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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: MONDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1393.
uU liMt jamHiUTION.
NE W SERIES OF SERMONS BY REV.
' THOMAS DIXON, JR.
Xbternanonai societies of workingmen
aro fast becoming a power in tho world.
Internationalism has, in fact, come to
Stay. It is timo to spell it with a capi
tal I. Tho serf of Russia, cold mid iso-
plKUM** the Sl£n* of the Time, Thet
indicate Greet Social. Economic, rolltl-
, 1 anil Ecclealaatlcal Cliancca—Uc.Llcss
jlissce
Sitr TORS, Oct. 1.—Rev. Thomas
ton Jr., begins a new series of morn-
.» sermons in Association hall. Tho
biect of tho series ho calls "Tho
Sg Revolution." In it ho will dis-
issthe sign® of tho times that Mi
lk great social, economic, political and
ulesiastical changes. Tho sermon this
erning was a general introdnetion to
iStudy, which will run through sev-
j weeks. The subject of this intro-
rfory discourse delivered today wns
g s Restlesa Masses.” He declares
st democracy in its broadest and truest
is manifestly tho destiny of tho
and that thore is today developing
eijrlil movement of the masses that
sges a new aocial reformation. Tho
.chosen was from Marie xii, 87, “And
tommon people hoard him gladly.”
IIIE COMMON PEOPLE.
Here is no moro pregnant sentence
lltin the lids of tho Now Testament
i this text ' Tho common poople—
great multitude*—heard him gladly,
n we may rest assured the high, rul-
conservative classes did not hear him
hy. We are not surprised that they
lined him between two thieves as a
__ on felon. This profound sympathy
fo the great under masses is in reality
j tey to tho mystery of tho incarnation.
He was tho carpenter’s son.
Ho lived tho life of a common work-
Ho chose his fellows_from the
uksof tne iowiy masses, mo great
ed the rich were not his disciples. Qis
postles were from tho ranks of tho com-
* people. There could hnvo been no
icddcatabontthe birth of tho Saviour of
nmanity. It was not by chance that
was bom of humble parents in a man-
It was the fulfillment of prophecy,
was the fulfillment of tho divine plan
liheages. Only thus could tho world
the whole world—the real world-
reached and saved. Only thus could
truly say. I am tho Son of Man! Be
ing thus among the simple and ig-
Int and poor alavo masses of a sin
ssed i.ml ain burdened earth, he placed
h leaven that should at last leaven tho
I ile lump of humanity,
lad since Christ tho trend of tho ages
ibeen slowly but surely toward the
gifting, ennobling and saving of tho
■monlifc.
Vital Christianity has been tho only
■■ through the centuries of the
ian era that stood between the
and tho strong and steadfastly dc-
Itbat might is not right, and that
mines, shall rulo strength at last.
the boorce or all power.
The source of all power is tho very last
&ns; when all fictions have been ex-
_ loJM,is found in tho under millions
who bar tho world's burden, intcllect-
iab spiritual, moral, physical. In this
bus will Ira fonnd tho truo source of
iD power, intellectual, spiritual, moral,
physical. As men and fatniliea scramble
at from among the masses and array
heoielres with clique and class, they de
ments and their offspring perish—
me in tho first generation, others in the
■and.
Tho seat of ultimate imperialism has
iwsyshcen in tho masses. They have
imply never yet become oonscions of
be fact. They nro the Samsons, hut
hey are asleep. As thoy wako to tho
•otucionsnets of the power that inheres
>7 nature In them, they assnrno that
power and never relax it.
V/e behold thus tho ever growing,
lever halting expansion of a world do-
“oency. It is tho destiny of tho race.
Then is no power on the earth, nnder
he earth or above tho earth that can de-
mt its final triumph. Bach day in
ime'i calendar witnesses somo victory,
eaevtr small, gained in this world
wvement. An inch of soil once gained
■never lost.
* NEW CHAPTER IN III3TOBY.
P(era la a presentiment, n feeling—
Li it what yon may—that pervades tho
1T 'li*ed world, that wo are nbout enter-
Jf upon s now chapter in tho history of
World. So strong each day becomes
“J feeling that to homo it means fear
ui trembling, to others hope and in-
In every period of the world’s
^’■“ty immediately preceding great
Mfl fes,thi» prophetic spirit has filled the
***** of men and found utterance. At
time has ita unce bf*fn ho clear
®jio nearly universal among nations
Peoples and cla/wjri of direr* inter*
***• It Is lmmanity'fl hour of exultant
It is are’s hour nf spirit-
■*1 uplifting when society is being nsh-
,r w into a higher and diviner life.
