1886 
THE AURAL NEW-YORKER. 
278 
A CHEAP COTTAGE. 
For the plan of the neat, convenient cottage 
shown at Figs. 108, 169 and 170, we are 
indebted to our friend A. J. McDennid, Mar¬ 
ion County, Ill. Fig. 108 shows the front 
elevation with a stone foundation; bricks or 
even posts would answer the purpose, where, 
as iu some prairie sections, stones are scarce. 
Fig. 169 shows the ground-floor and the 
arrangement of the rooms, etc. At Fig. 170 
is seen the second floor, and a study of the 
three illustrations will enable anybody to 
construct a similar building. The cost will 
depend, of course, on the size and finish of the 
house, and the price of materials where it is 
built. That shown here cost only 8850. 
The old lottery swindle at St. Stephen, New 
Brunswick, Canada, has awakened from a 
godless sleep or risen from the dead frauds of 
the recent past. The vampire has changed its 
name a trifle; but it still preys upon tbepublie 
as of old; but, of course, the modern vampire 
applies its suction powers to the pockets in¬ 
stead of to the veins of its victims. It used to 
cheat as the Royal New Brunswick Cash 
Gift Distribution; now it cheats as the 
Royal Dominion Cash Gift Distributions. 
The other was and this is a disgrace to the 
people of St. Stephen, who permit it to exist 
among them, and to the Government of the 
Dominion which should at once have sup¬ 
pressed so barefaced a swindle, Simpson was 
the name of the rascal who worked the former 
fraud: Beckwith is the scoundrel who rims 
this; but be was also a “co partner” in the 
other. There is no difference between the 
modv^ operandi of both—tickets are sold for 
25 cents each, 20 for 85, and the dupes are 
assured that every packet of 20 is sure to draw 
several prizes. Of these 5,281 are promised, 
amounting to 8115,000. The Dominion Gov¬ 
ernment made a “kind of a sort” of an investi¬ 
gation into the counterpart of this over a 
year ago, and found that of all the prizes ever 
offered, not on<> hail gone to a subscriber. A 
prize went, now and then to a confederate for 
advertising purposes; but no attempt had 
ever been made to hold a “drawing,” and no 
prizes had ever been distributed according to 
promise. After paying postage ou advertising 
circulars (amounting to about 840,000 a.year), 
and other expenses, the swindlers eooly pocket 
the rest of the money sent in b}* their dupes. 
“Nature’s Incubator Company,” of Quincy 
Ill., is a lmmbug, and its representations of the 
incubator it offers are “meant to deceive.” 
The large numlier of complaints we have re¬ 
ceived leave no doubt on these points. Here 
is a specimen letter, from Sterling, Illinois;— 
“My daughter bought a 'Nature's Incubator’ 
last February. It is a perfect chip-trap fixing— 
nothing at all like what the ‘Company’ repre¬ 
sent it. to be. From correspondence 1 have hud 
with the concern since, I am convinced the 
company is even a more monstrous sham than 
its incubator. Although the humbug acknow¬ 
ledges that 'owing to the rush of business,’ it 
sent out ‘a large number of incubators that 
were improperly made,' yet it. refuses to re¬ 
place these with others ‘properly made,’ or to 
return a cent to those who received the worth¬ 
less tilings.” Other letters make it quite plain 
that the machine would have to be altered 
altogether before it could do good work. 
Have absolutely nothing to do with the 
“new seed oats” offered by u certain seed 
company of Western Now York. It is of the 
same stripe as the Hu Hess & Bohemian Oats 
tricks which the Eye-opener has boon denoun¬ 
cing for the last seven years, and by which 
the farmers of many of the Western States 
have been swindled out of tens of thousands of 
dollars. Every man who engages iu such an 
“enterprise” Is sure to turn out a swindler or a 
dupe; do you want to be either, especially as 
the chances are ten to one that you will be the 
latter in spite of notes given, bank deposits 
made or other means of quieting the conscien¬ 
ces, or lulling the suspicions of the tempted? 
To Several Inquirers.— The principal 
Florida “land frauds" which havebeeu widely 
advertised and have succeeded in gulling the 
Public most extensively, are Sarasota Bay, 
Palma Sola, Marion (lity, Grant Park, Parkers¬ 
burg, ParkersviHo, De Witt, Bolinore City, 
Silver Springs Park and Bertram. In the 
Rural of December Ml, 1885, the Eye*opeuer 
denounced nearly all these from personal ac¬ 
quaintance with the locations, and several 
times since then the frauds have been exposed 
here. There really are such places; but the 
representations with regard to the number 
and character of the population, buildings 
and business enterprises as well as with regard 
to the nature of the locations and the sur¬ 
rounding country, and of the industrial re¬ 
sources and work in the neighborhood and 
the travel and traffic facilities, are all either 
sheer fabrications or, at best, gross misrep¬ 
resentations. The places are very nice on 
paper; but the streets, public buildings, most 
of the stores and private residences can be 
found nowhere else. “Lots” iu these “paper 
cities” are generally otfered for sale for more 
than the price paid for acres by the sharpers 
(mostly Northern men) who engineer the 
swindles. The orange groves which delight 
the eye and flatter the hopes in the prospec¬ 
tuses and advertisements, are in the future; 
all in the present consist at most of a few 
lately planted trees set out as a foundation for 
misrepresentation by the original schemers, or 
as an experiment by some of their dupes. 
