THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 24, 1D0G.
Women Who Ytfear Well.
THE FARMER'S WIFE
IT la astonishing how great a ' change a few years of
married life often make in tha appearance and disposi
tion of many women. The frishness, the charm, the
brilliance vanish like the blooi from a peach which is rudely
bandied. The matron is only " d m shadow, a faint echo
of the charming maiden. TheTe are two reasons for this
change, Ignorance and neglect. Few young women ap
preciate the shock to the system through the change which
tomes with marriage and motherhood. Many neglect to
deal with the unpleasant pelvic drains and weaknesses which
too often come with marriage and motherhood, not under
standing that this secret drain is robbing the cheek of its
freshness and the form of its fairness.
As surely as the general health suffers when there is
derangement of the health of the delicate womanly organs,
so surely when these organs are established In health the
face and form at once witness to the fact In renewed come
liness. Nearly a million women have found health and
happiness in the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
It makes weak women strong and sick women well. In
gredients on label contains no alcohol or harmful habit
forming drugs, made wholly of those native, Americau,
medicinal roots most highly recommended by leading med
ical authorities of all the several schools of practice for the
cure of woman's peculiar ailments.
For nursing mothers, or for those broken-down in
health by too frequent bearing of children, also for expect
ant mothers, to prepare the, system for the coming of
baby and making its advent easy and almost painless, there
is no medicine quite so good as "Favorite Prescription." It
can do no harm in any condition of the system. It is a
most potent invigorating tonic and strengthening nervine
nicely adapted to woman's delicate system by a physician of
large experience in the treatment of woman's peculiar
ailments.
Dr. Pierce may be consulted by letter free of charge.
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In
stitute, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Open Publicity
Characterises the policy of Dr. Pierce as relates to the
composition of his time-proven and most popular med
icines. Their ingredients are on each bottle-wrapper, at
tested under oath and printed in plain English.
Is this not significant ?
"Favorite Prescription" is safe for women to take in
any condition of the system, as it assists Nature in restoring
the healthful functional action of all the organs distinctly
feminine. In fact, it is Nature's own cure for the many
derangements and weaknesses peculiar to women. It is
advised for no other diseases.
If you are a weak, tired, nervous, over-worked, broken
down, pain-racked, woman, either young, old or middle
aged, suffering from frequent headaches, backaches, dizzi
ness or fainting spells, gnawing or distressed feeling In
stomach, perhaps see imaginary specks, or dark spots float
ing before the eyes, have dragging-down or heavy feeling
in lower abdomen, or pelvic region, with, perhaps, pelvic
catarrh, or other symptoms of functional or organic affec
tions of the distinctly feminine organs, then you will make
no mistake if you resort to the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. The most advanced medical science knows
no better agents for the cure of all such diseases than are
happily and harmoniously combined in this widely-famed
" Prescription " of Dr. Pierce.
You can't afford to accept any secret nostrum of un
known composition and of questionable merit as a substitute
for this professionally endorsed and tinre-tested remedy OP
known composition, simply that some unprincipled dealer
may make a little larger profit. Don't expect it to perform
miracles but give it a fair, persevering trial and it is not
likely to disappoint you. It won't "dissolve tumors" no
medicine will. It will cure a larger percentage of all curable
ailments which especially afflict womankind than any other
medicine sold by druggists for that purpose.
It is the one medicine especially, designed for the
cure of woman's maladies that does not contain even a drop
of alcohol. It is also free from injurious, habit-forming
drugs.
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The modesty of women naturally makes them shrink
from the indelicate questions, the obnoxious examinations,
and unpleasant local treatments, which some physicians con
sider essential in the treatment of diseases of women. Yet,
if help can be had, it is better to submit to this ordeal than
let the disease grow and spread. The trouble is that so
often the woman undergoes all the annoyance and shame for
nothing. Thousands of women who have been cured by
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription write in appreciation of
the cure which dispenses with the examinations and local
treatments. There is no other medicine so sure and safe
for delicate women as "Favorite Prescription." It cures
debilitating drains, irregularity and female .weakness. It
always helps. It almost- always cures. It cures bad cases
of female weakness, prolapsus, anteversion and other dis
placements in the privacy of the home.
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Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the best laxative and
regulator of the bowels. They invigorate stomach, liver
and bowels. One a laxative ; two or three a cathartic.
Easy to take as candy. They are the original Little Liver
'Pills, first put up over 40 years ago by old Dr. Pierce.
Much imitated but never equaled.
