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Show THE BEAVER COUNTY NEWS W. J .... UK MILFORD it r J jl:Iii & TftE 5AM1Y fria MaiiUKtr. UTAH Keep off treacherous thill IAOON let1! Is the real tiig stick a sugar stick? U la time to cull the openwork in shin wafts. It Is also chilly for shelter, food and Are. those who lark Would the use of stovaine make one Indifferent to the cold weather? In making Ira students study the Vnlversity of Chicago Is setting a noble precedent. In running a school or ease the fresh air better than hot air. Washington Is In curing I dis- li:.iiu-:iiuraM- should have pure tn!lk not that It makes much difference to the rnngrcMsim-ii- . The trustworthy goosehone Indicates an erratic winter. Hut are not all our winters erratic? Ttrazfl and Sweden have signed sn arbitration treaty. Now all they need la something to arbitrate. It fs n pity that the white plague continues to atalk abroad when there Is so much fresh air at large. The world certainly Is growing better. The number of iieople who write It "Xinaa la gradually decreasing. Having led the world In a tour aiotind the globe, our navy Is now proposing to lead In development at home. As the new Chinese minister to this country cannot speak a word of Eng-Ifshow In the world is lie going to ask questions? PHOTO KEEP TIME? COES YGIIB WATCH If it doss, shack year time with ur standard railroad aloe, used by all tha railroad syatamaia Utah. If it does sol keep tim lot car railroad watch aaporta put it in nrdar fnr you. Wo soil oil standard linos of railroad watches. COIYRICtMT fruits of those two twentieth century innovations - wireless telegraphy and It practical sky craft. goes without saying that if airships and balloons and kites cun he successfully made to serve as portable stations for wireless telegraphy the value of such serial vehicles for the arts of both peace and war will he iinnieasiirahly inci eased. Likewise will wireless telegraphy be enabled to add further advantages tu Its already numerous pninis or superiority over all other forms of Sou Lass fait UTAH THIS ORGAN ONLY . 53 tpUluioo FULLY WARRANTED $3 PER MONTH TriHgl.t i i in any Kai:ro;i'l Minimi iu I' lull nr Uuipi. The I'uited States government, one or another of its through branches, bus taken up wireless telegraphy experiments via both kites uml war bullooiis, but the grcuicst interest naturally attaches to the work with hiilluoiis. So far iis is known, the I'uited States signal corps Is In advance of nil foreign military hodle.i in its invasion of this significant CUT OUT THIS Send in for Catalogue s&fflXisS&tlefPuisicCb. Wlgl MlMI n v Held. While the American army officers realized early I ho I in in e :i s n advantage IliuL would accrue if balloons he ufi-u- of raising kites to great altitudes and He telegraphing between them. claimed to have transmitted messages a distance of more than 4U0 miles, and such was the Interest in Ills work at the time that congress passed a Hvici.il hill authorizing the Incorporation of u coin puny to continue and extend the experiments. However, the project came to giief In the panic of s wire-stalion- were overcome practical e x p c r imciilH ailing this line Twice nothing Is nothing, hut thnt could he cau p o II . rule does not apply when it cnnics to tered figuring on (he temperature that Is K o r e hi o s t twice ns cold iin zero. a iii a ii g these w.ls the weight Cornell university rays there nre to of the standard be no more hahles uiicr "ti.vi a. I wireless uppa-luand dealers In baby goods will have to of siillicicnl m..ko hsy while the stork Hies poser fur the of cxehaiigu the that scientists say rhilad'1phl:i messages In missing link has hern discovered the the cultured chimpanzee. As nn alter-nutlr- e wo suggest the giver of monkey ground and a a balloon at dinners. is:a. I. utterly, when Ihe development of wireless telegraphy again turned attention to the pndhililicH of the use of bites us ending and receiving stations It has been deniimslrated that the kites have! exceptional qualificaWhen a tions for such functions. kite is flown at. a great altitude a strung current of electricity is generated. especially when the kite is flown by wire instead of by cord. At THE NEW' Mount Weather, where piano wire is flfcKLlL W7PELES3 5ET AND used, so Btnmg a current is brought ZjH-.GAoo- r Wifi) DEVILED IT down from the clouds that it has been necessary to insulate the reel on which the wire wires, each 150 feet is wound. This presence of the magic