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The Best City. There has been so much disc among the best citizens of eve cality and city as to which wi "best" city of the United State the New York Independent ir gated statistics touching on VJ civic matters, and gives out th lowing report: Comparisons are odious, bi you know that Seattle, Washir is the best large city in the t States and Birmingham, Ala worst? Such is indeed the eas? no less an authority than the pi sor of sociology at Reed Co Portland, Ore., has just direc statistical inquiry into the thin largest cities of the United S and finds this to be the case. H vides the subjects by which the are to be judged into eighteen tories and finds that all the we cities are in the first quarter southern cities in the last quatei the east betwixt and between. As to separate categories: Seattle pays the highest wage: hour, Charleston, S. C., the lowe The cost of living is lowest in neapolis, highest in Birmingham V The death rate is lowest in Sea highest in Charleston. The infant mortality rate is lo in Omaha, highest in Charleston The proportion of population i ried is highest in Cleveland, lowe: San Francisco. Louisville heads the list in chi membership, Portland, Ore., foot Minneapolis has the lowest pen age of child labor, Atlanta the h est. Providence has the largest i area per inhabitant, Atlanta smallest. Baltimore is the best paved c Salt Lake City, the worst. The destruction by fire is les: Baltimore and more in Binning} than anywhere else. New York owns the most valus public properties per inhabitant, 1 mingham the least. More people draw books out of public library in Cincinnati and fi er in Birmingham than elsewhere. As might be expected, Boston the best school attendance, Charl ton the worst. Kansas City has the most sch property per child attendance, Ja sonville the least. New York pays the public sch teachers the most, Jacksonville 1 least. In the lowest number of pupils i teacher, Los Angeles leads. Atlai brings up the rear. . Seattle is the literate city. Charl ton the most illiterate. Jacksonville has the fewer forei born unable to speak English, M ?waukee the most. The Independent, from which tl article is taken, continues. Here they are in their proper c der. 1, Seattle; 2, Salt Lake City; . Denver; 4, Los Angeles; 5, Washin ton; 6, Portland; 7, Minneapolis; Cincinnati; 9, San Francisco; 10, ? Paul; ll, Omaha; 12, Cleveland; 1 Boston; 14, Buffalo; 15. St. Loui 16, Kansas City; 17, Milwaukee; 1 Newark; 19, New York; 20, Pitt burgh; 21, Chicago; 22, Indianapoli 23, Louisville; 24, Detroit; 2 Springfield 111.; 26, New Haven; 2' Philadelphia; 28, Baltimore; 29, Mei phis; 30, Providence; 31, New 0; leans; 32, Scranton; 33, Jacksonville 34, Atlanta; 35, Charleston; 36, Bil mingham.-Augusta Chronicle. 8,00fJ> Armenians Killed al Marash. . Constantinople, March 28.-Est: mates of casualties in the massacre at Marash last month, sent here b; Americans, place the loss of life a about 8,000 Armenians. During th disorders 150 Turks were killed. There are 10,000 Armenians ref Tigees in Marash of whom 2,000 an sheltered in American orphanage: and hospitals. Americans are als< .caring for wounded Turks, but then is great suffering at Marash because of a lack of supplies, doctors anc nurses. A wagon-tr^in of Americar supplies was pillaged early in Marcr between Aintau and Marash. Forty per cent of the buildings al Marash were destroyed or rendered .uninhabitable during the massacres. Nearly all shops were destroyed, and more than half of the churches and mosques were laid in ruins. The hills v.are so full of armed bands at present that tra vein ig is al most impossible, but two more Amer ican doctors are now on their way to Marash from Adana, under guard of Turkish gendarmerie. Por Quick Acceptance. Galvanized Roofing at $8.50 per square, except 10 and 12 feet lengths which are H) cents higher. This is cheaper than factory prices. Galvan ized shingles on hand. A car of press zed bick to arrive this week. E. S. JOHNSON. THE TASK NEXT. Daisy M. Moore What makes the Legioners all smile? I know you'd like to ask; It's just because success at last Has crowned our long, hard task. We are so glad our glorious states Have taken up their stand Sprang up against intemperance All through our splendid land! No wonder that our faces shine; lt gladdens every heart To know our Young Crusader did Her gallant little part! Someone has said 'Your work is done' But we are not through yet; We have another foe to fight The horrid cigarette! We'll hammer and we'll batter it And some fine time the sun Will shine upon the glad day when We'll have it on the run. SOFT DRINK TAX IS HEAVY Returns from taxes on soft drinks have so far surpassed estimates of government statisticians that no ac curate check as to whether the gov ernment is getteing the full amount due is possible, according to the inter nal revenue bureau. Original estimates were that $52, 000,000 would be derived from the I tax, but the actual figures show that the amount paid will aggregate be ?tween 875,000,000 and $80,000,000. Were all returns accurate, the bu reau estimates that the total soft drink tax would aggregate $100,000, 000.. Hundreds of convictions of dealers failing to pay tax have been made. Very soon now the delegates to j the World's Convention and other ?workers in the prohibition cause will I be embarking for the voyage which lis to take them to the