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COMMITTEE FLUNKS.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
MILHOUS, Manager Denmark Realty
Company.
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Tries to Sever His Arm.
Atlanta, June 25.?In obedience to
the scriptural injunction demanding
the cutting off of an offending hand
or foot. W. A. Gaffney, a prisoner at
the Atltanta stockade, attempted to
sever his right hand with an axe.
He did not succeed, but his fingers
and thumb were partially cut through
and the bones in each finger badly
crushed.
Gaffney gave as the reason for his
act that he once killed a man and had
enjoyed no ease of conscience since
committing the crime.
While surgeons were dressing his
wounds, Gaffney calmly discussed his
unusual act, giving no evidence whatever
of pain.
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MRS. R. DUNTLEY,
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