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Cj>t ?Safcjnnim mti ^outturn SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1910. The Sum tor Watchman was found? ed la lilt and the True Southron tn III?. The Watchman and Southron tow ha* the combined circulation and tanveno? of both of the old papers. aaW le manifestly the b??t advertising ?B? dum In Burnt er. That the women of Bdgefleld did not send that wreath of crepe-tled hyacinths to Senatot Till man It greatly to their credit. ? ? i f w can the legislature be held re spo ilble for the failure of the re? gen, or superintendent to visit or Inspect oertaln wards of the Aaylum within s period of four years, even though it failed to appropriate in for? mer years all the money that could have been used by the Asylum? Ac? cording to sworn testimony the dis? graceful conditions ezlittlng were due as much or more to neglect on the part of the aaylum officials as to the lack of money. But as the legislature to a convenient tcape-goat It will have to bear the blame. ? a ' ? Following on the heels of the Semi ? nole scandal the suits against the Car oilna Olassj Co., and the Riculand Die. tillery will cause additional annoyano to prominent cltlsens of Columbia. esg-1 - _-_u-i.-jg From The Dally Item. Feb. 24. ?*Cltlaen." who wrote a piece for tho paper yeaterday. asserts that "buslnesi has Improved since the closing of th? d'epensary. which shows that less money li spent for whiskey than for? merly," which Is a lame and Impo? tent conclusion. Business has un? doubtedly Improved since the dispen? sary waa closed last fall, but this does not prove* beyond the shadow of a doubt, that less money is spent for whlakey than formerly. It would be str?ng?. Indeed, If business had not Improved since the closing of the dis? pensary, which was co-incident with the opening of the cotton season and such a season Is the South has not known In many years. The average price of cotton since the closing of the dispensary has been higher than the average for any season since 1890?if oar recollection la not at fault?and there has consequently been more money to spend, therefore business had to Improve, even though 4^re had been no decrease In the amount ?pant for whlakey. Business has im? proved In Florence. Bichland. Char laaton and other dispensary counties, aa a result of the general prosperity of the county, not on account of the continuance of the dispensary, al? though men are to be found who will aaaert wHh dogmatic positlvenes* that the dispensary la a great trade in? duce r. In our opinion the conclusion reached by "Cttlaen" is as far from the truth aa la that of the man who believes a dispensary attracts a large and desirable trade to a town. The truth is to be found somewhere be? tween these extremes. We do not know and have no means of ascertain? ing accurately how much liquor is now coming Into Sumter county, but we are informed and believe that a great deal la brought in. Every freight and expreaa office In the county la handling a great deal of liquor. While the aggregate amount la unquestion? ably large It dovt not seem reasonable that it can equal or exceed the total aalea made by the dispensary. Our observation la that there haa been less public drunkenneaa In Sumter since the closing of the dispensary and there have been fewer arrests by the police, and In this respect conditions are Improved. But on the other hand liquor la being aold in thla city and at many other places In the county, the disrespect for and defiance of the law Is Increaaing. The city and coun? ty officials whose duty It Is to appre? hend law-breakers cannot or do not enforce the law against the sale of liquor and the people who patronize the liquor sellers, many of whom are professed prohibitionists and voted for the abolition of the dispensary, will not furnish the evidence necessary to convict the blind tigers. So there we are?liquor selling la Increaaing, as even the real prohibitionists reluctant? ly admit, and nothing Is being done to enforce the law and make It effective and respected. "Citizen's" comments on the aoclal clubs la another matter entirely. Aa We understand the law the cluba have a perfect right to exist and their mem? bers have a right to order liquor and keep It in the club rooms and use It aa they aee fit. Aa long aa they com? ply with the law they cannot be inter? fered with, but If It can be proven that the eluba are aelltng liquor to outsiders or otherwise violating the law they can be closed up and the In? dividuals responsible for the sale of. liquor in h>- punished. If the facts; establishing the guilt of the managers of any club or clubs ure known and ran be proven In court the remedy for j the evils complained Of by "Citizen" 1? obvloug. The baseball schedules are being discussed and adopted. This Is a sign of approaching Spring which Is not to be denied.?Troy Record. Farmers' Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. \V. Dabbs, President Farmers' Union of Sumter County.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double ita service by aeml-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features. The first to bs Inaugurated la this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Farmers which I have been requeated to conduct It will be my aim to give the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end officers, and msmbers of the Union are requeated to use these oolumns. Also to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as I thlnl 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 | ubllshed. 