current in ir length, susnended stfun'll Is ninnifegt. tivan on clear days, wlian there is 1m.h a 'Moss-arudied beneath the no suggestion of an electrical storm. Now, experiments are in progress with a view to using this keel or car of the balloon. TeleIt will be uncaptured current for wireless telegraphy. derstood that these graph instruments are cut in on the kite circuits and ere long a test is to be made iis to the possiwires dangle below the cloud clipper and bility of communicating between two kites flown nt points located 60 niiies spurt. thus Incoming mes-- Kermlt ltoosevelt recently killed two bongocH. We dont know Just what s bongo is, but the probabilities are AtIn eiw Hk.IIsss. r oaasva the yamyam. An Ohio authority says thnt drunk Is an evidence of tnsnnlty. It Is quite generally ngreed now that It Is a disease, hut we still continue to trout it legally as a crime. enness The Yule alumnus, who offers a re $100,000 to the person who discovers an adequate remedy for tu bercutosls, evidently does not acceirt th ; theory that fresh air Is a sure cure. ward of Good Mfdi ora the troa fooodatioo af larfc crapi. Our big Catalogs tills all about Ik but tccdi tbit grow. Scad for Free Copy. YCGELER SEED CO., Salt Lake City A Dull Scholar. The negro boy was up fa' the fifth stealtime on the charge of cliii-Krdeing. This time the cided to appeal to the lwyY rather. he to 'Now, si e hero, Abe, tills hoy of yours has tlio daiky, been up in court ho many timi-- for stealing chickens that I'm tired of seeing him here." Ah don't blame salt. reyon. Ah's tired of seeturned the father. ing him here, loo." "Then why don't you teaeli him how to act? Show him the right way, and he won't be coming here." Ah has showed 'lm da tight way, sail, declared ihe old man, earnestly. Ah has Buttcnly showed 'fin de right way, but he somehow keeps getlln' caught coinin' 'way wid dose chickens! Ihiladelphia llecord. ii Lack of Appreciation. Casey, liecoming wealthy, invited some of his old friends in to dinner. After dinner, Casey passed around the cigaps. They were big, fat, black cigars, that cost him 40 cents each. Hogan, taking his cigar, hit about half of it off and frazzled the other half in lighting iu "What Man, man," said Casey. are yez afther doin' t' that aeegar? . Have 'Tis a fine seegar, a fine fin no of a ye appreciation seegar! Th trot' is, replied Ilogan, as lie chewed off another inch of his cigar, I've been smokin a polpe so long I can't tell th' difference betwixt a five Hit-gar- an a tin." Pittsburg TIW! And now they're claiming In the lofty height. This hmulicnp bus been met iu a cast that it la impossible tr raise tur- portable wireless set which has recently been dekeys on account of a disease called signed by signal corps experts and the first exblackhead, and thnt the disease Is ample of whieh tins lately been completed at the spread by the English sparrow. Funny, signal corps shops in Washington under the direcIf the sparrow spreads It, that It la tion of Kleclrical Assistant II. II. Detlroot. Not only does tills compact little wireless not common In the weal the sparrow la. equipment conform to the requisite of minimum weight hut It affords a solution of the chief probA Yale graduate has offered a prize lem presented In this new Hold namely, the proof $100,000 for a cure of conau nipt Ion. vision of safeguards against a spark from the telThe reward may stimulate effort, but egraphic apparatus igniting the explosive gas In Justice to those who make It tbelr which through accident or design might escape life profession tu Investigate disease from the hag of the hnlhsin. There la considerIt must be said thnt the ultimate good able difference of opinion among electricians as to humanity has proved the greatest to what danger of explosion would exist under imrinul conditions. Sonic experts contend that, apur to scientific discoveries. the air currents created by n liallomi considering The king of Sweden Is getting prac- hi motion there would be no danger, tical lessons in hard work by going but the l;uitcd Slates armypractically aeronauts, cognizant In about disguise doing odd stunts in of the tragic consequences thnt would assuredly the way of coal heaving and other la- follow any such explosion at a high altitude, hare bor. Like the good naturally been loath to take any chance mid hare the king wants to know, so he goes had precautionary measures taken In the conabout to get Information at first hand. struction of the apparatus designed for their exAnd there ie no doubt that he will work. perimental accumulate a stock of knowledge r This wonderful new aerial wireless set. which unusual In the experience of a weighs, nil told, only about TO pounds, occupies or reigning sovereign. rests upon a wooden frame of special design Mexico stands squarely by the Viilt-ewhich measures JtO Inches in length. 