Toths mind of tho pessimist tho airis
“**7 with the threat of coming revo-
»Uon by violence. To the man of hoiw
aero comes tho vision of tears, but tii
cars
lated piaid his far northern snows, has
his friends and sympathizers in the na
tions where flowers always bloom and
tho child is bom and dies who nevor saw
tho snow. A striko in London echoes
round tho civilized world. Tho riots in
Belgium aro backed by tho moral senti
ment of countless millions who could
not locato Belgium on the map of tho
world. Whether the naked Bavago that
in the heart of darkest Africa crossed the
track of Stanloy was wronged becomes
a matter of international inquiry and
debate.
There is growing in tho world each
day a profonnder regard for man as
man. Class trappings and traditions
more and moro fado before tho one es
sential of inherent manhood. Poetry,
song and story no longer fawn at tho
feet of prido and power. They sing the
freo songs and tell tho inspiring dreams
of the brotherhood of man.
It is said that Robert Browningon ono
occasion was left by his son, tho artist,
to do tho honors of the. honse at an ex
hibition of his paintings. A woman en
tered unannounced and unattended.
Browning greeted her with tho samo
cordiality ho had exhibited to all. In her
surprise tho woman said, ‘‘Please, sir, I
am only the cook, but Mr. Barrett asked
mo to comoand seo the pictures’.” With
out a moment’s hesitation and with gen
uine courtesy he offered her his arm and
ahowed her tho treasures of tho room
with tho samo consideration ho had dis
played to others. It ia not an exceptional
illustration. Itia part of the growing
incarnation of a new world spirit. Ring
out tho old; ringin thenow! Howmnch
such a fact means to tho future of hu
man society tho historian and student of
sociology well knows.
MILITARISM*
Second—Tho rebellion against mili
tarism nnd war among tho masses of
mankind is one of tho most significant
facts of tho closing years of this century.
Tho people have at last began to see
that it is utter insanity that they should
butcher one another to farther tho am
bitions of kings and princes and rulers.
We aro beginning to soe that tho only
enemy they have is the common enemy
of man—hunger and cold, suffering.
Tho great armies of Europe aro honey
combed with these ideas. How far
machine discipline has crushed tho
human in thero armies themselves re
mains to be seen.
In cose of a gonoral European war, it
is now extremely doubtful if tho great
maises of tho working world could ho
induced to engage in it or support a gov
ernmental army. Germany has but re
cently rejected the pet army bill of her
government, and it required all tho re
sources of tho Imperialists to forco a
meager majority for the measure in the
new assembly.
At tho recent International congress of
socialists ono of tho principal questions
discussed officially by tho congress was
whether in tho event of a war all work
ingmen should go on n general strike
and refuso to work until tho butchery
ceased.
Such a movement on tho part of the
masses would surely striko the death
blow to military power. The masses are
learning at last tho truth about war.
When thoy know it fully, tho era of uni
versal peace is come.
According to Edv.-ard Atkinson, tho
Boston statistician, tbs total cost of tho
war of tho rebellion lias been up to date
(1893) about 812,000,000,000. Tho entire
asscesed wealth of tho United States in
I860 was only $10,000,000,000, inclnding
the value of tho slaves.
It coats $7,000 to kill a man. From
the Crimean war down to that of 1670-1
the civilized nations of Europe and
America spent in destroying one another
$21,000,000,000. Tho wars of tho lost
100 yearabavoco6t$140,000,000,000, with
out counting tho sorrow, tho agony, tho
loss of men and other results.
WHEN BUTCHERY SHALL CEASE.
Whon this hatchery shall ccaso and
tho vast standing armies of tho world bo
tnrnod into armies of industry, who can
estimate tho speed nt which tho new
civilization will go forward?
Some timo ago the Emperor William
of Germany inada a little speech on tho
occasion of tho administering tho oath of
allegiance to the recruits of tho guard.
In this speech ho said:
Recruit*. you have before priest and altar
sworn fealty to me. You aro too young to un-
der-tand tho truo meaning of tho words In
which yoa have sworn, but bo diligent In fol-
lowing tho Instructions given you. You have,
iny children, sworn allegiance. That moan*
you have given your eervioes to tnc, body an l
soul. Yoa have only one enemy, ur.d that is
iny enemy. In tho present socialist agitation
I may order you, which God forbid, to shoot
down your relatives-your brother*, even your
parents— and you mutt obey without a murmur.
