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THE  RURAI 
NEW-YORKER 
Aug.  13 
Daisy,  Bright  Daisy. 
O  daisy!  bright  daisy!  so  constant  and  true. 
Was  ever  a  blossom  more  fair  ? 
You  live  In  the  sunshine  and  bathe  In  the  dew, 
And  lift  up  your  face  as  In  prayer. 
You  list’  to  the  story  of  maiden’s  first  love, 
And  prove  he  is  faithful  or  no— 
She  values  your  councils  all  others  above, 
And  lingers  yet  long  where  you  grow. 
O  daisy!  bright  daisy!  on  hillside  and  glen, 
Yonr  mission  Is  ever  the  same, 
They  seek  you  and  praise  you,  they  hold  you  and  then 
They  count  all  your  points  with  a  name. 
A  rich  man,  a  poor  man,  a  beggar  and  thief. 
With  a  doctor  and  lawyer  in  store— 
And  thev  plan  for  a  dwelling  with  each  tiny  leaf, 
As  they  number  them  over  once  more. 
O  daisy!  bright  daisy!  with  wonderful  power 
To  make  all  the  future  look  glad, 
In  Nature’s  own  garden  your  beautiful  flower 
Is  loved  by  each  lassie  and  lad. 
Though  roses  and  lilies  are  sweeter  by  far, 
They  lose  their  sweet  bloom  in  a  day. 
While  your  petals  so  lasting  spread  out  like  a  star, 
And  gleam  In  our  path  like  a  ray 
O  daisy!  bright  daisy!  with  gold  In  your  heart, 
We  prize  you  wherever  we  roam, 
Of  memory’s  jewels  you  yet  are  a  part, 
As  we  think  of  our  childhood  and  home, 
By  the  wayside  still  growing  and  o’er  the  low  mound, 
May  your  pearly  white  circles  be  seen, 
Wherever  the  pledge  of  true  friendship  is  found, 
We  greet  you  our  bright  daisy  queen. 
— IttTTH  RAYMOND. 
Odds  and  Ends. 
Early  Oregon  Apples. — The  Ameri¬ 
can  Cider  Maker  gives  these  figures 
to  show  that  apple  growing  beat  gold 
mining  in  the  early  days  of  Oregon  : 
The  early  fruit  growers  of  Oregon  had 
a  wonderful  market  for  a  few  years  in 
San  Francisco.  In  1854,  500  bushels  of 
apples  were  shipped  from  Oregon  to  Cali¬ 
fornia,  and  returned  a  net  profit  of  $1.50 
to  $2  per  pound.  In  1855,  the  shipments 
rose  to  0,000  bushels,  which  sold  at  $20  to 
$30  per  bushel.  In  1856,  the  shipments 
rose  to  20,000  boxes.  Even  in  this  year 
big  prices  were  received,  and  for  choice 
fruit  fancy  figures  were  obtained,  one 
box  of  Esopus  Spitzenbergs  selling  for 
$60.  The  Californians  planted  apple 
trees,  and  after  1860  the  shipments  of 
apples  from  Oregon  began  to  decline. 
A  Potato  Digging  Contest. — The  Gov¬ 
ernment  of  Victoria,  Australia,  offered 
prizes  amounting  to  $1,250  for  the  most 
useful  potato  digger  and  the  contest  re¬ 
cently  came  off.  There  were  48  entries  ; 
but  only  15  different  machines  started 
and  only  three  finished.  Two  of  these 
were  American  machines  and  they  did 
the  best  work,  but  were  unjustly  denied 
a  satisfactory  award.  The  report  says : 
The  first  incident  was  the  strike  of  the 
men  employed  on  the  estate  to  dig  the 
l>otatoes  with  the  ordinary  fork,  for  more 
pay,  as  they  evidently  concluded  that 
their  occupation  was  going,  if  not  gone. 
The  second  was  a  derisive  howl  set  up 
by  these  men  at  the  failure  of  the  first 
machine  which  essayed  to  do  work. 
The  invention  of  the  mowing  machine, 
the  reaper  and  the  thrasher  all  threw 
many  hand  laborers  out  of  work— took 
away  from  them  jobs  that  were  supposed 
to  be  theirs  by  inheritance  and  long  ser¬ 
vice.  Sooner  or  later  laborers  found 
that  it  did  no  good  to  try  to  smash  or 
burn  these  new  machines.  They  repre¬ 
sented  progress,  and  that  could  not  be 
stopped.  The  laborer  found  that  he  was 
forced  to  adapt  himself  to  the  changed 
conditions  and  went  into  some  new  job. 
Every  improved  machine  has  tended  to 
reduce  the  cost  of  production,  and  while 
reducing  the  selling  price  somewhat,  has 
always  made  a  profit  for  somebody.  Has 
the  displaced  laborer  any  right  to  a  share 
of  that  profit  ?  Answer  that  and  you  can 
settle  strikes  and  labor  problems. 
Ignorance  of  Common 
Things. 
MARY  AVAGER-FISHER. 
