davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-24
BlsH0PvILLE NEWS.

Bishopville, July 2.-Bishopville
has 7S dwelling houses, or we should
rather say residences.
Mr.. Jones, of Newberry was elected
principal of our school by the Board
of Trustees at recent meeting.
The Superintendent of Education
for the county under the law will
hereafter keep $500 worth OF school
books on hand for sale at cost to pa
irons of the public free schools. We
figure that out Of the $500, 600 spent
for schools per annum in South Caro-
lima there will under this arrangement
accrue saving of $50, 900, may be
more.
Such laws warm my heart and
makes me feel as if the people Will learn
to cooperate some of these days and
fully use their great strength for each
other such as each for all and all for
each'' and quit running after prece-
dent and study to tighten the present
need.
Bishopville enjoys the condition of
not having sprig of nut grass within
her borders.
Mr.. Aaron Jones, Master of the Ma
tionl Grange Will make and address to
the patrons of South Carolina, and all
others who care to attend, on August
1st at Salem Grange Hall, four miles
north Of st. Charles, three miles
south of Mannville, six miles from
this point We would be glad to have
1000 farmers with us that day.
Mr.. G. S. James is in the neighbor-
hood visiting relatives.
Mr.. j. G. Baskin of Eastover is at
home sick.
Mr.. Rogers, of Marion county has
purchased a lot and purposes erecting
commo6ious sale and hitch stable.
The health of the town is excellent.
Cotton is doing finely, and as friend
Geddings has it, if it will grow one
inch every three days till August Goth
it will be large enough to bear Il crop.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-24
DISPENSERS SALARIES RAISED.

The directors of the State dispen-
sary at the meeting held yesterday in
creased the salaries of number of
dispensers. Among the number were
Bishopville raised from s65 to SO
per month, Mayesville from SO to $50
per month.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-24
Kansas CITY july Ie.-This h

Kansas City, July I9.-This has
been an exceedingly hot day in Kan
sas. The mercury has ranged from
106 to 100. While the feeling of utter
helplessness attendant upon the drouht
has passed, the people of the State do
not attempt to deny that the fall crops
are in desperate condition.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-24

Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 2l.-The sta
tionray fremen's strike has practically
collapsed. At conference here today
between the executive board of the
United Mine Workers and the striking
fremen, committees were appointed to
wait on the coal companies and if the
strikers are taken back the strike will
be declared off.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-24

The piles that aoDoy you SO will De quick
ly and permanenr!v healed If you use
DeWitt's Witch Heze Salve Beware of
worthless couuterfeits is Eughson Co.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-07-24

ST. Petersburg, July 21.-United
States Senator W. a. Clark, according
to the Novoe Vremya, has joined with
Kief capitalists in establishing a
copper company with capital of Is,
600, 600 roubles, Mr. Clark supplying
12O, ,OOO,O roubles. With NJ Margo-
lin, one of the directors, Mr.. Clark is
going to the Government of Semipa-
latinsk to examine the mines there.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
FORESTRY, A NEW PROFESSION

Under the Jurisdiction of the De-
partment of Agriculture are such i'm
portant bureaus and offices as For.
estry, Public Roads, Animal and
Plant Chemistry, Entomology, and
Textile Industries. Hundreds of ex-
per5s are employed in these bureaus.
In forestry in particular is the gov
ernment trying to educate and in
struot a large corps of practical,
scientific men, who can take proper
charge of the forest lands of the
country, and. show to the private
owners how best to make them
profitable and productive without
destroying them. Forestry may be
called a new profession, and govern
ment experts are trying TO find a
body of men sufficiently in love with
trees and their preservation and
versed in the lore and science of tim
Der culture, to make them of prac-
tical utility to the country. These
fOresters must be something more
than mere timber cutters and woods
men; they must have a knowledge
of the needs of trees, a practical
working familiarity with the differ
ent varieties of growths, and a fair
knowledge of entomology. The in
sect ravages are so great in many of
our forests that the forester must be
able to check their increase and raw
ages. Many practical foresters to-
day, whether employed by the For
estry Division of the Department of
Agriculture, or by private owners Of
large tim ber tracts, receive from
l,2OO to 81, 900 II year.-EXchange.
The great trouble with the farmer
is, he has too many corns on his
hands and not enough on his head
Ex Gov. W. D. Hoard, Wis.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
OUR FORESTS AND FIELDS.

