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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
WIRELESS VISION
seen BY TESLA
Thinks ''WorId System" Will
Allow Many to Talk at Once.
.ENOS STATIC DISTURBANCE

Inventor Also Hopes to Transmit Pic.
lures by Same Medium Which Car.
ries the Voice-DecIares It Will es
Possible to Hold Secret Conversation
Too.
New York.-Nikola Tesla announced
that he had received patent on an in
vention which would not only elimi-'
nate static interference, the present
bugaboo Of wireless telephony, but
would enable thousands of persons to
talk at once between wireless stations
and make it possible for those talking
to see one another by wireless. regard
less Of the distance separating them.
He said also that with his wireless sta
ton now in the process Of construction
on Long Island he hoped to make New
York one Of the central exchanges in
world system Of wireless telephony.
The inventor, who has won fame by
his electrical inventions, dictated this
statement:
1.-THE experts carrying out this bril-
liant experiment are naturally deserv-
ing Of great credit for the skill they
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
FUELLESS ENGINE
QUEST ENDS At SO
Called by Death After Working
on It SeVenty|Years.
TAKES SECRET TO CRAVE,
Before Dying Would Be Inventor of
Minneapolis Destroyed All Charts or
Mechanical contrivances He Had
Made In Search For Perpetual Mo.
ton Machine. - -.''aa e>.E,

Minneapolis, Minn.-When John La.
ney, ninety-three years Old, was laid to
rest in Crystal Lake cemetery a sew
enty year quest for the secret of ''per-
petual motion" came to fruitless end.
So close did he think himself to the
secret at times that he trembled with
expectancy. For seventy years, despite
his disappointments, his mind aflame
with ambition, Laney worked, think
ing, experimenting.
Meanwhile this man, a Scotchman by
birth and stonemason by trade, whose
only relaxation was reading the works
Of Bacon, Shakespeare, Coleridge and
Wordsworth, smashed and destroyed
contrivance after contrivance when it
failed. Then with intensified energy
he concentrated on new idea.
1T almost worked
These three words tell the life story
of a man gifted in some ways beyond
his fellow men. John Laney wanted
his name to go down in history, but al
ways when he fancied he was at the
very edge of accomplishment it was
only to find the something missing in a
contrivance that almost worked
when l was just little girl father
used to have the kitchen table cleared
for him when supper was over" said
Mrs. Lizzie Welton, at whose home
the aged man spent his last days.
HE had groove in the table and q
round stone ball that. he made himself.
He would roll this round and round,
and often mother would have to get
up late at night and beg him to stop
and rest.
Father had good education, most
~ self acquired. He loved the poets,
and he wrote several songs, one for
the St. George guards Of st. George,
New Brunswick, where we once lived.
He was a sculptor also.''
Outside the steps of the cosy cot.
tage where Mrs. WeltoE lives are two
pieces of granite. One has on it fig
ures of Hiawatha and Minnehaha; the
other has on it bear and two cubs.
Inside the house, highly treasured, is a
chain five feet long. with many links
and an anchor at the end, that was cut
out with jackknife from solid piece
Of wood. Many small mementoes re-
main.
But before he died John Laney de-
stroyed all charts or mechanical con-
trivances he had made in his search
for perpetual motion. One day he
said to his daughter:
Perpetual motion will yet be found.
There is no doubt of it. When it is
found the world will be astonished not
alone by the stupendous changes that
it will bring in all industrial life, but
by the simplicity Of it. Millions will
wonder why no one ever thought Of it
before
II am an old man." he would often
say. II saw the coming Of the rail.
roads, the telegraph. the automobile
and the more wonderful things Of
later years. l predicted back in 1850
that the world would one day see the
horseless wagon. and it is here. All,
If could only just get the one little
missing link!'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
COLONEL TOwNsLEY.

