.IE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY ; KORNING, ; ;- DECEMBER 27, " 1903
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What, the World ,May
WitnessBefpreAnother
Year Rolls Round
rWl HE new year of jgog,'so near at hand
' and regarded with expectation only
of the little things which immedi
ately concern their fortunes and their voca
tions by the majority df mankind, is $ery
big with possibilities to the race as a whole
possibilities so many and so huge that, should
allJif them come to pass within a wondrous
twelvemonth, almost the whole aspect of mod
ern civilization would be altered.
That all, or nearly all, those amazing
possibilities will be realized ultimately is fairly
certain; that they can reach full fruition far
ing the coming year is more than doubtful.
But that a sufficient quota of -them, will be
things of such common use and familiarity
as to make a profound impress upon our
daily life is assured, if the history of man's
progress during the century past can be taken
as any criterion.
What, then, will be the salient changes
which this old world of ours will present to
our eyes wJien midnight of December $i,
igog, rings out the old year that is now the
new: and what are some among the strange,
amazing boons by which man's genius and
his already vastly multiplied resources are
liable to transform his little planets facet
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plant thera cxlatt feint copy of wh't w nil eon
cioune la ourielves." .
Tbat averment, aupporud by cvldenca and ar
Tumnta ba propounded, wai but littl appraclaUd br
a popular Intelligence amaied and abiorbad by the
more concrete and obviou demonatratlon that planU
can ,. '
But the bold, unequivocal acceptance by ao distin
guished a botaniet of the full theory that there l
conaciouaneaa, and perbapa Individuality, la the plant
kingdom, la In reality naan'a Ulacovery of tbat vaat,
unknown world upon wblcn alone be and the member
of all animal apeolea aubalat.
The difference between the result flowing from
auch a poeltiva knowledge and the consequence that
come from the chance experiment of blind Ignorance
la Incalculable. Complete demonatratlon and unlveraal
recognition of that tremendoua truth during the com
lng year would revolutionise the world' ' harvests
more radically than the recognition of the principles
of atock breeding that have changed the animal world,
over which man now relgna supreme.
The face of this world how completely may not
man alter it, or, at least, begin to alter it. within the
year 190 I
The Alpa, those chill and changele sentinel of
Europe from the time of omnipotent Rome to the
present, may nevertheless be changed, even as ere
Americana' are changing our hemisphere' by cutting
lta appendix. Pletro Caminado, an Italian engineer,
ha laid out a plan for joining by canal Genoa with
Basle and the North aea.
A series of tubular, inclined locka along the moun
tain slope, auch as he has proposed, could be devised,
in the opinion of leading Italian statesmen, that
would profitably carry a 15,000.000 tonnage a year.
In the United States the twelvemonth of amasing
possibilities may bring about the Inauguration of the
grand inland waterways system, now so urgently
needed and o universally demanded by the people.
And, even before that comes, the nation is likely to
t0 !he 'mPerious necessity of aafeguarding it
dwindling forest upon a seal adequate to the re
quirement of the future and the appalling neglect
of the present-j, maglo change, indeed, from the des
olate waste left by this autumn'a aoarrlng forest
fire to a face of nature crowned With living green.
Already, If the almost assured value of one im
portant discovery of this year satisfy the high expec
tations it aroused, the process of papermaking from
cornstalks bids fair to stand between , the Buffering
forests and the devastating pulp machines.
Devised and perfected In the Department of Agri-
If vou can look Into the.seede of ljsse. . , .
AnJ y which Brain will .row. andwjin
AMID all the change which the hurtling; time
may reveal, what la that one promising the
most salient consequences upon mankind' life
and habit a they are lived T
Beyond doubt, the world today looks forward most
expectantly to human air flight But how will It
come in what form?
The triumph of the Wright, striking aa they
proved during this last year, have afforded assuranoe
only of the feasibility of the aeroplane, and that upon
a acale of actual accomplishment smaller than the
automobile. At best, the "machine heavier than air"
remains In the condition of the bicycle. .
