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COMMITTEE FLUNKS. V Presents Whitewash Report on the Cost of Living. Wasington, June 23.?The Senate committee which was appointed * > to make a bluff at investigating the cost of living and whitewash the \ tariff has performed its function. It brought in its report this morning which is all told a bundle of the most preposterous stuff ever put out by any committee of Congress, and that is saying a great deal. The committee declares that living ' . is higher in England than it is in this country. Therefore it cannot be the tariff which causes the hign cost of living in America. Senator E. D. Smith entered a vigorous pro+>?/-? AAmmiftoo'c mQlrinP* LCSt dgdlUSk IUC wumnvwv o any report at this time, v - No Real Investigation. He, as a member of the committee, stated that no real investigation had T been made. Scarcely an item directly affected by the tariff has been inquired into, neither woolen clothes, cotton goods, steel manufactures or any one of* other important items upon which high duties are levied m the tariff law in order to raise the price has been touched. It was not expected that the committee would make a report at this time, but the necessities of the political situation make in desirable that some s^JL of campaign material shall be got up. Senator Lodge's committee accordingly has set to work with experts to get up material which would snow tnat tne tann nas noinmg tu do with the high prices to the con" sumers, and that the farmers are the ones whose products are higher than those of any others. The three Dem-; ocrats on the committee are Senators j Johnson of Alabama, Clark of Arkan- j ^ sas, Smith of South Carolina. ,l % No Minority Report. These have no minority'report and ^ Senator Smith is stirred up about the whole affair. He declares that sevj eral times he urged upon the other > . Democrats on the committee the disirability of getting experts to work to prepare a minority report but thai i . ?Mr. Johnson, the ranking Democrat, replied that it was his understanding . thtft there would be no report at this session. Mr. Smith says that there ^ i his been no real investigation upon ; . /which any report could be based, f : either a minority or a majority report, * and that he intends at least to show the preposterous fallacies in the document presented to-day. He expects to make another speech on the subject to-morrqw in which he will take y the report to task. Score of Soldiers Killed. Mexico City, June 23.?Twenty federal soldiers are reported to have been killed and more than that number injured to-day when four cars of a train in which the troops were being transported on the Manzanillo 1 line of the National railways in the State of Colima broke loose from $ the locomotive and dashed down a steep grade. When tjie cars reached a curve after tobogganing for six miles, and i attaining a terrific speed, they left the track and were dashed to pieces. The cars formed the rear portion of a troop train of 13 cars, which was proceeding toward Platanar. The number of men they contained was not known, but railway officials here * estimate that there were not less ., than 150. Many are said to have jumped from the cars when they v started down the grade and thus saved their lives. The accident was i due to the breaking of a coupling and the failure of the brakes to work. Passenger Engineer Watson backed the remainder of the train to the scene of the wreck and sent a pas* senger to the nearest telegraph station. Within a short time relief exDeditions were en route to the scene. In the meantime, the work of caring > for the wounded was done by army surgeons. Policeman Arrested. 1 , - Walhalla, June 22.?Lewis R. Can* trell, a policeman of Westminster, was arrested and lodged in jail this afternoon, charged with the murder , of Robert C. Emerson. This is the / i second arrest for this crime, Henry Brown, a negro, having been arrested two weeks ago. i , ^Cantrell is prominently connected * and has been on the police force at Walhalla and Greenville. Other arrests will be made in a few days. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that I cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known ,k F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, f and believe him perfectly honorable in all business tranactions and financially able to corry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter{ nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. * Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. i . * i BIDS OX AIKEN'S POSTOFFICE. Lowest Figures Submitted by A. B, Stannard, of New York. Washington, June 24.?Bids were opened to-day at the treasury department for the construction of the public building at Aiken. The bidders were: King Lumber Company, of Charlotteville, Va., $51,970; George A. Clayton, of Atlanta, $4S,S64; Palmer Contracting Company, of Augusta, Ga., $48,610; A. JB. vStannara, or .\ew iorK, $-10,015. Romance of the Lighthouse. "To, keep a 'good light'?that is, one which is always reliable, always on time; which never goes out, except for those unavoidable instances when a chimney burns," says S. H. Claudy, in the Woman's Home Companion for July. "To have each glass of the hundreds flashing like a diamond; to have every part of the equipment' immaculate; never to have the light 'go black' and be reported?these are the simple ambitions and the code of laws of the light-keepers. And nothing, nothing, must keep the light from being lit, and staying lit. And no excuse, save that of an act of God, can avail a keeper if his light is 'black' and it becomes known. There is a tale which was told to the writer by an old, old light-keeper?who had been keeper of a First Order, Second Order, then a Third Order and finally a Fourth Order light, at his own request, where he coi?ld pass the remainder of his days with the lesser duties of the smaller light. 