1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
809 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Sheriff Hensley, of Jackson county. Okla¬ 
homa, attached a St. Louis and San Francisco freight 
engine, chaining it to the track, in an attempt to force 
the payment of $2,280 in taxes. . . . Fire caused the 
death of Fireman .T. H. Partin, the serious injury of live 
other fireman and a property loss estimated at $200,000 in 
the heart of the business district of Dallas, Texas. October 
1. . . . To project a canal to connect Lakes Michigan 
and Huron at Grand Haven and Saginaw, the Grand 
Haven-Saginaw Valley Deep Water Association was or¬ 
ganized by delegates from six cities. . . . Canada's 
oldest citizen, the Rev. Alexander Mans, died recently 
at London, Ont. He had just attained his 118th year and 
was for years minister of the colored Baptist Church there. 
He was born a slave. When 50 years old he escaped to 
Canada and had been in the ministry for GO years. 
Fire. Oct. 1, completely destroyed the pickle work of 
Alart & McGuire, of New York, at Hicksville, L. I. The plant 
covered about an acre and a half. Beside the buildings 
40 tons of sauerkraut, 30 tons of pickles, all ready to 
be barrelled, also went up. as well as 60 or 80 tons of 
raw material. The loss will be between .$60,000 and $100.- 
000. . . Two inches of snow fell October 2 in the North 
Creek. N. Y’., district on Seward. Ampersand, and other 
mountains. A curious atmospherical effect was produced 
by the mingling of the snow and the clouds of smoke from 
the forest fires, which were still smoldering in many 
places. . . . The Belgian steamer Tiflis, which reached 
Port Arthur, Texas. October 3. had aboard Alexander 
.Toholm, a young Russian sailor, who for 10 days floated 
about the ocean on wreckage, drinking the blood of a por¬ 
poise and a shark and eating their flesh. For two days 
be had the dead body of a companion lashed to the wreck¬ 
age with him. He was picked up exhausted by the Tiflis 
still clinging to a part of the body of the shark, his last 
food supply. .Toholm says he was one of the crew of 
the three-masted schooner Maggie Bay, which he joined 
in Mobile. She sailed from there on August 15 and on 
September 16 went to pieces off the Bermuda Islands. lie 
and a companion clung to the wreckage, but all the others 
of the crew were lost. For seven days they both lived on 
the body of a porpoise. Finally Joholm’s companion died. 
Eleven persons lost' their lives in a fire that 
swept through a four-story brick tenement house at 71 
Mulberry street, New York, October 5. The fire started 
in the hall on the first floor and the flames made quick 
headway up the stairways, filling the upper halls with 
smoke and forcing the tenants to the fire escape. There 
were 12 Italian families living in the house and the jam on 
(lie fire escapes became so great that many jumped to the 
street. A number of men and women were badly hurt in 
this manner. The smaller children were saved by being 
dropped down to men waiting- to catch them in the street 
below. The fire is believed to have been incendiary. 
. . . Dr. Charles E. Latimer, of New York, who died 
at Palm Beach, Fla., on September 25, has left .$50,000 
to the Prohibition national party to carry on its work 
against the liquor traffic. The fund probably will not be 
available for this compaign, for it is left to the widow 
during her lifetime. . . . For .10 hours on October 4, 
Mrs. William Wiess, of Vriesland. Mich., stood in a cis¬ 
tern up to her neck in water striving to keep her head 
up to save a two-year-old boy. after whom she had 
plunged. Mrs. Weiss saw the little hoy, the child of a 
neighbor, fall into the cistern. She instantly plunged 
after him and held him above the water. She called 
for help, but the cistern is 10 feet deep and no one heard 
her. Late in the afternoon she was missed and neighbors 
began to search. It was long after dark before she was 
found. . . . The Prohibition forces October 5 carried 
six or seven county option contests in Ohio. The liquor 
element won out in Defiance county. This is their only 
victory in 29 county elections held thus far. In the city 
of Defiance the vote against the dry was almost 3 to 1. 
There are in the city two large factories making steel 
casts for bper bottles' employing several hundred people. 
The wets saved 24 saloons by this election. With two 
more counties. Paulding and Wyandotte, voting dry 
October 6, 30 Ohio counties have driven out saloons in 10 
days, forcing nearly 900 liquor shops to go out of busi¬ 
ness. But one county out of 31 to hold elections has 
gone wet. Local option elections will keep right on 
taking place in Ohio until January 1. by which time the 
Anti-Saloon League hopes to have made 50 counties dry. 
