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THE ABUSE OF APPETITE. 
The appetite is one of the least appreciated 
of nature's gifts to man. It is generally re¬ 
garded in tliis work-a-day world as some¬ 
thing to be either starved or stuffed—to be 
gotten rid of at all events with the least in¬ 
convenience possible. There arc people who 
are not only not glad that they have been 
endowed with sound, healthy bodies, for 
which nature demands refreshment and re¬ 
plenishment, but they are actually ashamed 
to have it known that they are sustained in 
the usual manner. The reason of this we are 
at a loss to conceive. Everybody admires 
beauty, and there can be no true beauty 
without gcod health, and no good health 
without a regular and unvarying appetite. 
We are disinclined to let appetite take any 
responsibility on itself. If we happen to con¬ 
sider it too delicate, we try to coax it, per¬ 
haps stimulate it with highly seasoned or 
fancihilly-prepared food. There arc times 
when this may seem necessary, as in the case 
of a person so debilitated as to depend for 
daily strength on what he eats. But, usually, 
the cajoling process is a mistake. If the ap¬ 
petite of an individual in fair bodily condi 
tiou bo occasionally slender, it is no cause for 
alarm, and it should be allowed to regulate 
itself. It may safely be conaWoved nature’s 
protest against some transgression, and it is 
wise not to attempt coercion. 
At certain seasons, as in spring and sum¬ 
mer, the appetite of even the robust is apt to 
fail, and the relish for meats and heavy food 
to wane. This is all right enough, for ani¬ 
mal diet in warm weather heats the blood, 
tends to headaches, and is generally un¬ 
wholesome, unless sparingly used. On the 
other hand, fresh vegetables, berries, fruit 
and bread are cooling, corrective, and what 
the palate most craves. Don't be afraid to 
go without meat a month or so ; and if you 
likf, live purely on a vegetable regimen. We 
will warrant that you will lose no more 
strength than is common to the time, and 
that you will notsuffer from protracted heat, 
as when dining on the regulation roast.— 
Good Health. 
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MEANS OF CHECKING COUGHING, SNEEZ¬ 
ING, Etc. 
There are many facts which show that 
morbid phenomena of respiration can be also 
slopped by the influence of arrest. Cough¬ 
ing, for instance, can be stopped by pressing 
on the nerves on the lip in the neighborhood 
of the nose. A pressure there may prevent 
a cough when it is beginning. Sneezing may 
be stopped by the same mechanism. Dress¬ 
ing also in the neighborhood of the ear, right 
in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is 
so also of hiccough, but much less so than 
for sneezing or coughing. Pleasing very hard 
on the top of the mouth inside is also a means 
of stopping coughing. And I may say that 
the will has immense power there. There 
was a French soldier who used to say, when¬ 
ever lie entered the wards of his hospital, 
“ The first patient who coughs there will be 
deprived of food, to-day.” It was exceed¬ 
ingly rare that a patient coughed then. 
There are many other affections associated 
with breathing which can be stopped by the 
same mechanism that stops the heart’s ac¬ 
tion. In spasm of the glottis, which is a ter¬ 
rible thing in children, as you well know, as 
it sometimes causes death, and also in whoop- 
ing cough, il is possible to afford relief by 
t hrowing cold water on the face, or by tick- 
hug the soles of the feet, which produces 
laughter and at the same time goes to the 
gray matter that is producing the spasm and 
arrests it almost at once. I would not say 
that these means are always successful. I 
would not say that we can always prevent 
cough by our will; but in many instances 
those things are possible, and if you remem¬ 
ber that in bronchitis and pneumonia, or any 
other acute affection of the lungs, hacking 
or coughing greatly increases the trouble at 
times, you can easily see how important it is 
for the patient to try to avoid coughing as 
best he can.— Dr. 13roWftrSequant. 
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REMEDY FOR BITES OF MAD ANIMALS. 
The Norristown Independ’t says:—“In 1819, 
one Valentine Kittering of Dauphin County, 
communicated to the Senate of Pennsylva¬ 
nia a sure remedy for the bite of any mad 
animal. He said that his ancestors*had used 
it in Germany 250 years ago, and that he al¬ 
ways found it to answer the purpose during 
a residence of 50 years in the United States! I 
He only publishes it from a motive of hu¬ 
manity. This remedy consists in the weed 
called chick-weed. It is a summer plant, 
known to the Germans and Swiss by the 
names of pa uehne.H rather mayor, or rather 
huehnerdnrm. In England it is called red 
pimpernel, and its botanical name is Anyeli- 
cal phonier a. ft must be gathered in June, 
when in full bloom, dried in the shade, and 
then pulverized. The dose of this for a grown 
person is a small teaspoonful. or in weight a 
drum and scruple at once, in beer or water. 
