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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

tobacco packers has arranged for the entire
crop of 100 acres at the price of 10 cents
per pound for the green product. This re-
lieves the grower OF the trouble and ex-
pense OF packing ana permits htm a proht
OF cents per pound The average crop 10
GA pounds to the acre, so where a farmer
has ample acreage he should have ample
profit. In South Carolina the same class OF
work is being done.
Out in Ohio the department is endeavoring
to plant the famous Miami valley in to-
bacco. A year or more ago the government
experts went to one John Rohrer, a leaf
dealer at Germantown, in the buckeye state.
and procured ten acres of land, which were
planted with the Cuban seed. The crop was
fermented and packed by the Agricultural
Department and sold on the open market
at Cincinnati at IS cents per pound. The
cost of production was about ID cents
pound. leaving profit of 20 cents per
pound. This is thought by the experts to
be the best showing yet, and next year they
expect to see the farmers for miles around
forsak king their garden and neglecting their
chores putting in all Their time and effort
In planting tobacco. The department esti-
mates that Ohio will have over 700 acres
in tobacco next year.
Up in Connecticut the wrappers are grown
by the ''shade" process Acres and acres
of ground are covered with one canvas ana
the plants are born and nurtured and
tured with never a ray of sunshine. The
wrappers fine in quality and the plants
are quite prolific. On four acres which the
pounds of wrappers was secured at a cost
per pound of about 20 cents. The weed is
worth Sl.2o per pound, allowing profit OF
over $1,000 on four acres, which exceeds
the salary of the United States senator
from the nutmeg state. The result is that
private growers are going to plant some
thing like 2C0 acres next year and they
would not trade their chances for gold
mine. The government has not sold the
product yet, but intends to give ii away to
leaf dealers and handlers hoping to create
an interest in the homegrown wrapper,
provide a market for a generous supply.
and ultimately increase the tobacco acreage
in Connecticut.
The experiments of the department are
made only in soil recommended by the
bureau of soil survey, which is maintained
by Uncle Sam with an annual appropria ton
of SOD COO The head of the tobacco experts
is Mr.. George T McNess His assistants
are Messrs. Walter NJ. Hinson, G. B. Mas
sey. j. B. Stewart, Henry Weinberg. w J.
Wood, Otto Olsen, r. S. Epey, L. w. Aver.
Harry Rich w. w. Green and E. H. Mat
theWSOn.
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Nrltten for The Star.

written Tor Inc star.
SO you think that woman doesn't take
very lively interest in the national game?
Well she doesn't jam the bleachers TO the
breaking point. that's a fact, and she
Doesn't throw aside her work TO SEQ game,
and she doesn't talk the slang of the fan
FOR half the year, to the entire exclusion of
plain, everyday English. But because she
does none of these things pray don't make
the mistake of holding that she has no
heart in the good old sport of base ball.
For the hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that exercises over the game an infiu-
ence far more potent than that which the
thousands of fans imagine they have on the
professional ball tossers of the land.
Scon at the female base ball mines that
Pise up from time to time If you WILL but
do not forget that the players have sweet
hearts and wives, lest thereby you show
great ignorance of your favorite game. In
them lies the influence that woman has
over the diamond-an influence that ere
now has decided not only single games, but
series of games and championship contests
as well.
The unwritten history of base ball is full
of authenticated instances of woman's in
fiuence over ii, both good and pernicious,
but, happily, generally good.
There are countless stories of wives and
sweethearts who, from grand stands, have
cheered their husbands and lovers on to
victory The players women folk have a
habit of always sitting in certain part or
the grand stand. The men know this, and
hardly a game is played that there is not
communication by means of well-under-
stood signals between diamond and stand.
There are other stories of wives who have
brought out their babies and held them up
for their fathers to see whenever the moth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

