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BMII mm t? SEN M> SUBCOMMITTEE WOULD EXTEND EXEMPTION. t bJMren the Baals?Plsn tft to Allow ?mm> for K*?,?h. May Reduce Limit to gs.ooo. Wei hingt on. Juno 17.?An addi? tional exemption of 1600 for each child of a family In the Income tax ?action of the tariff revision bill wan determined upon tonight by the sen? ate finance subcommittee, of which Senator Williams is chairman .and the chance will be recommended to the majority members of the committee tomorrow. Having determined upon this Importsnt amendment, the sub nosnmlttee also is seriously consider las* recommending < hanging the $4, soe exemption in the Underwood bill to $$.??#. This, it is ergued, would greatly in? crease the revenue, and with the ad? ditional exemption proposed for chil? dren would not impose hardship upon the heads of families. Senator Simmons, chslrmsn of the finance oirmlttee. said tonight that the {jemocratlc caucus of the senate would be caflod for Thursday whether the finance committee majority had concluded with the schedules or not Tomorrow the full committee will take up the income tax and admin? istrative features of the bill having eoncluded the sundries schedule late tonight. A recommendation of the subcommittee to decrease the SO per ? ent duty on cut diamonds was not accepted by the majority. MAJOR sTT. JAM KS (TMMINOS DEAD. rrofeswor at The Citadel For Twenty Free Years. (Charleston. June 16.?Major St. James Cummlngs, who hsd Just com Bed hie twenty-fifth year as pro? or of English lltersture and his Mr nt the Citadel, the Military Col? lege of South Carolina, died yesterday afternoon at S o'clock at the Daker Sanatorium, to Which he was taken dun day afternoon. He waa about 66 years of age and had for several years seen In very poor health. Latterly his physical condition was a source of mach snxiety to his family snd friend* The funeral services will be held tomorrow, the srrangements not Saving been completed last night. LAYING WATER MAIN. Growth of City Canned Necessity for Larger Main on Warren Street. The building of a number of houses en Warren street recently has neces? sitated the laying of a new ten-inch water main on Warren street. Super? intendent McKagen is now at work saving the main put In to take the nhice of the Inch snd a half pipe watch up to a short time ago was sufficiently large to furnish water for the Inhabitants of the street. Warren street has built up much la the last few years and the new bouses require more water thsn the email pipe was able to furnish. BISHOPYILLE IS BUSY. Bealddng There Progresses st Rspld Rate. Btehopvllle, June 18.?This town has never been on a boom, but there is always something doing In the Kk line, either additions to or stores or pulling down of the older buildings and remodeling snd rebuilding on a larger and better Scale Right now during the summer months, when things are always duller theo the spring and fall sea eons, 1100,660 r? more Is being spent in building operation here. The Baptists are Just completing a brick < hurce at a cost of $16.000. The Kev. M. M. Benson la pastor of this chore h The Methodists have under way the erection of a hur? h building that will probably coot $40.000. The Rev. O. E. i Edwards is pastor. \ \ g*aj Ths Presbyter tana sre completing the equipment of their beautiful plant by the erection of a handsome new manse to cost $.1.600. The Rev. L. L. I^egeters is pastor. H. W. Woodward Is having erected on Main street a very handsome store building at a cost or $2<V>00. This wilt be the moot complete and up-to-date store In the city. The Chamber of Commerce has taken on new life, employed a secre? tary and opened permanent headquar? ters and Is going out after new enter? prises and developing and advertising the natural resources of Iiishopvllle. Two new mills have been Installed at the Pnrrott Milling Company's plant, taking the place of the mills formerly In operation which were not set together accurately. The mill I running now on full time and Is grind? ing out fresh meal for tin* local market. HAGOOD NFWS NOTES. Reflections on the> Trouble* of a Farmer? Peninsula Boys Made Good?An Egg In an F.gg? Man Has Twcnty-flvo Children. Rembcrt, June 16.?"We ain't cletl yet, but purty nl." No wonder that the beat people In the world, as a claas, are the farm era. They get ao many hard knocka from every quarter. All hla gold pasa ea through the crucible. It would be hard to say what does not pull him. The wonder la that he la not pulled to plecea. Think what he has juat pass? ed through, wind, rain, aome aleet and cold; anyone of which aeemed enough. He knowa his cotton muat, now battle with lice for a apell, and with aome It la already a question what to do with the grass. If you wlah to make a man of your aon put him on a farm and make it a caae of "root pig, or die.' One can And more tasks on a farm before breakfast than in the other avocatlon8 In a week. Problems! The farmer Is raised on them. A man with a heart 4n him can farm; the other fellow will fall. All thla talk was occasioned by the recent hard weather. The State says the mercury dropped to fifty-two, but here on the Peninsula It crawled elowly from forty-eight to tlfty-two, possibly because thla is a record breaking place. The State said it snowed in Mitchell County, N. C, but failed to notice that it sleeted