Show get rid of gopher gophers the best way to get rid of gopher gorbert them the best time ir if poison is to now the beet best ie Is that supplied the kaneas kansas tate state agricultural from manhattan th the e rest Is 1 DO no college Is I 1 dd are re it if aset and lp att to direction romances of progress by albert payson terhune ROBERT FULTON the man who beat bad luck 0 one a e day in 1806 1 a pale thin man w atu 1 a alock ot 0 dark bair landed in rw york lie vaas a failure nineteen years earlier full of high hopes and artistic talt tal nt he bad had balled for england to complete his education as a a EL portrait painter news had re reached etched hie 11 I 1 3 native land that the ecung artist had bad foolishly abandons aban donn 4 his chosen and bad had set to work on seme cazy mechanical contrivance which could only prove drove useless and later morts showed the truth of fears fop for young robert fulton was vas to his native land poor and unsuccessful fulton fultor was wall the eon son of an art irish lm tin migrant As a it boy he his spare time between painting Dic pictures tures and making mechanical toy toys at 13 he lie had devised a paddle wheel that could be attached to a rowboat and propelled by hand band at 17 he turned all his attention to art and aa as soon aa as huld could raise the money he went ti tu Flig england land to study under denjamin enjamin ll west nut but while there he met sev eral british scientists and stud at their advice gave up art for mechanic mechanics lie became a 4 friend of james watt and made a close study of the latter steini steam engine then it was that the great idea of his life came to fulton he re was the sort of man who ho literally exudes ideas all of them theta were of a mechanical nature while in england he helped support by sought ua to help inventing appa Na ratus for making napoleons navy ropes then be devised the first marine torpedo and with it a submarine boat for naval warfare he ile went to france which was then at war with england and tried to interest napoleon in these he ile so far succeeded that he be was al lowed to test them before a commission though the submarine boat would remain under water for hours and anti could be guided at will its speed was slow and it could made no rese ress against the current so the french government rejected it next he was ordered to launch bla his tone torie does at the british fleet off brest tie projectiles failed to do any damage the laughing stock of all europe the disappointed american returned to new york ills friend robert livingston 1 lent him enough money to make one olie more trial at the steamship he lie sent to england for one of watts engines pud profiting by hia his own former mistakes akes started work on hie his new and improved steamer it was built in an eart east river shipyard it an amedean artist coming home m 1832 after a successful career aa an and sculptor la in europe amused his fellow passengers during I 1 the voyage by explaining to them a queer theory ho he was working out the artist was samuel D B F morse a new englander who bad been from yale at 18 and had like robert fulton gone to england to study art under bennarr in west in bis his spare moments he dabbled for recreation in electrical experiments on the homebound home honi bound ship he had met a dr jackson who had interested him still further in this subject the theory with which morse entertained the other passengers was as follows it has been proved that an electrical current will pisa instantaneously along a wire of any length it I 1 thia this current la Is interrupted at any point a spark will appes why cot not let such a spark or succession of sparks represent some part of speech a letter number or other sound symbol 7 the passengers laughed at the odd notion and moat most of tb then m soon forgot it but moree was eo so captivated by the idea ide i that he threw ivr bis his artle artis tic career and set to ork at oace once un on the electrical invelito in which be called the electromagnetic electro magnetic tel tele e graph lit II 11 sacrificed his means of livelihood by doin this for four years he worked in po iby y and want and at the end of that time his envell lion was complete then be he petitioned congress for en appropriation in order that ha he might put up an experimental line from bal dal to washington the request waa was refused long struggle gle then he be went to with congress england and tried to patent his invention he ile failed nor would other Europ european can countries him avery one seemed to look took on the telegraph as a ti nellese ne elese impracticable fantasy dack back to america came morse an and d once brice more went to washington where he moved heaven and earth to get congress to appropriate for the telegraph ilia ills efforts seemed in its aln fain and on the laet last evening cong congress iress eras was in session in 1813 be he went to 1113 11 a 13 lodgings heartbroken and without lit hope this was the lowest jos est ebb of hie bill fortune without prospects c tn penal less more mare than 60 50 year years old his big I 1 invention 11 ren tion everywhere rejected he deemed to be one ot or the most abject fall failures fures early next morning a young birl girl ailed to see him sh waa was