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worked he began to see the possi- bility of conveying speech over an electrically charged wire-the tele- phone. He used dead mans ear for a transmitter
 "If I can make a deaf mute talk. Bell had declared, T can make iron talk"
 His first success came while test ing his instruments in his new quar- ters in Boston. Thomas A. Watson, Bells assistant, had struck clock spring at one end of the wire, and Bell was electrified to hear the sound in another room For 40 weeks the instrument struggled. as it were, for human speech. Then on March 10, 1875, Watson became almost insane with joy when he heard over the wire Bells voice, saying:
 MT. Watson, come here, I want you"
 On his 29th birthday, Bell received his patent It was at the Centennial Exposition held at Philadelphia, two months later, where men of science the world over who had come to ex- anime and study the numerous in ventions exhibited, saw Professor Bell give a practical demonstration of the transmission of the human voice by electricity.
 Invention Inspected
 As for Bell himself, he had not planned to attend the Centennial at all. He was poor and he had re- organized his classes in vocal speech. Toward the end of June he went to the station to see Miss Hubbard off for Philadelphia. There had been some talk of his going. but he had put it quietly aside. She believed he was going; when they reached the station she pleaded with him and was refused As he put her aboard the train and it moved out, leaving him on the platform, she burst out crying. Bell dashed after her and sprang aboard the train, without bag. gage, ticket or any other trifles.
 The <next Sunday afternoon Bell was promised an inspection of his invention by the judges of exhibits. It was hot day and the judges had seen a great deal. Some of them were for going home; one jeered. and there was general boredom. Then there appeared the blonde-bearded Emperor of Brazil, with outstretched hands. He had heard some of Bells lectures in Boston; the deaf-mute work appealed to him. His greeting made a stir. Bell made ready for his demonstration. A wire had been strung the length of the room. Bell took the transmitter; Don Pedro placed the receiver to his ear. He started up amazed.
 My God-it talks,"
 Afterward Lord Kelvin-plain VII -liam Thompson then-took up the receiver. He was the engineer of the first Atlantic cable.
 He nodded his head solemnly as he got up.
 ''It does speak" he said emphatic ally. 'It is the most wonderful thing I have seen in America"
 Mobbed by Scientists
 The judges took turns talking and listening until 10 o'clock that night. Next morning the telephone was brought to the judges pavilion. It was mobbed by scientists the remain der of the summer.
 The distinguished inventor was the recipient of many honors in this country and abroad. The French gov.
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GASBOAT SINKS

The gasboat Vixen struck an old Dolphin which was submerged by the high tide in Ketchikan harbor when she was returning, with party of picnickers and sank in five min utes. The passengers and crew were rescued by a seine boat.
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INVENTOR OF TELEPHONE IS
 DEAD IN N. s,

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National League.
LANDS HELPS OUT P. C.L. DIRECTORS
 IN KEEPER CASE

CHICAGO, Aug. 3-Baseball Com missioner Landis has wired the Pa cific Coast League directors they are not required to cease relations with the Portland club if President w. H. Klepper, of that club. confines his activities to internal affairs. The reply is sent in a question asked by the directors.
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ernment, ever quick to recognize science, conferred on him the decora- tion of the Legion of Honor, the French Academy bestowed on him it's valuable Volta prize of 50,000 francs, the Society of Arts in London in 1902 gave him it's Albert medal and the University of WurZburg, Bavaria, made him a Ph.D.
 One of the curious things about the invention of the telephone is that Bell knew almost nothing about cleo tricity when he started. He knew great deal about acoustics, though, and the formation of the human or gans of speech and hearing. Bell was called to Washington once when he was in the slough of despondency and took opportunity to call on Prof. Joseph Henry, who knew as much about electricity and the telegraph as any man then alive. Henry told him he had the germ of a great invention.
 But" said Bell, q have not got the electrical knowledge that is ne- cessary."
 "Get it." said Henry.
 Bell did get some of it-enough.
 Had known more about electric ity and less about sound" he said, 'I would never have invented the tele- phone
 Other Inventions
 While Dr. Bell will be best re- membered as the inventor of the Telephone, a claim that has been sustained through many legal con- tests, he also became noted for other inventions. He was joint inventor of the graphaphone with Sumner Fainter. He invented an ingenius method of lithography, photophone, and an induction balance. He in- vented a telephone probe which he used to locate the bullet that killed President Garfield. He spent 15 years and over $20O,OO0 in testing his famous tetrahedral kite. and estab- lished principal in architecture. the use of tetrahedral cells or units.