There are 88 in the State. October 6 90 brewers met in 
Cleveland to devise some plan of checking the anti-saloon 
wave. . . . The registration for Fncle Sam’s great 
land lottery to divide up 828.000 acres of the Rosebud 
Indian reservation began October 5 at Dallas and Greg¬ 
ory. S. D., and is being participated in by thousands of 
men and women. . . . The nine hundred thousandth 
patent from the United States Patent Office was issued 
October 3. and to it was attached the name of Patent 
Commissioner Moore. The patent was an improvement on 
traveling stairs, such as are used in hotels and other 
large buildings. In the early history of the nation the 
law required that, patents should be signed by the Presi¬ 
dent, and as the first one was issued during the first Pres¬ 
idential Administration, it was signed by President Wash¬ 
ington. It covered a device for making pearl ashes, and 
the document itself is said to be now owned by a Chicago 
collector. . . . Wilbur Wright, who established a 
world's record for an aeroplane flight, while carrying one 
passenger at Le Mans, France, October 3. made a new 
record October 6 when, under similar conditions, he re¬ 
mained in the air for one hour, four minutes and 26 sec¬ 
onds. His best previous record with a passenger was 55 
minutes, 37 seconds. Mr. Wright thus fulfilled the condi¬ 
tions of the contract signed by him and Lazare Weiller, 
representing a syndicate, whereby Mr. Wright was re¬ 
quired to make two flights within a week, with a passenger 
or equal weight, of 50 kilometers each. The contract 
calls for the payment to Mr. Wright of $100,000 by the 
syndicate, in return for which the syndicate obtains the 
patent rights of the machine in France and the colonies. 
M. Weiller has already given an order to a French manu¬ 
facturer for 50 aeroplanes on the Wright model. . . . 
Steam railroads operating through New York’s forest lands 
are to show cause why some other method than steam 
should not be used in operating trains through the forests. 
Electric power would be an insurance against many forest 
fires. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The second day's session of the 
16th National Irrigation Congress began at Albuquerque, 
N. M.. September 30, with the appointment of committees 
by President Goudy. The Resolutions Committee began its 
work at once, being deluged with resolutions covering a 
wide range of subjects from all sections of the country. 
Under the rules of the congress all resolutions introduced 
are received without being read. The opening address at 
the morning session was by John Barrett, director of the 
International Bureau of American Republics, who spoke on 
irrigation's rapid progress through Pan-America. 
The Department of Agriculture is about to issue a first 
edition of 360,000 copies of the Year Book—the volume 
that is said to have more general readers than any other 
Government publication. The full issue, as authorized by 
Congress, is 500.000, and the remaining copies will be 
printed in subsequent editions if the demand warrants it. 
The physical labor involved in getting out the Govern¬ 
ment’s best seller is enormous. The full edition requires 
3.100 reams of plate paper and 21.810 of print paper, 
while the thread used in the bindery reaches the enormous 
length of 9,600,000 yards—nearly one-fifth of the circum¬ 
ference of the earth. The covers take up 62.000 yards of 
book cloth, while 8.000 pounds of glue and 30 barrels of 
flour go to pasting the covers on. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
Grain has been a full crop here, wheat a good crop, 
and oats did well also; apples did well; prunes are also 
good. Potatoes are a good crop and yielded well. 
Nampa, Idaho. ‘ v . a. 
I have just finished filling my two silos, which hold 
nearly 100 tons, from six acres the second year in corn. 
We are making milk and selling at wholesale, which is a 
losing game. We are selling at four cents, but it must be 
five cents or we shall have to stop. The price of feed 
nearly swamps every producer of milk. I come out $4 
to $6 per month short. Hay a fair crop, oats and rve 
good, potatoes half crop, apples poor. Potatoes. $1 per 
bushel; apples, $1 per bushel; sweet corn, nine to 12 cents 
per dozen; peaches, $1.25 to $1.50 per basket; pears, $1 
per bushel; tomatoes, 30 cents per bushel. d. e. 
Meriden, Conn. 
A FARM “BRINGING UP.” 
We would like to have Mr. T. J. Norton, the editors of 
The Outlook, and President Roosevelt read the following 
statement; 
I have read with a good deal of interest Mr. Norton's 
letter. Mr. Roosevelt’s reply, and the various comments in 
The R. N.-Y. I wonder what Mr. Norton ran up against 
in his youth, and would like to give a brief sketch of a 
farm home as I knew it as a boy and young man. The 
father came home from the Civil War somewhat broken 
in health, and slightly lame on account of a minie ball 
passing through his ankle. He married soon after, and 
bought a rundown Vermont farm on part credit, and 
raised a family of six boys. As long ago as I can re¬ 
member, some 15 or 20 years later, we had a very pleasant 
home, plenty of good books and periodicals to read. Every 
morning a half-hour or more was spent in reading the 
Bible, in which every member of the family took part, 
each reading a verse in rotation, after this a prayer by 
the father. Then a day of work for week days. Hard 
work? Yes, but never over-taxing our strength, and very 
rarely more than 10 hours of work. Sundays we went 
to church and Sunday school, and we boys always had a 
team to go to meetings and entertainments whenever we 
wished. As to what we had to eat, I have lived in cities, 
have eaten at some good hotels, but have never seen any¬ 
thing prepared in a more wholesome, appetizing manner 
than what we had. and there was always plenty of it. 
