in New York State in driving beer sellers and 
fakirs from the fair grounds and hoped that 
the good work would go on until every agri¬ 
cultural fair in the land was freed of liquor 
sellers, fakirs and side shows. 
j. H. G. 
Vaxwm. 
WHAT ONE FARMER THINKS OF THE 
RURAL. 
When I came here in the last part of April 
to settle on the land I had owned for 16 or 17 
years, I soon realized the importance of 
having a good and reliable agricultural 
journal, an article which the successful farmer 
of to-day will agree should be classed in the list 
of a farmer’s wants, as one of the prime necessi¬ 
ties of his daily working life, whether he farms 
by scientific methods or by tradition. Then 
if my premise is correct, the new beginner’s 
needs in that direction are in proportion to 
his ignorance of his new avocation. Realizing 
as I have said, this important fact, 1 soon be¬ 
gan to inquire of my neighbor and friend 
concerning the merits of such agricultural 
papers as I knew him to be familiar with, 
and his reply was that there were papers 
and papers, journals and journals, all of 
them good in their way, but the first on the 
list was the Rural: none suited him so well 
as that; there was so much in it that was 
interesting outside of the information pertain 
lug to work and crops. As I was staying with 
him while getting the home straightened up 
a bit before my family came, 1 could read for 
myself, and came to the conclusion that my 
friend was about right; so eventually another 
member was added to the army of the R.N.-Y 
readers,and “long may they wave,’’-the Rural 
too. Now Mr. Editor if 1 don’t slop this kind of 
talk some old cynic will be saying that 1 am 
doing this for a puff, at so much a line, but 
he will be mistaken, for what I have said, and 
what in conclusion shall say, will at least have 
the merit of sincerity (and that is a rare vir¬ 
tue now-a days if 1 do say it myself). With¬ 
out any desire to flatter you and your co¬ 
workers, I want to say that the more I see of 
the Rural the better I like it, audit certainly 
is an A 1 article, and for such of those who 
by their remoteness are shut out from the daily 
papers, is almost unique. In regard 
to such articles, or subjects which 
have the quality of speciality, I particularly 
noticed and appreciate the Potato Symposium 
. articles and those on Rye planting. If the in¬ 
formation given concerning the former is duly 
and thoroughly digested and assimilated, as it 
should be, there can be no doubt or question 
as to the immense benefit it will confer on the 
farmers of this country, for the experimental 
effects will most assuredly not be confined to 
Rural readers. The potato question is being 
ventilated none too soon, for what a sad specta¬ 
cle it must be to our intelligent and thinking 
citizen farmers, to see over 1,000,0U0 bushels 
of potatoes imported last year into this big 
country. The articles on Rye are for this 
section particularly opportune, for, judging 
from remarks I have heard here, its reputation 
is no enviable one, for it is regarded more 
in the light of a thief than a benefactor, 
but in spite of this traditional prejudi e, for 1 
can term it nothing else after reading articles 
in the Rural, I have this week planted about 
an acre, more or less, and if I am smart 
enough to notice and qualify results, I will 
report. My friend, before mentioned, has 
planted some two-thirds of an acre of potatoes 
trench fashion, but as the flea beetle paid 
them what turned out to be a serious visit, for 
a large proportion of the vines suffered a pre¬ 
mature death, consequently no definite results 
can be had. At this writing they are yet in 
the ground, but I can say that they came up 
vigorously, and the vines were large and 
strong, of good color when Mr. and Mrs. 
Beetle came to test their flavor. 
Vineland N. J. an amateur farmer. 
THE ECONOMIES OF THE WELL-TO-DO. 
The “Doctor in the Kitchen” in “Land and 
Water” attributes much of the improvement 
in the methods of cooking and the use of ma¬ 
terials among the poorer classes, to the econ¬ 
omies which the middle classes introduce, and 
which are learned by their servants, who, 
when they have laid by a little means, become 
the wives of tradesmen, or working men. 
