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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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out so handsome next to the pond where I 
expected to find all rotten, grew so well be¬ 
cause the ground was moist all the time 
and much cooler than it was further up and 
thus they were not so much affected by the 
hot sun after a shower. 
Smoking Out Apple Scab. 
G. R. Wood, Jefferson County, Ky.— 
In a late Rural, R. B., of Montreal, Can., 
expresses the opinion that smoke preserves 
apples from scab and mildew, having drawn 
this conclusion from the effects of smoke 
from railroad engines in his own orchard. 
I am very certain he is right. My place 
lies on the Louisville and Nashville rail¬ 
road at the foot of a very steep grade, so 
that it is sometimes a difficult matter for 
heavily loaded trains to reach the top, 
therefore as they approach my place the 
fires are greatly increased and the smoke 
rolls forth In dense clouds. R. B., however, 
grows apples while I grow grapes. As my 
vineyard slopes back from the railroad 
with a rise of 20 feet, the smoke strikes the 
footoMt and ascends enveloping the entire 
place in a cloud of sulphurous smoke, often¬ 
times so thick that it is difficult to see 
through it, and as 76 trains pass daily 
there is almost a continual smoke. I am 
certain that this condition of affairs is one 
of the reasons why my grapes are as fine 
as any that ever grew under the sun. The 
smoke must have some effect on the germs 
of the mildew and rot, for whereas every 
variety succeeds with me, further away 
whole cropsare lost by the rot.The amount 
of soot and ash deposited by the engines in 
the course of a year is astonishing. 
The N. Y. Herald received the follow¬ 
ing question: 
I am a country boy. I came from a farm In New 
Hampshire to New York, with the hope of making a 
name and a fortune. Either the fame or the fortune 
would satisfy me, but I prefer both If they are with¬ 
in reach. Will you kindly tell me how I can carve 
out for myself a successful career ? 
In the course of its instructive reply the 
Herald asks: Is a surplus of cash the 
prime factor in the problem of happiness, 
and is a citizen’s usefulness to be measured 
by his bank account solely ? You may 
also get the fame you wish. It depends on 
your education, on the quantity and qual¬ 
ity of your brains and on your native 
genius. With these, everything is possible; 
without them, you will everlastingly hun¬ 
ger for the unattainable, and in the end 
draw the coverlid of a wasted life over your 
head and die a disappointed man. Don’t 
make any mistakes in this matter. If you 
wish to get out of life all there is in it—for 
you—there is a way to do it. Real happi¬ 
ness consists of health, self-respect, the 
good will of the community and a sufficient 
income to gratify your reasonable wants. 
Everything else is trivial and not worth 
bothering about. The man who has steady 
work, fair wages, a cosy home, enough to 
eat, a thick overcoat, and the consciousness 
of personal integrity, is a mightily favored 
fellow, In possession of more than three- 
quarters of the best things which this 
world affords. If you are mechanic, or 
artisan, or farmer, be proud of yourself, 
and the rest of the world will soon come to 
be proud of you. Nothing is needed so 
much in this generation as a man with 
skilled fingers. You may have a long pull, 
but the clock will strike an unexpected 
hour and tho opportunity—which comes to 
everybody in turn, but which most people 
miss—will present itself. Study the bull¬ 
dog, and when you get your teeth into a 
big thing, let them stay there. Save 
money. The coward runs in debt, the 
brave man has a $5 surplus in his pocket. 
The world may laugh at you because you 
can’t have a four in-hand necktie. All 
right, let it laugh. You are your own 
world, and the people who sneer are simply 
outside barbarians. When they see that $5 
bill growing bigger they will all want to 
shake hands with you and send you to 
Congress. Keep well within your income 
and you will save yourself from skulking 
round the corner like a kicked dog when 
the dun is on your track. The handiest 
thing on the planet is the penny laid up for 
a rainy day. Now, young sir, get rid of the 
nonsense that you are a genius, settle down 
to the conclusion that you are just an aver¬ 
age North American boy and then start in. 
Keep youtself alert, look after your diges¬ 
tive apparatus, don’t smoke cigarettes, get 
to bed early, be square-toed in all your 
dealings, and we will wager a cookie that 
at 60 you will have to look backward for 
those who began the race when you did. 
Are you ready ? Then, Go ! 
WIDE-AWAKE ITEMS. 
The great game park which Mr. Austin 
Corbin has established near Newport, New 
Hampshire, and which contains 22,000 
acres chiefly of mountain land, is being 
rapidly stocked with animals. Already 
some 250 head of buffalo, elk, moose, black- 
tall deer, white-tail d6er, red deer, caribou, 
antelope and wild boars from the Black 
Forest of Germany are roaming at large 
in the park, while contracts for as many 
more animals have been made with trap¬ 
pers at the West. Garden and Forest says 
that some of the species have already begun 
to breed, and the scheme promises results 
as satisfactory to the lovers of great game 
as to those who are interested in any enter¬ 
prise which involves the preservation of 
large tracts of beautiful country in their 
natural condition. It is said that Mr. Cor¬ 
bin does not intend to allow his animals to 
be hunted, and it will be some time before 
he must decide what shall be done with 
them when they have multiplied in excess 
of the capacity of the park to support 
them. 
