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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 12 
Rurallsms — Continued. 
many cases, answer the question often 
asked of The R. N.-Y., “How can I make 
my plum trees bear ?” 
Don't those who raise and sell violets 
need bread ? Then why quote “ Don’t 
wear violets in your coat while anybody 
is suffering for bread”?—M. M’Lean. 
The spirit of the quotation, as Rural- 
isms interpreted it, was that one would 
better spend a dollar for bread to help 
some hungry person than to invest it in 
a buttonhole bouquet. No reference was 
intended to those who raise and sell 
violets or flowers of any kind, a whole¬ 
some, commendable industry. The vio¬ 
let grower is fully justifled in supplying 
any demand of the public. The public 
is the culprit when it demands violets, 
and is willing to pay from 50 cents to $3 
for a single buttonhole, because such a 
price is far above the intrinsic value of 
the flowers. Our idea is that, whenever 
the price of any luxury whatever be¬ 
comes excessive, the benevolent man will 
deny himself the luxury in the interest 
of the hungry, or needy, or suffering, 
Word for Word. 
-N. Y. Hekald: “It is not too much 
to sty that we rather relish a rumor 
which tells against a neighbor, and find 
a morbid comfort in the thought that 
people are not so good as they pretend 
to be or seem to be.” 
“We are not helpful to one another, and 
are much more inclined to shove an of- 
fendex down hill than to pull him up hill. 
We are more apt to look on the darkest 
side of other people’s lives and to think 
the worst of them than to look on the 
bright side and think the best of them. 
At the same time we would be glad to 
have them look at us leniently and find a 
good rather than a bad motive. Doing 
unto others, however, as you wouldha/e 
them do to you neither suits our con¬ 
venience nor our appetite.” 
“ What is self-respect to a man that 
goes in for notoriety ?” 
-Ikying: “How easy it is for one 
benevolent being to diffuse pleasure 
around him.” 
-W. J. Gkeen in Ohio Farmer : “For 
sowing in the open ground the Yellow 
Danvers and Red Wethersfield are the 
best sorts, as they ripen in our climate ; 
’ besides they are good keepers. In spite 
of these facts, we find seedsmen gener¬ 
ally are recommending the Prizetaker 
and other foreign sorts, indiscriminately, 
for all soils and climates, without giving 
a word of warning or advice.” 
-Garden and Forest: “The asser¬ 
tion that farmers, as a rule, know as 
little about the processes of plant life as 
any other class of men, would seem at 
first a gratuitous insult.” 
“ There is no question that agricul¬ 
ture, so far as it is successful in the 
future, must break up into specialties, 
and a study of floriculture will not only 
enunciate this truth, but it will open 
possibilities of success in more than one 
direction. There are few farms on which 
a small glass house could not be made to 
pay in a great many directions. It is not 
impossible that a few kinds of flowers or 
flowering plants could be profitably cul¬ 
tivated, vegetable plants could be raised 
and sold, and fruits or vegetables could 
be forced. At all events, it would be a 
place where seeds could be tested and 
experiments made every winter, not to 
speak of the pleasure the family, and 
especially young people, could get from 
it in a hundred ways.” 
SPRING BRINGS TO MANV PEOPLE NEED 
for a Birengthenlng medicine. As eucb, tees jionful 
doses for adults, at meal and bedtime, of Dr. D 
Jsyne’s Tonic A'ermlfuge, mixed •with a little cold 
water, will be found effective, Invigorating, safe 
ard pleasant. For worms In children. It Is un¬ 
rivaled. Small bottles. 35 cents, and double s ze, 
50 cents each. Sold by all Druggists.—Adv. 
Many times women call on their family 
physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one 
from dyspepsia, another from heart disease, 
another from liver or kidney disease, another 
from nervous exhaustion, or prostration, 
another with pain here and there, and in 
this way they all prasent, alike to themselves 
and their easy-going and indifferent, or over- 
busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases, 
for which he prescribes his pills and potions, 
assuming them to bo such, when, in reality, 
then are aU only s]imj)toms caused by some 
womb dLsorder. The jihysician, ignorant of 
the cause of suffering, encourages his practice 
until large bills are made. The suffering 
E atient gets no better, but probably worse 
y reason of the delay, wrong treatment and 
consequent complications. A pi’ojier medi¬ 
cine, like Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, 
directed to the cause would have entirely 
removed the disease, thereby dispelling all 
those distressing symptoms and instituting 
comfort instead of prolonged misery. 
The lady whose portrait heads this article 
is Mrs. Ida Coventry, of Huntsville, Logan 
County, Ohio. She had an exiierience which 
we will permit her to relate in her own 
language. It illustrates the foregoing. She 
writes: “I had ‘ female weakness ’ very 
bad—in bed most of the time, dragging 
down pains through niy back and hips ; no 
appetite; no energy. The family physician 
was treating me for ‘liver complaint’. I 
did not get any better under that treatment 
so I thought I would try Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 
Prescription and his ‘ Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery.’ I felt better before I used one 
bottle of each. I continued their use until I 
took six bottles of oAch. In three months’ 
time I felt so well I did not think it necessary 
to take any more. In childbirth it does 
what Dr. Pierce recommends it to do— 
lessens the pain and perils to both mother 
and child and shortens ‘ labor ’. I would like 
to recommend Dr. Pierce’s Extract of Sniar^ 
"Weed to those who have never tried it; it 
surely is the best thing for cholera morbus, 
or pain in the stomach I ever used ; it works 
like a charm. I try never to be without it.” 
