Segnogram V5 N1 Oct 1905
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There is no substitute for the Bull Dog HEWES & POTTER Largest Suspender and Belt Makers in the World Dept 33, 89 Lincoln St,, Boston, Mass. Valuable li«.*;Klc;., “ Correct Dress and Suspender Styles,” free o n request THE Volume V. October, 1905 Number 1 cDont Ve a Vickie Success always attracts: Failure is always repulsive. The world seems to tip just a little, always and every where, in the direction of the successful man. Everything rolls his way. There cannot be an effect without a cause, and when we look with envy into the eye of the man who succeeds, let us not forget, in our yearning to be like him, what made him w h a t he is. Let us not covet. What is his may as well be yours. Look into the successful man’s eye— the window of his heart— and study w hat you see there. W hat do you see? I’ll tell you what you see: His eye reflects intelligence, peace, alertness, courtesy. You see there decency, order, thrift, cleanliness of body and soul, good cheer, honesty', system. And he keeps sweet throughout life’s sours. Keeping in H arm ony with Life’s Best Some Thoughts on Thoughts by H. M. Walker When I was young I made a vow ed by the very men he came to enlighten. To keep youth in my heart as long It was said of him that he was attempting to As there were birds upon the bough To gladden me with song: tear down—to take away. But the truth is To learn what lessons Life might give, he was showing them a fuller and grander life; To do my duty as I saw, and his every effort was to lead men to a high To love my friends, to laugh and live— er conception of life and a fuller realization Not holding Death in awe. So all my lyrics sing of joy, of their possibilities. And shall until my lips are mute; So we find these saviors of mankind today. In old age happy as the boy Morse brought in the telegraph; Bell saw To whom God gave the lute. how to carry it farther and brought in the telephone. Marconi steps higher still and These words of the poet bring us face to face says what Morse did by the aid of the electric with the one—the only—solution of life’s pro wire he can do without it. And other men blems, and place us in possession of the har are working to accomplish wireless telephony. mony key that unlocks the door of every Segno advances still farther and tells us heart. that what all these great men accomplished Let us open our minds to receive the im with wires and electrical instruments can be pression ; let us etch upon our hearts the words accomplished without them. so tenderly spoken. Doubt, ridicule and prejudice have been Every life is a record. We give to others awakened to block the way of every advance the sounds, the vibrations, we hear. made along the lines of science, but slowly the Not so many years ago when Thomas Edi great truths have dawned upon the caloused son told the world he was going to etch the mind and what were doubted and ridiculed human voice in wax and make it possible to yesterday are being accepted today. reproduce it across the continent, or to pre The day will come when the science of Men- serve it on tablets for ages to come the world talism will be taught in our schools, and men regarded his words as the message of a dream will look back upon past ages and wonder why er or a madman. But today the phonograph the world was so long in darkness. To bring is as common as the telephone. about this day it rests as a duty upon ever}7 When Marconi told of the wonderful possi man and woman who has proved the science bilities of wireless telegraphy the world doubt to his or her own satisfaction to demonstrate ed, but did not laugh. Today we see Marconi in every day life what it means. Today it is proving his invention and the world realizes only partly understood by even the best of us. that his was no dream. Our faith is not so strong in it as in the things Later we find A. Victor Segno promoting that we can see and handle. the theory that goes a step higher than wire The reason, it seems, is just this; We are less telegraphy and he tells us that as there not repeaters. Our minds are like the wax are etheric waves to carry the electric click cylinder on which the sound waves of the of the telegraph instrument across waters, human voice are recorded. Each vibration over continents, and around the world, so makes some indentation. To prove that the there are thought waves in the mental world sounds have been correctly recorded, every to carry thoughts from continent to continent cylinder or disc of a talking machine must be and ' mind to mind. tried. And for others to get the good of the The great essential in wireless telegraphy is record, it must be repeated. the harmony key. So in, shall we say thoto- We cannot prove a thought without ex graphy, the essential feature is the harmony pressing it; nor can we take into our own char key. acters the good of a thought without acting it These men, like all men who have been out. Merebelief in the transmission of thought saviors of mankind, are not understood even will never accomplish anything in our own by those they would help. Christ was reject lives nor in the lives of others. New York, August 2. SEGNOGRAM Publishing Co., Los Angeles, Cal. G e n t l e m e n .—I enclose payment of August Adv. I am greatly surprised at the number of replies I have received from my ad in The Segnogram, which have come in from all parts of the United States, and this morning’s mail brought three letters from Scotland, in which the writers mention seeing my ad in your magazine. Faithfully yours, HENRY RICE. THE SEGNOGRAM 5 The fact that Morse and Edison and Mar Let us go back to the words of. the poet. coni believed that sound could be transmitted Etch them deep and clear upon the mind. across continents and under and over seas Then try the record each morning as we awake with and without wires, proved nothing. to see how closely our soul is in tune. They spent months and years proving it to themselves and then proved it to the world. HOW MUCH TACT HAVE YOU? They benefitted by experiments. So do we “ If we review our acquaintances, we shall benefit in the transmission of thought. perhaps perceive that it is the tactful man who Wherever we are we can have our minds has outdistanced his neighbors in life’s race,” open to receive the thought waves of those said the man of the world to the New York about us. If we are careless about concentra Tribune. “ Good looks are helpful to a man, tion, and indifferent to what thoughts we as well as to a woman. Money simplifies shall receive, we will find ourselves taking in matters, and brains are better than either; the predominating waves. Ordinarily they but tact exceeds their collective value. Were are not healthy and robust thoughts, and I just starting in life and could choose my tend most frequently to despondency. talent, it would certainly be tact. Of all the But we cannot always be receivers, nor gifts bestowed upon man, it is by far the most should we be. We must be transmitters as valuable. He who possesses it is more to be well. It is by transmitting the thoughts we envied than the millionaire. receive that we prove to ourselves and to “Tact is that nice perception which enables others the quality of the impression recorded. one to grasp the situation, and to do and say If our speech is low and vulgar; if it is in exactly the right thing at the right moment. clined to be querillous, despondent, fault “Tact is the weapon which has made the finding, it indicates that we have allowed social favorite the envy of her less fortunate those thoughts to be etched on our minds. sisters; in her particular case, it is the know All men are weak enough, God knows.