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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October Si 
The Agent’s Share. 
The share all goes to the agents these times. We get none. 
Here are the winners last week : 
S3—J. D. WOOLSTON. New York. 2 Yearly Subscriptions. 
$3—H. C. WEBB. Wisconsin. 1 Yearly Subscription. 
Mr. Woolston collects $2, and gets his commission and $3 in cash; 
Mr. Webb collects $1, and gets his commission and $3 in cash. You 
could have done better than this. Of course you could, but you did 
not ! The same opportunity is open for you next week. Then you 
see how easy those cash prizes will go November 14 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
"SINGLE STRANDS.” 
When I was a boy, I worked, at one 
time, in a rope-walk. Possibly, you 
never saw a rope-walk. There were 
plenty of them, in New England, 25 
years ago. It is a long, low building 
where rope is made. At one end was a 
big wheel w’hieh turned two spindles. 
The men had great bundles of hemp 
wound around their waists, and they 
walked slowly backward pulling out 
enough of the hemp to make a small 
rope as they went. The end of this was 
fastened to the spindle, and that, of 
course, twisted the rope as fast as they 
walked. They went the length of the 
building, fastened their rope, and then 
came back and started over again. That 
went on day after day. My job was to 
turn that wheel, and I earned three 
cents an hour for doing it. It was my 
arm that put the twist into the rope and 
gave the hemp strength by organizing 
it and bringing it together. 
Now, in the next town, was a big rope- 
walk where ship cables were made. 
There a great steam engine did the 
twisting, and made a cable as large as a 
tree, and strong enough to hold the 
largest ship. Sometimes, when orders 
were crowding, the owner of the great 
factory would send to our little shop 
and buy up all the small rope we had 
twisted. lie would take a dozen or 20 
of these little ones and let his great en¬ 
gine twist them into a ship cable. I 
used to think, as they left the shop, that 
it was my strength that was twisted into 
that rope, but all that was forgotten 
when the paper advertised, “ Watson’s 
Ship Cables—Best in the World /” 
One day, there came an account of a 
fearful storm at sea. A great ship, with 
sails disabled and rudder broken, was 
driven by the wind right to the rocky 
shore. There was only one hope of 
living. “ Throw out the anchor /” roared 
the captain. “1/ it will catch on the bot¬ 
tom, Watson's cable will hold us!” So out 
went the heavy anchor. It dragged for 
a moment, and then it caught on a rock 
and held fast. And all through that 
awful night, the storm roared and beat 
and tore at the ship, but Watson’s cable 
held true to the anchor, and though the 
angry waves beat themselves into foam 
upon the cruel rocks, the ship was saved, 
and in the morning the wind gave it up 
and the storm crept back whipped and 
disappointed. How the papers did praise 
“ Watson’s cable ” for that performance, 
and I have no doubt that Watson him¬ 
self sat in his office and thought himself 
a great man, though he did not put an 
ounce of his physical energy into that 
rope. 
But I did. It was my little arm that 
put the twist into that small rope. The 
steam engine finished it, perhaps, but 
the human force that saved that ship 
was the muscle in my arm. I doubt 
whether I could have lifted 125 pounds 
in those days, but when the force in my 
arm was organized by twisting hundreds 
of strands of hemp together, it became 
so powerful that the mighty wind could 
not break it! 
But not one of those sailors had even 
a thought for the little boy “turning 
wheel” in Dimon’s rope walk. Watson 
was their man. I did the work and re • 
ceived three cents an hour for doing it. 
Watson gave his name to the rope and 
made a fortune, and also got his name 
into all the papers. That experience 
might have made an Anarchist out of 
me if life had not convinced me of one 
thing, and that is that the world needs 
true followers a good deal more than it 
needs leaders. We need more honest 
privates who will grow up into generals. 
We need people to twist up the single 
strands of life and to put a good honest 
twist in, too, so that those whose busi¬ 
ness it is to make these strands into a 
big cable, will know that there is no 
rotten hemp or slack rope in it. That is 
the cable that will hold the American 
Union true to its anchor—the Constitu¬ 
tion. Let the three-cents-an-hour man 
or boy put the best of his muscle into 
his work, so that the force of it will lift 
him up into a better job. I learned, one 
day, that the great Watson himself once 
turned a wheel and turned it so well 
that it lifted him to the top. The single 
stranders ! They are the people who are 
making history every day in the year. 
