1Rapity Spreads Fasrils

JjMflT Upitn Org Snnfe Anita Scope tfWimfcss mm 1 1 TERRIBLE LURE OF LIQUOR i rapity Drags Down Votsrles of k ux Spreads FasrilS Power Which Cup I Little Understood Few 1 Awful Examplts Rslated. f V "If there sat a glass of whiskey on that table, and I knew that If I should drink it I would lose my right arm ". ' i!:'t:VS i;',:: i could not help but Uke the liquor, even though my arm were chopped off piecemeal." - Thus expressed himself to the writ fcV;::V';V-- . ;.v.- :- ;J- er a man who had spent 18 months In a Michigan prison for the commission of a crime for which C 11 liquor was most largely responsible, S.Vi i. l!i writes William H. Vlnn In the De troit Journal. - : ' r- ;'" , V . v- - -- -i: j How little we calf understand the "Y power which drags votaries " down the I'A' 1 "- - ' of cup. Said a man to one of our ' the police captains tn have ill "To strip wireless of its technicali- Detroit: "I 7V not waking moment when I am free ties and boll down to the primal a it from the craving for liquor." If w EARS ago fanciful constituents Is not hard," said an ex- knew more about the lives and experi- 'sr writer took hit pert who has made a study of the readera ences of the men whose forms go stag- on expedition to theory and knows the practice. "It an' the gering by on our streets, or who stand north pole. The ex- la simply through space transference before our bars of justice, pity would plorer had been pre- of waves of electromagnetle energy. often replace blame and sympathy ceded to the region of "When a wireless operator presses would occupy the place of scorn. perpetual Ice by a party a key, a spark Jumps between two HEARING THE CANYON Last week I met a poor fellow on that had perished there. pieces of metal. These two pieces of the street who bad been released from T WAS a glorious morning.- - The job. water The hero of the story metal are connected with long wires, I'm sure that lo would police court In morning. From milk-war- learned one day called antennae, are strung on the rains seemed to have turned their be only in comparison to this that his actions It needed no prophet to elsewhere time when a torch that he poles called aerials. The energy from attentions for the that littl river. foretell that he would face the judge being. AH mountains stood w on, wading nec- was holding is spread on wires I the Thus went when thawed this spark these ere' long, and sure enough he was tn clear-cu-t against blue, with essary, and resuming shoes and part of a large shaft of and diffused tn waves. th our the same court next morning. For over tops whitened by snow; foothills we Ice and there came from this Icy pris- "These waves have definite length, the walking when could. a decade be has been under the com- th valley were wearing by big pool, on the Toloea of the men who had perished which can be determined partly and whole th Later we sat the churned there plete domination of John Barleycorn. new green spring. years before. through the power of the sending sta- mantle of by a plunging waterfall, and watched His experiences cause one to thlnH We had early ear for they In Today the fancy of the novelist has become - Chin aV tion. The station that Is receiving taken the several trout as darted about 35 8J- of the custom of certain African chief Madre, always filled on w fact of science. The air Is filled with messages these Is able to put Itself in tune to Sierra a car thel liquid home. And when went i who express their peculiar affection days off" merry collectlob of luck, that may be beard by any one who has the simple receive wave lengths of the nature with a on again, Henry, with his usual for certain of their subjects by maim- city folk who love wild and who dry-sho- and I slip- means that are requisite. The man who sent out by the sending station and the passed this pool stands ing their bodies. All sorts of cripples yearn through for higher In the noisy crowd of the city and the lonely sheep exclude others." the week the ped down the smooth side of a rock are thus made by these rulers and It places, the rocky canyons and th plumped into herder on a fenceless Australian prairie are alike Wireless relies on electromagnetic big as a house, and the Is related that the persons so mal- dashing streams, and for the racing From surrounded by them, and it is possible for each waves as the source of Its communi- sitting room of th trout this treated take a particular delight tn blood, and renewed en- about to be made conscious of their presence. cation. These waves are sometimes red cheeks time on I was not so particular A 'JO their sufferings, for to them It Is a ergy that such retreats give to those taking off my shoes and stockings be- This Is the accomplishment of wireless. The " called Hertzian waves and were made mark of of chief. the esteem tbelr who seek them, writes H. C. Hurst, in stream. system lfef" use of for the first time tn 1880 by fore entering the of communication without use of wires In- the Some years ago, while under the the Los Angeles Times. When canyon opened out a lit- to carry the electrical Impulses has grown so Prof. .Amos Dolbear of Tufts college. the fluence of liquor, the man of whom we Our objective point was the Big San and was at last a trait intimately into the world's business He applied for a patent on a wireless tle there that it takes are writing lost a limb. He hobbled ta Anita. Neither Henry nor I through vines and trees and ferns high something out of the ordinary to bring a realiza- system that had every essential of the peg-le- g about on a for a time, but had ever been In this canyon. We above creek, we hurried along and tion of what la being done and what the outlook plan followed today. He got his pat- th drink still held sway over him. About had seen Us little sister many a time covered some miles in short time, onlw Is. Wireless was more than ten years old when ent in 1888, which was two years be- years be- four afco. while drunk, he as w climbed up the Mt Wilson trail, to be confronted by a wall across the the ships Republic and Florida collided on January fore Dr. Hertz's discoveries. came mixed up with a railroad train but there Is always an added test canyon, down which leaped a large 23, 1909, and the jumping spark under the com- and lost an arm at the shoulder limb In the unknown, in not knowing what fall in three cascades of tumbling mand of the wireless operator instantly made off on one side and arm on the other. is ahead around the next corner la sliver. known that disaster to the world. The Republic, Still be clung to the glass. a new town, around the next bend In We saw the game was up In that 'di- alone In the fog and dark, might have gone to Somewhere In this city tolls a little, the trail, or what the next week, or rection, but were glad to find a trail the bottom without news of the disaster being sweet-face- d lady of upward of 70 years month or year holds for us tn that leading up the side of th hill and known for days. It was two days after La Bour-gogn- e of age, earning still her own living at larger journey called Life. W ques- over a divide; and standing at the sank before the story of the catastrophe housework of a light fellow-passenge- r, order. She is tioned our nearest a top, w knew we were about to reach became known. But a wireless operator, Jack the of man mother the above referred young fellow In complete corduroy our goal, for below us stream ran Blnns, flashed the news from the Republic to to, and he the is her all. Her one prayer suit and mountain boots, wbo looked circling through a valley and several land and drew out of the dark half a dozen rescu- Is that she may be spared to bury her as though he had always climbed stone bouses or huts. ' ing ships. boy. 8avlng she could from all that mountains. Tea, he had been clear Soon we were In the heuse of th story her scant earnings, she procured a The of Jack Blnns, the first wireless hero through the Big Santa Anita, and Hermit and were drying out before of po- satisfactory artificial limb for International fame, spread abroad, and the her there were some ticklish plsces in It I wood fire on the hearth. Outside, drink-craze- d boy. pos- the sition of the new method of communication was Were that limb but we ceuld make It all right H along under naked sessed., power th river roared the assured. Wireless had been put to its first great of the of speech It could himself was bound for the west fork by cabin, tell many trees, and the wind tore the test and passed through it successfully.

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