1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7i3 
Diary of the Week. 
Fire in the Midvale Colliery, Wilkeabarre, Pa., 
results in the death of four men. The loss of life 
in Wisconsin forest fires is yet unknown, but 
over 100 persons are said to be missing:. The War 
Investigation Commission considered reports on 
the condition of Camp Wikoff, Long Island, and 
Camp Wheeler, Ala. While it is said that the 
i egulars did not suffer so much as the volunteers, 
owing to their experienced officers, the accounts 
of ill-treatment and neglect confirm those pre¬ 
viously reported, Saturday, October 1. 
A disastrous storm swept over the South At¬ 
lantic coast, being heaviest around Savannah, 
Ga., Charleston, S. C., and Jacksonville, Fla. It 
is feared that many lives have been lost upon the 
sea islands. Aguinaldo has refused a civil list 
appropriation of $75,000, voted him by the Pliilifi- 
pine National Assembly. The Filipinos refuse to 
give up their Spanish prisoners, but are showing 
more friendliness to the Americans. Many sick 
soldiers are aboard the transport Obdam, which 
will briug men from Porto Rico and Santiago, 
and differences have arisen between Surgeon- 
Major Seaman and the First Quartermaster as to 
their treatment. Suitable food was at first re¬ 
fused, but was afterwards obtained. Trouble is 
feared at the White Earth Indian Reservation in 
Minnesota. New cases of yellow fever reported 
in Mississippi and Louisiana, Sunday, October 2. 
The forest fires in Colorado and Wisconsin have 
been checked in many places by snow and rain. 
The town of Brunswick, Ga., has been swept by 
a flood, and great loss in lives and property is re¬ 
ported. Thirty blocks in the city were under six 
feet of water for 12 hours, and 3,000 people are in 
need of aid. The flood was caused by the hurri¬ 
cane and tidal wave of October 2. The rice crop 
has suffered severely. Senator M. S. Quay, of 
Pennsylvania, his son Richard, and others, have 
been arrested, and are held under bail of $5,000 
each, upon the charge of conspiring to misusp 
the funds of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
Increasing disorder in China has caused our 
Government to dispatch the cruiser Baltimore 
and the gunboat Petrel from Manila to Chinese 
waters, to protect American interests. The War 
Investigation Commission is studying the reports 
of abuses upon the transports. War Department 
officials believe that the continual pressure 
brought to bear by Congressmen and others, to 
secure the mustering-out of volunteers, will 
necessitate a reorganization of the army, Mon¬ 
day, October 3. 
Further disorder is reported among the Cubans. 
Cuban soldiers refuse to work themselves, or to 
permit pacificos to work. Our forces will sup¬ 
port the civil authorities. A snowstorm set in 
in North Dakota which seemed likely to develop 
into a small blizzard; much of the wheat is not 
yet thrashed, and loss is feared bv the farmers. 
Scanty information is obtained from the flooded 
district of Georgia, owing to prostration of tele¬ 
phone and telegraph systems. It is said that 
Campbell Island, populated by colored truckers, 
is entirely swept away; estimates of the number 
supposed to have perished there vary from 20 to 
50. The damage at Brunswick is put at $500,000. 
Fernandina was partially flooded, and railroads 
are blocked. Cuban tobacco planters, manufac¬ 
turers and dealers are alarmed over the prospect 
of the new American tariff, claiming that it will 
be a deathblow to their industry. The transport 
Obdam was obliged to return to Santiago with 
the bunkers on fire. The Peace Commission, in 
Paris, devoted a day to a conference with Gen. 
Merritt on the Philippines. Gen. Wheeler, testi¬ 
fying before the War Investigation Commission, 
said that Gen. Shafter had taken every care to 
protect his men, and that Camp Wikoff was a 
model of excellence, Tuesday, October 4. 
