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BOWSER GETS IT r i . - - . ^ tie Makes a Startling Scientific o Discovery. >un crops it; a tryout. fMlIT VI V ipv m m t r. . . WW - * F*- *.. '% ' * ; C ' " 4 ' ? ' ? % * 1 'a * * 1 v i ? ; ' - ." ' $ut the Unabpreclattte and Ignorant Neighbors Mistake Hit Efforts and Put a Nummary End to tko Expert: menb?Mrs. Bowser Scores. ' St \ 1 ' By M. QUAD. i >fCopyright, 1812, by Associated Literary' * Press.] m MR- BOWSER had got it M?? Rnwwr knew It thft 1*1 moment (centered tbe boose. Was It a new ttiw escape?*; Was it a new milk cow? ^ Was it chickens or a lying machined Sbe hefd her fpeatb and waited, bat *ve said there would be nothing doing tint!} after dinner, and tliere was nothing for her bnf to prepare herself for the best or worst Mr. Bewaer. was jxHidecoasly gay -over tbe meal, but, f&rks finished at last and when they had ascended to tbe sitting room be produced a tin < iiom and beean: j "A woman doesn't know muck, of course?just enough to enable her to ' dodge a cable car or a batcher cart? . but perhaps you have beard of the new idea in science, wireless telegraphy?" "I have seen it mentioned in the pa* v <pers," stiffly replied Mrs. Bowser. "Then yon know what the idea is. It 5.' is to telegraph without wires, or by sonnd waves of the human voice. The boman voice, as i may explain to yon, : i does not issue from the throat like a piece of turnip, but in waves following ;; ^ach other so closely that k is hard to : > -"detect the intervals between tbem.\ For instance, my voice as 1 now speak " , ' to yon seems to string out like a rope, doesn't it?" "Yes. 1 was just thinking bow much \ it resembled an old clothesline." "Thanks! Ignorance always tries to hide behind sarcasm: However, there "WHO CALLED ME?" Jiro scores of breaks or intervals in my voice just the same. only your ears detect J hem." ; "AjhJ what if they don't?" He Starts Off. "All, there is rf*.* key to the whole j "thing. Two or three-people are working at ir, bnt they have just missed it as vet. They don't go on the right principle. They forget that the last sound or wave must be heavy to drive the other wave before it to a distance." "And so some one has started you off on that fad?" she queried as lie balanced himself on his heels and looked i I down upon her in a pitying, patronizv r ? ing way. "Call it what you will, Mrs. Bowser? ; j fad, discovery or torn tilery?hut I J'r . have solved the problem for the world, v i the name of Bowser has been placed above those of Edison and Tos- j j-i | la. Yes. Dia'ain. idiot as I am. I have | given the world a wireless telegraph i - . . M * } AT ia8L" "How did .von do it?" she asked, be-i coming interested in spite of herself * ; and thinking there might probably be rT i something to it after a!?. ? , | "Simplest thing in the world 1 shout. ). ] a message and then use tins horn and | a last word to overtake the other words ? j and hunip tliein along. It is like sending a big rook rolling down hill after } smaller odos. If you can be halfway :} i decent for the next half hour I will ;5 show you a few things to make your ' hair curl. In all the experiments thus j ; far made the operators at each end of j ;j the route have had ro use different de- j vices. Observe that I use nothing of j the kind I simply fare in a certain j !> ; direction and set the sound waves roll- j 5ng. We will viij.j.ose that 1 am iti j ^ New York and the cook downstairs is ! ' a j 3D JjODOOI: i WUfJl iU IVlIlimstlH ilU* ?l I f message to her tiirongh the receiving ( operator. I open the stair door so. j < That gives my voice n chance, i will | now set tlie sound waves going by cry- j fng out at rite top of mV voice: r "'Hello, there, ttridtret O'Uallnhan!' I "Tint is what may be called the driv- j lug Have, to clear The tint*:, and I fol- > It with: " *5 our motlier died at 5 o'clock this j ! afternoon !* j ? That's the message, and 1 no>v drive j jt ;tleBg..by shouting at the top of my ! ? - i . . ^ : voif't*: I) j " Mod I'm glad of itr j ,r-1 | Ehier the "There 5s the Thole thins, you see." i blandly explained ill*. Uovrscr as he ! 