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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-25

Before adjourning a roll call by counties
was held for the selection Of new members
OF the congressional committee and these
were named; -..-. 49,.
Adair, William Halliday; Audubon, Henry
~, Herbert Cass, sherman F. Meyers
Guthrie, George w. Cook; Harrison, II. NJ.
Bostwickj Mills, l.. 5, Robinson Pottawat-
tamts, H. J. Chambers; Shelby, W. N
Bombergef.
Attorney Ii. J, Chambers presented the
following resolutions OF respect in memory
OF Patrick o'LAughlin of Guthrie and ]. A.
Connerd OF Cass. members Of the congress
sonal committee, who have died since the
last convention;
Whereas, Since the meeting OF our laHt
congressional convention Il hath pleased
the Creator OF all men TO remove from
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THE TELEPHONE THIRTY YEARS OLD
An
Ceremony thanM is

paratus which Mr.. Bell desired, and
they soon became acquainted.
Mr.. Bell had a hazy idea that sound
vibrations Of all kinds might be, trans
mitted over a wire, and reproduced by
an instrument at the other end, but
thought little Of it at the time. In
June, 1875, he was tuning one Of the
springs in the apparatus upon which he
was at work when Watson accidentally
snapped a similar spring in the appar-
atus In the adjoining room, Bell heard
the sound distinctly, and the rest Of the
day was spent in investigating this
phenomenon. It was found that the
springs, which were near magnets, had
become magnetized and were capable Of
producing by vibration the undulatory
electric current which is the basic prin-
ciple Of the modern telephone.
The First Message.
After nearly year spent in follow
ing out the line of work suggested by
this accident, the first spoken message
was transmitted in March, 1876. Later
the apparatus was exhibited at the Cen.
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tennial, where it was viewed and
praised by many scientists, among them
Sir William Thompson, now Lord Kel-
vim. The next step was the transmits
sion Of a message from Boston to Cam
bridge over private telegraph wire
owned by the Walworth Mfg. company.
Laughable Forecast Came True.
Then company was formed to ex-
plot the invention. Bell, Watson,
Gardiner Green Hubbard (Bell's faith
er-in-law) and Thomas Sanders of Sa-
lem were the incorporators. This was
in 1877, and long litigation with the
Western Union Telegraph company
threatened for time to wipe the new
company out of. existence.
Shortly after the formation of the
company Mr.. Watson predicted that by
1900 there would be 100000. telephones
in use, but afterwards laughed at this
statement as extravagant.5 AS it turned
out he fell far below the actual number,
instead Of over-estimating. The Bell
companies had 100000 subscribers in
1900. and now have more than 2 zoe, 900.
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straight faces, and then broke out and
began to laugh. Seeing that I was set
down as hopeless liar went out and
invented bowling alley, a billiard hall
and a Wednesday night prayer meet
ing without. further compromising my
self. . F., ~ = - -: =:
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The chief wonder Of our new liner
(for all of us had a proprietary interest
the moment we came aboard) was the
system of elevators. Just think Of it.
Elevators gliding up and down be-
tween decks the same as in a modern
office building. Very few passengers
used the elevators, but it gave US some
thing to talk about on board ship and
it would give us something to blow
about after we had returned home.
Outside of the cage stood young
German with a blond pompadour and
jacket that came just below his
shoulder blades. He was 50 clean he
looked as if he had been scrubbed with
soap and then rubbed with holystone:
Every German mental on board seemed
to have two guiding ambitions in life.
One was to keep himself immaculate
and the other was to grow U-shaped
n1ustache, the same as the one worn by
the kaiser.
The boy in charge Of the elevator
would plead with people to get in and
ride. Usually, unless he waylaid them,
they would forget all about the new i'm
provement and would run UP and down
| stairs in the old-fashioned manner in
stituted by Noah and initiated by
Christopher Columbus.
This boy leads checkered career on
| each voyage. When he departs from
New York he is the elevator boy. AS
the vessel approaches Plymouth, Eng
| land, he becomes lift attendant. At
| Cherbourg he is transformed into a gar
con d'ascenseur, and as the ship draws
near Hamburg he is the aufzugsbehuter
which is an awful thing to cali a mere
/, child. -~'~ ..*s+ '7'-' + =
Goodness only knows what will be
fhe ultimate result, of present compe.
! tition between ocean liners. AS ou1
boat was quite new and extravagantly
up-to-date, perhaps some information
concerning it will be of interest, even
to those old and hardened travellers
who have been across so often that they
no longer set down the run of the shiI
and have ceased sending pictorial post
cards to their friends at home.
In the first place, telephone in every
room, connected with central station
The passenger never uses it, because
when he is thousand miles from shore
there is no one to be called up, and if h
needs the steward he pushes the button
But it is there-a real German tele
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upper berth in the newer boats. Ma
homet's coffin suspended in mid-air
must have been CHEEKY and salts
factory bunk compared with the or
binary upper berth. Only trained
athlete can climb into one Of them.
The woodwork that you embrace and rub
your legs against as you struggle up
ward is very cold. When you fall into
the clammy sheets you are only about
siv inches from the ceiling. In the
early morning the sailors scrub the deck
just overhead and you feel as if you
were getting shampoo. The aerial
sarcophagus is built deep, like trough,
so that the prisoner cannot roll out DUR
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~ HIRTY years ago this month the
first telephone message was trans