of chap, and as often as Smith pleaded
with the object of his affections to make
him happy forever by saying just one little
word the clerk would put in a similar sup
plication. But the girl could not choose
between them, and the more they pressed
to hear their fate the more undecided she
became.
Now, this young lady, although She was
the daughter of a Methodist minister, was
an enthusiastic base ball fan and never
missed a game when she could help It, She
was so skilled In the ways of base ball that
she even knew the hieroglyphics of scoring
and could give many man points on keep
ing score card running. Therefore it was
but natural that when the time came
around for the championship series in
which Smiths team was competing she was
all aglow with excitement And when 1t
came to the two deciding games and she
learned that Smith was to pitch her ardor
was so great that she told him then and
there she would marry him if he won the
games.
Well, to make long story short Smith
fairly outdid himself in the first game, and
though the other side put up grand con-
test he won for his team by score of to
2 But, sad to relate, the following after
noon, when 1t came time for his team to
take the last turn at the bat in the ninth
inning the score was in the other side's
favor, standing to l..
AS Smiths mates took their places one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
japanese Beauty Standard.
m the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
It's rather a nice standard of beauty that
the Japanese have for their dear little,
queer little. most fascinating little women.
On the whole, the Japanese consider that
a woman should not exceed five feet in
height; should have a comparatively fair
skin and be well developed; should have
long, thin and jet-black hair; an oval face.
with a narrow. straight nose; rather large
eyes, nearly black; thick eyelashes; a small
mouth; hiding behind red full lips even
rows of small white teeth ears not alto
gether SMALL thick eyebrows and a me-
dunn forehead from which the hair should
grow in circular or Fujiyama shape-that
shape recalling the truncated cone of the
famous volcano.
Add to these the modesty. sweet humility
and gentle submission which the Japs deem
essential in their womaukind, and which
long centuries of practice have instilled
into them pretty thoroughly-and the result
might well be very interesting and ador-
able little creature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
TOBACCO
CULTURE.

The Agricultural Department is about to
make an announcement which will be Of
incalculabfe value to the tobacco growers
Of this country, In that 1t will enable them
to realize a profit on the well-nigh indis-
pensable weed of from 900 to coo per cent
greater than at present. When a. mans net
income Is Increased ESQ per cent he usually
smiles appreciative smile, and this fl the
| reward the Agricultural Department antici-
pates from the tobacco growers In the
United States.
Strange to say there has been practically
no improvement in the methods of growing
tobacco In this country since the colonial
period. The farmers down in Virginia and
South Carolina are pursuing the same rou-
tine of fertilization and cultivation as in
the days of the great-grandfathers. But
the government is progressive, and it's ex-
perts have just completed a remarkable
year of experimentation. They concocted
one or two formulas for fertilizer and dug
up some ground down on the old battlefield
at Appomattox. One acre they planted in
the farmers way; two acres they planted
according to one formula, and two acres
according to another. The result will be
published in a bulletin, and the tobacco
farmers will know that by following the
example of the government experts they
may realize profit of $50 per acre per crop,
instead of $ per acre. which is the average
at present.
Mr.. George T. McNess, the tobacco 'in-
vestigator'' and "experimenter' of the Ag-
ricultural Department, has just returned
from the station at Appoma ttox and he is
enthusiastic
Have a cigar" was the invitation he
profered reporter for The Star, handing
out large smoke" that had all the APP
pearances of being the real thing The ci-
gar was dark-wrapped, had an excellent
aroma and tasted good when lit.
What do Won think of u,ericd NJ
McNess when the reporter had had an op-
portunity to reflect.
Tastes like the imported article" was
the response.
That is what it is, - said the expert I'VE
imported 1t from northeastern Texas where
the weed was grown and cured and packed
and finally made up into the cigar you have
in your hand"
Reaching into another drawer Mr. Nc
Ness displayed cigars from Virginia and
cigars from Tennessee, and cigars from
Alabama, and cigars from Ohio Most of
these We're wrapped in wrappers grown in
the same states while some were wrapped
in wrappers grown in Connecticut All
looked good to the non-expert eye and
tasted good to the non-expert taste-for
Mr. McNess was generous, and believes in
PRACTICAL demonstration
Our work during the past year has been
most interesting and most important" he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Influence of Mothers on Players.

