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+Title: In the year 2889
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+Author: Michel Verne
+        Jules Verne
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+IN THE YEAR 2889
+
+By Jules Verne and Michel Verne
+
+
+
+[Redactor's note: _In the Year 2889_ was first published in the
+_Forum_, February, 1889; p. 662. It was published in France the next
+year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now
+believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules' son, Michel
+Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Verne's
+ideas.]
+
+
+
+IN THE YEAR 2889.
+
+Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth
+century live continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they are with
+marvels, they are indifferent in presence of each new marvel. To them
+all seems natural. Could they but duly appreciate the refinements of
+civilization in our day; could they but compare the present with the
+past, and so better comprehend the advance we have made! How much fairer
+they would find our modern towns, with populations amounting sometimes
+to 10,000,000 souls; their streets 300 feet wide, their houses 1000 feet
+in height; with a temperature the same in all seasons; with their lines
+of aërial locomotion crossing the sky in every direction! If they would
+but picture to themselves the state of things that once existed, when
+through muddy streets rumbling boxes on wheels, drawn by horses--yes, by
+horses!--were the only means of conveyance. Think of the railroads of
+the olden time, and you will be able to appreciate the pneumatic tubes
+through which to-day one travels at the rate of 1000 miles an hour.
+Would not our contemporaries prize the telephone and the telephote more
+highly if they had not forgotten the telegraph?
+
+Singularly enough, all these transformations rest upon principles which
+were perfectly familiar to our remote ancestors, but which they
+disregarded. Heat, for instance, is as ancient as man himself;
+electricity was known 3000 years ago, and steam 1100 years ago. Nay, so
+early as ten centuries ago it was known that the differences between the
+several chemical and physical forces depend on the mode of vibration of
+the etheric particles, which is for each specifically different. When at
+last the kinship of all these forces was discovered, it is simply
+astounding that 500 years should still have to elapse before men could
+analyze and describe the several modes of vibration that constitute
+these differences. Above all, it is singular that the mode of
+reproducing these forces directly from one another, and of reproducing
+one without the others, should have remained undiscovered till less than
+a hundred years ago. Nevertheless, such was the course of events, for it
+was not till the year 2792 that the famous Oswald Nier made this great
+discovery.
+
+Truly was he a great benefactor of the human race. His admirable
+discovery led to many another. Hence is sprung a pleiad of inventors,
+its brightest star being our great Joseph Jackson. To Jackson we are
+indebted for those wonderful instruments the new accumulators. Some of
+these absorb and condense the living force contained in the sun's rays;
+others, the electricity stored in our globe; others again, the energy
+coming from whatever source, as a waterfall, a stream, the winds, etc.
+He, too, it was that invented the transformer, a more wonderful
+contrivance still, which takes the living force from the accumulator,
+and, on the simple pressure of a button, gives it back to space in
+whatever form may be desired, whether as heat, light, electricity, or
+mechanical force, after having first obtained from it the work required.
+From the day when these two instruments were contrived is to be dated
+the era of true progress. They have put into the hands of man a power
+that is almost infinite. As for their applications, they are numberless.
+Mitigating the rigors of winter, by giving back to the atmosphere the
+surplus heat stored up during the summer, they have revolutionized
+agriculture. By supplying motive power for aërial navigation, they have
+given to commerce a mighty impetus. To them we are indebted for the
+continuous production of electricity without batteries or dynamos, of
+light without combustion or incandescence, and for an unfailing supply
+of mechanical energy for all the needs of industry.
+
+Yes, all these wonders have been wrought by the accumulator and the
+transformer. And can we not to them also trace, indirectly, this latest
+wonder of all, the great "Earth Chronicle" building in 253d Avenue,
+which was dedicated the other day? If George Washington Smith, the
+founder of the Manhattan "Chronicle," should come back to life to-day,
+what would he think were he to be told that this palace of marble and
+gold belongs to his remote descendant, Fritz Napoleon Smith, who, after
+thirty generations have come and gone, is owner of the same newspaper
+which his ancestor established!
+
+For George Washington Smith's newspaper has lived generation after
+generation, now passing out of the family, anon coming back to it. When,
+200 years ago, the political center of the United States was transferred
+from Washington to Centropolis, the newspaper followed the government
+and assumed the name of Earth Chronicle. Unfortunately, it was unable to
+maintain itself at the high level of its name. Pressed on all sides by
+rival journals of a more modern type, it was continually in danger of
+collapse. Twenty years ago its subscription list contained but a few
+hundred thousand names, and then Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith bought it for
+a mere trifle, and originated telephonic journalism.
