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n. c .. r. rasa : t. 13 ftool : .: ; fence utterly c t! r creature of hla !..ra..J confronting a ; :i n.y ' : ry, perplexity ; him. lie had no one .? to guide or help him l:i his struggle with na yriad forma of animate a forces. He had to fall - upon his own strength r feeble glimmer of Intel- undeveloped mind could , to come out victor In the As food was whatever his : could seize, Hla shelter, he could with rude and roYlsir.j out of the rough t hand make answer such ' l a lived for undetermined 3 the simpler of the se ture, the properties and things familiar to his dally he learned them for bhn- ' ring skill in fashioning weapon . or ... tool which rt added strength and ef his hand, he acquired It tor oing down to the edge of ?, faring forth upon their :he hollowed trunk of the carried him -along, be had dug out with diligent effort of his own. Plunging into V pursuing the flying game, ir, the dart, which reached brought them low, had been id wrought but by bis own nd energy. All that he had, e employed toward his; di ad subsistence, were the f his own Immediate person .d industry. The primitive was completely eelf-center-If -contained, and owed no pendence for anything about y other of his klnd.r :r;r dually as the race grew in and pushed out farther and place of Its domicile and ' above all to a migatory in e passion for wandering, ncies arose, new clrcum icreasingly difficult ior the i to cope with alone. ; The a gene, the' clan, the tribe successively formed, conflict joined with rival nelghbor ? of the same sort, recourse had to the larger body of i individual was a part for i and safety; direction had to and followed from someone ,ed by demonstrated natural masterfulness for leader- re personal Incapacity and showed only too. plainly and their Ineffectiveness. Com if persons thus: were estab 1 the Individual lost his old T exclusive, self-dependence, pon the united strength of i to which he belonged for 3 and,' self -keeping, he was here 'the self-sufficient per 3 been. Nor looking to an the ordering of his actions. id been accustomed to look r ordering ...for and from lely, .was he as self-com- f ing either in this regard 1 previously been. Further "me more and more claimed .rnmon defence, unable to same amount of attention ocurtng and making of the 1 utilities of existence, and coming gradually to the i of the difference In the natural aptitudes of persons, . recognition of much better! er others could contrive and i things then he himself, he turn, as had been his wont ntly, to personal resources .les 1 for provision for his l wants. The principle of dl ' labor was Introduced and iual came more and more his energies and swill to the "imerit of those things which he .conld most satisfactorily ntageously accomplish for 'avlng to other the perform he other things for which the more proficient and der the readier and the tive service. : : orrunate-ly, this division of I exchange of services, was tted to remain free and vol ,1th th individual. A mul- f causes, too numerous and nd carrying us too far afield t to do anything more here rely to suggest them, con take out of the hands of the 1 liberty of choice and elee ; obliged him to surrender tation or otners tne aeter of the things he was to do, g fortunes of war, the tri- victory, the humiliations or a domineer! nga of conufct, able subjectlona-ot captivity ry, th4 Inconstancies of un iture..the fickle changes of iiB, excessive heat and cold, f crops, floods, famlni, fire, rought. all unite to place the l at the mercy of circum nd persons whose will and re beyond his might to con i result, the various forms of regulation of the affairs of idual for him by others, of tory has preserved the rec v. p.-w- - . oes not admit of a detailed n of these, but a single in 1 suffice to give us a sense reneral character and pur- Ilddle. Ages Individual inde and self-mastership had so i 4o bring In that, order-of i A name of Feudalism. A . lords and barons, set them to , rule and ' control the the State, all power was t no hands or a limited cote ' lea, wleeted by the arbi :s of heredity. Certain held,' were born to the 1 to govern, to Impose . unquestioned and unchal- cn the remaining hosts of 1 all these remaining hosts :,er choice than meekly to j decree of their lowlier humbly bow their heads to Imposed upon them from 'ry, in the church. In mat- i, the same theory was w Feudal Lords owned all 1 with the land practi- ; ' who lived upon it ; than serfs and chat ' had no part of their They could not- even wl?h th implements it. Thfyv. ' 1 H. Ii t'.e f. "1 t f s V.'s-ii the e t: .:i i we 1. sa,; :;. v. ;.3 i Iir. All riU cf rriyaie j 'jmor.t c: 1 thc-c-ht here- was denied. The m .. y were dsemtj incompetent to have ar.y opinion of their own on questions of belief and sacred observance, A few men high and mighty in the coun cils of the church, were the inspired authorities and regulators of the thinking of all others. These others were to accept the conclusions of that