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YOUNO MAN, * KEEP OUT OF DEBT. ? ******** * ? ***.+ Editors Koo woo Courier: I am not a preacher, neither am I tho sou of a preacher. However, I will take a text, and it will prove of vital im portance to everybody, especially to the yoting men who are just setting out upon tho voyage of life. It ls the bed-rock on which to build a successful career. We are all out on thc sea of life, and each one\piuit be his own captain in temporal things as well as in spiritual thlugs. Therefore, each Individual must ex amine his chart, and see that tho compass points in the right direction in order to round i ?. a successful bu siness life. We wish that wo could Impress this truth upon tho heart of every young man in all this broad land, and that it could be "written itt red lettors upon the gates and dcor posts of every house. Now, let us stop for ono moment and think what debt is, and what it means, and you may then botter un derstand what this advice (this text) is worth, or may bo worth, to you. Debt is woree than cyclones, flood or fire. It is a ghost that will not down, but will sit upon you bed post as a nightmare that will rob you of sweet Bleep. It ls a shackle to your energy. It stops the pace of tho fleetest. It holds a man to the spot when golden opportunity is but one step away. It keeps a fellow'j nose to the grindstone. There may be flowers along life's pathway, hut the man lp debt finds that his arin ls too short to get them. Ho is like one with a ball and chain to lils leg; he cannot b?> Iiis own master. Ot lier.s diet tte or Interfere with lils plans. Like a dog with a block -he is kept Within certain bounds -and bis locomotion is necessarily very slow, but ho has to keep mov ing to get there at all, and at the end of the year he finds, to his great dis-, appointment, thal huckle and tongue won't meet. Ile doesn't have time to sit down and think and plan. There may be shaded spots along the way, but only tho man free from debt may lind thom to enjoy tho shady places In life. Young man. If you will put your ?boulder to the wheel, and push with might and main, and if the smutty end of tho log comes to you, tako right hold of lt, and then live in tho fifteenth Psalm, you will be just as sure to succeed In life as a loose horse is to run ahead of the one that ls hobbled; just as sure as a cow that is not fastened is going to find the tall grass, while Hie one staked may have to chew the stubble unless she breaks the rope. No man will over have smooth sailing until he breaks the rope of debt that holds him down. Debt ls not only a shackle, a quicksand, hut it is nu eating cancer. It ruins the disposition, produces despair, eats away lifo itself. This disease-this cancer-not only eats away the en ergy and the brain, but it pollutes the atmosphere of your homo, places the red placard of pestilence beside your doorway, throws a shadow about your fireside, and always linds you flat on your back, when opportu nity knocks at your door, lt has ruined many a good mau and blight ed many happy homes. It ls bettor to die with a quick pain than a slow fever. The point ls this: That wo had better deny ourselves of the lux uries of life than to go In debt for thom. It is an old adage, but a true ono, to keep it up you must pay the money down. Make up your mind now, not to go In debt this year of grace 1908. And say, in the langunge of the Scotchman, my name ls McGregor, and this Is my native heath, and by the eterral powers here I will forever stand. But todo this you will have to be as watchful as a Roman vestal on duty. Debt is not only a nightmare, a cancer, a shackle to your feet, but lt ls a horse-leech sucking tho very life blood from the home; lt ls a sting ing adder, a biting serpent. If you must and will go in debt, whatever you do don't strain your credit. Keep your hand upon the throttle, ami your eye upon tho rall, and watch for the breakers. J. Russell Wright. Walhalla, S. C. "Generally debilitated for years. Had sick headaches, lacked ai iliition, was worn-out and all run down. Bur dock Blood Bitters made ino a well woman."- -Mrs. Chas. )< Tolley. Moo up. Conn. INDIANS CLASH IN SENATE Owen, of Oklahoma, and Curtis, of Kansas, tho 1'iincipnl.s. Washington, D. C., Feb. 27.