+
+Every one is familiar with Fritz Napoleon Smith's system--a system made
+possible by the enormous development of telephony during the last
+hundred years. Instead of being printed, the Earth Chronicle is every
+morning spoken to subscribers, who, in interesting conversations with
+reporters, statesmen, and scientists, learn the news of the day.
+Furthermore, each subscriber owns a phonograph, and to this instrument
+he leaves the task of gathering the news whenever he happens not to be
+in a mood to listen directly himself. As for purchasers of single
+copies, they can at a very trifling cost learn all that is in the paper
+of the day at any of the innumerable phonographs set up nearly
+everywhere.
+
+Fritz Napoleon Smith's innovation galvanized the old newspaper. In the
+course of a few years the number of subscribers grew to be 85,000,000,
+and Smith's wealth went on growing, till now it reaches the almost
+unimaginable figure of $10,000,000,000. This lucky hit has enabled him
+to erect his new building, a vast edifice with four _façades_, each 3,250
+feet in length, over which proudly floats the hundred-starred flag of
+the Union. Thanks to the same lucky hit, he is to-day king of
+newspaperdom; indeed, he would be king of all the Americans, too, if
+Americans could ever accept a king. You do not believe it? Well, then,
+look at the plenipotentiaries of all nations and our own ministers
+themselves crowding about his door, entreating his counsels, begging for
+his approbation, imploring the aid of his all-powerful organ. Reckon up
+the number of scientists and artists that he supports, of inventors that
+he has under his pay.
+
+Yes, a king is he. And in truth his is a royalty full of burdens. His
+labors are incessant, and there is no doubt at all that in earlier times
+any man would have succumbed under the overpowering stress of the toil
+which Mr. Smith has to perform. Very fortunately for him, thanks to the
+progress of hygiene, which, abating all the old sources of
+unhealthfulness, has lifted the mean of human life from 37 up to 52
+years, men have stronger constitutions now than heretofore. The
+discovery of nutritive air is still in the future, but in the meantime
+men today consume food that is compounded and prepared according to
+scientific principles, and they breathe an atmosphere freed from the
+micro-organisms that formerly used to swarm in it; hence they live
+longer than their forefathers and know nothing of the innumerable
+diseases of olden times.
+
+Nevertheless, and notwithstanding these considerations, Fritz Napoleon
+Smith's mode of life may well astonish one. His iron constitution is
+taxed to the utmost by the heavy strain that is put upon it. Vain the
+attempt to estimate the amount of labor he undergoes; an example alone
+can give an idea of it. Let us then go about with him for one day as he
+attends to his multifarious concernments. What day? That matters little;
+it is the same every day. Let us then take at random September 25th of
+this present year 2889.
+
+This morning Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith awoke in very bad humor. His wife
+having left for France eight days ago, he was feeling disconsolate.
+Incredible though it seems, in all the ten years since their marriage,
+this is the first time that Mrs. Edith Smith, the professional beauty,
+has been so long absent from home; two or three days usually suffice for
+her frequent trips to Europe. The first thing that Mr. Smith does is to
+connect his phonotelephote, the wires of which communicate with his
+Paris mansion. The telephote! Here is another of the great triumphs of
+science in our time. The transmission of speech is an old story; the
+transmission of images by means of sensitive mirrors connected by wires
+is a thing but of yesterday. A valuable invention indeed, and Mr. Smith
+this morning was not niggard of blessings for the inventor, when by its
+aid he was able distinctly to see his wife notwithstanding the distance
+that separated him from her. Mrs. Smith, weary after the ball or the
+visit to the theater the preceding night, is still abed, though it is
+near noontide at Paris. She is asleep, her head sunk in the lace-covered
+pillows. What? She stirs? Her lips move. She is dreaming perhaps? Yes,
+dreaming. She is talking, pronouncing a name--his name--Fritz! The
+delightful vision gave a happier turn to Mr. Smith's thoughts. And now,
+at the call of imperative duty, light-hearted he springs from his bed
+and enters his mechanical dresser.
