The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-13

SuEcS piOpuOIiCahy AoA" AhSo o'"'
nineteenth century, and predicted tint
triumph ef telegraph and telephone
ironslad and monitor, railroad ane
trolley, who would have believed
him, or thought him anything but
crazy? All these inventions were
then the unbalanced ideas of fsN
visionaries, so the world thought
The twentieth century public begins
the century in different attitude oi
mind. We see 30 many wonderful
things being done every day that
nothing appears too marvellous to hope
for in the next hundred years. The
young people who read these lines
may live to see world 80 different
from ours that we can hardly fancy its
everyday life, any more than the lads
and lasses Of 1900 could have realized
travelling from Washington to Boston
in day, telephoning or telegraphing
home on their arrival, riding from the
station in the trolley, and going to
bed by electric light.
Take wireless telegraphy, for in
stance. It is only in it's beginning,
yet the other day game Of chess was
played by two men on different ocean
steamers, each telegraphing his move
ment by the MaTconi method to his
adversary. When we start the GEN.
tury with such an Arabian Nights
fairy tale as this would have seemed
ten years ago, what may not follow?
A prominent telephone company
bought up, OF once, in 1907, Professor
Pupin's discovery of telephoning
across the Atlantic. By his simple
device Of inserting coils Of wire at
short distances along the conductor.
thus loading the current" and pre-
serving its original force unspent, it
is quite possible that in the future q
man may "speak round the world, and
hear his own voice, like an echo, a
moment after he speaks, it having
travelled round the globe on its jour
ney from his lips to his ear
The submarine boat 10 another
marvel whose development no one
can foresee. We all know the value
of the submarine war vessels, with
which every nation is experimenting
nowadays; but there are other inven-
tions for submarine work to be used in
peace, not war. An Italian inventor
has constructed submarine boat for
the recovery Of treasure from the bot
tom Of the sea, and is said to be max
ing his fortune out Of it. Two per-
sons can work in it for twelve hours at
time, though il is only three meters
in diameter. It has windows Of spe-
cial crystal, so that every object lying
in the Fea is seen distinctly. It can
rise or descend with great speed, re-
main immovable and in equilibrium at
any depth, and when on the sea bot
tom, walks across it, SO to speak, BY
means Of q wheel. Besides this boat,,
the same inventor has patented a'..hy.
droscope," which illuminates the wa
ter for fifteen hundred metera around
it, from q boat on the surface. so that
objects on the bottom are plainly
seen, and enables photographs Of such
objects 90 be cssAr,y lsken. There is
certainly any amount Of treasure
waiting in the sea for inch subn J.
rine cruiser the warship Blact. Prince
for example, which sank during the
Crimean war in the bay Of Balaklava,
with eight million dollars aboard, and
the vessel lost in the! Straits Of Magel-
Ian years ago with one hundred and
twenty. .iye millions worth Of gold in
gota as cargo. If5the inventor makes.
his fortune BY redeeming suoh vast
amounts from the hungry ocean he
will certainly deserve all be gets. v h, RI
TWAS Swift who said that .tthe
maj, who makes two blades Of grass g5r or.
two ears Of corn grow where one % grew.
before, does more essential service co
hisScountry than the whole race OF
politicians put together. The In \
,YeptiYe growers d. corn and wheat il
,the American West are planning 10
grow double haryests by the end of
4sha nenthry. and have Alraa 10 4 record