the daughter of the commet of pat rat iota and ebe she brought the 11 irn ged inventor glorious gl orlou new news at midnight almost on the minute of adjournment on angress gress bad had voted morse the the work of buil building dins the line trod became customary tor for crowd crowds to eft 90 out and watch the course of the boate construction fulton christened it the clermont but it was popularly kuo known n ILS a Ful pulton tons folly fulma him wit added to this ridicule by pro phasing so ving that in a fe few years a steam team steamboat boat would be able to cross the atlantic such stich a forecast ws as derided as sheer insanity at last on august 11 1807 the clermont was launched and started on her maiden trip to albany all new york turned out to make fun of the weird boat bout and in looks the clermont Clenn ont was worthy the derl derision slon ane she excited she had a HO foot keel and was 1614 feet wide A single smoke stack fully 60 feet high rose from her deck and her twin paddle wheels looked ked like the sails of a windmill As the she moved through the water an ava lanche of sparks fire and black smoke poured from the black stack and the roar of the ma machinery benery and paddle wheels could be heard for miles mile she phe was a success pulton fulton wae was vindicated dilated and now the inventor who ho had heretofore been looked on as a harmless crink was the nations hero he ile built became in a day ta other and faster the nations hero acre steamboats in MP id succession 1 in 1812 he constructed the first steam ferry boat boal two years later he made the first steam warship ware hip a 44 run gun frigate named fulton the flat wealth and arid honors began to pour in to on him out but just as he be was about to reap the reward of at his years of toil toll and misfortune he found his patents disputed and became involved in a maze of lawsuits most host of these latter he be loat lost ills mind and nature embittered and hie big purse depleted by litigation his health undermined by exposure from working out of doors in his shipyard during bad weather robert fulton died in 1815 when only 49 year years old lie ile waa was burled buried in trinity churchyard new york where a large raone ment has since 1 been erected over his grave there be he lies midway bell between the two rivers every one ot at whose thousands of steam craft Is a more sublime monument to his memory than any mausoleum which mortal bands hands could raise above the grave of the naan man bilto bo did so much for rees ress and whom his fellow country men rewarded with ridicule and injustice SA SAMUEL M UEL MORSE the man who 0 o abolished time and space washington to baltimore Dalt Imore was begun at in a year it was as complete in may ilay 1841 18 the first message waa was sent it viba as dictated ly I 1 y the girl girt who had brought morse news of 0 the appropriation and it redd what hath bath god wrought i now that the echeme scheme Nowa ivas aru triumphant a abess it waa was at once adopted id opted all over the world but dr jackson who had talked over the subject with morse on an shipboard so many years bufore now brought ault suit claiming credit for all the latter bad had accomplished the suit unlike so 50 many in which progress reEa makers have been engaged was decided in morses s favor henceforth hia his way was smooth european Euro pein countries raised for him a testimonial of and wealth and t onora poured la in from all sides now that it was found aisy to telegraph across limitless stretches of land the next step was to attempt the laying of telegraph wires under water it was found that by insulat las ing these wires a cable could be laid under the english channel from eng land to france then came the idea of the atlantic cable that also originated with morse but here began new series of setbacks and dap that dragged on for many years two large steamers awl twice ce tried to stretch a cable across the at lantic alantic and both times the cable broke cyrus W field who was the achta promoter of f the scheme not give up even in ahr face of these repeated disappointments through his efforts a third A A i an atlantic at ant cable ble was at cable at lat la st tempted a and this time was carried safely across the he ocean electric communication was established A monster ovation was pl planned anne la 12 fields field a honor boner but dut on the very day it was to occur the cable elgain collapsed for seven years nothing more was done ahe project was abandoned as useless yet field did not despair at last in 1860 1110 the first tirs permanent and atil practicable line was laid dut but to morse above all others prats praise for telegraphy Is due me rie made no 13 0 original electrical discoveries in fact Yar fouls other men while bo he was perfecting his big machine outdo mare or less futile experiments sam same e line but it remained tor far morse t to I 1 combine all previous electric invert eions sad d discoveries au put them to their first great uses lie ile lared to see that little strand of wire which in 1843 he stretched between two nearby cities extend until it had bad knit the whole civilized world in one mighty boud that revolutionized corn com merce ne ayi flis and history itself and forever annihilated time and space i |