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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: , St'NDAY, AUGUST 25, 1001.
Try it 1 Newbro's Herpicide I Try it
Hair Tonics
Hair Tonics should properly be called
scalp irritants. As long as there is
dandruff it does not do the slightest good
to irritate the scalp. Without dandruff,
hair must, and it surely will, grow luxuri
antly, as nature willed. Every intelligent
physician will tell you that nine-tenths of
all hair troubles come from dandruff. You
are doubtless convinced of that fact. The
sensible thing, then, is to kill the dandruff germ; and that
cannot possibly be done with hair tonics. Dandruff is a
germ disease, and no makeshift scalp scouring will do the
Blightest permanent good. The germ must be Killed; and
the only way in the world to do that is to
Use Newbro's Herpicide
The only hair preparation that is
made to kill the Dandruff Germ
And that actually does kill the dandruff germ, thereby leaving the hair to grow luxuriantly as
nature intended, and as hair always will grow where there is no dandruff.
Every Physician in the World
will tell you that Dandruff is the cause of nine-tenths of the brittle hair, falling hair, and finally
and inevitably, Baldness.
Professor Unna & Professor Sebouraud
The former the great skin specialist at the Charity Hospital of Hamburg, Germany, and the lat
ter an assistant in the Pasteur Institute of Paris, France, have demonstrated beyond doubt that
Dandruff is a Germ Disease
The remedies suggested by these eminent scientists, combined with others discovered after a
year's .continuous laboratory experiments, are in Newbro's Herpicide a successful combination
of two different chemicals being the crowning laboratory victory of this marvelous scientific
product.
Beware of Imitations
"Destroy the cause you remove the effect"
No other hair preparation but Newbro's
Herpicide was ever made on the
scientific principle of destroying the dan
druffgerm. Every other well-known hair
preparation was put on the market before
science had discovered that dandruff is a
germ disease. Since the unprecedented
success of Herpicide, there have been, of
course, many imitators; none of these imi
tators, however, have been able to bring about the success
ful destruction of the dandruff germ. If it is not Newbro's
Herpicide, it won't destroy the dandruff germ; and you can
not stop falling hair nor prevent baldness unless you kill
the dandruff germ, and you cannot possibly kill the gerin
unless you
Use Newbro's Herpicide
Best and Surest.
Newbro's Herpicide is the beet
and surest euro wo havo ovor had (or all
scalp affections.
DKS. ROGEHS & McCOY,
2d and Spring, Los Angolas, Cal.
Liked,n Barbershops
I have used Newbro's Herpicide
exclusively in ray barber shop tor sorao
time It satlsfios my customors moro than
any othor hair preparation I ovor. used.
I am dollghtod with results.
HENRY A. WAY,
118 South Oth, St. Joseph, Mo.
One Bottle
Convinces.
Better Than Claimed
Having given Newbro's Herpicide
a thorough test, I consldor it oven better
than it is recommended to bo.
C. A. BRADY, M. D.,
Great Falls, Mont.
Grew New Hair
Newbro's Herpicide haa entirely
cured me of a ten voirs' caso of dandruff and
fulling hair. I am on the third bottlo and
I find a nice now growth of hair coming.
(Prof.) W. E. SHARP,
Musical Director Orphoura Thcator,
Honolulu, H. I.
Dandruff is a
Germ Disease
A HEALTHY HAIR.
"A" External layer of epidermic
aheath. "D',' Inferior extremity. "B"
Internal layer. C" Root of the hair.
AH UNHEALTHY HAIR.
See the germs that cluster around
and eat at the root of the hair. . Is it
any wonder hair falls out?
Doctors Prescribe It
I have used Newbro's Herpicide
for dandruff and horpos of tho scalp with
oxeollcnt rosults, and will conllnuo to rec
ommend it to those afflicted, and prcscrlbo
it In my practice
J. F. FUGATE, M. D.
Urbana, 111.
Acts Like a Charm
I used one bottle of Newbro's
Horplcido on a persistent caso of dandruff
vory ohronlc; and it acted llkon charm, pro.
duclng a comploto cure. ,W. E. REED, M. D.
1018 Dousallo Ave., Los Angeles, Cal.
Kill the
Dandruff Germ
Invariably Ask for It
After giving Newbro's Herpicide
a thorough trial, wo heartily recommend it
for dandruff and falling hair, nnd wo do not
havo to push It, as customers, after using It
once, invariably ask for it.
HUERGER 1JROS.,
1438 Larlmor St, Denver, Colo.
Doctors Use It
I have tested on myself Newbro's
Herpicide. Tho rosult is nil that could bo
desired.
ALEXANDER McMILLAN. M. D.
