1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
With the Procession. 
.... Better kind stranger than estranged 
kindred.—Quentin Durward. 
“Da unto the other feller the way he’d 
like to do unto you—an’ do it fust.”— 
David Hamm. 
“I am not so impressed with what 
money procures for people as what it 
saves them from.”—David Ilarum. 
... .A scientist of some standing asserts 
that chemically pure water is poison to 
the human stomach. He upsets some 
hitherto accepted theories regarding dis¬ 
tilled water by the argument that, in 
distillation, the water loses sundry salts, 
which it greedily abstracts from the 
animal tissues when it is swallowed, 
thus constituting a protoplasmic poison. 
_There is no music like a little river. 
It plays the same tune over and over 
again, yet does not weary over it, like 
men fiddlers. It takes the mind out-of- 
doors, and though we should be grateful 
for good homes, there is after all no 
home like God’s out-of-doors. It quiets 
a man down like saying his prayers.— 
Robert Louis Stevenson. 
....Boston is to have 40 free ice-water 
fountains in her streets this Summer. 
The supply of ice will be furnished from 
the municipal ice plants, having been 
cut from the city reservoirs last Winter 
and stored away. It is believed that the 
use of ice water will not only prove a 
great convenience, but will put a stop to 
the wasting of water at the drinking 
fountains. 
....In a criminal prosecution recently 
tried in York, Neb., the jury, after a 
brief deliberation, returned the follow¬ 
ing verdict: “ We, the jury in the above- 
named case, do not believe one word 
that the witnesses have sworn to; neither 
do we believe that any of the attorneys 
have spoken the truth, nor that either 
of them could do so even if he should 
care to take the trouble to try.”—Phila¬ 
delphia Record. 
-The cow is altogether the mo3t use¬ 
ful animal in India. Hindoos will not 
use its flesh, but milk, butter and ghee 
(a product of butter) are found every¬ 
where in India. The cow is of special 
interest because it is placed by Hindooism 
among the incarnations, and it is, there¬ 
fore, sacred and everywhere worshipped. 
The cow receives the adoration of thous¬ 
ands of worshipers in thousands of Hin¬ 
doo temples throughout India—Humane 
Alliance. 
... .Some say the original sbamreek was 
the White clover ; some the Wood-sorrel, 
or Oxalis ; some the Dutch clover ; some 
the medick or Black nonesuch ; some the 
buckbean; some the watercress. It is 
curious that Arabs have a trefoil called 
shamrock. George Wither, in his “Abuses 
Stript and Whipt,” speaks of the Irish 
people as eaters of “ chamrootes ”. Is 
not the shamrock, here referred to, the 
watercress ? I find record of it as being 
so named.—Meehans’ Monthly. 
....A case which will attract specula¬ 
tion will soon be entered on the docket 
at this term of court It is the case 
wherein the Rev J. J. Blunk contests 
the collection of poll-tax, not only 
against himself, but against the ministry 
in general. The plaintiff maintains that 
he is church property ; the property of 
the congregation as much as is the pas¬ 
toral residence, and that, as such, he is 
exempt from taxation, the same as the 
parsonage.—English (Ind.) Correspon¬ 
dence Indianapolis News. 
....Give to the man of any calling a 
warm heart, a clear, keen intellect, a 
stroDg desire to know in order that he 
may act, and though he may not com¬ 
pass the circle of the earth with his 
knowledge, nor discern the pathway of 
the stars, yet the affairs of daily life will 
so minister to him that he will extract 
meat out of the eater, and sweetness out 
of the strong. He grows most who grows 
up to the necessities of his daily work ; 
he only is a free man, whom the truth 
makes free; he only is broad-minded 
whose plans take in the necessities of 
his neighbor’s life ; he only is wise who 
brings this life of to day into close touch 
with that which is yet to come.—Teach¬ 
ers’ World. 
... .A little girl who had mastered her 
catechism, confessed herself disappoint¬ 
ed “because,” she said, “ though I obey 
the fifth commandment, and honor my 
papa and mamma, yet my days are not 
a bit longer in the land, because I am 
put to bed at 7 o’clock.”—The Sheltering 
Arms. 
....Says Darwin: “The plow is one 
of the mast ancient and most valuable 
of man’s inventions ; but, long before he 
existed, the land was in fact regularly 
plowed by earth-worms. It may be 
doubted whether there are many other 
animals which have played so important 
a part in the history of the world as 
have these lowly-organized creatures.” 