17 Inches In States in thnt Zeiaya business, says width and 15 Inches in height. The electrical Troy Tiinea. Our sister republic la energy for this telegraph station is supplied from an ordinary eight-vol- t entirely aware of the trouble-makinsparking character of the man who la trying battery, such as la used In automobiles. This to run Nicaragua on the dictator part of the equipment weighs hilt 23 pounds, as plan and has a full share of annoy- compared with a weight of fit) pounds in the corance from the conditions In thnt neigh- responding section of the lightest portable wireboring country. Mexico has learned less set that would have been available for thia what peace, order and material devel- work, had not the army experts evolved this speopment mean and has no sympathy cial njiparatus lly way of guarding against exwith the Zelayan style of plosions. ns above explained, the spark gap has been covered so as to exclude all gas and there is similar protection for the interrupter contact. The enthusiast who proposes sn au- For all that, this latter essential is housed in it tomobile boulevard all the way from always within view of the operator by meuna of the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, with a small mica window in the side of the ease and road houses every five miles, carelesswith the view of the contact thus available any ly omitted to specify a hospital In- necessary adjustments can be made without openserted exactly between road houses. ing the case. This new wireless set fur military work aloft, A punishment to fit the crime was way, cost about $300. has the same tbs: inflicted on a grocer i a Penn- which, by theand of type telephone receiver found in the key Who was town to compelled sylvania wireless sets which have lntely made rit eggs alleged by a customer to be pnrtable A bad It Is safe to say that In future their nppcar.iiicc in the commercial field. la the eggs in that town will be sold only In thoroughly unique feature, however, aerial'' from which the sound waves are sent on a atate of pristine and unimpeachable their Inng Journey. The aerial devised for wirepurity. less telegraphy via aky scouts consists of threa llaroiin-al-Kaaclil- d cloud-climbin- g STLC OP-- ' JBWALDON FAWCETT HIJC and pniaie interStates ests in the I'uili-are now working to combine the The Idea or putting In meters to measure telephone talk Is good, hut will ft be possible to devise meters that will stand the strain? There Is no doubt that when King Guatave lavs down the shipwright's knife or the shoemaker's swl and m auines the regal srrpti-r- , he w ill do so with an Intimate knowledge of Industrial conditions which he could not Lave obtained in any other way. ttAlk He Was Shown, jx sages. Instead of being caught above the station, ns in all earthly installations, will be caught below the station. In lieu of a ground wire the aerial telegraphers will make use of the wire netting which braces the balluon car. The army's first experiments with wireless telegraphy via aerial craft were made with an ordinary spherical balloon, but the new wireless set was designed primnrlly for use with the war department's lately acquired dirigible No. 1 and when In service the wooden platform carrying the electrical apparatus rests across the keel or skeleton framework of the balloon, being supported upon two horizontal rods of the keel. The dirigible which Is destined to serve as I'ncle Sam's first portable aerial wireless station is 120 feet In length and the car or keel which carries the wireless apparatus is made of spruce. While the electrical division of the I'nited States signal vorps has been busy with plans for wireless work via free balloons that would prove of Immense value in time of war, other branches of the federal government have been looking into the possibilities of mid-ai- r telegraph stations designed to serve the pursuits of peace. Chief Willis Moore and his associates of the I'nited States weather bureau have long taken an especially keen interest in this subject and Interest ing experiments covering hlgh-ai- r work with both balloons and kites have been in