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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Publishers Desk. 
Prompt does the Business. 
WHO GETS THE PRIZES. 
The applications for our Free 
Education circulars are not ex¬ 
actly a “flood” in numbers, but 
they are numerous enough to 
show that the boys are awaken¬ 
ing to the importance of the 
opportunity offered. The char¬ 
acter and tone of the letters are 
excellent and we have no doubt 
that these young men will meet 
with a fair measure of success. 
“Young men ?” yes, and one 
young woman whose prospect is 
not a whit less promising ; and 
we want a hundred more like her 
scattered over the country. 
Young friends, don’t be dis¬ 
couraged by the tone of our 
communications on this topic, 
holding you up to a high standard 
of excellence; don’t be deterred 
from sending for our circulars by 
the thought that you may not 
equal the standard set. We ask 
of you only what any young man 
or young woman of good char¬ 
acter is equal to. There are a 
thousand, more or less, of these 
places to be filled by some of you. 
The circulars are now ready and 
are being sent out to the appli¬ 
cants. Let every one apply 
EARLY, as the time is fast 
approaching when the coming on 
of the examinations will make it 
more difficult for you to win the 
prizes. We only ask you to send 
in your names and a note of ref¬ 
erence from your last teacher or 
other competent judge of your 
abilities. 
I am glad to see the R. N.-Y. keeping up 
with the times in the Times Building. 
May it soon reach the top ! g. r. w. 
Lynden, Ky. 
The R. N.-Y. has been worth many 
times its cost to me, and I would not know 
how to get along without it. w. h. k. 
Canastota, N. Y. 
I take about 25 papers, mostly agricul¬ 
tural, all good, and it is no discredit to 
them to say that on all live issues the R. 
N.-Y. heads the list. s. s. bailey. 
East Paris, Michigan. 
My choice in agricultural papers is the 
R. N.-Y. every time. It is a genuine help 
to farmers. I should like to see a crochet¬ 
ing department during the winter months. 
I find no time in summer for such work. 
St. Albans, Vt. C. P. M. 
Although I live so far south (27 degrees), 
the Rural New-Yorker is of benefit to 
me, and the best agricultural paper I read, 
and I take eight or nine. g. l. L. 
Eden, Florida. 
I have no doubt the R. N.-Y. will prosper 
more than ever, as- every “ old bach ” does 
■when he takes to himself a wife. I wish the 
newly wedded couple every possible success 
and a long life together. h. 
I have lately been looking over a bound 
volume of old Rurals’ way back in ’52, 
when my father was assistant editor with 
Mr. Moore, in Rochester. It has changed a 
great deal for the better, but still it was 
pretty good then. I think we have nearly 
every volume since ’51. j. p. bixby. 
Niagara County, N. Y. 
“There’s money in it.” Surely there is 
money in reading the R. N.-Y.; but not only 
that, it creates within me a thirst after 
better farming. It makes my home a hap¬ 
pier one, and I go to work this spring with 
new zeal, and a determination to try to 
make my 50-acre farm pay as well as some 
of the Rural’s other 50-acre farms. I 
have been reading the Rural only since last 
October, and am well pleased with it so far. 
One feature I prize very highly is that what I 
r* id in it comes fr om. practical farmers—men 
who own farms and have made farming a 
success. The paper’s system of correspond¬ 
ence with farmers is worth more than all 
the finely written articles of “side walk” 
men with no practical idea of what they 
are writing about. j. s. T. 
Lysander, N. Y. 
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 
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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. 
The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY, May 31, 1890. 
Mr. McClammy, a farmer from the 3d 
North Carolina District, has introduced 
into the House a bill which authorizes 
the issue of legal tender notes to the 
amount of $1,800,000,000. They are to be 
distributed among the various States, ac¬ 
cording to population, and are then to be 
loaned to the people upon mortgages. The 
loans will bear interest at the nominal rate 
of one per cent, per annum. Not more than 
$2,500 to be loaned to any one person, and 
preference to be given to those whose 
lands are already mortgaged, to the end 
that they may take up the high interest- 
bearing liens upon their property. The 
interest received upon these loans is to be 
held in the Treasury as a fund to aid com¬ 
mon schools. Mr. McClammy hopes to 
have his bill substituted for the Farmers’ 
Alliance Grain Sub-Treasury Bill, now be¬ 
fore the Ways and Means Committee. 
