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AND LOWVILLE TIMES. H. A. PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1909. VOLUME SO. No. 39 THE COMMITTED NAMED. New York State Congressmen are Given Good Places. Congressman Knapp Selected to Suc- ceed Vice-Pre«ident Sherman as Chair- man on Indian Affairs, but Declined. Wushingotn, Aug. 9.—Speaker Can- non has announced his committee as- s'iir i;iie-)ts. The members in northern am ; central New York get the follow injr places : _ Charles L. Knapp, L,ow- ville, chairman of elections, No. 1, Snd~ a place on military affairs; George R. Malby. Ogdensburg, judiciary and ap- uropriation : Cyrus Durey, Johnstown, post-office and post-roads and private land claims; Charles S. Millington, Herkimer, banking and curfeficy and claims; George W. Fair-child, Oneonta, merchant marine and fisheries and ex- penditures in the post-office depart- ment; M. E. Driscoll, Syracuse, terri- tories and pensions. Tueae assignments are very satisfac- tory espeqially those given Mr. Mil- linirton and Mr. Knapp. Mr. Knapp was offered the position of chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, so long hell by Mr. Sherman, but declined it. lq his declination the following cor- respondence passed between Mr. Knapp ami the speaker: Mr. Knapp'* Letter. Washington, D. C, July 23, 1909. My Dear Mr. Speaker—I desire to acknowledge your kind offer to make me chairman of the Committee on In- dain Affairs of the House of Represen- tatives While I. deeply appreciate this expression of confidence on your part, and while my ambition has been to succeed Vice-President Sherman in thi* position, still I have given the matter careful consideration, and in view of the fact that my service on that committee has convinced me that there are few assignments in the House that make greater demand on the energy of the incumbent than this, and in view of the manifold duties connect- ed with a proper service to the district wluih I have the honor to represent, torfi'ther with _the fact that my health is not of the strongest, I reluctantly decided to ask to be excused from the as.^icrnment. Permit me to add to this that any other assignment, the duties of which will not be quite so exacting, and in which I can be of effective public ser- vice will be accepted and the duties faithfully discharged. Renewing my gratitude and with ex- pre-^iona of personal regard, 1 am, very sincerely yours, Charles L. Knapp. Speaker's Reply. Washington. D. C. July 28, 1909. My Dear Mr. Knapp—In acknowl- edging receipt oi your letter of the 23d instant, r which you inform me that you prefer not to be made chair- man of the Committee on Indian Af- airs and do prefer some less exacting assignment, I must say that I can not refrain from expressing regret that you take this view of the case. Mr. Sherman had recommend-ed you very strongly as his successor as chairman^ of the committee and assured me that you would,in every partciular, measure up to the requirements, of the position, which was in accordance with my own ideas. There are a good many reasons, —which it-is not neeessary-to state here,. why I wanted you to accept this posi- tion, but, of course, you must be the judg-e of what you wish to do. The real purpose of this note is to say that, if it be agreeable to you, I will ations, Merby ; Banking and Currency. Millington; Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Calder; Military Affairs, Knapp;' Post-Offices and Post Roads, Fassett and Dury; Territories, Conroy and'Driscoll. Representative Plumley of Vermont was made a member of the Committee on Agriculture. OUR NEW YORK LETTER Items of Interest from Glorious Gotham. TRUST PRICES FOR MILK. Increasing Cost of Living and Those Who Reap the Profits. Farmer Sell. Milk for Almost Nothing to the Trust, Whfch Keep* Up Itt High Prices lo the Consumer. The Tammany Tiger—White Moth* Plenty—The Thaw Trial—New England Mock Warfare. ask you to accept\ the chairmanship of elections, No. 1, and to serve on the Committee on Military Affairs. If, for 'any reason the assignments above sug- gested are not satisfactory, please let me know promptly. I am, with great respect, etc., yours truly, J.- G. Cannon. New York, Aug. 9.—With fifteen re- form organizations already in the field to ally their forces against the domina- tion of this city by Tammany Hall, that citadel has to-day coirie into posi- tion more badly beleaguered than the crafty Wigwam leaders have ever known through all the days of Kelly, Croker and Murphy.. Though three long months still stretch ahead to the day when the Tammany Tiger will either sink its claws into this metropo- lis for another fonr years or slink,badly cripRled, back to its lair, campaign activity is now being stirred up with more vigor than midsummer Manhattan has ever seen. Million of dollars are being covertly raised to supply the sinews of this coming political war that has aineady begun to shake all Gotham. Ifmes are being selected, halls hired, speakers trained and cam- paign literature compiled and printed by the ton. No such gigantic prepara- tions for any municipal fray have ever been known in this town,and every one is anticipating the longest, hardest and most bitter warfare between Tammany and its adversaries that haa ever been recorded. Wrapping all the Great White Way in one vastveij of insect life, the white moths that invaded this island last summer for the first