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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-10-07

A fsw more nice hammocks to be sold
at cost to close out. Two or three
which will be sold for 81 each are ex-
ira bargains. II. G. Osteen & 20.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-10-07

WANTED-Purchasers for several
Berkshire Gilts. Can be mated to
thoroughbred Boar, no kin. Not
registered, but no finer stock in the
county. Too good for breeders, to
make pork of them. Prices reasonable.
Apply to Egypt Farm, E. W. Dabbs,
Manager, Goodwill, S. G.
Sent. 9-tf.
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China's Drug Store.

FOR SALE Sewing Machine in
good condition. Apply at Watchman
and Southron Office. Setp. 30-2t.
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EGGS-Barred Plymouth Rock
Eggs. Sitting of g Sl.00. For sale
ry N. G. Osteen. Sept. 30-2t
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$1oo,ooo.oo Capital.
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of Sumter, S. G.

THE Com ptroller of the Currency nav
ing approved the increase of the Capitaf
of this Bank to S10O,0O0U0, depositors
now have as security for their deposits
Capital, 500, eco 90
Stockholders Individual Liza
bility, 100000 oe
Surplus and Undivided Prof
its, 25,ooo 0c
Total Security for Depositors, S225.ooo 90
ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN CITY OF SUMTER
Largest Capital of any Bank in this
section of South Carolina
Strongest Bank in Eastern part of this
State.
Interest allowed on deposits to limited
amount.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
A. j. CHINA, President.
NELL O'DONNELL, Vice President.
81. D. BARNETT, R. D. LEE.
G. A. LENNON, JOHN REID,
E. P. Kicker.
R. L. EDMUNDS, Cashier.
R. D. LEE, Solicitor.
BOOKKEEPERs.
j. L. McCallum, D. j. VIM, J-.
Oliver L. Yates.
July 3O-3no
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
THE MODERN ROBIN HOOD.

We have recently had chance to
note the library buildings which in a
half a dozen towns visited and which
may be found all over the country are
now in course of erection, the gifts Of
multimillionaire so called philanthro-
pists. While not questioning the good
which may result from these gifts we
have never yet looked at one with q
feeling of unalloyed appreciation Of the
philanthropy evidenced in the gift. We
cannot get rid of the feeling that some
thing is radically wrong where it is
even possible for one man to be so gem
erOus in his benevolences. The ques-
ton is being asked by the farmers Of
America and will have to be answered,
Why, If the accumulation of such
wealth as lies back of these libraries
and colleges is an impossibility for ag-
riculture, the base and foundation Of
our national prosperity, should men In
other. fines Of business be granted the
privilege? Robin Hood held up the aris-
tocr4t> and the wealthy and gave his
pilfering to the poor, and SO Robin be-
came a benevolent outlaw. Our TWEEN.
tfeth century Robin Hood should be
elected to congress-.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
THE FARM OR 5000 A YEAR.

A man on a good quarter section Of
land was complaining because he had
not made anything the past year and
expressed regret that his brother who
was clerk in town bank at a salary of
5000 a year, was so much better off
than he was. A friend did little fig
uring for him and easily proved that
he was all wrong in his conclusions. 1t
figured out something like this: The
bank clerk got 5000, out of which he
had to pay $3.50 for rent of house, ,leav-
ing $500 with which to meet all the
other many expenses of living for him.
self, wife and three children. He really
had hard work to make both ends meet.
The brother on the farm had had his
house rent, the best board for him
self, wife and three children and wife's
mother, their clothing and all house
hold comforts. There was a new $500
barn which had been built; there were
ten head more cattle, thirty more hogs
and three more colts than a year pre-
vious, a new surrey tn the barn and
$3.50 worth Of new machinery, all either
produced on the farm or paid for from
the products raised ON the farm during
the year. "Hold on" said the farmer.
81 see that am an old fool"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
IN COLD CLIMATES,

AS general proposition 1t never
hurts men to freeze them up for two or
three months during the winter season.
In way it toughens them physically,
compels industry to provide the neces-
sites of life-food to eat, fuel to burn
and clothes to wear-incidental to such
freezing process, and this effort to
live under such conditions develops the
man. The love Of life, the law of self
preservation, operates only to the point
Of providing the minimum means Of
maintaining life, and SO it follows that
in all countries where such living can
be obtained with a minimum of effort
there will the most poorly developed
types of manhood be found. Thus 1t
comes that frost and low temperatures,
Notwithstanding all the attendant dis
comforts. are important factors In
mans development.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
ALFALFA AS A FORAGE CROP.

