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in on the ili-fated band; and so they began to gallop their horses, 

 each man leaning forward on his steed, with a long lance in his right 

 hand, grabbing his animal around the body with his heels, and 

 holding on to the bridle or mane with the left hand. As they gal- 

 loped, circling around closer and closer, it was observed that they 

 numbered about twelve men, with their spears. As they kept gath- 

 ering closer and closer, and Mr. Brown, seeing that they were not 

 going to obey his injunction, he told his interpreter to tell them to 

 stop, or he would shoot. This the interpreter did, but their actions 

 were such as to indicate that they were unfriendly, and would with- 

 out hesitation slay the whole little party in cold blood. So this 

 typical American, having had experience in such things before, raised 

 his gun and aimed at the man supposed to be the leader of the foe. 

 On firing, the man dropped to the ground. The survivors closed 

 in in one solid phalanx on the party, nearly every member of which 

 trembled with the expectation of instantaneous death. But wdth 

 that same American nerve, and with that same steadiness and accu- 

 racy of aim, our American friend fired again from that same maga- 

 zine gun, without reloading, and he continued at this w^ork until 

 five more men had gone down. Then the apparent leader of the 

 survivors, realizing that this was a new fire-arm, had them draw off 

 to a safe distance, to escape the seemingly inevitable consequences. 

 Then they were seen to gesticulate, and after a short parley, on 

 the end of one of their lances was elevated a white rag. Then one 

 of them rode to within hailing distance, and called: ''How often 

 does your master load his gun?" The interpreter, without waiting 

 for instruction, replied, ''Once every new moon!" 



Pennsylvania farmers, what shall we have, and what shall we 

 do, to meet the competition which we are bound to have in the next 

 twenty years, if not in the next decade? What are the boys, grow- 

 ing up on the farm, going to have to compete with that which they 

 will have to contend against within the next twenty years? Shall 

 they have the long lance of the Arab — the appliances of your great 

 grandfathers — or shall they have the maga'^ine gun of modern re- 

 sources? It will rest for you to determine. I trust it will be the 

 magazine gun. 



