The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-09-18


take time to write out bills and
receipts. The sheet of paper on
which he writes a letter must be
headed with his name, business,
and address. Indeed, he can not
take time to write letters; they
must be printed by typewriter
He can not dictate his letters in
the old way stenographer must
rapidly take down what Is to be
said Now we have large army
of stenographers and type-writers,
until quite recently unknown,
many of them ladies who become
quite expert in the business and
receive fair compensation for their
services. All this hns an eleyat-
ing tendency and the machine is
made to do the laborious part Of
the work.
Since the price of printing has
been so much reduced by rapid
production, we notice printing
firm in Philadelphia has an order
for nearly a million dollars worth
of work. One item calls for
eighty millions of thirty-two-page
pamphlets; another for four hun
bred millions of four-page eireu-
lars 1t will require more hands
to handle such an order as the
above than would have been re-
quired in the days when every
thing was done by hand, for the
quantity then would been thous-
ands instead of millions. The
machine upon which the work
will be done issues five thousand
completed pamphlets every hour
1t is not set to work ON smaller
order than three hundred thous-
and copies of any pamphlet.
An article i'll the T'crtiic Record,
discussing the subject, says; Take
the carpet industry. Not unlike
ly, ten thousand yards of carpet
are now made where one yard was
made hundred years ago. But,
instead of there being an overplus,
, mEEUdF 9t markham find employ
are cheaper than ever before, and
ten Thousand people have carpets
all over their houses where one
had them century earlier.
When Benjamin Franklin print
ed his newspaper he could work
} off from his press five hundred or
six hundred copies a day. A sin
gle modern press will print that
: many in fifteen minutes. The re-
suit is n stupendous multiplication
of printed matter. With what re-
, suit? The whole mass is readily
consumed. There are millions of
readers where once there were
dozens, and the trades which con
tribute to the printing industry
2 give profitable work to other mil
lions of laborers. The loeomo-
tive has chenpened, assisted, and
T. increased travel, and tie prospect
of increase appears really to be
boundless. The sewing machine
has simply created an ineXhausti-
bic demand for sewing, and sup
piled women with a chance to earn
, wages. The steam engine has
multiplied the demand for power
2 and that, too, is still far within the
+ capacity of men to consume pow
7 er. The telegraph has quickened
2 the desire Of men to communicate
with one another. The swift pow.
er loom has created desire fol
more clothing, and loom building
has not reached its last Dimensions
The rule proyerb by experience
in every direction is that the en-
largement of the power to produce
. IS always followed by increase OF
r. the power to consume.
The minister wife sat on the
o front porch mending the clothes
|, Of one of her numerous progeny
4 A neighbor passing that way stop
- ped on n friendly chat. \ large
: work-basket half full of button.
o. sat on the floor of the porch
= After various remarks Of a gossip
- nature, the visitor said:
"You seem to be well supplied
q with buttons. Mrs. Goodman
i eyes, very we'll, indeed"
- "My gracious if there oin't TIVE
~ Tho aotyn buttons that my Inns