time in fifty years are this week driving all New York night life distracted with their uncanny visitations. Before the hordes of these flitting peats that surrbund each bright light from end to -end of Broadway, many of the bigger restaurants, roof gardens and hotel dining rooms are being obliged to retreat and close up, hours before their usual time. No more weird sight has been seen here in a generation than this blinding, suffo- cating grtyarm of winged creatures that is dimming all the lights of town and dazing all its inhabitants. From each of the myriad host a worm is sure to be evolved that has already demon- strated its ability to kill all growing things; and the present plague is said to augur ill for the life of Gotham's rare green growth. New Yorkers are regretting the loss of the native birds whose activities would alone check these pests, against which the Audu- bon workers have warned them for years. For the repulse of the military de- fenders of New England, thousands of stout soldiers are preparing at the armories of the militia throughout this city to-day. In -thia -mock warfare along the Massachusetts coast the vol- unteers of the Empire State are next week to be drawn upon by the govern- ment for much of the best cavalry, in- fantry and artillery. With such a uniaue chance for a taste of real cam- paigning before them, the men of the militia here are eager to show what they could do if this State-actually needed their services in the field. Well through each night the armory build- ingo oro lighted .acid filled with the From the ,New York World. Farmers within a hundred miles of the City Hall have been forced to sell milk this summer for less than 2 cents a quart, while the Milk Trust keeps up its high prices to the consumer. No milk is sold at retail in New York for less than 5 cents a quart and very little at that price. The lowest coat of low-grade milk at the cheapest stores is 6 and 7 cents a quart. This is for \dipped mi Ik \—that is, milk dipped ! from the can and not bottled. Bottled milk costs the consumer 8 and 10 cents a quart. If it is cettified to be clean and with low bacterial con- tents it costs 12 to 14 cents. Special milk for babies costs as high as 20 and 25 cents a quart. A few wealthy farmers, such as Mr. Law of Briar Cliff, sell their milk direct and get the high price and con- sumer pays. The thousands of smaller and poorer farmers, who have neither the capital to ship direct nor the facil - ties to secure direct customers, have to take the prices fixed by the Milk Trust. / Must Take the Trust's Prices. The Milk Trust works through the Milk Exchange. The Milk Exchange is not a place where buyers and sellers meet, like an ordinary market or stock exchange, but is tin association of mid- dlemen, who are neither the producers nor the consumers, but fix the price that the producer shall receive and that the consumer shall pay. How low this price can be fixed is shown by a sample milk check given to F, W. Dean of New Bedford, Pa., by the Diamond Dairy Company. The gross price paid this producer was 67 cents a can of 40 quarts. From this price was deducted 10 cents a can cart- age, leaving him net 67 cents a can or 1-17-40 cents a quart As Mr. Dean writes.: 1 \Enclosed please find my statement j for June milk from the Diamond Dairy 1 Company of your city. Yea, they ought j to wear diamonds, as you can see by their figures.\ ! From time to time the big milk deal- ers meet at the exchange and fix prices which vary from a gross price of a little over 2 cents in the summer to 3i cents in the winter. The price to the consumer does not vary. The only reason the Milk Trust varies the price to the producer is that otherwise farm- ers would not produce milk at all, but would have their cows fresh in the spring time for pasture and dry them • off in the fall to save winter grain j feeding. i Farmer Pays the Freight Too. \But the farmer does not get even the exchange price. Far from it. This i price iB gross delivered in New York I City. From that the milk dealer de- ducts the freight, the refrigerator, the station charge, ferriage and cartage. The exact arrangements the big milk dealers have with the railroads are not made public. Doubtless, under the in- terstate commerce law, any milkman who will ship every day a train of 20 to 30 cars and furnish his own refrigera- tion, station, handling and truckage, ' could compel the same rate from the • railroad.s. Outside of the allied mem- > bers of the Milk Exchange no one can, and they have parcelled out the terri- tory so that they do not compete in price for the partly skimmed milk and also the full retail price for the cream. The farmers are paid only for the milk and nothing additional for the cream which has been skimmed off it. For this milk and cream the 4,000,- 000 consumers of New York pay more than $1,000,000 a week. The thousands of producing farmers get about o»e- quarter of what the consumer pays, or $200,000 a week, averaging possibly $10 or $12 a week to the amall farmer, little more than the wages of an un- skilled laborer and allowing nothing for the capital investment, the feed, the skill and the risk. . A good average cow will give 3,000 quarts of milk a year. It will eat 7 to 10 pounds a day of grain in the shape of bran, oilmeal, grottnd oats and corn, besides 12 or 15 pounds of hay, aijid that much more dry com fodder or its equivalent in silage. s Bran now