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f?iattbman sift Skratbnw WEDNESDAY, AU6UST 10, 1910. The Sumter Watchman waa found? ed In I860 and tha True Sbuthron In UK The Watchman and Southron Dow has the combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old paper*, aau i4 manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. The race for Governor has appar? ently narrowed down to Featheratone and afcLeod and for tha former to win It Is absolutely necessary to keep afcLeod out of ths second primary. Now watch how the * ght on McLeod will be redoubled. ? ? ? Vice President Sherman was put on the Republican ticket as the represet atlve of the business Interests, and he seems to have beon, according to Senator Gore, not averse to doing a little business on the side for his own benefit. ? ? ? Ths chief objaction to the Torrens system In influential quarters Is that it materially reduces the expense in? cident to the transfer of real estate and makes land easily available as collateral without the Intervention of the legal fraternity. ? ? ? Ths candidates who are trying to rid? Into office on the State-wide pro? hibition platform have never yet satis? factory explained how they would en? force a State-wide law. If one should be enacted. How would they pre? vent conditions such as now exist In Savannah. Augusta and other cities of the State of Georgia, which enjoys the doubtful blessing of a State-wide law-? TEXAS COTTON INJURED. The (omemlcral-Appeal's Summary Reports Deterioration Except In Red River Valley. Memphis. Tenn.. Aug. 7.?The fol? lowing cotton crop summary will be published by The Commerclal-Ap : sal tomorrow. Telegraphic replies from Texas orrespondents at 6 o'clock last ght Indicated that no rain of con? sequence fell In that State during is week savs In the Red River val y. As a result the cotton crop, ex *pt a small area, which has received tin. has been deteriorating in most istances as the limits of the plant's idufance had been reached a eek previously. In southern and estern Texas and additional drought leans a very email yield of cotton, enerous rains fell throughout Okla oma and although cotton suffered rely for a few days Just prior I the rain on account of high tem eratures, the situation has been re? eved and it la believed that the crop 111 very quickly recuperate. In other sections of the belt some nprovement took place. The crop .as been laid by clean and the plant .as begun to form squares nd bloom freely Grown bolls are not numer? ous, however, and the crop appears to have regained only little of Its lateness. The frost date will have an Important bearing on the outturn. "Except in Texas there Is no com? plaint of shedding but the plant gen? erally has n<>t reached the stage where It Is to be expected. Generally fair weather would help the crop In Mississippi and the Atlantic States." M >-<i uiiorlal News Notes. The following Instructions, If car? ried out. will be very beneficial to the citizens of Sumter from a mos <iuit< r111 standpoint. Keep all the cans pl'-ked up from around your premises, because a tea cup full of water left standing In one can will produce several hundred mosquitos. Keep weeds cut down close as it Is an Impossibility to find all places wh< r?? mosquitoes breed and if the weeds are cut down close it will pre ent them from living around your premises to <t great extent. If there are any low places where water stands In your premises pour a MCfM keroslne over the top. The Hstery of using the keroslne being that as the wltfglc tall, or mlsqulto In It* .nfan? v. needs air to thrive and matnr*. The oil when poured over the Sraleff a< ts as a seal, thereby pre? venting the wiggle tail when It rises to the t ?p of the water for air, to get the same. It being unable to get the air. on account of the oil, retires Is um bottom of Um rseeaeacle and dies. itrorKMiii'o Hitch Hills I'aioa. fin Thursday Messrs. I.. I. and S. r. Parrott reorganised the High Hills Ixical Farmers' Union, at Stateburg IfM 'allowing officers wero elected: President. R. J. Ilrownflold; Viet President. J. F. Williams; Secretary. ? M Cantey; fond.. V.*G. Nelson; Chaplain. W. D. Colclough; Door k. . |.? r N II. Nelson. Th? County Farmers' Felon met at Crv'.rd Fridav with an attendance of about 200. Send us your J *> work. POPULATION ABOUT 90,000,000 llellcvo That This Will bo Figure Shown by Thirteenth Census. The Counting. Washington, August 7.?It will he October before people of the United States learn their true numbers as re? vealed by the official cc.tnt of the 13th census. It is generally believed that tho number will be about 90, 000.000. and census officials are known to share In this general belief, although they know nothing about it. This belief is based on the fact than an increase slightly in excoss of tho It,000.000 increase during the previous decade would bring the pop? ulation in 1910, to the 90.000.000 mark. About 300 of the more than 18,000 clerks in the census bureau are compiling population figures, while the others are working on other