Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I.jjt $(?htcbm;m ani souijjram. Fwblfettoed Wednesday ami Saturday. ?BT? OST EE N PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, fl. C. Terms: $1.40 per annum?In advance. Advertisement*: Oae Square first Insertion.|1.00 ?very subsequent Insertion.50 Coatracta for three months, or ?anger will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub ?orv? prtvmte Interests will be charged far as advertisements. Obttuartea and trthutee of respect wtn be charged for. The Sumter Watchman waa found? ed in 1110 and the True Southron In lies The Watchman and Southron aow has the combined circulation and senueac* cf both of the old papers, sad is manifestly the best advertising Hum In Burnter. TAFTS TARIFF VFTO. Will Become Campaign Document Nest Year. Washington. Aug 3.?Congres? sional visitors to the White House today said that adjournment of con? gress would depend laregly upon how 1 quickly President Taft vetoes the first of the tariff Mils that gets to him. It ts frsnkly admitted that the first veto will put a quietus on further tariff reduction activities and that congress will sdjourn with prompt ness after that Few callers believe that congre'jS will be here later than August to. Congressional leaders today said the wool bill will he the Mrst to reach the White House. j gome of them are figuring on that bill going through and caching the president hy Saturday, at. any rate not later than Monday. if thin Is done there Is little doubt that the president will flash his veto to the country within six hours after srsrds Alt he wants Is sufficient time to prepare this veto, which will un? questionably becom* a campaign document In the presidential race neat year. What the president says In that veto will he the beacon-light for his party next year, and will be quoted from a thousand campaign platform* In the next 15 months. The pr'-si I at knows Just what he wants to say hut. owing to the Importance of the wording of the veto, ho will nec sssartty want a Wtttr time In his pr< i 1 r i <??. ??I <.K? !? <>|i|V ri I 1 ?>\\x .\l?. ., , .IOC It v. More Than FWo Hundred m-legates and Visitors Leave for Their liosare. After a very pleasant four days In the Oams Cock city, the delegates and visitors to the great State Convention nf the Grand Lodge of Colored Odd Fellows, nearly 500 strong, left Fri? da) afternoon and uSturday for their homes In varous parts of the ?tats. Ths meeting was one of the largest and most successful held hy the Col? ored < Mid Fellow In this State and the lodge waa shown to he in excel? lent financial condition, as well as were the branch lodge*. The del gates were age) rtanted in various ways, most of the meetings being \\e\d In Mt. Plsgah A. M. K. chut. h. ? wihkned with the meeting of Odd Fellows was the meeting of the Order of th* Household of Kuth. | ord. r similar to the Odd Fellows, ((inducted by the colored w>>men. The head qusr ?? re f.-r the order was In the Andrews hall on Went |JhSlIj? Street, One ,?f the foHtor?.?? of th?? iTo.otlriK wn a i > sesssrll manner In wl.eh It ?M SSSSSSMSSSl Htiil the Hbwnro of m-r- ? i among the visiting crowd*. Th?* deleaate* np<>ke very hlahly of th*? way In which the kSSSjl er(b r had ? nt. rt.i i. . d t hem. Thl? morning the passing* r station was a BSesa of seething humanity' Wh? r.- th- ?b N'tCH'es and their friends Were telling ??ach ??th.-r far. well. Ad? dition, he* hud to he put on several of the train.-* to arry off th*' crowd sumli r llecotnlnr < ?>-ino]Hdlt?in. As sn tndicatlor. of th*? fact that Sumt.r i* becoming a cosmopolitan city, the cltlsens can point out the favt to Inquirers that Sumter ts the birthplace of u fuil-ld.bd O-vek. Mr. Crlstopher Gases and his wife arc th.. pi oid par. re-M .,f a little Greek girl who was horn several diva ago In this r\ty. Alt iough other Offeeh WOmel have lived In Sumter. this Is Sjfubohljf the first Greek child to he n.-rn In the city, and for that reason th.