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C8UNTY CORRESPOND?NCE. LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. of Interest From oil I arts of and Adjoining Coun ties. ofOTICK TO CORRESPONDENTS. Moll your letters so that they will rhts office not later than Tues mornlng. When the letters are Wednesday It la almost an Iblllty to have them appear in paper issued that day. WKDGEF1E1 iD. Wedgefield. March 2.?As the mat? s' mow stands, the voter* of Suinter Ity will decide by their ballots. August If a public place for the of whiskey, wine. etc.. la to be lined In Sumter. Within the pant TlU1 months I thought the prte aart plan woe about as good as wo sjonid have to control the sole 01! whis %uy. bot I am satisfied If the voters Of Munter County will only be guided OB* their conscience, they will voto Ojo remove this temptation from the generation. It Is almost an ar; rledged fact that one who has liked a t >ddy will, as long aa say have the means, iret It from smew he re, but ooe of sich? It seems. be contends he can't give It up. esold be willtnir to vole to remove M temptation that Is sire to reach bt and catch the young boy ?/and an of oor county In Its grasp. 1*4c big profit that la being realised mm the tremendous saleo will op? to some, but shouldn't the In it and processed Christiana who We the privilege of the ballot and i?. I am sure, ore in the majorlty fa the county, view tnls question from m moral, rother than a financial Standpoint. I would like to hear from saw follow scribes through the eolmns Of the Watchman and Southron on Man attention. 9 arm work Is well advanced feksiHich this section. Oats that were oast down by the cold spell are rapid ay recovering. A prohibitionist lecturer. Mum Mon? ty fleas North Carolina, will lecture an Um Methodist church tonight. Wed gene Id Is becoming an egg aaasket. over one hundred dosen eggs eseoift shipped to potato from here last ejsasjb, Mr*. B. r Thompson, of Landrum. m * bating her parents. Mr. end Mrs. W. B. Troublefield. EDWARDS, aistlocb. March t.-^lWl kaaiiber Is KUful. Farm work has begun in but most farmers are very lb behind with their work. Mr. A. B. White has gone to Cam so b>day. Ttaterday at 10 30 o'clock Mr. Wll I Itoykln oad MI? Lucy Davis were lied at the residence of Mr. J. M. Rev. T. L. Cole officiating. Mr. J. R. McI?eod spent Saturday i Quaden. Mise Irene Weldon after several stay with relatives In Bishop ?Hie boo returned home. Ml. Lawrence White and little Gil Young from Humbert, spent Sat \t night at this place. Mt*. J. K. Rlchbourg spent Sutur ap In Blshopvllle. The health of the community Is good. WISACKY. Sky. March 3.?We are hav "ery variable weather for this in of the year and very much only a few days at the time that irhlng con be done, but farmers tills community are well up with work. Oats are looking better, asot inueh were killed by the cold, foot on some farms the Hessian fly eaao destructive. There Is some sickness In the com aaaolty from grippe, mease Is and The fruit trees are blooming and ans hove little hope of fruit this sea Seml-Weekly Watchman and thron la highly appreciated by fee patrons who consider it a very ofboop paper and a splendid Journal Wo trust lh?* number of subscribers tm be greatly multiplied. Mr. J. 8. Williams, who lives near Csvrters\ ill*, haa been In our m^pSl recently on business. Messrs J. C. Ledlngham and My? ron Smith have gone to Humter to aoO cotton, they believe Humter Is a better cotton market than Bishop Mr. E. C. Smith, of Blshopvllle. ?telted retathe* here recently. We regret to hear that Miss Ma Otbeon. of our community, will o oblldged to go to the hospital In tlchmond. Vs.. for treatment. She m accompanied by Dr. N. Y. Mi MAX. Max. March 4.?Mrs. Pennte Lem aaon died last Friday at ner home where she was born ninety-two years aar*. She was buried at Hhiloh. the aetowtng Sunday, funeral being con by the pastor, Rev. E. P. Hut Mra Rvo McBlveen la recovering UFT HUES OATH. IN A CGI'It AL CEREMONIES IN TIIK SENATE CHAMBER. Bitter Blizzard of Sleet and Hnow Spoils Plan fur Great Outdoor Cere? monial In PreaOnee of an Immens? Throng. Washington. aMrch 4.?The first chief executive to take the oath of office in the chamber of the senate in 76 years, William Howard Taft today became president of the United State?. Accompanied to the capltol by President Roosevelt and a guard of honor through a swirl of blinding snow, Mr. Taft returned to the White House Just as the sun began to force Its way through the thinning clouds of gray. A sudden blizzard sweeping In from the northwest last night, to set awry the weather bureau's opti? mistic promise of "fair and somewhat cooler," caused an abandonment of the outdoor ceremonies on the famous east front of the capltol, much to Mr. Taft's chagrin, and threatened for a time to stop the brilliant pageant of the afternoon. By almost superhuman efforts a passage-way was cleared along the oentre of Pennsylvania avenue and I for nearly three hours President Taft and Vies President Sherman review? ed a passing column which was re? plete with martial splendor and pic? turesque civic display. Following the brilliant and Impres? sive ceremonies in the senate, during which both president and vice presi? dent took the oath of office, President Roosevelt?again a private