statistics. Contrary to the general opinion, all the counting Is done by ch rks, the tabulating machines being used only In classification as to race, sex and other eondtttOSf Enumeration figures will oonttnue to be given out day by day for the next two months or more, while the sociological and industrial figures will come later. All enumeration figures are counted from three to four times and an investigation is ordered if there is any suggestion of error. In two cases evidence of fraud had been discovered and in one, that of Great Falls, Mont., a prosecution has been undertaken for fraudulent enumera? tion. The intention of Director Durand is to tabulate first the population of the large cities, after which the fig? ures for the States will be given out *?s they are ascertained, the returns for all counties in the State being announced at the same time as the figures for the State. No Moral Issue. A few of our most valued contempor? aries in various parts of South Caro? lina?the Torkvile E..quirer. ire New berry Observer, and the Anderson Daily Mail, for example?have been laboring desperately and we dould not with the best intentions In the world, to find a moral Issue in the gubernatorial campaign now in pro? gress in this State. In this they have failed, and must fail. These newspapers are proceeding upon the theory that a vote i> ' >r of a candidate who espouses th of State-wide prohibition m vote against liquor. It mean? ing of the kind. It means at that the citizen casting It is Ir of waging a fight in the next 1 ture for a statute making the alcoholic beverages unlawful part of South Carolina. + Is such a contest desirable? ' six counties in South Carolin now "dry" territory. Means a: vided by law by which a m of the citizens of any of the r lng six coutles can put their in the same column. This bei case, Is any one in South Caro unsophisticated as to doubt thttl . attempt to whip the "wet" counties in? to discontinuing the aale of liquor will be resisted In the uwst determin? ed manner, and that this resistance will enlist the sympathetic and cor? dial support of thousan Is of South Carollnans who are personally oppos? ed to the sale of whiskey under any conditions, but who object even more earnestly to any attempt to deprive the people of a county of the right of home rule. For two decades I H other problems of government In Sooth Carolina have been subordinated to the liquor ques? tion. Xo session of the Legislature has bSSSJ held at which this ques? tion has not been debated fiercely, and often at great length and to the exclusion of many matters of the larg set Importance. At least, aided by a combination of circumstances, and after a Struggle of heroic proportions, legislation has been enacted by which each and every county has been granted, and has exercised, the right, under certain restrictions, against Which there has been no protest to deal with the sale of alcoholic bever? ages in such manner as to a majority Of its own citizens seems best. Here, surely, would appear to be a fitting place to rest, and so we think the people of South Carolina will de i |d< A vote for T. C. M< I.e ?d will Indicate unmistakably, not that citl ?en easting it is opposed to prohibit? ion, because Mil.cod would deny no county the right to Ojlllt selling liquor, but a wish to end. for a time at least, n agitation which has disturbed the Commonwealth for twenty years. There are. In our Judgment. Otheff ( and excellent reasons why Mr. M - i.d merits promotion to the Dover* not ship, and upon these we shall touch in due Reason, The fact that only by his election can there be avoided a tight which might leave South Carolina In an even more de? plorable condition than Is Tennessee today, will of Itaelt be conclusive In determining the ehotee of a majority of our people.?News & Courier. Moderation Is the silken string run? ning through the pearl ehaln of :?n i \ Irtues -?Bishop I fall. Farmers, Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted l?y E. \V. Dahbs, President Farmers' Union of Sumter County.) The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would Improve that service by special features. The first to be Inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and i Practical Fanners which 1 have been requested to conduct. It will be my I aim to give the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end officers, and memhers of the Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such oil] Ings from the agricultural papers and Govern? ment Bulletins as 1 think 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 i jbli.shed. Trusting thli Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned, the editor. All communications for tl ii Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs. Uayeaville, 8, c. Borne Random Thoughts, Bumter County Union held one of its best meetings at the Fort l'laee with Conocrd local, last Friday. The attendance was good; the interest in the work of the union was deep, and the entertainment was elegant and abundant. The committee on re-or? ganization