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Pabllahesl tKcdneaday und Satarday. ?BT? OSTEEN PUBLISHING C8MPANY 8UMTBR, ft. C. ftl.it per annum?In advance. Advert lasmcats; Oes Squars first Insertion.Il.fe Bvsry subsequent Insertion.It Contracts for thrse months, or laager will b? made at reduced rates. All communications whleh sub? serve privat? Interests will be charged fat as advertisements, Obltusiiss snd tributes of respset will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found sd la lilt snd the True Southron la lift The Watchman sad fteathrea Sjsw hs? ths combined circulation and laftuence cf both ef the sld papers, and Is manifestly ths best advertising; me.Jii, In Sumter The refusal of the New berry club to send G<?\ . Mease u.h a delegate t<> the county convention should not be construed as foreshadowing hij cer? tain oefeat for Governor. Had the sentiment of the majority of Mr. Blesse'? home club determined the election two years ago he woutd prob? ably not have been elected them. e .0 a 80 far as reported the Mease and Jones Issue was not raised In any of the club meetings In this county, but the county convention will, neverthe? less, reflect the sentiment of the coun? ty fairly well, and as Sumter county Is an tf-Please by a safe majority the j county convention will be antl-Blease by a. safe majority. If the Issue Is salaedi We see no necessity for rais? ing the Issue In the county conven? tion, .s no good can be accomplished. No action that the county convention eould fa te would have any Influence upon the result of the primary, and where no results can be accomplished. St would be s mistake to take action that weald ?ftffl only to stir up feel Mag. The Democrats of Sumter coun? ty who wish to vote for Gov. Mease will do so, regardless of the opinion of their friends and neighbors while those who favor Judge Jonos srflf exercise the same right at the polls. therefore, why raise a needless Issue In ihe county ?onventlon that has nothing to do With the choice of candidates? The selection of candidates, the pibnary must determine and the choice of can? didates is a matter purely personal to each voter. The county convention Should not meddle with the preroga? tives of voters or Interfere with the prln try. The conventl Mj'g chief duty BS Is the election of delegates to the 9?ate convention nnl should be exercised in selecting level-headed men who can be trusted to pr ?perly represent Sumter county. The con? vention can properly express an opln aao on national politics and press SsVSSBftl candidates. sine. ? the delegate an the Stair, convention must consider the** matters, but it had best leave IJtafe politic* to the prim m FARMERS' UNION NEWS Pra< cul Thought* for Practical Fanners. ? I b> Fv W. Dahbs. Fros ?d? r>t a ? '. Farsrtsrs Unlea.) Sitttw Itandom Thought*. "Th. iv in work along this Hps fof someone to do, that Is t<? sat ibllsh close relations between the I Otiat) product rs ami the town merchants.*1 Thun writes our estesaned Wedgsfleld correspondent, ami he Illustrates ? ?> ?bowing hoss he lust 9S.SI per Ion on hay. Then he closes ??> ,a\im; ' then la little to eneouraue one in rnlettiM these products." ? ? ? Win?. ;* Iiis "Someone" vhom he WOUld ha\e establish these close re? lations' If memory serves me cor? rectly tior. was .tn effort m ob eovsr* si ye n s ix*', perhaps f.oii \ c rs. lo organise .1 l-'arno rs' I ni u. ?t Weds> ?eld. I w.?s inforn . .I th t || farmers t?* thit community, cob paid <>m dollar to loin, met gf)d w. ft nrgnnlfted tnd h.ivr never not Mice I made It ? efforts m I !????? to i.\i\, lb. in. but have i??en informed by the ttertlarj th.ti you will NSft r OfgSillBaS farm. 1 In I hundred yoarJ." ? ? ? Wh-, know- what th. II f irm er* In Wcdgetbhl might bav. l omplHhed. if I hey had given "tt, Ihutn It of Ihslf tune, an afternoon ? v.ry two week.*, f.. m?. t together to plan for their mot 1 a' good ' W h knows whit b ob 1 !hey mlaht hav< gkstrgstfttd ?hat woui.t fu urpaas \v 1 Hams and MfSSttt ' v? t I ha\?> MjO doubt th* ,. uro amotiu those ':>: w? ?ig? f.. id firni.fs atsK who have iio- . .1 me < Williams h 1? nol bt St president Ion* i iKuiRhi for making all sorts of mistakes. ? ? ? There Is nothing personal in these comments, hut they are made to fo? cus attention on the Indifference of s<> many of our farmers until conditions make a p-rsonal application. Then the cry foi Someone" to come to our help when We have made no effort to help ?? irs? tvca. l'elbw farmers of Wedgefleld, Join na In our efforts to Improve our condition*. We med von. and you need us. Hut let mo warn yOU that mete Joining, as you once did. will not do you or anybody any good. e e 4 Etc ad l ist week's "Random Thoughts.