Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1887, Page 14

THE OMARA DAILY BKE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1887—SIXTEEN PAGES. Union Sewing Machine, 1609 HOWARD STREET. SewsBackwardsand Forwards. 8|0j Uojng SaYel (-] The Best Machine that Money Can Buy. 1609 Howard Street. ~ Union Sewing Machi 1609 HOWARD STREET. THE ‘ELECTRICAL FIELD. A Novel Alarm Apparatus Now Attracting Attention. AN ELECTRICAL STRATAGEM. A Pilot Engine—Railway Enterprise-- Reduction in Telegraph Rates all Over the Country--A Talk on Tramways. Novel Alarm Apparatus. Electrical World: Among the novel- ties lately designed is an clec ¢ door spring. A brasstube fitsintoone end and projects from the barrel three-eighths of an inch. The tube is made with closed ends, the sides being longitudinally slotted, forming springs which bear elasticall inst the inner sides of the with beveled ler side rests nominally aguinst a correspondingly tapered bot- tom in the tube. The screw passes through a threaded opening in an insu- d plug of hard rubber, which is wed into. the opposite end of the A spiral spring of phosphor- 26 surrounds but does not touch the the rel. abutting st the insulating plug and rainst a washer u} vuicon- of the hattery wires is I th the flange, connected to the barrel, the other wire is fastened between the two nuts on the screw, making an clectric contact with it. When the door is closed it pushes the tube into the barrel, which moves the bottom of the tube away from the head of the screw. thus breaking the elec- tric circuit. When adoor is opened the spiral spring pushes the tube outward until its end mecets the head of the serew. thereby closing the connection. The tube in itsmovement rubsagainst the barrel and thus always maintains a good contact with the latter. The construction of the electric floor push is substantially the same as the push just deseribed, except that the sliding tube is reversed so that contact is made with the screw head when the tube is pushed in or dawn, and the cir- cuit is broken when the tube is pushed up. A washer of vuleanized fibre is lo- cated between the end of the plug and end of the tube, 80 as to prevent the ad- mission of dust when the plug is re- moved. The door push is placed in connection with a burglar alarm, but in order to obtain a continuouy ringing when the door is opened and then closed, the au- tomatic drop is employed. This is con- structed so that the magnates within the case cause the ball, normally held in a vertical position, to fall. This cuts out the magnates and allows the current to flow directly over the line into the bell, whic es to ring until the ball is raised again An Electrical Stratagem. According to the Electrical Review, when the electric telegraph was first introduced into Chili, a stpatagem was resorted to in order to guard the posts and wires against damage on the part of the Araucanian Indians and maintain the connection between the strongholds on the frontier. There were at the time between forty and fifty captive In- dians in the Chilinn camp. General Pinto enlled them together, and, point- ing to the telegraph wires, he said: ‘Do you see those wires?” ‘“‘Yes, general.” “Very good. 1 wantyou tq remember not to go near nor touch them; for if you do your hands will be held, and you will be unable to get away.” The Indi- ans smiled incredulou Then the general made them each in succession take hold of the wires at_both an electric battery in full oper: After which he aimed: ** you to let go the wire!” T can my hands are benumbed,” said the Indian. The batte s then stopped, and the man released. Not long afterwards the generul restored them to liberty, giv- ing them strict injunctions to keep the seeret, and not to b to their country "his had pected, the exp velated in the “'strictest confiden to every man of the tribe, and the telegraph has ever since remained unmolested. An Electrical Pilot-Engine. cian: An Austrian lieutenany named Giessle, of Brunn, is said to have developed an idea which is, perhaps. more strikingly original than practically useful. He proposes thut every railway train should be preceded by an avant- pe of an electrieal ‘hed, we presume, by wires to the ady & tewin, We do not doubt that this can be done, but we shall be astonished if railway engineers will be atall thankful for the suggestion. Electric Railway Enterprises. 