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A few go beyond it; malti f.ami reach it TJg oldest per of modern times expired at 195 | v^S'i- Greek of the same of 'arafes lived to 132 year* As hhm&ti hy the na ale of Thorns* Sv?4 152 y*a.l Before the of Moses people lived 150 years, if too eo iar e&otvrh back they LSOO y^MfcS, t&t wto ?ary, because the story of the i mns; come down by tradition, tarns i* new* of the past if thegen mhf had been short livedo the* ?to <*^--haye changed Hps o^Uury it WJiotaecessaiy thaipeople jjfeg so^^gjy ov&r to authenticate : the eventfloilhe past If in oar time peopleHved only 25 years, that Wald not aSfect history, since it is pat in print and is no longer dependent on tradition, i Whatever yoor age, I will tcniay directljr, address you, and I shall speak to those who are in the ? twenties, the thirties* the iorties^ the fifties, the sixties, and to those who are >i..in the seventies and beyond, j. V'*j REioKr, Tooar^ has, nr j toy Ipvfe 2 !" "' - ~ strength. ; I; J First, then, I accost those of yon jfc ffh^are in the twenties, if on are full KJaf expectation*. Yoa are ambitious ? if you amount to anything ? ?jy^sgrme kind : of success, commercial 1: JKt mechacicai or professional or liter . i Bp* or agricultural or social or moral, ffiptr t Sad some one in the twenties withont any sort of ambition, I feel llljlke stying, $3&y friend, you have got ?y&e wrong planet. This is not the ltd tor you. Yon are going to be BBS Mfcyay. Have yon made your 1 1:>;- ? jEtfpoorbouaes? Yon wilf never 0} ; ? '? Be to pey for your crad;e& Who Kg to pay? for yoor boar4? There MBpfcakeatioet the &ee~ that you *?&&&&* But, .supposing !?' ; yoQ:'lat?^^^0Br.let me say to all tlT Expect ^ everything teii^pij^|^g"betier. Are you looking ll^^weiSSf %Wsl|, remember that God ?pria*0 sajbaw. Yatt cost a great deal. Tos sed and fm&m pni fcr a l^time i big saaa of money, and if H^urmore tl^s the afcso as ecrormons f au pply. ExpecT as ''much ill of any kind of success^ & ct it from the Lord you 4&re ipeqd on Mfy other resource mayf be ^badfy chagpned" j -0*J. FVBIA^HTA) EVERY FBI! W. 1. Y*l,LEI?lG&?. CAM DKJi, <\MaTD tie \g0 yiece* Cleveland's *.? /v 6SN^ Tktejtf&jfc- Zechariah saw Zeoit*. When the Bailors of ? ?aip on which Panl sailed sounded Jje Mediterranean sea, it was 20 fath "oms. What mighty things have been Sane in the twenties Itomulus found ed Kome wben be was 20. Keats fin ished life at 25. Lafayette was a w&fid- Renowned soldier at 23. Ber lin accomplished his chief work bjf 27. Bonaparte was victor over Italy at 26. Pitt was ptfine minister of England, at 22. Calvin had completed his im mortal .^Institutes" by the time he was 26. Grotius was attorney general, at 24. Some of the mightiest things for God and#ernity have fteendone in the twenties^ Aa long as you can put the figure "2* before the other figure that helps describe your age I live high hopes about you. . Look out for that figured" Watch its continuance with as much earnestness as you ever watched anything that promised ^ you salvation or threatened you demolition. wWhata critical tinsa^the twenties! Wfcile they continue yoq decide your occupation and " the principles by which you w? be guided.N You make your most abiding friendships. You arrange /our home life. You fix yoar habits. Lord God Almighty, for Jesus Christ's sake have mercy on all the men and women in the twen ties! j'/'V" - : ? !' ' - Next X accost those ? gie thirties. You are at an age when you find what a tough thing it is to gefr- recognized and established in your occupation or profession. Ten yean ago you thought all that was necessary for success was to put on your shutter the sign of phy sician or dentist or attorney or broker or agent, and you would have plenty offcnsioess, How many hours you sat and waited for business and waited fin vain, three persons only know ? "Ood, your wife and yomgeH. In com mercial life you have not had the pro motion and Locreaaeftn salary you an-, tkipated, or the place you expected to occupy in the firm has not been va cated. TKe produce of theTarm, with which you expected to support your iself and those depending on you ana to pay the interest on the mortgage, has been far less than you anticipated, or 'the prices were down, or special ex penses