State Geologist Holmes Calls Attention to
Some UnprOgressiVe Methods of Dealing
With Them.
In an address before the Univer-
sity Summer School at Chapel Hill
a few weeks ago, State Geologist J..
A. Holmes discussed in his usual in
teresting style some of the defects in
our present system of agriculture
and forestry. A Charlotte Observer
correspondent thus describes the
lecture:
In connection with the agricul-
tural side of the subject, Prof.
Holmes called attention TO the lack
of progress in the methods for treat
ment and Improvements of the soils
in North Carolina and other South
ern States.
In connection with the tobacco in
dustry and in some regions in con
nectiOn with the cultivation of small
grain, and in some portions of the
eastern counties in the trucking in
dustry, decided progress has heen
made and agriculture as an art has
reached an advanced stage. But in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
Raleigh, N. c., July Is, 1901.

view of the fact that agriculture has
been the chief occupation of the
Southern people in the past, the gen.
eral progress made has in most cases
been far short of what might have
been expected. Terracing of the
lands; deep plOwing and the mix
ing of organic matter with the soil
IN order to keep it more porous, are
all practiced to a limited extent. But
nowhere to the extent that is advis-
able in the regions where soil is COM
posed largely of clay and lOam. Per
haps the greatest fault to be found
with Southern agriculture to-day is
the fact that the idea of continuous
ly and permanently improving the
soil does not seem to enter into the
farmers plans and purposes. He
continues to scratch the surface soil
and to manure it for the immediate
crop and takes but little care to pre-
vent the surface from washing away.
In connection with forestry con-
ditiOns N North Carolina and other
Southern States which are intimate
~ associated with the agricultural
conditions, Prof. Holmes called at
tentiOn to the fact that the system
which has for so long a time been in
force of wearing out one field by con-
tinuOus cultivation and washing,
and then turning that loose and
clearing up another, thus necessarily
destroying the forests as we'll as
wearing out the land, has been
most unfortunate one for both our
forests and cleared lands The re-
cent floods are especially calling at
tentiOn to the fact that this system
has already been carried too far, and
unless the policy of the Southern
people in this respect is changed we
may expect among the injurious re-
suits of such system the destruc-
tion of our remaining forests, the
destruction of all our farms along
the river valleys, and the destruo.
tiOn of all our water powers.
Already we must begin to look for
remedies against these growing evils
We must discontinue our rapid de
struction of the forests; we must
allow trees to grow on all the steep
hillsides where we find the land is
washing alway we must plow deeper
and get more organic matter into
the soil where clay predominates
we must terrace our land more ex-
tensively; run our burrows more
carefully; and we must cultivate
more widely those crops, such as
grasses and grains and clovers,
vetches and other legumlnOus plants,
which prevent the soil from wash
ing, and which also help to develop
the cattle industry in the Southern
States, which is now 50 far tehind
what it should be.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

