3OO,OOO,OOOAi]ERICANS Professor Felix L. Oswald Pre dicts the Population for 1993. I'IIOUKESS IN SCIENCE AND ART. Senator Peffer Sees a Good Time Coming. Interesting Predictions by Ex-Post mas ter General James, Professor Hriggs and HI. Quad —Secretary Rusk on tlio Future of Agriculture. tion.] A few years ago Mr. Gladstone favored tho American public with the prediction that in A. D. 3000 the United States would have 600,000,000 inhabitants, basing his cal culation on the fact that in the course of tho last century tho population of our re public had increased 1,300 per cent. He might as wuil have inferred that a pine tree 011 its twentieth birthday would be a mile high because in the first ten years of its existence it hail grown from an inch to a height of twelve yards. In some of the eastern states tho rate of progress has even now fallen to one-third of its initial velocity, and will undergo an additional reduction as the average density of population approaches that of the trans atlantic hives of industry. It is true that the delta of the Mississippi is more fertile than tho richest bottomlands of the lower Danube; but, on the other hund, it is equal ly certain that the desolation of our west ern alkali deserts is unparalleled in the dreariest steppes of eastern Russia, and, drawing the balance of probabilities, there is no reason to believe that in 1993 the popu lation of our present national territory will exceed 300,000,000. Politiailly our federation of states will by that time comprise Canada and prob ably Mexico to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which, before the end of the next three deo ndes, will bo crossed by a ship railway. Tho center of population will before long change its westward line of progress to the southwest and south. Tho climatic su periority of the southern uplands and the unrivaled wealth of their natural resources will ultimately turn tho scales against every combination ex prejudice. Cotton will be spun where it grows, sleepy old country towns will be roused by the scream of tho locomotive, and the ter race lands from tho Ohio to tho upper Rio Grande will be covered with orchards and villas. The thirty-fourth parallel will cross the center of that garden region, and it is not improbable that some industrial em porium of tho "Piedmont country"—per haps Birmingham, Ala.—will become the great city of the future. Beforo the middle of the Twentieth cen tury the increasing frequency of summer droughts will confront the farmers of our middle states with the alternative of ruin or forest culture. The reckless destruction of woodlands has never failed to make the summer drier aud warmer and the winter floods more destructive, but Anglo-Amer ican common sense will find means to ar rest the progress of an evil which has turned the Eden of western Asia into a desert aud reduced the productive area of our planet one-third. Every country road will bo lined with shade trees. Forest reservations will comprise the upper ridges of all our east American mountain ranges, and large areas of the arid west will be redeemed by a multitude of orchard farms, for there is no doubt that the exigencies of overpopulation will even tually suggest the substitution of perennial for annual food plants. Breadstuff's, as well as sugar and vegetable oils, will to a large extent be derived from trees that en rich the soil with their fertilizing leaves and outlive their cultivators, whose labor they will limit to the pleasant work of the harvest month, and protect him against the worst plaguqpf the plains by affording shel ter to myriads of insectivorous birds. In the Atlantic states competition for de sirable tracts of real estate will before long grow fierce, and within the next thirty years events will prove that, while the risk of a religious war has been greutly over rated, the danger of a war of races has been quite as much underrated. The progress of education is gradually assimilating the intelligent classes of all creeds, but race in stincts are less transient than dogmas, and the negro problem will vet loom up as the black specter of the North American conti nent. North of tho Tennessee river Sambo Africauus will vanish as soon as the in crease of population brings him iuto seri ous competition with European immi grants, but thero are regions where cli matic conditions favor tho chance of his survival. On tho Rio Grande tho aborig ines and Plthiopians may coalesce against tho north. Caucasian races and the strug gle for supremacy will involve frequent ap peals to tho arbitrament of force. To conclude with a few miscellaneous predictions: The problem of aerial investi gation will be solved within the next twen ty