And now, of course, comes a word of 
business ! The great cable that holds 
The R. N.-Y. away from the rocks, is 
our subscription list. Thousands of 
people are twisting strands that go into 
this cable. Here is a man who sends 
his own subscription. That is a single 
strand. Another gets two neighbors to 
unite with him. Of course, that little 
rope is more than three times as 
strong as the single strand, because it is 
twisted together. Another may send 10 
or 20, or more, but all these strands and 
ropes go into the big cable. 
Some of these single stranders may say, 
“ Oh, well, there will be plenty of big 
clubs ! I guess I won’t try to get neigh¬ 
bor Jones this year I ” Now don’t say 
that! We want your little rope ! We 
appreciate your humble work just as 
highly as we do that of the great “ Wat¬ 
sons,” who put in big ropes in the shape 
of large clubs of subscriptions. We can 
pay you more than three cents per hour, 
too! Come now, ye single stranders ! 
Come to the front ! Make your rope- 
walk extend to your neighbor’s farm, 
and twist his name right in with your 
own when you renew ! We need that 
new strand in our cable ! You are the 
man to put it there ! Startup the wheel! 
Go ahead ! _ 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Gov. Morton has appointed Dr. G. Howard 
Davison, Millbrook, and Lyman P. Haviland, 
Camden, N. Y., trustees of the Geneva Experi¬ 
ment Station. 
The success attending the initial live stock 
show at Madison Square Garden last fall was 
such that the second will be held at the same 
place, November 23 to 28. Many thousands of 
dollars are offered as premiums on Short-horn, 
Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus, Jersey, Guernsey, 
Holstein-Friesian and Ayrshire ccattle; Shrop¬ 
shire, South Down, Hampshire Down, Cotswold 
and Dorset sheep, ponies, etc. Entries close 
November 7. Entries may be made and informa¬ 
tion obtained of Frank W. Sanger, Madison 
Square Garden, New York City. 
The Board of Examiners of Horseshoers met at 
New York last week, selected Dr. Thos. Quinn, 
New York, chairman; Chas. W. Kirk, Albany, 
secretary, and Thos. Carroll, New York, treas¬ 
urer. The other two members of the board are 
Robt. Keenan of Brooklyn and Homer A. Gove, 
Rochester. The board was appointed in accord¬ 
ance with Chapter 271, Laws of 1896. All horse¬ 
shoers in cities of over 50,000 who have not regis¬ 
tered from the signing of the bill by the Governor 
in April last until the present time, will be com¬ 
pelled to pass an examination before this board. 
Applications for examination will be furnished 
by the secretary. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Sussex County, N. J.—Hay was a light crop in 
this vicinity, but plenty of fodder corn was har¬ 
vested in its place. Most of it will be fed dry as 
there are but few silos. Fall pasture is plenty. 
But little winter grain was sown. Buckwheat 
yielded largely. Apples are a large crop, being 
well colored and free from scab. A few sales 
have been made from 40 to 60 cents per barrel, 
buyers furnishing barrels and packing the fruit. 
Most growers are preparing to hold the crop be¬ 
lieving that prices will be better later in the 
season. a. e. r. 
Steuben County, N. Y.—The dairy, in this part 
of the county, has been improved 20 per cent in 
the past 10 years, which is due, first, to better 
feeding and better care, second, to better breed¬ 
ing. My feed has changed some since X com¬ 
menced farming seven years ago; the feed then 
was pasture, hay and straw, with grain in spring. 
It is now pasture, with oats and peas to feed as 
soon as the pastures begin to fail. Also a grain 
ration which is kept up till the next June; corn 
fodder, hay and straw, with the grain, are the 
winter feed. We raise most of the grain, which 
consists of oats, peas and corn. I think that 
buckwheat middlings is the cheapest feed to buy; 
it is $9 per ton. s. e. h. 