reported one union re-in? stated and outlined good work for the next month. It was very gratifying to the mem? bership to know that several meas? ures that originated In the Sumter County tin ion were adopted by the State Union at the annual meeting the w c H before, and to know that our brokerage business invited more question, at the State Union than any other subject mentioned there. The meetings of the union are in demand, the places being fixed two meetings ahead. Our next meeting will be with Trinity local on Friday Septem? ber 22nd. and the October meeting with High Hills local on Friday October 7th. The nv mbershlp were urged to at? tend the Farmers' Institute held un? der the j( Int auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture, and t!e Farmer's Union. One at eral Sumtor Memorial Academy hturday August 13th, and the r at Shiloh. on Friday August i Saturday the writer went to ins in Marion county by in ion to meet with the Mullins lo inlon. Mullins Is the largest leaf ?co market in the State, and has warehouses, one of them be ng to the Farmers' Union, and al drying plants where the leaf co Is prepared for shipment, and keep in any climate after going Kb these factories, until ready nanufai ture In any part of the I. I was told that the plants of the American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Tobacco Companv are the equal of the best they have I anywhere. I My stay was made very pleasant by a drive around the city, the making of new acquaintances, kindly entertainment in the hospitable home of Hon. James Norton, and in meet? ing with a live farmers' union that afternoon. I was invited there to tell them how we do things in St n ter and I found them already lb things. Their 124 members In this local have bought bagging and tics, fertilizers, flour etc., In car lots. They have a ten thousand dollars tobacco warehouse that has been in success? ful operation for two years. What money they have needed to borrow to finance this enterprise has cost them 5 per cent and .r> 1-2 per cent, and they will soon not need any at any price. They are arranging to put their own cotton buyer In the fields this fall. Now all this is by one lo? cal union, and only eight miles from the courthouse where the county union has organized a ten thousand dollar cotton warehouse company. I went there to tell them something and I learned more than 1 was able to teach, I ward to tell some of the good things to readers of the Watch? man and Southron and feel very much like calling an extra meeting of the Sumter county union. Brethren, if we don't look well to our laurels, oth? er countb s will outstrip us In the race t'<>r financial Independence. Think of it here Is a local union meeting In town that turns out a fine audience in the rain on Saturday evening, that is doing more business many a county union that don't say: "by your have" to anybody. Why, one of the churches over there, the First Baptist, cost $18,000 and its pipe organ is one .,i the besl In all the Fee Dee coun? try, and Would cost $6,000 t ? build now. And this on a way-station of the old Wilmington and Manchester railroad. In a feW weeks they will have a Seaboard railroad connection, t he line i rom Hamb t, < 'ii'? and I >ilb?n Is graded In Ihe corporate limits and trains will be running shortly. F. W. D. PERMANENT PASTURES FOR THE SOUTH. Thousands of Acres of Land Now Worked In Cotton That Should Bo In (irass?How to Oet a Bermuda Sod, and How to Make the Poorer A res Yield a Good Profit. Woodland has a value by reason of the lumber and wood that it will produce, because of its effect on cli? mate, storage of rainfall, etc. A great many farmers seem to think wood? land valuable for pasture also. I do not think it a wise proposition to graze woodland. Why? Because (1) what little grass grows in the woods has little value as food; the trees draw the strength of the land and so shade the grass plants as to reduce their feeding value very much; (2) there is so little grass produced on woodland that the fencing of the land becomes too great a tax when tho amount of pasture is considered; (3) the stock grazing on pasture a part of which Is woods vill go out on the cleared land to feed, then return to the woods to rest, remaining here the greater part of the day during the summer months. They will then rob the clearned land and by their droppings enrich the woodland. Then the grazing is very detrimental to I the woods, because of the killing of the young trees. So we would very much rather fence the timber land out of the pasture than In It. The Pasture a Place to Grow Grase. Leave only a few shade trees In the pasture, get rid of every other sort of plant except grass and clover. I am asking for pasture not only in the hill section of our country, but in the so-called level sections as well. I have traveled over much of the Cotton Belt and in every section everywhere, have seen unnumbered acres?a little rolling, devoid of hu? mus?that were making nothing but poverty for those working them. These washing lands should be en? riched