j THE I jtouck -nmLoi* THE HOME ELECTRICIAN. How You Can Make Yourself a Small Storage Battery. The cell of a storage battery con sists of two plates, a positive and a ~ ~ negative, made of lead and placed * n a dilute solti li- r R'ill " on sulphuric Kll „ Jpjj® acid. Large bat- I 101 l teries made of I So°cf I large cells have a I |o°«l ||j great number of L<8»o 0 | ij plates, both posi- I I'o'l 8 tlve anci negallve - J S'oi 1 °' which a l' posi -1 J ®j tive plates are R |! connected to one M Bl terminal and the —atg"'-'W- illil'l negative plates are connected to the other terminal. The storage cell as described below is the right size to be charged by a few gravity cells and is easily made. Secure a piece of 1%-inch lead pipe, five inches long, and cut both ends smooth and square with the pipe. Solder a circular disc of lead to one end, forming a cup of the pipe. As this cup must hold the sulphuric acid It must be perfectly liquid tight. It is necessary to get another lead pipe of the same length and three-fourths inch in diameter. Bore as many one eighth-inch holes in this pipe as pos sible, except for about one inch on each end. One end of this tube is hammered together as shown at A in the sketch to make a pocket to hold the paste. This, of course, does not need to be watertight. A box of wood is made to hold the larger tube or cup. This box can be square, and the corners left open around the cup can be filled with saw dust. A support is now made from a block of wood to hold the tube, 13, in place and to keep it from touching the eup C. This support or block, D, is cut circular with the same diameter as the lead cup C. The lower portion of the block is cut away so it will just fit inside of the cup to form a stopper. The center of this block is now bored to make a hole the same size as the smaller lead pipe. Place the lead pipe in the hole and immerse it in smoking hot parafline wax, and leave it until the wood has become thoroughly sat urated with the hot wax. Use care to keep the wax from running on the lead at any place other than the end within the wood block. Two binding posts should be attached, one to the positive, or tube, B, and the other to the negative, or tube C, by soldering the joint. A paste for the positive plate is made from one part sulphuric acid and one part water with a sufficient amount of red lead added to make of thick dry consistency. When mixing the acid and water, be sure to add the acid to the water and not the water to the acid, cautions Popular Mechan ics. Also remember that sulphuric acid will destroy anything that it comes in contact with .and will make a painful burn if it touches the hands. Stir the mixture with a stick and when a dry paste is formed, put it into the smaller tube and ram •it down until the tube is almost filled. The paste that may have come through the holes is scraped off and the tube set aside to dry. The large tube or cup is filled ■with a diluted solution of sulphuric acid. This solution should be about one-twelfth acid. The cell is now com plete and ready for storing the cur rent. The cell may be charged with three gravity cells. These are connected in series and the positive terminal bind ing-post on the storage cell is connect ed to the wire leading from the copper plate in the gravity cell. The other plate is connected to the zinc. The first charge should be run into the cell for about one week and all subsequent charges should only take from ten to twelve hours. A LIGHTNING ARRESTER. Simple Device That Will Prove Effec tive, It Is Said. Secure a piece of wood about 3% inches square that will furnish a nice bmmJ the corners and ■ft' P.:®' B malte a small i^f/1 0 I rounding edge as sketch. From a piece of brass 1-1G inch thick cut two pieces alike, A and B, and match them together, leaving about 1-16 inch be tween their upper edges and fasten them to the wood with binding-posts. The third piece of brass, C, is fitted between the pieces A and B allowing a space of 1-16 inch all around the edge. One binding-post and a small screw will hold the piece of brass, C, in place on the wood. The connec tions are made from the line wires to the two upper binding-posts and paral lel from the lower binding-posts to the instrument. The third binding post on C is connected to the ground ■wire. Any heavy charge from light ning, says Popular Mechanics, will Jump the saw teeth part of the ivass j and is grounded without doing harm to the instruments used. Sends Power Without Wires. A young inventor of Lyons, France, j is said to have solved the problem of the transmission of electrical energy without Jhe use of wires. AN ELECTRIC TRUMPET. Instrument Which Is More Effective Than Bell or Buzzer. A trumpet designed to give a sound signal by electric action has been de vised in, Germany, tand is likely to find extended use, replacing in great part the present electric bell or "buzzer." Writes Dr. Alfred