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APRIL i9 
THE RURAL NEW-Y0RKE1 
Publishers Desk. 
f Doing in time. 
PROMPTNESS < 
(Being on time. 
A r CODE FOR MANAGEMENT. 
At the first formal meeting of the Rural 
Publishing Company under the new man¬ 
agement, the president was asked if he 
had any “ instructions ” for the business 
manager. His characteristic reply was: 
Keep down expenses, 
Employ no drones, 
Be prompt, 
Hustle conservatively, 
Keep your records straight. 
It occurs to me that that is a pretty 
straight code of management for any busi¬ 
ness enterprise, be it a newspaper, a manu¬ 
factory, a clothing store or a farm. Don’t 
you think so ? Try it for a year and note 
the result. By “ try it,” I mean just that, 
try it in spirit and in fact in all depart¬ 
ments of your business : in the field, in the 
stable, on the road, in the market: every¬ 
where your business calls you. 
THE NEW QUARTERS. 
On the first page the editors tell all about 
the Rural’s moving into our splendid new 
quarters I add my joyful whoop to their’s, 
and for the business department extend a 
cordial invitation to all our patrons to 
come and call on us and enjoy one of the 
finest views of the city, which lies below 
our lofty windows. Be your call one of 
business or pleasure, you will always be 
welcome. Come and see us. 
CONCERNING VARIOUS FOLKS. 
The R. N.-Y. has only good to say of 
good works in whatever department of in¬ 
dustry it finds them, but it always has a 
for humbugs, frauds, swindlers, and op¬ 
pressors of every degree. We have in mind 
especially several persons and concerns and 
interests—but just wait and see. 
THAT POSTAL CARD. 
There are hundreds of thousands of 
farmers in America who might be helped 
in the struggle for existence by the R. N.-Y. 
If YOU, dear reader, have no time to tell 
them of this fact, and don’t want to take 
time to help your neighbors, please write 
on a postal card a half-dozen addresses 
of honest, intelligent men whom you think 
the paper ought to reach. Send the postal 
to us and we wi 11 do the rest. Try it. Why 
not ? 
ABOUT ADVERTISING. 
I HAVE for some time looked upon The 
Rural New-Yokrer as the most trust¬ 
worthy of any paper of its class printed, 
and the best advertising medium. 
j. j. Harrison, president of 
THE STORES & HARRISON COMPANY, 
Painesville, Ohio, March, 1890. 
The Rural beats all the other papers 
put together as a profitable advertising 
medium, including those of the very largest 
circulation. t. c. davenport, 
• Philadelphia, March, 30, 1890. 
It always pays us to advertise in The 
Rural New-Yorker. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 
Philadelphia, March 30, 1890. 
The Rural New-Yorker in helping 
me to introduce the Fay Currant and giv¬ 
ing the public its opinion on this fruit, 
paved the way so I have made a respec¬ 
table fortune. I have paid the heirs of the 
originator of the Fay over $30,000 as 
their share from the sales of the Fay Cur¬ 
rant, and have made as much as that for 
myself out of it. geo. s. josselyn. 
Fredonia, N. Y., April 3, 1890. 
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 : 
It. 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. 
Public Speakers and Singers 
Can use ‘Brown’s Bronchial Troches” 
freely, without fear of injury, as they con¬ 
tain nothing injurious. They are inval¬ 
uable for allaying the hoarseness and irri¬ 
tation incident to vocal exertion, effectu¬ 
ally clearing and strengthening the voice. 
“They greatly relieve any uneasiness in 
the throat.”—S. S. Curry, Teacher of Or¬ 
atory, Boston. Ask for and obtain only 
“Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” 25 cents 
a box.— Adv. 
The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY, April 12, 1890. 
“The question of the age” is in process 
of solution in this country more steadily, 
progressively but peaceably than in any 
other—a fairer, or, at any rate, a different 
adjustment of the profits ot labor. The 
most recent development of the matter is 
the projected great spring strike among 
workingmen for a working day of only eight 
hours. Nearly a year ago the Federation 
of Labor, which claims a membership of 
from 600,000 to 1,000,000, proposed to in¬ 
augurate a series of strikes this spring to 
enforce this demand, and urged its various 
branches to prepare for the struggle before¬ 
hand by accumulating contributions from 
the members, to be used in time of need. The 
beginning of the fight was put at May 1. 
