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SEVENTY YEARS A00. (Dr. James 11. Carlisl il the South ern Chrution Advoentc.) Here is an extract from a letter, written by Rev. James W. Alex ander,, professur in Princeton Col lege. It bears the date "Decem ber 21, 1839." It was written to his friend and brother minister., Rev. John Hall: "\Yhat tragedies we have in our banks-failures. pechlation, rob bery, suicide! For some years I have had the fact forced upon my observation that a large propor tion of felones-de-se are made desperate by pecuniary embar rassment. It is horrible to con template the temptations to fraud. held out by banks, to those with out and within them. Borrowing, which should be, and in a health ful state is, a dernier resort, is now a substantive part of worldly business. Endorsing in nine cases out of ten is a deliberate promise to pay that which one knows he cannot pay; the contin gency, in my view. loes not alter the morality of the transaction. When we say of our extensive credit system, that it is necessary to our great operations. we should first show that our operations are not too great. A ruinous amount of steam is necessary to speed of 100 miles an hour: but this speed is too great. I do not see that the overtrading of the mass is less culpabable than the overtrading of an individual. Is it not plain that the aggregate of liabilities (that is obligation to pay), in our country. nay, in the commercial world. is greater than the aggre gate ability of the promisors? The moral influence of the credit system strikes me as one of the most malign influences to which our country is subjected." Here is another extract. which is worth reading in itself. and when read in connection with the above. may be suggestive. It is taken from a speech delivered by Hon. Hugh S. Legare, in the U. S. House of Representatives, in 1837: "Sir. I dare not trust myself to speak of my country, with the rap ture which I habitually feel. when I contemplate her marvellous his tory. But this I will say, that on my return to it, after an absence of' only four years. I was filled with wonder at all I saw and all I heardt What upon earth is to be compared with it ? I fouhd New York grown up to almost do.uble its former size, with the air of a great capital. instead of a ~mere flourishing commercial towr~ as I had known it. I listened to aceou~nts of voyages of a thousand miesi magnificent steamboats. on the watera of those great lakes. which, but the other day. I left geeping in the primeval silence of stre jn the recesses of a vast wiideny andl I felt that there is a grand1eur ud~ a majesty in this irresistible. onwatni m;jarch of a tace. created, as I believe. and eeted to possess5 and p~eople a continent. wehich belong to few other objects. either of the moral or miaterial world. We may he com mo'uch accustomed to such things that the~y shahi make as lit tle impression on our miinds as the glories ei the heavens above us; but looking on them. lately, as with the eye of a stranger. I felt. wvhat a recent English traveler is rsaid to have remarked, that, far froui being without poetry, as some have vainly alleged, our whole coiuntry isone great poem. ? - u si papef unney an~d the credit system aione thyt have achieved all these wvonders ? I do not say so. sir: but can you say, can any one presume to say, that they have not done much of all this? I know that the cardinal spring and source of our success is freedom-freedom, with the .peculiar character that belongs to Ii our race.--feedon1 or thought. treedten of spech. free dom of action. freedom of com merce. freedom not merely from the oppressions, b~ut from undue restraints, and that impertinent in ter-ferenge of government in the interests pF~pe~Iy belonging tra in dividuals. which stand in the way of all improvement in nations of continental Europe. It is this vital principle, the animating ele ment of social equality. temp~ered and sobered by a profoundl respect for the authority of the laws. and for the rights of others. and act tig upon that othe:~ prominent characteristic of the Anglo-Nor man race. the strong instinct of property. wvith the persoinal co~m fort that belongs to it. that ex plains our unrivalled and aston ishing progress. But of this rational, diffusive liberty, among a people so intelligent as ours, the credit system is the national fruit. the inseparable complanion, the HecesSafy means and inst-unheiht It is part and parcel of outr exist ence. Wholever heard of credit in a despotism. or an anarchy ? It yourself, confidence in your neigh bor, confidence in your govern ment, confidence in the adminis tration of the laws, confidence in the sagacity. the integrity, the dis cretion of those with whom you have to deal: confidence, in a word, in your destiny. and your fortune. in the destinies and the fortunes of the country to which you belong: as for instance, in the case ot a great national debt. It is the fruit, I say, of all that is most precious in civilized life, and to quarrel with it is to be ungrate ful to God for some of the great est blessings he has vouchsafed to man. It is said that Washington Irv ing was in the gallery of the House when the speech from which this extract was taken was delivered. He said to a friend he had always believed that the re ports of famous classical orators were greatly exaggerated. but now he was prepared to believe them. We have here two differing opinions on a question of current and permanent interest. One) looked at the great interest from the pulpit and the professor's chair: the other was an ar (ent young statesman. view ing it as connected with the grovth of his native land. One sees the use, the other the abuse. of the credit system. Times have changed, and they have; brought great changes, with mul tiplie(d difficulties and problems in the vast interest involved. Our population has increased fourfold. New York has kept on its growth, until it is the second city in the world in population. WVhen Mr. Legare went from Charleston to Vashington, he must have gone m-nost of the way in boats, or! stages. There were only a very few hundred miles of railroads. Now there are more than two hun dred thousand miles, with more than four times that many miles of telegraph wires, while then there was not one. Then the word millionaire was scarcely used. Now we are becoming used to the long word multimillionaire, with the shorter but more alluring word lilliona ire in reserve for a coming day. And the banks so dreaded by the professur have been multiplied manifold. and have around them mills. insur ace comp~anies, combinations, trusts of all possible mnagnitudes. To-clay the daily paper seems not a comfort or luxury lbut a neces sity. Yet does not the reader al mst dread to open one? Before the readler lays the pa pe auide, or turn to another page. let him read again that passage in te Legare cxtract which dwells soG emphatically on the necess~ty c- confidence. \We hear of many thiygs which might perhaps go to shake our confidence in others. in our laws, in our race, in Provi dece. But these must be re sisted. Let the home training. where all true education begins. be especily. wvise and emphatic. Let the pulpit, the press. colleges and schools. the example and pre cets of leading men-unite to gude, guard, warn and upbuild, the generauI.n wvhich is to come >n the stage of life. mn times like thse, or in~ times following these. I Plans to Get Rich. are often frustrated by sudden brakdown, due to dyspepsia or onstipation. Brace up and take Dr. King's New LifePills. They take out the materials which are logging your energies, aind give1 you a new start. Cure head-.chie i ad dizziness too. At McMaster 0. Obear Drug Co. and Jno H. MMaster & Co. drug stores; 253, guraneed. .Jenkinsville Jottings.< Mrs. S. S. Curry went to Wal ton last week to visit relatives. Mr. B. H. Yarborough attended the Baptist, meeting at Ridgeway last week. Mrs. E J. Yaiborough visited br daughter, Mrs. Kate McDow ell last week. The school in the lower sec tion is progressing well uder the management of Miss Fthel FEos ter of Union. Mrs. J. McMeekin and daugh ter, Miss Hattie, visite'd her daughters, Mesdamnes Chauppell, last Friday nd Saturday.4 Mrs, W. H. Suber and little daughter, after sp'nding three months at home, have returned to er home in Newb rey~. We are having a beautif~d f;.l]; the days are just ideal. Miss Stella Ruff is teaching at aybinon this session. Just a little over two weeks before thbe state fair. Y. October 10, 1905. Don't flake a Mistake. Many persons suffer from dizzins, headaches and backaches, who treat themselves for stomach troubles or rheumatism, when~ ilir disease is sote atfedon of the kidneys. whlich could be quickly cured by Foley's, Hoev and Tar. Take it in time. METAL PENS. One of Aneient Roman Make Has the Distinctive Slit. Some curious one has collected a mass of interesting faets con)zcern:n,; metallic pens. Some of these refer ences run back as far as the four teenth and even the thirteenth cen tury, and, curiously enough, in the case of-the -manuscript of Robert d'Ar tols, the forger scribe. is said ,:o have used a bronze pcn in order to disgu.se his writing and make his deceptiou more safe. A Roman metal pen is said to have been found at Aosta, not a mere styl. but a bronze pen slit, and there is isome evidence of a pen or reed of b-tonze nearly is. eirly as the Invention of printing in the lif teenth century. More thain a hun dred years ago some steel pens were made in Birnuxigham for Dr. I'riestly, and some of these placed into the bands of Sir Josiah Mason in h's early rlays with Mr. Harrison, but all seem to have been lost. The first pen ot metal of a definite date, beyond all question, is one in a Dutch patent book of 1717. At about the same time a polite ode of Pope's refers to a "steel and golden pen," but these were evidently