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LUTIIKK LANG DON. \ \l -IT IS so difficult when the mind ?1 J is filled with modern environ>rti i incut-to nppreliend the com 9QQ6 parntlve poverty of the past thaFttls necessnry to no to sleep nut dream In order to look bnckwurd t< New Year's. 1801. (Jrectlngs for tb< day l?etwecn friends only i\ couple o hundred miles npxpt came to hand i week or ten days after they were pen ped?tbH* 's. U *Ue uipH coach dldu blocker! by snowdrifts. In tbr r.n Rome much traveled roads, to< >-T ... they Wight Me over until the sprln hre*K up. Fortunnto dwellers In New Yorl \ Philadelphia and Boston read ncn f -> anywhere from n week to three montl Pt * V>hl In a newspaper prluted on a har inachlne much resembling a letter cop * lpg press of today. Other folks we \ ^ glad to have a weekly or semi week *" delivered through the mails a week ao after It was printed. The average man who set his hei upon turning a new leaf for 1801 a the nineteenth century began by coi Ing up his bedstead with ihe aid of I oldest sons to, grlv? wedge pins at < sry twist pf t^e He opened Ijfew Xeftf* records In a book made Smper birch bark, using a quill pen e (pk pressed from wild berries. g regions where Dutch customs j led Industrious Marthas rccel their callers while tlicy plied the s| MT nlng wheel or kuit or sewed by he J and the Marys who cultivated ' Ideal side of played on the h jCew slcord, with i 311 Jl I grasi t^> old mail coach f i'llgxi^ 2rely a piano. At <Ss25^~|r; Igbt the long, road sitting room, embracing half tbe a*o its bdoci frpflt Of tbe oolonial mansion, lighted with tallow candles, and tbe crane bad been swung back per being over, logs were piled b tbe fireplace to furnlsb both bet light. Tbey did bave fiddlers, an did bare tbe minuet la 1801, v otltutlons to enliven tbe mooot< a sparsely peopled bind q^d ?*no i . socio bi o w?^*. ff \fb.e WS,r with France, fought fe*. was a staple topic of couvcr Jgp aid Commodore Trux ton wse tb< hero whose exploits were celeb? ' fireside tales. Tbe stnncbneM wooden ships, tbe closeness of fjeas. tbe daring of tbe board< In the Twenti Will lovely woman do the propoi Will woman bosses run politics j Will men wear birds on their ho t Will the housemaid be a housemn Will horses be exhibited as curio Will politics be ran on a phllantt Will the Boston woman discover Will little nirshipa be provided f Will men wear frilled shirt Wais Will the estimable Mrs. Orundy Will the college girl carry a cam Will there be free lunch stands f Will men go to church evenings Will the wife kiss her husband % Will women either wear short sh Will squirrels wait just a quarte hunter? Will rich noblemen marry poor j Will hornets and other stlnglnj llielr nests are pulled? Will the grain be extracted from a magnet and save the labor of harv Will there be a law compelling Will cows come home at mllkln supper? And will those same 4*ows semlo of milk? Will there be nuy escape from t Will every busy man wear an 111 Will mind reading furnish a kej ties and villainies? Will the automatic principle be selves? \ really exterminate? Will pounds be pounds and qua i Will women be compelled to fl that men may see the play? Will nil consumers of anthract t winter stock In midsummer at any 1 Will the creatures that build gi > fly over the impoverished farms ol P Will our beloved country still b f political orators howling for votes a Now, candidly, wouldn't you Ilk i- ers thinking, writers writing, doeri t the next hundred years? it ???? (HLJncle Ezra's 1 is ^ ??? ?? id Eleven thirty. New Year1! E% y- The clouds acre wespia o'er hi J"e Old Doctor Time hv give hi JT HLr breads corner sheet mm ttot phthisic, irt gvt the' I kasw he's boohed nd There'll be no west spea m J* For when I've lived. ?e he k ^ I think I'll smy tor Dearth. ? bis pleasure 1* of ind And yet he's been a smart < Ter see ead greJk a brmjaATml >rt** Before he come ydow cksl And cranky wlnd^ mdt But now. great Sctm^tnr r the And -rteamerv^ithroer Jffi 1,fe Tkr tclcphofl^ee3teUgm>pfr re? M ***** J?h^P?3! W neighbors. _ _ ----- -?? ? I The X ray itgms a cne* ^], l Tke afty tyyawitto priat/ The phonograph ??..