1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
825 
Events of the Week. 
War Investigation.—During the examination 
of ■witnesses before the War Investigation Com¬ 
mission on Saturday, November 19. women nurses 
told of their experiences at Camp WikofT. Lack 
of room in the hospitals, lack of bedding, food 
and medicine were described. Maj. Geo. T. 
Lorigan, of the Ninth New York Volunteers, de¬ 
scribed bad cooking and unsanitary conditions 
at Camp Thomas. During the session at the 
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on November 21, 
private citizens who worked among the soldiers 
at Camp Wikoff described lack of fitting food, 
clothing and medical care there. Special stress 
was laid upon the fact that men in the second or 
third week of typhoid fever were sent away, un¬ 
cared for, to spread the contagion in New York 
and other places. Col. Roosevelt gave testimony 
November 22. He offered no criticisms, but de¬ 
scribed lack of system in feeding the men, lack 
of transportation, etc. Sanitary conditions were 
bad upon transports, and the clothing was poor. 
Inexperienced and unenterprising officers, put in 
charge of poorly-disciplined men, resulted in 
much suffering. . . The Commission has now 
left for Boston. Some dissatisfaction is expressed 
regarding the results obtained in New York. 
Teace Commission.—The Peace Commission 
is adjourned until November 28. We have offered 
Spain an indemnity of 120,000,000 for the Philip¬ 
pines. This will allow the release of Spain from 
the damage claims of American citizens in Cuba, 
who suffered loss while that island was under 
Spanish control. Spain’s proposition to call upon 
a third power for arbitration is rejected. . . 
It now appears that Spain will exhaust her time 
limit, which expires November 28, before reply¬ 
ing to the American offer. The Spanish Com¬ 
missioners suggest that $ 100 , 000 , 000 , instead of 
$30,000,000, would be a more equitable offer. 
Manila.—The Raleigh and the Boston, of Ad¬ 
miral Dewey’s squadron, have been cruising 
about, visiting several of the Philippine Islands; 
the insurgents are reported as courteous, but 
suspicious. Aguinaldo is determined to insist 
upon the entire independence of the islands. The 
Spanish cruisers Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon, 
which were sunk during the battle of Manila, 
have been refloated and docked at Cavite. The 
health of the troops at Manila is improving. , , 
Thanksgiving Day was observed both by Ameri¬ 
cans and British in the Philippines. 
Cuba.—Havana is terrorized by gangs of high¬ 
waymen. . . The War Department is discuss¬ 
ing the proper housing of our troops in Cuba; 
the possibility of wooden barracks instead of 
tents is suggested. . . The epidemic of small¬ 
pox in Holguin and Gibara is checked by the 
American authorities; 2,000 cases have been 
isolated, and nearly 800 citizens of Holguin have 
been vaccinated 
Hawaiian Islands.—Major Gen. Merriam re¬ 
ports that Honolulu is thoroughly infected with 
typhoid fever. , . The Hawaiian Commission 
has decided on a bill to be reported to Congress, 
providing for a Territorial Governor, legislature, 
and delegate in Congress. Property and educa¬ 
tional qualifications will be required of voters 
for members of the upper house of the legislature. 
Coolie labor will be abolished. 
Domestic.—Bannock Indians are setting fire 
to forests in the Teton Mountains, Wyoming. . . 
MODERN GHOST STORIES. Fig. 374. 
Lord Salisbury is represented by the Chicago 
Record as frightening Little Europe by telling 
her spook stories. 
On November 20, reenforcements of militia were 
sent to Pana, Ill., the town being terrorized by 
striking miners. . . On November 21, a bliz¬ 
zard swept over the West, in Nebraska the tem¬ 
perature falling from 30 to 60 degrees in 24 hours. 
