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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 13 
“AVERAGE.” 
We have observed quite a remarkable 
thing about the baby which we may take 
for our text this week. This young lady 
simply will not keep her hands under the 
bedclothes at night. No matter how care¬ 
fully she is tucked in, those hands will 
get free and rest outside. Sometimes in 
the dead of night, we waken and reach 
out to see whether the baby is safe. The 
first thing we touch may be one of those 
little hands—as cold as ice. It gives us 
a start sometimes to think that it is so 
cold. Suppose we assumed that because 
that little hand is cold, the whole body 
is of the same temperature ! We would 
say at once, “ The baby its dead!" but, 
no ; the hand is but a small part of the 
baby. It isn't even a fair average of her 
temperature. So long as the head and 
lungs and heart are warm, the baby is 
very much alive—as you would quickly 
find out if you wakened her. 
* 
Wk learn from this to avoid passing 
judgment on some extreme —something 
that does not represent a fair average. 
Even a person no older than that little 
baby, runs up against the sad fact that 
there are wide extremes in society and 
business. You can’t take the result of 
one little haphazard act as a fair thing 
from which to draw a conclusion. Not 
at all. One of our advertisers recently 
offered some animals for sale. “ Why,” 
said he, “ I’m all sold out. I never did 
get such returns.” 
“ How do yqu account for that ? ” we 
asked. 
“ Well,” he said, “ it took me a good 
while to get acquainted with your 
readers. They didn’t buy at first, be¬ 
cause they didn’t know me. After a while 
they got used to seeing my name in 
print, and then when I offered goods, 
they were ready to buy. If 1 had stopped 
advertising before I made their acquaint¬ 
ance, of course it would not have paid 
me.” 
Now, there it is, the same principle 
again. Suppose that man had tried one 
little “ ad ” and met with a reception as 
cold as that baby’s hand. For him to 
draw off and retire would be just like 
our saying that the cold hand repre¬ 
sented a dead baby. It seems to us that 
point is about as clear as need be. 
* 
We observe very much the same 
thing in the subscription business. A 
man starts out some day to do a great 
thing for his neighbors by inducing 
them to take The R. N.-Y. He goes 
around and faithfully talks it up in his 
best style, but nary a dollar does he bring 
back. He quits ! Think of it, he quits ! 
Why, it’s just like saying that the little 
hand outside the cover represents a dead 
baby just because it is cold. Get down 
to basic principles, and what do you 
find ? Brown had a bad cup of coffee 
that morning for breakfast. Smith’s 
wife had been telling him some plain 
truths in her most cutting style. Jones’s 
little boy fell down and spilled a pail of 
milk. Green’s hired man plagued the 
hired girl, and she forgot and used good 
butter instead of lard in the frying pan. 
Black had a bilious attack, and talked 
politics with White, and they were both 
satisfied that the dogs have captured the 
country. Now to go and hit those men 
for a year’s subscription for even such a 
good paper as Tiie R. N.-Y., was time 
wasted. They were out of sorts—it wasn’t 
their average day at all. You can see 
that it was as far from their normal con¬ 
dition as the baby’s hand is from her 
whole body. They are all good men, 
but, like all the rest of us, they have their 
“off days.” But don’t you let any such 
thing beat you out of a year's subscrip¬ 
tion. Keep at them, and the first you 
know, you'll strike them when they feel 
so good that they will want the paper 
for five years. Keep at them—don’t feel 
the baby’s hand and pronounce her dead 
without further investigation ! 
* 
Why, we might load you down with 
just such illustrations of the folly of 
taking one little part as a fair average 
of the whole. For instance, there is the 
fraud who getsa fine letter-head printed, 
with some high-toned name on it, and 
writes a lot of orders to different adver¬ 
tisers. His idea is that people will mis¬ 
take his fine paper for evidence of great 
wealth, and ship the goods without any 
cash in advance. He never expects to 
pay for them ! That letter-head is worse 
than the baby’s hand as an indication of 
the true state of affairs. 
And now here is a letter from a Penn¬ 
sylvania man who does not take The R. 
N.-Y. : 
When you want any advertisements in The R. 
N.-Y. that are positively true, let me write you a 
letter to be published about Stephen H. Hayt, of 
New York. I have a lot of his letters, and would 
like to let the public know how he does business, 
and never pays for goods. If you will tell me how 
to get my pay out of Hayt, I will give you half. 
Now just think of a man coming in at 
the thirteenth hour to talk about our old 
friend, Stephen H. Hayt. Here we have 
been for two years belaboring his hide 
until we have driven him into hiding, 
and now this man wants to “ show him 
up.” Why didn't that man take The R. 
N.-Y., and thus save all his money? 
There is something humorous in his 
proposition to come forward and “ex¬ 
pose” a man that The R. N.-Y. has 
ali*eady hung up for public scorn a dozen 
times. This man evidently got one of 
this hateful old Hayt’s lying circulars, 
and acted just as he would in assuming 
that the baby’s hand was a good ther¬ 
mometer. Calves are good suckers, and 
Hay tea is sometimes used as a substitute 
for milk. Don’t imitate the calf by 
taking a dose of Hay t. 
* 
One thing more. There ai-e always 
exceptions to every rule. In one line of 
our business, we never go past the baby’s 
hand. That is in the lai-gest daily clubs. 
Each day’s mail is distinct. The lai-gest 
club in it gets the $ 2 , without regard to 
other considei-ations. The contest for 
one of the 31 sweepstake premiums is all 
right, but that is another thing—this 
lai-gest club per day is distinct and does 
not interfere with anything else. It is 
big or little, cold or warm, as the club 
raisers decide. Here is the last two 
weeks’ list for your inspection : 
Yearlies. 
March 25. A. J. Fraser,Waukesha Co.,Wis. 9% 
26. D. L. Angle, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 6 
27. S. Donovan, Cayuga Co., N. Y... S l / t 
28. J. E. Peak, Steuben Co., N. Y.... 14 
29. A. Cutbertson, Clarion Co., Pa.. 7 
30. A. J. Fraser, Waukesha Co., Wis.. 11*4 
April 1. C. E. Chapman, Tompkins Co.,N.Y. 8 
2. S. S.Chandler Jr.,WaupacaCo.,Wis 15 
3. C. M. Lusk, Broome Co., N. Y T . 17 
4. S. S.Chandler Jr., WaupacaCo.,Wis 14 
5. J. E. Peak, Steuben Co., N. Y. 10% 
6. A. J. Fraser, Waukesha Co., Wis.. 15 
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