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the RURA& NEW-YORKEH 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC—As the result of a fire which 
destroyed the King’s Hall building, a large 
business block on St. Catherine street, 
Montreal 
were 
tailed 
structure in the heart of the uptown 
ness district. The ground floe 
pied by stores and the other 
taken up by a concert hall, a billiard parlor 
and a number of sleeping apartments. 
October 13 the galleries of Duveen 
Brothers of 302 Fifth avenue, the great¬ 
est art dealers in New York, were raided 
by Federal officers, who seized books, pa¬ 
pers and art objects, the firm being charged 
with persistent undervaluations of their im¬ 
portations. One of the partners, Benjamin 
J. Duveen, was arrested on the premises, 
and the head of the firm, Henry J. Du¬ 
veen, who came in on the Lusitania the 
previous night, was put under arrest by 
a United States marshal on his arrival and 
taken in a revenue cutter to the Federal 
building, where he was held in $75,000 
to the Seattle grand jury that the men pay me five cents for the privilege of car- 
against whom indictments ‘were sought had rying a rooster 976 miles. There is no 
induced certain persons to make entry with question but that they made a fair protit 
the agreement that their interests would on carrying the one to Chicago. Assuming 
be turned over to the respective groups that they did, what kind of a profit did 
MARKETING DIRECT. 
All our produce is sold to the consumers 
if possible. We fatmers have our custo¬ 
mers and the rest is sold at the local mar¬ 
kets in Keene. We get for poultry 20 cents 
per pound; chickens, 25 cents per pound; 
eggs, 40 cents a dozen, from our customers 
and at the market two cents less per pound, 
located in the Bering fields of Alaska! But they will charge me rate and a half and the same a dozen for eggs. Potatoes 
aer 01 floors were which also embrace the S Cunningham claims, because the rate is. not $2 or more ; that are 60 cents a 5iishel, or 20 cents a peck, 
i billiard n^’lor about which so much has been heard in will be 90 cents again for carrying the bird E. Sullivan, N. H. F. L. F. 
connection with the Ballinger-Pinchot con¬ 
troversy. 
Westchester has been added to the coun¬ 
ties included in the quarantine against 
rabies laid by the New York State Agricul¬ 
tural Commissioner. While the area of 
contagion is much smaller than a year ago 
and the commissioner feels that the dis¬ 
ease is pretty well under subjection, he 
does not know whether fewer dogs are af¬ 
fected. 
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who was near¬ 
ing her ninety-second birthday, died at her 
Summer home in Portsmouth, li. I., Octo¬ 
ber 17, of pneumonia. At the age of nine- 
say 250 miles, or one-fourth the distance 
to Chicago. In other words, the same com¬ 
pany operating wants just as much for car¬ 
rying the bird 250 miles as they do for car¬ 
rying it 1,000. There is something radi¬ 
cally wrong here which I believe some day 
is going to be righted, and through just 
such efforts as you are putting forth. 
Massachusetts. h. b. g. 
R. N.-Y.—Held up? Yes, and robbed, 
too. The only way to right the wrong is 
to demand a fair parcels post and stay 
with ttie demand. There is little use try¬ 
ing any other tactics. 
bail. Benjamin had given $50,000 bail ty-one the author of “I he Battle Hymn 
earlier. It was stated in court that the of the Republic” had retained extraordin- 
—- 1 —-!—„ „n-> c-i . ary vigor of mind and body. Her life had 
epitomized the notable movements of her 
time, and her outlook upon humanity was 
fresh and hopeful to the day of her death. 
FOREIGN POSTAGE ON SHOES, 
undervaluations alleged would reach $1, 
000,000. The Federal grand jury handed 
down indictments October 17, charging 
Benjamin J. Duveen, Henry J. Duveen, 
Joel J. Duveen, Joseph J. Duveen and 
Louis J. Duveen with conspiring to de¬ 
fraud the government by undervaluing im¬ 
portations of art objects by means of false 
and fraudulent invoices, entries, statements, 
affidavits and other false and fraudulent 
devices. At the same time Henry and 
Benjamin Duveen, the only members of the 
firm in this country, were served with a 
summons in a civil suit by which the gov¬ 
ernment seeks to recover the value of un¬ 
dervalued importations. 