In Opposing "One Crop Farming" Don't Go
to the Other Extreme and Raise no Import
ant Money Crop.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
A good deal of modern farming
might be called patchwork farming
because in the attempt to raise about
everything there can be used or
needed on the farm little thought is
given to making special study of
any single crop or crops. It is all
right to have a kitchen garden,
where all the vegetab bles needed for
the table can be raised; a small
orchard, where summer and winter
fruits can be raised to fill the cellar
with delicious products of tree and
vine for family consumption, and
probably a special field where the
small grains and root crops can be
cultivated to supply the flock Of
chickens with food, the few pigs and
dairy COWS with what they need ; but
if all these crops exhaust the re-
sources of the farm and farmer the
greatest mistake in the world is
made. Not a single crop is then
raised to yield an income. 1t is
patchwork farming, carried on to
make little of everything contrib
ute toward furnishing the family
with needed food. Can one wonder
that sooner or later there will come
Il demand for clothes or other needed
articles that cannot be raised on the
farm, and no money to purchase
them with?
There are many such farmers to-
day. They never have any money +;
they exist simply by raising all the
food they actually require. There
is nothing to sell, except possibly
few eggs or a pound of butter occa-
sionally. The returns for these
hardly prove sufficient to buy to-
bacco, matches and darning cotton.
Such farming is a relic of the past,
when there was no specialization in
business, and when every man had
to be his own carpenter, toilor, boot
maker and merchant. We have out
grown such primitive methods in
every line of work, and the farmer
who Clings to it must inevitably be
left in the wake
Non
does not mean giving up all the time
and attention to one crop but it does
mean finding out what particular
crops the farm is best adapted to
raising, and then making such a
special study of it as to be able to
raise it in perfection. One may have
a rotation of two or three crops
which he needs to study particularly.
These crops are the income makers.
On them the farmer depends for his
cash returns. He does not raise
them to eat himself, or TO exchange
for other goods. He raises them to
sell for money, and then uses this as
he wishes to purchase necessaries or
luxuries. With the attention given
to the special crops the farmer stands
in fair way to keep abreast of the
times, and if he has any time and
land left he can devote them to the
cultivation of variety of smaller
crops for home use. But if both
cannot be raised, it is better to be-
come thorough specialist and de-
vote all the attention to one crop.
A. G. LAIGH.
Adams Co., R. 1.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
NEW PUBLIC LANDS.

All the allOtments on the Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache and Wichita
reservations in Oklahoma have been
completed, the last batch being on
the way from Oklahoma. The Presi-
dents proclamation has been pre-
pared and will be issued in short
time. This will throw open about
10000 acres to public settlement.
EUROPEAN WHEAT CROP POOR.
Reports from Europe assert that
the wheat crop there will be un-
usually short there this year. In
France, the shortage will be so great
as to probably necessitate the i'm
portation of at least $4,000, 900
bushels. France imports wheat
chiefly from the United States and
the Argentine Republic, but the
duties imposed on American wheat
and flour have been practically pro
hibitive since 1895. The figures of
exports of American wheat and flour
to France in 1891 were valued Sl2,-
$40, 1922. In 1892 the expectations
rose to AZ, 139, 488 bushels, valued at
$43, ,633. 1t is also recognized as
inevitable that the cereal harvests
of 1901 in Prussia will show the larg
est and most disastrous deficit that
has been recOrued in recent years,
and that the requirements of the
German Empire in the way of
foreign grown stuffs will far exceed
those of any recent year. Curiously
enough, the only effect so far on
Germany has been to cause the
Agrarians 10 demand further pro
lection for agr cultural products.
A b MARRIOTT.
Washington, D. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
NEWS OF THE FARMING WORLD.

Our Washington Correspondent Tells What
Progress is Being Made in the Various
Sections of the Country.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Secretary Wilson has little fear of
any commercial war that may be
waged upon the United States by
the countries of Europe, saying that
if it holds off till next July we can
not only withstand it with impunity,
but can starve any nation that really
tries conclusions with US. Our new
island possessions will supply US
with practically everything that we
do not grow at home. Mr.. Wilson 8
remarks on sugar, tobacco, rice and
other articles have already been
noted in this correspondence in ad-
ditiOn he now says that we shall soon
raise coffee, rubber, spices and many
other articles in our new possessions.
He says: Several years ago this
Department began to collect speoi-
mems of rubber. At present the
United States buys annually $780,
600, 900 worth of rubber, but the out
look is that we will now be able to
raise in cur new possessions every
bit of the product needed. 1t will
be produced in Porto Rico, Hawaii
and the Philippines, and the result
will be that people using the COM
modify will be able to save many
thousands of dollars in it's purchase.
Another important matter being con-
sidered by the Department. is the
cross breeding of cOttOns, which
when completed, will result in the
estab bEshment of the fine grade of
the product which we are bound to
import from Egypt. About $5,OO0,-
600 worth of this refined commodity
finds it's way here from that region
every year, but after we have fin
ished our experimental work in this
direction we hope to be able to ar
rive at Il combination which will
produce a class of cotton goods as
acceptable as that from the region
of the Nile.
AMERICA WILL CLOTHE AND FEED IT
SELF.
"There is no doubt, he says, "that
this country within few months,
will be in position to ignore every
other nation on the globe in the mat
ter of food products. We will pro-
duCe within our own domain every
thing that goes upon our table and
upon our backs. We will then be,
commercially and industrially, al
most independent of the other ma
tiOns of the world. Hence, any trade
combination which may be effected
against us will count for nothing.
Whenever we get ready we can come
pretty near starving any other ma
tion. Therefore, an effective corn
bination against US will be an i'm
possibility.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
PATCHWORK FARMING.

