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PROMOTION 1 OK I > I 1 ? >T \t.INI Mr. J. I*. Ta>lor tioct to ( olumbia tin.I Mr. V.. IU.it? \ < omc II. it . The Atlantic Coast Line freight agent a! Sumter. Mr. J. I*. Tax lor. haa been promoted to the position as agent at Columbia. 8. C. Mr. Taylor haa been In Sumter about one year and hau mad** a great many friends here during his atay. who will be aorry to see him leave, but who are glad of hia promotion to a higher and better poaltlon. Mr. Taylor, in speaking of hia atay In Sumter, said that he had been here about a year and that he had found this a very pleasant place to llv > and that he waj sorry to leave, but that he could riot, let the promotion pans by when he had the chance to accept it. Mr F. lionev of Florence will be sent here either tomorrow or next day to take up the work here and as soon as he arrives Mr Taylor will leave for Columbia. How to tirou Corn. Piropolle. June J 4.?Complying with your request tq send you an ar? ticle for the Farmers' Fnion De? partment'' of your paper. I don't know of anything of more importance than "The Cultivation of Corn." I fear sometimes that ton many forget the moat important item in corn culture, believing that if they use plenty of fertilizer, they will asake corn anyway. This, in part, is true, but if 1 could Impress It on the minds of the small farmers of South Carolina, that it Ij poesible to make all the corn they need, and to spare, without any fertilizer at all. I would feel that I had been of untold bene? fit to the small farmers of the State. I have heard ao many amall farmers say they were not able to follow the -Williamson Plan." as they could not get the fertilizer. Thla Is true, and it la not the amount of corn you make per acre, but "What did it cost per but'.eh" Whl'e a great many believe in a liberal smount of fertilizer for all crops, 1 take the position that you can Improve lend Just sj fast and with a great deal more profit, to use your fertiliser on cotton, make a bale per acre, follow this with corn the nsrst year and make 30 or 40 bushels pgr sere without any fertiliser at alb In 1909 I moved Into a rural aectlon of Berkely county, ten miles from a railroad, snd took the position that It would not pay to haul fertilizer that diets nee. and the corn back, as a money crop. In fsct, the man who plants corn aa a money crop is as fool? ish to his own Interest, aa the man who has his corn crib out west. Make all the corn you need for the farm, and all the cotton you can. Is my ad? vice to South Carolina farmers. As 1 said. I did not want to raise corn as a money crop, so l planted 100 seres In corn, and with i* plows made enotu h to :? -d nulsS Mal >v-?r. not uaing r.ny fertilizer at all. 8o last year I decreased my corn crop to 80 acres and increased the cotton from 160 to 19r?. did not use any fertilizer and made 2,?'00 bushels This \-ar I am working the same number of acres and the crop now promises to make from 30 to 40 bushel* per acre. Now I give the farts as proof of the possibility of making corn wlthou*. any ggponJS . c?pt the pup* hand, and claim, not ae a boast, that with the proper cul? tivation, you can make more corn than with l.ono pounds of tertili/er per acre. In >?rb'f. I will Klve my mode of cultivation, hoping it will be of bone fit to those who want to make a!l the corn they need, at a cost of lj or 'Jo cents a bushel. If praetl.al. break land in fall with two-horse plow, but this Is not essential to a good crop. Run <>tf rows five feet, and bed .,ut with six furrow* to the row with 7 inch turn plow, aa deep aa you can. Plant In water furrow, not le<s than \2 or In Inches. About the :?0th Si Man h. if ground >??? drv, la the best time to plsnt. It is better to make one or two Rood t-ars to the stalk, than to put to<? mueh ? orn eg the I tr ?1. and have barren ?OaUM Yon must have air and MUMk While the corn I* little, run a fur? row in top of the bed with a ^hovel plow. In a week or ten d iys throw two furrow.* on this whh a turn plow, from tli.rn. In a w . i k run two more furrows and now ?In soli from the bar of the plow, will dirt the som. About the llth of May. side both *id. - w ith a II or 1 inch ?we. p. i? t stund i" days rod en* ply fertilizer In side furrow, If you are using any, and throw to furrow with a turn plow. In ( w. k plow and the middle in two neu, furro with turn plow, never plow ever} other row. In SUM weel d sides s? ith i 21* Inch *-\ ? p, at:-1 one week HI -r?