The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-30

4 crawl 4 labJriuusly over the Tuugh rai1s
/ and bymightS sx.rt'osa nata " iHiifS
an hour. And there were wise men VIC
sought tn check tins : terrific speed hs
! law. saving that il was impossi Die iot
/ ina hurnan body 20 maintain It's life.
I hsing hurled at this fearful rate Of speed
! through the air.
! What would our ancestors say II they
/ could see Archie Busbssan drlSe ta
: steel monster thai ORA ws the kmpir
I SKATE express 81 t. rim frosr New aorf
toAlban-. and n he drops from the car
! at the end Of his run say, With pr1de&t
+ shes a beluty- isn I she: lou see,
| she has always b,vn true u me- sao
has and I've ruu Le~ ever. since she
] WAS built. She's yer cranky or SICK,
|. and she makes her $40 miles day al;
! most .vt n LAY III The year and DOES
| her duty every Zine. That 3 more than
! you can say.uf many in-p. or women
either, isn't 4;
! air cleveland Muffet. describing a
| trip IN. one If these engines, says that
the pounding If the great engine was
! So siolent that all three mep7- tretaan.,
I epaine.sr and visitor--were obliged 10
! hold on ,tightiy. showers Of cinders
, blew in npon them t',rt the engineer
| faced them, scarcely winking aS he
stared before him, Indeed he hardly
! changed his position during the whole
! run and snevel ,aIce tnEned has head. "a
|, The firemaa for the first 1Ialf hour
was feeding his fire at the rate uf two
| shovelfuls "A minnie. Before the trip
LII hnn
| three tens of coal. a-.--a H. .....
Blasts of hot air came from the white
| hot firebox. Smoke. cinders, oil, smut,
speed, rtta;-, the Swaying, pounding mo-
tions of the engine and the dizzying
procession of wbirling objects along the
I way, which seemed to rise and charge
upon the rushing machine, made dam
| ger seem imminent, but the effect rpon
| the mind was most exhilarating. -
The VISITOR found himself wishing to
! 90 even faster, to put the mighty en-
| CINE to its utmost speed. That was not
| done, however, for the proud engineer
| told him that she'' had several times
reached a'speed OF 80 miles an hour,
while on this trip at no time had 1t
been faster than 20. ~ ......I ~ u2.u
This is but typical illustration of
| the advance along the whole line IF ma
| terial progress Even AS we gize upon
the old locomotive and the new We can
but feel that our, CHILDREN will come IN.
the not distant FIXTURE and look al. the
Empire State express as a. curiosity from
the machinery junkshops of the TWEEN
tieth Century To- annihfi$itei distance
is to make man SO far omnfpTesent and
make, conscious human hrDtherh0od the
necessary postulate of human life ga
f. uvGOBKDIENT ARMIES .eF' sTKEL. q ...n
Who can compute the power of these
iron wheels" and LEVERS III doing the
work of the world in the, coming cen,
tury?, Those swiftly w.hirling shafts
and hnrrying levers havsIinmusted in
steel the nerve and muscle of millions
on millions of wOrkingmen. In that
Yankee thread exhibit there they show
you a machine whose work is enpmer-
ated as follows. 1t reels thread onto lit
tie wooden spools at the rate of 900 doz-
en- in day of 10 hours, each spool be-
ing wrapped with 900 yards Of thread
1t moves and acts like a sentient being.
Eight hpppers are filled with little
wooden spools, and the machine starts
1t picks spool out of q hopper, adjusts
it on a spindle. reels ont eco yards of
thread, cuts it, inserts 'fhe' end in a
nick in the spool that it',ihakes, dumps
the finished spool and takes a. new one.
and repeats this performance all day,
in less time than it takes to write
about n! The spools are then taken to
another little machine that rushes them
through a conttiyance which pastes a
label, on. them that it chops out pitches
the spool intoa box and .hurries along
in mad race with the machine feeling
| the thread 't"'r .'' ~ !Hi ~t'''IiE -'i'n
(vs Who can estimate the producing pow
or of these obedient armies Of steelp
Who can compass the future they will
greater -. It... ..ut au}I4u -tiEiHu
/. At the Centennial of 1876 there was
no electrical display 1.-The telephone
was a toy, the electric light a dream, ,
the dynamo. as remote. a thought as
aerial navigation to this. generation.
But here, after the lapse of only l7years,
We find an Electrical building S45 by
800 feet, covering SO 'arres, devoted
Exclusively to, the industries Of harness
ed lightning. It may be said that with
in the brief space Of these II years
new power has been born into the me,
chapical world that bids fair to sup
plant steam as completely, as steam sup.
planted horse power and create a new
civilization In the fiext century.
! H In 1877 there were 81 $50 telephones
in use.I Now there aTeu 55e, 72O in use
IN spite Of the esorbitant' price exacted
tor their qsei .,,I,,.,,, -, ,,.', 49,, -
We ara, eVelL told that for the first
time in the history of the world the
count Of the opupulation of d great ma
ton has been nfa,fe by electricity: This
honor belopnggS to the United States, the
eleventh icepsps fieing taken by what is
known, as the. 7Hellerith system. which
has since been adopted by Australia and
Cansda.' The cards containing the data
of returns, When patked CLOSELY togeth.
er, made q pile 70 miles long; : An in
genloqsl lhaGhiine linEentad by Herman
Hollsrith, worked its way thhon Oh these
at the IA tie of a0efest peru day, 1ozse ma :.
chine doing the same anfo.fntIoY labor
las 20 men by the old meth6t Of tally.
Ing and pe9hcil, . mpalrkkihgt and at gain
OF oyer $500. 900 in, the cost TO govern
ment- nItH u3ILII-Wttt .s4utIL1 .i,J.-
1t is simply impossible to conjecture
/ even the outlines ef the eitih1ati6nl at.
tainable within the next generati6n' if
the present rate of advance. ds main
tainads GlIs4A.a .al-o,-y..aas4 .>44.g.,t. 90
|[ ,,t THE REVELATION or GOD.
Seeena1aWe seein thisp the.promise
OF redeemed sbcfety, betarse- the dis
.oovery6f nature is the revelation of
God. VI The reign Of. .lawis the reign of
God. The discOveryaof slaw.is the dis j
covery of Cod Every secret wrested |
fromr natur g by scietce IL so'much Of
God given to man. What a marvellous
revelation God lis thus giving daily to
mankind! Surely there will be a new