Fur children the dose is the same, yet it must 
| be administered at three different times. In 
applying, il, must be used green, cllt into 
pieces, and mixed with bran or other feed. 
For lings the pulverized weed is made into 
little balls by mixing it with flour and water. 
It can also bo put on bread and butter, or 
in honey, moluxess, &<\ The Rev. Muhlen¬ 
berg said that in Germany 30 grains of tliis 
powder are given four times a day, the first 
day, then once a (lay for the whole week ; 
while at the same time the wound is washed 
out wit h a decoction of the weed aud t he 
powder strewed in it. Mr. Kittering said 
that he in all instances administered but one 
dose, with the most happy results. This is 
said to be the same remedy through which 
lhe late Dr, William SLoy effected so many 
eures.” 
flstams of gnsbandrg. 
ITEMS FROM THE GRANGES. 
What the Farmer Suren Tin Buy inn for 
Cash .—II. W. Long, a master of a Florida 
Grange, has been talking sense on this subject 
in tliis wise: If we adopt, a cash system, our 
merchants can furnish us our supplies at a 
profit of twenty-five per cent.; and supposing 
that we purchase our annual supplies in 
twelve ecpial installments, our merchants 
could operate upon one-twelfth of the capital 
required under the present system. If we 
lake the farmer who purchases one thousand 
dollars’ worth of supplies] annually from his 
merchant, who makes a profit of lifty per 
cent, by paying cash for his supplies, at a 
profit of twenty-five per cent, to his mer¬ 
chant, wo find that after adding interest to 
his purchase money, that his supplies forone 
year coBt him eight hundred and sixty-nine 
44-100 dollars, which is an annual saving of 
one hundred and thirty three 19-100 dollars. 
A farmer dealing upon the above specified 
basis, can purchase seventy-five per cent, of 
hiB supplies direct from the producer at as 
low rales os his merchant does, which 
amounts to five hundred dollars per annum. 
The saving of twenty-five per cent, per 
annum on that amount, with Interest added, 
in a business of seven years, amounts to one 
thousand and eighty-five dollars. By reca¬ 
pitulating this calculation, wo find that the 
farmer dealing under the present system has 
lost during the past Seven years the sum of 
$2,893.32. By paying cosh, at a profit of 
twentv-flvc per cent, will save SI,133.19. 
By buying seventy-live per cent, of his sup¬ 
plies direct from the producer, will save, in 
seven years * 1,085. Amount total of losses 
in seven years, *5,111.51. Thus it is shown 
that the honest former, who hud the capacity 
to estimate his ability to meet his liabilities 
when due, and who needed annually one 
thousand dollars’ worth of supolies, which 
cost the merchant six hundred and sixty 
dollars and sixty-six and two thirds cents, 
has actually lost during the past seven years 
the sum of five thousand one hundred and 
eleven dollars and fifty one cents. 
IveorporaUni) Patron s.—The Grangers of 
Gibson Go., Jud., have formed themselves or 
are taking the necessary steps to form them¬ 
selves into a corporate body so that they can 
sue and lie sued, in other words, I suppose 
manufacturers selling to them on credit 
want, to have something else to look to for 
pay than their constituted agent, lienee, the 
necessity of forming themselves into such 
body. They have bought their own ma¬ 
chines this year from the manufacturer and 
have their . gent here to sell and deliver to 
Patrons or anybody else. He has sold so far 
twenty reapers and mowers.—x. 
Reducin'; the Hate of Interest.—It is as¬ 
serted that the Economy taught and prac¬ 
ticed by Patrons is producing a disastrous 
effect upon money lenders in the West who 
make a business of lending Eastern capital 
on real estate. It Is asserted t hat *50,W0 of 
such funds were returned East from a single 
small locality in Illinois thy other day, Ijd- 
cause the people are not paying 10 per cent, 
interest aa much as they were. Good : 
Grange Rxchanye or Sale Days arc what 
t he Patrons in some of the Western States 
aie now proposing. That is, they propose 
market days and places—precisely sucii as 
the Rural New-Yorker hits repeatedly 
recommended. 
Reading for tit? fgoiutg. 
THE IMPATIENT HEN. 
This lathe talc or a queer otd lieu, 
That »at on Oggs exactly ten. 
She matin her nest with pride and euro, 
And weather foul and weather fair. 
You always found tier at, her post, 
for patience was her daily boast. 
Alas! how oft it is our lot 
To bra .: of what we haven’t not. 
This will apply to liens, and men, 
And hoys and Kiris, 
Days passed, and when 
The sun began to warmer grow. 
The grass and leaves began to show 
Their twinkling green on hill and vale; 
When teveel. amt pleasant was the gale, 
This queer old hen began to Iodk 
T o Join once more I ho noiey throng 
Of idle gossips—liltlf a row e— 
That strutted by t ho old barn door, 
“O. dear! O, dear! here l am Hod ! 
