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“ Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOB NUMBEK ONE. 
JUNE. 
Monday out tha,t you don’t get into 
J the business of entertaining 
9* * angels unawares. Too many 
people are in this business now, without 
having sense to realize it. Who is the 
angel ? Not yourself by any means, though 
some of you may almost think so. It may 
be that brave, patient, uncomplaining wife, 
that gentle, sweet-faced old mother, or that 
true and tender daughter. Perhaps they 
don’t look much like the pictures of angels 
as they face the burdens that a man might 
be excused for running away from, but if 
you take our advice you will assume the 
risk and treat them as you would visitors 
from “ the undiscovered country.” Don’t 
stand on your tip-toes all the time watching 
for these great and noble characters to 
jump down out of the clouds. These char¬ 
acters all are around you now. Look out for 
them and humbly pray that you may be 
enabled to absorb something of their 
sweetness, tenderness and truth. 
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Tupcday Look out that you realize that 
* every person with whom you are 
acquainted or over whom you 
have any authority (including of course 
yourself) is the possessor of a 
In the interests of good government, law 
and order, peace and good-will, and all the 
rest, it has been prescribed that for every 
toe there must be established a certain 
place, in other words a 
When the toe and the mark come together, 
we have honor, dignity, duty and happi¬ 
ness. When we find a blank space be¬ 
tween them we have dishonor, failure, 
cowardice and a demoralized state of af¬ 
fairs all around. We are trying hard to 
make this blank space as narrow as pos¬ 
sible. Toe the mark! 
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Wednesday Lookout for bogus tree- 
* agents. Here is a sample 
A ^ * letter from a friend in Vir¬ 
ginia. “ Tree agents have been selling peach 
trees in our county, claiming that their 
trees are imported from Persia, the original 
home of the peach, transplanted in this 
country, and that after getting a good 
start they are budded from the Tennessee 
peach. They claim that by budding the 
Tennessee peach, or varieties from that 
State, on the wild Persian peach, they get 
a very hardy tree,^free from the borer or 
the yellows. The fruit is claimed to be of 
excellent quality, and the trees are said to 
be heavy annual bearers after the third 
year. These trees are sold at $1. each, or 
$80. per 100. Is there any foundation for 
the above claims?” We do not believe a 
word of these absurd claims, and we should 
treat the agents accordingly. How do you 
generally treat people who make false 
statements ? Toe the mark! 
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Thursday Look out&for lotteries. Since 
* we gave' him a.former notice, 
12. our benevolent friend, F. O. 
Wehoskey, of Providence, has been ar¬ 
rested by Anthony Comstock. Mr. Wehos¬ 
key, of course, feels deeply .injured, and 
was “ intensely surprised.” However, 
when a reporter called to see him, after 
the arrest, Mr. W. was found stuffing the 
last of his lottery circulars into a big stove. 
So, you see, these circulars will make 
things very warm for him before the affair 
is fully settled. Toe the mark ! 
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Friday ^ number of readers/want'to know 
riluajf if should look out for a firm 
13- offering a ** Potato Bug and Insect 
THe Rural new-yorrer. 
Fertilizer.” In the circular sent with this 
“ fertilizer ” we find the following: 
“Sprinkle the fertilizer freely over the 
plants when they are damp or wet enough 
to make the powder stick to them, letting 
a fair portion fall around the roots. Be 
sure to use it freely; it contains nothing 
that can possibly hurt even the most ten¬ 
der flower. On the contrary, it will give 
you a vigorous growth. Remember it is 
adapted to garden truck of all kinds, pota¬ 
toes in particular. Two or three thorough 
applications should do the business, unless 
the bugs have got a big start when it may 
be found necessary to use it oftener.” 
This reads so much like what was said 
about the old “Per Oxide of Silicate,” 
that we should say, without knowing any¬ 
thing about it, that this firm had control 
of the formula for making that substance, 
or had bought a quantity of it at the late 
sheriff’s sale. We don’t believe it will kill 
“ bugs ” and leave “tender plants” un¬ 
harmed. Toe the mark 1 
Saturday ^ scoun drel in this city, who 
J pretends to have counterfeit 
money for sale, is sending out 
circulars containing the following: “Dear 
Sir,—I am desirous of obtaining a good, 
shrewd agent in your locality to handle my 
‘medicine.’ An opportunity to make an 
independent fortune, like this, has never 
crossed your path before, and, in all prob¬ 
abilities, never will again, as long as you 
live. There’s no reason why you should be 
a slave and toil all your life for nothing. 
