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•Pie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 26, 1020 
This time of ye*ar 
it’s «a good idea 
to combine fresh 
fruit or berries 
with your morn¬ 
ing dish of 
GrapeNuts 
The blend of flavor proves 
delightful and is in tune 
■with June. 
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There’s a Reason* 
ivu^ePiiyin^ T 
a HeavyPnice 
for aCheap Crib 
Every time you store corn or grain in a 
wooden crib, you lose money. Rats and 
mice destroy bushels of it. Rain and snow 
drive in and keep it damp and mouldy. 
And there is always danger of fire and the 
“borrower.” 
^ WithThe STEEL RIB ^ 
Is the crib that lasts and cost no more. 
Weatherproof, rat and vermin proof, fire¬ 
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emptied. Scientifically ventilates through 
the grain—not around it. Holds your crops 
in safety until the market is right. 
Buckeye cribs are built of heavy gal¬ 
vanized steel—heavy steel ribs and rein¬ 
forced construction. 
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We have long studied the economical har¬ 
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The No. 1 Elevator Digger shown above is 
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Bedding HORSES 
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If you grow potatoes for the market, you 
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Clean, dry, soft wood shavings make 
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84 Foster St. Worcester, Mass. 
Reid’s 
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Get one now. Save the 
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Drives out animal odors 
and grassy Jlavor. By 
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cooler made. Reason¬ 
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69 thSt. and Haverlord Ave. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Is the title of a little booklet that tells all about 
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how when fed according to directions it costs but 2c a 
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saves time and money. Ask for free copy of booklet 
and our thirty day trial offer. \ 
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on your Ford 
in 3 mi m .ite3. Works won- 
<•' i. G ves car more power, 
pep” and speed. 4 to 6 
mil, more per gallon of gas. 
Makes old, cracked or worn 
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No hole, to bore, no chance In car or ensina. Eaaier to put 
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Various Notes 
I AM sending isubscription for my sis¬ 
ter. She has a blind husband, and is on 
a farm with 10 bead of cattle, one horse, 
two pigs and a flock of hens. 1 think 
The R. N.-Y. may be a great help to her, 
as it is to us. I don't think she has ever 
taken it, MRS. A. b. l. 
Rhode Island. 
We have heard from several blind 
men who, with the help of their families, 
are getting fair success at farming. They 
can milk and do other light jobs. One 
of them has become an expert in select¬ 
ing laying hens. They are all cheerful 
and doing their beet. 
We are very much interested in both 
farm and school, for we own and work a 
farm, have two hoys to send to school, 
and my wife teaches our school. 
New York. w. f. f. 
That is surely a school family, and 
there are many others equally interested. 
And that is the chief reason why the 
farmers of New York should have a hand 
in revising the school law. Unless avc 
can successfully demand a chance to be 
heard all such things will be settled for 
us by Albany. 
K-- 
A curious legal case was decided in 
this city last week. A young man agreed 
to marry a young girl, but later broke the 
engagement. The young woman brought 
suit either to compel him to marry or pay 
damages for a breach of promise. The 
young man entered as his defense that the 
young woman had at one time been an 
inmate of a sanitarium for mental trouble, 
and that she had never told him anything 
about it. The judge said that where two 
people are to be married either one has a 
legal right to know the material facts 
about the other, regarding their physical, 
mental or moral qualities, and that the 
failure to state these material facts would 
be considered a form of deception and 
just ground-for breaking an engagement. 
He then said that the fact that this girl' 
had been an inmate of a sanitarium for 
mental trouble was “a material fact which 
the man had a right to know, and failure 
to tell him was considered a breach of con¬ 
fidence,” and he decided the case in favor 
of the man. 
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The daily papers recently contained the 
following: 
London, April 25.—Lord Dewar, who 
has just returned from Central Africa, in 
giving an account of his (ravels there, 
said that the increased cost of living in 
the district he visited was reflected in 
the higher price for wives paid by the 
natives. Whereas a fine, lfi-hand-high 
wife cost four spearheads in pre-war 
days, she now costs eight spearheads, 
Lord Dewar said, and in the cattle dis¬ 
tricts the price of a wife at present is 
eight cows instead of four. 
Since suffrage came, or at least, came 
near, woman has certainly gained a higher 
value in the political world at least. And 
it is probable that the cost of marrying 
has gone up with the other living costs. 
No doubt the clergyman expects more— 
and deserves it—and it is a very prac¬ 
tical girl who does not want, and de¬ 
serve, all the modern flowers and fixtures. 
Every cost connected with the ordinary 
marriage has been about doubled 1 except 
the marriage license. That remains the 
same. 
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The papers are printing the following 
what are called “petty” crimes—not in 
any way due to drink. In all these cities 
there has been a great increase in savings 
bank deposits and investments by the peo¬ 
ple of middle class. This increase in 
prosperity is not all attributed to prohi¬ 
bition, but to increased wages and the 
general prosperity of cities, but as the 
years go on the increase will gain faster 
and faster. 
