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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 16, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—A fire which caused a 
damage of $700,000 occurred at Cam¬ 
den, N. J., Jan. 3. More than 125 
firemen of Camden and Philadelphia were 
overcome and several other persons were 
seriously injured; one person is missing. 
The fire started in the waiting room of 
the Atlantic City Railroad station. The 
station, ferry slips, 21 vestibule passen¬ 
ger cars and four Pullman cars were de¬ 
stroyed. The C. B. Cole Lumber Com¬ 
pany’s plant and the Diologue shipyard 
were badly damaged. The fire was 
caused, it is believed, by the carelessness 
of a passenger in throwing a lighted cig¬ 
arette into some rubbish in the station 
waiting room. 
More than 20 firemen were overcome 
and several were injured more or less 
seriously in an all day fire which de¬ 
stroyed a lumber yard and 18 dwellings 
in Philadelphia, Jan. 3. The blaze will 
result in a loss close to $1,000,000. 
As a result of an investigation grow¬ 
ing out of the discovery that Carl Lody, 
the German spy recently shot in the Tow¬ 
er of London, had used a faked American 
passport, a United States revenue cutter 
pursued the Norwegian liner Bergenfjord 
down New York Bay, Jan. 2, a posse of 
secret agents of the United States De¬ 
partment of Justice swarmed up her side, 
and arrested four Germans armed with 
passports similar to that used by Lody. 
()ne of the four was an officer in the 
German army, attempting to get back to 
the scene of the fighting. Three other 
men were arrested in New York charged 
with entering a conspiracy against the 
government for the purpose of obtaining 
and selling large numbers of faked pass¬ 
ports for Germans wishing to make a 
safe return to their country. The State 
Department is anxious to have the frauds 
bared in all their ramifications, as it is 
regarded of vital interest to this Govern¬ 
ment that such practices be exposed and 
checked. It is pointed out that abuses 
of American passport privileges cannot 
fail to bring passports issued at Wash¬ 
ington into discredit abroad and thus 
work great injury upon Americans abroad 
who are entitled to the passports’ pro¬ 
tection. The Department has been ex¬ 
ercising more and more care in the is¬ 
suance of passports ever since the war 
began, to prevent abuses. 
Plans for the international naval pag¬ 
eant through the Panama Canal next 
March, already considerably interfered 
with by the war in Europe, may be 
further curtailed by the condition of the 
waterway itself. Following the arrival 
at Washington of Col. Goethals, Gov¬ 
ernor of the Canal Zone, it developed 
that there is a prospect that conditions 
in the Culebra cut will remain uncertain 
for a considerable period owing to ser¬ 
ious slides in thi part of the canal. 
Whether or not it will be advisable to 
attempt to pass a large number of giant 
warships through the canal as early as 
next March will remain a doubtful ques¬ 
tion for two months at least. At pres¬ 
ent there is a channel only 100 feet wide 
through the part of the Culebra cut 
where the slides are giving the most 
trouble. All the dredges which can be 
accommodated in the space about the 
slides without blocking navigation are 
being kept at work night and day, but 
it is about all they can do to keep even 
with the movement of earth. 
A bill designed to provide a State con¬ 
stabulary for New York similar to that 
in Pennsylvania is being prepared for 
early introduction in the Legislature. 
Tentative drafts of a bill which follow 
in general a plan suggested by Seth Low, 
of New York, ap .under consideration. 
The Low plan wuiild provide mounted 
peace officers to patrol the entire State, 
except cities of the first class. A reserve 
for emergency also would be provided. 
The Supreme Court of the United 
States held, Jan. 5, that individual mem¬ 
bers of a labor organization may be held 
for triple damage in a civil action 
brought under the Sherman anti-trust 
law. The case is a celebrated one— 
Loewe vs. Lawlor, or as it is more pop¬ 
ularly known, the Danbury hatters’ case. 
