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A Campaign to Aid You 
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The most dependable moderate price 
watch in the world 
$60 and up 
'HE hairspring is the brain of the 
watch. It is the most delicate 
tension spring made. For use in 
the small sized watch, 84,000 springs are 
made from one pound of steel, raising the 
value of that pound of steel from $5.00 to 
$30,000. 
The Waltham hairspring steel is drawn through dia¬ 
mond surfaces, and for the smaller watches, to a 
third of the thickness of a human hair. 
The Breguet, or over-coil (named after its inventor, a 
famous old French watchmaker), is used on every 
Waltham watch. The most important part of the 
complete operation in making a hairspring is the 
forming and tempering of this Breguet over-coil. 
At Waltham, instead of being formed «or bent by 
hand as a separate operation, the entire completed hair¬ 
spring is formed at one and the same time, after which 
it is hardened and tempered in form — the invention 
of John Logan, American watchmaker, a genius who 
was a part of Waltham leadership in watchmaking. 
Indeed, Waltham is the only watchmaker that claims 
this perfect method of making the Breguet hairspring. 
The foreign, imported watch movement has a hair¬ 
spring that is first formed in the flat, then hardened 
and tempered in the flat. Then the outer coil is bent 
to form the Breguet over-coil, which, if the flat spring 
were as hard as the Waltham, and properly tempered 
like the Waltham hairspring, it could not be bent to 
correct form, and would be liable to break in the 
attempt. 
Waltham superiority is in original method, secret process, un¬ 
trying quality of every important part of the watch — a quality 
, nat cannot be equaled by the foreign “ hand ” method of manu¬ 
facture. That is why Waltham leads the world in standardized 
watchmaking, and why your watch selection should be a Waltham. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
WALTHAM 
THE WORLDS WATCH OVER TIME 
Horse Sickness 
When unclipped horses get overheated cn warm 
Bpring Jays their long, sweaty coats of hair clog 
the pores and prevent them from throwing off 
perspiration. This often causes eolds, pneumonia. 
sthrna and similar troubles. They dry off 
quickly, beep well and do better work when 
clipped with a Stewart No. 1 Machine—$9.75. 
S nd $2.00—pay balance on arrival. Write for 
catalog. 
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY 
Dept. A 141, 12th St. & Central Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
F*otato 
Planter 
Two Excellent Vegetable Books 
By R. L. Watts 
Vegetable Gardening ..... $1.75 
Vegetable Forcing.2.00 
Clearly written, practical, convenient for 
reference, covering outdoor and green¬ 
house vegetable work. For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York 
Increases Yield—Lowers Labor Cost 
Pays for itself many times over. One man and team 
opens furrow, drops seed any distance or depth, drops 
fertilizer (if desired), covers up, marks next row. Au¬ 
tomatic. More accurate, dependable and quicker than 
hand planting. Furrow opens and seed drops in plain 
siarht. Does not injure seed. Has Ions: life, needs few 
repairs. Sizes for 1 or 2 rows. Protect yourself against 
uncertain labor and season. Investigate now. 
In Stock K* U. Write lor Catalog 
Near 
You 
Eureka 
Mower Co. 
Box 840 
Utica, N.Y. 
H . MAKE A HOLLAR AN IIOUK. SELL MEXBET8 
A?entS a patent patch for instantly mending leaks 
in all utensils. Sample package free. 
COLLETTE MFC. CO., Kept. 108. Amsterdam, N. V. 
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<- that’s real winter comfort. One fire to 
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\ convenience and real economy. The 
NEW IDEA Pipeless Furnace 
"The One You've Heard So Much About" 
brings it all within your reach. Costs but lit¬ 
tle more than one stove. No pipes, no muss, 
no dirt. Installed complete in one day. 
Burns any fuel—coal, wood, gas, etc. 
Write now for catalogue. Our expert heating engineers 
are at your service . There advice is absolutely free • 
UTICA HEATER COMPANY, Box 70 Utica, N. T. 
Some good territory still open for progrmttive dealert. 19-9 
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DOMESTIC.—A maximum sentence of 
20 years in Leavenworth prison was im¬ 
posed at Chicago Feb. 20 by Federal 
Judge Landis on Representative-elect Vic¬ 
tor L. Berger of Milwaukee iind four 
other Socialist leaders. The five men, 
convicted of conspiracy to obstruct the 
draft in violation of the espionage act, 
succeeded in obtaining release on $25,000 
bail from Judge Alschuler and asserted 
they would carry their legal fight to the 
United States Supreme Court. _ Besides 
Berger, publisher of the Milwaukee 
header, the other convicted men are: 
The Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, lecturer 
and writer; Adolph Cornier, national sec¬ 
retary of the Socialist party; J. Louis 
Engdahl, editor of the American Social¬ 
ist; William F. Kruse, head of the Young 
People’s Socialist League. 