If you are foolish enough to let a ‘ golden 
chance ’ like this pass you by—all well and 
good. If you are miserable, and in want of 
financial assistance, now or never is your 
time. In years to come, should you ever 
find yourself sadly in need of * coin ’ in order 
to keep body and soul together, you will 
have no one to blame for your wretched 
existence but yourself 1 This is serious and 
highly important food for thought 1 A 
person without the universal rudder—the 
Almighty Dollar—is thought but little of, 
and is looked upon as of no importance to 
the world. Isn’t this true ? I know whereof 
I speak ; in former years I have drank from 
the ‘ bitter cup ’ myself.” Would you be¬ 
lieve it ? this fellow finds men (so-called) 
who believe in this nonsense, and come here 
to buy bogus money. Of course, they get 
swindled. Throw his circular into the fire 
if he sends you one. Toe the mark ! 
THE DEACON AND THE CHICKEN 
BUSINESS. 
“Hello there, Deacon 1 What’s up to¬ 
day ? Did you have a hen hatch out last 
night ?” 
•* How’dy do, Mr. Bob I Jes’ thought I’d 
come ober and hab a talk wid you ’bout 
goen in de chicken bizness. Me and de ole 
woman wus a talkin’ ’bout hit last night, 
and she axed me to see you and find out 
what you thought ’bout hit.” 
“ Well, Deacon, what’s all this about the 
cnicken business ? Think of going into 
it ? ” 
“ Dat’s jes’ what I does, Boss. You see 
de times is so dull dat de ole man can’t 
hardly git no work, and when I does a 
little job at whitewashen’ I ’most hab to 
fight to git de money. Now-” 
"Do you mean to go into the poultry 
business on a large scale, and give up your 
whitewashing entirely ? ” 
“ Dat’s hit, zackly, Mr. Bob. We wants 
to rent a place; buy up a whole lot ob 
chickens, and go right into de bizness. 
bell all ue eggs-” 
“ Hold on there, Deacon I Not quite so 
fast. Don’t sell those eggs just yet. Let’s 
get the hens before we commence to dis¬ 
pose of the eggs. Now, the first question 
is what do you know about the business 
from a practical, experience stand-point ? 
How many hens have you now ? ” 
“ Must hab ’bout 40. Ain’t counted ’em 
lately, but I ’spec’ dar’s ’bout dat many. 
De ole woman-” 
" Never you mind the old woman ! How 
many eggs do you get per day ? ” 
“ Well, to tell der honest truth, Mr. Bob, 
we ain’t seed sign ob an egg fur de last two 
months. Don’t know what’s de matter 
wid dem old hens dat dey don’t lay.” 
“ How is your chicken-house ? Is it nice 
and warm ?” 
“Well, hits only middlen’ fair. De 
boards has done spread so dat de wind 
comes in de cracks, and some ob de boards 
is done blowed off de roof. Kinder ’lowed 
I’d fix hit in de fall, but de ole woman 
said hit would be ’most too much work.” 
“Are there any lice in the chicken- 
house ?” 
“ Don’t know so much ’bout de house, 
but dar’s a powerful sight ob ’em on de 
chickens. Can’t touch a hen but what I 
gits ’em all ober me, and dey keeps me a 
scratchen’ all de time.” 
“ Why don’t you wade into them with a 
whitewash brush ?” 
“ Did put some whitewash in dar once, 
but it didn’t ’peer ter kill ’em.” 
“ Are your roosts slanting, or on a level ?” 
“ Slanten’ up so. All de neighbors 
has-” 
“ Never mind the neighbors’ houses. 
Just you keep out of them, and tell me 
when you cleaned out your chicken-house 
last.” 
“ Took four wheelbarrer loads out ob dar 
last fall, and ain’t took none out since 
dat.” 
