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WIRELESS WIZARD
SAYS TELEPHONE
WILL SPAN OCEAN
Swedish Expert Tells Of Diff
cult es to Be Overcome..-
Too Much Energy.

Copenhagen, Special: Much interest and
wonder have been aroused over the re-
sorted bold announcement by Naldemar
Poulsen nat wireless telephony from
Europe to America. to Australia, or TO
Mars Is on the eve of accomplishment,
and much secrecy has been observed con
corning the Poulsen system.
Waldemar Poulsen is the inventor,
among other things. of the teleGraphone.
o magic substitute for the phonograph. by
which molecules of steel arrange them
selves under Magnetic stress in such a
way as to form permanent, though inVis.-
bile, records of the human voice.
Three years ago King Edward VII, Wis
ting Poulsen's workshop at Copenhagen.
declared that his inventions were among
the most ingenious and beneficial In the
history OF progress"
A similar remark was made by the King
Of Denmark concerning Poulsen's latest
Invention, tho Continuous wave. un-
da1nped system of telegraphy and tele-
phony."
What 1 have done" said Poulsen. "is
to solve the problem of sending. With "a
small expenditure of power, a magnetic
wave TO an infinite distance. and the wave
which IS strictly speaking, q continuous
system of waves, Will affect any receiving
instrument however remote. The 'contin'
6ous wave is the secret of this.
''The Marconi and all other wireless sele-
EEdflllC UI tSiSi)uOliS SSSlelHS NV "SihSH
Try sparkling. The t~rans1n:tter is used
merely to produce giant sparks or single
waves. which by the time they reach u
faroff receiver have lost IN power re!a-
lively TO the distance. The sparkling sys-
tenn has many defects for wireless tele~
graphy, but it Is totally useless for wire
less telephony. A weak wave is not of
sufficient power to affect the receiver. A
strong wave makes such q noise on receD-
ton that 1t is impossible to carry on hu-
man speech. AS the result of this noise
the giant spark is useless for the wireless
telephone.
II nave got rid Of hat spark. I have
devised a transmitter which eni;s q con-
tinnous wave What the continuous
wave means as opposed to the spark may
be shown by the simple experiment of
dropping stones into water. If you drop
a big stone once into a pond that repre-
SCENTS the spark. The stone makes a big
wave. which travels outward, losing all
the time in size. The spark of the spark
fnE SYSTEM does exactly the same thing.
1T travels outward on all sides and loses
An power In proportion to its expansion
in space"
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Small Business Becomes Very erea.

