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OPIUM SMUGGLING AND LIQUOR SELLING MENACES TO CHINA. (Mrs. Ren Yin Mei, World's W. C. T. JJ. Organizei*. Extracts from address delivered before the local W. C. T. U.) During the last three years that I have been associated with the W. C. T. U. work, I have had the privilege of visiting Mukden, Chili, Nganhuei, Shantung, Kansu, Chekiang and Ki Jangsi provinces. Everywhere I visit ed I found men and women using opium, boys and smart-looking young ?adies smoke cigarettes, respectable men and women, yes, Christians and Y. M. C. A. workers drink wine at feasts. Our street walls are as badly disfigured with advertisements of . these as any of the civilized western countries. Wine shops are open at ' , every turn of the streets, -so no won der our people fall victims to these poisons. Up to the present time, evil influences have had full sway. Chris tians have not united their forces to fight against any of these, and our people welcome cigarettes, cigars, al coholic and soft drinks, and uncen sored moving picture shows, as part . >of our western civilization. If you had lectured, as I have, to multitudes of Chinese students and business men, you would be suprised "to find how eager they are to hear wo men speak and to find out from them ? the after-effects of these poisons. I am glad we women folks stand by this .prohibition movement, for after all, .what do men know of the after ef fects of alcohol? When they are in the clutches of liquor they bring de struction to their homes, insanity and poverty to their children and wives. . Luckily for themselves they die eas ily from pneumonia, tuberculosis or delirium tremens. Intelligent Chinese .men are more than willing to give up the occasional cup of wine, or the habit of tobacco smoking, as soon as they hear that by so doing they are helping to prevent the Japanese from ?smuggling into China more of the opium that is sapping the vitality of 'their nation and bringing destruction to their families. I have had the joy ?of seeing many influential Chinese stop their lifelong habit of drinking i and smoking as a result of my lec tures. Just to assure me that they are ?Still total abstainers, they have sent jme cards and letters to that effect. Since I came to Shanghai I have heen investigating how opium reaches our ports and why so many Chinese :in the French Concession smoke 'opium. I was told that the people in .'this settlement can smoke opium as 'lawfully as the ricksha coolie can pull ra ricksha-namely, by paying a tax -?very quarter! Last year the profit eers in this infamous business earned .six million dollars from the poor, en slaved Chinese! How much are they planning to earn this year? China is ' borrowing money every year from other nations in order to help defray expenses and to pay off some of her debts. Why not practice some econo my on the opium question? Probably you have heard that the .Japanese send opium through parcel post from Manchuria, where they have their own sentry. But they do mot send all of it that way. A great ?deal of it is being shipped into the country with the cow hides, some in milk cans and some in shoe soles. And now they have induced the Chi nese merchant to manufacture plates .of copper sheet between which they .sandwich opium. It is also packed in mmbrella handles and in the handles ...of picture scrolls. And so, through the . hands of unprincipled people, China - is being exploited in more than one -way. We W. C. T. U. workers are doing all we can to help enlighten the masses ofthe people with a knowledge -of the evils of opium and alcoholics. Jf they once can know the evils of these drugs they will abhor them as we do. We are spreading our work hy organizing the W. C. T. U. in all the boys' and girls' schools and col leges, by lecturing and holding mass .meetings, and by writing articles for . the Chinese press. And most impor tant of all, we are constantly praying . that God will cleanse our people and : give them strength and power to over . come these evils.-Palmetto White .'Ribbon. "DRY VICTORY IN ILLINOIS. '.The prohibition measure, under a 'bill that conforms the state policy to the Volstead act, came out of the house judiciary committee by an 18 ito 2 vote. By the same majority the committee killed the Boyle bill that would have repealed the state legis Jation having to do with prohibition law enforcement. The Tice bill is to be followed by an appropriation mreasure that places the enforcement ro'f the state law in the hands of the .attorney general. It was a dry victory .3.11,along the line. Just received a nice line of Walk Overs, ladies' and gents' oxfords. L MUKASHY. Importance of Cultivation. There are two main rsasons i cultivating: the keeping down weeds and the saving of moisture tl a crusted soil permits to pass ir the air. Without constant cultivati weeds will get a start and a cn will form after every rain, and either case damage to the plants v quickly result. Every gardener kno this, of-course, but few let it get de down into their minds. They will r realize half its true importance. Th loop upon it as a general princi] and refuse to recognize the vital d f eren ce it makes even if slightly ne lected. They do not stop to think tr if by one period of neglect they pi mit the stored moisture to escape it not possible to undo the evil, and VJ less nature supplies more moistu quickly all the previous efforts ! conserving have been useless. Weeds choke out plants by cutti; of air arid light, and starve them 1 using the plant foor that should go crop production, but none of the equal the waste of moisture. Moistu is so vital that seldom any season do a crop escape being reduced by lai of it even with the best culture \ I can give. The moisture taken up by covering of grass or weeds would, conserved, go far toward preventir this loss, and we should rememb that every weed we grow even for time costs us something from 01 crop. Soil that becomes compact on tl surface will draw the moisture fro below just as a wick draws up oil : our lamp. Sun and wind quickly can away all of this moisture and more drawn frcm below. The process much more rapid than the use < moisture by any ordinary crop. Tl loss of moisture even when we do ov, best to conserve it is probably in e: cess of that used, but many tim? more when the soil is compact to th surface. A loose, very porous soil o the surface will stop the drawing u of moisture at the point where th loose soil begins, and the dust mule formed will also keep the sun an .wind from having any effect on th firm soil where the moisture is heh The roots of the plants will sprea in this lower soil, for they will not er ter the dryer loose soil, so they wi get the moisture that is held in stor for them, i Suppose after every rain for tw months you have kept the soil stirre for two inches in depth and the something comes up that you neglec it for a time. The compacted soil wi] quickly disperse all the soil moisture and if the critical season for .plan growth now comes upon your gardei you will lose it almost as surely a if you had not given the previous cul iture. Get this fixed for it explain 'nearly all the dissatisfaction with in tensive culture.