1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7 77 
Diary of the Week. 
Commissioner of Pensions Evans states that 
the war with Spain has cost 2,906 lives; of these 
2.600 succumbed in the camps. The French Court 
of Cassation has decided to grant a revision of 
the Dreyfus case. It is now said that Spain is 
willing to let the Philippines go if the United 
States will assume the debt of the Islands, which 
amounts to 140,000,000, Saturday, October 29. 
The body of Col. Waring was cremated at Swin¬ 
burne Island; his apartments were disinfected, 
and persons there exposed to infection are in 
quarantine. Five anarchists, whose baggage 
contained dynamite cartridges, arrived at Ponce, 
Port! Rico, on the steamer Philadelphia, and 
were arrested. Another nurse died of bubonic 
plague at Vienna. The First Tennessee Regiment 
sailed from San Francisco for Manila, on the 
steamer Zealandia, Sunday, October 30. 
Gen. Leonard Wood, Governor of the Military 
Department of Santiago, authorizes the state¬ 
ment that there has not been a case of yellow 
fever in Santiago City during the last 60 days, 
and that the ordinary sickness during the same 
period has been 90 per cent less than usual at 
this season. The American Peace Commission¬ 
ers presented a written expression of the purpose 
of the United States to take the entire group of 
the Philippine Islands, and to assume such pro¬ 
portion of the Philippine debt as has been spent 
for the benefit of the Islands or their inhabitants 
in public works, improvements and permanent 
betterments. The United States Supreme Court 
sustained the constitutionality of that feature of 
the tax laws of New York, which lays a tax on 
foreign corporations doing business in the State, 
according to the capital employed. Two justices 
dissented. The completion of the United States 
Treasury returns for October gives the net cost of 
the Spanish war up to the present time about 
$160,000,000 The Japanese Cabinet has resigned 
in a body. A corner in October ribs on the Chi¬ 
cago market squeezes P. D. Armour badly, Mon¬ 
day, October 31. 
Dr. Curtis, of the New York State Board of 
Health, complains that many physicians in the 
western part of the State do not correctly diag¬ 
nose mild cases of smallpox, thus preventing 
proper isolation and treatment, and contributing 
to the spread of the disease. It is stated that the 
Marchand expedition will be unconditionally re¬ 
called from Fashoda. Russia declines to sup¬ 
port France in the Fashoda affair; she has her 
hands full with her own designs on China. Official 
figures give the Canadian majority for prohibition 
at the recent election 13,884. Dr. Garner, who is 
striving to suppress the trade in Chinese slave 
girls in San Francisco, has been warned by 
friendly Chinese that the Highbinders have de¬ 
cided to kl'l him unless he desist from his efforts. 
It is reported in Paris that Spain will not consent 
to give up the Philippines. In this country, the 
sentiment seems to be against the payment of 
any indemnity whatever. Testimony by Gen. 
Bates, before the War Investigation Commission 
at Lexington, Ky., was to the effect that, in Cuba 
there was a woeful shortage of medical officers, 
supplies, horses and ambulances, for which there 
was no excuse. There were no means of shoeing 
horses and mules. Dr. Mearns said that Camp 
Thomas was a disease breeder, and men detailed 
to the hospitals were incompetent. Major Glen- 
nam testified to bad conditions at Chickamauga, 
and to inability to secure needed supplies. Many 
others testified as to the lack of medicines, 
blankets, proper food and clothing, and a gen¬ 
eral disposition on the part of the medical and 
quartermaster departments to neglect or refuse 
to furnish needed supplies, Tuesday, November 1. 
The War Investigation Commission at Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky., heard testimony about many more cases 
of inefficiency and negligence on the part of 
army officials. As the United States transport 
Port Victor was about to leave Santiago with 
sick soldiers, Gen. Wood discovered that there 
were on board no provisions specially suitable 
for sick persons, that there was an entire lack 
of delicacies, and that the medical supplies were 
insufficient. He had the vessel supplied with Red 
Cross stores, and says that, hereafter, he will 
personally inspect every transport. Won’t some 
one inspect Surgeon General Sternberg? The 
health of the United States troops at Manila is 
reported to be far from good. Negro soldiers in 
camp at Knoxville,Tenn., mutinied against their 
white officers, Wednesday, November 2. 
