The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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All Sorts 
‘WlTinred—A Rich Man’s Child 
I want to find a boy (over six years 
old) from a wealthy family to care for 
and educate. My wife and I were both 
teachers, and now have an ideal home in 
every way. all modern improvements. We 
both love children, and feel we are wast¬ 
ing good talent that might be helpful to 
some one, and yet not interfere with our 
home life; in fact, make it brighter. We 
got this idea from some young friends of 
ours who were teachers* with us, who 
have a boy from a wealthy New York 
family, where people simply want to get 
the boy out of their way. He is a beauti¬ 
ful boy. and we want to find a proposition 
as near like it as possible. Can you help 
us in any way? c. K.B. 
Children of wealthy parents are out of 
our line. There may be such persons who 
want to get rid of their children, and who 
would pay for the riddance, but we do 
not know where to find them. In our 
own experience the joy of such service 
comes in taking little ones who never 
could have opportunity in any other way. 
Such a home as you picture might provide 
for several little ones, and they would 
bring a great blessing if there were some 
little sacrifices in the doing of such work. 
We should not consider any home com¬ 
plete Tinless it contained children whose 
presence means expense and worry and 
responsibility. Very likely there are peo¬ 
ple who would gladly send their children 
to the country for board and training. 
We have had a little experience in that 
line. We think the best way to find 
such people would be to advertise in the 
higher class magazines or papers. 
A New Poultry Breed—“Lamona” 
We are now told from the Department 
of Agriculture that the government has 
developed a new breed of poultry. It is 
said that Secretary Wallace has named 
the new breed “Lamona.” This name 
does not seem to be based on the theory 
that these birds will lay more than others, 
but it is suggested from the name of the 
originator. Mr. Henry Lamon. It is said 
that this breed was produced as follows: 
A compact, rather short-legged White 
Plymouth Rock male was mated with a 
Gray Dorking female. Then a Single 
Comb White Leghorn male with a rather 
small and low comb was mated to another 
Silver Gray Dorking hen. The second 
year the offspring of these crosses were 
mated separately. The females were 
trap-nested and only the high producers 
of large white eggs were used for breed¬ 
ers. Males from the high-producing fe¬ 
males were used for breeding purposes. 
In this way the crosses of the second year 
were mated, the obiect being to select 
white specimens with yellow skins, and 
thus having only four toes. Since then 
the task has been to select, and breed to 
type. The ob’ect of this breeding has 
been to develop a bird weighing 4 to. 6 
lbs., with a long, deep body, highly desir¬ 
able breast meat and a heavy layer. It is 
said that the “Lamona fowl” is larger 
than the Leghorn, but rather smaller 
than birds of the American class. It is 
white, with comb and wattles of medium 
size. The bird is well feathered, and 
thus resistant to sudden changes in tem¬ 
perature. It lays a white egg of good 
size. The standard “Lamona” bird is 
white, but in addition another strain is 
being developed which is pyle colored. 
Females of this strain have pale buff 
breasts, while the males are white with 
rich red wing bows and back. This strain 
is not as well developed as the white. The 
department is not yet ready to introduce 
this new breed. It is said that no speci¬ 
mens or eggs will be distributed until the 
characteristics sought for have been more 
firmly fixed. We have no doubt these 
characteristics are even now better de¬ 
veloped than were several of the Ameri¬ 
can breeds when they were first distrib¬ 
uted. but in this case it is proposed to 
make the “Lamonas” a settled breed be¬ 
fore they go to the public. Surely a bird 
containing the good qualities of the Rock 
and Leghorn and the Dorking ought to 
be a rare combination of egg laver and 
meat producer. We doubt, however, if the 
name will stick to it. Farmers will give 
it a name which will prevail. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
D O M E S T I C.—Nine persons were 
burned to death and one (lied from in¬ 
juries received by jumping from the third 
floor when fire early November 14 swept 
the four upper floors of a five-story tene¬ 
ment at 108 West Seventeenth street, 
New York. The fire shut off escane by 
the halls and stairways, and the tenants, 
panic-stricken, flocked to the front of the 
building, ignoring fire escapes in the rear. 
While the cause of the fire was not 
known, firemen believed it started by some 
one throwing a match or a cigarette into 
a baby carriage in the lower hall. A year 
ago a fire started' from a similar cause in 
a tenement at, Rradhurst avenue and 
146th street, New York, and nine persons 
were burned to death. 
November 14 garment workers in 2,800 
shops in Greater New York went on strike 
in protest against piece work. 
Luther M. Rankin and Francis A. 
Reilly, said to have been members of the 
Revere Motor Sales Corporation, were 
arrested at Logansport, Ind., November 
14, charged with conspiracy to commit a 
felony in indictments returned recently 
by the county grand jury. Bond was 
placed at $5,000. 
