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Si? Mailman mb jwutbrim. IfBUHESOAY, BARCH 10. 1909. The sumter Watchman was found mm im IS*) and th< True Southron In ftgft. The Watch nan and Southron Shew haa the combined circulation and tmfluaace of both of tho old papers. Is manifestly the best advertising anas la Sumter. HA it 111 MAN' OV EDUCATION. High School Hoy Has Beat for Railroad Work. rd Harrtnmn. the railroad ler and financier, has written for Tale Dally Neva his views on col tralnlng aa preparation for rail ling. He said n part: ?The question which you have ask ad me 'Is college education an essen? tial or even a valuable preparation aus* a man who expects to enter rail fand lag?' Is a hard ons to answer, and answer Is both 'yes' and 'no.' A eatlege education will be a great help II the man In go ng through college mas kept the foundations of high school learning firmly fixed. On the ejtnor hand. If he has neglected his ?mndwrttlsg and forgotten his arith? metic In higher mathematics, nothing oould be worse for him. If, however, am still retains thene essentials he has it advantage in that he has a view of the world and a it knowledge of how to learn. "The high school boy has the ad ?vnatngs In that all the first essentials mf gi od work in railroading are at his asnger s ends For Instance, take the masking of a simple statement. "A statement should be like a ple? asure, something that can be taken In sat a glance, not a Jumble of letters nsnirea that must be traced care oat and the meaning extracted from the superfluous matter. A high SJSnoel boy will draw auch a statement ertth perfect accuracy and clearness, ark He a young college graduate will ekmw it In such a way that It la a ling scrawl. Thus, college education la. In the Pj spinning, a real d lead van tage and I found that In every case the school boy does better work than the college man for the first few HP. However, ss soon as the col man haa overcome theee habits has gotten back to fret principles, as* will go ahead much faster thai his Asm educated rival. His mind Is. nat %urnffty. better developed end note ible of grnsptni; the fine points of less. On the other hand, the titgh sehnet boy ai being younger, is adaptable and has not In most the irregular habits of the col man. Ttio .matter how well educated a snsii may be. he must start In rail? roading at the very bottom. **A railroad man has no fixed home. Im a* like a naval officer, always at ana, ?nd. mor?ov<r. he Is always markieg to the limit of his endurance. It as .he hardest life I know, and yet amp iif the most pleasant. It cultl an Inaight, It teaches a know of men and In this way Is the training for any profession. T ill can never carry a man fi r in *ntlr<>ading. It Is tiSrd work and ap Xiidon that count. Many a man H nat well. I lacking the s?.lck* to-It epirit. which Is so pre-emit *<nt tp essential, falla Into obscurity. ?My advice to the college man ex? pecting to enter railroading and nap* tng to have an easy life. Is?'don't'; east la tos man who does not mind the hardest kind of work, who Will mot quit mi ter early disappointment* nnd who wishes to have the most in? teresting sort of career. Is, by all .'do.' " Vice Admlaal Cervera Dying. Cades, March I.?Vice Admiral Pa U Cervera. who commanded th> Spanish fleet that was destroyed by the American fleet off Santiago, Cu? ba. In IStl. la dying at Puerto Heal. The lent sacraments were admlnlater ?g r<> him today. CTnarlo'te. N. C. March 7 ? While ?plag the floor of >i room at her pjsane. three miles from Oastonia. N*. C. today. Mrs. Eugens Ra'chford smtpt a pistol cartridge into Uu flr? ?dec*- The cartridge exploder1, the fialW entiling her right breast and sank* tng a wound that will probably Ss fatal. In consequence of the bill Intro ?d by Scant<>r Wharton. of Uur eosnty. providing for the closing of the dispensary stock now on im In the county dispensaries. Mr. PJ. 1* Nash, former secretary of the aseurwna county dispensary lo.nd. hn ttera torn missioned by QpfatPgf An? sel to act as agent for th?> stock of nrhnttry and dispose of it as the bill provides It has been four moot Im since Innren* county voted out its iriea, and the cost of holding stock of goods has been gssj like $???> a ncuth. a total of 91,see ejsjng the date' if cloelng. Mr. Nash wfil at once take steps to die of the $3&.??o worth of "wet' that have been locked up for months. ON THE BOEDER LINE. Men of Genius Often Near a Condi For hundred* of years pas* the ex? tent of the border line between In? sanity and genius has been a matter of dispute with doctors, scientists and deep thinkers, says an exchange. The lives of famous men and even women, of the lust two centuries, however, seem to furnish striking evi? dence that there Is a very strong link between genuLs and Insanity. And even in cases where actual Insanity was not apparent t iere are many In? stances of genius who suffered from a variety of Ills and disorders which in reality were symptoms of brain disease. Charles Dickens, It is well known, as he