-One of the most dramatic scenes ever wit nessed in the Senate was enacted to day when Senator Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma, insisted in tragic tones ann with face showing much emo tion that the five tribes of civilized Indians were dead, and that ho. ar, a member o', tho tribe of Cherokee In dians, vas not under the control of the Secretary of the Interior. The event was rendered all the more interesting by the fact that Mr. Owen was sharply engaged in contro versy by Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, himself a Kaw Indian. It was the first time that two men with Indian blood in their veins had ever locked horns as Senators in the Sen ate Chamber. Tho controversy arose in connec tion with the consideration of the Indian bill, and was precipitated hy an effort on the part of Mr. Owen to have that bill so amended as to rec ognize the citizenship of tho Ave civ ilized tribes of Indians by putting the word "late" before tills deslgna nntlon and calling them the "late Aye civilized tribes." Don't think that piles can't be cured. Thousands of Obst i lt fl te cases have been cured by Donn's Ointment. 50c. al any drug store. WATCH the lalni on jour paper. On April <st we will have to stop wilding The Courier to all subscrib ers one year or more in arrears. If you owe us n dollar kindly remit now, so that we will be able to send you Thc Courier after April 1st. WORK IN NATIONAL HOUSE. What South Carolina and Other Sou thern i: inc -nihiiivrs aro Doing. Wushington, D. C.. Feb. 28.-Spe cial: The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives is de voting considerable time to the con sideration of the nnti-llquoi mea sures which have been introduced, and reiorred to this committee, upon which committee Conarossman Wy att Aikon. of South >';u oli,. >. is one of the leading ac'.ive Democratic members. For thd last two or three weeks this committee has been in almost constant session. A large number of people representing both sides of che question have been be fore the committee representing dif ieren! views of the subject. The J proposed legislation is u provision to subject intoxicating liquors, ship ped in \nt*r slate commerce to tho police powers of the States when I they cross the boundary line of the State. Mr. Aiken has drafted a bill to this effect, which, is being consid ered by the committee. If his mea sure should be enacted into law lt would effectually solve the perplex ing problem which Just at this time is agitating the entire country from tho Atlantic to the Pacific In sub stance Mr. Aiken's bill is to prohibit the transfer of liquors and Intoxi cating drinks from a wet State into one which has prohibited by law the salo of whiskey. It is the expecta tion of Mr. Aiken to receive a favor able report on his bill, and ho be lieves that ultimately lt will be made a law. It ls learned hore with great In terest that as soon as tho agricultu ral appropriation bill ls reported and comes up In tho House for passage, lion. J. Thos. Hclliu, of Alabama, will discuss before that distinguish ed body, in his customary eloquent manner, tho question of cotton ex changes dealing In cotton fuiures.it ls said that Mr. Holl?n Intends to make a strong appeal In favor of sending mole ngents into foreign countries to look after our cotton trade, and urge the use of moro cot ton goods. This address promises to be one of valuable Importance, and Is being looked forward to with close interest. In the matter of gathering cotton statistics to make an estimate there on, by tho Agricultural Department, Mr. Heflin was Instrumental lu get ting a provision In tho penal code, ?ow pending In tho House, to punish any person In the department for giv ing out information to cotton ex changes, or any one else, prior to tho time of publishing these esti mates. lt will he remembered that Air. Heflin Introduced a resolution before Christmas charging that the Agricultural Department's estimate ol' the cotton crop for 1907 was too huge. He has been persistently pur suing this resolution to final action, and at the investigation last week, It was admitted to the Agricultural Committee that the charge was true, and that the estimate was exagger ated. lt may be well said that the cot ton growers and the agricultural In terests of the country have no better friend than Hon. J. Thos. Heflin, or Alabama. Congressman Ellerbe, of South Ca rolina, has secured from tho Post Office Department an order to have Darlington county Inspected, looking to the Inauguration of complete ru ral free delivery service that coun ty. Mr. Ellerbe, In his efforts to se cure the very best advantages for his constituents along this line, is in deed persistent. It will be remem bered that he just recently obtained an Inspection of Marlboro county, and succeeded In having lt put un der complete rural service. As a manifestation of the forceful manner of work which Mr. Ellerbe has been continuously engaged In along this Une, it is an interesting fact that ho has given his constituents the bene fit of establishing three times as many rural routes In his district since his Induction Into office as The Possible of thc best possible i every enterprising c< "it is as easy as rollii only use enough Virginie Perl Is there any reason why y James M. 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