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rOK MTATK-WIDH PHOlllUITtOX. J L. I far ley of Antl-Saloon Leagui' Write* of Interesting Question. F or Dally Item: Tho question of State-wide prohibi? tion Is certainly dominant In the minds of the people at this time. No sensi? ble man Is taking any stock In tin vaporlngs of some that a test was made last summer in the election of governor. The prohibition question was not the question In last summer's campaign. This goes without saying and If the vote for Mr. Ohas. A. Smith showed the sentiment for prohibition In this State. It also showed a very weak sentiment for the referendum plan. It Is Just as well that we under? stand the sltustion and make up our minds to meet the inevitable: pro? hibition Is coming to South Carolina, and that very soon. If this office has not been misin? formed, a majority of men In both the house and senate stand for two very important measures touching this matter The first is a bill which will destroy the blind tiger situation und make the Webb law effective. The plan of the anti-aaloon league is to fight for this measure before anything else Is done. We do not believe it wise to Introduce a State-wide pro? hibition bill un 11 provision has been made for Its enforcement; but we do believe that wien this provision Is made that the way will be opened for State-wide prohibition by legislative enactment. There are mi nv reasons whv the Anti-Saloon League Is not advocating the referendum plan at this time. In the first place, we do not see the ne? cessity for It Thirty counties In the state are dty and will remain dry because under the present code of laws no drv county can hold an election le? gally. While attempts have been made In a number of dry counties to order elections during the past 18 months, twelve of that number failed because the number of signatures re? quired by law could not be secured. Other dry counties elected to remain dry when the matter was tested at the polls. The lacic of law-enforcement in the past four years has brought about a feeling of disgust and the people are ready and willing that mmething be done and that speedily. The Antl-Sa lono Leagues does not believe a refer? endum necessary and after thorough? ly studying the situation throughout the Stats we wish Just i.ere to point out what we regard as dangers. If. as many suppose, this question could be submitted to the white, qualified, Democratic voters of South Carolina, we would hive nothing whatever to fear; but unfortunately this Is not the case. Under our con? stitution, every man of every color, who pays taxes on $300 worth of prop? erty or who can read and write the constlttulon can register Hundreds of them cannot vote in our Democratic primary, but they can vote on the li? quor question or In a general election. The prohibitionists who are urging a referendum ought to study the expe? rience of Florida and Texas as an ob? ject lesson. It Is not only possible, but probable that the liquor trust will es? tablish agencies in South Carolina. Just ss they have done in other States ?\Z MI*h their thousands of dollars they wou!* see to It that negroes and others are registered an., ready to vote when the election Is held. It Is claimed 'hat there are 180.000 negroes of votlrg see in this State. It would be saf? to say that at least 1ft.000 of these are entitled to regis? tration, under o-ir State constitution. This work would be done especially In the lower counties where the dis? pensaries are running full hbuft. When we remember kow hard It Is to get out more than cne-thlrd of the qunll fled white voters at a special dispen? sary election and when we remember the possibility of the liquor trust's bringing; out the vide on the other side, it causa* us to stop and :ansld er. For the above reasons tho Anti-Sa? loon Leaaue has rot advocated the referendum plan, except as a last re? sort. When the teglshitore BtrSQtl out? bids for both the law-enforcement measures and f.?r ^tatc-wllo pro? hibition will be ready. Oaf leuisl.a t.ve committee will be organized. We Will get together* and see what can be dona Our purpose Is to save the State If possible the turmoll und strife and expenses attendant upon a liquor elec? tion. If. however, after tho man. r la thoroughly thrashed out in a e lift meeting, a majorit) of the piohllutloii Isls In the house und senate think it wise to refer tho matter to tie gggat then we will acquiesce. Put not before. Mlsned) f, l. Harle y. State Superintendent