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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
MR.. HAMER TO PLANTERS.
SPINNER and Grower of Cotton Gives
Sound Advice.

The letter below appears in the Dill
Ion Herald, it's author being a promi-
nent planter and president of a cotton
mil. It is full of sound and practical
advice to South Carolina planters:
To Manning Township Planters and
Business Men: AT our Township Cot
ton Growers association I was very
kindly asked to submit for publica-
lion my views as regards marketing
cotton. This I will do later on, but l
am going to unload a portion of my
thoughts for your perusal on rainy
day or when your days work is end
ed. I want 20 preface my remarks
though, by saying first: I am glad
to be a member of the Southern Cot
ton Growers association, because l
believe it to be the most important
organization that has ever been un-
dertaken for the future of the south
and her people. If we don't organize
and perpetuate same our unknown
riches will pass into the hands Of the
far-seeing investors just as the tim
bered lands Of the south have gone.
7 hope and expect to see good cotton
lands sell for $100 per acre and the
world won't be compelled to have
more than 20;000,000 bales Of cotton
in less than 10 years time.
1t may seem strange and even para
doxical to many Of you for a buyer
and consumer of raw material, but
when you recall my dual position of
planter and manufacturer you must
realize my opportunity to greater ap-
preciate the interdependence OF the
farmers and the mills. Without the
mills your cotton would be worthless
and without your cotton the mills
would be so much scrap irons, brick
and mortar. For that reason heartily
commend the most friendly co-opera-
ton of the two, and believe we should
work together for a stable price Of
cotton and relieve the speculator Of so
much opportunity for invetment in
paper contracts and profits. I see lit
tie need for so many middle men to
share the profits in cotton and can but
predict. a Southern growth Of mind
that will exclude all such, just as the
former commission man has been
eliminated and is now almost extinct.
The Sopth's Attractions.
With the increase of years and ex-
perience I appreciate more fully the
blessings of the south, and grow not
only exultant, but buoyant, When I
count and recount her attractions in
climate, oil, minerals, cereals, and last
but far from least, her fieecy staple
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
Give Your stomach Rest.

! eNothing will cure indigestion that
doesn't digest the food, itself, and
give the stomach rest. You can't ex-
pect that a weak stomach will regain
lis strength and get well when it is
compelled to do the full work that a
sound stomach should do. Ycu
wouldn't expect a sick horse to get
well vixen it is compelled to do a
full days work every day in the week.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is perfect di-
gestant and digests the food regard
less of the condition of your stomach.
Relieves Indigestion, Delching, sour
stomach, and all stomach disorders
Sold by all druggists.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
DownwardCourse sc
Fast Beiug Realized by Sum
ter People.

A l;t,le headache a. s:st.
Daily increasirs, TIL the back IS lane
and weak.
Ulna.y i<erders quickly follow
Diabetes and Tiaaily Br;g5::'s disease.
This is the downwar. course Of kidney
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
Beck Brothers company Will

BecK Erotners company VIM ~
crease the capital stock TO $4,000 for
the purpose of conducting a strictly
wholesale dry goods and notion busi-
ness. they will use one of their new
store on Harvin street for an ONCE
and sample room and the OLD Mon
aghan warehouse for heavy goods
temporarily until they can bet their
main building completed. which they
will commence erecting in January on
the corner of Main and Bartiette
streets.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
IL Mad Chase.

*Millions rush in mad chase after
health, from one extreme Of faddism
to another. when. if they would only
eat good food and keep their bowels
regular with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, their troubles would all pass
away. Prompt relief and quick cure
for liver and stomach trouble. 25c At
all druggists; guaranteed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
Cure for Sore Nipples.