 Throughout his life, Dr. Bell main
 
 tained his interest and labors for deaf-mutes. He founded became president and contributed $250,000 to the American Association to Pro mote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf He was a member of many of the leading American learned societies.
 Expermented to End
 Dr. Bells laboratories have been located since 1886 near Baddeck. Cape Breton. There for many years he conducted research and experiment in aerial locomotion and other scien- tific subjects and maintained his pri- yate museum showing the develop ment of his greatest inventions. He encouraged Samuel P. Langley to in- vent the first flying machine and de- clared after witnessing its flight at Quantico. Va. in 1896. that the age of the airplanc was at hand. all though Langley's machine was de- stroyed. r.+-. a Qs.f ss jDr. Bell formed in 1907 the Aerial Experiment Association, with head .qparters in Cape Breton and its ob-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-12-22
"And It's to Be an Anniversary Child"

"And It's TO Be an Anniversary Cnllu.
their own happy destinies? Would
they have not rather gone their separ-
ate ways, yet two more unhappy
mortals whose lives we're but a
makeshift?
Yet she had lied and in that lie
she had cheated him, the one whom
of all others she had cared most for
she had cheated most completely.
Perhaps he didn't care for children
now. Perhaps he would never think
of them again. Perhaps, oh perhaps,
a hundred conjectures
But clearly standing above the
others were these two issues-she had
He'd to win him and because of that
lie she had cheated and played false
to the one she loved.
A lie is a vigorous parent imbu-
ing its offspring with its ever power
full blood of doubt and worry. Always,
she felt, she would think from time
to time that she had cheated him, and
that in the deep recesses of her mind
he would feel her love had been a
very frail and weak thing.
Yet again and again reverted to her
mind the knowledge that had it not
been for that lie when she had spoken
1t Gregory and she would never have
been happy.
And these doubts and worried
thoughts were the heritage of a lie
such as hers had been.
1t seemed like a miracle. She had
given up all hope. Still at times the
lie, she had told In the first place OF
all haunted her, because she felt she
had cheated Gregory. He never re-
ferred to it. He seemed radiantly
happy. But she had worried.
And then some time after she had
told him, she knew. She was glad she
had told him. She was glad that he
knew her weaknesses and faults and
all. Her happiness over the coming
child was so much greater because she
had told him.
Sand it's TO be an anniversary child"
The Christmas carols were pealing
forth when small boy opened his
eyes upon the world so new to him.
I'm sorry it's not a girl so we can
call her Marjorie" Gregory smiled.
SIN delighted it's boy and that we
can name him Gregory" Marjorie
whispered.
merry Christmas" Gregory said, a
little later. The clock just struck
twelve
merry Christmas" Marjorie an
swered.
And the small boy gave a shrill
little cry.
"That's his way Of saying Merry
Christmas" Marjorie added.
"Tm delighted to have it explained
to me-" her husband chuckled.
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forgotten that he had sister, and
that there were lot of little hope
full Bumps. An old trouble had
made him bitter and forgetful, and he
had felt more alone in the world than
he really was. AS he sat again by
lit night, he mused on things past with
new tenderness in his heart and well
coined a new thought that came warm
ly to him and brought a lovely pur-
pose with it. He would play Santa
Claus, and give himself the surprise
of making others happy!
So, the day before Christmas things
happened at the Bump house. AS Mr..
Bump went to the wayside post box
he found two letters. One of them made
him sad, for it was from the man who
held the mortgage, AND it said that the
time for payment had come. 1t meant
to Mr.. Bump, "your money, or your
cows" But the other letter was from
Mr.. Gimlet, and it made Mr. Bump
laugh until he cried, for it was a check
for $500, with some kindly, friendly
words and good wishes, enough to cure
the cows and all the family troubles.
The next day the carrier brought
most promising looking big box
from Uncle Gimlet, so that the Christ
mas tree was full of happy surprises
for the little folks and a gift or two
for the big ones. Mother made a big
pie in the dishpan and the children
found out what was In it. Dorothy
poked a hole through the pasteboard
crust and pulled out a maple sugar
heart. Donald got red sugar heart.
