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New BOOK BY THE AUTHOR or
“LOOKiNG BACKWARDS.”
In the Year A. D. 2,000 Private Fortune!
Abolished and a. New Ideal of Property
Set Up—The New Book is Simply an
Amplification of the First.
0
Some nine years ago Mr. Edward
Bellamy produced a book called “Look-
ing Backward,” in which he took a
long forward glance into the future
He imagined that future as having
solved all the economic problems that
confront us to- day, and compared
the Utopia of his imagination with the
actual present. The book chimed in
with the mood of many socialistic.agi-
tators, and made a great popular-suc-
cess.
His second book is a thoughtful am‘
plification of the first. The title is
“Equality.” In the preface he tells us
that when he wrote “Looking Back-
ward” he was not able to get into it
all he wished to say. “Since it was
published what was left out of it has
loomed 11p as so 'much mere important
than what it contained that I have
been constrained to write another
book.”
He has taken the date of “Looking
Backward,” the year 2000, as that of
“Equality,” and has utilized
framework of the former story as a
starting point ' for this. 'In short,
“Equality” is a sequel or continuation
of “Looking Backward."
EDWARD BELLAMY.
It is therefore necessary to recount
the essential features of the first book.
Julian West, the hero, :1 Boston mil-
lionaire, was supposed to have been
put into a hypnotic trance on May 30.
1887. He woke up one hundred and
thirteen years later, in September, A.
D. 2000. It took him some time to
master the new conditions that pre-
sented themselves to his astonished
view.
Step by step, almost as to a child,
his new hosts explained to him. who
had knowh no other way of living ex-
cept the struggle for existence, what
were the simple principles of national
co-operation for the promotion of the
general welfare on which the new civi-
lization rested. He learned that there
were no longer any who were or could
be richer _cr poorer than others, but
that all were economic equals. He
learned that no one any longer worked
for another, either by compulsion or
for hire, but that all alike were in the
service of, the nation working for the
common fund, which all equally
shared, and that even necessary per-
sonal attendance, as of the physician,
was rendered as to the State like that
of the military surgeon.
All these wonders. it was ex-
plained, had very simply come about
as the results of replacing private
capitalism by public capitalism, and
organizing the machinery of production
and distribution, like the political gov-
ernment, as business of general con-
cern to be carried on for the public
benefit instead of private gain.
The new book is simply an amplifi-
cation of the old. It explains more
fully and emphasizes more acutely the
means by which this great revolution
had been accomplished. Of .course,
there is much that appeals to the fancy
rather than the intelligence. The or-
dinary reader finds more enjoyment in
allowing his imagination to batten up-
on the domestic and everyday possibili-
ties of twentieth century advance
' ment than in dry economical details.
Mr. Bellamy has therefore provided
all sorts of pretty millinery to dress
out his skeleton of socialistic commun
ism. He gives us 3a race of people whc
are beautifully and comfortably at
tired in paper clothes.
A gala costume costs from ten tc
twenty cents. Consequently it is
worn but for a day or two and then
goes back to the mill to be. reproduced
in other forms. .The laundry and the
tailor shop are practically unknown
in the Boston of A. D. 2000. He alsc
gives us gr'aphophonies instead 01
books and newspapers, and theatrical
performances which are turned on it
private homes as gas 01' water is
turned on ‘in 1897. _ These are the
ser intelligence than Mr. Bellamy’s
They count for nothing save to beguile
the reader into swallowing his intend-
ed pill of instruction.
