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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.
For Infants and Children,
If mm The Kind You Have
fo J™ Always Bought
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■ Thirty Years
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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
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FOR EVERY MEMBER OF BSk
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In all walks of life than any other make, is because of their
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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.
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