It is saddening to know that the wild 
animals of our country are so rapidly being 
exterminated and The R. N.-Y. regards 
meD like Mr. Corbin as public benefactors, 
in so far as their efforts may serve to 
counteract the march of that sort of civili¬ 
zation which would, apparently, gladly ex¬ 
terminate every bird and beast of the fields, 
woods and prairies. 
What do our farmer friends say to this ? 
The New York Herald asked some of the 
leading clergymen the following question, 
among others : “ Is it his right or a peril¬ 
ous blunder for a minister or a priest, from 
the pulpit or in the vestry, to instruct the 
members of his congregation to vote for or 
against certain men or political parties ? ” 
Dr. Morgan Dix, in the course of his 
reply, said that he had never made a po¬ 
litical address. He would deem it a des¬ 
ecration of his pulpit and his sacristy to 
use either for political purposes. 
Dr. Heber Newton was of the opinion 
that as citizens, ministers have as much 
right to take part in all political discussions 
as any other class of men. As citizens, it 
is as much their duty so to do as the duty 
of any other citizens. When the political 
addresses are in reality addresses upon 
applied morals, then, if it is not their duty 
to speak, he does not know whose duty it is. 
Dr. Talmage said that iu his pulpit he 
discusses regularly and persistently all the 
principles of good government, the requi¬ 
site moral qualifications of candidates for 
office, and the curse of political corruption 
and all the questions of honorable citizen¬ 
ship. 
Our friend, Mr. Ward McAllister, men¬ 
tions three roses as in his opinion the most 
effective for dinner table decoration. One 
is Gloire de Paris. In reality there is no 
such rose. It is Anne de Diesbach. The 
second is ‘‘The Rothschild.” Does he 
mean Baron or Baroness Rothschild > The 
third is Captain Christy. 
Joaquin Miller, the great poet, novelist 
and horseman, insists that a horse needs 
a master, for the reason that he has no 
mind of his own. He must feel that you 
are his master, or, at least, that you are 
neither coward nor fool. And if he does 
not feel this he becomes frightened at 
everything—a falling leaf, a bird by the 
road, a bit of paper, anything, everything. 
He is trembling with fear, for he knows 
you are also afraid. And so, not from any 
viciousness at all, but really because he has 
no rider or master, he runs away. 
The best and only true teacher of riding 
on this earth, he contends, is the horse 
himself. Sit erect, your feet well down, 
loose and leisurely and so submit yourself 
to his motions. Ride alone until you have 
learned to ride, and then after you have 
learned to ride you will never make one of 
a party of giggling and garrulous idiots 
who make up ‘‘the riding school.”. 
There never was and there never will be 
an English horseman, according to Mr. 
Miller. These people are islanders, sailors; 
the greatest sailors in the world are these 
gallant Englishmen ; but horsemen, never; 
and it is only a sort of “ bull-headedness ” 
that makes them stick to the horse. Ameri¬ 
cans should not, therefore, follow the ex¬ 
ample of Englishmen in their treatment of 
a horse. For example, England is a breezy 
and cool land, with much mud and no flies 
or mosquitoes. But this vast land of ours 
is hot, dry, dusty and filled with flies and 
mosquitoes that torment horses almost to 
madness. The horse needs his tail here as 
much as he needs his teeth. God gave it to 
him, and if you have the ghost of a heart 
you will let him keep it. If this low class 
of Americans could only see how the honest 
English laugh at them for this cruel bit of 
snobbery as practiced on their helpless 
horses !. 
Ride up hill and down hill as fast as 
you like, so far as the strength of your 
horse is concerned. For a horse will go 
much further and much faster up and down 
a hilly road than on a continuously level 
one. The reason is he rests his level road 
muscles while on an up hill road, and he 
rests his up-hill road muscles while on a 
down-hill road. So don’t fear for the hills. 
Your horse can stand all the up-hill and 
down-hill you can. 
DIRECT. 
- Farm Journal: “ It is easier to buy a 
good soil than to make it, and cheaper to 
buy good buildings than to build them. If 
you must go in debt for a farm it is better 
to go deep enough to buy a good one that 
will pay the debt, than to make a smaller 
debt for one that will require constant out¬ 
lay for improvements.” 
“ The farmers’ movement is growing 
rapidly, perhaps too rapidly to make good 
solid timber. Better slow and sure. Watch 
out for designing men within and without. 
Ask what is right and fair, and then stand 
together, and stand fast, and you will 
get it.” 
-N. Y. Tribune: ‘‘An extensive and 
expensive experience as a lender—resulting 
in loss to him of perhaps $50,000, maybe 
twice that sum—led Mr. Greeley, at last, to 
this conclusion, the truth of which will, 
we think, be verified by observation of 
others : ‘I judge that at least nine of every 
ten loans to the needy result in loss to the 
lender, with no substantial benefit to the 
borrower. He (the latter) thinks his first 
want is a loan, but that is a great mistake. 