costs $1.60 a hundred, oilmeal $1.85 a hun- dred, corn $1.70 and oats $1.95, making an average of betweeh 1 and two cent a pound or the grain which the cow eats, for 12 to 15 cents a day. The hay and corn fodder are worth that much more. , . « . .. If a man were to buy his cow feed at market prices it would cost $$0 a year. If he sold his milk at the price which Mr. Dean receives he would get $43 a year. If the farmer were a business man he would have stopped this a long time ago. The reason he 4oes not atop it is because he is not a business man, and, raising his food on the farm, he is able to work for nothing without starving to death. He sells his hay in the form of milk for half what it would bring in the market and h|s grain in the form of milk for half of what a Produce Ex change broker woulftpay him for it Sage FoundatiofVi Discover!**. The Sage Foundtfron has taken up this matter througjfsits Milk Commit- tee This foundation is the shape in which Mrs. Russell Sage has chosen to put to charitable use a great part of the fortune left by her husband. The Sage Milk Committee began with an investigation of the ^reasons why New YOrk City's milk supply is not better and why the price is BO high. It began by blaming the farmer for the high bacterial contents, for the ramshackle stables, for the lack of steam steriliz- ing and refrigerator plants, for dirty milk cans and unsanitray conditions. Its investigations developed the fact that no farmer could supply these things and sell milk for 2 cents a quart. Then.the investigators found out that it was not the farmer put the middleman who made prices high; that three great milk companies controlled the bulk of New York's supply, that they offered the farmers contracts which the farmer could either take or feed his milkUo the hogs. : They then came *, to the conclusion that the difficulty wu with the distri- bution, its high cost and the middleman with their profits i» great that one company earna mows than 1° P er cent - on $2,500,000 capita| _•\ m Having come to-jlift-conclusion, the Sage Foundation. Milk Committtee is arranging to go into the mill business itself, buying milk from the farmers and paying them more to produce clean and high grade milk, opening milk de- pots-in-New-York and-selHng direct to people who will come for it That should make it possible to pay the farmer 4 cents and sell to the con- sumer for 6 cents, a real benefaction, far better than gratuitous charity, FALL PLOWING THE BESf Dean Herbert £. the Reasons Cook Gives Why. Plow the Soil Six or Seven Inches Deep as Soon a* Practicable in the Early Fall or Late Summer. Mt. Editor:— There is a general dis- position to say that our agricultural lands contain insufficient organic mat- ter. I think this is true of our eastern soils, taken as a whole, but it is my opinion also that very many of these lands are deficient in hunus-but not de- ficient in organic matter, that is, they have plenty of root growth of some sort, quack grass or weeds, or perhaps the sod of legitimate plant growth, but this has no value in feeding another plant until it has become thoroughly DINNER AT TllE WHITE HOUSE. Tr« President Celebrates the Enact ment of the New Tariff Law. Washington, Aug. 9.—President Taft celebrated the enactment of the new tariff law by giving a dinner at the White House last Thursday night. The greater number of theiguests were the members of the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee of the House. Those present were Vice-President Sherman, Speaker Cannon, Secretary Knox, Secretary MacVeagh, Attorney-General Wicker- sham, Postrr.aster-General Hitchcock, Secretary Wilson, Secretary Nagel, Secretary to the President Carpenter, Senators Hale, Aldrich. Cullom.DanieJ, Lodge. Burrows, Penroae, McCumber, Taliaferro. Bailey, Simons, Smoot. Crane, Flint and Root, Representatives Dalzell, Payne, McCall. Hill, Under- wood, Clark, Crumpaeker. Broussard, fotted. In fact, beyond the opening | SrimmT\jjcedlr* m <'\'CaTderh**d Ford- up of the soil consequent upon root ney G a j Oi . Bi p Ou , Randell, Dwight and raising prices to the producer. During the middle of July week there were shipped to New York, outside of Long Island and small direct deliveries, 278,267 cans of milk and 14,306 cans of cream. Each can held 40 quarts, mak- ing the total amount of milk 11,130,680 quarts and of cream 572,240 quarts. These receipts by railroads were: Milk. Cream. Erie 38.973 3.152 Suequehanna 9.766 217 West Shore KU9 J.386 Lackawanna 40.838 2.800 New York Central (Ions: haul).... 53,179 150 New York Central (Harlem) 31.550 35 Ontario and Western -47,172 3.366 Lehish Valley 23-481 2.S62 Homer Ramsdell line ,., 2,000 175 New Haven ' I0.1«9 113 Other sources 2,000 250 LAST OF THE APOSTLE CATS. Who Will Take St. John and Save Him From Being O>terized. up of the soil consequent upon root growth, it does a positive damage upon the plants which follow. > So lonjr as any life remains in these roota they absorb more or less water and plant food from the soil and hence interfere with the tender young plants when they first germinate. Some plants of course can thrive better than others; the corn plant, which is a rapid grower and rank feeder, will thrive under these adverse conditions better than the clover plant. Thousands of dollars are lost every year because the clover seed, a small need requiring the most favorable con-\ ditions to germinate and grow,is