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Show Only Matter of Time When Theyd Stand Up t During his last business visit to Russia, Charles M. Schawb, in addition to his steel interests, looked into the budding Communist textile industry. I even ventured to try some of the socks they make over there, he said, but although they seemed thick and woolly, they didnt wear worth a cent. I told the textile director about ENEFITED After Taking Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound Lickdale, Pa. "Before I waa mar ried, my mother and sister and I did all it... But I think they do, he insisted and began to ask what I meant by saying they didnt wear. I showed him how slimpsy they had become, even though there were not actual holes in them, and wound up by saying: As we express it in America, they dont seem to stand up. Ah exclaimed ! the textile the fanning work on a farm 64-ac- re for eleven years. I married a farmer and now in addition to my housework and the care of my children I help him with the outside work on our farm. After my last child was born, I began to suffer as many women do. Finally our family doctor told me to try Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. I did and now I am anew woman and I know that good Mrs. health is better than riches. Clyde t.. Sherman, R. fl, Lickdale, Pa. direcdo tor beaming, that is because you not wear them long enough. Tracing Business Disasters -- Bradstreets list these reasons as the causes of business failure in 1929; Incompetence, 6,191; inexperience, 974 ; lack of capital, 7.325 ; unHis Luck wise credits, 412; failures of others, Have any luck 172; Cheesepocket 295; extravagance, 98; neglect, competition, 763; specific conditions, hunting lions in Africa? Pretzeltwist Yes, I didnt meet 3,073 ; speculation, 68 ; fraud, 332. one. Total, 19,703. " Net Controls IS Fluid Procter fc6D0PS 'i alcohol-- 3 'iTTai: t. lineiheSwwtoeidl. Hiotral- 7 J Consider now the careers of three Americans and flee whether or not the characterization of unique Is aptly applied to them. One of them was the only man who ever held the rank of rear admiral in the United States navy and the rank of brigadier general in the United States army. Another was a man who, although not a native of America, held a position in the highest legislative body . of one American government and then held successively three important offices in the executive department of another American government. Even more remarkable is the record of the third not a native of America, he held several important state offices in two states, was elected United States senator from three different states, commanded American troops in two wars and was governor of an American territory. Tennessee gave to the nation Its .' ; . . IKSy and LossofSlM Judah. P Benjamin Photographs of Carter and Shields, courtesy Army Information Service. lean soil, he was destined to become an important figure in American his-tor- y. Benjamins boyhood was spent in Wilmington, N. C., until ' 1825, when he entered Yale. After three years he left that institution without getting a degree and went to New Orleans, where he studied law in a notarys office. He was 'admitted to the bar PowSamuel only hatan Carter was his name and he in 1832 and spent the next few years was born in Elizabethtown, Carter practicing that profession. In 1848 Louisiana elected Benjacounty, August 6, 1819. He became a 1840. in Six min as presidential elector at large, in the navy midshipman years later he was promoted to the and four years later sent him to the United States senate, returning him grade of passed midshipman and asthere in 1857. He took a prominent signed to the U. S. S. Ohio. FromT851' to 1853 he was assistant part in the slavery dispute of those Instructor of infantry tactics at the times, and during one of the exciting naval academy and was made a lieu- debates in the senate a dispute with tenant In 1855. The next year he Jefferson Davis, the senator from MisBerved in one of Uncle Sams forgotten sissippi, brought the two. men to the wars, the expedition to China. On July verge of a duel which was averted 11, 1861, Carter was temporarily transonly when Davis apologized. ferred to the War department for the Although Davis had disagreed viospecial duty of organizing troops in lently with Benjamin in the senate he bis native land, eastern Tennessee.' recognized the' worth of the man, and Carter soon proved to be as able a when the former was chosen as Presmilitary as he had been a naval officer. ident of the Confederate States of He was appointed first colonel of the America he selected Benjamin as atSecond Tennessee volunteers, then acttorney general In his cabinet. In Au' ing brigadier general of volunteers, gust, 1861, Benjamin was transferred and on May 1, 1862, he received his to the War where his confull commission as commander of a duct of thedepartment, war aroused such bitter brigade.. On March 13, 1865, Carter hostility, even including charges of inwas brevetted major general, and was competency and neglect of his duty, mustered