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Sept.  3 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Odds  and  Ends. 
FALSE  KINDNESS. 
The  softest  little  fluff  of  fur! 
The  gentlest,  most  persuasive  purr! 
Oh.  everybody  told  me  that 
She  was  the  “  loveliest  little  cat!  ” 
So  when  she  on  the  table  sprung. 
And  lapped  the  cream  with  small  red  tongue, 
I  only  gently  put  her  down. 
And  said,  “  No,  no!”  and  tried  to  frown; 
But  If  I  had  been  truly  kind. 
I  should  have  made  that  kitten  mind! 
Now,  large  and  quick,  and  strong  of  will, 
She’ll  spring  upon  the  table  still, 
And,  spite  of  all  my  watchful  care, 
Will  snatch  the  choicest  datntles  there; 
And  everybody  says,  “  Seat!  scat! 
She’s  such  a  dreadful,  dreadful  cat!” 
But  X.  who  bear  them,  know,  with  shame, 
I  only  am  the  one  to  blame, 
For  in  the  days  when  she  was  young. 
And  lapped  the  cream  with  small  red  tongue. 
Had  I  to  her  been  truly  kind, 
I  Bhould  have  made  that  kitten  mind. 
—Harper's  Young  People. 
A  Bro  Grape  Vine. — Who  has  had 
experience  enough  with  the  Empire 
State  as  an  arbor  grape  to  beat  this  story 
from  a  Tulare,  Cal.,  paper? 
The  vine  was  set  out  a  year  ago,  and 
the  present  summer  it  has  made  a  growth 
of  75  feet.  It  is  growing  on  a  six-foot 
lath  fence  and  has  completely  hidden  it 
from  view,  and  there  are  over  500  pounds 
of  white  grapes  on  it.  They  are  just 
getting  ripe.  In  flavor  they  are  between 
the  Sweetwater  and  the  Muscat,  and 
about  the  same  size.  They  are  called 
the  Empire  State,  and  are  certainly  the 
“  boss  ”  arbor  grape,  as  they  would  make 
a  complete  arbor  in  one  season. 
A  Ciiinkse  Advertisement. — The  fol¬ 
lowing  advertisement  is  said  by  Printer’s 
Ink  to  have  appeared  in  a  paper  printed 
in  Hong  Kong,  China  : 
I  have  a  tame  cat  is  lost  it  is  about  nine 
pounds  his  breast  all  are  white  the  hands 
and  legs  both  are  white  but  one  his  be¬ 
hind  leg  outside  part  have  a  spot  Gray 
Colour  and  his  back  are  all  gray  but  the 
back  have  a  white  blue  spot  on  his  muz¬ 
zle  is  red  and  his  head  is  light  black  his 
neck  have  a  iron  ring  on  it  and  with  six 
Chinese  money  to  tie  it  tight  on  the  iron 
ring  in  his  nake  if  any  people  know 
where  he  was  bring  back  to  me  I  will 
prefer  to  give  him  two  dollars  for  re¬ 
ward.  FANG  LEE  YUM. 
“New  Celery  Culture.” — In  com¬ 
menting  on  this  little  book,  which  is  pub¬ 
lished  by  the  Rural  Publishing  Co.,  Mr. 
T.  Greiner  says  in  Farm  and  Fireside  : 
What  gigantic  fools  we  have  been  to 
bestow  all  that  vast  amount  of  labor  on 
our  celery  patches.,  and  to  move  those 
many  cubic  yards  of  soil  for  the  purpose 
of  blanching  the  stalks  when,  with  a 
little  more  concentration  of  effort,  by 
putting  the  same  manure  on  one  quarter 
the  area,  by  planting  closely  of  the  right 
varieties,  we  might  have  let  the  crop  do 
its  own  blanching  under  its  own  shade. 