asked to live where other roots absorb the readily available pjant food. It is like trying to grow spring sown flowers on a well shaded lawn, the big trees' ab- sorb the plant food and the flowers die. The old fashioned summer fallow practiced for so'many years, thoroughly reduced the sod and made the soil ex- ceedingly loose and open and rotted every trace of organic matter in it. While the practice had many points of vantage, it had also much that was dis- advantageous. We lost a crop for a whole season and.then in order to save the readily available plant food, it is necessary to sow a fall crop, either wheat or rye, whidh everyone does not care to do; and furthermore, the ex- posure of the land during the summer to the heat destroyed some of the or- ganic matter, through the same sort of combustion carried on in an oven, only so very slowly that it was not readily observed. We have now found a way of getting the same results obtained with the summer fallow without loss of the land fdr a season and without loss of plant food. The scheme is; simple and follows: : Plow the soil six or seven inches deep \ as soon as practicable in the early fall or late summer, depending upon the amount of moisture in the land; often the land is BO dry that it cannot be plowed until after the fall rains; this has the disadvantage of shortening up the time of working the soil after plowing. Immediately after plowing pot on the hanrowajwUriye the .^ the, same thorough working which would follow spring plowing prepara- tory to planting or sowin£r*\Jn the course of a week or when convenient, go on again and repeat the operation, continue this until winter. Some fields will require more work than others, a tough, quacky sod more than any other sod. The readers will readily see the advantage at this time of year for the destruction of plant roots. The roots are dormant, and so decay very quickly. In the spring, when nature is putting forth its greatest effort to de- velop the plant, everyone knows how hard it is to keep back these grasses and weeds, but in the falWt is aurpris- Longworth, Lieutenant-Commander L. C. Palmer and Capt. A> W. Butt. BAN PUT ON CIGARETTES. Sale in Minnesota Became Illegal Last Night at Midnight Minneapolis, Aug. 1 —The new State law prohibiting the sale of paper cigar- ettes went into effect at 12 midnight .and from now on it will be illegal to put them on the market. Early this evening there waa a shor- tage in popular brands at some cigar Btores and clerks sent prices up higher than ordinarily charged at retail. SOME AMUSING INCIDENTS While Swinging Around the Country Circle. .>f-v Re- ports came in from other parts of the city that a fresh supply had arrived which caused a rush to those stores, which caused values to decline again. - At some stores, however, prices were keot at top notch, as it was thought that there would be little difficulty in getting rid of the stocks. Shortly after 10 o'clock five cent packages sold at eight for a quarter, 10 cent boxes at four for a quarter, IB cent boxes at three for a quarter and 25 cent cigar- ettes at two for 35 cents. These prices remained stationary until midnight. More than a million cigarettes were sold in Minneapolis yesterday. THE PRESIDENT'S BIG TRIP. President Taft is now at his 8ummer home in Beverly, Mass.. The other day he gave out the itinerary of the •Western and Southern trip he is plan- ning to make this fall as follows: Sep- tember 16, Chicago, afternoon and evening; September 17, Madison, Wis., morning; September 17, Portage; Wja., one hour, afternoon; September 17, Farmer* Not the Opl? One* Receiving Instruction During Trip Through the North Country. '\ \Professors from the State agricul- tural Bchools are scouring the country far and wide in automobilee, with stenographers by their side, working a new \uplift\ propaganda. Their pri- mary object, they a»y, is to induce more farmers to send their sons to school. To accomplish this the learned arid ilK dustrious teachers are offering regular bargain counter prices to the ruralists, says the Ogdensburg News. \Irci- dentally the State educators, are accu- mulating the material for an up-to-date dictionary or glossary of farm slang and bucolic dialect A representative of the Agricultural College tat St. Law- rence University, who was in Lowville the other da*, aaid he had picked up more queer cuss words among the farm- era of Lewis county than he ever dreamed were jn existence. The State Board of Regents, it id said, is consider- ing plans for a Standard Gazetter of Farm Slang as it is slung at the \up- lifters.\ \The professors, with their automo- biles and stenographers, ride right out into the fields and \chin\ with the farmers and his help while they cut the hay or pick cucumbers from th*ir thorny skins. The idea is to \get the atmosphere\ of farm life and to give the farmer a chance to get into close and sympathetic communion with the proselytes of the agricultural science. Then when a profesBor gets a farmer real interested he brings out the goods, which in this case is a cut-rate course in the agricultural school. The teach- ing is free, the only expense being for board and a few books. The board of studentB at Canton, for instance, runs from $3.50 to $4.50 a week. There are no educational requirements, and any young man with a limited school educa- tion is eligible for the course. This is considered a good opportunity for a young