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TELEPHONE TYRANNY ADVANTAGES AND DISADVAN TAGES OF MUCH-USED INSTRUMENT. Minor Discomforts Saved by That Weird Contrivance on the Wall seducing a Gas Bill by Telephone -A Man's House No Longer His Castle If He Has a Telephone-I-t Disturbs One's Meals and Demands an Immediate Answer-Importu nate Trustees Break Into a Home Evening. BY MAR(;GAET E SANGSTER. (Cr,-P ri g t, it', 1 L. J -st ph . . I;,w.es.) Undoubtedly the telephone is a great convenience. Whoever has ha.l it in the house would sacrit(e many lux uries rather than go wit2out it. Time and strength and letter-writing and telegrams, and all sorts of mincr dts comforts are saved us by this wei-d contrivance on the wall, this mysteri ous tube into which we speak; this odd receiver which brings us voices from afar. We want to talk with a fronted by an emergency and obliged to leave home suddenly, or unexpect -d guests arrive, and the dinner must be nicer, with an added course or two -in every case the telephone is our it, tis link that through the power of applied science binds us closer to our comra.les on the road. It is a great con.wenience. and to s)me of us an indispensable necessity. Take for example the wo,'an's club. How on earth could a club president, or secretary, or the c-lair man of an important committee, :get on and manage her work and com municate with her fellow memue:s if there were not the telephone? Every body knows that a club, however small. finds opportunity for endless discussion and arrangement and rearrangerint, at other times than when in scasion. The telephone makes this confc."nce possible and easy; it is a boon of boons to the club woman. Once in a personal experience, once only, and the incident lives in mem ory as startling, the telephone was found successful in reducing tne amount of an exorbitant gas bill! Householders know how difficult an enterprise this is, how seldom accom plishgd. On previous occasions, letters! had proved abortive, and interviews had found officials adamant, but the talk over the telephone. a party wire at that, proved immediately reassur ing. The percentage asked for was granted; the obnoxious bill was re duced to its rightful proportions. If you want a doctor in the dead of telephone will ring a signa a T thd kudd llwU~fsi In the home you= cry blessings on the telephone, and they are heartfelt. * * * * " And yet. it has its drawbacks. There is a tyranny of the telephone that has done something to make life less sim ple than it used to be. There are moods in which one wishes she had never seen, never heard, never touched or handled the little affair which has done Inore than any other single agent to rob life of privacy and independ ence. We have often heard that a man's house is his castle. It is, and it isn't. It depends on whether he has a tele phone. You may bolt, you may bar, you may lock at your will, But the telephone demon will pounce on you still. No shutters exclude him, no key keeps him back, At the sound of the bell, he is here on your track. To cut off the service is the only way to exorcise the invisible imp who disturbs you at your meals, breaks in on your prayers, and demands an in stant answer to his summons with a peremptory haste, not unlike the old challenge of the footpad on Hounslow Heath: "Your money or your life!" For instance: to relai, to .let lfe's ` you, since too much work, too much talk, too much distraction of business has,brought your powers to the ebb. In vain is your planning and precau -tion. The telephone rings and you take down your receiver. Aunt Frances, Uncle Jonathan and the children are on their way to spend the day with you. They have just de cided that they can come to-day, and will be with you about noon. Now you love your kinsfolk, and John's, too. You like Aunt Francea better than any other of John's aunts, and Uncle Jonathan is an "old dear." The children are objectionable when you have a headache and are tired; they are stirring children, always on the rampage; always meddling; not well trained, or well-bred, and you would willingly omit them from the pro glamme, but Aunt Frances is a devoted mother, who never leaves her brood at home. To put-them off for a day would give offense, be misunderstood, and hurt John, who Is most loyal to his own people, and always delighted to have them under his roof. Therefore you fly around, dust chairs and tables, Set out the but china, make a salad, order ice cream. and. lip into a fre-l, and dainty frock. No time to reac: till Jonatran and Frances shall delo:t But for th" tciOniio:ne they wo1t:t ha:e notified yo" via Ui ce Sam s mail. and you would have had your rr st day as you meant to lhave it without hindrance or interruption. * * * " . Here is John's sihe of it. I address John. John is a good citizen, I hope Perhaps you belong to the pui,!ic in some detail of your life. Most of us do. Very few of us escape whoM:: fron: somne obligation to the communu;y