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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
OCT. 42 
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OONDUCJTED 3 Y EMILY MAPLE 
MOP-HANDLE PAPERS.-No. 5. 
MAT MAPLE. 
Self-imposed Doties. 
“Oh, dear! I’m nearly tired to death,” said 
Mr s. Busy, as she dropped into her easy chair 
which stood invitingly near an open window that 
looked out upon a perfeot mass of fragrant blos¬ 
soms ; “ and yet,” she continued. “ I ought not 
to sit down here for a single minute; for it is 
almost ten o’clock aud there must be some pies 
or a pudding made for dinner, the bread is al¬ 
most ready to mold out, and the vegetables are 
to be brought from the gardon and cleaned. 
And I declare this yard looks as though it was 
deserted; the weeds are getting such a start 
again, and the garden is worse still. I ought to 
finish May’s dress to-day, and I must do that, so 
she can have it to wear to the picnic to-morrow. 
If it wasn’t for the ruffles it wouldn’t seem like 
such a job. And there’s a whole basketful of 
clothee waiting to be ironed; the mercy knows 
there’s no end to the w ork in this house! I be¬ 
lieve it will make me crazy yet. I mustn't sit 
here another minute; though how I can ever 
get one-half of the work done that ought to be 
done this very day, is more thau I can tell.” 
And she arose, not hastily, but as though 
many tons’ weight were pressing upon her shoul¬ 
ders. And I wondered how many thousands 
were burdening themselves io the same manner; 
growing old, faded and worn-out long before 
their appointed time. 
Now I am going to enter my protest against 
such a wholesale waste of strength, beauty and 
talent. In the first place, there is no actual 
must about doing or trying to do six days work 
in one. The good Lord set us an example of 
taking an abundanoe of time wherein to do our 
work. I admit there are some things that 
need a housekeeper’s daily attention. There are 
but few farmers who are willing to accept of 
cold victuals for breakfast, dinner or tea, no 
matter how highly various cooks may reoom- 
mend the fashion. But it is all nonsense to 
think one must wash, bake, iron and churn, do 
the family sewing, patching aud gardening all 
in one day. 
If the bread is getting “ beautifully less,” it 
is one’s duty to see that more is provided. And 
when one's strength is ebbing it is just as much 
a duty to sit or lie dowu till it is in some degree 
restored. It is not necessary that both the iron¬ 
ing aud baking be done on the same day, when 
there is but one pair of hands to perform the 
labor and one pair of feet to take all the steps. 
Neither is it necessary that May’s dress Bhould 
be finished to wear to that picnic; she has an¬ 
other dress she ca . wear that will answer quite 
as well; if she has not. better dispense with the 
ruffles aud overskirts that are such a bother to 
make, and a worse one to iron, and give her two 
plain ones, so that she will not be distressed for 
an extra robe, especially if she is not old enough 
to make her own dresses or do some of the work 
about the house. 
Rest, if ouly for a few minutes, when you 
have finished hurrying through the morning’s 
work For one does feel in a hurry from the 
time one gets out of oed in the morning, till the 
breakfa-it is over, bread put to sponge, the milk 
skimmed, calves fed, churning done, dishes all 
washed, beds made, rooms swept and furniture 
dusted and put in order. After all this exercise 
of mind aud body it is certainly time to rest 
aud iusist upon taking rest. While you are sit 
ting down, if you are a reading woman—and I 
hope you are—don’t be afraid of wasting the 
minutes if you take up the last paper or maga¬ 
zine that John has thrown upon the table half 
opened, aud read a paragraph or perchance an 
article. It may give you a p easaut thought, or 
many of them ; and pleasant thoughts relieve 
one greatly from weariness. If possible, do 
something in the course of the day that you love 
to do, if only for fifteen minutes, just as you did 
in your girlhood. Slip quietly out of the tread¬ 
mill to your own sanctum, perhaps to knot a rib¬ 
bon, rearrange a mop on your hat or crimp a 
ruffle, when no one knows your whereabouts. 
You, no doubt, remember whai a rest there waB 
in the perfect quiet, wheu only the chirp of the 
robin in the orchard was heard, or perchance 
some wildwood bird broke the rileuce with its 
sweet carol. At ail events, rest 
It is just as niucn a religious duty to rest be¬ 
fore you have exhausted all your powers, as it is 
to pray for strength and guidance in all your 
life-work. 
