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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
ESTABLISHING PASTURES.
Scores of Farmers Making Proper
Preparation for Live Stock.

Indications are that there is more
activity in making pastures this
year than ever before in South Car
DINA. This is a point which the
live stock authorities at Clemson
College have been stressing, the
view being taken that the farmers
Of the State must increase their
pasturage before they can hope to
succeed in the live stock movement
which is now taking hold in South
Carolina. Reports to the college
from county agents and other sour
ces indicate that the advice is being
followed on a gratifying scale.
p. H. Calvin, live stock demon
stration expert Of the college, is
working with County Agent A. A.
Mckeown, in York county to es-
tablish thirty or forty pastures at
this time. From all the Piedmont
counties have come reports of num-
bers of new pastures begun this
year. or to be begun this spring.
Bermuda grass is the favorite.
Any information desired about
establishing pastures for cattle or
hogs may be obtained by writing
to p. II. Calvin or John o. Will
liams, Clemson College.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
A Balkan Statesman's Predictions
About the War.

To conclude. then, we can say with
certainty hat the Russians and their
allies have the best of it. and that
this terrible struggle will end in the
complete defeat of Germany and
Austria Hungary.
And what will be the result? The
outcome OF the present war may be
conceived thus
First: Russia will expand at the
expense OF Austria Hungary, will
annex Galicia. and will demand from
Turkey the occupation of CONSTANT
nople and a part of Asia Minor.
Second: France will regain her
two former provinces Of Alsace and
Lorraine.
Third: England will be benefited
by gaining possession Of the German
colonies, as well as a part Of Asia Mi
nor.
Fourth: Belgium wiz receive a
recompense for her stole resistance
the Duchy OF Luxembourg.
Fifth: The two kindred kingdoms
OF seryia and Montenegro will re-
ceivs as a reward for a struggle not
less s%toical, the two Austrian prov
inces peopled by the Serb race.
sixth: Italy as a reward for her
neutrality would receive the prov
inces of Austria Hungary inhabited by
Italians.
Seventh: Roumania for the Same
reason would receive Bukovina. an
Austrian province peopled largely by
Roumanians.
AS to Turkey, which has been drag
ged into the war by German political
intrigue, she will be erased from the
map as an independent country. II
will be the same with Albania; for
her inhabitants, who are in a state OF
perpetual anarchy. cannot long exist
az an independent people.
This. then. is my view of the condi-
tions that will be imposed upon the
conquered. Perhaps changes may be
even greater; for 1t Is possible that
Austria Hungary, like Turkey. may
cease to exist as an independent en-
pire. Nor is 1t uncomfortable that
certain provinces might be snatched
from Germany, as for example Ger
man Poland. But here you have in a
few words my opinion of the actual
situation now existing in Europe, and
my predictions for the future
From "Europe-After the War" by
DR.. Ivan Yovitchevitch. In the Amer
lean Review Of Reviews for March.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
ATTORNEY GENERAL APPEALS.
Will Ask for Writ of Certiorarf I'm
Case of National, Cash Register Of
ficiaIs.

Washington. March 31.-Attorney
Genera Gregory announced today
that he would apply to the supreme
court for a writ of certiorari in the
criminal antitrust case against Of
dcers OF the National Cash Regiscter
company. IL granted the writ would
bring before the high court the ac-
ton of the Ohio federal circuit court
reversing conviction Of the defendants
and ordering a new trial.
The appeal will be taken as soon
as the writ and the governments brief
can be prepared.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
winthrop Girls Poisoned,

Letters from Winthrop College stu
dents to their parents In this city tell
Of a Wholesale poisoning there Of the
students n few niGht ago II Is stated
I'm the letters that several hundred
OF the students suffered from pto-
maine poisoning as the result OF eat
Ing some kind u meat salad. The
reports also say that most OF the
girls have v and the others
r on the road to recovery.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
THE COW AND HER PRODUCT.
Clemson College Weekly Notes for
Farmer and Dairyman.

