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THE RURAL MEW-VORKER. 
364 
PERSONALS. 
Charles Pierson, a professional gambler, 
lost ,000 in money and a cattle ranch in 
one night’s play at faro in Denver, a week 
ago. 
Edison, the inventor, says he would give 
all his fame to recover his hearing, and he isn’t 
really what one would call deaf—only “hard 
of hearing.” 
Minister Pendleton has recovered from 
his paralytic attack, but is still very weak, 
and it will be mouths before he will be again 
in working order. 
Mr. Claus Spreckels was given an im¬ 
pressive farewell reception by bis 800 San 
Francisco employes and iheir families on the 
occasion of his leaving that city to make his 
home in Philadelphia. 
Professor Virchow, the highest German 
authority, after careful examination of Em¬ 
peror Frederick’s throat, reports that he finds 
no proof that cancer exists and many reasons 
to doubt its existence. 
Gen. E. C. "Walthall, the junior Senator 
from Mississippi, is said to look like a cavalier 
who has just stepped out from one of Sir 
Peter Lely’s canvases. He is six feet tall, 
erect, symmetrical, with a flue head of dark 
hair that falls in curls about his neck. 
The suit of Thomas Edison against the 
United States electric light company for in¬ 
fringement of patents, begun three years ago, 
and on which 20 similar suits depend, was 
decided Wednesday by Judge Wallace in the 
United States Circuit Court in favor of the 
defendant. 
Major E. A. Burke, of New Orleans, one 
of the best-known newspaper men in the South, 
expects, it is said, to realize something like 
810,00 ’,000 from his land speculations in Bess¬ 
emer, Ala. Major Burke is about fifty years 
old, and was employed on a Texas railroad at 
a small salary when the war broke out. 
Mrs. Greely, the wife of the Arctic hero, 
is a tall, willowy, graceful brunette, who is a 
prominent figure in the social circles of the 
capital. She was Miss Henrietta Nesmith, 
the daughter of an old New York merchant, 
and married Gen. Greely when he was a lieu¬ 
tenant of cavalry stationed on the frontier. 
done. I always believed that it pays better to 
put in a small space well than it does to put 
the jirepnration onto a space twice as large. I 
am glad to see that Uncle Jacob is a strong 
supporter of this doctrine, too. He was in 
quite a reflective turn of mind at the club the 
other night. On his way from home he had 
seen a good deal of poor plowing and hasty 
planting. When he got his mail he found in 
the “agricultural column” of his county 
paper the following, which seemed to please 
him much. It was first published in the 
Rural’s New Year’s number, but it has been 
going the rounds of late credited to “Ex.” 
Uncle Jacob put on his glasses and read as 
follows: “Dot farmer dot vas attempted to 
run mit a farm too large for his gapital vas 
mit boverty und misery. His oxpense vas 
greader dan his receipts, und now he vas bar- 
rassed mit efTery turn mit greditors dot vas 
glamor mit dere dues. It vas impossible to 
maintain his financial integrity, und he vas 
debressed, disheartened und embittered. Dot 
ofer-worked und care-worn wive und dot 
poorly-clad family, dey vas to be pitied. 
To dem dot New Year vas seem gloomy 
enough. Dot tiller off der soil dot would 
thrive must not vonture peyoud der depth! 
Now den, dot vas shust about dor truest ting 
dot effer can be sayd, Dere vas blonty off 
men dot fails pecause dey cuts out too big 
jobs. Dere vas no man liflng dot cannot start 
twice as much work mit April dan he can 
handle mit July. Dot man dot blaus oud too 
much vork vill pe sure to neglect part off it. 
Dere vas no oder bossible ting. Dere measure 
off der luud dot can pe brofitably gultivated 
should pe der amount of manure und time dot 
der farmer hat' got; off he dries to pull dot 
measure oud und make it cofer more spaze, 
ho vas somediuks off a swindler, und vas sure 
to fail. Von off der lessons dot must pe re- 
peaded of or und ofer vas dis: der small spaze 
veil gultivated vas safe money avay from der 
large spaze dot vosneglected.” small pica. 
