THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 22 
608 
As We Qo To Press. 
« GETTING UP.” 
Some five years ago I hired a young 
German as a farm hand. He had been 
in this country two years, and could 
speak English fairly well. He was a 
good workman, and gave us many new 
ideas about farming in Germany. He 
had a great love for horses, and seemed 
to have made a perfect study of their 
needs and characteristics. I once told 
R. N.-Y. readers how this man bought a 
poor, broken down little mare for S7, 
and fed and cared for her so well that 
she did good service for several years. 
Well, this man finally thought he could 
do better as a coachman, where he would 
have plenty of good horses around him, 
so he went away. The other day I got a 
letter from him. He has written a book 
on “Care of the Horse,” and has an ex¬ 
cellent place in charge of a private 
stable. 
Now there is a curious commentary on 
the possibilities in American life. Five 
years ago I paid this man wages and he 
was obliged to work as I directed. Now 
he is as big a man as anybody, with a 
business proposition that would com¬ 
mand respect anywhere. Don’t you see 
the lesson under all this ? That young 
man made a specialty of the study of 
horses until he knew them and could 
talk and write about them with author¬ 
ity. He became master of the subject. 
That’s the secret of it. There are no 
upper places for servants—they are all 
reserved for masters. And now, young 
man, what department of life are you 
going to master? No matter what you 
select in the way of a job, master it, con¬ 
quer it, or you will always be the slave 
of circumstances. 
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Now you may look at that advice with 
a compound microscope, and you won’t 
be able to find a hint of The R N.-Y. in 
it. We are well able to make up for lost 
time, however. Here is the first gun : 
Inclosed and 60 cents to pay for Thb U. N.-Y. for 
the rest of the year. Please beKln with the Issue of 
AnKUSt 25. as I don’t want to miss a number. The 25 
cents sent you for a trial subscription from May 18 to 
August 18, Is the best reading I ever received for 
that much money. 0- U- v. 
Manhattan, Kan. 
Let any man go into a book store and 
spend 25 cents to the best possible ad¬ 
vantage. How will his purchase com¬ 
pare with three months or 13 numbers of 
The R. N.-Y.? Quantity or quality ? We 
don’t care—either one. We claim to give 
you more helpful farm reading for a dollar 
than you can get in any other place. At 
$1 a year The R. N.-Y. costs you 
1.923-t- cent 
per issue. Think of it; less than two 
cents an issue and the paper contains 
more matter than when it cost $2 and $3 
per year. It takes no more wheat to pay 
for The R. N.-Y. than it did when wheat 
was $1 a bushel and all the free coinage 
of silver on earth wouldn’t induce farm¬ 
ers to come forward and agree to double 
the subscription price. 
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The September campaign is now under 
full blast. We are booking more than 
double the subscriptions that came in 
during September last year. That is 
true in spite of drought and “hard 
times.” We realize that a dollar looks 
almost as large as a house in some quar¬ 
ters this year ; but they continue to roll 
in. One reason why they ccme is found 
in the following note: 
The Issue of July 14 Is worth 1100 to any man who 
Is growing strawberries to the extent of two acres. 
If he will follow out In detail the Instructions given 
In that Issue for the culture of the strawberry. 
Dayton, Ohio. u- u. c. 
That was the issue that told how Mr. A. 
Johnson grows his berries. We guaran¬ 
tee to give every man a full dollar’s 
worth of reading matter, or we will re¬ 
fund his money. And agents get the 
Try the Nickel Plate Road when you 
go West.— Adv. 
full value of time spent gathering sub¬ 
scriptions, too. The following people 
have drawn the 82 in cash during the 
past week: 
Sept. 10.—R. W. Wleland, Center Co.. Pa. 
Sept. 11.—Alex. I.,ewl8, Chemung Co.. N. Y. 
Sept. 12.—R. W. Wleland, Center Co., Pa. 
Sept. IS.-.Iesse w. Osborn. Montgomery Co., III. 
Sept. 14.—G. H. I’earson. KalrUeld Co., Conn. 
Sept. 15.-G. h. Pickett, Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
And all of them are running up chances 
for one of those sweepstakes premiums, 
too. Where are you ? 
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And speaking of our increase in circu¬ 
lation, brings up another little matter 
that we have not had much to say about 
lately—that is, advertising. Now, the 
advertisements in a paper are a very 
necessary feature from several points of 
view, whether a man is a buyer or 
a seller. We have always advised our 
readers to look the advertisements 
through each week, and to spend some 
stamps in correspondence with the ad¬ 
vertisers. This is about the only way 
for a man to keep thoroughly posted on 
what is being done in the way of getting 
out new varieties, new tools, or other 
devices for reducing the cost of farm 
operations. An advertisement means a 
bargain. It represents a catalogue or 
circular in which full facts are given. 