The battle has already opened, however, by 
the strike of the 5,000 carpenters belonging 
to the Carpenters’ Union at Chicago. This 
is believed to be financially the strbngest 
association of operatives in the country, hav 
ing accumulated large reserve funds from 
assessments of the members. They strike 
for a recognition of their Union by the 
Master Carpenters’ Association, for an 
eight-hour day and 40 cents an hour. The 
strike is costing them from $35,000 to 
$40,000 a week, but they say they are pre¬ 
pared to make an all-summer fight, and 
that when their own means are exhausted, 
they will be supported by assessments on 
the members of the Confederation of 
Labor and of every other labor organization 
in the country if necessary. The 
“Masters” are divided and “weakening” 
as the owners of large buildings going up 
threaten to put their contracts into other 
hands unless the work is speedily resumed. 
Whatever may be the upshot of the 
struggle, a large number of other strikes 
in many other parts of the country are to 
be looked for about May 1.The 
Massachusetts Assembly has passed a bill 
making nine hours a daj’s work in State 
and municipal employment. 
The “spring elections” all over the coun 
try have, on the whole “gone” decidedly 
in favor of the Democrats, but this is an 
“ off ” year in politics, and Speaker Reed 
says “ off years ” are always bad for the 
Republicans, as farmers and rich folks 
don’t care to bother about voting when 
there is no excitement in the air. The new 
ballot laws, all embodying the main 
features of the Australian system, but with 
variations, received their first trial in sev¬ 
eral States. In the State election in Rhode 
Island the law worked smoothly and gave 
general satisfaction. In Wisconsin and 
Missouri city and town elections were held, 
aud the reformed ballot won high praise, 
especially in Missouri. Iowa and New 
Jersey have just passed similar bills, and 
Gov. Hill of New York, having last week 
vetoed one for certain specified reasons, 
another framed to avoid his objections is 
being rushed through the legislature. The 
desire for honest voting on the Australian 
ilan has already found embodiment in 
aws in nearly one fourth of our States and 
in several European countries, and is 
spreading like “ wild-fire” elsewhere. 
.... Four of the largest woolen mills in New 
England, representing an annual output of 
$2,500,000, have combined for the purpose of 
Helling their own merchandise in New 
York, thus doing away with the middleman 
and saving his commission. 
The first election in Des Moines, Iowa, 
since the annexation of two suburban dis¬ 
tricts was held on April 7. The Republi¬ 
can ticket was elected by about 500 major¬ 
ity.The Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company will erect an artificial ice plant in 
Jersey City, at a cost of $1,000,000.A 
short time ago August Dittmore of Aurora, 
Ill., bought a hog and converted it into 
sausages, hams, etc., some of which he 
sold to his neighbors. The meat was eaten 
raw or only partially cooked. Now there 
are about 30 cases of trichinosis among 
those who purchased parts of that hog and 
the State Board of Health is investigating 
the matter.The new steamship 
Majestic, of the White Star Line, has brok¬ 
en the maiden trans-Atlantic record from 
Queenstown to N6w York, having made the 
nassage in six days, 10 hours and 20 minutes, 
beating the Teutonic’s maiden record by 
four hours and 15 minutes and that of the 
City of Paris by nearly eight hours. The 
new “ ocean greyhound ” is the longest 
vessel afloat, measuring 583 feet in length 
by 57 feet six inches in width and 39 feet 
four inches in depth. 
After beheading 30,000 Democratic office¬ 
holders for a salary of $4,000, or $1 for 
every 1)4. beads, First Assistant Postmas¬ 
ter-General Clarkson announces his retire- 
menton Junel. Democrats howl that he has 
worked too hard ; Republicans complain 
that he hasn’t worked half hard enough. 
.Gen. Miles has been made Major- 
General in place of the late Gen. Crook, and 
Col. Grierson has been made Brigadier- 
General to succeed Miles—both excellent 
promotions.Gen. Middleton, Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Canadian forces, is 
making a sorry exhibition of himself be¬ 
fore a Parliamentary investigating com¬ 
mittee. He has been accused of misappro¬ 
priating valuable furs belonging to the 
Half Breeds of the Northwest Territory 
during the Riel insurrection. He had dif 
Acuity in recalling that he took any furs 
from private parties. On second thought 
he did “confiscate,” he thought, a few 
thousand dollars’ worth of furs. Some he 
kept, others he gave to his officers as “me¬ 
mentoes of the campaign.” and the rest he 
sent to an Ottawa furrier. He failed to re¬ 
port these confiscations and keepsakes, nor 
could he remember what became of the 
money realized by the sale of the furs at 
Ottawa. 