Generally the surrounding country is either 
swamp land or sand too pool 1 to produce any 
profitable crop. There is a good deal of really 
excellent, land in Florida; but all the choice 
locations have already been taken up and are 
now held at high prices..We 
do not recommend the goods advertised by 
the Dennis M'f’g Company, alias Dr. M. D 
Dennis.... .We cannot answer inquiries about, 
the standing of local insurance companies con¬ 
ducted on the “mutual” principle. Some of 
them are excellent; others are swindles. The 
authorities of Pennsylvania have lately sup 
pressed a dozen or so of the latter kind which 
preyed chiefly upon the country people of the 
Keystone State; the authorities of Indiana 
are now engaged in a similar praiseworthy 
untertaking. The best way to find out about 
such concerns is to apply to the Superintendent 
of Insurance at the capital of the State. 
We cannot recommend the Lee Seed Co., alias 
the Dandelion Bitter MTg Co., alias the ■ 
Kennel Rose Co., alias etc., etc., of Southing- 
common curs and mongrels of the country are so 
plentiful that they sadly injure the reputation 
of the really valuable dogs. The fact is that 
no animal makes a greater return, in intelli¬ 
gence and usefulness, for care bestowed upon 
his training and breeding than does the dog. 
We should seek to exterminate only the curs 
and worthless animals. 
Stoddard Creamery and Refrigerator. 
—A full list of circulars from the Moseley & 
Stoddard Manufacturing Co., Poultney, Ver¬ 
mont. The Stoddard Creamery and churn 
are known wherever dairying is practiced. In 
this circular these implements are so well de¬ 
scribed that a child could understand their 
use. Many a long dairy article contains less 
practical information than is to be found in the 
Directions for Making Granulated Butter. If 
dairymen would follow these instructions,there 
would be much less complaint about bogus 
butter. Besides the creamery and churn, this 
house furnishes dairy scales, batter packages, 
butter prints. Monitor milk pails, lever but¬ 
ter-workers, patent milk strainers aud dog 
powers, all of first quality. The circular 
headed “Why” gives the reasons why these 
goods should be used far better than we can. 
Send for it. 
Henley’s Monarch Fence Machine.— 
An elegant new catalogue from M. C. Henley, 
Richmond. Ind., describing and illustrating 
this celebrated fence machine. Beautifully 
printed and well arranged. Our friends will 
go far before finding a catalogue containing 
more common sense on the art of fence build- 
than this one contains. The fence made by 
the use of this machine is cheap, durable and 
handsome. Where fences are to be used—and 
few communities have reached a state of civ¬ 
ilization that will justify them in doing awav 
with strong boundary lines—these three essen¬ 
tials should be included. Send for the cata¬ 
logue. 
High-Grade Fertilizers.— Circular from 
John M. Pearson, Hudson, N. Y. A sound, 
Mil.- 
A CHEAP COTTAGE. Fig. 168. 
ington, Conn.Yes, the Monarch Light¬ 
ning Saw Company, of Chicago, Til., is. in one 
way, a “responsible” concern—it is responsible 
for much profanity aud anger caused by the 
worthless character of the goods it sends out. 
Wo have had a great number of indignant 
complaints with regard to this concern. 
We do not recommend the “Harris Remedy” 
of St, Louis. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
The Dog in Health, Habits and Disease. 
A pamphlet of 105 pages, from R. C. Hart- 
ranft, Philadelphia, Pa.—A well arranged and 
very readable book. The general habits of 
the dog, description and history of the various 
sensible and readable circular. It will jiav 
any farmer to read the conversation entitled, 
“Fertilizers—Pro and Con,” and the article on 
Soils aud Plants. The use of good commer¬ 
cial fertilizers increases from year to year. 
Each year deserters come over from the ranks 
of those who have heretofore objected to 
“poisoning” or “burning" the land. Time 
makes clearer and clearer the truth of the Ru¬ 
ral’s assertion, that if we could burn barn¬ 
yard manure and still retain its nitrogen, we 
would have, in the ash, a “complete” commer¬ 
cial fertilizer. 
The Concave and Curved Potato Knife, 
from Humphrey Bros.. Wakeman. Ohio.—As 
before stated in the Rural, this little imple¬ 
ment gives excellent satisfaction. It will pay 
even those who plant a small patch to procure 
one of these knives. The seed pieces are cut 
rapidly aud are left in handy and even shape. 
