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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14
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ty to realize what the adding and listing
I The new generation of bookkeepers are learning
the things described in this book.
1t is significant fact that 200 of the lead
ing business schools colleges and universities have
that they are teaching their students how to apply
the machine to accounting methods, shortening
the work, increasing the accuracy. These schools
feel the demand for clerks who know how to get
more and better work done in a given length of
time.
4 They meeting it.
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Il At first some bookkeepers prided themselves on
the fact that they could get along without a
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could not use these ideas to the betterment of his
work-not one that could not do his work more
quickly, easily, more accurately, as result
of applying some of the suggestions.
I Thousands of Burroughs bookkeepers know
this-admit it gladly and are getting better pay
because they have gained time and opportunity in
which to do more and better work-for every word
on every page shows an opportunity to do more
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14

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ness experience.
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ment-it gives you something for nothing because
you can save time by using the idea without the
Burroughs-but you can save two to five times as
much time and all the work and worry, by using
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T If you never used Burroughs you'll think this
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sentative and modest estimate of the value of
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01

of the telegraph among all advanced
countries, for the reason that our
rates have been so high. The coming
of a low rate, with prompt, accurate
by mechanical means, will vastly in
crease the number of kilograms.
"Static Force" Overcome.
The fundamental feature of the De-
lany invention is the overcoming of
graphic wire. This force has hereto
fore largely nullifed the success of
automatic biography. The machines
invented by Patrick B. Delaney con-
sist of perforating apparatus with
punches operating magnetically on a
tape. These punches respond to a
keyboard similar to a typewriter key
board, and when made are fed
through transmitter to the wire.
The double row of holes in the tape
passing through the transmitter's
contact fingers result in positive and
ceiving tape are recorded in the form
of dots and dashes. The current
passing through the chemically pre-
pared tape from an iron electrode to
platinum electrode, forms clear
blue dots and dashes that any one
who knows the Morse alphabet can
read and transcribe.
How Delaney overcome the static
discharge of the wire is worth telling,
and can be readily enough under
stood.
The electro-static capacity of line
is its capacity to hold current, and
this capacity has to be satisfied before
a signal can be manifested at-the dis
tant station. The charge left in the
wire after the signal has been deliv-
cred must be discharged to the
ground or neutralized by a reverse
current before another signal can ar
rive.
The static discharge, after each i'm
pulse, runs out of the ends OF the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01
one CENT A WORD:
Lower Rates for Telegraph Mes
sages Are Promised
By Company Operating the New
DeIany System.
1000 WORDS A MINUTE
Is Said to Be the Capacity of the
Remarkable Invention.
Can Use Telephone Lines for
Transmitting Messages.
l 900 WORDS A MINUTE

New York, Aug. 1.-Telegrame at
the rate of thousand words a min
ute for one cent a word, without re-
gard to distance-this is the promise
held out by the new telegraph COM
pany, the Telepost.
Can it be done7 The best answer
to this question is that the rapid auto
matte system controlled by the Tele-
post company has been tested over
and over again (notably by the Penn
syvania railroad for period of a
year), and that SO far as rapidity of
action is concerned the Delany sys-
tenn can send 5000 words minute.
This speed, however, in commercial
operation is not likely to exceed one
thousand words every sixty seconds.
But that is enough to SO increase
the capacity of the telegraph lines the
Telepost company is now building
that 1t is said it can carry as much
business on the four wires of its main
trunks as the old companies carry on
sixty-eight wires worked quadruplex.
Ten Thousand Words in Ten Minutes.
What the. speed Of the Telepost au-
tomato apparatus means, If claims
for 1t be true, is, that a full page
newspaper article can be telegraphed
from New York to Chicago in ten
minutes over a single wire; that in an
hour a full page Of newspaper copy
can be sent from Boston to San Fran
cisco, and leave a perfectly recorded
drop copy" at every station along
the route.
1t is the economy in operation and
the saving in construction expense
that has enabled the Telepost COM
pany to announce that it's rates will
be % cents for % words on kilograms
between all points, delivered by mes
senger in the usual way; and rs cents
for 50-word ''teleposts," delivered at
destination through the mails.
Americans are the smallest users
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01

