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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07
FROGS SUGGESTED THE TELE-

IftON T..
It is not common knowledge. except
20 those familiar with electrical and
telephone history that the first tele-
phone was constructed in Racine, Wis,
and that the inventor. DR.. 5. ID. CUSh
man. is now a resident of Chicago.
His litigation with the Bell Telephone
Company, extending over a period OF
ten years, and costing over 100000. has
been reported from a legal standpoint
but as &c is one Of Mr.. Cushman's prin-
cipies that personal "reminiscences are
in bad taste be has seldom gwen for
NAL interview His Offices are i'm the
Stock Exchange building, remarks the
Detroit Free Press. Here the venerable
inventor, sevanty-Seven years of age,
who built the first telegraph lines in this
part of the Far West, pursues his
business with more alertness to affairs
than the average young man.
In the corner OF the room is large,
worn piece OF muslin, on which is paint
ca i'm thin color a representation or
telegraph line stretching away In the
distance. connected with a crude instru-
mant. SET on TWO logs, near which frog
is sitting by a stream. This old relic
represents the telegraph line of good
cedar posts which Or. Cushman con-
s-ucted west from Racine for the Erie
and Michigan Telegraph Company in
1881. and the experimental lightning
-rras.er which led 10 mis- discovery.
l- is reminder of the days when DR..
Cushmau was associated with Professor
"a rNr.. rrfI q Of 20
On his desk is the first telephone trans
ult,er, constructed in 1851. twenty-five
years before the Bell patents were taken
out. I- is small. square box. with a
speaking orihce and containing mechan-
Ism OF the same principle as that OF the
modern transmi--er.
Tn 1851 Dr. Cushman undertook the
construction Of lightning arrester, his
object being 20 take the lightning that
struck the wire and run into the ground.
the instrument being 50 constructed
that IL would not Interfere with the
light current used in telegraphing.
This instrument was placed out on the
prairie on TWO logs. and in order TO
know when it had operated a triDle
magnet with q sheet of thin iron nj the
poles. similar in construction 10 mod
ern receiver was placed i'm the corner
Of the box. In case the lightning passed
through the instrument the electro
magnet would pull this strip of iron
Gown into the range Of a permanent
magnet which would retain it until The
instrument was inspected.
A similar device was placed in the
basement of the building az Racine and
connected with the other end of the line
one day while a thunder storm was
coming up and DR.. CuShman was watch
ing the instrument the crOaking Of frogs
was heard thirteen miles away. This
is the explanation OF how the old paint
.ng with the crude instrument and the
cracking frogs is identified with the
discovery of the telephone
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07

day evening. and his remains viii be
taken Wednesday 70 his home in But
Ter. Pa, for interment....W H. Reese,
q prominent oil man of ST. Mary's, was
in the city to-day on business.
BAKER.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07
A Woman
FULL QUARTS ONE DOLLAR.

We also carry in stock fun quarts OF
Gibson's. Finch, OverhOlt and Thompson
Pure Rye Whiskies at S1.O0 per quart, or six
quarts for $500
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07
5.5Tf25ILLE NEWS.
and Social Happenings Of the
'Hcstling Town

the River - Personal and
er Interesting Items Pertain
~ the Oil Metropolis OF West
lla
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07

claude Robinson, of Cumber-
Oil. ccccnpan'ed by her EuIe
Nellie who has been the
her mother Mrs. Slcmaker. of
Greet for abou- two weeks. left
Tor acr aowa VIA. P2rkers5urg
She WI. VISIT q few DAVIS. ...
Talbot left this afternoon
.1r.n>r.l'e 90 visit friends
attend while there the uup-
friend, N,ss Lena Cmste't.
welded 90 AIr. John Mar
evening. ... Mr. Char
.A. D prominent insurance
r lar-irsville. was in the
noon Old business. ... Miss
naarry. who has been the
ends D Erie. Pa. for some
rai home accompanied
',.cr. Mrs Lelsure. who
,r l.Dre home iu this city
te1theriug-on. eff Bell
NJ Che He3-hering Coal
tu ,Ae cry today on
- In Che afternoon for
William Kelley. q tool
worked here for quite p
1s been i'm the North
for some time. suf-
Uphold fever, died Mon
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07

Word was received to-day from New
wife, stating tla- Capt b. l..
Hr..s who was knocked down ON
Saturday and seriously injured by a
r..Wr horse. was still confined 10
as room and would not be able TO be
au f1r several DAYS While
-iGr are not very serious, they
-er' painful and the shock too,
very severe and his prCstrari0n is
probably due More 90 TO than the in
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-07

DO YOU SEE the testimonials writ
ten by people who have been cured Of
various diseases by Hoods Sarsaparil-
Ia? They point the way for you if you
need a good medicine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
HUMOROUS.
- ~ AAAO
delphia.