-. plow out the mlddl 'S two furrow j and your ? i Is, Have u <ed this pi - n i o years d have never made a failure ???? bou Id a grain of . ..rn. Respectfully, ft. It HUDSON. IU >\ III KT AT POC \IJiA. Hath lag Pool for children Separated iiotu Hint or OMor Folks. Wednesday afternoon Archie Hall, the um. year-old ton ol Mr. \V. T. Hall, had his hand badly bruised at I'.M.illa. It seems tluit he was run? ning his hand along between the eobl? and blot k while the shoot-the shut.- boat was bring drawn up and Whoa the cable tightened it caught his knuckles, maslr.fig them between the cable and the wooden block. No SSrtoUS Injury was don.- to his hand. Mr. Back, the proprietor of Pocal la Springs, has decided br dam oft' .1 small section of the bathing pool for the smaller children who go In swimming at Pocalla so as to le ? t, the danger to them when in the water. Mr. C, M. Joys has sold out his in >t in the "Joy waKon," which has booa carrying numbers of people out ' Pooalla to Messrs. W. J. Culler and 11. M. Webster, who will have charge of it hereafter. Mr. Joye will leave Sumter the first of July for Kock Hill Which place he will make his home MANY MKASIRKS SHORT IK W Kit HIT. Statement to This Effect Made by Federal Bureau of Statistics.. Columbia, June ?Because con? ditions here are probably typical of those prevailing all over the State, a I irtllng report made by experts from the Federal bureau of standards, fol? lowing a secret Investigation here in April, has state-wide Interest as Showing how general Weights and measures In use are short and how effectively, If Innocently. consumer* are defrauded. OBS butter print out of 41 tested, was found within three per cent of bOtag full weight. Conditions gen? erally are condemned as "very bad." Only half the forty scales tested were correct within three per cent. Ten pat cent of all the scales tested wore short weighting consumers by more than twelve per cent. Spring deal scales were especially off. Scale weights ran 87 per cent, correct within three per cent. Peas, beans and such commodities were generally sold by liquid measure, the consum? er thus being defrauded at the start to the extent of fourteen per cent. Putter prints averaged about one ounce in the pound short. Out of twenty-nine packages of rice and sugar sixty nine per cent were short weight. City Council vvill take ?'.ups to remedy matters at once, probably by adopting strict ordinam >0J and em? ploying capable inspectors. BUGGY FACTORY FOR SVMTFK. Chsssahsff of OeensMvoe so Give jsj. 54M> to <;ot Factory at This Place The buggy factory which has been talked about for some time is a sure thing for Sumter, if the people) of the city ami the Chamber of Com* merea go ahead and do what they l its guaranteed to do. Meiere, g, K. and W. K. Rowland were in the city Monday and an agreement Sms made at that time. There are several suitable sites of fcred for the buggy factory wha h aaa be secured for the 92,100 of? fered by the Chamber of Comm.-r. . <ind options have been set tired eg them. Today the Messrs Kowlaao are lti Columbia, but they will return to this city tonight The choke of -ites will ho made Just as soon as the funds offered by the Chamber of Commerce are collected and ready to be paid down for the site. The Chamber of Commerce has gone after the buggy factory in the right way and has SUOCeeded In get? ting it here, and it is probable that the factory will prove a great be no - tit to Sumter and a factor in bring? ing la money to the city. The factory is to give employment t ? about forty men at the start and it is estimated that it will turn n .t "Uj. w here m ar $100,000 worth of woods annually. Messrs W. W. and S. K. Rowland are in the business of manufacturing buggies and oarrlagei already and it is probable that they will meet with much BUCCeSi III Sumter. Tin Chamber of Commerce llrvl took up tin- matter with the Row? lands on the fifth of June when it wa.-t suggested that $.",000 be given them to purchase a site. Latei H was deemed best to limit the amount to ||,I00, as it was though! that a ?lultabls sits could be purchased for that amount. \ ?: I \i slh I ? M K, Boston, June 17,?The varloui cru ?j.oh-s against salary loan sharks her?! have brought to light tome astonish? ing Instances of usury. Some of Iheas appeared unbelievable, One of the moel striking casei Is 1111t of ,i man who for more than 20 rears b.i< been vainly trying to repay $i *.. He has already p ild b tek 12,169 end Btlll owe- ihe original 115, Another man borrowed $400 live j ? n ago, i le hni paid * 1,000 and "til. OWeS *?.',U. (.Kl AT ? OKI TRAUE Kl (OKI) United State*' romawerce a\ ? 