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Show THE SALINA SUN. SALINA, UTAH FRENCH RAILROADS ACQUIRED SIX WIVES; ADOPT ELECTRICITY TO MOTOR TOURISTS YOUTH HELD INSANE OPEN DEATH VALLEY Hut a condenser of ,0i)5 microfarad, which Is often recommended for resistance-coupled amplifiers, will Introduce as much as "0 per cent and quite notable percentapes at the hlphcr and more Condensers in Important frequencies. That Is far Why Ey-Pas- s from distortionless amplification. The Audio Circuits Are snmlh-s- t condenser' that Hopping lie should used under "Pants. any condition Is Important t.ti amplifier that may ft the stoppng condensers In the be taken as ,tl .microfarad, and that e .should he list'd only for frrM circuits of rcsNinncc eoiiphi amplifiers are ion shuMl tl'ey defeat sets. Tor rwvlvcrs of ordinary selecresist-ime- c tin erv object sought In tivity the choice should be from Ihe microfarad. coupling that Is, tuiiplilienUnn capacity range of .1 and For the smaller of these the suppresof the low notes. .Ti e sion at 10 cycles Is less than 7 per Is n series connected condenser Cl tit. wlileh the lltriv.igh signal mast pass, Distortion Is Introduced. mid a sma condenser offers a very Objection has been raised to the use ash Impi dance to lyineids of low fi i miciicics, so that these currents of the stopping condensers on the "ill Id depressed. ' The debtee of ground that It takes "ail" appreciable time for these condensers to charge suppression at any given freqiii-tioand that, as a consequence, distortion of course, on tint capacity of depuuls, I lie condenser That Is not valid mid also on the plate Is Introduied. Ihe condenser dees not charge, resivtanee.of the tub-.- on Ihe coupling resistance In the plate circuit of the the voltage being the same on either talie ai:d on leak resistance side as far us A. C. Is concerned. The small condenser Is charged quickly of tlie t'uhe following Ihe stopping and that is Just how Ihe suppression I "or the ordinary values of these resistances and for the values enters. It. A. of of ihe. condeiiseis n coia-ltilled by many, designers of unipll-f'ei- s Long Cord Utes Power AM Imugli Ihe set owner can scarcethe suppression is by no means In some eases the Maali negligible. ly detect it, tin long extension for the londemers used will Introduce "as speaker cord more I!" power. much distortion as poor transformers. This Is particularly jioticeahle where batteries are marling to giw out, for Ideal Size of Condenser. The ideal size of condenser In the the ilecri use In voltage Is (hen more ptid circuit is one of Infinite capacity, pronounced with the ordinary speakor cue x'hich Is as larpe as Is prac- er attachment, mid particularly so wllh the extension. For extension use-titically possible. Hut liii'pi; condensers set should be equipped with n both lire expensive and litili.v, and for these reasons the larger sizes are "I" storage balteiy or a 1J eliminator. tided out of consideration. the largest that need be tira-- Is .1 microfarad unit. This condenser will Keep Batteries Upright Introduce a distortion of less than 1 The practice of placing dry B" batper cent for the lowest nudihle note. teries ob their sides or backs Is A condenser as small as .1 microfarad strongly disapproved by battery makwill not Introduce more than 8 per ers. If you wish to obtain the longest rent suppression at 15 cycles n second possible life from your batteries keep and much less at lilpher frequencies. them standing upright. Certain Capacity for Best Results 's audio-frequenc- ultra-selectiv- 1 eon-c'eM- cr o , flic-nri- il s Pet-Imp- SIMPLICITY OF RADIO By POWEL CROSLEY, JR. Aadio waves, tuning When one talks over the telephone one tins wires to guide the energy where It Is supposed to go and an exchange girl to give one the proper Hut what nre we to do connection. in listening over the radio, with no wires to guide the radio waves, and no radio exchange girls? We learn very quickly what to do ufter acquiring a radio set. We must be our own exchange girl, turning the dials and working t he controls until we get the Station we want. We are told that this act of plajlng exchange girl Is lint what happens called tuning." when we turn all these gadgets? To understand tills we will go out Into the yard and get in a swing, A rope swing j orclt swing will do, hut-Is better, because it will respond more a ing this station, to adjust the receiving equipment to that same period. In order