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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S. C. BILL AltP. Bill Arp Talks of a Mother's Love. AUanla Constitution. tcrrt, . I? t? _ J J j, '"j.ne oaoy is ueau. That was the sad telegram that came to us from far away where one of our boys is living. It saddened the household, for we had never seen the child nor the mother, and they were to come and visit us next month, and expected to be so happy. There is trouble that is trouble -grief that is grief. The first child, and old enough to have twiced around the young mother's heart and absorbed her very life. The father can love, too, and caress and feel a father's pride, and he can weep and feel desolate. Time will temper his grief, but a mother never ceases to lament the death of her first born child. It has been more than thirty years since we lost one, but the little garments that he wore are hidden away somewhere, and sometimes I seetnemoiner ionaungiuem as they lie in the old trunk?the trunk that holds her heart's best treasures. It was Sterne who said "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and so in time the young mother's grief will be sweeter than it is*ad, and she will rise from it with a hope and a trust she never knew before. A child in heaven is a bond that cannot be broken?it is not lost?it is saved. But still the pang of separation is very crushing to the parent's heart. How the world shrinks up; how mean and insignificant are all its pleasures. I have felt that way, and been comforted with the feeling, and so I know has every parent who has lost a child. Well, I suppose I must answer my friend, Colonel Dawson, for he is a friend and a Georgian, and was kind to me when I last visited New York, where he lives. He complains in the last number of the Sunny South that I have given Montgomery as the author of that beauful hymn: Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed. And writes two columns in proof that his mother wrote it. He says that he published this same declaration in the Chicago Curr6ut iu 1834. I did not see that; nobody down south saw it. What is current in Chicago is not very current here, and so I think that is excuse enough. The hymn has been set down to Montgomery for fifty years or more without question. It is in every hymn book of every Christian denomination. It is in every edition of Montgomery's poetical works that I have ever seen. I have a copy before me, published in Edinburgh in 18G9, which gives eight verses to the hymn; John Bartlett's standard work oq "Familiar Quotations" is now in the sixth edition, and quotes the hymn from Montgomery. W. Davenport Adams, another standard author on English literature, gives the same authorship. And so Colonel Dawson has no good reason for requesting me "to be more careful in the future about aiding and abetting British marauders of the property of American genius." I am sure that no American, and certainly no Southerner, desires to champion the claim of Montgomery, but rather would take both pride and comfort in seeing Mrs. Dawson's authorship established. It seems that Mrs. Dawson died in 1819, in Cynthiana, Ky., and left her poetical manuscripts in possession of a friend. Among them wad found this hymn of ten verses in her own handwriting. It seems further that in 1819 Montgomery published a volume of bis own poems, and iocluded this one, which he marked "Anon." How it got into Mr. Montgomery's possession is not explained. But enough of this. It is sufficient for me to know that it is a most beautiful hymn and to believe that Mrs. Dawson and Mr. Montgomery are both in heaven. And now cornea another friend and gently chides me for setting down John Wesley as a Methodist. He asserts that John and Charles Wesley maintained to thq last their connection with and allegiance to the Church of England, and that they never deposed from it. No doubt that is true?but still they were- the founders of Methodism. The established Church of England was closed agaiost them. They and their followers formed a society, and it was called the Methodist Society. They appointed laymen to preach and assigned them circuits. In 1735 John came to Georgia as a missionary with General Oglethorpe, and returned to England in 1738, and connected himself with the Moravians. He sajs in his autobiography that he never was converted until a quarter before 9 o'clock, on Wednesday night, 24th of May, 1738. In 1744 he attempted to preach at Taunton and was forbidden by the magistrates. In 1770 he assumed the office of Bishop, and in 1784 ordained Rev. Thomas Coke Bishop of America. Coke came over immediately and established the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wejley abridged the English liturgy?prepared his own collection of hymns and wrote his own discipline. If, with all these departures from Church government and Church control, Mr. Wesley chose to call himself an Episcopalian it was his privilege to do so, but hardly anybody else would so classify him. I do not say that Ktt fVio nf 'F.no'lnnd UIO llCaiLUUUU UJ bUU VUU&VU w* ? was wrong or