EFsd oS\OttSS WY @'NS
Spaces in the new Hudson Terminal
buildings have been rented to Il boot
backing corporation for a long term
Of years at rates a~ggreGating $l24,-
600, says the New York World. It will
take 2,aso.O00 scent Shines" to pay
the rent.
This arrangement expresses in It's
terms the important development
which has come to b~ootblacking as an
occupation in New York.
Years the business was ound
Gates, which with the padrones now
have the industry pretty much their
own way. Almost completely vanished
Is the type of boy bootblack that vss
onamon in the city when Eoratio AL
battered Tom" books. The ptncky
little chap with his box slung over
his shoulder has given way to the more
on less mature italian with q chair
and stand which may have cost any
where from "a to 1925, and for whose
location Il rental a be paid equal
to that Of a fairly good suite in an
apartment house.
In the late agitation over stands in
City Hall park it was found that 40
bootblackS there We're making approx
inlately $4,000 q year.
Women have o n into bootblack-
ing in New York, but not permanently.
A Chinese who tried the trade in
Amsterdam avenue some years s
was forced out by the n~eighborhood.
When the "shI..ers'' organized against
the expressions of "Signor Rosevelto,"
police Commissioner, in 1895, there were
about $500 of them. Presumably there
are now many more.
The trade OF backing boots may
have had a classical origin. If it had.
the trail is lost. Nowhere else has
the business risen to such dignity as
IN New York, and there are reasons.
For instance. a recent observer in Lon
don found that out of so men pass
ing him III Picadilly circus the boots
of 60 ooked as If they had not been
polished for a week. The Manhattan
hustle, ever as e%xenlplifed by the com.
n1uter, always permits OF time for L
s.4htneo
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though I could never marry. Still. here
l am at her side and l can do much
for her protection in many ways. and
that is sufficient happiness for me.
Thank you, sir, for all your proposed
kindness. but l couldn't desert Jenny"
Clements lifted his head With un-
conscious dignity as the emphatic
words that put all success forever be-
yond him, fell from his lips.
Listen 10 him brokc In the old
man testify. Il offer him everything. l
propose making him my heir, q MAJ
who has no claim upon Inc and whom
l had never cveI heard OF before this
year, and he throws it all back in my
face. You'll accept, sir, oh, yes, easily
enough, as if you were doing me the
favor on the principle o9 taking all
and giving nothing, and throw il up
Gngratefully the moment l ask for any
return. Without even rejecting for a
time over my condition, without pay
that. oh. no, I'm the hard t~asklnaste1'
at once; my offer Is rejected, flung
back i'll my teeth, II all because of
what-becausc of Il chance when you
are a decrepit old man of being able
to marry a. woman who will probably
be in her grave by that time. There.
get out OF my ROOM"
Sir" said Clements, rising. 1 am,
indeed. most grateful to you for your
:lndeserved -" But his uncle waved
him impatiently to The door. and he
crept sadly away.
He spent a sleepless night and
Jenny cast many a troubled loo at
him the next morning as they trudged
! side by side to their work. He was
very gentle to her, very protective, and
once he stopped and bought her a
tiny bunch OF lowers. offering 1T al
nearly an h%eiress, he unused. YEARLY.
for 1t was already as "Jenny's for
tune h he had thought OF the pro-
posals of yesterday. AS it had haunted
him all the night, so it hauntcd him
all the day--that offer OF yesterday
OF happiness before him, only to with
draw it even more abruptly.
1t was Saturday-happy Saturday
and he was free at an early hour, but
instead of waiting for Jenny. as was
his won't, he dragged himself sadly
back to the boarding house and up to
his room. tired in body and mind.
tention was an envelope on the empty
table, and mechanically he picked IL
up and opened 1t. The next momen,
he started back IN ~amazelnent, almos,
in fear. for there fell out of the pa
per and slowly drifted to the floor, g
torn leaf. on which were scrawlcd &
few words.
George Clements was trembling; al
mostly reverently he replaced the mon.
ey on h table. Was this really to &c
toward hat almost impossible home fol
Jenny. or was there some condition at,
tached again that would wrest The
bank note from him as 1t had wrestet
his hope of q fortune?
In an agony of apprehension he ben.
down for the letter. 1t had slipped un
der a piece OF furniture. and he spen
a feverish five minutes before he cou!,
capture 1t.
1t contained only a couple of line
in a crotchety scrawl, and wonderingl.
he pieced out the hieroglyphics.
TO buy an engagement ring for Mis-
Jenny. She will explain it ALL"
He stared at the paper in mute as
constituent. 1t was from Mr.. Dawes
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oopYn.suro 81 VA ueAp$T IS
GREAE DRl.rAn RISHJa RESERVE

here, so you won't mind. and ] do not
wish to be reminded OF it either. You
must break With your present sur
roundings entirely. sir. his is what
want you to do"
Clements raised his head. his face
slowly turning white. 1t vas q sturdy.
honest face, and 10Y the out tight
encd into lines of invincible determina-
ton.
"Mr. Dawes" he said, "if that Includes
Jenny. 1 can't accept your offer. l
couldn't desert Jenny. sir: not for any
money o or any one else could Of
fer"
But don't you see. you silly fellow,
you're not formally engaged?"
mo. SIR"
And it's very unlikely II you stay
as you are that you'll ever be able to
marry. You break no pledge; You even
give up no happiness OF which you are
sure. Now. with me and the position
my money gives us. you can marry any
lady you please. Come. my boy. you
surely Wont throw all your future
away upon a chance!"
THAT can't be helped, sir. She trusts
me. and comes to me with her at
fairs, and l look after her as best
can. l can't desert Jenny, sir. Even
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-02-21
Too Late.

