The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-13
THE PAST AND FUTURE.
The Old Century and the New.
a. g. Daaniag, D. d., IN For.rayd.

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changes will be made ID the new cen
, tury through the use of the bicycle
and the the automobile We cannot as
yet prophesy. II 1906, 1890, sailing ships
crossed the Atlantic ip>six weeks. In
1907, Fulton's steamboat first sailed
up the Hudson; in 1911, steamboats,
began to ply the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers; in 1913, the Zee. steamship
crossed the Atlantic in twenty six
days, aud now steamers make the pas
sage in less than six days. The COM
ing century will probably sec ships
traversing the air far more swiftly
than those on the sea, and railway
trains running by electricity at twice
their present speed.
Oar implements to lessen labor and
increase its effectiveness have surpass-
cd the widest dreams Of the beginning
Of the ,nineteemh b century. The cast
iron mold-board plow, patented by
.Jahes Weed II 1918, mas unfolded in
to the steam plow, the seythe into the
moving machine, the siea..!e ;at0 tho
harvester, the hand loom into the
great cotton and wooden mills, the
sewing and knitting needles into the
sewing and knitting machines. In
1888 the tinder bog gave way to the
friction match; but to-day vast areas
nightly fash into light ut the touch OF
u button.
Tho implements Of war Lave ad-
vanced in murderous power from the
flint lock on the musket to the percus-
sion lock in 1925, aud on to the breech
loading Maxim and Mauser rifles.
GHnpowder has been followed by nj
troglyoerin, and the old man. of-war
by the marvellous mechanism of the
modern battleship.
But the means Of preserving life
have increased as rapidly as have the
implements for destroying it. Chloro-
form, first applied as an anmsthetic in
1847, sulphuric ether, cocaine, and an
tisepiic suffering and lessened the
perils of disease.
When We turn to the history Of the
nineteenth century We find that it mas
been the greatest nation-building peri
cd s'nce the time of the Crusades.
When Napoleon crossed the Alps in
1900 Europe and America composed
the active historic world. Two maps
Of Europe are before me, one repre-
senting it in 1916, the other the Eu-
rope Of to-day. In the first are no
countries Of italy, Germany, Austro.
Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Servia,
Roumania, or Belgium. In the SEQ
ond all those countries appear, while
Turkey has shrunk to much smaller
dimensions and Russia has much en-
larged. The population of Europe
has nearly doubled in the century;
and looking at the map OF the world
We find vast areas brought under the
control of western civilization, includ-
ing Africa, great part, of Asia and
Australia. OF the ffty-two million
square miles of the earth's surface
twenty-five million TIVE hundred and
eighty-eigbt thousand are under colon
ial or protectorate forms of govern
ment. One-third Of the ono billion
five hundred million people in the
world are included in enc hundred and
twenty-five colonies, proteotorates, or
dependencies, while ali the governing
countries are in the north temperate
zone. Great Britain leads all the
nations,in colonies. In 1880 she gov
erned abaut Eve million square miles.
To-day her authority extends over
eleven million two hrn drea thousand
square miles, one-half of all the de-
pendent territory in the world with
considerably more than half Of its
population. At the beginning of the
century fifteen million people spoke
the English language. To-day it is
spoken by one hundred and thirty
millions, and more than seventy-six
millions Of these live in the United
States. The Anglo-SaXon r>tions
control four-fifths Of the worlds ocean
traffic, produce nearly four-fifths Of
the worlds gold, silver, copper, iron,
steel, coal, wool, and cereals, send
three.fourths Of the letters through
the worlds mails, and control four.
ffths Of the world g railroads and tele-
graphs.
In one hundred years our own coun-
try has grown from little nation to
one of the greatest Of the world pow
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