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Peeli-dM-d Wednesday and Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY BUMTrfiB, S. C. SIMM] 91.10 per annum?In advance. A d t r ?Hlsetneuu?: Om Square first Insertion.$1.00 ?eery subsequent insertion.60 Oeatracta fer three mouths, or laager will be, ?nade at reduced rates. All communloatlgns ahleh sub eorve private Interests will be charged fer as advertisement* Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed in 1t&0 and the True Southron in ItOt- The Watchman snd Southron now ha* the combined errculstlon and, influent cf both of the old papers, snd Is manifestly the b?*t advertising medium In Sumter. i > The grand Jury has taken hold of ths Shtloh matter with firm grasp and the accused men all] probably be speedily arrested, unless they flee the State before the machinery set in motion by the grand Jury has time to be put Into efttdt. When Young and 11 orris are once* In custody the whole disgusting case can be thoroughly In? vestigated and sifted to the bottom. The outbreak of war between Tur- < key and the Balkan States may mark the beginning of the end of the Mohamedan empire in Europe an.f the expulsion of the Turks; but, then again. It may mean the loss of the measure of independence the small Balkan klngdpms and principalities now enjoy, it all depends upon the attitude of the great powers?Austria, Russia, Germany. France and Eng? land. If it is to their financial and commercial advantage for the Turks to be driven out of Europe the Bal? kan States will receive the money and other backing necessary to carry the war to success, but If the maintenance of Turkish rule at Constantinople Is advantageous to the great powers the Balksn States will not be given a free hand and they will not be able to ob? tain money or monitions of war. Tha greatest danger In the situation is that the condlctlng Interests of the great powers may Involve one of more of them In the hostilities and a goffered wer will result with the fra^ir^m* ??f ihe ?rklsh empire as i |ht prise. ;f come* t' t... ? the Balkan s?. itt s. erf be wiped out in the struggle gag th< map of t< uth SSgjh r?? Cut ope will '.e made SVi e e e The null Moose party is being dnaaced by the big trust magnates who have ea ranch money that they do sot know what to do with it. therefore cami>algn money is easy and rbundant consequently It follows logically that those who get Into the Inner circle wtjh have rtrh pickings In the division of the legitimate cam pnlgs exp.ns.-s. so called. This is shout all there is to the Bull Moose movement In South Carolina. e e e Ninety per cent of the voters of the county are more interested in the bettle between the Bed Sox and Olsnts than tn the presidential cam? paign. f see Sumter county could easily con? tribute 11.000 to the Wilson cam? paign fund and should make It at lesst IS00 without !oss of time, es? Wilson is the people's candidate snd they should provide the money to pa> the csmpalgn expenses. Wil? son Is a poor man and cannot fin.in ? 11 his own campaign, and he will SC? j cept no money from the Perkins Munsevs and other trust made mil? lionaires. * * L 1 The cotton crop Is notfwhat It wna last year but the hay SfWJ In lamtef Cossen] i ? gtetfchTsg gre .i ess t'ol. l '.i -o.se \ e|t has balled so rn m> thruthful men liars and denounced fo -pany true statements as false that It has t ecome a joke end the majority . of sens'*.)?? p.-oph- have come to Ig? nore his wild talk and regard hi denunebitlofi as proof of the truth of the statements denounced see The Stllloli fugitives >ave either deps-ted for ,,fhi r St ites or retired deeper Into the rOeOSOOl of 1 ?1?) s B I This Is mere surmise, but It ts I fact that the warrant Issued for their .ir? rest bv MnsMr.te flayer of Sblloh ha?" n??t yet been served. They m 11 be guilty is alleged, or thty m.iv bs Innocent, but when wart ?? t is I* -ssed it should be ?sfeed), if the law li not to tie r o.eked and made ? - no ac count. Tb.? grand Jury hSi Igfceg the correct p< sltlon. but ?t remain* to be seen whether or n't Itl recom? mendation ? will BS regarded. ? * ? f..ims S|he killed f. trl-tein. has been reeomm- tub d fof I pardon by the pardon board and lo win doubt lesa be a free man as soon (s tl ?psrdon mill resumes operations Hu? man life is the cheapest commodity In South Carolina, FARMERS' UNION NEWS Traction! Though im ft*r PraeUoal FanuerH. (Conducted by K. W. Dahl?, Pres? ident S. C. Farmers Union.) Some Random