Xvi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
December, 1909 
EONG 
“DISTANCE 
—  ELEPHONE 
A Highway of 
Communication 
It goes by your door. Every Home, 
every office, every factory, and every farm 
in the land is on that great highway or 
within reach of it. It is a highway of 
communication, and every Bell Telephone 
is a gateway by which it can be reached. 
Millions of messages travel over this 
highway every day. In the great cities 
they follow one another like the bullets 
from a machine gun, and over the wide 
reaches of the country they fly with the 
speed of shooting stars, 
The Bell service carries the thoughts 
and wishes of the people from room to 
room, from house to house, from commu- 
nity to community, and from state to state. 
This service adds to the efficiency of 
each citizen, and multiplies the power of 
the whole nation. 
The Bell system brings eighty million 
men, women and children into one ele- 
phone commonwealth, so that they may 
know one another and live together in 
harmonious understanding. 
A hundred thousand Bell employees are 
working all the time on this highway of 
communication. Every year it is made 
longer and broader, and its numerous 
branches are more widely extended. 
Every year it is furnished with a larger 
number of telephone gateways and be- 
comes the means of greater usefulness. 
The Bell Long Distance Telephone will meet your 
new needs and serve your new purposes. 
one system, 
— one policy, 
It means 
universal service. 
Every Bell Telephone is the center of the System. 
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DROP LIGHT MADE FROM AN OIL 
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on top of the oil reservoir is first soldered up, 
and through the central draft tube a small gas 
pipe is placed, with a threaded end on top, to 
receive the burner. Any mantled burner may 
be used. Under the burner is placed a washer, 
Drop Light Made from An Oil Lamp 
resting on top of the oil reservoir, which keeps 
the burner in place. At the lower end of the 
gas-pipe an elbow is screwed on. Between this 
elbow and the bottom of the oil reservoir is 
placed a short piece of pipe, so that, when the 
elbow is screwed up, the tube will be tight, 
thereby holding burner secure to the oil reser- 
voir. From the elbow, a short piece of gas- 
pipe is screwed in, with the ordinary stopcock 
and attachment for the gas hose. 
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