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w "W%1 M'HENRY PLAINDE^LER, M HENRY, ILL NOT THE TIME FOR A SMOKE Lady, Filled Up With "Car> W»» in NaturalFsai! of an Explosion, A TOtmst old woman la tns moan- tains of north Georgia was ill (or the first time in her life and a doctor was sent for. Partly by persuasion and partly by force, the physician induced his patient to swallow some big Qui 'nine capsules--a simple enough opera­ tion, which, however, scared the old woman almost to death. She was soon able to sit up and her daughter thought she would give the conva­ lescent a treat. She took her moth er's corncob pipe from the "Bhelf" or mantel, filled it with tobacco, and picking up a live coal between two sticks, started With it toward the bed. Ma," sho said brightly, "Jes* look what I got fer ye. Git away from me, Sary," she screamed in terror. "Take away dat fire! Take hit away! Don't yer know I s done plum filled up wi* cartridges?" ---Chicago Ledger For Infants and Cmldreii. The Kind You Have ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT AWfetablc Preparation Tor As­ similating (he Food and Ketfula ting the Stomachs and Bowels of RobeH H'Mbulfon ^ i INFANTS ' ( HILUKtiN m rGZ&2& doze •sr J33pjfZj5'<tt'z&i$z2uerr - OW that scientists have discovered that high frequency electrical cur­ rents are powerful stimulants both of plant and animal life, the farm hand of the future may have to to a duly qualified electrical engineer before he can get a Job. It will not be enough for him to know how to' manipulate the mo* tors anff transmis­ sion gear by which farm machinery be run. He will have to be up on the chemiBtry of electric­ ity. He will have not only to know the use of violet rays in purify­ ing the drinking water, but will also have to know whether ground Wires are better for beets, ruby lights for 3hes, unercury Ta­ tar tobacco and electric sprinkling for •" Something elsp. 1 He will have to be something of a plant neurologist, too. When Ule corn in the south f o r t y i s g e t t i n g "taerves," or when the ; oats in the new ground Je becoming too som­ nolent, he will have to make correct diagnoses and prescribe the proper t ^ieatment. Electrification for plant growth has arrived. Ant #5hen the canny American farmer learns that he can double or even treble the output of his fields by the use of electricity, somebody will have to fl|id a way for him to use electricity and make * gbod profit out of hiB crops. A few weeks ago there was a convention of pra£» tical electricians in Philadelphia. Among the ad­ dresses one virtually escaped the attention of the f rps of reporters. Yet of all the addresses, none is more pregnant of great possibilities. •' .4 It was really part of the report of the conven­ tion's committee of progress and was read by the committee chairman, T. C. Martin of New York. IMA authority on things electrical. He gave facts *»d figures to show that plants .electrically treated grew much more rapidly thau those growing under normal conditions. Why this was so, he did not to say. He simply gave the results of experiments. ' ... The work was started on Moraine farm in the ^rtile Miami river valley, four miles south of Day- ton, Ohio. Dr. Herbert G. Dorsey, an expert, had charge of the experiments, which were fostered by the efforts of P. M. Tait, a former'president r Of the National Electric Light association. •; In preliminary tests, according to Martin's re- Msjf&rt, Bmall plots were marked off for exposure to different kinds of electrification. To insure that the soil of one plot was not better than that of another, top earth was collected, .mixed and • lifted and then wfs laid to the uniform depth of •fven inches over the entire area. .Iln the soil of plot No. 1 was buried a wire Screen. Over the plot was a network of wire, stretched about fifteen inches from the ground. Connecting the network above the ground and the screeh below were several wire antennae, The screen was connected to one terminal of 4. Tesla coil and the network to the other. A trana- feruier gtepy«u i 110-voii alternating current up to 5,000 volts, charging a condenser of tinfoil and glass plates, which discharged through a primary Of the coil. About one hundred and thirty watts * - ipere operated for an hour each