Sustained speed such as novo!* before 
was reached by man in air, water or on 
land was achieved Feb. 10 by Lieut. 
Ernest E. Harmon of the Army Flying 
Corps when he made a trip between 
1 Mineola, L. I., and Bolling Field, Wash- 
1 ington. in one hour and 25 minutes. His 
average for the distance, about 235 miles, 
was 168 miles per hour. The record was 
made in one of the new La Pierre scout 
planes, designed by a French officer for 
American sky fighters. A 400 horse¬ 
power Liberty motor furnished the power. 
Five hotels, three cottages and two 
garages were burned at Asbury Park. K. 
•T.. Feb. 23. with a loss of $200,000 in a 
fire believed to have been set by iuoeu- 
diaries in the basement of two of the 
hotels, the Waldorf and the Fifth Avenue 
House. 
Flames destroyed the high tower of the 
Scranton and Lehigh Coal Company on 
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn Feb. 23, 
burned a coal pocket containing 5.000 
tons of coal, drove clouds of smoke aud 
sparks many blocks and provided a spec¬ 
tacle hundreds gathered to watch. The 
damage mav reach $100,000. The tower, 
100 feet high, stands on the edge of the 
canal. Coal is hoisted into it from barges 
and then dropped from buckets into the 
big pocket. 
Charles S. Whittemore, general auditor 
for the General Electric Company, was 
arrested at his home in Malden, Mass., 
Feb. 24. charged with conspiracy and 
assault in connection with the attack on 
Frank R. Brown, assistant paymaster at 
the local plant of the company, who was 
held up Dec. 20 and robbed of the weekly 
payroll amounting to $12,000. Louis 
Bennett of Boston, familiarly known as 
“Poco” Bennett, and Charles Mortalli, 
alias Charles Celeste, also were arrested 
in the same connection. The three were 
held in $10,000 each. Four men who 
were arrested in New York are already 
under indictment. 
Two armed bandits at Detroit. Mich., 
Feb. 24, held up T. A. Starke, treasurer 
of a local creamery company, and robbed 
him of $10,000 which he carried in a 
small satchel. Starke had started from 
the company’s office for a downtown bank 
when the two men jumped from an auto¬ 
mobile and at the point of revolvers 
forced him to surrender the satchel. 
T.oss of a big seaplane with three en¬ 
signs of the Naval Reserve and two 
machinist mates off the Virginia coast 
was officially announced Feb. 25 by the 
Navy Department. The machine started 
on a flight from Norfolk Feb. 23 and 
failed to return. A radio operator re¬ 
ported that afternoon that he saw a sea¬ 
plane plunge into the water and disappear 
near Fisherman’s Island. Search of the 
coast failed to disclose any trace of the 
ilane and it was officially given up as 
The Pennsylvania State Senate Feb. 25 
passed finally the House joint resolu¬ 
tion ratifying the national prohibition 
amendment. The vote was 20 to 16. 
Pennsylvania thus becomes the forty-fifth 
State to ratify. 
The New Jersey Assembly Feb. 2o 
unanimously passed a bill introduced by 
Assemblyman MoOre, Republican, of Mer¬ 
cer, making it high misdemeanor for any 
one to display the. red flag. Democrats 
and Republicans joined in a short demon¬ 
stration of patriotic fervor over the pas¬ 
sage of the bill. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Aeroplanes 
are being used in what until last Novem¬ 
ber was the fighting zone in France to 
distribute milk to French babies, it was 
announced by the New York Committee 
on Free Milk for France fund. Their 
employment is necessary because of the 
crippled condition of the French railroads 
in that area, it was said. Mrs. V arren 
McConihe, president of the committee, 
said it had been found that the milk, 
which is in dried form and occupies rela¬ 
tively little space, could be easily trans¬ 
ported by airplanes and that the French 
Government was anxious to aid in for¬ 
warding it. 
The House bill appropriating $1,000,- 
000.000 to maintain the Government 
guaranteed price of $2.26 for the 1010 
wheat crop was ordered favorably re¬ 
ported Feb. 24 by the Senate Agriculture 
Committee. 
Grain dealers on the New York Pro¬ 
duce Exchange and the Chicago Board of 
Trade have been discussing what they 
describe as a wise, workable plan for 
handling the wheat crop on which the 
Government is obligated to pay the 
growers $2.26 per bushel, although there 
is more wheat in sight than the world 
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needs and wheat in other countries is 
selling far below the fixed price in the 
United States. The main features of the 
suggested plan are the fixing of a fair 
and equitable settlement price by a con¬ 
ference to be made up of all the interested 
parties, the payment to wheat growers of 
the difference between this price and the 
guaranteed price, the ownership of the 
wheat by the farmers and not the Gov¬ 
ernment, the doing away with Govern¬ 
ment control and restrictions, the open¬ 
ing up of the regular markets and the 
restoration of the workings of the law of 
supply and demand. 