Sam Wolf, I. Goldstein and Benny Rod¬ 
ney were arrested and held to await the 
action of the grand jury by Justice Niven, 
of Monticello, N. Y., October 13, charged 
with wholesale horse stealing. They are 
all residents of New York City, but have 
been summering near Monticello. Between 
15 and 20 turnouts have been stolen in that 
section during the last few weeks of which 
NEW ENGLAND CORN SHOW.—I want 
to urge all who can to attend the New Eng¬ 
land Corn Exposition, to be held at Wor¬ 
cester, Mass., Nov. 7 to 12. It will be a 
fine opportunity to study Eastern corn 
varieties, that will well repay anyone for 
his time and expense spent in such visit. 
Yesterday I spent the day at Worcester, 
and found that the arrangements were 
coming along in a most satisfactory man¬ 
ner, so that I now feel that with fair 
weather, the exposition will be a success 
in every respect. While official statistics 
may not show it, I have heard many repre¬ 
sentative farmers from different Connecti- 
Oliver Wendell Holmes said of her on her 
seventieth birthday : “To he seventy years 
young is far more cheerful and hopeful 
than to be forty years old.” Had the poet 
been living on May 27, 1910, he might have 
repeated the compliment to his friend with 
only a change of phrase, ninety-one for 
seventy. Mrs. Howe had been associated 
with prominent literary, philanthropic and 
patriotic movements from early youth, and 
had been a leader in the movement for 
women’s suffrage for forty years. 
Walter Wellman and his five companions 
who sailed October 15 from Atlantic City 
in the dirigible balloon America in an at¬ 
tempt to reach Europe by the northern 
steamship route were picked up October 
18 by the steamship Trent of the Royal 
Mail Steam Packet Company at a point 375 
miles off Norfolk, Va., and about 250 miles 
northwest of Bermuda. The airship began 
“Half a ton of shoes in pair lots were cut localities say that 50 per cent, more 
sent through the mails last week from corn is now being grown in this State as 
Whitman, Mass., to customers in Bolivia ~ - 
and Peru. Postage amounted to $120.” 
Above slip is from the Boston Globe. 
Kindlv tell vour readers what same would 
cost if mailed to any points in the United 
States. E. L. SMALL. 
Massachusetts. 
For 1,000 pounds of shoes the postage in 
this country would be $160, and they 
would have to be put in at least 250 dif¬ 
ferent packages, as merchandise mail In 
this country is limited to a four-pound 
package. Some of the larger-sized heavy 
shoes will weigh over two pounds each, 
and of this class only one could go in a 
package. Thus the United States govern¬ 
ment gives privileges to foreigners which 
are denied to Americans. And all because 
we will not demand a fair parcels post. 
Some time ago I ordered a pipe cutter 
from Chicago which cost $1.14. The 
a result of the corn agitation of recent 
years, than heretofore, and that this con¬ 
dition has benefited everyone concerned. 
a. d. s. 
BUSINESSLIKE TALK.—It is refreshing 
to think that farniers somewhere at least 
can talk business’about their crops. The 
Lima Bean Growers’ Association of Oxnard, 
Cal., have issued a statement to the trade. 
They give the facts about their crop and 
show how speculators are trying to make 
them quote too high a figure. The object of 
this is the old game of making the associa¬ 
tion ask too much and then go in pieces 
when the fall in price comes. The association 
comes to the front in this way: "We, as 
an association, will not be led into raising 
our prices too high, and the only thing we 
can do, then, Is to refuse to quote at all 
or quote at a price which we frankly admit 
is exorbitant and cannot be guaranteed 
against decline for any length of time, until 
no''Uace^coufd^e found! "aniTaU “of ’these to Teak gas soon after starting, and it was ^f^ranT^sf 72^entt Thi^fif short we can spe our way clea - r - t0 go - on q ’ u - 0 ^ n ? 
