1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
623 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
Most farmers here haul it as they feed 
it. The objection to this way is that 
when we have heavy snow or smet it 
would be better in a stack or the barn. 
Owing to the great size of our fodder it 
is very unhandy to feed it in the barn, 
therefore the best way I know of using 
it is to feed it out-of-doors when the 
ground is dry or snow is on it. If stock 
are stabled, it might be fed for a noon 
ration while they are out-of-doors to v 
drink and exercise. 
That Unending Liquor Trouble. 
F. C. L., Timmonsville, S. C.—In The 
Rural of August 5, referring to the 
‘•liquor trouble” in this State, the writer 
says: “About all the prominent news¬ 
papers in the State are controlled by 
those who want to prove the law a fail¬ 
ure.” 
Isn’t the writer of that statement tilting 
with rather a free lance? He is “hew¬ 
ing, let the chips fall where they may,” 
but not “ to the line.” Let him give us 
the /acts to support his statement. “We 
want to know, you know,” by what au¬ 
thority he says such things. 
The main objection to the Dispensary 
Law is that it has surreptitiously 
taken a certain business out of the 
hands of the citizens of the State, 
and transferred it to the State itself. 
That is plainly unconstitutional, and 
has recently been so declared by a judge 
at chambers. Does The Rural want a 
matter like that to have a “fair and 
square trial” in any State ? 
But then just think of his Excellency(?) 
our Governor, beating about in his shirt 
sleeves among huge whisky vats and 
bo’tling machines, directing a great 
traffic in liquors, not for the angel Pro¬ 
hibition’s sake at all, but with an eye 
strictly to revenue, when he should be 
devoting his time to the legitimate call¬ 
ings of his office, which holds, first and 
foremost the preservation of the fair 
name, h'nor and credit of the State, and, 
scarcely second, peace order and con¬ 
tentment among her people. 
But somebody might say: “The Dis¬ 
pensary Law has been enacted by the 
people, and must be executed by the 
Governor.” In that he would be making 
a mistake. This is Tillman’s law, passed 
by Tillman’s legislature, and now en¬ 
gineered by Tillman’s hand. The law is 
the product of this one man, with slight 
alterations, from beginning to end, from 
design to performance. 
What is the key to such a condition of 
affairs? In a State like South Carolina, 
the intelligent voters who are generally 
sound on political questions, are con¬ 
siderably in the minority. Confronted 
by the class of unintelligent voters, al¬ 
ways a formidable one, who want office, 
and in search of it strain neither at 
gnat nor camel and who parade along 
on the ground swell of ignorance that 
bears it up, with the sublime audacity of 
the woman of Scripture mounted on the 
great red dragon, this conservative body 
of citizens found throughout the State 
are powerless. So it comes that the 
leaders of the “bamboozled” masses, 
and they alone, are responsible for the 
mal-legislation of the last few years, of 
which the Dispensary Law is a grotesque 
example; and Tillman, the “Great 
Bamboozler,” as he is familiarly known 
among us, the leader of the leaders, has 
the chief responsibility. That’s the 
whole nut with the shell hammered off. 
Let nobody hug to his breast the delu¬ 
sion that the farmers of the State have 
had any voice whatever in the Dispensary 
emctment. They voted in a sort of 
desultory way for Prohibition, but Pro 
hibition in the shape of a vast rum trade 
carried on by the State they dreamed 
not of. Will their ballots go towards 
undoing this matter at next year’s elec¬ 
tions ? No. Why ? Simply because 
Tillman will say “ No.” Anybody who 
has ever seen a flock of sheep cannot 
have failed to observe how a certain 
animal at the front will mark out the 
general line of operations for the day 
and all the flock will blindly follow. 
There is no truer illustration than that 
of existing affairs in South Carolina. 
Volunteer’s Virtue and Drafted Man’s “Skin.” 
