MAY 48 
THE RURAL fUEW-YORKCfc 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 11, 18S9, 
Old readers of the Rural New-Yorker will 
recall the name of James A. Whitney. Twen¬ 
ty-odd years ago, before he became immersed 
in the profession of the law he was a standard 
authority on scientific farming in the Ameri 
can Institute Farmers’ Club. He was bred a 
farmer and brought practical knowledge to 
the interpretation of science as applied to ag¬ 
riculture. In those days he was a frequent 
contributor to the Rural. It was in the Farm¬ 
ers’ Club, in 1870, on his return from a tour in 
California, that he first took strong ground 
against Chinese immigration, his views being 
subsequently formulated in his noted work on 
the Chinese and the Chinese Question, of 
which a second edition has just appeared. 
During the past few weeks his name has been 
prominently brought forward in connection 
with the United States Mission to China. We 
have known Mr. Whitney for a good many 
years and we believe that if he is appointed 
he will do honor to the position... 
Out at Duluth the employees of a broom 
factory struck for higher wages the 
other day, whereupon the proprietor ad 
vanced the wages of the married, hands, and 
told the single ones that unless they were mar¬ 
ried within a month they would be discharg¬ 
ed, whereas if they married their wages 
would be raised. Minnesota is bound to in¬ 
crease her population .A bill legal 
izing the sale of pools on racing and trotting 
tracks in that State has been defeated by the 
Pennsylvannia legislature .A colony of 
Belgians with a capital of $600,000 propose to 
settle in the province of Quebec.The 
Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill pro¬ 
viding that safe deposit, loan and trust com¬ 
panies doing business in that State, shall not 
invest in farm mortgages on land outside of 
New England and New York. The measure 
is directed principally against investments m 
Western farm mortgages which are consider¬ 
ed too risky for the security of investors and 
depositors in such companies. 
There appears to have been much exaggera¬ 
tion about the influx into Oklahoma, and the 
murders and lawlessness at the outset. Gen. 
Merritt, commanding the United States 
troops there, says the inrush was much smaller 
than reported, while it is bard to find a well 
authenticated shooting case. Many of the 
settlers are leaving in deep disgust at the 
character of the country in general, and their 
own ill-luck in getting fair locations. Town 
lots in Guthrie and other “ cities ” that sold 
readily for $100 each the first night, can now 
be readily got for $10. Provisions are abund¬ 
ant for those who have money; but pretty 
scarce, of course, for others. Gen. Merritt 
warns all immigrants not to attempt to settle 
in the Cherokee Strip and he has ordered a 
record to be made of all; squatters so that they 
will not be allowed to make entries there 
when the territory is thrown open to settle¬ 
ment. Nearly all the people in the settlement 
in towns and country alike, still dwell in 
tents or covered wagons. Gambling ap¬ 
pears to be the most profitable business 
in the towns; but the newly elected Mayor of 
Guthrie has notified gamblers to “go.” The 
country is “ settling down ” fast. Plowing is 
going on on all sides, and great hopes are en¬ 
tertained of a marvelous harvest. Govern¬ 
ment inspectors are investigating the titles 
of land-owners with a view to cancel¬ 
ing all fraudulent entries. 
High license is to reduce the number of Boa- 
ton “drinkeries” from over 2,000 to 780. The 
aggregate loss of those who have been refused 
licenses is estimated at $5,000,000 in fixtures 
and income. The 28th International 
Convention of the Young Men’s Christian As¬ 
sociation was held . in Philadelphia from 
May Sth to 12th inclusive.High li¬ 
cense came into force in Michigan May 
1. Annual fee henceforth for selling spirits 
§600; for selling beer §500; brewers, whole¬ 
saler's and distillers from §250 to §1,000. Drug¬ 
gists are stringently ruled in selling liquors.. 
Gabriel Dumont, Riel’s chief lieutenant in 
the late half-breed rebellion in the Canadian 
Northwest, has been causing considerable 
trouble there since his late return from Dako¬ 
ta. He insists that the Dominion Govern¬ 
ment should pay for the damages during the 
rebellion, and another uprising of half-breeds 
and French-Canadiansis not very improbable. 