* if you did read them, read them again, and honestly ask your? selves the question. "Am I made of superior clay and more richly endow? ed" than rvy fellow men of other pro? fessions that I can ho the exception to the great law of organization? And not only you farmers of Wedgefleld, hut all of he farmers who read these lines. ? es And let me heg you fellow farmers, not to think that "Someone," some? how, somewhere. Is going to save vou from your own carelessness, folly I or selfishness. It cannot he done, and It would be a calamity, If it could be done h> someone else. Only In pro? portion to your efforts will be your rewards. And only In trying to serve vour neighbor and your fellow men will your greatest rewards come to yourselves. s e s The Daher and Taylor Company have sent me "Co-operation Among Farmers, by John Lee Coulter, Prof, of Rural Economics In the University of Minnesota. Its fifteen chapters are full of Illustrations, not of theories but of the practical results of co? operative marketing by farmers, stockmen and truckers in various parts Of the country. I have time and space for but one or two quotations today. "The present volume would have hnd absolutely no place in the library of the farmer of one hundred \?ars ago. ' Because as he goes on to show, his farm was a workshop as well, and everything needful was pro? duced at home. "During the last half century there has been a great move In the direction of education in agriculture; but it has been one? sided; It hf.s only covered one-third of the activities of the modern farmer, lt has taught him how to produce but has not taught him anything about either selling the things he has pro? duced, or about spending the money received, in an age of commercial agriculture It Is ns necessary to buy well and to sell well as to produce aroll, Any manufacturer will tell you tbat." ? es t ?n all sides I hear of hearty ap proval of the study of marketing in the college* Bven In i military eol? lege, the Citadel, the Profeeaof of i inomlcc, MeJ. Mot.n-, assured me be would give it bi^ beat efforte, The example of the Mississipp A and M. I allege in establishing a chair of ? farm Ana nee and marketing will be followed by .?Ii the A, und m. col? | leges. Trustees of institutions in this j State are Interested, and Will strive not to be left behind In this forward Bleu, Hon, <J. R, Hlghtower, formerly foi four years president of the Mississip? pi Farmers' Union, and president of the Farmer*' Union Warehouse Corn pan) with a capital paid In of a quar? ter of a million dollars, has accepted the preeldency of the A. and M. col? lege of Mississippi, for the express purpeee, he said to me. of being able to promote the study of marketing. lion, Myron T, Herrlck, former gov? ernor of Ohio, who has refused cabi? net positions because of bis hobby, fiim Una nee, has aeeepted the am Imssadorahlp to Franco, because of ti < opportunity t.. study at Hrst band the splendid system of farm finance In Franca and Germany, The fact that my "hohby" for sev? eral years hai such distinguished riders is very planning, i want to see South Caroling In the forefront of this Iii.f progress that is forming, and Sunder county in the b ad in tbi< Si it. . || - an not be done without the lm< king of the farmers. Will the far? mers of tb?. State ami County Join now to haaten the daj of success, th will they wall for the boys now In the colleges In be trained by course "! Ktudj \et to Im established? ? i ? Just as the Farmera' Union has eaiMed the active study ol this matter mi tbis ritnte, so it has been the Far* mors' Colon in Mississippi, and the Orange In Ohio that .-tatted the distinguished gentlemen named above in their efforts |o Improve market condition i, K, w. i i \v. H. I*ag<< on ? the rmllt ?I tlx I inner." w lib r H, Page, i dltoi of \\ urld's Woid apoke follon - it the Conf< i ence foi Hdu< ntlon In the Houlh, In Nashville: "Mr, Chairman, Ladies and Gen? tlemen ?I, t<?.), have made a eurvey of a small legion of country lifo, and a very superficial one. 1 took a coun? try neighborhood in one of our South? ern states, ami made this Inquiry the beal i could, it is not yet complete. 