for sickness made drafts on your resources that you could not have expected. In some Respects the hardest deeade of life is the thirties,, because the results are generally so tar behind., .the anticipations. It is very rare Indeed that a young man does as did the young man lar- Son day night, wben he came to me ,and said: "I have bete so marvelttoely prospered since I came to fcis country that I feel, as a matter of gratitude, that I ooght to dedicate myself to God." Nine tenths of the poetry of fife has been knocked outfof you since you eome into the thirties. Men in ? the different professions and occupa tions saw that you were rising^and they must put an estoppel on ytfu "or you might somehow stand in the way. They think you must be suppressed. From 30 to 40 it is an especially hard time for y^mg doctors, young lawyers, young ' niercnants, young- formers, young mechanics? young ministers. th^stbtjggle of middle life. Th?_ 8troggk(?of tbe thirties is for fflSBwf #nd helpful and remunerative recognition. But few old people know how to treat young people without patronizing them on the one hand or snubbing them on the other. Oh, the thirties! Joseph stood before Pharaoh at David was 30 years old when , *he began to reign. The height of | Solomon's temple was 30 cubits. Christ entered upon his_ active ministry at 30 years of aggT Judas sold him for 30 pieces of silver. Oh, the thirties! What a word, suggestive of triuiriph of disaster! Your decade is the one tfiat will probably afford the greatest rtunity for victory, because there : greatest necessity for struggle. ! the world's history and know what j thirties for good or bad. AJeaan- j e threat eloeed his career at 32. ] ick the Great _made Europe 'e with his armies at t^. J^ortez Mexico at 30. C*rant t Shiloh and Donelson when 38. phael died at 37. Luther was tbe hero of the reformation at 35. Sir Philip Sydney got through by 32. The greatest deeds for God and against him were done within the thirties, and your greatest battles are now and between the time when you cease expressing your age by putting first a figure "2" and the time when you will cease expressing it by putting first a figure-" 3." As it is the great est time of the struggle, I adjure you, in God's name and by God's gt^ce, make it the greatestCachievement. My prayer is for all those in the tremend ous crisis of the thirties.. The fact is that by the way you decide the pre sent decade of your history you decide all the following decades. When I ! was in Russia, I was disappointed in , not seeing the battlefield of Borodino. | Why was there fought such a battle af that small village? 'It was .70 miles frojb Moscow. Why that desperate [struggle in which 125,000 Frenchmen grapple with 130,000 Russians, and 30,000 dead Frenchmen and 52,000 dead Russians were left on the field? It was beansse the fate of Moscow* tbe sacred city of Russia, was decided 70 miles away. An4 let me tell y <&, people of the thirties* j you a*e now at the Borodino, whence j will resound its success or its moral ' disasters clear on into the seventies if yQu iive to the threescore andN^nfcfc tile text ?? A I WHEN MAS KNOW8 HIMSELF. Next I accost the forties. Yours is" : tle decade of discovery. J do not the discovery of the outside, but discovery of yourself. * No mam himself unitii he is 40. He rifikestimates or underestimates him By that tirite he ha* learned wSat he can doer what he cannot do* ^United State, J ipE^P - ^ make him Shu &b sphere ig name. Gov. Mc^pJi^ of Obty, ret SiSL^'^v^- *;*. entire private fortur ^jbtt of t fiusiiiy pt^sieiaj*; p-ioml s 2 ? for the ordinary ailments that ' otir race. He w^aailingo? in could not take a reckoning, but nowH clears up enough to allow to find out bis reakf latitude and longitude. He bas been-dimbing, but now he has got to the top of the bill, and he takes * long breath. He is half way through the journey at least, and be is in a position to look backward ort forward. He , has more good sense than i he ever had. | Bfe knows human nature, for he has been cheated often enough to see the bad side of it, and be bas met to many gracious and kindly and splendid .j souls be also knows the good side of It. Now qalro yourself. ?ThsSVGftd for the past and delibersntely set youl\ compass for an other