^Y, - 4-^v WV.OTY UPPOSSAVV thrOW CmSOllTlft fl XV V tf> kPOD ^ A ^ Y . __4. 
thefts are charged to these men. When necessary to throw gasoline away to keep in favor of parcels post, 
three horses disappeared in one night re- above water. The rescue was difficult. The a %trasburg Ya a 
cently the horse owners became thoroughly Trent feared to get close, to the airship ohh&ouib, 
alarmed and a search was begun. Every because of the danger of hitting the Amer- 
road was guarded, with the result that ica’s car. There was also the danger to 
two men were seen driving one horse and her engines and of setting the gasoline 
leading another near Ellenville, early in afire and so putting both the steamship and 
the morning. The horses were captured the balloon in peril. After first communi- 
• • ’ ..... cations wireless was found most practical 
and used. Finally Wellman decided to take 
to lifeboat. Lifeboat was landed safely in 
water while Trent stood by with buoys and 
lifeboats. Although Wellman had been 
s. A. S. 
at what we consider a fair and consistent 
price, and if, in the meantime the jobbers 
are willing to pay higher prices to others 
• — they may do so, but when we think the 
rnm» -icnTFC proper time has come, we shall again quote 
bEUr inuilo. at the price which we consider high enough. 
We have had a much larger crop of an- aa r ar „ r ^ d ,^ y ^ h c, e «^ ° f the Cr ° P an< * 
and proved to be the ones stolen, but the 
thieves escaped. Suspicion pointed to Wolf, 
Goldstein and Redney, and they were ar¬ 
rested as they alighted from a train at 
Fallsburg. These men are thought to be 
old offenders and members of an organ- 
pies than we "anticipated? " Quality excel- actual condition existing, 
lent and price all one could desire. 
Columbia County, N. Y. B. v. a. 
The leading varieties of apples in this 
, . u . ~ . .. . . ... section are Baldwin and Greening. Crop 
______ ___ blown far from his course by the winds that about three-quarters of last season ; no price 
ized gang which have been operating in began to come out of the northwest Sun- as yet has been made for Winter apples; 
Sullivan and adjoining counties along the day night, thereby making his announced wlll prob ably start at $2 to $2.50 for No. 
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Hudson River and in New York City. 
Federal officers raided the mahogany 
furnished offices of the Redeemable Invest¬ 
ment Company, covering the entire sixth 
floor of the Lawrence building, Boston, 
Mass., October 13, seized the books, papers 
and all the cash in sight and arrested 
Charles H. Brooks, manager and a director 
for dirigibles was held by Count Zeppelin, 
who last year flew from Dusseldorf to Bit- 
terfeld and return, a total distance of 840 
miles in 38 hours. The record for time 
and distance of a non-dirigible balloon was 
made in a flight about eight years ago from 
England to the centre of Russia, a distance 
of the company. The raid was upau_ a o£ i t n2 miles in 72 hours, which Is only 
plans futile, the flight establishes a world’s ■, an ‘ d 2 according to the quality of the 
record for dirigibles. The previous record lots T £ e quality is going to be good— 
vr n (Inumhlao uroo ho H t\rr I’Aiinr 'Annnnlin - 1 ^ 
warrant -which charges the company with 
using the mails to defraud. Brooks is the 
man who was pardoned by President Roose¬ 
velt about five years ago because he fur¬ 
nished valuable information for the Fed¬ 
eral government at the trial of Senator 
Burton. He had been tried, found guilty 
and sentenced to eighteen months in jail at 
St. Louis six years ago for his connection 
with land frauds and the Rialto Invest¬ 
ment Company of that city. The Redeem¬ 
able Investment Company was organized 
three years ago. It represented that the 
companies which it promoted were only 
those properties of which it was owner or 
had control. A “redemption fund” was 
said to be on deposit for the purpose of 
taking back at the price paid, plus 6 per 
cent, interest, any stock that a purchaser 
desired to get rid of. The company claimed 
to control thousands of acres of wheat 
lands in the Canadian Northwest, hundreds 
of millions of feet of lumber in British 
Columbia, the Santo Domingo ranch and 
mines in Mexico and the Okanogan Devel¬ 
opment Company of Washington. The Fed¬ 
eral authorities say that two classes of 
stock were issued, that called “Class A 
a shade over the America’s flight so far as 
time is concerned. The total distance cov¬ 
ered by Wellman was approximately 1,008 
miles. 
free from worms. J. a. b. 
