The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 05, 1913, Image 2

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FRAN IHN iftECXSHMDCB fliuslr ettoa w% by O. Irwin My er? "If 1 can c Bud out froia ita fruits. I don't want to know." "Of course But consider how Miss Grace's labors are blessing the help "Abbott, unless the fruits of relig? ion are flavored by lore, they're no more account than apples taken with bitter-rot-?not worth fifty cents a barrel.'* Abbott aaked slyly, "What about your fruit, out there In the world?** "Oh," Fran confessed, with a gleam, "we're net In the orchard-business at all, out here." Abbott laid his hand earnestly upon her arm. "Fran! Come in and help us spray." "Yon dear old prosy, preachy pro? fessor!" she exclaimed affectionately, "I bare been thinking of it I've ha ' a mind to try, really. Wouldn't Grace Nolr jus- die* . . . O Lord, there she comes now!" Fran left the disconsolate young man In wild precipitation, and flew Into the house. He turned oft in an? other direction, and Gregory and Grace came slowly toward the house, having, without much difficulty, eliminated Simon Jefferson from their company. In truth, Simon, rather than be Im- I proved by their conversation, had dived down a back alley, and found entrance through the side door. When Hamilton Gregory and his secretary came Into the reception hall, the old bachelor lay upon a divan thinking of} his weak heart?Fran's flight from the choir loft had reminded him of it? and Mrs. Jefferson waa fecclng him, aa If he were never tc bo a grown man. Mrs. Gregory sat near the group, silently embroidering In white silk. Fran bad hastily thrown herself upon the stairway, and, with half closed eyes, looked as if she had been there a long time. "Fran," said Mrs. Gregory coldly, "you left the choir practice before we were two-thirds done. Of course I could hardly expect you"?he looked at his wife?"to stay, although your presence would certainly iave kept Fran there; and it does look as if we should be willing to resort to any expedient to keep her there!" "How would a lock and chain do?" Fran lmiulred meekly. "I don't think she camo straight home, either," remarked Grace Nolr slgnifcsntly. "Did you, Fran?" "atlas Nolr." said Fran, willing at her through the banister-ilats, "you are so satisfactory; you always say Just about what I expect Tes, I came ?freight home. I'm glad it's your busi? ness, so you could ask." Hamilton Gregory turned to his wife again, with restraint more marked. "Next Sunday Is roll-call day, Mrs, Gregory The board has decided to revise the lists. We've been carry? ing so many nsmes that It's a burden to the church. The world reproaches us, saying, 'Isn't So-and-so a member? He never attends, does he?' I do Lope you will go nexi Sunday!" Mrs. Gregory looked down at her work thoughtfully, then said, "Mother would be left?" "It's just this way," h.-r husband In? terposed abruptly: "If no excuses, such aa sickness, are sent, and If the people haven't been coming for months, and don't Intend coming, we are simply determined to drop the nsmes?strike 'em out. We hellere church members should show where they stand. And? ind If you?" Mrs. Oregotry looked up quietly. Her voice seemed woven of the silk thrssds she was stitching in the white pattern. "If I am not a member of .he church, sitting an hour In the building couldn't make me one." Simon Jefferson cried out. "Is that ay sister Lucy? Blessed If I thought 4he had so much spirit!" "Do you call that spirit?" returned ?Gregory, with displeasure. "WelK" snorted 81mon, "what do rou call it. then?" "Perhaps," responded Gregory, with marked disapprobation, "perhaps It was spirit." Orace, still attired for tho street, looked down upon firs. Gregory as If turned to atoue. Her beautiful face expressed something like a horror at the other's Irreverence. Fran ahook back her hair, and watched with gloaming eyea from be bind the slats, not unlike a small wild creature peering from Ita cage. "Oh." cried Fran, ''Miss Nolr feels bo bad!" Grace swept from the hall, her rounded figure Instinct with the suffer logs of a martyr. Fran murmured, "That killed her!" "And you!" cried Gregory, turning suddenly In blind anger upon the other -"you dou't care whose heart you break " I haven't any power over bearta," retorted Fr.m. gripping her fingers till her band* were little white balls. "Oh, if I only had! I'd get at 'em If 1 OOuld - likn this . ." Sh*? |e ?p"d to her feot. "Am I alwaya to be