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WEDNESDAY. MAY 19. 1909. The Sumter Watchman was found n 1119 and the True Southron In Hit. The Watchmkn and Southron ?ow haa tha combined circulation and Influence ?f both of the old papers, ts manifestly the bent advertising Hum in Sumter. MO letter of Mr F. H McMaster. HlO Insurance Commissioner, which publish today In one that the bud men of Sumter should read w ith ?e and consideration. It directs tr attention to a matter that la of i|*t?rtance and suggests a means of ping at home a large amount of laey that under pre-ent conditions In Sow rant out of the stub-. It w ould he neither practicable n advisable r u mutual Are Insurance company irnrry all or a large part of the fire .a or a community of 1 he else of ItOf, but It would be feasible for a' jtueJ company to carry ten to reoty per cent of tin- risks at a sav |e the prop. : ners. The h la? ir of welf managed mutual com If le* |a proof that D r. is an ?n Wtttng field for such a company In iftter and we tru*t that the matter organism* a mutual in Sumter will undertaken at an em'\ lay. WOHK lllil.DIM. TKKSTIIX LtWntio Ooaet line Railroad (;<?|iig Alisad Vi Ith Rig Improvement*. According to the latest reports re? read hers he work on the threi treaties which the Atlantic Coast #me Railroad N at pre.nent construct over th* 1 -? > >:r. . ipd sji iah rivers, on Its main line. Is ftp? rapidly, but It will be sev e*a! month* before the new structures completed These tr-sties, con ted of steel and concrete, will the place of the wooden trestlei te use. and will be a great lin? ket over the latter In every re trestles will he able to carry nn mmm weight, and to withstand * eavy rising curreot by reason of construction, which In bridge '?g parlance la known as the nation structure. I. e.. the piers r ? constructed alternately of con i and steel. Each pier, however, er made of steel oi concreate, eve a solid concreate foundation. 1st to obuin the best results the sees now carrying on the wroK nat rust ton are Arlvtng hundreds ass Into the river beds, a work t la tins*If will take up consider ?h>. rime. After the piles hav been deep enough the concreate Is d on top. and above this platform the steel or concreate pier, treat deal depends upon the wo i ? >?. ttlon* In the foundation work ahet like the one experienced last l|aU 4M the Haatee and Pee-Dee. will, Asatm. roierd the construction In tasjr uncertain way. The trestles are tow ( built ne*r the following points, above Florenee. across the Pee River, between Pee-Dee and NN i .; on?* ovel the Banted River. l>? n Uourdln and St. Stephens, on* ?* the Savannah River, near Har llle. The trestle over the pe*? Will be a little n?-i r *.-<? ml'.e In th. the one over the Santee, about ? miles long, and th. t over the sjpnah, between two and three SM It te stated that perhaps the trenMe-? muy n<?t l>e opened f"t *t ? ?n ot purp. before a )eai iporiei. nt Murchleon, ? f U ? A. ?ntlc Coast Line, stated yesterday t the laytnu of the S.'.-pound rui ? ! veen Cttttleston and Florence, in e o( the lighter rail n w in use v i also progressing very rapidly I*ai |e construction crews aie working ?t oth ends of the line. The aorlt ? and has alre i ly been complex d t.? at eRolly. It is ns >? ; not known n a Ju?> . ure w 111 h ?\ e ? ? ? ?? mad 4. he two SfWWI ,\- S/S and COUI I t : \ I 1.1 Mi 11 Ml KIH.KF.D. IhBSSJI of St I'iiMI I ? nod In Hi- Home up', t rauhen1 NkuH. H. Paul. Minn., May IS.?Louis At least, a meat dealer, was found with skull crushed In his home early to \y. The p..ln e m\ no a' 11 ! < In < hei'o made. Arbogast 8 eldest rtaugh Ser. Louise.'aged 24. and her sweet lieu t llenrv Spannen??? r?. were InUl I to th- centmi police station thin after iigeaon. where they were closely ques? tioned f ?r several hours. Mrs. Arno? atari w "n? In fiifr?oio , f<om proMtra SjlOU. is be I or . red t -i in a I.-. - p? .'. Tro? police claim te he confident thai the miirdi r w i? cunniUted by soiii.? *?f the occupants of the Jo.use. im all of th" doom and w'n.'e.u tin \ > ' Wer? found tb*?. tle-\ hol I" u left when thi faintly retired Mr Arbosjaat*s peel ? I booh and cratch were found unmolested on tha ?dresser N< ii: hb ? s sl 11? I that th*\ thought Mr Arbogast fi.?punH> qua CvIHmI with his family A newly married eouple should oc ?"upv apartments In which there Is no ex>om Ter suspicion Farmers' Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers {Conducted l?y E. W. Duhhs, President Furnier?' Union of Smntcr 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 my aim to give the Union news and offleial calls of tho 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? ed it P.ulletlns as I think will be of practical benelit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of our readers telling of their successei or failures appreciated and published. Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to al! concerned, THE EDITOR. All communi atioiv lor this Department should be sent f.o K. W. ! abbs, reev&le, s. c. Some Kaiulotii Thoughts. I wish t> cmumtniil t<? our readers tlu prose |.(n?m. "The Cow Pea." and the vista of rich fields, fat steck and general thrift it picture.-. I Know some wlH say. "My land is pea irlck." To all such thj answer is "apply potash." Uftylllf bftfl through "the pea liok*' experience as had or worse than I ? \er saw it elsewhere, and cured it by the lll'eial use of pOtMh and home made manures, with rotation of crops, 1 think I know the remedy?and thnt th? disease can he cured. "Pea sick land ' is land that has been pumped dry of available potash and phosphoric acid, by -continual Kraln and pea croplng without proper fertilisers?usually two much ammon lates and too little potash and phos? phoric acid. a a a Heavy applications of stable man? ure or well composted barn yard man ore with cotton seed or cotton seed meal and potash, makes a wonderful difference In the pea growth the sec? ond year. Probably attributable to the filling of the soli with bacteria by the stable manure or compost. ? ? ? I have not thj figures where I can reproduce them, but the removal of a ton of peavine hay from an acre takes away more potash and phos? phoric acid than any farmer, except the truckers ever replaces. Corn and oa s also remove large amounts of the same elements of plant food, con aequentl> It takes only a few years on some soil* of constant corn, oats, and pea growing to produce pea sickness. ? ? ? It is easier to guard against this condition than to cure it when once tho land is exhausted. aas Of, course, there may be Instances where drainage Is needed and liming would help, but the thoughts above ilddy to well drained lands and most of us know of some such that are said to be "pea sick." THK COWP1. \. 1\ F.. Miller in Progie-dve Furnier. The cowpea Is a Child of the South, a b ver of the sun. shrinking away tt the flr>t breath of winter Of the 'slightest 'euch of frost, bnt.growlni rang and fragst and vigorous, lifting new leaves toward the sky. sending out new tendrils In all directions Ihn ugh all the heat Of the long, !?"? vid summ? i ivs. And when the soil hm benenne warm and the breesee stir IggOy with th di load of sunshine, how rapidly it gmwi and how quickly it change* the bar? stretches of up-turn? ed ? irth into swards Ol tangled TOT? durOi dinee. deop*glowlngi fruitful) full of promise. .\h. wonderfully full of promise: Ft>i the slope* over which Ihi cowpea bar grown are not only rich with the food of herds and flocks, with potel - i fat poekeri and rlpenlug tteen llliernl-uddered cows and froliesoVn? coiti ;<od salvos und i imba and pig* owini through nil their days of rtch*?fed <?? ntentmenl Into early and I ?roui maturit.v. They yield also a nger and more significant fruit* i i Wherever the cowpea grows there follows as if in .smit- tale of SJiegiC from pnet credulous years?a s<.u richer and mote productive for all Ihn! htm been I ? ken (rom It, Those Heidi where the oopeo gr e and spread and fruited and fed the hungry atonal km, hi reaeon of thai very fa ?:. rsndy to grow eorn taller and greenei and genre heavily laden with drooping ea'. . harvests of rip* n I ng grain, deeper and of richer hue, cotton more bountifully covered with the enow) I'm Km whose whiteness com me!??- ehanget Into gold? it i one ,,! aniure'd every?day mimelee of good* i ? ? s that this plant should reach Into the air and gethOff from it the other* ? 1 food that is to feed future harvesti und through these harvests the beuStl of the held, and man himself. Truly, ire of the south have ?i. spaaed the precious gift bestowed ui tie- angle working plant which, like the fabled fountain of routhi rOOtorei and refreshes and ro-fertl?iei 0U1 s?.us, bringing to even the aged and hnp-barren fields a more than virgin capacity for fruit fulness?the Opulonl friend that With Inexhaustible liberali? ty offers to the farmer on one hand the richness of its own productivity gild on the other the more abiding wealth of an Increased fertility of the soil from which its sustenance trat drawn* SECOND APPLICATION OF FER? TILIZE!;. Sometimes It May Pny: Of teuer It Will Not. Messrs. Editors: In The Progres? sive Farmer of April 29th, was an ar? ticle headed: "Fertilize When Plant? ing." This article did not say how the fertilizer was to be applied. If broad? casted, there might be no mistake. If applied in the drill. I think it is a mistake, as some results from Lin? coln County show. There Is a danger of stimulating too much stalk growth by applying all In the drill before planting. It, necessarily, requires more moisture to support a very large stalk