Antl-Sab???n League. oftDritFD to t Ii\iti i:vro\. C'npt. Jacob A Muck to I omnium! OgSjat Defence*. Washington. Dec An adJef has been Issued relieving ? - ? i?r I a cob A Mack, const artillery corps, from es? sigument ie the 14Ith mm pan* end directing him to report for dnt commanding officer of the c?ms( de fences of Chat U ston IfOG BREEDING ENCOURAGED. I ?null Carolina Furniers Are Urged to Tu No Advuntugc of This Opportunity Florence, Dec. 19.?L. I* Baker, district agent of the farm demonstra? tion work, was in Florence this week. He is sires ting the advantages of hO| I raising among the farmers now. Ho says that he has been very much im- J pressed with the necessity for stress-^ lug it very vigorously as he watched the hog killing in progress through the country that he has traveled over this winter in South Carolina. The raising of hogs is profit, as well as economy. The cheapest crop that a fsrmer can raise is hogs and the most profitable one. and it is passing strange that farmers do not pay more attention to it. Mr. Daker urges thai part of the tenable land of each farmer be devoted 'to cultivated pastures for hogs. Two and a half acres devoted to Bermuda grass instead of cotton will keep a sow and pigs in grazing feed. He offers in evidence the experience of farmers who with one sow raised in 14 months two litters of pigs which produced ,2,650 pounds of meat, net weight. The cost of raising these pigs was negligi? ble, the returns far more than could have been gotten by the best and most cheaply made crop of cotton on the same land and still left some for expense of feeding produce that had been stored on the farm. South Carolina imports each year about $11,000,000 worth of hog prod? ucts which can be raised at home and that $11.000,000 put nto something that will be wealth and comfort pro? ducing. Farmers can get bulletins from Clemson college advising them how to make pastures and how to feed hogs iand Clemson now keeps two men in the field giving fa-mers assistance along this line and every farmer dem jonstrator agent Is provided with the 'serum made at the Clemson labora? tory for Inoculation of hogs for cholera, and these men readily an? swer every call made on them. MAGNET TO REMOVE BULLETS. New Method of Surgery In Treatment of Wounded. Paris Correspondence in Baltimore American. A new plan for removing bullets from the wounded has be nt advanced by Inspector General Delorme and is receiving a great deal of attention at the present time. He suggested that bullets could be removed quicker and more effectively by the use of a giant electro-magnet with a pulling force of 2,300 pounds. Delorme delivered a lecture at the Acadomy of Science* on the danger of infection of wounds. He pointed out that whereas bullet wounds rarely become Infected, those indicted by splinters of shells which richotted off ihe ground and carried dirt and frag? ments of clothing into the wound were dangerous and should prove an excep? tion to the rule of nonintervention on the field of battle. FIGHT OVER PATRONAGE. Further Developments Expected In Squabble Today. Washington. Dec. 20.?Further de? velopments in the fight between Presi? dent Wilson and sasna Democratic sen? ators over federal appointments are expected tomorrow, when the nomi? nation of E. C. Bland, r\s marshrl for the western district of Missouri, is brought up in the senate. Senator Reed is expected to ask that the sen? ate reject the nomination. The ap? pointment falls in the same class with others In Missouri, New York and New Jersey recently rejected because they wer?- opposed by the Domoeratie sen? ators interested. Senator Stone, of Missouri, had a /ong conferenee with the President last night, and it was reported today that efforts were being made to smooth over the differences in order to safeguard the administration's leg? islative programme. Tili; KAISER A WELL MAN. London. Dec. 21.?(1.53 A. M.) ? The Oer ma n Rmperor has completely reeovered and returned to the front, aaeording to announcement from the Berlin main headquarters transmit* ted through Amsteri am to Reuter's Telegram Company, Hog^. Cattle or Von?Which.' "Michigan Is making i vigorous effort to stamp out i o^ cholera, iious are marketable," said Governor w.i bury .