SEPT.  3 
conducted  road,  sulTer  intensely  from 
nervous  fear  during  the  whole  of  th( 
journey.  Facts,  like  the  above  and  a  lit! 
thoughtful  conHideratif)n  thereof,  may 
much  to  allay  such  apprehensions. 
who,  in  this  country,  couUl  ne  inmxceu  w 
take  either  and  keep  it  for  use  or  oma- 
ment?  „ 
This  same  jjrinciplo  holds  good  m  all 
the  various  phases  of  rural  life. 
apide,  pear,  peach,  grai)e  or  other  fruit 
which  may  prove  to  be  of  inestimable 
value  in  one  state  or  location,  may  be 
almost  worthless  in  another.  Of  couise, 
we  are  not  to  believe  that  the  old  1  oun<l 
pear  is  iis  sweed  and  delicious  in  Galifor- 
iiia  as  the  Seckel  is  in  ^'cw  York— no 
matter  who  or  how  many  persons  might 
make  such  a  claim  for  it.  Htill,  if  the 
Found  pear  is  found  to  siicceeil  where  the 
Beckel  does  not,  then  we  would  he  bound 
to  own  tlint  it  tlic  inoBt  vH.liiabl^^  of 
tlie  two  sorts,  for  a  certain  locality  or 
under  cert.aiu  conditions.  We  may  feel 
like  pitying  a  person  who  is  compelled  to 
aught  we  know,  just  as  good  and 
wholesome ;  but  the  objective  point  is 
that  thousands  of  persons  deceive  them¬ 
selves  inh)  believing  that  they  do  not  con- 
other 
“  progress  and  iwiprovement.” 
WOORE’S  RURAL  NEW-KORKER, 
A  NATIONAL  mnUSTUATKl) 
HllRAl,  llTKWItt  ANK  RAIllt  NRWSPAPHIl. 
tain  any  intuxicating  projiertitss — in 
wortls,  that  they  are  really  pure  and  free 
from  nlc.ohol.  Many  a  time  have  we  heard 
the  good  farmer  or  his  wih^  say,  this  cur¬ 
rant,  or  other  “home-made”  wine,  is 
“pure,  and  df’cs  not  contain  a  drop  of 
spirits,  for  1  made  it  mysAdf.” 
Now  the  persons  milking  such  stato- 
ments  may  he  perfectly  honest  and  truth¬ 
ful  to  the  extont  of  their  knowledge  of  the 
facts  of  the  ease,  and  yet  at  the  same  time 
they  are  grievously  deceived  in  supposing 
such  home-made  licverages  contain  no  in¬ 
toxicating  prAjpertiies.  Cane-sugar  through 
fermentation,  jiroduoes  rum  at  tlie  rate  of 
RURAL  NOTES 
Ciroorgifi  state.  Ilin’t.  Soc.  —  On 
the  16th  and  17th  August,  it  was  my 
pleasure  to  attend  a  Convention  of  Horti¬ 
culturists  in  the  city  of  Macon  and  during 
these  days  we  p<!rfccted  the  organisation 
of  the  Georgia  State  Hortioultnral  Society 
niKin  a  firm,  satisfactory  basis.  P.  J. 
BKUKMiVNS,  President,  Augustii ;  .1.  B. 
New>ian,  Sco’y,  Atlanto.  Besides  garden 
pro<liicts,  many  of  wliich  wore  very  fine, 
we  had  on  exhibition  over  300  plates  of 
fruit,  (!om])ri8iiig  40  varieties  of  apples, 
35  of  iiears,  25  of  peaches,  25  of  grapes,  6 
of  jilums — ^many  of  whioli  wAire  quite  cred- 
itahhi.  In  vitiw  of  tlio  lateness  of  the 
season,  tin?  general  failure  of  our  best 
fruits,  the  very  short  notice  of  th«;  meet¬ 
ing,  the  exhibition  was  reganled  as  an 
uiilookp<l-for-Buccos8.  Presiilent  Berok- 
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which  I  inclose.  You  will  bo  iileasod 
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system  is  the  same  as  tliougb  drank  in  its 
pure  shite  nr  diluted  with  wator. 