.... A certain well-known London dealer 
in Egyptian mummies is reported to be 
making good use of X rays in order to 
prevent the Egyptians from swindling 
him with “ fake” mummies. There are 
certain internal marks beneath the 
cloths in which the mummies are wrap¬ 
ped, which are unfailing tests as to their 
genuineness, and these, it is said, the X 
rays readily detect. 
_We have duties not only to the mem¬ 
bers of our own family, but to the 
stranger that is within the gates. If it 
becomes necessary or expedient to hire 
some one to help with the work of the 
household, the person is entitled to the 
consideration and sympathy of each 
member of the family, and so far as is 
possible, the family should provide for 
the comfort, health and happiness of 
such person while she is an inma'e of 
their home.—The Cosmopolitan. 
....No nation can be ultimately great 
unless its greatness is laid deep in the 
foundations of righteousness and of de¬ 
cency. We cannot do great deeds as a 
nation until we first do the small deeds 
that go to make up the large ones. We 
must encourage civic honesty and pride, 
as well as honesty and thrift in busi¬ 
ness, if we want material prosperity to 
bless this land. We must show fore¬ 
thought, and we must real'ze our great 
responsibilities, and as we come into the 
world’s great arena, we can only play 
our part properly if we prepare our¬ 
selves beforehand.—Theo. Roosevelt. 
... .The female lobster breeds only once 
in two years, but she makes up for this 
seeming loss of time by producing a great 
number of eggs. It is estimated by the 
fish experts at the hatcheries that a 10- 
inch lobster will produce in one season 
about 10,000 eggs, and a 19-inch nearly 
75,000 eggs. It does not require at this 
rate a great number of female lobsters to 
yield several millions of eggs a year. The 
female attaches th;se eggs to her until 
they have hatched out, and she is known 
in local parlance as a “berried hen” 
lobster.—New York Evening Post. 
.... Many storie s are tpld of the affection 
which exists between animals, and that 
this affection does exist was fully proved 
to us the other day. We have a black 
cat which is a great pet, and which is in 
the habit of going out into the garden 
at the back of this house. He, unfortu¬ 
nately, the other day, mistook his house, 
and was driven into the street, where he 
had never been before. We made every 
inquiry, but nothing could be heard of 
him. Late at night, a little white dog, 
who is the cat’s great friend, was taken 
out to help in the search. He suddenly 
dived down an area, reappearing in great 
excitement, only to disappear again. He 
was, of course, followed, when he was 
found licking his cat, with every appear¬ 
ance of affection and delight.—Letter in 
London Spectator. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
... .The food of the bluejay, it is shown 
by the examination of 292 stomachs, con¬ 
sists of 24 per cent animal and 76 per 
cent of vegetable matter. Shells of small 
birds’ eggs were found in but three, and 
the remains of young birds in only two 
of the 292 stomachs, thus showing that 
the nest-robbing habit is not so preva¬ 
lent as has been believed. It is shown, 
however, that the bird consumes a con- 
siderab’e quantity of corn and wheat 
when it is accessible. On the other 
hand, he has to his credit the destruc¬ 
tion of vast quantities of injurious in¬ 
sects, which, perhaps, nearly or quite 
counterbalances his sins.—Department 
of Agriculture. 
... .Devil’s Island, made famous as the 
prison of Dreyfus, has a strange species 
of animal found nowhere else on earth. 
This odd animal has been called the 
coati, and is a peculiar combination of 
mammiferous, carnivorous plantigrade 
It is about the size of a cat when full- 
grown, with a long head shaped like a 
pyramid, a tremendous nose, making it 
the Cyrano of animals. The jaws are 
long, like those of the young alligator, 
and it uses its forepaws to carry its food 
to its mouth, as monkeys and squirrels 
do. M. Henri Loustan, the superintend¬ 
ent of the penitentiary of Guiana, has 
sent a specimen to the Museum of Nat¬ 
ural History at Paris, where it is at¬ 
tracting considerable attention.—Public 
Opinion. 
... .Many of the great human scourges 
of the race have, unconsciously and un¬ 
intentionally, done immense good for 
mankind through the possession of this 
vast overflowing energy. “ There shall 
be no Alps,” said Napoleon in his selfish 
desire to conquer Italy, and the result 
was the wonderful roads which con¬ 
nected northern and southern Europe. 
If ever there was an example on a colos¬ 
sal human scale of the “ will to live”, it 
was embodied in Peter the Great, an 
awful and drunken barbarian, but see 
what he did for Russia. In this world, 
whose ultimate problems we do not pre¬ 
tend to solve, the will to live, with all its 
potential consequences, is a great fact 
without which the human race would 
gradually die out.—London Spectator. 