years. Transcontinental mails will be forwarded by means of pneumatic tubes. Tho perils of ocean navigation will bo ned by the introduction of companion steamers, starting pairwise and maintaining communication by a system of | fog bells anil electric refnictors, and in 1993 millions of dwelling houses will be artifi cially cooled in summer, as they aro now | heated in winter. F. L. OSWALD, M. D I Senator I'cflcr Is No Pessimist. With tho record of the past to study wo have reasonable ground for believing that men will grow wiser, better and purer in the years to come; that our perception of human rights will be more acute as the field of view grows wider and our vision becomes clearer through knowledge; that the common weal will he tho chief end ot government, the ballot of the poor will be counted and the popular will will be law; that women will share with ineu all the duties of citizenship, land tenure will be uniform, the drumshop extinct, war abol ished and the people sovereign. We are many times deceived by what we see because we see so little. We wince and groan under tho exactions of wealth com bined, yet in combination lies the highest form of exertion. Self love is the greatest of civilizing forces, yet the trend of life is vpward. In promoting the comfort of oth ers we find the richest sources of reward. While private monopoly in manufactures, transportation anil banking has shown the power of organized avarice to rob labor and oppress the poor, multiplicity of inventions, variety of modes and expertness in appliear tion have wouderfully increased tho effi ciency of labor, diminished the cost of pro duction and added much to the comforts of men. Steam and electricity have conquered space and time, commerce brings tho na tions together and intelligence simplifies trade. Thought is taking from religion its repellent mysteries and association de mands an international tongue. So far will we have gone in 1993 that all o* North America will be under one govern ment, managed by a council consisting of a few men. Our great lakes and rivers will pour their waters through numberless chan nels for easy carriage of heavy things. The people will own and manage all instru ments of commerce, every means for sup plying public needs, all sources of fuel sup ply and all unused lauds. Lines of traflic will bo straightened and highways im proved, speed increased and safety secured; men will navigate the air and smoke will be suppressed. Motion will supply light, heat and power, and there will bo no waste of fuel; money changers will be shorn of their power, for then money will be made of cheap and abundant material and limited to its proper uses; there will be no usury nor mortgages —the year of jubilee will have come; large landed estates will have disappeared, one acre of arable land will support one person; justice will be dealt to all alike and taxa tion will be limited to natural sources of livelihood—as land and water; the time of daily toil will be shortened to four or five hours; all willing bauds will be employed and effort will be ease. Onward and upward will move the mul tiplying millions of earth, impelled by indi vidual selfishness to minister to one an other's wants till trade is free and men's leading ambition will be to servo one an other. Then the nations will be one, strikes will bo unknown and poverty forgotten. Great private fortunes will become historic, for men will have learned the art of just dis tribution, and there will bo enough for all. W. A. PEFFKR. Professor llriggs on Sunday Newspapers. LFrora Our Now York Correspondent.] Professor Briggs does not aire to say much about the results of what is called the higher criticism upon religious thought In the next century, although it is known that he believes that before many years have passed accurate scholarship, exhaust ive research aud intelligent criticism will be welcomed ns an aid rather than a hin drance to religious development. There is one thing, however, about which Professor Briggs has spoken to your correspondent freely, and that is the power of the press. He said: I have learned since the proceedings in which my writings have been involved to realize more than 1 ever did before what the power and influence of the newspaper press are. 1 have found that its desire is to report great events in tho religious as well as other fields of activity fully and with accuracy, and I have no doubt that this tendency will continue. If it does, tho in stitution is to have greater influence in the future than in tho past. But I have been especially interested in the development of the Sunday press, which is comparatively recent. At first I was prejudiced against it, and I would not permit any