Marshall! P. Wilder told a suffering
story at q dinner in Chicago.
81 hat suffering stories as a rule. .
he said. but this n is rather good.
1t is about two blacksmiths. both slut
terers. The first snatched a lump OF
red hot iron from the forge. rushed with
it to the anvil, and then began his coa-
Nersation:
"'N-n-now. th-th-then.- st-strike!
Qu-quickly!'
"'W-w-wlaere shall I s-strike?'
"'J-j-just at the end. H-h-hurry up
'Th-th-this end?'
Yes. OF c-c-course. Mind you Lit
s-s-straight.'
":All r-r-right. N-n-now! Shall I
l-l-let her g-g-go?'
..N,n-no, you f%-f-fool. the irons
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An untaught Cow.
yUnnau'c Ho,pa Co--o.t.-

Down on a southern plantation the
dairY hands We're accustomed to do
the milking squattins down in a prim-
tive fashion until the owner intro
duced milking stools with other inn
pr.vements. But the initial experiment
with the innovation was not exactly
a success. The darby who first sailed
forth with the stool returned bruised
and battered and with an empty pail.
II don my best, sah,'' he explained.
dat stool looked all right to me, but
de blamed COW she won't sit on it"
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Error in the Mails.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Doesn't Il copy of our paper go 10
the White House%s asked the great al
itor.
He was assured that one was mailed
regularly.
We'll, there's something wrong with
the service. then he continued. .Tfes
emil distinctly directing presidenr
Roosevelt not TO send that fleet to the
Pacific -
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Jenny" he called softly.
Quaker. Reflection.
From the Philadelphia eco

From The ~Phiindclphia Record.
Even the victim of insomnia Is occasion.
ally caught mapping.
Vixen Al fellow has money to burn II
generally results in spontaneous combus-
ton.
1t is wiser to admit we are in the wrong
than to wait for our antagonist to find it
cut.
II beauty about being q critic is that
you can roast other people and get paid
for doing it.
Some people catch religion as easily
as children catch measles. and with about
as SERIOUS results.
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to any relation who set 1t above
their ideals. In my search for
L never knew before started
on this hunt what crowds OF BLOOD re-
lations 1 possessed. But they none of
them satisfied me. Quite recently 1
heard for the first time OF the exis-
telce OF George, and l came up to
SO far us he was concerned. He soon
put my doubts to rest, Miss Jenny, and
last night l offered to make him my
heir, but on condition thai he sacrificed
yo.. my dear. | do you the honor of
believing that you will understand my
trust in him. AS l expected, he flung
back my proposal, and wen without
Hesitation. 1 need not tell you that
after this l have adopted him as my
son. And you. my child, come and
be a daughter 70 a lonely old man
George knows nothing of ali this--I
have left him to hear 1t from your
own lips. God bless you, my dear.
"PHILIP DAWES.''
Clements looked up at the girl. A
bright color burned in her cheeks as
she dropped shyly over the table. and
as he fsazed a gentle tear gathered and
lost itself UNDECIDED in the lace at her
breast. She raised her head. and her
sweet eyes met his, now as bright and
eager as any boys.
The letter fell to the ground be-
tween them as he stretched out his
arms.
Jenny" he called softly.
A month later n brisk old gentleman
and two younger companions. evil
IDENTIFY a newly married couple, stood
upon the deck of one OF the great ocean
liners and watched the blue English
shores DIP below the horizon. The
father-or 50 he seemed turned to
the husband and wife and his bright
eyes We're twinkling as he said:
We'll, Mrs. Jenny. and have YOU for
given me yet for my horrible treachcry
to you?"
The lady was hanging on his arm
and she only smiled in reply. 1t cur
ious TO know how much a smile can
be made to mean by a pretty woman
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
Women and Home Life.

Chicago.-Women physicians took
a stand advocating the right of girls to
enter any profession or to engage in
any business in preference to becom-
ing wives and mothers at Mondays
session of the American Academy of
Medicine.
Several men physicians read papers
deploring the fact that SO many
women unsexed themselves by forsak-
ing home life for industrial work and
asserted that the future OF the race de-
pends upon the checking of this wide
spreading evil
Then Dr. Helen c. Putnam of Provi-
dence, r. l., startled the audience by
declaring she is in favor of women s
suffrage. She said:
Every woman has the right to de-
velop her best faculties, to become ed
ucated, and to enter business field
where she meets many men, so she
can select the father for her children
favor establishing a study of home
making in the public schools of our
country"
Dr. Edward Jackson of Denver, Col
orado. asserted that conditions have
changed during the last hundred years,
and that women should be allowed to
change their habits and occupations
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
Tornado Carries Off Mail Contract.

