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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 7 
"RIGHT AND LEFT." 
Why do you keep one of your hands 
the servant of the other ? Answer me 
that—right off ! You do, and you can’t 
deny it. If you are right handed, your 
left hand is the servant—if you are left 
handed, it’s the right. If you don’t be¬ 
lieve it, catch yourself some day when 
you are picking up potatoes or apples. 
Notice how instinctively that weak hand 
picks up and passes along to the other. 
The ordinary man has only one hand 
with which he can write or use tools— 
the other is just a sort of hired man or 
’prentice with no chance of ever becom¬ 
ing more. This matter of the hand ex¬ 
tends to the whole side of the body, and 
the result is that most of us are one-sided 
people—doing our work in the world 
like a man and small boy instead of a 
partnership of two smart and active men. 
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You don’t need to have me go on and 
tell you how much better off you would 
be if your left hand were as skillful as 
your right—but it’s more than likely 
that you would like to dodge around 
some corner and avoid the work that is 
necessary to even things up. Your right 
is better than your left because it has 
done more work. Superiority of strength 
or skill always comes from work. The 
other day I was foolish enough to go out 
and pitch a game of baseball for tlie 
boys. Some of my old-time curves nearly 
put my shoulder out of joint, and for 
several days my right arm wasn’t even 
as good as my left. Along came a man 
with a new liniment for trial. I rubbed 
it on that sore arm and cured it right 
up. But now suppose that 1 should say, 
l - I’ll just rub that same liniment on my 
left arm and thus make it just as good 
as the right! It has just made the right 
better than the left, and of course it can 
now make the left just as good !” 
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Some folks call such reasoning logic, 
but you see how foolish it would be. 
Nothing but sound, hard work and 
practice can even up those arms. You 
admit that, do you ? All right; now 
we’ll see whether you won’t admit some¬ 
thing else. We have been to the fairs 
this fall, and have met all sorts of farm¬ 
ers. Naturally the farmer we are most 
intei-ested in, is the man who takes The 
R. N.-Y., and the king bee of all is the 
one who not only takes it, but goes out 
among his neighbors and gets tbem to 
subscribe also. From our observation 
and talks with these men, we are satisfied 
that the following is a true statement: 
I know from personal experience that the pres¬ 
ent subscribers of the paper could double its cir¬ 
culation in one week, if they cared to. If they 
would stop to think, they would care. If one is 
advertising:, although The R. N.-Y. is now the 
best medium I can find, doubling the subscription 
would double the customers. If one have nothing 
to sell, the improvement of the neighbors would 
be reward enough. Any member of the family 
can get a new name after dinner, c. E. chapman. 
That is as sound as a rock, and we know 
it. The reason why it is not done, brings 
up the same old difference between the 
right and the left hands. Once in a 
while, you hurt your right hand so that 
you have to carry it in a sling. What an 
awful time you have trying to eat and 
dress and work with your left. The right 
is a veteran, and the left is a poor ama¬ 
teur, lacking both strength and prac¬ 
tice. And rubbing the liniment on that 
left does it no good—you must exercise 
and work it into shape. 
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We find that most of those who do not 
get the new subscription have for a rea¬ 
son that they “ Kinder hate to bother 
the neighbors with book-agent business.” 
They are ready to go and sell those same 
neighbors a pig or a bushel of corn or a 
pound of butter ; but when it comes to a 
great, big bargain like a short or long¬ 
term subscription to The R. N.-Y., they 
“ Kinder hate to do it.” 
Now, why is that ? It’s the old story 
of the right and left again. All these 
years they have been associating value 
with something that can be had or easily 
seen—like the wheat or the butter. 
They have just got in the habit of think¬ 
ing that there can be no value unless 
they can take right hold of its repre¬ 
sentative. Now the value of The R. 
N.-Y. or any good paper, is on a differ, 
ent basis. It’s more mental than natural. 
It suggests and sets men to thinking out 
a better way instead of pouring actual 
material into the pocket. This idea that 
the mental value of a dollar may not be 
as useful to your neighbor as its material 
value, is just the same as that old prej¬ 
udice against the left hand. In these 
times, you may be sure that any man 
who makes his mind only a hired boy to 
his muscle, will not keep long at the 
front. If you were agent for a grind¬ 
stone, you wouldn't hesitate to go and 
try to sell one to your neighbor. Why ? 
Because you know that evex-y cutting 
edge on his farm must be ground sharp 
or it will fall behind in effectiveness and 
use up more of the farm power. If you had 
not given all of your time and attention 
to this right arm of material matter, you 
would see that the left ai*m of mind 
needs sharpening, too. The R. N.-Y. is 
like a mental whetstone where the 
farmer may sharpen up his wits by rub¬ 
bing them against the ideas of others. 
See how useless it is to sharpen the 
mind by rubbing liniment over it ? 
There must be work—hard thinking- over 
the opinions and facts of others. This 
is what The R. N.-Y. believes, and we 
bring it i-ight home to you this week. 
What do you expect to gain for yourself 
or for agriculture by putting mind in the 
position of the left hand ? We think that 
you will see the application, and that the 
result will be a good club of subsci'ip- 
tions from you. 
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We are often surprised to leaim what 
a varied iist of readers we have. Here, 
for example, is a letter from a man in 
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EVAPORATE YOUR FRUIT. 
Every farmhouse has some fruit, some time during the season, that goes to 
waste, and that would be most valuable during the winter months, if it were dried 
and put away for use. But you have no convenient way of di-ying it, so it is 
thrown out and lost. Now what is 
- needed to save all this waste is a small, 
-— —- cheap, convenient di-ier that can be 
~ o - [ readily brought into use. The U. S. 
~ if. o • Cook Stove Drier fills this need to per- 
° • fection. The illustration shows this 
Mm • Drier complete on an ordinary cook 
,i u g/, ~ "U.s” || • stove. It can also be used on an oil or 
I ) Co °* STOV,: , — * 5wtp "' ra ' | gasoline stove. It lias eight galvanized 
7latent njjv. 5 . 90. pat. n ov.s.ooA I wire-cloth trays, containing 12 squai-e 
{r~ m —-4 SL/ feet °f tray surface. The dimensions 
^ are: Base, 22x16 inches ; height, 26 
HU inches. Sent by freight at the receiver’s 
*b- m I \ / r^-*-r l P expense. Weight, ci-ated, about 27 
|;j pounds. It is always ready, and with 
1 ^77777/^1 ordinary care, will last a lifetime. The 
— tvmvvvxj^ | thrifty housewife can make it pay for 
itself several times over in drying fruit 
| : n ra mB mmTO // for home use, and may be able to dx-y 
' ,[i fruit enough with it to exchange for all 
_ the groceries needed for a large family. 
We have sold hundreds of these during 
^ ^ past yeax-s for $7 ; but we have been able 
to get a reduction this year, and can now send it and The R. N.-Y., one year, for 
$5. Or we will send it to any one who will send us a club of 12 new subsci-iptions 
at $1 each. It is one of the things that should be in every home where fruit is to 
be had, and, at the reduced price this year, we expect to ship at least one thousand. 
Address THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
