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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 1» 
The Agent’s Share. 
It would seem that our club-raisers have forgotten, or entirely 
overlooked, our cash-premium rewards for subscriptions. The 
winners, last week, were : 
$3—J. O. LOFTON. North Carolina. 41 Trial Subscriptions. 
$2—RONSON GERMAN. Michigan. 41 Trial Subscriptions. 
$1—U. B. GAGE. Ontario. 22 Trial Subscriptions. 
The three new agents to come in for prizes, last week, were : 
$3—M. S. WEBBER. Pennsylvania. 15 Trial Subscriptions. 
$2—W. S. BOWMAN. New York. 14 Trial Subscriptions. 
$1—H. W. BRIDGER. Georgia. 10 Trial Subscriptions. 
Two weeks are left in this contest, consequently, two more sets 
of weekly premiums. Then $50, $30, $20, $10 and $5 will go out 
September 30, to the five agents who have sent the largest five clubs 
since August 15. We get lots of small clubs ; but no one is making 
much of a push for the premiums; consequently they go to easy 
winners, and the five large cash prizes are going to be windfalls for 
some one. THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
"CHERRY STONES.” 
When I was a youDg man, I didn’t, al¬ 
ways have roast beef and plum pudding 
for dinner, I can assure you. I don’t 
now, for that matter ; but, in my younger 
days, baked beans or brown bread or 
crackers and cheese made a better 
“ nick ” into my cash than any more ex¬ 
pensive diet. Some time after 1 was old 
enough to vote, 1 made up my mind that 
I would try to work my way through 
college, and I went at it with mighty 
little cash and less credit. Those were 
good old days, and those of us who had 
light hearts and sound digestions had a 
heap of fun, even though we had to live 
on coarse food, and cut expenses down 
to a fine point. 
Of course, there were times when the 
outlook was as blue as Bordeaux Mix¬ 
ture, and it seemed as though it wasn’t 
any use to try any more. My experience 
is that, at such times, a fellow needs a 
mental brace more than anything else. 
Yes, sir ; it is nerve and courage that he 
needs. About half way down the road 
from college to town, was a big rock 
that always spoke words of encourage¬ 
ment to us whenever we got near it. 
You will say that you never heard a rock 
talk ! Well, this was no new breed—a 
tough old piece of granite—but it did 
talk like an orator, and if you will give 
me your attention for a moment, I will 
tell you what it said. 
Years before, a wayfarer passed by 
with a bunch of cherries in his hand. 
As he ate them, he threw the stones or 
pits carelessly away. One of these stones 
fell into a little crack in the rock into 
which a handful of soil had been 
washed. Strange to say, that cherry 
stone sprouted and grew. Its roots dug 
into the handful of soil, and its little 
trunk reached up for the sunshine and 
air. Nurtured and strengthened by that 
wise and wonderful force we call life, 
the little tree grew out of the crack 
while its roots, that seemed so tender 
and soft, actually forced the rock back 
so that, in our day, the trunk of the 
tree was, at least, nine inches in dia¬ 
meter, while the rock was fairly cleft in 
two by a great two-inch root. There it 
stood silently teaching, by day and 
night, a great lesson of patience and 
moral power. I hope that it is standing 
there to-day with its roots still deeper 
in that rock, so that young men may 
still take courage from its sermon ! 
And when you come to think of it, 
what a sermon that was! Here was a 
little cherry stone carelessly thrown 
away—worthless in itself—yet contain¬ 
ing a germ which needed only protec¬ 
tion and food to develop into a lever on 
which the great forces of Nature could 
work to split open that solid rock. We 
boys used to look at that tree and say 
to ourselves: “See here, now the force 
that will work such wonders with the 
germ in a cherry stone, will do even 
greater things with the germ of a true 
idea in a human mind.” The germ in 
our minds was the desire to obtain an 
education. That wasn’t a chance cherry 
stone ; it had been put into our heads 
by a powerful set of circumstances. 
Some time 1 will tell how it got into my 
head—but that is quite another story. 
Our motive for wanting an education 
was true and honorable. It was a sound 
cherry stone. There was a rock of ad¬ 
verse conditions around it, but every 
time we saw how the cherry root had 
mastered the block of granite, we felt 
encouraged to hold on a little longer, 
and make another effort to pull through. 
That old rock always said as plainly 
as though it had shouted out the words— 
“ Stick to it! Hang on when you know 
you are right! ” I don’t know how many 
hundreds of boys have had their nerves 
screwed tighter, and their courage 
ground to a cutting edge, by the object- 
lesson of the old rock. And another 
lesson that came out of it was this : 
‘ ‘ Mind where you throw your cherry 
The happiness o* 
married life depends 
on the wife’s health 
oftener then on any 
other one considera¬ 
tion. An ailing wo¬ 
man is a source of 
discontent to herself 
and a burden and 
drag upon her hus¬ 
band. Women by 
taking more interest 
in their own phys¬ 
ical condition would 
lay the best founda¬ 
tion for married hap- 
pin ess and every 
other happiness. 
More than half the 
suffering which saps 
the energies and sours the disposition cf 
women is directly traceable to some disor¬ 
der of the organs distinctly feminine. There 
is no real need of such troubles; they are 
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the internal generative organs as no other 
treatment can possibly do. By restoring 
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One of the most deeply interesting and 
truly educative books ever written is the 
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to anyone who will send to the World’s 
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stories/” There is power in a cherry 
stone, whether it be a mere fruit stone 
or a mental germ. Start a right and 
true idea in the mind of that boy or 
young man ! His head is forming ! There 
may be cracks in it. They may close 
up and leave him a narrow-minded bigot. 
