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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 5 
"HERE YOU ARE! " 
Before this reaches you, the “ trial ” 
contest will have closed, and checks 
for $50, $40, $30, $20, $15, $10 and $5 
will have been mailed to the winners. 
Next week we shall give their names. 
Now for a new hustle ! 
The next contest covers the month 
of October, and in order to give our 
friends and agents some special induce¬ 
ment. we shall allow them to give the 
rest of this year free to any one who sub¬ 
scribes for next year. That is, we shall 
send The R. N.-Y. from the time the sub¬ 
scription is received until January 1, 1807, 
for $1. Out of this the agent may retain 
his regular commission. Two six-months 
or four three-months subscriptions count 
the same as one yearly for commissions 
and premiums. This contest will close 
October 31, and November 1, the follow¬ 
ing cash prizes will be awarded to the 
seven agents who send us the largest 
seven clubs during the month of October: 
In cash. 
Largest club, - $50 
Second largest club, - - 40 
Third largest club, - - 30 
Fourth largest club, - - 20 
Fifth largest club, - - 15 
Sixth largest club, - - 10 
Seventh largest club, - 5 
In addition to this, the $1 daily prize 
will be sent out every working day to 
the agent who sends the largest club for 
the day. 
Now here you are. You can offer the 
inducement to the new subscriber of 
giving him the paper free for the rest of 
the year. This will be 13 weeks extra 
to the first names that come in, and nine 
whole weeks extra for even the last 
names received in the contest. Another 
inducement that we authorize our agents 
and friends to make in our behalf, is 
that, if any farmer pays $1 for The R. 
N.-Y., and thinks at the end of the year 
that it is not worth the dollar, or is not 
satisfied with it, we will cheerfully re¬ 
turn him his dollar. We mean that The 
R. N.-Y'. shall be a real help to subscrib¬ 
ers ; that it shall be the means of help¬ 
ing them lift the mortgage and increase 
the bank account, and we don't wish the 
$1 of any farmer unless he get this help 
fi’om it. We wish him to get at least $2 
back for every 3L invested. 
The agent gets his regular commis¬ 
sion on eveiy name, also his §1 shot back 
to him every day that he sends the 
largest club far the day. And further, 
if he sends one of the largestseven clubs 
during the month, he will get a check, 
November 1, for one of the cash prizes. 
There is an opportunity for some one to 
earn a good month’s salary. Any one 
who will make up his mind to put in 
every day in the month, will be sure of 
the 350 prize, and his commission and 
daily prizes would be extra. Who wants 
the 350 check ? 
At last, some one dropped a bucket 
over the ship's side, and pulled it up full 
of pure, fresh water, They were sailing 
at the mouth of the Amazon River, the 
mighty stream that pours its flood of 
water far out to sea. 
* 
The orator went on to make an appli¬ 
cation from this. Here is part of what 
he said : 
To those of the white race who look to the in¬ 
coming of those of foreign birth and strange 
tongue and habits, for the prosperity of the South, 
were I permitted, I would repeat what 1 say to 
my own race: “Cast down your bucket where 
you are.” Cast it down among 8,000,000 negroes 
whose habits you know, whose loyalty and love 
you have tested in days when to have proved 
treacherous meant ruin of your fireside. Cast 
down your bucket among these people who have 
without strikes and labor wars, tilled your fields, 
cleared your forests, builded your railroads and 
cities, and brought forth treasures from the 
bowels of the earth. Casting down your bucket 
among my people, helping and encouraging them 
as you are doing on these grounds, and to educa¬ 
tion of head, hand and heart, you will find that 
they will buy your surplus land, make blossom 
the waste places in your fields and run your fac¬ 
tories. While doing this you can.be sure in the 
future, as you have been in the past, that you and 
your families will be surrounded by the most pa¬ 
tient, faithful, law-abiding and unresentful people 
that the world has seen. As we have proved our 
loyalty to you in the past in nursing your chil¬ 
dren, watching by the sick bed of your mothers 
and fathers and often following them with tear- 
dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in 
our humble way, we shall stand by you with a 
devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready 
to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of 
yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, 
civil and religious life with yours in a way that 
shall make the interests of both races one. In all 
things that are purely social, we can be as sepa¬ 
rate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all 
things essential to mutual progress. 
Now that is eloquence. There is some¬ 
thing back of it, and a strong thought 
running all through it. What a lesson 
that is to those who are looking way up in 
the air, or far off to some distant point, 
for a chance to accomplish something. 
“ Throw down your bucket where you are! ” 
All around you the great and wonderful 
forces of life are spreading and working. 
Don’t let them run away past your feet 
while you look over into the next county 
after a chance, but pull them up at once. 
* 
You see how it is—almost unconscious¬ 
ly we drift into the oratory of the sub¬ 
scription business. There isn’t quite so 
much sentiment about this side of life, 
but there is good business to it, and that 
is what keeps things on the move nowa¬ 
days. That illustration of the thirsty 
passengers might be made to apply to 
lots of our readers who would like to 
send us a new subscription. 
lk Oh ! ” they say, “ If 1 only lived in a 
neighborhood where people cared more 
for reading, I’d get lots of subscriptions ; 
but folks here are hard to start !” 
So they stand looking away off into 
some other neighborhood, while right 
around them are chances to make such 
work tell. “ Throw down your bucket 
where you are! ” Right in your own 
(Continued on next page.) 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets. New York 
“BUCKET.” 
As is stated elsewhere, the most re¬ 
markable speech at the opening of the 
Atlanta Exposition, was made by a col¬ 
ored man—Booker T. Washington. He 
is president of theTuskegee Normal and 
Industrial School, and one of the ablest 
men of his race. He took for his theme 
the idea that the colored race is located 
in this country for good, and that, instead 
of sending abroad for European labor¬ 
ers, we should, as a nation, try to make 
the colored man more of a skilled la¬ 
borer. His illustration was that of the 
ship at sea with passengers and crew 
dying of thirst. Another ship came in 
sight, and they signaled. 
4 “ Give us water or we die ! ” 
Back came the answer, “ Throw down 
your bucket where you are ! ” 
/gain and again they called for water, 
and back came the answer, every time : 
'•'•Throw down your bucket where you are!” 
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