\ Fen is to i in- eltIsens of his siate in ;i recant proclamation ? Ill? ing for Cooperation in tin- nnti-tu bsrculosii campaign, "Michigan i' making a vigorous effort to 'stamp out* lubereuloals In cattle, Cattle are marketable. \Vh\ not make n strenuous effort io "stamp our tuiier? culoali in men. won en and children'.' Unman bsfflgl are priceless." Red Cross Christmas Heu Is are ;? means for every man. woman and child in the Pnlted Hintes lo have o si. in "stamping out" tuberculosis, Have von bought you share'.' lMioiimrnoN almost ix NIGHT. W. c. t. V. Ol South c arolina Tolls of Its Work for Lrndleatlon of Liquor, i Editor of The Sumter tem: In view of the agitation fur Statt? wide prohibition in South Carolina. 1 am asking space in your columns for a statement from the Woman's Chris? tian Temperance Union, the largest and most efficient organization of wo? men in the world, active not only in the United Scates, hut also in over 50 fo. Mgn nations. From the very be? ginning of its existence 4 2 years ago till this good day, the Woman's Chris? tian Temperance Union has stood un? swervingly for total abstinence for the individual, and the prohibition of the liquor tralflc in the State, the na? tion and the world. Beginning with less than 100 mem? bers, and only a few Slates represent? ed at the firs,. Convention, the Wo? man's Christian Temperance Union at its recent National Annual Convention held In Atlan a, Ga., November 13? 19, reported a gain of 30,878 new paid up members in the past year, making a total paid up membership of nearly j 400,000 in the United States alone. Every State In the Union Including Alaska, was represented in the 2.000 delegates and visitors at this list An? nual Convention. Five States had been added to tho list of dry states, making 14 States which have State? wide prohibition. There is a hill now pending in congress asking for an amendment to the constitution of the United StaU prohibiting the "sale, manufacture for sale; transportation, exportation, and importation for sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage pur? poses," and we believe that nation? wide prohibition is in sight. "It has been a long way to prohibition It has been a long way to go, It has been a long, long way to pro? hibition In the fa; rest land we know; So it is good-bye local option, High license we'll not spare; It has been a long, long way to pro? hibition But we are almost there!" This, adapted from the popular marehirg song of the British troops in the war over the seas, "Is is a long way to Tipperary" and sung at our convention, expresses the feelings of the white-ribbon army which is marehirg with such a steady tread against that a:*ch enemy of mankind? the legalized liquor tratllc. It must bo "Good-bya to Local Option," "High Licens?; must not be spared"? it "has been ::. long, long way to pro? hibition," but, in truth, "we are al? most there!" The time is ripe for State-wide pro? hibition in South Carolina. The W. C. T. U. hoartiL- endorses the "Move? ment for State-wide Prohibition." launched in Columbia, October 22, and the plans outlined by Mr. J. K. Breed in, Secretary, and we pledge our co? operation. We believe that it is a question which should be decided by the voters of the State, rather than by legislative enactment. We believe that it is wise to settle this great mor? al and economical question on Its mer? its, and not mix it up with any can? didate, therefore the best time to vote on it is durlnr an off-year in polities. It. is the people who are asking that the legislature give them a chance to iexpress themselves on this question? i whatever the several candidates may or may not have promised last sum? mer so far a;? each was personally concerned, the people certainly made no promise to let this live question "lie low." Our governor-elect is an honorable Christian gentleman and though he may, personally, be of the opinion that local option is the best solution of the liquor problem, if the voters of South Carolina declare for State-wide prohibition he will respect their wishes and enforce the law. Very respectfully, Mrs. Joseph Sprott, President South Carolina W. C. T. U. NIGHT RIDER! ARRESTED. lifty Oklahoma Men Held by Ol'i ccrs of Law. t Marietta. Okla., Dec. 21.?Fifty al? iased Love County night riders have been arrested In the last three days, the authorities here announced today. it is alleged that the night rider or? ganisations SOUghl tu hold cotton to 10 rents a pound, cotton seed to $10 a t<ui and to cut next year's cotton acreage to r>n per cent, of this year's. Praises Cumdcii Teachers. The teachers of Kershaw count) will gppreelatt the pleasant remarks by Hupt, s. ii. Edmunds with refer? ent e to the* i. iu writing to the County Superintendent about his recent visit t?