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fHE man was really killed; yet It
' was proved that ha wai killed
nowhere. That sounds foolish,
1 but well, the way it happened
was this:
Ramon Guiteres owned, or at any
rate said he owned, the little Island
of Mercedes, one of the lovely group
that shuts off the Santa Barbara chan
nel from the sweep of the Pacific.
This was long before the dealer In
tourists had discovered the slumberous
beauties of Santa Catallna, with Its
dreamy Bay of Avalon and Its pursuit
of the anything but sleepy tuna.
Ramon had discovered that hiding
under a brown cloak of sunburned grass
there lay an inner lining of succulent
herbage, admirably fitted for sheep. He
had found, too. that the sheep wander
ing up and down the wind-swept hills
while they nosed for this green food
grew a thick, long wool that was much
appreciated on the mainland. So the
sheep of Ramon Guiteres grew fat
and grew long wool on the Island of
Meroedes while the bank roll of Ramon
grew fat In the vaults of the National
Bank of Los Angeles. Which is more
than Ramon did. for he ever remained
a lean Spanish-American, hot of blood
end hotter of passion, short of stature
and shorter of temper.
Ramon kept a gang of Portuguese
herders to tend the sheep, and a China
man to cook for the herders. The chief
ELECTRIC WAVES FROM NIAGARA-Continued
from the First Page of This Oection
he has labored to find a way to send
electric power through natural media.
Now, he says, he has achieved success.
With the use of radiant electrlo ener
gy, electricians say that the wireless
ese of electricity for producing power
Is impossible. Lik the rays from a
lamp, these elrclrlu rays distribute
themselves in every direction, with a
oatural decrease of Intensity.
But with the stationary wave, which
ribrates so terrifically that it will go
quivering through the earth, as if the
globe were no more than a live wire,
nothing will be impossible, it is de
clared. Mr. Tesla spoke of his invention re
luctantly. He has already secured pat
snts on the apparatus for producing the
Wave. Of the apparatus, however, he
Oeclined to speak.
He Is at prpsent working on a plant
at Wardencliffe, near Port Jefferson.
L. I., where he says he will produce
power which will enable people to tele
phone to each other without regard to
distance.
The mechanism is the same, he said,
s that by which he wll produce power
to operate airships, sea-going vessels
and various kinds of machinery.
"I expect to have the plant at War
flencliffe completed In the fall," said
Mr. Tesla, "when 1 shall enable persons
to talk to each other by means of wire
less telephony."
"For what distance can two persons
peak?"
"There will be no limit to the dls
lance," he replied. "Persons can talk
to each other from Philadelphia to New
(York or from New York to Ixindon."
"And will it be possible to distinguish
the words, to henr clearly?"
The voice will be transmitted dis
tinctly and plainly the vole will
ound as clear as crystal. You'll not
even be bothered by the annoying hum
on the wires which exists with the pres
ent methods."
Xo you mean that a person in the
wilds of Northern China could speak to
person In New York, and they would
Actually hear one another?"
"Ai Dlalnly as If you and I were in
WJrrJng rooms, and were talking ta
tarh other." replied the inventor, enrn-
And this by means of a little insiru
ment that may foe carried In the pocket!
Conceive th wonderful possibllties of
this Inwitlon, ; - Tou ar aboard ship.
a your way to Europe, and iyou awake
(n tW morning, wondering- how jrou rl
tlvs are at horn.
Joti a Imply caji tuem Jip by tba tele
of the herders was one Luis no one
ever knew his second name and the
Chinese cook said his name was Ah
Lee. but he answered equally well to
Sam.
Between Lulz and Ah Lee there had
been bad blood for months, due primar
ily to the Portuguese herder having
discovered the Chinese cook putting
gull flesh Into tomales, while the
chicken which had been Intended for
the dish formed part of the Chinaman's
department of the interior. Luis had
yanked Ah Lee around the caboose by
his queue and Ah Lee had seized the
meat-chopper when Ramon appeared and
prevented no, averted the tragedy.
