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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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Ut WOULD be interesting to know
: ( just what was the beginning of big.
quarrel. Almost anyone can recall some
large event on which the leaders Of the
Two factions disagreed, but the real
thing to be striven for is the far-away
and remote affair which started these
ructions. The seed of the ,disputations.
The source, the very first germ of dis
cord, from which the present open ands
deadly warfare sprung. For great quar-
rels do rise from very small and appar-
emily inconsequential things-the slam
ming OF door, the borrowing of pen
knife and the failure to return it, the
breaking of an appoin tment. 1.-THE pinch
Ing ola pair OF shoes. Napoleon started
ouf to conquer Europe because ADJUST
the'wrong' time asmosquito bit him and
irritated him and made him want to get
square with somebody; the decay Of the
Roman empire dates from the moment
that a mischievous boy threw a snow
ball in which he had placed a lump Of
anthracite coal at Julius Caesar and hit
thoughts from plans of peace.
Small things indeed are these, but
many a historian can tell you of quar-
vels which grew out Of smaller ones.
Sherwood: fol: instance. d telegraph
operator, recently told of feud which
came into existence because of the loss
Of such q small thingg!Ias:a gtslegraphic
dot. A er'' can make ten or
more dots in a second, SO you can i'm
agine how infinitely small*one. is:s Only
a trained ear is able to distin guish the
difference between a dozen dots and
20 when a batch is rapidly made, and
yet one poor little dot nearly killed one
MAN and brought the other, oyerworke6
and 2overwrought,fnt into hospital. ). &
Sherwood was at the Chicago end of
q New York wire at the time of the ad-
venture. It was not a good wire even
al its best. 1t had poor battery and
some other ailments which made re-
celVing a woe. But frst-class operators
were expected to do high-grade busi--
ness with it. and: they usually did if they
worked in harmony and did not get into
guarrels over the responsibility for the
c1nttering and mixing Of the faulty cir
cult. After two or three men had re-
signed in disgust and had declared that
they would rather wheel gravel to
Stone crusher than try to copy from
shat line Sherwood was put on at Chi
cago, and some stranger to him was
given the New York end. They seemed
10 suit each other immensely we'll and
pounded away without the least bit Of
friction for week. They were sensible
enough 10 take it easy and neither tried
: 10 rush the<other. Sometimes between
whites they would have a minute OF so
for conversat ton, and these tile spells
sl1ade them. feel even better disposed
each to the other. One evening Sher-
wood thought business would proceed
with greater satisfaction if he knew
She name Of the good fellow over in New
York. so in the course of rest he asked:
whats your name, old man?'
Quick as flash and to sSherwood's
after amazement the other operator
hurled back at him the curt monosyl-.
liable: s..
Z t.Rats!" #<.s ]. II: !.
Sherwood was thunderstruck and he.
was also warm. (. '''All right he said 10
himself. Very. well, You fresh sucker.
II that's your kind I'lllet you alone and
give you littIestaste of hot work Just
10 make you do some thinking on po-.
likeness over line"
So he turned in and fairly made his
owD arm whizz in jerking streaks of
lightning at the New Yorker. He, put
On double speed, and with that hazy,s
ragged wire to help to make things I'M.
intelligible he considered that he was
giving his associate a very ardent chase
TO copy him. He knew that the stuff
must be getting into New York in out
1andish shape, but he felt outraged and
didn't care.
The next day the worm turned and
" he New Yorker begansto give Sherwood
"a correct imitation Of just how eyilly