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“Society as I Have Found It.”—L ast 
Sunday in this city Dr. J. Coleman Adams, 
in a forcible sermon against certain fash¬ 
ionable classes, said that there is a mighty 
procession of men and women, young and 
old, moving from table to drawing-room and 
from drawing-room to dancing hall in a 
ceaseless round of dinners, receptions, 
theater parties and balls, going late to bed 
and rising weary and heavy-eyed, to begin 
with each new day the old round of visits 
and entertainments. It is the season when 
the rivalries and heart-burnings of society 
rise to fever heat. 
He touched upon the subject of “ The 
Four Hundred,” and also the record of 
“The Other Half” of society. He said 
that Mr. McAllister’s book on society 
would be read with wonder and laid down 
with discouragement as embodying the 
worst spirit of American Life. 
It discloses a class among us, he said, as 
dead as pagans to all higher aims of living. 
It shows the existence of such standards in 
this Republic as those which precipitated 
the French Revolution or hastened the fall 
of Rome. If the book would be taken as 
a joke it would be a good one, but it is too 
serious for that. 
Its author is an accepted autocrat leader, 
and he writes the book without a belief 
that there is any higher object in living 
than to go to dinners and eat them ; to 
have parties which will cost fortunes, and 
build up mushroom aristocracy on the basis 
of great grandfathers and great dinners. 
His book is a eulogium of gluttony, 
profligacy and worldliness. Society as he 
has found it should have for a coat of arms 
on a gilt shield a champagne bottle and a 
carving knife rampant, quartered with a 
gold dollar and a Addle and a bow; for a 
crest, a dynamiter’s bomb, and underneath 
the motto, Let us eat and drink, for to¬ 
morrow we die. 
The other book to be read as an offset to 
this is how the other half lives and shows 
the squalid side of the great city’s life. 
Society as this man has found it is the 
great threat of the nineteenth century. It 
breeds like rats in tenement houses and 
breeds disease and crime in equal propor¬ 
tions. This is the society many times four 
hundred that live in “Darker New York,” 
whose constant struggle is to keep body 
and soul together. 
The speaker went on to say that these 
two classes, one of extreme squalor, the 
other of extreme luxury, were a burden to 
the great middle class between them, and 
both are useless to the State. 
SAMPLES. 
The new Bourbon rose Mrs. Paul, is one 
of exceptional beauty both as to flower and 
to foliage, if it may be judged by a well 
executed colored plate in a late London 
Garden. The flower is large with magnifi¬ 
cent petals, not at all crowded, of a light 
rose color. It is a perpetual bloomer. 
Irregular feeding of animals is ex- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
naturally cast blame upon the author of it, 
who, being a scientific man, or supposed to 
be, would thus bring discredit upon his 
profession. 
At last, says Rev. Thomas Dixon, the 
bloody chasm has been bridged. The war 
has really ended and firing must soon 
cease. The farmers of the West and North 
have joined hands with the farmers of the 
South, solemnly covenanting together to 
forget the bitterness of the past and throw 
off the curse of traditional sectionalism. 
The Christian manhood of America owes to 
the farmers a debt of gratitude for under¬ 
taking this divine work. General Sherman 
has said. “ War is hell.” It is ; and we 
have had enough of it. 
Mr. E. S. Goff finds out by careful trials 
that Timothy seed is fairly reliable up to 
five years of age, but beyond that age its 
vitality rapidly deteriorates. He observed 
in his experiments that the time required 
for germination increases with the age of 
the seed. 
In the soil of the Wisconsin Station, Mr. 
Goff does not find that level cultivation 
increases the yield over cultivation in hills. 
It appears that carp are driving all the 
native fish out of the Passaic River. 
