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WEDNESDAY, A^HIL 27, ISl'O. The Sumter Watchman wu* fo liul ed in lv'.'i ami the Tine tOtttBTOII in IMC. The VYatchm in and ?Ottlar? D mow has the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and I? manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. IN Till POLICE (OHM. Thing* Vre (.citing Lively?Pulling \utoinoblle and liif)clc Mitfl Wb<> Violate Ilm lau. A blind tiger case was tried in the Recorder's court Saturday which added $100 to the city treasury. A week ago Otflcer McKagen, who is always' on the lookout for the viola? tors of the law, arrested Tom Green, colored, as he was going to the res? taurant of Reese James on East Lib? erty street with three quarts In a sack. Tom told the officer that he was bringing it from Epperson's Pen to Reese James' restaurant, that Reese had given him a pint to cut some wood for him and to bring the boose. The case was tried this morn? ing after Reese pleaded not guilty. The result was a conviction and the sentence was that Reese pay $100 or serve 30 days on the gang. He paid his fine, much to the surprise of all. Friday night Officer McKagen made another arrest. While patrolling on West Liberty, near Walker Ave., he saw a negro carrying a suit case. When the officer came up he dodged into an alley, but McKagen got him. He had two gallons and a half of whiskey, which he said was for 8am Davis. The case was tried Saturday by the Recorder, a: il the docket re? cords the following disposition it it: n careful inquiry it was shown that Davis had sent to Columbia for whiskey for himself and witnesses. Defendant Smith S is taking it |SJ Ds> vis when arrested and was not other? wise involved. There seemed to be no probable case and defendants were dismissed." Roth Smith and Da\ Is were tried. Is It not sgalnst the law to trans? port whiskey in the night time? Several minor cases have been dis? posed of in the last few days. Henry Robinson, colored, was up for disturbing the peace and cutting Isaac Hradford. He was given $10 or 30 days. He paid his tine. J. 0. Miller, white, drunk. $2 or 4 days. J. C. Cole, carrying concealed weapon. $15 or 30 days. Trlxle Kins; and Robert Plowden, vagrancy, dismissed for lack of evidence. The Recorder was busy on Mon? day disposing of the cases brought before him. Tom Dye. a negro from near Ash lanU was drunk K""l and prop?? Sat? urday afterncon. He said h*; wu d:unk a a- asked the mer?. v <f the court. He did not remember any? thing aft? r he ?ot his whiskey In Timmons\ il!e. Hi had | rar.or In his pock. t. He got $20 < r 30 days. Ruft.s Washington, running auto? mobile f.. .er than the law allows, was One.'. Mabel Brass; n contributed $3 to the city treasury for larceny. Harry Larkln and Anthony White got Into a fight and each contributed $3 towards pavlne Main street. Jack Johnson, drunk and carrying a razor, helped the cause by adding ftfl Isj wha' had already been con? tribute.' Ilenrv Jos? v. I'd Ilenjamln and G. A. Stewy. each contributed $1 to building aaHSf streets so they can get off the sidewalks. Converse Held, drunk, $r,. dsSSSSf Wilson, drunk, $5. J. It. F.rltton. driving automol ito too f ist. $10. Rai I'd a Hough HoSSSB, Ja? k Johnson, colored, living on Mayor Jennings plantation, went to Columbia Sunday and tanked up on some ??! the lire water dispensed In that < Ity and came home feeling pret? ty much llko raising a rough house. He wan scry disorderly on the train. Officer M< Kagen. H im meets all the trains arrested him and bn k< d him up. In his pocket was found a razor ready for business. He contributed $15 to the malntainam ?? of the city of Sumter. He Is a wiser but sadder man todav Young Duncan Owens, who was n? < sjpylng a tent In tho yard of Mr. I?. \V. Owens, died l ist Saturday and his body was < arrled to Mulllns, his old home, for Interment. Ho was a tuberculosis patient of the Civic League Th?- Dally I less and other friends of Mr. John K. t'r<?s4well have re? ceived copies of the Manila Times of Marth 21st. The Cook Tourist Par? ty, of whb h Mr. Crosswell Is a mem? ber arrived In Manila on March 20th on the trip around the world. warmers' Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (OoMtaeM bf B, W? Dabbs, President Pannen Union of Stumer County.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would improve that service hy special features. The tlrst to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Farmers which 1 have been requested to conduct. It will be my aim to give the Union news and official calls ol the Union. To that end officers, and members of t?\e Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clip Ings from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Pulletins as I thlnn will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of o. r readers tolling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | jblished. 