3 rieal World: So well pleased is Scranton with its e road that an- other is ng added, while all through Pennsylvania the success and_economy of the road h ot dozens of electric railway enterprises, many of which will soon be carried out. Down south o number of elegtric railway plans ave maturing, and out west there are indications of great activity in the same line of work. California is a par- ticularly inviting field, and promises soon to have more electric ronds than v other state. Coming nearer home we find Brooic}, ith an electric road, six miles long, just gone into oparation. and with plans made, oragitation going on, for half a dozen *more. Altogether the outlook in this department is very bright. s s an Amulet. The electricity lunatic is abroad and dropped in at the office of the Boston Traveler to remark that *‘a good way for a person tosecure sleep is to dip a fine linen handkerchief in witch ha- zel”’ (the hazel, by the way, of the true divining rod) **and bind it tightly over the eyes with a whitesilk handkerchief. The silk is an electric—an insulating quahity—that renders it all important.” What amulets are to Arvabs, that is electricity to many Americans. New Solder for Telegraph Wire Mining Journal: A new and rapid method of soldering these wires has re- cently been introduced and is now to be generally-adopted in Russia. Its prin- cipal advantage consists in the-saving of time requived for the work, and in the avoidance of any ‘“‘scraping,” which would to some extent reduce the strength of the . The two ends of the wire—alveady embraced by the binding wire—are dipped into a vessel liolding o considerable quantity of melted solder. on the top of which there is sufficient powdered sal ammoniac_to leave a thick layer of liquid salt. The ends of the wire pressed into this vessel are quickly joined, however dirty they may be. Electricity Reduction in Rates. The Western Union Telegraph com- ny has announced the following re- ductions in telegraph - rates, taking effect December 1, F The maxi- mum rate east of and including Man- tana, Utah, New Mexico and Texas re- duced from $1 to 75 cents. Secon Within the section east of the Missis- sippi river and north of Tennessee and North Carolina the maximum rate v duced from 75 cents 10 50 cents. Thi Within the section south and including Virginia and Tennessee and east of the Mississippi viver the maximum rate re- duced from 60 cents to 50 cents. A New Oarbon Telephone Button. Electrical World: We have had our attention called to & new microphone button. It is said to be the result of a considerable numbe periments aiming to produce an article superior to that ordinarily used in transmitters. The easentinl qualities of the carbon » its extreme %lurllm\.«. which is suf- it to serateh glass, its homogene: ity, its smoothness of surface, and its imperviousuess to atmospherie influ- The carbon button is fastened to its support by electroplating, as it need never be removed since the surface is s0 hard that the platinum has no_effect upon it. It is claimed that this form ef button is far superior to the one ordin- arily in use, especially for long tele- phone lines. : A Talk on Tramways. Electrical World: At the meeting of the New York Elecrical society, held on November 30, ) Holroyd ith a ‘Talk on Tramways,” which he treated the subji railronds, first in a general way and then with special reference to the elec- trical method. In beginning his ad- dress Mr. Smith said that too much at- tention cannot be given to the fact that in elecrical railroading the electrician occupies the second place to the engin- eer, and that the past failures in elec- tri railroading have been due to the fact that ele ns, pure and simple, have gone into the domain of engineer- ing without sufficient knowledge to guide them. In other words, the elec- ician must not expect to succeed in ng tramways unless he studies the engineering problems as well. Mr. Smith, in taking up the subject gen- drew attention to the fact that can railroads or tramroads, w the necessary outcome of the generally nary ropd ereus in Kngland ormiy good. In dis- cussing the question from the elecrical stand point, Mr. Smith drew_ attention to three essential points that have to be considered: Safety to the publie. 2. Efficiency. 8. Economy. Taking up the storage battery Mr. Smith held the position that even if the battery could be successfully worked, it would cost one-third more to equip and rnn a line on this system than to put down a conduit, and especially would this be the case where traffic is very heavy. Mr. Smith was of the opinion that of the various systems the overhend system was the best, taking all into consideration; but the great dut the great danger in its use lay in the tendency to do slipshod work. The difficulties met with at crossings and switches in railway work where con- ctors of opposite polarity met in a rizontal plane are overcome by placing the conductors in a vertical plane, so thaf even if contact does oceur it can only happen between two positive or two negative conductors. Mr. Smith finally described a new method-of his own which was designed to overcome all the objections to both the overhead and underground cireuits, and which, without Lfic use of the storage hattery, is arranged