The Springdale news., 1909-09-24

yersation or a song or piece of music on a disc was looked upon even twenty-five years ago as an mpossibility. yet to-day one can sit in his own apartments and hear the greatest singers and musicians in the world. The operas of all the composers yield their choicest pieces to him, and the performances of the finest orchestras can be had at his will.
 In (. certain WY We could un- derstand how it was possible to communicate over wire; but when declared that the wire was not ne1- essary, they seemed to talk like mad men. Yet to-day every ship has it's wireless equipment and can communicate from mid-ocean with the far-dstant land
 me sailing vessel that plowed going steamer that races through t1e waves like greyhound An ocean steamer in our day is like a miniature city breasting the sea.
 Then came the bicycle and the automobile to give the weary horse rest; and now our cities are filled with thse flying vehicles
 Fifty years ago everybody who wished to write a letter or a book relied upon his pen. The typewriter was invented, and now the cores pondenee of the world is transacted ts the machine.
 It was easy enough to prove ting machine was an impossibility. Anyone could see that a compositor could pick up letter and put it in it's place quicker than a machine hit the keys, set the machinery in motion and it would have to pick the type up and put it in it's place. evidently require more time than the old-fashioned setting of type by hand But the nnotype met all the objections and to-day an operator can set type as rapidly as he can work typewriter.
 The advance of invention has been so rapid that pictures can be telegraphed. and no doubt in time this branch of electrical develop ment will be thoroughly realized.
 During this half century the per feeting of implements of destrac- tion has kept up with the general development. We have gatling guns. tremendous shells that can be fired for miles, submarine torpe- does. and rapid-fire guns. By in- creasing the terror and deadlness Of war. we have made il raref But during this half century We have witnessed the great War between the states, the fall of Paris before the victorious Germans, the bloody conflict between the Turks and the Russians. the South African war, and the gigantic and unparalleled conflict between Russia and Japan, terminating in the battle of the Sea Of Japan and the fall of Muk den
 We have seen the building of ov erhead and underground railroads; railroads built under great rivers; great bridges spanning mighty streams; the wonderful monorail and the suspended railroad; lofty skyscrapers in nearly all of our cities; streets paved with asphalt, taken from the lakes of Nenezeula and Trinidad; elevators, carrying people from the earth far up into the sky
 At this very time men have solved the problem of aerial navigation. Whether this will be commercial ly available or not We dc not know. but there can be no doubt that man has learned to fly The profound interest taken in the aerial con tests proves that aviation will not be the whim of the moment. The crude machines will be perfected, and ill course of time doubtless some use will be found Tor the air ship Navigation of the air will be made safe and become common. No one can foresee the future. We can only guess at the changed con ditions; but the fact that all the civilized nations are encouraging the aerial tests leads us to beliye that something worth while will come of all this daring experimentation.
 And now to zap all the achieve ments of the wonderful half cen tury. comes the greatest adventure of modern times The fact that there may be small practical value in the discovery Of the north pole has not marrod the enthusiasm of