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?wa- ??minai i II .CT " , , - ??jjs .&$airbaaa ??? bouture WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1905. The Sumter Watchman was founded 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. T Wkstchmas, and Scuthron now bas the coi bined circulation and influence of both tfce old papers, and is manifestly the tx advertising media m in Sum ter? The over zealous friends of the se era! colleges in ibis state do the ta ore haem thau good. Witness bc tfee Sooth Carolina University enth siasts antagonised the Chariest* delegation by proposing to abolish tl Citadel and bow Winthrop ad voca t have gained tbs ill-viii of the Clems* contingent by trying io grab a part ? tho fertilizer tag tax. When the a; - ftfopria?on fc?i? is repeated the enmi tfeus aroused wall be evidenced by disposition oa toe part of the frien< of each of the colleges to reduce ti appropriations for the other college _ below tho amounts absolutely need? to main tai ? thens tn a state of reasoi able efficiency. n * * ~?h? propositio? to establish a Stsi fertilizer plant may be good socialisn : hat it is not good democracy. It ii r however, directly ia Une with the dil pessary system If the State has tl : Tigb?fc to engage in the sale of liquor,: lue aa equal righ t to manufacture an i^p?^^rt?Hzers?, shoes, clothing or sba] ?f the State would establish a- soa fae?cry and make the use of ?to pounds a year by each male ei?zen ??rerequisite to voting there would fc aomecning gained from the S?ate' ??barking ia tirade ic oompetiSo . with its citizens, * * ? ?osh Ashley and his bosom friend y tfee'"yaller" dog; are threatened wit jMcfcinotion by t?e spirit of -progrese of which the immigration departmen is the outward and visible sign, h enc Ms bitter antagonism. There will b ao place in this State for Josh Ash leja and yaller dogs if Commission e ? Watson can induce a couple of hundret thousand intelligent and industriou ^set?eis to make their home here ?ind the State would be the bette -and richer for the coming cf the set W&&f?'???' t&e absence of the Josh Ash - - ley type pf citizens and tho ?heep kill Jag dogs. -. / * * * j?rcm every neighborhood in tbii -?Ed " adjacent counties come com .' plaints of the scarcity of farm hands jpjSs'rnre Christmas the negro men ba vi V been geing to Florida and Georgia it sircv^ to work ia .lumber mills anc " "turpentine farms. They are entice, csway' by t?te promise of high wages jgs^and easy work, but those who have -gone write back that to earn seventy five ??ntfe a day they have to'wort iiarder than they eyer worked ic Soa^h Carolina, This dearth of laboi w*8 -necessitate the curtailment of the cotton- acreage to a considerable ex? tent, for without labor the land own? - ?rs will ba unable to plant and culti? vate as large an acreage aa heretofore, : even if they desired to do sc. * * * .. * The hill now before the legislature to regulate the formation of new conn? i ?ies is one bill that should not be kill? ed. New counties should not be created ssereiy to make a court house *?wn ^ef some ambitious villages, whose landowners desire to sub divide theil farms into -bcildiog lots. New-coun? ties should be surveyed by non-par? tisan surveyors and the citizens of the old Counties should have some voice in tbs way the lies are rna. .Smaller counties are undoubtedly desirable but ?Uv?sion and sub-division of tb* oid counties, few pf whie?'. are now too - 2ayge, can be carried to an extreme, particularly when wore are no safe? guards to prevent the division being made ia a manner highly detrimental t? "the people who remain in the old counties, and also to a large percent? age of those who are taken into the aew conn tie?. ? * * - TbeCzar's consent to receive the re "presenta ti ves cf the striking workmen ?s a tardy recognition of the ju>:ice of their cau^? aud is but an additional proof.of his weakness and unfitness for the position fae occupies. Had he met the workmen two weeks ago snd heard their- complaint there woe ld have been no massacre ia St. Petersburg's plstreete. We do not sympathize with the row some of the Southern Democrats are kicking up in Congress because ? the Republicans have passed a bill that will prevent Gen. Miles from drawing fall pay while acting as Adjutant General of the Massachusetts militia. Gen. Hiles may be nominally a Demo? crat, but his treatment of Jefferson Davis eternally stamped him as a mean spirited partisan, and, if the . people he then served now desire to i?ck him, the Southern Democrats should stand aside. ? * * The Legislature has killed the Brice bili, the compulsory education bill, is ?repari ag to sidetrack all bills looking to caanges in the dispensary law to th? ead that graft and corruption may ?J8 eliminated, and ali other bills of areal .s*erit appear to have slim chances of enactment. The record of the Leg en nial sessions, ?or quadrennial