Ex-Pres. Chamberlain (Iowa Agricul¬ 
tural College) is now at his farm near Hud¬ 
son, O., engaged in laying three miles of 
tile drains, as we learn from the Ohio 
Farmer. He has in previous years laid 12 
miles. The drains were placed 83 feet 
apart, and as this gives perfect drainage he 
is now laying them three rods apart. His 
soil is a tenacious clay and he prefers to 
lay the tiles 30 inches deep. 
Geo. W. Campbell says of the Jewell 
Grape that it is pure flavored and pleasant. 
He does not know of any other black grape 
which is so early that is nearly as good. 
Mr. Falconer says In the American 
Florist that Mrs. John Lewis Childs is the 
name of a very beautiful blush chrysanthe¬ 
mum raised at and now in bloom in quan¬ 
tity at Floral Park. It belongs to the 
Japanese section. The flowers are large, 
fully^double, five to six inches through, and 
have broad, incurved, shaving-like curled 
petals, and the plants are vigorous and 
very profuse. 
Mention is made of gladioli blooming 
the first year from seed in a number of in¬ 
stances. Three years is the shortest time 
in which we could ever induce a seedling 
gladiolus to bloom. But we have never 
been aided by glass. 
PROF. Storer mentions fine coal ashes 
as a substance which is easily puddled. He 
has seen admirable, hard, compact side¬ 
walks made by spreading one above the 
other several thin layers of sifted coal 
ashes and wetting, raking pertinaciously, 
and rolling each layer. The results are sur¬ 
prising. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
NEVER A ROSE, ETC. 
Quoth Slow to Swift, “ I cannot see 
How you have risen so. 
When thorny paths discourage me 
The higher up you go!” 
Quoth Swiit. with inspiration rife, 
“ Why, how do you suppose ? 
By heeding not the thorns of life— 
That, sir, is how I rose !” 
vania men work 12 hours a day, with no 
time to court their wives or kiss their child¬ 
ren, so long my hand and my heart are en¬ 
listed in any and every movement that 
gives fair promise for the emancipation of 
man by the emancipation of industry.” 
-Gladstone in the Nineteenth Century: 
“ It is one of the landmarks of the age that 
the possession of great wealth is coming to 
be looked upon as less a personal privilege 
than a personal responsibility ; that not 
hoarding, to bequeath vast sums at death, 
but wisely distributing during life, is the 
present ideal Mr. Carnegie’s terse little 
declaration, ‘ The man who dies rich dies 
disgraced,’ has passed into an axiom of 
ethics. To acquire power aud to use it well 
is unquestionably a higher ideal than to de¬ 
cline and refuse all power.” 
-N. Y. Herald : Rev. Plink Plunk on 
Flattery—“ Doan listen to flatters, deah 
breddern, becuz ef ya do ya’ll be sorry for 
it in de end. De flatter has alwuss an ob 
jeck in view; de man dat smiles in yer face 
an’ praises ya up [fer de way ye raises 
yer chickens am only waitin fer a dark 
night to come, wen he kin sneak aroun’ an’ 
make a selection from yer pootiest pullets 
fer his own use.” 
“Few angels could remain angelic 
through a hay fever sdance.” 
“ To criticise enviously Is to injure your¬ 
self more than the man criticised.” 
“ Truth crushed to earth will rise again, 
but it’s bad policy to crush it.” 
“Any man will bear watching who cause¬ 
lessly slurs another.” 
“Sermonette on the Devil.— The devil 
would rather see a strict temperance man 
break the pledge by tasting a mouthful of 
sherry than an army of tramps on the wild 
est kind of a debauch.” 
-Agriculture : “ It is not true that 
the roots of plants can start off at will, like 
the legs of animals, in the direction of any 
given mass of nourishment. But it is 
most distinctly true that, when the rootlets 
come in contact with earth and water in 
which there is an abundance of plant-food, 
they will be developed there with far 
greater rapidity than in the neighboring 
portions of earth in which less food is to be 
found. The roots of a plant thus often get 
a distinct bias in one direction, almost as 
if they had intentionally proceeded in that 
direction from the first.” 
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