Graden w i t z , describing the new invention been ' frequently felt, during recent years, of a device for giving sound signals that will be heard above dis turbing noises in whose presence or dinary alarms are without effect. "An electric siren, which appears to satisfy this demand perfectly, has been constructed by the Deutsche Telephonwerke at Berlin. In this ap paratus the armature of an electro magnet, excited by a variable current of determinate frequency, acts on a metallic membrane through a lever;, the ratio of the lengths of the lever arms is so chosen as to secure a strong and powerful sound. "The sounding membrane, which is relatively solid, is made of an alloy of nickel-bronze; it closes the apparatua hermetically. The mechanism is con tained in a gasand-water-proof box, and consequently the device may be installed in the open air without any special protection. "The electric siren uses a very small quantity of energy, while its acou*« tic performance is greatly superior to that of ordinary annunciators or bells. . . . "A special advantage of these de vices is the facility with which sev eral of them are arranged in parallel and controlled from a central point by an ordinary contact button. The arrangement of connections is about the same as with ordinary annuncia tors. "The electric siren is easily used for giving all sorts of well-defined sig nals analogous to those of the Morse alphabet. Among these numerous ap plications the following may be cited as most important: "An evident field of application is for systems of fire alarm. As the sound of the siren resembles exactly that of the alarms generally used, the character of the signals will be clear ly intelligible to every one. "This device may be employed to advantage in alarm systems on board vessels, where it may take the place of various kinds of annunciators and bells now used to give orders to guard stations in the different compartments, or signals to engineers, firemen, or pilots. These orders are transmitted simultaneously to all the compart ments in question by pressing on one contact button, which evidently as sures great economy of time in case of imminent danger. "Another possible application re lates to railways, where the device may be used to give all kinds of sig nals on the Morse system, with as small an expenditure of energy as possible. » "The apparataus is also adapted to various uses in mines ... to con trol the underground cableways, etc* and to give fire alarms, either withio the mine or outside. "In similar fashion it may be used in the system of annunciators of a banking house or office building. Finally, it may be employed as a signal on automobiles and motoi 1 boats." INSULATOR TEST. How Manufacturers Are Meeting De mand for Greater Voltage Power. What the limits of long-distance transmission will be at the close of Testing Insulators. the next ten years is hard to predict Transmission lines of 60,000 volts and 75,000 volts are now as common as those of 11,000 and 12,000 volts ten years ago, while transmission lines several hundred miles in length are now being projected and installed for an operating pressure up to 150,000 volts. That the manufacturers of high po tential insulators are meeting the ever growing requirements of electrical en gineers may bo noted from the fact that they offer to supply insulators testing from 1,000 to half a million volts. The illustration, taken from Popular Mechanics, shows the equip ment at Victor, N. Y., of what is said to be the largest single test of high potential insulators In the world. Ia addition to this testing room are sev eral hundred other testiijg terminals at Victor. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1908. A SIMPLE SAFEGUARD IN BUYING PAINT. Everybody should know how simple and easy it is to avoid all uncertainty in buying paint materials. There are many so-called white leads on the market, which contain chalk, zinc, barytes, and other cheap adulterants. Unless the property owner takes ad vantage of the simple means of pro tection afforded him by reliable white lead manufacturers, he runs great risk of getting an inferior and adulterated white lead. It is to protect the paint-buyer against fraud and adulteration that National Lead Company, the largest makers of genuine Pure "White Lead, place their famous "Dutch Boy Paint er" trademark on every keg of their product, an absolute guarantee of Its purity and quality. Anyone who wants to make a practical test of white lead, and who wants a valuable free book about painting, should address Na tional Lead Company, Woodbridge Bldg., New York, and ask for test equipment. CARRIED GESTURE TOO FAR. Boy's Action Possibly Appropriate, But Somewhat Unnecessary. Vivian Burnett, the original of the still-remembered Little Lord Fauntle roy, at the Chicago convention dis cussed with a reporter a certain party maneuver. "They went too far there," said