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Ms The Enterprise. W. E. HANNAFORD, Pulfc VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA. "BLACKMAIL" AND "PIRACY." Wheh waiters neglect early to pay assiduous attention to telle rivals who have given them tips,„ they perpetrate a disgraceful injustice well worthy of punishment as a misde meanor, says the Milwaukee Wiscon sin, The United States is a republic. In a republic distinctions between the rich and poor are especially invidious. Distinctions between personswho tip and persons who refrain from tipping are not only invidious, but constitute a species of blackmail, and blackmail is certainly a misdemeanor, if indeed it is not a crime. The object of all good laws is to enforce justice. Is there any justice in a conspiracy among waiters to neglect those of their employers' patrons who are unwilling or unable to pay more than the established and current price for what they order? Is the conspiracy any less a conspiracy if the employer of the waiters is a party to it, as is sometimes the case? A corporation or an individual en* gaged in catering to the public in any capacity who sets a price on meals or on anything else in which he deals, and then permits his employes to ex act tips, and to discriminate against those of his customers who do not give tips, is not only disloyal to his patrons, but an enemy of the public and de serving of punishment. His employes who exact tips, and give grudging service if the tips are not paid, are also enemies of the public. The United Slates life-saving serv ice is little heard of, especially in in land states, yet its work, for the amount of expense, produces wonder ful results. The report for 1908, just to han1, contains some interesting facts. (!)f 1,094 vessels wrecked in Amerioan waters 56 were a total loss. The entire property value at stake -was 113,630,225. The life-saving serv ice snatched back from the waves $11,666,435. On board the impdriled vessels were 5,712 human beings. At the usual valuation of an average of $4,000, the life savers, who rescued all but 22 of these people, preserved to the nation human energy worth $22, 760,000. A total of $34,426,435 return from an expense of $1,962,524.90., the entire outlay of the department. This seems to be one instance at least in which government insurance is a con spicuous success. "A woman's sphere Is to keep house," the masculine conservative growls, whereat the suffragette pouts and protests. Yet both may be right. Much depends on Ithe breadth of the term. The trouble is the suffragette and the anti-suffragette seem to imply that housekeeping is not much of a job. As a matter of fact, it is the big gest in creation, when measured by any true standard of values. It is really the one and only universal, in dispensable trade, as necessary in China as in America, among the Es quimos as among the Europeans, in the cave as well as in the palace,., be neath the thatcli no less than beneath the tile. And it is the oldest, beginning as it did when Eve gave Adam his first breakfast and the morning stars warbled the first- song. The equai-suffragists may consider New England as practically lost to the cause, since a prominent one of their number sarcastically told the Pil grim Mothers that from the tens of thousands she has met in the United States whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, she was led to be lieve that vessel the size of the Lu sitania, or a whole fleet of modern steamers. Now there is a coldness in the cause. For the second time within a couple of weeks, the American bluejacket has distinguished himself. A fire broke out In a Philadelphia tenement on Friday a man climbed the rainspout to the second story and helped five persons to safety. On his cap was the name of the battleship Kearsarge, but he re fused to give his own name. His mod esty gave the finishing touch to a brave deed. There is always a day of settlement for countries where fanatical mobs or murderous soldiers are- permitted to run loose. China learned that lesson when it met the bill for damages to foreigners by the Boxers. Turkey and Persia will be on the collector's route When the mischief wrought by bloody minded Moslems and fierce Turcomans ihas to be paid for. Luncheon in the ciouds, eh, away from the warbling of the mosquito, the dropping tree pests and the ob^ trusive curiosity of the ant, the garter isnake and the toad? But how about ifeeing the waiters and putting the iover-indulgent to sleep on a fleecy jcloud? For the first time in its history, China will allow newspaper repre sentatives to witness the royal funeral (Ceremonies. China is undeniably get* ting on to modern methods. It 1b very well for the philosophers to tell us to make, light of things, but the man who burns his money will live to bitterly regret his reckless and thoughtless action. Nothing has happened since March 4 to alter the conviction of the people ,that the date of presidential Inaugura tions should be changed. But perhaps the women's waste bas ket hats are a fair reprisal for those pie plate thing? the men wear. Uplift Plan Among A UPLIF', rwtfnetir W, WASHINGTON.