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_ SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1909. The Sumter Watchman wai found? ed In 1810 and the True Southron in lift. The Watchman and Southron now haa the c >mbined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising ?tedium in Sumter. The speech delivered in the Senate by Senator B. D Smith In advocacy of the frei trado doctrine doubtless had a etrange and unfamiliar sound In the ears of all his auditors, for the sound, democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue only, and free trade In every Instance possible, if sadly neg? lected and disregarded at this time, when a majority of Democratic Sen? ator* and Representatives are blind? ed to principles and are all fighting with the Republican grafters for a ahare of the loot derived from taxing the masa of the people for the enrich? ment of the favored classes. Mr. Smith's doctrine Is true and sound and we are glad that he spoke for South Carolina aa well as for himself when he raised his voice In protest against the false doctrine of commer? cial democracy. SAIiKM, II. R. Will an authority tell us Just where ??Salem. Black River," is? Early In the campaign for the woman's monu? ment. The State received a subscrip? tion of lll.te from "Salem. Black River. ?' The postofftce guide at hand mentioned two Salems, one In Oconte and one In Wllllamsburg?the latter ta a telearaph station. As there 1? a ? Black Hlver" In Wllllamsburg, the contribution waa credited that coun? ty. A cltisen of Wl'llamsburg tells uj we have given hia county $12.1.0 loo much, and we have a n >tlon that "Salem. Black River, is "Old Salem" neighborhood, riumt >r Couiiry. Where Is It??The Statt All good Presbyterians are mp potsd to know thnt "Salem, Black River." or "Satan, B. R.," as It Is ^sualiy written, la the official title of old Brk-k Church, situated in that part of Sumter County known for more than a century aa Salem. Old Sumter District war subdivided into Claremont, Clarendon and Salem Cuuntle*. Salem being that part ly? ing east of Bleck River, part of which t* bow included In 1*** Coqn fy. Clarendon included practical I) th* tame territory aa the pre*.-M CUrandon County anJ Claremont w i the tefnletj new cvmpoaiug . County and the southwestern part of f*e County. All of which a good old time Preabyterlai would know off? hand, consequently the weight of evl dence leads to the Conclusion that The State la not e blue stocking In faith or bringing up. Will the Jtws GO? To what extent the project of tram., oitlng Turkish and Russian Jews to Mesopotamia and the found teg there of the Jewtth State will sue eeed Is uncertain. As to the country Itself the soil Is exceedingly fertile, bat like a good deal of our own Wes? tern Isnd It needs Irrigation In order to be productive. I: Is stated that t?? restore the old time productivity $4".too.000 would be required, but that sum. great as it la. will be speedily forthcoming from wealthy Jews If the Idea materialises. Put will the Jews or any consider? able number of them go to Mesopo? tamia? As for the Jews in Turkey end Russia their condition la so mis? erable that almost eny change would be for the better. This may Induce teeny of these downtrodden people to go If the way open*. But so far aa concern.; the Jew* in this country It Is extremely unl kely that many would *o. The Jews may be very en thusta?ti?' about Palestine and the other regions *lth which the former natton.il hlatory Is hnsoeluted. but that enthusiasm Is not going to make them aive up a good living and fu vorable rivll and p..h?i.iil condition* for an uncertainty. In tl.I'l <liy* of K/.r.i in.I N\ bemlab the number who left Babylon to rebuild Jerusalem and start afresh as a nation was ooinp.n atlvetf small, and th?- i?r .sp,-, ; is that It would be much the same In the proposed ven? ture. Chicago and New York are more ?Hraatlrs. IS IS Jerusalem or th- p; in* .?f M MSpOl itnl i .1 ?? 11 p- r manenr abode. from 1 ? nil went home a little the worse ' he came aroun I for bis second !e.?-sou be said: ?Mr. Sullivan, it waa my Idea to learn enough about boxing from you to t><* able to Hal a certain young gentle? man \% h *ot It In for. Hut I ve cbsng^d my tetnS.' says he 'If It's sll the same bit fan, Mr. Sullivan, III lend this young if.uit l.