Boarding Farm Hands 
Please tell me what would be a reason¬ 
able price for hoarding three farm hands; 
also what additional charge should be 
made, supposing the personal washing is 
included? At present all green stuff 
must he bought, as there is nothing in 
the garden. The board is plain and sub¬ 
stantial—-meat once a day and desserts 
furnished. e. d. g. 
In our section the rate would be $1 
per day or $7 per week. If washing were 
added the price would be 50 cents more, 
or .$7.50. A woman who undertook t<j 
give three healthy men three full meals 
a day could hardly pay expenses at $20 
per week. There are some who are un¬ 
able to discover that food for a hired man 
or a child costs anything— especially, 
where there is a good-sized family any¬ 
way. The woman who provides the food 
knows better. 
“Founded Upon a Rock” 
Can you give me any light or any ad¬ 
vice in regard to the following statement? 
Some time last Fall the district superin¬ 
tendent of schools for this town came to 
the district and ordered the then trustees 
'to partition off two separate rooms from 
the schoolroom, part of the same school¬ 
room, also ordered trustee to obtain two 
new sanitary toilets and septic chemical 
tanks, as there is no water to be had to 
flush the toilets. lie told the trustee that 
the school law required these new toilets 
in order to get the district share of the 
public money. So the trustee bought the 
lumber, hired the carpenter and built the 
two rooms according to orders, in detail, 
lie then ordered the toilets and tanks, and 
when they arrived he saw that they could 
not be installed as it takes a space of be¬ 
tween 3 and 4 ft. beneath the floor to in¬ 
stall the tanks. The schoolhouse stands 
on a solid lime rock edge about 10 inches 
above the rock, so the trustee stored the 
toilets in one of the rooms that he par¬ 
titioned off. and the tanks in the wood- 
house. This cost the district something 
over $250. and has left the job to be fin¬ 
ished by me, the new trustee. Will the 
law uphold a district superintendent in 
mapping out rooms to be used for toilets, 
on the same floor and part of the same 
schoolroom, and ordering toilets and tanks 
that cannot be installed under the rooms 
that he ordered built for the purpose? 
As I am the new trustee, do I have to 
raise this building in order to install 
these tanks, which will he 3 or 4 ft.? Is 
there any way by which I can compel the 
district superintendent to take the toilets 
and tanks off our hands at cost price, and 
pay for the lumber, cartage and carpen¬ 
ter work which the district has paid for? 
What is my next step to protect the tax¬ 
payers of the district and get back their 
money that has been squandered? E. K. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
We should call a school meeting at once 
and put the question right up to the 
voters. Let them decide publicly what 
they want to do, and then carry out their 
expressed wishes as well as you can. This 
money should never have been paid out 
without a public endorsement by the 
voters. You should read the article by 
Mr. Cottrell on page 1034. and see what 
the voters of his district did in just such a 
case. Having bought and paid for the 
report: 
Boston, June 10.—Scrubwomen are 
quitting their jobs, prohibition having 
made it unnecessary for them to do the 
work, according to information obtained 
by inspectors of the minimum wage di¬ 
vision of the State Department of Labor 
and Industries. 
In license times, office building man¬ 
agers told the inspectors, they had no 
difficulty in recruiting scrubbing squads 
from women forced to support then- 
families because their husbands were 
drunkards. ., 
Under prohibition, the women saul 
they had more money for household needs 
and, while some continued to work, they 
did uot have to undertake the tiring la¬ 
bors of the scrubbing brush and pail to 
eke out family support. . 
We do not know how true this may he. 
We have obtained reports from the cities 
in New. York State which voted “dry” 
early in 1010, and have thus been under 
prohibition for 15 months or more. In 
these towns there has been a 50 per cent 
decrease in arrests for drunkenness or 
serious crimes, hut a general increase in 
fixtures, it is not likely that you can now 
get your money hack. They never should 
have been bought for use on that solid 
rock ledge. The trouble about all these 
cases is that the toilets are forced upon 
the district, not by an actual law, but. by 
a rule of the department. It is a serious 
question as to whether this rule would 
stand if tested out at law, but the expense 
of fighting it is too much for a single dis¬ 
trict to stand. Until the rule is settled 
by a lawsuit the department will no doubt 
try to enforce it. 
riiE dean of a Western university was 
d by the students that the cook^at tin. 
ling hall was turning out food * not nr 
eat.” The dean summoned the (lelin- 
>nt lectured him on his shortcomings 
:1 threatened him with dismissal unless 
iditions were bettered. ‘ Sir, said tin 
,k. “vou oughtn’t to place so much in - 
•tance on what the young men tell jo« 
nit my meals. They come to me m B 
- same wuy about your lectures, 
edit Lost. 
