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? .??? rr*l ?I i??e l'??^m?.!.. ?i rSMWJfVW? h V flU ??- ? . i '1.. v? HWtHW i'KMHiiNA?. Mi*? Martha Alderrran is visiting her sister. Mr? ?>. C shaw. on Broad street Mr. E. W. Du. 1s, . f Goodwill, was In the city Friday. Mr. J. Q Punhar. of Palsoll. spent Friday in the city. Mr W. I>. W ?<..!- .?f I'Arlington, has returned home after spending a couple of days In the city. Mr. J. Kran* William?, of State burg. President ?f the -umter County Farmers t'nn.n. if n awhile in the city on Friday. Mr. A. K Sanders, of Hagood, was In the city Friday night and Satur? day ? r Eddy V. Green is In the city fo. a few days. Mr. E. N. Welch, of Wlsacky, was to the city Fiiday night to attend the meeting in the in.erest of a coun? ty fair. Mr. W. L, - a md.-rs, of Stuteburg, spent Friday night und Saturday in the elty. Mr Hammond Bowman left F'rlday night for Annapolm, Maryland, to re? sume his dutiei at the United States Nu,v.ii Academ; . after spending his two month*' furlough at home in this city with his pi.rents. Mr. James (.'handler has gone to Baltimore where he will enter the ty of Maryland, for the study Ine. Mhyne Stinsill left Saturday for Latta, where she will visit Mims E\a Bennett for some lime. Mr. I. A. Ryttenterg has returned to the city nft ?r a two weeks vaca? tion spent In > ew York and other places, Messrs. T. Q. McLeod and R. A. Deants. of Rishopvllle bar. were in the city Monday In attendance upon a reference before the Master. He\. 11. A. Knox. of Mayesville, was in the city Monday. Mrs. S. C. Faker and daughter. Mis* Emma Biker, huve returned to the city after a trip to Canada. The Rev. W. II. Ham well, of State burg, was in Oes c<?v Ifen ' ins. V.r. ?..<?<-? of S'lin fm?rtAn wa* In town Monday morn? ing. Messrs I> M and W. W. Green, of Shi loh. were in town .Monday. Mrs. E. C. Haynsworth left Mon mornlng for Greenville where v111 visit Mrs. William Heattle. *n Mary Wilson has returned to ty after spending the summer at s In the mountains. Mr. and Mr-.. Edwin Wilson, of St. vCbarles. were In the city Monday. Mr. R. M. Cooper, of WW acky, wn? In the city Monday. Mr*. \tlut> fWWSWM Head. The many friends or Mrs. Mlnty Th<?m.is were shocked Thursday to hear of her very sudden death Th?r day morning at the paMenger station. Mrs. Thomas had been In good heath although she had at times suffered from heart trouble. Sh ? walked down to the ntntion to t ikr the train I i r< ??n\ die. whei i aected to visit a *on to fin.l h' r t.aln leaving ju-t as she reached the sta Ion. It Is gejwsjnwsd the swevttou al iImi walk Jind the shock at finding herself late WAS too much for h? r She fell near the gwfgssi "f the stntlog and dwatk foi'owed In a f??w minutes. The BSal] was taken from here on Friday t.. Snnm i Church In Marl lior ' County, where the funeral ser i ? * Were held and the interment took PSWM on their arrival. Mrs. Thomas hau been ll\In* in Sumter for mI out sit >enm with lo r daughter. MfS it K. Brown. She |g urvlved ? following children Henry is. st Matthews; Chants Thorn eenvllle. Benjamin Timmil and Annle Wi- ? Iniodtss ll|?*. and vatle Brown of this city, Ttiat WgeWS strong Line I >f BStsSOl ihowj .ire lo re, ready. 'I'orothy'H Child." We ggfwd f,,r many on th*lr bill of gchowl ihoefl laKt winter < .in do the >aimc f..r you If you've ?e?-n dlwsa mtb-d, buy ours fleh" arts Bros. Ar.drew Durban PthSfWSH know a eft I i * boine near ?I i \. He i-* l \. t r i o? n cdor. Any In his whereabout* will Address Ed. f >ars. ? i, It. F. I?. I'aheM S. C Molts n We I J,n sows Ittenllon to i !)