The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
YOUTH.

YOUTH.
Youth has a Thousand charms.
Age but one:
Love, and when love departs
Chicago Chronicle.
American Leader in Wireless.
The development of wireless telegra-
ence the name of DR.. Lee De Forest,
who, at the age of 80, has taken rank
as Americas leading worker in the re-
narkable art of transmitting telegraph
ic messages without wires. The system
invented by him. which is distinct in
numerous ways from that of Marconis
is in operation at wireless stations at
New York, New Haven, Cape HatteraS,
Charlestown. ana several other points
on the Atlantic coast. The United States
navy has given his company contracts
for the establishment of stations at
Pensacola, Key West, Panama, Porto
Rico and Cuba. Several lines of coast
wise steamers have recently been equip
ped with his, apparatus. The system has
been established by the United States
signal corps between Cape Nome and
St Michaels, in Alaska, where the ice
and topography of the country render
wires impossible.
Less than ten years ago DR.. De For
est was freshman at Yale, beginning
his studies in the scientific school in
| 1896 He was born at Council Bluffs
Ia. in 1873, where his father was a pas
tor. While still in knickerbockers he
began to devote much of his time to
electrical experiments. His chief boy
hood interest was to arrange batteries,
and with these to run toy motors and
Geographic instruments. He equipped
his room with electric lights and bells.
To qualify for the degree of doctor of
philosophy in his third year in the
scientific school at Yale. he wrote a
thesis on Hertzian waves. These being
the medium of wireless communication,
his attention was in this way turned to
practical telegraphy without wires, with
which Marconi had begun experiment.
ing. De Forest developed his system
along independent lines.
He is tireless worker. Enthusiasm
and hard work are the secrets of what
ever have achieved he has said. mo
one recognizes the inherent limitations
of wireless teIegraphy more than one
who has wrestled with the tremendous
difficulties of its development. The path
of experiment has been devious and fill
ed with stubborn obstacles. But trust
1 am conservative when I say that there
| is a great future that attends this young
| art."-Success Magazine.
$500 From an Acre
| Last years little garden was the most
satisfactory we have ever had, says a
writer in The Garden Magazine. The
| area was little more than one-third of
an acre, which was plowed by a colored
|
other trash were removed for SO, SO that
when the garden was ready for plant
| ing the total investment amounted to
| $5.25. The ground slightly declines from
north to south and faces the sun for
/ good many hours each day.
/ We sold $40 worth of products, which
| gave us SO over the original cost. A
| careful account OF all the products sold,
| used, given away, or put away for win
ter showed our garden was worth S110
in cash.
/ Ladies' Abroad.
| AT the Nice casino, during the season
/ there, attended, said a Pittsburg wo-
man, "a concert given by Slegfried
| Wagner'S orchestra.
There were many Americans at this
concert. Next to me sat an elderly
| American woman in beautiful gown,
| and a noted Russian countess was beside
| her.
1.-THE two, during the interrnission, be-
| gan to converse. The Russian lady had
/ visited America several times She was
| conversant with American music. She
said number of intelligent things in
good English, but my compatriots re-
plies I was unable to hear. Finally,
| though, did hear one.
Don't you Think said the Russian,
/ 'that Damrosch lis the best conductor in
~ dunno said my compatriot, as I
| ever rid on on his car New Orleans
States.
Not Mere Curiosity.
| The world has a store of pleasures in
| waiting for the unaccustoned traveller.
Sometimes, indeed, they may be mostly
in anticipation, as was the case with
Amos Riggs, of Plumtown.
How dye do?" said Mr.. Riggs cor
| daily to the stern-visaged man who was
! his seatmate in the car on the occasion
of Mr.. Riggs first trip to Boston. Nov
/ what might your name be? Do you live
in Nashuy or beyond?'
81 should like to know what business
| 1t is of yours where 1 live or who
| ann" said his companion GROSSLY.
well, now, it amt any partic'lar
business of mine, strictly speaking,
said Mr. Riggs mildly, but it's jest
like this. I've got a cousin up in Can
| ady that I've never seen, and I've al
| ways thought 1 might come upon him
some time jest by askins folks their
names and so on."-Youth's Companion.
The SIum Child in the Country.
At a luncheon given by Mrs. Alice
Barber stephens, the illustrator, at her
new home at Moylan, the talk turned
societies that give slum children out
inss in the country in the summer.
/ Remarkable instances were mar
rated of slum children's ignorance of
country life-their diea that milk was
an extract of the milkweed, that eggs
q came from the eggplant, that musn
was a product of the mushroom, and
so on.
.Those instances said Mrs.
Stephens, "are old and well known.
But let me tell you of a new one that
happened last summer.