jfeLECiRK^ E^WOiLDi^i TRY THIS. <Vn Interesting Electric Blue Light Experiment. Take a jump-spark coil anil connect :t up with a battery and start the vi brator. Then take ~— one outlet wire, B f£) It, and connect to one side of a two .. —Fh •' i ~-a~l candle-power elec ! 112 trie lamp and the C other outlet wire, '1 Hi !i B, hold in one hand and press all fingers of the other hand on globe at point A. A bright, blue light will come from the wires in the lamp to the surface of the globe where the fingers toufch. But, says Popular Mechanics, no shock will be perceptible. Electricity In Spam. The recent increase in the use of electricity in Spain has been so rapid that an official report states that to day very few localities exist where the electric light is not employed. This is particulaily true «»f places situ ated near swiftly runniug etreams. The consumption of electric lamps, even in the tiiii.illest villages, is de scribed as being enormous. Every where electric motors are found tak ing the place of steatn power. Yet the construction of electric apparatus in Spain has not kept step with the growth in its employment, SO per cent, of the dynamos and motors being im ported from Germany. Most of the remainder come from France and Switzerland. Some curbstone brokers in New York are using wireless receivers in stead of megaphones to get market quotations. Giraffes and elephants are said to play havoc with telephone lines in Africa. An Efficient Wireless Telegraph. A simple but very efficient wireless telegraph may bo constructed at slight cost from the following de scription by George W. Richardson: The sending apparatus consists of nothing but an induction coil with a telegraph key inserted in the primary circuit, i.e., the battery circuit. This The Aerial Wire on Pole. apparatus can be purchased from any electrical supply house. The price of the coil depends upon its size, and up on the size depends the distance sig nals can be transmitted. If, however, one wishes to construct his own coil he can make and use, with slight changes, the jump spark coil described In the June number of Popular Me chanics. This coil, being a one-inch Acr+l Line l,j j £kuw^"^^^ 6 Hg. 7 Q~)S< Ground w coil, will transmit nicely up to a dis tance of one mile; while a 12-inch coil mailt? on the same plan will trans mit 20 miles or even more under fa vorable conditions. Change the coil described, as fol lows: Insert an ordinary telegraph key in the battery circuit, and attach two small pieces of wire with a brass ball on each, by inserting them in the binding-posts of the coil as shown at B. li inches. From these two terminal wires one is grounded to earth, while the other wire is sent aloft and is called the aerial line. This consti tutes all there is to the sending appa ratus. Now for the receiving apparatus. In the earlier receiving instruments a co herer was used, consisting of a glass tube about one-eighth inch diameter, in which were fwo silver pistons sepa rated by nickel and silver filings, in a partial vacuum. This receiver was dif ficult of adjustment and slow in trans mission. An instrument much less complicated and inexpensive and which will work well can be made thus: Take a flve-candlepower lamp and break off the tip at the dotted line, as MACHINE DISPLACES MEN. Electric • Mechanical Bookkeeper Does Away with Clerks. One of the leading Chicago banks, which employs 600 clerks, expects to be able to greatly reduce its force by the use of a new mechanical calcula tor. This machine, says Popular Me chanics, does much more than the add ing machines already in general use. It adds, subtracts, divides and multi plies and caluculates in both vertical and horizontal lines simultaneously. It is operated by keys and resembles a typewriter, it is run by a small electric motor and prints its records. It is the invention of a bank bookkeep er, who has spent 12 years in perfect ing it. He claims it will save one-half the time now spent in keeping books. Development of Electric Road. The electric railway had many "in ventors" —persons who by various im provements brought the system to its present usefulness. Thomas Daven port, a blacksmith of Brandon, Vt., is credited with having first suggested the electric railway, although an Ital ian priest, Abbe Salvatore Del Xegro, professor of natural history at the University of Padua, is reputed to have designed an electric toy traction machine of the reciprocating type in 1830. Davenport ran a toy motor mounted on wheels on a small circu lar railway in 1834, exhibiting this a year later at Springfield and Boston, Mass. About half a century passed, however, before the electric railway was made practical for present uses. Sodium for Electric Uses. Sodium is an excellent conductor of electricity, and in view of the increas ing price of copper and the growing demand for that metal not only for electric installations, but for many other purposes, the idea has been broached that sodium should be tried as a material for electric cables. Ex periments looking to this end have lately been made by Mr. A. G. liett. He filled an iron tube 130 feet in length with melted sodium. The core thus formed had a cross-section of an inch and a half. A current of 500 