20 THE BUSINESS OF FAKMING 



We are living in the world's greatest commer- 

 cial age. The iron rails of the roads of commerce 

 stretch out, encircle, and twine about the globe 

 like threads of twine. 



Titanic ships like as a multitude plow the waters 

 of the oceans and seas, carrying the people and 

 commerce of nations. 



Cities, numberless as the sands of the sea, have 

 sprung up in a span of years, mightier in girth 

 and magnitude than any of the real or fabled 

 cities of antiquity or of any ever dreamed or 

 imagined. 



Our nation is cutting a mighty canal through a 

 continent, deep and wide enough for the sailing 

 of the largest ship of commerce, and is turning 

 the failures of a generation ago into success. 



Mills and factories of staggering dimensions 

 whose chimneys belch out clouds of smoke that 

 shut out from the world the light of the King of 

 Day, are building and turning out for man's use 

 and enjoyment, those wonderful mechanisms and 

 inventions of the modern master minds that out- 

 class the seven ancient wonders of the world. 



Almost instantly we communicate with and talk 

 to our friends, leagues away, through the tele- 

 graph, wireless and telephone. 



The very intonation of our voices is recorded 

 upon the phonographic scrolls, to be preserved 

 that we may converse in our own characteristic 

 tones for ages after our bodies shall have been 

 mingled with the dust of the earth. 



Machines record for all time the every move- 

 ment of the dramas and events of life in living 

 reality, to be reproduced at will upon canvas, 



