contradictory statements on the right or 
propriety of ships taking bar liquors into 
or out of American ports under seal. 
This brought much confusion in some of¬ 
ficial circles, and many Treasury officers 
admitted inability to construe or inter¬ 
pret it. General Counsel 1*. A. Vise said 
it was clear it made a specific exception 
of liquors carried by ships in sen stores 
in the emphatic holding that no ship or 
other carrier could bring liquor, into or 
out of the country in any circumstances, 
A general reduction in parcel post 
rates and a wiping out of at. least a por¬ 
tion of the wartime increases in second- 
class package rates made by Postmaster- 
General Burleson is under consideration 
by the Post-office 1 Tpnrtment. Postmas¬ 
ter-General Work laid before the Cabinet 
meeting dune 20 proposals for the re¬ 
ductions on both classes of mail matter, 
hut no decision was reached regarding 
them. Action on parcel post rates will 
he delayed waiting a further study of re¬ 
turns by the I’ostoffice Department to 
determine the effect of any change made 
upon postal revenues. 
After eight years of effort, the women's 
organizations have succeeded in having 
their naturalization and citizenship bill 
passed in the I louse. The vote was 20<i 
to 9 .Tune 20. The measure, which was 
brought up under a special rule, provides 
that alien married women who are quali¬ 
fied shall lie permitted to become citizens, 
and for the retention of citizenship by 
American women who arc married to 
foreign subjects. It had behind it the 
American Association of University 
Women, the business and professional 
women's clubs, the Donnell of Jewish 
Women, Daughters of the American Rev¬ 
olution, General Federation of Women's 
Clubs, National League of Women Voters 
and the Women's Christian Temperance 
Union among others. Under the existing 
laws any American woman who is mar¬ 
ried to a subject of a foreign country 
immediately loses her citizenship. Under 
the bill passed her American citizenship 
is not terminated unless she resides 
continuously for two years in the 
country of her husband or five years 
in any other foreign country, unless, of 
course, sin- makes formal renunciation in 
court. Should the lull become a law, it 
would prevent any foreign woman who 
is married to an American citizen from 
becoming a subject of this country until 
she has resided in the United States for 
one year, and has taken the oath of 
allegiance. Also any foreign woman who 
is married to an alien in the United 
States may take out citizenship papers in 
usual Manner whether her husband does 
so or not. The bill in nowise effects the 
status of children. Should an American 
woman, under the bill, be married to a 
man who is ineligible for.American citi- 
zership. she shall herself cease to be an 
American citizen. If the marriage is ter¬ 
minated, however, she regains her citizen¬ 
ship. 
The intention of House and Senate 
conferees ou the army appropriation bill 
to fix the enlisted strength of the army at 
an average of 125,000 men during the 
next fiscal year, will mean that for 
that year the United States will 
stand seventeenth in the strength <>f its 
regular army among the powers of the 
world, instead of tenth, as at present. 
Statistics obtained at the War Depart¬ 
ment show that 10 nations maintain more 
than 125,000 men in their peace time 
standing armies. 
The annual naval appropriation bill, 
carrying approximately $295,450,000, and 
providing for an enlisted personnel of 
80,000 men, was passed June 19 by the 
Senate and sent to conference with the 
House. Action on the enlisted personnel, 
now about 115,000, is final, as the Senate 
accepted the House decision, and the 
question will not come before the con¬ 
ferees, who will deal principally with 
Senate increases of about $44,000,000 
over the I louse bill. Unsuccessful efforts 
to end American occupation of Haiti, the 
Dominican Republic and Nicaragua and 
to launch a Congressional investigation 
of navy administration marked the final 
day’s debate. An amendment by Senator 
King (Utah. Dein.), providing for with¬ 
drawal of American marines from the 
two republics and Nicaragua December 
111 next was rejected, 42 to 9. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC—June 18 a severe thun¬ 
der storm struck Staten Island. One man 
was killed and another injured by light¬ 
ning. and property damage by wind, rain 
and lightning was estimated at $75,000, 
Pruning nearly $27,000,000 from the 
annual payroll of 525,000 railway em¬ 
ployes by cutting clerks, signalmen and 
stationary firemen from two to six cents 
an hour, the United States Railroad La¬ 
bor Hoard dune 1<‘* announced another 
wage slash, bringing total reductions 
under the board's orders up to $135,000,- 
000 beginning duly 1. Clerks were cut 
three to four cents an hour, according to 
classification; signalmen five cents, and 
firemen two cents. Approximately 1.200.- 
00O railway employes will share the total 
reduction, which has brought vigorous 
protest from every union organization in¬ 
volved, and is expected to result in a 
strike vote of 10 railway labor bodies. 
A dissenting opinion, protesting against 
any reduction, was included in the de¬ 
cision. It was signed by Arthur O. 
Wharton and Albert Phillips, both labor 
members. 
The Greater San Francisco Speedway 
at San Carlos. Cal., an automobile racing 
course of wooden construction, was de¬ 
stroyed by lire June 18, with an esti¬ 
mated loss of $200,000 . 
