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\\ ■ J? vm ^tanilari VOL. XXIX. VVALTHRBORO, S. C, JANUARY 9. 1907. NO. 22. THE WILLIAMSTON PLAN GIVEN IN FEW WORDS. Tk« Formula Which May Ravolutiooix* Agriculture in South Carolina and Pat Wealth in Pockott of Fanner*. The State has published frequently the formula for the Williamson plan” or the way devised by E Me- Ivor Williamson of Darlington to make five ears of corn grow where but one grew before. The formula as given heeretofore has been a little long. The following has been pre pared by James Henry Rice, Jr., as most concise form in which it can be ffiveh: Break land Dave Maxie, the oldest resident o^ this county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs J E Smith, on the WHAT /IK. CROSBY SA\ «. fill ONE OF OUR OWN POETS. Savaa. Editor Press and Standard: In my evening of the 5th day ot January. I “ t le,ter 1 t0 >“' e • on "" Hi. .ulfering. were terrible, hut be lhl “« 10 “P good ro»k was brave even to the last. He was interred at Smoaks Baptist church, the 7th, at ItVcIock. Pete. The Holy City. Thirty men, red-eyed and dis heveled, lined up before a judge of the San Francisco police court It was the regular morning company but as 1 did not finish about the mail boxes 1 will take up them again. There was a recent ruling by the department, to the effect that carriers must have a written agree ment where more than one family used the same mail box, stating that it waa satisfactory with both parties for their mail to be put iu said box. And we were instructed that where a An Interesting Letter From nah by a Colleton Boy. Editor Press and Standard: No one con Id hardly doubt that once in a while there comes a time in one’s life when we can lay aside the toiia and cares of the world,.,Cor a little of “drunks and disorderlies.” Some family did not produce, such written box. and the owner of box must out with the name of all the mem- brr. of In. family, who «r« lo re- f rom childhood Ihe pretent writer ceive mail at that bos and Ulnae baa had ,|uite r apecial iutereat in the who wish their mail must either poems of “Barton Grey,” the pen provide a box or furnish a written name of a living author, a well Notice as to whose box they wish known Charlestonian, George Her- their mail pot m. * bert Sass, L L. D.; and having *o r while, and apparently, the dreama nf Now if we leave all the mail of sincere an admiration for his poems childhood take hold of ns and parties who have no box it will as we possessed them in fugitive U s like children onoe more. Sooh materially decrease the number of form, it was a pleasure to receive last W ag the case with me CbristUMtf, pieces handled, and will make a bad summer a copy of the author’s book, during a visit to my old Colleton “show up,” for the routes. So now “The Heart's Quest,” published home, where I spent my boyhood let’s every body get our own box and within the last year or so, and con-; days. There is no better way to have our mail put in it, and let us taining^tbe main portion ©1 nia life’s spend Christmas, and no better time take more papers, and write their beads in shame, momentary disorder Just as the in winter one-fourth deeper than common; lay off in six- foot rows, leaving five-ineg balk. When time to plane break ont balk bringing in of the prisoners quieted with scooter, following in same fur- down a strange thing happened. A iov on this ridge. Kidge then with atrong< c]ear voice lnm below began plow, going deeper; run corn . i i r • PM*™* * na wnw ,nore wont in this department I than Christmas to make such virnt, were old and hardf tided, others hung or pr°yme a box oi .tneir j letter ^ and ^ j mpr0T e the routes as p r Bass’ poetry is of the selectest if we want everything to “fit in” and planter with Dixie plow, with wing token off. Plant as early as possible, usually about the middle of March. Drop corn grains every five or six singing: “Last night as 1 lay a-sleepmg There came a dream so fair.” I.a8t night! It had been for own, we are to leave their mail at the | postoffice. Now there are several attending ths who have no ^ on ihb route, and yet get mail from other people’s boxes, and unleas we are served with a written notice, as to whose box we must put tbeir mail in, and also a statement from the owner of the box, that it is agreeable or that party’s mail to be put in his there will be no likelihood of their character, and though of somewhat make up an occasion of real enjoj- being discontinued. Let’s show that limited range, this is probably due ment. we are a live people and appreciate a more to the exactions of a very de-i First in order was the Christmas good thing when we gel it; lets keep fin i te an< j f M tidious taste than to any tree at Bethel church on Monday up these routes and try to get more restriction of gift. His verse is all night, December 24. A well ar- established. As I said before, we characterized by an obvious melody; ranged program of songs and recito- will begin to name and number the an( j he has the faculty of felicitqus tions captured us for a while, mad metrical them box, we are required to leave their Use no fertilizer. <fiive first *!! » nightmare or a drunken stupor. mail ak offioe AU thu ihows a lack Working with harrow or any plow The song was such a contrast to the 0 f appreciation oi rural free delivery, thit will not cover plant Second horrible fact that no one could fail and will be detrimental to the ser» working with 10 or 12-inch sweep on 0 f a sadden shock at the thought the vice, and will tend toward discon- both aides of plant. Thin after this* suggested. * “I stood in old Jerusalem. Corn should kgtj* worked a K am Beside the temple there.’’ ootil .affioiwtlr •tooted, eo that >t! th , KD|t wrDt on . jadp htd panted. He made a quiet inquiry. boxes soon and we want those who phraseology, and perfect expect to get boxes, to do so at once, utterance in a high degree, eo that the numbers will be in Among his shorter poems there is regular order and not be broken by a non6t perhaps, more daintily sugges- box coming in between two numbers. f|ss than “Defeat,” a poem which we So now, all who uot believe has been widely copied, and box, must get one if they expect . . mail * u >*« highly praised. “Joan Hellish” is their have uot got a :t one if they expect . brought to them by “Mf*!! pr*»*ed. tinuance of routes. We must not rural carriers. All this is written in full cf a passionate, but skillfully, out of my knowledge, allow that, but must work up our the kindest spirit and I hope it will how much I enjoyed it all I am not able to tell. My, how things change! While some of my old friends looked ns natural as the old “moss amend bucket,” others could almost fool me, and the children had grown entirely will never grow large. When it is about 10 to 12 inches high put on fertilizer. Mix 20o pounds cotton seed meal, 200 pounds acid phas- phate, 400 ponnda koiuit, Put half in old sweep furrow, on both aides of •very other other middle. Cover by ' breaking out middle with turn plow. *dOae week later treat the other mid dle in \he same way, fertilizer and alL In a lew days side oorn in first ' middle wish 16-nioh sweep. Put all jour nitrate of soda ia this furrow, if less than 160 pounds is nsed; if aeon, pot halt Cover with one farrow of tnraplow, then sow peas in ■slddle broad oast at rate of a bushel to the aero, and finish breaking ont. Lay by early. Mora oorn ia rained 'If late plowing than by look of plowing. No booing ia neoeasary and 0 Middle may be kept clean until time la break ont by harrowing. Fog 60 hwohels to the acre lean atolks 16 inchee apart; for 75 bushels 12 inches; for 100 bushels, 8 inches routes, that they will show larger patronage, and larger amount* of mail handled each month, and hence, warrant tbeir continuance. We are to take the census of the Do not pill Codder, do not ont pen vines die o Value in fertiliser to land is worth mors than forage.—Colombia A former memder of. fkmou. open routn ^ thu t company, known all over the country “ name aQ( i address slips” in each was awaiting trial for forgery. It was he who was singing in his cell. “ Meantime the song went on, and every man in the line showed emo tion. One or two dropped on their knees; one boy at the end of the line, after a desperate effort at self-control, leaned against the wall, buried his face against his folded arms and sob bed, “Oh, motner, mother!” The sobs cat to the very heart the men who heard, and the song, still welling its way through (be court room blended in the huah. At length one man protected. "Judge,’* said, “have we got to submit to this? We’re here to toko our punishment, but this ”he too, began to sob. It wm impossible to proceed with the business of ths court, yet the judge gave no order to stop the song. The police sergeant after a snpprso* ssd effort to keep the men in line, stepped back and waited with tbs The song moved on to its be instrumental in helping to build up the routes, for after they have been discontinued it will be too late to wish you had done something to keep up rural free deliverv. * Paul K Crosby. Getsinger, S. C. t Now Year Hast at Qaite an enjoyable event was tbs M«v Year’s Hunt participated in by Frank Spell, John Hncka, Hiera. John B Smith, Jr, John Lee F Berry, and Walter Ths banters mot at George ’• early New Tear’s morning* brooek loading guns. They away to toe fields and pins ia asarob si gams. After a boar’* tramp tbay repaired to of Leo P Berry, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! night is o’er, flosanah in the highest! forever more! ’ Sing for tbs Hosanah In an eoataoy of melody the words rang ont, and then there The jndge looked into the that were before bias. There not one who was not touched by •oag; not one ia whom isspnlm waa not stirred. Ha not call the oases singly—a word of ad vim and rtiamimeil mwur ■■■msa wmm ■■■win v* the workhouse that song had done morn good than puniahmant eould have accomplish ed.