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EVENTS OF THE WEEK, 
D OMESTIC.—Seven bodies had been 
washed ashore at Grand Marais, 
Mich., 49 miles east of Whitehall, a 
point on the south shore of Lake Superior, 
Nov. 20. The schooner Anna I’eterson 
was wrecked near Grand Marais, and it 
is supposed that the bodies are those of 
the crew of the lost boat. It is not be¬ 
lieved there are any survivors, as the 
schooner carried a crew of about seven. 
Twenty-five stores were burned and a 
score of families driven from their homes 
by a fire which destroyed a block front 
in the business section at Keansburg, 
N. J., Nov. 20. The fire did $25,000 
damage. 
Fire in a tenement house on East 
Twenty-ninth St., New York, Nov. 22. 
caused the death of eight persons. There 
is suspicion that the fire was started by 
blackmailers. Another woman who saw 
the fire, but was herself unhurt, died 
from shock later. 
According to the report of the 
Cross just made public, Americans 
contributed about $850,000 to the 
fund of the organization. Of this 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 5, 
Red 
have 
war 
sum 
087. 
New York’s share amounts to $35 
The national society, the report of its 
officers in Washington states, still has a 
balance of $265,000 available for future 
use in the war devastated countries of 
Europe. 
The jury in the Supreme Court at 
Geneseo, N. Y., where Henry Siegel has 
been on trial since November 9 for grand 
larceny growing out of the failure of his 
department stores, found Siegel guilty, 
Nov. 23, of a misdemeanor in obtaining 
credit on false financial statements. The 
offense is a violation of section 1293 of 
the I'enal Law. This law was passed 
in 1912. In finding a verdict on this 
charge the jury took a course outlined by 
Justice Clark in his final instructions. 
Justice Clark said he had serious doubts 
.as to the validity of the grand larceny 
charge and permitted the jury to find 
Siegel guilty of the less serious offence. 
Justice Clark sentenced Siegel to pay a 
fine of $1,000 and serve ten months in 
the Monroe County penitentiary. 
Forty-three survivors were rescued, 
Nov. 24, from the wrecked steamer Ilan- 
alei. which went ashore in a dense fog 
on buxbury reef, nine miles north of the 
Golden Gate, California. Eighteen dead 
had been either washed ashore at Polinas, 
or brought to port by the United States 
revenue cutter McCulloch and the navy 
tug Iroquois. How many are missing 
never will be known, for the best avail¬ 
able list gives 28 passengers, and the 
crew numbered 26, a total of 54, where¬ 
as the known dead and saved number til, 
seven more than are shown on the com¬ 
pany’s papers. 
Barnett Baff, said to have been the 
largest independent poultry dealer in 
this section of the country and hounded 
for years because he would not join “the 
trust,” was killed, Nov 24, in West 
Washington Market. New York. The 
two men who committed the murder ran 
unmolested to an automobile, which was 
waiting about 20 feet from the corner, 
jumped in and escaped. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Great Bri¬ 
tain has declined to modify in favor of 
American manufacturers the embargo on 
exportation of wool from Australia and 
other British dominions. It had been 
hoped that after the -eds of the British 
army had been satisi Americans might 
be permitted to buy Vustralian sur¬ 
plus, giving guarantee* at neither the 
wool nor goods made fi 
Austria or Germany, 
partment was informed 
the present at least no 
be made. It 
cision of the 
it would reach 
the State De- 
»v. 20, that for 
exceptions would 
is understood that the de- 
British Privy Council as 
to wool applies also to rubber. 
^ Capt. R. E. Rose, State Chemist of 
Florida, testified, Nov. 21, at the trial of 
E. C. Chambers, president of the Cham¬ 
bers Land Company, in the Federal 
Court at Kansas City, Mo. The defend¬ 
ant is charged with having used the mails 
to defraud in connection with the sale of 
Florida lands. By Capt. Rose’s evidence 
the defence attempted to prove that the 
Everglades land will grow crops without 
fertilization. A number of exhibits, 
consisting of all manner of tropical fruits 
and vegetables, which had been grown, 
it was said, on the Everglades lands, 
were introduced as evidence. A number 
of farmers in the Everglades also testi¬ 
fied as to the productivity of the soil 
there. 
Commissioner Iluson reported, Nov. 20, 
that the foot-and-mouth disease was then 
confined to 13 farms in New York State. 
No further serious outbreak was expect¬ 
ed. The outbreak at Secaucus, N. J., 
proved to be serious, and Secretary Hous¬ 
ton advised Governor Fielder that all in¬ 
fected cattle should be destroyed. Dairy¬ 
men there have organized to fight this. 
