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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 9 
Agents’ Share for January. 
The December contest is over. At this writing, we do not know 
who the winners are : They have two days yet to work, but before 
the reader gets his eye on this, the winners will have their checks- 
Never before in the history of the paper did we get so many small 
clubs from friends all over the country; but there were no large 
clubs at all, as in some previous contests. In many places, where 
there are large clubs that formerly came from one agent, this year 
they have been divided up and sent in two or more clubs by different 
people. This is quite as satisfactory to us, but it serves to show 
how easy it is to come in for some of the best premiums. 
The January premiums, as announced last week, are all cash. 
They are $50, $35, $25, $15 and $5. These will be awarded January 30, 
to the largest five clubs sent in between January 3 and January 30. 
On all the names sent during January, the regular agent’s commis¬ 
sion will, also, be allowed. There will be six weekly premiums of 
$2 cash each. These will go every Saturday night to the six club- 
raisers who send the six largest clubs during the week. The whole 
number of names sent during the week will count, so that the names 
need not all be sent at one time. The clubs will be sure to be small 
in January, and it will surprise a great many when they get the $2 
for weekly premiums. Several of them will go during the month 
for the result of a few hour’s work. Have you a few hours this week 
to exchange for a $2 bill ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
“ MA CEO.” 
From the many pleasant letters that 
have reached us during the past two 
weeks, we select the following for this 
week’s text: 
Don’t you dare to stop my paper. Remember 
the fate of Maceo and govern yourself accord¬ 
ingly. Can’t keep house without it. m. h. c. 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
That is a fair warning, and we shall cer¬ 
tainly heed it. It wouldn’t hurt our 
feelings if 50,000 men were to make a 
copy of that note, inclose 50,000 dollar 
bills, seal, and put on 50,000 stamps, 
address the whole army to The R. N.-Y. 
and trust them to the mercies of Uncle 
Sam for delivery. We are all ready for 
them. 
One thing we must say, and that is that 
we don’t yet know just what happened to 
Antonio Maceo, the great Cuban patriot. 
The Spaniards tell several stories, and 
the Cubans tell several more. Maceo 
certainly appears to be dead, but the 
manner of his killing is yet a mystery. 
The thing about him that interests us is 
not so much the way he was killed as 
the fact that he has taught the world 
something new in the awful art of war 
—something that bids fair to upset many 
of the best military plans. We are in¬ 
terested in the feat of Maceo rather than 
in his fate. 
Centuries ago the old robber barons 
and lords had a monopoly of military 
power. They could build a big stone 
castle on a hill, gather a gang of unhung 
cutthroats around them, and terrorize a 
whole county. Their power lay in the 
fact that no force was known to man 
that was strong enough to shake the 
stone walls down. The strongest force 
brought against them was that of a 
man’s arm in shooting an arrow, and 
they could laugh at that when safe in¬ 
side their castle with the food which 
they had stolen from the producers. At 
last gunpowder was invented, and down 
went the monopoly of the barons, when 
the common people learned how to 
use it. Here was a force that battered 
down the stone walls and gave the 
man on the outside an advantage which 
wires with a central battery. When the 
Spanish army marched on the field the 
whole thing was exploded with fearful 
effect. That taught military men a 
great lesson. In future wars no general 
will dare to lead his men near a fort be¬ 
cause of the awful effect of the dyna¬ 
mite that will be buried for miles in 
every direction. Gun powder enabled 
man to fight at a distance. Its force 
can be carried for miles. Dynamite con¬ 
centrates its fearful power within a 
comparatively small space and, rightly 
handled, will change the whole aspect 
of war and give the advantage once 
more to the man inside the fort. This 
is the feat of Maceo. Let us take his 
feat rather than his fate for our appli¬ 
cation. 
Years ago, there were many farmers 
who were almost as free from competi¬ 
tion as were the old barons behind their 
stone walls. There were few railroads, 
and farmers at distant points had not 
learned how to ship food so that it 
really competed in the near-by market 
town. The development of the dressed 
beef trade and dozens of similar enter¬ 
prises has aided, just like the invention 
of gunpowder, to break down the mon¬ 
opoly formerly enjoyed by thousands of 
farmers, and many of them have become 
discouraged and think that the advant¬ 
age is always to be with the distant 
farmer who occupies cheaper land. 
Let such men “remember the feat of 
Maceo.” Is it not possible for you to 
put some sort of dynamite around you 
and your market so that those who ship 
from a distance cannot stand on even 
ground with you ? We think so; in fact, 
we know it. Get a good article and a 
reputation for producing first - class 
goods, and then make people know who 
you are and what you have to sell. That 
is the sort of dynamite you must put 
around your home market if you expect 
to save your farm. Stop growing the 
same grade of goods that are grown by 
farmers hundreds of miles away. You 
will benefit all hands by doing so. Put 
the dynamite of new thoughts, methods, 
and crops all over your farm. 