+
+Two minutes later the machine deposited him all dressed at the threshold
+of his office. The round of journalistic work was now begun. First he
+enters the hall of the novel-writers, a vast apartment crowned with an
+enormous transparent cupola. In one corner is a telephone, through which
+a hundred Earth Chronicle _littérateurs_ in turn recount to the public
+in daily installments a hundred novels. Addressing one of these authors
+who was waiting his turn, "Capital! Capital! my dear fellow," said he,
+"your last story. The scene where the village maid discusses interesting
+philosophical problems with her lover shows your very acute power of
+observation. Never have the ways of country folk been better portrayed.
+Keep on, my dear Archibald, keep on! Since yesterday, thanks to you,
+there is a gain of 5000 subscribers."
+
+"Mr. John Last," he began again, turning to a new arrival, "I am not so
+well pleased with your work. Your story is not a picture of life; it
+lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on
+to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing or
+that from this or that motive, which you assign without ever a thought
+of dissecting their mental and moral natures. Our feelings, you must
+remember, are far more complex than all that. In real life every act is
+the resultant of a hundred thoughts that come and go, and these you must
+study, each by itself, if you would create a living character. 'But,'
+you will say, 'in order to note these fleeting thoughts one must know
+them, must be able to follow them in their capricious meanderings.' Why,
+any child can do that, as you know. You have simply to make use of
+hypnotism, electrical or human, which gives one a two-fold being,
+setting free the witness-personality so that it may see, understand, and
+remember the reasons which determine the personality that acts. Just
+study yourself as you live from day to day, my dear Last. Imitate your
+associate whom I was complimenting a moment ago. Let yourself be
+hypnotized. What's that? You have tried it already? Not sufficiently,
+then, not sufficiently!"
+
+Mr. Smith continues his round and enters the reporters' hall. Here 1500
+reporters, in their respective places, facing an equal number of
+telephones, are communicating to the subscribers the news of the world
+as gathered during the night. The organization of this matchless service
+has often been described. Besides his telephone, each reporter, as the
+reader is aware, has in front of him a set of commutators, which enable
+him to communicate with any desired telephotic line. Thus the
+subscribers not only hear the news but see the occurrences. When an
+incident is described that is already past, photographs of its main
+features are transmitted with the narrative. And there is no confusion
+withal. The reporters' items, just like the different stories and all
+the other component parts of the journal, are classified automatically
+according to an ingenious system, and reach the hearer in due
+succession. Furthermore, the hearers are free to listen only to what
+specially concerns them. They may at pleasure give attention to one
+editor and refuse it to another.
+
+Mr. Smith next addresses one of the ten reporters in the astronomical
+department--a department still in the embryonic stage, but which will
+yet play an important part in journalism.
+
+"Well, Cash, what's the news?"
+
+"We have phototelegrams from Mercury, Venus, and Mars."
+
+"Are those from Mars of any interest?"
+
+"Yes, indeed. There is a revolution in the Central Empire."
+
+"And what of Jupiter?" asked Mr. Smith.
+
+"Nothing as yet. We cannot quite understand their signals. Perhaps ours
+do not reach them."
+
+"That's bad," exclaimed Mr. Smith, as he hurried away, not in the best
+of humor, toward the hall of the scientific editors. With their heads bent down over their electric computers, thirty
+scientific men were absorbed in transcendental calculations. The coming
+of Mr. Smith was like the falling of a bomb among them.
+
+"Well, gentlemen, what is this I hear? No answer from Jupiter? Is it
+always to be thus? Come, Cooley, you have been at work now twenty years
+on this problem, and yet--"
+
+"True enough," replied the man addressed. "Our science of optics is
+still very defective, and through our mile-and-three-quarter telescopes--"
+
+"Listen to that, Peer," broke in Mr. Smith, turning to a second
+scientist. "Optical science defective! Optical science is your
+specialty. But," he continued, again addressing William Cooley, "failing
+with Jupiter, are we getting any results from the moon?"
+
+"The case is no better there."
+
+"This time you do not lay the blame on the science of optics. The moon
+is immeasurably less distant than Mars, yet with Mars our communication
+is fully established. I presume you will not say that you lack
+telescopes?"
+
+"Telescopes? O no, the trouble here is about--inhabitants!"
+
+"That's it," added Peer.
+
+"So, then, the moon is positively uninhabited?" asked Mr. Smith.
+
+"At least," answered Cooley, "on the face which she presents to us. As
+for the opposite side, who knows?"