- parents have a right to b* proud of h< r. Mr. Gases has llv* (; In the rltv feg SOTOfOl years. I?set summ* r he made a trip hack to the fatherl ted and hr*ojght sway with him his young brlds. Mr. John I/mmon returned Ii , day from a two week's stay nt Si hel i and lb nders? n\Hie. "mi DESTROYING GOD'S WORD J?r*mi?h 36?Aug. 13 T\4 Word of <wr Oud ?hall ?fand forever " ?JmhuA &:tL CHE Prophet Jeremiah was shut up lu prison. The disaster upon i he kingdom had, to some extent, u wakened the people to a slight re|k>Qtance lu which the king Joined, yet it wus a repentance of fer.f rather than heart repentance. The king hud enmity against Jeremiah be? cause the Divine message came through him. He seems to have hoped to re? strain the Prophet from further proc? lamation of the coming trouble through fear. However, the Lord directed the Prophet to write out all of his prophe? cies on a acroU, after the ancient style. In columns. Jeremiah dictated and Kam? h served him as amanuensis. By the Lord's dlrectk>n this boot of Jeremiah was to be read to all the pe pie, in the tempts. J du <o4<.?4) Bvntck. on the occasion of a general gathor hig f? r worship snd repentance. SI m e the Prophet himself coiiid not go, he diroctdl KariK li. who took M iiaftaW'^l the s c r o l 1 and read It In the hearing of the people, ltairoph eclea of dire dis? aster made a deep Impression. One of the prrnooe of lbs poopk? was present ami heard tfeo reml lug and re|>ortod to others of the king's counsellors. Theo* sent for Raruvhand had hlni read it before them all. They also, were deeply Impre****! and con? cluded that It should Ik* brwight before the king. Hut meant tin*' Barucb and Jeremiah were hidden, the probe hi 11- I f.v of the king's displeasure l>clng great. | Hearing of the manuscript, the king , wus MUtitM to have it r?ad before him I by a scribe. I ni ring he reading, us two or throe columnn of the manu? script were read, the king cut them off with l BBB knife and threw them ln*> I the Are?until the entire mnnti4crl.it was heard and destroyed. By thi lord's dlm-frm Jeremiah dictated hi- ; proj'beei'W ifynh, luirueh again act bjg as amanuensis, and this edition j w as made fd.ill :^mre CompkttS thau the former. Amount other thfrurs It In eluded the Id vine edict that none < I Jebolukimtt posterity should alt 1 upou the throuo of Dnvld. God's Word Indestructible Thomas Paine, Voltaire and Inger Im igwed 'tv.t they h-ci ma ?de the Won! of God to ap]vai* ??o ridiculous the I It avoid nes ecus re here tnfjuenoe amoagnt men. Robert Ingereotl laquot? ed se aavlag ?nid, in ten yean I ?? sUkei i*ct U ratmL ' Uow Htt> the poor man knew on the subject The frontispiece of a well know n WyclifTo Bible pictures Satan and oth ers, religious and Irreligious, blowing | with all their might to put out n light. In proj?ortlon as their energy and strength lava me exhausted, the light grew stronger and burned the sjsore brightly. This Illustrates the futility ? f all attempts to quench the Word of ( hhI. Although wo have passed the da\ when any SSM would attempt to destroy the Bible, we have not passed !the day of oppo sltlon to the truth. Satan would pij Mi i n n won ai L fain have the p??> ^ t pie of God WOT' I ' ship the boo k rather than study and appreciate Its contents, in con resilience, got a few un> opposing the light that is now ...dniug from JrSoinkim Imrns book. the Wntd "f God?disclosing to us the fa< t that nmcli that csjns down to us fr??in the l?urk Ages is contrary to the Bthls oh wed an to reason. Many of tbe prodsoosd lose hers of the ebuieb ar?- lourtiiN opposed to Blbls study, eltssmstk tn?-tr opposition Is sdvamrou u> cautiously as |>os?dble **f?>r f?ar of the people." A Farcin* For thu Word of God S< rlptural trutli U a scarce commo? dity at tlw pieaOBl t\M9 thS world |l full of iff t and sin r.tid unrighteous* n?'s- 1 he L0fd*S did) I pies must so love truth und righteousness as ; ? hun c?-r ami thifOt fur it. To SUCh spiritual food will OS fiaated. Truth will be dispensed to them ai "meal in due saasoa*** The Scriptures from ilrst to last c.i\< us to aadffslaad thai Gods Word is to ablas more gad more brightly down 10 t!i" very pad Of this Qotpol Age St pstef dot lares It to he "the more mfi Word ol prophecy, to Which we do well thai wo take heed, as to a light shining in a dar!; place until the l?;i\ dawa and the l?a> Star arise In vour hearts' (11 Peter 1. 10). Tin* Bishop of London opposed the Tyndaie translation becauss the pra< llcai of the tinm wer?