to get the best of results. The broadcasting station Is like the man pushing the swing, and the receiving station like the swing. Unless one Is properly timed to Ihe other, there will be little result. In practice, each broadcasting station Is allot ted, by the government, a certain specified period,, frequency, or wave length, to which Its equipment must he adjusted,, By turning tlm dials of his receiving set. and thereby changing its period, the radio listener may then sldfl from one broadcasting station to unoilier. Few Changes in Radio in Sight, Says Expert J. II. ltel linger, chief of the radio division of the bureau of standard s, declared recently while Inspecting t he Kolster plant In Newark with n mily of 10 members of the Institute of Iladio Engineers that It will he several jeiirs at least before the present radio reedier will he changed to any great extent. "People have quit waiting for some revolutionary discoicry in radio to upset present conditions, and they nre Into broadcast receivers taking betheir homes in Ihe lief that lh y are getting a standardized Instrument which la. not going to be out of date for many years, lie said. "Any doubting Thmimses who are still postponing tlieir enjoyment of present broadcast reception, anticipating some sweeping changes, ure waitMinor reing In vain, I am afraid. finements may be expected continuously, but the basic operation and results, as found In the fittest sets, will remain unchanged for some time." Static and fading, which he eonsld ers caused by the sun,, tuny be overcome In the future, but research. Is still far from the solution, he addl'd. which may eventually Fxperlments cure fading are being made with a governor on a ravelling set which will automatically increase sensitivity as fad ing begins and decreases it as signals grow stronger, hut its perfection Is not yet In sight. "Before seeing Poctor Alexander-sonexperiment 1 was very skeptical about radio movies, but I am convinced It is only a unifier of lime and ttie development of discoveries ul ready made. Vision by radio in the home may bo the next Important imAbout eight or ten years provement. from now 1 believe ive shall he both listening In and looking lit on distant theaters and operas while comfortably scaled at home." Dr. d Showing How a Swing Has a "Natural Period of Vibration. promptly to the stuuts that we nre going to make it 'do. We will gel on the seat, shove off. Then we will push as hard as we cnn'aud see how high we can swing. One thing I hat we notice' very promptly Is that we have to keep giving pushes at Just the right Intervals In order to swing higher and higher. If we push at the wrong we nre still times push hack wlu-going forward, for Instance we will sway around like a sailor Just come ashore, with sea legs, careening tills way one Instant and that way the next, and getting nowhere. Thus the swing tends to vibrate back and forth at a certain rate, just like a clock pendulum. By shortening the ropes, we can make the time of these swings, or vibrations, shorter or by lengthening the ropes we can make It longer. The time required How to Test Condenser for one complete trip back and forth to Determine Shorts ia called the "natural period" of the best The way to determine whether swing. the plates In a variable condense! l Now every electric circuit has a period, as far as the vibrations touch each other Is by connecting a of electrV current In It nre concerned. battery and buzzer In series with the This natural period Is controlled by condenser. Should the buzzer operate cettr.In units In the circuit known as while revolving Ihe rotary plates. It "condensers and inductances. Thus, indicates that the plates are touching. A little spark will also be seen at by varying these nnits we are enabled t control the rate of vibration of the such points, and thus the trouble ntaj Another method to tie Now he remedied. electric currant In the circuit. in used the trouble Is using broada locating we radio If adjust obviously casting station to send out vibrating a pair of plumes and H" battery con nected In the same nnuiwe: tl' waves of a certain period, or I' will he necessary. In receiv buzzer. - nut-nra- fre-quen- Winter Months in Sink Permitted to Sightseers. Scarcity of Domestic Fuel Causes Change. Scion of Wealthy Family Victim of Leisure. Washington. "France Is making a in mileage of strong hid for leader.