Show i ir r t THE E WORLDS WORLD'S FUEL 1 A large coal trade is growing up between the At At- r 7 lant lantic c Stat States s and foreign countries notably countries no notably bly Southern j J. J Europe Eur pe and South America The reason leason given n is IS aN a N f scarcity ar of miners miners in Vf Wales ales and the difficulty of pf load load- fi mg ing coal at Cardiff j- j We rather suspect that the real reason is a a determination determination de de- V termination on the part o of Great Britain t to begin to toI I l husband u band her coal Fifty years ago her mining eng engi engi- V I ricers veers reported that the supply was practically unlimited 1 cd Five years ago they placed laced the the limit of the the then i n supply at the present rate of consumption at a time V fir u. u in inthe the n not t off far far future jL 2 The steam engine used as it is on land and sea makes a mighty dra drain on on the worlds world's s coal measures i t as asa a rule the cities have no other fuel That f fact ct alone should be an incentive to electricians to t pursue their work for the only exhaustless elements r i. i are electricity air and water The rivers of the United States ought to b be harnessed to supply the electricity to turn the wheels of commerce and the manu manufactories ac ories and to heat and light the cities cites It ry will have to come ome come to that by and by That is of course that electric power will have to be widely extended extended ex- ex tended and we may hope that as man man advances s in his knowledge knowledg of f electricity the electricity the best of men do not know o niu much l- l labout about it as yet new yet new applications of of it iti ks i will be made When the earth was freighted for its k long ong voyage everything man would need was was placed I JV I upon upon on its deck or in its awful hold It was left for forman jk man n to ma make e his discoveries and his applications t t r It was wa ages before the steam engine took perfect f form we suspect that the use of electricity is as yet t only in its infancy s 3 L The steam engine engin is not only a direct drain upon r j the worlds world's fuel but because of it the cities have jj i t s S multiplied in size size and number and the worlds world's general gen- gen I 8 eral business has increased beyond all estimation S t v Merely to make paths for the steam engine the iron v nines nes in civilized coun countries es have had drawn from 4 hi them tJ them m more ore than h had d been drawn dram for or ages before 5 jj f Then en as th the forests orests disappear substitutes have to be f found und and these as a rule are all at first a drain t mineral 1 f fuel ue I if jj No wonder onder Great Britain is IS beginning g to curtail W. Wr v r the export of her fuel supply Suppose it were to be he heVer Ver 1 e exhausted tomorrow 1 Within a week the United 1 Kingdom m would be as some scientists describe the ther I moon r moon a dead world orId floating helplessly sly In her sphere II |