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Cht?ulatcbnunait? *ou!bron. ^ g vj Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BT? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY BUHTER. & C. Ter nu: 11.19 per annum?In advance. Advertisements: One Square flret Insertion.$.1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts 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 respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1860 and the True Southron In i lilt. The Watchman and Southron now hss the combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old papers, and Is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Mrs. Pankhurst was released from Rills Island yesterday und now has the freedom of the countrv to cai?*y gSJi to r contra? t to deliver a SSTiSl <>t le< tur???. She promises to he good, however, and tin re will he no militant window breaking and house burning stunts. She Is not in ASSSHCS to de? stroy property, but to gather in the dollars at the rate of Iftcen hundred per lecture. e e e tlov. Sulser has accepted the nom? ination of the Progressive party as a candidate for the New York Assembly and will make a vigorous campaign. II?? wants to get back to All.any to m?k. i ii.** start in politics. For si man who has made such ? notorious failure as a politician his eagerness to get back into the game is Inexplicable Me would be wiser to acrept one ol the leeture engagements offered him at fifty thousand dollars a year and earn sufficient money to pay off B?HM ?.f the gV bts that he confesses owing various persona e ?t| e State Insurance Commissioner Mc Master strongly advocate* and ad? vises the organization of local mutual Are insurance companies as a mSSM of saving money. He sites the long and successful records of several such organizations in Charleston to support bis contention that the people of South Carolina are not ahsolutely de? pendent upon the foreign stock lire Insurance compat les for lire pr otec? tion and that they need not continue paying the high rates exacted. He has the flgurcM to prove that the mu? tual companies have saved tho people of f'tiarh-sfon an average of fifty per cent of the premiums exacted by the stork eompanies, am' he argues that what has been accomplished in ore Si . . i oitinuoiisly for a period of fifty years is not Imp.SSBMS of attainment In other towns and cities in this State. At first glance it seems thi.t his rea? soning is correct and the experiment I worth u trial in every town of any size In the State. We would not ad? vocate the abandonment of all the Insurance with the old established sto? k companies, hut it would l>e feas- ' ihle |S organize local insurant e com? panies to carry a certain percentage of the r .jrance that is now placed with the Steel fOBB| Seim a the pre? vailing high rates. All the insurance that is placed w*?h the lo? al com? panies Would b? 4 BSjVtggj of a third or a half of the rate now paid and in time the lot il mutual companies would gsejsj ami gam streng h to car? ry a larger share of the local risks, e a a There will be no Sumter county ex? hibit at the State Fair this year, neith? er the Chamber of Cominen e nor the Farmern' 1'nlon hu\ ing made a con- i eerted effort early in the season to t sBmSt aiol pr? pare an exhibit that would be truly representative of the resource* of tbe county. When It PC4 San to be talked it was too late to gather un exhibit ai d it was derided, and aiseh. that It Would be better to have no ? xnd.it than B poor one. A note should he made of this now, and plans should ?>?? made early next year SB prepare an exhibit that will show the balanre of the State that Sumter county is m the forefront of the Slav. This in a matter in which the Cham? ber of Commerce aid the Farmers' I nion SBB and should t o-operate for the advertisement of the < ounty. The only exhibit, save th-.se made by In? dividuals, will be the large ami excel IsaB exhibit of the Qtrm' Tomato Chib whi. h has seen seeeered snder the diretfioii of Miss M ,t r \ l.cioliiofi, Rlt-, nil St hied Bepervisor end Director *>r Olrln* t Inbs of Sumter ronntv. K\ny Sumter county man ami woman v\ h ? attends the State r.nr n? x? week should make it I point visit the booth of the Sumter CotMtj On Is' T ?? BggjBB CtalB?they will bs both proud of the work done bv I hi ToBMtO Club girls ami surprised at Its tagtet) and extent. Tot the first year they have done egeee llregtB well and gent v ? ? should b> mut h gjBfl and Better work. . . . T.?m B/nl .n \s--n Hie first rouml in the ofuSfrutlnfl broiighl Bgslnst him t.y ?ne^,o?t..fh, ,,i n.