? w line iusf added. Th tt'l Infants wenr. In dresses. saeques, klmon.o? nightlngnlsg, gOWgS\ StC I'rned at b ss than to ri. ike them Si hw irt/ Bros Forty Hal'* of Long Staple. About forty bales of long staple cotton came Into town Saturday The cotton was bought by Harby & Com? pany at 15 1-2 cents. ThlH makes a total of approximately seventy-live bales of the long staple cotton which ha? been sold on the local market up I to this time this year. -o-? The people at the cotton platform \ that that Is the busiest place In I town theae days. Cotton Is coming in I it a lively rate and it is being shipped OHf almost as fast as it comes In. Saturday In backing up to the plat? form a Southern train ran into one corner of the cciton platform and tore it dOWl pretty well. As a re? sult the carpenters were bu9y Mon? day morning tearing up the damaged part of the platform so that it could be replaced right away. o The cotton platform between the Atlantic Coast Line tracks haa been completed for a distance of about 200 feet and has been put Into use. The railroad company aleo supplied the platform with a pair of cotton scales to that the weighers will not have trouble In moving their scales from one platform to another. The new platform will be extended to almost twice its present length and will be used In handling cotton shipped Into Sumter from nearby stations. ? o The cotton compress, it was stated Monday, would most probably begin operations on October 1st, Tuesday. I ?ery thing was In readiness and only the order to compress the cotton wag lacking. -o-1 l?ast week there were 2,400 bales of cotton weighed by the cotton weighers. of this number of bales |f| were sold Saturday. Tlu-c*' tooling System* of "Scleittith? Management.*' I nder the Taylor und Gantt meth? ods, after conditions have been standardized, a standing task (usually a daily task) is set. A relatively large ??bonus." lying generally be? tween 20 per c?nt and 50 per cent of the regular day wugee (which are un? disturbed and remain as a minimum to every worker), is given to the man who tccompllshei I > stai lard task. I - propc i n e Is ne exceodi that task. h? actual ? >.[/? . -jwever, ?fanes ' :gh for special encouragement, or to com? pensate for accidental Interference, the bonus may be granted In some particular case by special Interven? tion. Emerson, on the other hand, hav? ing set standard times under the standardised conditions, and having likewise accepted ruling day wages as the basis of agreement and mini? mum of compensation, keeps records of individual performance over an extended bonus period, usually a month. Each man's efficiency is de I ?rmined by the proportion between his ?.^tual achievement In that period, and thu standard predetermined achievement. If he r? . cbes the standard, if In other words, his ef? ficiency Is 100 per cent, he gets as bonus ag addition of 20 per cent to htl w;iK?", for the period. Hut If the worker shows even 67 per cent efll Otency, ho begins to receive a small bonus, rising on a sliding sjOftlc at an I increasing rate of a? c eh-r it ion as the roan's eflleleney improves, until It reWChei the |Q per cent already men? tioned for i performance 100 per eenl efftclent, .M ove that the bonus rises .steadily, 1 per cent more for ? ? a< h 1 per rent additional etticiency. W ? thus have here something of tiie same nebulous zone between low performance and high performance, something Of the same almos' ensen sthle transition between the status of the under*competent and that "f the fully competent, that w<- have under the premium plans. A slight but In ereaslng reward is txpecti ?1 tu lead the reluctant ttop by step even if he cannot Jump. The effort is to raise, in tome measure, the efficiency of the whole body of Inbor, Under the Taylor and Qantt tyi t'tn. on the other hand, there |. no sn< h twilight region The lint- be? tween ro? bonus and bonus earning Is sbrupl and emphatic, it Ii not an In? ? lined plane, hut a vortical step. Added emphasis. evont is lOUght and encouraged i>v (catering social die* Knot to ni baaed on bonus earnings, The tendency is teleetlVfl --to Sogfe gate from tlie ma. . i.f available labor the Individual who are "standard" for the particular work In hand dlstrlh ?iting tlie others to other occupation for which they may be better Rttod The premium plan repudiate! ltt? ob a. The Kmersofl efhe'ency doe trine amr "orates it The- Taylor dif ferentlal und Qantl bonus pollvlei emphasise it. Psychologically, thesi differ, nces are highly Important. 