man on a farm to obtain prac- tical education at very small expense. In fact, a young man may enter at any time during the school ndf> period of only three because many young men the farms before the first and must be back there first of March. The farmers are getting more fun than the professor out of the \uplift' tour. They are quick to \josh\ the professors, and give them all sorts of excuses for keeping their \boys\ on the farm. Poverty is their commonest •/ & -•'•XI % '\'••s'i Winona, Minn, evening; September'plea. One old farmer, who told Profes 18, Minneapolis and St. Paul, two days; sor H. E. Cook he was \too hard ub \ \ ' • - « - buy taters to plant;*' September] 20, Omaha, evening; Sep- tember 21, Denver, Col., afternoon, night and following day; September 22, Pueblo, Col., short visit, evening; September 23, Montrose, Col., short visit, afternoon I September 24, Salt Lake City, two days; September 27, Helena, Mont., afternoon; September 28. Spokane, Wash., morning and after- noon; September 29, North Yakima morning; September 29, Seattle, Wash., also visit Tacoma, evening and two following days; October 2, Port- land, two days; October 4, Sacramento, evening; Octobers, Oakland and San Francisco, afternoon and evening.; October 6, in Yoaeraite Valley, evening goshang it, to winked at his taters to . wrfe as the professors the departed, then hopped fence and got out his runabout, which/had been si of Bight under th< on his new gray coat was soon whirling by the professors in a cloud of dust. \The farmers' wivfes are the most persistent kickers^ agai^t the__affilcj|1^5 1 _. •-V'r*. \H it pn.ig^ r tural college couse. No siree bob,^, they say, one after another, you don't ketch me mortgagin' this yere farm to give mjL boys such stuck-up ideas. They're hard enough to keep on the- place as it is. He won't plow nor ULMJUcr Oi in ivacwit c > BUCJ , ^»^iwne> piacc tt» ll> IB. li e wvm i> j/iun uv» and three following days; October 10r \drive a team any better by what he gits Mpreedes. Cal. three hours', morning; in mllecre.\ tug to see how little -work will reckree the sod. In the spring as soon as the land can be harrowed, give it whatever work it may ,need; then, just before the crop is to be put in, replow it a little deeper than in the fall, for corn pne inch deeper, for potatoes perhaps three inches deeper. If there are any spots in the field which are tough and hard above other places, it will-be pro- fitable to put in a plow and turn them over early in the spring and then later, when the whole field is being plowed, they will receive again their third treat- ment with the plow, in the pulverizing of the soil. Another advantage of this treatment is found in turning down mellow soil onto the subsoil instead of turning weeds, stubble or grass im- mediately onto the sub-soil. In the first place capillarity will begin at once with the soil water below, in the latter case it often takes a long time. I recently saw a\ corn field with a section of it plowed in the spring, the rest of it in the fall. The plowed land, with the same care and fertility, had a growth fully three times as large as the spring plowed, simply because the capillary water from below was cut off. We have been follo\0in«r this prac- tice on our home farirt for several years with the best results. Last fall I be- gan the same treatment on the college farm and those who knew the fields before and see them now, are surprised at the change. One field of five aeres, of tough, quacky sod, has had up to date, and the tops now cover, the soil so that weed danger is past, only twenty-two hours of hand labor, and there is not a bushel of weeds'op the five acres nor a single quack root in sight. Never mind if you do not get the sod entirely rotted in the fall and it turns over in the spring, it will look rough some times but before mid-sum- mer has passed, in a cultivated field this sod will be entirely gone and you will be delighted with the work. 1 wish every person who reads this would try at least a small piece, suffi- cient to prove to their own satisfaction that it will have more to do in develop- ing their quacky * unproductive lands than any other equal investment which is possible to make. H. E. Cook. Canton, August 5, 1909* Mr*. Roo«erelt Goes to Paris With Sitter. Milan, Aug. 9.—-Mrs. Theodore Roose- velt, accompanied fey her sister, Misa Carow, and her youngest son, left here for Paris. The municipal authorities were present at the railtoad station to present their formal farewell saluta- tions Archie and Ethel Roosevelt will rejoin their mother in Paris after an- other trip with Baron Mayor Dea Plan- ches, the Italian ambassador to the United States, and his wife to the Italian lakes. Mrs, Roosevelt will re^ tarn to Miss Carow's villa at Porto Maurizio in the autumn, and there await the return of Mr. Roosevelt from Africa. Mercedes, Cal, three hours', morning October 10, Fresno, Cal., afternoon; October 11, Los Angeles, two days; October 14, Grand Canyon, morning and afternoon; October 15, Albaquerque, evening; October 16, kl Paso, Tex., morning and aiternoon; October 17, San Antonio, evening and following morning; October 18, Corpus Chiisti, night and following four days at his brother's, Charles B. Taft's ranch; October 23, Houston, three hours, morning; October 23, Dallas, night; October 25, St. Louis, morning and afternoon and East St. Louis to New Orleans, stop Cape Girardeau, Natchez; October 26, Cairo, 111., three hours morning; October 26, Hickman, Ky., two hours; October 27, Memphis, Tenn., three hours, morning; October 28, Vicksburg, Miss», two hours, after- non; October 2y, New Orleans, night and two following days; November 1, Jackson, Miss.. morning, afternoon and part of evening; November 2, Colum- bus, Miss., three hours, part morning and evening*; November 2, Birming- ham, Ala., night, following morning and part of afternoon; November 4, Macon, Ga., morning; November 4, Savannah, Ga., night and following morning; Novembers, Charleston, S. C., evening; November 6, Augusta, Ga., afternoon and following day; November 8, Columbia, S. C, part morning and afternoon; November 9, WilmingtonJ N. C, morning and after- noon ; November 10, Richmond, Va., morning and afternoon. ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE SEATS in college. \The \one best seller\ in the way; of ideas to win tne farmer -with is the; simple proposition put to him b'y^ Pro*-; feaaor Cook and otherB—\You save the A V - '\ww^» - •— «*-^ \rr*Tf^* 1 ' . _i — ~ coBt of the college course and mocn more by the knowledge you gain in scientific rotation crops and proper in* formation about fertilizers.'* At one^ farm where the Professor and his sten- ographer stopped neither father nor son. could see any sense in a college educa- tion. They were engaged in getting' the hay in one of the lots. The crop was very light one. Before the Profes- sor left the farmer wanted to know hpw he could make more grass grow. All of the farm conversation taken down by the stenographer is to be pub- lished to give to the authorities their first close range insight into the every day sentiments of New York on-all topics, from grasshoppers to politics. THE HORRID, HORRID RAIN. It Made Miss Florence Bishop Home- tick and She Would Not Wed ~ . Frank Hunt. *• * Filled with^i longing for the green, hills of Tennessee, greater than any love for the man whom Bhe had come hun- - dreds of miles to wed, Miss Florence Bishop, who recently arrived in Water* town from Clarksville, Tenn. f to wed Frank Hunt, chauffeur, has returned,to tl\e home which she left only a short, time ago. It was Miss Bishop's first trip but into the world from the little Southern home which she said she loved more than anything else in the worlds Homesick beyond the ordinary the girl viewed northern New York with, apathy and then decided there-Was no place like the South. No j amount of persuasion could change her mind. It was evident from the first that Miss Bishop was a very homesick girl. t When she arrived in Wateftown it raihed'for t^wo or three days and that added to the feeling of home sickness which bad grown as the miles multi- plied between herself and the home which she had left. With a southern superstition, she re- fused to geVmarried while the skies were overcast. When the sun did shine it came too late, making no impression on the dark and gloomy days that, had gone before.. The woman had mads up her mind and unfalteringly she took the train for home. Mr. Hunt remains a bachelor. r Other Assignments. The \insurgents\ against the House rules are disciplined and in a number of instances ranking members have not been given the chairmanship of their coramittees. Representatives Fowler, (N. J.), Gardner, (Mass.), and Cooper (Wis.), three of the \rules insurgents,\ who held chairmanships in the last session of' Congress, have lost their com- mittees Representative Vreeland (N. Y.), succeeds Mr. Fowler as head of the Committee pn Banking and Currency, and Representative Redenberg (HI.). succeeds Mr. Gardner as chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. Mr. Cooper was replaced by Representative Olmsted (Pa.) These members participated in the fight on the rules at the beginning of the' present session and thus incurred the Speaker's displeasure. Although Representative Wanger (Pa.), was the ranking.member of the last Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Representative Mann (111.), who has been most active in that committee, succeeds to the chairmanship. Representative Gardner (N. J.), also was the ranking member of his committee, \post-office and post \Toads but~ Representative Weeks (Mass.), has received the chairmanship of that important committee. Ways and Means. The Way and Mean§ Committee and _ the Committees on Accounts, Mileage —«*wLRulesi were named earlier in the sessionT\ Representative Alexander (N. Y.). succeeds to present Senator Bur- ton's position as head of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Representative ' Dwight (N. Y.), the Republican whip, takes Mr. Crumpackerf place in the Ways and Means CommiUee. Important chairmanships retained by members follow: Appropriations Taw- ney(Minn.) ;Agriculture, Scott (Kan.;) Census, Crumpaeker (Ind.); Military Affairs, Hull (la.); Naval Affairs, Foss (111.) ; Pensions,Loudenslager (N. Y.) ; District of Columbia, Smith (Mich.); Immigration and Naturalization, How- ell (N. J.); Labor, Gardner (N. J.); Library, McCall (Mass.) ; Manufac- turers, McMorran (Mich.); Merchant Marne and Fisheries, Green (Mass.) , Among the appointments to chair manships of men who are the ranking members of the old committees, is Rep- resentative PerkinB, (New York), Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs. Representa- tive Burke, (South Dakota) is-named chairman of the committee on Indian Affairs formerly