1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
877 
As We Go to Press, 
"4 MERRY CHRISTMAS.” 
Once more the cycle of time has 
brought us to the greatest festive sea¬ 
son in the calendar of the year. It is a 
time when every Christian heart is fill¬ 
ed with new hope for himself and an ar¬ 
dent inspiration of charity and good 
wishes towards his fellow men. At the 
Yuletide above all other times we feel 
a spirit of benevolence. No matter how 
neglectful we may be of our kin or 
neighbor at other seasons of the year, 
at Christmas every one wishes to do 
something to make another human be¬ 
ing happy. This yearning of the heart 
need not go unsatisfied because of want 
of means to express one’s full feelings, 
since it is in the sentiment rather than 
in the means used to express it that we 
find the real source of happiness. A 
kind word, a letter to a distant friend, 
or any little token of remembrance may 
be more appreciated by some heart 
yearning for sympathy than the most 
costly gift to those who are already 
satiated with material comforts. Per¬ 
haps there is some one estranged from 
the family circle waiting in the shadow 
of his own mistaken pride for the kindly 
word to restore him o” her to the full 
light and warmth^nf ffection and 
love. No one Id het .te to make 
the advance lest e should meet with 
an unkind repulse or for a just sense of 
wrong to himself. The effort will at 
least serve to bring under control and 
subjection the less desirable element of 
our own nature, and such a victory over 
self affords far greater satisfaction than 
can result from any other triumph. 
Then, too, kindly acts, like all other 
human efforts, become easier of per¬ 
formance as we repeat them. As we 
feed the hungry, clothe the naked or re¬ 
lieve any distress we come closer to 
the objects of our charity or benevo¬ 
lence and feel a kindlier sympathy for 
them. So, too, in our daily service, 
whether performed in line of duty for 
a little child or for those by nature de¬ 
pending on us for support, or in the in¬ 
tercourse of business for mutual good, 
the effort to be of service to another— 
even for a reward—when pursued with 
an honest purpose inspires a feeling of 
interest almost akin to affection for 
those whom we try to serve, even 
though their faces and voices may not 
be familiar to us. 
It is something of this feeling of in¬ 
terest and sympathy that we develop 
during the year in our constant efforts 
to be of service to our patrons and sub¬ 
scribers, and it is the reciprocation of 
this sympathy and interest we read with 
pleasure and satisfaction as our daily 
mails from you bring us encouragement 
and cheer in both word and kindly ofidces. 
In kindly appreciation of this mutual 
interest, with this the last message of 
tne old year, we send our greeting to all 
memlbers of The R. N.-Y. family. We 
hope that cheer and happiness may 
abide in every home at this festive time, 
and that peace and prosperity may at¬ 
tend you from the beginning to the end 
of the new year. 
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THE RURAL NEW YORKER, 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
MARKET NOTES 
EGGS are up one to five cents, the latter 
figure being the rise on fancy fresh. Cold 
weather in the producing sections has dis 
couraged the hens, and they are taking ,1 
longer vacation than usual. The continued 
scarcity of fresh receipts has caused a de¬ 
cided firmness in the better grades of 
refrigerators. 
MILK SHORTAGE.—The storm of De¬ 
cember 14-15 did so much damage to the 
railroads supplying New York that milk 
trains were all delayed. Delaware and 
Ulster counties, from which large quanti¬ 
ties come, were entirely cut off. Dealers 
say that Monday was the worst day in the 
milk business since the blizzard of 1888. 
Prices doubled, and in some cases went 
as high as $5 per 40-quart can. Middle¬ 
men, under contract to furnish hotels and 
clubs, telegraphed for all that they could 
get from nearby New Jersey dairies, and 
bought here and there of small dealers, 
who could neglect customers for one day 
without serious damage to their own trade. 
