Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-14
NOR TROUBLE COMING,
man Will Find Difficulty in Placing
Feet in $50 Years.
0af"'Door Philosopher Says World viii Be
Over Crowded With Humanity.

me scribe in his wanderings. the
o.neT oay came across back woods
pfhosopher, who had been searching in
me future and evidently was not sat
isned with what he found there and
this is what he said:
Just about the time fellow gets
his feet placed on this earth and he
gins TO think he is a fixture here. soeme
confounded scientific crank with a
hoppy TO air, comes along and fires his
PC 'i'eory at you and you are all
anoat' you don't know whether you're
aloot or horse back. He is as persist
eht as tax collector and you can't
oodSe nm any more than you could
the ilShtning rod agent. He just bangs
away at you until you are willing to
admit that the earth is round, square
or oblonS. He fires column after col
uihh nf hgures at you to prove his
theory the correct one until YOU are
almost driven to drink in your own
mind YOU are satisfied he's got rats in
his belfry but you don't want to tell
hlm so; you'd rather he'd find it out
himself. but he don't find it out; he
tnihks you are the fellow that's got the
martin house up in your thinking
dome.
NOW there's Il fellow out in the
Nooly West somewhere, VINO has been
iisui ing on the barn door with n piece
OF chalk ana according to his figures
the world Will be full. January in the
year uf our Lord 22JU. OF course some
thoughtless dwcllers on the carth's
crust won't wait until the year 225O
but VIII get full before that time. not
Withstandins Carrie Nations wild way
OF inforcing her moral suasion argu-
fncnt with a hatchet
"of course We appreciate the scfen-
tiSts Kindness in giving US a little lee
way. some 800 years more or less. and
not sprnging the standing room only
sign on us until the year 225n. for lots
of things may happen before that tome
some other planet may bump into us
and balk the whole thing Anyway
We won have to pull up ana move for
moons yet But the thought still re-
mains that one of these days, We will
wake up and find the world full, for
this scientist goes on to say that in
the year 1900 the density of the. popu-
lation of the United States was only IL
persons 10 every 10 square miles Of
land, one ana one half persons to the
mile. but during the 18th century thu.
density has increased from Il to PA
persons on every 10 square miles of
land. a density in 1900, Of over Il per
sons to each square mile.
"FolloWng up the same line of ar
guinent We find that in the year 1900
there We're il6 persons to every 10
square miles of land in the world and
this has increased. during the century.
to a density of 30S persons, or nearly
II persons to every square mile of land
in the world. yet some people wonder
why they collide with 50 many people
when they are returning from their
club or from sitting UP with a sick
friend about 3 A. NJ, when everything
is full even to the moon.
Kind of a sad state OF things to
think of that the time is coming when
you won't have room to even change
your mind without bunting into some
body and as to having a quiet tete-a-
tet with your best girl. why that's out
Of the question. You might just as
well use megaphone as to having 30
other fellows standing round listening
and any business of that kind you have
on hand you want to attend to it be-
fore January /. $3.50. and avoid the
rush.
one pleasant thought. and about the
only one there is about the whole bust
ness. is the Philippine on your mother
in-laW for when she comes down to
cannibal on YOU and turn your quiet
home into a band room and fire off n
few miss-tit quotations with a brad in |
them. she may realize that she's in a
crowd and you can dodge. Then |
there's Morgan. j. Pierpont. he's over
in England now trying to get up a |
corner on thrones. He may solve the |
problem by buying up a couple OF
planets and forming trust. yes. lots |
of things may happen in $50 years. so |
we do not need to get nervous till after |
the spring election any way There's |
the millWrghts. they may 80 up ana |
that will give us more ROOM There s |
only one man that's pretty sure to |
have plenty Of room and Keep out OF |
the crowd and that's the fellow who |
doesn't advertise.
For that hacking cough use Lung kuo. |
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