< > h |J3 squegkla. jth :(h aovin pkiiat^ mm hi M! Cloctric ranges* cook hi* f ?~k Ar J through electric Ught 0M* And If 0105,^ 'm rww h 5?m**** gallon. What oqeLgi brin? l\i ? naval What MagK tricky is uj eftd in4 Will our graadchildloa f ^??j??3f >ra and ldltll A_ iAloriiMH ** eMMRKnttP ' v,r * | iy HBMWBBmKBMB^^ * ieth Century? sing? ?s they now run the home? ts and crochet? in? elites? iropic basis? the north pole? or messenger hoys? ts and women trousers? be driven Into a convent? e and smoke a pipe? or women? instead of to the clnb? roodby before starting off to business? drts or hnve pages to carry their trains? r of a second longer to make faces at the American girls? ^ 5 things arbitrate Instead of fight when ?\ i the heads of wheat and other cereals by cstlng straw? bur be re to remain silent? g time as eagerly as field hands come to ccaslonally turn grass into butter Instead hefBoou song save suicide? lumlnatcd collar button? 7 to the Intentions of hens as to their duadjusted to taxes so that they pay themrts be quarts In weight as well as In price? atten their pompadours at the theater so te have the common sense to lay In their sacrifice? lano mountains at the equator oceoslonallj f North America? ? noing to the "demnitlon bowwows" ant to save it? :e to know what sayera will be saying, think s doing and plotters plotting at the end o New Yew Reverie J e?M* Nineteenth tantuty'/ mytrni Ls bed. end tad th* wind a Mghtat iwhe tbkt in^^ave Mr wkboyy4lx|?'i b>ia f?w g?kt quickai m wpUf qiiJu our wheels go /Uckar. y wjj iw frpil M* locomotion, il fSd lor ihov^Y 'ci?at Mr ocean. kilmiLJ^k U r nu fg every nation. flV'rtuM Mr |V|j lie concaraed creations U^JlT^ni^ leTt JtST ***?n> f[^i<ie end shows framework in H. Mi woed^ a hundred ter Mr minute, i/ -if eech m teaas that's plain, tho* m now he aookeci wnwi he wus ipvun 0?i electric kunchty float him. o4 streets electric wagon* tote him. Im gown eg dee* k|/ vital* sever, r eoe^Mm betWe ever^jj MIL > ii^ V > . WUt w*ter burn. I wonder? And WUl no thin be impoMible ?9 ?k I wonder If? But there! I*U st And. seel 'tis on Mr stroke qf tw "Tht Nineteenth Century's dend*' tickin. He's dend end gone fer good end Ring up tk* curtain! deer tto /tt You're welcome. Mister Twentiet the effectiveness of the American bull hots were features of the fighting to glory /?ver. The land battles talked about were border skirmishes between men la buckskin bearing flintlocks and painted savages armed with tomahawks and bows. Kentucky was on the wild border in ' 1801. and the Mississippi valley, as maII no ?Iia M.?l# a II wtru uo IUC 14uii nui, the ftockles w-n ",,u u" w.'?uu uocaies. ?ns peopled with inNp"9' ^?n,ards flnd French. The New^nglander called It "going west" on "P v,IOme b ^ond th? HudJJJJ" N*w Yo* or Penn's wood., folne had no political existence, be-' ng a part of Massachusetts, and the Mexican west const was scarcely known to the people of the states Hence the phrase. "From Maine to California had yet to be Invented to ?x,ont of ll>o 'and of knocking ,/ ^ while Indiana, Michlga(i"and Illinois, also Minnesota, were in the Northwest Territory. Chicago was undreamed of then, for Fort Dearborn hadn't been built. t Communication between towns was by means of common dirt roads, foi I the principles of Telford and Mncndau had not yet been adopted. Water wa ; supplied In towns and villages by prl # vate and public wells, and the tow pump was n rival for the tavern as gathering place for gossips. Thet were no artificial means for lifting w 1 ter above Its level for dlstributloi Water was the only power outside < muscle for driving machinery. Lui ber was cut by upright saws, and pla Ing was all done by hand. Mowing ni reaping were done by hand, and t songs