Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-15
A CENTURY'S PROGRESS.
An Enumeration of Things We Didn't
 Have 100 Years Ago.

railroads, no telegraphS and no news 9apers worth mentioning. They were ignorant of the sewing machine and had no conception of the telephone. They knew nothing of the great variety of modern electrical invent ions which have so much to do with what is now regarded as ordinary con- i fort.
 They possessed no lucifer matches, no bicycles, no comfortable stoves. They knew not how to heat their houses in winter, for furnaces and steam heating were equally beyond their ken. They had no cheap cloth ing, nor any expensive, comfortable house furniture such as may be bought nowadays.
 They were restricted almost to such articles of diet as were produced in the immediate locality Canned foods they were ignorant of and preserved foods of any kind were almost un- 1 known to them.
 They had never had their photo graphs taken. and did not dream the :. sun could be made to come down and make pictures more perfect than any artist could produce.
 They had never seen a steamboat, they had no such carpets on their | floors as are nowadays in use, and wall paper was yet to be thought of. They had neither envelopes nor letters nor adhesive postage stamps Modern plumbing was yet to be. The age of illumination, with it's multitude of patented processes and multiplying pictures, was to arrive in the distant future.
 Note the vehicles that pass by you today. The omnibus, the horse car the trolley ear, the ambulance, the police patrol, the express wagon, the furniture van, the delivery wagon de- liyering papers to a crowd of boys, the coal cart, the push cart of the notion vender, the steam lire engine, the 1 horse cart, the automobile, all created since 1900.
 l Nobody 100 years ago had ever seen a tall building, a metal pipe, an iron rail, a gas jet, an elevator or sent a telegram or touched an electric but ton, or heard the steam whistle of q factory. or spoken through a tele- phone, or looked through a pane of glass six feet square Look into the shop window Hardly an object in many of them could be even named by citizen who died in 1900, could he come back and behold them.
 Such man never in his life ever saw a sewing machine nor lawn mower, nor typewriter nor d copying press, nor steel pen, nor a piece of plotting paper, nor a revolver, nor a breech- loading gun, nor a friction match, nor an envelope, a rubber shoe or any article made from the gum of a rubber tree.
 A workngman in 1900 labored from sunrise to sunset and earned, if a skilled workman, from third to half of what he is now paid for working ten hourS Then he might be im- priSOned for debt: now he cannot be. Then he had not the benefit of lien law; now he has that benefit. In 1900 there were no free schools, except such as were supported by churches or charity, or were on pauper basis.
 One hundred years ago the Missis- sippi, from the mouth of Red river to the Lake of the Woods, was geographi- cally the western frontier of the United States. Historically the pion- eers of Ohio and the northwestern ter ritory and the unborn states of ln- diana and Illinois were descending the decliyity of the Appalachian mount aims and disappearing in the forests whose solitude extended from Fort | Dearborn to Natchez.
 Beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific was an undiscovered country, under the domination of France, England, Mexico and Spain; mysterious region of unexplored desert, of illimltable prairies and plains; of nameless rivers and colossal mountain ranges. St. Louis, New Orleans and Pensacola were foreign towns and the name of Chicago was not written on the map.
 The entire population of the union was about the same as that of the state of New York in 1900. It's area was not much in excess of S00.00 square miles and its organic law had had no provision for acquiring foreign territories, for holding colonial de- pendencies nor for the incorporation of alien communities. Kansas City Star.
 Obtaining money under false pre- tense is serious otfense, and those who propose to raise funds for state hood and who will really put the