Senator Stanford of California, has intro¬ 
duced into the Senate a bill which provides 
for the establishment of a Land-loan 
Bureau in the Treasury Department. It 
provides that circulating notes of denomin¬ 
ations ranging from $5 to $1,000, be set 
apart for issuance on loans of unincum¬ 
bered agricultural land. Under the pro¬ 
visions of the bill any citizen, or any person 
who has announced his .intention to become 
such, and who owns unincumbered agri¬ 
cultural land, may secure a loan from the 
Land-loan Bureau. The loans are to be se¬ 
cured by liens on the land, are not to ex¬ 
ceed in amount one-half its assessed value, 
are to bear interest at two per cent, per 
annum, are not to be made upon land 
valued at less than $500, nor in sums less 
than $250, and are not to be for a longer 
period than 20 years. Notes to the amount 
of $1,000,000,000, “and additional amounts 
as they become necessary,’’are to be set apart 
under the bill. In case of default of pay¬ 
ment of interest or principal, the govern¬ 
ment may bring suits for foreclosure. The 
effect of the bill would apparently be to set 
the government of the United States up in 
the real estate business as a competitor 
with private citizens and corporations. 
The Senate Bill introduced by Senator 
Wilson of Iowa, with regard to “original 
packages,” has been amended so as to read 
as follows : “That when any intoxicating 
liquors shall be transported from one State 
or Territory to another, or from any foreign 
country, such liquors shall, when the ac¬ 
tual and continuous transportation of the 
same shall have terminated, be considered 
to have ceased to be the subject of inter¬ 
state commerce and be a part of the com¬ 
mon mass of property within the State or 
Territory, and subject to the respective 
powers of the State or Territory in respect 
of all police regulations of prohibition, reg¬ 
ulation or taxation.” It has been passed 
by the Senate. The anti-oleo bill has been 
amended in precisely the same way. 
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has intro¬ 
duced a bill authorizing the Secretary of 
Agriculture to expend $250,000 in continu¬ 
ing the investigation of the extent to which 
the arid region of the United States can be 
redeemed by irrigation and segregation of 
irrigable lands in such region, and for the 
selection of sites for reservoirs and othf* 
hydraulic works in connection with irriga¬ 
tion. The Secretary is directed to make an 
itemized report of the expenditure of the 
money on the first Monday of December in 
each year. 
Representative Wade, of Missouri, has in¬ 
troduced a bill providing that the pay of 
letter carriers, after three years’ service in 
first-class post offices, shall be $1,200 per an¬ 
num, and after two years’service in second- 
class post offices $1,000 per annum. 
The Army Appropriation bill, as reported 
to the Senate, Wednesday, by the conferees 
carries a total of $24,181,472, which is $106 - 
613 less than when it passed the House 
and $6,810 less than when it passed the 
Senate. 
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, on Satur¬ 
day. presented an amendment to be offered 
to the Tariff bill removing the duty of 1% 
cent a pound on binding twine and placing 
it on tne free list. 
An application for incorporation by a 
number of New York and Chicago capital¬ 
ists has been made to the Illinois Secretary 
of State. The company proposes to erect a 
steel tower in Chicago 1,500 feet high at a 
cost of over $2,000,000. It is a purely private 
enterprise,but the intention is to inaugurate 
it in connection with the World’s Fair and 
to maintain it thereafter as a permanent 
show. 
A preliminary report of the Census Office 
for the Eleventh Census, based on special 
reports from 2,809 counties in the various 
States and Territories, shows that the prin¬ 
cipal of the State debts at the present time 
is $228,679,817; of this amount $194,954,206 
is bonded debt, and $33,725,610 floating debt. 
This shows a net decrease in the total State 
debt during the last 10 years of $54,459,486, 
the bonded debt having been decreased by 
$64,083,249, and the floating debt increased 
by $9,623,764. The total bonded debt of the 
United States is shown to have been $1,- 
709,993,100 in 1880 and $719,178,570 in 1890. 
The bonded debt of the several States in 
1880 was $259,937,456 and $194,954,206 at the 
present time, making a total decrease of 
$1,054,897,780. As to county indebtedness, 
the report shows the bonded debt of the 
2,809 counties in the United States and Ter¬ 
ritories to be $130,734,959, as against $104,- 
493,752 in 1880 The floating debt of these 
counties in 1880 was $16,745,331. The pres¬ 
ent floating debt of these counties is $14,- 
958,881, a decrease of $1,786,450. This shows 
an increase in the total debt of the counties 
of the United States during the last 10 
years of $24,454,756. The decrease of public 
debts in the Southern States is about six 
times more than in the Western States ; but 
a much larger proportion of the decrease is 
due to repudiation of old disputed debts or 
to compromising for them at varying rates 
of discount. 