-bielectrified railroads," says a bulletin from Washington headquarters of the Nath util Geographic society. Salt Lake City, Utah. Beath valley, noted as the most desolate, the most dangerous and one of the strangest places on this earth, the lowest point More titan five, hundred miles of on the American continent, is..opene.d French railroad, formerly traversed up to tourist night-seeintraffic. Autob.v the steam engine, have been elecmobile busses erNs-erosthe great trified. Tills is about of tlie sunken desert find transcontinental of electric tlie mileage railroads iu tourists may. In comfort, cross the Stales. mysterious valley which used to mean Unjt"d Almost fclniullam oui.ly with the death to the emigrant, who, beguiled of the electrification of a by Jrs numerous mirages and Its of the Illinois Fen trail In tlm portion stretches of salt, iihich looked like cool water, attempted to cross Its lieinity (if Chicago, reecnlly, came the '"port from Orleans, France, that tin desert wastes. first through elect rlc train nraived May 15 is to see the last tourist of I the out of the valley. Here- front hi t is, 75 miles northeast of tlm of Joan of Arc.' The train was the full, City after, the season tviil open electric hut always, by Hay 15 the last tour- drawn by an American-madist must be out of (lie place. For ioeoiuolis p. lilt ct i ie trains nre not now to thp Beath valley, so pleasant in the winiuhabiianis of either Baris or Orleans ter, becomes a perfect inferno with tie for tlm B.-s (as the return of (be summer suit and temis familiarly known to the peratures run up to its high as 1 :0 de- railroad Fnni-hnmnhas been electrified for grees and more. A modern hotel lias GO miles in too dense Iraliic sections been built at Furnace and this In li t neighborhood of both cities for will bo headquarters .for the to.uri.- ts. several to the years, Pullman cars are operated to Bcalli sections of the Npv York Central, the. valley junction, and gasoline motor Bonus;-- Ivanhi, ami the New York, New cjits nn the Death Valley railroad go IIneii ti Hartford railroads running to within 12 miles cf Ihe entrance to the valley Itself. From this point the into New York cfiy. " Tim completion of the remaining automobile busses operate to and The 15 inile-- and purchase of new equip-iii- . through the valley of death. lit was mad possible by. loans from Death Valley railroad, Tonop-tand Tidewater railroad and Union Pacific the United States.' The rapid Increase in eiectrificn-thrailroad is the combination which lias in France is largely due to the opened lip Death valley to tourist of domestic fu I ami tlm high scarcity tratlie. cost of tram poHation. particularly to Many Perished in Valley. Death valleys significant liana wns the railroads and industries of the Sou'!h ami West. France imports large ghen It by Ihe very first party of emigrants to look down upon It from the quantities of coal. "In Germany. Switzerland, Norway There were surrounding mountains. ami Sweden, when (iectric railroad !!0 men, women and thlMrcn in the are parly. They thought they saw a sil- Is owned by the government, power general ed for the road's use only. very stream of water and attempted to cross. When they reached the I' fam e ph ns to install equipment stream it was Just white salt ami not which "ill also supply light iind power a drop tf water. With the full fury of to cities ami villages along the right tlie summer sun beating the sandy fur- of way, thus saving (he enormous tonnace to degrees, and no .water, tlie nage of coal used In' electric power trek became a panic. Wagons, cattle, plants. Burls has long desired to bring everything was abandoned and groups spread along the Panumint mountain nhout economies In coal consumption range at. tlie western edge trying to by making use of tlie water supply of This desire domfind water or egress from tlie Inferno. the central plateau. About n dozen of the party got inated the movement to hasten the s line. through Emigrant Wnsli, found sweet completion of the water ami survived. That was In 1850. ten years later, a prospecting Mad Prairie Dog Runs party under Dr. Darwin French, found Amuck, Bites Children wagons, guns, cooking utensils, children's toys, etc., lying just where they Austin, Texas. Not infrequently pabad been abandoned. They also found tients are received at the State Pashuman skeletons, some within 300 teur institute here for serum treatyards of a water hole. The skeletons ment t prevent rabies after buying been bitten by mad dogs, cats, and