24o . 
. THE RURAL NEW-YORKEL 
APRIL 12 
publishers’ Desk. 
OUR NEW OFFICES. 
Next week we shall have a 
little story to tell about our re¬ 
moval of the Rural. N e w- Y orker 
offices to the new Times Building. 
This is only to remind our friends 
that after April 14th, the old stand 
at 34 Park Row will see the 
Rural, no more. The growth 
and prosperity of the paper—but 
we will tell of this removal next 
week. 
• - ■ ■ ■ ■ 
THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 
Scattered through the adv. columns 
will beHocn—and should be read—a fine lot 
of commendations of The American Gar¬ 
den. The publishers of the Rural are now 
Interested in its success and are in a posi¬ 
tion to offer it to the Rural readers on es¬ 
pecially favorable terms, and we are anx¬ 
ious to put the magazine into the hands of 
every one of them. Mr. Lauriate, the well 
know Boston publisher, as conservative a 
critic, perhaps, as could bo found in a day’s 
search, pronounces it “Not surpassed by 
any monthly periodical issued in this 
conn Vry. Original an d select in all its de¬ 
tails, it is sure of success with all who ex¬ 
amine it." Its subscription price is $2 a 
year ; $1 for six months ; 50 cents for three 
months. 
B3TOur Special Offer to Rural readers 
is this : We will send The American Gar¬ 
den to any address three months for intro¬ 
duction for only 35 cents, in order that all 
may become acquainted with its excellence. 
--— - - - - 
The Rural has helped to awaken me to 
the Idea that I cannot farm as I did in the 
olden times, and I am now anxious to learn 
how, in future, to farm in the best way. I 
must thank the Rural for the help given 
me in more ways than I can tell. n. I). 
Greenwich, Conn. 
OUR people think that the last Rural 
is the best we have ever seen. 
MOSELEY AND STODDARD M’F’G CO. 
I HAVE read the R. N.-Y. more or less 
since 1854 and it gets better all the 
time. 1 want it as long as I can get the 
money to pay for it and I expect my boy 
will want it when I am gone. I have been 
fighting a mortgage and have conquered it; 
in winning the victory the R. N.-Y. has 
l>een a great help to me. 
J. J. ROYNE, MICH. 
The Rural New-Yorker is above all 
praise. It is worth more to me than a 
hired man. It is filled on every page with 
solid matter. It seeks to enlighten farm¬ 
ers in all departments of agriculture. It 
exposes with its Eye Opener all the trusts 
and frauds, and sets the rascals a-skipplng 
W. Walworth, N. Y. It. I). F. 
I have taken the R. N.-Y. seven or eight 
years and like it very much. I think it is 
doing a grand thing for the farmers and 
gardeners. I have only acre of land, 
but I would not be without the Rural at 
double itB price. G. 8. It. 
Wales, Mass. 
I CANNOT do without the It. N.-Y. I 
think the pictures of Warn’s bug-wagon 
and stump-puller will be worth the price of 
the paper to me. M. D. B. 
Nashville, Ind. 
PLEASE WRITE A POSTAL CARD. 
T HE R. N.-Y. offers special, low terms 
for short-time trial subscriptions, 
by which thousands, literally, are becom¬ 
ing acquainted with the paper. Any of 
our friends who would like to help in this 
good work, and also earn a few dollars in 
this dull season, will write us a postal card 
something like the following: 
Send terms for introduction. 
JOHN DEE, 
Decville, N. Y. 
A prompt reply from the Rural will tell 
the whole Htory.lu a few words. 
Readers will kindly bear in 
mind that the R. N.-Y. clubs with 
all respectable periodicals and 
will guarantee to them the low¬ 
est possible combination rates. 
We cannot afford the space 
which a standing list in detail 
would require. The following 
may serve as illustrations : 
R. N.-Y. and the New York Weekly 
World, $2.25. 
R. N.-Y. and the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 
$2.50. 
R. N.-Y. and Harper’s Magazine, $5. 
R. N.-Y. and The Century, $5.50. 
R. N.-Y. and American Garden, $3. 
R. N.-Y. and Christian Union, $4.50. 
Saturday, April 5,1890. 
