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? be (f?tottbman aiti ^oulbron. W j ? Puhiui.e,' \s ( 111n? . * ?\ end Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTBK, 8. C. I Terms: 11.(9 per annum?In advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion.$1.00 Every sueeenuent Insertion.GO Coatrscts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respeot will be charged for. The Sumter Wstchmsn was found? ed la 11(0 snd the True Southron In 1100. The Wstchmsn snd Southren Bow bss the combined circulation snd tnduence of both of the old pupers, and Is manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. Another C ause for the War. Green vile News. \ . less an authority than the Journal of the Ano n, an Medical Association takes serious oosjnlfinnes t>f the statement that the 1>> Ing pan was one of the factors enteiing Into the aggregate lot-os wbnb hroiig h t on the ? uil War. In the frying pan the food of our fathers was en? crusted with grease, which Is proof against many digestive apparatuses, and such digestions SJ this being abused reacted upon the mental stste of Um* factions and made the great bewach easier. We might say then. that Indc.est n,n. slavery. State's rights, and a natural tem? peramental difference were the cause of the struggles si the slx tlea But whether or not one Is willing to eccept the statement that grease was a disturber of the peace, cer? tainly none will deny that In tin statement a truth concerning human nature Is contained. Where health Is not a the best all other good aspects of the man sre apt to be held beck. It Is a well known fSJ t thst the dyspeptK is helllgeient, or rather h. lie ose. In his home, ami if ? internecine strife brought on b> ligestlble foods causes him to NTS his home. is there m?t some ?und to conclude that this same HnS] of mm pa< ihVism will follow ii into his dealings with the world'.' Js Is what the medical Journal ?~?ts, and therefore It would, in the erest of the Individual und of the SJ taboo the flapjack, the ltlngo nkfurter, the quick lunch and or things taken Internally which ? apt to defy the dissolving power the gastric Juices. \merl<a Is the land of Indigestion, ?sjSjt It Is the land where cooking Is not yet as scientific as it should where iiiii llcutlon is considered a i ?s? of tum Sjaj where, more than In other places, men are wont to give way to taste, placing It above Sermion sense. This is the venia t of tue pnr.kers, and It Is a ver i worth consideration. One of the reason.i as. rlbed for the higher ?>ath rate in the rural districts than in the large - that the oss ? Ing generally speaking^ >'i the rural home is |sm ^c ntili. . BJOffi gre.is\, heavier, and Is par*.-ken of In more ?hin the requisite quantities. Taking the Journal of the Medical Association as a i riterion. one come* the ? om hmion that along with 'Ulli ? sa\ What Is spoken In congress may com? a public document ami rc ve free distribution through the tils. This alas applies to the ?erb * which are mm\ actually de llxered. but whi?h are adm"t. d to the congressional record. Such Speeches are also | rinted at the eg pen e of the government There* foie when some industry, as foi In etaie e ip<- Iwmisiana sugar industry, wish t?? create ?esjtlsneni one way ?r the other, its representatives get the speech of some congressman who thinks as the sugar < am* growers Would have him think, ami then haw this speeeh distributed postage free. Mm h campaign literature \A nent out In the Maine manner, beim; printed In the foim of speeehes del ver -n by national hgislafois. To st.p the printing and free distribution ,f tin I. II happening:* in congress would nor he desirahl... und at the same time to penult Snags Speeche? to go postage free while refusing IhlS prvllege to others Would lot he equitable (*on green is confronting a ? ..million which HI in elf. , t a m. d graft. < ?in- V?. t\ to help in the reell? th atlofi is to require iii it tin s.nat ?| or representative, as the case may be send out his own speeches ami Bf - hi'-t? their detrituition hv outside persons In the case of the anti free sugar literature distributed, the sugar Interests finnisches took a large part in the mailing of the pamphlets postage free So. h pia tt< e should he made punishable l.XtTHSIOS to HAH LIN t.TON. speojai Trmhi win iu> Operated Over the South Carolina Western lor the .