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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05
WIZARD AT WORK.
The Wonderful Collection in Edi-
sons Laboratory.
Method OF Invention Pursued by
the Great Electrician

The storerooms of Edison's lab
oratory contain what is perhaps the
most wonderful collection OF sub
stances that has ever been brought to-
gether in the world, and incidentally
gives an insight of the methods which
the great electrician pursues in the
course of invention.
Here on the shelves and in drawers
may he found almost every substance
known to the organic and inorganic
kingdom. As examples of the heter-
ogeneity of the collection, in one sec.
ton of drawers are a score or more
complete fur skins, including seal,
martin, grey fox, sable, cat skins, dog
skins, etc. in another section are
drawers containing albatross bones,
rhinoceros horn, sea horse teeth,
sharks teeth, rhinoceros skin, fish
| blndders and innumerablc other ami
mnl substances. Among the vegetable
substances are even nloes, tonka and
other beans, whose connection with
| invention it is difficult to surmise.
1t is in chemicals, however, that the
richness of the stores is most nppar-
ent. There are literally thousands of
bottles aud packages in the storeroom
in one of the adjoining buildings (the
chemical laboratory, and lining the
sides of various rooms in the main
building, In the former two places
/ the chemicals are classified according
to their nature; in one department
nothing but extracts are seen, in an
other all of the acids are arranged to-
gether, while again the various COM
pounds of an element will be found
collected in groups, as for example,
all of the bromines, iodines, etc.
These vast collections give clue to
the method of invention, If such it
may be called, purused by Edison,
though with an inventor OF his re-
markable originality any method must
play very subsidiary part. Another
illustration, and one more definite, was
furnished at the time of the invention
of the incandescent lamp, when an
exhaustive collection OF vegetable
fibres wns made in order to determine
by process of elimination, the best
material for fiament. Many thou
sand specimens we're obtained and
tested, special expeditions being sent
to several out-of-the-way parts of the
world for this purpose. No less than
l., 200 varieties of bamboo were cx
nmined, and flaments from 800 oi
these made and tested. More
recently the same system was pursued
in Investigations with the Roentger
rays. Vacuum tubes of the different
kinds OF glasses and of different thick
nesses, were Systematically tested, th,
services of photographers were pro-
cured to make every known kind o.
sensitive plate, and later every chemi
cal possessing huorescent properties,
some scores in number, was in turr
thoroughly tested in order that NJ
shadow of doubt should exist that
the one thus fixed upon-tungstate ol
calcium-was the best. When on,
considers inventions, in which such
process of elimination would seem t.
have had no part, the magnitude o
the collections is the more remarkable
American Electrician.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05
or course there is such thing as
love, or there wouldn't be SO many d.
vnrrqc
Old age is like the whoopng cough
everybody gets II.
A Great InflnairY.

The Stark Bros Nurseries, this city and
Rockport. ILL.,. is n veritabe beehive. The prop
agating plants Of the Two Pixies" enlarged.
"Old Pike's'' salesmen work from New York
westward. The ofice force II hurrying out
lTD new-style canvassiny outfits, photos OF
fruits. trees, orchards. packing. iruit painted
from nature, etc. several departments yive
all their time TO securing salesinen. stark
Bros. have room ior energetic solicitors. With
such progress. and mill of fruit Trees. dull
times unkn0wn.-- Missouri Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05
An Artificial Island.

Commlssioner-Ge General stump, OF the I'M
migration Bureau, has decided to enlarge FL
liz Island, New York Harbor, by an acre aud
a half, ON plans approved by the War De-
partment. This will be done by driving piles
about the lower end of the island and Alling
in the area.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

Enectually yet gently, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood is impure or sluggish. to
permanently overcome habitual constipation.
TO awaken the kidneys and liver to healthy
activity, without irritating or weakening them.
10 dispel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup
Of Fjps
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

peorIe 40 not discover until too late that wash
inc powders not only eat up their clothes. but
ruin their skin and cause rheumatism. Try Dob
bins Floating -Borsx Soap Excellent ior the
laundry and delightful for the bath.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

ss s'Af oe' aoe.s
until l took Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Oh! what
q relief it is, not to 4
have that tired feel '
ing day after day, in
the morning as much
as at night after a
hard days work, and
to be free from al,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05
OH! WHAT A RELIEF.

