The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-26

not really begin to exist until after the clvil war about fifty years ago, Paper made from wood, the fast presses the collection of the news of the world by telegraph machines to replace typesettingo and all that goes into the mechanism of modern newspaper were unknown a little more than half a century aga. What improvements in printing arc possible compared with those here mentioned? {?
 Electricity, now the greatest of the worlds working forces may be said to have begun to be usefully employ cd in the operation of the telegraph In England in 1897 and in the United States in lS44 There are people in Hartford. who can remember when Morses first line was opened between Washington and Baltimore in the lat ter year. sixty four years ago Now there are telegraph cables under all the oceans The first electfic light be- gan to glimmer in our streets in 1876, and the telephone appeared little later Railway cars began to be pro- pelled by electric power about 1885, and the transmission If power by cleo. trcity over long distances came scarcely ten years ago. Wireless tel cgraphy is vet a new wonder There will doubtless come a time when every waterfall in the world will be wholly used in the production of power and where are now the fall of Niagara will be only great dry stone cliffs. But can anybody imagine sucn revolution in human conditions occurring again in the next ten thousand years as has taken place since the electric current was harnessed to a telegraph line sev- enty-one years ago?
 The first sunlight picture of human face was made only slxty-eight years ago-n 1S4o Photography came with the introduction of the colodion pro cess in 1851, Photo-engravlng which has made the use of pictures in books and newspapers as easy and as cheap as the production of printed matter, thereby revolutionizing the art of print ing, Is development of the last twen-
 
 furnishes daily amusement to eight 1 hundred audiences in New York city alone was perfected Just fifteen years ago. seventy years ago only per sons of large wealth could leave their portraits to those who came after them Today pictures of the man or woman who does anything of public interest are put before the eyes of millions ot their fellow beings Who that has lived for sixty years does not remember the interest that was added to human life 1 by the first photograph albums? With photography may be coupled the phon- i ograph, which enables us to talk into a machine, send the wax record to the other side of the globe and have oul 1 voices reproduced there, What a deer 1 chasm separates the lives of all the 1 millions of human creatures who liveG before the days of photography anG | the photograph and the lives of al 1 by whom they have been or will he used l Ii is avcrrcd by the best authorities ' that life has existed on this planet fo, 1 twenty-five millions of years If hu manlty endures for twenty-five mil. 1 lions Of years to come the camera anG l the phonograph will be in use at the end of that time
 The worlds supply of petroleum was first tapped for commercial use less than fifty years ago Ii is now used all over the world as source oi 1 light heat and power The automo- 4 bile might have come--on very linn. ted scale as the result of the inven. i ten of the electric storage battery and motor, but the fast-running au. ! tomobile would be an impossbilitl < without petroleum and rubber. rht gasoline engine alone has made the aeroplanes of the Wright brother! and the drigible balloon of Captair ! Zeppelin a possibility Aeraa navi gation, which has been dreamed e for centuries Is the direct result O the discovery and development Q < petroleum, What imaginable feat re mains possible to human beings g, wonderful as the navigation of tn, air?
 Half a century ago men were stil marvcling at tpe monstrous size 0 the pyramids of EG%pt and a fev great eathedrals in Europe. Nobod, then dreamed that human being would ever live and work in building rising even two hundred feet In tn air To-day habitable buildings arr l planned in New York nine hundred feet in height and have actually beer built over seven hundred feet Bridges nearly a third of mile il lenesh between supports have ceased to ha a source of wonder, and one Ina! been planned to connect New Yorl and Hoboken with . single span ovc l half a mile long The element 0 bignoss in human structures no long CT possesses the possibility of noyelt, or surprise
 More progress has been made 1T medical science during the past fifty years than during the whole prioi existence of the human race, NoarlN all human diseases have now beer mastered by the doctors and tho cure for cancer and the other maladi@s moi yet controllablc will soon be fou l1 There iS comparatively little more fcl the biologists and pathologists tt learn Anaesthetcs came into usn z little more than half a century ago The restoration of the dead to lif, would he scarcely more wonderful than anaeathesia
 win anybody argue that grsata, wars are to occur in thn future thar the world has ever seen? There vii never be more perfectly trained en( perfectly commanded army than GAf many put into the field against Fr4not in 1870 Since that time steel cannon smokeless powder and the use of a,gl explosives in shells have been intro