full facilities of a wire that Telepost
service can be established. Cheap
rates are impossible at Is words per
minute. At 800 to 1000 words per
minute low charges can be brought to
apply to ordinary correspondence now
sent by rail. When a letter of SO
words fled In the Telepost Office In
Philadelphia can be dropped in
postoffice in Chicago, or any other
city, within half an hour for rs cents.
an enormous traffic will be speedily
developed.
ut will be entirely feasible for
business houses or newspaper CORE
spondents to compose their letters or
reports on a tape in their own offices
by keyboard machine, send the tape
in a roll to the Telepost Office. where
it will be forwarded without delay,
and have the record tape delivered to
the party at the other end, for private
transcription. In this way CORE
spondence would be absolutely pri-
vate, for if desireed the perforated
tape could be returned to the sender.
Here the telegraph toll would be
merely nominal.
Although the Telepost will have its
own lines on which it is now work.
ing as rapidly as possible. its service
will be extended by the use OF indie
pendent telephone lines, for it is an
other striking feature of the Delaney
system that by it telephone wires can
be used for telegraphing, without in
terfering with their simultaneous en-
ployment for telephonfng.
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phia has just awarded Mr.. Delaney
the Elliott Cresson gold medal, follow
ing similar awards by the Pan-Amer-
lean and ST. Louis exposition.
Inventor Formerly a TeIegrapher.
Mr.. Delaney started life as a tele-
graph operator some 35 years ago.
Before he got through with this
branch of the business he was chief
operator at Philadelphia and assistant
superintendent of the old Southern &
Edison dropped biography for other
lines of invention, Mr.. Delaney, who
was was an associate of the wizard of
Menlo park, took up the work and
some $50 odd patents have since then
been issued to him.
His first invention to attract world
wide attention was the synchronous
multiplex system bought by the Brit
ish government in 1885. and largely
used on the English postal lines ever
since. The next time Mr.. Delaney
came into popular fame was when he
BILE feat Of sending a cable message
from Newfoundland to England with
an ordinary Morse key.
All the while Delaney has been
hard at work on the automatic sys-
tenn of telegraphy adapted to COM
speeds combined with low cost of
operation. This. he has achieved in
the apparatus controlled by the Tele-
post company.
In a recent address at the Franklin
institute Mr.. Delaney pointed out that
while the transfer of energy in one
department of electricity has been in
creased from few hundred volts to
$4,000 volts within the last 20 years,
the transfer of words has actually fall
len off during the same period, ac-
cording to the statements of the presi-
dent of the Western Union. and is
now only about one-fortieth of what
a wire is able to convey.
"It is only by the Utilization of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01
MACK'S COMMITTEES.
j. G. johnson OF Kansas Is Secretary
of Advisory Board.