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. Mayesvllle, S. C. IHM Random Thoughts. I wonder how many readers of this page or for that matter of the Pro? gressive Farmer from which the clipping is taken, "Two Sources of Nitrogen" believe in a practical way what Prof. Massey says about the ni? trogen supply? Judging by the fer? tilizer sales, and the small acres that are put In legumes one would say very few believe that there is as much nitrogen in a crop of clover as in a ton of 8?2?2. Hut, but? well before these winter cover crops can be used there must be farm fences, otherwise roaming stock (and my observation is that re? gardless of the stock law every com? munity is Infested with stock at large from September to March) will make the effort to grow these crops an? other source of aggravation. Several other articles deserve spe i i ll mention but time and space for bid at this time. E. W. P. Do It Yourself! I'm not going to wait for anybody's shoes! 1 can make this old farm just hum my own self, and I know It!" Folks have said for yeais that! I some day John Turner would be a| rich man when his uncle died and left him all his property. He was the only heir and the uncle would sure? ly remember him In his will. John Turner had thought about this him? self. How could any young man with Are in his heart and a longing to do things help that? But he had not let the dream keep him awake. 'Things may not come out as they bid fair to. You never can tell where shoes will turn up after the man has Joen wearing them slips them off! I have two good strong arms. My head no i v not be as clear as some folks' but It is no 'puddln-head* after all! I'm going on and show them where I'll come out!" So he went ahead and turned the old place upside down with his strong, up-to-date farming. People who .vent that way, declared that they hardly knew the old farm. The h >use was changed, the buildings? all. in fact, took on a more prosper? ous look, the crops began to fill the barns, and everything showed that John Turner was wearing shoes of bis own. They fitted well, too. I >o you know of any young men who are just waiting for somebody to boost them up on their shoulders and help them "get a start" In the world .' Tharc are lots of them scat* t? red all over the country. They need pity? Not at all. They need a l it of the same tire in their hearts that stirred John Turner to do what be did. Any man with a back i one Up and down bis body, instead ? ?f a tow string, will never lose any time ?peculating what will be his fortune after somebody else passes on. The man who does that is not worthy the name of man. There is only one thing that makes a man sueessful. and that is, what be has done himself. To Step Up to the bank window and receive a Ids bundle of money that has been sav? ed up by another Is not fortune?it i^ misfortune, in nine cases out of ten. The crops we grow ourselves are the best of any this old world e\er will give us. Shoes that some one else has worn never fit the man who has stood look" Ing at them for yean and wishing bo i ould try them on. They pinch in one plate ;inl mal<e bunions h, an? other. Put yourself into this world. yotlBfl men. The world wants you. It will Kiw? yoil the best it has If you only show y..u are worthy of It.?Edgar I,. Vincent In Progressive Farmer. Two Monroes of Nitrofen. After all that I have written in The Progressive Farmer and Qaaette In regard to rfop rotation and the mak? ing of cheap corn, my mail is burden ad With letters from farmers asking what formula of felt litter is best to put under corn. I Invariably say that the boat thing i nave aver known under corn is a crimson clover sod on which the farm manure has heen broadcasted during the winter. I would not give such a preparation for all the fertilizer Mr. Williamson cures his, stunted corn with. There is nothing that tires me so much as the constant dependence of our farmers on fertlliezrs to grow, crops. Now and then I am encourag? ed by one who writes asking the best rotation of crops for his land, for I think that here is at least one who is trying to get out of the bondage tc the fertilizer trust, and to go to farm? ing in reality. One reader asks: "Is cottonseed meal and acid phosphate mixed in equal parts better for corn than 8?2 ?2 fertilizer?" In such a mixture he would get over 9 per cent of phos? phoric acid, more than twice as much nitrogen as in the 8?2?2 and very nearly as much potash. The diffi? culty is, that farmers will not study the amounts of plant food contained in the different materials used it mixing fertilizer nor the cost of the elements they want in eacb. At pres? ent prices nitrogen in cottonseed meal is rather costly as compared with nitrate of soda, hut if nitrogen is used, we need some organic form to go with the nitrate to keep up the feeding of the crop, and you cr;n refer to the bulletins of the State depart? ments of agriculture and of the ex? periment stations and find out what nitrogen costs in various materials. Hut, while nitrogen is costly in any form when bought In a fertilizer, it is the cheapest thing the farmer can get if he farms right, and uses the le? gumes to get it for him. Then he never needs to spend a cent for nitro? gen in a fertilizer, and can, for thl same money he has been spending for complete fertilizer mixtures, get far more phosphoric acid and pot? ash, that will stay in his soil till some plant calls for them, and will not leach away as nitrogen does as soon as it is in a form that plants can use. All over the South men are paying 20 cents or more a pound for nitro? gen in mixed fertilizers, when by proper systematic farming they could have free on every acre cultivated more nitrogen than a whole ton of 8?2?2 will give them. Two hun? dred pounds of 8?2?2 adds less than 4 pounds of nitrogen when spread over a whole acre, yet many farmers expect this to have a great effect. Try to spread 25 pounds of nitrate of soda evenly over a whote acre, and you will find that it is put there very thinly. And yet that will be about equal to the 4 pounds of am? monia in the 200 pounds of 8?2?2. A ton of the 8 ? 