of Alexander Graham Bell. telegraphic experience, while it certainly helped them for a time, it gentle little messenger who had been conjured into life by the wizardry irrational. It is as gentle as a touch of a baby sunbeam, and as swift of hot water just one degree, and the energy set free by the cooling whenever it ventured too near. There were rain and sleet and snow and every sort of moisture, lying in wait to abduct it. There were rivers had afterwards to be undone. tear-drop of a child, and there will be sufficient water-power to carry The peculiar electric current that these young pathfinders had to deal All that these young men had received from Bell and Watson was that part with is perhaps the quickest, feeblest, and most elusive force in into obedience. It was the most defenceless of all electric sprites, the world. It is so amazing a thing that any description of it seems and trees and flecks of dust. It seemed as if all the known and unknown single incandescent lamp is greater 500,000,000 times. Cool a spoonful as the lightning flash. It is so small that the electric current of a Such is the tiny Genie of the Wire that had to be protected and trained will operate a telephone for ten thousand years. Catch the falling enemies. There was the lightning, its elder brother, striking at it Electrical engineering, as a profession, was unborn. And as for their currents, its strong and malicious cousins, chasing and assaulting it and it had so many enemies. Enemies! The world was populous with its a spoken message from one city to another. agencies of nature were in conspiracy to thwart or annihilate this started them in the wrong direction and led them to do many things which with murderous blows. There were the telegraphic and light-and-power