Three young men accused of setting 
fire at sea to the cargo of the American 
freight steamship Collamer, operated by 
the Cosmopolitan Shipping Company, ar¬ 
rived in irons at New York November 
14 aboard the French liner Savoie 
in charge of a special Treasury agent, 
R. C. Watson, and were taken to 
the Federal building. The arrests, it is 
said, were not due entirely to the fact 
that the three prisoners, who say they are 
Robert Brady, Joseph Ryan and bee 
Kolowki, were said to have caused a fire 
in the cargo of the Collamei\ but to the 
belief that there is a connection between 
the apparent effort to destroy the freighter 
and anarchistic demonstrations against 
the conviction of Sacco and Vanetti, ac¬ 
cused of the murder of two paymasters 
in Massachusetts. 
L. H. Van Rriggle, formerly president 
of the Van Briggle Motor Device Com¬ 
pany, was sentenced to serve four years 
in the Federal prison at Leavenworth and 
fined $1,000 by Judge A. B. Anderson in 
the United States District Court at In¬ 
dianapolis, Inch, November 14, on a charge 
of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. 
Henry S. Rominger, former treasurer of 
the company, was sentenced on the same 
charge to serve IS months and was fined 
$500. Both men withdrew pleas of not 
guilty and entered pleas <yf guilty. 
Warrants for the arrest of six men al¬ 
leged to have been connected with the 
National Guarantee Credit Corporation, 
which recently went into the hands of 
temporary receivers, were issued at Phila¬ 
delphia, November 14, charging them with 
conspiracy to defraud in the sale of the 
company’s stock. The company had pre¬ 
ferred stock with a face value of $1,600,- 
000. Those charged with irregularities 
are Franldyn Spiess, promoter of the 
concern; William H. Hubbard. Charles 
G. Carting, Andrew M'. Flanagan, Charles 
E. Gabriel and Frank A. Boweroft, all 
of Philadelphia. Stock of the eompanv 
was sold 1 in different parts of the country. 
Fifty-four of the 65 tile contractors un¬ 
der indictment in the Federal courts at 
New York for violation of the Sherman 
anti-trust law pleaded guilty on the fourth 
of the five counts against them when the 
case was called before Judge William C. 
Van Fleet, November 14. The count on 
which the defendants changed their pieas 
involved the practices which, it was 
charged, they employed in furtherance of 
the alleged conspiracy in restraint of 
trade. The use of protection cards allow¬ 
ing the contractor first employed on a 
building to be free from all competition 
on additions to the original plans, of stop 
notices as a result of which it was im¬ 
possible for a builder who quarreled with 
his tile contractor to deal with other con¬ 
cerns, and of a credit system, whereby 
the amount of disputed bills owed to one 
concern were automatically added to the 
next bids of all other members of the al¬ 
leged trust made to the builder in ques¬ 
tion, were specifically charged in this 
count. 
Damage to the foundation of Break¬ 
water Light and a (—nek in the structure 
itself. Newport, R. I., noticed by marin¬ 
ers for several days, were explained No¬ 
vember 15 when it was learned that sub¬ 
marine N-4, because of the lamming of its 
steering gear, had rammed the granite 
blocks. Some of the blocks were torn out 
of the wall entirely. The damage to th° 
submarine was said to be slight, compared 
with that to the wall, which had stood the 
buffeting of storms for half a century. 
FARM AND GARDEN—A proposal 
to “disarm” parks in American cities by 
removing the ornamental cannon was 
made to the American Civic Association 
by .T. Horace McFarland, its president, 
in his annual address at Chicago, Novem¬ 
ber 14. His suggestion was offered, how¬ 
ever. not as an aid to the armament con¬ 
ference, but on the ground that “outworn 
or captured guns add nothing to the 
beauty of public places.” Mr. McFar¬ 
land, urging greater participation by all 
citizens in civic affairs, classed the man 
who neglects his civic duties as the slave 
of the free citizen who asserts his free¬ 
dom by an active part in public works. 
Further increase in the potato crop in 
Northern New England and the Eastern 
States was forecast November 15 bv V. 
A. Sanders, crop statistician of the United 
States Bureau of Markets and Crop Es¬ 
timates. The estimated yield in Maine 
was increased from 32.766,000 bushels on 
October 1 to 37.132.000 on November 1 
The tobacco crop of New England was 
said to be the best of recent years. Pre¬ 
liminary average yields for Massachusetts 
were estimated at 1.500 lbs. and for Con¬ 
necticut 1.463 lbs. The Maine apple cron 
was reported to exceed slightly the Octo¬ 
ber estimate of 640,000 barrels, with the 
crop elsewhere in New England very 
light. The quality was reported good to 
excellent, 
HOMELITE 
The Portable Electric Light and Power Plant 
NOT THE LOWEST PRICE BUT THE CHEAPEST AND BEST 
Weight: 100 Pounds 
ELECTRIC LIGHT 
for 
Borne, Barn, Store and Camp 
Special Foundation is required. 
