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CJjt $$lalc|)ma? ani jfoutjjron. I ??iW?od Wodnesdsy ud Saturday. _ ? BT?i WTKK.H PUBLISHING COMPANY. iumtsh. a. a Tara?: ? P?T annum?lo advance. - Advertiacmeata: ?ue Square trat insertion.$1.00 Ceery subsequent Insertion.60 Contracts for thraa montha, or mger a ill bo made at reduced rates. All communications a hieb sub? serve private lntarasts will ba charred tar as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect "M be eaerged for. Tbe Sumtsr Watchman was fouud ?4 hi HIS and the True Southron In !??#? Tne Watchman and Southron rew has tne combined circulation and ismesKw ef both of the old papers, sd hi manifestly the beet advertising "ssdlsai in Sumter. It hi better business to pay up than re put off. Pay up week is the time te put this principle into practice, nee A State cotton warehouse system aat will receive agricultural pro? ducts on storage at actual cost would le much toward popularising the holding plan. e e e Lsvst year Sumter county produced Is.OOO bales of cotton which sold for , an average not exceeding |60 a bale or $1,510,000 for the crop of the coun? ty. ThJs year the total crop of the county will exceed 39,000 bales, this estimate beim? based on the last gin nera' report. If the crop can be sold finally at an average price of 7 cents, or $36 a bale, the net loss In the crop as compared with last year, will not be as great as the difference in price per pound indicates, t..d the farmers will not be In as bad shape as pre? dicted, for the big crop will go a long way toward evening things up. There le no doubt about Sumter county hav? ing produced a big crop of cotton, nee Thi:e is sound sense in the article printed today In reference to the dis? posal of live stock to obtain ready money, rather than sell a portion of the cotton. If the country is swept clean of live stock, the foundation of the future prosperity of this section will ba undermined. The experience of this season has clearly demonstrat? ed that cotton as the sole money crop Is a broken stick to lean upon and that it ia not only unsound policy but an Impossibility to continue buy? ing commercial fertilizers to make cotton. This year the farmers of Sw^h Carolina have a fertilizer bill of BbSN than $31,000.000 to pay, and It la this tremendous burden of debt that la PHpssjssmfe let a large part of the flnaneia' ?ttresa hat has utterly denv>rah*cn Sj%*|neSS conditions in i this mat*. Mots stock, more home-pi on ) ?<?>.< fer( Hers, and less; ootton and less commercial fertiliser are the only things that will rehabil? itate the agricultural Industry. There? fore It is suicidal to sacrifice live stock to hold cotton. If one must be sacri? ficed In this emergency it is better to sell a bale of cotton than a young cow. A bale of cotton at present prices will bring in more money than a cow of equal weight and a cow Is worth more to the farm than three bales of cotton. For the land's sake keep the cows on the farm. LAWLESS JUSTICE. The lynching of Dlllard Wilson by a mob composed of citizens of Shlloh township. Sumter county, and ad? jacent sections of Florence and Clar? endon counties was the exercise of lawless Justice by an excited and out? raged community that will be approv? ed and Jus- died by a majority of the people of Sumter county und th?? State at large. This being a fact that we must admit, regardless of our firm? ly rooted conviction that lynch law is never Justified In a country that has courts, an honest Judiciary and a predominant sentiment in favor of the suppression of crime and the punish? ment of criminals, it is almost a waste of time to discus the I ?i I bird Wilson case, save in general terms for the purpose of making clear reasons for declining to approve lynch law in any circumstances, no matter how heinous the cnme~or how positive the proof of the guilt of tho victim of the mob. There was no question of the guilt of Dlllard Wilson. His crime was brought home to htm and fastened upon by him by a chain of circumstantial evidence stronger, more posltlvo and more con? vincing than that usually adduced from the testimony of eye witnesses of a crime. He was positively Identi? fied by the little son of tne woman whom n ? muruered. He finally con? fessed his sullt. removing the last shred of doubt If jonbt existed in the minds of anyone. The case against him was clear, positive, irrefutable Hi* life was forfeited f?