—EffortsWashington, to uplift the business women of 25,000 of whom earn their livelihood at service in the government depart ments, have received a set-back. Some time ago it occurred to a group of well-meaning society women in New York that it would be nice to uplift all these working women. About the same time the National Civic Fed eration of Women began busying itself with the women in the Washington departments. It took on the great bureau of engraving and printing, in which women are employed, and pro ceeded to look for things that needed to be improved. The bureau of engraving and print ing is the place where the money is made hundreds on hundreds of mil lions of dollars' worth of treasury notes and bank notes are turned out there every year. When the Civic Federation of Wom en sent a committee to do some uplift ing these money manufacturing wom en doubted whether they really needed any charity. They earn comfortable livings, have their own places in so ciety, go to the theater, and never be fore thought of themselves as in need of any uplift from the Manhattan di rection. The New York women, fearing that the working women were overawed IN For four years, according to the bul letin, Uncle Sam's bureau of animal industry sleuths have been on the trail of the microbe which gives to butter "a peculiar oily taste suggest ing mackerel or salmon." But they have not caught the mi crobe yet. "Although there are very few ref erences to this subject in literature," announces the bulletin, "the trouble is widely distributed. "It is known to occur in various parts of the United States, but is es THE NELSON Girl Workers Fails at the contemplation of such a won* drous opportunity to be improved, and struck speechless at the thought of having such great ladies take ah interest in them, decided that it would be necessary to give the bureau girls some especial opportunities to get used to the overpowering thought So it was proposed that some of the young women should be invited to visit some of their benefactresses Agricultural Experts Make Discovery the midst of the throes of the tariff fighting and the uprisings in Turkey and Persia, Uncle Sam's staid and placid department of agriculture at Washington hurled a bombshell to the center of the world's stage the other day in an official bulletin on "fishy flavor in butter." Yes, there it is in all its fearful portent. Secretary Latta Startles Congressmen uplift has had another backset in Washington, they say. It comes about through the remissness of As sistant Secretary to the President Latta. Mr. Latta is the official mes senger from the White House to the houses of congress. He lugs up all the messages of the president and sol emnly presents them when the houses are in session. The first time Mr. Latta delivered a message to the senate is an occasion well remembered. He is about six and a half feet tall, and when he ap peared at the door of the chamber with a bundle of documents from President Roosevelt he got slightly rattled. He was duly presented and the formal reception by the vice-pres Aldrich to Quit Senate at End of Term W. ALDRICH, senior sena tor from Rhode Island, has an nounced that he will not be a candi date for re-election when his present term ends. His fifth term as senator of the United States will expire March 4, 1911,,and in the meantime Mr. Aldrich hopes to see enacted a tariff bill which will be a credit to his leadership and a financial bill which will completely reorganize the finances of the nation and which, will consti tute a monument to his service in the upper house. The part which Mr. Aldrich is taking in the tariff legislation is well known. While the tariff bill Is under consideration, the financial leg islation, In charge of the national monetary commission, Is making little apparent progress, although consider able work is being done by experts employed by the commission to gather data for its use. Next autumn Mr. Aldrich will make a trip through the country,: delivering a number of speeches, ori addresses, as he prefers to call them, explaining the worlc: of the mone tary commission, its plans for the re organisation of the monetary system, consulting With bankers and. vin .the homes of the latter and learn how it was all done, observe the method of eating ice cream with a fork and taking soup out of the side of the spoon, and such like correct little wrinkles. Somehow this didn't much appeal to the girls, either they rather opined that their table manners were good enough, and didn't feel the need of be ing further impressed with the splen dor of being patronized by ladies who used gold dinner services. But the federation committee worked away earnestly, and finally the explo sion came. The committee found 50 of the women in the bureau would have to be dropped out of the service before the moral average would be raised to the point where contact with the federated benefactresses could be established at all. That settled it. Every woman and girl in the bureau resolved herself into an indignation meeting. It was what all had been expecting, they de clared. Those society women who wanted to convert working women into butterflies, of course, couldn't un derstand. Why should they be ex