'Front "The Rfhclency of Labor*" b) Charles Bun ton doing, la the Anierl e.ifj ite\ lew of Ro*< I? wi for s? ptemher COUNTY UNION MEETING. Will be Hold at Salem on Friday and Promise* to Im? Fxtroinoly Interest? ing. The county union meeting, Friday Of this week, to be bald with the Sa- , lern local, will come in a very busy time. The rains for the past week have kept ttotton picking from pro? gressing as rapidly as It should, and the haying season Is upon us with- , out the much needed sunshine. So it j will necessarily mean u sacrlllce for any farmer to leave his farm for a day. Hut before you make up your mind that y<>u cannot afford to leave your farm, think what you might be able to accomplish by meeting with a rep? resentative body of Sumter County farmers for the purpose of bettering your conditions. There are so many very important matters to be dis? cussed, and that should be acted up? on, that 1 hope c. full delegation will be present from each of the locals In the county. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce ha? launched a campaign to organ? ize a County Fair Association, or trl county fair association, which will hold an agricultural fair In the city of Sumter, that will be second to none now held In the State. It is true that the city of Sumter will get some advertising out of a fair, but the prizes and the educational feature of judging and compt.rtg the best ex? hibits are principally lor the farmers. So let us meet the business men, who are ever considering our interest, more than half the way on this prop? osition. I have written to the Dairy Divis? ion of the Department of Agriculture for an expert to deliver an address <>n the subject of promoting the dairy interests of the county. 1 think that It Is a shame that we farmers do not even supply the city of Sumter with butter. It would make a Yankee farmer green With envy to see the Opportunity that we have to make money on our farms out of the manufacturing .?f butter and selling it at the prices that obtain In Sumter. J. Frank Williams, President Sumter County Union? Why You Should Not Pull Fodder. The Progressive Furmer. The practice of "fodder-pulling" is still general over most of the South. This Is practically a Southern prac? tica ?very few people in other sec? tions do it?and. to put it plainly, H Is the most wasteful and extravagant of all the common methods of sav? ing the corn crop. In no Instance, to our knowledge, have accurate experiments failed to show that the practice is unprofitable. This is why Southern farmers should quit It. It does not pay. Why keep it up We know the objections urged against other methods of handling the torn crop?that corn cut up is heavy to handle, that ?took will not eat the large stalks, that cut-tip corn often molds in the shuck, that shredded fodder sometimes molds. All these ol jections are of more or less farce, just as are the objections against leaving all the stalks and blades in the fields and pasturing them off? that this practice means a waste of Iced, and that, in some cases, the trampling of tb.- land injuries it or the ' lops sown on it. There Is something in each of tries,, claims, but not en? ough in any or all of them to justify fodder-pulling. If a man can have his corn stover cut up or shredded, he can get more feed ?t |eS| COSt than by pulling fod? der. The molding of corn in the ?buch Is almost invariably caused by I.r ihu< king or by ( Utting too green; corn cut at the proper stage is one ot the easiest crops to cure. Shrcd ied corn stover v ill keep perfectly if it is dry when shredded and is pro? tected afterward. The man who has no facilities for handling cut-up coin can gel mote roughage tor the same expenditure of labor by parturlng his corn Held and growing legumes for hny than by pulling fodder; and he will a:so have more corn. Fodder pulling as usually done, reduces tb,. yield of corn sultlclently to p.iv for ail the feed obtained in tie1 fodder. The labor expended In pulling |h usually great enough to produce an equal feeding falue In Home other crop, These an' demon? strated facts, and no amount of the? orising and figuring on the part of our foddei pulling friends can change Unto. Taken together, they mean that the man who pulls fodder pays twice for what b?