Although the injury done to Louisville, 
Ky., by the tornado a week ago, was t he 
most disastrous ever inflicted by such an 
agency en any town or city in this country, 
yet the first confused reports greatly ex¬ 
aggerated the extent of the disaster. The 
latest reports put the number of deaths at 
187 and the wounded at 300. The property 
lost was less than $2,000,000. The city has 
not asked for outside relief for the sufferers, 
but the generosity of the country has spon¬ 
taneously given a good deal Of it. The cy¬ 
clone swept across the country from a point 
considerably northwest of Salt Lake to the 
Atlantic, its vortex traversing a curved 
line convex townrds the south. North and 
south of the revolving terror minor torna¬ 
does and cyclones as well as violent rain and 
wind storms developed and afflicted the en¬ 
tire country east of the Rock ies,except Flori¬ 
da and a strip along the Gulf in Alabama and 
Louisiana. Finally the visitation, after 
a career of wreckage lasting three days 
and covering about 8,000 miles, swept 
out on the Atlantic beyond the mouth 
of the St. Lawrence. The secondary 
or accompanying hurricanes did a world of 
mischief also. The amount of death and 
destruction wrought in remote country 
places will never be known, nor will the 
extent of the disasters in small towns ever 
reach the public ear. At Metropolis, Ill., 
between 200 and 800 houses were demol¬ 
ished; but no deaths are reported. At 
Dixon, Ky. the damage amounted to $150,- 
000; at Fool’s Mills and Hornsburg, Ky. 
great injury was done and 19 deaths are re¬ 
ported. Great damage and three deaths oc¬ 
curred at Goleonda, Ill.; Nashville, Ill., 
suffered great loss of property and six 
deaths. At Marion, Ky., 18 lives were lost 
and much property was destroyed. Indeed 
a whole column would not suffice for a bald 
list of deaths and disasters. 
There has recently been a heavy influx of 
immigrants into the Canadian Northwest, 
6,000 having arrived thus early in the 
spring. Of these a large proportion are 
French-Canadians. as for religious, educa¬ 
tional and political reasons there isa strong 
desire among these to reinforce heavilv 
their kindred already settled there.. 
Thursday the House by a vote of 129 to one 
passed a Dill admitting Idaho to Statehood. 
The Democrats refused to vote but Speaker 
Heed counted them in to make a quorum.. 
The lower House of Congress has passed 
a bill providing for a bridge across the 
Hudson River connecting New York with 
Jersey City. It will be seven miles long, 
and be as high above the water as is the 
East River Bridge. It will cost from $30,000,- 
(XX) to $40,(X)0.000 and have at least six and 
probably eight railroad tracks and will also 
afford accommodation to vehicles and foot 
passengers. The plans must be carried out 
under the direction of the Secretary of 
War. The bridge must be begun within 
three years and completed within seven 
more. It will be the most stupendous thing 
of the kind on the globe.After a 
world of protest from New England, it has 
been decided to tax hides. American tan¬ 
ners say this will drive all the great tan¬ 
neries into Canada where labor and 
materials are cheaper : but it’s hardly like¬ 
ly our Canadian friends will really get this 
compensation for the proposed taxation on 
imports of their potatoes, eggs, barley, 
etc.There is a great deal or 
‘‘kicking” against the proposed duty on tin¬ 
plate, which would take $1«,(XX),<XX) a year 
out of the pockets of the users of tinware. 
It is estimated that the tax would add 20 
per cent, to the cost of canned goods alone. 
.Columbus Delano, President of 
the National Wool (l rowers’ Association, 
strongly commends the McKinley tariff 
bill.The Court of Claims has dev 
cided that the Government must reimburse 
the Congressmen whose salaries were mis¬ 
appropriated by Cashier Silcott. 
The Senate has passed the Dependent Pen¬ 
sion Bill by a vote of 42 to 12and the House 
is sure to pass it also. It provides fora 
pension of $8 per month to union veterans 
62 years old, who served 90 days, and to 
disabled veterans under 62 years of age. 
'The bill also provides for pensions to 
widow's of soldiers, who have reached the 
age of 62, and to all soldiers’ widows de¬ 
pendent on their labor for support. The 
committee’s report says the bill will place 
upon the pension rolls nearly 800.000 old and 
disabled veterans, and about 80,(XX) widows 
and will increase the pensions of nearly 
1XJ,(XK) soldiers now receiving less than $8 
per month. The estimated cost is $89,625,- 
1110 for the fiscal year 1890 91 ; and there 
will be a probable increase in the cost for 
five years of from $3,(XX),(XX) to $5,000.000 per 
year. An amendment making pensions on 
account of wounds or injuries or disease 
commence on the discharge or death of the 
soldiers was rejected in the Seriate by a 
vote of 86 to 9. It would have cost up¬ 
wards of $500,000,000 in all. Another amend¬ 
ment. to pay a pension of $8 a month to all 
who server! IX) days In the late war, who are 
62 years of age, or as they attain that age, 
was also defeated by a vote of 89 to 19. It 
would have required an additional appro¬ 
priation of $10,(XX),(XX) for the coming year 
and the annual amount needed would have 
gone on increasing till 1905. Pension ex¬ 
penditures for the next year will amount 
to about $150,000,(XX). 
The Court of Appeals of New York State— 
the court of final resort—lias decided that 
the law providing for the execution of 
criminals by electricity is constitutional. 
