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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-07
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to be taken by the glass like Other
preparations which stimulate onlyto
DESTROY. II you have FAlLgD
to receive any benefit from other
medicines or doctors, do not despair.
Use Sulphur Bitters Immediately.
mall cases Of stubborn, deep SEATED
diseases, Sulphur Bitters Is the best
medicine to use. Don't wait until
tomorrow, try a bottle to-day.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
Dynamo Brushes.

One Of the familiar and indispensa-
ole features OF all electric motors and
dynamos in ordinary use to-day is the
brush which picks up the current from
the revolving armature in which II is
generated, and acts as pipe to lead
Ii out to the circuits to which Ii is to
be used. These brushes have come
in the course OF years TO assume a va
riety OF forms In different materials.
The two chief substances from which
they are made to-day are copper and
carbon. AS a general thing the cop
per Is now used In the shape of n COM
pact mass of wire gauze. which an
swers its purpose admirably. OF late
years carbon has come very largely
IN use, especially for street car mo
tors. In motors driving fans and such
little apparatus the carbon brushes
may be found I'm the form OF little
sticks, like the core OF a short lead
pencil; but on the motors under cars,
aud In big generators, II Is employed
In solid bars or slabs. 1t wears re-
markably well, sparks little and i'm
parts q beautiful high glaze TO the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
yentiInting Car Windows.

Two Of the greatest banes of steam
railway travelling are smoke and dust,
and any attempt to cradle a traveller
TO reach his destination with even
moderate sense Of cleanliness will
meet its own sure reward. A ventilat-
ing window has been tried for some
time in the cars of a progressive rail-
way company, with av lew to remedy
the inadequacy of the ordinary meth
DDS Of car ventilation. The window
has single sash hinged at both ends
and sides by slip hinges, that either
side can be opened, or the sash can
he pushed outward. parallel with the
side of the car. Under ordinary con-
ditions the window is swung open
from the front hinges, so that the OPP
euing Is protected by the sash. There
is such supply Of fresh mir that prac-
tically no Inconvenience is experience
ed from the smoke Of the locomotive.
The rush of air past the window
creates an exhaust and draws out the
air from the car, fresh air being sup
piled through the deck windows in
summer, while In winter the leakage
of air around the deck windows and
front door Is sufficient for ventilation.
So that a continuous exhaust goes
on through the windows at all times.
The nuisance of dust and the entrance
of rain is prevented by water table
over the window. and there is also a
brass shield on the bottom of the sash
to hinder the dust from entering from
beneath. This shield slides I'm
groove In the sill. The sash closes
against rubber strips, making an air
tight fit when closed. To prevent the
sashes being opened the wrong way
a locking rod extends the length Of
the car, which is fitted with a handle
over each platform This rod Is under
the control of the brakeman who locks
the hinges Of the leading side of the
window In the same way as on subur-
ban cars TIE altorr ate decks lights
are opened or closed according to the
direction In which the car is running.
In test of this Lew ventilator, the
windows were purposely opened in the
tunnels, and the small quantity of
smoke that leaked In around the drop
window. in the doorway ard at tho
the forward deck lights were exhaust
cd by the window air crrl ent, and
the air at the rear end of the car was
sweet and clean.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

PrrTsBURG reports that during the
year 1894 in that county l61 persons
were killed by steam cars and thirty
three by cable and electric cars. That
is total OF 1874 rreventable deaths,
or an average of nearly four deaths
every week the year through. The
companies should find means to reduce
this needless sacrifice Of life, and ii
they do not, legislation will be In
voked TO help them to do so.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

THERE are few advertisers who
have not been looking forward to this
year with hopes Of better results
from their expenditure than they ever
ventured to pect from last years
outlay. A year ago the business de-
preston had yet TO reach its lowest
point. No one could guess just how
far it would go. This year, however.
business is on the upward grade, and
nobody knows the extent to which it
will have improved by the time the
year ie old.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

Now that the source OF the Missis-
sippi has been discovered, there comes
also the knowledge that the Mis-
souri, is really the larger and longer
river. AMI its source is the one that
ought TO give name to the giant stream
that divides our country into East and
West, but unites the North and South.
The Mississippi above ST. Louis lie
shorter than has been sought, while
the Missouri is lougerts These two
rivers, with the Ohio and Arkansas
river farther south, drain en- empire
destined to be richer than any Ike OK.
tent OF territory on this planet.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.
INFORMATION ON sCIEN TIFIC AND
INDL sTIIAL Tories,
How Diamonds Are MIned-Ventilat-
ing Car Windows-An Automatic
Fire ExtinEuisher - Neutralizing
Arsenic VapOrs.

