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Show i ALL OFF WITH STENOGRAPHERS. It looks as If It was all off with tho I stenographer. Advices from down east tell us how sho Is going to bo dls-i dls-i placed. Machinery is going to estab-j estab-j llsh a sort of typewriter trust, where a man's letters aro to "bo ground out for him by experts, and the little girl In the office will be of no more service. ser-vice. I Plans now under way will make it unnecessary for business men to depend de-pend upon private stenographers or typewriters. Central typewriters' exchanges, ex-changes, to which letters can bo die tated over the telephone clrcut and returned re-turned for signature in a fow minutes, aro to be established in large office buildings and hotels. Such a scheme has been made practical prac-tical by means of the telegraphono, which not only makes a perfect reproduction repro-duction of tho human voice, but also records everything that passes over tho ordinary telephono. These records aro stored upon a thin 'steel wire or disc and can be reproduced an Indefinite Indefi-nite number of times or removed when there is no further uso for them. Each of tho central exchanges will have a number of telegraphones and a staff of typewriter exports and trained linguists. When tho business man or tho guest in a largo hotel wishes to dictate he will pick up tho leceivor of I his telephone and ask to bo connected with a telegraphono In tho exchange I' 'By means of a small switchboard he will have complete control of the machine ma-chine to which ho is dictating In the exchange. If it should bo necessary to mako any changes in tho letter a push button is pressed, which brings a pair of magnets, stronger than thoso which mado tho record, Into contact with tho wire, and any part or tho whole letter Is Immediately wiped out. In tho samo way records of dictated letters aro wiped out as soon as transcribed, so that tho machine is always ready for uso at any time. As soon as tho dictation is finished tho typewriter operator places tho telegraphono sounder to his ears and ) transcribes tho records which havo been mado, returning tho lotter to tho office from which thoy wero dictated. Tho matter transcribed might bo in English, French, German or any other language. It might bo legal, scientific or technical, full of difficult words or phrases which would tax oven the most highly educated and expert stenographer stenog-rapher to take down in shorthand with rapidity and accuracy. When the central cen-tral typewriting exchanges aro established, estab-lished, telegraphones will enable busl-ncoj busl-ncoj nivSn to dictate letters at a great speed, in any language and on any subject. This will no doubt do away with tho employment of many girls and young men, and this is on tho quiet wo are glad of It. Because too many girls are oatting typewriting machines who ought to bo making doughnuts and rocking cradles, and too many young jien are taking dictation who ought to bo chasing a cultivator around a corn "field, or sticking peas, or picking apples out in tho orchard. It has got so that a fellow cannot get a wlfo any more-Mn certain sections because hoy aro out "making a place for themselves them-selves in tho world." And while they are tbillng and moiling and grubbing around, trying, to earn enough to pay or a top-story room and a now dress twice a year, a lot of pale-faced lobsters, lob-sters, who should havo freckles and hair -on their arms and chests, and who ought to bo yoked up with them on a 'farm, aro coughing themselves into consumption and trying to mako themselves think It doesn't hurt them to smoko cigarettes. Wo shall hall with delight anything that tends to even this matter up and send the girls back to their righteous destiny and the callow youths to tho work of currying tho old horse Sunday mornings, before starting to church. And there Is nothing noth-ing in all tills to be ashamed of, either. An independent farmer who is making two blades of grass grow, where none grow before, Is better than a copying machino any old time, while tho woman wo-man who sings a song to tho crowing nfant as sho deftly solders tho top crust on to an applo plo, beats all the business women who ever showed their hosiery at a street corner on a muddy day. State Journal. |