their families, who will be ordered here
as instructors, are among the struc-
lures that will be imperatively needed
and Immediately. The plans for these
buildings and the enlargement, recon
struction or Encouragement of others,
it is understood, can be available at
any time.
In addition to improvements and
whether the corps is increased or not,
Colonel Townsley recommends that an
appropriation Of $35O,OOO be made for
new hotel on the government reser-
walton, to take the place Of the present
three bath" structure, which has the
distinction Of being the oldest hotel in
the Hudson valley.
If an increase Of the corps of cadets
to 1900 or 1900 is authorized" Colonel
Townsley adds, this increase should
be gradual and distributed over pc
Rod Of four years, so as not to have the
increase occur all in one Glass;"
Colonel Townsley directs attention to
the fact that many candidates for ca
detships are rejected because Of phys
fcal defects, eighty of the 493 exam
1ned the past year having failed. He
observes. however. that the physical
requirements are none too rigid for
those who will be expected to meet the
strenuous life in field service.
with the law of 1910, which is now
extended to 1928. in force and the pres
ent standards for entrance maintained"
says the report, II believe that the
academy can secure enough cadets to
keep up it's capacity Of 700 very closely.
The desire Of the academy being to Sc
cure the best and most promising ma
terial for officers in the regular army,
there should be no lowering of it's
standards for entrance or Of it's require
ments as to discipline or academic
work."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
TEXAS C0WPUNCHER
DIES WORTH MILLION
As Boy Asked For Cattle In
Lieu Of Pay.

Ell Paso. Tex.-Wert Love, who has
died at Warfa. started as cowboy
without even horse that he could call
his own and became millionaire owner
of vast herds and a ranch that was
domain in itself.
A resident of West Texas since 1885.
Vert Love was known to every cow
man from Fort Worth to Ell Paso He
had his peculiar characteristics, and
thrift was one Of them. But while he
was frugal. he never allowed genuine
case of distress to 60 unrelieved.
When other cowboys were drawing
their wages in gold back in the eighties
and riding to Ell Paso or San Antonio
to spend the money in riotous living or
over the gaming table. Vert Love was
putting his earnings into cows. :. His
start was seven cows. At his death he
could not have counted all the cattle in
his herd if he had ridden hard for a
month ut the task.
His first work after coming west was
for Jim Powell. cousin. near Fort
Davis. He was mere boy and re-
ceived but $25 month and his board.
He refused to take any money except
that necessary to buy his clothes. which
were few. and asked to be paid in cows
In 1889 he had $50 head. After the
start it seemed easy to those who
watched Vert Love. but they knew be
was working hard all the time.
He always picked the best cattle
when he bought. and he always picked
the best range for them. The result
was that he lost few cattle by disease
or drought. He watched the markets
and sold right and invested the money
again.
The result was that when he died 200
men were on his payroll and his estate
was worth more than $1.OOOOOO. A
son nine years old will get most of it
and will probably be the richest boy in
Texas.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
ENFORCE GRASS WIDOW RULE
Civil Service Examiners Bar All Al.
plicants Of This Type.

PlIcants OF This Type.
Washington.-T rule of the post
Office department that mo grass wild
oWs need apply" was adhered to by
the examiners of the civil service COM
mission in examining applicants for
government positions. This is not a
new rule, but it is being enforced more
strictly now than ever before.
The postoffice department has had a
regulation for several years that barred
from it's civil service roll married wo-
men. Grass widows are considered
married, but divorced women are not
and therefore are eligible.
Recently the postoffice department
and the civil service commission let up
on the grass widows somewhat. Wo-
men who were separated from their
husbands without fault of their own
and were struggling for living were
admitted, but the drawing of the line
between those who were grass widows
for cause and those who were grass
widows by no fault Of their own be-
came a bone of contention, and all
grass widows were barred.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
HAS LONELY SUPPER AT 105.

centenarian Is Said to Be tho Daughter
Of NapoIeon's Chef.
Jefersonville. 1nd.-Mrs. Susan Quin-
Ian. 105 years old. spent her birthday
quietly at her home with only her son,
Charles. sixty years old, a carpenter.
with whom she lives, sharing the sup
per.
Mrs. Quinlan has been married three
times. She was born in France, the
daughter Of Franz Antoine. who is
said to have been chef to the Emperor
Napoleon. She came to this country
when twenty-six years old. Her last
husband, who died several years ago,
was Patrick Quinlan. a cafe proprietor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
GIRL USHERS IN CHURCH.
Bridgeport Pastor Believes They Will
Be Attraction.