*As soon as the child is done nurs-
ing apply Chamberlain's Salve. Wipe
it off with a soft cloth before allowing
the child t. nurse. Many trained
nu,sss use this with the best results.
Price 25 cents per tox For sale by
all druggists.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06

| Cotton has been raised from to Il
cents in less than u months, and now
las promises of acceotation for al
time with 10 cents as a minimum
price. But for this organization mil
lions would have been lost by the
South and the salvation came in time
not only to save the farmers, but the
bankers, merchants and every other
business enterprise. All wealth comes
from the Soil, and had the slump in
the price of cotton come in September
instead Of December, 1904, the very
foundations Of business in the South
would have tottered in ruins. This
only evidences our building upon the
sands rather than diversifying our
CROPS and thus fortifying against cal
antilles of every kind. We are going
| too fast and reaching out too far
in the investment fields, which tends
to make our growth in banks, mills,
etc, top-turvey With bills payable ac-
counts. and foundation too narrow for
| the superstructure. Thus we see
some of our largest institutions yield
ing TO the control and ownership OF
stronger moneyed concerns. Continu-
alton will mean foreign ownership OF
our wealth-pro6ucting institutions,
which our own people should control
and receiving the ACQUIRING profits of.
The seeming want of interest and con-
tribution on the part Of US all and
especially the planters, have a ten
dency to discourage our official heads
and for that reason we should put our
shoulders to the wheel and perpetuate
this organization to man, as success
Of the one means success to the other
in our varied industries. All business
men should be solicited to join and
end their money and influence TO
making the Southern Cotton Growing
association the bed rock for the up
building of our entire people. We
should have a central executive COM
mittee composed of one from each
township, whose duty it should be,
under penalty of 81 fine for absence,
to attend county meeting under the
call and supervision Of the president
of the county association at Marion
each month on the day after the gov
ernment report comes out. They
should bring with them for Informal
ton and comparison views procured
in their respective sections, all fore
casts of weather, conditions Of crop,
amount picked, ginned and marketed,
as near as practicable, to be compiled
in a book Of record, not only for this
crop, but for future reference in this
way q more accurate statement can
be sent to headquarters in Colum-
-:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
4 Fearful Fate.

sit is a fearful fate to have to endure
TIE terrible torture Of piles. " I can
truthfully say writes Harry Colson.
of Masonville, Ia, that for blind,
bleeding, itching and protruding piles,
Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the best
cure made Also best for cuts,
burns and injuries. 25c at all drug
giSts.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
Marketing.

I regard our mode OF marketing TIE
.-op the most defective imaginable,
and as a remedy beg to suggest the
following: Require all cotton to oe
sold through warehouses. where same
an be protected from weather and
fire AT all depots where cotton IS
marketed erect warehouses in proper
ton to the amount OF cotton sold.
Where less fortunate than Dillon IN
having enterprising private citizens to
lend investment to such, start SUD
scriptions and own same through joint
stock companies. Require all buyers
to buy through these warehouses to
prevent pinhooking, and in this way
the weak and the strong, the rich and
the poor will receive equal rights to
all and special privileges to none. .
al cotton brought to the warehouse
should be graded, weighed and re-
ceipted for by transferable receipt,
showing the weight, grade, owner and
amount of insurance carried per bale
The owner of this receipt could thea
use the same as collateral in any
bank, in case the farmer should
need money to meet obligation due.
All cotton should be sold under the
warehouse man, guarantee of weights
and grades, due allowance being
agreed upon for variation above or
below the grades named in receipts,
or the cotton could be arrange
ed in rows according to grade, say
100 bales of middling, 100 strict mid
ding and 100 good middling, and
each buyer could inspect the same
and use his own judgment as to
grades. When certain number OF
bales are sold, say at 1912 cents, the
owner could name his pleasure Of ac-
ceptance to the warehouse man. and
if the price is not satisfactory, simply
turn his storage tag and await the
next regular selling day, which should
be arranged SO as TO not to compete
withwarehouses in adjacent towns.
For instance, let Marion. Latta and
Dillon have alternate days, and thus
enable all the buyers to attend the
sales at each place. Of course the
owners of these warehouses are not
philanthropists," like old-line life
insurance companies, and must be
compensated for their invetmcnt and
time.
Cotton Seed.
The question of cotton seed seems
| dormant and vet the ability of the
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06

