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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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a club and beat the strange, vicious 
brute away; but poor little Jip was 
so badly bitten that he died on the ninth 
day after from blood poisoning. We did all 
that grateful tenderness and medical skill 
could suggest, but nothing could save him. 
He whined and begged so piteously when¬ 
ever I went from his sight, that we had 
him Drought to a back portico where he 
could see me as I sat or passed to and fro 
at my work. One evening as I sat sewing, 
just before the time for his wcunds to be 
bathed and dressed, he tottered feebly to 
my side, made a slight, ineffectual effort 
to put up his feet on my knee, laid himself 
wearily down on the edge of my dress, and 
died. Ah me! dear, brave, gallant little 
Jip, who gave his life to save his master. 
Mississippi. s. A N. 
A DAINTY COUNTRY CONFECTION. 
T HE privileges aud joys peculiar to 
farm life are often overlooked by 
those who eDjoy them, and are even 
counted as nought, because of the feverish 
loDging forsome other advantage, perhaps 
peculiar to the city dweller, to which dis¬ 
tance and difficulty of attainment lend 
enchantment. 
A writer in Good Housekeeping mentions 
a dainty confection known among French 
Canadians as sucre a la creme, which may 
be styled as essentially a confection of the 
country. Nowhere, except within reach, 
as it were, of the very trees from which it 
is taken, can one i e sure of obtaining pure 
and fresh maple sugar, and the difference 
between this and the article which aspires 
to the name in city markets is a3 great as 
the difference between the market straw¬ 
berry and the “ real ” article. A late expe¬ 
rience in purchasing what was guaranteed 
to be, in commercial slang, “ the clear 
quill,” leads us to make this statement 
with especial feeling. 
But to the confection, which is vouched 
for as being most particularly delicious, 
which can not be bought in the city con¬ 
fectioner’s shops even of beautiful Paris, 
and which even as sold in Canadian shops 
is far inferior to that made in the home, 
even though it is called the national sweet¬ 
meat of Canada. 
The formula allows one pint of fresh 
cream to every pound of maple sugar. The 
broken sugar and the cream are placed 
over a bright fire in a lined saucepan, and 
boiled together for an hour, during which 
time the mixture is constantly stirred in 
one direction. The stirring is continued 
after the pan is removed from the fire until 
the mass cools and begins to thicken, when 
it is poured into shallow, buttered dishes, 
and set to harden. Butternuts, chopped 
fine and added during the process of boil 
ing, are thought to add to the charms of 
the sweetmeat. 
We hope our readers in the sugar dis¬ 
tricts, to whom this recipe is new, will 
try it, even though it is considerable work ; 
it may be found to outshine even the 
favorite “ sugar on snow,” aud may be 
indulged in much later in the season. 
POINTS FOR SUCCESS WITH TUBE¬ 
ROSES. 
T O the correspondent who has trouble 
with tuberoses, we would say that 
when home-grown bulbs do not bloom, the 
reason maybe looked for in one of three 
directions. They may not yet be of bloom¬ 
ing size; they may have already bloomed 
once, in which case their work in this line 
is done ; they may have been kept so cool 
during the winter as to kill the germs of 
the flowers. Not below 40 degrees is the 
standard rule of temperature for the pres¬ 
ervation of these bulbs. 
The mass of roots, if they still remain, is 
to be broken or cut away, before the bulb 
is potted, and some professional florists 
advise cutting away a slice of the sound 
bulb to induce early throwing out of roots 
and earlier blooming. The double Pearl is 
earlier than the other variety, but all 
should be started in the house if desired 
early. If not started until it is safe for 
Plk ask mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
them out-of-doors—hardly before the first 
of June in this latitude—they are likely 
to be nipped by Jack Frost unless potted 
for house blooming in the fall, a task a 
little difficult to compass without undue 
disturbance of the roots and possible blast¬ 
ing of the buds. 
The tuberose requires full light and 
heat, and plenty of moisture when well 
started, although, like most bulbs, it is 
impatient of too much water when first 
potted. 
We believe that some florists are offering 
as a novelty of the season a variety which 
not only branches, thus giving more 
flowers, but which gives flowers for several 
years in succession from the same bulb, 
truly a new thing in tuberoses, if it be a 
true tuberose. 
THE WRONG WAY. 
