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Show SOME OF THE OLDONES The Veterans of the Key and Battle Field . , to, Moot Eeaoh Other In Friendly Confab. . HEE TBEASUEED GEMS IN PERIL. The Misadventure of a Oomio Opera Singer's Sing-er's Jewels California's Bepub-lican Bepub-lican Candidate. At the convention of veteran telegraphers telegra-phers soon to be held at Kansas City will appear the representatives of two organized bodies the Old Time Telegraphers' Teleg-raphers' society and the United States Military Telegraph corps. May of these men have helped to make history and control the direction of important events, for in the days that are gone they heard the cannon roar and the bu- W. J. DEALT. J. H. EMERICK. W. B. SOMERVILLE. W. P. PHILLIPS. W. B. WILSON. lets zip in the fore front of battle. They were not combatants, but they endured all the dangers of the eoldier while sending and receiving messages on the fields of civil strife. Many of their comrades were killed and others disabled, but it is not a matter of record that any war telegrapher no matter whether he "pounded brass" for the blue or for the gray ever showed the white feather. As for the survivors who are to meet and talk over old times, they are intelligent and fine looking gentlemen, many of whom have won their way to responsible places and the unlimited confidence of large corporations. corpora-tions. The illustration given herewith is of a group of "stars" who began to scintillate under the fire of sharpshooters in the years "when the north and the south had parted." They are getting gray and along in years now these old time telegraphers but it is to be hoped that the day 'is yet far distant when the "sounder" of life shall click out for them the message of "thirty," which means to the operator at the key good-night and reBt |