Show mllE WORLDS Sixty t a at Herne Although thousands of miles of tine line were werA In operation before 1565 the world telegraph as It exists today dates date from that thet time and from a convention held In Paris to adoPt regulations regulation for In telegraphic operations Previously In sending a 11 message from one country to 10 another delays dolas were re encountered which mad the telegraph little lithe more expeditious than the pet pest petIn In tra traveling eUng across Europe u 11 message not only occupied an exasperating amount ot of time but also allO accumulated nn an appalling list of charges charge reckoned In different kinds of money tor fO each country It had passed through Those charges could coull not be paid In advance because th the amount of them WB was not known at the point from which tile the message was pent HUt It may be imagined that thet under such luch conditions the tele Me telegraph graph was iii not generally employed In transacting business From the point ot of view of the privat vat ate citizen the most moat Important work done by the Paris convention was wag to arrange a 11 uniform schedule of leI idle graphic rates and to proVIde t that t mM me mIght be sent lent In cod cods or language e II if desired WI wet made for the more rapid tree tre I ot of international A Ass a lt result of the work ot of this and lurcH succeeding lIng conventions W we ha e the marvelously intricate yet It simple system 1111 of sending lending telegraphic mg messages which prevails prevail today coda It II fa possible now to send nd a me message from an any village that can bout boast a telegraph office to any other point In the world that le II reached hed hedby by the mu maze ot of wires Moreover the sender ma may feel fHI a will that this message will go forward quickly and It II required but a moment for Cor the clerk to Inform him III as to its Ita exact eel cost t Considering that the ownership of t the various telegraph and cable lines of the world I le divided between neArly Cort forty different and halt haU that number ot of private this la is a highly interesting example ot of bust bUll nos neel centralisation It has been brought about through rh the establish meat ment elf liC the Bureau ot of Telegraph h at al Berne Dem Switzerland This bureau the charges of the fhe many dur different rent countries subscribing to the union using the franc a as A basis bAlla for nil all rates It hu hoe brought about man other changes calculated to extend aM an improve the Ihl telegraph business tit moat recent undertaking being the compilation ot of a great dictionary 0 or international telegraphic code contain containIng Ing some lome term taken from frem ii al most mOlt every In existence Magazine |