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the rural new-yorkkr 
August SO, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC—Nine men were killed 
and one was probably fatally injured 
August 14, when a cable pin snapped at 
the Coronado mine, near ('lifton, Arise., 
and two ore cars, carrying 12 tons of ore 
and 13 miners, dashed down a 3S degree 
grade for a distance of 3,300 feet. The 
ears and their passengers had just been 
lowered over the brink of the grade, which 
is one of the longest and steepest in the 
world, when the pin holding the cable at¬ 
tached to the cars snapped, the safety 
chains broke and the cars started down¬ 
ward like a shot. Three men promptly 
rolled off and escaped death. 
St. Mary’s Orphan Home sit Bingham¬ 
ton, N. Y., was destroyed by fire August 
15. The sisters in charge marshaled the 
350 children and marched them out in 
perfect order. So perfect was the dis¬ 
cipline that some of the older boys were 
at once organized into a fire brigade, and 
they had a stream of water on the fire 
before the city firemen arrived. 
Four million dead house flics were 
bought at the rate of five cents a pint 
August 16 by the Harrisburg, Pa., Civic 
Club, this being the close of the swatting 
prize contest for this season. The num¬ 
ber is only a fraction of those killed as 
a result of the Civic Club’s campaign. 
Ella Marie Kreidler won first prize of $2 
for the largest score, turning in 74 y 2 
pints, for which she got $3.75 besides her 
prize. The second prize of $1 was won 
by David Peters with 21 pints. More 
than 218 pints of flics were turned in. 
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com¬ 
pany’s liner State of California struck 
an uncharted rock in Cambier Bay, 90 
mib's from Juneau, Alaska, August 17, 
and sank within three minutes; 32 lives 
lost. The steamer Jefferson heard the 
wireless call for help from the sinking 
vessel and hurried back to rescue the 
survivors, who had taken to the lifeboats 
and rafts. Ten of the passengers rescued 
had suffered so much from exposure that 
it was necessary to take them to a hos¬ 
pital at Juneau for treatment. 
A confession made by Joseph Toblin- 
sky, known as “Yesky Nigger,” who is 
under a ten-year sentence for poisoning 
horses, has resulted in a new investiga¬ 
tion of the East Side horse poisoners by 
the New York District Attorney. As a 
result of “Yesky Nigger’s” testimony be¬ 
fore the grand jury two indictments 
charging wilful destruction of property 
were returned August 20 against rich 
East Side milk dealers. It is probable 
that other indictments will be found. 
The men indicted are Julius Liberman 
and his brother Simon, of the Liberman 
Dairy Company. Up to 1910, “Yesky 
Nigger” says, the element of extortion 
never entered into horse poisoning. Up 
to that time horses were poisoned simply 
as a matter of business to discourage 
competition. He himself poisoned about 
three hundred horses, he thinks. It is 
the first time that any member of the 
horse poisoning gangs has consented to 
help the District Attorney. Toblinsky 
evinces perfect willingness to do all that 
he can to uproot the evil. 
Fire starting in the cooperage plant of 
C. Ileidt & Son. at No. 42 Fairmount 
avenue, Jersey City, N. J., August 20, 
swept over four city blocks. Several fac¬ 
tories and more than thirty tenement 
houses were destroyed. The loss was es¬ 
timated at $1,000,000. Many persons 
living in the tenements were barely able 
to escape from the burning buildings, and 
left behind them almost all of their pos¬ 
sessions. If the fire had not started in 
the noon hour, when most of the em¬ 
ployees of the factories were at luncheon, 
many lives surely would have been lost. 
* FARM AND GARDEN—The Dover 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion will bold their annual show as usual 
Thanksgiving week, November 24-29. 
Anticipating the largest exhibition ever 
held in Dover, N. J., the showroom is 
being enlarged to accommodate a thou¬ 
sand more birds. Information may be 
secured from the secretary, Carroll II. 
Hoagland, Ledgewood, N. J. 
The Vermont Agricultural Extension 
Service, inaugurated by the last Legis¬ 
lature, will start in full operation early 
this Fall. Thomas Bradlee is to be di¬ 
rector of this service. Mr. Bradlee was 
graduated some time ago from the Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture of Cornell University; 
for some years he has been one of the 
instructional staff of the Smith Agricul¬ 
tural School at Northampton, Mass., and 
has had much to do with extension work. 
The Summer meeting of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Horticultural Society will be held 
in connection with the Fruit Growers’ 
Association of Adams County, Pa., at 
Flora Dale, September 10-11, 1913. Af- 
* ternoon and evening of the 10th will be 
devoted to a short programme. All day 
of the 11th will be spent visiting the 
Adams County orchards. Adams County 
has a good apple crop this year, and 
many interesting features are promised. 
The secretary is C. J. Tyson, Flora Dale, 
Pa. 
THE TARIFF BILL—The Demo¬ 
cratic tariff majority was lessened Au¬ 
gust 14, when the committee amendment 
placing wheat on the free list was put 
to the test in the Senate. The committee 
was sustained by a vote of 37 to 32. The 
present duty is 25 cents a bushel and the 
House Committee had reduced this to 10 
cents. Immediately afterward Senator 
Gronna offered an amendment placing a 
duty of six cents a bushel on wheat. This 
was voted down, 31 to 37. Other amend¬ 
ments increasing the proposed rates on 
agricultural products were also rejected 
by the majority. The Democrats also 
defeated an amendment proposed by Sen¬ 
ator Gronna to restore the three cents 
duty on eggs contained in the House bill. 