- not In harmony with the Scriptures Sitnilarly. todaj there are doctrlaeti traditions, treed^ from ths Hark Age* ??tili referenced ami which s Batter nnderstandlng of the Bible would correct ind put i< shnme. Hcn? e the opposition to I'm bettor nnderstaading of Ood's Word \ i srthslesg the Word of God Staad forever, ami the spirit nf ll truth vhai! make free sll tti chlldr??r nf th?- truth "Truth rroshsd tr> earth ?hnll ri?*? seatn. The ??tp; n ll i s .ru of i *, d it ? ?ri Ba has ribs to The i?atiy Resn, 10 conti? per ^? -k, by carrier. Farmers' Union News ?AND? , Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by IS. W. lKthb*, l*reKl?leiit Farmer?' Union of Sumter County.) Meeting of Sumter County Farmers' t nlon at Elliotts, August 3rd? < ?\s ing to the splendid rain which fell around Elliotts ahout 9 o'clock tho local ettendenoo was not as good as usual. Good delegations were present from the local union. The delegates to the recent State meeting reported, and expressed their regret that every farmer in the State could not see the earnestness and business-like manner of the State union. Sumter union indorsed the meas? ures sent down from the State union and appointed committees to put the , plans of the State union in oper- ' ation. The most important matters for . publication were the address to the j people on the cotton situation and tho committee to confer with the chamber of Commerce of Sumter next Monday, August 1 'th. In accordance with the decision at Trinity tO have health talks, a train od nurse gave an Illustrated lecture on nursing in the home of several ladlet Of the union in the school house 1 after dinner, while the men were having an informal discussion out i under the trees. If this feuture prOVei attractive it is the intention of the heulth committee, Mrs. Ii. W. BeaU Mr. s. c. Marvin and Mr. n. u. BonsOtti to try to secure lecturers on I health and domestic science for the ladies at every county meeting of tho union. . Mr. 11. W. Beel), who || chairman of the State committee on Farm Life j Schools, hopes to make the after- ' noon of each meeting instructive hy discussion of the county school prob? lem, The cotton committee. E3, w. i>abbs J. M. Brogdon and S. N. Welch, have issued an address to the people on that suhject. As our object! can best j be secured by the widest publicity | that address w..s given to the pressj Of the State with the reQUSSt that j every paper reproduce it. The committee to confer with the Chamber of Commerce of Sumter at 4 o'clock on the 14th, will please as semt.de at the otlice of Clerk of Court U [, Parrott at 1:80 o'clock p. m. for1 a short conference. Every union Is eernestly requested to see that its commlttesman attends thli meeting] or semis a good lubetltute. s. N. Welch, j. m. Brogdon, R. k. Brown, B, M. McBlveen, K, T. Mime, B. A, Harvin, wit' the county president, are the appointees on this committee. The ne\t meeting of county union will be with Oswsgc local on the first Friday In September, E. W. D. j Get to Work for a Carvels Post, [ The New York Poet spily lays: ThS demand that our present in? convenient and expensive system of) sending pereeli by msll shall oe brought up to the lev el of the par- \ ?eis post in almost every other civil? ised country comes with pscullar fores from the farmers, if only the dwellers In the cities and thslr su- i burbs were to be thought of, we could pull along as we do at pres. lit. Where population is concentrated and retail bualnsea is on ? large scale there la a multitude of delivery agents. The service of the laraer city stores runs out through the whole ?uhurban isalon, and there Is always, a swarm of local expreaeea radiating out from populous centres. In the I country all this is different What? ever a farmer buya ha must gei home for himself, The rural telephone may have brought him within order- j Ing dlstenes of more than one town, but If he wants to g. t v hat be tele? phones for. he must hitch up a horse ami wagon t<> g-'t it. Now, when he x that the rural postman who i rings him hhi dally paper drives up to his door with nothing in his Wagon hut a small mail hag. he would he a very unintelligent former if he did not reason that this same postman might just as well bring him his small panels too. Strenge. Ii it not, thai what hi so plain to a city man should be a doubtful matter to some farmers? Most farmers, we know, favor a par? cels post, but many of them are not Interested enough to de enythng to? ward securing it. Write your Con g re asm an and Senators today, Mnd out where they sen d tnd let them Know where you stand. Tell your representatives, too, that y..u want a general parcels post. The rural route par< all posl la only a "concession" lo the farmers, a* one Congressman pul If In a letter to us. it will help aoma but a in '.. ?v-? us .