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GRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
War in the Name of Col
BT JOHN 0. WILSOX.
"War! war! in the name of God!"
The Russian despot cries;
"War! war! in the name of God!"
The tyrant Turk replica.
So filled with high religious faith
And worship of the Lord,
. They stay their hands awhile for prayer
To grasp the gun and sword;
To lead their helpless thousands on
Through rain of shot and shell,
To people Moody fields of death
And swell the ranks of hell.
Ah! Would they meet as man to man,
The Sultan and the Cur, ,
And fight the question out alone,
T would be a glorious war.
And all the world would feel delight,
And watch them, nothing loth,
And clup its hands when one was kill'd,
And wish that it were both.'
But from a thousand battle-fields
The shouts of slaughter sound;
The willow's curse, the orphan's cry,
Ring all the East World round.
And if there sit a God in Heaven,
Before whom all lies bare, .
The din of doom and death will drown
The bloody ruler's prayer.'
Awake! 0 people of the East!
Why tight ye, dumb aud blind?
Awake! awake! stretch forth your hands,
Your slavish bonds unbind.
Stretch forth and seize yon Romanoffs, 7
Made mad with empire's lust;
And seize the race of Othman, too,
Worn weak with sensual rust
Build up a gallows huge and high,'
Then hang them side by side,
And do it in the name of God,
And pray, "Let peace abide!"
KISS WILSON S LEO.
Twentv-seven years airo Miss Wil-
Bon, of'Pineville, N. C, lost hur right
eg. Sliu wastliunyoungand pretty, ami
hud bho merely minlaid her leg every
chivalrous Carolinian in the oounty
would have joined in the search
tor it. Unlortunately her 1088
was an irrevocable one. Having un
intentionally innertud her leg under
heavily loaded wagon; she found
that the once nlmpely limb was so
completely ruined that she consented
to have it cut.otl and thrown away.
Its place was in time supplied with fl
cork leg, and Mins Wilson sorrowful
ly resigned herself to limping through
a loveless life to a solitary grave.
ibere never had been any active
demand for women with wooden legs.
A niau with a wooden leg sutlers a
certain amount ot inconvenience, but
he loses nothing in character or popH-
arity, whereas, a wooden-legged woi-
man is, wnetlier justly or unjustly,
under a social ban. In fact, for a
woman to lose a leg is ordinarily to
oko all hope ot marriage. A man
who is about to marry cannot be
blamed for preferring a whole wife
to one partially made of cork espec
ially as the former costs no moro than
the latter. A superficial thinker might,
lerhaps, lancy that a husband whose
wife had but one original leg would
save fitly per cent, in the prioe of
striped stockings and kid shoes; but
little reflection will, show that
cork leg requires just as much
clothing as the usual stvlo of leg,
and henco is uot an economical con
trivance. Ot course, it is mean and
selfish in a man to permit the pres
ence or absence of a mere trifle ot
leg to effect his feelings toward an
estimable woman; but human nature
is weak and he would be a bold man
who would calmly look forward to
marrying a woman who might some
morning interrupt him while shaving
by asking "James, would you mind
handing me my leg? I think you will
find it behind the rocking Chair."
It U alleged by Miss Wilson's
neighbors that as she grew older
she grew hard and cynical This
was, perhaps", to have been expected.
She saw herself ignored by all marry-
ng men, while girls with halt her
beauty, and whoso sole superiority
consisted in a larger number of legs,
captured husbands without any ditli-
culty. Gradually she became em
bittered auainst her bipedal fellow-
creatures and the local Jiapt'iBt minis
ter was probably right when lie char
acterized ber as a hard hearted,
worldly woman. One day, however,
Miss Wilson attended a camp mctt
intr. and was softened by the elo
luence of the preacher and the shouts
of the worshippers, and soon sfter
'ineville was surprised and pleased
to hear that on next Sunday Sister
Wilson would be tabu zed.
Now,' the public performance of
the right of babtisrn by ltev. Mr.
