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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
FOUNDED NEW SECT
JOHN WRoE FOUNDER OF CHRIS.
TIAN IsRAELlTEs.
Had Many Followers, Particularly in
Australia, Many of Whom Still
Believe That He 10
Not Dead.

The alleged bogus burial of the
duke OF Portland as Druce makes one
tnlnk or John Wroe. He died in Coll.
ms"ood, Melbourne, February ). 1853,
aged 81, and yet some fanatics anEm al
to believe that lie is still allie, mas
much as he is reported to have said
he would never die.
johanna Southcott died in 1914,
aged 81. Her followers believed she
would give birth to the Messiah. saws
the Imperial Review. Six doctors tes
tined that they would believe she was
ABOUT =" become a mother If she was
young enough. A silvered cradle cost
Ing t2OO was prepared for the in
rant and G100 more was spent in
gold spoons, pap boats and what not.
Wroe was her first principal follow
er. With her sect as a nucleus he
formed the Christian Israelites. He
preached his doctrines for nearly half
century throughout Britain, EuropC,
America and Australia.
follower named Stanley gave him
49,5OO with which temple was
Dullt at Ashton Eng. Afterward it be.
came theater. Yet Wroe never sue
ceeded anywhere so we'll as in Mel
bourne. His followers there sub.
scribed and bought him a mansion
melbourne house-in Wakefield. Eng.
No portrait was ever taken of him.
as he forbade portraiture. He is de-
scr1bed as an exaggerated likeness Of
zen. Booth, with hook nose, fiery eyes
and shaggy hair and beard. The Chris.
tian lsraelites are also called Wroe.
ties and Beardies The sect is still
prosperous in Melbourne.
Visiting its church, handsome
Dlue-stone place in Fitzroy, on re-
cent Sunday evening we found what
was described as an unusually small
attendance-abCut forty ladies and
2O gentlemen. TWCnty-eight OF the
ladies' were in white straw bonnets.
The younger ones had them co1uet-
ushlT trimmed with feathers and
they inclosed pretty faces, too. We
thought of Carlyle's saying when
Queen Victoria came to the throne,
Poor girl. At an age when she can
hardly be trusted 10 buy her own bon
net"
An outcome of the Wroeites was the
Fisheries. When Wroe died James
Fisher, charcoal burner of NuEHwad-
Ing, eight miles from Melbourne. then
In the wild bush, tried to obtain the
succession. Failing this he ma .e a
secession. He founded the Church OF
the Ffrstborn and obtained 12O fol-
lowers, with an astounding cor hina-
tion of Wroeism, Mormonism. Spirit
ualism and Freemasonry.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
Reputation Worth While.

lie more in the habit Of seeking honor
from our descendants than from our
ancestors; thinking 1t better to be
nobly remembered than nobly born:
and striving SO to live, that our sons
and our sons sons, for ages to come,
might still lead their children rever-
emily to the doors out OF which we had
been carried to the grave, saying.
Look, this was his house. this was
his chamber. r."--Ruskin.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
A Millionaire's Baby

attended by the highest priced baby
specialist could not he cured of
stomach or bowel trouble any quick
er or snrer than your baby II you
give it McGee's Baby Elixir. Cures
diarrhea, dysentary and all de-
rangements ofthe stomach or bowels.
Price % cents and SO cents. Sold by
Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
In Gay Paree.

What kind Of an eating house do
you call this?" asked the man from
Chicago as he entered a queer.lookinp
establishment in Paris.
This is one horse restaurant. mon.
s.elir," explained garcon. "You can
have re horsehesh in any style. How
would you like yours?"
Horse in any style, eh? Well. SID
pose You have mine curried."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
Terribly Scalded

Is something we hear or read about
every day OF our lives. Burns and
scalds either slight or serious are
bound to happen In your family,
he prepared by having n bottle Of
Ballard's Snow Liniment handy.
1t relieves the pain Instantly and
qnIckly heals the burn. Sold by Elko
Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
Resentment.

Does you charge 80 cents foh dat
little box O. Strawberries" asked Aunt
Hannah, supercilfously.
YES" answered the grocer
"An' It 'ud take about a thousan OF
dem berries to make one ten.cent wa
termelon! doesn't mind de price, but
does hate sech impidencc!'-
ington Star.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
Ignorance its Champion.

