1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
697 
Diary of the Week. 
The President’s commission for the investiga¬ 
tion of the War Department began work; Gen. 
G. M. Dodge, of New York, is president of the 
commission. Heirs of passengers lost in the 
wreck of the French steamship Bourgogne have 
tiled damage suits against the company, averring 
that Capt. Deloncle was insane. England,France, 
Russia and Italy have united to pacify Crete, 
gnoring Germany, the last power declining to 
use any influence with the Sultan of Turkey, 
Saturday, September 24. 
The wrecking company, under the command of 
Lieut Ilobsou, has succeeded in raising Cer- 
vera’s flagship, Infanta Maria Teresa, and she 
will be brought north as soon as in condition. 
The last remnant of the Khalifa’s army was de¬ 
feated by the Auglo-Egyptian forces September 
22, after a furious battle. Sirdar Kitchener has 
seized Faslioda, and the last Dervish strongholds 
are now in his bands. The Lord Mayor of Lon¬ 
don made a state call upon our Peace Commis¬ 
sioners, extending a welcome on behalf of the City 
Corporation. Typhoid fever is spreading in Camp 
Meade. Commissary authorities at Honolulu 
deny that our soldiers are badly fed, Sunday, 
September 25. 
The War Department received a dispatch from 
Gen. Brooke saying that there is no lack of food 
for troops in Porto Rico, but that 2,509 men are 
on the sick list. Typhoid fever is spreading so 
rapidly in the 203d RcgimentatCampMeade that 
it is decided to move the command away and iso¬ 
late it. The ashes of Columbus were exhumed in 
Havana Cathedral, for removal to Spain. The 
United States transport Yucatan arrived from 
Ponce and Santiago with 134 passengers. Senor 
Agoncilla, vice-president of Aguinaldo’s govern¬ 
ment in the Philippines, has arrived on a mission 
to President McKinley, asking for the immediate 
independence of the islands. The French govern¬ 
ment has decided to reopen the Dreyfus case, 
Monday, September 26. 
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for 
Governor of New Y’ork by the Republican con¬ 
vention. Plans have been made for the dispatch 
of two divisions of United States troops to Cuba, 
one in October and one in November. The two 
divisions will number about 12,000 men. Twenty- 
six cases of yellow fever reported in Wilson, La. 
The disease appears to be dying out in Missis¬ 
sippi. The Cubans in the vicinity of Manzanillo 
are reported to be causing great trouble by their 
lawlessness. They are terrorizing the inhabi¬ 
tants, and planters are afraid to attempt culti¬ 
vating their crops. The War Investigation Com¬ 
mission has given out a list of inquiries prepared 
and sent to Secretary Alger and his subordinates, 
calling for information as to the management of 
the war in every branch. It is believed that the 
Commission will not finish its work until after the 
Fall elections. W. J. Bryan is ill with fever in 
Washington, Tuesday, September 27. 
Thomas F. Bayard, first ambassador from this 
country to Great Britain, died at Dedham, Mass. 
An explosion of powder in a sporting-goods store 
in St. Louis started a fire which destroyed the 
building. Seventeen persons were injured, four 
of them fatally. Great forest and prairie fires 
are raging in Colorado. Many ranches are 
doomed, and towns are menaced; 5,000cattle were 
surrounded by the flames, and are believed to 
have perished. More than 100 sick and conva¬ 
lescent soldiers reached New York, and were 
distributed through various hospitals; 90 sick 
soldiers were removed from Montauk to Provi¬ 
dence, It. I. The President is dissatisfied with 
the slow progress of negotiations for the evacua¬ 
tion of Cuba. Great distress is reported on the 
Ashcroft trail to Dawson, Alaska, and many gold- 
seekers have died from exposure, Wednesday, 
September 28. 
Queen Louise of Denmark, mother of the Prin¬ 
cess of Wales, the Empress Dowager of Russia, 
and the King of Greece, died at Copenhagen, 
aged 81. The daughter of an obscure German 
prince, Queen Louise passed the first 20 years of 
her married life in poverty, but lived to see her 
children occupying exalted stations, and her 
husband a reigning monarch. The New York 
Democratic State convention nominated for 
governor, Judge Augustus Van Wyck, of Brook¬ 
lyn, brother to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York. 
