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TEST1M6 FOOD FOR CATTLE. elaborate Series of Experiments Diet, Similar to Those Re? cently Made on Man, Being ?8 Made at the University of Pennsylvania. Yale having conducted a series of ""Food tests with 4 ' rookies' ' supplied ty the United States army and by volun? teers from the athletic department of tba University, the State College of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, has be -$an a series of experiments of exactly ihe same nature with cattle. The Pennsylvania experiments are all di? rected toward the scientific feeding'of ?attie, to find out exactly what foods ate the best adapted to produce the best milk, the best flesh and the best batter. It is not the plan of tbe Pennsylvania scientists who are con? ducting the tests to starve scientifical? ly the cattle with which tbey are -making their experiment?, nor to try tbe effects of poisons on them. On -the contrary, the sole purpose of the tests is to find out what foods, or com? binations of foods, will produce the -richest results and the cost thereof. To make their tests correct they ?ave invented what they call a respir? ation calorimeter. It is an apparatus wiich measures .with exactness. the ?gases given off by a cow or an ox, and the heat generated in the animal's body during the process of assimila? tion. The respiration part of the ap? paratus attends to the gases and the "calorimeter to the temperature. In this machine for months past a series cf the most interesting and to agricul? ture the most valuable tests have been made, and the scientists who have been supervising them are enthusiastic over the results that have been se? ared. Tbe respiration calorimeter consists of a double walled chamber, about six bf . ten feet and eight feet high, con? taining a comfortable stall. The -walis of the chamber are doable, the loner one being of sheet copper, while -tbe outer one is of zinc, with an air space between. The door through -which the animal enters, and the -small opening through which food is given to the animal, close airtight, ?hutting off the interior from the world outside, except so far as it can be seen thrrough a double plate glass vindo w. When an animal is placed in this "hermetically sealed cell all air is cot -off from it, save that which is sup- - ?piled by a meter pump, which sends ?a a uniform quantity of dry, pure air afc stated intervals. The pump not oa?y sends the air carrent in, but it draws a sample of it at stated inter? nals. Another pump draws the air off at the same speed that it is pump od in, and this exhaust pump draws, ??amples for analysis at the same in? stant that the injector does. By .com? paring these samples it is very easy to 3eH exactly what gases and how much tbe animal has added to the air and to determine the amount of gasses giv ea.oS by different foods. The copper inside boxjof this cham-1 ber is surrounded by two wooden | boxes, each box being S inches larger ; -Iban the one inside it. When in use they are kept at exactly the tempera lore of the air surrounding the stall, -?nd thus there is no loss of heat from -$be chamber in which the animal is glaced. By a simple adjustment the ?mt is made to leave and enter the oeil at the same temperature, and thus 3bere is no loss on that account. So ail the heat that the animal gives off remains in the chamber, which is carefully registered by delicate elec? trical thermometers. But if the heat remained in the' cell it would result jp tbe place soon becoming unbearably bot, and so an arrangement is made to .%eep it at one temperature by means of coils of cold water, which absorbs tte beat almost as fast as it is given oS. But the instruments measure the -most min ate variations of beat, and tfeese facts are classified with the re? sulta of air an-Jysis. Th as the amount of waste and heat created by each kind of food can be calculated. 3n making a test the animal is us? ually placed io the calorimeter betten 3. and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The -asst few boars are spent in adjusting Sie instruments. At 6 o'clock in the -waning the test is begun, and usually -lasts for forty-eight boars. At the ?od of that time the animal is taken ikom the cell and carefully examined ?