Rocks, Langshans, Hamburgs, American 
Dominiques, Leghorns and Pekin Ducks are 
used for breeding stock. It is unnecessary 
for us to speak of the characteristics of the 
various breeds; they are so well pictured and 
described in the catalogues of fanciers that 
but little more can be said concerning them. 
Cornish Organs and Pianos. Circular 
from Cornish & Co., Washington, N. .T.—A 
description of the various organs aud pianos 
Fig. 169. 
breeds, how to breed and feed aud how to 
handle the common diseases, are all treated iu 
a condensed and practical manner. To all 
those who are interested in the training aud 
breeding of dogs this little work will be of 
value. It would be well if more iuterestcould 
lie taken iu the breeding of good dogs. The 
Fig. 170. 
Where the seed is to be prepared for an Aspin- 
wall plauter, this little tool will give excellent 
satisfaction. It is improved this season. Price 
by mail 35 cents. 
Circular of High-Class Poultry, from 
Jones Wilcox, East Chatham, N. Y.—First- 
class specimens of Wyandottes, Plymouth 
to the Pipe Top Grand Organ, costing 8160. 
There are plenty of homes in the country yet 
that are not supplied with music. 
f or Women. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
THE FARMER’S LIFE. 
AN OLD SONG. 
The farmer's life Is a life for me, 
I own I love it dearly, 
And every season full of glee, 
I take Its labors cheerily. 
To plow or sow, or reap or mow. 
Or in thp barn to thrash, sirs. 
All’s one to me. I plainly see, 
’Twill hrlngnie health and cash. sirs. 
The doctor's styled a gentleman, 
But this I hold but humming; 
For, like a tavern waiting-man. 
At every call he's coming. 
Now here, now there, must he repair 
Or starve, slr3, by denying: 
Like death Itself—unhappy elf— 
He lives by others dying. 
The lawyer leads a harrassed life. 
Much like the hunted otter; 
For twixt his own and other’s strife. 
He’s always In hot water. 
For foe or friend his cause defend. 
However wrong, must he, sir. 
In reason’s spite, maintain his right 
And dearly earn Ills fee. sir. 
Then let me live a farmer’s life. 
Obtaining while I lead ir. 
Enough for self and some to give 
To such poor souls ns need it. 
111 dredge and fence, nor grudge expense 
To give my land good dressing. 
I’ll reap and sow, or drill in row. 
And hope for Heaven’s blessing. 
SKETCHES OF GERMAN LIFE. 
BERTHA A. ZEDI WINKLER. 
THE COUNTESS. 
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Some people carry romance iu their faces, 
some in their disposition, and some in their 
real life. But I have never met with one and 
the same person so thoroughly romantic in all 
respects as the daughter of the Count who was 
the subject of my last sketch. 
In the ilays of barbaric Germany, she might 
have been a beautiful seeress, like Velleda; in 
the Middle Ages, the championed lady of the 
noblest knight that ever sat at King Arthur’s 
Round Table; now. in the real present, she 
simply carried about her the essence of these 
storied ages, animated in her beautiful person, 
and realistic in the conduct of her life, so Dill 
of strange reverses, so unaltering in cheerful¬ 
ness, charity, sympathy, aud withal truly 
royal dignity. 
M hat her life was amid the gayeties and 
splendors of a court, no one iu that little 
village knew. That she had been there was 
enough to fill their simple minds with awe. If 
she loved her life there, it was a rude shock 
to be transferred to the loneliness of a forest 
border and the society of unsophisticated in¬ 
feriority, for which she had the people’s deli¬ 
cate, unspoken sympathy. But her glad 
smile, her active interest in the life around 
her, never *bofrayed the sadness that may 
have been within. She was an aristocrat 
within aud without; proud in her misfortune 
as she was proud of her lineage, which no 
king's frown could destroy. But that pride 
of ancestry was never obtrusive or offensive; 
it was never a claim or an assertion; it was a 
possession which ueeded no calling attention 
to. Men instinctively felt it au honor to doff 
their caps to her. and the women did not have 
to toll their children to kiss hertiand as they 
had to when the pastor called and benevolent¬ 
ly patted them on the head. 
I shall never forget the first time I laid my 
eyes upon her and the beautiful incident that 
endeared her to me. My mother, when I was 
only seven years old, had occasion to leave the 
city in which we were born, and take up her 
abode in that little village. The distance from 
the railroad station to E was four miles, no 
short walk for a frail woman carrying two 
children on her arms aud the third one 
trudging beside her and holding on to her 
skirts. We were very tired and had been 
resting several times by the wayside, when a 
figure dressed in a tight-fitting gray hunting 
habit issued from the woods folio wed by a 
large dog. I hid from the dog behind my 
mother, and peeped inquisitively at the stately 
woman. She nodded to my mother with a 
half anxious and questioning look at the crying- 
babe in her amis. 
“If you are going to E-, madam, I should 