unreasonable, considering bis independence and defection, but nevertheless, it was sucb, tbat the Episcopal Church cannot now claim him with pro* priety. He is the common property of i the Christian world. Now, let me say that these letters from friends known or unknown are alway? welcome. Of course I make mistakes and am pleased to be reminded, for it provokes more careful investigation. There is no comfort that costs less and is worth so much as letters from kindred and friends, and yet there is no duty so easily neglected. How longingly do the old folks look for letters from their absent children?scattered children. How carefully does the good mother put them away when they do come. Sometimes there is a long interval, and she asks every day, "Is there no mail?" and her lov ing heart imagines that her boy or ber girl is sick. Children, why don't you write to the old folks at home? Write often?write regular, write cheerfully, for they won't be here long, and then you will wish you had. I had a good letter to day from an old army friend who is in bis eightieth year, and his wife the same, and they are hale and hearty and happy, and he quotes, "JohD Anderson my Joe," and writes without glasses and says his love for old friends grow purer and stroDger as the years roll on. He writes me periodically and always cheerfully and I put his letters away among my treasures. These letters for the home and heart are the only compensation for absence, for separation of kindred and friends. Solomon felt it when he said, "As cold water is to a thirsty soul, bo is good news from a far country." Then write to your parents, children?write to your brothers and sisters?write often, write thoughtfully. Don't write hurriedly and carelessly like it was something - disagreeable that had to be done-j-but take pains both in the manner and the matter?write a letter that is worth the postage and will do to read more than once. There is no better evidence of good conduct and good principles than the af? fectionate and carefully written lettera that a school girl or a college boy sends home to the parents once a week. BilC Arp. Are Hen Growing Scarce. Statistics show that the male population of the civilized world is falling further and further behind the females. According to the last British consus the excess of women and girls over men and boys in Great Britain is about 900,000, an increase in ten years of nearly 200,000. The German census of last Decern* ber places the Dumber of females abont 600,000 above that of the males in the kingdom of Prussia, or nearly three times the excess twenty years ago. There are 1,000,000 more females than males in the whole German Empire. In Sweden and Norway the "weaker sex" is in the majority by 250,000, in Austria-Hungary by' 600,000, in Denmark by 60,000, and in every European country they outnumber the males. In the United States, Canada and Australia the males are in the majority, though not largely so, the estimated excess of males in this country being only 1,100,000 or 1,200,000. It is plain that v..l /? : : 1:? ? UUL lUi ILULLlIgittllUU, wuiwu IU1U1DUCO a much greater number of women than meD, the latter would soon be in the majority here. There ia a large preponderance now of females in New England and in some other sections of the United States, and if immigration were to materially decrease undoubtedly the8urplus*of males would soon disappear in the whole country. In less civilized countries where women are lightly esteemed, it is otherwise, India having about 6,000,000 more men than women, while the males largely preponderate in China. The obvious deduction is that the higher civilization is most favorable to the increase of the female sex, and this suggests the interesting question whether civilization is doing the best thing in the world in producing this result. A fact of hardly less interest brought out by the British census is the marked decline in the marriage rate, which has been almost steadily tending downward for nearly two decades. Meantime there has been an even more decided decline in the birth rate, so that not only is marriage decreasing, but marriages are becoming less prolific on the average. There is the same tendency in this country, prevailing chiefly among the better classes. An excess of females in a country is certain to have an unfavorable influence on the marriage rate, and the moral consequence of such a state of affairs can easily be conceived.? Omaha Bee. ?Let those whose horses are idle most of the time tie them out in the shade after meal time, if it is not desirable to pasture them. With the earth for a floor and pure air about them they will be far 1 better off than in a stuffy stable, says the i Ploughman, The Seven Wonders or the World, "Will yoa please mention the Seven Wonders of the world, and oblige an old Subscriber ?" To this day a question of tbis kind is occasionally addressed to editors who are bo obliging as to publish "answers to correspondents." The writers do not mean such wonders as the Hoosac tunnel or tbe Suez canal, but the wonders of the ancient world?the wonders which astonished Plato, Xenophon and Alcibisdes. The "old subscriber" may have crossed the Brooklyn bridge that morning, and seen the statute of liberty loom up from the mist of New York harbor, and watched the steamer Majestic as she moved slowly down the bay toward the ocean. But what he wants to know is the seven wonders which have been embedded in books for 2,000 years and provoked curiosity by excluding all the wonders of the world except seven. rr" - - rlon nannnf ine euuunai UllUU w un; vouuvv remember those old wonders. Every time the question comes there has to be a search for them in dictionaries and encyclopaedias, where they are found to be of great Pyramid of Egypt, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statute of Jupiter at Olympia, the Colussus of Rhodes, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus and the Tomb of King MausolusI wonders which have all perished, except the Pyramid, and only one of which would seem respectable to the modern mind, namely the Lighthouse of Alexandria. We no longer approve the idea of wasting the toil of tens of thousands of men upon pyramids, tombs and tasteless colossal statutes. We desire that an expensive and elaborate structure shall have a certain Jtasis of good sense, and shall minister not to the pride of an individual, bat,to the service or gratification of the public. If an?editor were asked to name the seven wonders of the present world, he 1 * A* i.'? L coma answer me yueeuiuu uy tuiuiug iu Webster's Unabridged. The candidates for a place in the seven are numerous, and by the time he had his Beven well chosen be might find, on reading the morning paper, that his favorite wonder had been effaced by a rival in another continent. A few years ago, the suspension bridge over the Niagara river, with its span of 821 feet, might have pnt in its claim to be one of the seven ; but after a while the railroad bridge at Cincinnati, with a span of 1,057 feet, reduced it to the second rank, and then the Brooklyn bridge of 1,595 feet span put Cincinnati's nose out of joint. The bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland shows a span of 1,620 feet. The projected bridge over the Hudson at New York is expected to hold up a span of 2,860 feet; and now we hear respectable engineers expressing the conviction that a bridge over the English channel, 23 miles long, and lifted high above the top masts of the largest ships, - si-i- r?i is a pussiuje lent ui cugiucctiug. Something similar has happened with regard to tunnels. Many years ago, when I paid foar English pence for the pleasure of getting wet in the dark and oozy tunnel under the Thames, that work was regarded as the chief woDder of the modern world. By and by came the Hootunsac nel nearly five miles long, and soon after the Mont Cents tunnel through the Alps, seven and a half miles long, which has been followed by two other tunnels through the Alps. There waB something exceedingly marvelous in the way the Mont Cenis tunnel was executed, particularly to persons not familiar with mathematics. This tunnel was be* gun at both ends in 1S57, and was finished about fourteen years after. During that period two gangs of men were working toward one another through solid rock in the heart of the mountain, and when at last they met, it was found that the direction of the two portions was per* !J ? AS?1 TL. to ieuwy lutjouuaii mo mu ui^u exactly except that the level of one was afoot higher than the level of the other, which was a mistake not difficult of correction, and grew out of the extreme difficulty of ascertaining beforehand precisely how long the tunnel would have to be. It proved to be fifteen yards longer than the engineers had calculated. Perhaps the most curious fact concerning these long tunnel is the trifling character of their object. The object of the Hoosac tunnel was merely to shorten by two hours the distance between Boston and the West, which object, it appears, was not accomplished. The purpose of the Mont Cenis tunnel was to shorten the distance between France and Italy by forty-two hours. At present, this tunnel heads the long list of tunnel wonders, and may hold that place until the projected tunnel under the English channel is open for traffic. There seems no reasonable doubt of the feasibility of tunnel- J ing the channel. Competent engineers ! are of the opinion that the project i* not j even difficult, since the bottom of the | channel is composed of a thick bod of ' chalk. The main object to tho execution j of this work ia political. There is j enough dreac^of the old dread of a French invation left to prevent the sane* | tion of the undertaking by the British ! Parliament. John Bull, it is thought, i would not yet feel quite safe with a ; small hole open near Shakespare's Cliff, | I leading to France. It seems a childish J fear; but fear makes children of us all. There are no operations of the engineer that; so startle and amaze the unprofessional observer as those which are re- ? quired in constructing railroads across J; high mountain ranges. Here the engineers of the United StateB have wrought E the greatest