than a medium-sized stalk. When dry weather sets In, In July and August, and fertilizer Is exhausted, corn will tire and fall to develop ears. On an acre liberally supplied with stable manure in the fall of 1907. and sown to rye. was used a bag? of S?1 ?4. and planted to corn (after rye was cut and land turned) in the spring of 1908. This looked fine dur? ing the growing peroid. grew stalks as thick as a man's arm at wrist. Its yield was three guano .sacks full of ears?almost an entire failure. On another field where about 100 pounds of 8?2?2 was used at plant? ing time, and 100 pounds of the same on part of field when corn was waist high, as second application, the part Of field where second application was ?iven made a two-horse load from every six rows, while on the part with? out second application It required eight rows to make a similar load. On another held the land was di? vide! Into 3 equal parts. On X<?, I uU the fertilizer was. use.l before plant? ing. On Xo. I, half at planting and half at ltftet?hlgh stage. On Xo. 3. half at knse*hlgh stage and half at ?honldsr-hlgh stags. The same amount was used on eaoh plot No, 8 made the most 001 u. I have observed that on Aside where r( !ti!lzer wav I roadcastcd with drill before planting, the corn made a steady growth, stood the drouth well : nd made Ant com. Possibly thert is no mistake In putting in nil ht for? plantlngi provl led w i broadcast it. From observation and experience I'm ltd to i" lleve it extravagance to u e it at all unh si we have humus in the soil to hold the t lolsture, Et, r. SULLIVAN. i tutorial Comment. In tl first In ? stance mentioned by Mr. Bulllvan, the big stalks and little ssri are to i>? at? tributed to the kind, of fertiliser used rather than to the time of application* An application of i>>" pounds of 8?1 i fertiliser to land heavily manured with ttahh manure furnished the corn :n excess of nitrogen compared with ti< phosphoric acldi especially If, a rtry likely, the soli wai naturally i ? in this element, in the see..mi instance the only question Is whethsr the Increased yield of corn paid for the extra lot) pounds of fertiliser and the labor of applying it. in the third case it is merel) a question as to whether Ihe Increased yield from three appllca* tit ns was large enough to pay for t''*' extra labor of the extra applications. sonn t.no - two applications may pa], oftener they will not, Mr. Bulllvan, we are sure, Is oorrect h thinking that broadcast application) of fertlllsera will, in most cases, be ittter than applications i?i the row; and tin re can be no doubt thai he i rlght In thinking it extravagant lo use fsrlllsera j't all for corn on land not well supplied with humua. Just so long i Southern farmers depend on the fertiliser bag Instsad of the ?Oll to mako their corn the; will get small yields and pay a big price for each bushel they raise.?Progressive Partner. What are you doing about a succes? sion of vegetables in your garden? it is an old, worn-out. foolish notion that you must make one general planting in the springtime, and then do with? out vegetables after that planting ma? tures. As a matter of fact, planting in the vegetable garden should go on nearly all the year round. All your I favorite vegetables that require it should have several plantings so that you will have new crops coming on aa the first plantings pass the stage of greatest fruitfulness. It is too com? mon here in the South to see the veg? etable garden overgrown with weeds and grass before the summer is half gone, and at a time when frequent plantings world have it as fruitful as at the height of the season. Veget? ables are not only much cheaper sources of food than meats for the summer lean >n (and all other seasons for that matter?, but very much more healthful as well.?Selected. Ignorant of the south. a few months ago the Manufactur? er's Reoord, of Baltimore, copied from another Southern publication en arti? cle written by a Northern man calling attention to the South ai a profitable held for investment. Recently Mr. William R. Britton, of g New York flrmi requested the ManuafcturerV Record to reprint the Northerner's letter. For reasons which were prop? er the South s great industrial paper Ignored the request, without statin-' that the real reason was that it would cause the Record editor to get a little rough. However, another letter from the New York firm with which Mr. Eritton is connected, compels the Re? cord in its issue of May 13th to re? print a portion of the Northerner's ar? ticle. That portion is reprinted as follows, "The war and reconstruction taught the South many bitter lessons. Bit? terness, of course, was engendered against the North, and the generation which fought the war. accustomed to leisure and indolence, was unable to become adjusted to the