Four murderers met their doom on the 
gallows in Pennsylvania last Wednesday. 
In this State there will soon be a general 
cleaning out of such criminals now that 
electrocution has been declared constitu¬ 
tional.The Texas Standard cot¬ 
ton seed oil mill and refinery at Galveston 
were burned Tuesday night. Loss, $200,000. 
.At last defaulting State Treasurer 
Archer, of Maryland, who has swindled 
his State out of hundreds of thousands of 
dollars, has been arrested for embezzle¬ 
ment ; but, of course, such a trusted arch¬ 
rascal is treated with all due respect, being 
simply confined to his own house in charge 
of a very civil detective.The bitter 
quarrel in Manitoba is in a fair way of 
settlement. A short time ago the legis¬ 
lature decided that all children must at¬ 
tend the provincial nnn-sectarian public 
schools, and that all official and legal 
business must be carried on in the Eng¬ 
lish language. All the Catholics and 
some Protestant sects strongly objected to 
the former law on the ground that re¬ 
ligion should be the foremost subject of in¬ 
struction in schools; while the French 
Canadians and Half-Breeds bitterly de¬ 
nounced the official discontinuance of the 
use of the French language. The Cabinet 
has finally decided to secure the passage of 
a law providing for separate schools, and 
the use of both languages . 
Mrs. Ward, wife of that “Napoleon of 
Finance ” who wrecked Gen. Grant’s for¬ 
tune and swindled the public out of mil¬ 
lions of dollars, died suddenly at her home 
in Stamford, Conn., last Wednesday. She 
was highly esteemed and stuck to her hus¬ 
band through all. Of course, the latter was 
greatly affected by the news of his devoted 
wife’s death, which he received in Sing Sing 
Prison where he has to serve two years more 
of the 10 years tor which he was sentenced, 
though all possible deductions will be made 
for “good conduct.”.From fig¬ 
ures furnished by State Auditor Braden it 
is found that more than 100,000 acres of 
Minnesota land is involved in the swindles 
of Fredericksen & Co., of Chicago, and Mr. 
Braden says practically all of this will be 
sold by the State May 1, because the in¬ 
terest on the certificates has not been paid. 
The State will do all in its power to protect 
innocent buyers, but the latter’s losses in 
any event will amount to over $200.000. 
The Mormons, having been overwhelming¬ 
ly defeat in the recent elections in Salt Lake 
City aud realizing that the doom of their 
"peculiar institution” is sealed in Utah, 
are emigrating in large numbers to Mexico 
and Canada, as they see no chance of ever 
securing a firm foothold in any State or 
Territory in the Union. The fact that hun¬ 
dreds are emigrating from Utah to the 
Northwest of the Dominion with young 
girls,leaving their wives behind, has excit¬ 
ed a lively discussion in Parliament at 
Ottawa. The government leaders, how¬ 
ever, declare that they had guaranteed that 
the laws of the country would be obeyed 
and that the government proposed to see 
that they were.Canada is about 
to extend, for one year longer, the 7nodus 
vivendi which has proved so satisfactory 
to our Atlantic fishermen of late. The 
proclamation of our government against 
illegal seal fishing in Behring Sea has in¬ 
duced every Canadian who owns any sort 
of a sea worthy vessel on the Pacific coast 
to fit her out as a sealer, so that the fleet 
of “ piratical ” cruisers is likely to be un- 
precedeutly large the coming season. 
Several of the Southern States, notably 
Virginia, Florida, Texas and Arkansas, 
are developing good school systems; and 
the press of North Carolina, a State which 
has been backward in educational matters, 
calls upon the people to make an increase 
of at least $150,000 a year in the State 
educational appropriation.The 
number of fatalities caused by the tornado 
which wrought such havoc in Kentucky, 
Illinois and Indiana is not yet exactly 
known ; but the reports so far show a total 
of 445 lives lost. The almost daily occur¬ 
rence of severe wind aud elect rical storms 
in some part or other of the country since 
then indicates that the normal condition of 
natural things has not yet been entirely 
restored. 