Many  a  sample  of  good,  generous  cur¬ 
rant  wine,  contains  twenty  per  cent,  of 
alcohol  or  New  England  rum,  although 
not  a  drop  of  anjdhiug  was  added  to  the 
juice  but  “  three  or  four  pouuils  of  su¬ 
gar  consequently,  eveiytimc  one  drinks 
a  glass  of  it  lie  takes  one-fifth  of  a  glass  of 
rum.  For  our  own  part.,  we  could  never 
nudorstiiud  wherein  there  w^as  any  diffor- 
euce,  morally,  between  ofTering  a  friend  a 
glass  of  home-mmle  or  other  wine  and  a 
gloss  of  runi,whisky  or  brandy, cxceptoue’s 
I  vanity  may  be  tickled  and  the  rum  deeeit 
Would  not  it  be  more 
RAILROAD  RISKS, 
It  is  stated  that  Joiln  BniauT  onoo 
lafest  plac-e  in  whii’.h  a  man 
self  was  inside  a  first-elass 
This,  perhaps,  is  not  abso- 
miieh  nearer  the 
railway  car,  _ 
lutoly  true,  but  it  is 
trutli  than  might  at  first  he  supposocL 
We  do  not  realize  the  immense  number 
of  people  who  ride  in  cars  nor  the  number 
of  miles  travclcil. 
T’he  last  report  to  the  Massaeliusette 
Legislature  relative  hi  the  railroads  in 
that  State,  contains  much  valuable  imd 
intorostiug  information,  some  of  which 
has  been  used  by  Chas.  Fiiancis  Adams, 
Jr.,  in  till!  prepiu'atiou  of  articles  pub- 
lisileil  in  tlie  Atlautie  Monthly.  From 
this  source  we  leani  that  in  pro]iort.ion  to 
the  number  carried  the  iiccidents  to  pas- 
sougers  in  the  “  good  old  days  of  stage 
coaches”  in  France  during  forty  years, 
were,  as  compared  to  tlioso  of  the  present 
time  on  railruads,  as  sixty  to  one.  Ad¬ 
justing  the  stage  risks  in  France  to  the 
modern  travel  of  Massachusetts,  eighty 
iiasseiigers  should  bo  killtKl  and  iihiveu 
iiuudrtvd  wounded  oveiy  year  b^'  railroad 
travel  in  that  State,  wliich  is  fifty  tunes 
more  tluui  the  actual  average.  Mure  we.rc 
killed  aud  wounded  in  Massachusetts  fifty 
years  ago  by  stage  travel  than  at  present 
on  railroads.  .  ,  . 
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vertisers  rarely  give,  voluntarily,  such 
fluttoring  testimony  as  is  contained  iu  the 
letters  below.  It  m  very  gratif  ying  to  the 
of  tliitt  jounuil  to  know  that 
our  lulverlising  oolnnins  are  such  a  true 
index  of  the  wants  of  our  subscribers  : 
New  Touk,  Ang.  28,  1876. 
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paper  for  ujiwards  of  six  years,  mul  during  that 
time  wo  roeoivod  more  lettor*  and  iipplioationB 
f,,,- f/iliil>ral.od  Uorol  A:  Courvoisier  Watches 
RURAL  PUBLISHING  CO., 
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give  zest  to  llavor 
honest  and  manly  to  oiler  the  pure  uthUh-  ' 
guised  article  than  the  deo<iptivc  one,  and 
would  not  the  young  men  and  women  he 
far  more  likely  to  reject  the  rum  than  the 
wine,  and  thereby  never  iwiijuiro  the  taslu 
for  strong  drink  ?  Ai’o  not  fathers  aud 
mothers  deceiving  Uicmselves  iu  this  wine 
making  business,  owing  hi  an  indisposi¬ 
tion  to  look  on  the  dark  side  taking,  as 
Locke  says,  a  view  of  our  ignorance  V 
Ijet  ns  be  honest  with  ourselvi's  in  such 
matters  and  not  permit  vanity  and  conceit 
to  gel  the  better  of  our  judgment,  and 
thereby  shut  out  the  light  which  is  freely 
SATURDAY,  REPT.  9,  1876 
DO  ROT  DECEIVE  YOURSELF. 