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You pay the postage. Dr. Pierce gives you the book.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 pages,
700 illustrations, is sent free on receipt of stamps to defray
cost of mailing only. Send 21 one- "ent stamps for the paper
bound book, or 31 stamps for clo-bound. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
IS very careful about her ciiura. She scalds it thoroughly
after using, and gives it a son bath to sweeten it. She
knows that if her churn is sour it will taint the butter
that is made in it. The stomach is a churn. In the stom
ach nnd digestive and nutritive tracts are performed proces
ses which are exactly akin to the churning of butter. Is it
not apparent then that if this stomach churn is foul it makes
foul all which is put into it ?
The evil of a foul stomach is not alone the bad taste in
the mouth and the foul breath caused by it, but the cor
ruption of the pure current of blood and the dissemination
of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet. It
does for the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for
the churn absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting
element. In this way it cures blotches, pimples, eruptions,
scrofulous swellings, sores, or open eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in your mouth,
coated tongue, foul breath, are weak and easily tired', feel
depressed and despondent, have frequent headaches, dizzy
attacks, gnawing or distress in stomach, constipated or irreg
ular bowels, sour or bitter iisings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any considerable number of
them, indicate that you are suffering from biliousness, torpid,
or lazy liver with the usual accompanying indigestion, or
dyspepsia and their attendant derangements.
The best agents known to medical science for the cure
of the above symptoms and conditions, as attested by the
writings of leading teachers and practitioners of all the
several schools of medical practice, have been skillfully and
harmoniously combined in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. That this is absolutely true will be readily
proven to your satisfaction if you will but mail a postal card
request to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., for a free copy
of his booklet of extracts from the standard medical author
ities, giving the names of all the ingredients entering into
his world-famed medicines and showing what the most
eminent medical men of the age say of them.
The Badge of Honesty
IS upon every bottle of Dr. Pierce's medicines in the full
list of their ingredients, duly attested under oath,
which is printed on each bottle-wrapper. Thus does
Dr. Pierce take his patients into his full confidence.
If you suffer from coated tongue, foul breath, frequent
headache, constipated or irregular bowels, gnawing or dis
tressed feeling in the stomach, high colored urine, feel weak
or tired most of the time, poor or variable appetite and
kindred symptoms you are bilious. Your liver is lazy or
torpid and digestion deranged. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery is the most potent anti-bilious medicine
extant and will not fail to relieve and cure such derange
ments if given a fair trial. It invigorates and regulates
stomach, liver and bowels. It is made entirely of the rooti
of native American medicinal plants, pure, triple-refinod
glycerine being used both for extracting and preserving tho
medicinal principles. The glycerine possesses valuable me
dicinal properties and is especially valuable in stomach and
bowel troubles.
Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Bennett Medical
College, Chicago, says of glycerine: "In dyspepsia it serves
an excellent purpose. Holding a fixed quantity of tha
peroxide of hydrogen in solution, it is one of the best manu
factured products of the present time in its action upon
enfeebled, disordered stomachs, especially if there is ulcer
ation or catarrhal gastritis (catarrhal inflammation of stom
ach), it is a most efficient preparation. Glycerine will
relieve many cases of pyrosis (heartburn) and excessive
gastric acidity. It is useful in chronic intestinal dyspepsia,
especially the flatulent variety, and in.certain forms of chronio
constipation, stimulating the secretory and excretory func
tions of the intestinal glands."
When combined, in just the right proportions, with
Golden Seal root, Stone root, Black Cherrybark, Queen's
root, Bloodroot and Mandrake root, or the extracts of these,
as in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, there can be
no doubt of tha great efficacy of glycerine in the cure of all
stomach, liver and intestinal disorders and derangements.
These several ingredients have the strongest endorsement in
all such cases of such eminent medical leaders as Prof. R.
Bartholow, M. D., of Jefferson Medical College, Phila.t
Prof. Hobart A. Hare, M. D. of Med. Dept. Univ. of Pa. I
Prof. Laurence Johnson, M. D., Med. Dept. Univ. of N. Y.
Prof. Edwin M. Hale, M. D., Hahnemann Med. College,
Chicago; Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., and Prof. John
King, M. D., Authors of the American Dispensatory, and
scores of others among the leading medical men of our land.
Who can doubt the curative virtues of a medicine the
ingredients of which have such a professional endorsement?
