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?bf (?lttttnnan anb Soutbran. The Sumter Watchman waa found? ed la 11(0 and the True Southron In Iii? The Watchman and Southron ?ow haa tht combined circulation and Influence cf both or the old papers, and la manifestly the beet advertising medium In Sumter Blease and Featherstone are both hacking at McLeod, which goes to prove that the Lee county man has them worried. All the Information obtainable Indicates that the race is between Featherstone and McLeod and that those who vote for either of the other candidates will throw away their votes. The votes that Blease, Richards and Hyatt rocelve will come from their personal following, and in the second primary, McLeod stands a better chance to receive a majority of the vote than does Featherstone. It begins to look like McLeod Is a win? ner. ? ? I The strength of Congressman Lever In SumttT county and throughout the seventh district Is so great that one wonders what Induced Dr. Ray to enter teh campaign. It is the gen? eral Impression that Lever will poll an almost unanimous vote In Sumter county, and If Dr. Ray gets 100 votes In the tntW? hm sHU h*? running well. Drugs \ in I Infantile Paralysis. Dr. L. B. Kebler. of the United States Bureau of Chemistry, believes that the prevalence of Infantile pa? ralysis and much of the Infant mor? tality are cau.*ed by the use of sooth? ing syrups containing morphine and other poisonous drugs. This is a statement of a most serious character, and thj matter should be carefully Investigated. When a mother Is wearied out with a fretting infant the temptation to quiet It with a drug which she (s assured by the label on the botle Is harmless Is almost irre? sistible. It is also Intimated by Dr. Kebler that nurses often give drugs Surreptitiously to the children In their care In order to save the trouble of quieting them. If Dr. Kebler is right In what he says, a way to save life is presented to all local boards of health. There should be an Investi? gation to ascertain Just what drugs of the character Indicated are sold In the various communities, ?nd the sale of those that are dangerous should be prohibited. And then mothers should be warned and in? structed what to use and what to %votd. That which Is more fatal to Infants ?v*n than drugs Is feeding them with milk or other food which has been mpalred by the hot weather. It Is ikely that many of the troubles for ? hi- h drugs are used arise from the ise of food whb'h has not been care ullv prepared or has been soured or ontamlnated. Are We Old at Forty? There Is no fact n :>re striking than fc| W9j$ modern life is pushing back the period of old age. says a writer in the September Strand Magazine. Less than a century ago a man was old at forty. Y<?u h ive only to pick up Jane Austin's novels to find gentlemen of thlrty-tUo described as middle-aged. At sixty they are gabbling In their dotage. And there Is Mr. Pickwick? that dear, delightful, benevolent old ifentb-man of forty-five! Fifty years ago. when a man reach? ed tbi age of forty-five he grew a t*ard under his chin, bought him? self a pair of drab gaiters and a white neckcloth, and spoke with anxious concern of the rising generation, whose manners were so different from those he had known as a "young man " Xowadavs the popular notion of irresponsible, irrepressible youth Is Illustrated by Colonel Roosevelt, who in fifty-two. In our generation thirty two || outwardly Indistinguishable from fifty-two. save In that the former has i slinhtly more youthful tint In Its ( heeks and Its waistcoat. As for the fair sex. the genus old lady Is all but extinct. The pretty vivacious matron you admire at a garden-party may have seen twenty five or s.-venty summers. As Queen Alexandra not b?ng since said to Mme. Adel Ina Pattl: "We two are two of the youngest women In England." The lllustrous Royal example has been so sedulously followed that the ladles?always young, always active, always in the height of fashion? mav t?e said to laugh In the very face of Father Time. I mh inmc of < it > schools. As Is customary the city schools. In order not to close too early In May. will this year drop back the date of opening nn? week. The schools will, therefore, reop ?n on Monday Septem? ber th? 19th. There will be a meet? ing of the teaehers on Saturday the 17th Beginning on Tuesday S*ptPm ber the 1.1th the superintendent will he daily In his adjag in the Washing |M hulMIng for the classification of new pupils The court house grounds have be? come quite attractive In appearance since Mr T, W. Jenkins took charge. A MAGNIFICENT RECORD. Manager of the Collegians n ils About Their Tripe. The Sumter Collegians arrived home on Saturday night after a week on the road with a record of four games won, one tied, and one given away, and If you think the baby wont wake up I want you to hear just a little about thin trip. We left here Monday morning on the Northwestern Vestibule, took dinner In Camden a few minutes, and left that afternoon for Lancaster, W here we arrived In time to rest a few minutes, and then got dressed and went out to the grounds, and you should have seen it, full of roeks and the outfield In a valloy; we had to take Noble Dick out of center field and put him In right, and