!UweUHn*ou.$ ^dvmteing. 
C A It HACK 1’ I, A NTS. 
After .Time 1st, can furnish Plants of following vari¬ 
eties: Louisville Drumhead, l'atler’s Flat Dutch, from 
choice stock seed. $1.00 per 1,000—In lots of 5,(XX) or 
more. GA U R A HAN, KINGSTON, PA. 
Kit Carson s old partner, Dick Woottou, 
who, among other notable deeds, once drove 
14,0U0 sheep 1,600 miles ovorlaud to California, 
and made 840,000 by the operation, and who 
is now 72 years old, has just had his sight re¬ 
stored by an operation by a Chicago surgeon, 
after eight years of blindness. 
Sir Morell Mackenzie’s fee for his attend¬ 
ance on the German Emperor has been fixed 
at 60,000 marks (815,000) per quarter, or any 
part of a quarter. This is equivalent to the 
sum of 860,000 per annum. It must be added, 
however, that Sir Morell Mackenzie’s income 
of recent years in London has been slightly 
over 875,000. 
Andrew Carnegie said at Pittsburgh,Wed¬ 
nesday, that he would sail for Europe next 
Tuesday and would meet Mr. Blaine and fam¬ 
ily in London June 6. The party will then 
start on a coaching tour through England and 
Scotland, embracing 700 miles, over au en¬ 
tirely new route. Mr. Carnegie reports Mr. 
Blaine in excellent health. 
A schoolmate of Chief Justice Fuller says 
that at twenty years of age when he gradu¬ 
ated from Bowdoiu College, he gave promise 
of great futuro accomplishment. He was the 
leader in his class during his college course, of 
sunny disposition, and had a genius for mak¬ 
ing friends, among whom it was often-said, 
“Mel Fuller willmake his mark in the world.” 
He weighs only 125 pounds. 
Senator Spooner has reported favorably in 
Congress a bill allowing George B. Loring, 
late Commissioner of Agriculture, the money 
he spent in buying sorghum and beet seeds. 
The money was taken from the laboratory 
fund of the Agricultural Department, and the 
First Controller of the Treasury decided the 
expense was not properly chargeable to that 
fund. The amount aggregates 820,087. 
Mr. Assheton Smith has planted the side 
of a mountain on his estate at Llanddoiuolen, 
with forest trees so arranged as todisplay the 
words “Jubilee, lb87,” in letters 200yards long 
by 25 feet wide, to all the surrounding country. 
The letters are worked in trees of light-color¬ 
ed foliage planted amid others forming adark 
background, and 650,000 have been used in 
the undertaking. 
-M-#-- 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
It appears that many farmers in our neigh¬ 
borhood are getting what I may call crop- 
crazy. They think they must farm just so 
much laud every year. This season is very 
late and so many farmers have been obliged 
to work hard to get their crops in. Still, they 
are trying to get the same area in and couse* 
queutly much of the work has been carelessly 
VEGETABLE PLANTS. 
Cabbage. Lettuce, Tomuto, Celery, Kgg Plants, Sweet 
Potato Plants, and Pot-grown Strawberry Plants. 
50i’,C0J Cabbage Plants for June and July planting, at 
81 per 1.000. Price list free IMciU ATI! BROS., 
NURSERYMEN, ONLEY, VA. 
A BAY saved by using the Little Giant 
Road Machine, Instead of making roads 
In the usuul way. It Is the cheapest and the 
best. Send for circular. 
CL E. PARKER, Vergennee, Vt. 
Pure Blood BRONZE TUKKRY EGGS for 
Hatching, for a few days, gl for 0 or $'-> for 18. 
GEORGE N. TAYLOR. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
PEARSON’S 
AT BOTTOM PRICES. 
SOLD FOR CASH DIRECTLY TO CONSUMERS. 
Save agents’ profits, and secure Reliable and I-astlng 
FERTILIZERS. 
