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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
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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
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