1901 
45 
The Premiums. 
The contest closed on January 15. 
Clerks are making up records, and club- 
raisers will get their checks as soon as 
the records are complete. Here is the 
list for last week; 
Jan. 7. Jay E. Allis, New York. 
Jan. 8. Jay E. Allis, New York. 
Jan. 9. Mrs. C. B. Curtis, New York. 
Jan. 10. Jay E. Allis, New York. 
Jan. II. Jay E. Allis, New York. 
Jan. 13. Mrs. C. B. Curtis, New York. 
We yet have liberal rewards for those 
who get up clubs. Send for them. Four 
names and $4 get your own paper free, 
the five for |4. Do not worry if that 
date on label is not changed promptly. 
We are a little behind with book work 
on subscriptions, but every remittance 
received is entered up daily, and the 
credits will appear on label shortly. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Market Briefs. 
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
THE APPLE MARKET, for anything ex¬ 
cept the better grades, is weak, and con¬ 
ditions favors buyers. Some of the choicest 
cold-storage stock is held at prices above 
quotations, but such cases are exceptional, 
and $2.60 is the top notch for ordinary ice¬ 
house apples. I have noticed a good many 
Newtown Pippins. Fair-sized ones retail 
on the fruit stands at three for five cents, 
and the quality at this season of the year 
is excellent. While some of the earlier va¬ 
rieties have already lost their fine fiavor, 
the Newtown Is now at its best, crisp and 
juicy. It would be a great convenience to 
city buyers who have no place to keep a 
barrel of apples, if good fruit could be 
had in half-barrels or other small pack¬ 
ages, but the retail grocer would rather 
buy in barrel lots and sell to his custo¬ 
mers by the peck or half-peck at a big 
profit, and the trouble seems to be that 
dealers in the markets put a prohibitive 
price on the small packages. A bushel box 
of apples was offered to me recently for 
$3, nearly as much as a barrel could be 
bought for. No extensive trade in apples 
in boxes or kegs can be worked up with¬ 
out the cooperation of the retail grocer, 
and he is not going to cooperate in any¬ 
thing that will out off his profits. 
HEAVY DRAFT ON CHARITY.-A big 
strapping young fellow, with a pitiful put- 
on whine, recently asked me to buy him 
something to eat. As he appeared healthy, 
and fully able to do a day’s work, I con¬ 
cluded not to interfere with hunger in its 
worthy effort to remind him that he who 
will not work shall not eat, the case being, 
so far as could be seen, one of pure lazi¬ 
ness. Anyone with plenty of bone and 
muscle can earn enough money in this 
city so that he need not suffer from hunger. 
A person who would refuse to divide up 
with a cripple or helpless or unfortunate 
one in real distress, is lacking in that 
quality of human sympathy which would 
give him any right to expect mercy from 
others; but It is no kindness to give a 
healthy lazy man either money or food. 
Some would never work unless they felt 
the gnawing of hunger or the need of a 
new coat, and until they reform, such per¬ 
sons are of but little use to a community. 
It is sometimes hard to tell just who should 
have help, and probably better to err on 
the side of generosity by helping now and 
then an Imposter, but in cases of glaring 
fraud a positive good may be done to the 
beggar by refusing him. 
BOOM IN TIN HORNS.—It is not every¬ 
one who is honored by having a tin wed¬ 
ding on his first birthday, but this Is what 
New York did for the new century. On 
New Year’s Eve there were dozens of 
peddlers with bags, baskets and armfuls 
of tin horns, and they sold like hot cakes 
to the people who were on their way home 
from business, and wished to be prepared 
to celebrate in the orthodox way by cut¬ 
ting the midnight air up Into bias pieces. 
For 10 cents a horn two feet long could be 
had, loaded with oceans of “come-to-din- 
ner” music. The manufacturers had been 
thoughtful enough to make the horns with 
wooden nozzles, so that they could be oper¬ 
ated without cutting the mouth on the tin. 
A crowd gathers around Trinity Church, 
where the chimes are rung a short time be¬ 
fore midnight, and at the same time the 
horn blowers do their best to drown all 
other sounds. This time the special exer¬ 
cises in the City Hall Park drew the biggest 
crowd, and a brand of pandemonium was 
let loose there that discounted all previous 
efforts. There were times when probably 
10,000 tin horns were in full blast at once. 
Men and women who ordinarily would not 
think of doing an undignified act on the 
street, blow their horns in each others ears, 
and in general act like a lot of wild school 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
children. Of course, these things are all 
nonsense, but perhaps a little nonsense once 
a year is a good thing for people who are 
shut up in stores and ofllces most of the 
time; and this method of celebrating New 
Years is certainly a good thing for the tin 
horn people. 
NOTES ON SUNDRY PRODUCTS.—The 
linseed-oil market is unsteady, with a 
downward tendency. Dealers are selling as 
low as 52 cents per gallon in Boston, and 
there are indications that a 50-cent rate 
may not be far off. All sales are small, as 
buyers are waiting until solid bottom is 
reached. Animal oils are very firm, and 
any Improvement in the demand is likely 
to result in a rise in price. Prime neats- 
foot brings 50 to 52 cents wholesale, and 
prime lard oil, 65 cents. Crude sperm oil 
brings 55 cents; the finest bleached Winter, 
64, and bleached Winter whale, 48. 
