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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-04

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Dalxell. March 2.-Wc are at last
having some hne weather to work.
and tho farmers are trying to max ,
good use Of the time. Some Of US
are somewhat behind With our work,
the. land being too wet to work.
There y considerable fertilizer be-
Ing hauled now. and Judging from all
appearances about the same amount
OF fertilizers will be used a. last sea-
son. and the same amount OF cotton
planted. Hope the farmers won't for
set Last years experience. buying corn
and hay. ~ a.
Well your !. correspondent had q
very plsasant trip through South
Georgia few dayv ago. Leaving
Sumter on the 3oth instant. went
to charleston and spen, Friday. until
11.o7 Friday Light In Charleston I
think the biind tis4zS are. doing the
beat buAnsn In tho. place. Leaving
Charleston for, Savannah We were
detained two and. enc half hours on
the road on account sof . wreck. We
arrived In savanuAA at daylight.
which save me Q chance for seeing
the country. Wan. We started for
Waycsoas. and must say for miles
and miles We went through some Of
the worst booking country hare ever
sssn. Arriving at waycrcss We chang
cd cars for Thomasville. well, we
saw . lot moro Of awful had looking
country. We found vaidosta very
nice looking town. and e. We neared
Thonasvills the country began to
look better. We arrtved In Thomas-
Whey Saturday about O'Clock. and
must ~ I was very much pleased
With tho places TIE principal streets
49, paved with brick. the sidewalks
WITH cement and kept very neat 7
found the people very clever. Wis
itsd 1r. w. u. Noreland ana his
sonA VINO many win remember left
th6 eemmunaty about ~ years ago.
! toand them al Somfortabiy situated
IN good homes Of their own. and sur.
rouAdsd with plsnty.
Thonas county - not 70 much OF
. cottsa county. Their principle
ssSpS are esssi b,nAsss. melons INA
spear eshs. There ars iots OF nne
psar trehAsA1 wS,<xs (Asy. tsii. mo
grow 20 pprtSStSSA. They 6bA.t hEvs
tAs sesck ~ {hsrs, - We. kaSs. Ana
thsy sssss ,sts u ipSs kAA' eSWjs
whiek the setk me pay better thsn
cettsa. Thsv plant. t&ejr c6tA Ab.ut
e1.s fsst Ia the Fews with . raw 81
paaAsrs IN The middle. Their hogs
tekhsr the }phsdsfs., and got tat
which II ar tetter than hayin9 TO
'tss4 them from tho barn 70 fattep
1hsm, ihsrs 10 considerable turpaS- {
sins. worked cut thsrs. !, We NV lots
pt 'HSw bokss tye cut and II looks
ifk6t I'm r cur some - small q We
~ 6siN ndt ;nvsr sixs xsinches through.
ana ~ - ceuld ~ reached with
q 1e-teot Peis, II looks IKE law
snsht - bscnis. ths timber being
ruined 70. N.ea ~, T.
Lots of tourists 90 10 Thomasville
for tho winser. and several Northern
people have beautiful residences built
out IN the pine woods. which they
occupy Airing thu winter. ,.,,t
We never saw but one mon In Geor-
ala who looked like he was under the
influence Of whiskey. and he was In
Savannah Wednesday night az we
came home. and we were told there
Il = plenty In savannah Nv. II the
state II dry
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-04

Some members of the legislature
are going to find the lien law staring
thnm in the face IL they cffer for re.
election Anderson Nail,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-04

II the South Carolina legislature
wore brass band every mtmber
would want 20 blow the frst ccrnct.-
Andesscn Mall.
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oZDcD 40 CoRRE1P0NDENTs.
90 yeus lssssss - tA@& thsy win
u4sA ~ eenss noe iatsr th&A russ-
- nesnine. WAsn ths lsttsp are
-oc0ve1 Wednssoav q y a,nost sn
Uon11a1tv - have thsa appsar IN
- 0aoo h.es1 thas day.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-04

Col. Richardscn spent q most enjoy.
able. but too ficeting. stay!
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-04

The entire native population Of 81
IBERIA does not exceed 100000.
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wRrvrs' BIRD FOES.

sc1eufists Find Relief From Cotton
Bon Evil-Favorite Food OF Many
Bifds. t
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LII e0lsEsPeNDEIce.


