When I was quite young, lone prospectors were still common. When they came to town for supplies, merchants often gave them supplies freely or on credit, usually not expecting repayment. Very few found gold, or whatever else they sought. With the New Deal and welfare, they soon disappeared. So much has changed since then.
Free men can be very poor and needy, but freedom is their wealth.
It was a collection of writings on the doctrine of the last things. It is an important work, and I have been amazed at its poor sales. I wrote a three-page introduction to it, one of my better writings. Recently, David Hurd gave me a bound volume of Golden Book Magazine, July-December, 1926. I first read it in 1926, when I was ten years old.