reading of these Sunday news papers. Whether it is regrettable or not, 1 now realize that the Sunday press is a per manent institution; thut thousands of re ligious people recognize and approve it, aud that it can be made a power for vast good. My hope and belief is that in the next century it will bo cultivated by persons of high character nnd be made one of the en gines for the dissemination of religious nnd moral truths and information, so that per sons of such Inclination can rely upon it for those things which they desire, and mean while its influence will reach in this direc tion others who are not of religious disposi tion. I think that good men, recognizing that the Sunday press has come to stay, will undertake to make it an influence for good, as unquestionably it can become. Its tend ency is certainly in the right direction, for the Sunday press contains now matter suit able for the reading of those of moral and religious inclination, and there are sermons to be found in many of the uews reports printed in these issues. Secretary Kusk on the Future of Agri culture. Will our soil and methods of agriculture I improve so as to provide food without difll culty for all our population in 11)93? It would tako the gift of prophecy to an swer that inquiry, and though I bear a prophet's name and am a Beventh son I < never found myself gifted in the prophetic line. I can give you my opinion as to the probable relative production of this coun try when all its available land is subject to tillage, but who is going to tell me what our population will bo in 1993? I see that a writer in a recent magazine estimates that j it may be 1,000,(XX),000 in 1990, but I cannot : help thinking that in making such an csti- | mate he lias indulged a littlo too much in ! prophecy for ordinary men endowed with but the usual number of senses. As to the possible productiveness of this country, I would not hesitate to affirm that not more than one-fourth of the land avail able for tillage in the United States is now under cultivation. Consequently, without any further improvements in agricultural methods and with no moro care than is ex ercised at present, the mere extension of tillage to all the avniluble land would mul tiply our production fourfold. Now, I have already more thau once ex pressed the conviction that the yield per acre of most of our staple crops could be in creased simply as the result of better farm ing and the application of the best methods now available by 50 per cent. Suppose this improvement to take phice and you hnvo a sixfold increase of our present production, j Now, then, much of the land which remains ! to bo brought under cultivation must be , cultivated by means of irrigation or ro ! claimed by drainage, and we know that I when land is cultivated under the condi tions necessary to make theHo lands avail | able the yield is greatly in excess of that which is cultivated by the ordinary meth ods. All these factors must be taken into ac count In estimating our possible future pro duction, and we have not yet touched upon what inventive genius and science may discover in the interest of greater produc tion and diminished waste in the next hun dred years; but in the light of what these agencies have accomplished in the past hun dred years, whether the population of this country a hundred years hence will be a thousand million souls or not, 1 think 1 have suid enough to relieve your mind of any anxiety lest your children or your chil dren's children should have to go hungry for want ef sufficient productiveness of j United States soil. There is one thing more you must remember, and that is that be fore our own people go hungry we will 1 Btop exporting foot) products, and the uver- I age exports of the put year or two would feed quite a number of hungry young Americans. As regards exporting food products, while no one can realize more than I do the im portance of our export trade, 1 would of course rather see our own demand increase to the extent of consuming all we produce at. home, and this suggoHts to me that there is a good deal of wild talk about shutting off completely all immigration from Kuropean countries. Discrimination as to the class of emigrants that we should welcome to our shores is all very well, but we must not forget that this country waj built up by immigration very largely, and 1 for one shall never favor the exclusion of foreigners who come to this country with the honest, intention of becoming American citizens and bettering their condition in life by honest labor. Between you and nie. when 1 hear people croaking about the possible dependence of the United States in the near future upon foreign countries for its food supply