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Cfcc tt&uKiNiUii M e:a:iuH, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 26, I9l0. The Sumter Watchman was found tat la 1110 and the Trut Southron In ltlf. The Watchman and Southron now haa the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, ns>d la manifestly the beat advertising tn*^tT?*~ *n Snrrt^r til mM% ? I M RKPORT. .V The report of the legislativ? com? iltt** that Investigated the state ? Hospital for the Insane ha* been more dlecuse+d during the past we*k the* eng other matter that has been . brought before the legislature this year. The Importance of the Issues lave bred fully warrants all the atten? tion that the report has received. The report of the majority Is a clear eat and dispassionate statement of the facts reevaled by the investiga? tion and the recommendations made for the alleviation of the Intolerable and disgusting conditions existing In the asylum call for prompt action, statement made In this major report Is fully borne out by the ny taken by the committee, there Is no escaping the conclu that the conditions discovered to eaJel hare been the reeult of a cul a neglect of duty by those charg srtth the administration of the In on. This being so, sweeping in the personnel of the asyl ea management Is Imperative. No 4oubt the buildings and equipment are antiquated and Inadequate, but I the evidences of neglect and careless ennnsgemnt are worse than anything else and with new buildings there should be new management. To pro flee new buildings will cost a large euta. but cost what It may, the State taust diso ha rue the duty It owes to the unfortunates who are confined In the asylum. The legislature should not adjourn without providing the raeane for a new and thoroughly equipped Institution for the care of the insane. The minority report doee not at tesapt to controvert the facts brought eat by the Investigation and recited la the majority report, but Is an apology for conditions and* inferen tsalty a defense of ths asylum man? agement. Taken In connection with the testimony and the careful and enuasrvatlvs etatement of facts con ts Inert* In the majority report, It Is without weight or Infleunce. President Taft has wheedled the regul?re and Insurgents Into line and party measures will be put through Just as if there had never been a raw In the Republican camp. The party of spoils le a well managed ma? chine. ? ? e Rev. Coke D Mann eald some pret? ty rough things about Dr. Meli, but he did not eey he was an enemy of nepotism. ? ? ? The effort of the Sumter County Farmers' Union to organise corn eJube ehould receive substantial en couragement and support from this city. The Chamber of Commerce ehould take the lead In a movement to raise a fund of several hundred dollars for prises. ? e ? The man who will quit eating meat to aid Ln the fight against the trusts has the conrage of his convictions, hut he ehould bear In mind that the whiskey trust la Just as big and a whole lot meaner than the meat Driving. Ws don't want the ladles of the Game Cock olty run over on Main and Liberty streets. I notice often the ladlee have to dodge and wait when they are down town shopping to avoid being run over by a wagon, buggy, or automobile There should be a law made pro? hibiting fast driving In the business portion of the city. After some one of our mothers, wives or daughters get run over snd killed, It will be too late to make a law. I think now Is the t*me to stop it. When the men wss ready to kill cow his little son. who was hold? ing the rope, said to him: "Be ye gwlne to hit where ye are looking?" father answered. "Yes." "Well dud ye'll have to hold de cow den." Hte father was creea eyed. Toe majority of our ilil/ena w t ? . they ure riding see crooked and v* ill run over you or at least you will think they sre going to?if you don't jet out of the way. 1 say make a law and enforce It. prohibiting fiHt driving In the bu-d hese part of the city. I want the boys to rally around the polls In Msrch and vote me ma) ' or. The Rnke. Win. Meauregard Costln. Sumter. M. rv. Jun. 23. 1910. Just received a c*ar of fine Mules, One oer Of horses (24 head) arrived Friday evlnlng. II. Rhnw * r>rpke. Farmers' Union News ?AND ? j Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by K. \\. Dabbs, I're*Ulcnt Farmers' Union of Sumter County.) Thu w itcbman and Southron having decided to double its service by r publication, would Improve that service by special features. The first t< be inaugurated Is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Pra< I i il I ariners 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 gl 1 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 thins, 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 | ublished. 