New cases were discovered, Nov. 22, on 
two farms in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The annual meeting of the New York 
State Sheep Breeders’ Association will 
be held in the Seneca Hotel, Rochester, 
N. Y., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 9 A. 
M.; President J. C. Duncan Lewiston; 
Secretary-treasurer B. W. Brace, Albion. 
All members are requested to be present 
at this meeting as business of importance 
will require their consideration. The 
State Breeders’ Association will also 
meet at this time, *as well as the State 
Dairymen’s Association. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Nov. IS 
a naval battle in the Black Sea occurred 
between Odessa and Sevastopol between 
the Russian licet and the Turkish (late 
German) cruisers Breslau and Goeben, 
both sides claiming victory.Nov. 
20 was the sixty-third day of the bom¬ 
bardment of Rheims by the Germans. 
Many civilians have been killed. 
Nov. 21 three British aviators made a 
flight of 250 miles. 120 miles over Ger¬ 
man territory, and dropped bombs on the 
German Zeppelin factory at Friedrich- 
shafen, damaging the factory and one 
Zeppelin. One aviator was captured. 
.A German destroyer, S-124, was 
accidentally sunk by a Danish steamer 
not far from Copenhagen, and a sub¬ 
marine, the U-18, discovered and rammed 
off the north coast of Scotland by a 
British patrol ship. The crews were 
rescued.England admits defeat by 
the Germans in East Africa, with 
heavy loss.Turkey claims a vic¬ 
tory over the British at El Kantarn, 
.Flooded areas 
freezing, and 
mainly of 
Germans are 
part of the 
near the Suez Canal. 
in Flanders are now 
the fighting consists 
artillery duels. The 
strongly fortifying that 
Belgian coast held by them.The 
bombardment of Zeebrugge. the German 
naval base on the Belgian const, by the 
British fleet is reported to have resulted 
in setting fire to the town. The Solvay 
works, near the Bruges ship canal, are 
now a heap of ruins, and six submarines 
which were brought there in sections 
were reduced to twisted iron.In 
France the Germans have made several 
fierce infantry attacks in the Argonnc. 
The French official report says these 
were all repulsed. Along the rest of the 
front there has been desultory cannon¬ 
ading.Nov. 24 a bomb from a 
German airship fell in front of the Amer¬ 
ican Consulate at. Warsaw, but without 
any casualty.1 )esperate fighting 
continues in the vicinity of Warsaw. It 
was reported, Nov. 23, that the Germans 
had lost many prisoners at Kutuo, and 
the Russians had captured Gumbinnen, 
in Eastern Prussia.It was report¬ 
ed, Nov. 25, that the German army ad¬ 
vancing eastward from Thorn has been 
split in two and that the Russians have 
dislodged the Germans from five towns. 
German official reports say the fighting 
continues in north and south Poland 
without decisive result.The Portu¬ 
guese Parliament unanimously adopted a 
resolution, Nov. 24. to take part in the 
war on the side of the Allies whenever 
tlic time is opportune .Nov. 22 ad¬ 
vices from Pretoria stated that two sons 
of Gen. DeWet, the rebel leader, had 
surrendered to Union forces, with a por¬ 
tion of his force.Italy announced, 
Nov. 24, that if Egypt is threatened by 
Turkey and the British close the Suez 
Canal she will take positive action 
against the Ottoman Government, which 
she will hold responsible for damaging 
her interests. Italy will not tolerate the 
closing of the canal.A decision of 
the British Prize Court in the case 
of the Miramiehi, a British ship, 
which sailed before the outbreak of war 
from Galveston, with a cargo of wheat, 
destined for Rotterdam and thence to 
two German firms, will have an import 
ant effect upon American shipping inter¬ 
ests. The court upholds the American 
contention that the cargo was the prop¬ 
erty of Americans and ordered its re¬ 
lease. 
Five per cent, greater acreage sowed 
to wheat in Ohio is the estimated in¬ 
crease over the acreage a year ago. It 
is estimated at nearly two mi'lion acres, 
in exact figures 1,878,267 acres, 
growing condition according to the 
of the agricultural commission is above 
average, or placed at 101 per cent. Corn 
prospects are 93 per cent, or a little be 
low average. Rye acreage is estimated 
at 134,789 acres, or 94 per cent, of an 
average and condition is 5)8 per cent, of 
normal. The potato crop this year is es¬ 
timated at 2.500.437 bushels above last 
year which was seven million bushels. 