William Kemmler who was the prime 
cause of over a year’s expensive litigation 
in the matter, has been resentenced, and 
will probably be the first to suffer death 
by “electrocution.” The fate of several 
other condemned murderers will also be 
settled by the decision.That gallant 
g entleman and bravo and skillful soldier 
eneral Crook, who died suddenly at 
Chicago the other day, left personal prop¬ 
erty, consisting chiefly of war papers, to the 
value of $1,(XX), but no real estate. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, April 5, 1890. 
The retirement of Bismarck and his two 
sons from the service of Germany, which 
occurred nearly a fortnight ago, is still the 
chief topic of interest in Europe. The res¬ 
ignation of the groat Chancellor was due to 
disagreement, between him and the young 
Emperor chiefly with regard to matters of 
internal policy, especially with regard to 
the labor troubles and treatment of the 
fast-increasing Socialist, element. The latest 
report is that a secret society, including 
among its members the Emperor, General 
von Caprivi, Bismarck’s successor, and Gen¬ 
eral de Vernois, the Minister of War. pro¬ 
poses to reconcile the democratic parties 
alienated by Bismarck, and that the Em¬ 
peror has adopted the social theories of Las 
salle and Taine. He is compared to Savona¬ 
rola and Constantine. It is said that the Em¬ 
peror has taken the new social doctrine into 
his own hands to save the tottering thrones 
of Europe. 
After all, Emin Pasha has entered the Ger¬ 
man service at asalary of $5,(XX) a year, and, 
having given uphis intention of returning to 
Eurone, will leave Bagamoyo about the mid¬ 
dle or April for Victoria Nyan/.a. He will 
be accompanied by a caravan of 200 Sou¬ 
danese troons under command of German 
officers. It looks as if he intended to recon¬ 
quer or recover his old Soudanese province 
for Germany. This would certainly “ rile ” 
England and the other grabbers of African 
territory.... All the “ big bugs ” of Europe 
are waiting to entertain and honor H. M. 
Stanley, and now that his book is ready to 
be published simultaneously in half a dozen 
languages and more than as many different 
S END 10 cu.m con u/ipn Produeo Commls- 
1\ O.stnmnsto L. « U. TTMIUI, *| on Merchants, 
for circular about HIM pplug Produce Also recipe 
for Preserving Kuga, KstnbllHliod 1H4!S. 
No. ‘279 WnuliliiK!on HI., New York (Hit 
SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co., 
Maine, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, ami 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DUKYEA’S SOIV8, 
Produce Commission Merchants, 11 S Warren 8t. N Y 
“FIGHTING OVER MILK.” 
A Hook for Dairymen. 
THE FIGHT OF THE DAIRY FARMERS. 
Giving a full account of the efforts now be¬ 
ing made by the Milk Producers’ Union, to 
secure fair prices for the producer and a 
pure article for the consumer in the New 
York market. 
History of a Powerful Organization 
among Eastern farmers, with a full account 
of the different methods of conducting the 
milk business in all our large cities. 
You ought to rend Oil* book. 
Price, 25 Cts. Sold by the Rural New-Yorker. 
SHERWOOD’S STEEL 
HARNESS 
It I.DI CICD TO 
CHEAP, HANDY and DURABLE. 
Reduction In Prices brings It In Reach of All. 
Wi- will supply our TKADK west ol llie 
Mississippi River from Ihe Hlirrwood IIn rn «-mii 
()«.. Kansas I lly, Mo. or from Home Olllre 
nnd Fnelory. 
SHERWOOD HARNESS CO ., 1 
HYUAOdHK. N. V. 
Warranted to be all we claim or money refunded 
Dederick’8 Baling Presses 
J)f all sizes and atyloa alwayn on hand. 
Tlioy 
arc mi parl¬ 
or to all others 
I n power, ca 
pnaity and 
durability, for 
proof order 
on trial. 
^A'ldre*' 
r of agents, 
Ml Dederick'iJ World', 
They I 
are light., 1 
htrong, cheap 
and durable. | 
We make a 
fu I I line of 
nteel cam) 
:>rcxMCK. 
for circular.' and location' 
p. u. nrni iticK .1 < o.p 
Ai.iiany 
TUB 
HORTICULTURISTS’ 
RULE - BOOK. 
What lending authorities nay of It: 
Kiiom .Iona .1. Tiiomah In Country Gentleman. 
" It Ih Juki such a portable book an many practical 
nnd experimental gardeners will want at. hand, for 
Its condensed Information on the multitude of sub- 
Jects which aro constantly coming before them. The 
matter* embraced In this compendium. Include 
among others, Insects and remedies, weeds, grafting, 
cements, quantities of seeds for given areas, plant¬ 
ing, legal measures, miscellaneous tables, collecting 
plants and hundred* of other matters which every 
one who cultivates a garden will often refer to." 