Remember the feat of Maceo and don’t 
under any circumstances let The R. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Grand Isle County, Vt. —We have this year on 
our island about 50,000 barrels of apples, also 
$40,000 in beans and butter, $20,000 of pork, fowls 
and eggs. The apple crop was the largest we 
ever had, and also market or price, although 
several thousand barrels have been disposed of 
at $1 to $1.25 a barrel. We sent two boats, loaded 
with 4,000 barrels, to New York; they are not 
sold and are rotting very fast, and we can get 
only 60 cents a barrel. Butter and eggs are the 
only produce that brings cash. Our island is 13 
miles long, 354 to 4 wide, very productive. We 
have live churches, five stores, and five post 
offices, two steamboats twice a day, also a bridge 
at one end two miles long, and at the other a 
bridge 90 rods long, which cost $40,000. We have 
one water power mill, and steam when the water 
fails, a steam saw and grist mill, and one 
machine shop. h. t. u. 
Otsego County, N. Y. — Winter weather has 
arrived, but not with snow sufficient for sleigh¬ 
ing. Water continues low, and the general be¬ 
lief is that we shall soon have a general break¬ 
up. Hops have taken a fall in price. Some wood 
cutting and logging are being done, but it is on 
an exceedingly small scale as compared with 15 
or 20 years ago. Eggs are very scarce at the 
present time. Those engaged in the poultry busi¬ 
ness extensively, send their eggs off. Cows are 
worth from $25 to $50 apiece, according to qual¬ 
ity. Considerable butter is being made by the 
farmers. It brings from 18 to 20 cents a pound. 
F. o. s. 
Steering clear o. 
the shoals of ill 
health and the rock* 
of disease is easy 
enough if only the 
digestion be kept in 
good order. It isn’t 
often any one is 
sick unless they 
have indigestion. 
The commonest way 
in which indiges¬ 
tion shows itself is 
in constipation 
Nine people in ten 
are troubled more 
or less in this way. 
Nine-tenths of all the world’s sickness is 
caused by this one trouble. Sleepless¬ 
ness, pimples, blotches, headaches, sour 
stomach, dizziness, “heart-bum,” palpi¬ 
tation, biliousness, distress after eating- 
all these are merely symptoms of consti¬ 
pation. Why do people suffer with them 
when the cure is so simple and so easily 
obtained ? Years ago, Dr. Pierce’s Pleas¬ 
ant Pellets were placed on the market. 
Since then, there has been no excuse for 
anybody to suffer from constipation, and 
its attendant ills. The “Pellets” cure 
every case infallibly and permanently. 
They are very small, easy to take, gentle 
and quick in action. They are not at all 
violent; they do not disturb the system. 
They cure you so you stay cured. Thou¬ 
sands of women will find if they take the 
“Pleasant Pellets” that their ills will 
vanish with the constipation. 
The People’s Common Sense Medical Advisei 
gives more plain useful information about the 
human-body and all the ailment! 
to which it is subject than any 
other single book in the English 
language. It is really a medical 
encyclopedia in one volume, a 
large heavy book of 1008 pages, 
with over 300 illustrations. The 
outlay of money, time and effort 
in producing this great book was 
paid for by the sale of the first 
edition of 680,000 copies at $ 1.50 
each; and the profit has been 
used in publishing the present 
edition of half-a-million copies to be sent abso¬ 
lutely without price to all who will remit the 
small charge of 21 cents in one-cent stamps to 
pay the cost of mailing only. Address, with 
stamps, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 
No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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It has, probably, done more for the South than 
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The Family Money Maker. Worth $100 a year, 
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Covers in plain language, the care and culti¬ 
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A. A. Crozier. A collection of errors and 
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Spraying Crops. 
Prof. Clarence M. Weed. Why, When and How 
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The New Botany. 
J. W. Beal, M. Sc., Ph. D. A Lecture on the 
be bas enjoyed to tbe present day. 
Antonio Maceo bas made use of a new 
force—tbat of dynamite, and shown tbe 
world tbat tbe advantage is swinging 
back again to tbe man behind tbe forti¬ 
fications. He bid packages of this ter¬ 
rible explosive all over a large field, and 
connected them all by means of electric 
N.-Y. stop, for tbe chances are tbat you 
can’t possibly charge up with dynamite 
unless you know what our readers are 
doing, and what tbe scientific men are 
digging out for you. “Remember tbe 
feat of Maceo ! ” by all means. If Maceo 
had been fighting to kill off a hateful 
mortgage be never would have let The 
R. N.-Y. stop. We are ready for you. 
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