ses sions, would be au improvement. it * * It?, a maudlin sentimentality tba halts at the legal execution of ; woman who bas been proven guilty beyond the shadow of a .doubt, of i erne! ar d deliberate m arder. If tht people of Pennsylvania-revolt at th? idea of hanging Kate Edwards, wh< conspired with her mulatto pa ramon to murder her husband, what cri mi would they deem deserving of tb< death penalty. * 9 * If coca cola is detrimental to tb< public health, why not turn ita sal? over to the dispensary? The Stat? would thereby exercise its polic< power and also reap a substantiva profit by catering to t?te perverter appetities of the dope fiends. Tha?'1 the theory of the dispensary system. * * ? The NBW Orleans Cotton Growers Contention was primarily a busi? ness meeting of business men, bul there 'wa3 a decided misture of poli tics in it, judging from the prom i nonce given quite a number of th? leading professional politicians of the South-Tom Watson? Richmond Pear? son Sobs on, Gov. Vardaman, John Lu Mclaurin and others, by way oi example. * . * The Fanners Alliance had its origil in the fig ht inaugurated by the farm? ers . against the cotton bagging tost and its political power was developed from the business organization by the astute office seekers who seized the opportuni ty to further their personal political ambitions. It would not be human nature for some of the office seekers not to try to turn the tries again with the cotton growers associa? tion as the instrument.. * * ? It is rumored that an effort will be made to induce the promoters of the Sumter ? Northern Railroad to build the road to Hartsville, instead of directly from Bishopville to McBee on the Seaboard Air Line. To do so would necessitate a considerable de I tour, but ;he advantages that would accrue from having Hartsville as a feeder for the business of the road would probably more than compensate for the deviation from an air line. An air line from Sumter via Harts? ville to the junction with the Sea? board would leave Bishopville some miles to the northwest of the road,and the loss in business by not having Bishopville on the line would certain? ly be Jul ly as great as the business gained-by building to Hartsville. We have so idea the promoters of the Sumter " & Northern would consider giving Binhopville the go-by for the sake of building to Hartsville, inas? much as one of the chief objects of the proposed .load is to secure a direct route to Bishopville. Only an'*' insur? mountable obstacle could operate to divert the ::oad from Bishopville, and so far ?as can be ascertained none now exist, anleys the property owners be? tween Scape O'er Swamp and Bishop? ville and the citizens of that town should-refuse to grant the necessary right of'way.' The town of Bishop? ville and fbe property owners could 'easily rai s a an insurmountable ob? stacle by demanding prohibitive prices for the ri gilts of way and terminals; but we can not believe that so short sighted a policy will receive serious consideration. Should Bishoville, however, make it unreasonably ex? pensive for the road to enter that town, and should Hartsville offer sub? stantial inducements for it, to go there, it is not difficult to forsee what the result would be. * * * Hon. T. B. Fraser has had some complimentary things said about him recently. "We wonder if those people in the legislature are just finding out i what manner of man he is." Sumter j has long held him at his true worth, conservative, patriotic and incorrup? tible. Mr. Fraser is the peer of any man in any legislature from any county ia any State, in respect to these virtuea Elis modesty alone pre? vents a wider appreciation of Iiis merits in these days of scrambling politics. * * * It is an excellent idea for the county to assist the patrons of public schools to have better school houses but we do not fancy Mr. Richard's plan to use dispensary money exclusively for the purpose. Why not make the ap? propriation out of ordinary county funds. This thing of tying our educa tionel systeri hard and fast to the dispensary machine and putting a premium on the use of liquor is being carried too far * * * A law to require lawyers to be ready for trial when a case is called would do more to relieve the conges? tion of business in the courts than the creation of a. half dozen now circuits. . * ? * There are thousands of acres of land in Summer county that would he more profitable to the owners if planted in fruit, grapes, peas, truck, or peavine hay than in cotton. That is the way to control cotton produc? tion and make money at the same time. ? * * The full development of the waiter power at Blinding's mill, Cain mill, Swimming psns, and the other old water mills in the vicinity would fur? nish sufficient electric power to oper? ate a great many manufacturing plants in this city. The pioneer work in this direction now being done at Blanding's mill by Messrs. Moise