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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
The Tomorrow of Europe
From the Lite rary Digest.

Much gravity was observed in the
French capital at the moment val was
declared; in London there was some
jubilation. Not from the reflective
ones, perhaps, but from the crowd
that always filings up its hat. On Au-
gust 5, a few hours after ~Ensland>had
declared war, Mr.. Harold Begbie
wrote for the London Chronicle this
reflection on the Tomorrow of Eu-
rope" In particular he exhOrted the
crowd in the street no to put on paper
caps and march through the streets
waving penny flags, breathing beer
and singing 'Britons new shall be
slaves" Let us not sing boastful
songs" he writes. Honor may call
us to fight, self preservation may
us into the slaughter-house; but
Yet us wear on our sleeves the Grape Of
mourning for a civilization that had
promise of JOY, and strike our enemy
without a hiccup or a curse. Never
shall we know again what is now per-
ishing. And we shall want all our
strength for Tomorrow
upset of our daily habits, particularly
of those Of the thousands of u Am
| erican fellow citizens travelling abroad
| is already acutely felt. How many
| have reflected on the change in the
deeper streams of life h a Mr.. Begbie
| here calls attention to-:
This war means the sudden stop
| ping Of a clock by which we modernS
have regulated not only our meals,
| not only our journeys, u the habits
Of orr minds. The big stick OF brutal
force has been suddenly thrust INTO
the exquisite and delicate mechanlsm
of civilization. The wheels cease turn
inc. the hands are arrested, n the
peaceful, friendly, and most 1aInlllar
tick-tack of our human existence oleS
into a. silence not yet broken by the
cIaneor OF guns, the groans OF the
diving. and the noise of falling thrones
Already, now at this moment, civlllza-
ton stops-stops dead. We IN Eng
land. who have done nothing, and
even now may do nothing in the war
are hurled suddenly back into par
arism. We arm; but it is agalns,
hunger. We mobilize; but 1t is asalns'
murder. Religion, philosophy; ii,er'
AZURE. painting, and, chief OF all per
hans. science with its loren at tnt
head of our human hosts, are sudden
lv flung Backward; they become OF III
Who wants to kno" aooo
;mmanence? Who care 10 near VIVA
ReresOn n Eucken thlnk: Wn.
bothers about books ana pictures
!, who is ready to endow a iaoorator.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

viii want food Europe ~ili ask for
these things and the war lords viii be
driven TO ansy.r Which Of them.
with all his wisdom and strength. Viii
be able to restore three centuries -
human progress Normal conditions
These normal conditions are the fruit
OF 500 years of evolution. 500 years ~
moral and intellectual esolutlon-a
laooF not ~ yesterday nor Of pigmleS
Destroy normal conditions and you
destroy today. Yesterday. and All the
yesterdays II European civilization.
Expect. then. a t~ewtlderlng To-mor
row.
"Armanaents nave broken the back
OF the laborer. and with the fall of the
laborer all things fall all things come
to earth Because of the war lords.
and only because ii the war lords the
mar OF science il paralyz-d, and civil
lzatlons stops. Humanity has been
fooled Too late 1t discovers II.
Remember this, too. Among the
conScript soldiers OF Europe who VIII
die III thousands, and perhaps mil
lions, are the very flower of clvillxa-
ton: We shall destroy brains which
might nave discovered FOR us IN ten or
twenty years easements for the worst
Of human pains and solutions FOR the
| worst Of social dangers. We shall
blot those souls out II Our common
existence. We shall destroy utterly
those splendid burning spirits reach
ing out to enlighten our darkness.
Our fathers destroyed those strange
and valuable creatures whom they
called witches We arNs DESTROYING
the brightest of our angels"
aoiShrdluetaoinShrdluetaoi shrdlul
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

