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OCT. 25 
‘Rough on Rogues .’ 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
OCTOBER 
Look out for lotteries of all sorts. 
The anti-lottery bill has struck 
2 7 * deeper than people thought. 
Judge Tyner of tne Post Office Depart¬ 
ment, declares that this bill prohibits all 
schemes for distributing prizes, and applies 
to church fairs as well as to the big lottery 
company. That’s right. There is no more 
reason for gambling at a church fair than 
for gambling at a faro table. An adver¬ 
tisement of a church fair that mentions a 
raffle will be excluded from the mails and 
it will be a good thing if the promoters of 
the raffle could be excluded from the 
church. Periodicals and newspapers which 
advertise the distribution of prizes or 
premiums for the purpose of promoting an 
increase of their circulation, either by a 
barefaced lottery scheme or by “ draw¬ 
ings” of any sort, will also, very properly, 
be debarred from the mails, and those who 
attempt to use the latter for the purpose 
of circulating such advertisements, will 
render themselves liable to the penal¬ 
ties provided in the bill. Look out for 
gamblers! 
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THPS(lflV kook out for frauds who offer in- 
q 3 vestments at a wonderful rate of 
2 ®* interest—three per cent, a month 
even. It is about time some of these bogus 
concerns started in. Old readers will re¬ 
member the swindles perpetrated by 
Flemming & Merriam, of Chicago, four or 
five years ago. These frauds borrowed 
money right and left paying three per cent, 
a month for its use. The design was to 
pay up the interest promptly for a few 
months out of the principal and then de¬ 
camp with the balance. They succeeded in 
fooling a great many people, sending a 
part of the loan back to their dupes, call¬ 
ing it a “dividend.” This kept people 
quiet and gave the scheme a brilliant ad¬ 
vertising. When the final exposure came 
the members of the “ firm ” scattered, after 
having swindled the public of more than 
$ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
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This old swindle is recalled by 
the fact that Mrs. Miller and 
Mrs. Field, said to be the 
wives of the leading members of the old 
“ firm,” have just been arrested in this 
city. It seems that Miller and Field have 
been working the same old scheme in Eng¬ 
land, where Field represented himself as a 
banker doing a great business in American 
investments. They succeeded in Inducing 
lots of poor fools to lend them money. They 
paid surprising interest till they had se¬ 
cured money enough, and then dis¬ 
appeared. The English government is after 
them now, the English consul at this port 
being responsible for the arrest of these 
women. It is charged that they fled with 
$300,000 of their husbands’ dishonest gains, 
and before their arrest they had actually 
drawn from a local bank here $95,000 of this 
amount on drafts issued by a London bank¬ 
ing firm Nearly the whole of this large 
sum, however, had been promptly put in a 
“safe place” before their arrest; nor can 
any trace be found of the remainder of the 
plunder they are believed to have brought 
with them. In many respects this is the 
“ slickest” swindle ever tried. 
29. 
Thursday Look out for swindlers said to 
J be working near Lima, Ohio. 
They pretend to represent a 
harrow company. The scheme is to employ 
agents who are required to sign a receipt for 
five harrows at $52 each. It is verbally un¬ 
derstood that this receipt means nothing— 
it isonly to show the “company” where the 
harrows are located. But this “ harmless” 
receipt turns up at last as a note for $290. 
It is said that hundreds of farmers have 
lost money by this foolish fraud. Never 
sign a paper that is presented by a stranger. 
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Friday Look out for bogus “insane” 
3 people. “The insanity dodge,” as 
3 1 * it is called, is quite commonly 
played by impostors. You find some poor 
person wandering aimlessly about, appar¬ 
ently “out of his mind.” He seems harm¬ 
less enough, but is evidently unable to 
care for himself. While you are hunting 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
up the proper authorities of course you 
take him home and care for him. He ap¬ 
pears so childish and well behaved that it 
seems foolish to spend time watching him; 
so he is left to take care of himself, and if 
he is an Impostor he employs the time in 
securing what valuables he can put his 
hands on and getting away. Now, we do 
not mean to say that all helpless and ap¬ 
parently simple-minded persons are im¬ 
postors. There are plenty of cases where it 
is our duty to deal gently and kindly with 
such poor creatures. The point is this : 
If we take such a person to our house it is 
our business to watch him and give him no 
chance to do mischief. . 
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NOVEMBER. 
Saturday tliat fraud out in Galesburg, 
_ Ill., sends you one of his type 
written circulars, burn it up. 
A man doing the business he pretends to 
would never send a letter with such spelling 
as this:—“bargin,” “asside,” “remarkable 
good” and “neccessary.” Morality does 
not rest entirely upon spelling, but good 
business men recognize the importance of 
correct spelling in public communications 
at least. Do you want to do business 
with a poor business man ? * * * 
There is considerable complaint just now 
about frauds who try to swindle life insur¬ 
ance companies. Sometimes the local agent 
and consulting physician conspire with the 
executors of a rich man’s will to report him 
as sound, sober and industrious, when in 
reality he is within a few months of death. 
Each party expects to get a slice of the 
company’s money after the death of the in¬ 
sured. At other times, the frauds substi¬ 
tute a perfectly healthy man for the doctor’s 
examination, while the policy is made out 
In the name of a sick man who could not 
possibly secure a policy from any good 
company. These frauds reason that the 
company will pay such small amounts of 
insurance rather than run the risk of hav¬ 
ing it said that they contest policies in the 
courts. The best companies now have 
special means of checking these frauds and 
will fight for their rights to the end. They 
ought to. 
The Houdan is good for crossing on other 
breeds to produce good table birds. 
The Dorking on the Leghorn makes a 
good cross. The chick is smaller, hardier 
and livelier than the Dorking. 
We have at last succeeded in raising 
some Bantam chickens. We gave up the 
attempt in disgust when our last little 
chick drowned itself in half an inch of 
water; but since then a little hen “stole her 
nest” and has succeeded in making her 
children live. She knows more about the 
business than we did. 
Poultry Yard. 
ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION IN 
EGYPT. 
We all know that incubation was “ prac¬ 
ticed by the ancients.” The modern in¬ 
cubator traces back to the Egyptian oven. 
Most of us have an idea that the old 
hatching oven belongs entirely to the bar¬ 
barous days of centuries ago, few realizing 
that the same sort of ovens are in use to¬ 
day. Yet they are ! Consul - General 
Cardwell writes to the State Department 
from Cairo, Egypt, describing an oven 
which he visited. He says that the 
Egyptian incubatory of to day is but a re¬ 
production of the one of 1,000 years ago. 
In all these years the breed of Egyptian 
chickens has not changed. Some Egypt¬ 
ians are hereditary hen-men—the business 
of watching over the hatching-ovens hav¬ 
ing descended from father to son for many 
generations. 
How They Hatch. —The incubatory ex¬ 
amined by Mr. Cardwell is constructed of 
sun-dried bricks, mortar and earth. It is 
70 feet long, 60 feet wide and 16 feet high. 
There are 12 compartments or incubators, 
each capable of holding 7,500 eggs. Figure 
327 shows a plan of the structure. The 
inner and outer walls are made of bricks, 
while the spaces between, marked D, are 
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