\ccx?mm<Hlutioii for Corn Club lloys imti Tomato club Glrli The members of the Hoys' Corn Club ami (tills Tomato Club of Sum NT County have boon invited t?? at total in* oalobratton in Darlington on Thuraday, July Ird, ami for their ac? commodatlon the South Carolina Western Railroad will operate a ipe clul train on that day. Itavlnf Bum ter at 7 o'clock a. nr. and returning that ni?ht. the round trip fere beim $1.70. The programme of tho day has been arranged for the ontertalnmont Of the hoys and gills and they will de? rive both pleasure end profll from the : trlp? The fftrll will be entertained by the ladies of Darlington and a din? ner will he served for them. An ef? fort is being made to carry a major? ity of the club members from Sumter County and those interested can oh- , tain information from Mr. J. Frank Wilhams or Miss Mary Lemmon. Progressive Cites. Greenville News. Following the example of Sumter, South Carolina, Hendersonvllle, North Carolna, has employed a business manager to conduct the ? it v 1 affairs. In Sumter the plan has worked well, just as all ex? pected. f?,r tthe inauguration of busi? ness-like methods never worked any other way. So Hemlersonville mnv expect a good administraton of its; buolttoan provded a good man has been secured for the business man? agership. This trend of municipal government, as evidenced in the two i cited, and in the cases of the tvso hundred or more ?dies which have adopted the commisson form i?f government, unquestionably pre nages municipal government in the United states of a much higher standard than has been seen in the past. Foreign economists have re marked that our municipal govern? ments were the sorriest phases of the ountry's governoiental affairs, and erlalttJy the statement if not found? ed entirely in Ignorance or fiction. Bui the day ol transition is at hand, ?nd progressive OltOf are transform? ing. Within two years Greenville will Note on the question of trans formation of the commission form of government. If the city is true to Its spirit of development this election will result in n ehaage from the old to the n? w and better. New?? Notes of Kciithcrt. Rembert, July l.?All things men* tone change. The writer of these lines observes that he is not so beau? tiful as or yore. What wonder then lhat tin- time for Children's Day at Betbeeda < kareh has been changed to Friday, July 4th, so If you are com? ing arrange for that day. We are having plenty of wind ami rain and crops are looking tine. G. ii Lenolf has some vary fine corn, > specially when you consider the small umount of fertilizer used. Should no disaster come it will make not less than seventv -live hush* Is per acre. Heard by one of our boys, Cav M< F?chern, has an acre pronounced the best corn in the country by some in i position to know. Now. Mr. Editor, do not misquote me I know i make mistakes but do got make me say. ' The writer main? tained the oat crop, etc, etc." Miss Therese Baadern after a most delightful trip to tin- mountains, as mentioned recently, la at home again. A lot of folks are jumping on Mr. Mann for his criticism of the admln ; nation, hut I do think they, particul? arly sir. IfcReynolda, ought to clear i hesnaafi ei Krighter days are ahead of us. Ours is a great people, not wedded to Wrong, as Some would imagine. Whenever they discover ? demagogue the man who at any cost seeks to be a demigod it is to drop him. as the farmer would say, like ? hoi potato. The beat way to do ste h a man Is not to abuse Him. but just give the public the unvarnished truth. The s in the lion s skin is sure to prance if let .done, ami Sooner Of later his ears will ciop out. I ?ur people are not so besotted as t<? be content with Jewell In ? hog s snout. These remarks are a strong State no ni of a great fact that underlie* liir safety of out institutions. ?Hag.1 " < i\ ii. cin ht in ntWHhin Negro*'*, Suing for INftUMWdou ol Land. The court of common ideas con ? tod Monday morning, all ot the rrlsnanel business having been com pbted last week pgcept several small cases in which the defendants were out on bond. Whl* h Wage continued over until the next term of courl Monday morning the ease of ? negro Maples, was taken up He was suing In secure possession id bind, whleh he alleges belonged In him, opposed to Dispensary, The following clipping from the Southern Christian Advocate has been handed um with the request thai it be published: i will not undertake In thii article to five all the nasons, but only a few: i. Because the evils of the liquor traffic and of liquor drinking are not dependent on