The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30
1900 1000.
Century of Marvels in Science, Discovery,
Mechanics, Art and All Forms
of Achievement.


turn In the endeavor for common action
among the colonies OF Great Britain and
in Germany's desire to hold together her
former subjects who have smigrated. The
formation Of tho new German empire and
its rise 10 q power Of the first rank has
been accompanied 5y an Astonishing COM
mercial and Industrial development: IL
has led, too. 10 the establishment of com
pulsory military service for all by the ma
lions on the continent. Cermany's bease1
greed for foreign colonies, like that OF
France, could be gratifed only in tropical
lands. Great Britain had already taken
the pick of the earth.
The pre-eminenee IN commerce and the
start In manufactures which Great Brit
ain had at the beginning OF the Napoleon
ic wars II has retained throughout the
century. The change from wooden sailing
vessels to from steamships came when the
United States. her chief competitor. was
busy with the civil war; and neither the
British iron vessels nor the steel vessels
that have taken their place have been
caught up with. With her manufactures
she has controlled the markets of the
world, but at the end OF the century sha
has eager rivals who are fast overhauling
her. During the century she has not only
strengthened her hold on her rich empire
IN India, but her SONS have succeeded in
settling and developing the great Cana
dian and Australian colonies. Remember
ing the lesson of 117d, she has conceded 70
them substantial Independence
Russia the Political Riddle of the
Century.
Russia, the riddle OF the beginning, Is
stu the riddle Of the end OF the century.
Europe is not yet all Cessack, but the
danger seems as great as 1t did to Napo-
leon. In the last fifty years Russia's prog
ress In Asia has been amazing. She has
overrun Central Asia to the Chinese
boundary and to the edge OF India, and
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 she has eaten into
the northern rim of the Chinese empire.
She has established manufactures and Is
developing exheustiess natural resources.
Her immense territory is all within the
temperate zone It is contiguous, and there
seems no reason why this country should
not see a Russian growth to the eastward
as remarkable as that or the United
states to the west.
One race that Ia not white and one only.
has taken part In the centurs's progress.
The sudden transformation OF the Japa-
nese people within one generation Is
curiosity OF history. The japanese have
shown themselves capable OF taking up
and using whatever the white civilization
has developed The part which this ma
ton will play In the twentieth century Is
an interesting problem.
Inventions THAT Have Changed the
Phase of Existence.
To enumerats even the most important
inventions Of the century such as have
changed the conditions OF mankind Is
hopeless task. They enter into every oe-
tan OF daily life, doing everything that
human hands could do with immeasurspiy
greater speed and strength and accuracy.
Tho sewing machine. the shoe machine.
the Jacquard loom, the blast furnace, the
reaper harvester. binder and thresher.
the Hoe press. the typewriter, the friction
match. illuminating gas, nitro-giycerihc,
cellulold, the coal tar products, India rop-
her aluminium, the telegraph, the teie-
phone, the electric light. the electric fur
mace, the stethoacope the spsctroscepe.
the compound micr0seop#--the list could
run on for pages, The hero OF tho CEN
fury il the steam engine, ready TO supply
almost limitiess power, and TO Its aid In
the last third Of the century came the
dynamo, which may some day suppiant X.
whatever electricity may accomplish
hereafter, the work OF the nineteenth CEN
fury has been done by steam. statisu-
clans have computed that the world is
now uslnE ioogoQ,0o9 horse power. the
equivalent Of the labor OF the whole OF
It's population that IL capable OF work
By the side Of the steamship. the loco
motive and the factory engines. the steam
hammer, the steam dredgas. the steam
dfitt. the steam pump and the steam plow
are AZ work Fultons little Ciermont has
grown int che his Deutschland, with i's
ss,Qo0 horse power quadgBpie expansion
snEinea driving its mass Of 1900 tons az
twenty-tArpe knots an hour Ia ave days
across the Atlantic, and intO the Viper,
with Is turbine engines making It's Tor
~ miles an hour. In the ScveutY-nve years
since sfcphensons locomotive started on
the Gyat railroad journey. 4sAe9 miles of
track have formed network round tae
EARTH ana giants have been constructed
that can drag loads % nearly $500 tons
az q speed 81 ten miles al hour. while
othcFa maintain a speed q sixty niles
an hour for hundreds OF miles, and AZ
pinch make eighty OF 100 miles an hour,
The idea OF distance has been well nigh
ohliterated. as that OF tine has been ey
the telegraph II 10 but forty-Jwo years
since the first Atlantic cable was laid
ant the earth has been Eira'sd BY cables
and wires. save FER tha Width ~ the Pa
elae ocean.
Marsets OF EmxinceFiag,
tuexaniplea feats Of engineering have
been performed THE ship casa through
the isthrnus OF Surs has shortened the
road 20 india and restored the ella trade
youta through the Mediterranean, The
Rattle ana the North sea have been 5ciued,
and oceaA vessels can ROW reach the
great lakes. The great canthever bridge