1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
745 
ONLY 10 GENTS. 
During' the past week, we have re¬ 
ceived just 6,378 trial subscriptions 
for the rest of this year, being an aver¬ 
age of a little more than 1,000 new sub¬ 
scriptions a day. But these have come 
almost entirely from individual sub¬ 
scribers. The agents have done practi¬ 
cally nothing. We have not had agents 
enough at work all told to equal the 
number of prizes. The fact that we get 
so many of these orders direct, shows 
that the farmers want only to be told of 
this offer to secure their subscriptions. 
There are a few days left yet, and any 
agent who would go to work, might yet 
come in for that $25 check by the first 
of next week. 
The Rural, New-Yorker, New York. 
Diary of the Week. 
A number of American passengers were lost in 
the wreck of the Mohegan, which sank within 20 
minutes of the time she struck. Great heroism 
was displayed by the crew, and by the coast¬ 
guards from Falmouth, in giving aid. The Presi¬ 
dent is at Chicago, where he will participate in 
the peace jubilee. The Chicago-Virden Coal Com¬ 
pany places responsibility for riot upon Gov. 
Tanner, and will attempt to procure an indict¬ 
ment against him, Saturday, October 15. 
According to later reports, 95 persons were lost 
In the wreck of the steamship Mohegan, 42 pas¬ 
sengers and 53 crew. The wreck appears to be 
due to a blunder in navigation, the vessel being 
10 miles inside her proper course, on the most 
dangerous coast of England, during a furious 
gale. The crew labored heroically to save the 
passengers, but the gale capsized small boats, 
and ret rded assistance from the shore. The 
Christian Alliance raises $113,000 for missions. 
Leech Lake, Minn., Indians, have laid down their 
arms. The Turkish authorities will expel all un¬ 
employed Italians from Constantinople, before 
the visit of Emperor William, in consequence of 
the discovered plots of Italian anarchists, Sun¬ 
day, October 16. 
A blizzard following a prolonged rainstorm 
prevails in the West and Southwest. The trans¬ 
port Roumanian, with the Fourth Immune Regi¬ 
ment on board, is overdue at Santiago. The 
transport Minoewaska arrived from Ponce with 
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania and other troops; the 
steward was in irons, charged with having stolen 
delicacies and sold them at exorbitant prices. 
The Peace Commission refuses to lay any claim 
on Cuba, and declines to assume its debt. Chi¬ 
cago University conferred the degree of LL. D 
upon President McKinley. Frost through the 
South mitigates the yellow fever. During Satur¬ 
day and Sunday, 20 new cases were reported for 
Louisiana. Up to date, the total number of cases 
in Louisiana and Mississippi is 2,005, and 111 
deaths. The steamer Senator sailed from San 
Francisco for Manila with 77.2 regular and volun¬ 
teer troops, Monday, October 17, 
At noon to-day, the American flag was raised 
over the forts and public buildings of San Juan, 
Porto Rico, and that island is now a part of the 
United States. Gen. Brooke is military governor. 
The best of feeling exists between the Spanish 
and American commissioners. France will with¬ 
draw the Marchand expedition from Fashoda, 
without further friction with England. Stormy 
weather interferes with the success of the Chi¬ 
cago peace jubilee. Frost at New Orleans and 
other points has checked yellow fever, and quar¬ 
antine guards are being removed. Gen. Otis is 
informed that Philippine insurgents are killing 
Spanish friars and committing other outrages; 
he will endeavor to prevent such violence. The 
transport Roumanian has reached Manzanillo. 
Victims of the Mohegan disaster are being buried 
at Falmouth and St. Kerverne, where many per¬ 
sons lost in previous wrecks are interred, Tues¬ 
day, October 18. 
Spanish authorities assert that Admiral Dewey 
has attacked and destroyed vessels belonging to 
Philippine insurgents, in consequence of their 
flying the flag of the Philippine republic. The 
arrival of the American liner St. Louis at South¬ 
ampton, England, on her first trip since the war, 
was celebrated by a great popular demonstra¬ 
tion. The town was decorated with bunting, in¬ 
cluding many American flags, church chimes 
were rung, salutes fired, and a public celebration 
held. More sailors are wanted for the navy, and 
Secretary Long may ask Congress to increase the 
number from 12,500 to 20,000. The War Investiga¬ 
tion Commission received testimony from Dr. 
