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SEPT. 26 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
lomfstir (Bammng. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY'MAPLE 
AFTER THE SUMMER—WHAT ! 
The rammer is over. September with its cool 
breath has warned the summer residents of 
every sea and river-side resort that it is “not 
always May," and the city once more resumes 
its wonted aspect. The months of picnio and 
bathing, of flirting and flowers, moonlight ram¬ 
bles and idle excursions, are among the past. 
The girls who have gained health and strength 
with the freckles and punburn amid the moun¬ 
tain paths and in the valleys, are now saying to 
themselves and to each other—what ? 
True, there are many busy workers who re¬ 
turn to their labor with renewed vigor, but ah 
me! what can the butterflies do ? Will music 
or painting or any of the natural sciences be¬ 
come a winter’s study ? Is tho proposed cook¬ 
ing school about to be established in Montreal 
likely to be patronized, till the art of cooking is 
perfectly learned, and its medal of honor proud¬ 
ly worn by our young ladies ? Or will the win¬ 
ter months be spent in a round of calls, a wor¬ 
ship of fashion, and the long, dull evenings be 
frittered away in inane and idle conversation 
that, too often, degenerates into gossip ? Pity 
it is that so few people are interested in socie¬ 
ties of art and literature in onr cities, that the 
worship of Mammon or the struggle for position 
fills the thought and fires the ambition of the 
men of this age, while their wives, sisters or 
daughters are proud to remaiu at home help¬ 
less instead of helpmates, as they should be, 
with a scorn for labor of every kind that should 
be vouchsafed to nothing in this world but to 
sin or meanness. 
After the summer—what ? 
Annie L. Jack. 
TROUBLE WITH CUCUMBER PICKLES 
Fob two or three years after I commenced 
housekeeping, I had a great deal of trouble 
with cucumber pickles. They would turn black 
or have black spots on them soon after they 
were put in vinegar, although they were as nice 
and bright as could be before. At first, I 
thought the fault must be iu the vinegar, but I 
soon found that was a mistake; then, that it 
was because I freshened them in a pan that had 
some of tho tin worn off, so 1 used a stone jar 
for that purpose, but the pickles did not im¬ 
prove. At last I found that the keg they were 
salted in had the hoops nailed on, and that the 
nails reached through to the inside, and be¬ 
lieving this the first cause of the trouble, I 
bought a new half-barrel without a nail in it. 
Afterwards the pickles were all right till I was 
sick for several weeks when they were black 
again. By inquiring into the subject, I found 
that the girl had put a rusty tin lid over them 
while freshening, instead of the stone cover 
belonging to the jar, and I knew that as they had 
been warm some of the time, steam had risen 
to the lid and theD fallen hack on the pickles. 
Since then I have had no such trouble and have 
conoluded that the brine or pickles must not 
come in contact with iron in any shape if we 
would not have them black. And yet I tbink 
that if health is to be taken into consideration, 
they might better be of that color than of the 
beautiful green which many make them with 
brass. Mbs. S. 0. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Soda Cookies. 
Three-fourths of a teacup of butter; two cup. 
fols of sugar; two eggs; a little grated nut¬ 
meg ; one small teaspoonful of soda, dissolved 
in a tablespoonfnl of sweet milk ; two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of cream-of-tartar, in floor enough to make 
a soft dough. To make : Rub the butter and 
sugar together, until light; add the eggs, with¬ 
out beating, then the spice and soda. Beat a 
few minutes before putting in the flour ; then 
handle sb little as possible. Do not knead. Roll 
rather thin; cut into shape; bake in a hot oven. 
If liked soft, take the cookies from the tins as 
soon as baked, put in a jar, and cover closely. 
Ginger Snaps (Excellent). 
One teaoupful of melted butter; one teacup¬ 
ful of brown sugar ; one teaoupful of dark mo¬ 
lasses ; one teaspoonful of ginger j one tea- 
spoonful of soda in a large spoon of hot water. 
Flour, to make a Btiff dough. Roll thin, cut 
into small cakes, and bake in a quick oven. 
Table simp is not as good as common molasses, 
for ginger snaps. This recipe was taken from 
the Rubai. New-Yobkeb, several years ago, and 
is the only one I ever use. m. g. b. 
Brown Bread. 
