The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

fury. Europe is not yet all Cossack, but
the danger seems as great as it did to
Napoleon. In the last fifty years Rus
STA progress in Asia has been amaz-
ing. She has OVeTrun Central Asia to
the Chinese boundary and to the edge
of India, n the railroad has followed
close on the heels of her COssacks.
She has built a railroad across Siberia
and is settling the country rapidly, and
n has eaten into h northern rim of
the Chinese empire. She has estab-
HShed manufactures and is developing
~eXhaustleSs natural Her inn
mense territory is all within the tenn
perate zone, il is contiguous. n there
seems no reason why this century
should not see a Russian growth to
the eastward as remarkable as that of
the United States to the west.
One race that is not white, and one
only, has taken part in the c~entury's
progress. The sudden transformation
Of the japanese people within one gen
Grafton Is a curiosity of history The
Japanese have shown themselves capa-
BILE Of taking up and using whatever
the white civilization has developed.
The part which this nation will play
in the twentieth century is an inter
esting problem.
Inventions Have Changed Existence.
To enumerate even the most import
ant inventions of the century such as
have changed the conditions of man
kind is a hopeless task. They enter
into every detail of daily life, doing
everything that human hands could do
with immeasurably greater speed and
strength and accuracy. The sewing ma
chine, the shoe machine, the Jacquard
loom. the blast furnace, the reaper,
harvester, binder and t~hreSher, the Hoe
press, the typewriter, the friction
match, Illuminating gas, nitroglycerine,
ceIlulOid, the coal tar products, india
rubber. aluminium. the telegraph. the
telephone. the electric light, the cleo
trio furnace, the s~tethOscOpe, the spec
trOscOpe, the compound microscope
the list could run on for pages. The
hero OF the century is the steam en-
gine. ready To supply almost lImltleSS
power, n to its aid in the last third
of h century came the dynamo, which
may some day suppiant it. Whatever
electricity may accomplish hereafter
the work Of the nineteenth century has
been done by steam. Statisticians have
computed that the world is now using
1000 coo horse power; the equivalent
of the labor of the whole of its pOpu.
latiO1 that is capable of work. By
the sid of the steamship. the lOcomO-
tive and the factory engines. the steam
hammer, the steam dredges, the steam
drill. the steam pump and the steam
pillow are at work. F%ultOn's little Cler-
mont mas grown INTO the Dig DCuISCn-
land with it's 5000 horse power quad
rUple expansion engines, driving its
mass of 5000 tons, at twenty-three
knots an hOur in five days across the
Atlantic. and into h Viper with its
turbine engines, making its forty miles
an hOu In the seVenty-five years
since ~StcVensOn'S locomotive started
on the first railroad journey, 400, OUJ
miles Of track have formed a network
round the earth. and giants have been
! constructed hat can drag loads of
nearly 5000 tons at a speed of ten miles
an hour. while others maintain a speed
OF sixty miles an hour for hundreds OF
miles. and at q pinch make eighty or
100 miles an hour. The idea of distance
has been well nigh ObliteTated, as that
OF time has been by the telegraph. 1t
is but fOrty-tWo years since the first
Atlantic cable was laid. and the earth
has been girdIed by cables and wires.
save for the width of the Pacific ocean
Cnexampled feats of engineering
have been performed. The ship canal