Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 2, 1922, Page 2

mfivqmmmwmm.w_m‘ R BESEDIL DAILY FIONZER (Continued from last issue) «ivhere do I come In, Gb?" asked Captain Scraggs modestly. “well, seeln’ as the Maggiethas two holes through her hull below :the wi- terline, and is generally nicked to pleces, you might quit askin' questions and get back aboard and put the pumps on her. You're lucky if she don’t sink on you before we get to Des- canso bay. If she sinks, don’t worry. Tl give you a job as my first mate, Mac, you're my engineer, but not at no faney Mexican price. 1l pay you the union scale and not a blasted cent more or less.. Is that fair?” McGuffey sald it was, and went be- low to tune up his engine. Mr. Gibney took the wheel of the gurboat, nd sent Captain Scraggs back aboard the and in a few minutes both vessels were bowling along toward Descanso bay. They were off the bay at midnight, and while with Mr. Gib- ney in command of the federal gun- boat Captain’ Scraggs had nothing to fear, the rapid rise of water in the lold of the Maggie was sadly discon- certing. About daylight he made up his mind that she would sink within two hours, and without pausing to whine over his predicament, he promptly beached her. She drove far up the beach, with the slack water breaking around her scarred stern, and when the tide ebbed she lay high and dry. And the rebel soldiers came trooping down from the Megano rancho and falling 'upon her carcass like so many ants, quickly distributed her cargo amongst them, and cCisup- peared. Captain Scraggs sent his crew out aboard the captured gunboat to assist Mr. Gibney in rowing his prisoners ashore, and when finally he stood alone beside the wreck of the brave old Maggte, piled up atlast in the port of missing ships, something snapped within his breast and the big tears rolled In quick succession down his sun-tanned cheeks. The old looked pecullarly pathetic as she lay there, listed over on her beam ends. She had served him well, but she had: Adnished her last voyage, and with some vague ldea of saving her old bones from vandal hands, Captain Scragss, sobbing audibly, scattered the contents of half a dozen cans of kerosene over her decks and in the cabin, lighted fires In three different sections of the wreck, and left her to the consuming flames. Half an hour later he stood on the battered decks of the gunbont beside Gibney and McGuffey and watched the dense clouds of smoke that heralded the passing of the Mag- gle. “She wns a good old hulk” said Mr. Glbney. “And now, as the spe- cial envoy of the Liberal army of Mex- ico, here's a draft on Los Angeles for five thousand bucks, Scraggsy, which constitutes the balance duc you on this here filibuster trlp. Of course, 1 needn't remind you, Scraggsy, that you'd never have earned this money it it hadn't been for Adelbert P. Gibney workin® “his imaginationt overtime. I've made you a chunk of money, and while I couldn’t save your ship, T did save your life. this, T don't claim one cent of the money due you, as I could if T wanted to be rotten mean. I'm goin’ to keep this fine little power schooner for my share of the loot. She's nicked up some, but that only bears evidence to what a bully good shot I am, and it won't take much to fix her up all ship- shape again, Usin® high bursts shrapnel ain't very destructive, All them bumps an' scratches can be planed down. But we'll have to do some mendin® on her canvas—I'll tell the world. She's called the Reina Maria, but I'm going to run her to Panama and change her name. She'll _be known as Maggle II, our of re- spect for the old girl thai’s burnin® up there on the beach.” Captain Scraggs was so touched at this delicate little tribute that he turned away and burst into tears. “Aw, shut up, Scraggsy. old hunks,” sald = McGuffey consolingly. “You aln't got nothin’ to cry. about. You're a vich man. Look at me. I ain't a-bawlin’, am 1? And T don't get so much as a hean ocut of this mix-up, all on account of me bein' tied up with a lot of hounds that quits fight- 0’ before they're half licked.” “That's so,” said Captaln Scrages, wiping his eyes with his grimy fists. i “I declare you're out in the cold, Mc- ! Guffey, and it ain’t right. Gib, my i boy, us three had some stirrin' i times together and we've had our dif- | ferences, but I ain't a-goin’ ‘tQ think | of them past griefs. The sight o' you, ' single-handed, meetin’ and annihil the pride of the Mexican na (in th" moment o' despair, generous In wvictory and delicate as blazes to a fallen shipmate, goin' to work an’ namin® your vessel after him that way, hulk ) As a reward for all | ~ e | | | 2 VALLEY 9 $)o{GIANTS, YRV Fros oo COPYRIEHT, BY PETER B KYNE 7 7 7 B\ 7 7 o ; .y...