81 suffered with terrible pains in my
left ovary and womb. My back ached
all the time.
~ had kidney trouble badly. Doc
tors prescribed for me, and followed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

II nffiicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water Druggists sell nj 25c per bottle
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05
Personal.

ANY ONE who has been benehted by the
use Of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. will receive
information OF much value and interest By
writing TO PINK Pills. p. o. Boz 1902 Phils.. Pa.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

Mrs. winslow's Soothing syrupfor Children
leetbing, softens the gums.reduces infiamina-
tion, allays pain; cures wind collie. DC bottle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

Lord Butte has lately been making some
purchases OF land In Jerusalem.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

London firms are said to spend oyer s10,-
00,000a week In advertising.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05
To cIeanse the sxsts,n

There are 1--WE male convicts TO one female
convict In English prisons.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-05

Rev. II. p. Carson. Scotland, DaN., says !,
Two bottles Of Halls Catarrh Cure complets.
ly cured my little girl" sold by Drug ssts,75
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

government which has made them le-
gal tender to keep them at par with
gold. 1t has declared sOlemnly its in
tentiOn to do so by two laws, which
are now among our statutes. As long
as the bullion value of the silver dol
lar is only half that of the gold dollar
this parity is maintaied only by limit
ing the coinage. st. Paul Globe.
This distinctly comedies what The
REPRESENTATIVE has all along claim
ed, that there is no redempt Of
silver dollars in gold or anything else.
As the Globe is a gold-bug paper it's
utterances will be received as con-
elusive by the opponents of silver.
The Globe also comedies that the
value of the silver dollar is main
tanned at par not by any redemption
in gold but by the legal-tender power
of the silver dollar ITSELF The two
laws to which the Globe refers, about
maintaining the 'parity" Of the two
metal are nothing but mere declara.
tions Of an intention and amount to
nothing.
But says. the Globe. the "parity' OF
the present silver dollar is only main
tanned by limiting the amount Of sill
YER dollars coined. This is nonsense.
The United States have a per capita
Of silver Of $S.77 while France has one
of $l2.94. Has France reached the
limit? II not what is it?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

Every bank that enters into cen
spiracy to produce panic should have
It's charter revoked and it's officers be
put in jaii.-Rock Island Populist.
This is truth. The banks were in.
tended as an accommodate ton for the
business men of the country.-to re-
ceive money from one man and lend it
out to another They have no right
30 control or govern the people; and if
they attempt to do so by prod uring
panics and bringing the people to
ruin. they will provoke such senti-
ment as will render it dangerous to
their own safety. II a farmer should
attempt to burn up the property Of
his aeighbors because they did not
agree with him In politics, the whole
neighborhood would turn out and
hunt him to death, and he would de-
serve it.
The rights of the people must not be
trified with. The business of lending
money for high rates of interest does
not carry with it any divine power, or
elevate the man who pursues the
trade above his fellow beings. The
wise man will not provoke his fellow
citizens too far. There is limit to
human forbearance.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
An ERROR.

An article appeared, by accident, in
our paper, last week, which seemed to
imply that the land should be 1.-The
common property Of the whole peo-
pie" The future may see such 4 sys-
tenn established on earth, but no such
doctrine is now advocated by the Peo-
pies Party. The right of every hu.
man being to home on the land is
fundamental; and that home ought to
be his own, against all the world; and
exempted from taxes and levy or sale
for debt forever.
And for one we believe that govern
ment ought to take steps to provide
the landless with homes, for repub-
lie cannot endure based on tenantry.
And the tenant Of a governm>n is
not any better off than the tenant of
the PlutocEac y;--lor the Pluto cracy is
very likely to own the government
as it does now.
Protect the home: and build a wall
Of liberty and justice around it; and
let the children cuddle down close to
the breast of dear old Mother Nature.
Don't take the poor mans house
away from him under the pretence of
benefitting him.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
SHALLOW NONSENSE,
An exchange says:

