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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1892)
AN ODD KIND OF CLUB. IT RESEMBLES A FULL, . FLEDGED "TELEGRAPH COMPANY. An Amntrur Organization, the) Members of Which llv Tlie-ir House Connect ed by Wires. So That They Majr Com monlcatewith Km-h Other by Telegraph. One of the most novel or unique or ganizations in Brooklyn is one that ban recently gained "a" new lease of life through the infu.si.oii of new and rig orous blood and by a thorough reorgan ization. It is called the Phenix Monte Telegraph club, and is perhais the only one of its kind in the United States. The old organization wan formed in 1879 and started in life under the name of the Phenix club. It was inaugurated by a number of ' young people, some of whom were engaged in occupation as telegraphers, and others of different vo cations, who took pleasure in studying the mysterious language of dots and dashes. A private telegraph line was established and connected with the res idences of the members. A busy wire it was too. The hum of conversation, if it can be termed 8uch, was constant throughout the evening. Stories were passed over the electrical current, jests and jokes bandied, chess and checkers played by individuals who liked this sort of recreation, and in fact as good a time was usually passed as if the mem bers were brought in contact with each other by person in one room. Jokes of an innocent character were also carried on over the circuit, which had the advantage in so far as to allow the perpetrator to remain unknown or making it unnecessary to flee from the wrath of the person upon whom it was inflicted. Quite a number of these are stock property among the old members, who relate them to friends with as much gusto and enjoyment as if they had oc curred only yesterday. One of these is to the effect that two members after practicing with another in the early evening, during which the sender trans mitted the Morse characters as fast as he could, or as telegraphers would say "rushed the receiver, notwithstanding the protests of this unfortunate disciple of America's noted inventor. The latter promised himself that a speedy revenge would follow, and sought to find some means whereby he could make tht, "rusher" as uncomfortable as be liaJ leen previously. The practicing finally came to an end, and the receiver waited until an un earthly hour of the morning, when he supposed his victim had gone to bed and when the click of a sounder would strike the gloom and quiet with the distinct ness of a blow from a trip hammer. At about 3 o'clock in the morning he went to the instrument and began to call his victim in a manner which would indi cate that a fire had jerhaps broken out or that the transmitter had serious need of aid in some dire calamity. lie called in this furious style until he had awak ened the sleeier, who jumped up out of bed and went to the instrument, ex pecting to hear that something dreadful had happened. He answered the call quakingly. His indignation can le im agined when the query came slowly aud distinctly: "Will you please tell me the time; my clock has run d.-wn." His answer is not recorded, but it is safe to assume that the immediate vicin ity became as warm as a hot box of an overheated wheel. The organization went on in the' even tenor of its way until two or three years ago, when it began to languish, partly on account of a defection of members who moved away from the city or le cause tlio remaining persons would not shoulder in the proper or necessary man ner the worry and expense of conduct ing such and organization. Then came another club which was purely social in its ' character and which was also called the Phenix club. It niay have been that the similarity of names caused a bond of friendship to be established or that some of the members of this body were capable of handling a key and working the electrical current. However this may be, the two organ izations were amalgamated and a new order of affairs brought about thereby. The name was changed to the present one, and under which it started out with bright and prosperous auspices. A flat, comer of Marcy avenue and Fnltou street, has been made the head quarters of the club, and which may be termed the main office of this amateur telegraph company. Here are located the battery room, which fnrnishes the powerful fluid by which the wire is worked, and another, which is called the operating room, in which are placed four sets of instruments and a double practic ing outfit. X galvonometer, whereby the wire is measured, so that the where abouts of any trouble on the line can be detected, is also included iu this space. Meetings and social gatherings are held in a larger room running off from this one. Eighty cells of battery work the circuit, which covers a distance of near ly eighteen miles in this city, mainly Li the upper resilience section. The old string" was overhauled by an exiH-rienced lineman recently and put in sufficiently substantial sliajH? in order to enable it to more readily resist the wear and tear of a line in a large pud busy city. The circuit is placed along the housetops on the route, and trouble of any kind or, as an operator would say. "bugs are rarely met with or experieii'"'1 1. Twenty-three so called "oific's" are on the circuit, all of which have their calls in the same manner as do thestatioi.s of a telegraph company. Among tli" present menilers of the Jub are practical tclgr iphers-of sk'll and records for sending and receiving. 