put a taller man in center so that the catcher eould see the top of his head. Well, we played eleven Innings 3 to 3 and the next day we measured the dis? tance from the pitchers box to home plate and found It three feet too near, so we moved It back and beat them 12 to 1. Wednesday morning we left for Kershaw on the train, and left there at nine-thirty in the morning in a two-horse wagon for Jefferson (no relation to Thomas), twenty miles through sand and rocks up and down mountains (and they wern't bluff's), we pot there at two-thirty, ate some leavings from a picnic and then put on our unifroms and went out on the diamond to play a double header against a professional team from Charlotte and Monore, which cost Jefferson $140.00 to get. Well we beat them 3 to 1 the first game of 9 Innings and played about 5 in? nings of the second when we were so near dead, we just walked off the field and gave them the game, and the next day, Thursday, we beat them 10 to 3, and made them look like the last day of a rainy spell. We left Jef? ferson at ten-thirty that night in a four-horse wagon (thirteen men, eleven suit cases, a bag of bats and the franchise, the nick name for the little do-dont-raln paper ' satchel for balls), to go back to Lancaster, forty miles through sand and mountains, and more sand, and when we pulled up at the hotel at our destination at eight-thirty the next morning, after driving ten hours without sleeping a bit, we were a sorry sight, looked like?and felt worse, but we got some sleep and went out and beat them again 9 to 6, and it was in this game that the longest hit of the week was made. One of their men hit a home run to the catcher and brought in eight men. See about our future games in the local news columns. JACK FORBES, Manager. College of Churlestoii-Cltadel vs. Sumter Collegians. If the people of Sumter will re? spond with a little of that Game Cock spirit, and $1.00 or 50 cents in *id ? vance, we can have one more series of ball In Sumter before we disband, but you will get value received for fOUI money. A representative of the Sumter Col? legians wb'l call on you and offer you two tickets for two games or four tu set* for four games. Sumter vs. College of Cbarleston-Cltadsl all star t'-am thai played here the first of the I "U and t<?ok two out of three from Sumter. There will be no re? striction on the tickets, and they are trSJISferablS and good for any of the four fames to be played on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. and Thursday of next week. If we sell enough tick? ets to pay their actual expenses, we will havs them on those days, >ut It* not your money will i?e refunded end tie- Sumter ColleglSS baseball team with a record of 2?"? games won and I lost, a strictly amateur team whieh Kai played and beat SOmS pretty good prof< tsiona] teams will be history? N. B, We are $10.00 In the bole end WS ask your aid, but we don't want you to think you are doing an o t of charity by spending fifty cents or ;i doller, and seeing some good Kinos of base ball. JACK PORBB8, Manager. The Recorder's Court. Win Fields, colored, charged with assault and battery, was found not guilty. Mr. If P, MoesSi forefctted a cash bond of one doller, put up for rid hut i horse through the depot yard. The Little Kocks and the Liberty Streets, both amateur ball teams com? posed of Bum tor's would be "nig Ismgoers." played ? snappy gams Friday afternoon. resulting In a victory of If lo II In favor of the Little Kocks. Batteries] ib>\t end Richardson; Bradhem und Berron. Mr. Walter Parker, who bus for rel months been the agent for the Metropoliten Life insurance Company In this l; 1 ty. bus been transferred by hi-i company to Columbia? and will assume bis new duties nt once. Farmers' Union News ?AND ? j Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by E. W. Dabo?, 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 Practical Farmers which I have been requested to conduct. It will be my aim to give the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end officers, and members of the Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clippings 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 Our readers telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | abllshed. 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. Some Random Thought*. Some of the members of the Farmers' Union would like to know how long it will take the Sumter Cot? ton Warehouse Company to build the ootton platform approachable on two sides with two sets of scales to handle the cotton in the rush of the season. It has neon four years and six months since the bill drawn by representatives of the Warehouse company became law. It was to be presumed that ihe feasure was satisfactory to the Ware? house company.but no, the Warehouse company would not do anything until It failed to make the County build the platform, and then would not pro? ceed until the weighers had e.onsent sented to give the Warehouse company five cents per bale instead of the ori? ginal one cent per bale, showing that the writer was eminently correct when he fought the idea for the coun? ty to build a platform to be used at one cent per bale. But strange to say, the platform built by the Ware? house company did not comply