The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-07-29
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Historic and Prophetic.

Each succeeding age aud generation. ner
maps might say decade. leave, heh:.: =,
.-..-. character, which stands out in
ienet upon Its annals, aud is associated viii,
forever IN the memory of pos,er:ty.
one Is signalized for the inyen,io, ~
printing, another for that Of the cotton r;r.
9e rs rendered memorable by the Declaration
Independence, one is marked BY conuuests
IN war, another is rendered illustrious bv
the discoveries Of Newtoo
inc nineteenth century has been markell
py tue mirecles which have been wrought in
'he suojugaiion Of the powers of nature TO
the uses OF the human race: but in ,h;s
respect the next half century. or perbans
quarer century. will have no precedent. n
VIII distinguish itself more :hau any other
corresponding period of the worlds history
oy great and practical applications of sci.
ence. In fact every science will undergo n
complete revolution in this space
within the memory of some of our older
oaiEe.s, persons, CORES ponIence and mer-
ccanu Sc were transported from place to
pace oy Stage co aches aud wagons Then
the fast coaches with it's team of fine horses
anu its pompous driver, who handled the
reins with consunnate pride and skill, WAS
subject of the unboundei admiration of the
traveller. The rapid circulation of intelli-
geuce was also boast of those times How
persons stared, and some even felt rresisti-
o'y " luTIutf into matters.
when told that the morning papers, still
damp frou The press, were read that day at
the Instance OF twenty miles from the places
where pubisaei. At that tine il vnr
Ferseo lu the res u'ccs OF science had gravcly
Preiiricd that tue generation living then
and there would live TO sec all these wonder
ful performances become obsolete aid c,n.
signed 10 the history of the past; that time
would become iconoclasic, breaking mn
faS
their ccerity such as 10 satisfy those alone
VINO were III backward state of civilization
the pepulace would have thought that the per-
son VINO gave utterance t. such was laboriup
under severe mental derangemcnt for it
transcended their power of conception.
since the beginning Of the nineteenth
century, Prof. Samuel F.. L. Morse. has
brought into use the eectro-macne,ic tple-
graph by means of which electricity. nj tho
wlu anu pleasure of those iu charge, NAV
denver messages at any part of the worli,
ana transmit answers TO such messages
almost instantaneously. A telegraphic de- |
spa'ch VIII fly many times around the c,rtb |
between the two beats Of common clock. |
In its widest flight the most exalted imooi |
nation would not have dared even in fiction
ID give utterrncc TO these stubborn realities, |
Shakespeare only venturcd to make his faily |
''Put girdle round the earth.
In forty minutes
10 have encirclel il several times in n
se'ond would have seemed too mvnstrous.
even for "Robin Gocdtellow"
r Another thing that has excited the admira
Son OF the world and is the pride and boast
OF our country and times, is the rapd transit
At the present time journey from tho A.
lanuc seaboard TO the shores Of the Pacific,
distance Of thirty-six hundred miles, can
be accomplished in about six DAYS which. os
recent rs 1919 required many months of
weary travel for its accomplishment.
10 chronicle the constantly increasing list
oi wonderful appliances would REQUIRE an
octave volume in itself, SO we will coufne
ourselves to the wonders which will mark
the next quarter century and perhaps be
more striking than the old '.sevcn wonders
OF the world"
In less than iwen;y.fv years Union and
Chester will be brilliantly lighted with
electricity, generate at Lockhart Shoals. and
shafung will not be used in any of the large
factories which, it is predicted, will be IN
parati"n ut thlt time at the above named
Pllces Electricity will entirely take its
place. Shait;nss, it is said wastes 40 per
cent. OF the power when they are doing the
WORK, and In the intervals, when they arc
not at work, there is complete loss. E.ec-
triciiy is Instantly available, and can be turn
cd off and on in moment time. In using
ste'm power the Easements of the buildings
have to pc occupied by huge engines which
shake the buildings, and further necessitate
great Inconvenience in coaling an removing
ashes. In using electricity power plant
outside of the city could supply power to
dynamoa, which occupy but little space.
Already railroads doing away with
switch engines, substituting in their place
electric motors aud trolleys. Some one has
predicted that in ten years all the main
trunk linc railroads will he operated by
electricity, the power III many Gases coming
from waterfalls alpag the routes.
Perhips it will provoke smiles Of ncre-
dulity, when predict that within the time
already mentioned a person in any part of
this country Of ours can converse, by means
of n telephone cable, with persons in Liver
pool or in any other part Of England, with a
perfect annihnation of all relations between
time and space In n very short time freight
of all kinds will be transported from one part
Of the country to another through pneu-
matio tubes, by means of compressed ar,
thus, in great measure, doing away with
freight trains The mail ais will be dis
tributed throughout the country through
these tubes.
No doubt within twenty-five years the
great inventive genius OF America will have
oVntriyed means by which an individual in
any town or city Of our country will be able
to take in his hand pencil or pen, the
, point of which IS in another town, no matter
how distant, and with pen or pencil, write |
OF dclincatc III such distant place, such |
characters or designs might please him,
with as much promptitude and precision as |
# the paper to whlIh the characters were |
committed, lay upon the table before him
The contemplation Of these things will have |
b"cCmc so interviewer with our habits that |
familiarity will have blnnted the edge of |
wonder. School GIRL.