TANDING by my sitting-room win¬ 
dows changing the hooks that hold 
the curtains back in place to a higher posi¬ 
tion on the casing, I found one hook that 
refused to enter the wood. I turned and 
turned, and it was rather awkward work. 
I was obliged to use my left hand as it was 
on the left side, and the side wall gave no 
place for the other hand. I went for the 
awl and made a place for that obstinate 
screw hook, but it was no use ; take hold 
of the wood, it would not. Just then I 
happened to turn it the other way, and, 
presto ! it cleft the wood like magic. The 
poor hook 1 All this time I had been try¬ 
ing to turn it (in using my left hand) the 
wrong way. 
Instantly it came to me how often in this 
world we make a like mistake with those 
around us—our dearest ones. Unknowingly 
we set ourselves against their plans and 
purposes, thereby upsetting the tenor of a 
whole life; whereas, if we only knew, all 
would be changed even as I turned the now 
yielding hook and looped the curtain in its 
place. EMILY H. STEEDMAN. 
HOMEMADE COURT PLASTER, AND 
ITS USES. 
ALF FILL a four-ounce bottle with 
isiDglass broken in small pieces; 
then fill it up with the best proof whisky. 
Let it stand time or four days, shaking it 
now and then and it will be ready to pre¬ 
pare the plaster. To prepare it for use, tear 
the best parts from old linen shirt bosoms 
and put two or three coats of the glue prep¬ 
aration on with a fine brush, letting It dry 
a few minui es between coats. Put it away 
in a box in a drawer, to keep dry and it is 
ready for any emergency. For doing up 
large sores or holding wounds together, use 
new white cambric prepared in the same 
way. An old lady staying with me, more 
than 20 years ago had a cancer taken 
out of her upper lip, leaving it disfigured ; 
every morning she cuts off a piece from her 
stock of court plaster on hand, dampens it 
as we do our postage stamps, and presses 
it in the place with the hand. One can 
make black court-plaster by using old 
pieces of black silk or flue black camb, ic. 
We have mended small rents in a black 
silk dress beyond detection, by simply damp 
ening a piece of the black court plaster 
putting it on the wrong side and pressing 
with the hand until dry. I think other nn- 
washable goods could be mended in the 
same way if done before the tear has 
fra} ed. 
This glue will mend glass, china or crock- 
eryware, vases or any small articles about 
a house. Wet both edges with lhe glue, 
putting it on with a brush. Of course such 
things should not be put into hot water ; 
but be washed in warm water and dried im¬ 
mediately. C. R. D. 
Illinois. 
A HELPFUL RIVAL. 
N a sketch of Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew, 
the Ladies Home Journal says that she 
is a dangerous rival to that prince of story 
tellers, her husband, in his own favorite 
field. She is said to be “charming,” a 
word, however, which seldom fails to 
describe the wife of a man well known to 
the public. Immediately after her mar¬ 
riage in 1871, Mrs. Depew began to act as 
her husband’s secretary, and has ever since 
been of the greatest assistance to him. It 
seems a very easy matter, to the unthink¬ 
ing, that of preventing a man’s engage¬ 
ments from conflicting; but practical tx- 
perience teaches differently, and when Mr. 
Depew found himself engaged at three 
different places during the same hours of 
the same evenings, he was more than w ill- 
ing to have his wife take possession and 
straighten things for him once more. She 
is a constant aid to him in many other 
ways, and the frequency with which the 
private telephone—between his office and 
her suite of rooms—sounds, is evidence of 
the important part she plays in his busi¬ 
ness, as well as domestic affairs. 
In addition to her duties as secretary, 
which include the receiving and ac 
knowledging of all Mr. Depew’s invitations 
(and it must be remembered that these 
amount often to several hundred a week) 
as well as the care of all his personal mail, 
Mrs. Depew personally supervises the 
education, reading and recreations of her 
son, and of her two little orphan nieces; is 
her own housekeeper; and yet, with all this, 
finds opportunity to continue her studies 
in German and French, and to practice 
daily. Besides being a most proficient 
pianist. Mrs. Depew sings very well. Her 
voice is contralto and sweet in quality. 
Mrs. Depew is rarely met in society, as 
she has been in almost constant mourning 
for a number of years past, and her many 
occupations now completely occupy her 
time. She is a woman who believes that 
woman’s first duty lies in the home-life 
and home cares. 
