1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
873 
Events of the Week. 
Domestic.—Savings banks in several parts ot 
the country are discussing lowering their rate 
of interest; they assert that they can m longer 
pay four per cent upon reliable investments. . . 
Senator Quay has received a stay of proceed¬ 
ings in his conspiracy trial. . . Two laws 
rushed through the last New York Legislature, 
it is said, leave the door open for railroad wreck¬ 
ing by removing safeguards governing the con¬ 
tracting of debts. . . Rufus L. Perry, a col¬ 
ored lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., contemplates 
forming a large colony of southern negroes on 
Long Island. . . A huge gas tank belonging 
to the Consolidated Gas Co., New York City, 
burst December 13, letting loose 5,000,000 gallons 
of water, burying four men in the ruins, killing 
two more, and causing serious injuries to 10 
others. A large area, including newspaper 
offices, ferry-houses and police stations, was left 
In darkness by the collapse, which occurred 
while the tank, which was new, was being tested. 
. . . Fifty steamers and consorts were ice¬ 
bound in Lake Erie December 13, and great efforts 
were required to set them free. . . Official 
action against the seating of Congressman-elect 
Brigham H. Roberts, on the ground that he is a 
polygamist, has been taken by representatives of 
the Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, 
Presbyterians, Disciples of Christ, Lutherans 
and Friends. . . Extreme cold prevailed 
through the eastern States, December 14, being 
the coldest experienced on that date for 27 years. 
. . . Ex-Senator Calvin S. Brice died of pneu¬ 
monia in New York, December 15. 
Congress.—Senator Vest spoke, December 12, 
on his resolution against the acquisition of 
colonies. Senator Morgan made a plea for im¬ 
mediate action on the Nicaragua Canal Bill. . . 
The Pension Appropriation Bill reported to the 
House December 14, carries $145,233,830. The total 
number of pensioners on the roll is 903,714. It was 
passed December 15, without any dissenting 
criticism. . . The Army and Navy Urgency 
Deficiency Bill was passed December 15. 
War Investigation.—Gen. A. W. Greeley, Chief 
of the Signal Corps, testified at Washington that 
his men were healthy and well-cared-for. He 
prepared in advance for all emergencies, and 
impressed upon his officers the fact that they 
were responsible for the well-being of the men. 
Gen. Egan, Commissary General, urged that 
transportation be put under the management of 
the commissary. He said that food was good 
and abundant, but that the cooking was almost 
uniformly bad, and that good cooks ought to be 
employed, “if they cost $100 a minute”. . . 
The Army.—Chief Surgeon O’Reilly and Lieut. 
Weston have been sent to Jamaica, to study 
British methods of caring for soldiers in tropical 
climates. . . Discussing the reorganization 
of the army, before the House Committee on 
Military Affairs, Gen. Miles recommended a 
standard of one soldier to 1,000 of the population 
at home, and native troops on the basis of two 
soldiers to 1,000 native population. At least 15,000 
men are needed for western posts exposed to In¬ 
dian uprisings. At the present time, the frontier 
is stripped of troops, and lives and property are 
jeopardized in consequence. On December 14, 
Gen. Corbin, speaking before the same commit¬ 
tee, estimated that Cuba would require a garri¬ 
son of 50,000, the Philippines 25 000, and Porto 
Rico 6,000. It is said that there will be strong 
opposition in both houses to the increased army. 
Cuba.—Gen.Calixto Garcia died at the Raleigh 
Hotel, Washington, D. C., December 11, aged 60 
years, the cause of his death being pneumonia. 
He had been in conflict with Spanish authority 
for 30 years, and was the greatest figure among 
Cuban leaders. He was in Washington with the 
Cuban Commission at the time of his death. The 
refusal of a Havana theater manager to close 
his house upon news of the General’s death, 
caused a riot in which three Cubans were killed. 
In consequence of this disturbance, Gen. Castel¬ 
lanos has ordered the closing of all theaters and 
public balls, and has made other restrictions 
for the purpose of preventing friction. . . The 
remains of Columbus were shipped from Havana 
to Cadiz, December 12. . . In consequence of the 
continued friction between Cuban and Spanish 
soldiers in Havana, which has resulted in further 
conflict, the cruiser Brooklyn, the battleship 
Texas and gunboat Castine are ordered to that 
city, to protect the lives and property of Ameri¬ 
cans. Havana is now under martial law. . . 
Major-Gen. Brooke has been appointed Governor 
of Cuba. . . Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Governor of 
Havana, has assumed charge of that Province. 