Excellent bread can be made from coarse 
flour or “middling," and in our family it is 
relished mnch better than white bread for a 
change. Too much of it, however, Bhould not 
be made at once, as it does not keep fresh long, 
and is very easily made. For three loaves, take 
as much hop yeast and water as for the same 
quantity of white bread, one spoonful of salt 
and enough coarse flour to make as stiff as pan¬ 
cakes. Set this at night and in the morning 
put in a cupful of sugar, a pint of white flour 
and nearly as much coarse flour as can be 
stirred in with a strong spoon, Put in deep 
pans or basins and, when light, bake. Graham 
bread is good, if made in the same way, bnt it 
is not necessary to put in the white flour. 
_ Mbs. S. 0. 
German Pickles. 
Take sound, ripe cucumbers, peel and remove 
the seeds, cut lengthwise into strips an inch 
wide. To three quarts of the parts add three 
caps of vinegar and four of water; soak twenty- 
four hours, stirring once or twice. Put one quart 
of vinegar on the fire, add one pint of sugar, a 
little etiok cinnamon and a teaspoonful of pi¬ 
mento tied in a bit of cloth ; scald all together ; 
add the cucumber and boil till soft. 
Tomato Omlet. 
Take three large tomatoes, peel and cut fine ; 
stew till soft, adding salt and pepper to taste, a 
small piece of butter, and stir in three eggs just 
as you take it from the fire. b. f. s. 
£1 fins of tjif fSEtth. 
Monday, Sept. 23,1878. 
POLITICAL. 
Its a good sign of the times that the Democratic 
Convention, held at Philadelphia, nominate i four 
prominent republicans for judgeships. Last year 
the republicans voted solidly for a democratic 
Judge, so that both parties recognize the fact that 
the Judicial otTlce should bo filled by the most up¬ 
right and competent men regardless of party 
affiliations. Out in Oregon J. H. Slater has been 
elected senator Instead of HIpple-Mltcbell, and Is 
against Inflation and In favor of a coin basis. Ex¬ 
senator Mate. Carpenter Is receiving numerous 
petitions to become a candidate for United States 
Senator from Wisconsin, and, of course, “ Barkis 
is willin’.” Up in Vermont .Judge Polland has 
formally offered himself as candidate for the seat 
in the senate, held at present by Senator Morrill. 
The struggle for the governorship of Massachu¬ 
setts Is this year attracting more general Interest 
than any political movement at present, taking 
place In any other State. There Butler's candi¬ 
dacy has, apparently, greatly disorganized the 
old parties, stimulated the activity of the Green¬ 
back-labor party, and caused great uncertainty 
as to tho result of the present contest. On Tues¬ 
day last, the Democratic Convention for nominat¬ 
ing a governor and other state officers met at 
Worcester. The state Committee had intimated 
that delegates Instructed to nominate Butler 
would stand a slim chance of admission, as In 
nearly all such cases there were contesting dele¬ 
gations, and decisions would be rendered lu favor 
of enough ariil-Butlerltes to secure a large major¬ 
ity In opposition to him. As stated here last week, 
Butler Insisted that the Convention should decide 
the eligibility of its members. „ 
The fear was that, the Butlerit.es would not 
admitted to the floor of the convention, and to re¬ 
move this danger, early on the morning a large 
body of them took possession of Mechanics' Hall 
111 whloh the meeting was to be held, and pro¬ 
ceeded to organize In their own favor. When 
their opponents learned of this move, they tried 
to have the foreslallers ejected, or to hire an¬ 
other hall; but. could do neither, as the mayor 
declared that an attempt to do the former would 
cause bloodshed, and all the other suitable halls 
In the city had been pre-engaged by Butler. 
Finally the CentralCommItt.ee declared the con¬ 
vention adjourned till next Wednesday, when 
their adherents are to meet at Fanuell Hall in 
Boston. On their withdrawal, to the number of 
some 600 odd, there remained 973 delegates from 
8ii9 towns and cities, and these gave Che nomina¬ 
tion to Butler by acclamation. The bolters will 
name an antl-Butler ticket and thus divide the 
democratic party, many of whom will doubtless 
vote the republican ticket rather than see Butler 
triumphant. On the following day the republican 
convention met at the same place, presented a 
marked contrast to Its turbulent predecessor, and 
nominated Thomas Talbot lor governor. Butler 
has now at his back all the greenbaekers, a large 
number of discontented republicans, and probably 
the majority of the democratic party, and has a 
fair chance of beating his highly respectable 
republican rival. 
