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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBF'I 20, 1909.
Iii? Sumter Watchman was found
?4 in 1850 and the True Southron In
IM?. The Watchman and Southron
low haa the combined circulation and
baflnence of both of the old papers.
|e manifestly the best advertising
Huna la Sumter.
There la a chorus of complaint con
itng the unsatisfactory service that
of the local telephone ex?
change are now receiving. This com
plaint la partly j*iatified and partly
plain kicking on account of the
forcenvnt of thr rule requiring us
of the telephone to give the num
tr of the telephone when they make
call. Apart from thia there la am?
ple ?r-iuml for alt the complaints that
ib?rHl>?c* make and an improve
ient In t?te : service Is needed. The
lacement */ the Sumter Telephone
?av nave contracted for $13,000 worth
near equipment to be Installed by
tat and tt? * promise ia made
it when the new central energy
swOtehboard ana other up-to-date
sgnlpsnent shall have been Installed
Hi ere wMi be a decided Improvement
la the service. Until the new switch
Ward ia InataMed service will be
maintained under dlfJIcultlea, since
?he installation of the new switch?
board and the change from the pres?
ent battery sgateea to the central ener
sauat be. made without In
the service. When the ira
lenta are completed Sumter
wtst bare o*e of the moat modern and
beat equipped telephone systems in
the gnalh and the aervioa ought to be
?H thai the moat exacting could de
sauud. The expenditure of $11,000 at
sue time by the comapny for im
prvreamenU is a heavy tax on its ro?
se nr eon, hut Um company haa faith
m < te growth of the telephone busl
sn aumter and vicinity and the
its now to be made will
exchange to handle two or
tfmea the business it now haa.
?to .grafts-Us patrons better .and
aatiafaotery service.
OttANi: VIOTIM OF A JOB?
fP9 C%argi Made by Ohicngo Record
Herahfs Editor.
Washington. Oct. If.?Frank B.
rtnyaa, editor of the Chicago Record
Herald, the paper that printed *ho
etory that coat If inlater Crane his job.
waa rn Waahlngloa with Minister
Crane and Walter I. Fisher when the
atement which waa given to tin
In regard to the affair was pre
?4L All that Mr. Noyes cared to
ve out wua contained in the follov.
l?g editorial, which he prepir?d anti
wired to hie pa pet:
The treatment that Charl?M ft.
Cr>?ne has received at the hare!
the t.enactment -)t state has ' eat
ihing short of shameful.
Fvery newspaper man In WnMiin*
tan will hoot at the notion that Mr
Crane's alleged Indiscretion In any
wey varied from the discretion ordi
narily required from public officials.
Mo Informed person belle es for a
moment that the ostensible reason or
reqoewt for Mr. Crane's resignation Is
the real one?on the contrary. It Is
perfectly apparent that he has been
made the victim of what r.ppcars to
have been a thoroughly discreditable
Intrigue.
Inasmuch as the article to which
Mr Knox objecla appeared In the
Record-Herald it is but Just to say
that Mr. Crane furnished our POTTS
spondent with no Information that In
volved any breach of his official ob?
ligations.
His mistake, apparently, was fh as?
suming that there could be no possl
bie objection io taking It for granted
that what nil the diplomats and most
of the newapaper men of the world
knew h' > i known l?y our depart
?int of Jtt<?te.
New Toik, Oct. 15.?Friends of
Chaa R. Crane, minister dealgnate to
China, whose resignation was request?
ed. Intimst? strongly that the incident
is not Sjaaedi and that a revelation,
which would We made public, would
ah*w that Crane waa the victim of
pohti*al Intriguo
DIKs IM LONDON.
Wi'Statu I Itucfiaitau Is Picked Up In
Pmrh liane.
L*??1oi,. <>< ? 17. -William I. Buch?
anan of Hoffilo, N. T., former Amer?
ican gajbi <er to the Argentine Re?
if, and Panama, who had been
I.- el ???11U?* I *ith several Impor
tant \merlcan diplomatic missions,
met a tragic leatti I t"t night on a
Lend'>u *lre?.f He wan discovered ly?
ing e?? a sMewadk, in Park Lane and
waa eejffted to St. George's hospital,
a shoit 'li.Mn ? away. Life waa ex?
tinct when the ambulance reached
the h >*pHx4 Twm Oftgjgf of bin death
is not known positively but physicians
who examined (he body .mat ? that it
result id ippn odly from h mi t dia
? a*? ari l th it there was no Indira
lions of fool idiv which wjs sug?
gested.
Farmers' Union News
AND ?
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
(Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President Farmers' Union of Sumter
County.)