Look out for that! Throw in the stone 
of some true and noble idea that you 
have tried and tested ! Watch it! Stay 
right by it ! Help it along, and the first 
you know, it will send its roots down 
and its branches up and your young man 
will have a new head on him, with new 
hopes and ambitions and desires—a bet¬ 
ter citizen in all respects. 
* 
Now while this is all very nice, it isn’t 
business, and it is business, you know, 
that gives force to every day affairs. 
The cherry-stone idea is a good one, and 
we would like to have you chink in all 
the stones you can. Of course, it’s a 
little late in the season for cherries now, 
but we suggest The R. N.-Y. as a good 
substitute. Take a sample copy of an 
issue that you have studied up pretty 
well I There’s your cherry stone ! Go 
and throw it right into the crack in the 
head of your friend or neighbor ! It is 
safe to assume that any farmer who does 
not take The R. N.-T., is just a little 
“ cracked.” Get an idea out of that 
sample copy right into that crack, and 
then stay by it! If the first one doesn’t 
start, put in another ! Keep at it and, 
first you know, the root from that stone 
has grown so large that your friend 
wants to subscribe for 10 years at one 
shot! Why, here’s the way they talk : 
I would rather be without all the papers I take, 
than The Rural New-Yorker. t. c. p. 
Pavilion, N. Y. 
I take several other agricultural papers, but 
like The R. N.-Y. the best of them all. It is good 
and clean, and brings everything out to the point. 
So long as it is kept that way, you may count on 
me as a subscriber. j. k. t. 
Harford County, Md. 
Wife and I are alone on a good farm, one mile 
from neighbors, and three miles from the post 
office, and I do not have much time to spare for 
anything. We like The R. N.-Y. the best of 
any paper of which I know, and shall continue to 
sing its praises, and hope to get more names both 
for trial and yearly subscriptions. You can count 
on me as a subscriber as long as I can get the 
money to pay for it. d. f. d. 
Londonderry, Vt. 
I took the name to-day of a man who said that 
he stopped the paper last year. But he said to 
me, “I must have The R. N.-Y. again; it seems 
as though one of the family was away when The 
Rural is not in the house.” You will hear from 
me again. b. o. 
Sciploville, N. Y. 
Now these men have just let that R. 
N -Y. cherry-stone grow in their heads 
until the value of the paper is just as 
clear as a bell. That’s the way your 
friends and neighbors will talk next 
year, if you get the stone started right ! 
Here’s another side of it. Every sub¬ 
scription you secure is a cherry stone. 
If you put force and energy back of it, 
and secure others, it will grow into a 
great club, and its roots will split off 
one of those, big cash premiums on Octo¬ 
ber 1. Time is getting short now, and 
this is the season for a lively “ move ”, 
if you expect to finger some of that cash. 
COW PEAS AT THE NORTH. 
After I gathered my rye, I plowed the stubble, 
and sowed cow peas on July 8. The next day, 
there came a rain, and they came up nicely. From 
that time till yesterday (September 7), there had 
been no rain on them, but they have grown right 
along ever since. They stand from \ l / t to 2 feet 
all over the piece, some with beans and blossoms 
on, so I can say that they stood the dry weather 
well. As there has come a nice rain, I shall cut 
them up with a Cutaway harrow, and sow grass 
seed. 1 . c. 
New Egypt, N. Y. 
This is my first experience with cow peas. I 
sowed, on or about June 1, about 1 M bushel per 
acre, with a grain drill, on corn stubble which 
was not very rich, without any fertilizer. On 
August 24, I began plowing them under for fall 
seeding to Timothy. They made an excellent 
growth, all over the field ; the vines ranged from 
18 inches to almost three feet long, in different 
parts of the field, depending on the soil, being 
larger on the loamy and sandy soil, while on a 
ridge of some gravel, they were small. They had 
matured until they had pods with green peas in 
them. I think that, if planted on May 1, they 
would mature the seed by October 1. provided 
they were not caught by frost. Regarding the 
RICH CLASS SEEDS. 
We are now mailing, free on application, our 
AUTUMN CATALOGUE of 
DUTCH 
ANI) 
FRENCH 
BULBOUS ROOTS, 
hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils, Lilies, Etc., Etc., 
All of which have arrived in splendid condition. 
J.M.TH0RBURN & Co. 15 JOHN ST.NewYork 
Presidential Campaign News. 
The Presidential Election next November promises to be 
one of the most exciting and important since i860. We can’t 
print all the news about it in The R. N.-Y.; but we have made 
special arrangements with the leading National papers of both 
parties in the following list, so that we can send your choice of 
them for the rest of the year at a trifling cost. This will give 
you all the political news during the campaign, and the results 
of the election in November. Every regular issue of any paper 
in this list will be sent from the date your order is received, 
until January 1, 1897, together with The R. N.-Y. for one year 
for the price opposite the name of paper. Agents and club 
raisers may take these orders, and retain their regular commis¬ 
sions on The R. N.-Y., but no discount can be allowed on the 
other papers. 
THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD, New York.$1.45 
THE BALTIMORE SUN. (Weekly). 1.30 
THE DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, Rochester. (Weekly). 1.30 
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. (Weekly). 1.20 
THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE. (Weekly). 1.20 
LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL. (Weekly). 1.40 
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. (Weekly). 1.30 
THE INTER-OCEAN, Chicago. (Weekly). 1.30 
Remember, these prices are for the papers mentioned until 
January i, 1897, and The R. N.-Y. one year, or we will send 
any paper in the list free to any subscriber who will send $i 
for a new subscription (not his own) to The R. N.-Y. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York 