-till In the grip of the express com? panies and while it might hasten n general system, it might, again de? lay lt. Progressiva Farmer, The True Test of Success. There are many men who have, made a success., as the world counts success. That is, they have accumu? lated wealth in spite of the fact that they had no educational advantages. But this docs not prove that educa? tion is a disadvantage. These men, by reason of brains and energy, have Succeeded in spite of being handi? capped by bu k of education, and not by reason of the lack In fact, the sann- men would have taken far high? er positions had they had educa tional advantages. Of course, there are many men who have made a poor use of their education, but this is tlic fault of the men and not of the education. But While the world admires a man who has piled up a great many dollars, is tile accumulation of a for? tune the best measure of the success of a man's life, The fact is that the men who have done the most good in the world, the men who have in? fluenced their race for better things, have rarely made fortunes and while the college graduate may not, for the reason of being a graduate, be aide to SCCUmuate dollars, he will certain? ly be prepared to do more service to humanity than the uneducated man. And after all, is not the amount of service the man renders to humanity 8 better measure of success than the piling up of a fortune to ruin his children ? The man who sends out into tin world a family of well educated sons and daughters has made real success even if it took his last dollar to edu? cate them. The Influence of his life! will be fell long after he is in his grave. Tho young man with a good education, and without a dollar to start with, is in a far better shape than the ignorant voting man who has a fortune left him. Ir. fact, n fortune Is, as a rule, more of a handi? cap than a help to a young man start? ing in life. The best fortune you can possibly leave your children is a thoroughly good education. One of the most pleasant things 1 saw in the last issue of The Progres? sive Farmer was the reports from the various State Superintendent* show? ing the great progress that ;s being made in the South in educational matters. The boys can no: all get to college, and hence the great im? portance of developing the rural schools to greater eth'iency.-Pro? gressive Farmer. How C'owpcas Can Make Land Poor. An Arkansas friend writes that he wa.s sot tewhat surprised at my state? ment trat taking a crop of pea.* off land twelve years In succession would impover rh the soil, as tie thought that the longer the peas were ^v^wr. I I the bett >r they would make the land. Doubtlets, if the peas were made Into hay and fed and the manure return- | ed to tbs land that grew them, there would s no impoverishment. But 'aking any crop off the land year af? ter year and returning nothing, can but h ad to soil depletion, and as COW peas d*;.w very heavily on the phos? phoric i id and potash in the soil, they ki ill certainly reduce the amount >f these unless they are kept supplied with them. Peas get for u.s the nitr gen in the air and combine it In or rantc matter and thus give US not o ily the nitrogen, hut the or? ganic m<' tter to aid in the increase of the hum is 'n the soil. Hut they get all the i hoephoric add and potash they use from the soil, ami the sup? ply of t u se must he Maintained or the soil ^ ill he the loner. Peas are an invaliable crop when rightly used, but it will not do to Jump to the con? clusion t iat you can take any crop off the tf nd year after year without runnlui down in fertility.?Progres? sive Farn er. South Ca olina Takes Third Place. The tot il value of farm lands and building? In the South in 1910 ap? proximate! Met06.000.0e0, of which, the $1,8 23 000,000 of Texas was nearly 28 per ce it. Florida, ranked first in the rate ? f increase in the value of farm land t in ten years, it being 203 per cent, vith Texas second, 17:> per I cent; Sou h Carolina .l.'rd, 169 per cent; Oeo*gia fourth, ltbS per cent, and North Carolina fifth. 