Ihc RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1405 
Hope Farm Notes 
(Continued from page 1304) 
■will simile when I tell you what that hun¬ 
ger was. Joab was jealous of a dead 
man. His life's desire was that he might, 
do some great tiling that would appear 
so worthy in the eyes of lm wife that 
Hiram's great performances would be 
shadowed. It. was a strange thing. I 
have never known anything just like it — 
this jealousy of a dead man. Joab might 
easily have proved that Hiram’s great 
reputation was a mere shell. A few 
words could blast, it. hm tho man had 
that instinctive feeling that, he could not 
gain his wife’s affections by blackening 
his dead rival's character. He must make 
some sort of living sacrifice that would 
overtop her ideal. 1 have seen several 
eases where men have this sort, of love 
for their wives. I do not know of any* 
thing finer. Some men |in^ through life 
and die without opportunity for proving 
what they fed. The little girl under¬ 
stood. One night she climbed on Juab’s 
knee, and ihe man held her close to him. 
Her mother looked across the room at 
them and said regretfully: 
“Joab, that is her new dress. I have 
just ironed it. Hiram knew how to hold 
ihe baby so as nor to rumple her 
elotbes!” 
Hut when the good lady went into the 
kitchen to see if hei bread was rising 
properly the little one put her arms 
around Joab’s neck and whispered: 
"I don't care. You are the best father 
I ever knew. t love you, anyway.” And 
part of that hearr hunger was satisfied, 
though the rest remained. H. w. 0. 
(To be continued) 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.'—Four men were killed 
and three injured November 11 as the 
result of the explosion of a locomotive at 
Moreland. X. Y. The dead are Frank 
Former of Corning, W. C. Thompson of 
Penn Yan. (’. \Y. llostrander of Dresden, 
and Frank Harding of Corning. The in¬ 
jured are: Archie Erwin of Syracuse, 
F. L. Benuetr, of Corning, and H. (Hover 
of Corning. 
Five destroyed four buildings Novem¬ 
ber 12 on Main Street, near Evergreen 
Avenue, Port Washington. I.. 1., causing 
damage estimated at $50,000. .V short 
circuit of electricity in a grocery started 
the tire. The flames spread to lunch¬ 
room. hardware store and drug store. 
A bill providing that the seller of liquor 
that kills a person who drinks it shall he 
adjudged guilty of murder will he intro¬ 
duced on behalf of the Anti-saloon League 
of New York at the coming session of 
the Legislature. Orville S. Poland, gen¬ 
eral counsel for the league, said that, 
although the present statutory definition 
of murder in this State is broad enough 
to cover such eases, the league proposes 
that there shall be no possible doubt. 
William II. Anderson, Slate superin¬ 
tendent of ihe League, said: "This bill 
is especially directed at the unscrupulous 
foreigner who has gone into the prepara¬ 
tion and indiscriminate peddling of poison 
for profit. The fuel that with all of this 
bootleg murder the deaths front alcohol¬ 
ism in New York City and State are far 
below the number shown by the records 
for the last seven years of the license 
period is no reason why those who are 
guilty should escape.’* 
A destructive fire at 12 Myrtle Avenue, 
Brooklyn. X. Y.. November It, caused a 
loss of $200,000. A hundred thousand 
elevated railroad passengers were blocked, 
as the Myrtle Avenue trunk line was 
completely tied up for several hours. 
The printing firm of William llaedrieh & 
Sons occupied tin first and second floors 
of the building. while the stationery firm 
of Stevenson & Marstors occupied the 
third and fourth floors. 
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sehunliek of 
Springtown, Ulster County. X. Y., were 
drowned in the Hudson River at High¬ 
land November 14 when their closed ear 
backed Into the water from the Highland 
pier. Pour other persons with them were 
rescued from the water. 
November 11 the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment was informed I hat the Price to 
Vernal route in Utah was clogged with 
eight feet of snow. Vernal is at the far 
end of the isolated Uintah Valley. One 
main (Jovernment aid road over the pass 
in the mountains is the only regularly 
used path of communication between the 
world and the valley, in which there are 
several tnwns. The mail has heed known 
to run as high as 20 tons in a day. Tn 
answer to the cry for help the Post Office 
Deportment has arranged to use a cater¬ 
pillar tractor to break a road through 
the drifts. 
A general -.trike in essential industries 
next Spring to force the release of 01 
members of the Industrial Workers of 
the World si ill in Federal prisons under 
wan'me convictions was proposed at 
the opening session of the fourteenth 
convention of ihe 1. W. W. at Chicago 
November 1.1, The agricultural workers' 
branch, one of ilie strongest units of the 
organization, including itinerant harvest 
hands, was in convention in Minneapolis 
the previous week and went on record for 
a general strike next Spring. Other 
branches favor similar action. 
