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Show The Modern Miracle Worker. " In the current Scrlbner is an interesting ac count of the installation of electric power In the valleys of India and in the foothills of the Himalayas. Hima-layas. The work is bringing a transformation to that wonderful land. The building of reservoirs is taking up water that for all time has mado swamps of fertile regions, making the cultivation of the soil possible and adding greatly to the food supply; .factories that have long boon shut down are starting into life and giving employment employ-ment to a large number of people; after tho power is exhausted, the water, in now channels, is turned upon thirsty soil and under that Indian sun responds in wonderful vegotation; cities and palaces and temples are lighted at night with imitation sunlight it is a new creation, and tho imaginative mind of the subtle native of that land looks upon it all as an answer to prayer. Reading Read-ing the account and keeping in mind that tho fuel supplies of tho world aro not well distributed and that the best sources aro being rapidly depleted, de-pleted, the thought comes involuntarily of what electricity is going to bo in tho economy of this world in the coming years. If copper is low in price just now tho owners of copper mines need not despair, so long as no other metal is relied upon for tho transmission of light and power, for the work is as yet hardly commenced. If any of tho young men in our colleges and universities are natural mechanics, and have not a definite luture laid out for themselves, they..cannot da better bet-ter than spend a couple of years in persuing the study of engineering and the application of electric elec-tric power. All this work in India originated In the mind of a young Canadian who is an officer in tho British army in India. He saw what was needed in Mysose. The Maharajoh of that pro vince wanted to do something as it is done in the west, and this young officer, Major A. J. de Loth-biniere, Loth-biniere, pointed out to him what might be done by harnessing the Conriiy river. Western engineers engin-eers were sent for and western machinery; the river was turned and then made to discharge upon Pelton wheels; the power was transmitted and then the glory began the contagion is spreading spread-ing all over India and the streams coming down from the Himilayas, which have been running to waste through- all the' ages, are now being picked up, one after another, and are being mado the subjects of this new power that has come to move and light the world. And thai: is in far-off ' Asia. Imagine what is to be done on our own continent. con-tinent. A great deal has been done In the United States but the work has only just begun, while think of South America. Brazil, alone is as large as tho United States outside of Alaska. Chile is about tile same area as California, Oregon and Washington. Argentina is an empire In extent, so is Columbia, so is Peru, so is Bolivia. And those great states are beginning to throw of the lethargy lethar-gy of the centuries, and are making the first strong presentation of progressive achievement. There will be work there for all the young men offnls country who can get away. But they should go equipped to do their part. There is no end to the mines that are to be opened there, no limitation on the fields that are to be subdued and tilled, the roads that are to be built, the bridges tho cities to be built and lighted and all the work that millions can engage in where the soil is rich and limitless, whore the mines hold yet the treasures treas-ures of a hundred empires, and all Is waiting for tho energy and brain to begin in earnest the splendid conquest. |