voyage. You have chased enough thistledown. You have blown enough soap bubbles. , A ou have seen the unsatkfy ing nature of all- earthly things. Open a new \ chapter with God and the world. This decade of the forties ought to eclipse all its pre decessors in worship, in usefulness and in happyiess. *' Forty" is a great word in the Bible: God's ancieut people, were 40 years in the wilder ness. EH judged Israel 40 years. David and, Solomon and Jehoash reigned 40 years. When . Joseph visited his brethren, he was 40 years old. Oh, tbjs mountain, top of the forties! You have now the character | you will probably have for ali time and all eternity. Godi by his grace sometimes changes -a man after the forties, but after t?&t a man never changes bimselt. Tell me, 0 men and women who are in the forties, your habits of thought and life, and I will tell you what you will forever be. I might make a mistake once in a thous and times, but not more than in that proportion. I ' w premonitory symptoms of old age. My sermon lie xt accosts the fiities. How queer it looks when in writing your age you make the first of the two figures a "5." This is the decade which shows what the other decades have been. If a young man has aowu wild oats and be has lived to thictime, he reaps the harvest of it in the fifties, or if by neettsity bo was compelled to] overtoil inh^nest directions he is call ed to settle up with exacting nature gome time during the fifties. .Many have it so hard in early Kfe^fcattbey are octogenarians at 50. Sckticas and rheumatism and neuralgias and ver tigos and insomnias have their play ground in the fifties. A man's hair begins to whiten, and, although h$ may have worn spectacles before, now he asks the optician forNo.14.or ( No 12 or No.' 10. When he gets a cough' and is almost cured, he hacks and clears his throat a good wh ile afterward. Oh, ye who are in the fifties/ think of it! A half centyry of bWing to be thankful for, and a half-7 century subsfaracted from anh existence which, in the most, marked cases of longevity, hardly ever reaches; a whole ceutury. By this time you ought to be eminent for piety. You haye been in so many battles you ought tobfc a brave soldier. You have made so many voyages jrou ought to be a good sailor. < So long protected and blessed, you ought ? tp have a 'soul full of doxOlogy. Ih Bible times in Canaan^ every 50 years was bv Goc^s-command a year of jubi? lee. The people did not work that year. If property had by misfortune gone out of one's possession, on we fiftieth year it cfcme back to, him. If he had fooled it ifcwasi retun^d without a farthing^)' pay. |f a man had been enslaved, :he was in that year emancipated. A trumpet was sounded loud and clear and long, and it was the trumpet of jubilee. They shook hands, they laughed, tbey con gratulated. What a time it w as that* fiftieth year! And if under the old disjjensktimi it was such a glad time, under our new and more glorious jlis peusation let all who have come to the fifties hear the trumpet ot jubilee that I now blow. That was the allusion made by Mr. Toplady, the great hyninologist, when he wrote: Bl?w ye the trumpet, Wow . t The gladly solemn sound: Let all tb*1 nations kno*:, ; - t To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee ? come. : I . . Retard, ye ransomed siuners lead borne ; Ye wio bar? sold lor naagfct Yau? heritage above ' Shali have it backjurtwogbtv The gift c/ Jeaaa' love. J v * Tbe" year of jartJilee has come Return ye ransomed sinners home. f WEAB OUT, BUT DO NOT BUST OUT. My sermon next accosts the sixties. The beginning, of that decade is more startling than any other. In hi* chronological journey the man rides rather smoothly over the figures "2" and "3" and "4" and "5," but the figure <46" gives him a big jolt H6 says: "It Cannot be that I am 60. Let me examine the old family record. I guess they made a mistake. They got my name down wrong in the roll of births." But no;; the older broth ers and sisters remember the. time of , his advent, and there ifcaome relative a year older and arxotner relative a year younger, and, sure enough, the fact is established beyond all disputa tion. Sixty! IjJSfow your great danger is-* the temptation to; fold up your facuities and quit. You will feel a tendency tp reminisce. If you do not look oat, you w21 begin; almost every thing with the words, "When I was a boy." Stat you ought to make the sixties more memorable for God and the truth than; the fifties or the forties jw the thirties. You ought1 to do Vore dwri?g;i&? 