. . , Five indictments have been found by the 
Philadelphia Grand Jury, against United States 
Senator M. S. Quay, his son, R. R. Quay, and 
former State Treasurer B. J. Haywood. The bills 
charge conspiracy with the late cashier of the 
People’s Bank, fcr the unlawful use of State 
funds on deposit in that bank. . . The Bald¬ 
win Hotel, San Francisco, was burned November 
23; the guests were rescued with difficulty, and 
several lives were lost. . . An explosion at 
the Hercules Powder Works, Ashburn, Mo., 
November 23, killed six men and injured many 
others. . . The cattle and sheep districts of 
northwestern Texas, Oklahoma, and Indian Ter¬ 
ritory show heavy losses in stock, caused by the 
recent blizzard. . . Rioting between white 
and colored troops at Anniston, Ala., has re¬ 
sulted in the death of one man and the wounding 
of eight others. . . An earthquake shock was 
experienced, November 25, in Virginia, Tennessee, 
and North Carolina. No damage is reported. 
Naval.—The Maria Teresa is abandoned as a 
hopeless wreck. . . The Admiral Dewey, first 
of the new auxiliary cruisers, is under trial, and 
proves satisfactory. . . The cruiser Buffalo 
sails for Manila, November 27. 
Porto Rico.—The United States transport 
Michigan arrived at San Juan with troops, No¬ 
vember 19. The financial conditions in Porto 
Rico are causing serious concern to the Treasury 
SAY NOTHING, BUT SAW WOOD. Fig 375. 
Uncle Sam, as the Philadelphia Record sees 
him, wishes to quit talking and get down to busi¬ 
ness. He has the dollars to make things run 
smoothly. 
Department. The customs officials at San Juan 
receive pesos only in payment of dues, and are 
refusing United States coin. The value of the 
peso (the Spanish dollar, varying in value from 
75 cents upward) is advancing. It is currently 
believed that the United States will redeem the 
pesos at an advance, and this stimulates 
hoarding. 
Canada has been much disappointed by the 
enforcement of our navigation laws, which for¬ 
bid Canadian vessels to enter the ports of Porto 
Rico. 
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. 
NEW YORK STATE. 
Place. 
County. 
Bate. 
Unadilla Forks.... 
1 
Greenwich. 
2 
Richfield Springs.. 
2, 3 
Cattaraugus. 
2 , 3 
West Eaton. 
2, 3 
Middle Granville.. 
3 
Cottage. 
5 
Hartford. 
South New-Berlin.. 
5. 6 
Knoxboro . 
5, 6 
Cherry Creek. 
6 
Otego . 
6 , 7 
Downsville. 
7, 8 
Fort Ann. 
7, 8 
Sherburne. 
7 
Kennedy . 
7 
NEW JERSEY. 
Princeton. 
1 
Millstone. 
Allentown. 
13 
Highstown.. 
14 
Caldwell. 
15 
Hanover. 
16 
Westwood. 
17 
COMING EVENTS. 
Iowa horticulturists meet at Des Moines, De¬ 
cember 13-16. 
Connecticut Board of Agriculture at Hartford 
December 13-15. 
Columbia entertains the Missouri horticultur¬ 
ists December 6 - 8 . 
The New York State Breeders’ Association will 
hold a farmers’ institute on December 14—15. 
The Missouri State Horticultural Society will 
hold its 41st annual meeting at Columbia, Decem¬ 
ber 6 - 8 . 
The Tennessee Jersey Cattle Breeders held a 
sale of 50 registered animals, at Nashville, No¬ 
vember 24. 
The Board of Agriculture of Maine will hold 
its annual State Dairy Conference at Portland, 
December 6 - 8 . 
The Ontario Provincial Fat Stock and Dairy 
Show will be held at Brantford, November 30 
and December 1 and 2, 1898. 
The annual meeting of the State Association 
of Farmers’ Clubs of Michigan, will be held 
December 13-15, at Lansing. 
The annual meeting of the Michigan State 
Horticultural Society will be held at Michigan 
University, at Ann Arbor, December 6 - 8 , 1898. 
The annual meeting of the Dorset Horn Sheep 
Breeders’ Association will be held at the Seventh 
Avenue Hotel, Pittsburg, Pa., January 10. 
The thirty-second annual convention of the 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, will be held at 
the Town Hall of Euclid, Ohio, on December 7-9, 
1898. 