Highest recommendations where tried side by side 
with other standard brands. 
Send for Catalogue. 
JOHN M. PEARSON, Hudson, N. Y. 
S TEAM! $ TEAM! 
Wb build Automatic Engines from 2 to 800 H. P„ 
equal to anything In market. 
1 Lari's Lot of 2,3 and 4-H. Engines 
with or without boilers, low for cash. 
B. W. PAYNE A SONS, 
Box 17. Elmira, N. Y. 
E VAPORATO R 
For 11 A P L E, 
SORGHUM, 
O I l> E R, and 
Fruit Jellies. 
HaS a corrugated 
p»u over firebox, 
doubling boiling 
capacity; small 
l interchangeable syrup 
Vpans (connected" by 
, siphons), easily han¬ 
dled for cleansing and storing; 
, and a perfect automatic 
f regulator. TheChani iiiou 
Is as great an Improvement 
——over the Cook pan as the 
latter was over the old Iron kettle hung on a fence 
rail. 'Catalogues Free. Mention this paper. 
* H. GRIMM & CO., HUDSON, OHIO. 
KeYstohe 
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Labor, 
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\ ADDRESS, " AVcNIIONTHIS 
KEYSTONE ff|FG,(o Sterling Ill's. 
AGNJION THIS PAPER, 
SUMMER TOURS. 
Round trip excursion tickets at low ratos 
are now on sale via the Burlington Route, C., 
B. & Q. R. R., from Chicago, Peoria and St. 
Louis to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, 
Salt Lake City, Ogden, St. Paul, Minneapolis, 
and resorts West and Northwest. The “Bur¬ 
lington” is the only line running sleeping cars 
from Chicago to Denver without change. It 
is the only line by which >ou can go from 
Chicago to Denver and be but one night on the 
road. It is the picturesque line to St. Paul and 
Minneapolis. It runs daily “fast trains” to Kan¬ 
sas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Council Bluffs, 
Omaha, Lincoln, Cheyenne and Denver. Fine 
Government Lands are located on its new lines 
In Nebraska. It is tko best line by which to 
reach all principal land points in the West and 
Northwest. Tickets via the Burlington Route 
cau be obtained of coupon ticket agents of 
connecting lines. Send in postage to Paul 
Morton, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agent C., B. 
& Q. It. R., Chicago, 111., four cents for a 
copy of the Burlington Route Guide, or six 
cents for an illustrated book about Colorado 
and the Garden of the Gods. 
IDEAL 
IMPROVED 
Mndo of bo*t material by 
skilled workmen, built on 
correct principles ami fully 
warranted. Sent on trial. 
STOVER MF’G CO. 
FREEPORT, ILL. 
w 
INGER’S 
WINDMILIv. 
New Holland 
Power Wind Mill. 
WINGERS 
FEED GRINDER. 
All indispensable to Farmers, Dairy¬ 
men and Stock Raisers. PUMPS, 
Tanks, Cylinders, Pipe, etc. Write for 
Catalogue, and mention this paper. 
E. B. WINGER. Freeport, III. 
BRICK 
TILE 
MACHINERY 
AND 
CLAY CRUSHERS. 
UUIS 
Revolving, Jetting, Hydraulic. Dia- 
ig Well Tools, Wind 
Engines and Deep Well Pumps. 
on Natural Gas, or our Encyclo¬ 
pedia, mailed for 
- ,>c - The American 
Well Works, 
Aurora, [II 
THE DANA 
CENTRIFUGAL - GOVERNOR 
WINDMILL 
Is the best working and most powerful Wind 
Engine in the world, because it Is the only one 
which unites the most perfect form of wind- 
wheel with the most perfect method of regu 
<atlon. Geared Mill* a specialty. 
For Descriptive Circulars apply to 
THK DANA WINDMILL CO., 
rAIKHAVIIt, MASS., U. 8 . A. 
MAST, FOOS & GO. 
SPRINGFIELD, 0, 
Manufacturer* 
ENGINES 
Strong and Durable, will not 
Swell, Nlirink, Warp, or Hattie 
in the Wind. 
