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2923 North Twenty-fifth St.,
Omaha, Neb., July 13, 1915.
Rev. John Albert Williams,
Editor The Monitor.
My T>ear Sir and Friend:
It is with much pleasure that I join
your army of friends in applauding
The Monitor, as it enters the scene
of action in this community. News
papers are like (not only ministers
of the Gospel) but missionaries who
are instruments of either good or bad
—-all supposed to be good. In this
case the life of the worthy editor in
this community needs no comments.
Therefore the permanency and suc
cess of The Monitor is assured.
Our papers of the past have not had
the moral and financial support they
were entitled to. It takes money to
run any business, also moral and in
tellectual support. The Race needs
to purge itself of selfishness, spite,
jealousy and Imaginary grievances.
It is to be hoped that in this age of
enlightenment and progress we of this
community will wake up, look up and
help up, for the time is not far dis
tant when a test of our strength and
numbers will be made, l^et us not be
weighed in the balance and found
wanting, but let us he ready to gird
on our armor and able to measure
arms with ouy fellow men.
Any service I can be to you, you
have but to command.
Affectionately and cordially yours,
HENRY W. BLACK.
313 Clitfon Place,
Brooklyn, N. Y., June 28.
Rev. Sir and Dear Friend:
Your circular letter of June 25 came
today. 1 still value your teaching of
years ago and to have something from
your pen now is most gratifying. 1
cannot conceive of anything but suc
cess for The Monitor with your per
sonal attention.
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all your undertakings.
Sincerely yours,
STEPHEN T. BROOKS.
St. Paul, Minn., July 12.
My dear Father Williams:
Owing to the fact that I have been
using my spare time “keeping ahead”
of my work in the city architect’s of
flee here, I am just now sending my
appreciation of several things you
have recently done for me.
I received “The Monitor” last Mon
day and I assure you that it appealed
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artistic piece of typography. You ana
the people of Omaha, and all its other
readers are to be sincerely compli
mented on your publication.
Sincerely yours,
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. . Omaha, Neb., July 10.
The Rev. John Albert Williams,
1119 No. 21st Street,
City.
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The Farmers Trust Co.,
Beatrice, Neb., July 10.
The Rev. John Albert Williams.
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Science Notes
BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES.
The Phone.
An interesting feature of the tele
phone was brought out in a recent
lecture given by Dr. Millener, at a
meeting of the Nebraska State Phar
maceutical Association. The trans
mitter i« so constructed that the vi
brations produced by a speaking voice
cause a thin diaphragm to come into
contact with a small mass of pow
dered carbon. When a high-pitched
voice has been producing vibrations
for a period of time, such as would
be consumed during the average
housewife’s daily ‘‘chat,”- the result
is sometimes a packing of the small
carbon particles in such a manner
that further communication is diffi
cult and often impossible.
Now comes the remedy. When the
angry husband arrives at the phono
and finds it out of commission, he
immediately proceeds to swear vol
uminously at "Central” or the wife,
as the case may be—and incidentally
repairs the phone. The reason is that
the slower vibrations of the heavier
voice of the man tend to loosen the
carbon particles again. Of course,
the same result may be obtained by
briskly tapping on the receiver or
transmitter if one or the other is out
of order.
Graphite.
Rich families with poor relatives
occur among minerals as well as
among people, for the aristocratic
diamond has a brother in the "black
lead” of the common lead pencil.
“Plumbago” is another name under
which this lead is known. Properly
called, it is graphite, a form of car
bon. Carbon, in turn, is disguised
under many titles, some of which are:
Soot, bone-black, lamp-black, charcoal,
coke, coal and diamond.
A brief comparison of two forms
of carbon, namely, graphite and dta
mond, bring forth several interesting
facts. Graphite is an excellent lubri-1
eating agent because it is in the form
of fine flakes which create a smooth
film on the moving surfaces and re
duce friction. On the other hand,
diamond dust is used for polishing,
or wearing away material by friction,
on account of the extreme hardness
of the diamond. Diamond is practi
cally colorless, but his brother, graph
ite. can lay no claims to such ois
tinction, for the jet black derby hat,
the ebon-hued kitchen range, the ne«
ly-polished shoes, and the tell-tale evi
dence of the common lead pencil are
mute witnesses to the fact that graph
ite is sublimely black.
Diamond and graphite are both
found in nature, and are both pro
duced by artificial means, only the
latter, however, on a commercial
scale. Although called "artificial”
diamond and “artificial” graphite,
these manufactured products are iden
tical with the natural ones.
Butter Substitutes as They Really Are.
Contrary to popular belief, butter
substitutes, better known as margar
ine and oleomargarine, are not man
ufactured from garbage, hotel waste,
or such material. Factories wherein
these products are made are models
of modern sanitation. The raw n*u
terials, chiefly beef tallow and vege
table oils, such as cottonseed oil, co
coanut oil, sesame oil and the like,
are carefully refined by methods that,
avoid the use of chemicals.
Very briefly, the process of making
margarine is this: The carefully puri
fied oils are blended at a suitable
temperature, then churned up vio
lently along with “pasteurized” skim
milk. After the churning, the mass is
cooled, wash d, salted if necessary,
and “worked" to rid it of water.
Margarine has almost the same com
position as fresh flutter and contains
the same amount of fat, besides being
just about as wholesome and nutri
tious. The only harm comes when a
dealer attempts to get butter prices
for margarine, for the cost of produc
tion of margarine is so low that it
brings it within reach of those who
cannot afford butter either for cook
ing or eating purposes.
The list of recent inventions in
cludes a watch crystal of celluloid or
other equivalent elastic, transparent,
unbreakable material, which in prac
tice is sprung into an undercut groove
or rabbet in the watch bezel, reducing
the initial cost to the manufacturer
and avoiding the cost of replacing
broken glass crystals by the user.
One more step nearer the un-get
out-of-order-able watch!
No one ever convinced a boy under
fifteen that the time was ever coming
when he would think more of a girl
than of a dog.
A great deal of the suspicion of boys
is based on their natural-born prefer
ence to playing in the barn loft rather
than on the front porch.
There is some hope for the boy who
has to he driven into the bathtub, but
none for the boy who has to be chased
away from the mirror.—By Frances I.
Garside.