The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 29, 1914, Image 4
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M MIU U Of SILOS (.ROWING.
Large Pcreviitugv Increase lit State
During ThLs Year.
Clemson College. April 23.?The
number of sttOfl tonstructed In South
Carolina during the present fiscal
year with the aid of the co-operative
dairy forces of Clemson college and
the Department of Agriculture has'
OJJSjBeded the number I onstnu ted in
any previous year by 66 per cent., it
has been announced by It. II. Mason,
dairyman of the Federal bureau in
co-operation with the college. One
third of these silos were built of
concrete, the rest of staves. In?
quiries nbout silos continue to come
to Prof. Mason and It is likely that
the present fine record will be even
bettered before the fiscal year is
ended.
?Silage." said Prof. Mason, "is tho
cheapest and best rough feed fci cat?
tle either in summer or in winter
I
We are making good progress in this
Stute, but much Is to be done, South
Una has approximately 200 silos,
cent census shows Wisconsn to
? more than 46.000."
A|H*tinu<nt station Dwelling.
?rk will soon begin on tho con-'
tb?n of u two-story dwelling on
It . I >- ?> 11 BSS i m.. nt Station at
im e. Prof K F. Lee. of Clem
'ollege. hau completed the plans
he house and tho const ru< tlon
S be in process at an early dati
Currln. superintendent of the
n. has been living In a rented,
In Fioi,.n< ?- up to this timo. '
Iwelling to tie built for his use
m comfortable and modern Inj
?spects. The Pee |>ae Station
?grossing well and some import
is to bo dorn- on It this
Senator Hoot's Attack.
nore Sun.
Fom' spoke magnificently. It was,
a dramatic occasion Americans lay
dead and d\lng at V<ra Cruz. A
greut silent audlenee filled the sen- 1
st? chamber. Telegraph instruments J1
clicked each staccato word to a tense
Is listening world Foot's steel-rib?
bed mind e orkad urn rringly. There
was no excess of stall sie?!, ae error
ol Hto. Hut tin .shafts wer,, shot,
barbed and poisoned, to their murk.
The friendly chan* clh i a - across th"
Atlintie went u bit pale, the hostile
ones leered and wink. d. Huortli
?topped his billiard game and opened
another bottle of vintage wine. The
waning part Nanism at home showed
signs of revival.
Hut. of Senator Foot, it was not1
the call of patriotism' All the arts of
eloquence were Invoked, all L.c re?
sources of your wonderful mind
drawn upon. The day after I he thing
that stands boldlx out is. that you.
sir. are n great lawyer, but ;i lawyer
always. For the moment you I <n
make black white and white black,
the right wrong, and wrong right.
Hut after pesj have in th" ? ompletest
way "made the worse appear the hot?
ter reason." the common mind takes
alarm at the subtleties of \otir losjto,
at the \cr\ Snnntnsj of your Intelle -
taal processes. And the thought that
abldaa la that a' you had but given
that splendid mind to your count, y
rather than to 1/0*11 p'ity to the com?
mon cause of n ankind rather tha i
to t ie eh r. ho* in ch higher your
nam ? would ha\e been written la
statesmanship.
iiMwoeu Mm 'wo leaderehlps en>
li?ht< not Americanism will n"VCf
hemtate it K. -? its support to t
great president striving to see tho
r*ght and bringing to the disrhai
i( his dutbs a coolness, pi tienee and
singleness of purpose almost un?
matched In th? history of our coun?
try
F .calls ?|?rlns> I* Wide open.
Ab white sc ioo|>? ( inn, Ih m. lodges
and neighbor!.Is are Invited la
make free use of the picnn grounds
and dance hall. Halbing, boating and
tishln? are tin**. INsHISS served . he I.
en or fish dinner by special arrange
ments. M II Heck ?Advt.
lli;\UY WATTEltsox on i an al
TOLLS QOBtnON.
As Our or Tin? "Old Guard of Irish
Ainorh ans" He Protests Against
Pulse Cry.