Among us there is not much economy learned 
in such situations. Our nouveaux riches 
take a pride in being opeu-handedly extrav¬ 
agant; their servants learn to squander; and 
never think of saving, but to despise it. Once 
out of their situation they cannot save them¬ 
selves from a hastened ending of their days of 
misery, which their families have been ob¬ 
liged to suffer, too, from the misfortune of 
connection. 
It is stated that, although the British are 
held to be extravagant feeders by the deli¬ 
cately abstemious French, yet they manage to 
enjoy a great deal, and to the end, by taking 
great care in keeping every thing in good 
order for use, and so getting the full use of it. 
Economy is made fashionable, and no one 
scorns to be thought saving or disdains to use 
any economy that is practicable in the station 
occupied. And, of course,, where all are 
rather proud of being considered wise and 
prudent in this line, and even boastful over 
any new device for making the income go far¬ 
ther, there are many little points of economy 
practicable that in a different society would 
be ridiculed or sneered at. One thing that 
favors the prudent in Europe is that the value 
of a penny is better recognized. The coin is 
treated with a respect unknown here. Another 
is the fixity of position of each family as com¬ 
pared with the universal emulation, compe¬ 
tition, and scramble for higher position that 
prevails here. 
The “Doctor” goes on to say that the great 
economy of using the closed ranges of the 
American patterns instead of the voracious 
open fire, pays for itself by saving in coal 
within one year. The American luxury of 
sweet Indian corn fresh from the cob is one 
that even cottagers are beginning to enjoy; 
for maize can be grown for that green use 
even in England. Tomatoes, too, and haricot 
beans are beginning to be understood. They 
are now so plentifully imported as to be 
cheap, but can be grown at home against any 
bit of wall, to a considerable degree of flavor. 
The Tomato is a valuable antiscorbutic; and 
“tomato pulp” (strained to remove the pips 
etc.), with added rice or crackers and a dip 
from the meat stock (gravy), or some butter 
and milk, makes a soup of the most acceptable 
kind. 
The same writer advises that the art of 
using vegetables should be cultivated more, 
now that the flour of wheat is likely to be less 
sure and abundant in supply. He recommends 
the French pot-au-fe\i, as a means of using all 
the most nutritious parts of meat—clear soup 
and gelatine as in calf’s-foot jelly, having 
really no nutritive value, but merely serving 
to separate the walls of the stomach or to dis¬ 
tend it. The improvement in pottery and glaz¬ 
ing, which now furnishes pure white porcelain 
vessels, capable of enduriDg the oven without 
a crack, even in the glazing, or any permanent 
tarnish, is a great aid to both enjoyment and 
economy. For there are so many simple dain¬ 
ties that are deliciously nice if served direct 
from the oven or stove, but which lose their 
daintiness and perfection of flavor by being 
transferred to a second dish. w. 
ARE “CHEAP PAPERS”CHEAP? 
A practical farmer recently said to the 
writer “The days when a man need pay $2.00 
per year for an agricultural or any other pa¬ 
per are over. A man can get more papers 
than he can read for nothing.” “But who 
pays for the papers a man gets for nothing?” 
said I “On! 1 don’t know,” said he, “Isuppose 
they are sent out as advertisements or else 
advertisers pay for their distribution.” “Ah,” 
1 said “ That is exactly the point, the papers 
you get for nothing are paid for by advertis¬ 
ers out of what? Out of money obtained 
from the readers of those same gratuitously 
distributed papers In other words the readers 
of the advertising sheets pay enough more for 
the goods so advertised to pay for t.ne papers 
and leave a margin of profit beside.” He saw 
the point and admitted that 1 was right. 
It is a fact that almost any-one can get all 
the papers he. can read for nothing. On 
almost any railway tram or any other public 
place a man can pick up reading matter 
enough to last him a week. If reading matter 
was all one wanted—one would be foolish in¬ 
deed to pay two or even one dollar a year for 
a trade or a newspaper. It is the practical 
experience, the character and the brains in a 
paper which makes it of value. Take from 
the Rural its great clientage of practical 
farmers,horticulturists,florisis and last,but not 
least, housewives, the experiment grounds and 
the education and culiure of its editors and 
writers and there would be nothing left of 
greater value, than the advertising sheets 
which copy so liberally from its columns. 
