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RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Workmen’s  Compensation 
Will  you  look  up  the  State  compensa¬ 
tion  law  for  factories,  and  see  what  a 
man  will  draw  who  has  his  hand  cut  in 
the  machinery  and  is  laid  up  seven  or 
eight  weeks?  The  man  is  getting  25 
cents  per  hour  and  is  working  overtime, 
that  is  working  10  hours  every  day  and 
four  to  six  hours  overtime  some  days,  or 
is  it  reckoned  on  a  10-hour  basis?  This 
man  was  getting  on  an  average  .$18.72  per 
week.  Will  it  be  reckoned  at.  10  hours 
per  day,  25c.  per  hour,  which  would  be 
$15  per  week?  w.  m. 
Speaking  in  general  terms  a  workman 
temporarily  disabled  so  that  he  cannot 
work,  is  paid  two-thirds  of  his  average 
weekly  wage,  including  overtime,  which 
in  your  case  would  be  two-thirds  of 
$18.72,  multiplied  by  the  number  of 
weeks  you  were  disabled,  less  the  first, 
two  weeks,  for  which  no  compensation  is 
allowed,  or  in  other  words  or  figures  (2-3 
of  $18.72)  x  (7  or  8  weeks— 2)  or  $02.40 
for  seven  weeks.  YnU  should  put  in  your 
claim  immediately  to  the  State  Industrial 
Commission  at  Albany,  New  York. 
Building  and  Stocking  Fish  Pond  the  wire  belongs,  telephone  to  either  the 
I  lmvo  a  small  ran  ™  my  place  on  tdcplmnc  company  or  Urn  nearest  trolley, 
which  I  intend  to  build  a  small  fish  or  lighting  company.  When  telephoning 
pond  about  one-quarter  acre  in  size.  I  ask  for  the  trouble  department.  The 
have  been  told  that  unless  the  overflow  company  will  either  repair  the  wires  or 
was  taken  from  the  bottom  of  the  pond  .  r 
the  watei  w.mkl  be  too  cold  for  the  fish,  have  them  taken  care  of  by  the  proper 
I  would  like  to  know  the  best  way  to  av-  ones.  The  electric  companies  furnish 
range  the  overflow  to  keep  the  pond  from  heavy  rubber  gloves  for  their  men,  also 
filling  up.  AVhich  would  other  things  for  their  protection,  and  even 
kind  of  fish  to  put  in  a  pond  ot  tins  r  .  ...  ,  , . 
kind,  German  carp  or  bull-headed  catfish?  then  men  sometimes  are  killed  working 
Which  kind  would  grow  the  faster?  on  live  wires,  which  should  prove  that 
Could  the  catfish  be  fed  on  the  same 
feed  as  the  German  carp  or  would  they 
require  more  of  a  meat  diet?  The  pond 
is  to  be  about  eight  feet  deep,  with  a 
nimbly  bottom.  L.  K. 
Pennsylvania. 
The  temperature  of  the  water  in  the 
stream  is  not  given,  hut  there  is  little 
danger  of  its  being  too  cold  for  the  fish. 
There  is  no  way  to  arrange  the  overflow' 
to  keep  the  pond  from  filling  up.  Any 
pond  made  by  building  a  dam  across  a 
stream  will  fill  up  in  time,  and  must  he 
cleaned  out.  If  a  way  is  provided  for 
drawing  off  all  the  water  through  the 
bottom  of  the  dam  most  of  the  mud  can 
he  washed  out  if  it  is  kept  stirred  up 
while  the  water  is  running  out.  Where 
it  can  he  done  the  best  way  is  to  buikl 
the  pond  away  from  the  stream  and  lead 
the  water  to  it  from  a  small  dam,  with 
gates  arranged  so  that  all  or  any  part  of 
the  water  can  be  turned  either  into  the 
pond  or  into  the  ordinary  channel  of  the 
stream.  At  times  of  high  water  the 
stream  should  be  turned  in  its  usual 
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Tuiiion  Charges  (or  Non-resident  Scholars  jjjjf  nt'Tw’o  o’clock 
Is  it  lawful  for  a  school  hoard  to  most  Unbearable.  I  have  a  hard  time 
charge  for  children  who  are  “non-resi-  keeping  tenants.  1  have  gone  to  my 
dents”  and  are  in  the  high  school  de-  neighbor  about  his  racket  in  a  friendly 
partment  of  a  school?  This  school  has  manner,  but  to  no  avail.  I  went  to  the 
tried  in  many  ways  to  annex  outside  health  department,  but  they  tried  ito 
districts,  and  none  of  us  wish  to  join  remedy  the  nuisance  by  sending  a  letter, 
with  them.  We  think  this  charge  of  which  had  no  effect.  Now  I  would  like 
tuition  is  brought  as  a  wedge  to  get  us  to  go  after  it  legally.  .T.  B. 
