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The new era., 1911-03-02

Inc corn Dell, 1Or tQeTe II no Q0-
sire to interfere with the growing of
our greatest agricultural staple in
that broad section OF the country
where corn has long been the princi-
pal standby Of the farmer. The new
plan Of the department OF agricul-
ture-for of course that Is the branch
OF our government machinery that has
charge Of this new activity-is simply
In effect to make two blades of grass
grow where only one grew before.
Although all the world has been
sasping in astonishment these many
years past at the bumper crops of
corn this country turns out each year.
the experts Of the government some
time since came to the conclusion
that great as was the national corn
yield it was not as big as 1t ought to
be. Furthermore. they thought they
foresaw time when. with our rapidly
growing population, the corn crop
would not be any too big for our own
American appetite and. of course, II
that came to pass. we would lose more
or less of our foreign trade. for vast
quantity OF Yankee corn products now
find their way to dinner tables over
seas.
On the theory OF a stitch In time
the agricultural sharps proceeded to
get busy over this impending prob
lem. First they set about increasing
the yield OF corn per acre and latterly
they have entered upon the even more
significant mission Of extending the
corn growing area. AS our readers
are aware most Of the corn crop has
been grown heretofore In the middle
The new era., 1911-03-02

The recording angel may take more
interest in your day book than in
your hymn book.
The new era., 1911-03-02

standard unit of organzation-and there are
county clubs in about 500 different counties.
Circulars of instruction, prepared by Dr. s. A
Knapp. the government expert. who is the Sol
omon of this movement are prepared and
sent several times during the year to each in
divdual boy who is enrolled in this work.
Seed selection and the preparation Of the
soil taken up first in these courses Of In
structon by mail supplemented by the advice
of the field workers of the department who
continually travelling about to supervise
and give practical instruction) All the boys
who won the biggest prizes paid very careful
attention to the instructions on this score and
plowed their from eight to sixteen inches
deep and thoroughly pulverized their seed beds.
Even more careful advice is given the boys on
the vital subject of fertilization and one rea-
why many of these lads have at the first
go off gotten better corn crops than their fathers
have ever been able to produce with all their eX-
perience back of them is that the youngsters
have none of the contempt of the old fogies for
new-fangled ideas and have been not only willing
but eager to master a general knowledge of nitro
gen, potash, phosphorus etc, as agricultural aids
and the effect of leaves, wood mold, barnyard
manure, etc.
: The whole plan of computing and comparing
yields in this countrywide corn-growing competi
ton is done in the most systematic and business
like With swarms OF keenly interested
boys watching each others crops like hawks
there is not much opportunity for deception of
any kind, but in addition to this insurance of pub
agriculture has its own officers in the field all
the while and they rgidly investigate any
picious reports just the field workers of the
United States census have been probing into the
enumeration in any town city that seemed to
show undue increase in population since the
last census. Be 1t said to the credit Of the boy
growers that almost none of them have
fallen under suspicion any score.
In making up the records of the young
growers and awarding the prizes that offered
Won't fcia 1a into daraf
of cost OF cultivation and every other factor.
Indeed, in making awards there are considered
In addition yield, the cost per bushel, the best
ten ears of raised and the written history
of the crop prepared by the boy who raised it.
Not all the boys who the big prizes and
personally congratulated by President Taft in the
White House at Washington made the largest
yields in their states. The economical side was
anyways taken into consideration in giving out
the prizes and in apportoning the diplomas Of
merit which Secretary Wilson personally pre-
sented to the boys who called on him at Wash
ington.
The boys who have won rank Uncle Sans
champion corn growers in every instance made
good" by exhibiting their prize products at their
respective county fairs where their neighbors
could see with their own eyes what they accom-
plished by the new method of tilling the soil. In
many counties the distribution of the county
prizes for corn growing made redletter
event this past autumn and as many as 1000 to
1900 persons have assembled at county seat
The new era., 1911-03-02

PILES CURED IN To IL DAYS
Your druggist Will refunu money II PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any Of Itching, Blind
The new era., 1911-03-02

Your working power depends upon your
health Garfield Tea corrects disorders of
liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels.
The new era., 1911-03-02

