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WfcDNES':*Y. JANUARY 5, I9l0. The Su ni. r Watchman was found? ed Vn 18S0 and the True Southron tn ll?t. The Watchman and Southron mow haa the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papera, and la manifestly the beat advertialng ?medium in Sumter. ????f-. --? AN EXCELLENT PLAN. The following article from the Charleeton Poet, deacrlptlve of the plan adopted by the Charleaton city council to ascertain the market val v ue of property In that city, aa a guide for the board of equalization In making assessments for taxation, should be read and considered by every property owner In Sumter. "In accordance with the rectnt resolution of City Council, a commis eion of real estate experts have be? gun the appraisement of Charleston real estate, which haa been ao long needed, and which will now offer a basis of taxation aa well aa of trans? actions Juat when Charleston proper? ty Is so much In demand for Invest" ment and speculative purposes. "The work has been started In the upper portion of the city, and good progress Is being made by the com? mission, consisting of T. T. Hyde. Mel vi n Israel. Allen Legare, T. J. Price and J. D. Leaemann. It Is ex? pected that perhaps three to four months will be required to complete the wprk, although every effort will be put forth to finish it as soon ns possible. "The special appraisement of property has been undertaking on the suggestion of Chairman F. Q. O'Neill, of the committee of ways and means, and City Assessor Sink ?CA with a view of providing an In? telligent basla of action to the coun? ty board of eouallsation for the pur pee of correcting the glaring Inequal? ities) In the lax assessments. The ap? praisement 'vhlch Is now being made has of course, no direct effect upon the county board of equalisation un? der the law. but aa City Council la repreeented upon the county board, the chairman of the ways and mean* committee being ex-offlclo, the chair? man of the board and aa the county board welcomee any plan or sugges? tion which enables the board to bet? ter perform Its work, it Is certain that the kindly offices of the City Council In providing a true and cor? rect appraisement of real estate by competent experts, will be appre? ciated. As a matter of fact. It la un? derstood that the board haa com? municated lta dealre to City Council perform thla very service, for which It la eapeclally qualified, and it la hardly poaalble tr at the county board will refuae to be guided by the report which will be made through City Council. "It Is. of course, to be understood that the work which the commission are ifbw engaged upon, and for which they will receive $500 com? pensation, la simply and entirely an appraisement and not an assessment. The commission has n> authority to aanes* property, nor haa even City C< ncll this right for only the board of equalisation haa the authority to tlx the aaaesament. "It ia expected, however, that with the filing of the report of the com mlaelon. giving the market value of every piece of real estate In the city limit", the hoard wll' then adopt a system of assessment on a certain percentage basis, which will take the place of the arbitrary system of township assessments, now In effect, with its glaring Inequalities. The present system allows favoritism, po? litical and other considerations to weigh, but under the proposed .u w system of first establishing the mar? ket value of property and then put? ting on a percentage basis of assess? ment, new and better plan will be adopted "Opportunity will be green to the property owners t , oiler such objec? tions as they may have to the new sssessments. which will probably fid low the appraisement of Charleston real estate. "The new aaprelssount WiU mate? rially clear the real estate situation for the buyOf el prop. rt> Hi v. ill be largely guided by the value which the commission will place upon the property, and It will probably re? dound rn o e ^. neral'y to the seller to ha\e the new apprabv men* put lnt<? effect than other* i-e. although of course. s.?me parties v\ ho rua> be hoblinK prop.-ty at gsmfOaOOM My high naures may not take the tie take too kindly to an appraisement below the desired upset pine It Is expected that at |i ist $1..I - 000 Inereuse of prop-rty \alue will reeult In consequents of the up pralsement V/Mob WOttld mean an in? come to the , ity of $2:..ooo tn taxes. end a propoi tl ?nately I n ner sum. with a Unter value on real ? -t As everybody In Sumter knows full well, there Is no Justice off OqUal" Ity In the assessment of property In this city, s in. SfOporty owners are paying taxes on a 60 pet OOOl valua Farmers' Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. \N. Dnbbs, Pftatdattl 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 Fanners which 1 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 o?