-riHee on Ihe i'half? of tending obscene matter through the mailt und the District Attorney will have to amend the In? dictment before it ran be made to stick. e g ? Gen. Felix Diaz is either a brave and fool-hardy man or an accomplice of Dictator Huerta and not a bona tide Candidate tor the presidency of Mexi OOi otherwise he would not venture to put foot on Mexican soil and place himaelf in the power of Huerta at this time. If he should undertake to pro MC Ute his candidacy with vigor In Opposition to the powers that be his end would probably the same as be 9*11 Madeto. s s s Thi most noticeable exhibit that will be on display in Columbia during fair Week will be, as usual, the olllce seekers .md pnliticions, great and ?mall. They will spend the week in plotting and planning to parcel out the OACCC among the faithful and many slates will be made up that the voters will not hear about until next summer. ess For several years a certain school of medical scientists have been urg? ing everybody to adopt u fruit and raw vegetable diet as the only cer? tain cure for various ills, but now cones a Danish scientist with the as? sertion that cancer is caused by eat? ing Uncooked fruit and vegetables. He claims to have produced cancel experimentally In mice and rats and is positive that he has demonstrated that cancer is a true germ disease, which is intruduced into the body from external sources of infection. I He warns ull who fear cancer and would guard against contracting it to abstahl from all raw foods, especially fruits and Vegetables He seems to have an especial grudge against straw? berries and bananas, but since his clulms are still unproven theories we may venture to indulge in strawberries and cream and an occasional banana when in season. see Chief of Police Holcombe of Greeeville is a rare character. He has asked the city council to reduce his salary from $125 to $100 per month, the grounds for this unprece? dented request being that the salaries paid the other men on the force are not in proportion to his. His salary was recently increased, but no ad? vance was made in the pay of the other policemen. ess A railroad accident, accompanied by the killing of passengers and em? ployees, is almost a daily feature of the press reports. There is something wrong with the management of the railroads, with the equipment or with the t ruin men who are in charge of the trains and to whose care the safe? ty of the passengfTl is entrusted, see County fairs are being held in all parts of the State and the reports in? dicate the attendance has been large at all of them and that, without ex eeptlon. the fairs are proving popu? lar and successful. County fairs oc? cupy a field and (ill a need that noth? ing else can?they are close to the people and interest thousands who never go to the State Fair. The pros? perous agricultural county that Is 1 without an annual county lair is lagging behind in the march of prog? ress and neglecting an opportunity to develop community spirit and to dls? ?emlnate information. * * s The organisation of the tobacco warehouse company and the assur? ance that a large warehouse will be ? ?if ted in tiiire for the opening of the next tobacco season should sim? plify the problem of a county fair for gum tor county. It seems to us that it would be feasible for the coun tv tair association?when organised? to make an arrangement with the to? haees warehouse company for the use oi the ware house ami gru inda for the county fair at a reasonable annual rental, and that such an arrange? ment would prove advantageous to both parties. The comity fair will be hi Id at the time of V< B1 that the ware? house is n< t in UM and it would be as well adapted for an exhibition ball as any building that could la- erected for thai particular purpose. By taking tb?- probable arrangement between the warehouse company ami the fair association into consideration when the war? lmuse company is looking for ,i location it will be possible to obtain .i |cx it ion and gr? It ds of sufficient lac to be aa well suited to the needa ..f tin- fail- as to (he tobacco Ware? house if this piai recommends it? self to the favorable consideration <?' the directors of the tobacco Wale bouse company and to the promoters the county f;i" " will obviate the necessity of a large Inveatmenl in i iinds and buildings lor tin fair and w ill eatable H imter counts to have a fair at a reasonable OOSt. II will also Increase the Income of the tobacco warehouse company by putting the property to use :?t season wh' n it would otherwise be non-productl\ Geniut. Oealui i> t;M, art 0f tukiug Inllnlt nainu Uarlvls Advice tu Farmers. Writing in the last issue