or listen to the chemist and the biolo-
gist? We are back in the age of
sticks and stones, but perishing sci
ence-'so the struck eagle, " \ -
has armed us with other the
slaughter will be more hideous-the
ruin will be more calamitOus. and for
nobody will there be a crown of glory.
"All that has made this strange ex-
p%erience of conscious human life in
tereSting, ennObling, and hopeful has
rested upon commences, and COM
merce has been what it has been be-
cause of two things, credit and good
Where is credit now What
banker in London, what British mer-
chant, ever dreamed a week ago to
hear of such a thing as a moratorium?
And where are good gone?
Look for them in Asia, but not in Eu-
rope. At every Christian frontier you
can pick up a broken treaty and a dis
honored bono
"Mr Normal Angel told me this
morning that Out of this War-'every-
body fighting and nobody wanting to
Importance will merge. We shall
have a Cossack Europe, and New
York will henCeforth be the center of
credit. Russia must win. She calls
a million sixteenth-century peasants
from the fields, and Germany mows
them down. Another million take
their place. Death again. Another
million. And yet another million of
these siXteenth-century peasants. And
when it is all over, those who are left
will go back to their fields.
But Germany. France, England,
particularly England, and Germany,
where will they turn when the million
dead are ShOveled under bloody soil
The bricks and mortar of industry
may be still standing; but where viii
credit be found? And what will the
millions of starving factory hands be
doing? How shall we get upon gu,
feet? Where is the clockmaker who
will mend the smashed wheels and
set the pendulum swinging once
again Happy the Russian peasant
who will go back to his sixteenth cen
fury and his field, telling the time by
the suns shadow. Industry in Eu
rope, with other things of older date
will lie in ruins.
"In three months from now, the de
mocracies Of Europe will be crying
out for a return to normal conditions
The war fever will have spent itself
The war lords will be confronted b.
their outraged and maddened victims
What will they Men will
= want work, they will want wages, the,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

kinstOn Negro Takes Ride Like He
Never Took Before.

kinston, Sept. Ito take a Ade
in his own WheelharroW with n loco
motive as the motive power was The
experience which came to Ed McCar-
ter without the seeking yesterday.
McCarter, a negro employed by The
Imperial Tobacco Company. was
trundling the barrow across the Nor
folk Southern railroad yard within
200 feet of the passenger station, and
misunderstood the rantlc signals of
a flagman who tried to wave him
back as an incoming train approach
ed. The train, a passenger from
GOld>bOrO, struck McCarter in the
back, knocking him across the wheel
barrow. Providence seemingly took
an interest in the situation, for when
the black realized what was happen
ing he was lying on the barrow, which
was moving at a speed faster than its
c~reaking wheels had ever before
| known, his feet against the engines
fender and the wheelbarrow handle
held fast in the cowcatcher. the
| wheelbarrow rolled nicely. on a level
keel. People at the station covered
their eyes and the engineer was about
to sweat. Whn the train was brought
to q stop McCarter got out of the
W~heelbarrOw and found that the end
of a finger was bleeding and that he
had q pain in his back from contact
with the engine. The finger. incl
dentally, was "a blunt finger that had
been previously shortened by another
accident. MCCarter probably wont
be over his fria ut for some time.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
An Effective Plan.

~ Methodist missionary in India
writes: Since 1908 our mission in
ihdla has set apart a favorable month
each year for the concerted evan
seilstc effort in all the conference
areas. The results have shown the
wisdom Of this plan. This year the
period from February Is to March Is
OF whereabouts was generally so en-
ployed. Much prayer and preparation
nad been made, and the remarkable
!act Is that h results were not due
- particular mass movements, but to
a general forward movement through
out The field. The reports are sum-
uoarlzed as follows: Number of bap-
,Snhs' 1920; meetings, 20,336; pres
ent at these meetings, 421,729; bible
poruons sold, 23,101; tracts distrib-
uleu' 269,O65; heather shrines torn
"o"h, 4ol; laymen who have volur-
leer days, 1905; number of days thus
gwen, 2,73l."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

Financial diSarrangement IS now
universal, as the result of the great
war, and is eating values with ap-
pa!ling greediness. The worlds pocket
book is the centre or its nervous sys-
tenn and this war, recorded as it is not
only by ocean telegraph which flashes
instantaneous messages to all parts OF
the world, but by transatlantic wire
less, has upset it as nothing ever has
before.
Nor does this business. commercial.
and financial loss comprise the total
of the inevitable dreary aftermath Of
waste. Our civil war ended forty five
years ago, yet VIZ are still paying civil
war bills.
We have spent far more than
$4,000, coo, 900 on our pension list. and
it will cost US another two billions be-
fore we have finished with it-more
than half as much as North and South
together spent upon the actual Mar.
The greater PORTION of the public
and since the civil war this has cost
the Government in interest charges
two and a half billions. with interest
still running on three-quarterS Of 4
| billion and more. The State expendi-
lures for bOuntieS and other e8pendi-
lures directly traceable to the civil
war have totaled mere than $500
600, 900.
The after-cOSt OF European wal mas
been and will be proportionately less
than our for they pension far less
| literally than we do, but an approx
mate guess at the price they have
been and still are paying for past wars
may be formed by n glance at their
| public debt interest figures. for their
public debts are principally war debts.
Before the beginning Of the present
war the French debt was approx
mately six billion dollars, demanding
interest payments Of over two hun-
dred million dollars a year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
A Shocking Custom.