- HIRTY years ago this month the
first telephone message was trans
mitred from one room Of a Bos-
ton boarding house. to another. The
speaker was Alexander Graham Bell,
the inventor, and the man at the other
end Of the wire was Thomas A. Watson,
his assistant.
There was none Of the pomp and cere-
mony which attended the sending of the
first telegraph message. Bell and his
co-worker were not working in the in
terest of some future painter Of his
torical pictures or preparing epigrams
for future historians. The message was
Mr.. Watson, come here. I want YOU =
Discovered by Accident.
Two years before this epoch-marking
message was transmitted, Mr.. Bell, then
an instructor in vocal pathology in Bos-
ton university and interested in a
scheme for transmitting several tele-
graphic messages over the same wire
simultaneously, called at the electrical
shop where Watson was employed. Wat
son was selected to construct the ap-
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ALBERT }llg7y[a(s gl(J(S

the frock coat and whiskers which are
the universal insignia of hospitality.
"Your brother in-law in Rotterdam
told me to come here and put up with
you," explained Mr.. Peasley. He
said you were running a frst-class place,
which means, s. pose, frst-class for this
country. IF you fellows over here
would put in steam heat and bathrooms
and electric lights and then give us
something to eat in the bargain your
hotels wouldn It be SO bad. I admire
the stationery in your writing rooms,
and the regalia worn by your walters
Is certainly all right, but that's about
all can say for you 49, =.
The proprietor smiled and bowed
and said ne hoped his brother-in-law in
Rotterdam was in good health and en-
joying prosperity, and Mr.. Peasley said
that he, personally, had left with the
brother-in-law enough money to run the
hotel for another six months.
After Mr.. Peasley had been con-
Quoted to his room he dug up his Bae-
deker and very carefully read the in
PRODUCTION to Brussels. Then he
studied the map for little while. He
believed in getting good general idea
of the lay Of things before he tackled
new town. He marked on the map
few of the show places which seemed
worth while, and then he sailed out,
waving aside the Sinking guide who
attempted to fawn upon him as he
| paused at the main entrance. Mr.
Peasley would have nothing to do with
guides. He always said that the man
who had to be led around by the halter
would do better to stay right at home
z>.e.ss..~ y !. !. !. 49,
It was very bug afternoon for Mr.
<Peasley. At first he had some diff
Guilty in finding the places that were
marked in red spots on the map. Thi
was because he had been holding tn
map upside down. By turning th,
map the other way and making due al
lowance for the Inaccuracies to be ex
i pected in book written by ignoran
foreigners, the whole ground plan o:
the city Strengthened itself out, and h
boldly went his way. He visited al
old cathedral and two art galleries
reading long and scholarly comment
on the more celebrated masterpieces
Some of the paintings were not properl.
labeled, but he knew that slipsho'
methods prevailed in Europe-that
civilization which is On the downhil
and about to play out cannot be ex
pected to breed business-like accuracy
He wrote marginal corrections in hi
