| Show editorials D I 1 T 0 R bals interviewers enter bise rise HISE is as admirable in journalism as in other professions but is more apt to be plis pils pushed lied tied to extremes A wideawake wide awake reporter will gather up every item of news attainable that is likely to interest any portion of the public in doing this he fie will necessarily become inquisitive and if naturally modest and retiring will soon be bd so ad armored with assurance Burance as that those drawbacks to hig his success will not be particularly ticul arly conspicuous the public are generally courteous to news collect collectors orbi orsi and most people are free and abd frank in furnishing items to authorized enquirers ers but the pertinacity of reporters is often carried to impudent excess particularly ia is this the case with Interview erB ye we do not how lefor refer specially to the falsehood which is one of the chief characteristics acte of many so called interviews with notta persons which are often fabricated entirely out of the interviewer imagination but to the insolent attitude assumed by buch such persons in demanding information when it is not volunteered dand and by the papers they cejp represent in abusing those who not choose to be intruded upon by strangers igers why should elther either private citizens or public characters b ba 0 compelled to receive an imp impertinent catechizer simply on the ground that he claims to represent some why should a reporter have any more riah right t to force j himself into the society of those who do not wish to associate or br converse with him any more mord than one unconnected with the press the pertinacity and brazen impudence of some of these persons are becoming agrest nui pance which ought to be abated every bobu in the land should bu bra sacred to those who dwell therein and no ones onea privacy should be invaded without free permission except by legal warrant A brazen irrepressible jou journalistic r nail nall inquisitor has no more right to enter a private domicile without the free consent of the inmates than has the butcher the baker the candle stick maker or any other person and public sentiment should be against the impertinent interviewer that berates an individual who declines to be interviewed and should sustain the latter in protecting himself against unwarrantable intrusion courtesies in all reason should be extended towards members of the press who conduct themselves respectably and people ought to be willing to afford correct information as far as lies in their power to those thosa whose business it is to disseminate knowledge of fact and principle but no one is in law custom or duty bound to submit to intrusion impertinence or assumption simply because the questioner is a newspaper reporter everybody should understand thia this and assist when necessary in la maintaining the rights of all TRIUMPHS OF or SOI sol SCIENCE enoe ENdE years ago there was little more than 2000 miles of marine telegraph cable in existence at present there about is bjes miles laid representing a capital of awen ty five million pounds sterling about one hundred and twenty hye alve fave million dollars the bulk of pv hach capital has been found in england at a recent banquet given to the members of the tho liter international national telegraph conference now in session in ondon london Ii the chairman colonel holland remarked in the course of a speech mada made behim by hiim that intercommunication is s now an affair of 0 f minutes between london and berlin paris Rome borne brussels vienna st petersburg and the oher other great capitals and cities of europe while even with the most distant parts of india messages are exchanged in from thirty minutes to one or two hours he considered wide spreading portent of buch auch su c h great faeta facts as thes these 9 undoubtedly are arc marcellous marvellous marv ellous alike in concep tion and execution r was apt to 0 bo be underrated and that too ift little tie tle is thought of tho the fact that a message sage owing to the arrangements BO so admirably thought lout out and skilful ly conceived traverses traversed without hindrance oi or difficulty thousands of miles of territory safely to its destination mr henry A Sever bever bevorna lii of herne hill england as succeeded in in pro producing a marinero mariners ma compass which enables jhb captain or officer in charge to hear by vy aberin the ringing ging of a bell wuen when the vessel is out of the ordered course the entire apparatus 10 contained in it a smail box easily carried about and intended as a rule td to be placed in the cap tain taina cabin in ift the com cow construction of this compass mr clevern has availed himself of the eon bon constant stant position of rk ho the card and ear vary ing tion of the ship for tho the purpose of masing and bhe bie breaking aking metallic contact which causes an electric bell beli tabe I 1 and thus an announce the fact that ing eng vessel ia 11 off her hei courim cour hie tse oserthe Oc erthe card are two index hands which can be adjusted to any angle allowing ot greater or less dev deviation lation in steering to elther either the por port t or starboard etar board hidde assum in ing g the captain on quitting the deok deck ta to have given to steer the tho be thip on a certain course he bets sets the index hand to a certain angle allowing the a given latitude for devia devla deviation either doport to port or starboard star stai board of that course I 1 instead of bf having to be constantly watching g the compass ae aia at presen present ty that his ordera are carried oat the captain leaves the instrument to teil toll him by its silence if they are and by its sounds if the they are not obeyed should the shili bv bl steered off her coune course beyond the limit allowed on either illde elde an electric alarm bell ringa rings in instantaneously neou sly and moreover continue ringing unil the right coune IB assumed the index handa can cau bf be raised away froin from the birdi c ird when ibe the bell beil becomes disconnected anu ana tho the compass can be used like an ordinary one the invention prom aises to sam saw serve servo a very useful 1 purpose lul jut in navigation by the th captain will be saved mu h i anxiety etland and the knowledge that d a check is upon them will berva serva to render reudel officered cers more vigilant villan vi iian lian ilan and steers men more careful the dangers of navigation will ba bd much lessened by its use uso |
