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Which will it be?—“Oh, those freezing cold upstairs 
bedrooms,” or “Thank goodness, every room is as 
warm as toast. It’s lucky we didn’t postpone the 
installing of our NEW-IDEA Pipeless Furnace. 
Better make up your mind right now to have comfort 
the balance of the cold months. In one day) you can 
have installed a 
NEW-IDEA Pipeless Furnace 
“The one you*ve heard so much about” 
Doit now—before housecleaning—and while the old- 
fashioned stove discomforts are still in your mind. 
You’ll enjoy the next six months more because you’ll 
know you’re all ready for cold Fall weather. 
The NEW-IDEA is the ideal heating equip¬ 
ment for homes, churches, stores. 
Write for that interesting and valuable 
article on heating the home—“Warmth 
and Comfort.” 
Originated and manufactured by 
Utica Heater Company 
100-200 White Street, Utica, N. Y. 
Live dealers wanted in territory not represented 
NEW-IDEA 
Pipeless Furnace 
PRICE REDUCED 
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EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY l«t, 1922 
See Your Dealer For Particulars 
TOBACCO BY-PRODUCTS & CHEMICAL CORP. 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 
Have Some of OrangeCo.’s Best Farms One poultry 
farm ; another, dairy farm with stock and equipment 
or Without. Prlfteafight. M ARTHUR UMM. Jr. # rnIon¥ilH*h.Y. 
BARRELS OF DISHES 
Slightly imperfect crockery. Hotel Chinn. Mixed 
designs. GREAT BARGAIN. Write for particulars. 
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60 ACRES, 13 Miles North Philadelphia City Line 
«i acres hen ring orchard. Modern K-roora atone 
dwelling. Complete net larui building*. Artesian 
it 11 <i spiing ivnt.ur. I nliulited possibilities; many 
features; $6,000. Illustrated catalogue actual bar¬ 
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Fertilizers and Crop. Van Slyke....$3.25 
Feeding Farm Amina.la, Bull. 2.00 
Milk Testing, Pultlow.00 
Butter Making, Publow.00 
Manual of Milk Products, Stocking. 3.00 
Book of Cheese, Thom and Fisk.... 2.40 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard. 1.75 
Pruning Manual, Bailey. 3.25 
American Apple Orchard, Waugh,. 1.75 
American Peach Orchard, Waugh.. 1.75 
Vegetable Garden, Watts. 2.50 
Vegetable Forcing, Watts. 2.50 
Edmonds’ Poultry Account. Book... 1.00 
Poultry Breeding and Management, 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Now Jersey’s drastic 
prohibition enforcement law of last year, 
introduced by Mrs. .Tcnnic C. Van Ness 
of East Orange, was declared unconsti¬ 
tutional February 2 by a vote of eight to 
four in the Court of Errors and Appeals. 
Four opinions were filed setting forth 
varying grounds on which different, groups 
of judges based their conclusions. There 
was no majority opinion, due to the 
divergent views. 
Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, mother of 
Grover C. and Erwin Bergdoll, army de¬ 
serters, was again in the toils of the law 
February 2, this time on a charge of 
cruelty to animals. She and Matthew 
Grophenhueher, caretaker of Erwin's es¬ 
tate at Elitnerich, Pa., were each fined 
$10 and costs for not having proper bed¬ 
ding for horses and cattle. 
Twenty-live miners were killed in the 
explosion at the Gates mine of the II. C. 
Frick Coal ami Coke Company at Gates, 
Pa.. February 2. 
Nine convicts were killed from a local 
gas explosion in the Belle Ellen coal 
i mines in Bibb County, Ala., February 2. 
The Belle Ellen mines are owned by the 
Bessemer Coal, Irr.u and Land Company. 
<«f which Henry E. Badhurn is president. 
There are four mines in the group and 
about M00 convicts are employed. 
The west-bound sections of the New 
York Central's Twentieth Century Lim¬ 
ited. the New York-Chicago train, wove 
(lagged February 5 at Rochester while 
defectives traced the baggage check for 
$200,000 worth of narcotic drugs seized 
in a trunk at Grand Central station, Now 
York, and alleged to he part of Ihe plun¬ 
der in the $1,000,000 Philadelphia drug 
robbery. Jacob T.ovine, alias Jacob Le¬ 
one. alias Jacob .Stein, with a long police 
record as au alleged pickpocket and claim¬ 
ing no home, held the baggage checks, 
lie wAs brought hack to New York and 
arraigned before United States Commis¬ 
sioner Hitchcock, "ho held the prisoner 
in $50,000 bond. 
