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?|)t cDlittbnum anil ?Sontljruii WfONCftOAV, JULY 14. 1909. The Sumtei Watchman was found? ers! In llftO and the True Southron In IM?. Thn Watchman and Southron tow haa the combined circulation and ince of both of the old papers, U manifestly the beat advertising Vied I am In Su utter. Duei's Weekly Review. New York. July 9.?R. Q. Dun & Co.'i Weekly Review of Trade t >mor rew will say: "No one can now question the sub utanttal eharacor of the revival In the Iron and steel trade, which Is rap Jdly rising to hl<h water mark levels. The wonderful 'hange. In a short pe? tted. In the nctl.Ity of the greatest manufacturing Industry of the coun? try ; the bright outlook for the crops, that of corn giving promise of an un? precedented yield; the cheapneaa of qttoney, and the fact that the tariff bill haa been passed by the senate? these are the etmaplcluous features of the business situation. The main aenance of trade revival is all the snore remarkable becauae this Is the ?Mai saaon of mr) uncertainty and midsummer metcantUe dullness. "Revision of cotton goods and cot? ton yarn prices In an unward direc? tion la under * > and many lines of tftods have b??n temporarily wlth <t?awn from enle pending a more set died market "While higher prlcee are considered Inevitable, purchasing conditions are lot of a chartcter to warrant an Im * ted late rise In prices. "Further advances have again been ?eared in the hide market. Leather layers continue to operate 'at ad? vanced prices In ell kinds of leather. ?tpeciaJijr In heavy weight stock." Weekly Cotton Statement. Hew Orleans, July 9.?Secretary lieeter's weekly cotton statement Is ?eed today shows for the nine days of July a decrease under last year of ll.OOd and an Increaso over the same period yeer before last of S.000. jaar Ike lit days of the season that faave etepeed the agg-egate la ahead ?* ana aasne days of list year 3.131? ?It and ahead of the same days year ?before last 7?.00(1. The amount brought Into sight dur? ing the past week has been S7.737 feil?? against 10.962 for the same Sev? an day* last year and 32.879 year be tor tart. The movement since September 1 jahows receipts at all United States pcrts to be 9,917.510 against 8.281. III? last year; overland across the MtuaiftAlppi. Ohio and Potomac rivers In Northern mUls and Canada 1.197. ?81 aaatnet T44.TI1 last year; Interior stock* m ear see of those held at the ?loa? wf Che contmerlcal year 43.000 against TS. 197 last year; Southern evtl H? taking* 1.111.000 against 2.071.411 last year. The total move September 1 is 13.343.437 lt.331.9IB last year, reign es port* for the week have 49.81? against 18.8&S last year. the total thus fsr for the sea tsse 1.839.391 against 7.108.45? last paew. The total takings of American ?iltls. Worth. Mouth and Canada, thus fhi for the season have been 4.943, 90S against 1.981.44? laat year. Store? st the seaboard and the 39 feeding Southern Interior centres leave gecreesed during the week ?'-. 414 bales, against a decrease during the corresponding period last season m' t.?4t lactudlag stocks left over at ports Sled Interior Uwns for the last crop sumI the nsmtxr of bales brought Into sagst Utas far t'rom the new crop, the supply to date Is 18.134.784. against 11.?19.919 for the same period ieM at Provklenoe. Many a delightful dance and all picnic has been given at Provl (springe, and the one on lion tea with the most enjoyable er given. Special trains from Hum r. <'send en sad Blshopville brought to this popular resort to spend daw pavilion was crowded with re and on-lookers The dsy was enjogably spent and the young forward with much ire to the aest entertalament of nests from Suuiter were: LwwJs Lyons. Mrs. J. H. Harby. tsrw.ee Lynam. Mrs. Dick Hood. Marjr Hutchinson. Miss Susie ntnaen. Miss Seattle, Miss Ous ?etd. Mies Sadie Davis, Mies Ma* Miss Natalie Norman, era WUUford. Miau Berta and Messrs. John Lee. QiHcswts, Onus Wars. Henry Irwin Richardson. Bob Oeaham, Lnwrence Rich rtaresce Lawry. and others. Oenrt of Owner si Seesions ad galas its r The only case of eince Wedneeday's report W. 44. Lrfnolr va Southern Rall ?erdlct for plaintiff for 8100. reaeelniai part of the time was en matters In the equity side of Farmers* Union News ?AND Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President I-'aimers' 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 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 will be apprec ated and published. Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs, Mayesvllle. 8. C. t A Trip to James Island. "Wappoo Hall." James Island, S. C. July 10th, 1909. Will begin this letter here on the highest point on the island. In front of me. looking west, Is Stono Hlver, to the right Is Wappoo Cut, to the left! Fort Pemberton. In the distance on Stono Is a phosphate washing plant. Behind me about four miles distant is the city. Fifteen down Stono River, south, is the ocean. Kelwah Island on the right and Folly Island on the left. Yesterday we went down to Fol Iv Beach In a gasoline launch that will carry twenty persons. Several of us were sitting on the cabin roof when we noared the Inlet, and for two miles It looked like the staunch little craft, 20 feet long, 9 feet beam, and 4 feet draught would be engulf? ed at any moment. The swells would be higher than the cabin roof, but each time she would rise over them I and with a splash that sent spray over everything she would hit the trough of