to supply the motor 6n the car with electricity. This system, which was only hinted at by the speaker, will no doubt attract some attention in the future. first, Electric Brevities. The great opera house in Vienna had to be closed recently because of a breaK- down in the electric light apparatus, caused by the cracking of the plates in the boilers, which were of Austrian manufacture. A complete new plant of boilers, amounting to 750 horse power, hag been ordered of the Glasgow house of the Babcock and Wiicox company, and it is expected that they will be ready for service in two wecks from the date of the order, which, 1f accom- plished will be remarkably quick work. A neat idea in the appligation of electricity to warfave is found in the use of incandescent lamps of about one hundred candle power placed on poles submerged to a depth of about twenty feet in tne sea, and carvied by launchés, These lights illuminate the sea within avadius of 150 feet,and thus help to detect submarine mines, torpedo lines, ete. The official documentsof the proposed international exhibition at Brussels, to be given under the special patronage of King Leopold of Belgium in 1888 have just been issued. The exhibition is of a general nature, but special attention is 10 be puid to elcetricity. An appeal is addressed to electricians to participate. and an elaborate classification is made of electrical apparatus to be included. A Swiss watchmaker has invented an electric illuminator for watch dials. A small electric lamp is fitted in the watch case, where it will light up the dial when, by touching the case with the charm, connection is made through the chain with a small battery carried in the wuistcont pocket. ‘While a dancing party was in pro- gress in Port Huron, Mich., the janjtor of the hall mounted a step-ladder with a poker in his hand and attempted to adjust an electric hght. The poker came in oontact with an exposed section of wire and the shock threw him to the floor, injuring him severely. At St. John’s colliery, Normanton, England, a set of pumps’ is now being worked by an electric motor of the Im- mish type, which receives its current from a dynamo on, the surface. The pumps deliver thirty-nine gallons per minute to a heat of 530 feet, that is, they exert a nét power of 6.3 horse: The largest electric light in the world is in the lighthouse at Sydney. Aus- trailin, _It has the power of 180,000 can- and can be scen at sea fifty miles distant, Amervica’s largest light, 24,000 candle power, is at San Jose, Cal. RLongECIRtY lght conduite & put down in the streets of New York were the invention of David now electrician of the Pennsyl- pilroad, who sold the patent to the Western Union Telegraph compagy for $90,000. The efforts of the teléphone company of Austria to get the Bell patént cun- celled have at last been successful. The electric road at San Jo: to be operated under the Fisher system, will soon be completed and in running order. Mr. M. M. Shelley has recently brought out in New York city an inven- tion which is worked either by electri- city or by hand, and which, in case of a fire,rings a bell in car stables, opens the doors, unhitches the horses, and, by squirting water in their faces, drives them out of their stalls. The government of the colony of Vie- toria, Australin, is to buy the local tele- phone plant for 200,000, and_operate it s a branch of the public service. An English banking house cables that the London Stock exchange grants Mr. Gould leave to withdraw his application to have Western Union listed. Bruce's Balloon Signals in Belgium. London Electrician: On the 26th ult. some trials of Mr. E. Bruce’s system of transmitting military signals at night took place at_Antwerp, before General Pontus, the Belgian war minister, and several distinguished officers of the Belgian army. This arrangement (which has been adopted in the English army) consists merely of putting some incandescent lamps inside a small bal- loon which is allowed to float at a moderate height, and then flashing sig- nals by means of a Morse key with car- bon contacts, The system is so simple and practically certain in its operation that it scarcely needs any preliminary trial, and we need hardly say that the rehearsal at Antwerp gave perfect satis- faction to all concerned. The signals were easily read at a distance of 3,000 meters,but observers were also stationed on the cathedral tower at Mcchlin, and on the church at Wilrysch—distant about twenty miles. Their reports had not been published, but owing to the fact that the balloon only attained a height of 100 meters, it was not thought {)):'()bnblc that the signals could have pen seen so far. There is little doubt that the arrangement will become com- mon in the European armi A Child Gan Operate E 3 ly Pa pealLued puigall - =5 sy Weekly & Month- yments. 