The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

try people are, especially women"'
continued the sligbtuing dispenser 81
used to find amusement in them at first,
but 1t soon became disagreeable. 1 re-
member one day an old lady came to
the Office to send q message to her son.
She wrote and re-wrote 1t several times, |
trying to make it shorter. Finally she |
handed 1t in, and as had the Office to
which 1t was addressed at the wire at
that moment, it was sent in less thaua
minute, when I put 1t in a drawer and
locked 1t up, as I did all such messages.
The old lady stood at the window sew
eral minutes and finally blurted out:
well, young man, ar'nt you going to
send that dispatch p why, madam
said I, sit's sent some time ago. Don't
tell me- cried she, didn't see you
stick it in that drawer? Now, I want l
to see you send it. Where's the hole
In the wire where you stick 1t in"
ga sudden inspiration seized me.
The poor old thing thought the mate !
rial, message, writing, paper, and all
| went In through hole in the wire. II
Ix6IuSIAOC4CO S0GAS SAC uAu"SA "ACGo L l
usually put the messages after they
were sent had no bottom in it. sWhy,
madam said I, when put it in the |
aperture designating the bravery, the
current came and whitfield 1t away, and
I opened the bottomtess drawer far
enough to show that it was empty,
without disclosing the fact that 1t had
no bottom. The poor old soul went
away convinced that his Satanic majes-
ty was potent influence in the manip-
ulation of the electric telegraph.
81 have seen some tough times, too,
can tell you,'' said the knight of the
Wire. 81 was working In little Office
on the Northern Pacific railroad in Da-
kato a few years ago. 1t was dreary
place. The Office was shanty, and
Situated at a eide track switch, and
used merely for train orders. There
wasn't habitatiOn for miles around.
The Office was kept we'll stocked with
provisions, arms and ammunition in
anticipation OF being showed in, or of
attack from Indians. Well, I did get
showed In for two weeks. And oh,
what dreary weeks they were! The
snow was 80 deep and heavy that the
locomotives could make no impression
on it. During the weary days would
read. only had one paper-that
was q sensational story paper. I
read it through again and again,
every word of it, until it made me sick
to look at it. Then 1 tried reading it
backwards, which nearly made me
crazy, for who could stand reading
The Lovers Awful Leap > in regular
form six times, and then backwards.
Well you may be sure was glad when
train did get through. The first thing
I asked for was newspaper, and it was
like a balm to the weary mind after my
experience with the Lovers Leap 1
didn't stay in the Office long after that.
eyes," continued The operator, 81
have seen every class of society in the
country, but I think I like South best.
The people are SO hospitable and So
cially inclined there. An operator has
the entrees to the best society there if
he is a gentleman, just as much as a
broker, while in this part of the coun-
try he is considered not good enough to
mix with the tuppers.'
"But why shouldn't he be. He makes
a better salary than the cigarette
young man.. who earns from five to
fifteen dollars Il week, and exhibits his
shallowness in the salons of the sfirst
families A frst-class operator earns
from twenty to forty dollars a week,
and is educated from a point of neces-
sity, if for no other reason. His bust
ness educates him. 1t is the telesrapher
who handles all the kilograms you read
in the papers, and what could be a bet
ter school? "The fact ISL said the 'key
VIBRATOR "we are shut up in high
buildings during the day, and have
few opportunities for making acquaint-
ances; therefore, we have to find soci-
ETY. among ourselves"
Many music boxes are sent TO China.
John is so fond of them that at festivals
he goes about with two or three in his
pockets. But they must play all Chi
nese music. He will have nothing else.
A music can he concea led in n very