Waters,' of the 1'inevilln tlevetuu
Day IJaplists Church, always drew a
lame abdience. That powerful and
agile preacher was admitted to be
wilhoot a riyal as a rapid and dilu
tive C-aptizer. vn one occasion
when a Presbvterian minister preach
in? against lapti'm by immersion
showed that St. John the Haptist bad
once baptized a multitude of persons
at the rate ol two men and a uau
per ffliouta, and that hence he could
not have immersed thera. Mr. Waters
publicly baptized twenty-five persons
in eight minutes tnu beating
John's best time by two full tninutis
and completely overthrowing Che
Presbyterian's argument. With all
i his uncjnalcd ' rapidity of executifiil,
he was never careless or inconsiderate
lhere was a rival Raptis, minister in
me next county who would soce
times become carried away by his
emotions, aud would sing an entire
verse of a long metre hymu while
holdimr a convert under tlm wntnr
and although a stalwart teamster who
was thus treated fell from grace, and,
upsetting his minister in rhe water,
until he was nearly drowned, the
reverend enthusiast was not cured ot
his careless habit. When, therefore,
aiiss ilson consented to be baptized
by the l'inevillo minister, alio knew
that she would bo treated in a con
siderateand ikillful manner; ant? the,
Cuoiio Knew mat, tne spectacle would
e well worth witnessing.
It is very easy to say, now that tho
atl'air is over, that Miss Wilson ought
. . i i i. i i i ,
iu nave leu ner com leg ai Home.
Iu that case, however, she would have
been compelled either to limp to the
water on crutches, or bo carried
thither by self sacratioiug deacons.
Moreover; her appearance in public
without her customary loir would
have excited a grent deal ot remark
which would not only have shocked
her sonsitive feelings but would have
detracted from the solemnity ot the
scene. When, in addition lb these
facts, we remember that she was a
woman residing In a country town.
to which champa'gue baskets rarely
Eenetrated, and was hence presuma
ly ignorant of the scientific; tact that
cork is light and buoyant, ber neglect
to remove her log prior to baptism
seems entirely excusable.
bo long as the water was only two
feet deep, Miss Wilson, who weighed
fully two hundred pounds, maVjuged
to wade toward the minister, but soon
as the latter took her hand and led
her iuto the deeper water tho cork
asserted its buoyancy i nd Miss Wil
son was suddenly reversed. The
minister, with much difficulty, placed
her on her feet again, began to mako
ft brief and formal address. Before
he had spoken ten words, Miss Wil
son, with a wild shriek, full backward,
and her cork leg shot swiftly upon
tho surface. Perhaps this is tho point
where a veil should bo drepped. To
finish the narrative in at few wordi
us possible, it ifi'ay be said that after
halt a dozen futile efforts, the attempt
to baptize Miss Wilsou was abandon
ed. With ail his skill and strength,
the minister could not counteract the
effort of the cork leg, and could not
keep the convert light side op long
enough to baptize hur. She bore it
Willi patience until the minister called
for a fiftyrsix pound weight, with a
view to ballaslini! her. when she in
dignantly scrambled ashore, hastened
home, and subsequently loin.d the
'resbyterians.
We thus learn that tliero are times
when cork legs conflict with t,he most
important duties, lhe leg mukers
should take a hint from suggestive
icidetit, and divesu a ligct metallic leg
wherewith to supply the Jiaplisl
market.
Wattle from Chinese Labor. .
Can any ono figure up exactly the
waste and loss of capital on tho Pacif
ic coast occasioned by tho presence
of Chinese and their ruinous compe
tition with tree American labor? We
do not propose to undertake the (ask,
but shall indicate a few of the heads
under which large auras have been
ost.
First we liava to take note'of cap
ital wihdrawn wholly from circula
tion. This is the largest i'nm, per
haps. Of all the money paid to the
Chinese, in the long run three lourlhs
of it finds its way to the Flowery
Land, while the Six Companies are
accumulating large funds hi this coun
try. Jiy just so much has the Pacific
lope been depleted ot its capital. It
must be an enorm'is sum in the aggre
gate which has thus been lost to the
industrial development of the slope
during the past twenty live years.
What wonder, then, if there should
now be "hard" times," pinching and
harassing in the extreme? The grin
of poverty is tight now," it will grad
ually tighten closer as the money
which should sustain labor continues
ta flow steadily out of the country and
leavs nothing in exchange, for it but
Warms oi busy Mongolians gleaning
Cehls of industry, raking up the very
gutters and cesspools, of towns and
cities in quest of centa, dimes and
dollars.
Second The los to householders
and propertownera by reason of In
creased insurance rates and acciden
tal fires fanned by the Chinese popu
lation. This is an absolute waste ot
capital attributable to the presence
of the Chinese aud their careless hab
its of living.
Third Depreciation in tho value
of real estate, reduction in rents and
empty houses, because the Chinese
who are domiciled in cellars and sleep
in banks ab)ye and underground,
have driven white men and women
who live tV- ntly oat ol employment
this shrinkage represents a very
large sum. "I could more easily af
ford to speed t jOO a fev years ago
I.I."-.. T ' V . . . J
wisuicsu epena at now." said an
owner of house property to ns a few
days aVo. "The Chiuese have greatly
depreciated the value of all outside
property. We can not let our houses
a a puving figure, pow, and we are
ltcky if we can collect our rents."