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. Boys* Corn Clubs. Although grown people are very naturally disposed to take a patroniz? ing view of the Boys' Corn club idea, It is proper to remind them that the experiment Is anyth ing but a Joke. On several thousand acres worked by the boys throughout the south last year, the average yield was well up into 70 bushels, while the average yield made by the daddies of the boys, was only something over fourteen bushels. Prof. Williams in telling about what was achieved in the State last year, cited the case of a father in Claren? don county, who was unwlllng to al? low h's boy to go into the contest on the ground, "that those book prof? essors couldn't tell nobody how to farm," and it was not until the far? mer had been talked to and pursuad ed by the local ml alster, that the boy waa premltted to ?.ry. The boy went to work under the instructions fur? nished from the agricultural depart? ment, and the father went on with his time-tired, superior methods to beat his son all to pieces. The boy made something over 100 bushels on his acre, and the father made a little over thirty bushels. The boy was the winner of the prize for the county. I On the day the contest was decided1 the father was very much in evidence* | bragging on what "he and John" had accomplished; but declared that they had not been more than half trying, and that the next, year they would show people how to made corn eure enough. It Is a f-ict that there were many casea throughout the state last year, where boys who worked in ac? cordance Wtth the instructions of the agricultural department made more corn than did their fathers working along the line of old methods; but, of course, the boj-s did not do any better, as rule or ven as well as the grown up farmers, who faithfully fol? lowed the Instructions of the demons? tration work.?Torkvllle Enquirer. Specialty in Cotton Growing. (Adalrsville Banner.) When a man succeeds in a special line the people should know of the fact, and learning of It they should j investigate the methods and emulate j his example for good. Some four years ago there came to our community to gentlemen, Mr. Nathan Smith, of Paulding county, and his son, Henry, who was living in Folk county. Nathan, the elder Is now 63 years old, Henry is 37. They live about two miles north of town, on the Ruben Gaines farm. These gentlemen have made a spe? cialty of raising corn. They have studied closely all the methods of corn culture, and have succeeded so well that their com crop is sought after by aced men. This last crop has Just been shipped to one of the South's leading seed men, and the corn raised here will be distributed over the United States. In 1908 2,000 bushels were sold, the last crop, 1909, amount to 2, 263 bushels when It was shelled and sacked.. They have over BOO bushels yet on hand. These gentlemen believe in raising all the necessities at home. Nathan Smith has never bought but 10 bush? els of corn, and Henry has the record of buying only 30. Nut only do these men have corn, but make it a point to raise all the meat for home use and some to sell. They have 2,683 pounds dried and ready for use now. Cotton they regard as a surplus crop. The past season they raised 12 bales of cotton, which they sold at 13 to 14 1-2 cents per pound. They go In for diversification and sow wheat, oats and other grain. It does the Banner good to give praise to the Smith's and we hope that others of our farmers will take up diversification and especially the growing of more gram. Take to pro? ducing the necessary things and high prices would give us no concern. The man who has his corn crib full, his garner overflowing with grain and his smokehouse hung tlflck with nice smoked, brown hams, needs to care but little for trusts, combinations and other things that disturb the dependent. SOY BEAN VS. COTTON SEED. Seventy Ships Chartered to Supply European Demands. New York Commercial. Out In Machurla they are growing a bean to compete with cotton seed, and so lustily does this same bean grow out there that it was reported in Vladivostok when August Held left there on the last trans-Siberian ex? press connecting with a steamship at Hamburg, that between 60 and 70 ships have been chartered to ship the beans to Denmark, France, Eng? land and Qermany, between the first of last October and May 1 next. Mr. Held has been In Vladivostok for a year establishing an agency there for the International Harvester Company and he arrived on the Amer? ika yesterday, accompanied by W. W. Couchman, manager of the company in Hamburg. ?The Soy bean," said Mr. Held at the Hotel Manhattan, "has been men? tioned several times In consular re? ports, though In an Industrial way, It I Is an entrlely new article. It Is about the size of the ordinary white bean, but flatter and yellow in color. The soil for the beans doesn't have to be very fertile and Manchuria Is rais? ing an enormous quantity. They press the oil out, and this will come into competition with cotton seed oil In many ways. The residue, which they call bean cake, is used for food for animals and for fertilizer. "From all I could gather, business has not been so active at Vladivostok as It was before the