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Show -THE WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY. The first official act of the Pan-American Congress Con-gress was to pass a resolution of sincere thanks o Presidents Roosevelt and Diaz fo securing a treaty of peace between the warring ' States of Central 'America. The act was a gracious one, the fact that it was possible and that it was possible to spread the news before all the readers of the world next tnorning makes a vivid reminder of the telegraph and the perfecting press. A month ago those States were carrying on a determined war. Three weeks ago a fighting ship carrying a message of peace was sent down there; three days were sufficient in which to r,each terms of settlement, and now in a land five thousand miles away by sea, a convention of States' sends back its ' thanks for the work done by the Presidents whose capitals re, by the shortest route, two thousand -milesapart. Surely electricity is the moving agent of this world; the Infinite creates worlds with it; lights and warms worlds by it, and man, with his limited knowledge, has caught enough of its motion and has so far reduced it to hisservice to bring, ' through it, the nations into close contact, though oceans roll between them, storms rave and mountains moun-tains rear their crests. ' It is the moving spirit of the universe ; the jinn which the Infinite has loaned to mankind to expedite their way up to the plane on which angels stand. - |