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Sparks From McLr wlou's Sermon?. A heathen is a man that does not believe In Ood; and some of the big? gest heathens this side of hell, live in Huniter. If 1 had some of your creeds, I'd sell It to a museum. Let tho wicked forsake his way. and*the unrighteous man his thoughts. If a man hadn't unrighteous thoughts, he would never have a wicked way. Fooling is all right; but It comes after you do do the business. I heard of an old fellow who came out to hear me preach one time; and went away and said my language is too rough. His wife ought to get him a nursing bottle and a hobby horse. 8onto of those fellows in town say that my sermons don't Interest them, but yet they talk more about me than any other folks do. Some of you peanut-brained, lan? tern-Jaw d. dough-faced, whiskey selling, moral perverts would run me out of town of you could. Repentance Is the response of the enlightened, redeemed man to the cell of Ood. the "I will" of the soul. I have preached the Gospel up and down this country; on trains and street cars. In penitentiaries and Jails, In mansions aad hovels, in boulevard churches and log huts. In tents and tabernacles; but I have never yet found a saved man. who had a glad assurance of salvation, and practical deliverance from sin's power, who was not saved by Jesus Christ. There are millions of peoplo In this land today, who are going through life, aeglecting. drifting Into their graves, neglecting, drifting Into eter? nity, neglecting, drifting Into hell, neg? lecting. That Is all that Is necessary, to be lost. All that Oed has ever done to save this old world, has been done through men and women of flesh snd blood like ourselves. Tou may read the Bible, memorize tho Methodist discipline, digest the Baptist hand book, memorise the thirty-nine articles backwards and forwards, and be confirmed every week in the year; and then die and go to hell. Going to church doesn't make a man a Christian, any more than go? ing to a livery stable makes him a horse. We can't get along without Christ? ianity. You know lt. I know it. We a 1 know it. And yet a lot of you mean, low-down, cheese-headed, hog eyed, hypocritical, four-flushing, back? biting dirty, contemptible agents of the dovll are scoffers. non-Chrlstlans and enemies of religion. The trouble with some of you peo? ple la that you are not ashamed of yourselves, though you ought to be ashamed to meet a bow-legged, box mouthed, glass-eyed, brindle bull dog. But you are ashamed of the Lord Jesus Christ. Ood Almighty does not want any four-flushing, false-alarm, excess-bag? gage mutts In His army. You have to be four square for Jesus, and stand pat for rigr> eousness three hundred and slxty-tlve days in the year; If you make good at a Chris? tian. This wlr.e-guixllng. champagne drinking, dancing, card-playing. Chrlstless bunch, will find a new proposition to go up against here, in the shape of Bob Truesdale aid W. E. T hay er. Tou ask me. If I was pastor In Sumter. If I would turn this non-pay? ing, dancing, parlor-gambling crowd out of the church. No; but I'd make It so uncomfortable for them, that they would either get decen. or hit the grit. one. I have nothing to say a brut the crowd that is out of the chur'h. that Is garrbling and dancing .ml wine gussllng; but when chuirh tr embers It. ( sm going to shell them with grape-shot, canister, rock-aalt. salt? peter, lynamlte and everything else that I can hurl at them, to make them feel mean and contemptible. If you folks don't like no.ae and enthusiasm, you can Just get you a rocker, and go out to the cemetery and sit down; and you will Und every? thing very quiet. There Is a very prominent citizen In this town, barking around that he doesn't l>elle\? In ;jnv ??.\elt "inem Well, you have had everything very quiet, religiously, here In Sumter for the last hundred years; and aa a re? sult, you need an undertaker lost e. i > I of a preacher The Baptism of the Holy QhOOt is the chief element of ofTiclemy In the ministry Talent, learning and elo? quence without It; are as a soundlnc brass and a tinkling cymhal. No self-reapectlng man will gssfllble, for no aelf-respecting man want.