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"An electric-light pencil," he remarked laconically, in an undertone. "Who were the others?" demanded Andrews of Dana. There was a pause as though he were debating whether or not to answer at all. "I don't know," he said at length. "I wish I did." "You don't know?" queried Andrews, with incredulity. "No, I say I wish I did know.
It is needless to say that in due course the engine builders of the United States developed a variety of excellent prime movers for electric-light and power plants, and were grateful to the art from which such a stimulus came to their industry; but for many years one never saw an Edison installation without expecting to find one or more Armington & Sims high-speed engines part of it.
Hood number two slid magnificently on his belly on the superb lubrication afforded by detergent on top of floor-oil. The first hood staggered. Something else fell from the shelf. It was a carton of electric-light bulbs. Despite the protecting carton, they went off with crackings like gunfire.
The cloud which had settled on Archie's mind lifted abruptly. For an instant he was enabled to think about a hundred times more quickly than was his leisurely wont. Good fortune had brought him to within easy reach of the electric-light switch. He snapped it back, and was in darkness. Then, diving silently and swiftly to the floor, he wriggled under the bed.
There was a bed, unmade, a table, a few chairs, a greasy, threadbare carpet on the floor nothing else, save that his eyes had noted that the electric-light switch was on the wall beside the jamb of the door. The flashlight winked again and again went out. Jimmie Dale slipped his mask over his face, and moved forward toward the wall.
From them the long row of cots, with here and there a man asleep or a man hastily undressing, stretched, lighted by occasional feeble electric-light bulbs, to the sergeant's little table beside the door. "You're gettin' a dis-charge, aren't you?" asked a man with a brogue, and the red face of a jovial gorilla, that signified the bartender. "Yes, Flannagan, I am," said the lanky man dolefully.
Probably the only serious addition of a wholly public use is covered by the general expression, parks and playgrounds; but the analogy of the highway led to the taking of land under eminent domain for railroads, when they were first invented, then for street railways, then for telegraph, telephone, and electric-light lines, underground pipe-lines or conduits of all sorts, and finally, for drains, sewerage districts, public, and often private irrigation purposes.
The door opened, an electric-light switch clicked, and the room was flooded with light. Jason, still running, headed for the desk. "It'll be her again!" Jimmie Dale heard the old man mutter, as from the edge of the portiere he watched the other's actions. Jason picked up the telephone. "Hello! Hello!" he called then began to click impatiently with the receiver hook.
"Come!" she begged. "For what it is that you wait?" It was just eight o'clock. Billy was looking up at the single electric-light bulb that lit the narrow street, and following the direction of his eyes, Claire saw the light grow dim, saw the tiny wires grow red, and disappear. From over all the city came shouts, and cries of consternation, oaths, and laughter, and then darkness.
In front of these huts was a ledge or balcony. They looked like overgrown bird-houses on stilts. One fisherman waited in a boat to pick up the dead ducks, and the other hurled stones from a sling. It was the same kind of a sling as the one with which David slew Goliath. In Athens I saw small boys using it to throw stones at an electric-light pole.
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