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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAY 24 
Publishers Desk. 
SCIENCE is Knowledge: Scientific 
is Knowing: Simply that and 
Nothing More. 
WILL YOU KNOW ? 
It is too early, as I write this, 
to judge of the reception of our 
last week’s offer of the “ free 
education ” to ambitious young 
men and young women readers. 
The only criticisms yet offered 
are favorable, and we are strongly 
hoping that a regiment of bright 
youths will march up to the fall 
examination boards, bearing R. 
P. Co. certificates in their pockets 
as a substantial material founda¬ 
tion for the course of study be¬ 
fore them. 
Wake up, boys and girls! 
Wake up, fathers, mothers, 
brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, 
cousins, neighbors, friends and 
acquaintances of every degree ! 
You can all help the boy or 
girl to get an education. But 
don’t forget that it is most im¬ 
portant that the youth “ wakes 
up ” himself first! Don't urge 
any boy to the step who does not 
spring at this opportunity to 
better his chance of getting on 
and hip in the world. You can’t 
make a Game cock out of every 
bunch of feathers ; nor can a boy 
win this prize unless he is full of 
good stuff. Show him the op¬ 
portunity by all means, but don’t 
urge him to its conquest. If he 
can’t see it without urging, he is 
not the one to be benefited by the 
education—though he may ,never¬ 
theless, become an able and use¬ 
ful man in his community. Edu¬ 
cation of the colleges sometimes 
spoils a good merchant, or 
mechanic or farmer. It often 
makes one, and always helps 
bright and sterling talent. Let 
the boy judge for himself. 
WOMEN FARMERS. 
There are many intelligent 
women in this country who are 
conducting farms successfully 
and profitably. Some of them 
are farmers by inheritance—the 
death of father or husband mak¬ 
ing it necessary for them to 
manage the farm. Others are 
farmers from choice, having 
gone into that business when re¬ 
tired from school-teaching or 
similar labors. They have lost 
nothing of dignity or womanli¬ 
ness by their association with the 
farm ; on the other hand, they 
love the life and would not 
change it. It has occurred to 
the R. N.-Y. that an account of 
the methods followed by these 
women farmers would be of con¬ 
siderable interest to its readers 
and we have now to announce 
that we shall soon begin a series 
of articles from women who 
have actually succeeded in man¬ 
aging farms so that they are 
made to pay. We feel certain 
that these articles will be helpful 
and inspiriting to all right- 
minded people. Some of the 
great, strong men who are leav- 
ing^the. farms because “farmin’ 
don’t pay ” will be heartily 
ashamed of themselves when 
they read what these women 
have done. 
The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY, May 17, 1890. 
The first decision in an Iowa court in ac¬ 
cord with the recent “ original package ” 
decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, was 
rendered last Saturday by Judge Ryan of 
the District Court at Grinnell. Verstretten 
was charged with maintaining a nuisance, 
because as importer he sold liquor in the 
“ original packages.” The court dismissed 
the case on the ground that the Federal de¬ 
cision authorized him to do so. On the 
other hand, up at Great Falls, Me., a State 
constable seized liquors in a freight car on 
the way to the purchaser from a dealer in 
Boston. The railroad company claimed 
the liquors as its property, on the ground 
that the company was responsible for the 
safe delivery of the original packages. But 
Municipal Judge Emmons ordered the 
liquors to be spilled, with the plea that he 
had not received a copy of the Supreme 
Court’s decision. 
Tuesday the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives by a roll of 127 to 75, voted 
to ask the State Board of Police Com¬ 
missioners to inforce the laws against pub¬ 
lic bars. This forbids the sale of intoxicants 
unless food is sold at the same time, thus 
apparently confining the business to hotels 
and restaurants. Every bar-room will sell 
crackers and sandwiches, however, for a 
nominal sum with liquor ; but they^ll have 
to provide seats for customers—a big boon 
for loafers and soakers. The Democrats 
who are trying to put the Republicans “ in 
a hole,” all voted for the measure, and 
most of the Republicans against it. 
Judge Crozier, of the First Judicial Dis¬ 
trict Court of Kansas, has just declared a 
part of the State prohibitory law unconsti¬ 
tutional. Several persons had been im¬ 
prisoned for having refused to give the 
prosecuting officers information under 
oath of any violations of the prohibitory 
law within their knowledge, as required 
by a provision of the law. This is to enable 
the officers to make an indictment. The 
judge declared this clause of the law un¬ 
constitutional on the ground that it confers 
judicial power on prosecuting officers. 
Georgia has a strict local option law and 
most of the counties are “ dry.” The State 
Temperance Society at its session last 
Wednesday at Atlanta, decided to demand 
of all candidates for election to Congress, a 
pledge that they will favor legislation look¬ 
ing to Prohibition, and to put Prohibition 
candidates in the field wherever a refusal 
was met with. The Farmers’ Alliance. 
