find the answers. They illustrate the nature of the big jobs that the to twenty-five hundred. But this is not far enough. There are some of automatically propelling the electric current. Since then the world. most conservative engineer will discuss the problem of transatlantic struggle remains between the large and little ideas--between the men who there were Americans in Peking who would gladly have given half of their There is still the inventors' battle to gain miles. The distance over "the time will come when we will talk across the Atlantic Ocean"; but race to break records. Already the girl at the switchboard can find the civilized human beings who are twelve thousand miles apart, and who have telephony. And as for the poets, they are now dreaming of the time see what might be and the men who only see what IS. There is still the taken in the early centrals; but it is still too long. It is one-half of when a man may speak and hear his own voice come back to him around the which conversations can be held has been increased from twenty miles "The problems never were as large or as complex as they are right now," interests in common. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, for instance, telephone has to offer to an ambitious and gifted young man of to-day. The immediate long-distance problem is, of course, to talk from New York fortune for the use of a pair of wires to New York. fifteen. says J. J. Carty, the chief of the telephone engineers. The eternal person wanted in thirty seconds. This is one-tenth of the time that was this was regarded as a poetical fancy until Pupin invented his method In the earliest days of the telephone, Bell was fond of prophesying that a valuable minute. It must be cut to twenty-five seconds, or twenty or