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MAY 3 
Publishers' Desk. 
Work is the Father of Success. 
FOR HORTICULTURISTS. 
A clever correspondent con¬ 
gratulates the R. N.-Y. on its 
“marriage” with The American 
Garden, and requests that “ we 
all be given a chance to see the 
bride.” Well ! Is any handsome 
bride worth paying 25 cents to 
see? If so, then certainly our 
bonny bride is. You see, if we 
undertook to send her around to 
• visit every Rural family, the 
purse strings of the new house¬ 
hold would be sadly out of use. 
These brides are expensive crea¬ 
tures, you know! But “ we,” 
the bridegroom, are willing and 
anxious that our charming mate 
should go the rounds, and will 
meet every interested friend half 
way. In plain prose, the sub¬ 
scription price of the Garden is 
$2.00 a year; $1.00 for six months; 
50 cents for three months. Now 
we offer to send the Garden 
three months, for “introduction 
of the bride,” to every reader 
who wants her three months’ 
visit enough to pay 25 cents 
towards her expenses. 
Do you want to see her? 
the hay number. 
The annual Hay Number of the R. N.-Y. 
will be issued this year under date of May 
17th. Its special features will be a review 
of the hay markets of the country ; varieties 
best suited for market; best methods of 
storing baled hay; improving meadow 
lands; new grasses and forage crops; 
latest methods of handling, curing and 
marketing hay, etc. The editors will be 
glad to receive from our readers short notes 
on any of these topics. 
Advertisers should have their orders for 
that issue in our hands not later than Fri¬ 
day, May 9th. 
THAT POSTAL CARD AGAIN. 
We asked our friends to send names of 
persons to whom they would like specimens 
of the R. N.-Y. sent. These have come in 
by twos, tens and scores. The senders have 
our thanks and we trust that the recipi¬ 
ents of the copies will be equally well 
pleased. Many of these will certainly be¬ 
come regular readers of the Rural, and, 
we doubt not, its friends. 
Now we are ready to send out any 
number of specimen copies of the R. N.-Y. 
for which our readers may give us the 
names of possibly interested parties. Try 
us and see! 
AN ENCHANTED WAND. 
The newspaper advertisement, says John 
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or, better, at the lowest, possible price or 
less. Food the most nutritious and pal¬ 
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effecting complete cures. Certainly, if we 
do not live long, thrive and prosper, look 
young and handsome and never die, the ad¬ 
vertisement is not to blame .—The Adver¬ 
tiser's Gazette. 
I think the old Rural is improving right 
along. I like the “Publisher’s Desk,” and 
the “Lookout Almanac; ” that is decidedly 
the best feature I have noticed, that has 
been introduced in the Rural for a long, 
long while., I hope it will be kept up in 
THE .RURAL NEW-YQRKER. 
every number. A while ago I asked a man 
living about three miles from here, what 
papers he was taking. He mentioned the 
Rural for one; I then asked him how he 
liked it. “ It is the best paper published in 
theUnited States,” said he. I began taking 
the Rural in the fall of 1870, and I have 
been taking it ever since, except part of a 
year, several years ago, when I did not have 
money to send for it, and I am going to 
keep on taking it. J. s. B. 
Oakfield, Ohio. 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches 
Contain ingredients which act specially on 
the organs of the voice. They have an ex¬ 
traordinary efficacy in all affections of the 
throat, caused by cold or over exertion of 
the voice. “ I recommend their use to 
public speakers.”—Rev. E. H. Chapin. 
“Pre-eminently the best.”—Rev. Henry 
Ward Beecher.— Adv. 
The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY. April 26, 1890. 
Never before in the history of the world 
has there been such a remaikable social 
and economic movement as that in which 
a large proportion of the wage-earning, 
non-agricultural, industrial classes are now 
engaged for an eight-hour labor day. In 
this country it has already taken the form 
of action in the great carpenters’ strike in 
Chicago, and somewhat similar strikes in 
several other large labor centers, and 
threatens to do so in most of the others as 
well as in smaller places. The strike in 
Chicago already involves about 50,000 
operatives of all sorts, and not im¬ 
probably the number will be swelled 
to 100,000 before the close of another 
week. At the outset the movement was 
under direction of the Confederation of 
Labor and was to be inaugurated by a gen¬ 
eral strike on May 1; but it appears to 
have already passed beyond the control of 
that and all other organizations. It was 
originally the intention to start in with a 
few trades—the most powerful in their or¬ 
ganization and the most independent on 
account of accumulations in their treasur¬ 
ies. Should their own funds become ex¬ 
hausted by the protracted nature of the 
struggle, they were to be supported by con¬ 
tributions from other trade organizations 
whose members were to continue steadily 
at work so as to be able to help “ the men 
in the gap.” The Knights of Labor want 
a fist in the fight, however, and other 
workingmen’s organizations are eager to 
take part in the shindy, so that it is not 
improbable that hundreds of thousands of 
men engaged in building and manufactur¬ 
ing, as well as in railroading and other 
laborious, non-agricultural pursuits will 
strike on or shortly after May 1. It would 
be well for farmers to be prepared for such 
a contingency anyhow. 
