ELECTION IN MANNING.
Nineteen Votes \Ntut Which Thorr is
Contest leaves Result Doubtful in
Thai Town.
Manning. April 11.?The bi-ennlal
election for mayor and aldermen was
held here toda\, when 237 ballots
were cast. 19 of which were protested
and not yet counted. There were two
candidates for mayor. A. C. Bradham.
at present acting mayor, and Capt.
W. C. Davis, a prominent lawyer.
There were 11 candidates for the
office of alderman, six to he chosen.
The names of all 11 candidates for
alderman were printed on all the
tickets with instructions to the
voters to scratch five names, thus
leaving six voted for on each ticket.
At the head of one set of tickets the
name of A. C. Bradham for mayor
was printed, and at the head of
another set of tickets the name of
W. C. Davis for mayor was printed.
The IIS ballots counted resulted as
follows: For mayor. A. C. Bradham
SIS; W. C. Davis 100; for alderman,
S. C. Horton 171; S. Oliver O'Bryan
171; David Levl 158; E. S. Ervln 150;
W. P. Legs 132; 8. M. Reardon 104;
R. D. Clark 98; C. M. White 98; O.
L. Dlckson 93; T. M. Nimmer 55; O.
W. McRoy 51.
It has not yet been decided what
oourae wilt be pursued as to the 19
protested ballots. In which the choice
of mayor and one alderman, is in?
volved, but it is settled that Messrs.
Horton. O'Bryan. Levl. Ervin and
Legg will be In the next board of
aldermen.
A ROUND THE COURT HOUSE.
Mary Sander* Caught?Five Convicts
to the Lang
Five convicts. John Loney, five
years; Henry Herlott. 18 months; Doc
Du Kant, one year; Peter Divine, one
year and Anderson Holman, one
year, were sent to the chalngang
Monday morning. It Is hoped they
will know how to respect the law
after taking a course In the Pitts Good
Roads Class.
Roland Williams, who was surrend?
ered by his bondsman last week, and
lodged In Ja 11. has been able to give
bond again and has been released.
He Is charged with being an accom?
plice to the shooting of Mr. T. J.
Klrven. of Providence some time ago
Mary Sanders. wanted for grand
larceny, has been located in Char?
lotte. N. C. and will be sent for Just
as soon as the papers can be pre pared
Mary was arrested and gave bond
with H. T. Edens as bo idsman.
When called at court she was not
here. A bench warrant was issued.
It will cost the county and State a
good sum to get her back.
Lee J'ounty Corn Growers.
Blshopvllle. April 11.?-The Lee
County Corn Growers' Association
was organised in the Court House
here Saturday by L. L. Baker, mana
ser of the farm demonstration work
of Lee County, under which auspi?
ces the Association was formed. The
officers are as follows:
President. W. S. Wheeler. St!
Charb .
Vice ^resident, W. W. Player.
Blshopvllle.
Se. rotary K. E. Wells, St.
Char
After a number of Intelligent and
enlightening BBeeelMg upon the sub?
ject of growing and breeding corn
and the ncer.slty of su? h an organi?
sation, the president appointed a com?
mittee of three to draft by-laws and
rub * Sgf the Association. This com?
mittee will report at the next meet?
ing "f the Asesjctettosi which win be
upon the sag of the president.
I n;i in GREENVILLE.
ii i,i wi^ w. Parker Destroyed
H?. Fin?I .<??.* $.;:>,ono?Valuable
Effect* Waived.
QteoSJVtMo, April 10.?Fire n suit?
ing In the destruction of Lewis \V.
Park. r's resid? n?? o.-curred here
early this sans alag Tie- building
which was erected at n cost of
?ee Is reported a total loss. Many
vain tide fco UBS hold effects were saved
from tbc Sajaea A stubborn tight
put up by the fire department was
una'ailing as the fir,- had gained
gre.it fceadWBJf BSJfof ISM arrival of
the fire d- p irtmerif The amount of
Insurance held on the property is not
stated.
CT? SShertela'S Stomach and Liver
Tablets assist nature In driving nil
Impi Title* ??ut of tho ST Stoat, insuring
a free and r? gutaf condition and r? -
storing the organs of the body to
health and strength. Sold by W. W.
Flbert.
will the Democratic party jump
fp?m n party of too innnv generals to
BSH of luflj many Presidential enndi
dates??Washington Post.
Diarrhoea should be cured without
toes of time and by a ssedlelne which
like Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy led only cures
promptly but produces no unpleasant
after effects. It never falls and Is
pleasant tnd safe to take. Sold bv
W. W Slbert.
IXVITEB TO DENMARK.
'E. I. 11." Can (ilvc 'Fin "Hot Air" to
"Bent the Band.*'
The business men of the hustling
town of Denmark have invited Mr.