L
her mistress Of the financial world
with New Orleans as her Liverpool.
Talk about boycotting the United
States and her cotton? You might IS
we'll talk about boycotting the Chica-
go market or the Standard Oil product
Cotton ranks now second only to food
products in mans necessity, and first
in the commercial product of the
world.
| Let us. see what homage statistics
pay the cotton crop from 1885 to 1905
yielded to the south in round numbers
Is1.SO1,000,000. The crop from 1909
1905 gave to the south in round num-
bers S2,677, 900, 900, sS75, 100000 more
cash for the last five years Of the dec
ade than the first five The crop of
1885 of about seven million bales.
brought in round numbers $292,000,-
900. while the crop Of 1905 Of 14.000.-
] 900 bales, brought sS23, 100000 or a
surplus of s334,0OO,O00 more than the
crop Of ten years ago, which is $50
100000 more than the total crop Of
ten years ago brought
Now we take up the textile statis-
tics and find that the world has about
11s, 100000 spindles with annual con-
sumption of more than 100000
bales of cotton. Of this amount the
south only owns 100000 spindles and
the whole United States only about
"a, 600, 900, with the entire consunp-
T tive capacity Of the United States lin
tied to about 4,250,000 bales per an
mum. She produces 100000 bales
out of the entire production of H.
100000 bales for the whole world
The European Continent Gyms So
000,o spindles and raises a very
limited amount Of the cotton they
consume, While we annually export
more than 100000 bales This
would indicate consumption by thu
wrold of one and quarter million
bales per month, and out Of this more
than 100000 bales per month is TAX
en- from Southern cotton. You can
readily see when you recall that il
seven years an increase in the spindles
Of the South from three to eight mil
lion, with about one million spindle:s
now being added in the United Stat@
and fortysix new mills now being
erected in England, with an aggregate
of four million spindles, that the bal
ance. of trade must come our way and
that very rapidly We are in a line Of
progress and the investing eye is fixed
upon the South, where the guiding
star has shifted from the East and
from the West, and the wise men are
on their way to Bethlehem. It is i'm
perative for US to be alert to the oc-
casion and be ready with means and
might lest the money changers engage
our patrimonies.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06

Rev. Will B. Oliver has withdrawn
his resignation as pastor Of the Flor
ence Baptist church.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06

Diabetes and Tiaaily br':;'.: olsease.
This is the downwar! course OF kidney
ills.
Don't Ike this con-se. Follow the ad-
vice of Sumter citizen.
George w. Hancock. keeper of the jail ,.
Canal st. SAYS: Il have been down in bea
on account of my back several times and suf-
fered tho most intense pain ri@ht across the
sinai; or my back whil felt ju> is il Il lo:. OF
wood was LAYING on it and crushing the life
ont of me and was unable to get from un-
der it. could not turn over without taking
both hands to pull myself. The kidney Sc
cretions were very dark. full Of sediment and
called me out of bed every little while. l
think contracted the disease during the
war away back in 1st3 ard lS6: laying out in
all kinds of weather. exposed TO heat ana
! cold. since then during later years | have
| suffered everything man could suffer ana
| live. used everything could get hold of
| hut potI,jnr seemed 10 touch it, finally saw
| DoanS Kidney Pills advertised and went to
| Dr. \. ! China drug store and procured a
| hoy. They acted like a charm. have used
| three boxes and all the pain in my back has
| left the kidney secretionS have been natural
and feel 4 No l. Doan Kidney Pills are the
| best kidney remedy on earth.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
Foster-Aiilburn CO.. Buffalo. Ny. sole agents
for the United states.
Remember the name-Doan's Sand take nc
other. %
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-12-06
The Association.

There can be no ifs and ands about
the untold and inconceivable good
that mas come to the South from th,e
influence and workings Of the Scuth-
ern Cotton Growers association.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
Perkins and the Luncheon.

