THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 14 
186 
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MUSIC HATH CHARMS 
O That is, when the conditions are right. 
When a man has a bad anchylosis in his 
ear, and can’t hear the music, a tin pan 
would be as good as a piano. When the 
person who presides at the instrument 
doesn’t know his business, the muse is 
made sick and music has more harms 
than charms. You understand that we 
are not speaking of these misfits—we 
are referring to the music that might be 
expected when your wife or daughter, 
or some older gentleman’s daughter, sat 
down to that Emerson piano or either of 
these organs to sample their keys ! 
Here is another picture of that piano. 
It is as good as the best. There is a ton 
of music strung to every key. You (or 
anybody else) touch the right key and 
the strings will do the rest ! And here 
is a picture of that famous Estey organ. 
We might say, in truth, that is a highly- 
organized organ. With two vigorous 
feet on those pedals, and 10 well-trained 
fingers and thumbs dancing on those 
keys, and the whole family rolling out 
some good old-fashioned hymn, you will 
just simply hear the rustle of wings all 
about you ! 
Now we wish to say that music will, 
indeed, have charms for three R. N.-Y. 
families when the present contest ends 
on May 1. It behooves each and every 
one of you to get up and manufacture a 
move. One of our first prizes was lost 
by just one-fourth of a subscription. 
Think of that, all you who think that 
this contest is going to be a walk-over ! 
It will be, in one sense, for the other 
contestants will walk over you if you sit 
down to rest. 
“Tramp ! Tramp! Tramp ! The Boys are 
Marching /” 
That is the tune for imagination to play 
on these musical instruments—marching 
up and down the land after subscrip¬ 
tions. 
Two weeks ago, we started to tell you 
about some “ sticky and sweet” facts. 
Here are two sweet ones : 
I received the sewing machine and a new sub¬ 
scription to The R. N.-Y. I am well pleased; the 
machine runs like a top, and The R. N.-Y. 
always did. Please accept my thanks, j. f. l. 
Rockford, Ill. 
Being a reader of The R. N.-Y., I have no copies 
to burn ; I would rather lend them to my neigh¬ 
bors, for good things are not so plentiful that 
one should make a monopoly of them. It is the 
active circulation that makes the bright coin. 
Unlike the Genesee County man who burned his 
paper before reading it, I am afraid to put my 
little light under the bushel measure, for fear it 
may be lost in the general gloom. I believe I 
know a good thing when I see it. T. L. h. 
Fairfield, Iowa. 
And here are two examples of stick : 
I inclose money for my subscription for 1896, 
likewise a new one to take the place of that one 
that was burned because the party did not want 
to know that others could grow on more economi¬ 
cal principles than liis own. w. b. 
Verdugo, Cal. 
Money with the people here, is almost as scarce 
as hens’ teeth. We are far from market, and 
prices are very low. Some draw oats over 60 
miles, and then sell at 20 cents, sacked. I want 
the paper read by my friends, and will pay for 
it myself rather than have their families do with¬ 
out it. I have tried to get other subscriptions, 
but money is so hard to get. The money panic 
seems just as great here now as at any time dur¬ 
ing the last three years. e. M. B. 
Clifford, Tex. 
And, by the way, don’t forget about that 
book offer ! Now’s the chance to start 
that library by securing any one of 
those four books as a reward for a new 
subscription. Lastly, here are some 
people who listened to the music of the 
rustle of a dollar bill last week : 
March 2.—Wm. H. Fry, Johnson Co., Ind. 
3. —J. A. South wick, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
4. —W. E. Price, Franklin Co., Va. 
5. —W. S. Moore, Chenango Co.. N. Y. 
6. —O. V. Love, Wyoming Co., Pa. 
7. —Walter Johnson, Middlesex Co., Conn. 
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