were hurled by the party. There are many graves scattered even coyotes, but not until the other over the desert. Few names are on day was It known that prairie dogs the markings. "He ran out of water" are subjected to tlie dread malady. Is Ihe usual lettering. Ordinarily a prairie dog is a meek But when one of Hint first party creature. When one of these little of emigrants got to water lie found in animals, which was kept as a pet by his hand n piece of pure silver ore. T. T. McDonnitt of I.cvollnml, Texas, lie remembered breaking file shiny far out toward the New Mexico line, ro'-k5K) miles from Austin, became ferofrom a ledge of tlie stupe macious and ran amuck in the lit t If town, terial. That little pleee of sliver was made biting more than a dozen children, IB) Into a sight for the finder's rille. And matter was immediately reported to since that lime that lo-- t silver mine tlie Pasteur institute. T(ie" bead of the has hern known as the "Gunsight prairie dog was ors have sent here for examination ami it was none. Hundreds of pro-po- et None have found it. found to be alllieted with, rabies. searched -f-ur.-lt. Three children of Prof, ami Mrs. J. Many have found death Instead. . Wells Hunt Lost Mines. child of Mr. and Mrs. But still there are prospectors In W. C. Cogbu. n. all of whom were bit- Don lit valley, and tourists there will tcti by tho mad animal, were brought see some of them in fact, will almost here for treatment. Several other children who wore bitten did not take tlie certainiy he asked to "grubstake Brev-f- i rallies treat meat. ome old desert personality. teles Imt to of gold Is Just over the mountains here somewhere." the tourist will he told. "I saw it .one dav Airplanes Aid Drive n shining in the lun, but I couldn't get Against Malaria in Cuba to it. But I'll find it some day. Wort It Crba. Airplanes will be Havana, more than all tlie gold coin In Ihe used to assist in stamping out malaria too." world, In eastern Cuba, where several fever Ami the Breyfogle" legend Is hilt thousand v,ses have been reported, if one of many. There are many lost thins of Dr. Fernando Itensoii, direcmines of fabulous Holiness si ill awaittor (if sanitation, are put In force.-ThIn Death valley. ing. airplane will he used for sprayTin op hundred and ten feet below ing the breeding places of mosquitoes. "level Its of is the floor sen of the the Doctor Itensoii also plans a general doepest point, and from this po'nt tip of swamp land and the free .drainage Telelevel 11.0-1sea rises above feet introduction into rivers and streams scope peak, and n little farther on Is of larvu-d- . st A commisfish. roving In elevafeet 14.501 Mount Wbitnov. sion full in to with act the cases power tion. the highest point in the Fnited of affected will malaria by immigrants same the Front tbo States. .point hi recommended. tourist will. see the lowest and the The plan calls for a yearly highest points in the country. of $.',( HkHKK) to carry on the work. Fort Worth, Texas. Married six times (luring the last year and a half without having obtained a divorce, Thomas W. Wharton, twenty-thre- e years old and scion of a wealthy Texas family, has been declared insane by a Jury, which r; commended Incarceration In an asylum. Wharton is a son of A. B. Wharton and a grandson of W. T. Waggoner, multimillionaire g S one-thir- d banker rancher. father and grandfather were In tho courtroom of Judge Emmett Moorb when the Jury returned its verdict. Attorneys and physicians had i i.--t e Inrls-OHean- eoiTO-pomli- . i Iaris-Orlenn- Lust year, with the franc at approximately the same exchange value, the cost of the supper would have been about $ 12.no. Tune In America London. British radio listeners want more jazz. They complain that of the programs are lectures. discussions and dissertations. one-thir- Expect Speed London. British air experts are hopeful that one of Hie throe new lanes under construction will attain five miles a minute. e n a h I ng and Four Sets of Twins Born Out of Total of 23 Births Invents n 8 Railplane Glasgow. George Benuis, a Scotch engineer, ltas invented n system of railplane transport, by which cars on tut elevated track are propelled b electrically driven airplane propellers Co-e- ds 5 Lead Women students outranked men students at the UniverThe sity of Michigan last year. Ann Arbor, Mich. scholarship average for all women was 78.111 and for all men 73.742. .. n Sure Relief . Earl