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FARMERS' UNION NEWS Prakoaftcel Tu??#*u, for Practical (Centtecbsd by K, w Dab be, Prss I4ent fa C. F ?rmere Union.) bumv Bamham Thoughts. Under plans as outlined at the County Union meeting last Friday, for the organisation of a County Fair, opposition to tho scheme was re? moved and the County Union in? dorsed the same by a unanimous vote. It now remains to be seen what the mass meeting will do, and whether the business men ui Sumter will be willing to deal a? liberally in the mat? ter as Capt. Claffey reported they did In Orangeburg. e o o If they do and are willing to so safeguard the stock that under no possible clrcumsta u?es that may arise can a small group of men squeeze out the small stockholders, and ap? propriate to their private fortunes the grounds that may be purchased, then I can aee no reason why it should not be a aueceee on a scale fitting to the Importance of the agricultural Inter? ests of the county and the prog? ress of the City of Scmter. o m e But there is nr use to be afraid to aound a word of caution, that the rtghte of the smaller contributor must be protected against anyone and everyone who would try to make money out of it. And tha*. any "hold up" game as acquiring the necessary land in a desirable location will be to kill It in the start 0 0 0 Capt. Claffey stated Friday that if those who discussed it then would speak out In th* mass meeting, and others from all sections of the coun? ty would do the same, so that there could be a full understanding, he aaw no reason why It should not be organised on a permanent basis I am making these remarks to urge all who would see It succeed to attend the mass meeting that will be called end to speak out In the aame. OOS I want to call the attention of some of the farmera who were kick ma ah, il rovisions of the State *h to the resolutions I ( VatsoTS gave to the I I'l.-' lr the i) i ly papers of June 6th about .?guUoog the size of the bale of cotton and the tare and charging extra freight of 50c or $1.00 per tale on certain sixes of bales. These resolutions were adopted by buyera, exporters, cotton exchanges, railroads and ocean carriers?and "nalry a farmer in the bunch." . . . I Whldh you rather aee dope, these meieure* forced on you by the trade or itgulate them by your own co? operative agreementa in your own in? terests? I hope the reforms will be received, but I would like to see the growers have some sayso in them. 1 would like to aee the farmers or? ganised to lead In improved methods. Instead of organising to tight some oppressive measure that would not be thought of It we were on to our business as we ahould be. ooo Tou farmers of Sumter County who did not tee the appeal of the State President in the dally papers, nor In the Progressive Farmer, will you read It now in this column, and aee that Sumter County is properly organised so that your influence may be felt for good in the meeting of the State Union July 23rd, 24th. at the Isle of Palms. A good program is being prepared. We are anxious to have you with us to help solve wisely one of the problems that confront us. Head what Commissioner Watson says about the prospects for cotton prices, and the need for immediate action to meet sny and all conditions. There is only sbout five weeks now for you to get in line. 0 0 0 The County Union decided to de? vot?? the Cain's MM! meeting of July btn to a dl?K.ussion of how to hull? up the efficiency of 'he Union BtotV erng? company, ant' to that end ill tl.e sto? kholders directors and the manager, are Invited to be present. It I* my purpose to neve an expert either frssg the Department of Agri? culture or from WmWA successful 1'ro dace Bs hang?? to ad\lse with um thai day. b' W. I?. \^ \lII \L TO MOTH ( AHOMNA fr'AKMF.Its. Ihil) Two Month* Till state Meet i or ?-Retivo Old Local* nml t.et in Idne. To the Farmers of South Carolina: There In <o. tantly a disposition to criticize and find fault with tin* Utah sod National Tanners' Unions And tin* fault-finding comes more fie OSM ntly from nominal member* pf ?li?* Union than from outsiders. This |;'ler is* |0 appeal to the gtembei fofHtf members, ami all farmers who would like to join with uh In or? ganization for the common welfare, to revive the local anil county Unions all over the State. It is only two and a half months till the next annual meeting of the Stuto Union, when the policy will he shaped for another year, when offi? cers will he electd and delegates to the National meeting. If you want to Influence the policy of the Union, now Is the time to do it by reviving old locals and organizing new ones, and by getting your county reorgan? ized so tht it may have full repre? sentation in the State Union. This means you, brother farmer. Saturday, June 7, 1913. State Secretary J. Whitner Keid, Is doing a good work In the counties of Barnwell, Bamberg, "Lexington, Bichland and Calhoun, but he alone cannot cover the State. We need a live worker In every county. What is more, the farmers of every school district need to wake up to your op? portunity and organise now. If you do not, then do not find fault with the State Union for not electing right men to fill its offices, do not find fault with It for Indorsing policies that do not meet with your approval. Do not And fault with the National Union, If It "underestimates the crop and overprices it," if by your In? difference South Carolina