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The Relation of Edu *a- tion to Civilization. Every rightly educated man is a twntsfaotor to hi? race—a cog in the Cicat wheel of progress. A boy has to bo educated in sonic v.'iy to become a man, lest he be a.i animal with hoy mind deposited in a man’s statue. To be ignorant is to he a child. Therefore Plato says “Next to creating a human soul, the divinest thing in the uni verse is educating it aright.” What the race is today wo owe to educa tion. I mean in the true sense; lor a child would better he unborn than untaught. Hut what is right education? 1 believe that right education is de velopment, discipline of mind,body and heart as well as instruction. A waking-tip and leading forth of all the powers of the child; head, heart and handsi taste, conscience and will, by appropriate exercise. It. concerns doing and being as well as knowing, i There, must be entwined about the person the fairest type of moral grandeur. For when we re member hut yesterday we were children. Today we are citizens. We can rcndil • sec that what we would have in our nation tomorrow we must instill into our children to day. Let us retrospect for a while and see if we arc right. Wn have just seen the close of a century, and what a century indeed, it has been. It has done more for the advance ment of education, civilization and Christianity than any five centuries p®ceding. It has seen education handed down from the few monas teries of Europe, from monk to priest, from priest to lord, from lord to aristocrat and finally from aristocrat to commons, till the close of the century sees the school mas ter in the very remotest districts of our fair country..* From the C$»if of Mexico to the Great Lakes, from the cedar woods of Maine to the golden gate of sunset. It lias sent missionaries to the jungles of China, to the dark and dreary caves of Arabia, to the kinkey heads of Af rica, to tell the story of a dying lamb and enfusc into heathens that sweet and healing balm that they may enjoy that pure and undcfiled Anglo-Saxon civilization that we to day enjoy. Society, in this century, has hot made its progress like Chinese skill by the greater acuteness of ingenu ity in trifles. It lias not merely lashed itself to an increased’ speed around an old circle of thought and action. But it hus assumed a, now character. It has raised itself from Iwneath governments to participa lion in government. It has mixed moral and political objects with the daily pursuits of individual men and with a freedom and strength before altogether unknown. It’has added these objects to the whole newer of human understanding. It has been an “ear,” in short, when the social principle has triumphed over- the feudal principle. When society has maintained its rights against military powers and estab iished, on a foundation never, never hereafter to be shaken, its eompe tency to govein itself. All these have been the direct re suit of education in its truest, sense , It has seen international arbitra tions take the place of many inter national wars. And the present century is destined to see the time when international wars will be no more. ■ It has seen almost every eonti pent laid with railroad track threaded with telephone arn^ tele t-raph wires and every ocean laid with cable. This hus well nigh done away with time and distance. We have eecn what right edoca- ••v.«n nmur? and how it has led Hi t..es»: tfwrf iHiprofettjeuts.and hence to the advancement of civilization. Let us now turn and by way of. illuseration and example, see the effects of wrong education. First I lay down this principle, that no system of education which ignores the moral t raining of the fluid can result in the slightest de- elopmont of nation or individual. Greece was literally a land of scholars and the mil-sol's of arms. She rose to the most sublime heights of anv of the nations of ancient history. The first system of G reek educa tion was purely physical and intel lectual. Under Liourges, children were regarded as property of the state anil fed from a common table. We may judge the want of moral culture when we remember that code of Sparta’s, the most oeleora- ted lawgiver, which encouraged them to steal and punished only for (election of the theft. Later Solon, Pythagoras, Plato and Socrates did certainly give training to the mind prominence over the gratification of bodily pro pensities. They ever saw and taught the necessity of what they termed purifying the soul by self- knowledge and devotion. But all these philosophers walked by the faint light of reason alone, The consequence was that while Greece scaled the heights of intelectual em inence and evinced the most icsthetic culture, yet under the inspiration of art she worshipped at the shrine of her own beautiful self-scuptured paintings. She knew nothing of the true religious elements, but gathered her only knowledge of the future from the ambiguous respon ses of a crafty priest. Her altars were seeking with sacrifice, to an unknown God, and her greatest wonder was a heathen temple. Let us now notice Rome with her wars of conquest, wars of ’sub jugation and wars of extermination. What would the light of revolu tion