A paper to be of value must be absolutely 
independent. It must attack the wrong and 
support and encourage the right, fearlessly. 
It must advertise things of merit and crush 
out and destroy humbugs and things lacking 
utility. If it fails to do this it has little or no 
financial value to its subscribers. A paper 
circulated gratuitously cannot be independent 
It must be the creature, the tool of its adver¬ 
tisers upon whom it depends for existence, or 
in almost every case it will be found that a 
man who depends upon such papers for his 
information pays a most extravagant price 
for his whistle. It is a fact easily verified by 
examining almost any of the cheaper papers, 
that they are supported chiefly by fraudulent 
advertisers. Circulation no matter how ob¬ 
tained will attract advertising of a certain 
class. The larger the distribution the higher 
the rate which can be successfully enacted. 
We do not wonder that papers are distributed 
gratuitously, but we do wonder that people 
will accept them and in so many cases be 
humbugged by their advertisements. 
It would be a sorry day for publishers of 
papers and a still worse one for the readers of 
them, if the time should come when the cost 
”f publication and distribution is not borne 
chiefly by subscribers, or, to put it in another 
way, when advertisers can afford to pay for 
the publishing and distributing of our news 
and trade papers. 
Judging from a rather extended observation 
of newspaper events, I am inclined to think 
that the era of free and cheap papers is fast 
drawing to a close. The merchant and pro¬ 
fessional man has long since consigned all 
circulars and advertising sheets to the waste 
basket. The farmer unfortunately is still 
tempted to adopt the penny-wise pound-fool¬ 
ish policy of taking, reading and being hum¬ 
bugged by so-called cheap papers. 
A RURAL READER. 
R. N.-Y. Merchants and professional men 
spend no time over advertising sheets and 
palpable swindles because they know that 
most extravagant claims are opposed to all 
rules of legitimate business. Business farm¬ 
ers realize the fact that an article to be of auy 
value has got to cost something and that the 
advertiser who professes great benevolence 
for human kind is best ignored. 
PERSONALS. 
The Empress of Japan is an earnest student 
of modern European languages. 
Mrs. Sheridan will enlarge her cottage at 
Nonquitt and spend her summers there. 
Ex-Civil Justice Walter S. Pinckney, 
formerly one of the best known real estate 
lawyers in New York, died in the alcoholic 
ward of the Bellevue Hospital recently. 
One of the most desirable plots of land at 
Bar Harbor is owned by an Irishwoman, who 
lives on it in a small hut. She has had offers of 
$150,000 for the land but refuses to sell. 
Samuel C. Pratt, of Denver, visiting the 
Hot Springs in Nevada, and not being aware 
of their temperature, plunged in for a bath. 
He was quickly cooked to death. 
Marshall Bazaine’s first wife died in 
France. His second, who was a Mexican, 
and whose devotion to him on his escape was 
so remarkable, is in her own country, where 
she was recalled some time ago by private 
affairs. 
Chicago men are said to mark their en¬ 
trance into the inner shrine of the temple of 
culture by saying “luncheon” instead of 
“lunch.” In Kansas City the same stage is 
marked by the use of the word “victuals” 
instead of “grub.” 
The family of Admiral Dupont posesses a 
much-prized heirloom in the form of a pearl 
breastpin. This pin has been worn by the 
brides of the family at their nuptials for over 
a century past. No one but a bride bearing 
the Dupont name is allowed to wear the pin. 
Good luck is believed to accompany the 
wearer. 
Mrs. John A. Logan is having her Wash¬ 
ington house extensively improved. She is 
having a gallery built, in which she will place 
her collection of articles connected with the 
public life of the General. The upper por¬ 
tions of the walls will be covered with paint¬ 
ings representing the pr.nciple military events 
in which the General participated. 
