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Tb? Mumttr Watchman was found? ed la 1110 and the True Southron In Uli rat Watchman and Seethron now baa the eorablaad circulation and Influenae cf both of tho old pa para, and la manifestly tha Saat adverttstng Hum In 8umtor. t 1TV m ||? m >1. (.It \l)l A I I >. I oinjd. (e I 10 of n?N' Wim lla\e Heceived iTiiiiutir. From City 1MI?ItlO. Tha city schools of Sumter opened their doors on the 2nd day of Sep? tember. 1119. During that time there hav* been two superintendents: Mr. J. B. Duffle, who served from 1889 to July 1896. tnd the incumbent, Mr. 1I. Edumnda, who has serv ed since July 1895. Below la given a list of those who hove graduated. There was no graduating class In 1890. the t. at cfaxa graduating in 1891: 1891. Margaret Hugh C. Haynaworth. Harry J. Mlkell. aCatherlne Moaee, Sol J. Kattenberg. Baamle Sau nd era, Eva Smith. Mamie Warren. lews. Julia Cuttlno. J. O. DeLorme. Mamie Dinkins. O. E. llaynsworth. T. K Holman. L> D. Jennings, Harriet Kerabaw. Hugh McLaurln, Marlon Mood. II A. Moaee. Pauline Oalllard, L, H. Jennings. Beanie Lee. Dinkins Spann. 1895. a W. D. Barrett. Ouaale Dinkins, Annie Freeland. Laura Mood. Haiti? Hyttenberg. Rebecca Schwerin, Sophia Warren. Beaufort Brand, Ethel Cooper, Mannte Dinkins. Mitt DuRaat, Ullle Oreg?. Horace Haxby, Daisy Hatfleld. Herbert Haynaworth, Henry Hill. Claud? Hurst, Beulah Lynam. Edward McCallum. Lydia Morris, Bertha Pringle. Claud* Khame, Merge ret Kiehardeon, Ida St i null I. Eugene Wilder, 1897. alar Itrunson. Anale David. Belle Dinkins. Orrti' I .j.person, Clemmle Fuller, Hcaab- M h.irdson, Pannb Hyttenberg, MagKi? Smith. Alb?- Stubbs. Emmi, w nut more, Croeawcll Kagln, Chart.-* Hyttenberg, 1898. Maggi** Bradford. Je*.?i Folaom. At u , llarby, YlhtfOflg Jamea, Man I< ) ? m? - laah?-i:, M< Laurln. Flor ? M ????*, L*.ul*. HgggSi IC.s , \i ...d. Mot, ' ? .ri. ?gggjg I'hilllpa. Irm.t Smith, Llasie Stui key, Daisy Scott, Maud*. Wallacs. I ?aJsv Yradon, Sam B. Mitchell. Jno S Ith h irdaon. Jr. la C Molae. 1898. Ethel t'arson, Annie Cunningham, Jennie Olbaon. Alice llarby. Mamie San b ra, Kate Sumter. Annla Warren, charh* Oalllard. Hmrry Green. Oeorg* D. Levy, Augusta Folaom, I Kessle Gillesple. Kosh Gillesple, Arm ida Moses, Sophie Richardson. Uoitert Graham. David McCallum. ? . il Wilson. IVO!. Mamie Boyle. Mary Caraon, Mabel 1 Mi Bant, Margaret Gibson, Leona Jennings, Ruth Mcl^aurln. Alice Mosea, Llllie Pringle. Ladson Boyle, 1902. Elma Epps. Hattle Lowry, Charles Hurst. Annle Lynam. William Manning. Cornelia McLaurln. Edna Mortimer, Lenora Smith, Isadore Teicher, Evelyn Wallace, Bertha Wlnburn. 1903. Elizabeth Boykln. Emma Boyle, Edna Broughton, Evelyn Cunningham, Bentley Gibson, Leon Green, Celeste Hughson, Gulgnard Jones, Dosler Lee, Edward McCutchen. Elizabeth Satterwhite, 1004. Winifred Atkinson, Hemmie May Bradford, Louis Bryan, Mary Burgesa, Lizzie Dinkins, James Graham, Murr Hai'. Hallie Jones, Vivian Manning, Luclle R?ndle. Arrle Stuckey. Leonora Wllllford. 1906. Henry Boshamer, Edwin Brunson, Abble Bryan. Nellie Chandler, Robert Cooper, Bertha Lawrence, John Lee, Mary Lowry, Bernard Manning, Chas. McGrath, Louise Murray, Gertrude Plowden, Charles Richardson, James Smith, Bartow Walsh, Jr. 1906. Vara Barden. Irvine Belser, Lernte Bowman, Bertha Bultman, Wlllena Cook. Nellie Mellett. Lillian Owens, Birdle Owens. Lydia Richardson, Edna Stack, Vernon Stanslll, Matilda Terry. 1907. Wyllle Brunson. Margaret Louise Bryan Duisv Burgess, Louise Carson, Jennie Chandler. Etta t'uttlno, M iri* I >. I ...rnie, ?sthof Gantry, Hubert Ore? ii, Hattle i.<>u Jon . ?'Ian nc ? Kinard, Humor Lawren< ? . M ! b i re 4 inning, Harold Mi? *>y. Esther Murray. Prad Nash, Eunice < >steen, l>oroth> ?>wen, V?