The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-27
100 YEARS HENCE.
In the Days of Our Grandchildren.
compil.d for this paper BY M0sss Folsom.

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The year 2000 may see European coun-
| tries in a family of republics. BY that
| time the belief in the '.divine rights OF
! kings and that the king, or the enc
| in authority can do no wrong, will have
| disappeared from among civilized races.
Before the year 20ee there may be 4
| restoration of the human ear to its
rightful office as the organ of enIighten-
ment and learning. The sound wave is
to Be instituted for the light wave as the
vee'c'N of all our best information ard
intercourse.
The initiative and referendum will pre-
vail. The Engiishman says the Ameri-
cans are always voting for somebody.
By &0O there Will be fewer eseetions.
There viii be no stuffed ballot boxes
then. Voting machines will be in use.
and no mistakes will be possible.
1t is probable by 20Ge. all kinds Of foods
| will be used in condensed form IT
is we'll known that water now const!-
tutes a large part of all kinds of food
products, even above 80 per cent in some
OF the vegetables. The water will be
expelled before food comes to the ta-
Bile.
Cars will leave our cities for South Amer
lea, Asia, Africa and Europe. There will
be steam ferry across Behring strait,
or else floating bridge, or maybe a
more substantial structure, with piers
reaching down to the bottom OF the sea.
to connect by strips of steel the West
ern and Eastern worlds.
The terms of office will be extended
depending upon service and good be-
havior. The system of minority repre-
sentation may become universal In a
district entitled to three members the
electcr can vote for all three or give
his three votes to one. United States
senators will be elected by popular vote.
If by the commercial policy of Great
Britain she has up to 1860 controlled the
commerce of the world, If she has held
the supremacy upon the seas by her
great maritime wealth and by her accu-
mutations of capital she has regulated
the affairs of the entire financial fabric
of the earth. surely the United States
can do more before 20G0 appears upon the
calendar.
A difference of doing things will make
important changes in the manner of l V
ing and increase the health and comfort
of the race. A workman can carry his
dinner with him in his pocket instead
CT tin pail. Hunters, fishermen. ard
explorers can carry months supply on
their backs without Inconvenience.
Foods will be condensed into tablets and
pellets.
The world is Fastening rapidly toward
iconoclasm. Idols are being broken.
| Monarchs, who used to be worshiped as
gods, and later on were so feared and
| misapprehended that the people slew
them to save themselves from some ter
rible determination, are now only laugh
| ed at, and their natural disappearance
from the scene foretoid with as little awe
| as is felt in speaking of the destruction
of the bison or the 'noble savages.
!f the genius of the people of this coun-
| try its inventive faculty, the introduce
| ton of steam, machinery, electricity and
| the forces that have chiefly contributed
| to the progress Of he United States ara
made as effective for the benefit Of the
| whole world as they have been for this
| country itself. there is no apparent limit
! except the limit of the world itself, to the
| growth of wealth, to the augmentation
| of ortunity and to the achievements
of this people.
Before the middle CT the twentieth CEN
| turN the increasing frequency Vi sum-
| mer droughts VIII confront the farmers
Of our middle states with the alternative
| of ruin or forest culture. The reckless
| destruction Of woodlands has never fall
ed to made the summer drier and warm
| er, and the winter floods more destruc-
tive; but Anglo-AmeE lean common sense
| will find means TO arrest the progress OF
| an evil which has turned the Eden OF
| Western Asia into a desert and reduced
the productive area of our planet one-
third. Every road will be lined with
shade or fruit trees.
''Fhotobacteyia" are among the novet.
ties with which the hunters and tanners
of microbes may give the people OF the
year A D. 2o00. Hatched out to the num-
Der of a few millions, ard put in bot
tie. they will illuminate a room to the
degree of bright moonlight. Feed 'em
and keep their water wholesome, and
they will serve the purpose of a dome5d
Gated moon for months. Leve~s afraid
of taking cold by strolling forth be-
meath the pale beams of the outdoor
moon may now enjoy all the mconS hfne
the necessities of their cases may Ge-
/ mand, while sitting on the sofa, in the
light of the photobacterial botte.