Fourteen Sioux chiefs from Standing Rock 
Agency, acc-ompained by Agent McLaughlin 
and Louis Primeaux, interpreter, are on iheir 
way to Washington. The entire delegation 
will include sixty-four chiefs, five agents and 
five interpreters. The Standing Rock party 
includes the most famous braves of the Sioux 
Nation. Primeaux, the interpreter, an intelli¬ 
gent and well-educated hall-breed, states that 
the chiefs declare they will not sign the treaty 
in its present form, but go to Washington 
hoping to secure a better price and cash pay¬ 
ment as a result of the negotiations. 
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A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE. 
Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender¬ 
hearted peasant girl of Normandy, made great 
history by one desperate act ! 
Sickeped by the saturnalia of the French 
revolution, and moved to desperation as Robes¬ 
pierre and Marat were leading the flower of 
France to the guillotine, she determined that 
she would put an end to Marat’s bloody reign. 
Marat had demanded two hundred thousand 
victims for the guillotine ! 
He proposed to kill off the enemies of the 
Revolution to make it perpetual ! 
Horrible thought ! 
No wonder it fired the blood of this patriotic 
peasant maid I 
Gaining access to his closely-guarded quar¬ 
ters by a subterfuge, she found him in his 
bath, even then inexorable and giving written 
directions for further slaughter ! 
He asked her the names of the inimical dep¬ 
uties who had taken refuge in Caen. She told 
him, and he wrote them down. “ That is well! 
Before a week is over they shall all be brought 
to the guillotine!” 
At these words, Charlotte drew from her 
bosom the knife, and plunged it with supernat¬ 
ural force up to the hilt in the heart of Ma¬ 
rat. 
“Come to me, my dear friend, come tc 
me,” cried Marat, and expired under the 
blow! 
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington is a 
famous painting of Charlotte, represented as 
behind the prison bars the day before her exe¬ 
cution. 
It is a thrilling, sad picture, full of sorrow 
for her suffering country, and of unconquera- 
hate for her country’s enemies. 
What a lesson in this tragic story! Two' 
hundred, nay, five hundred thousand people 
would Marat have sacrificed to his unholy pas¬ 
sion of power! 
Methods are quite as murderous and inexor¬ 
able as men, and they number their victims 
by the millions. 
The page of history is full of murders by 
authority and by mistaken ideas! In the prac¬ 
tice of medicine alone, how many hundreds 
of millions have been allowed to die and as 
many more killed by unjustifiable bigotry and 
by bungling ? 
But the age is bettering. Men and methods 
are improving. A few years ago it was worth 
ones professiopal life to advise or permit the 
use of proprietary medicine. To day, there 
are not two physicians in any town in this 
country who do not regularly prescribe some 
form of proprietary remedy! 
H. H. Warner, famed all over the world as the 
discoverer of Warner’s Safe Cure, began hunt¬ 
ing up the old remedies of the Log Cabin days. 
After long and patient research, he succeeded 
in securing some of the most valuable, among 
family records, and called them Warner’s Log 
Cabin Remedies—the simple preparations of 
roots, leaves, balsams and herbs, which were 
the successful standbys of our grandmothers. 
These simple, old fashioned sarsaparilla, hops 
and buchu, cough and consumption and other 
remedies have struck a popular chord and are 
n extraordinary demand all over the land. 
They are not the untried and imaginary reme¬ 
dies of some dabster chemist intent on making 
money, but the long-sought principles of the 
healing art, which for generations kept our 
ancestors in perfect health, put forth for the 
good of humanity by one who is known all 
over the world as a philanthropist—a lover of 
his fellow man—whose name is a guarantee of 
the highest standard of excellence. 
The preparations are of decided and known 
influence over disease, and as in the hands of 
our grandmothers they raised up the sick, 
cured the lame, and bound up the wounds of 
death, so in their new form, but olden power, 
as Log Cabin remedies, they are sure to prove 
the “ healing of the nations.” 
Corday did the world an incalculable ser¬ 
vice in ridding France of the bigoted and 
murderous Marat, just as this man is doing 
humanity a service by re-introducing to the 
world the simpler and better methods of our 
ancestors. 
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