'Jim was a fine keeper,' said the old keeper. 'He was thirty-two years on the Point Blank Light and never once had his light 'gone black' nor anything been said against him. He loved his light next to his wife. Had he loved his wife second and his light first he would be there yet. Both his assistants were off, one sick, t'other away bomewhere, and Jim was sitting up nights with the light and doing the housework, days 'cause his woman was sick, too. And it told on him. And one night Jim dropped off to sleep in his c^air under the light. He slept twenty minutes. When he woke, the place was full of smoke and his light was black. Chimney had melted. The light was reported to Washington, and Jim had to go to the board. He said they took him in like a brother and treated him like a friend, but he knew he had to go. They said they hated to do it, that ! they knew his record was fine, but that while they were sure it would never happen again, still for the good of the service and what effect it would have on the rest of us, he had to go. His heart is bi-vtien, and it killed his wife. But they are two; the lights are for all of them?' and the old man waved his arm toward the bay and its teeming life of ships." Cotton Indictments Invalid. New York, June 23.?There is a possiomty tnat James a. rauen Prank B. Hayne and William P. Brown may never come to trial on the indictment recently found against them and six others, charging conspiracy to raise the price of cotton in restraint of trade, and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Counsel for Charles Kettle, one of six others indicted, filed a plea in the United States circuit court this afternoon in which he argued that the special grand jury returning the indictment was not legally constituted because its members were not chosen from a special venire of 75 names but selected from the list of 150 talesmen composed to serve on the ordinary grand jury. Tarheels Afflicted. Wilmington, N. C., June 22.?In a talk to-day before the State Medical society now in session at Wrightsville beach on the hookworm disease, Dr. J. A. Ferrell, assistant secretary of the hookworm commission for North Carolina, declared that in his opinion probably one-fourth of the rural population of North Carolina was effected with the disease, and he placed annual cost to State at about $187,000. He said that the counties reported 3,000 white and 250 colored patients were being treated. A vigorous fight will be made on the disease and the State is to be divided into districts for this purpose. Xo Trace of Missing Boy. Columbia, June 21.?The police and sheriff of Richland county, up to a late hour to-night, have been unable to locate Morgan Smo^k, the young boy who disappeared irom ms home near this city, on Wednesday, June 8. His two companions, Lewis Xeeley and Arther Lovett, are being held by I the Richland county officers, in the county jail. They declare that they left the Smoak boy at Ridgeway. Late to-night nothing had been heard from Ridgeway. The two boys were arrested on warrants sworn out by Smoak's mother. FOURTEEN DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. . Queer Action of Prisoner in Greenville Jail. ! Greenville, June 24,?W. A. McGin nis, a prisoner in the county jail, held ' on the charge of bigamy, has gone without food for the past fourteen days and his action is a puzzle to the county officials and physicians. He alleges that his entire system is out of order and he cannot eat, . yet examining physicians can find . nothing wrong with him. He has re fused food for the past fourteen days, and has not taken water often. Feeding Beef Cattle. Can we, with economy, feed beef ; cattle in this State? Can we feed cattle for market and at least get the manure for our trouble? Can we feed beeves at a profit? We are often asked these questions and a brief summary of results of feeding a lot of about thirty may be of interest as by this means we can present facts and not guess work. This lot we began to feed on November 13 and it consisted of a mixed bunch of steers and heifers, nearly half of each. By February 26 they had gained ; 5,896 pounds, or a gain of 213 pounds each, averaging a little more than 14 % pounds per head per week. This, as any feeder knows, is a very good gain and was particularly good in this instance, as they were a mixed lot of mountain cattle, obtained locally, and of a rather low average in quality. In this time they qonsumed 105,600 pounds silage and 21,162% i pounds cotton seed meal, or an average of 37 pounds silage and 7% pounds of meal per head per day. If silage is valued at $3.00 per ton and meal at $30.00 per ton, then these steers cost to feed at rate of 17 % cents per aay. 1 o onset, uie cost of the feed we obtained the gain of 14 8-15 pounds per week, the manure, and the increase of value to the whole animal that comes from the added flesh. In some sections it is expected to sell the animal for at least one cent per pound more when fattened than they cost when thin. Using these figures, let us see how our account would stand. Silage consumed in the fifteen weeks, at $3.00 per torn $1.58 Meal for same time at $30.00 per ton 3.15 \ Total cost of feed $4.73 Weight at start was 22,8o8 pounds. At three and a half cents per pound, the amount would be $799.75. The gain was 5896 pounds making the selling weight 28,746 pounds, sold at a gain of one cent per !b. then 28,746 lbs. @ .04% per lb $1,295.17 From this take 795.75 Balance $ 493.45 Cost of food as above........