Don’t  tell  me,  friends,  that  the  plan  is 
not  feasible.  Come  and  see  my  patch  and 
learn  how  easy  it  is  to  grow  a  heavy  crop 
by  the  new  method.  My  plants  are  in 
rows  one  foot  apart,  and  stand  six  inches 
apart  in  the  rows.  Mr.  Robert  Niven,  the 
author  and  originator  of  the  new  plan 
(although  it  is  really  not  quite  new),  sets 
his  plants  seven  by  seven  inches  apart.  I 
am  as  yet  in  doubt  as  to  which  is  the  best 
distance,  and  am  now  experimenting  to 
find  out.  I  only  regret  now  that  I  did 
not  plant  one-quarter  or  one-half  of  an 
acre,  instead  of  a  little  patch  of  1,000 
plants.  Next  week  I  am  going  to  plant 
more  largely  of  late  celery.  Mr.  Niven 
talks  of  realizing  $2,000  per  acre.  I  have 
no  doubt  that  it  can  be  done.  Later  on 
I  shall  have  more  to  say  on  this  subject. 
Danger  in  a  Windmill. — On  Barbadoes 
Island  the  trade  wind  is  so  sure  and  con¬ 
stant  that  windmills  are  largely  used  in 
the  place  of  steam  for  running  the  sugar 
mills  and  pumping.  The  old-fashioned 
Dutch  mills  are  used  with  big  sails  like 
the  sails  of  a  ship.  At  one  mill  a  man, 
while  fixing  the  sail,  wras  carried  aloft 
by  it.  Then,  we  are  told, 
Re  fortunately  had  all  his  wits  about 
him,  and  managed  to  get  his  feet  round 
a  bar  of  the  sail,  and  to  hold  on  to  the 
one  above.  In  this  position  he  was  car¬ 
ried  round,  the  mill  revolving  with  in¬ 
creased  rapidity,  as  the  man  whose  duty 
it  was  to  feed  it  had  rushed  out  at  the 
first  alarm.  A  cry  was  raised  to  choke 
the  rollers  with  cane,  and  so  stop  the 
mill ;  this  was  done  at  the  imminent  risk 
of  breaking  some  of  the  machinery,  and 
so  releasing  the  sails  altogether.  After 
six  complete  revolutions  the  mill  was 
stopped,  fairly  choked  by  the  bundles  of 
cane  thrust  into  its  jaws,  leaving  the 
sail,  to  which  the  man  still  clung,  upper¬ 
most,  and  he  90  feet  from  the  ground. 
With  marvelous  nerve,  or  rather  lack  of 
nerves,  he  proceeded  to  climb  down  that 
perilous  ladder,  and  reached  the  ground 
without  assistance.  An  easy  calculation 
will  show  he  had  traveled  close  on  to  600 
yards  in  his  aerial  journey,  and  half  the 
distance  with  his  head  downward.  Prob¬ 
ably  not  a  white  man  living  could  have 
held  on  under  the  circumstances ;  but 
the  negro,  when  un fretted  by  boots,  is  as 
agile  as  a  monkey. 
Some  Big  Chickens.  —  “  Before  the 
war  ”  at  the  South  was  a  wonderful 
period  if  we  may  believe  the  great  stories 
told  about  it.  Such  statesmen,  such  crops 
as  they  had  in  these  days— and  now  such 
chickens !  A  writer  in  the  Fancier’s 
Journal  tells  this  story  : 
“What  yo’  call  dem  are  big  white 
chickens?  Yes,  dem  ar  turkey-lookin’ 
ones,”  inquired  an  old  negro  of  me  lately 
pointing  to  half  a  dozen  Light  Brahmas 
on  the  lawn. 
“Why,  those  are  Brahmas,  uncle.  Ever 
see  any  like  them  before  ?  ” 
“Bremmers,  is  day.  Bremmers,  eh? 
Oh,  yes,  I’se  seed  dem  afo’.  Yes,  I’se 
seed  dem  Bremmers.  Seed  dem  afo’  de 
wah,  sah,  but  dey  didn’s  call  dem  no 
Bremmers,  sah,  deed  dey  didn’t  Dey 
called  dem,  er,  a — well,  sah,  I  done  for¬ 
got  dat,  but  hits  not  Bremmers.  No, 
dat’s  not  hit,” 
“Maybe  they  were  Shanghais,  uncle.” 
Dat  deh  was  Shanghises.  Yes,  sah, 
dat’s  what  my  old  master  called  dem. 
Dey  had  larger  legs  dan  dese  yere  jmu 
got,  but  dey  was  de  same  ’dentical 
chicken.  Um,  um!  dey  was  fine  ones.  Mar- 
ster  bought  dem  up  among  de  Yankees 
somewares,  but  we  loss  dem  endurin’  de 
wah,  sah.  Spect  yo’  doan  know  much 
’bout  de  wah.  Marster  he  went  off  to 
fight  de  Yankees  an’  lef’  me  an’  ’bout  a 
dozen  moah  to  take  care  o’  missus  an’ 
de  chil’n  an’  run  de  fahm.  We  had  lots 
o’  dem  Shanghises,  a  hundred,  I  spect. 
Big  as  turkeys,  dey  was.  Could  eat  outen 
de  lioss  troff.  Well,  sah,  one  day  de 
Yankee  army  cum  ’long,  an’  dat  was  de 
las’  o’  de  Shanghises.” 
“  Took  them  all,  did  they  ?” 
“  Well,  sah,  it  was  de  biggest  sight  I 
eber  seed  to  see  them  Yankee  sogers 
chasing  de  chickens.  Missus  was  mad, 
an’  got  the  shotgun  to  shoot  ’em,  but 
dey  done  laffed  at  her.  Sich  a  runnin’, 
an’  a  squawkin’,  an’  a  shootin’,  an’  a  yel¬ 
lin’  I  neber  seed  afo.  Wen  dey  couldn’t 
cotch  a  chicken  running’  hit,  bang  went 
de  gun  an’  de  chicken  drapped.  De  nex’ 
day,  sah,  dey  wont  no  chickens  on  de 
place,  no  turkeys,  no  ducks,  no  pigs,  no 
bosses,  all  gone.  Dey  killed  all  the  fowls 
an’  pigs,  put  dem  on  de  backs  ob  our 
hosses  and  toated  dem  off.  Dey  done 
took  my  plow  mules,  hitched  dem  to  de 
bes’  wagon,  filled  de  wagon  wid  co’n, 
potatoes  an’  meat  outen  de  smoke-house, 
an’  away  dey  went.  But  loosin’  dem 
Shanghises  make  missus  an’  de  chil’n 
sick.  Such  nice  big  chickens  dey  wus  ! 
Yo’  all  liain't  got  no  chickens  like  dem. 
No,  sah.  Dese  yer  am  fine  ones,  I  spect, 
mighty  fine  ones.  Ef  yo’  all ’d  seed  dem 
we  loss  endurin’  de  wah  you’d  a  seed 
chickens ,  dat  yon  would.  Hain’t  seed 
nuffin’  like  dem  sence,  sah.” 
“  How  much  do  you  think  they  would 
weigh  apiece,  uncle  ?” 
“  What,  de  chickens  ?” 
“Yes,  the  chickens.” 
“  De  Shanghises?” 
“That’s  what  I  mean.” 
“  Well,  sah,  I  done  fo’got  now.  Been 
a  long  time  sence  de  wah,  sah.  But  I 
spect  dem  Shanghises  ’d  weigh  fo’ty 
pounds,  sah.” 
“  Forty  pounds  !  ”  I  exclaimed. 
“Dat  dey  would,  sah.  Oh,  dey  was 
chickens,  dem  Shanghises  wus.  Laid  de 
bigges’  eggs,  bigger  dan  geese  eggs.  I 
know  dey  wus  bigger’n  geese  eggs,  kase 
one  o’  de  shells  jest  held  a  quart  o’ 
water.  Oh,  yes,  dese  yer  Bremmens  is 
de  bigges’  chicken  sence  de  wah,  I 
reckon,  but  they  kaint  grow  up  to  de 
size  o’  dem  Shanghises  we  had  afo’  de 
wah,  an’  endurin’  de  wah.  No,  sah,  dey 
kaint.” 
“  Forty  pounds,  uncle,  is  heavy  weight 
for  a  chicken,”  I  suggested. 
“Not  fo’  dem  chickens,  dem  Shang¬ 
hises,  sah.  Dar  was  a  roostah  ’mong  de 
lot  dat  wus  more’n  fo’ty  pounds  big,  sah. 
I  spect  dat  roostah,  well  es  I  kin  ’mem¬ 
ber  now,  sah,  ’d  weigh  mighty  nigh  60 
pound.  No  sah,  I  hain’t  seed  nuffin’ sence 
de  wah  like  dem.  Yo’  all  got  good 
chickens,  but  yo’  ought  to  seed  dem  at 
my  old  marster’s  place  enduring’  de  wah, 
dem  Shanghises,  sah.” 
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