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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-17
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.

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7;hM ia: Septeua Der -: steamer No. red +:
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NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, July 14.-Cotton futures opened
NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, La, July 14.-CottOn futures

II. = :.
Spot cotton closed quiet; middling uplands 10;
gulf l01a: sales = bales.
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IL LG ULAR.

| The Regular Procedure-First office
salary from tree ter five?
Second office boy--Well, I hain't fully
decided-'cept dat I'll take up golf
Puck.
A Championships Pinkerly-Don't
you think Mr.. Tutter, that Miss Van
Antler is beautiful girl?
Young Tutter-Yes, Miss Clara. But
you were no doubt just as beautiful at
her age.-Detroit Free Press.
Visitor-Say, are you de guy wot
treats fellers as gifts jagged?
DR.. Glitter-I treat inebriates,
Visitor-Well I'm one o. dem fellers,
an SEEM it's your treat, you kin gimme
a little whiskey.-Chicago News.
Benham-When two men quarrel there
is always woman at the bottom Of the
trouble
Mrs. Benham-I never heard any la
dys name mentioned in connection with
that Cain and Abel affair.-Brooklyn
Life
According to the story, three French
boys were studying volume of
Shakespeare in their own tongue, their
task being to render portions of it into
English. When they came to Hamlet's
famous soliloquy, ITO be or not to be"
their respective TRANSACTIONS were as fol-
lows: "a ITO was or not to ann" t2)
ITO were or is to not" (5) ITO should
or not to will. "--Harper's Young Peo-
pie.
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A RECORDING TELEPHONE.
Description of a Combination of the
Photograph and Telephone Which

