Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1H1BIIIII llgBS~g,l II 1 t ?L lie ft?trtttnnaii into Sontbroti. WfctH?SOAY, OCTOBER 13, 1900. Twe 8ur>ter Watchman was found 4a till and the True Southron In IM? The Watchman nod Southron er tea Che combined circulation end hnlncwoe of both of the old papers, end ia. tnaalfeeUy the beat advertlalng taadiuan In 8u enter. The. eonvtction ef a white man on the charge of murder la noted as a resnn*fcable occurrence In Wilming? ton, M C. That Is not the only town In tMti* in which auch an event Is of rare stvl unusual occurrence. It Is hattod ha -rf encouraging atgn and we tt<at?f 4t U There le a large oppor? tunely In this country for greater re? aped i \r and a stricter enforcement ejf th* (aw against crimen of vio? lence. ? ? ? Whoa the banks have the money and the Inclination to make loans on oatta* at .1 per cent they are pav? ing lh'> w ?> for a reduction in the reite tf Interest on all classes of com me<CiM loans. All business men fcaen thjt Interest rates In South Caw->*?av 4? this part of the State %a*> H'-ttiv. a,re too high In compariaon Aef.gaugJ that obtain in other tea . In tins State 8 per cen. dls it iw*th?nile on commercial paper and* i p~r c< nt. interest on real es? tate 4ofens Ii la true that some loans are at vie at 7 per cent, end a v?ry few *t % uer ceot. where the loan is exceptionally desirable, but the vast m?pMlj of rhe people who borrow pe? t ??er pant Ratea are consider aaJr lean 4n other states. A ahort time ago a newspaper published lu a Ma?iH tad tow n of about the same alee am Kumt?*r fell Into the writer's ha??d?. and it contained a large mini bar *4 advertisement/of money brok? ers 4? d bank eve Who offered money in mar benannt ir^m t&OO to ISO.000 at I r*er cent. Interest, loans to be ee cwe.'d tiy* real eaUte mortagges or ac cewtwVi > commercial paper. We can fref^aait.e for inch im tee in this section aat<t money becomee more plentiful and in* op port" nit lea for profitable lav-v-m >nt* lets nuraerdua, but we (real ?h day of I per cent, money ia run* air drawing to an *. I r Tim, mtMUAT i'h- Cieeirg? W. Murray oaae has *d a etaie th.it permits of a r*?a avaMr *aetafi?cv>ey adjuetment to all to<4*Vw in interest -the State of Booth fergaaa, the ?en^He of thla common* m aw* efarr.iv himself. He was tried .t# rnavirVd on the charge of forg ** gad teat*ace I to pay a fine oi tage) n% ? serve three yeara In the -tn*n*a*uti?ry He took the oaae on g Ig the Supreme Court, which ted the decision of the low >r aarl Wan ay, who wea out on bond :?*aa**g the determination of his np wt, left the ?t?te when the declai<>n A ah* aiunreene Court wea published, ?begehe forfeiting his bond of IS,000. rea? ax?nd wsm estreated and after >aa# delar hia bond-men made r<nanjantniM? settlement with the aaeatr. paying over to the clerk of oaavt gt.s0|. The warrant for the arr?M et Murray ts a fugitive convict aav bean trug In the office of the Shn-eeT i%f thi. county for aeveral yreara en?erved, although it haa been a eaaUcr. of common notoriety that Mm ^agvwAs a resident of Ctitcago and ga +?? Caan t there at any time without dMtovjtp Th?in a few weeks ago the nxmi a was brought to life, Murray Wa? prttwted in Chicago and the Oov> area*. n# ^oath Carolina asked for re au'wh <a? o? > ? After some demur ana * iton ??n the part ot Mn. A sal tb* requisition wai Issued an ! a ienecl*?l agent bent to Springfield. WfL, t? preaent the requisition to the Qarenoi of th.tl state and complete tan? f--li idltlon of Murray. The Gov (?f ltlin.?i,. white saying that he *-***?> compelled to grant the requial gjae. ea c i against Murray la nwtant-I . . in iMM'poned a hearing in gh?- gaatl ir fi?r thirt/ days In order to a*"**--* Wim iy an opportunity to take ?' earth. <b- (.ovrrnor of South Care* Iii % t*V* * ? ecu: rikc a pardon T>a reaiao pursued by the Governor af itun ?I.. wa:? influenced largely by ?Ju mcvcntatlon of a petition, signed t?. s ri ?? min) citisena of Sumter ?-.-? y, ? t<u,4 thai. Murray he not ? ?tui. t tu i (hit he be permitted no lew-*?a si liberiy In Chicago or eatr-* ?> laal he nnay elect to IIvo ?9 t*- ' borders of the State of . ?-? rtaaaV The Governor of U T/v-te ewoaerly taken the position i# fbgj . . ateehtl that muat be d? ia^a t?v t*he Governor of South ??. arru? can permit Murray to bj fjgjgj ui>erty by granting him a bat that he, having no au i*y ever Marra). can do nothing ^?'a^fH *r the requ^iltion of the Gov |t at rtvu.h (.Hu'ollna. If it la In ' ?*!??? and for a proven fugitive tewtica. haih of which condltiona na 4his raee. Murray has be^n gpa* t*i o?.rte aay9 grace and It la at 6gg>? Ai.-e* and the people of tar <o sag whether he ahell come |a <he fHata te *erve three jreere ag ai "?.?on?