1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
793 
Diary of the Week. 
Admiral Cervera’s flagship, the Infanta Maria 
Teresa, which was raised by Lieut. Hobion, was 
lost off Watling’s Island, Bahamas. The vessel 
was abandoned November 1, at midnight, during 
a terrific storm, while being towed by the ocean 
tugs, Vulcan and Merritt. The crew of 136 men 
was saved by the tugs. The Maria Teresa leaked 
badly, and the violent gale strained her severely, 
so that the pumps, which became choked with 
coal, were of no avail. Great courage was dis¬ 
played by all on board. The roof of a theater in 
course of construction at Detroit, Mich., col¬ 
lapsed, killing eight workmen; five more are 
missing. David A. Wells, the economist, who 
was Special Commissioner of Revenue during 
Lincoln’s administration, and founder of the 
Treasury Bureau of Statistics, died at Norwich, 
Conn., aged 70 years. It is believed that the 
report of the Nicaragua Canal Commission will 
recommend its construction at a cost within 
1125,000,000, Saturday, November 5. 
An explosion and fire in the Supreme Court 
room of the Capitol at Washington caused great 
damage. No estimate can be made of the money 
loss, which is thought to equal $200,000, but the 
loss in library and among works of art is above 
estimate in dollars and cents. The explosion 
was caused by the leaking of gas from a four- 
inch main. Vermont is investigating the salaries 
of State officers, the Governor and other officials 
being accused of using State funds for private 
purposes. Several members of the Quartermas¬ 
ter’s Department at Havana are suffering from 
yellow fever. Col. E. P. Clark, recently mustered 
out with his regiment, the Second Massachusetts, 
severely criticises Gen. Shafter for the blunders 
of the Santiago campaign. Seven men from the 
wrecked schooner Willey arrived at New York on 
a Clyde Line steamer. They had suffered fright¬ 
fully, drifting about for 23 days, with no sus¬ 
tenance except raw fish and rain water, until the 
wreck reached Walker’s Key, in the Bahama 
group. The Marchand expedition has left Fash- 
oda. The French press and people are bitter 
against England, but the latter country con¬ 
tinues to urge peaceful discussion. Extraordi¬ 
nary naval and military preparations are being 
mad^, but no news is officially published con¬ 
cerning it, Sunday, November 6. 
It Is reported that the Maria Teresa is ashore, 
stranded on Cat Island. The transport City of 
Puebla sailed from San Francisco for Manila 
with troops. The Cuban Assembly met at Santa 
Cruz, and will send a commission to Washington 
to discuss the future of Cuba. Judge Grosscup of 
the United States Circuit Court rendered a de¬ 
cision at Chicago, upholding the War Revenue 
Act, and ruling that operations on the Stock- 
yards Exchange are subiect to tax. Hostilities 
were renewed between union and non-union 
miners at Pana, Ill , but were repressed by the 
militia. The War Investigation Commission 
heard testimony from army doctors at Chicago. 
Persistent neglect, incompetence, and brutality 
in hospitals at Chickamauga were described, 
Monday, November 7. 
Heavy snow in Alaska has ended mining 
operations. The battleships Oregon and Iowa 
have left Bahia for Rio Janeiro. The coroner’s 
jury at Kenley, England, inquiring into the death 
of Harold Frederic, the American author, who 
died under Christian Science treatment, have 
brought a verdict of manslaughter against Mrs. 
Mills and Miss Lyon, who treated liis illness 
without medical aid. Col Matamora of the Cuban 
army, tired of peace, has turned bandit, and is 
committing depredations near Santiago. Gen. 
Wood will suppress him. Further evidence con¬ 
cerning conditions at Chickamauga is very un¬ 
favorable. Explosion in a coal mine near West 
Pittston, Pa., kills one man and injures four 
others, Tuesday, November 8. 
The cruiser Buffalo, which sailed from Sacdy 
Hook to join Admiral Dewey, has put into New¬ 
port for repairs. The Cabinet has decided to in¬ 
form Spain that the evacuation of Cuba is not 
proceeding with sufficient dispatch. The answer 
of the United States to the claims of Spain rel¬ 
ative to the Philippines contends that, under the 
protocol, there is justice for the discussion of the 
future of the archipelago, and that the occupa¬ 
tion of Manila is a military occupation, justify¬ 
ing the assumption of full administrative powers. 
The New York Board of Trade and Transporta¬ 
tion has adopted resolutions suggesting to Con¬ 
gress the repeal of the stamp tax, Wednesday, 
November 9. 