0neddrab'e rivalry exists between 'thrin, and it .' proposed at some future .time to have a tournament for fast nan mining and alr;o for skill and ability ii r; c- iving the Morse characters. Classes will be established in order to give every one a chance. One of the fastest sendeis j:i the country is the secretary of the or- ganization, Mr. Frank L. Catlin. Brock Uyu Eagle. Reeellerttens of Oxford. My 'not being at a public school has, I have no doubt, strengthened my love of my university and my college. In ray time, the "head masters" had not had everything their own way. It was pos sible to enter Oxford at the age of nine teenit was nothing wonderful to get a scholarship before eighteen or even earlier still. And to be scholar and fel low of Trinity from 1841 to 1817 was something to be. It was indeed a circle to look back to of which fifty years ago I was chosen a member, a circle of which a man is much to be blamed if he is. not wiser and nobler for having been one. But love of the foundation, the feeling of membership, of brotherhood, in an ancient and honorable lody, the feeling of full iossession in one's college as a home, the feeling of personal nearness to a benefactor of past times, all that gathers round the scholarship that was something worthier than a mere prize, the fellowship that was something worthier than a crammer's wages all this, I hope, has not even yet utterly vanished, but under the hands of one re forming commission after another, such f eelings have undoubtedly greatly weak ened in the Oxford to which I have come back. In the unreformed university, the un reformed college in which I had the happiness to spend my youth, we had time to learn something, because we were not always being taught. We were not kept through our whole time, vexed by examination after examination, examined in this subject one term, in that subject the next term, all ingenious ly combined for the better forgetting of one thing before the next was taken in. We had one examination, and a search ing one, the successful passing of which could not seem to any but a fool to be the goal of study, but which, by the reading it required, gave a man the best possible start for study in several branches of knowledge. Edward A. Freeman in Forum. A Question to Pnzzle Over. He was a "likely"' looking Afro-American, and as he boarded the elevated train at Twenty-eighth street attracted no small amount of attention. He be took himself to cue of the cross seats, facing the rear of the car. As he set tled himself comfortably, one of the two male passengers seated opposite said to his companion in what was evidently intended to be an undertone, but which was nevertheless plainly au dible, "Do your people permit colored folks to ride in first class compartments in public conveyances?" What the re ply to the question may have been will never le known. As for the occasion of the query, he did not betray by so much as the movement of a muscle or the quiver of an eyelash that he had over heard what had been said. But just before Bleecker street was reached he straightened himself up and addressed the inquirer. "Dis yere ain't no question of the Fiftyent 'mend ments," he said. "I knows right plain dat me and my race has all de rights ob de white peoples to ride in dese yer keers so long as we got de money and "haves ourselves. So dat ain't de ques tion. But what I would like to have you gemmemj tell is dis, How kin a man be colored when he's born so?"' And as he stalked out of the car the passengers ail looked at one another and wondered if they had been given a new problem in socio-political, economy to puzzle over. New York Times. "Where "Bed Tape" Counts. Said one of the oldest and most suc cessful legal practitioners of the city bar to one of his rising young students a short time ago: "My dear young fellow, never fail to remember that in the successful career of a lawyer there is no one item so important to his reputation as 'red tape.' You may smile at this remark, but it is as true as Holy Writ, and the proper use of it in binding up a. legal document has saved many a court paper from being handed back for perfection or revision to its legal sponsor. In ear lier life I practiced in the court of one of the most particular judges in thi. commonwealth. I presented, as I be lieved, a well prepared report which 1 asked for confirmation, and to my sur prise the judge unfolding it and looking it over found a hundred and one faults and directed me to prepare another one, but in better form,' as he said. I was utterly nonplussed. "My time was so limited it was utter ly impossible. An idea struck me. That night in my office I put on a showy out side wrapper, with a hand indorsement of the title, with the most liberal supply of the widest red taj:e that I could find in graceful bows. The next morning T nervously presented it again. The judge received it smiling, adding: 'That is the correct way all papers for the court should be drawn up.' There's nothing like red tape." Philadelphia Press. The Governor's Quill. The governor of this commonwealth signs every bill with a quill. This isn't liecause he is fonder of that particular kind of pen, but it is rather in obedience to a well established custom that has ob tained with the chief msigistrates of the last decade. There are always a few members of the legislature that have the collector's passion, and requests are regularly received by Private Secretary Roads from lawmakers and others for pens that the governor has used for signing bills. Accordingly dozens of these quills are purchased ever so often, and the governor makes his signature each time with a new pen. which i3 carefully preserved and set aside for the next quill hunter that calls. Boston Globe. Isinglass. It is said that the manifestly corrupted word, "isinglass." owes its change from a foreign to its English dress to the pop ular fancy, which, finding the Dutch term, "hnizeublas"' (sturgeon bladder), meaningless in English, quietly changed it into isinglass" and secured its easy remeinbrance from association with the "icing"" purposes for which it is used and the "glassy" appearance it presents. Chambers Journal. THE REAL LOBBYIST. THE WOMEN ARE NUISANCES JUST THE SAME AS THE MEN ARE. There lias Iteen a Great Deal of Ilomance Circulated About the Lobbyists, and It Is Time That the Truth Was Known. The Ileal Thins; Is Very IiHappolntin;. "Show me a lobb3'ist" was the request of a friend who was walking through the Capitol with the writer. This visitor was a reader of the newspapers, a man of intelligence, and a believer in most of I the interesting stories he had read about I the number, ingenuity, boldness, skill ' and usefulness of the body of