of the haymakers and harvei era; as they swung In Irregular II aoross the fields, filled with music t valleys which now tremble under t clamor of the modern machine. Far easier I. It for the dreamer 1001 to conjure up the picture of 1 , dawn of the nineteenth century tt " ?l>o rvnst to look I for tlie cirerwiit?r u? ' ward a hundred years. For that < illuminating gas was a startling Inv tlon when it pushed aside the oil la r for public lllumlnntlon. The can however, held Its place for 50 y< until petroleum cast It Into the shi Electricity wns n power to be fea not to be utilized, and It required generations of experience with tbe egraph to reveal tbe motor power the Illuminating qualities locked u > the Invisible currents that sclentis ? today declare fill the air above an< i earth and waters beneath. ( Tbe locomotive and the stean belong to about the same period a telegraph, and. If not Invented to er, their Introduction Into genera was con tempo ougi an(J n e>w years the oldest 1 tb; t raiXTtNo fiikss ^itjrjh itai Ha of some se- / clu? led vales, havlag passed four- acot w or even four- or 1801 and scot re and ten, ventured out to t firs t view of the V<.?rH>tlve or i a first ride on m :> )>nm car ^ for bicycles, liA^ nrrlaf the transmission V?tn? by wire for hundreds ot, miles Mf j yen tor who predicted/ them might have escaped burning fc . ^ era ft, bt/t be wouldlbave bees m ***** Ana J **!? I I will fire be cold fwwyT edey eeor? op: my "wonderer''? gitiin tired, elve! The Old Y?M hot expired. ' So Mr eld clock with its j ell. but |jm olive amd kickis. kge! I'm reedy fer Mr dremv. HI Naw ?terl vatit ao. > oee m I JOE LINCOLN. OtUer marvels Hint xvoultl have shocked the most credulous Id 1801 are the typewriting machine, the typesetting machine and the six and eight decker printing press, three stories high and turning out 50,000 or more complete folded newspapers per hour. . Tbo projector of cars for city streets on the surface would have been looked upon ns a dangerous schemer. Much more would the Idea of elevated tracks or swift motors for busy thoroughfares have been looked upon as a harebrained invention doomed to ridiculous failure. Republicans and Federalists were the chief opposing political parties in 1801, and Jefferson was the prophet of the former, having been elected on that ticket In 1800. Burr was the prince of Intrigue and the prince of notoriety ns well and sat In the vice presidential ' chair. Hamilton was a lending Feder~~The "center'8?ftr??<?va- brew,nff which ginning of the century i land, nenr Baltimore, and It took au yenrs of progress westward to transfer i it as fnr ns about Parkersburg. W. V a. r The people sprend from the Atlantic i const between Boston nnd Pbilndelr nitin north and south, but emigration ?r^ ** the hedge. fMr neighbor of the thatched eot, ?? With glolra de Dijon cluttered gab!* ,rom P,ot lo Plot fain the Rrugw- f*bl<a j And our two garden* made Wh? -.'J?.. ^ ( But "Not" crici Wiadom. "Spare the fence, j The thorn, the ivy blackbird* neat in; Leave something for the finer arnac. Some dream of joy to hope and re*t la* ) 'I "Some glad surprlae, aome myatcry t Of inconceivably tweet meaning I" Wisdom is wiee. My friend and I Scarce preaa the topmost twigs by leaning. 9 ?O. D. C. in Good Word*. I NIGHTMARE. i* S The Sensation Tlint Always Mulcee m k Man a Coward. it "Strange that we are always so cowI ardly In nightmares." remarked a New Orleans lawyer who has a taste for the bizarre. "I don't believe anybody, ever lived who flood up and made a| r- square sut?d against the amorphous id horror that invariably pursues us In to such visions. When I have a nlght-j ere mare and the usual monster gets on hs my trail, my blood turns to water, and ? " "''"'f would disgrace a sheep. I wO* 111/ WUU XV ? _ ite am beside myself with stark* down-, is- right fear, and I hare no idea left in at my head except to run like a rabbit, m- All pride, self respect, dread of