Frye, Chief Surgeon of the Third Division at 
Jacksonville, who made charges of mismanage¬ 
ment in the hospitals. The Peace Commission 
has adjourned, pending further information from 
Madrid, Wednesday, October 19. 
The Spanish report of a battle between Ad¬ 
miral Dewey and the Filipinos is not credited at 
the Navy and War Departments. The War In¬ 
vestigation Commission has finished its work at 
Jacksonville, and gone to Atlanta. Conflicting 
testimony was given by doctors and nurses as to 
the conditions in Florida. The Spanish Com¬ 
missioners to the Peace Conference in Paris are 
not yet ready to yield to our demands concerning 
Cuba. Spain has not been able to enlist the 
moral support of any other European nation 
against the United States. The cruiser Boston 
and collier Nero, which were sent to China in con¬ 
sequence of disturbances there, have reached 
Amoy, the former short of coal, and the latter 
with her cargo afire, Thursday, October 20. 
The Peace Commissioners have failed to reach 
an understanding regarding the Cuban debt. 
The War Investigation Commission inspected the 
military hospital at Fort McPherson, Ga., and 
then proceeded to Anniston, Ala. Spain cannot 
evacuate Cuba by December 1, and more time 
will be granted. Two chemists were injured in 
Brooklyn by an explosion resulting from mixing 
liquefied air with red phosphorus. Yellow fever 
is disappearing from the South. By permission 
of the British War Office, soldiers forming the 
garrison at Halifax, N. S., took part in a great 
demonstration at the town fair, in which Amer¬ 
ican and English flags were freely used together, 
Friday, October 21. 
NOTES FROM THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI 
EXPOSITION. 
The largest steer on exhibition was a 
purebred Short-horn, weighing 3,100 
pound , raised by Philips H. Zwiebel, of 
Papillion, Neb. The animal was in or¬ 
dinary flesh, and had the bone and frame 
to carry 500 pounds more. 
The largest apple on exhibition was 
among the Iowa fruit, of the Wolf 
River variety. It weighed 1% pound, 
and measured 1% foot. It was raised at 
North English, Iowa County. The five 
largest apples were in the Wisconsin ex¬ 
hibit, and were of the Wolf River vari¬ 
ety. They were all fine specimens. In 
fact, all of Wisconsin’s fruit was very 
creditable. 
The most attractive feature of the ex¬ 
hibits in the Dairy Building was the 
flowers made of butter by Mrs. McDuvell, 
of Minneapolis, Minn., and the refrigera¬ 
tor car containing the busts of Dewey, 
Lincoln, and others, made by the Centen¬ 
nial butter sculptress, Caroline Shawk 
Brooks. The exhibit was made by Mis¬ 
souri. 
From an educational point of view, the 
exhibits made by the Government, of the 
many different fibers of commerce and 
the products made from them, took the 
lead. Even the despised corn stalk had 
its place, and the manufactured articles 
from it are of vast value. 
I looked in vain among the machinery 
and agricultural implementsfora weeder. 
Having used one of these implements 
this season, and found it a labor-saving, 
useful tool, I think it should have had a 
place in machinery hall. A new corn-culti¬ 
vating implement was exhibited. It was 
a lister, cultivating three rows at once. 
The New York State building was a 
large drawing-room, provided with all 
modern comforts (except a stove and 
fire). Between 75 and 100 rocking chairs 
were visible, and were rocked only by 
the cold October winds. u. h. b. 
SHORT STORIES. 
Our gardens are now looking beauti¬ 
ful ; egg plants are just beginning to 
bloom, tomatoes are a foot high, beans 
just growing off nicely, turnips looking 
luxuriant in top and bulbs—forming 
onions six inches out of the ground. 
English beans just up, cucumbers all the 
way from just up to the blooming stage 
of growth. The strawberry crop is nearly 
set, and most of this field crop will go into 
the ground this month. Berries ripen 
from January 1 to June. We protect in 
January with pine straw, when frost 
threatens. w. K. e. 
Dade City, Fla. 