1 <1 rued jU'omkI. "ftud vr% shall hear i fpor? Rr'tt&or woon Ah* *nirm#Hl from ? i her ? ; '.ir. Sht nibbed pcrogft the kfleto- i i ml Kb# la on the atalm. Now aba appears r Bo she did. She appeared with a dish Id one band end a cloth In the other, and she wus pale faced and her eyes wore roiling. "Who, called rae?" she demanded, looking from one to the other. "Do you seeT' asked Mr. Bowser as he turned to bis wife. "Who called and said that my mother died at 5 o'clock?* shouted Bridget as she waved both dfsh and cloth. "My dear woman, did you ever hear of wireless telegraphy?' soothingly asked Mr. Bowser as he laid a hand on her arm. "Never, sir, and if It was you that said my poor mother was dead and you were glad of it I'm out of this house In two. minutes! I have never lived In the family of a villain yet and with the help of heaven 1 never will!" He spent fifteen minutes trying to explain ..the affair to ber. and she finally decided to bang on for a day or two Itooger. When she bad retired to ber domain Mr. Bowser consoled himself by saying: -1 ought to have remembered that she didn't know putty from pepper. You must adipit. that my system is a success, however:** - "Yes^your yell conW have beep beard ia'^blocb away.^ TepHed^ Mrs. ROwser. -but I - on't consider it a real test at alL You'd have to have a roar like forty bulls to drive the 6ound waves ten or fifteen miles." -That shows all you know about it. How far Is It from our back door to the rear of the flat fronting the next street T * A knvti4?t/\/1 mo v*Ka " f A\ UUUUiCU IVUU UkU^ LfW* "Weil I know a man named .Tones on the third floor. I'll go down into the yard and send him a message, and you'll hear no forty bulls' voices abour it." Another Demonstration. Three minutes later Mr. Bowser had reached his station. In a voice hardly above a whisper he sent his clear tire track wave ahead by calling: wJones! Jones! Ah, there, Jones' Say. Jones, do you hear me?" If Jones did there was no sign of it. but Mr. Bowser went on with the message: . "Tell Jones that I know where he was last night. Out I'll keep mum about it." Then lie lifted his voice a trifle for the driving wave, and tlie whole thing was supposed to l>e rolling in on Junesthrough wall ur window when an old tin pail struck Mr. Bowser in tiro stomach, a piece of can I found n resting place on his cliiu and bottles and cans hit all around him and voices cried out: -Peg him agin! It's old Bowser out throwing poison to our cats and dogs!" "Come into the house with your tinhorn foolery if you don't want to be killed dead!" shouted the cook as she reached outdoors for him. and Mr. Bow. ser feit the wind of an old demijohn ?x he backed into a place of safety. The woman squared off with her hands on her hips and began about her dead mother anew, but Mr. Bowser passed upstairs without a word. Mrs. Bowser sat reading and trying to look unconcerned. but he inarched up to her and 61IVUICU. ; ? "Woman, this is your revenge,, but do^'t chuckle too soon: Instead of discouraging (no you have made me a desperate man!" He Retires In Disgust. "Did you call up J ones V" she innocently querist "Tones? ,)Anes? What the deuce have 1 got to do with .lones? I'm talking of would be murderers and assassins. Woman, this is the climax! Tomorrow morning we'll have the lawyers here. I'll have the pai>ers ready for Vrn. - 1 now retire to the library, and if any one asks for me tell 'em that it was your assassin hand that struck the fatal blow!" "And how many sound waves will it take to tell them?" He glared at her. . "And if you want the last to be a drive wave you'd better leave the horn." lie gurgled, but words would not come "I stand on my heels when I shout, don't IV" "Wo-woman!" "1 hope it doesn't snap my corset strings " Gesrures. hm no words. "The next invention must be something ro help you dodge bottles and can^. Co on. Mr P.owser; 2 -will help you to fame and gl??ry." Ho had neither knife nor gun, and he V ollt DANGER FROM GRIPPE ] I Lies in That Cough and Weak, Worn-out Condition. Grippe, pleurisy, pneumonia, these are greatly to he feared at this time of the year. To prevent grippe from being followed by either pleurisy or pneumonia, it is