THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 3, 1913. 9-A Interview with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (Copyright, 1913, by Frank O. Carpentr) ASHINOTON, D. C.-I want to TATl toll you something about the W I Intellectual methods of one of the greati-st men of all time, to give you a peep, as It were, Into that wonderful mind which, as far as human speech Is con corned, has annihilated distance and has brought tho hundreds of millions of the human race mouth to ear. I refer to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, whose Invention of the telephone has wrapped a network of quivering Iron nerves about the globe and brought men's souls together. The actions of Dr. Bell's mind that cul minated Ih the telephone were completed more than a generation ago. That In vention was- -patented. In 1876, and the concept then brought .forth will continue to work and grow as long as time shall last. Many ftlarrelona Dlsoorcrles. Evor slnco then the same mind has been working along Inventive and scien tific lines. It has created many new things which are known and has pro duced others which will come to light when Its wonderful records are pub lished. In 183$ Dr. Bell was one of the prime factors In the. creation of the graphophone. A little later on he or ganized the movement for the teaching of speech,, to the deaf along the lines. of Visible speech, Invented- by his father, Dr. Alexander Melville Bell, and to a certain extent those of 'his eminent grand father, Alexander. JBell, , who was an Authority on, phonetics and defective speqeh. ,'ater' still Dr. Belt took' Up the Investi gation of matters relating to aerial flight, bringing forjh now baslo , principles of construction which" have been of great value to. aviation. In addition he has mads Investigations' and discoveries along many other lines, his work concerning which has never been published, HI mind, In short, is on Intellectual dynamo driven nt an enormous voltage by what seems to be, perpetual motion. I have seen some of th first workings of this mind In a model which Alexander Graham Bell made when a boy, of a wax and rubber mouth, which would speak and pronounce the word "liamraa." He was working, at an Invention of. multiplex telegraphy with wires attuned to the oc taves of the piano, when he discovered the telephone, and his mental activity has continued from that time until now. He Is how a half 'dozen years beyond that age at which Dr. Osier says all working men should bo chloroformed, but his mind today Is brighter and better th'an ever. Ills Library, of Ileoords. The records of a mind like this are of Inestimable value. Dr. Bell began to make them when he was inventing the telephone, and it was the dated records he had kept which enabled him to estab lish beyond doubt his priority of inven tion. This showed him the value of such records, and from then until now his mind hoo, as it were, been before the moving picture camera of his note books. and Its actions are filed away for the fu ture. He has kept records and rtotes'iuf everything that he has thought or' expert-1 mented upon since that time,' and theso notqs now fill several .hundreoxolurries, giving the complete story, as It", "Wre, j?. Xhllntlleaual,31f8ty;.!r - --T ? I spent a great-part of last might th Dr. Bell In his library, and during my stay took a look at these- books. They are full of photographs, diagrams, sketches and figures. Some of the work has been taken down by his secretary and written out by typewriter from these stenographic notes, but there are thousands of pages in the fine penmanship of Dr. Bell him self. Within the last five years the manu script volumes have been condensed into a series of digests, which have been is sued from time to time In a typewritten journal, which Dr. Bell calls "The Bclnn Bhreagh Recorder." Belnn Bhreagh Is the name of Dr. Bell's summer home at Beddeck, Nova Scotia, and hence the name of the Journal. This Journal Is Is sued In typewriting and there are only five copies. One of these Copies goes to the records of the Smithsonian Institu tion, and the others are distributed in different places, so that there may be no danger of loss by fire or flood. Covers Wonderful Range, .This digest has now been, issued for five years, and the work already comprises i thirteen volumes, each of which is as thick as the ordinary law took, having ' pages as largo as thoso of an old family' Bible. Koch volume contains COO pages, 1 and roughly estimated about 200,000 words. In the whole thirteen volumes there are more than 2,000,000 words, and these represent the condensation of the workings of Dr. Bell's mind for the last five years only. In addition are the manuscript notes of more than twenty years procedlng,' constituting altogether a mass of material tho contemplation of which makes the mind of tho ordinary man buzz like an electrlo fan. I wish I could show you these books. The thirteen volumes comprise the work ing of Dr. Bell's mind after he had passed tho Dr. Oiler period. Take, for instance, volume two, giving the last three months of 1900. The Index to the volume covers twenty pages, and the sub J tots Include, among. onther things, ex periments on aerial navigation, Ideas as to the scientific breeding of sheep, and as to the utilization of waste heat, sug gestions for a new metric system for the United States, experiments on preserving fpods in paraffin, notes on eugenics and the detailed biological history of a cat. As I looked over this book, I asked Dr. Bell as to