A generation ngo tho exhilarating prop
osition to shoot down one's relatives,
toolbars and parents at tho behest of
nmbitious fools was received and acted
a as a divino command. But today this
nun, wniun rcveais ir.e conaiuou or un
rest and uncertainty among the great
powers startling enough. Ho says:
While I would not have my readers »nslder
mo a pessimist or a bird of tod omen, 1 am
again compelled to say that the (dtxx&tlon of
European affairs la far from reassuring. Signs
of coming storms may bo seen on all side* of
the political horizon. There is not a single
country in Europe actually without Interior or
external turmoil. In Germany the .-it nation
is particularly lad. The con 11 lot between tho
crown and the people ia SMnnlng an ag
gravated form, and it can bo brought to an
end only by somo unconstitutional act cn the
port of the emperor, who wlahea an increase In
tho army, which tho people have refused to
sanction. Notv deputies, hostile to the imperial
plan, will be ole* ted,
Grave news corner from Austria. Thero Is
an internal criels resulting from constantly in
creasing ill feeling between the Cu>ch*. Mag
yars and Gormans. In England tho home rule
troubles are Increasing, not to mention certain
recent happenings in the royal family, on
which it were better not to dwell. France,
hardly out of tho Panama crisis, is to have
next September general elections which will
upset public life. Tho French statesmen also
havo to deal with several troublesome colonial
matters, including tho Siamese incident, which
may result seriously, not to mention many
complications with England.
Italy Is passing through a financial crisis,
and also haa a ministerial crisis. Since yester
day tho internal situation is not auspicious,
and her foreign rotations are weighted down
by military expenses.
8pain and Portugal have a financial crisis
which is leading them Buroly aud qulolcly to
bankruptcy. Belgium has not come to the end
of her constitutional crisis. Rwcdcn and Nor
way aro In open conflict that may result in
forcible dtvision.
The Servian coup d’etat and tho little king
havo brought no quiet.
Bulgaria la in tho throes of a longstanding
crisis, and thero exists tacit hostility between
tho people and General StnmboulofT.
Most o! these predictions as to elec
tions and their results havo fdneo been
verified, and many now developments
confirming thorn havo moro recently op-
peared. What tho result will bo when
this powder magazino is exploded by
somo royal fool throwing tho stub of his
SOCIALISM.
Third—Wo obstervo this world move-
dous development of socialism among
tho masses of the old world.
Socialism is everywhere in Europe tho
rising power. It is no longer n voiceless
mob to bo suppressed by club and bay
onet. It is a resistless uprising of tho
millions whoso representatives aro fast
crowding the parliamentary* assemblies
of every nation. In Germany, with her
broad and deep culture of the masses,
they lead tho way. In tho laat elections
their increaso was enormous. Other par
ties riso and fall with local events, but
tho Social Domocrats havo with each
election steadily and swiftly advanced.
Beginning 15 years ago with but a few
thousand votes, they polled at tho last
election about 2,000,000, in tho face of
tho combined opposition of tho govern
ment and all tho traditional conserva
tive forces of society.
Already tho socialists have captured
the great cities, almost without excep
tion. Esrlin is theirs by such a great
majority that if it wero an independent
community they conld reconstruct so
ciety in it at once. Munich, Hamburg,
Bremen, Lubeck, Leipzic, Glauchau,
Gotha, Dautzig, Nuremberg and Magde-
berg aro all socialist, with others to hoar
from. As the population of every coun
try in tho world is rapidly concentrating
in tho cities, tho party that gains con
trol of tho cities is tho party of tho fu-
turo.
The emperor may well look to his
guards. Tho hour of tho common poo-
plo surely draws nigh.
PLATFORM OF OERMAN SOCIALISTS.
Aro these socialists tho enemies of
man and society? This is tho platform
of tho German Social Democracy. Bead
for youreolf:
Universal suffrage, malo and female, diroct
election by secret ballot, ono citizen, ono voto
and biennial parliaments
The initiative and referendum.
Annual revision of taxed.
Local self Koveruinent aud the elootion of all
public officials by tho people.
Universal military trolulnic for national de
fense instead ot a standing army.