We had all the common vegetables, in fact nearly every¬ 
thing that would grow in this climate, including melons. 
For meat we had the standard fresh and salted beef and 
pork, and when we were tired of salt meat there was fresh 
lamb or chicken, all home-dressed, and you may be sure 
we knew what we were eating. For fruit we had apples 
of ma’ny varieties all the year, and berries, plums, pears, 
peaches, cherries and grapes in season, and out of season 
the home-canned goods, much superior to any you can buy. 
We had no modern bathroom, but were able to take a 
sponge bath whenever we were so inclined, and as to 
fresh air. the boys used to sleep with the window wide 
open all the year, and that window did not open on to a 
noisy, dirty street either. The six boys are all grown up 
now; two of them are six feet two inches, two more 
measure six feet, and the other two slightly under the 
six-foot mark, and on the whole they are a strong, robust 
set. Two are college graduates, and one of these came 
out ahead in a college strength test without any special 
preparation, showing the kind of bodily development. As 
a whole I never saw a cleaner set of boys morally, and I 
have seen some of both city and country bringing up. The 
father and mother not only brought these up. but paid for 
farm and have more than enough to see them through. 
Doubtless there could have been many improvements, but 
I know very few who have got more out of life or who 
in their humble way have given more to it. l. e- g. 
Windham Co., Vermont. 
THE TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS. 
The recent meeting of the International Tuberculosis 
Congress at Washington has attracted much attention. 
Only a few years ago the majority of people probably 
looked upon the “great white plague” as a calamity, from 
which there was no escape. Most older men. especially 
those from New England and the North, will remember 
the shocking cases of consumption known to their boyhood, 
and the feeling then that treatment was hopeless when 
once the disease became seated. Slowly, however, the 
essential facts about this dread disease have become known, 
and it was no idle boast for a leading scientist to say at 
this Congress that 30 years from now a case of serious 
tuberculosis will be a rarity. The origin of the disease is 
now understood, and its treatment is being carefully 
worked out. Most of the advance has been along sani¬ 
tary lines, that is, in advising treatment for consumptives 
that will give them the best chance for recovery, and the 
poorest chance for spreading the disease. Of course this 
body of scientific men has no power to legislate, and can 
only make suggestions. It is evident that they are in 
favor of stricter sanitary laws, and that they would en¬ 
force strict measures to compel cleanliness in the care of 
consumptives, and if need be enforce isolation of severe 
cases. 
The two great features of this meeting were a lecture 
by a Japanese scientist on a new cure for consumption and 
a method of diagnosis, which is said to give valuable re¬ 
sults. Both the cure and the diagnosis are based upon the 
principle of vaccination or injection of substances into the 
system. Statistics were given, showing that this new cure 
had been highly successful in a large number of cases, and 
it is hoped that along this line something practical and 
definite will ultimately be reached, but it will require care¬ 
ful experimenting and long study before the system will 
be accepted as proved. 
One excellent thing that has come as a lesson of scien¬ 
tific study of the disease is the driving out of practice of 
a large number of quack doctors. Some years ago the 
papers were filled with advertisements of “consumption 
cures,” and sure remedies for the disease. Probably the 
majority of these remedies consisted of whisky and some 
soluble fat, and immense sums of money were undoubt¬ 
edly taken from poor people by the fakers, who advertised 
so extensively. These advertisements are now seldom seen, 
because the public have been educated, and know more 
about the disease, and consequently are not taken in by 
such statements. 
One of the most interesting things of the meeting was 
a discussion of the relation between bovine and human con¬ 
sumption. Dr. Koch, the German scientist, whose work 
has laid the foundation of our recent knowledge of con¬ 
sumption, still insists that the germs of bovine tubercu¬ 
losis are quite different from those of the human disease. 
He claims that there is no sure evidence to prove that the 
disease has ever been carried to human beings from the 
cow. This is of the utmost importance, because the great 
fight of recent years has been made on the theory that 
tuberculous cattle are a direct menace to the community. 
Th other scientists did not agree with Dr. Koch, and a 
hot debate took place in the Congress over this question, 
which was decided against Dr. Koch. While the man who 
stated that 30 years hence there would be practically noth¬ 
ing of the disease left may have been oversanguine, it i<; 
without question true that modern science is learning more 
and more about the disease, and public education is also 
growing so rapidly that consumption will in the future 
rank with the other diseases formerly called calamity, but 
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