in which we live. and we are con stantily reminlded that the wishes of the individual must te subordinate to the rood o(f society. After a full and trying business dray,. a day of strift and care. you eat your sulpper, put onj dressing gown and slilppters and ut fold your newspaper. The lamp shels a soft plow over thi' room. Your wife sits oipposite you. in her hands a ol; of dainty nec.l,,w.'rk. In .er, pa-aio1 across the hall y.ur pr,'y da l:'. are ent'rtaining a !al or tw, of t.i nihih;ctrhood. You can see th., i lifting your eyes: you hear the f mur;nur of their voices. Sut,.h au evening at home takes a mna: to Ar cady. Your heart is beating time to the old lilt: like home. A charm from the skies seemseto hai low ua here, That seek through the world Is not sect with elsewhere." Hackneyed as the lines have be come, familiar to the. commonplace they are very beautiful. They bubble up like spring water through green moss, and keep sweet and fresh tn? sentiment of love for the home, that is so deeply rooted in every true heart Into this sphere of peace there pene trates a clamorous appeal, not very loud, but very positive. You go to the telephone. "Hello!" "Hello! Is this you, Mr. Morrison?" "Yes, Mr. Shackelford." Mr. Shackelford proceeds: "There is to be a meeting of the trustees of the church, a called meet ing, at my house in 15 minutes. It is most important. We depend on you. You know about - and - and it won't do for you to be absent. In 1i minutes, please. Good-by." Or, if it is not a church meeting, it's a borough meeting. or a political gath ering of some description; or elsae a group of people promise to come to you on their way back from wherever they happen to be, and the sum of it il that you lose'your home evening. It is gone; it has fled before the tele phone. Well, there is a seamy side to near ly all of life's tapestry. We reap cer tain benefits, but we pay the price. This telephone-tyranny annoys us a lit tie, but it would be like going back to e and Trouble. Ladies who like to make presents for their gentlemen friends will find such a pipe-case as we illustrate very ac ceptable. It can be fashioned from the top of a pair of long kid or suede gloves. or a piece of new kid may be used. There are two pieces, one being PIPE CASE. cut longer than the other at the top of the bowl part, so that it may be but toned over. The kid should be lined with satin, the edges of which should be turned in and slip-stitched a trifle below the edges of kid; then the two pieces are placed together and ma chine-stitched close to the edge all round. A small buttonhole is worked in the flap, which is fastened to a but ton on front part. BITS OF FASHION. Black, dark blue and brown gowns require light gloves, ruffles, a light vest or yoke and underaleeves, but the new millinery may correspond with the a dark gown of solid coloring. And hats-there never were so many radical changes. It's as if the whole world millinery were in a state of up heaval. Big hats appear here and there -half-shame-faced before the tiny, tip= tilted things we've been accustomed to and liked for their saucy little style. A new brown is around town-bril liant in comparison with the rather lifeless color we usually mean by brown. It is especially pretty in the horsehair hats, as the ruddy tint in it takes the light best in horsehair. The revival of an old fashion is the sailor hat with wide crown and nar row brim. The favorite way of trim ming them is to drape on a veil of mousseline de sole in one of the new, rich shades. Tiny three-cornered hats for wee tots are trimmed with three prim ro settes of baby ribbon--one on "ach place where the brim turns up. Light weight wash flannels have polka dots of color or white embroid. ered at regular intervals over the cloth. Lots and lots of pale blue hats-.the shade that goes with everything--ar worn. COMMODORE N!Iv OL$SOfa RECOM.MENDS PEi-RU-N% h:CHOLSOH. Washington, D. C., ays : "-Your Peruna has heeM and nos Used by so msaPof aifrk y ur acquaintances as a sure cure for r tarrh that lam convinced of Its cura tive qualities and I unhesitatingly rec ommend it to all persons suffering from that complaint." Our army and our navy are the natural protection of our country. Peruna is the natural protection of the army and navy in the vicissitudes of climate and exposure. We have on file thousands of testi m-nials from prominent people in the army and navy. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited endorsements Dr. Hartman is eon stantly receiving for his widely known and efficient remedy, Peruna. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. S. B. Hartman, President qf The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. CERTAINLY GRAND SAVING. Unexpected Yet Eminently Satisfac tory Result of a Trick on the Gas Meter. Mr. Macpherson's gas bills were sore quarterly trials "Man, they're simply exor-r-bitant," he remarked one day to his friend MacTaggart. But MacTaggart was a man of resource, and suggested a remedy. "Ye see, it's this way," he said. "In the gas meter there are a lot o' wee wheels which revolve as the gas passes through, and so cause the amount con sumed to be registered. Noo, every nicht when ye gang to bed and turn oot the licht, ye maun just blaw doon the pipe, and the wee wheels will revolve in the osite direction and subtract from the for exorbitant gas ills igiously during okr Yee pre~v!iono ter, and then reoferred to his book. Again he looked from one to the other, and his air became one of the grcatest perplexs-r . "Whaur's the matter." said Mr. Ma.c pherson, who was standing by. "W'eel, Mr. Macpherson, ' said the gas inspector, "I dinna ken what's been h.p pening to your gas meter, but I find the company owes ye exactly £1 l.s lid." Gratitude Well Expressed. Sault St. Marie, Mich., Aug 14th.-Mr. C. L. Smith, painter and decorator, whose home is at :,0 Anne street, this city, makes the following statement: "I was laid up with some kind of pains. Some said it was Lumbago, others Sciatica, and others again Rheumatism. A few of my friends suggested that it was lead poison, but whatever it was it gave me a great deal of pain, in fact, almost completely crippled me. I had to use two canes to walk about, and even then it was a very painful task. "A fnend advised me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills, and 1 began the treatment. After I had used the first box I was able to throw away one of the canes and was considerably improved. The second box straightened me up so that I could go about free from pain without any assist ance, and very soon after 1 was complete ly cured, well and happy, without a pain or an ache. Dodd's Fidney Pills seemed to go right to the spt in my case, and they will always have my greatest praise." - - -0 * If milliners would confine their window displays to 98-cent hats, it wouiu do much to induce bachelors to take a hand in tht matrimonial game. FIFTEEN YEARS OF TORTURE Itching and Painful Sores Covered was covered with sores. ords cannot express how I suffered from the itching and pain. I tried many doctors and treatments, but could get no help and had given up hope when a friend told me to get Cuticura. After bathing with Cuti cura Soap and applying Cuticura Oint ment for three days, my head was as clear as ever, and to my surprise and joy, one cake of soap and one box of oint ment made a complet'- cure in one week. (Signed) H. B. Frank:n, 717 Washington St., Allegheny, Pa." It is unfortunate that petroleum has not proved as effectual in exterminating mos quitoea as it has in propagating colleges. -Washington Star. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption aved my life three years ago.--Mrs. Thos. Bobbins, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. It's an easy matter to gauge a man's wisdom. Draw hun into a aiscussion, and agrees with you, of course he's very i. . . . . . . .. . . *llrr . '' SCIENCE SIFTINGS. Pr.f. R 'e:Pntah is rail to have pr.\',vn t ,at :aU p :rsons in 1u0 can see, in the ;::r,, colre: rays from the h-'.man boey and flashes from a mag net. The "fl :ker" sometimes noticed in lightning proves to be due to the fact that c-vral Ilaslhe-s.ometimes five or six-follow one pa'h too rapidly to be separated l:y the eye. The trails shown in photography of very bright flashes are caused by incandescence produced in the air for a very brief period. A new product of the electric fur nace has been in'roduced in France under the designation calstonite. It is a double carbide of barium and cal cium. produced by M. J. Cartier, an electro-netallurgist of Mancioux, which decompGos.es on contact with water, like calcium ( ar id. A slereusopi. ' star chart is the sne oesful no'wlty of T. 1. I1-a:h, the Eng li-h astronomer. tT:- :airs in a iv\-en section of the heav;ns are drawn from two points of vi,:w t.hat are sup posed to be 2'3 y-::rs apart, and un der a large st;re.osc,pe the double view gives a roughl ,but very ins.tructive impression of the stars floating In space at an approximation to their relative distances, instead of as points L-ainst the dark backgroun . -;aura ý The ren t... `'3 ing one.. Eleltric waves *Id sensitive re 1f. ED. D. ranly has tA O attain such results, and has shown the Paris academy an apparatus by which he can start an electric motor, cause incandescent lamps to glow, and cause an explosion. These effects may be produced or discontinued in any de sired order, one after another. They were chosen arbitrarily for experiment, and it is possible to bring about at a distance other mechanical action or se ries of actions, or to work a complU cated machine. NOT CENSUS QUESTIONS. Were you ever happy, and who was to blame? Are you black or white, and how do you account for it? Do you eat patented breakfast foods or just plain sawdust? Do you think that the high price of eggs is due to the foul-strike? Did you ever hear a theater joke, and what did you take