marvels. The Central- ? Pacific traverses thirteen' hundred miles of mountain land that never falls much 0 lower than the perpetual snow line of the 8 Alps. In this elevated region the re- * Bources of the engineers' art were tried to 1 the -uttermost, and many of the devices ? pmnlnvpil were invanlo^ nnnn Ilia annt 1 J But even this exploit has been surpassed by American engineers in building rail- v roads through the Andes in South 0 America, where we hear of lines laid 8 along the mountain ridges nearly three 8 miles above the level of the sea. The 8 cliffs on one of these lines are so steep Y that the workmen had to be lowered by " ropes from one ledge to another until the r< level chosen for the railroad was reached. ? The engineers directing the work were ^ carried from oue side of the ravines to ^ the other in slings hung to a cable wire 0 stretched across at the ravines to the ^ summit. There is one place where there are twenty tunnels in fifteen miles. At another the zig-zag* of five parallel lines 0 are visible from one poiut, and none of 0 them are more than 500 feet apart. The ^ highest level of ibid railroad in 15,045 " feet above the sea, which i? only 136 feet T lower than the top of Mont Blanc, and c' this elevation is accomplished by an P ascent of seventy one miles. J Buckle, the historian, doubted whether n the continent of South America could ^ ever Buatain a dense population, because, 8' as he remarked, the forces of nature and g the magnitude of natural objects were too ? great to be made observient to human ^ uses. The rivers were too wide, the for- ? ests too dense, the mountains too high and precipitous, the growths too rank, the plains too extensive for man to grap* j* pie with and turn to account. But the great historian reckoned without con- ?' suiting the yankee engineer, who is 11 about to render the whole continent of P South America as accessible to the trav- * eler and the emigrant as North America. For it ia to be observed that the execution of difficult works prepares the way for greater, and even renders them com- J1 paratively easy. The second tunnel ^ tonnnli (tin A I no cn?t sKnnl. half (Via f.ftil. ^ '"iuub" ??? ?r- ? ' c. time and expense that the first did, be- . cause in the second they used from the 11 start all the machines which bad-been invented in excavating the first. One . single boring machine trebled the rate of ^ progress. There is no range of mountains on the globe which our engineers a could not traverse by railroad. How, theD, shall we answer the question as to the seven wonders of the pres- P ent world? If we confine our view to the works of the engineer, we might, perhaps, go into the nominating conven- ^ tion with the following list of candidates: The Sierra Nevada railroad, the Mount a Cenis tunnel, the Brooklyn bridge, the ^ Eiffel tower, the Forth bridge, the Suez n canal, the Eddystone lighthouse. But all these are going to be speedily * oii.nnooA/) Sa of looaf anthtioiaoKlP nPA. D U I pQODtU, UV| (*V tVHUV fr.w ^ jectora tell u?, and probably some of them are right. By aod by, after the whole ^ world has been made available for the uses of man, the combined power of capital and constructive genius will take hold of the great cities, reconstruct them, 0 make them beautiful, magnificent, symmetrical, convenient and salubrious; not * 81 for one class of inhabitants, but for the ^ entire population. Here is a field as ^ boundless as it is inviting. Long ago it was proved that the money paid by the 11 trasses of the people for rent is abund- D antly sufficient to provide for them all ^ ?A??Amanta mnro rloal PO hi O ftnH !Yl OTP ICUQUiOUVO UiVtV wvw?mw<v ?? ? ? ? - ? interesting than kings' palaces have ever ^ been. Business enterprise will one day ^ provide those tenements.?James Parlon, ^ in New York Ledger. ^ Death of Mrs. D. II. Cbamberlain. I d The announcement of the death of Mrs. D. H. Cbamberlain will recall to g many Columbians a notable figure of the j Republican regime from 1874 to 1876. n Mrs. Chamberlain came to South Car- ( Una from Massachusetts with her bril- 0 liant husband about the year 1873, and 0 lived in the low country in and around ]; Charleston. e They moved to Columbia in 1874 when j Mr. Chamberlain was elected Attorney E General, and lived here continuously un- j til the downfall of the Republican party c in 1876. t Mrs. Chamberlain was a woman of al- s most marvelous beauty, a type of the fc perfect blonde. Her education was fin- v ished in the highest degree, and to this she added rare social accomplishments 1 and womanly graces. The Chamberlain c family lived apart from the absolute so- r cial coterie to which many of the Repub- f licnns at the capital belonged and i passed their lives without reproach in a e secluded and well nigh exclusive home. 1 They lived first at the Nicholson House c and lived subsequently in the beautiful c home now the property of Mr. Lewis, but 1 which is still pointed out to strangers as \ the Chamberlain mansion.?Columbia ( . Register, 22nd. ? When a man is out of spirits it does t not follow that he has given up the ghost. e ! TIio Girl of Fonrteen. n o Fourteen iB apt to be a trying age to a ^ ;irl herself, and it is often a period of rnzzles and problems to a girl's mother ^nuaaood is lett behind, woman boou m lot yet here. Too old for doll aod romps ^ .rid the unchecked freedom which, she ^ iad the other day; too young for the ^ ompany of the older girls to which she ^ spires, feeling strangely enough if che ^ ?ere ten years her own senior, at once j( imid and bold, restive under restraint. 