Separate Gasoline Tank or Piping necessary. 
Cooling Water—Homeiite is air cooled. 
Ignition Trouble—Simms High Tension Magneto is used. 
Manufactured by 
THE SIMMS MAGNETO CO., East Orange, N. J. 
Distributed by 
Smith-Meeker Eng. Co., 123 Liberty St., N. Y. 
Write /or circular with description and price 
ELECTRIC POWER 
for 
Iron, Vacuum Cleaner, Pump 
or any machine up to V2 H. P. 
Ideal for Kiddies 
Just tlie warmest, comfyest footwear possible for Baby 
during cold winter months. Thick, tough leather. 
Ho ft, pliable, but wears like iron. Colors, Dark Tan or 
Smoko Grey. 
Size Price 
No sole, for hahics before walking. 2-6 HU.75 
With sole, age 9 months to 2 years. 2-6 2.25 
Korry Krome Sole, Goodyear stitched, play 
moccasin,. 7-11 8.76 
Also Men’s and Women’s 
Slipper Moccasins 
Da k Tan. Just the thing for long winter evenings. 
Knjoy solid comfort before the Are. Will last a lifetime. 
Splendid lor Xmas gifts. 
Mcn’i. 
Size 
6-11 
6-11 
Price 
$8.00 
8.65 
Boys’. 
. With sole 
2-5 
2-5 
!i. 
8.50 
\V oiiicii'm. 
.. No sole 
3-7 
2.75 
3-7 
8.46 
SEMI NO MONEY. Just state size, or length of foot 
in inches, and pay postman on arrival. If prepaid, we 
pay postage, if sent C. O. D, you pay postage. Write us 
today. 
GOULD MAIL ORDER CO. 
P. O. Box 1678 Boston, Mass. 
LIKE A HAPPY SMILE MAKES THE WORLD SEEM BRIGHTER 
Nol just coffee, mind you. but a full fla¬ 
vored, rich, aromatic treat—perfect coffee 
—the kind served to the most discrimi¬ 
nating coffee drinkers in theworld, in themostexclusive 
restaurants and hotels in New York. 
Fortunate circumstances enable us to ship this kind of 
coffee direct from the mill tc you, fresh from the roaster, 
at mill prices, which puts it on your table at a price no 
higher than you pay for ordinary coffee. 
Send us $2.25 for a 6 pound bag of this deli¬ 
cious ZANO COFFEE— drink it at 5 or 6 meals 
—if you don’t decide that it is just the coffee 
you have always longed for—send the balance 
back and get your money back. We pay postage, 
and send with the coffee the interesting story of how 
we learned the coffee secret of the New York hotel 
chefs. Be sure to state whether you want ground 
or whole bean. 
National Farm Equipment Cojnc. 
Dept.JJjJJ 98 Chambers St., NeWYork. . 
Sheep Lined Coats 
VALUE ONLY* 12- 
The all-service garment for fall and winter — 
direct from maker at a big Baving. Full thirty-six 
inches length. Finest selected quality bark-tanned 
sheepskin bodv lining. Outside fine tough- 
wearing drab buckskin. Heavy Bcaverized collar; 
blanket sleeve linings; warm wool-knitted wristlets. 
Four roomy reinforced pockets. 
Boy’s Sizes $9.78 
Sheep Lined Vest 
Best sheepskin lin¬ 
ing ; heavy cordu¬ 
roy outside. 
Fine finish; 
Bnap hook 
f as ten era. 
only 
By Parcel Post 
PREPAID 
Your money cheer¬ 
fully refunded if 
you are in the least 
disappointed. Bo 
sure to give chest 
measure over coat. 
Dablwear Factory 
BOXI69R 
Burlington, Vt. 
The Ideal 
Send 40 cents 
stamps for our 
anteed, all-steel 
pocket knife. 
ALLEN CUTLERY CO., Inc. 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
Xmas Gift 
in cash or 
fully guar- 
Maple Syrup Makers! 
Profit by Adopting theU GRIMM SYSTEM 
S ectional pans with 
hitfh partitions. 
Litfht and heavy cannot 
intermix insuring high¬ 
est quality with least 
fuel and labor. 30 dlf - 
ferent sizes. Write for 
catalog and state num¬ 
ber of trees you tap. 
GRIMM MANUFACTURING CO. 
619 Champlain Ave. Cleveland, O. 
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