Lansing, Mich.
One Bottle
Convinces.
EDISON'S LATEST TRIUMPH
Storage Battery Which Will BiTolutioiiie
Portable Power Operations.
OF NICKEL ITiEL AND INDESTRUCTIBLE
fcir tlnttftrr ' iinrn of Endurance,
ISflnotlveiieii mid Cmineltj-
Tho Story of IU l'ro
dnetlon.
ends of things. For instance, ho made
exactly 1,800 experiments before ho bit upon
tungstato of calslum to be used In con
nection with tho fluorscope for making tho
penetrating power of X-rays visible to tho
human cyo. He made several thousand ex
periments before ho succeeded In manufac
turing a proper adhesive substance for
binding together tho particles of finely di
vided Iron pro so that the oro could bs
smelted. I occo saw him laboring with
an oro furnace trying to repair the draft
so that there would bo exactly tho Bame
heat In alt parts of the furnace. It was
he wanted. And after that he began to see
tho end of tho struggle."
Invent a Wonderful Holler.
But hero aroso a contingency which tho
man in tho laboratory did not mention
a contingency which would havo balked
most men. In order to use Iron and nickel
tho metal first must be, so treated that
vory peculiar shapes and a remarkable
degree of thinness could be obtained.
Thcro were no machines In existence that
could give It the peculiar shapes and not
ono of the rolling factories then working
could turn It out thin enough to suit the
(Copyright, 1MI, by Theodore Waters.)
Th announMmaut that Thomas A, Edl-
aou haa Invented a storage battery of great
economic possibilities has been widely
heralded as another achievement of this
Wonderful constructive genius, but because
We are so used to his perennial power for
Wonder working tho true significance of the
Ynt Is apt to be underestimated, yet this
latest achievement of Edison is probably
destined to work as great changes in its
Way as did the eloctrte light, It Is the hvic.
cessful realization of an Idea on which
pillllonn of dollars have been spent und for
Which score of Inventor have labored the
best part of their lives, Blneo I860, when
J'lante discovered the lead cell, there has
never been a moment when some expert
fnentallst has not been working to achieve
What Edison has lust achieved the sue
cessful bottling up of power which might
a transported safely and used again at any
time rnd place, Just Ilka any other form of
pterohandlse, Hundreds of forms of nior-
ago batteries have been Invented, but the
limitations have generally far outweighed
tho good points of each, and it lias bccouiM
an axiom In the trade that storage bat
teries are far more delicate nnd much
more unreliable lit critical moments thnn
faco horses,
Ita MnrvInns Arimiulilllty.
The fact must be easily apparent to every
body that tho ability to carry around In the
palm of ono's hand Urn power that can, so .
to speak, move mountains, would be almost
an omnipoioni possession. And this, In a
lesser degruo, Is what tho successful storage I
pattery means to mankind. Storago bat- I
terles composed heretofore of dcstructlblo
load have In the first place been too heavy i
for anything but stationary work, and In
the next place too delicate to bo handled
y anybody but a highly skilled engineer.
The Edison battery, made of remarkably
thin, but Indcstructlblo steel, Is so light
that you may hold In your hand a cell which
s equal In power to ono of the lead variety
that oould hardly be lifted by two men
and which defies even a deliberate attempt
to do It harm, a fact proven by Mr. Edl
on, who commissioned one of his men to
try every means of wrecking tho coll short
pt aotually tearing It apart.
Edison's Working Irirna.
It . Is an axiom with Edison that If an
Invention shows one or more defects the
underlying principle must be wrong, Ills
Idea being that it the correct prlnctplo is
determined upon In the first place all ot
the details of the mechanism will become
evolved naturally and take their allottod
places In the completed machine. Ho will
never consent to "patch up" a faulty In
vention. In his mining plant on Mount
lusconetcong tho writer has admired tho
complicated working ot mechanlim that
filled a large building from cellar to root
and then haa been amaxed at the Inventor's
determination to raze the whole V flair,
tmlldlng and all, to the ground because the
Impossibility ot eliminating some defect
convinced him that the principle was wrong
In the first place, But Edison's tndefatl
gablllty apparently carries Mm to tba very
THE EDISON CELL AS COMPARED IN SIZE WITH A DUNCH OF KEYS.
midday and he was eating his luncheon cn
a work bench. Ho had not ulept for twsnty
four hours. I asked him how Jong ha ex
pected to keen it un. Ho nnswrreil! "Alt
night tonight and tomorrow and tomorrow!
night and tho day after tomorrow If I cm
stand It." Ho perfected the lluo system,
however, before tho next night.