- «♦» - 
A HOUSEKEEPER’S DREAMINGS. 
complished by idle dreams, but by years of 
patient study a. d I said to myself, “ Nowhere 
does that sentenoe apply better than to the rou¬ 
tine of housekeeping, where day-dreams are 
often so rudely dispelled, and the practical part 
of living is ever before our eyes. Breakfast, din¬ 
ner and tea—it is one steady routine, as spring 
is followed by summer with its different needs, 
then autumn and the long winter for which BO 
much preparation is made." I look at city 
ladies, and think sometimes how little they know 
of the cares and responsibility of country house¬ 
keeping ; but I Uo not envy them the freedom 
wbich is bought at the expense of so much we 
oan enjoy; though we value it so little until 
perhaps by some chauoe we miss it. So farmers’ 
boys who go to learn city trades, still recall 
longingly the luxuries that were to be had in 
the old home without money and without prioe. 
And speaking of this, who that thinks of these 
things has failed to be impressed with the fact 
that the best and smartest boys of a household 
are thought too good for farm life. “What a 
pity!” I say, when I hear of some wide-awake 
boy who leaves his home for the new ways and 
work of a town. For, in agricultural science, 
brains ate much needed, and the labor-saving 
implements now in use, require skill and 
efficiency to manage them to advantage. Physi¬ 
cal strength and muscular force are not so much 
needed in ibe management cf a farm as they 
were twenty years ago, and it would be a good 
thing for the country if parents would consider 
this wheu guiding the destinies of their children. 
Aud you. my readers, who are mothers and in¬ 
dulge at times in dreamings like mine, know 
well this to be true. Annie L Jack. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES 
Grape Catsup. 
The following is a reliable recipe for Grape 
Catsup. I can safely promise those that try it. 
a delicious relish for cold meats. We like it on 
our bread and butter. Four pounds of stewed 
grapes, boil aud rub through a coarse sieve; 
one scant quart of vinegar; one tablespoonful 
each of ground cloves, allspice, cinnamon, nut¬ 
meg and pepper; one-half tablespoonful of salt. 
Add the grape pulp aud boil until thick. 
Can any of the Rueal ladies furnish a good, 
reliable recipe for Boston Brown Bread ? 
Oil City. Pa. Mrs. V. F. K. 
Euds ot tjjt (iiiUtlt. 
I am look hut away to the sunset, 
The duy-drennn are hushed and still, 
And the twilight falls gently around me 
With a thought that my heart doth chill: 
Is the daylight of life now fading ? 
Are the shadows of even at hand? 
Is the sunshine so soon to leave us 
For unother and brighter land ? 
Mv eyes strayed from the paper where I had 
oarelessly sortbbled these lines to the book be¬ 
side me, and I read: “ Great things are not ao- 
Monday, Oct. 7,1878. 
POLITICAL. 
The Butlerltes of Massachusetts are busily or¬ 
ganizing Butler Clubs and Ben himself Is deliver¬ 
ing campaign speeches at the rate of about one a 
day. Talbot, the republican candidate, has writ¬ 
ten a very handsome letter of acceptance of his 
nomination and the accompanying platform. In 
It he forcibly denounces soft money and its advo¬ 
cates. Abbott, the nominee of the str&lghUout 
democrats, seems to be on a still bunt—at any 
rate w hatever noise he makes Is not heard out¬ 
side the State. Butler is losing large numbers of 
his followers ana Is pretty cei tain of being dis¬ 
gracefully dereated—at any rtt* all his enemies 
say so. President Hayes said lately, out West, 
that the worst, of the greenback craze was over, 
and that the public were rapidly returning to 
their senses and to a preference tor specie over 
paper money —and In these opinions he Unas 
agreeing wltu film a multitude of stalwart repub¬ 
licans w ho agree witn him In little else. 
On Sept. 28th Secretary Scuuiz delivered an 
elegant speech at Cincinnati In tavorot “hard 
money,” national bi.uks and preserving the good 
ralthof the government by paying the national 
debt and its luterest, tn gold, ’l’waa a fine effort; 
but It seems hardly to uave been appreciated by 
Secretary Gorham, of the repubheau campaign 
committee at Washington. Gorham concedes 
that It was a fine speech, just as tho letters of 
Junius and Addison’s articles In the spectator 
were fine productions, but he says that it Is not, 
lu Uts opinion, adapted U> campaign purposes, 
and acc'.tdiugly he declines to print It for cir¬ 
culation among other documents Intended to in¬ 
fluence the coming elections. Gorham Is more 
than suspected of being a greenback republican, 
—a kind or republican much more numerous 
among t he hard-fisted tollers of the West than 
among the kid-gloved capitalists of the East. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
It having been charged that the government 
misses a q iarter of tho tax-s on imports through 
our Inefficient system of collecting them, the 
Treasury mat es, In short,the followingstatement. 
