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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 24 
An Opinion About Sunday Opening:. 
W. D. K , Chicago, Ii/l.—Thk Rural 
New-Yorker seems bigoted about open¬ 
ing our fair on Sunday. There is more 
to be learned in Jackson Park, Chicago 
to-day, inside of 30 minutes, than anybody 
could learn in a year of Sundays in 
church. The primary use, and the pres¬ 
ent supposed use of a church is to teach 
the multitudes—that is its raison d'etre. 
Prom the position of being the teacher, 
it has fallen and is now a machine by 
which windy individuals earn an easy 
and lazy living. There is no reason 
against the Fair being opened Sundays 
that does not equally apply to the 
churches. If it is wrong to take money 
at the fair gates, so is it for the “church 
talker” to beg for it in his church on the 
same days. If the “talking church” 
machine was the teacher, the guide he 
was originally supposed to be educated, 
apprenticed or taught to become, his 
church should be led by him to see the 
Truth as evidenced by man’s work when 
working in harmony with Nature. 
By his leading them through the fair 
grounds, acting as guide and explaining 
the principles on which the various 
mechanisms are built, the harmonious 
nature of the great universal or God’s 
principles, leading by ocular proof to 
what can be done when working in and 
on the right, instead of trying to cobweb 
their brains and empty their pockets of 
the means of subsistence, he would be¬ 
come a teacher. Now he is a humbug. 
R. N.-Y.—Our sour-spirited friend has a 
perfect right to his opinion in this mat¬ 
ter and we don’t propose to argue with 
him. We should be sorry to think that 
any considerable number of persons re¬ 
gard such opinions as sound arguments. 
Aside from the fact that the moral senti¬ 
ment of this country has distinctly pro¬ 
tested against Sunday opening, there 
seem to us good arguments against it. 
The managers of the fair accepted a loan 
from the Government with the distinct 
understanding that one condition of the 
loan was that the Fair should not open 
on Sunday. Now, after securing the 
money, to go back on the contract is a 
piece of sharp practice and would land an 
individual in prison. The workmen who 
are clamoring for admission to the 
grounds would quickly strike and beg 
for public sympathy if an employer 
should break faith in the same way. 
Again, the workman who demands that 
Sunday be made a day of pleasure will 
soon find that he has lost the rest feature 
of the day. His employer will soon say, 
and with a show of justice, “ If these 
men take Sunday simply to play and 
spend their money, they might better be 
at work !” We do not reply in kind to 
the statements of this correspondent. 
The United States Federal Court has 
decided the legal aspect of the case. It 
will pay the fair, in a financial way, to 
keep faith with the government. The 
educated people of this country will not 
all approve of a breach of contract for the 
sake of coining a few dollars. 
A New Money Proposed. 
G. W., Flatbusii, N. Y.—E. P. Robin¬ 
son, on page 303, talks of fiat money 
value as if money could have a value 
made by fiat and separate from any rela¬ 
tion to any commodity. He says that if 
gold should be found so plentifully that 
it could be produced at one-tenth its pres¬ 
ent cost, the fiat value of a gold dollar 
might be greater than its intrinsic value, 
just as the fiat value of a silver dollar is 
now greater than its intrinsic value. Can 
this be so ? A silver dollar, so long as 
freely exchangeable with a gold dollar, 
and so long as the Government receives 
and pays out either without preference, 
will be as valuable as a gold dollar, but 
the unit of value is really—is it not ?— 
the amount of gold in the gold dollar, and 
i; is not material—is it ?—what the in¬ 
trinsic value of the silver dollar is ? Can 
a fiat give a unit of value any value in 
exchange except what it has as a com¬ 
modity ? A bushel of wheat and 25 grains 
of gold are to-day held in equal esteem ; 
they are exchangeable the one for the 
other. Let gold become 10 times more 
easily (cheaply) produced, and a bushel 
of wheat will command 250 grains of 
gold, fiat upon fiat to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding—will it not ? Why not set¬ 
tle the money question in the United 
States by acknowledging that we have 
adopted the single gold standard; by 
abolishing all coins except the conve¬ 
nient subsidiary ones ; by cancelling and 
retiring all our promissory paper money; 
by issuing, instead of coins or promissory 
paper money, printed declaratory money? 
Why not let our new paper money bear 
such a legend as this : “ This is a United 
States dollar, and will be received and 
expended by the United States Govern¬ 
ment as equal to 25 8 grains of gold ? ” 
Would not this “ fiat” money answer all 
useful purposes ? Would it not be as 
stable in exchange value as gold itself ? 
Can we expect any money to be more 
stable than gold ? Might we not then 
view with perfect equanimity the whole¬ 
sale and retail exportation of gold in 
bars ? What need would we have then 
of Sub-Treasuries where officials have 
nothing better to do than to attend to the 
wants of people who wish gold or silver 
bullion ? Is the money question as hard 
a problem as it looks? Is it as important, 
after all, as some good people think ? 
A Raspberry Promise. 
C. P. Augur, Connecticut. —I have 
seen several times a statement that the 
small-fruit growers were looking for a 
blackcap as good as the Souhegan and 
as large as the Gregg. I have originated 
a large number of seedlings both black 
and red, but have yet produced nothing 
that semed to warrant its extended intro¬ 
duction. I have had a good many kinds 
as good as the established varieties ; but 
none distinctly better. Three years ago 
I found growingnear a Gregg plantation 
a seedling that is nearly as good as the 
Souhegan, and larger and better'in every 
way than the Gregg. I have named it 
“Ideal” and if it does as well on light 
soil as on my heavy one it is sn advance 
on existing varieties. 
The Good Peach. 
H. M. Engle, Lancaster County, Pa. 
—Allow me to make an explanation in 
reference to the article on the “Good 
Peach,” page 383 of The R N.-Y. The 
variety was brought to notice (probably 
originated) by a Miss Albright of York, 
Pa. Some trees were grown and sent out 
by Evans & Co., of that place. They 
were named Albright—in honor of the 
originator. Downing in “Fruit Trees of 
America” had an Albright on his list, 
which caused some fruit growers and 
nurserymen to object to two varieties of 
the same name. Mr. Good, a nurseryman 
of Manchester, York Co., who probably 
disseminated it more extensively than 
any other party, in consultation with 
others in the same business, concluded 
to name it “ Good ” and thus it has been 
disseminated by these names. Prominent 
fruit growers of York and others insist 
upon its original name, since the Albright 
described by Downing is no longer found 
in the fruit catalogues of nurserymen. 
It is perhaps too late to discard either 
name, but it may pass as “Albright” 
with the synonym “ Good.” 
Still Another Coffee Substitute. 
W. J. B., White Lake, S. D.—Into 
good cooking molasses, stir bran until it 
is as thick as it is possible to stir with a 
spoon, press into a baking pan about 1 % 
inch deep, bake in a slow oven (like fruit 
cake) until of a rich dark brown color, 
but do not let it scorch, cut out and keep 
in tin or glass; it is very hard when cold, 
if baked properly. Take a lump about 
as large as a large hen’s egg for four per¬ 
sons, pour on boiling water, boil it a few 
moments and serve as other coffee, season 
to taste. I have tried many substitutes 
but never found any to suit, but this is 
very good. I call it bran coffee. 
That ‘ Small Black Bur?” 
W. T. S., Chester County, Pa.— The 
Rubai, is all wrong about that “ small 
black bug” that destroys the corn in 
Chester County, Pa., and which was never 
“ seen before by the farmers.” Of course 
the entomologists never saw it till some 
farmer dumped a load on to them, but 
this is its third season since its latest 
advent. Over 25 years ago, it paid our 
section one of its periodical visits. It 
usually lives among the grasses, and is 
playing havoc with Timothy ; when the 
sod is turned over and corn is gtown it 
feeds on that. The writer has been try¬ 
ing to call attention to this bug for some 
time, but our local journals do not “catch 
on ” to an idea till it is driven in with a 
sledge hammer. 
It. N.-Y.—We obtained our informa¬ 
tion from a news telegram. Glad to be 
set right. Now let the entomologists 
come to the front. 
Likes The R. N.-Y. 
P. A. W., New York City. —If there 
is any one paper that should be in every 
man’s home it is The Rural New- 
Yorker— not because it is furnished at 
an extremely low figure; not because it 
is a paper of good judgment politically ; 
not because it shows to every young man 
of energy that the care of a farm properly 
managed is the most independent calling 
given to man; but because it is clean and 
instructive in every particular. It strikes 
me that very few farmers after reading 
a sample copy could possibly refuse to 
add their names to the list of subscrib¬ 
ers. I was brought up on a farm although 
the past 30 odd ye^rs have been spent in 
this city. Had The Rural found my 
father a subscriber, I believe his six boys 
would not all have preferred other pur¬ 
suits to farming. 
Weight Lost In Hay. 
E. G., Mystic, Conn.—I n answer to J. 
T. C., New York, as regards the loss in the 
weight of hay kept for a certain period, 1 
would say that well cured hay from 6 to 
12 months old brings $20 per ton, farmers 
here pay $10 per ton after it has been 
well cured, they doing the labor them¬ 
selves. 
