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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



Oct. 



[From the London Athenaeum.] 



Autumn. 



Now slieaves are slanted to tho aun 



Amid th" golden mendows. 

 And l.ttle fun-taunt'.ii gleaners run 



To coul them iu the.r shallows ; 

 The reajier binds the beiuded ear; 

 And (rathetsin t :e golden year; 

 And where the she 'Vts ar^ srluncing, 

 T!ie farnier'3 heart is dancing. 



The e pours a e'ory on the land, 



FlHShed down from Henv^n's wide port«l3, 

 As Laooi's hand gra ps \ic uty's hand 



To vowgool «ill to mortals; 

 1 he yolien yeai* brhiga b'auty down, 

 To bless her with am;a-ria<,'e ciown, 

 Wh.le labor rises, cleanini; 

 Her b ess'.ngs and thtir meaning. 



Tlir' work 13 done, tteend is near, 



Beat, Heart, lo flute and tabor. 

 For Beauty wedded In the Year 



Completes t.ers' If frum labor. 

 She dons li r marriage geiiis, and then 

 Sie casts iliera olT as ^il'is to iiiea. 

 And, sunbeam-like, if dimmer, 

 The fallen jewels glinuaer. 



There U a Im^h of joy and love 



Now given hands have crowced us ; 



There la a heaven up r.bove. 

 An 1 a heaven here around us ! 



And Hope, her prophecies cemplete, 



Creeps up to pray ai Beauty's feet, 



Whil; with a thousard voices 



The p if-Ct earth rt joices. 



"When to the autumn Heaven here 



Its sliter is replying, 

 'i^s sweet to think our golden ye.iir, 



Faais itself in dying ! 

 That we shiU And, poor tlrngs of breath, 

 Our own Soul's lovlin'■^s in death, 

 And leave, when God shall finJ us. 

 Our gathered gtms behind us. 



B nr.F.D Oicr.A. — This vc.g; t.tble, wLich is also 

 a great liivorite with us, we prepare in the 

 followicg mramer : — 



In removing the okra from the stalk, it. should 

 not be cut too closely to the plant, as the jitice 

 ■will escnpe, and destroy the inucu'ent qmtlity of 

 the plant. After throwing the okra into boiling 

 water, add salt and a verv little sa'aertitns. Buil 

 rapidly for fifteen to twenty tuinutes, according 

 to the age of the vegetable, and when cooked it 

 should be immediately removed from the water. 

 It should be cooked in an e.irthen vessel or one 

 lined with china, as tin will discolor it. Season 

 as desired. — Gcmaniown Telegraph. 



Cemi:nt for Mending Steam Boilers. — Mix 

 two parts of finely powdered litharge with one 

 part of very line sand, nnd one part of quicklime 

 which has been allowed to slack spontaneously 

 by exposure to the air. This mixture nmy be 

 kept for any length of time without injury, in 

 using it a portion is mixed into paste with lin- 

 seed oil, or still better, boiled linseed oil. In 

 this state it miist be quickly applied as it soon 

 becomes hard. 



|[;:g^To become a great man, you must study 

 great men. A horse that lives on hay could not 

 get up an oat trot, if it were to save his life. It 

 is by coming in contact with magnets that mag- 

 nets are made. 



A Day about the Gardens of Chicago. 



A few evenings since found tis on tlte train 

 hound in the direction of Milwaukee, of course 

 provided with that most indispensible commodity 

 to all editors, a pass from our good friend Super- 

 intendent Baldwin. By the way why do not all 

 railroad siiperiutendentshave a suburban home, 

 as well as Superinteadent Baldwin. It would 

 be a sort of connecting link between them and 

 the great public — something that would keep 

 them pleased with themselves and the rest of 

 mankinl. All of you superintendents who 

 board out, or keep houso in croy/'ded streets, 

 please to take a ride to Waukegan aud see how 

 a man may live and enjoy him^ely, and yet be a 

 railroad superintendent. We know of one or 

 two who would be vastly beaefittcil in this way. 

 The country air, fresh vegetables, ripe fruit end 

 beautiful flowers, would soon neutralize the vin- 

 egar in tlteir composition, and they would aee 

 their great array of patrons through a dilFerent 

 medium than the one their distorted visions 

 now present. Every man who pays for his ride, 

 is not, you see, a swi'jdler Every editor who 

 gives up his columns to defend reckless eogi- 

 iiecrs and stupid managers, might be suubbed 

 and their passes cut oif, but it would be hardly 

 fair and less polite to snubb all al.ke. Take a 

 taste of the country, gentleinea, ai:d fit your- 

 selves to ride to heaven with common people, if 

 not to enjoy the good things of this life. 



We are ahead of lime — ^just enough to see this 

 is the evening train for the suburban towns that 

 grace the Lake Shore, Kosehill, Oakton, Evans- 

 ton, Winetka, etc. The business men of this 

 city are crowding the coaches, ladias with their 

 shopping parcels, and nearly every one with 

 something to take home. Who that spends the 

 busy day amidst the dust, the turmoil, tho rat- 

 ling of wagons and drays of the great city, 

 would not wish to live on the lake shore, where 

 the whisper'ng waves and beautiful surroundings 

 make amends for the days trial. 



We stop at Oakton, and across the fields half 

 a mile to the beautiful grounds of our friend J. 

 C. Ure, the pioneer of cold graperies in the west. 

 Ilis grounds are yet new, and his time too fully 

 absorbed with the public grounds of Chicago to 

 make them what his interests demand ; but the 

 growth of everything is of the most satisfactory 

 kind, and his green-house plants are unequalled. 

 This is not on account of any extra care ; on the 

 contrary, no plant-house has had so little atten- 

 tion as his. The vigorous growth and good 



