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II FERTILIZER BATE. rJUXKOM? COMMISSION MARKS AS IMPORTANT RULING. mm Controversy I* Settle*!?Former Cmvular U Revoked ?iwl New Rate Mm Change*! In Several IteMpeeH. Col tmbla. Nov. 3.?The railroad tfaslon has announced Its (Ic? on the controversy over ratal fertilizer, revoking Its former de reduclng the rates about 15 per and drawing up a new schedule, hre December 6. making the re? factions about 8 per cent. It also re? ihe minimum carload weight 15 tons to 10 tons. ?m? time ago the commission Is I elcrular 129. which decreased fertilizer rates. Circular 12; was ib!e to the following roads In State Atlantic Coast Line. Sea Air Una railroad, Southern ly. Charleston St Western Caro rallway, Columbia. Newberry & UM Railroad company. Blue |t> Railway company and to all aMpmfnta moving over these lines tailing orlg'*< and destination in South fltaa on other lines. When the circular was issued Sep >r 15 was named as the effective. This date was finally postponed November 1, after representa of the railroads of the State had *d before the commission and that the rates on fertilizer be reduced and that circular 129 be lied. The commission took all lent presented at that hearing consideration and announced a circular, which Is really an ad ient of fertiliser rates. Circular No. 131, Issued on July 28, Wmm canceled. The following Is the new fertiliser warn) circular: Jg+eclat freight rates on fertiliser, ?slued, - Inlmum weight 20,000 mmnds. per ton of 2,000 pounds. Applicable between points In South Ina on the following railroads: tic Coast Line Railroad corn Seaboard Air Line railroad, them Railway Company, Charles m Western Carolina Railway com % Columbia, Newberry St Luurvna road company. Blue Ridge Rall t company, and to shipments mov over these lines having orgln and it Ion In South Carolina on other miles and under.$ .75 Salle? and over 10.85 miles and over 15.85 ?alles and over 20.1.05 miles and over 15.1.10 miles and over 30.1.15 miles and over 35. . . . 1.25 miles and' over 40. . , . 1.30 miles and over 45. . . . 1.35 miles and over 60.1.40 mils* and over 65. . . . 1.45 miles and over 10.1.60 miles and over 65.1.65 miles and over 70.1.60 miles and over 75.1.65 miles and over 80.1.70 miles and over 86.1.75 miles and over 90.1.80 I tmM miles and over 16.1.85 miles and over 100.1.90 ? miles and over 106.1.96 miles and over 110.S.00 miles and over 111.2.06 miles and over 120.2.10 miles and over IIS.1.16 miles and over 130.2.20 miles and over 111. . . . 2.26 mi las and over 140.2.30 S? miles and over 146.2.35 mW mlle? and over 160.2.40 .Mfw miles and over 160.2.46 lit miles and over 170.1.50 -H9? miles and over 180.2.65 Wm miles and over 190.2.60 miles and over 200. .? . . . 2.65 mllea and over 210.2.70 miles and over 220. 2.75 miles and over 230. 2.75 miles and over 240. 2.75 miles and over 250. 2.75 miles and over 260. 2.76 394) miles and over 270. 2.75 fit miles and over 280. 2.75 tit miles and over 290. 2.75 Jit mllea and over 300. 2.75 839 miles and over 310.2.75 tit miles and over 320. 2.75 340 miles and over 330. 2.75 miles and over 340. 2.75 miles and over 350. 2.75 The above rates a~e subject to a re? daction of 20 per cent, on Intrastaie shipments moving between points in Hottth Carolina over two or more railroad routes not under the is management or control, and are live December 6, 1909, superced ?aw circular No. 72. dated April 8, 19416. and all rat?? In conflict. Father Was In Invalid. It had ben a hard day in the field msd father and ion were very hungry. Tl*r only things eatable on the table were twelve very large apple dump? lings. The father had consumed ten while the boy was eating one, and then both reached for the one remain ~Hon." pleaded the farmer, "you wouldn't take the last apple dumpling from your poor sick pa, would you?" If someone would only discover that traft, too. Is * disease!?Charleston Ifcws and Courier. A GEORGIA YARN. ?THIBK OF BURDEN" KMANUEL COUNTY. largest Family So Far Reported? Mm. Ellxal>etli Durden Has 2tt9 Liv? ing ' Descendants. Swainsboro, Ga.. Ott. 30.?Apropos to large families Emanuel cour.ty can boast of a family with two hundred and sixty-nine living members, that Of Mrs. Elizabeth Durden, of Norrisiown, Ga. Mrs. Durden was born In 1817 where she now resides within one mile of Norrlstown, Ga. She Is a daughter of Nathan Barwick and Elizabeth Whltten Barwick. !3arly In life she married William Durden, who died about forty years ago. She Is the mother of eleven children, all living. Her tribe has Increused until at pres? ent there are sixty-five grandchildren, forty-three of this number being boys, OJM hundred and eighty great grand? children and ten great-great-grand? children. Mrs. Durden is a consistent member of the Primitive Baptist church, hav? ing Joined at Old Canoochee about 40 years ago. Her mind is still active and her eyesight good. At the pres? ent time she is able to read without glasses and can get about without as? sistance. Mrs. Durden is a sister of Mrs. Eli? za