changed con? ditions. But with the advent of the Spanish-American war a new era dawned in the South. North and South again were united in sentiment and on the battlefields of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines the blue and the gray mingled?were lost and for? gotten?and the Stars and Stripes co veied with equal glory the victor and vanquished of the old days. More oxer, a new geratlon of men and wo? men now rules the South, and with the disappearance of the veterans the bitter memories of the war are fast disappearing, and with them slowly are fading the distinction between the North and South. There is another factor* making for a new era in the South, and this is the rise to wealth and influence of the Hebrew popula? tion. Merchants of Semitic extraction prosper in the South and are highly reepeoted. They are industrious, and th? ir competition is conducive to mak? ing the younger generation of South? erners work harder than their fathers l tV'd," m Now see how our very highly es"' teemed Baltimore contemporary was j compelled to perform a disagreeable task in order to brush away the cob? webs of Ignoranoe that prevail to g much larger entent In the North than one w< uld think possible. Here is the 11< e.>rd'l reply: "t >r eoureei the Manufacturers' Re? cord could i t print anything like that only for the purpose of condemning ignorance and natural conse quenee. The ignorance of such writ e. about the South is Indicated in the foot that they do not know that in 1?; ? the South shov ed Iper cent. of the total assessed value of property in the United States; that U had -s p< r cent, of the banking capital of the country, that It was producing m< re than one-half of the agricultural output of the sntlrs country; thai be? tween i860 and i860 It built twice as many miles of railroad as the New Bngland and Middle States combined, and thai the growth of Its manufac? ture g Interests in the same decade sh< red a much larger percentage of Increase than the re t of the country. After i" years, during which the Sei Hi has i>< en seklng to recover from the wreck ami ruin of war and recon? struction, it is just beginning to get buck to the condition of business ac? tlvlty which prevail.-! before I860. It Is not yet doing as much propor? tionately as it was then doing. But people as Ignorant of these condition* ac .Mr. Britton shows himself to be ought not to undertake to enlighten the public on matters of which they know nothing, however good their in? tent." The incandes? enl gas mantle is modified Into o heating radiator by Marcel Delage, a Paris engineer. A tube oi asbeetoi thread, of open mesh, formed on the same mold as the gas mantle, and is cut to proper length and the top drawn together to form :i lo ad. Qreater solidity is given by dipping Into silicate of soda, then dry Beautiful Spanish Dancer Gives Praise to Pe-ru-na. NERVOUS prostration I? usuniiy the j Peruna If not a bei ?rage nor a bitters, result of a vocation which requires but an hon? , strai at forward t onic a continual strain on the u.rvous thattncreat theappetite and enoour* system In such cases it would be wise if a change of vocation could be made. But this is not always possible and a good tonic becomes a necessity. Peruna is a tonic that invigorates Without producing a drug habit. ages diu sii jti. Th re U i great demand for tonics during the d< pre* Ing beat of summer, i *??-:">'y la c ?mtrias where hot weather Is vc y prevalent* Buch v dot tat d i.-> exactly met by Per uns? i 3/ f ? 0 ftaWcttftnc <?: vs.-:****?. yJissWs*',:-y& :,. :> r v. & ...vi ?y & warn Ill $'>:m > * i Miss Pilar Monterde Praises Peruna as a Tonic. A letter Bent to the Peruna Prug Mfg. Co., from the popular Spanish dancer, Mis* Pilnr Monterde, is a.* follow-: Teatro Principal, City of Mexico, Abv. 3, 190S. The Peruna Drug Alfg. Co., Columbus. Ohio, V. S. A. Gentlemen; Having used your justly celebrated remedy, **La Peruna," for some time, I have the pleasure of Informing you that I consider It the best tonic I have ever used. It is a wonderful fortifier of the nerves after exhaustion and It in? creases the vitality of the whole body, and in my own case has produced the most complete and permanent restoration. It is also pleasant to the taste. I do not hesitate, therefore, to recommend this remedy to all womem as the best and most pleasant tonic that they can possibly take. Yours very truly, (Miss) P. Monterde. ing and calcining on a gas burner. It is next dipped into nitrate of cerium solution and again dried and calcin? ed, this treatment being essential, as the great heat radiation is due to the cerium salt. The completed mantle may even be dropped on the ground without breaking. In use, it is sus? pended over a blue flame, six in a row in an open front stove form of radia? tor