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Allan watched the e, sink through the trees, and finally fade into the gathering gloom

"The Great Lakes Express," said he "In the old days we thought seventystupendous Noo hundred ishas been accoreater time still to be--we can't hope to see it

"But we can catch a glimpse of what it shall be, here and there We must be content to have built foundations On them those who shall cohtier world than any we have ever dreaain he relapsed into silence; but his are-old yet ever-new draled with the eternal turiant dynahts began to glea farht opened one by one, each one a hoain

"More than a hundred thousand of us already!" he exulted "Over a tenth of a rowth is faster, ever faster, in swift progressions A hundred thousand English-speaking people, Beta; a civilization already, even in a material sense, superior to the old one that ept away; in a spiritual, moral sense, how vastly far ahead!

"A hundred thousand! So, it will be a million; then two, five, twenty, a hundred, with no racial discords, no mutual antipathies, no barriers of name or blood; but for the first tiht, living right, striving toward a goal which even we cannot foresee!

"Not only shall this land be filled, but Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands of the Seven Seas shall know the hand of nty, frohtened; she felt his heart beat strong with deep e to arise from their ashes of a thousand oblivious years Already a score of thriving colonies have scattered from the capital, all yet bound to it with monorail cables, with electric wires and with the ether-borne ic of the wireless

"Already our boy, our son--can you i?--elected President on our last Council Day, guides a free people--a people self-reliant and strong, energetic, capable, dominant