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NO. 2 7be PHONOGRAM VOL. IV THE PHONOGRAPHIC WILL. By W. H. Sedgwick. While • traveling through the Western part of Ohio a short while ago, I formed the acquaintance of a gentleman who told me the following strange story. One evening as we were seated in my room at the hotel enjoying an after dinner cigar and conversing upon the topics of the day, our talk finally branched out and took up the Phonograph, its past, present and future possibilities. My friend advocated the theory that the Phonograph was only in its infancy, and to support his argument he related the following, which for convenience, I will give in his own words. ‘ 1 In the little town of Curdsville, among the Berkshire Hills, I was bom and passed my early life. Not for from the homestead lived a widowed aunt, my father's only sister, with whom I was a favorite, and some of the brightest links in the chain of my life are the remembrances of those happy hours spent there in golden youth. My aunt was quite well-to-do, owning a large form and having a few thousand dollars invested in stocks, besides being the possessor of considerable real estate in a neighboring town, which 1 fondly hoped (as she had often stated) would some day be mine. When I became of age she sent me to college, where I worked hard to gain an education, my ambition being to become a lawyer. I graduated with honors, came to this State, where I was admitted to the bar, and opened an office. I succeeded slowly, but surely; and after a while found myself enjoying a comfortable practice. After two years hard work I strated back East to visit my aunt, taking with me, as a present to her, an