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The farmer and mechanic., 1909-12-14
Nav Went to Is Cents.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 1o.-Follow-
ing the posting of the cotton crop re-
port estimate of 10,088,O00 bales on
the cotton exchange this afternoon
the future market took q jump rang
ing from % to 40 points. May cot
ton went to 16 cents, establishing a
new high record for the season. The
estimate was about 200, 900 below the
predictions of the most sanguine bulls.
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-12-14

There is only one way that the pur-
chaser can be certain of getting good
seed corn and that is to purchase
from some one of reliability as to the
purity Of the variety, and then require
that the corn be sent him on the ear
Until the farmers of our territory learn
this one simple lesson of requiring the
seed corn which they buy sent to them
on the ear there Will always be com
nlaints of failure TO obtain satiSfac-
tory corn. no matter how careful the
advertising managers Of agricultural
napers may be in guarding them
against fgraudulent vendors Most Of
the inferior seed corn is sent out
through ignorance of what seed corn
should be. This will be largely cor
rected when all refuse to purchase
shelled seed corn. but invariably re
'n,,ire that it be sent them on the ear.
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-12-14

The following shows the digestible
nutrients in cowpeas and timothy hay:
Protein-Cowpeas los per cent;
Timothy, IS per cent.
Carbo hydrates-Cowpeas 3S.6 per
cent: Timothy, 43.4 per cent.
FatS-CowpeaS, IL per cent:
Timothy, IA per cent.
In actual feeding tests these figures
represent the results obtained. and
vet we buy thousands of tons of timo-
thy hay where we can produce the
peayine hay at one-fifth what we pay
for the timothy.
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-12-14
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pose in the dairy barn that it would in
the henhouse SO following that de-
cls1on began the use of the muslin
curtain and have found the use of
the same quite satisfactory. In fact,
would not give up the use of them at
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-12-14
]. {. smith OUT ON BAIL
Bond Reduced From $1,000 to
$3.50
His Wife and Father Paid Barbec &
Co. 1851 and He Was Released on
Bond in the Sum OF S25O-Was
Caught by Officer Warren, Dec. 3.

J. f. Smith. who was caught on the
morning of December by Officer
Warren and who waived examination
before Police Justice StrOnach and
was bound over to court under bond
il the sum Of 1000. has been re
leased, his bond having been reduced
to $3.50. 1t will be reme1n bered that
Smith is charged with having swindled
Parbee & Co. out of 2 sum Of money
by selling them one bale Of cotton and
1nutilating the certificate making it
appear that he had delivered eleven
bales. This happened in October and
Smith remained at large until Decem-
Der ,, when Officer Warren, by dis
guising himself in citizens clothes.
caught him in q Pullman at the Union
Station with ticket 10 Atlanta in his
pocket.
Smith waived examination before
Justice Stronach and was committed
to Jail. where he remained until We'd
nesday afternoon, when his wife and
father paid Barbee & Co. the sum
of 1864, and his bond was reduced 30
$3.50. The required bond was than
given ana Smith released
The farmer and mechanic., 1909-12-14
COTTON REACHES
THE IS CENTS MARK
Sensational and Specta-
cuIar Rise in Prices
RECALLS DAYS OF SULLy

Both May and July Options Touched
1880 a Gain of IL Points Over Pre-
yious Days Close-The Government
Report. Issued Yesterday, Stirs the
World to Buying-Smallest Crop
Since 1S03-EStinate is for 1O,OSS.-
900 Bale Crop for 19O9-Bun Brok-
ers Prevent Violent Advance.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
MANY HANDBOOKS
IN CITY OF PARIS

NEW YORK, May 22.-Owing to the
heavy falling off during the past racing
season In the pari-mutuel receipts, the
French government authorities are max
ing strenuous attempt to put stop to
street betting In Paris.
In this, however. they are meeting with
extraordinary difficulties, for the keeper
Of nearly every wineshop, tobacconist and
cafe waiter in Paris is said to act a mid
dleman for the private bookmakers. Con-
trary to the practice In England. no slips
or vouchers of any kind pass between the
parties, SO that there Is little tangible evil
dence to go upon.
Street betting, in spite of the facilities
afforded by the pari-mutuel. is said to be
rampant In Paris and it is estimated that
the amount risked in the French capital
in small bets exceeds $4,000 every rae
ing day of the year.
Practically the whole of this money goes
into the pockets of two persons. who
are well known to everybody. but who
do not come within the pale Of the law
against secret betting. because the money
is collected for them by twenty or thirty
agents, who. in turn. have between 800
to 1900 smaller intermediates or agents.
who receive the money from the public.
1t is thanks to this secret betting that
one daily sporting paper alone Is able to
sell 10000 copies in q single hour daily
on the Paris streets.
in order to enforce the law they would
be obliged to arrest about 1900 persons.
and then have to prove the facts in
every case, which would be obviously i'm
possible. Hitherto the police have had
to be satisfied with making raids under
circums stances in which they were sure of
catching the agent red handed" other
wise a prosecution would be impossible.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Enemies of Base Ball.

