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The First Linotype. show the whole dem; 868 publication hous The first machine for which lino- current newspaper 2 '?-- 1 t-"''0 has Intp- TTnitpH Statps and Ca type ucti s> ui amgo i ^ _ ly been deposited in the division of j no more than five m graphic arts of the United States; tal would be over national museum, and is located in j times as many as ex the Smithsonian building. This par- teen years ago. ticular idea, the invention of Mer- There are three n: genthaler, revolutionized printing; ed in the Smithsoni it was the first machine to cast a are closely related 1 complete line of type ready to print ment of this contrib from. Previous to the adoption of of printing. Two of the improved machine, now used so models, which indern extensively, many men were needed per mache (matrice: in the composing rooms, for a mod- stereotype casts wer ern example of this remarkable ma- of these earlier mai chine a competent operator can set or a cylinder which four times as much copy as by hand, faces and the mecha Composition and distribution by into position to ind hand are both tedious and expensive, All of which was cc thus the new machine saved the pressing of a key. 1 printers both time and money. a rotary impression Every big town daily newspaper in built mainly by the 1 the country employs from fifteen tojgenthaler in 1 877-7 thirty-five of these machines, and | auspices of .Mr. J. 0 every daily uses one or two, so that J later organized the there must be about 24,000 used in j graphic company. T the daily newspaper offices in the ed a stereotyper, w< United States and Canada alone. It! the casting of the s was estimated in 1898, that thereI to be unsatisfactory, were no more than 6,000 machines in j genthaler undertook existence. This hows the present in- one machine to do al creased number used in the daily j He started work newspaper offices, but it does notjHine, early in 1883, IN YOUR IVEXT ORDER TRY A CAIV OF COLUMBIA PURE COFFEE GUARANTEED PURE ) In One and Three Pound Tins HERNDON'S GROCERY Phone 24 Bamberg, S .C. 1 K?t<! I "s."-. v^vSfe^T'v It? ^Jpp rf||.l 1 ill fe * *"**&<&ifCS3jf??*fe> h * f*' ;ii | A WsSjii^r^"'.'-- V 1 ':' '' ' :'ry In ?J^P^: jpp M wv<'\^'s^Kf v ?^vV^\v/ w Jf*# CATALOG wagons may be all rigli are a different thing. Particular] you learn the additional advantag the home town dealer the best goods th home service as well. Your time is tc pensive break-downs. Buy your imple advantage of the home service he can c IF ITS A BLUEBIRD "IT'S GOT TO BE GOOD" THIELEN THEATRE YOU NEED NOT suffer the ill effects of a bad cold or grippe any longer. The speedy action of MAXTONE will do you more good in a shorter length of time than anything yet devised. Yes, every bottle is fully guaranteed.. If you are displeased call, for your money. MACK'S DRUG STORE Bamberg, S. C. L At At At At jA AT. jW "^T vy vy vyvy fy vy ! ~ j * T-? u - p 1 l /.vnnmrviftntol Tvi o r>Vi in o whifh nrintpri I 1DQ. II Llie W CApClllUCUiai mu.^uiub, n UK/U >es listed in the\ but twelve letters at a time but innual for the i demonstrated the fact that a fullinada, each uses j sized machine built on this principle lachines, the to-: would be an enormous step in ad120,000, twenty j vance. This was accomplished when :isted only eigh- i the large machine was built?the ! third of the series exhibited in the tachines exhibit-1 Smithsonian building?which was an halls, which! the first machine from which linoto the develop- i type bars, or slugs, were cast. On j ution to the art j the printing face the characters form.-j them are early I ed a complete and solid line of type,! i I ted strips of pa-; similar to a line of individual type! 5) from which soldered together, and they werej morto Sr?mp i rpadv for use: a number of lines j shines consisted i making up a columD or page?just! held the type like the individual lines of this ar-| nism to bring it tide. ent the paper. The matrices or dies for the differ-! mtrolled by the J ent letters, used in this first machine,, "his style, called; were on long tapering bars, arranged machine, was side by side vertically, each contain-; ate Ottmar Mer-. ing a complete alphabet, other char8, under thejacters and spaces. The operation of . Clephane, who; the keys in the keyboard set a num^i TmA.i nf ctrinc rme fnr each letter de ?\illluua-i jl .