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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
NEW S TAMPING O UTFIT FREE \ •> 
It <‘Oir!% I'IC Y IIO.MK, a ntimmoib 20 pitifu, 30 col* / 
wtnn lilu*tr»te«l (‘apor tl*> oUmI lo hull**’ fancy wor\, IpMnO'JtoGtMDMi,fashion*, / 
houM<*k«t?j.tn*x ( »n*i a b» it of in u^ro«i:n>f niAUfr for (hi home, wy)|>a 
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1688£Unitmi£ Outnt. It cunlnfiu «;;> p,.-< - i>il p-ittem*, all ontinplynovr^ / 
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lntf UndsrapH, “Owt < ..or.t»y 11- aits” fur Inpvi iry painting, 17 in, 1 Pnn.y V V //V r% ( 
HTJiy for K«ti»injrtnn Palntlnjf, ^u,. bolt 1 Borderfor butlrni bole A»tch, g tn, -jr~ iY / O 
I cluht*-r of Finn Coufct, In. I fine Roman vvi} # 7 jn. 1 «pray iCvldcti «d. * '7^ ~ 
71n. I^oouln-rry vmi; Tin. I brnutiful chud^bn-nl, f.ln. I deM£B,U)11p*, 4hi. 
1 *prnv, o»k and «• -m, In. 1 group d«*gri.m., In. ! pretty crarklrw,.rk d<H'rn. r.tn. 1 «nray tlllum UntfiTomro, r, In. 1 «prav 
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»auccr,4 V In. I %pny fruit. I >; m, 1 livingblnf* 4 m. I for-ef mc-Dotipray 4|«,. ! barbollucvae^aV in. ;t bundw * kui■*. I round 
vum* 1 V ‘l-'.jr JHN I O Kuf! r tray . 1 lb, l bunrh arild 1 Mrd I ninnov-rjm dc«l-D, v >rr 1 bv nuh • hern- . I noppv, 
I cail'i I illy, I golden yod. 1 . Iti.t-r prtuio-«r-, I areua bulUrfly, 1 box*Un.r.,ug powder, t pat.tporn. i. ? pauipl.l*-U, '* Inatrmtons 
f-.r sing tbo FtatnpinirOntM, * and “ * t t Kciulngton ami Lwitm Painting, :i tiuw book, jn»t out, tua. i ir.g iu<w toYnitku knuted 
amlmH-h.-bd 5llkj.ur and % variety of arric>»f of porfomlvd canl board, wall nocfctte, n.%- lie «im ,, .tr., ♦ akin z a m*gu. firm tan d 
U O JT Hook kpf‘r»lng r Hiislness 
■ ■ ^ Forni8,Ponmanj-hlp. Arfcliruetlc,Short* 
hand, etc., thoroughly TAUght by MAIL. ( frculars free. 
HitV A NT A etfUATTON't*. Iluflivlo, N. V. 
AGENTS 
nnd lurnii'r. with no pxpfricn.'o maki- !*l‘i.50 nn 
bonrUunnKsPHri-tlmp. J.V. Kenyon, (.liens Falla, 
N. Y., made SIS onr dnr, S?fi.50 one week. 
Bo can you. I'ronN and eaiiilocne free. 
J. K. Simula Jl l.'u., Cincinnati.O 
Ileal (S^tatr. 
PERSONALS. 
Miss Mary B. Coleman is Register of 
Reeds for Cluy County, III. One of the first 
women to hold such a place. 
Tub porter who takes care of Senator Bo¬ 
land Stanford’s private ear receives $!&X) a 
month. Tlds is more than the average college 
professor earns. 
Tire Trollope family of England have writ¬ 
ten 27 ) books, as follows. Mrs. Trollope, Sr., 
115; Anthony Trollope, UK); Adolphus Trol¬ 
lope, 50; Mrs. Theodore Trollope, 10. 
Senator Ingalls says that he will live in 
Washington this winter “in the same old 
place—on the extreme southeast corner of re¬ 
spectability.” Ily this he means that his bouse 
is at No. 1 B street. 
Mb. Nathaniel Clapp, the inventor of ab¬ 
sorbent cotton, is now IS5 years old. He lives 
with his wife and suns at Dedham, Mass., ami 
devotes the robust energies of his halo old age 
to the care of an extensive garden and or¬ 
chard. 
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has created 
a sort of a sensation by announcing that the 
time is at hand in that State for the Republi¬ 
can party to make Prohibition its chief issue. 
Senators Plumb of Kansas, and Allison of 
Iowa, say Prohibition should be a Republican 
issue. 
