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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE LATEST AND BRIEFEST. 
It is an error, says Bradstreet’s, to sup¬ 
pose that eggs have no considerable use ex¬ 
cept for food. They are employed in calico 
printing, in photography, in gilding, in 
clarifying various liquors and in book¬ 
binding. A large business has sprung up 
in the preparation of photographic paper 
with salted albumen,and one establishment 
alone is said to have used more than 2,000,- 
000 eggs in six months for this purpose. 
Many attempts have been made to find a 
vegetable or animal substitute for albumen, 
but in vain. A prize of $2,000 offered 30 
years ago by an English society for the dis¬ 
covery of a material or process for replac¬ 
ing albumen in calico printing still remains 
untaken. Nor are the yelks of eggs used 
in manufacturing wholly wasted. They 
are also employed in the arts,and a manufac¬ 
turer in Vienna solidifies them. Possibly, 
too, the developments in canning will be¬ 
fore long give us canned eggs, or perhaps 
condensed eggs suitable at least for cook¬ 
ing. At any rate it would seem worth 
while to try to raise part of the eggs which 
are consumed by other countries. 
Have you followed The R. N.-Y. in the 
matter of improved chestnut culture, 
friend? A little grove or orchard of Para¬ 
gons would be both ornamental and useful 
in a few—very few—years. In fact there are 
many so-called “ ornamental ” trees far less 
ornamental than most of the Japan seed¬ 
lings. 
Rules for a Long Life.— A Canadian 
clergyman, who is hale and hearty at 78 
years of age, gives these rules which have 
governed his life:—The use of plain food, 
with plenty of fruit. Personal cleanliness 
by frequent ablutions from head to foot. 
Flannel next the skin the year round, grad¬ 
uated according to season. Open-air exer¬ 
cise every day. Ventilation of sleeping 
room summer and winter. Eight hours’ 
sleep each day. 
The Freshman class, at the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College, numbers 58 < 
This proves that a purely agricultural 
school is in good favor, and refutes the 
idea that there are but few of the rising 
generation who wish to study agriculture. 
Speaking about the reported disaffection 
among the Western farmers, the Aroostook 
(Maine) Times invitingly says : Why 
would it not be a good plan for these people 
to emigrate to Aroostook, where peace and 
plenty abound ? We have land enough 
and to spare in one of the most prosperous 
sections of the country. The State of 
Maine has room for all, and Aroostook 
offers the best inducements to immigrants. 
The lands are rich and yield abundant 
crops, for which good prices are realized. 
Come to Aroostook and be prosperous and 
happy!”. 
Bottles for labels, as suggested by a 
correspondent, is by no means a bad idea. 
It is easy, by their use, to tell the whole 
story, and it will remain told for years. 
People in the country often have an ac¬ 
cumulation of bottles which they can not 
sell and have no use for. 
DIRECT. 
-Secretary Rusk: “In the older 
States, where agriculture is improving and 
lands are valuable, it seems to me to be the 
dictate of wisdom to give more prominence 
to mutton production in sheep husbandry. 
The example of England and of the best dis¬ 
tricts of France and Germany is worthy of 
our consideration in this respect. Meat 
and wool promise greater profit than wool 
alone, and furnish a double incentive to 
effort for the highest attainable excellence 
of product.” 
“ It is a mistake for farmers to assume 
that the success of their calling depends 
entirely upon this or that act of a political 
body. The man is helped who helps him¬ 
self, and there are many things which will 
ameliorate the present condition of the 
farmer which are within his own grasp, 
and waiting to be utilized. The demand 
for his products will have to be satisfied, 
for the most part, from lands already occu¬ 
pied, as our unoccupied arable lands have 
dwindled to comparatively small propor¬ 
tions.” 
“It must follow that farms will increase 
in value, that the number of acres which any 
one farmer can own and cultivate will de¬ 
crease, and that only the most intelligent 
and most wisely directed culture will in¬ 
sure profitable returns. Hence it is that 
those who follow agriculture must follow it 
in the near future as a profession rather 
'4hau as mere occupation. Agricultural ed¬ 
ucation must point the way toward the 
highest knowledge and most improved 
methods in taking advantage of different 
conditions of soil, climate, and Nature’s 
forces.” 