Every possessor of inside information of
professional base ball can tell of some play
er he knows who really owes his base ball
reputation to his mother Such a one is
John Ckid Bid'O McPhee, who for years was
the famous second baSeman of the Cincin-
natl Reds
Prior 10 his entry into the ranks of the
professionals McPhee was bookkeeper for
lumber concern of Akron, Ohio He was
not enamored of the work; he was of base
ball, and when he got a chance to take it
up seriously he went to his mother for ad-
vice. Sensible woman that she was she
told her son to accept the offer by all means
If he felt sure that his career was on the
diamond, and to emphasize her attitude she
and some of her intimate friends accom-
panied McPhee to the grounds the day he
was to make his debut.
There is no need to dwell on the miserab BILE
exhibition that the mother saw her boy
unnerved by his new surroundings, put up
Suffice it to state that as second baseman
ne made four errors, his fingers were as
butter and their owner the particular mark
of the disguised fans. Small wonder, then
that when McPhee boarded a car to return
to his hotel he was sick at heart
The car was crowded, and everybody ex-
cept the new player was engaged in dis
secting the game. Pretty soon a man of
ford complexion and a rotundity that was
amazing to behold shouted, so that all the
car heard:
We'll, of all the rottenest stiffs J ever
saw that new second baseman is the worst!'
That settled it in McPhees mnd-he
would never appear again on the diamond
Once at his hotel he burst into his moth
er's room and told her of his decision. She
smiled on him, got him quieted in way
known only to mothers, then by degrees
cheered him up and finally extracted from
him a promise that he would try again.
Played Magnificent Game.
He did try the following afternoon, and
he played such magnificent game that the
bleachers rose up en- masse and called him
blessed, to the quiet satisfaction of the
mother, who was in her seat of the day
before.
That night, on his way to the hotel, Nc
PEee CHANGED on the car that was carry
to his dinner. But this time his song was
different.
did you ever see such a wonder?" he
asked enthusiastically of everybody, and
before he had got off at his street he had
praised the new second baseman to the full
est extent of his powers.
A quarter of an hour later McPhee walk
ed into his mothers room.
Mother, l am going to stick to base
ball. he said joyfully, and leaned over and
kissed her.
He stuck to 1t for seventeen years and
In all that time whenever her boys team
played In the Queen city she sat In the
same seat which she had occupied on the
day when he made his heart-breaking de-
but.
AS has already been stated, wives some
times, though rarely, more or less delib-
erately sow dissension among clubs. On
the other hand, 1t happens more frequently
that wife all unconsciously imperils her
husbands chances or dissipates them en-
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of the clubs directors, the Reds put up
bum ball for a week straight running
One more word. Did you ever stop to
think that all the base ball uniforms are
made by women; that all the base balls are
manufactured and inspected by them, and
that girls pack them in the boxes in which
they are sold?
Surely, woman has a deep and abiding
interest in and influence on the national
game, even though she doesn't jam the
bleachers of a summers afternoon and yell
herself hoarse over the antics of eighteen
of Uncle Sans hot weather heroes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
Pleads Not Guilty to An Indictment
of Conspiracy.
(By the Associated Press. J

Cleveland, Ohio. April 14.-Mrs.
Chadwick, when arraigned in the
United States District court today
pleaded not guilty to the new indict-
ment recently returned against her by
the grand jury, charging her with aid
ing and abetting j. A. Spear, of Ober-
lin, in making false entries in the
banks books and making untrue state
ments to the comptroller of the cur
rency. Spear was also arraigned to-
day and pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
The court increased Mrs. Chad
wicks bail from $4,000 to $27
OF the $1,000 added, $1,000 was to
cover the new Indictment, while $1,000
was named on each of two of the
other indictments, upon which no
bail had been specifically fixed hereto
fore.
In reply to a question of Attorney
Wing, counsel for Mrs. Chadwick, in
court today, District Attorney Sulli-
van stated that Mrs. Chadwick would
not be tried on any of the indict-
ments standing against her during the
present term. This is taken to mean
that the government will not try Mrs.
Chadwick again unless she escapes
punishment on the conspiracy charge
upon which she was recently tried.
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Hester's Cotton statement.
nv the Associated Press. )