It is the second time the litigation grow¬ 
ing out of the Danbury hatters’ strike 
has been before the Supreme Court. In 
the first ease the court held that a labor 
organization, by practising a boycott, may 
be guilty of a conspiracy in restraint of 
trade under the Sherman law. Suits 
were brought originally against 191 de¬ 
fendants to recover under the anti-trust 
act for alleged injury to the business of 
the employing firm of D. E. Loewe & 
Co. of Danbury, Conn., by a strike and 
boycott instituted and carried on by the 
United Hatters of North America, the 
union which was affiliated with the 
American Federation of Labor. The case 
has been in the courts so long that 11 
of the defendants died before the presen¬ 
tation of it in the highest court. Prob¬ 
ably 180 defendants are involved in the 
judgment affirmed by the Supreme Court 
today in the opinion read by Justice 
Holmes and concurred in by all of his 
associates. Damages aggregating with 
interest about $260,000 are involved in 
the (jpinion. That at least part of the 
judgment will be collected is strongly in¬ 
timated by counsel for the defence, because 
bank accounts and property belonging to 
many of the defendants were attached 
under the garnishment process allowed by 
the Connecticut laws. 
The United States Supreme Court 
divided five to four, Jan. 5, in constru¬ 
ing the Oklahoma bank guaranty law, the 
majority holding that the holder of a 
claim as a depositor against an insolvent 
bank in that State cannot bring an ac¬ 
tion in the courts to recover from the 
guaranty bank board. The issue was 
whether an action brought to recover was 
an action against the State of Oklahoma 
within the meaning of the Federal Con¬ 
stitution, which will not permit a State 
to be sued without its consent. 
The Southern Truck Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. the Farmers’ Protective Associa¬ 
tion and the Texas Fruitgrowers’ Asso¬ 
ciation have filed protests with the In¬ 
terstate Commerce Commission against 
the proposed freight rates schedule be¬ 
coming effective January 5. It is de¬ 
clared that the proposed advance in rates 
to St. Louis and Kansas City will prac¬ 
tically destroy the fruit and truck grow¬ 
ing industries of southern Texas. The 
new schedules make an increase of eight 
cents per 100 pounds on onions and five 
cents inei’ease on cabbage and other 
truck. 
The simultaneous buniing of two big 
feeder cables in the New York subway at 
Broadway and Fifty-third St., Jan. 6, 
resulted in the death of one woman, 172 
men, women and children so badly in¬ 
jured they were taken to hospitals, and 
more than 500 others partly asphyxiated, 
bruised or battered in a stampede of 2,- 
000 through choking, poisonous smoke, 
and the complete suspension of all traf¬ 
fic on the entire subway system of the 
city for eight and a half hours and the 
crippling of the plant for several days 
at least. The passengers were trapped 
in the cars, without light, jammed in the 
rush-hour crush. They were rescued 
through gratings and manholes by police, 
firemen and volunteer helpers, many of 
the rescuers being overcome by the 
fumes. 
WASHINGTON. — The immigration 
bill, with the literacy test included, 
passed the Senate, Jan. 2, by a vote of 
49 to 7. It had already passed the House. 
The amendment excluding negroes stayed 
in, and a clause admitting Belgian ref¬ 
ugees was added. The bill will go to a 
conference committee of the Senate and 
House, but the literacy test, having 
passed both houses in the same form, will 
not be the subject of conference. The 
bill will go to the President in a form 
unsatisfactory to him. The President be¬ 
lieves the literacy test is too rigorous. 