Secretary Ed. Van Alstyne. of the Eastern 
New York Horticultural Society, is preparing an 
attractive programme for the meeting to be held 
in Albany, N. Y., February 21—22. Prof. Bailey, of 
Cornell, will speak on Flowers and Ornamental 
Plants; Dr. E. P. Felt, of Albany, on Hurtful In¬ 
sects in Valley of the Hudson; Prof. W. G. John¬ 
son, of Maryland, on Scale Insects; and other in¬ 
teresting subjects will be spoken upon by noted 
speakers. 
An exhibition of range cattle is to be held at 
Denver, Col., during the annual convention of 
the National Live Stock Association, January 
24-27, 1899. 
The first series of farmers’ institutes is now 
being held in Nova Scotia. Seven meetings 
are arranged for Cape Breton, and nine in Nova 
Scotia, thus far. 
Tee American Guernsey Cattle Club will hold 
its annual meeting Wednesday, December 14, 
1898, at the Colonnade Hotel, 15th and Chestnut 
Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The Rhode Island College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts, at Kingston, is planning to begin 
its next special course of instruction in poultry 
culture, on January 9, 1899, and to continue four 
weeks. 
The Texas Dairymen’s Association will hold a 
meeting at Fort Worth, on December 6, at 9 a. m. 
Among others, Ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, will 
be present and speak on questions of interest 
and importance to the association. 
The annual meetings of the American Oxford 
Down Record Association, American Leicester 
Breeders’ Association, and the Dominion Swine 
Breeders’ Association, were held respectively 
November 30, December 1 and 2, 1898, at Brant¬ 
ford, Ont. 
The New Jersey Dairy Association, formed a 
couple of years ago, is now extinct. The place 
of its convention is partly taken by a special 
Dairy Day, at the Trenton meeting of the State 
Board of Agriculture, to be held this year on 
January 12. 
Commissioner Wieting, of the New York De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, expects to make his 
coming report a valuable and interesting docu¬ 
ment. Readers will, probably, be surprised to 
see what a large amount of work the department 
is now conducting. 
The first annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
Dairy Union has been called for December 12, at 
Williamsport, Pa. Among other speakers, Major 
Alvord, Chief of the Dairy Division, United States 
Department of Agriculture, will address the 
meeting on dairy markets. 
The National Creamery Buttermakere’ Asso¬ 
ciation, at its meeting at Sioux Falls, S. D., next 
January, will award many prizes, among which 
will be a $100 silk banner to the State delegation 
having the highest average score, provided there 
be at least 20 entries from each State. 
The American Horse Show and Exhibitors’ 
Association has been formed with the following 
officers: E. V. R. Thayer, Boston, president; W. 
H. Catlin, Rye, N. Y., and Joseph E. Widener, 
Philadelphia, vice presidents; George B. Hulme, 
New York, treasurer, and Harry E. Field, secre¬ 
tary. 
Those who contemplate attending the short 
course in agriculture to be given at the Wiscon¬ 
sin Agricultural College, which begun November 
29, should apply for admission to R. A. Moore, 
Madison, Wis. No tuition is charged the resi¬ 
dents of Wisconsin; those of other States are 
required to pay a nominal non-resident fee. 
The Connecticut Board of Agriculture will hold 
a Farmers’ Convention at Hartford, December 
13-15, 1898. Among others, Hon. Geo. T. Powell, 
of Ghent, N. Y., will lecture on Education in 
Agriculture, and the Relations of our Public 
Schools Thereto, and Mrs. Alice Freeman Pal¬ 
mer, of Cambridge, Mass., on The Citizen’s Duty 
to the Public Schools. 
The Association of Agricultural Colleges and 
Experiment Stations met in Washington and se¬ 
lected the following officers: President, Dr. H. P. 
Armsby; vice presidents, J. E. Stubbs, C. L. 
Murkland, J. L. Snyder, P. H. Mell, F. P. Ander¬ 
son; secretary, E. B. Voorhees; chairman of sec¬ 
tions, C. L. Murkland for mechanic arts, C. W. 