.In Lower Canada the breach be- , 
tween the English and French-Canadians is 
widening. Lately the province of Quebec 
voted §400,000 to compensate the Jesuits, in 
part, for property belonging to the order 
confiscated by the English when they took 
the country from the French. This excited the 
bitterest sort of opposition from Protestants 
not only in Quebec but in nearly all the other 
provinces, especially Ontario. An effort was 
made to induce the Dominion Government to \ 
exercise its prerogative of vetoing or “disal¬ 
lowing ” the measure, but Sir John Macdonald 
refused to interfere. The animosity to which 
the thing gave rise or rather intensified still 
continues and is likely to become further im- 
bittered by numerous differences in creeds, 
sympathies, aspirations, characteristics, 
methods and interests. 
Tuesday last a tornado destroyed nearly all 
the town of Stafford, Kansas, killing three 
and injuring 20. The people saw it coming 
and most of them found safety in their 
cyclone cellars. Crops, farm houses and barns 
were swept away on a clearly defined north¬ 
erly swath through Stafford and Rice coun¬ 
ties...Same day a tornado did a great 
deal of damage about Fargo, Dakota, and a 
“terrible wind storm” did ditto about St. 
Cloud, Minnesota.The Johns Hop¬ 
kins Hospital, consisting of 17 buildings and 
1,200 feet of connecting corridors, and costing 
§2,050,000, was opened in Baltimore last Tues¬ 
day. It has 14>£ acres of grounds and is the 
largest, most richly endowed and completely 
equipped hospital in the world. Instead of 
anything having been taken from the original 
endowment made 15 years ago, for building , 
r 
the Institution, §113,000 have been added to 
it, all the money having come from judicious 
investments of the principal. Quaker Johns 
Hopkins also gave Baltimore the splendid 
university which bears his name. 
Frank W. Palmer, of Chicago, has been ap¬ 
pointed Public Printer at Washington. Theo¬ 
dore Roosevelt, of New York, and ex-Assist¬ 
ant Secretary of the Treasury, Hugh S. 
Thompson, of South Carolina, have been ap¬ 
pointed Civil Service Examiners. Both are 
strong supporters of the law.Eight 
ailantus trees planted by Andrew Jackson in 
the grounds of the White House, and which 
have for years been a nuisance to the inmates 
owing to the malodorous character of their 
flowers, were cut down and cleared out the 
other day by order of President Harrison_ 
.Arthur L. Thomas has been ap¬ 
pointed governor of Utah.. 
The old Libby Prison having been bought by 
a speculative syndicate, is being transported 
from Richmond to Chicago on freight trains, 
the idea being to rebuild it in the Windy City 
just as it stood as a tobacco ware-house on its 
old site, and to make a pile by charging a 
“popular price” for admission to it as a show 
place. Tuesday a train loaded with parts of 
it was wrecked seven miles east of Nashville. 
TenD.. and the fragments were scattered in 
all directions. As many bricks and other 
fragments were secured as mementoes, it 
can never be rebuilt entirely the same as of old. 
Many object to the proposed perpetuation of 
this war memento.Forest fires 
have done a world of damage to the woods 
and isolated farms, during the week, about 
Duluth, Minn; Wausau,Wis; and Ishpeming 
and East Tawas, Mich, and in a great many 
other places in the Northwest. Near 
Cynthiana, Ky., Tuesday, §50,000 worth of 
horses were consumed by the burning of Cap¬ 
tain Moore’s stables.A large num¬ 
ber of Union Generals have been locating the 
lines of the various commands in the battle 
of Chickamauga, Tenn., on Sept. 19 and 20, 
1863, with a view to securing the field for a 
national park, comprising about 12 square 
miles. Large crowds of settlers in 
tents and “prairie schooners” are collecting 
along the Upper Missouri in the neighborhood 
of the Sioux Reservation in the expectation 
that 11,000,000 acres of it will soon be thrown 
open to settlement. Commissioners have for 
several years been hard at work to secure an 
agreement to that end between the govern¬ 
ment and Indians, and have almost completed 
their labor. The Oklahoma rush is likely to 
be outdone. 
The new Inman Line steamship City of Paris 
has beaten all records in crossing the Atlantic 
from Queenstown to New York, having 
arrived at Sandy Hook at 8.15 a. m. Wednes¬ 
day, after a voyage occupying exactly five 
days, 23 hours and seven minutes. On the 
fourth day out she traveled 511 miles—the 
longest day’s run ever made. The Cunard 
Line steamship Etruria had made the fastest 
trip ever previously made across the At 
lantic—in six days, one hour and 55 minutes 
The City of Paris’s time is therefore two 
hours and 43 minutes faster.A switch en¬ 
gine on the Michigan Central Railroad last 
Wednesday evening demolished a street car 
crossing the track, and killed six women. 
