Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1910 — PHONOGRAPHIC CASH REGISTER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PHONOGRAPHIC CASH REGISTER

Tha teat trust didn’t order Uu roast ft la setting. ▲ weather prophet la pretty wall satisfied If he comes close to hitting tha bull's-eye. The wife of the trading stamp king has been given an absolute divorce, without trading stamps. Perhaps Dr. Cook has taken the broad ground that it Is useless to argue after one has the money. How large Is Nicaragua? Placed on a map of Texas it would occupy about as much relative space as a bean on a biscuit Irving Fisher, professor of political economy at Tale, says the gold market Is glutted. Have you turned away any gold this morning? Carrie Nation says she has declined two offers of marriage within the past month, which shows that she Is not necessarily severe on all men. Peary thinks Roosevelt would be a good man to send out for the purpose of discovering the south pole. No, the former President has too many friends. The price of diamonds is advancing. We understand that this Is due to the fact that so many farmers are refusing to have any but diamondstudded automobiles. Flint, MJch., Is now on the map In large letters. Its postal receipts show a larger increase than any other city In the United States, Its closest competitor being Seattle. A Jury has decided that after a traveler has paid his hotel bill the landlord cannot be held responsible for baggage that may have been stolen. Don’t pay till you are ready to depart. Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, has attained a height of 4,000 feet with his aeroplane. Why this eagerness to go so high? The damage would probably be just as great if one fell a mere 2,000 feet Speaking from experience, a Chicago drummer, who has been oh the road for twenty-two years, says anybody can sell goods everybody wants, but it tskes a real salesman to dispose of something that everybody ought to want More than 7,000 people residing upon a Paris street have petitioned that Its name be changed. Since the sixteenth century it has been known as the Rue des Mauvais-Garcons Bad Boys* « d tip name no longer fits, or fltg too well, ls~not made plain in the petition. « « - -■=* Carefui search of the Prussian archives fails to produce any proof that Frederick the Great ever presented to George Washington a sword with a complimentary inscription concerning the eldest general in the world and the greatest. The tradition is a venerable one—almost as venerable and apparently as untrustworthy as that of the famous hatchet.

The rapid tendency of the times at the present period Is toward centralisation of power in all forms of political, commercial and social life. How long this tendency will maintain is a question. In former epochs there has been manifested the same force among mankind, inevitably followed by dissolution, dispersion, division and then, again, the renewal of the power of centralization. Boston has lately held an exhibition devoted to the future—a display of what the city is now and what it is hoped to marke it in 1915. One of the most notable portions of it was contributed by the churches. Catholics, Protestants and Jews worked together in the production of it, and those who question the vitality of the Christian religion .in present times found therein an answer to their queries. The exhibit included a model of the tent system of treating tuberculosis, maintained by Emmanuel Church, the Salvation Army rescue work, the looms of the Morgan Memorial, methods of relieving conditions in the slums, the history of the development of charities and educational work carried on by churches. The most vigorous critics of the churches, unfortunately, do not attend church services, and therefore do not know how eminently practical is a great deal of the work which religious organizations are now doing. Will the Bird-Man drive the birds from their kingdom of the air? It is reported from France that wherever the aeroplane soared, there occurred an exodus of feathered life. Wild ducks, discovering the huge Bird-Men, manifested terror and disappeared from the region. The possibility that wild fowl will grow accustomed to aeroplanes as do horses to motorcars, may he dismissed. They do not grow accustomed to eagles and hawks. Nor will they see aeroplanes every day, as bones do motorcars, since wild fowl cron the temperate zone only in their annual migrations. Nor can it be expected that bird-intelligence ever will learn that aeroplanes and airships are machines. Whale and shark fight boats on the surface of the water, and if submersible* become numerous, perhaps there will be more encounters in the deepa Nothing whatever has suf-

flood to modify the routes of the birds in their migrations south and north. Traps and guns have not changed those flights. They continue, until the species is exterminated. But will not aerial navies, when they become numerous, chase the songsters and the wild fowl from the sky? As observed, the appearances of the aeroplanes alarm bird-life as nothing else done by man ever did. If a duck, hit by shot, drops from the flock, that is an accident of life, the duck intelligence considers. But the advent of a creature with the wings of a dragon the duck holds to be a supernatural and devilish event. Will our skies be depopulated by flying machines? Is man to have the kingdom of the air 'to himself, as he has that of the land? Our grandmothers could have related the biography of every garment they habitually wore. From the stockings knitted by their own hands to the homespun from their own looms, or the silk gown made up by the visiting seamstress, each piece of clothing had Its own domestic history. Today all that is changed. Scarcely any farmer’s wife could give account of her various garments. Where were her stockings woven or her corsets stitched? In what garret were the buttons sewed on her percale wrapper? In what great Tactory was her shirtwaist cut out? In what distant city was the machinery which shaped her shoes? What New York tailor determined the lines of her serviceable ready-made suit? These questions and a score of similar ones would be posers for the average woman the country over. Since women have escaped responsibility for the making pf many of the family garments, they have ceased to be Interested workers on those garments. These , have become mere impersonal “hands,” and their weariness or hunger or cold, their Insufficient wages or unhealthful conditions, are too remote for the imagination to deal with. But the conscientious woman Is beginning to realize that her own ease must not be purchased by indifference to another’s pain. She must find new ways to establish the personal sympathy between worker and buyer which ought to be one of the most fundamental and helpful of human relations. Unless she does so, some truth-telling poet will fling out another scathing arraignment which, like Hood’s “Song of the Shirt,” shall rouse the reader to the misery of the underpaid and overworked, by the toil of whose fingers we to-day are comfortably clothed.

A cash register that announces the amount of a sale in human voice, as well as registering the figures, has been devised by a Minnesota inventor. When the keys are touched for a sale of, say, |1.65, certain phonographlo reproducers are released and the machine sings out, “One-six-flve.” Such expressions as “Thank you,” or "I think you will find these goods satisfactory,” may be added to the announcement of the sale.—Popular Mechanics.

SAYS “THANK YOU.”