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MEXICO MADE SECRET PACT Had Granted Coaling Station on Coast. American Envoy Discovers Document, Photographs It, and Hurries to Washington With Copy. M exico City, ‘ April 10.— President T aft gave President Diaz o f Mexico six days to abrogate a treaty he is said to have made with Japan. The hidden treaty was discovered by Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, who photographed it, returned the original, and proceeded post haste to Washing ton to inform the State department. The treaty is said to have contained clauses that gave Japan coaling sta tion privileges and other big conces sions on the coast o f Mexico, including the right to use Magdalena Bay for target practice. T a ft’s order mobilizing troops at the border followed promptly. These are startling disclosures made here by an apparently authentic source today and which, as recited in narra tive form, are given as the cause o f the hurry order that rushed 20,000 troops to the border. The relations reported to have existed between Mex ico and Japan are said to have prevail ed prior to March 1. Ambassador Wilson, o f the United States, so the story goes, had occa sion many months ago to feel that strong antipathy o f Mexicans o f all classes was shown toward the United States. In the celebration in honor of the foundation o f the republic, when many Japanese o f high rank came as special ambassadors from their country to the Mexican capital, the ambassa dor noticed that there had been priv ate audiences ' etween Diaz and a few o f his more influential ministers and the Japanese delegates. To Ambassador Wilson it was re ported that for 18 months every ship o f the Toyo Risen Kaisha, whose port is San Francisco, were carrying from 20 to 150 Japanese, passage paid, be sides cargoes o f agricultural machin ery, household goods and general stores. A t San Francisco these Jap anese were transshipped to steamers o f the Pacific Mail line plying be tween San Francisco and Mexican ports. In February Ambassador Wilson was busy cultivating every source o f information in the higher circles of the Mexican government. Very near the end o f the month, from a certain source in the government, Mr. Wilson, it is said, obtained for a few hours the orignal o f a secret treaty between Japan and Mexco. He kept it long enough to have photographs made o f it. Then it was returned to its place in the innermost archives o f the Mex- can state department. The document, the report here in dicates, was in the shape o f several clauses which were to be a part o f a formal agreement on the part o f the Mexican governent to allow the Jap anese commercial line o f steamships to have its own coaling station at a point on the Pacific coast and to grant certain other colonization rights in states along the Western coast. The secret clauses o f the treaty, those said to have been photographed, by Mr. Wilson, the report continues, gave Japan a lease o f a coaling sta tion and maneuver pivileges in Mag dalena bay, with the alternative o f a coaling station at one other o f a few scattered ports down the Mexican coast. Clauses also set forth Japan and M exico's mutual interests in the Pa cific, and while not stipulating an offensive and defensive alliance, gave in a diplomatic way Japan’s keen in terest in the protection o f Mexico against aggression. The treaty had been ratified, not by the Mexican sen ate, but by Diaz and his cabinet. The day after he obtained the pho tograph o f this treaty, Mr. Wilson left for Washington. Rebels Will Not Stop War. El Pasco, Tex.— Asked as to what effect the defeat o f General Stanley W illiam s’ rebels would have on the in surrection, the insurrecto junta here authorized the follow ing statement: “ The insurrectos in Southern Mex ico have no connection with the Ma- derists in other parts o f the Mexican republic. The defeat o f W illiam s’ band by Colonel Mayot’s federáis will have absolutely no effect on the plans o f the insurrectos in other states where Francisco I. Madero, Jr., is rec ognized as leader.” Filipino Laborers Released. Honolulu — The territorial Supreme court released on a w rit o f habeas 'corpus 15 Filipino laborers who were taken from the steamer Korea before her departure for San Francisco. In its decision the court severely censur ed the action o f the prosecution, rep resented by the planters’ attorneys, in preventing F. B. Craig, counsel for the Alaska Packers, from seeing the Filipinos and in confining them in jail when no charge* had been preferred. ' 2 0 0 Persons Die in Fire. Bombay, British India — Two hun dred men,| women and children were burned to death in a fire which de stroyed a thatched structure in which they had gathered for a festival. Five hundred persons were in the building. There was only one exit and a panic ensued WORK ON MAINE PROGRESSES. Caissons Around Battleship pleted Successfully. Com BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY WORK OF NATION’S LAWMAKERS FA R M m ORCHARD Havana, April 11.— In the driving o f the last few interlocking steel piles Washington, April 14.