-inun down baft to ieke the rest of my lemons for me J .hri I?. Sulllv-i n v * asked why In bad never taken to giving boxing les? sons, says Kverybody's. "Well, son, 1 tried if once." replied Mr. .Sullivan. "A husky young man took one lesson Farmers' Union News ?AND Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Daubs, President Tanners' Union of Suniter 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 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 wJH 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. Mayesvllle, S. C. Some Random Thoughts. We need more help on the farm, such as harrows, middle busters, gas? oline engines, wood saws, corn and fred mills, as described in the articles selected for this Issue. But I would suggest, seeing these or any other im? plements at work before buying. I had been disappointed in the working of so many Implements that when I wanted a manure spreader, I determined to see one In practical operation before buyin t, and went all the way to Columbia to see it. If I had been fooled then, it would have been my fault and not that of the gilt tongued agent. The same way we should do about other tools. Lfil or saving tools and farm imple? ments are so widely scattered we rarely have to go far before finding what we want either in operation or in the fence corner.. There is evidently some error in the calculations comparing cotton and soja or soy beans in the article from Progressive Farmer. Land that will make only 612 pounds of seed cotton per acre, unless it Is land that ill goes to weed, or rusts badly will Mot produce 4.900 pounds of cured soja bean hay. or 30 1-2 bushels seed. Another discrepancy is in the oM of harvesting. 612 pounds of cot u.n would cost n? tn.og and 30 1-2 i b ins ? i not be har r**tadi Ihres ws d and cleaned for Tili I unds of hay and cured at that ?ft, bat nut the shelled beans. This is a good crop?one of the very beat of the legumes, and I have planted It off and on for twenty odd years. It Is harder to cure than peo vlne hay and more troublesome to rave seed than cow peas, are the rea? sons It Is not more generally grown The feeding value of meal from the heane Is equal to cotton seed meal in ( htmical analysis, and superior in some respects. Its nitrogen gather? ing qualities are greater than cov peas. In my opinion It should be pastured off the land only enough SbOd for planting being saved, but for Jack of fencing have never tried this way of feeding It. Fine crops or it can be made from plantings up to fgjgj 10th. but June Is the best month to plant. One peck of seed per acre, two or four In a hill. 18 Inches apart In 11 to 4 feet rows. One hoeing and MM plowing for the later plantings 1* sufficient. E. W. D. HOW A, HAKllOW HELPS. II) Um Use You Can Put Your Corn In Fine Shape With Much I^ess Thun the V'huuI Labor. From the Progressive Farmer. M??ssr>. Editors: It is a well-known fail that the section harrow Is a ureat Implement for preparing the ?a#4 bed, but not all Ol the farmers know it.- value fur cultivating while tin- crops a:e small. If It were Dtore illy used we should find more ? n. better corn, and cheaper t orn, than we do now. I nearly always count on giving three cultivations with this tool, and at the time that tiu room plants need it so van much. In the first place. I plant on a tlrm. but not hard aoad i> id. i ly this I mean that i break anrly enough to allow rain to settle the laud before planting. i than uss ? disc harrow, ?'i cultivator to fat a pulverized sur face. Than for the harrow, .lust as " n as I nm through planting and get a show? r Ofl the ground. I go di? rectly across with my harrow, This breaks the OTUSl and gtVSi the plants a. chance t.? eoms through. About one week IntOTi j'' t as lha corn i* p aping through) i harrou again This hills young grass and needs und si the young plants ? thorough cultivation. Then nhsn th. corn Is fra ? or ihfaa Inches high, i ui\e th< !u*i cultivation with my harrow, The c< in is In good shape and ready for HA) cultivators. Now, SOSni MM may think that bar row Inj across the yonni plants w.?:ld pull them out of the ground, but I only say, "Try it, and you will see that you have not hurt your corn but instead have given it a good, thorough cultivation." I think that you will agree with me when I say that this is the very time that rapid cultivation is needed for starting the young crop and killing young grass and weeds, and when you try it you will see that it Is as cheap and as rapid cultivation as you can give. One man and team will harrow from fifteen to twenty acres per day. Now compare that with the old way of waiting until your corn is needing work and you would like to reach all in one day. How any one can get along on a farm without a section harrow, I cant see. FARMER. How a Gasoline Engine Helps. Messrs. Editors: Of all the farm machinery' I have, the best I have (or the one that pays me best) is a gasoline engine. About 7 years ago I saw an ad, by a firm in Portland, Me., that