1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
76i 
Diary of the Week. 
Vienna is terrified by the development of the 
Indian bubonic plague, five cases having de¬ 
veloped since the case of the physician who was 
studying the plague bacillus in his laboratory. 
It is believed in Germany that a bill will be 
passed by the Reichstag so restricting the impor¬ 
tation of American meat as to be practically pro¬ 
hibitive. Army officers arriving from Manila say 
that, if we take the Philippines into our posses¬ 
sion, guerilla warfare with the insurgents will 
result. The transport Rio Janeiro arrives at San 
Francisco, with sick soldiers from Manila, Satur¬ 
day, October 22. 
Serious race troubles are in progress in North 
Carolina. At Ashpole, three white men were 
shot, and four negroes arrested for the crime. At 
Hermansville, Miss , nine negroes and three 
white men were killed in an extensive riot. The 
commerce of Manila is disturbed by the conflict 
between Spanish and American authority in 
Philippine waters. The attitude of the insurgent 
troops is said to be menacing, Sunday, October 23. 
Testimony before the War Investigation Com¬ 
mission, at Anniston, Ala., criticised the contract 
doctors and the red-tape regulations of the 
Quartermaster’s Department. It was asserted 
that only 10 per cent of the hospital corps was 
efficient. Gen. Merritt was married in London, 
to Miss Williams of Chicago. A big water-front 
tire in Brooklyn results in a loss of $300,000. On 
ingCuba; our Government does not assume the 
Cuban debt. Differences regarding Porto Rico 
and the Island of Guam are now settled, and the 
Commission is ready to take up the question of 
Philippines. The men of the 47th New York Regi¬ 
ment complain of great hardship on their voyage 
to Porto Rico. They were sent in the cattleship 
Manitoba, which was not properly cleaned, and 
the sanitary conditions are said to have been 
very bad, Thursday, October 27. 
The Acme Wrecking Company of San Fran¬ 
cisco has made a request for permission to raise 
the battleship Maine. Steamer L. R. Doty 
wrecked in Lake Michigan; 16 lives lost. Col. 
Waring’s condition is serious, but there is no 
danger of the spread of yellow fever in New 
York. The People’s Liberty League of Chicago 
is inquiring by what authority the School 
Board and Board of Health insist upon compul¬ 
sory vaccination of schoolchildren. Itisass»rted 
that there is no law on the statute books compell¬ 
ing it. Joseph Leiter, of Chicago, is reported to 
have purchased the Rhode Island Locomotive 
Works, Friday, October 28. 
IMPLEMENT MAKERS MEET. 
The National Association of Agricultural Im¬ 
plement and Vehicle Manufacturers held their 
fifth annual convention in Philadelphia, October 
19 to 21. The farmers of the country have an 
interest in the men and firms represented at this 
UNCLE SAM’S NEW TROPICAL PLANTS. 
Fig. 344. 
The farmer doesn’t look very happy. His crops on the home farm have given trouble enough 
with their bugs and blights, droughts, floods, hail and tornadoes, and now to have these new-fangled 
yellow plants saddled on him is a little too much. The reds and blacks have already made him 
very weary, and this picture, reproduced from Life, expresses his feelings. 
the recommendation of Gen. Wade, the time al¬ 
lowed the Spaniards to evacuate Cuba is extended 
to January 1. The Spanish authorities say that 
they cannot evacuate the island even by that 
date. Acting Attorney-General Richards holds 
that our Chinese exclusion laws are operative in 
the Hawaiian Islands, Monday, October 24. 
Philadelphia celebrated the first day of the 
peace jubilee with a naval parade, in which 200 
craft of variotis sorts participated. In a report 
to Secretary Alger, Gen. Greely praises the work 
of the signal corps. He claims that it located 
Cervera’s fleet, and is entitled to credit for the 
inception of the Santiago campaign. Spain pro¬ 
tests against the sending of the Oregon and Iowa 
to Manila, claiming that it is a violation of the 
peace protocol. The Peace Commission in Paris 
is making little progress; it is asserted that 
Spain is trying to delay proceedings, in the hope 
of changes in policy caused by the Fall elections. 
The French Ministry has resigned in consequence 
of public clamor, and the country is in a dis¬ 
turbed condition, Tuesday, October 25. 
Investigation of the trouble with the Pillager 
Indians in Minnesota shows that it resulted from 
abuses on the part of the whites. Indians have 
been arrested frequently without cause to swell 
the fees of the deputy marshals. The transport 
Manitoba arrived with troops from Porto Rico. 
The former Spanish warship Infanta Maria 
Teresa will soon leave Guantanamo for this coun¬ 
try under her own steam. Gen. Rios offered 
2,000 Cuban soldiers to help preserve order in 
Manzanillo, and asked only that rations should 
be issued to them. Gen. Wood refused, on the 
ground that complete disarmament and disband¬ 
ment were the only conditions upon which ra¬ 
tions could be obtained. President McKinley and 
other distinguished guests arrived in Philadel¬ 
phia to attend the peace jubilee. The critical 
cabinet conditions in Spain seem likely to delay 
the Peace Commission, Wednesday, October 26. 
Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., who has been studying 
sanitary conditions, returned from Havana on 
October 25, and is now ill in New York with yellow 
fever. Spain has agreed to our terms concern 
convention, inasmuch as the tools and imple¬ 
ments used on the farm are manufactured by 
them. I sat in their convention through the ses¬ 
sions of two days, and I could not keep down the 
ever-returning wish that every farmer in the 
country could have a seat in the convention, and 
listen to the resolutions and discussions. The 
conviction was forced upon me that, if the farm¬ 
ers of the country could meet and discuss their 
common interests, and stand by one another in 
matters of mutual interest as these men seem 
willing to do, the tillers of the soil would be a 
power in the country that would have no rival. 
No doubt, the different members represented 
different elements of political belief, yet there 
was no blind fealty to party or party boss mani¬ 
fested in their proceedings. Wherever a law or 
a custom or an arbitrary rule interfered with 
their rights and common interest, no matter 
what party was responsible for it, the interfer¬ 
ence was condemned, and the executive commit¬ 
tee not only authorized but almost commanded 
to use the name, prestige and money of the asso¬ 
ciation to defend them. The arbitrary action of 
the express companies in shifting the internal 
revenue tax from themselves to their customers 
was denounced as unjust and unpatriotic, and 
an international as well as a national parcels post 
was demanded. 
The association has a committee whose duty it is 
to arrange with railroads for mileage transporta¬ 
tion for the benefit of their traveling salesmen. 
Through this committee, they have already se- 
Two or three customers can 
compel any dealer to keep 
Macbeth’s lamp-chimneys. 
Does he want your chim¬ 
neys to break ? 
Get the Index. 
Write Macbeth Pittsburgh Pa 
cured concessions, and hope to get still more 
satisfactory rates and privileges. The law com¬ 
mittee has a weather eye out for all new legisla¬ 
tion affecting the interests of the members of the 
association, and use the prestige of the associa¬ 
tion to defeat what is antagonistic to them, and 
to urge on measures for their mutual good and 
protection. 
I have attended farmers’ meetings more or less 
during the past 15 years. What strikes me most 
forcibly in comparing them with the delibera¬ 
tions of a convention of purely business men of 
this kind, is the line of subjects discussed. We 
farmers tell one another how to grow big turnips 
and plump grain, how to fill the silo, and what 
to feed the pigs. Economy in production seems 
to be our only concern; the growing of two blades 
of grass where only one grew before is our fond¬ 
est ambition. The implement manufacturers 
never referred to a subject of this kind during 
the whole convention. They did not attempt to 
convince each other that oak is better material 
for a spoke than hickory; or that steel is better 
than either; neither did they discuss which en¬ 
gine would do the most work with the least eon’ 
sumption of coal. They discussed broader sub¬ 
jects in which they had a common interest, and 
not satisfied with mere discussion, they take 
definite measures to correct evils that annoy 
them, and bring about reforms that benefit them. 
The time of the association was not entirely 
devoted to business. The people of Philadelphia 
took the members in charge after the daily ses¬ 
sions and showed them the attractions of the 
city of brotherly love. Mr. W. P. Nolan, pub¬ 
lisher of the Implement Age, was foremost in this 
entertainment feature of the visit, and received 
a vote of thanks from the convention before it 
adjourned. 
The retiring president of the association, who 
presided at the sessions in Philadelphia, was Mr- 
W. H. Parlin, of Pariin & Orendorff Co., Canton, 
Ill. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: 
President: J. W. Stoddard; Treasurer, F. G. 
Allen. 
Vice-Presidents: H. C. Staver, Illinois; A. B. 
Farquhar, Pennsylvania; E. J. Mockford, New 
York; J. T. Smith, Vermont; E. P. Curtis, Massa¬ 
chusetts; Frank.Bateman, New Jersey; C. D. 
Firestone, Ohio; Clem Studebaker, Indiana; W. 
R. Wooden, Michigan; W. T. Lewis, Wisconsin; 
H. M. Kinney, Minnesota; S. B. Lalferty, Iowa; 
Jos. W. Moon, Missouri; W. G. Munn, Kentucky; 
Newell Sanders, Tennessee; W. E. Austin, Georg¬ 
ia; A. D. Bellamy, Alabama. 
Executive Committee: W. C. Nones, Chairman ; 
one year, F. E. Myers, J. H. Bradley, L. B. Tib¬ 
betts; two years, W. W. Collier, Jas. A. Carr, W. 
S. Thomas; three years, Frank K. Bull, Jas. E. 
Deering, A. C. Chase. d. 
In J. Fenimor* 
Cooper’s Leather 
Stocking Tales, we 
read stories of the 
wonderful agility, 
physical endurance 
and the unerring ac¬ 
curacy of the eye of 
the American Indian 
when he reigned su¬ 
preme over this conti¬ 
nent. Before he was 
debauched by modern 
civilization, he was a 
magnificent specimen 
of physical manhood. 
