1911 
THE RURAL NEW-VOKKER 
349 
A MASTER OF “ GUFF.” 
Up to a short time ago we should have 
given this title to E. G. Lewis with a 
strong lead over all competitors. There 
is, however, a “deafness specialist” in 
this city who runs him a close race. This 
man sends a printed letter to his “dear 
friends” which is a masterpiece of 
special pleading for a deaf person. Then 
he comes down to business: 
Stop a moment and consider what it 
means! What is the small sum of $10 as 
compared with perfect hearing? It is true 
that $10 do not grow upon every bush, and 
I concede it may be difficult for you to 
meet even the low terms that I offer, but 
surely you cannot afford to pass this op¬ 
portunity by now that you have it. The 
probability is that if you put off answer¬ 
ing this letter and write to me later, I 
shall have raised my fee so that you must 
pay $25 in advance. Yet I only ask you 
to send $3 with your order, a similar 
amount in a month and the small sum of 
$4 when you know you are cured. Do not 
put this aside, dear friend. 
For years the unfortunate deaf have 
been peculiarly at the mercy of fakes 
and humbugs who hold out glowing 
hopes for “cures.” No person with good 
ears can possibly realize how the man 
who knows he is slowly losing his hear¬ 
ing will grasp at any straw which hot 
air floats in his direction. There are 
some natures that cannot put on philoso¬ 
phy and endure the silence. They feel 
that they must talk and obtain their 
information from conversation. It is 
worse than prison for them to be shut 
in away from the human voice. Thus 
they fall an easy prey to the deafness 
cure fakers, who probably get hold of 
more money than any other class of 
quacks. 
The ear is one of the most delicate 
organs of the body. It hardly seems 
possible that anyone in his right mind 
would think of putting powders or 
liquids into his eye at the suggestion of 
some stranger, yet these fakes expect 
you to do even worse things to your 
ears. Fool with the eyes and you have 
pain and trouble at once. The results 
with the ears are slower but none the 
less sure. It may seem like a cruel thing 
to tell people of middle age that most 
cases of long-standing deafness are in¬ 
curable, yet it is probably true. Taken 
in time the disease may be stopped, but 
in most forms of ear trouble the organ 
cannot be entirely restored. When the 
eyes begin to fail we do not hope to 
have vision entirely restored, but adopt 
glasses to relieve the strain. To an 
even greater extent this thing is true of 
deafness, and any man who will guar¬ 
antee a cure for a case of deafness 
which he has never personally examined 
may be put down as a fake at once. 
Deafness is hard, but there are many 
worse things in this world, and perhaps 
the worst of all is a- lack of humor or 
sentiment to take into the silence with 
you. But do not send your money to 
quacks and humbugs who promise cures, 
or your trouble will be doubled. 
Leasing Orchard Land. 
E. II. K., Rimer, Pa .—We have large 
tracts of waste land that would make ideal 
orchards, and up to the present time I 
haven’t planted other persons’ land. What 
would be a fair price to pay per acre on a 
lease for 15 years for a peach orchard? 
In case the owner furnishes the land what 
Is a good proposition to put to him, con¬ 
sidering that I am the only person inter¬ 
ested in developing the fruit problem in my 
district. 
Ans. —The only orchard fruit that 
would pay one to grow on leased land 
within a term of 15 years is the peach. 
The trees should yield some profit the 
fourth year, and by the end of the 15 
years should be about done their useful¬ 
ness. This plan has been followed by 
J. H. Hale of Connecticut, and he 
showed me his orchards on leased land 
that were paying him well. The exact 
price he paid to the owner and the 
terms of payment I do not remember. 
The owner of the land should have a 
fair rental, for suc-h land as is fit for 
peach orchard should be reasonably 
good soil, such as would bring farm 
crops, and be not very far from market 
or transportation. To one who would 
start the fruit industry in a region not 
over $3 per acre per year should be 
charged, or $45 for the entire term of 
15 years. This would be about the full 
value of the land in many cases and 
half of it almost anywhere. An owner 
ought to be satisfied with such a return 
for land that would give him no trouble 
for so long a time and be sure of yield¬ 
ing a revenue. And the peach grower 
should not be obliged to make the pay¬ 
ments each year until its close, which 
would give him time to get returns from 
crops. During the first three years 
farm crops, truck or strawberries may 
be grown between the trees to profit 
without damage to them, so that a reve¬ 
nue could be gotten from the land from 
the start. h. e. van deman. 
A Tomato Grower Talks. 
I raise most of my seed myself. I take 
it from plants that show blight-resisting 
qualities; mine did not blight when others 
lost their crops around me from it. Seeds¬ 
men will tell you it is not policy to save 
your seeds, but I find it pays. As to 
transplanting, I get best results from put¬ 
ting seed in with garden drill, and when 
up I thin with a hoe. I find they fruit 
better, and stand drought better, as the 
tap root is not injured by transplanting. 
I have tested for five years and find I 
get best results from drill, and the drill 
planted seeds fruited and ripened before 
the plants I raised in hotbed, while soil 
and condition of climate have a good deal 
to do with the way we plant. You can 
do more with a drill in putting such crops 
in, save time, and it is a big item in 
the Spring when work is crowding. 
Wood C’o., Ohio. C. it. SMITH. 
EDITOR BROWNE 
Of The Rockford Morning Star. 
“About seven years ago I ceased drink¬ 
ing coffee to give your Postum a trial. 
“I had suffered acutely from various 
forms of indigestion and my stomach had 
become so disordered as to repel almost 
every sort of substantial food. My gen¬ 
eral health was bad. At close intervals 
I would suffer severe attacks which con¬ 
fined me to bed for a week or more. 
Soon after changing from coffee to 
Postum the indigestion abated, and in a 
short time ceased entirely. I have con¬ 
tinued the daily use of your excellent 
Food Drink and assure you most cordial¬ 
ly that I am indebted to you for the 
relief it has brought me. 
“Wishing you a continued success, I am, 
“Yours very truly, 
“J. Stanley Browne, 
“Managing Editor.” 
Of course, when a man’s health shows 
he can stand coffee without trouble, let 
him drink it, but most highly organized 
brain-workers simply cannot. 
The drugs natural to the coffee berry 
affect the stomach and other organs and 
thence to the complex nervous system, 
throwing it out of balance and producing 
disorders in various parts of the body. 
Keep up this daily poisoning and serious 
disease generally supervenes. So when 
man or woman finds that coffee is a 
smooth but deadly enemy and health is of 
any value at all, there is but one road— 
quit. 
It is easy to find out if coffee be the 
cause of the troubles, for if left off 10 
days and Postum be used in its place and 
the sick and diseased conditions begin to 
disappear, the proof is unanswerable. 
Postum is not good if made by short 
boiling. It must be boiled full 15 min¬ 
utes after boiling begins, when the crisp 
flavor and the food elements are brought 
out of the grains and the beverage is 
ready to fulfill its mission of palatable 
comfort and renewing the cells and nerve 
centres broken down by coffee. 
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Ever read the above letter ? A new 
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Have you forgotten your childhood days when you fretted at the cold 
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dressing and breakfasting. Couldn’t escape the discomfort and the 
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