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T.'HtC KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
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7 cm\ 
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day after day slips away, while he talks, la¬ 
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_FAILS TO ACT—till the Springtime is 
on him and his hone is not yet able to work. 
Meantime the thrifty, prosperous, resolute 
man, reads, considers the evidence carefully 
_Decides Promptly—and his horse is work' 
ing in, say, ten days to two weeks. That’s 
exactly what happens every winter. 
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of every day for Eighteen Years our advice 
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mails go and horses are. Our charges are 
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EVENTS OF THE W EEK. 
Henry M. Teller, United States fsena- 
tor from Colorado for 30 years and 
Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet 
of President Arthur from March, 1882, 
until March, 1885, died Feb. 23, in his . 
eighty-fourth year. He had been in poor- 
health nearly two years. Death was 
ascribed to heart disease and infirmities 
incident to old age. Ex-Senator Henry 
M. Teller, long one of the most striking 
political figures of his adopted West, be¬ 
gan liis service at the national capital 
on March 4, 1876, when Colorado was 
admitted into the Union. One of the 
early members of the Republican party, 
he took a conspicuous part in its coun¬ 
cils until the national convention of 1896, 
when he bolted because of the adoption 
of the gold standard plank and walked 
out of the hall with a score of others 
who believed with him in the Bryan doc¬ 
trine of the free coinage of silver at the 
ratio of 16 to 1. 
Secretary Bryan has instituted nego¬ 
tiations with Great Britain with a view j 
to the protection of migratory game birds 
which pass between Canada and the 
United States. He is acting under au¬ 
thority of a law of Congress. The pro¬ 
posed treaty applies also to birds that 
visit the British colonies in Central and 
South America. It is understood that 
this treaty will be followed by others 
to be negotiated between the United 
States and France, Denmark and Hol¬ 
land, which have colonies in the Western 
Hemisphere, and also with the Latin 
American countries and possibly with 
still other countries of Europe or Asia. ■ 
The storm which swept southern Cali- j 
fornia Feb. 18-21, resulted in a loss of 
seven lives and property damage of $4,- 
500,000. The rainfall was from 10 to 12 
inches and this fl '>od was increased by 
high winds which made the water much 
more destructive City engineers esti¬ 
mate that Los Angeles suffered a damage 
loss of least 81,500,000. One hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars represented 
the damage to city streets alone. The 
balance was made up of losses to rail¬ 
roads and to citizens whose homes were 
swept away with all their household ef¬ 
fects. Except in the vicinity of Pomona, 
where young groves suffered severely, 
orange growers reported little damage. 
Ranches and small farms in the low¬ 
lands were inundated. The torrents 
washed away hundreds of feet of the 
Los Angeles River bank in the heart of 
this city. Buildings were undermined 
and toppled over and many homes were 
washed away. 
The United States Supreme Court 
handed down about 40 decisions in Wash¬ 
ington. Feb. 24. Cue of them is of far 
reaching effect on the enforcement of the 
Federal pure food and drug act, and simi¬ 
lar State laws. Under this decision, the 
Government in order to libel foods that 
have been “treated” or adulterated will 
have to prove that the added substance 
is present in sufficient quantity to injure 
health. The mere fact that the deleteri¬ 
ous substance is present will not be suffi¬ 
cient. Government authorities fear this 
decision will greatly hamper them in the 
enforcement of the law. Another im¬ 
portant decision sustained the validity 
of the section of the Payne-Aldrich 
tariff law which imposed a tax on foreign 
built yachts owned and used by citizens 
of the United States. 
By a vote of six to one the New York 
Court of Appeals ordered, Feb. 24, a new 
trial for Charles Becker, the former police 
lieutenant, convicted of the murder of 
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, out of 
whose “squeal” against the police graft 
system of New York, for which it was 
charged he was shot to death, grew 
probably the greatest series of investiga¬ 
tions, exposures and convictions for mur¬ 
der and lesser crimes that ever occurred 
in the United States. The court based 
its reversal upon the errors it held Jus¬ 
tice Goff, the presiding judge, made in 
many of his rulings during the trial. The 
court did not pass on the question 
whether the weight of evidence, against 
Becker was sufficient to warrant his con¬ 
viction. A dissenting opinion was writ¬ 
ten by Justice Werner. The court re¬ 
fused unanimously the application for a 
new trial of the four gunmen who were 
convicted with him for the Rosenthal 
murder. m In the prevailing opinion in 
Becker’s* favor, written by Justice II is- 
cock, 15 errors by Justice Goff were 
cited, some of which, it was held, “passed 
beyond the limits of discretion and were 
erroneous as matters of law,” while 
others had the tendency unwarrantably 
and unnecessarily to embarrass and ham¬ 
per the defendant’s counsel. 
Representative Hinebaugh has intro¬ 
duced a bill into Congress which has had 
a reading and has b^m referred to the 
Ways and Means Committee, having as 
its object the taxation of any person, 
firm or corporation conducting a mail 
order business interstate direct to the 
consumer. The bill proposes to levy a 
tax of one per cent, on the total cash 
value of goods so sold. Further, the per¬ 
son, firm or corporation conducting a 
mail order business must provide proper 
books of account showing every sale so 
made and render a statement thereof, 
as of Dec. 31. to the weeretary of the 
Treasury, the tax to be paid the follow¬ 
ing March 1. The Federal Courts are 
given power to enforce payment and the 
money so collected is to be apportioned 
to the various States of the Union in the 
ratio of the actual amount of goods sold 
in each State. 
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We want every reader of the Rural New-Yorker 
to know about the wonderful Excelsior engine. 
Any reliable farmer can take one of these enaines 
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You cannot afford to farm without the 
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On the latest, most modern, taos' 
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273 Galloway Station, Waterloo, la. 
Emerson DcZ Spreader 
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