against innumerable dangers. This is the profession of the wire chiefs fatal moisture upon an unwiped joint. Or perhaps a submarine cable has of adventures. Even a washerwoman, with one lone, non-electrical slopes of mountains, massing them in cities and fluffing them out among machine; and an injury in any one place may cause a pain or sickness to It cannot be picked up and put into a dry-dock. It must be repaired and their men, a corps of human spiders, endlessly spinning threads farms and villages. To tell the doings of a wire chief, in the course with it. But the wire chiefs of the Bell telephone have charge of as a small boy has thrown a snake across the wires or driven a nail into much wire as would make TWO HUNDRED MILLION CLOTHES-LINES--ten apiece its whole vast body. with clothespins, but with the most delicate of electrical instruments. And just as the particles of a human body change every six or seven thousand families, to put the telephone wires in place and protect them under streets and above green fields, on the beds of rivers and the years, without disturb-ing the body, so the particles of our telephone a cable. Perhaps some self-reliant citizen has moved his own telephone The wire chiefs must detect trouble under a thousand disguises. Perhaps clothes-line of a hundred yards to operate, has often enough trouble of his ordinary week's work, would in itself make a lively book interlocking unit, a living, conscious being, half human and half been sat upon by the Lusitania and flattened to death. But no matter to every family in the United States; and these lines are not punctuated what the trouble, a telephone system cannot be stopped for repairs. from one room to another. Perhaps a sudden rainstorm has splashed its or improved by a sort of vivisection while it is working. It is an