In view of his axiom, therefore. It could
havo been assorted by ony one who knew I
him that his new battery would differ'
radically In principle from all that had been
used before, that it would differ oven from
tho hundreds he had himself Invented and 1
discarded. Ho set himself tho task of In
venting a battery that would not deteriorate
by work, that would stand rapid charging
nnd discharging and careless treatment,
that would havo a very large storago ca
pacity and would bo Inexpensive.
"Just what that means," sald'ono of his
men to the writer In tho laboratory re
cently, "may not strike tho populnr mind.
In the first place Mr. Edison set out to
discover what was tho matter with tho old
lead cell and after a number of experi
ments ho made up bis mind that 'the prln-
clplo was all wrong.' He tried to combine
othor materials with tho lead. Ho tried
dozens of solutions known to chemistry nnd
other dozens known only to htmielf. He
dropped lead and turned to other metals,
trying one combination nftor another. Ho
changed the form and tho capacity and tho
density of each and he discarded them one
after another. Sometimes certain metals
would seem to work and we often thought
him on tho high road to- success. Then
there would arise some defect. The cell
would not stand up to enforced work, or It
would not stand rapid charging, or perhips
It was perfect except In that It would not
stand careless treatment and thon away
it would go after Its fellows Into the scrap
pile. Finally Mr. Edison mado up his mind
that Iron and nickel variously combined
with other substances must be the metals
Inventor's needs. Mr. Edison, thorefore,
Immediately turned bis attention to the
Invontion of machinery that would glvo him
what he wanted. Ho made a remarkable
hydraulic press that In itself is a wonder
and a rolling machlno that will render
nickel steel so thin that anyone seeing and
holding It for tho first time might declare
It a pleco ot thin aluminum or perhaps a
form of stiffened tinfoil. Doubtless tho
public will never soo these mnchlncs, for
with many others which Edison has In
vented for similar preparatory offices thoy
will be held from view as trudo secrets.
After all, however, the public cares In this
caso only for tho completed cell and what
It will do.
What the TIiIiik In I. Ike.
Of course, cells may be made of any
thickness according to the number of plates
put In each, but thoso to be used for auto
mobiles, which is the kind mado so far
by Edison, nppcar cxternnlly to bo about
tho slzo ot thoso flat tin boxes into .which
brokers thrust stock certificates and which
can be slipped into the outsldo coat pocket.
Nevertheless, this flat box Is mado of thin
sheot steel. The plates that aro contained
in the box are tho essential elements of
the battery. They also aro steel and wheu
first mado resemble small window frames
In which oblong slits have been cut to re
cclvo the panes. Into each of tho ellts, in
lieu of window glass, go little flat per
forated steel boxes which contain the active
material In which tho electricity 1 storedt
Tho boxes In tho positive plato contain a
flnely divided compound of Iron mixed with
thin flakes of graphite Tho boxes In tho
negative plato contain a finely divided
compound of nickel mixed also with
graphite. A littlo flat perforated box of
tho material Is placed In each window of
tho plato and then tho whole plate, boxes
and all, is placed In a hydraulic press and
subjected to a pressure of 100 tons, which
so thoroughly amalgamates the combination
Into ono solid plate that only the most
romarkablo Ingenuity could separate tho
various parts. The plates, positives and
negatives alternated and separated by
perforated rubber plates, nro then placed
in the steel box cell which contains a solu
tion of potash. Tho coll Is then roady to
bo stored full of current. In othor words,
If tho curreut from n dynamo Is sent Into
It for a number of hours a llko quantity
of electricity may bo drawu off from it
again at any tlmo.
Ills TcNt Are TlinroiiKli.
Now tho Inventor reached this stage of
his work nearly a yenr ago. In othor
words, ho perfected the battery during
tho latter part of 1900. nut cautious loit
somo unnoticed weakness might dovclon
after all, ho made a number of personal
tests, nt tho end of which ho seemed wor
ried. "Why," ho said, "I can not break
It down. It Is too good to be true." Then
ho followed Darwin in tho manner' of
treating his discovery. When Darwin
ovolved his systom of evolution his natural
scientific caution prevented him publish
ing It. He was afraid his brothor scientists
might sco In It somo flaw which
had escaped his own observation. Ho
thereupon set to work to find arguments
against It. He waited a number of yenra
beforo ho dared nnnounco It to the wcrd
nnd ne aid so then only after he hid suc
cessfully answered every objection that
could be raised. Edison in tho samo way
has always followed this rule, although,
of course, the time limit for Inventions Is
naturally shorter. When he porfected tho
phonograph he mado a test of its ondur
anco. Ha handed n cylinder to ono of bis
men with the laconic direction: "Work
this until It wears out!" Tho man set to
work counting tho number of times ho
used the cylinder. Severn! days lator,
when It had "talked" for tho ten thousandth
time, he told Edison that, far from
wearing out, Its "voice" sounded clearer
OF TAE CfLL
Amalgamated.!
than over. Edison told him ho might dis
continue the test. And In the samo way
tho inventor handed his storage battery
to a workman with directions to uso
every legitimate means to wear It out.