>r nis ghusth crime. All that remained was tne fine and manner of nil execution. Ilad h?. been left t?. he dealt with by lav through the orderly procedure of the lonrt* a speedy trial was guaranteed and Mi punishment ccitnln. All that civilized society asks, or should ask, is the enforcement of law and tho punishment of criminals. This was assured in the case of Dillard Wilson, hut th-a men who put him to death, yielding to the heat and passion of the moment lost sight of Ihe duty that each and every law-abiding citizen owes to himself and his Stato to up? hold the courts and aid in all ways posslblo and in nil circumstances the orderly enforcement of law. They took the law Into their own hands and enforced swift justice in a lawless manner. They did no injustice to Dillard Wilson. They killed him, but his life was already forfeited, and in killing him they did him no wrong. The wrong was to the community in particular and to society in general In the open and flagrant disregard of law. The effect of the lynching of Dillard Wilson did not end when the mob had satisfied its vengence by riddlirg his body With bullets. The killing of Dillard Wilson was a re? version to lawlessness in mass, and a breaking of the laws that divide law and order from lawlessness and vio? lence. Therein liea the danger in lynch law; therein lies the wrongful ness of resorting to rough and ready justice when there are courts estab- i lished for the trial and punishment of criminals. The killing of a self-con fesed murderer, whose clothing reek? ed with the blood of his victim, is a umall thing in comparison with the wrong done the public conscience. The men who participated in the lynch? ing of Dillard Wilson will find it easy to Justify the killing of a murderer, but haw can they justify the viola? tion of law that their act emailed when they assumed the function of public executioners? VON UIDENBEKG J N POLAND. Is Now Trying to Do There What Napoieon Tried in Eastern Franco in 1811. New York Evening Sun. A s aapie aad satisfactory fashion in which to fol'ow the campaign in the East is to take a map which shows the whole field of operations, includ? ing East and West Prussia, Poland, Silesia and Qallcia, and on it lay down a line from tho extreme north? eastern point of East Prussia to the extreme southeastern point of Buko vina. Tr> i M al way thia line will reprej? at nt of the Russian armies . the opening of the war. Now, til* ho Ibis line into three parts, one. fat knf Hi Prussia, a second be? hind V : third on the frontier at Gal ?these will represent the three H M Russian armies, to be des In this article as the Russia., arml f East Prussia, Po? land and Gallcia. New, looking at the map it will be seen that a slight advance of the East Prussian and Oaliclan armies would bring them into German and Austrian I teritorles respectively, while owing to the westward sweep of Russian Po? land the army of Poland could ad? vance for nearly 200 miles in Russian territory before it reached the fron? tier. Now draw a second line from Cra? cow to Dantzig. Looking then at the map it will be seen that when all these Russian armies arrived at this line they would be in fact, ready to begin u sweep west, with one flank on the Baltic, the other on the Car? pathians and the centre facing Breslau and Poland. But until East Prussia and Gallcia were conquered there could be no such alignment, and. any advance of the centre would expose it to attack from the northern and southern salients. It was natural then, that Russian armies should first invade Gallcia and Eas: Prussia, having mobilized as they did on the first line suggested above. Thus, before August 25 a considerable Russian force flowed over into East Prussia, overran most of the province and for the moment seemed to be ir? resistible. This was the first Russian movement. To meet It the Germans rushed four army corps from the west, won the battle of Tannenberi;, and before October 1 cleared Ea^t Prussia of Russians and threw the Russian East Prussian army back to the Nlemen. At the same time the Russian army of Galicia crossed the Austrian frontier and drove westward, with Lemberg as a central point. Lem? berg was occupied on September 1 ; by September 12 the Russians were west of the San river and driving f^r Cracow, pounding the Austrian armies to pieces as they advanced and ap? proaching the outworks of CraCOW. A second German c<?unterstroke was lth?n required. This time the Germans. iKatheiing up all their strength, drove 'at the Russian centre. SgSlnet the jlttssian army in Poland. The Imme? diate purpose of this advance was la ee npel the Russians to retire troops from Qallcia ami use them to re? inforce th. army of Poland, A soc nndary object was to occupy Western pi land and lake up a defensive line tioio the Hallig to the Carpathians. To grasp ihe German conception draw a third line, this time from Koenlgshurs* through Warsaw und II*rsemysl t?? the Carimthlnns. Much a lino would have us a military advan? tage tho Masur Lakes, tho Narew, Vistula and San rivers. Rehind thcjse natural obstacles the German-Austrian I armies could hope to stand on tho de? fensive for an indetinite time. Tho second German