The thing to do is to get them all and 
make careful comparisons. And there is 
another side to all this. As the circula¬ 
tion of The R. N.-Y. increases, more 
and more of its readers become bargain 
hunters, and here comes in the chance 
for the wise farmer who has good seeds 
or stock to sell. If he has something 
with real pedigree about it—something 
that would have a value to others aside 
from the actual food it contains—that 
thing can be sold through The R. N -Y. 
If you can sell all you desire at a satis¬ 
factory price by tacking up a paper in the 
post office, or putting a small “ad” in 
the local paper, you have no need of The 
R. N.-Y. as a middleman. If, however, 
you need a wider circle of buyers, you 
have got to pay somebody for introduc¬ 
ing you to it. The R, N.-Y. will do it as 
reasonably as any one. We shall have 
more to say about this later. 
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We are having quite a run on books 
just now. Prof. F. A. Gulley’s “ First 
Principles of Agriculture ” is being 
adopted as a text book in many colleges 
and schools. We believe it would suit 
R emember there are hundreds of brands 
of White Lead (so called) on the market that are not White 
Lead, composed largely of Barytes and other materials* 
But the number of brands of genuine 
Strictly Pure White Lead 
is liiYiited. The following brands are standard “Old Dutch” process, 
and just as good as they were when you or your father were boys: 
“ ANCHOR ” (Cincinnati). 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY” (Pittsburgh). 
“ ATLANTIC” (New York). 
“BEYMER-BAUMAN” (Pittsburgh). 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York). 
“BROOKLYN ” (New York). 
“ COLLIER ” (St. Louis), 
“CORNELL” (BufTalo). 
“DAVIS-CHAMBERS" (Pittsburgh;. 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati). 
“FAHNESTOCK” (Pittsburgh). 
“JEWETT” (New York). 
“KENTUCKY” (Louisville). 
“JOHN T.LEWIS& BROS. CO.” (Phila.) 
“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland). 
“ MISSOURI ” (SL Louis). 
“RED SEAL ” (St Louis). 
“SALEM ” (Salem, Mass.) 
“SHIPMAN” (Chicago). 
“ SOUTHERN ”(St Louis and Chicago). 
“ ULSTER ” (New York). 
“ UNION ” (New York). 
If you want colored paint, tint any of the above strictly pure leads with National Lead Co.’.s 
Pure White Lead Tinting Colors, a jxiund of color to 25 pounds of lead. The best merchants 
sell them, the best painters use them. 
A good many thousand dollars have been saved property-owners by having our book on 
painting and color-card. Send us a postal card and get both free. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York. 
Money-Saving Combinations. 
In writing to adyertlsers, please always mention 
Thi Bubal Nkw-Yorkib. 
TAKE STEPS 
in time, if you are 
ferer from that scourge ' 
of humanity known i 
consumption, and yc 
can be cured. There 
the evidence of 
hundreds of liv¬ 
ing witnesses to 
the fact that, in < 
all its earlyj 
stages, consump¬ 
tion is a curable 
disease. Not 
every case, but a 
large percentage 
cases, and we believe, 
ftdly 98 per cent, are 
cured by Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery, even after the disease has pro¬ 
gressed so far as to induce repeated bleed¬ 
ings from the lungs, severe lingering cough 
with copious expectoration (including tu¬ 
bercular matter), great loss of flesh and ex¬ 
treme emaciation and weakness. 
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases 
reported to us as cured by “Golden Med¬ 
ical Discovery ” were genuine cases of that 
dread and fatal disease ? You need not take 
our word for it. They have, in nearly every 
instance, been so pronounced by the best 
and most experienced home physicians, 
who have no interest whatever in mis¬ 
representing them, and who were often 
strongly prejudiced and advised against 
a trial of “Golden Medical Discovery,” 
but who have been forced to confess that 
it surpasses, in curative power over this 
fatal malady, all other medicines with 
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod- 
liver oil and its filthy “emulsions” and 
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these 
cases and had either utterly failed to bene¬ 
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for 
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey, 
and various preparations of the hypo- 
phosphites had also been faithfully tried 
in vain. 
The photographs of a large number of 
those cured of consumption, bronchitis, 
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal 
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been 
skillfully reproduced in a book of 160 
pages which will be mailed to you, on 
receipt of address and six cents in 
stamps. You can then write to those who 
have been cured and profit by their ex¬ 
perience. 
Address for Book, World’s Dispensary 
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. 
IN 
■QTJ /^T?Tn^ There Is probably no branch of 
Jl JCV Lr a/ i J. fanning or stock-raising that Is 
so sure to return a probt as the 
bock of sheep, and there Is prob¬ 
ably no branch so much neg- 
lected. A well-kept bock would 
VJ I-I H H M restore the fertility to many run 
J-iX • down farms, and put their own- 
eis on the road to prosperity. 