+
+"Ah, the opposite side! You think, then," remarked Mr. Smith, musingly,
+"that if one could but--"
+
+"Could what?"
+
+"Why, turn the moon about-face."
+
+"Ah, there's something in that," cried the two men at once. And indeed,
+so confident was their air, they seemed to have no doubt as to the
+possibility of success in such an undertaking.
+
+"Meanwhile," asked Mr. Smith, after a moment's silence, "have you no
+news of interest to-day?"
+
+"Indeed we have," answered Cooley. "The elements of Olympus are
+definitively settled. That great planet gravitates beyond Neptune at the
+mean distance of 11,400,799,642 miles from the sun, and to traverse its
+vast orbit takes 1311 years, 294 days, 12 hours, 43 minutes, 9 seconds."
+
+"Why didn't you tell me that sooner?" cried Mr. Smith. "Now inform the
+reporters of this straightway. You know how eager is the curiosity of
+the public with regard to these astronomical questions. That news must
+go into to-day's issue."
+
+Then, the two men bowing to him, Mr. Smith passed into the next hall, an
+enormous gallery upward of 3200 feet in length, devoted to atmospheric
+advertising. Every one has noticed those enormous advertisements
+reflected from the clouds, so large that they may be seen by the
+populations of whole cities or even of entire countries. This, too, is
+one of Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith's ideas, and in the Earth Chronicle
+building a thousand projectors are constantly engaged in displaying upon
+the clouds these mammoth advertisements.
+
+When Mr. Smith to-day entered the sky-advertising department, he found
+the operators sitting with folded arms at their motionless projectors,
+and inquired as to the cause of their inaction. In response, the man
+addressed simply pointed to the sky, which was of a pure blue. "Yes,"
+muttered Mr. Smith, "a cloudless sky! That's too bad, but what's to be
+done? Shall we produce rain? That we might do, but is it of any use?
+What we need is clouds, not rain. Go," said he, addressing the head
+engineer, "go see Mr. Samuel Mark, of the meteorological division of the
+scientific department, and tell him for me to go to work in earnest on
+the question of artificial clouds. It will never do for us to be always
+thus at the mercy of cloudless skies!"
+
+Mr. Smith's daily tour through the several departments of his newspaper
+is now finished. Next, from the advertisement hall he passes to the
+reception chamber, where the ambassadors accredited to the American
+government are awaiting him, desirous of having a word of counsel or
+advice from the all-powerful editor. A discussion was going on when he
+entered. "Your Excellency will pardon me," the French Ambassador was
+saying to the Russian, "but I see nothing in the map of Europe that
+requires change. 'The North for the Slavs?' Why, yes, of course; but the
+South for the Latins. Our common frontier, the Rhine, it seems to me,
+serves very well. Besides, my government, as you must know, will firmly
+oppose every movement, not only against Paris, our capital, or our two
+great prefectures, Rome and Madrid, but also against the kingdom of
+Jerusalem, the dominion of Saint Peter, of which France means to be the
+trusty defender."
+
+"Well said!" exclaimed Mr. Smith. "How is it," he asked, turning to the
+Russian ambassador, "that you Russians are not content with your vast
+empire, the most extensive in the world, stretching from the banks of
+the Rhine to the Celestial Mountains and the Kara-Korum, whose shores
+are washed by the Frozen Ocean, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the
+Indian Ocean? Then, what is the use of threats? Is war possible in view
+of modern inventions--asphyxiating shells capable of being projected a
+distance of 60 miles, an electric spark of 90 miles, that can at one
+stroke annihilate a battalion; to say nothing of the plague, the
+cholera, the yellow fever, that the belligerents might spread among
+their antagonists mutually, and which would in a few days destroy the
+greatest armies?"
+
+"True," answered the Russian; "but can we do all that we wish? As for us
+Russians, pressed on our eastern frontier by the Chinese, we must at any
+cost put forth our strength for an effort toward the west."
+
+"O, is that all? In that case," said Mr. Smith, "the thing can be
+arranged. I will speak to the Secretary of State about it. The attention
+of the Chinese government shall be called to the matter. This is not the
+first time that the Chinese have bothered us."
+
+"Under these conditions, of course--" And the Russian ambassador
+declared himself satisfied.
+
+"Ah, Sir John, what can I do for you?" asked Mr. Smith as he turned to
+the representative of the people of Great Britain, who till now had
+remained silent.
