Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1890, Page 7

£+ “The entire stock must be closed out by March 15th. Only a few more weeks. ¢ Words withoutdeeds are worthiess, easily written, of some stores now-a-days, mean nothing but deceit. AT THE GREAT CLEARING OUT THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1800.-SIXTEE L ACTIONS SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS. and like the buncombe advertisement Honesty, however, is the best.policy yast BARGAIN SALE of BOOTS & SHOES 1216 Farnam Street, Omaha. Take advantage of the closing sale and lay in"a full supply. This is one chance in a lifetime buys ladies’ kid®button boots, *b6c worked holes,regular price $1.75 LADIES’ House Slippers. 2“56?\[\-, ludies’ serge serge qupe’rs. "98 buys ladios pebble goat and kid C button, all sizes, worth 82, buys ludics’ fine kid button . boots, worth §2.50, buys ladies’ fine ‘kid and pebble goat button boots, rommon sense and obera, worth $3. 2 $2.5 buys ladies’ fine sample shoes, worth from 84, buys ladies’ Waukenphast button boots, the easies & 50 pair, s Bt s BURT'S SHOES. $3.00 a Pair. MIn all sizes and widths, and worth $6; Pommon Sense and Opera. E. P. DODGE & CO’'S Cenuine hand turned kid button boots, Jommon sense and Opera, only $3 a Pair, worth $6. ghoo made, 8 pair left; regular price b buys ladies’ fannel lined house slippers, worth 6ae. worth e, 36¢ buy choice of 792 pairs ladies’ 50c pu.e slippershand sewed,luce, opera and gre Buskins. Ladies Rubbers, 15¢c a pair, all sizes. Prices will be marked so low that it will pay mothers to buy shoes for the children for a year to come. BOYS® SHOES. $1_0Qhuys boys® calf, luce shoes, 11to 1 buy boys’ calf, lace and buys boys'knock-about shoes sizes 1105 $1.00 $1.50 /s, borw fne button, worth $2.50. calf dress lace and —— e Ladies with narrow feet can find a buys odds and ends,shoes slight- 75¢ {ond assortment in this grent sale. ly soiled. THE GREAT CLEARING OUT BARGAIN SALE At Less Than Half Value. Mnst he Closed by March (5th, eln the Large Buiding, at 1216 Famam Greatest Cutofall MEN’S SHOES ALMOST GIVEN AWAY Burt’s Shoes for Gent's Wear, only $3 Pair, worth $6. HATHAWAY, SOUL & HARRINGTON Fine Kangaroo Shoes, in all styles, $4 and $5 a paiv; regular price $7 and 88, buys men’s fine sewed and congress, worth $2. $1.50 buys wmen’s fine calf. con- and lace, worth $4, buys Reed’s fine shoes, never sold sample for less than $6. $1.00 buys men’s solid shoes, worth $1.50. working Mens Stpers. Men'sVelvet Slippers, 39c Regular price 75c. 50c v 75(: YT buys men’s fine velvet embroi- dered slippers. Iixtra fine velvet slippers, regu- lar price $1.50, cases flne slippers, wonth Now is the time to buy a pair of fine slippers at your own price. $ireet Be sure you notice the sifins and numbers before entering. Don’t fail to buy a pair of Burt’s fine Shoes, onl ableto E. 8, I'I-yA 3, wort, AU & CO. $6. Open every evening until 9 o’clo ck. Make money orders pay- ' ‘We mean business and must turn this stock into money by Mahlre:5th. “JF THERE WAS MONEY IV IT. $enator Hearst Knew How to Spell Bird. THE GREAT AMERICAN BRAIN. ficnnan's Iron Chain and Suit of Con- vict Clothes—Woman's Rights ac the Capitol—Mrs. Burnetts Return, Ete. N Stories or Statesmen. Copyright 169, by Frank G. Carpenter. WasniNagroy, Feb. 20.—|Special Corres- ondence of Tne Bre.]—~Georgs Hearst, the :ll“lul\fl“‘fl senator from Califoraia, 1s bring- ng lis mining knowledge to bear on the re- Lonl about Washington, and during the past Sveek he has invested in some cannel coal Yeins in West Virginia which, I am told, will gnako him another fortune, Thomas Jeffer- pon Clunie, oue of the new representatives from San Francisco, went with Hearst to moke the purchase aud ho tells the story. Baid he: *‘I'he trip taught me how Hearst mado his fortuno. It showed me that Lo was a sharp Pusiness man, and this West Virginia sale $will give you a good iusight into his charac- er, We fouud tho coal veis all right. lhere wore soveral of them, ench of which. X its price and each of which contained a rent variety of coal. The owners ®ian to oxpatiate upon their vir- fucs as soon as we arrived. The vein they particalarly wantea to sell was 8,000 feet up he mountain side. Thoy had samples of it Bt the foot of the hill, and the vein looked ‘woell from the distance. The samples were fine, the price was low, and I expected to see Mearst snap at the offer, As he did not I smsked: *What's the matter, senatorl’ **‘Wely,’ replied Senator Hea ‘I don’t like to buy a pig in a poke and we bad better orawl up ana see that coal for ourselves be- fore we discuss the price.’ With that we crawled up to the vein, and Senator Hearst took & plece of the coal and it it with a mateh, Cannel coal will bura like turpen- ‘ tice. The lump the senator litdid burn ‘when the matoh touched it, but s moment “Juter it went out. and the senator said : ‘‘There, Clunie, that's no gooa. There are other varieties of coal than cannel.coal which ‘will burn upon being lit, but the best cannel ®oal wilt continue to burn until it is reduced ashes, This piece is not cannel at all and would not give a blank for this vewn if we “ould get 1t for nothing, We shen sampled another vein, hrough the sama process. Senator Hearst ut a big chunk of carbon on the ground and it It and as it crackled away he watched as B mother does her first born, When it wa: Balf consumed 1 said: *Well, senutor, are ¥ou satisfied now ' “'No, I'm not,”” replied Senator Hearst, Elm‘l he kept his on the blazing lump for going ully ten minut; ger. Atthe end of that ime the fire had died out and only a beap of earst then said: fo That settles it,” and he thereupon went 0 the Weat Virginian and bought the vein. tis uable proverty and it will gmun ly make him a great deal of monay. 1t was 0 this same way ttg:‘t be wade millious n e gold mines of California. He looked at Wvery mine he bought for tiwsell and the Buost of those he invested in he bought upon ‘vhnn, working them for six mouths, and if ey paid out as represented, buym: them at 0o #nd of that time outright. ~ The result that be always made and never lost, n‘u call his goodfortune luck. call it na, w UPS AND DOWN 'Where dia Hears> come from " said I **He was boro in Missourl,” replied Con- u‘ Clunle. "2" ‘t;lh lived near St. uis and were well Hearst bogau 0 by keepiug store, bui bis health ashes remained ou the ground. Sens- poor pa; He concluded He sold out his store for promissory note of $1,000. This, in addition to his oxpenses, was the sum of his posses~ sions when he started for California. It turned out to be worth only the paper on which it was written and- Senator Hearst still keeps it as an autographic curio, He went from Missouri to Culifornia, bought a pick and began at once to dig gold for him- self. He was lacky from the first and he s00n accummulated a bug of gold represent- ing at least $500,000. This gold was made upof dust, slag and good sized nuggets, in. fl%dlng some a8 big as your fist. He took it to San Francisco and deposited it with a baonker named Lent. A few days later Lent's bank broke and Hearst found himself poorer than wheén he came to California. He had scarcely enough monoy to buy a new pick, but he borrowed enough to put himself on his feet ana his good for- tune stayed with him. He kept on making money, and he has at times owned mines and mills on the Pacific coast which gove em- ployment to 2,000 men and crushed 1,000 tons. of ore every day. He is still interested in mining, nd ho lius {arms containing somo of the finedu blooded stock in the wost. One of his farms has 40,000 acres, He is the owner of the San Frauncisco Examiner, and he has some of the fastest horses in the country. He has always been liberal in his gifts to the party and the democrats gave himn their unanimous minority vote for Unitad States senator when Stanford was elected by the republicans. HE CAN SPELL FOR MONEY, Senator Hearst has beeu represented as au illiterate man, but Senator I'rye tells a story that illustrates both his education and his pluck. He has not played cards among the bluffers of California for nothing and like many of his brother senators he is by no means averse to a bet. Not long ago he entered a well known restaurant of San Francisco and on the biackboard at the back of the bar he saw the word ‘‘bird” among the items of the bill of fare. It was spelled *‘birde,” and Hearst at once called up the keeper of the restaurant, who was a noted California character, and said: ‘'See here, Blank, that's a devil of a way to spell ‘bird.’ Don't you know any better than that? You ought to spell it ‘b-u-r-d.’ “I would have you understand, George Hearst,” replied the restaurant keeper, ‘that I am just as good a speller as you, and Iam willing to leave to the best scholar in the room that you don't know any more about the matter than I do. [n other words I'll askot of champagne that you bird’ the right way," nll' said Hearst. “All right,” said the man, “and here 18 a piece of paper for you to puttdown in black and white,’” With that he handed Hearst a sheet of brown paper, and Hearst with a stub pencil ‘Wrote out the letters: “'The right way to spell it is ‘B-1-R-D.’ » “‘But,” said the restaurant keeper, ‘'you spelled it tirst with & ‘o, Senator Hearst thr bunself back and looked the rostauraot’ man in the eye. sAnd,” suid he, “did you think 1 was Dblanked fool encugh to spell ‘bird’ with a ‘v’ ‘when there was any woney up on it{" THE NATIONAL BRAIN DEPARTMENT, 1 dropped iuto the cougressional library this afternoon and asked Mr, Spoffurd as to the condition of the great American brain, Mr, Spofford is the man who gives out all the eoryflu‘hl- in the United States and every intellectual unm}-‘mu that ris must first come to him, e in a wiry little anatomy of skin, boue snd brain, with & face as dark as that of & Spaniard and with @ body which is the romnlflnnlan of ner- vous wuvllg. His forehead is broad, his eyea are a8 black as jet and his thick hair und beard are mow tinged with gr During the past twenty-five years bas by _coutributed more % the Congressional Record than any mau in Washington. Coungressmen go 10 1o him for all sorts of information and get. it. He has the title of every one of the half million odd books in the biggest library of the country on his tongue's end and he knows where to find information on all top- ics from cooking to Iheolug{. Heis & wan of many literary friendships aud thero is 80! A0 author in the country who does not know him. He hob-nobs with the sena- and when I tho library old or Jerome Edmunds was shmu:fl 80- berly with him on the limitations of the faite. uds Liks Edmu baid shiniog the huad of & boy's n-vfln‘:‘nd his severe were jumping with enthusiasm as he d with the librarian. He left a mo- ment after I entered aund I went with Mr, Spofford 1nto one of the narrow alcoves and talked with him as to our intellectual pro- gress. *'Yes,” said he, “the great American brain steadily grows We nave mure applications for copyrights every year,and there is a wonderful intellectunl activity jusv now in the makiog of art, dramatioc and musical works. A great “deal of poetry 1s being written, and during tho past_year 41,000 lit- erary invontions wove entered in this intel- lectual patent office. A’ great partof our copyright now comes from snydicate news- paper letters, and I sometimes receivo as many as twenty applications a day for such copyrights. T'he library 18 steadily growing, and we now have more than 625,000 volumes, I askod as to the library building. ; “It will bo pushed Ws soon as spring opens,” replied Mr. Spofford, “and the peo- ple will be surprised at how fast we can build when we get to work, We are now waiting for granite, but in one day last fall we laid 81,000 bricks and on another 89,000, The building 18 an imperative necassity, and it will be pushed along as fast as possible, WHAT THE WRITERS ARE DOING. Spenking of literary matters 1 understand that Henry Adams is still at work upon his history of the United States during Jeffer- sou’s administration. He has had four vol- umes of this work already published and Bancroft looked oyor the proofs and gave oim his literary advice, The work as com- pleted will be a very valuable one and Mr. Adams has the advantage of the valuable papers of John Quiocy Adams ana John Adsms 1n the preparation of it. The biography of Liucoln by Nicolay and Hay 18 being prepared for book form. John G. Nicolay 1s editing the matter and reading the proofs and there is no doubt that he and Mr. Hay will make considerably more than the $50,000 which they reccived