— The Can o f the 20 caissons forming the inclos adian reciprocity bill introduced in the ing wall o f the huge basin or coffer house yesterday was reported favor dam surrounding the wreck o f the bat ably to the house today by the new tleship Maine, the first stage in the ways and means committee. The work o f removing the shattered re committee also passed favorably on mains of the warship has been the free list tariff measure, but will brought to a successful conclusion. not report until tomorrow. The work was accomplished with The Canadian reciprocity treaty bill rapidity, and its progress was un was taken up first by the committee, marked by a single mishap or hitch and, after a brief discussion, McCall, until the introduction o f the final pile, its sponsor in the 61st congress, moved which failed to interlock properly that it be approved. This was done with those on either side. without division. This gave rise to a rumor that the The free list bill, however, was not stability o f the caisson was endanger unanimously approved, the vote on it ed, but examination showed the trou in the committee having been a strictly ble resulted from the piles being party vote, the Democrats favoring it slightly deformed by an accidental and the Republicans being solidly blow from the iron bucket o f a dredge against it. The Republican members, working alongside. The extraction with Sereno Payne as spokesman, de and replacing o f three piles served to clared that the proposed bill was hasty repair the damage. The second stage and ill-advised, that the measure had o f the work, that o f filling the cais not been referred to the tariff board sons, as fast as completed, with the and that Chairman Underwood and his mud, clay and rock dredged from the Democratic colleagues on the commit harbor bottom, has been going on for tee had not sufficient data to show some time, and, now that ths ring is what effect the changes would have. completed, is being pushed forward When the house met, Underwood with the utmost rapidity. The steam submitted the report o f the commit dredge Norman Davis, lent to the gov tee. The reciprocity bill will be ernment by the Huston-Trumbo Dredg called up tomorrow for discussion. ing company, and the United States Opposition to the reciprocity bill army dredge Barnard are dumping from the same Republicans who op hundreds o f tons o f material into the posed it in the last session developed caissons. quickly. Dalzell, o f Pennsylvania, It is expected that the filling o f the asked the privilege o f filing a minor caissons will be completed by the end ity report. o f April, and after that the most in The clause in the bill providing that teresting stage o f the work— that o f the president continue negotiations pumping out the great basin and leav with Canada to insure further recip ing the hull o f the battleship in pre rocal relations will not in any way cisely the condition she was on the jeopardize the bill itself, in the opin morning after her destruction 13 years ion o f political leaders o f both parties. ago— will begin. Underwood, o f the ways and means As a guaranty o f the security o f the committee, McCall and President Taft retaining wall around the basin, it is himself, conferred as to the added probable that riprap will be dumped clause before it was proposed to incor around the exterior o f the ellipse o f porate it in the Underwood bill. Sec caissons before the pumping begins. retary Knox was also consulted. The wreck itself w ill have to be It is reported on good authority that carefully watched as the water level the ways and means committee will falls, there being some danger that, as offer a bill putting all woolen import the support o f the water and the mud ations on the free list. in which it rests is withdrawn, the Senator Cummins today gave notice hull may careen, just as ships have o f a motion amending the senate rules been known to do in drydock when in so as to require amendments to tariff sufficiently secured. bills to be germane to the schedule As soon as the wreck is fully ex affected. A rule o f similar import has posed, the work o f exploration in been adopted by the house. search o f human bodies w ill take pre cedence. It is practically certain Washington, Apri 14.—The house o f that when this stage o f the work is reached, a United States man-of-war representatives, by a vote o f 296 to will be ordered to Havanna and will 16, late today passed the Rucker reso a constitutional lie close to the wreck to receive the lution proposing bodies as fast as they are , recovered, amendment for the direct election o f and transport them to their final rest United States senators. ing place. A fter that will come an This is the first o f the Democratic exhausting scrutiny o f the shattered programme measures passed by the wreck by experts, who, in the opinion house. It went through without mod o f engineer officers, will be able to ification and with a speed that brought determine beyond all question precise protests from the Republicans. ly the character o f agency by which The resolution, as the house ap the