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April 3, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—C. C. Simmons and J. 
.T. Bridges, representing Panama Canal 
employes, protested at the White House 
March 19. against a recent executive or¬ 
der requiring the employes to pay for 
their rent, light and coal, previously fur¬ 
nished free. Secretary Tumulty acted for 
the President. The committee said the 
order would decrease the pay of employes 
in the Canal Zone by from 10 to 20 per 
cent, in violation of an agreement that 
the wage scales would not be changed 
until tlie canal was completed. Protest 
was also made against a permanent wage 
scale, which the committee said General 
Goetlials was now putting into effect. 
Pleading guilty to an indictment of con¬ 
spiracy against the government in at¬ 
tempting to obtain fraudulent passports, 
Richard P. Stegler was sentenced March 
20 to 00 days’ imprisonment in the Blnck- 
weli’s Island penitentiary, New York, 
while his alleged fellow conspirators. Gus¬ 
tave Cook and Richard Madden, have 
each been sentenced *o f he same institu¬ 
tion for 10 months. T n pleading for len¬ 
iency for his client. Stegler’s lawyer said 
that the responsibility for Stegler’s ac¬ 
tion rests upon a representative of the 
German government who is immune from 
the laws of the United States. 
The Piute uprising in Utah was ended 
March 20, when Brigadier General Hugh 
T,. Scott returned to Bluff with Chief Old 
Polk, his son. Hatch (Tse-Ne-Gat). Chief 
Posey and Posey’s eldest boy. The cap¬ 
ture of the ringleaders by the Chief of 
Staff of the United States Army and a 
small personal escort accomplished the 
peaceful settlement of the Indian rebel¬ 
lion which resulted in the death of six 
men and the wounding of many others in 
the early lighting between a posse and the 
redskins. 
Silverware Rogers, one of America’s 
most famous swindlers, was caught at 
Milwaukee, Wis„ March 22, by Federal 
officials on a reindictment obtained in 
New Y T ork on March 12, after a search 
of three years. In that time he has se¬ 
cured through his operations, the Govern¬ 
ment charges, between $50,000 and $100.- 
000. He had offices in New York at 1218 
Broadway and also in Boston, Providence. 
Worcester. Jersey City. Philadelphia and 
Chicago. Rogers was accused of selling 
territorial rights for the sale of an auto¬ 
matic gas lighter in which the police say 
he has no interest. 
Fifty miners were killed and as many 
more injured March 22 by a snow slide 
which swept away several bunk houses at 
the Britannia mine at Howe Sound, B. C. 
The mine level is on the side of a moun¬ 
tain and nearly five thousand feet above 
the shore of the sound. 
The Vermont Legislature passed an act 
March 22, providing for eugenic mar¬ 
riages. A fine of $500 is fixed for any 
person who weds without fulfilling, the re¬ 
quirements of the law. which is aimed to 
prevent the marriage of those pronounced 
physically or mentally unfit. 
The State Department was advised 
March 22 that the French Government is 
willing to purchase the cargo of cotton on 
board the former German steamship Da¬ 
cia. now before a French prize court, if 
proof is produced that the cotton is owned 
exclusively by American citizens. It is 
understood that there will be no difficulty 
in proving the American ownership of the 
cotton. Purchase of the cotton by the 
French Government will relieve tlu* cot¬ 
ton shippers of any danger of loss. 
Women watchers at the polls in Terre 
Haute, Ind., drove away many repeaters, 
according to testimony given in the elec¬ 
tion fraud case in Federal court March 
22. Several negroes testified that the 
Democratic vote in the Sixth ward would 
have been much larger in the last elec¬ 
tion if the women watchers had not been 
present. They told of their efforts and 
successes at repeating. 
The Poster Advertising Company of 
the United States and Canada has placed 
a ban on the advertisement of whiskey 
and other spirituous liquors. Beer and 
wines are not included. The association 
has members in 4,000 cities of the United 
States and Canada. No new contracts 
will be entered into with the whiskey con¬ 
cerns after May 31, and no whiskey ad¬ 
vertisement will be posted after this year. 
The Treasury Department urged upon 
the Department of Justice March 23 to 
take possession of the Hamburg-American 
liner Odenwahl, which attempted to leave 
San Juan, Porto Rico, without clearance 
papers and under circumstances indicat¬ 
ing that an effort to violate the neutrality 
of the United States was contemplated. 
In addition two Government ships have 
been ordered to go to San Juan for patrol 
duty. 
Many women appeared before Gov. 
Whitman at Albany March 24, to pro¬ 
test against the bills now pending in the 
New York Legislature which they declare 
weaken the laws protecting women and 
girls in factories, stores and canning es¬ 
tablishments. The Bewley-Tliompson 
bills permitting women and children to 
work nights, Sundays and holidays in 
canning factories were on the calendar 
for final passage in the Assembly March 
24, but were amended so that their week¬ 
ly hours of employment, shall be limited 
to seventy-two, and women will not be 
allowed to work after midnight, instead of 
10 P. M., as the law now stands. 
The Mallory Line steamship Denver, 
which was reported as sinking about 
1,300 'miles east of Sandy Hoolt, was 
abandoned at sea March 24, after all 
hands had been taken off by the White 
Star liner Megantic and the freighter 
Manhattan of the Atlantic Transport 
Line. Seven or eight steamships heard the 
Denver’s call for help, the American liner 
St. Louis being the first to get it, and 
change her course. The Manhattan, how¬ 
ever, got to the Denver first and took off 
43 persons, and later the Megantic came 
by and rescued 13, including Captain 
Avery and his wife. 