war. But the town is the only far eastern seaport of any size that Russia has, and it is bound to become a good business cen? tre. Much of the exports of Man? churia is shipped through it. "Immediately about Vladivostok, the scenery is like that of Italy or Switzerland. There are 65 American residents there, some In business for themselves and some busy looking up mining and oil propositions and everything In the way of an enterprise that an American goes after. There are perhaps 600 or 700 Germans, from 25 to 30 Englishmen, a few French, some Italians and some Greeks. "Of the regular population of the town, about 50,000 are Russians, 20, 000 Chinese and from 12,000 to 15, 000 Coreans and Japanese. The gar? rison varies in number but is usually from 20,000 to 30,000 men. "Many of the Japanese around there do business in a small way. The biggest business men are the Chinese. In fact, I believe there are more big Chinese merchants than Russian in Vladivostok. THE PECAN NUT. A Crop Which Brings in Much Mon? ey in the South. Certalnt'y the most interesting spe? cialty in Southern horticulture at present is the growing of pecans, says a writer in the Country Gentle? man. The writer had pointed out to him recently by a thoroughly trust? worthy man a fine pecan tree in Raleigh, N. C, which the Informant said yielded $100 worth of nuts last year. That is, there were sold from the tree pecans to the amount of 1100, besides supplying the family with all the nuts they wanted for home consumption. The tree stood on an ordinary city lot and would pass all summer for a first-class shade tree. This, of course, was an unusual specimen, and to argue from this single tree to whole orchards of peeans bearing $100 worth of nuts apiece every year would be going In? to the real estate business too hard. Yet the fact Is significant; and it is a fact further that pecan trees do frequently make themselves highly profitable There are a few commer? cial plantations which have actually succeeded; and more there is a large promise of more. The business of pecan growing has been given a black eye to some extent by specu? lative companies organized by pecan growers, but really interested only in selling land, or corporation shares. However, In its own way, the grow? ing of pecans in Louisiana or Miss? issippi U just as legitimate, just as promising, and even as profitable as the growing of apples in Michigan or of peaches In. Connecticut. The pecan, unlike the apple and the peach, is a native of our soil and of the region where it is now being planted. It inhabits the Southern States, particularly those bordering on the gulf< it la found native as .r. north as Iowa and Indiana and does well in Oklahoma. It appears to be the most at home in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, though the re? gion of commercial culture, Includes Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, Tenn? essee, the Arkansas, Oklahoma and parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia?possi? bly more. In the way of soils, the pecan Is by no means fastidious. Prof. W. N. H?tt, In a recent bulletin on pecan culture from the North Carolina board of agriculture, says that "the pecan is almost as cosmopolitan as the strawberry." It prefers the deep alluvial soils of river bottoms, but will grow even on high and fairly dry land. Much of the land now re? turning a regular and reliable an? nual loss under cotton culture is ad? mirably adapted to the growth of pecan trees. Some of the most en? terprising planters in the South are changing such, fields from cotton to pecan orchards, cultivating cotton between the rows of trees for the first few years. One of the difficulties about going into the pecan business on a large scale (outside of the land company's prospectus) comes into the high cost of nursery stock. While apple orch Ists are getting their nursery trees at $12 to $14 a 100, and often cheaper, and while thousands of peach trees have been sold in recent years as low as $5 a 100, good budded pecan trees average about $1 apiece and some times costs as much as $2 and $3 each. Thlc high cost, however, la necessary to the business, as the growing of the trees In the nursery Is very difficult and expensive. There Is no probability that the cost will ever be much lower. Unfortunately this expense drives a good many men to plant seeding trees?a practice to be everywhere condemned. There Is no more excuse for planting orchards of seedling pecans than of seedling apples or seeding peaches. The trees are also hard to transplant anc a considerable proportion, even ir good circumstances, often scrub along for years more dead than alive. It Is not so easy to start an even uni? form hustling orchard of pecans as of Baldwin apples or Elberta peach? es. Kicked by The Elephan. "Among Lincoln's circua stories," said a Cincinnati veteran, "was one about a Delaware tough. "A circus, Lincoln's story ran, vis? ited Newcastle, and the town tough turned out the afternoon of Its arrival to see what sort of a circus it was. "A canvasman, making his usual round, shouted off the guyropes, there! Off the guyropes!' came suddenly on the town tough, who was leaning against the canvas tent wall In the sun, smoking a corncob. " *Ye wuzn't talkln' to me, wuz ye, stranger?' said the tough, hunching up his shoulders very wickedly. " 'Oh, no, sir,' said the canvasman, frightened by the tough's size. 