Action which is expected greatly to 
lessen the inconveniences that American 
shipping has been suffering at the hands 
of tlie British was taken by the Treas¬ 
ury Department, Jan. 5, in authorizing 
the Collector of Customs at Savannah, 
Ga., to have vessels bound thence to 
foreign ports loaded under the supervis¬ 
ion of customs officials with a view to 
the certification of the honesty of the 
manifests. The custom officials will not 
attempt to determine or certify whether 
any part of cargoes the loading of which 
they have supervised is contraband or 
not, but they will give to ship owners or 
agents an appropriate certificate of the 
cargo as shown in the manifests. This 
will be done, however, only on applica¬ 
tion by the ship owners or agents. This 
authority probably will be extended to 
customs officers in other ports. The 
chief grievance of the United States 
against Great Britain with i*egard to 
trade during the war is the protracted de¬ 
tention of American vessels or American 
cargoes while the British authorities 
were examining them. By virtue of the 
new arrangement British officers holding 
up an American vessel or cargo will find 
in the ship’s papers the guarantee of the 
United States Government that the mani¬ 
fest is a truthful statement of the con¬ 
tents of the hold. If no contraband is 
found therein it is believed here the Bri¬ 
tish officers will thereupon permit the 
ship to proceed. Where contraband is 
contained in the cargo the British will 
exercise their discretion as to whether 
the ship is to be further detained or not. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—The Bri¬ 
tish battleship Formidable was torpedoed 
and sunk in the English Channel, Jan. 
1 ; 201 men were rescued, the loss of 
life being 512. The Formidable was a 
second-line battleship launched in 1902. 
.In Flanders, fighting has been 
hampered by floods, 
tinued to hold St. 
mans are sending 
ments to Flanders, 
strength of their 
but the Allies con- 
Georges. The Ger- 
enormous reeforce- 
and increasing the 
artillery, especially 
about Dixmude.The French con¬ 
tinue to advance in Alsace, where a 
Sub-Prefect has been appointed to ad¬ 
minister affairs in the Department of 
Haut-Rhin, comprising territory won 
from the Germans.Jan. 5 the 
French War Office announced the cap¬ 
ture of a strong German position near 
St. Mihiel, in the Argonne; an advance 
toward Colmar in Alsace, and severe 
fighting toward Lille in Northern France, 
where the British are cooperating with 
them. The German General Staff report¬ 
ed, Jan. 5, the capture of a French trench 
at Arras, and the repulse of Allied at¬ 
tack in Alsace and the Argonne. They also 
announce that the German offensive is 
successful in Poland.Two sons of 
Gen. Ricciotti Garibaldi and grandsons of 
the great Italian patriot, have been 
killed in the Argonne district while lead¬ 
ing Italian volunteers against the Ger¬ 
mans.Italy has issued a mobiliza¬ 
tion announcement, which permits the 
calling out of all able-bodied men between 
20 and 40 years of age. This will give 
Italy an army of over 3.000,000. 
The American Commission for the Re¬ 
lief of Belgium has discovered 10,000 
French peasants who were absolutely 
foodless and many of whom were dying 
in an isolated valley of the Meuse River 
just south of the Belgian frontier. Every 
destitute person in Belgium now l’eceives 
a ration of 10 ounces of bread daily, 1,- 
400,000 being taken care of.Re¬ 
ports from Constantinople, Jan. 1, re¬ 
ported fears of an uprising, the populace 
being unsympathetic towai’ds Enver 
Pasha’s war policy.The Grand 
Duke Nicholas, commander in chief of 
the Russian armies, in a telegram to Gen. 
Joffre, the French commander, Jan. 5, 
announced a great Russian victory over 
the Turks in the Caucasus. At Sari 
Kamysh a whole Turkish army corps sur- 
rendered; a second corps was routed 
while at Ardahan another corps was put 
to flight. It is reported in Petrograd 
that Russian troops after ci'ossing the 
Carpathians have captured eight Hungar- 
ian towns and that an army of 200.000 
men is advancing toward Budapest. 
.Jan. 1 it was announced that the 
Russians have penetrated the Carpathian 
passes into Hungary at four different 
points. 
Making Sorghum Syrup. 