The Illinois Steel Company, is the name of a 
new combine, embracing the three largest 
steel manufacturing interests in Illinois, with 
a capital stock of §25,000,000, §18,000,000 of 
which have been paid in, chiefly in the form 
of buildings, machinery, etc., etc. The 
“plant” includes various mills in South 
Chicago, Joliet aud Milwaukee, and mines 
m Dodge County, Wisconsin. 
A Proxy. 
In our more exacting moods, when anything 
is presented for personal investigation we seem 
to expect our neighbors to try it first; and are 
willing to trust to the effect the trial has upon 
them. Gaining experience by proxy, this is, 
safe and selfish, but it often answers. 
Since you demand a proxy, observe please, 
the subjoined testimony of a neighbor in re¬ 
gard to Drs. Starkey & Palen’s treatment by 
inhalation. 
Newport, R. I., Jan. 23,1888. 
“I hardly dare tell you how wonderfully I 
have been blessed this fall and winter thus far, 
and how much I have been enabled to perform 
through God’s blessing, attending the use of 
Compound Oxygen I surprise myself almost 
every day in the amount of labor to perform 
in comparison to last summer; it seems almost 
a miracle to me. I have exceeded all my hopes 
of one year ago. 1 remain your grateful pa¬ 
tient,” Mrs. Lydia B. Chace. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages, regard¬ 
ing the effect of Compound Oxygen on inva¬ 
lids suffering from consumption, asthma, bron¬ 
chitis, dyspepsia, catarrh, hay fever, headache, 
debility, rheumatism, neuralgia; all chronic 
and nervous disorders. It will be sent, free of 
charge, to any one addressing Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., or 
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Ca \.—Adv. 
other side, and palliated the rest. The im¬ 
pression made by him on the public is quite 
good. The bye-elections have all along been, 
almost without exception, in favor of the 
Gladstonians.This is an era of strikes 
in England as well as in most of the conti¬ 
nental countries, especially in Germany, where 
as in France, a number of fatal collisions have 
occurred between the military and turbulent 
strikers at various labor centers. There, as 
here, and with much more reason, working¬ 
men are disposed to insist on obtaining a 
greater share of the profits of their own labor. 
.All the English dock-yards are working 
as hard as possible in making additions to 
Great Britain’s already enormous naval 
forces. The country’s ambition is to have a 
fleet as strong as the combined fleets of the 
rest of Europe; but as France, Germany, 
Russia and Italy, to say nothing of weaker 
powers, are also hard at work adding to their 
fleets, it is more than doubtful whether this 
can be done. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 11, 1889. 
In England the Parnell trial still excites 
most public interest. After the suicide of 
Pigott who confessed that he had forged the 
incriminating “ Parnell letters” on which the 
trial was based, and that he had sold them as 
genuine to the outrageously credulous Times, 
it was thought that the affair must soon col¬ 
lapse; but the government and the paper had 
too much at stake to allow the matter to drop 
until all means should ue tried to break the 
force of the exposure of theirvindicti veness aud 
credulity. Parnell has been on the witness 
stand during a part of this week and last, and 
with imperturbable’cooluess denied nearly all 
the charges made by the witnesses on the 
Saturday, May 11, 1889. 
The auction sale of trotters at the Ameri¬ 
can Institute building in this city, last week, 
was not a great success. The attendance was 
very small, and the prices obtained, low. The 
highest price paid was §200 for the bay geld¬ 
ing, Lawrence, and the lowest §165 for Lizzie 
King.At the meeting in Chicago 
of the National Trotting Board of Review, 
the order was entered that judges have no 
power to modify or change rulings 
made during the progress of a race, 
later than the day upon which the result of 
the race was announced.On the 
farm of George J. Smith, in Princess Anne 
county, Virginia, during the gale ot April 7, 
four acres of land began to sink, and are now 
covered with a lake of water five feet deep... 
D. La Scala, a fruit commission merchant of 
this city, has brought suit agaist L. M. 
