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?. r ft?iuttljma? ani jSuatj run WEUNtS'JAY. MARCH 16, IUiO. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1850 ami the True Southron in HCl?. The W. r. hruau and BOUthrOI) now has the combined circulation and Influence of !>oth Ol the old papers. ?n.i is mam-V-dlv the best advertising v*.?dlum In Sumter. EXFORCE THE LAW. The Hection of the liquor law of 1901 making It uriawful to receive or store liquor has been treated as a dead letter, practically all lawyers being of the opinion that it was un? constitutional in that It was in << n fiiet with Inter-State commerce and an Itv asi'.u of personal right guaran? teed to every individual. This disre? gard of the most vital section of the law Intended to prevent the traffic In llqu<>r has resulted in the reign of the blind Usjaff throughout the State. The only way to absolutely suppress the Dllelt sale of liquor is t > i ut off the supply of the tigers and this cannot be done so long as it Is conceded the.* they mav lawfully receive and hoop on hand that which it Is unlawful for them to sell. The foundation of the blind tiger's business Is the wide? spread belief that to convkt a blind tiger of violating the law it is neces? sary Im OfttQh him In the act of selling MfSJOff and to go Into coutt with the strongest h?.rt of corroborative evi? dence. But all this will be altered If the verdict of the jury and the de? cision of Judge Klugh In the case of the State vs. DuRant recently triad at f:i'hop\uie la sustained. In this ease James R. DuRant was tried, convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $200 for receiving liquor and the dead-letter section of the law was made effective. If the Hlshopville precedent Is followed In Sumter and elsewhere throughout the State the blind tigers will be driven out of bus? iness In short order. We wsant to see If the law can be sjsJnrcod here without resorting to extraordinary measures and extraor? din?r-, expense to catch the tigers. If the police of the city, the Sheriff and his deputies and Special Constable Grady will co-operate In the collec? tion of evidence bstWOOO this time and the next session of court they oincht to l.?> a'd, to hise a large num? ber of eases to present to the grand Jurv. It is easy to ascertain who re? ceives liquor and the law should be - to a test at the April, term of irt. It would be an exeelfent plan to have the books of the railroad and express offices in this city, Maycs\llle, Wedgefteld, Claremont. Hagood, Rembert. Dal/ell, Oswego and Tln dals' Inspected and the records of de liverv of liquor copied for the in? formation of the Solic itor and grand jutn . CM course, i great many people will get excited OVOf sueh a proposi? tion hs sending a man to the chain gang < r forcing him to pay a heavy fine for receiving liquor, and will cry alou 1 to high heaven against the at tem- '. to enforce so drastic a law. Many who voted the prohibition tick? et b?sf year are bitterly antagonistic to the employment of detOCttroi to "sp>" up- a our own home people.'' and we fee? confident that stii! other prohibit;, aim ? trill to i ontor 3 >d ?f tin . I - ? tod for l n.< r ' '. to the . rt r I: ? 11 v..? want It enfom d and itM t t " i'm anforeomonl the batter are ? aid '?? plsaaad. although we h ?? a.- tf boon .1 prohibitionist and boOl aOCtaatd I opposing the saofj npllft of the people and ?i'd- ^ r.d -Utting li'i'cr sellers and evil- '??? rs bfcaus,. w .? c oubl not see In si ttutory prohibition the salvation o* n I the people and the abolition of all < rim. . Let the law against ro eotvnssj and storing Hqnor ba anfore? ad and i t s m&ks this county as dry as a bone. The writer Is not a polltl co-j.rohl' itionid. but WOOld not care If '?? novor saw or Inatod another dr< -r liquor for the balar+es Of his IP. \ : II aM of our prohlb^;..nlst fr!t Mil en me in on this proposition an i ras the anforeomonl of the heretofore disregarded section of th. it am 7 i M TIME 11 M<>HT IIKHI The Georgia fttats Board ol Health h 1.1 king time b> the forelock this year They have begun a systematic campaign rgiiinst I he common house fly They are sending thousands of circulars broadcast throughout their y Tl c.sf circulars contain the ? ?apt ??? ' /mm Tiles and Filth to PWd and i'e\er." Rvery poaalble mean- |g being used to give this clr fSjtSjf to the i ??->p|e. The mails and ? \pr?.s bavs boon railed to their ae slstin- e, while the public schools of the stat? will all bo supplied with the literature. The circular urge : the house-wife to be careful to keep t *iO files out of the hon. .' an I away from food, espe? cially milk and not to buy meats from parties who tolerate flies. It Is a f i t that tiles are the most dangerous Insect known to man; Half are the filthiest vermin; are born in filth, live In filth and carry filth about with them; they are known to carry IFarmers' Union News | Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers ? (Conducted by n. w. Dahhs, Preaklenl Farmers' Union of Sumier County.) X The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features. The llrst to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Kn r iners which i have been requested to conduct. It will be my aim to give the Union news and ofnoal calls of the Union. To that end oilicors. and memUrs of tbe Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clip.dugs from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as I ttllnl will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori ? n ii articles by any of o r readers telling o^ their successes or .failures wfil be appreciated and | ablishcd. Trusting this Department will be of mutual neneflt to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs. Mayesville. S. C. * The -l orwarii Match!