Peace Commission.—The members met in joint 
commission December 5. Additional articles were 
added to the draft of the treaty. Among questio- s 
still unsettled are the coaling station and reli¬ 
gious freedom in the Carolines. The treaty was 
completed and signed December 10. It contained 
17 articles. The period -from the declaration of 
war to the signing of the treaty covers a period 
of 233 days, actual fighting lasting 114 days. 
General Foreign News.—The French Chamber 
of Deputies indulged in rioting over the Dreyfus 
case December 12. . . Tension continues to 
exist between France and England; British naval 
reserves are being increased at St. John’s, N. F. 
. . . The full amount has been subscribed for 
the Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum. . . 
The British occupation of Crete is to become per¬ 
manent. . . The British government is pre¬ 
paring to build an extensive dockyard at Kings¬ 
ton, Jamaica, and is strengthening the fortifica¬ 
tions of that island. 
Philippines.—The Archbishop of Manila, who 
has displayed continued opposition to American 
rule, is to be recalled. . . The insurgents have 
driven the Spanish out of Capiz, in the Visayas 
Islands. . . It is said that the United States 
must bear the expense of sending Spanish soldiers 
quartered at Manila back to Spain. . . The 
Spanish cruiser Isla de Cuba, sunk by Admiral 
Dewey, has been floated, and will be sent to 
Hongkong under her own steam. . . The in¬ 
surgents are reported to be in complete control 
of the northern part of the Island of Luzon, and 
are said to be subjecting priests and other prison¬ 
ers to atrocious treatment. . . A Red Cross 
nurse recently arrived from Manila severely 
criticises the condition of the hospitals there. . . 
Agoncilla, Aguinaldo’s agent, has left London, 
and is coming to this country to urge the claims 
of the insurgents against American possession of 
the islands. 
The Navy.—Orders have been received to paint 
the warships white, showing that the lead-colored 
war paint is no longer needed. . . The battle¬ 
ship Massachusetts, on her way from the Brook¬ 
lyn Navy Yard to Hampton Roads, struck some 
obstruction near Governor’s Island, New York 
Bay, and started a serious leak, returning to the 
Navy Yard with three compartments filled with 
water. Examination showed that the keel is 
seriously injured, and repairs cannot be com¬ 
pleted under three months. . . The Oregon, 
Iowa and Celtic arrived at Rio de Janeiro Novem¬ 
ber 11, taking part in the Brazilian inauguration 
festivities. The American ships excited much 
interest. Many other warships joined in the 
naval parade, including those of England, Ger¬ 
many, Portugal and Italy. 
AMONG THE MARKETMEN. 
WHAT I SEE AND HEAR. 
Hothouse Lambs.—The Christmas market 
opens the season for hothouse lambs. It takes 
very few to supply the demand then. The first 
arrivals weigh about 25 to 30 pounds, but the 
later markets require heavier weights. They 
are always shipped dressed. The dressing is a 
very particular operation, and upon the care 
with which this is done, depends, to a large ex¬ 
tent, the price received. They are sent with the 
skins on; but the Health Board here now de¬ 
mands that the heads and feet shall be removed. 
The first arrivals usually bring high prices, 
though neither these nor later arrivals sell so 
high as in former years. The raising, dressing 
and selling of these lambs require great skill 
and care. 
X t X 
Holiday Markets for Choice Products.—In 
general, the week to come will be a very strong one 
in the market for choice products. Fancy table 
fruits are in great demand at holiday time, and 
these will be called for during the week. Bright 
red or yellow apples are in demand at such times. 
Catawba and Niagara grapes sell well, as do 
oranges and hothouse grapes, but prices of these 
are pretty high. In the poultry line, turkeys, 
ducks and geese will be most wanted. Choice 
celery finds a special call at this time, as do other 
fancy vegetables, like cauliflowers, egg plants, 
green peas and string beans. Game, also, has a 
larger call. Prices are stiffening on many of 
these products. But it is the best qualities that 
are most in demand, and that bring high prices. 
XXX 
Squash Strangers in the New York Market 
—In one commission house, I saw several bar¬ 
rels of what were shipped as Japanese squashes. 
They were smooth-skinned, with quite a long, 
large neck, and of a very light color. They were 
said by the shipper to be of extra good quality, 
but they are something new to this market. No 
one knew anything about them or their quality, 
and the result was that they sold for a very low 
price, probably barely enough to pay transporta¬ 
tion. The seller remarked that it does not pay 
to ship new lines of goods to a market, until the 
people are educated and know what they are, 
but as to just how the people are to be educated 
without these goods being shipped here, he did 
not say. Certain it is, that it is an uncertain 
business to ship anything out of the usual 
order, as dealers are slow to buy anything with 
which their customers are unfamiliar as they 
are liable to have it left on their hands. The 
general market clings pretty closely to familiar 
varieties, especially if those varieties are of a 
satisfactory quality. Probably there are better 
squashes than the Hubbard, still these sell 
usually for highest prices, because they are well 
known. _ F . v> 
SHORT STOR ES. 