\(l Handle, Henry Reaves, Janle Spann. Ln> He stack, Jennie Walsh, Louise Tendon, 1908. BniSSS Baker, Halsn Broughton. Irene Bryan, JngaSi ' handler. Wllllarn t'rowson, Bessie Ives. Lee Jones, Kranke Lesesne, W. ndell Levl, t \ (i McOea, Sarah Mellett, Sarah Moore, Italien Pate, Ulrica Pate, Mary A. Pitts, Virginia Reynolds, Annie Richardson, Henry Sandel, OctaVla Schwerin, Karl Scott, Ada Seym-air, Vileta Tlsdale, Quay Willi ford. 1909. I.utile Raker, Alice Heck Baluguer. Lois Warren Bahough, Mabel Clolr Bowman. Martie Royle, Jessie Janulta Bradford, William Nettles Bradford, Carrie Bee Breeden. Henrietta Winifred Brunson, Alice Childs, Clara Annie Childs, Ida Chandler, Benjamin Fr?ser Dick, Alfred China DeLorme. John Browner D?the, Marie DePre, Lawrence Wooward Folsom, Jr. Alva I. Green, Mildred Lee Hall, Agnes Stewart Haynsworth, Alex T. Haynsworth, James Arthur Haynsworth, Donald Graham Hinson, Margaret Augusta Hood, Eleanor Beverly Hughson, Elllen McDonald Hurst, Walter Herbert Jones, Ray Jones, Camilla Holmes Kllgore, Edgar Loyns, Katherlne Loretta McKeiver, John Alfred Owen, Ernest Harrison Rhame, Jr. Sarah Richardson, Leola Kate Rose, Elizabeth Ryan, Lucile Rose Ryttenberg, Julian Schwartz, William Judson Shaw, Julius Sinclair Smith, Sudle Stukes, Sophie Tlsdale, Harry Danner Walsh, Duane Latimer Wannamaker, Francys Cornelia White, Wade H. Willlford, Lucia Rodgers Williamson, Sallle Wright. 1910. Helen Beaumont, Hammond Bowman, Mamie Bradford. William Brogdon, Reida Brown, Robert Brown, Edwin Boyle, Herbert Bultman, Laurel Carr, Anna Cuttlno, Teresa Chandler, Julius Cooper, Eugene Cuttlno, Harry Davis, Marion Davis, Noble Dick, Belle Harper, Richard Hood, Edward Hook, Mamie Ives, Sadie Jones, William Kinard. William Lawrence, William Marshall, Francis Moise, Marie McGee, Fred Nigels. Mary Owens, Marie Phillips, Carlta B?ndle, William Reynolds. Bean Scott, Maggie May Seale, Raymond Stansill, Guy Wilson. William Winn. Rnnnwny on Bartlett street. A runaway took place on Bartlett street Saturday that in the end amounted to a smashed up wagon and a badly skinned horee, the same beim the property of Croeewell St Company: It st?tns that the negro driver was unloading the wagon and had gone to the store on the corner of Wash? ington and Bartlett streets With an armful of goods, leaving the horse unhitched, as is generally the case, when the horse became frightened at an automobile that swept past at a very rapid gait and started down the street as hard as he could go. Part Of the wagon was left on the cor? ner when It struck a telephone post and the rest was left at the corner of Main and Bartle tt streets, where the horse- stumbled into the drain and tell down, the negro catching it before it could start off again. Persons who have not paid their wate r rent for the past quarter had best do so at once. for. If they do not d?> so, they will have to go Without water. Mr. McKagen, su? perintendent of the ? ity water works, has already shut off the water from some- house that are* delinquemt in paying their water rent and he will shut off the water from the others who hove not paid, as ho comes t<> them in straightening up his books for the quarter, Persons do not seem to realise that the city loses that money that is not paid for the water rent and, as It Is, the city Is heavily In debt and gedtlng moro so all of the- time and needl every cent of Co- money. Farmers' U Practical Thoughts i (Conducted by B. W. Dabb*. Pre Co Borne Farmers' Union Not?**. The next meeting of the County Union Will pe on the 2nd Friday in November in the Court House in Sumter, November 11th at 11 o'clock a. m. This was done to keep from Conflicting with the State Fair on the first Friday. * * ? The Union Brokerage company has been requested by a good firm that is in the country produce business, to enter into arrangements to supply poultry, eggs and country butter. But how car. it do so if the farmers do not have these things to sell? It is to be hoped the high price of cot? ton will not cause the neglect of these more humble products of our labor and foresight. Cotton may be king and corn is queen, but butter and milk, eggs and poultry, mutton and beef, hams and bacon, are the legislatures and congress that make the reign of the king and queen pleasant and prosperous. E. W. D. Some Random Thoughts. The article by Prof. Barrow about Capt. Bunch's