important to drive the last traces of it out of the system quickly. Our advice is to take Vinol. our tfpHrinna end liver nnd iron orenant iioa without oil, and get your strength and vitality back quickly. Mrs. A. A. Grabill, of Strastyurg, Ya. says: '"Grippe left ine weak, run down and with a severe cough, from which I suffered four >ears. I tried, different remedies, but nothing seemed to do me any good until I took Yinol, from which T received great benefit. ?uy cough is almost entirely gone, and 1 am strong and well again, and I am fo1r.fi T-r. r> rvm TY> r>Ti d Vino] to oftlPrl f itill M? M.V WiilIJi .J.U ? - who suffer as I did/' Try Vino] with the certainty that if it does not benefit, you wc "will give back your money. HARMON DRUG COMPANY, o5% Oima vtr Women Are Constant Health by Lydi! Vegetable < we . 1 r 1 1 ti M W orth mountains ot gold, Says, "I would not give Lyd Compound for all the other world." Still another writes, merits of Lydia E. Pinkham's 1 on the sky with a searchlight so 1 read and be convinced that the We could fill a newspaper ten tin tations taken from the letters we h . hu^.h^en,-restored an ' Pmkham's vegetable Compound. Whv ha? T'vflia K. Pmkh:?.m's V< such a universal success ? Why ha doing its glorious work among the i than 30 years ? Simply and surely l>ecause of its other medicine has ever approache ply because there is 110 other medic Here are two letters that just car of thousands, but both tell a comfo man who will read them?and be g FROM MRS. I>. H. BROWX. ! Iola. Kansas.?"During" the Change of Life I was sick for Cwoyears. Before I took your medicine 1 could not bear the weight of my clothes and was bloated very badly. I doctored with three doctors but they did me no good. They said nature J must have its way. My sister advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound and I purchased a bottle. Before it was gone the bloating left me and I was not so sore. I continued taking until I had taken 12 bottles. Now I am stronger than i have been for years and can do all my work, even the washing. Your medicine is worth its weight in gold. I cannot praise it enough. If more women would take your medicine there would be more healthy women. You may use this letter for the good of others."? Mrs. D. H. Brown, 809 North Walnut Street, Iola, Kan. gMBtoWrit* to LYDIA E. PIXKHAM S^W (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNX, MA! Your letter will be opened, read a v-r ^ ^^^*i?.ft'aRd held in strict coi I tLUlrt ,g'c<>ZVtoGl/%< G.C ? THE MOST COMPLETE LINE WE HAVE EVER SHOWN IN HARNESS, SADDLES, COLLARS, BRIDLES, ROBES, ! HORSE j BLANKETS, ETC. We have a special home-made slip Harness for one-horse wagon at $5i00a A Sot of Buggy Harness for $10.00. i | We buy Hides, Furs, Tallow, Beeswax and pay highest market prices. j Wilse W. Martin, 1116-1118 Plain Street, j COLUMBIA - - S. 0. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ! County of Lexington. I By Geo. S. Drafts, Esq.. Probate Judge. ! Whereas, Mabel Goodwin made suit s | to me to grant her letters of adj ministration of the estate of and J effects of John H. Goodwin; These ore,* therefore, to cite and ad- j | moni.-h all and singular the kindred ! i and erf ditors of the said John H. j I Goodwin, deerasid, that they be and , appear before ine, in the Court of j ! Probate, to be held at Lexington, ! i C. H., S. C.. on 17th day of May, 11*13. i next, after publication hereof at 11 5 o'clock in the fort noon, to show cause, S if any they !.a\e, why the said ; administration should not be granted, j Given under my hand, this 2nd day ! of May, A. I). 1913. GEO. S. DRAFTS, (L. S.) Probate Judge, Lexington Co., S. C. I Published on the 7th day of May, I 1913, in the Lexington Dispatch. 28 i Sweet Potato Plants Tomat), Pepper. Cabbage, etc., choicest dowering and ornamental plants for the front yard. Flowers, plan's, balbs and seeds OVOT X'U'llAM j v * v/# j ?i ! Rose Hill Greenhouses I Phone 43. Columbia, S. C. Fresh Bread always fouud 1 at Harman Bazaar. Xcmc *U0to ly Being Restored to r* n* 11 f i ?.. rinKnam s Compound. ' says one woman. Another [ia E. 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