* an? other man's money. KILLED IN HAVANA. Race Track Follower Shot In Mux ana Oi ha. Havana, Jan. 7.?The authorities teday are Investigating the killing of Jerry Daley, a race horse follower from Charleston. S. C, at the Plaza Hotel late la^t night. DAUMS AW SN KHK KAN OHR. Ridicule* Position of Latter and De? fends Position of Farmer. To the Press of The State: > Some weeks ago there appeared in the National Field, the weekly farm I paper owned by National Farmers" Fnion. a circular letter sent out by a Dallas hardware firm urging their re tall stores to demand of the farmers that they sell cotton and pay their . accounts, so that the retailers could pay the wholesalers and so on. Pres? ident Lewis of the Texas State Farm? ers' Union answered this circular ef? fectively when he said "Why is the farmer picked out as the only one w ho la to sell his wares at cost or be? low to keep trade moving " It was announced that a New York firm was so much pleased with this circular that they would send out ten thou? sand copies in the east, of course, without the answer of the Texas Farmers' Union. A Charleston news? paper published It and perhaps other papers in the State also. From the standpoint of the merchant it sounds like good advice. Taking up the campaign Mr. Kanorr, a hardware salesman of Flor? ence, I am informed, has published several letters giving farmers "down the country" for not selling their cot? ton and paying their debts. One of his pet sentences Is "Farmers, what ' would you do if notices were posted saying?No goods sold after January 1st. 1915, except for cash?" He then proceeds to read a good lecture of about three-fourths of a column to the farmers on the need to them of being honest, etc. When I read his first, letter, 1 was disposed to be pro? voked at what appeared to be a part of a conspiracy of the Texas hard? ware house to force the farmers to sacrifice cotton to maintain the cred? it and standing of merchants. But when Mr. Kanorr repeated and I saw how seriously he took himself it be? came amusing. I wonder if he has considered what would happen, if ihe merchants could be persuaded to i ut up such a sign? Well, in the first place they would not live up to it thirty days. With almost nothing being sold along about the last week In January a farmer would go to town and the merchant that he usually bought goods from would say "Mr. Blank, come in and let me sell you something." "No, I have no money." Well, that does not apply to you, whenever you want any? thing, come in and get it. We know you are all right." The farmer would say, "Well. I believe I do need a pair of plow lines; it is rather trying to plow with grapevines for plow lines." And so the credit system would be in full swing again for Mr. Blank would be only one of the thousands of farmers approached in the same way. But just suppose for argument that the merchants would live up to such a plan. Business would be reduced more than half. Nearly all the bookkeepers would lose their jobs. Halt the clerks would be dis? charged. Mr. Kanorr would be one of the salesmen to lose his job, or his territory would be more than doubled to take llM place of some other good man who would have to seek other employment. None of these men could got work as carpenters or build? ers, for these trades would be dis? charging men. They could not get work on the freight trains, for the railroads would have to lay off that part of the time. Owing to the scar? city of traveling salesmen and other passengers some passenger trains would be discontinued. These clerks, bookkeepers, salesmen, masons, car? penters, etc., could not even get jobs as section hands for fewer trains and lighter ones would mean less repair .to tracks and road bed and section men would be laid off to still further increase arrrty of the unemployed. What could they do? Well. I am afraid our friend. Mr. Kanorr. and his friends would have to tiy taking up some of the unimproved lands that are such a source of annoyance to our worthy commissioner of agriculture, and the progressive boards of trade of our cities, aided and abetted by the editors of our metropolitan ( allies who are clamoring fo- Belgian irin? ers to show us natives how to farm. Me thinks by the time our friend had cleared a piece of land, grubbed, stumped and urained it; built a mod? est settlement, bought stock ami Im? plements, seed and fertilizers, even if he did not nse anything but ground limestone and legumes to put his land in shape for cotton and corn, that he would want not 10 or || or 15 cents for ids cotton, but 20 or II cents, and he would tell his many advisers to mind their own business, he would sell when he hud a profit, or they could take it from him by force. If there were no credit production wmid be mo restricted I hat In spite of these accessions to the ranks of the farmers every farm product would be big her and the farmers