(These notes are prepared weekly
by the Dairy Division of Clemson
College, which will be glad to an
swer any questions pertaining to
dairying.)
More feed can be housed in a silo
than in any other form Of building
Of equal cost.
Keeping records for each COW is
indispensable to the dairyman who
would be really successful.
To make good butter it is neces-
sary to have clean milk and healthy
cows. Milk from unhealthy ccw WIS
is not a safe article of food, even
though there is no visible dirt in it.
Fiber brushes for washing milk
utensils should replace the common
dishrag. They do better work and
are more easily kept clean.
1t is a good practice to let the
calf suck the COW for about forty
eight hours after birth, after which
it should be taken from it's mother
In the case of a weak calf, however,
it is better to let it remain two or
three days longer.
Calves should never be fed from
a trough and in groups. The Dairy
Division of Clemson College will
furnish upon request plans for max
ing simple little calf stanchions.
Use these and feed each calf by
itself.
The only way to increase the num-
Der Of pounds Of butterfat produced
by a cow is to increase the number
of gallons of milk she gives. This is
best done by feeding some s~ucculent
feed such as roots or silage. Fresh
spring grass has the same effect.
Milk begins to sour within a few
minutes after it is taken from the
COW if it is not cooled. The bac-
terra that cause souring do not
thrive in cold milk. Therefore, to
keep milk or cream sweet, cool it
without delay.
II cream has an unpleasant taste
or odor before it is churned, il will
make butter of poor quality. It is
impossible to make good butter with
dirty. sour cream.
Where you have two or more gal
Ions Of milk OF cream to handle
and keep cool, about the best and
cheapest vessel for keeping it is
what is called the shotgun can. This
can is light, strong, cheap and easy
to keep clean.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
Tired OF Carnfyals.

Camden has been afflicted with two
weeks Of carnival, and from express
sions of people on all sides it is the
general opinion that the citizens are
getting sorely tired of these unwel-
coined visitors to Camden. 1t would
be a good thing for the city and COM
munity if council would put a prohib-
tive license upon these travelling ag-
g~regations and keep them out of the
Chronicle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
Prohibition Advance.

Six months ago there were nine
prohibition States. Today there are
nineteen, provided the governor OF
Utah signs the bill just passed by the
legislature. An increase of more than
100 per cent. In less than half a year!
Arkansas. Iowa and Idaho were all
made dry last month by legislative en-
actment. the law to go into effect
January 1, 1916. South Dakota's Leg
islature has submitted the question to
popular vote at the next election. The
lower house OF Vermont has passed a
prohibition referendum bill. South
Carolina, tired of it's unsatisfactory
dispensary law. has referred the ques-
ton OF Statewide prohibition to the
people. vote to be taken September IA.
Montana has submitted a statutory
law to be voted upon in 1916.
In eight other legislatures State
wide prohibition measures have been
introduced. namely. New York, Della
ware. New Hampshire. New Mexico,
Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
wisconsin. States planning for cam
paigns mex year are California, Flor
ida. Kentucky. Nebraska. Texas,
Wyoming. Ohio enters a campaign
this year under the initiative, the
question to be voted upon by the peo-
pie next Nnvember.-W. G.. r. u. Blu
reau OF Publicity.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03

Columbia, April l.-Meeks Griffin.
Thomas Griffin and John Crosby. ne
sroes. must pay the death penalty for
murder at a date to be assigned by
the Chester county court. They were
convicted more than two years ago I'm
Chester county OF killing a C~onfeder-
ate veteran by the name OF Lewis.
The decision was written by Associate
Justice Gage.
The homicide occurred April "a,
1913. They we're convicted In July OF
that ear The case was appealed to
the supreme cour and the verdict Of
the lower court was affirmed In the
spring Of 1915. A motion for a new
trial on after discovered evidence was
made I'm July, 1914. This motion was
refused and a second appeal was
made 10 the supreme court. which
has been denied.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
Already Identified.

Concerning the American Legion,
the New York Sun says:
Should the American Legion,
whose announced object and purpose
must enlist the sympathy of all pa
triotic men, allow itself to become
identified with any political organiza-
ton, it's potential influence would be
destroyed M it's chances of survival
reduced to zero With a celebrity that
would amaze it's supporters. The Of
ficers of the legion might. with n
tire propriety, devote some Of their
valuable time to the consideration of
this fact.
The legion is already identified with
q political organization, to wit, Theo-
dore Observation-Disclosures Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
As They DO I'm China.

When a Chinese woman calls up the
telephone station for a connection.
she says: MY beautiful, sweet-voiced
sister will please do me the joy-giving
honor Of ringing 1245 so a dutiful
wife can communicate with her sub
lime husband A telephone girl says
she hopes the Chinese women will
'steen thousand missionaries for
work among American women.-Wil-
lnington star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
who have planted

Farmers who have planted vetch
this season M expect to plant again
for next ear should save a part Of
the crop for seed. The bulk of the
vetch seed sold in the United States
has heretofore come from Germany
and Russia and the supply will be
cut Oft this fall. Vetch seed will be
scarce and high priced this fall and
there may be more profit in saving
the vetch crop for seed than In cut.
ling 1t for hay.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
Is "



Washington. March 31.-It has
been established to the satisfaction OF
the state department hat the wheat
cargo OF the American sailing ship
VIM. p. Frye. sunk In the South At
lantic by the German cruiser Prinz
Eitel Friedrich. 'ras not American
owned. and the American tote which
viii 90 to Germany on the subject
presently will ask for payment for the
hull.
onhcials. however. are taking the
position that there was no warrant
In international law for the sinking
OF the Frye and they expect Germany
viii readily consent to pay the dam
ages and express regret.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03

The New York port statistics show
that no high protective tariff could SO
effectually shut out imports and pre-
vent foreign competition as the war
has done sc completely up TO thi.
time. Imports of dry goods for the
week ended March 18th were the
lowest in volume for the year 10 date.
The value Of foreign goods received
for the week was $678,0SS compared
with $2,544,774, for the correspond
ing week in Mach last year. In 9TH
er words, imports lacked about 73
per cent. Of being as large as they
were last year.
Now and then you hear people talk
ing about h great injury done to the
cotton and wooden industries by the
Democratic tariff. With foreign COM
petition cut to the lowest point in the
history of America, it would be a good
idea to ask them to explain what a
tariff OF any kind has to do with man.
NO"s NCW 4OE y port SKA
tistics show that imports are less by
half than they ever were under the
highest tariff this country ever had.
We are not authority for his state
ment, for here are the official figures
and statement accompanying a tabula-
ton of imports in the New York Jour-
nal of Commerce:
The figures of seven months i'm
ports of cotton manufactures are at
hand and show a steady decline due to
war conditions. The yardage Of cloths
brought in in January declined from
S,035,569 last year to 4,537,S23 in Jam
uary of this e The falling off was
greatest in colored cottons, showing
undoubtedly the pinch of the dyestuffs
difficulty abroad. In January of last
year 5.5S3,C1 yards were brought in,
while last January the yardage
amounted to only 2,51S,53S. Some
part of this decline is due to the lack
of demand for the fine piece dyed cot
tons that were popular last year. The
decline in the imports Of Iaces reach
ed a value of over a million dollars
in January, being $1.o24,4s4. compar.
ed with $2,2Ss.91 last year. EN-
broideries dropped about IL 1-2 per
cent. compared with last year in the
corresponding month. The figures are
now beginning t o show in a large way
the immense damage to trade done to
Germany. France. Switzerland and
other countries by the war. Under
the new tariff the imports should be
growing larger. and in a few known
cases they are beginning to show a
moderate increase, but. generally
speaking. the tendency is much be-
low what manufacturers would see
If war did not interfere"
With imports shut out to unprece-
denied minimum, a Bedford dispatch
says New England manufacturers
complain that the price Of cotton
goods is so low tina they could sell
the raw cotton they bought al a low
price and make more money than by
turning it into cloth. Right alongside
Of this comes the statement that the
New Bedford cotton mills have just
charged off depreciation and surplus
and then declared an annual dividend
OF 4.57 per cent. on e capitalization
Of 4 3,500,300 Why do the manu-
%facturers want to growl if they can
make more net profit by marufac-
turing than car be made by loaning
money in North Carolina?
AS the same time. it is true that the
cotton cloth industry is depressed.
That 10 because business of all kinds
is depressed by the war in Europe
Wilmington Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
Popular Columbia Girl Dies,

Columbia, April Miss Emma
Hayward, a popular young lady Of
Columbia died this morning from
pneumonia. The remains will be taxi
en- to Orangeburg for burial.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
Another Months Developments in
Europe.

Viewed from the military side, Feb
ruary was for Germany the most
brilliantly successful month since
October, eYhen she took Antwerp and
approached the very walls Of War
saw. Eastward her victories over the
Russians We're as complete in BukO-
vina as in East Prussia, and her
armies brought new life to Austro-
Hungarian efforts in the Carpathians.
Only the defeat of a naval raid di-
rected at the British coast and the
loss OF Bleucher gave Berlin cause
of regret.
Yet the solid and splendid triumphs
of German arms had for the world
less than the official declarations
which by their very defiance Of inter-
national practise and neutral rights
seemed to emphasize how serious for
Germany had become the question of
her food supply and how terrible was
the advantage Of sea power possessed
by her most relentless and most hated
enemy. England.
Napoleon, having conquered at
Austerlitz and Jena and become tenn
porarily master of Europe. had sought
to crush British commerce by his ia
nous Berlin and Milan DEGREES, the
first OF which proclaimed that the
British Isles were in a state of block
ade; abe second declared that n
ship which touched a British port
was liable to be seized and treated as
a prize. Germany, still holding Bel
gium. Northern France. Western Po-
land. in February struck at England
with the proclamation hat the waters
about the British Islands were a war
zone in which neutral ships would be
exposed to attack and destruction by
German submarines without the for
mality of search. ,
To her foes such a declaration
could only mean hat Germany fore
saw the coming of a time when her
own food supplies would fail. This
view was further confirmed by an
earlier official decree which placed all
grain supplies in Germany under the
control OF the government. Taken
together these two acts were accepted
as confession that Germany feared
defeat by starvation unless she could
break the iron ring about her. To do
this h must compel the British to
raise the embargo on food supplies,
and her only weapon was the subma-
rine, by which she might hope to in
tercept food ships bound for Britain
and by compelling the English to suf-
fer from food shortage force the abol-
ition Of the food blockade.
AS to English ships, Admiral Won
Tirpitz had. in January, frankly pro-
claimed a policy of submarine agrees
sion which contemplated sinking
ships and crews and thus conduct a
reign Of terror on the high seas. In
February the campaign opened, not
by sinking crew and ships, but by
torpedoing several ships at the very
mouth of the Mersey and setting their
crews ashore. Such a course must
and did provoke u%nfavorable criti-
cism among the n~eutrals, but to ex-
tend this policy to neutral ships was
to open new horizons, was a frank
confession that the German campaign
to win sympathy abroad had given
way to a stern necessity to make war
as terrible Is possible for the foe
even at the expense of neutrals.-I
From THE Wars New Alignments,"
by Frank H. Simonds, in the Ameri-
can Review Of Reviews for March.
Ac U1Nny 10 H. fN,i.o
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
ChAades Organization Perfected.

Columbia. April Tho state
OF charities and corrections or
kanized here today. They will not
Piect a secretary and assistant until
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
SUMTER COTTON MARKET.

Daily by Ernest Field,
Cotton Buyer.
Good Middiing 0 LIZ.
strict Middling Q is.
Middiins ..
Strict Low Mlddling s LIZ.
Low Middkag g..
staple cotton. nominal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03
HUERTA TO DIRECT REVOLT.
sails from Cadiz for west--Report Is
He VIII Head New Revolution.

Madrid. Spain. March 81 (via
Pars).-Gen. Vctoriano Huerta and
his secretary sailed today from Cadiz
on the steamer Antonio Lopez. ac-
eording to advices from Cadiz. Gen.
Huerts's family remains In barcelona.
Reports from that place say that a
ramor II In circulation that Huerta
10 on his way to direct a new revolu-
ton I'm Mexico.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03

The steamer Antonio Lopez IL due
TO touch NJ Puerto Rico. Cuba. La
Guira. Venezuela. and Colon.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03

Chicago. April MAY wheat
s1.BT 1-2; corn. 72 1-2; oats. 81;
pork. IL: lard. 10; ribs. $50.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-04-03

