MAY 9 
and found that she had, instead of rare 
flowers, a small crop of radishes. The man 
who worked the swindle was thoroughly 
conversant with rare flowers and could 
talk about them by the yard. His dealings 
were principally with the ladies and he 
took great pains in showing his seeds and 
explaining what they resembled when 
grown, that is, if the proposed victim was 
not familiar with the particular flowers. 
In many instances he tendered his services 
and agreed to plant the seeds so that they 
would be sore to grow. The price varied 
with the persons with whom he dealt, that 
is, according to what he thought their 
purses would admit, but on the average it 
was about ten seeds for 50 cents. The old 
proverb that “ There is no great loss with¬ 
out some small gain” holds t rue in this case, 
and several families will have a good sup¬ 
ply of radishes for several days. 
This is a very long way to the garden. 
We hope these folks will “ cut across” next 
year. 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
to each joint; this can nov be done very 
easily and expeditiously. Both black¬ 
berries and raspberries have wintered well; 
but our blackberry plantation suffers 
greatly on account of yellow rust which 
also prevails extensively among the wild 
plants all around us. Fig trees live well 
and grow luxuriantly with us in our rich, 
sandy soil, but do not fruit nearly so well 
with usason the Barlow estate,two or three 
miles from here, where the land is a sub¬ 
stantial hazel loam; there they are grow¬ 
ing on a steep hill-side. We bury them in 
winter as one would a grape vine or a rasp¬ 
berry bush. 
Vegetables are pretty well advanced, but 
the veering winds of last Friday and Sat¬ 
urday have been against them, especially 
in the case of germinating seedlings and 
those just coming through the ground. As 
soon as the seedlings come up and the row3 
can be seen I run through between the 
rows with steel-pronged hoes to loosen the 
surface of the ground. 
There is a splendid prong hoe made by 
the Western Tool Company, Madison, Wis. 
A year or two ago a sample half dozen had 
been s^nt to one of our village stores, and I 
happened to see them and bought them all, 
but wishing to give one to each of our 
workmen (every man has his own kit of 
tools) I wanted more, and, curiouslj 
enough, I couldn’t find another one in Ne v 
York, and our storekeeper had to send to 
Wisconsin for them. They are light, ca - 
row-pronged, easy to handle and do 
capital work. 
Early carrots in frames are fit for use. 
Lettuces from the second spri ig sowing in 
frames are now being cu* - , with a succ s 
sion nearly ready outside. Carrots, beds 
onions and turnips are up and thinne 1. 
Spring spinach will be ready for use in a 
week. Early round peas are eight Inches 
high, with many successions coming cn 
(Continued on next p %ae ) 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
Monday ^ man * n ^is c ^y> claiming to 
1 be a lawyer and collector of 
J 1 • claims, is trying a novel game, 
He sends to a farmer living at a distance a 
letter reading like this : 
Dkar Sir— Is (his your signature? If It Is, let me 
know at once and give your first name. Have your 
letter signed by a reliable witness. When you write 
send 25 cents. Postage stamps may be sent If de¬ 
sired. Yours,-. 
Accompanying this note which is written 
—not printed—is a little slip bearing the 
genuine signature of the person addressed. 
We do not give the fellow’s name yet for 
several reasons. No matter what name he 
sends, don’t pay any attention to him. The 
probability is that he has bought up a lot 
of waste paper containing unimportant 
letters on matters of business. He cuts 
out the signature and sends it as a bluff in 
the hope that he will hit somebody who 
will be frightened or tempted into paying 
money. It is a fact that many people have 
written letters in earlier life that they now 
regret. This scamp hopes to make such 
folks think he has possession of one of 
their secrets. Let him alone. He is a 
harmless fraud if he is ignored. Like a 
tarred stick, he smears those who touch 
him. 
win plant seeds In Hills- Drills and Checks. 
Will distribute all fertilizers, Wet or Dry, In dif¬ 
ferent Amounts and Distances, each side of seed. 
“ Send for circulars.” 
ECLIPSE COHA PLANTER CO.. 
Enfield, Grafton Co. New Hampshire. 
Prid8.V A^t^er nursery fraud has been 
_ ' working in St. Louis County, Mis- 
1 5 * souri. His star production was, in 
the words of one of our subscribers: “A dew¬ 
berry which he claimed was different from 
anything yet Introduced. It bears a full 
crop the first year after planting, ripens 
in the middle of the strawberry season. As 
the plants arrived on April 19 they will 
have but six weeks to grow and ripen their 
crop. They were nothing but mere slips. 
The 25 which represented my purchase I 
could hold between my thumb and 
forefinger. There is another virtue they 
are said to possess : the old ones die off in 
the fall, and send up an abundance of new 
shoots in the spring. As the plants are so 
cheap ($8 per 100) and money so plentiful, 
the lesson we have learned is well worth 
the price. Beware of the tree agent.” The 
claim of fruiting the season it is set out is 
an absurd claim to make for dewberries of 
the size mentioned. The canes are biennial, 
those growing one season will fruit the 
next and then die. 
Mkooo of the5e/^acj|ines^ 
(r\cYe been sold.Ine/'afe 
^ in ne arly eVejy® 1 
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GATALOGUE 
Tl E /r1brf 
TnflS(]RV There has been a great crashing 
* of late among the Investment 
12. and Short-term Orders located 
or doing business in Pennsylvania. “ The 
Beneficial Order of Earnest Workers ” has 
just been forced into assignment and others 
will soon follow. This order had 64,000 
members, most of whom will lose all they 
have paid in. The R. N.-Y. has repeatedly 
stated how these societies propose to do 
business. Here is a list of such societies 
organized in the past je tr near Philadel¬ 
phia. 