2?2 will contain 34 pounds of actual nitrogen. A crop of crimson clover turned under mature win gi\e you from 40 to 50 pounds an acre of nitrogen, or faj more than you would get in a whole ton of the 8?2?2. Yet you win pay hard cash to tiu- tune of nearly $7 for the nitro? gen In the ton of fertiliser, when the clover will give you almost twice as much and will add humus to the soil. Thousands are using a little over three pounds of actual nitrogen when they could have turned under to the ( rop over 1" pounds in a crop of ? lover, and would have added perma? nent Improvement to the soil; and millions of tons of 8?2?2 are sold under over 200 different brands, 1 while unesttmated millions of pounds of nitrogen Moat over every acre waiting for some one to catch them, and gel paid for the catching in the Increased production of his land. So Southern farmers wade through a sea of nitrogen and dream golden dreams over a little Back of fertilizer they pay their hard cash for, because tb< Sack stinks and the air does not, though nature is ready to supply all tneded nitrogen If the farmer will only use tin- means for getting it. - Prof, Masses- in Progressive Farmer. The Bumt< r high school team were Iwaten Friday In Florence by a score of it to '.?. There must have j been s? me bum playing. The boys were (?( nsoled, however. They stayed over that nlghi for a party and wa re given a loyal time, REV. J. G. DUKES Writes: Afy wife has been in a very bad state of health. Nothing seemed to do her any good until she began TO USE PERUNA. i lag? f.? ?$>?: MRS. J. G. DUKES. Rev. J. G. Pukes, Pastor of the Uni? tarian Church of Piuetown, N. C.? writes: ?'My wife has been in a very bad state of health for several years, and nothing seemed to do her any good until she began to use Peruna one month ago. fcince then the color has returned to'her face, and she is gaining in flesh every day, and I believe she is a well .vornan to-day. "My little boy, ten years old, was palo and had but little life. He began to use Peruna the day his mother began. To day his face is rosy, and he is out in the yard running and jumping with the rest of the children." Stomijch Trouble Relieved. Mrs. T. J. Ballard, Pryor Creek, Indian Territory, writes: "I am happy to tell you that I keep free from my old stomach trouble; feel no catarrhal symptoms at all. I am able to do my work, eat and drink what I want, and rejoice that T found a sure euro in your valuable medicines, which I failed to bud in the best of hom - physicians." The suggestion that Hon. R. S. Whaley, of Charleston, be made the permanent chairman of the democra? tic convention has met with approval in Sumter, where Dr. Whaley has a large number of friends. Dr. S. C. Baker's colored automo? bile driver was pulled for speeding and fined $10 Saturday. Another arrest has been made, but the de? fendant has not been tried yet. Chief Bradford Is getting in behind them. In the report of the club meeting Saturday the names of Dr. Geo. W. Dick as executive committeeman from Ward Four, and L. I. Parrott, as delegate from Ward Two were omitted. OKoiinell 6 Co. THE POPULAR STORE OF SUM? TE R. : : TO ALL OUR FRIENDS : When you are in to buy for the Spring and Summer, remem? ber that this big store, where each depart? ment is really a store in itself, can offer you values that are well worth your time to see. Buying as large as we do and paying the hard down cash for them as we do, makes the manufacturer anxious to sell us and sell us at the very lowest price. They know they don't have to wait for their money. I We are Headquarters for DRY GOODS of Every Description Shoes for Man, Woman or Child. Clothing for Man or Boy. Groceries for the Whole Family. O'Donnell 6 Co. Tindal Tidings. Tindal, April25.?The Earle Demo? cratic Club met and re-organized on Saturday, April 23rd, at 4 o'clock p. m. with six members present. The officers electe'd were: T. E. Hodge, president; M. L. Hodge, vice president; W. M. Broad? way, secretary; H. D. Tindal, member of executive committee; delegates to county convention: M. L. Hodge, Ezra Hodge, S. D. Richardson, T. E. I Hodge, W. C. Sims, J. A. Hodge. Sunnyside school will close next Friday with a picnic on the school J grounds. There will be entertaining exercises, and a splendid day is as j sured all who attend. Superintendent of Education Swearingen has sent out the second installment for the high schools in the State. The General Sumter Memorial Academy received $150, making the total amount for that school $300. The Rembert school received $155, making that total $310. OUR CLOTHING Is made to satisfy you, to please your friends and to boost our reputation as good clothiers. We are doing our utmost to attain all these ends? Unhesitatingly we say "the makes we handle cannot be excelled." You'll find this out when you wear them. The Sumter Clothing Company