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*perU? trosn Meten dons Seraion*.
Wo ?r? turning religion into an
ethical code and ritual. There ie too
much ritualistic, ethical, and that
tort of rot
flellflon haa Joy In it. It it not
these long-faced. Prince Albert-coat?
ed. colUr button-ln-the back sort of
people.
If gom?? preachers would stop
preaching Shakespeare, they would
see more -esults from their sweat.
There are a lot of things we do
not understand. You don't know how
food la a* Im Hated and makes tissue,
cuticle. blood corpuscle* nerves,
rones and sinew. All you have to do.
Ie to shovel In the grub. Nature will
do the rest.
l/sually. the man who says he
can t understand the Blole. Is not liv?
ing up to what he can understand.
*f) preaching doesn't look right, to
a fellow who Is looking through the
devil's goggles.
I would hate to advertise that 1
had rather do wrong, than right That
is what you are doing when you live
In sin.
If what I know, would meet what I
don t know | what I know would 'eel
very much embarrassed.
There are lota of people. Instead
of making their boast of and putting
their trust In their own goodness, they
make a beast of and put their trust
In other people's badness.
Tou get the cobwebs off your own
window, aid you will not see spiders
on the other fellow's
A blind tiger has Just about as
much conscience as a fox In a hen
roost.
Have something more in your re?
ligion, than the ii:ual and ordin?
ances of your church.
Take a man or woman that has sin?
ned away their day of grace, and
there la nobody In town that will le
more bitter against these meetings
than they: and they will make y>i
believe It la what I preach, or som _>
ilng like that. No. poor, miserable.
Ood-forsakea wretches! The holy
? Pint has left them: and they are to
be pitied.
A lot of churches haven't got
enough religion to cast a devil as big
as a peanut, out of a boy.
Some of these little girls get up In
a choir loft on Sunday morning, and
they sercl-demt-hemi-quaver and rat?
tlesnake note, and do a little dlaph
ram wiggle and make a noise like a
horse neigh.ng; and not a half a dos?
en people In the congregation under?
stand what they are trying to aay.
Many a preacher wants to win souls
to M?.S*a Christ; but is handicapped
and hie hards are tied by a godless,
card-ptayrni theatre-attending, show
going, poodte-lovlng, dancing, wine
guasllng crowd.
Your praters are worth no more
than you at* wilting to redeem In
work. ^
Qod doesn't care a rap about your
Hp service snd wind Jamialng. It Is
the service of your heart and hands
that He ?rarto
Ood Almighty never made you
girls, to gallop up and down a ball
room floor Ii the arms of some bul?
let-headed, spindle-legged, cigarette
eucklng. mu't; while he squeesed the
life out of you. physically and spirit?
ually; and I started to say mentally,
but I don't suppose you are oother
ed along the line.
I have no sympathy with you ossi?
fied, petrified, mildewed people who
cannot aay a word for Christ.
One half of the church members
of Sumter eiuld die; and the town
would not lese anything In spiritual
force.
The devil la working Just as hard
to damn Surrter as Jesus Christ Is to
save It.
If nine-tenths of you were as weak
physically as you are spiritually, you
would be In a coffin looking out
through a glass.
Some so-called church people In
Oumter. .ii I be Just as helpless in
a revival meeting as a politician would
'??< In the hands of his friends.
Home well-meanlna. good-for-noth?
ing, lap-sided. tender-footed church
members of ^umter. have uninten?
tionally formed an alllunce with the
blind tigers, the plug t . lies and the1
riff raff, the rug tugs and the bob
tails, the shnjrs and the shysters, the
dead bests an I the parasites ami loaf?
ers of t*ie town, to light this meeting;
but Ood la on the Jot*, and H.s forces
are winning out.
I bell' e this revival in Sumter Is a
hell of destiny, trd'lng out the death
knell of many snuls.
Do you believe In the Hlble?
Yes. from Oenests to Kevelutton.
with Jonah and the whole bunch
thrown In.
I have never had the a idaclt> yet.
to put up my little, mediocre, In
flnltesslmal m nd ugulnst the great
omniscient mind of Ood.
It Ie a sad thing to see some little
satellite of Ingersoll sjf old Tom
I'ayne. standirg on the street corner
and saying. "Yes. I ackteovl-dge that
there Is a divine being, but?ta?, but
- -ta."
Pilate was n type of the tin horn.
stuiul-p.it, pie-counter. free-lunch,
side-ooor. politician; ami was the di?
rect product of the political system
of Home.
If preachers would cut out their
theologlca1 differences and go to
preaching Jesus; we could put the
devil in the hosnital in six weeks.