We are asked some questions about
the A B Cs of alfalfa, what it is, how
it grows, what it is good for, etc. While
SUCH queries may seem almost unneces-
sary i'm the west, it should not be for
gotten that east of the Missouri river
alfalfa is new and but little known
forage plant. For the benefit Of those
who know but little about it we say
that it is one of the oldest known for
age plants, is Of the clover family, pos
sessing the power of nitrifying and en-
riching the soil upon which 1t grows,
but unlike clover, which is biennial, 1t
lives for many years; its roots reach
far and deep for permanent moisture,
and this fact renders it largely indiffer-
ent to drought 1t is richer in protein
or heterogeneous properties than any 9TH
err of our common forage plants, and
herein lies it's great value. 1t is very
productive, from two to five crops a
year being harvested. Stock of all kinds
is extremely fond of it, either green or
cured as hay, and it is so nutritious
that it largely takes the place Of grain.
1t will not grow on all soils, and, while
1t seems to thrive anywhere when the
soil is under a system of irrigation,
where this is wanting the conditions
must be such as to permit its roots to
find supply Of permanent moisture at
depth of from eight to ten feet be-
meath the surface. The plant has so
much inherent value to all farmers that
careful experimenting with it will pay
any farmer anywhere. The seed may
be obtained from any seed house. 1t is
known by the name of lucerne in Eu-
rope.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
Original Notice.

In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in
and for Winnesheik County.
Gaar, Scott & Co, plaintiffs, VS.. A. w. SAT-
ford, f. o. Stafford and Geo. w. Higgins,
Defendants.
ToA. w. Stafford, f. o. Stafford and Geo. w.
You are hereby notified that there is now
on file the petition of Plaintiff In the above
entitled cause in the Office of the Clerk of the
District curt OF the State of Iowa, in and for
Winnesheik county, claiming of A. w. Stafford
bred and Twenty Dollars, money as justly
due from you, and interest thereon at . per
cent from the 2St day of February, A. ID. 1901,
on four certain pIomissory notes executed by
said A. w. Stafford and 4. o. Stafford to Plain
tiff; and claiming of said A. w. Stafford and
Il. o. Stafford and said Geo. w. Higgins the
further sum of Eight Hundred and Seventy
from tebi nary %, l90, on two certain prom
issory notes executed by said Defendants tn
Plaintiff, and claiming also an attorneys fee
of S65, as provided in said notes
And asking also for the foreclosure OF a
certain chattel mortgage executed by the
Defendants A. w. Stafford and +. o. Stafford
to secure the payment OF said notes, said
mortgage bearing date of March II, 1901; and
for costs and equitable relief.
And that unless you appear thereto ana
defend before noon of the second day of the
next term, being the May, 1903, term of said
Court. which will commence at DEBORAH,
Iowa, on the nth day of May, 1908, default
will be entered against you and judgment
and decree rendered thereon as provided by
law.
Dated the 10th day OF February, A, ID. 1903
CARR, HEWITT, PARKER 4 WRIGHT
AND DAN SHEA,
IA Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
Sherif's Sale.

BY virtue of special execution. issued out
of the office of the Clerk of The District Court,
in and for Winnesheik county, State of Iowa.
dated the oath day of February, A. ID. 1903, and
to me directed and delivered, / have levied
on the following described real estate, situate
in Winnesheik county, Iowa to-wit:
Lots One % and Three (3) of the Northeast
Quarter "a of the Southwest quarter "a OF
of 5th p. NJ, and which said premises are
more particularly described as follows, to-wit:
Lot One (l) aforesaid: commencing Two ~
rods South and Two (2) rods West OF the GEN.
ter of said Section Thirty five (35), thence
West Four az chains, thence South One ~
chain, thence East -Four (4) chains, thence
North One () chain to beginning.
LotThree q aforesaid: co n mencing Ten Q0l
rods South and Two ~ rods West of center OF
said Section Thirty-five $3.50, thence West -Four
al chains, thence South One Q) chain, thence
East Four (i) chains. thence North One ~
chain to beginning.
Which property | shall expose for public
sale as the law directs, on Saturday, the 18th
day of March, A. ID. 1903. at the hour Of 10
of the Court House in DEBORAH. in said County,
or so much thereof as shall be necessary to
satisfy judgment for the sum OF Four Hun
bred and Forty Dollars, Damages, with inter-
est from the 3rd day of February, 1903, at the
rate OF five per cent per annum, and Thirty
two Dollars, attorneys fee, and Eighteen
Dollars, costs, which Ole o. Hove recovered
on the Sd day of February, 1903, in the District
Court Of said County, against Mary Ann FL
lingson and Is Ellingson together with In
teTest and accruiDg costs.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, February q, 1903.
DAN SHEA GEO. MIZENER,
50 Attorney for Plaintiff. Sheriff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