Youmans, the mother of the eight heavy weight Youmans brothers. The weight of these eight brothers aggre? gating more than sixteen hundred pounds. These are Judge John E. Youmans, who was for several terms Ordinary of Emanuel county, Nathan Youmang member of Board of Educa? tion, S. H. Youmans, former deputy sheriff, T. W. Youmans, E. 9. Tou mans, member of the Board of Roads and Revenue Commissioners George Youmans, Lott Youmans and Lawson Youmans.?Augusta Chronicle. Cesare Lombroso, the noted Italian crimlnologist. who died October 19 laat, is thus described by u former member of the scholar's household in Turin: "In appearance he was most uniraposing. Diminutive, very, stout, with a stiff, projecting bit of chin beard, he had a very long waist and very short legs. This gave him in walking the effect of pushing along over the ground. He took small steps and waa always the same abstracted, far-away visionary, thinking of some? thing that had little or nothing to do with the present. I think that it was his prosaic, almost comical appear? ance that prevented us as children from appreciating what a great man we were associating with. With some amusement I now recall how his fam? ily were forced to guard him from the depredations of a world he was ill-fit? ted to resist. In fact, it was no exag? geration to say that without his de? voted wife he would have been pen? niless in no time. A man of unbound? ed kindness, he could never resist ap? peals for assistance. He received countless such appeals and, needless to say, most of them were impostures. I have a vivid memory of his uncon? cern about dress. Many a lime when he started out to the unhersity his wife had to run after him and bring him back to put on his necktie. Equally careful she had to be to see that he did not wander fort h on cold mornings without a overcoat. Dress In general Professor Lombroso re? garded as a bothersome necessity; he considered that he lacked the time to give to such niceties." The Wisdom of Silence. The late Judge Silas Bryan, the father of William J. Bryan, once had several hams stolen from his smoke? house. He missed them at once, but said nothing about it to any one. A few days later a neighbor came to him. "Say, Judge," he said, "I hear'd yew had some hams stol t'other night." "Yes," replied the Judge, very con? fidentially, "but don't tell any one. You and I are the only onen who know It."?"Success Magazine." Among the Sa;n Franciscanj who ex? press themselves as weary of the graft prosecutions, the voice of the grafter himself rises loud and clalr.?Phila? delphia Ledger. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deaf? ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness 's caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin? ing of the Eu8tacblan Tube. When this tube is inhumed you have a rum? bling sound or imperfect nenring, and when It is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflamma? tion can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal corditlon, hear? ing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten arc caused by Ca? tarrh, which Is nothing but an ln? llamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. We will give One Hurdred Dollars for any case of Deafnes* (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Cutarrh Cure. Send for circu? lars free. F. J. CHENEY" & CO., Toledo, o. Sold by Druggists, 7&(. Take Hall s Family Pi Is for consti? pation. 11-4-lm. KXGUSH SUFFRAGETTE ATROCI? TIES. Rrutnl Treatment Received at Humls Of Prison Officials by Foolish Wo? men Who Want 1 lie llallot. London, Oct. 30.?Those tender? hearted Englishment who are always so greatly concerned about atrocities in the Congo, or Russia, or Morocco, now have an opportunity to shed a few tears about homegrown cruelty. Whatever one may think of the suf? fragettes and their methods of com? manding attention, no real man can read of the atrocities perpetrated upon defenseless women in British jails without experiencing a boiling of the Mood. The "water cure." as adminis? tered in the Philippines, were kind? ness compared with the treatment of some of the suffragettes. The physi? cians and jailers implicated in the Atrocities do not deny them, but take a sort of pr'de in What they call the "humbling" of the suffragettes. Mrs. Leigh, one of the victims, tells a sworn story in which handcuffs, padded cells and worse atrocities fig? ure. She was one of those who, when confined in prison, refused to partake of food. Her story is in part as fol? lows: ""On my arrival at Winson Green Gaol I protested against the treatment to which I was subjected, and broke the windows in my call. According? ly at 9 o'clock in the evening I was taken to the punishment cell, a cold, dark room on the ground Moor?light only shines on very bright days; no furniture in IL "A plank bed was brought in; I was then strapped and handcuffed with the hinds behind during the day, except at meals, when the palms were placed together in front. At night they were also placed in front with the palms