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"Yes," says I. "I never see one myself; but, from what I have heard of 'em, they are very strange." "Don't you think there are things done that seem supernatural?" "I don't know as they are any more supernatural than the telegraph and telefone and electric light, and many other seemin'ly supernatural works.

Finding that I had more than an hour and a half to wait, I telegraphed to the man I had sent to Southampton to watch the docks, and then took the electric railway to the city, and made my way to my office, where a pile of correspondence awaited me on my table. Calling my managing clerk to my assistance, I set to work to examine it.

There was lettuce raised by electric light, and lima beans that had come from Porto Rico, and artichokes brought from France at a cost of one dollar each.

And the Spirit waits to charge with electric certainty the teaching of God's truth to the man who in meekness adjusts himself to it. Cold and colorless glows the transparent prism in the shadow. But let the sun shine through it, and lo! it is alive with all the colors of glory and beauty.

But I'll show you her portrait." She gave a little cry of astonishment as I handed her the miniature; the diamond setting flashed under the softly shaded electric light. "Oh, how lovely! But why, she's far more beautiful than I am, or ever shall be! Did she give you this, Maurice?" There was a queer note in her voice as she put the question; it sounded almost like a touch of jealousy.

My cup is cold." A clear, healthy April night: one of those bright, mountain-winded nights of early spring, when the air is full of electric vigor, starlight, when the whole earth seems wakening slowly and grandly into a new life. Grey, going with her husband and Mrs.

When we reflect that within a few decades of the discovery of electric power, every city, large and small, had its street-car and electric-light service, and that most of these cities, through their councils, gave away these monopoly rights for long periods of time, we can imagine the princely aggregate of the gifts which public service corporations have received at the hands of our municipal governments, and the nature of the temptations these corporations were able to spread before the greedy gaze of those whose gesture would seal the grant.

In summer with two fires burning that kitchen became fiercely hot. Even an electric fan, presented by a sympathetic visitor, did little to help. No self-respecting English kitchen maid would have stayed two hours in a house where she was given such a kitchen to work in. Yet wonderful hot suppers were cooked there in long succession. Huge puddings and deep crocks of stewed fruit were prepared.

"And the Demon wants such people as these to possess his electrical devices, which are as powerful to accomplish evil when in wrong hands as they are good!" thought the boy, resentfully. "This would be a fine world if Electric Tubes and Records of Events and Traveling Machines could be acquired by selfish and unprincipled persons!"

When the curtain rose for the third act there was exposed a star-sown sky, in which the galaxy of Orion was shown with distinctness, each star sharply twinkling from the electric power behind-a pretty scene evoking great applause.