The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-02

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with 1t; we have had no other for many
years. and find it much more comfortable
and less tiresome than the rockers Of the
nineteenth century, to be seen in our city
museum at Dynamicville. "
"How, may ask, is the electricity gen.
Grated, for see you are using it extern
sively?"
Smiling at my ignorance, my new.
found friend arose, and as it was growing
dusk, lit an electric lamp, which hung
from the dome above, at the same time
saying: Yes, sir, we use electricity ex-
tensiV = all around here, having turned
the water power Of our river near the city,
which is but twelve miles distant, into an
electric generator, by means of powerful
dynamO-electric engine. We pay an an
pual rent to the company for the use Of
wires, and are charged according to the
amount Of power we use. Turn
Ing to the wall On which hung the bell
| like instruments and dials, which had per-
picked me, he said: put your ear to that
instrument and tell me what you hear "
| Applying the stethoscope-like article to
my ear. I was astonished to hear some
| thing jumping and bursting like pop corn.
| 1 cried, "What Is that3"
"Only the fall wheat in my forty-acre
patch terminating and sprouting in the
earth. +"
Wonders never ceasel" said I, apply
inganother bell to my ear, and again hear.
| inc similar sounds. as that also Wheat9"
asked, as the farmer applied his ear and
| listened attentively. mo, that is beans,
| and they are filling much too fast; to-mor-
| row morning l must send the hired hand
| to apply little of the new antidevelop-
ment guano, which has been lately intro
| duced; but hearken to what is going on
there" as he motioned towards another
| mouth apiece What you hear now is the
l nv hot
| passed coming to my farm.
Scarcely able to believe my ears, turned
| to one of the dials on which a hand was
| moving very slowly around, and asked,
what is this, sir, and what is its user"
THAT is sap-indicator and will tell you
the Tooth part of an ounce how much sap
rises daily in my sorghum cane, and this
instrument beside it is an anti-fermenta-
ton injector, patented by myself, to keep
| the sap in proper order before harvest
ing. ="
As he said this he noticed that [ was
pale and weary, and apologized for keep
ing me from rest, but before retiring I
could not resist asking of what material
the floor was made.
manufactured from the pulp of the
political papers read in the nineteenth
century but now trodden under foot "
Signing inwardly, I was shown the
apartment in which [ was to sleep, and
my host before wishing me goodnight,
mentioned that if l was so minded he
would be glad to exhibit few more of
his implements, ETC., in the morning, and
I could but answer that would feel much
obliged
| At sunrise next morning my couch
| gently slid me off into bath of deliciously
/ cool, fresh water, and being effectually
awakened without the usual preparatory
yawning / dressed, and was soon at the
| farmers side in the barnyard Greeting
him with a good morning, I said, "Al-
though l notice you have stubble fields,
there are no stacks.
| "Stacks!" he exclaimed, "why, my dear
sir, we know nothing about them nova
days; my grain was all cut by electricity,
before breakfast last Thursday, threshed
| by hydraulic pressure before noon, and
| delivered at Chicago on the same evening
through pneumatic tubes. But come
| along, sir, this morning we are about to
try new milking machine on our cows.
1t operates on fourteen at once, and may
interest you.
On our way to the cow-house a power
| full dynamo-engine was passed, hard al
work freezing ice hauling manure, split
ting posts, saving fence boards, husking
sweet corn, Matching chickens, shearing
| sheep and working combined press and
fodder from atwenty-acre field were being
compressed into few small boxes of hay
lozenges, one of which was sufficient tC
feed two-year-old steers for three day
Here come the cows, cried the
farmer, as the herd dashed past, driven by
an electrical dog, which Chartered aloBG
like rickety old wagon on ony r9SS
but was at once Gained by pressing but
ton on the barn door.
At this Moment tho accent for the milk
ing machine stepped up, and after greeting
said: Gentlemen, the machine which you
are about to witness in operation has
caused US much thought, and is calculated
to supercede the mechanical COW (paten
applied for which as yet has not proved
altogether successful; it also has the
| advantage of being well adapted fol
wringing, clothes, making cider, ant
draining sloughs, and was patented a
the same time as this useful little arti
Gle, drawing from his Waistcoat poke
as he spoke a machine for extracting
butter from pumpkin rinds. "But now
| gentlemen, we shall adjust our nilkinl
machine and note the result. So saying
he proceeded TO connect the milking ap
paratus with a series of wires attached t.
the dynamo engine, and having adjusted
the extractors on each of the fourteen
/ cows, he observed, Nov, you see all 1
ready and l am about to touch this spring
| which will cause an electric current 10 &C
on each of the fourteen udders; do not b,
afraid if the cows kick little at first
Now be prepared Ready! Ready! Co.!
And with the last word there was
flourish of tails and general stampede o
the electrified cattle; and awoke with ;
start, to find myself still in the nineteenth
century, sitting by the old rail fence in tn
: orchard, with a newspaper at my feet, il
which 1 had .been reading an ticle OF
J scientific agriculture before l fell asleep
and in the land of dreams was waited int
the farming of the. twentieth century
Rising sadly, look around; the sun wa
,, down, all nature overcast with solemn
! gloom, and the wind rustling mournfull.
! In the tall weeds, as the horses came slowl..
3 past with the last load of hay for tn
!. | right. Then picking up my paper sighet
| | deeply, and as I walked onward to tn
e house the old rail fence seemed to smil
. grimly at me as l passed, as if to say
! "Not yet. not yet my child"
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