The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-06-28

to be put on the road. It will be a
great convenience to have it make
connection with the morning and
evening train at Alcolu.
PISGAH.
Pisgah, June 26.-It is hot! II you
can't realize it in Sumter come up
here and stay in the. sun all day and
you will soon know that it is so.
The dry weather and hot winds are
playing havoc with the corn, which,
to say the least, is not promising for
| a crop. Cotton is holding its own yet,
but all crops need rain badly and the
prospect to get it at present is not
good. If this dry weather continues
long the crop will be a, short one, as
| it has been an expensive one.
The varieties Of cotton seed sent
by the government are being planted.
Some have their entire crop planted
with them this year.
The watermelon crop is almost a
failure. Very few have any worth
speaking Of.
Gardens are burnt to death and we
are about as dry for vegetables as
we were in the winter.
Much sickness is about Of different
types, but none very serious as yet.
I understand that typhoid fever is
showing itself in different places. I
would advise my farming friends to
use lemons very freely this hot
weather and they viii find them
very beneficial, especially to avoid fe-
yer and keep the system in good or
der. For this bit of advice make
no charge, and with no desire to in
terfere with the medical fraternity.
I notice that the prohibition senti-
ment is coming to the front and the
fellows that want to get into Office are
catching on. The writer of this arti-
Gle is as much a prohibitionist in be-
lief and practice as any man in this
state, but does not view it from the
standpoint that prohibitionists gen.
orally do. Under the decisions Of the
United States court a man has the
right to send out Of the state for
whiskey, and the police power Of the
state can't prevent him or seize it
when it arrives. 1t is constitutional
law that every man has the right to
buy what and when he pleases, then
ii prohibition prevailed what hinders
a man to import wlniskey for personal
use, and blind tiger it out to those
who are not able to import it, and
won't it be done? Is it not better to
buy it openly under the forms Of law
than secretly in a SLY and underhand-
ed manner? But you say catch him
and punish him. But how are you go
ing to do it? We have a most strin-
gent law against carrying pistols
How many are caught and punished
under it? Opportunities are on every
hand for the state is a walking ar
senal. It is true every now and then
some poor devil is made to pay the
the piper, but even those instances. are
few and far between. We hear OF
dispensary whiskey as blood money,
but has a dollar of it ever been res
fused on salaries? If so, name case.
The finest and best young ladies OF
the land teach and are paid in part
by whiskey funds. Have any ever re-
fused it? If so tell US about it. know
Of none, and yet these ladies represent
the highest type Of citizenship. II
Ben Tillman fastened the dispensary
law on the state why don't the people
order it repealed by electing leg1sla-
tors to that end? They have had all
opportunities to do so since Ben Till
man left the state government. A
congressman voted for prohibition
resolution in a Democratic county
convention and Immediately on ad-
iornment Of the body went to bar
room and took a drink. On being
twitted for being so inconsistent said:
You think I'm going on record
against prohibition, even if I do