(Henry Wnttereona In tho Louisville
Take tin- tolls question. The act of
SXemptlOfl was a subsidy, pure and
siiui 'a It was tribute to a monopoly*
Treaties apart, would a 1 >c mocraf in
OOngrSSS hnVl dared dircetly to vote
The cry of "TriK kling to England"
is a Dim with the cry of "Bullying
Ulater,M Which tho Tories in England
are hurling at the Home liulers be
I
rause they propose to have Clster
obey the law of the land like the rest
of Ireland. it is as if, in paying a
dt bt, one should be charged with
"Ii in kling" 10 his creditor. It is too
senseless to fool a human being who
does not want to be fooled. That at
the moment when the Liberal British
government is trying to do justice to
Ireland it should bo raised by the
Irish in America?thus making them*
Selves a part of the alliance of tho
Tories and the Orangemen in Ulster
against their own Home Rule friends
and comrades?raises the old spectre
of "disunited, therefore blighted,"
which for ZOO years enslaved the
bravest and sweetest of God's crea?
tures. On that side it is positively
pitiful
But it has another side. Coming
I
into world politics as a world power, i
shal' any foreign-born segment of the
people undertake to predetermine
wha* we may or many not do? I am
the oldest if not the last survivor of
what was the Old Guard of Irish
Americans. I grew up under the spell
of the "48" men fced by Mitchell and
Meagher, with whom my relations
were intimate and affectionate. I was
with Pnrnell through the great Home
Bule light of 1886. If I have ever
been a fanatic, It was upon the ques?
tion of Justice to Ireland. But, before
all else, I am an American, and must
not allow my Irish sympathies to
color my sense of patriotic duty. 1
resent the intrusion of racial lines into;
our foreign policies and relations; but
in a matter Hko the tolls question, the
attempt to protect the grab of tho
coastwise shipping trust lcoks very
like the old moie y-maklng scheme of
the professional mercenaries who, un?
der tho Irish banner, went into poll-!
tics 30 years ago for what they could
get of the rake-off. Mr. Blalne had
been nursing this element, assiduously
and long, his mother the daughter
of an Irish Catholic. At the critical,
moment a blundering preacher with
three words destroyed the work of a
lifetime, our dear Champ Clark and
my good friend Oscar Pndcrwood, be?
fore giving 100 much var to ' the rich
Irish brogue." would do well to study
the career of the "Plumed Knight,"
nor fail to read a chaptet out of the
interesting m< m?nrs of Gen? Wlnnold
feVott. !
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Meanwhile, this warning to the
Irish people of America?if they
should make themselves o\ tractive
und zealous in the attempt at organis?
ed participation in American politics,
they will run the serious, hazard of
general ng an entl-foreign fooling in
comparison with which the Know*
nothlngism of other days would seem
lo be trivlul, Those who arc old
Dnough to reeall what Know-nothing
Ism was?4n Louisville those who no
not old enough to remember Bloody
Monday?may woll pray Ood never to
see the like again, No wise or true
Irishman but must realise that the
"inn kling to England" suggestion is
a. boomerang which without rhyme or
reason in Itself, may yet produce far
reaching results
Ne\er a prcshh at showed himself
liner than WoodroW Wilson when,
w lapping the gag ground him. he
marched down t" the capital and read
the riot at i to the hraves in congress,
I cannot doubt that In- has the better
ig ? the country behind him. He
may before he nets through with it
overdo the one-man-power role.
Cat tar ?Ii*t this to his m ?rt;il cost
Cromwell did it to the oost < i h s good
name It is not always easy to draw
the llns betwixt leadership end auto?
cracy, i rather think Jackson struck
the Ilm betwixt wind and water.