they had such a fine en? gine, so simple, etc., so I wrote them and at last bought, and ran it three years and gave it away because it was no good. Three more years and I would have been in my grave. This was a single cylinder. Then four years ago I saw an ad. in your good paper and bought an? other, a double-cylinder, the finest engine I ever saw. It gives me al? most no trouble. I bkw wood, cut feed, grind corn, grind all my farm tools, such as axes mattock steed plow points, etc.; also thresh wheat, gin cotton, or anything I wish. 1 made the engine pay for Itself in less than a year. If any of your readers want to know about this engine and will write me, enclosing stamp, I will give them any information I can about this wonderful gasoline engine. It is a 7 horse-power. Can move It any? where with a very light team, weighs 1,050 pounds, all told. F. L. Spoon. f - SOY BEANS VS. COTTON. Some Light on the Way to $500 More a Year. Messrs. Editors: In 1907 a plot of" sandy loam land was cultivated in cotton, producing a lair crop. In 1908 the same plot, one acre, was ri hedded and fertilized with 200 pounds acid phosphate. About the center of the plot a dlvinding line was made crossing the rows. In one division was planted cotton, in the other soja beans. Both cotton and beans had the same cultivation ex? cept the cotton had one hoeing more than the beans. The gathering of the two crops was so nearly equal that I shall omit a detailed account of it. The crops were harvested, begin? ning at the dividing line and measur? ing 32 yards either way on same row, each kept separate and careful? ly WOlghid, The 32 yards in cotton weighed 4 pounds, an average of r. 1 fj pounds per acre. The same row in i.i uns, 82 yards, after having been mowed green and sun cured 4 days, weighed 83 pounds, an average of 1,900 pounds rough feed per acre. To more thoroughly test the merits ? >r demerits of the beans i selected Ihe row next beside the one cut for roughage to ripen for seed, which I I produced In clean shelled beans on the 88 yarda, 13 pounds, an average oj' :p? l - ?_' bushels per acre. Admitting, while the cotton re? quired one more hoeing than tin I i ins. that the cost Of production from start to finish was the same, we have; ? i \\ |ng seed bed.$ 1.28 Acid phosphate. L68 Distributing add.86 Seed ami planting. Plowlnga, 6 at 86 cents . 1.Tr? Koelnga, 2. 1.28 Harvesting, entire. 8.80 Rent, per acre, (cash ). 4.oil Tots i cost per acre.118.88 Cotton prodUOl pel acre, $ 1S.30. less cost, $13.55. profit, $4.81. Soja beans, feed, per acre, $4:?.00, less cost. $13.55, profit $35.45. Soja beane, seed, per acre, $4S.mj, less cost. $13.55, profit, $35.25. Will we fool farmers forever Con? tinus, this starvation system, starv? ing cur land, starving our stock, starving our pockets? H. C. DOWD. Moore Co., N. C. MY NEIGHBOR LIKES MY' WORK BETTER THAN His. I V.sed One Hand, Two Mules and a Middle Burster?He Had Five Hands, Five Mules, and Five Flows. Messrs. Editors: I have been blinding ditches, stumping, length? ening my rows, etc., in order to be able to use improved labor-saving machinery on the farm. I am plant? ing all my corn in 6-foot rows and my cotton in 5-foot rows. In order to profit by the experience of others. I want your opinion ani the opinion of the readers of your valuable paper as to the "brsl rid? ing cultivator." I want one for "straddling" the row and plowing a row at a time, and one for plowing a middle at a time. I broke my corn ground deep wi:h a two-horse plow, ran the rows with Q two-horse middle burst*4 and after ice king a very small bed In the bot? tom of the furrow with a guaao dlf r.ihutor, planted with a Sunny South corn planter. With one hand, two r. ules and a middle burster I did exactly the same work as did my adjoining neighbor v Itll five hands, five mules and five plows, and he likes my work belter. H. KEMPER COOKE. il< rtry Co.. S. C. DECREASE IX COTTON CROP. Latham. Alexander & Co. Estimate of Cotton Acreage of the United States, May, 1909. New York. June 1.?With the view of obtaining the most reliable in? formation possible concerning the cotton acreage of the United States for 1903, we addressed 5.000 letters to banks, bankers, cotton commission merchants and responsible planters, embracing every cotton growing county in the South, asking acreage estimates. Up to this dale we have secured 3.906 replie:-, of average date May 25, and the folio,vins Is the result. In our opln'on it is as approx mately correct an estimate of the cotton acreage as could be secured by direct communi? cation with parties competent to judge. residing In the Southern States. Total acreage for 