World's Con tention in London, April 18-23. ; About one hundred women have been booked for the journey and about One hundred local unions will receive direct inspiration from them when they return from this first World's Convention to be held since the whole world went mad in 1914. This Convention will be unique in many ways. The delegates from the United States W. C. T. U. will go to it in the full flush of the victory of their cause in this country, but they ?will have besides this victory a mes sage of the difficulties which lie be yond the enactment of prohibition law-a warning to those other wo men in the other countries which will be represented in the London meet ing to lay well the foundations for prohibition in their own countries if they would hold the victory when it ?is won. I Something New for Edgefield. I We have installed an electric clip per, which enables us to do faster ? and better work, and in order to ren jder satisfactory service to the Edge I field public, we have increased our 1 force of barbers to three regularly I during the week, and four on Satur day. Our patrons will not have to wait hereafter to be served. Mr. L. W. Smith is at first chair; Mr. C. E. Hall, the second; Mr. Ed Corley, the third and Mr. John H. Miller, the fourth. PALACE BARBER SHOP. To the rear of Bank of Edgefield. NOTICE. In pursuance of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Trenton, that it is advisable to in crease the capital stock of said bank from twenty-five thousand to fifty thousand dollars, the stockholders of said bank are hereby notified and re quested to appear at said bank either in person or by proxy at Four o'clock p. m. on April 7th, 1920 for the pur pose of considernig the advisability of adopting the resolutions of the said Board of Directors. J. F. BETTIS A. S. J. MILLER B. B. BOUKNIGHT B. R. TILLMAN ANDREW C. YONCE J. M. VANN W. W. MILLER J. M. LONG Directors. Velvet Beans Ninety-Day Speckle Velvet Beans, grown by myself, at Ellenton, S. C. $3.00 per bushel, cash with order, f.o.b, Ellenton, S. C. H. M. CASSELS, Ellenton, S. C. WANTED: To buy Scrap Iron of all kinds, brass, copper, aluminum, rags, bones, etc. Highest prices paid. Next door to Cassell's truano house. LOUIS KAMENOFF, Johnston, S. C. DO STOCKYARDS HAW ?ar HOLD O Buying and selling cattle in Union Ste pens are the ones who must termine wha1 Are the great stock yards of Chi cago, Kansas City, Omaha and else where hotbeds of monopolistic control which succeeds In mulcting the farm er on the one hand, and the consumer who buys meat, on the other hand? This will be one of the questions threshing over in the discussion of the Kenyon bill now before a committee of the Senate. If these big markets, where millions upon millions of dollars change hands, have any sort of a strangle-hold on our food resources, few there would be who would not say, rout them. Yet equally few, perhaps, could give you any sort of a vivid word-picture of what takes place in these markets through which flows much of our farm wealth. Separate From Packing Plants. The "stock yards" are synonymous In the minds of many people with all packingdom. This is error number one. They are operated as corpora tions wholly distinct from the packing plant companies that cluster around them. The stock yards perform two func tions: they are unloading, feeding and resting stations for live stock ; and markets for buying and selling. As buying and selling places, they are among the most interesting spots in the world-places where one may see a nation at Its bortering. Huge auc tion stations where a fraction of a point counts, and counts big. The Chicago stock yards, as the most notable example, will receive In a day anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 cattle, not to mention hogs and sheep. These would represent shipments by many farmers. Each farmer puts his cattle into the hands of a commission firm who acts as his agent. The "stock in trade" of the commission firm is a satisfied clientele among the farmers -the better bargainers they are for a Ung price, the moro the farmer is ?ls pored to patronize them. A Game for Experts. It ls a titanic game, and ono for ex perts. On the one suie are arrayed the commission men, and on the other thc buyers representing packing con cerns, brokers and others. Both sides know their business, which is to say that they .know full well what the re ceipts of the day are and 'their rela tion to the requirements, and they know cattle. The big auction begins. Not from a block, but an auction for all that. Buyers, mounted on ponies, scurry hither and thither, making a bid on ene lot here and on another lot there. The commission man will hold the bid in abeyance, dickering for a few points higher price and awaiting the arrival of another man on a pony who may make him a better offer. Every com mission man is a competitor of all the other commission men ; and every buy er is a competitor of all the other buy ers. We say that all of these men know cattle. A steer ls not a standardized commodity. Nature makes him what he is. The contour of his haunches, thc build of his body and his make-up In general have everything to do with HOW THE PROCEEI OF A STEER Who gets the money that you pay t diagram will help you to see. It is ma eral Department of Agriculture who f through the packing plant and througl meat was in the hands of the ultima bought from the farmer; In addition to visceral fat