The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17

' 7 U 4 Paris Edition London Mail. 2 gardboard labels. with the printed
 word silence. oas every door in q ssr- tain cofridor or SGar1neiite House: gpsrds st the top pf ? otel stalExays ,s
 unauthorixeda persona; office ,boyss and Fuiessep gets ha,rryfhg. but hgrfyins fur- Ftfvely and treadtng as .though on egg
 shells: d long row of. ma atss to, deedeh the sound, and leading to a sreen'csir-
 'a'Ssa WSas ays ys ihe Hs meaning of these mys- teries? What strange secret is behind Fthat solemn curtain, from the other side of which not even a whisper comes7 I. being an authorized and privileged person, am permitted to pass within. A dozen or so men are sitting around
 long table. down the middle of which
 runs a baize- covered board Attached to the board are many wires, which are twisted together above and extending
 up and out of the room. Each of the
 men sitting at the table Is holding with
 one hand a telephone receiver of uIi-
 usual shape ffftted for both learss while with the 0therehe3 writes.r' sffas nttNs a At sone end Sof the table. is' A young man switii7a a long bamboo wand. and keyery now andr then he touches with
 this va nd the head of onesDr other ofrthe
  nothing happens when the scribe is
 tapped with the mystic stick. He keeps on writing and says not word. Stand- ing around the table are other men. a. few of them holding receivers to their
 ears and others looking on. w It Is a scene such as would cause
 savage to depart hurriedly, howiinee
 'Sorceryr"--a scene which even few wears ago would have been incompre- hehsible to any of us. and would have savored of unholy magic; but. Knowing what ft meant, took one of the re- ceivers and held 1t to my ears. ana then. was tempted myself to cry that It must be magic. for surely no miracle Porta or Cornelius Agrippa, no garden of giamor that Michael Scott created was ever strahger than this. held the receiver to my ears. and if took me away--took me. like the carpet of the Arabian Nights." from London into A great hall 400 miles distant. where the greatest orator in 4he Tinted Kingdom was delivering a
 speech of eloauence, power and sur passing importence.
 F,yerv fntonati every infection was as plain as if the speaker had been l In the same room aE myself. listened captivated. bewitched. closed my eyes. Lord Rosebery thurnped. the ta- | ble beside which he stood in Glasgow-- heard him do It. He dropped his
 voice, raised it--that clear and mar l vicious voice. he was earnest. scornful, l ironic bitter--in Glasgow: heard ft l all. heard the applause Gin Glasgow): | the laughter. the "hear, hears, Tn the
 murmuring.
 ! The speaker was talking or tne ianm [ clauses in the budget. He spoke of | the great landowning class. and told how from 1t had come most of the great servants of the State" working | "without emolument and without pay.
 Ills voice rang as he went on to de- | clare that the present Government ap-
 parently desired to treat this class.
 ''the very foundation ot the nation.' as | pariahs.
 But .there is a fund of justice" in the country. he said. with intense earn | estness, and the applause that started | almost before he had ended his sentence
 showed that hfs hearers agreed with | him. Then his vein became Lighter. liand when he spoke. of the dukes as
 "a poor, but honest class" the audi
 ence laughed heartily. little while 1 afterwards Lord Rosebery quoted a number of figures in connection with
 an insurance company Every number was heard plainly at this end of the
 400-miie-long wires
 | And, SO rom grave to gay anu tFoHi
 gay to grave. with its satire and scorn- full irony, It's polished periods, Its low l pitched sentences eliminating Tn ring l ing elouuence, the speech was heard perfectly here in London. as in the Glasgow City Hall. How was the won- derful thing accomplished.
 It was due to the enterprise of The Evening News and the extraordinary | invention known as the electrophone. | This invention has recetly been in- l proved--perfected one is tempted to say--by the introduction of new | transmitter, which gives a loud-sound-