Parliamentary control of tho question of
peace and war.
The settlement of Internationa] disputes by
arbitration.
Free speech, free preen and free association.
Separation of church and state,
i .1-.r> atleudauce at secular national
freo schools and free education, freo books Aud
free dinners for pupils, as well aa£for dusorvlug
pupils at higher mentations.
Free justice, freo legal advice and an elective
judiciary.
The abolition of capital punishment, the
tabllshmcnt of criminal courts of appeal t
t ompenAation for person* uujustiy accused,
rested or condemned.
Fro*> medical aeoUt&nce for the sick and free
diA.poial of th<
Graduated income, property nnd succession
taxes.
The abolition of indirect taxes, duties and
class privileges.
National and international legislation for th«
protection of the working classes, and state in
surai.ee fur workmen, with workmen sharing
in its
An unbroken rkd of rest of at least 96
hours per week f<«r every working::
In England contractive socialism is
rapidly taking control of the govern
ment. A rcc c’;t London dispatch to tho
Boston Herald says:
i aro lidng warmly fos-
in county council. That
Bitted to the purchase and
in tho current revolution in political and
economic life m America.
Oiir traditional parties aro certainly
going to pieces with a rapidity that
must bring dismay to their most hopeful
leaders.
Tho new Peoplo’s Party nnder most
ad verso condition* polled in tho last
campaign 1,000,000 votes and have their
representatives in tho housoof representa
tive and senate nnd tho governor’s
chairs of many stater. Tho great finan
cial panic of this year lias destroyed the
unity of both the traditional parties, and
pack (lay it becomes moro and moro ap
parent that they must unito against tho
party representing tho now movement
among the masses if it is to bo held in
check oven temporarily.
A call ia now being circulated for a fed
eration of all the labor organizations in
ono great alliance for political purposes.
The bloodshed at Homestead was tho
prophecy of a new era in our political
social life. That much is acknowledged
now by the defeated party to havo been
tho power that overthrew tho last ad
ministration and set up a new. A new
generation of men havo como upon tho
sceno of action in America, and tho mero
assertion of tradition will not satisfy
them. All things aro being arraigned
for trial by this new court. General
Francis A. Walker, who is tho incarna
tion of the mathematics of tho old
regime, recently gave utteranco to this
pathetic wail:
A revolution is upon us. Tho bonds of trad!,
tion anil barriers of authority havo been swept
away. Everything once deemed settled in
economic theory la now audaciously chal
lenged.
Right you ore, general, and how aro
you going to help yourself? It is tho
sweep of tho age progrossl You con
easier push back tho stars than stop it.
CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN* SOCIALISM.
This mnramsmt ha; In It thousands C?
the best men of tho nation counted now
among the traditional bulwarks. Tho
Chri?ti®n ministr” is rapidly ~crccivir.~
the fact that this revolution is a religion
-—a normal development of tho doctrines
of Jesus Christ. Somo of our greatest
religious papers aro tho avowed chain
pions of constructive Christian social
ism.
Dr. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Plym
outh church, Eaid some timo ago:
The wealth of the nation Is the wealth of the
people— that Is, it springs fro.n tho people. It
therefore of right belongs to the people. In
dustrial democracy does not demand a division
of the wealth of tho nation among Its 60,000,000
population, hut industrial democracy docs
demand, with Laveleyo, “To each worker his
produce, his entire produce, and nothing but
his produce.” Organized lnjustlco would then
disappear from our industrial organization,
and with injustice would disappear dangerous
(dangerous because reasonable) discontent and
tho division Into the two classes of the very
rich and the vary poor.
A holy discontent has Beized tho masses
of tho world. Tho cry in many quarters
ia inarticulate. They aro yet in infancy.
TbsyTiavo no language but a cry. Yet
Uoci has heard it. And ho who can road
tho languago of a tear and interpret tho
message of an aching heart in all tongues
and beneath all skies has beard thoir
prayer. And ho will answer it
FIG CULTURE.
THE OLD RIFLE
’hat Did Good Borvico in Onr
Grandfather's Time. •
ARP TELLS ALL ABOUT “OLD BETSY”
IU Flint and Steel Lock-In
ents In Flrenjmft—Good Shot
with tho Old I’.lflea.
An Industry Which . Offers Manj
Inducements.