on the Peninsula. We are glad to welcome the sun? shine, to pick up heart and the bur? den of life and move on. Crops here ara as promising as I have seen O. H. Lenolr. under direc? tion of Mr. Williams, Is bringing things to pans In more than one respect. And he Is the man to do it. because he Is generally thorough and has the en? thusiasm. Your correspondent maintained the quality of the oat crop here. It was also fine In contiguous neighborhoods. Many of our farmers have finished fertilising corn. Some of them have put the fertiliser, soda or top dresser on the bare ground to lie there ex? posed till It la dry enough to cover with plow, which must Burely be a mistake. J. B. Jackson is home again, his school at Fort Gains, Ga,, having closed. Thla is his third term and the school Is offered him again, but he will accept the prlnclpalship of Logan school, Columbia, 8. C. Jess is mak? ing good all the way along and so is his brother Bush, who is now at Washington. D. C, where he will re? main during the summer. It Is with pleasure we note the ad? vancement of another of our boys, Vlrgie Corbett was promoted to the rank of sergeant recently at Clemson. Another of our Clemaon boya we are proud of is BenJ. Sanders, who Is at home for a few days. Miss Theresa Sanders, having tak? en a Poet graduate courae at Green? ville, la now I the mountain*. Miss Viola Spencer is at home for vacation from the Columbia College for Women. Mies Geneva Spencer of your city spent a few days with her parents last week. lira. Ed. B. Watson of Latta, S. Cm has returned with her aon, Harris Watson, from Furman University, where he graduated at the recent commencement. She stopped over a few days with her brother, Itev. H. C. Bethea on her way home. Mias Courtney Atklnaon gave a moat sumptuoua dining to her frlenda Monday, June 9th. What an effort to write theae notes. I will have to "blow" a bit, which I know you will excuae after auch stren? uous exercise. Dlnkins' Penlnaula, the piece of ground the reat of the earth ia tack? ed on to, la a good place In many re? spects. Peter James. Bob Moore, a Mr. Gantt and many others can tes tlfy to Ita fine women. Some peaches In and around Sumter think it a fine place to get fish. Our boys here are only too glad to get an education, aome of them?be it aald to their praise?digging it out. A colored woman. Polly Stavls, broke a large hen egg and found an? other in the shell on the inside?and thla on thla Peninsula. Willie I>avls, colored, age 45 Is the father of twenty-five children, born under his own roof, three In one y**r "Hagood." Take) Plenty of Time to ICat. There la a saying that "ftapld eat? ing is alow suicide." If you have, formed the habit of eating too rapid? ly you are most likely suffering from Indigestion or constipation, which will result eventually in serious Illness un? less corrected. Digestion begins In the mouth. Food should he thorough? ly masticated and insalivated. Then when you have a fullness of tho atom aeh or feel dull and stupid after atlng, take one of Chamberlain a Tab? lets. Many severe cases of atotnaeh trouble and constipation have been curad by the use of these tablets. They are enay to take and most agree ab| In effect. Tor sale by all dealers. ?Advu IMPROVE RURAL CONDITIONS. SMALLER FARMS AND MORE FARM OWNERS THE SOLU? TION. Tin* Subdivision of Large Plantation* und Sale on Easy Terms to Tenant*, Combined with a System of Local Rural Credit? Advocated as the First Step In General Welfare Cam? paign. Mr. Editor: The recent Welfare Conference held in Columbia should quicken the thought of all patriotic Carolinians and fix their attention on existing con? ditions?with a view to improving ?hem. I trust that the proposed Con? ference to be held In August will fix its attention on a few salient questions and endeavor to solve them rather than discuss and work on a consider? able number of subjects, so that com? bined effort will be concentrated and made effective. One of the most Important ques? tions is, in my judgment, how to in? crease the number of home and farm owners in our rural districts. I need not describe conditions as they exist today. The observant, the thoughtful citizen Is familiar with them. If we should devise Rome system of rural credit, so that an increased number of our whlto citizens can be? come owners of farms; if large tracts of land owned by one person, firm or corporation could be divided into a number of small tracts and sold on easy terms and long time to those who are now white tenants, and who would become tillers of the land and occupants of It, a long step would have been taken toward the solution of many of our rural problems . Let the white tenant have a chance to buy and own his own farm and home. As a tenant he is uncertain as to his future?has no incentive to In catase his comforts because he may at any time be forced by circumstances to move to some other farm and leave behind him the comforts and con? veniences and improvementa he has labored to secure. In most cases where the tenant improves the land he cultivates, it means that sooner or later he Pays an increased rent for the land he has worked and Improved. Let him have a chance to buy his land and live under his own vine and fig tree?help him to improve his farm? ing methods?build up his soil, in? crease his production, add comfort for his family to