who would be I re Mired t<> farm as we ought would be ' In clo\er." What a tree! thing it would he for the farmers it the mer? chants would only taUe Mr. Kanorr'* advice. While the Bwarms of people who would be thrown out of employ. merit were wrestling with the prob? lem of subduing nature to make some? thing to live on and to sell out of the soil, sometimes a most recalcitrant and contrary soil. Great! Because it would at one stroke of the pen eman? cipate us from the burden of support? ing so many people who profit by our unbusiness-liko methods. Yes, It would even be great for us after these whom we now support became our competitors, because with overhead charges cut more than half, those who remained in the mercantile bus? iness would be able to give us a dol? lar's worth of goods for a dollar, in? stead of fifty cents worth 6f service as is the case now. In the declaration of purposes of the Farmers' Union, j is "To abolish the credit and mortgage system." I give you, Mr. Knorr, the right hand of fellowship as the test abolitionist of my acquaintance. But let any class reformer intro? duce a bill to make it a misdemeanor for any merchant or salesman to nell any article from newspaper subscrip? tions to traction plows on credit and our friends and advisers would head the lobby to protest against any such restrictive law. "It would ruin busi? ness." "It is an infringement On per? sonal liberty, the right to do busi? ness according to the dictates of each man's conscience, etc." And the bill and its author would be snowed uncer by the protests of the merchant* whom it is intended to protect from that most undesirable citizen, the de? linquent subscriber and the farmer who will not sell his cotton at any old price to pay his debts. That the credit system has been profitable to the merchant is evi? denced by the number of men in the mercantile business and the number who have bought lands. I venture the assertion that for every farmor who has bought land since 1865 two men who in the trade or have a pro? fession have bought land. Mclver Williamson in a series of articles in 1912 in the Southern Cultivator brought out this invasion of the farms by merchants, doctors, lawyer*, stablemen and railroad men as re? sponsible for the bumper crop of cot? ton in 1911. He protested the a against this invasion of the farm as soon as the farmers had put farm? ing on a profitable basis. This art ids is my feeble protest against the bene? ficiaries of a system that has en? riched the traders and impoverished the producers undertaking to dictato how the producers shall market their crops. While I was writing the above V was called to the phone and offered some goods payable next October. Once long ago a clothing clerk said "Let me sell you something on ac? count." I asked why? His reply was "Because when you open an account you will bu> something every time you come to town.'' Three or four times in my life I have been refus? ed credit for something that I need? ed very much, but it was good for me, and like many others can say "If I had never bought anything except what I could pay either in cash or barter, I would be worth much more." If Mr. Kanorr wants to reform the merchants' way of doing business, I wish him well, for it will help us farmers to reform ourselves. E. W. Dabbs, President S. C. State Farmers' Union CONFLICT ON SHIP MEASURE. Administration Leaders to Push Pur? chase Measure In Face of Republi? can Opposition. Washington, Jan. 6.?Administra? tion leaders said tonight they would make a determined fight tomorrow to get the government ship purchase bill before the senate for debate. That every parliamentary expedient will be used by Republican senators to delay Its consideration was demonstrated to? day when committee amendments were offered. Senator Fletcher, in charge of the bill, proposed as a substitute the amended text as com? pleted by the commerce committee. Senator Lodge Immediately called for the reading of the long majority re? port presented last week but with di w his request when Senator Fletch? er agreed there should be no general debate today. The amended bill was ordered printed. FOR TWO HIG CRAFT. House Committee Favors Pair of Battleships. Washington. Jan. 6.?The house naval committee today decided to vote next Monday on the construction pro? gramme for the coming year. The majority sentiment is understood lo favor two battleships. A Farewell Dinner. A farewell dinner will be given this evening at the Elks Club roomp In honor of Mr. F. C, Manning by the officers and employees of the sumter Electrical Company. Mr, Manning, who has been connected with the company from its Organisation, leaves within a few days for Chicago, where ho will be located in the future as sales manager of the company, the s.