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BROGDON. Brogdon. Jan. 36.?After several weeks of vary cold weather, today la quite shining like, and reminds us that the gardening season It near at hand. ' K?fty Farmer? are getting busy now? eoeae are sawing lumber, repairing aad building tenant houses, while others are at work In the fields pre para4ory to making another crop. Last year was a moot prosperous one, aad the fair price of cotton has Im? bued those who till the soil with re? newed energy. Nearly every farmer has a goodly quantity of cotton loft over from last year and which he Is continuing to hold. Mr. J. I. Brogdon visited his son At Florence last week. Mr. Eugene Brogdon has returned from a trip to Waycross, Ga. Mrs. M C. Gregg visited In the neighborhood recently. Messrs. Bossard Britton. Robert Jones) and Misses Smith and Jones at? tended "Buster Brown" at the o.era bouse last night. Mrs. J. J. Britton and daughter, Miss Mary, visited at Mr. Howard Jonen' this week. Miss Grace Brogdon Is visiting Miss Blanche Roes at Tlmmpnsvtlle. The young gentlemen of the neigh? borhood gave quite an enjoyable lit? tle) dance in ths hall above Mr. W. T. Brogdon s store a few evenings ago. The Manning band discoursed music for the occasion, snd the happy young folks indulged In the very pop? ular waits and two step, 'till the early hours of the morning. DAMS OORJTKR. ' Dark Corner. Jan. 14.?As It Is mining thai morning I will write a Mae for the Watchman and Southron. Mvsrything Is about at a stand still on Account of the cold Weather and rmin. There is but little work done an jet In preparing for Another crop. I have not seen but one former in this corner that has commenced to plough so far. A great many have sold their cotton seed that did not lntsn.1 to do so, but they could not stand the temptation of fifty cents a bushel. Mr. Jim Avln and Mr. Newton Ber? wick still keep very weak. No other sack to report ss far as I know. The Black Hlver (Baptist) Union meets with the Homebranch church near Paxville on next Friday the Ifth. Ben Geddings and W. J. Ardls of this corner are delegates from the Pin'wood church, with R. K. Epper? son und E. P. Geddings of Plnewood. I was in your city for a few hours last Saturday and found It a cold town on a cold day, for Mr. Editor If I owed you a cold disagreeable day and you would not take last Saturday for the day, I would never make any further attempt to pay you. It seems from what I eee In the Item that bicycles have got so they take up with every tramp they see. And I believe they do. Hope the wheels will sll he returned home and the tramps also. The county boarding Inn, kept by one Peter, are housed for a while on the hanks of the Congaree. And I wtll say to those tramps, should any of them see this, that to remember that all bad acts will surely come to a halt or a halter, one or the other, sooner or later. Mrs. M. E. Mclntosh and Mrs. W. J. Ardls visited the former's daugh? ter. Mrs. H. C. Scott, yesterday. Mr and Mrs. Wash Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Geddings. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ardls. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ardls and Mrs. M. E. Mclntosh, visited Mr. and Mra. Dud Weeka last night. I see that State-wide prohibition is spoken of. I hope to see the day. but It looks now ss If It was getting State-wide blind tlgerlsm In those coastM from what I can hear. A lady told me a day or so ago that ahe saw a colored woman toting whiskey around In a crocus sack and selling it or trying to do ao. I never meet thoae beast myself. They aeem to be somewhat shy of old Hard Times. Ws have observed that the h?hlest Insurgent makes less no|s?> In con? gress than when traveling that well beaten warpath, the ('huutnuqua cir? cuit.?Atchlson Globe. A kick in time may also save nine. thtt chaTW ?ome wide cloths ?l construction. Bleachers bougl combed yarn goods quits freely. 8cuthern ginghams hold firm and s steady buslneee Is reported. Plaids are moving moderately. Wide sheet Inga sc steady and sold ahead, but narrow sheetings of the heavier con? structions are In light demand. Export trade Is of a scattering sort. Better business in staple gocds for spring and fall. Men'e wear Is being sold close for fell and In limited quantities. Cotton yarns declined during the week end the mills are in need of business. HEfNZE INDICTMENT QUASHED. Friends end Counsel of More En? couraged. New York, Jan. 22.?A decision by Judge Hough in the United States Court today, quashing the indict? ment against F. Augustus Heins?, the financier and promoter, has giv? en renewed hope to the friends and counsel of Charles W. Morse, the banker, now serving a term of fif? teen years In the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. The {round for the Court's action was that mainly urged by Heinze's counsel, Judge Hough ruling that the preeence in the grand jury rcom of John P. Ferneler, an expert account? ant, in any capacity