Preaching produces so little practice
because people look on 1t as per.
formance
The new era., 1911-03-02

Mrs, Winslows Soothing Syrup for Children
teethinR. softens the gums. reduces inhamma-
ton, allays pain. cures wind collie, 25c bottle.
The new era., 1911-03-02

A man may go up when you kick
him. but you cannot claim credit for
kindness.
The new era., 1911-03-02

Take Garfield Tea to arouse . sluggis
liver-all druggists sell it.
The new era., 1911-03-02

Affections mark the difference be-
tween iron and steel.
The new era., 1911-03-02

Love does not depend for its
strength on concentration.
The new era., 1911-03-02

True pleasure consists In clear
thoughts, sedate affections, sweet re-
Elections; a mind even and stayed, and
true to itself.-Hopkins.
The new era., 1911-03-02
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

one size smaller after using Aliens Foot Ease
the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
shoes. 1t makes tight or new shoes feel easy.
Retnse sn6stitnrcs For Free trial package, ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted LIE Roy, n. Y.
The new era., 1911-03-02
BY MAlDON fAWCETT

HE United States govern
ment is now at work
upon one of the most am
bilious and, by the by.
one of the most interest
ing projects it has ever
undertaken. 1t is moth
ing short of a scheme for
moving the corn belt"
Or perhaps 1t would be
more accurate to- call 1t
a crusade for extending
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FORGING A SPOON.
How the Siiversmith Shapes This
Common Table UtensiI


A teaspoon blank requires a hectan-
guar strip. seven sixteenths by four
and one-half inches, and weighs at
the start little more than an ounce.
The torger's first move is to strike the
blank on its side edge with big ham
mer. roughly marking the division of
the bowl and handle. Then with a
few additional blows the stem is mar
rowed, and at the same time thicken-
ed. The division tor bowl and spoon
Is, as the cook said, matter of
Judgment" but It Is not far from
two fifths allowed for bowl and three
fifths for handle
The blows next fall on the broader
surface, and are delivered with the
peen end of the big hammer. struck
horizontally along the surface This
lengthens and spreads the stock, and
1t tecomes ridgy and shoyel-Hke in
appearance.
The metal soon resents such sEvere
treatment, and as often as it hardens
must be taken to the blowpipe.
Another course with the peen hammer
striking lengthwise blows along the
tip and bowl further lengthens the
spoon, spreading the tip and greatly
broadening the bowl Net unlikely.
still another course will ne required
before It is properly thickened and
spread to receive the pattern outline.
In each course described the forger
must have continually in mind the
necessary grading for thickness. A
good hammerer provides liberal toe
TO the spoon tthe toe being the point
furtheSt removed from the tip) so that
the wear of many years which comes
hardest at this point will cut into Ehe
ooWl outline. If n tip at the back Is
to he struck up, enough stock for il
must he left at this point. A tip calls
for corresponding die. for except II
is needed for single spoon only. the
ming on the tip is too lengthy and
costly. The stem must be left thick
and rigid and the bowl even and
strong, so that there will be no ten
dency for it to buckle and break afte,
it is shaped; a fault tina we find often
enough in the old coin spoons and
one that patchwork can never make
good.
The temptation of the trade. which
as We said before sells by weight. is
to recommend the extremely heavy
grades and need not hold with the
forged spoons. for forging leaves tbs
metal harder than does the die-strucl
method. One may better give atten.
ton 70 balance, Ghosing weight
that seems in keeping with the NOR,
refined quality of the dinner service
which later when il is sold by weighs
a s we find in it's boarding house form
certainly gives us ereeps.-Handicraft
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to speak to his own mother If he met
her in the street for fear of stirring up
his wife's jealousy he plays with just
as much ardor if she is ten feet or
ten miles away
There is a rafting good love scene
in the second act of the play / am ap-
pearing in now, and IL my wife was
sitting right up under the footlghts I
would put all the fervor into il I was
capable of. But / never could make
the public believe that. A converse
ton | overheard i'm a restaurant be-
tween two men is typical of the gem
eral belief.
He was pretty good in that loce-
making act said one.
Fair, said the other, but you lust
ought to see him when his wife isn't
around. He makes things hum them
i had honestly tried to make things
mum at that particular performance.
and II | failed it was not due to the
absence or presence of my wife. But
When the public once become obsessed
of an idea it Is SO hard to root If ont
that 1t pays to humor the within. Now
adays when playing the part of an
ardent lover | take care to spread tba
report that my wife never sees noaA
play after the opening night, and 49,
gives people confidence that they are
never going to see weak -kneed per-
romance. New York Times
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OSQulTOES.
Only bitches Will Keep Away the
Mosquito and Use Oil.