I N answer to John B. Lewis, Virginia, 
on page 1395, to make “good syrup” 
from sorghum cane, will require a 
self-skimmed evaporator-, a supply of yel¬ 
low clay, two or three tanks to hold 
juice to filter, a furnace to set the evap¬ 
orator on, or better still to cook with 
steam and a copper coil. In all, the 
cost will come around $300 for outfit. 
Light sandy land is best, making the 
best quality of syrup, and will make 
from 75 gallons to 150 gallons per acre. 
In fact the sandy land will produce more 
profit in sorghum syrup, than any cx-op 
I am familiar with, as it requm s no 
fertilizer, in the West. Any kind of 
manure will ruin the sap for syrup, mak¬ 
ing it quivery or ropy. I do not con¬ 
sider sorghum syrup of much value, un¬ 
less the juice is filtered before cooking, 
taking out all the green sediment. The 
juice should run into the boiling end of 
the self-skimmer, with no more coloring 
matter in it than well, or spring water. 
The filtered juice will come out a light 
amber colored syrup (about the color of 
glucose) and no strong rank soi-ghum 
taste. When the hot syrup will hang 
down, or “rope” from a stick (or a new 
broom with which we stir it) 10 to 12 
inches, draw the syrup into the cooler at 
once, otherwise it will go to sugar in 
the barrel or cask. I have always used 
wood to cook with, but steam would be 
much nicer with a copper coil. I would 
say this estimated cost of $300 will equip 
an outfit to finish 150 gallons in about 
15 hours, one person to attend the fur¬ 
nace and run off the syrup, and also 
stir the cooking syrup. The boiling juice 
needs no attention at all, and runs a con¬ 
tinual stream into the boiler, which 
skims itself perfectly. 
Kansas. geobge purdy. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Athens, annual meeting, Jan. 19-20. 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Associa¬ 
tion and Pennsylvania Vegetable Grow¬ 
ers’ annual meeting, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
Jan. 19-21. 
Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, 
New York, 26th annual exhibition, Feb. 
12-18; secretary and superintendent, 
Chas. D. Cleveland, Eatontown, N. J. 
New York State Agricultural Society 
75th annual convention, the Capitol, Al¬ 
bany, N. Y., Jan. 20-21. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, 
eighteenth exhibition, St. Albans, Jan. 
19-22; seci-etary, M, D. Jarvis, St. Al¬ 
bans. 
New York State School of Agricultux-e, 
Morrisville, Farmers’ Week, Jan. 25-29. 
South Dakota Impi-oved Live Stock 
and Poultry Breeders’ Association an¬ 
nual meeting, Mitchell, S. D., Jan. 26-27. 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Association, 
annual convention, Unity Hall, Hartford, 
Conn.. Jan. 26-27-28. 
New Jersey State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, 42d annual meeting, State House, 
Trenton, Jan. 27-29. 
New York State Vegetable Gi-owers’ 
Association, fifth annual meeting, Feb. 
9-10-11, Ithaca. N. Y. 
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. 
Planters 
Cultivators 
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"n^More important than ever. 
r rheU.S. will export potatoes this 
year. Every bushel raised will be 
needed. Potash is scarce. Seed 
will be high. This planter 
/puts one piece only in every 
/ space, saves at least one 
bushel of seed every acre- 
f no injury to seed, no 
disease carried, best 
distribution of 
f erti lizer. 
Ask your 
dealer 
to 
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with 
show 
you 
planter 
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illustrated 
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B.jr. 
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Here’s why you should select the Eureka Potato 
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The seed drops in sight of driver. 
Steel and malleable construction 
makes long life and few repairs. 
Made in three sizes—for one 
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We also make the Eureka Muloher and 
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4 inch 
wagon 
tiro or 2 
inch iron 
rod. 
“50 pounds to the ton of manure will increase 
the producing value of the manure 60%,” says 
the Ohio Experiment Station. 
Raw Rock Phosphate 
Finely Ground (Floats) 
A phosphorus fertilizer for use with stable 
manure or green manure crops. Write for free 
booklet Y-15, aud delivered prices. 
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