-iles dc|Mirtmenl having been Iran*' ferred lo that city, RAISE HOGS FOR PROFIT. How Southern Farmers May Get a Start in Pig Raising. (Prepared in the Bureau of Animal Industry.) The Irishman calls his pig "the gintleman that pays the rint." In the corn belt of the United States "mortgage lifters" was a nickname given hogs almost as soon as settle? ments began. In the South no less true than in the Middle West hogs can be made a source of meat supply fo.* the home and of income as well. Years of study and demonstration by State and Federal agricultural authorities have shown beyond all doubt that hogs may be raised in the South with results fully as profitable as else? where. Four things are necessary If the Southern farmer wishes to get a stait. 1. A place to raise and fatten pigs. 2. A pig worth raising and fat? tening. 3. Feed on which to raise and fat? ten them. 4. The necessary funds. Let us consider these points In re? verse order. 1. This article is written for the man whose principal concern is te supply food for his family. For such, a man one or two sows will be enough. Good grade sows can be bought for 110 or $15 each; razorbacks can be bought for less and will produce good pigs if bred to a good purebred boar. If there is no purebred boar in the neighborhood whose services can be obtained, enough men should club to? gether to represent the ownership of 20 to 25 sows and buy a good boar, paying pro rata for the board, depend? ing on the number oi sows owned by each. Boars can be bought for from $10 to $25 for weaned pigs and from $50 to $100 for yearling and 2-year-old hogs. If 20 men owning 20 sows bought a yearling boar for $50, each man would pay $2.50 toward the price of the boar. Put the boar in who hands of one of the members of the club and let each other member agree to pay him one pig at wean? ing time for the care of the boar for one year, for attending to the breed? ing, etc. When sows come in heat, they can be loaded on a wagon and carried to the farm where the boar is kept for service. 2. Sows farrow almost exactly 16 weeks after they are bred. When the sows farrows try to be near at hand. Do not worry her with at? tention, but be there if she needs It. Watch that the buzzards do not carry off the little pigs or injure the sow. Give her a warm thin slop as soon as she begins to move around. Then leave her alone for a while. That evening give her a slop with a little bran or corn meal in it. Feed lightly for a few days and Increase her feed gradually until the sow is getting about 4 pounds of grain each day for each 100 pounds of her weight. This wi.ll be within a week or 10 days after she has farrowed. She should be fed morning and evening. Kitchen scraps j and slops will be good for her and will reduce the grain needed some? what. These slops must not contain any soap or glass. As corn is the most available grain in most sections of the South, it will have to be relied on for feeding both the sows and pigs. With the graz? ing crops which are suggested for hogs a fairly well-balanced ration will be obtained. When you are about ready to wean he pigs reduce the sow's feed so she will have only about 2 pounds of grain each day for each 100 pounds of her weight. Keep her on a Ber? muda pasture and let her have this ration until she is in good condition. Keep sows in good flesh, but not exces? sively fat. Sows can be made to produce two litters each year. When this is de? sired they should be bred at the first period of heat after the pigs are wean? ed. Sows bred twice each year will not produce so many prgs in each lit? ter as when bred only once a year, but more pigs should be raised in a year from each sow. It does not pay to try to raise hogs on grain alone. In fact, the profit in pig raising, especially in the South, depends directly on the amount of pasture of some kind used to enable the pig to make its gain in weight. Of the. southern forage crops peanuts, soy beans, rape, and cowpeas are es? pecially valuable. Now, these are not available all through the year. therefore we use a series of crops. Fo- example, have some winter oats on which the sows can be turned as soon as the pigs are a week or two old. When these are gone put the pigs on good Bermuda and lespedeza pasture. Ha' e a crop of soy beans or cowpeas eondng