The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1883-03-31
OUR GREAT FUTURE.
What Ten Years WIN Bring Forti
cleveland Leader.

cleveland LEADER
"What more can be invenfe ?" asked
an enthusiastic citizen on Saturday, after
listening to the talk over the line from
here to New York.
why, we have only begun" replied
a gentleman who had paid some atten-
ton to the subject. " To talk six hundred
miles or so is nothing. Why, you just
wait ten years and will tell you what
you will see
Well, let's hear you now.
q In the FIRST place the present Morse
system of telegraph will have entirely
passed away. Talking will be so much
more rapid and accurate"
"Yes. admit that"
Well, that is not all. There will be
perfect network of telephone communi-
cation, and it will be very cheap. But
that will not be all. BY the payment of
a very small sum the father in Northern
Ohio can step to the telephone station at
his township center and call up his mar
ried daughter, who.many years ago emf
grated to Dakota. As he talks he will look
into finely adjusted mirror that stands
before his face, and in that mirror he
can see the face Of his beloved daughter
AS she talks to him. She, a, her end of
the line of course. will observe his coun-
tenance clearly and distinctly also. The
conversation, will run something like
this:
You seem to be little pale to-day
father. Are you as well as usual =
80 Why, yes, guess | am all right.
How are the babies?'
80, Sally was sick. all night. and don't
seem to be all RICH, this morning Here
she is (holding her up to the aelephone).
You must excuse her appearance. Her
face is not very clean; ! have been so
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 in his arms. He can see her very
clearly, though. think she looks more
and more like her mothers folks, as she
gets older, don't you?'
Yes, we all agree on that: William
has insisted almost ever since she was
born that she was mothers girl. Bu,
here IS Henry and John; both want to see
and talk with grandpa a minute this morn
ing
80 Bless their souls. grandpa wants to
see them, loo. Lei them come to the
phone
" But that will spoil the United States
mail. Wha; will be the use Of writing
letters when we Can Talk that way.
There will be none 1t all. But this
telephone business will be run by the
government, and the price Of commune
cation will be kept down to the minimum.
When we think that we can now talk over
i line GOO miles long. and hear what is
said. do You think that is expecting
much? Who would have believed that
such thing rs telephone was possible
ten years ago. tell you am not speak
ing ut random in what have said above
Through with wonders. are we? Why.
man, we have only Just begun. We have
got Ia study up some means of rapid
transit by which newspapers. at any rate,
can be sent from any part of the country
to another much faster than now. News
will get very old before full description
Of il can he sent from one part Of the
country to the other by telephone. Men
are now studying the problem of electric
locomotion, and in ten years it will be an
accomplished fact. This is fast age.
hi. ha. This Is m oN-team-and-c covered
wagonage compared with what is coming.
Twenty-Five miles an hour for an expires,
train: Bah who will be willing to wal,
for that; we shall spin along at least at
the rate Of thirty or forty miles minute
when there is any necessity for SO doing.
Not possible? Why. mar. you are A
skep,c, Anything IS possible to the
modern Yankee mind and genius. We
can do anything we have a mind 10. and
we will
The man who thought the inventors
had got to the end of their string walked
away in 4 reflective mood.