The  remark  of  Prof.  Brewer,  of  Yale 
College,  as  reported  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  of 
June  4 — “  I  have  talked  with  students  of 
well-to-do  families,  avIio  admitted  that 
they  could  not  give  the  names  of  three 
trees  growing  in  the  streets  ” — illustrates 
a  state  of  ignorance  b}7  no  means  confined 
to  Yale  College  men.  A  few  years  ago 
I  was  present  at  a  class  lecture  given  by 
Dr.  Emily  L.  Gregory  (now  Professor  of 
Botany  in  Barnard  College),  in  which 
she  showed  a  great  variety  of  pressed 
leaves  to  illustrate  her  theme,  and  occa¬ 
sionally  asked  to  have  their  names 
given.  There  were  about  18  young 
women  in  the  lecture  room  (Bryn  Mawr 
College),  from  as  many  different  parts  of 
the  country,  but  not  one  of  them  recog¬ 
nized  and  named  the  oak  leaf  when  held 
up  to  their  gaze  !  To  say  that  I  was  as¬ 
tounded  would  be  to  express  my  surprise 
none  too  strongly.  It  seemed  wholly  in¬ 
credible  that  the  characteristic  leaf  of 
the  White  Oak  should  not  be  familiar  to 
every  average  girl  in  an  Eastern  college. 
And  very  recently,  in  being  a  member  of 
an  out-door  sketching  class  of  young  and 
middle-aged  women,  I  have  been  daily 
reminded  of  the  oak-leaf  incident  by  the 
amazing  ignorance  of  the  class  regarding 
the  names  of  the  trees  and  plants  which 
we  encountered,  and  one  would  naturally 
suppose  that  such  women  were  consider¬ 
ably  above  the  average  in  intelligence  and 
observation.  As  for  myself,  I  was  re¬ 
garded  apparently  as  a  perfect  mine  of 
botanical  lore  because  I  knew  chick-weed 
and  crane’s-bill,  to  say  nothing  of  elms 
and  chestnuts  ! 
President  Elliott,  of  Harvard,  lately 
raised  quite  a  breeze  in  certain  quarters 
by  remarking  that  our  system  of  public 
schools  was  inferior  to  that  in  parts  of 
Europe.  Whether  this  be  true  or  not, 
our  own  public  schools  fall  short  of  the 
work  they  ought  to  do  in  training  the 
pupils’  powers  of  observation  in  regard 
to  the  every-day  things  about  them.  It 
seems  to  be  characteristic — it  may  be  in¬ 
herent — in  ordinary  people  to  detect 
nothing  of  interest  or  beauty  in  their  im¬ 
mediate  surroundings,  while  every  possi¬ 
bility  for  wealth  and  fame  and  things  to 
be  desired  lie  in  some  distant  or  far-off 
locality.  It  is  quite  possible  that  noth¬ 
ing  taught  or  “  taught  at”  in  our  public 
schools  is  wholly  worthless,  but  a  good 
many  things  that  are  not  taught  are  un¬ 
questionably  less  worthless.  Can  any  one 
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less  value  to  a  child  than  to  be  able  to 
give  the  rule  for  cube  root,  or  to  knoAv 
the  names  and  values  of  all  trees  in  the 
neighborhood  a  knowledge  less  to  be 
desired  than  to  have  the  history  of  the 
Romans  at  the  tongue’s  end  ? 
I  remember  when  I  was  a  child  of  six 
or  eight  years,  that  a  summer  teacher  in 
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The  printing  of  “Uncle  Tom’s  Cabin” 
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“  Uncle  Tom’s  Cabin  ”  was  at  once  a  pic¬ 
ture  and  a  chief  means  of  overthrowing, 
Northern  and  Southern  writers  recognize 
its  truthfulness,  and  vie  with  each  other 
in  praising  the  book,  while  its  fame 
abroad  is  scarcely  less  than  that  which  it 
possesses  in  the  United  States.  There 
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inal  work,  eight  abridgements  and  adap- 
the  country  school  threw  half  the  school 
district  into  convulsions  by  introducing 
water-color  drawing  of  maps  and  simple 
objects  in  the  curriculum  of  study.  The 
innovation  was  denounced  as  “nonsense” 
and  “foolishness;”  but  that  teacher  lives 
in  my  memory  to  this  day,  vvitli  a  halo 
around  her  head,  and  some  of  those  maps 
Avith  their  “shaded  borders” — all  dreadful 
enough — are  probably  in  existence  in  the 
attic.  I  believe  she  was  voted  a  failure 
as  a  teacher,  because  she  did  not  bother 
us  much  with  the  three  Rs,  but  we  got 
ideas  of  color,  form,  light  and  shade,  and 
were  made  able  to  see  a  good  many  more 
tints  in  a  snow-ball,  for  example,  than  a 
mass  of  white.  What  a  boon  it  Avould  be 
if  many  people  Avho  perforce  must  live  in 
“tumble-down”  houses  or  dwellings  low, 
and  to  them  mean-looking,  could  see 
how  beautiful  they  are  to  an  artist’s  eye, 
and  Iioav  in  hunting  for  the  subject  of  his 
picture,  he  would  pass  by  all  fine  modern 
houses,  and  plant  his  sketching  trap  in 
view  of  the  simplest  cottage  he  could 
find.  One  can’t  know  everything,  but  is 
it  not  better  to  knoAv  intimately  the 
common  things  about  one,  to  see  the 
beauty  at  one’s  very  door  than  to  be  dis¬ 
contented  Avitli  one’s  lot  because  it  seems 
so  dull  and  common-place  ?  A  genius 
finds  these  things  out  for  himself,  but 
the  most  of  us  could  be  mightily  aided  in 
our  Avays  of  looking  at  things,  if  only 
blessed  Avitli  teachers  about  us  in  early 
life  Avho  had  broad  ideas,  and  capable  of 
seeing  all  around  a  barn  instead  of  the 
gable  end  only. 
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