10 jears than yto did in any 30 yearsj or your : life hpti. Yon have eoaamfatftd enough mistake? Is BJer to* male < yoo j-iiae above your juniors. Now, udder fw* accumulated light of your past experi menting, go to work for Gud as never before. When a man in the sixtaei: folds up his energies and feels that he has done enoagh, it is the devff of indolence to which he is Surrendering, and God generally takes the nan at i'* j l - ? bis word and lets him die right His brmkr; that*ia<ki^he tew? hard work was active^' now sck shrivels. Men, whether they from secularoi religiotjd worliy erallj retire to tb* grafce. V No man has a right to retirfc The was made for work. ' There remi a rest for the people of God, bat imjobAiw w?-? J *' ,e \}y wind blew, sin'w7fe}l;l>ut fh-*flc ^X)se ?f?y'rtce? *?i*V n(* o<?qpt. '?he rie mm;! was not made until 8 o'cloek in ? the evening, bat some of you propose to go into camp at 2'o'clock in the after noon. WAITING FOR THE 8EAI50W. My subject next accosfe*thoae in the seventies and beyond,. My word to them is congratulation. You have got nearly if not quite through. You have safely crossed the sea of li^and are about to entpr the xharbor. You have Ihugttt atGettysburg^ and the :war is over. ' Here and there a skir mish with the remaining sin of your own heffrt and the sin of the world, but I guess you are about dome. There may be some work for j you ' yet op email or large scale. Bismarck of Germaay vigorous in the eighties. The prime minister of?ngland strong at 84. Haydn composing his oratorio, "The Creation," at 70 years of age. Isocrates doing some pf his bert^ work at %4. Plato busy\thinking for all succeeding-^nturies at 81. William Blake a i 67 ^earning Italian so as to read Dante in the original Lord Cook born at 87 writing his best trea tise. John Wesley stirring great audiences at 85. W illiam (5. Bryant, without spectacles, reading in my house "Tbanatopsis" at 83 years of age. * i. Christian men and women 1 in all departments serving God after be aming septuagenarians and octtogena \ians aud nonagenarians prove that there are possibilities^ work for the aged, but I think yoju who are! passed the seventies are near being through. How do you feel abobt?it? You ought to be jubilantvbecauae Jilt is a tremendous struggle! and if you have gat through respecttWy and usefully yoai ought to feel like people toward the close of a summer day seated on the rocks watehing the sunset at Bar Harbor or Cape May or Lookout mountain. 1 am glad to say that most old Christians are cheerful Daniel Webster visited John AdamB a short tim? before his death and found him in very infirm health. He said to Mr Adams: "I am glad* to see you. I hope you are getting along pretty well/' The reply was: , "Ah, sir, quite <the contrary. I find I am a poor tenant occupying a house much shattered sby time. It sways and trembles with every wind, and, . what is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as I can make out, does not inten&to make any/repairs." \ j HIS DISEASE WAS ANNQ DOMINI. Dr Beman, after passing into the seventies, was asked by my * friend, Rev Dr Spear, "D* Beman, how is your health now ?' an<i he replied, "J have oil me an incurable disease." "What is that?" atked my friend, and the septuagenarian replied, "Old age." Both of the old tueu I have meutioueJ intended their remarks for facetious ness, aud old people have a right to' be facetious. An aged woman sent for her physician and told him of her ailments, and the doctor said: "What would you have me do, madam? I cannot make you young again." She replied "I know that, doctor. W hat I want you to do is to help me grow old a little longer." The young have their troubles before them;- the old have their troubles behind ihem. YouP have got about all out of this earth that tljeje is in it Be glad that you, an agcid servant of God, are ,gaing to try another life and amid better sur roundings. Stop^ looking back and look ahead. Oh, ye in the seventies, ?tod the eighties, aud the nineties, ; your best days are yet