Peach Scab in Maryland. —The peach 
scab has produced comparatively little 
damage in the State during the past sea¬ 
son. It has been very common in all 
parts of the peach-growing section of 
the State, but the damage produced by 
the Brown rot and yellows has been so 
much greater than that produced by the 
scab that little attention has been given 
to the latter disease. A few of our grow¬ 
ers, however, have sprayed for the scab, 
using six pounds of copper sulphate and 
four pounds of lime in from 50 to 60 gal¬ 
lons of water. The first application has 
usually been made before the opening of 
the buds, and this treatment has been 
followed by several applications of a 
similar solution after the fruit has set. 
If it was found necessary to spray when 
the fruit was nearly full grown, an ain- 
moniacal carbonate of copper was used 
(one pound in from 12 to 15 gallons of 
water). This treatment for the scab has 
given fairly satisfactory results in the 
few cases where it has been tried in this 
State this season. c. o. Townsend. 
Maryland State Pathologist. 
Early Pasture for nous —Our corn 
crop not being up to the average this 
year, I am casting about for some plan 
upon which to carry my hogs through 
next Spring and early Summer, without 
much corn. Is there no green crop that 
can be seeded, say in the early days of 
March, which will furnish grazing in 
early May ? Our millet and cane crops 
begin to come in early in June, then 
fruit and vegetables touch elbows with 
these, giving us some feed for our hogs 
until the approach of Autumn. I grow 
peanuts and chufas for my hogs, but 
cannot rely on them for feeding, before 
the first of October. Peanuts are ex¬ 
ceptionally fine for starting growth on 
young hogs, and indeed, will give them 
plenty of fat for dressing ; but the fat is 
not firm, like that on corn-fed hogs, 
neither will it harden on being rendered, 
but continues in its liquid state. Its 
qualities, for seasoning, are not affected 
by the liquid condition. Pork fattened 
on peanuts is usually soft. w. o. A. 
Wake Forest, N. C. 
R. N.-Y.—We would sow rye at once. 
It will make an early growth and give a 
fair pasture in Spring. Winter oats are 
worth trying. 
“She comes from the past and re-visits 
my room ; 
She looks as she did then, all beauty 
and bloom. 
So smiling and tender, so fresh and 
so fair. 
And yonder she sits in my cane- 
bottomed chair.” 
Many a man sits silent and alone in a 
home of mourning and conjures up before 
his eyes the face and form of the woman 
who was once a loving wife and a faithful 
helpmate. In thousands of such cases the 
wife might still be alive and well and 
happy, had the man been not only a good 
husband, but a wise adviser. Women 
shrink from the ordeal of consulting a 
physician. They shudder at the thought 
of submitting to the obnoxious examina¬ 
tions insisted upon by most physicians. 
In the majority of cases they have none 
of this hesitancy about consulting their 
husbands. A wise man will understand at 
once that troubles of this description will 
soon break down a woman’s general health. 
He will understand that a specialist of emi¬ 
nence and world wide reputation should be 
frankly consulted at once. Dr. R. V. Pierce, 
for thirty years chief consulting physician 
to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Insti¬ 
tute, at Buffalo, N. Y., is one of the most 
eminent and widely-known specialists in 
the world. With the assistance of a staff 
of able physicians, he has prescribed for 
many thousands of ailing women. He has 
discovered a wonderful medicine for wo¬ 
men, that may be used in the privacy of 
their homes. It is known as Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription. It cures surely, 
speedily and permanently,all weakness and 
disease of the distinctly feminine organism. 
It allays inflammation, heals ulceration, 
soothes pain, gives rest to the tortured 
nerves, and checks debilitating drains. 
Farm Wagon for only *19.95. 
In order to introduce their Low Metal Wheels 
with Wide Tires, the Empire Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Quincy, Ill., have placed upon the market 
a Farmer’s Handy Wagon, sold at the low price 
of $19 95. The wagon is only 25 inches high, fitted 
with 24 and 30-inch wheels with 4-inch tire. 
This wagon is made of best material through¬ 
out, and really cost but a trifle more than a set 
of new wheels and fully guaranteed for one year. 
Catalogue giving a full description will be mailed 
upon application by the Empire Manufacturing 
Company, Quincy, Ill., who also will furnish 
metal wheels at low prices made ary size and 
width of tire to tit any axle. 