Lyon of the Buyers’ Union for §50,000 dam¬ 
ages, and against eight other members for 
$5,000 each for alleged libelous statements 
regarding bis manner of doing business__ 
Hard frosts were reported from eastern Penn¬ 
sylvania the first days of May, and much 
damage is feared to fruit, as the trees were all 
in bloom.Memphis, Tennessee is the 
largest interior cotton receiving city in the 
world, and is only exceeded in the amount of 
cotton handled by New Orleans. Up to ijay 
4, there had been received at Memphis, since 
September 1, 700,201 bales, being 36,923 bales 
more than in any preceding year... A 
Swiss workman has invented a method of 
making artificial boards that promises to be¬ 
come a success. The boards are made ot a 
mixture of plaster-of-Paris and reeds pressed 
into shape by hydraulic process.A 
Buda Pesth inventor hasldevised a machine for 
felling trees. Electricity is used as a power. 
The machine does not work a saw, but a drill 
of peculiar construction which perforates the 
base of the tree with a series of holes. The 
axe is used only to finish the work. 
The Missouri Cattle Inspection bill applies 
only to places of 5,000 inhabitants and over. 
Those living in smaller towns may eat 
Chicago dressed meat even if it kills ’em. 
. A bill now before the Missouri legislature 
makes it illegal to sell grain or other produce 
for future delivery unless the sellers actually 
possess the goods at the time of sale. This 
would put a stop to all sales of “ options ” or 
dealings in “ futures ” and the St. Louis grain 
dealers and speculators say that if it passes, 
they will build an Exchange across the river 
in East St. Louis, in Illinois, and altogether 
abandon business in the Mound City. There’s 
also a prospect of a Grain Elevator Trust in 
St. Louis, but it is thought likely that the leg¬ 
islature may interfere with the project. 
The Governor of California has vetoed the 
appropriation of §10,000 made by the leg¬ 
islature for silk culture, on the ground 
that California cannot compete in that in¬ 
dustry with China or Japan. 
Two dairy shows will be held in connection 
with the forthcoming exhibition in Paris 
One is fixed to take place from the 14, to the 
19 of May, and the other from the 13 to the 
18 of September. Exhibitors will be obliged 
to take part in both.It is proposed 
by the Government of Victoria, Australia, to 
establish several model dairy farms, and to fit 
them up with the most approved appliances. 
Pupils will be received at the farms and in¬ 
structed in scientific dairying . 
Dr Salmon has issued from the Department 
of Agriculture a pamphlet giving a review of 
his five years’ work in investigating the dis¬ 
ease known as hog cholera. It is a big pam¬ 
phlet containing little that is new aud almost 
nothing that is in any way conclusive. 
The New York Experiment Station concludes 
that there is a loss of butter when milk is al¬ 
lowed to cool much below the normal heat of 
the cow before going into the creamer. It 
also concludes that quality of butter is not in¬ 
jured by heating milk as high as 135 degrees. 
.The Ohio Station has just issued a 
timely bulletin on injurious insects and how 
to kill them.Prof. Sanborn, of the Mis¬ 
souri Agricultural College, who has been hav- 
ing trouble with the Board of Curators of the 
University, presented his side of the contro¬ 
versy iD the hall of the House of Representa¬ 
tives, a synopsis of which has been issued in 
pamphlet form.A report comes to us 
all the way from Scotland, that four ewes be¬ 
longing to a Mr. Scott of Kincardineshire, 
had just dropped 13 fine healthy lambs. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club has just is 
sued Vol. XXVIII. of its Herd Register. The 
number of bulls is carried from 20,001, to 
21,000, and that of cows from 49,001 to 51,000, 
. A meeting of the Iowa Jersey Cat¬ 
tle Club is called at Davenport, Io «va, Wed¬ 
nesday, May 22. Peter Henderson 
has been mentioned by several New Jersey 
papers for Governor of that State. 
Chicago florists report a falling off in the 
Easter demand for Dallas.Tulips, also, 
are not in as brisk demand as formerly, in all 
the large cities. The flower for some reason 
seems to be losing its popularity. 
Chicago receipts of live stock for April this 
year are 224.00o cattle, 361,000 hogs, 130,000 
sheep, and 7,800 horses, against 182,015 cattle, 
380,792 hogs, 110,455 sheep, and 5,159 horses 
for April, ’88. The prices for the two years 
are about as follows: 
1888. 1889. 
Texas Cattle.#4.00 to 4.37HS §3 95 
Sheep, best. 5.75 5.15 
Hogs, heavy. 5.35 to 5.55 4.05 to 4.85 
Hogs, light. 5.30 to 5.45 4.60 to 4.75 
The Department of Agriculture reports the 
average condition of horses throughout the 
country as 98.4. a very high average. 