with legumes, then planted in Bermuda grass and white clover, an 1 on them grazed dairy cows, sheep, I hogs, and stock beef cattle for winter I feeding. Don't say these cotton lands are too valuable for pasture. I have seen thousands of acres of these rolling lands that were not producing 100 pounds of cotton per acre and costing more work each year than the entire j crop was worth, to say nothing of the cost of fertilizer applied. Bermuda and Lespedeia. The method to follow is a thor? ough, deep plowing, a legume crop, fertilized with commercial fertilizer, thii grazed off and followed with an? other crop of legumes, then the soil thoroughly disked or plowed, well harrowed and planted in Bermuda roots, running the rows about two feet apart and dropping the pieces of root about the same distance apart in the rows. When this is done, sow about two pounds of white clover seed per acre, and If any portions of the fields are low and moist, add to the above about 10 pounds per acre of redtop. Let this work be done during the last of .September or the first part of Octoftter; and If the most pasture is wanafd the fol? lowing summer, a bushel per acre of some fall grain will help increase th? yield of feed. A very light harrow or a weeder is the proper tool with which to cover the grass and clover seeds. The third year this pasture will be helped by thoroughly cutting the sod and tearing the Bermuda up well. When moicst.d In this way the plants Bet m to get the idea that the farmer la trying to rid himself of them, and as theirs is a perverse na? ture, tliev take hold With a fresh seal, A few loads of manure scat? tered thinly over the poorer portions of the pasture before this cutting is done win aid very much to thicken the sod. Wherever lespedezn will grow it Is a plant that Will add Very largely to the amount of feed that can bo pro dueed on Ihe pasture, and will also, because of It-: nitrogen gathering habit, greatly enrich the soil in this element. And the grass plants feed ing upon the decay of the lespedexa win secure nitrogen sufficient to en? able them to Increase their product? ive capacity from year to year. i >n the poorer of these lands it may 1??- necessary to apply a light dressing of phosphorus about once in two y. ars and on some sandy soils potash may be net essary to secure the best growth. Good Pasture Retter Titan Poor Cot? ton Crone, On a recent trip across the cotton country, I was struck more forcibly than ever before with this need of pasture on these cotton farms. There were little irregular-shaped bottoms that were too small to work profit? ably, while the slopes leading down to these low places were terraced, and on every terrace nearly was a rank growth of weeds and briers de? priving the land|cape of the beauty that is naturally here; the weeds fur? nishing seed enough each year to more than supply the farmer with something to work on with his little tools that were necessary to be used because of the irregular rows barring the use of large tools in the little spaces between the terraces. Then, more often than not one would see a great nasty gully that had gone straight down through the terraces from top to bottom. Then the thought would force itself to the front, "What is the good of the ter? races after all?" And withal there was no crop much growing on these washing slopes. What the writer would do with eonditions of this sort would be to go in there with the big plow, knock those terraces winding, harrow thor? oughly, and sow some legume on all that land from the bank of the creek to the top of the slope, then hake a good pasture of the whole thing. See to it that no brush or briers obtained a foot-hold, and allow nothing to rob that land of its strength, except grass only, and thU fed to none but first-class stock. Then I would cut out a few of my worthless hands, substituting live stock, giving the better hands good tools and horses to work the more level portions of the farm, and by this means and the use of legumes and the manure from the stock, T would double the productive capacity of the low lands. After a few years ti e expense will be less and the crop gres ter.?Progressive Farmer." OuessAig About The Primary. To The Editor of The Item: As the primary election for State olfices draws near, being now only three weeks off, politicians and oth? ers are beginning to make predictions as to the outcome. Naturally each person will make predictions in fa? vor of his own personal choice among the candidates, and it is hard to obtain a really unbiased view as to the result of the election. Some people even say that they have no choice among the whole lot running for an office, but you will generally observe that they will wind up by saying that so-and-so will receive their support, or they believe that he will win. , The popularity of any candidate cannot be judged by his reception at the campaign meetings, for as a rule, those meetings are attended by a small proportion of the voters of a county, sometimes not over ten per cent hearing the candidates speak. The