Child labor has one giant champion.
1t is ignorance. Strike down the pub
lie ignorance and child labor will die
with It. The moral power latent in
the nation, once aroused, will sweep
all barriers Of interest away.-Chicago
Tribune.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24

gagged girl and in
sure her the best
of luck send your
c o n g r a t ulatory
flowers to her in
a white heather
loving cup. These
cups are Scotch,
W h ere on the
moors the lovely
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-24
PRETTY LOVING CUP
FORMED OF HEATHER, is SUP
POSED TO BRING LUCK.
One OF the Most Welcome Gifts to
Newly Engaged Girl-Eantastic
Name Of Sea Pie Given
Appetlzlng Dish.

Heather Loving cup.-If you wish
to delight the heart Of a newly en-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
StemaGt, Trousase Relieved.

for cultivation. but it will furnish
more grazing during the hot weather,
from May to September, than any
other pasture plant that does well
generally throughout the South. 1t
is essentially hot weather grass.
But no one plant should generally
be depended upon for making a per-
manent pasture, and when Bermuda
Is used variety of other plants may
be used to furnish grazing early in
the spring before the Bermuda has
made sufficient growth. For this pur-
pose bur clover, white clover, and
some of the earlier-growing cultivat-
ed grasses are used. Where lime is
abundant in the SOIL sweet clover or
melilotus is valuable crop for this
purpose, and where bluegrass will
grow, it is one Of the best of all pas
ture grasses.
If We roughly divide the soils of our
territory into three large classes-(1)
clay and loam soils; CD alluvial and
rich river bottom soils, and go sandy
soils, the following plants are suggest
ed as worthy of trial for pasture
purposes.
Clay and loan soils: Bermuda
81 ass, lespedeza, bur clover, white
clover, orchard grass, the bronze grass
es, rescue grass, and, if the soil be
damp, alsike clover, red-top and wa
ter grass.
Alluvial and river bottom soils:
Bermuda grass, rye grasses, large wa
ter grass, red-top, lsspedeza, alsike
clover, bur clover, and white clover.
Sandy soils: Bermuda grass, rye
grasses, carpet grass, lespedeza and
bur clover.
1t is frequently stated that for per-
| manent pastures, it is safest and best
to depend on the native plants of the
locality rather than attempt to intro
duce cultivated or foreign plants
When weeds, briers and bushes are
kept down, the native plants may
yield considerable grazing, but they
can usually be supplemented by 9TH
ers. and from no permanent pasture
in the South should Bermuda be omit
ted. No matter what pasture plants
are used, weeds, briers and bushes
must be kept down if a full crop Of
er.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
GAS PLANT TALK.
tain Number of Prospective Pat
rOns.

AS the result of the visit of Mr.
Henry S. Lee, of Chicago, the repre-
sentative of syndicate of capital
lists of that city who are making large
Investments in public utility corpora
tions in the South, the plans for gas
plant in Sumter are beginning to take
on somewhat more definite shape
than heretofore. Mr. Lee spent sew
eral days here and during his stay
made n painstaking investigation of
conditions and a careful inspection of
the city. He has now gone to Beau
mont Texas, on business and is eX-
pccted TO return within two weeks In
the meantime Mr.. j. l.. Alnut. at
whose invitation Mr.. Lee came to
Sumter, will canvass the city for the
purpose of ascertaining how many
gas consumers can be counted on as
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
$500 MORE A YEAR FARMING:
HOW TO MAKE IT.
BY Keeping More live Stock to Craze
the Idle Lands.