The Pillager Indians of Bear Lake, Minn., who 
have been on bad terms with the whites for some 
time, refused to give up Indian criminals, and 
engaged in a fierce battle with 100 soldiers of the 
Third Infantry under Gen. Bacon. The situation 
is serious; reenforcements are called for, and 
later report, not officially confirmed, states that 
Gen. Bacon’s command has been ambushed and 
massacred. The trouble was started by the In¬ 
dians engaging in an illicit whisky business. 
News received by boat from Fernandina reports 
50 lives lost there by flood. Much of the stricken 
coast is still inaccessible. It is reported that the 
battleships Iowa and Oregon are not to be sent 
to Manila at present, as they may be needed to 
take part in a demonstration against the Span¬ 
ish coast if the Peace Commission does not make 
rapid progress. Gen. Wheeler finished his testi¬ 
mony before the War Investigation Commission, 
and part of Gen. Boynton’s testimony was 
taken. Each maintained that published criti- 
cisgis were unfounded, Wednesday, Octobers. 
Gen. Bacon and his troops are strongly in¬ 
trenched near Bear Lake. Major Wilkinson, five 
soldiers, and two Indian police, were killed. 
Reenforcements have been sent; a general In¬ 
dian outbreak is feared. In the American army 
at Manila, six deaths have occurred from small¬ 
pox and eight from typhoid fever. Gen. Fitzhugh 
Lee testified before the Investigation Commis¬ 
sion; he had no complaints to make. Col. Ray, 
with 400 soldiers, landed at Manzanillo, taking 
possession of the town. The Cuban Junta de¬ 
clares that starvation is rife in the Island, and 
that the need of relief is greater than heretofore, 
Thursday, October 0. 
The loss caused by the burning of the Bradley 
Fertilizer Company’s works at Weymouth, Mass., 
aggregates about $500,000. Navigation upon the 
upper Yukon is closed ; Commissioner Ogilvie is 
making sweeping moral reforms at Dawson. 
Auglaize County, O., has been suffering an epi. 
demic of smallpox, caused by the carelessness of 
local physicians, who treated the disease as 
chickenpox. The Peace Commission has ad¬ 
journed for two days. It is believed that the 
Philippines will be retained. Strained relations 
due to a misunderstanding of the terms of evacu- 
tion, almost precipitated fighting at Manzanillo, 
between the Third Immunes and the Spanish 
troops. Porto Rico is to be evacuated by October 
18, and Cuba by December 1. A general order has 
been issued for the reorganization of the army. 
Gen. Bacon’s command is safe, and the Pillager 
Indians are said to be under control. Gen. 
Greene, who was in command at Manila, Major 
Hersey of the Rough Riders, and Col. Lee, who 
was Chief Quartermaster at Chickamauga, tes¬ 
tified before the Investigation Commission. Few 
complaints were made by these officers, Friday, 
October 7. _ 
PEACH NOTES FROM CONNECTICUT. 
While the peach crop in this State 
is only about one-third as large as last 
year's, we occasionally find an orchard 
bearing full crops ; such a one is that of 
George Ford & Sons, at North Branford, 
10 miles from New Haven. It is situated 
on the top of Totoket Mountain, about 
200 feet above sea level, and about seven 
miles distant from the same. In the 
Spring of 1892, Mr. Ford decided to try 
a small orchard—against the advice of 
his estimable wife, which was a risky 
thing, as the world goes—and set out 
200 trees 15 x 20 feet apart, covering 1J£ 
acre. The weeds are kept under by 
frequent cultivation, and fertilizers con¬ 
taining bone and potash are applied at 
the rate of 1 % ton each year. This season, 
they used the Rogers & Hubbard fruit 
fertilizer. 
The varieties set were Oldmixon, Mt. 
Rose, Stump, Early Crawford and Late 
Crawford. Last year, 600 baskets of 
fruit were sold, averaging $1 per basket. 
This year, the yield will be about the 
same, while the price will average, prob¬ 
ably, 25 cents per basket better, giving 
a handsome profit. The fruit being 
honestly packed, has won a good reputa¬ 
tion, and ready sale is found in New 
Haven. From 18 trees of Mt. Rose, they 
gathered 90 baskets of fruit, one tree 
giving six baskets. No signs of disease 
have shown themselves, and the Messrs. 