reports in the daily papers are usually given according to the way in which the paper leans, and one cannot judge by any means of a candidate's standing by merely read? ing the daily reports of the meetings in any one newspaper. The support given a candidate in the past may be counted in making coming election, but this is far from up an estimate for his chances in a accurate, for eonditions change re? markably. A candidate having only one opponent may receive a large number of votes of people, who vote for him because they do not care to support the other man. In a race with several others, this same can? didate might not receive a single one of the votes above mentioned. We shall probably see something of this in the coming primary. But let us look over the field and make a few observations and pre? dictions as to the results of the bal? loting on August 30th. If the day is a lair one all over the State, there will probably be in the neighborhood of 110.000 ballots cast. A candidate would have to receive considerably over 50,000 votes, where more than two are in the race, to he nominated in the first primary. This will hardly he probable, and a second primary will certainly he necessary as usual. In the gubernatorial race. the chances appear to favor McLood and Feathcrstone as the leaders, with the odds in favor of the Lee county man. These two will run over from present Indications, although some say Blease will be In the sec? ond nice: Please received over 40, 000 votes In 1008 in a two-man race. As we said above, will all of these votes go to Blease again when run? ning aginst five opponents? Tan Please "come back?" Richards will probably run ahead of Hyatt ami Duncan will, no doubt, come up last. However, these last three do not ap? pear to figure in the race when it comes to picking the two to run over. The prohibition vote will be split up, hut Featherstone Is undoubtedly the favorite of the prohibition candidates. Blease's local option views will help him in some sections but McLeod's general reputation will place him ahead of the mayor of Xewberry. We give Blease third place in the first primary, but do not believe he will g? t in the second running. The sec? ond race will be close, and it is dif? ficult to predict who will win until the vote in the first primary is an? nounced. If the prohibitionists vote for prohibition candidates, then Fea? therstone stands a good showing in the second primary. Smith will probably defet.t Duvall for lieutenant-governor as hi is prob? ably better known and his aje favors him. Both have made many friends, though, and the result will be watch? ed with interest. Both appear to be good men. Lyon should put it all over Evans. As to adjutant general, we make no prediction. Newman will likely get in the second race. Hampton and Cansler will probably run over for railroad commissioner. Lever will return to Congress from this district. OBSERVE*. Mayesville, Aug 8, 1910. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks, but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting ac? quaintance with.?Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Candidates' Cards Announcements of candidates will be 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. FOR THE SENATE. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the State Senate from Sumter County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo? cratic party. JOHN H. CILFTON. 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 hereby announce that I am a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, subject to the act? ion of the Democratic prmary. GEO. W. DICK. I hereby announce myself a candi? date for the House of Representatives subject to the rules of the Democra? tic party. J. E. DuPRE. I am a Candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. R. B. BELSER FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR, I am a candidate for the office of Supervisor of Sumter County. I will abide by the rules of the Democratic party. P. M. PITTS. FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE. The undersigned having already tiled his oath and pledge with the proper officers announces himself a candidate for re-election to the office of Judge of Probate and will be proud of the support of his fellow Demo? crats for that position. THOS. E. RICHARDSON. FOR SFPT. OF EDUCATION. At the solicitation of friends, I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Superintend? ent of Education, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. EDWIN REM BERT. FOR MAGISTRATE. Recognizing that the office of Magistrate should be filled by a man of judicial temperament and high character, and in whom the public has confidence, Mr. S. D. Cain is hereby nominated for the office of Magistrate in the 4th judicial district of Sumter county, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. CITIZENS OF PRIVATEER. 1 hereby announce myself a can? didate for Magistrate for the Third District, Sumer County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. HORACE HARBY.