‘ = 4 i “She’ll Be 'Known as Maggie 11, Out of Respect ifor the Old Girl Tha Burnin’ UpiThere on the Beach, is somethin’ that, wipes away all sot rer and welds - a friendship- that's bound to endoor till death us do part. If McGuffey’d been on our side, we, know from past performances that he'd a fit like a ‘tiger, wouldn’t you, Mac?" (Here Mr. McGuffey coughed slightly, as much as to say that he would have fought!like ten tigers had he only been given'the opportunity.) Captain Scraggs continued: “I should say that a fair valuation of this schoouer as she stunds Is ten thousand dollars.. That belongs to Gib. Now I'm willin’ to chuck five thousand dol- lars Into the deal, we'll form a close corporation and as a compliment to McGuffey, elect him chlef engineer in his own ship and give him, syy, a quarter Interest In. our layout, as a little testimonial to an old friend, tried and true.” “Scraggsy,” sald Mr. Gibney, “your fin, . We've fought, but we'll let thpt go. We wipe the slate clean and start In all over again on the Maggie TI, and I'm free to state, without feax of contzadiction, that In the last etibrog- lio you showed up like four aces and { a king with the entire company stand- in’ pat. Scrag; you're a hero, and what you propose proves that you're considerable of a singed cat—bhetter'n you look. We'll go freebootin’ down on the Gold coust. There's war, 1éd’ war, breakin’ loose down there, atrlt we'll shy In our horseshoe with the strongest side and pry loose a fortune somewhere. I'm for alife of wild ad- venture, and now that we've got”ffia, ship and the funds and the crew, let’s g£o to it. There's a deal of fine liquor in the wardroom, and I suggest that we nominate Phineas, Seraggs, late master of the battleship Magzie, ‘noRy: second In- command of the Maggie II, to brew a kettle o’ hot grog to cele- brate eur victory. Mac—Scraggsy your fins, I'm proud of you both. Shake.” They shook and as Captain Gibney's eye wandered aloft, I'irst Mate Scraggs and Chief Engineer McGuffey looked, up also. From the main topmas¢ of. the Maggie II floated a long: blue burgee, with white lettering on it, and as it whipped out Into the breeze the | old familiar name stood out against the noonday sun. “Good old dishcloth !” murmured Mr. Gibney. “She never comes down.” “The Maggie forever!” shrieked Seraggs. “ITooray!" bellowed MeGuffey. “An' now. Seraggsy, If you've got all the enthusiasm out of your blood, kick in with o hundred an’ fifty dollars an' interest to date, An’ don't tell me that note's outlawed, or I'll feed you to the fishes M Captain Scraggs looked crestfallen, but produced the money. 4 ?Confinued in Next Issue) New Musical Instruments. It has been sald, by musleinns that the violin famfly 'is’ composed iof ‘twa pygmles—the’ violin ana_the viola— and two glants—the vivioncello “and the double by It is reasonablp to suppose that the great gap between these two extremes could be advan- tageously diminished. It is not sur prising, then, that two well-knayn French musiclans, father and Son. have, after years of study and experi- mentation, created a pumber of Inter- mediary insteuments which have en- tirely changed the nature of the violin family.—TPopular Mechanics Magazivé, THINGS BEGINNERS | MUST LEARN FIRST Explanation of Terms Used in Radio and of Its Basic Principles. Me}d the great Interest taken in ra- dio since broadcasting stations have o seen and heard that'may be unfamiliar to the.npvice. Some’ of. the most com- | monly used terms are explained and defined below. Like light, heat and sound, radio energy is propagated in the form a wave motion. Every one is familiar with the wave motion set up on the 4| dropping of a stone into it. Every time a point on the surface + of the waves goes through a complete | set of motions and starts to repeat those motions the wave'is said to have gone through a cycle. The number of compiete cycles gone through per second is the frequency. The human ear is responsive to cycles per second but is not capable of encountered in radio. Arbitrarily a frequency of less than 10,000 cycles has been called an audible frequency —one which can be heard—und fres quencies above 10,000 cyeles, radio or inaudible frequencies—because they cannot be heard by the human ear. The particular.type of wave which .propagates radio energy is an electro- magnetic wave. All of us have segn bits of iron and stcel attracted by the ittle toy magnets made up in the form of horseshoes, This attraction of the magnet for the bits of iron and steel showed the existence of a magnetic field about the tips of the magnet and this same kind of a field propagates the electro-magnetic foree, except that unlike the toy magnet, its power comes off in the form of wavy motions. This electro-magnetic force propagates ra- dio energy in all directions. The medium that transmits the elec- tro-magnetic waves is the same me- dium that transmits light—the ether. This medium is ‘supposed to fill all space, even that occupied by fluids and solids, Little is known