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PUWPWJFF? "My demonstrations in Colorado Springs in 1899 proved that not only telegraphic signals could be sent across the globe, as I predicted in 1892, but that the faintest modula tions of the human voice could be im pressed upon the planet as a whole and reproduced at any point, irre spective of distance. "The result .just attained by the navy department proves,, in a prac tical way, what my scientific experi ment showed to be a fact 15' years ago." "How soon do. you expect a full commercial demonstration of your prophetic scientific experiments of 15 years ago?"- "I cannot,, of course,, answer in what state the work of others might be, but, so far as lam concerned, I would have no technical difficulty in establishing telephonic communica tion to the chief centers of the world inside of a few months, for I have al ready built a plant for this very pur pose. "When it is completed it will be pos sible for any telephone subscriber to call up and talk to any other tele phone subscriber in the world who is connected with' a central This plan I Tiave developed long ago and it has been called my 'world system.' "In vthis-plan there will be no change whatever in the present tele phone1 apparatus. .Everything in the municipal exchanges, as well as in in dividual installations, remains intact." Nikola Tesla and his "World-System" wireless plant at Shoreham, L. !., where he is conducting-his great-experiments. ' o o They're '.keeping the will of A.-G. Spalding from -his aged mother for fear-that knowledge of its' contents would kill her. This will making'bus lness is sure:great- A sense of- humor is that which makes you laugh at something that happens to' somebody else which would make-you'angry-'if it happened to you. -. " HMMiMliiiiiiiAilili