ENGINES 
SAW MILLS , 
RESHING MACHINES, 
Best Machinery at Lowest Prices. 
Send for Complete Illustrated Catalogue. 
A.B.FAROUHAR CO.,York, Pa 
THE LEFFEL ENGINES 
ARE GOOD ENGINES 
because they are made of the 
bet material known, with the 
rerjhest workmanship procurable. 
Theyare Horizontal, 6 H. P. 
up; Upright, 8 H. P. up; and 
Portable, 6 to 12 H.P. Theee 
are ideal engines for faint use 
good for running SEPARATOR, 
FEED AND ENSILAGE CUTTERS. 
CORN SHEllER, FEED 3RIN0EJS, 
jWOOO SAWS, ETC. Send forfiwe 
'"book on Engines and Boilers. 
JAMES LEFFEL & CO. T Box 1308, Springfield, 0. 
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FRONTIER GASOLINE ENGINE 
Stationakv and portable. 
1 to 100 Horse Power. 
No Boiler, Steam, Coal or Engineer 
Instantly started and stopped; 
absolutely safe. 
New Process Feed Mills 
for Farmers and Millers. 
Send for Circular. 
THE YAKYAN COMPANY, 
41 Park Row, New York City. 
Cider Machinery—Send for catalogue to Boomer A 
Boschert Press Co., 118 West WaterSt., Syracuse, N. Y 
Dip Your Shingles in £ 
Cabot’s Creosote Shingle Stains £ 
and they will never decay. + 
“Wood treated with Creosote is not subject to dry- + 
\ rot or other decay." —Century Dictionary. 
\ All colors, h0% cheaper than pa nt, 
i Send for Stained-wood samples and color 
i studies—free. 
SAMUEL CABOT, 81 Kilby St., Boston,Mass 
THE “ 0. K.” FODDER TIE. 
instantly attached to string. Knot made almost 
instantly. Just as secure as a hard knot—untied as 
easily as a bow knot. Will never wear out. Send 
name for Sample. For Sale by Dealers. 10 cents per 
hundred. O. K. TIE CO., Delaware, O. 
ANYONE INTERESTED 
in Agricultural i*ur*uitM can’t 
afford to be without the 
AGRICULTURAL EPITOMIST. 
Sample copy Free to any address 
upon receipt of name and address 
plainly written on postal card nam¬ 
ing paper in which you saw this ad. 
Address ABBICULTUBAL EP1TOM1ST, Indianapolis lad. 
HUNTIHG 
Notices, on cloth, with name, four 
cents each less than 100. Over 100 
three cents each. Postpaid. TURNEUV1LLE SUP¬ 
PLY CO., Turnervllle, Conn. 
ATTENTION! Barn Builders. ?**** 
saves nearly half the cost of barn building. Gives a 
stronger and better frame in every way. Write me 
for particulars, J. E. WING. Meehanicsburg, Ohio. 
Choice Rams for SaleKX^Kps 0 
Correspondence Solicited. M.C.Mulkin.Friendship.N.Y 
Large Improved 
White Yorkshire 
Hogs. Fine Boars, 
Breeding Sows and 
Pigs for Sale. Lead¬ 
ing Market and 
Grass-Eating Hog. 
All stock Register¬ 
ed and Imported. 
A. Vrooman, B.153, 
Carthage, N. Y. 
Phpchirp Pigs. Quality right; prices right. All stock 
UllCOllllG registered. Silas Dean, Oak Hill, N. Y. 
POLAND-CHINAS. 
Pigs, 0 to 8 weeks old, .ft; 3 to5 mos., $5 to 18; from 
registered stock. C. O. GREGORY', Welcome, N. Y. 
einiNlf Hi Khe st prices paid for skunk and other 
OhUlilY furs. Send stamp to M. J. JEWETT 
Redwood, Jefferson County, N. Y. 
Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine. 
Geo. W. Curtis, M. S. A. Origin, History, Im¬ 
provement, Description, Characteristics, Mer¬ 
its, Objections, Adaptability South, etc., of 
each of the Different Breeds, with Hints on 
Selection, Care and Management. Methods 
of practical breeders of the United States and 
Canada. Superbly illustrated. About 100 
full-page cuts. Cloth.. $2 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