Hospital work is increasing stead
lily, says f. u. Manget, a Methodist
missionary in China. During the sec
ond quarter we treated 5000 outdoor
patients, 200 hospital patients, per
formed some so major operations
and several hundred minor operations.
We touch all classes, socially speak
ing, all classes, pathologically speak
ing; tu~bercular patients, ]cancerous
patients, lepers, and many repulsive
infectious diseases that at times all
the doctors Can stand. Then, too. we
nave classes of patients that am
sure our colleagues in America never
see. For example, a girl twelve years
old came to the clinic with a large
wound on her forearm, On inquiry we
found that her mother had been sick
a long time and they had, in accord
ance with a long established custom,
taken a large pair Of shears and
pinching up the flesh had whacked
off a large piece to make soup for
the mother to drink; after drinking
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
Changes In China.

Conditions have vastly changed in
China and Hwanghein within Il year"
says Missionary w. Carey Newton.
The new republic was largely manned
by Christian forces and was openly
favorable to Christianity. The pres
ent government which is republican
only in name, has no Christian in it's
service whom l know. 1t is Confu-
cian in principle and %idolatrous in
practice. But it is decidedly the best
government China has eve Known.
The public schools are antichrist-
ian and we cannot educate our stu
dents in them.
The republican idea never took
hold Of more than a tenth of the peo-
pie, If We lake cue cutting as evidence.
or the tenth who sacrificed their cues
many are growing them again. The
temples are being repaired with great
expenditure in this section. For the
first time in the memory Of man the
H~wanghein city walls are being re-
built in the broken down places.
How does this affect our work ?
There is not a mass movement to-
wards us, as there was "a year or two
ago. Those who come are Christians
and the average of social standing is
better han we have known. OuI
schools have all the students they car
accommodate and they pay tuition
But We must have better schools tina
formerly"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
The Bible i'm New Zealand.

New Zealand will have soon a ref
erendum vote on the question Of bible
,sdulns and religious instruction IN
,"e pubic schools. The bill to De
.oteu on provides for the reading in
puohc schools of selected bible les
'G1S from a reading book TO be pro-
arueo oy the department OF education,
~ sectarlan teaching to be allowed.
VISION is mad also for religious
,E.S,ructlon within school hours to
,"lluren by a minister of their own de-
.oLnlnation. Any parent will have the
asnl' IL he chooses to do so, to with
~ MS children from the bible
'e"ulhS or religious instruction.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
\ IN GERMAN MISSIONS
OBEY CALL TO THEIR O ORS
kches Hold Farewell Services for Departing Soldiers
Christian Mother Sees Her Sons Converted Before
They Go to the Front.

Aefn Missionary News Bureau
|da clyde Clarke, Editor.
little news has come to the
IN board from the missions in
nany and other war-Stricken
Atries.
e following from Bishop J.. /.
Rsen. ID. o.. LIZ d., Of the Metho-
church will be read with much
rest Il have very scant news
Germany these days. The dedi-
On Of the new theological seminary
1dings, Martin Mission Institute),
frankfurt, North Germany, had to
poetponed, DR.. Z. G. Junker, di-
Nor OF the school, writes me that
could not be opened yesterday for
fan term as planned, because the
niority Of the students had to go to
army. Those left at home were
kedcd as supplies in the various
hurcnes.
T"Nine preachers from Stuttgart.
H. M from Heilbronn and seven from
districts were called to the
lolors. and others will follow in the
hear future.
The district superintendent report
hat everywhere they r having good
meetings. In most places special
services are being held. In one
rhurch was a mother whose five sons
had To- go to the front. Before the
young men left, all were converted.
In every church special farewell meet
inss for the departing soldiers were
arranged.
~ spirit of great seriousness is
everywhere manifested. am encour-
aging our preachers and people tO
dodble their efforts and to do all they
can to show hat the church does not
shring from her duty at this time. In
the midst of the tribulations of wal
We must emphasize the spiritual and
eternal needs of the human soul"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
Items of Interest