Columbia. April l.-Jim Gowan, a
negro. convicted several weeks age in
Greenviile county and sentenced TO
be sleotrocutsd April so. has been
brought to the State p~enitentiary and
placed I'm the death house. The ne
gro was brought to Columbia by
Sheriff Rector.
, 1915-03-13

burg's army from North Poland is expected
Ly many British observers. In the West the
Allies claim the ascendency all along the
line, although no decisive engagements are
being fought. In Italy and in the Balkans
the majority are clarnouring for Intervention
on the side of the Allies, notably in Greece
and Roumania, despite the Governments of
these countries who cling outwardly to neu-
trality.
Newspaper correspondents in Petrograd
say that the German failures to Ie-
duce the Russian fortress Of Ossowetz,
together with their reported defeat at
Grodno and Przasnysz, means the def
mite abandonment Of the German often
sive. In Central Poland both the Russians
and Germans attack alternately, without any
opprcciable change in the situation, while
the same is true in the Carpathians and
along the Eastern front generally.
New York, March. l1th-The Holland
American Liner "Rljudnm", previously re-
ported to be sailing on the seventeenth in
slant for Falmouth with the British mails
and passengers, sailed yesterday at noon.
, 1915-03-13

This morning at 3.45 a IRE broke out in
AIR Schneider's property, Free Gut, which
was uniuhabited This house and the ad-
joining one, which belongs to the Olsen fam
lily, were entirely destroyed. Miss Thur
hands house, which was the next, fortunate
~ escaped destruction, but was badly char
red. The cause of the fire is unknown.
We have been informed That the motor
schnr. "Dmncbroe" will leoye Frederiksted
for St. Thomas at Z o'clock this evening.
The mail by her Will be closed in ChrIstiun,
sted's Post Office at 5 O'Clock p m.
The American mali per S. S. "Parima' will
be closed IN Christiausted's Post Office at 4
O'Clock this AFTERNOONS.
, 1915-03-13

Censored at Jamaica)
London, March 11th.-The King has sign.
ed the Order ia Council regarding tAe re-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-12
BAN MAI ING D E ARMS N PARCEL
 POST 10 GREECE
ridgeport Post Office Is Warned to Insist On
 Proper Certificate

As the result of the discovery by secret service agents that firearms and parts Of firearms are being ship ped to Greece by parcel post, Post master Charles F. Greene received to- day instructions from the assistant postmaster general that such mail may not be delivered unless a cer- tificate is procured from the Grecian Minister of the Interior.
 Political troubles have broken out in Greece as a result of the war talk and armed riots are expected. Unit ed States detectives have discovered the novel method Of sending arms to the beIIigerent ones and the Post Off, fee Department will interfere.
 Postmaster Greene was informed today that firearms. parts of firearms both rifles and revoIvers,i were being sent from arms centers in this coun- try to Greece as a. result of the out breaks in that country, by parcel post, and that such mail, will here after be returned to the persons or concerns mailing it. unless the pack age bears written notice that a. cer- tif1cate is enclosed or will be present. ed at the time of delivery.
 The rule will be enforced at the local post office in case any such mails are received here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-12
.EvICTED POL ICEMA AN,
 VISIT lN9 NURSE AND. AGENT FROM HOUSE

Joseph sarnek, aged 65, 216 Or chard street, was arrested today be- cause Of his defiance Of the police, charities officials and members of the humane society. His child, Ste phens aged IA, may become a hope less cripple because of neglect and all leged refusal of his parent to allow interference by those who would care for the child
 The child has a tI1bercu1ar hip, A policeman, a visiting nurse and a hu- nane agent are said to have been Rvicted from the house. when they attempted to aid the child who had a broken leg last spring. Filthy band ages and general conditions, lack of care. and the throwing away of medi- cines may cause the death Of the child, who is now in the Bridgeport hospital.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-12

tenant, who had moved in down stairs
 Judge Williams threatened to clear the court room when a. laugh followed Chief Brennan's statement that he didn't know what kind of stockings Mrs. Angle wore on the night of her arrest.''
 This isn't a place of amusement,' '. the court said as he ordered the sherin to preserve order
 Did Mrs. Angle tell you she heard a noise and went downstairs2''
 sShe did after I talked to her long while that evening. She said she heard a noise and went down and found him and dragged him down. stairs to the fresh air.''
 Did she tell you she went down in her bare feet
 'sShe did,
 Did she tell you when she took them off %
 ''I don't remember.''