Waldo, Ark.-A remarkable example
Of the carrying power of a tornado was
evidenced when number of papers
dated at Gillian, La, 100 miles south
Of Waldo, We're picked up on the
streets here.
Gillian was visited by tornado the
other day, which virtually wiped the
town off the map, wreching all build
ings of any consequence, and on the
same evening of the tornado a shower
of leaves, small twigs aud rubbish fed
at Waldo. The following morning,
amid the rubbish the papers from
Gillian, consisting of check dated at
Gillian, which had been paid and an
invoice of goods that had been re
ceived at Gillian by a merchant, were
found.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
PICTORIAL MAP OF DENVER.
Shows important Buildings So That
They Can Be Easily Recoe

The new map of the city of Denver.
copies of the original drawings of
which have been on exhibition and
which have attracted much attention
because Of the careful and accurate
portrayal of the city. has just been is
sued from the office of the Bird $ Eye
View Publishing Company of this city
The map. which is a pictorial repre-
sentation of Denver. looking south
from the Twenty-thrd street yiaduct
and printed in eight colors, is one OF
the most complete. accurate and artis-
tic representations ever made of any
city. Every building is so carefully
and accurately pictured that no one
living in the city need have any diff
Guilty in finding on the map the exact
house in which he lives.
In the downtown sections the prin-
cipal buildings are so faithfully por-
trayed that they can easily be recog-
niZed from their appearance. but for
the benefit of those who are unfamiliar
with the city, the names of several
hundred of the principal hotels, bus
mess houses, schools, churches and of
flee buildings are designated on 1le
buildings themselves. In addition to
this there is marginal index, with
thirty-two reference figures at the bot
tom and top of the map and all the
letters of the alphabet at the sides. By
the aid of these about 500 of the prin-
cipal buildings and points of interest
in the city can be located in tho short
est possible time
The work is done in several colors.
so carefully selected and placed ti,ar
the perspective of the city is brought
out in the best possible manner con-
CT e IY a 3
The map is in reality huge picture OF
the city.
In the margin are found thirty-feur
photographs of the most important
buildings and places of interest in the
city. including the new auditorium The
state capitol, the union depot the
Union stockyards and the City park.
The picture map is printed on a sheet
Ga by "A inches In size.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
With His Friends.

st. Peter-"Did YOU make good use
of the talents given you? Did you do
your share toward improving and en-
nobling the land and the free govern
ment that you lived in?"
American Spirit Iproudlyl-"I voted
the straight party ticket at every cleo
ton"
ST. Petcr-"So have heard. Did you
ever take the trouble to inquire into
the character of the men you voted
for"
spirit" HIM, They were our reg
ular party candidates, sir
St Peter-"l see Well, you will find
most of them in Department X"
Spirit" Thank you. But | have no
wings to fly to them
st. Peter" You don't have to fly.
You dive. New York Weekly
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
LOCKED IN REFRIGERATOR CAR.
Tramp Nearly Loses His Life After
Doors Are Fastened.

Sioux Falls, S. D-A tramp who
crawled into an empty refrigerator
car in the Sioux Falls yards of the
Rock Island Railroad company had an
experience which he will not care to
repeat, and which nearly resulted in
his death. After the tramp had
crawled into the car, and while he
was asleep, the yardmen had occasion
TO switch the car on another track.
One of the yardmen noticed that
one of the doors of the refrigerator
car was slightly open, and as a pre-
caution to prevent an accident, the
door was closed and fastened, and
the supposed empty car was placed
upon another track. which CHANGED
to be siding in a remote part of
the yard.
More than "a hours later one of the
vardmen was passing in the vicinity
Of the refrigerator car and heard a
sound, which resembled muffied
voice. While looking about in differ
ent directions with the object of dis
covering from whence the mysterious
sound proceeded his attention was at
tracted by moving stick, which pro-
truded from the side of one Of the
doors of the refrigerator car.
The yardman went to the door and
opened it, and found the tramp in an
some time for him to recover suf.
dciently to relate what had befallen
him.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
HAMMOND FOR
VICE PRESIDENT
FAMOUS MINING EXPERT ENTERS
RACE FOR REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION.
HIS MINING RECORD
CONSULTING ENGINEER FOR CE.
GIL RHODES, BhRNATOS AND
GUGGENHEihiS

