The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 26, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 October 1913 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER. Publisher. . ' Syracuse, • - ■ Indiana. 1210 a. IN WRECK OF TRAIN Members of U. S. Coast Artillery Are Victims. COACHES P-.UNGE OFF BRIDGE Picked Soldier* Were on Way to Drill at State Fair at Meridian, Mi»*. —Reports of Accident are Meager. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 20.—Twelve sol diers of the United States Coast artillery were killed and 50 were injured in the wreck of a troop train. The train was a special, running as the second section of a regular passenger train on the Mobile & Ohio railroad. It carried 175 enlisted men and four officers from the One Hundred .and Ninety-ninth and Thirty-seventh. Coast artillery. The soldiers were from Fort Morgan, bound for Meridian, Miss., to give an exhibition at the Ala-bama-Mississippi state fair. The wreck happened when the engine plunged through a trestle and into a deep ravine three miles from Bucatunna, Miss. The tender, baggage car and coaches followed the engine into the ravine or rolled over a high embankment that was the approach to the bridge. Relief Trains Rushed. Relief trains were sent from Mobile •nd Meridian, carrying doctors, nurses and all necessary equipment for a temporary field hospital. Those of the injured who are able tp be moved will be brought back here in special ambulance cars. The scene of the wreck is remote “from a telegraph office and the only definite information as to the number of dead and injured that has reached Mobile came in a telegram to Major Burgess, commandant at Fort Morgan. Fear Fire In Wreckage. This gave the name of only one dead soldier —Corporal M. Kohler — but stated that a number of wounded men were pinned beneath the rear coaches of the train, which fell on those ahead, and that the uninjured soldiers and trainmen were ' making . ‘desperate efforts to get them out before the wreckage should catch fire and burn them alive. The officers on the train were Captains Taylor and Geer, the former in eommand and Lieut. Edward Barlow and Lieut. Calvin M. Smith. The men were the crack members 'of their respective companies, having Ibeen chosen for their excellence in (drill and other maneuvers. GIRL IS MISSING Marie Colliers of Chicago, Called a Leper, Disappears From ! Home. Chicago, Oct. 20.—Marie Colliers is 'believed to have given up her struggle iagainst a world of suspicion and doubt. : The girl whom speiety branded as a ileper, even after she had received a Iclean bill of health from specialists, ihas disappeared from friends in Chicago. Former acquaintances had turned iagainst her because she had lived in leper colony. Her life had become jthat of a social outcast, with only one rfriend, Mrs. Elma Flanagan, of whom jshe rented a room she called home at •1141 South Desplaines street, i She wrote her good-bys when she' ffelt that everyone had turned against her, and after her sorrows had been "augmented by the receipt of a note from the keeper of a disreputable Ihouse. SIO,OOO PEARLS IN CORSET U. S. Customs Officials Discover Gems on Mrs. May Van Alen Thompson. Boston, Oct. 20. —That Mrs. May Van Alen Thompson, niece of the late ?Col. John Jacob Astor and bride of "Griswold A. Thompson, had pearls to Ithe value of at least SIO,OOO sewed to .the inside of her corset when she arrived at this port on the White Star * liner Arabic was disclosed at the office of the United States customs. The information came to light when the expert appraisal of the contents of iMrs. Thompson’s twenty-five trunks, seized on suspicion by the customs Inspectors, began at the appraisers’ storehouse. The discovery of the pearls was made by Mrs. Wilkins, the customs inspectress, who after the discovery of the belt of jewels on the person of Miss Connor, Mrs. Thompson’s maid, was ordered to search the mistress also. Inventor of Incubators Is Dead. New York, Oct. 20.—Dr. Solomon Z Rachel, who introduced baby incubators in this country and has exhibited them extensively, died from the effects of acute indigestion. Wreck on Big Four. Tiffin, Ohio, Oct. 20.—Three persons were probably fatally injured, four were seriously hurt and scores were cut and bruised, when a southbound Big Four passenger train was wrecked three miles south of this city yesterday. fFifteen Persons Injured. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 20.—Fifteei persons were injured, two perhaps fatally when the “midnight speclar of the Chicago and Alton railroad was wrecked at Alton, 111. Fire In East St. Louis Yards. St. Louis, Oct. 20. —The entire ralb road terminals of East St. Louis, said to be the largest in the United States, were threatened by destruction by a fire which began on the banks of the Mississippi river last night and rapi<s ly spread In three directions.