1609 Howard Street. WHERE IS WOMAN'S SPHERE? Is It in the Home, or Before the Public. ELLA WHEELERWILCOX'S ANSWER Women Who Long for the Plaudits of the World —Stingy Husbands Often the Cause of Women Secking Public Life. [Written for the Bee—Copyrighted.) According to my creed a woman’s place is wherever civeumstances beyond her control haye situated her. If she fecls a constant and never-ceas- ing rebellion against her environments, and craves a change of conditions, the change will come. We may whine and complain at Fate all our lives, without ever accomplishing anything. But the soul that looks steadily in the face of its desire, makes no complaint, recog- nizes no ill-fortune, but demands from life the thing it craves, and believes it will be given—that soul will obtain its wish 8o sure as the sun shines. There are no cireumstances which can overthrow or circumvent the pas- solve of a noble, earnest soul. ve wé are denied the things we crave. in order to test the & tu of out desive. T no_accidents of of birth or fortune. A mighty Intelli- gence directs it all, and grants to each soul its wish, if that soul never swerves from the intensity of desire. 'he reason so few of us obtain what we want is because so few of us are per- sistent and paticnt. 7 1f any woman is placed in a situation where she is deprived of the comforts and the appreciation so necessary to our happiness, and she longs ardently enough to better her condition. the way will be opened for her, and it will be right and w to walk therein. 1 cannot und who has been accorded that greatest of all gifts from heaven, a happy home, can desire any career which interferes with it. The result of my observation does not lead me to believe that women who are sheltered with love and pro- tection and appreciation, do long for the plaudits of the world, A great deal is said and written of the young girl or worshipped wife who neg- ects kind parents or a devoted husband to pursue a career. If you will take pains to investigate the unwritten his- tory of such cases, you will find 1n almost every instance a skeleton whose rattling bones drove that daughter or wife from her home into pubiic life. Men are given to making sarcastic remarks cone ing the great horde of women lecturers, actors, veaders, and {mr( rmers of all kinds before the pub- ic. Our daily paperstcem with para- graphs of ridicule or advice to women to stav at home and attend to their fam- ilies. If every man who takes upon himself the voluntary obligations of matrjmony performed his whole duty as husband and father, there would be fewer women before the public to-day. The girl or wife who has to tease, beg, or pout in order to obtain a few dollars for her own use, naturally lies awake nights plan- ning some method of earning money. 1 knew the daughter of a man whose riches were counted among the hun- dreds of thousands, and yet she was obliged to resort to petty ruses and humiliating scenes to get a dollar of pin money. She was allowed to run arge bills, which her father scanned and anathematized item by item each month, but he did not consider the female members of .his household com- petent to carry apurse, When the daughter ran a nd went on th s the world was shocked that she should leave her eleganthome and devoted pavents for the glare of the foothghts! 1 overheard a well-dressed and fine- 1 showed him the sample she had purchased. and timid look if he thought it purchase. of anew dr asked with was prety. *How much did you pay for it?" he he asked, and her answer, given with a deprecating glanee, brought forth such a growl and sneer that the poor wife's pleasure in her purchase must have been instantly ruined. I am quite sure I should have put the dress up at nuc- tion, and present Sir, Growler with the pr s of the sale, and then I would have joined a circus or a minstrel troop, if 1 could find no better method of earn- iug a dress for myself, Two women who are working outside of homes for a livelihood, told me re- cently with tears in their eyes, that they would consider themselves the most blest of mortals to be shut within the walls of some humble cottage, where only faint echoes from the world could reach them, Both women were driven from their homes by the skele- ton of poverty. And yet I have heard one of these women commented on se- verely as *‘a bold secker after noto- She is simply doing what she is compelled to do to keep the wolf from the door. , » is occasionally born into woman whose whole ke the tidg ighty the world rushes rs. Siddons was another, Anna Di inson was another. In each of these women the force of her peculiar genius was 50 great that no perfeetion of home life, no opulence of wealth could kept her from fultilling her destiny. They did not choose a career, a career choose them. Many other names could be added to