St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-28
FANCY'S FLEET FOOT.
The Twilight Club Mounts on
Fancy's Aerial Pin
ion,
And Paints the Earth in Fifty
Centuries From the Pres
ent.
Bright and Amusing Are the
Scenes and Incidents
They Picture.
DR.. Crothers' Discovery Of an
Extinct Race Called the
Yam KEGS.

q To solve the mystery OF time and
theOriZe as to what the future centuries
may bring forth, was the subject matter
which last evening tie members of the
Twilight club in post-prandial debate
endeavored to elucidate. After an ele
CANT repast HIS. Fairchild, in a few well
chosen words, said that he hoped, as
president of the evening, all the MEM
berS present would forget their cares of
business and freely give vent to their
ideas as 10 what would be the state of
affairs in the world in the course OF a
hundred or more years from now.
Capt. Ii. A. Castle started the ball
rolling, and declared that in his opinion
it would be impossible to forecast the
future of any nation, for the sciences
played a most important part in the his
tory of the future. and no one knew
from day to day what would be brought
to light by the scientist and inventor.
Judging from present indications he be-
lieved that the great nations OF the
world would use the terrific implements
of war now being made in one great con-
fiict, and then they would find that they
were too destructive, and as 4 result
universal peace would reign supreme.
L. ]. HodgSon followed in the same
upon Capt. q. Fl. MOffett, regretting
that the club was TO lose one of its most
valuable members, owing to Capt. Moi
EFT leaving early in the year for Port
land, Or. Capt. Moifett said: " The
sceDter shall not depart from Judah nor
lawgiver from between his feet till
Shiloh come. Unto Him shall the gather
ing of the nations be. don think my
prophetic gifts outrun those of the an
clent patriarch who stood trembling on
the border of the mystic law and be-
held the apocalypse of nations. 1t is
substantial belief with me that the fut-
ure of the nations shall be what our
Christian civilization makes it. Under
Its benign influence the sword is already
beaten into the plowshare, and the spear
into a pruning hook" He then recited
poem which has never appeared in
print. entitled The Dying Mothers
Prayer" imbued with a touching relig
iouS sentiment, and illustrating the
brotherhood of nations The era of
universal peace and universal brother
hood is dawning.
In introducing Hon. Ignatius Don
nelly the chairman said: IA man who
can discover and read cipher which
had remained hidden for 500 years;
man who can sweep down the reputa-
ton of world-accepted poet, and place
the laureiS on the brow of another;
man who can catch the comets in their
Wild and erratic course, and prove that
biologists are adrift; a man who can
drag up with one hand a drowned con-
tinent, and with the other sweep down
the countries of the world and raise Oh
the ruins the column of Caesar, ought to
be able to say something tonight as TO
the future of the world.''
Mr.. Donnelly was greeted with loud
cheers and made most fluent address,
in which he stated that the American
people were the brainiest in the whole
world. He had from personal obSerya-
ton found that in America more books
were read than in England, which had
always claimed to be the center of edu-
cation. 1t had been up to the time Of
most remarkable development in this
land. America was the greatest field of
inventive genius, as the remark
able works in use to-day proved.
AS to what the future of the country
would be, it could not be estimated, for
it gave every indication of being abso-
lutely marvellous. The various inven-
tons which destroy time and space
bind people in closer bonds, and he be-
lieved that in 100 years the nations eff
Europe would be practically one; all
boundaries would be eliminated. Mr..
Donneiiy dwelt at great length upon
the discovery of steam as motive
power, and its effect upon civili-
alone was proof that the divine power
moved i'll great waves; for, though mill
ions of men had seen steam, none had
ever thought about it as a force until
Watt solved the squeStion. Francis
Bacon had alluded in his writings to the
force which would found nations in un-
known lands, and he had helped to de-
yelop with his genius the American col
onies. The tendency of the world is to
the unification of the human race, but
there was a danger which ever lurl1ed
in their midst, the vicious ignorant
classes, which must be crushed out.
B Ii. p. Hall made most amusing
speech and said he did not believe that
the last fifty years. They had learned
more. and even with ali theirsknowl-
edge had only just succeeded III killing
Sitting Bull. As for the future of the
country he could not say, but no doubt
those gentlemen who framed the laws
had also decided the future of this great
country. He did not believe that
brains were essentially necessary for
for success, for he knew men who did
not possess brain but had plenty of
money, who had made great name in
this country. Rev. S. NJ. CrotherS read
most amusing account of q newspaper
report OF meeting in the year $4,000,
which was the success of the evening
and evoked loud applause. The paper
was as follows:
Our noble Irish race" said the pro-
fessor, has been so long in undisputed
possession of this continent that it is
difficult to conceive a time when we
were only tribe among other tribes
contending for the mastery. Yet sci
ence declares this to be fact. The arch
eologiSt's spade has unearthed undubit-
able proofs of the vast ANTIQUITY of
man. Remains have been discovered
showing traces of rudimentary civiliZa-
ton more than fifty centuries ago. For
gotten nations then dwelt here. The
pane of one of these has been pre-
seryed-the Van KEGS. They once in
habited corner of the Atlantic coast
and migrated westward, keeping usu-
ally to the north of the fortieth parallel.
"PhilologistS are interested in assert
ing that the Yam KeeS were of Mon
golian origin. The name suggests this.
The testimony of the psychologists is in
the same direction since the discovery
OF a skeleton, of Yam Kee, in close
proximity to which was pet
rifed paper inscribed in Chi
nese characters. The assumption
has been deciphered by scholars in the
imperial university in Pekin, and has
been found to contain illusions to Ger
tain articles of wearing apparel. Did
the paper belong to the Yam Kee, and
was it in his own handwriting?' LII so,
the Monaghan origin of the race is DEM
onstrated. But there is a possibility
that it may have been seized by the
Yam kee in some predatory raid and
nave been preserved by him as fetish.
AS with all early peoples, the most
imperishable records of Yam KEGS are to
be found in their kitchen middens or
garbage heaps. These are the two mu-
seums OF antiquity. 1t is beautiful
thought, and one that illustrates the
wise economy of nature, that the food
which our cooks throw into the ash bar
rel, as well as the silver spoon and
other unconsidered trifles, are not
wasted. In after centuries they will
form food for thought and be the chojc-
est treasures of the NUiSa