80,000 strong, insists that candidates shall 
swear allegiance to its favorite schemes, so 
Congressional candidates in Georgia will 
have a hard row to hoe. 
Under the stringent Brooks High 
License and Local Option Law of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, a large number of licences have been 
refused this year and last, and the disap¬ 
pointed applicants and others are prepar¬ 
ing to start a great number of “ original- 
package ” saloons all over the States. These 
require no licenses and can flourish even 
in prohibitory districts. The teetotal farm¬ 
ers of the new Prohibitory State of North 
Dakota have just discovered that they can 
produce the best barley in the world, and 
as they have no market for malt at home, 
they are preparing to make large ship¬ 
ments to other States and countries. 
Senator Wilson, of Iowa, has introduced 
into the Senate a bill which provides that 
no State shall be held to be limited or re¬ 
strained in its power to prohibit, regulate, 
control or tax the sale or the transporta¬ 
tion (to be delivered within its own limits) 
of any distilled, fermented or other intoxi¬ 
cating liquors by reason of the fact that the 
liquors have been imported into any State 
from beyond its limits, whether there shall 
or shall not have been paid thereon any tax, 
duty or import to the United States. The 
object of the bill is to secure from Congress 
permission for the several States to execute 
their laws for the safety and best interests 
of their citizens. The bill is clearly within 
the suggestion of the Supreme Court, in its 
recent decision. 
Down in Louisiana the lottery question 
transcends all others. The swindle was 
chartered, for 25 years, in 1868 by the “black- 
and-tan ” legislature, the most corrupt 
that ever disgraced this country. All kinds 
of gambling were then openly carried on 
in the “ best ” streets of New Orleans right 
on the ground floor opening on to the pave¬ 
ment, and from the street everything was 
visible. The games, however, were only 
licensed and were suppressed as far as 
possible on the overthrow of Warmouth, 
Pinchback and their variegated following. 
The lottery swindle alone, having a charter, 
survived. The question of renewing its 
charter cannot be voted until 1892; but the 
fight has already begun. Warmouth & Co. 
are still deeply interested in the concern 
financially and still control the colored 
vote, and will turn it in favor of the 
swindle. A large proportion of the whites 
too, are won by that offer of $1,000,000 a 
J ear which is to be distributed as follows: 
'or levees, $350,000; hospitals, $100,000; 
insane asylums, $75,000: deaf, dumb and 
blind asylums, $25,000 ; drainage of New 
Orleans, $100,000. The State is almost 
bankrupt and such a gift would greatly 
lighten taxation. The people in the over¬ 
flooded districts and all along the river 
would be especially glad, as the levees 
would be repaired and maintained without 
cost to them, while now they are assessed 
for most of the outlay by a. special tax on 
cotton and sugar. The Anti-Lottery 
League, with head-quarters in New Orleans, 
is doing noble work in favor of the State’s 
honor and honesty. Most of the swindle’s 
gains come from outside States, but it is 
estimated that it has taken about $50,000,- 
000 out of New Orleans alone during its 
career. 
It is mentioned as a remarkable instance 
of the dread Congressmen feel for the 
Farmers’ Alliance, that while the repre¬ 
sentatives of that organization from 
Georgia appeared before the Ways and 
Means Committee for two days this week, 
the only member who had spunk enough 
to question them sharply was millionaire 
Roswell P. Flower, representing a New 
York City district. The other Congress¬ 
men, finding that he wasn’t afraid, got him 
to do all the critical questioning with re¬ 
gard to the measures advocated by the 
Alliance, especially the " crop warehouse ” 
scheme. 
Pacific coast people are greatly disap- 
g olnted at the collapse of the Panama 
anal, which promised them quick and 
cheap transportation of their products to 
the Eastern States and Europe. The latest 
report of the Canal Commission is that to 
complete the lock system—not the original 
sea-level system—would require eight years 
more and 485,000,000 francs, or 900,000,000 
francs after allowing 20 per cent, for un¬ 
foreseen expenses and 29 per cent, for the 
expenses of management, which anually 
amount to 10,000,000 francs. The report 
advises that the maritime nations of the 
earth guarantee the interest on the invest¬ 
ment, this being the best solution of the 
difficulty, since it would at once give the 
canal an international character. The par 
price of the shares was 500 francs each, 
and they have sold at a premium; but 
after falling to 38 francs after the report, 
they are now unsalable. The full value 
of the bonds was $500,000,000 ; but as they 
were sold at a discount and interest was 
paid out of the principal, and expenses 
were extravagant, not more than $280,000,- 
000 was probably actually put into the 
canal. The work done and the materials 
on hand are estimated by the Commission 
to be worth $90,000,000. This would leave 
a loss of $190,000,000 by defacation and mis¬ 
management. Probably the “ Big Ditch ” 
will be completed, if at all, by Americans 
after the original stockholders have sold 
their worthless bonds for the price of Con¬ 
federate money. So passes away the most 
gigantic fraud of the nineteenth century. 
