Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-03
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Observation-Disclosures

NJ WOULD be interesting to know
L 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
rnctions. The seed of the disputations.
The source, the very first germ of dis
cord, from which the prese open and
deadly warfare sprung. For great quar-
sc's do rise from very small and appar-
emily inconsequential things-the slam
ming OF a door, the borrowing Of pen
knife and the failure to return it, the
breaking of an appoin t1nent.st the pinch
ing Of pair Of shoes. Napoleon started
out to conquer Europe because at just
tte wrong time a'mosquito bit him and
arritated him and made him want to get
square with somebody; the decay of the
95o5nan empire dates from the moment
that mischievous boy threw snow
ball in which. he had placed a, lump Of
anthracite coal at Julius Cesar and hit
him Oh the ear and withdrew his
ihonghts from plans Of peace.
Small things indeed are these, but
many historian can tell you Of quar-
sels which grew out of smaller ones.
Sherwood, for instance. a telegraph
operator, recently told Of feud which
came into existence because of theloss
Of saeh:;a small ithing as a .tslegrapFic
dot. Agood:::'sende1r''; can make ten or
more dots in second, SO you can i'm
agine how infinitely small~one. is. Only
a trained ear is able to distinguish the
difference between dozen dots and
20 when a batch is rapidly made. and
yet one poor little dot nearly killed one
noaD and brought the other, overworke6
and overwrought, into hospital '-
Sherwood was at the Chicago end of
L New York wire at the time of the ad-
venture. 1t was rot good wire even
al It's best. 1t had a poor battery and
%o'ne other ailments which made re-
''clving woe. But first-class operators
were expected to do high-grade bust
ness with it. and they usually did if they
worked III harmony and did not get into
guarrels over the responsibility for the
elnttering and mixing Of the faulty cir
cuit After two or three men had re-
signed in disgust and had declared that
they would rather wheel gravel to a
Stone crushcr 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
&c suit each other immensely well and
pounded away without the least bit Of
friction for week. They were sensible
enough TO take it easy and neither tried
70 rush the other. Sometimes between
whites they would have a minute or so
for conversation. and these little spells
snade 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 a rest he asked:
whats your name. old man?"
Quick as flash and to Sherwood's
inter amazement the other operator
4,urlet2 back at him the curt monosyl-
"a bic:
''Rats!" II.
Sherwood was thun derstruclS and he
"~0 ais" '" ILL., SAit 1 SHt, tHc Sd1t 10
himself. every: well> you fresh sucker.
II that's your kind I'll let you alone and
give you little taste Of hot work just
10 make you do some thinking on po-
likeness over line''
So he turned in and fairly made his
e'wD arm whizz in jerking streaks of
lightning at the New Yorker. He: put
On double speed, and with that hazy,
ragged wire to help to make things un-
intelligible he considered that he was
giving his associate q very ardent chase
10 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. g.. a."
The next day the worm turned and
Fhe New Yorker began to give Sherwood