I am inclined to use a slang expression, and ad mit that they make mo very, very tired. J M. HUSK. Ex-Postmaster General James Predicts e. Perfect Postal Service. When we remember that it is only a quarter of a century since the railway postr ollice was established, and less than that since the free delivery in the largest cities was begtin, that it is only ten years since the postage was reduced from three cents to two cents, we can understand how rap idly the development of the great postal system of the United States is going on. The Twentieth century is going to see u marvelous fruitage from the seeds which have been sown since our civil war. The first of those harvests will bo, 1 think, a de livery of mails in which the speed of the telegraph will bo almost rivaled. 1 think it is going to bo possible for business rncu of New York and Philadelphia to cornniu nicato by mail as easily in business bouts as tho merchants of those cities could wit h one anot her. I think it is quite likely that it will be possible for the merchants of the Mississip j pi valley to send a letter to their corre j spondents on tho Atlantic coast in the morning and receive an answer in time for business purposes upon the following day. possibly upon tho same day. I think it is quite likely that fast mails ruuniug from | sixty to seventy-five miles an hour will be found upou all of the trunk lines. But in addition to this 1 think that scientific and Inventive genius is going to devise a system of mail carriage which will deliver mails perhaps at twice this speed. Distances are being cut down for passenger trallic, and the mails follow rapidly the examples of high speed. I think that in the next century it is go ing to be possible perhaps for every citizeu of the United States to have his mail do livered by free carrier at his door. Already we have taken vast strides since the estnb lishment of the carrier system, and with the facilities for communication increased at tho tremendous rate which now char acterizes these movements it ought to he possible in the next century for every citi zen, 110 matter where he lives, to receive his mail at his doorstep and without cost. Tho citizens who live in the next century are not going to pay two cents for a letter postage stamp. The price will be reduced to one cent, and perhaps by the beginning of tho next century. The government has never made and does not want to make money out of tho postal service, it only wants that tho postal department shall lie self sustaining, and the people will get the benefit of tho profits. With the enormous increase in business which is sure to come, the revenues of the government will by and by be sufficient to justify the reduction of letter postage to one cent. Ocean postuge is going to be reduced so that we are to have penny postage, or a two cent Htamp will forward a letter to any part of Europe. The ocean mail service will be improved until it becomes us systematic and regular as is the postal service of to day. There is another thing which is sure to come in the next century, and that is ppstal savings banks. There will be objec j tion to this from some quarters, but my impression is that the people are bound to mukosuch use of tho post office department. THOMAS L. JAMES. How They Will Dress in 1003. I regard the present date as the climax of fashion in dress. While it has taken several hundred years to work up to it, the decliue will bo far more rapid. Man has simply been goaded to a point of desperation, and a change is bound to occur. 1 have already given an order on the downward slide and in a couple of weeks shall appear as u pioneer in the new movement. Wo shall not only restore the dress of our great grandfathers before we stop, but run the costumes of Adam and Eve a pretty close shave. Man wears too much cloth, and that cloth is cut up into too many shapes. The 20,000,000 men of the United States are wearing an average of twenty buttons each, making 400,000,000 buttons for all, est! mated to weigh 23,000,000 pounds. Five buttons can be made to answer every pur pose, even at this day. Fifty years hence the number will be reduced to two or three pieces of iishline, or tarred rope may be made to answer every purpose. My great grandfather used horse nails in place of buttons, and 1 don't begin to bo as rich, handsome and healthy as he was. Collar% cults, neckties, starched shirts, sleeve buttons and underwear aro of mod eru origin. The idea of the inventors was to keep down the population by making man kill his fellow man, and it has been a success. Darius, the great and wise king of Persia, never had a shirt in his seventy two years of life, and 1 don't propose to set myself up as being