Alexander llowat and August Dorehy, 
deposed president and vice-president, re¬ 
spectively, of District 14. United Mine 
Workers of America, were released from 
the Cherokee County jail at Columbus. 
Kan., February 0. The $2,000 peace 
bond in which the former officials agree 
to call no more strikes in the Kansas 
coal fields was signed, a ml was approved 
by District Judge Frank Boss. 
Marriage and divorce measures were 
introduced in both houses of the New 
York Legislature February 0. Tn the 
Senate two of these bills by Senator 
Swift of Buffalo were advanced after the 
introducer had agreed to debate them on 
the order of final passage. One makes 
five years’ absence by either husband or 
wife ground for divorce if the absent one 
is believed tn be dead. The other pro¬ 
vides that the marriage of a person under 
IS shall not constitute an absolute right 
of divorce. The bill leaves (he question 
to the discretion of the court, A bill in¬ 
troduced by Assemblyman Steinberg of 
New York provides that n marriage cere¬ 
mony shall not be performed within three 
days from the time the marriage license 
is granted unless authorized by order of 
a court of record. 
February 0-7 five persons died in New¬ 
ark. N. J., from drinking poisonous gin, 
while two others were seriously ill. Four 
saloonkeepers were arrested under sus¬ 
picion of having sold the poisonous 
liquor. 
Six known dead, 30 reported missing 
or unaccounted for and 28 injured was 
the toll of a tire which February 7 started 
from an undetermined cause in the base¬ 
ment of the Lexington Hotel. Richmond, 
Yn„ quickly spreading through the four 
stories of the structure and then spread¬ 
ing to other buildings, sweeping half a 
city block before it was checked. The 
property loss is variously estimated at 
from $250,000 to $500,000. The known 
dead are: Hiram 8. Austin of Fincnstle. 
\'a.: M. J. Fo.x >’f Williamsport, Pa.; 
M. Thomas, sheriff of Albemarle County, 
Vu. : E. T. Cox of Richmond, F. E. Shaw 
of Richmond and T. L. Pierler of Yon¬ 
kers. N. Y. 
Eight men were killed, two badly in¬ 
jured and one was missing as the result 
of a mine explosion February 7, which 
wrecked a mine of (lie Marietta Coal 
Company on Pond Creek, Pinson Fork, 
Kv. 
Passage of a hill introduced in the 
Legislature by Senator Alexander Sintp- 
son of Hudson County, N. J., which 
would re-establish the five cent street car 
fare in those cities which had five cent 
fare contracts with traction Companies 
before the war, was urged in a special 
message which Governor Edwards sent 
February 7 to the Legislature. These 
contracts were upset by the courts, but 
the act would re-establish them. 
Because of numerous complaints 
against beggars. Mayor Harvey of Hazle¬ 
ton. Pa., is said to have issued an order 
limiting mendicants to one day a month. 
They will he licensed for the day they 
prefer, and will be arrested if they ask 
for alms any other time. 
WASH INGT< >N. Proposed provisions 
of co-operative marketing bills now be¬ 
fore the Senate exempting farmer organi¬ 
zations from operation of the Sherman 
anti*trust law were attacked in the Sen¬ 
ate February 0 by Senator Brntidogee, 
Republican (Conn.), who asserted that 
Congress was going far astray when it 
said in legislation that an net by a farmer 
is not a crime, but becomes a crime when 
done by a manufacturer. Mr. Brnndegee 
declared the country need not expect re¬ 
lief from high prices through passage of 
the bill “if the farmers, who are its bene¬ 
ficiaries, choose to inflict high prices.” 
lie added that he believed there was 
"grave danger of a corner in Ihe food and 
clothing supplies'of the country” if the 
imposed exemptions arc enacted into 
aw. 