Kenneth got a white sugar heart.
Edith got yellow sugar heart. Moth
er said it was Uncle Gimlet's kind
heart that had made them all so
happy.
Then Mr.. Gimlet got another letter.
It was a round robin from all the
Bumps, with the little Bump names and
marks upon it, too. 1t made the old
man very happy. He was sitting
among a lot of pleasant things that
had been sent in for his Christmas
tree, but he was not thinking very
much of them. He sat with the let
ter in his hand and far-off look In
his eyes as he thought Of the sweet
ness of love, and felt that the best
gift that he had received was thu
happy surprise that he had given to
the people on the prairie farm.
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barn, farmer Bump had laughed with
the happy, rosy children, as the dog
Jake toiled up the hill with the sled,
so that they all might go shouting
down again. They're a jolly bunch, +"
said farmer Bump. But that night
the Bumps were holding a consulta-
ton. Although the two cows in the
barn were bare yet there was a
blanket on them. The consultation
was about that blanket. Farmer
Bump called it mortgage and didn't
know how he was going to pay it.
No wonder it was an anxious consulta-
tion. Short crops and a mortgagel
Enough to Aatten out even the Bumps!
But while the Bumps were talking
things over, the cildren were having
dreams. They had laid awake for
a while, talking about the best place
to hang up Christmas stockings, and
q part Of the conversation downstairs,
the mortgage part, had come up to
their ears. A little of the worry, too,
had come with It, so mat they fell
asleep with a little uFeasiness about
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and some of the frost into his heart
for he looked old, and cold, and grim
The freight shadows that played OF
the wall were like the thoughts tina
went to and fro in his mind in the
light of the memories of the brighter
days of the past. The empty chairs
reminded him of his friendlessnesS, the
slow ticking of the old clock, as II
tried to be a companion, only made
him feel how lonely he was. He felt
as much out of the world, as far away
from its gladness as the picture of his
grandfather that hung over the shelf.
Mr.. Gimlet was wondering what he
would get for Christmas. He had
spent many years in wondering what
he would get, and had gotten good
many things. No one had a better
house than he, few had as much money
as he had. There was a park, there
was a garden; within and without and
all about him were the things that
money can buy. Yes. Mr.. Gimlet was as
rich as money and things can make a
man. And yet, although all these
things had not made him happy, he
was wishing for more. He did not
know any better than to wish for more,
and, though he could not think Of any
thing that he needed, he hoped that
someone would think of something or
other that he might want and that
might give him CLEAN of real Christ
mas joy.
Away out on a prairie the Bump
family were holding a consultation,
after the children had gone to bed.
AT that moment the father and mother
of the family were perpleXed and
even good deal worried. The Bumps
had been practicing farming for some
time, but without anticipated results.
The children didn't see anything the
matter with farming. The move out
of the smoky city had been an en-
trance into paradise for them. Don
aid had ten hens and a rooster Doro-
thy owned two Muscovy ducks, with
green feathers. Kenneth had a little
pony that they called Bigger" be-
cause they thought he would grow.
Small Edith kept a flower bed that
she called her "gardy" There was a
pony cart. They had raised 43-pOund
watermelon. Father had said that
the rest of the garden wouldn't
amount TO a hill of beans, but it had.
There was apt to be enough for yum
yum cake, with raisins in it, to go
around Why, it was like perpetual
picnic! And even now with all
things under the snow blanket, and the
pony and the two cows safe in the
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Freshenlno Rolls.

Frequently mullins, gems, cornbread.
Sranbread ETC., are part of the eve
ming dinner and seldom are all eaten
during the evening meal, some being
left over. The question comes to the
conscientious housewife, How can ]
serve them again in their original
freshnessT" 1t can easily be done.
Grease a piece Of brown paper, using
plenty Of grease. Wrap In It the muf-
f1ns, bread, etc. Place in hot oven for
ten or fifteen minutes, unwrap, serve,
and, if you did not know, you would
think they were just baked.
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mDivInitvU FUDGE.