lobbyists that is supposed to be almost a necessary part of the legislative machinery. I showed my visitor a lobbyist. He was one of the best known of the lot about the Capitol. He was leaning back against the corridor wall, opposi.e the entrance of the house of representatives, . with his hands thrust into the pockets of a pair of trousers that were so raveled about the heels that they might be said to wear whiskers without provoking the remonstrances of the most thorough de- ' tester of slang. If this man had an overcoat it was hung up somewhere, but the dusty con dition of his rather thin frock coat, which carried the polish on its back that j ought to have been on his Very disrepu- table looking sl oes, justified the conclu sion that he was not finding an overcoat necessary this winter. He was a spare man, with a 'gaunt face, crossed by a white mustache stained at the ends with tobacco juice. His shirt was not clean, and he showed a good deal of it, but he wore a white tie, which only added em phasis to his otherwise forbidding lack of neatness. When he moved away from his place against the wall to meet a member of congress who had come out of the chamber upon the call of one of the doorkeepers to see him, his gait was a slouching one, and he might have been mistaken for any other loafer about the hall if he had not been so much more re pulsive than the others. My friend was disappointed. He could not understand when 1 told him that this man was one of the best of the lot of lobbyists about the Capitol, that he had been a member of congress, that he was, therefore, entitled to the privi lege of the floor, and that the house of representatives has never yet had the sense to makes its rules so strong as to keep out this man and several others just like him who are well known to be nothing more than strikers and lobbyists who linger here to pick up odd jobs to help them hang on to a miserable exist ence. They do not, one ought to be thankful, thrive as they are popularly supposed to do. If the public knew what a mistake the professional lobbyist is they would be driven to sawing wood or working on the railroads, or into doing some other useful and laborious busi ness. Then I showed my friend another lob byist. This was a thin, sliding fellow, with a gray close beard, who toed in as he walked quickly along the passage, and who glanced furtively about as he went, as if watching to pounce down upon some one. This man was not an ex-member of congress; but he had been an employee of the house many years ago, and had been caught taking money to enable a corporation to reach, through the door of which he had charge, the men who were to be pur chased to get through a subsidy bill. He was dismissed, and he at once went into the service of the corporation that had led to his disgrace. He is in that employment still, and he associates with a great many senators and representatives who do not know, or have forgotten that others know, his odious history. He is an errand runner and a sneaking watcher of members who are to be encouraged to vote this way or the other on bills to be reported or killed. He would buy a member without hesitation if it were safe to buy him, but he is cautious. He finds out his venal man before taking any risks. He is not ingenious, nor. is he bold. He follows the instructions of the corpora tions that keep him here, and he gets off in the course of the year very well in deed if he does not get kicked out of a gentleman's house more than half a dozen times. The female lobbyist is, generally speaking, a myth. The women who come to the Capitol as promoters of the bills for pensions or for claims, come on their own account, and the only skill they exhibit is that which consists in so persistently bothering the members who have introduced their bills for them that they undertake to have them passed in order to get rid of terrible afflictions. The marvelous woman of charming manners that cannot be resisted is to be found only in the syndicate stories. The women who undertake to promote legis lation are, almost without exception, bunglers and failures. Few women know enough about the ways of legisla tion or the ways of the legislators to qualify them to undertake lobby work or to approach members to direct their actions, except by the most vulgar spe cies of blackmail made possible by con-J tnuutory immorality. Generally speaking, the lobbyist is a fraud and au unnecessary nuisance, fie exists mainly because most people do not know anything about the methods ef legislation, and because nearly every body interested in a bill not public be lieves that the lobbj-ist is a creature who can tide" over difficulties and remove them. As a rule the employment of one of the throng of disreputable lobbyists, and most of them are disreputable on their faces, is prejudicial to the legisla tion they are employed to promote. They thrive on account of the general ignorance about the legislative methods of procedure. Washingson Cor. Provi dence Journal. IJrcaUcr Ahead. 'Yes, I shall embark oa the sea of matrimony myself before long." "Then on'll soon be a-marryin her. won't vou?" Kate Field's Washington- Catholic St. Paul's Church. ak. betweea Fifth and Sixth. Father 'a'uey. Pastor tWvices : Miss at H ud in :30 a. m. Humlny Hchool at 2 :30, with bnedlctli.. ! Chbistian. Corner I.jousI and EIkI'IIi Mi Herrlces moriiiiiK and tri tz f nu i A Oal'nway pastor - Sunday Holioot to a. m. KP'h'JOPAL. St. Luke's 4. lunch, cuiuri '1 liiril V and Vint-. Kev H li. HurueHB iai-ior rr-r-vlces : 11 A. M . a d 7 30 m. Suntlax St-liool at 2 :30P. M. Gkkman Mkthoiomt jrnei sixth si . Gratiit. Kev. liirt. Pant or. hervres : II a m and 7 :30 P. M. Hiiniiay School 1 :3 M rURfHYTFKIAN. ervict-M ill I "W cllt ICli. ' 1 tier Sixtli and (intnite stc lfev .1 l.lair (astor Minda-c 1-0) at 9:30; I rearMn-.-at II a. m. :d 8 p in. 'I lir . H. S. ". K f bin church 111 eii"Vei Sabbath eveniia at 7 :15 in the las m-- l the chucrh. All l ie Invited to atluri tln -meetings. First Mkthoiuht. Sixth st.. Iietwen Mam and Pearl, Hev b. F. Hritt. I. 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