The New York Senate Taxation Com¬ 
mittee gave a hearing at Albany March 
24 on the Spring-Sullivan bill taxing the 
property of religious and charitable in¬ 
stitutions, which for years has been ex¬ 
empt. Over a score of representatives of 
religious and charitable organizations ap¬ 
peared in opposition to the bill. The op¬ 
position to this bill is so strong in all sec¬ 
tions of the State that it cannot pass the 
Legislature, according to leading Repub¬ 
lican legislators. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A rural 
credit system under the control of each 
State separately, outlined by W. P. G. 
Harding, member of the Federal Reserve 
Board, and formerly a prominent South¬ 
ern banker, will be submitted to the 
Southern Conference for education and in¬ 
dustry at Chattanooga, Tenn., this 
month. Mr. Harding suggests that each 
State charter and supervise its own land 
mortgage bank, require its official tax 
collectors to make collections and to in¬ 
duce local banks to act as agents in their 
localities, with a payment of fees only to 
those who examine the titles of the prop¬ 
erty and to the appraisers. 
In a decision iiled at Topeka, Ivan., 
INI arch 20, Federal Judge Pollock holds 
that the Federal game law generally 
known as the migratory bird law, is un¬ 
constitutional. He contends that Con¬ 
gress has no jurisdiction over game in 
any State, and that the separate States 
only have the right to enact laws for the 
regulation or protection of game. The 
case in which the decision is written orig¬ 
inated in Fort Scott. George L. McCul- 
lagh, a banker, and others were arrested 
on a charge of shooting ducks out of sea¬ 
son and in violation of the Federal law. 
A demurrer was entered and the decision 
resulted. 
Bean growers and jobbers from all over 
the State met at Saginaw. Mich., March 
23 and formed the Michigan State Bean 
Growers’ Association. 
Status of Woman Suffrage in New York. 
A resolution proposing a woman suf¬ 
frage amendment to the New York State 
Constitution passed the 1913 Legisla¬ 
ture. The vote was 40 to 1 in its favor 
in the Senate, and 12S to 5 in the As¬ 
sembly. The same resolution has re¬ 
cently passed unanimously both Houses 
of the 1915 Legislature. The voters of 
New York State will have an opportunity 
to vote on the amendment November 2. 
1915. Eleven States now permit women 
to vote on an equality with men; in Illi¬ 
nois they may vote for President, muni¬ 
cipal and county officers, and four other 
States will decide this question during 
1915. Both the National and New York 
State Grange have endorsed woman suf¬ 
frage. 
Burn the Dry Crab Grass. 
I have about 1% ton of crab grass that 
I got from an old asparagus patch, so 
of course it has a few asparagus tops in 
it. Do you think it would be necessary 
to burn it to destroy the vermin? I have 
some ground about a mile from the as¬ 
paragus where I would like to plow it 
under for either Lima beans, tomatoes, 
potatoes or corn. n. s. M. 
Leesburg, Va. 
We should burn that dry crab grass 
rather than plow it into the ground. It 
may seem like a waste to burn this ma¬ 
terial, but it will give you trouble for 
years if you get that new land seeded 
with it. If you have an orchard where 
the mulch plan is followed, or where you 
can cultivate early in the season, and 
then sow a cover crop, the crab grass will 
not give so much trouble. In that case 
we should pile this dry grass around the 
trees and let it alone. While it will 
spread through the orchard, it will not, 
as we have stated, under those conditions, 
give so much trouble, but we would not 
plow it under where hoed crops are to 
be grown. Far better burn it. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
I have 175 acres of land, from which 
the timber has been cut a year or two 
ago, and I find it is growing up to grass 
and wild raspberries. I was wondering 
whether any of the readers of your paper 
have had any experience with turning 
pigs into a plot of land of this kind? My 
idea was to put in five or six sows with a 
stock hog, and see what they would do. 
As this plot is somewhat remote from the 
place at which I am living, I was a lit¬ 
tle doubtful if the pigs could take care 
of themselves without feeding. I have 
arranged to put some goats and sheep and 
young stock on this property and would 
like to know if it is possible to use the 
pigs also. ' w. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
R. N.-Y.—This is rather a new propo¬ 
sition. Have any of our readers tried it? 
If so we would like their experience. 
Theory or “probabilities” will not be of 
much value. 
The Agency of 
A striking comparison between a 
homogeneous country and a hetero¬ 
geneous group of countries is ob¬ 
tained by placing over the map of 
the United States the map of 
Europe. These represent the same 
area—about 3,000,000 square miles 
—if a few of the remote provinces 
of Russia are omitted. 
Europe has the advantage in pop¬ 
ulation, with more than four times as 
many people as the United States; 
in the number of large cities, with 
two and a half times as many cities 
of over 100,000 population. 
Yet the United States, a compara¬ 
tively young country, has out¬ 
stripped Europe in the diffusion of 
civilization, because of its wonder¬ 
fully greater means of communica¬ 
tion between all parts of its area. The 
United States not only excels in trans¬ 
portation facilities, but it has nearly 
three times as many telephones as 
Europe, or about eleven times as 
many in relation to population. 
a United People 
By the completion of the Trans¬ 
continental Line we now talk from 
one end of this country to the other, 
while in Europe the longest con¬ 
versation is no farther than from 
New York to Atlanta, and even 
that depends on the imperfect co¬ 
operation of unrelated systems. 
Europe, with twenty-five countries 
and many different languages, 
serves as an illuminating contrast 
to the United States, with one 
language and a homogeneous 
people, despite the fact that our 
population has been derived from 
all parts of the world. 
During the last forty years the 
steadily extending lines of the Bell 
System have contributed in no 
small measure to this amalgamating 
of different races. The latest 
achievement—the linking of coast 
to coast—has given greater force 
to the national motto, “E Pluribus 
Unum.” 
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