Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 36, 13 December 1909 — Page 6

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D. A. R. OFFICIAL CONFESSES THEFT Miss Maclay, Curator of Society, Admits She Systematically Robbed. STOLE MONEY FROM MAIL AMOUNT OF THE PECULATIONS 18 VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED AT FROM $1,000 TO $10,000 NO PROSECUTION. Washington, D. C, Dec. 13. There was consternation in D. A. It. circles yesterday when it was learned Miss Sarah R Maclay, one of the most prominent and respected members of the organization, for fourteen years curator of the society, had confessed that for years she has been systematically robbing the organization. The confession was made to Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president general of the organization, in the presence of Mrs. Mabel G. Swormstedt, corresponding secretary general, and two post office inspectors detailed on the case. Stole From $1,000 to $10,000. j The amount of Miss Maclay's pecu lations is not known, and is variously estimated at from $1,000 to $10,000 As soon as the confession was obtain ed Miss Maclay left for her old home, Huntington, Pa. The confession was withheld from the daughters until the monthly meeting of the national board of management. Mrs. Scott told reporters that the ociety had determined not to prosecute nor demand restitution. It also is said that the post office authorities will not prosecute, as the letters were rifled by Miss Maclay after they were placed in the possession of the D. A. R. authorities. The sums taken were small, mainly subscriptions for the D. A. R. organ, the American monthly, which is sold for $1 a year. Took Cash from Letters. As curator Miss Maclay was intrusted with the handling of the mail of the business manager of the magazine. In cases where she suspected the letters held cash she opened them and took the money, then carefully resealed the missives. Checks sent usually reached their destination. Hundreds of complaints annually reached the headquarters from subscribers who declared the magazine had not been sent to them. Many of these complaints were intercepted by Miss Maclay. Cured at Home I Will be at Arlington Hotel, Richniond, Friday, Dec. 17th, and Until Noon, Dec. 18th. All persons, Male or Female, suffering from loss of Expelling Forces, Prolapsing, Fissures. Fistulas, Catarrh. Inflamation, Ulceration, Constipation, Bleeding, Blind or Itching Piles, are kindly requested to call and see me. No Examination No Operation Medicine placed direct to the diseased parts by yourself. I claim the most complete successful, original and senBible method of curing these terrible afflictions ever offered to the public. By the use of my Positive Painless Pile Core AH the above named rectal diseases can be cured as easily as if it were on the outside. Come in and see me and learn something worth knowing; it may save you hundreds of dollars and years of suffering. If you can't call, write me. Most kindly yours, S. U. TARNEY 25 Year Rectal Specialist. Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer, AUBURN. IND. Q U A K E R READ Ask your grocer ZWI GC LER'G

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American News Service) ARTICLE 5. Omaha, Dec. 13. Fred C. Palin of Newton, Ind., has the best single ear of corn In the world, while another Indianan, J. R. Overstreet of Franklin has the best ten ears of corn the world has ever seen, according to the judges at the National Corn Exposi tion in session here who have awarded the $50,00 in prizes offered by the show, and have given first place in both sweepstakes to Indiana farmers. More than that, G. L. Kerlin of Franklin, Ind., won the prize offered for the best bushel of corn in the world, demonstrating that the Hoosier state has some superior seed corn which is a winner at any corn show. This is the third successive year that the first prize for ten ears of coru has gone to Indiana. For the best single ear of corn in the world, Mr. Palin has been awarded the Kellogg Trophy, worth $1,000: while Mr. Overstreet takes back to his state the $1,000 silver trophy offered by the Indiana Corn Growers' association for the best ten ears. Last Of Interest to This matter must" not 'be reprinted without special permission. A DANGEROUS DOCTRINE. It seems that the specialists In the agricultural department at Washington have lately conceived the notion that if the weeds are kept down in a field of corn by hoeing once a week the yield will be as mucb or more than if tended in the usual way with cultivator. A farmer not far from where the writer lives was asked to give this idea a test, and his report, made a short time ago.- is In substance as follows: Six rows twelve rods long were planted in the open field, and during the growing season the only care given the plot was to cut off the weeds once a week with a hoe, while the corn on either side was given the customary treatment with drag and corn plow and also kept clean with hoe. At husking time the four middle rows in the uncultivated plot yielded 301 pounds of corn, while four rows of equal length beside it, cultivated as 6tated. yielded 2G1 pounds of corn. According to these figures, the uncultivated corn yielded at the rate of sixty bushels to the acre, while the other yielded but fifty-two bushels. It would seem in view of the enormous loss that is sustained by corn growers of the country annually through lack of proper cultivation of their fields that the above is a mighty risky doctrine for the department at Washington to promulgate. In the first place, so many of the conditions attending the experiment are unknown namely, the character of the soil, which foi ae proper circulation of the air and moisture might need little or mucb cultivation, whether the cultivation given was of the proper kind, bow thick the weeds were and how much cultivating the stirring of the soil with a hoe proved to be that the value of the experiment in proving the idea entertained is largely vitiated. More than all this is the unavoidable fact that even if this hoeing method were preferable the labor situation is such as to make this way of handling any but very limited areas an absolute impossibility. Better would the department devote its energies to proving, as has repeatedly been done, that corn that is cultivated six and seven times during the growing season will yield from eight to twenty bushels more per acre than corn that is cultivated but twice. This is the kind of gospel that needs preaching to the indifferent and careless farmer, who if he were to adopt the hoe method could not be counted on to work the handle as vigorously as would be necessary to give ideal conditions and desired results. A DEMAND FOR EXPERTS. One of the boss grafters in a well known western fruit valley gets $3 per day for the time he puts in. This is cited merely to call attention to the fact that any man who will take the pains to equip himself as a practical horticulturist and fruit ranch superintendent can count on getting a generous salary, for there is a lot of money