for the manuscript from the Century company out of the sale of the book. I see that George Kennan, the Siberian explorer, has valuable lots on Sixteenth street for sale. These are in most advancing part of the capital, and they cost Kennan, I am told, £20,000. He will undoubtelly make some- thing out of it. Mr. Kennan 18 making cords of money out of his lectures. I chatted with Adee, the assistant secretary of state, about him the other day. He said: “Kennan’s suit of Er'unn clothes and the iron chain which he rought with him from Siberin to Americs have already brought him $50,000, and they are adding to his banik account every night. Atthe close of every lecture he appears upon the stage in this prison garb, and he finds it & successful feature. Major Pond, the lecture munager of New York, told me that Kennan was his best card, Said he: “I have booked more than $30,000 worth of coutracts for him this season, and he is the best paying lecturer in the flold. Oae of his socrets of success lies in the fact that he prepared himself well before going on the stage, and another is the splondid advertise- {‘nenl;,whnuh the Century Magazing has given im, Doctor Burpett, the dark-eved husband of Frances Hodgson Burnett, tells me that she is growing better in London and that she will return home as soon as she is able to travel, She was preparing to cometo Amer- ica when she was thrown from the oarriage and she has boen able to do no literary work to speak of since then. She has some plans mapped out for future work, but nothing in manuscriptor in well advanced prey tion, Dr. Burnett says tuat “Little Lord atla~ roy" paid very well us a book and play, Eighty thousand copies of the book were sola aod it is still selling widely, The orig- inal “Little Lord Fauotleroy” is now fll Washington going to school. 1t 1s, or rather he is the sou of Doctor and Mrs. Buroett. STANTON'S GHASTLY ¥IND, The cartridge which Seuator Ingall's re- ceived by mail from Mississippi 8 week ag brings t0 me a curious reminiscence of See- retary Stanton. It was daring the stormiest days of the war just before the emancipation proclamation had been issued and when the colored man was the promineat factor in every man's mind. * Staoton was sitting around bis family table one evening when a buudle of mail was brought bim airect from the postofiice. [n ii there was a little pack- #go of about the size of the box which held the cartridge received by Senator Ingalls, ‘The package was opened nad inside the pa- per was a long roll of linen cloth about Ao inch in dismeler. Secretary Stauion B00k out the pin which held the roll and be- CLEARING SALE OF —_—— OUR Great Clearance morning, and'll be continued Sweeping and Comprehensi see the finest goods of the b values dvet offered by any shoe THE Sale of Shoes commences in the throughout the week. In this /e Reduction Sale you'll not only st manufacture rs, but the best house in the country. cut prices, as given in this announcement, m 1y seem | very deep and severe, but they'll be found exactly as stated, in every instance. desirable of these timely bargai as possible, RESIDENTS of Council cities and towns will be AMPL Those who'd like choice of the finest and most | are advised to call as early | ns Bluffs expense by calling promptly and supplying themseives and Children with these splendid Shoe Bargains. be sold to dealers, and mail the cash, * Not a pair will orders must be accompanied by NOTE: Any man, woman or child who buys but ON pair of Shoes during the coming week before first seeing thes sterling and genuine bargains'll wrong themselves., Quality for quality you'll save from soc to § to prices elsewhere. Again, we 3 on every pair when compared say, come to-morrow or Cl\l'])' in the week if you care for choice of the best and finest. CHILDREN'S SHOES| $1.0 BUYS Chiid and TPebble Shoes, slzes 815 1o 10! 