The vote was 35 to 28 in favor of free 
eggs. Another amendment by Senator 
Gronna for duties on milk and cream, and 
one for an increased duty on cheese, 
were defeated. The Senate approved 
August 19 the sugar schedule of 
the tariff bill as drafted by the 
House and revised by the Finance 
Committee. An amendment to abolish 
immediately the Dutch standard color 
test for sugar was adopted. Under its 
provisions, the Dutch standard, against 
which a consistent fight has been waged, 
ince 1909, will be abolished as soon as 
the tariff becomes law. instead of next 
March. It has been held that the Dutch 
standard was a strong discrimination in 
the interest of sugar refiners. Senator 
Bristow’s amendment would have estab¬ 
lished a gradual reduction in duty from 
the present tariff of $1.90 a hundred 
pounds, until in six years the tariff 
would have been 1.2714. LTnder the Cu¬ 
ban treaty, this would have established 
a 97-cent tariff on Cuban sugar, which 
constitutes the bulk of the imports into 
the United States. The proposal to put 
all cane and raw sugar on the free list 
in 1916, behind which President Wilson 
had mustered the Democratic majority 
after a long and persistent effort, came 
squarely before the Senate on a motion by 
Senator Norris, Republican, to strike out 
that feature of the bill. This was de¬ 
feated by a viva voce vote, and Senator 
Norris made no demand for a roll-call. 
OBITUARY.—“Jones of Binghamton,” 
the widely known manufacturer of scales, 
died at that city August 14. Edward F. 
Jones was born in Utica July 3, 1828. 
At the age of 16 he went to Boston and 
secured a position in a wholesale dry 
goods store. Here was begun the foun¬ 
dation of a career which included a for¬ 
tune seeking tour of Barbados and Trini¬ 
dad, long service in the Civil War and 
the establishment of the Jones Scale 
Works at Binghamton, N. Y. General 
Jones first entered the service as a pri¬ 
vate and later an officer of the Prescott 
Guards, named after Col. Prescott, the 
hero of Bunker Hill. He was subse¬ 
quently elected Major and afterward 
Colonel of the famous Sixth Massachu¬ 
setts Regiment, which, under his com¬ 
mand, was the first regiment in the coun¬ 
try to respond to the call of President 
Lincoln for 75.000 men. These men 
passed through New York and Pennsyl¬ 
vania in advance of the New York and 
Pennsylvania troops, were attacked by a 
mob in Baltimore, arrived in Washington 
on the eve of April 19, 1861, where they 
were met. at the station by President Lin¬ 
coln. Although not realized at the mo¬ 
ment, the fate of the nation hung in the 
balance. The capital was in imminent 
peril and the situation was fully realized 
by ill!- President and his Cabinet as well 
as General Scott. This is the only in¬ 
stance in the history of the United States 
where the President and a portion of his 
Cabinet left their official domiciles to ex¬ 
tend a welcome. It is generally conceded 
that the non-arrival of the Sixth Regi¬ 
ment that night would have resulted in 
the occupancy of Washington by the Con¬ 
federates. He was a member of the 
House of Representatives of the State of 
Massachusetts for the session of 1865. 
In October, 1865, he moved to Bingham¬ 
ton, N. Y.. where he established the Jones 
Scale Works. In 1S85 he was elected 
Lieutenant-Governor on the Democratic 
ticket with David B. Hill and in 1888 
re-elected. For the past six years his 
eyesight rapidly failed, but still he re¬ 
mained the guiding spirit in his vast busi¬ 
ness enterprises. He was a member of 
the Order of Founders and Patriots of 
America, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons 
of the American Revolution, the Loyal 
Legion, the Army and Navy Club of 
Washington, the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company of Boston and sev¬ 
eral other social, fraternal and charitable 
organizations. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, Sep¬ 
tember 8-12. 
New York State Fair and Grand Cir¬ 
cuit Meeting, Syracuse, N. Y., September 
8-13. 
Summer meeting Pennsylvania State 
Horticultural Association, Flora Dale, 
Pa., September 10-11. 
Lancaster Fair, Lancaster, Pa., Sep¬ 
tember 30-Oetober 3. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Octo¬ 
ber 23-November 1. 
Vermont Corn Show, Windsor, Vt., 
November 5-7. 
Third Indiana Apple Show, Indianap¬ 
olis. November 5-11. 
National Grange, Annual Meeting, 
Manchester, N. II., November 12. 
New England Fruit Show, Horticul¬ 
tural Hall, Boston, November 12-16. 
Maryland State Horticultural Society, 
Maryland Crop Improvement Association, 
Maryland Dairymen’s Association, Mary¬ 
land Beekeepers’ Association and Farm¬ 
ers’ League, Baltimore, November 17-22. 
Dover, N. J., Poultry, Pigeon and Pet 
Stock Association, annual show, Dover, 
N. ,T., November 24-29. 
The Capital Poultry and Pigeon Asso¬ 
ciation will hold its annual show at 
Washington, I>. C., December 2-6. 
St. Mary’s Poultry Club, first annual 
show, St. Mary’s, Pa., December 18-19. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual Winter meeting, Easton, Md., Jan¬ 
uary 13-15, 1914. 
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and land you use to raise horse feed, and the 
money and care your horses take. Then 
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you actually work for your horses more than 
they work for you? 
You would be surprised to know how many 
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Trucks. Even if your horses worked all the 
time—and you know they are in their stalls 
days at a time, “eating their heads off,” this 
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Forty cents worth of gasoline, five cents 
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