Senator Perkins of California never
lunches with Senator Elkins of West
Virginia. although they are the best
of friends. Perkins refuses all over
lures, because he wants to keep up a
joke. Some time ago Elkins invited
Perkins to luncheon. and quite ar
elaborate spread was ordered. In
fact, West Virginia urged California
to more than ordinary extravaganza in
the matter of food and other acces
sories. When the time came for set
Element Elkins went through his peck
cts, but failed to turn up either pocket
book or money.
Perkins, he said, you see how I'm
fixed. You'll have to pay for this
luncheon"
1t was only a short time ago that
Elkins asked Perkins to luncheon, and
the latter said:
mo, no; I went to luncheon with
you once. You can't catch me that
way again. Buffalo Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
YEARS. RAILROAD BUILDING.
Falling Off of rs Per Cent as Com
pared With 1903.

Railway building in the United
States shows falling off of about %
per cent compared with 1903. when
5,7SG miles of new road we're completed.
miles of new road were completed
Official returns for the current year.
not yet complete, shows that 4,16S
miles of first track have been laid
since January last on 800 lines in 43
states and territories, says the Rail-
wa Age. That there would be de-
crease in new mileage this year was
a foregone conclusion on account of
the general business situation.
There is large amount of new
work projected, much of which is still
awaiting financing. The revival of
business, however, since the presiden-
tial election has given an impetus to
railway building which promises
greater activity in 1903. While the
day of parallel railroad building is
practically over, there are many extern
sions and feeders projected which are
needed to develop new territory, and
much important work designed TO
shorten main lines and reduce grades
and curves is planned. One Of the
large Western systems has compre-
hensive plans of this nature, and If
this worl; is undertaken during the
coming year it will mean much to con-
tractors and dealers in material.
According to the last edition of
Poor's Manual, the railway mileage of
the United States at the close of 1903
was ,784 miles. The addition of the
track laid during the past year makes
the total main line mileage Of the
country in round numbers 212,000
miles.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
La Grippe is Epidemic Catarrh.

T spares no class or nationality. The
L cultured and the ignorant, the aris-
tocrat and the pauper. the masses and
the classes are alike subject to la grippe.
None are exempt-all are liable.
Grip is well named The original
French term. la grippe. has been short
ened by the busy American to read
grip"
Without intending to do so, a new
word has been coined that exactly
describes the case. As if some hideous
giant with awful grip had clutched us
in its fatal clasp.
Men. women, children, whole towns
and cities are caught in the baneful
grip of a terrible monster.
Have you the grip? Or, rather, has
the grip got you? If so, read the fol-
lowing letters.
These testimonials speak for them
selves as to the efficacy of Peruna in
cases of la grippe or its after-effects:
A Southern Judge Cured.
Judge Horatio j. Goss, Hartwell, Ga. {,
writes:
''Some five or six years ago had a
very severe spell of grip which left me
with systemic catarrh.
IA friend advised me to try your
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
DANGER IN TOO MUCH STUDY
Mistake to Let Children Be Too Ambi-
tous at School.

Don't let your children overstudy.
Especially is this important for girls
at critical age. 1t is a shame to see
how some of these children are forced
to pore over complicated mathemati-
cal problems in the evening, after a
days work is over AS a consequence,
they often do not sleep soundly, and
their health is undermined. No child
should study in the evening. If they
cannot learn enough during school
hours, then let them do without it..
What is the use of so much knowl-
edge-often more or less useless
knowledge-to a child whose health
is ruined? Dr. Hills editor of the
Medical Times. truthfully says:
"Our school system has become
largely a crammer of juvenile brains
The examining Injuries the delicate
nervous system on the one hand. and
exposes the muscular and alimentary
systems to injury, besides. Los
Angeles Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27

To the housewife who has not yet
become acquainted with the new things
of everyday use in the market and
who is reasonably satisfied with the
old. we would suggest that trial Of
Defiance Cold Water Starch be made
at once. Not alone because it is guar
anteed by the manufacturers to be SUI
perior 20 any other brand, but because
each 10c package contains IS ozs.,
while all the other kinds contain but
IL ozs. 1t is safe to say that the lady
who once uses Defiance Starch will use
no other. Quality and quantity must
win.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
Doctor Knew II Could Not Be.