Thus far i follow Woodrow Wilson
admiringly, l like to see him make
the boys hop. skip and jump mound
the playground, Tim time may come
when i, loo, ma) ? all a hall -"so far
but no farther*" i hops not. i want
to .see a sueceasful I democratic admin?
istration. Cut a Democratic admlnls*
nation must be ? Democrat, it must
not he a federal disguised as a Dem
erat, an Imperialist putting on airs
and graces and dealing in the lan?
guage of 1?; mocracy,
Th ? w Ironien charactt r is yel too
undeveloped to offer much forecast,
llu the Wilson lan Studies ought to re?
train He* ambitious overreaching
tyrannous disposition, while the re?
sponsibilities ol government are likely
j to \pam ba\e perhaps already en?
larged 'he dimensions and perapee?
11\is of tin- schoolroom.
Courier Journal.)
FARMERS'
UNION NEWS
Practical Thought*) for Practical
Farmers.
(Conducted by E. W. Dabbe, Pres?
ident M. C. Farmern Union.)
Sonic Kundom Thoughts.
My attention has been called to a
peculiar condition In the school at*-'
fairs of the county. It is that In two'
schools, at least, and maybe In oth?
ers, the teachers decline to teach the
loth grade. Boye and girls, who are'
entitled to the advantages of the free
school nearest to their homes have to
go to private teachers, or be sent off
to college before prepared, because
the teachers decline to teach them,
e e e
In one instance the teacher is re?
ported to have said that a high State
official at a teachers' meeting said
that no teacher in a one or two teach?
er school ought to try to teach the
higher grades. What are the com-1
mon schools for if not to teach the
children that are aroun. them Mow
many parents can afford private
teachers toy their advanced children?
i
<>r how many can send their boys and
girls to a high school at the county
seat or to college?
? e e
I believe in consolidation, and bet?
ter schools, but 1 think tho advocates
of high schools here run mad in dis
Crediting the work of the one-teach?
er schools, and in advising them not
to teach the higher branches. I know
of boys and girls that have gone from
the one-teacher schools that stand as
well in college as any from the city
graded schools. The school age of
the State is from 6 to 21 years, and
1 submit that it is the duty of trus
:< M to require of teachers tho quali?
fications to teach boys and girls up to
the age limit unless they are sooner
prepared for college. The common
school ,s the poor man's college ai d
many a bey and girl needs the addi?
tional year or two In the higher!
branches of learning that it not pro?
vided in tho common school they will
never get because too poor to attend
a "prep" school or even a county high
school. They should be turned >ut|
from tho one-teacher school well pre
I a red for life's duties, and for a school
With tWO cr more teachers to refuse to
i
do 10th grade work is unpardonable,
to say the least.
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County School Fay has been s<> well
written up that only one or two sug?
gestions are in order: One is that
next year some arrangement must bo
matte for the pupils who arc engaged
In sc holarship contests to have a light
Itineh served sometime during the
lime thev are at the Washington
school. The other la that some of
the patrons or trustees, or both, should
be designated to keep order during'
the dcclalmere' contest and spelling
bee.
set
Judging by the churn df diets that
the boys pat on exhibition l-'riend
Williams must be doing effective Work
for more milk cows, and has taucht
quite a number o( farmers how to
make butler that will sell for &UC per
pound it was really remarkable how
many churn dashers were on ex?
hibition?about 80, and 1 saw onlv
one lone singletree, i hope it Is an
Indication thut mon cattle will be
raised, and more land devoted to
pastures and less, to the plow.
e e e
Some of the hearings before the
agricultural t ommlttes of the house
of representatives make very inter?
esting reauing. When l have more
time will make some extracts for the
K?rntens' Union c olumn. In the mean?
time i commend a reading cd' the
hearings to any one who is in doubt
about the wisdom of the Farmers'
Union demands for warehouses and
Official grading, and stapling of cot?
ton. There is also the Strongest kind
of testimony t.( the good that Sena?
tor smith -; teetlng of cotton for Us
actual Spinning value, has done and
will do when the people, manufac?
turers as well as farmers, malic use
of theae tests Thanks to Mr. Lever
for copies ot tin hearings, ami for an
invitation to appear before the com?
mittee t"day In the cotton futures
hearings, it .vas not convenient for
He to go, but i have done everything
i eould to have better posted mem?
bers ? f tho National Farmers' Union
!attend and present our views,
e e e
ii..w uro the local unions prepar?
ing for the Bethel mooting ol the
union on May 1st There ought t"
b< n full attendance (hat we may be
pi ded en sonn of Hose matters
that are engaging congress now.
nmong them ?otton marketing. Just
ij loiiji as ? otton Is our principal mon
e) crop, Its proper marketing will l*c
H live- issue.