One hot, still afternoon In July, when
the fog banks of the north blocked the
upper nd of. the channel, and when a
man's feet slid on the coppery grass as
though one were walking on polished
metal. Luis complained to Ramon that
the Chinaman had fouled the drinking
well. Ramon turned roughly on the
cook, for he thought mucn of Lulz and
little of Ah Lee, and the Chinaman
answered saucily.
"You dog," cried Ramon. " do you
dare to speak like that to me?" and
lifted his cane to strike.
The sun must have got Into Ah
Lee's head, for without a word of warn
ing he whipped out a revolver and fired
at his master. Quick as the Chinaman
had been Luis was quicker, for as the
Chinaman drew his revolver Luis drew
his knife and as Ah Lee fired the Por
tuguese slashed the Chinaman across
the neck. The knife missed the Jug
phone which will tap the power created
by Mr. Tesla and speak with them at
your leisure.
You may wish to know the news of
the day you simply crII up points In
various Cities and make Inquiries.
One of the terrors of the frozen north
Is the utter loneliness and desolation
of the silent land. Think of the pleas
ure which Peary would experience on
his trip If he were able to call up his
wife snd give her good-night before
retiring. j,
Imagine how consoling such an Inven
tion would be to his friends, of how
their anxiety would be relieved by hear
ing of his progress snd safety each day
over the wireless telephone.
"What are the chief advantages to be
derived by use of the stationary waves?"
was asked. "Where will the use of this
wireless power prove of the greatest
benefit and what new Innovations in
science and mechanics will It bring
forth?"
"Perhaps the most effective and new
est results Will be found In airships.
The chief obstacle to successful aerial
navigation up to this time has been the
heavy machinery which is required in
the ship to develop power.
"Suppose my proposed plant were In
operation. All that would be necessary
would bo to have a receiver on the air
ship. ' You could throw it open, and by
means of the transformer and motor
produce power to rise and sail in the
air. I have no doubt that with this
means of obtaining electric power, aerial
navigation will be possible. I am sure
it will come to pass.
"Suppose my plant were In operation
today. Walter Wellman could get 200
horsepower continually from the elec
tricity sent out from Niagara, and sure
ly ho would reach the pole. The air
ships would be lighter, you would not
have to bother with gasoline, engines or
anything of that sort."
Picture to yourself the day when this
will come to rass. Instead of descend
ing to the street from your twentieth
story office window or your fifteenth
story flat you merely go to the window,
signal a passing airship, step from the
window and lake a pleasant sail far
above the ground.
There will be no smoko, your ears
will not be assailed by the puffing of
engines, or the throbbing of a gasoline
motor, nor will you suffer from the in
tolerable stench of gasoline.
Even poor persons who could afford
nothing better than an automobile, ac
cording to Mr. Tesla, would be able to
ular, for which It had been aimed, and
Ah Lee, wheeling like lightning, shot
Luis through the stomach.
Then the Chinaman dropped the re
volver, and with a howl fled down the
trail that led to the wharf. At first
Ramon could not understand; he did
not know why Ah Lee had not plugged
him with a bullet, but when he turned
his eyes in the direction of the fleeing
cook he knew the reason for Ah Lee's
scamper.
A wharf. 400 fset long, had been
built out from the Island In order to
get deep water for, the accommodation
of a small coasting1 steamer that called
for the traffic of the islands. Twenty
lumping bales of wool from Ramon's
sheep had been put on board the
steamer, which was then preparing to
draw away from the wharf-bead.
Ramon saw that Ah Lee had seen the
impossibility of living an hour after
the herders knowledge that their pad
rone had been slain, and so had made
for the only possible avenue of escape,
the steamer.
"By the Sacrament," cried Ramon,
"he shall not escape." And picking up
Ah Lee's pistol he went galloping down
the trail after the Chinaman. Wiry
Ramon was a good runner and the
Chinaman was not, but when Ah Lee
heard the flying steps of his pursuer
and then a chorus of yells from the
herders, who were flocking In from the
hills to see what the shooting meant,
he pelted down the wharf like a fright
ened hare.