E. I. Reardon to visit that place and
give them a talk as to the best
methods of organizing and manag?
ing a chamber of commerce. The
writer of the letter of invitation says
that they have heard so much of
Sumter and the way we do things
over here that they are willing to
get all of the Information possible
from this city.
FROM NATURAL CAUSES.
Negro Died after Taking Brink of
"Fire Water."
Demas Scott, colored, died about
seven miles from town on the Bishop
vllle road last Friday after taking a
drink of whiskey. The physician call?
ed In at the time pronounced It a case
of alcoholic poisoning. The Coroner
was not called in at it was a clear
case of death from natural causes.
Such stuff as he drank will just
naturally kill you.
STOLE 20? POUNDS OF MEAT.
Thief Enters Smoke House ami Makes
Hood Haul.
A thief entered the smoke house
of Mr. Frank Mlms at Shiloh last
Sunday night and stole about 200
pounds of home cured meat. At this
time when meat is so valuable, that
was a big steal. Several houses In the
neighborhood were searched for the
missing nieat, but no trace of it or
the thief has yet been found.
'HUKTLNG BUSINESS.'
There Are People Who Think the
Truth Should be Suppressed.
Not long ago a man in Illinois wrote
to a newspaper, protesting against an
agitation concerning certain high?
ways, "It hurts business," he said,
"to be forever talking about the mud?
dy roads of Illinois." There was re?
cently a mild outbreak of smallpox
In a New England city, and earnest
efforts were made to suppress the
facts for fear that publicity would In?
jure the commercial Interests of the
community.
One of the reasons why Montreal
gave up Its practice of erecting a
beautiful Ice palace each winter was
the argument that it hurt Canadian
business to have th impression of
severe winters go abroad. When the
gift of one million dollars was made
for the purpose of fighting the hook?
worm, a few people in the South re?
sented it on the ground that the cru?
sade would injure the good name and
the business prosperity of that part
of the country
Similar Instances might be multi?
plied. The cry of "don't hurt busi?
ness!" is raised by timid souls who
fear agitation of any kind, by politi?
cians who have an Instinctive horror
of publicity, and well-meaning people
who honestly believe it is affected by
various wholly foreign influences.
As for the last class, it is a safe
assertion that their fears are usually
groundless,
Trade is a matter largely deter?
mined by the needs, conveniences and
habits of the buyer. Business, local
and secth nal, depends upon bigger
and broader considerations than
those mentioned at the opening of
this article. No one will hesitate to
buy Canadian lumbar bacaUM Quebec
Province has cold winters, and Illi?
nois es command Its prices regard?
less of the state of its highways.?
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\cw state Maps Read) Boon.
Columbia? April 7.- -The new State
map. containing the county of Dillon,
v ill be issued soon by the department
of tgriculture, commerce and indus?
tries. There is no map now with Dil?
lon on it. There will also be publish?
ed a good roads map for this State.
The map will be on plain white paper,
showing the roads in color.
I'.' ery family and especially those
who reside in the country should be
provided at all times with a bottle of
Chamberlain' Liniment. There is no
telling when It may be wanted in
? i^es of nn accident or emergency,
it is most excellent in all oases of
rheumatism, sprains and bruises,
Sold by W, W. Sibert.
Rosa A mirk, the 13-year daughter
of Mr. .1. B, Amlck, of Lexington, was
seriously bitten by a mad dog Mon?
day.
Your longUS Is coated.
Your breath Is foul.
Headache come and go,
These symptom! show that your
Stoma? h is the trouble. To remove
the eauaa is the first thing, and
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Tablets will do that. Easy t ? take
and most affective, Bold by W. W,
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QUESTION OF SOIL FERTILITY.
Secretary Wilson's Report on Impor?
tant Matter.
In speaking of the great question
of soil fertility, which is occupying the
minds of agriculturists all over the
country and the attention of the
people?as to whether the American
soils are continually wearing out, as
some authorities say and as the
soil experts of the United States bu?
reau of soils contend to the contrary
?Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson in his annual report deals with
the subject as follows:
"A great and fundemental prob?
lem, which has confronted our peo?
ple, as it has the people of the world,
la the question of the permanency of
soil fertility. Of late years, particul?
arly, the idea has prevailed that the
soils of varrious parts of the United
States are wearing out through loss
of mineral plant food, and that a
serious condition is thus presented
for the future of our people. So
Important and fundamental Is this
problem for the welfare of our peo?
ple that I directed a thorough ex?
amination to be made of the whole
subject, and an exhaustive report has
been issued, from which certain im?
portant conclusions can be given in
a few words.