except thi.t of a witness was prejudicial to Heinze's legal rights. Judge Hough Intimated in his de? cision that the technical illegality which he holds was committed in this case might easily be remedied by resubmtsslon of testimony in the proper way to the grand jury. The decision hi considered important, however, Inasmuch as the same ac? countant or another. equally dis? qualified under this decision, was, It is reported, employed before the fed earl grand juries which indicted Charles W. Morse and John It. Walsh, the convicted bankers. Martin W. Littleton. Morse'? law? yer, said tonight that the Helnze de? cision of today may apply equally to the case of Morse and that If he could establish similar facts he would move that no valid lndlctmert was found against his client. Helnze was indicted on October 12, 1909, for violation of the national banking law. He Knew the Fact. A small boy had a dog that was rough, as most small boys' dogs are, and a young girl who lived next door had a kitten, sly, as all cats are. One day the small boy came nonchalant? ly Into the small girl's presence and after some desultory conversation he said: "You know my dog Barca and your cat Darling?" "Yes, "Well, my dog had a piece of meat, and he thought your cat was going to take It away from him." "Thought!" exclaimed the wise little girl. "What makes you say that the dog thought? You know dogs don't think; they instinct." "Well," said the boy, "I don't care whether he thought or whether he instlncted it; but, anyhow, he kill? ed your cat."?Dondon Fun. The Respected "Cowcatclier." The "cowcatcher," or pilot, of American locomotives Is an object of derision to European engineers, who regard the presence of a large ani? mal on the track as a possibility too remote for serious consideration. But constructors of locomotives for use In colonial or oriental countries would do well to adopt the American practice. In Slam recently two rail? way accidents were caused by ele? phants. In one case a train of twen? ty-seven cars, drawn by two locomo? tives, was derailed, both engines were overturned and six cars tele? scoped. In each case the offending eU'phant was killed by the collision. A 0 Of MS II firm which builds locomo? tives for the railway from Damascus to Mecca provides cowcatchers of light construction, but strong enough to throw a vagrant camel off the track. Then engines of two Algerian lines are also provided with cow? catchers.?Scientific American. S BEGUN. 11 Start Grand Jury >f the High Price of Jan. 23.?With the big packing houses id attorneys arrayed le governments' In kdr eased meat Indus be ready for action grand jury con Whether the price rially kept high is to of a battle which I )ks. e been prepared to Jury witnesses from big packing house tromised this inquiry former attempts for te packers are ready If action have been are: tecution for alleged anti-trust law. Civil action^Tor the dissolution of the National Packing company. Contempt proceedings for alleged vlolstion of Judge Grosscup's injunc? tion restraining the packers from fix? ing prices in restraint of trade. Practically all of the evidence gathered by the government in a previous investigation, it is said has been abandoned and entirely new data obtained during several months will be utilized. NO PELLAGRA IN SOUTHERN CORN. Doctor Explains Why There is No Danger From "Cornbread Disease" In Meal Ground From Southern Raised Corn in Southern Mills? Disease Brought In With Com From Northwest and Other Parts Of Country?How to Avoid Danger. * "If people ate only cornbread made, from such corn as was brought In to select seed from when Dr. Knapp spoke here Wednesday they need have no fear of pellagra," said a physician who has given much time and study to this disease in conver? sation with a News reporter yester? day. "Pellagra doesn't come from corn grown in this section, anyway, but from that brought In here from the Northwest. We doctors nearly all agree that this disease Is caused by a fungus that grows in mouldy corn. Therefore if you cure your corn pro? perly it is as plain as day that pella? gra will be a thing of the past. "Here in the South corn is cured in the same old way that the pil grams found the Indians doing it. In the North, on the other hand, they use the most approved methods of curing and storing with the result that they are now killing out the peo? ple with this pellagra, due almost en? tirely no their way of handling their corn. They laugh at the antiquated way we Southern people handle our corn but so long as we continue In this old rut we are Immune from pel? lagra, if we eat nothing in the way of corn except that cured in the old fashioned Southern way. "But this is easier said than lived up to. Many cases of pellagra are on record where the patients never at?J a pone of cornbread in their lives. The reason is simple, though for a long time it puzzled the medical world. Pi the Northwest they grow a soft corn which when ground up can scarce'v be detected