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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 4 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
We want to give you a few reminders 
We send The E. N.-Y. for the rest of 
this year for 25 cents 1 o new subscribers. 
We allow you 10 cents out of this for 
your work in getting the new subscrip¬ 
tion. 
In addition to this, we give bicycles 
and cash premiums for clubs received 
September 30. 
We send you the wheel when you have 
sent 250 names, so that you can use it 
to go on and win a lump of the cash 
premiums. 
If you have the largest club Septem¬ 
ber 30, you get $50 in cash and a $60 
wheel. 
If your club is not the largest, you 
may be one of the next largest 10 and 
share $100 in proportion to the size of 
your club. 
If you are not able to send a club, we 
look for one trial subscription from you 
anyway. 
CITY SKETCHES. No. 1. 
“ KEEPING COOL.” 
I think it likely some of our friends in the 
country will be interested in hearing about cer¬ 
tain phases of city life. I hope to tell you from 
time to time some of the odd things that city 
people are up to. At this season, most of them 
are struggling with the heat. After the sun has 
blazed all day on the bricks and stones, you may 
well imagine that the city is like a vast oven. 
When night comes, the heat is almost stifling— 
especially in the tenement districts where people 
are packed into small rooms like chickens in a 
coop. When the working day is done, those 
people pour out in search of fresh air. Weary 
workmen, tired wives and sick children all hunt 
for a chance to breathe. 
The wharves and piers along the rivers are 
crowded with these people. They are comfort¬ 
able by the cool water. Sometimes they sleep 
and doze all night long on the hard planks of the 
wharf—dreading-to see the blazing sun come up 
again. Thousands spend the night on the roofs. 
Most of our city roofs are flat or with a gentle 
slope, and it is easy to take a mattress up there 
and “camp out” where the wind is stirring. I 
have often seen people asleep on steep roofs, 
even where it would seem a 9 though a single 
bad dream would send one rolling to death! 
Some of the well-to-do people even put up a tent 
on the roof and “ camp out” every pleasant 
night. With these people, it is anything to get 
away from the hot bricks and stones. 
Some of the original devices for keeping cool 
are worth recording. The Evening Post tells 
what one man did: 
“Early in the season, he purchased '500 feet of 
one-inch lawn-sprinkling hose, and carted it up 
to his bed-room. Then with a few nails and 
hooks, he proceeded to decorate the walls and 
ceilings with lines of this hose, running them 
parallel with the wainscoting, beginning at the 
ceiling and ending near the floor. One end of 
this long piece of hose was attached to the faucet 
in an adjoining dressing-room, while the outlet 
emptied into the bath-tub. Before retiring at 
night, the water was turned on, and all night 
long it trickles through the 500 feet of hose, cool¬ 
ing the room so that its temperature registers 
several degrees lo wer than the rest of the house.” 
The city is full of electric fans for creating a 
small breeze, and perfect oceans of cold drinks 
from soda water to whisky are consumed every 
day. There are hundreds of little devices, too, 
that fat men think of to create a small current 
of cold air around them. Here are two : 
“One man has h ad a box attached to the bot¬ 
tom of his cane chair, which he fills with ice. 
The box is lined inside with zinc, and the outside 
air can reach it only through small perforations 
in the top. Through these holes the cool air of 
the ice-box continually rises. Another genius 
who saw this contrivance elaborated the idea 
and made what he considers a decided improve¬ 
ment upon it. He had a large ice-chest moved 
into his office. Then he rigged up a small elec¬ 
tric fan inside of the box and bored holes 
through the chest to permit the air to escape. 
When the electric fan revolves, draughts of cold 
air come sweeping out of the holes in the ice- 
chest and refresh any one within ten feet of the 
blast. The chest can be moved to any part of 
the office, and the air currents directed to suit 
the owner.” 
So it goes on—a constant struggle to keep cool. 
Now you people out on the cool farms do not 
need these devices. They are a part of the 
penalty that modern civilization has fastened 
upon those who are doomed to live in town and 
city. I am glad, indeed, to leave the rush and 
roar of the town behind me and get out on the 
farm. It is pleasant to get into the old clothes 
and move around the farm when I get home. 
It seems sometimes as though I could drink 
the spring half dry! There is a steep hill to 
the west of our house with a thick wood at 
the top. The cool air seems to come rolling 
down hill from these trees, while the hot air 
rushes up to take its place. The result is that 
there is a constant breeze playing around our 
house. It beats any electric fan you ever saw. 
We don’t have to put ice in our chairs or to 
string rubber hose around the bed-room! We 
keep cool without it. City people know where to 
go to keep cool in August. They go right to the 
farm. No doubt you have some of them on your 
farm at this moment. Fill them up with milk 
and spring water and vegetables and fried 
chicken. They make good stock to fatten. 