If man had been writing the Bible,
he never would have told you about
Solomon having 700 wives and a few
hundred concubines on the side; and
having old Brigham Young backed off
the boards.
You will be a man after God's
heart; when you admit your cussed
ness, and come out and want to trot
decent.
I The man who stands around with
his hands in his pockets, will soon
j be trying to get them in somebody
else s pocket.
You may join a temperance society
and become reformed; you may Join
.some literary society and become in?
formed; you may Join some secret
society and become uniformed; you
I may Join "society" and become de?
formed: but if you Join Jesus Christ
I you will become transformed.
We are not preaching evolution.
jWe don't believe men ever evoluted
j into Christians.
A man left to himself, devllutes.
"No trade." Is the passport by
which ninety percent of the criml
nu's enter the penitentiaries of the
country. Keep busy.
You sow an evil thought, and you
reap an evil desire; you sow an evil
desire, and you reap an evil habit;
you sow an evil habit, and you reap
an evil character; and character set?
tles your destiny.
When you stagger home, drunk; are
you the onlv one who has to suf?
fer?
No, your poor wife, mother and
children!
And your children have to have
the ringer of scorn pointed at them;
and then the morning after, you lie
around and say, "I am so sick."
You miserable old lobster, some?
body else feels ten thousand times
worse than you do.
You old cheese-headed, white
livered, son of perdition; somebody
else has to suffer for your dirty cuss
edness.
Many an innocent girl is ostracised
and stigmatized by society, and com?
pelled to live an isolated life. Why?
Because they have the blood of
some old disreputable, black-hearted,
lousy degenerate, flowing through
their veins.
"Apostolic succession," is the most
overworked phrase In the English
language.
DISTRIBUTES SAVINGS FUND.
The Commercial and Savings Bank
will on Friday, January 1, send out
$7.166 to its shareholders in the Com?
mercial Savings fund operated by the
bank. This is a fine showing for the
bank, which is less than two years old
and which haa operated the savings
fund for only one year.
The Commercial and Savings Bank
is assured already of at least a fifty
per cent. Increase In Its savings fund
department for 1916 with the proba?
bility of even a greater Increase than
that, as subscribers are still coming
In. The Commercial savings fund is
on the same order as that operated
by other institutions in the city, re?
quiring the payment of one dollar a
i
week by its shareholders
ATTACKED BY NEGRO.
Bamberg, Dec. 29.?J. Aldricb
Wyman, a large planter and one of
Hambergs' foremos? citizens, shot and
instantly killed a negro tenant on his
'arm about three miles from the city
yesterday afternoon.
It seems that the negro had come
to Mr. Wyman's yard in Bamberg the
previous day in a drunken condition
and had been ordered away. Yester?
day, it is said, Mr. Wyman drove out
to his farm and told the negro that
he would have to look for another
homo, rpon hearing this the negro
became Infuriated and attacked Mr.
Wyman, who dodged behind his au?
tomobile and then dashed into a
nearby barn. For some time the ne?
gro kept Mr. Wyman as a prisoner.
When Mr. Wyman did get back to
his automobile and was In the act of
cranking the machine, the negro
again rushed upon him. He ordered
his assailant to stop. When the ne?
gro did not stop Mr. Wyman reached
for his pistol which was In the hack
of his automobile and fired one shot.
This was effective, producing instant
death.
Mr Wyman is ;j member of the
Alken family of Wyinans. Formerly
he practiced law in Hamberg but in
rSOSWf years be has devoted his en?
ure time to his farming Interests, At
the University of South Carolina and
Davidson college Jim" Wyman Was
a Stat at foo>*Mll.
I MI'IOYI S GIVEN PRESENTS.
The National Biscuit Company pre
asntad ill HS employes throughout tin
service h $1 gold piece as a Christ mat
granting in appreciation of service un<
cooperation.
cape cod canal opened.
Must Important Next to Panama Canal
Lieat Ahl to Vosels.
Washington, Dec. 30.?While the
attention of the world has limped
along behind the stupendous events
occuring In Europe during the last
few months, a great American ac?
complishment has been successfully
concluded without causing more than
a casual Hurry of interest among the
prople of the country; the Cape Cod
Canal, conceived about 290 years ago,
and proposed innumerable times as a
public undertaking, has been opened
to trudle by a private company. A
description of the importance of the
new canal, military and commercial,
and a brief survey of the steps leading
to its construction, prepared for the
National Geographic Society by Com?
modore J. W. Miller, was issued here
today:
"The Cape Cod Canal has not
only more shipping in sight than Suez,
but it is also, next to Panama Canal,
as regards the defense of the country,
one of the most important waterway
improvements ever undertaken. A
study of the chronology and history
orf the ape Cod problem shows that
since the days of the Revolution con?
tinued stress has been laid upon its
military aspect. Its importance as an
interior line of defense is greater
today that ever before.