-May-tAre your skirts divided,
Madge?" Madge-''Yes. After | get
through with them they are divided
among my younger sisters. IN. Y.
World.
tell me you write for the newspapers"
whats to prevent me as long as in
close the subscription prices?"-Detroit
Free Press.
THE thermometer will never re-
cover" said the wind. What seems
to be the matter?" asked the rain. ut
has some internal trouble, and is dying
by degrees"
Not to be Seen.-Judge-''Y say
you have some means of subsistence"
Tramp-"Yes, your honor" Judge
''Then why is it not visible?" Tramp
81 ate it.''-Harlem Life.
~ want a thermometer" said the
old lady to the clerk as she mopped
her damp brow with big handker-
chief; ''and please set it at sixty de-
grees. "-Philadelphia Record.
Reasonable Complaint-''Waiter
said the guest, 81 wish you'd ask the
proprietors to turn on a little more
light. It's SO dark in here I can't tell
whether I'm eating planked shad or a
paper of pins. Chicago Tribune.
-Blebbs-"They say an actor is
never afraid to live in a haunted
house." Slobbs-''I suppose because
he is usually full of spirits anyhow"
Blobbs-'Yes, and then he always
likes to see the ghost walk. "-Phila-
delphia Record.
-Brown-ttBut why d o you stop so
often? Can't you keep up with me?"
Typewriter (who is rather shaky in
hel. orthography)-t'Oh, yes; but your
language is so eloquent that / fire.
quNntly find myself spell-bound. -
Boston Transcript.
Husband (whose wife has been re-
proving him for smoking in her pres
enee)-''You often used to say before
we were married: oh, George, DO. so
love the Odor of good cigar" Wife
Yes. that sor. of thing is part of a
young lady's capital. Yexas Siftings.
81 have come to ask for Your
daughters hand, Mr.. Herrick," said
yonng Waller neryously. ''Oh, we'll,
| yon can't have it" said Herrick, Pm
not doing out my daughter on the in
stallment plan. When you feel that
you can support the whole girl, you
may call again. "-Harper's Bazaar.
A little girl who had heard her
family talking about Mysteries, was
present when story waS.told at which
her mother laughed inmoderately.
The child seemed much impressed. and
looking anxiously at her mother, she
said gravely: Mamma, amt you afraid
if you laugh SO much you will get his
torical?"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
WATER POWER.
American and European Methods of Usin
1t in Large Way.

