The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23


| Air ships will be a regular method of
transportion, passengers from "f1iers'' be-
ing dropped to cities under the route by
| means of parachutes.
The habits of insect pests will be better
understood and their parasite enemies
discovered and utilized SO as to prevent
destructive ravages upon vegetation.
| 1t is estimated that the population of
the United States in 1000 will be about
4OO0, 00O,0O0, if the proportionate ratio of
! gain between 1880 and 1900 is maintained
Photography in colors will be well I'M
derstood and practiced, and the camera
will contest with the type-setting
machine in the manufacture of books and
newspapers.
Utensils and dwellings, will be manu-
featured largely of pulps and cements,
so as to utilize vegetation and stone in
every stage of decay, ordinary waste or
unf1tness.
The average crop of wheat per acre,
where planted, will be likely to rise from
II to 20 bushels, as now to 100 or more
bushe.s per acre, to which all ground
intensively cultivated is equal. There
will be proportiOnate increase in all
crops. Sugar will be an extensive north
ern product.
The clovers and other nitrogen-gath her.
| ing plants and the bacteria which aid
them in collecting this important element
from the air, will both have been so
! bred as to enrich the earth with almost
superabundance of the plant food which
makes protein III plants ana muscles and
nerve in animals
Scientific discoveries and appliances
will do away with dangers to health in
| cldent to the massing of vast numbers
| in the cities. Water will be pure, tenn
perature will be eQualized, food will BE-
scientifically prepared for USE and men
and women will live longer by obeyine
the common sense laws of health.
Capital and labor will be at peace by
| the prevalence of the golden rule which
enjoins us to do to others as we would
| have them do to us. The working people,
1t is hoped, will all be Shareholders in
the farm or factory where they work.
and draw dividends from the profits
They will lose by all strikes, because the
strike Will be against their own interest
BY 1000 the photographic principle will
have been so perfected that the best
books will appear in records or plates
for use in many different styles of speak.
Ing machines. The exact tones OF the
elocutonfst in speaking the words of the
, poet teacher, philosopher and novelist
VIII be reproduced in the library or
parlor of every home. The exact tones
of the sweet singer will also be faithfully
reproduced.
The superior, weapons of death made
today will be exhibited in the museums
of 1000 in contrast with clubs and other
Instruments n w MAJ do b4I oar
lier races, of interest now to u.s. and OBJ
servers will then wonder why their FORE
fathers, who were endowed with the in
telhSence necessary to such marvellous
mechanical skill, should still possess saw
age instincts and so thirst for the blood
of those who may have offended their
honor, that they were willing to shed
their own.
The dress of the future-of the year
2OOO-will offer no resistance to free body
action. This may involve a return to
the garments of ancient times. Bathing
ever in the infinite ocean of good, the
house beautiful will not be premature
ly decayed by sickness, distorted by pain
or racked by fashions tortures. Vulgar
ity will not conceal or expose. ITO the
pure all things will be pure" The prac-
tice of the maxim, Know myself" will
make the body hOnored and respondent
the temple of the living man"
The vast population of the United
States In 1000 will imply an immense
progress in the irrigation of arid lands,
IN the cultivation OF mountain sides and
dry plans, in the drainage of our low
lands, in the utilization for manure of
the present waste of fertility through
! the sewage of the cities, in the restora-
ton of exhausted soils and of forests,
in seed selection, liberalization and in
| tensive plant culture so as greatly to
increase the product per acre, and in
the Introduction from all parts of the
world of grains, vegetables and plants
for food