6i nd dependent upon wife guidance, the a ittle maid of fourteen needs, as she nev- u r before, very loving, very patient, and ery sympathetic treatment. Xbe tides f her life being are rushing in upon her ; he does not understand her own moods, ^ he cannot account for her own caprices; he has her little gusts and storms, as w rell as her hours of sunshine, and in a bis time of ferment, of revolt, yet of . fti Bal'aweetneBs, aud of peril, chiefly be- . ause of the issues involved, our girl of Q jurteen is happy if her mother is her t{ earest and her safest confidant. No ^ ther can be so safe, and no other ought Q| 3 be so dear. "What shall I do for my daughter at ais most troublesome age ?" writes one ^ verburdeDed woman. ' Can you tell me f a good school for ber, wbere she will ave the bent care, be under the best inuencea, nod wholly gaarded from the w ery thought of beaux?" The latter j Dosideration seems to many parents im- Q ortant beyond every other, where their oung daughters are concerned, and it ^ ot infequently happens that the sedu- ^ jus anxiety of mothers and teachers to a| aut out the other sex, to seclude the ^ rowing girl, or bo regulate her inter- ^ Duree with boys of her own age that is ) the last degree formal and occasional, ^ rings abont the state of things most . readed. ^ A girl to whom the idea of boys as | eaux would never have occurred, bridles, j >oks blusbingly conscious of their presace, assumes airs and graces, and laughs ^ 1 an unnatural falsetto when they ap- ^ ear on the scene, and all because nature ^ nd good breeding were forgotten in the ^ ret place. If only girls and boys could j e permitted to meet and associate on j 36 footing common to friends and laymates, with no thought o* sex or ail- . r sentiment, there would never be the nnoyanceand irritation which spring ^ om the placing of these young people ^ i false positions. But, dear mother, if the mischief has ^ een done, and your little maiden of wrteen cannot meet with boys without ^ ebavior that will cause her to be & 1 shamed and forgetful when she Bhall be lder, don't think to cure this by sending ^ er away to a boarding school. The erhaps necessary, yet, to her view. . igid and arbitrary, restrictions which ^ tie will encounter there will only con- ^ rm her in obstinacy, or arouse an unjrtunate antagonism. Keep her rather " t home, lovingly, mind you, under our own eye, and if you have no alter- ^ ate, let school have the go by for a year r two. She will not acquire the less eadily, nor develop the less charmingly ^ Dr an interval spent in studying domesic lore, in learning to be womanly, by eing made her mother's companion, rieod, and daily assistant. The girl who j fully and happily employed in work hat occupies the hand*, as well as the ^ lind, will generally pass easily and racefully through the critical period rhen she is in danger of doing or saying Lupid things in regard to boys, who, ear, honest fellqws, are perfectly ready 8i 3 be her friends, comrades, and companjns, if their fathers and mothers have a ot made that impossible. Indeed, a somewhat extended observa- g ioa of boys, and a very pleasant ao- 0 aaiotanca with many of them, leads me b o the- conclusion that they care very a [tile about posing in the role of beaux, j, t bores them and its only attractiveness d omes to them by the rule of contraries. n Jeing prohibited, it naturally becomes esirable. g At fourteen a girl has her fit for gig- ? ling at trifles, and the sound of her bub- tt ing and irrepressive laugVer seems a ow and then to a severe taste like the e irackling of thorns under a pot spoken fby the psalmist. But were you not { nee fourteen, and have you forgot how t] ittle it took to make you laugh, how ^ aBily you were amused and diverted? ^ Afe has taken so much out of you that g low your laughter is a neighbor to your 0 ears, in these graver years. Yet you B, annot but be toleraot, if you pause to ^ hink of the mirth which is so innocent, p o good humored, so significant of high ]( lealth and hope. Besides, the dear child ^ ?ill never be fourteen again. a Let the little maiden by all means jave a room of her very <wn, if you can, tr, if it is impossible, give her a half a a oom, dividing her share of it by a screen a rom that of her sister or little brother. C ^ seperate bed should bo arranged for iach child in the family, and, a9 you valle her future vigor, do not let your giri J.1 )f fourteen sleep with her grandmother, I ir with an invalid aunt^r cousin. Let J tier have her own little withdrawn spot j vhere she may read or write, or study e or pray?her closet sacred to her use. | fcI And.Jif you can, give