1900 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
Publisher’s Desk. 
The rose Ruby Queen is now being 
mailed to the subscribers who applied 
for it. From the many acknowledg¬ 
ments we have already received we feel 
that it is appreciated, and that it justi¬ 
fies all we have said about it. Here are 
a few samples of many letters already 
received: 
Lancaster, Pa.,- April 10, 1900. 
The rose stalk has been received. Many 
thanks for it. It seems to be a strong, 
vigorous plant. daniel d. herr. 
Rhinebeck, N. Y., April 10, 1900. 
Received the rose bush in excellent 
shape, for which please accept thanks. 
HERBERT GREENE. 
Bowansdale, Pa., April 11, 1900. 
The Ruby Queen rose came in fine con¬ 
dition. Thanks. e. h. cocklin. 
This is encouraging. We would like 
every reader of the paper to have one of 
these roses in his front yard next Sum¬ 
mer. Instructions for its care were given 
on page 248. We wish every subscriber 
who gets one would mention it or show 
it to a neighbor. If you do so, and send 
his dollar for a year’s subscription, we 
will send him the rose, and you a choice 
of one of these books: 
The Business Hen.40 
The Nursery Book.50 
How to Rid Buildings of Rats.2C 
First Lessons in Agriculture.$1.00 
The Cauliflower . 1.00 
Popular Errors About Plants.1.00 
Landscape Gardening .50 
The Dairy Calf.U5 
Before the time for mailing the rose 
is past, we wish to make it plain that 
the rose is sent only to 1900 subscribers 
who apply for it when sending subscrip¬ 
tion, or immediately afterwards. It can¬ 
not be sent until the remittance for this 
year’s subscription is received. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
A SHIPMENT OF WOOL from Australia, 
consisting of 6,700 bales, has just arrived at 
Boston on the bark Pitcairn Island. The 
value of the cargo, including the duty of 
$250,000 is not far from $950,000. 
SUBSTANTIAL BOOTS.—In stores near 
the flsh market may be seen high boots 
with thick grain-leather uppers, and five 
thicknesses of heavy soles on the bottoms, 
three running clear across the shank and 
heel. These boots are worn by men who go 
out In the fishing boats, and those handling 
fish around Fulton Market. They are near¬ 
ly waterproof, and a great improvement 
over rubber boots for constant wear. Soles 
of the thickness mentioned above are not 
enough to satisfy some. One fellow whom 
I saw had made numerous additions to his, 
and was walking around on taps an inch 
and a half thick. 
STEEL FOR THE FAR EAST.—The ship 
Wilhelmina, which sailed from Philadel¬ 
phia for Japan and Siberia recently, car¬ 
ried a house built entirely of steel. It is 
in sections and will be two stories high. 
The consignee is a Japanese prince who 
believes that a steel house will stand the 
earthquakes so common in that country, 
better than the ordinary native-built 
dwellings. The house was built at Pitts¬ 
burg and cost $21,500. This ship also car¬ 
ries some bridge material, 8,200 steel rails 
for the Tokio City Railroad Company, and 
31 locomotives and tenders, valued at $430,- 
200, for Siberia. 
WASHBOARDS, CLOTHESPINS AND 
BROOMS.—Dealers in this city state that, 
since the advance in prices, the greatest 
call is for low-grade goods, and that trade 
has fallen off 25 per cent. This does not 
mean that people who use these articles 
are relapsing into barbarism, so far as 
cleanliness is concerned, but that retailers, 
instead of stocking up heavily as usual, are 
buying only what they need for immediate 
use. Washboards are 12 cents higher, 
clothespins from 10 to 15 cents per gross 
more, and the last broom bought for use in 
this office cost 10 cents more than the same 
quality previously did. 
CLOVE STEMS.—I saw' 200 sacks of 
these, holding about a barrel each, in front 
of a storage warehouse. The sacks were 
made of grass or rushes an eighth of an 
inch wide, woven into a coarse cloth. This 
shipment came from Ceylon. These twigs, 
from the ends of which cloves had been 
picked, were from one to two inches long, 
brown in color, and some tasted nearly as 
spicy as the clove itself. They are ground 
and form a large proportion of the ground 
cloves we buy. The stems are quoted at 
314 to 3% cents per pound wholesale, while 
whole cloves run from 9% to as high as 20 
cents for best quality. 
POTATOES.—Trade in domestic stock is 
rather dull at present, on account of, the 
large supply in this market. Prices range 
from $1.50 to $2.25 per barrel, wholesale. 
New and second-crop potatoes are not plen¬ 
tiful, but the prices are so high that there 
is no great demand. Something over 2,000 
barrels were received from Bermuda during 
the last two weeks, and the top grades were 
held at $7, but the cargo now on the way 
cost the buyers more, and extras will run 
to $7.50. Such extreme prices make them so 
high at retail, that they can be handled 
only by the fancy trade. There is a call for 
good Plavana and Florida potatoes, but 
most of those received recently have been 
of inferior quality, but few selling for more 
than $3.50. 