"Besides enhancing the security of
this country's eastern seaboard, the
canal eliminates for commercial ship?
ping the highly dangerous passage
around Cape Cod between Boston and
New York. The way around the
Cape, with ita fogs and windstorms,
its shoals and sunken reefs, is one of
the most treacherous sea lanes in the
world frequented by heavy traffic. It
is estimated that at least 2,000 vessels
have been wrecked in Vineyard Sound,
without the Cape, and in the Nan
tucket Shoals region between 1843 and
1913, 908 of which were a total loss.
About 700 fisherman have lost their
lives here owing to the fact that the
ilong arm of the Cape prevented them
from reaching a haven in sudden
storms. Cape C'od has been called
'The Graveyard of Ships.'
"The canal is vider and deeper
than de Lessep's original canal at
Suez. It has a modern up-to-date
-hannel, comparable in dimensions to
the ones at Kiel and Manchester. It
crosses near the shoulder of the Cape
where the Pilgrim fathers of more
than ten generations ago decided that
such a canal should be constructed.
George Washington recommended OV*
building of a sea level waterway here,
and it has been put forward at fre?
quent intervals. If Massachusetts
had acted during the era of canal
building, when New York built the
Erie, and Virginia the Chespeake
canal, she might have wrested the
marine supremacy from the Hudson
at a cost trivial compared to the
money spent upon the former canals.
"The Cape Cod Canal shortens the
distance between Boston and New
York, and other southern port* by
seventy miles. This will mean a large
saving on a very large coastal traffic.
It will, further, save a deal of need?
less loss In lives and in property.
Humanity demanded a canal at Cape
Cod; commerce needed it; persever?
ance, pluck, and financial ability have
finished it?ready for a tributary and
existing tonnage greater than that of
Suez and over twice that estimated
for Panama."
A Christmas Tree.
From the Daily Item, Dec. 29.
The services at Salem Baptist
church last evening were very inter?
esting. A beautiful tree, a short
programme well rendered and the dis?
tribution of presents all contributed
to make the occasion pleasant to the
large congregation of children and
their friends who were present.
The Sunday school has grown
rapidly, having been organized about
two years ago with 77. They now
have on their roll 237.
Death.
Mr. Henry Suares, of New York
died in that city December 28th, af
!ter a long illness. He was the eldest
son of the late J. E. Suares of this city
but went to New York when a young
man and had made his home there
for the past thirty-five or forty years.
He is Survived by one brother and
one sister, Mr. Moultrie Saures and
Miss Minnlo Saures, of Little Rock,
Ark. His nearest relatives in Sumter
are his nephews Messrs. A. C, and V.
Hi Phelps.
PROSPEROUS COTTON mill.
Lexington, N. <".. Dec. 31.?The
capacity of the million dollar Erlang?
et* cotton mill will soon be nearly
doubled. The expenditure of a half
million dollars is planned.
There has not la en a man in the
guard house In c istody In the past six
days, which Is probably the i?cst re?
cord Bumter has ever bad at the
Christmas season of the year. Not a
?Ingle attest lias been made in the
city sines December 81th.
HOLIDAY FOR INAUGURAL RATE.'
Lee's Hirtlulay Conies on Third Tues
tlay in January, but I'robubly Will
Not Affect Ceremony.
Columbia, Dec. :>0.?Discussion ran
rife around the streets of Columbia
yesterday regarding the date of the
inauguration of Richard I. Manning
of Sumter as governor of South Caro?
lina. J. Rutlcdge MoGhee, editor of
the Batesburg Herald, took the trou?
ble to look up the law on the point.
The constitution of 1905, article 3,
section 2, says the governor "shall be
installed during the first session of
the general assembly after his elec?
tion, on such day as shall be pro?
vided for by law." The same section
provides that "the other State offi?
cers-elect shall at the same time en?
ter upon the performance of their
duties."
The date of the inauguration is
fixed by statute as follows: Code of
laws, 1912, volume 1, section 686:
"The governor shall be installed into
office on the third Tuesday of Janu?
ary following his election: Provided,
That in ease the governor is unable to
I be installec1. on the day herein pro?
vided, he shall be installed into office
as soon thereafter as he is able."