morning and r«(rening. s. Plot No. 2 was illuminated by a 100-watt tung­ sten lamp with a ruby bulb. The light was turned on for three hours daily, beginning at sun­ down. Plot No. S was Illuminated the same way, e&cept that a mercury vapor lamp was used. No. A had no artificial stimulation ofany kind, being intended as a comparison between electrically excited plant growth and that of natural condi­ tions. AH&si) or j&xms <miztmarrar2̂ CRQjFC air In plot No. 5 was buried a wire network con* nected to the terminal of a 110-volt direct current. The positive terminal was attached to a small sprinkling can with a carbon electrode in its cen­ ter. The can being filled, the water was sulK jected to electrolysis for several minutes. The plot was then sprinkled from the can, the theory being that the current might flow from the can, through the Btreams"of.'water to the soil. Plots Nos. 6 and 7 were subdivided into four individual boxes, two feet square, separated by porcelain insulators and arranged with carbon electrodes at each end. To these electrodes were applied both direct and alternating currents. After radish and lettuce seed had been planted end germination had begun, the various methods or electrification were tried with extreme care. The result of the experiments showed that the plants in plot No. 1 grew in every Instance far more rapidly than those in the other beds and more than double the normal growth as shown in the unelectrified bed. From this the experimenters became convinced that electrification of the ground by high-frequen­ cy currents stimulated plant life to an extent that warranted a more complete Investigation. So they selected two acres of flat, rich ground. First a network of sprinkling pipes was built 15 feet above ground. The pipes ran east and west a distance of 200 feet and were spaced at 60-foot intervals. In the northeast corner of the tract seven copper wires were stretched north, and south, each being 200 feet long and an inter­ val of 15 feet separating them. The wires were elevated suffi­ ciently for the soil to be plowed with horses. The ends of the wires were attached to lneulfttors on top of gas pipes set in eon* crete. At the eastern edge of the house the experimenters built a small transformer house and in­ stalled machinery which would yield 10,000 volts. A choke coil and a Tesla coll were used. The whole thing was connected up so that by means' of antennae curr^fft from the wire network was sent to the network of sprinkling pipes, which, of course, furnished proper connection with the ground. By the latter part of last July the system was tn readiness and the currents were tested. At that time a pressure of 50,000 volts was obtained and the frequency of the oscillatory currents was estimated to be about thirty thousand cycles a second. Birds alighting on the wires were stunned and thrown the ground, but none was killed. The ground was planted to radishes, lettuce, beets, cabbages, cucumbers, turnips, muskmelons, water­ melons, tomatoes, parsnips, beans, peas, corn and tobacco. All were planted in rows running east and west, so that one-half of each row was electrified and the other half was not. As a result it was found that practically all the plants In the electrified area grew much more rap­ idly than those out of it. In almost every case the electrified vegetables were ripe two weeks earlier than those outside the zone. The electrified end of the tobacco crop was cut and it was found that each plant weighed 1,687 grams. It was two weeks before the un­ treated tobacco could be cut and then it weighed only 1,632 % grams to the plant. Taking into considera­ tion that the most rapid growth of the tobacco plant is in its last two weeks before ripening, the experimenters esti­ mated that the actual Increase in weight of the plants in the elec­ trified zone was 20 per cent greater than that in the uneiectrined zone. If this could be followed out on a grand scale, it i« apparent that the effect of elec­ trification on the an­ nual tobaoeo output of |he "fHim la i tingle season would be tremen­ dous. w . In his formal report to the association, Martin •aid that many questions had yet to be answered before the use of electricity for the general stimu­ lation of plant life could be considered eco­ nomically, possible. He declared, however, that jjbany of these questions are being worked out Si greenhouses over the country. Just as these American experimenters proved the importance of electrification to plant life, a group of English experimenters proved Its im­ portance to animal life. They took two large brooders, filled with newly hatched chickens ot tlhe Bame breeds. One of them was subjected to the influence of high-frequency currents and the .it. _word fnllTlll Oiuer wao uut. iuvoc m ~ -- to grow much more rapidly than those In the other. Following is a tabulation of the results of elec­ trical stimulation of vegetables. It will be ob­ served that in every particular the plants In the first plot, where the high-frequency current and Tesla coil were used, excelled thbse in plot No, 4, where natural conditions prevailed: k ? 5 STOP EATO'G MEAT IF KIDNEYS OR SACK HURT Take a Glass of Salts to Clean Kld> nsyalf Bladder Bothers You-- Msat Forms Ufto Add. Bating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particularly backache and misery in the kidney region; rheu­ matic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary ir­ ritation. The moment your back hurts or kid­ neys aren't acting right, or if bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; take a tablet*poonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com­ bined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kid­ neys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neutralise the acids in the urine so it no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; makeb a delightful effervescent lithla- water drink which millions of men and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease.--Adv. No Room for a Third. Ex-President Taft was on one dfcfctt- sion in consultation with Senator Pen­ rose of Pennsylvania. Now, as every­ body knows, Mr. Taft Is gigantic and the senator is taller and weighs more than any other member of the senate. While the two were in earnest con­ versation an aggressive politician en­ deavored to enter the room, but an alert secretary politely interfered. "What are they doing in there?" asked the politician, Inquisitively. This pertinent question nettled the secretary and he answered tersely: "Holding a mass meeting, I pre­ sume." Promotes Digestion,Cheerful­ ness and Rest Contains neither Opium .Morphine nor Mineral NOT NARCOTIC A*f>f SOU DrSAMUEl/TTtam Sul - Alx.S**Hm • /MttUtSmlb , Sfd • - S t f H • C'orS,vl Suf.- binhrfrrttt /Xt»W Aperfec! Remedy for Constipa­ tion . Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .FeverisIV ness and LOSS OF SLEEP Bears the Signature Facsimile Signature of THE CENTAUR COMPAW.N NEW YORK. A t < > m o n t h s o l d i't J i 1 ' Guaranteed under the Foodaij Exact Copy of Wrapper. For Over Thirty Years CUSTOM TMB ••NTA«a IBWMW, M> Mil His R»gular Cue. Many a man who permits himself to be led forth to musical entertainments he does not care for will appreciate the following: "What made you start clapping your hands, when that woman stepped on your foot in the tranmcar?" "I was dozing," answered Mr. Cum- rox. "I thought mother and the girls were having a musicale at home and one of them was sigifrling that it was time to applaud." Radishes 'ten se­ lected at random): gS ja 5 t b Sr r : S . 9 K 2 !» It 11 ate • q P M o CAMERA MEN IN DANGER '"V ^ fffiBlOfePkpherB at the seaside or even In London and other big cities must be more ^ efcreful than ever how they take snapshots during Wartime, for a thoughtless use of their cameras l&ay easily cause them to find themselves in . Mison for a few days, to say the least, Pearson's . l^eekly remarks. In the early days of the war, for Instance, a ff&rfectly innocent Hull shliJ chandler, on a holt •I!**" scenes as they can get. ' A t t h e o u t s e t o f t h e w a r t h e m i l i t a r y a u t h o r i ­ ties issued an order that no aeroplanes or air­ ships must be photographed at a distance of less than forty yards, or of an air station at all, without the permission of the authorities. Germany has always been the most dangerous country for the amateur photographer, and mores than one tourist has found himself roughly han- Total plant weight, grama.2®.TO 137.*0 109.50 1S0.00 78.» Edible portion, GRAMS J39.60 57.40 40.90 79.40 81.00 •Edible portion, per c e n t . . . . 