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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALKING. 'Telegraph Talk nnd Talkers" by 1. C. Hill In McClure's Is a revelation nt some of the mysteries of ' telegraphese or ' Morse. ' the garrulous tongue of dot and dish that clicks Incessantly around the globe Its simp city to spoken discourse Is really Btrcrtllng It Is almost uncanny to read that to the Initiated an operator's ' Morse la as Indicative of chnracter ns hli speech, his face, or his dress, nay. that fiom his "Morse ' one can often recognize nt first sight a man whom one has nevci, nt I this meeting, bee" within many hundred miles Hy dally comtiiiinlca lion over Ihe wire operntors grow to Mint as close friendships as ever worn nude within Mur Inclosing walls Amotion Is as deal Is convesed by theso little metallic taps n by the most skillfully modulnted he riio lilcks plased on beglnneiB and on awkward oiJcrntors - Instiuments furnish iv very amiiBlng serleH of stories. |