Justao. lhe property owners of
Chinatown get 400 per cunt on their
i(ivoslmeiil.s; but house properly else
where is Readily depreciating iu value
and will continue to go lower. This
shrinkage must amount to many hun
drod thousand dollars yearly, and is
a direct loss caused by Chinese sup
planting whito labor. Lot property
owners figure it up for themselves.
FourthMortgagers must make up
men .minus 10 wrup on a largo sura
irora inoir investments, inasmuch as
the shrinkage above noted allocls
their securities. They, too, are begin
ning t) realize the fact that John is
not simply a mone saving drudge.
Forvclosurea may ruin the unfortu
nate mortgagors, tit will not .materi
ally help the mortgagee. The condi
tions which compullod the former to
make ( default in ptying interest will
prevent the latter .from realizing fa
vorably upon his foreclosure. The
silent .Mongolian , is eating into his
substance as surely as ho ate into tie
vitals pt his debtor, and a common
ruin wil overtake both unless the
cause ot llieir common loss be re
moved.
Fifth Tho profits of business have
sensibly declined under Chinese com-
rm. r t.. i - t;.., .
peuijuii, i nu iiioiiguuun uuys uuie
to eat or wear of American pr6duce
and manufacture, and, as a moiety
of the wages fund of the country finds
its way into his hoard, it follows that
business stagnates, profits diminish,
trade failures occur, and an evor-wi-
ning circle of coiniueiciul ruin ex
tends. Tho Chinese,, on the other
hand, accumulate capital, withdraw
their money from circulation, aud are
fust building up a couditou of things
on this coast by which, they shall as
etl'uolually control its commerco and
(nauulucturea as they now control its
fabor.
(Sixth The Chinese ore driving out
tho small trader. He , cannot live by
his business ad formerfr, owing to the
ruin of t'.e working chases, who were
his customers. Thus a very impor
tant trading element is being elimina
ted from the state to the loss of indi
viduals and commerce, and business
sites in the outskirts of the city and
! 1 . . 1 - t -
residence streets are uecoming oi less
valun. This also is a loss and an eviL
Seventh We have tho waste ot
energy and intelligence in the en
forced idleness of boys and irls, and
the prodigious waste of industrial
capacity and skill which iaplies. In
stead of having an army of trained
workers to occupy the ranks after
their seniors have dropprd off, we
shall have in time an army ol idle
drones, incapable of and unwilling to
work. I Ins, too, is a waste of capital,
the extent of which it is impossible to
estimate with any degree ot accuracy,
but which, ueverlhulcas, must be ta.
ken into consideration whep striking
a balance of profit and loss on account
ot Chinese labor. Iu this connection,
also, must be reckoned toe common
school expenditure, which is sheer
waste unless it results in tomthing
more than training our youths
and maidens lor a lifd 6f criminal
idleness.
Eighth The outlay fdr extra po
lice, prison.h6?pital and sanitary meas
ures born by American citizens be
cause of the n)oral aud physical de
bauchery and criminal habits intro
duced by the Chinese. This is quite
a considerable item.
Ninth The Value to the state of
some 1,-UO lives already sacrificed in
this city owing t6 tho introduction of
epidemic diseases by Chinamen; and
the risk to life from a similar cause iu
future. An exceedingly large" sum is
made away under this head.
Tenth The waste ot capital, from
iucendinury fires, in this city and
throughout the Pacific slojfe which
may be traced direct to the anti-coolie
feeling and the want of employment
by our hbor population. Many mill
ions of dollars are included In this
line.
We could go orj mnltiplyir.g points
almost indefinitely. We have said
sufficient to satisfy thoughtful men
ind women that in the end the Chi
namen are antsgoaistio to every rank
and pursuit in Ijfe but themselves.
Enough has been stated to show that
the presence of Chinese has been a
curse rather thana blessing' to the
Pacific slope. Haying crushed labor
they are organizing forces to cush
capital as well. They will ose Amer
ican capital whep it can be dra?o
upon ,wuh safety and profit, but so
soon aa .they have gained sufficient
strenzth to stand alone so surely will,
they grasp all avenues of employment
and run the country for themselves.
A lew railroad lines, a few milea of
reclamation and irrigating cantls,
cheaD laundries anil civil domestic
heln arp an ofT.et s?ainst the cnor-
tnous debt balance which Impartial'
investigators must strike against the !