A. E. B., South Haven, Mich. —Think¬ 
ing that perhaps some thoughts of one 
born in ’51 would be of interest, on the 
subject of the soldier, I submit these 
thoughts : 
“ Our country, right or wrong,” is the 
sentiment ascribed to our side of the 
Atlantic. I believe this to be the pre¬ 
vailing estimate of “ patriotism” in this 
country. Fourth of July brag has been 
taken too literally by those who take 
such stuff as good moral philosophy. 
There are those who think we owe a 
debt which we must pay in dollars and 
cents, to those who risked their lives in 
battle for—themselves ? No, we hear 
little about any part of the service hav¬ 
ing fought for themselves, but they 
“saved” the country for others and 
therefore we must deliver it to them, or 
such part of it as they may ask. Thus 
from the farmers and other laboring 
men may be taken their hard-earned 
money, to be given to millionaires as a 
tribute to their patriotism. That any 
millionaire or any able - bodied man 
should receive a pension is, in my opin¬ 
ion, a disgrace to any nation. We should 
take care of those injured in the service, 
who need assistance; that is a duty 
which none denies. Indeed, we must 
care for those who cannot care for them¬ 
selves, from whatever cause. 
It is argued in moral philosophy and 
ethics that our duty is first to ourselves, 
second to our families and third to our 
country. The truly patriotic soldier 
fought, first, for himself, second, for his 
family, and thirdly, for his country. It 
was his duty to save his country for 
himself and for his family, and because 
he did that we honor him and call him 
a patriot. Thoughtful selfishness may 
be a virtue; thoughtless disregard of 
one’s self is not. 
If there is one think more than another 
which one generation owes to the next, 
it is to pass to it the unincumbered 
earth. This country is freer than some 
others because so many generations have 
not gone before, fastening their blights 
upon it. God gave the unincumbered 
earth. It is the duty of man to pass it 
down as good as he found it. Had it been 
the fate of war that our friends on the 
other side had won, we would now be 
paying pensions to them, and those who 
might protest against abuses would be 
silenced with the cry of “ traitor.” [Oh, 
no: they merely wanted to be “let 
alone”—to start a government of their 
own. There would have been straight¬ 
way two governments instead of one 
within the present territory of the Union, 
and not improbably national disintegra¬ 
tion would not have stopped there. It is 
not at all unlikely that if the North had 
been defeated, there would by this time 
be four or more “ nations ” within the 
area of this country, each with its heavy 
expenses and large standing army after 
the European fashion. In no case, how¬ 
ever, would the inhabitants of one coun¬ 
try have to pay pensions to the ex-soldiers 
of any other. Such a thing has never 
been known. Eds.] Then we would have 
to listen to the same kind of talk of 
patriotism, only the other fellows would 
be the patriots. 
Why patriotism has been so highly ap¬ 
preciated in the past is because a duty 
has been done, without a thought of 
figuring it out in dollars and cents. 
I know many noble men who draw 
pensions, and need them. I know some 
who could, without perjury, draw them 
and do not. I know some who were in¬ 
jured in the service, and ive their simple 
lives without asking that the nation’s ob¬ 
ligation to them should be cashed. These 
are doubly patriotic. They showed their 
patriotism by fighting from 18(51 to 1865 
and by refusing to be burdens in 1893. 
Dear Editor, have you not overesti¬ 
mated the virtue of the volunteer and 
understimated the value of the “ skin ” 
of the drafted man? [Nothing was said 
about the drafted man who fought in 
person ; reference was made only to the 
drafted man who paid not to do any 
fighting.— Eds.] 
Say whatever you may against the 
quality of California fruit in general, 
never have such magnificent specimens 
of Bartlett pears been received or seen 
in this market as those from California. 
Prof. T. V. Munson (Denison, Texas) 
writes under date of August 16 : “ The 
Carman grape has again come through a 
severe season unscathed, with an im¬ 
mense crop of the finest grapes. I be¬ 
lieve it the best black grape before the 
American people to-day.” 
F.W. Loudon, of Janesville, Wis., is the 
first to send in samples of the tomatoes 
he has raised from our cross-bred seed 
sent to applicants last winter. He says 
of 21 plants all are distinct as to fruit. 
One of the plants ripened tomatoes be¬ 
fore his favorite, stand-by variety, though 
the seed was sown six weeks later. 
Mr. Herman Compton, of McKean, Pa., 
sends specimens of the foliage of his R. 
N.-Y. tomatoes. He alludes to one as 
“ the largest-leafed specimen I ever saw. 
He makes this suggestion: “ The 
tomato being first cousin to the potato, 
and the fruit of the potato being known 
as the potato ball, why not call the fruit 
of the tomato tomato ball ? ” 
On August 18 Luther Burbank, of Santa 
Rosa, Cal., sent us by mail four plums 
of a new variety which he has named 
“ Perfection.” They were received in 
good order, packed in two little paper 
boxes (two in each), rolled in paper and 
held in place by cotton. It is a Japan 
plum, the immediate parentage being 
Kelsey and Burbank. The specimens re¬ 
ceived measured within a fraction of s’x 
inches in either circumference, the shape 
being that of the Botan and Abundance 
without the nipple or little conical 
growth of the apex somewhat character¬ 
istic of that variety or of those varieties 
if we assume that the Abundance is a 
variety of the Botan. The specimens 
were dead ripe; the SKin, of a deep purple 
color, is not puckery, with a feeble acidity 
scarcely objectionable. The plum is so 
juicy that it is hard to eat it without 
spilling the juice. The flesh is tender and 
fine-grained, fairly sweet without any 
acidity about the pit, which is notably 
small and so thin-shelled as to be 
readily cracked between the teeth. There 
is a pleasant, half-peaeh-like flavor to the 
Perfection which we presume will prove 
agreeable to most lovers of plums. 
Mr. Burbank says that the tree grows 
in vase form, sturdy and upright. The 
fruit is distributed evenly over the tree, 
and from the time it is half grown until 
a few days before ripening is of a pearly- 
white color. But “ all at once soft pink 
shadings creep over it, and in a few days 
it has changed to a glowing carmine 
with a heavy white bloom.” Mr. Burbank 
says it will keep two weeks or more after 
ripening or can be picked when hard and 
white, and will color and ripen almost 
as well as if left on the tree. 
One is inclined to make comparisons 
between cannas and gladioli. The recent 
gales laid the latter low. Even the 
dwar's were blown flat on the ground or 
nearly so. The cannas stood upright as 
if there had not been any gales. They 
are achored more firmly in the soil by 
their big roots. 
A year or so ago we questioned the 
propriety of giving the name “ Abund¬ 
ance” to the Botan plum, now generally 
known by that name. The name by 
which it should be known is “Sweet 
B jtan,” as appears by the following note: 
EniTou Rural New-Yorker: 
I ain much pleased with The R. N.-Y.’s recomxnen- 
■dat'on of the Japan plum tlret Introduced by myself 
and afterwards named Abundance (?) by a New Jer¬ 
sey nurseryman. Sweet Botan was the original name 
under which 1 introduced It. Two years afterwards 
It came out as Abundance. The Rural can verify 
these facts I tlnnk, by Inquiring of Stark Bros., 
Louisiana, Mo., or B. D. Willard. Geneva, N. Y. 
Santa Rosa, Cal. LUTHER BURBANK. 
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advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
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YOU CAN SEE IT, 
perhaps, one of Dr. 
Pierce’s Pleasant 
Pellets — but you 
can’t feel it after 
it’s taken. And 
yet it does you 
more good than 
any of the huge, 
old-fashioned 
pills, with their 
griping and vio¬ 
lence. These tiny 
Pellets, the smallest and easiest to take, 
bring you help that lasts. Constipation, 
Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, Sick or 
Bilious Headaches, and all derange¬ 
ments of liver, stomach, and bowels, 
are permanently cured. 
f A square offer of $500 cash 
is made by the proprietors of 
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, 
for any case of Catarrh, no 
matter how bad or of how 
long standing, which they can¬ 
not cure. 
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