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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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A HANDSOME AND CONVENIENT 
RESIDENCE. 
If there is any man in the world justly en¬ 
titled to a neat, tidy, comfortable house, it is 
the man who owns and cultivates a farm, and 
we are glad to see the improvement constantly 
going on in the way of country homes. Much 
of the value of a house depends upon its con¬ 
venient arrangement, and much more, on its 
being so built as to be pleasant and comfort¬ 
able. We take pleasure in presenting this 
week the likeness of a handsome house now 
being erected for Mr. R. H. Kelly, of Verona, 
Pa , under the direction of Mr. D. 1. Kuhn, 
of Pittsburgh, Pa., to whom we are indebted 
for the plans and perspective. Fig. 2 is a 
good corner view of the house, and shows its 
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fine proportion to good advantage. It is con¬ 
structed with balloon frame, double boarded, 
the first boardiug being put on diagonally; 
the outside is of what is called “tongued and 
dropped’’siding, and is put on horizontally; 
the upper part of the walls being covered 
with ornamented shingles, as shown. The 
roof is covered with slate. There is a cellar 
under the whole building, with stone walls, 
faced above ground with “quarry-faced ran¬ 
dom-range work." The chimneys have fire¬ 
places and grates for burning coal in open 
grates. The cellar is seven feet; the first 
story 10 feet, and the second story nine feet, 
all in the clear, and the attic is roomy, of good 
hight, and well lighted. The arrangement of 
the first story is shown in Fig. 3. The par- 
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The upper sashes in all the windows have a 
border cf stained glass. The center of these 
and all the lower sashes are filled with clear 
glass. The cost of this house ranges from 
S3,500 to S3,500, according to the cost of ma¬ 
terial and labor, and the arnouut of extra 
finish put upon it. 
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CATALOGUES, ETC , RECEIVED. 
David Landrkth & Sons. Philadelphia, Pa. 
A Rural Register and Almanac for 1885.— 
100 pages. 
This is a remarkably valuable and instruc¬ 
tive guide to all who own aud cultivate gar¬ 
dens or farms. It will be sent free to all of 
our readers, who apply to the above firm. 
Vick's Floral, Guide for 1885, James Vick, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
This is one of the handsomest, costliest and 
most trustworthy catalogue published any¬ 
where. Its 120 pages are finely illustrated 
with over 500 woodcuts of flowers, vegeta¬ 
bles, grasses, tubers, small fruits, etc., besides 
a well-executed colored plate of asters. Our 
readers should send for this Guide. 
Ant, Roozen & Son, Overveeu, Holland. 
J. A. de Veer, 318 Broadway N. Y. sole 
agent for the U. S. A. A special catalogue 
of gladioli, dahlias, lilies, begonias, Dutch 
and foreign bulbs, etc. These may be ordered 
in any quantity’ through theTJ. S. agent. The 
prices in the catalogue include packing and 
all expenses for freight, duty, etc., as far as 
New York. The firm is fully trustworthy. 
swindler” who is sending circulars through 
the mails, offering counterfeit money for sale. 
Like all such rascals, Carmody (which is, of 
course, an assumed name) is profane in his 
oaths as to his fidelity, trustworthiness, etc.— 
but we have explained the modus operandi of 
such scoundrels often enough already to 
render it a waste of words, space aud temper 
to say any more about this particular knave. 
Yes, when we said the Globe M’f’g Co. was 
a humbug, we referred to the Boston concern, 
manufacturers of oleographs, who advertise 
that they will enable their patrons to earn 
from $2 to §5 a day at home fixing up the 
pictures which the dupes have bought of the 
frauds on the promise of the latter that they 
will buy them back after they have been 
“finished,” as per directions. All these pho¬ 
tograph, oleograph aud electrograph adver¬ 
tising swindlers work iu the same way, 
whether advertising from Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia, Chicago, or anywhere else 
They all appeal to the unemployed—to those 
in need—very often in sore need—of some 
way of earning a living. Women are favor¬ 
ite prey for them all. Their modus operandi 
is to induce, by lies and blandishments, those 
who correspond with them to buy outfits and 
pictures from them at a very piofitable 
figure, they promising to buy them back at a 
much higher price after they have been 
“finished;” but they always find excuses for 
not keeping their word. We have a drawer¬ 
ful of complaints against such swindlers; but 
we have never yet heard of a concern of this 
kind that dealt honestly with its patrons. 
The German Electro-Galvanic Belt, adver¬ 
tised by Forest & Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., is a 
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lor is 15x13 feet; the dining-room 15x15 feet; 
the kitchen 15x14 feet. The stair-hall is six 
feet wide; the front vestibule is fij^xS feet. 