thinking and be bound and guided ah solutely by It The utterance of the priest, was absolute law ior mem. and they could not doubt or oppose it only at the fatal cost or doom to their Immortal souis. But aM the while, however. In all these fields the forces were prepar Ing for a restoration, a reassertion by the individual of the power and the rights which had been . wrested migration from the old world of cei- taln disaffected elements or tne pop ulation rebellious against the orer and conditions of things as they there obtained in the seventeenth century, and as a result of the revolution in France against the Intolerable des- notlsm ef bureaucracy and autocra cy in the eighteenth, century, the day of "a hewer social order, or rather ef a harking back. if not in complete the order, the pristine social oraer, was ushered in. The earliest colonists, whether Puritans In New England, Hugenots in the Carolinas, or Caya nra in Virginia. cam over to this country and set to work immediately upon experiments which were io to the ultimate emancipation anew of the individual. The American Revo lution was fought, and this nation nn fnnnriftd tinan the Drinflple Which gradually had been taking shape in the heart and the minds of the peo ple, as the surest guarantee Of the, widest . social well-being, the prin ciple of Individual Liberty. f - The Individual, k was aeiermuiou, should be rehabilitated, re-endowed with all the rights and perogatlves nativA nni natural to him. In the field of government, it was resolved. that there should he tne leasi pos sible minimum of administrative con trol and regulation of the affairs of the individual which , was consistent with, the preservation of public order and Bafety. The individual snouia oo conscious that there was a govern ment, only In so far as It was neces sary for purposes of protection; pro tection from the. aggressions or otner individuals, on the other, in an other respects, save these where acta of his might give otiense ana engenaer strife with other nations, or trench upon the rights and possessions of other Individuals, ne migm pursue his own free unhindered way, with out the least suggestion of Interference from the government to restrain him. In the sphere of religion the same order of things was resolved upon. There should be, it was determined, complete" liberty of iconBcience ana left entirely free to settle all matters of faith for himself. Religion was af ter all purely an individual matter between each soul. and Cfod, and each soul must in consequence be a conv olete authority unto Itself in deter mining what it should believe and what not., or whether It should be lieve at all, and how mucn- ana now little: and no other authority, wheth er Civil or ecclesiastical, whether or the State or of the Church, had the right to step In and arrogate to Itself the jpoweri of deciding the question for It Church and State were separate entities, each with a distinct province of Its own, and each therefore to bo held as distinct and as far apart from the other as It was posRlble to put them and keep them. Neither should ever .have the power lo place iltis hand upon the individual and pres cribe for him the lines of thought for him to pursue, the kind of doc trine to adopt, the mode of worship to - observe. There could at all times be but one final Judge and arbiter her,- and - that, the Individual him Then In the realm of Industry the similar status of things It waa or dalned, should be made effective. While a singular, and, with shame be It admitted, a most discreditable contradiction of thegeneral principle was permitted to remain in tho slav ery of the black men, industry othor wlso, It was decreed, should be com pletely emancipated.' Every man should be entirely free to do the kind of work he liked best, and for which he felt himself best fitted, and to sell the products of that work where ho could to the largest advantage. Free dom of Contract, and Freedom of Competition in brief was the law that here should obtain. No coercion should be upon any man to restrict or force him Into any. defined avenues of labor or occupation, or Interefer with the application of his time and effort and the gain accruing from them as personal choice might pre fer nd-dlreet. Absolute-liberty most profitable bargain industrially, wher ever in his Judgment it might offer Itself. But re-established ns the Individ ualistic order of society thus has been, and endorsed and hedged around by legal prescriptions of this govern ment. yet would it seem either not to have proceeded too far in the ful fillment of Its principles. Dally we see apparent Instances of tho setting aside of the individual ideal. We hold the State Legislatures, busied with the consideration of - acts of legislation. which will restrain and hold in check within certain marked confines, the outreachings of an- ambitious indi vidualism. w hear of measures pro posed every now and then to prevent trade along certain lines extending beyond certain limits, and the invest ment of capital by