A lazy liver may be only a tired liver, or a starved
liver. It would be a stupid as well as savage thing to beat
a weary or starved man because he lagged in his work. So
in treating the lagging, torpid liver it is a great mistake to
lash it with strong drastic drugs. A torpid liver is but an
indication of an ill-nourished, enfeebled body whose organs
are weary with over-work. Start with the stomach and
allied organs of digestion and nutrition. Put them in
working order and see how quickly your liver will become
active. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery ha made
many marvelous cures of "liver trouble? by its wondetful
control of the organs of digestion and nutrition. It restores
the normal activity of the stomach, increases the secretions
of the blood-making glands, cleanses the system from poi
sonous accumulations, and so relieves the liver of the
burdens imposed upon it by the defection of other organs.
Constipation is cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
One or two a dose. Easy to take as candy.
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t cattle dying of starvation which if killed earlier might have saved
thousands of human beings from starving.
A night's ride from Jalpore brought us to Abu road, from
which, by pony carta, called tongas, we ascended to Mount Abu,
sixteen miles away. The Journey Is made over a well-kept moun
tain road, which climbs to a height of about 5,000 feet. While this
aversion to meat has a bearing upon the famine question, millions
mountain resort draws many Europeans because of its altitude, two
famous Jain temples are the lodestones that attract tourists. These
temples were built by merchant princes in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and the fact that one of them cost more than $5, ood.ooo
shows that trade had reached a commanding position in those days.
One of the temples was built by two brothers, and the guide tells
of a tradition that these brothers, tiring of their money, decided to
bury It. but on digging in the earth they found more, and, consid
ering it a gift from the gods, built this temple. The buildings are
not large, and seen from the outside are disappointing, but once
within one marvels at the richness of the carving. The pillars and
vaulted ceilings are of the purest white marble, brought from, no one
knows where, and every Inch of the surface is covered with figures
of gods, human beings, animals, fowls and flowers. The artists
utilized the things with which the people were most familiar. Here
a frieze of elephant heads, the trunks joined, there a frieze of geese,
another of tigers or monkeys. In one dome maidens danced; In
another warriors fought; in a third flowers bloomed. The variety
Is endless and the workmanship perfect. While the panels and
friezes and ceilings differ so much from each other, the arrange
ment is such that they do not seem incongruous, but form a harmon
ious whole. The Mohammedan conquerors mutilated some of the
figures because of their hatred of idolatry, but when, under Lord
Curzon's administration, the work of restoration was begun. It was
, Impossible to find marble like the original.
Around these temples are numerous shrines, each containing a
seated figure very much resembling Duddha. The Jains are a sect
of the Hindus, and their temples are renowned for their beauty.
This temple is visited by a large number of pilgrims every year,
some of whom were chanting their prayers while we were there.
Luxurious Up-to-date Hotel at Bombay
Another night's ride and we were in Bombay, and what a luxury
to find a hotel constructed upon the American plan! The Taj Mahal
is the finest hotel in the Orient and would be a credit to any city in
oar country. It was built by Mr. Tata, a rich Parsee, who planned
It more from publlo than from private considerations.
We found the plague Increasing in virulence, 300 having died
In the city the day before we arrived. Bombay has suffered terribly
from this source, 24 per cent having perished from it In the last few
years. Two years ago the American consul, Hon. William T. Fee,
lost his daughter and came near losing his wife by thts dread disease,
and two European consuls haye recently had to leave their homes
because of deaths among their native servants. With so many dying
In a single city (and 10,000 a week in the entire country), India
would seem an unsafe place to visit, and yet one would not know
except for the newspapers that an epidemic was raging, so little does
it affect business or social life. There is now in use a system of
inoculation which promises to materially lessen the mortality from
this disease. A serum is prepared in which the venom of serpents
is the chief Ingredient, and this, hypodermically administered, has
been found almost a sure preventive. While the physicians are
employing this remedy, the rat catchers are also busy and about
n thousand rodents are captured per day, It having been demon
strated that the rat not only spreads the disease, but carries a flea
that imparts it by its bite.
Bombay is the Manchester of India and the smokestacks of Its
many cotton factories give to the city a business-like appearance
These mills are largely owned by Indians and operated by Indian
capital. '
On an island near Bombay is one of the most frequented of the
rock-hewn temples, called the Elephanta Caves. This temple ' is
chisled out of the solid rock, great pillars being left to support the
roof. It is about 130 feet square by seventeen in height and contains
n number of figures of heroic size. These figures are carved from
the walls and represent various gods and demons. The Portuguese
Christians, several centuries ago, showed their contempt for these
gods of stone by firing their cannon into the temple. While some
of the pillars were battered down and some of the carvings muti
lated, enough remains to show the lmpressiv'eness of this ancient
place of worship.