- q lnNNsss Essa - Parss Of
ouDe~ snd AAtn1nang oounsiss.
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Uliaeky. March a.-rhs past week
-vas in1snssly cold and some snow fell
- ths t7th. bAs the weather has
pneessus<d rsstsy ths past three
G1YS ana today n quite warm and
0io1y. s-'@s A,ss.NN
vssy little presrss has besn made
80 fnrsn worn up 10 this tine.
eoens Of the farmers exrect to
unese . few aesss Of corn thiS week.
1osrs b isss sictnsss IN the cmmunity
- Nan IN several wsslA There are
- sesre cases OF grippe Among the
0Doered DbIlxa y = S s'NiN
NJ. and Mr.. Percy stuckeyy sof
1luAspuiis. visited relatives hsre yss-
ospAy. $50
~ death Of Mr.. J., n. spears. Of
uo1Ascvilies wus shock to his
ouosaAs He haA many warm friends,
Asss ard slsrwhsrs. who were xrisved
- hsar ef hss sad death. Mn. Spears
- tAc synapsthy Of the entire COM
AnHsalty IN her great ansiction her
osshsS having disd but two months
80. tN
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-03-04

The following players have been
signed by the Anderson team, con-
tract with whom have been recogniz-
ed by Secretary Farrell Of the nation
al association.
Pitchers-Reuther and Retzch. Gin
cinnati; Watkins, Columbia; Harry
Chapman. Nashville, Tenn. and Rube
Waddell, Cairo, Ill.
Catchers-George Foley. Buffalo, n.
T.. Daniel Farrell. Cincinnati; Ted q.
Swink. Woodruff. 8. c.. George Wood.
Atlanta. and G. Schraffcnberger Cin-
cinnati.
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Carlton Buesse, who managed the
Orangcburg team in the State league,
has been selected to guide the destiny
Of the Spartans this year. Buesse Is
now in Atlanta. Ca. his home. where
he Is engaged in securing a string Of
fast players. He writes most en-
couraginsly OF tho outlook and says
that he will 60 to Spartanburg with a
bunch of Is athletes fer a tryout on
the team. Among the players signed
are some Of last years material.
among them being O'Mara, pitcher:
Armstrong. pitcher; Watson. third
base; Mckenzie, second base: Benbow.
arst base; Martin, shortstop. Benbow
is from Greensboro, N. c.. and Is q
veteran player. having played in
many leagues! He is known as the
preacher" because OF his quiet. easy
manners. He carries his Bible with
him when he goes on the road and
reads It diligently.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-04-24
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THE COLLECTORS.
I wasn't but a little boy
When I collected butterflies;
And next I took to postage stamps,
And then cigar bands were the
prize.
I had a lot OF birds eggs, too,
And horseshoes-some were red
with rust,
My hornets nests were thrown
The maid said they collected dust.
But mother whispered not to mind,
For she, had a collection, too,
And showed me Just the queerest lot
A baby's cap-a small pink shoe.
A rubber COW, yellow curl,
A ragged book OF A B c.,
A letter, thick with blots, I wrote.
When she was once away from ME.
I wouldn't give a quarter for
The stun, but mother thinks it's
fine,
And only laughed when l remarked
1t wasn't valuable. like mine.
But when 1t comes to keeping things
She gives me pointers, you can bet!
/ sold or snapped mine long ago.
But mother has her rubbish yet!
-Eunice Ward, in Harper's Magazine.
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Woman HiqhWayrhen.

We live in an age which strains
much after new sensations, but the
three Breslau ladies who carried out
a daring night attack on the public
road upon two military officers have
probably eclipsed all records.
The officers belonged to the garri-
son of Neisse, and they were going
in a carriage to visit a brother officer.
when, at a lonely part of the road.
the vehicle was stopped by a rough
looking tramp, while two others burst
open the door and attacked the two
officers, whom they belabored unmer.
cifully with heavy sticks, and were
only disarmed after severe strug.
gle.
On being examined at the police sta
ton, the "rufians." to the stupefac-
ton of all concerned except them
selves, proved to be three well-known
ladies belonging to the society of the
district. They laughed hard over
their adventure, as they styled 1t, and
assured the officers that their only
object was to play a prank Of the prac-
'tical-joke description.
Smarting from the sound cudgelling
they had received, the officers could
not be brought TO see matters in this
Falstaffian light, and the ladies are
to be duly prosecuted for violence
on the kaiser's highway.-Pall Mall
Gazette.
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sculptor is a mere mechanic. There
is no higher form OF art than that
which deals wth the intelligent man
tpu.aticl CT animal life, the modellin :
Ct living breathing creatures in ac-
ccrdance with the will and s;1pcse OF
4 guiding mind. 1t risez in its
boundless possibilities to heights that
are fairly gci,ikc. 1t sounds the
depths of the profoundest mysteries
CT physical existence. verging on the
borders of the infinite itself. The
weird Of human endeavcr presents no
nobler field Of action, no realm of
thought demanding a higher order Of
ability"
Truly. then, this great science OF
agriculture may well be called the
master science, and what ether in.
dustry can man choose where there
is better advantage for cultivating
those higher ideals that elevate mans
life?-New York Tribune.
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TIgISH-KOBANISIC.