Individuals in cer tain directions, from growing beyond certain proportions. We see the mast ers of certain fields of Industrie's com' blnlmr their forces In trusts. Dools. gentlemen's agreements : or whatever else, to control those lndustriee, to be the dictators of all that pertains to the conditions and the terms of labor and production there, the pre else amount ,of the product and the precise range or prices to b nxca upon it. . We see the workmen band Ing themselves together into unions, to decide the terms of . wages and hours under which those who wa'nt to work In certalij trades and crafts shall work; to decree through the Cloned shop who shall vbe allowed to work with them and who not; and to regulate th amount of the output by the rate of speed 1 of work they prescribe .and permit to the quicker, the more , dexterous and dioert: of workers, We note moreover repeated Dween the two nrim-lDals to an in - onrlat ' flptsr. anw"organf;at!onr".of l employers the one. r-w-t t)d p i i cir 1 r : . . .t 1 - i . . - . I If. , : "I C. . I : v I... 1 rj. 1..'ra v s I i"t carr.r lr a 1 : : 0 cf i t and two sorrowing burros, t-t cf eoura this circu?".s'tance was rnt c sidered when I determined to toV.Qvf the two tenderfeet. They had teea sent by discriminating Providence .and it would have been smrui in tne ex treme to have allowed them to depart without paying tribute to the old Has- saiamDS who composed our party. machine that will find any kind of a mine is worth seeing, so we gave tne bacon to the burros, loaded our tools on them and hit the trail. Next arter noon we camped where there was water and- the Britishers decided to give an exhibition of the machine at work. If you can find a mine where there is water you can camp there as long as the whiskey lasts, So they took the machine out of the bag" and when Its real beauties were revealed we fell on each others necks for Joy. It was a torn cat of full twen ty pounds weight and built for busi ness.' f : V Say. stranger, what the hell are you going to do with that cat?" asked Yellow Pete, standing at a resnect ful distance and fingering' his srun. mat cat, sir. is a part of the ma chine we propose to exhibit Tou may recall, that when you studied physics at school you were taught by the proper application of the skin of a cat to a rapidly revolving glass you could generate a large amount of electricity. The noise you hear when a male and female cat are exchanging the cour tesies of the, occasion Is caused by t!w transfereney of positive electricity irom one reune to. the other. It is known that there is a large amount of electricity in the earth and that it fol lows along lodes containing the pre cious metals," If we can divert this current and cause it to become known on the surface of the earth we will be able to locate the deposits most accurately. For this purpose my part ner and I have devised an instrument to be operated in connection with the cat." ,;.,.?-',- ; , "But where is the other cat?' asked Pete. : ... - "Sir, there is no other cat"r "Then how does this cat act?" ask ed Black Dick. "It acts by transferring the electri cal current from the earth into a mag netic neeaie strappea on us pack, as we win now show you. hereupon the Englishman opened nother bag and took from it a queer looking instrument. Upon closer In spection it proved to be a frame work f wood and metal and leather con taining a dip needle. This was at once strapped to the back of the cat and securely clinched. Now " said our friend, "when the cat traverses an area which Is under laid by deposits of valuable metals the current In the tissue will form a connection with the , dip v needle through the body of the cat and the needle will rnove downwards. Mr. Jenkins will please loose the cat diana DacK. gentlemen; ana-ietTia" cf f e. n t ! 3 s ine sot. 1 or ran- -'.' x fiar.t Iru-:. -1 n ttiiiiuiiu luaus tax, us with rei,L:;:ess feet he hurried into the great ur.known of the Arizona des ert Tho call of the Sonora p'jeoa rr'jht echo softly through the lonely canyons, t'. glories of cesert sunsets fade Into tender blue and imperial purple give place to ashes of roses, the full orbed moon m!,?ht rise over against the scarred buttresses of Stanley Peak and flood awful depths with uncanny beauties, but they were unheeded by that crazy, resentful,' un appreclatlve cat with the motto "Westward Ho" ever spurring him to superhuman effort And he never came back. KILLED ELEVEN BIO RATTLERS. to The Snakes Came Out Too Soon . , .Sui Themselves. ; y Arlzonla Republican. V 5. " The first snake story of this ileal year,, and probably its most Important oner has been brought In by . Perry Sears T On' January 21 he killed eleven rattlers which he found in a bunch while riding the Sears range of Camp Creek. Ha rod a to the toD of the Tockl ridge to get a better view ot the surrounding country for cattle. On reschlng the summit na .