“ What do you feed your chickens, Dea¬ 
con ?” 
“ Well, we gibs ’em a little corn, but dey 
gits most ob der libben’ from de ’nure pile 
in de alley.” 
“ Have you many with scaly legs ?” 
“ Got ’bout 10 wid scales on de legs, but 
dey all draps off when dey molts. De ole 
woman ’lowed hit must be some new 
breed.” 
“ Any of them ever had the roup ?” 
“ Nebber seed any wid one.” 
“ What is the largest number of fowls 
that you ever had at one time, Deacon ?” 
“ Nebber had any more’n ’bout 75.” 
“ Ever tried any ducks or geese ?” 
“ Use’ ter raise some when I was down in 
Catahouly Parish, in Louisianny, but neb¬ 
ber had enny here.” 
“Well, Deacon, since you came for my 
advice in the matter, I will be candid with 
you, and say: Don’t touch the poultry 
business with a 20-foot pole. You will 
find it a very deceitful business, and as you 
have had no practical experience in raising 
and caring for fowls, I would not advise 
you to give up the whitewash brush, even 
if you only had one brush. You could 
never make a success of the business, and 
it would not take you long to find that 
out. In the first place, you could not find 
a place around here with the necessary 
buildings for the accommodation of a large 
number of fowls, and you could not afford 
to put them up on land that did not belong 
to you. You are not posted as to the size 
of a building for 50 fowls, and there is not 
a carpenter in Orange County that could 
build one that would be just what you 
would want, without the assistance of one 
who understood the business. There 
is-” 
“ What’s de matter wid putten up a big 
building, and putten ’em all in dat ?” 
“ It would not do at all, Deacon. To keep 
a large number of fowls you would have to 
divide them up in flocks of about 50, giving 
them warm, comfortable, quarters, plenty 
of room to scratch and pick in, and feed 
them a variety of clean, wholesome food. 
They would find no ’nure pile in the alley 
there, and you would be quite surprised at 
the size of your grain bill at the end of the 
first month. Such a place as you would re¬ 
quire could not be found near here, and 
even if it could, it would rent for more than 
you could afford to pay. If you can’t make 
your 40 hens lay any eggs, what would you 
do with 500 or 1,000? You do not under¬ 
stand much about the management of 
fowls, or you would not keep yours in such 
a poor, miserable place. If you had 500 and 
kept them in a house such as you have told 
me about, you would not have many left 
as soon as the summer was over. You 
make a great mistake in allowing the drop¬ 
pings to accumulate, and in allowing your 
chickens to be over-run with lice, for those 
two things, alone, will kill more fowls in a 
year than you can count in a week. You 
can-” 
“ Kinder hard on de ole man, ain’t you, 
Mr. Bob ?” 
“ Hard, Deacon, but honest. It’s better to 
take a little advice now than to wait until 
it would be of no benefit to you. There’s 
too many gray hairs in that old head of 
yours to have any such trouble to bother 
you, and you will find it out if ever you 
give the business a trial. You just try to 
keep 1,000 fowls for six months, with your 
limited knowledge of their wants, etc., and 
you will find a larger contract on your 
hands than you ever had in the whitewash 
line. I don’t like to discourage you one bit, 
Deacon, for I would willingly give you any 
assistance in my power, but I can’t see that 
you could ever make more than a bare liv¬ 
ing at the business, if you were even able 
to make that. Now. go home to your good 
old wife; tell her all that I have said to 
you ; talk the matter over in the morning, 
but take no active steps in the matter until 
you have seen me again. Don’t think hard 
of me for what I have said, for I have been 
there myself, and it has cost me more 
money than you are able, in your old days, 
to throw away. Stick to your whitewash¬ 
ing for the present, and give the poultry 
business as wide a berth as you would a 
skunk with his tail in the air. That’s all I 
have to say to night, Deacon. 
CHEYENNE BOB. 
AN ONION GROWER’S NOTES. 
I am afraid we will not have a very favor¬ 
able season for onion growing this year. 