1909, 31,799.015; total acreage for 1908, 33.370,000. The total estimated decrease of cotton acreage In the United States for 1909 is 4.7 per cent, or 1,570,985 acres less than last year, and the av? erage planting of the crop is eight days later than last year. The normal tendency to Increase the cotton acreage from year to year has been checked this season by the determination to Increase the acreage in small grains, due to the high prices prevailing for all kinds of provisions. This is less apparent In Texas where the droughty conditions prevented early planting of grain. The reports to us complain gen? erally of the low temperatures ex? tending well Into May, retarding the growth of the plant and causing ir? regular stands; and the protracted wet weather has interfered with the cultivation, so that grassy conditions prevail. In Texas the crop is late owing to the absence of moisture early In the season and the late germination of the seed; but beneficial rain finally covered the cotton-producing section of the State, causing marked im? provement. The continued excessive rainfall in the central bait makes the present outlook gloomy for that section and may cause some abandonment of acreage. The spread of the boll weevil to the lower Mississippi Valley has caused apprehension and curtailment of c<?tton acreage In that*sectton. Dry, forcing weather is necessary to promote the growth of the plant and permit proper cultivation. DEATH. Rev. Paul Grantham, colored, died n his home on Council street Tuesday afternoon, aged about 7?> years. The funeral servlcei which were held on Thursday at 1:30 o'clock In Shlloh Baptist chinch weif attended by ;? large congregation and ? 11?ii?* a num? ber of white people. Paul Grantham v as one .it (he best ami most Godly men, Irrespective of race, resident In Sumter and he had the entire respect and confidence of the winde com munity. He was an example in right living and his life has been a daily proof of the virtues of the Christian religion. Por more than forty years he had been pastor of Mulberry Bap? tist church, this county and during the past year or two has also preach? ed iu Shlloh Baptist church, tins city, ATTENDANCE ROLLS? EX LIPSE <:i THE MOON. CUy Scbool Puplli Who Were Not Partially Visible Here and Seen Absent or Tartly. , Throughout the Sondi?ft lee - j Eolip.se of the Sun. At the beginning of the school year ! - It was announced that the names Of] There was an talipes of the those pupils who had been neither: moon Thursday night, Visible only in abaant nor tardy or not absent or not) part to this section if the world, tardy during the year would be pub-1 This >i ana of two aatronomlcal events llshed. Accordingly the list below la] o general Interest th:s month. An given. The lists are arranged alpha-, official statement sent out from Wash la tically without regard to the grade , Ington a few days ago says: In which a pupil may be. Neither absent nor tardy: Margaret Beaumont, Raymond Elanding, Lee Brown. Rosalie Brown. Anna Brown, Robert Brown, Clifton Brown, Anna Bryan, George Butl man, Herbert Bultman, Julius Chan "Two interesting spectacles in the astronomical world will occur during the present month. These events will be eclipses of the moon and sun, the former on June 3 and the latter on June 17. The moon will rise totally eclipse and its totality will last about dler, Joe Chandler, Alice Dickson. j an hour, while the sun will only be in totality near the North Pole. "Of chief interest will be the lu? nar eclipse, which will be visible over about half the earth. Only a few white men. namely, Commander Robert E. Peary and his crew, who are now on an Arctic expedition, and perhaps a few whalers, will have an opportunity of observing a totality of the eclipse of the sun. 'The eclipse of the sun on June 17 begins in its partial phases in Cen? tral Asia and China and extends down to the Philippine Islands. The partial phase also covers the eastern part oi Asia and nearly the- whole of North America, Greenland and Ice? land and the northern part of Fin Robert Edmunds, Irma Felder, Ew ing Gibson, Vera Gordon. Lily Gregg, Clarence Haynsworth, Elizabeth Hood, James Hood, Richard Hood, Sam Hutto, Walter Jones William Kinard, Camilla KHgore, Joseph Mc Clure, Mabel Muldrow. Lina Mul drow, Annie Muldrow, Lizzie Nelson, Marion Raffleid, Annie R?ndle, Mau? rice Randle, Katie Reardon, Alethea Reardon, Maynard Richardson, Bes? sie Ryan, Rita Schwartz, Iris Skinner, Eaker Spann, Virginia Thomas, Gladys Turner. Eleanor Wallace, Wade Williford, Margaret Williford, Sallie Wright. Not absent: Lucille Baker. Alice Balaguer. Maude Bateman, Hammond Bowman, land