In travelling over the Progressive
Farmer territory, any one familiar
with the best farming sections of
this country. cannot fail to be i'm
pressed with our large acres of waste
lands which yield no revenue to their
owners. The total area of the State
OF North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia is 91.O0O.O0O acres. OF
this vast area, only 63,0O0,0O0 acres,
or SO per cent. Is cleared by the Cen
sus Report as 'in FARMS" and of these
farms only 24,000,O00 acres, 80 per
cent. is classed as improved lands.
That Is about q per cent. of the to-
tai area Of these States is improved
land. The balance, or 73 per cent.
Is. under present conditions, of prac-
tically no value from an agricultural
standpoint
That only 80 per cent. of the area
included In our farms is improved
land is the most significant fact
brought out by these figures; for in
other words. Ga per cent. Of even our
farms is land yielding little or no
revenue to the owner. It Is apparent
that If anything can be done to
make these idle lands yield some pro-
fit, 1t should be done.
The lands which are yielding no
agricultural revenues may be divided
into these classes: (1) Woodlands
that are too rough or too wet for cul-
tivation. (2) The so-called worm
out lands. and lands on which all the
valuable timber has been cut or de-
stroyed. CD Small and irregular
areas or patches in or between the
fields--spots too wet for cultivation,
patches that are washed and quilted,
and areas covered with briers, BUSH
es, pines and other shrubby and
worthless growths.
The first class, or the timber lands
will be discussed later in article No.
AZ OF this series. 1t Is believed that
these can be made to yield a much
larger revenue than at present. The
lastc lass has already been inciden-
tally referred to in several articles,
but will soon receive special consid-
Grafton in article No. "a of this series
The second class OF unproductive
farms lands--the worn-out or turned.
out, and the cut-over lands-are the
ones which we desire especially to
consider in this article.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
Lands Must be Fenced and Live Stock
Controlled

That the pasture lands must be
must become apparent to any one
giving even casual consideration to
the subject. Even if this were not
necessary in order to protect the pas
ture and keep the live stock where it
may receive the personal attention
necessary, the necessity for the era
dication of the cattle tick, the control
OF hog cholera and the prevention Of
other infectious diseases, would make
it imperative. In fact, it is beyond
understanding why any people in this
day and stage Of agricultural enlight-
eminent will permit live stock to run
at large at any time or season of the
year.
The cattle fever tick, the greatest
obstacle to successful cattle growing,
and hog cholera, the cause of the
heaviest losses sustained by hog rails
ers, cannot. and never will, be con-
trolled until cattle and hogs are con-
trolled; and so far as the eradication
OF the cattle tick is concerned, allow
ing the cattle to run at large during
the winter. is practically as bad as
allowing them to range freely at all
times. Moreover, cattle running at
large during the winter do much more
damage to winter growing crops and
by tramping the land than the feed
gathered is worth.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

49, SsN~s Opvo2Or gdOo0r0os
1he political stump speaker has
nnny amusing and many unpleasant
experiences. A party Of us went down
INTO the heart Of the east side Of New
tork one night with politician some
what handicapped BY his wealth and
oocfai position, who nevertheless elect
"a TO 80 TO the doubtful district per-
eonaily. At q street corner bunting
draped cart awaited him. and. climbing
70 the billboard Of this. he began tell.
mg the ragged audience In well round.
"a periods how they should vote and
WIZ. A few jeers began to crop from
a. taerancs Of the crowd. The jeers
gn1nea volume. He was told to Jaw,
oost upr 'Close your heady' "say.
91ve us . drink; your talk makes us
eUDJ." Somewhat disconnected, but
esm determined to finish his speech.
- uns cpntinuing when something
hnre1sd past his head and splashed
oDntly on the floor OF the cart An.
oeh>r somsthfng and another followed.
eno every one was dodging decadent
eomatoes until, II becoming impossible
- hear . shout above the jeers md
nnghter Of the voters the horses were
ge1reed forward out Of the soft. red
oombardment and the District left TO
~ own political sins.-John II. Win
&neu N metropolitan Magazina.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

several years ago In q well known
Wholesale house In BIG manufactur~
1nG town IN old bachelor bookkesper.
Who had been many years with the
arm. suddenly announced that he was
- be married
Ths partners gave him q weeks holi.
oay. aad bis fellow clerks raised q
Mite purse aad presented 1t to pay the
ozpensss Of bis wedding trip.
A couple of dats after the wedding
enc Of the members Of the firm went
oown to seaside resort, and there,
hanging about the parade and appar-
entity enjoying himself immensely, he
NV his recently married old book
heeper. but alone.
"where's your wife r. asked the prin-
e1pai.
She's at home" was the reply.
But [ thought you had money given
you Tor wedding tripr"
10 ] had" was the reply, but I
d1dn't understand that It was Intend
q to include ."-Pearson's Weekly.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
Keep Improving Your Pasture.