Housemen will be interested in the offer for 
sale of the young Morgan stallion, Ben Cutts, 
by Dr. J. M. Moore, West Randolph, Vt. The pic¬ 
ture of this horse appeared in Tub R. N.-Y. of 
August 20. The doctor Is also offering a pair of 
young mares, sired by Ben Cutts. 
In his address to the 18th annual National 
Farmers’ Congress, Ft. Worth, Texas, President 
W. D. Hoard laid great stress upon agricultural 
education. He placed a number of questions be¬ 
fore the Congress as to the best means for pro¬ 
moting farm education, promoting legislation 
by State and nation in this direction, and arons- 
ing public opinion to the importance of teaching 
the elements of agriculture in the primary 
schools of the country. Nearly all European 
countries are putting forth great efforts to pro¬ 
mote agriculture by teaching the elements of 
scientific agriculture in the common schools. A 
larger part of the older farmers, who had no such 
teaching, now fail to understand much of the cur¬ 
rent agricultural literature. Teaching of the 
principles and of the terms used in agricultural 
chemistry, animal husbandry, and so forth, would 
be of immense advantage to them. He hoped 
that the Congress would help to create a senti¬ 
ment that would push along this needed educa¬ 
tional reform. Papers on beet sugar gave many 
facts in relation to the production of sugar and 
its consumption, and the dangers which threat¬ 
ened the business, by the annexation of proposed 
new territory, were dwelt upon. Here is a sen¬ 
tence as full of truth as an egg is of meat: “A 
full development of the beet-sugar industry in 
America would be more valuable than the dis¬ 
covery of a new continent, and furnish gainful 
employment to as many of our own citizens, as 
do these cane-sugar islands to their dark-skinned 
inhabitants, who have no more conception of 
the Anglo-Saxon race than a cow has of litera¬ 
ture.” 
Everr woman should realize that her 
health 18 like a bank account. At the out¬ 
set she has so much deposited to her credit 
in the bank of health. If she draws out 
more than she puts in she will soon over¬ 
draw her account. An over-drawn account 
in the bank of health means one of two 
things, a life of hopeless suffering or an 
early death. 
The woman who neglects her health in a 
womanly way is making big drafts on her 
account with the bank of health and will 
soon be a physical bankrupt. Disorders of 
this description wreck a woman’s general 
health quicker than anything else in the 
world. They soon transform a healthy, 
happy, amiable woman into a weak, sickly, 
fretful and despondent invalid. They ut¬ 
terly unfit a woman for wifehood or mother¬ 
hood. For all disorders of this nature Dr. 
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the best 
of all medicines. It acts directly on the 
delicate and important organs concerned 
in maternity, giving them health, strength, 
vigor and elasticity. It relieves pain, 
allays inflammation, checks debilitating 
drains, and quickly subdues all other symp¬ 
toms. It at once stops the dragging pains 
and sinking spells, the nervousness, the 
digestive disturbances and other complica¬ 
tions that arise from the same cause. Taken 
during the months of expectant maternity, 
it banishes the usual discomforts and 
makes baby’s advent easy and almost pain¬ 
less. It insures the new-comer’s health 
and a plentiful supply of nourishment. 
Thousands of women have testified to its 
marvelous merits. An honest dealer will 
not suggest an inferior substitute for the 
sake of extra profit. 
The busy man who needs a rest can 
find no place so pleasant to visit as the 
pine woods region of North Carolina. 
There one finds perfect rest. In the 
newly built-up town of Southern Fines, 
N. C M he will find a wide-awake group 
of northern people who have found the 
climate particularly healthy and pleas¬ 
ant during the Winter months. The 
healthfulness of Southern Fines and its 
immediate vicinity is becoming widely 
known, and physicians all over the 
country are sending their patients that 
way. For health, pleasure and comfort 
it is in every way desirable. Buy an ex¬ 
cursion ticket to Southern Pines, N. C., 
but do not forget to write in advance for 
your accommodations to Piney Woods 
Inn, a new and elegant hotel, where 
accommodations can be had at moderate 
rates.— Adv. 
It is the easiest thing in the world to have 
! LUMBAGO OR LAME BACK, And k .i s l u . st as eas ? 
♦--- - to get rid of it. 
