Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-03

which is used principally for the treatment
of skin diseases, cancers and the cauteriz-
ing of wounds.
Its Aid to Mankind.
Though discovered many hundreds OF
years ago, electricity has not been put to
much everyday use until recently. In the
early days the woman of the household
was compelled to get up on frosty morn
ings, If hubby" was too sleepy, and
gather cobs to build the kitchen fire and
cook breakfast for the family In the hot
summer weather she has toiled and sweated
over a steaming wash tub and by assiduous
rubbing on an old-style wash board has
cleansed the clothes and about used her
self up. Her work was hard while the
labors of her husband were no lighter He
had 20 walk to his work, had to propel his
machinery by hand or fire up a steam
engine, could send no messages home for
the want OF a telephone or an electrical
messenger call service. But today this is
all changed.
BY the simple pushing OF a button the
stove Is lighted and the house warmed,
and the meals cooked on an electric stove.
In the summer the connecting OF a switch
starts an electric fan which cools the
room. and the pushing OF another button
starts the washing machine. There is no
boiling and stirring OF clothes over a red
hot range, there is no endless rubbing OF
garments on wash board there is no
back breaking turning OF a wringer All
is done by electricity. There is no more
necessity for walking two or three miles
10 work. for the trolley is ever present
( and no fires have to be poked in many a
I factory. for the machines are run by elec-
trio motors.
Telephone wires form a veritable net
work In the city as well as the country.
/ and the telegraph encireles the globe. Ships
can be reached in mid-ocean by the wire
less telegraph, and look where one may,
/ the works of electricity are seen on every
hand A complete catalogue Of all cleo
! trical appliances and uses would be i'm
( possible, but some OF them, heretofore
/ mentioned. are:
Telegraph, wireless telegraph. telephone.
messenger call boxes and services. police
call boxes. fire alarm boxes sprinkler fire
alarm system, automobiles, trolley cars.
/ locomotives printing presses. elevators.
block system. clocks. lamps, stoves. cooking
utensils, shaving sets, curling irons, mas
sage apparatus. washing machines. ice
cream freezers,-ice freezers, cigar lighters.
flour bleachers, milk cleansers, medicinal
belts and soles, bed warmers feet warmers,
telegraphone, N-ray, fans and scores OF
Z others
Electrician Michaelsen well says that
! ''ele' tTicity is the greatest agent OF the
I period and. in the opinion OF this per
sonaee. generations in the future will look
back upon his century and call it the
| age of electricity" as We today catalogue
abe prehistoric ages OF The past
IA seems 10 me that il is but a ques-
ti0n az .ime before battleships will be sent
through the seas by The unseen agency.
/ electricity, end battles won. wars settled
. and The fate Of nations decided" says Mr..
Michaelsrn. There is not civilized
( nation on the face Of the globe that docs
not use electricity and in all countries are
men working night and day inventing new
uses for the wonderful fluid. but wha.
other great uses II will be pat - hardly
know