Brunswick, Me. 
The apples have all been bought in this 
section at prices ranging from $1.75 per 
barrel to $2.50. Some of the best orchards 
in this vicinity were hurt by hail about 
June 1. The crop is light and a good 
deal of the fruit Is poor, on the old 
trees; on the young trees the fruit is 
good. Some of it has been shipped across 
the water and the remainder put in cold 
- p. v. 
storage. J 
Stockport, N. Y. - - - . , - . , . 
, . , .. . .. _ .. est figures. Thus American machinery is 
A recent trip through 10 counties ox 8en t £o japan, where low cost power, low 
CHEAP JAPANESE PAPER.—The na¬ 
tions of the earth are growing closer to¬ 
gether every year. Here is an illustration 
of the way this works out: A paper-making 
firm in Japan has just erected a four-mil- 
lion-dollar mill. The power to run this mill 
comes from a lake or reservoir 800 feet 
above sea level. They can develop 20,000 
horsepower. The mill requires 8,000 horse¬ 
power and the remainder will be sold for 
commercial purposes. There is timber 
enough within reach of this mill to last for 
a century, with 70 tons of paper per day 
turned out. Now, the point is that the ma¬ 
chinery for this mill and the electrical 
machinery for developing the power was 
bought in the United States and sent to 
Japan. It is claimed that the Japanese 
will be able to sell paper at from two and 
one-half to three cents per pound at a 
fair profit, and that this low cost will 
enable the manufacturers to go into the 
world’s market and sell paper at the low- 
THE CANDIDATES. 
I believe the time has come when public -- - - fa _ nt-m iu ja^u, wucic tusi, c,. *>»" 
opinion calls for improvement, and that the south, central and western Michigan, as far cos t labor aild cbeap material will enable 
best candidates are preferable, regardless of north as Oceana County, snows tnar tn the j apanese to send a finished paper back 
party. It is hard to get a clear concep- apple crop so far as could be seen irom this coun t r y and undersell our own 
tion of a Republican candidate through a the train and learned from inquiry will be 
Democratic paper, and hard to get a clear almost a total failure. Our own orchards 
conception of a Democratic candidate in the extreme northwestern part of Ohio 
through a Republican paper, so we appeal will give us a fair crop. Our corn win 
to you asking that you give us through not come quite up to the average, while 
your paper an understanding of the life, 
habits and business abilities of the two 
candidates who are running for governor 
of the State of New Y'ork this Fall. 
SEXTUS E. LAUDON. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
The Democratic candidate is John A. 
Dix, of Washington County. Mr. Dix was 
born at Glens Falls, and is now 50 years 
old. He attended Cornell, but did not 
in ’ the section of Michigan referred to, 
some fields were hardly knee high in 
places. All with whom I talked placed 
the bean crop at less than half a crop 
in many places. Many growers have con¬ 
tracted their crop at unusually good 
prices. 
Archbold, Ohio. 
manufacturers. 
NEW FAIRS WANTED.—Dr. L. H. 
Bailey, of Cornell, tells the Cornell students 
that new kinds of country fairs are needed. 
This is his central idea: ‘I should assume 
that every person living on the land in the 
county had some one thing which he was 
sure was a contribution to better farming, 
or to better welfare; and he should be 
encouraged to exhibit it and to explain it, 
whether it is a' new way to hang a hoe, 
or a herd of purebred cattle, or a plan for 
- -, - graduate. He is an honorable and success¬ 
going to the officers of the company, while tu j business man, a manufacturer and 
the public was allowed to buy “Class B. banker, and connected with several large 
time the company would make good all de¬ 
mands of dissatisfied stockholders. He was 
released on bail. 
Former State Senator Frank J. Gardner, 
who was arrested October 1, in Scranton, 
Pa., on a bribery charge connected with 
the attempt of the race track interests to 
defeat the anti-racing bills in 1908, was 
indicted at New York, October 14. The 
indictment charges him with having at¬ 
tempted to bribe Senator Otto G. Foelker, 
The drought has not been as severe as farmer’s institutes. I should put it up to 
last season in this locality- A fair crop every man to show in what respect he has 
of hay, with prices some lower than last any right to claim recognition over his fel- 
year. There is a much easier feeling on lows, or to be a part of his community.” 