The following is from Mrs. Harriet Hards, 
of Montpelier, Idaho ; “I have enjoyed bet¬ 
ter health since I began treatment with Dr. 
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, for leucor- 
rhea and uterine debility than I have for 
sixteen years. I am cured of my trouble, 
and now weigh one hundred and sixty-six 
pounds, whereas my weight for many years 
stood at one hundred and twenty-five pounds. 
With pleasure, I remain,” 
Yours truly, 
The following is from Mrs. M. A. McAl¬ 
lister, of Lim Rock, Jackson Co., Ala.: “I 
was in bad health ; age was working upon 
me, and I had ulceration of the womb ; 
could not got about. I took Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription and it cured me ; I 
felt ten years younger. I have not had any 
return of my trouble. I am the mother of 
thirteen children and I am fifty-three years 
old, have nevei- seen a better woman’s friend 
than your medicine. I have recommended 
it to my friends here, and it has never failed 
in any case, so let mo thank you for the 
good it did me.” Yours truly. 
For “worn-out,” “run-down,” debilitated 
school teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seam¬ 
stresses, general housekeepers, and over¬ 
worked and feeble women generally. Dr. 
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the b^t of 
all restorative tonics. It is not a “cure-all,” 
but admirably fulfills a singleness of pur¬ 
pose, being a most potent specific for all 
those chronic weaknesses and diseases pecu¬ 
liar to women. It is a powerful, general as 
well as uteiane, tonic and nervine, and im¬ 
parts vigor and strength to the whole system. 
It cures weakness of the stomach, indig^- 
tion, bloating, nervous prostration, hysteria, 
debility and sleeplessness. A Treatise (168 
pages, Illustrated), on “Woman and Her 
Diseases,” sent sealed in plain envelope, on 
receipt of ten cents to pay postage. Address, 
World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. It contains a vast number of 
i testimonials with half tone, or phototype 
portraits of their authors and gives the full 
1 address of each. 
All 
CROPS 
INCREASED 
and quality improved 
BY THE USE 
OF OUR 
Fertilizers. 
WE MANUFACTURE A 
FULL LINE OF 
Bone Super 
Phosphates \ 
. . and . . 
Special Fertilizers 
lor different crops and soils. It pays to use ' 
them on 
CRAIN, GRASS, 
VEGETABLES, FRUITS, 
TOBACCO, TREES 
AND VINES, 
I in fact everything that grows in or out of the 
ground. We keep in stock all fertilizing 
' chemicals and materials. 
The Cleveland Dryer Co. 
Fertilizer Exctiange, 130 SUMMIT STREEl. 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
FERTILIZERS 
ARE UNPROFITABLE, 
Unless they Contain Sufficient Potash. 
Complete fertilizers should contain at least six per 
cent of Potash, b'ertllize’-s for Potatoes Tobaceo. 
Fruits and Vegetables should contain from 10 to 
per cent of Potash. Farmers should use fe-tlllzers 
containing enough potash or apply Potash salts, 
such as Muriate of Potash, Sulphate of Potash and 
Kalnlt. For information and pamphlets, address 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau Street. New Ycrk City 
Salt for fertilizer. 
Best thing to use on Wheat, Barley, Oats, Hay and 
Potatoes. Natures restorer for worn out land. In¬ 
creases yield from 16 to 50 per cent. After long ex¬ 
perience we are preparing a grade exactly suited to 
the purpose. Write for prices delivered. 
THE LkROV salt CO., LeUoy, N T. 
Onn Farms on the peninsula of Southern Maryland 
ZUU and Virginia- mild, healthy climate; friendly 
people; hunting, fishing; ear.y vegeiabhs; fruit, 
plums, berries, poultry, &c.; send for map, catalogue, 
with price*. P. B. LaiKD, 51 Broadway, New York. 
SHIP PRODUCE, 
Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry, Pork, Calves etc., to the 
old reliable Commission Honse, Established 1865. 
S. H. & E. H. FROST, 
100 Park Place, New York. 
Stencils and Shipping Cards furnished on applica¬ 
tion. References: Irving National Bank, or any of 
the Commercial Agencies. 
Farmers YOUR Produce 
To F. I. SAGE A SON, 183 Reads St., N. Y., 
deceivers of all kinds of CotruTBT Pboducb, in¬ 
cluding Game, Live and Dressed Poultry and Dressed 
Calves Speciaitle*—Berries, Grapes, Apples, Pears, 
Honey, Onions, Potatoes and Butter. Correspond¬ 
ence and consignments solicited. Stencils furnished. 
Reference: Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Commercial Re¬ 
ports, to be found'at any bank. 
Choice Butter, Fggs, Cheese. 
For all such we wiil get you extra prices. We don’t 
want poor goods Creamery butler In prints or tubs a 
specialty. Stencils and cards furnished on applica¬ 
tion- GARNER & CO., 
Produce CominlsHlon Merchants, 
32 Little 12th Street, New York. 
ESTABLISHED IN 1876. 
SOMERS, BROTHER & CO. 
HEADQUARTERS FOR 
Fruits and Produce. 
Receive and sell, In car-load lots and smaller quan¬ 
tities, all Pr< ducts of the Orcnard. Garden, 
Dairy. Hennery and Farm 
Market Reports, Sneclal References. Stencils, etc., 
lurnlsbed free on application. 
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Inquiries and Correspondence Invited. 
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