Sullivan County, N. Y.—There is some regis¬ 
tered dairy stock in this part of the country, but 
not much. The most improvement has been in 
feeding and stabling; but there is plenty of room 
in that line for more. What cows I have, go six 
or seven miles for service, and that is not as 
good as I wish. Most of the milk is sold to cream¬ 
eries. I find that those that have the best cows 
and give them the best care, all read good farm 
papers. There are five silos within a circle of 10 
miles. Bran is the cheapest feed to buy, but peas 
and oats cut the feed bill with some of the farm¬ 
ers. and they will sow more next year. o. F. d. 
Collingsworth County, Texas.— Wheat is now 
worth 50 cents, oats 25 cents, cotton 6 l / t to 6 % 
cents. Less wheat will be put in this fall than 
usual, on account of it being too dry to prepare 
the land. This is a stock country, but the produc¬ 
tion of Millo maize, Kaffir corn and cotton is 
proving successful. E. m. r. 
Chemuno County, N. Y.—I think that the dairy 
cow of to-day will average one-third more butter 
than she did 10 years ago. It is partly due to im¬ 
proved breeding, and partly to better feeding and 
care. In the last 10 years, many farmers have 
crossed their cows with purebred Jersey bulls, 
and some were crossed with Guernseys. I think 
that the Guernseys are the better; they are more 
hardy, give more milk and very nearly as good 
milk. Corn is worth 35 cents, rye 30, oats 20 to 
25, buckwheat 20, potatoes 25 to 30, apples 50 
cents per barrel. x. u. N. 
IttterfUanmtjsi gUmtisino. 
The book of 
woman’s life is di¬ 
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chapters: Girl¬ 
hood, womanhood, 
motherhood. At 
the time when a 
young girl passes 
into womanhood— 
turning the leaf as 
we may say bet¬ 
ween the first and 
second chapters of 
her existence — a 
little care and 
thoughtfulness 
will double her 
chances of future 
happiness and 
save many hours 
of suffering. 
Every young wo¬ 
man should have 
an intelligent un¬ 
derstanding of her 
own physical make-up. Half knowledge 
which is little better than pure i orance, 
opens the way to an untold amount of pain 
and wretchedness. 
Few women realize the influence exerted 
on their bodily and mental well-being by 
the special organism of their sex. It is hard 
for them to believe that the little drain 
which goes on from day to day is sufficient 
to sap away the very life forces. Yet it is so. 
The weakness, exhaustion, melancholy ; the 
periodical prostration and sometimes almost 
torture has no other cause, two-thirds of the 
time, than the abnormal unhealthy condi¬ 
tion of the generative organs. Strangely 
enough even doctors often fail to recognize 
the truth, For this condition there is no 
other remedy in the world so helpful and 
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It restores health and vi^or to the feminine 
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Dr. Pierce’s great book, “The People’s Com¬ 
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profusely illustrated. Over oo pages are de¬ 
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home-treatment. It will be sent free by World’s 
Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street 
Buffalo, N. Y., on receipt of 21 one-cent 8tamps 
to cover cost of mailing only. 
Poor 
Blood 
When a horse is poor in flesh, 
a new harness won't give him 
strength. If a house is cold 
new furniture won't warm it. 
If your strength is easily ex¬ 
hausted; work a burden; 
nerves weak; digestion poor; 
muscles soft; if you are pale 
and worn out, the trouble is 
with the blood. It is not so 
much IMPURE blood as 
POOR blood. Pills won't 
make this blood rich; nor will 
bitters, nor iron tonics, any 
more than a new harness will 
give strength to the horse, or 
new furniture will make a 
house warm. For poor blood 
you want something that will 
make rich blood. 
SCOTT'S EMULSION of 
Cod-liver Oil with Hypophos- 
phites is the best remedy in the 
world for enriching the blood. 
We have prepared a book telling you 
more about the subject. Sent Free. 
For sale by all druggists at 50c. & $ 1.00. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, New York. 
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If so, you can make $10 a week 
clear of expenses. For particu¬ 
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The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
Are You Keeping 
cows 
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NURSERY BOOK. 
BY L. H. BAILEY. 
We have a limited number of the 
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