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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 15 
" A HELPING HAND.” 
The R.. N.-Y. believes in temperance 
in all things. Let’s have a temperate use 
of all things from liquor down to ice 
water ! Not only that—let’s encourage 
temperance in others. Temperance means 
moderation, and in most cases, this means 
restraint, for most people find it more 
necessary to hold themselves in than to 
punch themselves up in the gratification 
of desires. A few fortunate people may 
come by this restraint naturally, but 
most of us are obliged to have it forced 
upon us, and oftentimes that bit of forc¬ 
ing is the best thing that can happen to 
us. The other day, I saw a horse rub a 
temperance lesson into his driver that 
probably no other friend could have done 
so well. The horse was pulling a truck. 
The man drove in front of a rum shop, 
and, throwing down the reins, ran in to 
get a drink. You should have seen the 
way that horse acted. He stamped with 
his feet, shook his head, and said as 
plainly as actions can talk : 
“ I am ashamed of my master ! I hate 
to see him in that saloon, and I won t be 
found out here waiting for him ! ” 
And so, before that man could get a 
chance to drink his liquor, off started 
the horse at a sharp walk. The man 
was afraid to let the horse go, so out he 
ran, leaving the untouched drink on the 
bar. The horse made him run a good 
distance before he caught up. The man 
didn’t dare to whip the horse, for the 
boss was in sight. That man was forced 
to quench his thirst with water. 
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Now that horse was the best friend 
that man had just at that time. He did 
a good act. He ran the risk of getting 
a good sound beating, to save his master 
from getting into trouble. That was 
what we call a “helping hand —or 
rather, a helping hoof. 
Probably most of our readers would 
feel insulted if we were to say that they 
don’t show the moral force and kindly 
interest of a horse. Of course they 
would; yet when you come to think 
about it, how many of you would take 
the chances that horse took in order to 
help a friend in a place where he was 
likely to slip ? It’s much easier to put 
your hands in your pockets and “ pass 
by on the other side,” and it is human 
nature to take the easiest way. Some of 
you may even start up and say that 
horse had no moral force or philan¬ 
thropic motive anywhere within gunshot 
of him. It would be easy to say that he 
simply smelled his oats at the stable, 
and, therefore, made a rush for them— 
of course taking the truck along with 
him. We’re not going to discuss this 
matter with you. It is enough to say 
that his action did help the man, regard¬ 
less of the motive. It is also true that 
whenever you do some good action, you 
can look ahead and know that it is going 
to give you more true pleasure than the 
horse ever got out of his oats ! So we 
won’t quarrel about that at all. 
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But why can’t you be a temperance 
horse among your friends and neigh¬ 
bors ? We don’t mean to say that you 
will find them lining up at the bar of 
some rum shop, and before they get 
their drink, you are to run off with their 
property ! Oh, no. We assume that they 
Cheap Excursions to the West. 
On May 21 and June 11 The North¬ 
western Line (Chicago & Northwestern 
Railway) will sell excursion tickets at 
very low rates to a large number of 
points in the West and Northwest. For 
full information apply to ticket agents 
of connecting lines, or address H. A. 
Gross, G. E. P. A., 423 Broadway, New 
York ; E. B. Spain, T. P. A., 46 Exchange 
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.— Adv. 
are all solid and respectable men. There 
is only one trouble with many of them, 
and that is they don’t take just the right 
sort of an agricultural paper. Now here 
you are taking The R. N.-Y., and get¬ 
ting lots of good out of it. The chances 
are that you can look around your farm 
and see lots of useful things that could 
be traced right straight back to ideas 
first seen in The It. N.-Y. Take this one 
matter of Crimson clover, and see what 
this man says : 
I write to return thanks for the great benefit 
done me in bringing Crimson clover to my atten¬ 
tion. I sowed some last October, and it not only 
passed through the severest winter we have had 
for many years, but it made a growth of over two 
feet and is as dense as anything could grow. The 
blooms were beautiful, and the entire plant caused 
every one passing my place to stop and inquire 
about it. The seeds are now ripening, and the 
weight of the heads has crushed down the mass 
to about one foot. While the most of the heads 
are nearly ripe, I notice that each rain causes 
new blooms to shoot up. My horse .and cow pre¬ 
fer it to any other growth I have. Next Septem¬ 
ber, I expect to sow every vacant spot on my 
place to turn under as a fertilizer in March. 
Georgia. a. w. smith. 