Bridgeport Pastor Believes They Will
Be Attraction.
Bridgeport, Conn.-For the first time
In the history Of the state girl ushers
served In the Washington Park Meth
odist Episcopal church here. The Rev.
Everett A. Burns. the pastor, said the
girls will act in that capacity every
Sunday evening.
II hope that the young men who
might otherwise absent themselves
from services will attend because of
the girl ushers." he said. The girls, all
from well to do families. are Helen
Clinton, Mildred Curtis, Anna Rack
myer, Emma Smith. Ella Crabtree,
Irene Chapman and Clarice Bray. Mrs.
Julia Griffin also is an usher.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
WE'D AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

sweethearts Before Civil War Now
Happy Together.
Lexington, Ky.-Oliver Marcum and
Mrs. Mary H. Murray were married by
the Rev. J. S. Thompson at the minis
ter's home here. Marcum is seventy
two years old and his bride seventy
one
The couple were sweethearts before
the civil war and had not met in fifty
years until the day before they were
married. The bridegroom and the min
lister who married him served in the
same company in the federal army.
Marcum's first wife died four years
ago. His bride had been a widow many
Years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
CAN RUN TRUCK FARM
AND YET USE NO LAND
Says He Found Way to Grow
Plants on Chemical Diet,

Cleveland, Oh. A. Smith, manager
Of a drug store here, claims to have
growing in his greenhouse healthy
sweet corn planted in absorbent cotton
which has been treated only with the
proper chemical food the corn requires.
In another greenhouse, he declares, he
has tomatoes thriving in washed lake
sand. .....
Mr.. Smith has worked on his discov-
cry for seven years. He believes he
has learned just what food each plant
requires and In just what proportions
to feed it nitrogen, potash and the
other necessary chemicals. He claims
to have diet formula for almost every
known plant and vegetable.
Having made an analysis Of the soil,
he introduces the chemicals in which
that soil is weak for the production Of
a given plant. Any kind of soil will do.
Even cinders will suffice. The only use
for the soil in Mr.. Smiths process is to
support the plant stalk just as a trellis
supports the grapes or sweet peas.
This is why, Mr.. Smith contends, it is
possible to grow plants in absorbent
cotton. he merely saturates the cot
ton with solution Of the natural food
for the plant it is intended to grow.
Mr.. Smith is negotiating with men
who. he declares. are planning to com.
mercialize his discovery. He would es-
tablish service stations In Cleveland
and other cities.
Does your lawn refuse to become
green in soil of hard clay? Send for
Mr.. Smith and let him put the grass ON
a diet. Do you own a greenhouse. and
is it expensive to haul fertile soil from
distance? Send for Mr.. Smith, He'll
show you how to raise carnations in
lake sand. tits easy" he says, with Il
smile, when you know the food carna-
tons need"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
GIRL IS DEPUTY CORONER.

Miss Edison, Who Became Doctor In
June, Gets Post In West.
Seattle, Wash.-The little city of Toll
has the distinction of having the first
woman deputy coroner appointed in
this state.
DIR. Hazel Edison, who was gradu.
ated last June from Rush Medical COL
lege at Chicago, hung out her single in
Tolt in July. With a runabout she
makes calls in all parts of her noun.
famous territory and is already popu.
lar. AS deputy coroner she will have
to investigate all violent and suspicious
deaths in her district.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
Owns Wrong Land Twelve Years.

Owns Wrong Land Twelve Years.
McMinnville. Ore.-Twelve years ago
Josef Heinrich bought eight acres Of
school land from the state. located.
paid taxes and improved the place. N.
w. Smith. who recently purchased thir-
teen acres from the state. discovered
that Heinrich had been living on his
land and had paid taxes on another
tract one mile south similar in descrip.
ton. In the twelve years Heinrich had
built home on the Smith place. clear
ed some of the timber and cultivated
the land. The Heinrich tract in the
meantime has not been touched.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
BABE TRAVELS IN BASKET.

Young Father Makes Long Journey
With MotherIess Child.
Eagle, Ariz.-With q clothes basket
as a cradle for his month-old mother
less babe r. E. Hiatt made the journey
from Eagle to Sidney. Ia, to place the
infant in the care of its grandmother
Mrs. Hiatt died just month ago fol-
lowing the birth of twins. one Of which
died at birth.
A woman on the train volunteered to
assist the young father. and the infant
reached its destination safely.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
USE FOUND FOR BEAR GRASS.
Fiber Obtained From It Converted Into
Cordage, Mating, Etc.