from flour. Taking ad? vantage of this fact, many unscrupu? lous millers put in a good proportion of this fungus laden stuff with their flour and it is eaten unknowingly by many who are afraid to touch our harmless Southern corn products. "Sine I have learned the above facts there hasn't been a sack of meal made from Northern gn n corn or a sack of suspicious flour in my house, and I eat as much corn bread as any man my size in Green? ville. The only way to be sure of what you are getting when you buy meal is to be sure that it was raised in the South and ground in a South? ern mill. This will cause a little In? convenience in taking the pains to Investigate and the meal will cost a little more but It is well worth the difference to know that you are in no danger from this disease which every? body so dreads. "I believe that when these facts I have stated are known by the masses they will insist on having nothing but meal ground in neighborhood mills from home raised corn. Such a de? mand will greatly benefit the country, both in increasing the demand for corn and In stimulating Interest in the Important subject of Improving and In again bringing into being the old fashioned grist mills, which have now almost disappeared from our streams."?Greenville News. Carl Zarrahn, the noted musician died in Milton, Mass., recently. He was eighty-three years old. He was born at Melchow, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, He Joined a band of young musicians who wmt to America, giving concert* under the title of "the Germania Mu ! slcal Society." LEGISLATURE AI WORK. ANOTHER PROHIBITION ELFC TION THIS YEAR SUCiGESTED. BUI Introduced to Wind-Up the Coun? ty Diapcnaarlee?Mr. Sawyer Wiehe? To Refer state-Wido Prohibition Question to an F.I-xtloii This Sum? mer. Columbia. Jan. 21.?The house, to? day paaeed all third reading bills. Rucker's bill providing capital pun Ishm^t got its death sentence, there being only half dozen votes for It. Mr. Foster's bill to prevent "Didn't know t was loaded" acc'dents laj^ed. It make? pointing a pistol at another a misdemeanor. Mr Dixon's bill making disposing of a white child to a negro a misde? meanor passed. Josh Ashley said the penalty ought to be death. Mr. Sawer introduced in the house a bill referring the State-wide prohi? bition question to an election on Au? gust 23rd. A bill was introduced today by Mr. D. S. Smith for winding-up the dis? pensary affairs in counties voting out dispensaries last August. The bill includes Sumter. After two hours debate the house killed Mr. Hydrick's crop mortgage bill by a vote of 60 to 47. Columbia, Jan. 22.?The State-wide prohibition debate begins in the sen ? ate Thursday, Senator Carlisle today substituting his bill for the Otts' bill of last year to give it high place on the calendar. Among the bills given a second reading in the senate today were the following: Mr. Weston's bill, regu? lating mui ?al protection associations: the Weston bill regulating investment companies; the Harmon bill outlaw? ing all but safety matches; effective one year hence, the Sullivan bill pro? hibiting minors playing pool or bil? liards. Those killed were the Croft bill, compensating Confederate vet? erans for property furnished the Con? federacy; the Griffin bill to abolish the Confederate Infirmary; the Lide bill allowing through freight trains t > run on Sundays. COMET ? VISIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT. Wandering Heavenly Body Hashes Acroee Sky. Washington, Jan. 22.?A new com? et, outshining Venus in brilliancy, was visible in the sky tonight. Along the Atlantic seaboard in the South, where the skies are not clouded, it can be most clearly seen. Although unidentified by the scientists, it is unmistakably distinguished from Halley's comet, and the astronomers at the Naval Dbservatory here have trained their telescopes upon it night and day for nearly a week. It is now so close to the sun that the scientists have not been able to see it plainly by day, and the nights have been so clouded that their view has been obscured. Early in the week the comet was visible at Johannesburg, South Afri? ca. Its appearance was reported by cablegram to the Naval Observatory here, and the scientists have been on the watch for it night and day. The big telescopes which survey the skies from the Observatory on the heights at Georgetown have lo? cated the comet but three times and the observers are in much doubt as to its identity. By daylight, when the sky has been clear, the sun has out? shone It, and at night, when the scientists would have had the ad? vantage of a dark background to make observations, lag sky has been clouded, except for short intervals. Seen in Tills State. Columbia, Jan. 23.?Observers In Columbia, Greenville and Newberry tonight reported having seen a comet in the southwestern skies. Prof. Col cock of the astronomical department of the University of South Carolina observed the comet yesterday. The comet was seen an hour after sunest. It