Weekly Telegrapher, The (Newspaper) - February 6, 1889, La Porte City, Iowa OP per in terms arc Jy adhered A Liberal Commission will be given to Getters up of Sample Copies Sent ADVERTISING RATES One 1 Two 1 Throe 1 per cent discount on this rate for additional Special ar rangements made for large of long 10 cents Per Correspondence VOLUME FEBRUARY NUMBER Is a Forty Column weekly Wished In the Interest of the Kail way Operators of It is the only jour nal in America devoted solely to and is the official organ of tha Order of Hallway a olent Order which is destined soon to em brace of Hie Hallway opera tors of this Its List is Rapidly Thereby Increasing Its of tors and it a valuable Telegraph re a sample copy ire requested to ex imine Its and if it meets with approval you are cordially invited support and Address Telegraphers Established August THE He sat down close beside her and warmly pressed her She edged away as if she feared that he a bent nn stealing She tightly shut her eyes and strove her feelings to com While surged blood unto her her modest fears revealing Her waist ho squeezed she she she trembled and she filie never had been kissed and twas a serious matter At length ho said Good my and dropped the hand he And left the maiden fair and mad as any Hoston OUR PORTRAIT We take great pleasure in placing before bur readers this week the best known with one connected with the Knowing the deep Interest our read ers we shall endeavor to place before them the best points of a life tnat make almost a romance if written in Simon Wagoner was born on a little in Vernon March Of school gave him a start and an able thirst for knowledge has done the All his spare money for many yeara wiis put into books to which he devoted all leis ure moments and the result is His father was a minister and his life has demonstrated the fallacy of the popular idea concerning ministers Owing to mis fortune at he has had since the age of the whole care of himself and for most of the that of his mother and younger and he shows that faithful devotion to his mother which is a marked tic of all who make for themselves a He commenced to learn the art of print ing at in the fall of took up staff for one summer in Kansas and and in the fall of 1878 went to work at his trade in the Progress at La Porte In 1879 he founded the La City Review and excepting about two years was its editor and proprietor until the fall of when ho sold it to devote his whole time to this In 1885 in company with Thurston he founded the RAILROAD and has since been editor or manager or and faith fully has he discharged his The story of the birth of the and as told by him and abounds in incidents both conical and pa thetic and is a fascinating He gave up a growing and profitable business and brilliant political opportunities to de vote himself to the and its the To it lie has brought his his small store of untiring energy in tho work and a grade of business ability rarely found and for so young man remarkably well ilis thorough knowledge of every detail of the work on the paper his ability to take the at a mo ments of any on the whole force his wide training as a practical prin ter and editor and the fact that he has known the paper and Order since their birth and lent a helping make him the man for the it is as bus iness manager that he comes out the strong having built the Publishing up from nothing to its present prosperous With a foresight that would do cred it to some of our railway he treats his employes with unfailing kindness and Anything that he can do to better their condition outside of their work is cheerfully entered Two hours every Saturday are theirs without loss of pay and the result is daily shown in their He was married at La Porte to Miss Emma Fish uf Cedar She was a min daughter and again popular opinion falls to the She shows in her daily life unbounded devotion to and ambition for her husband and that rarer quality which prompts her to make herself worthy of him and cultivate herself to keep pace with his An uncommonly bright and interesting two year baby girl binds them yet closer together and their home life is one of commonsense comfort and peace we feel sure that it is the wish of out readers that it may always continue for use in this should lp addressed to The discovery by recorded in attracted the greatest attention in the sci world and set philosophers to study ing the new in all parts of the And the result was many minor dis In 1820 a French made the suggestion that the mag of the earth was due to the suns rays falling upon it and encircling it in a And he conjectured that if a current were made to pass in a spiral about any it would become This thought was the germ of the electromagnet arid of our relays and It was found that a rod or wire which was conveying a current of electricity had lines of magnetic force ra from it in the manner shown below in figure which is an end view of such a It will be seen that the lines of force sepa get farther the Hence the magnetic influence is close to the Hre and weakens as recede from until we are unable to detect owing to the lines being so The closer we get to the wire more lines of magnetic force are brought to In figure 1 the vertical line shown at the right of the wire intersects twice as many lins of force as the lino at ths which is farther This is the Influence of a straight By coiling the wire into a spiral a large number of these magnetic lines are brought into a small so that the influence is very The effect of this arrangement is shown in figure which is an end view of a spiral and or bar of The central core inter sects a great network of magnetic and so becomes strongly magnetic and if it be of hardened steel the magnetism is perma A stout rod of lead or when will hold up quite a bunch of iron and manifest other signs of magnetic So it appears that any body which is carrying a current in a certain and in this we see the close