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. Mayesville. S. C. The Gold Mine of the Farm. I visited once an Intelligent farmer In Alabama, who was breeding fine stock and making large crops of wheat In a section that had been de? voted to all-cotton, and though he kept many cattle. I found his barn? yard so clean that a lady could have walked over It In slippers. This man realised that his manure was a gold mine and did not let It run to waste. He said that when he began to grow wheat, he was laughed at, but he persevered, though his first crop was but six bushel* per acre, and when I was there he was making 4,000 to 5,000 bushels of wheat at the rate of 35 bushels per acre. He was a man who found that It paid to feed cattle In the South and make man? ure. Growing large crops of wheat, he did not have to rake pine straw for bedding, but had a great surplus of straw, and some of this he used for covering red galls and gullies on his farm. He showed me large spots which were formerly bare galls. He cover? ed them two feet deep with wheat straw and let It He there to stop the frosting off and washing until It was completely rottedl Then the rotten j straw plowed down deeply put some j humus Into the soil and the gall was no more. In the gullies filled with straw the soil collected, and soon the gullies could be plowed In and were no more. Where a man practices a good ro? tation of crops, grows small grain and feede good forage to cattle, plowe deeply and subsoils the red hills, he soon finde that In the man ure made on the farm he has a real gold mine that lncreasee In value and production year after year. The more manure used, the more feed can be grown; the more feed, the more cat? tle can be fed; and the more manure, the more corn and cotton, until the farmer is Independent of the fertili? ser mixer.?Progressive Farmer. Seme Winter Farm Work That Pays Big Profite. Now is a good time to do the ditching which Is needed and which it is practicable to do. Much land is now almost valueless for lack of proper drainage, and much of the ditching which has been 'done has been at too great cost and Is not effective. The average spade ditch with Its narrow, deep channels, and Its high banks, which prevent surface water entering It, Is made at too great a cost and Is then of little value. A good plow, a scraper, two or three mules and two men will do more and better ditch? ing at half the cost than a dozen men will do with spades and shovels. If we must have open ditches? and for a time many of us must still depend on these for surface drain? age?let us build shallow wide dltch eu, with the plow and scraper and carry the dirt Into nearby depres? sions rather than pile it up along the sides of the ditch to keep the surface water from entering the ditch after we have gone to the expense of digging it. These shallow ditches not only cost less and drain the land better, but they serve us turn rows, may he crossed with any sort of ma? chinery tnd are consequently easily kept clean.?Raleigh, (N. C.) Pro? gressive Farmer and Cm/., tie. Making the Schools Train for Life. Heretofore the echoollni we have has c.-iused nine nun >> \\ of ten on Ihe farms to think of themselves an leading geteilt Uvea On? sohooli loohed to "business 1 and the city as the logical and "dignified" place fot the educated man. Now, hOWeVOf, Ihe BehOOll ure beginning tO train for net aal farm life, and we even heard yesterday of a school In ?Jranvllle. County. X. which Is arranging to have classes of grown-up farmers ev ery Friday afternoon. Text-books on agricultural POlenot are beginning to ilnd a place in the ??'hools; corn clubs are stirring the where; and the agricultural high school, in spite of the difficulties in getting started, must soon win rec? ognition as a successful part of our educational system. The good that is to come from this changed attitude of the schools it is impossible as yet for us to appre? ciate. When the millions and mil? lions of boys on our farms and In our shops feel the same keen Interest and pride In their work which your city business man feels, put their hearts into it as fully, and realize the dig? nity of being an educated scientific worker, no matter In what Industry or business, then Indeed we shall have almost a new era, not only In the history of Industry, but In the history of the race. Let us work to speed the day? Progressive Farmer. CRADLE OF THE RACE. Bold Plan to Restore the Garden of To restore the Garden of Eden sounds like a bold enterprise, yet a plan suggested by Sir William Will cocks, the English engineer who built the Aesuan Dam, makes the project sound entirely feasible. It is Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers" Tigris and Euphrates, with which he is dealing, and he purposes to turn the surplus