SULZER OUSTED; Bumiyiim Asserts Ha Is Victim of Political Lynching. M. H. GLYNN SWORN IN Deposed Governor Spared Penalty of Forever Being Barred From Office—Albany Citizens to Give Him Loving Cup. Albany. N. Y., Oct. 20.—William Sulzer has ceased to be governor of the state of New York. He was removed from office by the high court of impeachment by a vote of 43 to 12, two members not voting, Friday. Martin H. Glynn, lieutenant governor, was sworn in as his successor, the first in the history of the state to step into its high office 'n this manner. Robert F. Wagner, Democratic leader of the senate, became lieutenant governor. The verdict of the court was that Sulzer was guilty of falsification, perjury and an attempt to suppress evidence against him. Os all other charges he was acquitted, the court unanimously voting him hot guilty of the four remaining articles ot\ impeachment. By a virtually unanimous vote the impeachment tribunal also decided that Sulzer should not be punished by disqualification to hold office of honor and trust in this state in the future. This would have been the extreme penalty under the law. The ousted executive was served with a copy of the verdict of the court at the executive mansion —christened by himself “the people’s house” —at night. “Good. I thank you,” he said to the sergeant-at-arms of the senate, who delivered the document. According to Chester C. Platt, who acted as Sulzer’s secretary while he was governor, the Impeached executive will leave Albany either on Sunday or Monday. He said that it is certain that for a time Mr. Sulzer will devote his energies to delivering speeches in this state wherever campaigns are being waged for direct primaries and against political bosses. The incoming governor issued a statement in which he said his endeavor would be “to give the people of the state an honest, peaceful, progressive and wise conduct of public affairs.” The outgoing executive issued a statement in which he denounced the tribunal which had removed him as “Murphy’s high court of infamy.” “Murphy controlled the assembly and ordered the impeachment,” Sulzer said. “He controlled most of the members of the court and dictated procedure and wrote the judgment. He was the judge and jury; the prosecutor and the bailiff.” Sulzer declared that his trial was a “political lynching as far as the Tammanyized part of the court was concerned—the confirmation of a deep laid political conspiracy to oust me from office." “A horse thief in frontier days,” he said, “would have received a squarer deal.” The secret sessions of the court he characterized as “star chamber proceedings, where the enemies of the state could work for my conviction undiscovered.” Sulzer asserted he had not taken the stand in his own defense because he realized that his story attacking ’the Tammany leader would be ruled out. The ousted governor entered a general denial of all the charges In the impeachment articles, denied he had ever asked Allan A. Ryan to obtain the influence of Murphy or Republican State Chairman Barnes to stop the trial; said the testimony of Henry Morgenthau could be explained; asserted dollar that had been given him during his campaign had been properly accounted for; that he was $76,000 in debt; that he had been “faithful to his trust,” and that he “handed back to the people the commission they gave me untarnished and unsullied.” “Had I but served the boss with half the zeal I did the state, William Sulzer would never have been impeached,” he said. WILSONS BACK AT CAPITAL. President’s Family Arrives at Capital After Summer Vacation. Washington, Oct. 20.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, accompanied by her daughters Margaret and Eleanor, arrived at the White House from their summer home in Cornish. N. H. Miss Jessie Wilson, who is to be married to Francis B. Sayre in the White House next month, did not return. At the White House President Wilson and his reunited family sat down to breakfast. Miss Jessie Wilson -remained in the east to visit friends a few days. Fined Under Antigossip Act. Appleton, Wis., Oct. 18.—Mrs. Rosa Lehn was the first person to be fined here under the antigossip act. She paid a fine of $21.80 after having pleaded guilty to the gossip charge preferred by a Mrs. McDonald. Attempted Robbery Is Foiled. Joliet, 111., Oct. 18. —An attempt to rob tne Frankfort bank was probably frustrated when a sheriff’s posse from Joliet captured an automobile load of bandits near New Lenox and found in the automobile nitroglycerin. U. S. Balloon Wins Race. Paris, Oct. 17. —The American balloon Goodyear was officially declared the winner of the international balloon race on Wednesday. Next year’s international contest will be held in the United States. Charge* Bribe Attempt. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 17. —Senator John L. Hare of Lexington declared in the senate he had been offered $2,500 to absent himself from the extra session, which Is to act on several liquor measures.

