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*THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV. i5 
“Rough on Rogues." 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOK NUMBER ONE. 
NOVEMBER. 
MOnd&V kook out a 8 a i n for W. H. Griffith 
^ & Co. of Zanesville, Ohio. This 
* / • is that irrepressible fraud “Incu¬ 
bator ” J. M. Bain. We notice his adver¬ 
tisements in some papers published in the 
interest of the Farmers’ Alliance. Now 
farmers want no alliance with such frauds. 
Nail him down—he is spurious I * * * 
Look out for the swindling postage stamp 
collector. Packages of stamps are sent to 
children, “ to be sold on commission,” 
amounting to several dollars. On “ settle¬ 
ment” there is always something wrong; 
the parent receives an insulting letter, sends 
whatever the stamp dealer asks, and the 
stamp dealer, who always has his clerk 
“ willing to make affidavit,” is happy. The 
transactions are in a small way, but wrong 
nevertheless. 
Tuesday 
18. 
One of the most interesting dairy 
problems of the present day is 
that of properly 
The object of working the butter is to 
free it of butter-milk; but agood many dairy 
authorities claim that the butter can be so 
made that the butter-milk can be readily 
washed out of it without working. That is 
so, and in like manner there are many in¬ 
dividuals—both man and beast—that are 
so well mannered and kind that they are 
safe both at home and at large. There are 
others that show an inclination to waste 
useful energy in kicking or butting. If you 
control any such individual, it is your duty 
to see that this energy is directed into some 
useful work and that the subject is left too 
tired to kick and butt. The earlier in life 
this useful training is begun, the more 
lasting will be its effect. 
Look out for the ivy plant 
fraud. The Hartford Courant 
* 9* tells the following interesting 
story : “ A few mornings since a well- 
dressed man of adult years called in a 
fashionable part of the city at the house of 
a well known and much respected citizen, 
and asked of his wife, the husband being 
at his office, if she would favor him with a 
few slips from the ivy plant that grew 
upon the front part of the house. He as¬ 
sured her that he had a friend seriously ill, 
and that the attending physician had ur¬ 
gently recommended an application made 
of ivy tea. The lady, who was of a kindly 
nature, cut several eenerous slips from the 
plant, and gave them to the well appearing 
stranger. He exhibited a profusion of 
bills, and urged payment, which was de¬ 
clined, and the caller left. Later in the 
day the good lady called upon a near neigh¬ 
bor, also a very worthy lady, who wished 
to show her visitor a new and choice speci¬ 
men of ivy that she had purchased that 
very morning from a traveling canvasser. 
The new ivy possessed rare qualities, had 
been brought direct from Newport, R. I., 
where it was in great favor among the first 
families in that luxurious resort. She said 
the roots were nicely packed in fresh grass, 
the seller had charged her $1 a slip for 
three slips, and set them out for her with 
his own artistic handa A little conference 
begot an investigation of the slips, grass- 
bound roots and all. The investigation 
disclosed the fact that the slips were the 
self-same ones that lady No. 1 had given to 
the proper-seeming man not many hours 
before, that he might prepare a drawing of 
tea for his sick friend. The new residence 
of the slips was of short duration.” 
♦ 
« * 
Look out for the Consumers’ 
Supply Company, of Chicago. 
A correspondent of the Farm, 
Field and Stockman thus describes their 
business methods: “ They have agents 
through here selling certificates of member¬ 
ship, entitling the patrons to purchase 
goods at wholesale prices. Those that buy 
have to give their notes, payable in one 
year; and they leave goods with you amount¬ 
ing to the same value as the face of the note. 
Such goods as they leave (dress patterns, 
for instance), would be worth 60 cents per 
yard here, and they put them in at $ 1 , and 
all other things in the same way. If you 
should not want to keep an article, you may 
return it, and they will allow you the price 
at which it is listed in other goods and so 
on.” The Farm, Field and Stockman says 
this thing “ looks fishy,” fishing for gud¬ 
geons, we suppose. * * * The “stock¬ 
holders” of the “Washington County In¬ 
vestment Company ” of Hyde, Colorado, 
are preparing to send out a circular offering 
to give away “ town lots” in the “ city ” 
of Hyde. “J. H. Muesse” is the sole 
owner of this “ city.” The profits of 
Thursday 
20 . 
Hyde are all hidden from ordinary view. 
* * * The Sunday School Times says 
that the “ solid silver spoon ” advertise¬ 
ment of J. D. Larkin & Co. of Buffalo, N. Y., 
is a fraud, as the spoons sent contained only 
one-thousandth part of silver. 
• t 
* 
FridaV A mer i can Advertising Re- 
J porter states that the following ad- 
2 • vertisement is being sent to coun¬ 
try papers. 
A LUCKY LADY. 
Milan, Tenn., September 23. 
Mrs. G. W. Combs, of Humboldt, Tenn.. a former 
resident of tills place, lias recently fa len heir to half 
a million dollars left by ber Scotch grandfather. 
She has forwarded prorf of her relationship to the 
lawyers, and will receive her inheritance to-day — 
Evening Mail and Express, New York, Sept. 23, 1SU0. 
We are Mrs. Combs’ lawyers and by her seeing our 
advertisement became the agents of her good for¬ 
tune. We have a number of similar claims in our 
hands and expect to gain them. If your ancestors 
came from the Old Country write us and inclose 25 
cents for reply. There are more than half a billion 
dollars in Gieat Britain alone, unclaimed, which 
rightly belong to people In the United States. 
European Claim Agency, 
— Pearl Street, New York. 
Of course this is one of those fraudulent 
and wicked “claim agencies” that The 
R N. Y. has so frequently exposed. The 
facts about the newspaper item are that 
this “claim agency” sent a circular to 
Mrs. Coombs and she talked about her 
“ estate ” so much that reporters, eager for 
news, put it into the papers, and the 
“ agency ” thus attempts to make capital 
out of it. Of course, no person of ordinary 
sense will send money to such frauds for 
fortunes in England. They might as well 
send it to the man in the moon. 
Cptnrdny Look out that you know what 
* you are doing when you go 
22. about important matters. A 
young man in Connecticut was desperately 
in love with one of two twin sisters. They 
were so much alike that it was next to im¬ 
possible to)tell them apart. The young man 
called one evening, determined to know 
his fate. He was admitted by the young 
woman whom he hoped would “ be a sister 
to him” and at once came to the import¬ 
ant business at hand. The young woman 
accepted him just as her sister entered the 
room, and turned up the light. Then the 
young man found that he had proposed to 
the wrong sister. After they had plagued 
him sufficiently, the “sister” released him 
from the engagement. So “ all ended 
happily,” but it might not have done so 
you know. 
Make hens lay ! By killing off a few 
roosters. *• 
The hen is not a vegetarian. Both she 
and her chickens are better for a partial 
meat diet. 
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