THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 29 
146 
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" STICKY AND SWEET.” 
As a sort of prelude to our sermon 
this week, we wish to present the names 
of the 17 persons who won the cash prizes 
in the last contest. You will see the 
application of our head line as you read 
on. These 17 persons found themselves 
stuck to a very sweet thing when that 
sum of $175 was divided up. Here are 
the names : 
W. S. Moore. 
Geo. H. Pearson .. 
W. J. Bills.. 
S. F.Johnson. 
J. H. Wood burn- 
R. R. Gage. 
Parker Bristol. 
J. L. Chase. 
Jas. W. Higgins — 
Chas. M. Lesher.... 
Jos. Morris. 
John A. Newhall... 
R. R. Hunter. 
Aaron I. Weidner.. 
E. P. Morgan. 
G. E. Kepliart. 
A. W. Sterling. 
.New York. 
.Connecticut. 
.New York. 
.Ohio. 
.Illinois. 
.Ontario. 
. New York. 
.Michigan. 
.New Jersey. 
.Pennsylvania. 
, Michigan. 
, Massachusetts. 
Ontario. 
.Pennsylvania. 
.Connecticut. 
.Ohio. 
Maine. 
Ten different States were represented. 
Mr. Moore secured G7^ yearly subscrip¬ 
tions, and received $50 in cash besides 
his commission and several dollars for 
largest clubs. Mr. Sterling sent five 
subscriptions, and received $5, besides 
his commission. Where in the world 
were you while this was going on ? 
Maybe you were something like the 
Indian in the following narrative : 
* 
The writer once filled various posi¬ 
tions from “printer’s devil” to editor, in 
the office of a small paper printed in 
Mississippi. The foreman of the office 
was an old Confederate soldier—an officer 
in Barksdale’s riflemen. These rifle¬ 
men covered the river at Fredericksburg, 
Va., while my father, and other Union 
soldiers worked to lay a pontoon bridge 
across. When this fact was known to 
the old soldier he became quite com¬ 
municative. I have often sat till far 
into the night, before the big wood fire, 
while he told, between the whiffs from 
his pipe, stories of old days—things long 
since lost and buried in the rush of this 
restless age of ours. There was one 
story the old fellow always told with 
great glee. A friend of his followed 
the army with a printing press and a 
small outfit of type. His work was to 
print the bombastic “ orders” that were 
issued by the leaders and once in a while 
he got out a paper. One day he had 
some printing to do, but when he got 
his press ready he found that his rollers 
were good for nothing. As most of you 
know, the ink is put on the type by a 
soft roller which runs first over a mass 
of ink and then over the type. Our 
friend was an inventive genius who 
could make his own rollers. So he hired 
an Indian to go to a distant town and 
buy several pounds of glue and a jug 
full of molasses. That was what their 
rollers were made of. In order to make 
the Indian understand, he told him to 
keep saying to himself, “ Something 
sweet and something to stick !” 
The Indian started off on his mission. 
He swam rivers, toiled through swamps 
and climbed hills till he finally reached 
town. He tried to explain to the store¬ 
keeper but that individual could only 
guess at it. He thought something 
sweet and something to drink would be 
the most probable thing, so he weighed 
out five pounds of brown sugar and filled 
the jug with whisky ! Back came the 
Indian in great feather. When the poor 
printer saw what he was expected to 
make rollers out of, his heart sank, and 
not being much of a Prohibitionist he 
mixed the sugar and whisky and sat 
down with the Indian to make a “ high- 
roller” of himself—so to speak. You 
take a white man, a red man and a blue 
situation and you have the national 
colors ; and sure enough, while the 
printer and the Indian were enjoying 
their “rollers,” a squad of Yankees 
captured the press and used it to print 
Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation ! 
* 
Now, it so happens that last year we 
offered a fine piano as a subscription 
premium. A number of women had an 
(Continued on next page.) 
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