Thoughts. For three days now I have pre? sented the Ideas advanced in the Sumter County Union by President Williams on local unions buying and selling, and the related one of uni? formity of crops and stock to make a community noted for its products. At Darlington, Cowards and Mere at Mulling there were no crowds, but those present were earnestly see k - Ins; for beter methods. Today Bro. S. H. Hobba, of North Carolina, spoke on farming as a business, and his remarks were calculated to make the truths \ have presented more Im? pressive. ( The following leter from Wisconsin is from the Secretary of the State h?e,rd of public affairs who gave me the privilege of giving them out in this State today. K. W. W Madison, Wls? Oct. 9.?Ninety per cent of the cranberry crop of Wisconsin is handled by co-operative companies which net an average re? turn of $5,000 per year to each *of their members. ?Thlrty-i hree thousand barrels of cranberries," explains John Sinclair of the Wisconsin State Board of Public Affairs in a recent report on "Agricultural Co-operation," "were marketed during the season of 1911, returning to the 40 growers a little more thai $6 a barrel. In other words, more than $200,000 was re? turned to the forty men in the cran? berry business In this State?or the remarkable average returns of $5, 000 each. This fact will be more significant when it Is realised that the total expenses are only from one eighth to one-tenth of the gross re? ceipt*. Much of the success of th4s movement !? due to the organising genius of John A. Oaynor, of Grand I Rapids, at the present time seore ary of the Wisconsin Sales Company." Results similar to those obtained "h rough Co-operation by the cranber- 1 ry growers were a'so secured by the frultmen and oreuardlate who mar? keted their cn>p* co-operatively. Some of the more important co-oper? ative enterprises lor Winconsin fruit growers besides "the largest and old? est," the Sparta Growers' Association organised In May. 189?. are the Wis? consin Cranberry Sales Company, al? ready mentioned, the Door County Fruit Exchange, the Bayfleld Penln sulia Fruit Association and the Wash bum Fruit Growers Assoclstton. The opportunity t>r developing the fruit growing Industry of Wtsconsin by the organization and perfection of co-operative marketing agoncle* ks an unusual one. For as Mr. Sinclair points out, the State of Wisconsin is located In one of the AneSt fruit belts in the United States. Its rlim.tte and soil are well adapted to tlio rais? ing of fruit. AppleS. peers p^ch***.. plums. strawberries. raspbOfrfef, grapes and emnbetriea can be suc? cessfully grown nn a comiissrelnl scale iri many BSCtlOM of the Mate. The apples of Crawf rd, LS FngWttO, Iowa and certain of the other CO IUI* ties are among the finest grown in the United States and yet Wisconsin does no! take its plnce beside Wash? ington, Oregon Idaho. Colorado ?>r Michigan as A fruit raising State. The ?? tson. many generally believe, 's th it the frultmen of Wisconsin have not until recently recognized the advan? tages to be derived f:oil. co-oper? ation. "lni ssl Igntl n," Mr. Sine >>r com? ments "reveals that these States have grasped the opportunity to com? mercialise then- orchards, standardise i their piodic t> and m irk< I co-?pera? lively, Tens of thousnndi ol farmers have settled In Ihe west ?ml hundreds of thousands ?>! young fruit trees have been planted. The growen In ..me og these sections organised al? most soon as they commenced M, irk. t ng their Ars! fruit, othen organised for4 market purposes on!) whan necessity forced them to do so," Wisconsin Will ne\f| stand out i' .i fruit growing Mate commercially until the old-time farmer*! orchard, who it llften Im* a half do/, n different kind- ol apples growing on one acre of land, is eliminated, the im1? stand? itrdlted by localities or counties and ? o?operntlvc m irkt ling " cuplei larger plnct In out horl leull ore. a t-p in this direction, Mr. Sin clnlr fcelleve, has been taken bj lh< w i oi sin ? t ih Hort It ulttiral Socl< In its estahllshmi nl of *iif?