destruction o f the Maine was e f proved it, is in the form in which the fected. Borah resolution was reported out o f Probably many months will elapse the senate judiciary committee in the before the final stage o f the work—■ closing days o f the last congress. Re the extraction and disposition o f the publican opposition to the Rucker re wreck. It is known that the forward solution in the house was based on the part o f the ship, about one-third o f fact that it did not contain the changes her length, is practically detached afterwards made in the fight in the from the rest, and it is so shattered senate, which assured to congress con it will have to be extracted piecemeal. tinued control over elections in the When the after part has been strip several states. ped, so far as possible, o f all heavy A fter six hours o f debate, in which weights, including the two turrets, many demands were made for this weighing with their pairs o f ten-inch change in the resolution, all but 15 guns about 200 tons each, it will be Republicans voted for the resolution. possible to build a bulkhead across the The majority o f them had stated dur shattered end and float the hulk out of ing the debate that they would support the basin, to be sunk in all probability the resolution because convinced the hundreds o f fathoms deep in the public wanted such a constitutional straits o f Florida. amendment submitted to the country Finally will come the extraction o f as quickly as possible. the thousands o f steel piles composing Those who opposed the resolution on the 20 caissons and the dredging o f the final vote w ere: the material with which they were Republicans — Cannon, Mann, Illi filled. This may not be completed be nois; Danforth, Malby, New Y ork; fore the end o f the year. Dodds, Fordney, McMorran, Michigan; Harris, Lawrence, McCall, Wilder, Sandhogs Unearth Relic. Massachuesstes; Hinds, Maine,; Sul- Portland— As the sinking o f the loway, New Hampshire; Utter, first caisson o f the Broadway bridge Rhode Island. continues, “ sandhogs” o f the Union Democrats— McDermott, Illinois. Bridge & Construction company are Ex-Speaker Cannon, Mann, the Re wagering that in medieval times there publican leader, and others o f the Re was a sawmill on the waterfront, for publicans who voted against the meas in their excavating operations there ure, declared that its form was such as have been unearthed quantities o f to threaten the Federal government slabwood that appears as if it had with the loss o f control over senatorial been whip-sawed out o f logs instead elections in the states, given to safe o f being cut by modern steam saws. guard the integrity o f these elections. Besides, it is found at a great dis They insisted, as did other Republi tance below the river bed, where the cans who ultimatey voted for the reso material is hardened more than silt. lution, that the direct election amend ment should be offered without any Fort Astor to Be Built. language that might be dangerous to Astoria, Or.— The Centennial com the future congressional supervision of mittee has selected Wednesday, April senatorial elections. 12, the the 100th anniversary o f the The Republican insurgents, led by naming of Astoria, as the date on Lenroot and Cooper, o f Wisconsin, which to break ground in the city forced a record on the final ’ passage o f park for the construction o f a repro the resolution. The house voted duction o f old Fort Astor. A special overwhelmingly in favor o f the meas program o f exercises has been ar ure, when Speaker Clark called for ranged for the occasion and the mayor the viva voce vote, but the insurgents has been requested to declare a half demanded a roll call in order to put holiday. The contract for building the house on record. the fort has been awardel for $2,800. Tariff Board Cannot Help. Few Filipinos Go North. Washinton, April 14.— Revision of San Francisco— Most o f the Filipino the wool schedule o f the Payne-Aldrich laborers who arrived here from Haw tariff law, accomplished as forming aii on the steamer Korea and who part o f the program for the Demo brought their contracts to work in the cratic house o f representatives, will Alaska canneries have decided to re have to be undertaken without the main in this state, hoping to secure assistance o f the tariff board. It was employment in the interior. A few announced today after the first full o f them, however, left for the north meeting o f the house committee on on the Continental and Oriental o f the ways and means that the tariff hoard Alaska Packers’ fleet. is not yet in a position to furnish in formation on the wool schedule. Rebels Besiege Canton. Kenyon to Wait Awhile. London— A special dispatch to the Daily Express from Hongkong says Washington— W. S. Kenyon, Attor that a serious uprising is reported to ney General Wickersham's assistant, have occurred at Canton. It is said and senator elect from Iowa, will not the Tartar general commanding the qualify as a senator until the import troops has been murdered and that ant anti-trust prosecutions, which he other troops have been hurried to the ii now conducting, can be arranged city, which is in a state o f siege. without injury to the work. Washington, April 12.