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M IW W ONDERS OF ELE C TR IC ITY I f O o T e r n m e a t O w n ed T e le g r a p h s , S h o r t L e t t e r * C ou ld be S en t C h ea p ly . In electricity there U nothing more Interesting than Its application to ■team railways. Engineers of high standing believe that the day is near at hand when most o f the larger rail ways will dispense with Bteam locomo tives and employ electrical motive power, either by motors fed from third rails or overhead conductors, or by electric locomotives. However this may be, electricity is already coming Into use on steam railways. The New York Central Is spending forty million dollars for electrification of Its metro politan terminal, partly for the pur pose o f dispensing with smoke and coal gas In the tunnels, and partly to obtain higher speed o f trains. It is easy even for a layman to un derstand the superiority of electricity as a motive power In urban and sub urban transportation. With a locomo tive, traction is secured from th# weight of the driving wheels. With the multiple-unit system the weight o f every car in the train may, If desired, be put upon the drivers. In service with frequent stops, speed is secured by a high rate of acceleration; and a rapid acceleration requires power and weight. In New York’s new subway a train of eight cars will carry motors which may, at any desired moment, exert a tractive force equal to that of a half dozen large steam locomotives. O f great promise is the motor which uses an alternating current without sub-station transformers. I f it proves entirely successful, it will Introduce a large economy in all electrical railway operation. The application of electri cal railway devices to all sorts of In dustrialism affords material for a book all by itself, ranging, as It does, from the great electrical locomotive and the huge overhead crane to the broiling of a beefsteak or curling of my lady’s hair hy means of the magic current. In almost every workshop electrical tools may be found. In these, and In compressed-air appliances, may be found the greatest advance in shop- mechanics during the decade. There Is a new automatic or mechanical tele graph sender, transmitting messages forty times ns fast as a human opera tor. In fact. It is well known that science and Invention have, during the last ten years, made telegraphy so easy and cheap that, if we had in this country a government or postal tele graph Instead of semi-public compa nies, short letters could be sent by wire almost as cheaply as by poet. Unless I read incorrectly the signs of the times, postal telegraphy is immi nent in America; it Is demanded by progress, and progress cannot be de nied. The automatic telephone Is com ing rapidly Into use, and promises to carry the convenience o f telephonlo communication to hundreds of thou sands who cannot now afford i t The rural telephone Is growing at an amas-. lng rate, too, and already scores of thousands of American farmers have the ’phone In their bouse*.— W’ alter Wellman, in Success. That’s W hat. Stella— I would rather wed a man el b ra in s than one of muscle. Motile— Because why? Stella— Because while a man of muscl« could chop up a beefsteak, a man ot brains could figure out where the beef steak was to com* from. A G U ARANTEED CURE FOR PILES- Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles Your druggist will refund money i f PAZO O IN T M E N T falls to cure you in 6 to 14 days. SOc. In a small town. 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