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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL 18 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
APRIL, 
Monday out f° r a remarkable variety 
' of corn which some enterprising 
20* seedsmen will probably spring 
upon the public before long. They have 
not named it yet—they are hunting through 
the dictionaries to find a suitable word. 
This grain, it is said, was first brought to 
this country to feed the birds on those 
ostrich farms in California 1 The ostriches 
did so well on it that farmers tried it on 
other animals and found it to be a wonder¬ 
ful thing—“yielding more nutriment to 
the acre than any other known plant.” 
Here, you see, is a great basis to work on, 
and we may safely trust our “ novelty ” 
dealers to throw in all the needed color. 
Tnesdav IjO0k out for two p a P ere u p In 
* Canada that are offering prizes 
2 1. for “ word contests,” They offer 
to give various things, from a free educa¬ 
tion to a pair of horses, to the one who can 
make up the largest list of words from the 
letters contained In the name of the paper. 
Of course the contestant has to subscribe 
to the paper—that is all right—and is also 
expected to get up a big club of subscrib¬ 
ers, which is all right, too, perhaps, only 
they ought to say that that is their object, 
and not try to deceive the people. But 
will they send the prizes after all ? We 
doubt it from the way they have treated 
some of our friends. You had better let 
all such schemes alone. * * * Another 
scamp that manages to keep bafore the 
public is J. M. Bain, formerly of Ztnes- 
ville, Ohio. Having been driven from that 
place he is now located at Englewobd, Ill, 
where he advertises as the “ Englewood 
Soap Co.” 
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Wednesday ^ms * s season tree 
' agent. Not all these gentry 
2 2. are frauds, but a fair sharo 
of them are. Look out for the man who 
“ talks big,” and the bigger his talk the 
more need to look out. This note is from 
a man who has taken The R. N.-Y. from 
its first number: “Some years ago I 
became acquainted with a company of five 
men who traveled together In western 
New York. They said they represented an 
Ohio nursery. They carried in glass jars 
samples of the fruits their stock would 
produce. When it was time to deliver 
their orders, the fellows went to several 
nurseries in New York State, bought two 
car-loads of trees—culls—shipped them to a 
town in Ohio where their nurseries were 
said to be located, and then reshipped them 
to their patrons. One of the latter had or¬ 
dered 800 Rhode Island Greenings," and 
when the trees he received came into bear¬ 
ing every one produced Talrnan Sweets—800 
sweet apple trees in one orchard 1 Some of 
the rascals, according to the newspapers, 
were afterwards arrested and punished. A 
man represented at the county fairs last fall 
that he imported and sold German Prunes 
—my investigation showed that his plants 
are obtained from plum orchards in and 
around Erie and North East, Pennsylvania. 
Many of them were sprouts from old trees; 
yet he represents them as imported 
prunes.” 
» * * 
Thnrqdav have a small sermon to 
* preach this week. There are 
23 * several sermons in this paper. 
Think them over. At a recent public 
meeting a speaker told a little story that 
will answer for our text. Dan Rice, the old 
circusman, advertised for an athlete—some 
man t© turn somersaults, or something of 
the sort. No less than 50 men answered 
the advertisement. Some of them expected 
to be good performers with plenty of prac¬ 
tice and others had been first-class in 
times past. “ Old Dan ” listened to them 
all and then said : “ Here you are now with 
25 ‘goin’-to-bes’ and 25‘used-ter-bes,’but 
there ain’t one ‘ iser.’ The whole 50 of ye 
put together won’t make one good square 
‘ iser.’ I want ‘ isers 1 ’ ” 
FFidfty ^ ow ^e world wants “ isers ” a 
' good deal more than Dan Rice ever 
2 4" did. Look through your neighbor¬ 
hood, county, district and State, and see 
how few “isers ” you can find. Hundreds 
of people tell what they used to do or what 
they expect to do some time in the future; 
but how many will say, “ I am doing it 
now?” Between the used-to bes and the 
going-to-bes the world’s wealth and energy 
are wasted. Give us “ isers,” men and 
women who are “ ready,” who waste no 
time in explaining their failures, but who 
pitch in and do things. Great chances, 
great opportunities, are just pleading 
for “isers” to come along and take ad¬ 
vantage of them. Come, be an “iser”— 
now’s the time of the year to start. 
