The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-25
Sell Soul for
Mess OF POttage


society, honor clean high standing a,
a birthright, Mcconnell said, yet how
many win neither because the deyi
has auctioned it off and they, poor
miserable fools. accepted Satan's bid
He told of two boys standing on tn,
corner between school and the fishins
pond, between prospect and desire
1T doesn't take a prophet to tel
that many in Chickasha don't amount
too much, because they are WASTING
their time." Mcconnell said. "You
can't waste your boyhood days and
become in manhood what you should
become. There are men just dragging
along who didn't accept their chances
who were too lazy. who sold out their
prospect in their youth
Extravaganza Main Trouble.
The main trouble of our age is ex.
travagancel There are people In
Chickasha who think they are not ia
It II they are not eternally spending
money I'm not condemning soda
fountains or soft drinks at all I'm Just
stating truth when | saw there are
more soda fountains than in all his
tory and that five times as much
money Is spent for soft drinks now as
there is any use for Never in all
time were there as many bids for the
nicles, dimes, quarters and half do
lars of the people as today
THE old man of your town was glad
to get, when in his boyhood, ten cents
week for spending money. He bought
six of the fattest sticks of candy he
could find. He kept his girl close to
his heart by letting her chew his wax
han the time. But nowadays you
have to pack a girl full of ice cream
every thirty minutes and if you don't
outpack the other FELLOW she'll pack
off with him! Listen, young fellow, if
you've got a girl who goes with you
for what you buy Ii you're just a
fool, Why. if that's inc case she'll go
With the other fellow who spends Is
cents day more on her you big blub.
you
"Oh, the poung who have sold out
their prospect for independence by
Extravaganza
He told of how he purchased his
Georgia plantation, which once belong
ed to young gambler who received
Il as an Inheritance and who gambled
it into the hands of the sheriff And
Of how fine plantation close TO his
own was owned by a black negro,
whose father was slave on it, who
won that property by working and saw.
ing every day Of his life. "A white
man played the fool and sold out
cheap: a black man acted sensibly and
bought in" Mcconnell exclaimed.
He showed the early economy prac-
ticed by the present day leaders in
ShAShoSht llhdhClai anu COullutIClli
life; how those men skimped and say
ed out Of their small wages; how they
laid the foundation for proprietorship
in later years how they led lives in
which extravaganza had no part.
"The devil wants you to be a poor
scrub, and il you follow his directions
that's what you'll be-" the preacher
emphatically declared, and he related
low dissipation had wrecked the hopes
and blighted the prospects Of his col
lege chum whose opportunities in his
young manhood were the finest in
Tennessee. This chum is now a IS
blackleg lawyer, ruined by dissipation,
crafty, shifting. unreliable, he said
Hits Drinking and Gambling.
You can't drink and hold your pros
poets; you can't drink and gamble and
hold your place Of honor in society,""
Mcconnell cried, and he said he had
met thousands of cases in his career
OF men and women who had sold out
tor little or nothing and who were
reaping the harvest of their folly.
When he was a detective in Atlanta,
Ga, he arrested a young man who was
q junior partner in wholesale house
Gambling was the charge, but the fel.
low and companions begged so hard
that he himself pleaded for leniency
and got them off. But that same man
was arrested again and again, and in
spite of entreaties and kindly treat
ment and warnings sold out his future
e the craving for gaming.
There is not a single bum or tramp
who is dragging along the railroads Of
your fertile state but had magnifi
cent prospect. who was probably as
sweet and pure baby boy as yours,
but Satan seized him, sapped him dry
and nut him on the blockp exclaimed
Mcconnell, who told Of beautiful girl
who once respected in Chickasha was
dissatisfied here. pined and sighed for
tho flattery Of lying, deceitfu liber.
tines and the last he heard Of her she
was sunk to the wings in the flame OF
vice and sin in Oklahoma City.
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