Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1910. Tb? 8 um tar Watchman waa found? ed In 1160 and the True Southron In 1IIC. The Watchman and Southron now haa the combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising saedlum In 8umter. While all newspaper men will re? joice that Col. E. J. Watson, on'.-e an active and successful newspaper worker, and still a prolific copy pro tftn er, haa been tendered an Impor? tant position by the Federal govern? ment at a lucrative salary, they hate to hear him talk like a one horse preacher who accidentally gets a call to a big church. Why don't he come right out and say that as It is a big? ger and better Job, with a salary pro p .it.onate thereto, he will accept with thanks, and do his best to hold It down and keep in line for something better. a a e Memmlnger's construction of the sec tion of the Carey-Cothran law declaring It unlawful for any person, Arm or corporation to receive, ac? cept, store or keep in possession any Intoxicating liquors, Is undoubtedly cor-e? t. Hut If the attempt should re made to enforce the law to tho ieite? the State would be turned up side d wn within thirty days. If eve/v man who received liquor from the express office were arrested and prosecuted, and If every man who has liquor In his house or in his locl' er at his club were convicted and sent to the chalngang. a complete system of good roads could be con? structed throughout South Carolina before the first frost. But the law Is on the statute book, and unless It is Ignored in the future, as It has been In the p.ist. there 11 trouble in MgfC for lots of people. Just suppose some aealous and fearless ?herlff, who has no respect for public opinion, shou'd start a crusade against the storage of liquor, and should have search war? rants Issued against every man whom he suspects of having liquor in his pantry or sideboard and then proceed to make cases against each tnd every one In whose possession he found liquor, what would happen? Under Judge Memmlnger's construc? tion of the law the Jury would be for* ? u t.. declare each and ?ver> 0U6 guilty of violation of the Carey-Coth? ran law. It may be a fool law, but It is the law, nevertheless, and the ; Judge and Jury have no option but 1 to enforee it according to the letter. 1 In the meanwhile those who keep a little for personal use, had better keep It well hidden, for If they don't 1 watch out John Doe will get them. Dishonest Scales. I ft was discovered not long ago that , there is a factory in this country , nanufacturing dishonest scales exclu- , shely. In New York the other day | sn official of the I'.ureiu of Weight*- , sr.d Measures called i number of IhC < r? pn M'-nt.tth? s of wholesale meat c< mpanies lOgOthsr. Hi brought out , ii ( ill s i1.,. :tnd se\ era I pack.ig-m of b?*h. b;o on ari l beef. He ??:?> ???? ?'? t ? weigh them. A ham marl. ? it. lean ;'nd i Quartet poun^H er? la; II a. ighed something over e'e en pounds. A sl^e of bacon m<* *!<ed live and I virt-r pounds was found to actually v rlgh four nonfc't-J an.! leu "mo ?. <>ther weights were found to r ? I ultv. I i i always In favor of the ?.? I? r. n. . r in fa*- - r of the -oO i*um? i The j ri< of meats Is abnorm, ' v Mgr. the lest. Many family-. ha\S 1* ??.. >r e l t ? eschew a men* diet ; I n ? itlrely, which m?y i good | In the summer lines illhougtl ? ? ? or l ss of a hardship in the * ?nt< ? 11 ??then tore, that tie ?aggUfttl r should get What he pays f r les llni of b. ? I with wood1 11 >:r i b rs arid skewer; s nil ri^l.i. s'v nld not be wetgtM l In s/i I ;b meal l*naf>'i who rnnt ?? buy v i l do not t i ko t ? l bun her to it- t \dde from the svork of the dlff?: ? mum Ipalltles in examining all - ilet and seeing that they are a. it v i.! i apparently be i w*se t - ? r the house keener t<? vcr r ' Weight! and thus ggggfl r.ni.-l' f a Square deal.?News aril Courn r. .MM AMI I I \M hi \1> Regra If ure)erras head Before Peti? tion lor Pardon ( oiihl he \ctctl ?I b.v Williams, a negro woman who ? nsieted In 1D0| on the charge o* murder and ISntsnced to the pen ? iary for life, recently died in ll?. penitentiary while a petition for her pardon was pending before the ? |. irdoim i in Wedm sda v t??c /\nsel endorsed on the petition "I'rtn i ner died since this ptUUoa was filed." Jane Williams was convicted of th? murder of John itlchardson. a nevr ? hoy, whose throat she cut In ? row at her home near Stateburg. ments on South Sum Farmers' Union News -AND Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President runners' Union of Sumter County.