American and European Methods of Usin
1t in Large Way.
The standard American method of
utilizing large amount OF water pow
err has hitherto been to distribute the
water to the several consumers or mill
owners by means of a system of head
races, so called, with facilities for it's
discharge at a lower level, to be util
lied as the owner or lessee saw fit, and
generally on his own premises. This
led to long head canals, and to insig-
nificant tail-races, whereas the Niagara
plant consists of common tail-race.
mile and half long, with comparative
ly insignificant head-races. The old
time water power company sold or
leased the right to draw a definite
quantity of water at defined times,
with the privilege of discharging it at
a lower level, and the mill owner did
the rest; whereas at Niagara falls the
right is leased to discharge a definite
quantity of water into the tail-race
tunnel, with the privilege of drawing
this quantity from the head canal, OF
from the river. But over and above
this the -power-may be con-
tracted for at Niagara falls, delivered
on the shaft.
To create large group of mill sites
of the older sort there was necessary,
in the first instance, a large, continu-
GUS body of land, properly located for
the purpose. If this could not be
bought up secretly, and in large blocks,
the whole water-power enterprise
would fail to come to fruition. In Eu-
rope, however, several such enterprises
came into being in spite of the in
ability OF the projectors to primarily
buy tracts of land such as have been
described. This was done by estab
fishing central power stations near the
dam, or head canal, and then trans
hitting the power produced, instead
of the water to produce it, to the con.
snmers or mill owners. Up to within,
say, five years, this had always been
| accomplished by means of wire-rope
transmissions of power. and it is easy
to see that the invention of the cleo
| trical transmission of power would give
| this form of the utilization of a large
water power a great impetus. Many
such plants are, therefore, already In
existence, many are building, but
among them all no one is probably sc
celebrated and is attracting the, atten-
ton of all intelligent men as this al
| Niagara falls--Cassier's Magazine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The old Brandywine Baptist church
at Chadd's Ford, Pa, has just cele-
brated its one hundred and eightieth
anniversary. Geo. Whitefield preached
there in ITO.
The Baptist year book shows the
largest number of baptisms in any of
the states during last year was in
Texas, 1901 being reported. Virginia
comes next, with 10000.
The Greek Catholic( Uniates)cbur
in the United States is larger than
might be supposed, having fourteen
organizations and 10, $50 members.
They own thirteen churches, the value
of which is 500, 800.
-Fong Foo Fling, Chinaman of San
Francisco, is an enthusiastic and eff
cient member of the Salvation Army.
1t is rumored that he will soon be sent
to China to organize and lead an evan
gelistic movement of the army in that
country.
During recent revival services at
Fultonville, n. Y, a saloonkeeper was
converted and emptied his entire stock
Of liquors in the gutter. In the even
ing huge bonfire was made of the
barrels and fixtures, the evangelist
preaching to a great crowd assembled
from the top of an empty whisky bar
rel.
AT the university in Christiania,
Sweden, all departments of study are
thrown open equally to both sexes;
and as public officials of the state
women are given fair chance, many
having been appointed postmis-
tresses. The only career absolutely
close d to women in Christiania is the
.egal career.
The Methodist church in Colorado
voted recently to admit women as lay
members of the general conference in
future There was a long and ami
mated discussion over the proposal,
but when it came to vote the ballot
ing was sixty in favor of admitting
women and none against, but fifteen
members refrained from voting.
The last commencement at West
Point military academy was attend
ed by five thousand spectators. ON
the platform were generals who
had fought in the Union and con-
federate armies. They were present
to see their sons receive diplomas. Gen.
RugClee gave the address and delivered
the certificates to the graduating class.
Bishop Turner of Georgia, of the
colored Methodist church, has returned
from Liberia and other parts of Africa,
where he goes regularly in the inter-
asts of his church. He reports that
the 227 colored colonists who went
from the south last spring to Liberia
are doing well and are contented. He
thinks more of the colored people in
south should go to Africa.
Rev. DIR. Rufus L. Perry, who died
recently at Brooklyn, was born in
slavery in Nashville. He escaped to
Canada at the age of eighteen, and
there gained the rudiments of an edu-
cation. Later he entered college at
Kalamazoo, and after graduation
studied for the Baptist ministry. He
was one of the most learned preachers
Of his race, being fine Hebrew, Latin
and Greek scholar.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
PRISONERS OF WAR.
Century Ago These Unfortunates Wer
Brutally Treated.

A Century Ago These Unfortunates Were
IrutaIly Treated.
Little more than a century ago priS-
onerS of war were treated with SyS-
Sematic brutality. That gave John.
Howard his first task. Providence,
made him sufferer in his OVID per-
son, and thus pointed out the special
field in which his philanthropic inn
pulses were to find employment.
Towards pity was reused by the tales,
Of Indebtedness he heard from Lisbon.
after the great earthquake. He took
passage on the Hanover brig, with the,
intention simply of helping those I'M
fortunates. But the Hanover was,
captured by privateer which carried
It's prizes into Brest. Forty
hours the crew, with Howard,
lay in the bare and sitting
hold. A biscuit each was thrown to
them before the matches were closed,
but no drop of water did they receive.
On arrival at Brest no one needed their
cries They were thrust into dun
geon underground, damp and filthy
beyond description. and several
hours" passed before the goalersi
brought food OF drink. Opening the.
1OOI OHOhS bhCS oOOuebAiy p1NNAtCN q
leg of mutton among the throng, to be
scrambled for, and torn to pieces with
the teeth.
Six weeks Howard remained i'm this
fearful place with the sailors-men of
peace, be it obse rived, following their
awful business but in time of war.
Relieved then On parole, he applied
himself to ransom his fell ow sufferers,
and afterward travelled to other forts
and stations where Englishmen were
confined. It seems impossible that
any of them could have been more hor-
,ible than Brest, but Howard found
such; at Oman, for example. where
thirty six poor NEretches were. buried
/ in one day. Returning home, he in
vestigated the English arrangements
i for prisoners of war, and found them
not less horrible. 1t is we'll to recol-
EIect that when Howard appealed to the
| royal commissioners for the sick and
wounded, sending in detailed report,
without = moments delay orders were
issned to correct the abuse. Moreover,
| the commissioners transmitted his
| statement to France, and the French
| government was nOa less prompt in
acting upon it. Bot for how many
generations had that awful state of
/ things continued!-London Standard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
ATTRACTIONS OF THE LAW.
Sacrifices That Young Men Make in the
Hope OF Fame and Fortune.

