The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-23
SPRING in eua NIL COUNTRY.
Fars, Mork is Well Advanced and the
Cotton Acreage Has Not Been
increased.

Pisagh, March 21.-The warm
weather that We have had for the last
week has made the oats look green.
Peach and plum trees are in fullboom
and the woods are bursting thell
buds, SO in short time we shall have
Spring. I notice that where oats are
5 planted in cora fields and rough land the
sand IS fine, but ON the cotton lands
the stands are poor. FaSm WORE. IS pro-
crossing gery well. Corn planting
kwiu commence this week and II the
weather IS favorable the crop will soon
be planted. ] see NO change IN the
standard crops, or rather In the acre.
{ age and preparation Of other years.
The farmers have long realized the
ntter futilisy Of depending on cotton
for everything and notwithstanding
the high price, good attention will be
paid 60 food crops.
Tobacco as crop viii be asstrapgez
20 Us this year. Ihearof no one who
rs going 30 plant it.Sos I think IT
viii tske It's place in history as one OF
sthe lost arts and JOY GO with IT Tor 1t
Us good riddance.
The grip, colds and coughs IN our
section are gradually disappearing un-
! der the warm spring sun and this is
about al OF the kind Of sickness We
have. -
News is scarce. All are SO busy that
I hear nothing going bat the ringing
of the farm bells, and if they wontd
only ring in unison We would have
music to enjoy, but there are SO many
of them, and the tones SO different
that is is hard to harmonize the
sounds.
Congressman L4ever says that the
decision Of his case viii have a far
reaching effect on politics IN the south.
MI. Mann, chairman Of the elections
committee who wrote the. decision, is
sensible man and stated the matter
as 10 should be. Too much northern
capital invested in the south, for us to
be disturbed politically. as We have
been, then conditions have changed
great deal In the last few years. :.
It IS to be hoped that the Republi-
can rascality in the PostofHce Depart
ment at Washington will be fully ex-
posed. Congress has taken up the
matter, and I hope when the inyesti-
CATION is through thepeople wiM have
some light on Republican methods.
Sam Jones is kicking again about
the dispensary. If hs would trys ito
elevate people from the pulpit to his
ideal of manhood he would be more
successful. It is true the State sells
liquor. but has Eotethe State always
sold it indirectly? SIesthsnk so. "a
man who loads gun to kill, is as
guilty as he who kills. The granting
Of license oseH saequal to selling
indirectly. Iknow not the time when
the State was not a party to- the sale
of whiskey. More whiskey is drunk
now than ever. but there is less
drunkenness. The negroes are the
large patrons OF the dispenary for the
roads and woods where they travel are
full of bottles, even around thei
churches In thick places, ars seen the
bottles. This condition OF affairs will
grow worse until the men who are
opposed TO it will take bolder stand
than they eEer did against it.
This is election year, and soon the
candidates will start to see the dear
people. - For once We hope the cam
paign will be decent and not full OF
that talk which your Hagood corrres-
pondent so pertinently described as
lying sometime ago. A kind Of talk
that has got to be. very popular.