That’s only one instance—we could give 
you 500 if we had the space. We just 
want to ask you as a sensible and well- 
wishing citizen, whether you think you 
are doing as much for society as that 
horse did, when you don’t try to get your 
farmer friends to make The R. N.-Y. 
one of the family ! We put it to you 
without further comment. Lots of peo¬ 
ple that you know need just the influence 
of a paper like The R. N.-Y. Are you 
going to stand off and let them need, or 
will you put in a word just when it will 
turn the scale ? 
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Why, even the people in foreign coun¬ 
tries know a good thing when they see 
it. Just read this note from Germany : 
I wish to say that you must not take my name 
from your list, as my subscription will come to 
hand on time. I am glad to have an opportunity 
to express my sincere appreciation of your efforts 
to produce a paper that should satisfy all de¬ 
mands in every line and direction. 1 have for a 
number of years kept three American agricul¬ 
tural papers, The E. N.-Y. is the only one I have 
not changed. J. F. sabg. 
This is from a Frenchman who sent 
money for another year’s subscription : 
1 received your Carman No. 1 potato last winter, 
and planted it in my trial grounds some time in 
the month of March; notwithstanding the bad 
weather we had this season, I succeeded in get¬ 
ting about two dozen of tubers from the one sent 
me. While all other varieties got the disease 
here, the Carman No. 1 stood the wet weather 
very well, and not one of them was spoiled or 
diseased. raphkl bakbk. 
So it goes. You see people do not take 
The It. N.-Y. because they want to “help 
along some struggling young men.” 
They take it as a business enterprise, 
and we are glad they do. Here is a note 
from a man away out in Colorado : 
Of all the agricultural papers that come to me, 
I consider yours by far the best. You do not pub¬ 
lish an issue that does not contain columns of the 
most helpful matter. You anticipate the needs of 
your readers. It has often happened that I was 
anxious for new light upon some perplexing sub¬ 
ject, and, shortly afterwards, The R. N.-Y. would 
contain just what I most desired to know. 
That’s one side of it, and here is another: 
I read The R. N.-Y. with pleasure; it is by long 
odds the best of the farm papers, and the only 
absolutely truthful and fearless paper with which 
I have any acquaintance—agricultural or other¬ 
wise. E. K. L. 
Athens, Ga. 
And so it goes, you see ! We want to see 
people restrain themselves—to see them 
break away from the habit of thinking 
that they don’t need The R. N.-Y. That’s 
a good form of temperance work for you 
to be in. 
WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
T F T0U DON’T SEE WHAT YOU WANT, ASK FOR IT ! 
Scaring the Cherry Birds. —New information 
about saving sweet cherries from the lovely 
cherry birds would be very welcome. Netting 
may do for small trees in an amateur’s garden, 
but not where a profit is expected. If there is 
anything that will frighten cherry birds, name it. 
Michigan. F. h. 
Ans.—W e have seen bells hung in the trees, 
scarecrows displayed in various ways, and sim¬ 
ilar contrivances, but all with indifferent success. 
A boy with a gun proved quite effective in one 
case, but as he had shot in his gun, some of them 
were frightened to death. A blank charge might 
prove as effective. That’s a good plan mentioned 
on page 408, for “ Berrying the Birds.” Have our 
readers anything more to offer ? 
What Ails the Ducks ?—Will some one tell me 
what to do for ducks that are getting weak in the 
legs ? I have 42 Pekins, two weeks old, and some 
of them are getting weak. h. c. h. 
Massach usetts. 
Ans. —Answering such questions is all guess¬ 
work. My horse is lame; what shall I do for him? 
What veterinarian would prescribe with so few 
particulars given ? We should know how and 
what the ducks are fed; how brooded and 
handled, etc. The trouble may be in the parent 
stock. The feed may be too concentrated and 
heavy. If in a brooder, the heat may be too high, 
or the ducklings may have been exposed to 
storms, or kept in cold or damp quarters. If any 
of these, the removal of the cause would probably 
be sufficient ? Can any of our friends make fur¬ 
ther suggestions ? 
Worn-Out Lands 
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MISPLACED CONFIDENCE. 
Without a shadow of fear tarmer Trusty ran 
his traction engine on the bridge. The builder 
proved it safe by figures thus: four stringers 
across the ditch carry 1500 lbs. each, four¬ 
teen plank 600 lbs. each, equal to 13,000 lbs. 
While the coronersaton Trusty’s remains, the 
builder skipped out. Maybe “figures won t 
lie,” but they are sometimes juggled by 
ignorant or unprincipled men. Remember 
when figuring on fences the cross wires or 
pickets, like the bridge planks add nothing 
to the strength and the “stringers” of the 
Page are doubly strong. 
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