progress for some time past at Mount Weather that Virginia mountain peak where the weather bureau has assembled such marvelous equipment for the exploration of the upper air. Prof. Moores primary interest iu wireless telegraphy Is as a means of transmitting storm warnings and weather forecasts, particularly the interchange between ships and shore stations. It may surprise many persons to learn that wireless telegraphy via kites preceded by many years wireless telegraphy as we know it Forty years ago, long before eithe.r Marconi or the Hertzian waves wore ever heard of. a resident of the national capital, Mahlon Loomis by nauie, announced thnt he had solved the problem of transmission without wires by the expedient to-da- Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, who has been engrossed for several yeera past in experiments with kites formed from tetrahedral cells and who has latterly designed g a kite that has made some wonderful performances, has Included wireless telegraphy as one branch of his kite investigations. For this telegraphic work he has employed a kite of comparatively modest size, preceded by a small pilot kite, and these have usually been flown at a height of about 2.000 feet. The kites carry aloft equipment in the form of ordinary green electric-ligh- t cord, to the upper end or receiving terminal of which is attached 400 feet of antennae wire. The telegraph operator la stationed close by the reel of piano wire the point from which the kite is sent up. Hr. Bell has had the cooperation In these experiments of Sir. Pe Forest. Inventor of the wireless telegraphy system which bears his name, as a ell as the aid of other wireless telegraphy experts. The original kite messages via the artificial birds sent aloft by Dr. Bell were transmitted a distance of only six miles, but gradually this was increased until the transmission attained hundreds of miles and Included the exchange of aerograms with steamers more than 100 miles at aea. In one experiment the telegraph operator caught the messages after passage through the bodies of two men who stood at the side of the receiving instrument. The men clasped hands and one grasped the tel graph wire from the kite with his free hand, while the other held In his the receiving instrument man-liftin- tele-granhi- c How She Identified Twins. The Beverly twins. Fred and Frank, were such exact counterparts of each other that none of the neighbors could tell them apart and even their mother sometimes had her doubts. The resemblance is accentuated fact that they are dressed exactly alike. by the How In the world can you yourself tell which la which, Mrs. Beverly asked a caller one day. "To tell the truth, she answered, l can't but If I hear a noise In the and pantry I cull out, FYtd, Is that you? and he says, Yes I know mamma,' It'a Frank, and that hes In r some kind of mischief. -Y- outh's Companion. Hiawatha man got on a crowded conch. Another man was holding a seat with two traveling grips. Id like to move those valises, said the Hiawatha nun. I'd like to see you." said the hog. The Hiawatha man moved them. Did. you see me'."' lie said. "Yes, said ihe hog. Is that all?" asked the Hiawatha man. Yes, thats all," replied the hog. Kansas City JournaL A Baseball Fatality. A baseball enthusiast took his wife to the ball game. That night the fan" was awakened from his slumber by Ills better hair shouting in her dreams: Kill the umpire!" Half asleep he sprang out of bed, and in doing so knocked over the washstand. The crash awoke Mrs. Fan. Did you kill the umpire, John?" she Inquired. "No, replied John angrily. "But I smashed Success-Magazinthe pitener. Indispensable Qualification. Caller My uncle died yesterday, sir, and I want you to officiate at the funeral. Deacon Jones "But I didn't know him." Good! Youre just the man Caller I want." Fight Talk Bottled. We don't hear any more about the Balkan States scrapping." I understand the Balkan States have been officially notified that they will have to put up a forfeit before getting any more free advertising." Louisville Courier-Journal. He Found OuL A beefy English officer, being seat- ed next to an elderly stranger at a dinner, leaned over and said: Whos that fat old Mpixipotamus of a woman opposite?" "That's my wire, wa the reply. Thanks, said the officer, hastily. "Thanks. That's all 1 wanted to know, And he turned to his neighbor on. the other side and wliL'pep-d- . with a chuckle: Got well out of lhat, I tluak, eh?" -Washington Star. |