advanced In jears suffered from sleeplessness, gout, Inclpent paralysis and loss of memory, and ultimately died at 58 from effusion of blood upon the brain. Wllkle Collins was such a sufferer from nerves that he was ac? customed to take laudanum in Im? mense doses. Thackeray died sud? denly at 62 and for the last fourteen years of his life was continually all- I Ing and subject to certain painful spasms. Charles Lamb was confined to a lu? natic asylum for si:c weeks about his twentieth year, the period of which he wrote most of his sonnets, and aU his life was subject to stammering, violent headaches and was constitu? tionally nervous and timid. Edgai Allen Poe more than once attempted or threatened to commit suicide while under delusions of per? secution, and George Sand confessed that she also at times felt tempted to take her own life. George Elliott, too suffered greatly from fits of depression, while Sir Wal? ter Scott complained of certain hallu? cinations and thought he saw the image of his friend Byron alter tail lattet'a <*eath, the Image, after exainl na: on, proving to oe nothing but the folds of *>me drapery. Sir Coward Landseer toward the close of his life, showed signs of in? sanity, while the eccentricities of Turner were quite of the Insane order. Among other eminent artists it might be mentioned that Sir Thomas Law? rence suffered from a symptom of brain disorder; David Wllkle lost the power of attention and ultimately had a nervous seizure which made his speech Incoherent, while Romney auf? fered so much from the hallucina? tion that his talent would desert him that at the height of his fame ho thought of rellnquising art altogether. Referring to famous poets, it might be mentioned that Cowper tried to commit suicide on several occasions, was an Inmate of a lyunatlc asylum for eighteen months, and died inaane. Southey aank into a state of imbecili? ty. In which he dledj Shelley waa known as "Mad Shelley" at Eton, while It waa a curious fact that the maddeat of all poets. "Mad Jack By? ron," who led auch a wild, disaolutc life, slway dreaded insanity. Several famous men, by the way. have lived in dread of Insanity. Swift, who, before he became a celebrity, waa called the "Mad Paraon" and who died an Imbecile, waa always haunted by the dread of going out of his mind. Doctor Johnaon declared that he had been "mad all his life, or, at leaet not sober," and so great wus his fear of insanity that at times he must have been on the brink of mental derange? ment. The lives of famous musicians like Wagner, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Be thoven and Mendelssohn, all tend to bear out the contention that insanity and genius are closely allied. Then again the whims and fads of that famous French author Balzac were such that they could only have originated from a disordered mind. He would live in a garret under an assumed name, sleep from 6 in the evening until midnight and then work from twelve to twenty hours at a stretch, dressed In a white robe of a Dominican friar, with a black skull cap on his head and surrounded by I dozen candles. The stage, too, furnishes examples of insane genuis?-notably, Edmund Kean. whose mind became unhinged at 45 years of age. Julius Brutus B?K)th. the father of Wilkes Booth, who murdered President Lincoln, displayed Insanity at the age of 5. It was while playing a tragic part In Boston that he suddenly dropped into a colloquial tone and apropoB of nothing, said, "Upon my word, I don't know." To the murmurs of the house he responded with a ringing ! ruh. Kilon e, March 6.?Mr. James H. Till. I young man 21 y< ars old, com? mitted suicide here y.sterday l't his n.'Ohtrs home l>y taking carbolic acid. While young Till had bS Ml > vn t.? have, btjta In despondent mou<B] a* times, no btlS antii Ipgtotl that h?> contemplat? d taking hJr own |?Ove has been called a "mkeasr." but owing to most of us being inocu? lated with selfishness It la no longer very contagious. tlon of I n sanity. life. Farmers' Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President Farmers' Union of Sumter County.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features. The first to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Farmers which I have been requested to conduct. It will be mi aim to glvo the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end officers, and members of the Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of our readers telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and published. Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for this Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs, Mayesville, S. C. \ The Editor of this Department will appreciate articles from our own peo? ple on any of the many important phases of farm management. We have some as successful farmers in Watchman and Southron territory ns are to be found anywhere, (also some as complete failures) and something from home folks would carry weight that the clippings do not have. The country correspondence is what makes a county paper valuable. So let home talent help till the columns of this Department. E. W. D. Selling at a Loss. Could a merchant have any capital left long If he sold his goods for $1.50 and replenished his stock at a cost of $2? Any one would say that he was a dunce. Eut that is Just what the Southern cotton farmers are doing. The de? partment of commerce and labor shows that in the two ten months' periods ending April, 1907, and April, 1908, the aggregate amount of cotton? seed meal sold to Oermany alone for the 20 months amounted to 608,753, :?04 pounds. , If this meal, bent tc but one European country, sold for but ?25 a ton, here was $7,609,409.55 worth of feed that should have been ] fed j.nd the manure returned to the land that produced the crop. If there was but 7 per cent of nitrogen, this would be 42,612.749 pounds of nitro-! gen, and at $25 per ton. the nitrogen will have brought less than 15 cents per pound. The men whose land pro? duced this nitrogen then turn abou: and buy the same thing in a mixed fertilizer for 20 cents a pound. The enormous amount quoted is but the sales to Oermany. Great Britain and other European countries doubtless bought much more, and the soil of the South, aided by the fer? tilizer that cost so much more than the meal sold for, has furnished the whole. In short, the Southern cotton grow? ers are feeding the catttle and en? riching the soil of Europe and paying for the privilege of doing It, while their own soli grows poorer. Selling nitrogen at 15 cents and buying it at 20 cents, when if the meal was kept a% home and fed Judiciously, the manure used on the land, and le? gumes grown in a good rotation, there would not have been any need lor spending a cent for nitrogen, and the land and the farmers would have I eon getting richer instead of poor? er. How long will it take us to get rich in U">ing an article at 20 cents and selling the same thing, afret a h'-rd season's work, for 15 cenU?? Progressive Former. DRAIN YOUR WET LANDS NOW. Drainage Insures Against Roth Wet And Dry Weather, and When Prop* erly Done Will be Good a Hundred Years Hence. Many letters continue to come ask? ing about tile drainage. A good many of our folks seem to*think the only purpose in tiling land Is to remove surplus water from the soil. We be? lieve a more Important function of tile drainage is the lowering of the w.itcr table and thus securing for the soil a much gi eater capacity to ab? sorb surplus water. This explains the fact that land that has been tile drained Is dryer In a wet time and more moist In a dry time than is the same quality of soil which has not been drained, How Draining Improves Soil Texture. Then a great many of us overlook the fact that a soil to produce the maximum crops must be porous so ths air may penetrate all through it. The tiles, taking out the surplus ?ra? tet In the subsoil from below, tend to cause little streams to flow from ?very direction toward ths tiles, and, of course, anywhere water goes air ? ?es also. ThS writer has proved many times that tiling adds greatly to the porosity of soll?. I have drain? ed small swampy places, where the Clay was as close grained as putty, thai would produce nothing but su. face grasses, and two years after ti? ling these places one would be as? tonished at the crops of corn tht,y would produce. It was only that the surplus water had been removed from the subsoil, air had taken its place, and the soil had become alive where before it was practically dead. We all know that anything that tends to strengthen plants and cause them to grow vigorously insures them against the ravages of their insect enemies. Tiling, by removing the surplus water, by lowering the wa? ter table in the soil, by making con? ditions such that air will circulate through the soil, does thus strength? en plants and makes us far more cer? tain that where we sow there also shall we reap. Our corn fields gave a splendid illustration of this point the past fall. We had a visitation of chinch bugs (the result of the extreme drought) and in one of our fields?a low stiff clay spot?the bugs destroyed the crop completely except right over and alongside of an underdrain that had recently been run through the low place. Over the drain the corn was as good as any in the field. Now bv another year this drain will be draw? ing to the edges of the low spot, and we want to be there when Mr. Chinch-bug tackles those big sappy stalks that will be growing on the I land. Some Cheerful Plans for the Future. We are preparing now to lay 3,000 three-inch concrete tiles; and we ex? pect the increase of crops where the tiles are laid to pay for the tiles. We expect, too, that our work will last for a hundred years at least. Then i we are going to get a whole lot of j satisfaction also out of the tniX that ahout the last of our deep ditches nie to be done away with, and in that particular field we will have i. >m rows 150 rods in length. I be? lieve I shall get an umbrella and at? tach to the riding cultivator, as a fel iov will get migthy dro.v&y