to  join  them.  We  hear  so  much  about  New  York. 
the  free  schools  of  this  country  that  I  Tfc  questionable  whether  you  can 
thought,  possibly  the  law  would  not  up-  this,  and  everything  depends  on  the 
hold  tins  school  in  charging  tins  tuition.  ^  A’  dairy  is  t'ot  necessarily  a  nuis- 
Rochester  Junction,  A.  Y.  c.  W.  anee,  W’hich  has  been  described  as  nny- 
Any  school  district  in  the  State  may  thing  done  to  the  hurt  or  annoyance  of 
charge  tuition  to  non-residents.  It  would  the  land  tenements  or  hereditaments  of 
....  .  .  ,  ..  another  nr  any  unwarrantable,  unreason 
obviously  he  unfair  to  compel  any  clis-  )lb]o  unlawful  use  by  one  of  his  own 
trict,  high  school  or  otherwise,  to  furn-  property  to  the  injury  of  another.  Noise 
isli  educational  facilities  to  the  children  to  be  a  nuisance  must  he  such  as  mate- 
r.f  Hiose  who  took  no  ivirt  in  the  mirmnrt  Fially  to  interfere  with  the  ordinary  com- 
ot  those  who  took  no  pan  m  the  support  fort  exjstence  on  tbe  part  0t  ordiu- 
of  the  school.  If  this  were  permitted,  ary  people  and  whether  or  not  the  noise 
some  districts  might  close  their  schools  is  reasonable  is  a  question  of  fact  de- 
and  shift  the  burden  of  their  support  to  pending  on  all  the  surrounding  circum- 
, _  nr  ^  stances.  If  the  noise  seems  to  you  un- 
tneir  neighbors.  M.  B.  D.  rraicmnoKIn  Oiwl  ia  na  hn/1  fl41  V  All  it 
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’ill  to  put  carp  in  any  public  wraters  or  A  Glowing  Black  Oak  Log 
In  use  them  as  bait  in  such  waters.  tVe  wenj-  jn(-0  tbe  WOods  to  chop  down 
l’lie  catfish  would  probably  require  more  some  trees  for  firewmod  and  came  across 
if  a  meat  diet  than  the  carp.  They  two  trees  growing  so  dose  together  one 
i  „  *  m.i,  \  {Wch.  would  think  that  it  was  one  tree,  hut  one 
ire  also  a  better  food  fish.  A  fiesh  was  M  Black  oak  and  one  a  hemlock.  Wc 
•aught  carp  is  better  than  a  year-old,  sev-  ^iit  the  oak  and  put  it  in  the  barn  that 
•rul-times-frozen-and-thawed  fish  from  night.  In  closing  the  barn  we  found  the 
the  market,  but  there  are  many  others  Black  oak  was  glowing  like  a  furnace, 
■  ,  ...  i-i  r  i  and  wneu  we  stripped  tno  nark  oft  it  be- 
vvhich  aro  better  while  riesli.  ^  came  much  brighter,  so  back  to  the  stump 
The  best  way  to  feed  fish  in  a  pond  that  night  and  found  the  stump  was  work- 
is  to  grow  the  feed  where  it  is  to  he  ing  overtime,  but  the  hemlock  was  not 
used.  Care  must  be  taken  to  keep  the  showing  anything.  I  know  it  Fas  pfe 
„  ,  ‘  i  pliorua  but  where  did  the  oak  get  it  and 
fish  from  getting  too  numerous.  buck  why  not  the  hemlock?  Is  tliore  a  mine  in. 
n  pond  is  better  if  it  can  he  stocked  with  the  ground?  ^  T.  E.  L. 
water  plants  and  the  small  animals  that  Schoharie  Co.,  N.  Y. 