lux uries only, and it was not uutil. about the end of the first quarter of the last century that metallic pens i!ecame more generally in use. Ir the "Local Notes and Queries" in the Birming ham Weekly Post definite evidence has been given of steel pens as early as 1800 and more commonly in 1817, but It was about 1823 and 1824 that the great revolution came by which pens were made by a cheaper process-the hand screw press which pierced the pens from steel rolled into tube fash ion and the joint formed the slit, but these required considerable labor to shape them Into pen form. The use Of the screw press belongs to the pe riod of John Mitchell, Joseph Gillot and Josiah Mason, but on a careful review of the facts it seems to be clear that John Mitchell has the best ciaim to be considered as the original introducer of press made pens.-Buffa ia Times. PITH AND POINT. Being worthless pays no dividends. Keeping"a diary is nearly as hard -vork as keeping a dairy. Being favorably Impressed is the eeapest way we know of being a good fellow. Nothing makes us quite so mad as to have people say, "What made you It is terribly hard to impress peo ple with the importance of aiding -n a good cause. Every one realizes when he goes to a photographer's that he is not look ing his prettiest. It is all right to do things for your 1wn, but first do things for your omne and family. We are all pretty easily pleased when we consider that three or four times a day we see exactly how we look in the looking glass.-Atchlson Globe. Antiquity of Cheating.. False weights were found in the ruins of the oldest city that has yet seen exhumed. And false weights will probably be consumed when the earth 1ops into the sun and the heavens are colled together like a scroll. Ancient geords an~d ancient statute bookis are ull of evidence that every modern ractical device down to adulterations id crooked scales was familiar to our incestors of the plateau of Iran before the migrations. Vice is the old in mbitant; virtue is the newcomer, the mnmigrant, received with reluctance mnd compelled to fight for every Inch of round he gains-Reader Magazine. A Great Lack of Love. There is a pleasant story being told ust nqw of an Irish priest who, tak ng leave of his congregation, gave his 'easons for going: "First, youi do not ove me, for you have contrIbuted noth ng to my support; second, you (1o not ve each other, for I have not cele )rated a marriage since I arrived; imld, th goo4 God does not iQVC you, or he has not taken one or you to imself; I have not had a single funer '"-London Telegraph. Why shne Loved Her. Mrs. Cummins - So you love your :randmammam. do you, Gracie? And thy do you love her-? Gracie-Be 'ause she used to punish mamma when namma was a little girl. I haope she ised to spank manmma as hard as .ript, The Flight of Birds. One of thme few men to recover sight fter being blind from the birth of ree llection was reported to have wonder d at nothing so much as the fiight of he birds. "Why do not people make nore fuss about them?" he said.-Lon Ln Outlook. Faulty 'Thppy rius ge 8nmythe-4rhose new boots of -ours squeak awfully. Perhaps they're ot palid for yet. Johnny-That's all onsense. If there Is anything in that, hy don't my coamt and vest and my rousers and my hat squeak too? i!te your papa andl~ mamma at lOme?" asked the caller. "No," replied little Marguerite; "one .4 them inay be here, but they never re both at home at the same time." icago Icord-IIerald. Generous. "Some men say," remarked the beau ful heiress. "that I have no heart.'' "Oh. that doesn't matter," replied the oor but willing to be honest youthj 'll give you Igine."-Chmicago News. New Cure For Cancer. All surface cancers are now :nown to be curable, by Bucklen's trnica Salve. Jas. Walters. of uffield, Va., writes: "I had a ancer QD my lip for years, that eemed incurable, till Bucklen's ~rnica Salve healed it, arA now, t is perfectly wel." Guaranteed' are for cuts and burns. 25c at HeMaster Co. Obear Drug Co. nd Jno. H. McMaster & Co. SEAWEED AS FOOD. When Dry It Is Rit.er Than Oatmeal or Indara Corn. Seaweed is eaten oi the coasts of Scotland and Ireland in vast quanti ties and. though unlip:alatable ai, fla vorless, is at times the chief f 1 of the poorest. When dry it is richer than oatim(.al or Indian corn in nitrogenous con-stituents and takes rank aimong the mncst nutri tious of vegetable foods. To prepare seaweed for the table it should be steeped in water t,. get rid of the salt with which it is impregnated, and a little carbonate of sotta renioves the bitter taste, which to so:.ne palates is most disagreeable. It should then be stewed in milk or water till. inucilagi nous and is best flavored with vinegar or pepper. Fungi are almost everywhere largely eate:.i. though in England :ess atten tion is paid to them th:an thcy deserve, and few kinds appear at tabe. A curious error is to suppose that fungi are eatalie and toadistools poi sonous. No such line of demarcation exists nor, strictly speaking, has the name toadstools any precise meanimi. Very many fungi are edible, and the common agarie usually eaten in Eng land is not the most palatable and wholesome. Few foods are more sa vory, and none are greater favorites than well cooked fungi, and the souls of vegetarians yearn for them.