*rr in* tem^tn in Chl a v. \?ianl ann the authority to Farmers' Union News T-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 bo 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 appreciated and published. Trusting this Department vill be of mutual benefit to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs, Mayesville, S. C. Some Random Thoughts. If cotton buyers really wish to im? prove the conditions of the trade, why do they not "resolute" against dam? aged cotton. Refuse to buy it at all. I know one buyer who wishes some? thing could be done to stop the waste? ful practice of many farmers of throwing his baled cotton off the wagon at any convenient spot and let? ting It lie there until he is ready to sell. Eight or ten inch pine poles to keep it off the ground, some cheap lumber for siding, and a good roof do not cost as much as a few hundred pounds of rotted cotton. If the farm? er wants to Insure it against Are put it in a warehouse. I trust the offer of t per cent, money by at least two of the Sumter banks Will not cause us to lose our headf, and commit some extra extrav grant a conditional pardon, that is. to remit the sentence imposed wv the court, provided the person convicted comply with certain conditions speci? fied In the pardon. Murray can be pardoned on condition that he remain permanently beyond the borders of South Carolina, and Qov. Ansel will be petitioned to grant a conditional par- \ don of this character to Murray and J the peltlon will be signed by a large majority, if not all. of the jury that tried htm, by the Solicitor who prose? cuted him, by the attorney who as? sisted the prosecution and by a great many citizens of Sumter county. It is the general opinion In this com? munity that Murray has been suffi? ciently punished, in comparison with the punishment inflicted upon othersi convicted of like crimes, and that the State of South Carolina will be better off with Murray living in Chicago on parol? than living here as an ex-con? vict. Oov. Ansel will be asked to grant a conditional pardon on the ground that it is for the good of the State, and it is to be hoped that he will view the request in the same light as do those who make It. Ethically it may not be the best solution of the matter, but practically it Is the most desirable. It must be said, however, that there are not wanting many good citizens who are convinced that Murray was not guilty of intentional wrong and that he never knowingly "uttered a forged instrument." if the alleged paper was, in fact, a forgery. He was convicted of uttering a forg? ery for the purpose of committing fraud?the actual forgery was never brought home to him. With thosi who believe Murray innocent and those who think the State well rid of him working together with the same end in view it ought not to be diffi? cult to convince Oov. Ansel that the thing to do is to grant a conditional pardon. Oov. Ansel exaggerated the severi? ty of the drought prevailing in South Carolina in his New York prohibition interview. The dlspensaryless coun? ties are far from being as dry as the b-tter of the law says they shall be. and every citlsen of South Carolina knows it. OOS Commander Peary's latest adver? tising stunt, his telegram i to Col. Roosevelt, "Your farewell was a roy? al mascot. The Pole is ours. Peary," is the rawest of all his efforts to at? tain cheap notoriety. ? ? ? We reprint today a communication to the Columbia State on the defects of the jury system and suggesting remedies. The artlelc, which was written by a member of the South Carolina judiciary, the State says edi? torially, Is well worth careful consid? eration. The defects pointed out are patent to . all and the remedies sug? gested are neither new nor radical, but for all that the article will do good In that it will direct attention to a matter that needs consideration by the law-abiding and law-respect? ing citizens of all walks of life. The chief trouble lies In the fact that many of the men who ought to serve on jjttrhjs do not want to serve, while { many who ought not to serve are ! eager to be drawn. agance this fall with money borrow? ed on cotton held for a rise. If cheap? er money is going to learn us to be more careless than we are already, then it will prove a curse instead of a Ibessing. I do not know what pressure has been brought to bear on the banks but I am inclined to think it is score three for the union. If they wish to make it effective in a cotton holding movement they must do as the Lancaster Farmers' Union Eank has done: have notes drawn on demand with interest to date of set? tlement, and not discounted for some fixed time as is now the custom. One of the dangers of the discount system in holding cotton is that the average farmer holds his cotton for the time his note is discounted, and then sells regaru =)ss of the price. If on the other hand he only had to pay for the money while using it he would not let a good