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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARCH 8 
Rough bn Rogues." 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
march 
Monday ^ j00 ^ out f° r the stranger with a 
_ paper to be signed. No matter 
■ what he has to sell or give away, 
don’t sign your name. Your credit goes 
with your signature. Look out for the 
stranger who buys your hogs or sheep and 
wants to pay for them with his personal 
check. Look out for that poultry rogue in 
Zanesville, Ohio. He is still alive. 
Tuesday 
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Wednesday 
Look out for that “ Coral ferti¬ 
lizer” man in Vermont. He 
says his stuff will make potatoes 
grow and kill the bugs. Prof. S. W. John¬ 
son says such talk is all bosh. Look out for 
all cheap fertilizers. Look out for the 
cheap watches of the European Watch Co., 
the cheap music boxes of Borden & Co., 
and cheap guns, cheap jewelry, and cheap 
goods generally. 
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Look out for that loud¬ 
mouthed tree agent. Look 
out for wonderful fruits that 
“nobody else can supply.” Look out for 
clover seed with weed seeds in it. Dr. Beal 
says that plantain is getting into Michigan 
clover fields. Look out for the Bohemian 
oats fraud. He is now working in New 
York State. Look out for the man who 
wants you to sign a contract to grow 
“ New Swedish Oats.” 
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Thursday Th * s is da y- Look ° ut 
_ that you look through the paper 
-I- *3 ■ and read it. Look out that the 
neighbors stop borrowing it and take it. 
FridaV Look out f° r Gie “Golden Egg” 
J formula. It is probably nothing 
1 4- .lint salt. Look out for the Co¬ 
operative Land and Improvement Co. 
They want to give you a farm in Florida. 
SatUrdlV Look out * or t ^ ie creamery 
_ " scamp who wants to run a 
1 <£> ■ creamery with your money. 
Look out for the “quack” who “cures” 
consumption and fits. Look out for the 
man who comes at night to trade horses. 
HAPPINESS WORKINGMEN OUGHT 
TO DERIVE FROM BOOKS. 
S IR JOHN LUBBOCK recently deliv¬ 
ered an address on the occasion of the 
opening of new premises in connection 
with the Workingmen’s Guild at Bromley, 
England. In a preliminary statement by 
the secretary it was stated that this insti¬ 
tution, which was established not quite a 
year ago, is managed by a committee of 
artisans, and no fewer than 150 working¬ 
men have associated themselves with the 
movement. 
Sir John, after he had declared the build¬ 
ing open, said : “ The existence of a towns¬ 
man is one often of much monotony. The 
savage has a far more varied existence. 
The agricultural laborer learns a great 
deal in the fields, and is far more learned 
than we give him credit for being; only it 
is a field learning, not a book learning— 
and none the worse for that. The man 
who works in a shop or a manufactory has 
a much more monotonous existence. He 
is confined, perhaps, to one process, or even 
one part of a process, from year’s end to 
year’s end. He acquires, no doubt, a skill 
little short of the miraculous, but, on the 
other hand, very narrow. If he is not to 
become a mere animated machine, he must 
generally obtain, in some cases he can only 
obtain, the necessary variety and interest 
from the use of books. Books enable us to 
combine in a great degree the advantages 
of the country with those of the town. 
They transport us as if by enchantment to 
the fresh air and bright sun, to the mur¬ 
mur of woods and leaves and water, to the 
ripple of waves upon sand, and enable us, 
as in some delightful dream, to cast off the 
cares and troubles of life. 
I have been subjected to some good- 
humored banter for suggesting that in the 
next generation our great artisans may be 
the great readers. But I stand to my guns. 
Why not P The best books are the cheap¬ 
est, and, I might almost add, the shortest, 
too. For the price of a little beer, a little 
tobacco, you can buy Shakespeare or Milton; 
in fact, as many books almost as a man can 
read with profit in a year. It is remark¬ 
able how many of the improvements to 
which we owe the marvelous development 
of our manufacturing industry have been 
due to workingmen ; and what a privilege 
it is to add something, however small, to 
the sum of human knowledge and human 
happiness. As Emerson well said, ‘ Steam 
is half an Englishman,’ We make it our 
boast that Britannia rules the waves ; it is 
as important that she should rule the steam 
engine also. Games will be provided here, 
but I confess that I think books and news¬ 
papers more interesting than chess or back¬ 
gammon. Our English newspapers are 
second to none in the world; indeed, no 
other country has a newspaper press which 
can be compared with ours. They keep us 
informed of what is going on all over the 
world. They discuss very ably the ques¬ 
tions of the day, and, compared with the 
newspapers of other countries, they are 
remarkably fair and courteous'to opponents. 