L. liloss, and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ben Ion. five-poun- d R 1 or liquid. WANTED LADY OK GENTLEMAN been employed by the family in its U exclusive representative In this territory effort to prove that tlie young limn is by a manufacturer of a nationally known needed In every home and office. mentally unsound. Ilis mother was article, Must furnish reference aa to character, anl the late Plectra Waggoner Wharton, have from $250 to $1,000. This opportunity be worth $3,000 or more per ytar. several times married and divorced. should The compensation you earn is limit i only Dtil.v a few days ago Mrs. Doris Edna la by your endeavor. Every furnished representativce-b- y this Cjniimny. Buy of Abilene, Texas, latest of his Your answer treated in confidence. Wiue six wives, filed a suit against Wharton Immediately for personal interview. THE INC.. 440 8. Spring St., for 8150,000 damages. Lea Amreles, California. Testimony developed that Whartons first marriage was to a California girl How to Get There in 1!)25, whose name was not disclose. 1, An Englishman, who was far off while Ihe ether, marriages were to Isa his course and confused nhout bis next Kiley, June 1, 192G, jit Palm Beach. directions, asked an Irishman, cut; log Pla. ; Mary Melton, November 0, 1020. pent in the wilds of Connemara, howat Dallas; Irene Kolfe November 24, to get to Letterfrack. Tlie Irishman 1923, at Bartlesville, Okla. ; Boo rat labored over the directions, so intr! Murray, October 15, 11)25, Colorado cate and roundabout were tlie roo'-tSprings, Col.; Doris Edna Day, De- until, having done Ids best, he mi d cember 4, 1020, at Abilene. this: "If It was mcself that was goUnmoved by Trial. ing to Letterfrack, faith' I wouidnl Young Wharton, appearing at least start from here! New Outlook. ten years older than his twenty-thre- e years, apparently took little Interest DEMAND BAYER ASPIRIN In the proceedings and was unmoved when the verdict was returned. TestiMarked With Bayer Crocs mony by Drs. Henry T. Smith, Jack Aspirin Been Has Proved Safe by Millions. II. McLean, Wiimor Allison and It. O. Braswell was to tlie effect tla.LW.liar.-- . Warning t Unless you see the name ton had become mentally deranged on package or on tablets you Bayer through excessive use of liquor and are not getting the genuine Bayer frequent participation in wild parties. safe by millions and Aspirin proved to the time Tom was fifteen Up for 2d years. years old ho was one of the brightest, prescribed by physicians when you buy Aspirin. Say "Bayer" healthiest and handsomest hoys I ever Doctor McLean said on the Imitations may prove dangerous. Adv. say, stand. But two years ago liis condition heranit terrible and he has Neea Only Say Anthracite grown worse. Ills emotions are deAnthracite Is all that should he veloped far beyond liis intellect and will power and his condition Is direct used when speaking of that kind of coal. The word comes directly from ly traceable to his excesses. which means The great trouble with thi3 young the Greek "anthrax, man, the doctor testified, "is that he coal. Anthracite means hard coal. has never hud anything to do. lie To say anthracite coal Is tautologiwas like any other boy, with a lot of cal. But bituminous requires the word energy and ambition, hut since he was coal after It as It Is only .an adjective not put to work he expended bis sur- where anthracite Is a noun. To avoid plus energy jn a dissolute life and this trouble and wrong usage many people say "hard" and soft coal. is the result, lie was given an unlimited expense account and all lie had to do was to kill time and spend a fortune any .way he pleased. So he isnt altogether to blame. It is this very tiling that is Americas greatest problem today, hut if wealthy parents won't make their sons work, nothing Safely and quickly relieved cun he done about it." the exclusive Luden menthol Grandfather Big Rancher. blend i3 soothing healing W. T. Waggoner, tlie grand fn I her, and does not upset tha stomach. Children love them. owns one of tlie largest randies In Texas and early in life knew what it wits to be poor ami to work hard for a living. Oil wells, located on liis randies, have made him a millionaire Forgot Year Zero many times over. The family owns Whether the year 1930 or the year two of Port Worths skyscrapers. 