-The Trade Journal: “ The Rural 
New-Yorker has been hitting at a certain 
‘ novelty ’ vender pretty hard ; in fact, 
has definitely proved him a falsifier. But 
will this make any difference to the gentle¬ 
man in question or even hurt his trade ? 
Not at all; the Kind of people who buy the 
Great African Whisky berry do not read 
The Rural New-Yorker. They are the 
crowd, largely, who hit the fake games at 
the fairs, buy lottery tickets, patronize the 
bunco-steereis, and in other ways bite at 
chances to get more than their money’s 
worth. That they will continue to get left 
goes without saying 1” 
- New York Herald : “Great Britain 
is phenomenally rich, and all the world 
seems to be adding to her wealth. Why is 
it that one of the great States of this Em¬ 
pire (Ireland) is ever crawling in the dust— 
ever begging for bread ? The fault cannot 
be found in the Irish people. They are a 
brave, industrious, gifted race. In every 
country they have succeeded save in Ire¬ 
land.” 
“ The Chancellor of the Exchequer has 
had a splendid budget, so much money in 
the Treasury that the government can 
afford 100,000,000 for the navy ; the interest 
on another 5,000,000 for the children of the 
Prince of Wales.” 
“The British Empire distrusted the colo¬ 
nies, as she now distrusts Ireland. The 
colonies responded by revolution, Ireland 
sinks into despair. Think of a nation 
within four hours of the richest and proud¬ 
est Empire of the world, living on potatoes. 
Think of the incredible selfishness and 
tyranny wnich permit it. The mere fact 
that in such a year as this, the world teem¬ 
ing with prosperity, wealth and substance, 
Ireland alone—poor Irtland!—should be dis¬ 
cussing a famine, and resting her subsis¬ 
tence upon one wretched vegetable, the 
potato, is the greatest scandal of the age. 
And for this the imperial government is as 
much to blame as it was over a century 
ago, when in utter fatuity and ignorance 
it threw away the fairest portions of the 
Empire.” 
- Industrialist : “ Do not allow any¬ 
thing to divert you from your purpose, and 
you will in the long run be mentioned by 
your neighbors as Mr. So and-So, the pros¬ 
perous sheep farmer, or potato farmer, or 
whatever your specialty is. You will soon 
get the name among unthinking persons of 
being lucky with your especial stock or 
crop; but that will not hurt you any, for 
you will know that it is not luck, but that 
you have studied your subject until you 
are master of it, and so can control and 
command success. Almost universally it 
is the man of tenacious purpose who is the 
pronounced success, and the changeling 
who is out at the toes and elbows, out of 
money and * out of luck.’ It is reasonable 
that this should be so. It costs money and 
time to change from one kind of farming 
to another. Different machinery and dif¬ 
ferent buildings must be had. The farmer 
makes mistakes and loses time and oppor¬ 
tunities while learning his new work, and 
altogether makes a mess of it, while the 
man who sticks to his text is getting 
ahead.” 
- Park College Record: “Doing our 
best puts us in the way of doing something 
better.” 
-Farm Journal : “ It takes the best 
kind of brains to make a good farmer. 
If you have a dull boy educate him for a 
profession.” 
“If you really wish a reputation for wis¬ 
dom do not tell what you are going to do 
until you have fully made up your mind to 
do it. Listen, smile, look wise and hold 
your tongue.” 
“ I don’t think much of the man who 
puts his domestic partner into a corner, 
and keeps her there year after year. Any 
man who persistently hurts his wife’s feel¬ 
ings, ignores her opinions, or belittles her 
in any way, does a great wrong, not only to 
her, but to himself, and will, before he 
dies, be sorry for it.” 