Two enemies to young and old Amerss
cas- national pastime have shown their
faces freely this season. They are gam
bling and i'll feeling between contestants.
including the umpire. Already there havs
been several serious outbreaks between
rival players in-.vieW OF the spectators
and between players, managers and UNI
pires. There have been suspensions tn
both major leagues. which are supposed
to set q good example for all the minors
and amateurs In the matter Of sportsman
like conduct on the diamond. Players
who will not reserve their personal spitess
and quarrels for private settlement ana
all who attack an umpire, either in pub
lie or private. should be punished SO SCI
verely that the club owners will see tn
1t there Is no repetition, because the
extended suspension of q player often
badly breaks up q team. The spirit OF
gambling must be suppressed or the pro-
fessiOnal gamester will find himself q
warm nest for q while In the many homes
of base ball and will wreck those homes
as he has so many others. In several
cities newspapers make practice OF
publishing prevailing odds on the coming
game or games. In others publicity Is CIV
en- to the fact that somebody wants to bet
a stated sum OF money on some bd Sc ball
proposition or other. There is no greater
enemy to the spirit OF clean. honest sport
than the man who has wager on the
result of an athletic contest of any kind.
He thinks of his money first and Is will
ing to see II won by foul means II not by
fair Every possible obstacle should be
put In the way OF that class of sports
men 90 who see In base ball principally
a medium for betting.-Chicago Tribune.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
LANGFORD HAS AN
EASY ONE IN HAGUE

NEW YORK, May 22.-Late mails from
England show that the matching of
"Iron' Hague, heavyweight champion of
England. with Sam Langford, the Boston
negro, has called forth storm Of pro-
test from many Of the sporting men of the
island kingdom. The men meet for twenty
rounds at the National Sporting Club Of
London May "a. and already the contest is
compelling undivided attention from Bri-
tannia's fistic world. Many close follow
|ers of the ring game are inclined to re-
gard the matching of Hagues compare
tive inexperience with q tried man Of
Langford's character as a miserable
hasco. In speaking Of the coming contest
|a prominent English sporting man re-
Gently said:
with the greatest respect for the Ma
tional Sporting Club, is the Hague choice
q wise one against the hero Of a hundred
fights? l think Jeanette should have
been chosen and Hague taken to America
to gain experience with lesser men. To
put him against Langford. when we know
nothing Of his defense and staying pow
ers in long inning. may break his heart
If he comes to grief quickly, like Moir. If
an old hand like Moir crumples up thus,
Is it reasonable to be surprised IL man
who recently emerged from National
Sporting Clubs noyices competition fol-
lows suit?
"Of course, we all want Hague to win
a championship, but don't let us break his
back and heart by demanding too much
at first. Boxing demands the same hard
struggle for success as anything else. We
had an example recently in wrestling,
when O'kelly took on Lemm about a
year too soon. England takes national
interest in this fine young fellow Hague.
We all want him not merely to be cham
- E>rr1o nd hf,t mo rU0 I'm
bring back the heavyweight laurels from
the United States Of America"
Evening star., 1909-05-23
MERCERSBURG BEST
OF PREP SCHOOL S

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, May 22.-Mer-
cersburg Academy won the annual inter-
scholastic track meet held this afternoon
under the auspices OF the Yale Athletic
Association at Yale Field. Eleven schools
were represented. Mercer Of George
School. Philadelphia, was the Individual
star, winning the quarter-mile and the
broad ump. thereby scoring 10 Of his
schools 15h points. Keith of South High
School, Worcester, Mass. ran the mile In
minutes 81 seconds. leading the field by
a good margin. Gill OF Mereersburg won
the 1OO-yard dash, in 10 lis seconds. The
schools scored as follows:
Mercersburg. 2A3s points; Exeter. q:
Worcester. 20: Andover, 1915: George
School. Philadelphia. 151s: Lawrencevilie.
II: Pawling School, 8: Hill School. Phila-
delphia. 61z; South High School. Worces-
ter. 8; Brown and Nichols. l; Central
Manual, /.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
To Have Aero Nautical Races.