— Farmers are to be won over by the Democrats to reciprocity with Canada and inci dentally to the Democratic party by the placing of a number o f articles which they consume on the free list. The first two measures to be offered in the house this session were intro duced today by Chairman Underwood, o f the ways and means committee. They are the Canadian reciprocity bill and the free list bill. The former bill is identical with that passed at the last session except for a clause author izing the president to continue nego tiations for reciprocity on Canadian articles not covered by the pending agreement. The free list bill com prises about 100 articles. When the Canadian reciprocity bill is called up Friday by Underwood there will be no effort to limit debate unless the minority demands an un reasonable time. It is the opinion o f majority leaders that the minority should conclude whatever arguments there will be against the bill within two days. Probably not more than four days’ debate will be given and it will be passed by a large majority in the house and be sent to the senate within a week. No amendments will be offered from the Democratic side. The free list bill, to be called up a f ter the passage o f the reciprocity bill, is also a caucus measure and cannot be amendmed by the party in charge. Under the new rule no general tariff amendments can be offered by the minority because each amendment must be germane to some particuar item in the bill. Considerable debate is expected, but the Democratic lead ers expect both measures will he ready for the senate within two weeks. The articles designated for the free list would make a difference as com pared with the present duties and rev enue o f less than $1,500,000. They are: Plows, harrows, headers, harvest ers, reapers, agricultural drills and planters, mowers, horse rakes, culti vators, threshing machines, cotton gins, farm wagons, farm carts and all other agricultural implements, in cluding repair parts. Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth and fabrics suitable for baling cotton; burlap and bags for sacking agricul tural products, hoop band iron or steel for baling cotton; wire for ba ing hay, straw or other agricultuid! products, grain leather, buff, split, rough or sole leather, bend or belting, leather, boots and shoes, harness, sad dles and saddlery. Barbed wire fence, wire rods, wire strands or wire rope, wire woven or manufactured for wire fencing. Meats o f all kinds, fresh, salted, ickled, dried, smoked, dressed or un- r&sbd prepared or preserved in any manner; bacon, hams, shoulders, lard, lard compounds and lard substi tutes; sausage, buckwheat flour, corn meal, wheat and rye flour, bran, mid dlings and other offals o f grain, oat meal and rolled oats and all prepared cereal foods; biscuits, bread, wafers and similar articles not sweetened; timber hewn, sided or squared; round timber used for spars or building wharves; shingles, laths, fence posts, sawed boards, planks, deals and other lumber, rough or dressed, except ebony, mahogany, rosewood and all other cabinet woods. Sewing machines and salt complete the free list. Washington, April 11.— It required more than two hours in the house of representatives to e’ c< its new com mittees. It was the first time in its history that committees had been elec ted. Ex-Speaker Cannon taunted the Democrats with having approved as the Republican representatives on the various commitees practically the same men whom he, as speaker, had put on these committees in the last house. The Republicans charged the Democrats with gross unfairness in cutting down the minority member ship on the most important commit tees. Underwood, the Democratic leader, replied that the Democrats had based the proportionate representation in committees strictly upon the Demo cratic majority in the house itself. “ This is moreover,” he said, “ the first time a minority leader had been permitted to name his committees and has had them adopted by the majority without dotting an ‘ i’ or crossing a ‘ t’ . ” This statement was cheered loudly by the Democrats. Treaty Work Progresses. Washington—James Bryce, British ambassador, Secretary o f State Knox and Chandler Anderson, counsellor o f the State department, held another long conference in regard to the pro posed arbitration treaty. Progress is being made in the negotiation o f the convention, and the administration is still confident that the document will be completed in ample time for sub mission to the present session, for rat ification. Northwesterner* Disappointed. Washington— Northwestern insur gents, with the exception o f French, of Idaho, did not fare well in commit tee assignments and none but French is pleased with the committees given him. Lafferty, who made a strong fight to get on public lands, was placed on irrgation and on mileage. While irrigation is a fairly good com mittee for Western members, mileage has only perfunctory duties to per form. Notes and Instructions from Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations o f Oregon and Washington, Specially"Suitable to Pacific Coast Conditions SEEDTIME AND HARVEST. H. V . Scudder, A gron om ist, O regon 'A gricu ltu ral College. Corvallis. Using alfalfa as an illustration o f what is even more common in the grasses and similar seed, it appears perfectly evident, that both in purity and viability, the bulk o f the seed now being sown by farmers in the North west is decidedly inferior, and with absolute certainty this prophesies the harvests The grass seed samples tested show even greater need o f minute examina tion before purchase o f seed. So far this year only two samples o f Red Top have been received that were up to standard in purity. Two-thirds o f all the Orchard Grass samples examined were below the standard o f purity that it is possible to obtain. The best sample o f Kentucky blue grass exam ined contained 61 per cent o f pure seed, while the standard o f purity for this species is 80 per cent. The stand ard o f germination for Red clover is 95 per cent, yet the average germina tion o f the samples so far examined by the laboratory this year is 73 per cent. To illustrate how dangerous it may be to sow seed containing a small percentage o f impurities, the exact analysis o f a sample o f what was sold for a mixture o f timothy and alsike is given as follow s: Timothy, 66 per cent; alsike clover, 14 per cent, other cultivated grass seeds, 5 per cent; trash, 9 per cent; foreign seeds, 6 per cent Although the amount o f foreign seeds is only 6 per cent, and may pos sibly be considered o f no consequence, yet a list o f the weed seed contained in this 6 per cent o f foreign seeds fol low s: Plantain, Cinquefoil, Black-seeded plantain, mouse-ear chickweed, sorrel, pepper grass, evening primrose, witch grass, shepherd’s purse, small crab grass, night-flowering catchfly, sedge, slender spike rush, lamb’s quarters, amaranth, brown-eyed Susan, woolly panicum, crab grass. May weed, dod der, syperus, small-seeded false flax, hedge mustard, nerved manna grass, green foxtail, white vervain, curled dock, sporobolus sp., three-seeded mercury, forked catchfly, sleepy catchfly, yellow wood sorrel, sinuate leaved evening primrose, Canada this tle, horsemint, lyespus sp., rush. Total weeds seeds per pound o f sam ple, 13,500. Although the farmer received only eighty-five cents’ worth o f good seed for every dollar he paid out, yet, when the weed seeds he has sown on his farm are considered, it is not hard to realize how enormously unprofitable his seeding will prove at harvest time. It is this seeding o f the land to worth less plants and noxious weedB that is causing the farmers o f the Northwest the loss of thousands o f dollars an nually from the inferior crop produced and the labor wasted. Nor can the dishonesty o f the seedsmen in the Northwest be considered the cause o f this enormous annual waste. The seedsmen o f this region are, for the most part, trying to do their best, but if the farmer accepts and pays for in ferior seed as readily as for the best, little encouragement is given to the honest seedsman to search out seed o f high quality and refuse to sell any thing else. Only by insisting upon pure, viable seed will the farmer Becure, and final ly force the seedsman to carry nothing else. Farmer and seedsman alike have at their immediate service, free o f all cost, the co-operative seed test ing laboratory at Corvallis, which has but the one purpose, that o f aiding both dealer and grower in securing and sowing high-quality seed. Hence, my friend, look well to your seeding, so that in the golden harvest time your present expectations may not be discounted. Begin at the be ginning. Use naught but seed o f quality, pure and o f high vitality, and as logically as effect follows cause, so certainly will come to you at harvest the opportunity to reap in profit that which you have sown with precaution. With such wonderful weather for the earliest plowing and seeding as only Oregon can offer— every sower o f seeds is already looking forward with the highest expectations to a most prosperous harvest. But just a moment, friend! You remember well the scriptural warning “ Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” No prohecy ever uttered, perhaps, has received so uni versal acceptance from humanity in all the ages as this, possibly because it is founded upon a most primal lit eral truth. From remote times man has been first o f all a sower o f seed and every recurring harvest in its dearth or in its plenitude has driven home the un- alterable truth o f this maxim. Yet the farmer o f today, who o f all men should give most heed to the literal accuracy o f this text and its direct ap plication to his industry— seems often more heedless o f this first step toward a bountiful harvest than were his fore bears ages ago. For failure because o f carelessness in the quality o f the seed used, there seems little excuse nowadays. If “ scientific agriculture” has done aught it has first o f all increased the farmer’ s opportunity to secure crops o f the highest quality, and