Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-23
Woman's Christian TENN. Union Column.
Turn ON tho Light.

From the Union Signal.
A while ago visited the Atlantic
cable cOmpany's Office at Sydney, Cape
Breton Island, where many thousands
OF telegraphic messages pass over the
wires and under the sea each day. Mr..
william Edward Earle, who was In
charge, a telegraph man OF thirty
years experience, showed US about the
place.
"That's Berlin" he said, listening to
one of the operators; "that's London
that's New York." in the midst Of u
metallic jargon that would have set a
nervous person wild. "Here Is Wheat
stones automatic transmitter; there
are the Western Union standard quad
ruples (Edison's); we send four mes
sages now upon one wire at the same
time, and could send almost any num-
Der, the difficulty being In the adapta-
tion of mechanical contrivances to
different systems of notation. Here is
the automatic repeater; here the new
method of insulation; here are eleven
hundred cells, constituting our battery
here are the ends of the cables that
start from Hearts Content"
Thus he went on, making the modern
miracle as plain as language and
illustration could to the uninitiated.
ain one minute We can send message
to London aud receive an answer" he
said; 1--WE could do it in less time; in.
deed, the electric part is done in no
time, but you see IN New York, q mans
brain. battery must grasp, and his
hand must transmit the message; then
here in Sydney another man must re-
peat it (but we are apt to begin on the
first word of the answer almost before
we have transmitted the last word Of
the message); then at Hearts Content,
Newfoundland, third man takes and
gives il: then at Valencia Bay, Ireland,
and then in London. But for this rep.
etition, the question and answer would
be exchanged across five thousand
miles In, practically, no time at all
far more rapidly than human lips
could utter il. We have the aurora
borealis here, as you have noticed; 1t
is often out in full force. Its appear
ance on the sky is buta reflection Of
its movement through the earth. At
such times we often throw off all COIL
nection with our batteries and Use the
earth itself as our sufficient base OF
operations and basis of supply. We
are only in the dawn of the electric
area, but We have gone SO far already
that we don't know where we are and
can wonder at nothing"
And now comes in our temperance
application" "Mr. Earle" we said,
looking around upon the army OF
young men who were keeping up this
fusilade by which distance Is demol-
ished chow is it about the use Of alco-
holics? Do you employ moderate
drinkers, as they are called 2"
Swift and staccato came the answer
''Not at all; we must have the brain
at it's clearest, the hand at its best.
We can't afford to have young mell
that drink"
He went on to say (for this expert
electrician is with US heart and soul,
and his bright daughter took the Dem.
crest medal prize the other day. that
he believed the temperance workers
could hardly over estimate the value
TO the total abstinence cause Of the
multiplying modern inventions that
put such a splendid premium upon
teetotalism. And he was right; the
sure, slow lift of civilizations tidal
waves is with us. 1t is always better
farther on. Even as the farmers crops
; grow most while he is sleeping, so tel
thousand forces are perpetually al
work IN this great laboratory Of the
world, to move forward the white cal
of temperance reform. We sch0 giUt
our tchOle liUeS to the increment arr
hardIv more than the areGther-Udnt
that Shows tchich scGy the ,cind Il
bIoiDing.
And best of all, that blessed prin
ciple, the correlation of forces, makes
it certain that personal total Gbstt
nence means prohibition IGw and pro
hibition politics; the man who dOesn'
drink is glad to help vote out the dram
shop, and has, as a rule, come to thu
clearer vision that since women are, 81
q class, total abstainers, their votes can
as a rule, be counted on to help put thu
liquor traffic under ban of law.
Let us, then, rejoice and take cour
age; the eleGtric light fights GgainS
tie SiserG Of rum; every witty inven
ton, every Intricate mschine, ever!
swift-moving engine hasteus tho dom
nance Of Him upon whose shoulde
shall yet be u government. "into whicl
shall enter nothing that defileth
5 neither whatsoever lOveth and maketl
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