'I only just wanted to warn vou, sir, that it's a little dangerous to lean against the tent that way, as the elephant might kick you, sir. 'The tough snorted with contempt " 'Drat yer elephant!' he growled, 'I'll clean out the hull show, elephant an* all, If ye give me any of yer lip. "The canvasman slunk off humbly and a few minutes later went Inside and told the boss. The boss, who weighed over 200 and stood 6 feet 6 in his socks, chuckled and took up one of the enormous mallets used to drive in tent pegs. " 'Show me where he's leaning," was all he said. "The canvasman led the boss to the place where the tough's form made a long, oval dent in the tent. The boss chuckling again, fixed his eyes on that spot, just below the tough's coat-tails, where the dent was deepest, and swinging the mallet twice around his head he struck with all his might. "There was a dull thud, a cry of pain and fear, and the tough leaped ten feet, then made off down the road as fast as he could run. I " 'What's the matter, Peleg?' the inhabitants shouted as he tore through the town. " 'Been kicked by the elephant.' he replied."?Detroit Free Pres. Rice Hour. 35 tons fresh from the mills. Beat and Cheapest Feed for Horses, Cows and Hogs you can buy. Booth-Har by Live Stock Co., Sumter S. C. 2 12-8t.?W Honest labor bears a lovely face. I ?Dekker. How Patrick (Henry Died. For centuries the world has ad ired the calmness and fortitude of rates in the presence of death, but if Socrates died like a philoso? pher, Patrick Henry died like a Christian. In his last illness, all oth? er remedies having: failed, his physi? cian, Doctor Cobell, proceeded to ad? minister to him a dose of liquid mer? cury. Taking- the vial In his hand, and looking at it for a moment, the dying man said: "I suppose, doctor, this is your last resort?" "I am sorry to say, governor, that it is." "What will be the effect of the medicine?" "It will give you immediate relief, orW The doctor could not finish the sentence. His patient took up the word: "You mean, doctor, that it will give relief or will prove fatal Immediate? ly?" "You can live only a very short time without It," the doctor answer? ed, "and It may possibly relieve you.'' Then the old statesman said: "Excuse me, doctor, for a few min? utes," and drawing over his eyes a silken cap yhich he usually wore, and still holding the vial in his hand, he prayed In clear words a simple child? like prayer for his family, for his country, and for his own soul, then In the presence of death. After? ward, In perfect calmness, he swal? lowed the medicines. Meanwhile Doctor Cobell, who greatly loved him, went out upon the lawn, and In his grief threw himself down upon the earth under one of the trees, and wept bitterly. Soon, when he had sufficiently mastered himself, the doctor returned to his patient, whom he found calmly watching the congealing of the blood under his finger-nails, and speaking words of love and peace to his family, who were weeping round his chair. Among other things, he told them that he was thankful for that good? ness of God which, having blessed him nrough all his life, was then ?ermitting him to die without any pain. Finally, fixing his eyes with much tenderness upon his dear friend, Doctor Cobell, with whom he had formerly held many arguments respecting the Christian religion, he asked the doctor to observe how great a reality and benefit that religion was to a man about to die. And after Patrick Henry had spok? en these few words in praise of some? thing which having never failed him in his life before, did not then fail him in his very last need of It, he continued to breathe very softly for some moments, after which they who were looking upon him saw that his life had departed.?Youth's Com? panion. The methods adopted by the de? tectives and police of some cities, commonly known as the "third de? gree," which compells the utterance of material evidence under nerve racking stratn, possesses much that is inhuman?even barbaric, and it Is well to see that the highest court of the States of Washington has re? cently placed the third degree on the shelf In setting aside a conviction in a felony cose where It was proved : that a material witness under threats I of a prosecuting officer testified as that officer suggested. This tribunal j held that It were better by far that i criminals should escaj* punishment than that the courts sihould condone ! such proceedings as were the back 1 bone of the third degre??. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.?11 Timothy, xt, 15. Excursion Rates to Charleston, S. C. -VIA Southern Railway. Account STEAMSHIP EXCURSION TO PANAMA and return, leaving Charleston, 8. C, March 5th. 1010, the Southern Railway announces very low round trip rates from all points in South Carolina. Including Augusta, tia.. to Charleston^. C. Tickets will be on sale March 4th, and for trains scheduled to arrive Charleston before 1:00 P. M.. Mafch 5th, good to leave Charleston re turning, up to -in<! Including, but n?tigtet tbar. astdnlgfet March 59th wio. Tor fur: i??'rin?(rmuru>n, tickets, apply to S >uthrrn Railway klokalt agents, ow addreaa. J. E. MEEK, W. E. McGEE, Asst. Gen'l. Pas. Agt. Division Pas. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C. Here Again! Another lot of All Linen Torchon Laces. About 2,000 Yards, values up to 10c. Our advertising price 5c YARD. O'DonnellsCo.