EDWARD C. STOKES y2l %" - : ? - ' •» . Mr. Stoke* Is the nominee of the Republican party for governor of New Jersey, a position which he ha* held before. HUERTA HAS RESIGNED DECLARES NOTE TO CUBA Message Sent to Island Asserts Dictator Favors Blanquet as Chief — Former War Minister. Havana, Oct. 20.—The Cuban government has received a wireless dispatch Friday saying that President Huerta has resigned in favor of General Blanquet. Gen. Aureliano Blanquet, who was General Huerta’s righthand man in the coup d’etat by which Madero was overthrown, has held the portfolio of war in the recently organized Mexican cabinet. Mexico City;- Oct. 20—President Huerta’s resignation was placed before the cabinet Friday, it is reported, and was discussed at length, but was not accepted because a review of the men available for the position developed the fact that there was no man with the right qualifications to handle the present difficult situation. The foreign diplomatists, particularly European, are continuing their informal conference with regard to the Mexican situation. It is understood on unquestioned authority that the responsibility of the United States in view of existing conditions was brought forward and discussed at a conference last''night, when England, Prance, Spain, Germany, Russia, Austria, Norway and the United States were represented, though no united action was agreed upon. Ministers of Great Britain, France, Spain, Cuba, Guatemala and Norway decided at a conference Wednesday, called by the Spanish diplomat, to recommend to their governments that warships be sent to Mexico to protect the Legations should conditions so require. A member of the diplomatic corps made this statement last night. He said also that the diplomats had recommended a temperate attitude in Mexico's reply to Washington. M’FARLAND BEATS MURPHY. Packey Lives Up to Former Reputation in Gotham Bout. New York, Oct. 20. —Packey McFarland is the peerless boxer of the ring. He lived up to his former great reputation by giving Tommy Murphy of New York a lesson in boxing during ten rounds at the Garden Athletic club. At least half of the time Packey slapped Murphy with an open glove and pushed him away with foils open hand. In the fifth round he delivered a hard right to Murphy’s face; in the sixth he sent in a similar dose, and in the ninth he puncheJ with all his force. In that chapter three punches to the face, one of them a right uppercut, drove Murphy to the ropes, dizzy and weak. Packey found Murphy’s guard ragged and open; Murphy found packey’s stone wall. That tells the story. MRS. MACKAY ANSWERS SUIT. Denies Alienation Charge by Wife of Doctor Blake. New York, Oct. 17. —Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, suffrage leader and wife of the head of the Postal TelegraphCable company, broke her silence regarding the $1,000,000 suit filed against her by Catherine K. Blake for alleged alienation of the affections of her husband. Dr. Joseph A. Blake, surgeon. ’ Through her personal counsel, Arthur C. Train, Mrs. Mackay denies all of Mrs. Blake’s allegations in a formal answer filed in the supreme court and characterized Mrs. Blake as one Who has a “jealous disposition, an ungovernable temper” and “no affection or love for her husband." • Earthquake in Nicaragua. San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Oct. JO.—Violent earthquakes were felt in Nicaragua and the cities of Managua. Massays and Grenada were badly shaken. The panic-stricken residents have fled into the country. Rescue U. S. Refugees. Laredo, Tex., Oct. 20.—The / 175 American refugees from Torreon, whose whereabouts have been causing much uneasiness among their friends and relatives, have been rescued by federal soldiers. Politician’s Son I* Killed. Springfield. 111.. Oct. 18.—Bruce Mounts, son of former State Senator W. L. Mounts, was killed and A. Crawford, Jr., son of A. W. Crawford of the state board of equalization, was se-' rlously injured by Mount’s automobile. Drowned at Naval Maneuver*. Washington. Oct. 18.—Hurry A. Garrity of Chicago was lost overboard from the torpedo boat destroyer Paulding during the maneuvers east of Block island. Garrity was a gunner’s mate.