defied by you?" he exclaimed; "la ther? to be no end to it? Rut suppose 1 put an end to Ik uiye?lf?t?U you that Uile la no place for you?" "You shall never lay that!" Mrs. Gregory spoke up, distinctly, but not In bis loud tones. She dropped her work in some agitation, nnd drew Fran to her heart. "i have a friond here, Hamilton?one friend?and nhe most atay." "Don't be uneasy, dear one," Fran looked up lovingly into the frightened face. "He won't tell me to go. Ho won't put an end to it He won't tell rae anything!" "Listen to me, Lucy," said Gregory, his tone altering, "yes, she must stay ?that's settled?she must stay. Of course. But you?why will you refuse what I ask, when for years you were one of the most faithful attendants at the Walnut Street church? I am asking you to go next Sunday because ?well, you know how people Judge by appearances. I'm not asking it for my sake?of course I know your real character?but go for Miss Grace's sake?go to show her where you stand." "How is it about church attendance, anyway?" asked Fran, with the air of one who seeks after knowledge. "I thought you went to church for the Lord's sake, and not for Miss Noir'a." "I have given you my answer, Mr. Gregory," said his wife faintly, "but 1 am sorry that it should make me seem obstinate?" He uttered a groan, and left the hall In despair. His gesture said that he must give it up. Mrs. Gregory folded her work, her face pale and drawn, her lipa tremu? lous. She looked at Fran and tried to ?mile. "We must go to reit now," she said?"if we can." (to BE continue:;.) Third Week Jurors. The following jurors have been drawn for the third week of court which is now in session: W. W. James, T H. Siddall, A. F. Smith, H. J. M< l^aurin, Jr. S. D. Hudson, B. Handle, J. F. Baker, S. J. Bradford. o. D. Dawkins. O. C. Locklear, W. H. Ramsey, W. W. Rees, J. P. Tisdale, Geo. D. Betts, W. R Prescott, J. H. Ryan, W. H. Jennings, Jr., O. A. Lemmon, T. J. Baker, J. ft Moore, Xeill O'Donnell, ? R. F. Keels, W W. McKagen, B. C. White, H. A. Moses, H. L. Boykin, E. Strickland, Q. W. Hutcheson, N. A. Spann, R. C. Burress, B. M. Fort, J. M. liarby, E. D. Rogers, R. M. Brown, C J. UaillarJ, J. W, Evans. Furniers' I'nlon Xothv. Hog* L. M. Rhodes, Chairman of the Board of directors of the National Farmern' l'nion and President of the Tennessee Statt- Union, will he In Sum tSf next Thursday night, the 6th, on !us way from t ?rangeburg to Bishop vllle. \NV will have a meeting at 7.20 in the court house in Sumter, open to the public, ami invite all the farm? ers who can OOtnS in to it, and the business man of Bu inter, to give them an Opportunity to BSt the need of or? ganization and co-operation. J. Frank Williams, County President. E. w. Dahns, state President. SCHEDULES Southern Railway?Premier Carrier of The South. n. B.?Schedule figures publisher as Information only and are not guar unteed. Effective Nov. 2, 191 I, Departure from Sumter: t Except Sunday): No. 140?C.20 A. at for Columbia Charleston and way stations. No. 141 -I IS P. St., for Columbia, Charleston and way stations. Arrival: (Bwspl Sunday.): No. 141 ? 10.20 A. M. from ChSr lesion, Columbia and way statlous. No. 142?6.4 5 P. M. from Charles ton. Columbia and way stations. W. II. Caffey. D. P A. Charleston W. E. McOee. A. Q. P. A. Columbia, S. C. Mr g, a. Hnrvln having decided to serve aa a member of the board of dir* lot ? of I ha Tobacco Warehouse Company, the bonrd of nine members u . on,].let,, ami ready for bUSP i ? nnd it will get busy right sway. Before we'd bs ins morgnnntl wife of aome foreign guy we'd ratltci form ,i matrlmonln! alliance with w 'rue p, no \m< rlcan a I man W?l mlngtot Star, RURAL RACE SEGREGATION. New Law Proposed by the Progres? sive Farmer Exciting Widespread Interest Throughout the South ? What It Is. To the Editor: Will you be kind enough to give me space?since the idea is so new, since it has excited so much interest, and since so many people are ignorant of my exact pur? pose by the policy of race segrega? tion I have been advocating for the rural South? But to begin with, let me say a word as to the Imperative need for some such remedy as I have been urging. I know when I began this ag? itation that thousands and thousands of white farmers in all parts of the South were being forced from their homes for social reasons by the growing number of negroes around them (as my own father was), but I did not then know how wide-spread are the evils resulting from our pres? ent indiscriminate