THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
$9 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria 
FOR THE FAMILY COOK. 
T HIS morning, while rolling out 
cookies, which, by the way, were 
m aon rom a tried and trusty recipe 
takep from The R. N.-Y. a few yeais 
ago, I wondered why we did not have 
more good, practical, cooking recipes in 
the Home Department. I finally con¬ 
cluded that it was because busy house¬ 
wives did not take time to write them, 
and resolved to contribute my share. 
[You are wrong. It is because we do 
not care to devote much space to publish¬ 
ing recipes.— Eds.] 
Scalloped Potatoes No. 1.—Slice raw 
potatoes into cold water; drain well, put 
a layer in an earthen dish—tin is not 
quite so good—season well, and sprinkle 
with flour. Continue these layers till 
the dish is nearly full, having the last 
layer without flour. Lay bits of butter 
over the top, and pour on a cup of milk 
to two quarts of potatoes. Cover when 
first put into the oven, giving them a 
chance to brown when nearly done. Al¬ 
low 1)£ to 2 hours for baking, and serve 
in the dish in which they were cooked. 
This is a good way to cook potatoes on 
ironing day. 
Scalloped Potatoes No. 2. —Chop 
cold boiled or baked potatoes quite fine. 
In a baking dish or tin, place a layer, 
season with salt and pepper, and cover 
with a layer of bread crumbs. Make 
three or four layers having bread crumbs 
on the top. Put on bits of butter and 
pour over sufficient milk to make them 
dry or moist to taste. Cover and bake 
half an hour, browning five minutes. 
These may be served in another dish if 
carefully moved. 
Scalloped Codfish. —One pint of milk, 
a little salt and pepper ; heat and add 
one teaspoonful of corn starch rubbed 
into a lump of butter. Put one layer of 
cold, sliced potatoes in the bottom of a 
baking dish ; then a layer of soaked and 
shredded codfish. Cbop six hard-boiled 
eggs, cooked fully 12 minutes ; spread a 
thin layer of egg over the fish. Repeat 
the potatoes, fish and egg, till the dish is 
full. Spread a thick layer of bread 
crumbs over the top, pour cream gravy 
over, and bake from 15 to 20 minutes. 
MOLLIE WIGGINS. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Ungracious Neglect. —To be a good 
letter writer, is no mean attainment. A 
chatty account of family happenings 
makes good reading, whether the style 
be condensed or diffuse. It is said that 
an educated foreigner traveling in Amer¬ 
ica was struck with our disregard of the 
ties of kinship. It shocked him to dis¬ 
cover so many brothers and sisters who 
had not met or even exchanged a written 
message for many years, such neglect 
being in his country considered some¬ 
thing quite inexcusable. p. p. 
A Contented Mind. —There’s the 
woman who is always complaining of 
her lot! One half of her time is spent in 
sickness, no doubt more or less imagin¬ 
ary, the other half in telling of it. I am 
reminded of a little anecdote I read not 
long since. After a five years’ absence, 
a minister returned to his former home. 
Meeting a former acquaintance on the 
street, he greeted her thus : 
“ It is, and it is not, the Mrs. Browm I 
used to know ?” 
“The very same,” she replied. 
“Then what can have happened to 
change you so ?” 
“ A contented mind, sir ; that is all.” 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
And yet how much ! It had changed a 
sad, gloomy-faced, complaining woman 
into a rosy, happy-faced one, and a con¬ 
tented mind can do the same for all who 
try it. The blood cannot be pure with 
a discontented mind, and w ithout pure 
blood no one can be well. 
MABEL II. MONSEY. 
The Enjoyments of Life. —The real 
enjoyments of life seem more attainable 
by those who are called the middle 
classes than any other. These neither 
have riches enough to make the care of 
them a burden, nor are they so poor as 
to suffer for the necessaries or comforts 
of life. One should have enough care 
and labor of some kind to fill a large 
part of the day ; with enough freedom 
from care to feel like giving at least a 
part of every evening to some kind of 
innocent amusement or social pleasures ; 
leisure to read, and a taste xor good 
reading with the ability to purchase the 
best books of good authors as they are 
published. With loving hearts, intellec¬ 
tual tastes and material prosperity suffi¬ 
cient to gratify the best desires of the 
mind and heart, one ought to enjoy life. 
There can be no lasting enjoyment of 
life unless our conduct is governed by 
fixed principles of right and wrong. 
