Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

Inc original Quakers in pennss1v.,,a
were shareholders. They not onlv MA
slaves, but they bought and sold ths,n ~
Ter the most approved West Afrirs, Ma,
Ihs traffic shocked four good Mannn'
hltes, who drew up the protest printea 4,
tnis quaint old book and sent h ~ ~
yearly meeting Of the Friends One ~
Tue -FOUR signatures to the protest X C;er-
III Hendricks, who was direct ancestor
OF the late yice-president, whose form has
lust been committed to the sacred soil ~
MS adopted state. II was the very arst
Nritten protest ever uttered IN America
against human slavery. 1t bears date the
loth Oh April, 1858, q date that now De.
serves 10 rank with January 1, 1868. ana
other great landmarks In American chro.
biological history.
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There is widespread dissatisfaction
Vn,ohghout the country over the, OK.
oroltant eNactions of the telephone
monopoly. These instruments have oe-
come necessary convenience In modern
civilization, and II is outrageous that a
lew men should be able to coin millions
IN year or two out Of them. II Is quite
rignt that inventors should be rewarded
nut When It comes to slinning Peter
otherwise the people, In order TO stuff
the pockets of Paul, the time is certainly
ripe Tor at least a protest on the part OF
the aforesaid Peter. No doubt the Pauls
can stand II, but it Is not the Pauls any
more than IL Is the Jay Goulds that the
people OF this country Eve, move and
nave their being We are not peeping
ABOUT beneath the colossal legs Of these
monopolists, though an uninitiated for
eigner might think we were doing
precious near that very thing, as in truth
we have been. But a day OF reckoning is
ahead OF usa-and ahead OF the monopo-
lists.
During the past week over two hundred
telephones have been ordered out at
worcester, nearly AS many more in Troy,
while there are signs of an incipient re-
volt among telephone subscribers
throughout the entire North. In Boston
the rate per single instrument is $500 per
year with $50 for all private wires. This
Is robbery, pure and simple,
BY the way, Alexander Graham Bell has
a residence here in Cambridge, though
he has not lived here, except few weeks
each summer, for several years. The
story of his inyention-provided he in
vented and did not steal his idea-is
most interesting one. He was young
Harvard student with penchant for
mechanics and philosophy. Being poor
he hired out TO Gardner Hubbard,
wealthy private citizen of Cambridge, as
a tutor to Hubbard's daughter, who was
a deaf mute. He was TO give
only his spare time TO the girl, the bal
ance being his own to continue his college
course. He pursued his philosophical re-
searches, however, and one day in trying
to communicate with his deai-mute pupil,
the idea of a telephone was suggested to
him. He went to work and, il his story
is true, was successful. At any rate he
secured patent and the patent has
brought him wealth. 1t is doubtful II 1t
would have done so, however, had 1t not
been for Gardner Hubbard. Hubbard
saw the possibilities of the invention and
was shrewd enough--which Bell was not
to keep things in his own hands. SO
when Bell fell in love With his deaf-mute
pupil and the deaf-mute returned the
feeling, Hubbard readily agreed to the
inventor becoming his son-in-law Miss
Hubbard became Mrs, Bell, the two men
went into partnership and are now
millionaires, with residence here, one
ut Bar Harbor, and spacious mansion in
Washington.
Whether Bell invented the telephone or
not is an open question, He has, at any
rate, realized millions from it, and pos
session IS nine full points in the American
business world.
The days of the telephone monopoly are,
however, about over | was recently
shown phone, perfect in every respect,
that has been tested between Albany and
Chicago over line on which induction
was particularly bad, yet it worked TO per-
fiction. 1t has been patented, as it is on
an entire different principle from the
Bell. There is still another invention,
on still another principle, that is now
being put to practical use. These are
not toy affairs, gotten up, like so many
others, to be sold out to the Bell-Edison
monopoly, but are genuine inventions,
and within year will be in general use.
1t matters not what the result of the Bell
suits now pending may be, the days Of ex-
orbitant telephone rental charges are,
happily, about over.
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Canon Farrar is now on the ocean on
his way home from what must have been
to him, as it was to those who came in
contact with him, most delightful ex-
perleuce. Canon Farrar is one OF the few
Englishmen to-day who fully understand
the Americans. He is broad-minded, both
in church and state matters. II is visits
such as his that will do more than
any other one thing to bring the
two great English-speaking nations into
closer union, to their mutual social and
commercial advantage.
On a Sunday morning in 1880 three
Americans, mailing from widely separated
states, were having a more or less agree
able tete-a-tete in the reading-room OF the
Hotel Langham, London. One was an
ex-mayor Of New Orleans, another a lead
ing Baptist divine of the South and a pro-
lessor in the state university OF North
Carolina, and the third was admiral -
your humble servant. Naturally, Ameri-
can topics were uppermost, and, what
was equally to be expected, the CONVERSE
ton took a political turn. When Lincoln's
name was mentioned, the Lousianian,
,,;+h ,yhat xyag very like q Sneer, said: