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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 5 
The South Carolina Liquor Law. 
Til. L M A N MKN TAKE AN INNING. 
J. C. S., Pendleton, S. C.—For many 
years $100 was the State license fee for 
each bar-room, and the towns and cities 
regulated the taxation on such places to 
suit their requirements in the way of 
revenue and their judgment of damages 
done by them. The State license money 
went to the counties and helped to build 
and repair their respective bridges and 
public buildings, while the towns and 
cities paved their streets and built and 
repaired their public buildings with the 
whisky tax. Why doesn’t W. T., of 
Aiken, S. C., stop crossing these bridges 
and ford or swim the streams, for the 
bridges represent hundreds of dollars of 
bread money drawn away from the 
mouths of many poor children by the 
legalized whisky dens of the State ? Why 
doesn’t he cease walking on the streets 
and fly through the air, for these streets 
are stained with blood money drawn from 
the unfortunate victims who have fallen 
into the wide-mouthed traps set at thou¬ 
sands of yawning doors of the legalized 
bar-rooms that opened upon the public 
streets of nearly every town in our State ? 
The experiment in progress under the 
new whisky law of South Carolina can¬ 
not possibly bring about anything worse 
than the results of the old law. The new 
law has exploded a bomb-shell in the 
whisky dens, and their occupants are 
fleeing from the wrath to come. Some 
are following the scent of whisky across 
the borders of the State ; others are tak¬ 
ing hold of better work, while others 
are joining hands with the so-called aris¬ 
tocratic anti-Tillmanites and their “coat¬ 
tail swinging ” heelers, all of whom are 
resolved to defeat the dispensary law and 
restore the old familiar deviltry at the 
next election. What strange bed-fellows 
the t ristocratic Antis and the whisky rab¬ 
ble do make. While the rum swiggersand 
the great noisy anti-Tillmanites and their 
newspapers in towns and cities would 
have the outside world believe that the 
whole State is in an uproar and bent on 
revolution on the subject of whisky, they 
slander the great mass of farmers who 
are peacefully pursuing their daily duties 
on the farm with a degree of dignity 
that places then entirely beyond and 
above the pro-whisky influence. I don't 
belong to any Prohibition or teetotalist 
parties. I gather my support and the 
comforts of life directly from Mother 
Earth. The farmer can enjoy the per¬ 
fume-laden breezes from the flora of the 
fields, and drink pure water as it gushes 
from the earth, think and speak with in¬ 
dependence, for no political influence 
need intervene between him and his 
products ; he need look only to the God 
of all Nature for propitious seasons of 
sunshine and rain, for so long as children 
are born into the world naked and hun¬ 
gry, they will have to be clothed and fed 
with the products of the farm. 
A Question for W. T. 
J. W. W., Virginia.— Ask W. T., of 
South Carolina, if he is more of a partici¬ 
pant in the business of bar-keeping now 
than when he voted for a party that 
licensed the saloon. 
Scarlet Clover Experience by Wholesale. 
S. II. Derby, Woodside, Del —I be¬ 
gan sowing this clover in 1885, and have 
increased the acreage from year to year 
until I had 9(3 acres this spring from 
sowings ranging from June 15 to Novem¬ 
ber 1. In an ordinary season one date is 
too early, because the clover will head 
out in the fall and next spring will not 
be of so much value, and if it makes seed 
will die. The second date is too late for 
any but a mild, open winter, such as we 
ofteD have here. Yet where the ground 
was moist my latest sowing was a suc¬ 
cess and survived the hard winter of 
1892. Sowing here about August 20, 
and without any other grass seed or 
grain will give the best results; yet I 
sow year after year with success with 
millet and buckwheat and in corn, 
beans, blackberries, raspberries, pear, 
peach and apple orchards at the last 
workings, which occur from July 10 to 
much later. It makes hay equal to or 
better than Red clover, and there is no 
trouble in curing it in the cock. My 
horses prefer it to Red, and if both are 
placed in the manger will eat it first. A 
neighbor, who has never used it for hay, 
put his horses in my stable within one 
hour after feeding them at home, and 
was surprised at the greediness with 
which they ate every scrap that mine 
had left. It makes the best of summer 
ensilage, as repeated tests in a large 
way in the neighborhood have shown, 
and fits the land to grow a still larger 
corn ensilage the same year. It covers 
the fields usually left bare during the 
winter with a carpet of green, prevents 
washing and blowing of the soil and 
leaching of the valuable nitrogen. As a 
legume it gathers from the air a free 
gift of nitrogen and draws from deep 
in the ground potash and phosphoric 
acid, unavailable for ordinary crops, by 
penetrating a ti aced depth of nine feet. 
