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Show 1 ..is. M ! i ;jfM "Hello, Uncle biml Mi) wo coiiio Into In-to jour woodpile? o often seo sou sit hero whittling, t,oit of lonesoiuo like, but folks tell us leu don't want to bother with boss, betause you hale so many Important thlngo to think about." "Well, well' Kolka who tell sou that don t know. The) seem to foigot that they wero once boss themscliesiind that Sou llttlo fellows are fcolng to ho men lerysoon Conmtlhht In. hit down on (he logs. Some of thtso dajs, when jou come to the Whlto House to keo me, woll hale spring bottom ch ilrs, but I reckon logs will do for tho woodpile Been skating, I sec Thut's good sport for Jnturdas i The skates wo had when I was a hoy didn't look muth like youra do Wo didn t know the fnnty step, cither, but, my' wo tould skato like tho wind If I could go with jou home Raturdaj I would hunt up ms "Id greoied sknlcs with tho stinro, and the toen turled up like n capital (' nnd glio u doughnut to tho bos who tould intch rne" 'Oh, I'nclo Sam, do go with ua some das'. Well iuc3 with you and teich ou tho fane) steps, and a whole loi of stunts besides joukrow we study his. tors at school, but that tell i in about things that happened a good while ago, mid moft of them nuns off Wo want to know about things that nie happening happen-ing now. Anshow, we hcai folks tulk about lota of things wn don t understand under-stand cxnctlj, 'lint's why wc wanted to eomo In and ad. sou about them Hid ou cier hear about Maiconl' Tell uu who ho Is, Untlo bun, and what ho has done 'Ccitalnly, boss I was gnlns to sicak of him n few minutes ago Mr, Maicunl or Mgnor Maitonl, as they tall him In Italj, wheio he tomes from. Is trslug to pcrfict wireless telegraphs. The things he doca look like mailc until un-til wo come to uudtistnnd them Then the seem so hlmplo tint wc wonder win the) weic not found cut long ugo " "Isn t Hint genei ills the was with gicut dlscoieilcs and Inicntlons, Undo Bam"" ' Ves, my boj , many of them nro so simple that ihev were Just oicr-looked oicr-looked until somebods tame along with eyes a little sharper than souis or inino and found tho wonder whole It lud been wultlng ull tho while for somebody some-body to conic along and plik It, llko a ilpe, rtsy pcith Hut. after nil It will not do tn think that these won-flora won-flora aro to bo picked up by chance anywhere and by nnybnds Hlgnor Maitonl tamo from n sleeps old Italian town, but hi cses ure wldo open After Af-ter he had Mulshed his studies at the university he hec.an Btudslng at homo In great earnest He believed that an electrlial current, It, started In a rlien dlicctlnn, would readily pis.t through almost nny substance Another thing he belleied was that certain lasers of air aboie tho earth's surface would curry telegraphic incsage somen hit 111 tho way wlrei halo tarried Uhem cier slntu Hamucl Morse built the first Hue III " In ISH, ttntlo ham, between Haiti-more Haiti-more and Washington ' "lhanks, boss. I lemember where tho lino wns for I mw It built, but I did not feel quite "sure of the seir. Well, Mtanonl began to experiment with wlrelesB tclcgrnth). He does nnt claim to halo been the Itrst to belleie It possible, but ho Is surels tho flrt to construtt nil nppiratus that would do It succesfull, More than four ears ago ho sent nictsages through the air as fur a nine mile Ono mess ige, sent from Queen Victoria who w is on shore, tn tho Prime of Wales on his rosnl sacht, made Marconi a friend of the Prince or of the King as we now know film. In 1S93 the system wn used to tell a New York paper that fllr Thomas Upton had not lifted the cup In tho ) at lit rates At the Presidential election elec-tion In ISM It was usel In itnuuuntlng election letuins. Slnic then many ocean steamers and llgltliouses and life-selling stations haio been equipped with the nppiratus" Will that proicnt shipwrecks, Undo Sim?' It will aid ships In distress wishing ilKI i 1 nlsil to call for help fiom tho shore, and IsHI ii -riinaafl when the Utile ticker on a Bhlp In mid- HUVM . ' ' HlaaH ocean gets busy tho captain will know ifrf" I soaaB It Is tlmo to slow up, unless It Is so KlV'i'ill I 'i ' BaaH llghf and clear ho ctin seo his way. The HrEltlti MaL rlnklng of ono ship nt sea by collision JKvttr kH with another ought neicr ngaln to hap- JUttitUi' iisH pen. llculiles theso Impuitant things IB;) I ' IjaaB people on stenmcis find It pleasant to Nfn 't)il fltltH exchange giectingn with people on Bill ''(!' InaaH nthtr steamers within 100 or S00 miles rtlEJl'! 'HaVafl of them. Old ocean Is not to loneaomo bfrj tlVI a plnco ns It nueo was. When a ship ffe j i iIbbH leaies this side It keeps In touch with (K H i jliH the shore us far out as It can, and long fit '.Uit' IIJLH beforo It gets across It reaches out 3 I ffl ( SmH thiniiKh the air to say: "Hello, we.'ro tm 'i ;,,;,' J tH toinlug" Bo tho otcan la becoming i JV.t.-1 ; i rHH smaller. i , 'tl itH Hut the greater wonder Is that on ti! K ,.' tiuH December 1! Maiconl recelied a signal S ,u'l ft jH to St John. N. 1". from his station t''V-n it '(GuaH nt I.lzard Point. Cornwall Hngland. "i ft ' 1 jl J 'UH The signal wns only three dots, which I i,H !-. fiWllH stand for tho letter H, but the great IX ,iKii tf'WKM Inicutor Is so entouroged that ha will yff iWty JSlHH build u line station In America like 'fii' Hs'l'lrwlsaH tho ono In Cornwall In his expert- Vt Hl I Js h ment thus fnr he held a small ulro f V l j? 13f In the air by mean of a kite." J! ttrl hH That mikes us think nbout Frank- 'if (f i'"Ii 'I'fH lln Uncle Ham. away back In 175!" (' ., UfijljltH 'Yes, that Is tho wns-. Wo learn A (UflttlliB from each other. Perhaps Marconi did 1 a llJitliH honow that Idea from Pinnklln. Yet, ij flf". IHlaH ho his Ideas of his own Forty years tllL i miul ago, while our Clill War was going on. t 'T''M. !flrMaH Cvrus W. Field spnt scleral fortunes f W' ("Sii i'ViH and nine scara of patient toll In a tj Ju 9'iKitjH most hi rob effort to lay a cable on .Ml ViljJ'V'H the bed of tho Atlantic. Todny Mar- )R 'Jltr'tnHaH conl runs the wire up two tall poles. I) ifi,' .JiijjJnH with a delicate Instrument ut the top , '' ! IMj ' laE''H of each, and, prestnl does tho business 3 I jjtl idJlislfiiB through the air And he promises to V f )' Hwll, H reduce the cost of cablegrams from 25 '. 1 '') IIPjUi'JbH cents a word to one cent a word Yes. 'f JR l'UH these are wonderful times, boss, and I ', I 'jf'S. 1(171 ifB am right glad tn know that sou want a. lj.lfrif.JlfH to keep up with them. 1m generally ' i fin 7lS !t .,H around tho wondpllo on Saturday at- tBrlfHlitB ternnon and mighty pleased to haio AfKl" t itiH ou diop in." 8 IHWHjffH |