ami turn the pigs on this after weaning, keeping the sows on the Ber? muda. When these are gone put tin pigs in a peanut patch, and finish fat? tening them on rape. The pigs should he weaned al 10 to 12 weeks of age and should then weigh shout 80 pounds. They should have learned to eat a little grain by going In the sow's trough. Then bo ,in to feed them. Give them ever} day grain equal to 2 per cent, of their weight. A pig weighing 30 pounds should have 0.6 pound of grain; 10 pigs of this weight, 6 pounds, etc. Di? vide this into two feeds, morning and evening. This amount of grain will make them grow nicely on good pasture. As they grow, increase the amount of grain. When they weigh about 125 pounds give them 3 per cent, of their weight in grain, and when they weigh about 150 pounds each give them 4 per cent, and finish them off, slaughtering In the winter on a cool day. Pigs properly fed should weigh 200 pounds at 9 months old. Do not feed cottonseed meal to hogs. It is not necessary to spend a lot of money to carry out such a plan. Of course, the Bermuda pasture where the sows are turned should have a good fence. The crops on which the pigs are grazed can be fenced with home-made hurdles of lumber or wov? en wire, which may be moved as de? sired, and the pigs will stay in it while the pasture is good. Ten pigs can be kept on half an acre of one of the crops mentioned above from four to eight weeks, depending on their size. 3. A poor pig is not worth raising or feeding. Your pigs should be sired by a good purebred Duroc-Jersey, Berkshire, or Poland-China boar. Af? ter you have decided which of the three you wan, stick to same breed and in a little while you will have pigs which are very much alike, a model for others, and an advertise? ment for your community. If you can afford it, start with good grade sows. If not, natives (razorbacks) will do. White pigs should not be used in the South, as they sunburn badly. 4. Expensive houses are not nec? essary for hogs in the South. Give the sow a dry place to farrow, a pen well bedded and sheltered from cold winds and storms, and both she and the pigs will do well. Little pigs that get chilled or wet soon after birth of? ten die or grow into "runts." If there is no suitable place around the farm for the sow, make a lean-to with poles, about 10 by 12 feet, 6 feet high in front and 4 feet high behind, fac? ing it to the south, and thatch It with straw, cheap hay, or even cornstalks, and the litter will be well housed. Make the thatch roof higher in the middle than at the sides and smooth it down so that rain will run off. Pigs should have shade in the pas? ture, either trees or artificial shelter, and plenty of water. Sanitary Suggestions. No one should attempt to raise hogs unless he is willing to give them good feed, good care, and protect them In every way possible from disease. Worms, hog cholera, lice, and canker sore mouth kill large numbers of hogs throughout the South, especially lit? tle pigs. To prevent worms, keep the follow? ing charcoal mixture before the pigs all the time: Charcoal, 1 bushel. Hardwood ashes, 1 bushel. Salt, 8 pounds. Air-slaked lime, 8 pounds. Sulphur, 4 pounds. Pulverized copperas, 2 pounds. First mix the lime, salt, and sul? phur thoroughly, and then mix in the charcoal and ashes. Dissolve the cop? peras in 2 quarts ol hot water and sprinkle it over the whole mass, mix? ing thoroughly. Store this in a bar? rel under shelter, and keep some of it in an open shallow box where the hogs can get it as they wish. Hogs will not have cholera unless it is brought to fhe farm in some way from hogs which are sick. There? fore try to keep buzzards and other oirds away from your hogs. Do not visit a farm where hogs are sick or allow the owner of sick hogs to visit yours. Do not keep your hogs near a stream that runs through a farm where there are sick hogs before it gets to yours. Hog cholera may be prevented by proper inoculation. See your county demonstration agent about this. Watch the hogs, especially the lit? tle pigs, to see whether they a:e lousy. If so, get some disinfectant and wash the pigs with it, or rub on a mix? ture of lard and turpentine or lard and kerosene, two parts of lard to one of turpentine or kerosene. Tie a gunny sack around a post where the hogs can rub it, and keep it well soaked with crude oil. If the hogs have a wallowing hole, pour a little crude oil or kerosene on the water. To prevent canker sore mouth, keep the pens clean and well bedded with fresh, clean straw. Get a pair of bone forceps from the drug store (they will cost 75 cents to $n, and the day after the little pigs are born clip off the little tusks on the sides of their mouths even with the gums. Do not injure the gums when doing this, and do not pull the tusks out. Remember that an ounce of preven tlon is worth a pound of cure. Watch to ke?