-Pear son's Weekly. THE PIE HABIT. It Ia Mainly Confined to Those Born In ThiN Country. Pie is consumed chiefly by the native Americans. Foreigners eat very little of it. A German, for example, might eat three pies in a year, while a good Yankee would consume as many in a week. The English, the Italians and the French are small pie eaters. The English eat plum pudding, and the Italians like fruit. New England and the middle states constitute the area of greatest consumption, but the pie belt extends far beyond that, as pie is ex tensively eaten all through the west. Pie is eaten much more generally in the north than in the south. Chicago is a great pie center. St. Louis is not so good. Milwaukee also ranks low. One would not think that there are means for ascertaiing the facts in- regard to pie consumption, but I have gathered statistics on the subject during the last two years which enable me to compute with reasonable correctness the con sumption of' pies in every state in the Union. Pies are made In greater vari ety than formerly, and the supplies are brought from greater distances-in fact, from all parts of the world. The season of ptes made of green fruit has been prolouged, and pies are made of canned fruit the year round.-Milwau kee Sentinel. LONG BURNING FIRES. Some In England Which Have Not Been Out For Centuries. There are domestic fires burning in Yorkshire, England, today which have never been out for hundreds of years. At the old fashioned farmhouses in the dales of Yorkshire pent is still burned. The fuel is obtatined from the moors, and stacks of it are kept by the farm ers in their stack garths. The country rounnd about is noted for its "girdle cakes,' which are made from dough baked in quaint pans sus pended from the peat fires. These fires are kept glowing from generation to generation, and the son warms him self at the tire which warmed his sire and his grandsire and his grandsire's sire and which will warm his son and his son's son. There is a fire at Castleton, in the Whitby district, which has been burn ing for over 200 years. The record probably is held by a farmhouse at Osmotherly, in the same district. The fire has been burning for 500 years, and ther-e are records to show that it pas not been out during the last three centuries.-St. Loulis Post-Dispatch. Burglark' Se perstitions. A writer who has been investigating. the old subject of superstition among burglars gives it as his copelusion that gio burglar will ecrack" a house where a female servant thiat squints is kept. If a burglar sees three different horscs slip down in a day he wvill not "work" that night. One man in the dock con fessed that members of his profession would never burgiarize houses with the numbers 22, 03, 111 and 444.-Philadel phia North American. A Hard Question. Modern Maiden-I wish some advice. Old Lady-Certainly, my dear. What is it? Modern Maiden-Shall I marry a man whose tastes are the opposite of mine and quarrel with him, or shall I marry a man whose tastes are the same as mine and get tired of him? More Accurate. Mrs. Muggins-When your husband takes you to the theater does nie go out bettYen the acts? Mrs. Buggins-Yes, jf. you want to put it that way. IHe comes in between the drinks.-Phila delphia Record. Gain and Loas. Hie-You women are queer.. F'or In stance, a girl cri.~ when she's getting art'd, as If she were losing a hus band instead of getting one. She-Yes, but she's losing a lover.-Phlladelphia Ledger. ______ Nothing Ventured. Ada-Timid, isn't he? May-Awful ly. He's so afraid that she'l say no that he won't give her a chance to say yes.-Brooklyn Life. Love of our neighbor is the only ~]or out of the dungeon of se.f.-Mac Donald. A Judicious Inquiry. \ well known traveling man w ho~ visits the drmug trade says he has often heard druggists inquire of customers who asked for a cough medicine, whether it was wanted for -a ehll or for an adult, and if for a chid they almost ia vatriable recommend Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. The reason for this is that they know there is no danger from it and that it always ures. 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[ the year round eather, and where rith cold? *esources are more where the division a small farm that of labor, you can t, oranges, lemons, ere crops are sure, ~investment? I opportunity await acific and and there are two te famous double ouri River. effect via this line oast points, and sale during Sep-. hance for settlers Lted through to San 3, on which a double sts only $7.00, via the in Pacific and rays. [11. arnia booklets, ap. and fufl