. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . as found to take pictures of vast amount of suffering was prevented by the discovery thatby inhaling sulphuric ether the most severe opera-tion would be painless. Samuel F. B. Morse workedfor many years to find out the way to send mes-sages by electricity. Even after he was sure thathe could do it, so few believed in him that it was along time l^efore he could persuade Congress to give ,. ,, <ui-iiT £ J. 1 1 Aj- A TELEGRAPH SOUNDER hnn the money to build a Ime of telegraph. At last the line was built, and the reve
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . as found to take pictures of vast amount of suffering was prevented by the discovery thatby inhaling sulphuric ether the most severe opera-tion would be painless. Samuel F. B. Morse workedfor many years to find out the way to send mes-sages by electricity. Even after he was sure thathe could do it, so few believed in him that it was along time l^efore he could persuade Congress to give ,. ,, <ui-iiT £ J. 1 1 Aj- A TELEGRAPH SOUNDER hnn the money to build a Ime of telegraph. At last the line was built, and the reverent message, What hath The first God wrought! was sent from Washington to Baltimore. ^^ egrap Telegraph means far-writing, and it was a great mysteryhow writing could be done so far from where the message wasgiven. Some did not believe any news that the telegraph broughtuntil letters had come to prove that it was true. Some believedthat the wonderful invention could not only carry the news, butcollect it, and it is said that one woman objected to having a tele-. 200 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Territory graph pole set up near her house because, as she declared, shedid not want people all over the country to know what she wasdoing. While Tyler was in oflBce, there was much discussion aboutThe Oregon what was caUed the Oregon Territory, that is, the land that nowforms Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming andMontana, and extends as far north as Alaska. A Rhode Islanderhad discovered its chief river, the Columbia; a Virginian hadexplored the stream; and a New Yorker had sent out a colony,England, too, claimed the land, and for many years the two coun-tries had held it in common. The southern limit of Alaska is latitude 54° 40, and when itwas time to elect a new president, one of the political par-ties took for a campaign cry, Fifty-four forty or candidate of this party, James K. Polk, was chosenpresident. When he was elected, he declared, One thingthat must be done w
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