+
+"A great deal," was the reply. "If the Earth Chronicle would but open a
+campaign on our behalf--"
+
+"And for what object?"
+
+"Simply for the annulment of the Act of Congress annexing to the United
+States the British islands."
+
+Though, by a just turn-about of things here below, Great Britain has
+become a colony of the United States, the English are not yet reconciled
+to the situation. At regular intervals they are ever addressing to the
+American government vain complaints.
+
+"A campaign against the annexation that has been an accomplished fact
+for 150 years!" exclaimed Mr. Smith. "How can your people suppose that
+I would do anything so unpatriotic?"
+
+"We at home think that your people must now be sated. The Monroe
+doctrine is fully applied; the whole of America belongs to the
+Americans. What more do you want? Besides, we will pay for what we ask."
+
+"Indeed!" answered Mr. Smith, without manifesting the slightest
+irritation. "Well, you English will ever be the same. No, no, Sir John,
+do not count on me for help. Give up our fairest province, Britain? Why
+not ask France generously to renounce possession of Africa, that
+magnificent colony the complete conquest of which cost her the labor of
+800 years? You will be well received!"
+
+"You decline! All is over then!" murmured the British agent sadly. "The
+United Kingdom falls to the share of the Americans; the Indies to that
+of--"
+
+"The Russians," said Mr. Smith, completing the sentence.
+
+"Australia--"
+
+"Has an independent government."
+
+"Then nothing at all remains for us!" sighed Sir John, downcast.
+
+"Nothing?" asked Mr. Smith, laughing. "Well, now, there's Gibraltar!"
+
+With this sally the audience ended. The clock was striking twelve, the
+hour of breakfast. Mr. Smith returns to his chamber. Where the bed stood
+in the morning a table all spread comes up through the floor. For Mr.
+Smith, being above all a practical man, has reduced the problem of
+existence to its simplest terms. For him, instead of the endless suites
+of apartments of the olden time, one room fitted with ingenious
+mechanical contrivances is enough. Here he sleeps, takes his meals, in
+short, lives.
+
+He seats himself. In the mirror of the phonotelephote is seen the same
+chamber at Paris which appeared in it this morning. A table furnished
+forth is likewise in readiness here, for notwithstanding the difference
+of hours, Mr. Smith and his wife have arranged to take their meals
+simultaneously. It is delightful thus to take breakfast _tête-à-tête_
+with one who is 3000 miles or so away. Just now, Mrs. Smith's chamber
+has no occupant.
+
+"She is late! Woman's punctuality! Progress everywhere except there!"
+muttered Mr. Smith as he turned the tap for the first dish. For like all
+wealthy folk in our day, Mr. Smith has done away with the domestic
+kitchen and is a subscriber to the Grand Alimentation Company, which
+sends through a great network of tubes to subscribers' residences all
+sorts of dishes, as a varied assortment is always in readiness. A
+subscription costs money, to be sure, but the _cuisine_ is of the best,
+and the system has this advantage, that it does away with the pestering
+race of the _cordons-bleus_. Mr. Smith received and ate, all alone, the
+_hors-d'oeuvre_, _entrées_, _rôti_, and _legumes_ that constituted the
+repast. He was just finishing the dessert when Mrs. Smith appeared in
+the mirror of the telephote.
+
+"Why, where have you been?" asked Mr. Smith through the telephone.
+
+"What! You are already at the dessert? Then I am late," she exclaimed,
+with a winsome _naïveté_. "Where have I been, you ask? Why, at my
+dress-maker's. The hats are just lovely this season! I suppose I forgot
+to note the time, and so am a little late."
+
+"Yes, a little," growled Mr. Smith; "so little that I have already
+quite finished breakfast. Excuse me if I leave you now, but I must be
+going."
+
+"O certainly, my dear; good-by till evening."
+
+Smith stepped into his air-coach, which was in waiting for him at a
+window. "Where do you wish to go, sir?" inquired the coachman.
+
+"Let me see; I have three hours," Mr. Smith mused. "Jack, take me to my
+accumulator works at Niagara."
+
+For Mr. Smith has obtained a lease of the great falls of Niagara. For
+ages the energy developed by the falls went unutilized. Smith, applying
+Jackson's invention, now collects this energy, and lets or sells it. His
+visit to the works took more time than he had anticipated. It was four
+o'clock when he returned home, just in time for the daily audience which
+he grants to callers.