$ 475.00 Selling price above all cost, $ 20.42 Selling price is only an estimate as the above cattle were for our own use, hence not sold, but the lesson remains just the same. Under favdrable circumstances this indicates that cattle may he fed for beef and the manure obtained for the labor. If the cattle were fed at seasons when meal is lower in price the showing would be better. The silage, too, may usually be grown for less than $3.00 per ton and in that case it would be so much to the advantage of the feeder. The foregoing shows that this industry may be profitable as an aid in building up the farm, but we must present the following cautions, and would suggest the desirability of fattening only a few, say a car lot, the first time and let the business grow as one becomes accustomed to all the conditions to be met. If cattle are bought from a dis tance, study the freight rates and * see if that may prohibit the enter prise. In buying be careful they are not , weighed just after receiving food and water. ? Learn if the market in which you wish to sell, will take heifers, or if it pays better for steers, and act ac- j cordingly.' ! If heifers are bought, get spayed | ones if possible, or if not then such < as are not bred, or at least that are , not far advanced in pregnancy. Buy local cattle if possible and i save not only freight, but the shrink- i age caused by shipping, these often being very serious drawbacks to the > enterprise. Do not feed too long, but yet ; enough to satisfy the market. When cattle as nearly finished, the cost of gain is much increased. j Buy as late in season as possible and yet get them at low prices and sell on the markets before early lambs and grass-fed animals are of- i fered. ! PROF. D. 0. NOURSE, t Chief of the Division of Animal 1 Husbandry & Dairying. < ENDORSES PATTERSON. Edgefield Man Says to Keep Patterson in Congress. Washington, D. C., June 9, 1910/ Editor Edgefield Chronicle: Enclosed please find my subscription to your valuable paper which to me is a letter from home. Kindly indulge me while I recall a few random thoughts and observa-| tions. Everybody has a fractional interest in Congress, and this interest has increased since statisticians estimate that in less than two years tenderloin steak will be extinct, un less the beef trust is destroyed by a Democratic Congress. Under the present tariff law the working men say they are eating oxtail soup and tongue to make both ends meet. It isfno mean honor to help make laws for ninety millions of people whose intellectual and moral standards are higher now than at any period of its history. Henry Clay refused a re-election to the U. 9. Senate that he might become a member of the National House in the early days; and John Quincy Adams, one of our presidents, possessed of extraordinary talents, became a member of the lower house and served there eighteen years after his term in the White House. He thought the work and membership of that body compatible with the dignity of the exPresident. % The people of the second district are fortunate in the chioce of Hon. J. 0. Patterson, who is deservedly popular here, as he is with the people whom he represents. He has "made good" as a Representative, and is a genial, big-hearted, and broadminded man, a true type of Edgefield hospitality and yeomanry. His magnetic personality is a good as-j set for his constituents, as it at-j tracts the attention of the department officials who see him often press- j ing for action in improvements in his district/. He is deeply interested in j his work and eminently fitted for it. The imposing and spacious office building of the House of Representatives, whose corridors echo the clatter of hundreds of typewriters, is material evidence of a closer relation between the people and their Representatives than ever before. The man who is seeking a big salary and little work will not get accommodations beneath its rocf. Time was when Congressmen devoted considerable time to playing cards, and the story is told of a Congressman, fresh from Washington, dropped in to see a neighbor in his district, to whose house a prayer meeting was being led by the pastor of the neighborhood church. "Will Brother Smith kindly lead?" was asked by the pastor at the beginning of the prayer service. Waking, with a start at the mention of his name, the Congressman almost broke up the service by replying: "I led last time; it's your turn. What's trumps.?" The Hon. G. D. Tillman was the embodiment of accumulated intellectual wealth, garned by a close stu ucut, IIKJL KJHIJ ui gv/T^iuui^ut) Vui/ c* profound thinker on all subjects. The Hon. W. Jasper Talbert's terse and vigorous speeches concerning pensions were like bolts of lighting out of a clear sky. They spread consternation among the G. A. R. in and out of Congress and caused them to become more familiar with the Congressional Record than they had ever been with Holy Writ. And the Hon. J. 0. Patterson, while not a native of Edgefield, like Tillman and Talbert, is her next choice, and is keeping her worthy of past history. These men, in succession, have represented ably and well our district for more than 30 years, and nrMIn malHnc pnvlnhlp rprnrds h?VP reflected great credit on their constituency. A NATIVE OF EDGEFIELD. Congressman J. O. Patterson. [Barnweil Sentinel.] Barnwell should show her appreciation of her distinguished son's services in the national legislative halls by giving him a solid vote in the coming primary election. That he merits it goes without saying. 1 ' Very few towns can afford a congressman at all, and still fewer can put forth a son who can serve all of the people as faithfully and as capa bly as Hon. J. O. Patterson, the favorite son of Barnwell and the idol 3f the entire district. Barnwell's congressman, who also belongs to the whole second district, and who by the way represents us as ably as any man we could find anywhere, will be home in a few days after a hard and arduous session's work at Washington. He had been 'right on his job" since the day congress convened and comes back with a flattering record. "Tote fair" is our motto, or "live and help to live" will do as well. See us before buying or selling real estate, or you may regret it. C. H. 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