relation between electricity and The relation is further shown by the peculiar property of polarity or tive tendency of By laying a steel needle across the cores of your relay magnet for a it will become permanently mag and if it be then suspended by a line silk threader floated on a basin of water by means of a bit of it swing until it points north and A wire which is conveying a current of especially if coiled into a helix or corkscrew shaped has this directive or as it is You can see this for yourself by a neat little Get a very small used by physicians are just the Slip it through a large so that the neck is just above the top of the Now take some line wire and coil it in an open spiral around a bringing the ends back to the center of To one end fasten a slip of sheet and to the other one of Place the slips in the phial and fill it nearly full of a mixture of one part sul acid to ten parts Now place the whole on a basin of water and it will at once swing around and point north and as did the magnetic We will sup pose that you have your needle floating on one basin and beside it another basin con your Let us try another exper which will still further prove the close relationship between electricity and magnet Take a small piece of about the size of common line wire and two or three inches long heat it in your stove and plunge it into Now lay it across the poles of relay magnet and slide it and always keeping the same ends over the until you can pick up a or a tack with Tie a thread around Me middle of it and hang it It will the same as the needle and helix a mark of some sort on the north that you can tell them and a The law that opposites good in mag nets as in social it is the tendency of when to arrange themselves so that poles all point in one direction the north pole of one to the of the and so Hence two poles or two south poles will repel when the magnets are free to hold of your small magnet by the and with the north pole approach the the floating needle which points to The needle will at once swing in spite of the ence of the Earths will turn around until the pole points Try the same thing your floating and the result will ba the same the coil will swing around as until its north end points On trying the same with the other end of the north poles of will be attracted instead of the helix has this property of polarity gives polarity to any metallic body within And so our north and south the same as a We have see coiled about a ii closely into ra makes or we must look the Any conductor can only carry a given amount of and the amount depends upon its size and tho material of which it is An electric current is very much like a stream of water the larger the pipe the more water it will carry and so a wire or other con ductor tho larger tho wire the more current it will carry and tho smaller it is the more it will hold back the This resistance to the passage of a current is measured by a certain known as an the name being derived from tkat of a German An ohm of resistance is about equal to the resistance offered by a pure cop per wire of an inch in diameter and two hundred and fifty feet in This is what is meant by the stamp on the base of your They say 150 or 150 times the above or equal to a wire of an inch in diameter and feet for relay much finer wire is and hence great length is not The point worked for is to dam up a large quantity of magnetic influence as is possible in a small And this is accomplished by using a very line which allows a great length to be wound upon the magnet cores without taking up much room or get ting any part of the wire so far away from tho core as to put the hitter outside its circle of influence given it by the strength of cur rent it is carrying from the regular allowance i of This coil of fine wire forces the current to be a comparatively long time in getting through the and so it has j time to exert more magnetic influence on the making them stronger magnets in pro portion to the length of wire used a coil of 300 ohms making twice as strong a magnet with the same current as one of 150 magnet of when a wire is core is brought more of And it more matter of ELECTRIC A MAINE man has invented an electric car A DEVICE for coupling or uncoupling any car in the train by means of electricity ap plied by touching the proper button in the way car is one of the THE use of electricity in mining is becom ing more In a Pennsylvania coal mine a run by is now by which two men are able to excavate 100 tons ia ten A MINNEAPOLIS operator has invented a word counting machine which may be used with a type writer or It counts up to The telegraph operators are not so ignorant as some would have us AN electric brake hos been receiving a test on the Lehigh Valley road since January A train of fifteen freight cars and two coaches was successfully coming to a full stop in from onefourth to onehalf a minute in about a train next move is to heat our houses by An man is the and he claims to have succeeded in making a device that will warm several rooms by us ing an amount of current sufficient for one The material he uses is a mixture containing a large percentage of and can be molded into shape to be used under registers in It is simple and CAP EH of has in vented an Electric Matrix Machine which will give to typesetting a speed of fully 20 words per The machine has five dif ferent applications of electricity and works something like a type stamping the letters upon a sheet of dry which is then used as a mold to cast the plates to be used for It is destined to great ly cheapen the cost of books and as a gain of 300 per cent in the speed of setting and of 100 per cent in the time and labor of stereotyping is the result of its Cheap ness in the price of books that does not affect the quality of composition is bound to raise the standard of general intelligence several Electrical discus sion has arisen between several of us plugs as to whether