Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
VISION OF THE FUTURE.
Bill Nye Has a Glimpse of the
Twentieth Century.
THE FUTURE OF THE INDIANS.

Speed-Attorney General Miller on Fu-
ture Divorce Laws-Other Predictions.
copyright, 1893, by American Press Associa-
toni
Politically there will be far less money
expended in electing officials, fancy, and
many Of our leading politicians out of
job will be living on the island, while those
now on the island will have learned that
the price of one vote will not maintain them
for four years. All these things will ele-
vate society and throw what is now called
society out of n job.
The government will grow simpler. So
will the men who now overestimate their
wisdom.
The government shounI own both rail
ways and telegraphs, no %ubt, but how the
transfer could be made so as to avoid a
large steal while the state is looking out of
the window do not know. 1t would be
good time now to buy some roads | know
of-roads that are never on time but once
year, and that is when they put on extra
steam in order to pass dividend.
l believe that in our monetary system the
same change will be maintained, though
more of it perhaps
l think less attention will be paid to tenn
perance legislation and more to the study
of the human stomach. Bad cooking, es-
pecially as we find it in poor hotels on the
road, is the parent of many drunkards. You
cannot legislate nice, new iron gray brains
or good stomachs into people who have ac-
quired by descent or purchase weak, in
famed and diseased ones. If SO, the legis-
lature would have very little time to work
outside of the Capitol building
do not see any practical way of punish
ing prisoners at present, but am liable to
think of one at any time.
The laws of divorce are quite well adapt
ed to this age, and the only improvement /
see would be for people who apply for di-
vorce to pay regular advertising rates In
stead of displaying free to the public their
private bone works in order to boom a new
play or a new star.
see no reason to hope that money will
not accumulate in the hands of a few in the
future even more than in the past There
will be more generations also between shirt
sleeves and shirt sleeves.
Vast corporations and business aggrega-
tions may become top heavy and cumber-
some, and with threatened strikes or actual
trouble of that kind capital may fight shy
of them inside of 100 years.
The laboring classes will always be op-
pressed, and the more their wages are in
creased the more fatigued they will feel.
speak from experience.
Our soil, with improved agricultural
methods, should grow enough for an in
creased population, but | hope that the
government will not depend too much on
me. l farmed last year in North Carolina
and bought hay for my horses, canned food
for my family and used condensed milk on
days when my valet used to milk our
spirited COW by soaring her half way over
barbed wire fence and then attending to
her dividend arrangement while the bawl-
ing or intellectual end hung over the other
side.
Law, medicine and theology will continue
to advance as rapidly as they have the past
100 years, especially theology. We will
continue to talk saucily to all three until we
meet them, and then we will retract all
that we have said. see more possibilities
for medicine, however, than for the rest.
American literature, hope, will be more
realistic in 100 years, and it will be, | trust,
as good in the daily press at two cents as in
the more elaborate and expensive publica-
tions. trust there will be less collie among
poets, and less vain regret and gastritis
among poetesses.
Music and the drama will grow rapidly.
The great American play has been already
written by Mr.. Howard, and new era is
about to be opened. may open one myself
Educational methods will go on toward
perfection, and finally the pupil will not
have to apply himself at all, but the teach
er's work will grow more laborious
Dress, | hope, will be simplifed for the
daytime, though evening dress could not
be made more simple than it is without
carrying the entire train and waistband in
the hand and getting check for it at the
door. Man will dress as usual, paying
eight dollars twice each year for high
hat that has just change enough in it to
compel him to buy one every six months
He will also wear other clothing, but it will
be simple and not so close fitting.
The architecture will advance in great
cities, and the architects will 90 on max
ing pretty drawings of dwelling houses
which will not have any closets, and the
hall will contain the woodbox and lava
tory, as they do now.
Women will never want the right of suf-
frage-that is, there will not be enough of
them want it to even encourage the men
folks to give it to them.
The future of the servant problem is the
same as the future of the ungodly-viz,
hell.
l look for the perfection of the flying
machine but fear it will arrive too late to
be of practical use to lecturers
"Will the race be handsomer, healthier
or happier than it is now~
Ihope so.
Our greatest city will be on the present
site of Chicago
As to who will be the American most
honored in 1888 am Offering odds that it
will not be the son Of wealthy man, but
some poor boy at present with chapped
wrists and chilblains on his heels, whose
heart is full of hope and whose terror now
is soap.
OF course the people will not have for
gotten Washington, and am also putting
up delicate little tribute to myself in the
way of a mausoleum which will resist
climatic action and keep me as green as
ever in the memory of those from whom
am liable now to be snatched away at any
moment. BILL NYE.
Attorney General Miller on Future Di-
vorce Laws.
tFrom Our Washington Correspondent
"The next 100 years" said Attorney