The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by
semi-weekly publication, would Improve that service by special features.
The first to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and
Practical Farmers which I have been requested to conduct. It will be my
aim to give the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end
officers, and members of the Union are requested to use these columns.
Alao to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern?
ment Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori?
ginal articles by any of our readers telling of their successes or failures
will be appreciated and published.
Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned,
All communications for tl Is Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs.
Mayeeville. S. C.
THE EDITOB.
Some Random Thoughts.
It was my pleasure to attend the
meeting of the Clarendon County
Union at Turbevllle last Wednesday.
It was gratifying to see the number
of earnest. Intelligent farmers who
had left their farms to attend this
meeting at such a busy season. The
union has recently bought a set of
cotton scales for an Independent buy?
er at Manning and it was reported
that the keeping of this buyer in the
field had helped the Manning cotton
market one fourth of a cent per
pound.
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It looks like it will be necessary for
the growers of cotton to also be the
buyers. In other words have their
paid representative in the field to see
that cotton sells for its market price,
see
The union can in this way concen?
trate the cotton so as to make direct
trades with large mill or export buy?
ers, and it can In this way take the
a/eak cotton off the market.
e e e
The difference all this season be?
tween the price In Liverpool and our |
local markets has been too great and |
leaves too much profit In the pockets {
of the middlemen.
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It also looked brighter fdr unionism
to see the evident desire to learn.
Good talks on education and better
farming me l hods were well received,
and a talk by Mr. Kelley, the county
business agent on oat-growing was
very Instructive.
e a a
In answer to a letter asking more
tl out the tireless cooker, I reprint an
irtlcle giving the address of a lady
who finds one indispensable.
e e s
Two articles on curing corn will
?on appear. See If some of our far?
mers can not equal the Georgia farm?
er In Sumter, Lee or Clarendon c >un
ties this year. E. W. D.
Hold Part of Your Cotton.
Ordinarily, we do not wish to take
the responsibility for advising our
rmers to hold any over for higher
I rices. If justified by natural laws
gad conditions, there is just as much
profit In being a bull as a bear on the
market; hence if a product is selling
100 low the chances are that the bulls
speedily force the price upward to
pproxlmately its proper price.
Just now, however, It seems to us
that there is little risk in advising ev?
ery farmer to hold a part of his cot
i >n crop for better prices. The month
v report for October issued by the
%ernment last week shows an aver?
se condition of 58.5, which is the
? st showing but one of which we
have any record In our olllce, the Oc?
tober condition figures for the last 12
years being as follows: 1908, 75.4;
1899, 62.4; 1900, 67; 1901, 61.4; 1902,
71.6; 1907. 67.7; 1908, 76.1; 1909.
58.5. Still more light upon the pres?
ent bad condition may be had from
the government's detailed statement
of cotton conditions as follows:
m > Vj T. m
a ? n <t ?
xi ? -o -c r
r " r r HI
S M t0
states. r " T r >
M 8 ? *?
I ^ I ?
Virginia . ..." 71 73 78 76 75
N. Carolina . . 70 73 69 76 70
S. Carolina . . 70 74 68 77 69
Georgia. ... 71 73 71 76 70
Florida .... 67 75 72 69 71
Alabama ... 62 66 70 68 67
Mississippi. . . 53 61 70 69 68
Louisiana ... 39 48 55 65 57
Texas. 52 59 71 60 63
Arkansas ... 64 60 70 65 67
Tennessee ... 68 75 78 76 72
Missouri ... 72 80 70 72 74
Oklahoma. . . 55 56 70 65 69
United States . 58.5 63.7 69.7 67.7 17,0
On the whole, with ail these faoti
bofOTg us, It stems to us that all the
signs point to higher cotton, and >? t
it is not unlikely that it may be sixty
days or more before prloes reach the
level Justified by preaanl conditions,
November, we must remember Is the
flood month for distressed cotton;
farmers and tenants who have sold
or pledged their crop in advance turn
loose thousands and hundreds of thou?
sands of bales upon an unready mar?
ket. This cannot fail to postpone the
rise of cotton to normal prices.