- gets once in the r*ecreflse of his corn crop, and once Mi tie labor ' x\n ndi d in doing ine w' irk, Thll in short j- wh) the pmctlci should Im abandoned: it Is wasteful am) liiconnlstenl with the best farm Ing. H wasb i l lb- and feed. Pou hem farmers lire rapidly bun i/o: how t.. grow '"in. i' t tb. oi glvi a lit! !.? t hotlN 1 ' now t.? t be .,! hei hit ? orn problem, and le im h ?m to g<1 the ii nsl oat of tb. - rop uft< r th< j h ivc grow n It, Farm Education. Wilmington Star. Th? movement in North Carolina to establish farm lifo schools was loked upon by many as a fad and useless experiment, but time will demonstrate that rural schools In which agriculture is taught or dem? onstrated really is a practical educa? tion. If we mistake not there are sev? eral of these schools in North Caro? lina and wo should soon he getting good reports from them. The Second Congressional district schol at Driver, Va., has demonstrat? ed the utility and value of these schools. Not only Is the science of market gardening and farming taught in that school hut the pupils partici? pate in a practical demonstration of farming. In other words, they farm? ed while learning something of botany and agriculture, for they would not know how to farm intelligently if they did not learn something about plant life and the needs of plants. The children of the Virginia school became intensely interested In the work, and became enthusiastic work? ers on the school farm. They actually became producers, and made such a success of It that the boys and girls of the school made enough to take a trip In a body to Washington. There were 22 in the party and the trip cost each one $13.75, but that was only a small portion of the earnings of the school farm. They made a handsome profit on tomatoes and other products. The Virginia school agriculturists had a goDd time at Washington. They got to se?i the Nation's capital and re? turned home with their ideas enlarged and their ambition stimulated. Their trip to Washington was a revelation to them, and the best thing about it is that their intelligence and industry earned it. They had depended on their own efforts and resources and gave themselves a really educational trip as a result of their agricultural education. The farm school at Driver, which Is near Norfolk, has for its principal Mr. J. D. L, DeJarnette, who accom? panied hl3 pupils to Washington on a three-day's trip during which they saw about all there was to see. The school has an Instructor in agricul? ture wh?? teaches three days a week and spends the other three days in farm demonstration \vor!:, applying on the real farms of the district the theo? ries and science which he teaches in school. Thus he not only has the school children as pupils but the farmers themselves get the benefit of I his instructions and methods. The farm teacher 1? the man who knows and the time is coming when it must be admitted that this country will be wonderfully benefltted when all our i people know farming. Dr. P. P. Claxton, the National su? perintendent c f education, at one time in charge of the schools at Kin ston, N. C, and later a professor In ] the North Carolina woman's college at Greensboro, N. C., now one of the most distinguished educators in this country, welcomed the Virginia farm pupils to Washington and he was deeply impressed with their work. He spoke approvingly of it and personally Interested himself in giving the chil? dren a food time around Washington. The Virginia farm life school fur? nishes a good example, for it demon? strates the success of making agricul? ture a study in connection with the primary courses in education. The pupils got two kinds of education. Their regular school duties are not j Interfered with, and the combination teaches them industry, economy and science of a useful and profitable kind. Mr. DeJarnette says each stu? dent this year made a prolit of from $?5 to ?75 on each individual patch, and that the children also assisted In working a school farm, which turned In a pro?t of $200, after paying all expenses, including the wages of a man Who Serves both as a farm hand and school janitor. Mr. DeJarnette is enthusiastic over this practical ?chOOl work, and he expresses himself cs confident that a school farm of 75 acres would