The cuftoms nv.-nu>‘ service employs 3565 persons 
and collects $ 133,024,00a it a cost of $3,525,787, or 
4.1 per cent. Tuts Is against a cost of 4 8 per 
cent In Great BrhUn where the coast line to be 
watcUed Is very much shorter, the number of 
dutiable >. riicles very much less, i he rates very 
much less, but, the total collections very much 
larger. Now would It not be well If a like In¬ 
crease in t,be cost of collecting our import 
duties were attended with a similar Increase in 
the total amount collected? Cyrllle Dion, me 
celebrated billiard expert, died last Wednesday, 
at t he age of 35, of congestion ot the lungs, while 
traveling to witness the Hanlan-Coui tney boat 
race, near Montreal. This affilrcame off last 
Thursday arternoon, having been deferred from 
the previous day on account of unfavorable 
weather. For some days before the race there 
was a multitude of ugly rumors that Courtney 
had sold the race for $4000. The betting whlc 11 
up to that time hod been pretty even, suddenly 
veered around to $100 to $36, and in some cases 
$100 to $20 against OourtDey, and It Is claimed 
that his own relatives and friends backed his 
opponent. Harlan won the race by a length and 
a halt. Both the Ctmtdlan and the American, 
of course, deny any underhand dealing, a denial 
Indorsed by nearly all lb'* hackers of the former 
and by a few ot those of the latter. Courtney’3 
umpire, m a published statement, throws a good 
deal of doubt, on the good faith of his man, and 
the Issue of the race has undoubtedly greatly in¬ 
jured the reputation of the American champion. 
A decision of Interest to all who buy or sel' real 
estate has Just been rendered In the Municipal 
Court of Rochester in this State. In Februaiy, 
1877, a Mr. Rockfellow, of that city, went to the 
office of the County Clerk and ordered a search to 
maae for any liabilities upon property he was 
about to purchase. He received a st atement of 
the result of the search and paid the usual tee 
Relying upon the truth of the statement he made 
the purchase of the land—a farm at Perrlnton. 
Subsequently It appeared that the record of a 
mortgage, of about $500 had been omitted by tbe 
clerk or deputy In his Bearch. Mr. Rockfellow 
brought suit against the clerk, claiming $500 dam¬ 
ages by reason of the neglect. The uaae was 
sharply contested. The Issue depended on the 
liability of the clerk based upon the question as 
to whether his act in making the search was Ju¬ 
dicial or ministerial—It he acted ministerially, It 
was conceded he would be liable. Tho decision 
of Judge Sill gave Judgment against the County 
Clerk for $514.80. Tho ease will undoubtedly be 
appealed, and as It la said to bo the first reported 
case of tho kind In this State, the final decision 
will settle tbe taw on the question. 
Tbe National Association of Wool Manufactur¬ 
ers held Its fourteenth annual meeting'in this 
city last Wednesday. Its policy Is to develop to 
the greatest extent, the pioductlon and manu¬ 
facture of wool in this country. With this object 
It lias held, close Intimacy with the wool-grow¬ 
ers’ associations In the West and South and has 
endeavored to reconcile the antagonism which 
has long existed between the wool-growers and 
the wool manufacturers—tbe former being desir¬ 
ous of getting the largest possible duties on wool, 
and the latter endeavoring to place the largest 
possible duties on cloths, with no duty on wool. 
The result the Association claims to have been a 
development of the wool-growing Interests with¬ 
out a parallel In any other part of the world, and 
If the same policy Is pursued for five or ten years 
more, it Is thought that both wool and woolen 
goods will be exported from this country. This 
Is by no means Improbable, hut certainly this 
association Is Inclined to take to Itself an undue 
proportion of the credit for such a desirable 
object. 
Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, who lately failed, has ef¬ 
fected a settlement with his creditors and again 
resumed business. A sad proof of tbe spasmodic 
nature of the temperance movement In Ohio, a 
few years ago, Is afforded by the statement that 
Columbus has now 127 more liquor saloons than 
It had seven years ago—an Increase of over one- 
third. The Indian Commission hive resolved on 
the removal of 2,500 UUs from their present posi¬ 
tion In southwestern Colorado, 200 miles from 
railroad facilities, to a reservation at the head¬ 
waters ot the Navajo and Branch rivers, removed 
irorn white settlements but accessible to supplies, 
and the Ulcs are, for the present, satisfied. Last 
Tuesday a hand of runaway Cheyennes crossed 
the Kansas Pacific track 60 miles east of Hayes 
City, Kansas, and wheu eight or ten miles north 
of the station, came upon a lot of cattle men, and 
lu a hand-to-hand fight, slew 18 of them aud 
wounded five more. They were pursued by a 
party of Untied States troops, and lu a skirmish, 
six soldiers were killed. The Indian loss Is not 
reported. There is a startling rumor of a wide¬ 
spread Indian war along the frontier. Red Cloud 
and Spotted Tall are reported to have started 
with their braves on the war path. These chiefs 
have long been good friends of the whites, and 
lately moved peaceably to new reservations, but 
It. is said ; hat they have been so atrooiously swin¬ 
dled and starved by government agents that they 
have finally decided to avenge ttielr lu Juries, ir 
they did so b.v hanging or even sculping half a 
dozen rascally agents, the general verdict would 
be, “served them right;” but, unfortunately, the 
lnuocent frontier settlers are the chief sufferers 
from every Indian outbreak. Yellow fever Is still 
ravaging the South, with little or no abatement. 
Many of the small country towns and sea-side 
resorts that had hitherto escaped the visitation, 
have been stricken during the past week, and 
from the whole afflicted region the cry for help is 
still borne northwards. 
FOREIGN. 
From across the Atlantic comes the Intelligence 
of the death, by typhoid fever, of Thomas C. 
Booth, the celebrated breeder of Short-horns at 
Warlaby. The Warlaby estate, with Its famous 
herd of Short-horns, came into his possession In 
1864, on the death of his Uncle Richard Booth. 
He was not ouly among the foremost breeders of 
cattle, but also a capital farmer, an admirer of 
good agricultural hotses, a ready speaker, and a 
hUihly intelligent, amiable and popular gentle¬ 
man. His death will be a loss not only to the 
farmers of Great Brltalu but to those of t he world. 
In the German Reichstag, or Parliament, a fierce 
struggle Una lately been lu progress between the 
adherents of tne administration and the Opposl- 
tlun, including Liberals, Uitramontanes and So¬ 
cialists. Bismarck, at tue head of the former, 
int roduced a measure for stamping out Socialism 
In the Fatherland. The scope of this was so wide 
and tyraunlcal tuat every publication, newspa¬ 
per, magazine and book, would be placed directly 
under government supervision lor an Indefinite 
length of time, it any of them tended to favor 
the obnoxious party, It would be at once sup¬ 
pressed and Its publisher and author severely pun- 
shed, while the police were constituted the Judges 
of such a tendency All meetings about which 
there might be a suspicion of Socialism, were to g 
be ruthlessly dispersed, while the participants 
were liable to severe penalties. On the first read- 
log, the hill waB considerably modified by the 
votes of the Opposition, and the time during 
which its provisions were to continue In operation 
was limited to two years and ft half. This lim¬ 
itation was as objectionable to Bismarck as the 
other ;modlfleatlous, and ho has threatened 
again to dissolve the Reichstag In the hope of 
befog able to secure a more subservient assembly. 
Tbe parliamentary committee, however, has read 
the bill a second time In all essential points the 
g irue as after the first reading. Negotiations 
with the Vatican which have lately fallen to the 
ground through tho refusal of the ecclesiastical 
authorities to submit to tho Falck laws, may prob¬ 
ably now he resumed with a view to m cure the 
support ot a majority of the Uitramontanes. 
