Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — DOING THEIR DUTY. [ARTICLE]

DOING THEIR DUTY.

Scores of Rensselaer Readers Are Learning the Duty of the Kidneys. To filter the blood is the kidney’s duty. When they fail to do this the kidneys are weak. Backache and other kidney ills may follow. Help the kidneys do their work. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills—the tested kidney remedy. Rensselaer people endorse their worth. Nelson Randle, N. Main St., Rensselaer, says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills at different times when suffering from a lame and aching back and other symptoms of disordered kidneys. I got this medicine at Fendig’s drug store. Relief soon followed its use and the backache and other kidney ailments were removed. I do not know of a case where Doan’s Kidney Pills have failed to prove of benefit.” * # Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Randle had. Foster-Mflbuxn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

A Telephone Telltale

The good old evening entertainment of listening on the telephone nne on rural party telephone is soon to be a thing of the past , How does this indicator tell who is hutting in? Why, by means of musical notes. Every telephone is to be equipped with an indicator. Every indicator is equipped with a disc with teeth. This is set in motion the moment the receiver is taken oft the hook. The teeth of the disc pick up musical notes from keynote tongues in the instrument. The high and low notes correspond to the short and low notes peculiar to the telephone that is being tampered with. Thus, if Bill Jones’ ring is a short and two longs, and you are talking business, and suddenly hear a high and two low notes over the wire, you will know that Bill Jones is rubbering in your business. “Bill Jones, you get off that lin&,*’ you can shout to him. It is then optional with Bill whether he will get off the line or fight you a duel the next time you meet him. But you have the dope on him. But the indicator does even more wonderful things than this. In the first place, when you call Sam Smith, with Smith’s two short and two long rings, Smith takes down the receiver, and immediately you hear two high and two low musical notes in your receiver. You know at once it is Smith and not that Buttinsky Jones who is at the other end. You go ahead to talk business. Then the indicator gives the length of the conversation, so that one may comply with the rules of the company. When the receiver comes off the hook it sets the indicator into operation. At the end of four minutes it runs down. Then it automatically disconnects you. That’s a hint that you have talked long enough for a mere visit. If it is business, however, and you want to prolong the conversation, all you have to do is to press down the lever and the spring is wound up for another four minutes. Again, by this means one call tell just how long he is using the long distance phone and does not need to watch the clock or ask central to call him down when he talks too long. The indicator will also register the number of hours in the day, the month or year the phone is used in a given home. The time when the receiver is removed and replaced is registered SO that It is possible to tell approximately how lon£ the average conversation on a given phone has been. This is of immense advantage to the trouble man when the patrons deny they ever did anything but obey the rules scrupulously. He looks at the indicator and reads the entire history of the use and abuse of that phone. Then he talks from knowledge to the persons complaining of trouble. —Philadelphia Record.