Ford have been encouraged to set more 
trees. One Early Crawford weighed 
nine ounces, and measured 11 inches in 
circumference. 
The Churchill Brothers, Wethersfield, 
who have about 1,400 peach trees, do 
not practice thinning, their theory being 
that the increase in size does not more 
than pay for the expense of doing the 
work ; their crop this season would go 
to prove it, the trees being heavily loaded 
with fine fruit both as regards size and 
flavor. The selected brought them 
Si.65 per basket at wholesale. Messrs. 
Churchill say that trees badly broken 
last year will have recovered by next 
season, and that the fewer bearing 
branches give better fruit. They do the 
sorting themselves, picking ripe fruit 
only, selling in Hartford and New Britain. 
Chester, Conn. c. E. L. 
Tub Ohio State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety will hold its next annual meeting 
at Euclid, 0., December 7, 8 and 9. Pro¬ 
grammes will be sent to all members in 
due time; others will receive them upon 
application to the secretary. Premiums 
will be offered for exhibits of fruits, 
flowers and vegetables. All are invited 
to attend. W. W. Farnsworth, secre¬ 
tary, Waterville, 0. 
Some Maryland Notes. —The Harle¬ 
quin cabbage bug, after destroying the 
cabbage crop of the neighborhood, is 
attacking the apples on the trees, also 
tomatoes on the vines. Both crops men¬ 
tioned are short in this section. I have 
had a fair crop of the former, my neigh¬ 
bors scarcely any. I spray, they don’t. 
The leaves and fruit hang on my trees 
late, theirs drop early. They laughed at 
my pains in spraying ; they come to me 
for apples. Bordeaux Mixture applied 
to tomato plants several times during 
their stay in the seed-bed, checked the 
blight with me. Another application 
after setting in the field would, no doubt, 
help still more. Weather keeps dry. 
Late cabbage crop totally ruined by bug, 
fly, and worm; only the skeletons of 
leaves and stalks remain. Western and 
northern growers of this crop, keep your 
weather eye open against the invasion of 
these pests ; they will reach you in time. 
Harmans, Md. k. s. c. 
Notes from North Carolina. —I am a 
cotton farmer, and along with many 
others, cannot see what the excessive low 
price of the leading product of our sec¬ 
tion is to result in. The present price, 
cents per pound, is much lower than 
we can produce the lint. What shall be 
our next step, should we discontinue to 
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FOR SALK BY DEALERS GENERALLY. 
plant cotton, is an open question. Corn 
is very cheap, wheat has declined, and 
tobacco doesn’t grow well in this part of 
our State. There being no lime in our 
land. Blue grass, Herds grass, Timothy, 
etc., do not thrive much. I have a two- 
acre plot of bottom land, which has been 
recently drained and cultivated with 
corn, to kill the native grasses, and other¬ 
wise prepare it for Timothy or some 
other grass. w. o. a. 
Wake Forest, N. C. 
R. N.-Y.—In all parts of the country, 
farmers are facing this condition of 
affairs. Old standard crops that for¬ 
merly paid well, now barely pay the cost 
of production. Other sections are able 
to produce these crops cheaper and more 
easily. Improved transportation facili¬ 
ties have put these new sections on a 
par with the old. For example, Texas 
can produce cotton at a price that will 
ruin North Carolina. So it is that farm¬ 
ers everywhere are hunting new crops. 
have hardly held 
more rain drops 
than the tears 
which have fallen 
from women’s 
eyes. There is a 
world of truth in 
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which said: “Man 
must work, and 
woman must 
weep.” Women 
must weep not 
only for the troub¬ 
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those they love, 
but because of 
s the physical ag¬ 
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that they them- 
' selves endure in 
silence. 
Nine-tenths of 
the pain and suf¬ 
fering that wo¬ 
men undergo 
could be avoided 
by a little knowl¬ 
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When a woman feels weak, sick, nervous, 
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pains in the back and sides, and burning 
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