After a day of turbulence and bloodshed at 
Wilmington, N. C., the city is comparatively quiet. 
Nine negroes were killed and three white men 
wounded, and a new city government, composed 
of conservative citizens, is now in power. At 
ltehoboth, S. C., 10 negroes and one white man 
were killed, and many wounded, in an election 
riot. At Pana, Ill., the race riots between white 
and colored miners render the district unsafe 
for peaceful citizens. Smallpox in western New 
York is causing the State Board of Health to at¬ 
tempt a rigid enforcement of precautions against 
it. Fierce gales on Lakes Erie and Michigan 
destroy shipping; heavy snow in the North and 
East. Luigi Luccheni, the assassin of the Aus¬ 
trian Empress, has been sentenced to “rigorous 
imprisonment for life”, as capital punishment 
does not exist in Switzerland, Thursday, Novem¬ 
ber 10. 
It is asserted that Spain is determined to cling 
to sovereignty over the Philippines. The Federal 
authorities have been asked to examine into the 
race riots in North Carolina. Quiet has been 
restored at Wilmington. Thirteen natives who 
took part in the massacre of American mission¬ 
aries at Sierra Leone last May have been hanged 
by the British authorities. A banquet was given 
to Gen. Miles by distinguished citizens of New 
York. Col. C. W. Williams, Chief Quartermaster 
at Havana, and his clerk, died in that city of 
yellow fever. An explosion of powder and kero¬ 
sene in a fire at Hanover, Mass., killed four men 
and injured 10 others. Gen. Whittier, Collector 
of Customs at Manila, states that the currency, 
opium, and admission of Chinese are serious 
problems, but that the country is wonderfully 
rich in resources. Cuba will ask us for a loan of 
$50,000,000, to be distributed among her soldiers, 
to enable them to open up their lands, Friday, 
November 11. . 
MEETING OF DAIRY DEPARTMENTS . 
The second annual meeting 1 of the 
National Association of State Dairy and 
Food Departments was held at Harris¬ 
burg, Pa., October 18-21. An able ad¬ 
dress on Dairying was delivered by Hon. 
H. B. Cannon, Dairy Commissioner of 
Colorado, who is not only acquainted 
with the subject from a theoretical point, 
but also the practical, being the pos¬ 
sessor of the largest dairy farm in his 
State. A further discussion of the sub¬ 
ject by several of the members present 
revealed the fact that it is a live issue. 
The presence of several noted chemists 
added new life to the subsequent ses¬ 
sions, particularly when the question. 
Is reducing cider vinegar, by the addition 
of water, to the legal standard, a viola¬ 
tion of law ? was taken up. The prin¬ 
cipal address on the subject was de¬ 
livered by Joseph H. Shoemaker of Phila¬ 
delphia, touching the legal points in¬ 
volved. He was followed by Elmer W. 
Moore of Pittsburg. An address on the 
oleomargarine question was ably de¬ 
livered by George L. Flanders, Assistant 
Commissioner of Agriculture, of New 
York, followed by George A. Whittaker, 
Dairy Commissioner of Massachusetts, on 
the same subject. The Association was 
honored by the presence of Prof. Henry 
E. Alvord, who, after being made an 
honorary member of the Association, 
was listened to on the subject of the 
Legal Status of Renovated Butter under 
our Pure Food Laws. This received 
further attention at the hands of the 
Dairy and Food Commissioner of Penn¬ 
sylvania, Major Levi Wells, who has 
made every possible effort to bring to 
justice, all venders of the nefarious 
article, within his jurisdiction. 
The practical enforcement of pure food 
laws proved a very attractive and in¬ 
teresting subject, the opening address 
being made by Elliot O. Grosvenor, of 
Michigan, followed by Thos. J. Edge, 
Secretary of Agriculture for Pennsyl¬ 
vania ; II. C. Adams, Dairy and Food 
Commissioner of Wisconsin; John B. 
Noble, Dairy and Food Commissioner of 
Connecticut, and others. 
The committee on resolutions in their 
report recommended the following : 
That Congress be requested to enact a law to 
prevent the false branding of dairy and food 
products as to the State in which they were 
produced or manufactured. 
That Congress give authority to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture to extend the inspection of 
meats for export to include butter, cheese and 
condensed milk, and that Congress shall enact 
a law that dairy products coming into a State 
shall be as if manufactured in the State, and 
shall not be exempt from the laws thereof be¬ 
cause of being in the original packages. 