waters of the Eu phrfttes into the river Pishon and to carry down the delta a great canal which would not only bring back the productiveness of several million acres of land but would guard the region from the overflows of ths Tigris. Had Nosh been a hydraulic engineer, Sir William adds, he might have saved his country as well as his family by constructing the Pishon river reservoir. But that would have Involved historic losses as well as gains. It marks a definite step in the world's progress that the work of reconstruction should now be un? dertaken by the Turkish ogvernment which thereby demonstrates Its real reform to broader views and more intelligent ambitions. To build this canal, which will double the cultlvatable area along the Euphrates, will take three years and cost $2,000,000 or less. Supplement lng it. Sir William proposes a rail road from Bagdad to Damascus costing $11,000,000, which would open the way to the Mediterranean the natural commercial outlet of Mesopotamia. Such a road seems to be demanded because the lrriga tlon scheme will impair the navlga blllty of the river. And even before the increased wheat harvests are ready for transport there will be freight to carry and passengers to convey?Mohammedan pilgrims vis Itlng holy places and tourists who will feel, probably, more Interest i the "Arabian Nights country" than In the "cradle of the race." There may be some question that the railroad is Indispensable, though Asiatic enterprises of this kind have generally met with astonishing sue cess and have been profitable to th projectors as well as valuable to th territory through which they pass. Of Uli economic importance of the ca nal there can scarcely be a <louht thi transformation wrought in th va'ley of the Nile can probahly duplicated along the Euphrate Great cities may never again raise that region whore the arehaealogls have long bSSn busy among the nil of historic: capitals, hut th.' land may once more become a "gardsn"?not an Eden, perhaps, but far removed from ths desert that latsr genera? tions havs Known as tin same of its rulers, Moston Transcript. , sheriff Burch, of Florence, came wer Monday morning with ;i war? rant for a man named Livingston, who was wantsd for jumping ins board hi', at tin- Florence Hotel. Sheriff Burch was accompanied by one of the hotel men who knew Livingston, and as they got off the 1 1 o'olock train they met Livingston on the sta? tion yard. Livingston took to his hssls, hut after a short eljssfl Eden. MULK DRIVER TO AMBASSADOR. It. C. Kerens' Case illustrates, Flip flopg of Time's Whirligig;. Leavenworth Labor Review. Truly time works wonderful changes and one of the most wonder? ful in America, this land of magical changes, is the appointment of Rich? ard C. Kerens, of St. Louis, to be am? bassador to Austria. The original location of the Kerens family in the United States was in Io? wa, from where they moved to Doni phan county, this State, where they resided for some years, and then the family, consisting of father and mother, two brothers and one sister* removed to Leavenworth, where they made their home for several years. While they lived on Ottawa street, the father and the mother died, and to? day their remains lie in the old aban? doned Catholic cemetery, adjoining the Federal prison quarry on Gov? ernment Hill. Both Richard V. Kerens and his j brother obtained employment at Fort j Leavenworth as teamsters, or, as It was more familiarly called in those days, "mule whackers," and this was their means of gaining a livelihood during the years they spent there. Finally Richard C. gained a promo? tion, and left there as assistant wag? on master under "Jack" Wilson, father-in-law of R. B. Bradford, of St. Louis, and who died in Chicago a short time ago, for Fort Sm!th, and Leavenworth knew him no more. The house where his father died In Ottawa street Is still standing, and is occupic J by a colored family, while the last place occupied by the fami? ly, a one-story frame with a stone wall in front, in Seneca street, bids fair to last for many a year to come. But what a change! The erstwhile "mule whacker," who had to earn a livelihood by manual labor long af? ter he had reached manhood, and only after four years' steady work gained a slight advance In position, is today quoted as being worth between 30 and 40 million dollars, and is am? bassador to the oldest and most aris? tocratic monarchy In Christendom. Marriage and Divorce Facts of the World at n Glance. The marriage rate Is larger in Southern than in Northern States. Marriages are increasing most rap? idly In the Far West and decreasing in Northeastern States. The United States has the highest marriage rate of any country in the world, rivalled only by West Aus? tralia, Hungary and Saxony. The fewest marriages