Denver. The Republican Wednes
day morning says dispatch re
ceived last eyenin" by A prominent
Denver man confirms the announce
ment that John HAYS Hommond, the
ICted mining engineer, | us entered
the field as a candidate for the nomi-
nation of vice president OF the Repub-
lican ticket at the ChicaGo conven-
ton The first report o, Mr.. Ham
Mond's candidacy was sent out in a
newspaper dispatch IN the form Of "A
rumor. and the statement that it is
correct will cause considerable sur
prise throughout the country.
Mr. Hammond's debut in politics
and his desire for the sec0I honor in
the gift of the natiol have peculiar
interest for Colorado Were some of
his most famous wo"ti as a mining en-
giEeer has Ieen accomplished. For Il
time Mr.. Hammond made his home III
Denver and has ma le frequent visits
to it since his departure. In mining
circles he is known lor his report on
the Stratton Independence mine aft e.
it was purchased by ENGLISH capital
lists, by his report on the Camp Bird
mine before it was sold by Thomas f.
Walsh to the Venture company oi
London, aud his work Tor the. GuG-
genheims. Until recently he was
connected with the Guegenheim in
forests as their Chiet mining eN
pert. He is one of the highest sal
aried men N his profession tsaid to be
the highest salaried man in the world)
and is known from one end of the
globe to the other.
Mr.. Hammond was born in San
Francisco :.ud still calls California his
home. He is tifty-three ears old. He
is a graduate of the Sheffield Scicn
tific school of Yale. and has received
the degree of Ph.B. and IA. at that
college. He also took a course at the
Royal School OF Mines = Freibu"gh.
SaXony.
In his t~?vels all owe the world.
from the wilds of Soulh Africa to Mex
leo Mr.. HaIhmond mas figured in many
stirring adventures. He vas once con
sulting engineer for Cecil Rhodes in
the Transvaal. and it was while en-
gagged in that work that probably the
most interesting episode OF his life oc-
cured He was one Cl the four leaders
in the reform movement ~ the Trans
yaal from 1873 to 1896, He was not in
sympathy with the Jameson raid, but
following ii he was arreSted and sen
fenced to ooath. This sentence was
later commtted TO fifteen years i'm
prisonment. but ne seemed his re
lease by the pay mem of fine OF Sl25,-
600 He hal enough # the Transvaal,
and as quo ky as he could make the
journey, hied TO London He subse-
ur.ently returned to the T'ited States.
Four years after he left college. Mr..
Hammond was appointe.' special cx-
pert in the United States Geological
Survey and was detriled to examine
the California gold fields. This was in
1880 He later became consulting
engineer f.r the Union hon Works
of San Francisco. and subsequently,
70, the Central and Sout.Iern Pacific
railroads N 1899 ne was consulting
engineer 10: the Barnato brothers.
Mr. Hammond is Fellow A. A. A. S.
He has lectured in nearlT all of the
large nve-sities in the country, in
cluding the University OF Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06

Delaware counties, New York, and
vana. She had cabins in various
places. and would return home not
more than once year, and only ap-
peared in the settlements to sell her
game and skins and to procure ammu-
milton.
Shattered physically and mentally,
she appeared at Basket Station and
resumed woman's clothing. She said
that in the eight years Of her expert
ence as hunter she killed 100 deer,
II bears, numerous wildcats and
foxes, besides trapping hundreds of
mink and other fur-bearing animals
She had hand to hand contests with
both wounded deer and bears, as ugly
seams and scars upon her body amply
testified
For two or three years after her re
turn the woman led a meEdicant sort
of life through the valley, and finally
entered the poorhouse at Delhi
In the spring of 1865 young woman
was put off passenger train at Bas-
ket Station, as she could not pay her
fare any farther. She gave her name
as Mrs. Wilson, and said she had been
deserted by her husband at Jersey
City. She was in feeble health and
was taken to the poorhouse at Delhi.
There she met Mrs. Slater, and an at
tachment sprang up between the two.
The two women left the poorhouse
the following year. The next summer
a party of fishermen discovered two
strange persons living in a cave in
Barrett township, Monroe county,
Pennsylvania. Soon thereafter there
appeared in one of the villages man
carrying a rife and leading half
grown bear. Accompanying him was
a woman about 25 years old, who he
said was his wife.
For two years these vagrants wan
dered about the county. At last they
we're arrested and lodged in jail.
-here the discovery was made that
tns sapposed man was woman. They
we're Mrs. Slater and Mrs. Wilson. The
authorities sent them to the aims
house whence they came, but the two
women did not stay there long. The
next winter found them living in a
cabin ten miles from Honesdale. They
wandered into the town one day, were
arrested and again sent to the aims
house. where they both died recently.