fine corn on the State Hospital farm In Columbia is worth a careful perusal. Some years ago I went to this farm in May to see a manure spreader at work. Capt. Bunch told me their corn yield had been doubled by the broadcast distri? bution of manure to the corn when from six inches to a foot high, and worked in the soil around the grow? ing plants. The work I saw done then convinced me the manure spreader is one of our best labor savers. I have not top dressed corn since that year, 1906, because I have stumps and the machine would destroy too much corn passing around the stumps, besides would be too heavy to pull if land is bed? ded out and corn is in water furrow. When I get rid of stumps that will be the way I will apply black manure to corn. ? t ? The work done by the boys this year ought to forever stop the cry o! its being cheaper to buy corn than to make it. My son's crop, although not the highest yield I have heard of shows a net profit of $65 on a sur? veyor's measured acre. I think all of the statements are conservative aa to the value of the pea crop and im? proved condition of the land, amount? ing to nearly half of the labor, ferti? lizer and rent, and the corn was ev? ery bit weighed by a disinterested committee. He is sure that nexl year with favorable seasons, he can add very materially to the yield with no more cost, by planting thicket and using different fertilizers. Eleven days' work with boy and mule, making $68, means that hf could have made between $200 and $300 on four acres with abojt forty days' work, or a year's college ex? penses In less than two months I work, from Marc h to July. Any bo> of good health and average strength without capital could, If he is willing to work, secure four or five acres of land from some farmer, and make enough to start him to College. He could do even better than the above showing for he could pay his board and rent und fertiliser accounts with his labor for the farmer and his en? tire prodm tlon on his extra crops would be profit. The boy mention? ed above Will make on his interest In a cotton crop probably $135 more? net, and very little time was lost from school to work these two c rops. set These Statements are published in no spirit of boastt ulness, but to show the wonderful possibilities In thU wonderful 'Maud of opportunity." i'> this year of grate, 1910, And t< Urge Other larniers to give the ii boys a chance and to inspire othei ! boys not only to do likewise, but to do a great deal better. * e s There Is one lesson these boyn have taught us. and we will miss B great deal of good from their efforts If we elo not learn this lesson, viz. It is that a few acres well manured and tilled will yield more crop and more pleaeure and less labor than many acres even moderately well manured and tilled. It Is intensive farming made plain. Will we learn this lesson" We trust the results In 1911 on all the farms In Sumter county will show that we have. And that with fewer acres to cultivate and worry over there will be more leisure for rest and culture, and more profits for still further Improve? ments. E. W. 1). There Is always a best way of doing everything, it it be to boll an egg.?Emerson. nion News | ND- <) 'or Practical Farmers s) nldent Fanners' Union of Sumter t) unty.) f ! 80 BUSHELS OfkCORN PER ACRE ON SAND-HILL LAN I). HOW It nus Done, and How Others ) May do It?Nitrosen from Stable Manure or From Fertilizers? _ 1 By Prof. D. N. Harrow, South Caro? lin,. Field Editor. ! One of the best examples to be : found In this State of what can be I done wi^th poor soils by the free use of vegetable matter combined with ! deep preparation and good culture is I to be seen on what is known as the Asylum Farm, in the suburbs of Columbia. When this land was taken in hand by Captain J. W. Hunch, the Treas erer of the State Hospital for the In same, some 20 years ago, it was re? garded as practically worthless. Jt is in the "sandhill" section abandon? ed and covered with a spare growth of broomsedge. Today the yield from these abandoned lands averages 70 to 80 bushels