1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
889 
Events of the Week. 
Philippines.—Aguinaldo has removed his em¬ 
bargo upon Americans, and will now permit any 
foreigners except Spaniards to travel through 
the territory held by the Revolutionists, so long 
as they are unarmed. . . The American 
authorities now compel doctors in Manila to quar¬ 
antine cases of smallpox. November 17, there 
were 18 cases of smallpox among our troops, out 
of 750 men in the hospitals. . . The Fourth 
and Seventeenth Infantry have been ordered to 
Manila, to relieve volunteers. The officers will 
be permitted to take their families, as the term 
of service is likely to be several years. 
General Foreign News.—The American, Brit¬ 
ish, German and Japanese merchants at Shang¬ 
hai have protested, through their respective min¬ 
isters, against an extension of the French area 
of exclusive control at that place. The British 
cruiser Iphigenia arrived at Shanghai December 
17, and China interprets her arrival as meaning 
that England will oppose French claims. . . 
Russia has ordered 10 torpedo boat destroyers 
for the Pacific fleet. , . Major Marchand left 
Fashoda December 11, and the British and Egyp¬ 
tian flags were hoisted there. . . The explo¬ 
sion of a powder magazine at Hangchow, China, 
leveled a square mile of houses, and killed 3,000 
soldiers. American and French missions are re¬ 
ported damaged,but there are no fatalities among 
Europeans. . . Minister Conger has followed 
Sir Claude Macdonald in protesting against the 
extension of French influence in the Yangste- 
Kiang. The desire of France to extend her juris¬ 
diction is likely to cause friction with the United 
States. . . Serious riots have occurred at Tou¬ 
louse, France, as a result of the Dreyfus agita¬ 
tion. . . The British government has given 
orders for the building of four new warships. 
Domestic.—The President has been warmly 
welcomed at Montgomery, Ala., where he made 
a speech in the old Confederate capitol, Decem¬ 
ber 16. He also visited the Normal School for 
the colored race at Tuskegee. . . Treasurer 
Lammerts, of Niagara County, N. Y., is short in 
his accounts $46,303, . . The State income-tax 
bill drafted by Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, con¬ 
tains the following schedule of rates: Incomes 
$500 to $2,500, one-quarter of one percent; $2,500 to 
$5,000, one-half of one per cent; $5,000 to $10,000, 
one per cent; over $10,000, two per cent. It is ex¬ 
pected that the minimum will be changed to 
$1,000. . . During the week ending December 
17, 10 persons died through fires in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. . . Eight men and two girls rescued in 
midocean from the disabled New Brunswick 
schooner Deerhill, reached New York December 
18 on the British ship Pawnee. . . The jury in 
the case of United States Senator Kenney, on 
trial at Wilmington, Del., for conspiracy in mis¬ 
use of bank funds, failed to agree after 70 hours’ 
deliberation. The first trial had, also, resulted 
in a hung jury, after 79 hours’deliberation. . . 
Destitution among small farmers in parts of 
Monterey County, California, is causing the 
necessity of relief movements. Dry weather for 
two years has ruined crops, and the farmers are 
destitute of food or seed. . . Fire in Terre 
Haute, Ind., December 19, involves a loss of over 
$2,000,000. Eleven persons were injured. . 
An avalanche in the Chilkoot Pass killed six 
persons December 9. . . With a view to im¬ 
proving the sanitary conditions of coaches and 
depots, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Com¬ 
pany has prohibited tobacco chewing. . . Ethan 
A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, has been named as 
Secretary of the Interior, to succeed Mr. Bliss, 
who resigns. . . Drunken soldiers of the First 
Mississippi Volunteers shot at citizens from the 
train near Eutaw Springs, Miss., killing two per¬ 
sons. . . During a heavy fog, December 21, a col¬ 
lision on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Colonia, 
N. J., killed two persons and injured 13 others. . . 
An ice gorge in the Black River, at Lorain, O., 
is endangering millions of dollars’ worth of prop¬ 
erty. . . The grip epidemic in New York and 
other cities was increasing December 22; 25,000 
cases were reported in Philadelphia. 
War Investigation.—Gen. Weston testified 
December 16 that he heard no complaints of the 
commissary while at Siboney, and that the hard¬ 
ships of the Santiago campaign were a mere 
bagatelle compared with what he had suffered 
on the frontier. Chaplain Henry C. McCook, of 
the Second Pennsylvania, said that, July 25, there 
was a lack of all medical supplies at Santiago. 
He denounced red tape methods, and made sug¬ 
gestions for improvement. . . December 20, 
Gen. Shatter testified before the Commission, 
explaining the difficulties of the Santiago cam¬ 
paign. Capt. Hardy, of the Fifth Illinois, severely 
criticised the First Division hospital at Camp 
Thomas, especially on account of the ignorant 
nurses and unclean beds. . . Gen. Miles gave 
testimony December 21. He criticised arrange¬ 
ments for landing at Santiago, and said that the 
men had to advance without supplies. Much 
food was spoiled because shipped in bulk, with¬ 
out any means of knowing what was there. 