Sacrifices That Young Men Make in the
Hope of Fame and Fortune.
Considerably over two huadred young
men are graduated annually from the
law schools of this city. The grad
yates include not only the usual num-
Der OF well-schooled young men with
friends to help them and perhaps
means at command, but as we'll a con-
siderable percentage of men who come
to their law studies without the advan-
tage of good grounding in English,
Latin, and the sciences, without money
or financial friends, and with wives
and children dependent upon them for
support. Some of these latter finish
their law studies at an age when most
lawyers have been from three to ten
years in practice.
Persons acquainted with the difficult
ties that beset the young lawyer in
New York wonder what the new grad
yates in law of this sort are to do.
They are earning in various occupa-
lions from seven hundred and fifty to
fifteen hundred dollars year Few
OF them can hope to earn Immediately
at the law above six hundred dollars a
year, and almost none can hope within
four or five years to earn by his prac-
tice as much as the most successful
now earn by their present occupations.
Most of such graduates in law hope to
find law clerkships at five hundred to
six hundred dollars a year, but for
these they must compete with the
cleverest and best educated men from
the most famous law schools in the
nj ho FOL he al
tive of setting up Offices for themselves
must sacrifice ordinarily all of their
present income for an uncertainty that
may not yield three hundred dollars in
the first year, and may yield less than
one thousand dollars in the third or
fourth or fifth year. Some never get
beyond law clerkships; some never find
themselves able to give up the trade
that earns their bread in order to be-
gin that by which they hoped to earn
both bread and fame. Enough succeed
to insure full classes in the law schools
year after year.
AS matter of fact the law continues
to attract men here and elsewhere, in
spite of statistics that prove the aver
age earnings of lawyers to be below
those of skilled mechanics. Men with
families to support work all dav and
pay from ten to twenty-five per cent.
of their incomes annually for the OPP
portunity of studying law at night.
Other men work all night for the op-
portunity of studying law by day.
Naval officers stationed here sometimes
squeeze in law lectures along with
their duties to the government. Ste
nographers, Office boys, newsboys and
all sorts of Woodworking people share
the belief that a chance to practice
law is worth almost any sacrifice of
time and energy. Country folk still
say of any bright lad, 'He ought to
be lawyer" and the same belief in
the law as d profession seems to be
held by a great many New Workers of
all sorts. 1t is still held to be the pro-
fession that leads to dignities and hon
ors, to political success, and even to
wealth.-N. Y. Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


