of eliminating the hermit and gypsy elements of civilization. In an telephony. The cost of an efficient farm system is now so little--not team. Instead of travelling back and forth, often to no purpose, the was ten miles distant; but there was probably no substitute for the travel. It has enabled a man to settle permanently in one place, and yet excuse than that it is cheap. But this is a transient phase of farm pay six prices for the best seed-corn, and who will allow nothing but any sort. There is a mythical story of a wonderful speaking-trumpet human voice except flags and beacon-fires, or any faster method of keep in personal touch with his fellows. first sensation of rapid transit doubtless came with the sailing vessel; high-grade cattle in his barn, will at the same time be content with the almost ideal way, it has made intercommunication possible without farmer may now stay at home and attend to his stock and his crops. all the other cheap and unprofitable things. Morocco is to-day--a region without wheeled vehicles or even roads of telephone service, as they have in other lines. The same man who will possessed by Alexander the Great, by which he could call a soldier who travel than the gait of a horse or a camel across ungraded plains. The Until the last few centuries, much of the world was probably what CHAPTER VII. THE TELEPHONE AND NATIONAL EFFICIENCY shabbiest and flimsiest telephone service, without offering any other sooner or later to go to the junk-heap with the sickle and the flail and more than two dollars a month, that the present trashy lines are certain but it was the play-toy of the winds, and unreliable. When Columbus The larger significance of the telephone is that it completes the work As yet, few farmers have learned to appreciate the value of quality in