I THE I jttCTßlck '->»oitt» :S ELECTRICITY AND CROPS. Experiments Show That Current In creases the Yield. The view that an electric discharge, applied artificially, is advantageous to ' plant growth has long been held. In the latter part of the eighteenth cen- j tury Abbe Xollet and Abbe Bertholom studied the subject. The former found that, electrified maize and mustard germinated in every case more rapidly than control plants. Modern ideas on | the principle and its practical applica tion owe much to the careful experi ments of Prof. S. Leinstrom (Sweden) and the researches of the late Prof. Berthelot (France). In recent years attempts have been made in England to ascertain the pre- Q. (■- The post and insulator supporting the electrical discharging wire. The posts are placed 100 yards apart, or, roughly, about one post to the acre. cise effect, or stimulus of electricity upon growing plants by means of out door experiments. Foremost among such trials are those carried out by Mr. .1. H. Priestley, 15. S., and others in the botanical garden and labora tories of University college, liristol, and, on a larger scale, by Mr. J. E. Newman, at Bitton, near liristol. The method is to stretch over the field to be treated a number of thin wires on poles, high enough for loaded wagons and all the usual farming op erations togo on underneath the wires without let or hindrance. The wires I 71 1 12: .112 | flßy v W J A comparison of electrified wheat with wheat grown under ordinary conditions. The electrified wheat (on right) has broader leaves and more shoots. are supported by a few posts in long parallel spans, about 30 feet apart, The system of conductors is con nected at one post with a generator Bupplving positive electricity at a po tential of something - like a hundred thousand volts, and with sufficient power to maintain a constant supplj of electricity at this kind of potential. Experiments on the effect of the overhead discharge system en the pro ductiveness of wheat (sown in lUOQ and last year), showed an increase under the electrical treatment as com pared with the control unelectrified plots of 30 to 40 per cent., this in crease. being due to better slooliug and filling out of cars. Moreover, it is worthy of mention that the electri fied v.heat sold at. higher prices, ba king tests indicating the production of a better baking flour. The principle was applied also to el raw berries, raspberries, cucumbers, bread beans, cabbages, tomatoes, beet, and car rots as grown at the Experi mental nurseries, Hilton. In all eas>'s control plots were provided, which, as far as practicable, were under iden tical conditions of planting and care as the electrified plots. Selecting two examples, cucumbers showed 17 per cent, increase; strawberries, five year plants, 30 per cent., one year plants, 80 per cent increase. PROTECTS X RAY OPERATOR. Invention of a Device Makes Use of X-Ray Machine Safe. Through the invention of a device known as I lie "Cornell tube," by a pro fessor in the Cornell University Med ical college, it is believed that the death lurking in the X-ray machine can be eliminated. As lias been before stated in this magazine, the danger from the X-ray lias been more to the operator than to the; patient. This is beem'se oper- The Apparatus. ators use it constantly, while its con- j tact with patients is limited. So raa- ! levolent is its force that already nino ! well-known scientists have met death ! from its use, and therefore every new ' method of controlling it is hailed with j delight by the profession. Under the old system of employing the ray, the end of the instrument from which the force is discharged was held several inches from the portion of the patient's body to be op erated upon. As the rays do not trav el straight, ahead after leaving the point of discharge, but spread out in every direction like the ripples ex panding from a pebble thrown into water, the operator was sure to re ceive some of its force no matter who.-* standing. With the new device, says Pop ular Mechanics, which consists of a tube made of heavy lead glass, the ail space formerly permitted between the apparatus and the patient is done away with. No rays can escape from it save through a lint glass windAw at tlie end, and as this corresponds in > size to the lesion to be treated the rays go straight to the point where they are to do their work. They op erate on the diseased tissues alone and harm neither operator nor patient. ! , • *. L v ! H - %ll ' V • y) 1 yjL - \ - j j The Apparatus in Use. When the tube is brought into direct j contact, with the patient, only the < ionizing effect of Ihe X-ray is exerted » on the tissues, and this effect is ; claimed to be all that is required to accomplish the desired results. LIGHTNING RODS. A Comparison of the Value of Those Made from Steel and Copper. The choice nf lightning rod material should be between copper and steel. The smokestacks of the United States government power plants are all rodded with copper, which better re sists the acid in smoke. Copper is su perior