of corn, 35 bushels oi oats and 15 tons o/ ensilage per acr > This improvement has b en made by pursuing the following system: The land is plowed, a system* li : rotation, consisting of oats and vetch, peas and corn, and peas has been practiced. At times sorghum is sub? stituted for the corn. In addition to the plowing and the rotation this land annually receives the manure from a herd of 300 cattle, most of them dairy cows. This manure is carefully saved and applied to che land in return for which the land, 200 acres, produces all of the rough feed ocnsumed by these cattle to? gether with a number of hogs. In addition to raising feed for this live stock this farm also raises large per? centage of the vegetables consume 1 by the inmates of the hospital. Of course, free use is made of the silo. In this connection it is of interest to know Captain Bunch's method of utilizing all of his corn crop. From many acres he cuts and places 1 in the silo all of the crop. But when 1 fed upon silage cows also require t certain amount of dry feed. Man> now supply this dry feed by the use ! of hulls. Instead of buying hulls. r Capt Bunch cuts his corn just below 1 the ear and cures It. When cured, 1 the ears are removed and the rest ' of the stalk converted Into stover. After this corn is cut, and while still 1 green the rest of the stalk Is cut, 5 hauled to the barn, and after going through a cutter, is placed in the silo. Capt. Bunch is no doubt correct in his claim that the lower part of the ' stalk Is more valuable as ensilage 1 than as shredded corn stover; but I ' question whether this superiority is 1 sufficient to pay for the increased 1 costs of the work. With this farm this increased cost is not an item as most of the work is done by the pa 1 tients. Some commercial fertilizer has 1 been used in building up this land, but it has been chietly in the form of phosphates and potash. On this year's crop of corn there was used 4 00 pounds per acre of a mixture con 1 sisting of four parts 17 per cent acid ' to one part muriate potash. This 1 mixture would analyez approximately 13.6 per cent phosphate acid and 10 per cent potash. In addition to this, applied at the time of planting ' there is also used 100 pounds of 1 nitrate of soda, applied as the corn was bunching to tassel. As mention ; j ed in the beginning, the yield was I about 80 bushels of corn per acre. Ye who are paying, and did pay this year, 10 and 20 cents a pound for the nitrogen that you used in your fer? tilizers, notice that most of the ni? trogen used by this crop Is from the 1 j manure. The only purchased nitro gen in the form of nitrate of soda. ; was in the cheapest form. The act i ual outlay for "guano" could not > have exceeded $6 per acre. If there were used ten tons of stable manure ' per acre on this land this spring, this ? manure contained l<?o pounds of ni trogen and would have cost. In the form of cottonseed meal, at least $19. I Admitting that the crop used half of , this amount, the balance remaining : In the soil as permanent improve? ment, then it would have been r.e l cessary to have spent $y more, or I $15 In all, to have supplied this crop i with nitrogen. But the simple sup? plying of nitrogen does not represent all the value derived from the ma? nure. It is very much to be ques i tloned whether $9 worth of nitrogen ? In any other form would have result? ed in so good a yield, for without the humus supplied by the manure there Would certainly have been a deficien? cy of moisture in this soil this year. What has been done here in the shape of soil Improvement can be done With most any soil In the South, and the sooner this fact Is realised the better it will be with us ?Pro? gressive Farmer." FIGHT ON LABOR CONTRACT LAW. Peonage Pane from Georgia Before V. s. Court?Widespread Effect, Washington, Oct. if.?Believing that hundreds of Southern negroee sire being deprived of their liberty by big planters under forma of law the Federal Government will endeav? or this week to indue;- the Supreme Court of the United States to strika a telling