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Show HYBRIDIZING BROOM CORN MADE TO PAY. Methods of the Experienced Grower Who Knowa How to Do It. For the last four or Ave yeara broom corn has been growing in Importance aa a paying crop, and there seems to be room for others to make it pay too. Here is how a practical man raises the crop. Broom corn can be raised on any eoil that will produce a good crop of corn. The richer the soil the larger the yield. Indiana has plenty of good black soil that will grow as fine broom corn as any state in the Union. The ground should be In good condition. Drill the seed In. A corn drill will do very well. Cultivate thoroughly. I find shallow cultivation the best When some of Uie seeds begin to turn brown, or the seeds are In a milky dough, la the proper time for cutting. Dont let get too ripe, as the brush is of poorer quality. It should be stripped as soon as possible. If the seed is left on. it absorbs the sap out of the brush, making it of poorer quality. After it is stepped, it should be dried, or cured. In & cool place in the shade, care being taone-hors- e ken not to bulk it together and cause , It to heat and mold. As to the profit, it depends on how you market it. If you sell to the trust or commission men," it might sot pay any better than corn, but if you can sell to some broom factory, you ought to get a better price. I have a broom machine, and make my own brooms. Also make for other people, for half of the brooms. Last year I raised of an acre of broom corn. From this I made 209 brooms that sold for 25 cents each. I made a machine to strip the seed myself, using an old Buckeye mower for a horse power. I took one wheel off. then bored a hole la a block to fit aria where the wheel worked, and burled the block in the ground, the bearing standing vertically. Chained a 2x1 oak scantling to the other wheel to hitch a horse to. Took off the wheel that ran the pitman rod and fastened on a iron rod. Attached a pulley wheel to outer end of rod, and had a nice power machine. Cot the wooden wheels. 16 Inches In diameter. 2 inches thick. Took lumber 1x4 Inches 2 feet long and nailed these one-thir- d 14-fo- one-hors- e onto the wheels, but drove nails into the strips first, for the teeth. Attached this toothed cylinder to an Iron rod 2 inches ta diameter, then bolted another pulley wheel to one end. Set two posts In ground to hold cylinder In place, and put a bolt on. and was ready for business. I have raised two varieties of broom corn. One of them, the Tennessee Evergreen, makes the finest brush lu this county. Any man sowing a small farm and having spare time In the winter will find making brooms one of the best things be can do. HIacelgh-tor- s will gladly raise some broom corn and get him to make theif broom for them and Je will find people ready to buy all be makes. This would settle the Broom Corn Trust as far as the farmers are concerned. I find broom corn a very profitable crop. The seed makes fine chicken feed; In fact any stock will eat It that can get It and my horses and cows eat all of tie blades left In the field early la the fall The seed beats and spoils quickly. If bulked together when first stripped. y Boys Who Become Great Men. the boys who became treat men I A German boy was a blooi reading and thunder novel. Right In the midst of it he said: "Now this will never do I get tro much excited over It I can study to well after It So here goes" And he threw It in the rlrer. He wis ... Fichtle. the great philosopher. A Swedish boy fell out of a wlndo nd was badly hurt, but with clenched lips he kept the cry cf pain. The Kins Custavus Adolpbus. who saw the boy faH. prphealed that the boy woull make a man of emergency. He did. for POTATO!?. Enormous Prices Paid for Tubere That Restet Diseases.W. Mahln, According to Frank United States consul at Nottingham. England, about 1,200,000 acres aro devoted to growing potatoes ta Great Britain, mostly of varieties which readily succumb to disease, and, therefore," yield little profit, and this has led to the propagation of hybrid- feed disease-resistinvarieties, with remarkable results. Archibald Find- lay, of Mark! neb, Scotland, la the originator of the Eldorado. He haa long been an expert In hybridization of the tuber, and haa therefore given to the world several varieties. How ever, every variety of potato, as agriculturalists well know, steadily deter' lorates la cropping and disease-resistin- g powers till it reaches a point where it can no longer be profitably raised. This point Is reached, growers state, In a few years generally, and In ten or fifteen yeara at the utmost There is, however, one "stayer which has been profitably yielded now for about thirty years. But the rule Is that vigor can be maintained ouly by the constant bringing forward of new varieties by cross breeding. Following this rule, Mr. Findlay