Two women were burned to death in 
a fire which destroyed the fashionable 
Lafayette Club at Minnetonka Beach, 
Lake Minnetonka, Minneapolis, Minn.. 
dune 18. A dozen guests and employes 
among the loo persons forced to flee were 
injured. The loss to the building is esti¬ 
mated at $250,000, 
A chasm stretching 300 feet in width 
and 00 feet in depth across Kingston 
avenue, one of the principal streets of 
Port Jervis, N. Y., scores of houses coated 
inside and out with silt, cellars filled with 
water and a lake of several acres 
surrounding homes in a lower section 
resulted from a Hood which swept the 
city, following the severest cloudburst 
dune IS that section has known in 20 
years. 1 tainage is estimated at about 
$1,000,000. For a time it appeared that 
one or more of the three big reservoir 
dams above the town would break, caus¬ 
ing a repetition of the Johnstown flood 
disaster. This was avoided by making an 
opening in one of the dams and by open¬ 
ing all of the lire hydrants and faucets 
in the city, thus letting the water escape 
gradually. At times (he water stood 20 
feet deep in sections of the town. 
Four men. one a former deputy clerk 
in the United States District Court, were 
arrested at Philadelphia, June 19, charged 
with having sold forged naturalization 
certificates to unsuspecting aliens at $25 
to $50 each. The certificates were an ob¬ 
solete issue of 1900, to which had been 
signed the name of a naturalization of¬ 
ficial who died four years ago. The ar¬ 
rest of Joseph It. King, the former dep¬ 
uty clerk, was caused when two aliens, 
seeking passports, presented the spurious 
certificates to examining officials. A 
supply of old blanks and Government 
seals is alleged to have been found at 
King’s home. 
In its convention at. Cincinnati. June 
20. the American Federation of Labor 
went on record as follows; Voiced oppo¬ 
sition t" any organization parading the 
streets so disguised as to create the im¬ 
pression that it n presented invisible gov¬ 
ernment, a modification of a resolution 
aimed specifically at tfic Ku Klux Klan ; 
voiced continued opposition to Iho Ksch- 
Cummins railroad, net under which the 
Railway Labor Board operates; de¬ 
manded immediate reductions of the State 
militia and State constabularies; de¬ 
manded a new and impartial trial for 
Sacco and Vanezetti. Italians convicted 
in Boston of murder in connection with 
a payroll robbery: demanded an unre¬ 
stricted pardon for Thomas ,T. Mooney 
and Warren K. Billings, serving life sen¬ 
tences in California for participation in 
the San Francisco P repaired ness Day 
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Glimpse of Property from Front 
Panther Ledge Farm 
For Sale 
A lone established milk route served by 
motor car, disposes of all milk produced, 
yielding good return. 
Four work horses. 
All necessary farming implements and 
tools. 
Abundance of timber—Much of it avail¬ 
able now for lumber, lies, poles, etc. 
About twenty acres, of undeveloped muck 
land—the black soil that has made Great 
Meadows (adjoining the property) famous 
for truck gardening, could readily be con¬ 
verted into a source of large remuneration. 
Churches of different denominations, and 
good schools arc conveniently accessible. 
Tranquility Farms, the noted estate of 
Wiuthrop Rutherford, Esq. borders the 
property. 
A visit to the farm will be convincing. 
Intending purchasers arriving by train 
will be met at Hackettstown upon timely 
notification to James C. Gallagher. Mgr.— 
Panther Ledge Farm llnckcttstown, 
New Jersey. (Photic Hackettstown 11R2.) 
T HIS choice dairy farm in full opera¬ 
tion and thorough working order is 
being offered for sale,because of death 
of the owner. Self-sustaining with sub¬ 
stantial profit in sight, from developments 
in progress. 
A going concern, all complete -Com¬ 
prising about 600 acres, situated among the 
hills of Northern New Jersey 1.100 feet 
above tide-water. Sixty miles from New 
York—two hours by convenient trains on 
Lackawanna Railroad. Four miles from 
Station at Hackettstown^ A fifteen minute 
motor ride over smooth State Highway. 
DWELLING: IS rooms, 3 baths, steam- 
heated throughout. A most attractive 
summer residence or year-round home, 
amid ideal surroundings for health, com¬ 
fort, and the joys of country life. 
Four tenant cottages. 
BARNS with 110-ton Natco silo and stalls 
for forty head cattle. 
Herd of 40 high grade Guernseys. 
Milk bouse equipped with Pasteurizer. 
Bottling Machine, etc. 
For terms, address— Arthur II. MacKie (Executor) 
Stephen H. Little (Executor) 29 Elm St., Morristown, N. J. 
Charles Knap iexccuioG 2 Rector Street, New York City 
^ POTATOES 
cs THE 
4FARQUHAR 
^ WAY 
DIG YOUR 
Best and fastest machine built. One and two row 
models. One Horse Carries to shock. Big labor 
a M xj saver. Pays foritseli in 
one season. Worked by 
'^4 i TT 1 2 L ‘ rS a 100 - No twine. 
No danger. Great for 
1 riWiraV silaoe c.itt,n 0 . Free trial. 
ITc Als0 Metal wheels for any 
G* Agents Wanted. 