*1 in lino Farm" imr: Arn Von Ready? March is here: the first month of tiie 1910 crop-growing season. Let us sc.- if you are ready for the "For? ward. March!" of 1 ?10 farming in tin- South. First of all, let us see if we are ready to farm this year with labor saving tools. The man who has only one horse may be a good pro? gressive farmer and use only one-horse tools, plows, harrows, cul? tivators, and other Improved imple? ments. The only way to make money farming in the South Is to stop having men do work that mules might do. \\ c must stop having so many one horse power workon And just as we can not afford to waste our labor on out-of-date tools and machinery, so we cannot afford to waste our labor on scrub seed or scrub stock this year. We have long seen the necessity for getting improv? ed varieties for all garden seed; now we must recognize that there are just as great advantages in having im? proved varieties of corn and cotton and all other field crops. Director C. B, Williams has shown that Improv? ed varieties of cotton would add $3, 000,000 In cotton profits in a sing!" St ttt without the farmer shedding an i ? \tra drop of sweat or gi ing an ex? tra lick of work. The time has come when we must think too much of cur li n l work to throw it away on crnd tOOMj poor seed, and scrub stock. Then, too, we must see to it that we do not let Western formers mono millions of death-dealing disease forma, i deadly typhoid Is carried by them. Every home should be thor? oughly screened and every precaution taken to keep files out of the house. The S..nth Carolina Board Of Health thOUld take this matter up and begin I Campaign of education. The peo? ple as I rub- do not realise the impor? tance of sanitation. Pilot art allow? ed to brood In the garbage boxes and receptacles. These should be kept clean and plenty of lima should b used, iiorst stables are placet where they breed very fast. All stal-lcs thould be kept clean and the premises dry. ?eMHmsnssaftASiaManp?>Mwew?i Tbc Washington corroapondont of The Stau- says Ciov. Ansel was look? ing oval tae senate chamber Friday and Wondering which seat he Will I e called to occupy. We wonder! * * * Boma Of our good citi/.ens are al? ready worrying OVOf the noise that will pervade Main street when the vltiifled brick paving is completed, This It borrow ing trouble and crottlng the bridge before wo i ami to it. * * ? Aeptrantt foi municipal office are somewhat coy, but they are coming** * * ? The Firemen's pension law taxes the insurance companies, but tht tarr 1 hi* association will pass it up to the property owners. It is so easy to re classify |ht risks and make new rates. * ? * j Bomt months ago tin railroad com? mission put Into effect t new fertiliser tariff ostensibly decreasing the rate*, but strange to aay our fertiliser buy? ers find that they are paying more freight this year than they did last j ear, * * I The New York Supreme Court de ?lares that the cotton exchange la not I a bucket *1 op, but a legitimate mar? ket for trading in cotton. The de? cision may salve the feelings of those who have been separated from their money, for a man hates W< rat to be robbed (ban to be legitimately out traded. * ? ? The News and Courier is trying to find a mascot for the battleship South Carolina and a correspondent sug? gests a game cock. The suggestion Is a good one, and If ? ny can get Dr. King, of Mayesviiie, . ? let them have one of his (lame Cock county game cocks, which are known to bt tin games! birds in creation, tht South Carolina will have a mascot that has no feathers OH Its legs. pollse the big profits that aro being made 111 stn \ raising and poultry raising this year. Profits are bigger here than in any other line of farm? ing simply because it calls for more highly skilled labor, and skilled labor always demands higher wages than crude labor. Crude labor can make cotton and win a small profit, but stock-raising demands more intelli? gent labor and pays correspondingly bigger profits. And in stock-raising or poultry raialng, to make money as Western farmers do, we must raise improved breeds as Western farmers do. They can laugh in their sleeves at our com? petition so long as we try to catch up with them and use only scrub hogs, scrub cattle, and scrub hens. We might as well try to beat them In a race with a Southern mule matched against a Western race-horse.?Pro? gressive Farmer. Get