brought out the Eldorado, after tests" which convinced him that it had great poss ibilitles. A sample was at once introduced Into Lincolnshire, the purchaser paying Mr. Findlay one guinea ($3.11 a pound for i. This would seem to be rather a higa prico for a handful of potatoes, but it is nothing to what has been realize! by subsequent sales In Lincolnshire from the aforesaid samples. One of the first recorded 6ales was of tea Email potatoes, weighing about a 100 ($486.65) or $48.63 pound, for (or each potato. At an auction sale of fourteen potatoes the aggregate prloe HE WAS WITH Death of Engineer Phillips of the Col-- , Her Merrlmac. Cambridge, Mass. George F, Phillips, who won renown as engineer of the collier Merrlmac, sunk by llobson at the moutS of Santiago harbor, died Saturday night at his home in . Cam-brldgepo- rt. - 254 10s ($1,238.52). realized was 8 Prices per potato ranged from 43 ($238.46). 49 This ($38.93) to potato weighed ten ounces. The 9 tuber was about the size of a hickory nut Another case Is recorded where one Eldorado potato weight not stated-bro- ught 100. arid the purchaser im200 for It nearly mediately refused This was $1,000! probably a very large potato, for the record price so far paid in Lincolnshire Is said to be 450 ($2,183.92) for one pound. Even at this prodigious price which works out at about $5,000,000 a ton the purchaser, it Is said, expects to reap a big profit during the coming year. Of course. It will be some years before this potato is marketed as an edible, trail meantime It Is predicted Its price will go even higher than at present It Is calculated that In expert hands m small potato of this variety, weigh Ing a couple of ounces; will produce about twenty plants, each weighing about two pounds, or about forty pounds return from two ounces. It la related that a farmer near Boston Lincolnshire seaport reallzel the ' thirty-seve(4.1 It ?one a fcom (14 sir:'pounds) pounds) of these potatos.-"- . which In dicates that this potato can reproduce" Itself three hundred fold In weight In one season. The Eldorado Is of a kidney shape and of a dark green color, with a metallic sheen, and appears from the foregoing to be worth more than Its weight In gold. It may be added that this fabulous value is traceable. In a large dogrce, to systematic cornering, the originator of the variety letting out samples In small quantities to only two persons, so far as known. He will dispose of ao mort at present. It Is said, evra at the extraordinary prices now ruling, preferring to plant what he has retained about two tons and r?lr the product In 1300 at three guineas (f 15.33) a pound, wbirh be expects wll 1 be readily paid. Aa enthusiast predicts that with favoring conditions the yield from the i of seed potatoes win be such that this price will realize a total of about , n hundre' n ($14,693,500.) ha bcame the famous Cenerst Baur. An old painter watched a little fellow mho amused himself making a drawing cf hla pat and brushes, easel and stool, and said. "That boy wt:i teat me one day." He did. for ae wat merican A NEEDLESS ADMONITION. "Didn't I tell you not to stay on tb fee more than an hour?" "Well, I didn't I broke through before I'd been on It fifteen minutes." A WAY I OF BARBED WIRE. - Why Hardware Men Refuse to Sell Less than a Reel. "Can I get about a hundred and fifty feet ef barbed wire here?" asked a customer in a big hardware store whera they sell everything on earth that Comes in the hardware line. "Sorry," said the salesman, "but that Is the one thing we don't do, cut a coil pf barbed wire. We did sell barbed wire in that way once, but w don't Dow. "Barbed wire comes on reels, averag- ing about a hundred pounds to the reel. It is wound on these reels by machinery, and wound very tightly. Ever eeo anybody opening a real of barbed wire? No? Well, if you ever do sea anybody about to open one, take my advice and get around the corner. "It as the tendency of barbed wire, when let loose. to spring up and pervade the surrounding atmosphere that prompted us finally to stop the sale of it in quantities less than a reel, and we did this as much on our customers' ac count as on our own. "We might have a dozen or fifteen customers scattered around on our wira Goor, and somebody would come in and want a hundred feet of barbed wire. The salesman would get out a reel and cut the band, and he might get the wire off all right; but if it got away from him there was trouble. "Now, if snakes were properly included In a hardware stock, we should keep all kinds of snakes; and if anybody should come In and want a single make we would cheerfully open a box of pythons or boaconstrictors or anacondas, and get him out a single on of any length he wanted; and sometimes, in doing this, some of the snakes misht Ret loose, and this would maka trouble. tCZ. "But it would be one thins for a lot of customers to