with the law, which then required it to be accessible on three (3) sides to vagons, with each weigher (three then) with his scales and clerk weighing the cotton three times as rapidly as before. The warehouse gave ample facilities for the railroads to load the cotton, a side track each for the Coast Line and the Southern, out the farmers' teams continued to unload on one side in a space about fifty or sixtey feet wide with only room for one set of scales; and teams and drivers were kept In line for hours and hours in the broiling sun .ust as bad as it ever was. Now some two years ago the act v.as changed to have only two weigh ? s, and a two sided platform, to save expense to the Warehouse com I my and give better compensation to the weighers, and still there is only one place to unload and only one ?relgher can work at a time. We farmers are very patient, but patience has ceased to be a virtue. There does not seem to be any use to call on the Chamber of Commerce, for the coun? ty members of the same are only use- ! ful for their five dollar membership j fee, and the city members do not realise what a hardship it is to wait hi the hot sun of a September day for five hours to have :i hale of cotton weighed. A word to the wise ought to be sufficient, but unless the law is complied with and the proper facili? ties provided by the beneficiary, the Farmers' Union will have to take a hand. It Is again rumored that certain business interests in Sumter will make a determined effort this fall run tiie Farmers' Brokerage Com? pany out of business by raising a pool of $25,000, and that one firm that has been built up by the farmers' trade will contribute $10.000.00 to this fund. All that we have to say Is that we hope this is true for the far? mer- ?an and will absorb this $25, 000.00. and as many more dollars as the Interested parties see tit to put up. We consider this "easy money " Then we hear that the retailers of groceries are going to refuse to sell to pat 'mis of the Brokerage Co, All right hoys! We buy entirely too much of the canned stuff you have on your shelves, and we welcome the disinterested interest you show in our welfare by refusing to sell us any more, it will l>e better for our health and our pockets, Thank you! N'ow we do not want any one to think that the Farmers' Union is hunting for a "scrap," but also bear In mind we are not running away fron? one. In the pursuit of our own business in our own way, If we can't down the profits of some of the trade Class SfS have no apologies to make, nor are we fighting them, but when they try to coerce us by threats of various kinds or by actual combat, then we reserve the riebt not only to defend our own Interests and rights, but to make an aggressive debt on all sorts of extortion, such as for Instance, selling butt meat below cost to a cash customer to keep him from bov? ine from his own house, and then charging some credit customers one hundred per cent, prolit for waiting on him three or four months. E. W. Dabbs. PERMANENT PASTURES FOR THE SOUTH. IV?The Redemption of the Hill Country?How Thousands of Acres of Now Valueless Land Could Be Made to Produce Feed for Herds and Flocks, and Wealth for the Owners. (By A. L. French, R. 2, Byrdville, Va.) In a previous paper I pointed out, and I think proved, to the satisfaction of all fair minded readers that good, real pastures were valuable. That when handled from start to finish in a thoroughly business way good pas? tures will produce as great a net in? come as land handled in any of the staple farm crops of the South. There are millions of acres of land distrib? uted all over the South that are pro? ducing practically nothing, which were they put to work in a business way, growing pasture grasses and grazed by first-class animals, would bring an income to our section each year as great as that from our en? tire cotton crop. This is no idle statement,, but is made by the writer after careful study of soil in different sections of the South, and from an actual prac? tical knowledge of what good land set in pasture will produce. If land made rich, drained, grubbled, and kept grubbed, planted in grass, graz? ed with animals of the best type of their kind, will pay Interest and taxes on a valuation of $200 to $500 per acre, ought we not to get out of the old rut we have been In here in the South for forty years and go to mak? ing and using pastures? I have seen all over the hill section of the South, lands cut up with ter? races, worked at great expense and then washed to death by every heavy rain that fell, In order to proJuce $30 worth of cotton per acre at a cost for labor and fertilizer of $25 per acre, when T know the same red land well prepared, well set in the best pasture plants and grazed by the best animals would pay $20 per acre clear of all expenses for a term of ten years and at the end of that time have n market value three or four time? as great as at present. More than this, the labor previous? ly required to work this land in the hoed crop could be dispensed with. The manure made by the animals during the winter and from plants grown as catch, or "in between" crops (silage and legumes pricipal ly), would so enrich the level por? tions devoted to the regular money crop that the total