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Show WONDERSOF ELECTRICITY An Old-Time Telegrapher Would Not Be Surprised at Anything. without wires. Who can tell but what this Chicago man may be on the right track?" f"J. R. Task of Laverne, Tenn., who Is visiting his son. J. T. Park, telegraph operator at the Turf Exchange, is quite an Interesting old-timer. He is a telegraph tel-egraph operator and has filled the position po-sition of station agent at Laverne for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad , for thirty-five years continuously. continu-ously. He Is taking a brief vacation with his wife for the benefit of the lat-ter's lat-ter's health. Mrs. Park Is a sufferer from rheumatism and expects much benefit from the dry atmosphere of Salt Lake. "I see a man In Chicago proposes to bring electricity from the sky by means of a cable projected 250 miles into, or rather above, the air. It sounds chimerical, chi-merical, but in my time fully as strange "things have happened. Morse has Invented In-vented the telegraph. Bell the telephone, tele-phone, some one else the electric light and power, while Marconi has succeeded succeed-ed In sending messages through the air |