counterstroke succeeded temporarily in its lirat ob? ject. Russian troops were withdrawn from Galicia and transferred to Po? land. Austrian armies were ablo to take the offensive and regain Western Galicia. Rut before Warsaw the Ger? mans were outflanked and compelled to retire hastily, and the general withdrawal presently extended to Galicia., where Austrian troops fell back and the Russians again ap? proached Cracow. Meanwhile, Russia, in her turn, struck back, using her East Prussian army. Once more look at the lirst line and it will be seen that with Russian troops again before Cracow and westward of Lodz, in Poland, I the conquest of East Prussia would j straighten out the whole front. Thus, instead of sending their masses af? ter the retreating Germans in Poland, it now seems probable the Russians turned them north to re-inforce the i East Prussian army, already well j across the frontier. As the Germans had drawn troops from East Prussia to send against Warsaw it now, became necessary to relieve the pressure there. To do this Hindenberg repeated the maneuver which had before relieved tho pres? sure upon Galicia and struck east along the Vistula toward Warsaw. This is the operation now going for? ward which is tilling all the war dis? patches today. In this situation the Russians have to choose between drawing troops back from East Prussia to re-enforce their army of Poland and drawing back their army of Poland slowly. Looking at the map, it will be seen that this army is still much west of the northern and southern forces and further withdawal is possible without affecting the general alignment. As it now stands the problem is this: Can Germany exercise suffi? cient pressure in Poland to halt two successful Russian advances, one in Galicia, the other in East Prussia? If she can, we shall presently see Rru8sian troops retreating from before Cracow and Koenigsburg. But if Russia can bring up sufficient re? serves without weakening her invad? ing armies the Germf.n advance may be halted, while the progress of Rus? sian armies north and south may in turn compel the Germans in Poland to retire to their defensive lines on the frontier and send re-enforcements to East Prusisa and Galicia. Von Hin'Ienberg in Poland is now attempting to do what Napoleon tried in Eastern France in 1814. Napoleon, with a small army admirably led, en? deavored by successive blows to hold back three armies moving west to? ward Paris. Each of them in turn he defeated splendidly, but while he was lighting with one tho other two slip? ped forward and he was compelled to turn to deal with them before he could destroy the army he had just beaten. Similarly when the Russian army of East Prussia was assailed it with? drew, having suffered defeat, but the armies of Galicia and Poland advanc? ed. Today the army of Poland be? ing attacked, is withdrawing, but those of Galicia and East Prussia are storming forward furiously. The parallel with the Napoleonic campaign I is plain. Hindenberg seems to be dis? playing a real measure of Napoleon's genius, but numbers are terribly against him. Napoleon was finally crushed because Marmont surrendered Paris to one of the invading armies which had penetrated that far west while Napoleon was battling with the other two. For Hindenberg the Aus trians seem to be playing Marmont's role. Meantime no one should mistake the great value of Russian operations to the allies in the west. More and more demands on German resources are being made by Russian progress, and in this time French and Rritish numbers continue to mount rapidly. So far the allies seem to be working in perfect harmony and coordination and the "war on the two fronts" is beginning to assume the proportions all German writers have suggested with apprehension. PARALLELS NE WHERRY CASE* Prominent Florida Lawyer and Ills Daughter Found Murdered In Ruining Ruins of Country Home. Miama. Fla.. Nov. 2T>.?Adam Hoggs. |6, a prominent lawyer and his daughter. Marjorie, IS, were murdered this morning at their country home "Coeanut Grove." Their home was burned and their skulls crushed, the bodies being terlbly burned also. No clue was found as t<> how the tragedy I w as enacted. j Commercial lime roc k or ground oyster shell should always be supplied to poultry to make the shells of their eug.s. it has been discovered that hens will not lav unless given suffi? cient lime, even though thej have an abundance of other foods. ... ?>.... ?.?.?? .?--?--!-.?--?-.?--?