The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, October 18, 1905, Image 3
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. Tfhere is not the least danger
ini giving it, and for coughs, colds and
croup it is unsurpassed. For sale by
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Roses .......... ......... ........... $2.00 per dozen
Lily of Valley....$1.00 to $1.50 perdozen
Aster .......................50c. to 75e. per dozen
Bouquets, Baskets or Boxes of
pretty Mixed Flowers..........$1.50 up
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UNDERTAKING
WILL BE CONTINUED IN
the future the same as in the past,
in the old establishment in all its
departments with a full stock of
Caskets, Burial Cases and Coffins
constantly on hand, and use of
hearse when requested.
Thankful for past patronage
and solicitous for a share in the
future, in the old stand.
Calls attended to at all hours.
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sallow complexions of
pimples and blotches.
It is guaranteed
eDay i-"
in oev y
2;40vLIUN box 2c
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~LE OF THE STATE.
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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.
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