V. Machines, 17S Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 11 i 'kH Canadian Government Agents B X.

“Here, you!” shouted the lord and master of the household to the maid of all work. “What’s this your mistress tells me about all the cream missing again?” “The cat, sir,” replied the girl, who was offended at her employer’s unceremonious manner. “Nonsense, girl!” said the master. “You knowwe have not gotone!” “But, please, sir, the mistress said as she was a-going to get one.”

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“Your boys are making great gardeners.” “Sh ! They are not gardeners. They are 'soldiers, doing patrol duty against potato bugs.” Genius is said to be a certain form of madness, but the madness of most people is more or less uncertain. i • He who saves in little things can be liberal In great onea, .

Mental Improvements.

That Explained It.

A Difference.

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Language of the Mule.

"The boy sure made a firiWfepeech,” said the old man, “an’ I’m prouder than ever of him, but what was them languages he wandered off in so frequent?” "Well, once he slung a little Latin, an’ next he hit her up In Greek.” “That’s good. They’ll be fine to swear at the mule in, when he gits home.” 7"

Beware of Stores.

Crewe —Good heavens, how it rains! I feel awfully anxious about my wife. She’s gone out without an umbrella. Drew —Oh, she’ll be all right. She’ll take shelter In some store.' Crewe—-Exactly. That’s what makes me so anxious. ----- — —

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Chesterfield of the Fields.

“Father, what do they mean by gentlemen farmers?” “Gentlemen farmers, my son, are farmer!! who seldom raise anything except their hats.”

Close Quarters.

“Durlngsjthe thunderstorms our milk fnrnod! did ' —X “No: our refrigerator 7 is so small the milk didn’t have room to turn.”

Physical Impossibility.

"Write him a sharp answer, dear.” “Can’t do it, pet; I haven’t any but stub pens.” -

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