citizen bade an affectionate adieu to his suc? cessor, while all In the historic cham? ber looked on In silence, and then hurried away through a side door to take the train for New York. As he passed out of the chamber Mr. Roose? velt was 'given an ovation quite the equal of that tendered to the new president. To all with whom he spoke Mr. Roosevelt declared that he had "a burly time" as president. AGED LADY DIES. Mrs. Harriet Hodge of Paxville Goes To Her Reward. Manning. March 4.?Mrs. Harriet Hodge widow of I. W. Hodg* residing near Paxville died at her home at half past twelve Thursday morning, aged 41 years old. She was a con? stant and active member of Home Branch Baptist church. She will be hurled at the cemetery there tomor iow morning, Rev. M. j. Kyzer con? ducting the services. She leaves sur? viving hsr, two sons and seven daugh? ters. She was a* good, true woman and fulfilled all the requirements of life. Entertainment at* Oswego. Brat, the Poor House Girl, a very attractive play, will be acted at On wego school house, Wednesday night, March 10th. for the benefit of the Os? wego Missionary Society. Admis? sion 10 and 16 cents. Refreshments served afterwards. Everybody come. _ * Pretty Nlgti Right. Bill Nye had the truth well told when he said: "A man may use I wart on the back of his neck for ? collar button, ride on the hack couch of a railroad train to nave interest on his money till the conductor gel; around, stop his watch at night tC save wear and tear leave his T or T without a dot or cross to save ink. pasture is mother's grave to save corn, but a man of this sort is a gentleman and a scholur compar? ed with the fellow that will take a newspaper two or three years and when asked to pay for It puts it back Into the office and has it marked "re? fused." Little Tommy?Say, papa. Papa? What Is It? Little Tommy?What do deaf-mutes do when they want to talk In a whisper??Chicago News. from a serious sickness. Mine Beulah White has returned to Timmonsville, after spending several days with her sister, Mrs. H. R. Tom linnon. Miss Annie Truluck has returned from Cades, where she has been teaching. A severe wind with some rain pre? vailed here for a short while yester? day. It is cold and windy today. A traveler or travelers left a "given out" mule to die on the road side, above Olanta. Societies for the Pre? vention of Cruelty to Animals are too few and far apart. Mr. A. j. Uoodman has a few acren of fine wheat growing. We who have known Dr. C. J. Tom linnon from his birth, whose tragic dfth has been announced, can say, as many know, that he was generous and kind, helping the sick and afflict? ed wherever he found them and ever shunned the drunken and profane. If he had weakness as aU humans do havs. let ua draw the veil of charity, the greatest grace. DAIRYING IN THE SOOTH. BETTER COWS?MOKE HOME GROWN FEED?A BETTER PRODUCT. The Three Main Point? that Every Southern Dairyman Should Bear in Mind?Work of the Department of Agriculture. A. D. Melvirfv Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S., Department of Agriculture. ? Gratifying results are already ap? parent from the work of the United States Department of Agriculture In cooperation with State authorities for the development of the dairy In? dustry In the South. This work has been in progress three years under special appropriations made by Con? gress. The Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry has paved the way to better conditions by the introduction of more practical meth? ods In the management of dairy herds. A valuable feature of the work is the keeping of systematic re? cords which enable the dairyman to determine which cows are profitable and which unprofitable and to elimi? nate the latter from the herd. Within two months after the testing is begun with a herd the owner usually begins to call out the poorest cows, and the next step of the progressive dairy? man is to procure a purebred bull. The Government work, under the supervision of B. H. Rawl, has been in the main a personal effort among the farmers with a view to Instruct? ing them In better methods. The Southern farmers have not been slow to adopt improved methods when the advantage is demonstrated. The idea that dairy cows do not produce well in the South Is incorrect. Success there, as eleowhere, depends on the quality of the cattle and the methods of handling them. The South offjers a good field for profitable dairying, and how to develop the industry is the problem on which the Depart? ment of Agriculture Is working. A careful survey has been made to de? termine the conditions and needs. The creamery butter production of the South is inadequate, due to the small number of creameries, although during the past two years several new ones have been established. The pro? duct of the Southern creamery com? pares favorably with the Northern or Western products, but a shortage in the milk supply necessarily limits the number of creameries, with the resul* that large quantities of print butter are shipped Into the South from Northern and Western points. The farm dairy butter varies In quality. &ome of the better equipped dairies produce an article almost equal to creamery butter. The country butter is pi quite a different grade. Much of it soon becomes rancid, as a result qf not