Peculiar Religious Sect of Parsees
No one can visit Bombay without becoming interested in a re
ligious sect, the members of which are known as the Parsees.
They are few in numbers, probably not exceeding 100,000 in the
world, more than half of whom live in or near Bombay. Theirs is
the religion of Zoroaster and they contest with tho Hebrews the
honor of being the first believers in one God. Their sacred books,
the Zend-Avesta, are very ancient, and the origin of their religion
is placed anywhere from 700 B. C. to 3000 B. Q They not only
believe in one God, but they believe In immortality and claim to
have Impressed their ideas upon tho Israelites when the latter were
In bondage in Babylon. The Parsees see in the world, as well as In
the human being, a continuing conflict between right and wrong, and
they regulate their conduct by a high ethical system. , When the
Moslems swept over Persia and made It one of the stars in Islam's
crown a band of Parsees preferred migration to conversion, and, like
our pilgrim fathers, sought a home In a new country. In Bombay
they have preserved their identity for some nine centuries and have
made themselves a potent influence in every department of the
city's activity. They have their marriage ceremony, their fire
temples and their funeral rites. They have sometimes been called
fire worshipers and sun worshipers, but they simply regard lire as
the purest thing known and therefore accept it as a symbol of the
Invisible God. Fire is kept burning In their temples and when a
new temple is to be dedicated fire is collected from the homes of
persons engaged in the principal industries and occupations and
this mingled fire is used to kindle another fire, and this new fire
nnother, until the ninth fire Is lighted, and this becomes the altar
Are. Each fire is kindled without coming into contact with the
former one.
The Parsees have a peculiar form of burial, which has come
down from pre-hlstorlc times. On Malabar hill, in the suburbs of
Bombay, overlooking the sea, in the midst of a beautiful garden, are
their Towers of Silence. These are large circular buildings twenty
five or thirty feet high and without a roof. Within the wall is a
circular platform sloping Inward to a well in the center. When a
Parsee dies he Is prepared for burial and borne to this garden.
After the last rites have been performed and the relatives and
friends have taken their farewell the body is carried within the
tower by men appointed for the purpose and placed naked upon this
platform. 'As soon as the corpse-bearers depart the waiting vultures
(of which several hundred make their home in the garden) swoop
down upon it and do not rise until the bones are bare. The skele
tons, sun-bleached, are washed by the rains into the pit in the
center, where rich and poor, conspicuous and obscure, mingle their
dust to gether. Every Banltary precaution is taken and a fixed rate
of 5 rupees is charged to all alike, the money being advanced from
a burial fund where the family cannot afford to bear the expense.
Increasing Influence, of America in India
The Parsees of Bombay, though they wear a dress peculiar to
themselves, are, of all the Indians, most like the Europeans and
Americans. We were in one Parsee home, and the furniture, the
pictures and the library were such as would be found in the average
home in our country. Statistics show that the percentage of edu
cation among the Parsees is very much higher than among any
other class of inhabitants, and the women share the educational
advantages with the men.
The well-to-do Parsees have been conspicuous in philanthropy,
endowing colleges, hospitals and other charities. While they are
counted among the staunchest friends of British rule, they are also
among the most Intelligent critics of the government's faults. Sir
Pberosha M. Mebta, the leading Parsee orator, Is prominent in the
national congress movement. At a reception given at the hotel, and
on other occasions, we had an opportunity to meet a number of the
Tarsees, men and women, priests and laymen, and found them
abreast with the times and alive to the problems with which the
world is wrestling today.
I cannot close this article without mentioning the increasing
presence of American Influence in Bombay. An American minister.
Dr. Mell, is pastor of the principal Methodist church, and the
American Congregatlonallsts have a largely attended school for boys
and girls in the city. Many of the students were taken from famine
stricken homes and are being educated with American money. There
is also here a school for the blind, under American management,
where the students are not only taught to read and write, but
trained in the industries for which they are fitted.
I do not apologize for mentioning from time to time the In
stitutions which altruistic Americans have scattered over the Orient.
If we cannot boast that the sun never sets on American territory,
we can find satisfaction in the fact that the sun never set upon
American philanthropy; If the boom of our cannon does not follow
the Orb of Day in his dally rounds, the grateful thanks of those
who have been the beneficiaries of American generosity form a chorus
that encircles the globe. (Copyright, 1906.) W. J. BRYAN.