The present county fair lias gone away 
from the true needs of country people, and 
plain man or business witn a good record and the price of butter is encouraging, a J>r.one^ome^ere^make*one* expert* 
for conducting large affairs. He has been f m ii 0 s north or east of us the condi- that some one somewnere maae one experi 
chairman of the Democratic Committee of ,, not as favorable—severe drought, ment with a county fair designed to bring 
Washington County, and also chairman of fig?® ^opgratallmost a failrue and all the people together on a wholly new 
the State Committee. Two years ago. he g*VS? *££ ‘S&%55£» is s«P ff d ^ wrong for tid. 
with co-operative creameries, which have 
was nominated by the Democrats for Lieu 
tenant-Governor, but was defeated. 
The Republican candidate is Henry L. 
Stimson, who was born in New York City 
43 years ago. His family is an old one, 
tracing back to the early settlers. Mr. 
Stimson was graduated at Yale and became 
whose vote in the special session. of the a successful lawyer. In 1906 President 
legislature in 1908 was the decisive one Roosevelt appointed him United States At- 
that killed racing in New York State. An torney, and he held this post a little over 
attempt to bribe a legislator is a felony. A three years. His record in office was an 
guide to the extent of the scandal which excellent one. He secured the conviction 
the prosecution of Gardner opens up -was o£ Charles W. Morse, convicted the New 
disclosed in Scranton -when District At- York Central and other railroads for re- 
been a great blessing to the farmers and 
are generally patronized by the dairymen. 
This is a dairy section almost exclusively, 
climatic and grazing conditions are favor¬ 
able to the industry. j. D. H. 
Windham, N. J. 
NEW JERSEY FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. 
Germania .Atlantic Co., Nov. 2. 
aisciosea 1U oa-»u«m »«u *1*°-**— xors ventral ana otner raiiroaus tor it- Hammonton ... Atlantic Co., - ov. 3 . 
torney Waitman, who had hastened there bating, and also the sugar trust for vari- ' Vatho ‘ * rnWesterCo Nov 5 
to take personal charge of the work of ous frauds. Mr. Stimson is a very able Clayton ...-GlSucester Co" No 9 10. 
bringing Gardner back, that the ac- lawyer and a good public speaker. Both vr^, !ion/i 1111 ’ ‘ " ('nmbcrland Co Nov.’ll 12. 
cused man handled at least $500,000 which Mr. Dix and Mr. Stimson are, so far as we o\^i°i and . Cn ’ Nov 14 15 
.. . . —- -know, gentlemen of high character and up- Shiloh .vumoeriana vo., nov.^xu. 
right life. _ 
cuacu uiau Altluuiv-u 1 . 
had been subscribed to influence legislation 
at Albany on the race track and other bills. 
After long months of inquiry on the part 
of officials working under the direction of 
R A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, 
the government has secured indictments 
agains men who are charged with con- 
spiraev to defraud in connection with valu¬ 
able coal lands in Alaska. The indictments 
were returned by the Federal grand jury 
sitting at Seattle. The men indicted are C. 
F. Mundav, A. H. Stracey, Archie W. 
Shields and E. E. Siegler, who are identi¬ 
fied with what is known as the English, or 
Stracev group; also Cornelius Christopher, 
George' Simmonds and Mortimer Sweeney, 
all of whom have been active with the 
Christopher-Simmonds group, which has 
been diligent in its efforts to acquire coal 
lands in Alaska. Munday lives in Seattle. 
He is a lawver of prominence and a man 
of considerable wealth. Stracey is a Cana¬ 
dian. He makes his headquarters in Brit¬ 
ish Columbia, and -has been in the Alaskan 
field for a long time. The men named are 
charged with violations of the law that 
prohibits the acquisition of public lands 
through the medium of dummy entrymen. 
It was set forth in the evidence submitted 
PARCELS POST THE REMEDY. 