With absolutely inexhaustible sup
plies of both anthracite and bituminous
coal, with the best mining methods and
machinery in the world and the most
complete system of transportation, the
American people are today importing
coal from foreign countries and being
frozen out and held up for famine
prices for fuel because they have not
sense enough to settle purely econom-
ic question without hurting all the peo-
ple.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The work Of the farmers institutes
Is taking on more comprehensive and
practical form this winter than ever
before. In connection with such insti-
tutes there are now being exhibited
samples of farm produce, corn especial
ly, an exhibit in which the farm boys
are competing. Special sessions devoted
to domestic economy are held for the
ladies and are well attended. The leav-
en- of an improved system of agricul-
ture Is at work all over the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The element of thrift, quality made
up Of small economies coupled with
persistent and patient industry, so no
ticeable In most of the poorer foreign,
ers who come to this country, trait
the outgrowth of the hard conditions
of the fatherland, almost insures the
prosperity of these people under the
more favored conditions here. 1t is a
quality in which the native American
is sadly deficient, the lack Of which ac-
counts for no little failure and pow
erty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Hundreds of farmers wives have
each sold from $500 to $500 worth of
poultry and eggs which they have
raised OH the farm the past year. This
makes the hens which may be kept in
an ordinary way upon the average farm
as good money makers as dairy of
from six to ten average cows, and not
as much trouble to care for.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Professor Koch of Berlin, the emf.
nent bacteriologist, is given $3.50 day,
his expenses and the assistance of two
high priced aids by the British South
African company to 90 to South Africa
to study the cattle plague which has SO
country. There are hundreds of other
German professors who are glad to get
500 year
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

II we were going to experiment with
alfalfa, we would SOW it on a tract up
on which clover had been the previous
crop, If we could do so, the probability
being that the bacterial life left there
by the clover would also be favorable
to the alfalfa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The big state fairs have just about
exterminated the smaller county fairs,
the average farmer preferring to put
his time and money in an outing at the
big show. We regard this as posi-
tive misfortune to the best interests Of
agriculture.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

On the 160 acre farm there should al
ways be not less than twenty acres in
clover, this clover patch to be moved
about from year to year SO as to cover
all the arabic portions of the farm
every five or six years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Wherever the catalpa will grow and
do well there it should be planted ex-
tensively as a forest tree. 1t does not
seem to do well north of latitude 40,
growing slowly, crooked and gnarly.
North of this line the larch and white
ash should be substituted for 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

--Pimples, faded complexion. chap
ped skin, red, rough hands, eczema,
letter, bad blood, cured in short
time, with Rocky Mountain Tea, the
great complexion restorer. r. A.
Engbretson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Many county boards of supervisors
are buying stone crushers and will be-
gin systematic plan Of matchmaking
the public highways. These crushers
can be operated by an ordinary thrash
ing engine and set up at any place
where stone suitable for the purpose
can be obtained. These machines will
crush hard heads as well as limestone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

There are two agencies which can be
made to promote the improvement Of
the public highways, paupers and pa
triotism. The splendid highways Of
European countries are the outgrowth
of the pauperism of the common people
of those countries-road work or star
walton. America should substitute pa
triotism, such enthusiasm and commu-
nifty of interest In the securing of good
roads as will in a very few years give
us the best of highways.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

A reduction of the size of the farms
compels a study of intensive agricul-
ture, the production of two crops where
one grew before. This in turn compels
study of the scientific side of agricul-
ture and elevates it from a mere hap
hazapd business to the level of the pro-
fessBns.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The year 1902 brought some record
'reaking sales of fine cattle In price
obtained, the Hereford bull Perfection
going at $4,000 to an Illinois breeder
and the Angus bull Prince Ito going to
another Illinois man at 5000, while
the Angus heifer Black Cap Judy went
at $4,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

One feeder finds turnips a very valu-
able aid in fattening his steers. While
there is not much fat in the turnips,
they are greatly relished and serve as
an appetizer and aid to digestion. In
England feeder would not know how
to fatten a steer or sheep without tur-
nips.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

All through the soft corn territory
are to be found men, and lots of them,
who to save their crop bought stock
These cattle are already being rushed
to market half fat and wholly unfnish-
ed and sold at big loss to the owner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The material for some very tooth
some pies and sauce can be procured
early in the season by removing one or
two pieplant roots to the cellar in the
fall and covering with earth. The
shoots will soon show up tender and
white. The root should be well frozen
before removal
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