85¢ BUYS Children's Fine Pebble Gont Spring Heel ButtonShoes, worked hut- ton holea, sizes i3 to 103 our regular $1.50 line. 85¢ BUYS Chlldren's Fine “uracon nidand Pebble Goat Button Snoes \with heels, 31 sizes B3 10 104; former pri; Fine Pebble Gont 75¢ LLES (hildpens Fae . neat shape and good quality, sizes 815 10 1013 reguiar prico BUYS Chila 93¢ Spring Heel Butt ton holes, sizes bi4 to 104 GOC UYS Childrens Pevbie Gratn Spring heel, Tipped Button Shoes, sizes § to 113 regular price $):n, BUYS Chil b 63c plain and tipped, price 8, 48c 's Fine Curacon Kid Goat High Cut Heel have sold for $1,75. BUYS Chiidren’s e Curacon Kid Shoes, worked but- actual value $1.50, Spring Heel, ze5 6 t0 83 tormer nfants’ Hand-turned Kid But- hoes, 81zes 1 to 5, ~ BOOTS. $5.00 ) 0 ) French Caif; our regular pr 'on Boots, best $2.50 [t ! oots. Full double solo, and double sole with an extra tap BUYS Men's Leg, Mil sole; good value at $3:75; 51268 610 11. e [ LADIES® Howse Shoes and Slippers, $1.25 ;¥ brates Handturned, Hana. Eress; our price has been § BUYS Ladies’ Beaver W OC LA s Congr lar price $1.50, $1.00 ! hand-turned; r 73c¢ Cloth adles’ Beaver Top, Leather awce Shoes, hand-séwed und uced from 850, BUYS Ladles® Serge Congress, soft and tlexible: marked down from §1.00, Ladies' Beaver Congress and hoes, well ‘made, with good leather sole; regular price $1.00, RUBBER SPECIALS. $1.25 U 98¢ adles' High Button Ov duced from §2,60, BUY irst Quality Buckle Are- tics: former price §1 50¢ BUYS Laaj 15¢ Sy ndse BUVS Men's Self-acting Rubber Over- BOOTS. shces: marked down from sie. $1.73.00 ity Rubber S Boys' Tine Calf Boots; al~ i marked down from #, | | “ $2-00‘T\§.\l1, \\“\I“l' BOOTS, g Vo and other neighboring Y repaid for their trouble and | MISSES SHOES MEN’S, WOMENg,' GIRLS', BOYS', CHILDREN'S BoOTS. \lwa ‘ s sold for $3.50 Boots, $3.00 $3.50 sold for le Buys Sample Boots, Grain and Puritaun Calfy worth $7,00, Buys Misses’ Kid But- ton Boots, size 11 to 2: sold evorywhere at P. Dodge's make. $1.00 $2.00. Theso are 19, $1.25 $2.9 Buys 3. P, Dodge's Goundola Kid Button, 11t02; regular price Buys Misses’ very fino Kid Button Boots, flox- $ 1 ‘50 ible and smooth in- soles; worth N $1.00 $1.50. 39¢ Buys Missc Pebble Goat, plain we and tip, size 11 to 2; worth Buys Misse Kid Opera Slinpors, “11't0.13; worth $1.00. Buys Misses’ and 50 Children’s Rubbers, all sizes. Bugs Misses® Oxford Ties, Hand-turned; worth $1.50, REYNOLDS BROS. FINE SHOES, For Ladies’ wear, Only $2.50 and $3. Pair; worth $5.00 and $6.00. 1216 FARNAM STREET gan to unwi Ho waht on and after two wrappers had bsen removed the ghastly thumb of a negro was fonnd within, It had blopded the rag which was around it, and it had cvidently been cut from a living man or ong who hud but a few moments before the cutting died. 'The eye-witness of the open- 10% tells me that the nail of the thumb was roughened as with hard work, and that the skin of the front of it was worn white by labor. - He describes the aisgust of the seow retary and his family, and says that the in- cident did not help the cause of the south with the gruff war sec: TWO GIDD The womeun suffragisis have captured the capital. Elizabeth Cady Stanton trots about as thqugh sho owned Washington, Pobs Coz- o' oyes snap with grit und determination, Muy Wright Sewell has put on her war paint and Susan B. Authony is making scores of votes by her siege on the congressmen in the capitol committe rooms. Susan is 70 years old this month, but she looks no older' than when I firsu met hier years ugo and her eyes are as bright and her brain 1s us clear as 1t was in the sixties. She has devoted her life to woman's rights and she has come into close association with tho public men of the country for two generations. She is not a blusterer nor a notoriety sceker and sie has nover cut off hox hair nor worn bloomer van- taloons. Sho dresses as woll us any lady of Washington and she is fond of black silk as Ul a8 @& board. Sho has the brain of a wan rather thau one of a woman and her warm gray eyes look out through #old glasses in a very fetching way. I saw her chattmg with Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts in statuary hall at the capitol this ufternoon, and Hoar's face beamed with smiles and his great round blue eves popped out with kindness us he looked down upou her with a Horace Groeley air. To my mind he looked more liko u grand. mother than she did, and the picture mght have served for a model for a great paintin of . the platonic affections of January an December, As I looked at them they were proudly rehearsing old times together, for both seemod decidedly tickled. 