The carpenters having triumphed in 
Chicago, New York and other places, it 
will soon be the turn of other trades to 
strike. The miners will be the next to 
turn out en masse. Meanwhile strikes of 
various branches of the different trades are 
occurring constantly, and at this busy sea¬ 
son the men are, as a rule, to a great ex¬ 
tent successful. It’s a costly mode of set¬ 
tling matters, however, for both sides. 
The report of the New York Bureau of 
Labor Statistics shows that during the 
last five years the wages lost by em¬ 
ployees in that State on account of strikes 
amounted to $8,042,915, while employers 
lost from from the same cause $5,157,942. 
These figures furnish a conclusive proof of 
the value of arbitration in the settlement 
of labor disputes. 
Governor Hill, of New York, has signed 
the act known as the General Registration 
Bill. It provides that in all tne larger 
cities of the State there must be personal 
registration prior to every election. This 
is an important prerequisite to all honest 
voting. An effort was made to extend the 
provisions of the bill strictly to country 
places: but in view of the trouble and loss 
of time that would often entail in farming 
districts, that provision failed to pass. 
Some of the figures submitted by the 
Senate Pension Committee in its report 
against agreeing to the Morrill Service 
Pension bill are startling. It is shown by 
careful estimates that the aggregate cost 
of the proposed Service Pension bill would 
be not less than $1,833,109,820. Of this 
amount, $1,079,647,024 would have to be 
paid before the end of the year 1915, and 
the average annual payment would be 
$41,523,732. With regard to the proposed 
repeal of the Arrears act, the Secretary of 
the Interior estimates that to liquidate all 
claims for arrears up to the beginning of 
1889 would require $471,365,400. There are 
so many pension bills before Congress that 
we keep track only of the most important 
and those most likely to be passed. One 
hour and a half of Saturday’s Session of 
the Senate was taken up in passing 183 
pension bills—an average of half a minute 
being devoted to each measure. 
We are promised an unusual influx of 
French Canadians into the States this year. 
Mr. Mercier prophesies that before the end 
of the year there will be over a million 
from the Province of Quebec alone in the 
States. An increasing proportion of these 
immigrants remain permanently. The rule 
has been that a considerable portion have 
come over in the spring, worked on the 
Vermont farms, or in the cotton factories, 
or in our local brickyards, and gone home 
in the fall, but these returns are becoming 
less frequent. 
Senator Sherman celebrated his 67th birth¬ 
day Saturday, with a dinner at tended by 
the President, Vice-Pre ident, his brother, 
the general, and others.. 1 (The Senator went 
to Washington in 1855 as a Representative, 
and has been continuously in the public 
service ever since as Congressman, Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury and Senator. 
Mr. Powderly announces that he will be 
one of a million to form a new political 
party and reform things. 
The immigration of Jews into this 
country is becoming very great, and is 
strongly opposed by the Knights of Labor. 
Last year the new-comers numbered fully 
15,000 from Russia and Poland alone, and 
there are now between 1,250,000 and 1,500,- 
000 of the race in the country. Next to 
Russia, Germany furnishes most Jewish 
immigrants, and these are much better 
off financially. Last year three-quarters 
of the immigrants stopped in New York 
City. As a rule, they are sober, industri¬ 
ous and frugal, and give comparatively 
little business to the police courts. 
Dr. John H. Douglas, who was General 
Grant’s physician during the last months 
at Mt. McGregor at a remuneration of 
$12,000, is now a poverty patient suffering 
from paralysis at a New York Hospital! 
Dr. Bliss, another of his physicians, died in 
great poverty a short time ago; but the 
Grant family claim they have paid all 
charges in full. 
An enormous amount of Northern and 
European capital has lately been invested 
in the South. Ex-Congressman Abram S. 
Hewitt, ex-Mayor of New York City, has 
lately invested over $5,000,000 in iron fur¬ 
naces and foundries as well as in coal and 
iron lands, chiefly in Tennessee and Ala¬ 
bama, and other Northern capitalists have 
been equally large investors. 
The government made more than $56,000, 
000 profits from its mints last year—the dif¬ 
ference between the market value of the 
coins they turned out and the bullion value, 
less the cost of coining. 
Canada is bound to retaliate on this 
country for the increased duties provided 
lUi^cUmtmtss 
If you name the R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
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