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year it was won by I. B. Clore, who also won the trophy two years ago. The third winning gives the trophy to Indiana permanently. "I spent seven years producing that ear of corn," said Mr. Palin, who has produced the world's best ear. "My parent stock consisted of Reed's Yellow dent seed as the male plant, and the mother plant was from Alexander Gold Standard variety. The corn was planted two rows of yellow dent and then two rows of gold standard. The two rows of standard were detasseled the first two years. This produced the seed from which the world's best ear of corn has been produced. "My system farming is to rotate wheat, oats and corn,- and I used some commercial fertilizer. Farming 280 acres of land, the yield in the field from which this ear was selected was about 90 bushels to the acre. "The ear came from those among selected by my men for seed, and as soon as we examined it carefully, we decided it was a prize winner. The credit is due to my wife or hired men for selecting the ear. I don't take any credit for it." the Farmers oerng ltrrescea Tn western orchards, and it is not likely that the wealthy owners will let a matter of $40 or $50 a month stand in the way of their getting the right kind of men to look after their properties. Land that will yield an annual net return of from $300 to $1,500 per acre is going to be well tended both as regards soil and trees, and he is a level headed fellow who fits himself to do this kind of work as it ought to be done. MORE SUCKERS CAUGHT. Farmers living near St. Paul who have the past few months shipped eggs, poultry and other stuff to one commission firm under the inducement of high prices offered find themselves bunkoed, the mushroom commission man back of the swindle having made off with about $3,000 of their money and leaving no tracks behind. He hired a store for a month, bought a typewriter and desk on the installment plan and expended enough energy to write and direct a batch of circular letters, resell the stuff shipped him and cash the drafts paid him. This type of swindle is being perpetrated well nigh every month in the year by grafters in large cities who are able to work their game because gullible victims bite at their bait in the shape of an offer of unusually high produce prices. SMALL TOWN MARKET DAYS. There are many small towns over the country which have been holding successful market days of late. These have had a social as well as a commercial aspect. People bring stuff of all descriptions which they want to get rid off to town, while just as many are on hand who want some of the articles which are offered for sale. Merchants profit by increase in sales through special price offers. Quite often a sports and amusement program is arranged, which entertains the crowd during the day and ministers to their fun loving instincts. The market day idea is spreading, and it is well that it is so. The burning of a few strips of rinc In the furnace or cook stove is said to j prove effective in removing the soot which has accumulated in the flues I and pipes. There are mighty few men who have the capacity to handle an automobile ngency and run a farm or ranch as they ought to be run at the same time, i Where this combination is attempted I the real estate usually runs downhill The man . who plants a tree whose shade he may not live to enjoy and of whose fruit be may not partake is a good citizen, for he has faith and is essentially unselfish. The country needs more patriots of this type and among the younger generation as well as the old. A freak in grafting is reported by two brothers, miners, who have a garden eaxJDcltau pola-Xhex grafted, a.