Mr. Burnett. "They made themselves ridiculous by their excess. Do you know what they reminded me of? They reminded me of a juvenile elo cutionist my mother often tells about. "This lad, at a school treat, got up to recite the first piece of his life. He was ambitious; he wished to make a great success of his piece; and he had i been told by his teacher that the se cret of elocution was the gesture—for every phrase its fitting gesture. "The opening line of the boy's se lection was 'The comet lifts its tail of fire.' "The overzealous boy, to fit its prop er gesture to this line, lifted up the tail of his coat and held it out in a horizontal position." AUTOMOBILE SHOP TALK. "What was your record across Jer sey?" "One country constable and a cow." Critical Eye for Babies. The five-year-old daughter of « Brooklyn man has had such a large experience of dolls that she feels her self to be something of a connoisseur In children. Recently there came a real live baby into the house. When it was put into her .arms the five-year-old surveyed it with a criti cal eye. "Isn't it a nice baby?" asked the nurse. "Yes, it's nice," answered the young- ; ster hesitatingly. "It's nice, but its head's loose." —Lippincott's. Peonies as a Medicine. Peonies were originally esteemed less Mr beauty of bloom than for value j as a medicine. In recognition of its | curative virtues, the peony was named after Paeon, tho physician of the ! gods. An old writer says: "About an ' Infant's neck hang peonie. It cures j Alcydes cruel! maladie." Nor did the j use of the plant stop there, for peony water was esteemed and drank in by- I gone times, though whether as medi- ( cine or merely as a refreshing tem- I perance beverage is more than modern writers can say. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot reach the scut of tho disease. Catarrh Is a blood or constl- ' tutlonal disease, and In order to euro It you must take i Internal remedk*. Hall's Catarrh (Jure Ih taken in ternally. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous } surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack inedl- j cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians ! In this country for years and Is a regular prescription, j It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on tho mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the ; two Ingredients is what produces such wonderful re- i •uits In curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free, j F. J. CHUNKY A CO.. Props.. Toledo. O. Sold by I)rugglsts, price 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Satisfied. "Look here!" grumbled the old farm er. "This here almanac is a fraud. It predicted snow for yesterday and, by gum, it was hot as blazes all day." "But my dear sir," responded the bland almanac peddler, "it snowed up at the north pole yesterday." The old farmer's jaw fell. "It did?" he drawled slowly. "Wal, I reckon the almanac is all right then. It did tell the truth, didn't it?" Translated. "What are you hunting for in the dictionary, my son?" asked old Kol iidKe. "What is the Latin for 'wink?'" asked young Kollidge. " 'Spiritus frumenti,' " replied the old man absent-mindedly. Philadelphia Press. Time's Changes. Mrs. Redd —Is that your automobile your husband is in? Mrs. Greene —I really don't know. You see, it's in the repair shop so much that I don't remember just what U does look like! . _ Physicians Recommend Castoria O ASTORIA has met with pronounced favor on the part of physicians, pharma- ceutical societies and medical authorities. It is used by physicians with, results most gratifying. The extended use of Castoria is unquestionably the result of three facts: First —The indisputable evidence that it is harmless:! Second— I That it not only allays stomach pa,ins and quiets the nerves, but assimi lates the food: Third— It is an agreeable and perfect substitute for Castor Oil. It is absolutely safe. It does not contain any Opium, Morphine, or other narcotic and does not stupefy. It is unlike Soothing Syrups, Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's, Cordial, etc. This is a good deal for a Medical Journal to say. Our duty, how ever, is to expose danger and record the means of advancing health. The day for poisoning innocent children through greed or ignorance ought to end. To our knowledge, Castoria is a remedy which produces composure and health, by regulating the system—not by stupefying it—and our readers are entitled to the information. — Hall's Journal of Health, Letters from Prominent Physicians IPfl ~~ addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher. ® r ' Halstead Scott, of Chicago, Ills., says:"l have prescribed your rlgraW 1 HHJ lTi7lH3l Castoria often for infants during my practice, and find it very satisfactory." Dr. William Belmont, of Cleveland, Ohio, says: "Your Castoria standa [§§ M first in its class. In my thirty years of practice I can say I never have K' c r r r If £Bl Bfffr M 'ound anything that so filled the place." B I UKM r " Taft, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says:"l havo used your Castoria and isioy found it an excellent remedy In my household and private practice for ffligZl' ' many years. The formula is excellent." SjjOta j! a LcoiioL 3 per ceniv r " J - Hamlen, of Detroit, Mich., says:"l prescribe your Castoria ifp!