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r.\ the was Kupervisor Pitts will
have to be busj 11 he completes the
Bhiloh road by tho opening of the to
bacco market. It is a good time to
begin now. E. YV. D.
FARMERS' UNION MEETING.
Will be Held at Cain's Mill on Friday
With Bethel Union.
The Sumter County Farmers' Union
will meet Friday of this week, the first
day of May, at Cain's Mill with the
Bethel local. On account of tho oat
harvest, it is very probable that wc
will not have a meeting of the County
Union until the first Friday in July
after this meeting at Cain's Mill.
Those of you who miss this meeting
will have to wait two months before
you can again enjoy meeting with one
of the local unions. Wc shall be
glad to have delegates from aTl of the
locals and as many members as can,
attend. You know that Cain's Ml!I il
the place where the beginning of some
of the most important work that the
Union has ever accomplished was
made. Fraternally,
J. Frank Williams.
President Sumter County Farmers'
Union.
Is it Right to Advertise Coca-Cola?
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Men who play the wily game of
politics have discovered that the best
way to distract the attention of the
public from their own shortcomings
Is to make a loud-mouthed*sensation?
al attack upon someone else. As the
CUttle-flsh eludes its pursuer by
clouding the surrounding water with
the contents of its ink sac, so the po?
litical adventurer takes advantage of
the ignorance and prejudices of the
people to escape from his indefensible
position by muddying the waters of
public opinion.
A case in point is the recent at?
tack made upon the religious press for
carrying Coca-Cola advertising. This
attack was made by a politician who
was supposed to be an expert in chem?
istry but who, having brought a suit
against the Coca-Cola Company, was
humiliated by having to acknowledge'
tnat he could not qualify as an ex?
pert. The court decided in favor of
the Coca-Cola Company as it was
clearly shown that the only essential
difference between Coca-Cola and
coffee or tea is that the former con?
tains only about half as much caffeine
as the latter and that the flavor is
different.
The question as to whether it is
right to advertise Coca-Cola seems to
resolve Itself therefore into the
question as to whether it is right to
advertise coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa
and other beverages of the caffeine,
group.?AdVt. mmm\
NOTICE
Of Application for Final Discharge.
ESstato of ISmrna Cohen, Deceased.
On the 29th day of May, A. D? 1011,
I will apply to the Judge of Probate
for Sumter County, S. C, for a Final
Discharge as Administrator of said
estate.
UZZIAH M. COHEN,
Administrator.
April 24, 1914.
HEIZE AMERICAN GOODS.
Ileportcd Huerta Forces Threaten
Property in Coahuila.
Washington, April 26.?An Ameri?
can, Vouched for as reliable, who has
just arrived at F.agle Pass, Tex., from
Musquis, a town In Coahuila, about
two hundred miles distant from
Eagle Pass, reports that the federals
have taken from Rosedia Ranch 250
horses, 150 mules and 11,000 cattle.
Notice, according to a message to the
State department, has been given that,
all American property In that section
I
would be seised by the Huerta forces.
FOR RHEUMATISM, stomach. Kid?
ney and Bladder troubles, try Big
Springs water; if your druggist
docs not handle order direc t. New
hotel opens June 1st. Special water
contracts to dealers. Address Pig
springs Resort Co. Bethune, s. c.
000 BUSHELS?Good home raised
white com. 20 tons No. l baled pea
\ine hay well mixed with crab
grass; also small farm mule we will
Bell choap. Apply to Andrews Pros.)
J Oswego, s. C.
BEESWAX WANTED?Cash paid for
good ?denn wax. N. G. Osteen.