(By the Associated PreSS.)
New Orleans, April 14.-Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement is
sued today shows:
For the Ia days April an increase
over last year of $4,000 and an in
crease over the same period year be-
fore last of $4,000. For the 226 days
of the session that have elapsed the
aggregate is ahead of the same days
last year 1850 and ahead of the
same days year before last of 1851
003. The amount brought into sight
during the past week has been 223,-
545 bales, against 81 05 for the same
seven days last year and 1858 year
before last. The movement since Sep
tember / shows receipts at all United
States ports to be S,199,023, against
e,776,414 last year. Overland across
the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac
rivers to Northern mills and Canada
8S7,33S against SS1 ,579 last year. In
terror stocks in excess of those held at
the close of the commercial year 49,
123, against 01,032 last year; South
ern mills takings 1,556,000, against L.
466 900 last year. The total movement
since September 1st is 11,109, SEA,
against 9,325,025 last year. Foreign
exports for the week have been ill.,
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THE INDICTMENT DISMISSED
That Which Charges Nan Patterson
With Conspiracy
(By the Associated Press.D


New York, April 14.-The indict-
ment charging Nan Patterson with
conspiracy with j. Morgan Smith and
money from Caesar Young was dis
missed in the court of General Ses-
sions today at the request of Assistant
District Attorney Rand. Counsel for
the Smiths demurred to the indict-
ment against the Smiths and declared
that the facts alleged against them
did not constitute crime. The
court reserved decision in that case.
Counsel for the Smiths endeaVored to
secure tie return of property taken
from the Smiths but failed.
Miss Patterson. who is about to be
tried again for the murder of Caesar
Young was brought into court with
the Smiths. Mr.. Rand told the court
that a mistake had been made in
drawing up the indictment against
Miss Patterson and that it tended to
prejudice her position in the capital
case, soon to be tried
Counsel for the Smiths then asked
the court for an order compelling the
district attorney to return the letters
and documents taken from the Smiths
and promised them whenever they
were wanted. The court refused the
notion Counsel said that stateemnts
as to Miss Patterson's health did not
bear out the allegations and that the
alleged threatening of Young with
a revolver, if true, was an independ-
eni offence. He declared that false
pretences could not be considered ex-
tortiofl.
Judge Foster reserved decision.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
sheriH's Murderer Confesses.
(Bv the Associated Press.o

(By the Associated Press.)
Memphis, Tenn, April Al. H.
Thomson has confessed to be the
leader of the mob that stormed the
Jail at Senatobia. Miss, recently. He
said Whit, the prisoner, had killed his
son and he wanted vengeance. He
said Alex Nelson fired the shot that
killed Sheriff Poag Thomson is a
member of the county board of super
Visors and an influential citizen. 1t
is understood that a posse has gone to
reinforce the officers in efforts to cap
ture the Spencer brothers.
Memphis, Tenn. April 14.-Advices
from Senatobia, Miss, state that a.
posse is still out in an effort to appre-
bend members of the mob who shot
and Killed Sheriff Poag at the jail
early Wednesday morning.
1t is rumored two brothers. Spencer
by name, have barricaded themselves
in house near a cane brake and de-
cline to surrender to the posse. Sew
eral alleged members of the mob have
been arrested.
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OH GIVE ME A REST.
From Brass Bands and Newspaper
Men, Good Lord Deliver Me OH
This Hunt, Prays the Presi-
dent.
lBv the associated Press. }