and other by-products. The; added to what the retail market man proceeds. Out of this total amount th* the live animals. Three to 4 per cent v market and to feed and care for then slaughtered. The packer received 5 t( this covered the cost of slaughtering, rel to the local branch houses, selling to thi to 20 per cent was received by the bu plus his profits. The illustration indie by the relative sizes of the money bags. ick Yards, Chicago. The men in the judge each steer and de : he is worth. what he is worth as a beef animal. No one can determine his value but the men in the pens,-the commission men and the buyers. Buyers Represent Many Firms. Many think that these cattle are all purchased by the big packers, which is far from being the case. Besides the buyers for the big packers there are always in the Chicago yards from a hundred to a hundred and fifty other buyers on the scene, many of them representing firms that are not located near the stock yards or even In the same city. All told, the large pack? ers do only 44 per cent of the meat animal slaughtering of the entire corn try. The penalty which awaits the buyer who will not bid up to true values ls that the other buyers take the cattle away from him and his firm will be without Its requirements. On the oth er hand the commission men cannot stick it out for an exorbitant price; for the buyers would cut down on the amounts of their purchases. There are some people who will buy meat at any price, but the majority of peo ple reduce their meat purchases pre cisely as the prices mount upward. The buyers In the stock yards reflect this attitude of the general public al most as accurately as a thermometer indicates the temperature. The Arena of Supply and Demand. In other words, the stock yards are the meeting places of two tremendous powers of the economic world.-Sup ply and Demand. Any one who vis its one of these places, even as the most casual observer, and watches what occurs there, will give up any Illusion he may have about monopoly or control. Too many buyers and sell ers are involved, and judging the value of an individual steer or a pen full of steers is altogether too compli cated a matter to cover by any sort of agreement in advance. The Kenyon bill would make it ille gal for any packers to have financial holdings in stock yards corporations. Common sense rightly asks. "Why?" How such holdings, which, where they exist, are nothing moro than financial backing of a worthy enterprise, can control the men in the pens who are hired to use their judgment, is too drep to be seen at a glance. The ad vocates of the bill should be forced to explain. And how a lack of such hold ings would prevent control or monop oly, if such things were possible, ls an other thing which the proponents of the bill should be able to elucidate. SMALL PACKERS OPPOSE LICENSE Cincinnati meat packers in drawing resolutions against the licensing ol all packers doing Interstate business, brought attention to the fact that the proposed legislation embodied in the Kenyon and Kendrick bills, if enacted, would have a tendency to drive hun dreds of small packing firms out of the field of interstate operations. This would be the preference forced upon them as against operating under a li censing system which would be a con tinued menace of interference. )S FROM THE SALE ARE DIVIDED, * xis Packin ? and 0 Wholesale Distribution .Retail Distribution he butcher for beef? This interesting de up from figures secured by the Fed ollowed a number of groups of steers i the retail market up to the time the ite consumer. The live auimals were the meat there was, of course, the hide, se were sold by the packer and this sum received for the meat gives the total s farmer received 66 to 75 per cent for 'ere required to ship the live animal to a in the stock yards before they were ) 6 per cent of the total proceeds, and frlgerating, shipping in refrigerator cars e local butcher, and also profits. Fifteen tcher, which comprised his selling cost ?ates the proportions of these amounts _I IT S NOT WHAT OU MAKE UT WHAT OU SAVE THAT COUNTS Copyright 1909, br C. E. Zimmerman Co. --No-66 UVERY dollar that you spend foolishly, every proportionate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that bank account. Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President: A. S. Tompkins, vice-President E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard. Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins. B. B. Bouknight. E. J. Mime. J. H. Allen SHOE POLISHES BEST FOR HOME SHINES SAVE THE LEATHER THE BIG VALUE PACKAGES PASTES AND LIQUIDS FMB^^??",?Brewn THE F. F. DALLEY CORPORATIONS LTD., BUFFALO. N. Y. The Married Man They make a good many jokes at the expanse of the "poor married man." but really marriage is no joke to the man who is married. It is a stern, sobering event to the average man when he takes unto himself a wife. It means two mouths to feed instead of one. Two people to be properly clothed, \ a home to furnish, additional duties and responsibilities. It means more economy, more careful adjustment of finances. An account at our bank is one of the greatest safeguards the newly married man can make. Save a little something every week, every month, every year for a rainy day. The Bank of Trenton, S. C. We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Co. QUALITY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Dugas Sts., Augusta, Ga,