The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-25
Vision OF 1900.

Can any one realize the exceedinrl,
probable fact that in 1000-only twenty
nine years from now the popu .ation O.
the United States will number 10000.
600 of, wo trust, free and independent
citizens? Yet, says the Eecning Mai
Mr.. Samuel L. Rugglcs proves that thi
will be the case, without making allow.
ance for annexations, North and South
that will certainly come about, Mr.
Sumner and all others to the contrary
notwithstanding. He shows the reason,
for his prophecy in figures, and although
the old saw that figures won't lie," i;
the most unveracious of proverbs Mr.
Ruggles' figures have acquired a reputa.
ton of their own, and good one al
that. For the past thirty or forty years
he has been figuring about our internal
and domestic commerce; and although
he has often been accused of romancine
in figures, the facts have always sustain
ed his predictions. When, therefore the
ablest, most experienced and most trust
worthy statistican now living, tells us
that we shall have population of TO-
| OOO,0OO in 1900, the younger part of the
present generation may as well consider
what awaits them in their maturity and
old age. . ..... .........
Seventy-hve millions of people in the
United States implies the settlement of
the entire South and West by as dense a
population as that of Massachusetts ;
the reclamation of the arid wastes of the
great Plains by irrigation; the develop
ment OF States as strong as Ohio, In
diana and Illinois along the Rocky
Mountains the settlement of the Utah
Basin by four or five millions of agri-
cultural and pastoral people; the de-
velopment of tier of agricultural states
along our northern border, from Lake
Superior to the Pacific, as populous and
prosperous as Missouri and Minnesota
the growth of the Pacific States into
commonwealths as rich and populous as
New York and Pennsylvania. 1t means
that New York will cover the whole of
Manhattan Island with population of
at least two millions, to say nothing of
the outlying suburbs in New Jersey and
across the East River; that Chicago and
ST. Louis will each become as large cities
in fact, as they are now in their own
estimation, and that San Francisco will
have half a million of inhabitants. The
national debt will have become a tradi-
| ton, and it will be difficult to under
| stand how it was ever hard to raise three
or four hundred millions year by tax
alton. Such are the glowing visions
which are excited by the prosaic and
careful figures of Mr.. Ruggles. If any
of our readers are unduly Bearish % in
their tendencies and inclined to get the
blues over our future, we advise them to
indulge in the line of speculation sug-
gested by his striking statistics, and
carry our predictions more into details
EIdu,UIJs
There is one kind of hattery which is
common to both men and women, and
that is the expressed preference of sex.
Thus, when men want to hatter women,
they say how infinitely they prefer their
society to that of their own sex and
women will say the same to men. Or if
they do not say it, they will act it. See
set of women congregated together
without the light of manly counten-
ance among them. They may talk to
each other certainly; and one or two
will sit away together and discuss their
private affairs with animation; but the
great mass of them are only half vital
lied while awaiting the advent of the
men to rouse them into life and the de-
sire to please. No man who goes up
first, and earlier than he was expected,
from the dinner-table, can fail to see the
change which comes over those wearied,
limp, indifferent-looking faces and
figures as soon as he enters the room.
He is like the prince whose kiss woke
up the sleeping beauty and all her
court; and can any one say that this is not
fattery of the most delightful kind? To
| be the Pygmalion even for moment,
and for the weakest order of soul giving,
is about the greatest pleasure that a
man can know, if he is susceptible to the
finer kinds Of tiattery. Some women, in
deed, not only show their preference for
men, but openly confess it, and confess
at the same time to lofty contempt or
adherence for the society of women.
These are generally women who are, or
have been, beauties or who have literary
and intellectual pretensions, or who de-
spise babies and contemn housekeeping,
and profess themselves unable to talk to
other women because of their narrowness
and stupidity. But for the most part
they are women who, by their beauty or
their position, have been used to receive
extra attention from men, and thus their
preference is not tiattery SO much as ex-
igeance. Women who have been in
India, or wherever else women are in the
minority in society, are of this kind
and nothing is more amazing to them
when they first come home than the at
tentions which certain style of Eng
lishwomen pay to men, instead of de-
manding and receiving attentions from
them. These are those sweet, humble,
caressing women who fatter you with
every word and look, but whose fattery
is nothing but a pretty dress put on foI
show, and taken off when the show is
done enthusiastically ReUieao. .l s..r