heep improving fOur PASTURE.
Many farmers think that piece Of
land In pasture needs no fertilization.
hut there Is no place where 1t pays
better. Up In the northern section
Of this State, not far from Baltimore.
many years ago there were rough
hill lands In a very poor state, and
toe rough for cultivation. They were
kept In grass and cattle bought in
Baltimore In spring, thin cattle and
turned on the grass. Every spring
the land was dressed with three hun
dred pounds Of raw bone meal. This
has been kept up for many years, and
now there Is no land in the country
that feeds more cattle per. acre. The
grazers are independent, and culti-
vate no land, merely buying cattle
and putting them on the grass. and
the butchers take them as needed
when ready; and they lead the life
of country gentlemen. needing little
labor except merely for sailing the
cattle and looking after them and the
fencing. and now and then moving
of the rank spots and scattering the
droppings. There is no part of the
farm which pays better than the pas
ture II II is kept improving.
Mr.. c. $. Williams seems bothered
over the manure question. No one
car usually raise manure enough to
| cover his farm. but know men who
are probably raising manure enough
10 cover their corn field every year.
and In three years covering the farm,
ana the cattle are fed at a profit, too.
taking the actual cost OF the feed
into the calculation. And IL the farm
er gets from the becves he raises or
| the COWS he feeds only the mark Of
value of the feed. he is doing well.
| for he has made the difference be-
| tween cost and market price as
| though he had sold the feed. and has
the manure I'm addition. If the pro-
| duction of forage and the feeding of
stock was such as II should be i'm the
South. the whole thirteen million
bales of last years cotton crop could
be grown on one-fourth the land Il
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

- man came mp out Of one Of the
uftle soof houses across from the wo.
man's window with q big basket of
<lotheL He was followed by two
small boys carrying moro clothes and
e1o<hesptns. The man put the basket
o. clothes down and began To sort
shem out preparatory to hanging them
On The line. Tho boys helped, handing
n1m the clothespins and some small
esce3 one Mt Q time. They were a
1ous while hanging out the clothes be-
ennps Of their awkwardness. It was
rSadenfly work they were unaccustomed
~ ouf at last u was finished, and the
ooys went down into the little roof
oouse. leaving the man on the roof.
He stood Tor a moment hooking at the
S2<4fS then, going over to a parapet,
vne down between two tall chimneys.
HI woman could see him from he's
window lean against one Of the chin
neys snd BY and by throw his arm
ocrosS his eyes.
0he found out afterward that his
wife had died the week befoge.--Ns*
4 '~ SSsLstS,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
Farmers Union News
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
Conducted Farmers Union OF Sumter

Conducted by e. w. Dabbs,


semiweeky publication
The first be
Practical conduct It will be NV
that end
officers columns
Also to publish
Bulletins benefit to our readers M
ginal
will be appreciated she'd
Trusting this Department concerned
EDITOR
All Department should be sent 70 w ran,
~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
Why Stock Have Not Paid Us.

Right here we wish to call attention
to the chief cause of our failure in
the past to make live stock husban-
dry profitable. We have procured
live stock without first having made
provisions for feeding them; and i'm
this connection it cannot he stated
too positively that the majority OF
our idle lands are now in no condition
to, and will not furnish sufficient
grazing to make the live stock busi-
ness profitable to us. Before we get
live stock, to make believe at graz
ing these lands, they must re-
ceiVe some attention. A pasture is
not a piece of poor land with a
fence around it, An agricultural
writer recently described n Southern
pasture as "a place where grass does
not grow" and 1t must he confessed,
the description accurately fits too
many so-called Southern pastures.
Much of our idle land can be made
TO pay a fair income on its present
value plus the cost Of putting ii In
condition for growing feed for cattle
ana other live stock to Craze
If any land is SO poor or so wet.
that four or five acres cannot at a
moderate cost be put in condition to
furnish sufficient feed during the en-
tire grazing season for an animal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

The message was transmitted to the
~eub" telegrapher AS written II read
-Foundation under freight house
uecds attention at once"
AS delivered to the general foreman.
The dispatch contained a rather star.
ding bit OF Information. II read:
Found a lion under freight house.
Needs attention at once" To which
he replied briefly:
"Feed the lion and notify the live
stock agent"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
Pasture or Grazing Plants.