having been properly washed when it was churned, and has to be shipped to the renovating fac? tories. Less than 2 per cent of the cheese consumed in the South is produced locally. In 50 cities in 13 Southern States and quantity handled annually amounts to approximately 42,000,000 poundn. The per capita consumption is large, especially among the labor ng classes, who largely depend for their noonday meal on crackers and jheese; yet practically no whole milk cheese of the Cheddar type i.4 manufactured in the South. A few small factoiies in South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia constitute the source of local output. It would >eem, in view of this condition, that the bOUth presents an attractive field for the manufacture of* cheese. Be? fore a oh St SO factory could be op? erated successfully, however, an ad? equate supply of milk would have to be assured. , The consumption of cream in the South Is small, due to the scarcity of fresh cream rather than to lack of demand. The qunlity is variable, some being equal only to rich milk. The result is that unsweetened con? densed milk is consumed in large quantities in the cities, and to some extent on farms. There is a large consumption of Ice cream, but much of the product is made from bulk condensed or Whole milk of lo v grade. The price varies from 70 cents to $3 a gallon, the average be? ing about $1.50. The city of Mem? phis has the distinction of shipping the largest quantity, one of Its man? ufacturers making as high as 3,000 gallons daily during the summer sea? son. The cream manufactured 111 Tennessee and Georgia Is shipped as far south ns Florida. Tiie supply of milk is entirely local, none being shipped in from distant points. The conditions under which the supply is secured are not always favorable, and this fact has been giv ?*n very careful attention by the Dairy Division In its work of im? provement. Many herds are kepi within the thickly settled portions of the cities where land is expensive. This quite naturally results in over? crowded stables with the accompany? ing evllsj poor light and ventilation and contracted yards for exercise, fre? quently nithy and knoe deep with mud after a rain. The feed is usual ly of a character that requires the least space for storage and is influen? ced to some extent by local conditions of production. Practically all of the milk sold is supplied by the producer direct, very little being transported by rail. With the methods ordinarily in use, cli? matic conditions necessitate two d9 livereles a day, which frequently bring the production of the herd to the consumer in less than five hours. Bottles are used only to a limited ex? tent, and the practice of dipping from the open can prevails where the milk is not drawn through faucets. The quality of southern milk is generally satisfactory from the stand? point of milk solids. Where Jersey blood prevails in the herd, the milk will average from 4.5 to 6 per cent of fat. When the quality Is unsatis? factory from the sanitary standpoint this is due in the main to lack of knowlege of proper methods and to lack of cleanliness. Producers of limited means of the tenant class whose conditions necessitate a strug? gle with a small business to produce a living, most frequently have small barns and milk houses as well as in? adequate facilities for the proper handling of milk and washing uten? sils. f The sanitary side of dairy inspec? tion has not been given the attention due but improvement is being made in this direction. At Atlanta, Ga., uniformed inspectors provided with buggies look well into every condition and see that the rigid rules incorpo? rated in the city ordinances are re? spected. In Louisville. Ky., the ac? tivity of the officials has done away with the sale of milk from swill-fed dairies. This warfare has had its ef? fect in other cities of the State against milk from cows fed on distillery slops. In order that cows may produce the most milk and do it economically, they must have feed suitable in char? acter and sufficient in quantity. The common practice of buying feed is extravagant, when all rough feed and at least part of the grain can be grown. Green feed is important, and this can be provided in the winter by a silo. This and the added advan? tage of the long pasture season are two very valuable features which are not being fully taken advantage of. The dairy division of the bureau of animal Industry will furnish, free of charge, plans for the construction of silos. There is no branch of agriculture that is more needed in the South than dairying. As conditions now are. more is consumed thun is produced. The country in general is adapted to dairying, and with better stock and improved methods the South can supply its own demand. Southern dairymen as a rule do not practice the most economical meth? ods. The average cow produces only about half what it should. Too many of the dairies are in the city and should be on the farm where better milk and butter could be produced. The whole situation could be im? proved in tho three essentials, bet? ter cows, more home-grown feed, a better product. ? It is the desire of the department of agriculture to have the work taken up and continued by the different States of the South so that the fed? eral government may withdraw after the work is well started, and some states have already taken hold. Agriculturalists and dairymen who are interested can secure much val? uable Information from the twenty fourth annual report of the bureau of animal industry, a volume of sev? eral hundred pages. Application should^k made to a member of con? gress. 