> y\j~ : K>\yi. wwj.v,, ? .. ^. ^ 'he second, call-! pressed, and when the whole line had: orked well, but! been set, the entire line of matrix lugs was found! bars was lowered until the different , and .Mr. Mer-i bars came into contact with their rethe invention of spective stops, which were at vari11 the work. ; ous heights, so that at a certain with Mr. L. G. point the characters on the matrix making a small, bars formed a line of reading mati GIRLS aid LADIES MAKE HOOTON'S STORE YOUR STORE. Always the newest and best in Dry finnHs Millinerv and Suits Hooton's Ladies Store & MillineryfParlor Telephone 83-J Bamberg, S. C. MSb .. Mil fi*$A Lt to look at. But 44catalogue repairs" ly when you're in a hurry. It is then ;e in 44trading-at-home.'r Not only has tat can be obtained, but he offers you to valuable to risk one of these eximents from your home dealer and take tffer you. High Price Paper will not worry you if you will lay in a supply of that pound paper we have. We have paper in half pound boxes, worth today, wholesale, 16c the box, that we are offering at 15c. This offer holds good until present stock is sold. New goods will have to be sold for 25c. 3uy now at 15c box. Herald BoolcStore "^Vr^VT TAV TAT TAV "AV TAT TAT TA? tav TAT TAT TAT TAT AT' ter. There was no automatic jastifi- dropped from t cation, or spacing to make the line matrices return* the exact length required, but it was; mal positions. . left to the operator, who stxuck the j of but fifteen s< space key and filled in with thick or j This machine thin spaces on the tapering matrix j mercially, but i bars. The line of matrix bars was j slugs, and articl then clamped together, the mold was j machine from w interposed between the matrices and en. When it a pot of molten metal, which moved National Typogi up to the slot in the mold, and the high hopes that linotype bar was cast. * The line was tical machine, 1 then undamped, the matrices auto- fects developed matically raised to their normal po- slow. The sche sitions and similar operations for doned in favor casting the next line were performed, that is, a short Describing the initial test of this ter stamped upc linotype machine, July 1884, in the today?instead "Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler with the whole i and the History of the Linotype," the cation for the ps author explains that the spectators was filed Augus gathered at the shop on Bank Lane not granted unt in Baltimore, Maryland, before the In the exhibit inventor was ready, and had to wait the Smithsonian until he made some adjustments, many interesting "Finally everything seemed to be development of ready 4 * * Mr. Mergenthaler called j chines relating t - - I -*n?i.? A for the steam power to oe attacneci; musuauiis aim. lie * * composed a line, removed the 1 ? stopper from the metal pump, and From mines touched the line key. Suddenly and Manchuria the . silently the matrices slid into their 20,000,000 tons places, were clamped and aligned, After the Uni the pump discharged its contents, a and France are 1 finished linotype, shining like silver, of iron ore amo . ^ We especially call your attention & to our line of *f SLIPPERS Which have just arrived. We are & now in a position to suit all? ladies, men and children. V We shall be glad to % have you stop in A and look 'em over. <i> T X H. C. FOLK X x Satisfied with small profits. Y X We Can Beat the f Mail Order Houses t A We have been acknowledged as Lead- <& ers in Ladies', Misses', and Children's outfitters. We bid for your business with the X world's best merchandise and honest ^ prices. ? -Jf LaVerne Thomas & Co. f Telenhone 41-J Bambercr. S. C. A Buy Goods at Home f x 3 ii . m We have all you need at lower prices ' A1 than you can get from Kalamazoo to A Constantinople. If you prefer trad- A ing with foreigners, we have with us A "Sleigh" and "Buck," and they have A at your call all you need to eat or A wear?to dress up with or to work " in. Patronize the old reliable. t X I RENTZ & FELDER | Bamberg, S. C. ? > A a4A A^A A^LAA A^A^AA^AA^AAA^^^AAAA he machine and thej On the Wrong Man. 3d again to their nor Ml this was the work Bert Harte is so frequently comeconds." plimented as the author of "Little was never used com- Breeches" that he is almost as sorryit cast a number of it was ever written as is Colonel John es were set up by this Hay, who would prefer his fame to hich prints were tak- rest on more ambitious work. A was completed the gushing young lady who prided herraphic company had self upon her literary tastes, said to it would be a prac- him once: jut a number of de- "My dear Mr. Harte, I am so de and it proved too lighted to meet you. I have read me was finally aban- everything you ever write; but of all of a single matrix? your dialect verse there is none that bar with one charac- compares to your 'Little Breeches.' " >n it, such as is used "I quite agree with you madam," of a long bar filled said Mr. Harte, "but you have put alphabet. The appli- the little breeches on the wrong itent on this machine man."?San Francisco Argonaut. , ;t 30, 1884, but was; il March 3, 1885. I Making Sure of Him. ts of graphic arts in j "I think," said the thoughtful building, there are] mother, "that you ought to object to I series showing the! young Brown paying; so much atten instruments and ma-j tion to our daughter." o the art of printing, ( "Why?" demanded the thoughtbook making. j less father. "He impressed me very ? i favorably." in Japan and South | "That's just it," returned the Japanese are mining mother. "We must do something to of coal annually. make his ambitious mother think we ted States, Germany regard ourselves a little above them the largest producers socially if we are to make sure ng the nations. of him."?Washington Post.