Dean Homer C. Price of Ohio State 
University, gives figures relative to the 
new three-year course now taking the 
place of the two-year course in the Ohio 
College of Agriculture. The total at¬ 
tendance is 156, of which 122 are from 
farms and 22 from the business world, 
and 12 did not indicate calling of their 
parents. Ninety-one students are high 
school graduates, 16 are from the grades, 
and the remaining discontinued their 
high school work during the course, par¬ 
ticularly at the end of the second year. 
Governor Glynn has appointed Mr. 
John J. Dillon Commissioner to organize 
the new Department of Foods and Mar¬ 
kets. Of the appointment the Albany 
Argus says: “Mr. Dillon's appointment 
is a distinct example of the oflice seek¬ 
ing the man. For several months Gov¬ 
ernor Glynn has urged Mr. Dillon to 
accept the position, because he consid¬ 
ered him the best qualified man in the 
State for the particular duties which 
must fall upon a Commissioner of Foods 
and Markets. Mr. Dillon was an en¬ 
thusiastic advocate ot the creation of this 
Department. It was only after the Gov¬ 
ernor pointed out that unless the proper 
man took charge of it, it would fail to 
achieve the desired ends, that Mr. Dillon 
accepted. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Ohio-Micbigan Land and Live Stock 
Exposition, Toledo, ()., Nov. 22-Dec. 5. 
Auburn Poultry Show, State Armory 
Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 30-Dec. 5. 
Michigan State Horticultural Society 
annual meeting, Kalamazoo, Mich., Dec. 
1-3. 
Michigan State Potato Show and meet¬ 
ing, Kalamazoo, Dec. 3-5. 
.Second annual seed exposition, Mon¬ 
tana Seed Growers’ Association, Boze¬ 
man, Mont.. December 8-10. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. annual meeting. State Experiment 
Station. New Brunswick, Dec. 8-10. 
Connecticut Sheep Breeders' Associa¬ 
tion. annual meeting. Unity Hall, Hart¬ 
ford, Dec. 15. 
New York State Breeders’ Association, 
New York State Sheep Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, New York State Dairymen’s As¬ 
sociation. annual meetings, Seneca Hotel, 
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 16. 
Farmers’ Week. Pennsylvania State 
College, December 28, 1914 to January 
8, 1915, State College, I’. O., Penn. 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual meeting, Rochester, N. Y., 
Jan. 6-7-8, 1915. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
Cooperative Associations of the State 
of New York, second conference, Ithaca, 
January 13, 14, 15, 15)15. 
Second annual meeting of the New 
Hampshire State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture and the thirtieth annual meeting of 
the Granite State Dairymen's Associa¬ 
tion. Manchester, N. II., Feb. 10 and 11, 
1915. Fred Rasmussen, secretary. 
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Nov. 23. Garden crops are not raised 
here, only for home use. Apples, hand 
picked, 90 cents a barrel. At sales dairy 
cows $60 to $90; Spring calves $20 to 
$30; good work horses $200 to $250. The 
leading crops are beans and sugar beets. 
Beets a bumper crop; beans poor, 15 
bushels an acre; all other crops good. 
Not much farm land changing hands: 
land $100 and $125 per acre. a. e. s. 
t’aro, Mich. 
in every county to sell our big 
line of goods direct to farmers. 
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instruct you. Many of the salesmen of this 
company are making 
$1,000 TO $3,000 A YEAR 
handling onr big sellers. Exclusive territory given. 
We furnish you the capital; you furnish the team to 
carry the goods. I'.e your own boss in a pleasant, 
permanent ami profitable business. Write at once 
for full particulars giving age and occupation. 
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125,50c.; 200, 90<\: 500, $1.40; 1.000. $2.40. Wo prepay 
express. Chatham Courier Co., Chatham, N. V. 
Wrought iron Pipe 
couplings, 14-toot lengths and up, suitable for most 
any purpose. Also pipe cut to sketch or drilled for ir¬ 
rigation. We guarantee entire satisfaction or return 
money. PFAFF & KFNOALL, 101 Foundry SI.. Newark N J 
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you the telephone right-of-way anywhere, 
at all times ? 
\ our telephone instrument, which consists of 
1 30 different parts, is only the entrance way to 
your share of the vast equipment necessary in 
making a call. 
Your line is connected with the great Bell 
highways, reaching every state in the union— 
with its poles, copper wire, cross arms and insu¬ 
lators in the country; its underground conduits, 
manholes, cable vaults and cables in the cities. 
You have the use of switchboards costing up¬ 
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of countless inventions which make possible 
universal telephone talk. 
Your service is safeguarded by large forces of 
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How can such a costly service be provided at 
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Only by its use upon a share-and-share-alike 
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A plant so vast gives opportunity for ruinous 
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of the facilities provided. 
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servant of the masses. 
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