When Ah Lee reached the strlngpiece
tap the power generated at Niagara
Falls or wherever the plant might be
located and go scorching over the
smooth country roads, without fear of
the engine giving out.
"Other benefits will be derived from
my system of wireless1 power trans
mission. In the great cities," declared
Mr. Tesla, "you will not have to bother
with coal, fires or the oartlng of ashes.
"You can have a receiver In your
house, tap the electrlo waves and pro
duce light and heat, and In summer run
your electrlo fans.''
No stoves, no coals, no ashes. What
a blessing to overworked housewives
and wife-worked husbands! Imagine
yourself rising in the morning, free of
the haunting specter of the furnace. The
housewife, rising happily, goes to her
kitchen and cooks on her electric stove.
During the winter, electric energy will
warm the radiators and keep the house
of an even and comfortable tempera
ture. At night, when darkness slowly de
scends, you will turn a switch, and lo!
your house will be lighted magically.
Night will be turned to day! And this
will be accomplished bv the new elec
tric light which Mr. Tesla haa invented.
These electric lights are being manu
factured at present and will shortly be
put upon the market. The light is pro
duced In a vacuum tube and resembles
actual sunlight.
The tuhe of glass are about the
thickness of one's finger, and can be
bent Into any form. They can be made
into ornamental shapes spirals, rec
tangular clusters, and various figured
designs.
"The light produced," declared Mr.
Tesla, "will resemble daylight. It will
be the pure golden light of the sun."
"And suppose one should go far north
In the season of darkness "
"He could produce artificial sunlight
near his living abode with the light by
tapping the electric power."
''And In the freezing north a man
could produce heat?"
"Yes, certainly," replied Tesla, calm
ly, "and you couid cook on the equator
by means of power generated thousands
of miles away."
And Mr. Tosla is convinced of whut
he saysi He has caught hold of the
dream it Is tangible to him. and h
already sees the realization. Yet of his
invention Mr. Tesla was reluctant to
speak, but when a question was asked
it seemed as If one touched a magic
key, his eyes flashed, and enthusiastic
ally he would speak of the wonders of
which he dreams and of which ha Is
filled.
Ai ready Tesla'a invanUou bare
the steamer had thrown off her line
and was slowly getting under head
way. It was an Impossible jump, but
Ramon and the terror of death were
behind him, and with another howl Ah
Leo leaped. ,
As Ah Lee leaped Ramon fired, and it
was found afterward that by one of
those accidents of marksmanship the
bullet had gone clean through the
Chinaman's heart. Ah Lee was in mid
air when he was shot and he fell
straight as a stone into the sea be
tween the wharf and the steamer.
Now it happened that the sheriff of
Los Angeles county was on board the
steamer. His name was Vlssher Hank
Vlssher and as his terr" of office ran
only two wfceks longer he saw In the
present episode a most furtluitous aid to
re-election. So in the full exercise of
the majesty of tae law he had the cap
tain back up the steamer to the wharf.
Jumped ashore and arrested Ramon!
Guiteres.
The ranchero was taken up to the
mainlami and a charge of murder pre
ferred against him. He was held in
110,000 ball and his case came up in the
October term of the criminal court of
Los Angeles county. P. M. Delmar, who
was prouder of knowing the bass of
Mozart's Twelfth Mass than he was of
never having lost a case, aeared for
Gulterez. The sheriff and the captain
of the steamer her name, by the way,
was The Alcatraz swore to the facts of
the homicide and Delmar never asked
amazed the world. Already he has
transmitted power wlrelessly, so suc
cessfully, Indeed, that he has declared
his belief In the possibility of signalling
to Mars.
Tesla haa lost none of the enthusiasm
of earlier years. He Is 60 years of age,
his form is attentuated and his face
rather emaciated, but fired with the
ardor of a youthful ambition.
He Is unusually tall, and when he Is
enthused, he becomes electric. One
htght think he has absorbed some of
the energy which he has created. His
face Is highly intellectual, and his eyes
black as beads, fairly burn. His hair
is long and black, and Its dlsbevelment
betrays the deep thinking of the man.