Description of a Combination of the
Photograph and Telephone Which
| Writes Automatically.
The telephonograph Is. a. combination
of the photograph with the telephone,
and Is intended to take and record tel
| ephone messages by automatic means,
and, to a limited extent, give an an
swer in the same way. 1t is the inven-
| ton of Mr.. ]. Z. O. Kumberg, and an
| example of the instrument is to be seen
at the Office of Messrs II. F. Joel &
Co., 81 Wilson street, Finsbury. The
combination Is simple in general prin-
ciple, but some ingenious mechanism
has been introduced to make the work
ing effective. The message Is spoken
by the person sending 1t into the tele-
phone in the usual way, and the vibra-
lions set up by the voice are caused to
act upon a recording stylus by the i'm
pact of the sound waves. In this way
the wax cylinder in the Office of the
person spoken to is indented and a
phonogram is produced. This, of
course, can be read off at leisure In the
usual way. The vibrations are trans
mitted either directly or indirectly, in
the latter case an electrical current eff
fecting the object. A highly sensitive
transmitter of any well-known form is
used. II it is desired, the instrument
may be so arranged that two wax cyl
inders, or phonograms, may be in
scribed the one being in the Office Of
the sender, to be retained as a record,
on ~ AZ af l.
first being produced in the office Of the
receiver. To effect this end the trans
hitting instrument has two channels or
tubes for the sound waves produced by
speaking into the mouthpiece One of
these channels leads to the speaking or
recording diaphragm Of the instrument
at the transmitting station, which en-
graves them upon the phonogram
blank. At the same time Identical
sound waves are electrically conveyed
to the receiving instrument at the dis
tant station of the person spoken to-
and are there imprinted on another
blank. 1t is possible to
throw the photograph action out of
play and use the telephone in the ordi-
nary way.
Neither the telephone nor phono- |
graph is perfect in it's action, and un
practiced persons are apt at times to |
experience some difficulty in transla-
ing the sounds either one or the other
produces into articulate speech; and |
when the deficiencies of the two are
combined, difficulty is still more likely |
o arise, although proficiency is at
aimed to a remarkable degree by prac-
ice. In order to overcome this defect
special design of recording diaphragm .
ell has been devised by the inventor
t consists of a double-cell micro-dia-
phragm having two compartments, one
# which is fitted with a multiple or
ther suitable microphone diaphragm
Lisk, and the other with a sensitive
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engaged in great variety of employ
ments. She got five cents for washing
Mrs. Middleton's dishes, ten cents for
doing some sewing for her sister, five
cents from her uncle for keeping her
mouth shut five minutes, five cents for
killing three cats, fifteen cents for
sweeping the sidewalk in front Of two
stores ten cents for dressing up as a
darby and dancing the cakewalk, and
five cents for popping some corn. Miss
LYDIA Mills made fifty cents by mend
ing the harness and making new hall
ter for the cow. Miss Lettie Morrill,
got fifty cents for doctoring sick calf.
Such zeal as this is more commenda-
BILE than playing progressive euchre
prayer-meeting nights.
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| their own handouts and leg letters,
some of which were entirely new, and
of construction unknown at that time
to Houdini. Houdini stripped himself
stark naked. He was fettered by a po-
lice inspector. Four pairs of handouts
We're put on him, running high up on
his arms; his legs and ankles were fet-
tered together; short chain fastened
his handouts to his leg letters, and his
arms were fastened tight to his body
by means of a rope, Sixteen padlocks
of different sizes and kinds were used
in making the letters fast, and it re-
CURED nearly ten minutes to make all
secure. A cloth was then bound around
his mouth, so that he could not use
that and he was covered with a thick
cloth just at the spot where he hap
pened to stand on the stage. In six
minutes he threw off the covering cloth
and with the cloth still around his
mouth, stood free from every fetter--
every one Of the sixteen padlocks being
properly unlocked. 1 heard him say
one, evening that the unfastening 'is
nothing but trick" but it must be
confessed, that it Is clever one. Meth
er the police in Berlin nor here in
Dresden have been able to discover how
it is done. Among his other tricks
for he is a versatile fellow-one consists
in putting a dozen needles in his
mouth, and afterward a piece of silk
thread In a moment he pulls the
thread out Of his mouth with all the
needles threaded on it. Perhaps ma
ture-or art-has equipped him with an
extra pair of hands in the mouth
Hon. Watson r. Sperry's Dresden Let
ter to the Wilmington Morning News
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| Lord Salisbury has made another ex-
traordinary speech AT the Lord
Mayors banquet last evening, at which
nine hundred guests were present, in
Guiding United States Ambassador
Choate, the members of the British
cabinet and many of the leading men
of England, he had much to say that
was deeply interesting, and some that
was startling. In the course of his re-
marks he thus spoke of the election in
this country: I'VE believe that the
cause which has won is the cause of
civilization and commercial honor. We
believe those principles to be at the
root of all prosperity and all progress
in the world. Therefore we claim that
we have as much right to rejoice in
what has taken place as the distin-
guished gentleman referring to Mr.,
Choate) who sits at my side"
We suppose there are people in this
country who will be suspicious because
an Englishman like Lord Salisbury is
pleased by the victory of Tuesday. But
many Others will allow his right to be
pleased, and will feel that he well
stated the cause of his rejoicing.
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FINANCIAL TON,

The Republican platform contained a
demand for further legislation 10 es-
| tablish a sound financial system, but
the talk in Washington is that the Adj
ministration will make no move in that
direction for another year. at least.
For one thing, the fact that the Finance
act of March ID was passed by the
present Congress might make it at least
indiscreet to ask the same congress to
amend that statute; for another thing,
there is feeling among some Of the
men who most strongly urged the en-.
actment of the new law that it would
BIZ well to let it rest awhile and test its
working thoroughly before entering
upon a campaign to change it in any
important particulars; finally, 1t is re-
membered that the present congress
will be in session only three months, in
Guiding a holiday recess, and that into
that period II must crowd whatever
consideration it is to give to the inter-
oceanic canal, shipping subsidies, army
reorganization, codes Of law for the
new colonies, etc, in addition to the
regular grist of appropriation bills.
But it Is expected that whatever Is
needed will be done when congress
meets in thirteen months from now.
Then there will be time to work in, and
the situation will be palmer.
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EXPERIENCE WITH DE WET.
How British Troops Were Captured at
Sannas Post.