to come; your grandest ^ associations are yet to be formed; your best ejresight is yet to be kindled; your best hearing is yet to be awakened; your greatest speed is yet ;to be Yraveled; your gladdest toug is yet to pe sung. The most of your friendiiiave gone. over the border, and you ar Jjgoing to join them] very soon. They ^jie waiting 4>* you. They are watching the golden shore to see you :land. They are watching the shining gate to $e you come through. They are standing by the throne to see you .mount \ What a glad hour when you 'drop the5 staff and take the scepterj tfben yoSS$4jit the Stiffened Joints and become in immortal athlete! But Afcar! hear! a remark pertinent to all people whether i|i the twenties, th% thirties, the forties, the fifties, the six ties, the seventies' or beyond. r What we all need is to take the su pernatural into our lives. Do not us depend on brain and muscle at ^ nerve. We want a mighty supply of tbe supernatural. We want, with us a divine force mightier than the waters and the tempests, and when the liord took two steps on bestormed Gali-, lee, putting one foot on the winds and the other on the waves, he proved him-, self mightier than hurricance and billow. We want with us a divine force greater than the fires, and wheq the Lord cooled Nebuchadnezzar'? furnace until Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did not even have to fan themselves he proved^ himself mightiejr than the fire. We want a divine force stronger than wild beast, an<j| when the ?nrd made Daniel a liofl tamer he proved himself stronger th^n the wrath of the jungles. There so many diseases in the world we wantf| with us a divine physician capable of combating ailments, and^oar Lord when on earth showed what he conic) dojwith catalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia aDd dementia. Oh, ts.ke %ll& supernatural into all your lives; "How to getit? Justras you get any thing you want ? by application. If you want anything, you apply fof it By prayer apply for jthe super* natural. Take it into your daily busi * . Many a man has been able W only 50j cents ou the dollar wh$ i had cailled in the supernatural id have paid 100 cents on the dol lar. Why do ?8 men out of 100 fail in business? i Because there are n<? awtfe than 2 men out of 100 who take God into their worldly affairs. "Be hind the great unknown ftandeth Gt?| within the lhadowtf keeping watch upon his owbI" MAKE OOP TOUR PA&T3TSR. - x ' \ 1 M man got op in a Hew' .York prayer meeting and said: "God is. my j partner. I did bu8ine? without him for 20 years and iailed every two* or three yean. I have been doing j 4>08raeflB with him for 20" yean and hitve^iot failed once." Oh, take the supern^tu^it into all your affain! I bid such ah evidence of the goodness of God in temporal things when I entered active life I- m??* QalW ~ ? - * * D it. ritk 1 jfr? ? a. - ? ?/' ' r.r 1 " in New Jersey, I entered upon my wrixk. But there stood the empty personage, and n<# a cent had I with wliich to ftirnish it After preaching th ree or four weeks the officers of my church asked me.jf I did not want to take two or three weeks' vacation.* I said "Yes," for I had preached atont all I know, but I feared they mustote getting tired ot me. i < When I returned to the village afbir the brief vacation, they handed : uje the key of the parsonage and asVtd me if I did not want to go and look at it ..Not suspecting anything hac! happened, I put the key into the parsonage door and opened it, and, there was the. hall completely fur nished with carpet and pictures and hatratk, and I turned into Hie par lors, and they were furnished the softist sofas I ever sat on, andnntp the the study and found it furmsniW with bookcases,3and I went to th^bedfrooms, and they were furnished, and into the pantry, and that was furnished with every culinary article, and the spio^boxes we?a^\filled, and a flour barrel stood therejready to be opened, and I went down into the dining room, and the table was set and beautifully furnished, aud into kitch en, and the stove was full of fuel, and a ma tch lay on the top of the stove, and all I had to do in starting house keeping was to strike the match. God inspired the whole thi ng, and if I ever doubt his goodness, all. up and dowji the world call me an