to harness. world with a new idea. He had to make the thought as well as the thing. golden heart lay hidden the secret of a new electrical civilization. Nights fantasies had conceived of a flying carpet, but neither he nor No Jules Verne or H. G. Wells had foreseen it. The author of the Arabian thrown themselves into the sea because of unrequited love, and each bead nation are focussed upon the subdual of this mysterious force, which has Thus it happened that when Bell invented the telephone, he surprised the wise men of Greece and Rome, few knew its existence, and none put it to that the pieces of amber were the petrified tears of maidens who had banks of the Schuylkill River, and captured the first CANNED LIGHTNING, was there any definite knowledge of electrical energy. His lightning-rod any one else had conceived of flying conversation. In all the literature purity. Not for two thousand years did any one dream that within its tell how brilliant the result may be, when the creative minds of a general use, did men dare to think of the thunder-bolt of Jove as a of amber was highly prized. It was worn as an amulet and a symbol of the earthquake of 1755. And not until the telegraph of Morse came into was regarded as an insult to the deity of Heaven. It was blamed for possible servant of the human race. any practical use. The wisest knew that a piece of amber, when rubbed, will attract feathery substances. But they regarded this as poetry no pedigree. It is younger than many people who are now alive. Among the more power and more delicacy than any other force that man has been able Not even in 1752, when Benjamin Franklin flew his famous kite on the rather than science. There was a pretty legend among the Phoenicians As a tame and tractable energy, Electricity is new. It has no past and