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According to L. B. Clore, superintendent of judges, the Palin ear is not only the best ear of corn this year, but it is a finer snecimen than the famous Pascal ear, which sold for $550 two years ago. "It is the best ear the world has ever produced," says Prof. G. I. Christie of Purdue university, who was one of the judges. "It is all corn very little cob. The kernels are of an inch deep and in perfect rows. "There is no way of telling its worth, no way of estimating the influence the seed from the ear will have on the corn of our state, and it is to be hoped some Indiana man will buy it." At the close of the exposition, December 18, the Palin ear will be sold to the highest bidder. Judging by the prices paid for other famous ears of corn, it is expected the ear will sell for more than $500. The exposition opened in Omaha last Monday. All grains and grasses were pudged before- the gates were opened. The show continues for two were judged before the gates were made in the various competitive classes, before the entry list closed. scion from a four-year-old apple tree on to a service berry tree body, and in due time the inserted limb blossomed and bore two fine yellow apples. The union is a rather violent one and the results achieved quite uniqne. In his book "Swine In America" Secretary Coburn of Kansas cites the case of a Colorado swine raiser who bad excellent success with Hnbbard squashes as a fattening ration for his pigs, securing a given result in one-half the time that he could with corn. He cut the squashes in pieces and fed them raw, the hogs eating them up clean, shell and all. The wonder berry war goes merrily on and promises to equal in interest and partisan feeling the Cook-Peary polar scrap. Some folks are found who pronounce the wonderberry a vulgar weed perpetrated on the public at a long price, while as many others are equally warm is singing its praises. It seems to be a case where a fellow must bear the evidence presented and then be his own Judge. Considerably better heating results may be bad with the deep fire box of the average steel range If the fire is checked quite a bit shortly after being started, especially if the draft is strong. This causes the flames to rise more directly to the griddles above and not scoot up the chimney unused. The air draft below the fire and the check draft in the pipe may be regulated to secure the above result. A thought that should be consoling to the large class who have not become seriously inoculated with the money getting microbe is that its possession can add no essential element of content or happiness to lives and homes already provided with the necessities and comforts of life. Happiness is the result of an atmosphere and spirit developed in the heart and home and is not dependent upon the owning of large estates on fat bank accounts. In selecting a material for the banking of the house it is well to use that which when packed down with a covering of snow will be the nearest air and wind proof. On this account earth from the garden can hardly be excelled. Straw or stable manure is good, but the odor from the latter may bother, while the ammonia gases likely to come from it may discolor the paint on the lower clapboards. A strip of tar paper extending from the ground to above the point where the banking will reach will obviate this latter difficulty. A butter specialist gives the following suggestions for keeping the taint of silage from the milk of cows which have it as a ration: The silage should be fed only after milking, the floors should be kept clean and no ail age allowed to accumulate in the alleys, no more silage should be fed than will be eaten up clean, corn should not be put into the silo too green, and none of it should be fed in a moldy condition, and. lastly, the stable should be kept well ventilated. In view of the well known susceptibility of milk to odors the above suggestions .axe timely-

