The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-20

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been garnered from every point of the CON-
pass, there to be put into shape for Tho
morning and evening editions? Is il unrea'
sonable to presume that the time is fast an.
preaching when our journals will have
/ HOURLY ISSUES,
instead of dailyt As population increase,
events thicken and the thirst for news GROWS
apace, will not such issues become one Of tbo
necessities of the ageI Is it too much ia
believe that the stores Of o,dav will
give way to news'depots and where NAV he
had these
PAPERS FOR PENNIES
instead ofnickles, so that the minds of nh
the people, rich and poor, men and women
may become entirely familiar with all the
shifting scenes in the drama of life on its uni
versal stager Is it too much to predict that
ina little while some great metropolitan Jour.
nal, or journals combining, will establish Ike
the railroads their feeders, their chain of
great dailies from and 10 themselves by thu
tounoing of branch offices for the grand
trunk lines Of thought, and thus simultaDe.
ously
PUBLISH DUPLICATED PAPERS
in every large city in the Union. Thus when
it is 4 d. IN. in New York the repeated news
travelling westward will reach San Francisco
just after midnight Of tie same date.
We might go on and give full sweep to the
piniOns Of our fancy in its sugges.
tons at the illimitable, might portray
brilisnt colorng; all varieties of the pos
Utilities of the press Of the future,
nut we desire on this occasion to suppose
my that which is freed from pure irnastins-
Ion's outlinings, and to discuss merely the
probable base upon the Accomplishments of
he past. Most of US can remember that
only q few years ago the idea of transmitting
messages by electricity over wires was re,
ceived with smile by the quid nuncs, and
that later still the proposition to use old
oceans bottom as the resting bed for the
cable was sneered at as the idle scheme of a
visionary Five years ago but few would
have believed that men miles apart would
CONVERSE WITH ONE ANOTHER,
each heating the others words in exact VOL
urne and distinetest accentuation. Yet TO-
day this is an accomplished fact. And, at
the same time ago, fewer still would have
believed that by the mere turning of little
era k, by chill the words Of men, the
notes of bird, the sweet harmony of must
cal instruments could be registered and pre-
served for any length of time and for repro
duction AT will by even our grandchildren.
Yet the renowned Wizard of Menlo Park
has transformed The sneer of incredulity into
the gsze of astonishment So far a. we
know there has as yet been no inven-
ton furnished to take the placa of
the composi,or Mt his case. Like the picking
OF cotton, the nimble fngers OF the human
being seem to be the only things that can do
the work, but it is entirely within the range
ofpvsioility Lhats
TYPEsETrING MACHINE
or some magnetic or other device will
yet be produced that will drive the compos-
itor TO the editors desk, the reporters daily
round, or into other avocations Of life.
Again we know that photography has
been brought to that state Of perfection that
the race-horse ms he courses in his inspiring
struggles for victory over the turf is depicted
in his every movement and position of body,
that the spokes in the wheel of bis sulky in
its lightning velocity of revolution are pre-
cisely reproduced by means of the in
Simultaneous drop" by the operator, and
can it be asserted that this remarkable art
will not yet become one of the requirements
for the production of the newspaper of the
future
And so we might 60 on ad infnitum, for
we know not what hidden mysteries lie in the
womb Of the coming era. Golden as is the
glare Of to-day, effulgent with all our ad
vancement, it may be but as the stellar light
nov to the splendors that will halo the time
of
GENERATE OR SO TO COME.
We know that the radiance that shone upon
the hills and temples of earth in the early
dawn of creation and in the cycles that fol-
lowed, WAS but as the misty twilight, was but
rs the darkened gloom of n polar night to the
glory Of the corona Of the eclipse
of our age, over it. 1t is but legitimate in
ference, therefore, that the achievements of
the next century will contrast with those of
The present as do those of the present with
he past
Gentlemen ofthe Convention, toward the
Of all these things, may it vet be
accorded that the Press Association of Texas
las contributed its full quota of assistance.
Besides this, we have peculiarly important
mission to fulfill. This great Empire State
leeds the aid of each and every one of us for
he advertisement of her capacities and the
protection of her fair name. Let us be equal
o the demand, and to this end may true
pirit of cooperation and determination ever
prevail amongst us.