The following officers were elected : 
President, Jos. E. Blackburn, of Ohio. 
Vice-Presidents, George L, Flanders, of 
New York; Major Levi Wells, of Penn¬ 
sylvania ; John B. Noble, of Connecticut. 
Secretary and Treasurer, Elliot O. Gros¬ 
venor, of Michigan. The executive com¬ 
mittee for the ensuing year are, Jos. E. 
Blackburn, Ohio; Geo. M. Whittaker, 
Massachusetts ; H. B. Cannon, Colorado ; 
Prof. A. S. Mitchell, Wisconsin. The 
Association accepted the kindly invita¬ 
tion of the Governor of Colorado to hold 
their next annual session at Denver, 
Col. • t. c. F. 
A DAIRY BULLETIN. 
A bulletin is soon to be issued by the Cornell 
University Agricultural Experiment Station on 
Studies in Milk Secretion. Since the Spring of 
1994 the Experiment Station, through its Dairy 
Department, has been conducting official tests of 
purebred cows of various herds throughout the 
State, and it is upon records so obtained that 
these studies are based. Representatives from 
the Station have made 210 separate tests of 
153 different animals. The bulletin gives 
the complete record for one week of each 
cjw tested, the amount of milk and butter- 
fat produced, and the daily grain and fodder 
ration. Comparison is made between the records 
of cows tested while at pasture and those tested 
ou stall feed. The average gain in production 
from two-year olds to aged cows is given. 
The yield of milk for seven days is found to 
vary from 15G to 654 pounds, and of butter-fat 
from 5*4 to 21 *4 pounds. The amount of grain 
eaten daily by cows in the stable varies from 14 
to 53!4 pounds, and of coarse fodder from 41 to 92 
pounds. The largest daily ration consumed by 
one animal consisted of 18 pounds wheat bran, 
15 pounds corn meal, 8 pounds ground oats, 
6*4 pounds cotton-seed meal, 6 pounds oil meal, 
27*4 pounds clover ensilage, 2954 pounds corn en¬ 
silage, and 1*4 pound cut corn-stalks. The wide 
variation in food eaten and in yield of butter-fat 
is no more striking than the varying power of 
different cows to use their food economically. 
The amount of food, in dry matter, required to 
produce 100 pounds of milk, varies from 38 to 141 
pounds, and to produce one pound of fat from 
11*4 to 45 pounds. The subject of the economic 
use of food is carefully treated. 
On the question of the variation in per cent of 
fat, it is shown that there is slight variation be¬ 
tween animals of different ages; that up to 90 
days from calving there is little, if any, change 
in the quality of the milk; that the milk of the 
older cows does not run so even in quality as the 
milk of the younger animals; and that the high¬ 
est per cent of fat usually follows the shorter 
period between milkings, and the lowest per cent 
of fat usually follows the longer period, most of 
the highest per cents coming at noon and most of 
the lowest per cents in the morning. 
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—. as common a 
mode of loco¬ 
motion as the 
bicycle. Only a 
few years ago 
people would 
have laughed at 
the idea that 
all the world 
-would shortly 
be awheel. 
It is not in me¬ 
chanics alone that 
the world is making rapid progress. Not 
many years ago all physicians pronounced 
consumption an incurable disease. To-day 
a large proportion of people recognize that 
it is a distinctly curable disease. Doctor 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures 
98 per cent, of all cases of consumption. 
It has stood the test for thirty years. Thou¬ 
sands of people who were given up by their 
doctors, and had lost all hope owe their 
lives to this marvelous remedy. It acts 
directly on the lungs, driving out all im¬ 
purities and disease germs. It restores the 
appetite, corrects all disorders of the diges¬ 
tion, strengthens the weak stomach, makes 
the assimilation of the life-giving elements 
of the food perfect, invigorates the liver, 
purifies the blood and tones the nerves. It 
is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. 
It does not make flabby flesh like cod liver 
oil, but the firm, muscular tissue of abso¬ 
lute health. An honest dealer will not 
offer you an inferior substitute for the sake 
of a little added profit. 
Miss Mary Whitman, of Bast Dickinson, 
Franklin Co., N. Y., writes: "For nearly ten 
months I have had a bad cough, and instead of 
getting better, it grew worse. I was said to have 
consumption. I tried Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬ 
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empty I had no cough and was cured.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Sg® 
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Dr. HAYES, 
Buffalo, N.Y. 
ASTHMA 
Cured to 
Stay Cured 
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THE 
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