1 >a d to my friends. Lei us take this grea n B farming country adjacent to a little town and find out the econom? ic condition of every human unit By one unit we mean a family if it lived together, or a single man or a single woman who earned hla or her own living. ? That Inquiry reaulted In something I like this: There were eleven who had <> hank account in a little hank in th,. adjacent town: there wer.' two who were supposed to have bang ac? counts in a larger hank in the city; j there were about fortw who could borrow money either on their land, from money lenders or from the hank, or from their neighbors. We accounted for something like BO per oent, This was a prosperous farming I community. What about the other 50 per cent? They have no credit, there is no way for them to borrow money, directly or indirectly. "I mean this: One ??f this r.o per cent of these people who are below the credit line may borrow $10 from one of his more fortunate neighbors. That more fortunate neighbor has himself had to borrow it. and so on. The r>0 per cent of the human units had no credit in any organized way. "Now. nearly all these people live by farming. 1 ask you this question: How many farmers are there in this region who have capital enough? On> of my informers said only one. Any? where in the South you will And that the farmer has not capital enough even if he has a bank account. It was common there for them to rent a mule during the plowing season I when they could not own one. "Now. this inquiry suggests thous? ands of things to a man who is in the habit of looking at things from the economic view. More than half the workers In that area had not capital enough to do their work. When one who fell beneath the credit line had to borrow he not only had to pay a rea? sonable rate of interest, but always an unreasonable one. because the money or the mule had been borrow i ed two or three times and he paid nobody knows what interest. "Let us picture that community: Suppose every farmer In that area had momy enough to equip his farm scientifically to work it to Its utmost and it was capitalized as industries in the city are. What would be the re? sult'.' 1 do not think that any Imagi? nation can tell what would be the re? sult. Presumably there wer?' not one per cent of the acres that were work? ed one-half as well as they would be tinder such conditions as I spoke of. What would you say if in tin area like this every man had all the money he needs to equip his farm. There would he no waste either Of time or land. We would go to work as or? ganized Industries ai working. Is there any way t? bring that about? There Is. There Is a way t<? make the fifty per cent of men in that com? munity, to not ore of whom you would lend a dollar with the expectation of getting it back, the aafesl borrowers of money in this commonwealth. "Th.re has been going on In this city for three or four nays a deliber? ation under the leadership of our countryman, Mr. Lubln. a discussion by nun from twenty-four States on the credit society system that has revolutionised agriculture in Continen? tal Europe, T regard this as one of the most important economic dis? coveries in the last century. ?'It wotk? tins way. Here are fifty men who have no credit. wh<? are not doing their labor. Take these, men. organise them In what is known a< a credit society. Make every one of th in responsible for the debta of any one, ami then <>n the recommend? ation of ill those men or by a com? mittee lend one man. A. $100 for mv productive pursuit whatever, not to pay any debts or to indulge in any frivolity, Th.- credit of every inon being pledged, 110, $50 or $100 could thus be loaned to n. C. or D. What would happen'.' in Germany little organizations like that borrowed $200,000,000 and paid the curi?nt rat. of Interest and n? thing wan lost in the transaction, Ai economic de? vice wie. b can bind t> 'a 'thor u com? pany of l.r, w ort hl'-.-s nun who W' i ll not repay .< debt of >."> and can niake tin in th. hesl borrowers of mono) thai has ever yel been found. Constitutes a revolution for our country and all the condition* thai you have described. Thai is the econ? omic haslH for a change in our < ..nu? ns life, a i these gentlemen who arc deliberating tin are doing i pnroltlc und noble work, "Why lo these men In come k,, >d ? i. ill tor* when i lie) ur< ("?und to? gether'.' Uocuuhc each <>n< Interest? ed In I he other, Von art i.i" rous > on have < i ? d11 and you can g?M M0 wlii 11 \. ? ii ii' ? .I iI, When "fie oI Hi. -. I.r devlb who has nolh ?onus t? yop f.?r money, says yes, That's oui duty atui obligation to him; to make a ' man of him. How are you going to ' do it? If you were below the credit line, how would you get up there? Generally speaking, a man who is he- | low the credit line stays there. I call your attention to this for this reason: The land and the man, that's all there is. God made the land more fertile than we have ever dreamed of. it is only today that science Ii beginning to show us what the land ! is worth, it is worth untold