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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 17 
Publishers' Desk. 
Knowledge is Power. 
THAT FREE EDUCATION. 
Last week we promised to 
show our readers how thousands 
of young men might get a good 
education free of money cost. We 
make the promise good on the 
first page of the cover of this 
issue. 
Please read that page carefully, 
and if you think it a good thing, 
encourage the bright young man 
to try his level best to win the 
prize. Bear in mind, also, that 
you and all his friends are invited 
to join in the crusade for his 
benefit, as it will not be an easy 
job at best for him to thus “work 
his way through college.” Hun' 
dreds and thousands of young 
men have won an education by 
far more difficult means, includ¬ 
ing two of the staff of the R. 
N.-Y. ; so we know what we are 
talking about when we say that 
we know that the boys can do 
th is thing, IF they are made of 
the right kind of stuff. 
The opportunity is a good one, 
a grand one for young men to 
secure an eduction, but let none 
enter upon the campaign without 
due consideration of the fact that 
he is entering upon an important 
undertaking. But its accomplish¬ 
ment is entirely possible, and 
ought not to be very difficult in 
any progressive community in 
America. 
Will you try it ? We are ready 
to answer all questions that may 
arise. 
GOOD MEN TO DEAL WITH. 
The following firms deal in 
haying tools and in standard 
farm implements. Our readers 
will find them reliable people to 
deal with. 
Ricker & Montgomery, Rochester. N. Y., Keystone 
Manufacturing Co., Sterling. Ill. : Janesville Hay 
Tool Co., Janesville, Wls.: Eureka Mower Co., Utica, 
N. Y.; Marlon Malleable Iron Co., Marlon, Ohio : A B. 
Farquhar & Son, York, Pa.; Hlgganum Manufactur¬ 
ing Co., Higganum Conn. & N. Y. City; Johnston Har¬ 
vester Co.. Batavia, N. Y. : Ames Plow Co., Boston, 
Mass., Graham. Emlen & Passmore. Philadelphia, 
Pa.; St. .Tohnsvllle Agricultural Works, St. Johns 
vllle, N. Y. : Famous Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 
III ; Kemp & Burpee, Syracuse, N. Y., Farm Wagons ; 
Mast, Foos & Co., Springfield, Ohio Stover Manu¬ 
facturing Co., Freeport, Ill.; U. S Wind Engine and 
Pump Co., Batavia. Ill.: Jones, of Binghamton, N. Y.; 
Osg od & Thompson, Binghamton, N. Y.; S. S. Mess- 
Inger & Son.Tatamj', Northampton County. Pa.; J. 
A. Spencer, Dwight. 111., Ann Arbor Agricultural Co , 
Ann Arbor, Mich.; P. P. Mast & Co., Springfield. O. 
COPIED FROM LETTERS. 
My subscription time for the Rural 
New-Yorker will be out on the 5thinst; 
but I do not wish to miss a single number. 
Subscribers are asked to make suggestions 
as to how the paper can be improved. 
Make it larger and cheaper. I can see no 
other way. C. F. N. 
Fredonla, N. Y. 
The writer had some experience as a boy 
on a farm until his 15th year, and after a 
city business experience of 33 years, re 
turned to his first love, and though we had 
much to learn, we found the Rural a valu¬ 
able aid. My wife and daughter were 
raised in the city, and had never seen a 
pound of butter made till they came to this 
farm, but by following the advice found In 
the Rural they at once came to the front 
as butter-makers, and our customers still 
think we keep there. 
P. S.—I shall have to defer the criticism 
with regard to the improvement of the 
paper till I find a more powerful pair of 
glasses to detect any faults in it now, and I 
believe in the old maxim, “ Let well 
enough alone.” 8. L. B. 
Williamson County, Texas. 
I have been a reader of the Rural for 12 
years and look upon it as superior to any 
agricultural journal I’ve ever seen, and 
first and last I’ve taken quite a number of 
so-called agricultural papers. Don’t let it 
deteriorate. That is all the suggestion I offer 
to the new managers. Of course, I do not 
expect every article to meet my approba¬ 
tion. In times past Its advertising columns, 
so far as the reader and purchaser were 
concerned (I can’t say as to the profits for 
the owner’s pocket),were more reliable than 
those of any other paper with which I am 
acquainted. h. e. b. 
Ash Grove, Mo. 
The Rural New-Yorker and The 
American Garden —a pair of clean sheets 
now spread on one bed, between which it is 
safe for the farmer and his family to re¬ 
pose. c. c. w. 
Mobile, Ala. 
The Rural is improving; one number 
like the last will be worth much more than 
a year’s subscription to many readers. 