Ten-year-old Louise lives ir a VII
lage en- Lake Of the Woods. One
busy Saturday her mamma Lid for
helper Maggie, a strong Indian giri,
daughter OF Kokko-Gezick, who Is \
brother to Chief Ma-Puck. Mas.
gle brought with her her shy lit.
tie sister, nine years old, slender, but
as tall as Louise. This little In.
dian girls name is Tibish- Kobanisic,
but Maggie calls her Tibishko.
Louise tried to make Tibishko feel
at home. She showed her picture
books and toys, and her jointed doll.
the dark-eyed beauty whose wig was
made of Louise's own brown hair and
who bears the proud name of Queen
Louise ofPrussia Very happy the little
Indian girl was when Louise let her
hold this marvellous doll, and she
laughed aloud when Queen Louise
was made TO move her hands and
feet and shut her eyes.
When the Indian girls went home,
Louise gave Tibishko little box fill
ed with tiny shells that had come
from Lake Michigan. "Megwich,"
said Tibishko, for that means thank
you.
A few weeks later, Maggie cams
again to work, but did not bring the
little sister. About noon mamma
heard a tapping at the kitchen door,
and, when she opened it, in stepped
little Tibishko without a word. She
went quickly to Maggie's side, and
stood close to the ironing board.
while she talked to the big sister
in the softest voice you would want
to hear Mamma could not under.
stand a word. for the language was
Ojibway.
When Louise came in from school,
the little Indian girl shyly put into
her hand two beaded purses and a
pair of the dearest little moosehide
moccasins for the queen doll. They
were just like the big ones that arc
sold in the stores, with beaded vamp
and black strap. Tibishko had made
the purses and the moccasins for
Louise.
Then the little white girl and the
little dark girl sat down together and
tried the moccasins on the queen, and
they were a perfect fit, although IT,
bishko had had no measure except
her memory Of the dolls feet.
- T. a.
home, 1t was Louise who said Meg
wich."-Sue v. Hellivell, in the Adj
vance.
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A Little Joke Between Them.

An American on visit to London
took bus to the city every morn
ing, where he had business with an
Anglo-American firm. He always sat
behind the driver. On the first jour-
ney he noticed that on arriving at
certain corner the driver took out
his big silver watch, dangled 1t TO
and fro a few times, and winked
jovially at an individual who stood
at the door OF shop.
why do you do that?" the Ameri-
can asked.
WELL" said the driver, taking his
pipe from his mouth, that's a little
joke we as between us, bein' as we
are old friends. You see, his father
was 'anged. philadelphia Record.
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WHAT JEANETTE MISSED.

"No, didn't take Jeanette with
me when went to England last
summer" said Jeanette's aunt, Miss
Graham, talking to a friend.
Such was my intention until af-
ter her visit 10 me in Washington
during the winter. / found her one
of those unpleasant persons who think
it looks countrified to show surprise
or pleasure at new things. When I
took her to the Corcoran Art Gal
lery she merely said that the collec-
ton was finer in the Metropolitan
Museum. The library of Congress
has too much gilt in the mural dec
orations, and the capitol was not so
imposing in its appearance as it ought
to be, according to her ideas. At
the churches the music was not so
fine as she had heard in small in
land city church near her village
home, which some minister, who had
travelled much, said was the finest
he had ever listened to, either In
Europe or America
Before she went home, said to
her, frankly. My child. you're in =
fair way to become a very disagree
able woman. Don't you know it Is
only polite when people take the
trouble to show you about a new or
strange place to try to see only what
is attractive? You will not be ac-
cused of provincialism for simple ap-
preciativeness. advise you to cul-
tivate the quality of being apprecia-
tive. And you should try to inter-
est yourself in general matters. when
you are with strangers, at least
Jeanette cried, and went home
feeling hurt and 'resentfu,. not dream.
ing what she had missed when I went
to England without her. I'm sorry
for her. II she doesn't reform she
Is bound to become a soured. disap-
pointed woman. and that bad habit
of criticism and comparison win spoil
her enjoyment OF any pleasures that
come her way. Don't you agree with
me."-Home Herald.
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.