*y experts and a full report of its con? dition is made to go with the gas and temperature analyses. Then if the -?aimai is intended for beef it is killed ?md sample? of its flesh, bloc ? and -warions organs are put through a most careful series of analyses. If it is ?fer the pnrpose of improving the milk er butter supplies these products are bested and the results tabulated. Brooklyn Eagle. Gillis Fails to Get Bail. X?amden, June ll.-J. E. Gillis, ?bo has been confined in the county jail bere for the killing of McRae ^Whitaker, made application before Judge K. C. Watts for bail wbi^h was aefased. The elder Gillis, who is held es an accessory, was granted bail in tb* sum of $4,000. Another Rockefeller Monopoly. New York, June 12 -The World to 4EDorrow will say that announcement tiri?l soon be made of a combination of earning interests of America with John 5>. Rockefeller at its head. The capi? tal of the merged companies, it is said, will be $2,500,000,000 and the "purpose is to control tbe mineral oat put of the United States with the pos? sible exception cf the Calumet and Alecia copper mines in Michigan. Senator Clark's united Verde and -Montana properties and those of F. Augustus Heinze in Montana are said -io be included, a? are also the princi? pal mining companies of Colorado, TTtnh and California. Mr. Rockefeller and his associates already control the Amalgamated Copper Mining company. Constantinople, June 13.-It is re poted here on thoroughly reliablegau bority that Turks have destroyed tbitry-seven villages and massaced two thousand Armenian Christians wfoaia the past ten days. It hts been emoted recently that Abdul Hamid bad issued secret orders for the exter? na?* aatioa of the Armenians. - CREAT LOSS G&USEG BY BRE&KiNG LEVEI!. Destruction ^of Farms in the Arkansas Valley- - -Growing Crops Swept Away. Little Rock, T Ark., June IL-A special to the Gazette from Pine Blt ff says: The flocd in the Arkansas riv=r today reached by far its most destruc? tive stage in Jefferson county "when part of the Frenchtown levee, abo at three miles below the city, broke and turned the river through a rich sec? tion of the country filled with groov? ing cops of cotton and corn. Since the water began to rise the planters in that section have be^n working day and night to save tris important levee because it protects the rich bottom lands for miles belo N. Late Friday afternoon a telephone message was received in this city frcm those working to save the Frenchtown levee that if the water rose mush higher the levee would break. Ma ay thousands of sacks of sand were sent down at once on a special freight a 3d scores of men went down'to assist in the work. The men worked all night lone, but the rising water swept away their labors and about 3 o'clock the levee broke. The rush of the water could be heard in this city. The breaking of this levee gives the water a clean sweep over the southern portion of the coun? ty through the townships of Vaugine, Victoria and Richland, and the plant? ations in its wake are unprotected. The farms of Dr. J. F. Simmons, J. W. Corcoran, Sebastian Geeister, Leo Andrews, James Gould and othors were among those which suffered most The damage to these plantations cannot be estimated under hundreds of thousands of dollars as growing crops of cotton and corn were litera Hy swept away. At Fairfield, this county, the wai er stands from four to sis feet deep Dn all the farms around the town. AmoDg the list of sufferers in that neighbor? hood whose losses will be total s re Sd. Manuel, Tom Brown and othe::s. FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Killed His Father With Naked Fists -Nova Scotian Giants Locked Doors and Fought. Halifax, N. S. June 12.-Word was received -here today of a bare fist fight during the night at Glace Bay, C. B., in which a father was literally pound? ed to death by his son. The princi? pals,** Bully" McRae and his son Jack are men of giant physique and knovrn throughout the cape for their fighting abilities. Both are over six feet in height and weigh 225 pounds. They met in a barroom and quarrell? ed over money matters. When inter? ference was attempted the Scotchman drovo the other occupants of the saloon from the place and, locking the doois, [fought foran hour and until the elder ?McRae was dead. The police finally effected an en? trance to the barroom and placed Jack McRae under arrest. . The dead man's face had been ba t? tered to a jelly, his ribs broken and j chest crushed in." The younger Mc? Rae was frightfully injured. To Use Wireless Telegraphy. _________ Memphis, Tenn., June 12.