A Presbyterian missionary in AfTi-
"a writes that a church was recently
organized in Fulasi. Africa. and that
there were 800 people present Al the
service. The church starts with a
membership of 354. In the territory
IN which. this missionary labors there
are twenty-five eVangeiists giving
tnelr full time To the work. and ali are
supported by the native christians.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

ii hung IIons. - richest man in
the chlnese empire, wrote some me-
molrs, in which he remarked: Il re-
emb when ! was "A youth at Lou
ChoW that riches and promotions
seemed as very gifts Of the celestial
regions. But have found that nei-
Their great wealth, nor distinguished
decorations, nor both put together.
VIII guarantee q man against unrest
of mind or turmoil of soul. How
great and honorable is the peacock's
feather of the throne, yet how much
easier rests the head on goose fea-
therS.'
There are said to be 100, 900 Bap-
fists in Australia.
President Yuan has issued a decree
FOR the establishment Of an education
fund of ST., 600, 600 TO provide 200
scholarships for students at home and
abroad of $40O each. This is one of
the hopeful signs in China. The mis-
sion schools are helping to move the
government to establish its own
schools. The mission hospitals will
provoke and inspire the nation to
found and support their own hospi-
tails. What has been done in other
lands will be repeated in China
In 862 Baptist churches made up of
foreign speaking peoples in this
try there are 6S7 ministers and 1899
members. During the past year these
members contributed more than s165,-
600 for missions.
The Educational Association Of
Japan recently conferred upon Miss
Mamie B. Gains, principal of the
hiroshima girls school, and one Of
the best known of the ~educatinal mis-
s~iOnaries in the far east, its medal
and certificate Of honor in %recOgni-
ton Of her long and meritorious work
as an educator in that country. This
is said to be a distinction LAT has
been awarded to very few foreigners
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
CUT RENT 81 OWING 10 WAR
Long Island City Landlords
Hailed A> Phila nthropists.

From the New York Sun.
w. II. Williams and H. y. Williams
are real philanthropists. Both have
notified their real estate agent -
make temporary rent reductions Of 81
q month to each OF their tenants be
cause the European war has thrown
IrIny persons out Of work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

the IA the flesh was then eaten.
This did not ecu in "a countTymans
household, but in the home II the
better class" s~o-called. in the richest
in the whole province.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22
Fiye-iD-One.

Niready | have been physician,
an.dpehter, teacher and preacher-yes.
pm road-maker, too" writes Rev.
KoSneI y Guptill. a new missionary at
a"hpoVe. west central Africa. '"The
government" he continues has
SVEN Ms twenty boys who are building
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

The Canadian Methodists raised for
missions during the past ecclesiastical
year s631, $40. 80. a gain over the con-
trlbutlons of the preceding year OF
s3,I62.29.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

Gratitude for one favor - often a
covert bid for another.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

q pain from the railroad to the mis-
SION mouse, a distance Of about a
quarter OF a mile. For the PAST tuo
weeks / nave had full charge of this
constructor work, in addition IN mr.,
regular duties. The high cost Of Iiv-
ing mere rather startles a Dew-corar
ihlhk or paying eighty cents a pound
LOT outer, ninety cents a dozen for
Eggs, n fifty cents a pound for lard ;,
Christians In China.
me Missionary Review of the
NOrld says hat the latest statistics Of
church membership in the
republic of China give 100000. The
churches are served by SAG ordained
ChlneSe pastors and 1884 unordain-
ed workers. There are also 471e
hlnese christian school teachers. 7Sq
bible women, and 496 native assist
ants in the hospitals. Chinese christ
lans contributed last year 1920. 600 70,
christian work. There are S5.241
Chinese boys n girls in the primary
and day schools Of the christiar
church and 1885, students in the in.
termediate high schools and college.
maintained by the evangelical church
The hospitals lumber 235 with 20(
d1spensaries. The patients treated las
I year tOtaled 1922, 8O2.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

There are said to be 1000 Bap
fists in Australia.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-26
Rheumatic Blood
is Whole Story
Wonderful Remedy for Sci
atica, LumbagO, and i,
Dreaded Articular
Rheumatism.

