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THWB 3F S0AWLE. ongress Greatly Wrought up by the toosureri-Packers Xaking Ef forts to 'Avoid Cost 'of Inspection. Washitgton, May 31.--Congress is deeply stirred up over the beef in ,spection amendment which the ad ministration through Senator Beve ,ridge caused to be added to the agri cultural appropriation bill and which is now in process of going to confer ence between the House and Senate. The proceedings seem to have opened a Pandora's box of trouble for the beef trust, and it is evident that the end of the embarrassments 'for that combination is not yet in sight. A determined effort is to be made to get the Neill report before the piub lie. Just 'as vigorous attempts will be made to suppress it. Already the effects of the agitation upon the beef trusts trade is apparent. The Euro pean market has taken fright, think ing that if the president of the United States .found it necessary to move in 'the premises there must be some foun dation for the reports of outrage upon the consuming public. The press throughout the United States has taken up the subject. The Chicago press is making vigorous in quiry into what becomes of the meats 0 'condemned by the Federal inspectors and some reports have been publish ed alleging that the diseased hogs, cattle and sheep are foisted upon the community after being condemned by the inspectors. The New York papers are full of reports of alleged cases of imposition upon the consumers and the public seems to be thoroughly aroused. But the beef trust is by no meians idle all this time. Telegrams are be ginning to pour in upon Senators and Representatives from the cattle rais ing States urging Congressmen not to take action which will react upon the cattle raisers. The inference whicl statesmen are drawing from these I telegrams is that the beef trust is threatening the cattle raisers that if congress makes the trust pay the cost of inspection the trust will take it out of the price paid for cattle. Some of the legislators familiar with the methods of the beef trust think that the trust would also turn around and take a double turn of the consumers of beef. In fact, it is L known that word has already been passed around in congress that if the trust has to pay the cost of the in spectioll the 1 eople will have to foot the bill in increased cost. of meat pro ducts. It is safe to say, however, that these considerations are not cutting much figure in congress. The thing has gone too far, it is claimed, for Congress to turn back without raising a storm of public indignation. It is quite possible thait the amei~indmnt may be chaniged it' it can lhe shown Itat changei is ncessary' to mtake it Coulri-pr oof.X The no st determi ied e f fort will be made to lix t he cost of insp en c t ipon th Ile pac'kers anid make it stick, let in th ile fu~tre t ake care of thle cost of enattle and. dressed mteatis. hat if the di selo,sures iturn out to he. as sit ting as t hey have bteenii hinted, lhe beef trust imay be glad enough to do business at any price that is reai sotnable, an tiiIhatI if the t rust does. nio t offer Ito pay fair prices for eait tle t here will sooti he arrngmemenits ouitside of thle Itrust for buyiing them aad for selling' them at a reaisontaleI rate for' the publi. FTe suggestioni hats been made that this very legislat10on may turn out to be lie beginniing of the break-up of the hbeef trust and returni to normal coniditions5 in cattle b)uyinlg anid meat selling. R epreseniitat ives know that there* is no orgamiz.ation in the coun try; not exceptinig the Standard Oil trust, whtich is so despised anid hated by the publie as the beef t rust, and thley feel that they needh not fea,r to take drastie action so long as it is legal. LEPROSY CASES IN AMVERIcIA. Indianapolis, Ind., May 31.-Dr. Isadore Dyer, the noted Newv Orleans specialist in leprosy, discussing the disean3 here today said there are probably thirty statea whlicht are af flieted to a' greater 'or Ie .' extent with *theo digeage. "'It is estimated,",' said the doctor, A that there are betwveen .101) and 5% cases of known leprosg in the 7.nitedI States. All but seventy-five of thesei cases are at large. E~ach of the larger 'cities has eases of leprosy frequenting 'the publie elliesce New. York, Chica gd, St. Louis and Pl1ihadelyhlia fall within this category. "At San hranelseo <and Boston sanitary provision is mnade for .such cases. Leprosy is sure to be a ,vital question in the United States soonea r later because the disease spreads nsidiously from the fact that it is iot isfially recognized by the average >iysieian even win the disease is rol l(dvane,ed.' The Cotton Acreage. New York, May 31.