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double Its service by semi-weekly publication, would impr ove th*?t service by special features The first to be Inaugurated is this De partment for the Farmers' Union and Practical Farmers which I have been requeued to conduct. It will be my aim to give the Union news and oft! cial calls of the Union. To that end officers, and members of the Union ar e requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clij dngs from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of o. r readers te Hing of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | oibllshed. Trusting this Department will be of mutual ueneflt to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabby. Mayeevllle. S. C. B?hm RmmAmb Tboughte, (in Tuesday the writer met with the Marion County Union at Nebo, | I Ifl BrittOB'l Ntok. Going lO Marion on the evening train of the 4th tlv.it night was sprat at the hospitable home Ol Bro, J, 1>. Montgomery. The) nOXl morning some of the handsome residences and spurious lawns of the J pretty old town were ihown In a short drive about the city. It re? minded me of the Bumter of 25 years ago, When some of the best crops of cotton. coin, peas and oats were grown right in the heart Of the town, one field of corn of two acres will be near the top next fall when the >hlds arc being published. At i' o'clock Bro. Montgomery, Bro. Dun? au Melntyre and Uro. Pres. Joins and the writer comfortably tilled liro. Jones' handsome car and the IS miles to Nebo was covered in an hour and a half. We drove almost clue south right down toward the fork of Big and Little Pee Dee riv? ers, but It was 26 miles further to the fork. Our meeting place was some five miles from Snows Island and the old fort that Gen. Marion built to command Big Pee Dee river. Kor three miles we were within a mile of Little Pee Dee where, al? though 8 miles from Dig Pee Dee, the waters of this river In 1908 ovrred the road in places deep ?nough to swim a horse, and along tome parts It was so swift that a boat ould not be paddled against the cur? rent, the freshet of the larger river >reaklng across the upper end of Brltton'i Neck to And an outlet in the Little Pee Dee which was not >n such a boom. South of this point he land was higher in many places, ?ut September 6th 1908, fully three 'ourths of all the ni ek was under reter and not two hundred yards from our meeting place l was told he water covered what appeared to ? high land. Tin- country is very nuch like this Bleck River, Pudding swamp section, and when drained md brought into dose touch with he outside world, win be equally as mod firming section as Little Rock j >r the R| Ige. I The County Union was ? very good n in spite of Ihi rains and grass. The Union is numerically as strong is i.e.-. Bumter and Calarendon coun? ties < omblned, and Will build an up to-date cotton end storage warehouse this fall, There will be a meeting of the subscribers lo stock tomorrow to organise. And t ? y ware so much p'east d with my account of the Bum* b r {brokerage Company and Produce Bxchange, that a celled meeting of fin Union will be held on Ihe Ural Tuesday In August to consider Ihe advisability of Incorporating ouf plan with theirs, Members of that Union win visit Brother Brogdon to personally Inspect the working of our plan. Brethren of Bumter, Lee and Clarendon, we have builded neue wisely than are thought! Now let US support our institution au 1 bring every g.I tanner Into our ??rd?r that we pi ts i..>t only help our* selves, hut be an object lesson and an Inspiration to our brethren all over the State to go and do likewise, P< v. ral good talks w< r<- made, an I ? v ? I'? on the theor) that "A Prophet i^ not without honor save among his " ? n people," they did not need to have an invited speaker to entertain and Instruct them. We say, and truly, w itch Bumter I We may ;iiso keep an i ! e on Marion. Alter a bountiful dinner the writ? er was Introduce! to a tine audlenc? of several hundred Of the people of Brltton'i Neck, who "live at home and board at the same plaee," and it was a real pleasure to talk to such an Intelligent and appreciative peo? ple. The mis-ion of the Farmers' Un? ion, stressing education as the first plank in our platform, in fact, the foundation bedrock upon which all our structure must be built, was the theme It was very happily follow? ed up by a spe, oh on Bdueatlon and the kind e/e need, by Hon. James Norton, former Congressman and At 4.30 the meeting broke up and as there were indications of ruin in the north, Brother Jones let his car out, and we reeled off mile after mile on the better parts of the road at a 20 mile an hour clip. Crops