pected to? They had meant well enough, but really they could hardly be commended for tact and diplomacy. pecially prevalent in the newer dairy ing sections of the middle west. In one region this trouble occurs so fre quently that it is spoken of among commission men as the fishy belt "The immediate cause is generally ascribed to the presence of tri methylamin in the butter," continued the experts, so the sleuths got on the track of this and found It "not guilty." Next they tackled oidum nactis, and this, too, proved an alibi. Then they inoculated the butter with the third suspect, bacterium lactis aerogenes. and it, too, was proved innocent. The bulletin finally concludes that the cause Is as about as follows, to-wit: "Fishy flavor is caused by a slow, spontaneous chemical change, to which acid is essential, and which is favored by the presence of small amounts of oxygen. Its immediate cause is a particular substance pro duced by the oxidation of one of the combinations of the acid developed in the ripening of the cream. The sub stance oxidized may be the result of a hydrolysis of the cream. And here is the climax: The remedy: Fishy flavor may be prevented with certainty by making butter from pasteurized sweet cream. ident came off but Mr. Latta sudden iy lost his voice and had a hard time unloading his impedimenta and the proper formal speech. He managed to get through it, and in time—by rea son, of course, of the constant prac tice during the Roosevelt administra tion—acquired a commendable non chalance about it. But he never dreamed of appearing in any other costume than the long and dignified black frock coat of statesmanship. It was supposed that garb was as necessary for him as the flowing robes of black which add something to the terror with which the supreme court judges inspire ai lawyer appearing before them for the first time. What, therefore, was the astonishment when he appeared the other day in a natty sack suit and de livered his message with the ease of a telegraph boy with a message? One explanation offered is that Mr. Latta has to make the trip so seldom nowadays that he can't arrange al ways to have the long skirted coat handy. men and explaining his views, Early this year Mr. Aldrich ad dressed a chosen audience at the home of Dr. Nicholas Murray But ler on this subect In the autumn he will visit Chicago, St Louis, Kan sas City and probably other centers, where he will address like audiences on the subject New Daughter of the Kaiser. Princess Alexander of Schleswig Holstein, whose marriage to Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the kaiser, took place recently with all the pomp and old-world ceremonial that marks bridals in the royal house of Prussia, is, says M. A. P., a fresh faced, pleasant-looking girl with a pretty, shy manner and all sorts of useful and ornamental accomplish ments. She has more comeliness .the crown princess and less elegance than Princess Eitel Fritz, but her, place at court will probably be as agreeable as that of either, inasmuch as she is a tremendous favorite" with her aunt, the German express. A leading mathematician of France .gives another warning that .there is no infallible method of doubling one's stakes after a loss. "All one can do," says he, "is to combine one)s play so as to have a great chance of winning a little and a little chance of in«ing much, and many chances of losing lit-. tleL One can arrange his play so as to have one chance of winning a mill ion£rancs.an4*mimenchaaQesoft losing one franc." in the royal seniority by harem. Napoleon Lajoie, at an Easterban frtet of Cleveland baseball men, said of a retired umpire: "I am glad he ia gone. He was too revengeful to do good work- You know of course, how he got,back at his wife when she eloped with" that handsome shortstop from the west?" "No how was it, Napoleon?" "Why, he sent the shortstop a letT ter saying: L. T)ear Sir: Please flnd under sepr 'ante'-cover one full double set -of TALKED ABOUT NEW. TURKISH SULTAN The real name of the new sultan of Turkey, who has taken the title of Mohammed V., is Mehemmed, which means glorious. Mohammed, the title which has been held in the line of the Osman four times before, is translated glorified, or tttein&n who is praised. There is consider able difference between a man glorious and one glorified, and the new sultan of Turkey is one descent of the house of Osman, the found er of the Turkish empire, in 1299, and he is the twenty-ninth to rule since Constantinople glorified. His partisans declare that he is a liberal, enlightened man of great ability who will justify this title by a wise and progressive reign. Mohammed V. is the thirty-fifth in male fell. By the Turkish law of succession obeyed family, the headship over the state is inherited according to the male descendants of Osman sprung from the imperial Mohammed V. is the third brother to take the throne in the Yildiz kiosk. Murad V., eldest son of Sultan Abdul Medjid, was deposed on the ground of insanity on August 31, 1876. Then Abdul Hamid succeeded. A sister, Djemile Sultana, was the next in age to Abdul Hamid, but because of her sex she is passed over in the selection of a successor to the one