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Show j, HOOIUCEETIJG j p MACHIjNEl The bookkeeper In on the toonggsa - elide. The advance In Inbor iav((t ; aiachlnary has finally reai lied Kb i I ephere and aarned him that he min J I eek othei K-i-np.il Inn. The latest P ere nf mechanism Id Invade the larger ; ! rltlea constata nf machine whlrti d)s- J - m with bookkepcra In large ee- j tabllahmenta anil perform their labor ' .through the milium of an operator t and a type writer. One of the marhinea la an ordinary establishment doea I I away with tha labor of two nun; an- I . .other dlftpensliig wllh lha labor of 1 algal Dim. Tha first mm hlne, under the dlrec- J Uon of an ordinary t p. wrlllnt, makes j out a bill, copies tlio Invoice pcrma- I oently In a bonk, ami inukee a prmt- rant Bale sheet ropy. Tha work la $ all dona lu typewriting and In porma- ; , Bar:. wika. Tha second machine ' , make a sale copy, an original, a du- I. plicate and a triplicate bill of lading, platform order, a factory ehlpplng order, a bag-room order, a loading order or-der and a ear rani. HUH a third machine, ma-chine, of which Marshall Field baa taken thirty, maki-s ona bill a month adding tha Iteina day by day, record-, record-, Ing the data and aaleiinian'a numbi-r by 4 lock arrangement whlrh makea It !1mioaalble for the operator to enter a erica of Items without dating the ame and entering the anleainnn'a number, entera all creillta In red Ink, ad carrtea I S'") account at ona time. A Tennessee bank caahler la reapon-alble reapon-alble for the InTenllnn of three ma- r j j A UOOKKKKI'INO TYPEWRITKR. chines. Ilia nume la Fleher, and be Uvea at Athena. Homo years ago. looking look-ing through a prestofflre window, he noted a clerk cancelling ttnmpa wllh a hand atamp. lie wondored why the aama work could not be done by machinery. ma-chinery. From Hint point hie thoughla wandered on to the wonder why bla own bouka could not be kept by machinery. ma-chinery. He tried to make a boot-keeping boot-keeping machine. A year ago ba produced pro-duced three machlnea, whlrh ara now aiipplunllng bookkeepers In large eg-I eg-I liibllahmenta. |