So, reckoning from his knowledge ot lead
batteries, tho" workman overcharged It.
It remained Intact. Ho dischargod It
many times faster than tho normal rate.
Still no harm. He allowed the solution to
become low. Ho subjocted It to quick and
violent changes of temperature. Ho
moved It nbout moro as ho might havo
scarcely bo realized. Tho old lead bat
tery, such as Is now used in automobiles
and street cars, varies In weight from 124
to 186 pounds per horso power, and, gen
erally speaking, would bo capable of rais
ing its own weight two to three miles. The
Edleon battery weighs flfty-three pounds
por horse power and would bo capablo
under circumstances similar to those Im
posed on the lead battery of raising Its
own weight through a vertical dlstanco of
seven miles. Approximately an Edison
battery of equal power with a lead battery
kW IbErA op
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an old coal scuttlo than a storage battery.
In short, he used against It every nitchan-'
leal argument ho could think of. Ho placed
It In a shocking condition as batteries
go and left tho result to time. A lead bat
tery would have gono to the scrap heap
long ero' that. Yet after months had passod
thn battery, llko tho phonograph cylin
der, was In as good "voice" as ever. Then
Mr. Edison, without flourish of trumpet,
nnnounced tho result to the world.
lis .Hon ii I nit to the World.
And what a result this really Is can,
will weigh one-third as much, Also tho
Solution Is of such a character that the top
of the cell may be closed and tho cell Itself
urcd as n dry battery, so that In the caso
of a horseless vehicle It may bu Jolted about
as much as necessary without fear ot a collapse.
Tho advantage of the new battery over'
tho old will bo easily seen In cvory In
stance of portable electric power now and
uso and tho possibilities of now nnd'
greator uses are manifold. In traction
there Is the feasibility ot getting rid of.
objectionable trolley wires. Its bcnrlng
on tho development of tho automobile 1
too obvious to nocd extended comment.
Tho vnluo of tho storago battery for launch
propulsion wns well proven at tho Co
lumbian exposition with lead batteries
threo times as heavy ns the Edison coll.
Perhaps tho difference In weight will war
rant tho adoption of tho coll on fairly largo
ynchts. Uut the fcaturo which moro nearly
coucerns tho homo comfort of tho greater
mass of tho pcoplo Is tho adaptability r.f
tho cell for country houso lighting. The
cell mny bo charged In threo and ono-halt
hours, lienco tho farmer or tho country
householder generally may employ the re
sources of an ndjacont trolloy lino for ciiatg.
,lng his colls n short tlmo each day, or with
a windmill coupled to a small elcctrSo
generator ho could bottlo up enough cur
rent to glvo him light nt night. It would
bo qulto possible to establish centrnl sta
tions In various towns throughout tho coun
try which could bo usod as cell-charging
stations, from which workmen might sot
out each day In wagons collecting cells to
be charged nnd delivering full cells In their
stead to be used by tho householder for
purpose ot lllumlnntllon. Such a schemo
could be oporatcd at a cost much lower
than the present prlco )f gas.
Development of Iilena.
But bettor than all Is tho contemplation
of that romarkablo lucontlvo which begot
this cell and tho othor wonders that seem
to emanate perennially from tho inventor's
brain. Four years ago tho writer, do
scribing Edison's Iron mining plant,
wrote:
"Tho present entcrprlso wns planned
years ago and now that It is finally com
pleted Mr. Edison's mind will rovort to
oven greator schemes of conquest; and
at this moment It Is sato to say that ho
Is planning out Borne groat nchlovomcnt
which will take tho world more by storm
than havo tho great things ho has already
accomplished." .
And by that was moant this storago bat
tery which ho has Just given to tho world.
Edison moro than nny other mechanical
genius has realized tho truth of tho Kip
ling aphorism that tho "Joy of tho work
ing" Is moro to bo desired than tho famo
which results. THEODOHB WATERS.
I.vr-prt TaUIiik In tho Slizliti.
DENVER, Aug. 21. About iV) persons,
members of tho Amerlcnn liar assoelatlon,
relatives and friends, left Denver this morn
lug In a special train to visit nolnts of In
terest In tho mountains, In necordanea with
custom, next yenr's meeting will bo held nt
Saratoga Springs, N. V., August 27, i'8
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