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THE COURIER
up municipal house-cleaning as their
privilege. They are unwilling to walk
dirty thoroughfares on their way to the
club, or to allow violations of health
ordinances or abuses In school manage
ment, while they sit still and study
Browning or Shakespeare over their tea
cups. "Let us relax over Browning and the
teacups, but let our aim and purpose be
not only self-lmprpvement and self-indulgence,
but improving and benefiting
the community in which we live.
"The work of clubs should be for local,
individual needs; the work of the state
federations should be for broad, more
extended state needs.
"It has been my pleasure to examine
the various state organizations, from
personal contact and from reports, and
I find the best results where the state is
so divided Into districts that each one
Is acquainted with its own needs, and
can bring those needs directly to, the
central board, with recommendations;
where this same district can, through its
representative, bring back to the clubs
the sympathetic understanding and as
sistance required" ,.
t
In an address on. "What -Does It Profit
Us?" referring to the national federa
tionMrs. Moore spoke first of the ob
jects of the. federation. She said:
"Their immediate function is to bring
together women, otherwise widely sep
arated, and to discuss together matters
of vital interest to them and to the
world. To get together, is essential in
all our undertakings; to talk is prelimi
narynecessarily so to all collective ac
tion. 'What the talk results in depends
entirely upon the soil in which the seed
is sown sometimes with large growth.
Just as often with indifferent stagnation.
"One point 'of special interest is the
gradual development of the civic con
science, the social consciousness, in
women. In a world' whose pressing
problems are so pre-eminently social,
where the worst evils are plainly due to
a lack of public spirit, nothing Is more
needed than such movements as this."
At the close of ber address Mrs. Moore
summed up the results accomplished by
the federation as follows:
"Educators assure us that those who
are anxious to Introduce some new Idea
into the schools' or desirous of doing
away with some old, outgrown condi
tion, come to the club women, organized
for altruistic purposes, for aid. In in
dustrial lines this broad statement has
been made: Every public step taken lq
the United States for the betterment of
the condition of women and children
within this ten-year period bears the
impress of agitation by club women.
Every act of state or national legisla
tion, calculated to make life better
worth living for women and their off
spring has been due to such efforts.
Better wages, less hours of labor. Im
proved sanitary and other conditions In
places of employment, and a general re
gard for the welfare and comfort of
women workers are landmarks in the
progress of the women's 'clubs. And
along with these special results, In the
cause of humanity, there has been a
development of fellowship In the direc
tion of social, literary and scientific cul
ture." Mrs. Hatterson They are going to
have ladles' day at my husband's club.
.Mrs. Catterson I suppose you will be
glad to see him.
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NEW YORK. Nov. 8. One of the most
wonderful Inventions of the 'Twentieth
century has just been perfected, and is
now going into the service of the news
papers of this and other countries. It is
the electograph, a machine for trans
mitting pictures by wire, invented by
Thomas Mills and H. R, Palmer, two
young men of Cleveland, and perfected
for newspaper half-tone work by Arthur
Leslie, president of the Leslie newspaper
syndicate of New York. It is due en
tirely to the tireless energy of these
gentlemen that the practicability of
flashing a halftone reproduction of a
photograph Instantaneously over the
wire to any distance has been realized.
The greatest marvel of this wonderful
invention is Its remarkable simplicity.
A little common, everyday pin is the
instrument which makes, it possible to
"send a faithful reproduction of the fea-
re of a person, or the exact details of
i-a scene, throbbing over the wire from
- " me distant point to another.
?SAttached by a comparatively simple
device to one end of a telegraph wire,
the pin, with tiny flashes of electricity
snapping from its point, takes the fea
- tures of a man from an ordinary half
tone plate and the current carries the
record faithfully through space and re
sents them at the other end of the wire
hundreds of miles away.
By means of the electograph, which It
has taken Ave years of patient labor la
perfect, a reproduction of a photograph-'
is sent from New York to Chicago in
Ave minutes.
The actual working value of the- In
vention is demonstrated with the simple
accessories of apparatus! Xor the repro
duction of photographs such as are in
everyday use by newspapersyforthe il
lustration of their pages. j
From the photograph of a man, for
Instance, a halftone plate of somewhat
coarse mesh is made. This is bent into a
half-circular shape and put on a cyl
inder. Attached to what looks like and
Jsllke an ordinary sounder of a tele
graph Instrument, is a common pin.
Sealing wax having been rubbed over
the halftone plate, the cylinder Is set to
revolving by the power of a small dyna
mo, and the pin Is placed to touch the
piste lightly.
Paring over the wax. the pin comes
in centaet wMhealy the higher portions
of the platen and an electrical connec
tion is established. These Interrupted
connections may be compared to the
dots and dashes of the Morse code and
are transmitted like that code.