products of this crop would after a few years not be any less but actually more by means of devoting the bill portoins of the farms to pasture. I want you, my people, to do this thing with a whole lot of the hills of the South that are now being culti? vated, but not just at present. What I want to see at present?beginning this present good year of 1910?Is a start made toward utilizing the vast amount of land we have that we are paying taxes on which Is returning no Income, not a dollar. "But, you say, "we haven't time to grub out these bushes." Oh yes, you have, my friends. You and I have loafed away ti\ie enough and fooled away with Inefficient tools, horses, etc., and ley using unbusiness? like methods of handling our busi? ness, time enough to have grubbed all the profitless land in the South. What we want to do just now Is to face about, start a change in our methods that will put our farming on a business basis. There will be a vast acreage of this land that you can not at once tit Up Into real pasture. This must be fenced with good, substantial femes, gr?bln ;1, thoroughly and kept mowed and grubbed so thai use can be made of the wild pasture plants that are now thinly set over the land. Then, as lar as possible this land should bo taken In band ami thoroughly plowed, or if too steep to plow, coultered, sowed In peas and other legumes until some I humus and nitrogen has been gotten Into the soil, then planted with seed or roots of the best pasture plants that are found to thrive in the sec- | tion where the land is located. And don't, I beg or you, pass by the best soil binding and feed pro? ducing pasture plant you have be? cause of fear that you won't he able to got rid of it when you go to robbing the hills *gain. For you know we are going to get such a thorough understanding of this farming, soil-building and soil-keep? ing business that we will never allow ourselves to rob the soil again, be? cause we will feel that in doing this we are robbing ourselves, our chil? dren and their children.?Progressive Farme." A HOME WATER SUPPLY. Two Mississippi Systems That Give Perfect Satisfaction?The Cheap Serviceable Hydraulic Ram?Get? ting Rid or the Hard Work of Housekeeping. Mrs. C. S. Everts, Ridgeland, Miss. Pure wat?r, and plenty of it, is a household necessity. In fact, more water is used in every household than any other one thing; and, too often, the producing of the water is the hardest of all household tasks. If the well or other source of water supply is only a few feet from the kitchen door, the housewife tramps many, many weary miles as she goes back and forth, back and forth, car? rying the water necessary for drink? ing, cooking, cleaning, scrubbing, washing, bathing, and so forth. If, as is often the case, the well or spring Is some distance away, and it is nec? essary to carry the water up more or less of an incline, with steps to the kitchen door, the work is increased, and the task is one which no woman or child should be called on to per? form. The hard work of producing the family water supply, is, in some sections of the country, responsible for more broken-down women and tired, old-looking children, than any one other thing. The farm home, more than any other, should have a system of water? works, and that it has not is more often the carelessness or the mis? taken notion that it is too expensive, rather than any thing else. One Madison County, Miss., man installed water-works by using an ar tiflcal pond or lake, about 150 yards from the house for the supply, pump? ing the water into a storage tank by means of a wind mill pump. Part of the back porch was inclosed, making a room about 6 by 8 feet, opening off of kitchen and back hall, in which was placed bath tub stationary basin and toilet seat. About 50 feet from the house was a 2-room building, and water was piped into one of these for a laundry, as well as into the kitchen and bath room, and into the barn for the stock, and the side yard garden. This water was used for every purpose but cooking and drink? ing. For the latter, a cistern was dug close to the kitchen gallery, with pump and platform level with the floor. The cost of this water piant was less than $300. Another farmer had a deep well bored and pumps the water with a gasoline engine into a storage tank and from thence to kitchen, upstairs bath room, dairy house, stables, pas? ture, poultry yard, lawn and veget? able garden. This cost in the neigh? borhood of $1,000, including deep well and engine, but it insures the ease and satisfaction of an abundance of water where the housewife has only to turn a faucet to have hot or cold water upstairs or clown, and also eliminates the work of watering stock as a turn of the faucet is all that is necessary. Using it to irrigate the garden, he has always an abund? ance of vegetables, whether it rains or not, for which there is a market at good prices. The engine is Util? ized for sawing wood, chopping feed, churning (they run a small dairy since they have plenty of water, thus adding to the income), and in other labor-saving ways, so the expense Is not all chargeable to the water sup? ply. In both cases cited all pipes and fixtures of all kinds were bought from a mail order house at less than half the prices asked by