guide book and doctored up the map
little, several streets having been omit
lted, and returned to the hotel at dus
} feeling very well repaid. From tn
} beginning Of his tour he had maintaine
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phone, shaped like a broken pretzel,
and anyone who has a telephone in his
room feels that he is getting something
for his money.
After two or three lessons any Amer
lean can use foreign telephone. All
he has to learn is which end to put to
his ear and how to keep two or three
springs pressed down all the time he is
talking. In America he takes down
the receiver and talks into the phone.
Elsewhere he takes the entire telephone
down from a rack and holds it the
same as slide trombone.
In some of the cabins were electric
hair curriers'. A Cleveland man who
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wished to call up the adjoining cabin
on the phone, just to- see if the thing
would work, put the hair curler to his
ear and began talking into the dynamo.
There was no response, so be pushed the
button and nearly ruined his left ear.
1t was a natural mistake. In Europe
anything attached to wall is liable to
be telephone. 'E - = ..:::.'. II,
= On the whole, think our telephone
system is superior to- that o. any, for,
eign cities. Our, telephone girls have
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"Hotel Victoria.' Mr.. Peasley
shrieked for a porter and began dump
ing Gladstone bags, steamer rugs,
cameras and other impedimenta out
thru the window. The man from the
Victoria put these on top Of the bus
and in few minutes Mr.. Peasley was
riding thru the tidy thorofares and
throwing mental bouquets at the street
cleaning department.. -
When he arrived at the Victoria he
was met by the proprietor, who wore
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right by the window and did not have
to ride backward. Very SOON he be
came immersed in an American book.
He read on and on, chapter after chap
ter, not needing the flight Of time, until
the train rolled into cavernous train
shed and was attacked by the usual
energetic mob of porters and hotel run
ners. Mr.. Peasley looked out and saw
that they had arrived @at another large
city. On the other side:of the platform
was a large and beautiful bus marked
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ing the night. It is narrow, and the
man who is addicted to the habit Of
"spraddling feels as if he were tied
hand and foot. us IS.
In nearly all Of the staterooms Of
the new boat there, were no upper
berths, and the lower ones were wide
and spring y-they were almost beds,
and bed on. board Ship is something
that for years has been reserved as a
special luxury Of the millionaire. !.
We really had on. board the daily
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larger vocabularies, for one thing.
In England the 9hello' is never used.
When an Englishman gathers up the
ponderous contrivance and fits It
against his head he asks:-'F Are you
there9'' If the other man answers
"No' that stops the whole converse
ton. f. ~ .... o.
..~- ! !. !.
Travellers thruout the world should
rise up and unite in a vote Of thanks
to whoever it was that abolished the
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.cAR1r AsEY :VETrsarFxr oURoEotlsa.

