recreation. So it is certain that the
Teddy bear and the toy dog of the
coming century will be mechanical
marvels. The "Rover" doc that the
little boy gets will be life size. He
will prance about on hi four furry
legs and lie down and roll over at
the bidding of his master.
Perhaps the most wonderful feat
ure of all in our Christmas in 2009
will be the changed methods In
our dally life. The housekeeping
arrangements of that time would
seem incomprehensible to the wo
man of to-day if she could picture
them in her mind. The lack of com.
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THE FARMERS OF CENTRAL CAN
ADA REAP WHEAT AND
RICHES.
Up in the Provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, the prov
inces that compose Central Canada
have such a quantity of land suitable
for the growth of small grains, which
grow so abundantly, and yield so hand
somely that no fear need be feared
of a wheat famine on this Continent.
The story reproduced below is only
one of the hundreds of proofs that
could be produced to show the results
that may be obtained from cultiva
tion of the lands in these provinces.
Almost any section of the country will
do as well. -
With the country recently opened by
the Grand Trunk Pacific, the latest of
the great transcontinental lines to en
ter the field of the development of the
Canadian West, there is afforded added
ample opportunity to do as was done
in the case cited below:
To buy a section of land, break It
up and crop it, make $17,550 out of
the yield and $10,880 out of the Increase
of value all within the short period
of two years, was the record estab
lished by James Bailey, a well known
farmer within a few miles of Regina.
Mr. Bailey bought the 640 acres of
land near Grand Coulee two years ago.
He Immediately prepared the whole
section for crop and this year has 600
acres of wheat and 40 acres of oats.
The wheat yielded 19,875 bushels, and
the oats yielded 4,750 bushels. ' The
whole of the grain has been market
ed and Mr. Bailey is now worth $17,550
from the grain alone. He bought the
land at $18 an acre, and the other
day refused an offer of $35 an acre,
just a $17 advance for the time of his
purchase. The land cost $11,320 in
the first instance. Here are the fig
ures of the case. Land cost, 640
acres, at $18, $11,320. Wheat yielded
19,875 bushels, at 84 cents a bushel,
$16,695.; Oats yielded 4,750 bushels
at 28 cents a bushel, $855. Offered
for. land, 640 acres at $35 an acre,
$22,400. Increase value of land, $10,880.
Total earnings of crop, $17,550, togeth
er with increase in value of land a to
tal of $28,540.
It is Interesting to note the figures
of the yield per acre. The wheat
yielded 33 bushels to the acre, and
oats 118.7 bushels to the acre. The fig
ures are a fair indication of the aver
age throughout the district.
Agents of the Canadian Government
In the different cities will be pleased
to give you information as to rates, etc.
to men," will be Just as
acred and as new to
the hearts of men as it
was nineteen hundred
years ago. Everybody
will give everybody
else a present but the
presents will be differ
ent. Little Johnny will
not covet a railroad
train. Real cars ' on a
real track, pulled by a
real locomotive that
makes smoke will not
eem a wonderful thing
to him, as it does to the little Johnny of to-day.
The lad of the next century will want a model
of the latest airship in his Christmas stocking. He
will expect a working model, too one that will
all through the fiat like a live bird, and perhaps
carry his own weight
Within the last hundred years steam and elec
tricity have been developed and it is entirely rea
sonable to Imagine that within the coming century
men will travel through the air as commonly as -
they now travel over the land. The automobile,
the trolley car, the railroad train, and the horse as
a draft animal all will be gone. Men will use
the earth, as the birds do, for a resting place for
their homes and the principal source of food sup
ply; but when they want to move from one place
to another, they will mount into the ether, even
as the birds do, and flay swiftly and safely to
their destination.
It la probable that there will not be a wheeled
vehicle of any kind on the streets of a great city
on Christmas day. In the year 2009. Our tunnel
system will have developed until the vast subter
ranean net work of bores, chutes and pneumatic
tubes will carry on the heavy traffic of the city
without noise or confusion. The streets will be
given up to pedestrians to those who walk for
pleasure or wish to travel short distances. The
sidewalk as it is now will be no more, but the en
tire width of the street will be given up to foot
passengers. There will be neither car tracks nor
moving vehicles to annoy.
The suburbanite who does not fly to work in
S009 will be shot through a pneumatic tube, trav
eling the five, ten, or fifty miles of distance in a
pace of time that may be only a few seconds, and
certainly cannot be more than a few minutes. It
may be that few people will walk anywhere in
the year 2009. When man learns to fly he will
corn walking as too slow a means of progress.
Perhaps our ' great-great-grandchildren, who no
doubt will live in immense apartment buildings
towering a half mile from the ground, may go
for weeks at a time without setting foot to the
earth.
With the passing of the Christmas sleigh there
will be no longer any need for reindeers for Santa
Claus. He, too, will travel by airship, and while
the old Santa Claus will be a myth, the new Santa
Claus will be as real as the bewhiskered and be
furred boys who now entertain the children in the
department stores.