<r readers telling of their successes, or failures will be appreciated and | jblished. Trusting this Department will be of mutual oeneflt to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl Is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs. Mayesvllle. S. C. ? The next meeting of th<j Sumter County Farmer's Union will be with Concord Cnlon, on Frida), Jan. 7. a 11 a. m. President Perrltt has expressed his Intention of being with us that day. A full attendance is requested for we would liKe to take up the matter of prizes for best crops grown next year In connection with the U. S. Farm Demonstration work. E. W. Dabbs, President. Hugh Wltherspoon, Secretary. Stock Medicine Swindles. From the Progressive Farmer. On our desk are three high-class publications: the world's greatest live stock journal; the leading dairy paper In America, and one of the very best general agricultural papers published In this country. The mechanical skill shown In their make up Is of a high order; editorially they are bright, clean and forceful; among their contributors are numbered the ablest men en? gaged in agricultural work In the country; and their advertising pages attest the extent and excellence of their circulation, and the confidence of the buying and selling public. These three papers sre selected for the purpose we have in view, be? cause, while they are leaders, they are not exceptions; but are typical of agricultural Journalism in this country. They also serve our pur? poses best because they are controll? ed by men of national reputation. Moreover, these men not only have financial control, but they also have complete editorial control and dic? tate the policies of their respective papers Th4 edltor-owner8 of these papers are just a little Inclined to assume a "holler than thou" air to? wards their contemporaries, and that they would promptly plead guilty to an indictment of possessing superior wisdom Is doubted by no reader of their splendid pages. One of these venerable lights of American agri? cultural Journalism la well known to have a special antipathy to patent medicines, for man, and the papers which advertise them. As evidence of this the following Is taken irom tlon?and they are the exception? v\ hlle some conscienceless tax dodg? ers are grudlngly paying on a 20 per cent valuation. Under the present system of assessment and equaliza? tion it seems to be Impossible to bring the tax dodgers to book and obtain a fair, just and reasonable as? sessment of all property. The Char? leston plan se?ms to us to be one of the best and most business like that has come to our notice, and we re? spectfully suggest that City Council, at Its next meeting, adopt the same plan. A committee of three real es? tate men would be sutllclent to make a canvass of the real estate of the city and fix a market price on each and every parcel and the work could be dor.?- within sixty days. The cost would be inconsiderable in compari? son with the valUi Of such a report, and the city would tu sevt ral thOUS* and dollar! better Off, The Florence Times states t. fact in the following forceful and pretty language, which we endorse. "Th railroad commission wants I tie state to provide an Inspector of rOOdl for that body. An inspee t rf of railroads Is needed. WC admit, especially alnce the report of the OOmmlSSlOn CallS attention to the fact th.it so many accidents were due to run down roadways, but If \\had ?ueh :,n ollleer w e fear that the commission WOUld OS rather su perfluoua The members of the com* mission are expected to be able to do this Work themselves, and If tln v are not able to do it they ought not to ask for the position. The great truble With the railroad commission is the same thai we have pointed out boforOi its members have an ambi? tion to be a court Instead uf execu? tive officers of the people. We have enough courts in the state, we want more active and energetic work of the people. one of his recent editorials on "How to Judge an Agricultural Paper": "Carefully look at the advertise? ments. If you find sure cures for can? cer, rheumatism, etc., remedies to make fat people lean and lean peo? ple fat, etc., then it is not worth while to read any further. Quack medicines advertise in quack pa? pers. It is needless to state that none of these three papers takes adver? tisements of whiskey or patent med? icines?for man. With this prefatory statement let us now turn to the advertising pages of these three prominent agricul? tural papers and ascertain if there? in is a line of advertisements in keeping with the high moral tone of their editorial utterances. In all three of these papers and in' most other agricultural papers of the country have appeared within the present year, large display adver" tlsements of one of the most flagrant and gigantic frauds of the day, the so-called stock food preparations. These stock foods, medicines, condi? tion powders, or by whatever name you may choose to call them, have been exposed time and again by the j experiment stations, veterinarians, and stock men, in every way it Is possible to expose such a fraud. Are the editors and owners of these papers familiar with these facts? Do they know that these mix? tures are frauds, and that In adver? tising then, they are accomplices in the perpetration of a fraud on the very persons whom they profess to des'.re to serve and whom it is their duty to protect? SuciV? is almost in? conceivable; but it is equally impos? sible to think that men of such broad knowledge along other lines can be Ignorant of the fact known by thous? ands that these so-called stock foods contain no medicinal virtues and sell for a price as far beyond their real value, because of the advertis? ing they give them, as the gold brick of the confidence man. We can not, we will not believe that these pious editor-owners