I have been greatly interested in your 
fight for parcels, post and your efforts 
against the express companies. I have 
often wondered if you have ever been held 
up by this pirate outfit as some of us 
have. To illustrate, we are 24 miles from 
Boston, and the rate is 50 cents. The ex¬ 
press company doing business through our 
town goes under the name of the American, 
while Dedham, which is 12 miles from Bos¬ 
ton, has a rate of 40 cents, and the com¬ 
pany there operates under the name of the 
Adams. Should T desire to send a rooster 
to a friend in Dedham, and the said rooster 
and package weighs 15 pounds, the charge 
will be 90 cents, as they will graduate once 
under the charge Georgetown to Boston and 
once under the charge Boston to Dedham, 
and the rate will be' once and a half. The 
same dav I ship another rooster to Chi¬ 
cago, a distance of a thousand miles against 
36. The rate to Chicago is $2.50, and they 
will charge me but single rate, which for 
15 pounds is 85 cents. Here is where they 
Beemerville -Sussex Co., Nov. 16 
Montague .Sussex Co., Nov. 17. 
Layton .Sussex Co., Nov. 18. 
Branehville ....Sussex Co., Nov. 19. 
Johnsonburg ... Warren Co., Nov. 21. 
Blalrstown .... Warren Co., Nov. 22. 
Hope .Warren Co.. Nov. 23. 
New Market-Middlesex Co., Nov. 25. 
South Branch. .. Somerset Co., Nov. 2b. 
Ringoes .Hunterdon Co., Nov. 28. 
Sergeantsville ..Hunterdon Co., Nov. 29. 
Stanton .Hunterdon Co., Nov. 30. 
Williamstown .. Gloucester Co., Dec. 1. 
Moorestown -Burlington Co., Dec. 2, 3. 
Haddonfield _Camden Co., Dec. 5. 
Middlebush _Somerset Co., Dec. 6. 
Woodstown -Salem Co., Dec. 9, 10. 
Harmersvllle ...Salem Co., Dec. 12. 
Salem .Salem Co., Dec. 13. 
Elmer .Salem Co., Dec. 14. 
Penn’s Grove... Salem Co., Dec. 15. 
I>akewood .Ocean Co., Dec. 16. 
Matawan .Monmouth Co., Dec. 17. 
Red Bank.Monmouth Co., Dec. 19. 
Freehold .Monmouth Co., Dec. 20. 
Allentown .Monmouth Co., Dec. 21. 
Columbus .Burlington Co., Dec. 22. 
Flemington _Hunterdon Co., Dec. 23. 
Hopewell .Mercer Co., Dec. 24. 
twentieth century in which we live. The 
old needs are passing; new needs are com¬ 
ing in. I would have the fair represent the 
real substantial progress of rural civiliza¬ 
tion, and I would also have it help to make 
that progress. It should be a power in its 
community, not a phenomenon that passes 
as a matter of course, like the phases of the 
moon.” 
FEEDING WILD BIRDS.—On page 932, 
J. E. P., Wilkesbarre, Pa., in an article 
headed “Winter Feeding of Wild Birds,” 
seems to be having difficulty in placing 
grain where the birds can get it, and at 
the same time prevent the squirrels and 
mice from stealing it, and asks for a plan 
to accomplish the desired result. The 
editor suggests a modification of an “ex¬ 
erciser” which he saw at Connecticut Agri¬ 
cultural College; it may be that this would 
answer the purpose. However, feeling that 
J. E. P. should be helped in his laudable 
efforts to protect the useful birds, I send 
the following simple plan, suggested me 
by seeing the same used on corncribs which 
were built on posts to prevent rats, mice 
and other vermin from reaching the corn. 
The plan is to have near the top of the 
posts tin or sheet iron disks fastened to 
the posts, which no squirrel, rat or mouse 
could pass hv, as the surface of the metal 
would give them no hold, and could be 
made still more efficient by making the 
disks somewhat cone-shaped. So I would 
suggest erecting platforms on posts, and be¬ 
tween the posts and the platform fasten a 
large disk or a large dishpan inverted. 
The post would naturally be put in a 
cleared place where squirrels could not 
jump from nearby trees, and the platform 
placed high enough that nothing without 
wings could have any chance to reach it 
from the ground. The birds might have to 
be attracted to the platform by sprinkling 
some grain in the vicinity for some time. 
Altoona, Pa. J- h. 