Ex-President Cleveland’s seal-brown horses, 
together with his carriages, harnesses, and 
stable paraphernalia, were sold at auction in 
Washington, May 6. The seal-browns which 
were said to have cost Mr. Cleveland between 
§600 and §700,sold for §141 each, and the other 
property sold at equally low prices. 
The Florida Fruit Exchange met at Jackson¬ 
ville, May 8, for the election of officers, and 
other business.As Secretary Rusk 
was passing some laborers who were engaged 
mowing the first crop of grass in the grounds 
of the Department of Agriculture, he seized a 
scythe and gave them some “points,” rapidly 
cutting a wide swath amid the plaudits of 
the crowd which had gathered.It 
is said that 1,034,000,000 eggs were imported 
into England last year... .During 1887 
—88 England imported 1,300,000 tons of su¬ 
gar. Of this amount, 372,000 tons were crude 
beet sugar, 315,000 refined beet sugar, 
and 5S1,000 cane sugar.!... 
The Russian beet crop of last year produced 
500,000 tons of crude beet sugar.The 
suggestion has been made to make sugar bar¬ 
rels of the refuse bagasse of the Louisiana 
sugar factories.An English breeder 
of Herdwick sheep claims that five out of 
every six they have killed have an extra rib. 
.It is reported that one of the largest 
flouring mills in Canada has suspended oper¬ 
ations owing to the high price of wheat. 
For the week ending April 13; the number of 
foreign beef cattle sold in London was 2,005, 
of which 1,427 or more than two-thirds were 
from the United States. The receipts at other 
ports were also large.The prices of 
flour for supplying the various Indian agen¬ 
cies «re somewhat higher than last year,rang¬ 
ing from §1.73 to §4 23 per 100 pounds . 
The State Straw Wrapping Paper Manufac¬ 
turers’ Association recently in session at Al¬ 
bany, took measures to lessen the manufac¬ 
ture of straw wrapping paper. Co¬ 
pious rains during the past few days have 
greatly benefited wheat and other crops all 
through the West, where they were beginning 
to be seriouslv affected by drought. 
William M. King, of Ohio, chief of the seed 
division, Agricultural Department, has re¬ 
signed, and A. T. Reeve, of Hampton, Iowa, 
has been appointed to fill the vacancy. The 
salary is §2,000.W. W. Cooke, of 
Medicine Lodge, Kansas, has been appointed 
special agent of the Agricultural Department 
in charge of sorghum sugar experiments. 
William Sims, of Topeka, has beeu appointed 
State agent for Kansas of the Agricultural 
Department.The Michigan Experiment 
Station has issued a bulletin discussing pota¬ 
toes, kale, squashes and tomatoes. The Ala¬ 
bama Station reports experiments with cot¬ 
ton, pigs and cattle.Several of the 
stations are making comparative tests of the 
various appliances used in raising cream. 
Tests of the various churns will follow. The 
New Hampshire station started this move¬ 
ment.15,000,000 bushels of wheat 
were on hand in Southern Russia, April 1, 
against 5,000,000 bushels last year. 
A Georgia man has planted 45 acres of toma¬ 
toes this spring. The consumption 
of peanuts is placed at 3,000,000 bushels per 
year.A cargo of 27,000 bushels of 
South American flax seed has been received 
for a Chicago crusher .England is 
now getting most of its ice from Norway to 
the injury of the American trade. 
Three and one-half times as much corn 
were shipped from New Orleans during the 
month ot April as during the same month 
last year. 
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can use the Ko¬ 
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consists simply 
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but to n. One 
hundred instan- 
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without reload¬ 
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PltlCE S'io.oo. room or chemi¬ 
cals are necessary. A division of labor is 
offered, whereby all the work of finishing 
the pictures is done at the factory, wnere 
tbe camera can be sent to be reloaded. 
The operator need not learn anything about 
photography. He can 11 press the button 
we do the rest. 
Send for copy of Kodak Primer, with sam¬ 
ple photograph. Mention Rural New-Yorker 
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ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
Eok a Disordered Liver try Bkkchah’s Pills. 
Dr. Wm. H. Thompson of the University 
of the City of New York says: “The symp¬ 
toms of diseased kidneys will first appear in the 
extremely different organs of the body. 'Treat 
the kidneys and not the effects of kidney dis¬ 
ease, by using Warner’s]Safe Cure. .~ 
