. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. e croakers soon began tosee what great results would follow the locomotive. One railroad led to another, until, in 1837, there ^vere aboutfifteen hundred miles of track in the United States on whichtrains were running. Year after year, new roads have been l)uilt, until to-day our mapslook like spiders webs, andthere is scarcely a corner ofoui Union that is not reachedby cars. Sometimes a railroad would be built several hundred miles through ail unsettled country, Railroad of to-day. ^^ connect two large places. Soon, all
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. e croakers soon began tosee what great results would follow the locomotive. One railroad led to another, until, in 1837, there ^vere aboutfifteen hundred miles of track in the United States on whichtrains were running. Year after year, new roads have been l)uilt, until to-day our mapslook like spiders webs, andthere is scarcely a corner ofoui Union that is not reachedby cars. Sometimes a railroad would be built several hundred miles through ail unsettled country, Railroad of to-day. ^^ connect two large places. Soon, all along the line, villages, towns, and cities would spring up, and the cars would be loaded with merchandise and people. By the great lines of railroads that reach from the Atlanticto the Pacific we have found a trade route to the East, whilethe water route will be throucrh an Isthmian canal. Electricity offered its aid. Eranklin discovered it; Morseused it to carry messages over the tiny Avires hundreds ofmiles away ; Field laid the wires in a cable under the iVtlantic. OTHER INVENTIONS. 267 LESSON.—It draws our cars, lights streets and buildings, and runs ma-chinery. Inventions lighten the work at home and on the farm, and affectevery sphere of life. Ocean, and Queen Victoria and President Buchanan talked^vitll eacli other ; Marconi and others have forced it to transmitcommunications through the air, without wires, for ahnost un-limited distances, and its uses are being continually extendedin many directions. It was made to light our buildings and streets, and to drawour cars at so small expense as to allow even the little villagesto have their trolley lines to neighbor-ing towns. Go out on the great farms of thewest and see how they are carried is now but little hand workdone on these farms. Plowing, plant-ing, reaping, and mowing, all arecarried on by huge machines that ourinventors have designed and our Telegraph of to-day. great mills have made from the rude prod
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