to steel in carrying electricity, but the thunderbolt is an oscillating i current, moving to and fro perhaps a j million times in a second, like a bent j spring when it is released. Steel, hav- ! ing but one-seventh the conductivity I of copper, damps out the oscillations ] better and is not so likely to melt. The fusing of a steel rod is a rare acci- I dent, as it will carry to earth a thun- ' derbolt. that melts it. Steel rods are star-shaped and cop- \ per ones are made in strands in order that tljoy may have a large surface. For thi> ordinary farm building the galvanised steel star-shaped rod is ample. :.ut where the expense is justi fied by the value of the building the 112 saints rod, copper-covered, is desirable. POWER DRIVEN ERASER. l A New Device f or Use in Large Draughting Rooms. An electric motor-driven eraser is a new device adapted for use in a 0. ■ 1 A Motor Eraser. draughting room. It is far superior to the hand eraser, as it. will make abso lutely clean erasures owing to the high rate of speed at which the eraser wheel revolves, says Popular Elec tricity. The eraser wheel is driven ! with <i flexible shaft by a small motor, which is easily moved from table to table in the draughting room. A flex ible cord with a plug is provided for attaching to any incandescent lamp socket. It Reminded Him. "My boy," said Popley, "it should be your ambition to carve yoisr name some day upon the temple of fame." "My boy," said Popley, "it should bo minds me, you ain't never give mo thai jaJ; knife you promised me." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908. THE SAFE WAY TO BUY PAINT. Property owners will save a deal of trouble and expense in keeping their buildings properly painted, if they know how to protect themselves against misrepresentation and adul teration in paint materials. There's one sure and safe guide to a pure and thoroughly dependable White Lead — that's the "Dutch Boy Painter" trade mark which the National Lead Com pany, the largest makers of genuine White Lead, place on every package of their product. This company sends a simple and sure little outfit for test ing white lead, and a valuable paint book, free, to all who write for it Their address is Woodbridge Bldg., New York City. Considerate. Borem—She wasn't at home when I called, so 1 left my card — Miss Pepprey—Yes, she was telling me she considered it so thoughtful of I yon. j Borem —To leave my card? Miss Pepprey—No; to call when she wasn't at home. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for an* riiso of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall'i Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY CO.. Toledo. O. i We, the undersigned, have Known F. J. Cheney for the last Ift years, and believe him i>erfcctly hon orable in fill business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Walking. Kisnan A Nlauvin. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. O. ITaH's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the pystem. Testimonials Kent free. I'rlee 75 cents pel bottle. Sold by all DruinelHts. lake Hall's Family Tills for constipation. Too Hard to Answer. "Look here, my friend," said a trav eling man to the hotel clerk, "I want to ask you something." "What is it?" "Why is it that you people alwayi holler 'front' whenever you want a bell boy?" "Why do we holler 'front?' Why, because —er —simply because it's — Looky here, young feller, do you want to kno*v moi 9 about this business thac 1 do?" The Sign of Power. ft is the greatest manifestation S* power to be calm. It is easy to be active. Let the reins go, and the horses will drag you down. Anyone can do that; but he who can stop the plunging horses is the strong man. Which requires the greater strength— letting go, or restraining? The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake calmness for dull ness or laziness. . . . Activity is the manifestation of the lower strength, calmness of the superior strength.—Swami Vivikannanda. Marine Insurance. Marine insurance is the oldest kind of modern insurance. Its principles , were first employed in the fourteenth century by the merchants of Barce . icna, in Spain, when that city was the capital of the kingdom of Cata i lonia and when its hardy mariners were second to none in the world. About the same time, and also at Barcelona, the famous code of mari ] time laws known as the "consulado j del mar" was promulgated, which is the foundation of the present shipping | laws of every country. When the Minister Scored. A country clergyman, while recently advocating the support of a charitable object, prefaced the circulation of the plate with the following address: "From the great sympathy 1 have wit nessed in vonr countenances, there is I only one thing I am afraid of —that some of you may feel inclined to give too much. Now, it is my duty to In form you that justice should always be a prime virtue to generosity; j therefore, I wish to have it thoroughly | understood that no person will think I of putting anything on the plate who j cannot pay Lis