NEW YORK, May 22.-L. D. Dozier.
president of the Aero Club OF st. Louis.
was here recently in conference with in
ventors soliciting entries for an aero
nautical contest to be held in st. Louis
next October during the centennial cele-
bration week. Mr.. Dozier said that he
Is negotiating with the Wright brothers
for the purchase of an aeroplane with
the understanding that one OF the broth
ers give a demonstration at the exhibi-
ton. He said the only difficulty is that
the Wrights have planned TO return to
Europe in September and 1t is a matter
OF inducing them to remain over longer.
The st. Louis Club already has grounds
and owns two spherical balloons one
of $4,000 cubic feet capacity and one OF
10000. The contest committee will offer
three cups and 5000 in cash prizes TO
be distributed for spherical balloon, dir
igible balloon and aeropiane races.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Independence League Notes.

Games for this week, to be played at
McDevitt's Field. I'd and Rhode Island
avenue northeast, at $50 o'clock:
Monday-Advent VS. Twining.
Tuesday-Wallach VS.. Agriculture.
Wednesday-Ninth vs.. Manhattan.
Observation-Disclosures VS.. Advent.
Friday-Manhattan vs.. Wallach.
Saturday-Ntnth vs. Tvining.
The attendance at McDevitt's Field has
been good and the spectators have wit
messed good. clean ball. No wrangling
or disputes have arose on the field of
play and the Independence League bids
fair to have very successful season.
Agriculture, the newcomers In the
league. are going at fierce clip having
won five games and losing none. They
defeated Twining, the last-year cham
pions, both times they have been sched-
uled to play. and at the present rate
seem to outclass the other teams.
Ninth have considerably strengthened
their team and sprung great surprise
on Advent last Wednesday. when they
defeated them. IA to 9.
Powell, a former Business High School
twirler. showed good form in the game
between Twining and Wallach last Tues
day, when he allowed but one hit, while
his two errors and a wild pitch were re-
sponsible for the only tailies Wallach
made.
Mr.. Berger who has handled the indi-
Gator very satisfactorily since the OPEN
Ing Of the season. resigned last Monday.
Mr. FinneGan, who was with the Com
mercial League last year. has been se-
cured as umpire.
Reeves pitched his first game for Agri-
culture Thursday, and his initial appear
ance was a great success. He allowed
but three hits, two of which were of
the scratch order. His work with the
stick figured greatly in his teams vic
tory. connecting for two doubles out OF
the six hits made by his team.
Downey scored two Of the three runs
made by his team In Thursdays game,
and he also connected for two Of the
three bingles made by Twining.
Mr.. Worley president Of the league.
handled the indicator in Wednesday, 8
game and pulled the game of in great
style. Hooray for Mr.. Worley! Keep up
the good work.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
MEMORIAL DAY AT
BRIGHTWOOD TRACK

At the Brightwood Driving Club they
are getting ready for the races Memorial
day, May 81. In the stalls there and al
many private stables throughout Wash
ington preparations are being made for
one of the best days sport that the local
fanciers of standardbreds have antici-
pated in q long while.
Frank Thomas, one of the leading
members Of the Driving Club. and first
class horseman, has the program IN
charge. He declares that he now has in
hand more than enough entries through
voluntary proffers by the club members
to assure the success Of the matinee. With
this public announcement Mr.. Thomas is
sure that other members of the club with
good horses in their stables. who per-
haps have not been to the club since last
fall, will send In their names to Mr..
Thomas at the club.
1t Is proposed to make the Memorial
day matinee attractive in every way.
come to be a time-honored practice to
signalize the advent OF spring by attend
ing the races on Memorial day, the first
speed day Of the season. The BrightwOod
Driving Club has associated with 1t the
veriest romances of turf lore. Here many
lost-contests that demanded the best ef-
forts OF horses that were the pride of
many local business men. And the inter-
est is still maintained. -
The Brightwood Driving Club seems
to have mellOwed in Its ageng. Stu-
ated at the terminus of the 4th street
electric cars. it enjoys an advantage of
location. The ride out to the track Is
pleasant and the dyed-in-the-wool horse
fancier never seems to tire of watching
the speedy ones negotiating the half-mile
oval. Since the policemen have been
mounted on motorcycles and are even
more watchful than before. the roads
about Washington afford less and less op-
portunity for speed contest among
horsemen. Thus 1t comes about that the
Brightwood track Is assuming newer i'm
portance every day. ~
All the local horses of class will be
shown at the Brightwood track Memorial
day, beginning at l o'clock. There will
be q free-for-all pace, one-half mile. purse
$50. best three in Ave heats; q 2.25 trot
and pace at half mile, purse $50, best
three In Ave heats. and a class C race.
one-half mile, best three in five heats.
During the afternoon q championship
base ball contest between the BEghtwoOd
VS.. the PetWOrth base ball teams will be
played on the track oval The winning
team will receive handsome silver cup
as q mement0. The entries for the races
and the personnel OF the ball teams will
be announced later.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Biz Athletic Meet at Pittsburg.