141 per cent. . Florida Is 1, too, in the rate of in-; crease in the value of farm buildings. 144 per c tUt, with Georgia second. 142 per Cttnt; South Carolina third. 137 per c nt; Texas fourth, 109 per cent, and ...rkansas fifth, 109 per cent. The rates >t increase, 2'> per cent, in the value if land and 4 2 per cent in the value it buildings In Maryland, were the imatleat in any Southern State.?Ma iufacturer*S Record. The road across the Wateree at darners I rr> will l>c opened for, regular tr: vel within the next two or three w eks and the promoters at the new hi rhway expect it to become the popula ? route to Columbia from the easterr part of the State. Thus far all the noney for the construction of the roa< has beer: furnished by Kastover ai d Columbia men, Sumter county aUt ?mobttlsts not having re? sponded t< the invitation to bake stock in tl e proposed Garner's Fer? ry com pan . . l'uring the month of August there wiil bo no services at night in the First Methodist church. K. H. Whitman, Seal oard agent at K"llock, near Cheraw was knocked fr< in the track and fatally injured by the northbound train Thursday night. Colter C ollege scholarship Free. *'oker College has offered th'oUgn the Mural School Impn?v? ment association <>f Bumter County, a tre.- tuition scholarship, worth $50.00. Anv rural school girl of this county is eligible. For further infor? mation, write the college or phone or write, Mrs. H. W. Beeil, Bomter. ' S-7-2C NOTICE. i have sold my Interest in the firm of The S. M. Pierson Co., to Mr. S. M. Pierson and will after August 15th be with Mr. J. J. Whilden. who bought out the firm of Von Oshen and Shirer last January, is doing business in the same lines at the same old stand on East Hampton avenue. I shall be pleased to have my friends send there for work in hi3 lines. Mr. Whilden is prepared to give satisfaction in horse shoeing, carriage, buggy and wagon repairing, in fact, any kind of blacksmith work. I shall use my best efforts to give prompt service and satisfactory work. T. V. WALSH. 8-1-3L FOR SALE?Fresh Ibt seed rye just received. Booth-Harby Live Stock W?8-2-3t. AGGidentsWill Happen And when they do?they hurt. HUNTS LIGHTNING OTL is the one instantaneous relief nnd co~t for all wounds, bruise*, sore*, cuts, sprains and abrasions of the skin. It f'rms an artificial tkin covering, excludes the air instant? ly, stops pain at once. There are many oils, but none like HUNT'S The action is different, and tlie effect as well. . . HUNTS . . r\ 11 LIGHTNING UIL Always have it in the house. Take it with you when jou travel?you never can tell when HUNTS LIGHTNING OIL may be most needed. 25cts Oiid 50cts bottles. For Sale By Sibcrt's Drug Store. A, B. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman, Tex. BAGGING AND TIES THE season is now .at hand when our friends will be seeking the wherewith to cover their 1911 Cotton Crop, and we wis i to assure them that there is nothing in the line of Baggir g and Xies that we do not carry, and )ur prices, like everything else we handle, are as low as +hey (c n be sold at. We have a splendid grade of second hand Jute tagging, which is highly recommend? ed to ginners, where they 1irnish bagging and ties and do the ginning for a round price. COTTON PICKING SUPPLIES A great many ?>f our Carmen ar< now becoming merchants, and keej on their plantation a store or com* mls8ary from which t'? supply tin it hands and especially cotton plckera T>> these we wish to lay that there are few bouses In tin- Interior of the State who carry a larger stock of STAPLE GROCERIES than we do and consequently more In a position to better meet your views as to prices than we are. It will pay you to get our prices on Bagging and Tie?, meat. lard. Hour, sugar, coffee, rice, meal, grits, tobac? co, cotton sheets .or anything else you may need before buying. O'Donnell 6 Company.