Pen Picture of Rome
(Continued from Page One.)
harmonizing with their colors were the red Roman parasols and the
gay headgear and gowns of the fashionable women who had come
to share the fun. The battle lasted two full hours, until the ammu
nition was exhausted and more than half the ornameatatlon of the
carriages had been torn off and used by either the occupants or the
crowd that lined the race track.
Some Snap Shots of Life in Rome
A few snap shots of life in Rome may not be devoid of interest.
On one side of the Piazza Venezla stands a palatial structure
erected In the seventeenth century by the then flourishing republio
of Venice and now owned by Austria and occupied by the Austro
Hungarlan embassy. The other side of the square is occupied by
the historic and monumental Pallazzo Bonaparte, which at the
beginning of the last century was the residence of Letltla Bonaparte,
mother of the great Napoleon and more recently has been the resl
dnce of ex-Empress Eugenia. The side opposite to the Austrian
embassy is embellished by a billboard, fully fifteen feet in height.
The top of this imposing structure bears this inscription in Venetian
red, "Schlltz, the Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous." Talking
about the Teutonic beverage reminds one of the fact that the "Amer
ican bar" has invaded Rome and entrenched Itself on all of its seven
hills. Other American delicatessens have found their way to the
capricious Roman stomach, but have not crowded out the national
luxuries.
Rome truthfully boasts the handsomest, best-dressed and most
gentlemanly police force in the world. Its policemen, called gen
darraes, are young men, of nearly uniform height (about 5 feet 10)
and weigh from 150 to 160 pounds. Roman policemen wear black
frock coats, trimmed with silver braid, black pantaloons with a red
stilpe about two Inches in width and three-cornered Napoleon bats
with red and white plumes and white gloves while on duty. The
officers wear the same uniform, with the addition of silver thread
epaulets. At least two full regiments of these guardians of law and
order patrol the city night nnd day and lend much assistance to the
thousands of strangers who are liable to imposition from greedy
women and shopkeepers.
There Is more socialism and anarchism in Rome than In Chicago
or New York and their numbers are constantly increasing. Social
istic papers are circulated freely and the most rampant anarchist Is
permitted to preach his doctrine without apparent check. The other
day several thousand men bearing the red flag marched in procession
through the streets of Rome, behind the hearse bearing the body of
a noted anarchist. Manifestly the Italian authorities are more la"
fear of an anarchistic eruption than the people of Naples are of an
other eruption of Vesuvius. EDWARD ROSEWATER.
Recent and Rapid Progress Aade in the Field of Electricity
Federal CoBtrol of Niagara Wtr,
OTH house of congress hare
Bl passed a bill regulating tha dl
I version of water from N'lAiirt
rlvar. Tha main purpoaa of tha
meaaura la to prevent tha ruia
of tha acenlo grandeur of the falls, which
has been menaced by tha Increasing num
ber of electrical power companies operat
ing on both banks of tha liver. While
none of the power plant now established
under New York state franchise will be
disturbed, they are given to understand
that their operation la by sufferance, In
asmuch a Niagara river li a navigable
river at well aa a national boundary, eub
Ject only to federal legislation. No fur.
tber permits for the diversion of water
are to be granted aacept such as are
revocable at will.
Tha bill aa passed dlrecta the secret ry
ot wr to Issue permit for the use of
water by the plant already constructed,
aad authorises him to taeue further reroo
able permit, but only to such extent as
will not Impair the aovnio grandeur of the
falla, and In no case beyond a total diver
sion of water on tha American aide to the
equivalent of KO.OOO horse power. It also
forbids the Importation of electricity from
Canada except on permit from tha secre
tary, and authorise the secretary to Issue
permits which shall In no case exceed
KO.0UO horae power from the Canadian
side the borae power utilised In Canada
being Included In this amount, 'filnce moat
of the Canadian power U Intended for use
In the United States, this country seems
distinctly to have tha whip baud over
Canada.
The bill excludes the use of water for
aanltary and domestic purposes, from the
limitation, and establishes the principle of
equality between the two countries In the
electrical diversion at tho falla. The life
of the bill and of all permit taeued under
It la three years, and tha president Is
directed In the meantime to begin negotia
tions with Canada for a permanent treaty.