Ready to Plant Corn. Now, the farmer who was wise enough to get crimson clover on his land to be planted in corn can afford to wait till it is fairly mature before turning it down. In all parts of the South we have plenty of time to mai:o a crop of corn after the clover has done all that it can for us, and with the exception of the Dower South, Man b corn planting is seldom the liest. Tbc best crop of corn I noticed last year was made after the clover was entirely dead. If you are so unfortunate as not to have the clover on the land you pro? pose to plant in corn, the sooner you get the land deeply plowed the bet? ter. Spring is not the time for sub soiling, even on land where subsoil ing is needed, for the surface may be in good condition for plowing while the subsoil will be in such a oondltlon that the lubsoiler will mere? ly plaster it. Good deep breaking and thorough chopping up with a cutaway is need? ed before planting( for you are going to work the crop shallow from the start. Som<> advise deep cultivation in the early stage of the corn crop. I have tried it, and as compared with shallow work from the start. 1 do not like it.?Prof. W. r. Massey, In Pro? gressive Farmer and Gazette. New System Installed. Prom The Daily Item March 12. The new central energy system talked Of for so long by t'tl' local tele? phone people will be put "n tonight. For months the employes of the com? pany have been working as hard as beavers getting everything In readi? ness. The switchboard, which will accommodate three thousand phones, has been installed, and I? ready for rutting In tonight. With this system the battery In the phone Is done away with, the*whole thing being run by a high-power mo tor and a storage battery. For fifty five hours the motor has been running charging ihe battery for service to? night. This new equipment will place the Sumter system In first rank. No sys? tem In the State will be better equip- ; pi rl than this one. The outfit was j manufactured at the Sumter Tele? phone factory, One might think that H will be a long time before a switchboard of three thousand drops will be needed In Sumter. At the present growth the hoard will he crowned again In a few years, it was only a few years ago thai a small local system was all that was needed. Tli.it first s\\ i t c h I ma r 1 has been replaced several times, each time by a larger one ???11>* a short while ago il was impossible to tfet a phone put In unless you would take a parts- line. Now all can be accom? modated, Tie- prom Ii e is thai the sen Ice from now on will be the l>est. and the pat? rons vmII have nu grounds for a kick. \t i a o'clock tonight the wire- will he changed from the old board, which has given such long and faithful ser? vice, to the new common battery mul? tiple outfit, This new hoard has an ultimate capacity of several thousand lines, and is at present equipped for i pearly too. it was furnished by the Sumter Telephone Mfg. Co., and la tnu heat outfit of its kind. Patrons of the telephone syst* in will please observe that the service between the hours of 10 p. m. Satur? day night and 6 a. m. Sunday may he somewhat Interrupted, hut no doubt will ho surprised and pleased to note on Sunday that to call Central it will only he necesasry to raise the receiv? er from the hook, all "Grinding" ??f the crank being eliminate'! Another very good feature of tic new system is the fact that hanging the receiver on the hook gives the operator the disconnect signal, it be? ing no longer necessary to "ring-off," and this disconnect signal is positive, therefore, It Is Impossible for the lines to get tied up. The transmission will be clearer with the new board and the operation much more rapid, and Sumter is now assured a telephone service of the highest class. COTTON MARKET UNSETTLED. Smallness Of World's Visible Supply Expected to be an important Factor in Trading. New Orleans, March 13.?The situa? tion in the cotton market remains as perplexing as ever. In despair over learning anything regarding the in? tentions of big hulls in connection with the old crop, the outside pub lie has largely withdrawn from the market. The new crop does not seem to be very Interesting to either pro? fessionals or outsiders. In connection with the old crop one feature during the coming week will stand out with great prominence and that is the return to this country of James A. Patten of Chicago which is expected to be soon after the middle of the week. What course he will pur? sue when he arrives will he in the meanwhile the subject of a great amount of speculation among cotton traders the world over. This great interest over Mr. Pat? ten's arrival in this country is, of course, due to the treatment he re? ceived in the spinning centre ol Man? chester, where he was jostled out of the cotton exchange by brokers who were not in sympathy with his bullish attitude on the market. The rough hadling of a representative American speculator was immediately taken up editorially by the newspapers of this country which devote much space to the markets, and it would seem that it may become a market feature of some importance. Hitherto, the lead? ing bulls have been very considerate of the interests of the spinners but now not a few traders on the hull side are inclined to think that the bulls will not show them so much consid? eration in the future. Last week it was the gossip of the market that those traders who are supposed to be associated with Mr. Patten were hold Ing the market In check so that the spinners might have the opportunity 01' reaching a trading basis with the spot holder?. The prediction w as fr< < ly made that this policy would be end< d. Mr. I'att?