Socially and economically Mr Bel
lamy bell-eves that the p1esent world
He holds before us :1
picture of the world set right. He
imagines private fortunes abolished=
whet-her achieved by inheritance or by
individual effort. Individuals \VOI‘Ii
co-operatively for the general good,
wherein the good to themselves is a
necessary but incidental feature-
Dr. Leete is the-spokesman of the
book. He ismadeto point out the
. wrong and injustice of the system new
prevailing. Here is. how he
the possession of wealth by. inherit-
ance: Julian West is supposed
it‘
bring out before the astonished eyes .-
of twentieth century people a's:.1'o=..;._'
'of ownership
the
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11".}; containing his title deeds, mort-
:1nd other evidences of former
The. Doctor explains their
gages
11'e...1h.
real purport as follows:—
,"I think,” said the Doctor, “that we
Ishall all .understand the nature and
value of these documents much better
if, instead of speaking of them as titles
in farms, factories,
mines, railroads, &c., we state plainly
that they were evidences that thei1
possessors were the masters of various
groups of men, women and children
in different parts of the country. -Oi
course, as Julian says, the documents
nominally state his title to things only,
l and say‘nothing about men and worn.
en. But it is the men and women who
went with the lands, the machines
and various other things, and were
bound to them by their bodily necessi-
ties which gave all the value to the
possession of the things.
“But for the implication that there
were men who, because they must
have the use of the land, would sub-
mit to labor for the: owner of it in re
turn for permission to occupy it, these
deeds and mortgages would have been
of no value.S
They speak only of water power and
looms, but they would be valueless but
'for the thousands of human wor'kers
So of these factory shares"
bound to the machines by bodily ne.
cessities as fixedly as if they were
chained there. So of these coal mine
shares. But for the multitude or
wretched beings condemned by wani
to labor in living graves, of what
value would have been these shares,
which yet make no mention of them?
And see, again, how significant is the
fact that it was deemed needless to
make mention of and to enumerate by
name these serfs of the field, of the
loom, of the mine!
“Under systems of chattel slavery,
such as had formerly prevailed, it was
necessary to name and identify each
chattel, that he might berecovered in
case of escape, and an account made
of the loss in case of death. But there
was no danger of loss by the escape or
the death of the serfs transferred by
these documents. They would not run
away, for there was nothing better to
run to or any escape from the world-
wide economic system which en-
thralled them; and if they died, that
involved no loss to their owners, for
there were always plenty more to take
their places. Decidedly, it would have
been a waste of paper to enumerate
them.’
So much for inherited wealth. But
wealth accumulated by individual ef-
fort is surely lawful? Dr. Leete thinks
not. This is how he explains the twen-
tieth century view of the case:—
“We have seen how far the inherit-
ing class were justified in their hold-
ings by the principle which the nine-
teenth century asserted to be the ex
cuse for wealth—namely, that indi-
viduals were entitled to the fruit of
their labors. Let us next inquire how
far the same principle justified the pos-
sessions of these others whom Julian
refers to, who claimed that they had
made their money themselves, and
showed in proof lives absolutely de-
voted from childhood to age without
rest or respite to the piling up of gains.
“Now, of course, labor in itself, how-
ever arduous, does not imply moral de-
sert. It may be a criminal activity.
Let us see if these men who claimed
that they made their money had any
better title to it than Julian’s class by
the rule put forward as the excuse for
unequal wealth, that every one has a
right to the product of his labor. The
most complete statement of the prin
ciple of the right of pr',operty as based
on economic effort, which has come
down to us is this maxim: Every man
is entitled to his own product, his whole
product and nothing but his product.’
Now this maxim has a double edge—a
negative as well as a positive, and the
negative edge is very sharp. If every-
body was entitled to his own product
nobody else was entitled to any part
of it, and if- any one’s accumulation
was found to contain any product not
strictly his own, he stood condemned
as a thief by the law he had invoked.
.“If in the great fortunes of the stock-
jobbers, the railroad kings, the bank-
ers, the great landlords and the other
moneyed lords who boasted that they
had began life with a shilling—if in
these great fortunes of mushroom rap-
idity of growth there was anything
that was properly the product of the
efforts of any one but the owner, it
was not his, and his possession of it
condemned him as a thief. If he would
be justified he must not be mere care-
ful to obtain all that was his own pro.
duct than to avoid taking anything
that was not his product.”
Thesetwo quotations sum up Mr.
