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and mayhap a little wrinkled, and whose talk 

 is of Price-current, Scrip, Cargoes, and Consols. 

 For you are each other's Customers and Brothers : 

 the iron artery of locomotive traffic, and the electric 

 nerve of flying Thought, has brought you into a 

 new and closer bond of reciprocity and fellowship : 

 it matters little at which end of the wire your place 

 and life-task are appointed ; your hearts and heads 

 were cast in the same human mould, and it is hard 

 but such a tie as now unites their throbs and 

 thoughts, shall strike out some results and com- 

 binations that you scarcely dream of yet, from the 

 twin realities of Agriculture and Commerce. 



' The bright little sentinels of Heaven were taking one by one their watch-posts." 