-The June cot On report of the Journal of Com aerce, which will be published to-mor -ow points to an increase of 6.3 per eut in acreage. The report states that lie increase in acreage may be great r, but the disposition to under-esti nate the crop is so prevalent as to unke it exceedingly difficult to ob ain reliable data concerning acreage. ior this situation the officers of the 'otton Growers' association are hiefly responsible. They have persis ently conducted a campaign of exag eration and misrepreseitation, the onsequences of which are more in ttrious to growers whom they pretend o protect than to buyers wihoim they annot deceive. Such practices con use cotton growers as much if not lore than cotton manufacturers, and rofit none except the speculator. 'ondition of the crop appears to be uite satisfactory, the Jiune percnt go for the entire cotton belt. being 2.1, against 77.4 last year, and 79.J in 904. Replies have been received rom 1,400 correspondents and their verage (late is May 23. In Texas the icreased acreage amounts to 8.3 per ent over last year, and in Oklahoma id the Indian Territory the increase 1 18.5 and 17.9 per cent respetively lorida is the only State showing a ecrease, namely 2 per cent., other 'isc the increases are. North Carolina, 4.8 per cent; South ,arolina, 4.6 per cent; Georgia, 6.2 er cent; Alabama, 4.8 l'er cent; Mis issil)pi, 4.1 per cent; Louisiana, 2.5 'er cent; Arkansas, 3.8 per cent ; Cn11eCISS, 2.2 per cetit, and. Missouri per cent. On account of the low temperatures. ccompanied in nearly tll parts of lie cotton belt by dry weather, growth as been retorded and much replant ig necessitated, making the crop two reeks late. R1eports of scarcity of la 01' are very general, but little acreage as been abandoned owing to the mall amounti of cultivationi, req uired or the growing planit. Fields, as a ule, are clean and insects have lone ardly any damage. Texas and Geor ifa show excellent conditions, due xrgcly to dry weather. The - hoil vecvil has made is appearance in 'exas. A MERCIFUL PRINCESS. 'rincess Ena's First Notable Act in Madrid. A ca1ble-1ram1 from Adrid says: 'lie first notabile act of Princess Eia f Battenberg, since her arrivail in ;p)ain to become the bride if King L fonso, XIIT, has been to indnce the ing to paridon Fer'nado L.ev'era, wh'lo r'as (condemnedllCi to deaithI after an ex iting trial. The dr'amat ie cire'nm lanes nuider' whliich paridon was "iv ni. as~ I lie cOilIimned mam was g0ilig 0 thle gaillow~s, at tractIs widespreadl a I ,ojiulaityl ofi PincessQ5 Ena. Lev'ern was to hav'e b)een excen'ted'i n the neighiborinig towni of' Biaaj(z. Ena' s int ereessionl anid she spoike to) lhe kingi~, who consult ed withIii hii min lie govermenIl 11it decided to granti lie 'egnpest. as it. was thle fir,st ptIit ion Ithe w1ieess has mnade in1 Spain1. Ther'ie 11pon the k(ing issue~d a parl1doni, and a *d t he 1pison0 at IlaIiajos5 halfC aii lhouri iefore the t ime set foi' Ithe exeenion01. IPhe( march''l to thle seaiffold was to be eini wh'en a mnesseniger' brought word of lie pai'don. There wereQ ren1i1arkale scenes of 'ejoicinig. The Itownlspeole formed I pr'ocession~ anid sang thle praises of lieir queen to b)e. The p)eople of Mad 'id also highly apprioved of the pr'in 'ess's humane intervention, and the iewspaper conmmenited( upon thle comn ng queen 's act as being one of mei'cy. A cer'tainl conigressmanl from1i Vimr rin1ia has long ret ained in his emp)loy i. colored mnan by the name of Eze tiel. One moi'ning the master left the iouse, leaving beChinid him a letter lie ind forgot ten. Some time in the af ei'noon lie remembered the communi sation, and, as is was of some im yortance, he hastened back home, only ;o find that the letter was nowhere to me seen in his library. He had a dis ;inet recollection that the letter had ieen left on a table. He summoned 'zekie1 and asked if he had seen the .etter. "Yessah, ye' lef' it on yo' table.'' "Then where is it now?'' "I mailed it, sah." "Ye.u mailed it ? Why Zeke, ( had irA put the nare.. and address ou, 1he ''Jes' so, Sahl. I thought it was -no oa dem anonymous letters." SEARED 'CHILDIEN WITH HOT IRONS Cilcago Tots Tell In Police Court of Almost Incredible Craelty of Their Parents. Almost incredible was the story of inhumanity toward their children which was unfolded in a Chicago po ice court when Michael and Mary Janoszek were arraigned on a charge of assault. The children, Mary, six years old, and Annie, four years old, shrank in terror before their parents luring the court proceedings. For more than a half hour Mary told of the cruelties to which she and her Aister had been subjected. She said that the mother had twisted broom bandles in their hair until it was pulled out by the roots and that one day when she (Mary) lost 10 cents her fa ther broke her arm by striking her with a club. "One day mamma said that I bit my sister's finger," Mary said, "and papa kicked me. He kicked me many times, and he also struck me with his flat. Then he locked me and Annie in the coal box in the back of the house. He made us stay there for two days and gave us pieces of bread to eat. When we cried that we were hungry lie took a redhot poker and burned our backs and arms." The girls showed their arms and backs, which were found covered with blisters and deep sores. Neighbors also were in court and told of the many cruelties which the parents had practiced on their children. One of the neighbors finally was un able to bear the shouts of the little girls any longer and informed the po lice. The arrest of the parents fol lowed. Justice Mayer iekl the prisoners In $10,000 ball each for the grand jury. "This is the most horrible affair ever known in Chicago," he said to them. "You are both inhuman monsters. No punishment could be devised by man to fit the crimes you have commit ted. You, Mrs. Janoszek, should be whipped until you drop. I cannot bear to look upon those children. I hope you will both be sent to prison for ever." TOOK MUCILAGE INSTEAD OF POISON Mistake of Would Be Suicide Effectually Seals His Jaws Until Forgtving Wife Pries Them Open. After a wordy quarrel with his wife Richard Jones, a farmer at Hog Run, W. Va., concluded to end his life and, going into a cupboard where soie poi son was kept, seized a bottle and took a generous drink of the contents be fore Its consistency caused him to open his eyes and look at the bottle. He saw the label and hurled the bot tIe from him. It was good old fash ioned gum arable mucilage which filled 8 HE TOOK A OENEnIOUS DRINK. his mouth and clutched at his throat. The mucilage clung to his throat and nearly suffocated him. Mrs. Jones heard the commotion and ran into the room. Jones tried to be rate her, but his tongue went to the root of his mouth and cleaved there, He shut his teeth with a vicious snap and found his jaws stuck fast. Mrs. Jones was nearly convulsed with laugh ter. When she could control herself she went about to unstick her husband. Jones' anger changed to gratitude as his wife worked over him. She loosen ed up his jaws and got his tongue un limbered so that he could utter a some what sticky "thanks." Swapped Wives and Children. The alleged fact that two men tr,aded wives was brought to light in Pana, Ill., by the arrest of J. M. Mosby for infidelity. On March' 24, it is said, Mosby traded his wife, aged twenty one years, with one chihg, to Fred L. Jachtnan of St. Lotiis i6r Jackman's wife and five children, and since that time they have been living together as common law husbands and common law wives. Both women assetated to the change, it Is asserted, and con tracts for separation and common law marriages were drawn up and signed by the contracting parties. Rberts college, Consta.ntinople, a fa mous missionary institution, now hat an enrollment of 842 young men rep reaenting dfteen races. Half of them, W ORD-WO 41 "-TV IW. ROOSEVELT HUNTING SHAFT Bouthw%esterners to Duild u, Novel - Monunent In Theodore. President toosevelt is soon to be Im mortalized as the pioneer coyote exter miator of the southwest, according to a dispatch from Lawton, Okla. This Is to be accomplished through the erec tion of a monument on the exact spot where the president's tent was pitched during the few days of his hunt in southwest Oklahoma last spring. The Monument Is to cost several thousand dollars and Is to be paid for by popu lar subscription. 