In Opposing "One Crop Farming Don't Go
to the Other Extreme and Raise no Import.
ant Money Crop.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

The great trouble with the farmer
is, he has too many corns on his
hands and not enough on his head
Ex Gov. W. D. Hoard, Wis.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16

Adams Co., R. 1.
The Marshall republican., 1901-11-01
TIE REAL LADY FROM PnILA.
DELPHIA."
shc VA . 0r~at.0msddaughtsr Of Brn'
jsmin FnSkhn and 0hs Tied 0a'y
R~osutly-On October Is.

Everyone WIN has read the lnlmits.
BILE ''Petcrkin Papers" remembers the
"T.sdy from Phi'sdsiphla." She Il
VS. IN whom The Pstsrkins turned when
they didn't know what 70 d. or how tn
do Il. Comparatively few persons,
however. knew that the Lady" really
lived. that her name was Gillespie,
and thst her grest-grandfather was
Benjamin. Franklin. These facts, which
With many Others equally interesting,
we're brought nut On the occasion NJ
her death In Philsdelphis ths morning
Of OctObsr II, lend additional interest
N . new department just begun In the
Lsdles' Home Journal. called 1.-The
Lady from Philadelphia" The iden.
tity NJ the person WIN conducts this
department 10 withheld. All that 10
vouchsaied II that the new Lady" IL
On authority on oil questions pertain.
Ing TO etiquette, manners and good
form, and each month In the Journal
she will answer such questions regard.
Ing these points . may be sen Ia by
young women.
The Marshall republican., 1901-11-01
MARSHALL = REPUBLICAN,.

Probably 10 no other city 10 the
country 10 this operssion Of the pub
lic school seen 70 bstser advantage
then in Chicago. Aside from New
York there 10 no city IL Which oil The
elements ore present In ouch strength.
Il IL doubtful II even 10 New York
there ere such large proportions Of
oil.
III one will 60 Into the first grade
cf . Bohemiau school-that 10, one 10
which the Children Of Bohemisa per.
sntsge resch - high - 50 and 90 per
cent. of shs sorollment-he will 6ud
Bohemisns. The ideas Of these child.
REQ, the lsogusss. their customs, ere
Bohemian. Some Of them speak moth.
log hus Bohemian. Nov, II the OBJ
server will 70 Into The eighth grade Of
The same school he will 80 what II he's
done towards making this ussioncom.
posite end unified.
These eighth grade children en- no,
oue whit different from the children oi
American parentsge. Greas - 10 ths
difference between them and the child
reu 10 the fret grade, the d~istioctlor
between them and their parents 10 still
The Marshall republican., 1901-11-01

We loan money 1t 8 per CEN on
farm property. No red tspe-borrow.
or reserves the right 10 pay any or oil
principal any interest pay day. Call
and see us.
CONWAY 4 DAWES,
East Side Square.
The Marshall republican., 1901-11-01
V,nNMDc0
AN0nk9yS