An even more important factor in
depressing prices temporarily is the
probable action of Southern cotton
mills in curtailing production. South?
ern cotton mills are much more seri?
ously affected by an advance in the
prices of the staple than are Northern
mills because the Northern mills
make a finer and higher priced pro?
duct, and the cost of the raw material
is not so large an item in the total
value. As yet the prices of Southern
mill goods have by no means advanc?
ed in keeping with the advance in the
price of raw cotton, and they, there?
fore, threaten to curtail production
until the market adjusts itself. Thia
may depress prices of the farmer's
cotton for a little while, and is the
more to be deplored because its moat
notable outcome may be only to shift
the big profits from the cotton grow?
ers' pockets to the speculator's pock?
ets. Prices forced down now must In?
evitably climb to much higher levels
and the mills can't long do without
the cotton: sooner or later they must
have it, and then there will be a fight
between European and American
mills as to which shall have the pro?
duct. Southern mills should learn a
lesson from last year. Refusing then
to buy at 9 cents in October, they paid
12 cents in May; refusing now to pay
13 cents in October, they may pay 16
or 18 cents next May.
This is the situation as we sec it,
and it seems to us to indicate that
while the flood of "distressed cotton"
and the delay in getting the mills ad?
justed to the new conditions may pre?
vent an early rise, 15-cent cotton ?
* ven if not higher?may easily be ex?
pected before the end of the year. All
>ur readers must act on their own
judgments, but in our opinion, every
farmer ought to bold at least a part
of his crop for the higher price that
seems certain to come.?Progressive
Farmer.
Finds the Fireless Cooker Indispen?
sable.
I have a fire less cooker of my own
make, which is deep enough to hold
three baking pans one on top of the
other. The heat from one helps cook
the other, and with a large family
you can get so much more in it. It
use earthen plates for covers. There
are few people that know how to use
the flr^less cooker. The more you see
them the better you like them. I have
had mine eight months and would not
do without It.
I raise my light bread in it if the
weather is cool. I put a pan of hot
Watt in and put the bread over it.
I have no further trouble keeping it
warm.
I fix baked corn, tomatoes, pota
toes, butter heans, apples, fried or
baked chickens, and hash ready to
put on the table early in the mornings
while it is cool, and set them in the
box. Then I am at lilverty to go
wherever I please, and am not afraid
to invite the most fastidious folks
home with me to dinner, for there
isn't anything to do but set a nice
hot dinner on the table. I can also
put a coffee or tea pot in my box. I
let it boil before setting it in. I will
not begin to mention the stews that
you can cook in them with only a hont
10 minutes Are. If you have an oil
stove to heat them on, it will save a
lot of time.? Mrs. Hertha D. Clore,
in Progressive aFrmer.
RECORD YIELD OF CORN.
Alken Fanner Uses New Methods and
iieta (.real Results.
This week Mr. j. T. Bhuler, one of
Alken county'l foremost farmers,
harvested three acres of the finest
com ever grown hereabouts and per
hapi the equal of any grown in the
Stute. The three ncres netted 348 1-2
bushels, an average of J16 I S bush
sla to the acre, in addition to the
corn harvested, 1,800 bundles of fod?
der was stripped from the field, av?
eraging 2 1-2 pounds each.
The land upon which this remark?
able yield was gathered is not extra?
ordinary land, but average rich up?
land, and Mr. Shuler ascribes the
magnificent yield entirely to the mode
of cultivation and fertilization. Sim?
ilar land last year made a yield of
about 25 bushels per acre. Mr. Shu?
ler is so enthusiastic over the yield
this year that he intends to carry out
the principle op a wider scale next
year, and perhaps plant the entire
corn crop, using the same methods
and fertilizer.
The land Is now \ 'inted in peas and
a yield of about 20 bushels is expect?
ed. The peo crop was considerably
cut off by dry weather. Considering
the fine yield of corn per acre on this
land, it beats cotton to death, even
at the present good prices, the clear
profits going well above the best that
could be expected from an average
yield of the fleecy staple.
The following is a detailed state?
ment of the mode of cultivation and
fertilization employed in working the
field this year.
The land was broken during the
latter part of December with a two
horse turn-plough, broadcast. The
first part of February the land was
again broken, crossing the previous
furrows with the same heavy plough,
following with a deep two-horse sub?
soil plough. During the first week in
March the land was laid off in rows,
five feet wide, and the middles were
broken out with a large one-horse
plough, and the subsoiler was again
run behind this plough. The ridge in
the middle or the rows was broken
with a hes.vy two-winged turn
plough, the subsoil plough again be?
ing run In thin furrow. The corn was
planted in this furrow, twelve Inches
apart, two grains to the hill to insure
a good stand, and It was covered with
a Gantt guano distributer. The corn
was dropped by hand. Two hundred
pounds per acre of 8:2 1-2:1 ammoni
ated fertilizer was put down at the
planting through the distributer.