The SS6.OU0 horse power limit on each
aide Is almoat exactly the amount which
the stale of New York ha already author
ised. Canada, however, has already au
thorised 416.000 horse power, so If the
principle of equality stands some of the
Canadian franchises not yet utilised will
have to be revoked by that country. The
total represents something like 27 per cent
of the average discharge over the falls,
and as per cent of the low water discharge.
Telephoae Competition.
The contest for and aglnt competition
In telephone In New York City goee
merrily on. The bard of estimate, which
controls the grsnt of franchises, ha put
off action for thirty days. Meanwhile the
board has served notice on the New
York Telephone company, which controls
the field, that It must apply for a fran
chise for the privileges It now enjoys with
out a franchise, with the additional pro
viso that the New York Telephone com
pany confess Judgment to the city In the
ult pending, entitled "The City against
tho Empire City Bubway Company." Tola
means that the board demands that the
New York Telephone company offer the
city a good or better terms than those
offered by the Atlantlo company. The un
derstanding la that If tb New York com
pany shall comply with these demands ita
rival will not be permitted to do bulnea
here. In other word, the city la holding
the Atlantlo company's application a a
club over the Bell monopoly to force pay
mont for Us franchise right and to make
other concessions.
New Electrical Up.
Conul E. T. Ieifeld reports from Frei
burg concerning a new electrlo lamp which,
It 1 declared, will revolutionise the pres
ent ayatem of electric lighting. He says
that an Austrian chemist. Dr. Hans Kusel,
baa. after many years' hard work, auc
ceeded In constructing a new electric lamp,
which he calls the Syrlus lamp. As 1 well
known. Incandescent gaslight la cheaper
than electric light, because the filament
wire of the latter are very expenilv and
the glaas bulb svoo wear out. Dr. Kusel
baa now Invented a new substitute for the
glow' thread, by forming out of common
and cheap metals, and metalloid, colloid
In a plaatlo mass, which can be handled
like clay and which, whn dry, become
hard aa itone. Out of thl maa very thin
wire thread are then shaped, which are
of uniform thlcknea and of great homo
geneity. The two characteristic are of
great value in the technic of Incandescent
lamps. The Kusel or Syrlus lamp hardly
needs one-quarter of the electrlo current
which the ordinary electrlo lamp with a
filament wire requires. Experiments, It Is
asserted, have shown that the lamp can
burn for 1.600 hour at a stretch. Another
advantage 1 that the Intensity of light of
the new lamp always remain th same,
the lamp bulb never becoming blackened,
as is now the case. The new lamp. It la
aald, will be put on the market next
autumn.
Telephoae Relays.
According to the Electrical Review Dr.
John Trim bridge ha applied new principle
la devising a telephone relay which have
overcome the difficulties met In previous
designs. Among the stumbling block'
which have been In the way of the In
ventors of telephone relays, two have been
prominent. One of them Is the ao-cailed
growling or crackling noise which Is pro
duced by th Instrument when the micro
phone transmitter Is used for amplifying
the signal. Th other difficulty ha been
to secure Independent adjustment of the
receiving and transmitting portion of the
device. The former difficulty 1 overcome
In the present Instrument by placing the
moving part of the receiver, which 1 a
light laminated electromagnet In a bal
anced magnetlo field, and by keeping the
center of tl.e dhtphragm of this t.urt of the
Instrument free from pressure. To trans
mit the vibration of thl part of th In
strument to the microphone, the move
ment of th outer edge are utilised and
not those of the center, and these vibra
tion are transmitted through metal, and
not through air, which la a poor trana
mltter. Further, this construction doe not
Interfere with the motion of the dia
phragm. Thl Hiatal transmitter la brought
in contact With the mlnrnnhnna r.n.l
tor, and the pressure between the two can
be adjusted without Interfering with the
adjustment of the receiving part. Thl
mean of transmitting the vibration of one
part of the Instrument to the other Is new,
and upon It, It Is said, the success of the
Instrument largely depends. Dr. Trow,
bridge has found that. In the laboratory,
excellent results are obtained with It.
A satisfactory telephone relay would, of
course, greatly benefit the telephone art,
aa It would not only Increase the ordinary
distance of communication, but would as
slst In reducing the cost of the transmis
sion line. Buch a device would be the mure
welcome today, aa other reposed method
of Improving telephone transmission do
not seem to have made aa much headway
aa was expected. It doea not seem, bow.
ever, that any form of relay In which mov
ing part are employed can be applied to
submarine work, except, of course, In case
where th relay ttself would be placed
above water. It 1 out of tha question to
place any instrument which require aA.
Justment from time te tiin under wiiec.