Great wealth fosters pride, and poverty 
tempts to envy and hatred. Good 
health, moderate means, bright, well- 
disposed children, and a rational desire 
that their education and training shall 
be of the best, and a reasonable amount 
of pleasant social intercourse with our 
equals, crowds as much enjoyment into 
our lives as we need expect or desire. 
B. C. DUNLAP. 
PRINTED PATCHWORK. 
If you hear a prayer that moves you 
By its humble, pleading tone, 
Join it. Do not let the seeker 
Bow before his God alone. 
Why should not your brother share 
The strength of “two or three” in prayer? 
—Boston Transcript. 
Augustine Birrell in Scribner’s.— 
“ Bad taste comes by nature, and good 
by taking thought. To go wrong is 
natural, to go right is discipline.” 
George Dana Boardman : “ The law 
of the harvest is to reap more than you 
sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit ; 
sow a habit, and you reap a character ; 
sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” 
Mrs. Frank Leslie: “If a woman 
sympathizes in her husband’s work, 
enters into his hopes and fears and helps 
him along in life, as she should do, and 
he accepts that sympathy and unselfish¬ 
ness from her, he must give back, by his 
interest in the details of her private life, 
the vital force he is absorbing if he de¬ 
sires to keep her with him and hold the 
sunshine of her love.” 
lx writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
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Prevents 
BALDNESS 
REMOVES DANDRUFF 
AND 
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TO 
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HAIR 
THE 
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Comfort 
with boots and shoes, harness, 
and all kinds of black leathei 
comes from the use of 
Vacuum 
Leather Oil. 
25c. worth is a fair trial—and your money back 
you want it—a swob with each can. 
For pamphlet, free, “ How to Take Carh 
of Leather,” send to 
VACUUM OIL CO.. Rochester. N. Y 
BREAK FA ST-SUPPER. 
EPPS’S 
GRATEFUL- COMFORTINC 
COCOA 
BOILING WATER OR MILK. 
.QUARTER OF CENTURY OLD. 
FAY’S MANILLA 
ROOFING. 
s? rongWATER PROOF.™ l™L ed 
No RUST nor RATTLE. Outlasts tin or iron. 
A Durable Substitute lor Plnstcr on wrIIh. 
Water Proof Sheathing of same material, the 
best and cheapest in the market. Write for aamples, Ac. 
Ihe FAY MANILLA ROOFING CO., CAilDENjii.J. 
GEO. J RECORD S 
DOUBLE-TIN SAP SPOUTS 
THE BEST AND 
CHEAPEST. 
Over 5,000,000 in 
Tse. Ask your 
dealer or write 
for free sample. 
RECORD MFC. CO., CONNEAUT, O. 
Manufacturers of Spouts, Palls, Cans, Etc. 
Cider Machinery.—Send for catalogue to Boomer A 
Boschert Press Co., 118 West Water St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
CANNING 
MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. 
__ D. G. TRENCH CO., Chicago, Ill., 
and Farnham, N. Y. Mention this paper. 
GIVEN AWAY 
at less than cost. A I’ANTASOTE-covered Buggy 
Cushion, made by one of the best makers in the coun¬ 
try. First-class in every respect. We are doing this 
to introduce this material, as the manufacturers tell 
us that PANTASOTE will wear better than leather, 
hut you won’t believe it till you see it yourself. On 
receipt of a Post-office order for $1.50, we will send 
you a cushion worth $3.00. We don’t prepay the ex- 
pressage. Colors: Dark Green. Maroon, Black or 
ButT. Regulation size, 31 inches wide. Only a limited 
number of cushions made, and only two sold to one 
person. Refer to the editor of this paper. 
THE PANTASOTE LEATHER CO., 
Salesrooms: 39*41 Leonard St., New York. 
Mills: Passaic, N. J. 
Warranted 
To Wash 
AS CLEAN AS CAN BE 
done on the wimhbonrd in half 7. r >,000in 
thetime, with half the work of the old way. Terriff’s 
Perfect Washer will bo senton trial at wholesale 
price; If not satisfactory money refunded. JLlve 
agents wanted. For terms, prices, etc., write 
PORTLAND MFG. CO., Box 14 Portland, Mich. 
STEAU BOILERS, Si 
use in Ditiries, Laundries, Slaughter¬ 
houses, Ruuning Engines, Pumping Water 
by Steam and other uses. Address: 
J. K. PURINTON, «& GO., Des Moines, Ia. 
FOOT POWER MACHINERY. 
COMPLETE OUTFITS. 
