Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-13
A CENTURY OF GROWTH
What the Next Hundred Years
May Bring Forth.
"A GLIMPSE OF GLORIOUS yISTAS.

br. Talmage Foresecs n Rosy Future.
Powdcriy's Philosophic Probationary.
II. Grace on Commercial Development.
Future of tho Drama-A Bright Wom-
ans Forecast.
iCopyright, 1893. by American Press Associa-
ton.
When YOU thrust me with about twenty
sharp interrogation points about what will
be the condition OF the world hundred
years from now, must first say that there
is a possibility that the world by that time
may be "A heap of ashes or knocked to fin
ders. All biologists agree in saying that
the world is already on fire inside. All that
Chicago saw Of her big fire some twenty
years ago WAS not spark compared with
the conhagrution now raging in the hulk Of
this old ship of world. And then the
earthuuakes--w witness Charleston and San
Francisco and Java. And then the comets
shooting recklessly about, and the big
chunks from other worlds falling in Kansas
and Iowa or picked up by the British mu-
scum on the other side of the sea.
The fact is that our world needs to take
out a policy in some astronomical fire in
burance or accident insurance company
From the way the world goes on it
ia certain something is the matter with
1t. The volcanoes are merely the regur-
citation caused by Internal cramps. |
am not apprehensive about the world, and
| sleep well nights, and do not want to
brighten nervous people, but considering
what is going on down in the depths of the
earth and what is flying all about us l am
surprised the world has not long ago gone
ont of business But suppose it lasts-and
hops twill, for it is a grand old world
and worth saving--what, then, will be its
condition in 1882
In medicineP Well, cancer and con-
sumption will be as easily cured as influen-
"a or "A run round"
Theology? Far more religion than now
The teGhnicalities nothing. The spirit of
religion dominant. Minister'S war Ratchet
buried beside Modoc's tomahawk.
Condition OF capital and labor' At peace
by the prevalence of the golden rule, which
enjoins us to do to Others as we would
have them do to us
Treatment OF criminals? Prisons will have
ventilation and sunlight and bathroom
and libraries and Christian influences which
will be reformatory instead OF damnatory,
Educational methods? The stuiling ma
rhine which we call the school system,
which Is making the rising generation a
race oil lDNdlluS, Will De suDsLiLultu ny
something moro reasonable. Nomore school
girls with spectacles at fourteen, their eyes
having been extinguished by overstudy,
with overwrought brain, and no more boys
In their dying dream trying to recte some
thing in higher mathematics.
What American now living will be the
most honored IN 1892 By that time lon
Eevity will be- so improved that 100 years
will be no unasual age to reach.
So answer your last question ms TO what
American now living will be most honored
In 1893 by saying that American now sleeps
In the cradle ON the banks Of the Hudson,
or the Alabama. OF tie Oregon, or the Ohio,
rattle in hand, gum swollen with Il new
TOOTH and will soon undertake a course OF
measles and humps But he will pull
through and advance until | see him in
1893 presiding at BANQUET, and "a he
rises to speak hear him say: Gentlemen,
was born In the latter part of the Nine
tenth century, and here we are in the lat
ter part of the Twentieth, and the world
has been improving all the time, and now
offer the toast for the evening. Charge
your glasses with apolliuaris water and
lemonade and drink deep to this senti
ment
The newspaper press. May its influence
in the Twenty-first century be as happy
and prosperous a. in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth centuriesY"
r. DE WITT TALMAGE.