Fiber Obtained From It Converted Into
cordage, Mating, Etc.
Tucumcari, N. M.-Gathering the
spear-like leaves Of the wild bear grass
that grows profusely over a large area
of western Texas and baling the fiber
that is obtained therefrom is a new
industry for this part of the country.
A large plant for preparing the fiber
for market has been established here.
The product is shipped to Chicago,
where it is manufactured into rope,
cordage. mating and other products.
The available supply of the raw ma
terial is said to be practically mex.
haustible. ..
Up to the time it was discovered that
the leaves contain a valuable fiber
bear-grass was considered worthless by
the ranchmen. 1t is now proving q
source Of considerable revenue for the
land owners and the men who are en-
ployed In marketing it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
FLOOD OF IMMIGRANTS
COMING AFTER THE WAR
Uncle Sam Must Be Careful
to Bar the Unfit.

Washington. - Eternal vigilance Is
needed on the part of the immigration
department in restricting the number
OF unit immigrants trying to enter this
country. Although immigration has
had a tremendous drop, paupers, in
sane. epileptic and feeble minded per-
sons. professional beggars. those likely
to become a public charge. contract la
borers. assisted aliens, those living on
immortality and others debarred from
entering this country still seem to be
emigrating, though probably in smaller
numbers.
Last year 33.O41 individuals were re-
fused entrance to this country, a pro-
portion to the total number of aliens
Immigrant and nonimmigrant) landing
of 2.3 per cent, while for the half year
ending January, 1915, 15.2OS were de-
barred. being 81 per cent of the total
immigration during that time.
OF those trying to enter during the
last six months 249 were idiots, imbe-
Giles or feeble minded. 81 were insane
or epileptic, LIZA were suffering from
loathsome or dangerous contagious dis
eases. $500 were likely to become a
public charge, 1.746 were contract la
borers, 344 were assisted aliens and III
were coming for immoral purposes.
Many people see in the fact that there
Is little reduction In the numbers Of
the mentally, physically and morally
unfit who are attempting to enter this
country an indication of what may be
expected in the near future. At the
end of the war Europe will try to keep
its strong. its ablebodied and it's healthy
individuals, while enormous financial
burdens will probably induce marked
tendency toward emigration. actively
encouraged perhaps. Of those who are
apt to become burden on the state.
Such problems as far rs possible will
be shifted to other shoulders through
a process of eRigration. Only strin-
gent regulations on the part of the
American government and extraordi-
nary efficiency in its immigration serv-
ice will prevent such an unloading of
the unfit upon the shoulders Of Uncle
Sam.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16

have shown in perfecting the devices.
These are Of two kinds-6rst, those
serving to control transmission, and
second, those magnifying the received
impulse. That the control of transmits
sion is perfect is plain to experts from
the fact that the Arlington. Mare island
and Pearl Harbor plants are all inef-
fective and that the distance Of tele-
phonic communication is equal to that
Of telegraphic transmission. 1t is also
perfectly apparent that the chief merit
Of the application lies in the magnifica-
ton of the microphonic impulse 1t
must not be imagined that we deal
here with new discoveries. The i'm
provement simply concerns the control
Of the transmitted and the magnifca-
ton Of the received impulse, but the
wireless system is the same. This can
never be changed.
1T is claimed that static disturbance
will fatally interfere with the trans
mission. while as matter of fact there
is no static disturbance possible in
properly designed transmission and re-
ceiving circuits. Quite recently have
described in patent circuits which are
absolutely immune to static and other
interferences, so much so that when a
telephone Is attached there is absolute
silence, even lightning in the immediate
vicinity not producing a click of the
diaphragm, while in the ordinary tele-
phOnic conversation there are all kinds
Of noises.
another contention is that there can
be no secrecy in wireless telephone con-
versation. l say it is absurd to raise
this contention. when it is positively
demonstrated by experiments that the
earth Is more suitable for transmission
than any wire could ever be. A wire
less telephone conversation can be
made as secret as a thought.
II have myself erected plant for
the purpose Of connecting by wireless
telephone the chief centers of the
world. and from this plant as many as
q hundred will be able to talk absolute
ly without interference and with abso-
lutte secrecy. The plant would simply
be connected with the telephone CEN
trail exchange in New York city, and
any subscriber will be able to talk to
any other telephone subscriber in the
world. and all this without any change
in his apparatus. This plan has been
called my world system BY the same
means propose also to transmit pic
lures and project images. so that the
subscriber will not only hear the voice,
but see the person to whom he is talk
ing. Pictures transmitted over wires is
a perfectly simple art practiced today.
Many inventors have labored on it. but
the chief credit is due to Professor
Korn Of Munich"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
CRACKED HEAD THAT
HEALS HELP TO BRAIN
Results In Regeneration Of
Tissues, Says Professor.