are knowingly and for a price, a party to this scheme for swindling their readers, but If they are not, then they are ignorant?criminally Ignorant? which is simply Impossible. "Quack medicines advertise In quack papers." In th(r* same issue of the paper in which this truism 13 editorially proclaimed, we find ad? vertisements of three remedies guar? anteed to cure ring-bone and spavin, two "sure cures" for "heaves" and One for rheumatism. Some or all of these patent medicines are also advertised in the other two of this trio of leading papers and in prac? tically all other farm papers. The editor-owners of these three papers presume to give veterinary advice to their readers and then with bra? zen effrontery advertise, and thereby tacitly endorse, a remedy claiming to cure "heaves." We submit that one who presumes to give advice on live stock and veterinary matters H Inexcusably ignorant if he does not know that by the very nature of the disease "heaves" is Incurable. These I ?O-called cures for rheumatism and hsaVSS and all these spavin cures are frauds, pure and simple, and the merest tyro knows it. Any paper that claimi that it re? fuse! an advertisement o| a rheu? matism cure for man because it knowa it t<i be a fraud and then ac? cepts an advertisement of a rheuma" tlsm cure for the horse, is simply re? lying on the Ignorance of its readers to save the esposure of its hypoclsy. If these papers, and nil others that refuse advertisement! of patent med i'-im'H for man und accept them for live stock. Know that the former are fraudulent they rIbo know that the latter are equally fraudulent, if they refuse the one beoause they are too jealous Of their leiuh rs' interests to eater a compact to defraud them. they would refuse the other f<?r the same reason. We are, therefore, re? luotantly driven to the conclusion that they refuse advertisements of patent medicines f<?r man because they know public sentiment has been developed to a point where they dar not disregard it, and they take these equally fraudulent advertisements, of patent medicines for live stock he cause as yet public sentiment has not been educated up to the point of actually counting the tailing of a man's money without giving value therefor, and possibly destroying the health of his live stock, a'.so, as great a crime as taking his money without value and destroying his health. If patent medicines for man are fraudulent and unft for publication In any paper, then patent medicines for live stock are equally fraudulent and equally unfit to appear in such paper. This is a plain fact which the sim? plest mind can grasf)?"Quack med? icines advertise in quack papers.' ACCLIMATING HORSES A Horse Suffers More From Change of Climate Than Other Animals? He Should Be Worked Slightly and Carefully Looked After the first Year. From the Progressive Farmer. A Mississippi correspondent write! that a hunch of Northern-raised horses have not done well this sum? mer since coming South in the spring. He states that: "They have been on good Bermuda pasture, besides getting one feed of corn a day; but while they have excellent appetites, they continue to lose flesh. They worked some this spring, but have done nothing since the first of August. I think the trouble comes from the change of climate." Those familiar with such matters have observed that horses suffer more from what appears to he pure acclimation than do cattle or pigs when brought from the North into this climate. The effects of the ticks and tick fever which is sometimes called ''acclimation fever," but is in no sense such, are not in any way due directly to the climate. Apart from these ticks, cattle appear to suffer little, if any, from the change of climate. Hogs apparently suffer none at all. With horses, however, there seem to be more susceptibility to the climatic change. This may be, and no doubt is, increased by the fact that the horses are almost al? ways required to do more or less physical work. In fact, there is some ground for the often expressed opin? ion that this work makes all the dif? ference noticed between the process of acclimation of horses and other animals. Most observers, however, agree that horses suffer more or less from the climatic change, independ? ent of the work or treatment they receive. In the case referred to above, the feed should be sufficient to maintain the horses in good condition, provid? ing the work given prior to August the first did not produce some dis? eased condition, particularly some disturbance of digestion. This seems the most common complication aris? ing in the acclimation of Northern raised horses. They frequently suf? fer from indigestion, and in such cases the fact that the appetite re? mains good is not proof that the ani? mals are receiving sufficient nour? ishment. Certain general rules may be laid down for the handling of horses the first summer after being brought South: (1) If horses are brought here early in the winter, they do better the next summer than when brought here late in the spring. (2) As a general rule, these horses should be worked very carefully and moderately the first summer. (3) They should be fed with more than usual care also. While they should be fed liberally, they must not be overfed. Especially should they be not over-full when given exercise. All buy should be given at night, and then