whether his mind worked aa wen now as In the past. He replied: "I have never felt stronger Intellec tually. My mind has a greater power .f concentration than it ever ha. It seems DR-BxnaF Baiix , Sanatorium This Institution Is the only one In the centra) west with separate buildings situated In their own ample grounds, yet entirely- dis tinct, and rendering it possible to cllsslty cases. The one building being fitted for and devoted to the treatment ot non-contagious and non-mental diseases, no others be ing admitted: the other Rest Cot tage being designed for and dn voted to the exclusive treatment, ot select mental cases requiring for a time watchful care and spe cial nursing. V r BaESHBHKEEvEEEflKlBHBKBw& JhSmSBbbH Dr.peTl's mifid xs brightest after -mi JzughJr to be quicker, and It does not ttra alonr the lines in which tl am Interested. I LTnetlTitc work for eighteen hours nt a st: etch. His Habits of Life. lAte in the conversation T naked Dr. Biil r.S to habits of wo x. He follows tiv earno program ho has always vsud. Ills alicmoons and eVenlnga ro devoted to roclcl and business canurements. and It l elf somo houV after dinner that tu begins htu lntellect-ml work. His best woik U done at night and ho toils me Ihat his mind Wat its brightest from nudHpht on. He Is the-i froo from lnttr-rupt'r,r.-j and can give his soul to abstract th-u?h: and scientific Invention. Until very recently he has not gone to bed until 4 o'clock In the morning, and his nreront time of retiring Is a littlo aftor 3. He sleeps from 3 until 10 or 11 and finds that this is all ' ho needs. Ho sleeps out r.f doors. He has an open-air porch back of his library, and he uass this as hla bed room. Ho has no trouM tn slasptng. not withstanding tho porch Is right ever n playground where a little Montessorl school of boys and girls are making thn usual noises of chlld.-ci tanging in age from to 8 years' Ho says that the noise affects him mu;n .tho same as that of a .sleeping 'car. -Ono gets used to it. andthQ mind tnkes4no note of tt. rX&sprogrpiJor jiU; Mys. cf yu Weeks" goes on regularly, except wjien Dr.'-:Bflirnecprhes' espeol.iUr.:interested In some subject. At rich' tlm.M he may not go to bed at all, but will continue his work until he has completed that stage of his thought or mvnstlgatlon. He may work far on Into the day, goln? for hours without sleu, nnl then sleep ing: for many hours at A stretch to mako It up. One Day of Solltnde. 1 have said for "six days of tho week." He has one day tn, civery seven which Is entirely devoted to his own intellectual existence, neparnte and apart from every other human being. At Bad- deck he has a sort of rttrta. consltslng of an old houseboat which he has, erected on posts, and "which Is hlrldri away far In the woods. He has a clmll.tr retreat In a cabin In soma woods which are easily reached from Washington. On this day ho leaves the middlng crowd and goes off by him. -If to do such spe cial work as Jie may have on hand. He takes some canned fool, and other so called dlgestlblcs with him sand conks his own meals, so that he Is absolutely free from, human Interruption. This fea ture of his work Is not generally kn-iwn but Dr. Bell tells me that he finds It of great value in the product realttftj, and In the maintenance of Intellectual and physical strength. i As to his night work, Dr. Bell keeps this going from day to day, year In and yr out When he Is traveling by train he has the drawing room of tho sleeper and carries on his night work there, and he does the same in his cabin on his long ocean ' trips over the world. Speaking of this recalls a curious In cident which happened during his visit to. Japan some .years ago. We had been talking about Japan, and I asked Dr. Bell to tell me of his audience with the emperor. He replied: Meeting; With the Mikado, "You know, an invitation to an audi ence of that kind is a command, and it has to be met at the exact time of the appointment. The United States minis ter had said he would arrange for the audience, but that there was no cer tainty when It could be granted. I was traveling with my wife and daughters. We had left Toklo and gone to the western part of Japan, when one day I received a telegram telling me that his majesty would receive me tow days later at 10 o'clock in the morning. At that time the United States minister did n?t know of. our whereabouts, and he only found us by telegraphing to all of the hotels In western Japan where we might possibly be stopping. At any rate, he found me, and that same night I left my family and came back to Toklo-" At this point Dr. Bell stopped and saldt "I think T had better call In Charles, who was with me at the time. He will remember the details better than I do." Thereupon Dr. Bell rang for his valet, nndCahrles, a bright-looking colored man of perhaps thirty, came In, and Dr. Bell asked him to tell me how he had gone to the emperor. Sold Charles: "You see, Mr. Bell, we were in Kioto at the time we got the telegram, and we had to come right away to Toklo. We stopped on tho way at Yokohama, and it was not until the night before you were to meet the emperor that we got back to Toklo. Then yotf received news from the American legation that you must appear the next morning at 10 o'clock at the palace In a full dress suit, with a tall silk hat and white gloves. You had the dress suit, but you had no tall hat nor gloves. I went out and bought the glover'' "But what did we do for a hat?" 