out. On Thursday food was brought into the cell?potatoes, bread and gruel?but I did not touch it. "Thursday afternoon the visiting magistrates came. I was taken before them handcuffed. After hearing what I had to say they sentenced me to nine days' close confinement with bread and water, and to lose forty-two days' remission marks and pay 5s. damage. The handcuffs were removed at mid? night on Thursday by the matron's or? ders. I still refrained from food. "About noon on Saturday I was told the matron wished to speak to me, and was taken to the doctor's room, where I saw the matron, eight ward? resses, and two doctors. There was a sheet on the floor and an armchair on it. The doctor said I was to sit down, and I did. "I was then surrounded and forced hack on the chair, which w'as tilted backwards. There were about ten of them. The doctor then forced my mouth so as to form a pouch, and held me while one of the wardresses poured some liquid from a spoon?It was milk and brandy. After giving me what he thought was sufficient, he sprinkled me with eau de Cologne, and wardresses then escorted me to another cell on the first floor, where 1 remained two days. 'On Saturday afternoon the ward? resses forced me on the bed, and the two doctors came in with them, and while I was held down a nasal tube was Inserted. It was two yards long, with a funnel at the end; there Is a glass Junction at the middle to see if the liquid is passing. The end is put up the nostril, one day and the other nostril the other. "Great pain is experienced during the process, both mental and physical. One doctor inserted the end up my nostril, while I was held down by the wardresses, during which they must have seen my pain. "The sensation is most painful; the drums of the ear seem to be bursting, a horrible pain in the throat and the breast. Before and after, they test my heart and make a lot of examination. The after-effects are a feeling of falntness, a sense of great pain in the diaphragm, or breast bone, in the nose and the ears. The tube must go below the breast-bone, though I cannot feel it below there. "I was very sick on the first occa? sion after the tube was withdrawn. I have also suffered from bad indiges? tion. 1 am fed in this way very irre? gularly. 1 have used no violence, l hough having provocation in being fed by force. I resist, and am over? come by weight of numbers. If the doctor does not think the lluld is go? ing down sufficiently swiftly, he pinches my nose with the tube in it, and my throat, causing me increased pain." The Kind of Critter He Was. it was at the (Miff Dwellers, Chi? cago's literary club, and one of the members had just made a terrible, Ir? remediable break about another?? made it in his presence and that of several other members. "What ought I do now?" asked the break-maker, much embarrassed. "If I wert? you." suggested Frod Rlchardaont tllO artist, who had heard the Whole proceeding, "1 should go OUt and Wiggle my ears and eat an? other thlltle."?-8UCCM! Magazine. The Sons of Confederate veterans w.U meet In Columbia this week. IKE PELLAGRA CONGRESS. THREE HUNDRED PHYSICIANS ARE GATHERED IN COLUMBIA. Dr. Zeller of Illinois Made a Hinging speech in Which He Advanced The? orien That Arc Quite Startling. (The State, Nov. 4.) For the purpose of studying pella? gra a national congress of physicians, seme of them among the most emi? nent specialists of the medical pro? fession In the United States, is now holding its sessions in Columbia, in the assembly hall of the State Hospi? tal for the Insane. There were in attendance more than 200 medical men and by 6 o'clock nearly 100 more had arrived. It is believed that when the congress re? convenes at 9 o'clock this morning there will be present at least 4 00 members of the profession. This ma? lady seems to have a special mystifi? cation which causes physicians to wish to find a cause and remedy. The deliberations were opened by Gov. Ansel with a felicitous address of welcome. After the governor's ad? dress came- the reading of papers ac? cording to the programme. All of the papers are of a technical character, couched in medical terminology, ver? bose and difficult to be understood by folks who are not in the inner seal of the ethics of the profession. The first paper, read by Dr. J. W. Babcock, was that presented by Dr. F. M. Sandwith, F. R. C. P., Gresham professor of physic, London, England. This paper was a general review of the pellagra situation in various coun? tries of the world. The title given the paper in the programme was 'Intro? ductory Remarks." The first speaker was Dr. J. W. Kerr, assistant surgeon general, Uni? ted States public health and marine hospital service of Washington, D. C. The subject Of his paper was, "Pella? gra as a National Public Health Prob? lem." "Economic Factors of the Pellagra Problem in South Carolina," was the subject of a most interesting discus? sion by E. J. Watson, commissioner of the department of agriculture, com? merce and industries af South Caro? lina. Col. Watson furnished many in? teresting