APPLE WOOD.—We are asked whether 
there is any extensive demand for this 
wood in New York. Some time ago we 
made a quite thorough canvass of the 
dealers who might be expected to handle 
it, and W'ere unable to find any who ap¬ 
peared to be much interested. Formerly 
large quantities of apple wood were used 
in the manufacture of pipes In imitation 
of briar, but a kind of gum wood, which 
can be worked to better advantage, hae 
largely taken its place. There is a limited 
use for apple wood in the manufacture of 
tool handles, but most of these factories 
are in smaller towns, and are able to get 
all that they need from neighboring farm¬ 
ers at little above cord-wood rates. 
LABEL AND QUALITY.—On page 749 
“Niagara White Grapes,” packed by No. 
723, were mentioned as sought by a buyer 
because he had had the same man’s pack 
before, and found them first-class. That 
label, with the quality behind It, was an 
excellent advertisement. The number gave 
the package a personality, showing the 
buyer that the packing had been done by 
somebody who was willing to stake his 
reputation on the contents of the basket. 
As a contrast to this, showing the worth¬ 
lessness of a label unless it stands for 
merit and places the responsibility for 
packing upon some one in particular, the 
following is a fair illustration. I bought a 
small basket of Catawbas bearing the label 
of the Lake Keuka Grape Marketing Co., 
Lyon brand. The statement was made on 
the cover that every bunch was carefully 
selected. That might have been true, but 
evidently they had selected the smallest 
and poorest for that particular basket. The 
bunches on top were of fair size, but the 
others were so small and inferior that the 
packing could not have been an accident. 
Whoever fixed up those grapes meant to 
deceive the buyer. Of course, it does not 
necessarily follow that the company whose 
name was on the package was responsible 
for the poor quality of the fruit, for the 
label might have been stolen, and there 
was no special packer’s number to lay the 
blame to. It Is hardly to be supposed that 
a company would go to the expense of 
getting up a mark to advertise their goods, 
and then counteract all the good effect of 
the advertising by a wilful deception. This 
system of branding is certainly defective. 
A label without any personal packer’s 
mark or number is easily stolen and used 
by others as a cloak for poor quality. 
GYMNASTICS BY MAIL. — A reader 
asks: 
“Are the offers of physical instructors 
so persistently advertised worth Investing 
in or not? They charge from $10 to $15 for 
their system, to be paid in advance, of 
courfee, giving their assurance only as 
guaranty of satisfaction.” 
Probably the claims made by many of 
these people are rather extravagant, yet, 
as a rule, their methods of exercising are 
reasonable, and a healthy person who fol¬ 
lows them out carefully will be surprised 
at the bodily development gained. The 
regular employment of the majority of peo¬ 
ple does not call for the use of nearly all 
the muscles, and hence any system that 
will exercise these unused muscles prop¬ 
erly is a good thing. The blacksmith’s arm 
is usually out of proportion to the rest 
of his body. About the only men whose 
bodies are uniformly developed are the 
professional athletes, and this uncommon 
bodily strength is not infrequently gained 
at the expense of mental discipline. While 
the suggestions of professionals are of 
value on account of the attention they 
have given to these matters, we should 
not care to pay any large sum for this in¬ 
struction by mall, as a person by care¬ 
fully studying himself and using common 
sense and persistence can get up a set of 
exercises that will to a certain extent an¬ 
swer fhe same purpose. There is great ad¬ 
vantage In a regular system, for one Is 
more likely to carry it out faithfully than 
if he goes at it in a haphazard way. Of 
course, those who have any weakness 
should be careful not to overdo in exercis¬ 
ing, as this will result In more harm than 
good. Few people have the time for the 
training necessary to become athletes, but 
an intelligent use of 10 minutes a day in 
filling the lungs with air and stirring up 
the sleepy muscles will straighten up the 
hollow chested and give new Ideas of life 
to many who continually feel worn out. 
“How to Get Strong,” by Blaikle, is an in¬ 
structive manual on this subject. 
w. w. H. 
NEW YORK STATE DAIRYMEN MEET. 
A Good Meeting at Olean. 
