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CAc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
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tlio -wost of the Chosapeake are mealy 
and- not brittle like ours. 
Our county organization of tomato 
gj'owers will use some intone this season, 
but in the 325 pounds of seed they have 
bought for their members they have in- 
olnded a goodly proportion of the Greater 
Baltimore, which is claimed to be a 
heavier cropper than Stone. Since the 
bother about the price-fixing has been 
adjusted it is very evident that there will 
be a great increase in the acreage grown 
in tomatoes. The 125 pounds of seed 
bought by the organized growers will not 
represent the amount sown in this county 
by a great deal. 
We are now eating sweet potatoes 
which were canned whole last Fall, and 
find them better than those canned and 
packed into a mass in the canvS. The 
canned potatoes are so identical with the 
fresh article that this would seem to be 
the best way to keep small quantities. 
The large growers have their curing 
houses and can keep the potatoes easily, 
and just now these are rushing to seciire 
their share of coal for next Winter, since 
they have been warned that the homses 
may go cold if the coal is not had soon. 
We are all getting so accustomed to being 
bossed and directed with our fuel and 
food that it will take us some time after 
the war to get accustomed to doing as we 
please. But now the American people 
have determined to make every sacrifice 
needed finally to free the world from 
tyranny, and we believe that the real God, 
not the god the Kaiser is so familiar 
with, and upon whose aid he hopes to 
carry out the subjugation of the world, 
will not allow the greatest criminal of 
history to triumph. It may take years 
and cost thousands of lives, but the 
United States has never yet failed to come 
out whole in any contest. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—March 29, Kansas City, 
Mb., was tied up by a sympathetic strike 
started by laundry workers and drivers. 
Street ears, restaurants and many other 
industries were paralyzed, and troops of 
the Home Guard were on duty to prevent 
disorder. 
March 29 fire destroyed the stock and 
building of Armstrong & Graham, leather 
manufacturers of Detroit, Mich., who 
were engaged on war contracts. Total 
loss, including adjoining buildings, 
$500,000. 
An order issued March 29 by United 
States District Attorney AV'ertz and 
United States Marshall Lapp at Cleve¬ 
land, O., prohibits subjects of Germany 
and Austria from working or riding on 
lake vessels, freight or passenger, this 
Summer. 
Seven officers and agents of the Sem¬ 
inole Distilling and Distributing Com¬ 
pany, of New York, were convicted March 
29 before Federal Judge Mack of having 
used the mails in a scheme to defraud. 
According to testimony given at a long 
trial the defendants schemed to swindle 
small retail liquor dealers throughout the 
country. They sent agents to these peo¬ 
ple to "obtain their orders for large ship¬ 
ments of whiskey. The agents would ob¬ 
tain promissory notes in payment for the 
promissory whiskey, and these would be 
speedily discounted in local banks. The 
whiskey was never delivered. 
The Federal Food Board of New York 
issued a warning March 31 against glass 
particles in flour, bread and bread wrap¬ 
pers. AH purchased bread and pastry 
should be carefully examined, and all 
flour made up at home carefully sifted. 
Charges that German money is being 
used to encourage Mississippi negroes to 
evade the selective draft are made in a 
report filed with the Adjutant-General 
April 1 by F. K. Etheridge, State in¬ 
spector of local exemption boards. The 
report declares that C. H. Mason, pastor 
of a negro church at Lexington, Miss., 
has been preaching pro-Gernlan sermons 
and advising negroes to resist the draft. 
Sailendra Nath Ghose, a Hindu, with 
three associates of his own race and Miss 
Agnes Sraedley, a girl of American birth, 
were indicted in New York April 1 by 
tlie Federal Grand Jury for alleged viola¬ 
tions of the espionage act. The indict¬ 
ments charge that the defendants acted as 
agents of the Indian Nationalist party in 
promoting agitation against Great Brit¬ 
ain, a friendly power. 
Fire April 1 swept through the business 
section of Atlantic City, destroying eight 
busine.s.s buildings in Atlantic Avenue and 
causing a loss of $3(»0,000. Several fire¬ 
men were injured. 
St, Claire Bishop, who operated at 
Charlotte, N. C,. as a fortune teller, was 
remanded,to jail .-Vpril 2 by a United 
States Commissioner in default of .''5,000 
bond, to await action by a Federal Grand 
Jury on .a charge Of violating the Espion¬ 
age Act. Federal agents said they be¬ 
lieved Bishop sought to gain military in¬ 
formation of value to the enemy from the 
wives of officers and men at Camp Greene, 
Avho came to him for palm reading.s. Ac¬ 
cording to the government agents. Bishop 
has operated in various parts of the coun¬ 
try under different names. When he was 
arrested he was said to have had in his 
possession plans of a number of army 
training camps, railroad junctions and 
code books and writings in German. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Surplus sup¬ 
plies of potatoes in such quantities as to 
cause genuine alarm among Food Admin¬ 
istration officials exist throughout the 
country, according to statements at Wash¬ 
ington March 2.Si. Under the impetus of 
the “grow a garden” movement la.st 
.Spring the greatest potato crop in the his¬ 
tory of the country was produced. Con¬ 
sumption of potatoes during the Fall and 
Winter -was much less than in other 
years, resulting in large quantities re¬ 
maining in warehouse.s. 