With all the many improved appli-
ances in use in the abattoirs of the
country all animals are still killed by
hand, knock in the head or a slit in
the throat still being the most effective
and humane method to be employed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Sleep in q warm bed in winter-if
you can. This getting into cold bed
and trying to warm it with the heat of
the body is folly and heavy drain on
ones vitality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The men in the north Countrywide ex-
treme northern limit of the corn belt
are always fooling with the big corn of
the south country, and nearly always
to. their sorrow. Northern cornfields
should be planted with northern grown
seed and of those varieties only which
will mature in 100 to 10 days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Larch trees grown on good land and
properly cared for are worth $500 per
acre for telephone poles when they are
thirty years old.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The cotton crop Of the south aggre-
gates 100000 bales of 400 pounds to
the bale, or $3.50, 100000 pounds, worth
about 8 cents per pound, or $4S5, 000,-
600. No wonder the south is prospecting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The Brown Swiss, rare variety of
cattle in the west, show up as great
dairy animals, COW of this breed hav-
ing an authenticated test of 1926, 3.O3
and 8.14 pounds of butter for three
successive days. Few cows of any
breed can beat this record.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The good management of farm is
indicated by the keeping of a grassy
headland around the margin of the cul-
<tivated field. When in grass, it is pre-
supposed that such strip will be moved
and thus a dirty fence row of weeds
prevented.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Shocked corn, clover hay and sheaf
oats is a pretty cheap and well bal
anced ration for any kind of stock, and
it may be all grown on the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Lots Of the big 1902 crop of corn is
still in the field, involving a loss of
over % per cent of the crop. Too much
wet, too much corn, too little help.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

The growing of pumpkins and squash
near melons, while not affecting the
appearance of the melons, does materi-
ally affect them to the detriment of
their flavor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

One form of agricultural cruelty is to
put two or three calves on one cow and
let them worry her down to a skeleton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
A NEW GARDEN OF EDEN.

A volume of water eighty feet wide
and six feet deep, moving four miles an
hour, has been taken from the Colorado
river and turned on the desert of south
ern California. With the water have
come a railway and municipaland urban
develOpment-banks, stores, churches,
schools, groves, orchards, homes. Near
ly million acres of land will be as COM
pletely changed as when chaos was con-
verted into the garden of Eden. Given,
as there, abundant and unfailing water,
a tropical heat, winterless season and
perennial sunshine, what may not be
done? In no other thing is the genius
and enterprise of America to be more
manifest than in this seizing and inn
prisoning the vagrant flood waters of
the mountains and loosing them on the
desert, when wealth follows In the
wake Of the water.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Machinery is knocking the poetry out
of the corntield. No more pumpkins
among the corn, for they are in the
way of the corn harvester.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

A cuckoo clock on twelve party
country phone line gave away an open
phone and listener.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

Fewer acres and bigger crops, fewer
cattle and better ones, lessening of
farm wastes and the selling of finished
farm products is the code Of the up to
date farmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

1t costs from 50 to 81 per rod to
gravel a road, depending upon the dis
lance which the gravel has to be
hauled.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

All field crops save the legumes-
clover, alfalfa, beans, peas and their
relatives-remove more or less fertility
from the soil, some crops, such as to-
bacco, fax, millet and cotton, being al
most soil robbers, while wheat, oats,
barley and rye are heavy feeders, corn
OF all our common crops drawing the
most upon the sun and air and least
upon the soil. The legumes referred to
possess the happy faculty Of appro-
priating the free nitrogen in the air and
depositing it in the soil as available
plant food, and thus become enrichers
instead of impoverlshers OF the soil. 1t
may thus be safely said that no farm
is well farmed where the legumes are
wholly wanting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

If COW is kept a year just to raise
one calf, the calf must be top nOtcher
to make it pay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

'.Does it pay to keep sheep on sew
enty-five dollar an acre corn belt
farm?" we are asked. Yes, provided
the man who keeps them is a sheep
man, otherwise not. The objections to
sheep are that special and extra fenc-
ing is required as they spoil the pas
ture for the other stock. On the other
hand, they keep the farm free from
weeds and use up much roughage
which but for them would be wasted.
The pound of mutton can be produced
as cheaply as the pound of pork or
beef, and there is the wool besides.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25

1t is easier to cheat horse jockey
than the soil.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
MIN n ESoTA
IOWA
MISSOURI
WISCONSIN

The Chicago, Milwaukee Il st. Paul
Railway Company has 5000 miles of
railway in this territory of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-25
Locations for Industries
NORTH
DAKOTA
| SOUTH
DAKOTA

EXP, Pass. &
Fast Freight
Trains,