.Yet a dngle year might well prove sufljclent for
auch a erase for flying aa the bicycle Inspired for the
wheeling madness In an earlier day; and already the
boy of the generation have given indication ' that
they. In their reckless darinf, may prove the true pio
neers of the universal flight.
But the last word baa not been said of the dirigible
balloon, even a the first word haa scarcely been ut
tered of the tetrahedral kite, that strictly acieojtifla
Invention of that famous scientist. Professor Alexan
der Graham Bell, whose latest adventure employed
aerodrome of more than 4000 tetrahedral cell.
Nor are these all. Every principle known In aero
statics Is receiving lta due attention by reason of
these recent, first victories of man over the stubborn
air, that one element which had ever defied the asser
tion of hi unlveraal supremacy. - , , "
Moat atrange among the applications - of man'a
present knowledge of aerostatic ie the flying machine
that literally climbs the air, devised by J. 3. Shearer,
of Han F rancisco, Motor-driven wheels catch the re
sistant air like parachute and force the apparatus
upward, aa a swimmer might rise from the bottom
oi a laice ty treading water.
MAY HAVE RACES IN AIR
Of all forms Into which man'a protean flight Is .
now transforming itself, none can be surely aettned
a the ultimate hope, and all may find their due place
in the economy oi aerial transportation. Iesa than
full twelve month of the fateful and auspicious year
of 190 may see the city parks so many launching
and landing places for tne racers of the air In num
bers suddenly reminiscent -of the cyclers, who were
their prototypes on land.
That marvelous apectacie may, indeed, be the moat
amasing thing we people of the new year In the new
century are destined to behold; yet the old earth
holds secrets that may prove far greater in their dis
covery than the now certain flight of man. What of
the face of the earth and the inhabitants thereof?
1 No more -apparently . useless, and no more Inspir
ing, high emprise has ever been essayed than that
tern, unyielding assault upon the mystery of the
North Pol by the indomitable Peary, now at the
verge of his fifth attack.
For centuriea the queat of the Holy Grail by. the
Knights of the Bound Table remained the inspiration
of herolo song and story. But no myth of human
courage, no saga of sublime devotion to the Ideal of '
indefatigable daring, from the epics Homer sang to
the labors of a fabulous St. George, will ever rival "
these grimly furious onslaughts upon a mystery whose
solution is as useless as it once seemed remote, by a
prosaic,, indomitable man of this modern, prosalo
world. ' j .
And the wonder of It I that this time, Wore the
summer of the new year i over, it Is more than pos- '
slble hi inflexible will may have conquered. fTar-;
theit North" wa hi record on the last trip, when nun- :
rer alone withheld him from the coveted goal, only
00 mile away. A
By October of next year the trulygreat explorer,
Peary,' may be back with man's most coveted, most -Useless
and most splendid discovery a hi ownT The
world will hall him as the discoverer of it ultima
Thule; but hltory and philosophy will recognise him
as the sublime Incarnation of the eternally momen
tous mystery the stubborn will 6f man.
Far more keenly Interesting to science, and of far
more direct concern to mankind," is the advance that
may be recorded In that wonderful new world opened
to our knowledge by the bold declarations reprardlnv
life and sensation in tne piant Kinsraom oy irancis
Darwin during the year now closing. The son of
Charles Darwin and president of the British Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, he, nevertheless,
paralleled in this young twentieth century the bold
Columbus of the fifteenth In his arraignment of the
world's lauded knowledge of its laws and in the huge
hemisphere of discovery which his modest claims may
open to mankind.
. "We must believe." declared Mr. Darwin, "that In
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HERE is a very High-Spirited and Ambi
tious Young Woman of New York and of
Weehawken, of Boston and of Brookline,
of Washington and Alexandria, of Phila
delphia and Bryn Mawr, of Chicago and Evanston,
whose real name is the Average Female, and who
ia atill Extremely Tired.