It certainly is a great blessing to live in the 
country these days. It looks as though the tide 
had really turned. The much wished-for “ pros¬ 
perity ” is getting its head above water. Per¬ 
haps you don’t like the way it comes, but let’s 
get what we can of it anyway. It isn’t going to 
come to us without an effort on our part—not by 
any means. It’s much like these city people 
trying to cool off the air around them. They are 
driven to all sorts of devices to take the heat out 
of the air. We must kick up a breeze around us, 
and blow some of the hardness out of the times. 
The city man sits down on ice or keeps water 
running about him, because these things take 
heat away from him. The farmer of 1897 must 
surround himself with influences that will take 
scrub methods, influences and ambitions out of 
his barn-yard, home and heart! 
Now, of course, you understand what is com¬ 
ing. Read this note from a woman in Con¬ 
necticut: 
“ Can you tell me in what issues of The R. N.-Y. 
I can find Clark’s method of seeding a meadow ? 
My husband tried it last fall (such a shaking of 
heads among the old farmers), and I like it. I 
have a fine lot of "hay from it. I want to seed a 
few acres more the same way, but do not know 
exactly how, and as I am depending on hired 
help that does not approve of new ways, I have 
to be able to give exact directions. I lost my 
husband three months ago, and now I have only 
The R. N.-Y. to depend on to help me run a dairy 
farm, pay off a heavy mortgage, and support 
eight children, the oldest just 14, and the young¬ 
est four weeks.” 
We glance over this note from a Massachusetts 
man: 
“ Two years ago, I received from you a lump 
of scab (price, four cents for postage), which 
you called Carman No. 1. There happened to be 
just one eye of that scab which was not dead; 
from that, I am now planting five pecks of the 
finest potatoes that I ever saw. I don’t regret 
the investment of that four cents, and I hope Sir 
Walter will be as good. h. h.” 
Now you understand that these worthy people 
look upon The R. N.-Y. in its relation to farming 
much as those hot and tired city people regard 
ice and cold water. It is not for us to make such 
claims—we leave that to our friends and readers. 
This is what we say: 
1. We will send The R. N.-Y. from now till Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1898, for only 25 cents. 
2. You may act as agent, keep 10 cents out of 
the 25. and also have a fair chance of earning 
one of the premiums which were announced last 
week. 
3 You may SEND FOR OUR NEW BOOK LIST! 
Now let’s all try to keep cool, physically, mor¬ 
ally, socially, financially and agriculturally. The 
R. N.-Y. asks for a chance to help in keeping up 
the breeze. 
There is no 
prettier sight in 
the world than 
that of a healthy, 
happy mother at 
play with her ro¬ 
bust and rollick¬ 
ing baby. It is a 
sight entirely too 
infrequent. Too 
often the baby is 
puny and peevish 
and the mother sickly, fretful, and nervous. 
The woman whs neglects to take proper care 
of herself and who therefore suff&rs from 
weakness and disease of the organs of wo¬ 
manhood cannot be healthy and amiable. 
Her children will be puny and ailing and 
happiness will pass by on the other side. 
There is no reason why every woman should 
not be the healthy, happy mother of robust 
and playful children if she will take the 
proper care of herself. Proper care means, 
first of all, proper medicine for her ailments. 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription will 
make any woman strong and well in a wo¬ 
manly way. It cures all weakness and dis¬ 
ease of the distinctly feminine organism. It 
prepares a woman for motherhood. It in¬ 
sures the health of the baby. It makes 
parturition easy and nearly painless. Over 
90,000 women have testified to its virtues, 
in writing. Druggists sell it and have no 
substitute “just as good.” The druggist 
who tries to force something else upon you 
is not an honest man. He is trifling with 
your life and happiness for the sake of a 
greater profit to himself. 
1, 
Mrs. F. B. Forgey, of Cams, Keyapaha, Co., 
Neb., writes: “I write to you again concerning 
my daughter, Mra. D. Billings. She has taken 
two bottles of ‘ Favorite Prescription ’ and two 
of ‘ Golden Medical Discovery.’ She thinks the 
medicines did her a world of good. She was con¬ 
fined the 15 th of February. Was sick about 
three hours, and now has a ten pound daughter. 
She got along nicely afterward. She says she 
never felt so well. She looks well and her com¬ 
plexion is clear.” 
The modern business world won’t stand 
still or loiter to wait for the man who suffers 
from headaches, biliousness and dyspepsia, 
caused by constipation. Dr. Pierce’s Pleas¬ 
ant Pellets cure constipation. Of druggists. 
Kills Prairie Dogs, Woodchucks, Gophers, and Grain 
Insects. 
“Fuma” Carbon Bl-Sulphlde Did It. 
“I treated 500 inhabited (prairie dog) holes two weeks 
ago, and not a hole opened up."— Richard Kesuch. 
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EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Cleveland, Ohio. 
phosphoric acid, and 
nitrogen, are the neces¬ 
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An illustrated book which tells what Potash is, how it 
should be used, and how much Potash a well-balanced 
fertilizer should contain, is sent free to all applicants. 
Send your address. 
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