-Farm and Ranch. A Wonderful Revival. There is little church news on th< church page today, for the churche; have given up almost their entire t< their active co-operation with the meetings now being held every nighl by Gipsy Smith, Jr. When the meetings are over anc the various churches go back again, so to speak, their church activities will take on new zeal and efficacy; and what'is most important of all their congregations will hear the mes sages of the pulpit with hearing ears and quickened consciences and every church will feel the result of this month of religious worship. Nothing so wonderful has ever hap pened in Augusta as this great re ligious revival. Who would ever have believed that night after night, in clear weather as bad weather, from eight to nine thousand men annd wo men would pack the big tent to over flowing, and many more kept away for lack of a seat-all to hear the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ preach ed by a man whose sermons are ab solutely devoid of sensationalism? And it is not just to the people that usually go to church that he appeals, men and women that never darken the door of a church from one year's end to another, are going whenever they get the opportunity; men who have heretofore scoffed at religion and going in doubt, and remaining to pray; women usually concerned with nothought but to have a good time are becoming deeply concerned about their soul's salvation under the influ ence of his preaching, and are going night after m*-;ht to hear him. He seems in other words to reach the great middle class of the religious world, as well as the saints and .sin ners. But what is more significant than th? fact that thousands crowd the tent each night to hear him-for that might come from the personal mag netism of the man, his eloquence, and the sheer interest of his wonder ful sermons-is the fact that through the influence of these meetings at night hundreds of the business men in the ' city leave their offices and stores each morning and meet togeth er to pray at noon. The significant fact is, 'North Augusta and Monte Sano are meeting together every morning for an hour of prayer, and finding these meetings wonderfully inspiring and helpful. Gypsy Smith is not at the men's prayer, meetings or the women's prayer meetings in pro pria persona-but the spirit he has aroused in men and women, the ear nest seeking after God, that he has inspired in them-the love for com muning with the Christ-thssc are present in power. Surely after thirty days of such devotional service, after thirty nights of hearing such sermons and seeing such effects produced in the souls and heai-ts of men and women-surely this city, will be a different place from what it has.been; surely it will be re newed in spirit and consecrated afresh to the service of God.-Augus ta Chronicle. Baptist Girls Form Anti-Danc ing Society. ' (Frank E. Burkhalter in Baptist Courier.) . It will doubtless be a matter of in terest and encouragement to those Southern Baptists who are waging a fight against the immoral influences of the modera dance to know that a young Baptist girl, Miss Virginia Hamilton of Atlanta, has formed what she calls the Alpha Delta Sigma, or the Anti-Dancing Society. Miss Hamilton is -the daughter of Dr. W. W. Hamilton, superintendent of evangelism f|>r the Home Mission Board, and is a student in Westhamp ton College, University of Richmond. ' Feeling that she did not want to nv cur the dangers that lurk in the dance, Miss Hamilton talked the mat ter over with two of her girl friends who felt as she did on the matter, and the three resolved that they would not dance and pledged each other that they would remain faithful to their pledge. Further consideration of the matter led them,to believe that; possibly other young women felt as they did on the question of dancing and that m possibly these three ought to give others some encouragement to take a similar pledge not to indulge in the dance. The result was the or ganization of the Anti-Dancing So ciety which one becomes a member of by signing the following pledge: "Promising to abstain from danc ing myself and to help in discourag ingdancing by others, I hereby apply for membership in the Alpha Delta Sigma." On the back of the pledge cards are prominently displayed the follow ing five Bible principles: 1. I refuse to continue in any thing which I see is enslaving me. I Cor. 16:12. 2. I will engage only in that which is edifying and helpful. 1 Cor. 10:23 3. I will not knowingly, become a hindrance or stumbling block to others. 1 Cor. 8:13. 4. I dare not go where I cannot pray and ask God's .blessings. 1 Cor. 10:31. 5. In case there is doubt, I will take the safe side. SAFETY FIRST. Romans 14:23. With practically no organization or effort, 1100 young women of the South have enrolled as members of the new society, Miss Hamilton ad vises, and she hopes during the sum mer vacation to give considerable at tention to promoting its purposes. Young women interested in assisting in the matter may address her at Westhampton College, University of Richmond, Va. mond, Va. GOVERNOR BAXTER OF MAINE DECLINES TO ATTEND ANTI BLUE LAW BANQUET IN NEW YORK. An invitation to attend a banquet in New York of "distinguished Amer icans who are opposed to government by blue laws," was declined by Gov ernor Percival P. Baxter of Maine. In his letter to Secretary Harry Birrell,, the governonr said : "If by blue laws you mean laws which have been enacted to prevent the sale of in toxicating liquors for beverage pur-, poses, I could not accept your invi tation. "The state of Maine was the pion eer in temperance legislation. The fact that we now have a national pro hibition law justifies the work which those of us in Maine have done to keep the faith. In my opinion the American people will stand solidly behind national temperance. I can not accept your invitation, and re quest that you read this communica tion at the banquet so that those pres ent will understand that the state of Maine intends to remain loyal to the principles for which it has voted for more than half a century." We have only one more Ford left. Who will take it ? YONCE & MOONEY. Your New Year Office Supplies Look about your office and see what you need in office stationery. We are better equipped' than ever to supply your printing needs. 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