Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-12-15

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gong to buy one Of them-one OF the ma.
chimes. | mean. You will be interested -
learn how the phonograph is being Used
for teaching languages, also in Commercial
life. The man Of business talks bis com.
munications into the Instruments month.
piece. Later, the typewriter, at her leisnre
hangs the tubes In her dainty ears. and
dented wax gives back the words of the
man of business, and the typewriter nnts
the matter into letter. Or the way cylin-
Ger Is talked full, sent off by mail and the
words reproduced at the most distant point
1t seems like witchcraft.
Perhaps you would like to talk into Il
yourselfF the pretty girl asked in the
sweetest tones after she had treated me to
cyiinoer after cylinder of songs and br,ss
bands and exercises in the German Ian.
guage
SAID thought it would be nice. So she
put brand new wax cylinder ON the ma,
chine, nicely adjusted the mechanism and
oade me speak into the moutbpiece.
never felt 30 bashful In my life.
don't know what to say,n I STAN.
merea after looking vacantly into the
mouthplece and then around The building
ana then into the bright eyes of the at
tendant Suppose you begin"
90 sne uttered few remarks, and one or
two other people took hold of the thing
and saidesomething, looking foolish all the
while. Then likewise took hold again.
Say what you think of the phono.
Eraph." suggested the young woman. see
ing that felt my position keenly.
The monograph is--the-the pbono.
graph is--a"-I began In frightened tone
You must speak louder" she explained
80! spoke louder, but didn't know what
said, and even sang feeble little verse
Till people who had been listening began tn
move away, with wearied look on their
taces' and the young lady shut of the
power.
Now, II you will listen through the
tubes, she continued, "you will hear re-
peated all that has been spoken into it.n
so l hearkened. The little macbine
buried and whizzed and then began talk.
ing. | recognized the young lady,s re-.
marks, and what the other people had said
every note and syllable exactly renro.
duced, and then the thing began to STAN.
mer and halt and give forth what seemed
to be the remarks of young man with red
hair and blue necktie, who, never HAVING
been in public life, is unexpectedly elected
to preside at parish meeting and has r.
return thanks for the honor conferred unon
him. There were some hemmin9s md
hawings, and a num- Der of whistline noises
interspersed with eloquent pauses. and 7
could hear the instrument break forth into
cold perspiration as it finished the RI.
marks. Chen I put the tubes carefully
down.
u am to understand, am |, that those
concluding stanzas represent what spoke |
into the machine2" asked IT a. mild and |
inoffensive tone.
Just the same," the young lady replied.
with faraway look In her eye.
My tones, my words-everythinga"
Everything" she said.
So that explains it. | know now wbv
people do not aspire to sing oftener. Iun-
derstand why they do not ask me to sing
"Oh, Promise Me" and Daddy Won't Buy
Me Bowwow," and such things at con.
certs, and why nobody ever comes to me
when the regular tenor is away and asks
me to take his place fer Sunday in the
choir have felt hurt about these things
and thought was kept down by jealousy.
but now my mind is cleared of a misunder
standing that might have lain upo1 it for
ever had not Mr.. Edison invented his pho
nograph. How grateful l am to him.
And do | understand" l said to the
young lady. that this cylinder upon which
nave imprinted these remarks can be pre-
servedf
For centuries" she answered.
And my voice, with the information it
fails to convey, reproduced indefinitely"
While the world lasts" she said.
But" l pursued, getting anxious, "I
understand you can pare off that wax cyl.
nder. destroying the evidence, and use it
or more vital purposes. Am righti
Quite right" she observed.
"Mias Edison" said in a trembling
voice, VI am not rich, as 1nen count riches,
tut here is S1.5U'-
"Give yourself no uneasiness;" the young
ady rejoined. II shall destroy the cylin.
Ter. We always do"
And 10 came away. You will never
lnow what weird, uncanny thing is your
'wn voice until 1t comes out of a phono
sraph. You think you know its sound, )
'ut the sound you hear when you speak is
lot what You bore other people with.
l shall try not to talk 30 much hereafter
w. o. Fuller, Jr., in Rockland IN. "
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