'Tape portion dealing with pres? ent dairy conditions in the South has been issued separately in pamphlet form as Farmers* Bulletin 349, "The Dairy Industry in the South," and can be obtained on application to members of congress or to the bureau of animal industry, Washington, D. C. Hules for Guests. Guests are requested not to speak to the dumb waiter. Guests wishing to get up without being called can have self-raising flour foi supper. The hotel is supported by a beau? tiful cemetery; hearses to hire, SJ5 cents a day. Guests wishing to do a little driving will And hammer and nails In the closet. If the room gets too warm open the windows and see the tire escape. If you are fond of athletics and like good jumping, lift the mattress and see the bed spring. If your lamp goes out, take a fea? ther out of the pillow; that is light enough for any room. Any troubled with nightmare will find halter on the bedpost. Don't worry about paying your bill the house Is supported by the foun? dation. A hint for a gentleman, a club for a clown.?Portuguese. It Is easy to cut thongs from other men's leather.?Dutch. FEATHIK.STONE DISAPPOINTED. Hut Prohibition Leader Thinks Coni PffOmlM is Only Temporary Set? back. Lauren*, March 1.?In view of the fact tha\ the Hon. C. C. Featherstone, of this city, has been connected with the fight for prohibition in South Car? olina for many years, and is still in? terested therein, and that he is al? ready an avowed candidate for gover? nor in 1910 as an advocate of State? wide pror ibition. The News and Cour? ier correspondent called upon Mr. Featherst3ne for an cpinion on the outcome of the liquor fight in the general assembly, which was brought to a clost late Saturday night. While by no means discouraged by the re? sult, Mr. Featherstone made no ef? fort to conceal his disappointment that the prohibition forces were com? pelled to accept a compromise. His opinion was that while he had hoped for more, yet this new law Would re? sult in th ? acquisition of much more "dry" territory. Continuing, Mr. Featherstone said: "I must confess that I had hoped for better things. My preference all along has been for a State-wide ref? erendum act, referring the whole question to the people, for settlement. This, in ray judgment, would have been better, by a great deal, than the plan adopted by the general assem? bly. "Our trouble, all along, has teen that there are in the general assem? bly a good many men who ,at heart, are prohibitionists, and some of them from dry counties, who felt that they were virtually instructed to stand ny local option. Some of these would, in an election, vote for State-wide prohibition. All of them will vote for prohibition in an election in their own counties. But they did not teel that they were at liberty now to vote that way in the general assembly. There are others, thoroughout the State, who are Just as good prphibi tionlsts as any of us, but who might be styled "local option prohibitiou ists." They vote that way in their county elections, but they do not be? lieve that the time has come for a State-wide law. "Up to a year ago, I felt very much the same way, but a close study of the question has convinced me other? wise. I now think that the whole question ought to be submitted to the people and let them settle it for the entire State However, that result can and will be brought about later. There is no use to "cry over spilled milk." The thing for us to do is to make the best of what we have. "I am satisfied that at least two thirds of the wet counties can be voted dry next summer If the proper effort is made. I expect to devote the biggest part of my time this sum? mer to assisting the wet counties to vote whiskey out. I am "in for the war.' "Another great work that we can do is to organize for the enforcement of the law in the counties that are already dry I have been in the work too long to be discouraged by a fail? ure to accomplish what we had hoped in the general assembly. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, when I first commenced to work for prohibition, we couldn't have gotten a half-dozen men to espouse our cause there. Now, we have only lost by p. narrow mar? gin. In fact, we have not lost at all. We are only delayed for a short while. The sentiment against whiskey !s growing daily, and when the people do get a lick at it they will put it out of business." Advice to a Yonng Man. Remember, my son. you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or p**n. a wheelbarrow Or a set of books, dig ditches or edit a paper, ring an auction bell or write funny things? you must work. If you will lcok around, you will see the men who gra the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who werk the hardest. Don't fear of kill? ing yourself by overwork. It is be? yond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die some? time, but it's because they qu't work a* ? p, m. It's the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holi? day. There