Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-09
A CENTURY OF GROWTH
What the Next Hundred Years
May Bring Forth.
A GLIMPSE OF GLORIOUS yISTAS.

Dr. Talmage Foresees Rosy Future.
PowderIy's Philosophio Prediction-w.
II. Grace on Commercial Development.
Future of the Drama-A Bright Wom-
ans Forecast.
copyright, 1893 By American Press Associa-
tion.l
When you thrust me with about twenty
sharp interrogation points about what will
be the condition of the world q hundred
years from now, must first say that there
is possibility that the world by that time
may be 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 conflagration now raging in the hulk of
this old ship Of world. And then the
earthquakes-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
surance or accident insurance company.
From the way the world goes on it
is certain something is the matter with
It, 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
frighten nervous people, but considering
what is going on down in the depths of the
earth and what is flying all about us am
surprised the world has not long ago gone
ont of business. But suppose 1t lasts-and
I it t,,,;u Co. iz l,ll
and worth saving-what, then, will be its
condition in 1892
In medicineP Well, cancer and con
sumption will be as easily cured as infiuen-
"a or run round"
theology Far more religion than now.
The technicalities nothing The spirit of
religion dominant. Minister'S war hatchet
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 u.s.
Treatment of criminalsf Prisons will have
ventilation and sunlight and bathroom
and libraries and Christian influences which
will be reformatory instead of damnatory.
Educational methodist The stuffing ma
chine which we call the school system,
which is making the rising generation a
race of invalds. will be substituted by
something more reasonable. No more 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 recite some
thing in higher mathematics
What American now living will be the
most honored in 1892 BY that time Ion
gevity will be so improved that $50 years
will be no unusual age to reach.
So answer your last question as 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, or the Oregon, or the Ohio,
rattle in hand, gum swollen with new
tooth, and will soon undertake a course of
measles and mumps, But he will pull
through and advance until ! see him in
1893 presiding at BANQUET, and as he
rises to speak hear him say: Gentlemen,
was born in the latter part Of the Nine
teenth 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 apollinaris 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 as in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth centuries"
T. DE WITT TALMAGE,