The season of the year to turn ones
attention to the use of oil in stagnant
pools of water and the necessity of
destroying growing weeds is at hand
From the recent rains stagnant
pools of water have begun to form and
weeds are springing up rapidly in all
sections of the city. making it neces-
sary to adopt measures of drastic
nature to do away with these breeding
places before mosquitoes begin to null
tiply by the millions.
BY spreading crude oil in bitches and
around the edges of pools of water
breeding places of the mosquitoes are
done away with. thereby reducing the
number of these pests and making it
an easy matter to keep them out of
the home with screens.
Fortunately, disease germs them
selves do not fly. They reach the in
side of the home and then the children
through larger insects and those in
sects are mosquitoes and flies
Mosquitoes, like the common house
fly, are acknowledged by physicians to
be responsible for the spreading of
typhoid fever and many other kinds of
diseases. Until comparatively recent
years the mosquito like the house fly.
though considered an irrigating dis
comfort, was thought to be otherwise
harmless. Even now. though the
mosquito is recognized to be a danger
Gus disease carrier. few families in
these ATTITUDES practically recognize it
as such. While it may be impossible
to exterminate the mosquitoes, yet this
danger and trouble may be greatly les
sened byt Che proper use of screen
doors and window screens.
In this day of inexpensive screens
and wire cloth there is no excuse for
any householder of even moderate
means being without screens, which
add so much to the comfort. health
and security of the home. The I'M
screened house is dangerous thing,
and screens on windows and outside
doors are an excellent investment from
several points Of view-Houston Post
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the current week. Hervy drafters and
lighter weight work horses were in
urgent demand and there was large
exchange working horses turned in
from local concerns for immediate
sale. in good condition and of one or
two years service such horses selling
easily at full values. There was a
brisk trade for horses for the beaches
and summer resorts and there were
several sales for this type. First class
driving horses were not numerous
but the demand was active. and deal
ers could readily dispose of more than
they have on hand.
The best. heavy draft horses, from
1850 to 1900 lbs, sold at 1926 e. $475,
more medium weight. first class, draft
ers. at $3.50 & $3.50; general work
horses and wagon horses at 5000 g.
$3.50: farm chunks at $3.50 e. 5000;
light delivery horses at $3.50 e. $3.50:
family drivers at 1925 and upward
At the city Sale StabIes-W Wheeler
McElyeen & Company did a brisk
business during the week. reporting
the best sales for the past year. They
had large amount of horses to Of
fer, the amount consisting of six ex-
press carloads of fresh country horses
of all classes, fifty work horses from
about the city. and rs head of second
hand horses. Prices were firm.
Welch & Hall g. Company received
one express and one freight carloads
of green horses and IS head of accIi-
mated horses. All the horses were
cleaned out to good demand and at
fair values.
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CHIMES.
Al Bells Are Tuned to Five Clear
Notes Harmonizina Perfectly.


sswhet a beautiful tone that bell has"
- often heard. There are few. however,
who know how a bell receives its joyful
and solemn tones. All bells after they
are cast and finished must go through
process of tuning the same as any other
musical Instrument before they respond
with a clear, true tone Every bell
sounds FIVE notes. which must blend to-
sether in order TO produce perfect har-
mony.
The tuning Of bell is done by means
Of shaving thin bits from various parts
Of the metal. II is as easy for an expert
he'll tuner TO put bell In tune as it is
for a piano tuner to adjust his instru-
ment to perfect chords.
! AT nrst thought il would seem that q
bell would be ruined should the tuner
shave OFF too much at the last tuning, or
the fifth sound. but such is not the ca Sc
He would. however. be Obliged TO begin
over. starting again with the first tone
and shaving the bell until il gave forth
tts harmonious sound al the fifth tone,
Scientfhc American.
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VALUE OF WILL POWER.
To Have One Good Aim and Make
All Else Suhservisnt Achieves Sue