who has so long held the position of the "Sick Man of Europe," and Mehemmed Reschad, the next son of Sultan Abdul Medjid, has the unenviable throne. The present sultan was born November 3, 1844. The people know little about him. The next in succession to the Turkish throne is not one who is often seen in public. Inevitably his brother, or uncle, as the case may be, sees to it that the people know nothing more about a possible suc cessor than that he exists. Abdul Hamid was no exception to this general rule. He gave his younger brother a place in a detached pavilion of the Yildiz kiosk, a retinue, guards. Wives, slaves—and that was all. Though a prisoner Reschad was titularly a general in the Turkish army. Of course he was a royal highness, but he enjoyed *none of the other orders or distinctions which Europe lavishes on heirs to thrones. He now inherits titles which fill half a page of the Almanach de Gotha. He will be Mohammed khan, grand sultan and Vhakan or khan of khans, servitor of the cities of Mecca, Media, and Jerusalem, padicha of the three cities of Stamboul, Adrianople and Broussa, also of Damascus, Cairo and half a hundred other cities in Europe, Asia and Africa, the titles representing the one time extent of the sovereignty of the sublime porte. GREAT SCIENTIST QUITS There has just resigned from his professor ship at the University of Jena, in Germany, possibly the greatest living man of science. Ernst Haeckel, expounder of the monistic theo ry and long the lost militant and powerful disci ple of Charles Darwin, retires to semi-private life, but those who kno\* him well are sure that his pen still will be busy, and that he will lay about him with the same vigor that always has characterized his controversial style. Although Prof. Haeckel recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, he is so full of irrepres sible energy that he can only lay down his work with life itself. Like great actors, he has more thjan once threatened to "leave the stage," but only to return again and again for a last performance. In 1899, in his preface to his "Riddle of the Universe," he bade good-by to his many readers throughout the civilized world. But that "last performance" proved also to be the "last but one," being followed five years later by the "Wonders of Life" and some shorter works. Thus his retirement from the professorship at Jena, which he has held for 48 years, will mark only a change in the form of his activity and not a cessation of his labors. He proposes to devote his "leisure" to writing a history of biology. It is not yet certain whether this work will be confined to the progress made in that branch of science during the last century in which it was transformed, or whether it will cover the whole story from its tentative beginnings in antiquity. One thing, however, is quite clear| it will be a wortf$fexceptional interest and value, in which will be given to the world for the first time Darwin and all the great biologists of the age and the author. While the preparation of this book unquestionably will constitute the most important part of his new task, Prof. Haeckel, in concert with his dis tinguished pupil and successor, Prof. Ludwig Plate of Berlin, will complete the organization of his Phyletic museum at Jena. This institution, founded by Prof. Haeckel and handed over by him to the Jena university last year, is intended to promote an interest in and knowledge of the theory of devel opment. This is done by the exhibition of natural objects, as well as of pic tures, arranged systematically, showing the development and the relationship between the various forms of plant and animal life, completed by an anthro pological collection establishing man's place in nature. SIMPLE LIFE FOR CARRIE With the money she has made by her lec tures and the sale of her miniature hatchets during the years she has posed as the militant crusader against the Demon Rum, Mrs. Carrie Nation has decided to retire to the simple life. She has made all the money she needs, it is admitted, to maintain her comfortably in the fashion she has long hoped for, and now she will bury the hatchet, let the world soak itself in whisky and pickle itself with tobacco if it pleases, and enjoy herself. The simple life, with Mrs. Nation, means a nice big farm, with poultry, pigs, pigeons, gar den truck and fruits. She has found it in Ar kansas, and she has concluded its purchase with her reform earnings. Henceforth the nasty masculine rum-guzzling and tobacco-odored world will know Carrie Nation no more except as a more or less vivid memory or a strident voice from the dead past. "I have quit the campaign against the saloons for good," said the "Kan sas smasher" to a friend in explanation of her new tack. "I have warned the world, I have shown the milk-and-water reformers that they can whip the devil if they have the nerve to go after him. I have smashed the hell holes on two continents. Now I have enough money to live on the rest of my life, and I shall enjoy myself as I have always wanted." MAY SUCCEED PUTNAM Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, who is supposed to be on President Taft's books for appoint ment as librarian of