of the Progreaaive Fanner, Prof. J. F. Duggar tells t?f two new ways to boost the price of cotton. When one speaks of the farmers striving to secure better prices, it is natural to suppose that they arc planning either to control prices or to use new marketing methods. Prof. Dtlggar'a plan is entirely different from any of these. "We make a mistake when, after1 heavy rains that heat out a part of the cotton, We pick up that soil stained cotton and put it in the same bag with the unstained cotton. It seems to me that the lowering of the value of all the cotton produced by the inclusion of a few pounds of mud-stained cotton reduces the value of the entire hale by an amount that would more than pay for the sepa? rate picking of the mud-stained cot? ton," he says. "My suggestion la that after a storm the pickers he required to pick only the white cotton; then that the Held he gone over again and the! stained cotton on the ground picked ; up, kept separate, and sold in a sepa? rate hale. "True, a hale made up entirely of stained cotton would sell at a lower price than a hale containing only ai few stains, but only one bale in many would thus contain stained cotton. A few pounds of stained OOtton mixed In with the white cot? ton serves to depress the price of the winde; that is, one pound of stained cotton will depress the price of say fifty pounds of white cotton by at least one-fourth of a cent per pound, which I think is a conserve- | tlve estimate. This WOUld represent a loss of about thirteen cents for, the llfty pounds or about $1.30 per bale. Frequently the depreciation will be greater than this: "It will be urged that it is im? practicable to go over the field twice within ji short period. In reply to I this let us remember that the pick? ing up of stained cotton from the ground is a alow operation and re tards the picking of white cotton. I believe almost enough time would be economised by leaving the stain? ed cotton temporarily on the ground to provide the time and labor necessary for returning and picking up the stained cotton separately. "Stains of another class may be even more harmful in depressing the value of the entire product. I al? lude to the stains caused by l'Icking of bolls tHat are not thoroughly sound, having been damaged by boll rot or by weather. The same argu? ments as above could be made for the separate picking of only the well-opened, fluffy cotton, leaving j the damaged or imperfect bolll and j the immature cotton to be gathered In going over the second time. There is no objection to Picking together cotton that is stained by mud an .1 that which |a stained by insect injury, boll rot, etc Both may be gathered at the same picking subsequent to the main picking." Another thing Prof. Duggar sug? gests. |a to plant only one type of ootton, or at b ast not to mix different kinds. He says: "On many farms two or more va? rieties of cotton are grown. In this case, it will pay to keep separate the seed cotton from the two kinds, pro? vided the two make lint of different lengths or Quality. This would not be necessary with varieties hiving about the same length of lint but even in stich cases separate ginning would be desirable, so that pure seed of each could be retained, "Indeed I look for the time to come when farmers will see the advantage of every one in a community growing the same variety Of cotton as mutual? ly agreed upon. In this way all the ? niton produced in the community would be of a standard and definite staple, and hence would sell at a slightly higher juice. If farmers are ever to sell their cotton direct to ?pinners, the best way to bring it about la f<?r each community to grow the same variety, so that they can Ulli an order for large lota of uniform cot? ton." USES DECISION As GUIDE supreme Court Itullug Causes <?o\ ci nor to Pardon Negro llackman. Columbia. <>< t. 23.?Under the Mil? ton Pant, of Anderson, decision by the supreme court Governor Blesse today pardoned Ed Bethea, a negro hackman, of Dillon, who was convict? ed of transporting liquor. The hack - mnn went to the depot to gel llojuor i>.r consignee, II \\ i: VOU HlvXith?Read about the 'wintry winds' story" in Shaw ami McCoIIum'm ad in today's pa? per.? Ad\ t. :,oit HALE?Farm of 343 acres. Pri? vateer township, 2 miles of station Six room dwelling, large bnrns and stable, gin and saw mill plant. Near church ami good school, For fur? ther Information apply J. II Ostfeen, Sumler, It, F. D. Nn, L\ (ft vUUUkUUI Ub UIIMI la UULIWlIki VXLL TREATMENT OF THE BCUPERNONG AND OTHER VARIETIES OF THE RO TUNRIFOLIA GRAPE. CleniHon College South Carolina Press Bulletin Extension