Dabney for colleges, C. W. Woodworth for ento¬ 
mology, and L. H. Pammel for botany. 
The Indiana Horticultural Society will hold its 
38th annual meeting in the State Capitol, Indian¬ 
apolis, December 6 — 8 . Among others, the follow¬ 
ing speeches will be delivered: Notes on New 
Fruits, W. H. Ragan, Greencastle; Household 
Economics, Mrs. H. M. Dunlap, Savoy, Ill.; Should 
Forestry be Made a Part of the Courses of In¬ 
struction in Our Agricultural Colleges? Prof. B. 
E. Fernow, Ithaca, N. Y.; The Relation of Forests 
to Droughts and Floods, Prof. W. R. Lazenbv, 
Columbus, O.; Underdrainage for Orchards, J. j. 
W. Billingsley, Ind.; Experimental Horticulture, 
Prof John Craig, Ames, la. 
The National Grange held its 22nd annual ses¬ 
sion at Concord, N. H. It seems that 130 new 
Granges were organized during the year, Ohio 
leading with 32, and New York second with 21. 
The Grange is on record as in favor of postal 
savings banks and a national pure food law. It 
also seeks to amend the anti-trust law, and stamp 
out all combinations of men and money to con¬ 
trol prices for the necessities of life. Another 
thing desired is to require consuls to foreign 
countries to investigate and report agricultural 
conditions. The Grange would, also, amend the 
Interstate Commerce law, and enlarge the powers 
of the Commission. It advocates the election of 
United States Senators by popular vote, and 
would revise the salaries of public officers. It 
advocates the speedy construction of the Nicar¬ 
agua Canal by the United States, and calls for 
an appropriation of $ 1 , 000,000 per year to extend 
further the free delivery of mail in the rural dis¬ 
tricts. 
STATE DAIRY CONVENTIONS. 
Pennsylvania—Williamsport, Dec. 12-13, 1898. 
Minnesota—Austin, Dec. 13-15, 1898. 
Indiana—Mooresville, Dec. 14-15, 1898. 
Washington—EUensburg, Dec. 27-29, 1898. 
Western Ontario-, Jan. 4-6, 1899. 
Eastern Ontario—Kingston, Jan. 11-13, 1899. 
Connecticut—Hartford, Jan. 18-20, 1899. 
National Buttermakers’—Sioux City, la., Jan. 
23-29, 1899. 
New York—Gouverneur, Jan. 24-26, 1899. 
Wisconsin Cheesemakers’—Madison, Feb. 1-3, 
1899. 
Michigan—Grand Rapids, Feb. 1-3, 1899. 
Wisconsin Dairymen—Feb. 15-17, 1899. 
The old-fash¬ 
ion e d watch¬ 
man who 
prowled about 
the streets of 
medieval Lon¬ 
don, with a lan- 
tern in his 
hand to pro¬ 
claim his com¬ 
ing, and who 
! announced 
i his passage 
through the 
streets by 
shouting “All’s 
well,” was a 
very inefficient 
protector when 
compared with 
the metropoli¬ 
tan police of 
New York City, 
commonly 
known as the 
"Finest.” The 
modern policeman does not proclaim his 
coming to the evil doer by shouting or by 
carrying a lantern. He does his work more 
quietly and effectively than the old-fash¬ 
ioned town watchman. 
It is thus that in all the walks of life and 
in all occupations, times change and knowl¬ 
edge and efficiency increase. In this re¬ 
spect medical science has kept pace with 
the advance in other lines. Physicians and 
chemists have grown rapidly more skillful. 
There are medicinal preparations now-a- 
days that cure diseases that were a few 
years ago considered absolutely incurable. 
The final triumph in this respect is Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It 
was first given to the world thirty years 
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on the lunjjs and air-passages, driving out 
all impurities and disease germs. An hon¬ 
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take an inferior substitute for the sake of a 
few pennies added profit. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure consti¬ 
pation. At all medicine stores. 
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