How British Troops Were Captured a
Sanna's Post.
I first met Christian De Wet on thu
march to Sanna's Post
We had started away back about
/ Winburg and were pushing rapidly
I purposefully south. What reason there
/ was in the movement no man among
us know. All we-the foreign military
1 attaches and couple of correspond
! ents-could say was that we had been
warned that an important movement
was on foot and we had received invi-
| tations to accompany the commandant-
generals advance.
Such breathing spaces as we had
were italicized with queries
Where was De Wet bound?" WAS
he going to cut the line?' Was the
Beers mad dream of an attack upon
Bloemfontein to be put to the test?"
We asked and wondered, but none
found an answer. The attaches began
to be FESTIVE as the third sun fell on
our forced march, and my friend and
travelling comrade, Captain Reichmann
the United States attache rode forward
to ask the silent man at the head Of
the struggling cavalcade his intentions.
II do not know" was the only reply;
and we jerked our brides as we rode on
into the darkening night.
Christian De Wet Is man of Moltke-
like taciturnity. Long since his gov
eminent ceased to ask him for dis
patches, and the news of his victory
was communicated to Kroonstadt and
Pretoria by a chance sergeant of scouts.
Middle aged middle sized, middle
broad and middle complexioned, De
Wet attracts one only by the bright
restlesSness of his eye. Like bird, he
notes everything within circumfer-
entail horizon. He Is the highest de-
velopment of the Boer hunter, as LOU
is Botha is the highest development of
the Boer soldier.
He knows nothing of the manoeuv-
ring of troops, of the marshalling of
brigades, of the handling of an army.
He is but a blunt Boer peasant, who
knows every yard Of his native coun-
try and can adjudee the strengths and
weaknesses of a position at a glance.
He fights always or "the passive Of
fensive," waiting for his enemy to make
a move, and bouncing upon him at the
place and time Of his greatest weak
ness.
He has no orderly idea of his own
tactics. Days after a battle / have
waited upon him and failed utterly to
recognize his plans and description of
a fight we have seen together. To him |
an opposing army is a herd of spring.
box, with capacity for inflicting in |
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disk of glass. This receives the undu-
lations produced by the sound waves
and communicates them to the record
ing stylus. Below the glass diaphragm
Is guard, which serves to confine the
sound, and also as a shield against the
scraptns noise which the stylus makes
by cutting into the wax cylinder. One
OF the most important features of the
Invention is floating weight con-
Crolled by a spring which is attached
by means of pivoted lever and a fine
wire to the two disks, already men
toned, of the double-cell micro dia-
phragm The pivoted lever carries the
recording and reproducing tools by
which the sound vibrations are respec-
lively engraved upon or reproduced
from the wax cylinder. The action Of
the weight is to give additional power,
or perhaps, rather, additional certainty
and steadness TO the cutting and re-
producing TOOLS Such weights have
! before been used to supply what may
/ be described as a fiywheel effect, thus
enabling the cutting tool to overcome
any Irregularities in the composition of
the wax The weight, however, is apt
| to rebound through it's own momentum,
and thus defeat the end for which 1t Is
provided. To overcome this defect
spiral spring is fitted in the machine
under notice, with the result that the
jumping or vibratory motion is damped.
1t is claimed that by this devce a deep
er cut is made in the wax cylinder
than has before been obtained and the
~ Il tJ,o i,
thereby made more perfect.
We lately had an opportunity of test
ing this invention to the extent Of
transmitting a message from one room
TO another adjoining, although the
length of wire represented a considera-
bic distance. AS reproduced by means
of the phonogram, on which the mes
sage was recorded, the words were dis
tinctly audible, the result being equal
to that of an ordinary monograph
Mr., Higgins, chief engineer to the Ex-
change Telegraph company, has tested
the apparatus over line FIVE miles in
length. He reports that under favora-
BILE circumstances articulation is good,
the impression on the cylinder beng as
deep as the Impressions made when
speaking into an ordinary photograph"
Large battery power is needed and a
reinforcing current is required at the
receiving and registering line.
In regard to the practical utility of
the apparatus, those who have had ex-
perience with the telephone and the
monograph will be able to judge from
the description here given. 1t would be
most applicable in small offices where a
limited staff is employed. Thus is the
office Is left without an attendent and
a call is made, the photograph can be
so set as to reply, 'Mr. - is out"
The instrument is fitted with a tele-
which will automatically
tage down any message you may send,
and Mr.. - will read 1t on his re-
turn" The arrangement of the me-
rhanism is such that any number of
messages up to an aggregate of fifteen
thousand words may be taken in this
way.-London Times.
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Little Sorry for Bryan.