A weary lot is mine,” »ho Sighed. 
“ No gleam of pi cum ii ro do I catch ; 
Why don’t those ilres me chickens hatoh ; 
It worries me in heart and legs 
To sit so long upon these eggs. 
I’m sick of pining here at homo j 
O chicks, chicks, chicks, why don’t yc como ? 
YOur little houses white aud warm, 
I’ve sheltered from the angry storm. 
“Thorn's Mother Dominique, next door, 
Her darlings number twenty-four. 
And they’ve hoen out a week or more ; 
And now she wanders at her unite. 
As proud and happy an yon please. 
So stir your pinky little pegs, 
My yellow hills come out and walk, 
Or else I II doubt my eggs uie eggs. 
And think tuuy tire hut lumps of cluilk.” 
Then something rash and sail befell; 
Tins old hen pecked each brittle shell, 
And, not so wonderful to toll. 
Her treatment, which was very rude, 
Killed on Hie spot, her liny brood! 
And now. despised by fowls and men, 
She llvi *a broken-hearted hen, 
Tliis is tho moral to tny lay,— 
To reap success in work and play, 
Why spoil whatever you’ve begun. 
Through eigernesa to have it done? 
Remember poor Dame Furtlut'ft rate ! 
Don’t lie impatient learn to wait. 
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LETTERS TO YOUNG RURALISTS.-No. 25. 
FROM COUSIN JOHNNIE. 
fSivr: mo your hand, Young America; you 
are “ made of the right kind of stuff.” Your 
letter shows more true, manliness than any I 
have ever read in the Young People's Column, 
albeit some h ive written who are much nearer 
manhood in years, and In their own opinion, 
than yourself. I confers, when I criticised your 
former letter so severely, I more than half fear¬ 
ed that, notwithstanding it, was done at, your 
own request, you might take offense* and either 
write no nmre or else write something unkind 
to Cousin Johnnie, as Is the custom with a few 
Young Ruralisis when she expresses her disap¬ 
proval of their letters. We are all by nature 
self-conceited, and tho llrst step towards im¬ 
provement, whether intellectual or moral, is to 
learn humility. That you have already done so 
is evident from the frank, manly way in which 
yon not only acknowledge tho JUBtice of my 
criticism, hut politely thank me for It, and ex¬ 
press a desire to profit by my advice. Let mo 
tell you, fur your encouragement, that your 
Kssa.v on Spoken and Written Language, which 
of course would have been even better if you 
had had space to go into the subject more fully, 
is a vei n deckled impwvement over what I last 
read from your pen. Ho much care is evinced 
in the con. (motion of the sentences that not 
one of the fault noticed in your last is to be 
found. Keep on, my dear young cousin; I 
have not a doubt you will succeed In becoming 
an excellent writer. If you have not one al¬ 
ready, I advise yon to procure some standard 
Rhetoric and study it carefully. It, will teach 
you howto cultivate a good style; and when 
you begin to write poetry, as all young writers 
at some time feel called upon to do, whether 
they have any poetical genius or not, you will bo 
able to guard against tho faults of certain 
young poets (?) we might mention, but forbear 
to, whose lines do not rhyme, arc accented In 
the wrong place and have nearly as many feet 
as a centipede 1 * * Let me, as a woman, thank 
you for your manliness in taking our part 
against Young Back, and the polite way you 
turned his would-be insolence into a delicate 
compliment. You need not apologize for your 
mistake in thinking me a Young Rural is t. It 
only showed you were a stranger among us, and 
therefore did not know the “coosia-ing” sys¬ 
tem originated with me. I llrst adopted the 
Young Ruralists as my cousins, and after that 
they began to adopt one another. 
B. W, N., » Central New York girl, Is getting 
tired of hearing “what our pas have,” and 
strikes out tutu :lie field of literature. The 
“Wide, Wide World" stands at the head of 
her list of favorites, it was always a great 
favorite of mine also; and to this day 1 can 
read it over with un over-fresh interest. It 
was the first “real big” book 1 ever read, when 
! was a little girl, and it. made such an impres¬ 
sion upon me that tee characters still seem 
like people whom 1 have known. Even now, I 
grow indignant when I think of Miss Fortune 
| and (.lie man who beat Ellen’s horse, and 
grieve when I think of the death of sweet 
A lick and Ellen’s mother. I love dear JonN, 
to-day, Just as well as ever Ellen did; and I 
have never quite gotten over my disappoint¬ 
ment that tho author did not. give us'onc more 
glimpse of her, after she came buck from Scot¬ 
land to live with John and his father. I wish 
B. W. N. had told us something about “Tom 
Brown at Rugby," fur I have never happened 
to come across It, much as ( have wanted to do 
so. I think it would be very pleasant and im¬ 
proving for you all, Instead of going over the 
same ground so often, to discuss your favorite 
hooks. I don't mean merely to mention a long 
listjand then say “they are splendid but to 
taka one book at a time, and give some idea of 
it, together with the author’s name, and his or 
her rank as a writer.- It seems very queer 
that B. W. N.'s horse and her grandpa's cat 
should have changed names. .1 i/ropn* of cats, 
you remember my Tony’s habit of begging lor 
what no wants, don’t you? Well, (he other 
day my little sister saw him sitting on his hind 
legs at the loot of a tree, looking up and cry¬ 
ing most, imploringly for a little bird to come 
down to him ! 