ere young men who do rot work, but the world is not proud of them; it simply speaks o fthem as old So-and-So"8 boys./ Nobody likes them; it simply speaksetaoishrdh??? them; the great busy world doesn't know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take Oft your coat and make dust in toe world. The busler yc u are the less ?Wetter will be your sleep, the bright* er and happier yourh olidays. and th * letter satisfied the world will be with you.?Bob Burnett. In four States of the Union, Wyom? ing, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, wom? en possess the same political rights as men, voting at all elections on the same conditions. In Wyoming the right has been exercised for forty years. A good woman pleases the heart. THE NEW PENAL CODE. ITactically Only New Legislation is Punishment for "I;euk*" and ltegu lution of Liquor Shipment*. Washington, March ?A new pen? al xrode was enacted into law today through the adoption in both houses of congress of the conference report on the bill drafted by a joint commis? sion originally appointed in 1897 and reappointed at the close of the Fifty ninth congress. The second commis? sion consisted of Senators Heyburn, Sutherland. Piles, Clarke of Arkansas and Millard and Representatives Moon (Pa.), Parsons (N. Y.), Denby (Mich.), Sherley (Ky.) and Houston (Tenn.). The bill as adopted consists of more than 300 sections and is a compre? hensive and coherent revision and compilation of practically all of the purely penal laws. For several days there has been a filibuster in the senate, led by Mr. Clarke (Ark.), against the section re? lating to the use of troops at places where general or special elections are held. Finally the conferees struck out of the section the provision relat? ing to the keeping of peace at the polls, because it was recognized that federal troops are not now used for that purpose. The commission also dropped all reference to the statute of 1875, which forbids discrmination on account of race or color in the se? lection of grand or petit jurors, but left the law as it was originally en? acted. The new code will become a law when it shall have been signed by the president. The commission found it difficult to make uniform laws that would ope? rate in all States, and among these were the prohibitory liquor laws of a number of States. It was found that this class of cases can only be covered by a general statute, and one was included, known "as the Knox amendment, making an act penalized by the law of the State an offense against the federal government when committed within the limit of the State in any place subject to the ex? clusive jurisdiction of the federal government. There has been an at? tempt to make a systematic and com? plete code such as is in existence In nearly every State. Practically the only new legislation is thpt to pun? ish "leaks" of governmental statisti? cal information, and the regulation of interstate shipments of intoxicating liquors. In order that any serious er? ror might be corrected the bill does not become effective until January 1, 1910, enabling congress when It meets next December to correct any serious mistake or omission. A Joint resolution was adopted con? tinuing the commission to codify the laws other than the criminal statutes in accordance with the instructions to the commission when originally ap? pointed. IF THEY HAD MET BEFORE. "It is too bad," he said glancing across the table at her, "that I could not have known you before." She looked up at him with a wist fulness that caused his heart to beat madly, says The Chicago Record Her? ald. "Ah, well," she said at last, "what has been can not be changed." "If I had known you five years ago/* he went on, "I would not be married to another now. Do you believe in the theory that every soul has Its mate somewhere in the world?" "I don't know. Sometimes I am in? clined to think so." "I know It is so. I used to scoff at the idea, but since 1 have looked into your eyes?since I have beheld your glorious face and heard your voice I have become convinced that God In? tended us for each othef." "I am afraid you ought not to say such things to me." "Why not? It is the truth. Nothing that has been can change that. Are the laws of society greater than the law of nature? In the sight of heaven your soul and mine are kindred. An? other bears my name and shares my fortune, but it is for you, darling, that ?ny heart is yearning." "Still, even if we had met five years ago?but I must not think of that. I>?t us talk about something else." "If we had met five years ago?ah, how changed all would be with us now. If we had met five years ago He paused and into his eyes there stole a far-away look. "If we had met five years ago," sh?* said after gazing at him thoughtfully for a little while, "'I suppose I would be sitting alone somewhere and won? dering what affinity you were dining with now." "Confound women," he thought oo began eating his oysters, "they're all so hill of jealousy that reason can have no place within them." Prince Ferdinand, of Pulgarla, haa been noted for his Impulsive way of doing things and for his capacity to surprise those about htm. When quite a young man he took a part in Mace? donian affairs which showed no lac of courage and a good deal of 1 pulse.