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Cheap Tickets West, Northwest CALIFORNIA Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Colo rado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona...... .. .. ... Tickets on sale from Sept. 5to Nov. 20. offers choice ofro tes. FRein ing Chair Cars. No transfers. Fast time. Double track For full mnformation, Circulars, Rates and Tickets apply to FRED D MILLER, Trav. Pass. Agt., Ill. Central R. R., A DREAM OF THE FUTURE. Possibility of Seeing by Wire May i Soon Become an Assured Fact. Vill the w.-rid I-> around sme day before .ur eye-. wherever we may. be?- Vill event.; a long way off be brought within our sight as they oc- i e:Ur? ask,; a writer in the 1-don Mail. 1 Time and space are dissappearing fast. There i,; still alive the wid *w - f the me-,senger wh- hurried to Rome t,o and Sir Robert Peel when 1-e came h-me to form hiz trst nil-ii trv. and Sir- Robert travelled by the ame means and at the same speed as he Emperor. Hadrian. traveled from Rme in the days when Rome ruled the wrld. Men still live who ride n the tlrst trains, spoke over the lirst telephiines and sent off the irst tell LgramIs. The very men who gave us teegraplhs and telephones are invent ing for us still. And one of them. the man whom the world can never pay its debts. is L-n the eve. we are told. of announc ing an achievement with which nothing in the world today can compare. Mr. Edison, who turned night into day with his electric light, who made a 1 little box speak so that friend may talk to friend across the earth, and the message spoken today may be heard after ages of time, is said to hope soon to invent a telephone which will carry not only sound. but sight or which will bring, perhaps we should say, 'not only the human voice along the wire, but the image of him who utters it as well. It is one of the great dreams, and, if the brief telegram which came from New York last week is true, most of us will live to see it realized. More than once we have been told that the great secret of picking up the waves of light has been discovered. and "see ing by wire" has been declared to be an accomplished fact. And the picture of an event two miles away has been actually seen. we know, at the other end of the wire. But it is the genius of Mr. Edison to change theory into I fact. to bring wonderful things out of! the clouds down to our common earth. and the announcement that has just been made means that at last the secret of the laboratory is to be the possession of us all. Nothing has yet been made known as to Mr. Edison's method of making! the telephone an instrument for re- 1 fecting an image as well as for con veying a sound. but it is interesting to remember how z*is result has al ready been attained by an inventor of whose invention we have yet heard very little. Jan Szezepanik, before he carved his way to fame which may yet grow into immortality, was a village school master in Poland. the land which gave him birth. He had been to school himself, as we are told, at Cracow, had read translations of Shakespeare and the books of Dr. Smiles; studied optics and electricity; and at 20 was earning 22 a year by teaching fifty boys at the Polish village of Korzyna. But today, at 32, he is doing other work. Jan Szezepanik-pronounced Shtepanik-needs no introduction to the world as an inventor. His famous weaving machine will produce a web in as many hours as it would take years by the old way. Two or three years ago, in the presence of Francis Joseph, the young inventor establish ed his claim to have invented a ma ehineas wonderful as any of the won derful machines of our tin:.e. At the Techni-al Art Museum, in Vienna, he presented to the Eniperor of Aus tria the first tapesty prioduced by his new process, a marvellous allegorical representation of homage to the em peror, containing 20o,000,000 crossings ,f silk threads! More than 200 square1 yiards of cards' would have been nec essary to the production of this web by the old methods, and the work w'ould have taken perhaps four years.] By the newv photographic method the web was begun and completed in nyvet iours! Szezepanik did not leap at onceI nto fame. The royal recognition :ame after long, hopeless struggles. xhich have been the lot of inventors md djiscovers in all time. The royal 'ecogmition came after streets or; ienna waiting in vain for the patron ge of a mnister to wvhom he had hoenxtt his invemlions. and at length ihope *.i government help being hmle:! :. the gra::d. Szezepanik anil a capitalist wvho listened to him m believed him. Herr Ludwig Kleinberg. a man of money and af 'airs, provided funds for a small fac ory n whchte inento wore Nt wearsi and a hait. _N.\f.rtinne l 111ed the t e1) )tth. Fiht nme- the weaving machine was Set . a d eght ime itfaled t.- d.,it 1rk. The Canitalist wa- threatened vith ruin. hint the citcrpri1'-e wa aved at the last hour by a German rehitect. Franz Habrich. who joined lie cincern and.br.,nght nire innds. hnce inire the machine was made. lie magical w wa) w4 #een. a( ;zczepanik was free t, decate him eif the idea stil! nearer tI hiz car --tac idea z lite c ist:mee eer. which was to anihilat e space mi( brin- distant scenes t 1,1111. -n,d hems.elve- befo re his sight. Ii--w this was done xvtilnl take tf)i ng. and take t.i techic.al ilan-tuage. I te here. Let it sit'cle I say that >y a v nderin! arranigemient if lenses ;id disk, :he wave-s cf light are ransformed int electricity at AnC ;I of the wire. carried over the wire ike a teleplione message. and cn erted back into rays of light at the ther end. The things we see with our eyes. as he verest school boy knows are not vhat they appear to be. When we ee St. Paul's Cathedral. we see a mil ion, or many millions. of rays of ight given out by a million. or many nillions. of points on the surface of ;t. Paul's. and the eye. receiving hese millions of rays .of light, forms hem for the brain into a perfect pic :tire. So, standing at one end of a vire. Jan Szezepanik sees, not a man >r a house at the other end, but the mage of a man or house formed on :he retina of his eye by the waves of ight given off by $he man of the iouse. picked tip by his selenium lisk, conveyed as electricity over the ,vire. and received and made visible n a photographic plate. Seven years have passed since-for :he first time. we need not doubt, in he history of the world-a man with >nly human eyes stood in a room and )aw, reflected in the room, an image )f something two mile' away. It vas the first experiment with the electroscope, and it established the )ossibility of the inventor's theory. \ lens having been focused so that lie image of a church fell upon it. he plate was -xposed. at a given sig ial. and in Herr Kieinberg's house. ibout two miles distance. Herr leinberg. Jan Szezepanik and Herr Schmidt. an electrical engineer. >lainly saw the picture-faint and lurred, but recognizable-of the :hiurch. Seven years is as -a moment in the voik of evolution which is changing :he face of this wonderful world, and oday men are still content in London f the telephone brings them sound ind not sight. Too often it is deaf Lnd dumb, as well as blind. But Jan 3zezepanik has not been working done to realize this great dream. A 3erman inventor, Maximilian Pless ter, is a pioneer in the same field, tnd we are told that last year that :he French government was negotia ting for the rights of the "specto traph," another kind of telephone in rented in Paris. It makes all the difference in the w'orld, however, that Mr. Edison now >romises that we shall see by wire. FIe speaks our language and thinks ur thoughts, and he belongs, wizard ts he is, in our own real world. t may yet be that we shall sit by >ur firesides and see our k.in across he sea, that we shall be "switched >n" from our drawing rooms to be >resent at .some great battled field, tnd that the streets of all the world's :apitals will be familiar to those who iever leave the streets of our own ~ondon. Some maker of dictionaries n that day will cross out "space" nd "distance" and '"invisible" as w,ords without a meaning, and the >rotherhood of man will come, not hrough religion, but through science. Prepared For the Spring. 'hiladelphia Press. 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