and Brunson means a great deal for Sum? ter, as their success will cause others to develop and utilize the power that is now running to waste. * * * The law against chicken fighting will prove just" as effective, and no more, than the law against ordinary gambling. Those who want to fight chickens will combine to fight them as those who want to play poker or run a faro bank now find the place and opportunity to do so unmolested by the minnions of the law. * ? * If the Carolina Water, Light and Power Company comes to Sumter also there may be some chance for an improvement in the lighting system. * . . The farmers of the north grow Irish potatoes and corn for the starch factories at a satisfactory profit, and there is no reason why, those of the south could not produce sweet po? tatoes for starch making and make money. TEX CENTS COTTON. Until we have further information, it would be premature to attempt a discussion of Mr. Eugene Beals "Proposed Plan to ?ut Cotton to Ten Cents." Mri Beals is a New York broker and his plan is said to be interesting and seemingly feasible. For that mattel any proposition will prove in? teresting which has in it the hope of saving the South from the evils of speculation and over production. The plan contemplates the organiz? ation of a gigantic company, capital? ized at $100,000,000 to buy cotton and hold such proportion of the crop as will insure sales at ten cents ; an im? mense cotton trnst in fact. As a rule the South is opposed to trusts, as all good democrats should be; but might make this one the exception. If it should accomplish the wonderful things it is expected to perform it might indeed become the golden idol before which we would fall down and worship. Whatever of merit may be in this scheme we are inclined to believe that it has been brought forward at an unpropitious time. The more feasible it may be made to appear, the more likely it is to influence adversely the present movement to reduce the cot? ton acreage. If it is honestly intend? ed to help the cotton states, it should not have been advanced until the crop of 1905 is planted and the question of acreage settled. The one effective reason for reduction is the certainty of profitless prices for a greater crop than the world needs. With that fear removed the crop will be increased instead of diminished and the time might come in a few years when it would be found necessary to abandon the cultivation of cotton long enough to dispose of the immense accumulat? ed surplus. While ingenious financiers are devis? ing schemes to force the world to pay ten cents for cotton, the wise farmer will diversify his crops,make his own provisions and a surplus to sell,raise live stock, fruit and truck. With him cotton will be a side issue. CAN'T GET ENOUGH. The statement comes from New Or? leans that a number of men belonging to the Boer War Show have enlisted as the nuclues of a Guatemalan army, to invade Salvador. Their fighting spirit must be unquenchable, or they are devils born, for war is hell, and only devils find congenial employment in that snlphurous aud torrid atmos? phere. But these fellows appear to plunge into war as naturally as a duck takes to mud puddles in the midsummer time. THE GREAT BLIZZARD. Moved Northward From Mississippi Valley to thc Atlantic States. Washington. D. C., Feb. 6.-The storm which was central Sunday morning in the lower Mississippi val? ley moved rapidly north eastwards and this morning occupies the lower lake region and the middle Atlantic states. It has been attended by a general rain in the southern districts and snow or sleet in northern dis? tricts. Steamers departing today for European ports will have brisk north? easterly, shifting to northwesterly winds, and snow or rain to the grand banks. ' RUSSIANS QUIT KOREA. They Find That Their Operations in That Country Arc Unprofitable. Tokio. Feb. C.-The Russians, who have evacuated Sengoh, in Korea, burned their stores before leaving. It is learned that the Czar's forces intend to abandon all operations in northwestern Korea, which have been conducted on a small s?calo since the war began. ?II ? -??- - CEN. MATSIMURA DEAD. Hero of 203 Metre Hill Victim of Con? gestion of the Brain. Tokio, Feb. 6.-Genl. Matsumura, thc'hero of 203 Metre Hill, is dead. A dispatch, from the front reports that his death was the result of con? gestion of the brain. MAKING STRIKES LEGAL. Russian Ministry Taking Action to Make Strikes by Workmen Lawful. St. Petersburg. Feb. 6.-A commit? tee of jurists will assemble at thc ministry of justice this week to elab? orate the law regulating strikes. Hitherto strikes have b?en illegal and strikers were liable to banishment or penal servitude. The government now recognizes that the maintenance sense. COSSACKS ATTACK WOMAX. Russian Soldiery Kill Woman Who Participated in the Strike Movement. Berlin, Feb. 6.