Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-21
Price Four Cents.


the Singer management and the most won-
 derful features of the business are in the office
 work and in the skillful handling of the vas
 army of agents and salesmen that it has over the world. The system of bookkeeping and reports is simply perfect. Weekly returns are made to the home office from every part
 of the world, returns giving every detail of | the stupendous business. At any rate the president can upon brief notes get the consoI- idated condition of the whole business or the details of any part of it. The stationery alone to run all this amounts to the large sum of $75, 900 yearly. The simplicity and yet adaptability of the forms and blanks used are admirable. The receipts and expenditures are thus so often scrutinized and so guardedly watched that leaks are stopped immediately
 If any branch or segment of the business | falls off at any point, the cause is inquired into and the trouble remedied immediately Thus every instrumentality is kept moving | forward.
 There are 4, 4,5oo agencies of the Singer in the world and these agencies and the man ufactories give livelihood to 5000 workmen directly. These agencies extend to every main point in Europe and America, and som parts of Asia and Africa and Australia The l company has in use 8, 900 horses and as many wagons in it's service The most critical care l IS used in the selection of agents, to get faithful, capable, gentlemanly representa- | tives.
 In summing up about this grand company | we find several vital facts. Mir. Singer be- i queatszal to the coT9oration a machine of | splendid merit, simple, durable, light-running easy to keep in order, capable of every spe- cies of work, and of unsurpassed work at that | This was the basis of success. The machine was good thing and test has but proven it. It is but just to say that success has been an overwhelming victory upon merit The company has been fortunate in it's manage ment from the start-R management as bril- liant and sound as we think we have ever known.
 Perhaps the most vital consideration at last of continued success lies in this: ma chine is bought for lifetime. Its homey music and benefcent ministrations not sought for an hour or a day or year even, but for long and useful years. The machines of new origin or of weak companies may soon fall useless upon our hands, because their appH- ances of needles and shuttles, etc.. cannot be obtained. The investment is worthless and new purchase must be made. But with the Singer, the long established, the eternal Singer, the worlds marts of commerce swarm with the Singer wares, and he who buys this popular, peerless machine, does so with the confident certainty that fashions may come and go, and ephemeral favorite machines of the day may pass into temporary favor and then permanent disuse, but in all time to come as the world is unsteady humming in ham, let and palace to the rythmical clatter of the Singers ubiquitous and all conquering nee-
 
 the multiplied little tools that render "a ma chine available. The writer has twice in a decade of years had to sacrifice a good ma chine because it's manufacture ceased and the running gear was not obtainable. Since the Singer was established 150 new machines have been started of which not five per cent. are now in use. This is an mastering prac- tical consideration, and the Singer must sweep the world upon it.
 As to the future of this imperial company H. e..I- stretch is illimitable. It is bringing the world under it's humanitarian supremacy car rying its gladsome relief to the women and the homes of the whole creation.
 Burdett's Version of ssLa SOnnambu-
 The fat passenger, who is the only musical man in the caravan, told us on our way down to the train that 'La Sonnambula wasn't the operaest kind of an opera. He said it was light, and he talked to us about e'forid passa- ges," and brilliant effects" and ''unsympa- thetic' voices, and 'tfexibility," and Mile. Mramon's embellishments" and 'svocaIiza- tion,' and s'technique," and lease of execu- tion," and "perfection of finish, until we be- gan to suspect that he must be the fellow who used to report home talent concerts in the Wapekoneta Daily Trombone.
 s'As nearly as catch the rat, " said the pas senger with the sandy goatee, "Amina, who has no last name, is gone upon Elvino, whoseL Seymour coat is as short as his trousers, who in his turn is just mashed Amina. Lisa, the lady who keeps the tavern, entertainment for man and beast is also just paralyzed over Elvino, and on the wedding day she displays vicious propensities and gives her own lover the shake. Elvino and Amina are married in the off-hand manner peculiar to the opera. During the festivities the count, Rodolph, ar rives Nobody knows him He left thss place when he was two years old, but he is now melted to tears by the sight of the old, well remembered scenes, and in faltering tones he declares that he remembers every thing and everybody. He expresses his de- light by doing little promiscuous hugging and kissing, carefully emitting all the old and all the homely women, habit that is sngu- iarly characteristic of all patriarchal kisses. Then he says he would like a room with a fire in it and carpet on the feor, if they have such a thing in the house. In order to con- ceal his identity he registers as 'Rodolph w. Dangerfeld, Danger county, Nevada, and the Iandlady, Lisa, asks him to admire the colors in chromo labelled, Guests without baggage arc required to pay in advance,' while she prepares the chandelier for his apartment by sticking tallow candle in split potato. She then shows him nice room on the first floor under the roof The count walks up to the door to read the Rules, as his custom always is and he starts of with
 "1. Persons engaging rooms will be charged for them from the time they are 
 them not
 "'2. All bills settled weekly
 "'3. The proprietors will not be responsi- ble for money, jewelry and valuables, unless, etc.
 "And he got down as far as Gas burned af- ter 12 o'clock will be charged extra, which is always printed in the largest letters in hotels that use candles, when Lisa, the landlady, came in the room to see if he wanted water, soap and towels in the morning. as they would kI.-4 ,A 1,aok hIraca All fn- ward her for all the world like the advance agent of great moral circus. They are in terrupted, however, by the entrance of Amina. She is sound asleep. She carries lighted candle in her hand. She has climbed up the lightning rod and she comes in at the third story window. Lisa hides in the wash stand, but afterward gets out of the room unobserv- ed Amina sings around the. room for while, and finally tumbles upon the counts bed.
 ''Then the villagers come pouring into the room to pay their respects to the count They recognize Amina. They say, 'Traditricep 'Tisoostap r Va, spergiural Non pia nozzep which means, 'Aha we knew it always told you so!' Didn't say she was that kind of girl P Fifty dollars or ten days, Amina. In the confusion Aminas mother picks up Lsa's handkerchief which she had dropped when she fled from the room It is a white veil in the text of the opera, but 1t was bright Turkey red kerchief that Lisa dropped last night. The scandal is 8 godsend to the villagers. They talk of nothing else for ten days. The newspapers get hold of it. Elvino published statement Then the count pub iished card. Amina endorsed both state- ments Then she published a card denying both of them, and explaining her endorse ment. Then Elvino published another true statement denying his first one, and making worse one. Then Amina made confession, in which she said she wasn't there, and didn't know anything about it. Then the count came out in an affidavit, swearing that he was not guilty, but that he would not do it again Finally Elvino decided to marry Lisa, when Geresa bounced in at the wedding, and show ed the turykey red silk handkerchief. The count held that by the rules of evidence this was the white veil Lisa dropped in the counts room, and poor Elvino had just made up his