VIII power is one of the greatest
forces of the world Few men realize
the great value of will power. They
Slide along through life following the
course of least resistance. and many live
to ripe old age without exerting their
will power TO any great extent. These
men little know what they might have
done for themselves and the balance of
the world If they had begun using their
will power early in llIe
The man who really wills a thing. not
merely wishes it. and then buckles right
down to the task of doing that very
thing, will succeed in nearly every case.
Men even often succeed in doing wrong
things by sheer force of viii, and how
much easier it should be to do a lust
thing by the same force The young
man starting out In life should choose
an honorable career and then bend his
entire will power to the point of carry
ing out that career in an honorable man
ner
The old saving that "the will finds a
way" is no idle assertion. 1t does that
very thing The only thing necessary IS
plenty of will, and work. and that is the
reason the man who decides early in life
what he wants to do and then works for
It will succeed AS he grows older his
viii grows stronger all the time, until It
not only controls him. but those with
whom he comes in eontaet-lnland
Farmer
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QUAINT MARRIAGE NOTICE.
William Cullen Bryant Broke the News
Gently to His Mother.

The following letter from William
Cullen Bryant to his mother. quoted by
Professor Chubb in Stories of Authors.
indicates that the author of "Thanatop-
sis could enjoy his little joke on occa-
sion:
Dear Mother-I hasten to send you
the melancholy intelligence of what has
lately happened to me Early on the
evening of the eleventh day of the pres
ent month l was at a neighboring house
in this village Several people of both
sexes were assembled in one of the
apartments. and three or four others,
with myself were in another At last
came in a little elderly gentleman. pale,
thin. with solemn countenance. pleuritc
voice. hooked nose and hollow eyes. II
was not long before we were summoned
to attend in the apartment where he and
the rest of the company were gathered
We went i'm and took our seats. The lit
tie elderly gentleman with the hook nose
prayed. and we all stood up. When he
had finished most of us sat down The
gentleman with the hooked nose then
muttered certain cabalistic expressions
which I was too much frightened to re-
member, but / recollected that at the
conclusion 1 was given to understand
that l was married to young lady of
the name of Frances Fairchld. whom
perceived standing by my side and whom
I hope in the course of a few months to
have the pleasure of introducing to you
as your daughter -in-law. which is mat
ter of some interest to the poor girl. who
has neither father n + mother in the
world New Bedford Mercury
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New England League,
NEW ENG. LEAGUE STANDING.
Afternoon.
AT BROCKTON.

Irate Brockton fans TO the number of
some 1900. In the belief that decisions
which cost the locals The game, which
Worcester won to after 10 innings,
were wrong mobbed Hi Henry" La
belle, who made his first appearance as
a New England League umpire. The
crowd forced the arbitrator to seek the
protection of the police and forced the
latter to extreme measures to save the
umpire's skin Sticks and stones were
hurled at them and refuge was taken in
the clubhouse aftertthe game was finish
ed, that outbreak having been precipi-
tated by a decision in which Standard
of Brockton was declared out at third
in the 10th, when many fans said they
saw the Worcester third baseman drop
the ball. After locking their charge in
the clubhouse for some time the police
sought to escort him to the railroad sta
ton. but their efforts to circumvent the
crowd were futile, and they were met
by some 1900 men and boys who verbally
and with missiles assaied them on the
way to the station. Arriving there it
was necessary TO again lock up the um-
pire. 'ffi Henry" this time being placed
behind The stout doors of the baggage
room in the station. and after some
minutes detention was placed aboard a
Boston train. LaBelle was formerly a
well known pitcher on several New Eng
land League teams
Worcester % Q 900 2 0 2-5-1o-9
Brockton o 0 o 0 / o 0 / lille
Batteries-van Dyke and oNeil Ward
and Wadleigh. Time. 222 Umpire. La
Belle.
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THE DAYS SPORTING NEWS
BOXING BOUTS THIS WEEK.