to remove the effects? What is your age, and how many years is it since you celebrated that birthday? Did you ever love your wife so much that you would like to eat her, and are you sorry that you have not done so? The Kind You Have .............. Always Bought A.egetable PreparationforAs similating theFoodandRe ula gins.theSmachsaMndBoHsof Bears the Signature Promotes DigestionCheerful ness and Rest.Contains neither , Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Of NOT NAR C OTIC. ,* Use Apeec.t Remedy forCoilpa- Use lion, SourSlomniach,Diarrhoea Worms,Convusiosr,Fewrish ness and.Loss For OSver FacSimile Signature or WORK. Thirty Years H I llf- -V AsK for a · QUALITY IS OUR MOTTO" BEST BECAUSE `iY * U COV2 rb.D- : vA TOBACCO. EQUAL TO IMPORTED CIGABS. Sold direct to the retailer by "31-" amd"Agents" 5kCigars Are Leaders of the World& r., csa.se.Co._ Darwin Refuted. Father-Yes, my son; according to Dar win, our ancestors were monkeys. Kindergarten Geoffrey-But, papa, I don't believe that. I shall be an an cestor myself some time, and I'm not a monkey.-Judge. A factory lockout is merely a case of shaking hands. RUMORED OF ROYALTY. Earl Nelson, who is in his eighty second year, is the only living peer who was a member of the house of lortis when Queen Victoria came to the throne. King Edward's reign has by no means brought joy to the heart of London tradespeople. A leading trade paper laments the fact that a great portion of the trousseau of Princess Margaret of Connaught was purchased in Paris. There is something in the soft round cheek and the direct outlook of Princess .Margaret's candid eyes that recalls the early portraits of the great queen, and there are traits of character that bear the same stamp, such as truthfulness, clear insight, earnest ness of purpose, and last, not least, "saving commron sens,..' Exgland's future king. Prince Ed ward of 1Walh s. now 11 years old, pus sss;es a c·h:1ls hal,:t of saying the un expected tLi!:. When visiting King Edward, the other (lay, the king anscd him what he was studying, and the lit ie prin's saitd: "All about Perkin Warbeck." Asked who W'arleck was, the prince repliUd: "IHe pretended he was the son of the king, but he wasn't; he was the son of respectable parents." named Louise. Tliey ate both daughters of British monarchs, they are of very fair complexion and both of Argyll and Fife--botha o whom ara as fair-skinned as their wives. Still further goes the coincidence, for neither of the royal duchesses has pre sented her husband with a male heir. HISTORICAL BITS. Cromwell is said to have originated the boarl of trade idea. Sugar, when first introduced into Englauu, was only used for the pur pose of making medicines more palat able. Wire drawing was invented I Rudolph of Nuremburg in the early part of the fifteenth century. Wire was first. made in England in 1663. Bombs, it is said, were first thrown March 24, 1580, on the town of Wach tendenck, in Guelderland. The his torian Hone says "the invention is commonly attributed to Gaalen, bishop of Muenster." In 1592, in England, butchers were compelled by law to sell their beef for a half penny a pound and mutton for three farthings. The butchers of London sold penny pieces of beef for the relief of the poor, every piece two pounds and a half, sometimes three pounds for a penny. T~E LIVER AND BOWELS MOTNfNG CAN EQv`L MOZLE11'S LEMON ELIXIR 17 OOCMOTLY CuRE$ CC)NBT'PATlOY ýNDtGEBTION, SOUR STOMACH AND A; CE-cNGEME79 OF THE 9T.^.MACH 5OnEL3 CENTB AA] BOTTLE AT AL 0,,; i 8TOREB Thousands of Women ARE MADE WELL AND STRONG Success of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Rests Upon the Fact that II Really Does Make Sick Womes Well Thousands upon thourands of Ameri can womezn have been restored to health bly Lydia E. Pinkhanis Vegeta ble Compound. T'heir letters are on !i.l in aMrs. Pinkham's oflice, and pros, t Ihis statement to be a fact and not a mere boast. Overshadowing indeed is the success of this great medicine. and compared with it all other medicines and treat ment for women are experiments. Why has Iydia E. 'inkhmni's Vege table C(ompound aecoml':-hed its wide spread res u ! t for good ? \hyv has it lived and thrived and done its glorious work for a qi.arter of a century ? Sin:ply and surely because rf its ster lin w orth. The reason no other med icine tlas yeen approached its success is pia ny and po-itively because there is no otiher medicine in the wvorld so good for womten's ills. The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not be cause it is astimulant-not because it is a palliative, but simply because i1 is cu nto disease and displacements and restoring h'salth and vigor. Marvelous cpres are reported from who have recognized the vitue ha Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comn pound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowledge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. 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