'"The diamond is one OF the things
that the public is never tired of hearing
about, and Is ever anxious to see, dis
cuss, and, above all, to possess; but few
have any idea Of the tedious and III
borious process by which the precious
gem Is miGel and brought to the light
OF day. All the entrances to the mine
are ligidly guarded, and only the writ
ten Permit OF the manager win enable
a sitor to descend the huge shaft
which pierces the working level, say,
LOO feet below. In the tunnels of the
mine, which are about seven feet high,
the miners are hard at work drilling
holes IN the adamant ground with n
large crowbar, which they use WITH
both bands. After making six holes
each, which may take three hours. o.
six, or II er, according TO the hardness
Of the strata they are working in, they
are allowed to retire t. their homes in
the compound and'rest fo.' the remain d
or of the day. Dynamite car ridges arr
place In the drilled hol 8 ana eXplod-
ed, and the blue ground which has
been dislodge1 is shovel into trucks,
each OF which holds q ton. run nj Jpg
the level and taken UP the shaft. 1t il
carried in large Jumps as hard rs
tie TO 1.-The floors" where Il is
spread out and left from three to six
months TO be pulverized by the action
Of the sun. air ard rain, q steam har-
row being run over it from time to
time to assist the process o. dis n ezra
ton. In due time it IS tak.n to the
washing machine, the work Of VII ch
Is to SIT out all the light deposit, cal led
"tail 'ngs," In which no diamonds arr
found, and 70 clean the ''gound," which
Is then placed in hopper, and CIR
ried by revolving buckets TO the top OF
an evator, whence 1t is dropped into
a cylindrical | a +. AS the pan Is tat
ed water is thrown on its contents,
ard the mass is Clipped and sliced by
iron knives, the light mud overflow ng
in the center, and the heavy deposit
obtaining the diamonds passing into
pulSating receiver. from VIII Oh it is
graded into three different size sleeves
Water is then pumped through the bot
tom, and the light deposit IL then forced
over the top, the heavie" ling through
the s'eves. 1t Is then passed by mee rs
OF valves into tugs. and the important
work OF seaching for the almond then
comm nces. -Four times do the search
'rs examine every particle OF the ma
terlal. and so carefully ard thoroughly
is their work done that is said that a
holf carat diamond mig b. mixed
with n couple of hundred veg of
earth in hopper ut the end OF the
fitting machine with perfect assurarc &c
that it would Ultimately come into the
hands of the SOFterS
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

PURKs come high at birmingham,
where for the murder" of one Of
them twenty-four Armenians were
lately sentenced to death, while
nineteen more received sentences Of
imprisonment, from six years up to
life. 1t should be ad led that among
the condemned several proved that
they were in Constantinople at the
time Of the killing.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

THE threat to remove the Sacred
Goldfish from the capitol OF Massa-
chusetts is stirring the old common
wealth from center to circumference.
All that the Lares and Penates were
to the Romans, the Sacred Goldfish is
to the people of the bay state, with
few additional sacrosanctities of its
own,
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

THE customary announcement some
what belated, that the duo d'Orleans
is about TO issue a manifesto and head
a demonstration in France is accom-
panied this year with a reference to
his possible arrest, for which he has
apparently small concern. 1t would
do him no harm il in the event Of his
disturbing the peace the pretender
should be treated with something
more than Pickwicikan harshness.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

The conduct OF the Japanese troops
at Port Arthur shows that a few
years Of civilization are not sufficient
to prevent q heather nation from re-
lapsing, with the aid of enterprising
New York correspondents, into bar
bariam.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
A Double Refrncting Plnder.

In the great number Of cameras that
are manufactured for the use Of am
ateur photographers the ground glass
plate at the top Of the Finder" has al
ways been more or less u source OF
trouble and vexation. 1t was found.
under certain conditions of weather.
and especially In strong sunlight, that
when the operator sought TO have
clearly defined In the finder the pic
ture to be taken the image was con-
fused and battling, and the promptitude
OF the exposure was often interfered
with, at the risk of spelling the pfc
tIHe The new double refracting finder
provides n steady and effective means
of overcoming this difficulty. The
usual ground glars Is entirely dispensed
with. and "a its place is lens on
which the image Is clearly and stead
lily reflected by mirror acting In con
junction with a powerful convex lens.
This gives Il finder with a greatly In
creased degree of luminosity, and the
operator has no further hesitation or
anxiety In the adjustment OF his cam
era. This device is likely to be APP
preciated by both amateur and pro
fessional photographers
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
FIFTY Mile. Wide.