Mr. Gladstone has lately greatly Increased his 
unpopularity In England by publishing, In the 
North American Review, an article called “Ktn 
Beyond Boa.” All the Conservative press and 
not a Tew Liberal papers accuse mm of glorifying 
In It tho American Republic to the disparagement 
of his own country. He prophesies a glorious 
career for the United States,and for Great Britain 
a very subordinate place among the Kugllsh- 
speaklng races ot the future. Some time back the 
Russians appointed a commission to investigate 
army frauds. It has Just reported that corrup¬ 
tion Is widespread and implicated 600 officers, 40 
of them colonels. In the misapplication of funds 
during the late war. It Is reported from Paris 
that the difficulties between France, England 
and the United States relative to the Newfound¬ 
land fisheries are In a fair way of being satisfac¬ 
torily arranged. Tne three cabinets, It Is said, 
are now drawing up a convention which will 
obviate any further disagreement. Meanwhile 
Secretary Kvarts has only lately protested to the 
English government against the award oi $5,000,- 
000 damages given, some months ago, by the 
Fisheries Commission against this country and 
In favor or Canada, and this dilatoriness Irritates 
Blaine and other opponents of the payment of 
C..e award. 
The death or Dr. Petermann, the foremost 
geographer of the world, reported here last week, 
turns out to have been the result of suicide. A 
couple ot years ago he obtained a divorce from 
his first wife, said to be a she-devil, and some 
months ago married another. The s. d. straight¬ 
way commenced a system of persecution by letter 
and otherwise, welch ao worried him, In conjunc¬ 
tion with a painful illness, that, at the age of 56, 
he stepped down and out with his neck tn a halter. 
Taey have just had a phenomenal bankruptcy in 
Scotland by tne collapse of the city ot Glasgow 
BaDk, with its fitly branches scattered throughout 
tne country. The Institution was one of the 
oldest in Scotland, had a capital of $5,000,000 and 
failed for $50,000,000. The suddenness of the 
calamity is shown by the statement that the 
shares of the bank, originally worth £100, sold on 
the day or the failure for £200 and within the 
week for £ 237 . The failure Is due to the grossest 
kind of rashness on the pan or the directors In 
malclug advances to mercantile firms doing busi¬ 
ness chiefly In India audSouth America. Upwards 
of $ 30 ,ooo,ouo were in this way advanced to four 
firms, the reputation of two ot whom was any¬ 
thing but, good. The general veid ct Is that a 
more reckless course of gambliog with other 
people’s money by any body of directors was 
never known. The shareholders of the bank are 
responsible for Its debts, and thousands of these 
are women, orphans, and old people, who In¬ 
vested what money they had lu this kind of se¬ 
curity, and lived on Its Income. These will not 
only lose tne sum thus Invested, but they are »lso 
liable to uave every dollar of their other property 
taken from them until the bank's Indebtedness la 
liquidated. Not only will upwards of 760 em¬ 
ployes be brought to distress by the failure, 
therefore, but thousands or shareholders, who in 
the eyes of the law, are partners In the business, 
will be brought to absolute poverty. Yet, up to 
the last, the management paid heavy dividends 
which they took out of the capital. Instead of the 
Interest of the business. It has long been the 
custom of our traos-atiaulle couslus to point with 
sc.rn at our numerous dishonest bank officials— 
and unfortunately they have been far too nu- 
merous—yet among us there has been no lustance 
of ao gigantic a rascality, and lew of such 
atrocious dishonesty. 
Advlc s from Cassablanca, Morocco, report 377 
deaths irorn euolera out of a population of 700 be¬ 
tween tue 17th and iota of last moutu, ana from 60 
to 70 deaths dally troth the same cause at Fez 
and Medulnezr. Tne rinder-pest has made its ap¬ 
pearance lu Northumberland, north ot England, 
despite the stringent measures adopted by Gov¬ 
ernment to guard against It. The famine tn 
Brazil, owing to protracted drought, uas become 
terribly severe; aud hundreds are dying of starva¬ 
tion in spite ot the b .'si efforts of the govern¬ 
ment to relieve the distress. The lack of rail¬ 
roads and canal.-, in tue country adds to tue suf- 
rerlug as transportation ot relief U) distant dis¬ 
tricts Is slow and uncertain War has actually 
commenced between Great Brltlan aud Afghan¬ 
istan. Cablegrams received this morning says 
that All Musjld has been taken by the storm by 
the British troops. Several of the independent 
tribes ou the nontier have expressed a desire to 
Join the British. Buere All, me hostile Arner 
has a force of 150,000 men. He has released from 
Imprisonment his eldest son, Yakoob Khan, who 
la a celebrated general. There Is great enthu¬ 
siasm among the Indian native troops of the 
British army. England will not be satisfied with 
an apology, however, abject; she will demand 
solid guarantees—more territory. 
Von Moltke Is reported to have tendered hla 
resignation as chief of staff. The matter will be 
decided when the Emperor resumes control of the 
government; this he will do after the passage of 