Gen. Beauregard was nominated for State treas¬ 
urer by a coalition of republicans and greenback- 
ers of Louisiana, but declines the nomination. 
Mr. Gotham, Secretary of the Senate and likewise 
of the congressional campaign committee, has 
been making a speech extolling the greenback 
doctrine. He thinks the republican party should 
favor it more, and intends to print and circulate 
as a campaign document a large number of Sena¬ 
tor Thurman’s late speech in favor of tills move¬ 
ment. 
In Connecticut the democrats, against the 
known opposition of Senators Eaton and Barnum, 
have adopted a platform In which they affirm 
gold and silver coin to be “ the most stable basis 
for the commercial necessities of the world,” but 
denounce the whole financial policy of the gov¬ 
ernment which Is slowly bringing us to that basis; 
they denounce especially the Resumption Act, 
but they leave all legislation upon It to the wis¬ 
dom of Congress without a suggestion as to Its 
character, and they condemn repudiation but de¬ 
clare that “whatever currency Is Issued should 
be for the benefit of tbe whole people." These 
resolutions were passed “ as a whole ” with neat¬ 
ness and despatch, neither Senator Eaton nor 
Senator Barnum being on hand to discuss or de¬ 
nounce them. 
Secretary Sherman has been interviewed by a 
greenback editor, and the report, which Mr. Sher¬ 
man Is said to have revised, Is sufficiently re¬ 
markable. He laid It down that It. was a mistake 
to suppose that a man could not be a republican 
and a greenbacker at the same time; that the 
two positions are perfectly compatible; that tbe 
greenbaekers have left the republican party simp¬ 
ly because “ his financial policy has been misrep¬ 
resented;" hut. “the misrepresentations will be 
cleared up " and then they will come back to the 
old party. He considers a currency Issued by 
government “superior and more economical” 
than national-bank notes, and the reason why ho 
has been preparing to redeem the government 
notes Is, that he found a law on the statute-book 
when he took office commanding him to do so. 
But when “resumption Is an accomplished fact” 
and “the country has settled down to a specie 
standard,” there being no longer any occasion for 
the national banks, “ they will be legislated out 
of existence.” no ownB no bonds, and. so far 
from “working in the Interest of tho bondhold¬ 
ers,” he has been from the very first trying to cut. 
down their Interest. “ He has been abused pretty 
generally, but. having laid down for his guidance 
the interests of the whole country, he docs not 
penult harsh criticisms to keep him rrom sleep¬ 
ing.” There Is one point In his estimable charac¬ 
ter as a po'ltlcian and financier to which the 
Secretary modestly refrains rrom calling atten¬ 
tion, and that Is his eminently catholic and pro¬ 
gressive spirit. 
Sec'y Sherman has one good defence against 
any misrepresentation of “his policy " regarding 
silver, viz., the difficulty of knowing what It Is. 
nehas just Issued an order rescinding the pre¬ 
vious one directing the payment of silver for 
greenbacks. This makes tho fifth order he has 
issued In attempting to be ** friendly to silver” 
since July 19. The first directed certain banks to 
be furnished with sliver dollars on their applica¬ 
tion; but they were to distribute It as currency, 
and not let Importers have it for customs’ duties. 
The second (Sept. 3) directed sliver to be paid out. 
In sums under $. 10,000 in exchange for silver cer¬ 
tificates; but It was still to be used as currency, 
and the importers were not to have any of It. 
The third (Sept. 7) directed It to be Issued at the 
sub-treasuries to anybody lor greenbacks. The 
fourth (Sept. 13) lorbude such payment, on ac¬ 
count or doubt of Its legality. The fifth (Sept. 14 ) 
directs silver to be furnished free of expense to 
120 national banks, on their application, for gen¬ 
eral use, and directs United 8 La tea’ disbursing 
agents and paymasters to use silver dollars In 
their payments as far as possible, and Govern¬ 
ment employes who desire them In payment of 
their salaries, may also have them. 