—Youth's IN 1906 TEE S0UTB * . O Built 3055 Miles of Railroads. Produced $2,000,000,000 on Its Farms, Dug 84,000,000 tons of Coal from Its Mines. Cut at least 13,000,000,000 feet of Lumber. Gave $700,000,000 worth of Merchandise to American Export Trade, Manufactured $2,000,000,000 worth of goods in Iron and Steel and Wood and Leather and Cotton and Wool and other materials. Added $2,650,000,000 to the Value of Its Real worth. The South Will do What in 1907? did kind to The «f Mrs Mrs Kmsr Carter, wife of the late HO Carter, died at bar home in Dorchester county, near Kidgeville, 8.0* on tha 19th of Nov. 1907. How is death, even whan ripe old ago ia mo the sheaf ia ready ter ths garasr, when the step is feeble, of is ths earth whence it Sister Carter lived to n rips old age Had she lived antil ths l$th of next March she wonld have been 84 years ber to 1894. She Roll. The following subscribers have paid tbeir subscriptions sroos Jen. 1: LJ Garni IJ Herndon JP Slattery M W Brown DC Beach W J Nowton John Black O WOibaon Mrs J A Chitmia John I/ithaa DO JD W S Biers D A Sonia, EM Smith W D Givens J DOennor ^ L Co Bov I Crosby C P Carter J B Riohardsoa J B Fox P H kfeassrvsy T E Leach JnoD Warren, BE Lane Pan! Jenkins JJ H 8 ELOI G Flank Bam be nr LVarnndm^ O H OnwnhaM NJ Trowel! WH Mauldin LB 0J managed melody: “Thy step was free and state! As the step of the mountain lawn Thy cheek’s faint flush like the rosy blush In the first sweet hush of dawn; And, ho, thy heart, Joan Hellish, Was jnst the truest heart That ever the dear God spent belbw To bear an earthly part” There is, perhaps, no epitaph in our language than the “Confederate Dead.” “How grand a fame this marble watches o’er! Their Wars behind them—God’s great peace before. They fongbt, they failed^ yet, ere the bitter end. Them, too, did Fortune wondronsly «-» befriend. , *^ They never knew, as we who mourn them know, How vain wm all their strife, how vast our woe. And now the Land they gave tbeir lives to save, Returns them all she she has to give —•grave.” But however well Dr Sam may have done other things, it is, perhaps, as a writer of what we may call “dramatic lyrics” that he moat re veals himself. It needs no admis sion on his part for ns to see that ho has written them more folly oon amore than almost any others; and “A Last Rendezvous.” “St Anbyn’s Faith,” “Claude,” “Unforgiven” and others of their type, fall ss they are ^ wha L" ~ of human interest, of dramatic 1 ’ “point,” and of vivid imagery, certainly among his most character istic poems. The last poem of his which we have bad the pfeaanre of rending “The Death Bids,” appeared in the Christ mas edition ofThs Sunday NowaJTt is, like all his poetry, will wrought; snob words jewel ast ia the right ptooe—deiigktfal to rand, and lin gering ia themtm oritioks, however, wo would my there is too much “rmtibnle” to the “Deoth BideVby whtoh it ferns ia efleot. In reading this tola within a tale our internal is the impmetieu mods ia ant Of oonm, m we hove sted, it if fall of ineideutol poetry of a Jugh onkr; V| I am glad to see the tide of affaire moving steadily upward around old Bethel. They have a good every-day school, and, with Him Estelia Smoak as teacher, the children will naturally continue the upward course, that leads to honor and fame. On Christinas day we had a family j re union at the home of J W Bro- better land, (my father) who has seen the his on dawn of Christmas morning 86 times—something that rarely ever happens. All of his living children were present, viz: W Pierce, B Cal houn, H Williams, David B, Joseph J, R Benjamin, Rebecca and Hattie Breland, Mrs C W Breland, Mrs BE Bryan and Mrs W P Herndon. There were several grand children and a greet many relativee and friends present also, bat fenring it might ba taking too mneb space i will not mention their namm hero. SnfBotent to my we all had a good, eUL fashioned time, and after the neon- day spread, when the sun begsn to creep behind the western bilk, one by one our oomradee began to fenve till alas! oar Christmas re-union ad home waa soon numbered imong tin things of the past Onoe more we felt like children, but tin day hsu token its flight, and again we one scattered here and than, even bering the good wo bod and to ounelvts for tin return of nlli B B Breland. Strickland G T! O P Crosby John Platt J W Walling B L Lloyd J P Johneon T M Boovei jt Hickman SP Bryan Jno M Crosby Bev' 8 Mtddfeton A F Fisk J G Gray s^D, Like Poe, bit gsneral psnotioe Mold MB to totiwto tut he i. to tto we ebenld all hi familiar with tin writiSJof thia teas am of Carotins, se worthy to be known, who bos done, end n doing hfe life work in ewuwa “City by tin Sea. 1 * We nahorifatmrly say that a copy of “Tbe Heart’s Quest* dm In Hal Tbs legislators met Tbs mala the slaotion of sneaker mnmpwnnwnno of Cbnrii ■seend ballot, over D D Marlboro, and J Wright N«h, Off The rending of ssaneiu nu mu regular am 1906, at toe earn of tin os psnrfeor Monday The Aftsstpl rim