1 did not ad- dress either, but merely said to mpself: *On you giddy things” and walked away. BANCROFT'S 1 ESS, George Bancroft, the historiau, is confined to his bed, and be has been sick for the greater part of the winter. R ot doing aay literary worik and he cousiders his life- work done. He still plays whist occasion- aily, and one night this winter he played the whole evening without making but one mis- take, which is very good for 8 man nearly ninety. His library is ono of the most yalu. able in the country, It contains many rare manuscripts and it is, I am - told, Mr, Ban- croft's idon, to have the government pur- chase it at a fair appraisament at his death. Ex-Senator Joseph R. Moonald is prac- ticiog law in Washington, Usaw him at the Capitol yesterday. He weighs 250 pounds, Bod he says he is ‘'solid feom 10 to out.” nsked him how he maintaipgd bis youthful vigor, He replied: It comes from s good conscience and voting thaustraight demo- cratio ticket. These make mo rest well at Dight, and I have as mugh irpn in my biood 88 when I began to vote. I recommond tho recipe to the young men of the present.” 1 bear that George W. Childs dictated the reminicences which lately appeared in Lip. pingeott's Magazine Lo a Wowsfaper reporter, aud that tho young man got#1.000 from the magazine for the job. Mr, Childs gave him the matter to bielp him aipnyg ud not to add to bis own personal notorety. Speaking of Mr, Childs;¥Colonel John Brawnlow. tolls me’ thut :\¥made & fortune outof the Parson Brownlow book which he lmhlllhsd duriug tne wat. ;The book paid *arson Hrowulow $20,000 and Mr. Childs as publisher must have goi several times this awount, Coogressmau Cogswell of Salom, telis me that ex-Secretary Eudicoty sumed he practice of thé law. His shinglo 1sout and he has two partuers, and though he will probably not do much wWork himself, his name will add to the firtn and Lis assist- ance will be given on biz cases. The ex-sec- retary spent his last summer in England With his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Chamber- iain. He is well-to-do and he lives very nicely at Salem. Fraxk G. CAwPENTER, Women Fallbearers. There was a funeral 1 Paris, Ky., recently, in which eight women acted a8 pallbearers, says the Louisville Cour- ier-Jovrnal, rah Jones, colored, was the Famn wterred, and eight sisters of a colored lodge bore the remains iato the church. THE NEW TALKING MACHINE Will it Force the Stenographer to the Wali? A MECHANICAL AMANUENSIS, A Variety ot Opinions on the Result of the Introtucti of ‘the £hono- #raph into Business Offic2s as a Confidential Olerk. Views Proand Con, Will the phonograph or the phono- grah-graphophone revolutionize affairs in the commercial world to such an ex- tent that the stenographer will find his occupation gone, is a quently asked these days days? Those interested in thesuccess of this wonderful machine declare that such a result is inevitable, while the knights of the short hand laugh at such predict- ions. In view of the great interest which this subject has excited among the short hand writers and the public in generally, & number of opinions were obtained from parties interested in the matter bearing upon both sides of the question. A. M. Hopkins, official court reporter, expressed himself in no uncertain man- ner as follows: " “The phonograph is only a_muchine and cannot do brain work.” Stenogra- phers to be a success must have good reasoning powers, o quick perception and a_lively imagination, backed up by a good general education. Those who are not thus qualified have mistaken their calling, and are usually termed **machine stenographers.” Ttisentirely probable that the® indifferent stanogra- pher, who can do nothing but write and transcribe the simplest of letters and documents, may finally be superceded by the phonograph ond typewritist. The wide awake, progressive stenogra- pher, however, has nothing to foar. ‘Why? Because in every business office there are many things which a good shorthand man can and must do. He is necessarily the confidant of his em- ployer to - a great extent; he leurns