Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-17

/ IL may see. ulders lana ana ItlusihDS- ~
reasons which determine the personality
that acts. Just study yourself os you I'VE
from dav 20 day, my Gear Last. Initiate
vour associate whom I Was cOmp!imenung
/ a moment ago. Letyour.elf be bypnot'zed.
Wost's thar You have tried It alread!
Not sufficiently, then, not sufficiently
| Mr Smith continues his round an0 en-
ters tie reporte1s' hall. Here ore thou
sand FIVE hundred reporters Il tneH Iec
spsctive places, facing an equal nuLnuel u
/ TELEPHONES, are communicating 70 'ue s"u
scribsrs thu news CT he world as gatnsI,s.u
dorng the night. The orgaolzi tlon o. ln5'
match les service has CtCen been descIlDSa'
Besides his telephone, each reporter, as lue
reader ia aware, has II font Of nm eel
/ Of commu'a.ors. which enable him 10 COIL
municate with any Ge3iTei telephone me
Tons the subscribers net Cnly hear the
news but zee the occurrences. Hheh an
incident IS described that Is already pas''
photographic Of it's main features are Trans
mitted with the narrative. And there Is 70
confusion wi:hsL The reporters. items
iast like the different stories and all tre
other componeut parts of the journal are
classified automatically according to an IN
peuios system. AID reach the nearer IN due
succession. Furthermore, tie hearers are
free to listen only 70 what specially con-
Germs them. They may at pleasure give
attention 10 one editor and refuse 1t TO an
ether.
Mr. Smith next addresses one Of tie ten
reporters in the astronomical department
- department still in theembryOnic stage,
bat ahich VIII ye. play an important part
in journalism.
well, Cash, what's the news?"
owe have acknowledgements from Mercury,
Venus and Mars"
Are those from Msrs OF any INTEREST,"
eyes, indeed. There is revolution IN
the Central Empire"
and what of Jupiter" asked Mr..
Smith
Nothing as yet. We cannot quite IN
dsrstard their signals. Perhaps ours Go
not reach them"
That's ball exclaimed Mr. Smith, as
be hurried away, not in the best OF humor,
toward the hall Of the scientific editors.
With their hea6s rent down over their
electric computers, thirty scientific men
were absorbed in trausceLdeutsl cslcula-
tiors. The comirg Of Mt Smith was IKE
TIE falling Of bomb among them.
'Well, gentlemen, what IS this hear 2
No answer from Jupiter? Is 1t always to
be thus? Come. Cooley, you have been at
work low twenty years or this problem,
and yet"
"True CROUCH" replied tie man adj
dressed. Oar science Of optics is still
very defective, and though our mile'and-
three quarter telescopes
Listen TO that, Peer broke in Mr..
Smith, turning to q second scientist. 'Op-
teal science defective. Optical science IS
your speciality. Blu" he continued, again
addressing William Cooley, failing with
Jupiter, are We getting any results from
the mOou?n
THE case is no better there"
''This time you do not lay the blame on
the science Of optics. The noon Is i'm
mea surably less distant than Mars, yet
with Mars cur communication is fully es-
tablished. I presume you will not say
that you lack ielescopes?'
Telescopes? Oh no, the trouble here Is
about -inhabitantsw
That's it, added Peer.
so, then, the neon is positively urln-
habiteC?n asked Mr.. Smith.
AT least" answered Cooley, ION the
face which preeents t. ne. IA for the op-
posite side, who kuows?"
"Ah, the opposite eide. You think
then" remarked Mr.. Smith, musingly,
that if one could but"
Gould what?'
''Wby, turn the moon abOut-face."
"Ah, there's something in that, " cried
the two men at once. And indeed, 30
confident was their cir, they seemed to have
no doub; as to the possibility Of success IN
such an undertaking.
Meanwhile, asked Mr.. Smith, after a
moments silence, "haye you no news Of
interest today
Indeed We have" answered Cooley.
s'Thel clements Of Olympus are definitely
settled. That great planet grayitates be-,
yond Neptune at the mean distance Oh
/ II 400 7g9. 6i2 miles from the sun, and to
traverse lis vast orbit takes 1911 years, 29i
DAYS. y hours, 10 minutes, seconds
"Why didn't you tell me fooner?'' cried
Mr. smith. 'tNow inform the reporters CT
this straight away. You kroW how eager
is the curiosity Of The public with regard
to these astronomical questions. mat
news must 20 into to days issue
Then, the two men boWing to him, MI
Smith passed into the rext nall, an enor,
mons gallery upward Of three thousand
| two hundred feet in length, devoted to at
mospherc advertisements rejected lfCm
| TIE clouds, so large that they be seen by
/ the populations OF whole cities or even OF
entire countries This, toe, ID enc Of MI
Fritz Napoleon Smiths iaeas, and IN the
Earth Chronicle building tho1sand pro-
liec;or5 are constantly engaged IN display
| ing upon the clouds thes ememmotn advei-
tisements.
When Mr.. Smith to-day entered Che sky
tising,department, he found t1e opoe'
rators sithrg with folded arms at their mo-
tionless projectors, and Inquired as to the
cause of their innc,ion. In response, the
man addressed simply pointed to the sky
which was of q pure blue. YES, NUT
tered Mr.. Smith, "a cloudless sky! That's
too bad, but whst'5 TO be done? Shall we
produce rain? That we night do, but ls
il Of auy ufe? What We need is clouds,
NOT rain. Co said he, addressing the head
engineer. go see Mr.. Samuel Marx, Of the
meteorological division Of the scientific de-
partment, and tell him for me to 10 to work
in earnest on the question of artificial
clouds. Il will never do for US to be al
ways at the mercy Of cloudless skies,
Mr.. Smiths daily tour through the seve-
raj departments Of his newspaper Is now
finished. Next from the advertisement
hall he passes to the reception chamber,
where the ambassadors accredited 10 the
American government are awaiting him,
DESTROYS Of having word Of counsel or ad-
vice from the all-powerful editor. A dis
cussion was going on when he entered.
Your Excelleucy will pardon me-" the
French Ambassador was saying to the Rus
san. 'butI see nothing in the map Of Eu'
: rope that requires change. The North for
4 the Slavs?' Why, yes, Of course; but the
South for the Lstins Oar common from
/ tisr. tie Rhine, It seeUsto me, serves very
we'll. Besides, my government, as You