Chinese.-S. F. Tost.
Stay ox xiti Faum. The Rural
New Yorkor, talks to the farmer and.
farmers' boys as folllow: If discon
tented farmers, farmers', wives, sona
and daughters, who think the delights
of the city lifo something worth rea
lizing, could walk through our strceta
to-day and read oue thousandth part
of the misery and appaehension that
haunt hearts of all classes and aro
making lines on their faces, they could,
thank God for the penco and seclusion,
and abundanco gathered in the gar
dens of their homes. Thousaus of
men and women are at the beginning '
ot winter suddenly thrown out of
employment I Few, comparatively of
these have aught laid up. in store,!
Young women flock through the.
stroels with restless, eager, aniiaus
eyes, with lips quivering with fear)
lest they fail to obtain employment
that shall give them food and seeker.
Boys and girs of the country 1 bo.
grateful for plenty aud shelter: You.
will, perhaps never, know how to VaN,
uo it until you want and cannot got
either. How many of these in the
city are country born; and how many
would gladly go back to tho home
steads ot rol'ugo. and yet may uot
have the means to get thoruf Farmers,
thank Ood for the . harvests, and that
f ou have unsold toou for your tann
ics I You have reason I
Tho ma'n source, of income to news
paper publishers is that, of adretislng,
and it is to the advertisers the people
are indebted for cheapness of news-,
papers which place them within the,
roach of all classes, however stringent
thoir circumstances may bo. With
out this source of income the subscript,
lion price ot country newspapera
would have to bo four or fivo times
as much more, or tho business would
soon bankrupt every person who
should engage in it, and a paper at '
that rrice could not -obtain a larcro
enough subscription list to . support
itself, hence tho people aie .directly
indebted to the advertisers for pjacjng
tho, country newspapers within their
reach. It this be true, aud we think
anyone will at onp6 see that it ja, is
it anv thing moro than just and right
that the .newspaper readers who re
ceive this benefit from advertiser!
should reciprocate with their patron
ago. We do not question your right
to make your selection of uewspapers,
but when you do so you will find ia
the advertisers of that paper the
names of tho men who by their pat
ronage reduco the subscription prico
to the very low rate of two dollar
and fifty cents a year whioh ia ths
universal price of all . substantial
country newspapera that intend tQ
live and lot Iivo, and which exporionca
bos demonstrated ia the lowest prioe.
a country newspaper can give and do
legitimate, suit supporting business
on a permanent, basis. Then we ask,
our readers to give this subject a
candid consideration, and .bestow
their purchasing patronago upon tho
advertisers who are assisting them in
the way of cheap newspupeis. There
are two sides to every question and
this is a side to this question wbica
is worthy of consideration as a matter
of reciprocal justice and right but wen .
man iai msn. Masan City Indepen
dent. . t
A sermon recently delivored in
London contains the folln wing pass-.
age; "Marvelous as.ia the whole econ
omy of London, there is nothing more
marvelous than its elaborate network:
of charities.' Are wo sufficiently alive .
to tho wonders of ho city in which
we live? Do , you know that London,
takibg a radius ot 15. piles lrom Char
ing Cross, covers nearly 700. iqnare.
miles? Within these limits its popula
tion exceeds , 4,200,000 inhabitants.
In London there it a birth every four,
minutes, and in every six , minutes
there ia a death. If you .could put.
all the streets in London into one.
straight line, the line would bo 7,000
miles .long nearly 100 miles longer
than from London to. San Francisco.
A marvelous city, then, is London, in
extent. What is it morally ? Is it as
virtuous as it is gigantic ? As an av-,.
erage, more that m,vw persons are
takep into custody by the police every
year. More than one-third the crime,
committed in this country is commit
edin London. Twenty-six thousand
n'esons are annually brought before
the London magistrates charged with
being drunk auJ disorderly."
.Brother Hammond, we leant from
the Burlington Hawkeye, carries a
cluli in his sleeve, and is boiled to
make Miore converts thai) Moody if.
be breaks half the heads' in his' con
gregation. "Are you a Christian ?"
demands the modern ..Evangelist.
No, 3ir responds the trembliug sin-
oer. el, then, . says me nine-
tecnth century d sciplcof l,liilip,"I'ili
give you just three minutes to sccej i
the o!f. r of erace. Look alive now.
All right? Next!"
The Oil City Derrick ak the co-
nundrum, "when th lion and the
lamb lie down together, how is a littlu
Child to lead thtmv"