The Jennings, La„ Times says: Ha
any ono given serious consideration to
the Increased demand for figs by pre
servers pnd canners? and do they know
besides that the price per pound during
the past two years has ranged frvm
6 to 7 cents? A common blue water
bucket, such aa are sold in our gro
cery stores, whdn filled contain**
twenty pounds of fruit. Taking all
thes*? things Into consideration, dors
It n »*w ftrlkl the average person that
the cultivation of the fig for commer
clal'ptirpobc# couid b© made quite as
profitable In every way as that of the
orMge. peadi, or in ffcct any species
of fruit that will grow and nourish in
our Southern soils? The fig has no dl
ot»**—st least In Louiimna. There is
special of scab that has made Its ap
pearance within a few yearn past, but
it bat not spread and seems t > ha
done but little harm. In the vicinity of
New Orleans, however, the flat-h
borer, which Professor C. V. Itlley says
it possibly u large longlcorn, is partic
ularly destructive, but
seem# t\> havo done but little damage
in the country twenty or thirty miles
away. Figs are no easily grown from
cutting-, which Is the general meth
of propagation, thnt other way-< need J
f r»*r**Ive nr.y « '.".M-b-r.ii -m it :•!! \
Although In the vicinity of New Or-
lean** nnd further s nth th** young 1
tree* do not need any winter protec
tion. north of this point it Is found
neceroary to give them some >* rt of !
care during cold snap* until the wood
’ • • Pi”«* h .:•! e.i .ir 1 ri.- y may b<-
left to t'u’mM’lve* nnd they will H«nd , •*’.**7 V '
u terr,i*Tnture of 15 degrees above with- ' 1 ‘
out Injury. After the seco
hAV
Wo turned to dew to water tho proposal was received with a sullen
widens of a new heaven nnd a new
^7 Boss this feeling prophetic of |
Teat change mean any thing real, or is months.
u »%nentof tho — BAM
w tow1, which nud“ tho ears o!
than ono crowned head tingio for many
i I * “* u imagination, •—
«there anything apparent in our lifo the military organization:*. For the first
v anJ “*• R ft ****** in fact, timo in our Uft
merely the twr roenrring vision not a reprerent
redial and pessimistic tempera-
in all times?
In America workingmen refuse to join
Ct I t *‘nly there is one (act I
| timo in onr history oar national guard
body. Tho mac
aro not in it. Look to it It is a fi
pregnant zrith tremendous oonseqn
^•Mstory that has Immediately to do
• • «ticii of h... uil dee*itiv
i, , f* 0 ho gainsaid. It is n jiortcnt' ns
t la tho (stare of the world’s history,
it cenoeras tholtie movement o(
^•cticslly the wholo human race. It
| this:
iThimi,todays world movement e(
common people which indicat’-s 11. •
■K“ Bre,lt ” J ' chanc "
In tbs dawning conmou-ii' -(
»H nations o(n< .mm n life.
Jw solidarity of tbs race Iw tan
WHvntly a dream too liiuli (or the cf-
*«*«:•>comm u people. It has re-
through the ag« 4 but a dimly
rr^ 81 * article in our poetic cned.
y Is a (act that ii n, «- being iccamat-
«|Bth*daily U( #0 ( tho rto.»
“the world with ama;mg 1 . hty.
... International:: n.
i“wn° longer a ] .'.'s dream. It a
• that tha nnddr iuav* .«,? the rM
• ■ ’■ ■ ■■ niw.-ir.ito |,rn.-.:i
L,* philosophic • rit
- 11 miners o( Kpjdand m-enil)
Recount of • (auction cf V _
’ taineis of L - '.tine: 1
'* ® or# thaw «m sat
. *.(«(!* •: to handle teal U. b#
.1 mariu.uj
cur- be. jK-r and dec;- r gv
among them that
nemy of thi
rfctlon
0 military is the
and tho last bul-
Hocialiatlc to’ v:;.f
tercti by tii* Lond'
body is already com
operation of »trc«t railways and t.i® construe-
tion of pubhc work* by direct *-au)ioyrn«nt of
liber au-i purttow of materials Instead of
throexhCC "■ rauton. It will probably won un
dertake to cuprlycofi aa well a« tvaier,
an-1 clcct.telty to the CiliablUnU. When all
that has been done, tL- ftoj a are comparative
ly easy to the ai>nrop'lon of all tho function^
ascribed to Kover:.:n <, L.’. in Mr. Bellamy's
| scheme.