North Collins, N. Y. E. M. s. 
After I have read the R. N. -Y. it is sent 
to our grange editor, and I do not wish to 
do without it. I have read and been a sub¬ 
scriber to the Rural almost continually 
since 1869. It is my ideal of a rural paper. 
Petaluma, California. c. N. 
I am pleased to see the paper keeping 
abreast of the times. Recent improve¬ 
ments are quite noticeable and reflect credit 
on the management. I did not intend to 
continue my -subscription the present year, 
as money is none too plentiful, but in view 
of recent changes (though liking the Rural 
as it was and reading it also) I am inclined 
to change my mind. a. g. 
Alma, Ont., Canada. 
“ Don’t expect an advertisement to bear 
fruit in one night. You can’t eat enough 
in a week to last you a year, and we don’t 
believe you can advertise on that plan, 
either. People who advertise only once in 
three months forget that most folks can¬ 
not remember anything longer than about 
seven days. If you can arouse curiosity by 
an advertisement it is a great point gained. 
The fair sex don’t hold all the curiosity in 
the world. Quitting advertising in dull 
times is like tearing out a dam because the 
water is low.”—Building Advocate. 
“ The proper mediums are not necessarily 
those which reach the most people, but 
rather those going to the most people you 
want to reach.”—Herbert Booth King & 
Bro. 
“ Advertisers have been taught that, if 
they wish to attract custom and sell their 
wares, they must do more than make a 
simple business announcement. They 
must make their announcement in a pleas¬ 
ing and attractive fashion.”—Journalist. 
The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY, May 10, 1890, 
Under the recent decision of the United 
States Supreme Court liquor dealers are 
preparing to invade Maine and defy the 
local prohibitory law. One Boston dealer 
has gone to Portland to open a “palatial 
saloon” where he will sell “imported” 
drinks in small bottles at 15 cents each, 
bottle and all. Non-licensed rum-mills are 
being started in this city for the sale of in¬ 
toxicants of all kinds brought across the 
river from New Jersey. The owners of dis¬ 
reputable dives, who were refused licenses 
on account of the infamous character of 
their places, are ready to start briskly in 
business in defiance of the State and city 
authorities, under the protection of the Su¬ 
preme Court. Similar reports are coming 
in large numbers from various places in 
other States. The United States Supreme 
Court has just rendered another decision 
emphasizing and broadening its opinion in 
the Iowa case. In this case Hagemeister & 
Co., of Green Bay, Wis., had shipped to 
Henry Lyng, at Iron River, Mich., a num¬ 
ber of kegs of beer to be sold by the keg. 
Lyng was convicted for selling the beer 
without payment of the State tax. The 
conviction was affirmed by the Supreme 
Court of Michigan. It was set aside at 
Washington on the ground that the tax 
was a burden on inter-State commerce, 
which the State had no power to impose. 
Both Houses of the New York legisla¬ 
ture, which adjourned yesterday, provided 
for the submission of a prohibitory amend¬ 
ment to the State Constitution next fall. 
At the election for this purpose votes will 
be cast for nothing else. 
The bill abolishing capital punishment 
in New York State, which was rushed 
through the Assembly with indecent 
haste strongly indicative of big elec¬ 
tric boodle somewhere within reach, has 
been killed in the Senate. All the most 
experienced judges are strongly of the 
opinion that the death penalty should not be 
abolished. The persistent effort made to 
save the ignorant, brutish murderer, 
Kemmler from “ electrocution ” has be¬ 
come a disgrace to those engaged in it, a 
scaudal to the administration of justice, 
and a source of disgust to all decent people 
not financially or sentimentally interested 
in the affair. 
The total cost of the enormous French 
army is $111,343,000 including pensions for 
soldiers who have fought from Waterloo to 
Dahomey. The total cost of the vast Ger¬ 
man army is $91,726,293, including pensions 
for the survivors of all the wars from 1815 
to to-dav. The appropriation bills sought 
for theUnited Statesarmv for the next fiscal 
year amount to $30,000,000, with a pension 
bill of $146,000,000 for the veterans of one big 
war and two little ones, and at least as 
much more is asked for. The general pub¬ 
lic is beginning to grumble at the enor¬ 
mous amount of pensions granted and de¬ 
manded ; but. were it not for those who 
want them, what would be the plightof the 
“general public” now? 
The “ silver question ” is as hard a con¬ 
undrum for Congress to solve as the tariff 
problem. Of course, the Republicans being 
in, will get the blame or praise for disposing 
of it; but the committees in charge of the 
matter in both Houses have not hitherto, 
after weeks of argument, been able - to 
agree among themselves or with each other 
with regard to the safest policy financially 
or politically. The politicans, however, 
are likely to prove too powerful for the 
financiers in the matter, especiallv as “un¬ 
limited silver” is a favorite cry in the bound¬ 
ing and boundless West. 