debts." The result was ' an overflowing collection. "THE PALE GIRL." , Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause. j In cold weather some people think t a cup of hut coffee good to help keep | warm. So it. is—for a short time but • the drug—caffeine— acts on the heart | to weaken the circulation and the re j action is to cause more chilliness, j There is a hot wholesome drink | which a Dak. girl found after a time, | makes the blood warm and the heart I strong. She says: "Having lived for five years in N. | Dak., I have used considerable coffee j owing to the cold climate. As a re sult 1 had a dull headache regularly, i suffered from indigestion, and had 110 'life' in me. "I was known as 'the pale girl,' and j people thought I was just weakly. | After a time I had heart trouble and : became very nervous, never knew | what it was to lie real well. Took med ! icine but it never seemed to do any I good. "Since being married my husband | and I both have thought coffee was I harming us and we would quit, only to 1 begin again, although we felt it was the same as poison to us. "Then we got some Postum. Well, the effect was really wonderful. My complexion is clear now, headache gone, and I have a great deal of en ergy I had never known while drink ing coffee. "i haven't been troubled with indi gestion since using Postum, am not nervous, and need no medicine. We have a little girl and boy who both love Postum and thrive on it and Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Well ville," in pkgs. Cver read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest. IN THE OLD MILITIA DAYS. "Captain, you will appear on (he parade ground with your company at ten o'clock for inspection." "Sorry, colonel, hut you'll have to postpone it till to-morrow! I prom ised my wife that she could use the cannon today for a churn!" EYESIGHT WAS IN DANGER From Terrible Eczema—Baby's Head a Mass of Itching Rash and Sores —Disease Cured by Cuticura. "Our little girl was two months old when she Rot. a rash on her face and within five days her face and head were all one sore. We used different remedies but it got worse instead of better and we thought she would turn blind and that her ears would fall off. She suffered terribly, and would scratch until the blood came. This went on until she was five months old, then I had her under our family doc tor's care, but she continued to grow worse. He said it was eczema. When she was seven months old I started to use the Cuticura Remedies and in two months our baby was a different girl. You could not see a sign of a sore and she was as fair as a new born baby. She has not had a sign of the eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke, LeSueur, Minn., Apr. 15 and May 2, '07." More Dignified. "Good night, you precious lamb!" said the mother, with the liberty one sometimes takes, even with one's son, at bedtime. "Mother," said the small boy be seechingly, "if you must call me some thing, wouldn't you just as soon call me a billygoat?"—Youth's Companion. DISTEMPER In all its forms among all ages of hnrsce, as well as dogs, cured and others in the fame stable prevented from having the disease with SI'OIIX'S DISTEMPER C'l'RE. livery bottle guaranteed. Over 500,000 bottles sold last year. $.50 and $1 .(10. Any good druggist, or send to man ufacturers. Agents wanted. Write for free book. Spoliri Medical Co., Spec. Con tagious Disea.-cs, Goshen, Ind. Platonic love is a good deal like the gun we didn't know was loaded. — Smart Set. If Your Feet Aelie or flurn get a 25«* package of Allen's Fot't-Kas«. It give* quick relief. Two million packages sohl yearly. The only way some people know Is the other way. More proof that Lydia E.Pink ham's V efretabloCompound saves woman from surgical operations. Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardiner, Maine, writes: " I w,13 a great F.ufTerer from fcmalo troubles, and Lydia E. Pink ham's Vege table Compound restored me to health in three mouths, after rny physician declared that an operation was abso lutely necessary." Mrs. Alvina Sperling, of 154 Gey bourne Ave., Chicago, 111., writes: '•I Buffered from female troubles, a tumor and much inflammation. Two of the best doctors in Chicago decided that an operation was necessary to save my life. LydiaE. I'inkham's Vegetable Compound entirely cured me without an operation." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, maflo from roots and herbs, has been Iho standard remedy for female ills, and lias posit ively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, iibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it ? Mrs. Pinkhnm Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. SIOK HEADACHE CARTER'S P™* WMH They also relieve Dis -IPBTTLE J tress from Dy.spepsin, In- H fi VE R S". 