CELERY.—There has been an abundance 
of this from California and Florida, and 
trade is dull at present. The greatest de¬ 
mand is during the Winter holidays, but 
there is quite a sale so long as any great 
amount of poultry is used, as these two 
things seem to go together. An idea of the 
size of this business may be gained from 
the fact that some dealers in this city 
handle nothing but celery, and there are 
several others who deal in this and water¬ 
cress exclusively. People who like strong- 
flavored celery prefer the California stock. 
The Florida product is milder and, as a 
rule, the stems are not quite so large. A 
case which I saw a grocer opening recently, 
contained some extra fine specimens. The 
stems were thoroughly washed, crisp and 
tender, and of a bright straw color. 
EGGS.—Arrivals for the Easter trade 
have been somewhat heavier than last year. 
Receipts for the week ending April 7 were 
100,287 cases, or 38,263,320 eggs. It now looks 
as though there might be 147,000 cases this 
week. That would mean 52,920,000 eggs, or 
an average of 13 eggs for every man, wo¬ 
man and child in New York. It is evident 
that quite a number of hens are improving 
their time. If each of the 4,000,000 people in 
New York kept only one hen each, she 
would have to work every day for two 
weeks to fill the demand for this week 
alone. The consumptive demand is so good 
that the recent heavy receipts have not 
seriously weakened the market, and it now 
looks as though those who expected to get 
any great quantity cheap for cold storage 
at this time would be disappointed. Goose 
and duck eggs are a trifle cheaper. 
THE CIGARETTE FACE may be known 
at a glance—a listless, vacant look, 
prophetic of a brief and vacant life; and 
the yellow finger tips, showing a poisoned 
system, tell the same story. It is no exag¬ 
geration to say that a boy with this habit 
stands no chance in life compared with one 
free from it, with body full of spring, and 
some snap in his eyes. This habit has an 
awful hold on its victims. Young men get¬ 
ting off the Bridge or Elevated cars, where 
smoking is not allowed, have cigarettes in 
their mouths, and matches ready to light 
the moment they are on the street. Of¬ 
fice boys and clerks stick their heads out 
of windows or stand in hallways to smoke 
for only half a minute. I walked a short 
distance on the street behind two boys less 
than 13 years old. They were talking 
earnestly, not about some wholesome sport 
like baseball, football or skating, but in 
regard to the merits of their favorite 
brands of cigarettes. The drink habit is 
bad enough, but it is doubtful whether it 
will drag down a young man physically 
and mentally, so quickly and hopelessly, 
as cigarettes. A boy 14 years old told me; 
“I have tried to stop, but can’t.” What 
a pity to have a hand like this gripped on 
ones throat in life’s morning! 
A SURPRISED HORSE.—They have an 
effective plan for stopping runaway horses 
on the Brooklyn Bridge. When near one 
of the exits a short time since, I heard an 
alarm bell, and saw people running toward 
the roadway. A horse hitched to a bag¬ 
gage express wagon was rushing along the 
down grade. At the exit of the roadway there 
is a high, strong wooden gate, which usu¬ 
ally stands open. It is for emergencies 
of this sort. When the horse was within 
800 feet, a policeman swung the gate shut. 
The animal did not seem to notice the ob¬ 
struction until about 15 feet from it. Then 
he realized that all things, even roads, 
sometimes, comes to an end, and tried to 
stop. His speed and the momentum of 
the wagon, however, were too great, and 
he ran into the gate with a whack that 
made things rattle. He slid around side¬ 
ways and did not appear to be much hurt. 
The wagon was somewhat wrecked, and 
gripsacks and other baggage were sown 
around broadcast. The driver, who was 
a boy and badly scared, jumped out of the 
wagon just before the crash. This may 
seem like a severe method of stopping 
horses, but there are so many people 
crossing the roadways in front of the 
Bridge entrance, that, unless a runaway 
was stopped before reaching that point, 15 
or 20 people might be seriously injured. 
TWO WAYS OF DOING THINGS.—The 
Third Avenue Elevated Railroad in this city 
branches at Chatham Square. One line 
goes to the City Hall and Brooklyn Bridge, 
and the other to the Battery. A train had 
just arrived at the Bridge, and, of course, 
all passengers were expected to get out. A 
big, broad-shouldered man, a little drunk, 
wanted to go farther. He evidently thought 
he was on the train going to the Battery. 
The guards on the train were called to get 
him off. They took hold of him, but he re¬ 
sisted so forcibly' that they let him alone 
and one went after a policeman. The train 
was now filling with up-town passengers, 
and a crowd gathered around to see the 
man “fired,” but they were disappointed, 
for one of the passengers, a mild-acting 
man, stepped up and said: “Why, you’re 
at the Bridge, neighbor; you can’t go any 
farther on this train.” “Is that so?” said 
the other, and he got up and went out be¬ 
fore the policeman arrived. The train men 
had tried to bully him instead of explain¬ 
ing the matter, and he was just drunk 
enough to think he was being cheated. 
w. w. H. 
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