CORRESPONDENCE
THE SAN FRANCISCO FUND.
To FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING:
I write you these few lines to inform you that the Firemen’s Relief and Benevolent association, of the city of Pittsburg, donated $500 from their fund for the sufferers of the San Francisco fire and earthquake at a meeting oi their association, hold this Saturday afternoon, April 21. The City Firemen’s Protective association, which is a separate organisation, also appropriated $250 for the same cause. W. LL P.
PITTSBURG, PA., April 21, 1906.
“WHAT IS ELECTRICITY?”
To FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING:
希望我们会,我们可以认为,似乎that energy is life, and life, energy, while water is discovered to he the first visible form of energy and enlivener and constructor of all that is perceptible. Hence, with reference to your issue of March 24, and the profound queries of “Ed. R.” under the above heading, this writer can but conclude that the universe is a unit formed of units indefinitely about as is any creature, and for the reason that nothing comes into the visible being, except by means of electricity and water. Hence, elemental life-force appears as the eternal and all-producing first visible being—which, beyond chance for doubt, is water, whose eternal mate evidently is electricity. Consequently, whether named power, spirit, soul, force, or simply energyit is of water more or less directly, as attested by the atmosphere, space, our lifeful globe’s action and all its products; for, all prove to lie the offsprings of water and its invisible companion. Consequently, electricity proves one with water, as do all other beings. Besides, both water and electricity are found to reduce, as well as construct and enliven all beings. Both cooperate incessantly, and seem to appear as counterparts of a kind. Certain it is that electricity, with more or less help of water, initiates, unfolds, enlivens, produces, inspires, maintains and, in time, disembodies itself by reducing its form of what is known as matter. Indeed, it acts and effects as though the actual and yet invisible life, which vivifies, produces and inspires the creation, and thus seems to prove itself the counterpart of water, in which the creation appears to have been declared. Ilencc, electricity is everywhere present, and is found to form about every individual ex istence into a globular atmosphere, even as the Eternal seems to abide in and insphere our orb and His universe. Artificial electricity, however, is life rent from respective organisms and put to forced labor, with consequent results—namely, death and destruction, and that far too often. It also effects other waste, by which it not alone demonstrates life-force, but something akin to intelligence. It is a significant fact that scarcely an iron-piped water supply remains unelectrolysed in this country. Again, electricity seems an eternal unit of life, and, hence, a possible means of intercommunication between inhabitants of the universe. Briefly, and all pertinent facts considered, it seems that the queries of “Ed. R.” may he more or less directly answered as seriated in your issue referred to: (1) More than likely the first part; (2) for, Adam and all else became “living souls.” (3) Certainly, (a) since they are in the physical expression of The Infinite, but as the minuter corpuscles in the life of man.(b) All things are formed relatively equal and as well endowed as man for their tasks in being.(c) All known plants arc found to be keenly sensitive, while minerals actually are living organisms consisting of similar organisms, kind for kind, substantially as are human and other creatures—and, as seems to appear, all by means of electricity and water and their countless kind of offspring. “Each brand differs,” as seems to appear. by reason of the endless variousness of an Infinite Creator. M.
The water of Oregon City, Ore., has been officially pronounced 100 per cent. pure. One sample of filtered water was found to be perfectly free from bacteria; another, unffltered, contained but few germs. The city has been practically without a case of typhoid fever, while the disease has been epidemic in other valley towns.