Bellamy’s philosophy. '
The rest of the book is simply an ex-
pansion of the thoughts here con-
tained. That Mr. Bellamy is earnest
and honest in his convictions is evi-
dent. That hundreds of earnest and
honest men hold the same convictions
is also evident. Will the future in-
crease or decrease the number of these
men? That an increase threatens the
things that Would be obvious to a leg 1 overturning of our entire social fabric
and its rebuilding on a new basis goes
without saying.
Quick ‘York, This.
The late Sir John Throckmorton
once sat down to dinner dressed in a
cent which had been wool on. the back
of a sheep the same morning, says the
Golden Penny. The whole process 0'?
manufacture had taken place during
the hours from sunrise to 7 P. M.——thc
sheep sheared, the Wool washed. card.
ed, spun and woven; the cloth scoured.
fullcd, sheared, dyed, and dressed, and
finally made into a coat, which- Sir
John wore when he presided at a din-
ner party.
Mrs Bcnham—You used to say. that
our life' would be one grand sweer
song.
Benhlam—That 1111:. before I had -to
sing it to the.11vins.——'1‘rn’ti1. ,,..
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'tried at the next term of court
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SHOOTING sounrv JUMPERS.
, ~—
I"; Breanne Imperative After Gettysburg,
and Lincoln Refused to Interfere.
f-‘lfi'id you ever see a man shot for
desertion ?” .
“Yes. several of'thxcm. The first one
was a man of our brigade. He desert-
ed near Fredericksburg and join-ed th
Confederate army. A few weeks be!
fore "we started for Gettysburg 21 Con-
federate d-eserter reached the lines of
another brigade and was placed under
guard. A soldier of our brigade pas-
sing that way saw the Confederate,
and wassu-r'pr'ised to find that he was
the man who had deserted from his
company a few weeks before. Found
,guilty, he was sentenced to be shot.
The dayupon'which he was to die we
were on the way to Pennsylvania to
help fight the great deciding battle.
The deser'ter was placed in an am-
bulance, by his coffin that morning.
At noon, after hard tack, pork, and
coffee, the brigade formed three lines
of a square, when the deserter was
marched from right to left of. the line
and seated upon the coffin. Twelve
men were marched two or three rods
from him. The officer gave the com;
mand: ‘Ready, aim, fire!’ The crim-
inal fell back on his coffin pierced by
five 01' six bullets.
immediately, without service, and the
brigade pulled out, the band playing
a quickstep.
“After the battle of Gettysburg, and
when the Fifth Corps was camp-ed
near the Rappahannock River, in Sep-
tember, the whole command was
for-med on three sides of a square, the
customary formation, and witnessed
the shooting of five deserterts. All of
them were of the class known'as boun-
ty jumpers. They had deserted sev-
eral times, one of them five times.
They we're New Yorkers. A desperate
effort had been made to save their
lives. Several committees from the
great city had waited upon President
Lincoln and pleaded for them. The
wives and children of two of them vis-
ited the President, but Mr. Lincoln
could not be moved. He had over-
looked the offence in hundreds of in-
stances, but the time had come when
the discipline of the army demanded
the severest punishment of soldiers
found guilty of that crime. Secretary
Stanton, for a year before Mr. Lin-
coin had refused to punish deserters,
had pleaded with him to let the law
have its way. Mr. Stantonhad told
the President many a time that his
soft heart was spoiling the army and
endangering the life of the "nation, but
Mr. Lincoln paid little heed until 1863.
“In some portions of the army it was
the custom to hang deser'ter's, but in
most instances they were shot, and in
the presence of their respective com-
mands, as described. The effect was
magical. Desertions were little heard
of for the next few months.”——Chieago
Times-Herald.
THE GOVERNMENT’S MODEL ROAD.
Work on the Object Lessons to be Acconr-
panied by Lectures.
The experiment in road building by
the Department of Agriculture was re-
cently exemplified at New Brunswick.
N. J. This model road was the first
of several which the Government is
to build at the various experiment sta-
tions throughout the country. The G01 -
ernment furnishes a rock crusher,
screen. engine to drive steam roller,
spreading wagon and road grading
machine, and two skilled operators.
