Weekly Telegrapher, The (Newspaper) - December 12, 1888, La Porte City, Iowa OF per in These tews are ly adhered A Liberal Commission will be given to letters up of Sam pie Copies Sent ADVERTISING RATES One 1 Two 1 1 per rent discount on this rate for additional Special ar e made for large advert ments of long 10 cents Per Correspondence POETICAL Forty column weekly in the interest of the Rail Operators of It is the mil in America devoted solely to ami is the official organ of Hallway a it List is Increasing its army of i an me its ami if it you are cordially it j our support and Telegraphers Jor t A A MINCE Hie autumn leaves wore The winter days I wandered by the seashore fust to pass the time Ami I sat beneath the the skippers tit the helm Oi vessels as they bounded through the Mobil t was losing And the godess of my the mantle rue and I slept beneath the While the waves were I tree And the song of waters splashing hulled me into slumbers by the While the Waves were 1 lay There came to me vision of a maiden pure and While r looked at her in gladness Her brow was wreathed In voice bespoke of misery and he can look upon a grand of of which he is the chief executive of In the spring of 1886 he was elected mayor of La Porte a position which he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to his His career since then is well known to all who know the history of the as we believe his record has been and On the first day of he was married to Miss Mary and is the happy father of three bright little the second of whom bears the in honor of the organization which his father had labored so hard to and in which he today takes no small amount of Cam Uke the distant echo from rocky shores her voice so sweet and low us she spoke and bade J list for 11 single hour line rise I will give to thee the power To follow for a journey through the upon my guide Oer the fields we soon were And we into a is its And the tights within that Could awaken naught but As listened to Its tale of woe unit my guide Of nil the sorrow That comes today and goes I will show tn thee the saddest that this world has ever Prepare thy heart lor pity I For throughout this noble city A sadder sight than this cannot be for use in this Department should be addressed to WEEKLY we saw him looking and pounding at the Anil Why of this Saul my snide Ilet on And was very scooped as you can Kx key PORTRAIT To remove this surplus sulphate of zinc from a battery the best thing is a regular battery syringe with a bent the whole made of hard are only furnished at large or where main line batteries are And as they ar quite expensive about I will try to tel you how you can make one for yourself tha will answer every Of w could take the surplus sulphate of zinc ou in the way mentioned in but what are after now is the very best battery can Take an Argand lamp for nearly its whole length i A use on account The hole would with a file and te tannin it out so the packing on the plunger wont For the bent glass bamboo pipe a short piece of rubber tub Or go into the you can Ambrose Thurston was born July in Otsego Xew and re a good common school His mother dying while he was a his early training and care devolved upon hia until the age of about twelve when he assumed the responsibility of his own and the thousands of operators in this country with whom his name is familiar can attest as to how well he performed the He came to Iowa in and the following year commenced to learn telegraphy at He re mained in the employ of the Illinois Cen teml about live during which time he devoted all his spare moments tn the study of and finally removed to where he took up a regular course oi study in the law office of and was admitted to the bar in It soon apparent taat his health would not premit of his pursuing the law as a pro fession so he left his and again re turned to his first Dur ing the following six years he followed his old working upon the and a greater portion of the While in the service he ranked as a first class and many responsible In Thurston removed to Porte where he accepted the po sition as day operator for the His mind had for some time been busy with a publication and an organization in the interest of the railway and it was here he set about to perfect his He sought the advice and coop of a young newspaper man of the and then estab a little which he christened the Railroad The paper met with such liberal patronage and universal appreciation that it has grown to be the great WEEKLY a cepy of which is now before you and read by more than He soon com advocating and today With a file make a scratch around it close where it narrows down to the burner part and break it off as evenly as you If yoi have a grindstone handy you can smooth the rough edges off so that it will not cut you This will give you a glass tube several inche Go to a drug stoic and get a piece of glass six inches and have him bend it to a right angle about two inches from one It is just possible that the druggist wont know how to bend so will tell you how to do it This tub ing last referred to is about the size of a or a little Go to a jew eler and ask for the use of his alcohol lamp about three Light it and hold the tube in the tip of the flame at the place where you wish to bend Eoll it slowly in the fingers until it is at a low red heat at the place where you want to bend it then take hold of each end dont burn you now and carefully bend it until it is the right and cool it Get a cork to fit the broken end flt this end in order to save cut ting your fingers in using the syringe and with a redhot wire burn a hole in the center of the cork just large enough to let the bent tube Now put the