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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The State of Arizona 
appealed to the Supreme Court, March 4, 
from the decision of the Federal District 
Court against the constitutionality of the 
Arizona anti-alien employment law, 
against which Great Britain and Italy 
protested as a violation of treaty rights. 
Three federal circuit judges sitting as a 
district court to expedite consideration of 
the law held it to be unconstitutional at 
San Francisco on January 7. The law 
provided that when any employer had 
more than five men SO per cent, of them 
had to be American citizens. 
Attorney-General W. L. Martin of Al¬ 
abama filed an application at Mobile in 
the Law and Equity Court, March 4. for 
an injunction, against, the Mobile Item 
Publishing Company^ publishing an after¬ 
noon paper, to restrain it from publishing 
advertisements of any liquor concerns' in 
reference to the sale of any alcoholic stim¬ 
ulants. including whiskey, gin, wine, 
brandy or beer, in violation of the anti- 
liquor advertising laws passed recently 
by the State Legislature. 
March 0 wireless calls from the French 
steamer La Touraine, from New York for 
Havre, announced that she was on fii-e 
about 400 miles west of the Irish coast. 
The Holland American Line steamer Rot¬ 
terdam and several British vessels an¬ 
swered the call for help, and the Rotter¬ 
dam convoyed the burning steamer to 
port, while the crew fought the fire. 
There was a small passenger list on 
board, and a cargo that included arms 
and ammunition. La Touraine took a 
leading part in the rescue of passengers 
from the burning Volturno in October-, 
1013. 
Carl Ruroede, a German-American 
shipping clerk who was indicted for pro- 
ciu-iug fraudulent passports, was sen¬ 
tenced at New York, March 8, to thi-ee 
years in the Atlanta Penitentiary. The 
judge in sentencing him intimated that 
the sentence was lessened by the fact that 
Ruroede, while a party to the conspiracy, 
did not personally forge the passports. 
The Panama Canal has been closed to 
all but the lighter draft ships by an¬ 
other slide of earth from the top of the 
Culebra Cut, at a point north of Gold 
Hill. A further slide is probable, but no 
serious tie-up is expected. The px-esent 
channel is sufficient for navigation by 
ships with a draft of twenty feet. 
A resolution for a constitutional amend¬ 
ment for woman suffrage was defeated by 
the Texas House of Representatives, 
March G, by a vote of 90 to 32. The reso¬ 
lution needed 94 votes to pass under the 
two-thirds rule. 
Four men were killed by an explosion, 
March 6, in the Du Pont Powder Com¬ 
pany's plant at Haskell, N. J. Two 
blending houses were torn up, and the 
bodies of the four men were blown to 
shreds. 
March 7 it was stated that the death 
list from the recent mine explosion at 
Hinton, W. Va., was 90; 47 men were 
rescued on that date, after being impris¬ 
oned four days and nights without food 
or drink. 
, A jury was selected, March 8. in the 
United. States District Court at Indian¬ 
apolis to try Donn M. Roberts, Mayor of 
Terre Haute, and 27 others who are 
charged with conspiring to defraud the 
federal government through corrupting 
the election of November 3, 3914, in 
Terre Haute. 
The Supreme Court, speaking through 
the Chief Justice, denied, March 8, the 
appeal taken by the State of Illinois in 
the case of John B. Gaskill against the 
Forest Home Cemetery Company of Chi¬ 
cago, which has become historical. Gas- 
kill is a negro who purchased a lot in 
the cemetery, but was denied permission 
to bury a member of his family there by 
the trustees of the cemetery after they 
made the discovery that .the purchaser 
was a negro. A bill for* thqi relief of Gas- 
kill passed the Illinois Legislature some 
years ago, but was vetoed by the Governor 
on the advice of the Attorney-General. 
The case was dismissed by Chief Justice 
White on the ground that no Federal 
question was involved in the judgment 
rendered by the Supreme Court of Illi¬ 
nois, which found against Gaskill. 
Fire destroyed the upper three floors 
of the five-story loft building running 
from 35 Pearl Street, New York, through 
to 24 Bridge Street, near the Custom 
House, March 11. The thi-ee floors were 
occupied by Hugo Loewi, a dealer in 
hops. The first and second floors of the 
building, occupied by George Hart, a 
cheese commission merchant, suffered con¬ 
siderable damage from water. The loss 
was placed at $50,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—In Finch, 
Ontario, Canada, a free four-weeks’ 
course in agriculture and horticulture for 
farmers’ sons ran during the month of 
February. The purpose was to give in¬ 
struction, by lqctui-es, lantern slides, and 
trips to nearby stock farms, on “the basic 
principles of the sciences underlying the 
common farm practices.” Soils and un¬ 
der-drainage, botany, insects and fungus 
diseases, horticulture, marketing and co¬ 
operation, bookkeeping, and farm manage¬ 
ment were the subjects of the lectures. 