But every man doesn’t know how to care for sheep, 
though he can easily learn. “ Sheep Farming” Is a 
practical treatise on sheep, their management and 
diseases. It tells In plain language how to select 
and breed them, and how to care for them. It is a 
little book worth three times Us cost to any farmer 
who raises sheep. Sent postpaid for 25 cents. 
Address THB RURAL NBW-YORKBB, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
W E have secured special rates for the papers mentioned below, and will give 
our readers the benefit of these low prices in combination with Thb Rural 
New-Yorkbb. We have selected papers that stand at the head of their class, and 
those that we can recommend to our own subscribers. At least one subscription 
for The Rural New Yorker must accompany every order. 
The N. Y. Weekly World. 
This Is the leading Democratic paper In New 
York. Gives In fall the news from all over the 
world every week. Regular price, fl. 
In combination with The K. N.-Y., II 65. 
Atlanta Constitution. 
This is the great progressive Democratic weekly 
of the South. It Is a strong advocate ol Sonth- 
ern Interests, and Is a reliable authority on 
Southern enterprises and development. Regu¬ 
lar price. II. 
In combination with The R. N.-Y. 11.50. 
Detroit Free Press. 
There are few people In the United States who 
have not laughed over the Jokes and humor of 
the Detroit Free Press, either direct from its 
own columns or In clippings from It In other 
papers. It is a great family paper. Regular 
price, II 
In combination with The R. N.-Y., 11.75 
The Practical Dairyman. 
The only dairy and creamery journal published 
In the East. E. C. Powell, Editorial Writer; 
B. C. Bliss, Editor Creamery Department; Geo. 
E. Newell. Editor Cheese Department. Best 
dairy writers in America contribute. Regular 
price, 50 cents. 
In combination with The R. N.-Y., 11.85. 
The Ladies’ Home Companion. 
This Is a monthly paper full of good things for 
the ladles, young and old, containing stories 
from the best writers, helpful household hints 
and faney and decorative work. Regular price, 
50 cents. 
In combination with The B. N.-Y., 11.20. 
California Orchard and Farm. 
This Is a monthly paper devoted to Paetbe 
Coast Rural Industry, with Dairying, Orchard¬ 
ing and Ponltry-ralslng Departments. Regular 
price, 50 cents. 
In combination with The R. N.-Y., 11.25. 
The Queen of Fashion. 
Most valuable Ladles’ Fashion Journal pub¬ 
lished for the money in the world. Handsome 
Illustrations each month of all the latest cele¬ 
brated McCall Bazar Qlove-Flltlng Patterns, 
besides general news of Interest to any family. 
Patterns and styles always reliable and strictly 
np-to-daie. A Free Pattern to each new sub¬ 
scriber. Regular prlee, 50 cents. 
In combination with The B. N.-Y., 11.30. 
The Elgin Dairy Report. 
The dairy market paper. Published every Mon¬ 
day immediately after the close of the Elgin 
Board of Trade. Complete and reliable market 
Information. Regular price, 11. 
In combination with The R. N.-Y.. 11.70. 
The Weekly Kansas City Star 
Addresses the farmer as a business man and a 
citizen. Doesn’t tell him how to farm, but how 
to sell, and where and when, and keeps a vigi¬ 
lant eye upon his rights as a shipper, producer 
and taxpayer. All the news, too, and plenty 
of “good reading’’for the family. Now read 
In 100,000 farm houses. Regular price, 11. 
In combination with The B. N.-Y., 11.20. 
Ohio State Journal. 
Issued twice a week; is the leading newspaper 
of Ohio, printing more Ohio cews than any 
other, and reaching nearly every post-olBce In 
Ohio the same day of publication. Regular 
price, II. 
In combination with The R. N.-Y., 11.75. 
Farm Poultry. 
The best poultry paper In the world It teaches 
how to prevent and cure poultry diseases; bow 
to bring the pullets to early laying; bow to 
make bens lay the most eggs; bo v to build the 
best bouses and yards, and how to obtain the 
most prolltable breeds. Regular price, 50 cents. 
’ In combination with The R. N.-Y., 11.40. 
The State. 
This Is the oldest evening paper in Richmond, 
Ya. The weekly has eight pages, and contains 
all the State and general news. Regular price, 11 
In combination with The U. N.-Y., II 50. 
The Milwaukee Weekly Sentinel. 
This Is the only Wisconsin paper publishing 
regularly the proceedings of farmers’ instlintes 
held In Wisconsin during the fall and winter 
months. No better paper for complete State 
news Is published. 
In combination with The B. N.-Y., 11.50. 
Gleanings in Bee Culture, 
This 36-page semi-monthly devoted to bees 
honey and home interests. Is acknowledged to 
be the leading journal of Its class. These who 
keep bees cannot afford to be without It, while 
many, no longer Interested in bees, consider 
the Garden and Home department of so much 
value, that they continue subscribers. Regular 
price, II. 
In combination with THE B. N.rY., 11.75 