has only one lone delegate there to stand for conservatism. Instead of only one delegate to the National Union, as we have been sending in the past, 1 want to se this State represented by two or three or better still, live, earnest Union men. We surely can send two or three, if the farmers will but wake up to the good they ?.an do. Besides, tco farmer, Congress has recognised your needs by making ap? propriation for tbe "Organization ot Country Life." This is in direct an? swer to the demands of your officials that marketing be aided by the De? partment of Agriculture Just as much as production. Do you believe that you can secure half the good frorn this new line of governmental work in your individual capacity as you cun with a live local Union in your school district? Do you want to sec other States leave you behind in the "organlaztion of country life," of which the whole country is ex? pecting so much? Do you think Dr. Carver and his associates in this great work will give South Carolina much consideration, if by your in? difference it can be said, "Only Mr. Dabbs and a few others want this measure?" There never was a more opportune time for farmers to organ? ize than now, and I wish this call could be so loud that every farm? er worthy of the name could hear, and would give heed. Any information aa to how to or? ganize will be cheerfully given upon application to J. Whitner Reld, Sec? retary, Columbia, or to the under? signed at Mayesville. E. W. Dabbs. j President S. C. State Union, j \Muu Commissioner Watson Says. There are now more reasons why the farmers of South Carolina should maintain strong local and county Unions than ever before. The rea? sons President Dabbs gives are good and strong ones, buth when we look forward to what the coming cot? ton season holds In the vitally im? portant matter of the price per pound the producer will get for It, in the light of indicative facts, I do not hesi? tate to say that It is of supreme Im? portance that the cotton growers of the South approach the fall months 1th a solid!* organized front. He sorts to expediencies and plans that are uneconomic can not longer save the price of cotton to the producer. The hour has struck when organized intelligent action must be taken, nnd the logical channel Is the Farmers' Union. 1 have been aiding Secretary Held In his work of organization re? cently as much as I can, for I realize fully the Imperative necessity for the farmers to be prepared to help them? selves. E. J. Watson. \ EWS JOTTINGS FHOM DARK COHN EH. "Hani Times" Expresses Ills Views of the "Blind Tiger*."?Preaching at Held School?Crop Conditions and Other Items. Dark Comer, June T?. ? As 1 have about my usual health again 1 will claim a small space In the Watchman and Southron. Everything is calm and serene. Kairoers nie nearly done chopping cotton and some arc laving by corn 1 see obi man Pink Weeks has a piece of corg laid by Mr. L E. Avlg has the finest cotton I IsgVe seen, ItlOUgh it is said tbat Mr. J. M KoM> of neat Itamsev has the tinest cotton on the Cane Savannah road aii of our sit u are better, no one to report at tins writing, sYall, "Qld M T hus not s?en ans ot the pe? ntion*. either for or against the dh I peasant Hut l could not vote for 'in- dispensary I voted against n \<> fore and I have not regretted it, al? though l am ashamed to find we have many unthinking people, both white and colored, that have stooped to the desire of money until they have to be called "blind tigers." 1 will ad? mit that 1 smile on certain occasions out I have not patronized a "blind tiger;" neither have 1 ordered any whiskey from any' source. So my smiles are like Angels visits, set down and far between. Rev. M. W. Gordon of Summcrton preached a fine sermon from Heb. 11c and 24v at the Heid schoolhouse last Sunday night to a large and atten? tive audience. A Sunday school meets at the Heid schoolhouse every Sun tiay afternoon at four o'clock. Mrs. W. J. Ardls visited at Mr. Joe H. Geddings' last Saturday and Sun? day, near Plnewood. Mrs. M. E. Mclntosh of near Pine wood, is \isiting relatives here this week. Well, the mulatto gang (yellow flies) is with us again. Oat harvesting was in order last week and fie first of this week. Some good oats were saved. As those flies are pestering me I will have to ring off, so I can give them battle. "Hard Times." Saturday. 7th, Mr. C. P. Weeks' dog went mad yesterday, but he succeed? ed in killing it before it bit anything, as far as he knows. LOSES LIFE IN THE TIDE. Charles Ashley Drowned in Inlet When Ho Attempts to Return to Shore. Charleston* June 5.?Charles Ash ? ley, a prominent yohng lawyer of Aiken, staying on Sullivan's Island with his mciher at station 28, was drowned yesterday afternoon and de? spite a vigcrous search last night and today the body had not been recov? ered. He was fishing at the upper end of the island, having taken posi? tion on a reef with his dog. It ap? pears that he muti. have lost sight of the rapidity of the incoming tide and when he determined to return to the beach instead of taking the circuitous route by which he had reached the reef, he attempted to take a short cut j and he suddenly found himself in deep water and unable to help him? self. His calls for help were mistaken for calls to his dog to follow him. Mr. Ashley left his boarding house at about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, taking with him a crabbing net