The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-10

By the power of Votin' Woman on a poor
New York Times.
Wireless in Warfare
Though nothing new as to the pos
sibilities of wireless telegraphy has
been revealed since the warship fleet
sailed from Gibraltar, it nevertheless
IS true that no previous demonstration
or those possibilities has been so i'm
preSSlVe, so brilliant, or on SO large a
scale. Therefore this one gains some
thing of the effect of novelty. To keep
In constant touch throughout an At
lantlc voyage with sixteen vessels scat
tered over a good many miles of heaV-
ing water is an achievement never be-
fore attempted, and for the last few
days of the trip the complexities and
difficulties of the task were increased
by the presence of as many more big
ships sent out to meet the farwander-
Ing fleet OF course, the operators
have had their trouble from interfer-
ence with each other and at certain
times from the electrical condition OF
the atmosphere, SO that the 1imita-
tions as Well as the powers of the new
service have been illustrated but on
the whole it has worked amazingly
Wen, and the practical, everyday ac-
ton of the cracking, flashing instru-
ments has been of an efficiency which,
a few years ago, would have been be-
Verne.
The tuning" of which so much
more has been promised than seen in
the past, has at last been brought into
actual use with such success that
communication with the different
squadrons from the shore has at times
been kept up by four senders at once,
and the answers have been intelIigible
as well as Synchronous. That is a tri-
umph, but won, it will be noticed,
fria l.
tile. Had an enemy been busy, and
his object the stealing or the destruc-
tlon or the various messages, the
chances are that he would have ac-
compifshed either purpose.
And there is another feature of
wireless telegraphy that must be TAX
en- into consideration-it will vastly
decrease the Independence of naval
commanders, and the consequences of
leSSening their freedom of action and
be of a desirable kind. No longer will
an admiral be able to escape hamper
ing orders from departmental super
iors by the simple expedient of cutting
a cable. Come to think of 1T, however,
he can be saved from them by time
ly accident to his receiving apparatus,
and If he were too much bothered at a
critical time the likelihood of some
thing getting temporarily out of order
would be very great if the admiral
happened to be a Nelson or a Dewey.
New York Times,
Bargains in Funerals.
If you want to get buried at bargain
prices now is the time and Jersey City
is the place.
There is a war on there among the
dealers in mortality, and humanity,
which has to die sometime, anyhow, at
last has chance to do SO economical
".
What the conflict is about does not
matter much, but that it is deadly and
likely to prove fatal to somebody's busi-
ness is intimated by a full page ad-
the evening newspapers of the two
across the way.
In huge black letters this pronounce
ment begins with the rather paradoxi-
US being on the level" Then the pros
pective patron is assured that if the
goods delivered are not satisfactory,
he doesn't have to pay one penny.
Can we do any more than this?' de-
mands the advertisement. Let us rea-
son together. Isn't it hard enough to
get hold of a little money without pay
ing it to an undertaken, for which you
receive no value? If one-half the peo
pie knew what they receive from these
for 5000, and see what we
furnish for S100, they would be ashamed
of themselves to think how easily they
parted with their money"
Here follows a violent attack upon
grating" undertakers, accompanied by
D touching appeal for sympathy for the
poor fellow who never gets flowers on
his crepe.'
''You never saw the outside box pad
ded for the laboring class until we
started to get after these fellows" is
the next exclamation. There is much
more in this aggressive strain, after
which the advertiser catalogues his
own bargain counter wares in such en-
ticing language as kings for such
tomb would die."-New York Herald.
Plays Dead; Buried Alive.
Johnnie Horton, years old; Joe Gill
len, years old and half a dozen cron-
les of the same age were having fun in
ST. Mary's cemetery, Wappinger's
Falls, Tuesday when somebody said,
Lets play funeral" Johnnie Horton
agreed to "play dead
With great activity the others dug a
grave and placed him in it. Johnnie
was not quite satisfied in his mind
about the thing, but he was plucky,
even when the boys dropped sack over
him and piled in the earth The affair
was so successful that the boys decided
upon an encore, and this time Joe Gil
len played the star part
Joe was already in his premature
grave when his father came along
Pausing a minute to scatter the I'M
promptu undertakers in vigorous fash
ion. Mr. Gillen disinterred his boy, and
then looked to Johnnie, and found him
and, in fact, apparently
dead.
After using methods of his own, he
sent for physicians and eventually
Johnnie was revived. but not until he
had come within an ace of making a
permanent home in the ground
Poughkeepsie dispatch to New YORK
Herald.