and important facts relating to the food supply used by the people of this State bearing on the health of its people. The paper of Dr. C. H. Lavinder, passed assistant surgeon. United States public health and marine hospital ser? vice, on the haematology of pellagra, dealt with methods of miscroscopal examination of the blood of pella grins, and was entirely technical. Papers were also read as per the programme by Capts. J. F. Slier and H. J. Nichols, physicians of the medi cal carps. United States army; Dr. Menage of New Orleans, representing Dr. Isadore Dyer, dean of the medical department, Tulane university. The paper of Dr. C. W. G. Rohrer of the medical State board of health was ordered printed in the official re port of the congress, as was also the paper of Dr. John S. Turner of Dallas, Tex., and the foreign papers sent in for presentation and publication. "While we regard Mr. Rockefeller's princely gift for the eradication of the hookworm at its true value, we say $1,000,000 for the battle against the disease of pellagra would be far more valuable," declared Col. E. J. Watson, who has made a careful study of pel? lagra because of the generally accept ed theory that it is due to the con sumption of impure corn and corn products. Unless preventative meas? ures are taken without delay, he said, the corn industry will be seriously threatened. He declared that not only the Federal government but the corn consuming States as well must put into force a rigorous inspection of corn and corn products. The corres? pondent of the American Press says of the meeting: "In this view Col. Watson has the support of the eminent physicians and ?dentine investigators attending the conference. All agree that radical measures must be taken and without delay, to prevent the spread of this disease. In this State, at least, th( legislature at its next session will un doubtedly enact such inspection laws, and others, it is predicted, will fol low. "Dr. George A. Zeller, superintend? ent of the State hospital for the in? sane, Peorla, 111., views the situation with alarm and in concluding an ad? dress telling of the recognition of pel? lagra In Illinois and the means taken to control It, declared he believed the country is threatened with a national scourge. While the majority of the 5,000 identified cases of pellagra in the United States are in the South, the disease i3 not by any means confined to this section, and Dr. Zeller pre? dicted that the disease would very soon be as widespread throughout the entire Mississippi valley as in the South. "The discovery of pellagra in the Peorla hospital was made August 7, last, since which time 130 cases have been diagnosed as pellagra, of which number 45 of the patients have died. There is little hope that the lives of the others can he saved. Another 100 patients In this institution are mani? festing mihi symptoms Of the disease. This out of a total of 2,150 patients at the hospital. "Dr. Zeller is convinced that pa? tients have been dying of pellagra In this institution for years past, without the disease ever having been properly dlsagnosed. He admitted that pa? tients had died of the disease before its recognition as pellagra in August last, the death being cither attributed to sunburn or, as in two cases, the scalding of the patients while being given baths., "With the cooperation of the Illinois State board of health and the sur? geons general of the United States ma? rine hospital service and the army, thorough research work has been in? stituted at the Peorla hospital and at other public institutions In the State. According to reports made by the su perlntendentt of a half-dozen other State asylums similar measures have been taken In those States to com? bat the disease. And, more impor? tant, perhaps, the United States ma? rine hospital service and the special pellagra commission appointed by Surgeon General Wyman are already at work investigating the disease. "In the course of his remarks Dr. Zeller touched briefly upon the hook? worm, another disastrous malady but recently recognized In the United States, and created a mild sensation when he suggested that many thous? ands of the federal prisoners who died In the Confederate stockade at Ander sonville, Ga., during the Civil War were victims of the hookworm, rather than to the abuses and ill treatment which it is alleged they received. 'And perhaps, after all,' declared Dr. Zel? ler, 'the monument recently erected at Andersonville to the memory of Capt. Wirz, commandant of that prison, is not so much out of place as as many of us at the North have been wont to believe.' " 'Pellagra as a National Public Health Problem' was the subject of a valuable address delivered by Assist tant Surgeon General Kerr of the Uni? ted States public health and marine hospital service, who declared that the occurrence of the disease in this country involves problems that will require the most earnest investiga? tion with the view to their solution. " 'The problem of pellagra in Eu? rope and in the New World is in some respects analagous to beri beri in the Orient,' said Dr. Kerr. 