It so happens that the third Tues?
day in January in 1915 falls on the
19th day of (he month, which, being
the anniversary of the birth of Rob?
ert E. Lee, is a legal holiday in this
State, but Mr. McGhee was of the
opinion, and those with whom he
talked agreed with him, that this co?
incidence would not necessarily inter
fer with the inauguration of the gov?
ernor-elect on that day.
SUPPLIES GO TO RIGHT SPOT.
Barely Quick Enough to Prevent
Bread Riots of Most Terrible Na?
ture.
London, Dec. 29.?The American
consul general at Brussels, Ethelbert
Watts, who has arrived here on his
way to the United States, said a per?
sonal investigation had satisfied him
that supplies to Belgium were being
wisely distributed and were reaching
the right people.
The American commission got to
work only just In time," said Watts.
"If the food had been delayed a few
days more the effect might have been
tragic. You can net preserve* law and
order among starving people. Brus?
sels is now calm and orderly and
there is not likely to be any change
In the present situation for some
time."
M?DUFFIE COUNTY FORMED.
Forty-fifth for South Carolina?Wins
by Large Vote.
McCormick, Dec. 29.?South Caro?
lina is to have a new county?Mc
Duffie, with McCormick as its seat of
government?if the legislature, as is
to be expetced, follows the wishes of
the people in the territory affected
and erects the new unit. Today saw
the popular test of the project, result?
ing in a great majority for the
erection of the new county. The
vote stood: For new county, 619;
against, 97.
The new county is to be composed
of parts of Abbeville, Greenwood and
Edgefleld. It is to have an area of
402 square miles.
The vote in the various counties
stood:
For. Against.
Abbeville .. ..376 61
Edgefleld.193 23
Greenwood .... 51 13
Total.619 97
The election today brings to a tri?
umphant conclusion a campaign
which has been waging ever since,
more than ten years ago, the idea of
a new county for this teritory was
promulgated. At that time an elec?
tion was held and the new county ad?
vocates were triumphant, but their
efforts went for nought, owing to de?
fects in the survey, which proved
fatal to the project.
The survey upon which is based the
McDuffiie county movement of today
has been very carefully made and it
is thought there is scarcely a chance
that there can be any error which
would prove disastrous. The people
of this section are confidently look?
ing to the legislature for ratification
of the results of the election.
MAKES FORTY-FIVE.
Addition of McDuflllo Will Put Jas?
per's Nose Out of Joint.
The addition of McDffle county,
formed from parti of Greenwood. Ab?
beville and Kdgotield. will bring the
number of counties in South Carolina
to 45. The admiaslon of Mc Duffle will
take from Jasper the distinction Of
being the baby comity, which it has
borne for several yens.
Laud that has been well broken
und planted with a cover crop Is
Storing Up the surplus moisture thai
will i>e needed next spring and sum?
mer.
RUSSIAN SHIP MENACED TURK.
Cruiser Askoid Threatened to Eire
Upon Syrian Village ir Men Were
Harmed.
Washington, Dec. 29.?That it was
the Russian cruiser Askoid and not
the United States cruiser North Caro?
lina which threatened to bombard a
Syrian village was contained in a re?
port received today at the navy de?
partment from Capt. Oman of the
North Carolina.
Capt. Oman reported no American
merchantman had been south of Alex
andretta, Syria, since December 9. An
Athens dispatch published lart week
said that the crew of an American
steamer had been attacked at Tripoli,
south of Alexandretta, when foreign
consuls and refugees attempted to
board her, and that the North Caro?
lina had threatened to bombard the
town.
Capt. Oman's dispatch, filed at
Beruit yesterday, was as follows:
"On December 25 the Russian cruis?
er Askoid sent boats with armed men
on a reconnaissance near Tripoli,
Syria, at the village of Sanlas. Before
arrival at the beach the boats ground?
ed in shoal water and the crews of
the boats were jeered by the populace.
At the threat of the Turkish authori?
ties to imprison the boat's crews they
were informed that the Russian cruis?
er would bombard the village in such
an event, and consequently no one
was made prisoner. No shots were
fired.
"The Russian boat's crews left the
vicinity when the boats were floated.
Since December 9 no American mer?
chantman has been south of Alexan?
dretta, Syria. The reconnaisance of
Beirut, Syria, is frequently made by
British, French and Russian cruisers.
Everything is quiet at Beirut."
COLD WAVE COMING BACK.
Flareback From Recent Snap Will
Bring Low Temperatures Through?
out This Section.
I Washington, Dec. 28.?A flareback
jfrorn the cold wave that passed to
:day was sweeping southward tonight
j through Illinois, the Great Lakes
; States and the Ohio valley to the At?
lantic coast. It is expected to drive
temperatures down along the coast
by Wednesday.