opportunity pass to sell his cotton. I think when our bank? ers look into this phase of the sub? ject they will see that the small dif? ference to them will be more than off set in a better business system. It seems to me that in holding an article off the market for better prices, the end sought will be sooner attained, if the time is indefinite, than if some time is fixed?in the latter case the buyers merely have to stay off the market until the notes are due, to buy at their own prices. One other feature of the subject was impressed on me very frocibly last year when a committee -of "the. Farmers' Union interviewed the bank presidents of Sumter to And out what aid they would give us to keep cot? ton off the market at the ruinous i prices then prevailing. It is to never loan nor borrow at too close figures to the market price?for two rea? sons: When loaned up too close its value there is too much temptation to speculators to try to depress the price to a point where the banks will have to call in its loans and the cotton will have to be sold unless the own? er is able to put up additional secur? ity. The other is that so many more bales of cotton can be kept off the market with a given amount of money, if less is loaned on each bale. As I have repeatedly said there was never weaker cotton grown than cot? ton in a warehouse upon which near? ly its market value has been loaned. To those of our farmers who ex? pect to take up with the banks' offer, let me urge you to borrow as little as possible, that there may be money enough to go around without crip? pling other businesses, and that your cotton may be in the strongest possi? ble position next to actual ownership. In this connection I wish to say that farmers of this section owe not a lit? tle of their present prosperity to the aid of the banks which loaned them money directly on the same collater? al (their own) that the merchants had been using to sell them goods at credit prices -and in that it taught us better business methods and more of the actual value of money, "spot cash ' in a transaction. Closer rela? tions still wit] be to the mutual in? terests of bankers and farmers and this offer of 6 per cent, money is a step in the right direction. It also means, fellow farmers, that if we do not abuse this offer we will be able to borrow for next year's operations at 8 per cent. , I doubt very much, if any great amount of money will be loaned on cotton, for the good picking weather, and current prices have paid more debts than probably ever be re re this early In the season and there is less" cotton behind to hold. E. W. D. Farm and Garden Work for October. It has been shown at one of the ex? periment stations, whose bulletin I have mislaid and cannot just now lay my hand on, that through preparation of the land, fining the surface soil us much as possible, resulted in al? most doubling the wheat crop com? pared with lund of like quality along? side that was left loose and lumpy. I have often insisted upon this point, and have urged my readers that ov ery time they put the harrow over the held they are adding bushels to the crop. I want, to still further em? phasize this for October is the time for doing this. From North Carolina I southward I would defer sowing wheat till after there has been a light white frost, and in the meantime keep the harrow going on the land. If wheat is following on a pea stubble or after corn or tobacco, do not re-plow the soil deeply, but let' it remain settled from the earlier plowing so that the capillarity of the lower soil will be undisturbed, while 50U make a dust blanket over the top to retain the rising moisture. In a dry fall a field that is left to lie rough-plowed and dry out will have a hard time to germinate the seed, while one that has been kept con- j stantly harrowed will have plenty of 1 moisture, and October in the South is apt to be a very dry month. The amount of wheat to be sown per acre will depend on the fertility of the soil. On strong clay loam well suited to wheat the plants will tiller or spread more than on thin soil, and less seed need be U3ed. As an aver? age amount I would say five pecks, but on thin land would sow six to seven pecks. Sow oats as soon as possible. I am satisfied that the best result in the oat crop will be had from sowing in September, at least as far north as North Carolina. South of this Octo? ber will do very well. Then, too, if ! you have oats for seed that are thor oughly fanned and cleaned of trash and cheat seed, you can sow the crop I better with the hoe wheat drill than j in any other way. This will put the seed in deeper and at a uniform depth far better than any broad? cast sowing, and# the little fur? rows will fill in and protect the crop In winter just as well as the so called open furrow method and will make heavier crops. But, as with