(wMlSSilS&r?- Write for catalog. 
BENNETT Alili. CO„ Box 4, Westerville, O. 
We here show the "Farquhar 
No. 1," an Elevator Digger that 
gets the potatoes out of the 
ground clean and rows them con¬ 
venient for picking. It is fully 
adjustable so as to suit different, 
conditions, light of draft and 
long lived. 
For small growers the “Success 
Junior” Walking Digger insures 
more potatoes with less labor. 
Also ’'Special Elevator,” a large 
ball-bearing digger for either 
horse or engine drive. 
Illustrated catalog of Farquhar 
Diggers tells how you can most 
economically harvest your po¬ 
tatoes. Write today for free copy. 
A. B. FARQUHAR CO., Ltd., Box 230, York, P«. 
Wc also manufacture Engines and Boilers, 
Tractors, Sawmills, Threshers, Hydraulic Cider 
Presses, etc. Ask for literature. 
CKND for“Thc Path of Progress,” 
O a real fact story on making mon¬ 
ey with power farming. Tells how 
fanner Boyd made farming easier 
and cheaper, lived belter, happier, 
soon owned a bet ter home and had 
more time for pleasure. Every farm 
family should read this book. 
Mailed free. Tell us if you arc in¬ 
terested i n tractors and other mo¬ 
tor farming machinery. Ask for 
Avery catalog and reduced prices, 
i Avery Co., 2002 Iowa SL, Peoria, III. 
THE '' E-Z ” SHOCK ABSORBING SEAT SPRING 
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quirk tv rlimurcil from one nw- 
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coal flint in un the m n clt i n e. 
AGENTS wanted. Send tot £ircn* 
lar. danl by Parcel Poat for $4.IK). 
GEO. J. KRUM Old Chatham* N. Y, 
Coming Farmers' Meetings 
July 31-August 4—Fanners’ Week, 
(’onnecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, 
(!oim. 
September 7-8—Northern Nut Growers’ 
Association, thirteenth annual conven¬ 
tion. Rochester, N. Y 
September 17-23 —Fasten) States Ex¬ 
position. Springfield. Mass. 
November 15-17 -American Pomologi 
cal Society, Council Bluffs. Ia. 
November 15-25 National Grange 
Wichita, Kan. 
B M M MM If and homo cut. and ahock« «uua1 Coro 
Binder. SotdineveryBtat®.Only* 26 wilh 
fodder tiring nttachment. Testimonial* and catalog FREE ahowtng 
picture of Harvester. PROCtSb HARVISTEil CO-* Sallna. Kanaaa 
WASHINGTON. -Shipping Board 
vessels ami fill others. American or for¬ 
eign, are relieved from the liability of 
seizure or nnv other action tinder the 
Volstead law for possession of scaled 
supplies of bar liquors. This was the 
effect of an official Treasury Department 
ruling made public .Tune 1(5, which made 
it clear that if Shipping Board vessels 
seal up their bar supplies when entering 
the territorial limits of the United Slates 
they will not he molested by prohibition 
ur custom agents. Foreign passenger 
vessels have followed this practice since 
prohibition enine. In effect the decision 
strengthens the position of Chairman 
Lasker of the Shipping Boerd, and places 
the Treasury Department, in both the 
customs and prohibition branches, in line 
with the Shipping Board attitude, which 
runs counter to the latest opinion of the 
Attornev-General and his interpretation 
of the Volstead law and court, decisions. 
On its face the decision apparently made 
; C . A ’ x ) wbpreads Evenly! 
: 'v^r' A; L-M.-h& Wh 
Excelsior Lime Sowers 
Sow hydrated lime, ground rock and land plaster. 
Broadcast outs and all fertilizers. Endorsed by 
National Agricultural Limestone Association—the 
only spreader used exclusively by them. 
Built complete with double ltd, screen and scat¬ 
tering board. Copper, rust resisting steel bottom. 
Throw out of gear from either Wheat, Have agi¬ 
tators for keeping lime loose. Guaranteed to do 
the work claimed or your money promptly re- 
funded. 
Write today forourinterestlngfreebook "Dollars 
and Sense” and special proposition showing how 
you can save money tn buying your own cnoohlno. 
Excelsior Drill Company 
“Makars at Band Seeding Macfcwct” 
Dept. 3-F Springfield, Ohio 
EDMONDS POULTRY 
ACCOUNT BOOK 
Life of Judgment Bond 
Is a judgment bond dead after it lias 
run for 23 years, or does it keep alive if 
the interest has been paid up to three or 
four years? n. li. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Pennsylvania statute provides 
that the payment of judgments, mort¬ 
gages and other instruments under seal 
will be presumed after 20 years, but this 
presumption may be overcome by a posi¬ 
tive proof of non-payment. N. T. 
If you keep only ten or a dozen bens, 
there will be Satisfaction and Front 
in knowingjust how the account stands. 
This book will tell the whole story, 
The account may be begun at any time, 
and the balance struck at any time. 
Simple and Practical. 
Price, $1.00 - - To Canada, $1.25 
For sale by 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 301b Si., New York 