A tour of the market district, to enable 
the delegates to see at first hand the con¬ 
ditions under which farm products are 
sold and stored, was arranged in connec¬ 
tion with the ninth annual meeting of 
the New England Federation for Rural 
Progress, held at Boston, March 5. A 
visit to wholesale milk plants was an¬ 
other feature. President Richard M. 
Bowen, of Providence, Ii. I., presided at 
the meeting. Among the topics consid¬ 
ered were State and county policies for 
the development of agriculture and coun¬ 
try life, organization of agricultural in¬ 
terests and methods of distributing farm 
products. Those on the programme for 
addresses included Prof. E. L. Morgan, 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege; Sumner R. Baker, county agent for 
Franklin County, Massachusetts, and 
Prof. Thomas N. Carver, of Harvard Col¬ 
lege. 
Foot-and-mouth disease continues to 
appeal-, a recent outbreak at Haddonfield, 
N. J., causing the destruction of a fa¬ 
mous herd of prize cattle. The New Jer¬ 
sey Experiment Station is taking great 
precautions to avoid infection. The 
Pennsylvania quarantine, which forbids 
the passage of live stock, cuts off living 
Western animals from transmission to ad¬ 
joining States. 
Florists in Ohio are being seriously 
hampered by a State law compelling own¬ 
ers of steam plants to put them in charge 
of licensed operators if the boilers are 30- 
horsepower or larger. A horsepower 
means, according to State law. 12 square 
feet of heating surface. It is immaterial 
whether the operator develops this horse¬ 
power by the 300 pounds of pressure re¬ 
quired or whether he runs his boiler at 
only one pound of pressure. It is held, 
apparently, that a 30-horsepower boiler 
run at low pressure is a dangerous thing 
and must be in the charge of a licensed 
operatoi-, while a 29-horsepower boiler 
operated at the highest pi-essui-e possible 
can be run by anyone. This law has been 
in force about 14 years, but was not en¬ 
forced in the case of greenhouse boilers 
until about three years ago. Last Sum¬ 
mer, when dull times compelled a number 
of factories to close down, a great num¬ 
ber of steam operators lost their jobs. 
Since that time almost every owner of 
steam-heated greenhouses in and near To¬ 
ledo has been told to put on licensed men. 
Florists say these men know nothing of 
greenhouse temperatures and are useless 
for their work. All boilers in the State 
of Ohio are inspected, or supposed to be 
inspected, either by the State or by cer¬ 
tain i-eliable insurance companies. The 
insurance companies do not specify that 
their boilers shall be openited by licensed 
men. If those inspections are properly 
and conscientiously made, it is held that 
there is no danger whatever with the low 
pressure carried in greenhouse boilers. 
Some growers have fii-ed their own boil- 
ers for many years and have built up a 
comfortable business, but not being ac¬ 
quainted with the construction of other 
types of boilers, they are not allowed 
to do their own firing. The Toledo Flor¬ 
ists’ Flub and the Toledo Market Gar¬ 
deners’ Association are working to secure 
a more rational interpretation of the 
law. 
OBITUARY—Dr. Charles Edwin Bes- 
sey, professor of botany and dean of the 
faculty of the University of Nebraska at 
Lincoln, died of heart trouble on Feb. 
25. ^ Born in Milton, O., on May 21, 
1845, he graduated from Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College and pursued post grad¬ 
uate studies at Harvard under Prof. Asa 
Gray. In 1879 he obtained the degree 
of Ph. D. from State University of Ohio 
where he lectui-ed as botanist from 1870 
to 1884. In the latter year he went to 
the University of Nebraska where he 
occupied the position of chief botanist 
during the last nine years. He was dean 
of the Industrial College of the Univer¬ 
sity of Nebraska from 1884 to 1888, and 
for a second term in 1895-1909. He was 
appointed State botanist in 1893, i-esign- 
ing that position in 1897, and was editor 
of the A Mercian Naturalist between 1880 
and 1897. He taught for 40 years. 
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distributor which spreads It evenly over a 
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Steel bottom sills and other thorough bracing 
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We guarantee the Nisco for one year against 
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We guarantee it to bo of the best material and 
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catalog and name of nearest Nisco dealer. 
Hear the wonderful NISCO story before you 
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New Idea Spreader Co. 
Spreader Specialists • 
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PULLEY 
Costs half—does better work. Automatic—noi 
levers or clutches. Starts cream sep- I 
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sets jerk of engine. Prolongs life of | 
separator. Pays for Itself in a season. 
Warranted for life. If not at dealer’s, 
scud $5.90 for complete pulley. 
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405 Caswell Bids. Milwaukee, Wia. 
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