wheat, make the soil fine and well settled, for there ill more winter Will? ing from sowing in a loose and badly prepared soil than from any other cause. Put the cotton under shelter. In most parts of the South crimson clov? er can still be-sown among the cot? ton, and will give a winter cover, a place to use the manure spreader all winter and something to turn under in the spring that will give you a heavier corn crop. If you cannot get clorer seed to sow, at least sow rye and save the fertility that would be washed out in the winter from bare soil. Get the cotton out of the field as ?j fast as possible and get it baled, und then do not rush it to market, but keep it under cover and market as the price suits. There is always a large amount of "weak" cotton grown by croppers, which depresses the mar? ket in the fall. Wait till that rush is over, but do not leave your bales out? doors on the ground to get damaged. Get it under shelter, and if there is a warehouse near you where you can store it, do so and take the receipts. Trade the cottonseed for meal and hulls if you can get a fair exchange, and then determine that you will feed these in addition to the pea hay and shredded stover and mak?> manure for your corn next'spring. What a dlf ?*ence we would see on Southern larms if the cottonseed meal, pea hay and corn stover were all fed on the land that produces them! It would be easy to grow as much cotton as ever on one-third the area while ? having beef and pork to sell and farms growing richer instead of poorer and less of the farmers' money going into the pockets of the fertili? zer trust.?Prof. Massey in Progres? sive Farmer. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Jordan Farmers' Union, No. 397. Oct. 1st, 1909. Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God in his allwise providence to re? move from our midst our lamented brother and chaplain, Benjamin James Jackson, who died Aug. 19th, 1909. Be it Resolved, That we bow in humble submission to His will, be? lieving that He does all things well and that our loss is our brother's etei nal gain. Second, That while Brother Jack? son was only a short ,time a member of our Union, yet he! took a,n active interest in all of its work and was a worthy example for our guidance. Third. That we extend to Brother Jackson's family our sincere and fra? ternal condolence in their sad be? reavement. 1 .Fourth, That our Secrtary-Treas* urer inscribe on the records of Jordan Union a copy of these resolutions, send a copy to the family of our de? ceased chaplain and have, them pub? lished in one of the county papers. Respectfully submitted, j J GBO. W. WADDELL, R. C. TISDALE, A, L. ARDIS. Commmittee. 10-U-lt. Tile Fourth t ;ir Load. Received Monday, 11th. fourth oar load horses and mules. Well broke, work horses and extra large mules. BOYLE LIVE STOCK CO. 10-12-lt Item. lt. W. &. S. HOME OF PALMS AND ROWERS Mr. Robert H. 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Hallock, Antwerp, Ohio.w-itee: "My daughter Al'ie, after taking three bottles of your Peruna, is entirely cured of catarrh of the head of two years' standing. We recommend Pe? runa to anybody who has catarrh." Peruna la manufactured by the 'Peruna Dru? Mfg.Co.,Columbus,Ohio. O'DONNELL 6 CO. We have added to our Corset Department -15he Royal Worcester Adjusto Corsets -For Stovit Women Q TOUT WOMEN more than any other type of figure requir especially designed corsets if they would attain the figure of prevailing fashion. The ADJUSTO will prove a revelation. Just a single sliding buckle and band on each side instantly tightened or released by the wearer without removing the corset. YOU CANNOT DO THIS WITH ANY - CORSET - OTHER \M E are the exclusive agents for the Royal * * Worcester Corsets in this City, and we have a complete line of styles in stock. This new Royal Worcester Corset, the Adjusto. is just what a stout figure needs. Our lady assistants will take great pleasure in showing you this new model. YOURS, O'DONNELL 6 CO. FOR SALE?The H. R. Thomas farm situated on the State road between Wedgeiield and Stateburg, contain? ing two hundred and seventy-seven (277) acres of fine red clay land. Nice reel lence, out-buildlngs, ten? ant houses, pasture, fine fruit, pure spring water, beautiful location, and perfect health. Any one wish? ing a delightful country home at ? rcaaonable price would do well to ' a poly immediately to Mrs. H. R. Thomas, St. Matthews. S. C. 10-12-2 Notice to X>ehtors and Creditors Es? tate Samuel Ragin, Deceaaetf. All persons having claims against said Estate will please present them properly attested, and all in any way indebted to said Estate will please settle with ISHAM MITCHELL Jr., Qualified Executor. Wedgefield, S. C. Oct. 11, 1909. 10-ll-3wks W. & S. FOR SALE?A few fine White leg? horn Cockerels, $1 each. H. O. Osteen.