Haste not, rest not.-Goethe.
God resists the proud-Bible.
A rat may food a proyince.-Ger-
man proverb.
Fly pleasure, which at last brings
ioss.-Amphis.
It Ill beseems a man to vacant arro-
gantly.-Homer.
It's not the many oaths that make
the truth.-Shakespeare.
A mans folly ought to be his great
es secret-Chinese proverb.
He that is up is toasted; he that is
down is hcked.-Gaelic proverb.
Sympathy is the golden key that
unlocks the heart Of others.-Samuel
Smiles.
A moral, sensible, well-bred man
will not insult me. No other can
Cowper.
Manners must adorn knowledge
and smooth its way through the world
Chesterfield.
Mirfortunes are the lot of all men
whenever it may please heaven to in
hict them.-Demosthene
II happiness is the rarest Of bless
ings. 1t is because the reception Of 1t
is the rarest Of virtues.-Silvester
Love does not spring up and grow
great and become perfect all at once,
but requires time and the nourishment
OF thoughts.-Dante.
The heart is the source of every
thing, Of our strength, OF our happi-
ness and our misery. All the knowl-
edge l poses, everyone else can &C
quire, but my heart is exclusively my
own.-Goethe.
We did not make the world, and are
not responsible for its taste; but we
can make life fine art, and, taking
things as we find them, like wise men
mold them as may best serve our
own ends.-John Inglesant.
The very doubts and fears Of the
weak believer evidence that he Is in
covenant with God. He does not
question the verify Of Gods precious
promises, but fears that he himself
has no interest In them. So far is
Christ from being displeased. with
such wesxlings that he yearns with
a more than common tenderness over
them.-Hill.
We are not all alike temptable. Tho
easily tempted ones are they to whom
Chrisrs sympathy and helpfulness
go out In tender interest He singles
out the one from every circle that
is most liable to fall, and makes spe-
cial intercession for that one. Even
the Johns, with their gentle lowell
ness, receive less Of help from the Mas
ter than do the fiery Peters.-Miller.
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ENRIcHINo THE SOIL.
Bacteria a. q Wonderful Aid TO the
Earnnen-llsinn fha Alr

Bacteria az q Wonderful Aid to the
Farmer-usIns the Air.
Under the prosaic title Of "The Bac-
terial Life of the Soil DR.. @. H. carp
Thomas of New Zealand. told the most
enchanting fairy story at the Ameri-
can Institute, Nos. Is and Fl West
44th street. He brought the fairies
with him, too, and passed them round
the room In bottles. They were not
much to look at, 1t must be confessed.
They had no wings nor wands nor any
of the traditional appurtenances of
the elfin tribe. but when 1t comes to
working miracles the fairy godmother
isn't in 1t.
These bottled fairies bore a rather
iii omened name, one that Is popular
ly associated only with disease and
death. They were in fact, bacteria.
But there are bacteria and bacteria 1t
seems. just as there are good fairies
and bad ones, and these are as be-
neficent as the fairy godmother, and,
like that parsonage, have come to our
rescue in the hour of our direst need.
THE situation is this DR.. Thomas
explained. The most important ele-
ment of the soil is nitrogen, and this
is rapidly used up by our present meth
DDS of farming. II may be put back
by means OF manures and nitrate of
soda, but this Is very expensive, and,
moreover, the nitrate of soda rs being
rapidly used up, just as guano was
used up. Thus we are rapidly APP
preaching a precipice. and unless
something happens 1t is only a ques-
ton Of time when we shall reach It."
This limit was placed at twenty-five
years by the chairman, George Pow
ell, in introducing the speaker.
But something has already happen
ed. This is the discovery Of a microbe,
which, acting on the roots Of legumi-
nous plants, has the power OF taking
nitrogen from the illimitable supply OF
the air. Plants grown from seeds in
oculated with this microbe contain 100
percent more nitrogen than those un-
innoculated, and have the ground 50
rich that another crop can &c grown
upon 1t without fertilizer.
The United States government has
been supplying these bacteria to the
farmers in a dormant state upon cot
ton, but their use has been attended
with considerable uncertainty. They
were often devoid of life, DR.. Thomas
said, before they reached the farmer,
and they required from one to four
days development under conditions to
which the farmer could or would not
conform
The government is now beginning to
put them up In bottles, and in this
way they can be sent all over the world
without injury to their usefulness.-
New York Tribune.
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Unofficial ENJOYS,

Madame Sarah Bernhard had a
good time on her last visit to this
country. She liked playing to Tex
ans in a circus tent and other sport
ing experiences. and the Texans and
others were polite to her. Accord
ingly, she has been saying the most
gratifying things about this land of
freedom and its unduplicable citi-
zens. Conversely, We observe with
pleasure that our Mr.. Rockefeller has
been received with enthusiasm in
France, and is having a lot of fun
there. standing often for his picture.
talking freely with the gentlemen of
the French press, and adjusting him.
self kimberly to Gallo habits.-Har
per's Weekly.
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SQUIRRELS IN WINTER.