After these waste lands have been
fenced and cleaned up, the next ques-
tior to be solved Is the selection of
plants to be sowed or planted for
g,aZing. 1t is plainly impossible to
suggest combination of plants that
will best suit all soils, sections and
conditions in our territory; but i'm all,
except possibly the most northern
part, Bermuda is unquestionably the
hest general permanent pasture grass
available. 1t has Objectionable fea-
lures, the chief of which are, ii starts
late in the spring, Is early killed by
frost In the fall and is difficult to era
dicate In case the land is ever desired
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28
County Union Meeting.

Bear In mind that the time has
been changed from 1st Tuesday to
lst Friday. The May meeting will be
on Friday. the 7th. at Mellett school
house with Jordan Union, just across
the line In Privateer township. 1 will
do my best to have some one or more
OF the Government Farm Demon
strators with us on that occasion.
Now Is the time to organize II you
expect to be Of any force next fall.
E. w. ID.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

Mother" said fve-year-old. Jack.
how much older than you IL father"
"Just thirteen years." replied the un-
suspectlng parent.
We'll. mother" seriously continued
the child. "the next time you marry,
don't marry man thirteen years older
than you. Don't you know II Is bad
tuckr'-Delineator.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

\ well known novelist was touring
through Lancashire IN order to learn
something Of the lives Of the inhahit.
ants when he came upon an old man
eeenklng stones on the roadside and.
thinking he might gain some knowl-
sdsc from him. addressed him thus:
How far Ia 1t to fleetwood. my
manr
You'll see milestone q bit farther
oA.- vns the gruff reply.
What's the use. II can't read p
lid the novelist. eager to draw the old
nan into conversation.
Then It'll iust suit you. Cor there's
nowt on IT," said the old fellow.-LOn-
Con Crnphic.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

weighing 500 to 1000 pounds. then
such land is not suitable for grazing
purposes. BY sufficient feed we mean
enough to produce during a six to
eight months grazing period, a
growth of $50 to 200 pounds on fairly
good cattle. To do this there must be
sufficient feed to satisfy the animal
without too great effort on his part
| to find it. About three acres of av
erage land should do this.
gain Of 200 pounds, worth say
| four cents a pound, or $S, is not a
| large return from three acres of land,
but it is at least 81 net more than
most Of our idle lands are now bring
ing. Moreover, it must be remem-
bered that land of a quality that
takes three or four acres to support
one steer is not high-priced land.
These idle lands now have a nominal
value only, and the higher that value.
the worse it is for the owner who
makes them yield nothing. The own
ers of such idle lands should GER
tainly do one of two things: dispose
of them for what they will bring. or
put them in condition to yield in
| may be.
Ii we estimate the steer worth s25.
which he will not be unless of better
quality than those We now have;
charge 10 per cent. on this amount
to cover interest on investment and
insurance against loss by death, for
the eight months; and add 81 for care
OF the pasture, we have a total
charge against three acres, or the SIS
gross earnings, Of $3.50. This leaves
$3.50 net income from three acres.
Four and half dollars is 10 per cent.
on $45, which permits an investment
OF $15 an acre. If this land is now
worth $5 an acre, we have left $40
for putting it into condition for grow
ing feed for live stock
The most important point regard
ing the eparation Of these waste
lands for growing grass is the re-
moval Of the useless plants which
now occupy them. The space oc-
cupied by weeds, briers and bushes
cannot be occupied by grass, nor can
the plant food used in the growth of
these useless plants go into the
growth Of plants that live stock will
eat and thrive on. Our pastures must
be cleared up and kept clean. Cheap
or poor lands which are growing
timber of value should be left to
grow that crop, but lands which are
now growing nothing of value should
be made to furnish grazing for live
stock if it can be done and come out
even.
The first cost of cleaning up the
land for pastures is considerable. and
must be- regarded in the nature of a
permanent investment, but when
once cleaned up and set in grass, the
cost of maintaining them clean is
small. This small expense, however,
is none the less necessary. We are
SO sure that cotton and corn, for in
stance, will not grow proftably on
land occupied by other plants that
we spend large sums on cultivation,
to keep down weeds and grass, but
we seem never to have realized that
grasses and other grazing crops must
also be protected from more vigorous
to produce the most profitable re-
turns.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-28

The slump in the speculative wheat
market did not come too soon for
those who eat wheat products and
rave no wheat to sell. 1t is to be
hoped that the price of -four will fall
few points.