Wood or metai workers without 
steam power, can successfully com¬ 
pete with the largo shops by using 
our New Labor-Saving Ma¬ 
chinery, latestand mostapprovcd 
for practical shop use; also for In¬ 
dustrial Schools, Home Training, 
etc. Catalogue free. 
SENECA FALLS MFG. CO., 
28 Water St., Senega Falls, N. Y. 
F arms, homes and business phop- 
ERTY in the Beautiful, Healthful and Fertile 
Shenandoah Valley. Attractive Bargains oilered 
by C. W. PEERY & CO.. Middletown, Vu. 
VIRGINIA 
PLANTATION—735 acres, for $7,000. 
Buildings alone worth more than 
is asked for the farm. Must be sold. Easy terms. 400 
acres cleared; 335 tine timber; large amount of river 
bottoms of inexhaustible fertility; all level and 
smooth. 1’ostOtlice % mile: churches and stores near 
by. Best of neighborhood. Framehouse 8 rooms, de¬ 
tached kitchen; perfect repair. Orchard. Fine view. 
Large barns and stables; 0 tenant houses and 14 other 
buildings. Particulars, W. C. Stevens, Lynchburg, Va 
Grant’s Household 
Repairing0utfit$2 
JUS'l WHAT YOU 
WANT. 
Will pay for itself 
many times over dur¬ 
ing the year. 
The outfit consists 
of the Tools and Ma¬ 
terial shown in cut. 
Any one can do his 
own half-soling and 
mending of Hoots, 
Shoes, Rubbers, 
Harness, Furni¬ 
ture, Etc. 
We also furnish 
Half Soles (cut to ex¬ 
act size) and Patches. 
Price for Outfit, $2. 
Send for Catalogue. 
JOHN II. GRANT 
342 Wabash Avenue 
Chicago. Ill 
Virginia Farms for Sale. 
500 Improved and Unimproved Farms. 500 Town 
Lots and Villa Sites. Will give the best bargains In 
the South. Claremont is a growing town on James 
River. Circulars free. 
CITIZENS LAND B. L. & D. CO., Claremont, Va. 
POSITION WANTED 
farming on business principles; dairy for milk or 
butter; silos; root crops for feeding; culture of 
small fruits, grapes and peaches. Address 
H. T. ADAMS, Lyons Farms, N. J. 
Wanted 
—A young man to work on a poultry 
farm. One who is not afraid of 
work, and can furnish good ref- 
A. J. HALLOCK, Speonk, Long Island, N.Y. 
W ANTED—Young man to use his unoccupied time to 
assist manager of magazine. One connected with 
church or society. O. L. HINDS CO., New York. 
CARDS 
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PATENTS 
Thomas P. Simpson,Washington, D.C. 
No attorney’s fee until patent ob¬ 
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EIGHT PER CENT INTEREST. 
A well-established business will be enlarged by 
incorporating at once. The business will pay eight 
per cent on the investment. Stock will be fully paid 
and non-assessable. For particulars address 
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ONE YEAR TRIAL FREE 
A nne 14k. gold plated watch to every reader o'thid paper. 
Written guarantee for 5 yra.aent with each watch. Cutthil 
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and wo will Bend you one of theacelogant richly jew- 
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and if you thin kit equal in appearance to a |26 gold 
watch, pay our sample price and it ifl youra. 
Weeerid with the watch our guarantee that you can 
return it at any time within one year if not satisfac¬ 
tory, and if you sell or cause the sale of six we will 
give you one FREE. Write at once as we shall send 
out samples for 60 days only. 
fmv.no CHICAGO WATCH CO., 
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ItfANTtn “Partner for Nursery business. Must 
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man with small capital preferred. References ex¬ 
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-you thlnkof buying. Vio¬ 
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C. STORY, 26 Central St., Boston, Mass. 
KARAT. 
COLD 
PLATE. 
CUT IMIS OUT and send It to 
us with youi- name and address 
and we will send you this beautiful 
gold finished watch by express for 
examination. You examine it at 
the express office, and if you think 
it a bargain pay our sample pilce 
$2.75, and it Is yours. It is magni¬ 
ficently engraved and equal In 
appearance In a genuine Solid 
Gold walrh. A guarantee for 5 
years and beautiful gold plate 
chain and charm sent free with 
every watch, write to day,this may 
not appear again; mention whether 
von want gents’ or ladies’ RVze. 
tHE NATIONAL MFC. 
& IMPORTING CO.. 
334 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. 
m. uuLu 
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AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER! NO MONEY REQUIRED IN ADVANCE. 
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