Robert Bonner lias now on bis farm, near 
this city, and in his stable here, no less than 
(50 trotting horses, including foals. Of these 
he has bought 40, for which he has paid, in 
all, $42(5,.'>25. The highest prices arc: Maud S. 
and Pocahontas, $ 40,000 each; Harus,*:1(1,000; 
Dexier, $.55,000; Startle and Edward Everett., 
$20,000 each; Edwin Forrest $1(5,000, and 
Lady Stout and Crofton, $15,000 each. The fa¬ 
mous Dexter is now 20 years old, shriveling 
up with age, but healthy. 
rOUNEED AN EVAPORATOR 
for maple, «or<rliiiin. eider, or fruit JellicK? Examine the CHAMPION and yon will buy no 
other. It. hi.* made maple amtar makinK n plenann: where it wna formerly u druduerv in hundred# 
of camps In Ohio. Mlclilxan. Wisconsin, Indiana. F.-imsylvanm. New York and Vermont It will do i be 
same lor you, and put money in your pocket by irivim? you a better price for “eilr-edjred ” 
products. Don’t put off Hltiint up your c.-tmp until cold weather; now is the lime. Examine t u 
CHAMPION at your Slate Fair. [Mention this paper J Address as above, stating size of camp 
OIL MEAL. 
£torfe and poultry. 
Husbandry; Ten Acres Enough; Langstroth 
on the Honey Bee; Rand’s Bulbs; Rand’s 
Flowers for Parlor and Carden; Roosevelt’s 
Five Acres Too Much; RAndall’s Practical 
Shepherd; Mehun’s Ornamental Trees; Wur- 
der’s American Pomology; Randall’s Sheep 
Husbandry; do. Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry; 
Quin’s Pear Culture for Profit; Nichols’s 
Chemistry of Farm and Sea; Hooper’s Book 
of Evergreens: Austin's American Farm 
Law, etc.; Brill’s Farm (hardening and Seed 
Growing; Tim Bunker Papers; Fulton’s Peach 
Culture. 
—- 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
A tramp earne into the store one night last 
week. He stood by the stove to warm his 
hands before starting out to walk to the 
county-liouse. ITe was a ragged fellow witli 
bleared eyes and a red nose. All the buttons 
on his coat were gone. He had a piece of rope 
tied around his waist. One great toe peeped 
out through a hole in his shoe. He was a 
hard looking customer. He 1ms done some 
work for some of the farmers in our' neigh¬ 
borhood, but it don’t pay to hire him. He 
shirks all he can aud eats enough for three. 
He went shuffling out at last—a perfect pic¬ 
ture of misery and shifllessuess. “Dot man 
vorkod for n neighbor off mind for a few days 
last year,” said Uncle Jacob. “Dey vas dig¬ 
ging bofatoes un.i some off dem hot a toes vas 
very poor. Dot feller would vork avay until 
he got to a blaee where der botatoes vas very 
schmall und scattering. Den he vould turn 
up mit his m>ze und say. ‘dem botatoes vas too 
schmall to dig; why don’t you skill ofer dem 
und dig vere (ley vas more better?’ I says to 
him, ‘I vill garryuntee dot is shust der vay 
you haf always done mit your life. You haf 
skipped ofer der little tings und hunted around 
mit der big tings und der gonsequenee is dot 
you haf liefer found dem big things und 
missed der chance of picking up schmall tings. 
You haf nodiug left to >how for dot hunt, und 
you nefer vill haf soundings. You vas a fif¬ 
ing examide of der fact dot schmall botatoes 
veil picked up vas better dan big botatoes dot 
you haf to run around after, nut der long 
run. Of der young meu off dis goundry 
Could understand dot, dere would pe more hap¬ 
piness und fewer bitter und discouraged beeble 
mit der world. It vas not up mit der style to 
Lie egouomiral und stingy, but it vas der only 
vay for a poor mau to get along. Der fact is 
dere is blenty off chances to pick up der 
schmall hutato*soff life vile der big botatoes 
vas hard to find out. It vas only by bractic¬ 
ing mit picking der schmall botatoes dot we 
vus qualify ourselves to pick dose big ones.’” 
small pica. 
IHi.siccUanfou? ^dyrni^tug. 