a heap better man than old Darius. There is no record that George Washington ever even saw a suit of flan nels, and yet he managed to wallop the British anil hold down the White Ilouse to the general satisfaction of the country. Not one of the pilgrim fathers lauded in this country with socks on his feet or col lars and tails ou his coat. Any artist who puts coattails on a pilgrim father ought to be sent to jail for his ignorance. Those things were not only accounted us superflu ous, but positively unhealthy. The coats were tailless and coHarless, and one wooden button was considered all that was ueces sary. Are we any healthier than the pil ! grim fathers? Can we run faster, jump higher or stow away more corned beef and cabbage at a dinner? Hannibal never had a sock on his foot lie never saw a vest. Had a man come I fooling around him with a starched shirt i there would have been a sudden death, j Had he been told that the day would come when a civilized being would have to buy at least three shilling neckties per year to be in the swhn he would have called I that man a liar and a home thief. Am I a better man than Hannibal? Can 1 have the cheek to characterize him as a slop shop dresser? I Woman will keep right on until every one of her suits costs a milliou dollars apiece, but man is hound to return to the simplici ty of Biblical days. Sandals, a toga and a cheap straw hat will replace the costumes now worn. Sandals will strike us as rath er cool for January, and togas and straw hats will bother us some at first with a blizzard whooping around, but in time the change will give general satisfaction, and we will look hack in contempt and disgust upon the costumes of today. My straw hat and sandals are finished, and my toga is to he sent home next week. How they will take it along Broadway is more than 1 can , tell, but some one must pioneer the way, and 1 shall fall—to l>e remembered and blessed. M. QUAD ST. PATRICK'S PAY 1893. Card from Messrs. 0' Callahan & Sons, Eighth and Sansom Streets, Phila. FIYO SOCIETIES intending to participate in the parade >n I March 17, we should be pleased to send samples of BADGES. CAPS. FLAGS or BANNERS. We make a specialty of A. O. 11. and T. A. B. Work, and our goods; are favorably known throughout the Lehigh region. If send-! ing for samples kindly write on official headings. Respectfully, John OCallahan & Sons, EIGHTH AND SANSOM STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. FKEELAND OPERA HOUSE. Thursday, March 16. FIRST APPEARANCE of W. C. Miller's GRAND SCENIC PLAY, "Under a Ban," with u MONSTER AMOUNT OF BEAUTIFUL SPECIAL SCENERY, painted by the author, insuring a perfect scenic interpretation. ; SOE3ST33S: The great prison exterior. The realistic asylum interior. Monster ship scene. Immense stair and pin try scenes. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT of Carl & Jenkins, the celebrated GUITAR SOLOISTS and sketch team (late of Tony Pastor's). Admission, - - - 25 Cents. Reserved Seats. - 35 Cents. Reserved Seats at Fans' ciKur store. s p E C I A L The TRIBUNE on Monday will! contain an accurate and beauti ful descriptive and illustrative j report of the inauguration cere monies to be held at Washing ton on Saturday. President j Cleveland and his cabinet will be the subject of a handsome il lustration, which will indeed be a WORK OF ART. Illustra tions will also be given of the parade, the ceremonies at the White House and the meeting of the two presidents. This, to gether with an accurate descrip tion, will make up a report j equal to that given by any paper in the coal region. The usual news features and correspondence from Drifton, Jeddo and Upper Lehigh, which appears regularly ONLY IN THE TRIBUNE, will be sup plied. Buy the TRIBUNE. Sin gle copies, 2 cents. S p E c I \ CHURCH DIRECTORY. ID ETHEL BAPTIST. A3 Ridge and Walnut Streets. I Rev, C. A. Spaulding, Pastor. Sunday School 10 00 A M ! Gospel Temperance 2 80 PM ' Preaching 0 00 P M j ] I EAVENLY RECRUITS. 11 Centre Street, above Chestnut. Rev. 11. M. Lengle, Pastor. I Morning Service 1000 A M ' Sunday School 200 PM Love Feast 815 P M Preaching 730 P M ; JEDDO METHODIST EPISCOPAL. ' I In charge of Rev. E. M. Chilcoat. Sunday School 200 PM Preaching 7 00 P M j DT. ANN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC. Rev. M.J. I'allihoe, Pastor; Rev. Edw. O'Reilly, j Curate. Low Mass 800 A M ! High Mass 1030 A M . Sunday School 8 00 PM Mass on Weekdays 700 A M QT. JAMES' EPISCOPAL, kj South and Washington Streets. Rev. A. J. Kuclin, Pastor. Sunday School 130 PM Prayer and Sermon 7 00 P M QT. JOHN'S REFORMED. O Walnut and Washington Streets. Rev. H. A. Benner, Pastor. 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