In Franco at tho rcccrt election the
most rcmarkablo sncctr.do nf tho cen-
' turj* waa enact'd. All parties wero
| practically merged into two. On tho
i < no band tho conservative and tradi-
hy growth, they will be able : *
care for them* Ives, and ns they grow
v. ill he .:■)<> ir. h:ird> Th •
question of *£• ratlier a hard one
to en>wer, but doubtlw- with ordi
nary care they will outlaat two
trera In PI
!l«>ns. 'Ph-'re «r.
uendne* i>irl-h
t lev*t sixty f***
ore than 50 year
uf mu Argeutlno I
The ages have their names historic
and prehistoric. There are the stone
age, the bronze age, the iron age, the
golden age and tho dark ages, but tho
Age in which we live may well be called
the age of invention. Never before in
the history of tho world has there been
such an era of wonderful inventions and
contrivances for the use and comfort
and conveniences of mankind. And it
does not stop or even call a halt.
Every year brings new surprises, and
now when we hear of some bold, in
comprehensible proposition we do not
dare to sav it is impossible. There la
no advanco in literature or painting or
architecture or oratory or many other
arts that require the highest order of
intellect. Indeed, it is to be lamented
that weno more have a Shakespeare or
Milton or Goldsmith or Burns or Tom
Moore; no more a Raphael or Michael
Angelo; no more a Cicero or a Burke
or Webster. Ripe scholarship has de
clined, and this generation lias neither
time nor taste for it, but in every
thing that lessens labor and cheapens
tho necessaries and comforts of life
we are far ahead of our ancestors.
I was ruminating about this because
I happened to come across an old time
rifle with a flint lock and I handled it
with reverence, for it had tired and
fought in Jackson's war at New Or
leans, and was still preserved nnd
honored by the great grandsons of the
soldier who loaded It behind the cot
ton bales nnd waited to see the whites
of the enemies’ eyes before he pulled
the trigger. The name of this rifle
was etched in a rude way upon the
barrel, and it was "Betsy.” All of them
had names in the olden times—femi
nine names, such as Betsy or Betsy
Jane or Betsy Ann or Susan or Polly
or Mandy or lvalline. Many of these
old time rifles are still in use, but the
old flint lock has gone. Such a lock in
a curiosity now. A town-raised boy
has never seen one. The hardware
stores have ceased to keep them. The
gunmakers have ceased to make them
and yet these are the locks that did
the work in tho revolution and tho
last British war and the Mexican war
and made many an Indian uite the
dust.raany a deer and turkey give
their meat to the hunter. 1 used to
sell these lock* when I was a boy
clerk in my father’s store, and could
♦■Ilf fluently nbout- tho hammer and
frizzen and roller and tumbler and the
dog and the pan. We sold flints by
the score—flints that were warranted
sure fire. The flint was made fast be
tween two clamps in the cock or ham
mer, and when the hammer was pro
jected forward against the ste**l friz
zen tho contact make the sparks to
fall and they fell into the little pow
der pan that was attached to the touch
hole. If the touch hole wns stopped
up there was a "flash in the pan’’ and
thnt was all. If thy flint did not make
a spark, then the rule was to "pick
your flint and try it again." The
powder in the little pan was called
the priming, aud If it waa not securely
covered by the frizzen and got wet in
the rain, It would not ignite and hence
the soldier was enjoined to “keep your
powder dry." These old timo expres
sions are still familiar and historic.
Sometimes we still hear a backwoods
man say "now cut your patchin,”
which is an expression of defiance and
comes from the manner of loading a
rifle.. A small piece of cloth or rai;
was laid over the muzzle, the bul
let laid upon it and pressed down
into the bore Just enough to clear the
knife, and then the cloth or patch
was cut off smooth with the top of the
gun. The patchin had to 1m* just Pan
thick enough to make the bullet go and
down tight when forced by the ram- yearn,
rod; sometimes it went too tight and
would get lodged hard and fast nnd
had to be blown out by putting pow
der in the touch hole. The bulletn
were all molded at home, and if the
necks ware not cut of? very smooth, it
made them deflect u little and mis* the
gunner’s aim. Tills deflection was
very bad until rifles were invented.