sandwiching ^f white and negro farmers. Situation Demands Remedy. The hundreds of earnest messages from farmers and even more earnest messages from farmers' wives ami daughters, have opened my eyes. A white farmer may have bought land in what he expected to remain forev? er a white community, may have built a good home with this expecta? tion, ordering his whole life accord? ingly. And yet some non-resident owning land adjoining him may put any kind of negroes on it, terrorizing j the farmer's wife and daughters, de-J stroying the social life of the commu-j nity, depreciating the value of the farmer's land, and ilnally forcing him to move for social reasons?leaving the negroes to gobble up the farm for | half its real worth. This is not a fancy picture but a literal report of what is actually hap? pening all over the cotton belt. Al? most every section of the south feels j the blighting effect of such condl-i tions. Worthy settlers refuse to come, and farmers already in a com? munity hesitate to build worthy coun? try homes, because they have no as? surance that they or their children will not be forced to leave the place in order to find plenty of white neigh? bors. A Simple Law Advocated. If we are to save the rural south to 1 ?.he white race, wo must find some; remedy, and 1 have become convinced i that an aroused public sentiment Is not enough. We must have a statute which will enable any white commu? nity that wishes to do so to take steps to insure its remaining white? a statute framed not in a spirit of injustice and persecution to the ne? gro, but In a spirit of justice and pro? tection to the white man. Briefly, 1 propose a simple law which will say that wherever the greater part of the land acreage in any given district that may be laid of the voters in such a district may say (if they wish) that in future no land shall be sold to a person of a different race. Provided such ac? tion is approved or allowed (as b'.ing justified by consideration of the peace protection, and social life of the community,) by a reviewing judge or board of county commis? sioners. I It may be argued, I know, that such a law is unjust because with the government of the south as it is, it could he utilized by white people to keep their comn unities white, but the negroes would rarely or never be able to use it to make a commun? ity wholly negro. All of which I ad? mit and yet 1 believe it is just. Not Unjust to the Negro. I believe it is Just because the white man needs the social protec? tion of such a law and the negro doesn't. If a majority of his neigh? bors are white, the negro doesn't care. His land is made more valua? ble by the predominance of neighbors Of a different race; the chances of selling it for ita worth are better; his family arc not uneasy or unsafe; they don't mind running off day or [ night to see neighbors or kinfolic miles away; and his money making facilities are better. But with the white man surrounded by negro neighbors exactly the contrary condi? tions exist. So 1 am confident such a law as I propose would be Just, and eminent lawyers hfc/e assured me it would be constitutional. As for Its practicability! that is ap 1 parent on its face. It is not a radi ! cal measure. It would not be forced on any community thai doesn't want it. Bui Wherever any white commun? ity that does wish to keep Itself white and doea want the protection , of auch a law aa I propose i believe it should have that privilege. 1 shall be glad to Send further in? formation to any Interested reader who agrees With nie.?Clarence Poe, Ualelgh, N. c Our idea of enjoying ourself is to M.t back and laugh Bt the way they tumble over each other when Prof. W ilson points out the solution of the problem thai has had every one of I hem guessing just guessing. ? Wil ( mlngton star. FORAGE CHOPS AND MEAT PRO? DUCTION. CleniHon College Extension Work? South Carolina Experiment Station ?Press Bulletin No. 125. (By R. L. Shields, Prof, of Animal Husbandry.) The eost of all kinds of meat tl in? creasing from year to year. The I chief reason for this is that meat pro l duction is not keeping pace with the ! demand,?from an increuse in popu ; lation,?in fact, the beef supply in this country is less than a year ago. The South consumes a great deal of meat?and this same section produces a mighty small per cent of the ' amount it consumes, relying on ex i pensive products shipped In from the North and West. If all our farmers would raise! .enough hogs, etc., to