Although the brand-new extradition treaty 
with the British Empire, including, o 
course, Canada, went into force on April 
4, the teller of a Worcester, (Mass.) bank 
has just gone off with $43,000 of the bank’s 
money. Several other high-toned thieves 
have also disappeared with other folk’s 
cash during the week, although the Domin¬ 
ion is no longer a safe refuge for such ras¬ 
cals.The New York legislature has 
cut "down the appropriation for the 
canals from $1,400,000 to $500,000 for the 
next fiscal year. It has also repealed the 
demagogic law giving two dollars a day to 
all laborers on the State public works. In 
both cases the majorities were nearly all 
Republicans.Assemblyman Peck, of 
Cortland, wants a repeal of so much of the 
mad-dog law of this State as applies to the 
registering and collaring of canines. 
As a result of high license in Massachu¬ 
setts, there were 2,751 fewer licenses grant¬ 
ed throughout the State in 1889 than in 
1888, while $526,504 more money was re¬ 
ceived therefor in 1889 than in the previous 
year—and of this sum the Commonwealth 
received $195,277 more revenue thau in 1888. 
The State takes one-fourth of all moneys 
received for liquor licenses from the treas¬ 
urer of every city or town. The total re¬ 
ceipts from 5.831 licenses in 1888 were 
$1,286,305, while in 1889 $1,812,810 were re¬ 
ceived from 3,260 licenses. Probably as 
much intoxicants were drank last year as 
the year before, however. 
Benjamin Darling, who upward of 50 years 
ago invented the revolver from which 
Samuel Colt made millions of dollars, is 
dead, aged 82. Of course. Darling made no 
money from his invention.Last 
Tuesday was the day when, according to 
the would-be California seer Erickson, the 
cities of Oakland, San Francisco, Chicago, 
Milwaukee and New York were to be swal¬ 
lowed up by floods and earthquakes. Many 
of the crank’s deluded followers, having sac¬ 
rificed their property, are still in the moun¬ 
tains awaiting the fulfillment of the proph¬ 
ecy. From being cranky some of them 
have become crazy.Some time ago 
Baron Hirsch, the European banker, 
pledged himself to send to this country 
$120,000 a year in monthly installments, to 
be used for the benefit of needy and worthy 
Hebrew immigrants. The first installment 
of $10,000 has been received. The fund will 
be managed by a Board of Managers, of 
which M. S. Isaacs is President and Jesse 
Seligman is Treasurer.Wednes¬ 
day the season of lake navigation opened 
and the Canadian, New York and Penn¬ 
sylvania canals have either already opened 
or will open during the coming week. It 
is thought that the farmers of the West 
will no longer have to burn grain for fuel, 
now that the great water routes to the sea¬ 
board are open. It isn’t at all unlikely that 
if the railroad companies had a monopoly 
of transportation from West to East the 
farmers would have to eat hay and dress in 
pine-needle bagging!. 
Both Housesof Congress have passed the bill 
appropriating $75,000 to pay the members 
of the House the money which Silcott 
stole.A bill is before the Senate 
making stringent provisions to regulate 
the traffic in impure brewing. Any brand 
of beer in the making of which hops are re- 
plaoed by glucose, carbonate of soda and 
various other substitutes is declared to be 
adulterated, and the Commissioner of Inter¬ 
nal Revenue is called upon to institute prop¬ 
er tests by which the fact of adulteration 
may be shown. Every brewer of “ adul¬ 
terated beer ” will be required to pay an 
annual license fee of $1,000 ; every wholesale 
dealer one of $500, and every retailer one of 
$50. Each cask of impure beer sold from a 
brewery must be labelled conspicuously 
“ adulterated beer,” and each bottle sent 
out must have the same words blown in 
the glass. Heavy penalties, both flues aud 
imprisonment, are provided for offences 
against this regulation, and the enforce¬ 
ment of the law in all its details is confided 
to the Internal Revenue Department of the 
Government. The passage of such a law 
would be splendid for hop-growers. In 
more than two-thirds of the beer now made 
chemicals take the place of hops altogether 
or in part.The Anti-trust bill has 
passed the Senate with only one vote in op¬ 
position. Senator Sherman, the author of 
the trenchant measure, has solemnly 
pledged himself to reduce or repeal every 
protective duty that sheltersa trust. 
If you name the R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
CONTINENTAL. 
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. 
Your land will bo hard aud need thorough culti¬ 
vation for the next crop. You will nrepa*e for seed 
lug with loss labor if you use our Pulverizer. 
LABOR SAVED IS MONEY. 
You can got larger returns by using the Continental. 
Larger crops mean more easli Send for prices and 
circular, *• How to Buy Direct.” 
THE JOHNSTON HARVESTER 00., ‘NT 