his home life, and you will soon find him in that frame of mind and attitude to his fellow man which will make him a better citizen. With the pinch of poverty lighten? ed and the subject properly presented to him, he will have an Increasing de? sire to educate his children and take a better position among his neigh? bors. As he realizes his greater com? forts, sees his farm develop into a pay? ing business proposition, he takes courage. His ideal? grow higher? his Interest in community matters in? creases^?hope fills his heart and an ambition is stirred In him to do things, and this feeling finds outlet In his Joining with his neighbors to im? prove the schools, churches, roads, etc., and there appears that sympa? thetic touch of the elbow with his neighbors that makes them work to? gether for better farming, better schools and churches and with an in? centive to improve his opportunities. The community thus situated would incite patrons to establish larger con? solidated schools within easy walking distance of the pupils. Churches would be built to meet the wants of these communities, and thus improve their religious and moral sentiment, and all questions affecting community I Interests would be the more easily [solved. The more thickly settled com? munities could and would be more easily advised and instructed on school, sanitary, religious and social lines, and In all those Ways which would make life more easy, more comfortable and moro attractive. With smaller farms In close proximi nity it would be easier to carry on ex? tension and demonstration work among the farmers and thus improve their system of agriculture, making it more intensive and diversified?in? creasing the number and kind of crops, Increasing the yield from the soil, and developing n better system of marketing crops, thus increasing the general production and welfare. The advantages that would result from the division of large tracts of bind Into smaller farms owned by those cultivating them Is too evident to need further explanation, but the question comes, how Is this to be done'' 1 would say that the first step Is to have Home system of land reg? istration enacted into law so that the question Of title? and boundaries 110 the land WOtlld. be definitely settled, and the land could be used as security ! for loans at nearly as small cost as personal i>- berty. Towns and cities have building und loan associations which enable the poor man to buy and pay for his 'home on easy terms The next step should be the organisation of com? panic*, in the counties, of rural laud loan associations?these companies could lend the purchase price of the land to bonaflde purchasers of tracts of land containing 30, 40 or 60 acres, conditioned on the party living on the land and cultivating it, putting cer? tain improvements on it, and adopt? ing such system of farming as would tend to improve the land and increase the value. The payments to he an? nual, in such amounts as would cover the interest and principal on the pur? chase price and so arranged that for the first three years interest only would have to be paid?provided oth? er conditions as to improvements he complied with?thus giving an oppor? tunity to equip the farm and get it in condition to pay. After three years the payments to cover interest and a small per cent on the principal, and these loans to extend over a period of say twenty years or more. I suggest this matter to the con? sideration of the members ot the Con? ference with no claim to originality, but because I believe that if this ques? tion is taken up seriously and the ex? periment tested in one or more com? munities, Its success there would lead to its adoption in other localities and gradually It would bring about a revo? lution In our rural conditions, which would mean the better education of or people?decreasing the percentage of Illiteracy?increasing the comforts of the home and making life easier and more attractive?-creating c unity of purpose and endeavor, and raising the ideal of country life and citizen? ship to a Plane to which we would he proud to aspire. Rich. I. Manning. Sumter, S. C, June 17, 1913. SUED FOR WAGES. Joe B. Elliotte Chargen Air Dome Did Not Pay for Services. A most unusual case for Sumter was that heard in Magistrate Wells' court Tuesday afternoon, the case being a suit of Joe B. Elliotte against the Sumter Amusement Company, bet? ter known as the Air Dome, for three days wages alleged to have been due him. Elliotte came to Sumter to sing at the Air Dome. During the first week he performed his part of the pro? gramme and secured his fifty dollars. The second week weather was bad and he was told that his services were no longer needed by the company. He asked for pay for the week which was refused him, but later the com? pany paid him for three days of the week and refused to give him pay? ment for the other three days. He sued the company, but the case did not result to his benefit, as the jury found for the defendant. Elliotte conducted his own case and the pro? prietors of the Air Dome had charge of their side of the case. It seems that after he was dismised by the Ajr Dome people Elliotte began sing? ing at the Lyric, securing pay for services there during the latter part of the week and it was for this rea? son that the jury found for the de? fendant. STANDARDS FOR J1 LUM1NAT1NG GAS. United