the deotails of the business and can frequent- 1y correct ervors which the employer has made; he can take charge of . the business during the absence of his employer; he can intelli~ gantly answer questions of customers or clionts, see that the mail goes out on time,gooutand soligit business occasion- ally; in fact it would take a volume in which to tell what he cannot do, if he only makes the interests of his employer hisown, It would-be quite as reason- able tosay that the ox team will take the place of the express train as to say that the phonograph will take the place of such stenographers, #*No,we do not entertain the remotest idea that the phonograph will ever be our competitor. It would be absurd to think 80. The inventor does not use the phonograph in his own oftice be- cause itcannot till the requirements of o good stenographer, and I have yet to learn of & competent stenographer beiug supérseded by the talking ma- chine, sides all this, there are a great many things in ordinary dictation work that the phonograph can uever be made to perform,” C. A, Potter, stenographer, is not se- riously alarmed over the prospect of the phonograph and phonograph-graph- ophone depriving him of & mode of gaining a sustenance. “It may inter- lere with our work in a measure in time,” said he, “but it wili never knock us out. The machines do nice work, and are tolerably aczurate. but that is avour all, In fact I kn ow very little about them, and nuve given the subject no thoughv,” H. M. Waring, another of the craft, said that he did not think the phono- graph or graphophone cither could ever take the place of the swenographer in the courts. *‘Noither do I,” he con- tinued, “‘think that they will ever, un- less wonderfully mproved, take the place of the stenogra pher as an aman u- ensis. [ find that itis not every one who can talk into a phonograph with ess, that is have their words dis- y recorded and intelligibly vepro- Some can do this, others can not, no matter how hard they try to ar- ticulate plainly and distinetly,” T. P. Wilson said that it his opinion that the stenographer could not be ousted by the phonograph. *[t has been before the public a long time now,” snid he, “and as yet I have not heara of a single case where a steno- grapher husbeen forced to go at other work by it. I have engaged’ in ¢ sions on this subject at the stenog ers’ conventions, and ha stoutly to the opinion that graph can never knock out the steno- grapher. Even if the instrument, was absolutely perfect in taking a conversu- tion and reproducing it, it could not equal an expoct stenographer. Take the note-book of stenographer and examine his notes. You will see words and whole sentences interlined, words stricken out, blank spaces left for fig- ures or words tobe supplied, the steno- grapher being instructed to foot up the figures and put in the total. The phono- graph cannot add figures, and has uo powers of attraction. This makes it very perplexing for the operator who has to copy from the ipstrument. No, it can never take the place of the sten- ographer for a hundred other reasons. Another thing against the phonograph is that there is a m-owinq opinion that 1t will produce denfness, C. C. Valentine. distriet court repor- ter, expressed himself as follows: *It is sate to suy there has never been an invention that has cansed such general interest to stenographers as the phono- graplL 1 believe the phonograph is estined to play a great part in the future mothod of doing business and that no person 13 able to conceive of the manifold purposes to which it will be put. But, perhaps, the ques- tion most asked and widely ~dis- cussed among stenographers is, what effect will it have upon shorthand writers? The trouble is, too many stenogranhers are disposed to condemn the phongraph without giving it'the slightest examination or investi- gation and they find all sorts of objec- tions without knowing really an thing about this wonderful muchine, During & conversation with one of the most dis- tinguished shorthand writers in the world I chanced to remark that I was using the pnonograph in goetting outmy transcripts of testimony. He criticised the machine very severely, but during the