Some one has cut the wires.

" "Or would it not be best to send an urgent wire to the address where I always write?

Blowitz was there, of coursewas always everywhere in moments of crisis, talking a great deal, and letting it be understood that he had pulled a great many wires all those last weeks.

After a pause he got the wire: "Send me a dozen and a halfno, nineteenAmerican Beauty roses on today's train, without fail.

"The other night," writes a third, "I was out laying telephone wires in a graveyard.

The Persian government reports show that a number of Russian soldiers, claiming to be stringing a telephone wire, climbed upon the roof of the Persian police headquarters about ten o'clock at night on December 20th.

The window could be well protected in case of need, having latticed wooden blinds inside, and heavy shutters shod with iron on the outer wall, and there were besides strong bolts and sockets from which ran certain wires whose use I did not know.

Not only was electricity brought from the paper mill, but a telegraph wire was run from Chazy Junction to Bob West's former storage shed and a telephone gang came along and placed a private wire, with long-distance connections, in the new newspaper office.

His troops had been confined to trench warfare for months, digging and sitting in trenches, putting out wire, going out on listening patrols, sniping and doing all the drudgery in the lines of earthworks.

He received a wire, and had to leave immediately.

He then shows a message which could be sent by this means, interspersed with ideas for insulating the wires in tubes or pipes.

You saw his wire, didn't you?

I was some forty miles from the spot at which my despatch could be censored and passed over land wire and cable to London, when a vivid lightning flash warned me that the elements were in forbidding mood and that I had misread the obvious signal of the natives' homeward movement.

a very heavy squall which occurred in the gale of December 2 of last year, the stay of the lofty iron pillar outside of the Park Rails, which carried our telegraph wires, gave way, and the pillar and the whole system of wires fell.""An

I guess it is all settled now, 'cause the living skeleton and the fat woman have got permission to get married, the bearded lady is sweet on pa, and a girl has just joined the show, who walks a wire, and she says I am about the sweetest thing that ever came down the pike, and I guess this show business is all right, all right.

" "Hold the wire and I'll find out," said Uncle John.

But later, when they followed up the wires which Blake had severed, which had run from the brass-bound box to a point near the spillway of the dam, it was found that only a small charge of dynamite had been buried therea charge so small that it could not possibly have done more than very slight damage to the structure.

Now if I could only find out what it is!that would be something new in science,a discovery worth knowing,to be able to hear or feel the purport of a telegraphic message, simply by touching the wire along which it runs!

"They want him for embezzlement and will soon get on his trail, but the wash-out's broke the wires and I reckon he'll cross the frontier ahead.

After that, we stretched thin piano wire across the cellar, about nine inches from the floor, at such a height that it should catch anything moving about in the dark.

So, regardless of any electric shock I might receive, I thrust out my hand through the leaves of the tree, and boldly grasped the wire.

A great shell had cut the minaret in half and had left exposed telephone wires leading direct to army headquarters and to the Turkish gunners' fire control station.

2. Use wire and slice this mound horizontally at equal vertical intervals into zones; then insert vertical dowels through the mound of clay.

Put a stick of dynamite under some sugar, attached a battery wire to it, an' when she was licking up the sugar touched it off.

He found Joe busy mending a broken wire that ran from the battery to the flashlight powder chamber.