States Department of Com? merce to Furnish Information Rel? ative to Testing Gas. Washington, D. C, June 18.?The Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, has prepared a mono? graph on "Legal Specifications for Illuminating Oas," which is a brief discussion of the recommendations made by this Bureau for State or city laws to control the quality of illumin? ating gas sold. Tho Bureau undertook several years ago an Investigation of calorl metric standards and of flame stand? ards for gas photometry, but as the work progressed it became evident that other phases of gas testing were equally deserving of attention, and the field of the Investigation was therefore extended to include all gas testing wark . As the heating value of a Kas is a better measure of its usefulness for power, heating, or lighting with man? tles than Is the candlepov.er of tho gas, the heat delivered to customers should be measured and controlled in order to insure good service. For open-flame lights only, the candle power must he maintained. As many persons still use such burners, even though they are less economical than a mantle, the candlepower can not be entirely overlooked. The Bureau of Standards proposes that a secondary requirement be fixed by cities to in? sure sufficient candlepower for the gas for this use, and that the heating value bo made the principal basis of gas rating. The basis of rating of the gas and its purity are also discussed in this paper. Copies may be had by ad? dressing the Bureau of Standards, De? partment of Commerce. Washington. 1>. <\. referring to Technologic Paper No 14. Tho tide of summer travel is Atting in tins week, although up to dah> it has not been extremely heavy, LOBBY SEGREIS EXPOSED. FAR REACHING PLAN TO BEAT FREE SUGAR . Senate'* Lobby Inquiry Bring? Forth Testimony of a Kind to Indicate Determined Effort on Part off "Beet Sugar Industry" to Create Senti? ment Against Elimination of Duty. Washington, June 18.?The trial of the "insidious lobby" the senate has been following more than two weeks led today into the private files of the men in charge of the Washington of* flees of the United States Beet Sugar industry, the leading instrument of the campaign against free sugar, and j by originals of letters and telegrams; and what purported to be copies of j others, developed testimony of what appeared to be an attempt at a far reaching campaign to create public sentiment against free sugar through the columns of individual newspapers and tho facilities of press agents. It was a trail so long, complicated and so winding that after more than two hours of patient effort the com? mittee had succeeded in getting into its records only a small part of the mass of correspondence which sena? tors believed had produced the most sensational evidence yet developed. By subpoenas duces tecum the committee got possession of copies of letters and telegrams of Clarence G. Hamlin, a Colorado Springs, (Col.) newspaper owner and beet sugar man in charge of the Washington offices of the American Beet Sugar associa? tion, two years ago. The papers included what purport? ed to be carbon copies of letters, un? signed, but furnished as genuine by Harry Austin, a clerk in the offices of Truman G. Palmer, representative of the United States Beet Sugar indus? try. "The industry" succeeded the "association" about two years ago, and Palmer succeeded Hamlin in charge. While the committee was after the private papers Palmer, af? ter a conference with Senator Clarke of Wyoming, Hamlin's uncle, was wiring Hamlin, urging him to get a lawyer to represent his interests. The committee had knowledge of that and hurried the letters into the record without regard to sequence. More than 70 had been read when adjourn? ment was taken tonight. Those read into the record were directed to managers of beet sugar companies, officers of tho American Beet Sugar association and friends ot Hamlin, indicating that Hamlin at the time of their writing was an ac? tive figure in a campaign to organize support for the protection of the I eet sugar industry and secure publicity against tariff reductions. Some told of Hamlin traveling to large cities, giving out interviews; others written to Washington, indi? cated that he was trying to circulate matter in defense of a sugar duty through newspapers, the Associated Press and other channels, to offset what he thought mislead ng state? ments put out by sugar refiners. The text indicated that his attempts at publicity had not always been as suc? cessful as he had hoped. Other let? ters referred to a plan launched by Hamlin to have the large beet sugar companies take over $35,000 in bonds of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Other let? ters disclosed attempts to interest big railroad systems in the anti-free sugar campaign and to have profess? ors of agricultural colleges appear be? fore committees of congress with ar? guments favorable to the beet sugar men. None of the letters disclosed that railroads had been interested or that the great news agencies been ex? tensively used, or that The Inter Ocean bonds had been bought. let? ters introduced did show that the sugar men had been dissatisfied with their efforts to get "interviews" car? ried by the Associated Press. Austin, a sergeant-at-arms of the senate, brought a big box of the tele? grams and letters to