Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Slot Telephone Machine. [ARTICLE]

Slot Telephone Machine.

Two California inventors have devised a toll-collecting apparatus for telephones. It consists of the usual coin-in-the-slot device, with the addition of a clockwork apparatus that automatically cuts out the telephone when the time for talk has expired. The popular demonstrations of esteem and affection which greet Prince Bismarck wherever he goes must be peculiarly acceptable to the retired statesman. Even when official etiquette forbids any court attention to the retired statesman, the students and the plafn people come forward to attest their admlration. The most soothing effect of all this lies in the fact that he was thrust forth from a share in the unified Germany which his statesmanship had created, at a time of life when the expression of gratitude is most acceptable to all men. His dignity and his pride were more severely shocked than was his ambition. His genius guided Germany through all the dangers of war and statecraft to her present greatness. The father and the grandfather of the stripling who removed Bismarck had recognized him as their master in the art of politics. That the imperial rebuke should come from the youthful prince must lessen the blow, for the contrast between the two men is one of Bismarck’s chiefest vindications should he need one. The loss of power was not so hard to bear as the thought that the Emperor was about to imperil the safety of Germany. Be the result what it may, the proofs of contemporary . regard and admiration give the Crown Prince a foretaste of the judgment which history will bestow, and in that should be a balm for the wounds nit the proudest spirit