'Both diseases are held to be associated with the con? sumption of mportant articles of diet, both are capable of becoming verit? able scourges among the people of the countries where they become endemic, and in neither disease has the etiology been definitely determined. This ana? logy might also be extended to Include communicabdity, and in some respect symptomatology and treatment of the disease. In neither disease is there evidence that communicability plays a part in their continued prevalence, and in neither has it been deemed ad? visable or necessary by the national government to institute quarantine procedures.' " Dr. C. H. Lavinder, U. S. P. M. and M. S., Dr. J. W. Babcock, superinten? dent Of the South Carolina hospital for the insane, and Dr. C. F. Williams, State health officer of South Carolina, as Veil as prominent physicians from Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illi? nois, North Carolina and other States gave to the conference the benefit of their experience in the treatment of pellagra. An interesting feature of the con? ference was the presentation of sev? eral patien4< with well-developed cases of the disease. A smoker was tendered the visiting physicians last night at Ridgewood Club. Five papers by eminent physi? cians in Yucatan, Jamaica, Barbadoes, West Indies; Paris and Cairo, Egypt, were read. Dr. Babcock concluding with an appreciation of Cesare Lorn broso, the noted Italian scientist, who devoted more than 30 years to the study of pellagra in Italy, Roumania and other countries. The conference will continue in session today. Peoria, 111., and Co? lumbia will ask for the next meeting. Today a permanent national pellagra association will be formed. ?Many school chih'ten suffer from constipation, which is often the cause of seeming stupidity *t lessons. Cham tt Cain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are an Ideal medicin- to give a ch'uc. for they are mild and gentle in their effect, and will cure even chronic con? stipation. Sold by W. W. Sibert. Hundreds of medical men from all sections of the country will attend the pellagra conference to be held in Co? lumbia this week. A Religious Author's Statement. ?Rev. Joseph EL Fesperman. Salis? bury, N. ('., who Is the author of sev eral books, writes: "For several yens I was afflicted with kidney trouble and last winter I was suddenly strick? en With a severe pain in my kidneys and was confined to bed eight da>s unable to get up without assistance. My urine contained a thick whl'e sed? iment and I passed same freque"tl> day and night. I commenced taking Foley's Kidney Remedy, and the pain gradually abated and finally cease! and my urine became normal. I cheer? fully recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy." Slbert's Drug Store. C hinese Students Coining. Washington, Nov. 6.?Forty-seven Chinese students are due to arrive at San Francisco today and will shortly enter various American universities and colleges. The young men were sent by the Chinese govrnment in compli? ance with the understanding with the United States regarding the disposi? tion of the indemnity remitted by this government A number of Chinese of? ficials and educators of prominence were selected as a board which, act? ing with Dr. Tenney. the Chinese sec? retary of the American legation, con? ducted the examination of more than f.OM yorng neu who presented them? selves for examination with the view to testing their fitness for this desig atlon. These Students wire first ex? amined in Chinese and then in Eng? lish, and those who passed th< se fir.it tests were examined in mathematics and elementary science. Only 47 final? ly parsed. Won't Welcome Japs. Pittsburg, Pa., Xov. f>.?Members of the Japanese Commercial Commis? sion, who have been given the gtad hand in many of the large cities of both Bast and West, are likely to have a frigid reception when they Inspect the industries of the Smoky City to? day. The Pittsburg Chamber of Com? merce, as a body, has decided to vir? tually ignore the visting Japanese en the ground that the son.' of Nippon, as a nation, demand too much in the educational lines and are willing to give too little. Some of the members of the chamber dissent from this t pin? ion and will attempt to atone lor the lack of cordiality existing in many ! quarters. Try This In November. Thousands upon thousands of fam? ilies who have not been regular eat? ers of Quaker Oats will begin on the first of November and eat Quaker Oats once or twice every day for thirty days of this month; the result in good health and more strength and vigor will mean that every other month in the year will find them doing the same thing. Try it! Serve Quaker Oats plenti? fully and frequently for the thirty days of November and leave off a cor? responding amount of meat and greasy foods. You'll get more health, more vigor and strength than you ever got in thirty days of any other kind of eating. 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