The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-02

yor." Now let tho political preachers |
take that for q text and stick 10 10; or /
may be ii would DO better for Thorn 10 /
let politics alone aud turn their atten- |
ZION % the work Of the University Of |
Pennsylvania ia tho buried city Of pre- |
b atorio Nippur-n city that theprofos- |
.ors and scientists Of that institution say
b3. 900 years older than Adam aud they
have the proof Of IL. Only two years
ago one Of these snmo professors pub
lished n long article In tho New York
Herald asserting that the bones Of n
man oxhumed ia Florida were over
10000 years old. If those preachers
don't watch the university will upset
AL the chronology Of the Bible aud
make Moses 10 be a myth or n fraud,
for II there Is any one thing more care.
fully stated than another Ia the Mosaic
account Of the creation and succession,
IL is the precise ages Of every man in
the line Of succession from Adam 10
Noah and Noah 10 Abraham. Science
has no respect for sacred history and
every few years comes out with some
thing TO upset or contradict IL.
Couldn't Parkhurst aud Dixon give MS
a pulpit uiterance on Nippur and let
gold and silver rest with the statesman
and politician Of tho country2 Az
the Richmond Dispatch we'll saysi
We earnestly advocate the
gold standard, but see no
reason for alarm or praise or ruin II
silver is remonetized. The CONNER
cial world will soon adopt itself 10 any
currency that may be declared legal
by the government" That's the way
to talk. "No reason for alarm !"
What is the matter with Mexico?
Nothing-nothing at all, My boy has
lived there for nearly two years and
says it is a good country and a pros
porous people, and improvements and
new industries continue to come and
English money continues to pour into
that country building railroads and
factories aud buying coffee plantations
and silver mines. The American pop
ulation is increasing every day and
now a Chicago firm is building AN
American hotel that is to cost half o
million dollars. And yet Mexico has
a silver standard. Gold may be the
best standard for us when we get use
to it, but it is an awful ordeal we are
going through in getting broke in.
Il is like the fellow who experimental
with bis horse to train him TO do with
out food. He gave him a few grains
less every day until the horse died.
believe that if we can live through
the trial we can get along on gold,
but had rather place silver back where
it was and quit the Sherman exper.
iment. But am not paying much at
tention to money now, nor is it paying
much attention to me. l am comfort
ing myself now by studying arithmetic
and perusing history. One Of the
Rome boys who grew up With mint
and made mud pies and worked thu
dog in harness, has long since got t.
be a man and took his degrees at An
napolis. Mathematics is his specially
and he has just published an arithme
tic that has been for six years his labo
of love. ! am no critic of modern
textbooks, but I like this little bool
of Ernest Vests and believe 1 coul,
master it if l was boy. worke,
hard on a sum last night which wa
something like: eff rabbit runs 81
miles and finds hollow tree and stop
there half an hour and hound dog
after him and takes two leaps Will
the rabbit takes three, and three c
the dogs leaps are equal to FIVE of th
rabbits, and the dog gets to the tire
fifteen minutes late and finds the raj
bit gone, when will the dog catch th
rabbit and whereabouts?"
The history that now so deeply il
terests me is the life and times of Wi
| liam L. Yancey, an admirable boo
: written by ]. W. DuBose. A gran
man has been outraged by thorough
ly competent author and the book
a literary and historical treasure.
7 Bill ARP in Atlanta Constitution.