being an effective arrangement, and it heat* quickly, making the best use of gas heat by radiating a large part of it horizontally. The bright glow of the mantles give* an attrac? tive and cheerful appearance to the radiator. There is good reason for believing that the moon was? torn out of the earthi the Pacific ocean being possib? ly the remaining scar, and it appears that the strong fragment! Proft T, c, CJUamherlin thinks may have beef] projected into space in the great cat? aclysm are even now returning as meteorites. Of the two chief claasee qC meteorites, the stony e*nes are found by Prof. W. II. Pickering to b? all explained by this theory, while some of the iron ones seem t.) he as g< elated with comets and star ihowe c< Rllng from more distant regi >ni o1 space, and falling with greater vclo < i>y. The meteoric stones and irons are about equally represented in mu? se u me. Many more atom s are actual? ly seen to fall, however, and as they m on decompose and arc not east 13 recognised, they may have been met numerous in the past than now. o: the twenty-nine elements found In moteorites, all are terrestrial. The heating of a greenhouse by th<. i s?t? is usually explained by the faot that glass permits the passage of light rays, but is afm< st Impenetrable t< heat rays, so that as the light falling upon the enclosed objects is convert* Jed into heat and partially reflected. I t oe reflected rays cannot escapi through the glass. Thus the heat ac ' cumulatee. To test this long establish ', e.i theory, Prof. R. w. Wood black j . Med two pasteboard boxes, and ? over I ed one with a plate of salt, which j readily conducts both light a ml heat. I ami the other with glOSS. The SSlt roofed box Ix came < von warm, r than the other, this being tried also when ' the bent was first Altered from sun* .shme through glass. The conclusion Is that the ground and other objects are heated by Incident rays, and that this i heat is then spread by convection cur ? )< nts but. as the confined air can not mix and circulate with outer air. it concentrates B large amount Of heat. If Senator Uodge would give his whole attention to tariff revision and let ehnrter revlelon for Boston alone, it would be better for him. lor the country and for the city.- Boston Journal. HEAVY COST OF MODKliX DREAD? NOUGHTS. An Expo Much V er Fori British correct in declaring that the expense ot* laying down eight Dreadnoughts at once is small compared to what the cost of war would be. The expendi? ture of materials and human energy in order to keep the British navy twice as strong as any other?provid? ed Mr. Balfour's prophecy is correct that Germany will lvive twenty-one ships of the Dreadnought class in 1912 ?Is api*alling enough. A capital ship of this class costs in the neighborhood of f? 10.000,000. This is more than the I entire endowment of Yale University, I more than is spent on our department of ngrieulture. including the 1. rest service and all the department's work in protecting: people against impure food, insect pests, and in developing improved methods of farming. Two 12-Inch guns of the type put on the United States ship Delaware, for in? stance, would, indeed, almost pay for the net cost Of curing for our national fc:csts for a y gf Oorujrreea mfuoed two wintere ago to appropriate 11,066,00*6 for the es? tablishment of the Appalachian and White Mountain r< serves, which we-a hi save thousands of square miles of land from desolation. Every Dread? nought costs : much as some forty model tenements, or 2,006 village school houses, or all the school build Irgs of Baltimore and Cleveland put together, or of all the fire-fighting eo.uipment in forty-three important American cities, or all the municipal asylums, almshouses and hospitals in a'l the 146 cities of from 26,006 to 300.000 people. The engenlous Mr. Chesterton Ittgnetg that the trouble between England ami ifjeri tany i- that th. y agree on the unimportant thing ?ships, and disagree * ri the impor? tant things?beliefs. In the things Of life and love they an n ? rated, in the things of death and blood they Imitate er.ch other. Of ocurse, as he p< I ts out. they cannot comi ln< on mere peace; there must he some affection ? ? ( reed on which to t tmbtne. it is charged In th? Row Fork pa? pers that State-wide prohibition in Georgia has "made walking saloons of the negroes," who gull work to make live dollars a day peddHng noxious concoctions at a nickel ;i drink. But if Georgia likes that sort of thing who shad object? Whether the charge be true or not, the result thus described would be exactly In line with the of fort to bieak up the resorts in the tenderloin of the big city?the Alses as that had been isolated and under guardianship escaped to scatter the Infection throughout the comasnnrty. ? Jacksonville Times-Union.