Studcnt-"Afars is older than the
earth, Is II mott"
Professor--"vcry much older"
'eThen the people there must be fur
Their advanced than we are"
Most likely"
"In that case, I don't believe those
so-called canals Of Mars are canals az
ALL"
Hum! What are they7"
"Wagon roads made wide enough for
women to drive in."--New York
Weekly.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

Arthur BusBANE philosophically
observes that great men are rarely
interesting when they talk to one
another. Bret Harte, Froude and o
third celebrated writer talked once
for two hours. The most intellectual
subject Of discussion selected by them
was the American cocktail
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

A POSTMASTER suggests that instead
of licking the mucilage side of the
stamps the tongue should be applied
to the portrait of George Washington,
who never was licked in his life. The
difficulty Of making the stamps stick
inspires the public with desire TO
lick the mucilage contractor.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

A BosToN girl has refused to marry
an English sutton because he said he
would lead her TO the "haltar. {"
Shrewd American girls put the halter
around the neck of the other contract
ing party, and he never knows it,
nithar
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

TgR Rock Island man who killed
himself rather than do jury service,
can DO spared. The country can get
along without men unwilling to dis
charge simple duties OF citizenship.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

Ix il said that one-half tho worlds
qunine product is consumed in the
United States. That may explain the
bnzzings in so many of our states
meas hornets.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

The bakers OF Cincinnati have re-
luced the price of bread to three
cents loaf. And there is no reason
why the cut should not be universal.
The present cost OF flour means that
the bread industry at present figures
is o thriving one.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

ANBLIA BARR, the novelist, claims
that tho men are to blame for wo-
mems extravaganza in dress. If this
be so, it is one of those cases in which
man has to pay dearly for his fault.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
A Delicate Point.

Magistrate-You are charged with
hugging and kissing women agai.s,
their will.
Prisioner--I was so drunk, yom
honor, that 1 couldn't tell pretty
woman from an ugly one.
THAT Is no excuse"
mo, but 1t explains why they OBJ
jectcd. New Yerk Weekiu.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

IA II painful to learn that tho Fair
estate. which has been estimated at
100000, 900, is really only worth
$1,000. 900. What is to become OF
the poor Fair familyP
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
j. A. MENzlEs, Publisher

+. TlIR decision of Baltimore Judge
that stealing cat is not larceny was
doubtless in uenced by the probability
that the cat would come back.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

PSYCHOLOGISTS have exhumed q
bath tub at Pompeii with boiler and
pipes for supplying hot and cold water.
Next thing they will light upon a
Pompeiian Joe Miller. with jokes
about the plumber scattered through
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
Electrical swi.zcrIand.

The snug little republic of Central
Europe is busy producer and con-
sumner of electrical apparatus. Her
magnificent water powers are now
frequently utilized for lighting and
for power transmission, but her cleo
trical progress is by no means due
merely to that cause. The latest sta
tistics show that there are in Swltzer-
land no fewer than 677 lighting plants
II power tIansmissions, 161 storage
battery plants, 1407 dyI amos and mo
tors. 2126 arc lamps, and 145,049 in
candescent lamps. The general rate
of increase last year over 1892 was
more than SO per cent, and 1t may be
doubted whether we would equal that
rate in this country. In some respects
we are decidedly behind for Of the 116
new lighting plants, no fewer than for
ty were equipped with storage bat
teries. That entire dependence is not
placed on water privileges is shown
by the fact that of the private install
lations 90 per cent use steam engines
to drive the dynamos, 8 per cent gas
engines, / IL per cent oil engines.
Almost all the rest Is driven hydrau-
Ideally. 1t is notable fact that Ia
many parts OF America, owing to the
reckless forest denudatiOn, the water
privileges are giving out, and have to
be supplanted by engines, but the
Swiss are said to be wiser in their day
and generation. and to conserve their
streams and forests jealousy.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
Floods of I.f.hf.