have done for her people' had they furnished their motives with grace and morality? Homer, the acknowledged father of songs would have risen to the sublime heights of Milton. Pythagoras would have ranked with Newton, and if Socrates,under the preservation of his age, had been called upon to drink the fatal hemlock he could have been associa ted with Wycliffe, Cranmer and Ridley in the great army of Chris tian! martyrs. The eloquence of her Cicero, the spirited stanzas of her Horace, the soft sweet strains of her Virgil are enjoyed wherever there is a written language. Yet she lioasted that through her stratagem and skill Roman ait and Roman'arms had penetrated seas beyond which was forbidden mortal to go. Her once proud army uml- gamated with the northern scum, hut she plunged herself into an everlasting overthrow when the Goths and Vandals were seated on her thror.e. In all ages of the world high inteleqtual attainment, unrestrained by moral motives,have been but products of the greatest crime. Pity weeps every God given gen ius lashing like a caged bird, its pinions against the prison bars of earthly passion when it might have bid defiance to the storm and tem pest, winged its flight to’ imperial regions and bathed its golden plu mage in the mellow sunlight of na tive heaven. Take Alexander, with his intel lect carlv developed and his affec tions neglected, the demon of sel fishness and ambition nursed in his very soul. We see him, with con- surnate strategein and skill, sweep ing at the head of forty thousand steel-clad warriors over the fairest portion of Asia, carrying with him fire, sword desolation and death, A moral scourge, a soulless despot, his very success depending upon his taste, sweeping foes and friends alike. Because there were no more worlds for him to conquer he sank into debauchery and died in dis grace. Mark the career of Nnpoleon, cradled in the midst of a revolution and trained from his childhood in the heartiest school of war. The better impulses of his nature stiff ened in his very infancy. Let the ocean storm tell the warning tale as it lashes with angry waves the granite walls of his rock hound pris on and pours its pitiless death dirge into the cares of his once proud spirit. Does France remember when but a*few years ago she sat clothed in sack cloth garments of desolation, a helpless supplieant at the foot of a foreign foe? Does she remember that period in her earlier history when under the teaching of her so- called philosophers she put aside the time-honored customs of Chris tianity, abolished the Salibath and wrote on the tombs of her dead “death is an eternal sleep?” But I address this more particu larly to parents and teachers who are clothed with the responsibility of nuturing the young mind of our country. Are you desirous that this gener ation should grow up to be honored men and ' women, useful citizens and ornaments in every walk of life? Then in the morning sow the seed and while you are training their minds you must assidiously cultivate their hearts. Guard well your examples, breath about them in your daily walk of life a moral atmosphere in whose purity, flows of affectiqn and love may spring up in their young hearts, bud, bloom and shed its fragrance around you. Correspondents Wanted We want a correspondent in every settlement in Grady county. We will furnish paper. Btamps, etc., to those who will furnish us the news from their section. Let us have the news from your section. DON’T KNOCK Come Right In and seo our samples of timely prlnt- ■hop things— i b©3ta- We will Gin long staple cotton on Tuesday’s and Friday’s. Bring it in. Coppage & Carr. *1 l am strictly in the market for Long Staple Cotton both in bale and in the seed. Will pay highest cash price for J. J. COPPAGE, Cairo, Ga. same. Real true worth or value doesn’t always come wrapped ’'large 11 to be sold at indiscrim inate prices. €J Folk usually know that higher priced goods are really worth twice the price of an inferior article. This fad can easily be verified; and more especially in the expenditure of good money for advertising space in newspapers. The Progress has set a fair price on it’s advertising space and does not cut under this price, neither does it “overcharge” anyone. The services of the best printers are employed, and for those who de sire the services of an advertising expert, we have one. m AT IAST TpHEILE was a merchant in oui * town Who was so wondrous wise He saw his business running- down, Yet would not advertise. £lAID he: “I cannot see the sense , v When trade i9 at its worst Of multiplying my expense. ' I’ll wait till trade come* first.” A T last this merchant, ill advised, * Had naught to do but fail, And then the sheriff advertise* A bankrupt auction sate. PELHAM & HAVANA R, R, [ Time Table No. 2 Effective Saturday. October 1st, 1910, 12:01. Between CAIRO AND CAI Vapv South Bound lnt Class 12 els* Passenger lMixd Worth Bound STATIONS tel PaLeirr.. PM. Daily Only A M PMPM ) 7 4,9 8 05 (8 00{3 16 Lv Cairo Ar)9 Gradyville Cranford FBooth Reno rMaxwflll Ar Calvary I.vlg . If you want the news when it is news, eubreribe fur this paper: r Traim stop on signal. Taw Pboshbm is the official ‘and leading paper of Grady