come  with  them,  and  then  left  aloue  for  It  is  n  very  natural  mistake  to  sup- 
about  a  year  before  the  fish  are  put  in.  pose  that  the  phosphorescence  of  the  oak 
Where  it  is  found  that  the  fish  must  log  was  due  to  the  presence  of  phosphorus 
have  more  food  than  the  pond  can  furnish  The  expression  is  misleading,  as  phos- 
the  feeder  must  be  very  careful  not  to  phorcsecnee  refers  to  any  case  where  a 
give  more  at  one  time  than  can  be  eaten  substance  emits  a  pale,  more  or  less  ill- 
up  clean  in  a  few  minutes.  Food  al-  defined  light,  which  is  not  due  to  corn- 
lowed  to  decay  in  the  pond  may  cause  bustion.  It  would  he  much  hotter  if  it 
the  death  of  all  the  fish.  were  spoken  of  as  “luminosity.”  The 
Other  fish  that  might  be  suggested  for  pale  glow  of  phosphorescence  has  a  re¬ 
planting  in  such  a  pond  arc:  Large-  semblance  to  the  light  given  olf  by  jilios- 
uioutb  black  bass;  spotted  catfish;  rock  pborus  during  oxidation.  In  fact  during 
bass;  sunfish ;  trout,  if  the  brook  is  fed  early  times  it  was  supposed  that  the  light 
by  springs  and  never  gets  warmer  than  emitted  from  the  tissues  of  living  crea- 
about  G5  deg.  Fahr. ;  crappy;  warmouth,  tures  and  plants  was  due  to  the  presence 
etc  ALFRED  C.  WEED.  of  phosphorus.  This,  however,  is  not  true, 
Wayne  County,  N.  Y.  as  phosphorus  and  its  luminous  com- 
_  pounds  are  deadly  poisons  to  all  living 
.  r.  tissues,  and  never  naturally  occur  in 
When  Electric  Wires  Are  Down  .,  c,  ,  .  ...  ,  , 
them.  Substances  which  phosphoresce 
r Several  renders  have  asked  about,  the  nK)st  brilliant! v,  but  which  contain  no 
danger  from  broken  electric  wires.  There  _ilft^nll.ll.ll„  ’  tbp  «,inhides  of  barium 
have  been  many  accidents  and  deaths  on  Phosphorus,  are  the  suiptiides  ot  Dauum, 
country  roads  by  coming  in  contact  with  calcium,  and  other  alkaline  earths,  dia- 
tiiese  wires.  The  following  advice  is  monds,  sugar,  etc. 
from  an  electric  worker.]  Among  the  various  liviug  tissues  which 
In  the  first  place,  let  the  wires  alone  are  phosphorescent  are  the  mycelium  or 
absolutely.  If  you  cannot  drive  by  with-  thread-like  fibres  of  the  fungus  Agaricus. 
out  touching  them  drive  around,  no  mat-  This  mycelium  works  its  way  into  the 
ter  whether  it  is  10  blocks  or  10  miles,  wood  and  causes  its  decay.  The  Black 
The  telephone  wires  are  supposed  to  be  oak  was  probably  affected  with  a  form  of 
harmless,  but  one  never  knows  when  this  fungus.  The  atmospheric  conditions 
they  are  crossed  with  a  wire  of  much  were  such  as  to  cause  the  mycelium  to 
higher  voltage;  then  the  apparently  become  phosphorescent.  When  the  bark 
harmless  wires  are  as  dangerous  as  the  was  removed  the  mycelium  were  exposed 
others.  aud  the  glow  became  brighter.  Hemlock 
If  you  see  a  wire  clown  either  in  a  field  trees  are  not  attacked  by  the  Agaricus 
or  road,  if  possible  stand  guard  and  warn  fungus,  which  explains  the  fact  that  al- 
tho  next  person  that  comes  along.  Then  though  the  two  trees  grew  so  close  to¬ 
ll  a  ve  him  or  yourself  go  to  the  nearest  getlier,  only  the  oak  was  luminous.  From 
telephone  that  is  working  and  telephone  this  description  of  phosphorescence  it  is 
to  the  company  to  whom  the  wire  belongs  apparent  that  there  is  little  likelihood  of 
to  send  the  repair  wagon  immediately,  there  being  any  deposits  of  phosphorus 
If  you  don’t  know  to  what  company  underneath.  u.  w.  c. 
Two  doctors  met.  and  Dr.  Lancet  said 
to  his  colleague;  “I  notice  that  you  oc¬ 
casionally  take  a  patient  out  for  a  drive.” 
“Yes,”  was  Dr.  Enclem’s  reply.  “I  think 
it  does  them  good.”  “But,  my  dear  sir, 
it  isn’t  professional.  I  never  do  it.” 
“No,”  was  Dr.  Endem’s  retort;  “I  no¬ 
tice  that  when  your  patients  go  driving 
the  undertaker  usually  accompanies 
them.” — Woman’s  Journal. 
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