Universal Order of Co-operation. 
Benevolent Endowment Association. 
Beneficial Order of Earnest Workers. 
Trust cf Nicholas. 
Fraternity of Financial Co-operation. 
Active Beneficial Society. 
Improved Order of Fraternal Co-operation. 
Guarantee Beneficial Society. 
Improved Annual Relief Society. 
Phoenix Mutual Order of Protection 
Bi-monthly Benefit Association. 
American Mutual Order of Protection. 
Mutual Aid Ordsr of Protection. 
Benevolent Order of Eureka. 
Keystone Mutual Association. 
Improved Mutual Relief Society. 
Mutual Endowment Association. 
Excelsior Benefit Society. 
Girard Beneficial Association. 
Fraternal Association of America. 
Ne Plus Ultra Progressive Endowment Order of 
Co-operation. 
Society for the Mutual Advancement of Co- 
Workers. 
Fidelity Fraternal Association. 
United Working People’s Beneficial Society. 
Mutual One Month Endowment Association. 
Tontine Beneficial League, United Order of Frater¬ 
nal Co-operation. 
National Order of Prosperity. 
Advance Beneficial Order ; and many others. 
a\’A. C°. Sterling, III 
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SatnrdlV k°°k out for the phonograph. 
, * If people had to carry one 
1 around with them all the time 
to record every word they said, it would 
make them ashamed of their tongues. Eli 
Perkins caught this conversation in a 
phonograph. One colored boy was black¬ 
ing his boots; the other had some quarrel 
to work off: 
“Look heah, boy; I’ze dun got my eye¬ 
ball on you, an’ de fust thing you know 
I’ll pound you to squash I ” 
“ Shoo ! Does you know who you is con¬ 
versin’ wid ?” 
“Doan’ you talk to me dat way, black 
man.” 
“ Who’s black man t ” 
“You is.” 
“So is you.” 
“ Look out, boy ! A feller dun call me a 
nigger one time, and the county had to 
bury him.” 
“An’ you look out for me, black man; 
I’se mighty hard to wake up, but when I 
gits aroused I woz pizen all the way frew.” 
“ Shoo ! I just want to say to you dat de 
las’ fight I was in it took eight men to hold 
me. Doan’ you get me mad, boy, doan’ you 
do it.” 
“Bum I I dass put my hand right on yo’ 
shoulder.” 
“ An’ I dass put my hand on yours.” 
“ Now, what yer gwine ter do ? ” 
“Now, what yer gwine ter do ? ” 
“Shoo!” 
“Shoo!” 
Now the chances are that a good many of 
your quarrels are just as silly as this one— 
if we put a j ust valuation on your education 
and bringing up. A phonograph would 
startle you. The R. N.-Y. will probably 
get one and record a few conversations for 
the benefit of its readers. 
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Wednesday Others just about like them 
* will undoubtedly be formed, 
I J* and in spite of all that has 
been said about the system thousands of 
new victims will join. It is probable that 
many of these societies are conducted by 
men who are naturally honest and who 
would like to run their affairs on business 
principles if they could. The trouble is that 
the whole basis of the system is wrong. 
Funds for paying profits to old members 
must come out of fees paid by new mem¬ 
bers. As anybody can see, the time must 
come at last when the crop of new members 
must fail—“after that the deluge!” The 
great trouble is that people with small 
sums of money to invest don’t know where 
to put their cash so that it will be safe, 
negotiable and growing. The Government, 
County, State or National, may have to 
step in and become the people’s banker, 
and use the money for improving roads, 
rivers, etc., etc. 
GARDEN NOTES—APRIL 27. 
Long Islandhas a long start; strawberries, 
grapes, blackberries and figs; vegc 
tables well ahead; daring the frost; 
a good garden tool; a celery “ peter¬ 
ing out;” rhubarb culture; about 
tomatoes and egg plants. 
The weather has been dry for a week 
past and we are wishing for a shower. On 
Friday and Saturday we had a cold wave 
with a slight frost on Saturday night in 
hollow places a mile or two from the water. 
The country looks beautiful. Cherry and 
plum trees are in full bloom, so are peach 
trees, and pear trees are just beginning to 
open their flowers; no apples of any kind 
are in flower yet. Red currant bushes are 
in full bloom, but not black ones; some 
kinds of gooseberries are in bloom, others 
barely show any yet. We have dusted our 
currant and gooseberry bushes with helle 
bore powder as a protection against cater- 
pillais. Everbearing Strawberries are 
nicely in bloom, but Sharpless and other 
standards not yet. They are all mulched 
and growing handsomely. Grape vines are 
starting to grow, and some of the buds are 
an inch long. We disbutj them to one eye 
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Thllf^dHV Some benevolent seed swindlers 
• have been having fun through 
* 4 * California. One of them sold a 
lot of his seeds near Chico. One of our 
friends sends us the following slip taken 
from a local paper: 
Yesterday one of the ladies who made a 
purchase investigated her flower garden 
Gardener’s & Beet Grower’s Special Horse Hoe 1J ~ . “ ... .* 
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