paper, the gymnasium, the florist, the /
bureau of information, the manicure
parlor and other adjuncts Of sea-going
that would have been regarded as fan
ciful dreams ten years ago. Next to
the elevators the most novel feature Of
the new kind of liners is the la carte
restaurant. It was on the kaiser deck.
The topmost deck was called the
"kaiser,'' to indicate that he ranked
next to the heavenly bodies in general
Importance The old names Of ''upper
deck" promenade deck" "main
deck'' and Glover deck" cannot be
applied to one of these newfangled
monsters. Next below the kaiser deck
came the Washington deck, then the
Roosevelt deck, then the Cleveland
deck, then the Franklin deck, and after
that a lower deck and several more
that did not concern the passengers
living in the upper stories.
The restaurant was forward on the
kaiser deck-a gorgeous pocket edition
Of Sherry's or Delmenico g in New York,
the Carlton in London or the Ritz in
Paris. Formerly on the north Atlantic,
and especially during the winter sea-
son, the only persons who dressed for
dinner we're misguided Englishmen,
who would rather take chance on
pneumonia than violate any Of their
national traditions. The new type Of
steamer is housed in and steam heated
and all the people who dined in the gilt
tering restaurant far from the common
horde of the main dining saloon were
attired to the limit. The usual Hun
garian orchestra played hurrah music,
and what with the Swiss walters and
the candelabra, the fresh caviar and
other luxuries Of high living it was
difficult for one to realize that he was
riding on the high seas at the most
inclement season Of the year.
It was all very Fifth avenue-even
to the check.
On the steamer met an old friend
Mr.. Peasley Of Iowa. We first col
lided in Europe In 1895, when both Of
us were over for the first time and were
cropping our way about the continent
and pretending to enjoy ourselves.
About the time I first encountered Mr..
Peasley he had an experience which in
all probability Is without parallel in
4 human history. Some people to whom
I have told the story frankly disbe-
lieved<it, but then they did not know
j Mr.. Peasley. tits all very true, and
it happened as follows:
Mr.. Peasley had been In Rotterdam
T for two days, and after galloping
madly thru churches, galleries and
museums for eight hours q day he said
: that he had seen enough Dutch art to
r last him a million years, at very
: conservative estimate, SO he started FOL
: Brussels. He asked the proprietor OF
! the hotel at Rotterdam for the name Of
!. a good hotel in Brussels and the pro
b prietor told him to go to the Hote
: Victoria. He said it was a irst-class
0 establishment and was run by hi
t brother-in- law. Every hotelkeeper il
9 Europe has a brother-in-law running
k a hotel in some other town.
u Mr.. Peasley was loaded into the trail
i by watchful attendants, and as Their
/, were no Englishmen in the compartment
: he succeeded in getting a good sea
~ < ~
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f $50. Sd
The Englishman began to move away,
at the same time regarding the cheerful
Peasley with solemn wonderment.
Then he said:
"My dear sir, am quite unable to
follow you. Where do you think you
areq''
tBrussels-it's in Belgium-capital,
same as Des Moi1 es in Iowa.
"My good man, you are not in Brus-
sels You are in Antwerp
"Antwery!"
"Certainly." -
"Why, I've been all over town today,
with guide book, and ~ He
paused and horrible suspicion settled
upon him. Arising from the table he
rushed to the outer office and con-
fronted the manager.
"What's the name of this town i'm
in9' he demanded.
| "Antwerp," replied the astonished
manager.
and gasped HWen IN be -io he
began, and then language failed him.
"You said you had a brother-in-lay
in Rotterdam he said, when he res
! covered his voice.
"That Is quite true"
"And the Victoria hotels there
one In Brussels and another in Ant.
werp9"
ttThere is Victoria hotel in every.
city in the whole world. The Victoria
hotel is universal-the same as Scotch
whisky"
"And am I now in Antwerpf" 8:
''Most assuredly."
!. + +
Mr.. Peasley went to his room, He
did not dare to return to face the Eng
lishman. Next day he proceeded to
Brussels and found that he could work
from the same guide book just as sue
cessfully as he had irAntwerp.
When I met him on the steamer he
said that during all his travels since
1895 he never had duplicated the re-
markable experience at Antwerp. AS
soon as he alights from train he goes
right up to some one and asks the name
Of the town.
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that when man goes out and gets in
formation and impressions Of his own
unaided efforts he gets something that
will abide with him and become a part
Of his intellectual and artistic fiber.
That which is ladled to him by a
verbose guide soon evaporates or oozes
away.
At the table 'hote Mr.. Peasley had
the good fortune to be seated next to.
an Englishman, to whom he addressed
himself. The Englishman. was not
very communicative, but Mr.. Peasleys
persevered. 1t was his theory that
when one is travelling and meets fell
low Caucasian; who is shy or reticent
or suspicious the thing to do Is to keep
on talking to him until he feels quits
at ease and the entente cordiale is fully
established. So Mr.. Peasley told the,
Englishman all about Iowa, and said
THAT 1t was Goods country" The
Englishman fully agreed with him
that is if silence gives consent. There
was a lull in the conversation and Mr..
Peasley, seeking to give it new turn,
said to his neighbor, 81 like this town
best of any we seem. Is this your first
visit to Brussels9' .. ..
1T have never been to Brussels, -
replied the Englishma n.
"That is, never until this time, =
suggested Mr.. Peasley. "I'm in the
same boat. just landed here today.
I've heard of it before, on account of
the carpet coming from here and of
course everybody knows about Brussels
sprouts, but had no idea it was suct, a
big place. It's bigger than Rock
Island and Davenport put together
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-08-16
Symptoms.