On account of so much rain the onion flats 
around Canastota, N Y., must be under 
water. I sowed mine April 22, and we 
have not been able to get on the ground 
since they were two inches high. Now, I 
have been growing onions for a number of 
years on the same ground, heavily manured 
with 40 loads per acre each year. Last sea¬ 
son, as they began to bulb, they were 
struck by mildew, at least, it looked as if 
they had, they began to turn yellow and 
fall down. I got some copperas, dissolved 
it in water, and applied it with a sprinkler 
on the part affected. It seemed to check 
the disease. I think that if it had been 
applied sooner it would have saved 
the whole crop. As it was, where they 
were affected most, they did not grow any 
more, so we got about two-thirds of a crop. 
Onions pay very well one year with an¬ 
other. People ask me how many bushels I 
grow per acre. I answer from 400 to 600 
bushels; then they figure up the outcome 
at from 50 to 75 cents per bushel, and say 
that it is a good deal of money per acre; but 
they do not figure in 40 loads of manure and 
a gang of boys to weed, and another gang 
to top them. Last season I was troubled 
a good deal with the onion maggots. I 
told the boys to dig up every onion that 
was wilted and kill the worm; but the pests 
got the start of us, so I gave the boys two 
cents for every good-sized toad they would 
bring me. Well the result was a multitude 
of toads. We carried them out on the bed 
and let them loose, and as a result, found 
no more wilted onions that season. 
There is no patent on this maggot exter¬ 
minator. c. F. 
Elba, N. Y. 
gttimUanmts' §Uuertisittg. 
Please mention R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
The soft, (velvety coloring .effect so'.desirable for 
house exteriors can only be produced and perma¬ 
nently held by the use of 
TLE-^J ASJrHJ 
CABOT’S CREOSOTE SHIN&LE STAINS. 
For Samples on Wood, with Circulars and full 
information, apply to 
SAMUEL CABOT, 
70 Kilby Street. Boston, Mass. 
Mention Rubai, New-Yorker. 
WE LEAD 
Whm Others iuliow 
_ ■ ■ 1 — - ~ Beyond it queatlou we 
have the bent line of t'AHTS made, for 
the Horseman, W artuer, or lor buaineaa or pleaa- 
nre purposes. Send stamp for Catalogue and 
wholesale prices. A. L. PRATT A CO.. 
7 1 to 81 Willard St., Kalamasoo, Mirk, 
C Q 0 I A A l.SOO acre Virginia Farm, lo- 
1 Ul Odlva cated 55 miles above Richmond 
on the line of the Alleghany Railroad. One of the 
tinest farms In the Slate. Price #60,000. which includes 
stock. Implements, growing crops, etc. For full par¬ 
ticulars address I. W. NORVELL, Island P. O., Gorch- 
lanil County, Va. 
C7L OO CORO 00 A MONTH can De made 
S> I tl ■ ™ IU working for us. Persons pre¬ 
ferred who can furnish a horse and give their whole 
time to the business. Spare moments may be profitably 
employed also. A tew vacancies In townB and cities. 
A F. JOHNSON * OCX, 1000 iUOnSt.,Richmond, V* 
DEAF! 
■ NESS & HEAD NOISES CURED by 
leek’s INVISIBLE TUBULAR EAR 
___CUSHIONS. Whispers heard. Com¬ 
fortable. Sureosaful where all lirruedle. fall. Bold by Y. HISl'OX, 
only, «53 Br’dway, Now York. W rite for book of proof* IfRKK. 
HAKE BARGAINS 
IN 
USEFUL ARTICLES 
in the course of trade we have obtained the follow¬ 
ing named articles which we will sell at a big discount 
from manufacturers’ prices. We have no use for 
them and the prices named ought to take them off 
our hands lu short order: 
A Weed 8ewiug Machine, Boudoir Cabinet of 
Black Walnut. Manufacturer’s price #75. We will 
sell In New York for $.30—a rare bargain for some 
one. 
A Wheel Hoc and Cultivator; retails for $6. 
Our price #3. 
Several Curtiss's Improved Needle Hay 
Knives, chisel edge teeth. Retail price #1.25 each. 
Our price only 75c. each. Order at.once. Address 
N. K. FELLOWS, Box 4, Tenully, N. J. 