The trnde-dollar imbroglio thickens. Letters 
continue to pour into the Treasury Department 
inquiring why they a/e not redeemed by the 
Government., why the bankers do not take them 
on deposit, and why, seeing that they oonlaln 
more silver than the “buzzard dollar” (the des¬ 
ignation applied by indignant Holders of the 
trado-doliar to the now standard dollar), they 
are uot universally current. The New York Cen¬ 
tral Ball road now refuses to take trude-dollars 
for tickets or freight, but they are still current 
In soino departments of trade, so that their quo¬ 
table price IS considerably above their bullion 
value. Consequently there la money to bo made 
by bringing them from California, or even from 
China, and putting them Into circulation. It is 
estimated tnat about three millions are now 
afloat, and an agitation has been started in the 
West to have them redeemed at par by act of 
Congress. This would be equivalent to buying 
silver bullion on Government account at about 
5Sd. per ounce, its market value being below 52ei. 
per ounce. As the Government makes no profit 
on the issue of trade-dollars, but merely stamps 
them and certifies their weight and fineness, lc 
would be a promising speculation to the holders 
of sliver bullion to have a law passed for their 
redemption at par, and to have the mints kept 
open for the coinage of new ones. 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
The Rev. Dr. Samuel Caldwell has been elected 
as the new president of Vassar College. He was 
born at Newburyport,, Mass,, in 1820 , graduated 
at Waterville, Me., College and at Newton Theo¬ 
logical Seminary, and became a professor In tho 
latter in 1873, after a pastorate of 27 years at Ban¬ 
gor, Me., and Providence, It. 1, He belongs to the 
Baptist denomination. 
Senator Davis of West Virginia has frequently 
charged that there was a deficiency 01 several 
millions In the Treasury accounts, but the ex- 
peris he has had at work Investigating them all 
summer, declare they can find no trace of such a 
deficiency. The Chinese of San Francisco have 
contributed $1,200 toward the relief of yellow 
fever sufferers. 
Edison’s latest Invention will, according to him* 
replace gas In streets and houses by electric light! 
at a cost from 40 to »o times less, according as • 
the electric machine which generates the elec¬ 
tricity producing the light, Is run by steam or 
water power. The wires which couvey the light 
are to be Insulated and laid in the ground the 
same as gas pipes. The present gas burners can 
be utilized for tho new light, and the same wires 
that bring this will also bring Into every house 
power and heat. By means of tbe former, a sew¬ 
ing machine or any other mechanical connivance 
that requires a motor, can be run, while the latter 
will cook food or serve nearly all the purposes of 
ordinary fires by means of suitable stoves. Edi¬ 
son says he has completed the luvenllon and will 
give a public exhibition of It so soon as he has 
properly protected it by putting in claims for 
home and foreign patents. 
FOREIGN. 
The present Liberal government of Canada, un¬ 
der Premier Mackenzie has been heavily defeated 
at the elections just held, and a conservative 
house of representatives chosen under the leader¬ 
ship of 81r John McDonald. The Issue upon 
which the electoral contest mainly depended svas 
the promise of McDonald and his supporters, If 
elected, to enforce a system of thorough protec¬ 
tion for home manufactures by tho Imposition of 
Increased duties on all Imports, and In retaliation 
for our heavy duties on Canadian goods, to levy 
prohibitory taxes on all Importations from the 
United States. England, the great apostle of 
free trade, does not seem to have been successful 
In impressing her teachings on her Canadian off¬ 
spring. 
The debate In the Reichstag on the Antl-Soctal- 
lst Bill began on Monday, and was opened bj 
Herr Bebel In a manner sufficiently trying to the 
government, for he enlarged upon Its relations 
with the socialists In former years when in need 
of an ally, and brought forward the evidence. 
Ho was replied to by Count Kulenburg, who had 
reason to know all the facte In the case and on 
that account was disabled from making an effec¬ 
tive denial. This was reserved tor Bismarck him¬ 
self the next day, and his denial was emphatic 
and categorical, and Included any connection 
whatsoever with Lassalle, the socialist leader. 
He denounced the socialists as a gang of bandits, 
for which he was In vain called to order by Bebel. 
The bill was finally referred to a committee of 
twenty-one. 
A turn has taken place In the Afghan affairs 
favorable to England, and probably unfavorable 
to Russia, through the death of Shir All’s younger 
son, Abdullah Jan, and the one whom he had se¬ 
lected as his heir, to the exclusion of his eldest, 
Yakub Khan, who had, through his military 
talents, won tbe throne for Uni In i860, but whom 
his father has Rlnce kept shut up In close prison. 
Abdullah Jan was a youth of no character, and 
his death will probably lead to Yakub's release 
and reappearance on tho scene. He Is a very 
able man and a friend or the English. The Run- 
slan emhasscy has, however, It Is said, reached 
Cabul, while the English mlsslou Is waiting at 
the frontier to hear from shir All. The latest 
Russian story about tbe expedition to Balkh is, 
that It was ordered when war with England was 
thought likely, but has been countermanded 
since then; but ibis does not receive the credit 
its authors would like. 