§'A\^ge(ablePreparation forAs- extenElvcly ' as 1 ave never found anything to equal It for children's liii N similaliilg the Food aiKjßcUula troubles. lam aware that there are imitations in the field, but I always ,in §UicStomalandßowdsof 606 that my patient 3 ect Fletcher's." ft>T. Dr."Win. J McCrar.n, of Omaha, Neb., says: "As the father of thirteen children I certainly know something about your great medicine, and aside ; from my own family experience I have in my years of practice found Cas- Wsjl&T PromotesDigestionOieprfiJ- torla a popular and efficient remedy In almost every home." - R - Clausen, of Philadelphia, Pa., says:"The name that your Cas fi<j2o Opiuill.Morphiae norMiaeraL toria has made for itself in the tens of thousands ofhomea blessed by the NOT NARCOTIC. I presence of children, scarcely needs to be supplemented by the endorse ! , ment of the medical profession, but I, for one, most heartily endorse it and nK J . Jfra'pt of Old DrSUfVEUliuiw believe it an excellent remedy." 2 1 ' Er. R. M. Ward, of Kansas City, Mo., Bays: "Physicians generally do not JhchHUSatti- I \ prescribe proprietary preparations, but In the case of Castoria my experi > ence, like that of many other physicians, has taught mo to make an ex- JffSOSSakSub* I ception. I prescribe your Castoria in my practice because I have found it KIM; tferfjtyw. j | t0 be a thoroughly reliable remedy for children's complaints. Any physi wjoji mSfuoFirnr. clan who has raised a family, as I have, will join mo in heartiest recom- Aperfeci Remedy for Consflpa- mendation of Castoria." MiKSB genuine CASTORIA always ness and Loss OF SLEEP. The Kind You Have Always Bought Exact Copy of Wrapper. In Use For Over 30 Years. THI CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY STRCCT. Niw YORK CiTV. No Automobiles There. "There are no automobiles on the golden streets of heaven," says the Whitsett Courier, "but they're giv ing lots of folks a chance to walk those golden streets. One of the contraptions arrived in town last, week and during the first spin the owner took in it it pitched a blind mule on top of the town hall, with the man that was ridin' the mule. The mule was so mad it kicked the town clock to pieces, likewise kickin' a hole in the roof an' fallin' on the mayor, just as he had took his seat an' called council to order. Having landed in the midst of them, the mule walked slow and dignified to the front door an' then took to the woods." Just Suppose. "S'pose the old man don't get the office he's a-runnin' for?" "Well, he says that'll be a calamity to the state, but ef the state won't let him save it, it'll only have its fool self to blame. Ef they turn him down, his responsibility ceases!"— Exchange. Your Druggist Will Tell You That Murine Eye Remedy Cures Eyes, Makes Weak Eyes Strong. Doesn't Smart. Soothes Eye Pain and Sells for 50c. Labor rids us of three great evils; poverty, vice and ennui.—Voltaire. Mrs. Wln«low*s Soothlnfj Syrup. For children teething, Hoftena the fntma, reduces In fl&ramuiluii,ullayß pain, cures wtndcoltu. 23cabottle. Pretty teeth are responsible for a good many smiles. Allen'H Foot-Kaae, a l'ouiler rorswollen, sweating feet. Uiveslnstant relief. The original powder for tho feet, tte at all Druggists. The man who pays his debts is true to his trust. \VIDOWS ,un<Jor N EW LAW obtained nvvemvc John w. morris. Waulilugton, D. 0. A. N. K.—C (1908—37) 2247. 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People drawing one of these farms must pay $6.00 an acre: one-fifth down, balance in 5 years. Chamberlain and Presho, South Dakota, are places of registration. Both are located on the shortest line to the reservation from Chicago—the CHICAGO MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY The best of these lands are located in the northern part of Tripp County, easily reached from both Chamberlain and Presho. All persons, except certain soldiers, must be present in one of these towns for registration. Presence at the drawing is not required. Those who draw one of these farms will be notified by mail. Rosebud folder, containing map, and giving full particulars free on request. F. A. MILLER, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Plalliihiv I Buy your clothing dl- UlDTning ■ rect from the mill. Cut y j ■ out the dealer's profits made I Bult » and overcoats to Order I MADE T0 ORDER , ■ handsomely trimmed* Ot thA ■ Material, workmaiitthlp ill lllw ■ and tit guaranteed. 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