out of the army in Januhe resigned. But Davis, to whose that ary, 1866. stubborn refusal to accept advice He immediately returned , to the some historians ascribe a large share navy, having by this time been pro- of the responsibility for the downfall moted to the rank of commander. He of the Confederacy, again flew In the served as commandant at the naval face of public opinion, and immediateacademy from 1869 to 1872, - haying ly offered Benjamin his third cabinet been proinoted to the rank of captain that of secretary of state. in 1870. He was a member of the position, fell in 1865, BenRichmond When lighthouse board from lS76.to 1880, rest of the Confled with the jamin in and was promoted to commodore federate government. Making his way 1878. In 1881 he was honored by procoast of Florida he escaped in to the motion to the rank of rear admiral to the Bahamas, and in boat an open comreward on the retired list, bhis reached Liverpool. 1865, September, ing as a fitting climax to his extraorIn retirement for After living quietly dinary career in both branches of a In England he took up the study year 1891' In service.' the United States and in 1866 he was Admiral-GenerCarter, , truly a of English law, bar. to admitted the unique American, died In the Capital In 1883, after his health had failed, of the country he had served so well retired from active practice, seventy-on- e of Benjamin lifetime his during 30 bf that year he was on June and v years. at a farewell banquet honor of 1811 guest a In the year ship attempted to ascend the Mississippi river to New given to him in the Inner temple in London by the highest legal luminaries Orleans, but finding that port blockin England. He then went to Paris sailed it British fleet a away aded by to the West Indies. Among its pas- to make his home and there he died 1884. sengers, who landed on the island of on May 8, If Benjamins career in America was St. Croix,; was an English Jew, named Benjamin, and his wife. On August a remarkable one, even more unusual was that of another immigrant boy, 11 a son was born Jo Mrs. Benjamin and 'given the name of Judah. Al- James E. Shields. Born in Dunganthough Judah P. Benjamin was de- non, County Tyrone, Ireland, In 1810, nied the right of being born on Amer- - Shields came to this country at the admiral-general- L are upset - . 0ptanLMrWB? - Nor Narcotic Briq. GenJarn.es , Shields age of sixteen and went to the frontiei country of Illinois, where he studied law and began practice at Kaskaskia In 1832. Honors came rapidly to him in his adopted home. He was elected to the legislature in 1S36, made state auditor in 1839 and appointed a judge on the State Supreme court bench in 1843. Two years later he was appointed commissioner of the general land office, but gave up civil life at the outbreak of the Mexican war to accept a commission as brigadier general of the Illinois volunteers in 1846. Mustered out of the service on July 20, 1848, he was Immediately appointed territorial governor of Oregon, but resigned this office when he was elected senator from Illinois as a Democrat. He served in the senate from December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1855, and then moved to Minnesota. When the state government was organized there he was again sent to the United States senate where he remained from May 12, 1858, to March He next moved to California, 3, 1859. and at the outbreak of the Civil war was acting as superintendent of a mine in Mexico. Hastening to Wash ington, the Mexican war veteran was commissioned a brigadier general of volunteers in August, 186L On March 28, 1863, weakened by the wounds which he had suffered in two wars, Shields resigned from the army. Going to California he found that the lands granted to him for his military services had been lost by bis trusted agent and he bought a farm near Carrollton, Mo., upon which to spend his declining years. Although he bad decided to retire from public life, he was soon back into politics. ,In 1868 be was Democratic candidate for congress, and although his, friends declared that he had been elected, he was not seated. Six years later they elected him to the legislature, and upon the expiration of, his term, the general, aged, weakened and impoverished, sought the humble position of doorkeeper of the United States senate in which- he had represented two states But this was denied him and he returned to Missouri That state promptly honored him by electing him to the senate and he returned again as a member of the body which had denied him employment.' He held this position until his death, which took place on June 1, 1879, at Ottumwa, Iowa, where he had gone to deliver a lecture on the Mexican war for the benefit of a church. - ( by Western Newspaper Union.) TicSniBStn1 Baby ills and ailments seem twice as serious at night. A sudden cry may mean colic. Or a sudden attack of diarrhea a condition it is always important to check quickly. How would you meet this emergency tonight? Have you a bottle of Castoria ready ? 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