Part II. 
In speaking of oleomargarine legislation, 
Hon. Wm. Grout said: “In 1889 there were 
104,000,000 pounds of this spurious stuff 
made and eaten as butter. Only a limited 
quantity of it found its way through the 
retail dealers, and the greater part of it 
was consumed at hotels, restaurants, large 
boarding houses, etc., these being furnished 
by the manufacturers direct. It sold at the 
price *of butter. Whenever you took a 
meal away from your own house—not at 
the home of a neighboring farmer, for 
farmers don’t have to use oleomargarine, 
but at a hotel, eating house, in city or vil¬ 
lage, it was one chance in nine that you 
were eating oleomargarine in the place of 
butter. What is the secret of this great 
fraud’s success? There is money in it. The 
104,000,000 pounds would give a clear profit 
to the makers of $15,000,000. The State laws 
have been as well enforced as they can 
with the means at command. The only 
remedy for this fraudulent sale is taxation 
by the National Government. The sub¬ 
stance of the whole business is, here is a 
great fraud; shall it be stopped? That is 
the question in which the whole body of 
American people are concerned. Think 
what a reproach It is to us that it should 
be so. It puts under suspicion every pound 
of honest butter sent abroad. We can put 
this tax upon it. Let us do it.” 
Major H. A. Alvord spoke on some feat¬ 
ures of dairying in Europe. He said that 
in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey two 
grades of cattle have been raised and kept 
pure for centuries. Pasturage Is high, and 
the cattle are tethered and watched by 
women and children. In Normandy, on 
the coast of Prance, we find larger, coarse¬ 
boned cattle. The farmers have no means 
of cooling milk, and know nothing of what 
they lose in butter fat. The butter is sold 
fresh, salt being used only as a cover for 
poor quality. The milk supply of Paris is 
shipped in on open flat cars in all kinds of 
weather, and is not expected to remain 
sweet for any great length of time. In Ire¬ 
land there are many cooperative butter 
factories. In England and Scotland the 
production of milk comes first, and the de¬ 
mand for this Is not fully met The two 
types of English cheese are Cheddar and 
Stilton. “I found nothing in the length 
and breadth of Europe in which American 
dairymen do not excel, and we need not be 
ashamed to hold up our products In com¬ 
petition with those who have been engaged 
in the dairy industry for centuries.” 
Assistant Commissioner Flanders spoke 
on oleomargarine legislation, and the need 
of interstate laws to protect New York 
cheese makers. Mr. Grout made the state¬ 
ment that large quantities of oleo are an¬ 
nually sold in New York State, but Mr. 
Flanders showed how the State Depart¬ 
ment has been able to handle the fraud 
and corner it. 
For a Kving. He has to. He must 
''make hay while the sun shines,” no 
matter how he feels. The result is over- 
w'ork. The stomach usually gives the 
first sign of strain. The organs of diges¬ 
tion and nutrition are deranged. Food 
does not nourish. Indigestion appears. 
In such a case Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬ 
ical Discovery re-establishes the health 
by a comjolete cure of the diseased organs 
of digestion and nutrition. It cleanses 
the stomach, purifies the blood and re¬ 
moves the causes of disease. It is a 
temperance medicine, and contains no 
whisky nor alcohol. 
" I was troubled with indigestion for about two 
years,” writes Wm. Bowker, Esq., of Juliaette, 
Latah Co.. Idaho. «I tried different doctors ana 
remedies but to no avail, uniil / wrote to Dr. 
Pierce and he told me what to do. I suffered 
with a pain in my stomach and left side and 
thought it would kill me. I am glad to write and 
let you know that I am all right. I can do my 
work now without pain and 1 don’t have that 
tired feeling that I used to have. Five bottles of 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and two 
vials of his ‘ Pleasant Pellets ’ cured me." 
Sick people can consult Dr. Pierce by 
letter free. All correspondence private. 
Address Dr. R, V, Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
RHEUMATISM 
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