enable the boys to earn their own living while attending school. It might be said also that when the boys finish school they will have a vocation training that will start them off In Ife with the brightest chances of success. Tin- Virginia school has been such a complete success that a $25,000 building has been elected and Dr. Claxton li going down this month to dedicate it and deliver an address. Lei North Carolina fall In line and g?t that able educator to come down and dedicate a few of ur farm life schools. They are good assets. New Vork CottOtl Market. New York, Sept. 30, i ?peii i lose I .ry. 11.2728 tl.il 12 March. 11.41 12 11.24 25 ?ictober.lies 10.88 -89 Imher . . 11.34 IB 11.18 1 '?' Ilcstdes the combined lUiffalo rind Pawnee Wll'd shows, Howie's llreal London Show ? and John 11. Sparks' Alamo Theatrical diov ? " III be het c nii Otcobor 16th and In November, respectively, The e I wo shows ar< both 1 mail on< s, Items of Interest. (By Robert Snowden.) ! iby sea la are at the first snow whii , which makes them Invisible on the v, hit" ice on which they nr.- horn, Thel ? eyes and n<>se are, however, I lac ., and when tho little one8 are : ud . nly frightened, they close their eye . bury their noses, and lie quite Still It is only when tin y begin to go ; i" tit in search of their own food, when they get larger, that they be some dark and sleek. T!ie plaiting of a genuine Panama hat is done on a block, which is plac- 1 ed on the knees. Accordingly to the quality of the hats, more or less time s occupied in their completion; the coarse ones may be finished in two or three days, and the finest take several n onths, The 1 est time for the plait? ing is dunng the morning hours of the H iny season, because the air is then moist. In the middle of the day and in dry weather, the straw becomes brittle and is apt to break, thu> dimin? ishing the value of the hats. Panama hats nr< distinguished from all others by their lightness, flexibility, and in that th?-y consist of a s:ngle piece They may be rolled up and put into the pocket without injuring them. During wet seasons they are apt to turn black, but by washing them with soap and water, besmearing them with lime juice and exposing i.hem the sun's rays, their whiteness is ea: ly restored. In Prussia and Bavaria the falll off In the growth of the population 1911 was very marked. In the form State, the excess of birth over deat was 490,333 as compared with 58 465 during the year 1910; while Bavaria the excess of births o\ deaths was 7:<,656, as compared wi 84,682 in the previous year. Bad Spells "I suffered, during girlhood, from womanly weakness," writes Mrs. MolHc Navy, of Walnut, N. C "At last, I was almost bad-ridden, and had to five up* We had tbree doctors. All the time, I was getting worse I had bad spells, that lasted from 7 to 28 days. In one week, after I gave Card iii a trial, I could eat, sleep, and Joke, as well as anybody. In 8 weeks, I was well I had been an invalid for 5 weary years 1 Cardui relieved me, when everything else tailed* Cardui If you are weak and ailing, think what ft would mean, to you, to recover as quickly as Mrs. Navy did. For more than 50 years, this purely vegetable, tonic remedy, for women, has been used by thousands of weak and ailing sufferers. They found it of real value in relieving their aches and pains. Why suffer longer? A remedy that has relieved and helped so many, is ready, at the newest drug store, for use, at once, by you. Try it, today. _ Wrttt to: Udlea' Advisory Dept. Chsttaooojss Medicine Co_ Chttttnotfm, Ts** for Special Instructions, tod 64-paj? book, ' Hod* Treatment lor Womiea," ieaftrm JW LAND LIME. We are prepared to furnish this product at prices that will enable ?very farmer to use it. We have a very low price this year and nothing will do your land more good, especially run down lands, or low and sour land. It is necessary for all leguminous crops su^h as Alfalfa, clover, vetch, peas, etc. Get our prices in car lots or In smaller quantities. Samples on request. BOOTH-HARBY LIVE STOCK COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. TAR HEEL BLANKETS JUST TO REMIND YOU?THAT'S ALL. O'Donnell 6 Co.