The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-12-28

What ID the charge against him ="
asked John.
/ u = Whist We eall listlssusss On IL
moon, mid his lady. III
After sundry and divers swsst spssche,.
BY several Of the COMMITTEES. the vsrdict wa
rendered mot guilty Of the charge N i'm
dicted, but just naturally born tired"
after the rendering Of the verdict, John
followed his conductors out ON the ssrest.
An they came out Johns attention was sr-
rested by the following, announced In let
tsn Of fire fixed to the vail. Of thu
building "Public Notice. A called
meeting Of the Committee Of Equalization
will be held ut the Moon BuildinRs this
day, to consider the propriety Of limiting
every ones working time TO fifteen min
utes in the twenty -four hours instead Of
twenty minutes, IN has been the law here
ttofore. All persons are requested to drop
in and vote A. soon a. possible"
What ia that notice r said John.
Those letters are made by electricity"
said his attendant, land the announce
ment they make explains itself.
what, said John, "do you mean TO
say that with only fifteen minutes work in
the twenty-four hours, you are enabled to
live and have all the comforts and luxu-
ries and conveniencies that zee around
me
Such il the case. I" sAid his Lady Atten-
dant.
7" ls it possible ! said he. "Why, the
great mass Of humanity ON the earth are
barely able 10 furnish the neoessaries Of
life by working twelve hours in the twenty
four. How do you account for i'll
1T is easily accounted for. said she,
sour improvements are DO advanced tow
ard perfection, and our resources are %
equitably divided among M all, that .
very little labor performed Ly each ons Of
JUS suffices to supply all our wants- On
earth it is different. The money or wealth
Of the whole earth il held by compare
lively few, and then but about one-fourth
of the masses work, and a. matter of
fact the other three-fourths live by the
sweat Of the brows Of the one-quarter Of
working men. If your wealth was equally
divided, and made it incumbent on every
one to do his share Of the general work
, necessary, then, even laboring under the
weighty drawback Of ignorance, and the
but meagre and poor mechanical facilities
' that she has at present, all your people on
. earth by working but two hours per day,
. could have all the Injuries they could pos
y sibly find use for, and none be hArrassed TO
4 death with over work, nor die Of starva
n ton for want Of crust Of bread Your
n jails would crumble and decay for want Of
e use, and your poor houses, like ours, be
numbered among the things that were"
,e whats that said John. e . whis-
h bling sound was heard overhead.
p THAT 10 our city mail delivery, 4" she re-
bponded. 1--WE have small boxes that
N navel to and fro from the general post
m flee to the diffe' ent houses in the city.
!. hey are sctuated by electricity, and each
1x has . block 81 buildingstO run around.
I y stops ct every door just one minute,
= aid in stopping rings bell the occupant
- Otthe house comes out, looks over the let.
: tors in the box, takes Whatever there may
n BE- for them, and then the box goes to the
DOR and until afNow
teAPc circuit Of the block, is returns on the
/, Kame wife lilst y$~ $50 n Es.. -. Z. -
general office for Another load Of letters
|. rAs mechanical sgsangsmsnts are perfect,
!. and mistake never occurs"
: La that thunder said John, as the
houses and grounds shook and trembled
: with the conclusion Of some distant e1plo
sion
No. We never have any thunder
her, ON the moon, except what we manu-
factIre for our own amusement. That
noi4 is caused by the post office men send
A ing 'ti the mail to Jupiter.
"What " said John.
"Why, easy enough. We have a very
large Protector, cannon, you would call
it. 1t projects a spherical mail car, con
talnng the mail agent, and all the mail mat
, ter from here to Jupiter"
johns eyes opened wide "You don't
mean to say you shoot man out Of can
mont"
Yes; that is the most expeditions
method of transporting our mail"
81 should think the landing and stop
ping SO abruptly when tire car reached its
destination, would kill your mail agent"
"No. They maksfhse Of the same com
pressed matter to lana the car ~ we do in
catching our comets"
Yes, but how is it possible for your
men in charge of your Protector to fire
always with accuracy Did no accident
never happeni"
Accidents never happen to us of the
moon, John. When we first commenced to
make use of our Protector, after finding
the true elevation for it, they coated the
projectile OF mail car with a composition
that only exists On the moon, and the ma
ture Of which ] cannot explain, end fired
several times 1t the same elevation. The
composition-the nature N which il very
eccentric I'm converted the atmosphere
through which the projectile rushed, into a
hard substance its elasticity was counter
acted 1t became firm and rigid, and we
have nov hard and true tube Of treated
air reaching from here to Jupiter, and it is
only necessary to keep our mail car well
creased to maintain very efficient and OK
peditious manner Of changing mails with