-A telegram from St. Petersburg reports a clash be? tween women and police and Cos? sacks, ,at Resefenden, today. Six hundred women stormed the fac? tory and forced the men to quit. The workmen demolished the machinery before leaving. The police were sum? moned and a clash followed, and a number of women were wounded, and the Cossacks then charged the women .routing them, killing several and wounding many. LODZ STRIKE BROKEN. * Many Workmen Return to Work in the Factories Today. Lodz, Poland, Feb. 6.-The strike movement here received a hard blow this morning in the return to work of a number of workmen. Attempts were made by the strikers to prevent their return, but the factory was guarded by soldiers and the attempt to stop the work was unsuccessful. STRAINED RELATIONS. Speech of English Officer Pats Ger? many By the Ears. Berlin, Feb. 6.-There is no longer any doubt that the speech cf Arthur Million Lee, British Civil Lord of the Admiralty, at East Leigh, England, on Thursday evening, has created strained relations between England and Germany. The Kaiser and Im? perial Chancellor Von Buelow had a conference this forenoon, at which it is reported they drew up an energetic note of protest to be forwarded to Lord Lansdowne, British minister for foreign affairs. SMALLPOX DC ARKANSAS. Negroes Are Spreading the Loathsome Disease. Washington, D C., Feb. 6.-The cotton-picking negroes of Arkansas are spreading smallpox broadcast, according to a report on the smallpox situation in Arkansas, submitted to the United States public health depart? ment On account of the mild form of the disease the negroes rather have the sickness than a sore arm from vaccination. It is affirmed that the negroes are moving from the dis? trict, thus carrying the disease to other places. ASSASSINATION IN FINLAND. Helsingfors, Finland, Feb. 6.-Pro? cureur Johnson of the senate; was to? day assassinated. A Sea-Level Canal at Panama in Ten Years. From thorough tests -,Mr. W. E. Dauchey, the engineer umler Mr. Wallace in charge of Culebra and formerly chief engineer of the Rock Island Railroad system, has de?non strated that the steam excavators which are now at work in the Culebra cut can handle 25,000 cubic yards per machine per month, working ten out of twenty-four hours for twenty-five days in the month. This means an average of 360,000 yards per annum for each machine. If we make a lib? eral reduction of 50,000 yards for time when the machine is idle through repairs, rains, slides, etc.. we can place this estimate at 310,000 cubic yards. Xow, then, if two machines are placed every half-mile of the sec? tion, one on each side of the cut, for a distance of eight, miles, allowing for the gradual slant on both sides, we have thirty-two machines excavating 9.9S0.00G cubic yards a yead. As there are 100,000,000 cubic yards to be ex? cavated in the Culebra divisioin for a sea-level canal, we have approximately ten years required in which to do the work. Two years added for all kinds of coningencies makes tweleve. The question now arises. How is the sea level canal, then, to be finished by January, 1914, or less than ten years from now! Then explanation is sim? ple and logical. These estimates just given are all based on the supposition that tho the steam shovels., machinery and forces work only in the daytime, or ten hours per day for twenty-five days in ea ,i; month. Thc dam which it has been ?ctermined can be constrtuctcd in two j OPTS from now to control the Chagros Riiver at Gamboa is sure, to develop from 2?,000 to 50,000 constant horse? power. This should yield sufficient elec? tric power, not only t<> operate the transportation service and machinery of the canal but to illuminate brilliant? ly the entire length of it and enable the construction to go <>n at night as well as in thc day. As the climate not only permits work to bc done at night, but makes that time, by avoidance of the sun. .far better for the laborers, it seems entirely logical that thc whole time for the construc? tion of the Gamboa dam and the in- \ stallation of electric plants (inasmuch as electric light can be provided in the meantime from other sources and the usc of the Gahboa power is purely for economy), might easily be reduced to one-half, or to six years. However, that there may be iortncr allowance for rainy weather, landslides, other disadvantages, and possible lesser ef? ficiency of night work, we will add two years for the preparation of the canal for actual use and for the suc? cessful installation of the organization for operation, and then we should be able to see the largest vessels steaming through from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and vice versa, in 1914. The use of the canal by vessels of the average draught now coming to Pana? ma and Colon can be expected even before dredging to the depth limit of forty feet is completed.