in the vicinity of North Cape. Eva Chandler, Clara Childs, Annie The eclipse will be visible fairly well Churchill. Alfred DeLorme, Corinne in the western part of the United DeLorme, Lalla Duncan, Marion Gen- States near sunset and in the eastern try, Alva Green, Truss Hamilton, Mar- part near sunrise. It will be observ gie Kennedy, Laura Mellette, Fannie ed through a smoked glass. Mellette, Ernest Rhame. Bernard Sid- "The lunar eclipse is visible prac dall, Isabel Small. Thelma Turner, tically throughout Europe and Africa Lucia Williamson. and South America, but in western Not tardy: Asia and North America the eclipse Florence Baker, Clifton Beck, Eva will be visible only in part, except in Bennett, John Blanding. Minnie the extreme northwest portion of the Blanding, Thomas Bobbett, Mabel latter, where the eclipse will be tn Booth, Juanita Bradford, Horace visible." Bradford, Wiley Braziel, Carrie Bee Breeden, Ouida Breeden, Anna Brun- The Italian Language is Expensive, son, Mabel Brunson. Deward Bult- Another boy, the son of a Jewish man, Constance Bultman, Walton banker, used to show up every even Bultman, Thelma Bultman, Agnes ing in a half paralyzed condition. Bryan, Alwin Burns, Dorothy Burns, from-looking upon the grape when it Euena Chandler, Ruth Chandler, was purple. He, too, sometimes Rosa Cheyne, Margaret Cheyne, Hal slept, and sometimes talked. Very Clarke, Alice Childs, Eugene Cuttino, little would he study. I had him for Anna Cuttino, David Cuttino, Mary six months, In Italian, and I can Darr, Zach Darr, Margaret DeLorme, truthfully say I never succeeded in Minnie DeLorme. Pierson Dick, Irene J driving more than one word into his Dick, Roi . Dorriette. Leland Ed- J head. He did learn one?"ma" or munds, Mamie Edmunds, Ralph Flow- I "but"?but nothing else. That "but'* ers, Lillie Folsom, Ethel Green, Aaron J cost the old man several hundred Green, Lucius Griffin, Sallie Hamil- dollars, and almost got me fired from ten. Aline Harby, John Harper, Mary 1 the university. The boy, you see, had Haynsworth, Alice Hill. Edward Hin-1 an extensive acquaintance among the son, Kate Hlnson, Eugenia Hodge. | fcotlinght favorites. He also had a Gussie Hood, Mary Senn Hook, Ansley 1 motor. He used to bring some of his Hurst, George Hurst. Mamie Ives, I fluffy friends out to the Yard, of Gertrude Knight, Mary Knight, Fred an evening, in his swift buzz-buggy, Lawhon, Margie Lawrence, Archie I "which was against the rule; it made LeGrand, Leon LeGrand, Annie Mae I the students laugh and play to see Lide, Morgan Lowry, Edgar Loyns. I the girls at ;*chool." Worse, he used Burwell Manning, John Adger Man-1 t-> try to smuggle them into my room. ning. Harold McFadden. Cecile McKa- I I had hard work to keep him and his gen, Robt. McKay, Janie Mellette, De- J protegees from storming my abode. Saussure Moore, Anthony Owen, Bur- | He used also to Insist on my taking nett Owen, Anita Parrott, Hassle Par- j wild spins with him and the ladies, rott, Margie Phillips, Marie Phil- I which I didn't do because I didn't lips. Nell Phillips. James Pitts, Elna (as a tutor) dare to. His meteoric Ramsey. Edwin Randle. Sally Rem- career was finally cut short by one bert, Aline Reynolds, William Rey? nolds. Mary Richardson, Archie Rich? ardson, Earle Rowland, George Row? land, Lucile Ryttenberg, James Sand? ers, Sam Sanders, Cyril Schwartz, Ju? lian Schwartz, Leslie Schwartz, Ray mon Schwartz, Olivia Seymour, George Shore, Roger Siddall. William Shaw, John Shaw, Wilfred Shaw, Will Shaw Julius Stubbs. Katharine Stubbs, Robert Team, Henry Thomas, George Trihble, DeSaussure Upshur, Lell Weathers, Elizabeth White. Archer Wilder, Mabel Windham. Ligon Wlth erspoon, Hal Witherspoon, Elizabeth Woggoman, Robert Wright, Two members of the class of 1909 have not been tardy during their whole course of eleven years: Miss Gussie Hood and Julian S 'hwartz. wild dash round and round the Yard, honking madly, with three girls in his auto and some scores of students in pursuit. On the sixth round some wag in a third floor window emptied a large quantity of slops on him and the ladies, and he thereafter sped away into outer darkness. The uni? versity doubled-crossed him, and I lost a splendid source of revenue.? George Allan England In ** Success Msfastne," Mrs. Keith Spalding. of Chicago, has just given $18,000 and forty acres of land to be used in estallishing a tuberculosis sanatorium at Napier ville. 111. Dally New York Cotton Mark*?t. Open High Low Close Jan 10 78 10 si 10 71 10 80 July 10 92 11 00 10 92 10 97 Get 10 SO 10 85 lo 78 to 84 Dec 10 S3 10 66 lo 79 10 84 Tone?Firm. A. E. 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