ingrate. I Justify that I have been iu many t%ht places, and God always got me out/Hpd he will get you out of the tight pUcea. But the most of this au<iit-nc? will neveir reach the eighties on the ^Seven ties or the sixties or the fifties pr the forties, He who passes into the forties has gone far beyond the averegs^f human life. Amid the uncertainties take G'vd through Jesus , Christ as your present and eterual safety. The longest life is only a small frag ment of the great eternity. We will all of us soon be there. Eierniiy! how near it rolls; Count the vast value of vonr souls. Beware and count the awful cost What they have gained whose souls are l<$t. w Southern |Towns May Secure Manu factories. [BT W. L. GLESSMKR IN ' DIXIK."] The question of how to secure, aid and encourage manufacturing indus tries in the South carries with it an acknowledgment of necessity br desir ability ot manufactories, with an ap preciation of their advantages, but before answering this question the characier of the. manufactories desired , must first be determined, as upon thfe determination largely rests -rthe -char acter of the methods to be employed. In a general way it may be statt-d that the class of manufactories most ' l^eded, and therefore most desirable,^ are thwie which will, in the greatest degree, aid in developing and utiliz ing oui: natural resources, give em ployment to the greatest number of people,' and build up, not only our towns, but the country surrounding them. j. In my opinion, small manufactories best fill these requirements, as they can be secured by a greater number of communities, utilize a greater variety of products, Require less aid, have iu them more of the elements of self support, and enlist, the interest of the greatest' number of people^ If one hundred thousand dollars could be raised in a community for the estab lishment of manufactories, it would better ssrve the general interests of that community to establish ten small ones than one large one, for they would give more varied employment, develop and- utilize a greater number of pro ducts, and be less liable to failure. There are times cf depression in all manufacturing industries, .but that condition of trade which proves a source of loss to one industry may prove a source of profit to another; therefore it is not at all probable that ten different industries will all prove unprofitable at the same time, conse quently all the employes would jiot be j thrown out of employment, as often occurs in the shutting doWn of large establishments. There is also less danger of strikes or lock-outs, for in a small manufactory employer and em ploye are brought closer together and have more interests in common. Small manufactories enlarge with the demand lor their goods, and, their business being brought up gradually and with a thorough knowledge of the wants of the trade, their foundation is firm. Ab they grow up they are in a condition to take advantage of im provements in machinery without great exgeuse, while I have seen large manufactories seriously crippled by ? their inability to replace their large and expensive plant with improved machinery being used by their young er competitors. Compare the princi pal manufacturing towns of Connecti cut and Massachusetts, with their small manufactories, with those of Pennsylvania and Ohio, where large manufactories are the rule, and you ^will find in the formermore general Intelligence,. moTaUty, wealth and con tentment For the above reasons I shall con fine myself to a discussion of the best methods of securing, aiding aud en. couraging small manufacturing indus tries I am fully aware that in doing so I shall run counter to the popular idea, which is that k- -manufactory is an immense building filled with com plicated machinery -and* hundreds of empiop*.; , This is- an age of co-operation, both in labor and capital, and by intelli gent too operation I belijce that every community can ' seeui^fcd and en courage such man u&ctunng industries as areSmitable to its particular locali ty .and surroundinjgs. By co-opera tion, through building and loan aano ciations, hundreds thousands of ;4 ? 1 i' . , i I ' As zfo^-b'e through tbe ? MP?CiPle aDd ??Ple ?J the Sooth caf^toblSK'6 the* midrt such ?WXrt ' '? I tj of manu&rfrf,'^ ? j ? Var,e developind otiiiz^furich^^ "m Sfeg-s aasr+fur -I ., .. r !)