short end of the tube through the cork from the let ting it just barely come through the and put the cork in the large tube at the broken Take a common thread spool if trim the edges so that the spool will drop easily into the open end of your large It must not fit tight on ac count of swelling when Get a rod of some tough wood a trifle larger than the hole in your spool and about three inches longer than the large and fit one end of it tightly into the Fit another cork into the open end of your large and make in the same way as before a hole through the center of it large enough to let the rod slide freely through Then wind candle wick white cotton or some other color less stuff around the spool until it makes when wet and lit the yet nozzle you could if it is bent ri straight stem and sc ing will answer f ery woods and cut a piec easily find one that off the bark well befi sort of a cross a grape and has j the It has Use no metal unless it be one for you of sheet very but it wot The one given is be made pastime for some odd for the method plunger clear down to latter into clean soft plunger and let the Then force the the nozzle about one of the in the batt lowly back until you force it out into some the process until you hd ment about how much late the amount by the i battery is throwing draw it all third to onehalf of tj in making the The lime and other impurities that make the water as it is are rendered insoluble in water by the action of other chemicals in the and are separated the water arid de posited on the As the chemical change depends entirely on the kind of im purity in the and is often quite com I will not attempt to give any but I that of the which is most Established August we shall see the feat His is that above the strata of storms the air is Into this region the and thro this deathless stillness the revolving fans driven by electricity stored in secondary jm use It is a currant bush and Very much like Lime abounds in various forms in all parts of the and is one of th most useful The underground water of the land in their course become Then trickle over beds of limestone on their waj to our and dissolve some of the stone ELECTRIC your syringe with carbonic acid gas from decom dith could make j position of various i Would answer a little I of can answer as a Shove the and dip the draw back the ik a minute or lout dipping the surface aw the plunger Then and repeat out a swf your and regu to which your white crust about one ir the put right Iffe water and tempering steel by elee has reached the stage of x f WE must not fail to remember that elec as a factor in everyday life and affairs is barely will it be when it ar rives at mans estate Who can tell f T we say a man is quicker n light nin we mean that he can move about two hundred and fifty thousand or miles slide Candle wicking is the best for the above Push the spool thus fixed into the slip the second cork over the rod and fit it into the end of the fasten a second spool on the end of the rod for a and you have a battery syringe that has cost you about a quarter and will last you for years with a little And the first time you use it you will be mad to think you didnt make it In case you are unable to get some of these things I will name a few things that will answer in their For the lamp chimney you can take a stick and have a hole bored through Hard maple would be about the Dont inch below the surface of the fluid force the water slowly and repeat this until the jar is as to the lower It should when in good a strong blue fully onethird to onehalf the depth of the mt not above If it reaches higher up it upsets the balance of the and if it touches the dnc plate it causes deposit of metallic copper on the which clogs the action of the Why it does so you can readily see by referring to the chemical action of the battery is You should keep a thin layer of crystals of the sulphate of copper boT om of the jar at all then you will be sure to have a good bottom fluid and not uve your battery suddenly die on your These crystals can be carefully added rom time to time as the supply gives You should use clean and not any f the dust of blue for this reason he being so dissolves the instant t strikes the top and causes a de of metallic copper on the The and most thorough way to get this out of the crystals is to spread them out n a board and carefully pour water on will wash away all the dust and the lean crystals can be dropped into the ut be careful and not get one lodged on the inc A muddy battery fluid or a muddy deposit ii the bottom of the jar has two One is impurities in the sine of we cannot help but we can in a great measure prevent it from doing much The muddy deposit covers the copper plate and the crystals of sulphate or prevents the latter from dissolving to make up for what is decomposed in the fluid and so clogs the action of the and in covering the copper plate still further clogs its as the activity of the battery up to a certain point depends on the extent of the surface of copper exposed to The best way I know of is to take a piece of per Quite a so to You shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead now reads You shall be shocked through the neck until you are Of the if given our we should prefer to die a natural clean white cotton or linen cloth of sufficient size to wrap up the zinc as a sort of leaving no edges below the surface of the battery fluid for the mud to leak out The cloth used on some roads for printing way bills answers very Wet the cloth well in clean soft water before putting it around the so as to allow the battery fluid to get freely to the This saves all the mud getting into the rest of the