the next one, and look like she was going straight through the I wall of water Ir front, but would rise again and repeat the performance. The big waves were not near so scary I a>? the little ones, for the slope was not so steep nor the motion so jerky. Sometimes the little ones would look like they would break the boat In two, but with her powerful 7-horse power engine and an experienced cap- I tain at the wheel we kept straight on until we anchored In still water on the northwest end of Folly Island. Donning bathing suits we were put I ashore In the "dlnkle" and walked for a quarter of a mile across the sand dunes to the beach where "old ocean" Is perpetually wearing away the land?several acres of live oak stumps and roots and limbs show whst It has done recently. To avoid I these snags we had to go a quarter of I a mile eastward toward Morris Is land and then as far as the eye could reach stretched the beach. It was well for the safety of bathers that this was necesssary for the current toward the mouth of Stono River was so strong that a grown man could not I stand against It in water three feet deep, and whenever a wave knocked him down he found himself several feet further down the beach. The wind and tide were so strong th;it it would take ten minutes of the hard? est kind of work to wade out far enough to get under the curl of one of the breakers, and to stay out long enough for three or four big ones to break over you was all a strong man could do. And t hen he would have to I make for the sliore, and be knocked down by five or six smaller waves be? fore he would get out of reach of them. We were fortunate. m> those familiar with the beach at this point said, In striking a combination of wind and tide more awe-inspiring than they had ever seen at Folly. It was too rough for any fishing, so sfter our party had gotten safely or board, we left the Atlantic ocean behind us and when out of reach of Its swell, in the lee of Snake Island, we cast anchor, and did ample Justice to our lunch. At 6 o'clock we were back home with appetites keen for dinner, and faces, arms and feet ready for cold cream. There are on every s'de remains of old forts. Since I have been here I have seen several old Spanish and English forts and countless Confsdsrats batteries and earthworks. Ws passed over the scene of the capture of the U. 8. Gua boat Isaac P. Smith yesterdsy. There [ wsrs two mssksd bsttsrles, one at G rlmball's Point on James Island, and the other a mils further down at OrlmbaU's Point on John's Island. When ths Smith sngaged the Jamee Island battery the John's Island bat? tery unmssked and opened on the stern of the gunboat with the result that It surrendered in short order. I think It Is somewhere stated that this was the only time when land bat tertee captured a ship. stono River Is from 1-4 mile to s mile wide between the banks. At high tide It spreads out over the msrshes to more than double its or? dinary width, but only at very high tide does It cover the marsh grass. At Capt. Hinson's I saw a piece of the British cannon that fired the shot that took off an arm of the Pitt Statute. The distance was 1 1-2 miles from the battery on James Island to the site of the Statue in the city, and Capt. Hinson states that it has benn the wonder of ordnance of? ficers ever since that there was a can? non in 1780 that could throw a shot so far. He also showed me a grape shot that was found inside the skull of a yankee soldier when the bodies were being removed from the James Island graves to a national cemetery. A' the time it was found the shot was covered with the man's hair and was then, as now, a most gruesome object One could spend a month down here studying the historical places, and an? other month, the system of agriculture that makes James Island cotton the finest in the world, with possibly one exception. The Presbyterian church was established 1706 and its grave? yard Is almost a history of James Is? land. They are now building a beau? tiful brick veneer church that will be sufficient for the needs of its congre? gation for many years. This is the 4th building since its organization in 170*. This letter has been written under many difficulties, most of it on the train as we came home Saturday af? ternoon. Other items will have to be put off for next time. We are now at Lane's and hope to be home in two hcurs. E. W. D. Some Itandom Thoughts. In my letter from James Island In I the issue of 10th Mr. La Roche's pic- I ture was the opposite of "glowing"? I It was "gloomy" In the extreme. And I I was the recipient of hospita lity as I "unobtrusive" as it waa gracious. 11 wish to call attention to these two words for the types exactly changed the meaning of what I wrote. The printer will justly say "write more 1 legibly." The Southern Cultivator for July I 1st. is before me, and among other I good things. "The Oood Work in the I Fifth District." of Georgia deserves I special mention. I trust our readers I will give it a careful reading and ev-1 ery one who can do so should attend j some farmers meeting during the summer. On the second Tuesday in I August, the 10th, the Darlington Agricultural Society will hold Its an- I nual meeting. Usually at the Mineral I Spring about one mile from town. The trains run from Sumter points very I conveniently to run over there In the I morning and return that night. I feel sure every farmer who can at-1 tend will receive a hearty welcome, I and be fully repaid for the expense of two or