-A local paper publishes an interview with o ie of the proprietors of a poolroom heie, which has been closed, in which lie says the place will be reopened Moa day anr~ that wireless telegraphy wi ll be used to transmit the results. After this announcement it was learned that a representative of the wireless company was in the city and that bis visit was to make arrange? ments to erect masts and install in? struments at this place ss a station : n the circuit which the company pro? poses to build. He said that the com? pany would make arrangements for a line from St. Louis to New Orleans and tbat stations would be located nt Cairo, Memphis, Helena, Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez, and New Or? leans. Fought Over School Election. Waco, Tex., June H.-As a result of friction over the selection"*" of a teacher for a public school at Elk, a small town ten miles north of Wacs, a bloody street doel was fought here today by R. B. Torrence, his so:i, River Torrence, and J. McAden, a son-in-law, on one side and Dr. Hel? ton, his 6on and Prof. G. W. Perkins on the other. Bad feeling had existed for some time over the matter and firing begrn when the men met today. The eld^r Torrence was killed almost, instantly, bis body being riddled with bullets. Dr. Holton and his son received dan? gerous woUDds and Prof. Perkins ar d Rivers Torrence were seriously in? jured. McAden escaped uninjared. Shotguns and revolvers were tiie weapons used by the participants, all of whom are prominent. Sing Sing, June 13.-Oscar Bergs? trom, wife murderer, and Albert Koepping, sentenced for the murder of Jonh Martine, of- Port Jarvis, we :e electrocuted hers this morning. Koep? ping stated that a woman committed tho crime for love of him, but th;it he was willing to die. It is reported in Pittsburg th it Senator Quay, a day or two before his death, sent word to President Roosevelt, through ex-Senator Don Cameran that it was a great mistake to make Secretar* Cortelyou national chairman. ' "The coming campaign," hs is quoted as saying, "will bo a hard one, Don-one of the hardest i fights in the history of the Republican party. The opposition is strong and it may grow stronger, and on this account the new chairman sh?uld be a man who has had the greatest politi? cal experience that it is possible to ob- j tain." Nashville, Tenn., June 12.- For the first time in the history of Vanderbilt University young lady students heiid the honor list. Miss Roberts DuBose, ;' of Nashville, bas won the founders' j ire lal tor the highest general average, ! while the Owen medal for the higher, j average in mathematics gee; to Rfi?s Lt c\Beil Ross, also of Nashville. EXILED FROM COLORADO. Deported Men Not Allowed to Enter Kansas-Abandoned With? out Food or Water. Denver, Col., Jane ll.-A special to The Post from Holly, Co., says: With a parting volley of rifle bullets fired over their heads by the militia and deputies to warn them to hurry eastward as fast as their lega could carry them and nevtr again to set foot on Colorado soil, 91 union miners from the Cripple Creek ditrict were, unloaded from a special Santa Fe train on the prairie today, one-half mile from the Colorado-Kansas State line and left shift for themselves. When the special train bearing the deported men was within half a mile of the Kanass line it was stopped by Sheriff Brady of Hamilton connty and 40 deputies, who notified Lieut. Cole that under no circumstances would the train be allowed to cross the Kansas line and further that the deported men were not wanted in Kansas. Lieut. Cole assured the sheriff that the trpin would proceed no further. Then the order to quit the train was given in a hurry. Sheriff Brady called for the leaders of the unionists and notified them that they must not c 2ss the Kansas line. The exiles we^e disembarked in baste and without ceremony. "Hurry up there, you fellows," cried Lieut. Cole, when the train stopped in the midst of the alkali sand dunes that the prairie consists of near the Kansas line, "we haven't got any fcime'to waste oat here." The special train had no fooner come to a standstill when the car doors were unlocked and thrown open and the order given by Lieut. Cole for the exiles to leave the train. "Step lively, yon fellows. Step live? ly," admonished Deputy Benton, who was in command of the civil