supply their! own meat, it would insure a more prosperous condition throughout the South, since thousands of dollars j leave each county of the South an-1 i nually for these products that can J be produced so readily at home. The greatest economy in meat pro? duction is obtained through the use ' of suitable grazing crops as a sup-1 | plement to grain feeding. No one should attempt to raise live I j stock without first carefully plan , nlng for the necessary forage crops. I It is possible to have grazing crops throughout the year. The following crops ere recom? mended for hog grazing. Time for seeding, amount to sow per acre, grazing period, etc. .under average conditions, are also given: Rape?Sow in late summer or early spring. Amount, three pounds drill? ed, six pounds broadcast per acre; time for crop to develop for grazing, eight to ten weeks; length of graz? ing period, three months. Cowpeas?Sow from middle of April to middle of July. One-half bushel drilled, one bushel broadcast; time for development for grazing, two or three months; grazing period, six weeks. Soy beans?Sow from May first to middle of July; amount same as forj j cowpeas; should be planted with drill; j time for development, two or three j months; grazing period, four weeks. live?Sow September first to last of November. One and one-half hush els drilled; time for development, two to four months. Will furnish grazing two to three months. i Corn and Peas?Plant May and Jnrte. Amount of corn, four quarts, peas one-half bushel drilled; time for development four months; grazing period, all fall. Crimson Clover?Sow September? November. Twelve to fifteen pounds broadcast; time to develop, three months; grazing period six to eight ; weeks. 3ur Clover?Practically the same as for crimson clover. Clovers and vetches should be in-1 oculated. Inoculate vetch with vetch] or English pea soil; inoculate bur clover with bur clover soil, if sown in the bur inoculation la not neces? sary; inoculate crimson clover with crimson clover soil or red clover soil. In each case, use 500 pounds per acre of inoculated soil and harrow in im? mediately. Oats?Sow September 1st to middle of December. Two to two and one half bushels, drill or broadcast; time , for development, six to twelve weeks; grazing period, eight to twelve weeks. Vetch?sow with outs or rye; fifteen I to twenty pounds. Sorghum ? Sow middle of April to middle of July. Four to eight quarts drilled; time for development, six to eight weeks; grazing period, four to six weeks. Peanuts?Plant May and June. One bushel drilled; time for development, ninety to one hundred and twenty days; grazing period, all fall. Chufas?Plant May and June. Four I to eight quarts drilled; time for de . velopment, four months; grazing pe? riod, all fall and part of winter. Sow Outs. j The sowing of oats should receive j attention this month. The crop re j port! forecast high-priced corn and . oats next summer. The Southern , farmer can and should hedge against J the high prices that now seem bound I to come. Prepare the land well. Se ? curs the best seed oats obtainable, use a good commercial fertilizer, if j necessary, at tho rate of 400 or D00 pounds per acre and plant anywhere from two to live acres per horse. It la a cheap crop and should be grown more largely all over the South. Put , them In during September wherever i it Is possible to do so. Where corn , Is cut off the land can be prepared i and the oats put in immediately after , the corn la shocked. They can also be put In cotton with the open fur i row method?about three rows of oats in each cotton middle. A good j acreage In oats, well prepared, well fertilized and sowed at the rate ol two and one-half bush, is per acre, will save the farmers of the South many thousands of dollars next year. T B. Tarkcr, in The Progressive Farm sr. ? SECRETARY or AGRICULTURE. Dr. Houston Called Lite Best Man Who Ever Held tlie Place. Boston Herald. j In common with most of the news- j papers, the Herald has had occasion! to criticise Mr. Bryan's conduct of the State department, and occasionally that of other members of the cabinet. It is with peculiar pleasure, therefore, that we can say of David F. Houston, the present Secretary of Agriculture, that he le, in the opinion of those who know, the best man ever ass.gned to that place since it became a cabinet office. The executive committeemen of the Association of Colleges and Experi? mental Stations, having the welfare of scientific agriculture at