The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-08-09

bent, while be admlroo the golden
payoments "a heavens streets and
never looked up 10 aught divine. Then
let no one wonder that riches grow
IN he'll II Is the soil thak best DO
serves the precious bane.7
No wonder. then, that Mr.. CRFuosAs
became alarmed and hurried TO dts
gogga What q world n oaEg he b now
golng through IN distributing MS
wealth. He receives thousands i
pleading lotters, ] know for many
have boon seat TO me 70 DO forwarded
70 hm-many nlteous appeals for a lit
tie charity. OF course, forward them
and that is the last OF It. They ara
perhaps read by proxy and then de-
Btroyed Dr. Samuel Johnston wrote
truly when he said, Riches fortRy a
man against but one OF the AIS OF life
and that is poverty" Cresus had no
monument. know OF one that was
erected 10 a very rich bad man-an old
baohelor-and his executor, a man OF
unhinching integrity, had chiseled in
the marble these words "He began
the world a poor boy and diod a eiti
zen OF large estate. This is his best
eulogy."
He might as we'll have never lived
and doubtless would DO better OF now.
How many Of the rich deserve a SINH
lar eulogy on their tombstones. Old
Agur's prayer was safe one-"Give
me neither poverty nor riches" These
great accommodations impoverish some
body. They generally come from the
sweat and toll OF the poor. Carnegie,
The New York Herald says, was worth
not less than S5O0,0000O0 and nc
doubt is the richest man living or that
ever lived. According to human laws
and human morals, his wealth was
honestly earned, more honestly than
that Of most millionaires, but in the
sight Of heaven he wronged his fellow
men. No good, Christian man can ever
become q millionaire except by inner.
itance He can't earn 1t, and comply
with the scripture, which says, DE
Justly, love mercy and obey the Lord
thy Cod
But the poets and preachers and
philosophers have from time immemO-
rial written and spoken enough on this
subject to encourage the liberal and
alarm the greedy and yet most all of
our rich men are struggling for more.
The Peabodys and Peter Coopers are
rare exceptions in philanthropy.
Yesterday received from a friend {
late copy OF The New York Sun, in
which whole page was devoted to a
review Of "Maclay's History Of the
United States Navy" which has just
been published In three volumes by
the AppletOns. read with deep inter
est all about the destruction of the
Maine and the tight at Santiago, when
suddenly came 10 a merClless, scath
ing criticism OF Commodore Schley
which made me not md fatigued my
Indignation. bad thought that whole
controversy was settled and partially
harmonized, but tbAe will cause it tc
break out afresh, foF The Sun lavishly
indorses all that Maclay writes. He
tells what Admiral Philip told him
about Schley's disgraceful conduct
(Philip is dead now, and that he act
UGlly turned tail and ran away from
the fight and that his contribution Il
naval strategy throughout the campaign
was avoid your enemy as long al
! possible, and II he makes for YOU
rum" Hobson is not mentioned in this
review. Who is this Maclay, anyhow
But today l am comforted, for I have
been eagerly perusing DR.. Curry's last
and best book, "The Civil History oil
the Confederate States" published By
B. F. Johnson & Co, Richmond. 1t IL
a small book; a calm, considerate re
view Of the past and full of his per
sonal TeminisCences-his contact and
communion with our noble men-Da
Wis, ToOmbs, Stephens, Ben Hill, How
ell Cobb, LOngstreet, Judah Benjamin
and others. It In almost an autObio
grRphy. 1t does not seem to be &
schoolbook. but l wish that every
young man in the land would read it
1t would take but few hours and es
tabltsh him in the faith-the true faith
the faith of our fathers. DR.. Curry
is now almost alone. AL his contem
poraries who figured in the scenes be
has narrated are dead All but one
Judge Cabell still lives. How forum
ate we are that the good doctor lived
to write this book, for what he writes
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