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tSRDKItin 727 A new idea has lately been hit upon by the proprietors of the Cafe Martin of New York city in the serving of their fancy fruits. An order was placed this season with a Hood river fruit grower for a number of boxes of bright red Spitzenburg apples which should have the word "Martin" appear on the red cheek in golden yellow letters. The grower secured this result by pasting the word cut in paper on the cheek of the apples just before the fruit began to turn red. At picking time these stencils or the obverse of stencils were removed and the fruit carefully packed. It is fair to assume that the process was a tedious one and that the grower got a fancy price for the fruit thus treated. Some experiments which have been carried on at Murrysville. Pa., along the line of a manufacture of paper of different grades from fibers of the cornstalk seem to show quite conclusively that paper can be made therefrom at about one-half the cost of that manufactured from wood pulp. Pro-, vided this situation is as stated a large field would seem to be opened up for the utilizing of hundreds of thousands of tons of stalks that annually go to waste in the corn belt states, 'While one of the large factors In the destruction of our timber supplies would seem to be removed. The attention of a corn belt congressman has been called to these experiments, and he proposes to ask congress for an appropriation at the coming session which shall be used in the erection of a cornstalk paper plant that the matter may be given a thorough and official testing. Every Iranian i. .., .-.o blessed should be thankful for the physical strength wherewith to earn his daily bread and an appetite and stomach which will enable hira to enjoy and digest it properly. These are common blessings, yet a good many people are denied them. In making preparation for the winter food supply for the poultry it is well to keep in mind that both clover and alfalfa are excellent rations in the supplying of needed protein. The hens will devour all leafy parts of the legumes as eagerly as they will wheat or corn. Limberneck is an ailment which now and then appears in flocks of poultry and seems to be due to a diseased con dition of the neck, induced by poisons ! contained in partly decayed meat. The j cure is to remove diseased fowls from those that are well and the feeding of ground bone and meat scraps that are fresh and untainted. Carrots, beets and turnips which it j may be desired to carry through the winter should be packed in barrels or bins with clean sand or dry earth, enough filler being used to keep the roots separated a bit. The place where such crops are stored should be both cool and dry so as to retard as far as possible the tendency to decay or sprout. There is no profit and mighty little satisfaction In the end in buying fruit trees of unknown descent and dubious vitality of a foreign house at long prices when the same varieties guaranteed true to name and vigorous can i be bought from the nearby nursery-! man at more reasonable prices. Be-1 fore placing orders for future deliveries with the foreign bouse it would be a good idea to write the nearby house and get prices. Experiments which have lately been conducted in the bacteriological department of the University of Wisconsin seem to point quite conclusively to the fact that a good many caees of poiaoaiax Jrmm th satinx ot it rosmb

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PALLADIUM 0G1 the Main St Phone are traceable to the keeping of the cream from which it is made for some length in cold 6torage. during which interval poisons are developed by harmful bacteria, whose work is not discernible from either texture or taste. The apple crop of America United States and Canada is placed at 35,000.000 barrels, which is 12.000.000 barrels more than that of 1908. It is generally conceded that the crop produced east of the Mississippi river is larger and poorer than last season, while that west is lighter, but of superior quality. Some forecast of apple prices is inferable from the fact that a fellow is paying $4 or better per barrel for runty Ben Davis in November. The covering of the strawberry bed. if it needs covering, should be deferred until the ground has frozen solid. Then enough clean straw or cornstalks should be scattered over the bed to shield it from the alternate thawing and freezing of the bright days and cold nights of the winter months. If the ground is frozen, as suggested, before the covering is applied this frozen body holds the plants in complete cold storage, it being easy to retard the growth and blossoming I of the plants in the spring by simply j leaving the covering on. j A rather unusual suit has been brought by an Iowa farmer against the tenant who has been working his farm the past year or two. The damages asked are $030, and the grounds of the suit are that the renter allowed cockleburs to grow on the place. It is possible that the tenant may bring countersuit fer damages against the landlord for having allowed cockleburs to go to seed the year prior to bis occupancy of the place. In any event the decision in the case will be viewed with interest, as it opens a very wide field for speculation and action. In some sections of the west the wayfarer notes an interesting bird habit a sort of joint food storage arrangement practiced by the yellow hammers and bluejays. As related by a resident of one of these localities, the flicker pecks boles iu the bark of the yellow pine large enough to accommodate the acorns which fall from nearby oaks, one in a place. Worms pass from the bark into the acorn, where they fall easy prey to the sharp bill and spiked tongue of the flicker, while the jay. seeking the meat of the acorn, dislodges them, thus making room for those of the next year's crop. During the fall months one may observe acorns by hundreds thus stored. Fortunate indeed are those folk who in the strenuous struggle of life for material possessions keep as intact as may be the instinctive. God given interest in and love for the beauties of nature scattered in profusion about them In the soli beneath their feet, the flower and leaf that perfume and brighten tlie meadow or woodland path, the birds that minister sweet harmony to the ear. the rose tinted and cloud flecked skies of morn and eve. the starlit heaven at night and the speechless messages that all of these speak to him of an open heart nnd inquiring mind. Such tastes and likes are subtle and spiritual and should be cultivated as earnestly as one may. They give balm and comfort for the hurts of life.

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