^UisrcHancous' gutatising. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
As Large 
As a dollar were the 
scrofula sores on my 
poor little boy, sicken¬ 
ing and disgusting. They 
were especially severe 
on his legs, back of his 
ears and on his head. 
I gave him Hood’s Sar¬ 
saparilla. In two weeks 
the sores commenced to 
heal up; the scales came off and all over his 
body new and healthy flesh and skin formed. 
When he had taken two bottles of HOOD’S 
S V USA I' V It 1 1 ,1, A, he was free from sores.” 
Harry K. Ruby, Box 356, Columbia, Penn. 
Joseph Ruby. 
HOOD’S Pills are a mild, gentle, painless, 
safe and efficient cathartic. Always reliable. 25c. 
Farmers your Produce 
To F. I. SAGE & SON, 183 Reade St., N. Y„ 
Receivers of all kinds of Country Produce, In¬ 
cluding Game, Live and Dressed Poultry and Dressed 
Calves. Specialties— Berries, Grapes, Apples, Pears, 
Honey, Onions aud Potatoes. Correspondence and 
Consignments solicited. Stencils furnished. Ref¬ 
erence: Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Commercial Reports, 
to be found at any bank. 
VIRGINIA FARM • valley of tne Up'per 
James River, adjoins town; also churcnes, schools, 
hotels; 8(11 acres; much line James River bottoms; 
splendid grass, clover and corn. Uplands ferti.e, and 
fine grass lands, fenced; water In every Held. Resi¬ 
dence and large barns, etc., in good repair. Plenty 
fruit. Railroad station 200 yards distant Lovely 
view; many fine farms in sight. For particulars and 
photos address • 8. G. STEVEN3, Lynchburg, Va. 
8 " $25 
12 " $50 
16 " $100 
AERMOTORS 
ALL STEEL 
GALVANIZED 
PUMPING OR GEARED SAME PRICE. 
For tlie benefit of the public, the Aermotor 
Company declares a dividend and makes the 
above prices as a means of dis¬ 
tributing it. These prices 
Will be con-tinued only 
earnings are su *" 
flciently worked 
very 1 'small profit on a very 
great number of outfits has 
given the Aer- motor Company 
4 acres of land in the best manufac¬ 
turing center of jM'fl Chicago,with many, 
very many, acres lp[\B of floor space and 
the best equip- mentof machinery, 
for the purpose, HJif/jJ in existence. The 
Aermotor Co. H'hll feels, in this crown¬ 
ing Columbian year, that it can afford to be 
generous. We will ship from Chicago to any 
one anywhere at the above prices. 
THE AERMOTOR COMPANY, 
12th and Rockwell Sts., CHICAGO. 
EUREKA STEEL MILL 
EUREKA 
WOOD 
MILL. 
G EARING 
INCLOSED. 
Guaranteed to be the 
best made. Our Four- 
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winner. The Strongest 
Tower made. Tanks and 
Pumps of all descriptions. 20 
years’ experience in the Wind 
Mill business. 
SMITH & POMEROY, 
Mfrs., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
COLUMBIA 
^STEELWIND 
MILL 
New in Principle. 
Beautiful in 
Appearance. 
Powerful in Operation. 
Contains covered Internal Gear, 
Unequaled in the line of Pumping Wind 
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_ Iron Turbine Wind K 
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Tank end Spray Puns. j*. Bwekeye 
end Globe Lawn Jjtoweiwjre® F'ti*c- 
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mast, foos & co., Springfield, o.j 
DON’T PAY WAGES 
for what any animal from a six-months calf to 
a 1,0 0-pound horse can do better. Only perfect¬ 
acting speed regulator made. Address 
ST. ALBANS FOUNDRY CO., St. Albans, Vt., 
Manufacturers of horse-powers for one. two, three 
and four horses, Threshers, Saw Machines, Fodder 
Shredders, etc. 
THE ADVANCE HAY TEDDER. 
The most perfect article 
of Its kind made. 
Ease of movement and 
satisfaction guaranteed. 
Also manufacturers of 
Mowers, Rakes, Hay 
Presses, Feed Cutters, 
Plows, etc. Address 
Adi Arbor Agricultural Co., Add Arbor, Mich. 
ENGINES, 
Threshing Machines. 
WALL PAPER 
The select colorings and 
designs of the season. 
100 samples for 8 cents. 
A. L. DlAMENT & Co., 1624 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia. 
Best Machinery at Lowest Prices. 
A, B. FARQUHAR CO., York, Pa. 