A physician was talking about his
patients symptoms.
Young. strong people don't give me
enough symptoms when they are ILL.,"
he said, but the middle aged and the
aged give me too many. Thinking
about their health all the time. study
Ing their condition all the time. the
aged and the middle aged discover a
symptom In every muscle. in every Or
gan, In every limb. Thus they confuse
me.
'.The average sufferer Of fifty or so
will pour upon my head deluge Of
symptoms like this:
"'Well. doctor. I'm miserable all
over, feverish one minute, freezing
the next. I've a gnawing pain In my
hip and side and back and an all gone
sensation i'm the stomach, with a shoot
ing, neuralgia headache over the left
eye. i have queer taste In my mouth.
q dizziness when | stoop over and q
dull ache up and down the right side.
along with kind of numbness.
cough lot. my throats sore. and I've
the earache. Appetite's fair, but not
what IL should be. | have feeling of
lassitude, and I'm very weak These
are only few of my main symptoms.
To proceed. etc Exchange.
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shaping Agninst the wind.

In regard to trimming Bartlett pear
trees where the wind Is strong from
the west, do not think you can@obtain
the best results by cutting back the
growth on the west side to one or two
buds and leaving the rest of the tree
longer says a Rural New Yorker writ
er. 1t will certainly result In an I'm
balanced tree. The tendency Of the
flow Of sap will be to the side Of the
tree that is left the longest. if the trees
In the orchard are cut back annually,
as is my practice. l would advise that
trimming should be done in the dor
mant season, cutting the lower limbs
back to five or six buds, those higher
a little shorter, working toward lead
err which should be left longer, follow
ing the same system year after year.
The result will he better balanced
tree, better shaped tree and a more
productive tree at the age of ten or
fifteen years than can be brought about
by any other system of trimming.
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An Uurumed spirit.

A contented spirit was Mrs. Shows,
% contended that at times her neigh
bors found II trying and took an I'M
righteous satisfaction In presenting any
small thorns which might prick through
her comfort.
mo. my Angie hasn't the measles"
said Mrs. Snow one day. "Well, per-
haps II seems strange she should escape
the epidemic. but my children are un-
usually fortunate always In those re-
spects. or course l take the best of
care of them. and, then, they Inherit a
tendency to throw or any germs |
anticipate no illness with Angie"
In spite OF this the redoubtable An.
gle came down with measles a week
later. and the inquiring friend again
approached Mrs. Snow.
Yes. dear Angie has the measles at
last" said the contented mother. "Now,
most Of the other children are well. and
a. the doctor has plenty Of time to at
tend to her It really seemed an oppor-
tunity for Angie. I don't suppose there
ever was a child on whom they came
out more beautifully than on Angie.
I tell the doctor think he may well be
proud Of his little patient."-Youth's
Companion.
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An affection which is yariously
known as hoove blown, dew blown,
fog sickness, grass sickness, etc. is ia
milar to the farmers on grass farms.
The principal cause of hoven is fer
mentation OF the food and the conse-
quent generation of gas In the rumen
or paunch. The food most prone 10
undergo this fermentation Is rich. sue
culent grass or that believed with
moisture. All animals eat more or less
greedily on being first turned into the
pasture, and If ii be a fresh one. par
ticularly young clover, they rapidly
and with scarcely any mastication
gorge themselves. The passage ce air
into the stomach with the rapid and
large gulps materially assists in the
process OF fermentation and adds TO
the accumulation of gas. This unnat-
urally overloaded condition of the
stomach soon induces suspension of the
paristaltic action of the organ and, the
digestive process being checked. active
fermentation soon follows.
Decomposed or frosted vegetables.
particularly mangolds, will also give
rise to hoven.
The symptoms are most distressing.
The paunch is blown up like a blad-
der and when struck with the hand
sounds like a drum. Probably there
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LIKELY TO STAY ON THE FARM.

boys who make the best men. Almost
any boy can be taught to make close
acquaintances with young animals on
the farm, and such instructions are
very valuable to him.
A great deal depends on the parents.
II the "old man" yells around the barn.
yard and keeps a club or two handy
to whack the animals with when they
get In his way the boy II very apt to
initiate his fathers example. Such
men generally complain that farming
doesn't pay. The result Is that the boy
goes or to town to hunt up something
that will pay.-Farm. Field and Fire
side.