riches! anywhere in proportion to the char- j acter of the man that is on it. and in j that value lies the solution of all our 1 problems. For the first time In hu- I man history, science has begun to show what one foot of earth will do; I came near saying any earth. The sand hills to the southeast of us the day before yesterday were given away for a fraction of B dollar an acre for taxes, I have seen that country yield i I 1 ."u bushels of corn ami one one-half bales of cotton to the acre. The man. that's what we want, the land and i the man. i "l call your attention to this system of economic training for this purpose.! i The economic organisation of our Society, or, to be more exact, its ' financial organisation, is based on j privilege, (lass, individuals, l can I borrow money at the bank though 1 ; ' am a poor man. because I have a cer- j tain respectability to trade on. There ' are many men my equals in their ca? pacity for manual labor who cannot borrow a dollar because thev happen I to lack that accidental equality. In other words, the thing spoken of on ' this platform called democracy we ] I have not yet applied to our economic life, and it is that that I wish to call your attention to. "The thing that we call democracy means chiefly equality of opportunity j In politics in the organization and ! conduct of government. Also an op- I portunlty for education. "The perttence of the remarks is this: I believe as I belb ve nothing j else, dogmatics or deductl">rft ficm human experience, or any teaching of any wise men. that the en tension of opportunity-, the spread of democracy, the willingness to give the other man 1 the same chance you have yourself is the most Important truth laid hold of by the mind of man. "When we talk about democracy. we do it only in political terms. How pitiful it is when we hear noisy little politicians kicking up a rumpus about a little Incident in the method of voting for office or of removing men j from office. I take it that all groups i of yon people working for any pur? pose In our country today have the Ark of the Covenant in your keep l?g. It is you who sacrifice to save your followman. It is to you. there? fore, that it Is proper to make an attempt that you should direct your thought to the application of demo? cracy and the economic condition of our country. Man has been on this earth unknown millions of years. We have In late years had scientific knowledge (,f how man can help man. If any pedagogue, if any politics stop this, then we commit the one great crime against the organisation of life. Ther,. is no such thing as stop. Life and Civilisation, is a moving tide and any man who attempts to stop it will be drowned and deserve to be." More Milk Per Cow We guarantee that you can greatly increase tt?c milk yield ? >! every cow and materialtx reduce the cost <>! Keep by using PRA1 IS ANIMAL KLGULAIOR If louare not sitisfi (1 v j'h result*, \ e reti i.j your money. 2nC( E c and $1 co. 25 ib. pai - ?> v ; I For Sale by all First Class Dealers, Refjse all Substitj-es. 1913 AlniaiUM' and sum U tiuok PRICK. COrXTY FARMERS T1 > MEET. I niou Called to Meet at Court Hou?e, Friday. May ;{.->lr. William- Of? fers Suggestions. Don't forgtt that Friday, May 3rd, will be the next regular meeting of the Sumter County Cnion at the Court House. Tiuue are maters of vita! im? portance that deserve attention at this time. Now Is the time when every farmer I in the county is making his final de? cision us to the proportion of his farm he Will plant In cotton and what he wlli plant in other crops. The price of cotton is such at the present time that under ordinary circum? stances it would pay for the cost of production and possibly a small pro tit, lint do you know that the pres? ent prices of cotton are helping comparatively a very small proportion of the farmers in Sumter County? And do you further know that all those who would like to buy cheap cotton next fall are using their influence to bull the market now In order to in? duce the planting of a big crop? Re? member that the world was in need of a big crop last year. Hence the re- j action so quickly after most of the crop was sold. j The surplus this year will be larger than it was last year and if we grow another bumper crop it will take two or three ordinary crops for th,. price to again rise above the cost of production. I heard a farmer lamenting the fact the other day that as he didn't get any oats sowed last fall, he would not have any land on which to sow peas. Just as if peas could only be broadcaat on stubble land. It seems to me that the present prices of corn and hay WOUfd he a temptation to every farmer