see coming at them a common, smooth skinned anaconda twenty feet or so in length, and quite another thing for them to see making for them, writhing and twisting along the floor, or flying at them la loops through the air, a great' lightning-quicflexible steel snake a hundred and fifty or two hundred feet long an4 covered all over with sharp spikes; and we found It wouldn't do. And, then, the barbed wire tore the f clothes, and it tore their band.?,' and finally we had to stop soiling it la tfcn manner altogether." k ale-swan- s The All Tell "I met Earelok yesterday. baldhcadcd mar. Itn't her "How do ycu mean 'typical?' " "I barln't knoun him ten n:m( !e fore he was telling me how his ia;ter used to whip him lecatise his hiir as so thick she couldn't keep It cobii." Tp'cl Phiiade'.hia Press. a-a- Time-Democr- e They Went at It Right. Topeka. The action of the Kansas railroads in reducing freight rates on coal shows what can be done when matters are presented in a businesslike way to the roads. The coal deal-er- a wanted the rates reduced, claiming they were too high. Instead of ripping the roads up the back or making any threats as to what they would do, they simply asked the roads for a hearing and got it They made out a good case 'and the roads made the reduction. "The roads are willing to give a .hearing to all complainants," said a railroad lawyer Saturday, 'and when It is shown that a rate is inequitable or excessive, the roads will correct the matter. But they do not like to be browbeaten. Some shippers will learn this after awhile." -- BEST WEEK AT THE FAIR. Total Attendance for Six Days Ending at June St 4, Waa 378,146. Lcuipy Followlrfj are the recorded admslons for the week ending Saturda- -. June 4: May 30 , Tuesday, May 31 Monday, 73,247 . Wednesday, Jnne Thursday, J ine 2 Friday, June 3 Saturday, June 4 48.40 1 .. .. , 53,043 49.186 60,183 93,685 Total week ending June 4 ....378,146 Thus far, last week, showed the heaviest attendance of any at the fair. Covernor It. VanSaat, of Minnesota together wih his staff, arrived at the exposition Sunday evening. On the same train with the governor was a party of Minnesota papermen to the number of C20, who took up their headquarters at the Inside Ina. The party ceme for the celebration of Minnesota day, Tuesday June 7. Row Over a Reward. Tcpeka. Topeka club women are In a row over the awarding of prizes for the flower parade. Most of the clubs had floats in the parade. The Ccramle Club got the blue ribbon and the Nautilus Club tbe red- - As soon as the rewards were made the judges, who lived out of town, departed for their homes. s Now the Club clWrna that the to Intended award it the blue judges rlbbcn and that the Ceramic Club got It by The Ceramfc is holding ento the blue ribbon and the Nautilus Is trying to recover It The Judges are being rounded op on the question. Two of have forgotten how they decided. T'ie row Is spreading and all of the clubs threaten to get mixed up Nr-itllu- f'-ta't- ?. lbi it In It "Are you going to re elect that maa A Broad Atrertion to congress In spite of the Insinua wear no man's collar!" he extions against him?" claimed with vehemence. "Sure," answered Farmer Cornea-te- l. Which a is statement that the pitr.a "Tho Insinuations have dona Michael Angelo. him good. He hasn't been so socia- of the average laundry cannct reasonA boy used to crush flowers to pet ble ably make until be has examined the entertaining In years." their color nd he painted the white mark to see whether there have been Washington Star. side cf his father's bouse in the Tyrol any exchanges. New Orleans with all sorts of pictures, which the Van Schmidt I don't believe old mountaineers pared at In winder. He Kerr Mudgeon ever had a gentle Imbecame the great artist Titiaa. pulse. The city of Glasgow makes $7,;r0 a Fltz-BilThat's where you're year profit out of waste paper eolieo Amrn the new relishes for tne I wrong. He been very kind to at ed In the afreets. o'clock tea table are saitlnes coveree" least one rnan, Im sure. ith cream cheese and a layer of thin' Van Scheldt How so? It Is pretty hard to pick out the Fits-Bilsliced radifhes. They need only to be WelL isn't he a btchelor? flower of the flock when all the dauga-ter- s tried to be appreciated New Orleans Times. are pejehes. e FhllliDS endisted In the navy us a machinist at the outbreak of the war. When Hobson called for volunteers to sink the collier, Phillies offered his services. He remained at the engine of the Merrlmac and at great personal danger reversed his engine under a stcrra of shells, then onened the sea valves, flooded the ship and made his way to the deck while the vessel was sinking. After the war Phillips was transferred to Philippine waters. His death was due to Brlght's disease. He was taken ill In Galveston last March and came North. A mother and two sisters Spanish-A- g . HOBSON. Freight