The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-28
FALL FESTIVAL IDEA POPULAR
Many Sumter County People Want to At
tend Another Game cacK Carnival.

Pisgah, Sept. 19!-We have repeti-
tion of year before. last in cotton as 1T
is opening all at once, The fields; are
white and the laborers few and hard
to get. The farmers are teEribly wor-
ried because they can't get it cut
and on the market. Some of them
look like they will. soon be fit subjects
for DR.. Babcock's Institution. A dis
tinguished physician of this; country
said that worry hilled more people
than one would believe and it is SO, for
from January to- December it is a
hurry fret and fume,. with lots of peo-
pie, and their guiding star, dollar.
1t all of this bore grand results, there
might be some excuse, bus see notn-
hing more than usual except prema-
ture old age, aud break down Of tiae
nervous system.
Mr.. B. w.. Morris who went from
here to Florida, thence to Georgia, the
first part of the year, has returned
home. He did not find the money on
trees in Florida, except in oranges.
He says the crops in Georgia are not
good. Says South Carolina is good
enough to live in ;. something ALI seasi-
BILE people know.
In letter to the writer from Mr..
John Alfred Mcleod, who has recent
ly returned to his home at Cypress,
Fla, says it is scesehing hot there
The trouble with our rowing popHla-
tion is that any place bat the one
they live at is the best, and no h0ngry
fish ever Jumped at q baited hook
more. eagerly than they swallow every
tale they hear OF fabulous wealth.
The fact is that lots of people don't
want to work and want to beat their
way through life In pleasure and
frolie. Ben Franklin taught the
haughty French Court lesson along
the line of true manhood, that they
did not forget.
News is scarce here. The only noise
hear is the gin whistles.
We country folks would be delighted
if Sumter would have Carnival this
fall. 1t would pay handsomely, and
be such a splendid advertisement for
the city. Those who attended the
one in 1894, know what fine one it
was and Sumte. today is not what she
was then. Lots of goods would be
sold, and people of all sections would
see the fine and substantial improve
ments made in ten years. Pleasant
acouaintances would be made, old
friends would meet again and all
would have fine time If under the
adverse financial troubles the coun-
try labored ten years ago, with cotton
about AZ cents per pound, such hne
Carnival could be gotten up. surely
the matter could be easily provided
for now, for the financial condition of
your city and the CO. airy at large,
would scarcely admit of comparison
with what it was in 1894.
There is a case or two of fever
through this section, which is said to
be malaria, but what could give rise
to malaria here no one knows. for the
health of this community is always
good. Our water is fine and the pure
air of the hill country is proverbial
What branches we have are running
ones, with no stagnant pools to gener-
ate fever. So it must watt in from
other places. If any typhoid develop
as I will let it be known. Down in
the Cato Mill section there were a few
cases of fever last spring, but all have
recovered.
The friends of John Fl. Earle are
Glad he is elected. If he is anything
like his father he will make good
commissioner.