Show THE RIVERS AND ELECTRIC POWER A new thought is dawning upon ine s men illS in ill S connection with connection w ih the idea of restoring the herba herbage c cr r- r around the sources of our rivers where the forests have been heen felled The fhe result knows 5 as every one has been that in instead tead of the snows gradually melting inciting S to feed the si I ren reams m it rushes now in greil greats great t floods Hoods S. S devastating the banks in iu the springtime and leaving leavingS r S the streams shorn of nfl all th their ir strength iu in the autumn autumn i But But Bitt now a new loss is is realized Since electric power S. S i j f has become so important a factor in the worlds world's industries inS in- in S j it jt is that through the depletion 1 of the streams there is IS a loss of thousands and tens S of of thousands horsepower annually by this shrinkage S of the streams sti What this means can be le in a y little I Iway way appreciated by hy the fact that the coal measures mes S of f the world arc are being reduced at the rate rale of S horsepower annually and the tho consumption S is going on so rapidly that the end cud is already ahead in iu sight in man many of the old countries of the world Well Yell S. S this water power that flows away is likewise lost S but there is a saving aying grace about it The coal measures incas meas f tires ures were wele deposited not long after the foundations t r of f the world were laid It ft was a part of the freight i which nature stored for the benefit of man after man t should be called into being on the breast of or the ft S parOl But the water power was different Tt lit was vas l planned that it should Rhonl be he perpetually supplied lp by I the hc sunbeams the warm waters aters of f the Ilic deep sea ea the 5 5 t S clouds the winds and the cold eold of the mount mountain am tops a blessing as perpetual as the love lo of God This being be be- 5 ing true surely man mall can cnn afford to keep the sources J k I. I of the streams in iii the best form to receive and retain retainS S 1 the he s 's that come inland the gift of the sun sunbeams eams t the he ocean the clouds and md the winds and of the cold 5 l- l which seizes SeleS the clouds loaded with moisture and 1 compressing them as a hand does docs a wet sponge pogeS S c causes them to precipitate their gathered snows mows IW around the sources of r our streams to feed them thel wh when n S the he sun grows hot hoi in HI the tho heavens and aud the dry air aIr 5 Ji i drinks up UI the thc mo moisture sh re from river and r river bank S 1 The coal measures will all by and by bj be exhausted 1 but if men and nations will but do their dut duty this source f of electric e power will remain perpetual as long ong as the sunbeams and the ocean remain and the viewless s winds come and go on their celestial wings |