1 will acknowledge to A Farmer’s Boy that 
1 have only had experience in the poetical part 
of fanning. If I bad to plow and harrow from 
sunrise till sunset, as ho does, I am afraid T 
might not like It quite so well. lie says“he has 
no pets and no time to play with them if he 
had ! ' W hy, ( Bhniihl thlnlc among all the cat¬ 
tle and hogs ha has to feed night and morning, 
lie could find lots of pets; and it would not 
take long not half a minute -to pat a cow’s 
nose or scratch a pig’s back with a stick 1 I am 
very sorry tic can go In school so little now; 
but if bo Is really anxious to learn, lie will 
make up for It, when he Is old enough to have 
more control of his t ime. Many of our smart¬ 
est men, you know, have had very few advan¬ 
tages when young. Meuniwhile lie must keep 
eyes and ears wide open, so that he can learn 
aa much as possible from everyone he meets. 
1). A- B. s “ first letter * Is very Interesting. 
I don't see how she could bear to sell the two 
little lambs she raised on a bottle -she must 
have been so fond of them. Her horse must bo 
a remarkable fellow, and she herself a pretty 
smart girl to walk two miles to school and yet 
find time,beside making bodquills and prac¬ 
ticing on the piano, to rake fifty acres of grass! 
— I would not allude to Young Farmer’s let¬ 
ter, but for a certain frankness about It that 1 
like, and bis deprecation of Cousin Johnnie's 
anger, which shown ho Iihh a wish to «tand well 
in her estimation. Whether she chooses to 
carry about the article alluded to or not, is a 
matter of no possible interest or importance to 
him or any one el so, and J shall therefore leave 
him In Ignorance on that point: Just as lam 
ignorant, and content to be so, as to whether 
he wears rod or yellow flannel under-garments. 
If [were he I would take back that offer “to 
stand by Y. B., no matter what ho writes.” He 
may perhaps regret It if tie does not do so. 
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DAILY HABITS-CHARACTER. 
The daily habits of every boy and girl are 
materials with which they are building up 
their characters, and every repetition strength¬ 
ens them for good or for evil. Justice, benev¬ 
olence, honor, integrity and self-control are no 
ephemeral blossoms that a day's sunshine can 
Gall into being, and a night’s frost can wither 
and kill. They grow slowly and develop grad¬ 
ually, but once rooted firmly in the heart and 
trained by constant exercise they will prove 
sturdy, healthrul, long-lived plants, that will 
bear rich and abundant fruit, ll is not enough 
to teach ; we must also train. It. Is not, enough 
to toll tho child what is right: wo must accus¬ 
tom him to love Its atmosphere. So with self- 
culture. If wo would become nobler and more 
virtuous, we roust habituate ourselves to tho 
constant exercise of pure thoughts, generous 
affections, noble and disinterested deeds. 
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ABOUT IDLENESS. 
Many young people think that an idle life 
must lie u pleasant one. But (ids is a sad mis¬ 
take, as they would soon find out If they made 
a trial of the life they think so agreeable. One 
who Is never busy can never enjov rest: for 
rest Implies « relief from previous labor ; and 
If OUr whole time were spout in amusing our- 
selves, we should find it more wearisome than 
the hardest day's work. Recreation Is only 
valuubloaalt unbends us; ihu idle can know 
nothing of it. Many people leave off business 
and settle down to a life of enjoyment; but 
they generally find that they arc not nearly so 
happy as they were before, and they are often 
glad to return to the occupations to escape the 
miseries. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-June 13 and 20. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 12.—Remember 
the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 
Anagram No. 4.— 
How doth the little busy bee 
I mprove each shining hour, 
Aud gather honey day by day 
From every opening flower? 
Word Puzzle No. 5. Jonathan. 
Hidden Cities, No. I. 1, Pekin ; 2, Nlngpo ; 
8, oswego; 4, Pisa; 5, Utica; U, Cleveland; 7, 
Malaga; 8, Bristol; ft, Brighton; 10, Raleigh; 
11, Omaha ; 12, Odessa. 
Riddle No. 1.—1, 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, 8, 9, 0. 