Fhom Dr. F. M. Hkxamku In Ameriean Agrlouduritt 
** It Isdinioult to conceive how a greater nmount of 
practical,every dny Information relating to fruits and 
vegetable* could he condensed Into nmaller compass 
than Is contained In this little manual. Insects and 
Insecticides; fungous diseases, and Ihelr remedies; 
waxes for grafting; cement*,mortars nnd paints for 
horticultural structure*; tables for ready reference 
In regard to the amount, time and methods of sow¬ 
ing seeds ; method* of storing and keeping fruits uud 
vegetables; these, nnd ninny other things of great 
value, are clearly set forth. Prof. Halley Is both 
thoroughly scientific nnd thoroughly practical. There 
are many single pages, each one or which contains 
practical Information worth more to any gardener or 
orchard1st than the price of the book ’’ 
From A. W Chibvkb, KditorNew England Farmer. 
“I price U very much ; there Ih ho much In It for 
ready reference of value to all who plant a seed or 
set u plant." 
"A muss of useful Information, compiled and flnsHl- 
fled In the most thorough and convenient manner.”— 
Orange County Farmer. 
From K. H. Oauman in Rural Nkw-Yoiikkr. 
" We hnve never seen In uny similar treatise a col¬ 
lection of facts so comprehensive, so practically 
Instructive, *o concisely nnd accurately stated. While 
It is specifically Intended for the gardener, the florist, 
the entomologist, the botanist, the pomologlat. It Is 
no less valuable ns a reference book for Ihe farmer. 
It Is crammed with pithy facts which convey the 
latest nnd most trustworthy Inf' rmntlon on the sub 
Ject* treated up to the close of lHHfl.” 
From H. L. BOARDMAlf, in Kennebeo (Me.) Journal. 
"One of the most useful books for horticulturists 
fruit growers nnd gardeners. A compact, solid vol- 
umo of 2 M pages, brimful of useful Information, 
fresh, now and trustworthy. This body of useful 
Information Ih admirably urrnngcd, and the hook bns 
a good Index. Prof, linlley Is so well-known ns nn 
expert scientist that every page seems to bear the 
stamp or accuracy nnd nulliorlty. It Is hound In n 
flexible cloth cover, and Ih a book which the gardener 
should alwnys carry In his pocket. He will want to 
consult It a dosen times n day, and we wonder no one 
hns ever compiled such a hand hook before.” 
Knots Tint EPlTon or Orchard and Garden, 
" This Is likely to prove the ino't useful little manual 
for the horticulturist that has been published In some 
time It Is crammed full of useful tables and form¬ 
ula. nnd fnlrly bristles with fnets. The author Is 
Horticulturist of the Cornell Experiment Station and 
Professor of Horticulture In Cornell University, am 1 
he Imparts freely and fully to the reader. In n con¬ 
densed and plain form, the Immense nmount of mat¬ 
ter ho has collected. No horticulturist should be 
without this useful book; any one of It* chapter* Is 
worth far more than Its cost." 
230 Pages. Flexible Cloth Covers. Price. Ml 
Address 
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY ~| I 
34 Park Row, IVew York. 
THE COMING HOG. 
Not I table to Cholera. 
D GROWTH. SPLENDID 
son EXHIBITION. mo*t 
FOR FOOD OON8UMCO 
2 WEIQHED 2800 LBS 
L, II. Silver Co. (lie viand, O. 
K'lalform Wagon, $ 
For Ifl Yaara 
have aold to 
ronaumara at 
WIIOLlfhALK WCH KM, aavlng then the 
dealer*' profit. Hhlp anywhere for ex¬ 
amination before buying. I*nr freight 
rhargea I f not aatlafaetory. Warranted 
for a yaara> <14-page t atalogue FKKK. 
Addreaa W.B. PRATT. Hee’y, 
Elkhart, - - Indiana. 
The Elkhart Carriage 
&$Harness Mfg." Co. 
Tiik fact Is, Thk American Garden Ih a 
large, thick magazine, filled with editorial* 
and contributions from men and women of 
accornpllHhment and experience. The wife 
of our bosom would “sooner” think of 
doing without Hour milk for corn batter 
oaken, than to do without TtllE AMERICAN 
Garden,— Aubwm (N. Y.) Citizen. 
OO+nCOHn 00A MONTH can l>o made 
$ I J.— IU / JU • — win k lug f'ir us. Persons pre¬ 
ferred who can furnish a horse and give their whole 
time to the bnslnem'. Spare moments may ls> profitably 
employed also. A few vacancies In towns and cities. 
11 if. JOUNHOB 4t (XX, XXN11 alu BL. Richmond, Va. 