When the corn came up and was
ten days old it was thinned to one
stalk in the hill. For, the first cult!
vatlon ar? ordinary cultivator was
used to pulverize the soil, running
around the corn. The middles were
now broken out very lightly. In ten
days* time the corn was run around
with a disc cultivator; in ten days
from this 300 pounds of the same fer?
tilizer as previously used was put
down on one side of the row. This
was followed in ten days with another
application, 300 pounds being put t<
the acre, on the side left unfertilized
at the previous cultivation. Two
weeks after this the corn was laid by
and 200 pounds of Peruvian guano
and nitrate of soda was put on one
side. After two weeks the same ap?
plication was put down on the other
side, laying that side by at the same
time.
The corn's first two ploughlngs
were deep, using straight shovels, af?
ter that sweeps and small cultivators
were used.
The variety of corn used on this
plat was Mason's Prolific. The value
of the fertilizer used is $22 a ton for
the 8:2 1-2:1, and $36 a ton for the
top dressing, a total valuation of fer?
tilizer used per acre of $16.
Eighty pounds of the corn, in the
Shuck by actual measurement and
weight, shelled out 68 pounds of corn
and after removing the sjiucks there
remained 76 pounds on the cob, from
80 pounds !n the shuck. The total
acreage averaged about three good
ears to the stalk.
The corn was put into a crib, in
which last year the yield of 12 acres
of 'what was considered good corn,
was piled. The pile from three acres
makes as good a showing as the yield
from twelve did last year. A state?
ment of the cost follows:
Freaking of land for preparation 6.00
Corn dropping.1.00
Putting down fertilizer and cul?
tivation. 5.00
Value of fertilizer used.16.00
Total cost of production. . .$. .28.00
116 1-8 bushels corn at 90 cts. .104.51
Value of 600 bundles fodder... 13.33
Total value products .. ..$117.84
Net profits over cost of pro?
duction.$ 89.84
This land is estimated to make an
average of one bale to the acre. If it
had yielded one bale per acre the
profit would have been $32 per acre,
while on this three acres the profit
per acre was $89.84.
A. K. L?.
Aiken, S. C, October 16.
Asa Hood, colored was killed at
Bowman, Oangeburg county, Tuesday
night. Mary Hobinson, Peter Miller
and another negro named Warren
have been arrested for the murder.
Rev. J. F. Morrall, a well known
preacher, died at Walterboro Friday
aged 80 years.
Din Hinds. I. B. Blngham and A. II.
Fuller are being tried in Florence on
i the charge of lynching Arthur Davis,
i dored.
STORM DAMAGE IN AIKEN.
Large Quantities <?f Dot ton Are Seri?
ously DnilMROd 'in the Fields?Con?
siderable Territory Affected.
Alken, Oct 15.?The worst hall
storm, perhaps, In the history of the
county visited the upper section of
the county lust night during a heavy
storm. As a result of the hail alone
perhaps several hundred hales of cot?
ton are knocked out on the g'ound
and much more was destroyed by un
open bolls being knocked off.
A strip of country several miles
wide and 40 or perhaps 50 miles long
was almost covered by the hail. While
it was worse in some sections than in
others, all sections in this area were
more or less damaged by the stones.
The hail lasted lor about a minute
and a half, during which time the
ground was covered to a depth of sev?
eral inches with r.he hailstones, some
of which were as large as partridge
eggs. The hail could be seen on the
ground for several hours after it had
ceased to fall, although a blinding rain
fell afterward. In some sections the
stones broke the window panes, and
many birds are seen dead on the
ground this morning that were struck.
The hail came down in an almost solid
sheet.
A high wind accompanied the
storm, doing in some sections consid?
erable damage. It is reported that
some damage was done to the Bath
mill by the wind.
LONG BALLOON TRIP.
Travels From St. Louis to South Car?
olina at Average Rate of Forty
Miles Per Hour.
Charleston, S. C, Oct. 16.?Break?
ing all speed records for long distance
flights, the balloon St. Louis No. 3
landed near Ridgville, SI miles west
of Charleston, at 9 o'clock this morn?
ing, after having left St. Louis yester?
day afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. The
balloon carried A. B. Lambert and S~
Louis von Puhl, who arrived here to?
night after their thrilling cross-coun?
try flight. They had exhausted their
ballast, and, seeing in the distance
the waters of the Atlantic, which they
were fast approaching, they were
forced to descend. In nearing the
ground the ballon caught in a tall
tree and narrowly escaped destruc?
tion.
The distance from the place of
landing to St. Louis in a direct line is
approximately 660 miles. The high?
est altitude reached was 12..40O feet.
The average rate of speed was 44
miles an hour.
RANK GUARANTY LAW INVALID.