The Carpet Beetle.— Dr. J. A. Lintner 
New York State Entomologist, gives the 
following instructions for keeping the car¬ 
pet beetle out of the house: “ Put fine 
gauze over the windows. The beetles usu¬ 
ally enter through upper windows. Some 
times they are introduced in carpet stretch¬ 
ers from carpet stores. Do not nail the 
carpets to the floor, and apply kerosene or 
benzine with a feather to their edges, first 
having stopped all crevices in the base¬ 
boards with cotton. They are usually 
found near the edges of the carpet. Eter¬ 
nal vigilance is the only price by which the 
pest can be removed.” 
Never bear removable annoyances or 
unnecessary friction; have the oil can, good 
nature, pressed by the finger of self-control, 
and drawn from the receptacle of love for 
our fellows, alw ays ready. Such an oil-can 
would save many quarrels.—Dr. Lyman 
Abbott. 
Marriage is woman’s proper condition 
and home is her diocese, but in these sacred 
precincts there are very many positions that 
do not begin to pay living wages.—City Ex 
change. 
The common problem, yours, mine, every 
one’s, 
Is—not to fancy what were fair in life • 
Provided it could be—but finding first 
What may be, then find how to make it 
fair 
Up to our means—a very different thing.— 
Farm Journal. 
He’s a character, is uncle Joe, and some¬ 
times I like him and sometimes I don’t. I 
am not one of those who think because a 
person is a “relation” you are in duty 
bound to like him. If my relatives are nice 
and lovable and possessed of qualities I ad¬ 
mire, I like them; if they are not, I have no 
use for them, aud that’s all there is of it.— 
Detroit Household. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
CONSTIPATION 
and other 
bowel complaints 
cured and prevented 
by the prompt 
use of 
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills 
They 
regulate the liver, 
cleanse the stomach, 
and greatly assist 
digestion. * 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. 
Lowell, Mass. 
Tutt’s Pills 
stimulate the torpid liver, strengthen the 
digestive organ's, regulate the bowels, and 
are unequaled as an 
Anti-Bilious Medicine. 
Elegantly sugar coated. Dose small. Price, 
25 cents. Ollice. 3D & 41 Park Place, N. Y. 
Six days earlier than 
any variety tested at the 
Agrli-uit’l Ex. Grounds 
at U< neva, N. Y. Color 
greenish white : pulp 
tender, sweet and de¬ 
licious. The only grape 
that ranks first noth in 
earliness and quality 
Each vine sealed with 
tur registered trade¬ 
mark label. Send for 
giviug rumo r Information. Agents wanted 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS. New Canaan, Ct. 
GOLD MEDAL^PABIS, 1878. 
GERMAN 
Sweet Chocolate. 
, The most popular sweet 
’ Chocolate in the market, 
is nutritious and palat¬ 
able ; a particular favorite 
witli children, and a most 
excellent article for family 
use. 
Served as a drink, or 
eaten as confectionery, it 
[is a delicious Chocolate. 
The genuine is stamped 
_ I upon the wrapper, S. Ger¬ 
man, Dorchester, Mass. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. 
GENUINE PHILADELPHIA. 
300,000 IN THE FIELD. 
Lawn Mower. 
Hand Sizes, 10 to 20 Inches. 
Both Open and Solid Cylinders. 
Pony and Horse, 30 and 36 Inches. 
Lawn Sweepers and Grass Edgers. 
GRAHAM, EMLEN & PASSMORE, 
L 631 Market Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Package makes 6 gallons. 
Delicious, sparkling, and 
appetizing. Sold by nil 
dealers, FREE a beautiful 
Picture Book and cards 
oont- to any one addressing 
C. E. HIRES <fc CO., 
Philadelphia, 
It keeps 
but wiping. 
Send for a 
tell it all here. 
D’ye see those 
skates ? The Pitts¬ 
burgh lamp is 
ahead. It gives 
magnificent light. 
It is easy to 
care for. 
itself clean—all 
primer—can’t 
TT-- Dn.Pfi 
PAIN Troops 
DIXON S SILICA GRAPHITE PAINT 
W ater will run from it pure and clean. 11, covers double 
the surface of any "other paint, and will last four orfive 
times longer. Equally useful for any iron work. Semi for 
circulars. Jos. Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City.N.j. 
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