Buffalo, Aug. Norman E. Mack.
chairman Of the Democratic national
committee, has appointed committees
to serve during the campaign. The
members of the national committee.
He will announce next week the COM
mittee on finance, press and speakers.
The appointment of a subcommittee
for the eastern and New York head
quarters will be taken up upon the re-
turn of Chairman Mack to Chicago in
about a week. The committee named
are:
Executive committee-Norman e.
Mack, chairman, New York; F. L. Hall.
vice chairman, Nebraska; Urey Wood
son, Kentucky; Martin j. Wade, Iowa;
Thos. Taggart. Indianapolis; John T.
McGraw, West Virginia; Geo. w.
Greene, Rhode Island; r. M. johnson,
Texas; Clark Howell, Georgia: 7. E.
Ryan, Wisconsin; ]. F. G. Talbot,
Maryland; John W. Tomlinson, Ala.
Jas. S. Kerr. Pennsylvania; F. B.
Lynch, Minnesota; Edwin o. Wood.
Michigan; Nathan Cole, California;
Robert Ewing, Louisiana; j. Harvey
CARRIER. Ohio.
Advisory committee-Dayid r.. Fran
els, chairman. Missouri; ]. G. johnson,
secretary. Kansas; Alton B. Parker,
New York: John Sharp Williams, Mis-
sissippi; Governor John A. johnson,
Minnesota; Senator c. A. Culberson,
Texas; Senator John w. Daniel, V1r-
GINA; Senator Isadore Rayner. Mary
land; Governor Geo. Chamberlain. Ore
gon; Hoke Smith. Georgia; John E.
Lamb, Indiana; NJ. E. ingalls,, Ohio;
Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts,; George
Erhart, New York; Irving L. Handy,
delaware: Archibald Mcneil, Connecti-
cut; Jas. K. Mcclure, New York; ]. K.
OrDonnell, Illinois; James E. Camp
bell. Ohio.
Labor committee-Martin ]. Wade,
chairman, Iowa; Roger Z. SulIVan; ~.
linois: T. E. Ryan, Wisconsin,; Robert
s. Hudspath, New Jersey. w. A. Roth
we'll. Missouri; E. s. Johnson, South
Dakota; Edwin A. Newman. District OF
Columbia
Camnaien text book committee-John
e. Lamb, chairman, Indiana; Josephus
Daniels, North Carolina; Richard E.
Metcalfe, Nebraska.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01

wire, about two-thirds coming back
to the sending station and one-th1rd
following the signal impulse on the
receiving station. The portion of the
current coming back is an obstacle in
the way of the next signal, and the
portion running out has the effect OF
elongating the signal which follows.
II the signals are too close together
and the wire long enough, they will
appear on the recording tape in a
solid line without definition. The
letter "p." consisting of five dots,
would look like the letter 81" which
is long dash.
In the Delaney system, in the for
nation of dots the static discharge is
neutralized by reversals and utilized
for the completion Of dashes, which
are really dot impulses supplemented
by the discharge. When under certain
conditions the discharge from the line
is n st sufficient to draw out the dash
to the required length, it is increased
by adding capacity through the me-
dunn of a condenser between the line
and the ground.
The Franklin institute of Philadel-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01
Tonelxa Preacher BAL New York.

Silver Bay, N. T., Aug. 1.-The Rev.
Bruce Kenney of Topeka, Kan, gave
an interesting lecture on Mormonism
at the conference of the Young Peoples
Missionary movement here. Mr.. Ken
ney has lived for many years in Urah
and was well prepared to tell Of condi-
tions there and the methods that
should be employed to bring about re-
forms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01
TO REBUILD GLASS PLANT.
The Sunfiower Factory at COneyville
to Be Erected Soon.

Cofrevville. Kan, Aug. 1.-If the
plans formulated by the members of
the Sunfiower glass plant. which was
DESTROYED by fire on night of January
IS. do not fall through the active
operation of the rebuilding OF this
plant will be commenced In the near
future.
A. J. Genong, representing B. r.
Burk of Indiana, who owns the con-
trolling interest in the company, has
been in the city for the past three
weeks comforting with the members
Of the company and in all probability
the deal will be brought to a satisfac-
tory end within the next day or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01
Votes Bonds for an Interurban.

Winfield, Aug. Winfield voted
$40, 900 bonds to aid in the construction
Of an interurban railway to connect
Winfield and Arkansas City and sur
rounding towns.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19
WATER COMPANY
PLANT IN RUINS
CITY OF MAYFlELD, KY, FACES
GRAVE SITUATION-OUTFlT
VALUED AT 100000 CON-
PLETELY DESTROYED.