In a recent magazine article Rich
ard Harding Davis says that the Par
islam puts up ten lamp posts TO every
one that Is put up in London or New
York and that In the gay city of
France one can read at q third story
window by the illumination from the
street below. While this may be true
OF certain frequented thoroughfares
I'm Paris. IL Is certain that New York
is one OF the best lighted cities in the
world, and Paris one of the worst,
chiefly because the American city uses
so much electricity everywhere. while
I'm Paris it IS not often found. For
eigners say that there are more arc
lamps in the Bowery to the square
foot than anywhere else the globe
over What one misses, however,
is the decorative use of light, and this
Is In no small degree a question OF
national artistic temperament The
great point to aim at I'm lighting is
not to numb the eye with big local
effects, but to secure a general bar
monious distribution in small units.
The French obtain their cheerful eff
fects by rows of little Jets rather than
by one or two huge lights that only
makes the surrounding darkness more
pronounced; and. whore they can. they
intersperse their lamps with foliage.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25

commutators that II rests on. a new
variety of brush material has just
been introduced TO the field. Ii con-
into metal case open at the side.
the case serving both as a holder for
the flexible carbon and also rs a
terminal for the circuit. This cloth IL
prepared by calcining or charming veg
etable or other fibers, saturated With
hydro-carbon fluid. 1t Is said 10
have many important advantages ia
deXibllity and in the closeItss with
which it can BE- squeezed up against
the commutato-.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
An Automatic Fire Extinguisher.


A new method Of extinguishing fires
by means Of an automatic chemical
process Is proposed, and tests have
been made in which the inventor
claims 10 hay proved the value Of his
device. He argues that If the oxygen
can be dispelled from the atmosphere
combustion win be arrested and the
fire will Immediately die out. An in
sulated wire is run in the ceiling Of a
room and connected With thernostat
When the temperature OF the room
rises TO certain point above the
normal, say 1O5 deg. Fahrenheit, an
alarm bell is sounded and The wire IL
parted. This sets free n number OF
weights at set intervals, which fail on
small Walls of chemically prepared so
luton. This disengageS gas which
forces oxygen from the room through
valves fixed for the purpose. As soon
as the oxygen is forced out the valves
swing back into place and the room
becomes alright. The fire Is eXtln-
guished at once, but twenty minutes
is allowed before pure air is admitted.
and the room can be entered. The IN
ventors Idea is to connect wires run
ming to the different apartments In
large buildng-in the general office, SO
that when the alarm Is sounded the
fire Is instantly located. A speciaI ar
rangement Is also provided by which
all windows that might be open at
the outbreak Of fire are Immediately
closed when the thermostat indicator
reaches the warning point.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
ar. TALMAGRs FIRST

Sunday was heard by a
g, eat throng. He will
hereafter preach there
on Sundays. The text
of the sermon is printed
in the heading. The
man who wrote this
was at the time a prac-
ing physician; at an.
other time a talented
painter; at another
time a pow e II u l
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-01-25
POINTS OF COMPASS.
TALMAGE BREACHES AT THE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

They Shall Como From the East, and
From tho West, and From the I:orth,
and From the south, and Shall Sit
Down"-Luke 1920.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-03
THUNDER IN THE GARDEN.

When the boughs of the garden hang
heavy with rain
And the hlackhird reneweth his Song.
And the thunder departing yet rolleth
again,
remember the ending of wrong.
When the day that was dusk while his
death was aloof
Is ending wide cleaning and strange.
For ciearness OF all things beneath the
I call back the wild chance and the
change.
For once we twain sat through The hot
afternoon
While the rain held aloo, for awhile.
Till she. the soft-clad. 10 he glory Of
June
Changed all with the change of her
smile.
For her smile was OF longing, nc longer
OF giee.
And her fingers. entwined with my own.
With caresses unqaiet sought kindness of
me
Fer the gift that had never known.
Then down rushed the rain. and the voice
OF The thunder
Smote dumb all the sound OF the street
And / TO myself was grown naught but
wonder,
AS she leaned down my kisses to meet.
That she crsved foe my lips that had
craved her so often.
And the hand that had tremb,ed to
touch.
That the tears filled her eyes had hoped
not TO soften
In this world was a marvel too much.
II was dusk mid the thunder. dusk cen
as the night.
But N, night-hour was IL. shd back came
the light.
While our haads with each other were
warm.
And her smile. killed with kisses. came
hack as at first
AS she rose np and led me along,
And OFT TO the garden. where naught was
athirst
And the bIaekhird renewing hts song.
EaTth's fragrance went with her. as In
the wet grass.
Her1fee, H;tle hidden were set:
She bent down her head. meath the roses
10 pass
AID her arm with the lily was wet.
In tire garden ve wandered while day
wauei apace.
And the thunder was dying aloof;
TIN the moon o'er the rainsser-waIi lifted
Et& lace.
Ana grey cleaned OFT the lead OF TIE
rpcf.
Then we turned from the blossoms, and
cold were they grown:
In the trees the wind westerfnS moved.
TAI over the threshold back fsuttered her
gown,
And IA the dark house vas loved.
William Morris.
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Bartholosnay Celebrated Beer.
Nsxea & Mcconnell, s.s Front street.