much wire as would make TWO HUNDRED MILLION CLOTHES-LINES--ten apiece its whole vast body. been sat upon by the Lusitania and flattened to death. But no matter farms and villages. To tell the doings of a wire chief, in the course thousand families, to put the telephone wires in place and protect them with clothespins, but with the most delicate of electrical instruments. a cable. Perhaps some self-reliant citizen has moved his own telephone machine; and an injury in any one place may cause a pain or sickness to from one room to another. Perhaps a sudden rainstorm has splashed its and their men, a corps of human spiders, endlessly spinning threads a small boy has thrown a snake across the wires or driven a nail into or improved by a sort of vivisection while it is working. It is an clothes-line of a hundred yards to operate, has often enough trouble what the trouble, a telephone system cannot be stopped for repairs. under streets and above green fields, on the beds of rivers and the It cannot be picked up and put into a dry-dock. It must be repaired of adventures. Even a washerwoman, with one lone, non-electrical The wire chiefs must detect trouble under a thousand disguises. Perhaps And just as the particles of a human body change every six or seven interlocking unit, a living, conscious being, half human and half to every family in the United States; and these lines are not punctuated years, without disturb-ing the body, so the particles of our telephone with it. But the wire chiefs of the Bell telephone have charge of as fatal moisture upon an unwiped joint. Or perhaps a submarine cable has against innumerable dangers. This is the profession of the wire chiefs of his ordinary week's work, would in itself make a lively book slopes of mountains, massing them in cities and fluffing them out among