--Cowper was devotedly attached to
his mother, and often menti 5 or al
ludes to her in his writings. One of
his most charming poems was written
in her honor.
Fanny Mozart was petite beauty,
of exceedingly pleasing address. Her
manners were very fascinating and she
had a confiding, sympathetic way that
won all hearts.
Leopold Sohefer. the German
writer, had a good mother, as well as
a good wife. He said of both: 'But
one thing on earth is better that the
wife; that is the mother"
Cleopatra was not an Egyptian,
but Greek beauty, with perfectly
white skin, tawny hair and blue eyes.
Her chief fascination was her voice,
which is described as low, we'll modu-
lated, and singularly sweet in tone.
Col. Switzler, the nestor of Mis-
souri, journalism, still vigorous and
capable newspaper man, wrote his first
editorial for his own paper in 1s41.
The Sedalia Capital claims for him the
distinction of being the oldest editor
in the United States.
Walter Besant's most recent book.
I'm Deacon's Orders" is rather of the
dismal variety. Mr.. Besant's heroes in
this work are selected, it is said, from
among a grewsome crew of conscience
less reprobates, dipsomaniac felons,
swindling company promoters, moral
towards, treacherous friends and self
tormenting hallucines."
Harry G. Evans, of Ottumwa, Ia,
has during the last two years worked
in the treasury department and studied
law at night. He has been graduated
as No. in a class of 1T, and was one
of the six who received honorable
mention by the faculty for scholar
ship For excellence in debate he won
the first prize-a set of law books cost
ing 500.
AT last M. Andre, the Swedish
aeronaut, and man of science, who
proposes to reach the north pole by
balloon, has secured a companion IN
the person of Mr.. Elkholm, of the
Stockholm Meteorological bureau. Mr..
Elkhoim has recently devised a scheme
of determining the velocity of the up
per current of air by observing the
clouds.
-Mascagni and Leoncavallo have
quarreled fercely. The latter wrote
an article attacking "Cavalleria Rus
ticana." giving a long list of passages
which he said were not original, with
the sources from which they were
taken. Mascagni retorts that he is pre-
pairing an account of what is original
in Leoncavallo's work, and that it will
be very short one.
-Nazr' Ullah Khan, the Afghan
ameers son, is rather light of COM
plexion for an oriental His face is
not darker than the shah's. He is
rather a gorgeous figure in his uni
form, with its gold embroidered coat,
blue sash, and blue and black astra-
khan caftan. Gold stripes set off his
trousers, and he wears gold spurs on
his patent leather boots.
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hunter, who
died at Philadelphia recently, was
highly esteemed by Lincoln and Grant
for services in caring for the wounded
in the late war. She was the first
woman to go to Gettysburg after the
great fight, receiving permission from
President Lincoln and going in a spe-
cial car. She founded the Northern
Home for Friendless Children in Phila-
delphia.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

Lawley expert shorthand reporter)
Il say, James. the boy from the news
paper Office has called for the report OF
that lecture. is it finishede
James Ia nOviee(-All but short
sentence in the middle of it, and
can't for the life of me make out from
my notes what it is
''Oh, just put in great applause and
let it go"
James acts on the suggestion. and
the lecture is sent for publication with
the, doctored part reading: Friends,
I will detain you but few moments
longer. Great applausel. "-Tit-BitS-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
Was Wondering.

Little Jack-Where are you goin' this
summer, Mr.. Softchapp?
Mr.. Softchapp-Um-w doyou ask?
Little Jack-Sis said when she found
out where you was goin' she'd know
where togo, and was wonderin' where
Sis wasn't goin'.
Mr.. Softchapp-Is your sister still in
the city?
Little Jack-Yes, but she is goin'
away for the summer as soon as she
finds out where you're goin'.
Indeed! So she wishes to go where
1 do?"
"No. She wants to go somewhere
else IN. Y. Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

Every real master of speaking Oh
writing uses his personality as he
would any other serviceable materia Il
the very moment speaker or writer
begins to use it, not for his main pur
pose, but for vanity's sake, as all weak
people are sure to do, hearers and read
ers feel the difference in q moment
Holmes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
A Logical Deduction.

Bobby-Mamma, do the streets OF
Heaven flow with milk and honey?
Mother-So the Bible says, dear.
Bobby--And is that why the angels
have wings, cause the walking's SO
bado=Pnclz
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
Pleasant Prospect.

Neighbour hear your master has
married again and is taking a bridal
tour.
Uncle Mose-Don't know bout him
takin' bride to dis one, boss, but he
did tuck a paddle to his fust wife,
shure.-Texas SiftingS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

-Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus,
who built in honor of her husband
tomb so splendid that it has given his
name to sepulchral structures, was a
brunette Greek beauty. Her eyes were
brilliantly black and her features were
regular.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

Henrietta Maria had large mole
on her neck. She was often solicited
to have it removed, but always refused,
from a superstitious motive, to have
the operat ton performed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

Tommy-Paw, what is the board o1
education2
Mr. Figg-In the days when went
10 school it was piner single. -IU
dianapolis Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
He Swure.

You say you love me: how are you
going to prove it?"
Il swear to you by -"
'sSwear by something of supreme inn
portance-something dear to you as
life itself"
''Adelia, swear to you by my sal
ary!'-Boston Traveller
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

New York, the greatest of oul
commercial citie- and the leading sea,
port, is also the greatest tnaaufactur
ing state.