3-4 SIZE SAW SET ^ 
For Lumbermen and Wood Cutters- uurBlSI^^^ 
Cheapest amt best ever made. Sets a saw In three 
minutes. Also, • hurnplon dans;’ for euttlDK raker 
teeth proper length. Any one can use them. Sample 
of each, by mntl, on receipt of $1. circulars free 
J. E. WIIITINtJ, Montrose, l’n. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The Christmas number of Harper’s is a per¬ 
fect library of good stories, it is pretty hard 
to prepare a good Christmas story without 
introducing the little girl who melts the heart 
of the bud man, the old miser who repents on 
Christmas Eve or the old lover who comes 
back after years of silence to explain his 
absence by some marvelous story. Wo have 
about all these uicidonts in this number of 
Harjmr’s, but there is something new a' out 
them as here presented. “Annie Laurie” is a 
beautiful story, sad aud tender aud yet hope¬ 
ful and strengthening. “Captain Santa Claus” 
is excellent; so in fact are all the shorter stories 
except “Iuja.” There is no apparent reason 
why this story should have been written. It 
gives no moral, no happiness, uo hope. It is a 
sad, cruelstory, out of place at “Merry Christ¬ 
mas. ” 
About the same might be said of “A Drift 
From Redwood,” by Bret Harte, in the Christ¬ 
mas Scribner. Such stories are heralded far 
and wide, but what good do they do? They 
teach uo lesson, they teach uo qualities of 
mind or heart that we would have meu admire 
or copy. They were much better unpublished. 
An entirely different story is the “Zadoc Fine 
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known. S«*«<l for larost circular* giving full Itiformu 
tlon. and list of valuable food rations 
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and freights named to all polril.v 
We guarantee our meal xtrletly pure, and manufac¬ 
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Mention the Rttral New Yohkk«. 
K Our $15 Shot Gun now $10. 
“ $15 Breechloader “ $9.00 
Alikina, Uuut nu*r»u':: 1 lower than 
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cautlortm. POWELL a CLEMENT, 
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1 0 cents (silver), pays fur your address In the 
“Agent’s Directory,” which geos whirling all over the 
United Stares, and you will get hundreds of samples, 
circulars. Itooks, newspapers, magazines, etc., from 
those who want agents \ ou will get lots of mail mat 
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THE COLD-WATER DIF (Thymo-Cresol) is 
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I pf fertile eggs as any other 
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-L ■" -J Illustrated Catalogue. 
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Labor Union," in the Santa magazine. This 
wo consider one of the brightest and best 
short stories ol the year. It is a euttiug satire 
on the effects of “labor unions” aud “walking 
delegates,” und a powerful tribute to enter¬ 
prise and pluck. 
We have given, from time to time, various 
lists of the books that might go to make up a 
good farm library. Readers will remember 
that we requested lists of books that could be 
bought for $25. $50 or $1(»0. The following list 
is prepared by Dr. T. H. Hoskins: 
LIST OF AGRICULTURAL BOOKS F(»n $25, 
Henderson’s Gardening for Profit and Prac¬ 
tical Floriculture; Quiuby’s Bee-keeping; Ful¬ 
ler’s Grape Culturist and Small Fruit Uultnr- 
ist; Allen’s American Farm Book; Thomas’s 
American Fruit Culturist; Elwanger’s Rose 
Culture; Warner's My Summer iu a Garden; 
Quin’s Money in the Garden; Williams’s Win¬ 
dow Gardening; Roe’s Play aud Profit In My 
Garden; Thomas’s Farm Implements, etc. 
Flint’s Grasses; Dr. Candolle’s Origin of Cul¬ 
tivated Plants; Harris on the Pig; Johnson's 
How Crops Grow aud How Crops Feed. 
For $50 add to above: Allen’s American 
Cattle and New’ American Fann Book; Amer¬ 
ican Weeds and Useful Plants; Bariy’s Fruit 
Garden; Brjant’s Fruit Tree Culturist; 
Break’s New Book of Flowers; Buist’s Family 
Kitchen Gardener; Elliott’s Lawn and Shade 
Tree*, Harris’s Insects Injurious to Vegeta¬ 
tion; My Viueym'd at Lukoviuw, 
For $100 add to above: Darwin’s Varia¬ 
tion of Animals and Plants; He Voe’s Murket 
As-istant; Eastwood ou the Cranberry; Down¬ 
ing’s Fruits aud Fruit Trees; Baker’s Fruit 
Culture; Bun’s Vegetables of America; 
Downing’s Rural Essays: Downing’s Selected 
Fruits; Storer’s Agriculture; Willard’s Dairy 
I)o you frrl tfviUTully iniwrnblv or suffer with a thou¬ 
sand and one iiidvsrribnblc had fwllngs, both lueutul 
und physical? Among them buy spirits, nervousness, 
weariness, llfeles-mes*. weakno.ss, dizziness, feeling# of 
fullness or blunting lifter eating, or sense uf “goneness “ 
or emi'line-H ofxtomncli in moralng. flesh unit and lack¬ 
ing flrmnejri, he-iilache,blurring of eyesight,speek • final- 
Ilig before the eyes, nervotM irrltabiUtv, |mor memory, 
chilliness, alternating witli hot lliodint. Isssilude.Uirohb- 
ing. siimUng or rumbling sensations In bowels, wall 
beat and nipping pains o<cnslnnaliy. palpiiallon of 
heart, simrt l ienlh on exertlon^lo w cireulutiunof bloesl, 
coM feet, pain iind unprossion in chest and back, pain, 
around the loins, nehmg and Weariness of the lower 
limte, drnwsintws nfler tnniils but nervous wakefulness 
at tilgbt, lnngiior in the morning and a constant feeling 
ol dreml ns If smuelhlng aw ml was about to happen. 