and basket, planning to catch a mess of crabg for supper. His pet dog went along with him. Friends in cottages along the beach watched his progress 1 toward the Beach inlet, and saw him go out, the tide being low, along a J reef that is notably treacherous. He waved his hands to watchers from time to time, and was apparently en Joying the excursion. Meanwhile tide had come in. shutting from sight parts of the sand reef, and when Mr. Ash? ley discovered that he was being cut off, he turned shoreward. Unfamiliar with the safe course to take, he tried to wade back across Intervening j waters, and suddenly found himself over his head. Unable to swim and being physically weak, Mr. Ashley j callec' for help, his voice reaching children playing on the beach, but they misunderstood his calls, think? ing he was commanding his dog to follow him. The young lawyer disap? peared from sight and up to this morning his body had not been found, although diligent search was made by organized parties, who went as far as the Isle of Palms, thinking perhaps that he had succeedd In getting out of the water's grasp, and had con? tinued his outing across Heach inlet. His dog made its way to the shore safely, and later the crab net and basket were found />n the beach. There is deep gloom at the Laird cottage, known us Aikenden, at sta? tion 28, and in the neighborhood where Mr. Ashley and his widowed mother were staying. Mrs. Ashley la orercomo with grief. He was an only ?on, his brother meeting death some1 time ago from fatal burns. Mr. Ashley had visited Bullvan'l Island before. 1 enjoying a large Circle of friends who admired him for his genial disposi? tion and ( harming manner. Fpr the, past year or two the reef wOere Mr. Ashl :, met his death has been considered dangerous by those using it lor baas Hailing. The shifting sands in this section have changed the character of the heat h, and now u hum reef runs ofl f**om the shore that is covered by W ?er when tide i- high? although any one familiar with the lay of the land can make his way back safely to the shore by fol? lowing the COUrse Of the reel i.ilc tuilv However, Mr. Ashley did nol lake this fact int?? account, and came straight in from where he was sta? tioned when be found himself cut ofl by the rising waters. He was n??t a good swimmer, lie was several bun? dled yards from his cottage when the accident happened, '"it in sign! from I the shore, his movements being fol? lowed through opera glasses. Mr Ashle\ was in his early MOS and unmnri led 1 >eep sympathy Ih extended t" bis bereaved mother. 1 THE PURE FOOD LAWS. COMMISSION ER WATSON SAYS THEY MIST BE ENFORCED AGAINST HIGH AND LOW. featon III Impure Products Will He Vigorously Prosecuted in Federal und Stute Courts When They arc Caught Columbia, June 6.-"The hour has come when a halt is going to be tailed in South Carolina as far as 1 am able to do it, under State and fed? eral law, and I don't hesitate to say that no matter who the man is or how big the firm or corporation is, if 1 can get the evidence that will convict him of furnishing dangerous pro- | ducts leading to the destruction of life, 1 propose to use every mcana in my power to land him either in a State or federal prison." This emphatic statement was made yesterday by Commissioner Watson in discussing the pure food and drug act, the enforcement of which has been placed under the direction of the State department of agriculture. One inspector has been appointed and is actively engaged In enforcing the law, A laboratory has been established in connection with the feed stuffs labor? atory. "Let's look at another phase of this situation," continued the commis? sioner, "brought about by the fact that South Carolina has so many years been a dumping ground for impure and unsound foods, and in doing so, remember this, that our people buy nearly everything that they eat from manufacturers in distant States. Pot hog products alone we probably spend at least $15,000,000 a year; for dairy products we spend $20,000,000; for Western meats and canned goods, a sum I dare not mention; for Hour alone, $20,000,000 annually and for ketchup, soda crackers, syrups and candles and indeed everything almost that we cat, sums that range into the millions. 1 know of one grocery es? tablishment alone that sells 5,000 cases of canned goods every year and fully two-thirds of these are cans of vegetables. A low average value per case would represent in thts one storo an annual expenditure of about $12, 000. "It is a great work that is being done by the State board of health,' said the commissioner, "in matters of sanitation, in educating the people as to the common rules of health, in the handling of epidemics, in the battling with deadly diseases, and it is a great work that the medical practitioner of the State is doing. I am proud of the work in those fields of endeavor, fields ever broadening, leading to the fullest conservation of the human resources of the State; but nearly all of that work, as valuable as it 1.