It is generally as early as rye for a soil¬ 
ing crop and vastly superior. When 
turned down for a green manure, it soon 
decays if the soil is well tilled and sup¬ 
plies plant food in its most available 
form in large quantities. The Delaware 
Experimental Station is authority for 
the statement that it would cost nearly 
$25 to supply the same fertilizing ma¬ 
terial per acre. Ohio and Indiana farm¬ 
ers say that it thrives there. Certainly 
10 degrees below zero, without snow 
protection, is not its limit of withstand¬ 
ing cold. It will take the place of Red 
clover in every way, except that it must 
be sowed every year ; even a second crop 
can be had, if the first cutting is done 
before the blossoms appear; especially 
is this true in a wet season. 
As for a rotation, it makes one from 
Scarlet clover grown during the fall and 
winter to any other crop during the sum¬ 
mer and back again to Scarlet clover 
after many crops. Thus it is especially 
adapted to the American farmer who 
wants and must have a money crop and 
yet wants his land to grow richer. It 
has here become a staple crop, but to the 
exclusion of no other. 
Observations in an Old Field. 
Dr. G. G. Groff, Pennsylvania.— 
Under the above title, Dr. T. H. Hoskins, 
on page 475, discusses a topic of interest 
to many, namely the reclaiming of ex¬ 
hausted fields. The writer has made a 
similar experiment very recently, with 
the following result: The field was so 
poor that it would not produce more 
than six bushels of wheat to the acre 
without feitilizers. With 500 pounds of 
a good fertilizer and a very light top¬ 
dressing of stable manure, it yielded 20 
bushels of wheat, and the next year 
nearly a ton of excellent clover hay to 
the acre. The catch of grass on my field 
was as good as I have ever seen any¬ 
where on good soil, and the explanation 
is in the top-dressing given which affords 
a shelter for the young grass plants at 
critical times in their development. I 
have now made a number of experiments 
in this direction, and am convinced of 
the correctness of this position. To 
illustrate again, a ridge of white clayran 
through a river field. Floods had vcashed 
all the surface soil away down to the 
clay, and several trials had shown that 
nothing of any value would grow on this. 
The field was sown to wheat, with grass 
seed, and a top-dressing of stable man¬ 
ure was applied over a portion of the 
ridge. Here there was a most excellent 
catch of grass, while over the rest of the 
field there was so little that it was neces¬ 
sary to plow up the field again. The 
amount of top-dressing need not be 
large ; a very little will give excellent 
results. I have put it on as thin as pos¬ 
sible with fork and shovel, and have ob¬ 
tained an excellent catch of grass. Here 
is where the value of the manure spreader 
comes in. It distributes the manure 
more evenly than it is possible to do it 
with a fork or shovel. I believe it would 
quickly pay for itself in the work of up¬ 
building a poor farm. 
A NEW YORK MIRACLE. 
A REMARKABLE AFFIDAVIT MADE BY A 
WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS MAN. 
Afflicted with Locomotor Ataxia for Fif¬ 
teen Years—Did not Walk a Step for 
Five Year8—Was Oivcn Up by the 
Leading Physicians of New York City 
and Discharged From the Manhattan 
Hospital as Incurable. 
(From the New York Tribune.) 
