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NEW GOODS! are being added to our already immense line of Holiday Goods every day, and we venture to say that there is no store that can answer your gift problems with more real satisfaction than this store—price and quality duly considered. So many gift things—so many pretty novelties—so many exclusive things—why, choosing here is a joyous affair. 1 WHAT SHALL I GIVE? is a question that is easily disposed of here, for we have gifts for any member of the family, and also gifts for | those who are not yet members. If, after looking at cur line, you don’t find what you want, we will gladly get it for you in plenty of time for Christmas. ? I ’ Guthrie Dru . ■ Store “The Store of the Christmas Spirit.” _ __._ __ No ordinary corset can give you the style, fit or comfort 'f you can have in Dirella ORSETS (not solo in sTONts) I will call at your home by appointment, and give you any information on our cor sets with no obligation on your part. Telephone or send postcard to Mrs. G. B. Andrews - — — .- 11 ■ 1 THE CHRISTIAN AND THE “MOVIES” We sometimes get a sidelight : on our duty? from the way in which it is looked at by people whose standards may not be our own. A readerof theTimesdes cribes her interesting experience in this line: Please discuss in your columns I if it is wrong for a Christian to j ?o to moving picture shows. I had never been to one until recently, when I was waiting at the station in a near-by city for my train, which was late. Pre sently a friend rushed in, and though we are close friends, she ; hardly took time to speak, in her nurry to open her grip and put in 50 packages, remarking, “I’ve ! got to go up the street a piece.” “laae time,” I answered, “our train is late,” She leaned down and said, “I’m gointrto the mov ing picture show.” “Oh,” 1 said rising, “I’ll go with you.” “You!” she exclaimed, “you go to a moving picture show!” “Why not?” I replied, and off we went. Now why should this friend be amazed at my going? We are members of the Baptist Church. I do not go to theaters, etc., but my pastor sometimes goes to the moving picture show, and one of the most consecrated women 1 know goes frequently. If my going is an offense, I do not wish to go again. I h a v e been twice since then, and am begining to believe it is no place for God’s children. It certainly does not tend to spirituality, and yet I get some really good sug gestions: but are they too dearly bought? Most moving picture resorts of lo-day are unwholesome places, Not the least objectionable feature for the young people is the fact of the darkness in which they are conducted. One need not attend many times to find that they do not “tend to spirit uality.” For those who believe that a fundamental objection to the theater is that it rests upon a life-profession which is de moralizing—that of acting, or I seeming to be what one is not, 1 the dramatic moving pictures of fers the same fundamental ob jection. High class films of great events in the world about us, such as the inauguration of a president, or the receiving of a king of England as Emperor of India, or natural scenes of inter est and beauty, are of a different sort from the professionally dra matic performance, and in them selves are unobjectionable. Yes even in the case of such pictures there may be reasons why, on ac count of their local associations or other reasons, one will count it wiser to refrain from patroniz them. — a ^ - — . , . I will buy your eggs, butter and chickens and pav market price for same delivered to my market. Advt J. W. Hunt. FROM A VETERAN PASTOR’S PRAYERS Thou Infinite God, our Father, Friend, and Portion; We seek thy face that with thee and in thee we may lead the larger, i nobler life. We want to be filled with God untill everything mean and base is crowded out. Flood thy whole being with thyself. Keep us in constant and vital touch with thee. Make us sen stive to thy presence, everywhere and always. S > tune our hearts to thyself as we pray and ponder thv WunJ. that we shall catch the accents of thy voice where ever we go and whatever may be happening. Make us deaf to the clamor of evil and awake to every tone of the divine; deaf to the discords of life and dull to its jars, but ravish* d with the music of God in all that is. But if our mortal nature is asleep, jar it awake. Grant us acute experi ences. If need be stab us with pain. Sting our dead hearts till [they bum. and then pour in the heavenly oi! and wine. Make it ! impossible for us to be indefferent or sluggish. Quicken us to the i intensity of life. Make us tingle j and throb. Open our eyes wide even if the glare hurls. Make i us enthusiastic a 11 uth and right eousness; burning with love and longing: so saturated with sympathy that our hearts shall ache, and our hands be swift to help. --- NOTICE If you want a nice book for a Christmas present let me order it for you from our publishing house. A nice Bible would make a splendid present. Rev. B. A. Few. -- $ Foundations C* for Fortunes I r- | Are right here in the advertising i columns of this paper. If wh it you're selling has merit, ADVERTISE IT. An ad. will sell it for you. *i vj* * r v< t. 1 -i: i iiv \V . ft. Li | ——■ 111 ■ 1111III —1 BRICK! ~BRicie J. W. Marshall & Sons can furnish you with BRICK — at the— Very Lowest Prices All kinds of brick work done on Short Notice. J. W. MARSHALL & SOUS Phone No. 11 C. B. ANDREWS NOTARY PUBLIC Prompt Attention Picayune Block Phone 232 6LEAS0NS EUROPEAN HOTEL RESTAUARNT IN CONNECTION KOOMS $1.CH) UK Electric Lights, Electric Elevators, Kon^ Distante Telephone, Telegrapj and Typewriting- Wj u8e , Filtered Water. Comer Second ana Center Streets. Kittle Kook. Arkan«9