All well-all happy-lots
Of fun. That is the regular
report from the monkey cage
Of Barnum's Circus ever since
the keepers began dosing thu
monkeys with SCOTS Emul
sion. Consumption was carry.
ing off two thirds Of them
every year and the circus had
to buy new ones.
One day a keeper accident.
ally broke a bottle Of Scott;
Emulsion near the monke''
cage and the monkeys cagcrl
Tapped it up from the foe.
This suggested the idea that i.
might do them good. Since
then the monkeys have received
regular doses and the keepers
report very few deaths from
consumption. Of course its
cheaper to buy SCOTS Emul'
sion than new monkcys-and
that suits the circus men.
Consumption in monkeys
and in man is the same disease
If you have il or are threaten
2aExe ed with it can you
@3tak the hint?
The Marshall republican., 1901-11-01

During the nIneteenth century the
American Republic hes been ths great
est ri oil the world powers, and The
only one that hes sent The sunshine Of
its civil liberty rsdissiog through sil
the ustiOus, cheering the oppressed
with hopes Of . better future. We b.
love that fully nioesy par cent. Of the
p~superism and crime nov or q suy
other Tina existing 10 The so-cslled
civiIIsed governments Of Europe may
b traoed N the unequal laws end 20.
cisl customs that msiutsln hereditary
mUusrvhles end aristocracies uudes
military rule. Aud that the crime end
psuperism 10 this country ere inherit.
Cd from the crushed humanity Of Eu.
rope, which hes besn sending families
70 us 10 such . low condition msu.
tally and physically that II requires
generations Of our better envioruments
70 III their descendants from the fsl.
Len state Of their parents N the Level
II our better civilization, where they
observe men with the pride Of true
manhood looking each other In The
fscc ~ equals. The wretch (xolgoss
10 not . product Of our civilization.
but thst OF Europe. That . change fos
the better takes place under our laws
cannot be questioned. The men who
come ~ ~ from the nations Ot Europe
so0u drop the timid LOOKS and actions
generated by Unequal laws and Gus.
tOms sud take on the chserful couu'
,enxnce: the 6rm step; and the true
poise Oi Americs.
When We look hack through the
pages ri history Tor civil govern
ment With impartial laws for the bsne.
IL Of the people We fail To discover
any tribe. clan or nation that tuliy
recognized the equal rights OF oil b.
fore the law until the Inalienable rights
Of man We q proclaimed BY the fathers
ri Our Republic; VITO rscoYnix.d The
fact that q shield for such rights wss
necessary and wisely incorporated In
10 the fundamental law Of the land,
that titles of nobility shall not b
granted by the United States.
The American name Of lining thu
fallen humanity Of Europe and giving
II . place In our civilization IL 90 vel
stated 10 the Chicago Tribune by z.
G. Cooley, Superintendent ~ Schools,
thA: We give his Views 10 full. because
what IL beinH done in chicago on .
large scale hss been going on moro q,
less 10 every school district OF the Re
public since the days OF Washington
IL 10 the wOrk that has fused the POI
pie Of oil nstiOnslitiss Into the new
American race that will heresfterdOm
inxts the civilization Of the world:
Mr.. COOley says:
ITO do In years what England dc
In centuries II the tSsk of America
To de- Il would be impossible II II wer,
mt for q institution Of modern civ
ilixatiOn-One which we Of Americ,
are fond ~ believe reaches it, highes
results Ia Americs-the public school
This task which America IL attempt
%ing--psrt Of which 10 being undertaken
by the Chicago schools - they reOpel
ia that Of fusing = dozen nstiOnsli
ties into one.
ut II To he doubted u the school
The Marshall republican., 1901-11-01

from NJ deceive
UEaninaeioos, IN.
detjcn1e Qumejoo-
iaAsmd o6a0zlollD
local tseoemooeA
sli11 IN Wg0 VIII
Gpsne 1oel proe0-
0oaesA Any ack
Woss,aa = inv}esd -
eonsuk d. Fierce,
Settesi fWaed
. svutd Weshodo
which sse o1enslw
10 her msodaey. An
eosrespoodencs =
'heId = sericsly pr.
W. aod 0crodly
eoa6destiA. Al.
oSess d. 4. v.
HeFce.Dudalo.N.Y
d.. Heeca's p
vutte Prsersipeioe
b peculiarly and
particularly msd.
Scine los the cusV
or womauly dc
eases N estab.
1ishes regularity,