If yon have any or ullof tin seKymptonisaeiKl 4a cents 
to GEO. K S IOI'i -A Rl>, druggist, i'-.U Magma strei t, 
Buffalo, N Ywho will sen I you.po-;paid.somexlinplo 
and bannlexi powders, pleicjjui to take and easy dlrec- 
lioiis which If you billuw, will positively and viTectualty 
cure in from onato three w eeks time, no mutter liow bad 
roughkccpsir I’oultrv Supply Depot. 
Ground shells. Bone. Beef .Scraps. Egg Food; Water 
Fountains, etc. JAMKs If BY MOLDS, 
391 MAIN STREET, ili UNION STREET. 
_ fouithkrrpsie. N. Y. 
A ^ to tfS a lav. Samples worth *1.50. FREE Lines 
uoi under the horae's feet. Write lirewsti-r 
Sutelv Hein Holder Co.. Hob it/. Wien.. 
THOROUGHBRED 
from the tiest stniins Bred for llealtb. Meal and 
Kgua. >lttudiird For orb-es of Eggs aud 
BlrdB,address mi. B. Bruit. Po< kssi r. M vsa 
Jtustv Kltl), rOl.AMI-l lit,HA, 
( tn~»Urr W hue. it. rV.tllri- A York, 
ehlrp Fig** Sriuth.lown, { uivwolil 
uni iktfortl lluwn Sbrepantl UmU 
Hroich Col Iry 8bi*phcri| Do** and 
Fancy Tuullry. H^nd for taUloga* 
W.ATLEK BCIU'KZ A CO.PhlU.FB 
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GALVANIZED WIRE NETTING. 
*- or I*o til try Fenolng. 
3>4 OF O.SK CKNT FOH i INCH ME»H SO. Ill WIR* 
EVERYTHING FOR THE POULTRY YARD. 
llati’lierM and Itroodcrs. 
8eud for Circular. Hrocknt-r iV: Evaim, 
•N WfiFV S-TNFKT. N. Y CITY 
nnur Iiril For Poultry, Granulaivd Bone and 
till Nr III r fl I Urusheil Oysti rSlirlls. Send for 1’rn-i' 
"'^**^"ll»t. York Cbenih-jii Works,Y'ork.Fa. 
GRIND 
m Ull I II U OytflrrShells; 
_!U Mi hrwiAlll Hour X Corn, intho 
WSSD) < 5 HAND MILL^r 
ItM) per cent, more msdo 
In keeping Poultry. Also POYVK |{ HILLS anil 
FAU II I'M-;11 H I I.l.S. Circularsiuidtestininniala 
•eist ou awpucatwu. VV1LSON ItlfOS. Kostun. Uo. 
THE LIGHTNING HITCH 
5 Is an invent iou hy which » horse 
3ran be hitched Sul unA itehrU 
to and trom a cnrnngi. si most 
INSTANTLY, Kaallyand 
t lieaply Ad|uatei((euny net 
of'Hornets, dning away with tong 
totenlng and unfsHtening of 
-w 1 of Hu-n iBM.Oniiig awaj with long 
traces, bree-'h straps, totentn* and nnfnnterung of 
buckles; pulls from whifiletree Stylish, simple ,tiheaya 
fits. Comfortable to tho horse, Thousands in me. Sells on 
sight. Agent* wanted everywhere. Send for circular. 
Address ThoLlUHTXDiU lUTCU 10., York, Pa. 
6 5 KET INTEREST AS 
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U ARYIS-CONKLIN 0 £ 
n<»iu <. \<.e i Ruvr to., 
KANSAS CITY. HO. 
< upiinl Paid-up. .Si.ooo.000 
^tirplio, .. 100.000 
KeM-rve Liability....... . . l.OOn.OOO 
Debeuiures secured by fiwt inortBAges on lmprovt-tl 
real estate held hy the MetvautileTrnst. Co., New York. 
Call at office or write for particulars. 
.1 urviM*('o!iU|in Mortgage Trust Co., 
28# Br«)adway. New York City. 
ifiniijnfj*' v {>,s n ««* • , -*- s Hii.ii 
l’l I It n 11 lllland exoiiangei l. t ree Cat.vk«ues 
lllll* llllLaJ&.B.CH.-itHN A CO , ttlcumond, Va 
150 Farntn, $10 per Acre up. Rig boom here. Send 
for Bulletin ALEX. LESLIE, Washington, hid. 
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