All cACHdHkC says.
Bryan says he believes free coinage
would raise the value of all the silver
in the world to $1.29 an ounce. Ii he
could only make the farmers and wage
workers believe that, all his appeals
for their support on the ground that
prices would go up and debts go down
would fall on deaf ears. With silver
at $I.29 an ounce prices would remain
where they now are and debts would
have to be paid with lOO-cent dollars
The man who wrote that ought to
be taken by his friends and carefully
deposited in the nearest imbecile asy-
lum.
AS long as silver is worth less than
$l.29 an ounce, and is denied access to
the minis, it is not money but COM
modify; and therefore the demoneti-
zation of silver is cutting in half the
primary money Of the world, which
fixes the prices of all commodities in
the world. To bring silver to 81. 20 an
ounce, with the minis open. is in one
sense to "water" the currcncy-there-
by rendering it more abundant-there-
by decreasing its relative value in pro-
portion to commodities; thereby put
ting up the prices of commodities;
thereby restoring prices to their old
level and giving labor in farm, shop or
factory proper remuneration for its
toll. and thus enabling the debtor to
get out Of debt. This is as plain as
the nose on a mans face, and he is an
absolute fool who can't see it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
HARMONY.

The Ramsey county conventions,
Democratic and Populist. on the Goth
ult.,, united in joint action in support
OF a strong local ticket, which will
sweep the county. This means the
united support, in the Fourth Dis
trict, of all friends of free silver in be-
half OF Hon. Francis Fl. Clark, Popu-
list for Congress; it also means the
election Of Hon. r. A. Walsh, Popu-
list, rs one OF the judges Of the Dis
trict court. The other two nominees
for that high office are both excellent
aud popular gentlemen. We are only
sorry that there were not four Judges
to nominate instead Of three, so that
that excellent lawyer and true man,
Mr.. Michae Is, could have been eleva
ted to the bench also; but he has many
friends and his time Is coming.
We are glad to uotice the strong
support given by both Democrats and
Populists to our old friends August
Nelson and to John Wagner. We be-
iieve the whole ticket will be triumph
antly elected. -...
We had the honor of speaking on
the goth to the Democratic conven-
tion, and to the Populist convention,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
THE HONEST GOLD PARTY.

We arc losing sight Of the Palmer,
Buckner cold wing of the Democracy.
The people regard it as side show
senseless "fad." And yet we must
give them credit for honesty at least.
Senator Palmer in his speech at Balti-
more, last Friday. said:
"The convention at Indianapolis
was content to submit its claims to
the country lon declaration Of
principles. clear, concise, frank and
bold. That convention declared that
gold was the coin Of large transac-
tioDs and that silver could be used on
,ly as Il subsidiary coin. It did not
propose an international conference
or commission in order to settle that
question. The Republican party talk
ed about the cooperation OF other ma
ton. The Democratic convention at
indianapolis knew that no such CO.
operation ac0s possible; they knew
that other countries are interested in
great commercial transactions. |
mean the commercial nations OF the
world, have no desire to adopt, in any
sense, the free coinage OF silver, and
when we spoke to the people of the
country on that subject, we were
frank: We asserted that the existing
standard is the true standard, and one
that ought to be maintained.'
This is much honester than the
position of the Republican party. It
really means gold monometallism, but
it pretends to favor free-silver, and
then claims that it cannot secure it
without the consent of John Bull!
Palmer splits it right out. He want
no international conference He is
for gold pure and simple. first, last
and all the time.
How much gold have you got,
friends, with which to carry on the
business Of this country? How much
have you seen ia the last five years?
And what else is proposed as a sup
plement to gold? Bank notes, based
on gold, of which not one cent can get
into circulation until some one goes
to a national bank and bOrrOws it, on
good security, aud pays interest on it
to some of his fellow citizens! Why
they might just as we'll ask us to pay
interest on the air we breathe: for the
air is no more necessary to our physi-
cal existence than an adequate supply
of money is to our commercial and in
dustrial life.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
FRANK N. NYE.