blow at the alleged evil. This it will do by asking the Cr rt to declare unconstitutional the so- -ailed Atamaba "labor contract" law. Sim? ilar laws have heen passed by sev? eral of the Southern States and tbe decision is expected to apply to them all. The treatment of negro farm ".lands under this law is interpreted by the department of justice ps a reduction of these laboreis to a state of peon? age. Compulsory service to satisfy debt is taken by Attorney General Wickersham as the object of the legislation. The State of Alabama will e ppear in Court to defend its enactment. It is claimed by Attorney General Garb er, of that State, that the law in ques? tion is not aimed at the negro as a class, and?anyway tl is is a proper exercise of the police power of lb* State to stop fraudulent practices from which the South has suffered severely. The case comes to the Court an the appeal of a regro, Alonzo Bailey, from the decision of the Supreme Court of Alabama, which held Pie law constitutional and puidsa'd Bailey for violating it by assessing a fine equivalet to 136 days hard labor for the county. Bailey entered into a written con? tract to work as a farm haiid for the Riverside Comany during the year 1908 for the sum of $12 per month, the contract reciting that Badey had received $15 in advance an I WOO to receive the balance due him at the rate of $10.75 per month. He work? ed a month and a few days an? then quit, it was claimed, without Just cause. He had failed, the reco d al? leges, to refund the money advanced him. The negro was arrested uader "\he labor contract" law. This law pro? vides that in contracts of service , en? tered into by a laborer with : itfcnt to defraud where money was ac cano? ed, the contract broken without Just cause and the money not refunded, tv?o lahorer should *< Jeemed guilty of misdemeanor. \r r ndim .t lo ?h' law in lift! provided th^j fall lit. r.. perform, the s?\, . ? ! > re? fund the monej ghou ri as t=v cie evidence of Intent to defraud. Attorney General Wickersham Lays stress particularly upon the argu? ment that the natural and reasonable effect of the statute was not to step I fraudulent practices, but to impoee compulsory services on negroes, who < made up he bulk of farm labor In the State, in satisfaction of deb*. TY COBB LEADING BATSMAN. The Georgian Leads Lajoie by Small Margin. Chicago, Oct. 16.?Tyrus Cobb, by official verdict of President Johnson today, was the leading batsman of the American League during the last season, with a winning percentage over Larry Lajoie, of Cleveland, of .000860. As the National Leaguers dropped out the batting contest . ome time ago, President Johnson's an? nouncement means that Cobb Is the champion hitter of the country. The automobile, over which trophy t aere has been so much excitement and not a little criticism, goes to the Detroit player, but the Cleveland captain, by permission of Mr. Johnson, will be allowed to accept a duplicate. Third Baseman Corriden, of St. Louis, is vindicated in the statement, and Umpire Evans Is quoted as say? ing that not only were I^ajoie's eight hits all legitimate, but that he really should have been credited with nlne hits. Mr. Jeehnson stated that he has re quired Preside-a Hedges, of the St. Louis Club, to probe further the c harge that some one connected with his club attempted to Influence the official scorer. The Cobb-Lajoie batting averages, as officially given out tonight, as as follows: Player. At bat. Hits. Aver. Cobb. 509 196 .P.S606 Lajoie.591 227 .3S409 The receipts of cotton on the mar? ket Saturday were the largest in any South Carolina market sc? far report? ed. WANTED?l have in charge to lease to right party an eight or ten horse farm at Summerton. Apply to W. IV Carson. Pal/ell. S. C. 10-1 t-ftW-ltaw. FOR SAIiE?One heavy Sargcant saw mill, with 40 feet carriage, fitted with Hancock feed and wire rone drive, together with a 50 in. Slmonds saw. all complete with necessary belting, and practically new. For particulars apply to Sumter Railway and Mill Supply Co., Sumter, S. C. 9-29-lra