writing heavily or lightly on the key produces heavy or light writing on sounders in other on the We have agreed to refer the matter to you and would like a full explanation of the A heavy closing of the key makes a quicker and closer connection between the as it forces them closer And the closer and harder two metallic surfaces are pressed together the better is the connec tion they since less minute space is left for the current to jump A good firm connection allows more current to pass through it in a given time than a loose The more current that passes through the coils of your relay the more magnetic force is developed in the cores of the magnet and the stronger they attract the The stronger and the quicker the armature is at the harder and closer it strikes the relay points They work the same as the key and the firmer contact they make the more current from the local battery finds its way through them to the magnet coils of the The more current that passes through them in a given time the more forcibly they attract the armature and the harder the armature Hence heavy sending on the key makes heavy work on the sounder in THE wire chief asked Ca to try Ca reports it open tries wire in same time and finds it open Then both try it at same time and secure circuit with current enough to work the instruments be tween these which are twenty miles apart Someone please I have my i idea of it but would like to hear from As an illustration of how strong telegraph ic and telephonic construction has to be in the northern sections of this it may be noted that the lines of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in the northern part of which were broken down during the great storm of last were said to be carrying no less than four tons of ice to the pole when they gave An Old Plan There is a bugaboo in the world of teleg raphy as well as in every other It assumes the form of an indefinite and appears This time the old Morse system of telegraphy is to be abandon and the English system is to be with dire results to the thous ands of telegraph throwing them out of work and performing their tasks auto A call was made on two of the chief oper ators of the rival Hues of this anil their attention was called to the They smiled as if greeting an old Both de nied the truth of such and said that a Wheatstone instrument had been in use ia the Pittsburgh for the past four The they is an excellent With it ten times as many words can be tab en than by the Morse in the same length of with the additional advantage of being more It ia too to become It costs as much to transact a small amount of business as a large There is no danger of tele graph companies making their expense ac counts any higher than is absolutely There are several new but none have been a The latest is the Craig by which words were sent in a minute over a which extended from Pittsburgh to New York by way of a distance of over 500 Eight hundred words were sent from Chicago to New The receiver consists of an insulated which writes on chem ically prepared All of the were and could be deciphered by an old operator of the Morse burgh QUEEN VICTORIA is to be entertained at a concert of high class music and the artists being exclusively Yet not one performer will appear before the au gust lady in her marine Isle of for the reason that they have gone through their performance and the performance will be repeated by the phonograph in Light and The Rogers Synchronous Harris of has now brought to simple and practical form his ingenious system of for which he has recently obtained Unlike all other Rogers has started out with the mental admission that it is not impossible practical high speed synchronism of a transmitter and receiver by any method of transmitted He takes a radical and applies a visu al indicator to the receiver which follows all changes of speed and faithfully indicates ev ery variation at the same time telling wheth er the receiver is fast or slow with reference to the A simple application of friction then instantly brings the receiver in to synchronous relation with the no matter what the the The visual indications are given 800 times per so that no chance arises for false The apparatus is the message being received and printed at the rate of 180 words per minute in large distinct The invention is very beautiful and simple and will have a wide field of We hope to fully illustrate it shortly for our read The inventor has been perfecting the idea for a long and has been ably sec by a prominent business man of who is now engaged in the commercial of the has a coop telegraph line which began by two farmers connecting their houses with a and which has until now it has 65 miles of wire and 90 twothirds of which are in farmhouses and the others in stores where the farmers Every farmer is his own battery and line re and can use the lines as much as he They communicate with each other give orders to the and receive early information of important news over their One farmer had his life saved by He took poison by accident and there was no doctor within several but he telegraph ed to told what was the and was directed to fill himself up with sweet milk and keep filled until the doctor could get The prescription was A CHANCE FOR THE We have several fine ladies vest chains which we want to dispose of in the f manner A chain worth will be for 6 new cash subscribers a chain worth will be given away for 9 new cash sub scribers a chain worth will be away for 12 new cash Here is a chance for a lady to receive a nice urn with but little or some opera tor can secure it for his best Inauguration Tor the Presidential Inauguration at Wash ington C March the Cedar Northern Railway will sell through tickets to Washington and re urn at a rate of ONE FARE for the round Tickets on sale February until to retum until March For details of special arrangements rates and all other apply to anv agent of the m c A JE cV cedar