DR.. w. w. Keen, the Philadelphia
surgeon, has number of scrap books
filled with anecdotes about physicians
These anecdotes are odd from the
fact that they all throw upon physi
clans most unflattering light. To
illustrate their character, Dr. Keen
quoted one of them recently.
"A physician was driving through
the street. he said. "A friend stopped
him.
Doctor, said the friend, anxiously,
"have you heard that horrible story
about williamson?
"'No,' said the doctor. What story
is that?'
"a story to the effect that he was
buried alive
Buried alive?' said the doctor. I'm
possible. He was one of my patients -
Golfers Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
Deafness Cannot r. Cured

BY local applications they cannot reach the dis
eased portion of the There Is only one way 70
cure Deafness and that Is by onal remedies
Deafness is caused by an infamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustschlan Tube. When this
tube IL tnaamed you have II rumbling sound or I'm
perfect hearing and when 1t Is entirely closed Dear
ness is the result and unless the be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal condi
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases
out Of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing
but an infamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case OF
Deafness caused by catarrhl that cannot De cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
+. j. CHENEY CO., Toledo, y.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
BUY OLD ARTIFICIAL TEETH.
GreWscme Trade That Is Quite Com.
mon in New York.

yes said the dealer in assorted
curlos, I'VE buy and sell old artificial
teeth Curious thing to trade in, isn't
it? But there's quite a thriving little
business done in them. The idea OF
handling the molars that once did
service in the mouths of dead folks
might seem grewsome to some minds;
but all's grist that comes TO our mill.
I'VE get these teeth mostly from
the relatives Of persons long departed
and their intrinsic value consists in
the gold, silver, platinum and rubber
used in their construction, for the
teeth themselves have little value.
The sets have probably collected dust
for years in bureau drawers where
they were tenderly placed after the
funeral as a memento of the dead
ones. Some day a reverse overtakes
the family and the gold plate as
sumes new value: it will help pay
the rent What tales of grief they
represent are never known to us. We
pay different prices, according to the
value of the metal on the teeth.
MANY of our customers have par
ticular fads. One will collect fans,
another old watches, another pewter
ware, still another old pictures, and so
on down the list. There are collect
ors who make specially of old teeth,
though for what purpose is not known
e.,
their time and money; and if it's no
other benefit it circulates the COIN
New York Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
The Cost of lmpatience.

In the impatient mood we are APT
to spend far more than is required in
the doing of our work, and the excess
is lost. We cannot estimate the value
of the power thus misplaced. When
the impatient mood becomes the habit
of lifetime you can understand that
failure, and perhaps loss of health and
energy, are inevitable.-Emily S. Bou
ton, in Magazine of Mysteries.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27

and well-endowed gentleman, Is also
widely known as successful and mas.
ter railroader, respected in business
for sagacity and fairness. AS a pas
scnger traffic man he has been widely
known and justly popular. During the
late worlds fair he made a most en-
viable record, and is now president
of the st. Louis association Of general
passenger agents. Mr.. Hilton succeeds
Bryan Snyder.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27

Life-saving runs in the family OF
Mr.. J.. Parsons, young lighterman,
OF the Hollows, Brentford, who, on his
twenty-third birthday, received the
Royal Humane Societys certificate for
rescuing two boys from drowning.
His father saved forty-eight persons
from drowning, and the son now has
a total of twenty-three lives to his
credit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
A Rara Good Thing.

fam using ALIENS FOOT-EASE, and
can truly say would not have been without
1t so long, had known the relief it would
give my aching feet. think it rare good
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet
Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence R. L"
Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Ask today.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-27
The Clock.

The ceaSeless clock still spins the thread
That knows no break but for the dead
Its hands forever onward haste;
Sigh not, lover for the past.
Each minutes new, strange each hour:
The past to you shall come no more.
The hours gone no more shall be;
They live alone in memory.
Hope forever: love will last.
Sigh not, lover. for the past.
Charles +. Milroy