The transj)ort Panama which was yesterday 
reported as wrecked, called at Havana, and pro¬ 
ceeded north. The Secretary of War issued the 
first order looking to the military occupation of 
Cuba. Gen. Carpenter, with several regiments, 
will land in the eastern part of the island about 
November 22. Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive 
president of the defunct Keystone Bank, returned 
to Philadelphia and surrendered himself after 
more than seven years’ absence. The War Inves¬ 
tigation Commission heard evidence at Cincin¬ 
nati from officers who were eye witnesses, of in¬ 
efficiency, neglect and brutality toward the sick 
in the hospitals at Chickamauga. One witness 
blamed the Secretary of War directly for the con¬ 
dition of things. Mrs. Russell Sage offered to 
present to the Government a hotel in Virginia 
formerly a health resort, as a hospital to accom¬ 
modate 1,000 soldiers, but the offer was declined 
on account of the inaccessibility of the site. 
Cuban street laborers at Santiago strike for 
hi 'her wages, Thursday, November 3. 
Spain rejects our proposition to take the en¬ 
tire Philippines grouj), and reimburse Spain for 
her pacific expenditure there. The Spanish 
commissioners claim that the capitulation of 
Manila, having taken place after the signing of 
the protocol, was invalid; charge that the United 
States wrongly appropriated public moneys be¬ 
longing to Spain by seizing the tariff duties at 
Manila, and formally demand the return of these 
monies, amounting to nearly $1,000,000. The 
Clyde Line steamer Croatan was burned at sea, 
five miles from Cape Charles, November 1; five 
lives were lost, and 18 survivors rescued by a 
schooner. The First, Second and Seventh Army 
Corp3 are ordered to Cuba. American sailors, 
with a machine gun, have been ordered to Peking, 
China, to protect American interests there, Fri¬ 
day, November 4. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS . 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
Weeds in Idaho — At this end of the 
country, it is hard for us to think of 
Idaho as a State needing' protection 
against weeds Yet bulletin 14 from the 
Idaho Station (Moscow) deals with 12 of 
the worst weeds to be found in that 
State, and discusses the need of a State 
weed law. The author says that, when 
he told the town marshal that the Can¬ 
ada thistle was growing" in town, that offi¬ 
cial replied, “ Why, them’s pretty flow¬ 
ers. I like to see ’em grow.” He rightly 
says that the man who needlessly per¬ 
mits weeds to grow on his farm, puts 
what amounts to a mortgage on every 
other farm in the neighborhood. 
The worst 13 weeds of Idaho, accord¬ 
ing to this bulletin are: wild oats, prickly 
lettuce, Russian thistle, Tumbling mus¬ 
tard, cockle, Canada thistle, dodder, false 
flax, sunflower, Squirrel-tail grass, and 
the common tumble-weed and hore- 
hound. These weeds are described in a 
very entertaining way. It will seem 
strange to some of our readers that the 
sunflower ranks as a bad weed out there 
in the Rocky Mountains. It is said that, 
in orchards that are not cultivated regu¬ 
larly, a perfect jungle of sunflowers is 
formed, which must be fought or the 
owner will lose his orchard. 
Unfortunately, Prof. Henderson is un¬ 
able to give us much help in the way of 
new methods of fighting the Canada this¬ 
tle. He quotes from an experiment made 
in Illinois, where the thistles were cut 
in full bloom, close to the ground. Then 
the soil was plowed three inches deep 
and sowed to millet. On September 6, 
this crop was plowed under and the soil 
seeded to rye. This rye was plowed 
under in May, and seeded to mi let or 
planted to a hoed crop such as corn, and 
given the most thorough cultivation, 
cutting out with a hoe all thistles that 
appeared. In this way, the field was 
kf'pt remarkably clean. 