She is not yet Recuperated from her recent
Resolve to Attain Perfection, and her sole Source
of Gratitude is that she has escaped the Sani
tarium. x
She Began with the Resolve that she would
Learn to Pky the Piano, a Segment of her Edu
cation which she Discovered had heen Neglected
fcy her Too Indulgent Parents, and she Instantly
Began to Practice Five-Finger Exercises three
Hours a Day v. . '
. Soon afterward she Noted an Unwonted Sense
of Fatigue in the, Lumbar Muscles and all along
the Spinal Column, together with a Slight but
Alarming ; Disinclination to Discuss with her
Dearest Friend the Price of Plumes and the status
of the Soul: It was Apparent that Both her Body
and her Mind had been Unfitted for the Strain of
Modern Existence. ' It was then that she Became
Exceedingly' Busy J she Became Known as the
Woman Who Did Everything, and her Name is
Legion. ' --a
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ASTILT Consulting a Lady Animal Trainer for
$5. she learned . that she waa in Dire Need of
Athletic Exercise, Supplemented With Vapor
Baths and Turkish Massage, to which she
' Took like a Duck to Water. She found that It Con
sumed only Two Hours to get In and Out of her
Gymnasium 8ult and Fix her Spinal and Abdominal
Muscles as per Schedule with the Proper Interval
for Dumbbells, Indian Clubs, Wall Exercisers and
Breathing Between Stunt. The Bath and Massage,
Occurring only Twice a Week, did pot Count aa In
terruptions to her Halcyon Day.
However, in the Course of her Exercises, she No
ticed that there were Several Angle upon her -Anatomy
which might Well be Dispensed With. The
Lady Animal Trainer Assured her that Nothing but
Fancy Dancing for the Lower Limbs rfnd Fencing for
the Arm and Torso, together with Horseback Riding -and
Japanese Walking, would Supply the Desired
Pulchritude, and was Also Kind Enough to Recom-
mend her to Professor of those Arts who had Just
Reduced their Charge from 3 a Lesson to 12.75.
The One Hour Each, upon Alternate Days, which
he Devoted to the New Courses Admirably Balanced
the Other Hours She was Giving to Baths and Mas
sage. ' Just at that Period, there was a Great Literary
Revival In her Neighborhood, Mingled with Hectio
Excitement over the. Discussion: 1 Bernard Shaw a
Plagiarist from the Venerable Bede.
! Being Nominated to Champion the Cause of the
Venerable, she found Three Hours, after her Piano
Practice, allToo Short for her Literary Researches;
and,' Melnwhlle, her Dearest Friend Remarked. Sym
pathetically, that her Hair Certainly wa-Looklng
Thinner. .. . , - '
, She Succeeded In Unearthing a Ferfoct Treasure
et a Scalp Specialist. Who Charged hr only Fifty
Cents, for a Dally Treatment Lasting Half an Hour,
Exclusive of the Whole Hour she Always Had to Wait
and the Half Hour It Took to Get There.
Her First Quarter of Instrumental Music Having
expired, her Instructor Explained to her that he was
Profoundly Gratified with her Progress, and wa Now
Realizing What a Crime It was to Allow her to Sit
Mute while she Possessed a Voice that would Terrify
Tetrazzlni, and he was Connectd with a Conserva
tory Jammed Full of Song Birds.
Because of her Great Promise and upon Condition
that she Must Practice and Study at Least Three
Hours a Day, be Believed he could Induce the Di
rector to Accept her as a Conservatory Student at
S50 a Quarter.
She Joyfully Consented, but Observing that her
Fancy Work was Now Being Shamefully Forgotten,
she Began a Dlning-Table Dolly Five Feet in Diam
eter with the Firm Determination that she would
Finish it Before Easter, if she had to Work Two
Hours a Day which she Soon Perceived she Must Do.
Her Financial Resources being Almost Wholly
- Engaged, she Deemed it Necessary to Acquire some
Useful Accomplishment which should Supplement her
Income, and she Contracted for a Course in China
Painting, which Occupied only Three Hpurs of her
Spare Time and Promised Ktch Reward-Inid of
Seven Lessons.