Work? Experiment Station No. 12?. ( By F. J . Crider, Associate Professor of Horticulture.) For tliose of us Mho are so for? tunate as to have among the fruits of our home garden the Bcuppernong or any of the varieties of the Rotundi folia grape, it is well to consider at this time the pruning and traning f) the vines. If we put it off until late in the treason when the Labrusca or bunch grape is usually pruned, the vines will be seriously injured by bleeding. The bidding may not be? gin Immediately arter the vines are I cut, but us spring advances there will j be a continuous How of sap until often a vine is so weakened as to greatly de? crease In vigor and in the power of fruit production. I have known vines an inch in diameter cut in the early spring to loose as much as thirty to forty pounds of sap. The knowledge of the fact that varieties of this species of grape are subject to bleed? ing is often the cause of growers al? lowing vines to remain from year to' year without being pruned. This is a great mistake, for there is no doubt i but that the Scuppenrnong and related varieties will respond as well to proper treatment of this kind as will any of our cultivated fruits. If we can produce good fruit without prun? ing, we will be able to produce more and better fruit if our vines are prop? erly trimmed every year. The time to prune is in the fall just after he leaves are off the vines. If done at this time, there will be no injurious' effect, it is safe to prune until the first of December. To prune an old or hearing vine where no special method of training has previously been practiced, the first thing necessary is to remove all dead or injured wood. A sufficient number of the branches are then cut out to, allcw a free circulation of air and to let in plenty of sunlight, both of which are essential for the produc? tion of the best quality of fruit. In addition at least half the number of side canes are removed, the aim being to restrict the naturally rampant growth and cause the friut to be borne nearer the base of the vine. The fruit of the grape is produced on the season's growth. Hence, if we al? low a vine to remain unmolested, the the fruit will each year be borne fur? ther away from the base until in time we have a long naked stem which serves only to convey plant food to the more remote fruit-bearing parts. Such branches as these form the tangled mass often seen on old ar? bors. The common method of treatment of the Seuppernong grape in the home garden is to allow the vine to grow ] at will upon an arbor. Much bet? ter results may be obtained, howevr, by constructing a wire trellis and fol-; lowing a systematic method of train? ing. The trellis has advantages over the arbor, in that it is more cheaply and easily constructed; will last long-' er; and facilitates the operations of Cultivation, pruning and gathering.' Also a larger yield and better quality of fruit can be secured. A trellis may be constructed by securely fastening four number twelve wires eighteen inches apart to solid, well-braced posts. The posts are placed thirty feet apart in the row with a distance of fifteen feet between the rows. A vine set half way bc tpace on each side, tween the posts will have a fifteen-foot One of the most successful meth? ods of training by the trellis system is to cut back the vine to about eight or ten inches of the ground imme? diately after planting. From three to live shoots are allowed to grow dur? ing the summer, all others being re? moved by hand as they begin to form. If all the buds were allowed to form canes they would be much less vigor? ous than if only a definite number be preserved. The canes are tied to six foot stakes during the growing sea? son and the following fall the trellis is constructed. The only training nec? essary tit this time is to sperad the canes on the wires to a fan shape and to tie them securely. The taller branches are carried to the top wire, while the shorter ones go to fill up the lower wires. Very little pruning is necessary. Tin* branchei thus ar? ranged constitute tho permanent framework of the vine and should be kept as marly as possible an equal distance from cat h other-. Subse? quent training consists in thinning out On- side canes that develop each year during the summer so as to leave them spaced from eight to ten Inches apart, PXp? in j all parts of the vine to a ami s inshine. They are cut even with tin- old vine, rather than spurred, as the spurs have a tendency to Induce a Ihlck" growth which must never be allowed, This treatment should be given regularly pvcr> rail, und when an old branch becomes weakened or Injured In any