Handlers Strike. Freight handlers'at the Third and Townsend street station of the Southern Pacific company to the cumber cf 500 have gone on a strike. The action is the outcome of the demands cf the men for an Increase cf ray and a rednction of the working day to sine hours. The men have beeti receiving 21 cents per same the with for overtime hour, pay and Sunday and holiday work. The union asked for a wage cf $2.50 for a cine-hou- r day, S3n Francisco. Parker Ahead In Texas. Fcrt Worth. Tex. Returns received from 150 counties In Texas that held primaries Faturday show that fifty-si- ourties Instructed . HANDKERCHIEF HYGIENE. Innovation Suggested by a Fe ' mo us Physician. The hygiene of the handkerchief ua to the present has been neglectd to a remarkable extent Especially is this noticeable when one considers the. zeal which has been shown in all the other untensils of dally cultune and wealth which enable families to take, all necessary precautions, the is treated with indifference if not absolute neglect: Soiled hand, kerchiefs frequently remain .bout the house without being washed, and. the germs are not always destroyed by the ordinary washing. In view of the possibilities of lnfeo. tion from handkerchiefs, the celebrat. ed director of the Pasteur Institute, at Lille, Dr. Calmette, has suggested, an innovation which is especlaly advisable in families whose members) are sick, the periodical Umschau communicating the following infeyjt mation La reference to this invention: Dr. Calmette has fashioned a metal box about the size of a cigarette box which men may carry as a cigarette case and ladles as a pendant. This box is divided in the middle by a par tltlon, on the left hand side being placed handkerchiefs made of Japan ese silk paper or some cheap cotton stuff. As the material Is cheaper to purchase new than It would be ta have It washed, the handkerchiefs are burned after ustag, bo that all danger of Infection Is avoided. The handkerchiefs are only to be used once, the soiled handkerchiefs being placed on the rlghthand Bide of the box. all possible contact with the clean bandker chiefs being avoided by the partition wall. The box being of metal. It la possible to disinfect it perfectly. An hand-herchl- Accessories of Dress. Very novel is the combination of Bulgarian embroidery and leather In the summer belts. A pretty effect U obtained by having the binding of the belt of black kid, the inner edge seal, loped. The center is of linen worked in bright colors. This belt fastens la front with two narrow kid straps and buttons. Kid of all colors Is also used for the edges of satin crushed belts. With the tailor coat or costume Parisians are wearing a cravat of cerise or briHiant green appearing beneath anImmaculat turnover linen collar. Red shoes have "a great vogue. Though decidedly bad form except for wear, they are very A red becoming to a small foot leather belt and cravat should be worn with these shoes. Another summer accessory is a lace stole having at the back a shawl point the ends of which are adorned with either a large single rose or with, little clusters of colored flowers. A quaint arrangement to be worn with the fichu is a handsome minis ture hung around the throat on a half.' inch ribbon tied in a few loops almost In front, the ends loosely caught down. Into the belt waist The gelsk adornment of the rose worn In the hair is a fad of the moment the rose, cften forming a sort of a filet gun-met- out-of-tow- n Whale Scratched Its Back. the night of April 23 the atearaei Mauna Loa while lying at Keauhou, shook and trembled, then she heeled over to poft and then heeled over ta starboard. Everybody sleeping aboard was awakened, every one awake became alert; something had happened. Somebody declared It waa an earthquake. A similar experience had been met by the Mauna Loa months before. Capt Slmerson learned, however, that It was not an earthquake at all that moved the boat, but a whale. Aa enormous leviathan of the deep had sea hives. Its back Itched; it felt the sensation that so many people ev perience in the tropics, It wanted to, scratch Its bick. "There was Pithing on which to scratch until the Mauna, Loa was sighted. The wnale wa reported by native fishermen to have dived underneath the boat and scratch ed Its back on the keel of the vessel The shaking and rolling of the vessel were ranted by the whale, so the fishermen c alrr ed, tubbing ts back agunst the bottom of the Mauna Loa, When the whale had gotten relief from the marine hives, it swam away. Honoio lu Pacific Commercial Advertiser On for Parker, fen and the remainder a no Those who keep a still tongue la Instruction. Most cf the instructed their bead will never have anythlni delegates are reported as Parker to explain. men. There are 200 voting counties ta It Is easier to go astray than to CjI the state. your way back. for t ef |