Chicago.-For fifteen years Charles
Manning Child, associate professor of
zoology in the University Of Chicago,
has been experimenting on plants and
animals to solve the problem Of youth
and age. AS the result, in his "Se-
nescence and Rejuvenescence," Pro.
fessor Child turns upside down a lot
Of current notions about growth and
death.
He prescribes regular fasts, provid-
ed no organic disease exists. He sug.
gests vacations or changes in mental
occupation after long continued men.
tai labor in a particular field. The ef-
feet Of change is the regeneration of
the nerve cells, he finds, and this
means the nerve cells are built up
anew as In youth.
Professor Child utters a warning
against Overeating. Overnutrition, he
says, increases the rate of senescence
All life, he points out, Is develop
ment toward senescence and death.
Natures idea is to build up man
have him do his duty toward increas.
Ing the species and then move on tc
disintegration.
Injuries, when death does not follow,
result in the regeneration of the It's
sues affected, and this regeneration
makes those tissues young again.
A cracked pate that heals is good
for the brain. From this comes the
explanation of the old familiar story
of the man who, recovering from an
almost fatal injury or serious illness,
becomes healthier, more vigorous and
youthful than before. 1t also con.
firms the old one about the idiot who,
being hit terrific blow on the head,
regains his reason.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
MAD DOG CALLS POLICE.

Upsets Telephone In Rampage and Cen.
trail Does the Rest.
Danville, III. "A dog afflicted with
rabies indirectly called the police de:
partment and thus brought about its
own destruction. Before it was killed
1t overturned much of the furniture at
the home of Louis Smith. it's owner,
and badly scared the servant.
In its rampage it upset desk on
which the telephone rested and as the
receiver fell from the hook central
asked for the number. The operator
heard the bowling of the dog and. be-
Heving that something was wrong,
called the police department.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
MAKE MUDH0LEs FOR LIVING,

Missourians Cultivate Traps For Auto.
lists, Official Charges.
Jefferson City. Mo.-That mudholes
in the road are carefully nurtured in
many communities in Missouri by per-
sons who find it profitable to pull auto
mobiles out of them when they get
stuck Is charged by State Highway
Commissioner Buffum in a road bull
letin.
The issuance of this bulletin follow
ed the action Of a Galloway county
farmer, who refused to pull the auto
mobile Of Mrs. James Houchin out of
creek bed until she gave him $25.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
$4,000 Awaits Lost Cat,

Chfcago.-John 81. Warder used to
think q great deal of his pet angora
cat. Boyse. In his will he provided
that $1,000 be set aside in trust fund
for the care Of Boyse at cat para
disc In Massachusetts. The will has
just been filed for probate. and Mrs.
Warder, to whom the whole estate is
left. was asked what she intended to
do in regard to Boyse. ''Goodnessv
she exclaimed. 1--WE gave Boyse away
a year ago. don't even know where
he IL now"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-16
INCREASE CADETS
WEST POINT PLAN.
Superintendent Report Out
lines Needs Of 1900 Body.
MAY DOUBLE SIZE OF CORPS

In Event Congress Authorizes That In.
crease 1t Should Appropriate $780,.
600, Colonel Townsley Believes.
Would Bring Into Army 800 West
Pointers Every Year. .s'.s.ss~~-s==aeoss
West Point, N. Y.-That serious ef-
fort will be made in the next congress
to Increase the number Of cadets at the
Military academy here to 1000 or 1900.
which would increase the corps to the
peace strength Of regiment and
would bring into the army about 300
West Pointers every year, about twice
as many as Is now the case, is indicat-
ed In the annual report of Colonel G.
P. TOwnsley, the superintendent of the
academy, just sent to the war depart
ment.
Colonel Townsley believes that 1900
IS the maximum strength to which the
West Point corps can be increased,
and he points out that in the event
congress authorizes that increase it
should appropriate the money needed
to house and care for the increased
number Of cadets, which would be
about $1,9O0OOO.
If the corps is increased new mess
hall, new barracks building, a new
hospital. new quarters for officers and