repeatedly it has emphasized the need o f so doing. Everywhere the state experiment stations and the federal agricultural authorities have eagerly extended the helping hand to aid the farmer in pro curing good seed, and year after year has the wisdom o f these efforts been amply demonstrated. The farmer o f Oregon seems less progressive in this matter than those o f any other section o f the country. Out o f all o f the samples o f seed re ceived and tested at the cooperative seed testing laboratory at Corvallis last year only twenty per cent were sent in by Oregon farmers. Y et the need for most careful examination o f seeds before purchase or sowing is constantly being demonstrated by the results o f the work done in this seed testing laboratory. This need is evi dent especially in the grasses, clovers and alfalfa. For example, in the tests o f alfalfa seed alone since Jan uary 1st o f this year forty-tw o per cent o f all samples examined by the seed experts contained dodder, and in sixty-one per cent o f this infected qlfalfa, the dodder was the most dan gerous species known to agriculture. One sample o f alfalfa seed examined and reported only last week contained 15.1 per cent dodder. Yet 1 per cent o f dodder is sufficient to destroy the alfalfa crop. A lfalfa seed having 1 per cent o f dodder would contain about 4,000 dodder seeds in every pound o f alfalfa and seeded at the rate o f 16 pounds o f alfalfa per acre 400 dodder seeds would be sown on every square rod o f the seed bed ; enough under or dinary conditions to so thoroughly in fest the crop with the parasite as to destroy the alfalfa in a single season. A lfalfa is one o f the most important crops in the state and in the North west. Dodder is a parasitic weed, the seed o f which when sown with the alfalfa germinates in the ground. A f ter germination the slender tendrils o f the dodder vine reaches out, fasten upon and coil about the alfalfa stalk. The soil roots, o f the dodder then die and the pest thereafter obtains its sustenance directly from the grownig tissues o f the alfalfa plant, sapping it o f life in a few weeks. Having des troyed the alfalfa plant the dodder vine blossoms and seeds most prolift- cally, the seed scattering upon the ground, quickly germinating and at tacking new alfalfa plants, thus rap idly spreading and ultimately destroy ing the crop, there being practically Tale of a Bird. no remedy where the dodder once gets started. A little four-year-old boy living In a The only means o f preventing in country town disturbed and took fection from this dangerous pest, the some eggs from under a sitting hen seed o f which so closely resembles al belonging to a neighbor. The neigh falfa seed as not to be easily detected bor complained to the boy’s mother, except by experts, and which cannot who later called her boy to her and be separated from the alfalfa seed by began to reprove him, when he broke any cleaning device now known— is by In with the question: "Who told you?” the refusal o f the buyer to purchase or The mother said: "A little bird told sow alfalfa seed containing even a me. Now, tell me, how many eggs did minute precentage o f dodder seed. you take?" Free o f charge, the seed expert at the The little boy, stammering, said: cooperative seed testing laboratory at "Well! Well! Why didn’t the bird Corvallis will examine and immediate tell you the whole of It?” ly report upon any sample o f alfalfa NOTES OF THE SHEEPFOLD. or other seed sent in by any farmer or seedman in Oregon or the Northwest. The greatest profit Is realized b> If free use were made o f this labora tory there is little question that dod doing things right. der in the alfalfa fields o f the north I Sheep are nature’s dependable aid» west, and in the seed harvested there ! In restoring and Increasing soil fer» from, would be on the decrease in ! tlllty. stead o f increase as it is now. Sheep will thrive pelther with we» Nor is it in dangerous impurities feet or with damp, soggy fleeces. that inferior seed is constantly being The lamb that cashes In the most discovered. Using alfalfa as a fur i money for Its owner la not a product ther illustration, germination tests o f of poverty. all the samples received at the labora J Circumvent the large feed bills by tory since January 1st o f this year producing better roughage and grain showed the follow ing: on your own farms. 20 p**r rent o f sam ple« germ inated 90-100 per cent To allow feeders to eat all the corn 29 " ** SO-90 they can stow away after reaching 25 " '* ** 70-M) 14 ** '* ** 00-70 the farm la disastrous. 10 " ** - GO-00 A little flock well tended on the Yet good alfalfa reed should ger small farm well tilled will rarely dis minate ninety-flve per cent or over. appoint the good shepherd. That good seed can be secured, how ever, is shown by the fact that 20 per Throwing a Fit. cent o f the samples tested had a satis "What Is the athlete In that piece 0 » factory germinating power — were statuary doing T" good, live seed. The farmer must "Throwing the discus.” search for such, however. 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