There is but one standard rheumas
tlsrn remedy, and it reflects the best
thought Of the day. It is prepared in
tne great Swift Laboratory in Atlanta,
Ga and sold in all drug stores under
the name Of S. S. S.
starvation has been advocated by
many as a cure for rheumatism, and
yet S. S. S. accomplishes in fact what
taddists proclaim in theory and with
out the punishment of starvation. Hot
Springs and sweating are often recon-
mended, but S. S. s. does all that is
expected Of these expensive and weak
ening methods.
It is conceded that rheumatism is
caused in most cases by an acid
condition Of the blood and aggravated
by the remedies commonly used for
relief In other cases rheuma tism is
the resulteof nerve depression; in still
others it is the effect Of some vttiated
blood condition, having been treated
with mercury, iOdides, arsenic, and
other poisonous mineral drugs.
The recoveries of all these types OF
rheumatism by the use Of S. S. S. is
a wonderful tribute to the natural
efficacy Of this remarkable medicine.
Do not fail to get a bottle of S. S. S.
to-day, but don't accept a substitute.
If your rheumatism is of such nature
that you would like to consult a great
specialist confidentially, write to the
Medical Dept, The Swift Specific Coz
322 Swift Bldg, Atlanta Ga.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-26

always seems to have more spirit, more
personality, more ginger in it than
most other shows, but that reason is
simple, once you know Clifford and
his people. Billy Clifford believes
first in getting good people and then
in treating them like they were peO-
pie. Back of the stage, il is always
yes, my dear when one OF his women
folk ask anything, and the same smile
that captivates the audience plays
about his mouth when he addresses
them; he does things for his people
like he liked to do it and they do
things for him-when they get before
the footlights-because they like to
do it. The people all work to make
good because they like the boss"
Billy Clifford's performers, even on
the stage, it viii be noticed, are all
just like a family, with their own pri-
vate jokes and aside kiddings as the
play progresses. One only has to take
a little peek into the private life Of
the company to see why Billy Cliff
fOrd's performers don't have to rush
from the theater to catch a train and
then sit up if the Pullmans are all
full or wait for the porter to make
down a berth and then climb out at
whatever hour of the morning or night
they get to the next place Of per-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-26
T,TpORTATTONs AT FABENs.

Fabens, Tex, Jan. 26.-J Rey i'm
ported 153 head of horses from Quad
alupe, Chin, and H. NJ. Maple i'm
this mort
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-26
: Printers Make Donation
and Elect NetD Secretary
Paul Dodge Chosen Secreta-
ry; j. S. p. Garfield Put
on Executive Board.

BY ThOs. BeaI, StereOtypers' Union.
II L PASO union printers at their
monthly meeting Sunday, voted
a donation TO the rescue home
and elected Paul Dodge secretary to
succeed E. T. skidmore, who has gone
to Havana. Cuba, as representative
of the Mergenthaler Linotype co. J.
S. p. Garfield was chosen a member
Of the executive board to succeed Z.
V. Carlton, resigned.
J. L. Tucker. S. W. Dodge and
Brooks were appointed a committee
70 visit the city and county officials
To urge placing the union label on
printed matter, also the chamber OF
commerce About 90 members were
present and Ihuch business was trans
acted
The regular scmi-monthly meeting
Of the Theatrical Stage Employees was
held Sunday night at Union Labor
hall. The meetisg was well attended.
frank DOnnelly, member OF the
Theatrical Stage Employees union is
confined to his home on account Of
sickness.
The semi-uonthly meeting Of the
Bartenders' union was called to order
by president Ed Levy Sunday morn
Ing at Union Labor hall
Carl Hudson, a member Of the
Cooks and Waters union, has opened
. restaurant on South Stanton street
II. f. LONE is working at the Black
Cat Cafe in va 'ez. He is a member
OF the Cooks and Matters union.
Jim 6tewar = member of the
Plumbers univ lis working for the
bush Plumbing and Heating co.
p. j. Berry Is doing steam fitting
for Elliott and Berry, in Ell Rio, N.
NJ He is a member of the Plumbers
union.
L. II. T. Fletcher, a member of
Cooks and Walters union, has gone to
MADEIRA, Mexico, where he has posi-
ton
The regular semi-mOnthly meeting
OF the Central Labor union will be
held tonight at Union Labor hail. ".
C. Manning is president; F. T. TufanO
is secretary.