held by Vice-President Sherman. The chairmanship of the Committee on Printing goes to Repre- sentative Cooper, (Penn). The New York Congressmen. The Democratic appointments to com- mittees remain practically unchanged. New appointments to the membership of now committees included the follow- ing New York Congressmen : Appropri- young militiamen, anxious to be well prepared for the field of battle. All New York will watch each movement of her boys in the coming manoeuvres and expect them to acquit themselves with much distinction. Nine stout-hearted old chargers that have given years of youth to the police service of the city are to-day for the i first time doing drudgery before the i carts of the East Side peddlers, while ! the municipality is only a few hundred ; dollars richer for their sale into this I sad bondage. Just because the official j red tape of the department could never be cut, New York has for years suffered the shame of thus seeing scores of splendid horses delivered over in their later years to hard labor for the task- masters who can buy their nags cheap- est at these sales of condemned horse flesh. Blooded beasts that have gal- loped—rain or shine, night and day— for the police protection of this town are still suffered to endure the fate of the most abandoned old hacks as soon as they have become crippled or stiff in the city's service. No one has yet lifted a finger here to provide for theBe honorably discharged veterans of the police stables; but the indignation which has been raised by the latest sac- rifice sale bids fair to bring about a decent and humane change of treat- ment. After all the revolting rehearsal of the Thaw trial up at White Plains, little interest or attention is to-day being given to the fate of the young millionaire by the New York public. While-only two years ago the news- papers were filled with every detail of the sorry story and each fresh chapter became the talk of the town, the read- ing or hearing of the whole unsavory affair ia now very rare even at the .climax of the crucial hearing. It will •be a long while before the escapades of another such subject for sanity exami- nation attract any but the most slight notice from the people of this badly bored town. Mead. $8,500,000 CAR ORDER. Pennsylvania Will Take 8,000 New Freight Cars for Lines East and West. Pittsburg, Aug. 9.—The Pennsylvania railroad has placed orders for about $8,500,000 worth of new car equipment, the biggest order for cars ever given at one time. The number of new cars ordered is 8,000 and the cost will be something over $1,000 apiece. Although the, entire order his been pladed, the apportion- ment only for the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie is made known to-night. There will be 4,845 cars for the lines; east of Prttsburg and Erie and 3,153 for the lines west^ The cars for the liner', east have been apportioned as; follows : Pressed Steel Car Company , of Pittsburg, 350 box cars, 350 hoppers, j 500 coke cars; American Car and' Foundry Company 500 box cara ; Stand-' ard Steel Car Company, 750 hopper;, Cambria Steel Company, 800 coke cara ;' Pennsylvania railroad Altoona shops, ' 1,895 cars of all kinds. • | _ j I —Any man can have an appreciative! j audience by merely t' lHn<r to him pi* Total. : 278.267 14.306 Most of It Shipped Long Distance. Little of this milk comes from near New York. Many farmers who were longest in the milk business have gone out of it and there is constant effort on th« part of the members of the Milk Exchange to get in new and inexperi- enced farmers. This has sent the milk business out as far as Salamanca on the Erie and as far north as Lewis and St. Lawrence counties, hundreds of miles away. Northwestern Pennsylvania and Hunterdon and Sussex counties, in New Jersey, furnish the Lackawanna and Lehigh Valley supply. The Ontario and Western road brings milk from as far as Oswego. .In these neighborhoods land is cheap and the farmers rely greatly on pasturage to feed their cows. This business is enormously profit- able to the railroads. They charge from 23 to 32 cents a can. That is the rate to any individual shipper who un- dertakes to send his own milk to New York. It is an enormous freight rate A can of milk weighs, including the can, apout ninety pounds. The amount of cream to a quart of milk varies according to the breed of the cow, Jerseys givjng more than Holsteins, Guernseys about the same as Jerseys, Ayrshires more than Hol- steins and grade cows as a rule less than registered thoroughbreds. On the average it would take eight to ten quarts of milk to make a quart of cream, skimming deep or running the separator rather wide open to make as large a quantity of cream as will pass. That would make the equivalent of New-York's milk consumption, exclud- ing butter and cheese, 16,863,080 quarts of milk a week. v . • N Farmer Gets Nothing for Cream. In fact, it is not this much milk, be- cause for a great part of the cream the farmer gets nothing*. The agricultural law prohibits the selling* of milk with less tban 3 per cent butter fata. A grade Jersey cow will give per cent, milk and in some cases J per cent. Thoroughbred Jerseys have been known to give aa high as 6 per cent, butter fats. Holsteins 3J to, and ordinary scrubs from 3j up. Although the law prohibits the skim- ming of milk before it is sold as whole milk, there is no way to detect the sikmming\ of part of the cream, pro- vided that what remains tests higher than 3 per cent. Some creameries buy \Othing but milk and sell both milk and rr n. The consumer pays the full South Orange, N. J., Aug. 9.