*, deals with the human being already assailed by disease,- with conditions than can be seen with the eye and are of common repute. "The enforcement of the pure food and drug laws of the State, to m\ mind, is of far deeper consequence and In that enforcement all of these agencies should lend the fullest and most complete cooperation. These laws strike at the cause of most of the. disease; they strike at the cause of most of the epidemica Man van not live without eating and when he takes poison into his system through the course of his daily diet?a Poison which he has no means of knowing is there?he can not be blamed foi de? veloping the disease that often semis him to the medical man too late for anything to be done, or at least in time only to survive after a hard bat? tle. What we have learned of coin meal is illustrative of the slow ab? sorption of insidious poison in the hu man system. When the time comes when the medical practitioner must be called In, he writes his prescrlp tlon for the suffering infant for In? stance, and it is taken to the drug store and there instead of paregoric which that physician intends that the child shall have and knows that the child needs, the purchaser is given an adulterated product and the pur pose of the physician is defeated. The suffering child suffers on and has been deprived of a need of the hour? and then comes death. I do not know how many deaths of Infants ma) have been causd by the use of condensed skimmed milk. but 1 do know this, that this product was sent into the markets of this State in a perfect flood; that in all the mill villages it appeared In packages of the same si/<' ami general appearance as to labels with good condensed milk, it was sold at half the price and thousands oi people bought it and fed it to infants 1 pay 1 do not know it. but I do be lieve that this use of this product, based on Ignorance of its food ton tent, has probably caused as mam deaths of Infants in this State as all the cases of Infantile paralysis that tin- state has ever had.' Now Pot the Big sale. - That's the Schwurt51 Cost Sale, be gins tomorrow. Wednesday, lasts days Kvcry thing it* the store n rest, t'oine' Seitw?rts Pros. Advl rkhels ( \nTI5i: matamouas. Fedearl Troops said to lie Advancing to Attempt Recapture of Town. Brownsville, Texas, June I.?If ata? morae, Mexico, acroM the border from Brownavillc, which aurrendered to the rebel army of Oen. Lucio Blanco ear? ly today, is orderly tonight All sa? loons have been cloaed and those of the revolutionists not engaged in ear? ing for the wounded and gathering the dead of yesterday's battle are hastily reconstructing the battered defenses in anticipation of the com Ing of government troopa reported en route from Wra Cruz. Up to a late hour tonight 10 bodiel nad been collected and assembled in a huge pyre. The torch will be ap? plied tomorrow morning. Rumors were current today that a body of federal troops were approach? ing Matamoraa from the west The new comers, however, proved to be a belated band of revolutionists on their way to join Blanco's army. It was stated late tonight that the bodies of about 100 dead of the two armies had been located after an ex? ploration of practically the entire bat? tlefield. The number of wounded is placed at 50. GO KK.I.T AFTER IT. Friends mid Neighbors in Suintcr Will show You a Wa). Get Jit the root of the trouble. Rubbing u:i a< hing buck may re? lieve it, lint won't eure it if the kidneys are weak. You must reaeh the root of it? tile kidneys. Heat h the cause; relieve the pain. Begin at once with Doan's Kidney Pills. Are recommended by thousands. Here is a statement from a resident of Manning. Mrs. L>. Newman, Manning, S. C, says: "I consider Doan's Kidney Pills a line backache and kidney remedy and can say that they have been used in the home with good results. One of my family had a lame and aching back, together with kidney weak? ness. Doan's Kidney Pills were used in this case and they brought re? lief. 1 have never had need of Doan's Kidney Pills myself, but I have often ad Viced their use, as 1 know what they will do." Foff sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. No. 32. Gave Up Hope "I suffered five years, with awful pains, due to woraatv ly troubles/9 writes Mrs. M. D. McPherson, from Chaf*. bourn. N. C 'They grew worse, till 1 would often fai at I could not walk at all, and I had an awful hurting in joy side; also a headache and a backache. I gave up and thought I would die, but my husf jaod urged me to try Cardui, so, I began, and the first 'mottle helped me. By the time the third bottle was used, 1 could do all my work. All the people around here said 1 would die, but Cardui relieved me." Cardu i WomanlloTut Fof more than 50 years, Cardui has been relieving woman's sufferings, and making weak women strong and well During this time, thousands of women have written, like Mrs. McPherson, to tell of the really surprising results they obtained by the use of this purely vegetable, tonic remedy for women. Cardui strengthens, builds, restores, and relieves or pre? vents unnecessary pain and suffering from womanly troubles. If you are a woman, begin taking Cardui, today. Writ* to: Udie*' Advisory Dept., Caananoofa Medldae Co.. Clattanoon. Team., for Sptdal Instructions, and 64-page book. "Home Traaoatai tor Women," tentfee. ]# 1905 1913 The Farmers' Bank & Trust Company Capital Stock, Surplus, ? Liability of Stockholders Protection to Its Depositors, Si 20,000.00 77.ooo.oo 120,000.00 S317,000.00 Active, Accommodating, Conservative We Want Your Business. Catch Up With Him Don't sit back and watch the other fellow get ahead of you. The way to catch up with him and keep up with him is to keep a bank account and check out your money judiciously. Before you know it you'll be savintf'a simp: sum out of the surplus. THE Bank" Sumter