PITTsBURG. Pa, May 22.-Seyen col
leges and nineteen high schools from
western Pennsylvania. Ohio and West
Virginia took part today In the annual
invitation intercollegiate and interscholas-
tic field meet. held on the Schenley Park
Oval here. Fully 5000 persons witnessed
the various events. in which the Univer-
sity of Pittsburg led the colleges with
total of IS points, and the Indiana NOR
NAL School Of Indiana. Pa, the high
schools, with So points to their credit.
In the collegiate events the Carnegie
Technical School of Pittsburg was sec
ond, with a score of 5O1s, and Washing
ton and Jefferson of Washington. "a.
third. with "a. Pittsburg High School
was second in the school events. with "a
points, and Cleveland High School third.
with 16 points.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
VICTORY FOR DARTMOUTH.
Wins New England Meet by q Small
Margin.

BOSTON. May 22.-It was not until @.
E. Holdman of Butte. Mont, cleared the
bar in the pole vault against a northeast
rainstorm that Dartmouth won the
twenty-third annual championship meet
ing Of the New England intercollegiate
Athletic Association on Technology Field
today by score of 321k points Up to
the decisive leaps in the pole vault there
was hot fight between Dartmouth and
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology
and Williams. Holdman cleared the high
est bar while Allen of Technology won
second place for his college and Capt
George Horrax of Williams clinched third
position for his institution.
It was a hot fight for place from start
Evening star., 1909-05-23
to finish and tho colleges finished as fol-


lows:
Dartmouth, 32M: Technology. 81; Will
liams. "A: Bowdoin. 2O14; Amherst, II:
Brown, 13; Wesleyan, 8: Maine, 6; Tufts.
3, and Vermont. 2. Trinity and Holy
Cross failed to score.
The disabling of N. A. Sherman Of
Dartmouth in the broad jump yesterday
eliminated one OF Dartmouth's greatest
point scorers and threw the weight Of the
competition for the wearers of the greep
upon ]. D. Hawley and E. r. Palmer.
Hawley succeeded in taking both the
dashes, which Sherman was picked to win
and also first place In the discus. while
Sherman's leap In the trials OF the broad
jump yesterday were not beaten today
and gave Dartmouth first place in that
event.
Then came Holdman's vault. and with
Ave first places and tie for first place
in sixth event, the New Hampshire
College had no difficulty In coming out
with q lead and taking fifth leg In the
new fifteen-year association cup.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Indiana Varsity Wins.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 22.-The University
of Indiana track team defeated the North
western University team at Evanston to-
day by q score Of 60 to 50. The Chicago
University freshmen defeated the North
western freshmen at the same place by q
score OF 1923 to So 1-3 Davenport OF
Chicago was the star runner In the
freshman meets, winning all his races
He did the 22O-yard dash In -. James
Of Indiana did the same distance In the
varsity meet in ~ 80
Evening star., 1909-05-23

this week. Capt. Thomas has not yet
given up hope Of getting another whack
at the championship. as he expects to
beat Tech and thinks 1t most probable
that the Machinists will defeat Business.
Interest In the spring meet. which was
predicted to be more closely contested
this season than 1t has been for several
years, seems to be rapidly dying out, and
It begins to look again as IL Central will
be the only school to furnish full quota
Of entries with q scattered nomination
here and there from one Of the other
high schools Central will have to go
some to defeat the Episcopal High School
track team when they meet Tuesday
and an interesting competition Is looked
forward to.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
CHIPS FROM THE DIAMOND.