'Oh, we hired that. It was so small that you could not wear It, but you had only, to carry It In your hand." "Well what happened next?" "That night, Mr. Belt, you remember you, said you would go to bed early, so that you would be bright in the morning when you talked with the emperor. YoU promised me you would go to bed right away after dinner, but you did not. You worked all night until about 4 o'clock tn the morning and when I tried to wake you at 8:30 I could hardly do so. You 'said: 'All right,' and turned over and went to sleep again. I came in at 9 and laid out your evening clothes. I waked you again, and It was along about J:S0 that I finally got you up. You' then put on your dress suit, while the man from the legation was waiting for you, and had Just time to get to the palace, I remember when you got back you were hot much pleased with the audience. You said that the emperor looked over your head and seemed very stiff." Dr. Bctl then sold: "Tho audience was something like that Wo had no conversation except In platitudes, and his majesty was evidently acting according to tho fixed rules upon such occasions." 1 "I give, this story to Illustrate some thing ot tho working of Dr. Bell's mind. He could come across the whole .of Japan to see the emperor, ' and wlttv an audience like that In view In the morning, could so lose himself in his work to spend tho whole night .without knowing or thinking that there was such a tiling as an emperor In existence. His Personal Appearance. It is Interesting to know how a man who does, as much work as Dr. Bell keeps fit. He is now in his sixty-mtn year and la the personification of In tellectual and physical vigor. He Is over six feet in height and must weigh con siderably more than 200 pounds.. He is, however, light on his feet, and his coin- " V . , b, ht plexlon Is as clear and his eyes as bright as when I first met mm imeen o' twenty years ago. I have spoken of his sleeping in the open air. He has done that for more than a generation and long before the open-air cure was advocated. He Is not a great eater. As we sat in the library last night at about 1 o'clock the servant brought In a tray upon which Was his supper which he takes at 3 a. m., Just before golnc to bed. It consisted cf a half dozen .water thin creackors.a bot tle ot Bulgarian milk or artificial butter milk and a flask of distilled water. Doesn't Care for Salt. The distilled -water recalled to my. mind a visit I had made Dr. Bell about seven years ago, Just before t started out to make a long trip around the African continent He was rtriakW distilled water then and I asked him why he did so. He replied: "I have found that distilled water is a sovereign cure for rheum ill jm, at least as far as my own case is con cerned. Some years ago I was afflicted with, sciatica and was bedridden on ac count of it. The doctors could not find anything to relieve me. The attack came Just when I was Investigating certain subjects relating to the deposits of raits. One was as to the deposits of ialta In the. human system. A well known scientist had written a book In which he said that old age came from such depojlts, nhd that the Ills ot advancing years vere due to the lack of their elimination. This man thought that when such deposits went to the Joints "man had rheumatism. When they went to the kidneys t.e hsd kidney trouble and stones In tho urlairy organs, and when they lodged in the arteries, they produced what is CAlled hardening of the arteries. 7n the wmo way, when such deposits coated the nerves they produced sciatica. "At the same time I had been studying about the Dead sea, the Great Bait lake, and" other bodies of water which have no outlets. They are,, as you know, all salt. The Dead sea la' one-fourth salt and the Great Salt lake is loaded with salt Well, It occurred to the that my body was much like the Dead sea, and that it needed less salt coming In and plenty ot ways to get the salt out. I knew that distilled water was pure, and with the free perspiration I always have. I thought that If I drank plenty of it I might get rid ot some ot the salts which were covering my sciatic nerves. I tried drinking St, and it worked like a charm. Within a short time my sciatic left me, and I have been 'free from rheuma tism from that day to this. I have kept up my drinking of distilled water, and I attribute my almost perfect health largely to It When I am in the city I get it at the regular water supply stores, and when I am at Baddeck I have a little 10 still with which I make what I need." "Will Cure Illiruiuntl-tn. I referred to this talk last night, and then told Dr. Bell of my own experiences with distilled water, which were the re sult of his story. I told him bow when I left for Africa I had been urgea to drink nothing but mineral waters, and how for the first four months ot my trip I did so. I started In at Gibraltar with drinking a well known French mineral water, and kept this up during my travels in Morocco, Algeria. Tunisia and Tripoli. The water contained consider able salts, and the result was that when I got to Egypt, my system was In a ter rible condition, and I went to a famous Cairo doctor and asked him what was the matter. He replied that I had been taking In too much salt through that water, and he advised mo to drink only tho Juice of the Nile, I then told Mm about Dr. Bell's theory, when he replied! "Dr. Bell Is Just right. All water which passes through the earth has more or less organic or norganlo substances in It. and being already loaded. It cannot take up the (alts ot the system. Dlstlllbd watet Is different. It Is pure and