Yinumm free catalogue 
R B.CHAFFIN'& CO. RICHMOND,VA. 
Rough on Rogues. 
I’m onto your tricks, old man, and if you 
think you have picked up a hayseed, you 
are barking up the wrong tree.” 
And the hay-fork man had to move lively 
to escape the blow leveled at his nose. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
fact that brains and business are needed in 
farming. 
What of the Rest of the People?— 
Free coinage of American silver will be a 
big thing for American speculators and 
mine owners? Certainly, and this is an in¬ 
cident that the public doesn’t fancy. But 
how about the holders of gold and the 
owners of gold mines? Haven’t they prof¬ 
ited by the demonetization of silver in the 
past 17 years far more than the silver men 
will be benefited by free coinage now ? 
Neither point is vital to the issue involved, 
but one is a fair answer to the other.—New 
England Homestead. 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
mo grape VINES 
PriddY ^°°^ out for “watch clubs.” These 
* institutions offer to provide 
2 7* watches for clubs of subscribers. 
Each member puts up a dollar and lots are 
drawn, the member drawing the lucky 
number taking the watch. Then they pay 
up again, and draw again until the “ com¬ 
pany ” is satisfied. The “ Chicago Watch 
and Jewelry Company,” of N.Y., a concern 
of this sort, has just been raided by 
Anthony Comstock, who captured two 
men, 18 watches and some other jewelry. 
The fellows always make more than 100 per 
cent profit on the watches, and usually dis¬ 
appear as soon as they have caught a big 
lot of gudgeons, without, of course, making 
any returns to the latter. When the goods 
are seized by the authorities, they are sold 
for the benefit of local charitable institu¬ 
tions, and of course, the gambling ninnies 
who have invested in the venture lose all. 
The country is full of scoundrels trying to 
sell cheap watches for high prices. Let all 
such scamps alone. * * * * This city is 
full of bogus Institutions for savings and 
investments. Many of them, like the 
“Mutual Savings and Distribution Fund 
Association,” have been rooted out and thor¬ 
oughly exposed, but the system is followed 
everywhere. The scheme is to issue a 
plausible and attractive circular offering a 
high rate of interest on cash loans, or offer¬ 
ing life insurance at the most startling 
rates. Many foolish people are deceived 
by the plausible scoundrels, and invest their 
hard-earned money. For a few months 
the heavy rates of interest are paid and this 
encourages others to invest. When the 
managers get hold of money enough they 
simply disappear or make away with the 
money and remain to show their empty 
pockets. A French banker has just dis¬ 
appeared from Paris leaving debts of 
$5,000,000 contracted by this thieving plan 
of offering 10 per cent a month interest 
when he knew he could not pay one per 
cent. His plea was that he was able to 
look ahead into the future and see what 
great financial events were to transpire. 
This gave him a great advantage. A New 
York banking concern of the same sort, 
with a nominal capital of $20,000,000, has 
just collapsed because it couldn’t pay a bill 
of $29 54; but it has managed to take in 
$5,000 in deposits from gullible workmen. 
In all the circulars sent out by such rascals 
you will find some such claim of superior 
knowledge or situation. It is absurd and 
wrong to go into such wild cat schemes. 
lOOVartetles.AigoSmall Fruits,Trees,Ac. Best 
rooted stock. Genuine, cheap. 2 sample vines mailed for 1 4o. De¬ 
scriptive price list free. LEWIS R O ESC H .Fredoaia, S.T, 
PCJtnpR If you love RARE FLOWERS, 
nCHUtn choicest only, address ELLIS BKOS. 
Keene, N. H. It will astonish and please. FREE. 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
MOnd&V kook out for that statement The 
1 R. N.-Y. made about the cost of 
2 3 # tin roofing. We said that Mr. 
Hoyt tinned his roofs at a cost of cent 
per square foot. We made a blunder and a 
bad one. The tin cost 5X cents per square 
foot,as we ought to have known. We have no 
excuse to make—we simply played the 
school boy. Many boys have been sent to 
bed without any supper for smaller 
offences. “ Won’t do it again ?” Well, we 
hope not. If we do make a blunder we 
hope to be able to own it anyway. Don’t 
dodge your faults. You only make them 
worse by doing so. 
WHY Aim SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS LATE?— They never look ahead nor think. People 
have been known to wait till planting season, run to the grocery for their seeds, and then repent over it for 12 
months, rather than stop and think what they will want for the garden. If it is Flower or Vegetable Seeds, Plants, 
Bulbs, or anything in this line, MAKE NO MISTAKE this year, but send 10 cents for Vick’s Floral Guide, 
deduct the 10 cents from first order, it costs nothing. This pioneer catalogue contains 3 colored plates. $200 in cash 
premiums to those sending club orders. $1000 cash prizes at one of the State Fairs. Grand offer, chance for all. 
Made in different shape from ever before ; 100 pages 8J^xioJ4 inches. JAMES TICK, SEEDSMAN,Rochester,N.I» 
Tnesdav k°°k out ^ or Conner & Co., of 
• Zanesville, Oblo. This is proba- 
2 4* bly another of the J. M. Bain 
swindles. This time it is a “ hair restorer,” 
which prevents hair from falling out, and 
also makes it grow on the smoothest faces 
and baldest heads. One man claims to have 
made $360 in 25 days selling this stuff. Of 
course the whole thing is an impudent 
swindle. * * * We notice a number of so- 
called agricultural papers that are making 
a tremendous outcry about “ hard times.” 
