The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-12
Governor Tells of Kansas Won
derful Development.
Death of President Churchill
Casts Gloom Over Meeting.
USE OF THE TELEPHONE
Great Benefit to Farmers Dis
cUssed by Mr.. DeLand.
Nearly Every Section Of State
Is Represented.

4 The opening session of the thirty
fourth annual meeting of the Kansas
ii State board of Agriculture, at Repre-
sentative hall at the state house last
night developed into a love feast for
4 the recounting Of all or rather of part
Of the good things enjoyed by the great
state of Kansas.
The event was saddened by the re-
cent death of J. H. Churchill, president
i of the board and MI. Edward w. Long
K shore, of the secretary's office. The at
i ternoon meeting yesterday was ad-
/ journed out of respect to the late pres
4 ident of the board.
! The first real session of the meeting
| was held last evening.
/ Governor Hoch and Mayor Bergund-
/ thai in their addresses of welcome reci-
ted many of the causes for pride on tbs
| part of the Kansas citizen and remark
ed the rapid strides in development and
improvement in every line and industry
in the state.
J. w. Robson, the railroad comnis-
| sioner, who is also vice president of the
| board, was in the chair and he respond
ed to the address of welcome.
Mr.. Robson related his sensations
upon the occasion of his first visit to
Kansas in 1874. when he came to To-
peka from Illinois. Mr.. Robson came
reached Topeka during the time the an
nual state fair was in progress in the
old fair grounds in South Topeka.
your city at that time was but q
\ er along lower Kansas avenue" he
said, land I remember that there seem
| ed to be a large amount of farm land
which lay between the city and the fair
grounds. / do not recall now whether
\ there were street cars in those days,
but if there were, it was the old mule
car service.
Il remember I was so favorably i'm
pressed with the showing made at that
state fair and with the people I met
that I decided to come to Kansas, and
have never since found cause for re-
greet"
Tribute to Churchill.
Secretary f. d. Coburn read his an
nual report Very briefly he outlined
the work accomplished during the past
year and referred to the death last
June Of Edward w. Longshore, one of
the employees of the secretary's office.
In closing Mr.. Coburn paid a high
tribute to the late president Of the
board, Mr.. Churchill. He said:
That deep gloom enshrouds our
gathering in this thirty-fourth annual
meeting needs no announcement. The
the faithful friend and co-laborer. the
genial. kindly courteous gentleman
chosen twice by acclaim to preside over
! our deliberations has almost on the eve
of our coming here, been called to the
enchanted fields beyond the Great Di-
VIDE The modest hero who more than
once risked his life for that of others,
who so completely typified the thought
that
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring;
the devoted, happy husband, the indul-
gent father, our wise counselor and
president, that splendid specimen of
American manhood John H Churchill
has gone from US to return no more.
Kansas, this board, and each one Of
our fellow citizens was made richer by
the presence Of our departed friend,
and is poorer by his going away"
/ Farmer. and the TaTanHono
| Fred DeLand, of Pittsburg, Pa,
who is interested in the development
of the long-distance and commercial
and rural telephone lines, prepared an
\ Eliminating Isolation and Distance
from Farm Life" Mr.. DeLand was
unable to come to Topeka, and his
paper was read by Charles Martin
States house of representatives.
Among other things he said:
THE electric speaking telephone
was the outcome or result of a SEN
sible longing on the part of a big,
wholesome lover to devise some means
by which his lovable sweetheart could
hear or read the tones of his voice
as well as to read speech from his lips.
He endeavored to devise a method
based on Koenig's experiments, of OPP
tically exhibiting the distinct curves of
sound, or the characteristic varying
vibrations of the air that occur when
words are spoken. And while ne sue
ceeded in disassOcfating and rejecting
/ in a mirror the elemental forms of
Sound waves, these reflections proved
Itoo evanescent in ordinary converse
tons, vanishing too rapidly to be
easily read. Then, following Scott's
method. he attached a straw stvlus
to the parchment disc of a modified
form of phonautograph, and caused it
to trace upon smoked glass the yibra-
tory movements of the diaphragm.
Being a student of anatomy, and
familiar with the mechanism and the
functions of the human ear, the i'm
preston that came to the lover was
the marked similarity between the
movements of the stylum when actu-
ated by the vibrating diaphragm and
those of the small bones of the ear
| when the drum is caused to vibrate.
ment modelled upon the mechanism of
the ear would prove more serviceable.
$50 with this thought in mind, he con-
lSulted an eminent auriSt, who Sug-
gested the use of the human ear itself
as a phonautograph, and prepared an
excellent specimen which the surgeon
of the ear and the manner in which
larticulate sounds are reproduced in
that organ. 1t was observed that when
the tones of the voice entered the tube
of the ear, the sound waves caused
the drumhead to vibrate in unison
with each undulatfon and each modu-
l1ation of the vocal tones, and that
these vibrations were exactly repro
movable bones called the ossicles Of
hearing Then a fiber of wheat straw
was glued to the inner bone. the
stapes, and a plate Of smoked glass
arranged to mechanically move just
beneath the straw, and on the sooty
surface of the glass appeared per-
feet curves exquisiteIy traced of each
and every sound wave that entered the
ear. No matter whether the lover
lspoke harshly or gently. rapidly or
slowly, sang or whistIed. each sound.
each individual tone and each tone