- en ti oft hsr 11 .. ob h hav.n pi iced lb. following point* Wausau n \l i nttlfjfl ' untj : Popul ir I -I Maple Dorglns County; M n h ? < ? In Mm towoc County; Hurron in Hai ton County; Whitehall In Trempealeau County; Sparta in Monroe County; (Jay's Mill in Crawford County; Lake Geneve In Walworth county; stur Ko<?r. Hay in Door County; Milwaukee in Milwaukee County and presumab? ly Baraboo in Bauk County. Experience shown that the estab? lishment of co-operative fruit ex? changes by the growers themselves i rinRF i bout the better sorting, crat? ing, packing and marketing of fruit, and tin llnal result is better prices and getter profits. The paragraph ahove about stand? ardSsatlon Of the fruits of Wisconsin remind? me of the State Warehouse bill, At Darlington <>n Monday my remarks about eliminating the num? erous varieties pf cotton, and plant? ing only one, that the best adapted to each neighborhood, met with hearty commendation. . That a sa\ing of $22"?.000.000 <OUld -e made to the consumers and producers of the farm produce of this c lUntry through co-operative buying and selling is the opinion of John Sinclair, of the Wisconsin Leg? islative Reference Library, For the purpose of devising some plan whereby consumers could re? duce t ie cost of living by paying less for treir food products while the farmeis of the State would, at the same time, receive more for their crops ind produce, more than a year ago Mr. Sincla^* was sen;, by the Wisconsin State Board of Public Af? fairs, to England, Denmark and other Europ?an countries In which co-oper? ative marketing has succeeded), tow study the methods followed t?h?rre and to determine whether or not these would be applicable to Wiscon? sin ctnditlons. A report but lately Issued by thlH department contains a? i summary of bis findings which should be of unusual interest to the consum- i ers ard producers of the State. i The farm produce of this country I is worth about 19,000,000,000, and assuming that half of this represents the cost of marketing under the present system, Mr. Sinclair, in this report, estimates that at least five per cent cf the dher half could be saved by the producers by having their own co-operative managers and sales agenttt. This would mean a net gain to the people of $225,000.000. And the experience of co-operators in Ireland andl Denmark, as told in Mr. SlwcU.ir's report, was thai many time* five per cent could be saved. Tho great asm of co-operstkvn. ac? cording to this investdgator, le to in creas I production and to get the prr> 'dViot' to the voifsamer as economical? ly as possible. Getting the product into the hands sf the* eons^nsser is, of course; a< vwyr intricate process wher? growers and cons am ers are as far removed) from ?ach other as the/y are at the prosen? time, laterally ; enotiirh the large pcoduosrs can not attend personally to* all of the cftttalh* I of transportation asd1 marketing of their output off prod'aeo. The?." ?an, ' however, hin? competent m?ea at B*gu- ? lar salaries to property take ease of | some of these prtuseM nt psrodfuction, \ and marketing; Hur they can -only sJFord to do tilts \+r ao<-epeisnUssx I with other prodlicurs. I Fettretary Wilsen at the? Depart? ment of Agriculture, has estimated that btlt ??'?per OtSJt of what the COB- ' suaser pays for hij proeTnet ever got* back to the farmursi 5? th*? prssgnt j charges of distributing and retailing Bam producta i>* private sfiwcesne were not excessive, there would \w. rjo- I need of changing As system. Elut it Is evident rhat 60 per eenl of the selling price is a high rate to pay for putting the products into the con aumer's hands. Eaperlenee >n other countries and to ar lessee degree in this, has already gene far to shew that co-operative wgnnrtM give im proi ed service at a lurgely diminish? ed coat, How Important a further application of this principle is. may be Judged from the fact that the present annual retailing value lof | farm produce ini this country is about $0,000,000,000. Assuming that half of this represents the cost of mar? keting under the ptessnl .system, and If but Ave per cent of tho other half could be aWied to the producers by hiring their own co-operative man? agers and sales SgsntS, it would stfill mean a net gain of $225,000,000. Co-operatton unquestionably accomplish more through the savings which product rs may realise by con? ducting their own distribution, timn through Increases In the wholesale price obtained, Wa need a bettor sdjustmenl of supply t?