> Cnmdcn, be said: 'i wish to congratulate you upon hav? ing ??? set of such cultured, rellned and courteous lenehers, it was a genuine pleost re t.> have the privi lege "f s|ienl ing to t hem." it i very pleasant <? have such commends made nf the teachers of ibis count.v The teaching force or Kershaw count) was never hei er ihnn It is at tin time. Wuterec Messenger, Sparks Fron MoLendon'l Sermons. If John the Baptist had been some of the preacheri that I know of. he would have been so non-committal In hi* preaching, that old Lecherous Her od would have been shouting happy cvi rj time he heard him. If John had been like some preach? ers, he would have catered to Herod's vanity, in his very prayers, by thank in? God that He placed jvethem such a wise and virtuous being; one who knew what religion wats, and had a double portion of it himself. John's message drew blood like a Damascus blade. 1 don't know why it Is that we preachers give "Repentance" such a wide berth. Probably, for the same reason that the colored preacher nev? er liked to preach against chicken stealing, because it always appeared to throw such a coldness over the meeting, and made so many of his members freeze up toward him, like. Some people want sermons of the you-tickle-me-and-I'll-tickle-you kind. I Repentance is more than feeling sorry, ai d promising to do better. The devil will let you do that eV-rj I day in the week, if you are willing to ! let it go at that. There are people in hell today, be? cause someone failed to put his life in touch with God, and pray. If God cared as little for the souls of men as some church members care, not a soul ever would have been sav? ed. I never look at a soul; but that I think it is a locked-up casket of pos? sibilities. I never see a boy or girl, that I do not think but that God has a plan for each one of them. Every man or woman that God has used to raise this sin-cursed world and set it going Godward, has been a Christian of prayer. When a man gets chesty and puts his old theories up against God; then God always brings a man forward to show that he is an old marplot, and an old liar. Just about everywhere 1 go some mutt wants to know where Cain got his wife. I suppose he got her from his father-in-law. And I am afraid it is not Cain's wife that is bothering him so much. The blgtect fool on earth is the man thai: fools himself. Every man and woman on earth is very sharp sighted to the faults of others; but when it comes to their own, they are blind as bats. The prodigal son was down; and you know it is mighty easy for a fellow to get down and out, but it is hard for him to get up and in. Some people here in Sumter pay their doctor bills by quitting the doc? tor. But that will meet you at the judgment. You make a man think that he is a special favorite of the Lord, and you will be a gi ^at preacher to him. One-half of the so-called back sliders never knew God, and they nev? er front slid. If I were in the town of Sumter giving steroptican views and psycholo? gical messages, and lectures on art and travel, 1 would be very popular with a certain gang. Paul said that in the last days men would not endure sound doctrine. Ami today the great majority of the church members are clamoring for rose water, lavender scented, degospelized ser monettes on "Little Willi? is gone to Heaven," "Moonshine on your moth? er's grave" or "Tell Aunt Maria I'll be There." I have no admiration for the worn out customs or the precedents and the mannerisms that are sacred with a thousand churches in this land of America. Get out; train your guns on the enemy, and shell the woods for God and humanity. Sin i* tlie one thing in the universe which can permanently damage a man and eternally damn him. Disap? pointment may worry him, grief may sadden him, adversities may bring him hardships and heartaches; but the only thing that can permanently leave its stamp on a man's character, and eternally damn him in hell, is sin. The most stupendous, gigantic fol? ly that ever entered the brain of man [or woman, is the supposition that it : pays to do wrong. How can you expect to speak pure? ly, when your thoughts are vile enough to make people think you have been to bell for your education, ami had the blackwinged vampire bat I of hell for your instructor '.' I Conscience will bound and dog the traitor Judas, to bis grave; and when every other faculty has gone over to the devil, conscience stands true to truth and true to God, and says, ? You are a Sinner." I had rather !