The United States C’ousul at Lyons has forward¬ 
ed to the Department of State a report concern¬ 
ing the grain crops of the present season In the 
following departments: The Rhone, Isere, Haute- 
Lotre, Haute-Alpes, Drome, Saone-et-Lolre, Ain, 
Loire, llauto-Savole and Ardeche, embracing an 
area of about 22,000 square miles and containing 
a population of over 4,000,000. The whole cereal 
crop only averages middling in the Rhone, Isere, 
Ain, Loire, Ardeche, Savoie, Hautc-AIpes and 
Saone-et-Lolre. oats very good In the Rhone, 
Isere and llaute-Loire; good in the flautes-Alpes, 
Drome, Loire, Saone-et-Lolre, and fair In the Ain. 
Corn good In the Isere, Loire, Saone-et-Loire, and 
fair In the Drome and Ilaute-Lolro. Rye good In 
the Hautos-Alpcs, Loire, Hante-Savole and the 
Rhone; fair In the Saone-et-Lolre; passable In 
the Ain; middling In the Drome and Isere; and 
bad In the Savoie. Barley very good In the Isere, 
Haute-Lolre, Haute-Alpes, Ardeche, Loire, Saone- 
et-Lolre, Uaute-Savolc and the Rhone; fair In 
the Ain, and middling In the Drome. During the 
year 18 TT France exported 34 , 013,532 bushels of 
grain and flour, and Imported 42 , 631,618 bushels, 
showing an excess of Imports of more than 8 , 600 ,- 
000 bushels. 
An extraordinary and unlooked-for change has 
been made lu the government of Egypt by the 
complete surrender to the state by the Khedive 
of his vast private landed property, amounting 
directly to 1,000,000 acres, or directly and Indi¬ 
rectly to one-fifth of tbe soil, and all cultivated 
by forced labor, and largely acquired by out¬ 
rageous oppression of Individuals. Besides farm¬ 
ing on a great scale, he manufactured on a scale 
still greater, owning numerous sugar, cotton, 
and tobacco factories. He began In 1863 with a 
debt of $20,000,000, but he has worked so well as a 
borrower that ho now owes $S 36 ,ow,Ooo, and tho 
population only amounts to 5,000,000. It is 
needless to say, too, that he has lost money In 
aU his Industrial enterprises; so that In sur¬ 
rendering his private property, and appointing 
a Constitutional Ministry, with Nubar Pasha at 
the head of it, and Mr. Rivers Wilson the English 
financier, as Minister or Finance, he Is virtually 
going Into bankruptcy. In the language of our 
time, having suffered enormously from “shrink¬ 
age,” he has“ gone Into liquidation.” He accom¬ 
panied his surrender with a little speech In 
which he said that Egypt was to be African no 
longer; it was hereafter to be administered 
as a European state. 
Italy has established a quarantine against the 
whole United States. An unusually high rise Is 
taking place In the Nile and a disastrous Inunda¬ 
tion la apprehended. In Spain a conspiracy to es¬ 
tablish a federal republic has been discovered 
at Seville. Recent elections there for Provin¬ 
cial Councils, however, give a large government 
majority, 200 adherents of It having been elected 
against 60 belonging to the opposition. 
The Russian troops in front of Constantinople, 
which It is now ascertained mustered lull 80,000, 
have begun to retire. Half have already em¬ 
barked, and the remainder are to withdraw Into 
Eastern Rumella, which they are to occupy for 
some months, while the government of the prov¬ 
ince Is being organized. In the meantime the 
negotiations between Sir Austin Layard and the 
Porte about the reforms In Asia have been going 
on swimmingly, but have a comic side. The Porto 
has been found not only ready hut eager for re¬ 
form, and the reforms suggested by the British 
Minister are luckily the very ones tbe Turks 
were themselves thinking of, namely, police, de¬ 
cent roads, and tolerable courts of justice, or, In 
other words, a fair amount of protection for life 
and property. These little changes will, however, 
they say, cost $ 30 , 000,000 merely to begin, and 
they propose that England should advance this 
sum on the surplus of the Cyprus revenues. This 
seems to have been too much even for the Eng¬ 
lish minister, and he returned a peremptory re¬ 
fusal. There Is probably now no one left wUo 
would entrust the Turks with any sum, however 