He is far more certain to set resolutely to 
work without, than with, that pleasant 
but baleful accommodation. Make up a 
square issue—Work or starve ! The widow, 
the orphan, the cripple, the invalid, often 
need alms, and should have them ; but to 
the innumerable hosts of needy, would-be 
borrowers the best reponse is Nature’s— 
Root, hog, or die !’ ” 
-Western Rural: “When you see a 
little boy so pleased to see his father come 
home that he can hardly contain himself 
you may know that his father is providing 
for a lot of enjoyment when time shall 
make him a child and that boy a man.” 
-Georgia Journal: “Thump your 
head, and if it thumps like a ripe water¬ 
melon keep your mouth shut.” 
-Harper’s Easy Chair : “A man who 
is habitually mean, selfish, narrow, is a 
man without Christmas m his soul.” 
“‘The sense of duty,’ said Webster, in 
his greatest criminal argument, * pursues 
us ever.’ But it pursues us more effect- 
vely with the return of every Christmas.” 
-Life : “ The victory for the woman 
who works is practically won. But a harder 
thing is yet to come, and that is to make 
the woman who doesn’t work realize that 
she is whipped. The tendering of the 
sword was doubtless a harder thing for 
both Cornwallis and Lee, than the contem¬ 
plation of the future as defeated warriors, 
but they both had to come to it. So it is 
bound to come that the butterfly woman 
will have to acknowledge that she is only a 
butterfly, and that her sister in the plainer 
and more comfortable garb is the real type 
of the American woman.” 
“Mr. Hayes,” asked Senator Evarts, 
“did you ever set a hen on a scrambled 
egg ?” “ Yes,” returned Mr. Hayes, “one.” 
“ And what did she hatch ?” “ A flne fric¬ 
asseed chicken.” 
-Harper’s Editor’s Drawer: “The 
amount that a good woman can give away 
is only measured by her opportunity. Her 
mind becomes so trained in the mystery of 
this pleasure that she experiences no thrill 
of delight in giving away only the things 
her husband does not want. Her office in 
life is to teach him the joy of self-sacrifice. 
She and all other habitual and irreclaim¬ 
able givers soon find out that there is next 
to no pleasure in a gift unless it involves 
some self denial.” 
“ Let one consider seriously whether he 
ever gets as much satisfaction out of a gift 
received as out of one given. It pleases him 
for the moment, and if it is useful, for a 
long time ; he turns it over, and admires 
it; he may value it as a token of affection.” 
“ It is a wonder that enlightened people 
do not more freely indulge in giving for 
their own comfort. It is, above all else, 
amazing that so many imagine they are 
going to get any satisfaction out of what 
they leave by will. They may be in a state 
where they will enjoy it, if the will is not 
fought over; but it is shocking how little 
gratitude there is accorded to a departed 
giver compared to a living giver. He 
couldn’t take the property with him, it is- 
said; he was obliged to leave it to some¬ 
body. By this thought his generosity is 
always reduced to a minimum.” 
!*U.$miatt*au£ writing. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
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or Six 
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SCRIBNER’S 
AND 
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Over One Million Sold.—Most complete book of 
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G. W FISHER, Box 238. Rochester, New York. 
HOMES FOR ALL 
in the South 
along tne 
line of the 
MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD. Cheap lands, 
good health, goon water, a miiu climate, good markets 
for your prouucts, and m fact all that conduces to 
success in Agricultural aud Mechanical pursuits. You 
can purchase ROUND TRIP LAN U-sELK Ellis’ 
TICKETS VIA THE MO^FlE A Ahi~'uaTH 
RoAO. from b'l*. LQL J 1S, )lii„ to almost any 
poTuTiu our territory, at very low rates, GOOD FOR 
FORTY DAY S from date of sale, with privilege of 
STOPPING OFF AT PLEASURE south of the 
OHIO 1:1 ver^T’otTurTKer^nTormanon iu regard to 
rates address J, N. EUERLE, Land and Immigra¬ 
tion Agent, No. 423 Chestnut Street, ST. LOUIS. 
.MO., or G. \V. KING, General Passenger Agent 
M.&O.R.R., MOBILE, ALA. Address the ALA. 
BAM A LAND AND DEVELOPMENT CO., 
or HENRY FONDE. Pres., MOBILE, ALA., for 
circulars or other 
information lu re¬ 
gard to land 
IN ALABAMA. 
275 ACRE FARM. 
Fertile, warm early soil. 
Good Grass Laud. 
Good Butler Farm. 
Good Truck Farm. 
Good Fruit Farm. 
Good Poultry Farm. 
Twenty-seven miles from Boston. Six good manu¬ 
facturing village markets within seven miles; one 
mile from railroad station, post office, etc. 
FOR SALE AT LOW PRICE. 
May be divided into two farms. Two houses, big 
baru. etc. 
Address “ FARM," care The Rural New-\ t orkeb. 