congress when Putnam, the present incumbent, strikes the toboggan, is known to scholars as the most accomplished of living sonnet writers, almost alone in that field since the death of George H. Boker. To the ordinary reader of books and magazines he is a writer of graceful prose and verse, a maker of really good literature. In addition to all these, Mr. Egan is an instructor and a diplomat. Be fore he was named for his present post as minister to Denmark, he was professor of Eng lish literature in the Catholic university at Washington. Before that he held a similar chair at Notre Dame university in Indiana, where he succeeded the remarkably gifted and lovable Charles Warren Stoddard, another poet of high mark. Prof. has wielded an immense influence over the writing of much of the strictly Catholic literature of this country in recent years. He has acted as editor adviser to many publications in addition to his other work. He has written and edited many volumes in every branch of good literature, and has been given honorary degrees by many colleges and uni versities. A Cruel Vengeance. false teeth, which kindly hand to my late wife, requesting her to return my father's, she having taken same by mistake in the hurry of departure.'" The Question. Why hide your light under a bushel when a pint measure will answer the purpose ?—Judge. Uncle .Ezra Says: "It may be worry thet killi an' not work but how kin you help worryin' when you don't hev the workt" NEWtall PlCHEe YORK.—Robert P. Vandevelde, a young man, has come to America with the idea of acting as "gentleman courier" to wealthy Ameri cans who want to see Europe, to meet nobility and royalty, and obtain an entrance into the inner circle of Eng lish society. Vandevelde came here fresh from piloting the bobsled Quo Vadls to vic tory, winning the coasting derby at St. Moritz. Incidentally, he says, he Is In the habit of associating with prin cesses, dukes, counts, and others of high degree. In telling his plans the other day he declared that on the sled on which he acted as brake at St Moritz were sev eral persons with titles. Just before him sat a German count and behind him a cousin of the prince of Wales. Vandevelde is 23 years old. He said he was of Flemish-Irish origin and that his father now lives in Dublin. Unlike other couriers, the young man will give his employer the free use of his automobile, he says. He thus JAMES HAZEN HYDE, "the most Parisian of Americans and the most American of Parisians," as his friends call him, is now neither a Yankee nor a Frank. A brutal French court has sentenced him and his chauffeur, Lad wice, to one month's imprisonment each and a fine of $100 for Hyde and $30 for the chauffeur for running into a public taxicab in Paris and injuring a passenger. Mr. Hyde's chief offense was in fleeing the scene immediately after the collision, a fact which made possible the prison sentence. He found it convenient to remain out of France while the trial was going on. Now he is an exile. Mr. Hyde a few years ago .was one of the* leading society figures of New York city. When he left the United DOMESTIC ALTHOUGH Vfc N*S i. v_ Would Pilot Americans Through Europe Queen of Kitchen Losing Her Throne life in New York is unr dergoing rapid changes, and the day of the absolute reign of the cook is passing in the metropolis as is ty ranny in other parts of the globe. The revolution is a quiet one, but proof of the uprising against the queen of the culinary art is furnished by John N. Bogart, commissioner of licenses, in his annual report. A new generation has risen to ques tion the power which held men and women in submission for so long because of the constant threat of the "three days' notice." At the present rate of change, acording to the figures, cooks in private families will soon be a novelty, and, instead of being mas ters over a few, they will be reduced to serving the many. One cook is now doing the work formerly done by many, and the re sult, Mr. Bogart states, is a decrease of 21 per cent, in the number sup enumerates his qualifications for tak* ing rich Americans abroad: "I have hit upon what I believe is a new plan, and I offer myself as gentle man cicerone through Europe. I have the necessary qualifications, for I know the country. I know the trains, the ships,, and I know the best hotels. I know the hotels where society goes and those that are, to use an expres sive word, 'tabooed.' Then, again, my experience tells me when to tip, how to tip, the amount to give, and when it is to advantage to tip in advance. "I should be able to get any Ameri can family into London society, and I would get them the entry Into Phyllis court during Henley week. I know Newmarket, Ascot and Goodwood, and I can go to any place on the conti nent, to the seaside or the spas. I could take Americans sightseeing or yachting. I should be willing tq place my automobile at the disposal of any employer, and I think I know the roads over there as well as anybody. I have driven through Great Britain and con tinental Europe." Vandevelde said he spoke English, German, French and Dutch, and had a working knowledge of. Italian and Spanish. As an evidence of his thrift the young man