111 Other Xutlons During Pasl h Months Exceeds \n> Previous %Ynr*s. Waihlngton( June 84.- A new rec? ord In the foreign commerce of the United Btatea ?urpaaalng that of any year In business history, was made during the 11 months of the Itscal year ending With May. During this period the Imports and exports of the United States as compiled by the bu? reau ol statistics ami announced to? day amounted to $8,812,383,506, which exceeds the record year of 1908 by aino.st $:;.ooo.ooo. The balance Of trade In favor of American business men from their foreign customers amounts to .$."?01, ?25,608 for the 11 months. It is doubt? ful if the balance of trad.' at the end of the fiscal year will equal that of the previous record made in 1908 whleh was $661,431,564. The imports for May were $!:!<>. S24.1M1 and the exports $153,160,696. The imports for the 11 months were $1,406,429,002 and the exports $1,906*. 914,604. COST OF HOTEL LOT. The cost of the Harby lot on Lib? erty street which was Monday se? lected as the site for the proposed ho? tel was $14 0 per front foot, or $14, 500, in all, as there are 104 feet facing on Liberty street. The hotel lot will extend back a distance of 107 feet with a perpetual alleyway from Sumter street to the rear of it. The lots from which the hotel site eras to be selected were: the old .1 ickson hotel lot, owned by the Mc Callum Realty Company; the Jack? son lot at the corner of Main and Bartlette streets, owned by Mr. A. L. Jackson. the lot facing Main street south of the nostofllcoi the old Episcopal church lot on the corner of Main and Bartlette streets, owned by Mesrs Wilson and Shore and the lot selected, Bach of the lots re? ceived some of the votes cast, but the Harby lot received more than a majority on the first ballot, and was accordingly declared selected. The stockholders elected the board of directors at the meeting Mor.day and the board of directors will hold a meeting sometime shortly at which they will elect the otficers of the com? pany, The officers were not elected at the meeting Monday because of the fact that all of them were not present. In The Police Court. There were several cases heard in the Police Court Wednesday morning by the Recorder. J. W. Orlllln, white, was tried for cheating and defrauding. He piead not guilty, but was found guilty and sentenced to pay a tine of*t50 or to serve 10 days. Willie Willi uns was charged with disorderly conduct, cursing and noii upport of wile. The case was dis? miss, d. Henry Murray was tried] for va? grancy and given a sentenc* of $110 or 80 days. The folowlng easel were tried in he police court Thursday: J. M. Dove, violation of the hack and Vehicle ordinance, $2 or 4 days. Have James, driving wagon on side? walk. $3 or io daya Julius Edwards, Jr.. public drunk* mness, 110 or 20 daya 'I'lier.- was only one case tried in the city polte? court Friday. West Collins was tried for dlschag Ing firearms and carrying concealed weapons, Me plead guilty and was glvetn $10 or 2'? days on the tirst count and $20 or .'10 days on the sec? ond count. THE CLEMSON AO RICLTiTUR AL COLLEGE. Enrollment Over TOO?Value of Property Over a Million und a Quarter?Nlnct) Teachers and Of? ficers, Seven full four years courses, In Am i- ait uro, Engineering, etc. Cost per session >f nine months, including all fees, board, heat, light, laund y. ami necessary uniforms? $121.87. Students who are financially able pay $40.00 tuition additional. Scholarships and Entrance Examina? lions, The college maintains 124 Agricul? tural scholarships, and 43 Textile srholarshlf'S, worth each 6100.00 ami i rec I nil io i. (Students wh i have attended Clem son College or i\ny other College or University, are not eligible f??r the scholashlps unleti there ore no other eligible applicants.) tictlolar*lll|M and entrance cxaminu tlons will be held at the Count} Heals Jill) I Ith, 1? \. M. \c\i Session Opens Sept. is, mit. Write at one,, to \v. m. Rlggs, I 'resident I 'lemson ' !oll< ge, B. <'.. for catalogue, scholarship blanks, etc, If you delay, you mac be crowded OUt 6-8- Haw ? 7-1 3 I FILIBUSTER COMES TO i:\T>. I Regulars and Insurgents of Tennessee Legislature Make l i> .