force of the expedition, and in less time than it takes to tell it the three cars were emptied of their unforunate and un? willing passengers and had started back to La Junta. The men were left on the prairie, without food or water, for the soldiers and deputies, in their haste to get home had forgotten to un? load the stock of commissary supplies the train carried when it left Victor. The exiles were a cheerless lot in? deed. Without even a light and miles from the nearest habitation, they hud? dled together in groups on either side of the Santa Fe track and discussed their plight. Sheriff Jack Brady and his deputies were on hand to prevent the deported men from remaining in Kansas. Warned by the Kansas au? thorities that they would not be allow? ed to seek refuge in the State the spirit of the men broke Many of them finally walked back on the rail? road track to Holly, where they were furnished food by the big Salvation Army station there. Cripple Creek, Col, June H.-Gen. Sherman Bell made the followine statement for publication : "I have indispuatble evidence which will lead to the conviction of a~ num? ber of union men for the murder of non-union miners who were killed in the Independence depot explosion. We have betwen 35 and 40 men in the bull pen who will swing for this crime. We are only waiting to cap? ture two or three more men before we tell what our evidence is." SCARBOROUGH "WITHDRAWS. Congressman Scarborough An? nounces His Retirement From the Race for Re-election. Conway, June 13.-A sensation was created this evening when Congress? man Scarborough authorized the an? nouncement of his unqualified with? drawal of his candidacy to succeed himself in Congress. This news will be received throughout the district with surprise ; in fact, .it comes as a thunderclap from a clear sky to those who did not know of conditions and movements pending. There has been no doubt among his friends about his reelection, nor did Congressman Scar? borough doubt it himself. However, he has watched with interest, grow? ing greater day by dav, the marvellous future of this region as it unfolded. He has slowly come to the conclusion that it is worth all of any man's time to devote it to the great trucking movement now in force. It is the best evidence yet furnished of what lies in this region that Congressman Scarbor? ough was willing to give up his place in Congress to aid in pushing forward the immigration movement. He is on the spot and he knows. The opportu? nity is too great to per.nit of delay. A Desperado at Bay. Rome, Ga., June 13.-Jack Bone, the slayer of Z. T. Hall, has been located in the fastness of Rock Moun? tain, in the upper part of this county. He has provisions sufficient to last a week, and is heavily armed and has a big supply of ammunition. Bone is said to be a half-witted fellow and of a desperate character. He has sworn never to be taken alive, and those who know him believe that it is no idle boast. A posse with Winchesters has surrouded the locality, and is pre? pared for a siege. Bone is so situated as to prevent a surprise, and he could do deadly execution if any attempt should be made to rush his position, as Rock Mountain is a remote and isolated spot. News from there trav? els slowly. In England, where the judges wear wigs and robes, unconventional legal proceedings are not expected, bat the papers tell of county court being held on a train. A case before Horatio Lloyd, a county judge, was unfinished, when he had to catch a train to Ches? ter. It was deciaed to continue ibo case on the train. A first class car? riage was- secured, and although it was not reserved, the tribunal was not disturbed by any gossipy traveler dropping in to take part in the. con? versation. The distance to Chester was cut into two equal parts, and one barrister spoke the first seven miles, the other having the remain? ing seven. The hammock season has arrived. A large stock to select from at Osteen's Book Store. THE BUILDING ENTIRELY NEW. Fittings new throughout. Finest Strand on the Atlantic 5eaboard===Nearly Forty Miles Long and situ= ated in the Curve of Long Bay. The Management has spared no Expense to make riyrtle Beach Up=to=date and Thoroughly Attractive. The Surf is admittedly the Finest yet Discovered on the Atlantic, and one of the few that has no Under= tow. Mosquitos and and saodflies are unknown. The Hotel is situated on a hill and on