Aguiualdo is about to issue the constitution of a 
revolutionary government, whose primary object 
shall be “to fight for the independence of the 
Philippine Islands until all nations, including 
Spain, recognize it.” The popular vote on the 
prohibition question in Canada resulted in a 
victory for the Prohibitionists, by a small ma¬ 
jority. It was carried by the country, most of 
the cities voting against it. Fourth Regiment of 
Immunes ordered to garrison Manzanillo. Total 
sick at Santiago, 1,151; fever cases, 731. Gen. 
Wood stopped the sailing of the transport Min- 
newaskafrom Santiago, which was leaving with 
40 sick soldiers, three of them nearly dead, with¬ 
out any nurses, and with inadequate supplies of 
food and medicine, Thursday, September 29. 
Forest fires in Wisconsin cause great havoc in 
Chippewa, Barron, St. Croix and Polk counties. 
General destruction of telegraph wires makes 
news incomplete, but the villages of Clayton, 
Alemena, Ipswich and Poskin have been totally 
destroyed, and many others are threatened. The 
lumber companies are fighting the fire; already 
500,000,000 feet of pine are destroyed. Assistance 
is needed by the homeless farmers. In Colorado 
the fires are now estimated to be 300 miles in cir¬ 
cumference, with Glenwood for a center, and 
practically all the timbered mountain ranges are 
ablaze. The War Investigating Commission will 
hear testimony from Gens. Wheeler and Lee- 
They are now studying Camp Wikoff, and intend 
to investigate all the camps thoroughly. Gen. 
Wood reports the frightful condition of Santiago, 
and his efforts for sanitary reform. The Presi¬ 
dent orders that all sick soldiers in Porto Rico 
shall be brought home and furloughed. Gen. 
Merritt’s report of his Manila operations made 
public, Friday, September 30. 
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N. Y., FAIR. 
The 13th annual fair and horse show 
of Westchester County was held at White 
Plains, September 26 to October 1. It was 
in all respects successful. The weather 
was as nearly perfect as possible, and 
the attendance was remarkably large 
considering the number of fairs which 
have been held in this part of the State. 
The fruit and vegetable building, and a 
large tent annexed, were filled with as 
fine a display as has been made in this 
part of the State in many years. The 
show of potatoes was exceptionally 
large, and of high quality considering 
the fact that this has not been a good 
year for potatoes in this vicinity. The 
collections of fruits and vegetables were 
remarkably large, and attracted much 
attention. Some unusually large pump¬ 
kins and squashes were shown, and the 
large display of watermelons surprised 
visitors who supposed that they grew 
to perfection only in the South. 
The dog show was held in a commo¬ 
dious tent, but it deserved a building by 
itself. Some of the exhibitors object to 
showing their dogs in tents, and a new 
frame building is promised for next 
year. The cattle exhibit evidenced the 
decline in the milk industry of the county. 
It is evident that farmers will not raise 
cattle and sell milk for less than two 
cents a quart. The poultry building 
was filled with the usual variety of 
fowls. A few hogs were exhibited, but 
for the first time in several years, no 
sheep were shown. 
QUEENS COUNTY , N. Y., FAIR. 
The 57th annual fair of the Queens 
County Agricultural Society was held on 
the society’s grounds at Mineola, L. I., 
September 20 to 24. This fair is the 
largest and most successful county fair 
in eastern New York State. Unfortun¬ 
ately its chief attraction is bicycle and 
horse racing, although the portions of 
the exhibition which were distinctively 
agricultural were highly creditable. The 
fruit exhibit in the main building was 
good, with the exception of apples, which 
are a short crop on Long Island. Some 
new melons were shown and awarded 
premiums. The floral exhibit included 
some original decorative pieces made up 
of native wild flowers, and a large num¬ 
ber of rare plants and cut flowers from 
florists and nurserymen. The domestic 
room was well filled with cakes, pies and 
other articles from the kitchens of 
Queens County. The vegetable tent was 
well filled with vegetables from the 
market gardens of the County. S. D. 
Woodruff & Son showed a new white 
potato, larger and earlier than the New 
Queen, which they called the “ Ensign 
Bagley.” 
The implements were shown in tents 
and on the open ground. Among the 
novelties were a new weeder with round 
teeth, shown by the Belcher & Taylor 
Company, a new “variety” machine 
for ridging, drilling, marking, and plant¬ 
ing corn or vegetables, by the Bateman 
Manufacturing Company, and a novel 
form of plowshare claimed to be self¬ 
sharp-ning, made by the Self-Sharpen- 
ing Plow Company. 