-Joseph Meehan in Garden and For¬ 
est: “The growing of figs without glass in 
the Northern States is not uncommon, and 
yet it was not until this summer that I saw 
them so grown for the first time in the 
gardens of Mr. H. P. McKean, of German¬ 
town, and full of delicious ripe fruit. The 
only special treatment given in this instance 
is the burying of the trees when winter 
comes. The earth is thrown out on one 
side, the branches are bent over and kept 
down by stout pegs driven into the ground, 
and then the earth is thrown back to cover 
the branches to a depth of about six inches. 
These trees of Mr. McKean are now about 
10 feet in hight. On their northeast side a 
board fence has been erected to keep off 
cold winds in early spring and to give 
warmth to induce early growth. It should 
be borne in mind that they need a sunny 
place, otherwise some of the fruit will not 
have time to ripen before cold weather 
comes. It has been suggested that in plant¬ 
ing, the roots should all be spread on one 
side only, so as to allow the tops to be 
bent over in the same direction when the 
time for covering the tree arrives.” 
-H. T. Brooks, in the New York 
Tribune : “ Young friends, kindly permit 
a veteran of life to remind you that the 
highest and most lasting enjoyment comes 
through rigid self control.” 
“ Oh, the infernal tyranny of bad habits 
—such as the continuous use of intoxicat¬ 
ing drink till its victim becomes a con¬ 
firmed inebriate—illustrates their danger 
and despotism. Eschew tobacco. That a 
nasty weed, a rank poison, should come 
into such general use is the strangest thing 
in history.” 
“Establish and maintain friendly rela¬ 
tions with fellow-men ; better never have 
been born than hedge yourselves in with 
narrow, sordid, selfish sentiments and pur¬ 
poses that cut you off from sympathy with 
people whose society you might enjoy; set 
a high value on social intercourse; don't 
let business cares interrupt it; show your¬ 
selves friendly and you will have friends; 
life’s chief joy is loving and being loved. 
Don’t let desire of money possess your 
soul; with faithful constancy, unflagging 
industry, provide for necessaries, and a 
reserve for sickness and old age, but flee 
from the blighting mania for wealth, the 
greed of filthy lucre—a curse and craze that 
stifles noble purposes and breeds innum¬ 
erable villainies. Finally, hold fast to 
Truth, not only for the sufficient reason 
that to do so is right, but because it is prof¬ 
itable as a business investment in this 
world, and brings ‘peace at last.’ ” 
-Baron Jerzmanowsti: “The nations 
abroad are impoverished by the expense of 
the vast armies they are supporting to 
stand on guard one against the other. They 
are haunted by the dread of a great war, 
which may not come for years and may break 
out any moment. A tipsy Czar slapping 
the face of a foreign ambassador might pre¬ 
cipitate a conflict which would shake the 
Continent. Suppose Russia and Austria 
should be involved in war; the vanquished 
nation would be ruined and its securities 
would go to smash. That’s why foreign 
capitalists and investors fix such longing 
eyes on this country, which has a stable 
government, with the highest credit in the 
world, remote from warlike complications 
and possessing absolutely boundless natural 
resources.” 
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Advertisers treat all correspondents 
well if they mention The Rural New- 
Yorker. 
Scrofula 
Is the most ancient and most general of all diseases. 
Scarcely a family is entirely free from it, while thou¬ 
sands everywhere are its suffering slaves. Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla has had remarkable success in curing 
every form of scrofula. The most severe and painful 
running sores, swellings tu the neck or goitre, humor 
In the eyes, etc., have yielded to the powerful effects 
of this medicine. Try It. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $i; six for $5. Prepared only 
by C. I. HOOD & OO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
l° Trtl W,LL EA|,r >1 
s h er l ;> 
CONDITION POWDER 
Highly concentrated. Doso small. In quantity costs 
less than 0110 -tenth cent a day per hen. Prevents and 
cures all diseases. If you can’t get it, we send by mall 
post-paid, One pack. 25c. Five $1. 2 1-4 lb. can $1.20; 
6 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps or 
cash. Farmers’ Poultry tJuido (price 25c.) free with $1.00 
•rders or more. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
1 
Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh Is the 
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. 
i 
CATARRH 
1 
Sold by druggists or sent by r»*UL 
50c. E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, l « 
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For a Disordered Liver 
Try BEECHAM’S PILLS. 