It is not hard to imagine that the big stores
will develop the Santa Claus Idea to the point that
Christmas purchases will be delivered on Christ
mas eve by an airship driver made up to Unper-
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sonate Santa Claus. A hun
dred years from now, if
you want to avoid the
rush and do your Christ
- mas shopping in your own
apartments, the scientists
probably will have provided for you a combina
tion of telescope and moving picture machine by
means of which you can connect your room with
the toy department and see the display by wire '
or perhaps by wireless and at the same time you
get prices and leave your order with the clerk by
telephone.
But perhaps the woman of 2009 will enjoy the
mad rush of the shops as much as she does to
day during the holiday season, and then she will
go to the big store and order her toys and pres
ents. The store could deliver them through the
pneumatic package tubes which will go to all
parts of the city, but it will be more poetic to
have them delivered by Santa Claus.
Christmas eve a score or a hundred Santa
Clauses will set out from the various shops with
their airships laden with Christmas gifts to be de
livered at the various addresses. - It will no longer
be necessary to "deliver all goods in the rear" of
the big apartment building, but whether you live
on the twentieth or two hundred and twentieth
story of the big house you will have your own
private airship landing, and while the family is
gathered at the door to receive Santa Claus the
airship will settle on the landing and the cheerful
"Merry Christmas" of the aeronaut will greet you
. as he hands in the packages.
The Christmas tree of a hundred years from
now will be an electrical marvel. Festoons and
wreaths of rainbow colored lights and "chasers"
will scintillate from Its green branches. But the
presents that bene ca. it will be even more won
derful. There will be dolls as large as the Etris
who will receive them. There will be dolls that
can walk and with the Improved phonographic ar
rangements of another century there will be dolls
that can talk and others that can sing beautiful
songs. Some of them, no doubt, will be able to
dance gracefully and to do tricks that would seem
miraculous if performed by an automaton to-day.
The mechanical toys of 2009 will be marvels of
. perfection. The meat imaginative man cannot
possibly conceive of the new things that will be
invented in the way of machinery, but it is safe
to assume that the wireless transmission of power
will be perfected. Wheels will spin without any
visible motive power. Power may be taken from
the sun's rays or wireless power stations may be
operated by the waves, the waterfalls, or even the
winds. Before the coal supply is exhausted the
need for coal, either for warmth or power, will
have passed away.
And wnatevr trluroDhs men make in the in
dustrial world they impart to their games and
forts and the Inconvenience of life in
a cottage, it is possible, will drive
most of the city dwellers into the
apartment buildings, which will grow
bigger and taller as the years pass un
til they will be literally "skyscrapers" within a con
tur?.
In one of these big buildings, while the machin
ery will be out of sight, domestic affairs will be so
mechanical, even automatic, that you can get ai
most anything the family needs simply by turning
on a switch or pressing a button.
The flat dweller of that distant day will not be
bothered with servants or the servant problem: By
nressine a button the Christmas dinner will come
up noiselessly from the kitchen on the mechanical
waiter or perhaps in a pneumatic tube.
After your Christmas dinner is over the dishes
will disappear as silently and swiftly as you could
wish. Some sort of mechanical dish washer in the
kitchen will take care of them or, what is more
likely, they will be made of a cheap composition
and will be destroyed, by burning after they are
used once. The antiseptic precautions of the mod
ern surgeon will be common to the kitchens of the
next century and hygiene will be a real science.
When you have eaten your Christmas dinner, if
you want to go out for the evening you can press
a button and an aerocab will come to the landing at
your door. Or, if you prefer it, you may drop down
the pneumatic elevator to some point 50 or 100 feet
below the surface of the earth and be whirled
through the pneumatic subway at a dizzy rale of
speed to your destination. Only the speed will not
make you dizzy. Tou will not be able to feel it
You may sit in your cushioned car, well lighted and
warmed and ventilated by some process yet to be
discovered, and before you realize it the miles will
speed away and you step out to the opera or the
play.
If you prefer to remain at your apartments the
telautoscope attached to your telephone may be
connected to any theater you desire, and you can
sit in your easy chair and smoke while you see the
play projected on the wall like the most perfect
moving picture. All the stage settings will be there
to make the play seem real, and the Improved tele
phone will bring every shade and subtle inflection
of the actor's voice to your ear.
It seems certain that this telautoscope arrange
ment the exact word to describe it will be coined
after the process is discovered will be one of the
triumphs of the coming century. It will enable you
to see the person you are talking to over a tele
phone.
- The flight of the coming airship probably will be
so rapid that the business man and even the sal
aried worker, if he loves the country, can have
villa or a cottage at a great distance from the city
and go to work In his own airship at slight cost
On Christmas day in the good century to come
. this flight in the air will be the means of many
family reunions that are Impossible now. A few
hours will take one to the most distant part of the
country, and the practical cessation of business
during the holiday week will leave all free to fore
gather with the loved ones and pay deferred visits.
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