was notable for its brilliance, even beside Venus. TWO MEN FATALLY CUT. Sorlon? Affair in Greenville's Red Light District. Greenville. Jan 22.?Traced for one mile from the County Court House by streaks of blood on the ground, two young white men, Will Foster and Tom Scott, were fo?nd today by the police near Carolina Mills, cut. almost Into mince meat? From what could be learned from the police it seems that in a free-for all fight in the red light district last night, Foster and Scott were slashed many times by an unknown man. They staggered up town, and great streaks of blood in front of the Court House led the officers to be? lieve that a mysterious murder had been committed. They traced the drops of blood from street to street and located the men at the Carolina Mills. They are both fatally cut. NEWS FROM LEGISLATURE. WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE WORKING HARD. The Appropriation Bill Almost Ready j To be Reported?State-Wide Pro- j hibltion Bill May Become a Daw. Columbia, Jan. 22.?The way? and means committee of the houvc will probably turn in the appropriation bill by the middle of next we?-!\ which will be a very to Haldem ble achievement. This committee lias been working hard and faithfully, every legislative day from 4 to s or 7 o'clock and the bill would be report? ed earlier but for the trip to Char? leston. From all that can be gather? ed from the leaks that come through the key hole of Ulf door, it is te^rii ed that the appropriation budget this yeai will be about the tame as last, possible a little smaller. Ther<? w'.tl be several matters cut off from the bill es passe;1, last year, the item f??r Winthrop's rew dining hall and other Improvements, but to match these will be appropriations for the Cita? del, the rebuilding of the negro col? lege, and other matters, which will maintain the average. The State levy will be the same, no provision being made to get the State on a cash basis. In this connection it Is Interesting to note the propositions that are be? ing made to get taxes equalized in the State. There is the proposition of the comptroller general for the appoint? ment of a State commission to equal? ize the taxes, and several other bills in the same line presented by mem? bers of the house independently. It is the very evident desire of the mem? bers of the legislature to get property in the State equalized, the differences in taxes are apparent to any one who gives a little study, and the greatest difficulty that assessors meet with is in the feeling of the taxpayer that everybody except himself is dodging taxes. The comptroller general will urge the publicity feature of the as? sessments, giving a list of the tax? payers In each community with the property and value that they return He urges that this will make every man a member of the board of equal? ization. Something will be done along this line if the General Assembly has time to do It after getting rid of the liquor question. That brings us to another matter, the matter of the State-wide bill. It looks very much as If that bill Is go? ing through. A number of represen? tatives and sen rs from the coun? ties that went dry *ast sumer are get? ting the idea that if they do not stand for prohibition their counties will repudiate them in the coming election, and there is a great deal of the dog in the manger sentiment to be seen, dry cov nties do not like the looks of the dispensary profits in wet counties. There will be several votes lost to the local option men by rea? son of the election last summer, though it Is a fact that the represen? tatives of the newly dry counties are In a quandry how to meet the ex? penses of their counties without levy? ing an exorbitant tax. One county will have to increase its tax levy ten and a half mills to make up the loss In most Instances the representatives will just not stand for the tax which they know will bring them into bad favor at home, but will levy a lower rate and let the county fight with a deficit. The prohibition situation has caused more men to declare that they would never again enter the race for the house than any matter that has ever come up before the General Assembly, and the indica? tions are for the greatest confusion in the affairs of the counties in the State. The State-wide men are very much encouraged over the prospects and if the men who oppose it want to stave off the arbitrary action of the Gen? eral Assembly they need to get very busy all at once. In this connection it will be of in? terest to note that Mr. Doar of Georgetown has a bill which levies a tax on all imported liquors in the State, and makes the railroads and express company the agents of the State for the collecting of that tax. It will be an inspection tax, which is supposed to provide that the people of South Carolina shall not be hum? bugged with counterfeit liquor, but that every gallon that comes Into the State shall be inspected by a duly constituted officer and pay its con? tribution to the school fund. It is thought that this law will make the losses good in some counties. A Good Head for Business. "I want a bat-pin," said little Mary of four years, as she gazed eagerly at the cushion full of sparkling orna? ments on the miuincr s show-case "How much Is it ?" she asked after making a very deliberate choice and laying her purchasse money, a bright penny, on the counter. "Oh. noth? ing," returned the kind-hearted Mrs. Hrlggs, as Mary's mother w;is one of her regular customers?. Imagine her amusement as the little "bargain hunter" sato most eagerly, "I'll take two, then.