They’ve a $5,000,000 beer trust down in 
Mexico City. Oh, yes! Germans of course 
are chiefly interested in it now; but. like 
their compatriots here, they’ll probably 
soon sell out at a big profit to Britishers. 
New York has at last secured Ballot Re¬ 
form : not of the genuine Australian kind, 
but a fair sort modified from the original 
to exactly suit the" pure Jeffersonian Dem¬ 
ocracy” of Governor David Bennett Hill, 
prominent candidate for the next Demo¬ 
cratic Presidential nomination, and one of 
the smartest politicians in the country. 
The world has been wondering that while 
suits were brought on all sides against the 
Sugar Trust, the Cotton Oil Trust and other 
large organizations of the kind, the 
Standard Oil Trust escaped, though the 
largest and original model of all. One of 
its most powerful branches, however, the 
Standard Oil Company of Ohio, has just 
been sued by State Attorney-General Wat¬ 
son, who demands the surrender of its 
charter for violating the law in various 
ways. The Ohio laws against monopolies 
explicitly provide that a majority of the 
board of directors of any company in¬ 
corporated under State laws shall be ho na 
fide residents of the State. The Standard 
Oil Company has. it is claimed, forfeited 
all its right bv going into the Standard Oil 
Trust of New York and receiving trust cer¬ 
tificates in lieu of its former shares of 
stock. The nine trustees of the Trust and 
President Rockafeller draw from the Com¬ 
pany in Ohio annually $255,000, not a cent 
of which is retained in the State, and not 
one of the trustees is a resident there. 
Several other infractions of the Ohio laws 
are stated, but stress is chiefly laid upon 
the above. 
Sherm an’s originally stringent Anti-Trust 
bill having passed the Senate after it had 
been shorn of some of its terrors, has just 
passed the House, with only a single nega¬ 
tive vote, after it had been shorn of most of 
the others. The old Trusts go trustfully on 
however, unterrifled ' y hostile State and 
National legislation, strong in the knowl¬ 
edge that they can wring from the public 
money enough to fee all the best lawyers 
they may want in both Houses of Congress 
and all the State legislatures as well as the 
rest of the country, to muddle the laws 
against them in their passage, or misinter¬ 
pret them thereafter. 
The Republicans in both Houses of Con¬ 
gress appear determined to pass the Hoar 
Federal Election Bill which provides for the 
election of Congressmen under Federal in¬ 
stead of State supervision. It is claimed 
that gross frauds of all kinds and out¬ 
rageous intimidation are now often prac¬ 
ticed in the election of Representatives and 
Senators, especially in the Southern States, 
and that, short of a Constitutional amend¬ 
ment, the best device for putting an 
end to such frauds is to hold elections for 
Congressmen under Federal supervision. 
The opponents of the bill insist that the 
measure would compel the States to fix a 
different day for holding State elections 
from the day for electing members of Con¬ 
gress ; thus the States would be put to the 
expense of holding two elections. This 
would be absolutely necessary, they say, to 
enable the several States to protect them¬ 
selves from Federal Interference in their 
affairs. But the authors of the bill do not 
think that any change in the times of hold¬ 
ing elections would be made should it be¬ 
come a law. 
The California athletic club has voted 
to offer a purse of $20,000 for a fight be¬ 
tween John L. Sullivan and Peter Jackson, 
the colored Australian bruiser. It is under¬ 
stood that the fight will not take place be¬ 
fore September. 
The people of the British Northwest 
Alberta and Assinniboia) are urgently de¬ 
manding self-government like i hat en joyed 
by Manitoba and other Canadian Prov¬ 
inces. The recent admission of their neigh¬ 
bors, North Dakota and Montana, to State¬ 
hood has made them ambitious. The 
Dominion Government, however, is by no 
means disposed to yield promptly to the 
demand. 
There is still a bitter fight in Congress 
over the appropriations for the construc¬ 
tion of new war vessels. The Naval Board 
modestly wants an expenditure of $281,550,- 
000 for new war-ships in addition to the 
appropriations of $67,965,000 for the ships 
lately floated or now under construction. 
This expenditure, we are told, would give 
us a fleet able to cope with the navies of 
Europe. There’s no doubt that all our sea- 
coast cities could be easily bombarded and 
held to ransom by the fleet of even a 
second-rate European power at present, 
and it’s hardly likely that any system of 
coast defences could afford adequate pro¬ 
tection in the absence of a powerful fleet. 