am peres was readily transmitted through it. Mr. Bett thinks that sodium con ductors constructed upon this plan may be made cheaper than conductors of copper. j sliown in Fig. 5. This can be done by j giving the glass tip or point a quick j blow with a file or other thin edged ! piece of metal. Then with a blow | torch heat the broken edges until red ! hot and turn the edges in as seen in J Fig. 6. Remove the carbon filament in a lamp and bend the two small | platinum wires so they will point at I each other as in Fig. 0, W W. Screw | the lamp into an ordinary wall socket which will serve as a base as in Fig. j7. Make a solution of four parts of water to one part sulphuric acid, and fill the lamp about two-thirds full (Fig. 7). This will make an excellent re ceiver. It will be necessary to adjust the platinum points, VV W, to suit 'the distance the message is to be worked For a mile or less the points should be about one-sixteenth inch apart, and closer for longer distances. The tuning coil is simply a variable choking coil, made of No. 14 insulated copper wire wound on an iron core, as shown in Fig. 7. After winding, care fully scrape the insulation from one i side of the coil, in a straight line 1 from top to bottom, the full length | of the coil, uncovering just enough to ! allow a Rood contact for the sliding piece. The tuning is done by sliding the contact piece, which is made of light copper wire, along the convolu tions of the tuning coil until you can hear the signals. The signals are | heard in a telephone receiver, which i is shown connected in shunt across j the binding-posts of the lamp holder i with one or two cells of dry battery I in circuit, Fig. 7. The aerial line, No. 6 stranded, is run from binding-post B through the ! choking or tuning coil, and for best I results should extend up 50 ft. in the | air. To work a 20-mile distance the i line should be 100 or 150 ft. above I the ground. A good way is to erect a wooden pole on a house or barn and carry the aerial wire to the top and out to the end of a gaff or arm. To the end of the aerial wire fasten | a bunch of endless loops made of | about No. 14 magnet wire (bare or insulated), attaching both ends to the j leading or aerial wire. The aerial wire should not come nearer than ; 1 ft. at any point to any metal which is grounded. Run a wire from the other binding post, A, to the ground and be sure to make a good connection. For simple experimental work on distances of a few hundred feet only, j an ordinary automobile spa'-lc coll can be used in ylace of the more elahoi j ate coil. Fig. 1 to 4. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907 WORN TO A SKELETON. A Wonderful Restoration Caused a Sensation In a Pennsylvania Town. Mrs. Charles N. Preston, of Elkland, Pa., says: "Three years ago I found that my housework was becoming a bur <*en - 1 tired easily, J# n0 am bition and was failing fast. My complexion got yel \i jjf low > an(l I l° st over JjL ''J pounds. My thirst t was terrible, and thero was sugar in the kidney secretions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as his medicine was not helping me, I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They helped me at once, and soon all traces of sugar disappeared. I have regained my former weight and am perfectly well." Sold by ail dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 'TWAS IN 'TATER TIME. One Thing, at Least, the Mother Was Positive About. The late Senator Piatt of Connec ticut enjoyed funny stories and could tell a good many himself. Notwith standing his long public life, he al ways remembered a yarn that he car ried from his school days. One year vhen tho district sclioola opened in his town one of the teach ers, in calcine a record of the ages of her pupils, as required by law, found that one little ghl, who came from a family not noted for being especially bright, was unable to say when her birthday came. So in order to complete her records, the teacher walked two miles to see the girl's mother one afternoon after school. Asked if she could remem ber just when her daughter was born, the woman thought for some little time, and then with a sort of puz zled look, said: "Well, the gal was born in 'tater time, that's sure, but I can't 'member whether they was a-plantin' on 'em or a-diggin' on 'em." Tom Ochiltree's Moon. After Tom Ochiltree, that able con gress raconteur and laugh generator for tho afflicted rich, settled in New York as the amuser of the John W. Mackay family, he effervesced in a thousand different directions, and was as good in some ways as Sam Ward. One night he escorted John Mackay's friend, the Count de Biscout, down to the Battery to show the sight of New York. The moon was grand, and the count went into raptures as "her maiden reflection rippled over the pearly waters." He cried: "Eet iss grand! Eet is grand! Dair iss no such moon in all Italy!" "Count," said Ochiltree, solemnly, as befitted tho occasion, "you just ought to see the moon in Texas!" A Pardonable Fault. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, discuss ing a rather finicky attack that had been made on certain recent state ments, smiled and said: "Hut who or what is blamelesss? It is like the case of the Scottish hen. An old Scottish woman wished to sell a hen to a neighbor. '"But tell me,' the neighbor said, 'is she a'thegither a guid bird? Has she got nae fauts, nae fauts at all?' " 'Awell, Margot,' the other old woman admitted, 'she has got one fault. She will lay on the Lord's day.' " Tripped. Gunner —So you think the DeßJpw ers are faking about their extended European tour? Guyer—l should say so. They said there were so many Americans in Ven ice that many had to walk in the mid dle of the street. Gunner—Well? Guyer—Why, the streets of Venice are canals. FAMILY FOOD. Crisp, Toothsome and Requires No Cooking. A little boy down in N. C. asked his mother to write an account of how Grape-Nuts food had helped their fam ily She says Grape-Nuts was first brought to her attention on a visit to Charlotte, where she visited the Mayor of that city who was using the food by the advice of his physician. She says: "They derive so much good from it that they never pass a day without using it. While I was there I used the Food regularly. I gained about 15 pounds and felt so well that when I re turned home I began using Grape-Nuts in our family regularly. "My little 18 months old baby short ly after being weaned was very ill with dyspepsia and teething. She was sick nine weeks and we tried every thing. Sho became so emaciated that it was painful to handle her and we thought we were going to lose her. One day a happy tho ht urged me to try Grape-Nuts soaked in a little warm milk. "Well, It worked like a charm and sho began taking it regularly and im provement set in at once. She is now getting well and round and fat as fast as possible on Grape-Nuts. "Sometime ago several of the family were stricken with LaGrippe at the same time, and during the worst stages we could not relish anything in the shape of food but Grape-Nuts and oranges, everything else nauseated us. "We all appreciate what your fa mous food has done for our family." "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellville," in tkgs. IN THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE. Little Son's Explanation Seemed to Cover the Case. Little son, aged seven, whosn train ing has been of the most painstaking and conscientious, rather took away his mother's breath In describing the dog's game of ball. He ended with: "And, mother, Topsy caught the ball In her mouth, and then just ran like h—!" "Like what?" cried the startled mother. "W'y, like h —, don't you know, mother?" innocently. "No, I don't believe I do. Just how is that, dear?" she asked faintly. "Well, I don't know jus' what it means, myself," he confessed, "but it's a whole lot faster than 'lickety-split!'" CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH. Suffered Three Years—Hands and €y« Most Affected—Now Well and Is Grateful to Cuticura. "My wife was taken ba'dly with ecze ma for three years, and sho employed a doctor with no effect at all until she employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment. One of her hands and her left eye were badly affected, and when she would stop using Cuti»ura Soap and Ointment the eczema came back, but very slightly, but it did her a sight of good. Then we used the entire set of Cuticura Remedies and my wife ia en tirely recovered. She thanks Cuticura very much and will recommend it hieh.'y in oar locality anJ ia every nook and corner of our parish. I. M. Robert, Kydropolis, La., Jau. 5 and Sept. 1, 190 G." A Hopelest Case. "Yes," said the business man, T have given up trying to collect that lit tle bill from Bilkins. You see, he is a big, muscular fellow, and he used to throw my collectors out." "Then why didn't you employ a woman collector?" inquired a writer in Spare Moments. "He couldn't do that to a woman." "That's what I thought, so I got one and sent her round, but she never came back." "Why not?" "He married her." NEW HOMES IN THE WEST. Send for free copy of pamphlet con taining synopsis of the United States homestead laws and information how to secure a quarter section of splendid farming or grazing land free along the new railway lines of the Chicago & North-Western Ity. in South Dakota, Wyoming and other states. Special excursion rates to homeseekers. Full information on request to W. B. Kniskern, Passenger Traffic Manager, C. & N. W. Ry., Chicago. Statue Finally Completed. When Alfred Stevens designed the noble monument to the duke of Wel lington in St. Paul's cathedral, Lon don, he intended that his work should be crowned by an equestrian statue. But Stevens died before his design was carried out. Now, 32 years after his death, the equestrian statue has been completed and before long will be placed in position. How's This? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Upward for any cane of Catarrh thul cannot be cured by JJall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. we, the undersigned, have fcn>»wn F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly hon orable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALW.NO, K INN AN & MAKVJN, _ , # „ Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall a Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free, l'rlce 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Tills for constipation. Oldest Congregational Church. The Pilgrim Congregational church, near London, founded in IGI6, is the oldest of the denomination in the em pire, and it was from it that the Lon don contingent of the men of the Mayflower was recruited. * Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures painful,swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Store*. Don't accept any substitute. Sample FIIEE. Address A. S. Olmsted, I.e Roy, N. Y. Natural Fly-Paper. The pingulcula is a plant which is a natural fly-paper. Its leaves are constantly covered with a sticky sub stance that traps all insects alighting thereon. No Headache in the Morning. Krause's Headache Capsules for over-in dulgence in food or drink. Druggists, 25c. Norman Lichty Mfg. Co., Des Moines, ia. Sends Emigrants to Canada. The Salvation Army in England is sending emigrants to Canada in batches of 600 monthly. Mm, Wlnslow's Soothing Syrnp. For chlldreu teething, softens the gums, reduces in (lamination, allays pa.ln, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Live pure, speak true, right wrong —else, wherefore born? —Tennyson. n ITFUTO W.lion K. ( .l.mnn, l'»(ent Attor ur & 1 P Wh 1 Jla ne.v, Washington, D. O. Advice IKB kl« I VfrM. T«riuskm. iiigbo.tr.l- Sapphire Mining Revived. Sapphire mining in Kashmir is be ing revived by a new company, com posed of Europeans of high standing and wealthy natives. 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MBBP Today the great opportunities in farming, in cattle raising, in timber and in commercial lines are in the country and in the towns along the Pacific Coast extension of the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY It is worth your while to investigate these openings. This can best be done by a personal visit. Such a trip is made inexpensive by the low rates via this railway to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington. If you are interested, write for information, asking spe cific questions. A letter and a descriptive book and map will be sent by return mail. F. A. MILLER GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT CHICAGO \ OLDS Ml MSI ENGINES - " BEST BY EVE U S X ES Jk RT. afford to buy. We have * been building nothing but engines for 25 years. We guarantee the Olds Engines will run properly. The price is right. The engine is reliable and simple. We treat you right. There is an agent near by to see everything is right and kept so. We have a liberal pronrgitlon to make to yon, besides furnishing you the best engine made. Let us tell you about it, because it will surely interest you. We can furnish you our Type A engine, set up on skids if desired, 3 to 8 h. p. ready to run when you get it—does not have to be set up— no piping to connect, no foundation to build—simply fill with gasoline (or distillate) throw 011 the switch, turn the wheel and it goes. ICasy to start winter or summer. The cheapest of all engines for farm and stationary power. Has removable water jacket, all latest improvements, and has been adopted by the United States Government. Send for our catalog of 3t050h. p. and be suro you take advantage of our proposition and save money. OLDS GAS POWER CO. Main Office—9Bß Seager Ft., lousing, Mich. Minneapolis—SlS 80. Front St. Kaunas City, M 0.—1*26 W. Eleventh Bt. Omaha—lolß Farnarn St. ~W7 L. DOUGLAS A $3.00 & 53.5G SHOES So M m FOR EVERY MEMBER OF BSk ***" THE FAMILY. AT ALL PRICES. /Sfijffd (£° *ny on* who can provoW.L. MF |m Ww )OoMir/as dooo not make £ se/t M Mm ) in or a Men's S3 <& S3.SU whoem Kthnn any other manutfaoturor. THE REASON W. L. Douglas shoes are worn by more people wtfiT' 4v ~ r>' Jfi© In all walks of life than any other make, is because of their excellent style, easy-fitting, and superior wearing qualities. - ISpiw The selection of tlio leathers and other materials for each part ' Sffty of the shoo, and every detail of the making is looked after by Wlf the Hunt completeorganization of superintendents,foremen and"l " ■ ' \I<B skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest wages paidrtn the jSf shoe industry, and whoso workmanship cannot be excelled. iJ If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton.Mass., y&mf.-ff and show you how carefully W. I>. Douglas shoes are made, you y&m artC would then tinderstand why they hold their shape, tit better, ylm wear longer and are of greater value than any other make. My $4 Of fit t'doc and SS Gntefi FJoncJ cannot fro equalled at any ptrfeff* OAu riOJM ! Tho gcuuli») have W. L. Douglas name and price stamped on bottom. Take No Substitute. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes. If he cannot supply you, send direct to factory, Shoes sent everywhere by mall. Catalog free. W.L.Douglas t Brockton, MAM* II ■( 1 If* ■ the Cloverlanil Dairy Section. Northern Wisconsin sss easy terms. Cheap Building Material. licst of Markets. Similar soil in improved farms in Southern part of tlio Wtate now stalls for $75 to ft 50 per acre. Write for imfurnmtion to, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, - MADISON, WISCONSIN I don't think much of a man who !■ not wiser to-day than he was yester day.—Abraham Lincoln. A. N. K.—C (1907—37) 2195. 7
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