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Misery and Crime the Story ol
Every Place Where It Is.
Pasadena Star.
One need not be a purist to see
the awfulness of the effects of
gambling upon the individual. The
•gaming table must have been turned
out by the workshops of the lowest
depths of perdition, It has not a
single redeeming feature! It curses
jts victims with a withering, blight
ing blast as if from the sevenfold-
heated furnaces of Inferno.
•It is a hard vice to deal with be-
oause in the Adam-nature of men
there lurks a disposition to gamble
in some way. So long ns this pro
pensity is trained in the right di
rection it is beneficial The men
who gambles with circumstances,
who takes chances in life, along
legitimate lines has this gaming
impulse refined to a nicety. But
the low-down, lust-for gain gamb
ling, such as ootains in the hell-
halls of the cities, is one of the most
horrible scourges that a good God
permits to afflict the moral world,
San Francisco, it seems, has been
honeycomed with dens of gambling.
The police have been conveniently
blind to their existence. But a
tragedy in a gambling hall opened
the eyes of the public and is forc-
. ing the/police to see things, also.
It would not be quite so bad if
this vice could be restricted to those
confirmed habitues of the gaming
table, to whom gambling is as daily
nutriment. But the greed of the
game demands the innocent victim—
tbe neopl yte, When the innocent
one has been led like a sheep to the
slaughter, he may be demoralized
beyond redemtion. He may be
begiled Wy the allurepients of the
“profession” into liecoming an
habitual gamblar. Or he may be
• so discouraged and embittered that
that he will take his own life.
Misery and crime and hollow, mock
ing cruelty follow in the vake of
gambling. It is a vice of ‘.‘such
frightful mien, as to be hated needs
but to be seen.” Every honarable
nan should discourage it, combat it
in every way pocsible.
Cash Now.
A Moultrie man is advertising for
beef,.kid, mutton, pork, chickens,
eggs, etc., and agrees to pay the
highest market price for them ini
cash. “There was a time,” says
the Observer, “when the farmer had
to exchange such things for mer
chandise. It is cash now, and the
buyers are on the alert for it. That
is the reason you can find a little
ready money in almost every
home.” The days of “barter and
trade” ~have almost passed, yet they
werp good old days when we swapp
ed a dozen eggs for a sn.lt mackerel,
and a spring chicken for a box of
axle grease and a can of cove”
oysters. Two good ’coon skins
used to fetch enough jeans to make
a pair of breeches for a 15-year-old
boy, and two quarts of huckleber
ries would pay for a bottle of ginger
pop. Then we all used to sit on
the counter and fiddle with the
pound weights and play checkers
and tell hunting and fishing stories,
and then tote home our bundles and
be safe, sane and happy. But bus
iness methods have changed, doubt
less for the better, since we are as
sured that revolutions never go
backward. We are approaching
nearer and nearer to the cash basis
of exchange; but somehow or other
spot cash has a tendency to make
people perk up and be less open-
hearted. The money, however, is
the essential thing.—Savannah
News.
Missions.
Do both. While the nations over
the seas arc calling to the Church
in this country for more men and
money to push forward the cause
of Christ—and this call should have
liberal response—let it not be for
gotten that the church is also try
ing to enlarge its home mission
work. The eyes of the leaders are
on the whitened harvest fields here
and yonder. They see both parts
of the great field of operation, and
while they are seeking to meet the
larger responsibilities abroad -they
are not neglectful of the increasing
demands at home. We can do all
that we ought to do yonder and
here at the same time, and what we
do yonder will not prevent our do
ing all that we ought to do here.
Our cities in this country are
growing rapidly and they are offer
ing to us demands for the gospel
that are bigger than we have ever
known. And then the rural sec
tions from one cause and another
are appealing to our Mission Boards
as they have not done for several
years. We cannot diminish our
Home Mission funds—we must en
large them—but while we are do
ing this we must abo remember
tlyit the call is for larger gifts for
the foreign work. We must do
both.
