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 Thus, with the addition of these new
 dependencies, the United States,
 which in 1900 comprised an area of S30, 900 square miles and had d total population of 5,3OS, 4S3, begins the new century with 3,7l4,Il1 square miles and total population (estimatedl of 90,00O,0O0. In addition it has estab- lished military occupation of the Island of Cuba, with it's 45,S72 square miles and its 1,640,O0 of population, which may result in eventual annexa- tion.
 lhis is territory of such diversity of soil, climate and productive re- sources as to afford opportunities ap- parently unlimited and certainly un- excelled by any other country for in- dustrial production and exchange of products in foreign and internal trade.
 GROWTH OF THE NATIONAL sPiRIT.
 The year 1901 dawns upon homo genous country, a national spirit. The mixture of many bloods has at last resulted in a new racial phenome- non, known distinctively as American. h lcOl the republic was an aggrega- ton of inharmOnious clements that had not yet fused themselves into a compound. A difference of religion, of manners, of tastes, of customs, of opinions and of prejudiees marked every state. Not inirequeutly il marked divers sections oi the same state. These differences were most piquantly reflected in the amusementS of the various sections.
 In New England, as President Dwight informs us, the principal amusements of the inhabitants are visiting, dancing, music, converse tion, walking, riding, sailing, shoot ing at q mark, draughts, chess, and, unhappily, in some of the larger towns, cards and dramatic exhib- tions.n
 Dwight was held to be danger ously liberal minded man in New Eng land, where the rigid and straight laced morality of the original Puritan settlers was still dominant.
 Virginia, on the other hand. had baan s.tti.d kx fh. ..,.I,..r. and .f,u retained the nigh spirits and love Of amusement which indicate the Celtic strain in English blood. There horse races and cock tghts and what were known as rough and tumble fights between man and man were the dis tinctive sports.
 Virginia and New England repre- sent two extremes among representa- tlves of a common English stock But the English strain was not everywhere prevalent. In New York the Dutch element still preserved its ascendency. Pennsylvania was settled in spots by the Germans. Delaware had fiourish- ing settlements oi Swedes In Caro-. lima, North and South, there might De found villages wholly inhabited by descendants of the liuguenots, driven thither by the revocation of the edlct of Nantes, or Of Highland refugees who came over after the suppression of the ,Jacobite rebellions
 The means of ntercommunication n 1901 between these widely separated | communities were primitive. The | 'oads were everywhere bad. The ve- | licles were cumbersome and anti luated. Few bridges existed any where. Ferries were furnished main- y with open boats. Canals were as 'et unbuilt.
 The growth in the means of trans- 'ortatlon is the most prodiglous and of all American phe. lomena. It was not until 1897 that 'ulton's Clairmont made it's firbU voy- ge up the Hudson. It was not until Sl9 that the Atlantic was first crossed y the steamship Savannah. It was lot until 1925 that the first railroad vas constructed in the United States, nd two years later there were only wenLy three lines Of railroad in the ntiro country. Today there are more han LOGO miles of railroad in opera ion.
 In loOl steam as means of trans 'ortalion Was an undres med of possi- iiity save in the brains of few men, 'ho were generally looked upon as lsaue.
 transatlantic voyage from New 'Urk to Liverpool, or a transcontl- entai journey from New York to san francisco IS today performed as ex- ana infinitely more com iodiously than journey from New 'ork to Boston m 1901. Then the SIX r seven days' trip by coach and ferry oat often involved not only discom- 'tt, buC a s"rl-. Ut mishaps and accl- ents. As tu the transatlantic voyage < sailing packet, consuming some- mes month and sometimes three, B prlVaJlons, uncertainties and even