**uwi?IU^ tilC establishment of manufacturing indus tries in its midst organize a Manufac turing Aid Association, with shares of one hundred doliare each, payable in monthly installments cf one dollar. This would enable every member of tie communityrto take stock accord ing to hiF;means, -and thus enlist all in the work. . Let it be distinctly un derstood that the payments on stock are not contributions, but an invest ment, and one that will yield a lair profit There few 'communities suitable for the location of a manu factory which could not get up a sub scription of one thousand shares. One thousand shares would raise one thou sand doilars. per month for one hun dred months, or one hundred thou sand dollars flfc. a little over eight years. Elect as a board of directors Progressive and reliable business men, empowering them to loan the funds of the association to Reliable parties, on good security, wishing to engage in- manufacturing, or k> sub scribe stock in manufacturing compa nies. It should be a purely business transaction, forj as a general thing,, gifts are only asked by speculative or unreliable parties. One of the first uses to which the funds of the association should be put would be to purchase a tract of land well adapted for manufacturing sites. These sites could be sold, on liberal terms, to parties desiring to erect manufactories, or they could be put in as paid up stock. Then the associa tion would be ready to advertise, and should advertise, that it stood ready to subscribe stock, to loan money, or otherwise aid auy deinrable manufac turing industry. If no parties ap plied, and there was any particular manufacturing iudustry which seemed desirable and profitable, the associa tion could use its funds in establishing it, a9 the building and machinery could be contracted to be paid for in monthly installments. Or, the asso ciation could erect a commodious and convenient building, furnishing it with power, which could be rented out to parties engaged in light manufac turing or manufacturing in a small way I have known where this was done, not only with profit to the asso ciation, but was l$e means of starting aiMunber of industries which grew so as to require build ings .aud power of I their own. If an established manufactory need ed aid to enlarge its business, the asso ciation could render that aid bv tak ing stock ^r by loauing it money at a reasonable" rate of interest. Many a small manufactory could, with a little timely aid, be enabled to enlarge the scope of its business, or be helped to .tide over periods of depression, and 8uch substantial aid given would do more to encourage other manufactur ing industries than larger s^rus Sf>ent in donations or free sites.: I have kaowb many a manufactory to fail because its projectors had expended all their money iu buildings and ma chinery and had nothing to work on. In such cases the association could render invaluable aid, either hy sub scribing to increasd capital stock, or loaning money on the plant, giving time and a reasonable rate of interest. It should always be borne in mind that the funds of the association should be used only in securing, aiding and en couraging manufacturing industries. By pursuing a sound business policy, the association would find itself at the end of a hundred months with a paid up capital of one hundred thousand dollars invested in stocks and loans, which could either be 'sold and the proceeds divided among the stock hoi ders; Or the organization and the work could be continued, stocks being sold and the proceeds invested in new en terprises. Such an association would build up solid business enterprises, not ephnn eral booms. It would be such an ad vertisement for any community as would attract reliable business men, not speculators, and tlAresult would be a solid growth in wfllth and popu lation, in intelligence and content ment. The plan I hare outlined can be enlarged and modified in many ways which will suggest themselves to those who study it, and for that rea son is adapted to the needs of both large and small communities. I do not claim any originality for it, be cause in modified forms I have seen it in Successful operation. 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