rid?ne up and cown those long rows, unie*? he has Mime little protection f-om the sun. Then how well it will make a fellow feel to know that he has tile drains under his feet and a big umbrella over his head, and so If prepared for whatever comes, be it wet or dry.?A. L. French in Pro? gressive Farmer. SOI TH HAS TOO MUCH LABOR, Mr. J. C. Strlbllng Writes a Letter As Full of Good Points As a Pin-Cush? ion?More Horse Power and Ma? chinery and Fewer Mired Hunds Is What We Need. Mr. Tait Butler, in his lecture be? fore the Old Farmers' Society, of Pendleton, S. C, last February, made the statement that the South already has too much labor on the farms, and I argee with him. What we need in the cotton States more than anything else just now is more brains, more horse sweat, more interest-bearing farm machinery, and less man sweat and muscle. We want fifteen kinds of crops In? stead of one crop of cotton. We must plow deeper, rotate our crops, and do away with the useless, wasteful and unsightly terraced banks. When we have utilized these ' terrace banks and need more land, we must go down underneath our plowed lands and get all we need without paying out many dollars in Interest for It. We must pay out mote cheap horse sweat and Interest on Improved labor saving Implements and make better use of our brains. We already have too many one horse, two-times-ln-a-row cotton im? plements. When terrace banks are gonei we can use more two-horse cul? tivators and four-horse breaking plowa We need at once a tWO <>r three horse combined cowpea planter and stubble bleaker to follow the harves? ter with cow peaa and soy beans. This I combined machine will cut out at least the hands per day at harvest time?the most costly laboring sea Are Drugs Na Do Drugs Ci Can Natur If people wore born right and after? wards lived right, there would bo no nse for medicine. Every doctor knows this. So do other well-informed people. One thing more. When a person lives wrongly, or acquires bodily weakness by heredity, medicine can do only very little. Medicine cannot cure him. Only charlatans claim that medicines will cure disease. Medicines may palliate symptoms. Medicines may urge the powers of Nature to resist disease. Med? icines sometimes arouse the cff orts of the human body to right itself against de? rangements. This is the most that med? icine can do. A man accidentally pats his finger in the Are. Instinctively he wets bis finger in his mouth, then blows on it for the cooling effect. This is no cure. He knows it very well. But it makes it feel better for the time being. People eat unwisely. This produces dyspepsia or indigestion. The only rational cure is to eat correctly. Yet if a palliative is at hand the pains of indi? gestion can be mitigated, the throes of dyspepsia assuaged. The medicine can? not be said to have cured. It simply palliates disagreeable symptoms. The cure must come through right living. Take Peruna, for instance. No one claims Peruna is a cure for dyspepsia. But Peruna will stimulate the stomach to perform its function properly. Peru? na will increase the flow of digestive fluids, without which digestion cam ot be carried on at all. It will increase the relish of food, the appetite. It is admitted that all this can be accomplished by right living, but there are so many people who either will not or do not know how to eat correctly that a tremendous amount of good can be done by the wise uso of Peruna. A stomach that has been frequently abused performs the function of diges? tion very lazily. Such a stomach allows the food to remain undigested for some time after it is swallowed. This leads to fermentation of the food. Sour stom? ach is the result. This goes on week after week, until the blood is poisoned with the products of fermentation. This condition is very apt to produce rheum? atism. It is not claimed that Peruna will cure rheumatism. Nothing will euro rheum? atism but correct living. But it is claimed that Peruna will assist a badly abused stomach to .perform its work. "WALK-OVERS" For Spring $3.50 & $4. The Sum tor Clothing Company. son of the year. In these days of conservation of America's resources we should never forget that, the South's greatest wealth lies In a few inches of the top soil of her arable lands, and that the Southern agriculturist is alone re? sponsible for the reckless waste and destruction of this great gold-produc? ing resource. On all sides now we see the pain? ful spectacle?the destruction of the hurr. :s, and washing and leach away of the richness (the gold) that Is v. ithin the soil?this being'the un? failing result of continuous clean cul? ture of hoed crops. Ten years practice in not allowing 'me acre to be planted two years in succession in any clean crop, buc III stead having a good rotation. With cow peas or soy beans after bmall grata would make this Southland bloom again with all hot old-time in? dependence and greatness. This writer practices what he preaches. All terrace banks have about disappeared from my farm and I have been selling