The pautry connecting with both kitchen 
and dining-room, has an iuclosed cupboard on 
one side, and open shelves extending to the 
ceiling on the other. 
The second story, or chamber, is shown in 
Fig. 4. The main rooms are of the same 
size as the ones directly beneath iu the first 
story. The chamber-room over the dining¬ 
room is square; the corners over the angles of 
the dining-room are supported on large orna¬ 
mental brackets. The projection bracketed 
out over the right hand side over vestibule, 
gives room above for a dressing or sewing- 
room eight by eight feet, aud also a seat 
under the window lighting the stair platform. 
The New Brunswick Canadian lottery 
swindlers, whose cheating has been denounced 
so often here, have been at last imprisoned for 
swindling. As we have already said, it turns 
out that the rascals never had a “drawing” 
aud uever gavea prize; yet their profits from 
nincompoops on this and the other side of the 
line, but especially on this, enabled them to 
pay in postage alone $40,000 a year! It is 
really impossible to feel any pity for the 
dupes of such barefaced trauds. 
To Many Inquirers. —The bi-metallic arm- 
let, puffed by a “Bi-metallic Company” of 
this city, is, of course, a humbug. Soper’s 
Instantaneous Guide to the Piano or Organ, 
sold by a party in this city, contains much 
that is good; but is a humbug in so far as it 
claims to teach a difficult and wearisome ac 
complishment in a short time. The silver- 
plating machine advertised by F. Lowey. of 
this city, isn’t a humbug; though anybody 
not acquainted with the silver-plating busi¬ 
ness, who may invest iu it, is likely to think 
so. One may buy a tool, but he must learn a 
trade. The Champion Lamp, made by A. J. 
Weideuer, of Philadelphia, Pa., is a good one, 
aud the Aim is O.K. The credit of the Clip¬ 
per M’f’g Go., makers of tinware, etc., Ciu- 
cinuati, Ohio, is “fair." We can’t tell any¬ 
thing about their goods, uever having seen 
them. We don’t recommend La Belle M’f’g 
Co., Chicago, 111., nor its alias, J. J. Walser 
& Co. The credit of the Buckeye Publishing 
Co., alias A. G. Wilcox, Mineapolis, Minn., 
is “good.” The credit of the K. & W. M'f'g 
Co. (Killetts & Wayland), of Chilicothe, 
Ohio, i* “fair.” We can’t tell about their 
goods or their way of doing business. We 
don’t recommend Johu McDonough, of this 
city, advertiser of cheap guns. Thomas 
Carmody is the name, aud East 5th St., New 
York is the address given by a “sawdust 
humbug. The thing is said to be worth $5; it 
ought to be made for less than 10 ceuts, aud 
would be dear at five. We investigated this 
on the spot some mouths ago, and exposed the 
humbug; but we are still receiving frequent 
inquiries about it. J. M. Stoddart & Co., 
publishers, of this city and Philadelphia, are 
quite reliable T. Gardner, “Manager, Palace 
Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, is a fraud,” and 
his four-per-cent, loan ou personal security is 
a humbug. “Honest poor or men of moderate 
means” who may be gullible enough to deal 
with this sharper will very likely be swindled 
out of more than the six cents he asks at first. 
To our knowledge there are three four-per¬ 
cent. swindlers that hail from Cincinnati. 
Neither there nor anywhere else in this coun¬ 
try does a man who honestly wishes to lend 
money at four per ceut. on personal security 
need to advertise for borrowers. We are as¬ 
sured that the Acme Manufacturing Cornpa- 
uy. Ivory ton, and the United States Manu¬ 
facturing Company, of Hartford, Conn., are 
both trustworthy; but we have received sev¬ 
eral eomplaiuts of tardiness in filling orders 
ou their part. We have received several com f, 
plaints of the People’s Fireside Journal, which 
this year, as last, advertised a stem-winding 
watch free to its subscribers. Usually uo 
w atch is sent; but occasionally, iu response to 
persistent dunning, a worthless brass toy 
watch is forwarded; and if this does not give 
satisfaction, the dupe is told that he has had 
the worth of his money. And so he ought to 
have—iu experience. 
During the piist fortnight we have reject¬ 
ed four advertisements, because either we 
thought that the advertisers would not fill! 
orders honestly and promptly, or because we: 
felt pretty sure the articles were not as good! 
as represented. Two of the advertisements 
were intended to run for several months; one 
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of them, which was rejected twice, was from 
the above Forrest & Co., of Brooklyn, and 
the aggregate pay would have been over $880. 