_Hetty A. Green —the “richest 
woman in America”—gives advice to a 
poor, lame little girl of the New York 
slums, Elsie Motts: 
You shouldn’t drink coffee. You’re 
too young. 
Don’t eat candy. I never ate candy 
when I was a child. I never spent my 
pennies for it. 
Try doing without coffee and putting 
the pennies you save that way in the 
bank. 
It doesn't matter if it’s only two cents 
a week. 
I had only 50 cents when I started to 
make money. I put it in the bank. 
Be careful of your health. 
Be reliable—that’s the golden rule of 
business. 
Save your pennies. 
Study, not how you can spend the 
money you have earned, but how you 
can make more. 
Keep on earning money. If you stop 
earning, your fortune will shrink, just 
as your arm does when you don’t exer¬ 
cise it. 
See that your head isn’t lame. It 
doesn’t matter about your legs. 
Learn to know good people from bad. 
471 
•®®®(sXsXS)<»Xs)<s)®(^ 
There is 
Life 
in the Grain 
when properly prepared. Common 
white flour loses in its manufacture 
much of the life-giving, bone-producing 
elements which nature placed in the 
(5) wheat and, and retains too much starch. 
fMNKUN M ILL 5 TTOur 
.1 ^AFINE FLOUR OF THE ENTIRE WHEA1 
retains these elements, chemically un¬ 
changed ; the hard, indigestible, innu- 
tritious outer husk only being discarded, 
and the gluten, phosphates and mineral 
elements found only in the darker por¬ 
tions of the berry being retained. 
If your grocer does not have it, send us his 
nunio and your order—we will see that 
you are supplied. 
CENTIME MADE ONLY I1Y 
FRANKLIN MILLS CO., Lockport, N. Y. 
Send for Free Booklet. 
genuine imported organ¬ 
dies 10c. yard 
—handsome floral printings on white, 
violet, pink, light green, and other col¬ 
ored grounds. 
They’re genuine, imported, mind you 
—ten cents. 
Beautiful striped organdies 15c. 
Other fine organdies—sheer, dainty 
fabrics in great variety, 25c., 35a. 
Lot of 25c. imported madras 15c. 
Choice wash goods 63*£, 8, 10, 12%c. 
that will surprise you with their good¬ 
ness inexpensively priced. 
superb summery silks 
—Indias and Foulard’s 50c.—silks of 
rare excellence—styles and colorings. 
It’s merchandising we claim will save 
you money, that you’re asked to investi¬ 
gate—styles and prices are what we 
offer to demonstrate it. 
BOGGS & BUHL, 
Department C, 
ALLEGHENY, PA. 
gOOO B ICYCLES 
Overstock: Must lie Closed Out. 
STANDARD 'US MODELS, 
guaranteed, #9.75 to 
#10. Shopworn & sec¬ 
ond hand wheels, good 
as new, #3 tot #10. 
Orest factory clearing aale. 
W. .hip to anyone on .pproval 
_ 7 Si trial without a cent In advance 
EARN a BICYCLE 
by helping ua advertise our Nupcrb line of 
models. W 0 give ono Rldor Agent In each town FREE USE 
of samplo wheel toiutroduco them. Write at unco for our special offer. 
MEAD CYCLE CO., 293 Ave. K, Chicago, Ill. 
A>7 $13.25BUYS A $25.00 BICYCLE 
■, Don't tmy a blcyclo lieforo you write for our 1899 
avOuataloKue. 2nd hand wheels from $.Y«n up. nomomkv 
fety/KKOUIUKDio Ad.....-.- AdJro- VICTOR MAN'F'G CO. 
Dept. <1 ii'j 161 to 167 Plymouth PI., Chicago,111. 
¥—Why be tormented? Buy a Fly 
™ IlCb ■ Exterminator, and rid the house of 
Flies. Mail, 15c.; two for 25c. Agents Wanted. 
Quick Sellers. E. W. SMITH, Chester. Conn. 
Dietz Crystal Lantern 
T HIS is a strictly high-grade, side lift tubular Lantern, substituting 
a glass fount for the usual metal one, with ample protection 
against breakage. With such fount leakage is impossible, and the 
amount of oil in it can be readily seen, while a new fount can easily be 
supplied. This Lantern will be sent to any address prepaid, upon the 
receipt of ONK DOLLAR. We will be glad to mail you one of our 
very complete little Lantern Catalogues — FREE, of course. 
Established 
in 1840. 
R. E. DIETZ COMPANY, 
87 Laight Street, New York. 
ONLY WORTHY GOODS ARE STAMPED “DIETZ.” 
