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The contents of the following pages are taken from a diary,supposed to be written in 1931, by a gentleman of leisure and good opportunities forobservation.

Should any reader be inclined to hold the editor or author responsiblefor what is thus recorded, be it remembered that very little isexpressed concerning what ought to be; the chief purpose being to showrather what will probably occur.

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1931:

A GLANCE AT THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY.

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January 1, 1931.

I begin to-day to jot down occasional notes of whatever interests memost, in private or public affairs.

Much sympathy is just now felt everywhere for the ex-queen of England inher enforced retirement. She would have been perfectly safe in returningto England; and she will, probably, before long, again take up herresidence at Osborne or Balmoral; but the extreme unpopularity of theex-king makes his return at least undesirable.

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During our present, 71st Congress, meeting at St. Louis, a motion willbe made by a member from Texas for the admission of Mexico as a State.When this is effected, Mexico will be the fifty-second State of ourUnion. Some Senators are understood to doubt the advantage to thecountry, at the present time, of this admission, on account of theconstitutionally unsettled character of the population. SinceProtestantism has so generally prevailed there, however, Mexico is saidto have greatly improved. The acceptance of the whole of CentralAmerica, in the form of three Territories, must soon follow. For thisalso, but little can be urged, except the now very old argument of"manifest destiny." Commercial men say that it is time for thisextension to be made, on account of the growing importance ofinteroceanic navigation, by the three routes, of Panama, Nicaragua, andTehuantepec. Our large trade with Japan and China requires, besides thesteamers running between San Francisco, Yokohama, and Hong Kong everytwo weeks, more frequent and quick water transit from Philadelphia, NewYork,

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