dealers in the neighboring city. Neither was it necessary to employ a high-priced plumber to install them, as the own? er and the neighborhood carpenter had "gumption" and did the work themselves. We lived one year In the hills of Georgia where the chief water supply was from springs. Ons man installed a hydraulic ram at little expense, and forced water Into the house, where before, all had been carried, pail full by pail full, up a long, steep hill. There are thousands and thousands of country homes where the expense of a first-class water system may be met and thousands of other homes where water may at least be had In tie kitchen, and the only reason they do not have It Is that have taken for granted that only city people could afford such luxuries, and by not Investigating, have gone on deny? ing themselves the comfort of an abundance of water at the turn of a faucet.?Progressive Farmer." FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DIES. Was the Pioneer of Army Nurses aad the only Woman in World to be Decorated with Order. London, Aug. 14.?Florence Night? ingale, the famous nurse of the Crim? en war and the only woman wh* ever received the Order of Merit, died yesterday afternoon at her Lon? don home. Although she had been an invalid for a long time, rarely tear? ing her room where she passed the time in half recumbent position and was under the constant care of a rhysiclan, her death was somewhat unexpected. A week ago she was ??alte sick but then improved, and on Friday was cheerful. During that night alarming symptoms developed ond she gradually sank until 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon when an attack of heart failure brought the end. Her funeral will be as quiet as pos? sible in accordance with her wishes. During recent years, owin& to her feebleness and advanced age, Miss Nightingale had received but few visitors. On May 12 last she cele? brated her 90th birthday and was the recipient of a congratulatory message from King George. Sketch of Her Life. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 18 20. She was the first wo- j rran to follow a modern army Into " battle as a nurse, and in the Crimean war gained the title of "Angel of the Crimea." She studied nursing under the Protestant Sisters of Mercy at Ka iscrwerth, Germany, and returned to England when the Crimean war broke out. She organized a corps of volunteer nurses whom she led into the field and was especially celebrated for her noble services at Scutari. At the close of the war she was f.-n rbled by a testimonial fund amount? ing to $250,000 to found an institu? tion for the training of nurses, the Nightingale Home at St. Thomas hos? pital. She was also the means of call? ing attention to the unsanitary condi? tions of camp hospitals. In 1908 she received the freedom of the city of London. King Edward bestowed upon her / Lbo Order of Merit, the most exclusive distinction In the gift of the British sovereign. The membership of the order is limited to 24 and it includes such men as Lord Roberts, Lord Woseley, Field Marshall Kitchener, James Bryce, Prince Yamagata and Admiral Togo. There is a strong feeling among the general public and particularly among the military men in favor of a pub? lic memorial for Florence Nighting? ale. There is little doubt, however, that her expressed wishes in this con? nection will be taken Into considera? tion. FAVORS NEW METHOD. Committee on Organization Favors U?e of Certificates of Deposit In? stead of Pass Books 'or Postal Banks. Washington, Aug. 15.?Postmaster General Hi^hcock today received a report from the committee on or? ganization of the postal savings bank system in favor of the use of certi? ficates of deposit instead of pass books. Under the propc plan every de? positor of amount from $1 to $9 will be given a certificate punched in duplicate to show the amount of the deposit. He will be require to sign this certificate in duplicate, the post? master retaining one. On the back of this evidence of deposit will be engraved an interest computation showing exactly the amount of inter ? st due at the end of any interest period. For sums of $10, $20 and $50, there will be separate certificates also in duplicate. These certificates will c onstitute the records of the post? master. CAN TAKE HIS PRISONER NOW. Fifteen Day's Time Given Crippen and Companion Past. They May be Carried Back. Quebec, Aug 15.?H. H. Crippen and Fthel Clare Leneve may now be tak? en back to England for trial on a charge of murder awaiting them there as soon as the order for the release comes from the federal authorities. Tonight they completed the 15 days required by the fugitive offenders* act. Inspector Dew said his plans depend upon the arrival of the order from Ottawa. He is expected, however, to l<?se no time in getting Crippen and the girl to the other side. Mr**. Zeigler Entertains. A delightful little party was given at Mrs. G. M. Zeigler's last evening in honor of her cousin. Miss Lena Holladay, of Orangeburg, who is vis? iting Miss Reida Brown. Games were |played until about eleven o'clock, after which the guests retiring to the dining room, where refreshments were served, which con? sisted of cake, cream and fruit. The evening was thoroughly enjoy? ed by all present.