and the whole thing can be readily lifted out and cleaned or a new zinc put in without dis the rest of the The other cause of a muddy fluid and a deposit on the bottom of the jar is the use of hard water carries a battery and explodes by the of contact or by water admitted through th and starting a battery when the shel strikes the EVERY day vre hear of some new applica tion of A recent number of the Electrical Review describes an electric tar get or rather in which the blow of the bullet on a composed of separate closes the circuit and drops s showing just which ring was this invention takes away the necessity of risking human life it is a good It is of French we JB TIIK progress of science thus far has made it possible to get up by electricity in the following manner Suppose you want to cret up at G you set your clock ac it lights the kitchen at it lights the lamp or lamps and rings a sharp and if you dont get out at 6 the you These intervals of be arranged to suit and we think it should be speedily adopted by a certain class of HS Hi ifi IT has been accurately determined that average duration of a flash of lightning s one of a The rea ion it appears longer to us is that the impres ion is retained by the eye for about if a So it is possible for a succes ion of flashes to appear to be one continu to des the process by which this is determined but when we get along in our regular talKs to the subject of what is known as frictional or statical electricity AVB will endeavor to make it The New Aspect of Parkers very interesting paper on lightning is worth and we have no doubt it will start a number of investigators at work delving in this new Whether the 1 arker theory is right or its pro jector certainly brings out some very curious phenomena on the part of the The wary camera seems to have caught the light ning swerving from the path of rectitude It seems as if the flashes gyrated and cork screwed in a most unmistakable Whether the spiral form shown by some of the views is the direct picture of the cur rent s or a photic effect caused by the current but not corresponding with remains to be If the spirals are ac tually the path of the the fact has an important since it at once ao counts for the mysterious behavior of light ning at According to the facts as to distance and surrounding the diame ter of the if such they must have been many With the hurricane of electricity in a strong hurling itself against a straight light ning is it any wonder the latter cannot tand the onslaught Is it any wonder the giant runs off the so to ind plays havoc Avith the surroundings Here s food for thought and practical Will t lead to a lightning rod the much ridiculed spiral of copper ad some hidden after The subject has great and arker has at least opened a page in the chronicles of and we yill look for further researches through the imely aid of M The order of Telegraphers al though one of the youngest is rapid ly coming to the front both in regard to in crease of lodges and of The benefits derived from an association with this society are similar to those enjoyed by members of other organizations with the ad dition that every telegrapher as a matter of be a person of more than average education and possessed of quick perceptive Tor this reason there are no drones in the order of railroad a bless ing enjoyed but by few other The Wichita branch of this s known as the Adams Division lOo although this lodge is but of re act it is making rapid strides to be come one of the best in the At tha last meeting of held on the no ess ten new members were admitted and the initiatory degree conferred upon The regular meetings are held every first and third Tuesday of each at heir hall in the Getto building and from tha manifested by the attending mem bers the lodge is a credit alike to the city and Our neighboring city of Winfield has also the merits of the organization anil a new division has just been chartered there o which 105 holds out the palm of fel and bids it welcome to the fold Doily A Gentleman With Both Limbs Amputated ito Enabled to As our readers can this corner of the paper is largely indebted to the Electrical and we can heartily recommend it as a most excellent periodical to all who are interested in general electrical THE invention of Wheelers elec fire engine proves that even if electric ity can start a as the caustic critics of the press it is at least able to put it out and thats more than gas can IN the current number of Revue que appears second article on ballooning across the ar it is containing a deal of infor mation in He says that now the storage battery has the project seems more and that as soon as this re markable contrivance shall have been per Charles of Oil is he name of a pleasant gentleman who ia low making a short visit in this To ee him you would be led to think that ne of his knees had been slightly injured uut the truth of the matter that both Bakers limbs are His one limb was amputated a short distance below tne knee and the other about four inches be hip He purchased his ml limbs at the Artificial Limb v on Penn Pittsburg and only occasionally used a n This is the first case ever known in which a man could walk with artificial limbs when one leg above the knee H IR in i and is changed but his misfortune would never be Xmas 1 our copies of Nellie a and Wire for Postage Will man to different addresses Here is an opportunity so secure a neat and appropriate Christmas present at a low offer remains good until the inst only Those who have already purchased one book of me may take advantage of offer by remitting me for which I send them three books as I wish to treat all Address 304 High large on 8th