\fler Scv entj hays m Odds. Nashville. Tenn., June 22.?Follow? ing a conference here today In the tight between the regular Democrats of the Tennessee legislature on one side and the independnt Democrats and Republican! on the other, it w;.s formally i nnounced that the filibus? ter Which stait<-d 7<? days ago would be broken and that those fusion mem b< rs who w ent to Alabama in order to hold Up all legislation would be buck in their seats tomorrow. MAKE ACTOS 1\\Y LICENSE. Washington, June -".?Estimating that one out of five of the 500,0(10 automobiles In use in the country is employed in inter-State travel, Sena? tor Simmons, of North Carolina, to day expressed the opinion in a speech In the Senate that a million dollars annually can be raised for the Im? provement of wagon roads by im? posing a license fe< of 110 jach on such machines. He also prophesied that the Improvement of the roads would have the effect of greatly in? creasing automobile 'ravelling and, therefore, of enhancing the [und. The proposition for an Inter-State tax on automobiles is embraced In a bill of which the North Carolina Venator is the author, and which pro? poses the appropriation "f $1,000,000 annually for the benefit of t \e roads on which the rural mails are carried. He contended for the equity of the genera] scheme by tho use of the roads by the Government and also because of the benefit that would ac? crue to the farmers of the country. The argument was advanced that the National Government was under as great all obligation to aid the farmers as to aid other classes and manufacturers. The Western rail? roads and the rivers and harbors were mentioned as instances of the benefit of Government. "We have." the Senator said, ' the finest railways in the world and the poorest highways. The Government has helped to build these roads and develop this splendid system of long distance transportation. Why should it not build the equally important system of short distance transporta? tion?the country highways. over which the products of the farm must be hauled before they reach these national highways?" Mr. Blmmons said that of the ir.0,000 miles of dirt road the country was using 1,000,000 In carrying the mails, and contended that it was un? der obligation to the farmers to aid in making them. The saving made by a general Improvement of the highways was placed at $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. lb- estimated that the proper Improvement of the wagon roads would save the farmers $300, 000,000 to $400,000,000 in the cost of transporting their crops. Concluding, Mr. Simmons said "Shall the Government, having so auspiciously started upon the work of reclaiming the great and honor? able calling of agriculture from the drudgery to which conditions had condemned it. now halt and hesitate to do the one thing needful to r< store it to Its rightful positl6n of primacy among the great Industries of the na? tion? i hope not, 1 think not, and I had almost said l knew it was not." CEMETERY ASSOCIATION BUYS LAND. The Sumter Cemetery Association has added an area of thirteen acres to Its holdings for i emetery lots, it having lust completed a deal whereby that many acres were purchased for cemetery uses at some future time. The decision was reached at the meeting of the association the i rst of June to get what land they could for addition to the present cemetery lot. a committee was appointed to pur? chase the land and the deal was u ade this week and the land sur? veyed. Ten acres of the land was purchased from Rev. J. C. Watson, a negro preacher, at a cost of $12.'? i" r acre. The other three acres were bought from Mr. A. J. Btubbl for 1400, All of the land Ii west of the present cemetery lot. Part <>f it was formerly used as a negro burying ground, but lias not been used for many years. Any graves which are lo-ated on the lot will be moved to the colored burying ground. The land will be held by the as? sociation until the coming gener^ ations will have need of it. A com? mittee Is at work trying to And oul the besl and cheapest method of *up plylng the cemeterj with water, an< it Is probable thai some arrange rnentq will he mad.- to carry oul this pi ? iject. Mappie-I (tin in Lincoln. A Lllcoln, Nob.. ujr| writes, "1 ha? i.n ailing for some time with chron lc constipation and stomach trouble i began taking Chamberlain's Btonv ttch and Liver Tablets and In thre< days l was able to be up and got bei ler i Igh a long, I am I he protidej ?ail in Lincoln to find sich a u<?? ?? medicine." For sah by all dealers. Chamber of Commerce Xotes. The following is taken for the Cam* den, X. J., "Board of Trade Journ? al." It s \v<?rth reading: ( lurry Qualities Win. Isn't it easy to kick and find fault with everybody and everything? 