WASHINGTON’. President Harding 
November 0 issued a < all for a special 
session of Congress November 20 in ac¬ 
cordance with plans tentatively made 
prior to the election. The call merely 
stated that the “public interests” de¬ 
manded that Congress he convened and 
noted that the President, would submit a 
communication regarding the legislative 
matters on which he desires action. 
The criminal jurisdiction of the United 
States extends to offenses against its laws 
committed by American citizens upon the 
high seas, the Supreme Court, held No¬ 
vember 11 in a ease brought by the 
United States against Raymond IT. Bow¬ 
man. The ease was regarded by Govern¬ 
ment counsel as affecting the enforcement 
of important phases of many statutes, in¬ 
cluding national prohibition. Bowman 
was chief engineer on Ihe United States 
Shipping Board steamship Dio and was 
indicted with the master of the vessel, a 
representative of rhe Standard Oil Com¬ 
pany of Brazil and a British merchant 
at Rio do Janeiro on charges of con¬ 
spiracy to defraud the Government in 
the. purchase of fuel oil for the steam¬ 
ship by representing that 1.000.tons of 
fuel nil had been purchased and delivered, 
whereas the actual delivery had been (500 
tons. The conspiracy was alleged to have, 
occurred on the high seas on hoard the 
Dio. 
The Supreme Court of the United 
States decided November 11 that Japan¬ 
ese cannot he naturalized in the United 
States and cannot become citizens of this 
country. It was the court's first eon- 
struelure of Federal statutes bearing on 
the subject, and rhe decision was the 
first delivered by Justice Sutherland as 
a member of Ihe court. It was handed 
dow n in a cum brought by Takao Ozawa, 
who in 19i4 applied for citizenship in 
Hawaii. 
The pilotless army airplane, equipped 
with an automatic control device said to 
be more accurate and dependable than 
any human pilot, has been developed to 
a point where it has made -successful 
flight- of more than 90 miles, it was an¬ 
nounced November 14 by the army air 
service. The announcement said the re¬ 
sults produced after a long series of ex¬ 
periments constituted the most important 
post war development of the many novel 
ideas of new engines of war. D was 
added (hat the experiments had shown it. 
to be possible, to “shoot” bomb-laden 
planes, without pilots, at targets on or 
off the ground with astounding accuracy. 
All foreign vessels seized outside of 
the three-mile limit by dry navy and cus¬ 
toms patrol boats will lie released under 
orders of Andrew \V. Mellon, Secretary 
of the Treasury. Future seizures of rum 
runnel- outside of the three-mile limit 
are prohibited by Secretary Mellon mi¬ 
les.- it can be shown that they haw had 
direct contact, with the American shore. 
The ruling of flip Treasury Department 
is the result of a complaint registered hy 
rlie British Embassy after Thomas Fel¬ 
der, attorney for the owners of the three 
seized ships, had made representations to 
the British officials at Washington. Mr. 
Felder pointed out to the British Em¬ 
bassy that the three vessels had been 
seized outside of the three-mile limit and 
that confiscation of their cargoes and the 
libeling of the vessels themselves was a 
violation of international law. 
FARM AND GARDEN. Since Feb¬ 
ruary. 1011, no Winter Farmers' Week 
meeting has been held at Pennsylvania 
State College. This project, which was 
SO successful, is beiug resumed I lie week 
preceding Christmas this year. The ex¬ 
ercises begin with a general meeting and 
a reception or “get-together." Monday 
evening. December 1$. and close Thurs¬ 
day noon. December 21. Ten daily 
schedules of intensive classroom work are 
heeing presented. Evening meetings are 
of a general nature, consisting of music 
and addresses Monday and Tuesday eve¬ 
nings. while OP Wednesday evening a 
country life play will he presented by the 
State College High School. Printed pro¬ 
grams are being distributed from flic col¬ 
lege and through the County Farm 
Bureaus. 
Wool has been added to the commo¬ 
dities of contraband traffic along the her¬ 
der. The capture of two Bangor (Me.) 
men and the seizure of two truckloads 
of wool, alleged to have heen smuggled 
into Aroostook County from New Bruns¬ 
wick to avoid the new tariff duty, was 
announced at the custom house November 
10. The wool weighed 0,200 pounds. 
The annual meetings of the Maryland 
Agricultural Society and the State com¬ 
modity a-soeiations affiliated with it will 
he held in Frederick, Md.. January 10, 
11 and 12. 1021, Chief interest in the 
meeting will center in reports of recent 
growth of county farm organizations, 
which in many parts of the State are 
being reorganized with largely increased 
membership and with strong financial 
support. Among the speakers of na¬ 
tional reputation who have thus far de¬ 
finitely accepted places on the program 
are J. R. Howard, president of the Amer¬ 
ican Farm Bureau Federation, Efforts 
are being made to secure Pre-idem Hard¬ 
ing and Secretary of Agriculture Henry 
C. Wallace as speakers Affiliated asso¬ 
ciations which will meet at the same time 
as the Maryland Agricultural Society are: 
Maryland State Horticultural Society. 