It Bucks up the salts like a sponge. It Is a magnet which draws the salts to It and there Is no doubt but that It Is good for rheumatism." To complete the story, when I returned home I found one of my friends afflicted with rheumatism, and persuaded htm to try the cure. He did so and within a few weeks he was well. I recommended It to General James T. Du Bols, who had Just been appointed United States min ister to Colombia, and who was almost wild with neuralgia. I persuaded him to turn on tho distilled water and ho was able to proceed to his post. I could mention sevoral others, and I JRfcest the prescription to my rheumatlo readors. KKANK Q. CAIITENTEIL KILLING TIPS FOR FLY TIME Uncle Bum Tells of Vnrloua Menu of ratting; ICnd to Summer Ninsnnee, Traps and poisons as effective means cf abating or controlling the fly nui sance are dlsoussed in a bulletin Just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. The uso of 'formaldehyde, which has been recommended by Dr. Murray, Is en dorsed by the Agricultural department a means of killing the pests. House holders and others who employ the method, however, should be careful to see that the poison Is kept out of the reach ot children Referring to the effectiveness of for maldehyde as an insect destroyer, the bulletin says. "It. I. Smith of the North Carolina station found that one ounce, (two table- spoonfuls) of formalin (40 per cent for maldehyde) In sixteen ounces (one pint) of a mixture of equal parts of milk and water In shallow dishes, with a piece of bread In the center for the files to light on, proves very attractive and de. stroctivo to the, flies, especially when placed on the front and back porches of houses. It Is less effective when used Inside the house, although the method was used with good results In ridding dairies of flies. "E. E. Green of Celon has used the following method with success; Fill a soup plate with damp sand, cover with a disk of blotting paper, Bprcad sugar qn. the blotting paper, and sprinkle it with a mixture of one part ot formalin (40 per cent formaldehyde) with twenty parts of. water.' New types of fly traps are discussed in tne uuiieun as iouuws "Various forms of fly traps have been used with good results. P. I Wash burn of the Minnesota station describee an efficient and easily constructed form of trap, as follows: The trap Is twenty-four Inches, long, twelve Inches high and eight Inches wide. The upper Dart, which may be qval or rectangular as preferred, serve as a re ceptacle which the fllus enter through tho opening In the , top of the mlddlo portion made of ordinary mosquito wire screen and shaped like the roof of a house. Under this Is tho base board upon which rest two tin bait nans. The- between thn base board and the i mmli porti0n Is about one-half Inch. and between this and tho bait Pans through which files enter pans, about one-fourth ot an Inch. Stale meat, bread and milk are used as bait. The trapped tiles are killed by Immersing In hot water. "A trap devised by C. P. Hodge, and recommended by the Department of Ag riculture for use In windows of dairies, stables, markets, etc., is described as follows: At the bottom ! an opening; about a uuarter of an Inch wide, running the length of both sides. This opening ad mits the files to a space covered by a ridge or roof of screen wire with holes large enough for flies to go through every two inches. Largo pans of fly bait fish heads, poultry cleanings, brew ers' waste, blood, or anything available which ts found on the premises to at tract files can be net on the bottom board and thus establish a whirlwind focus for all the flies about the place. The other essential In the construction ts the fold or folds In the screen walls, These are slmnly folds or open pleats running horizontally across tho trap, pointing upward and inward. The files, In trying to gut In or out of the win dow, collect In these folds, run back and forth In them until they pop through one of the holes which occur every two Inches, and they have never been seen to face of the wrinkle and crawl down and find a hole on the convex Inside sur out again. This trap is built in a frame which fits closely In a window, preferably on tho best lighted side of the building." Washington Star. SPIEL OF MAN OF WOE .Funeral Etiquette and Some Obser vations Kn Ilouto to 'the Cemeteries. A New York undertaker who follows an unusual and apparently Inconvenient route on his way to the ferries has ex. plained his partiality for those particular streets. "I go that way," he said, "be cause by so doing we pass through a neighborhood whose attitude is especially respectful toward funerals. There are many streets where a funeral procession makes no more Impression on the populace than an ice wagon, but in parts of the city where the Latin clement predominates the approach of a hearse is the signal for a solemn demonstration Men slacken their speed and some raise their hats. Mourners, I find, are Im pressed with these tokens of respect, so even though the neighborhood Is not the most select, I find It Jeslrable to travel that way, "There Is an old superstition about cross Ing between funerals, but I doubt if it is as much superstition as the showing by some of proper respect for the dead and the mourners. Funerals ought not to go onto the ttreet car tracks, thus avoiding the breaking up and scattering ot carriages, and automobile and other vehicles surely should show proper respect by halting while the funeral Is passing. 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