came across in the second cabin. When asked how he got into society, Vandevelde replied: "I, sir, was born a gentleman." Ex-New Yorker in Trouble in France Fight Twenty Years to Get Millions the will of Benjamin Richardson, brother of "Spite House" Joseph Richardson, who died in 1889, was admitted to probate over twenty years ago it is still the subject of litigation in the courts of New York city. Richardson, or "Uncle Ben," as he was familiarly known, left an estate valued at from $10,000, 000 to $15,000,000, most of which was in real estate scattered throughout the country. He was an eccentric old man during the latter part of his life and his house, known as the "Square house" and "Fort Lincoln," situated on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street testified to this. "Uncle Ben" formed the nucleus of his vast fortune when in 1849 he fit ted up an expedition and sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco with a craft packed full of groceries. Arriving there, he had little difficulty In exchanging his commodities for gold dust, andwith the latter he bought an interest in San Francisoo dock property. This subsequently W came valuable and "Uncle Ben" was a rich man, He capie back tp New. York and bought up real estate in Harlem and other places, and when he died in his seventy-eighth year his real estate had increased in value sd much x.as to maW hima many times millionaire. A 'renfew'al of th& litigation came hte-! totej Subrtnjief Court Justice Davis m' anactiou briAgfat~by WiHtemB.Rich ardson, a grandson, to set aside an* States it was not because he was in any immediate danger of a visitation from the law, although he had been a prominent figure in the insurance scandal, which brought many of the men of his class into the shadow of the penitentiary. He did it, as he sadly remarked at the dock, more in sorrow than in anger. He was going, he said, because the people of the United States were too crude, too materialistic, too bla tant to be worthy of the society of a gentleman of leisure. He was going, he sai'd, to a land where life is an art and art is life, where the traits of character which in his own country had brought him nothing but bitter ness and derision, would win him ap preciation and friends. Mr. Hyde added that he would al ways continue to think kindly of America, that he would even—out of loyalty to his forbears—retain hia American citizenship, but he qualified this by concluding that he did not think he ever would come back. Then he curled his violet-scented moustache &nd went aboard. plied by employment agencies, where as there is an increase in the force of waitresses of about 11 per cent. Discussing the transition, the report states: "Changes in the system of home life in New York are showing their effect in the employment of servants. Many families who formerly lived in private houses are now going into the large apartment houses on the West side. While these families often em ployed two or more servants, they can keep but one servant now because of lack of accommodation. This accounts for the increase in the number of servants wanted for general house work, as nearly all the servants hired by the occupants of apartment houses are of this class. The same condition also accounts for the absence of an increase in the number of waitresses and cooks which the growth of popu lation would justify. "Families living in apartment houses find it difficult to obtain satis factory servants in private families, and both the servant and the em ployer become dissatisfied. This, of course, results in frequent complaints from both sides against the employ ment agencies." agreement known as the "peace agree ment," entered into between the heirs and executors of the estate, in 1898 aften ten years of bitter fighting among the family. It is also sought to have William T. Washburn, the only surviving executor of the will, removed from that position on the ground of malfeasance. In the latter cause Edward B. Whitney has been appointed referee to take testimony and report to the court. Despised the Clean Shave. The arrival in London of a new fashion in moustache which, becoming beautifully less, tends to disappear reminds us of the strong opinion of the practice of shaving "clean" held by the late Sir Richard Burton. That extremely masculine man declared that men who dispensed with hair on the face were degenerates, and that those periods of history in which clean shaving was the general fashion had always been marked as periods of ex treme luxury, effeminacy and decay. It will be remembered that Sir Rich ard's own mustache was remarkably vigorous and "spiky."—London Chron icle. Cambodia. Cambodia—now a French protector* ate—is a little larger' than Pennsyl vania, and has about 1,800,000 inhabi tants who live contentedly on rice, bananas and fish, and hate the very thought of fighting. Most of the coun try is a plain draineid by the Mekong river, hut there are mountains and wilderness in the north that's where the deer, leopards, tigers," elephants* etd, are found. 'Cambodia's onlr ton mill (at KsachkAndal) has in ase six '.gins from NeWLondoh and four oil-seed presses from Tompkins viile. s!