The morning news., 1897-06-06
YEAR OF our LORD 5000.
A Reformer of BeIInmy's Type skips
I,OOu Years.
From the New York Sun.

far surpasses in fantastic prophecy the
most imaginative flights of the Bellamy-
ties. Year of Our Lord 5000" is the title
Of the romance. The hero is Paolo Fortu-
natl of Rome, and the heroine a certain
Maria of the same city, which, being truly
eternal, endures in pristine splendor a
thousand years hence. Their experiences
are as far in advance of the wonders of
Looking Backward" as the thirty-drst
century might be expected TO be in ad-
vance of the twenty-first
Ihese two young persons are betrothed,
ana in the free and easy way of the
emanclpated society of the future go on a
trip round the world together, without
chaperone, just before their marriage
They go in an airship three times the
length or the ordinary pleasure yacht of
to-day. This ship Is operated by electric
lty, so stored as to be applied for heat
and power without the help of a crew
Three buttons are the means of steering
hghting, warming and propelling the
craft. On the walls of the cabins the
necessary foods are stored. in condensed
IorIn IN little metal receptacles from
which may be drawn nourishnent to last
through trip of weeks.
naturally, at just this time the first of
the dreams realized In this year OF our
Lord 5000 is the dream of universal peace
Inc airship is guided from Rome to Spe-
zla, where Fortunate shows to his hancee
the scene of the worlds last naval battle
tought in the middle of the twentV-first
century. 1t was in the great general war
winch mankind had dreaded and prepared
1or through many previous generations
Almost contemporaneously with the final
land battle round Paris the navies of the
nations met off Spezia. The two battles
cost millions of lives, and so shocked the
E9nnAd Of tunay ls4.-k a..
llzatlon that civilization at once took eff
tectiVe steps to abolish war. The United
states of Europe rose from the ruins of
the warning peoples. Under Leo Xxx the
last of the popes, the King of Italy abdi-
Gated to make way for the sociahstic
state, predicted ever since the middle Of
the nineteenth century, and other mon
archs followed his example, until Europe
was united as one land in brothery love.
The socialistic state endured in Europe
four generations, at the end of which il
was succeeded by the United States of
the whole world. All dividing lines, such
as territorial and customs demarcation
were obiterated. There were no more
tariffs, there was no more "mine and
thine" in national affairs; even the babel
OF languages was wiped out. There was
thenceforth one language. one literature.
one art one science.
From SpeZia the emancipated couple 90
to the Pyramids on the shore of the great
sea of Sahara, once a desert. When the
chief engineer of the worlds government
proposed to make this desert over into a
sea the peoples of Europe objected that
the change would render their climate
colder, but the chief engineer removed this
objection by using the south wind to melt
the icebergs round the north pole, and thus
more than counteracted the effect of the
improvement. in North Africa. AT the
10 10.
just leaving the mail airship from Cevlon
to London, exchange thirty-hrst century
gossip, and then proceed on their way 10
Ceylon. On this island is the asylum of
all persons who have governmental hob
bies which they are intent on realizing.
Here Fortunati can explain to his fiancee
the foolishness of the equality cranks, who
would have all men clothed, fed, and hous-
ed alike. Here, too. he can point out the
horrible conditions of the people whose
monarch rules absolutely "by the grace Of
God" the sorrows of those living under
the system of militarism so popular for
two centuries before the abolition of war
and the wasted lives of all who talk them
selves to death in the effort to 9goVerrIs by
means of parliaments or congresses. This
part of the book is after the model of
Looking Backward and is supposed to
be killing criticism of all nineteenth CEN
tury systems of government, from Tehe-
ran to Washington and from St. Pc
tersburg to Cape Town.
From Ceylon the airship is steered to the
Andaman Islands, now known as the Dyn-
amo Islands. where. as at Malta and Fer
nando de Noronha, there Isl a GENITAL sta
tion from which power is distributed TO
the rest of the earth. The power is de-
rived from a material known as pandina-
mo, which in turn is obtained from proto-
plasm. The wires radiate from this sta
Afg.N. Al.
besides power, all the news that the
earth's Inhabitants in the thrty-first CEN
tury care to learn Of one another's dOings.
The most interesting station on the be-
trothal journey is the capital of the world.
Andropolis, founded in 250l and inhabited
by 100000 persons. The site is a the foot
Of the Himalayas Ia this city every fam
lily, every spinster, every isolated bache-
lor, every widow has a separate house.
Such apparent extravaganza Is possible
because In the year 5000 houses do not cost
much; they are no longer built but are
merely cast out of a new-fangled metal
pretty much as plaster of Paris bust Is
cast nowadays. The city Is built in squares:
every street is seventy feet wide: and-evi-
IDENTIFY Mantegazza has in mind here some
vexatious nineteenth century restrictions
on wheeling in ltaly-no place in the city
Is forbidden ground for the bicyclist In
the whole capital there is neither police
man, judge, nor soldier. The few public
officials always at the capital have charge
OF the distribution of light heat. water.
and power from the central stations. Prls-
ons are unknown TO the people of the cap
ital. In their stead there are a few moral
reformatorles. whose inmates are marked.
upon release, with cloth strips on the arm,
indicating by their color the nature OF each
mans offense. These strips must be worn
until the friends of the offenders agree
that the reformation IS complete. Mante-
gazza dwells at length also on the laws
which make compulsory the culture OF the
beautiful IN trees, flowers sculpture and
painting. The consequence Of these laws In
the year 800 Is a paradise Of flowers and
statues throughout Andropolis
The government of the future. as exem-
phhed In Andropolis. Is too easy 10 need
much explanation. The "Pancrates" chos-
en-, as are the representatives OF the world
for one year. lives in the one palace left on
the face OF this earth. The Worlds Par
Lament meets for only one month every
year. and then merely to consider the pre-
ycntlon or alienation Of such disasters as
earthquakes and floods. The executive
cares for tho few governmental affairs Of
the earth the other eleven months Of the
year. The worlds cabinet has but four
secretarles-of agriculture. Of health, Of
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