Born In an obscure hamlet In Croatia,
one of the poorest provinces in Austria,
the son of a poor Greek priest, life
held little promise to Tesla when a boy.
He was to be trained for the priest
hood, but when taken to Carlstett to
study he saw an engine. While poring
over books of theolC" he dreamed of
the engine, he heard it In his dreams,
and the first impression never left him.
With his studies f theology he
mingled mathematics and physics. Re
luctantly the pious old man let the son
go to the Polytechnic school at Gratz.
Then Nikola rejoiced. He still heard
the engine in his dreams.
He continued to delve Into the mys
teries of psychics and electricity, and
when he was employed by the Austrian
fiovernment. In the telegraph englneer
ng department, he invented numerous
Improvements. Then he went to Paris,
and later came to the United States.
And the world has heard of him.
Today his dream is of a greater scope
than when he wished to master the
mystery of steam In Austria. Today
another engine awaits the touch of his
hand on the throttle the great earth.
"I shall pump electricity out of the
earth and pump it bark again," con
cluded the Inventor. "t shall utilize
the force which is In nature."
It was while watching discharges of
lightning at his laboratory In the Rocky
mountains near Colorado Springs In
1S98 that Tesla became convinced of
the possibility of sending power through
the earth.
The air at times Is alive with elec
tric energy in this vicinity. One day
Mr. Tesla says he saw 12,000 lightning
discharges within two hours within a,
radius of 30 miles of the laboratory.
lie noticed that the distant charges
more violently affected the instruments
in th" laboratory than the discharges
T.'nr'.-. Why was thisj Mr. Tesla made
inst-'jmcnts and began tests.
With these instruments he could gauge
the discharges. And then to his.amaze
ment, after the first record of each dis
charge, he saw the Kistruments vibrate
again, with barely any loss of power.
The lightning had gone through the
earth and returned!
tJm aarth acted as a great conductor!
them a question or objected to single
statement of fact
When the prosecuting attorney, an
Immature lawyer but a splendid fellow,
turned to Delmar and snln, "That Is our
case," Delmar smiled and said, "Oh, is
It? Well. I must say 1 don't see where
your case lies."
.. -Then with that pitying smile which
always meant so much mischief to the
other side, he addressed the court In this
remarkable fashion:
"Really, Your Honor, I feel that I
should apologize to you for my share In
taking up your valuable time over a
useless question. ' The prosecution has
shown that the Chinaman Ah Lee was
shot and received a death wound by a
bullet that pierced his heart while he
was in mld-alr. -While he was In mid
air. That Is he was shot In flight, like
a bird on the wing. He was killed in
the air, not in Los Angeles county, for
surely the county of Los Angeles does
not pretend for one minute to have
Jurisdiction over the circumambient at
mosphere that life-giving ether with
which God In His lnflnte mercy has sur
rounded His beings.
"I move, Your Honor, that ths case
is without your Jurisdiction."
The Judge poor man, ho's dead now.
and the memory of his flustratlon need
only be revived looked absolutely
startled at the audacity of the proposi
tion. "It is a point without precedent that
Fou have raised, Mr. Delmar," he said,
would suggest," he continued nervous
ALWAYS IN A
by Women, Dtriying
By Carolyn Prescott
IN an old house In an old street re
cently I sat with three other women
one an old gray-haired grand
mother, who was showing us, with
all the pride that old people take
In things they had In their youth, a
baby layette made in 1845. They were
beautiful baby clothes, made of the soft
ost fabric, as fine as gossamer but
the little child they had been intended
for never lived to wear them. Fine as
thistledown they were; and the tiny
tucks and seams, the exquisite hem
stitching and drawn work, the embroid
ery and the stitches were wonderful.
Jt was had to believe that they had
been made for actual use, so fina nad
dainty they were. It seemed almost
as though a fairy godmother had made
them for some fairy baby.