Secretary Hoover was directed Febru¬ 
ary 7 by President Harding to call a con¬ 
ference of army, navy ami commercial 
experts on wireless telephony to conduct 
an investigntiort looking toward restric¬ 
tion of the use of the system. The sub- 
jeet was discussed at length in Cabinet 
session, at which the President was told 
that the use of wireless telephony had 
suddenly become important. The Presi¬ 
dent was told that through the broad¬ 
casting of news, advertising, music, con¬ 
certs and other reports there had arisen 
the danger of interruption to the use of 
the wireless telephone for purposes of 
national defense and commercial pur¬ 
poses, The proposed conference will re¬ 
port after its investigation to the Cabi¬ 
net, from which will emanate suggestions 
for enactment of legislation to control the 
situation. 
Representative Fordney (Mich.), chair¬ 
man of the House Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee, announced February 7 he had de¬ 
cided that the least burdensome plan of 
raising a soldier hi in us was by a tax on 
stock and bond transfers, a tax on real 
estate transfers and an increase of one 
cent on letter postage. Estimates ob¬ 
tained b.v Chairman Fordney show that 
$:100. 000,000 a year for the next three 
years would be needed to finance a bonus. 
By imposing a tax of one-fifth of 1 per 
rent on stock and bond transfers Treas¬ 
ury experts figure $190,000,000 per an¬ 
num can lie raised; a tax of one-lmlf of I 
per lent on real estate transfers will yield 
$50,000,000 annually, it is estimated, 
while the increase of letter postage will 
produce 870.000,000. making a total of 
$310,000,000. 
Back to “Old Industries” 
Mrs. E. M. A.’s letter on “Revive the 
Old Industries,” page 109, moves me to 
tell how beef, pork and poultry are right 
now being sold direct to the consumer by 
the producer in some parts of the corn 
belt. I have in mind a city of 10.000 
people in Southeastern Nebraska, where 
so many of the neighboring farmers are 
offering beef, pork and poultry, dressed 
and delivered direct to the consumers 
since the cool weather started, that they 
have gotten a “howl” out of tUe local 
butchers. As these butchers have been 
very slow about reducing meat prices to 
correspond with the fall of live stock 
prices (have only partly done it. in fact), 
they find no public sympathy, either 
among the city people or the farmers. I 
suppose that is the reason that their 
efforts to have the city commissioners bar 
out the producer meat sellers fell through 
su very suddenly. Anyway, the farmers 
are supplying quite a large part of the 
trade. The beef and pork is mostly sold 
in quarters. These farmers are “doing it 
themselves.” Some of them are also of¬ 
fering wool for making bats or for other 
purposes. 
And here’s something more along a 
similar line. Last Fall I visited a small 
woolen mill in Central Towa and found 
them crowded to capacity, scouring and 
manufacturing small lots of producer- 
owned wool. They were making yarn, 
hats, socks, mittens, sweaters, underwear, 
blankets, caps, etc.. I have also heard of 
other similar mills in other States that 
were also doing capacity business. 
These particular conditions in the meat 
and wool trades seem to me to be very 
hopeful signs of better conditions to come, 
for they bring the producer into direct 
competition with the nipsit and wool trad¬ 
ers. and in such circumstances that it will 
be very difficult for them to fight us, I 
fancy, except by reducing their prices to 
consumers. We are too widely scattered 
for them to reach us effectively in any 
other way. it seems to me. Arid. too. it is 
educating us along a line wherein we need 
educating. We shall likely be able later 
on lo use similar methods in selling other 
products. T wonder how many of us 
realize that we have made great advances 
towards “doing it ourselves” in the last 
few years? Think hack a few years and 
you will realize that we are really ad¬ 
vancing, even though it may seent slowly 
somerimes. Let's keep the good work go¬ 
ing, and till out* friends anfl neighbors, 
for there’s a better time coining, and it is 
not far away. The more we advertise 
that same better time the sooner it will 
arrive. jo tcubs. 
Wall Made of Limestone Screenings 
Would screenings of limestone and co¬ 
ntent without sand do to make a wall? 
West Virginia. e. d. s. 
Screenings should not be used as coarse 
aggregate in making concrete. It takes 
(lie place of the sand only, and the re¬ 
sulting mixture is only a cement mortar, 
making the quantity of cement, used ex¬ 
cessive and the cost very high, ('rushed 
stone or gravel should be used with it, 
reducing the quantity of cement, neces¬ 
sary and lessening the cost, as well as 
making better work for most purposes. 
“How about that airplane?” "It wont 
up in smoke.” “Burned up. eh?” “No; 
made an ascension at Pittsburgh.”—Sci¬ 
ence and Invention. 