the girl of four- | t een a little money to use as 6he pleases,! an allowance, or, if you choose, as- \ ign her to certain parts of the house- ! n V I rork and then pay her for it. Money of roe'4 own means confers responsi- ^ iliiy, uud we dt-sire our darling to be a esponiible woman?one who can be de? eodtd on in all ntresn circumstance*. In a misinken den ire to hhie'd the f-ar child frmn Iriain, do not hide om er I he family perplexities aod em bar-'J iMsmenls, and then, having done this, 0 not add to it the injustice of blaming er for thoughtlessness Truit her, * >ve hi r, wait patiently on her iuexperinee. Fourteen is only a bud, and buds ; re blighted by frost .?Mary E. Sangtiert 1 Congregationaliat. Be Willing to Learn. ' ' v-% A man progresses just a< I'-ng as be \ willing to learn; but progression.. eases whenever he reaches that point here be places his knowledge in the baluce agaiust that of other men. Strange 9 it may appear, there are a good maay 1st such men in this world. Rome canot be taught anything, it does not mat' it to what branch of human knowledge i belongs. Others are perfect in but ne thing, and that relates to the bas)~ ' ess they follow. I: is here that this , ;otistical importance works the most lUcbief. (or it always cripples a m%o'? aefulness in life. ' There is another cluss of people who ill accept knowledge only Irom those hom they acknowledge an superiors, hey must know the source of every item f information, and it is rejected asqr)r, or accepted as truth, accordingly*' hey never think reason or experiment ir themselves, and hence their belief' ad practice exibit a strange mixture of ie practicable and impracticable, of utb and error. The truly progressive class accept ie truth wherever they find it and relet nothing because of its source. A hint ropped from the beggar's lips is just |U aluable as though it came from the royIty itself. These are the men who difc ot think, reason and experiment for lemselves. Like the miners, it is gold ley are after, and they never reject it ecause it is associated with dross and irt but go resolutely to.work to separate le pure from the impure, retaining only le former. We heard a promineot agriculturist lay i an address, that no class of people ere so unwilliDg to learn of others, u trmers. We don't believe it. Farm* / TV-' rs are like other men in this respect? o better or no worse. There is a large lass of them, however, who have toe, tuch confidence in their own metbodt, rawn from their own experieiyce alone, ad can see little merit in other men's lethods. Experience is a good school/ ut a man cheats himself most outrageQsly when he imagines that hia expe:ence alone is all that he needs on the irm. Empiricism is as applicable to le farmer as it is to the doctor, aod one ho practices it is just as much a quack 3 the other V A farmer with broad, liberal views of is occupation, whose eyes and ears are Iwaya open willing to accept abd use very fact that comes to bim, no matter om what source, is man to be admiref nd respected, wherever you find him. le stands in delightlul coatrast to the lan who blindly and obstinately reftmei 11 aid and scoffs at all authority whicfafl inflicts with his methods, or contradict! is opinions.?Ohio Farmer. 3 Some Questions. Xpu are reading this, suppose thfl lib-treasury and laDd loan scheme werfl a operation to bsy. How would yoa g(fl bout getting a dollar? |j Have you any cottou or wheat fl oppose you borrowed eighty per centfl f its present price on it ? Wouldn't yotn e twenty per cent, behind where yoiH lready are ? You can sell either of theoH a Greenville on sight and getanhunH red cents on the dollar of their fulH larket price. M Do you own land already mortgagedB Suppose you borrowed money from thH rovemment on it ? Wouldn't yoa havH 3 turn it right over to the man you haH lready borrowed from to give the govH rnment a clear title ? H Character and credit are capital nowH Jnder the proposed system how wonl<flj bey be worth a rap ? Now the m*fl| rho owns some property and who hsH be reputation of paying his debts caH enerally borrow money on his owHj r with a good endorsement. With thnH ub treasury and land loan in operatioH e could not get a dollar unless he d^| ositcd or mortgaged. Private monaH snders would be driven out of busine^f ecause they could not compete with ^9 nd 2 per cent, rates. HI When you talk of the land loan ai^| ub-treasury think of your own situatic^H nd then take your neighbors one by ofl| ml say if any of you would be helped.-^f Ireenville News. uH m + m H ? The Secretary of tho U. S. Treasu^M as issued a circular to custom officers egard to tho packing of cotton on shipHfl t embodies tho result of tho investig^H ion of tire in tho cotton cargo on tlH iritish steamship City of Richmond, uno last, conducted by the British GoHB rnment, and declares that tho freqnenJH f iires on ships carrying cotton is BH reat moasuro owing to tho loose cont^H ion of tho packing of bales. The circ^B ar quotes the laws bearing on the ect, and enjoins on custom officers tHB mportanco of enforcing strict comp^H nee therewith. ||fl