the committee room this afternon. The committee suspended the examination of wit? nesses and Chairman Overman, Sena? tors Reed and Walsh began reading them into the record. Two telegrams were exchanges be? tween Hamlin, Senator Clark and Truman G. Palmer. Hamlin's telegram in reply, sent to his uncle, Senator Clark, was given to the committee. It said: "Have wire from Palmer suggesting retain attorney to prevent delivery of my papers to committee. Austin, on whom service Is made, may have sonic of my private correspondence on pa? pers, but so far as I remember there Is nothing among them which 1 would object to being made public." | Hamlin added that he would em? ploy Washington attorneys it Senator Clark thought it advisable The correspondence covered much of 1911 and the early part ..f 1912 when the Underwood free sugar bill [was Introduced In the house* The letters produced Indicated that Ham- j lln bad made contracts with "news plate" concerns that furnish matter J [to small papers and had urged beet I sutfar nun In different parts of tho country t?. attempt to secure publicity in their own localities and through news agencies. Included in the mass of correspondence were letters from Aaron Clove, which showed that ho had made an extensive contract for the same purpose. DR. FRIEDMANN SAILS. Man With Tuberculosis Cure Goes Home. New York, June 17.?Dr. Friedrich Friedmann, the Berlin physician who announced several months ago that he had a cure for tuberculosis, sailed for home today. His institute here was closed recently after the board of health had forbidden the use of his vaccine. The doctor did not say whether he would return. Berlin Against Him. Berlin, June 17.?The last meeting of the Berlin Medical society showed that the drift of opinion of Berlin physicians was strongly against Dr. Frijdmann, the Berlin physician who cla ms he discovered a cure tor tuber? culosis. Dr. Westenhofer of the Uni? versity of Berlin, reported a post mortem examination of one of Dr. Friedmann's patients who had been young and strong, showing a marked acceleration of the tubercular process after treatment. Tuberculosis showed i plainly at the point of injection. KEEPING TAB ON STANDARD OIL Government Would Know Whether Court's Decree of Dissolution is Be? ing Obeyed. Washington, June 17.?Attorney General McReynolds is seeking fur? ther information as to whether the decree dissolving the Standard Oil "trust" has been violated and whether the federal government should act I against those reported. Under in? struction of Mr. McReynolds, Chas, B. Morse, the government's counsel in the case, is in Chicago attempting to develop more facts. The government s inquiry now relates to the question whether the former subsidiaries of the i trust are by agreement or under? standing refraining from competing with one another, or are fixing the price of oil. The government is giving principal attention to the regulation of prices of oil. HARTSYILLE CHILDREN BITTEN. Little Roy ami Girl Attacked by Mad Dog?Given Treatment Hartsville, June 18.?Martha May Haney, the seven-year-old daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. G. F. Haney, and Chas. C. Funderburk, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Funderburk, were bitten this morning by a dog af? fected by rabies. The girl was very painfully lacerated about the waist line and the boy was bitten on the hand, ^loth children were hurried to the Pasteur Institute at Columbia for treatment. The quietness around Washington ' during the past few weeks was caus? ed by the failure of the lobbyists to make any sort of nois?.?-Wilmington j Star. Shake Off Your Rheumatism. Now is the time to get rid of your rheumatism. Try a twenty-five cent bottle of Chamberlain s Liniment and see how quickly your rheumatic pains disappear. Sold by all dealers.?Advt. $75,000 For Cure of Hog Cholera. Washington, June 17.--The depart? ment of Agriculture experts today an? nounced that they will begin a cam? paign on July 1 to eradicate hog cholera. The losses in hogs from cholera last year was $60,000.000 ac? cording to the department. The ap? propriation of $75,000 for eradica? tion of cholera will be available ot July 1. ^ Can't Keep It Secret, Tho splendid work of Chamberlain's Tablets is daily becoming more wide? ly known. No such grand remedy for stomach and liver troubles has ever been known. For sale by all dealers. ?Advt. Supervisor Pitts and Mr. McLood are still hard at work on the registra? tion books, striking off names *hicl> should not be on the books, pr.or to ascertaining if the one-third luali Hed voters had signed the dispen sar) petition. Mr. Pitts is starding pat and not giving out any news just at pres. lit. but he will have his state menl in a week or so now, when he has completed the work which he now lias on hand and is ready to say whether there will or will not be a dis? pensary election. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe*? RoMody. Every family without exception should keep this preparation ai hand during the hot weather of the sum? mer motnhs. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholern and Diarrhoea Remedy is worth many times its cost when need? ed and is almost certain to be needed before the summer Is over, it has no sunerlor for the purposes for which it is intended. Buy It now. For sale by all druggists.?Advt. ?