Western Congressmen, however, represent¬ 
ing constituencies which are in no danger 
of suffering from the bombardment of 
hostile ships, however long the range of 
their guns, strongly oppose any large ap¬ 
propriations, chiefly on the ground that 
this country is so powerful and interferes 
so little with the affairs of other nations 
that a foreign war is only among the possi¬ 
bilities. A powerful fleet, they say, would 
be an incentive to war, an expensive source 
of vain display, and, moreover, such 
changes are being constantly made in the 
construction of powerful iron-clads that to 
be able to cope with the improved monsters 
of Europe our fleet would have to be recon¬ 
structed probably as soon as it was com¬ 
pleted. The force of these arguments in¬ 
creases in proportion to the distance from 
the sea coast and river cities assailable by 
hostile fleets. 
The manufacturers of glucose are 
urgently pressing their claims for a bounty 
of two cents per pound under the Mc¬ 
Kinley Tariff Bill. They base their claim 
chiefly on their anxiety for “ the American 
laborer and the poor farmers who furnish 
the corn.” Not long ago, some interesting 
testimony brought oat under oath, showed 
that the laborers in glucose factories get 
$1 per day, and that, on an average, the 
corn used costs 14 or 15 cents per bushel. 
Ex-Senator Van Wyck has re appeared in 
Nebraska as the spokesman of the Farmers’ 
Alliance, which is sweeping within its or¬ 
ganization the whole agricultural popula¬ 
tion of the State. He is talked of now for 
Governor, because of a recent bitter speech 
against the railroads. 
glUssrcUamw 
If you name the R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompi 
replies and right treatment. 
HYDRANGEA 
NEW 
MW “RED BRANCHED” —“ The most 
valuable of all the Hydrangeas of the Hor 
tensls Class.” Without doubt the most valuable 
of all Hydrangeas yet Introduced Trusses and florets 
larger and brighter than those of Otaksa : a very free 
bloomer producing large and magnificent I v-fornted 
trusses from every shoot. The best known variety for 
forcing, and culture In pots or tubs. Catalogue giv¬ 
ing description ami price mailed free. .tOlli Year. 
Mount Hope Nurseries 
Rochester. N. Y. 
Ellwanger & Barry, 
Dairyman’s 
Account Book 
FREE. 
The Dairyman’s Account Book is the moat 
practical thing of the kind ever seen. It 
gives ruled pages for daily record of milk 
yield, butter made, and sales, for 12 mon tits; 
convenient size, nicely printed and bound. 
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt», 
manufacturers of the celebrated Improved 
Butter Color, the purest, strongest, and 
brightest color made, will send a copy free 
to any butter maker who writes enclosing 
stamp. Also sample of their Butter Color 
to those who have never used it, and a 
pretty birthday card for the baby, ifyou ask. 
NORTHERN SEED POTATOES. 
Per Bush. 
Per Bbl. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2, $3 00 
$7 00 
Early Ohio. 
... 1 00 
2 75 
Early Albino. 
... 1 00 
250 
Beauty of Hebron.... 
... 1 00 
2 50 
Clark’s No. 1. 
... 1 00 
2 50 
Chas. Downing. 
... 1 00 
250 
Sunlit Star.... 
.. . 1 00 
2 50 
Bonanza . 
... 1 00 
2 25 
Jrane’s Potentate... 
... 1 00 
2 25 
And many others. 
Send to 
A. C. SABIN, 
Glen wood. 
Iowa. 
SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co., 
Maine, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DURYEA’S SONS, 
Produce Commission Merchants. 119 Warrcu St N Y 
SEND FOR A CAT- 
alogue of our Artistic Portraits and act 
j an our Agent in your locality to collect 
small pictures to no enlarged." No better 
paying business can be found. Address 
F. II. WILLIAMS A CO., 
683 As (585 Hronilwuy* New a ork. 
HAKE BARGAINS 
USEFUL ARTICLES 
In The course of trade we have obtained the follow¬ 
ing named articles which we will sell at a big discount 
from manufacturers’ prices. We have no use for 
them and the prices named ought to take them off 
our hands In short order: 
A Weed Sewing Machine, Boudoir Cabinet of 
Black Walnut. Manufacturer’s price $75. We will 
sell In New York for $»)—a rare bargain for somo 
one. 
A Wheel line and Cultivator; retails for $6. 
Our price $3. 
Several Curtiss’s Improved Needle Ilay 
Knives, chisel edge teetb. Retail price $1.25 each. 
Our price only ?5c. each. Order at once. Address 
N, K, FELM>WS, Box 4, Teiml!} - . N.J, 