Much of the meat, both canned and refrigerated, 
was unfit for food. Gen. Miles said that there 
were plenty of cattle in Porto Rico, and beef 
could have been bought there for six cents a 
pound. He thought that the refrigerator beef 
was preserved with chemicals, and said that “ it 
had an odor exactly like an embalmed dead 
body.” He considered that much of the sickness 
was due to,the food. 
Cuba.—Gen. Davis has taken command at Pinar 
del Rio. The district is in a terrible condition, 
ravaged to destruction, and one-half the former 
population has been killed or starved to death 
. . . Dr. Archinard, of the American Commis¬ 
sion, reported December 17 that, out of 315 
patients in Havana insane asylum, 170 were sick 
and the remainder were starving and without 
clothes. In one year, 720patients died of hunger. 
American authorities are taking charge of these 
sufferers. . . Havana is in a state of anarchy, 
Spanish soldiers causing much disorder. . . 
The scheme of municipal taxes at Santiago, ar¬ 
ranged by Americans and Cubans, will yield dur¬ 
ing the first year, $240,000, or 60 per cent under 
the Spanish schedule. It is not retroactive, and 
Gen. Wood decides that he will not compel the 
payment of back taxes. The city loses about 
$100,000 by this ruling. Gen. Wood prohibits the 
carrying of any weapons in the city. The first 
persons arrested under this order were three 
Americans. . . December 21, the President 
ordered immediate relief for the destitute in 
Havana and Guines. The distress is appalling. 
During the past 11 months, there have been, in 
Havana, 19,480 deaths, and only 2,228 births. 
Hawaii.—A petition is being circulated among 
the natives praying President McKinley not to 
appoint to the position of governor any one con¬ 
nected with the recent revolution in the islands. 
Ex-Pres. Dole is mentioned for the position. It 
is asserted that another petition of a startling 
nature is about to be circulated, asking France 
to interfere with the present government, and to 
restore the monarchy. 
Congress. — December 16, the House passed 
without division the bill to extend the customs 
and internal revenue laws over the Hawaiian 
Islands. . . The House Committee on Naval 
Affairs has decided in favor of a bill to increase 
the enlisted men in the navy to 20,000, with 2,500 
apprentices. . . The bill making appropria¬ 
tions for the Agricultural Department for the 
year ending June 30, 1899, reported to the House 
December 19, carries a total of $3,696,322, which is 
$137,120 more han the bill for the current year. 
But of this increase, $60,000 is for the weather 
service for the West Indies, which sum was car¬ 
ried for the present year in the Urgency De¬ 
ficiency bill. The most important increase is one 
of $50,000 for the Bureau of Animal Industry, on 
account of the increased demand for inspection 
of meats intended for export. The bill was passed 
December 20. 
Peace Negotiations.—The text of the Peace 
treaty was given out December 19. The articles 
providing for the cession of the Philippines pro¬ 
vide also that the United States shall pay to 
Spain the sum of $20,000,000, within three months 
after the exchange of ratifications. Details of 
the evacuation are to be arranged by a joint 
commission in Cuba and Porto Rico. Spain re¬ 
nounces all public property, records, etc., in the 
ceded property. Spanish troops are to be re¬ 
turned at our expense. 
Tiie Navy.—The Oregon and Iowa reached 
Valparaiso, Chili, December 17. From there, 
they will go to Callao, Peru, to await orders. . . 
An inquiry is being made into the injury to the 
Massachusetts. . . The cruiser Cincinnati ran 
aground in Santiago Harbor, December 18. She 
was uninjured. The harbor will be resurveyed. 
The Army.—Two transports, carrying 3,600 
regulars, are to be sent from New York to Manila 
rapidly, by way of the Suez Canal. Lack of 
transportation on the Pacific Coast causes this 
shipment from New York. . . The amended 
Hull Bill for the reorganization of the army in¬ 
cludes the appointment of 100 army dentists. 
Fifty thousand of the volunteers are to be mus¬ 
tered out shortly. This will save $780,000 a month 
in pay alone, and will reduce the military force 
to about 107,000 men. 
AMONG THE MARKETMEN. 
WHAT I SEE AND HEAT}. 
Banana Brevities.— I asked a banana 
jobber why prices are so low. “ Because 
of the large number brought in, and be¬ 
cause of the heavy sales at auction ; 
prices at the latter have been low, and 
other dealers have had to meet them. 
Prices were never lower.” “What has 
become of the red bananas ? I haven’t 
seen any in a long time.” “ Most of them 
came from Cuba, and during the revolu¬ 
tion there for the past three years, the 
plantations have been destroyed, or else 
not worked. A few red ones come from 
Central America whence most of the yel¬ 
lows come, but not many.” 
X X X 
Fancy Apples.—I saw a barrel of 
very fine Greenings in one commission 
house, large, smooth, even in size. I 
asked the price; “ $4 50 to $5 per barrel.” 
Such apples sell quickly, and are a pleas¬ 
ure to both buyer and seller. Yet plenty 
of apples are begging for buyers at $2 
or $2.50 a barrel. Which are more satis¬ 
factory to the growers ? I saw one bar¬ 
rel of apples with a layer of excelsior at 
each end, and between the layers of ap¬ 
ples. Yet the apples themselves were 
nothing extra. This was carrying fancy 
packing to an extreme. 