Colorado Springs, Colo. April IA
Fully ten thousand people assembled
at the Santa Fe station tonight to see
President Roosevelt. after his all
day trip from Texas on the way to
hunt bears. Grand Army veterans
were lined. up on the platform anu
a band entertained the crowd during
the wait.
1t was 1880 o'clock when the Presi-
dents special train pulled into the sta
ton. Wild cheering greeted the Pres
dent as he stepped out on the plat
form of the car. The President re-
sponded to calls for a speech. After
greeting the veterans of the G.. A. r..
the President said:
Now | am going to make request
of the people of Colorado. l am off
on a hunt One thing you cannot do
on hunt and that is to carry brass
band. You cannot combine hunting
bears with your fourth of July cele-
brations, so lam going to beg the
people Of Colorado to treat me on this
hunt just as well as the people of
Oklahoma treated me on the wolf
hunt. If lot of newspaper men start
to come I'M after me, will have to come
back; that's all there is to it, The
thing they can do that will please me
best is to let me be on that hunt alone
and pay no earthly attention to me,
or to any of my party, while | am off
liz the mountains. | want to ask the
newspaper men, and especially the
newspaper men of this great State of
yours, a fair show and not to try to
follow me up. If they do, it probably
will mean that / shall have to give up
the hunt. If they won't follow me, !
will agree that if anything of any
earthly interest happens / will have
the news sent out"
At the conclusion of the address the
President was taken in an automobile
to the home of p. B. Stewart. There
he received a delegation from the
Chamber of Commerce of Denver and
accepted an invitation to visit Denver
on returning from his hunt. An hour
was spent in making preparations for
departure for Glenwood Springs, and
then the President returned to his
special train.
At $3.50 o'clock the train started, the
President standing bare-headed on the
rear platform, waving a handkerchief
to the crowd The train is due to ar
rive at Newcastle tomorrow morning
at o'clock.
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057, against 49,S03 last year, making
the total thus for for the season g.
629,899 against 5,323,979 last year
The total takings of American mills,
North, South and Canada thus far Tor
the season have been Bali, 1856, against
3,452,5S6 last year. Stocks at the sea-
board and the 20 leading Southern in
terror centers have increased during
the week 28,123 bales, against de-
crease during the corresponding per-
iod last season of 1852. Including
stocks left over at ports and interior
towns from the last crop and the num-
Der of bales brought into sight thus
far from the new crop the supply to
date is 11,271,531, against 9,492,S24
for the same period last year.
Secretary Hester's statement of the
worlds visible supply of cotton issued
today shows: The total visible supply
is 4,163,423, against 4,207,151 last
week, and 3,01S, S46 last year. OF this
the total of American cotton is 2,947,-
423, against 2,9S5,151 last week, and
,960,846 last year, and of all other
kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, India,
etc, 1,216, 900, against 1,222,O0O last
week, and 105S,000 last year. Of the
worlds visible supply of cotton there
is now afloat and held in Great Brit
ain and continental Europe 1,99l 900,
against 1880 900 last year; in Egypt
$4,000. against 200. 900 last year; i'll
India 74S,00O, against 428,OOO; and in
the United States 1,225,000, against
1913, 900 last year
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
OH, SAIL INTO MY
PARLOR, SAYSROJY
To Togo. IT'S the Hottest
Little Parlor
Y0II EVER HlT KN0W
You EVER HIT, | KNOW
Says Togo to His SkYship: I'm AwfuIIy
Awful Shy, But III Show You
Soon the Difference 'Twixt a
Fly and Being
(By theN Associated Press.)

Berlin. April 14.-Admiral Rojest-
vensky's squadron is believed by the
intelligence division of the German
navy department to be lying off the
Cuyo Islands, 80 miles south of Min
doro. Philippine Islands, re-coaling
and preparing for the last state Of
long voyage. Although these islands
belong to the United States they have
fine anchorage outside the three mile
limit with hard bottom at 20 to 70
fatnoms. The German navy depart
ment received in a telegram today
from one of the East Indian ports an
indication that the vessels when off
the southern end of Cochin-China
April IL, turned and headed on
course which would bring them to the
Cuyos Islands, in the northern part of
the Sulu Sea, eight hundred miles dis
tant, in four days at the rate of
knots an hour. The Cuyos Islands
lie tactically in such a position that
the approaches can easily be watched
by the Russian scouts. Three cruis-
ers, it was added. had been detached
presumably for a diversion on the
coasts of Japan, probably in the hope
of calling off Admiral Togo in pursuit.