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“ Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
JANUARY. 
MOnddV Ihere are a good many counter- 
s felt coins and bills in circulation 
just now. Most of them are ex¬ 
cellent imitations. The bills are printed 
on light and poor paper. The coins are 
light and have a false ring. The most 
popular counterfeits are a $2 bank note and 
a #5 gold piece. Inspect your cash care¬ 
fully. • * * \y e h ave a great many in¬ 
quiries about the value of old coins. As 
we stated last week, these coins are valu¬ 
able simply to collectors who like to secure 
a complete series of the coins issued by all 
forms of governments in all ages. If a man 
happens to have just the coin these collect¬ 
ors lack, he can get almost his own price 
for it. Otherwise it will be of little value. 
It is much like the missing number of a 
newspaper needed to complete a file. The 
publisher will pay a good price for it, while 
the next issue might not be worth more 
than its price for old paper. 
Tuesday The maker of the “Eureka” hog 
medicine is sending this note to 
“ 7• the publishers of agricultural 
papers: “Gentlemen: We have on hand 
an over-stock of the ‘Eureka’ Specific for 
contagious diseases of hogs, a sure cure 
and prevention from hog cholera, etc. It 
is put up in one pound tin cans, retailing 
for $1, which we quote to you at the special 
net price of $2 per dozen, subject to the 
condition of our stock upon receipt of your 
order. Should this be judiciously adver¬ 
tised in your paper as being sent to the 
consumer upon receipt of price, $1 a pack¬ 
age, or $8 per dozen, we are confident you 
can dispose of same at a good profit.” One 
or two useful lessons might be had from 
this note. The retail price is $1 per can. 
The wholesale price—with a profit thrown 
in, of course—is 17 cents ! If the stuff is a 
“sure cure,” it certainly is worth $1 per 
pound, and the public have been strangely 
unappreciative if it is now offered for 17 
cents. As the Michigan Farmer says, the 
trouble is that we long ago decided to keep 
clear of advertising Bohemian Oats, hog 
cholera cures, bogus butter and lottery 
schemes, and cannot therefore consistently 
accept this magnificent offer to make 600 
per cent. The best veterinarians coincide 
in the opinion that there is no hog cholera 
“cure,” though Dr. Jenning’s system of 
inoculation with attenuated virus is said 
to be a preventive. • * * Look out again for 
bogus ground feed. Oat hulls are quoted 
in Chicago at $8 per ton. They are a trifle 
more nutritious than sawdust. They are 
bought by rascally millers, mixed with 
poor corn and ground. The buyer sees a 
few oat hulls scattered through the mass 
and thinks he has a fine mixture of corn 
and oats. These oat hulls are from oat¬ 
meal mills and everybody ought to know 
that these keen manufacturers can take 
out of the hulls everything that is worth 
eating. 
Wednesday Eook out again for Bohemian 
q Oat and other grain swindlers. 
“ It seems almost childish to 
continue talking about this matter, but 
reports of fresh victims come to us every 
week. A subscriber in Niagara County, 
N. Y., sends the following: 
“A dispatch in the daily papers, an¬ 
nouncing the arrest of C. W. Yerex, in Ger¬ 
many, on the charge of forgery preferred 
by parties in Ontario, because of his con¬ 
nection with the “ Hulless Oats” business, 
recalls to mind the conversation of a neigh¬ 
bor who served on the recent term of the 
grand jury for this county. He said that 
a large part of the business before the jury 
was in connection with notes given by par¬ 
ties for wheat, which was sold by an 
“agent” of the Pennsylvania Seed Com¬ 
pany, at enormous prices, the company, 
of course, being anxious to buy, in return, 
all of the wheat the farmers could raise 
from the seed. This Yerex may have been 
the same party who worked this county; 
but who ever he may be he was clever 
enough to get men of apparent respect* 
bility to appear to back the business. 
These men, however, when called upon by 
the grand jury, protested that they did 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
not know that it was a swindle, that they 
were deceived as well as the others, but 
this statement is not wholly credited. Of 
course, the party who secured the notes, 
disposed of them as soon as possible, and 
in many cases they have changed hands 
three or four times, and now, falling due, 
the makers in all probability will be ob¬ 
liged to pay them; the notes which are 
only in the second parties’ hands, however, 
may be declared void by the court, where 
the matter is now under consideration. 
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Thursday Tkat “ Eur °P ea n Claim Agency’’ 
* is still advertising. It is one of 
"9* the worst humbugs of the age. 