This able gentleman came out few
weeks since in behalf Of Bryan and
Free Silver. Subsequently, in the re-
action that followe d the putting forth
Of the gigantic force of the Money.
Power, he was swept from his moor
ings and carried back into his old
party. In his first action his heart
spoke; in the second his fears and the
sense OF loyalty to his organization
predominatcd over his better judy
ment. But we have no unkind words
to say of Frank M. Nye. He is big.
hearted, true man; but only those who
have gone through it know what a
rending Of chords Of the heart it is to
separate from the associations of a
life time.
We feel sure, Crank may not thank
us for saying it), that when he gets
into the voting booth, "alone with God
and his lead-pencil," he will vote fol
Free Silver and the welfare Of the
human race
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

dollars Jour anAYal silver output) Of
more silver-le than a dollar for
each person. tho stamp makes
600, 600. 600 sIlvel pillars worth par will
1t not make 90. 06o, coo silver dollars
worth par? Tb10h man is an ass.
And what Isl IA ,use of referring to
the fact that apAhg our civil war it
took $500 in con8daerate money to buy
a pair of boots? Does not every one
know that il the South had conquered
the North every dollar OF that Confed-
crate money Woald soon have been
worth one han0red cents in gold?
And that it would have taken prob
ably $500 Of our greenbacks to have
bought that same pair OF boots:
This is all mere trash and trumpery;
and it is a reproach to our institu-
tions that United States Senator
could be imbecile enough to utter it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
4 GOOD NOMINATION.

We are gratitied to observe that our
old and valued friend, Hubert A. Wall.
raft, of st. Paul. has been nominated
by both the POpulists and Democrat Is
for the important Office of county
auditor.
We can say to all those who are not
personally acquainted with Mr.. Wall.
raft that he is one OF the best men 10
the State-an earnest, faithful, hon.
est man who will do his whole duty ia
any position in which he may be
placed. We trust that the fact that he
stands high in the labor organizations
of St. Paul will not prevent any Dem.
Ocrat or Republican from giving h m
his cordial support. II he Is elected,
aud we believe he will be, Ramsey
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
WANTED! WANTED!

| The Populists have made aIol
of Kansas and claim it by 5O,OuU.
This In spite or the fact that John 1
! J. Ingalls, is charging up and down
the state.
The Populists Of Minnesota are
too poor to make a house to house I
J canvass, as Kansas has done and
other states are doing. 1
} We therefore ask each of our
! readers to take a postal card and !
I write us brief note, giring post
office and county, and telling Us
what in their judgment, and the 4
judgment of their friends, will be
} the total vote for Bryan and Lind 1
, and for Mckinley and Clough, in i
) their respective townships and
/ counties. Make it as nearly cor
rect as you can. We will publish
} all such cards. We believe they
will encC urage our friends every 1
} where. State how the vote this 1
! year will compare with the vote j
. in 1892 and 1894.
Move promptly. Let US have y,
your card in time for next weeks
issue. II you have any fear OF
the consequences, you need not
} sign your name. 1
( A A a a ~ A a n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
ANOTHER THREAT.