Unfortunately, some Slight Sympton of Dyspepsia
Made it Requisite that she Devote Some Further Time
to a Course in Sdentlflo. Cooking, where the Regular
Lessons Lasted Three Hours. She Effected a Com
promise upon Two Hours Dally, on Condition that
she should Memorize All Recipes as she Went Along,
and ahe wa Thus Able to Consider the Advisability'
of Receiving the Addresses of the Most Popular
Toung Fellow In her Set, who had the Reputation of
Being a Stayer from Stayersville and Never Quit un
til 11.30 P. M.
Profoundly Perplexed, she Sought to Readjust her
Day' Schedule; but sheyould Find no Way. In the
Midst of Her Distress, she Suddenly Discovered that '
Already she wa Working IS Hour Out of the H.
Realising that ahe had Accomplished the Impos
sible, she Emitted a Cry of Joy, and said to him:
"Alberlc, you Come -Around Thia Evening at I
o'clock. " Tra Through with" the Whole Business! '
This is not an imaginary sketch, but very close to
. real thing that happen today pretty nearly every
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culture at Washington, tne announcement of ' the
availability of cornstalks , a a substitute for woodl
pulp was Instantly followed by the organisation of a
half million dollar company for the exploitation of
the material.
In the South, where cotton Is returning; to Its)
kingly throne, the Invention of a cotton picking m
chin tbat, it la hoped, may be in extensive operation
next year, will transform the snow-flecked fields to
outdoor harvestings rivaling the enormous teBi
reaping of the spacious West. That alone. wiU be V
change almost epoch making in it consequences.
At sea, there la the likelihood that the old sailing
ship, long believed to be aa doomed aa the galley of
Cleopatra, will make alliance with the enginea of the
land, no less an authority than Lewi Nixon bavins
averred that the calling ship of the near future, utll
ialng the gaa engine as an auxiliary power, will re-,
turn as the world' freight bearer.
More than that: The teamahip it would appear,
has already reached the limit of its development.
Rear Admiral Chester has shown, after a tour of
naval inspection through Europe, that the logic of
war, like the logic of speed and economy in transpor
tation, points to the ga engine, even on war vessels
the size of battleships. The seas in 1909 may see the
forerunners of the new navies of the earth, from
which the huge smokestacks and the high fop-hamper
will have vanished, ieaving barely tne hulls of
iong, deadly motor boats of high 'speed, and with radii
o action equal to those of the world itself. ,
in new year wm beuoa-for mey are already
raaue na -operated uinpuiotous autos that glide aae
luusarais liuu laud tu waiei, uu the pououupuu,
wuicn, cumpused of two ioug, pantilei floats, is pro
pelled, over tu waier'a surtax uy iiui' sealed uo-
A,.BOt61 lncr8e In electric traction will diver
airy the umlou ruUwiy. miiu in u.ue appiewaule
measure, replace tne smoke-belching locomouve of tne
steam railway, wniie it is tar rum liupusaioie that
. LiPrlPlUve Peaerhtn muy avail numeif of mj
uewlj, inventeu loot cycle, that lets turn run ou
wheels twelve or uiteen tncues in diameter, tne wotiou
or the foot, operating a spring, rurmsoin moilve
power along smootn ZnX ey ro' di
We are destined next year to live more and more
numerously in dwellings oullt entirely of cement, al
though they will still be among tne more wealtny
who can afford the ornate luxury of suca conciei
homes as have become popular. Tne one-piece con
crete dwelling for the poor uit.u. promised y tdit.cn
await its ooinmercial practlcabiCuess at ni creative
hand, let any day, among those pregnant 8ti5. may
bring about its completion and witness the inaaia
rise of hundreds of such houses, aa though the poor
man, become a modern Aladdin, bud acquired Dower
over genii who can build cities overnight.