to plant most of his farm to these crops. At any rate early forage should receive special attention. J. Frank Williams. President. Sumter County Farmers* Union. COMMENTS ON (iOVRNOR'S AD? DRESS. People Gladly Hear Governor ?t Pleasant Grove?W. T. McLeod Bet? ter. Lynchburg, April 29.?SCever was a few hours more pleasantly spent, than at Pleasant Grove school on Friday, and although the crowd was larger than was expected, it was extremely Well behaved.i That and attention to speeches, especially that of Governor I Mease, whose address w as mm h ad? mired by nearly every one who had the pleasure of hearing it. The Governor was at his best, but one striking feature about the speech was, that he made no reference to his opponent, directly or indirectly. Ii? . < ?red high above such conduct. The most of his speech was confined to ed? ucation. He was shown <111 possible attention. The dinner BS to quality, and quan? tity, was unsurpassed. Dr. T. Ii. IfcBlVeen, in his usual pleasant manner. introd i? ed the speaker. This occasion Will long he remem hered as t most unusual one. On Friday evening the Governor and all the entertaining committee, with a number Of ladies partook of a most excellent supper at Mrs. Keels. The table was most tastily and most handsomely decorated, and spread with everything that the most fastid? ious could wish for. It certainly re? flected credit on this little town. A few people who heard Governor Blease with some degree of prejudice in their bosom were converted and now have nothing to say against him. We were pleased to see Mr. W. T. Mcl.eod on the streets again on last Saturday, alter a long illness. The other tick ones in his family are im? proving. His father is still confined to hie room. Mr. J. Frank Mclntosh has been quite sick, but reported a little im? proved. Mrs. Prterson, S. \V. Frierson's mother, is ill. Mrs. It. K. McElveen is still in a critical condition. ADDRESS AT Y. H. C. A. Large Audience Heard Dr. Black w e Sunday Afternoon?Quartette. A large audience of about two hun? dred men heard Dr. Calvin S. Black well at the Y. If. C. A. Sunday af? ternoon. Dr. Blackwell took for his eubject "Whether it was easier to Keep Clean and Pure or to Live Un? clean Lives." He made a strong ad? dress on this line whi<*h WSS listened to atte he ver: A fe singing This irigaiiiMstivn ?s composed of Geo. C. Warren, Edward CJreer, E. C. Lord and Robbie Brown. The singing of the quartette was excellent and pleased those prosent very much. Mc7\EVMAKER COTTON SEED? We have found this variety superior to any other, giving a larger yield per acre with the same treatment, and giving a larger per cent, of lint. Our farm is free from blight and other diseases, and the cotton is ginned at our own *.in where ev? ery precaution i? taken to prevent mixing with other Seed. We offer a limited amount of select seed at $1.00 per bushel. C P. Osteen Co., sumter. S. C. ff "Feed Dr. Hess Stock Tonic on Three MonthsTe^t at Our Expense."- -Dr. Hess & Clark I Mm is what Dr. Hi>s C lark write ?s, and we stand ready to make food that guarantee to the letter. It* it doesn't |?u.v, return t?> ??* the empty packages and we will refund your money. Feeding I*!1- Hess Stock Tonic is just like applying fertiliser to tile -oil. Fertilizer makes yield: l>r. tlCNH Stink Tonic niukrn the digestive organs convert moiv feed Into growth. soinelimes 50 per CCIlt of the food u healthy animal eats is fouml undigested in the manure. If I hi- wasn't true, how could we fat*.ir hogs on the corn that pa.?*so? through the other stock undigcM i(|V Feeding medical IllgredlontJi will reduce this waste. Cvery medical writer in the universe says m>. Sa\ing a part *>f the wasted nutrition by Increasing digestion l> known as the l>r. Hess Ideal of stoek feeding. <>?'t this idea firmly in >our mind. Do not allow the system to waste half of row fe?xtr?? a part of this waste. Every particle you aave means profit to yourself. ^-?Hundreds of Herds made Immune from the_ So-called Hog Cholera Epidemic by Feeding Dr. Hess Stock Tonic. I>r. Ile^* ?V Clarke are having hundreds of letters from Stockmen all over the corn belt that aie snxing their herds from the ranges of tin* Hog Cholera Epidemic by feeding l?r. Hess sioek Tonic and disiuK fling the pens and sleeping i|liarters with Dr. Hess Dip and disinfectant is guaranteed to cure poultrj ills and nukis hens lay. It has the Mine growth and egg producing function as I?r. Hem Sim k Poultry Pan-a-ce-a Totli?'. Due extra egg will puj for all the l'an-n-cc?-n a lien eats for three month Iusianl iiiihc Killer Kill- Lice. A. A. STRAUSS & COMPANY, u PHONE NO. 85. SI M IT It. s C V-. - ,.