DIRIGIBLE FALLS; 28 IRE KILLED Entire German Admiralty Trial Board Among Those Slain. THREE OTHERS DIE IN FALLS Baron Von Bleul, the Only Survivor, .With Both Eyes Burned Out, Begs to Be Shot by Rescuers—Many Witness Disaster. Berlin, Oct. 20.—The newest of the Zeppelin war airships, the L-2, was destroyed in midair by an explosion Friday. AU but one of the twenty-eight military men were killed. The twenty-eight represented the entire personnel of the admiralty board which was conducting the final trial of the dirigible, looking to its acceptance by the government as a new unit of the German aerial navy, the pilot and crew and invited guests. Every person that went aloft in the big airship is dead. Twenty-seven were killed almost instantly by the explosion of the gas in the balloonettes or burned to death as the flaming wreck fell to the ground from a height of 900 feet. One man, juieutenant Baron von Bleul of the Queen Augusta Grenadier Guards, a guest of the admiralty board, was extricated alive from the twisted wreckage. His eyes were burned out and he suffered other terrible hurts. Begging his rescuers to kill him and end his sufferings, he was taken to a hospital, where he died at night. The disaster left the aerial corps of the navy with only two men trained to command airships. The official report of the accident says the explosion was due to the ignition of gas in or above the forward gondola, but not within the body of the airship. The navy was not the only sufferer of the day through aviation accidents. Three army officers were killed in aeroplane flights. Emperor William, in a telegram to the minister of marine, voiced public sentiment concerning the accident by saying; “The sorrow over what has happened, I am convinced, will only be a spur to renewed exertions to develop so important an aerial weapon into a trustworthy implement of war.” The newspapers reflect the emperor’s belief that there should be no relaxation in the efforts to supply Germany with an adequate aerial fleet. Lieutenant Bernisch, commander and head of admiralty trial board conducting the final trial of the L-2 at a speed of forty miles an hour. Captain Glund, one of Zeppelin’s veteran dirigible pilots. Lieutenant Freyer, commander of the airship’s crew and favorite of the emperor. Lieutenant Baron Von Bleul, guest on airship; rescued alive, but died in hospital. Lieutenant Trenk, second in. command. Neumann and Pietzler, naval constructors. Hanssman, chief engineer. Busch, naval engineer, former navigator of the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern. Nineteen members of the admiralty board and the L-2’s crew. Captain Haessler, member of the army navigation corps; killed when aeroplane landed in tree top near Breslau. Lieutenant Koch, killed in fall of aeroplane near Wurzburg. Sergeant Mante, fell with Lieutenant Koch. The airship disaster occurred above the main street of the city of Johannisthal, while the big dirigible was making a trial trip preliminary to its acceptance as flagship of the new German aerial navy. The shattered hulk of the airship, a mass of blazing canvas and crumpled aluminum, dropped 900 feet into the public highway. A. P. MOORE IS ARRESTED. Husband of Lillian Russell Held for Libel. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 20. —A. P. Moore, husband of Lillian Russell and editor of the Pittsburgh Leader, was arrested in the Anderson hotel after a fight in which several friends of his are said to have interposed in his behalf. He was held in $5,000 bail on a charge of libel made by J. C. Armstrong, a Republican, who wants to be mayor. ILLINOIS FEELS A QUAKE. Citizens of Sterling Startled by Earth Shocks. Sterling, 111., Oct. 18.—What was believed by residents to be an earthquake was felt at 8:15 o’clock last, night. The shock lasted about ten seconds. In some homes dishes were rattled on the shelves. Carnegie Returns to United States. New York, Oct. 20. —Andrew Carnegie returned to the United States on the Cunard liner Mauretania from Scotland. He said he was delighted at the recent victory of Francis Ouimet, the brilliant young golfer. Rob Post Office of $2,000. Memphis Tenn., Oct. 20.—Yeggs blew the safe in a branch post office at Buntyn, a suburb of Memphis.and in G. W. Rutland’s adjoining store, securing about $2,000 in money and several hundred stamps. Ralph Rose Dies of Typhoid. i San Francisco, Oct. 18. —Ralph Rose, Olympic and world’s champion shot putter, died of typhoid fever. Rose was a big, florid, full-blooded > pian. From the first his battle against tbe disease was not encouraging. Two Moro Americana Slain. Washington, Oct. 18.— Two more I Americans have been added to the list * of those killed in Mexico, says a dis- ; patch. The victims were reported • killed at the mines in the state of Guadalajara. —-