the method of sale, hut grow out of the nature of li? quor. Whiskey will have the same ef? fect no matter lu?w or by whom sold, it will produce drunkenness, incite to crime, break up homes, entail pov? erty and destroy character as quick? ly if sold by a preacher as dispenser as it will if sold by an outlaw. So long as the nature of alcohol is what it Is, and so long as it affects for evil tiie physical, mental, moral and spiritual nature of man, it* angels sold it the results WOUld be just what they are. The courts Of the land have spoken In condemnation of the traffic. Tiie highest scientific medical authority has pronounced alcohol a poison to the human sytsem. The large busi? ness interests of the country have Condemned it. Tiie moral forces and church ot Qod have made an uncom? promising war mi it. Experience shows that the liquor traffic is Inca? pable of purification and Is beyond redemptlon? No method of regula? tion has ever destroyed the evils of it. Therefore, I cannot accept any legal sale of it and cannot refrain from opposing the Illegal sale. 2. Because the liquor traffic has been a corrupting power In politics since it has legal standing. It is to? day ths greatest and most unprinci? pled trust In existence. All are fa? miliar with the black record of shame, bribery ami corruption of the oh) state dispensary. I, Because by compromising the right we always lo.se. Tne only thing we gain is to derive revenue, and WC gain this at a moral loss. No man can truthfully say that the dis? pensary destroys blind tigers; they are too plentiful in dispensary coun? ties. The dispensary is a convenient source of supply for retail and Sun? day selling for the country tigers, is not the revenue the bottom reason? We do nut take this position on car? rying concealed weapons, stealing and murder, all of which prevail. 4. Because I cannot reconcile to ? my moral nature to try to make a moral wrong right by getting a rev? enue from il- A government may , Impose a tine for the committing of a crime without being a partner In the crime, for the fine Is punishment Hut when it sells the right to com? mit a moral wrong no logic can save it from being an accessory before the fact to the crime. 1 am address? ing those who believe it to be mor? ally wrong to sell liquor. When 1 vote for the legal sale of liquor 1 sell my right, duty and opportunity to light this great evil. 1 can light the blind tiger with law ami public sentiment. I may even convert him from the error of his way by the gospel, lint I cannot convert or light the dispensary for four long years. During that time it may in tiie name of law and resp stability make a druukuid of my boy and I have no power to remove the temptation from hint, it is a weighty reason with nie that 1 have o boy, With my vote l will not give a business a' chance to ruin his character, even if It offers to put a few cents In his head. 5. Because of my Individual re? sponsibility as a church member. If I endorse the dispensary, whatevel my motives may be, 1 have in fact endorsed all the results of its work. \m I obeying Jesus when He said, "Lei your light so shine, etc.*' If i Vote to legaii/e this evil? There is but one question for in?-, that of my Individual duty. 8, Lastly, because I believe that 1 follow the tea< lung of Qod'S word when I oppose this evil, it says, "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.*' Moral questions are nol settled by majorities. All the voters in the world can't make right what is Inherently wrong. The word of Qod says, 'Woe unto him that glveth ids neighbor drink, that put leth thy bottle to him and maketh him drunk also" tllabakkuk 2:16). h would |?e an awful crime for me, a total abstainer, to'put in the name of law the bottle to the lips of my weak brother. It may be my liberty in one sense of the word to so Vote, but Christian charity says, 'Destroy not Ihj weak brother for whom ('brist died ' If Ii Is a crime to put the bottle to the hps of the drunk? ard, how much more so to the lips of boys and young men who have nol formed Ihr habit. It as vs. "'For it nilisl Heeds be th.it .-Ueiise COHieJ but woe to that man b> whom the '?lieu;..me) || ',- | \|..t t III W 1 H 7 ?. Some say. "Liquor will be sold, and We hud |USl (IS Well keep the money at home and haw the profit." So we might ft) "t stealing and mur? der That is not the logic of 'lirisl I must huvt my hands ami con Science clean, regardless of what others do, ? .