Rifles mean little spiral grooves ex-
tending from the mtxzzlo to the breech.
ball a rotary motion be
lt leaves tile gun and keeps that
motion in its flight, and eveu if a ball
Is a little ono-sided or irregular, it will
go straight to the mark. The gun
took its name from the grooves that
were called rifles. For years and yean
a man by th»* name of Rogers made
rifles in Augusta, Ga., and they wero
celebrated all over the south. The
dinner lie takes down Betsy and stand*
in the pia/./.a until one comes in Mght.
But the old locks passed away when
the percussion carne. Then I got to
Belling caps instead of flints. And now
tho caps Jrnve almost passed away aud
the muzzle-loaders are going. There
is no powder-horn nor ramrod. Betsy
and Jane are out. Good gracious! If
Jackson’r, men had had these breech
loading double-barreled guns, with a
bag full of shells, there wouldn't
have been a man left of all Packen-
ham'a army.
But I don’t like these modern mur
derous weapons from Krupp’s great
guns down to the mean, little, sly,
devilish, hip-pocket pistol. I wish
they were all abolished, especially the
istol. I verily believe that Judge
laramond told the truth when lie
charged the grand jury that every
man who carried on** about with him
was a coward. "Yes. gentlemen, I
charge you that a man who carries a
pistol habitually has ot a streak of
cowardice running d rn his back
bone as big ns a fence rail—aud that’*
the law.”
But the old-time rifle i* a quiet,
peaceable-gun. It is dignified. It
makes but little noise, and it takes a
cool, unexcited man to use it in a
proper manner. A man who is mad
csif'igh with another t-> ,<ill him never
says "I'll get a rifle and shoot him.”
But he says, "I'll get me a double-bar
reled shotgun nnd blow his brains
out,” or else ho slips up on him with ono
of these little, dirty, sneaking pistols
and shoots him unawares.
But the mlllcnium h asn’t come yet,
and folks will keep o; killing folks
awhile longer. Ever since Cain killed
Abel and Latnech killed the young
man, folks have been killing folks ana
the devil i- t ;it the bottom of it all-
will the time ever come when a man
no* mQi whon «>• r.hrUH««
who is strickeu on one check will turn
the other to Ids foe? Did the Savior
mean that ? If In* did, how many
GtirfCtUUU arc thero? Bibb A lit*.
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.
Report of the Situation for the 'Week
Ending Scptemb'M* 25, 1893.
The Tradesrnrm. Chattanooga Trnn.,
in its review of the industrial situation
111 *he South for the week ending Sep
tember 25. stsitts tha*t the wi«k show*
no material change in industrial, fin in-
rial and mercantile circl* *•. There Is
7-'mowhat lucrej.nod demand for money,
<> ■ ’It ’.i iri < celling 111 ill <’-e freely, ai.d
.s a >uill. it nt suppiv He reof for
present n^rds There is no change to
report in the iron market Cotton "ind
W >*'*’.•• 111.1 • .)re r. *\v g«. llv m full
operation, and Other Industrial branches
continue w.t i no change far the worse,
If none can bo report*M for tdve better.
Collections are growing easier. It is
believed thit owing to economy prac
ticed during the gn wfnjr sea.*>n.chan
rrop produo ion and r:
Lhe
ops.
far
•r so fr**** from debt
present. Burlnc." during the foil atid
winter should b** tmusinily ^ »od Lwi
mnney being needed to pav for bim
plies and for p*4t mdebtedXU** 4 , moro
than heretofore will l)*- av.dl.ibh* f
imp; •' omenta of all kind*.
Among important new Industries es-
tafcllriii-'-u or Incorporated during the
week the Trid’-Mnan report* th-* f*>l
lowing: The Cl Mr Springs Pho«phut8
Company of Bartow, Fla., capital |1B0 ( -
uuO; the Rome Furniture Company of
Rome, Gii., « apltal tlOO.OOh; the Henrlr.i
Land Company of Atlanta, Ga„ capital
150,000; the Mill Creek Timber Company
of ftlptey, W. Va., capital J2r.,')00; thi
Cocoa Fibre Manufacturing Company ct
New Orleans, capital J1M00; “ cotton
Need oil mill at Marble Falls, Tex., and
n cotton mill at Atlanta. Ga.
The Tradesman report* thirty two flew
Industries a« established or incorporated
during the week, with four enlarge
ments of manufactories and twelve im
portant ne*.v buildings.
RESCUED FROM FLAMES.