GAYLORD MILLER SALTZGABER / \ I Mr. Saltzgaber, the nev< commissioner of pensions, Is from Ohio and is a veteran of the Civil war. He will pay out yearly nearly $153,000,000 to about 815,000 pensioners of the United States. FOREIGNERS FLEE FROM PORT OF PUERTO PLATA United States Warships Prevent German Vessel From Entering Harbor—Situation Is Critical. Cape Haitien, Oct. - 18. —American warships blockading the port at Puerta Plata refused to permit the German steamship Syria, from Sanchez, to enter the harbor Thursday. The situation at Puerto Plata is considered critical. The city is threatened with attack by land and sea. Foreigners are taking refuge on board vessels in the harbor. The revolutionists have been advised by the American commander to stop hostilities. Otherwise, he says, troops will be landed. The American consul at Puerto Plata is urging all American citizens to leave the city. War operations were resumed when the rebels refused to accept the terms of a treaty of peace that was brought about by James M. Sullivan, the American minister. Willemstadt, Curacao, Oct. 18. —The departure of prominent pollticans from Venezuela continues. Gen. Trino Baptista, former minister of public instruction. has arrived at Buen Ayre. He was accompanied by Marco Antonio Freytes. Both are friends of Gen. Ramon Delgado Chalbaud, who was imprisoned in August on suspicion that he was plotting against the president. Washington, Oct. 18. —No report has been received at the state department on the reported action of American warships refusing to permit the German steamship Syr?a to enter Puerto Plata. If this has been done complications with the German government over the situation there probably will arise. ILLINOIS BANKER TO JAIL. Confesses to Embezzlement Charge and Gets Long Term. Belleville, 111., Oct. 18.—Henry J. Fink, the Belleville banker whose sudden disappearance revealed that his affairs and those” of hundreds with whom he had business were hopelessly tangled, pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement and was given an indeterminate sentence' of from one to fourteen years in the Chester penitentiary. FRICK GIVES SON MILLIONS. Check for $2,000,000 Is Also Handed , to Bride. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 17.—1 t was learned that Henry Clay Frick, just after his son, Childs Frick, married Miss Frances S. Dixon of this city, handed the bride an envelope containing a check in her name for $2,000.000. It is understood that young Mr. Frick received securities valued at $12,000,000. WIFE DIVORCES RINGLING. . Showman Said to Have Paid Alimony Following Decree. Madison, Wis., Oct. 17. —Mrs. Della Ringling has been granted a divorce from Alfred T. Ringling, circus magnate, by Judge Stevens in the Dane county circuit court. An agreement in regard to the alimony and the final settlement was made between the parties here. Thousands Ousted by Fire. London. Oct. 18. — A new* dispatch from Shanghai says a great , Are raged for hours in a northern suburb of the city, half a square mile of which was destroyed. Ten thousand people were made homeless Woodruff Fortune $1,000,000. New York. Oct. 20. —Timothy L. Woodruff, according to an estimate by his son, John E. Woodruff, left an estate estimated at about $1,000,000. The bulk of the fortune, it is said, is left to Mr. Woodruff’s second wife. Naval. Officer a Suicide. Colchester, Conn., Qct. 20.—Commander Charles A. Brand, U. S. N.» retired, committed suicide by shooting in some woods a quarter of a mile from his home. His act was caused, it is believed, by ill health. U. S. Officers Ride 90 Mlles. Washington, Oct. 17. —Nearly two score army officers ended their annual ordeal —the 90-mlle compulsory ride Inaugurated by President Roosevelt to demonstrate the physical fitness of the army men. Revolver Lead* to Arre*t. i Champaign, 111., Oct. 17. —O. P. Sul- ; llcan, Urbana merchant, was arrested charged with the murder of W. Larry 1 The arrest followed the alleged discov ! ery that Sullivan owned the revolvei feund beneath the body.