1'i' lours.- it is. Some people think they must kick to let others know they ar?- alive. So they kick and knock, if it isn't the streets it's the trolley If smoke goes out the -tacks and mills are working they kick; if the nulls shut down tiny kick; it's either too lud or too cold; too dusty or too muddy, Can't suit them any way. The c ity is infernally slow they say and think kicking helps it. They never smile for fear of getting the loc kjaw. Did you meet anybody like that ? < ?f course you have?the city is full of them. They never boost; al? ways knocking, like a tramp. Mop (?rumbling, and think of the harm you are do? ing; remember it's your liver that is out of order; tone it up and try and say something good about Camden. Where c an you find better water, a better paved and protected city? We have a healthy city. Boost it. No? body dies here but of extreme old age; undertakers are going out of business and buying automobiles to kill people. Boost Camden. Tell strangers about how it's growing. You might as well stand in a tub and try to lift yourself as to stop it. Do you help it grow by kicking? Of course not. Stop it. Camden'., lively newspapers, the Board of Trade, the Commercial Club and Business Men's Association, all help it grou by Boost? ing. Boost?lie A Booster. Say everything that is good for Camden and don't be a chronic fault tinder. If your hair wants cutting, don't use an oyster knife; it spoils the hair and Is hard on the oyster knife. Go to a bar'?er. Don't shake an old egg, it isn't healthy; neither Is it healthy to be grumpy. Look up? on the bright side. Try and be the happy man In town. Get the name of being a booster. Don't be a kick? er; it makes you sour on everybody. Extend the glad hand and be good; no to church, get others to go. When election day comes, vote?don't for? get this, it stops kicking if it goes right. If you don't vote and it goes wrong you will kick the harder. You may meet some people who are bad, awful bad; don't move on that account; try and make them letter. Don't keep shoving and kick ink; extend the glad hand and help them up. If you don't smoke don't kick if somebody else does. Maybe the cars don't run fast enough; then walk. Walking is healthy; it helps the shoemaker instead of the trol? ley. Don't Kick. if the Declaration of Independence don't suit write another and have a c elebratlon every day, enjoy your? self and hurrah, laugh, get char people laughing?be as chipper as a dog with fleas?they make him lively. 1 >id you ever hear a New Yorker kick his city J Never. No place on earth like it to him. Do the Same for Camden. Boost your city. If a man smite you on the cheek turn the other toward him and let your left fist go first and boost him; it may stop Iiis kicking. If your head aches after a clam? bake?blame the clam, not Camden. Camden has lots of good people In every branch <?f business, so buy In Camden. We have the best banks and trust companies, department stores, furniture stores, gents' fur? nishings, paper hangers, jewelry stores, cigar makers; all live men; their names are in our dally and weekly papers; all helping to boost Camden. What you cannot ftnd In Camden isn't worth having. All over our city rows of houses are being huilt?praise the nun who .??re improving Camden. Do some Boosting to help them out. If our Mayor don't suit you elect >< urself and run the town your way of thinking. Von will soon wake up out of your dream. Walk around a ad sa e how your city has developed. M: ybe the trol? leys don't run to Bull you. Don't kick. Buy an automobile and see how cheap it i>; it takes money to run both. I Your Board of Trade is doing cood work for Camden; join it and ln-ip to make it a power for good, it's trying to boost the population and the kicker don't help it any. Now join the Boosters and help to Boost, for a ype. k,-.i peach will soon spoil a basket of them-*o al 1 one kicker make others kick. When you go traveling, register from Camden. Don't be ashamed of ii; let everybody know your city has Liu place on the map. The Vi- t< r talks to the world about Camdep. I xnur share t<? I:,>>>^\ it. ? Tin te is bo much had in the host of US. And so much good in the worst of us, Thai i- hardly behooves any of n To talk about the rest of us . ii ?s easy enough to pleasant When lif. Hows like a Bong:, but The man worth while la the one Who will smile \\'h< i) everything goea dead wrong.