>p disease and vermin away from your hogs. If they get sick in spite I >t* all you can do, get in touch with tho county demonstration agent with? out delay. If there Is no agent in your eounly. write to your State ag? ricultural college for help. Profil in Raising Pigs, Two sows should raise f> pigs eaoh, giving the farmer 10 pigs to slaugh? ter. These pigs should weigh, when slaughtered, 200 pounds each, mak? ing 2,000 pounds of live weight. This costs about 3 1-2 certs per pound to make in the South under the sys? tem described above, which is an orig? inal cost of $70. Killing will cost not over $6. The loss in dressing is about ?'10 per cent, of the live weight, or 500 pounds on 10 pigs, so that 1,400 pounds of dressed pork is on hand af? ter slaughtering. If you can get a lo? cal ice plant to chill and cure the meat for you, the manager should charge not over 4 cents per pound, which is $56. The meat loses weight in curing, amounting to about 1 cent per pound, or $14. The total cost of the meat is about as follows: Raising 2.000 pounds, at 3 1-2 cents per pound .?.$70 Killing. g Curing 1,400 pounds, at 4 cts. per pound.56 Shrinkage on 1,400 pounds, at 1 cent per pound.14 Total._$14<> You have 1,400 pounds of cured meat on haivi which has cost you only a fraction over 10 cents per pound, the surplus of which you can easily sell for 20 cents per pound. Under the circumstances, can you afford to pay 20 cents per pound or more for side meat and ham Does it not pay to raise your own pork? In these suggestions an outline for pie raising is submitted which will re? quire the farmer to spend as little money as possible. The grain and the pasture are raised on the farm. He can kill the hogs and cure the meat himself, and therefore the only direct money outlay required after the hogs are bought is for seed and imple? ments for cultivation and killing, and possibly a small amount needed for fencing. For those who desire more infor? mation on hog raising it is suggested that they write to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, for the following Farmers* Bulletins: No. 411. Hog Raising in the South. No. 438. Hog Houses. -I DILLON CHURCH BURNED. Dillon, Jan. 6.?The Dillon Meth? odist church, erected at a cost of $40,000, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire was dis? covered at 1.15 a. m., and rapidly con? sumed the large building. It originated in the region of the pastor's study, although its exact origin can not be ascertained. The building is insured in the sum of $7,000. An applica? tion was forwarded yesterday for $14, 000 additional insurance. The Rev. A. J. Cauthen Is pastor of the church. The parsonage on a lot next to the church was saved. The church was very large and was modern in every particular. It was completed last spring after 3 years' hard work by the members. It rep? resents an outlay of approximately $40,000, all of which has not been paid. Much money was borrowed to build it and notes are maturing over a period of years. The edifice con? tained a pipe organ valued at $3,C00. The fire department, although at once on the scene, was practically helpless as only two streams could be directed on the flames. WORK OF MISCREANT. Florence, Jan. 6.?Some miscreant put a lighted match into one of the city mail boxes Monday between 7 a. m., and 5 p. m., and the lot of mall in the box was burned almost beyond recognition. Among the letters were a number of donations to charity, some to Thornwell orphanage and some to the Jenkins orphanage in Charleston and one merchant on Dar gan street, whose place of business was near the mail box, had two letters containing checks for $100 each burned. A shooting scrape occurred on South Main street Wednesday op? posite the Curtis block. A negro woman named Agnes Wilson shot at her husband, whom, she stated, had been paying attention to another wo? man. Our Foreign Advertising is in Charge of Jacobs & Co., Clinton, S. C, SOLICITING OFFICES: New York?118 K. 9ttS Si.K. L. Could Chicago?4M Advertising Hl i?...\v. B. PorchSf Detroit?Hotel Tultef.C. L Wion St, Louis?1500 Central Natl. Bank Rldg.. M. E. Oesjuaca Nashville?KU 8th Ave. N..1. St. Riddle. 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