As we looked at tfte little garments
we one, and all decided that It would
be hard Indeed to find even ona mod
ern woman who could or would take
the time and trouble to make garments
like these nowadays. For people have
changed with times. We are all In a
hurry. That If everything: must be done
in a hi'rry.
High and low, rich and poor, learned
and unlearned, we are all In a hurry,
trying to crowd tew hours of work or
pleasure or study In six. And If three
is not work or study or pleasure enough
to fill the time, we nit down and manu
facture It, for we are bound to hurry;
whatever else happens, we must hurry.
In the city and country we meet women
with harassed faces and tired eyes, who
are nervous, restless, robbed of their
birthright, hurrying, hurrying on, they
know not why nor whither only they
The lightning vlbratTons were station
ary waves I
Tesla was again inspired by the am
bition of the boy to master the mystery
of the engine. And he says ha has euc
seeded! It may be two, .three, fiva, 10
years. But the plant will be built, ha
declares. Niagara or some other great
Waterfall will furnish the power: elec
tricity wll ba-"piimped from the earth
and back again.'' And who would dare
vu& -r" -...v UU.BW
prophesy what the results will be!
ly, "that a Juryman be withdrawn so
as to annul the present sitting."
And despite the frantlo objections of
the prosecuting attorney, the Judge
forthwith discharged the prisoner.
The prosecuting attorney was white
with rage, and shaking his finger at Mr.
Delmar said:
"You think you have quashed this.
Not by a Jugful. You've dug your own
grave, Mr. Delmar. If this case is out
side the jurisdiction of Los Angeles
county, it's inside the federal Jurisdic
tion, an if I don't get a true bill before
the district court my name ain't Leandro
Hutchlns."
"My dear Hutchlns," said Dlniar, "I
quite agree with you, and especially so
as Judge Griffin Is a master in consti
tutional law and a particular friend of
mine."
In pursuance of his threat Hutchlns
brought the matter before the federal
grand Jury, secured an Indictment and
the arrest of Guiteres by a federal
marshal. Hutchlns was so hopping mad
at the absurd manner in which he had
been bowled over by a gust of windy
sophistry that he split the creed of the
law's delays into a thousand fragments
and rushed his case through with a ve
locity that could not have been sur
passed had his father been the victim
of Ramon's pistol instead of a Canton
coolie.
Delmar kept on smiling Ilk Ah Lee's
own God or Abundance, and repeated
those tactics In the United States dis
trict oourt which he haa practiced be
HURRY-Maddening Haste Shown
to Keep ihemselvei
know they must hurry. The quiet rest
ful grace once the chief charm of wom
an is gone, along with the ability to
make gossamer garments like those we
three women looked at out on that shady
old street
They say that when sewing machines
were invented some of the more pious
brethen schook their heads and called
them the devil's machines and said
they would bo productive of evil rather
than good. "It will make our women
lazy." they argued. Had they not already
forgotten how to spin and weave, jwhat
would happen when these machines of
the devil became popular? The women
would be lazier than ever."
But the women attended to the matter
for themselves. They maufactured a
way to keep them from becoming lazy.
Where before one ruffle was considered
enough, now they have three or a dozen.
Tucks were put on in clusters, and they
even crisscrossed them, so as to take
up more of their time. Trust a woman to
find something to hurry ove! Their
time was so spent in tucking and hem
ming and ruffling that they had no
time for books and papers and; the pleas
anter things of life.
So this manufacture of ruffles and
tucks and puffs goes on and on; all
this fuss and feathers must be continu
ed, and precious time Is wasted, and at
the end nothing is accomplished.
If they were beautiful or even useful
there might be some excuse for them,
but they are neither of these; simply
Inelegant.
On and on woman goes in her mad
dening haste, and if time Is not Rpent
in maufacturlng an elaborate wardroh.
It is wasted In making flummery for
the table meaningless devices which
delight the eye. perhaps, but which are
a delusion to the appetite. I heard some
elaborate concoction called by an ap
propriate namo once upon a time a
concoction which had been made at the
expense of much egg beating and whip
ping and ttirring and fussing. It looked
nice, but the big 200-pound man who
essayed to eat It called It "wlnd-puddlng
with air sauce," which seemed to me
to hit the bill quite sufficiently
And If time is not spent on the table.