*' <.K \IT IN Kl ^-1 \. Honest Odessa Chief Asked to r.< Transferred limn Kucti < on upiion. The organisation of the Commis? sariat Department in Kleff is very powerful and ?t,n upt. Consequently it has ventured dangerously far. The officials n cently raised the bribe tax to a level exceeding all the deductions usual:.- made by Contracting firms and upsetting their calculations. No oth dr district has made such exorbitant demands. All the officers who refuse to "play the game" were called "fools." and were entrapped when possible and compromised, so that their evidence, should it ever he used against the organisation, might lose its value. Captain 1>. was one of the "fools," and a plan was matured to compromise him. A contractor was to eall upon him and offer him a packet of hank notes for his "favor? able attitude." Witnesses were to he hidden away and tie trick was done. But by the merest accident the cap? tain got wind of the plot and made ready to frustrate it. As soon as the contra* tor came and asked, "May I call on you today with refrence to an important matter?" he received the encouraging reply. "Certainly..' By the time he arrived, however, the captain had policemen and one mem? ber ol the revising commission in hiding, who suddenly revealed their presence when the packet of bank notes was again offered by the con? tractor. "Gratitude" is the official term for a bribe in Russia. If you ask an of? ficial, public or private, for a favor or a right, adding "and 1 will be grateful to you," the understanding between you is complete. There was an incorruptible "fool," like Captain !>.. who was appointed chief of a de? partment in Odessa. He was impul? sive, passionate, but a good-hearted man, Utd he said to his subordinates on hi? arrival: "Come to me at any hour of the day or night and you shall find me, if you come on busi? ness of the department. If I get angry?I am liable to paroxysms of anger?bear with me. Take no no? tice. The fit w ill pass as it came leav? ing no trace. Above all else, be frank. Hide nothing. And please prime me. If there be anything which you think I ought to know, teach me. I am wil? ling to learn.* Next day the oldest official in the department entered the room of the new chief. He was greeted cordially: "I am delighted. Sit down. What can I do for you?" "My colleagues have sent me. Your wot ^s yesterday encouraged us to be frank with you. There arc things you ought to know and be familiar with. And my comrades thought that perhaps I could unf jld them to you." "Yes, 1 see. Well. 1 am rather pressed for time just now. but what is the subjects *' "? 'Gratitude. You see. your Ex? cellency, our methods of receiving gratitude differ from?" "Wh-a-t? How dare you an of? ficial of the crown:* "There are two kinds of gratitude, the negative gratitude which we re? ceive at stated periods not for doing anything in particular, but for what might be termed?" "Go to Hades. Begone out of my sight 1 will report wou ? You?you The chiefs eyes were starting from their sockets, his face was scarlet; he trembled in every limb, and his lan? guage was picturesque to a shocking extent. N xt morning the same official sought i ut the new chief, sat down beside him. and with a bland smile l egan: "I am glad to see your Excel? lency look so well this morning, I have come to explain to you our ways as to gratitude. There are two kinds of gratitude: the specific for a par tic?" ' I'll commit some crime if you don't get out of my sight. Shut up this minute or else?" The subordinate retired with dignity. Next day a different official took up the threads where the first had left them, and began to discourse upon "gratitude" and what percentage of it would belong to tlie chief. The latter fumed and foamed at the mouth, but the would-be mentor said feelingly: "We are s-.rry for your Excellency, but we hope the parox? ysm i will soon abate. Our patience never will. Of that you may be quite sure. We are grat< ful to?" "Don't make nie mad!" roared his Excellency, -I repel vour gratitude with loathing. Leave the room!" Thi Upshot of it was tint the new chief -Tiding life not worth living un r the ir nm.-ta.mes, got transferred. His subordinates' sense of "gratitude*" I* still as dei elon< ?1 as ever. No reasonable man can explain bow the country ts on and holds to? gether without the I'l l s< :i,, of Colonel Henri Watt< rsou