The city furnishes the material, carts
and laborers. The government pave~
ments will have a depth of about nine
inches. Tl‘T'e foundation is made of
small wedge-shaped stones of as nearly
uniform size as possible. The road
bed is prepared by being thoroughly
rolled with a ten-ton steam roller. Four
inches of crushed stone is laid on this
road bed. The stones vary in size
from a half inch to two inch-es in di-
ameter. The first foundation is not
thicker than four inches. Over the
first foundation is applied a second
coat of similar stone three inches in
thickness. A thin coating of trap rock
screenings is spread over the surface.
The cost of the road is about $2,000
a mile.~ The Government aid reduces
the cost one-third.
As the work progresses Mr. E. B.
Harrison who directs the work for the
.D-epartmenet - of Agriculture delivers
lectures explaining the process of lay-
ing the road. Students and farmers
are invited to attend the lectures and
witness the work. '
AT LAW OVER 25 CENTS.
l‘he Litigation has been Going on' a Year '
and a Half and has Cost $100.
B'ecau-Se Peter Neilson- and John
Gaddis of Somerville, N. J., are stick-
lers for principle, the sum of 25 cents,
involved in a dispute over the amount
due for the rent‘of 'a stable, has al.
ready entailed a cost of $100 in legal
fees in the various courts where the
case has been pending for a year and
a half. Gaddis once rented stable
room for his horse from Neilson. When
a settlemeent was attempted there
was a dispute over a difference of 2:3
cents. Each man swore that he would
not give- in to the other, not that he
wanted the quarter of a dollar, but be-
cause each Claimed that he was right
and the other wrong.
The,case was tried in a justices
court, a verdict was given for the
plaintiff., an‘execution issued, and a
levy made by the Sheriff. A motion
for an appeal was granted, and for
some. time past it has been pending in
the Common ’lens Court of Somerset
county. It is thought that it will be
Be
fore it is ended the costs may aggr-e
“.‘ate @150.
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WAR HORSES IN ARMOR TIMES;
They Bore Great \Veigbt and Were Neces-
sarily of Very Strong Breed.
The size of the English war horse
reached its maximum in the reign of
Henry VIII., when the relations of
body armor to‘ hand guns” were anal-
ogous to those of the early ship armor
and cannon before the “high. veloci-
ties” were obtained at Elswick. There
was good reason to believe, says The
Spectator, that by-adding alittle to
the thickness of the coat of steel the
soft low-velocity bullet of the day
could be kept out. So it was for a
time. But the additional weight re-
quired a still larger horse to carry it.
The charger had to be armored as well
as his rider, and the collection in the
Tower of London shows the actual
weight which it carried. The panoply
of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk,
the br'other-in-law of Henry VIII, still
exists. That of the horse covers the
Whole of the hindquarters, the back of
the neck, forehead muzzle, ears, shoul-
der's and chest. It is exactly like a
piece of boiler plating, and fastened
by rivets.
The rider sat in a saddle in the front
of which was a steel shield 10 inches
high, covering the stomach and thighs
as the “breastwork” on an iron-clad’s
deck covers the base of the turret. The '
total weight is 80 pounds 15 ounces.
Tothis add the weight of the ,1'ider"s
armor, 90 pounds 9 ounces, and of the
rider himself, say 16 stone (22-1 pounds)
and the total is 28 stone 12 pounds 8
ounces, 01' 404 pounds 8 ounces. This
bears out Holinshead’s statement that
in'the days of Henry VIII. horses that
were kept for burden would bear four
hundred weight commonly.
W-ar.‘ '~ «4‘3
AJapaneso Prison.‘
The prison, six miles from Tokio,
seems to be a model in its perfect
management. {We approached a lot
of handsome buildings, and I asked if
they did not belong to the university.
“No; the prison where we are go-
ing,” the guide said. >
And we entered the beautiful
grounds, laid ofi artistically
planted with flowers. The buildings
are of brick, one story high, and are
filled with many comforts.
Every prisoner saluted us.
In the shops all are required to
work, and are supplied with all the
necessary materials by the govern
ment. Some do exquisite Cloisonne
and wood carving
articles, such as shoes, buckets, has-
kets, etc., until you can find almost
any article you wish. The articles are
sold for just what the material costs.—
Atlanta Constitution.