"It has been found from the rec?
ords kept by our department that,
on the average, crop yields per acre
have shown a decided tendency to in?
crease during a period of forty years,
and that there is no evidence of gen?
eral decrease over largre areas or in
any particular State, as is popularly
supposed. This Indicates, undoubt?
edly, that on the average our peo?
ple are farming more intelligently,
and, therefore, more successfully, and
that we are, through these more in?
telligent methods, winning gradually
larger returns from the soil.
"It has been held, however, by
some writers that even if the yields
are increasing, the element of dan?
ger Is that the larger crops remove
larger amounts of plant food from
the soils and bring nearer the time
when the soils will eventually wear
out. To meet this argument It has
been necessary $0 extend the In?
vestigation Into older countries, and
the records of Europe have been
searched for Information in regard
to the past history of these older
countries that can be taken as a
safe guide for the future of the newer
soils of the United States. These rec?
ords Indicate that in the middle of
the sixteenth century, or. roughly
speaking, three to four hundred
years ago, the soil of Central and
Northern Europe were producing on
the avergae about as much wheat per
acre as the soils of the United States
are producing at the present time.
These European soils have been oc?
cupied for agricultural purposes for
at least a thousand years, during
most of which period the country
was more densly populated than the
United States is at the present time.
So far as records are obtainable, they
indicate that as a result of increas?
ing population and more Intensive
and more intelligent methods of soil
control, the averrage of their longer
occupation, the average yield per acre
has Increased, until in the case of
Northern Euproe the soils are now
producing about two or two and one
half times as much per a^re as the
newer s<dls of the United States are
producing.
in addition to this evidence ?'1'
actual crop yields per acre, an ex?
haustive Investigation has been made
of all the chemical analyses which
have been made of soils for the last
eighteen years in certain counrtles of
Northern Europe in which crop yields
have 1? en Increasing and likewise of
the soils of the Tinted States. In?
cluding tie- older soils of the Bast
m States and the newer soils of the
W< rtern States. The results Of these
analyses, published side by side, show
no significant difference In chemical
composition between the older soils
of Europe and the newer soils of the
United states. Microscopical exami?
nations of the soils fall to show that
the longer occupation of the soils of
Europe has changed notlcebaly the
min? ralogiral character of the soils.
It is reasonable to infer from the
work that has be? n done that with?
in historic tines the occupation of
the soils for agrii ultural purposes has
failed to noticeably change the min?
eral character of the soli material up
oji which the future life of the nation
must ultimately depend The reason
for this and the laws of nature which
permit the s.dls thus to be continuous?
ly occupied and used for mankind as
freely as the air ar.mpllcr.ted and
dlfTti ilt to understand, and offer a
profitable field of research for our
agricultural colleges and experiment
stations.
"While this satisfactory solution ol
this main question iS hopeful fur the
nitslon, nevertheless individual farms
run down through noi I? t. lack of
Intelligent cultivation, nnd lack of
knowledge to roII adaptations and
methods ol control. So far as can be
observed at the presenl time, cases
of failure on the farm are due to In?
dividual neglect or mlsjudgment. Such
Injulry as has resulted to the soil In
such cases may be remedied by
change of ownership or by more in?
telligent methods of control, and is
therefore not fundamentally due to
the soil itself, but to the people who
have worked the soil. This is a con?
dition which can be improved either
through force of necessity, as it has
been in the case of Eurpoe in the
past, with increasing population and
greater necessities, or through edu?
cation and force of Intellect, utilizing
the advance knowledge which now
prevails alike in Europe and Ameri?
ca.
"The first lesson that our people
must learn?one which is taught by
the operations of the soil survey?is
that we have a great variety of
soil types (700 different types of soil
having already been encountered In
^he aera that has been surveyed,)
and each one of these soil types has
its own pecularities, its own charac?
teristics, and its own peculiar adap?
tation to crops, rotation schemes, and
methods of soil control. This is the
great fundamental fact which our
farmers must understand: The first
step in agricultural development is
the knowledge of the peculiar soil
characteristics of the farm.
"The idea has prevailed in the past
that through the use of commercial
fertilizers and intelligent control all
soils can be made to produce at will
any crop that it is desired to grow.
From a scientific standpoint this may
be possible, but it can not he done
at a profit. There are soils that can
not be adapted commericially to
wheat production; there are also soils
that can not be adapted commercially
to fruit culture, and there are soils
that can not be adapted commercial?
ly to any of our staple crops, and
should remain as forest soils. The
highest development of agricultural
production will result from the adap?
tion of each type of soil to a particu?
lar line of crops, bearing in mind at
all times the market requirements
and the transportation facilities."
King Victor Emmanuel enjoyed
driving with Colonel Roosevelt, but
the odds are against his Majesty hav?
ing any desire to take a country walk
with him.?Louisville Courier-Jour?
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Phone 333.
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