Turpentine trade is dull, both here and 
at the South, 40 cents per gallon being the 
top figure named here, and 37 the highest 
for Wilmington and Savannah. Wholesale 
prices on tar and pitch are $2 and $1.75, re¬ 
spectively, per barrel, and coal tar in car 
lots sells for $4 per barrel.The 
trade in copper sulphate for use in treat¬ 
ing Potato blight is reported to be greatly 
increasing in Ireland. Drug firms here are 
receiving numerous requests for quotations 
from dealers In that country. 
White lead ranges in price from 6% cents 
to 12, according to quality; prime white 
barytes, used largely as a substitute for 
white lead, $20 per ton, and pumice stone 
in lumps, five to six cents per pound. 
.... Business in domestic hides is re¬ 
ported quiet, and tanners are not showing 
any disposition to take large quantities. 
Top price for the finest native steers is 11% 
cents, and branded hides, 10 to 10% cents. 
Hemlock leather runs from 24 to 26 cents, 
and oak, 29 to 34, wholesale. Goatskins 
from Mexico and Brazil bring from 44 to 
48 cents per pound.Rubber trade 
is quiet, and buyers, particularly shoe 
manufacturers, are not laying in heavy 
stocks. The open Winter thus far In many 
sections has put a damper on the shoe 
trade. The finest Para rubber brings 87 to 
98 cents per pound. w. w. h. 
THE GROUT BILL AT WASHINGTON. 
Arguments For and Against It. 
The Committee on Agriculture and For¬ 
estry, of the United States Senate, has 
been listening to arguments for and against 
the Grout Oleomargarine bill for several 
weeks. It is seldom that a bill receives the 
attention from a committee of either House 
that has been bestowed on the oleo bill by 
this committee. Hearings have been almost 
continuous from day to day since the meas¬ 
ure was put in the hands of this com¬ 
mittee. Of course. It is not necessary that 
every member be present at each hearing, 
as the arguments are printed, and read be¬ 
fore the final vote is taken to report the 
bill to the Senate. But the committee has 
listened with great patience to the various 
interests, and it would seem that every¬ 
thing that could be said on the subject had 
been heard before the hearings were closed 
on January 8. The purpose of the oleo in¬ 
terests has been to delay the hearings, and 
keep the bill in committee as long as pos¬ 
sible in the hope of preventing a vote on 
it during this session of Congress. If they 
could accomplish this the whole work 
would have to be gone over again next 
year in the House, and in the meantime, 
oleo would be made In imitation of butter 
and sold as butter with the advantage of 
another year’s profits In the pockets of the 
manufacturers. The committee cut short 
this little scheme by closing the hearings 
on January 10, and it is confidently hoped 
now that the bill will be reported to the 
Senate some time this month, and that 
it will be promptly considered by that 
body. 
During the first week of January, George 
L. Flanders, of Albany; J. H. Kracke, of 
New York; J. Brown Richardson, of Low- 
ville, and W. A. Rogers, of Watertown, ap¬ 
peared before the committee from New 
York State in support of the bill. Last 
week another delegation consisting of Mr. 
Kracke, Chas. H. Royce, of Rhinecliff, and 
John J. Dillon, of New York, appeared in 
support of the bill. The hearings were 
closed on Tuesday by arguments in favor 
of the bill by Chas. G. Knight, of Chicago; 
Dairy Commissioner H. C. Adams, of Wis¬ 
consin, and Secretary of Agriculture Wil¬ 
son, of Washington, D. C. The oleo in¬ 
terests were represented mainly by paid at¬ 
torneys of the manufacturers and cotton¬ 
seed oil interests From their arguments 
I am forced to the belief that they have 
made out a very poor case Their argu¬ 
ments were not only weak but Inconsistent. 
Every man whom I heard on the oleo side 
contradicted himself over and over before 
he left the fioor. Their main contentions 
are that the proposed law is unconstitu¬ 
tional, that they cannot sell oleo except 
when colored yellow, that the law is intend¬ 
ed to kill their Industry for the benefit of 
the dairymen, and that if this bill becomes 
a law dairymen and creamerymen will form 
a trust to advance the price of butter to 
the consumer. Some of their arguments 
would make a farmer smile at the blissful 
ignorance of the speakers. One contended 
that the farmers’ wives made butter in 
their bedrooms; this same speaker, who 
claimed to represent labor unions, insist¬ 
ed that he ate oleo in preference to butter, 
and Insisted that all laboring men wanted 
oleo when they could get it. He thought 
the only trouble was that farmers would 
not know what to do with their cows if the 
people were allowed the free use of oleo. 
Another claimed that workingmen in Penn¬ 
sylvania towns asked for butter at the 
store and winked one eye when they wanted 
oleo. Another claimed that the butter was 
an imitation of oleo, and perhaps the most 
amusing of all was the serious way a 
Chicago oleo employer read a “black pep¬ 
sin fraud’’ circular and offered it as an 
argument against the Grout bill. It was 
like a thief asking to have the laws against 
stealing annulled because a bunco man had 
attempted to sell a gold brick. 
Those who appeared for honest butter 
simply contend that it is a fraud on the 
consuming public to mix up cheap fats and 
color them in order to sell them for butter. 
While butter is generally colored to pre¬ 
serve a uniform appearance, there is no de¬ 
ception; but on the other hand, oleo Is col¬ 
ored In order that it may be sold for butter. 
Therein is the deception and the fraud. 
Those who spoke for honest butter called 
attention to the fact that ice cream is eaten 
and relished when in its natural light 
color, or when colored chocolate, pink, or 
strawberry. Why not adopt one of these 
colors for oleo? There is but one answer; 
it could not then be sold to a consumer 
who thought he was buying butter at but¬ 
ter prices. But the game is up. The Grout 
oleo bill will become a law. d. 
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