> demand, which will rn iK? ii possible to uwu ket commodities when and where the) will bring the largest net return. The time lias now arrived for the I glitte of Wl nnaln t?? take an active Interest Itt the co operative move? ment within its bordera, Wisconsin J has passed through the pioneering stage of Industry int<? one whore co? operation has become well establish? ed and what la noe needed i ofWcial re ognltion and central organisation, I .. ? DM- add ti. tl abO> e til.lt J |? is time for the farmers of South Car odnu through the Fiirnicrs' Union to <iuit talking about the good nf or? ganization, and proceed i?? organise. The tirst step is to join the Union ? > ti<i the next is to make out of the Union a clearing house for our products. We can do it to the mutual advantage ! of ourselves and of our customers. E ,W, D. Kooky Bluff News Notes. Kocky Bluff. Oct. 10.?The saying "make hay while the sun shines," is being eirrried out in this section, for everybody that is able is making good USC of this fine weather we are hav? ing now. Mrs. Mary J. Cato spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. J. J. Hat lield. Mis. W. Jones, of Concord. Is spend? ing some time at her brother's. Mr. J. P. Josey's. There was qdite a number of peo? ple from Sumter, Mayesville and Os wego, besides our own community at the Baker school house last Sunday to witness the Evans-Mclntosh mar? riage. The young couple received several nice presents that were both useful and ornamental. The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Winkles on September 3<> and left them a sweet baby girl. The friends of Messrs. J. J. Hat field And (?. I*. Josey are glad to see them out again after their recent Ill? ness. ?t??mi?**mmmmmmmm?.mm mm , ?.v~** LIME?Sot agricultural lime, hut Shell lime properly ground for ag? ricultural purposes and ready for use. in even weight sacks, by Varn Oj Platt Co. orders solicited and promptly tilled. Thos S. Sumter. PLANTATION FOR SALE?The old j "Shaw Place." three and one-half I miles from Bishopville, containing one hundred .sixty acres. Over one hundred thirty-fire acres now cul? tivated; yearly rental of nearly seven hundred dollars. In good '? Community, one rnlle of school and I near Mt. Zion Church. Address T. J E, Cooper, ?t. Charles, S. C. Mr. Bugen? Joaey ls beginning to improve junt the le;ist hit. For more than a week he was not expected t > live, hut nil doctor announced this morning thai he has hopei of hi* r? < <> \ erjr. I>itle Clara Wills has a>" had an Attack of malarial t.\?r. Several children of til ? neighbor? ly ?ui hnva whooping Cough. The Reason Why You should insist upon getting your bread wrapped in an airtight wrapper as soon as it leaves the baker's oven, where it has been sterilized, while exposed to the steam heat. Here is a statement From the l>e part moot of Health. C hicago, III. / "?>ut ot a hundred loaves purchas? ed from as many different shops In the city of Chicago, 14 per cent were each coated with more than lo.uoo bacteria. As might he expected, loaves < btalned from clean shops, where all the surroundings are fa? vorable have not nearly so many germs clinging to them as loave? kept under generally dirty conditions. The difference between the bacterial coating of wrapped and unwrapped bread ii-- particularly suggestive. In no case did the bacterial contamina? tion of wrapped bread reach a high figure. On the other hand. more than half of the unwrapped loaves (62 per cent) were coated with over a thousand bacteria."?From "Ba? ker's Kevfew." "Mother's Bread '?It's Wrapped. The New York Bakery. O'DonneU & Co Shoe Department ^ SIDE from the requirements of the inner =T7r man, there is nothing that figures so much ="1 in the expense account of a large family as their footwear. Every family in this and ad? joining counties is familiar with the brands of shoes we handle?the old folks have been wearing them, the middle aged folks have been wearing them, and the children, all with PERFECT SATIS? FACTION. IT may sometimes happen that a pair of shoes will go wrong, but every pair of our shoes goes out of our house "Backed by our Guarantee." Patronize Home Industry. It may not be generally known that Sumter has a shoe factory of its own in which we are interested, and in addition to our regular lines, which are a household word in nearly every home, we have put in a line of these Sumter Shoes, which for the present they are making for men only, and while we do not claim to know everything about a shoe, we believe they are a s good as any we have in our house for the same money. They are not in? tended to adorn the feet in a ball room, but they are built for service on the plantation, and we would like every man whom we call a customer to try a pair of them and we feel assured the result will be satisfactory to him. The price is $2.50 a Pair. O'Donnell 6 Co., Svimter. South Carolina