It is wasted In a relentless war with
finger mark and dust and specks on
the surface of pianos and tables and
mantles, and other articles of furni
turecare which makes the room to
prim to be comfortable. ' It moans time
of the best room, where their tovs and
MfinfilitlAti mlvhl mnlra 1f tmA, 1 1 1. 1 .
It means thnt all the puppies and ktN
tens and daisies land buttercups must
bvaiu wuiicitiiVV mull
be taken round to the back door tut to
fore the criminal Judge. He allowed th
presentation of the ca3c made no at
tempt to cross-examine the. witness for
the TOieci ilon, and introduced none of
bis own. But what he said was this:
"If your Honor will permit me, this
is a simple case of non-adjudlcandum.
The crime, if any crime occurred, took
rlaoe on the wharf running out from
he island of Mercedes, which, by act
of the legislature of 1886-87. was mads
part of the county of ios Angeles.
"Now, a wharf properly anchored to
and continuing from an island or a
mainland Is but an appurtenance of that
island or mainland. It is as much an
Integral part of the land as is the nail
which grows on the finger, which I have
the honor of pointing at you in a most
respectful emphasis.
"Such being the case, and surely it
needs no further argument before your
honorable self, the alleged crime took
ftlace in the county of is Angeles, and
s, therefore, an ordinary criminal case
to be tried by the legal authorities of
that county. I petition for a nolle."
There was a funny twist at the corner
of Justice Griffin's mouth as he leaned
over his desk and entered the phrase,
"Dismissed no Jurisdiction." on the
bripf, which he then handed to the
clerk of the court.
But Guiteres could not be retried by
the criminal court having been once in
peril and there barng no new evidence.
So he went fre, the killing of Ah Lee
passed unpunished, and he Is still re
corded in the oOunty as the man who
was killed nowhere.
from Becoming L
azy
the barn: It means anything that
mnnc cAuii uiiu useless work fWm
is inere any excuse for thtesWor this
spending of precious strength and gold
en hours in doing what, in the long run
doeB not add one atom to our hannlnesa
or of any other being? Is it trGe that
new ways are better than old ways?
feome people think not. ' '
No One Wants to Camp There.
On the easterly shore of Oravesend
Bay between the mouth of Coney Island
Creek and Stillwell's, is a strip of high
and dry ground of which the ownership
has long been in dispute. It has been
for years a favorite place for campers
In tents.
The trees there are mostly too small
to be ranked above underbrush, with
the exception of one good sized oak
that stands close to the shore.
.v,T0..perBOn"1 pasln& In bfts on the bay
the curved line of tents on the edge of
the underbrush presents an Interesting
picture of camp life. But it la a puzzle
J,?c, ?n8!"8 wfly what Beems t" be the
occupied. There is no tent on the high
ground around the roots of the old oak
close to the water.
,.erso2s beUer acquainted with tho
region have a convincing way of ex
plaining to strangers why the shade of
the oak is not coveted by any of the
campers They point to a gray stripe
In the bark of the tree that oan be
traced from one of its highest branches
down the trunk and along one of the
roots above ground to where it enters
the soil. The stripe is -so broad that
it can be seen tram a considerable dis
tance out on the Wry.
Two years ago there was a big camp
consisting of several tent umier the
shade of the oak. On the afternoon
when a bolt of lightning struck the
iiagpoic ai ine rarKway Datnsirlghton
Du;ii, Killing live persons, aieum al
most simultaneously nit tfte old
the Gravesend beach and killed
4 n tha taut Konantt.
Since "that day nobody has wanted to'
"no uig i i vii. uiuiviiifl, o UAiilf (fieri),
and that is why tha most Inviting look-
--O - v.vwU ...
, Thomas K. Shea will star this season
in his repertory "of classical dramas,
and will also produce a new play, "A
Soldier ' of the Cross," of which he U
the author, ' .
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