DUCKEYE 
D FORCE PUMP 
\V orks easy and throws a constant 
stream. Has Porcelain lined and Brass 
Cylinders. Is easily set. Is the Cheap¬ 
est and Best Force Pump In the World 
for Deep or Shallow Wells. Over 90,000 
In use. Never freezes in Winter. Send 
for Circulars and Prices, giving de_pth ~ 
of well. Also manufacturers of the ltnckeye 
Mower, Buckeye Iron Fence, Buckeye 
Reel, Lawn Sprinkler, etc., etc. 
Lawn 
IIom« 
gftADLEY HandyJ^oh 
H <ND - Y S, 
The Best on Wheels. Light, strong, conven¬ 
ient and low priced. Handy to get into and out 
of. Handy for single horse or pair, llnudy for 
ono person or more. Handy to loud or unload. 
Nend for Free Circular, “ How to purchase direct 
from the manufacturer." ^ 
- SYRACUSE, N. Y* 
Ok Murray 8t..New York, 
■ 22 S. Market St., Boston. 
VTf.K’R INSECT EXTERMINATOR 
I A vlV. kJ Sure Daath to all Insaots. 
Water Bugs, Roaches, Flies, 
Mosquitoes, Cabbage Worms, aw^-< 
Potato or Squash Bugs, Aphis, £>*.»*• •ei*."’ 
etc. Harmless to plants vege- 
tables or health. Invaluable „ , 
In every household. Zinc Bellows for house use. con¬ 
servatories. etc., by mail, 35 cts. Larger size, 60 ets. Exter¬ 
minator, by mail, per pound, without bellows, 50 cts. Large 
bellows for garden use, $1.55. 
JAMES VICK SEEDSMAN, 
ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
PROFITS FOR FARMERS. 
A rain storm la coming, how can I 
sav. my hay t Ask your dealer for 
Monarch Hay Carrier circu¬ 
lars ov write us Best made. We manu¬ 
facture the latest Improved Hay Tools. 
Catalogu- free, Oborr Bros- lio» \ Marion. O. 
A grata 
Wanted 
200,000THOMAS "““JIN USE 
"iThe THOMAS RAKES 
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Steel or Wood Wheels. One or two horse. Hand or Self Dump 
With or without spring over teeth. Extra wide Rakes. Gather 
least dust, dirt and trash. Easiest to operate. Easiest on horse. 
Made entirely of the best material and made to last. Simplest and 
strongest Bakes made. __ _ >!u 
TheTHOMAS 
_DDBR 
Only successful Tedder in heavy Hay. Only perfect Tedder. 
Made with Shafts or Tongue. Most popular Tedder made. 
Best Fork on any Tedder. One and two horse Tedders. 
Also Lawn Mowers & Lift & Force Pumps. 
Circulars and full particulars sent promptly. Address 
THE THOMAS MANUFACTURING CO. Springfield, 0. 
Branch (4US. Canal St., Chicago. 111.; 1515 S. Broadway, St. Louis, Bo.; 1 CIO Hickory 
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It positively prevents Butter 
from ever becoming Rancid, 
and causes It to retain its freshness, aroma, and fine 
flavor for months—even when exposed to atmospher¬ 
ic Influences for a long time. 
Endorsed by the leading agricultural papers. Also 
by Creameries, Dairymen, and others throughout the 
country. Retail Price at New York, 224 lb. back, 84. 
Hold your June Butter for a J auuary Price. 
Send for Circular. 
Butter Preservative Salt Co., 
vir-iacE and Factory: 
Foot ol West 11th Street, New York City. 
WONDERFULLY POPULAR. The Crowning Life Work of the late 
BEN PERLEY POORE ) Memorial Edition. A AGENTS 
LOW PRICE. JUST OUT. \ Wanted. 
• .. ’’-Christian Advocate, "Hrim/ull o/fiuroor”-Herald.~ “Full of raeiTuos. 
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