Both Houses of Congress have now 
passed the World’s Fair Bill and the Presi¬ 
dent has signed it. Chicago gets all bhe 
wanted. New York will have a grand in¬ 
ternational marine parade in April, 1893 ; 
Washington wanted at least a magnificent 
memorial building, but must be content 
with a statue of Columbus. St. Louis 
asked for nothing and got it. 
Chicago has three years to prepare for the 
show, and so soon as the first delirium of 
of success is over, will set vigorously to 
work to improve her opportunities. The 
whole country appears disposed to co¬ 
operate with theWindy City to make the ex¬ 
hibition a big success. 
Both Houses of Congress have passed the 
bill making Oklahoma a Territory. It is 
to include the public land strip and Indian 
Territory, except the part occupied by the 
five civilized tribes and the tribes within 
the Qnapaw Agency, and also the unoccu¬ 
pied part of the Cherokee Strip or Outlet. 
Whenever the Cherokee interest in the 
Cherokee Outlet has been extinguished, 
and the President has so proclaimed, the 
Outlet shall without further legislation be¬ 
come a part of the Territory of Oklahoma, 
and any other lands in the Indian Territory 
may be annexed whenever the Indian own¬ 
ers assent. The usual Territorial officers 
are to be appointed by the President and a 
legislature is to be elected. Six counties are 
to be established, with county seats at 
Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Norman, El Reno, 
King Fisher City and Beaver, but the loca¬ 
tion of these county seats may be changed 
by the legislative assembly. The laws of 
Nebraska are to extend over the new Ter¬ 
ritory, and complete arrangements are 
made for the establishment of judges and 
courts. The legislature will first meet at 
Guthrie and, with the Governor, will choose 
the capital. 
The public land strip is opened to settle¬ 
ment under the Homestead laws, and the 
President is authorized to establish a land 
office within it. All other arrangements 
are made for running a regular Territorial 
government. The latest reports from the 
settlement of Oklahoma tell of great dis¬ 
tress among the settlers, and appeals for 
aid are being made to the public. Those 
who arrived there when the section was 
thrown open to settlement last year, were 
too late to put in a crop, and having little 
money, many of them are now in a starving 
condition. Last Wednesday a mass meet- 
ting of temperance people from all parts of 
Oklahoma assembled at Guthrie and 
telegraphed to the Secretary of the Interior 
that the prohibitory law of the Territory 
is being flagrantly violated, and that the 
United States revenue officers are granting 
licenses to all sorts of disreputable char¬ 
acters. 
Last Saturday at noon the Pan-Ameri¬ 
can Congress came to an end. In his clos¬ 
ing address Secretary Blaine spoke enthu¬ 
siastically of the resolution to substitute 
arbitration for war between the Republics 
on this hemisphere, but there is much 
doubt whether the powerful will not con¬ 
tinue to prey on the weak according to 
immemorial custom. 
In the matter of promoting better com¬ 
mercial relations the outcome is very frag¬ 
mentary. Only six of the subjects dis¬ 
cussed received definite recommendations. 
These were, in general, the use of a com¬ 
mon coin or coins in all the countries, a 
special commission to meet next year to fix 
upon their weight and character; a com¬ 
mon nomenclature for articles of commerce 
for use in manifests, consular invoices, etc.; 
the adoption of the metrical system of 
weights and measures; that all port dues be 
merged in one levied on gross tonnage; and 
that the duties of consuls be classified and 
uniform fees be fixed. It was also sug¬ 
gested that an intercontinental railway 
road be built, an intercontinental bank be 
established in the United States, and that 
steamship subsidies be given. Many other 
matters were discussed, but no action was 
taken. The members possessed only advi¬ 
sory powers, and no immediate results are 
likely to arise from the Congress; but it 
will certainly have a tendency to increase 
amity as well as trade and trade facilities 
between this Republic and those south of it. 