Spooling Wheat. —Bulletin 37, from 
the Wyoming Station (Laramie), records 
some experiments with the stooling of 
grain. The following conclusions seem 
to cover the results of these experiments: 
When planted wide distances apart the 
straw is shorter than when thickly 
planted but, on account of the greater 
number of adventitious stems produced, 
and the larger and more numerous leaves, 
there is more straw in proportion to the 
amount of grain where there is plenty of 
room. Where given too much room, 
many more stems are produced than will 
mature heads. On account of the con¬ 
tinuous growth from the crown of the 
stool during the Summer, the grain is 
late in maturing, does not fill well, and, 
as a whole, produces light, inferior grain. 
The Chickadee. —In Bulletin 54, of the 
New Hampshire Station (Durham). Prof. 
C. M. Weed discusses the Winter food of 
the chickadee, a little bird quite familiar 
to northern readers. It was found that 
these little birds live almost entirely on 
insects and their oeggs. They destroy 
millions of plant lice and immense num¬ 
bers of the eggs deposited by injurious 
insects on trees and shrubs; in fact, 
these little birds seem to be among the 
most useful of our feathered friends. 
One case is given where, in Massachu¬ 
setts, the canker worms had been very 
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abundant, and great numbers of eggs 
had been deposited. Early in Winter, 
pieces of meat, bone and suet were hung 
in the trees to attract the chickadees. 
They came and stayed nearly all Winter, 
and lived almost entirely on the eggs of 
the canker worm. The result was that 
these little chickadees, assisted in Spring 
by other birds, saved the orchard from 
any serious injury from these worms. 
Certainly this little bird should never be 
killed. It is one of our best friends. 
A LITTLE LIGHT. 
Every young wo¬ 
man needs a little 
light upon the sub¬ 
ject of health. There 
is far too much new- 
fashioned prudery 
among mothers. Ev¬ 
ery young woman 
should have ex¬ 
plained to her the 
supreme neces¬ 
sity of keeping 
herself pure and 
wholesome and 
free from weak¬ 
ness and disease 
in a womanly w«y. 
Her general health, her future happiness, 
her good looks, her physical strength, her 
capability as a wife and mother, and the 
health and strength of generations to come 
are dependent upon this. 
Nothing in the world will destroy the 
good looks, wholesomeness, the amiability, 
and the usefulness of a woman quicker 
than disorders of the delicate And important 
organs that bear the burdens of maternity. 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the 
best of all medicines for women who are 
ailing in this way. It makes a woman 
strong and healthy where a woman most 
needs health and strength. It relieves 
pain, soothes inflammation, heals ulcera¬ 
tion and gives rest and tone to the tortured 
nerves. It cures all the ills and pains too 
commonly considered an uncomfortable in¬ 
heritance of womankind. It has been used 
for over thirty years with an unbroken 
record of success. More of it has been sold 
than of all the other medicines for women 
combined. It is the discovery of Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, for thirty years chief consulting 
physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Sur¬ 
gical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. He will 
cheerfully answer, without charge, all let¬ 
ters from ailing women. 
‘‘Three years ago,” writes Mrs. J. N. Messier, 
of 1794 Vauderbilt Avenue, New York, N. Y., “the 
best physicians in this city said there was no 
cure for me—unless I would go to a hospital and 
have an operation performed. I could not walk 
across the room. I took Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 
Prescription and after three bottles I could 
work, walk and ride.” 
Torpid liver and constipation are surely 
and speedily cured by* Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant 
Pellets. They never gripe. They regulate, 
tone up and invigorate the liver, stomach 
and bowels. No substitute urged by mer¬ 
cenary dealers is as good. 
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. 
Winter Course 
in 
Agriculture. 
January 4 to March 29, 1899. For particulars address 
GEO. C. WATSON, 
Professor of Agriculture, State College, Pa. 
ENGINES 
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THRESHING MACHINES. 
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pays for itself in many ways. The con¬ 
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threshing, shelling corn, 
separating cream, pu 
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appreciated by all. Then, too, 
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OHIO FARMS FOR SALE 
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