1931 A. D. is the twro thousandth anniWhen young Wharton's mother (lied of tlie year 70 15. C. is a. subversary several months ago in New York, ject that has been agitating tlie Britmembers of tlie Wharton family emish press. Tlie Times says 1930 hut ployed n special train to make the trip one of its correspondents,- - Doctor to Now York to reach her bedside be- Glover by name, maintains that it is fore death. um. The latter, yiew Is based on th theory that, among other errors, hisChina Shy of Machines; torians have omitted the Hires Men for All Work year zero frommistakenly their computation of devices are lime on an A. D. and 15. C. basis. The Peking. Labor-savin- g scarce in Chinn, where manpower is system now Is that the morning after December 31 B. C. wrs January 1 A. abundant and wages low. D. But astronomers know better an! Two men working with a large, saw, will spend a day cutting insist ou inserting a zero year at this one plank from a rough fifleen-foo- t point. Living Age. A mechanical timber. saw, which would do tlie jolt in a matter of minDANDELION BUTTER COLOR utes, is looked jupon witji disfavor by A harmless vegetable butter color tlie Chinese employer. Peking's streets are sprinkled the used by millions for 50 years. .Drug stores and general stores sell bottles year round by men with tubs and shalof Dandelion for 35 cents. Adv. low bamboo baskets on the end of a pole. They have been sprinkled in that Bananas as Staple Diet: manner for generations from wells at The pulp of the banana Is nutritious intervals along tlie streets. Thousands of men would be thrown out of work and' constitutes an Important food. In some of the Pacific islands it forms If modern methods were substituted almost the staple diet of the natives. for the old practice. The jinricksha pullers guild and water pedthe wheelbarrow-pushinof dlers oppose tlie encroachments street ears and waterworks upon their business'. Moberly, Mo. A new record for a ti .rural community like this one was esEach Package Ve'ghed tablished in November when four sets of twins were born out of a total of Alike, Sizes Differed 23 births, breaking all previous recSeattle. Wash. striking exline. Tlie twins were amples of Ihe disparity In spe- - j ords along that eitle gravity of two objects was 5 born to Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Grove, Mr. shown here when tho steamer J? and Mrs. Joint L. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. front Seward, Northwestern In her cargo Alaska, docked. were two items weighing exactly the sit me. hut which for size scented nil out of proportion. One vva a box of tin ora from newly developed mines up the Kusknkwim river meas- tiring five inches each dimen- siett; the other five pounds of eiderdown, the minute feathers plucked from breasts of a species of Northern duck. The bag of 5 duck feathers measured three 8 feet thick by six feet long. r quieting effect of these m e d I c et seemed to furnish. new strength. I also used both the Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery when passing through middle life, with most satisfactory results. 1 have nothing but good words to say of these medicines." Mrs. M. McCoy. S601 East F SL Tablets two-handle- d New York. Fat fellows can't be firemen. A 2 18 pounder lost court proceedings for Ins reinstatement. $4.01. nou liGDENScocsHDaors Bar Tat Men " Dr. S 5 ing exchange value of the franc. A small holiday supper for two at one of the less expensive Montmartre Convert charge 10 resorts costs: francs; consomme. 25 francs; foie gras, 150 francs; two bottles champagne. Illll francs: government taxes. 120 francs; total. 575 francs. That recently made about 822 in American money, of which the luxury tax totaled found I CP" puLb-eover- Paris. The cost of right life In Paris remains high depiie the mount- Wash. jldretfs .la Paris Might Life Cost. Up Despite Franc Rise Tacoma, Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery a wonderful help to me when the children were coming into our home, for through the use of these remedies I was enabled to attend to my duties. The RADIX-DEVIC- cra-ck- , appro-pri-'ilo- afid P.olh Women, Keep Your Health Up to Par 6 Bell-an- s Hot water Sure Relief EIL-A&S-S FOR INDIGESTION 25$ and 75$ Pkgs.Sj!d Everywhere PARKERS HAIR BALSAM m t Diadniff-Stop- Hair Falling Restores Color and to Gray and Faded Hair Beauty 4Ue and $1 00 at Draypists. k Hifipox Chfl .Fatch-yngN- HINDERCORNS Remoyes Corns, Callouses. etc., stops aU pain, ensures comfort to tbs feet, makes walking easy. 16o br mail or at Iwug gists. 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