ridicule ar- and even the instinct of self defense ley are scattered to the winds, and I bepie liere. honestly, I would be capable of >tb- any Infamy in order to escape. I have, no hesitation in confessing this, because, as far as I hare been able to,' find out, everybody acts exactly the aid- same way in the throes of nightmare, that and I feel certain I would not make t It such a pitiable spectacle of myself in real life, no matter what might befall. ' iter. "I think that the explanation of the n to nightmare panic is to be found in the old fleet that the dream is almost Invariably accompanied by a sense of suffocation. It is well established that g of choking?the 'shutting off of >tlng wind,' to use a homely phrase?has an 1.000. effect upon the mind which Is entirely, 1 and different from that pro Off IS Wn? paid dnced by any other form of pain or parlL It Alls the victim with such horror and distraction that he Is for the cnpl- moment insane. He will do anything was to get relief. This has boon brought out on more than one occasion In the defense of men who have been choked and killed their assailants, and Judges ig you hare held that the circumstances of ouch an attack should be given special consideration as extenuating the deed. w?- la dreams the entire nervous system is MW| relaxed, and It Is natural to suppose e It? . that the mental effect of suffocation ind let would be intenslied. At least, that Is I. the beet apology I have to offer fyr my en you sprints through nightmare land.**-?New Orleans Times-Democrat. w-ort T? V wwevea. * tool can ask more questions than in the s wise man can answer. Ain't that so?" Atlanta MI answer yod."?Indiana potts JfaMUmal* \ tli.'nrdjj-' jg' ' tsfi- * r V ~ " ^ _ % . ' beyond the Ohio wns very slow. n And, after all, the most startling fact n of the nineteenth century, one unparal '? leled In the history of civilization, h i" the development of the United Statei u. of America from a narrow belt of po lltlcally disorganized, weak and Jeal ous colonies Into a realm stretchln n- across a continent and holding ran 3(5 among the nations of the earth as fin he iq wealth, first In enterprise, first In U 9t* telllgence. ne "HZ 7" be Usfk* and MlakFM. he What queer things the average pe son laughs at If some one slips at of falls or Is unfortunate enough to mal the any awkward blunder, the averai tan person thinks It very funny and laugi 'or- and repeats the affair for a funny si lay ry. If some one makes an unfortuns en- remark accidentally, his embarrai imp ment Is always a theme for merrlmei die. Women, who are supposed to be sy ?ars pathetic, are the ones who have the 1 rule, gest stock of such funny stories. Tt red, always seem to be a success. Peo two love to laugh at the misfortunes of c tel- era.?Atchison Globe, and ip In The Inexperience mt Tonth. ts of "Look here, sir!" exclaimed the mi 1 the en lady. "1 want you to take back 1 parrot you sold roe. 1 find thn ishlp swears very badly." s the "Well, madam," replied the dei geth- "IPs a very young bird. It'll lenr 1 use swenr more perfect when It's-a bit rane- er."? Philadelphia Press. i but sine* Itul?eu? received for h'<* i>aiiitSn nhah- the grand celling at the bono in house, Whitehall, the sum of I The space covered by this palntli I about 40O yards, so that he was "" ' *TiO a card. B BrnarcH, Indln. was an ancient =aSf^ tal before Babylon or Nlueveb jL founded. gn k The Va? m4 Mr. Pr?il. SPffj Mr. Fresh?What's the best tblo jLMrtp? srer read on amies? The Was?This: 5JB5 lb* InHtr ohwnrfi at Km* at he pan Ban. aa alaevrhar#. the women ran alter Fresh-That's good. Who wrol 1001. Wag? Why, Owen Meredith, I ake the me tell yOU |,e knew bis business perhaps Fresh-Wlid was It said. "Wb *.? AS aee a beautiful woman, run?" {os aod Wag?Old man Socrates. the lh voles In *hc Athenian barn.' , the In- Fresh-Was he? in 1801 Wag? Sure, but the trouble <f witch- boys run the wrong way. ? i In dan- journal. * - . sr