way, it should be removed and a new cane trained to take its place. Those of us who do not know the j merits of this very important fruit of our State, should place ar order at once with a reliable nurseryman to secure some of the good varieties. The time of planting is almost here, for the same rule of pruning in the fall applies also to the sett.ng of the vines to the vineyard. While the Scup-i pemong is considered the best variety, j there are varieties of the dark colored; sort that are equal to it In quality and' fruit production?among the leading, being Lasalle, Meisch and James,! mentioned in the order of their ripen? ing period. There is also the Flowers variety, which is rather poor in quality, but has the distinct advan? tage of ripening late and hanging on the vine after all other varieties have shed their fruit. WAREHOUSE COMPANY DIREC? TORS. Hoard Elected ami Meeting to is? Held Friday Noon to Choose Olli, com. A number of the stockholders of' the Sumter Tobacco Warehouse com? pany assembled at the Chamber of Commerce quarters pursuant to the1 call of the board of corporators for the purpose of affecting a permanent organization and the transaction of' and other business which might be brought up incidental to the establish? ment of the warehouse. President I). 1). Moise, of the Cham ber of Commerce was elected chair? man of the meeting, and E. I. Rear don served as secretary. It was decided to elect nine of the stockholders as a board of directors, six to be elected by the meeting who j we're authorized to select three more directors as they thought best. It appeared to be the sentiment of those present that it would be best to select three farmers to serve on the board, if three representatives >f the agricultural element can be interest? ed in the organization. The six directors elected last even? ing are Messrs. G. A. Lemmon, J. H. Chandler, W. G. Moses, H. J. Harby, C. G. Rowland, D. R. McCallum. These six directors were authorized to elect a president, vice-president, or vice-presidents, as they see fit, a sec? retary, and a treasurer. The board of directors elected last night was au? thorized to perform all acts necessary! to the establishment of the warehouse. October 1st of each year was decid-j ed upon as the date for the annual meeting of the stockholders of the j corporation. The six directors elected will hold B meeting tomorrow, Friday, October j 24th at 12 o'clock, noon, at the office i of the secretary of the Chamber of j Commerce to elect officers, of they see fit to do so at that time, and to! perform any other duties with which J they are charged and empowered. Thus it is seen that the tobacco warehouse company has been formal? ly and legally launched. There is no doubt whatever that this warehouse will be erected and properly managed. The board of di? rectors selected last evening assures this, as they are among Sumter's most successful, public spirited and tl'Uated business men. To President D. D. Moise, of the Chamber of Commerce, who was the prime mover and hardest worker In the movement, together with the other officers and directors of the commercial organization, and the business men of Sumter, who sub? scribed to the capital stock, much credit and many thanks are due. The tobacco warehouse means the re-establlshment of the large tobacco market which Sumter enjoyed years ago. It means a great deal to the merchants, banks, and other busi? ness establishments of Sumter, and much to the farmers of Sumter coun? ty, who do their trading In Sumter. The accomplishment of this endeav? or la due to the Influence of organiz? ed efforts through the commercial organisation to a very large extent. The Chamber of Commerce can, as an organised body, accomplish much that unorganized efforts can not do. The committee of business men that solicited the stock for the ware? house deserve much credit for their successful efforts. The Committee was composed of Messrs. J. H. Chand? ler, W. B. Upshur, A. J. Moses, Perry Moses, Jr., Q. A. Lemmon and W. B. Boyle. Tin: <;lohy of THE JEW. Strong and Beautiful Tribute to the Pet ullar People. None t an blame the Jewish people for the resentment they feel at the many indignities heaped upon them, and the civilized world, it. Indeed, it were hut ball civilized, might well shudder at the persecutions of this unhappy race. Ii < ;?'