quickest possible service; and how the news of Madison's election was Texas and Oregon into the Union; how George Washington advised against was mentioned, they told how in Revolutionary days the patriots used a but poorly built and in short lengths. There were manufacturing childhood, in 1876. Both in sentiment and in methods of work it and the tinder-box. There were seventy-seven thousand miles of railway, extensive to be governed but by a despotic monarchy." They told how a country that reached from the Atlantic to the Middle West was "too highest degree, but not efficiency or organization. Little as we knew mails were carried on horseback and not in stages, so as to have the was living close to the log-cabin period. Many of the old slow ways industries that employed two million, four hundred thousand people, but including the Mississippi River; and how Monroe warned Congress that materials for the building up of the modern business world, with its industries. it, in 1876 we were mainly gathering together the plans and the raw In 1876 the age of specialization and community of interest was in its letters in his coon-skin cap and deliver them at sight; how in 1822 the Abraham Lincoln, when he was postmaster of New Salem, used to carry the So, the young Republic was still within hearing distance of its three weeks in reaching the people of Kentucky. When the telegraph pole, a flag, a basket, and a barrel. every trade was broken up into a chaos of small competitive units, each quick, tense life and its national structure of immense coordinated system of signalling called "Washington's Tele-graph," consisting of a at war with all the others. There were energy and enterprise in the survived, the ways that were fast enough in the days of the stage-coach