some of nine or ten different crops every year for some five years, besides selling a few cows, hogs, colts and poultry and ev? erything that grows upon the farm, excepting children. J. C. STRIBLJXG. Anderson Oo., S. C. ?Progressive Farmer. Too Much. "Do you think that Miss Kidder was having fun with me?" asked Chaw ley. "Well, old chap, give me the de? tails," was Arthur's response. "You see I had my bull terriei with me, ai d I said to her, 'That dog knows as much as I do.' And she said, 'Don't you think four dollars and a half was too much to pay for him?' "?CI veland Loader. Married Chams, "Has he any friends?" asked the judge of s prisoner In ths dock. "No, only a wife," was the mat? ter-of-fact reply of the witness. Rath? er hard on the wife not to be counted SS her husband's friend, wasn't It? It is the perfection of marriage S/hen a COUplS are real chums as well as lovers, just as It Is the perfection of parenthood when children count mother and father their real, best friends.?New York Times. A woman can't "pick out" a hus? band; she can only "pick over' what's offered and take the best of the lot. cessary? ire Disease? e be Assisted? I If a person would correct his habits, pers!s$ ^ right eating and temper at* ways, undoubtedly the stomach would right itself, tho blood would rid itself of the poison, and everything would b* right. But as said before there sre a multitude of people who will not or can* not adopt right methods of living. To such people Peruna is a boon. A dose before meals will assist the stomach to do its work. This prevents fermenta? tion of the food, brings about normal digestion, and all the train of Ills that follow indigestion disappear. In other words, Peruna is helpful to thoso who live badly, or those who have acquired some chronic weakness. Peruna does not cure, but it assists the , powers of Nature to bring about a cure. The whip does not increase the power of the horse to pull a load, but Judi? ciously used it stimulates the horse to use his powers at the right time, with? out which he could not have pulled the load. This illustrates the effect of Peruna, or any other good remedy upon the sys? tem. Taken at the right time, it calls forth the powers of tho human system to meet the en. roachments of disease, and thus cuts short, if not entirely ends, the diseased action. No one should ever attempt to substi? tute medicine in the place of right liv? ing. In the end such an attempt will prove a disaster. But an occasional use of the right medicine at the right time is a godsend, and no reasonable person will undertake to deny it. Those who know how to use Peruna find it of untold value. By and by the world will get wise enough so that through correct living no medicine at all will be needed. But that time has not arrived. In the meantime, whils the world is approaching that perfec? tion in which all medicine will be elim? inated, Peruna is a handy remedy to have in the house. Blight derangements of tho stomach; slight catarrhal attacks of the liver, ths throat, bronchial tubes, lungs or bow? els; these attacks are sure to lead to grave diseases, and can be averted by the Judicious use of Pcrun v Wouldn't you like to read a few on* solicited testimonials from people who hare used Peruna, and who stand ready to confirm the above statements eon* cernlng It* If so, address tho Peruna i Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, 1 Ciio, and we will twnd some prepaid. Just received a car of harness horses, nice single and double drivers. Where? Boyle Live Stock Co., Sum ter, S. C. v-2-4t. W. & S. The cotton warehouse is still pretty well filled with cotton but those who have been holding for higher prices are beginning to sell. An advance of a half or three-fourths of a cent would stiffen the backs of the hold? ers wonderfully and little cotton would be sold for a time. Fresh young mules, well broken. Your kind too. See them at the Boyle Live Stock Co.s Stables. Prices Right. v-2-4t. W. & S. E. J. & 1. I DUNNE, ARCHITECTS. Plaus and Specifications for all Classes of Buildings. Personal attention siveu the Supervision of all Work. Law Range cplwe 390. Sumter, S. C. xoTicr. Estate of W. C. Dana stiles, deceased. All persons having claims against said Estate, will present them duly attested, and all in any wise indebted to said Estate will kindly settle same with, iWILLIAM C. STILES. \ Administrator. o_i3_W & S?4t. NOTICE. All ersons having claims against the Estate of Mrs. .Maude McBride Dabba, deceased, will present their Claims duly attested, and all persons indsbtsd to the same will make pay? ment to E. W. DA BBS, Qualified Executor. 2-1T-W & S. 4t. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents I RAUL Designs Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending s sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention Is probably p.-uentnWe. Communica? tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patent? sent free. Oldest agency for securing patent?. 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