The Universal Peace Union at its conven¬ 
tion in Washington, protested the other 
day, against coast defences, West Point, 
the War Departments and the army and 
navy generally, and commended everybody 
who has expressed himself in favor of 
peace, from Emporer William and the 
Pope down. The suggestion was also made 
that in lieu of a War Department we should 
have a Peace Department. 
The U. S. Supreme Court has decided 
that no constitutional rights of murderer 
Kemmler would be violated if he should be 
“electrocuted.” The Court says that theex- 
ecution of murderers by electric shock, 
which aims to mitigate the pain of death, 
does not violate the constitutional prohibi¬ 
tion against the infliction of “cruel and 
unusual punishment.” Will the wretch 
be executed ? Well, he has had so many 
reprieves that many besides sentimentalists 
think his punishment should now be 
commuted to imprisonment for life. 
A School-book Trust embracing 90 per 
cent, of the business of the country, 
has paid a New York firm a consider¬ 
ation estimated at $750,000 to $1,600,000 to 
get out of the business; every penny of 
which munificent and lottery-like bonus 
will in turn be extracted from the pockets 
of the “ dear public.” 
Speaker Reed has issued an order for¬ 
bidding the sale of liquors in the House 
restaurant; the consequence is that 
the Senate restaurant, which has no 
such restraint, is overrun with Congres¬ 
sional patronage. Wines and liquors in 
the “ original packages ’’—whole bottles— 
may still be bought in theHouse restaurant, 
however. The exception is said to be made 
necessary by the fact that a number of 
Congressmen keep their own “wine” in * 
the retaurant ice chests, and that it might 
make trouble not to let others have 
wine.” 
The filibustering scare with regard to 
Lower California is simmering down. 
President Diaz makes little of it. Mexico 
has a well disciplined army that would 
make short work with filibusters, and poor 
Maximilian’s fate should warn intruders 
on the national soil that Mexicans will 
stand no trifling. 
On Thursday, May 29, 75,000 visitors 
from all parts of the South, with a few from 
other sections, assembled at Richmond, Ya., 
to witness the unveiling of the splendid 
bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E 
Lee, the “ Hero of the Confederacy.” 
About 25.000 uniformed soldiers were pres¬ 
ent—a greater number than could ever be 
seen in Richmond at any one time, during 
the “War.” The Stars and Bars floated 
everywhere, but the “Stars and Stripes” 
were still more numerous, still it was un¬ 
doubtedly, par excellence, “Confederacy 
Day” as plainly shown by the music 
played, the sentiments cheered, etc., but 
not a single “ disloyal ” utterance or act is 
reported, while all the speakers were 
hearty in professions of fidelity henceforth 
to our glorious and evermore united 
country. 
Decoration or Memorial Day, on May 30, 
was celebrated all over the country with 
an enthusiasm that leaves no doubt that 
the heroic deeds and deaths it commem¬ 
orates are still fresh in the memories and 
dear to the hearts of the people. At Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, a splendid monument to the 
memory of President Garfield was dedi¬ 
cated in the presence of President Harrison, 
several members of his Cabinet and an im¬ 
mense concourse of people. 
FOREIGN. 
Saturday, May 31, 1890. 
The people of Japan will cast their 
ballots for the first time at the parliamen¬ 
tary elections to be held July 1. A prop¬ 
erty qualification is attached to the right 
of suffrage; yet a wonderful advance has 
been made toward democracy. The intel¬ 
ligence and aptitude of the Japanese 
promise still further progress in the 
science of free government. 
JUNE 7 
The rapid strides toward Australian fed¬ 
eration were hopefully referred to the other 
day by the Governor of Victoria at the 
opening of the Colonial Parliament. The 
Southern Pacific may yet see an Empire 
of States as firmly established as that 
which crowns the Western Continent. 
A bill to abolish suits for breach of prom¬ 
ise of marriage has been introduced into 
the British Parliament, and has met with 
much favor. Such suits have -become so 
frequent and grossly mercenary in charac¬ 
ter as to have become public nuisances. 
They have become a favorite mode of black¬ 
mailing males by greedy maids and widows 
and unscrupulous female adventuresses. 
“Broken hearts” and “lost matrimonial 
chances” are worth hundreds or thousands 
of pounds with such “kittle cattle.” For¬ 
tunate America 1 No need of such a law 
here! 
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