'The report was current recently that the Rock Island system has selected the quarter section of land upon which the president camped as the site of a town to be called Theodore. 'The monument Is to be erected In the center of the town site and will bear Inscriptions giving the names of the president's party. the date of the hunt, etc. Fig ures representing the president, John Abernethy, fleeing coyotes and chasing hounds are to be placed on the pedes tal around the monument's base. Names For Western Towns. "Attractive names for towns to be built up along their extensions are be. Ing sought by railroad men in the west," said George Parsons of Chicago to a reporter of the Milwaukee Senti nel. "Owing to recent disclosures the names of lending public men and pri vate individuals are not as welcome for these purposes as they were in the past, but as individuality Is sought it may be that Indian names will figure to a large extent In the nomenclature of these new towns." Postal Card Luncheon. Souvenir postal cards, which lave burdened the mail bags all winter, were recently put to a novel use by a Brooklyn girl, says the New York Press. This young woman, known as an enthusiastic collector, gave a "post al card luncheon.' To each guest on arriving she gave a foreign postal card and told her to find her own place at the table. This was not a difficult pro ceeding, for at each place was a tiny flag of a foreign country, and the girl with a German card took her place by the flag of Germany, and so on. The centerpiece at this affair consisted of hundreds of these little flags stuck in a mound of moss and ferns. The ices were frozen in small oblong blocks, which were decorated with cakes in the form of stamps of green or red. The hostess wore a cap with "U1. S. Mail" on it, and a little mail bag wag slung over one shoulder. Parliamentary Lnw Now a Pad. Parliamentary law is society's new ost fad. says the New Yotk Press. So pronounced Is the interest that bridge, shows on the tanbark and social trivial. Ities generally pale before this study. Followers of this movement are form Ing clubs and organizing Icommittees and arranging rotr lectures with the snme ze.t which they put into the ba gaairs for the San Francisco sufferers. For several years there has been a harmless sort of flirting with miunici I)al positions by the men of the fami ly, but now wives and daughters are going In for politleal training through the Intricato study of "previous ques tion," "'debatabl)e motions" and "orders of procedura." W'hether the women who have taken parliamentary law In tow will findi it engrossing for long Is in itself a deoluitable ouestion. E ACTS !N FEW LINES Theo sinal?ea quadrup ii in the worW is the pygmy IiOtese oft Sberia. A cow's hide oif a1veraige size lproduict'. abl out thtirty -lie pondsI of le- ahr. The highmes point to whIich a hiuzmaw being can nscend without involving in~ jury to health is 16,500J feet. Tho British emp11ire nee'ds maps. P. survey of the uInsurveyecd por-t ion.. wvould cost .$15,000,000, say $75,000i year for twenty yea'urs. Chinchilbis have beent so imuich in re (quest for furs in the( last few year.-: thiat the spe(cies5 la~ ini (anger of exti tion 10 Chile and1( Bolivi. !iSarlestoi ad~W 4 tcri Caro1iiu Ry. (Schedule inmirfFet Ar piil m6, i905..) No. 52. Danily. 1.v. Newherry.............12.36 p, nr. Ar. Laurenis...... ... .... .5 p. mi No. 2. J)aily. I..Laurens........... .... 1.50 pi. ml. A r. Greeniwoodi............2.46 p. mn. Ar. Augusta............... -5.20 pi. nm. Ar. Anderson ............. 7.10 p. mi. No. 43. Daily. I,v. Augusta...... .. ..... .......... .....235 p. mi. A r. Allenidnhe.......................... 4 30 p. mi. Ar. Fairfax............................41 p. mi. A r. Charleston.......................... 7.40 p). mn. r . fleauf ort.............. ......... .. . .. 63 p. mi r. Port R C yal... ... ..... ... .. . ...6.40 p. m A r. savannah..................... . ... 6.45 P. in A r. waycross. ............ ..............00 1.o'. mn. Ar. acksonville................................. No. m. 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