- saw some thing that made him forget the cattle. A few feet In front of his horse lay an lmmnese rattler and near by was anothed hearty as large. He shot the heads off both of them and then he begun to see snakes inY all directions. When he finished the killing eleven snakes lay about with out heads. 3 He skinned three of the largest, the skins measuring when he got back to .the anch housa from I feet to 5 feet 7 Inches. , ; Snakes are seldom seen even in this mild climate at th4s season of the year. but these had "sprung" the season and were out sunning - themselves. Another unusual thing was , that the snakes were all very fat not with standing their long winter fast. They were naturally not very active, but were so much so as to raise their heads from the ground; I Peril Made Old Lady Agile. Waterbury, Conn., Dispatch in the New xorn woria. . . - Mrs. Sophronla Atwood. 82 rears old. saved her life by a daring feat ot agility, . She was fighting a brush fire near her home, at Watertown, when a spark set her gown In a blaze.' She tried to extinguish the fire by rolling In the grass. Falling, she dashed across 1 the fields to Steers brook and leaned from a lfcfoot embankment into the water. Although the brook at that point is more than six feet deep, Mrs, Atwood scramoiea ashore safely. 'wo, 1 wasn't mgntenea." she said later. "Only , young folks lose their heads." ; i.,- - 1 Already recognized as an indeGpensible. point cf supply and1 distribution, surrounded by abundant varied natural resources and a rich agricultural country; easy of Access to point? of other localities, containing adequate banking facilities and all other modern equipments necessary to constitute the f oundatibn for the building of a great Commercial With these conditions existing it is reasonable to invite the public to "Watch Charlotte Grow' v For information apply to , Gresier Uif 8i IV. I. Convilli, Secretary Wotte, fl t observe this latest triumph of science, which we; have provisionally termed "The Concatenated Electrophyslcal ore rmoer." : ; Jenkins cut. the hog rope and the cat sprang inlto the air like a rubber ban, his tall swollen Into enormous dimensions and hla eyes like coals of fire. Yellow Pete gave one despair ing yell and fell Into thegulch; Black Dick made one spring for his horse and left camp, lo mas pronto possible. French Ike pulled his gun and backed up against a rock, ; calling on all the saints, alive and dead. Had the cat no have been staked this tale could not have been written,' but the. rope held and I came back by degrees. "Now, Mr. Jenkins, will you kind ly cut the stake rope?" ' "Not oa your life," said Jenkins. "I've been out West twenty years and I have seen many a wild critter, but I'm damned If I cut that rope." "But we can have no exhibtlon of this wonderful invention if the cat is1 allowed to remain In one spot? ' -men cut the rope yourself and let the catastrophe occur." 'sn.JT, Tlr. keeping one eye on the cat and one on the rock behind. . . "But I must observe fne lnitia.1 atia. rations of the instrument and keep iuu iimi-s, earn tne englishman, .- "If that cat gets a chance at you there won't be no initial operations," said Ike. "That cuBsed cat ain't goln to stop at no initials, he'll wrlto his run name an over you before you can wink. Initials, hell." but he nok t late. The brave Englishman had cut the rope and the cat was free. He stood for an instant gatherlnsr hla full strength "and then with a scream sprang at the man of science. The 1 nu EIGHT -THIGRvIiAYERS YAM W A 1 nrr-vx 1 i. i a t r m m n 1 in' 1 1 . in. r: . m MB l tin! to-other-oonslderatlons - and Jbalcww latlons. - . , With such examples then of th Interferences attempted and free dom of Initiative, of strictly self- arranged action and dealing by the individual, it would appear that the indivldullstlc system has changed and does not mean what it once did. nor is as Btrongly entrenched In pop ular regard, commanding the com plete confidence and devotion of men which it formerly did. What accordingly Is to be the out comer what tne conclusions as " to what must follow, we are - to draw from this? Is it that human progress Ing to be sure, yet circles none the less, and that as tho original indi vidualistic order of society gave way ana was supplanted ty. another order. which though with much awry in It yet was an advance upon that before it, so the individualistic order of to day Is in progress of giving way and will be superseded by another which will be an advance and Improvement upon it? Or do we believe that the present order can be saved, and with a certain broadening , and extension of the principle, society still can re main organized on the -Individualistic plan? Certainly none ef us can be of the mind that an Individualism, interpreted ; like that of the past, ac cording to which each 1 social unit need he but purely self-regarding, standing simply and singly for self, can represent the final and the high est form of. society. It Is readily per ceptible, even to the leant discern ing mind, that there Is a form of so ciety beyond and much more exalt ed than this. 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