arc like they are in tili? section, sonn good, some medium, and tiie greater part very poor. All have had t<> battle with grass?tome abandoned. Corn la more promising than cotton?sonn- very line; and in? dications fora big crop if seasons are moderately good from now on. Lots of nitrate of soda is being used to try to bring out the cotton crop and keep it from being a total failure. E. W. D. $:>oo MORE A YEAR FARMING: HOW TO GET IT. By the improvement of the Rural Schools. (By Tait Butler.) A great change has come over the opinions of men regarding the neces? sity for mind training and knowledge for the man on the farm, but there are yet too many?many more than Is best for the progress of the coun? try?who still regard with more or less contempt the accurate and spe? cific facts developed by the scientists. rI he spirit which is exhibited in u contempt for scientific knowledge in agriculture is Indifferent to education tu all things. The greatest hindrance to a more rapid development of the ( South today is a lack of knowledge of economic and industrial subjects, and j the greatest obstacle to obtaining this necessary knowledge is an all too common indifference to education generally. To state that the great need of Southern agriculture today is educa Won, la no unkind or unjust criticism, but a statement of plain facts. And If the truth must be told, hot alone agricultural education; but also gen? eral education, mind training of the masses who cultivate the soil. That we have made good progress in the last decade, none will deny, but that does- not remove the necessity for do l.g much more in the next deoad\ So long as the public rural school term is only four or five months, In? stead of at least eight or nine, it Is net worth while to look further for tl*? greatest need of the South as re? gards her future development. We repeat that the greatest need ot Southern agriculture is education, and by this we do not mean educatioi in the science and practice of agricul? ture alone, but that education which cteates a desire for knowledge for the purpose of using it In living a better Hie?that education which trains the mind to think and creates higher Idee Is and desires. The Shameful Neglect of Our Srdiool Houses. 1 am Inclined to place much im? portance on some things whic h teach? ers and school patrons seem, in many cf:ses, to consider of little moment. A chile1 reared In a home devoid of com? fort: and where cleanliness and mod* rrn sanitation have little exemplifi? cation must receive the desire and :ur bit ion for better things from some other source, and even the knowledge of the existence of better conditions as well as how to obtain them, must come from outside Influences. Where v- the place outside the home best fitted for showing the value of these letter things to the child? Natural!-.' the school and the school house may be looked to as the starting point for Renerating a desire and building up a knowledge of a brighter, celaner and latter life. We are no wise inclined to quarrel with any one about the school houses o'_" the South. They are not what we would like, and in some cases better might be reasonably expected, but better school houses are being pro? vided probably as fast as we can af? ford. A much more important mat? ter- it seems to me is the manner in a hlch the school houses we already have are kept. Even an old budding, however, plain or rough it may be, maj be kept clean and comfortable at a small expense. In going over the country during the vacation time of the schools, attending farmers' insti? tutes, we have been shocked by the condition In which the school houses are left at the close of the school year. In many cases the filth and lit? ter present indicate plainly that they were not tidy or celan in recent years, and broken windows and open doors show a carelessness about their con? dition in keeping with the filth with which they abound. All are not of t-iis type, but they are shockingly and disgracefully common. This condition of the school houses not only shows them unfit to serve as a .means of creating higher ideals !n those children who come from unsan? itary and' uncomfortable homes, but It shows an indifference and disre? spect for those things for which the school should always stand. We Must Strive for a Better Home Life. It is doubtful if better crops and a better agriculture will come except as a result of a desire for a better home life. Man is largely a selfish animal, and until he has a desire for more and greater home comforts he will not strive effectively for better crops. The common rural school is the present