He lived entirely in 
the open air, and 
knew no medicine, save the simple herbs 
gathered by his squaws. 
Civilized man leads an unnatural and an 
unhealthy life. Unlike the Indian if he 
would maintain his physical and mental 
health, he must take reasonable precau¬ 
tions to combat disease. Nearly all dis¬ 
eases have their inception in disorders of 
the digestion, torpidity of the liver and 
impurity of the blood. Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery is made of simple herbs. 
It restores the lost appetite, makes diges¬ 
tion and assimilation perfect, invigorates 
the liver, purifies the blood and promotes 
the natural processes of excretion and se¬ 
cretion. It sends the rich, red, life-giving 
blood bounding through the arteries and 
corrects all circulatory disturbances. It 
dispels headaches, nervousness, drowsi¬ 
ness, lassitude, and drives out all impuri¬ 
ties and disease germs. It cures 98 per 
cent, of all cases of consumption, bron¬ 
chitis, asthma and diseases of the air-pas¬ 
sages. It gives sound and refreshing sleep, 
drives away all bodily and mental fatigue 
and imparls vigor and health to every or¬ 
gan of the body. Medicine dealers sell it, 
and have nothing else, “just as good.” 
“A few of my symptoms,” writes Charles 
Book, of Climax, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., “were 
heart-burn, fullness after eating, pain in my 
bowels, bad taste in my mouth, and occasional 
fever and hot flushes. Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery cured all these and I am 
perfectly well.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are sure, 
speedy and permanent cure for constipa¬ 
tion. One little “ Pellet” is a gentle laxa¬ 
tive and two a mild cathartic. They never 
gripe. Found at all medicine stores. 
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WE PAY THE FREIGHT. 
This Couch, freight paid, #9.75. 
The above COUCtl in covered with the best Imported i 
. Velour or Corduroy. The entire top ia deeply tufted and ^ 
onti' e Couch fringed. It has the finest springe, spring 
I edges, and we prepay freight to oil point* Knht » f the ’ 
I Mis-umippi Uiver—points Weston an equal basis. Or- 1 
I der-4 filled promptly. 
Do you want to make your house a 
home? If so, writo for our general cata¬ 
logue of Furniture, Crockery. Silvei ware. 
Sowing Machines, Clocks, Mirrors, Baby 
Carriages, Pictures, Bedding. Refrigera¬ 
tors, Stoves, Upholstery Goods, Tin Ware. 
Lamps, etc., an 1 it will save you from 40 q 
to 60 per cent, on your purchases. This 
elegant book will surprise you and noth¬ 
ing will please you more than the prices. 
We publish a n exquisite 
Lithograph catalogue show¬ 
ing exact designs of Carpets, 
Rugs, Lace Curtains and Por¬ 
tieres in hand painted colors. 
We sew Carpets free, furnish 
Carpet Lining free, and pre- v *j 
pay freight on all Carpets,!sj 
Rugs and Curtains. Do you, 
think we would spend $100,000 ’ 
a year on our catalogues if 
they were not worth having ?_ n rr> i Cl 
W ny pay the retailer’s profits j Up tn X I <5 
when you can buy of the man- O U IU I Jcj 
ufacturer ? Address this way. Per Yard. 
JULIUS HINES & SON, 
l>ept. 320 BALTIMORE, NO. 
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Carpets, 
ENGINES 
SAW MILLS, 
RESHING MACHINES. 
Best Machinery at Lowest Prices. 
Send for Complete Illustrated Catalogue. 
A. B. FARQUHAR CO.,York, Pa 
FARM 5 
ENGINES 
WITH STEEL _ 
SpecialI7 adapted and largely 
used lor driving Grinding 
Mill* Feed Cutters, Wood 
Saws, 'Corn Shelters. Dairy, 
Machinery, 8aw Mills, Etc. 
Send for pamphlet and state 
size power wanted. 
UPRIGHT and HORIZONTAL 
From 8 H.P. 
Upward. 
JAMES LEFFEL & CO. Boi 1308 SprinefieW.O. 
“CHARTER” Gasoline Engine 
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CHARTER GAS ENGINE CO , Box 26, Sterling, III. 
Cabot’s Creosote 
Shingle Stains 
Cost 50 p. c. less than paint. Cost 50 p. c. less 
to apply. Are 100 p. c. better than paint, for 
shingles and all rough woodwork. 
Send for stained wood samples 
and color studies. Free. 
SAMUEL CABOT, 81 Kilby St, Bosion.Mass. 
paid. Full descriptive catalogue FREE. 
OSGOOD SCALE CO., Blnghamtoa, X.Y. 
Good Agents Wanted In unoccupied territory. 
RHEUMATISM 
9 
Permanently cured by using DR. WHITEHALL’S RHEUMATIC CURE. The surest and the best. Sample 
sent free on mention of this publication. THE DR, WHITEHALL MEGRIillNE CO.. South Bend Indiana. '■ 