S. E. Land, Montrose, Col., is another man 
to be let alone. E. H. Horner, the “Lottery 
Bond Broker,” is a fraud. He claims to 
sell foreign bonds which pay premiums 
like a lottery. The Fractional Share Com¬ 
pany is denounced as a “ large bucket 
shop.” It proposes to buy and sell stocks, 
bonds, etc., for country people 1 The 
Washington Marriage Bureau of Tacoma, 
is a fraud, of course. * * * The circular 
of the “Numismatic Bank” reads well, but 
we should not care to invest in any of the 
books with the hope of making a living at 
selling them. This bank proposes to buy 
“ rare old coins,” and publishes a book 
giving pictures and the prices paid for 
them. An “agent” of the bank is one 
who travels about the country collecting 
“ rare coins ” and selling books. 
Friday 
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Look out for that proposed “ Nurs¬ 
ery Trust.” Here is a letter that 
may start the discussion again: 
“THE NURSERY TRUST.” 
The R. N.-Y. asks, “ What has become 
of the nursery trust ?” A partial answer 
I may be able to give. Mr. Thomas Mee 
han, of Philadelphia, one of the best known 
nurserymen in the United States, had a 
communication in the Philadelphia Press 
a few weeks ago, in which he spoke of the 
matter in a very candid manner. He said 
that English money was buying up all the 
large nurseries in the United States, and 
that a considerable number had already 
been secured, but how many I cannot re¬ 
call. Great pressure, it appears, was being 
brought upon his firm to sell or to enter the 
combination. If I remember, his firm was 
offered $750,000 for its plant, with an in¬ 
terest in the same. If I understood Mr. 
Meehan’s communication, he thought all 
the large nurseries could be bought up and 
placed under one management. And then 
I thought how greatly the American farm¬ 
er will be benefited by all this, for the new 
tariff places a tax of 25 per cent upon nurs¬ 
ery stock, it seemed to me, for the benefit 
of the English capitalists. Am I right, 
provided English capital secures control of 
the business ?” 
R N.-Y.—We do not believe such a 
“ trust ” will ever succeed in this country 
—it makes no difference where the money 
comes from. In our judgment, the reliable 
“ home nursery,” considered too small a 
mouthful by these capitalists, would in¬ 
crease its trade under this arrangement. 
If we mistake not, the purchasing public 
would oppose such a movement. The col¬ 
lapse of the harvester trust should be a 
warning to all who deal directly with farm¬ 
ers, that these will not tolerate any at¬ 
tempt to permanently “corner” the goods 
they have to buy for agricultural pur¬ 
poses. 
Saturday 
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Look out that you learn how 
to blame yourself properly when 
things go wrong. We are all 
very anxious to get rid of the blame. None 
of us like to be kicked. We prefer to hunt 
for somebody else to serve as a boot mark. 
This is human nature, but it is wrong. We 
must shoulder our own mistakes. The 
work of carrying them will make us more 
careful in the future. 
“ When u e find a paper that has back¬ 
bone enough to tell the truth, let us 
have backbone enough to help it along ."— 
l. w. lightly. 
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THE HOUSEWIFE FOR JANUARY 
The January number will open with the first chapter 
of a story by Amanda Douglas, entitled, “At the 
Crossways ” It will prove delightful reading. It will 
be followed by the concluding chapter of the tale “ One 
Blue Stocking’s Husband,” by Marion Ilarland. 
There will be also, a New Year’s story for the children. 
Emma Moffett Tyng will consider “Fairs and 
Bazars,” suggesting new and attractive features for 
hall decorations and table furnishings. 
Dinah Sturgis in “Practical Dress,” will give 
special attention to fashionable garments for the little 
folks as well as for the older members of the family. 
George It. Knapp will write about “Window Cul¬ 
ture of Flowering Begonias,” “ Hardy Plants for 
the Windows;” and in “Answers to Correspond¬ 
ents,” “Helpful Hints” and “Hints for the 
Month” give much entertainment and practical infor 
mation for the plant culturist. 
There will be a practical article for “ Our Girls;” and 
an interesting department for mothers. 
In “ The Kitchen,” the question so often asked by 
the housekeeper—“ What shall we.have for breakfast ? ” 
will be answered by Alice Chittenden in “Breakfast 
Dishes ; ” and there will be an article by Maria Parloa. 
The “Woman’s Chat Box,” by Agnes C. Stoddard, 
will be especially interesting, giving as it will more 
space than usual to the “ Shut-ins.” 
The “Needleworker,” by Emma C. Monroe, with 
directions for mittens, caps, etc , will be found very 
seasonable. 
Elizabeth Pease, Clifford Trembly and Eva 
Lovett Carson will furnish poems. 
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