Wednesday--Dick Nelson VS.. Young
Otto, Billy Nixon VS.. Frank Carsey,
Paddy Callahan VS.. Nap Dufresne and
Benny Stone VS.. Joe Bloom at Ar
mory A. A.
Thursday-Sam Langford VS.. Jim
smith at New York Jim Donovan VS..
Billy Melody at New York.
Friday-Matt Wells VS.. Jack Good
man at New York; Eddie Murphy VS..
Tommy Mahoney at New York, Carl
Norris VS.. Jack Geyer at Tulsa, Okla;
Jet Doherty VS.. Tommy Bergin at
Lewiston. Me-; Paul KoehIer VS.. Kid
Graves at Cedar Rapids Mich.
Saturday--Andy Morris rs. Jim Saw
age at New. York: Bill Lang VS.. Jack
Lester at New South Wales. Australia.
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some new breeds of sheep and cattle
dogs have been developed in Austria
IA. and q government bulletin Of New
south Wales tells of them. in the or
der of merit the sheep dogs and barbs
and kelpies. first smooth haired col
nas, second, mongrels and crosses
thlrd; rough colies. fourth. Barbs
am kelpies are both of Scottish origin
and the gypses are supposed to have
produced the kelpie for poaching pur-
poses by crossing foxes and smooth
collies. Both breeds are thought in
Afstfall& TO have experienced sec \
-otA eross-with the dingo, or wiz
Jog Crossing dogs with the dingoi els
mates the bark, which makes cattle
nervous.
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BOWDO|N WINS
Championship Of Maine
intercollegiate League.
Shuts Out Bates q 10 0 Tues
day in a NO-hlt Game.
Bowdoin Has Another Game 10 Play,
But Position Is Safe.

Lewiston. Me. May 3.-Bowdoin won
the Maine College League baseball cham
Bates here today 4 to o Means. the
Bowdoin twirler. pitched no-hit game.
and was given excellent support by the
men behind him. Bowdoin has another
game to play in the series. but whether
1T is win or lose it will not change
her standing
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NATIONAL.
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Afternoon Games.

Boston, May 30.-Philadelphia won both
the morning and afternoon games in the
doubleheader with Boston today. the first
8 to 0 and the second II to 4. The second
game was won on hard hitting and costly
errors by the locals the visitors knock
ing Curtis from the box in the seventh
inning and securing a total of six runs
before Pfeffer rallied the side. The field
ing of knable and Doolan was fast.
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P Dedriek. Seymour Bedrick and
James Russell, we'll known hunters Of
the Narvoo settlement. were out hunt
ing Monday night and in the Burr
Oak woods they caught female
'poss,m that carried in her pouch 16
young opossums. 1t is not startling to
hear Of a mother 'possum with elght or
ten young ones. but this is the largest
number we ever heard of.-Otwell
Qnd) star
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HORSE MARKET.

Inc best weeks business for the
season was transacted at the city sale
stables during last week Supplies
wereN abundasst.-in all classes and the
i|eiha ndN~gas. hrisk with Values firm
Pm ah~sound horses ~<although not
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS few horses
were unsold at the weeks end and
dealers have good supply coming for
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'ss-,s ttstrs3fa a ma. the Emitted states de-
mand nearly ALI ar Japat,,s sulphur
output. the former 7 taking 35.421 so4
pounds and the latter 81, $50, Sis. MOUNDS
IN 1903 Switzerland takes about $780,
900 pounds monthly.
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Chicago Cattle Market.

Chicago. Nav 30
ha oAII fLEi1GoReceipts 1000; market steady:
beeves 5.l5Q6.40. Texas steers 60S,5 x
HOGS-Receipts 1900; market 80 low.
as 10 iAeo 90
SHEEP Receipts 14000 market weat.
native 325n4.75: western 3750l4 az vaar
lngs 5oa5 so native lambs 4.75dIs' rs:
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RESTRAINING HIS ARDOR.
Why Do the Stars Not Put Forth In
Every Performances

IT is q popular. belief among
theatregoers that no man will play-a-
love scene for all it is worth when his
wife is in the audience said the lead
ing man In a current play This is
a wrong impression. Except in rare
instances where man wouldn't dare