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SHtUrdllY “Herbert, Borden & Co.,” of 
* this city, offer “ a stem-winding 
2 5* beauty” watch for $3.75, and 
“ throw in ” a solid gold watch if you send 
the full amount of money. Don’t buy 
cheap watches of anybody. We have never 
been able to find the above named concern 
at the address it gives. There is nothing 
but a letter box there. * * * Do we be¬ 
lieve in the “ anti fat ” remedies advertised 
in a dozen or more papers ? No, sir. To 
make an animal lose flesh we take part of 
its food away from him and make him run 
and jump. Try the same treatment. 
“A NEIGHBORLY LIFT.” 
JAMES K. REEVE. 
Farmer Allen was sitting at his comfort¬ 
able breakfast table one morning in early 
April. About him was every evidence of 
thrift: his children were well clad, and 
upon their cheeks was the ruddy glow of 
health; his wife smiled happily at him from 
across the table as she poured his cup of 
fragrant coffee, and added to it a generous 
measure of cream—the product of their own 
sleek Jerseys. The sun shone warmly in at 
the window, the birds were singing merrily 
in the trees, the young grass on the lawn 
was showing patches of bright green here 
and there. Spring was abroad in the 
land. 
“ I shall finish sowing the west field to¬ 
day,” said Mr. Allen. “ Then we shall be 
through with the oats In good season, and 
Monday I can begin to plow the corn land. 
I am getting a good start with the work 
this year, and if the weather holds good the 
crops will all be put in in fine shape. And 
you know, Mary, ‘ a crop well sown is half 
grown.’ ” 
“Yes, I am glad you are not being pushed, 
as you were last year, Richard. But I am' 
afraid all our neighbors are not so well 
off in that respect *s we; I wish they 
were.” 
“ True, Mary. I see that Denton has not 
turned a furrow yet. His land is not 
quite as dry as ours, and so not ready to 
work quite as early. But I am afraid the 
poor fellow isn’t able to do much this 
year.” 
“ I was over there yesterday. He looks 
bad, and I guess he isn’t a well man yet. 
And they are worried about the farm: Mrs. 
Denton said that Joe wasn’t fit to work, 
but that she could hardly keep him from it, 
and I know they haven’t money to hire 
help, for it has taken everything they 
had to pay the doctor bills this winter, 
and keep up the inteiest on the mortgage.” 
Farmer Allen rose from the table and 
walked out to the barn rather more slowly 
than was customary. And while he was 
putting the harness on his two good grays 
he worked thoughtfully, and hesitated 
once or twice as if not quite sure that it 
was what he wanted to do, and chewed 
vigorously the while at a wisp of hay, as 
if that might solve his problem. Finally, 
when the harness was all adjusted he left 
the grays standing in the stalls, and walked 
over to the box where he kept his driving 
norse. 
“ I guess you must go out this morn¬ 
ing, Dick,” he said, patting the sleek 
brown coat. “ I reckon the mistress wants 
you, if she didn’t say so.” 
Dick whinnied good-naturedly, and low¬ 
ered his fine head to receive bit and bridle, 
as if to say that he would much rather be 
out-of-doors this fine spring morning than 
standing idle in his box ; and he fairly 
pranced with the exuberance of spirits 
when his master placed him between the 
shafts of the light buggy and then drove 
around to the front of the house and 
stopped before ihe gate. Mrs. Allen smiled 
as she watched her husband’s movements, 
and walked down the path to meet him. 
There was such perfect understanding 
between those good people that it seemed 
sometimes to lessen the need of words. 
