Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
THINGS In GENERAL.
Another Prophetic Guesser Tells of the
Millennium That Is Coming-There Will
Bellamy Heard From

/ Another Prophetic Guesser Tells of the
Millennium That Is Coming-There Will
Be No Critics Then-A New Rival to
Bellamy Heard From.
! WRITTEN FOR THE DIspATCHl
These are the days when our young
men are dreaming dreams and our old men
are seeing visions. Whether it is keener
sense than we used to have of the fnequali.
| ties of life, or whether it is only the ap-
proach of q new century that has reused up
the prophetic instinct in us, we are uncom-
monty interested just now in looking for
| ward.
They say that when the year 1000 came
| upon the pages of history and into the dates
| of letters,it found universal CONSERVATION
| and despair prevalent in Christendom.
Everybody thought that at the year 1000 the
world was coming to an end. Consequently,
! they had left off building new churches and
castles, and were not careful to keep the old
ones in repair. And all projects terminated
| at that expected day of judgment.
But the sun got up very serenely on New
Years Day of the year 1000, and nothing I'M
usual happened, and everybody drew long
breath and took up life again with a new
| heart. For even the saints are not enthusi-
astically desirous of the Day of Judgment.
They would prefer its postponement for a
space.
An Interesting Look Backward.
1T is interesting to see how the ten
centuries which make up the epoch OF the
Middle Ages, from 800 to 1900, from the cap
" VI ito Wy 'ho oo'hs ~ 1iio ulsooNery
| OF America by the SpanlardS-how these ten
| centuries fall into two divisions, the first
five marked by descending, and the last
| five by an ascending line. The course of
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every year worse than the year before, till
! the deepest depth was touched at the year
| 1000 The whole Western world was in the
attitude of swinging children who. with
| slower and slower swings. are "lettinp the
| old cat tlie.n
Then. once thew got mast, that bad place in
| the road, al, things began to prosner the
path began to ascend. and hasn't got to the
top vet. We get into the clouds sometimes.
and it seems as if we had touched the MIA ce
where the mountain strikes the sky. but
there is ALWAYS n higher height beyond. Re-
tween 900 and 1900 what n ditferenceI We
look ahead into the twentieth century with
wander. with hone with unbounded antici-
nation.
1t seems as if nobody could make too big
a guess at the beatitude of the twentieth
century mlilenniunl.
The latest guesser, the last prophet,
is Mr.. William Morris. Mr. Morris is
Socialist and dealer in wall paper, He is
also, as all good readers know, q poet.
...r,s ,,oo+ who cont
For bad worlds punishment
BY compelling us to see
0oiueh sii'hPses oi 10 De-
News from nowhere IS the Earthly
Paradise" in prose.
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AN Epocf OF Rest"
That marks out one of the points of en-
pm sis OF the book The twentieth century
mas arrived, ana all the bustle and hustle OF
TINS busy century IN which our misfortunate
lot Is cast are long put TO silence. Nobody
Is IN hurry. Competltlon that sharp spur
winch prods US out OF bed at 3 O'Clock In the
morning, and keeps us on swift run until
IL O'Clock at night. has altogether gone
out. People in the twentieth century have
to look at the dictionary to lind out what
competltlon means.
AS 1or dollars ana shllllngs, which are to
'his great grim game OF competltlon "na1
counters are to baccarat, they have alto
se'her gone OUT Oh dlsuse. ihey are 10 pe
''i '- -
Inc fromised millennium.
Everybody works, but nobody works,
to work. One man prefers one sort of
work, another likes ease of idleness-
well, here are the words of the book: sit is
said that in the early days Of our epoch there
were a good many people who were heredit-
arily afflicted with disease called idleness
because they were the direct descendants of
those who in the bad times used to force
other people to work for them-the people,
you know, who are called Shareholders or
lolN~ l.,
However, I'm happy to say that all is gone
by now: the disease is either extinct or ex-
lists in such mild form that short course
of aperient medicine carries it off,"
There is no buying and selling. Weights
and measures are unknown. There are no
more 1actor1es, no more mills, no more
smoke nor noise, no more concentration OF
industry into h1deous buildings. Labor is q
Pheasant occupation winch people carry on,
by distribution of power, in their own
homes. "Manufacturing centres" are van
1shed OF the face OF the earth. Manchester,
for example, (of course, the scene Is Eng
land), has quite ceased to exist. 1t is as
obsolete as old BABYLON.
Sunday Clothes All the Week.
All life has become leisurelv. beautiful
de,iobttri and decorative All tho ,,aon1o
in tho streets have nanny f.ces Thew %
No ,,risons and scbooIIonses Fve,,bod,,
,,-oois Srndov cIotbos oil tho ,roa1, +h,,o,,,r,
nv srst tu-entieth-cen+,,-1,r mo-, -.
tho Observation-Disclosures visitor cbaroes 20
,r,oot is y ,otorn,on on tba Thar,oa ot y.
+I,a ,,raso,t dow a no r+icn1or,1, ,,in+rra,o,SN
and comnanionable individual. "His drass
was not like any modern work-a-day clothes
had seen, but would have served very well
as costume for picture of fourteenth
century life; 1t was OF dark blue cloth, sim
pie enough, but OF nne WeD, ana without