The Supreme Business of the
Church. The presentation of Christ
to all mankind is the supreme bus
iness of the church. 1 do not speak
now of the final purpose of the
church. That will be seen when
she is completed in multitude and
perfected in character. Our view
at present is limited to that gener
ation of the universal church which
by the will of our Lord is living now
in this present world; and the ques
tion before us is, What is the pur
pose of our Loid in locating and
maintaining this supernatural or
ganization in the midst of mankind,
and wnat is our plain duty as de
termined by His purpose? It is
blnced beyond question in His part
ing charge, After His own per
sonal work on earth had been ac
complished, He furnished a preg
nant foreword to the new era of re
demption in the forty days between
the resurrection and the ascension ;
and of that whole foreword the new
and triumphant characteristic was
the one great charge, “Go ye into
all the world, and preach the gos
pel to every creature.” “Make
disciples, of . all nations.” j “Ye
shall be my witnesses unto the ut
termost part of the earth.”
Through all these centuries the
charge comes down to the present
generation, telling a task yet unac
complished, a purpose and a desire
in the heart of our ascended Lord
for whose fulfilling He is waiting at
our hands, if perchance we are
ready to do His will.—Rev. George
Robson, Edinburgh, in The Mis
sionarv.
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G. S. Johnson’s old stand
CAIRO, GA.
Alabama Midland road over which
the through trains would be run and
the jonction of several other branches
of the Atlantic Coast Line it would
no doubt be made an important
point on the line.
NEW KIND OF COTTON
GROWS HIGH AS TREE
Subscribe for The Pboohem and
•yon will get the nwi while it it
Believe Monticello-Perry Rail
road Link Will Be Built.
Thomasville, Ga., March 4.—The
citizens of Monticello, Fla., seem
very sanguine as to the building of
the proposed extension of the At
lantic Coast Line railroad from that
town to Perry, Fla. It is stated
that the preliminary survey of the
proposed link has been completed
and the officials have reportsd fa
vorably on the project.
The distance from Monticello to
Perry is only thirty-odd miles and
the building of thiB would give an
almost direct line for the Atlantic
Coast Line from the West to Tam
pa, cutting the present distance 125
miles,
Of course Thomasville people are
very much interested in the build-
of this link as the faBt through
trains from the West would be
brought this way, and m Thamaa
} vill* It th* starting point for tho
Some Seed 5ent From Guatemala
Will lie Used lor Experiment.
If all reports are true, Georgia
will soon be growing a species of
cotton which will require a ladder
for use at picking time and which
will resemble a tree more than it
does a stalk.
Captain Robert F. Wright, as
sistant commissioner of agricul
ture has received a lettter from
S. Billow, Guatemala, South
America, in which he states that
a specie of cotton has been de
veloped there which grows as
high as 15 or 30 feet and which
has bolls 7 inches long and from
5 to 8 inches in diameter.
Mr. Billow states that he is
mailing the department of agri- j
culture some of the seeds of the'
plant and they will be turned
over to the state entomologist' for
e :periment as soon as they arrive.
It i 3 said this new cotton, which
is a hybird of two tropical varie
ties, will make 1,200 to 1,500
pounds of clean lint per acre.—
Atlanta Constitution.
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SherIll’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Grady County.
Will be sold, on the first Tuesday in
April next, at public outcry at the court
house in aaid county, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest biddor for
cash certain property of which the fol
lowing, is a full and complete description:
One Starr Piano.
Said property levied on as the prop
erty of 8. P. Cain to satisfy an execution
issued from the City Court of Cairo, of
Baid county, in favor of the Jessie French
Piano & Organ Co., against said S. P.
Cain, said property being in possession
of 8. Pi Cain. This March 10,1911.
A. L. Nwmodwn, 8htri*‘.
Wm. Allen place 7 miles north of Cairo, 500 acres.
5 horse farm open.
The Jonathan Walden place 7 miles southwest of Cairo
4 miles southeast of Whigham.
175 acres of the Whit Gainous place. Will sell all
these places at prices that will please you.
Will sell you any size farm you want.
€[[ We are in the market for lands at all
times. If you want to sell see us.
W, T. CRAWFORD, M’g’r.
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