-n said he would visit England to study the cotton situation. The be? lief among Southern traders is that he went there In the interest of the 8 '-railed Southern and Western bull cliques who are supposed to be con tomplating a squeeze in the old crop, and it Is expected that developments Of importance will follow his arrival In this country. The statistical position of cotton will command intense interest this we '.< because the visible supply will 3ink below the 3,000,000-bale mark, while the visible supply last year at the same time was above 4,000,000 bales and the supply two years ago was around 3,250,000. The trade did not fully wake up to this fact last week but the bulls will be certain to seize on visible .supply figures begin? ning with the numeral "2" as the most bullish featuro that has come to light since the Sully year. From a bearish standpoint, the coming week has good possibilities, ? hiefly in the way of weather happen? ings. Kains of last week in the western belt have served to encourage hope that the drought has at last been broken and that from now on Texas will get enough rain to prevent bullish talk concerning the prospects. Should Texas get more rain this week, p.nd should fair weather rule in the eastern portions of the belt where plenty of moisture is in the soil, the bears will be encouraged to undertake new operations based on their old hope for a bumper crop. During the week more or less talk will lie heard about the total yield of the old crop because of the fact that March 21, only a week ahead, the census bureau will issue its final re? port of cotton ginning for the season. Ali ARM AT MIDXIGIIT. e Firemen Have Useless Hun in Dead of Night. Thursday" night at 12:45 fire alarm sounded and the firemen turned out. The call came in from box 35. The firemen went as far as Ryttenberg's place and saw that the rellection came from out in the country. The building was a three room cottage belonging to Mr. C. W. Kingman and was occupied by Mr. Purvis. Mr. Pur? vis was getting ready to move out. The building was insured. Among the avowed candidates for county offices is Mr. P. M. Pitts. He will stand for re-election. Mr. C. F. Schwerin has the con? tract for building the new Methodist church at Smithville. This will be a frame structure that will cost about $3,500. C-mnot Praise Pc-ru-nm Hi& Utteugh for tke Hood it //as Otnt* Afe. MRS. JOHN HCPP. ?T^fRS. JOHN HOPP, Website I I wL ?ilendale, L. I., N. Y., writes: ??1 have been snrT"rin? for the pa ten years with many symptoms inc (' '!it to my age, also catarrh and ind p uion. I v as weak and discourage I ad no ambition, could not sleep night, and lost greatly in weight. "I tried other remedies, but with l success, until I commenced to take P runs* I now feel better in every r ppect* can sleep well, and have gain* i:: weight. I cannot praise Perm highly enough for the good it has doi ? I r any women are su -ering as I di I v. onld advise them to try Peruna at convince themselves. Peruna has dot : good. I know by my experien that it Is worth its weight in gold tiiy one who needs it. ?I also took M ana! in, for constipatio In ''onnection With i\runa,and I foni it helped me where other laxativ failed." Now Well of Catarrh. Miss Malisa Jolley, Parmele, N. C writes: "I have been taking your P ru:ia, and can say that I am well of tl catarrh. ?*1 thank you for your kindness ai your advice." A FREAK CHICKEN. Auditor Wilder had one Hatched wi Four LegV. A four-legged chicken is no long a curiosity in Sumter, since the foi legged cock on Main street has be (rowing. Auditor Wilder had four-legged chicken hatched out ll Sunday. The chick has four well c lined legs. Two are where th should be and just in front of th< were two others. The freak did r live, and if it had, it is not knoi whether it would crow or not. Ten bushels of corn were giv to the members of the Boys* Co Club last Saturday. This was t best seed corn to be had. Our Spring Suits! IF clothes have any influence on the W orld's opinion of a Man?and they certain? ly have?the Man we Suits this Spring will bask in the sunlight of public esteem. . Our clothes are fash? ioned for critical eyes, and the\- are Tailored for crit? ical tastes by Master hands. The Season's choice and correct Models are ready for inspection or choosing. Suits $10, $15 and $18, Along Easy Steps to $30. w K touch your purse as lightly as possible, and our splen? did values help you to be happy in your Clothe-. It o. i Phone 166. Suinter, S. C.