\o drunkards shall inherit the kingdom ol (Jod." i Cor. 8:10). Then what about tin dr inkord maker? it I vote for tins dispensary 1 will make drunkards, I submit tin- above reasons to men <>t' reason who really arc opposed to the liquor business and yet may con? template voting for tiic dispensary as the best solution. Weigh them and see it i am not right In the position l take, it has been assumed 1 ?y some tr.at the preachers are trying to co? erce people on this question before us, so I have heard. Let me once for all say this is not true, and the preachers are not tin- issue, but a moral question is. The preachers are willing for every man to exercise the right to think and act. They are trying to do just what they trv to do In every moral Issue?to per? suade their hearers and readers. Could they do less? Are not those who are working for the dispensary trying to persuade their fellow men to adopt their views on the question in the lay Bermons they preach to of? ten ? Would we not have better con* sciences; would we not have better morals; would we not do more for the real Interests of our country, if we organised to put down the illegal sa'e of liquor and refuse to sanction Its legal sale? Has prohibition had a fair showing in Calhoun county? Have you, reader, done your duty to make it Bucceed? Let us keep this issue straight. We don't have to have "blind tigers." The issue is not dispensary or blind tiger, but whiskey or no whiskey, J. M. Steadman. St. Matthews. May 24. Southern Farmers Advised Against Sellin- off Their t ows. During the past twelve months eat-' He buyers have la-en active in Louis? iana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, purchasing cattle to be shipped to the Middle Western mar? kets as either canners or stocken. The prices paid for canners during this period have been so high that thousands of cows and heifers have gone to the shambles which should have been retained on the farms for breeding purposes. This is especially noticeable when the receipts of south? ern cattle at tin- St. Louis market for the last twelve months are compar? ed v. it it those for any previous per fod of similar length. The receipts of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana cattle at that market have almost doubled during this period. Sin?e the first of February buyers from the fsirms and ranches of the West have been scouring, the Gulf states in search of breeding stock. A few years ago this class of cattle would have been scorned by the Wes? tern ranchman as breeding stock, but with the shortage of cows for breed? ing purposes the ranchers are glad to get these cheap cows, to which they will breed good beef bulls. The half breeds resulting from this mating make fairly desrahle beef animals. Several thousand cattle have al? ready been sent from these States to Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and some of them are said to have been shipped Bs far as Montana. Recently there were perhaps more cattle unloaded at one time in Bir? mingham, Ala., for feed, water, and ' rest while enroute to tin' western range's than have ever been seen in that place before in one day. Geor? gia and Florida are sending out thous? ands of these native southern cattle at the present time at prices rang? ing from $1C to $23 a head for mature animals. A shipment of 4a carloads of cattle was recently made from i isceola County, Florida, In otic day. They wer?- shipped to Kansas via Oklahoma City. The cattle wer*- dip- j ped in arsenical solution before load? ing, to free them of ticks, and were t to be dipp?d again on arrival at Okla? homa City before going above the Federal quarantine line. Some people of the South seem glad that these cattle are being shipped out, as the number of scrub cattle is being reduced and the South will get better cattle as a result. They do not look far enough ahead, however, e?r they would see that if the shortage of cattle* is such as to cause buyers t(> come from the far West to buy these scrub cattle for breeding purposes, the chances of southern farmers re? filling their pastures with g<?o?l cattle are indeed small, for where arc these good breeding cattle- to conn- from at a reasonable price? The- best and most profitable way of getting good cattle throughout the South ia to bleed up the native cattle by the use of purebied bulls, and by castrating all s? t ub bulls at an early age. The South is especially adapted to raising cuttle, because of the long grazing season, the enormous