PLANTS FOR SALE?Lettuce and
pansy plants, also sweet olive cut?
tings well rooted. The pansy plants
are tine ami well grown and will
be sold at reasonable price. 310
j W. Hampton Ave.
I
Geo H. Hurst,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
Prompt Attention lo Day or
Night Call!
ATD. D.CRAIG Ol D STAND
N MAIN SP.
Phones Day Ii39 Night 201
CELEBRATE REVIEW SUNDAY.
fcpooii Services Held Yesterday at
Mayesville Presbyterian c hurch.
Mayesville, April 27.?A "review
Sunday," so to speak, was held at the
Presbyterian i hurch yesterday. The
services were most Interesting and In?
structive 'iikI were something out of
the ordinary. Reports were read
from the different departments of the
church work. Elder S. W. Wilson
read an historical sketch of the
church, Ii. A. Chandler, treasurer,
gave a report on the financial condition
of the church! Miss Annie Anderson
read a paper from the president of
the Women's Missionary Society, Miss
Janie Bradley; Mrs. Robert A. Chan?
dler, president of the Ladies' Aid So?
ciety, presented a report from that
body; Elder iL L. Thomas, superin?
tendent of the Sunday School, report?
ed on the work of that branch of the
church, and Master Robert Maycs
read a report from the Junior Mis?
sionary society.
The services were Interspersed with
appropriate songs and Miss Fannie
Chandler sang a beautiful solo during
the collecting of the offering. Rev.
W. B. Chandler of Jacksonville, Fla.,
a son of the Mayesville church, was
present and made the closing prayer.
This church is in a very encour?
aging condition and under the pastor?
ate of Its popular pastor, Rev. R. I*
Crier, great headway .should be made
In the future.
AMERICAN CONSUL ARRESTED.
llitinui Semis Report IVcii Monterey
Washington, April 25.?President
Wilson aud Secretary Bryan were
greatly incensed tonight on receiving
a dispat? h from Consul General Phil*
lp C. lianna at Monterey, Mex., an
nouncing that he had been subjected
to insults and Indignities by Mexican
federal officers and ketp a prisoner In
the government palace from April 22
until the constitutionalists forces cap
tan d the town two days later. Tho
consul reported that mobs led by fed?
eral offic? rs tore down all the Ameri?
can (lags In the city, trt impled them
and then burned them up to the
ctreete.
< in the arrival of the constitutional*
; Is, Mr. Ilanna was released and
treated with marked consideration, lie
said the rebel officers made speeches
in front of the State house, giving
Ir.BKurancoa of full protection to all
foreigners and noncombatanta.
Secretary Bryan went to the White
House and conferred with the presi?
dent when the consul general's report
reached the State department.
Mr. Hanna's message to Secretary
Bryan was dispatched today from
.Monterey. The secretary took it to
tho White House at once and it re?
sulted In long conferences between
him and President Wilson. Mr. Han
; na reported that he had been courte?
ously treated by the constitutional
ists.
STOMACH TROUBLE
FOR FIVE : YEARS
Majority of Friends Thought Mr.
Hughes Would Die, But
One Helped Him to
Recovery.
Pomeroyton, Ky.?In interesting ad?
vices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes
writes as follows: "I was down with
stomach .trouble for five (5) years, and
would have sick headache so bad., at
times, that I thought surely I would die.
1 tried different treatments, but they
did not seem to do me any good.
I got so bad, I could not eat or sleep,
and all my friends, except one, tiought I
would die. He advised me to try ^
Thedford's Black-Draught, and quit)
taking other medicines. I decided to
take his advice, although I did not have
any confidence in it
I have now been taking Black-Draught
for three months, and it has cured me?
haven't had those awful sick headaches
since I began using it.
I am so thankhil for what Black?
Draught has done for me."
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
found a very valuable medicine for de?
rangements of the stomach .
is composed of pure, vege
contains no dangerous ingr
acts gently, yet surely. It c
used by young and old, and should be
kept in every family chest
Get a package today.
Only a quarter. 341
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