> ,M> understood, v ei y well wh> the noble < >rder of B'nal \ B'rlth, which has done so much In the cause ot humanity, should have deter? mine.I upon the organisation of a league to protect these people from defamation, and all men .ho have the ,,t God in their hearts will syinpa-! th'uc with whatever dignilied effort may ho made in this direction. But, after all, it is the Jew of history and prophecy and achievement that counts and not the Jew of the comic paper and a decadent stage, the Jew who has filled the earth with wisdom, the Jen of religion and literature and sci? ence and finance and philanthropy and art and culture and government and heroes, that counts in any honest appraisement of what he is and what he ha? accomplished. He stands alone among men of endurance under suf? fering and sacrifice for persecutions that have bloodied all pages of history for loyalty to his faith when languish? ing in dungeon, broken on the rack, tortured by tire, cut asunder with the sword, dying in agony on the scaffold. This is the Jew, and not the cheap and repulsive creature of caricature and unthinking passion that counts in the judgment of the discriminating world. In his 'History of the Jews" Prof. H. Graetz says, "The Jewish race during its dispersicn of nearly 2,000 years may be fitly compared to a polyp. Though it was often wounded and cut to pieces, the parts severed from the whole did not die, but began an independent existence, developed organically and formed a new root stock. Driven from their original Palestinian home, the scattered mem? bers of this peculiar national organism assembled on the banks of the Eu- ? phrates and Tigris and in the palm district of Arabia. Doomed to ruin there, they emigrated to Spain with the Arabs, the most cultured people of the Middle Ages, and became the teachers of Europe, then plunged in barbai iasm. Expelled thence, weaken? ed in heart and numbers, they pro? ceeded eastwards ?ind, again they found no resting p. ace, they settled in the north always following advanc? ing civilization, and with every burn? ing pile set ablaze for convicted or "suspected persons, ' their numbers have increased and thei;* glory has filled the earth. There are unworthy men among them, thousand of them, but they do not represent the race? the only real aristocratic race among the sons of men. Their family tree was rooted "in the beginning." The promise was made to Abraham by the Almighty. "I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant be? tween me and thee and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant unto thee and to thy seed after thee and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him." In reliance upon this promise and upon the assurance of the royal Psalmist David that "the truth of the Lord undureth forever," the Jews have rested their case, hop ng in the mercy of God. They do not agree with their Chris? tian neighbors; they have rejected the Christ of the Christians, but they look for a Messiah yet to come and they have suffered for their belief even un? to death. They have, however, taught the sublimity of living and dying for what they believed to be right and they have set an example to all tho world of patience under suffering. Some of their neighbors think that they have either gone too far in adapt? ing themselves to the so-called* "ad? vanced thought of the age," or not far enough; that they have sacrificed some of their own commandments and laws and customs without advantage to their system of religion, but through all the changes of time and place and condition they have main? tained the purity of their race and worked for the good of humanity. In all the realms of thought and ser? vice they have held place and achiev? ed large results and made great con? tributions to the sum of human hap? piness. With his record in the humanities what does it mtater to the B'nai B'r.th whether or not the Jew is defamed by the vulgar and misjudged by the righteous? Let him be judged rather, by what he has done.?J. C. Hemphill. in Philadelphia Ledger. POLK MILLER IS 1>EAI>. Well Known for Stories ami Banjo Playing. Richmond, Vs., Oct. 20.?Polk Mil? ler, a Richmond business man, known throughout the South for his planta? tion stories of war times and his per? formances on the banjo at many Con? federate reunions, died suddenly at his home here tonight He was 69 years old. Not Yet. Lippincott'e The Southern darky's love of put? ting off until next spring or later what should be done on the sopt is as well known as it is vexatious. Ost day Major Jackson, a contractor In a Georgia quarry, told Zeb, the gen? eral utility man, to go to the black? smith shop across the road and bring back a drill that was to be sharpen? ed. About half tin hour later the Major saw Zeh e< nie poking around the corner of the othee. "Here," he shouted, "where have you been?" "I ain't been, boss," responded Zeb cheerfully, "l's gwine."