about its prop- erties, In radio it Is more common to speak of wave length than frequency. The wave length of any wave motion is the distance between any two successive crests in the same 'direction. The wave length depends upon the fre- quency. If the frequency is high the “wave length is short. On the other ' | been started, many radio terms are! surface of a still body of water by the | sound frequencies up to a few thousand |, responding to the higher fret‘nencies H " The _hlgh-fr}qnency current is knowt s the carrier-wave and its fanctior iig to radiate:into space in the form o0 ielectro-magnetic waves and by its va. iation in amplitude carry with it the ‘variation in the' tone at the transmit- iting station, ; It is the trequency of the carrier- iwave that determines'*he wave-length ‘on which a radiophone station. is trans- imitted. , By experiment. it has been ifound that - electro-magnetic waves ‘travel at the same velocity that light jwaves travel, that'is, 186,000 miles per isecond. Wave-length is the distance ibetween any two similar points on two, ‘successive waves; for example, the dis- ‘tance from’ crest to crest of any two isuccessive waves in the same direction, Emensured in meters, a unit of length lequal ‘approximately to one and. one- ‘tenth yards. Converting 186,000 miles ito meters, the equivalent is 300,000,000 imeters. The length of an electro-mag- {netic wave is €qual then to 300,000,000 idivided by the frequency. Suppose a \station was transmitting on a wave- -length of 360 meters. The frequency ;of the carrier-wave would be approxi- ‘mately 835,000 cycles. Just as a violinist tunes his instru- iment, that is, makes a certain string jemit a note of higher or lower pitch, ior, technically speaking, a sound wave iof higher or lower frequency, by ad- justing the tension on the string, so may the. electrical constants. of the iuntenna circuit of a radiophone trans- ‘mitter be changed in order to have the station emit acarrier-wave of a idifferent frequency. If a tuning fork having a natural period corresponding to middle C be -placed near a violinist who is playing, the fork will vibrate when the musi- cian plays middle C, but all other times it will remain quiescent. This phenom- enon of- the tuning fork vibmating ‘whenever the musician plays the cor- ;ponding note on the violin is known ‘as mechanical resonance. If a radio receiver be adjusted so that electrically its natural period of vibration will be 835,000 cycles (360 meters wave- :length) every time a station transmits i hand if the frequency is low the wave length is long. Numerically the wave length is equal to the distance trav- eled by the wave in one second divided by the frequency. Suppose, for ex- ample, that it were desired to know the wave length of an electro-magnetic ing a frequency of 835,000 wave eyeles, Electro-magnetic waves travel at e same speed as do light waves, that is, 186,000 miles per second. Di- viding the 186,000 by 833,000 the wave length would be miles or 396 yards. In radio work it is measured in meters. A meter is equal to ap- proximatelv 1.1 yards. Converting 398 vardg into meters the wave length would be 39 ivided by 1.1 or 360 meters, 'This “ig’ the wave length on which KDKA operatas. Tt also means that ‘the electro-mingnetic waves sent out from this station have a frequency of ' 835,000 n-ycl@g, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES In n radiophone transmitter .there are two requibenients that must be fulfilled.” First,.there must be a source of high-frequenty currént, say, between 15000 and 1,500,000 cycles so “con- nected to an antenna and ground sys- tem that energy in the form of electro- magnetic waves will be radiated. Sec- ond, there must be some method of ‘controlling this high-frequency current | or modulating it so that the variations | In the amplitude of tha high-frequency current will be directly proportional | to the voice or music to be transmitted. e e on a wave-length of 360 meters, cur- rent will be set up in the receiver by Amateur Radio Operators Erecting Aeria! on the Roof. electrical resonance. Stations trans- ‘mifting on any wave-length other than 360 meters will not cause a current .to be set up in the receiver. The portion of a radio receiver that changes the wave-length at which it is electrically resonant is called a tuner. Suppose that “A” station trans- mits on a wave-length of 200 meters and “B” on a wave-length of 360 me- ‘ters. By adjusting the tuner until the constants of the receiver make it elec- trically resonant to a 200-meter wave or a 360-meter wave, either of the two stations can be picked up, but both stations cannot be picked up simulta- neously. This is the reason that more than one transmitter can be operating at one time and yet only one can be ‘heard on a receiver, without interfer- ence from the others. © The other necessary