The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-20

An mebbe he's got rheumatic
His legs look jus like bent-up pins!
(AIy grandpa's got some in his knee.)
But when I helped him, wifi leaf.
He came an walked right up my arm!
Ats wy put him on tn groun;
I guess it wasn't any harm, IT,
How rheumatic makes you go slow,
An if he didn't hurry home
Marie Ma euf louise s. Tompkins. in Harper's
Weekly.
Wireless Around World.
Nikola Tesla has been conducting
land, which have practically perfected
a new system of wireless telegraphy
and telephony. It differs from the
present wireless in that it utilizes
as a transmitting agency not the waves
of the air, but the inherent conduct
ivity of the earth itself. Space time
and the elements it almost utterly dis
regards.
By this system, Mr. Tesla declared,
it takes, as demonstrated by his expert
ments. only fraction OF a second to
pass a communication entirely around
the earth. It makes this planet ''be-
have like a bit of WIRE without dis
turbance to people, or to buildings,
mines, or other man-made structures.
Most wonderful are his assertions
wireless; that any number of receiving
stations may be used, and that not
only will messages across and around
the world become incredibly cheap,
but that any man, anywhere in the
world, may by placing to his ear a re-
ceiver purchased for a dollar or two
hear the opera in Paris, or Melbourne,
or Vienna, or New York.
Seeking details, a reporter for the
American by questioning obtained
from Mr.. Tesla the following state
ment:
"My plant at Shoreham is simply an
improvement on my experimental
wireless station which L erected in
Colorado, and at which 1 have carried
on practical experiments in wireless
year. The chief object of the installa-
ton is to effect a wireless telephone
communication all the worlo over
without any change in the existing
telegraph and telephone exchanges.
This is to be only one of a number
of such plants intended to carry out
my world system of wireless telegra-
ply and telephony by means of which
it will be possible to increase the
working capacity both of ordinary and
wireless plants by placing them in in
Simultaneous communication entirely
regardless of distance.
1.-The principles involved in this sys-
tenn of transmission are the direct OPP
position of the Hertz wave wireless
transmission. In the latter, the trans
mission is effected by rays akin to
light which pass through the air and
cannot be transmitted through the
ground. In the former, the Hertz
waves are practically suppressed, and
the entire energy of the current is
transmitted through the ground, ex-
actly as through a big wire.''-New
York American.
A Sermon.
The Rev. John Hamilton Timbrilf,
of Paterson, n. J.. q famous city
fruitful in news, was announced Us
about to preach a sermon on Sunday
night on the subject, Can Jeffriss
must be admitted, seeing that it rails
ed a problem more interesting to the
strenuous of the neighborhood, more
appealing than the tariff, the new
/ idea" or any other of the problems
that confront the public.
The clergyman took for his text
the words, land he awoke out of his
sleep and said, will go out as at 9TH
er times and shake myself. And he
wist not that the Lord was departed
from him. That must have made the
sports in the pews sit up. 1t had the
ring of action about 1t. But imagine
the disgust they must have felt when
they found that the discourse was all
about Samson, the strong man, and
not the other strong man who is to
try conclusions with little Arthur.
We sympathlze with them, for there
is as little excuse for obtaining a
crowd under false pretenses as there
is for getting money in tn same way.
Mr.. Tinbrill, if he will pardon us for
putting it this way, SOLD his flock and
his transients gold brick. Such a
performance as that which saddened
the Sabbath night congregation ought
to be abhorrent to the cloth.--New
York Evening Sun.
Worthy of a Trial.
In deciding that hereafter phys
| ical efficiency" shall count in deter.
mining the rating of public schoo
pupils for graduation from grade
to- grade, superintendent Maxwell
tween body and mind, and the exper-
| iment he has started will be watched
| with interest by all observers of ed
vocational movements.
| In the attainment blanks" il
seems, under the head of "Physica
| Training and Hygiene" marks are t
be given for effort and success in fol
lowing instruction on these topics, fol
| the maintenance of correct posture
and the vigor that results from health
| full habits, and for skill in the per
Torrance of gyrnnastic exercises. Thes,
are all subjects in which high ranl
| is as desirable as in arithmetic o.
geography, and the boy or girl Wit
Islands weli'' in them is muchc bette
fitted for life than are those who's
mental progress has been accompan
led by bodily deterioration.
| For failures in these new
branches. however. parents rathe
| than children may be responsible, an
there is no very obvious way CIV
! ing them the .sbad marks they de
serve. Presumably Superintendent
Maxwell has had this difficulty unde
consideration, and even if he has no
solved it his innovation is highl
promising.-New York Times.
/ Forty Years of Opium.
At the beginning of the year 100
/ there were more than 100000 dru
consumers in the United States, in