They all came through reputable advertising 
agents, so that we would have been sure of our 
money, but we do not consider a guarantee of 
payment to ourselves equivalent to a guar¬ 
antee of honesty towards our friends. 
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CONDUCTED BY MISC RAY CLARK. 
“WOMAN’S USEFULNESS.” 
A FEW QUESTIONS ASKED CONCERNING THE 
SAME. 
In reading the Rural one finds so many 
pleasing and useful articles that it seems equal 
to a Texas Norther to come across one that 
so astonishes us as does that entitled “Wom¬ 
an’s Usefulness.” Now I protest—and declare 
that that article was either written by a man, 
or else, for the purpose of getting the opinion 
of others, upon the subject. 
I shall speak of the welcome, children had 
so many years ago, and would ask a question 
or two. Was there not in those days, long 
months of sickness, when mother could not 
raise her head from the pillow, and there 
were six other children to be cared for ? 
Would this state of home affairs, make the 
little baby any the more welcome then than 
now? Is it to be wondered at that they are 
many times looked upon as additional bur¬ 
dens when no matter how large your family 
the father never thinks he should take part of 
the care off your hands at night, but walks 
over to the neighbors or to the corner store, 
while you stay at home with the fretful chil- 
ren? (or were children never fretful one hund¬ 
red years ago?) Will “Grandmother” tell us 
if she i?) was so very happy in doing what 
“her hands found to do?” Came there never 
a longing to her heart for that which was be¬ 
yond her reach? 
But I will agree with her “there is no sta¬ 
tion iu life in which a person cannot be use¬ 
ful if she has the desire to be.” But why 
should girls not aim to make a mark in the 
world? Shall she sit down to patching, darn¬ 
ing. dishwashing and leave all that her soul 
desires, for her brother to attain, when he 
has only half the brains she has? No! The 
idea that woman must not do or think, only as 
the men direct, is about exploded ? If God 
gave ber a brain he gave it for her own use, 
if he had intended she should be satisfied with 
the quiet vocations of life he would not have 
given her the inspiration for something 
higher. Place a dish of apples on the table 
for a lot of boys and girls, let the larger share 
be hard sour seedlings and the remainder 
bright luscious grafts aud then tell the little 
girls they’ must not try to get the good ones 
those are for the boys, they must be content 
to see the boys eat them for it is their duty to 
take the others and not try anything else; 
won’t you be apt to bear a “bullabelloo!” 
Whoever heard of an opportunity present¬ 
ing itself for A man, or a woman, to pick up 
an education without “running after it,” so 
that he was fit for a lawyer or speaker, unless 
it were such an one as I heard iu the pulpit a 
short time ago He said, “Woman was made 
for man, to milk cows, to pick cotton, to hoe 
iu the field.” Now it is my opinion this is a 
specimen of the opportunities “presenting 
themselves" without much hard “running.” 
This may all be true; I will not dispute such 
inspiration (fl but 1, for one. prefer the girls 
who are not content “tobe ordinary." 
Who says there is a “path before us?” Who¬ 
ever heard of a path that when you lifted a 
foot yon knew not where you would put it 
down! There is no path, in my opinion, only 
as you make it with your own strength, and 
if you come to a “rocky" plaoe. if you have 
the courage to hew through the rocks, then 
you also have the right to make your name a 
shining light among men. But if you prefer 
your own ease rather than assail the rough 
places, then it is your privilege to walk in the 
smoother path; but do not complain because 
all are uot of your quiet disposition. One 
knows nothing of the pangs of hunger who 
has not been without food. Neither need the 
men complain when all women are not con¬ 
tent to sit down and see them grab all the 
bright apples of life, and because there are 
those who will dispute the right. Wherever 
God has given a mind, I say let it have the 
highest education—whether it be man or wo¬ 
man—and if there is any bright talent, let it 
shine forth for good, even if it be a girl; per¬ 
haps she will be as good a mother as if she had 
been educated to suppose “she was made for 
man.” Who is capable of deciding what is 
the path of duty for another, for can we al¬ 
ways tell what is the path of duty for our¬ 
selves? ANN OTHER. 
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WINTER JOTTINGS. 
This is the season of the year to be in New 
York, for it has on its best bib and tucker in 
every respect. 
In the first place our jolly old friend St. 
Nich. has arrived aud left behind him some¬ 
thing for everybody. Now is the time 
when you forget to go back to the old mythi¬ 
cal ages aud envy the lords 'and the ladies 