Mayfeld Ky, May 1S.-Without a
water supply, owing to the destruc
ton by fire Sunday evening at !
O'Clock of the Mayfeld Water and
! Light company's plant, Mayfield to-
day is held in suspense and appre-
hension Only enough water is held
in The standpipe for emergency in
case of fire aud the citizens are not
allowed to draw on their hydrants
With only a few scattered cisterns
in the town uch Inconvenience has
been caused by the disastrous FIRE
though energetic efforts are being
made to relieve the situation
So Unexpectedly did the fire start
in the power house OF the Mayfield
Water and Power company last night
that two employees VINO were eating
supper in the building barely escaped
uninmred. They did not even have
time to stop the engines. which ran
on until the fire had demolished the
whole building. No alarm could be
sent to the fire department as the
telphone wires were Immediately
burned out, and before the fire com
pany could arrive, the flames had
spread until the fight was hopeless.
In addition the water supply was
hampered by the stopping of the en-
gines.
Complete loss stared the company
in the face this morning The plant
was valued at $4,000 and they had
recently placed valuation on it of
100000. including the franchises.
to out-of.town bidders. The offer was
not accepted, being considered too
high. New machinery 10 the value
Of $4,000 had been installed only
last week and the company. had plans
under way for completely remodeling
the plant and to build a new struct-
ure. The one burned was frame. and
the fire was aided by the large
amount of electrical wiring and ap-
paratus.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19

Cd that they were Cpp sed ~ capital
punishment. He explained that yul-
der the law of self defense if mln
has engaged in a difficulty as the as
grcssor he must FIRST ahapaCn it il
good faith and try tn get away before
he can claim the right II Eli his AS
sai!ant. He also asked if the presence
of relatives of the defendant, the
mother or wife would influence the
jury AGAINST the peoI'c and in behalf
Of the defendant The states attorney
has his main witness present to tes-
tify also the several witnesses who
appeared before the coroners jury
An attorney from Kentucky is also
here having come a5 the request cf
Kentucky friends ef tile dead mln t.
aid in the prosecution.
Ford's brother, metAer and sister
were in court yesterday tn last
named having come from the west to
attend the trial His wife also will
attend probably today
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19
CROWD At A|RDOME.
Successful Opening Night at Popular
Summer Resort on Sixth Street
New Bill Tonight.

The Hutton Bailey Stock Company
opened their first engagement in Cairo
last night to a capacity audience at
the New Airdome theater. The play
was Little Princess. a four act pastoral
comedy drama, very strong play with
plenty of good. wholesome comedy.
tender pathOs heartless cruelty so
nicely blended together to make it one
OF the best plays ever put on i'm this
city by popular priced company. The
company is a very strong one. carry
ing 10 people who are more than
clever The specialties are of the
highest class. They have also added
an extra feature for the week which
is Sampson, the human derrick. He
bends bars of iron of one and two
inches thickness across his arms. neck
and head. lie also holds ID 26 men
who are hanging to a fourinch steel
pipe 20 feet long by his teeth. This
act alone is worth twice the price
OF admission asked. Tonight the com
pany viii present the beautiful four
act military drama, "A Daughter of
the South.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19
Age of Trees.

When one hears the mention of a
tree that has passed the century mark
in years he is inclined to be dubious.
And yet it Is a well-known fact that
the Brazilian cocoanut palm frequent
iy lives as long as 500 or 200 wears.
1t is asserted that the Arabian date
palm lives to be 200 or 300 years old
too. Near Paisley, Scotland, there
stu thrives an old oak tree that is
known to be over 700 years of age:
and there are eight olive trees on tie
Mount of Olives. near Jerusalem
which are known to have been -four
ishing as far back as 1893 Records
show that the new trees at Fountains
Abbey, Yorkshire, were old at the
time the abbey was built, which was
in the year 1882. yet these are still
living. There are California red
woods that have withstood the onrush
of time so well as to be manifold
centenarians and still on their feet.
The baobab trees of Africa have been
computed in some instances to be
over 5000 years old, and the deciduous
cypress at Chapultepec is considered
to be even older than that. Hum
boldt said that the Dracaena Draco
at Orotava. on Teneriffe. was one of
the Oldest inhabitants of the Garth
Kansas City Journal.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19
FINE ATTRACTION
At Opera House and Arcade in Moving
Pictures and Songs-New Bills
Tonight at Both Places.