Forecasters at the weather bureau
said the latest disturbance was attend?
ed by increased cloudiness affecting
the Middle Western States from the
border to the South Atlantic and Gulf
States and was causing material re?
ductions in temperatures throughout
these sections.
Preceding the arrival of the cold
wave it was predicted that tempera?
tures would rise tomorrow through?
out the Atlantic States.
Storm warnings were ordered dis?
played on the gulf coast from Galves
ton to Pensacola?'
GRANTS FRANK CASE APPEAL.
Attorneys for Condemned Man Will
Carry Habeas Corpus Fight to Su?
preme Court.
Washington, Dec. 28.?Justice La
mar of the United States supreme
court today granted an appeal from
the refusal of the federal district court
for northern Georgia to release on
habeas corpus proceedings Leo M.
Frank, under death sentence for the
murder of Mary Phagan at Atlanta.
Frank has been sentenced to be
hanged January 22, but Justice La
mar's action causes a stay of execui
tion. Thirty days are given for the
record of the proceedings in the lower
court to be filed in the supreme court
here. The State of Georgia then may
ask that the hearing of the case be
advanced. Such suggestions general?
ly are granted.
As a result of Justice Larrrar's ac?
tion today tho entire court now will
pass upon Frank's right to seek re?
lease from custody on a writ of habeas
corpus on the ground that the trial
court in Fulton county, Georgia, lost
jurisdiction over him by its failure to
have him present when the jury re?
turned its verdict.
Should the supreme court decide
Frank was not entitled to the benefit
of the habeas corpus writ, the State
of Georgia would no longer be barred
from carrying out the death sentence.
If the court decides he was entitled
to ask for the writ, the case probably
would be remanded to the federal dis?
trict court for the taking of evidence
on the writ, and in opposition there?
to.
Should the supreme court eventual?
ly decide that Frank must be re?
leased, it was said, a further question
would arise as to the power of the
State to indict and try him a second
time. Authorities are said to differ as
to whether the first trial would be
regarded as having placed Frank in
"Jeopardy."
SEES THE TURNING.
Frank C omments on His Own I.ont;
Lane.
Atlanta, Dec. 28.?"It's a long lane
that has no turning," said Frank in
his cell.
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proves?Rieview of Exciting Inci?
dents in County.
Richland. Dec. 28.?Julius Mar
rett, the man who was stabbed at Fair
Play three weeks ago, is rap;1ly im?
proving now and is reported to be
practically out of danger. It will be
remembered that Mr. Marrett is a
merchant at Fair Play and that
a negro, Byrd, was wanted for
some offense in Georgia. He was
located near Fair Play. An officer
from Georgia came for him, but fear?
ing the negro would recognize him
and get away he sent Mr. Harrett
with the warrant. He entered the
negro's house and while reading the
warrant the negro stabbed him with
a butcher knife, took his pistol away
from him and fled. _The knife struck,
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of small shot. Green Gibson and his
other son took cover under the bridge
during the skirmish and retreated in
good order. Green Gibson, the old
negro, ran to his landlord, Allen Mar?
rett, near Fair Play, and asked for
advice and protection. Marrett ad?
vised him to take to the heavy tim?
bered lands northeast of Fair Play
and stay there until things cooled
down. He made for the woods and
got safely through the first forest,
but had to cross the public road to
get into the dense forest. As he cross?
ed thd road one of the pursuing party
saw him at a distance and put a rifle
ball through him and he fell in the
road and lay there for some 24
hours. A number of shots were fired
into his body. Later another negro,
whose name is not known, made some
threats and the posse made for him,
but he reached his mule and by good
strategy and all haste got a half hour
start of the pursuers, and he has not
been heard- of since. It is thought
he m*-" iis escape.
Less high living, less living on
credit and more debt paying, will put
this section on its feet within the next
twelve months.
During 1914 4 57 marriage licenses
were issued by the clerk of court, 120
to white couples and 337 to colored
couples. During 1913 there were just
one less licenses to whites. This gives
tho school fund of the county some?
thing over $300 for its treasury.
COLDS & LaGRIPPE
5 or 6 doses 606 will break
any case of Chills & Fever, Colds
& LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
gripe or sicken. Price 25c.
DEATH T0VER
RAT CORN
Rest ratnnd mice exterminator made.
Ktllseutcklf ho ehSStately without odor
Muanalles-HLus preventing decomposi?
tion. Better thai ailthe traps in the
win 'Id. Insist on iJenuine RAT CORN.
25c. GOc, |l at dealers or Dy mall, nost
ii l>?i<1.
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