areas ot cheap laud much ol which Is n>>\\ lying nib-, the great variety of pasture grasses and legumes which crow lu\ urinntly e?n all sods, ami Itecuuse of the mild winters. it the western ranchman eon afford to paj southern farmers h.I priced. f"i cows, pay the hu h freight rates to tin West, stand the losses which nat urallv iieciil during shipping linn i at lb- such long distances, also beul (he loss due to u change oi climatic con dlttoniii and then make money on them, why ran not the .southern farmers who already owns the cattle as well as the grazing lands, and who needs the manure upon the soils, ke< p yds stock ort the farm and secure the Increased profits? He can if he will tier his cattle*of ticks, increase the efficiency of his pastures by plant? ing mixtures of b spedey.a, bur clover, white clover, or perhaps melllotus, slsike clover, and redtop over his pasture lands; and by raising more hays and forage crops for wintering his stock and finishing; them for mar? ket. Tite surplus cattle can then be rattened by feeding cotton seed cake on giass or grazing fields of velvet beans while feeding some concentrate; or they can be finished in the dry lot during the winter months. For win? ter feeding no roughage has proved more valuable than silage, as the ad? dition of it to the feeding ration in? variably increases the size of tin daily gains and reduces their cost, thereby making greater profits, The quality and quantity of silage which can be produced on some of these cheap lands can not be surpassed by the high priced lands of the corn belt, whereas the cost of produc ing it is far less because of the c heap labor. Tite farmers of the South are there? fore urged to discontinue this whole? sale shipping of their female ? attle t?> other States, to free tile pastures of the cattle ti<k, and t?> increase the number and quality Of their cattle by the use of purebred beef bulls. The' progeny Will m>t only grow faster and make' large r and bette r cattle, but will be far more* profitable to raise and to feed than are the natives. The soils will la* increased in fertility by tlie* manure, which gives such profi? table re-turns when applied to the cot? ton crop and puts vegetable matter into the sod. Tin- amount of com? mercial fertiliser necessary to pro? duce* a crop will he reduced and a more bountiful yiedd will he produc? ed. Literature regarding methods of feeding c attle in the South and eradi? cating the cattle ticks may he ?>btain ed from the Bureau "f Animal in? dustry. Department ?-f Agriculture, Washington, I?. ('. Southern farmers ate also advised to consult the Depart ment'a county farm demonstration a genta Wliy Can't We Do Thin" The following editorial from the Wilmington Star is as applicable for South Carolina, and Sumter County, as it is to North Carolina: "Could liaise Cattle" is the head? line of an editorial in the Raleigh Times. The Titnes, of course, is un? der the impression that we could but we can't do it. We can't do it be? cause* we* won't. We can't raise cot? ton in North Carolina. We can't raise tobacco in North Carolina. We can't do anything in North Carolina?that is, wo can't if we won't. The only rea? son we can't is that we won't. Let j us understand each other. It is not] because we can't, but because We won't. We can't! Can't we? Let us dis? cuss this cpo.,lion from an utterly ri? diculous and perfectly absurd stand polnt. Of course, we can't do anything in North Carolina. We can go West and do it. Let George do it in North Carolina. Well, George is doing it. George is showing us how. George lias come here and George is under the* impression that what we can't do in North t arolina c an't be done any? where else. If we can't, why others cant. Those people who say we can't ought to move West just as soon as they can pull up pegs and get away. The West can educate them. They will learn something. In the meantime they can unload their lands on George and lease htm the bag to hold. George is a suc ker and doesn't know any bet? ter than to pay $10 an acre for land thai wouldn't sprout peas. Well it wouldn't if we planted the peas like we have been planting them. How? ever, George doesn't do that way. We happen to know George, hut George ? an g?t to grass while we recall this from the Raleigh Times, which very highly esteemed contemporary is un? der tiie impression thai "We could Raise Catth" in North Carolina . "II a man from another part of the country wore to come here and