—The last of the famous Apostle cats is seek- ing a home. The Apostle cats became celebrated when the will of Miss' Anna A. Burnet, of Hilton, was probated. She left the twelve cats, each of which was named for an Apostle, to varous persons. Since Miss Burnet's death a year ago all the cats have died of old age with the exception of St. John. If any one wants him the rast of the twelve may be obtained from Mrs. Mary Edwards, who is about to move from Hilton to Belleville and does not want to take the cat with her. Miss Burnet's will, which disposed of ' an estate of about $500,000, was con- ! tested by some forty relatives, who i contended that she was of unsound ! mind. Part of their allegftions in sup- ! port of this contention was her naming the cats after the Apostles and buying gold collars for them*. The court held that this did not denote testamentary incapacity and the will was admitted to probate. St. John is a big Angora, Mrs. Ed- wards, to whom he wad willed, has cared for the feline since Miss Burnet's death, but she wishes to be relieved of her charge. If she cannot find any one to take the animal it will be chloro- formed. «L AMERICA WILL PROFIT. Indian Boycott is Feared by Britain. London, Aug. 11.—English merchants are plainly perturbed to-day- over the outcome of the Indian boycott en Eng- lish goods which is to go into effect to- morrow. If the boycott becomes as effective it is now feared it will mean the loss of $100,000,000 annually by English merchants and the gain of nearly this much trade by American, German and Japanese merchants.. The province of Bengal alone buys about $50,000,000 worth of English goods a year. The boycott is a part of the Hindu plan to cripple the influence of England in her great dependency and it has been seized upon as a more expedi- ent measure than open warfare, as it gives England no means of retaliation. After August^ the decre^ has gone out among the Hindus that any of the race who buys or handles English goods or goods imported in English ships will be an outcast among- his countrymen. ' \'•'.: *\' t Kingsbury—Scheidleraan. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Scheidleman, of Boonville, have, issued invitations to the marriage of their, daughter, Ethel Elizabeth, to Donald Chester Kings- bury, to occur on the aftenoon of Wed- nesday, August 18, at 1:30 o'clock at their home. Seared With a Hot Iron. . ^ or scalded by overturned kettle—cut with a knife—bruised by slammed door —injured by gun or in any 6ther way—- the thing needed at once is Bucklen'B Arnica Salve to subdue inflammation and kill the pain. It's earth's supreme healer, infallible for boils, ulcers.fever fibres, eczema and piles. 50c. at F. C. Snyder's. —Nothing is so universally imitated as success. —The automobile will put the hors out of business the day after oleomar- garine drives the cow to the tan-yard. Boat Was Capsized an4 William Kelley, of Carthage, Drowned. William Kelley, of Carthage, was drown in Lake Bonaparte last Sunday. Mr. Kelley, in company with two friends, Thomas Harvey and pichard Card, also of Carthage, went to the lake Sunday morning for a day's fish- ing. During the forenoon the three, men secured'a boat and started out' When near the hotel and about ,,io1rty rods from the shore, it is said; 1;wo of the men started to change seats. In endeavoring to pass each other theJboat toppled over, throwing the three men into the water. Mr. Kelley managed to keep afloat for several minutes, but was Unable to reach the boat to which his companions were clinging, and was drowned before aid reached him. The body was recovered late Sunday even- ing. Coroner H. A. Pawling, of Low- ville, was notified and ordered Under- taker Wickes, of Harrisviile, to take jcharge of the remains for the time being. Coroner Pawling went to H?ff- riaville and investigated the case Mon- day. He decided that death was due to accidental drowning. Kelley was about 30 years of age and was a cripple, both hands being badly deformed. He has recently been em- ployed on the farm of Morris Dalton, who resides in the Irish Settlement road near Carthage. He is survived by his fathehGeorgfe Kelley, and a brother\ Charles Kelley, bartender at the New Hermitage hotel. —It usually takes a woman two ,or three weeks after she gets back from her vacation before she finds all the un- washed coffee cups which her husband waa thoughtful enough to put away •after each bieakfast. i~t^ ••\\vfe •••',1'.'*.L •••<«• Skeleton Unearthed. '\ Workmen while excavating for a new residence in Chateaugay street in the village of Fort Covlngton ' unearthed a lot of skeletons which at first caused wide speculation, but Li now appears that they are the remains of United States soldiers buried there in 1813 when the place, then known as \French Mills,\ was occupied by General Wilk- inson's array that made an unfortunate invasion jatlfc-Canada.— Many~of hi* men, it is reported historically, died there of typtfoid, of scurvy and the in- tensi^old weather, as many of his sol- diers came from the Southern States and could not stand the severe climate. Brigadier General Covington, a South- ern man, died.there and the town waa named in his honor. —Ostentatious self-deprecation is one manifestation of vanity.