51.15 41.65 37.34 44.11 39.49 Tops and leaves, grams . . . .120.50 75.70 65.90 96.00 41.50 Tops and leaves, per c«nt.. 43,35 64.92 S0.18 62.77 55.68 Boots, grams 9M 4.70 3.20 6.60 6.00 Foot*, per cent >.50 3.43 2.48 3.1- 4.86 Lettuce (ten plants selected (at random) Edible portion, gramm-- Roots, grams Roots, per cent. Edible portion, per cent.. (7.00 62.60 56.60 46.10 31.30 60.70 47.30 60.20 4L80 ».20 6.30 6.30 6.30 4.30 3.10 9.41 10.08 11.16 9.33 7.M 90.69 89.92 88.85 90.67 92.10 day in London, with his wife, was arrested by----died by the German police for innocently takinf~ THEIR DE8CENT. the police for taking photographs of Battersea bridge. After being detained the best part of the day, during which inquiries were made, tho authorities were satisfied that he was merely a harmless snapshotter, but nevertheless they warned him to keep bis camera out of use until - war is over! v There are probably many thousands of ama- te^ir photographers who, wishing to snap scenes In the neighborhood of barracks, or other mil!*- tary or naval places, find themselves arrested asT if they were spies. If they must take photo­ graphs in these war days let them resort to the . broods and country lanes,* as fkr from military , photographs. A special bill was passed a fevr years ago threatening tourists with a line of £50 or two months' imprisonment who took photo* graphs without permission. The French officials in ,the towns on the Fran- tp>German frontier have always objected to any- ehe taking snapshots, and, indeed, many a tour­ ist has had his camera temporarily confiscated, to find afterward that his plates have all been •tendered useless. itaiy not only bars people taking photographs Iwsar fortifications, bat forbids the use of a Camera in noat of the ' picture gallerlea ani mu­ seums. Hampton--Dinwiddow told me his family Is 4 very old one. They were one of the first to Come across. Rhodes--The grocer told me yesterday that now they are the last to come across.--Judge. SUITS HERSEUF. "My wife Is always asking me what I would like to eat." "T ^ . • "That's kind of her."' , "Oh, I don't know. Wttfen T WH her she safe, The idea!' and orders something else." PITTSBURGH'S YOUNG DAYS ^^amber 3, 1818. Is a Date That la a Fader In History of Famoue •; City. sr S, 1*18, and tar esv- eral days preceding and succeeding, Pittsburgh was peculiarly agitated in regard to transportation by river and ttitopike. This might almost have been written that "our rivers *1are so low that navigation is very difficult, and there i& probably a isillion worth of merchandise lying along our shores." Great pressure had been brought to bear in favor of turnpikes which would better Baltimore* Cum­ berland and Wheeling rather than Pennsylvania towns, and Pittsburgh was made a target for Antagonism which had southern feeling; for some­ thing of its inspiration, one of the bases ot it being the long-standing dis­ pute In regard to the bo tween Virginia and P« which at one time almost k< iature war, with Pittsbur J < tvania to similar effect; all of which le as a matter of course immensely amus­ ing in contemplating these anuiver- mails"wei«"sent from na»i-lsaries. discussion piling on discussion ~ _ thousand mailt rs of Luis kind. northern focal point. Even the ad­ ministration at Washington bmught into the transportation m^t ter. «uu more, Washington, Alexandria, gersto^vn and Cumberland by W h e e l i n g r o u t e , a n d " a c t u a l l y a r j at Pittsburgh by the western can In December, 181&, it was boast the little Wheeling prints: Pittsburgh, your day is over; scepter of influence and wealth travel to us; the Cumberland road done the business," and chapters "CMS" ACT ONLMWELS No sick headache, biliousness* bad taste or constipation by morning. Get a 10-cent box. Are you keeping your bowels, liver, and stomach clean, pure and fresh with Csscarets, or merely forcing a passageway every few days with Salts, Cathartic PIUB, Castor Oil or Purgative Waters? * Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg­ ulate the stomach, remove the sour and fermenting food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the constipated waste matter and poisons In the bowels. 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