It the next big war should come during those
near twelve months, the automatic rifle, firing twenty,
five shots from a strip of cartridge lu lightning suc
cession, may be opposed to the llamelesa gun. of
which the Maxim noiseless rifle was the forerunner iu
1DU8, and both, at closer quarters, may be opposed by
soldiery flinging the terrible rifle grenade, which i.
wow attracting so much attention in Europe. a,nd
which enable every man to play the part of shrapnel
cannon. '
There may be no war. But' the piping ' times of
peace promise to lend the eye to the ear, and the ear
o the eye, in two fields of pleasure and profit where
the supplementing of either sense has ben eagerly
awaited. The transmission of a mirrored likeness by
electricity, so that ahe who telephones can see hint
who answers, is among the hopes of applied science
that may bear fruit before the new year is a old a
this; and, nearer consummation than that, there is the
endeavor to combine with the cinematograph! auch aa
adaptation of the phonograph that the maglo screen,
will give a complete reproduction, to hearing aa well
a to sight, of any performance, dramatic or operatic,
MAY REMAKE MAN
All these wonders, and many more, are liable to be
flung forth, like some opulent largesse, from mans
munificent brain and hand. But what of the well
nigh omnipotent ruler himself what of that creature
to whom his Creator ao long ago gave the dominion,
of the earth with lta land, its ocean and its atrt Will
he remain the same in the midst of the changes where
he rules aa despot, defying the earthquake and the
hurricane, braving the convulsion of the shaking
earth as coolly a he transform hi bitter aeedlinKa
to the trulta of his primal paradise! What is the new
year to make of Man?
It may remake him utterly, from the very heart i
his body to the infinitesimal corpuscles of his blood.
Into his bands, at last, the secret of the ages, top
which he has so vainly longed through the genera
tions, may fall as simply, yet a astoundlngly, as the
apple dropped on Newton. Before December 31, 1909,
darkens into the eve of another year, man may know
how to determine the sex of his children. The aver
ment by Professor William B. Castle, of Harvard Uni
versity, of hi discovery of the mathematically pre
cise laws governing reproduction and sex determina
tion in the higher animals, is regarded a being tne
farthest advance yet attained toward the definite so
lution of the problem of sex. If all that such a dis
covery foreshadows prove true, incalculable modiflct
tions must ensue in the propagation: of the race
In France, Dr. Stephen Leduc is steadily progress
ing along the line of his experiments with electrical
anesthesia, experiments which, should they prove com
pletely successful, will give to mankind freedom from
pain without the penalty all other anesthetics exact,
penalties that too often reach the extremity of deat:i.
With aucn an ideal anesthetic as the electrical cur
rent may aoon prove to be, the miracles of surgery
thus far performed must remain merely the dawn of
marvols that will hasten to accomplishment. Again
and again the human-heart baa been pierced and
sewed up and handled, and the patients huve llveti.
Again and again, at the Rockefeller Institute, has Vr.
Alexia Carrel transplated vital organs from beast l
beast and major bones from man. to man, while Dr.
Simon Flexner, of that institution, has held out tne
hope that, at last, the organs themselves can be trans
planted in man.
In the wide field of sanitation this country Is beln
stoundingly awakened to the possibilities of preven
tion of disease, and in athletics no less an authority
than Dr. Dudley A. Sargent has given the weight r,t
his opinion In favor of a return to the all-around, haia
and healthy athlete of ancient times as being a better
man and a more valuable asset to the nation than t!.
specialized, chronio contestant in some on form
exercise. k . .
The srmy of the United States will fall Into i!n
with those of Germany and Great Britain in seek!; . -r
immunity from typhoid by mesna of vscclnation. 'I r. ,
army medical board has decided that voluntary va
cination be introduced, with the likelihood that tV
would first become operative id those army pos
tvphold is most a menace. Abroad vaccinating h
been found to be a notable preventive. It-fore I:
year is over the Immense advantaas of trphoM
cination may have become so apparent tht ! ..
among civilians may Inaugurate the movement t
tirpate one of the scourges-most farnt.lar tj o r t
llUatlon. ... !
So, within and without, the new yr mnr
man himself during the scant and swlf Uy f".' ,
when he 1 remsklng his world.