Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-04-26
ax WHITE. Editor and Proprietor.
Gaming Inventions.


..ted an enthusiastic citizen one day
.tsr listening to the talk over the
In, from Cleveland to New York.
swhy, we have only begun" re-
,,;sd gentleman who had paid some
attention to the subject. ITO talk
.;x hundred miles or so is nothing.
Why, you just wait ten years and l
viii tell you what you will see.''
"Well, let's hear you now."
..In the first place the present
Morse system of telegraph will have
entirely passed away. Talking will
10 so much more rapid and accu-
rste."
"Yes, l admit that"
"Well, that is not all. There will
be a perfect network of telephone
communication, and it will be very
cheap. But that will not be all. By
the payment of very small sum the
father in northern Ohio can step to
the telephone station at the township
center and call up his married daugh-
ter. who many years ago emigrated
to Dakota. As he talks he will look
into a finely adjusted mirror that
stands before bis face, and in tat
mirror be can see the face of his be-
loved daughter as she talks to him.
She, at her end of the line, of course,
will observe the countenance dis
tnctly also. The conversation will
run something like this:
".You seem to be little pale to-
dsy, father. Are you as well as
usual!'
"'Why, yes, guess am all right.
How are the babies!'
"'Oh, Sally was sick all night and
don't seem to be just right this morn
ing. Here she is (holding her up to
the telephone.) You must excuse
her appearance. Her face is not very
clean; have been so very busy that
have not had time to wash it, and
she has been playing around and
got this apron very dirty, too
"'Sally is all right, amt she, little
one? How grandpa does wish he
could take her into his arms. He
can see her very clearly, though. 1
think she looks more like her mothers
folks as she gets older, don't you?'
"'Yes, we all agree on that; Will
liam has insisted almost ever since
she was mothers girl. But here is
Henry and John; both want to see
md talk with grandpa q minute this
morning
"sBless their souls, granpa wants
to see them, too. Let them come to
the 'phone.'
'.And so the conversation goes on,
and all for ten cents"
"But that will spoil the United
States mail. What will be the use of
writing letters when we can talk that
xsy!"
"There will be none at all. But
this telephone business will be run by
the government, and the price of
communication will be kept down to
the minimum. When we think that
We now talk over a line six hundred
miles long, and hear what is said, do
you think that is expecting very
much? Who would have believed
that such thing as a telephone was
possible ten years agof 1 tell you,
l am not speaking at random in what
isad above. Through with wonders
Ee we? Why, man, we have only
just begun. We have got to study
up some means Of rapid transit by
which newspapers at any rate can be
sent from enc part of the country to
another much faster than now. News
viii get very old before a full de-
serpton OF it can can be sent from
one part Of the country to the other
BY telephone. Men are now study.
ing the problem of electric locomo-
aon, and in ten years it will be an ac-
complished fact. This is a fast age
ia, hal This is an ox-team-and.
eovered-wagon age compared to wha,
. coming. Twenty-Five miles ar
lear for an express train! Bah
Eho will be willing to wait fol
pat; We shall spin along at the rate
thirty or forty miles a minute wher
ne is any necessity for so doing.
ot possible? Why man you are
epde; anything is possible to the
odern Yankee mind and genius
scan do anthing we have mind
md and we will