The members of the Congress were invited to 
make a junketing trip through the South 
at the national expense; but as some of 
them had been here upwards of seven 
months most of them wanted to go home, 
and only two started in the big special 
train with a full complement of attendants 
of all kinds for the wholp number. Secre¬ 
tary Blaine recalled the train on its arrival 
at Richmond, so the “ flunkies,” much to 
their indignation, lost a jolly trip and the 
best of feed. Many Southern places had 
made preparations for grand entertain¬ 
ments to the visitors; but their disap¬ 
pointment at their non-arrival must be 
mitigated by their escape from the embar¬ 
rassment of entertaining the batch of at¬ 
tendants that must have taxed their cour¬ 
tesy and hospitality. 
Castle Garden is no longer the im¬ 
migrant depot of this city. The United 
States Barge Office, a new granite and 
iron building a short distance to the east of 
it, is used temporarily for the purpose,until 
suitable accommodations can be provided 
on Ellis Island in New York harbor, which 
will be the future landing-ulace of six- 
sevenths of all the immigrants coming to 
this country. The United States having 
ousted the State of New York, will manage 
the business in future. 
At the three days’ session of working 
girls’ clubs in this city last week, repre¬ 
sentatives were present from 24 working 
girls’ clubs in New York, having a mem¬ 
bership of 2.200; 14 clubs in Brooklyn with 
a membership of 1,500; 10 clubs in Boston 
with a membership of 1,000; 12 clubs in 
Philadelphia with a membership of 1,000, as 
well as 260 delegates from 100 or more clubs 
in other parts of the Union. While few of 
the leaders earn their own living, a large 
majority of the members do. An immense 
amount of excellent work was method¬ 
ically accomplished. 
The Mississippi is still “raging” and 
doing a world of damage. For weeks the 
river has been at high-water mark or above 
it from Cairo to the Gulf and extensive 
areas of country, embracing timbered, 
swamp, and farming lands, have been 
many feet under water, here and there, on 
both sides of the stream from Memphis to 
Pilot Town. Crevasses or breaks in the 
levees or embankments have been con¬ 
stantly letting in fresh deluges of yellow, 
muddy water over the adjacent regions. 
The people ha ve generally sought refuge on 
the high land at a greater or less distance 
back from the river and driven their stock 
before them, or escaped with the animals 
in flat-boats or rescuing steamers from theii 
partly submerged houses or other elevated 
places which had afforded them temporary 
refuge. Thousands, however, in the less 
exposed situations have clung to their half 
drowned homes, moving about occasional¬ 
ly in rude craft knocked together at home. 
The poor people, white and black, have 
suffered severely in spite of the liberal 
measure of assistance rendered by their 
employers or more well-to-do neighbors. 
The General Government has sent boats, 
tents and provisions for the rescue and re¬ 
lief of the distressed: but the officers and 
the planters agree that the regular issue of 
rations to the destitute would have a very 
demoralizing effect on the negroes and 
poor whites, who would shirk work so long 
as they could live in idleness. Last 
Wednesday and Thursday the worst crev¬ 
asses of the year occurred in the levees 
guarding the great sugar-producing par¬ 
ishes below New Orleans. The great Mor- 
gauza levee in Point Couple Parish, too, 
which has lately cost upwards of $500,000 
gave way after having been laboriously 
strengthened right along since the begin- 
ing of the flood, and half a dozen other 
crevasses occurred in the water soaked 
levees above and below it and on both sides 
of the river. The water at once swept over 
the low country like a mighty torrent, and 
soon seven of the richest parishes in Louisi¬ 
ana were submerged. Over 6,000 square 
miles in Louisiana are now under water, 
and at latest accounts at least 1,500 to 2,000 
more would soon be in the same condition. 
Many lives are supposed to have been lost, 
as the people felt secure since the levees 
had held out so long and the deluge came 
upon them swiftly and unexpectedly. 
Thousands of stock must have perished, 
and vast damage has been done to property 
of all kinds. Already the losses to the State 
are estimated at not less than $8,000,000. 
Arkansas and Mississippi have also suffer¬ 
ed heavily, and, all in all, the present is 
one of.the most disastrous floods on record 
along the Father of Waters. The great 
question now is whether the waters will re¬ 
cede in time enough to allow the land to 
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