The stock exhibit was about the same 
as usual. Some very fine hogs were 
shown. The poultry building was well 
filled, but attracted less attention than 
usual, owing, it is said, to a decreasing 
interest in purebred poultry.The grounds 
of the Association are large and well- 
kept, and no fakirs are allowed inside 
the gates. The management is excel¬ 
lent, but the Long Island Railroad made 
visitors as uncomfortable as possible by 
running old cars from a leased road, 
which were painfully suggestive of the 
typhoid and malarial fevers of Montauk 
Point, although they were said to be 
even better than the cars used to trans¬ 
port the unfortunate soldiers from the 
camp. _ j. h. 04. 
A NEW ENGLAND LOCAL FAIR. 
The Westboro (Mass.) Agricultural 
Society held its 58th annual cattle show 
and fair at Westboro, on September 
22. The exhibit of cattle, horses, and 
farm products was small, though excel¬ 
lent in quality, especially the squashes 
and melons. A few new varieties of 
potatoes were shown, of which Carman 
No. 1. and 3 and Garfield appeared to 
be the best. 
An excellent dinner was served by the 
Society, and no other caterers were al¬ 
lowed on the grounds; neither were 
noisy hawkers, nor the gaudy fake side 
shows which so often mar the appear¬ 
ance, reputation, and utility of agricul¬ 
tural fairs. That the fair was a finan¬ 
cial success was without doubt owing to 
the fact that no cash premiums were 
offered in any class. In the morning, the 
spectators were entertained by a plow¬ 
ing match, and an exhibition and trial 
of driving and draft horses. In the after¬ 
noon a ball game, bicycle races, and a 
“ slow race ” between local horses for 10 
bushels of oats, afforded the principal 
attractions and amusement. Everything 
on the programme was smoothly carried 
out, and a well-attended dance in the 
evening concluded the day’s events. 
It cannot be doubted that the interest 
in this, the regular annual fair of the 
town, was considerably lessened by the 
fact that the local Grange held a similar 
exhibition only a week before. It can¬ 
not be expected that a town of 5,000 
population will heartily support two 
such exhibitions within a week. In 
undertakings of this kind, a serious mis¬ 
take is made in not joining forces and 
holding one good fair rather than two 
indifferent ones, thus centralizing the 
interest, and uniting instead of dividing, 
the energies of its promoters, f. h. j. 
A man who neglects his health is sailing 
his craft of life in dangerous seas. He 
cannot too soon awaken to the fact that he 
is imperiling his most precious endow¬ 
ment. All the wealth in the world, all the 
power in the world, all the pleasure in the 
world, all the love and poetry and music 
and nobility and beauty are but dust in the 
mouth of the man who has lost his health. 
Keeping healthy means looking after the 
disorders that ninety-nine men in a hun¬ 
dred neglect. You cannot get the average, 
every-day man to believe that indigestion 
or biliousness, or costiveness or headache 
or loss of sleep or appetite, or shakiness in 
the morning and dullness through the day 
amount to much anyway. He will “pooh, 
pooh” at you, until some morning he 
wakes up and finds himself sick abed. 
Then he will send for a doctor and find out 
to his surprise that all these disorders have 
been but the danger signals of a big malady 
that has robbed him of his health, possibly 
forever. It may be consumption or nerv¬ 
ous prostration or malaria or rheumatism 
or some blood or skin disease. It matters 
not, they all have their inception in the 
same neglected disorders. Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery makes the ap¬ 
petite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver 
active f the blood pure, the nerves steady 
and gives sound and refreshing sleep. It 
is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. 
It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of con¬ 
sumption. In fact bronchial, throat and 
lung affections generally yield to it. Med¬ 
icine stores sell it. 
One or two at bedtime cure constipatioa 
—Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regu¬ 
late and invigorate the stomach, liver and 
bowels. By all medicine dealers. 
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A DARNING MACHINE. 
This is the only successful darning 
machine we ever saw. \Ve have tried 
others that were absolutely of no value. 
This one is little short of perfect. It 
enables you to mend underwear, stock¬ 
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does an endless variety of art and fancy 
weaving better, easier and quicker than 
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satisfied. 
CARPET SWEEPER. 
This carpet sweeper is one of woman's 
great labor-saving implements. Run over 
the carpet it picks up everything that 
the broom gathers, without raising any 
dust. It saves labor, saves carpet, and 
saves furniture. This has the new “cyco” 
bearings, and is the best made. Price, 
$2.50. Given for one new subscription 
at $1 and $1.50 extra ; or free for a club 
of six subscriptions at $1 each. 
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