Crop Improvement Association. Sheep 
Growers’ Association. Vegetable Growers’ 
Association. Tobacco Growers' Associa¬ 
tion and the Maryland State Dairymen’s 
Association. 
Hams “Like Mother Used to Make" 
The Poughkeepsie (X. Y.) Sunday 
Courier tells of a ham peddler who fooled 
many housekeepers in Dutchess County. 
N. Y. This fellow told a pathetic story 
of how his mother sat up nights dressing 
these delicious hams with sugar and 
smoking them with "pure hickory wood.” 
This mao was not so much of a “slick 
talker." hut more of a hesitating, apolo¬ 
getic type, who hated to take your time 
and money, but by the time he finished 
telling about mother and her curing those 
hams the average housekeeper had her 
purse open when the hams were delivered 
—but let the Courier tell part of it: 
“One lady who purchased a pair of 
hams and paid $11 for the two, found 
about enough meat in rhe outfit to make 
a pair of midget sandwiches—there was 
bone enough to start, a comb factory. 
"Said one lady: "Really, I wouldn't, 
feel so badly about this, but these shoul¬ 
ders I was deceived into buyiug tasted as 
if they were embalmed in Egypt back iu 
the days of Pharoah. There was just 
meat enough to cover the bones. To 
think that. I paid 10 cents a pound for 
such stuff is aunoying. To have poor 
people defraudeed of their money so 
grossly would be a crying shame.' ” 
What this fraud did was to buy very 
ordinary shoulders from the packers, and 
after wrapping them, with plausible 
words sell them as mother’s delicious 
hams. It takes a genius to buy 10 cents’ 
worth of bone, wrap it in a mental pic¬ 
ture of mother and a hickory tire, and 
then sell it for 10 cems. Yes, it requires 
genius to do it. bur sueh genius is not 
appreciated by the buyers. 
Keeping Water Out of Cellar 
Some time ago I saw an inquiry asking 
how to keep water our of the cellar. I 
have the same trouble. This must first 
be considered: Is the house built on a 
ledge? If so. ihe water may follow the 
seams. 1 have thi- trouble. < >r. is it on 
low land, and wet? I built a concrete 
wall on the inside ail round. My cellar 
has a concrete floor about 0 in. thick aud 
1 to 4 ft. high, using three parts sand or 
stone dust, one part cement and pea 
crushed stone us much as possible. This 
did the job. If sandy nr loamy, fry dig¬ 
ging dry well 1 to 1 ft. deeper than cellar 
on the outside, fill with rock not too large. 
Of course, two or more wells will have to 
be built on each side. Thi- has been suc¬ 
cessful with a neighbor. F. w. s. 
Coming Farmers' Meetings 
Y'ork St 
Assocint 
N. Y. 
Nov. 
tion. an 
ret ary. 
Nov. 
Poultry 
poultry 
X. J. 
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ions. Onondaga Hotel. Syracuse 
Federation of Farm Bureau 
28-10—Sharon Poultry Associa¬ 
tion^ show. Sharon, Conn. Soc- 
E. Hotaling, Sharon. Conn. 
2S-Dec. 2 — Franklin Township 
Association, second annual show, 
and pet stock, Franklin Lake. 
Dee. 5-8 — Merrimack Valley Poultry 
Association, eighth annual show. Con¬ 
cord, X. II. Secretary, S. G. Note. Con¬ 
cord. X. II. 
Dec. 11-10—Middlesex County Poultry 
A -social iou. annual show, Middletown, 
Conn. 
Dee. 13-16—Ridgewood, N. J.. Poultry 
Show. North Jersey Poultry Breeders’ 
Club. S. J. Hummersteiu. Hillsdale. X. 
J.. secretary. 
Dee. 18-21—Winter Farmers' Week, 
Pennsylvania State College, State Col¬ 
lege P, t Pa. 
Jan. tO-12. 1023 —New York State 
Horticultural Society. Winter meeting, 
Exposition Park, Rochester. N. Y. 
Jan. 10-12. 15)23—Maryland Horticul¬ 
tural Society and affiliated associations, 
annual meeting. Frederick. Md. 
Jan. 16, 1028 — New York Holstein- 
Friesian Association, annual meeting. 
Yates lintel. Syracuse. X. Y’. 
Jan. Hi-20, 1021—Agricultural Week. 
Now Jersey State Board of Agriculture, 
Trenton, X. J. 
Jan. 21-27, 102.1—Connecticut Poultry 
Association, annual -how. Hartford, 
Conn. 
Jan. 21-27. 1923—Connecticut Winter 
Fair and Agricultural Exposition, Hart¬ 
ford. Conn. 
Feb. 21-23. 1023 — Eastern meeting, 
New York State Horticultural Society. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
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