All the squirrels sleep away the
cold winter. The chipmunk lays up
a fine store of nuts under the root of
the old pine, and he will not come
out all winter long The chances are
that he will still have nuts left in
the spring, for he is proyident little
chap.
The gray squirrel, also, sleeps all
through the winter. only waking up
now and then to take a nibble at his
STORES. But the red squirrel does
not store up 50 large supply as his
cousins. He Is also a rattle-bratned
fellow, and he scatters his winter sup
ply about In half a dozen places. Of
ten you will see him out in the win
ter looking for some one Of his half
a dozen granaries. Sometimes he for
gets where he has made his pantry,
and has to go hungry.
Sometimes the gray squirrel sleeps
In a hollow tree, and sometimes he
makes himself a fine hammock In the
top of a tall tree. This is made by
placing sticks crosswise in a crotch
of the tree, and then by filling in
leaves to make nest. When the
house Is done, Mr.. Squirrel crawls
into the middle of this nest and lets
the wind rock him all the winter
ng.-Clarence Hawkes., in the Cir
Gle.
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His Advantage.

Two Irishmen were digging sewer.
One of them was big, strong man
about six feet four inches in height.
and the other one was little, puny
man about four feet six inches. The
foreman came along to see how the
work was progressing. and noticed
that one Of them was doing more work
than the other. Look here" he cried.
how is 1t that little Dennis Dugan,
who is only half you size. is doing
nearly twice as much work as you.
Patrick" CHANGING down to his part
ner. Pat replied. And why shouldn't
he? Amt he nearer to it?"-Kansas
City Independent
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AMERICAN PLANT IN INDIA
Syndicate Takes $fo,ooo,o 900 Contract
for Retaining Flooded Lands.

tor heciaimih9 rioooeo Iahos.
1t is announced that an American
syndicate has taken q contract for the
construction Of feet Of dredges which
will be utilized for deepening the
Jhelum River. flowing through the
north Indian valley of Cashmere. In
dia, and preventing the annual floods
Of q most disastrous aature. involving
great loss OF crops and hardships to
the people. The contract involves an
outlay Of &10,00Q,00o. r r 1r1
The only method of protecting the
valley from these visitations, according
to experts, is to provide suficient
drainage to carry on all surplus wa
ter. and this can only be done by deep
ening and grading the Jhelum River
for many mif8. American dredges
will be used. and will also be brought
into requisition for the construction
Of q twepty-Hve-mile spill channel to
carry on some of the Hood water. This
VIII save the valley from the floods
and sYsptaSQy reclaim &S 1000
EfSl * fertile soII 3o& tses3s< e
The tzhSe Of these foods Il attrib-
uted to the tens Of thousands Of goats,
which are annually permitted to in
wade the hills surrounding the valley.
These animals devour the verdure on
the hillsides and loosen huge quanti-
ties Of small stones and gravel. When
the heavy rains come thousands OF
tons Of the disintegrated soil are
washed down irfo the valley, there be-
ing no vegetation to retain It. with the
result that the water courses are rap
idly sitting up and the outfall Of the
river is rapidly being blocked.
For the purpose Of generating cleo
trio energy to operate the dredging
plant, and also to feed with current q
200-mile railroad to be built, power
plant iniially equipped with 10000
horsepower Of American machinery Is
being installed.
The feet will be under the supervi-
sion OF L A. Dosy, who was in charge
Of the st. Lawrence River dredging
work He will be assisted by a num-
Der of American mechanics and line
men.-New York Tribune.
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The Frugal Japs.

A college professor, who had spent
four years at Yale and two in Ber-
lin acquiring his foreign education.
lives with his wife at Kyoto. city.
in a rented house. having little
garden, at a total cost of 465 yen a
year, or about 1898. This Is divided
as follows: Rent, s12O: house tax.
IS; servants wages. SIS; fuel. s13;
light. So: clothes. s25. and food $50.
His salary is $500 and he is apply
ing 500 year to the debt he in
CURED to obtain his education. A
people who can conquer domestic
problems as do the Japanese find no
terrors in the economic burden of
war debt.-Boston Globe.