- J, ,T. .T..T..T..T..1 A Atfutntn* it. .?? _. ^TtWTttTWTTTTTTTTTTTTtTTT TTTTVTVTTTTVfT' t The Greatest Grass Grower in America. GROW SUDAN GRASS. THE most wonderful grass of the age Introduced and endorsed by the II. 8. Agricultural Dept. Tested severely by the farmers in all "parts of Texas and strongly recommended by the Farmers' Congress. Will grow wherever sortrham does from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Makes more and better hay than any other plant known. I nder ordi? nary conditions produces 300 to 6U0 lbs, of grain and 3 to (', tons of choice hay per acre the same season. Adapted to all sorts of soil and resists drought and stands rain veil. Takes 2 to 4 Iba. of lead to tow tin acre in drills and 16 to 24 lbs. broadcast. Quality of hay equals Timothy, and all kinds of live slock prefer It to Alfalfa. Cattle light >'or the hay and poultry fatten on the grain. Last spring the seed sold for $'J to $4 per Ib., and all Who trr^w it then expect to plant more next year. It is now selling for ^1 per lb. and will go higher before Spring as the supply is limited. We will semi prepaid by parcel post pure Sudan seed for $1 per lb. in lots of 50 Iba. and under?not less than one lb. considered. Larger lots by freight cheap r. Hotter order now and be sure of getting the seed and save money and then make more money another year. Everyone who can, should grow Sudan grass. Address ELLAGENE FARM, BOX 15, ALDINE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS MAKES MONEY WHERE OTHER CROPS FAIL * Laughs at Drought! Smiles at Rain! Order Your Seed Wheat Now Our stock is large and is entirely Southern Grown, and therefore acclima? tized. It is extra well cleaned, also. We have the following well known varieties. Blue, Stem Purple Straw and Red May. Write us for our price, stating how many bushels you want. We also have full stock of all other Grains and Grasses for Fall and Winter Sowing. Write us your wants. W. H. Mixon Seed Co. :: Charleston, S. C. i j| 1111111111111111ttttttl1111Ttftttttt-T-T-H-Mf HItT TIT"M"B"*"a-A-*",-JB"T-*AJUt-MLttttttri f111 GIRLS' SCHOOL BURNED. One Hundred Students Driven Out in Night Clothes. Abingdon, Vn., Nov. 25.?Stonewall Jackson institute, a Presbyterian school for girls burned this morning. A hundred students were driven out in the cold In their night clothes. CONFERENCE NOTES. i From The Daily Item, Nov. 24. Among the arrivals this morning were Bishop Collins Denny of Rich? mond, Va., who will preside at the meetings of the conference, and.Bish? op A. "W. Wilson of Baltimore, Md. Bishop Denny is stepping at the resi? dence of Mr. S. W Stubbs on Wash? ington and Bishop Wilson at Mayor L. D. Jennings' home at the corner of Washington and Liberty streets. Tb? meetings preliminary to the Conference were held this morning at Trinity Methodist church. The ex? amining committees were busy with their work of examining applicants and mapping out further courses of Study for the ensuing year, as well as going over the work of the past year. Probably the most important meeting was that of tho Board of Missions, which was in session most of the morning. This afternoon there will not be any meeting, the time being given over to meeting the incoming j Conference members and preparing for the opening of the Conference to-1 morrow morning. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Premier Carrier of the South?Pas? senger Train Schedule, Effective October 18th, 1914. Trains leave Sumter for: No. 140 Columbia, Charleston and intermediate station, (5.20 A. M. No. 142 Columbia, Charleston and intermediate stations, 3.25 P. M. Trains arrive Sumter from: No. 141 Charleston, Columbia and Intermediate stations, 9.JO A. M. No. 143 Charleston, Columbia and intermediate stations, 5.30 P. M. N. R.?rSchedule figures are pub? lished as information only and are not guaranteed. For further information call on H. A. ROSE. Agent. Sumter, S. C. W. E. McQee, A. O. P. A., Columbia. ; b.c. W. H. Caffey. D. P. A.. Charleston. ! s. c. I Geo H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embalmer. Prompt Attention to Day or Night .Calls; AT I. D. Cralg Old Stand, [fi. Main Phones nIsmioi Artistic Photgraphy Our pictures will work wonders in improving the appearance of your home. They will reflect your taste and refinement and will give pleasure to yourself as well as to your friends. You are cordially invited to call and see us. WINBURN'S STUDIO, m s. main The word "Bank" seems to awe many . people, they feel the steps that lead to the inside are not intended for them. If Make up your mind to get acquainted with us and our methods. Make up your mind to come in. Make up your mind to have a Bank account in this strong bank. It makes little difference how much mon? ey you have or earn, let us explain the way to make this Bank your Bank. $1.00 will start you. 4 Per Gent Interest Paid on Savings. I2? BANK OF SUMTER established 1889 * + New Corn Mill 1 have installed an electrically driven corn mill of the most improved pattern, and am prepared to do grinding for the public. This mill turns out meal and grits of the best quality. I N. G. Osfteen, Jr. 5KK???