Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-01-10
Twentieth Century Possibilities.

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goth century. All things are possible
and the product of creative imagi-
nation may speedily become the real
lied accomplishments of the age.
Jules Verne gave full flight to his inn
agination, and many regarded his
literary productions rs the vision Of
distempered imagination or PIGMENTS
of infancy. The faithful historian
chronicles today the partial realiza-
tion of the novelist's dream. Gaze
sar's Column may be purely an
imaginary view of possibilities, but
who will say it is not the view of a
seer. Ii New York City SHOULD con-
tinue to increase in population for the
two decades proportionately with
last two decades, his dream of
i ten million inhabitants would
more than meet its fuliillment, In
the beginning of the century we had
a population Of five million people,
now the city of New York alone has a
population almost equal.ing that NUM-
Der. His vision OF subterranean
streets will soon be a historic fact.
Excavations are being made for this
very purpose and soon the noiseless
vehicles propelled by electricity will
gracefully glide along that under
world. No smoke or gas to suifoeate
the passenger or inhabitants of that
silent city; no rumbllng carriages TO
awaken from drowsiDess the slumber-
ing inhabitant; no shrieking of whis-
ties or Changing bells to run up and
down the gamut of ones nervous sys-
headache. The trans-continental
aerial train will be putting passengers
..off at Buffalo, by new method.
No colored porter will come in in the
s.wee sma' hours of the morn to
rouse one from refreshing sleep,
but he will detach the berth from its
fastenings, hitch it onto parachute
and allow him to sleep on, while gen
tly dropping down like the falling
snow. Hotels will no longer be ne
cessity, for meals can be ordered the
night before and the dincr attached
TO the parachute also, will be thor
oughly equipped and ample provision
made to cater to the tastes of the
most fastidious, by conniseur
Time tables viii announce London to
San Francisco via of New York and
Lancaster, Wis. in twelve hours
twenty dollars extra for use of obser-
servation car and daylight ride.
The greatly diminished number of
domestics imperatively demand II So
luton of the problem of how to get
meals. The old fashioned method of
constructing court and then build
ing a house around it VIII be ampli-
fled on a large scale so as to have the
court represent large cooking estab-
lishment, centrally located, under
municipal control, and orders will be
given four hours in advance AT a
given signal the meal will be sent
steaming hot, through a Pneumatic
tube, where colored gentleman, who
makes the bed by turning a crank, in
answer to the bell on "A small electric
line.
Then. too, some remedy must be
provided for the detection, arraign-
ment and proper punishment Of Grim
mails. The inefficient methods Of to-
day, with cumbersome machinery,
must become obsolete or grow into
disuse The remedy is now in its
incipient stage Of development. The
study Of occultism will furnish it,
Clairvoyancy and hyper-electriiied
men and women will no longer startlc
the world with disclosures for by the
aid OF a miniature Roentgen rays.
greatly improved each man will be
able to penetrate the body of matter
and witness the convolutions of the
gray matter of the brain, and the cell
Iular changes when one makes a false
statement will be Immediately regis
tered showing the criminal guilty
or mot guilty II will be impossible
under this new regime To tell lie
OF course, juries must 90 and only
Judge will be necessary. The crimi-
nal will not be sent to a prison with
/ iron bars and stone walls but the boss
/ hvpnotist will be called in, make a
few passes before his face and trans
form him into laboring man whose
time will be spent in sweeping the
moving sidewalks of the city.
Theatres and churches will be con-
nected by wireless telephones and no
play admitted TO enter the city until
committee Of the city council have ex-
amlned into its merits, and when per
mission is given each player will lie
attached % atelantograph instrument
wh "a viii reproduce on screen IN
the home be exact ~ ,vement Of the