The true northerner., 1901-01-11

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the lightning express outstripping the
foetest horse or a freight engine with
its intermlnable trail running away
from a wagon train. the motor car
spinning past the old stagecoach, and
tie automobile or bicycle leaving the
painting courier in the lurch, but this
conception merely conveys TO the intel
let a feeble idea that old style locomo-
ton is not in the race with the new.
Secure in the possession of the type
writer and sewing machine, the mann
moth cylinder press and electric lamp,
the magazine rifle and moving ma.
chine the steamship and telegraph.
what fairy power can give to people of
today the sensation of hopeless de-
pondence upon the goose quill and COM
mon needle, the Franklin press and
tallow dip. the fintlock musket and
hand scythe, the sailing ship and bea-
con fires signaling alike to friend and
foe?
The forest primeval scarcely exists
To-Day, but where it does the log cabin
sheltered by it is simply a room with
up TO date furnishings transDlanted
from the town. There are no semi
civilized wilds to be compared with
those of a hundred years ago. There
AN still thriving American villages con-
nncted only 10y dirt roads where the
u ails are carried as they were I'm 1901.
bit the towns and cities tapped by the
villages have their turupikes and rail
ways, their tclegraphs ana telephones.
and, while the village is in a sense iso-
L. ted and It's lie more or less primitive
Is comparison, there are no villages
like those Of a hundred years back.
'Then the towns and cities were merely
rrergrown hamlets and only distln-
auished from them Ivy mere numbers
OF Inhabitants. one who wishes 10 live
oId die Il mossback must HE To the will
derness, il Ee can Gnd il. or 10 II cave
8 ven tie farm and the logging camp
0.e too rapid for him. Crudencss and
irnperfection. indeed. yet remain. sQua-
ior and ignorance mockiDg at wisdom
md muniGcence, the blind pl0dder
-clmbering the path OF swift footed
progress, conditions ripe for revolution
aad certain to be swept away. at
Civilizations pioneer work is well nigh
completed for a period too long to be
calculated Nature has been explored
uud her treasure house opened up. II
Eow remains for the masses to be
served freely at the feast where the
few have reveled In riotous abundance.
After conquest comes division after
discovery. distribution.
persiStence In Progress.
Chiefly what remains for progress to
TO Is the removal Of limitations. Man
ut his besi dare not sigh for faster
tight but al mankud asks for a pace
equal TO the aeetest. The tourist who
travels co miles an hour on one road
feels cheated if he cannot make the
same speed on every other road One
five day ship to Europe means vast
fleets of Gye day shps, iust as the ar
mored vessels and rapid fire guns Of
oue nation set all the powers TO re-
building and rearming their navies.
This is progress. and whether born OF
the spirit Of vanity or envy. it persists
until things are evened Up to the top
notch. For n time men may make
glass do the duty Of diamonds, but dia-
monds never yet yielded the palm 10
glass and never will
The airship is only contrivance to
transfer locomOtion 70 n sphere where
there is less resistance. Its result can
BE no more than cheapening OF trans.
il ana may be taken rs an example
e. the improvpments-fo they can
scarcely be termed revolutions-the fu
iure has In store. The wind is a
primitive motor power. The machine
has reached its limit against resistance
ol sea and land. and the flying ma.
cline will be a change. but not a revo.
lution. Steam revolutionized the very
fice Of things. in measure annihilat
zig space for corporeal substance. II
sent life forward with a lightning leap
hecamse everything had to move on to
Keep pace with steam.
Science does not promise for the fu.
.ire any new methods OF n radical
i-aiurc. II does promise new energies