To the Editor Of the Journal and Courier:
An old lady, subscriber to the Jour
nal and Courier Tor many years, a good
Republican--only ninety years of age,
notwithstanding her joy over President
McKinley's reelection, is still just a
little sorry for Bryan, and gives us the
following parody on Cock Robin:
All the birds of the air
Fell to sobbing and signing,
When they heard the bell toll
For poor Billy Brying.
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HIS Trouble.

He never bet on politics,
He never rocked boat;
He never walked ON hands and knees
Before Il William goat
He never aimed an empty gun
AT any PERSONS head;
He hardly ever said thing
He wished he hadn't said.
He never signed his name to things
That might bring future shame,
lie never put up money on
Another fellows game;
He never ran to catch a car
And lost his peace of mind
And got all Mustered the next
Was just block behind.
But through the night he often tossed
Upon a sieepless bed,
And in his aching head was doubt
And in his heart was dread:
He worried as he thought about
Old Jonah and the whale,
And wondered If one might be saved
Who disbelieyed the tale.
S. q. Klser in Chicago Times Herald.
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UrHERN COTTON MENACED.

Cotton has surely been king this year.
10 coming when United States cotton
wont be king. Russia seeks to become
independent of our cotton fields and is
developing an immense cotton growing
industry In Turkestan, whence 100000
bales were last year supplied to Russian
mills Since 1880 cotton manufacture
has been fostered by high tariff rates,
and the government looks forward to
the time when Russian manufacturers
will import no more cotton from Ameri-
publication ain the near future probably
the greater part of the Russian cotton
raw material" The arid plains of Tur-
kestan, If irrigated under Russian SUI
lieved, in unlimited quantity. Similar
effort to become independent of the
AlItiltdl dPPcdlo III WeSl fAlli-
ca, where the German government is
testing the cotton growing capacity Of
the country and is said to be contem-
plating the Importation Of Tuskegee stu
dents with view to obtaining capable
cultivators. East Africa is being ex-
plotted in like manner Meanwhile the
cotton-growing industry thrives in
Egypt and the completion of the new
dam across the Nile will add very large
ly to the production of that country by
the water needed to irrigate
a large area now uncultivated.
All that will hold the cotton of our
States in the proud position it
has long occupied will be such an in
crease in the worlds demand that the
supply wont be relatively any more
abundant than it is now.
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GOOD work BY GOOD WORKERS.

y.
When Kansas women set out to do
church work they don't allow anything
to stand in their way The Methodist
church in Oxford found itself In need of
money, and the women supplied the
need. The other day they held an ex-
perience meeting at which they told
how they earned the contributions they
made. Miss Mary Dobbs started out to
do some janitor work, but got tired and
sub contracted the job, though saving
for herself margin of profit. Mrs. M.
Collins said that one night she was
wondering how she was going to earn
any money, when her husband came in
very tired and said he would give a
quarter to have his feet bathed. She
A few days later her husband was tear
ing around the house hunting for his
overshoes and said he would give half
a dollar to know what had become Of
them. She told him she had sold them
to the rag man, and demanded the half
This made seventy-five cents of her dol
lar, and the other twenty-five cents she
got by making three sunbonnets. Mrs
Bay calcimined her own house and saw
ed the dollar which an old colored man
demanded for the job. Mrs. Frederick
Barnes picked peaches and washed
dishes for a neighbor. Miss Zulu Cole
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WHAT HE CAN DO WITH HAND
CUFFS,

