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Show 1 ; The Wealth of the Waters. " i ! The Hast is waking up to a great truth. Tho 1 Outlook begins an article in these words: I , "Pennsylvania coal lands are not worth as I j : much to Pennsylvanians as are the waters of Now ( . ; York State, fully utilized, to its citizens. Such I ' waters would furnish power to generate electricity , to turn tho wheels in every manufacturing plant, I 1 to light every plant and every house, to run every kind of car, and finally to cook all the food con- j i mimed in tho latter State." It might have added I that, effectively used, the water would about ' double the product of the gardens and farms, and j if carefully husbanded, when the coal of Ponnsyl- .' Vania is all exhausted, tho rivers will still be in i j full flow carrying their forces undiminished to I 1 tho sea. j ; :' Nature makes no mistakes. While the lands I yielded' plenty and tho coal measures seemed in-j in-j 1 exhaustible, tho waters wore permitted to live an f ; idlo life, and unvoxed to sing and babble all tho (' days arid riighfcs pi the centuries. But as the lands ibgan to Tpse their fertility and tho coal measures showed, that there was a limit to them, !,' the now agent, electricity, was brought into sub- i !; jection and the experiments on tho Western dos- erts revealed that, after all, moisture is the very ; j, life of tho land out of which man obtains his ', 1 food, and that it was time tfiat farmers should ! double tho products of their fields and that there was a cleaner and more convenient power that L ' could be gathered from the air than any that ' coal could generate. It Is a wonderful thing that i Nature away back when this world was being 'freighted for its long voyage, took on board ! Worthing that tho race of men which then ox- j Istod- only in the mfnd of God, would need. That f : a few obvious things wore put in sight for man ;! while ho was groping In the darkness of his I' primitive Ignorance; that as his intelligence in- !' creased, new doors would bo opened to him, new lights would come to him; that his destiny was to keep advancing until at last he would indeed stand only a little lower than the angels. The Outlook says: "We are just beginning to ' realize that water is even n. greater natural re- ! ". Source than is land." Precisely, and that means that the world has so far gotten along on only ; half its natural capital, and men's eyes have j through the ages been dimmed to the full mean- Ing of the words: 1 ; "For he makoth small tho drops of water; they pour down rain according to tho vapor thereof. , j Which tho clouds to drop and distill upon man ' j ' abundantly." |