occur In Ireland, with Sweden next. There are far more divorces, both In number and percentage, granted In the United States than in any Eu? ropean country* Ja.pan alone excels our figures. The divorce rate Is rapidly Increas? ing. It Is three times greater than forty years ago. Divorce Is more frequent In the Far West. Washington and Montana head the list Delaware, New Jer? sey and New York are lowest One in every twelve of the mar? riages now performed will be dis? solved by divorce. Two-thirds of the divorces grant? ed are to wives. The most common ground for di? vorce Is desertion. Cruelty and adul etry come next. These three account for three-fourths of the cases. Only fifteen per cent, of the cases are contested. Three out of every four applications are granted. He Was Generous. Some time ago a crowd of Bowery sports went over to Philadelphia to see a prise fight. One "wls-.? guy" who, among other things, is some? thing of a pickpocket, was so sure of the result that he was willing to bet on it. "The Kid's goln' V win. It's a pipe," he told a friend. IV.e friend expressed doubts. * Sure he'll win," the pickp >eket persisted. "I'll bet you a gold watch he wins." Still the friend doubted. "Why," exclaimed the pickpocket, "I'm wlllln' to bet you a good gold watch he wins! Y' know what I'll do? Come through the train with me now, an' you* can pick out any old watch you like."?Everybody's Magazine. How He Knows. In en assault and battery case tried In a Cleveland court the prose? cuting witness testified at length that the defendant had knocked him S< useless and nad then kicked him for several minutes. "It this man's attack render.1 you unconscious," demanded the magistrate, "bow is it thai you know he kicked you when you were down?" The queetlon seemed to door tin witness. He was lost in reflection for some moments; then, brightening, he a replied : "I know it, your Honor. because ?hat'S wh?i T would v. ? done ? One of Wisconsin's Mothers i|Pf|Who Always Keeps ?fllPe-ru-na in the t^ti1 House* f^B^^x^ work u ;;:i:n, and have a good appe ?^.V.?^ISI tite. i have u*<?d thirteen bottles of Peruna and one of Maualin* My husband and children are also in Rood health. We always keep Peruna in the house. I thank you a thousand times for your advi-c."?Mrs. Alvina Plamana, 1914 Walnut 6t., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. II any one really wanted to find out whether or not Peruna is good tor the fcabv who would he naturally ask? Some one who never used Peruna? Bom* one who is prejudiced against Peruna? Some one actuated by selfish motives who is opposing Peruna for the sake of the notoriety? Would any sane person who really wanted to know about Peruna ask any Of these people? Of course not. Who would they ask? They would ask mothers who have raised babies and used Peruna for their babies times without number. They would ask the parents who love their families, and know more about Peruna than all the professional writers in the world. Above we give the portrait and testimonial of one of the mothers who has used Peruna, and who has raised healthy and happy babies. We have many raoro such mothers in every state In the Union- These mothers give their testimonials en* tirety unsolicited, without pay or expectation of pay. Their only desire is to point out to other mothers a useful and reliable family medicine. Ask Your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1910. Carp as a Food Fish. When Seth Green stocked waters in this State with German carp to add to the food supply, he didn't count on the delicate taate of Ameri? cans. They wouldn't eat the coarse fish, and treated the carp with con? tempt. Now it seems a use has been found for the carp. Some food ex? perts, noting the low prices at which smoked salmon was offered in Chi? cago, and investigating, found that It was carp treated with pink paint and liquid smoke. Of course, that fraud will be stopped; but if It was palat? able, honest smoked carp, sold under its true name, it ought to be a good contribution to the country's food supply. Evidently it only needs smok? ing to make it good.?Watertown Times. The total number of persons em? ployed at mines and at the quarries of the United Kingdom during 1907 was 1.050,034. Of the 972,220 per? sons employed at mines 776,456 worked undergound and 195.764 above ground. Of the hitter 5.864 were femalee. ODonnell 6 Co. Where Big Values for Little Money are Always Found. : : : : Silks for Linings! Silks for Waists! Silks for any use! Wednesday We place on sale on our Center Tables about : : 500 Yards of Silks Both Plain and Fancy. These Silks range in price from 40c to 75c. To clem this lot up in one day we will price them at 25 Cents. O'Donnell 6 Co. A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT. ?9g I v.