>?? dumb than have I lie power of speech to curse ami swear and tell vile stories. 'I'ln- dirtiest, vilo-honrtcdesl repro litito i hut ? \ cr breathed \\ hid, is i he degenerate that will spew out bis putrefying, soul-withering, lip-blister n,u, blood-curdling, hair-raising oaths before bis little rhlldren. Von \'i ftp \v bat \ on sow. 1 >on't nor : , i ii on are passing on what you are, to the next generation, and God Almighty will hold some of you men responsible for bringing into the world assassins, murderers and cut? throat.*. Any man who has sunk so low in the moral scale that lie will sell mother's boys and poor women's hus? bands blind tiger liquor, is a cross between a polecat and a buzzard. If it was a man's job to save that kind of a character, he would have to get. him a barrel of disinfectant, a bot? tle of deodorizer and a pair of rub? ber gloves. You may commit a sin and there may be a recompense attached to it, 1 but not without remorse. You will have to pay for it. You may have a barrel of bichloride' of gold shot into you until you jingle when you walk and tingle when you talk, and turn a silver man green with envy; hut above all, "The Blood Of Jesus Christ, cleanseth from all | sin." j Some of you people have hardened your heart, stiffened your neck, and seared your conscience, and grieved the Spirit nad trampled on the blood, and broken God's commands, until a devil has grown on God's hands. You can kill, you can stifle, you can crush the tender sweet beautiful wooing influence of the Holy Spirit in your soul, until you will lose all desire to say, "Yes," to God. Young men, you cannot stem the tide of life, neither can you win its battles without Christ. I'll tell you, "A hedge on the very threshold of the precipice, is better than a hospital at tho bottom." Lots of people have their names on some musty, dusty, rusty church rec jord; but they have never had it put on the record of the skies. You can take the cup of com? munion, and never take the cup of salvation. It isn't hard to convince a drunkard or a down and outer, that he is all wrong and needs to got right; hut it is hard to convince a moral, vir? tuous, respectable and refined man j that he needs to he born again. In the days of Jesus, the hardest people to win from sin, were the re? spectable and refined. Ignorance is a step-mother of ar? gument. You can get more inspiration in a morgue, than In some boulevard churches. The thing that is paralyzing the churches of Sumter today, is an i overdose of starch. You need a starch extractor. Some people think it is religious to come to church and sit up as sti:f as pokers, and be as cold as dous ' noses, and look sanctimonious. Three-fourths of the church mem? bers of the town of" Sumter have no more solicitude for a lost world, than a creature of the brute world would have. Why is it that a lot of you stewards, deacons and elders can talk business, politics, money, war and everything else; but you wont pray In public? I'll tell you. Because, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth Ispeaketh. What is in a man's heart Will run out at his mouth. You have everything in your heart, except Jesus. You say, "I never had any liberty.'' Well, 1 know you haven't. Jt is be? cause you haven't got the spirit of the Lord. Some people are so narrow, that a flea can sit on the bridge of their nose, and kick them in both eyes at the same time. Doctor Nicodemus was a high browed, kid-gloved, silk-hat patent leather, aristocratic, super-ultra, se? date, high-toned, cultured boulevard j sky pilot, and yet Jesus Christ said, I "Ye must be horn again." Praise for MoLcndon. Kditor Daily Item: The innumerable friends and con? verts of liev. B. F. McLendon are J certainly under many obligations to : you for the space you allow for the i "sparks" from his sermons. 1 hope they are igniting many to get right with their creator. Brains and printer's ink can't say ! too much for a man of his calibre, for when he shells the forest of sin something will happen very quick. A rush for the front to join the mul? titudes who are already in the army of Christ Jesus. jf your sins have caused the brook Cherith in your own spiritual life to dry up, and here wo may inject com? mercialism, for millions are discon? tented at present price of cotton, ac? cept Mack's plan and advice and Bee to Zarephath?to the son. Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and redeem? er, when the brook of everlasting life will begin to flow again in your lives. Keep In touch al all times, by the wireless system of constant pray er, with the one who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us. the Sa\ lour, * 'lit ist Jesus. I hope Mr. McLendon will continue his services through the month of January, he Is listed for o return se? ries of services here in February. I be;; to remain, yours very truly, Walter I >. Rpperson. 1 'inewood, s. <'.. I tec 21, MM I. REPLIES TO CHtR< HILL. Mayor of Scarborough Scores Ger mans for Bombardment. London, Dec. II.?The mayor of Scarborough, replying to Winston Spencer Churchill's message of sym? pathy at losses sustained through tho German bombardment of Scarbor? ough, says: "It is evident that the enemy did not dare to face our fleet and so lt tacked an undefended town. In tais way Scarborough has taken part in the struggle. "Our surprise at the a'tack was greater, as we had been led to be? lieve from the conduct of the plucky commander of the Emden that Ger? man sailors understood something about the glorious old traditions of the sea. It is evident this is not so. "Some newcomers Into honorable professions first learn the tricks end lastly the traditions. As their com? manders get older in the services they will find that the Iron Cross pin? ned on their breast will not shield them from the shafts of shame and dishonor." CZAR ACCLAIMED AT MOSCOW. Demonstration of Loyalty on Emper? or's Visit to Ancient Capital. Moscow, via Petrograd, Dec. 22.? Arrival of the Emperor and Em I press here today was marked by an : enthusiastic reception at the railway j station. The Emperor was welcom? ed by the civil and military authori? ties and the delegates of the Zcin stvo. M. fcheluvkoff, Lord Mayor of Moscow, in presenting bread and salt to the Emperor, made a speech of welcome in which he pointed out the loyalty of the people to the Emperor J and thanked him for the benefits i arising from the abolition of the J government monopoly on vodka, (which was largely du?, he declared, 1 to the Emperor's efforts. The Lord Mayor spoke of the brave j fight the Russian army was making jand predicted a victory and resurrec? tion of justice for all Slavs and for all peoples. The Emperor thanked the Lord ! Mayor for the sentiments expressed. ESTIMATE ACCURATE. Corporation Licenses Yield $110,000 ?State Income Tax $16,000. Columbia, Dec. 21.?The corpora? tion license tax in South Carolina will amount to more than $140,000, ac I cording to an estimate today by A. jW, Jones, comptroller general. This is the same estimate made a year ago by the comptroller general. It is estimated by the comptroller general that the State will receive more than $1G,000 from the State in? come tax law. MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION. Rockefeller Hoard Gives Monej to One Hundred and Three Institutions New York, Dec. 23.?Ten and one half million dollars have been do? nated by the Rockefeller education board to one hundred and three uni? versities and colleges in thirty-three States according to the preliminary report issued today. Southern seats o. learning received three million. South Carolina $154,179?Converse, Wofford and Furman. Georgia, $3 23, 4 33?Mercer, Agnes Scott and Wes leyan. Florida, $50,000?Stetson Uni? versity. Virginia, $4 90,000?Virginia. Washington and Lee, Emory and Henry, Randolph-Macon, Richmond. _ WILL INTERN FRENCHMEN. Men Between 10 and ?0 to Be Sent to C amp by Germany. Berlin, via London. Dec 20.?Fol? lowing enforcements of a similar measure against Englishmen, Ger? many will intern all French males be Itween 16 and 60 who are residing in j Germany. They will be taken tu a ? camp near Holminden. Noted Writer Dead. New York, Dec. 23.?Alfred Henry Lewis, the noted writer and novelist, died today. Fire Sweeps Alabama Town. Jasper. Ala.. Dec. 23.?A fire swept the business district last night, cans ling a loss of $7."?,aoo. McLaurin Perfects Bond. Columbia, Doe. 22.?John L. Mc? Laurin, State warehouse commission? er, has furnished the necessary bond of $60,000. The compan) writing the bond at lirsi charged $500 as a pre? mium. Comptroller General Jones refused to ?a* the amount on the ground that it was excessive. Today the com pa ti) agreed to write the bond for $200. The rurb market experiment begins in look like 0 success. The number of sellers and buyers increase each market day and there is a greater va? riety of produce on sale. Both buy? ers and sellers are pleased with the plan and ii will undoubtedly become a permanent institution.