only in moderate quantities. Since the change of feed Is complete, care should be taken to see that it is properly balanced, has sufficient variety, and easily digested. (i) In case any animal does not seem able to stand the work, or do well on the feed, a change should be made. Even though it is thought the animal ought to do the work re? quired on the feed given, if it does not do so, a change not a theory, is to be dealt With, and it is better to throw the horse out of work or make sonic ( hange of feed, than to do per? manent Injury to him. TWO negro tenant houses, located in the Red and White section of tie city were burned Saturday night about g.30 ..'clock. The houses were owned by the estate of H. Harby an 1 Were Valued at $160 and $200 each The firemen had to stretch 1400 feet of hose to reach the fire, and ha 1 there been any wind blowing ;, g< \?;. oua fire would have result* d as that section is closely built up with ten? ant houses, cits' Treasurer Hurst reports that tax collections up to December 3ist were the largest he has made to the same date any year since he has b< en in office. \ SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Alva Solomons Shot Through Face and Neck. COUGHS AND COLDS. I Took Pe-r.t-na. A Iva Solomons, the son of Mr-. Klna Solomons, w:ts seriously hurt late Saturday afternoon by the ac f-iuental discharge of a parlor rille. He was playing with his little cousin. Harold Moise. and in endeavoring to unload the rifle, while looking down the barrel, the trigger was acciden? tally pulled, sending the ball through his chin and the base of his tongue, the ball lodging just beneath the skia on the back of the neck. Had the bail gone a fraction of an inch to | the left, it would have entered the spinal column and caused almost instant death. The little fellow was taken to Dr. Mood's Infirmary and is now resting comfortably and his chances of recovery are excellent. DEATH OF MUS. RICHARDSON. Widow of a Forpier Governor of the State. Mrs. J. P. Richardson, relict of the late John Peter Richardson, died at 2:30 this morning at the Columbia hotel, wh^re she had been making her home for z. number of years. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. Mrs. Richardson, was Miss Julia Manning Richardson before her mar? riage to her cousin, who served the State for four years as governor. She was born in Sumter county on the 12th of July, 1S36. It is proba? ble that her remains will be taken back to Camden to be interred In the family burying ground by the side of her distinguished husband.?The State, Jan. 3. It is with regret that Clarendon loses such citizens as Mr. D. C. Shaw, who has moved to Sumter from Al colu, we never did think he should live at Alcolu, and when we heard that he decided to move to Sumter it came near breaking our heart. Mr. Shaw is a good man and he deserves a better fate than to carry his excel? lent wife and promising children to such a place, when Manning Is here ready to receive him always. Come back brother before It is too late and before the wickedness of Sumter takes a hold.?Manning Times. Poruna Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio. Gentlemen:?I can cheerfully recom? mend Peruna as an effective cure for c? tieos and cold;. You are anthorized to use my photo With testimonial in any publication. Mrs. Joseph Hall Chase* 804 Tenth St., Washington, D. C. Could Not Smell Nor Hear. Mrs. A. L. Wetzel, 3023 Ohio St., Terra Haute, Ind., writes I "When I began to take your medicine I could not smell, nor hear a churefc tell ring. Now I can both smell and hear. "When I began your treatment my head was terrible. I had buzzing and chirping no ises in my head. "I followed your advice faithfully and took Peruna as you told me. Now I might say I am well. "I want to go and visit my mother and see the doctor who 6aid I was not long for this world. I will tell him It was Peruna thai cured me," People who object to liquid m^ linec can now secure Peruna tablets. Man-a-lin an Ideal Laxative. Ask Your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1910. FIRE AT WEDGEFIELD. The Sumter Fruit Co., Christophe" Gazes, proprietor, has been placed in the hands of the Sumter Loan and Trust Company, as receiver. A statement of assets and liabilities has not been hade public. Darns and Stables of Ay cock & Sous Burned. Good sidewalks on* Main street from Bartlette to Calhoun, will be a wonderful Improvement, but what about the street itself. , The barns and stables on J. H. Aycock & Sons' Bnyo Plantation, near Wedgefleld, were burned about 4 o'clock Monday morning, entailing a loss exceeding $3,000. The barns contained a large Quantity of corn, hay, cotton seed, cotton seed hulls and farming Implements, etc, and It was all destroyed, also six mules and two cows. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. E. C. Haynsworth, Esq., Master in Equity, Monday sold a number of parcels of land under order of court. January 1,1910 WE WISH ALL OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR AND TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF THANKING THEM FOR THE LIB? ERAL PATRONAGE BESTOWED UPON US DURING THE YEAR JUST CLOSED. AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING WE CAM DO THAT WILL INCREASE THEIR PLEAS? URE OR BANK ACCOUNT DUR? ING 11)10 THEY ARE AT LIBERTY TO ( ALL ON US. O'Donnell 6 Co