The secret Of Wagner's ability to
smother ground hits is out He has mag
nets In his hands,
Adams seems to be another Barney"
Dreyfuss find. The Pittsburg magnate
has dope book with the names of many
promising young players, which he con.
stantly refers to.
The Highlanders are somewhat handi.
capped with Eberfields ankle bothering
him. Keinow's lame knee and keeler
having charley horse
Jake stahl is playing about the best
first base Of his career.
That Indian sign which Covaleski has
| to display whenever the Giants face him
has all OF the hypnotic qualities that it
had last year when the Shamokin wonder
defeated the McGrawites three times in
one week.
Apnpos Of Johnny Killing, Charles
Murphy says: There is no law to pre-
vent man quitting the game, and we ara
getting along very well without him. It's
the people who are in the game that the
cranks are interested in, not those who
are out OF It..
Jack Chesbr0 believes, and always will, /,
that catcher is the most important man
on ball club The lumber manipulator
believes that the man behind the bae
should run things.
Warhop and Cree are touted as Indiana
in the west. But they are no more ln-'
dians than Tom Sharkey Is. Warhop ~
the pitchers correct name
Jimmy Coffroth, the boxing promoter
of the coast, Is talking of organizing an
outlaw league on the coast. Jimmy hah
better think twice. There is one league
there now. and they are having hard
time getting through each season. +:
AS q human dynamo of base ball eH-
ergy. Roger Bresnahan has even his OLD
tutor, 'Muggsy" McGraw, backed clear
on the boards. "Muggsy" Is In the SUBJ
cellar berth just vacated by the Cardt-
mails. Wow! that must hurt in Gotham.
Cy Young says that the biggest joke
ever played on him was when he was In
Cleveland. When he pitched there first
Cy had just begun to get good and fat
and he clOuted a ball that rolled through
a knothoie in the center-fied fence. Cys
teammates saw the sphere roll through
the fence when Cy was putting by first
and they lined up on the coach lines amp
told Cy to hurry. Cy did his best ami
fell fiat when he had touched the plate.
only to be told that he could have walked
il he had wanted to. The game was de-
layed- five minutes while Cy recovered
his breath.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Detroit's Free Academy Wins.

ITHACA, N. Y. May 22.-Detnoit's Free
Academy easily outclassed other prepara-
tory schools In the annual interscholastic
track meet here today, winning with 73Is
points Wyoming Seminary was second
with 81 points. Ithaca High School third
with 1911 points. and the Cascadilla School
fourth, with Is points.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Special National League Meeting.

NEW YORK. May 22-President Charles
w. Murphy Of the Chinago National
League club. is In New York to arrange
for q meeting Of the board OF directors.
which was called to act on the Cincinnati
teams protest OF the game Of April %.
which was won by Pittsburg. 2 to l..
Usually q mail vote Is taken when q club
appeals from the presidents decision. but
President Murphy insists that Q meeting
be held. II 1t Is called, the Chicago
president, 1t Is said, will vote in favor of
Cincinnati. The other members of the
board who will be allowed to vote on
the matter are Ebbetts of Brooklyn and
Dovey of Boston.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Boston Brokers Beat New York.

BOSTON. Mass, May 22.-The Boston
Stock Exchange base ball team had an
easy time defeating the representatives
Of the New York Stock Exchange in q
game limited to eight innings by agree
ment today. The score was 8 to 4. Rain
fell throughout the game ana greatly
hampered the players. Score:
R.H.E.
Boston Stock Ex.. o 2 2 Ks q
~ Y Stock Eych.. I 0 o 2 o. 3 2
Batteries - Hayes and Clark; Jackson and
Enrich
Evening star., 1909-05-23
American Polo Team Defeated.

LONDON. May 22.-The Meadowbrook
Long Island) polo team suffered a bad
defeat this afternoon at the hands OF the
Hurlingham players, the latter winning by
8 to 2. The Americans at no stage of the
play showed the same form that, by their
previous games. they had led the public
to expect, but J. NJ. Waterbury explained
this was largely due to the fact that
most OF their best ponies were resting
and that the animals they rode today
were borrowed. On the other hand, the
british PLAYERS, Wilson. Freake. Nickalls
and Miller, did much better than the
teams that the Americans defeated In
their earlier matches.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Victory for Yale Sophomores.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. May 22.-The
sophomore crew won the class champion
ship In the annual regatta of the Yale
University Boat Club here on Lake Whit
ney today. The surprise of the day was
the defeat of the varsity four-oared boat
by the second four, the latter covering
the seven-eighths OF mile course in four
minutes ffty-six and four-ffths seconds
and crossing the line a full length ahead
OF the varsity boat.