FUNDAMENTALS

She is learning them that she may be a good architect and she is shying at nothing. But nevertheless she is purely feminine.

man year, and her instructors say that she turned out some of the very best work in the class. She has also worked in the foundry. Miss Ingels refuses all proffers of assistance from her chivalrous classmates and "roughs it" with the rest of them. At the first glance her presence among the grimy young workers is incongruous, but after one watches the and ap

SOME

The Heart of the Mine

By BERTON BRALEY

OMETIMES my heartbeats, calm and slow,
Seem like the sound of long ago;
The rhythmic pulsing of my blood

Is like the steady throb and thud
The air compressors used to play

All night and day, all night and day,

Where, at the shaft, there formed the line

Of miners going down the mine!

The pumps below would thump and sob,

But up on top was just the throb

Of huge compressors never still
Storing the air that runs each drill,

And singing endlessly this song,

"Be strong, be strong, be strong, be strong!" And strong we were, who formed the line

Of miners going down the mine!

So now, afar from stope and drift,
From running drill or changing shift,
My very heartthrobs serve to call
My thoughts back surely to it all;
I seem to hear as music sweet
The air compressors' steady beat,
To be a portion of the line

Of miners going down the mine!

Comes swiftly then to me once more
The "hough!" of engines hoisting ore,
The hoot of whistles, and the shock
Of air drills gouging at the rock;
And, somehow, down within me deep
Awakes the ghost I thought asleep,
The lure of days I joined the line
Of miners going down the mine!

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By George H. Cushing

In "Wireless' Fate" Mr. Cushing presents to us in condensed form another "Looking Backward." He does not. however, treat of socialism, as did the author of that famous work. Instead his central theme is wireless and the extraordinary effect it will have first upon finance and, secondarily, upon government in the latter's efforts to solve a new trust problem. In this article we are carried forward in five stages to a period somewhere beyond the year 1930. It is a most unusual combination of science and business affairs-an article that is bound to stimulate thought and to provoke discussion. The photos of wireless here used are, of course, types, and have no relation to Mr. Cushing's imaginary system.Editor's Note.

ARLY in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, an inventor, who had perfected a method of transmitting telegraph messages without wires, began in the United States to operate a series of stations which, communicating with one another, would send a message around the world.

This was a new thing. The Americans, being rich and loving new things, opened their purses and loaned the Italian a sum exceeding five millions of dollars. This money was loaned freely-America took great pride in being the home of such an enterprise-but it was given first into the hands of the money lenders, who were to collect the interest and profit.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE TENTACLES AT THE TOP OF THESE TOWERS
ARE COMMON SIGHTS EVEN IN THE INTERIOR? WILL THE CLASH WITH
THE OLD PRECIPITATE A FINANCIAL CALAMITY?

interest which was due to be paid. But those who had borrowed asked to be excused for a while, saying that the money had not yet been earned. When this was told them, the money lenders threatened the wireless company, saying: "You borrowed our money only when you made great promises to pay. Now you must pay or we will drive you from the land, level your towers to the ground, and give what is left of your company into the hands of the lawyers to quarrel over." Then one director, who spoke for his fellows, answered: "If wireless telegraphy had not been and if our company had not been formed, many ships and their passengers would have gone down, because the captains could not have called for help. Have patience, then, for we have done good, even though we have not made money."

But the money lenders were cold-hearted and refused to listen further, saying: "We did not give our clients' money to philanthropy, but, instead, lent it in business. Because this is a business undertaking, we want our interest."

In answering this impatient demand, the director said: "Have even a little patience and we will pay you the interest money and a profit. You know how the newspapers crave speed. We can transmit a message a thousand miles before the human mind can conceive of such a distance. So soon as this becomes known, we will carry the news of the world inconceivably fast. Our company will reap great profits thereby, and from these we will pay you."

But those who sat at the door of the money markets would not be appeased by promises. Instead, they answered angrily:

"Have we not lent our clients' money to cable and telegraph companies on the same promise and have they not told us the same thing? How is it possible for the two of you to prosper while doing the same thing? If one of you succeeds, must not the other fail? If either of you is to fail, let it be you, for of the two we have lent the other by far the most."

When they had said this, they went away, leaving the directors to worry over the threat. When a few days had passed, the director who served as spokesman, and who was a shrewd man, appeared in the inner chamber of the banks to say:

"You know how much the Americans love novelty. You know, also, that each American thinks himself to be a humorist, always eager to display his wit in public places. To appeal to their vanity and their love of new sensations, we will announce a rate which will persuade those who travel on ships or into foreign countries to communicate freely with those at home. Our earnings from this service will assure you both your interest and a