Opposition to a proposed merging of 
the Massachusetts Forestry and Agricul¬ 
tural departments was expressed by Prof. 
H. II. Chapman of the forest school of 
Yale University before the New England 
forestry conference Feb. 25. He advo¬ 
cated a department of forestry in Massa¬ 
chusetts distinct from other departments. 
Prof. Chapman said forestry must he de¬ 
veloped to prevent economic disaster in 
that State, which is already obtaining 
box boards and lumber from the Pacific 
coast at a cost greater than that of the 
growing trees. 
WASHINGTON.—Legislation to pun¬ 
ish anarchistic activities or propaganda 
and the display of flags or other emblems 
of violence, was recommended unani¬ 
mously Feb. 20 by the Senate Judiciary 
Committee. The committee drafted anil 
ordered favorably reported a measure 
combining the “Red Flag” bill of Senator 
New, of Indiana, and other bills designed 
to check unlawful agitation. 
After adding an amendment for the re¬ 
peal of the daylight saving act, the Senate 
Agrieulture Committee Feb. 20 ordered 
favorably reported the $31,000,000 annual 
agricultural appropriation bill with com¬ 
mittee amendments approximating $5.- 
000,000. The daylight saving amendment 
was proposed by Chairman Gore and was 
adopted by unanimous vote. Chairman 
Lever of the House Agriculture Commit¬ 
tee introduced a similar bill. Steps to 
repeal the act, which advances the na¬ 
tion’s clocks an hour from the last of 
March to October, was said to have re¬ 
sulted from protests made by farmers’ or¬ 
ganizations. The farmers, it was said, 
claim the act has not been of benefit to 
their industry. Senator Calder of New 
York, author of the act, said vigorous 
efforts would be made to defeat the com¬ 
mittee rider. The Senate Committee in¬ 
creased by $3,000,000 the House appro¬ 
priation for agricultural extension work, 
which, if finally adopted, would make 
available for this work about $16,000,000. 
Eight German merchant steamships, in¬ 
cluding the Imperator, had been allocated 
to the United States for transporting 
troops from France, the War Department 
was advised Feb. 20. All these ships, 
now at Hamburg, have been inspected 
and examining boards reported they were 
ready for immediate service. They will 
provide accommodations for from 50.000 
to 60,000 additional troops monthly. 
Sufficient tonnage now is in sight to re¬ 
turn every American soldier from Europe 
before the end of the coming Summer, if 
such a policy were decided upon by the 
Government. 
Invitation to attend a conference at 
the White House, March 3 and 4, to dis¬ 
cuss “vital questions affecting business 
and labor.” was telegraphed by Secretary 
Wilson Feb. 25 to Governors of all the 
States, and Mayors of more than 100 
cities. President Wilson is anxious to 
establish before returning to Europe a 
national policy for the resumption of 
private enterprises, now that the war is 
over, as a means of lessening unemploy¬ 
ment and consequent unrest, and is un¬ 
derstood to have given much thought to 
problems presented by the cessation of 
war work and the demobilization of tin* 
military forces. He is said to be ready 
to use every legitimate means in co-oper¬ 
ation with the States and municipalities 
to bring about an early return to normal 
industrial conditions. 
A Senate bill providing for the con¬ 
version of the term insurance, issued by 
the War Risk Insurance Bureau to men 
in the military service during the war. 
into various forms of ordinary insurance 
was ordered reported favorably Feb. 25 
by the House Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mittee. The measure also creates a re¬ 
serve fund in the bureau to be developed 
from increased premiums and permits 
beneficiaries of policies to be persons 
other than members of the immediate 
family of a policyholder. 
War department and post office officials 
are planning a vigorous campaign against 
swindlers who are again seeking to de¬ 
fraud relatives of soldiers through false 
telegrams and letters. Complaints from 
relatives, it was learned Feb. 25, are 
again reaching the department, showing 
that demobilization has given a better 
opportunity for such criminal operations. 
The usual practice is for the swindler to 
obtain the names of relatives of a soldier 
from the published casualty lists. A tele¬ 
gram signed in the. soldier’s name is sent, 
saying he is free to come home on fur¬ 
lough if his relatives wire money for the 
trip, aud in filing the message the sender 
waives identification and asks his rela¬ 
tives to do the same. Sometimes relatives 
are asked to send the money to the soldier, 
care of general delivery at the post office. 
“Mrs. Jenkinson says she prefers to do 
her marketing by telephone.” “Why so?” 
“She says she can’t bear to see how little 
she is getting for the money.”—Credit 
Lost. 