hope of the South and in in ! creasing its efficiency and adding to . the length of the school term we are building up the greatest power for uplifting the masses and making our land truly prosperous. It is true that better schools, good roads, comfort? able, sanitary homes and all the oth? er things which go to make up a happy and prosperous rural life can never be procured and maintained until the average earnings of the men doing the work on the farms are in? creased, but a strong desire for these things and the knowledge of how to obtain them must originate in the ru? ral school. It is true that no profound knowledge of agriculture will ever he taught in the common rural school, but an introduction t< this knowledge and the awakening of a desire for it must stnrt in the home or in the ru? ral school. It will not he given in a large number of homes be? cause too many parents do not them? selves possess it, and in such cases the rural school is the only hope. When we so re-arrange and re-con? struct our rural school text-books so as to give the pupils a little better in? sight into their daily work and the value of a heter horr.c life, we shall have taken the first step. This" first step, like near ? all other first steps, seems hard for tne school teachers to take; but after i fe-v more years of "talk" we shall ac*. a no when the child in the rural school is shown a few new and in? teresting facts about the things he has been familiar with all his life his interest will be aroused. Nothing will more quickly attract the attention c f s. cl ilo or more firmly ho'1 it than to be shown that there are interest? ing facts, which he had never heard of, connected with the very things by which he has been surrounded all his lifei When our school hooks are bas? es on the subjects surrounding and | entering into the life of the rural j child, instead of on commerce aud oth- I er things familiar only to the city people, then we shall have made at least one rational step towards the improvement of our rural schools. Will any one tell us why arithme? tic, for instance, cannot be taught as well with a problem requiring the pu- j pil to ascertain the number of pounds : of nitrogen in a#ton of fertilizer which , contains} 4 per cent of nitrogen, as with the sort of problem used which, for irf.isnce. requires the pupil to Und the interest on $2,000 at 4 per eenl for one year??Progressive Farmer Mr. J. E. Jervey returned Tuesday .rora an extended visit to Messrs. Rates, Kaminer and Dwight, of Rleh Jand county, and states that .these gentlemen and many others have the finest crops he has seen In years. Mr. Bates, he says, has an aor? of corn that looks good for 200 bushels. Mr. Jervey highly praises the Richtend hospitality, also. The problem of draining Turfcey Creek is still worrying the city and county officials. Public Notice. By mutual agreement, D'.a. Hayns worth & DuRant have dissolved partnership. Dr. Haynsworth now has his office over Mrs. Atkinson's Millinery store. His phone number Is 556. Dr. DuRant will remain over the Sumter Dry Goods store, with his phone number 210. 5-24-1-1 m. W-4t. Candidates' Cards, Announcements of candidates will he printed in this column until the close of the campaign for $5. No cards accepted on credit. FOR CONGRESS. I hereby announce myself as a can? didate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Seventh Con? gressional District of South Carolina and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Demo? cratic primary. A. F. LEVER. THE SENATE. I beg to announce to the voters of Sumter County that I am a candidate for the State Senate, subject to the rules governing the Primary election. A. K. SANDERS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I am a Candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. R. B. BELSER. FOR MAGISTRATE. I hereby anncuuc? mys^if a can? didate for Magistrate for the Third District, Svmer County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. HORACE HARBY. ? ual Clearance Sale 3z2SB?l WIM? ?t?'J-.?>*? ?n's a.r\d Boy's Clothing IMA ^.T1 J?iJf; j j Commences Tuesday, July 5th, s frr The time is opportune?three months more of Summer Weather in which you will need Seasonable Clothes, and five months longer in which you can wear Summer Clothes. Our stock is large, we can please you and we will interest you in a Clothing Proposition. All Mohair Suits The Ideal Mid-Summer Suit?are ??Included in Our Sale?? We have genuine bargains to offer, and if you desire to get in the push come early Tuesday morning. 25 to 30 per cent. Discount During Sale, For Cash Only. The Sumter Clothing Company.