part of a radio recelver is the detector. The function of this portion of the receiver is to ‘utilize the small currents in the tuner that are set up by a transmitting sta- tion and make them audible through ‘the medium of a telephone receiver. If ithe telephone receiver were connected ‘directly to the tuner the high-frequency current would not operate the dia- phragm of the receiver and even If the dinphragm were set in motion it would be too fast a motion to be picked up by the human ear. In a simple receiver the detector us- ‘ually consists of two pieces of mineral in contact or a piece of mineral in conr tact with a metallic: spring. Either combination is known as a crystal de- tector. A detector of this type is noth- ing more than a rectifier; that is, when an alternating current is applied at the terminals the current is allowed .to ‘flow only in_one direction. How One Editor Uses Radio. The edijor of a paper in an iso- lated town in the northwest is using the radlo in a most ingenious and ef- ‘fective way. An aamateur radio friend in a big city 50 miles away buys the atest editions of the city papers as soon as they ave off the press, reads the best news into his transmitter, and a typist in the country office coples.the news as it comes in over the office re- ceiver, Ths editor, through this in- zenious plan, is always “First With the Latest” in his'home town. """"DALLY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS ' ‘“BEYOND THE CROSSROADS” AT REX THEATER TONIGHT When Ora Carew, the “screen fav- orite of millions of people admits that in her new role in “Beyond the Cross- roads,” she was handed more thrills than she has ever experienced in all her career, it'is a good sign. her audi- ences are going to be more than sat-; isfieds ' r All of these thrills are awaiting public when ‘Beyond the Cross- ro#ds,” the newest release of the Pidneér Film Corporation, opens at the Rex theater tonight. for a. run of ‘two days. INVITING PROGRAM AT .GRAND THEATER TONIGHT A program with more than ' the usual attrictiveness has been arrang- ed for showing at the Grand theater fonight and - Wednesday. Buster Keatcn, that sombre-faced comedian who never fails to create a lot of fun in his populan comedies, assist- ed by Virginia Fox and Bull Montana, will head the program in what has been called a two thousand foot laugh, under the title of Luck’. As a further attraction on'the same program, and none the less al- luring, is the comedy drama entitled “Kisses” featuring the demurc and beautiful star, Alice Lake, whose leading male supvort.is none other than the star of “The Connecticuf Yankee” Harry Meyers. 5 -Altogether, any person who enjoys a chuckle, a_smile and then.a good laugh, will- find all of these at the Grand theater tonight or Wednesday. “THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH” ' AT THE'ELKO TONIGHT One need not be a Scot to enjoy “The Bonnie Brier Bush” the latest Paramount picture produced in Eng- land whicii will be the feature at the Elko theater tonight and Wednesday “Hard |- FavavEgs day. The story based onv:?fip}\ Mac- Laren’s_famous: novel, de the Bonnie Brier Bush,” is one“of univer- representatives - of every civilized nation will find it sweet and wholesome.’ Donald Crisp the producer, plays the 'important role.of the stern, rigid élder of the ‘kirk’ whose sternness all but provok- es i tragedy in his own home Mary Glynne, popular with American mo- tion picture fans,.has the part of Flora, his daughter. The cast is one of ‘unusual excellence and_includes among others Alec Fraser, Jack East Jarrold Robertshaw, Mrs, | Hayden Coffin, Humbertson Wright, Dorothy Fane, Langhorne Burton and other sereen artists. The principal scenes were photographed in Scotland and are most beautifyl. The production is massive and many of the situations are dramatic and sympathetic. “The Touchdewn’” a new two-part Century comedy completes the pro- gram. ¢ 2x WILLIAM S. HART COMING SUNDAY AND MONDAY William S. Hart, popular Para- mount star, will be seen at the Grand theater next Sunday and Monday in his latest Western picture, ‘“Travelin’ On”. This is said to be one of the most dramatic photoplays in which Mr. Hart has been secn for some time. Ethel Grey Terry heads a strong (:supporting cast. “THE FAITH HEALER” AT 'ELKO THEATER THURSDAY Beginning next Thursday ‘“The Faith Healer,” ‘'a_powerful Para- mount picturé, in which Milton Sills plays the leading role, will be seen for two days at the Elko theater. This is a picturization by George Melford of William Vaughn Moody’s famous play. Ann Forrest plays op- \posite Mr. Sils'in a sympathetic role. | Leila Wilkes. John Pierce.... James Fordham David Walton Truman Breese Charles Wilkes. THE 2 :30—7:10-9:00 T T T R i REX - TODAY & WED. ORA CAREW in the Lloyd Carleton Prcduction “BEYOND THE . 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