The library is the school for the grown 
up. Books help us to look, in George 
Eliot’s words, ‘ on other lives besides our 
own.’ It is well for every one to see what 
are the troubles of others and how they are 
borne: to care about something in this vast 
world besides the gratification of small 
selfish desires, to care for what is best in 
thought and action, something that is good 
apart from the accident of your own lot. 
If we succeed in this we are sure to have 
happy and useful lives,whatever and where- 
ever we may be. Our lives, in fact, are 
what we ourselves make them. To eat and 
drink and sleep and work is not to live. 
As regards the material requirements 
of life, though all cannot expect to be rich, 
industry and perseverance rarely fail to se¬ 
cure a competence. We all, moreover, 
have some leisure, and the less we have 
the more reason that we should employ 
that little well. I do not doubt that you 
will do so here. Ernest Rhys well says of 
a student’s chamber: 
* Strange things pass nightly In this little room 
All dreary as It looks by light of day, 
Enchantment reigns here when at evening play, 
Red firelight glimpses through the pallid gloom.’ 
A library, indeed, is a true paradise.” 
PiSfdliutcou.s’ gulmli.oing. 
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a' The best Dressed \f 
41 Woman m Town ^ 
earned money to buy fine 
S. dresses and a seal skin 
sacque by working eve- 
nings. A smart woman 
can easily earn her own 
pin money and be inde- V -^ 
pendent, by working for the 
Ladies’ Home Journal. ^ 
We offer a splendid paying ^ 
position to any woman (or 
man), who will act as ourj^ 
special agent. jT 
Curtis Publishing Co., 
I Philadelphia, Pa. 
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All varieties worthy of culture, from small to large. 
Rnododendrons & Chrysanthemums. SdaS^iS som ’ 
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cuiture and management, in LOVETT’S GUIDE TO HORTICULTURE, a book of 
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Also all the good old and valuable new varieties, true to name and strictly first-class of 
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SEEDS 
Plants, Roses, Shrubs, 
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Trees, Crape Vines, 
Small Fruits etc. • 
EVERYTHING IN THE NURSERY LINE. 
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Send ten cents for our illustrated catalogue of 
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ten cents in seeds, etc. Or send for our 33 page 
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36 years. 24 greenhouses. 700 acres. 
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F OR 25 CENTS we will mail, post-paid, one packet each Sorehead 
Cabbage, White Plume (self-blanching) Celery, New lluttercup Let¬ 
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TRATED CATALOGUE OF CELEBRATED ROCHESTER SEEDS. 
MOREHOUSE & COBB, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
VICKS 
PLANTS 
1890. the Pioneer Seed Catalogue of America, contains complete list of 
as. Potatoes and Small Fruits, with descriptions and prices. Same shape 
FLORAL GTTDE FOR 
Vegetables, Flowers, Bulbs. ......----«------- % , - . 
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person who owns a foot of land or cultfvates a plant should have a copy Mailed on receipt ol 1U 
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JAMES VICK. SEEDSMAN, ROCHESTER. N.Y 
ERRARD’S SEED POTATO CATALOGUE 
A 1 Y SEED POTATOES are grown from the Choicest Stock, in the virgin lands 
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Josiah Hoopes says: “The best of the newer varieties was Geneva, a fine white Grape of excellent flavor.’’ 
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D < Irkenawalt. Franklin Go., Pa., says: “ I am much pleased with the Geneva. Quality best." 
S. D. Willard. Geneva, says: “ I know of no white grape of recent introduction so rich and pleasing." 
For illustrated circular and prices, address R. Q. CHASE & CO., Geneva, N. Y. 
[We want Agents to solicit orders for our general lino of Nursery stock. Salary andeiptiue, toiuu.Mful m*a.] 
F DIIIT D I a NTC We have agreed with the publishers of this Journal to send our New Cata- 
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FRUITS: Mrs. Cleveland. Great Pacific, Florence, Eureka, Haverland, Stayman’s No. 1 and seventy other 
varieties of Strawberries: Thompson’s Early Prolific Red Raspberry, the earliest of all: Palmer and Ada 
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NEW, STRAWBERRY 
-‘LADY RUSK” 
> best berry for long distance shipments. Will not 
or melt down if packed dry. Headquarters for all 
ling varieties of Berry Plants and OK APE VIN E8 
Lug S00 acre* In cultivation. Catalogue free. 
WIN. STAHL, Quincy, 111. 
