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Show A Great Man's Telephone. "His great instrument was the tele phone," said a biographer of the late Edward H. Harriman in the Vall Street Journal. "He alwavs had it beside him. Thi Harriman switch board was one of the best equipped and the busiest in New York. Whether Wheth-er in his office, his library, bin bed room or his bathroom, the telephone was always there, and when he went into the Oregon wilderness the telephone tele-phone would go too. " 'A slave to the telephone,' wrote a New York editor in commenting on Harriman and his telephone. 'None-sense,' 'None-sense,' said Harriman, when this was called to his attention, 'the telephone is a slave to me.' " It is altogether likely thai much of the power and influence of the late Mr. Harriman was due to the aid of his telephone. In fact, he admitted as much. His telephone was his ever ev-er present messenger, always ready for service. With it he reached all of bis business associates and every cor ner of his vast railroad territory. A man who puts the telephone in his home places himself in the avenue of jpproaoh to millions of other homes, shops, ofices ancLfarms. Just as with the railroad king, so it is with farmers and men in all other walks in life. The telephone in the home or business place of many a man less famous than Harriman is per forming a work just ae great in importance, impor-tance, and perhaps is proving more of a blessing than to the capitalist whose every command could be oarried out. The instrument was probably just as important in the miad of the farmer who wrote : "I would as Boon think of mowing my hay with an old-fashioned scythe as to try to conduct my farm successfully success-fully without a telephone." Throughout the farming world the telephone today is a popular and useful use-ful instrument. It was not so long ago when its use in rural sections was unheard of. Now it is the farmer's greatest aid in business, in borne life and for protection. He sells his crops by the aid of the telephone, eatohing a fluctuating market at its very tip. In the spreading of weather reports it has saved many thousands of dollars every season to the fruit growers of tha country. It brightens brigh-tens the lives and enriches the soci.-vl opportunities of the wives and daughters daugh-ters on the farm. It is their protection protec-tion against hoboes and marauders when the men-folks are away. Perhaps Per-haps its greatest service is in bringing nearer to home the physician and the veterinary--in answering instantly every emergenov of farm life. The telephones on farms are growing grow-ing more and more popular and numerous. nu-merous. Tha statement is made by the Western Eleotrio company, manufacturer man-ufacturer of the ''Bell" telephones that over 100,000 of its new type of rural telephones have been told in. the past ten months. There are now close to two million telephoues on farms in this country. When President Roosevelt's Country Life Commission went among the farmers far-mers last year, hearing testimony on conditions of farm lifi, it reported that the greatest encouragement to farming of the better sort and more healthful life in country districts was given by just such agencies as good roads, the extension of the tural mail system and the farm telephone. |