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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1899. 

 EDITORIAL. 



" HARRISBURG, PA., August 17. Senator "Jim" Mitch- 

 ell's son-in-law, Benjamin F. McCartney, has landed in the 

 place of Economic Zoologist, and will take his place on Sep- 

 tember 1st. , McCartney's qualifications for this scientific po- 

 sition consist in his having clerked in Senator Mitchell's 

 grocery store in Jefferson county and having known coon 

 pelts when the natives traded them for brown sugar." 



The above is a clipping from The Philadelphia Record, and as 

 far as we know is literally true and gives a good idea of the 

 status of scientific work in Pennsylvania as far as public posi- 

 tions are concerned. This State appears to have the distinc- 

 tion of being politically the most corrupt of any in the Union. 

 The Economic Zoologist]of Pennsylvania gets a salary of $2,500 

 and has an assistant at $1,500. It can be safely said that the 

 return the people get from this department (Economic Zool- 

 ogy) may be computed in copper pennies. The damage done, 

 except by insects, is immaterial, and an economic zoologist 

 who only knows coon skins could hardly be expected to ad- 

 vise farmers and others in regard to injurious insects. 



