The Telegram To Cyrus W. Field

"The ftrst person from the shore wlio spoke to me when we arrived at Yokohain;i. " said Mr. Field, " }tave me an unmistakable sign that modern civilization had penetratea the far east. He was a friend with a telegraphic message, and he put in niy liand I titel fijjence sent from home a few hours before." "How had it come to you f" " There is something romantic in the reception ofintelligence that has traveledso l:u. passing over vast continente and ander thousands of miles of ocean, isn't there? That message of good tidlngs from those I had left at home - I will teil you just what route it hftd taken to reach me. It had been sent from New York to Cape Breton, thence under the gut of St. Lawrence to Newfoundland and across Newfoundland. It had been flashed theace under the Atlantic ocean to Ireland, across Ireland and under the Irlsh channel to Kngland, across Enjrland to Plymouth, under the bay of Biscay to Lisbon, Portugal, thence to Gibraltar, thence tu Multa in the Muditerranean, uuder the Mediterranean to Alexandria, Egypt, thence across the isthmus of Suez, by the great pyramids, and under the EM Sea to Kdcn, Arabia, tiicn under the Indian aceta to Bombay, across Hindostán to Calcutta, under the bay of Bengal to Penang, thence throngli ttae str:iit-s of Malacca to Hingapore, near the equator, thenoe under the China sea to HOg Kong, along the coast 1,500 miles to Shanghai, oy cable under the Yellow Sea to Japan, and thence across the beaittiful hills of Japan to Yokohama." "What an amazing journey! Couldn't it be f hortuix-d !" "Yes, by laying a cable under the Pacific ocean between San