X No remedy has made surer OT" I A O /Yll 
X and quicker cures than O ■ • V-JIL# 
X IT RELAXE8 THE STIFFENED MUSCLES. j 
PRICES ADVAHCE JANUARY I. 
.99 secures this 25-gallon 
= STOCK FEED BOILER 
Send us $2 99 and your promise to pay us $3.25 
next month or $6.00 cash and we will send you 
this 25-gallon cooker, with the understanding 
that if it is not as represented we will return 
yonr money. 50-gallon size, $5.00 with order and 
$5.00 next month. It is made of No. 22 gauge 
steel and cast iron, has smoke pipe and good 
heavy grate; perfect draft. Boiler of galvanized 
steel. With order send name of some merchant 
to whom you can refer. This is the greatest 
value you ever saw or heard of, after January 1, 
price will be $7 24, order to-day. Circular free. 
FARM SUPPLY CO , 5 Beekman St., New York. 
f CAI C-The best young 
1 Ul\ OMLL Morgan Stallion liv¬ 
ing. Ben Cutts, eight years old, color dark chest¬ 
nut, 10 hands, weight 1.200 pounds. Has shown 2:20 
clip, with only 24 months’ work. Sure foal getter. 
Sire Ben Franklin, son of Daniel Lambert, dam 
Minnie by Broken Leg, son of Ilambletonian (10). 
Ben Cutts’s picture was published in The RURAL 
New-Yorker August 20, with remarks. Also, span 
of closely matched chestnut Mares, three years old 
next Spring. Broken to drive; nearly 15 hands high, 
weight. 1,840 pounds. Sire Ben Cutts. They are beau¬ 
ties, and all right. Address 
Dr. MOORE, West Rupert, Vt. 
each for first-class SCOTCH COLLIE 
pups, from registered stock. 
Pedigrees furnished. 
R. HASSELBRING, Flint, Mich. 
Kight-U/ IMn CWniMCQwith Towers, $33. Other 
Foot TV III LI LIlUlllLO goods correspondingly 
low priced. Farmers Central Supply Co., Phila., Pa. 
NCW CTDA\A/RCRDY jo,inson ’ searly 
IT L TV O I llrt TV D LMII I has four requirements. 
Large, Early, Firm, Prolific. Is your order 
in ? The time for delivery of plants is fast approach¬ 
ing. Secure the stock now. My circular has been 
carefully investigated by many wbo have ordered. 
Send for a copy. O. A. Johnson, Upper Fairmount. Md 
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WW#4lTl CU our CATALOGUE. 
CHATHAM SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY AND 
RAILROAD BUSINESS COLLEGE, Chatham, N. Y. 
A large, well appointed frame bouse on 33 acres 
of land at Hampden Sidney College, Va. House 
has large halls, two stories and attic, 15 rooms 
and two bath rooms. Furnace, gas, water in 
house. Large conservatory and porches. 
Servants’ Houses, Stables, etc. Price, $12,000. 
WALTER BLAIR, Hampden Sidney, Va. 
OHIO 
FARMS! 
FOR SALE! 
BARGAIN No. 182 !—189 
acre farm in Logan County. 
Lies on good pike; three 
miles from railroad station, 
one mile from post office. 
SOIL is a fertile sandy clay 
with a gravel loam sub¬ 
soil; one-half lies nearly 
level, one-half rolling; 
20 acres open timber, well 
set in Blue grass. IM¬ 
PROVEMENTS: Two-story frame houseof 11 rooms, 
cellar, barn 30x50 feet; stock scales, granary, etc., all 
in good repair. Abundance fruit and water on the 
farm. Price only $5,500, on easy terms. 
WILLIAMS & BELL, West Liberty, Ohio. 
13T Many other farms, any size you want. Send 
for list. 
Ill C1DUC per acre and upwards. 
■ Mi mnlTIO VU Easy payments. Mild 
climate. Catalogue free. 
GEO. E. CRAWFORD & CO., Richmond. Va. 
Fnr ^5110— 67 acre Parm with ^ ood tilled land; 31 >4 
lUI OfllG acres In grain. Good Buildings, Fruits 
and shade. 4 mile from town; reached by trolley 
and railroad. Will sell on account of health. 
CHAS. E. AHLUM, Richlandtown, Bucks Co., Pa. 
VIRGINIA FARMS for SALE.—Good land, good 
neighbors, schools and churches convenient. Mild, 
healthy climate, free from extremes of both heat and 
cold. Low prices and easy terms. Write for free cata¬ 
logue. U. B. CHAFFIN & CO. (inc.), Richmond, Va 