The Conservation Bureau of the N. Y. 
State Food Commission opened a 10 days’ 
patriotic milk exhibit March 29 on th© 
east platform of the Grand Central Sta¬ 
tion, New York City. The exhibit is 
designed to increase the consumption of 
milk by a better understanding of its food 
value. 
Relief for farmers who raise wheat, 
corn, rye, oats or barley and who are 
unable to purchase seed this year would 
be provided in a bill passed by the House 
at Washington March 29. It would sup¬ 
ply a fund of $7,500,00<I, from w-hich to 
lend farmers money to buy seed and 
would give the .Secretaries of Agriculture 
and Labor .$2,.500,(X)0 to mobilize labor for 
the harvest this year. 
WASHINGTON.—Arrangements have 
been made for the lease of a site for the 
postal service airplane landing field at 
Philadelphia. The land is in North Phila¬ 
delphia, just outside of Bustleton on the 
Lincoln Highway and about twenty-five 
minutes from the Philadelphia Post Office. 
Work of con.structing hangars will begin 
at once. The field will be ready before 
May 15, when the airplane po.stal service 
between New York, Philadelphia and 
Washington will be in operation. 
The Senate March 29 passed without 
debate the Nelson bill providing that en¬ 
emy alien women may be apprehended, 
restrained, secured and removed in like 
degree and under exactly the same cir¬ 
cumstances as their husbands, fathers, 
brothers and sweethearts. The women 
may be interned if the President so pro¬ 
claims or .specifically de.signates, and the 
Pre.sident also is empowered to fix rules 
and regulations covering the situation 
fully. 
The Senate Judiciary Committee April 
2 reported an amendment to the espionage 
act making it a penitentiary offence “wil¬ 
fully to make or convey false reports or 
false statements with intent to interfere 
with the operation or success of the mili¬ 
tary or naval forces of the United States” 
or to obstruct the sale of Liberty bonds 
April 13, 191fi 
or of any other government loan.s or “to 
wilfully cause or attempt to cau.se or in¬ 
cite or attempt to incite insubordination, 
disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of duty in 
the military or naval forces” or to ob¬ 
struct or discourage recruiting. The re¬ 
porting of the amendment followed a de¬ 
bate in the Senate in which the German 
spy system in this country was held re¬ 
sponsible for the tempering with 60 per 
cent of the gas masks furni.shed the Amer¬ 
ican troops and in which it was charge<l 
that communities of foreigners, speaking 
a foreign language, w’ere the nesting 
places of plotters against the government. 
Senator Thomas (Col.) in urging passage 
of the bill of Senator Smith (Ga.) ap¬ 
propriating .$100,000 for teaching English 
in these communities made the charge 
that German spies had tampered with the 
gas masks. Senator King (Utah) offered 
a resolution providing that after .July 1 
and until the end of the war no publica¬ 
tion printed in any language of an enemy 
country should pass through the mails. 
Merging of the expres.s companies un¬ 
der a new corporation, to operate them as 
a unit and work out a basis for distri¬ 
bution of profits, is under consideration 
between the railroad administration and 
representatives of the companies. An 
agreement has been held up by difficulties 
in developing a scheme for apportioning 
the stock of the new company, which 
would have virtually a monopoly of the 
express business. The four leading com¬ 
panies—Adams, American, Wells-Fargo 
and Southern—claim a physical valuation 
of their transportation property of ap¬ 
proximately $30,000,000. 
VlCYOlTY’S 
IffkjNDA.'riOW 
V\7" niLE the great war was confined to the nations 
of Europe, the people of the United States en¬ 
joyed unparalleled prosperty. 
Today we have the greatest resources of any nation 
on earth. 
Now that American soldiers, American ships, Ameri¬ 
can airplanes, and American supplies must decide the 
issue, it is the duty of every citizen to take Liberty 
Bonds to the very limit of his ability. 
Let the call of our Government for more money be 
answered promptly, heartily and unmistakably. No 
one else can do your part. Don’t wait. Apply at 
once for your bonds to your Local Committee or to 
your bank. 
ALPHA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY 
EASTON, PA. 