*' WILL THE PEOPLE FAST ? MEAT BOYCOTT CENTRES AT? TENTION IN INCEREASED EXPENSES. Plan of Abstaining From Fleffti Has Taken Great Hold in the Western State?. W?Hhir.gton, Jan. 23.?"Revolu? tion? hav? been started by less than th?i American people are suffering n^w," says Senator Joseph L Brie? low, of Kansas. "Meat foots up to a quarter of the average hoasehold ex? penses, and it ought to be cheaper today instead of dearer than it was 25 years ago because of the greater economy la its preparation and sale. When I was a boy 26 per cent, of the carcass went to waste. Now nothing goes to waste?not even the blood." Senator Brlstow'a words crystaliee the sentiment of protest in all parts of the country against the higher cost of living. Thus far the move? ment, which first took form in an actual boycott at Cleveland, met with most success in the West. The East has been slower to fol? low, influenced, perhaps, by a wide? spread feeling among small dealers and in the labor unions that a uni? versal boycott, though effective as a protest, would actually play into the hands of the packers, who with their control of cold storage houses and refrigerator lines could carry product through a prolonged boycott, whereas even 30 days cessation of trade would put the small independ? ents out of business. What the scattered and sporadic boycotts all over the country and the universal protest have done, how? ever, is to focus the attention of the nation upon t.ne necessity for econo? my. The most serious warnings have been sounded on this subject by economists, statisticians and business men without bringing the truth home to the people as has their sudden realization of Its application in one particular. President W. C. Brown of the New York Central lines said in a recent address: "The most protentious cloud upon the economic horizon Is the steady, relentless Increase in prices of everything that goes to make up the cost of living." Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Colum? bia says: "The situation is really so serious that the government should awaken to it" James J. Hill has said that unless more economical methods of farm? ing are devised the nation in another generation will be importin? its food supplies. Such men as these hope that the present national awakening will not exhaust itself on one particular phase of a national peril. PITTSBURG SUPPORTS PLAN. Meat Boycott Spreads in Vicinity of City of Smoke and Workers Take Up the Cry. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 23.- -The meat boycotte, which had its rtrst local support among the street car men. has spread to the great Industrial plants of the river valleys and even the brawny iron workers, miners and glass blowers are taking a hand. Braddock, one of the largest iron working communities, it is admitted at butcher shops, that business has fallen off from 40 to 60 per cent. Other river towns report similar de? clines. Meatless menues were presented to diners in some of the Pittsburg hotels today and proved popular. MAKES SMALL HEADDWAY IN SOUTHERN STATES. Meat Boycotte Movement So Far Has Not Progressed Greatly?Gain? Ex? pected This Week. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 23.?Reports do not indicate that the boycotte against packing house meats has gained any widespread hold in the South. In a half dozen cities bodies of union workmen have adopted resolutions favoring the boycotte and In some cases pledges are being displayed. Vhis week, however, developmnts fa? vorable to the agitation are looked for In all parts of the South, as re ! suit of special called meetings of county and citiy federations of labor to be held during the week. In Atlanta the boycotte was refer? red to in several pulpit today. Rev Len G. Broughton, peator of the Baptist Tabernacle, declared the boy? cott nothing more than a fad. "What we want to do and do quickly," he said, *is to put congress to work to destroy the hellish trusts and this can never be done while the great protective tariff on such neces? sities exists.** Herr Ludwig Romenthal, the noted bookseller at Munich, commemorated recently his fiftieth anniversary as a seller of rare books and manuscripts. Herr Romenthal founded the antiqua? rian book trade of Munich and most of the host of second-hand booksel? lers who make Munich a rival to Leipzig as a book centre have served their apprenticeship in his offices.