Patscy DeLauiioy Eocapc* a Horrible
Fat*
Chronicle.
by a
From the Mllledge
A desperate at ten
half-witted girl named Mamie Moore
to bum up an old negro woman named
Patscy Delvauney, nud the success of
her undertaking was arrested only by
.a couple of men dragging Patscy from
the burning building just before tli<*
flames reached her.
is said to he 11S yours old
been blind for « number of
he has been led about nnd
-.girded over generally by a young
Impl© negro of th- above name, but
n Saturday the girl became indignant
rivial ret
amt (
tnuii
enge
desperate
;» Up.
r a large
found Its re
it to burn the old in
pour* d kerosene o l «
kkIs box, nil*! a Utile after
it. Tin* building Indongod
•thur Butts and, uVli all .ts
v.as destroyed. The girl'* i
its hi
nothing has b*
done
SMITH AND THE JEW.
Cullodeo Journal.
\, u> ago there was a Jew
‘while <11*1 i thriving business
Ilerr Rudol
geology* at th
luccceded in recording
peaks of M
Hatithal r professor o
a Plata museum, ha
f the chic
, in tho pro
In tho fatso of this growing hostility to
tho military power among tho mas*cs
who must ni-.ke up tho rank* of all great
v ars, wo otoento the blind fatality with
which tho ruling powers of tho world
j-- f »: war. A great war
great pow-
lay enUrg-
i its prede-
rsquadron ,
hat are to
f f y ralli.sl t
the re-
; . . .. ...Ldrati.'U and. r:
* narchy
disappeared. 0:i tho ether, tho
iocialiitii
rallied in startling force. Fro
m uu in-
c: -. p. i id. >:i th**y devoh p
*1 in on°
. . .i : » t; • pr p*’rtior;s < f .i
national
party, the cn!y css in epper.ti
? n tn the
g. vernir.’ nt. ’They cb- vd
n*'mb:rs
« f th** .<sf!nh:y * u ti.o might
socialist
plat.' iria nr. 1 127 ‘*iia*i:cals”
of nlv.tr.
I’.- *•!» • ■ " IT-4*at "I’op
ilir.h” * .
11 a Dgi-Ut:
cuential pnn
':■> mastery of
id guns and a»
Li pn:
tho European r/.rua- | i\
•'a*lv a
:.g iL?
f. r, . ei
i — W -• ybxr. ■
• orid e.
f pro;
f Cat iinavca, in the Argentine R<
j..:’. lie : ;* .! d. r:* k tie* ;:s*** nt fr* i
an encampment to the east cf tho peo
situated at a height of 4,600 meter
Tho peak itself ho estimates to be 5,0*'
m* ters above h- i level.
lltth* town <
i«l. In tli.* c mr-
he failfsi. tolng 1
th**
ipn
and r
Iiir> powdcr-lior
that had been b
filed until it v
i rifle
d wer
all hi
* inadi*
Arm In
look.d
: t*» n J**w
Hit« tlrm
aud tlnally
slue
leg
Tin
Ho
r lanted tho Gcrrm
a fierce west wind.
1 h im to lie down and
:ks for fear of being
After five hours’
in, loose stone*, enow
1 * • - ’•• :r.;» h*. ’.
•n ; t... Arg-rit::;.
II- t • * * r* -t-t a
iJust •
hide
of the
M just
ar K** Of
e fully pour
n t!:c patch
i% put on y
i her h<
reply:
Christ
humb. and tlie
vere tilled fr
vhile the vunn
touch-hole and the pan
nn trie powder-horn,
tr held the stopper be-
The frizzen was shut
l >v Jane was loaded.
RIO AGAIN H<
The Rebel Fleet C*
of de
; tuo fL»rman li:*
on anoth r i«*ak.
ccompaniiM by a h
err Haulh..:
!*• Argentine
• c ■••.Id go n-.
I by u
•nt.—London
for th*
<1 the patchin.
lock and gun
Ujr n.eaim *.l
bit nuihes tl
icapruvts :l.
i.f tU* tr.
.h* 1 -Pi put :
it exist, a
g""‘- poll*
id 1
i wire for tho touch-hul*-. B**t--.y and
her turn-out was as ran**h a part of the
household as tho bab}\ I used to trot
after one of these old riflemen and
THE Ml IPS.
\ ,i.* •• i >1’ srram
A .'ordinic to
his vju
alk
jrly cxpoiied hi*»
vent the gun,and
sped the ball into hi
When Lii wife vr4Uta oac fwf run p or