-John Bar? rett, in the American Review of Re? views for February. Money to Be Made in Onions. The Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, published an article on the South in a recent number, by Nat. Westel, in which he says: "One of the most important of the crops which this new movement of diversified farming has brought to the South is that of Bermuda onions. In the past year two young men, plain farmers, typical of the agricultural population of that section, pur* forty-four acres of their farm in Bermuda onions. Their onion crop was forty-five car? loads, and brought them a return of $28,000. The cost of producing this crop and putting it aboard the cars was $6,500. An important reason for the unusual success of their onion ven? ture is found in the fact that the qual? ity of the onions was fully equal to that of the imported Bermudas, against which they were competing. When these young men considered that their individual earning capacity was not more than thirty dollars a month they naturally concluded that a more profitable use for well worn cotton lands could not be found than the raising of choice Bermuda onions." Cabbage Plants and S Cabbage Plants for sale, and now ready : "Charleston Large Type Wakefield," two ear as named. "Succession." "Augusta Trucker' head varieties and head in rotation as name over $1.25 per 1.000 ; 10,000 and over. Si per 1.00 O. D.. purchaser paying return charges on mc Carolina sea coast, and we understand growii they will stand severe cold without injury. ] 1,000, and we have special low rates for promt know of other plants you can buy cheaper tn rate" plants shipped from my farm. I guara name, and grown from high grade seeds purcl in the United States. I will refund purchase season. OUR COTTON SEED. Lint of our Long ! year in Charleston on Dec. 2, at 32c. per poun< per bushel. My specialty : Prompt Shipment. True V in the plant business for thirty-five years. Wm. C. GERATY, jSR2 dec 25-3m Pl WE ARE JUST 100 BA] OF THE CE BLIS5 Tl We claim credit for b duce this potato, and patrons any other serx some commendation fo itself THE BEST F THE THE EARL?E AP THE BEST SUITI Every cross roads ste sells "Bliss" potatoes, oi "Bliss" and they are doi representation, for they such, but of one thing y < you buy them from us. for they are shipped county in which they never been able to fully this seed, and our obj ec this season of the year may get what they wai order if need be, in amp demand. Cotton Growers" Meeting. I am requested by Mr. E. D. Smith, President of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' association, to ask ail ry^r?^" interested to meet in their townships on the 1 Uh ins; : . organize and elect two dei eg* tes to --- ?'' Sumter court house on February LSth, for the purpose ol . .. yins out the plans of the New Orleans convention Other papers of this week and of this conuty are requested to copy this notice. Respectfully A. B. STUCKET, Acting Chairman for Sumter County. Daily Market Report. Special by Ware ?vir*. NEW YORK COI. i >N. Open. High. Low. ?"lose. March 7 55 ,7 (?1 : ; 7 *0 May 7 60 , 07 7 42 7 46 July 7 71 7 77 7 59 7 59 Oct, 7 80 7 84 7 64 7 67 New York spots quiet : middling 7.80. Sales none. CHICAGO MARKETS. Opening. Closing. WHEAT- o * B May, '116 4- 116 7 July, 1014- 1017 COBN May, 45 2- 45 1 Jnly, 45 6- 45 6 OATS May, 30 3- 80 3 Jnly, 30 2- 30 1 POEK May, 12.92 12.82 LARD May, 6.95 6.90 Jnly> 7.05 7.00 RIBS May, 6.87 6.82 Jan., 7.00 6.97 Cabbage Plants $1.50 Per 1060. I AM NOW prepared to fill any and all orders with the best varieties of Cabbage Plants. Orders filled for any amount and varieties. Write for prices for lots of 3,000 and over. Ad? dress all orders to W. F. CARR, Meggetts, S. C. Dec. 21-3 m. ea Island Cotton Seed. for delivery. "Early Jersey Wakefield" and liest sharphead varieties and head in rotation . and 44Short Stem Flat T);;T--? ." the :. r> sr t;?.J d. Prices: Single thousand, 51.50 ; 5.0C0an< 0. Terms: Cash/with ornar : or, plants sent : ?ney. Our plant bedh occupy 35 acres on South ig them in the oner ;:ir : toush and hardy Plants crated for sbipmem meiert: 20 lbs it transportation by Southern Express Co i an mine. I sell SOCK: plants. No cheap "Vui ntee those that I ship TO oe true to type and liased from two of the most reliable seed nouses price to any dissatisfied customer at erd of Staple variety of Sea Island Cotton sold this i Seed Sl.25 per bu. : lots of 10 bu. and over SI arieties. and Satisfied Customers. I have been bbage Plant Man." 1 Telegraph Office. Youngs island, S. G. ITATOES. IN RECEIPT OF RRELS iLEBRATED RIUflPH. eing the first to intro if we never did our ice we are entitled to r this, as it has proven 'RODUCER, I BEST EATER, :ST VARIETY BD TO OUR SOIL. >re in the country now r what they think is the ibtless honest in their - may be sold to them as ou may be certain, when to us direct from the are grown. We have supply the demand for t in buying so freely at is, that our customers it, and permit us to re? l? time to supply a later