the Mainland and is swept by breezes all Sum? mer long. Purest Artesian water from a well nearly 450 feet deep. The flow is strong enough to send water to the second story of the building. Many ausements have been put in-such as Bowling Alley, Dance Pavilion, Pool Room, Reading Room. The Bathing Houses are new and alright every way-large and airy. The Cuisine is remodelled and this department is under the immediate supervision of our Mr. Tennille, who has had years of experience in this line. We furnish all the well known sea foods-? Crab, Shrimp, Fish, Oysters, Turtle and Clams-in season. Telegraph and Telephone Service from Hotel. Rates are Low and all Particulars flay be Had of FREEMAN & TENNILLE, Proprietors, Myrtle Beach, S. C. MILLIONS ABE LOST BY PLANT DISEASES. Revelations of Agricultural De partment's Report for 1903. Washington, June 12.-The destruc? tion wrought on crops by countless plant enemies throughout the country is revealed by a report issued by the department of agriculture on "Plant Diseases in 1903." It shows that the coffee leaf blight has accidentally been introduced into Puerto Rico and measures are being taken to stamp it out. The tomato blight bas practically ruined the tomato crop of Puerto Rico and potato root rot has caused a loss of nearly the entire potato crop. The cotton rootrot in Texas prevail? ed to a greater extent than for mauy years, the loss being estimated at about $2,000,000. Anthractnose has been generally pre? valent from North Carolina to Georgia and locally injurious, especially to sea island cotton in south Georgia. , Wilt continues to spread slowly and j now occurs in limited areas in North '. Carolina and South Carolina and is widely prevalent in South Georgia and ; southeastern Alabama, in connection with root rot. Rust occurred as usual j on the poorer soils and was unusually ? severe in Texas. The potato blight and rot caused widespread destruction, being espe- j cially enormous in New York, Penn- i svlvania, eastern Ohio, Michigan and J Wisconsin. The damage is estimated at $30,0C0, 000 for the season in New York alone. The black rot of grape was more gen? eral in Connecticut and Rhode Island, the loss being 40 per cent. The de? partment is obtaining promising re? sults in its efforts to discover a resist? ant vine. Die-back among the citrus fruit diseases in Florida is less de? structive than before 1903. Rice blast occurred in the Cooper river section of South Carolina, where the crop was over 100,000 bushels short. The loss from the spread of this disease in the past six years is estimated at $1,000, 000. Watermelon wilt is spreading in the south and cantaloupe leaf blight was injurious, especially in the south, the loss in Floria being 40 per cent. To? mato bacterial wilt was found in Con? necticut and it was serious in New Jersey and Maryland and wiespiead in the south. The fusarium wilt in Flor? ida caused a loss of $500,000 and large areas^of land also had to be thrown out of cultivation. Cucumber downy mildew caused large losses in Florida and the tiuck ing section near Charleston, where the estimated loss was S100,(XX). Ihe bitter rot of apples has been wiaespread and included Virginia, tho Carolinas and Georga. lu the south pear blight is universal and little effort is made to control if. " here was an epidemic ot pear leaf blight that defoliated trees from Mary? land southward. firown rot was very destructive to southern peaches, the loss amounting to from 35 to GO per cent, of the crop in Georgia. Peach-leaf curl seems to cause immense losses each year in spite of the ease of controlling it by a Single spraying. The department in a report on the principal injurions insects cf 1903 says the calendar year showed smaller losses than in macy years. Certain nests caused great in juryman limited localities and several new insect ene? mies of crops were discoveed. ' The Mexican cotton boll weevil which spread into Louisiana is stamped as the most important insect pest of the present time. Several species of insects, as a rule more destructive in the south but which until recently have been very troublesome northward, have nearly died out in the north in past years, the list including tbe Harlequin cab? bage bug, cabbage looper, corn-stalk borers, fall army worms and others. This, however, cannot be said of all localities. DAILY MARKET REPORT. Special by Ware & Leland's Wire. Private NEW YORK COTTON. July Aug. Sept. Oct. Dec. Jan. Open, ll 75 ll 20 10 2:5 9 80 9 74 9 76 High, ll 90 ll 47 10 6') 9 95 9 85 9 88 Low. ll 53 ll 15 10 13 9 74 9 65 9 70 Close, ll 81 ll 40 10 29 9, 87 9 79 9 83 WHEAT July, Sept., Dec. CORN May, July, Sept, OATS July, Sept., PORK July, Sept., LARD July, Sept., RIBS J uly, Sept., CHICAGO MARKETS. Opening. Closing. S6 1 81 3 80 2 44 49 1 48 6 39 6 32 4 12.75 12.95 6 90 7.05 7. .35 7 r?o 85 6 80 3 80 1 43 3 48 3 48 6 39 5 32 1 12.35 12. GO 6.72 6.90 7.15 7.32 Double Murder in Saluda. Batesburg, June 13.