At the other end of the wire a similar
cylinder revolves in unison with that at
the sending point. To a device like that,
which holds the common pin, Is attached
a steel pen which Is automatically fed
with ink. When the pin touches a high
point on the halftone plate, the pen
touches the artist's paper on the receiv
ing cylinder, and writes there an exact
reproduction of the coarse lines of the
halftone, with white spaces correspond
ing to the waxed parts of the plate.
The resulting picture on the paper, in
black ink, looks on close scrutiny, to be
a rough and impressionist sketch of
somewhat vague design, but, held at a
distance of a few feet, it takes shape
and meaning, and it is in effect a perfect
picture. When it goes through the fa
miliar process of photo-engraving, like
any photograph or pen-and-ink sketch!
the resulting halftone plate prints
cleanly and strongly in a newspaper.
The illustration which accompanies
this article was made In Mr. Leslie's of
fice, 102 Fulton street, N. Y. The .time
to transmit the picture from one instru
ment to the other was about five min
utes. The halftone plate used In this
Instance In the transmission has repeated
, the' photographic reproduction already
some two hundred time There is no
limit to the number of pictures that can
be thus made from one plate, so that
Newspapers all over the country may be
.supplied hour after hour with the fea
tures of a man, or snapshots of big news
events.
Successful tests have been made be
tween Chicago and St. Louis, and be
tween other cities In the middle west.
An important thing to know is that
these instruments can be easily con
nected with any telegraph or wire in a
few minutes, and as easily disconnected.
With a picture half completed, the tele
graph operator may cut Into the wire
with his Morse code and send or receive
a. message. The making of the picture
stops then, but may be speedily resumed.
Newspaper correspondents can tele
graph illustrations to accompany their
dispatches; military commanders may
send war maps; travellers may be lden-
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may transmit a photograph from a
) rogues' gallery to bold a criminal In a
' distant city. .
The instrument Is, In fact, thoroughly
utilitarian, and will add immensely to
the value of all important descriptive
matter sent by wire.
, Many inventors, including the leading
electricians of this country, have strug
gled with this Important problem, and
It has been the aim of more than one
metropolitan newspaper to perfect such
an Instrument as the electrograph in its
t present condition has become.
' The gentlemen prominently Identified
with the electrograph are Mr. F. B.
Squire, vice-president of the Standard
Oil company, who Is president of the
Electrograph company; W. !H. K. Rose,
who is its vice-president and secretary;
C. M. Palmer, the well-known newspa
per publisher and broker; I. "W. Durfee,
of Clark & Durfee, attorneys, Detroit,
and Frederick Osborne, banker and
broker, of Detroit.
From a complicated and impracticable
embryo the present machine has been
evolved step by step, and several years
have been consumed in developing the
, present perfect apparatus from the
" crude idea of the electrograph originally
presented.
Within the past few days experiments,
including the transmission of pictures
over the eight hundred mile circuit, and
their reduction for reproduction pur
poses, have- been watched by publishers
and others, representing the most im
portant publications in New York and
' elsewhere. The verdict given by these
men of the positive success achieved Is
sufficient to satisfy the most incredulous
that this wonder has been finally ac
complished, and it now remains only to
Instal the system in a more general way
so that the electrograph will pass Into
every day use as one of the ordinary
conveniences of civilization.
Getthalr Hello, old man, what makes
you so gay this morning?
Shyleigh You know that I have been
engaged for the last three months?
Getthalr Sure. Girl gone back on
you?
Shyleigh Of course not. But but I
found out last evening that she she
likes to be kissed.
J. R. HAGGARD, M. D.,
LINCOLN, NEB.
Office, 1100 O street Rooms 212, 213, 214.
Richards Block; Telephone 635.
Residence, 1310 G street: Telephone K984
M. B." KETCHUM. M. D., Phar. D.
Practice limited to EYE. EAR. NOSE,
THROAT, CATARRH, AND FITTING
SPECTACLES.
Hours, 9 to 5; Sunday. 1 to 2:30.
Rooms 313-314 Third. Floor Richards
Block. Lincoln. Neb. Phone 848.
DRS. WENTE & HUMPHREY,
DENTISTS
OFFICE. ROOMS 26. 27. 1. BROWNELL
BLOCK,
137 South Eleventh Street,
Telephone. Office. 530.
C. W. M. POYNTER, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON : : : : :
Phones: Residence. L925; Office. L102L
1222 O STREET
DR. BENJ. F. BAILEY,
Residence, Sanatorium. Tel. 617.
At office, 2 to .4; Sundays, 12 to 1 p. m.
DR. MAY L. FLANAGAN,
Residence. 621 So. 11th. Tel. 959.
At office. 10 to 12 a. m.; 4 to 6 p. m.
Sundays, 4 to 4:30 p. m.
Office. Zehrung Block. 141 So. 12th. Tel. 618
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Phone 5238
2612 Q STREET
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For durability and quality of tone, ac
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Warerooms: 1120 O Street
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