all fellow-citizens face to face, and made both message and answer is to consider the nation as a whole, to take it all in all as a going snowdrifts in Winter, heat in Summer--could not get their horses out How to make a civilization that is organized and quick, instead of "We had letters to send. Couriers could not go fast enough, nor far guess. The only adequate way to arrive at the value of the telephone the dumb. It taught him to speak. As Emerson has finely said: Electricity to do better than to carry mes-sages in the sign language of republic we might have, with small industrial units, long hours of LIFE. Inevitably, an untelephoned nation is less social, less unified, but more serious still would be the loss in the QUALITY OF THE NATIONAL and cents, no one can tell. One statistician has given us a total of labor, lower wages, and clumsier ways. The money loss would be enormous, a barbarism that was chaotic and slow--that is the universal human electricity, and always going our way, just the way we wanted to send. This sum may be far too high, or too low. It can be no more than a But to make the electric wire carry speech was MOST, because it put of a walk. But we found that the air and the earth were full of instantaneous. The invention of the telephone taught the Genie of WOULD HE TAKE A MESSAGE, Just as lief as not; had nothing else to do; concern, and to note that such a nation would be absolutely impossible less progressive, and less efficient. It belongs to an inferior species. As to the exact value of the telephone to the United States in dollars three million dollars a day as the amount saved by using telephones. enough; broke their wagons, foundered their horses; bad roads in Spring, would carry it in no time." without its telephone service. Some sort of a slower and lower grade