"A young man who calls himself Hou-
DIM is now doing some wonderful
things with handouts over here in the
variety theaters. He is very decent
looking fellow in the face, but his
hands are abnormally developed, |
believe that he is an American. His
performances have awakened so much
attention that he was invited a while
ago to go to Berlin for the purpose Of
showing the police authorities of that
city what he could do. They bound
him fast, covered him with a thick
cloth, and in a few moments ne ap-
peared unfettered. A few days later
the police authorities of this city gave
him trial. They brought with them
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other stnai
sert:on. Five Cents Word for full week
tseven times).
Display advertisements, per inch. one IN,
serrion, $i.20; each subsequent incer'ion. ~
Giants; one week, 800; one month, $40: one
year. $40. -
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. ID
cents ler tine. Notices OF Births, Marri-
ages. Deaths. and Funerals. so cents eaen'
local Notices. Is cents per line
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business (al matter 70 ne
understandable, ard their contracts 90 NOT
include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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In summing up the farm season in
Massachusetts,, the secretary Of the
State board of agriculture pronounces
OF IA correspondents responding, only
43 regard the year as profitable in agri-
culture Too dry
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Clerk-Perhaps you'd like to look at
some goods little more expensive than
these.
Shopper-Not necessarily, but l would
like to look at some of better quality
Philadelphia Press
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Experiments at the New Jersey
Agricultural Experiment Station show
that the proper use of irrigation will
make crops to yield almost double their
usual supply
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The Russian government has modified
the law relating to the purchase and
sale of gold in bars, nuggets, or dust.
Hitherto in the gold bearing regions,
only authorized mine owners, whose
names were duly entered in%the regis
tiers of the Mining department were
permitted to be in possession of the I'M
coined metal. In Siberia this restric-
ton led to an enormous traffic in con-
traband gold. The greater part. of it
was disposed of to Chinese and convey
ed to China. The new regulations allow
gold to be purchased by other bodies
than the State Mining department, as,
for example, the Imperial Bank and the
Russo Chinese bank. 1t is expressly
stated that no inquiry shall be made
as to where the metal came from, which
puts in on the same level as any other
article of merchandise. 1t will no long
er be possible for a man found in pos
session of the raw gold to be imprison-
ed, and the metal confscated. The
change is thought to be connected with
the seizure of the rich gold fields on the
Chinese side of the River Amur, about
five hundred miles above BlagoVest-
chensk. The Chinese town of Makho,
which was the center of the gold mining
industry there was utterly DESTROYED in
the recent operations in Manchuria AS
it has never been possible to prevent
Illicit trade in uncoined gold in Siberia,
the Russian authorities probably recog- |
nized the hopelessness of blocking the |
traffic in a country so unsettled as |
Manchuria.
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The statement is made that whereas
lean telephone development next year
will see not less than $20O,0000O0 laid
out
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Experienced patent medicine men,
says a gossipper in the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, admit the impossi-
bility of predicting when the turning
point will be reached in booming any
new remedy. The amount sunk in ex-
plotting two articles before returns
come in may vary 100000 In my
opinion, the name has good deal to
do with getting a demand started. If
1t is hard to remember or hard to pro-
nounce it Is undoubtedly serious
handicap, and, on the contrary, a
catchy, simple title, just odd enough to
stick to ones memory, is in itself an
advertisement worth thousands of dol
lars. I have a house in mind that
spent good sized fortune trying to
popularize tablet preparation with
queer Indian title that no two people
pronounced in exactly the same way.
1T was a good thing and cleverly put
before the public, and 1t failed, solely,
/ think, because people were reluctant
to ask for it for fear of making them
selves ridiculous by butchering the pro-
nunciation. That's point about which
the average customer is very sensitive"