three dollars and the fatigue I of the trip. We are too much Inclined to claim I a monopoly of grass and extremes of weather as described by the article 1 copied below. And to shout from the I dry goods box, "there ain't nothing In farming no how." After our good friend from Edisto I Island had drawn the picture as I j darkly as possible, the next speaker I said he had heard such forebodings 1 I since he was a small boy, but that ell-1 matlc conditions still give us the mon-1 opoly of the cotton crops, and there 1 Is more money In cotton now when grown Intelligently in connection with he me supplies than ever before in the I history of its culture. It was said that his remarks put off the funeral of Sea Island cotton culture. With a net profit of (117,000.00) seventeen thousand dollars from 86 acres of; cotton in one season, which one grower made, it did not look much like the industry was in danger of West India competition. These letters and comments are not Intended to enlighten our friends who travel, but to share some of my pleas? ures with those who stay st home and stimulate them to take an occasional vacation. E. W. D. Good Work In the Fifth District. From a private letter I learn of a movement in the Fifth Congressional District which It would be well for the other districts to copy. It seems that Mr. E. M. Williams of Monroe. Mr. Mitchell. President of the Fifth District Union, Prof. Adams, Presi? dent of the Fifth District Agricultural School, and a number of other prom? inent and enthusiastic farmers of the Filth are planning a Three Days Far? mers' Convention at the Fifth Dis? trict Agricultural School in the near future. To outline the plan briefly, they propose a delegated meeting to con? sist of three union and three non? union farmers from each county, to be appointed by the County Agricul? tural Chairman of each county. These delegates and the speakers will be en? tertained at the college. The speak? ers will be men of State and National reputation on farm subjects, and the general public will be cordially In? vited. That the meeting will be an immense success and productive of great good is a foregone conclusion. Those farmers of the Fifth are people who do things. The efforts of the State Agricul? tural Committee, appointed by the last State Union, have borne fruits all over the State, but in no section more rbundantly than In the Fifth District. The committeeman from that Dis? trict, Mr. L. W. Jarman, of Porter dale, has unquestionably done more good earnest work, or had a more fruitful soil in which to sow, than al? most any man in the State. At a sacrifice of his time and money tu has organized and enthused most of the counties In his district, and this meeting is just one of the results. Brother Jarman did not originate the icea of this Farmers' Convention in the Fifth, but it is the result of his untiring energy in arousing the Union iren of his district to a greater de? sired to be real farmers. Our farming people need to attend more meetings of this kind. Need to mix with their fellow farmers from olher communities, and to hear from men who have given their lives to as? certaining facta relativ? to a better, higher, and grander farming. The average farmer is too prone to attend n?> conventions except those in front ol the village store where he meets no one but his neighbors who are do lug exactly as he Is doing, and no si bjects are discussed but the weath? er which is too wet or too dry, or the giass'of which each claims to have a monopoly. The net results of these tillage store conventions is to add to the general gloom and to more thor? oughly convince the pessimist that "there ain't nothhup In farming no how." Any meeting, in->i itute, or convention which will take the far? mer out to himself and his own im? mediate section, which will stimulate discussion of real farming instead of swapping hard luck stories, any trip which enables the farmer to see how other farmers of different communi? ties or counties have solved some of the problems which confront him, is of untold good. To the President of other district Unions in the State we commend this plan to have a big district farmers' conference. Get your people togeth? er Let the non-union as well as the Union farmer, see that the Union stands for things which touch his ev? eryday life, which teaches him in? dividual independence, and which makes him a better farmer, a better man and better citizen. To the principals of the different Agricultural Schools we commend this as one of the best plans to gel ycur school In touch with the people for whose especial benefit It is sup? posed to be established. The success of our experiment farms, agricultural schools and colleges will increase in proportion to the efforts their direc? tors make to get in close touch with i.he plain everyday farmer. You can not, gentlemen, affords to misa an opportunity like this.?Southern Cul? tivator, for July 14. He Won Out. A curious person of a certain town, who loved to find out everything about the new residents, espied the son of a new neighbor, one morning, in a doctor's office. "Good morning," he said. "Little boy, what is your name?" "Same as Dad's," was the quick re? ply. "Of course, I know, flttle boy, but what is your dad's name, dear?" "Same as mine, sir." Still he persisted: "I mean what do they say when they call you to breakfast?" "They don't never call me, I allua gets there first. See?" 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