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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 23 
January Premiums. 
We said last week that some of the club raisers would be sur¬ 
prised to receive the $2 premiums Saturday night. So they were. 
Mr. Josiah Sprague, New York, writes : “I was very much surprised 
to receive it. " Mr. Van Eps says : “ I was greatly surprised.” Some 
of the winners this week will be surprised too ! Here they are : 
1. —W. S. MOORE...New York. 
2. —D. A. WAGNER.New York. 
3. —W. J. BILLS.New York. 
4. -J. H. AU.Ohio 
5. —C. U. GEETING.Illinois. 
6. —E. G. PACKARD.Delaware. 
Notice that six of them get $2 each. Six more will get 82 each next 
Saturday night. Will you be one of them? Just remember that 
you keep the commission, and every name counts for the five cash 
premiums January 30 besides; all cash this time. There will he 
more surprises when they are awarded. Do you want a surprise of 
a nice check ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
“NEST EGGS.” 
It is about time for the benevolent in¬ 
dividual who wants to give away some 
wonderful seed or plant, to begin busi¬ 
ness. We have watched the operations 
of this warm-hearted person for many 
years. He (or she) has offered plans for 
a windmill, recipes for making butter, 
or preserving fruit, Crimson clover seed 
and dozens of other things. It is all as 
free as air—only you send a few stamps 
to pay postage. The result is that the 
other person gets a fine lot of postage 
stamps and a list of names to sell to 
people who have circulars to send out. 
You get a lot of worthless stuff, and 
your name is put on a list which may be 
sold to dealers who will send to your 
family a lot of trash in the shape of 
immoral circulars, or so-called “medical” 
books. This bait has been put out 
earlier than usual this year, and is more 
cunningly devised than ever. Here is a 
letter from a woman who carries the 
good old name of Nancy, and who writes 
from Texas : 
Believing that many of your woman readers 
will be interested in tbe following facts, I send 
them for publication in. The R. N.-Y.: Last year, 
I had a lot of Nest Egg gourds and placed them in 
my hens’ nests. After being in the nests for sev¬ 
eral days, I missed one of them out of a nest. 
The nest egg in this particular nest was a large 
one, about the size of a goose egg, and in the 
course of a month, I came across a large chicken 
snake that could hardly travel, having a large 
hump in the center of its body. On killing the 
snake and cutting it open, I found the Nest Egg 
gourd. I will forward a few of the seeds of the 
gourd to any woman reader of your paper who 
will send me a self-addressed envelope and three 
letter stamps. I have never been troubled with 
chicken snakes since that one swallowed the 
Nest Egg gourd. The Nest Egg gourd is a native 
of Japan, where it is extensively grown for nest 
eggs and ornamental purposes. It is a handsome 
and rapid-growing plant, well adapted for cover¬ 
ing screens, old sheds, etc., makes a beautiful run¬ 
ning vine with yellow flowers, and each vine 
bears about a dozen gourds. 
That is a work of art. We expect to 
see it printed in many of the farm 
papers with full address, and we have 
no doubt that Nancy will reap a rich 
harvest of stamps. Lots of people suffer 
from “ snakes ” that are produced from 
drinking out of larger gourds. On the 
homeopathic principle that like cures 
like, these little gourds may overcome 
the effect of the larger gourds. If that 
be true, they would beat the Keeley 
cure, and we suggest to Nancy that she 
make that claim in her next letter. It 
will take better and call out more stamps. 
This humbug business of promising 
great things when you know that the 
promise is built on a very small chunk 
of performance, creeps into all kinds of 
business. We have more or less of it in 
the agricultural papers. Here is a letter 
from an old friend in Massachusetts : 
I was brought up to attend regularly old-fash¬ 
ioned Friends’ meetings where singing or music 
did not form a part of the exercises. During late 
years, I have sometimes attended the newer 
styles of Friends’ gatherings where attempts 
Irritation of the Throat and Hoarseness are 
immediately relieved by “ Brown’s Bronchial 
Troches .” Have them always ready.— Adv. 
were made to worship with vocal music. This 
jarred upon my feelings. Itseemed to me that the 
singing was out of place. When I attend the 
meetings of other denominations, the singing 
does not trouble me; it is properly a part of the 
service. The column, “ As We Go to Press,” in 
The R. N.-Y. does not jar upon my feelings, it is 
all right; in fact, I like to read it; but when I find, 
as I do in some farm papers, in almost every col¬ 
umn or page, statements of the goodness of the 
paper, absurd claims, assertions that it is my 
duty to run out and get subscribers, that its 
readers will get better service by writing adver¬ 
tisers that they take said paper, and lots more 
nonsense of like character, I am just disgusted i 
When I commence to read an article on hens, I do 
not like to wind it up with the assertion that my 
hens will not be lousy if I take the paper, or some 
other equally true (?) statement. In one of my 
papers, I recently found over 50 references to the 
goodness of the paper, or that my duty required 
me to get subscribers. Confined to its proper 
place, the advertisements for the paper are all 
right. They do not jar. Mixed all along with 
reading matter, they are, it seems to me, all 
wrong. “ Long life ” to The R, N.-Y. It is a great 
help to me. b. t. w. 
We always were modest. Never did 
like to blow our own horn, yet when 
some kind friend comes along with great 
(Concluded next week.) 
A queen is only a 
woman after all, and 
every woman is a 
queen if she be a 
perfect woman. 
The crown of wo¬ 
manhood is mother¬ 
hood. There is no 
higher thing than 
this. There is no 
better thing that 
any woman can do 
than to be a mother 
of bright and happy 
children. That is 
the best and highest 
thing that anybody 
can do in this world. 
It cannot be achiev¬ 
ed by a woman who 
isn’t healthy, who 
( suffers from any of 
the weaknesses or 
disorders peculiar to 
her sex. A false 
idea of modesty 
which prevents the acquisition of know¬ 
ledge, and the carelessness which pre¬ 
vents an application of knowledge are 
the most prolific causes of this kind 
of sickness. Thirty years ago, knowledge 
of the prevalence of such disorders in¬ 
duced Dr. R. V. Pierce, than as now, 
chief consulting physician of the Invalid’s 
Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, 
N. Y., to devote a great amount of time 
and study to the preparation of a remedy 
that would invigorate and strengthen the 
womanly organism — that would cure 
perfectly and positively all forms of fe¬ 
male weakness — that would take the 
danger away from childbirth, and greatly 
lessen the pains of labor. This remedy is 
called Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. 
That it accomplished the object for which 
it was intended is proven by its remark¬ 
able and continued success for 30 years. 
Women will gain much knowledge by 
reading Dr. Pierce’s great thousand page 
“Common Sense Medical Adviser.” A 
free copy will be sent on receipt of 21 one- 
cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only. 
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"When I left Mason County, Ky., in April, 
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Red Willow County, Neb., “I had one yoke 
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I own 360 acres, valued at $10,000. My 
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of cherries this year, which I sold for $2.50 
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