For some time there has been an in¬ 
creasing number of stories published in 
the newspapers of New York City, tell¬ 
ing of marvelous cures of various dis¬ 
eases that have been made by different 
medicines and treatments. It has long 
been the intention of the Tribune to in¬ 
vestigate one of the most interesting 
cases that could be found and give the 
truth to the world as a matter of news. 
Happening on the case of Geo. L’Hom- 
medieu, the other day, an investigation 
was made with the following very happy 
result: 
When the reporter called on Mr. 
L’Hommedieu at the residence of Ms 
cousin, Mr. Edward Houghtaling, 271 W. 
134th Street, he said : “ I am 51 years of 
age and was born in Hudson, N. Y. I 
served my time in the army, being cor¬ 
poral of Company A, 21st N. J Volun¬ 
teers. It has been about 15 years since 
I noticed the first symptoms of my dis¬ 
ease. I consulted Dr. Allen, of York- 
ville, and also Dr. Pratt, since deceased. 
Dr. Pratt exhausted his powers in my 
behalf and finally told me he cou:d do 
nothing more for me. 
“ Finally I was advised by Dr. Gill to 
go to the well-known scientist, Dr. Ham¬ 
ilton. He gave me a most thorough ex¬ 
amination and did me no good. I felt I 
was growing weaker every day, and 
went to the Manhattan Hospital, at 41st 
Street and Park Ave., and was under 
treatment by Dr. Seguin. He treated 
me for about three months, and then 
told me I had locomotor ataxia and was 
beyond the^, aid of medical science. I 
was now a complete physical wreck; all 
power, feeling and color had left my 
legs, and it was impossible for me to 
feel the mo t severe pinch or even the 
thrust of a needle. 
“ If my skin was scratched there would 
be no flow of blood whatever, and it 
would take it fully six weeks to heal up. 
In the night I would have to feel around 
to find my leg's. My pa ns were excru¬ 
ciating and at times almost unbearable 
I would take large doses of morphine to 
deaden the pains. About five years ago 
Dr. Lewis A. Sayre, of 295 5th Ave., 
made a trial of the French method of 
stretching the spine. Althougn I re¬ 
ceived no benefit from this treatment, I 
shall always feel grateful to Dr. Sayre 
for his great interest and kindress. 
“So seve>e had my case become by 
this time that I could not walk without 
assistance, and was almost ready to give 
up life. 
“ I began the use of Pink Pills for 
Pale People in September last. I took 
them rather irregularly at first with the 
cold water treatment. In a very short 
time I was convinced that I was getting 
better, and I began the use of the pills 
in earnest, taking about one box every 
five days. 
“ The first sign of improvement was in 
November, 1892, when I had a rush of 
blood to the head and feet, causing a 
stinging and prickling sensation. Feb¬ 
ruary 22nd, 1893, was the first time in 
five years I had ever seen any sign of 
blood in my feet. From this time on I 
began to improve. My strength and ap¬ 
petite have gradually returned; I now 
have perfect control of my bowels, and 
the pains have gradually left me. I can 
sit and write by the hour, and walk up 
stairs by balancing myself with my 
hands. Without doubt I am a new man 
from the ground up, and have every 
reason to believe that I will be hale and 
hearty in less than six months. I have 
taken about 12 boxes of pills.” 
Sworn to before me this eleventh day 
of March, 1893. H. E. Melville. 
Commissioner of Deeds, 
[seal.] New York City. 
The reporter next called on Mr. Robert 
W. Smith, a member of the firm of Mar- 
chal & Smith, who said : 
Pink Pills for Pale People, with the cold 
water treatment. The last time I saw 
Mr. L’Hommedieu he had gained the use 
of his limbs to such an extent that he 
could walk up stairs with the help of his 
wife, and is now doing much important 
work for us at his home.” 
Robt. W. Smith. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me 
this Eleventh day of March, 1893. 
[seal ] W. H. Woodhull, 
Notary Public, New York County. 
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restore shattered nerves. They are an 
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