1 "T ra tie I Q f* etly for Dizziness, Nuu* |1 spa, Drowsiness, Bad ed Tongue, Pain in the H555555 I Side, TOItPID LIVKK. They regulate the liowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. Ipadtcdcl Genuine Must Bear UAKI tno Fac-Simile Signature IKfe 1 REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. PLANT TRAMP BY INSTINCT. California Cactus Blows Around the Desert for Months. Curious among vegetable growths ' and one which is seldom seen of men is ihe rootless cactus of the California : desert, says the Techincal World. This plant, a round, compact growth, rolls about the level floor of the des ert for some eight or nine months of the year, tossed hither and yon by the winds which blow with fierceness over all of California's sand plat dur ing those months. At the coming of the rains, or rather the cloudbursts, which sweep the desert in its springtime, this cac tus takes root wherever it happens to have been dropped by the last wind of which it was the plaything and im mediately begins to put out all around it small shoots, which in turn become cacti, exactly like the parent plant. These young growths increase in size rapidly, sucking the moisture both from the parent plant and from the surrounding earth. The roots do not penetrate the soil deeply, but spread often over a circle whose radius is not less than ten feet. These roots, too, are small, but practically innumerable, and they get every bit of moisture and plant food to be had in the territory they cover. An Artist's Generosity. The famous painter Corot and his sister were joint owners of some house property in the Faubourg Pois sonniere. One day one of the tenants —a tailor—came to Corot and said he could not pay his rent. "What can 1 do for you?" asked Corot. "I cannot intercede for you with my sister, because I am not on good terms with ray family." (As a matter of fact, Corot was regarded as a "failure" by his family.) "How j ever," he added, "here is the money i to pay the rent, only don't let anyone know I have given it to you." The tailor after this used to return periodically when bis rent was due and obtain the money from Corot, who re ; marked on one occasion, "I appear to l be very generous, but I am not, be ; cause I get half of it back from my i sister as my share of the rent." SO LOGICAL. Mrs. Sparker—Do you think she ' really prefers a horse to the motor 1 car? Mrs. Tyre—Well, any one must ad mit that a horse is more becoming to , a woman with such hay-colored hair! It Came Off. The fair bather was in the greatest danger when the heroic rescuer seized her by the hair. It came off. Puffs and coils and waves and rats it ; strewed the shuddering sea. For a moment the rescuer was dazed. Then he grasped the tiny knob of ; real hair that remained on the lady's head and drew her into shallow water. | Did she thank him for saving her : life? She didn't. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Real Test. "Poor fellow, he died in poverty," j. said a man of a person lately de ! ceased. "That isn't anything," exclaimed a : seedy bystander. "Dying in poverty is no hardship; it's living in poverty that puts the thumbscrews on a fel low." <f£fssa? Send For Free Catalogue JK "How to Make Money Selling Goldfish." Makes 112 J l\ business lively around your store when everything |% P' else fails. IiIG profits and QUICK returns. Full Mi l' ne aquarium supplies. Write to-day. AUBURNDALE GOLDFISH COMPANY 51 North Peoria Street, CHICAGO, ILL. BEST REACHED FRGSUI DALLAS Dallas and Gregory, S. D., are reached only by the Chicago <f& North Western Railway. They are the only towns on the reservation border. Dallas and Gregory are the main registering points. President Roosevelt has designated Dallas for the final drawing October 19, 1908 , sjmtH DAKOTA J mIN DULU ™^— .m I■ C ROSEBUD | mi n n. r •>. fltstnvnTio* .Ai 4' I Ml.*,, )/$ ) / 0„ C MILLION //, V aci.es oVVT v.* v I *ia», vv ISCO Ns I Mill! •GOVCWHMEKT ..<% ,V V I . UB0 "/ si, °i I':* i <>,,. V | • NtORASK A o <J| «.| J ■ o w A o-J , *7°"'" The Chicago & JVorth Western Ry. is the ontp alUrail route to the reservation. A million acres of fertile agricultural and grazing land in the great Missouri Valley Corn Belt is to be opened to Homesteaders October 5 to 17, 1908. 11, 1 For information about how to get a ! /(H I ( [ijj homestead with details regarding rates, train B schedules, address Paas'r Traffic Mgr., C. A. N. W. Ry. Undaunted by Blindness. Prof. E. D. Campbell, director of the chemical laboratories in the Univer sity of Michigan, lost his sight 18 years ago through an accident. In spile of his affliction he has taken a high place in education and has mad© original researches of much value, es pecially in the chemistry of Iron and cement. They say angels wear very few cloihes; the modern fashions ought to make women more like angels, in looks at least. 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C\ ( haiiii)er of Commerce, Arizona. DEFIANCE STARCH-r^ —other starches <»nly 12 ounces—fame price and •'DEFIANCE' 1 IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. M A TPIITA WntHon K.( , olpmnn,Wa«ih. Wjpl | §■ Jra I Jk ingVm, IM\ Hook* free. ihtfl* 9 H I wll I west references. Best result*. > Thompson's £ye Water A. N. K —C (1908—38) 2248. 7
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