-Another killing in Saluda county is to be reported. Last Saturday Nathan Truesdale and Richard Truesdale, both colored, were attacked by Russell McCormick, Leon Miller and Joe Miller, white. Richard Truesdale was shot and in stantly killed by the Miller boys, while Nathan was painfuly wounded on the wrist by a club in ibo hands of Rassel! McComick. From what can be gathered there was no provocation on the part of tne negroes for the at? tack on them by the white men. The killing took phire cn the Mount Will? ing road, in Salada County. Mexico City, June 12.-For several days subterranean noises have been heard at various points in the State of Jalisco. Sharp shocks of earth? quake have been reported from Col? ima. No serious damage bas thus tar been reported. Slight earthquake shocks are also reported in the States of Guerrero and Chapas. Clemson College Scholarships. All applicants for these scholarships will apply to the County Superintend? ents of Education, who will give full information concerning the terms of the law and the conditions required for entrance to the College. The examinations will be held early in July-before the County Boards of Education. P. H. Mell, President. ! The News and Courier received this announcement yesterday with the fol? lowing request from th3 President of Clemson College : "I send you enclosed an item in ref? erence to the Agricultural Scholar? ships established by the last Legisla? ture for the benefit of poor boys who wish to get an education at Clemson: College. Please insert this at once in the local column in the next edition of your paper and send the bill to this office if yon are not willing to insert it as a free item." We print the "item" in this con? spicuous way without charge because it abords a proper subject for news? paper comment. There bas recently been considerable discussion in some of the newspapers of the State about the method adopted by President Johnson in advertising the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, and now comes this request from President Mell of Clemson College, an institu? tion which has more money than ail the other State collezes pat together; so much money in fact that it has been necessary to establish special Agricul? tural scholarships to get rid of some of it. Clemson Coiieee is fully able to pay for all the advertising it receives from tbe newspapers, and to pav the full card rates of the newspaper without any discount whatever, and this much it seems to us it ought to do in ordi? nary fairness, in view of the fact that no institution of learning ever estab? lished in South Carolina has received so n?uch favor at the hands of the newspapers of the State. This service to Clemson College was most cheerful? ly performed by the newspapers be? cause they felt it to be their duty to the public to aid iu the development of this great institution of learning; but we submit that business is busi? ness and that there is no better reason why the newspapers should be request? ed to publish a straight advertisement as a "free item" than why Clemson College itself should be requested or expected to furnish board and tuition to any deserving young man who might present himself for matriculation whether he has complied with the rules or admission to the institution cr not.-News and Courier. Lawrenceville, Ga, Jnne 13.-In a free fight at Brands Spring, near tte Walton County line, in Gwinnett County, near Logansville, on Sundey morning, Bert Smith shot at his a: - tagonist James Weathers, and, mik? ing his aim, killed John L. Smitr, a prominent citizen of Gwinneit County. Smith and Weathers fougl.t with fist, both being knocked down twice, when Line Braswell came to the aid of Weathers. At this point Smith drew his pistol and shot, kill ing tbe by-stander, John L. Snrtr>. his step-grandfather. Smith fled at once. tma?i