“I concluded, Mary,” said the farmer, 
with a glance of humor in his face, “ that 
we had better take a play spell Monday, if 
the weather holds good. You know I’ve 
been working pretty hard this wttk, »uil 
‘ all work and no play makes Jack a dull 
boy.’” 
“Yesl” Mrs. Allen nodded at her hus¬ 
band understanding^, and waited for him 
to go on. 
“Perhaps we had better make a little 
picnic of it, and invite some of the neigh¬ 
bors. You and Dick might take the morn¬ 
ing to see about it, and if you ain’t home 
by dinner time I guess the boys and I can 
make out.” 
“ who had I better see, and what shall I 
say ? ” 
Allen laughed contentedly by way of 
answer. 
“If you say to others just what you said 
to me this morning, I guess it will be 
enough. I don’t believe any of them can 
be any more set about going on with their 
work than I was to begin plowing that corn 
field Monday morning. And as to whom 
to see—why, there’s Kennedy, and Ran¬ 
som, and both the Thomases, and any one 
else you come across. Denton has about 20 
acres that ought to be plowed and sown 
rightaway. Let me see. If we have ten 
teams to plow, and three to harrow, and 
three to drill, we could just about get it 
done in a day. I’ll hire Sam Williams with 
his team—he ain’t hardly able to give the 
time himself, and I’ll get a hand to work 
Denton’s team. Besides myself, that will 
leave 13 for you to drum up. Do you sup¬ 
pose you can do it ? ” 
Allen closed a little anxiously. When 
he came to figure up it seemed a pretty 
large undertaking. He was by no means 
certain that 13 farmers could be found in 
that neighborhood who were willing to 
lose a day out of their best season for the 
sake of “ lending a hand ” to a neighbor. 
It was a good deal to ask of them. 
“ I shall try hard, Richard ; but maybe I 
won’t get back till late.” 
“Nevermind; we’ll get along all right. 
And, Mary, suppose you tell each man to 
bring oats enough to sow all the ground 
that he intends to plow, and fodder for his 
own team. And as for dinner, I guess we 
can leave that to you.” 
It was not Allen’s way to half do a thing, 
and he was determined that if this lift was 
to be given to Benton, it should be done 
right. - There must be no expense for seed, 
nor for feeding an army of teams, nor for 
dinner for a lot of hungry men. As Mrs. 
Allen was fully in accord with this senti¬ 
ment, it was not long before Dick was tak¬ 
ing her speedily along the turnpike that 
led to the house of their nearest neighbors, 
the Kennedys. This was not j ust the place 
at which Mrs. Allen would have wished to 
begin her work, for Simon Kennedy had 
rather an unenviable reputation for 
“nearness.” But she concluded that she 
might as well try here first, as long as it 
came in her way. The gate of the farm¬ 
yard stood open and Mr. Kennedy was just 
coming out with his team, on the way to a 
distant field for his day’s work. 
“Good morning, Mr. Kennedy. I am 
glad that I came before you were gone, for 
I want to see you this time. How are you 
getting on with your spring work ?” 
“Ehl” said the farmer, somewhat sur¬ 
prised at this question from a woman. 
“ Eh 1 Weil, fairly, I guess. I ain’t usu¬ 
ally much behindhand, am I ?” He re¬ 
turned question for question with a self- 
satisfied chuckle. 
“ No, you are not, and that is why I have 
come to you first. Mr. Allen is going over 
Monday to give Joe Benton a hand at get¬ 
ting his oats sown, and he thought may be 
you would like to go, too.” Mrs. Allen 
knew her man too well to put it in the 
light of a duty, and one that he must be 
reminded of by others. 
“ Well, I don’t know, Mrs. Allen. What 
I get I work for, and I work hard. I h’aln’t 
got over much sympathy with men that are 
always behind with their crops.” 
“ But you know Mr. Benton has been sick 
all winter; and may be ho is a little dis- 
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