Nebraska Governor Deplores Decision
Of Two Federal Judges.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. "16.?In a state?
ment on the action of the two Federal
judgi s who yesterday declared the
Nebraska bank guaranty law uncon?
stitutional. Governor Shallenberger
tieploree the ruling as smacking, he
says, of partisanship, and what he be
lievea la a distinct blow at remedial
- t?te legislation. Governor Shallen
1 erger also declares that the refer?
ence of the case to the Federal in
tead of the State judiciary is a usur?
pation of power. He says in part
"The decision is exactly what those
who for partisan or selfish reasons are
opposed to any effective guaranty of
deiMVsitS law desired. It goes to the
v ry heart of the question and denies
Ihe right of the State to require the
banks, which exist by virtue of their
Charters, to pay a certain tax to cre?
ate a guaranty fund or to prescribe a
form and manner under which the
1 anking business shall be conducted,
it appears to lea*ve banking on more
a matter for public legislation or lim?
itation than the grocery or butcher
business.
'The law which has been set aside
I y the decree of the court was fraught
with great benefit to the people. I
am sure that the . 'de desired the
legislation and were anxious to see it
put into actual practice. One result
of the nullification of legislation by
the courts would be to intensify the
desire and determination that our
State Supreme Court shall not be
longer constituted wholly of members
of one political party. It might be
noted in passing that the distinguish?
ed Demoe-at of this State, who was
made a Federal judge by a revered
Republican president, was not called
into judgment upon this case.
"The overthrow of legislative en?
actments, by interference by the exe?
cutive, by the use of patronage, or
the veto power, and by the nullifica?
tion of laws by our courts, has stead?
ily tended to degrade the power of
the executive branch of our govern?
ment, and to make it a thing for poli?
ticians and lobbyists to play with.
Hot Supper.
There will be a Hot Supper at the
residence of L J. Brown, Oswego,
<>n Thursday night. Oct. 21st. A reg?
ular meat supper, plenty of pork,
turkey, oysters, ice cream and cake.
Proceeds for benevolent purpose.
Don't forge! the date.
l0-19-2t. W. & s. it.
Dr. J. W. Fuller,
of California.
Pe-ru-na tbe Remedy.
DR. J. W. FULLER, Scientific Opti?
cian, 203 North Main. St., Los Ange?
las, CaL, writes:
**I was troubled with catarrh of the
bead for many years* It affected my
sense of smell, hearing and bight.
"I spent lots of money witb doctors
and the use of local applications to re?
lievo me, but to no purpose nntil my
attention was called to the wonderful
effects of Poruna.
"I must Bay that I met with moat sur?
prising and satisfactory resalts. Peru
na took hold of the complaint and drove
tt entirely out of my system.
"AUhough well along toward the
allotted span of man's life, I am as
pleased as a child over the results, and
Keel like a young man again."
Man-? lln an Ideal Laxativ?*
Coming to Sumwr.
To My Friends in Manning and Clar?
endon County:
It is with deep regret that I beg to
announce to my many sincere friends
who have contributed so unhesitating?
ly and cheerfully to whatever success
I have achieved, that af*er due delib?
eration it will serve the best purpose
to relinquish my citizenship in Man?
ning and Clarendon county and con?
nect myself with the thriving, grow?
ing, energetic and progressive city and
county of Summer. As my territory
embraces Clarendon and Sumter
counties, I beg to say that I will not
be an infrequent visitor to my many
friends in Manning and brave old
Clarendon.
Reiterating my heartfelt thanks for
kindnesses shown and wishing all my
friends and clients an abundance of
success in whatever undertaking
Providence may assign them, I am
Sincerely,
ISAAC M. LOR YEA.
Special Agent for Sumter and Clar?
endon counties for the Mutual Life In?
surance Co., of New York.?Man?
ning Times.
Cowboy Musicians.
William Sweeney's Cowboy Band
will be among the novelties presented
with the Wild West and Far East
when Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill
come to town. These men are exper?
ienced musicians, skillful adepts at
playing the vf.rioua instruments, and
they are also expert riders. They can
play music while mounted on horse?
back as easily and harmoniously as
the average crcus band plays while
seated in the baadstand. Other in?
teresting scenes with the Wild West
and Far East will be An Oriental
Spectacle, Indian War Dances, and
Cowboy Sports.
The trial of Dr. C. G. Bigham and
W. C. Avant for the killing of Mrs.
Bigham at Murrell's Inlet several
weeks ago will be held at Georgetown
Monday.
There are boys of all ages?French.
..GIBSON..
Fi Tablets
We have now 25
different flavors
of this fine candy
250 pounds just
recceived.
Sibert's
Di Sie,
Phone 283. 8 S. Main.