X X X 
Made on the Premises. —The fol¬ 
lowing sign hangs in the window of a 
popular down-town restaurant: 
: Pure Vermont Maple : 
: Syrup ; 
: Made on the Premises. ; 
This isn’t Vermont, and no maple trees 
are growing within miles of this place, 
unless in the parks. The sign furnishes 
material for many a scoffer. Still it’s 
all straight enough. The syrup is made 
from maple sugar. In all these restaur¬ 
ants, buckwheat cakes are extremely 
popular during the Winter, and maple 
syrup accompanies them. It must neces¬ 
sarily be from last Spring’s run of sap. 
But it can be made from the sugar by 
melting, cheaper than it can be pur¬ 
chased as syrup, hence it is made. Sugar 
is more easily kept than syrup Cold 
storage helps both. The syrup in some 
of the cheaper places is, probably, adul¬ 
terated with cane sugar or worse, but is 
likely to be pretty straight in the better 
class of lunch-rooms. f. h. v. 
Some people in the world persist in 
clinging' to old methods. There are men 
who still use a forked stick in place of a 
modern plow. There are also men, who 
when they are troubled with a disordered 
stomach or liver, resort to the old-fashioned 
violent remedies that rack and rend the 
whole body, and while they give temporary 
relief, in the long run do the entire system 
a great amount of harm. 
Modern science has discovered remedies 
infinitely superior to these old-fashioned 
drugs, that do their work by promoting the 
natural processes of excretion and secre¬ 
tion and gently correcting all circulatory 
disturbances. When a man feels generally 
out of sorts, when he loses sleep at night, 
when he gets up headachey and with a bad 
taste in his mouth in the morning, when he 
feels dull and lethargic all day, when his 
appetite is poor and his food distresses 
him, when work comes hard and recreation 
is an impossibility, that man, though he 
may not believe it, is a pretty sick man. 
He is on the road to consumption, nervous 
prostration, malaria, or some serious blood 
disease. In cases of this description a man 
should resort at once to Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery. It is the best medicine 
for a weak stomach, impaired digestion 
and disordered liver. It is the great blood- 
maker and purifier, flesh-builder and nerve 
tonic. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of 
consumption, bronchitis, lingering coughs 
and kindred ailments. Thousands have 
testified to its marvelous merits. It is 
a modern, scientific medicine that aids 
without goading nature, and that has stood 
the test for thirty years. Medicine dealers 
sell it. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure constipation. 
4 Buggy Wheels, with tire on, $5.80 
With Axles and Boxes set, $8.20 
I make all sizes and grades. Carriage and 
Wagon Hardware every description. Cat. 
free. W. W. Boob, Center Hall, Dept.R,Pa. 
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TEN WEEKS FOR TEN CENTS. 
That big family paper, The Illustrated Weekly Sentinel 
of Denver, Col. (founded 1890), will be sent 10 weeks 
on trial for 10c.; clubs of 6 , 50c.; 12for$l. Special offer 
solely to introduce it. Latest mining news and illus¬ 
trations of scenery, true stories of love & adventure 
Ad. as above & mention The R.N.-Y.; stamps taken. 
MEN AT WORK 
OR ON 
PLEASURE BENT 
are always 
subject to some 
ACCIDENTAL HURT 
OR 
PHYSICAL STRAIN. 
ST. JACOBS Q|L -goodfriend in 8 „ch 
times of need ; it cures surely. 
The good name of 
Allcock’s 
Porous piasters 
has induced many persons to 
deceive the public by offering 
plasters which are not only 
lacking in the best elements of 
the genuine article, but are 
often harmful in their effects. 
The public should be on their 
guard against these frauds, 
and, when a plaster is needed, 
be sure to insist upon having 
the best. When you buy All¬ 
cock’s, you obtain absolutely 
the best plaster, made. 
Berry, Fruit and Potato Growers! 
Do you know that the finest apples, 
peaches, strawberries and white 
potatoes grown in the United States, 
are grown on the line of the Chat¬ 
tanooga Southern Railroad ? Land 
cheap, climate mild, crops early, and 
failures unknown. For particulars, 
address J. T. SLATTER, General 
Passenger Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn 
vs n 1 vs 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 house of 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. 
XV Many other farms, any size you want. Send 
for list. 
FARMS! 
FOR SALE! 
At this season of the year a good many 
people are thinking of going to the 
milder climate of the South. There is 
no better point for one to go than in the 
sand belt in the lower part of North 
Carolina. Southern Pines, N. C., is a 
new town where a good many northern 
people have found it desirable to locate, 
and where the climate is mild, dry and 
equable. It is not so warm as at points 
further South, but there is none of the 
murkiness to be found in the low lands 
of Florida, nor the fogs and dews inci¬ 
dent to mountainous regions. Excursion 
tickets can be purchased to Southern 
Pines, and a large, new, elegant hotel, 
the Piney Woods Inn, will care for peo¬ 
ple at moderate rates.— Adv. 
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