Such papers are full of just such adver¬ 
tisements as that quoted above. No wonder 
they have “ hard times” when they deceive 
their readers. Many of the papers that have 
sprung up like mushrooms to urge on “ the 
farmers’ movement ” fill up their advertis¬ 
ing columns with the most palpable frauds. 
Shame on them! They are doing far more 
harm than good. 
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HEDGING, FLOWERING SHRUBS and VINES. 
GRAPES, SMALL FRUITS in variety, ASPARAGUS, etc. 
An Illustrated Descriptive <Intalngue mid Planters Guide, FREE. - ) 
The WM. H. MOON COMPANY, Morrisville, Bucks County, Penna. 
WedDBSdaV kook out * or hedge-plants. In 
* the fight against the fences 
2 5» don’t get excited. Here is 
what one Mend writes us: “A good deal 
is said hereabouts on planting Honey Lo¬ 
cust hedges. Men go through the country 
and contract to set the plants and replace 
imperfect ones for $1 per rod if the farmer 
will board their men, prepare the ground 
and take care of the plants, f. e., they will 
do 10 to 20 cents’ worth of work per rod if 
their dupe will do all the rest and pay them 
$1. Now, Honey Locust plants can be had 
at $5 per 1,000, and it may cost five cents 
per rod to set 15 plants; but does anybody 
want such hedges ? Some time they will 
get away from the shears or pruning hooK 
and become trees, shedding a thorn that is 
dangerous to man and beast.” 
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Hardware Men keep it. Give name of this paper. 116 Water St., Pittsburgh, Pa- 
Saturday num her °* counterfeit bills 
o * are afloat in lower New York 
' 2 ^‘ and upper Pennsylvania. The 
favorites are $2 silver certificates and $5 
Jackson Treasury notes. The latter are 
poor imitations. These bills are mostly 
passed at country stores. Look out for 
them. * * * Here are a number of con¬ 
cerns The R. N.-Y. would not care to do 
business with. They are advertising heav¬ 
ily in some of the papers, but—“ look out 
for them !” Paris Silk Agency. This con¬ 
cern offers to send a box of silk remnants 
for 25 cents in stamps. They would be 
“ remnants ” with a vengeance. The “ N. 
Y. Laundry Works ” offer to make you a 
present of a new washing machine ! They 
know perfectly well that they won’t do 
anything of the sort. The Novelty Type¬ 
writer Company offers to send a “ sample ” 
by mail for 60 cents. What is the “ sam¬ 
ple ?” If it is a typewriter It can be noth¬ 
ing but a toy. The “ American Publishing 
Company ” offers to sell a “ $55 sewing ma¬ 
chine for $1.” Of course it is a big fraud 
—we have exposed it before. That “ Origin¬ 
al Webster’s Dictionary ” is bobbing up 
again for $4. It Is an “original” edition 
—it was printed 31 years ago aud has not 
been changed. 
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JBSmmS culturists throughout the country, 
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“I regard Breed's Universal Weeder as one of the most valuabl 
implements a farmer can aflord to employ.” J. J. THOMAS, inventor 
of the Smoothing Harrow. 
~ 44 We are using the Weeder to-day on a field of potatoes a foot high, 
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'* Your Weeder is about all that can he asked for as a weed killer 
and surface pulverizer."—JOHN GOULD. 
WWWWSMiwP THE UNIVERSAL WEEDER CO., North Weire, N H. 
Where we have no Agents, Machines will be DELIVERED at retail price. 
Thursday New York Sun tells the fol- 
C ■ lowing story: “You can either 
2 ®* beat a farmer as slick as grease, 
or you can’t beat him at all,” said the 
patent hay fork man as we were talking 
about his adventures in the rural regions. 
“That is, he is either gullible or over-sus¬ 
picious. Some will refuse a good thing, 
and some will snap at a swindle. I think 
I can illustrate my declaration right here, 
or at least one of them. The man in the 
seat over there is a farmer.” 
“ I should say so.” 
“And he’s one of the sort who suspects 
every stranger. Watch me try him.” 
He took a cake of toilet soap from his 
satchel, and, going over to the farmer, 
saluted him in a pleasant manner and 
added: 
“ I have a new make of soap here, which 
I am introducing to the public. It is worth 
15 cents a cake, but I make the price only 
five.” 
“ Don’t want it,” was the gruff reply. 
“ With every cake goes a five dollar green¬ 
back, a gold bracelet, the deed of a town 
lot in Kansas, a pocket-knife, a pair of eye¬ 
glasses and a solid gold ring.” 
“ Don’t want ’em, sir.” 
“As I want your opinion of the soap, I 
will give it to you.” 
“ I won’t take it.” 
“But, sir, in order to introduce it into 
your neighborhood I will give you a hun¬ 
dred cakes free and at the same time leave 
five watches and five deeds to town lots.” 
“ Look-a-here !” shouted the farmer, as 
be jumped up and spat on his hands. 
“ You go away from me, or I’ll mash you. 
Send for 
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The carpenter, the mason, the machinist, 
the blacksmith can each tell you at what 
price he can perform for you a certain piece 
of work in his own line, but which one of 
you can tell what it will cost to raise a 
bushel of wheat or corn, or at what price 
you can afford to sell a pound of beef a 
year hence ? There may be a sort of gen¬ 
eral average which is obtained from year 
to year, found by comparing a long series 
of years together, but of any particular 
year no one can predict the yield of his 
farm. — President Michigan Short-horn 
Breeders’ Association. 
This is but another bit of evidence of the 
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