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SOLVED BY RADIO 15 The feelings of those present towards Luxor were now anything but favorable. They had caught only individual words, “chickens.” “rabbits,” “dawg,” but they could easily supply the rest. “Cotched,” Ah! that was really bad; “Cotched agin;” amazement at his wickedness spread over their faces; “cotched a third time.” Alas! from early years he was surely headed for perdition. “An now Ah leabs de inncrcence ob ma childhood—“spoke the radio Luxor brazenly. But it seemed as if other forces were entering to prevent the cleaning of Luxor’s breast. “Ila! Ha! Ha! I’ve got the goods on you this time, Luxor,” shouted the wireless, “that bill you---” The scandalized machine stopped, but all had recognized the voice. It was the sheriff’s. Euclid fainted, women shrieked, pandemonium reigned. The crowd shrank from Luxor and he disappeared into the night. Epsom in a moment was at the side of Euclid. Her eyes, on opening, would gaze up into his. She would read his yearning there and murmur “yes.” She would ever think of the radio as her savior, and would never know that Luxor had never dreamed of clearing his breast through it, but that a clever impersonator bribed by Epsom, had—well—we allow the veil of charity to draw its sheltering folds around Epsom ’s conscience.

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14 TIIE IG X AT I AS than Luxor himself; no one know less what he was going to say. or who the bad man was whose deeds he had singled out for the edification of his hearers. 11 is eyes wandered in helpless dismay over the fear depicted in many a countenance, and, perhaps he noted that more than one hand began to slide shoeward. Hut, lest by some mischance the voice should fail of recognition, the candid radio took upon itself the dispelling of all doubt, for the words came clearly: “Haw! Haw! Haw! Der ye know who Ah am? Luxor, Luxor, Late ob Alabam.” The author now was beyond dispute. Who-------? The radio supplied the answer. A sigh of relief circled the throng. ‘‘Ah’m gwine ter make a clean breast ob ma life,” it shrilled. “Ah’m der bad man, Luxor Dawes, an Ah’m proud ob it.” Husbands could again look into their wives’ eyes confidingly; lovers into their sweethearts’. They hastened to do so. Then all eyes were centered on Luxor as a focus. Ears were tingling for “the clean breast.” Not so, Luxor. The bad man on the radio and the bad man in reality were anything but sympathetic. “Stop dat machine,” he yelled to Epsom. “Stop dat machine or Ah’ll cut yo gizzud out.” Reproachful glances met him on all sides. Euclid tried to quiet him. He rudely repulsed her. The story of the bad boy leading up to the bad man had already begun. The audience was irritated at the interruption. “Ef Mist ah Dawes,” said a white-headed auditor rising, “will jess close dat mouf of his’n, we kin heah him bettar.” Whatever we may think of the consistency of the expression, the meaning was plain to the audience: A wire- less Luxor was not to be interrupted by a Luxor in the flesh. “Mistah Dawes hisself pussonallv,” said another politely rising, “Mistah Dawes hisself pussonally insisted on ma presence heah dis cbening. Ah hopes Mistah Dawes will reconsider his eonduck.”

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The Three Element Vacuum Tube Edward Slater, ’23 D EKING the last few years such amazing steps have been made in tin science of thermionios that the student, is compelled to make more than usual endeavors to keep abreast of developments. In no branch has the progress been more phenomenal than in the perfection of the three element Vacuum Tube. This particular device is fully worthy ill importance, as regards all other material advancement, to be classed with the automobile, the steam engine, the dynamo, the aeroplane, or the telegraph. In the blaze of our own accomplishments we are prone to forget that it was through the efforts of such men as Hertz, the scientist and electrician, Richardson, who formulated the electron theory, Maxwell and a score of others that this ago of ours has been one of exceptional mechanical triumph. The three element Vacuum Tube consists of an evacuated glass container in which is a filament capable of being heated by the passage of an electric current. This constitutes the first element and is sometimes and more correctly styled the Cathode. The second element is known as the plate or Anode and consists of a metal plate on one or both sides of the filament or else a metal cylinder completely encircling it. The Grid is the name applied to the third element, so called because it is usually formed of a fine grid-like wire mesh interposed between the anode and the cathode with a purpose to control and vary the flow of electrons from one to the other. In the year 1886 a scientist. Geitel by name, discovered that a heated filament in a glass container would charge electrically a metal plate placed in proximity to it. The