The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-31
Professor David Swings Guess.


1t is almost certain that the United States
will continue to advance in all the next
hundred years The sunshine, rain and
soil are constant quantities in the sense
that they seem quite secure for one more
century. Coal Oil and natural gas will no
longer exist, but there will be plenty of
wood and coal. There will be food for a II
but ali the great west and southwest will
be settled as densely as Germany, but Mex
leo and Canada will then be in the North
American republic and will furnish homes
for many new millions
The American president will be elected
for six or eight years and will not be eligi-
Die for II SECOND term. Near the close of the
next century some rare, noble woman will
be elected president of the United States.
Railways will be SO leveled and straight
ened that slow freight trains will make 100
miles an hour, but the best of passenger
trains will run 100 miles an hour 1t is not
certain that steam will be the form of power
New powers are liable to be discovered.
One cent mile will be full fare
Considerable travelling will be done by
the illr route The fact that air is an ocean
which will float a man settles the cues
ton of aerial navigation. Man is sim
ply to invent the kind of boat. 1t must be
very large and strong. 1t must come. This
boat may be guided from city to city by
wire strung about 100 feet above ground,
SO as to let the balloon pass over trees and
houses Thus wire one-quarter of an inch
IN diameter will hold and guide many bal
looms full of people
On account of fast and cheap travel cities
Will become groups of suburbs and all the
poor Will nave air, sunshine and light
SUBURBAN fare, twenty miles, will be two
cents, on what are called zone tickets.
The working people will all be share
holders IN the farm or factory where they
work They will simply draw dividends
and will lose by all strikes, because they
Will strike against their own interest.
Literature. the drama and all life will be
higher and purer, because the increase of
common sense implies an increase of all
that Is good. Dress of woman will be sim
pier ana the conduct Of men more honor
able 'or each hundred years make man and
woman less of fool
The Christian church will rest wholly
upon the words and life of Christ. The
writers OF the Bible will stand related to
onflst only as valuable forerunners and
missionaries of the one great Chief. The
cnurcn VIII be vast impulse and guide in
art, ethics, benevolence and worshin
Great calamities viii come in the form of
pestllence, earthquakes and civil strife bnt
they will not much impede the progress of
the nation. Washington and Lincoln will
sui ne most honored names because no
olAer TWO minds can ever again find two
such tasks to be performed.
DAVID SWING.
Fraudulent Novels.
1t is often said that the novel sbon1d
instruct as well as afford amusement.
and the novel with a purpose is the |
realization OF this idea. 1t proposes to
make itself an intellectual moral les
son" instead of an intellectual artistic
luxury. 1t constitutes violation of |
the unwritten contract tacitly existing
between writer and reader. A man buys
what purports to be work of fiction. a
romance, novel, story of adventure. |
pays his money, takes bis book home. |
prepares to enjoy it at his ease and dis |
covers that he has paid 81 for somebody's
views ON socialism, religion or the di.
vorce laws. The buyer is possibly a con-
serVatlve person of lukewarm religious
convictions whose life is made barren by
marriage or death or division" and
takes no sort of interest in the laws re-
iat1ng to divorce, in the invention of a
new religion or the position Of the labor
question. -'ooi
he has simply paid money on the Or
binary tacit contract between furnisbe,
and purchaser, and he has been swim.
died. In ordinary cases the purpose
novel is simple fraud, besides being a
failure IN 800 cases out of 1000. It is an
am bush, lying in wait, for the 1,nsns- |
pectlng public-a violation of the social
eontract-and as such it ought to be
either mercilessly crushed or forced Inv
law to bind itself IN black and label II.
self purpose in very big letters.-F
Marion Crawford in Forum.