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Show The work of some men lives longer than the H JllflH projectors of the work. It Js now said that the P Ta Pacific cable will be completed between San Fran- mm 1jhHH cisco and Honolulu by the end of the preuent h 1?899 year; that cable connection with the Far East will H fijHfl be established next July. It was John W. Mack- jH pf$9Hfl ay's dream to make the putting of this belt "round S yHE9 about the earth" the closing splendid achievement H Ufl9 of his life. He ordered the cable, he superintended B 9HB all the preliminaries, but just as a ship put to sea jB 8 with the first section, he was called away. But it B BHRs B m m ' was his work, and the first dispatch sent along the H 'W line through the deep sea ought to bo an all hail B mm nll(l farewell to his great soul. kH t! I as ' |