the list, yet such hly and r markably dowered women are the ex- ception. The rule is, that the women who pur- sue the ha path of a public caree which deprives them of a quiet domes- tic life, are women who have been driven into it by stern necessity. To be bueen of a happy home, loved and A\pln'un'intell by a kind husband and little chilaren, to live only for their ap- probation and respect, surely this is the grandestand truest sdhere possible for woman, It is the only genuine happi- ness which earth affords, all else is mere imitation. In no reform can woman do a work so beneficial to man- kind as inereasing the number of happy homes in the land. But this work woman to do. will love, r port their wi stand on eve is not given every Good husbands, who pect, appreciate, and sup- s and daughters, do not threshold ready to lead all wom to this earthly Paradise. And therefore it is every woman’s duty to be prepired to meet the world single- handed. If T were blessed with a daughter, T should teach her kome method of self- support as religiously as I should teach her to love God. But my daily prayer would be that she might never no forth from the shelter of the parental roof, save as the queen of & good husbund’s home. KLLA WHEELER WILCOX. ————— JEFFERSON DAVIS. Singular Story of His Arrest On Sus- picion of Treasure-Stealing. Anniston, (Ala.) Correspondence of the Globe-Democrat: Jefferson Davis has had a_good many narrow escapes, but one of them has never been told in print, and the chief actor in the affair has never cared to talk about it, Somewhe ‘¢ along in the 50s the No- bles, an English family residing in Pennsylvania, decided to move south- ward. They selected Romg,. Ga., as their objective point, and started on 'ney, after making the ne sar, tels, | The Nobles had some family jewels and about $4,000 in cash. How to carry these valuables safely bothered them not a little, but they packed the mone; and jewels in an old-fashioned English hand-chest and took them along. Thé travelers landed at Charleston, and took the next train for their destination. yme extra fare was demanded, and in ing it thoy had to open their chest and eqpose their treasure, Sharp eyes were on the wateh, and the glitter of the contents of the chestattracted atten- tiou. As a matter of precaution, the chest was confided to N Mary Noble, who n a4 secluded section of the car with pack to the'door. At Branchville, S. C.. two gentlemen boarded the train. One was a young, wiry-looking man, and the other was tall and slender, pust the vidan of life, and of distinguished ap- pearance. When Augusta was reached the two strangers went on to Atlanta and the Nobies discovered that their precious chest was missing. The conductor was clamorously uppealed to, and he in- stantly gave it as his opinion that *‘the one-eyed man had stolen it.” i **He is a bad-looRing fellow,” said the conductor. The chest had evidently been snatched: out of the rear window of the car, as the suspected man took his departure moment_when Miss Noble’s att d in sor er diréction. After A consultation it was decided that Miss Noble and M Mary should proceed to Atlanta and cause the arrest of the supposed thief while Mr. Noble remained in Augusta confidently the result, 1cceded in tracing the 0 men to their stopping place in At- lanta and identified t\wn_) as soon us she saw tl At her eré rters, was wus of war, to secre- wosition of their goods and chate where the made _that President_1 Jefferson Davis, and ta secreta his p and at ry. Mr. Davis was in a good humol of course the two gentlemen w once released with many apologies. But before leaving “Mr. Davis told Mrs. Noble and her daughter that he regretted their loss, and he tendered them a $20 gold piece as an evidenee of his sympathy. Mrs. Noble declined to accept the gift, but Miss Mary spoke up and said; “Yes. take it. That is some of our money that the old rascal took!™ Mr. Davis smiled and pressed the money upon Mrs. Noble, who finally took it, and carried to her husband in Augusta. r ESuspician was then directed to the conductor, but his sudden death in the course of a few duys stopped further in- vestigation. After the election of Mr. Davis to the idency of the Southern Confederacy Rir Noble, then the prosperous con- tractor, visited him at Montgomery, and talked with him about manufaciuring cannon, Mr. Davis asked him several questions, and then vre- ferred to,the loss of the chest. He then introductd Mr. Noble to Mrs. Davis,and told the story of the arrest. Mrs. Davis laughed heartily over the incident, and, with her husband, took quite an interest in the Nobles from that time. oble went to work and made hun- dreds of cannon for the confederacy. Later, he founded and built up the flourishing city of Anniston, in Alas bams. 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