It  is  claimed,  auil  aouiuiess  wiui  wuLii, 
that  the  chief  reason  why  the  Chinese 
have  remained  so  far  behind  Europeans 
in  tlio  fine  arts  and  higher  branches  of 
science,  is  the  consummate  vanity  they 
possess,  wliich  induces  them  to  hxik  with 
contempt  upon  the  real  kiiowleiige  of 
every  other  nation.  The  ignorant  pre¬ 
tender  thhiks  he  understands  everything 
that  comes  in  his  way,  while  our  greatost 
philosophers  know  that  their  ignorance 
outweighs  all  their  micumulatod  knowl¬ 
edge.  Locke’s  mlvice  on  this  point  is 
worth  repeating  and  remembering  :  “  Our 
knowledge  being  so  narrow,  it  will  per- 
biiDS  give  us  some  light  into  the  present 
'  A  ^  .A  1  _  ..1_  «  k-t4  ^ 
RURAL  BREVITIES 
The  ovslcr  slioll  bark  louse,  which  is  ^  com- 
raon  UTM.IU  apple  troort  in  the  Eaatorn  States,  has 
mado  its  appoarauce  iu  California  upon  pear 
trees. 
Eaioiekb  residing  in  the  “Burnt  clishicts”  of 
the  East  this  season,  should  sow  rye  this  faU  for 
early  spring  pasture,  as  ttie  grass  is  likely,  from 
prosont  indioations,  to  be  exceeding  short  and 
thin  next  season. 
Tue  Grangers  of  California  are  again  ship- 
piiiK  tlioir  wlioat  direct  to  Eastern  markets^  m 
vessels  charUn-od  for  tlie  purpose,  thereby  ta^ng 
all  the  risks  themselves  and  saving  the  middle¬ 
man’s  conuuissions. 
Pauties  desiring  treos,  plants  or  bulbs,  are 
referred  to  Ellwasoek  .fe  Bauhx’s  advorUsement, 
now  appearing  iu  our  columns.  Their  estabhsh- 
ment  is  rocognizod  as  one  of  the  largest  aud 
their  couti’ol.  Deaths  or  injuries  ansing 
from  carelessness  or  inatioution  of  the 
Bufferei-K  are  not  considered.  Rmployees 
of  railroads  become  so  luKiustomed  to 
being  in  places  of  danger  us  to  take  risl^ 
that  are  entirely  imnecessary ;  and  peophi 
will  persist  in  walking  on  aud  drivmg 
across  tracks  without  regard  Ut  the  re- 
iieated  wainhugs,  aud  if  the  rasult  of  their 
acts  1)0  suffering  or  death,  it  is  not  jirop- 
erly  chargeable  to  the  railroad  systom. 
During  the  fifteen  years  from  1861  to 
1874,  inclusive,  there  were  350,000,000 
passengers  carried  by  railroads  in  Mimsa- 
LOCAL  VALUE  OF  THINGS, 
ably  exhibited  more  conspicuously  iu  the 
unwillingness  to  axlmit  that  a  thing  may 
be  of  great  value  to  one  person  aud  quite 
wortliless  to  another.  Or,  to  express  the 
idea  iu  other  words,  a  thing  may  have  a 
local  value  far  above  its  general  worth. 
The  ignoring  of  this  fact  is  freipicutly 
the  cause  of  much  bickering  among  indi- 
viduids  aud  nations  and  of  more  or  less 
unliappiucss  generally.  But  we  have  no 
need  to  go  far  away  from  home  to  find 
abundant  examples  of  this  local  valuation 
of  things  important  and  unimportant. 
A  dog  may,  under  certain  circum¬ 
stances,  be  actually  worth  to  his  owuer 
more  than  a  first-rate  horse  or  a  half 
dozen  cows.  Still,  few  other  persons 
could  be  induced  to  take  the  animal  as  a 
liimself  by  refusing  to  investigate  or  to 
look  upon  the  opposite  side  to  that  upon 
which  he  has  been  wont  to  gaze.  It  is 
certainly  suiTriBiug  to  note  how  tena¬ 
ciously  a  person  vull  cling  to  an  error 
after  it  has  been  shown  to  be  such,  if  a 
change  is  likely  to  interfere  with  his 
pleasures  or  profits. 
As  a  familiar  example  of  how  some  per¬ 
sons  deceive  themselves,  we  may  mention 
the  manufacture  of  what  ai-e  termed  home¬ 
made  wines.  It  matters  little  what  they 
are  made  of— whether  grapes,  gooseber¬ 
ries,  currants  or  elderberriee— the  princi¬ 
ples  are  tdl  the  same  and  the  results  vary 
only  in  degree,  some  being  stronger  than 
others.  Such  heverages  are  almost  as 
common  and  popular  among  countiy  folk 
as  the  higher-priced  wines  are  among  the 
residents  of  our  larger  cities  and,  for 