conversation it was discovered that the geatleman hud never seen a phonograph and was, therefore, I claim in no position to judge “of its practicability. The phonograph will, ‘without doubt, do more good generally for those who are at present making their living by short- hand and typewritting than anything which could have happened to the stenographic world,” At E. A, Beuson’s office, the head- quarters of the local phonograph com- pany. the reporter was informed that in time the stenographer would have to €o. “Why,” said the gentleman, **with oue of our iustruments you talk toa little asphaltum cylinder instead of & stenographer and you can talk as fast us- aph- lwiys held the phono- as you please, with the absolute cor- tainty of your every word being re- cordéd. In a short time we expect our achines to be in as general use as-the sewing machine. uses are as multi- farious and div ified almost as the callings or es of man. It never wants an hour for luncheon, never has the grippe, nover gots tired, never sleeps, but 15 always ready to serve N you enumerate some of the principal uses you expect it to be put to ? “*Why, certainly. To the physician, for instance, it will prove inviluable, He calls’ to sce o patient who is very ill, and it is neces- sary to give precise and important in- structions to the nurse. He sits down to the phonograph and talks them into cylinder and there thoy are, 10 be re- ited in his‘own voice, every tone, oy rise und flall of inflection, as often as you want them, and for all time. **The phonograpk will also record the beating of the heart, as well as distin- guish between the breathing of a healthful person and an invalid, and thus it will enablo a person living b or anywhere to be treated by any iulist in New York, Boston, o abroud, by means of this little eylinder. You see we mail them, enclosed in a strong wooden box or ng tube, o any point of the coun- . and they can bs used in any ma- :hine. We'had a caso right here, by tho way, that demonstrates the phono- graph’s incalculable aid to the phy- sician, A Miss Lily Mitchell, o young lady, was aflicted with u very annoying and distressing cough It was loud and rasping and ine parox- ysms came on about twenty times a minute. You could near her coughing blocks away. Her physiciaus brought her here to our office. She coughed into the cylinder, in factinto several of them. One was sent to the Hopkins university at Baltimore, where it now is. Miss Mitchell’s case was a rare one, the only oug on record,and the medical fraternity became greutly interested in it. The doctor took one 'of these cylin- ders before o medical convention in Boston and the case was enthusiastically discussed. The learned physicians had the exact eymptoms before them as well as if Miss Mitchell herself had been there, and the theories and ideas adavanced by them assisted the young lady’s doctor in deciding upon the pro- per treatment, and toaay there is not a trace of her old afiliction remainiog. She was cured absolutely, *‘In the lawyer’s office it will also be found to be of almost indispensable ser- vico in the preparation of arguments, pleadiogs, briefs ana the hundreds of other matters a lawyer must attend to. It will preserve copies of judgments, dispositions, entries and documents of all kinds, and never make an evror in their reproduction. The business man must have it at hand. Tn the morning o stack of letters must be attended to, With one of these little machines on his desk he can take up each letter, read it, and at once talk a reply upcn the cylinder, avoiding the sm‘mu.() handling of the letters, thus economizing his own time, and saviog thatof a stenographer if he has one, as well as avoiding ,the possibiltiy of mistakes. Then the cylinders may be sent through the wail, or, at his con- venience, his clerk, in long hand or type-writer, can copy these dictations us fast or as elow as Lia copyist may de~ sive, and it will go back and vepeat as of- ten asdesired, Yes,Isay the phonograph must tuke the place of the office sten= ographer, and I will attempt to further enumerate the innumerable and diver- “sified uses which this instrument will perform in business, education and amusement.”