+
+One readily understands how a man situated as Smith is must be beset
+with requests of all kinds. Now it is an inventor needing capital; again
+it is some visionary who comes to advocate a brilliant scheme which must
+surely yield millions of profit. A choice has to be made between these
+projects, rejecting the worthless, examining the questionable ones,
+accepting the meritorious. To this work Mr. Smith devotes every day two
+full hours.
+
+The callers were fewer to-day than usual--only twelve of them. Of these,
+eight had only impracticable schemes to propose. In fact, one of them
+wanted to revive painting, an art fallen into desuetude owing to the
+progress made in color-photography. Another, a physician, boasted that
+he had discovered a cure for nasal catarrh! These impracticables were
+dismissed in short order. Of the four projects favorably received, the
+first was that of a young man whose broad forehead betokened his
+intellectual power.
+
+"Sir, I am a chemist," he began, "and as such I come to you."
+
+"Well!"
+
+"Once the elementary bodies," said the young chemist, "were held to be
+sixty-two in number; a hundred years ago they were reduced to ten; now
+only three remain irresolvable, as you are aware."
+
+"Yes, yes."
+
+"Well, sir, these also I will show to be composite. In a few months, a
+few weeks, I shall have succeeded in solving the problem. Indeed, it may
+take only a few days."
+
+"And then?"
+
+"Then, sir, I shall simply have determined the absolute. All I want is
+money enough to carry my research to a successful issue."
+
+"Very well," said Mr. Smith. "And what will be the practical outcome of
+your discovery?"
+
+"The practical outcome? Why, that we shall be able to produce easily all
+bodies whatever--stone, wood, metal, fibers--"
+
+"And flesh and blood?" queried Mr. Smith, interrupting him. "Do you
+pretend that you expect to manufacture a human being out and out?"
+
+"Why not?"
+
+Mr. Smith advanced $100,000 to the young chemist, and engaged his
+services for the Earth Chronicle laboratory.
+
+The second of the four successful applicants, starting from experiments
+made so long ago as the nineteenth century and again and again repeated,
+had conceived the idea of removing an entire city all at once from one
+place to another. His special project had to do with the city of
+Granton, situated, as everybody knows, some fifteen miles inland. He
+proposes to transport the city on rails and to change it into a
+watering-place. The profit, of course, would be enormous. Mr. Smith,
+captivated by the scheme, bought a half-interest in it.
+
+"As you are aware, sir," began applicant No. 3, "by the aid of our solar
+and terrestrial accumulators and transformers, we are able to make all
+the seasons the same. I propose to do something better still. Transform
+into heat a portion of the surplus energy at our disposal; send this
+heat to the poles; then the polar regions, relieved of their snow-cap,
+will become a vast territory available for man's use. What think you of
+the scheme?"
+
+"Leave your plans with me, and come back in a week. I will have them
+examined in the meantime."
+
+Finally, the fourth announced the early solution of a weighty scientific
+problem. Every one will remember the bold experiment made a hundred
+years ago by Dr. Nathaniel Faithburn. The doctor, being a firm believer
+in human hibernation--in other words, in the possibility of our
+suspending our vital functions and of calling them into action again
+after a time--resolved to subject the theory to a practical test. To
+this end, having first made his last will and pointed out the proper
+method of awakening him; having also directed that his sleep was to
+continue a hundred years to a day from the date of his apparent death,
+he unhesitatingly put the theory to the proof in his own person. Reduced to the condition of a mummy, Dr. Faithburn was coffined and laid
+in a tomb. Time went on. September 25th, 2889, being the day set for his
+resurrection, it was proposed to Mr. Smith that he should permit the
+second part of the experiment to be performed at his residence this
+evening.
+
+"Agreed. Be here at ten o'clock," answered Mr. Smith; and with that the
+day's audience was closed.
+
+Left to himself, feeling tired, he lay down on an extension chair. Then,
+touching a knob, he established communication with the Central Concert
+Hall, whence our greatest _maestros_ send out to subscribers their
+delightful successions of accords determined by recondite algebraic
+formulas. Night was approaching. Entranced by the harmony, forgetful of
+the hour, Smith did not notice that it was growing dark. It was quite
+dark when he was aroused by the sound of a door opening. "Who is there?"
+he asked, touching a commutator.
+
+Suddenly, in consequence of the vibrations produced, the air became
+luminous.
+
+"Ah! you, Doctor?"