THE PEOPLE ARE TO BE PUNISHED
FOR VOTING AS THEY PLEASE.
Hon. 1GNATlUs DONNELLY:
Dear Sir:-Will you be so kind as to
answer one Or two questions?
They are soaring the people here
with the threat, that il Bryan is cleo
ted the bankers will commence at
once to force the collection Of all their
claims.
II SO, has not the Legislature right
stop forced collections. Please an
swer this. respectfully,
John Kron.
Alexandria, Sept. 90,
I. These threats are all nonsense.
Ii the moneylenders had loaned
money to their debtors for fun or
philanthropy, there might te some
sense in this talk. But what will they
do if they collected all the money they
have standing out: Could they eat
it? Could they wear it? Where will
they take it. Where they will get big
ger interest and better security than
they have in Minnesota?
Money is only valuable while it is
bearing interest. The debtor is as
necessary to the creditor as the credi-
tor is to the debtor. In fact more so:
for the farmers could get down to
Russian conditions, and live on ten
acres, on what they could raise; and
then the money-lender would be seen
running around, with tongue and eyes
out. imploring some worker for Gods
sake to borrow his idle money and
support him.
That is all lending money means.
The usurer don't want to 60 to
work and toll in summers heat
and winters cold, and so he gets a
worker to take his trash and do the
work necessary for his support.
What feeds the banker, aud his wife
and children. and his servants and his
clerks. and his horses and dogs and
his chickens and everything else that
is his? 1t is the interest money, paid
him by a lot ct chaps that get it out Of
the land, out of grubbing and digging,
and ploughing and seeding and reap
ing and tnreshing. And now Mr..
Banker says to his debtors:-
Here, darn you! II you don't vote
as | want you to. [ won't take any
more interest money from you, but
! will call in my capital and eat it up.
and shortly be as poor as you are!"
He might just as we'll step out on
the street corner, with razor in his
| hand, and say to the assembled farm
| ers:-
See here! If you don't vote for
Mckinley will cut my own drafted
old nose off! There!.!'
| It is all rot"
| These ilanthropists will never re-
fuse to lend you money as long as you
have security to give.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
SHALLOW ARGUMENTS.

Senator Palmer the gold-bug- Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency
said the other day:
"He then launched upon an argu-
ment OF the coinage question, illus
trating his remarks by holding up a
silver dollar, which he declared is as
good as gold dollar because the
stamp Of the government makes it SO,
but which under the free coinage pl an
would be compelled to shift for itself,
In which event, he argued. its value
would sink to that of the bullion that
entered into its composition. He
used as further illustration the fact
that during the late rebellion. a. pair
of boots brought 500 in Con federa te
money, and inquired of his hearers il
that was the kind of an increase in
the value Of Commodities they want
ed"
This is simply absurd.
II the stamp of the government
makes silver dollar worth one hun
dred cents will free coinage take away
that stamp? Certainly not. 1t will
simply put it upon about sixty million
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
MR.. GIBBS RETURNS.

L. G.. Gibbs, chairman Of the state
central committee, who was called
away by the serious sickness of his
mother, has returned to St. Paul and
the campaign work will be pushed
with Vi ,ur until Nov. 3.
He desires to say that all persons
who arc able to make speeches in the
state should send him in their names
work ir their respective neighbour
hoods. The great struggle will come
during the last two weeks Of the cam
paign. The committee has little
funds, but the speakers will be taken
care Of by the committees.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
POWERFULLY STATED.

We have had no one in this country,
since Lincoln was assassinated, who
possessed greater power of stating
facts in such a way that they consti-
tute an unanswerable argument, than
Mr.. Bryan. Read this from his Bos-
ton speech last Friday:
1--WE lay down this proposition that
the more money there is in the coun-
try the easier it is for all
persons who have something to
sell to get their share Of
of that money. Our opponents plant
themselves upon the doctrines that
the less money the whole people have,
the more money each individual will
have. That is a mathematical prOpo-
sition which You cannot find in any
arithmetic, but it seems to be the
proposition upon which Republican
financiering is based"
This is the yeductio al absurdum II
makes man laugh while it conyinces
him. 1t is the whole question in Il
nutshell.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07

new set OF Judases wherein will it be
any better than the Republican par
ty?
And if the chief newspaper of the
Peoples Party condoned the treach.
cry OF prominent men, and covered it
up, so that they could 20 on and
honey-comb the party with their
iniquities, would it not deserve to be
kicked over the battlements, and
down into that Sheol, where the
swarming Judases OF all the ages con-
gregate?
IT the Peoples Party is not better
and purer and honester than the Re-
publican party what right has it to
ask to displace the Republican party?
Answer US that, brother Wig.
Tell the truth no matter whose
corns are trod on. That cannot be
good politics which is bad morals.