25cts. a Box. 
OF ALL DR.TJ G-G-ISTS. 
$20 IMPROVED HIGH ARM 
PHI LA DELPHIA SINGER. 
15 days’ trial. Warranted 5 
years. Self-setting needle, scli- 
th i-ctuling shuttle. IAgltirrunning 
and noiseless. All attachments. Send 
THE <’. A. WOOD CO., for free 
17 N. 10th St., Plii!a.,Pa. circular. 
NEW KODAKS 
“ You press the 
button . 
we do the rest." 
Seven New 
Styles and 
Sizes 
all loaded with 
Transparent 
Filins. 
For sale by all 
Photo. Stock 
Dealers. 
THE EUSTMAN COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. I 
Send for Catalogue. 
NEW PARLOR GAME 
ALL ACES ENJOY IT! 
This National Parlor Game is 
Perfectly Harmless and In¬ 
tensely Amusing. No better 
entertainment for the home. 
Crowing Children need it. 
Everybody needs it for 
Health and 
Amusement. 
Pat. Feb. 
19,1889. 
Mailed 
post paid. 
Nickel, SI. 
Bronze, 
75 cents. 
ELASTIC TIP 
Cor. Comhill and Washington 
also Patentees ol RUBBER ELASTIC FURNITURE TIPS. 
THE IMPROVED ADJUSTABLE 
GOAT COLLAR SPRING, 
Every man and boy should have 
one. They go under the Collar and 
keep 1 he Collar and Front of Coat in 
perfect shape, without buttoning. 
Cannot blow open. Applied and re¬ 
moved instantly. Last a lifetime. 
2. XX),OX) In use. 25 cents each, or one 
dozen for $1 postpaid. BULLOCK 
C C. S. CO.. 3S Court Square. Boston, 
Mass. 
double 
H reech- Loader 
$7.75. 
RI FLES SLOP 
PISTOLS 75c 
Ail kinds cheaper than 
elsewhere. Before voa 
boy, send sump ' for 
Catalogue. Address 
POWELL & CLEMENT, 
1 HO Main Street, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
MADE FROM 
Tin Plate, 
Steel Plate, 
Galvanized J 
and Copper. 
Sizes, styles and 
qualities to suit 
every description of 
Mouse, Barn i-r Pub- 
lie Build lug cover iug. Write for Illustrated Circular 
and Price List. 
National Sheet Metal Hoofing Company, 
520 EAST 20th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 
Buckeye Wrought Iron Punched Rail Fence 
Also, manufacturers of Iron Cresting, Iron Turb¬ 
ine Wind Engines, Buckeye Force Pumps, Buck¬ 
eye Lawn Mowers, etc. Send for Illustrated Cata¬ 
logue and prices to Mast, Foos A Co. Sprihgtlold, O. 
Illustrated 
Catalogue 
free. 
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“OSGOOD” 
7 D. S. Standard 
SCALES 
3 TOM ^ T f" Sent on trial. Freight paid. 
I U ™ yk K _ Other sizes proportionately 
■ ■ <AM>VH low. Fully Warranted 
OSGOOD & THOMPSON, Binghamton, N.Y. 
H 1 1 HAL live. WSHLL S HiLfl 
Remarkably low prices Enormous assortment of styles 
Honorable treatment. We can refer to hundreds of well- 
pleased customers in every section of the U.S Our prices 
range from excellent Lustre papers at «c. a roll to e/«s«n< 
Iridescent Embossed Golds it 35c. For 8c.postage 
a 1 8 HS^iru? y . ,4 n^ ro ?SvS ll liP 1 ‘ ! . ,i with borders to match. 
A. L. 01 AM ENT & CO., 1206 Nlarxet St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
1. --— uj man or personiulv. 
lit nation s procured all pupils when competent, 
'cud for circular. \V. G. CHAFFEE, uswcjjo,N, Y. 