ask the Mat question us to the two things which Wake county farmers have most overlooked the reply would be easy?the raising cd' cattle and the utilisation cd' meadows. There aro splendid meadow lamls all about Lab mh ami not a hundredth part of them is put to nsev It was l>r. Tail Uutler who ten years ago, when State veterinarian, remarked to tin- writer that North Carolins could produce vastly more cattle than Texas; could pasture more to the- acre ami get nioie- money tor them. Vet < attle raising is so small a thing here in Wake that it is hard!) worth mention? ing, hu the writer knows of e>nl> three farmer* who fallen cat lie for market. Th? re j.s Loe.el money in the profit mi I he meat, but this is only a pait of it Tin fertilisation ol the land is in,- teal consideration \Y. k?- can Ik- ii uili a i attic racing; futility. It used to be one, though of course there were no great markets and no large demands in thoac days. Today we are meat buyers. Dr. Tall Butler used to say that it made him feel full of disgust when he saw, as he often did, a farmer haul hay into tin- country; hauling it away from Raleigh, Instead of toward the city. Commissioner of Agriculture Graham declares that a farmer is not entitled to the name until he raises on his farm tiie food supplies for man and beast." Why the meadow? There is our old friend, l>r. Tait Butler, brought into the question) and we have him refer? ring to North Carolina meadow lands and declaring that "North Carolina could produce vastly more cattle than Texas?could pasture more to the aere and get more money for them." Dr. Butler is right, but why not let George do it? Why does a North Carolinian wain to undertake it when somebody else can do so? Why not let the "pauper labor" of Kurope come here and do it? Why not let George do it? Well, George is doing it all right. We know foreigners who landed in Wilmington without a cent* but thc\ ure now farming and lending money and lending money and tanning. Do you know what a foreigner does with \our average meadow? Why he drains the darned thing, rips it up with a double-, hilled < diver plow, and pro? duces more forage and cattle feed than an ordinary neglected meadow would do in 2o years. We've got a kind of poetic idea about the mea? dow green," Put the .Scandinavian farmer comes here and spoils the whole thing. He turns the meadow into something else and makes the meadow ashamed of itself. We've got a friend P/hO is one of the Georges who do things. We used to "set 'em up" to him a few yeara ago. He is a Fort of plutocrat now, hut he still speaks to us. He's got a "car" and a farm of less than 25 acres. Part of it is in pine thickets, hut the thickets are full of cattle ami hogs. He plants eight acres in vetch, and rye, alfalfa and rye, vetch ami corn broadcasted, truck of various kinds, and food crops. He plants no cotton. I~ist year he cut and stored away $2,lau worth of ensilage, lived off the place, fed 12 cows, fattened 10?J hogs and never bought a cent's worth u forage. He raised cattle, hogs and poultry, fed them from eight acres, ?onverted his crops into milk, 1 beef and pork, and pocketed $4. No, we can't do a darned tl North daiolina unless we try without we know how t<> do it. ty years ago we were offered land like George's for $1 an acre. That's lernest. George wuold not sell out his for $500 an acre. Who the dickena would swap North Carolins for Tex? as? When we apply intelligence to the adaptabilities of this incomparable region, we won't speculate on whether we can raise tattle or not. We will (0 to work and do it. George laughs it us, and In that respect we take a hand with George. ?' -.?.; HUMAN RECIPE i To the wish to vote, man's load to tote, And an ardor that never grows cold. Add brickbats to mash, some win* dows to smash ? And behold this Suffragette bold. The interest In good roads w ill nev? er he what it ought to he till a man will be ashamed to acknowledge that he Is opposed t.? road Improt entente. ?Wilmington Star. ? Picture* of sumter Men. This week's issue ot the Soglh K?steln Hanker, a magazine is full of u?>od reading and of tine pictures The good reading is about the Sum let- banks, ami the pictures are of Messrs. II 1. Manning. K. F. Ilaynsworth, .1 U McCallum, Hern .ltd Manning and Win. J. CroWSOft, Jr. Some one has Suggested that it President Wihaou is a lobbyist, he i* representing onlj the masses. And it might l?e added thai he is imlus IrloiiM inn not in idious Greenville New S,