heart, re? cently had occasion to confer with the new Secretary, and on their return to the hotel, in the words of one of them, "we pinched ourselves to see if we were walking on earth," so queer was the sensation of dealing with a Secretary of Agriculture who had a definite and intelligent policy, whose aims were scientific, and whose grasp of the situation was comprehensive. Secretary Houston is establihing many great reforms. He has decided to have the department attempt noth? ing which die experiment stations and other State agencies can do to better advantage. This will cut out an enor? mous duplication of effort. The so called "extension work," like the teaching of farmers by practical dem sontrations, will be turned over to those agencies, local and commercial, which are ready to do it on the ground. The new Secretary has no desire to cover the earth, regardless of what other agencies are. doing, merely for the sake of inflating the pay toll or of aggrandizing the Feder? al department. Dr. Houstor.. has also reorganized the publishing system of the depart? ment, establishing a national journal of agricultural science, which will be made the vehicle of acquainting the world with the discoveries of his ex? perimenters. He has called to its ed? itorial service some of the ablest ex- i perts in the country. He is cutting | out certain sensational endeavors, or- \ iginally designed for popularizing the' department, but having no place in a| government-maintained institution. The right man is in the right place. Dr. Houston's training has been most admirable. At the head of agricul? tural experiment statiefns, his meritor? ious work led to his selection for the presidency of Washington University at St. Louis, of which Winfield S. Chaplin, formerly of Harvard, was at an earlier period the head. And from that post Dr. Houston was last spring transferred to Washington. The de? partment is a great scientific work? shop?the largest in the world. It needed just such a man, and the presi? dent is to be given credit of finding him. And incidentally Houston saved us from Obadiah Gardner. What Crop Rotations Will Do And What They Cannot Do. Crop rotation alone will not main? tain soli fertility, if any of the usual farm products are sold from the farm. Crop rotations?correct ones?will maintain or increase the nitrogen, but if any products, except such as but? ter or cream, are sold, the supply of , phosphoric acid, potash, and lime will be reduced. In fact, the supply of these substances, especially the lime, will be decreased to a certain extent by leaching and washing, even though nothing be sold from the farm. But these facts form no argument against rotation. They show why we should not depend on crop rotation alone, but crop rotations are the ba? sis of good farming and too much im? portance cannot be attached to them in relation to maintaining and in? creasing soil fertility. It is probably true that some farm? ers have erroneously thought that crop rotation alone would build up their farms and permanently main? tain soil fertility; but that is no rea? son for creating the impression that crop rotations are not essential to the best agricultural practice. The South has not suffered from placing too nun h faith in crop rota? tions, nor have we suffered from prac? ticing crop rotatons; hut we have suffered immeasurably from our fail? ure to follow intelligent crop rota tions. When there is an abundance Of lime and Phosphoric acid In the soli, a suitable crop rotation may greatly increase crop production by adding nitrogen and humus-forming1 materials. Imbed, this result may continue for many years, bui sooner or later the supply of phosphoric ado and lime will be depleted if the usual farm products are sold, unless these elements are purchased or added to the land in soon form. The phosphoric a< Id mas lw pur? chased In grains for reeding, or in the form of ground phosphate io<k. or as acid phosphate; but in some way phosphoric acid and lime will have to be applied to the sod to either main? tain or increase the supply. But as stated, the is i o argument against , rop rotations, the Inch of which is probubl) the greatest defect In South* win agrUulturs The Progressive Farmer will continue to urge that available crop rotations be practiced, but we never have stated or thought that these alone would maintain soil fertility. We cannot, however, inaist too strongly on crop rotations, which will gather nitrogen fro.n the air and which when plowed under, or fed and the manure returned to the land, will maintain or increase the niu^gen and humus supply in our soils. Even if the same plant foods are sold from the farm a crop rotation is better than ii one-crop system, because a rotation of crops decreases injury from .nsects, tends to lessen weeds, makes it possible to draw plant foods from larger soil areas and means di? versification, which is the bes: insur? ance against the loss which comes from putting all our eggs in one basket.?Tait Butler, in the Pro? gressive Farmer. A Uniform Torr ens System. Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Times-Dispatch is pleased to note that both the West Point News and the Roanoke World Join it in ad? vocacy for Virginia of the Torrens sys? tem of registration and guaranty of land title. The latter contemporary very well defines the system as one the purpose of which is "to establish a title to a tract of land or a city lot, and have the State guarantee it. Under it a man selling land would have nothing to do but hand over his title deeds, perhaps with an indorsement; or, wishing to borrow money on land, would merely deposit his deeds as se? curity. He would not be required to execute a mortgage, and the deTay and expense of searching titles would be avoided." There is a larger phase of this ques? tion which is entitled to careful con? sideration, and is embodied in the re? port of the committee on the TorrAss system to the Conference of Commis? sioners on Uniform State Laws at Montreal last August, ol which com mitee Eugene C. Massie of Richmond was chairman. It is plain that the tide of the Torrens system is rapidly rising, and, so that uniformity may be attained early rather than after it has acquired volume, the committee referred to above submitted to the conference a tentative draft of uni? form Torrens system law for adoption by the several States. Ten States have already adopted the system, but their statutes are not uniform, and the committee is of the opinion that "the promulgation of a model Torrens act for adoption by other States, in whlcV. some legislation will soon be paese will prevent further divergencies aru. be the easiest way to insvie that un> formity which is the ideal of this o ganization." Further, "if it be objected that lar.d titles are matters of local interest only and not of interstate concern, and should, therefore, be left by this conference for settlement wholly by local Jurisdictions in any manner that may seem desirable to them without regard to uaiformlty, it is replled-that one of the effects of registration will be to confer upon lands a new com? mercial quality by giving to them commercial mobility, by enabling owners to deal with their lands quickly, cheaply and safely, and by Placing registered certificates of title, as far as possible, upon an equality with registered stocks and bonds, making them marketable and readily available in all business transactions, both as collateral for loans as well as for direct sales." Residents in one State are often landowners in other States, or are interested in loans se? cured on lands in other States. Ae the Torrens system becomes better known and more generally establish? ed, certificates of title will freely pass from State to State, so that the bank? able capital of the country may be greatly increased. Certainly, if it is desirable to have a uniform stock transfer act, it is equally so with a uniform Torrens act. 7 The Wide World Magazine. Among the articles of educational value in the November Wide Wrorld Magazine may be mentioned "The Ice-Harvest of Norway." "Through the Land of Witchcraft," "Our Trip to the Cedars of Lebanon, ? "Across the Congo" and "A Wa:.derer in Sicily." All these profusely illustrat? ed articles contain facts well worth the atentlon of young people who are anxious to increase their knowledge. Of the stones from real life," which are really far str inger and more ex vitinf; than any fiction. mention might be made of "Tho> Crusader's Ghost." "Twenty Dreadful Days." "How We Saved the Team." "The Hunted Hunters." "Stopping a Runa? way Engine," 'The 'Hfiast affan.' " and a highly d.verting account of "Shool Tsnchlng In the West.' The illustrations?mostly from .photo? graphs? are unusual and excellently reproduced. The novelist who has it that the heroine "entere*! the parlor wearing u furtive look" haves us to infer whether she was wearing anything else or not?that is to amount to any? time -?Wilmington star