DIanjak.
Manjak is a new mineral substance
found in the island. of Barbadoes,
which is used as an intensifier of the
illuminating power of coal gas. Its
importance to the electrician, however.
lies in the fact that it possesses many
of the properties of an ideal insulator
for electric wires. It is of a black
color, and has a high luster and a
bright, conchoidal fracture, resembling
in appearance netvly broken pitch. It
is found very near and sometimes upon
the surface of the ground in seams va-
rving from 1 foot to 2 feet in thick-
ness, running usually at an angle of
about 45 degrees, and in close proxim-
ity to rocks. It is supposed to have
been for med by the drying 11p and con-
solidation of petroleum oil, which is
found in abundance in the same local-
ities,‘and is often seen oozing out of
the ground or floating down the
streams—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
and 3
; others make useful
SCIENTIFIC FAaMiNe IN CHINA.
A $3,000 Salary for the Man Who- \Vill
Teach the Celestials Agriculture.
It is evidence of the intention of the '~
Chinese Government to improve the
material condition of the people of that
country when it comes to America to
secure the services of a man who will
be able to teach the coolieshow to
farm according to modern and scien-
tific principles. China is one of the
greatest agricultural countries upon
the face of the earth. The larger ”por'
tion of the empire, is favored by cli-
mate and natural conditions, yet the
old civilization has not been able to
secure the best and most fruitful re-
sults. The new civilization is there-
fore appealed to, and Chang Chi Tun-g,
Viceroy of the province of Hu-Kwang,
has requested President Schur'man, of.
Cornell University to select a graduate
of the agricultural department of that
institution who is cempete-nt to estab-
lish and take charge of a model farm
in that province.
The salary oflered is $3,000 in gold,
which is equivalent to about $6,000 in
the silver money of China. Such a.
sum must be regarded as enormous by ,
the Chinese themselves and that they
should offer it shows their anxiety to
secure the benefits of American agri-
lcultural methods. There can be no
1 question that it will be a wibe invest-
i ment if it shall have the efiett of in-
ducing the Chinese farmers to aban—
Idon their rudimentary and obsolete
methods. Unfortunately there are
many obstacles in the way, chief of
them being Chinese superstition,
which blocks progress in that country.
The natives have hitherto been in-
clined to pay more heed to the sup-
posed commands of the “gods of the
winds and the water” than to the ad-
vice and suggestions of “foreign
devils.”—-Detroit Times. '
A PRECDCI‘O’US iSICKANmNY.
Began Talking Whena‘Voek Old, 3 State-
ment it is Said, That can be Verified.
Few will believe it possible for a
thr'ee-monthssold child to talk. How-
ever, such is the case, and any one
can unify the truthfulness of this
statement with very little t.rouble The
parents of the child are Richard and
Frankie Cleveland, color,ed living at
17 Short street, and the child has been
talking since it was only a week old.
Hundreds ha1e vis sited the little won- _
der', and have left the house complete-
ly mystified at what they have seen
and heard.
The child is a girl, and differs only
from other babies in that it can talk
as plainly and be understood, as dis-
tinctly as a grown person. The
voice, of course, is naturally weak,
but has none of the baby pr'attle about
it.
Some people called at the house to
convince themselves of the truth of
the rumors which had been circulated
concerning the child. The little one
seemed to enjoy the presence ofthe
crowd for a while, but, soon tiring,
remarked to its mother, in a voice
audible to all present: “I wish all
these folks would go home, as I am
tired.” The callers took the hint and
soon departed—Nashville Banner.
_,__.__...._..——.—-
An Interpretation.
“I wonder," said Mrs. Cumrox
thoughtfully, “what that nice, old—
fashioned lady means by putting ‘P.
P. C.’ on her card.”
“That means she is goinn away,” m e-
plied her daughter.
“on, I see. and she wants me to
know she is going to travel in a Full-
man palace car.”—Wa'shingmn Star.
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