BOIL GOAT’S KILK Facts of Practical Interest to All Who Raise Goats. Malta Fever Is Transmitted by Animal’s Milk, and Has Affected Families on Goat Ranches in Texas and New Mexico. Washington.—Scientists of the bureau of animal industry have compiled a bulletin which is of practical . interest to all \\ho raise goats and to such invalids as have been prescribed goat’s milk as a diet. Proofs have conclusively establish- , ed that the transmission of a fever known variously as “Malta,” "mountain,” “slow typhoid,” or by certain other designations, to man, is accomplished by the milk of infected goats. Careful observation in Texas and New Mexico show that the disease has always made its appearance among people connected with goat rais- | ing. Entire families have been ; taken sick with it on goat ranches. The sickness appears usually after the j kidding season, during the months of April, May and June, when the people are in closer contact with the i goats. Observations have also shown that just over the border in Mexico goat herders are not nearly so liable to the disease. Conclusions have been drawn that this is not due to any natural immunity but to the fact that the Mexicans always boil the milk before drinking it, while the Americans use it raw. The general opinion has prevailed that the United States is free from Malta fever, and that the disease has only occurred through importations. However, it now seems evident that . the Malta fever has existed in Texas and New Mexico for at least 25 years. The fever takes its name from Great Britain’s island in the I Mediterranean, where the disease has been exceedingly prevalent among British soldiers and sailors. Its occurrence in tropical and subtropical localities has been noted in almost every country. A number of cases have been reported among our soldiers who had just returned from the j Philippine islands. I Pasteurization of infected milk for I 20 minutes at 145 degrees Fahrenheit is sufficient to destroy the organism which transmits the disease. Therefore, milk pasteurization for the destruction of typhoid and tuberculosis germs will also be free from Malta fever germ. The symptoms of human beings are usually pronounced and give rise to a more or less severe affection. The most striking symptom is an attack of fever with periods of normal temperatures. The duration of these periods varies considerably during the disease. The fever may be remittent or intermittent; it may be continuously high or low, and at all stages of the disease the type of the fever may change. It may be very acute from the onset, the fever setting in with chills and rise of teYnperature associated with severe headache and pain in the back, and a general ill feeling. The pulse and respirations are generally affected in accordance with the height of the fever. The course of the disease may extend for from six weeks up to a year, and cases have even been observed in which relapses have occurred for three years. In human beings the mortality is estimated at three per cent. In animals the course of the disease always appears to be protracted. Cases have been noted in goats that extend over a period of more than a year. The prognosis in animals is always favorable as far as the health is concerned. But although the disease has no active effect on goats, its eradication must be considered for the public health, and it is particularly important since there has been a tendency recently among physicians to advise the drinking of goat’s milk for children and invalids. CATTLE DISEASE ERADICATED. | Qwing to the fact that many importers of pedigreed British cattle, sheep and swine are unaware that the prohibition against the importation of ruminants and swine from Great Britain, on the ground of the presence of foot-and-mouth disease in these countries, has been removed, the British Ambassador through the state department, has requested the secretary of agriculture to make wide public announcement that the disease has been eradicated and that importations to the United States are now permittedThe United States department of agriculture, in order to prevent the introduction of this and other diseases from abroad, has been exercis- ; ing a very watchful supervision over all importations of live cattle from foreign countries. On June 25, 1912, as the result of a cablegram advising a fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Cumberland, England, and later cablegrams advising of the detection of foot-and-mouth disease in the Liverpool market and among Irish cattle from Swords, Dublin, and later reports during June, July and December, 1912, as to the presence of this disease, the department discontinued the issuance of permits and concealed outstanding permits, and continued to refuse such issuance throughout the year 1912. On January 18, 1913, the issuance of permits for cattle from the Channel islands, where there had been no case of foot-and-mouth disease, with transshipment at Southampton subject to the supervision of

Gargantuan Drinker. In the matter of drinking capacity, “tanking up” is peculiarly fit when applied to the camel. A single thirsty animal may drink as much as twenty gallons. This fact, as a writer in the London Times happily points out, gives new meaning to Rebekah’s 1 watering of the camels of Abraham’s servant. After she had “drawn water” until they had “done drinking,” the servant, “wondering at her, held his peace.” And “well he might.” says the Timos naturalist, for Rebekah’s act of kind-