Boil together two cupfuls of granu-
lated sugar, one cupful Of maple strip,
one cupful of water and a tablespoon
full of vinegar until little of it hard
ems when dropped in cold water, and
then add a teaspoonful of vanilla and
take from the fire. While this mixture
has been cooking, a cupful of granu-
lated sugar should have been put over
the fire in another saucepan, with a
half-cupful of cold water, and boiled
until the mixture spins thread from
the tip of spoon. This should at this
stage be beaten up with the stif1y
whipped whites Of two eggs, and this
stirred into the first preparation, which
should by now have cooled slightly.
Beat the two hard until they begin TO
s4.ffen. when turn IN two cupfuls Of
chopped nut kernels. Drop on paper
or pour into pans and cut In shapes
Observation-Disclosures.
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Santa Claus Letters
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
am little brown-eyed girl 8 years
old. l am trying to be good SO you
will come to see me. Please don't
forget me this week. want Sleep
ing doll and doll carriage for her to
ride in, little telephone and some
picture books, oranges, apples, bana-
mas, nuts and candy.-Your little girl,
Martha Virginia Hickman.
Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me signet ring
and large rubber ball and some
tinker toys, and apples, oranges and
candy.-Sue Catherine Calhoun.
Dear Santa Claus:
want doll and doll bed, jumping
jack, some sparklers. Please don't for
get my little friends, and l will not ask
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course there are very extenuating cir
cumstances at times. But | think
most of them could be avoided If
people talked openly and candidly be-
fore they we're married"
He told her then that he cared TOT
children, that they would mean a
great deal to him.
She felt herself growing more and
more tense. The whole of her ached
for him. Yes, she had waited all her
life for him, never mistaking in any
of the others, the substitute for the
real
81 feel as you do" she said softly,
II love children!"
And she spoke the truth. But yet a
truth that was only half truth.
They were married, in the little VII
lage church on Christmas Eve and
when later the carols pealed forth they
felt as though even the carols we're
for their happiness alonei
They had been married several
years. Closer and closer had they
grown together. How glad she was
she had waited until she was sure
she loved. She had had so many pro-
posals, and there were girls who had
had so few. She had often thought of
the girl to whom the simplest Of
pleasures had come as complete and
magnificent Joy, This girl had had no
attentions, her life had been almost
manless. At last came man into her
life, very slowly, very internationally.
but each slow step along the way was
one which thrilled her and which
mounted up to huge and great proper
lions. 1t had to be a great deal to
rouse Marjorie but Gregory had
reused her-fully.
She had always kept her fresh
charm and her appeal though she had
left youth behind. Her skin was
smooth, her color good, her eyes
dark and lustrous and her hair had
no traces Of gray.
But during this time no children had
come to them. Gregory now didn't
seem to care whether they came or
not He was quite content with her.
"People change their ideas after
they marry if they really love the
woman they marry" he used to tell
her. Before they have theories. Now
if children came, all well and good.
But I couldn't be any happier than 1
am now"
She knew he spoke the truth. She
knew it. He was even jealous of her
eagerness for children. Was this
what 1t meant to marry, he some
times asked himself. Did people for
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for any more as there are SO many
others. / will go to bed early.-Eyalyn
Caudle, Union City, Tenn.
Dear Santa Claus:
| want string Of beads and some
tinker toys, candy, oranges, apples and
bananas. Don't forget mother, father,
sister, brothnr and teacher Haa
eel Key.
Dear Santa Claus:
I go to school every day and try my
best to be good, so / want you to bring
me a doll, doll bed, stove, little
table and little red rocker, and don't
forget my friends. -Gaynell Green.
Dear Santa Claus:
/ want you to bring me doll with
curly hair and sleeping eyes and a lit
tie doll bed and all kinds of fruits and
nuts, little sewing machine and some
candy.-Vangie Hodges, Kenton, Tenn
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lose YOU. And couldn't lose you
Don't you see It was because | loved
YOU SO that / lied to your she cried
~ loved you So" she repeated.
"My darling, I'm so relieved" ne
said. "All l care about is that you
love me-"
81 know that" she told him. but
the heritage of my life has been
furnishing me. Even though l know
YOU don't think now that children
make any difference l know / cheated
you, whom of all others 1 cared most
for"
Marjorie, Marjorie DEAR" he
caressed her, 81 am so relieved that
know now what has been worrying
you. l was afraid you had ceased to
love me-"
at was never that, 1t was never
that she said.