+
+"Yes," was the reply. "How are you?"
+
+"I am feeling well."
+
+"Good! Let me see your tongue. All right! Your pulse. Regular! And your
+appetite?"
+
+"Only passably good."
+
+"Yes, the stomach. There's the rub. You are over-worked. If your stomach
+is out of repair, it must be mended. That requires study. We must think
+about it."
+
+"In the meantime," said Mr. Smith, "you will dine with me."
+
+As in the morning, the table rose out of the floor. Again, as in the
+morning, the _potage_, _rôti_, _ragoûts_, and _legumes_ were supplied
+through the food-pipes. Toward the close of the meal, phonotelephotic
+communication was made with Paris. Smith saw his wife, seated alone at
+the dinner-table, looking anything but pleased at her loneliness.
+
+"Pardon me, my dear, for having left you alone," he said through the
+telephone. "I was with Dr. Wilkins."
+
+"Ah, the good doctor!" remarked Mrs. Smith, her countenance lighting up.
+
+"Yes. But, pray, when are you coming home?"
+
+"This evening."
+
+"Very well. Do you come by tube or by air-train?"
+
+"Oh, by tube."
+
+"Yes; and at what hour will you arrive?"
+
+"About eleven, I suppose."
+
+"Eleven by Centropolis time, you mean?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Good-by, then, for a little while," said Mr. Smith as he severed
+communication with Paris.
+
+Dinner over, Dr. Wilkins wished to depart. "I shall expect you at ten,"
+said Mr Smith. "To-day, it seems, is the day for the return to life of
+the famous Dr. Faithburn. You did not think of it, I suppose. The
+awakening is to take place here in my house. You must come and see. I
+shall depend on your being here."
+
+"I will come back," answered Dr. Wilkins.
+
+Left alone, Mr. Smith busied himself with examining his accounts--a task
+of vast magnitude, having to do with transactions which involve a daily
+expenditure of upward of $800,000. Fortunately, indeed, the stupendous
+progress of mechanic art in modern times makes it comparatively easy.
+Thanks to the Piano Electro-Reckoner, the most complex calculations can
+be made in a few seconds. In two hours Mr. Smith completed his task.
+Just in time. Scarcely had he turned over the last page when Dr. Wilkins
+arrived. After him came the body of Dr. Faithburn, escorted by a
+numerous company of men of science. They commenced work at once. The
+casket being laid down in the middle of the room, the telephote was got
+in readiness. The outer world, already notified, was anxiously
+expectant, for the whole world could be eye-witnesses of the
+performance, a reporter meanwhile, like the chorus in the ancient drama,
+explaining it all _viva voce_ through the telephone.
+
+"They are opening the casket," he explained. "Now they are taking
+Faithburn out of it--a veritable mummy, yellow, hard, and dry. Strike
+the body and it resounds like a block of wood. They are now applying
+heat; now electricity. No result. These experiments are suspended for a
+moment while Dr. Wilkins makes an examination of the body. Dr. Wilkins,
+rising, declares the man to be dead. 'Dead!' exclaims every one present.
+'Yes,' answers Dr. Wilkins, 'dead!' 'And how long has he been dead?' Dr.
+Wilkins makes another examination. 'A hundred years,' he replies."
+
+The case stood just as the reporter said. Faithburn was dead, quite
+certainly dead! "Here is a method that needs improvement," remarked Mr.
+Smith to Dr. Wilkins, as the scientific committee on hibernation bore
+the casket out. "So much for that experiment. But if poor Faithburn is
+dead, at least he is sleeping," he continued. "I wish I could get some
+sleep. I am tired out, Doctor, quite tired out! Do you not think that a
+bath would refresh me?"
+
+"Certainly. But you must wrap yourself up well before you go out into
+the hall-way. You must not expose yourself to cold."
+
+"Hall-way? Why, Doctor, as you well know, everything is done by
+machinery here. It is not for me to go to the bath; the bath will come
+to me. Just look!" and he pressed a button. After a few seconds a faint
+rumbling was heard, which grew louder and louder. Suddenly the door
+opened, and the tub appeared.
+
+Such, for this year of grace 2889, is the history of one day in the life
+of the editor of the Earth Chronicle. And the history of that one day
+is the history of 365 days every year, except leap-years, and then of
+366 days--for as yet no means has been found of increasing the length of
+the terrestrial year.
+
+Jules Verne.
+
+
+
+
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