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Show The World's Growing New Power. If any one studies the map of Canada carefully care-fully we think he will reach the conclusion that a hundred years hence "Our Lady of the Snows" will be about the biggest manufacturer in all the world. The fuel measures of the world are being exhausted so fast that some scientists already fix the date when there will be no more coal. The substitute for that will have to be electricity, elec-tricity, and to make that a success it will have to be generated by water power, and when it comes to that, Canada is better provided than almost any other country. Two or three of our southern states ought to be great manufacturing states. The stato of Virginia, for instance, because almost al-most unlimited water can be found in the eastern slope'of her hills. The same is true in. a measure of Georgia and Tennessee, but in Canada the flow is more even and the number of streams and the topography of the country all favor the creation cre-ation of illimitable power. There are some streams in western Canada that can be used over and over, the fall is so great. In the next twenty-five years we suspect that nearly all the railroads in our country will discredit dis-credit the locomotive and use electric power. Wo have often wondered that the New York Central Cen-tral has not already done that with the Genesee, Niagara and Mohawk rivers. It would not be difficult for it to establish stations and run all its trains by electric power. The amount of fuel consumed on that railroad daily is a tremendous tre-mendous item. The Pennsylvania is just as bad, and that drain must be stopped in the near future. There is no end of electricity in the air, it is a measure that cannot be exhausted, and tlie sun is feeding it to the world every day in vast volumes. So far it can be caught and restrained in no other way so cheaply as by water power, and the study of the next thirty or forty years will have to be how to convert that power into use to carry on the transportation of the coun- BBiiSiSBSBEBSHE try, to turn the wheels of manufactories, to light the cities, to become, in short, the greatest agent that man ever enlisted through which to carry on his work. We are writing this with the thought all tho time In mind that possibly that agent can be utilized in another way. Wireless telegraphy is getting to be so mighty a factor In the affairs of men that Its possibilities cannot for a moment bo understood at present. If a man In Omaha, with a little motor weighing three tons, can haul eight or nine tons by wireless, what cannot be done when that principle is a little more elaborated. elab-orated. When the world was stored with fuel in preparation of the coming of a race that then only existed in the "mind of God, that Sovereign Power knew what the wants of the race would be and prepared for them, and when we read what the scientists say about the limit of coal measure's, then It is only natural to conclude that possibly It was the Intention . that they should only last for a given number of years, that then something higher and more subtle and more wonderful won-derful would be enlisted to take their place, and If one genius has so mastered the science of wireless telegraphy that he can move irresponsive irrespons-ive motors on the land just by touching a button and calling down this power from the ether, what may not come of It? There Is nothing so beautiful to study as science sci-ence as it Is being unfolded, and we do not see how any man, as one after another of the secrets of science are given up, one after another of Its splendors is furnished to light the earth, we do not see, we say, how the developments can help but strengthen the faith of man that there is an infinite power that presides over all, and that dally we have manifestation that a more infinite in-finite mercy is also presiding over the destinies of poor mortality. |