the federal inspector, was resumed. On March 5, 1913, the issuance of permits was extended to England. Scotland and Wales, but refusal to allow the importation of cattle from Ireland was continued. On May 9. 1913, an advance from the United States government’s veterinary representative in Great Britain that he considered it safe to permit the shipment of Irish cattle, in view of the fact that the same were detained £or inspection by an official of the board of agriculture and Fisheries at the English port of landing tn Great Britain. the issuance of permits for Irish cattle was resumed. The importation of Irish cattle, therefore, is permitted, provided they are shipped byway of an English port. CERTIFIED MILK. The first bulletin in the new departmental series of the I’.iited States department of agriculture is a contribution from the bureau of animal industry entitled “Medical Milk Commissions and Certified Milk.” This is a revision of a previous bulletin on the same subject. The organization and objects of the first milk commission are described and the origin and meaning of “certified milk’’ are set forth. The word “certified” has been registered in the I United States patent office and may only be used by a duly organized med- f \ ical milk commission. The first milk commission was organized in 1893. Since that time over 60 commissions have been established, but nearly one-third of that number are inactive at present. About 150 dairies are engaged In producing certified milk and the daily production is nearly 25,000 gallons, an increase of 300 per cent, in five years. While this seems a remarkable increase, it should be remembered that only one-half of one per cent, of the total milk supply of the country is certified. While the chief demand for certified milk is for infants and sick peoi pie, it further serves to teach the public the value of careful methods in milk production and the extra cost of absolutely clean milk. The bulletin describes the equipment and methods necessary for the production of certified milk. It is pointed out that expensive equipment is not a necessity so much as a careI ful and unremitting attention to details. In 1907 the American Association of American Milk Commissions was organized. The methods and standards for the production and distribution of certified milk adopted by this association at its 1912 meeting are given | ii the appendix to the bulletin. ! ALASKA EXPERIMENT STATIONS. ? — ; The U. S. department of agriculture has recently issued the annual report of Alaska agricultural experiment stations for 1912. In the minds of many, Alaska means a land of snow and ice with only the scantiest vegetation; to such a reading of the report named above will be found worth while. Os especial interest are the pictures showing fruits grown in Alaska. These pictures are reproduced from photographs and clearly show that Alaska is by no means a bleak and barren land. The Alaskan farmer is more dependent upon the sunshine than the farmer in the states; indeed the success or failure of his crops is determined to a large degree by the abundance or lack of sunshine during the growing season. The work of the Alaska experiment stations is largely , concerned with efforts to adapt crops to the peculiar climatic conditions. A feature of especial interest in this report is the account of the results of the eruption of Mount Kataml. It will be remembered that from June 6 to June 8, 1912, there was a fall of volcanic ash from Katmai volcano. This volcano is about 90 miles west of Kodiak where a station is maintained for experiments in live stock breeding. As a result of the eruption the station herd had to be brought to Toppenish, Wash., to pass the winter, since it was found more economical to bring the ; cattle to a food supply than to take a | food supply to the cattle. While the first effects of the volcanic erption were disastrous, the report states that it will eventually prove a blessing in disguise, since the ashes have made cultivation of- the land much easier. State Forests In Hawaii. Four new state forests have recently been added to those in Hawaii, making 27 tn all, with an aggregate ol 683,101 acres. Os this amount, 67 per cent, belongs to the territory, the rest being private layd administered by the territorial forest officers. Chance In Scotland. The U. e. consul at Aberdeen, i Scotland, thinks that American manufacturers may have a chance to compete in furnishing staves for fish barrels. There has been a recent rise in the price of spruce and flr staves from Sweden and Scotland. Uncle 'Sam’s Woodlot. More than 3,000 small logging open ators now buy national forest timber; at least 25,000 persons, settlers, miners, stockmen, and others, obtain timber from Unde Sam’s big woodlot tot their own use free of charge. Require Sanitation. Uncle Sam’s forest rangers require that permanent camp sites within the forests shall be kept in sanitary condition. The übiquitous tin can must be buried, and waste paper burned when a camp is left

ness to the stranger was, in view oi the camel’s capacity (and there were ten of them in the train), a mighty big job. Two Hearts That Beat as One. Dlbbs—Going to marry! Why, I thought you Intended to remain single. Gibbs—Well, I did, but I met. s young woman who had decided tc remain single also, and finding swb harmony of disposition In each other, we determined to mart 4 **