"You see, Marjorie" he went on,
"1f at first you had told me you were
to have child I would have been de-
lighted--it would have seemed the
conventional idea Of the completion
of married life which l had pictured
in my mind. Afterward realized that
the most important of all was that
I had you and loved you and that you
loved me.
Lately I've become very jealous
of your desire for children because I
though / didn't count so much. How
dreadfully we've CROPPED in the dark
even though we have been so close
together"
She was happy then as she hadn't
been before, happy in the love that
he now gave her, the love for which
she had braved a lie.
And even as he held her close she
thought of it-and life-so full of per-
picking moral issues. Had she not
He'd to him would she have fulfilled
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get about each other and sink their
hopes and aspirations and ambitions
and emotions and dreams into sthe
coming of another generation when
they had sworn and believed before
God and man that they would only
love each other. Did they love each
other so Iittle2 Did they care only for
the sake of the family? 1t couldn't
be.
That was too cold a belief.
Another year passed and they began
growing apart. Marjorie had become
restless, unhappy. Was 1t because of
children? Gregory asked himself.
Couldn't she have been happy with
him? Was his marriage to be a dis
Illusion?
But one evening she came to him.
Gregory" she said, II have so NUN
to tell you. Let me begin from the
beginning. I've been going to ten you
this SO many times,
'When married you lied to you.
Now. don't interrupt me, dear. Yes,
I lied about my age. I loved you.
was afraid If / told you that perhaps
was too old to have children that you
wouldn't-marry me-that i would
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the blanket that does not keep things
warm, but makes them cold, and Won
dering what mortgage could be, and
why no one could take it off without
money. In his dream Donald heard
boy singing this song:
Sing, little Jesus, sing for me.
There's nothing on my Christmas tree"
You see, this little boy had tree,
but there wasn't thing on it, not even
a leaf. So he planned how to get some
thing to grow upon it. Finally, he sang
the song that Donald heard in his
dream, and the next time he looked
out there was his tree, full of red and
gold apples, with leaves on all the
twigs and many pretty things among
them, and Donald saw it all in his
dream. So, when he awoke, Donald
thought he would sing the song too,
and see if Jesus couldn't take the
shadow of that awful mortgage away,
and he sang:
Sing, little Jesus, sing for mel
There's mortgage on our Christmas
tree.
When Dorothy awOke she remem-
bered that she had dreamed about
writing letter to Santa Claus, and
so she went and wrote it. This was
the letter:
Dear Santa Claus:
There's something the matter with
our cows. They've got mortgage on
em. Only money can cure EN-. Please
come and cure 'em, SOS we can have
Christmas tree. l will be good
Your hopeful
DOROTHY.
Then, when father went to town,
with the little pony, Bigger, he put
the letter into the post Office, only he
directed it to Mrs. Bumps brother, Mr..
Ephraim Gimlet.
Mr.. Gimlet was very much surprised
to hear from the Bumps. He had
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LID Mr.. Gimlet was
sitting all alone by
himself. The cold
December w | n d
was driving the
snow against the
frosty windows,
and now and then
it seemed to fairly
screech at him.
Some of the snow
appeared to have
- .,AN 1,t~ 1,atxs
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RECITAL

ing very elaborate charming and unique entertainment
a. REYNOLDS Theatre December q 1922:
Part
THE SEASONS.
Spring. Margaret D. Wadde
(a) Beauty OF nature 'o) Approaching 0'orm' W e
Pio"'i''
Summer (Scarf Dance) Anne Jackson
(a) Buebird (b Joy of Living (c) Blighted
by the West Wind
r,o D,,obi,6 Mable White
nlo n -, - - Cuandia cbopnor
Autumn Northumberland Minnie Kaufman
Winter Observation-Disclosures. Dena Alice Edwards
Intermission
SONG and Dance-~wake III Little Girl" Louise Posey
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Nd" Gregory Morse added,
"as I'VE always said, l
think people should be
honest with each other be-
fore marriage. l don't ap-
prove of diyorce-curious
thing to be speaking of on
the very evening I'm asking
you to marry me, but it has
a bearing on the subject.
No." he emphasized, Il
5opJt opnrnvo nf divorce. OF