At the Cairo Opera house a fine aud
fence was present last night to witness
the high class moving picture show
presented there 1t was grand
quadruple bill, or four great comedy
pictures each of which was show in
itself and all together making up a
performance which could not be ex
celied in any of the big cities. The
singing was a feature also, by Henry
Hasenjaeger, Jr.. and Allen Fisher, the
latter late of Memphis The songs
old Church Choir and In the Old
Cherry Orchard made a hit New
songs will be offered tonight between
scenes. The pictures tonight will be
The Mysterious Photograph, The
Pretty Flower Girl" aud the Fash
ionable Hat"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19
OBITUARY..

Elizabeth Kennedy was born in
Pulaski county May 50. 1S47. married
]. 5. Ollie March IL, 1869. and died
MAY Il 1898, aged 60 years. II months
and Is days. The husband and five
children survive her also two
brothers, David Kennedy of Cairo,
and J. b. Kennedy of Pulaski. and two
sisters. Mrs. l.. F. Grain of villa
Ridge and Mrs. Pierre of st. Louis
Uniting with the Methodist church at
Liberty about 80 years ago. she lived
"a faithful Christian life ever since
Her health giving way some months
ago she was taken 10 Hot Springs
but failing to find relief was brought
back to her children In Pine Bluff
where she suffered three paralytic
strokes and where the peaceful end
came last Friday morning. All that
tender care could suggest was done.
Sunday morning May Il. the funeral
was held in the Methodist church
Of Villa Ridge, a large congregation
being present many of whom were
unable to find room in the house.
Magnificent floral decorations were
furnished by the Ladies' Aid. the
Telephone company and many Others.
Genuine sorrow is felt throughout the
community that she has been called
away, and sympathy with the be-
reaVed ones rests on every heart
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19

A fashionably dressed woman once
alighted from a brougham in west
London, and stepped into a hairdres-
ser's shop. She informed the barber
that she had son who was of I'M
sound mind. and that the doctor had
ordered his head to be shaved.
Her son. she said, was violent, and
she instructed the barber to get a
couple of assistants and seize him
when he was brought around, TO tie
him in a chair and shave his head in
spite of anything he might say. The
barber did not relish the job, but an
advance fee of a guinea tempted him
and he fell.
Then the lady drove to the jew
eler's. bought some expensive rings
and jewelry, and expressed surprise
at having left her purse at home. She
offered to drive the jeweler home with
her, together with the jewels, and pay
him at her residence.
On arriving once more at the bar
berS the two alighted, and the I'M
fortunate Jeweler, at a sign from the
lady, was seized and bound to a
chair. and in spite of his angry yells
and expostulations his head was shaw
ed! Meanwhile the LADY drove off
with three hundred poun0s' worth OF
gems and was never heard Of again
London Paper.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-19
STYLOP|N MADE
STRONG SPEECH
REGARDING RELATION BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND GRAND DUCHY
OF FINLAND - DUMA WAS
CROWDED TO HEAR HIM.

st Petersburg, May lS.-The duma
was crowded tonight i'm anticipation
of Premier Stolypin's pronouncemenl
with regard to the relations between
Russia and the Grand Ducy of Fin.
land, which recently were made the
subject of interpretations by the De.
toberists.
The prefer said that the govern
ment had no intention of assailing
the autonomy of Finland, but that
legislation was required To clarity the
guarantee of the Finnish constitution.
lie cited the recent history of Fin.
land tc show that the Finnish pro
letariat not only nourished the IDEAS
OF revolt but also acted in full svm.
pathy with Russion revolutionists. He
reviewed the long series of terrorist
plots that had been hatched in Fin.
iand, for the purpose of showing the
necessity of extending the authority
OF the central administration to a
certain extent over Finland.
The premier believed that some
steps should be taken to unity the
legislative activity of the empire and
the Ouch in matters of a common con.
Germ. He declared that the present
movement was not due to bureaucrat.
ic reaction, but, on the contrary to a
wave of Russian patriotism, which de.