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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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waited for more than three mortal hours for 
a chance to get into a homeward-bound car. 
At no time during the Centennial had I seen 
such enormous crowds of people in Philadel¬ 
phia as at this time—thousands and thousands 
of people—a million and a half standing for 
hours on the sidewalks, on the river front, in 
the Park, in the public squares, for the purpose 
of seeing the parades, the fireworks, the pro¬ 
cessions, the naval displays, and the innumer¬ 
able sights that attend a great celebration. 
The city was aflame with colors, wreaths, 
festoons, flowers, flags of all nation 0 , and at 
night brilliant with all the gas and electric 
light that could he turned on, and the full 
moon shining with all her might in cloud¬ 
less skies. Not a drop of rain, or frost fell 
during the four days from October 24— 
weather as perfect as when William Penn 
landed here 200 years ago, and inhaled the 
sweet fragrance that greeted him from the 
“ goodly shores” of the Delaware. 
The flrst day’s pageantry—Tuesday—was 
“Landing Day,” and a ship had been remodeled 
to look like the ship “Welcome,”in which 
Penn came to this country; and a man was 
dressed to personate Penn, and others to simu¬ 
late the sailors and men who came with him. 
Indians in full costume were at the dock to 
await the “Welcome,” while br ats of all soits, 
loaded to the water’B edge with eager eyed 
people went down the Delaware to meet the 
“Welcome.” Of course it was a gay and 
novel sight, with a broad touch of the ludi¬ 
crous. But the aim to illustrate the landing 
of Penn was well carried out, and if the face 
of the mimic Penn was not like the original, 
the costume was at least historic : a long 
brown coat, a pearl-colored waistcoat, knee 
breeches of drab, with stockings of the same 
color, and low, buckled shoes! lace frills at 
the neck and wrists, a narrow blue sash about 
the waist and a broad brimmed, low crowned 
hat, certainly a picturesque dress for a Quaker. 
After the landing, the conference with “depu¬ 
ty Governor Markham,” who was in splendid 
attire, the conference with the Indians and 
the smoking of the pipe of peace, the long 
civic parade began, in which marched 20,000 
men—men in carriages and on horseback. In¬ 
dians—men and women—Swedes, Dutch Cal¬ 
edonians, each and all in uational costume; 
band after baud of music playing national 
airs, old army wagons, old-time machinery 
for putting out Ares, coining money, squares 
of firemen and burnished engines, postmen, 
soldiers, temperance societies, tableaux of the 
Penn times, with squadrons of butchers and 
bakers and candlestick makers. 
I watched the entire parade from a seat in 
a Chestnut street window, and kept my eye 
on a pretty girl under a red bonnet, who stood 
close t o the curbstone with a large bouquet, 
evidently waiting to give it to somebody, and 
finally, after standing for three or four hours, 
her “Johnny came marching by,” and re¬ 
ceived the flowers from her hands, and then 
how happy and pleased looked she ! The 
quantity of flowers used in the decorations of 
the parade was enormous; one wondered 
where so maDy could have been bad. Wed¬ 
nesday was the Trades’ procession; Tbnrsday 
Kitlghts 1 Templar parade, grand musical fes¬ 
tivals, regatta on the Schuylkill, grand bicycle 
tournament in the Park, and on Friday Mili¬ 
tary Day, concluding with exercises in the 
eveuing in the Academy of Music., in which 
the public school children participated. 
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the 
celebration was the singing of the Welsh min¬ 
ers—several hundred—in chorus. These min¬ 
ers came from Scranton and Wilkesbarre 
chiefly, aud gloomy’as the life of a coal miner 
must be, they somehow learn to sing marvel¬ 
ously. The Mystic Tableaux of Wednesday 
night attracted the greatest of all the crowds. 
It was the night which overwhelmed the re¬ 
sources of railroads, stations and hotels. I 
had a seat on the grand stand erected iu front 
of the Academy of Music for iuvited guests 
to the reception which was to follow, and 
guests were required to be in “costume de 
riguer,” and were also expected to sit out in 
the open air of an October night for three 
hours! I took the precaution to dross more 
warmly' than usual, and enveloped in a great 
coat that completely covered me, yet I was 
soon chilled by the exposure. What dire fate 
befell the lightly-clad women and the young 
girls in ball dresses of embroidered mull, con 
readily be imagined. On all sides one heard, 
“ I am nearly frozen;” but still nearly every 
one remained to see the last of the floats. 
It was the first time Philadelphia had in¬ 
dulged in a carnival, and it was a novelty. 
As far up and down Broad street as I could 
see, there was little to be seen on housetops, 
lamp-posts, fences, walls, and the broad tho¬ 
roughfares, but a sea of human beings. It 
was bright almost as day, audstill with enough 
of duskiness to give good effect to the torches 
that lighted tbe floats. The floats consisted 
of tbe mountings of the tableaux, aud were 
made of some light material—as of paste¬ 
board—very large, and on four wheels, so as 
to be drawn by horses. The flrst series were 
historical of Penn—of his landing, of his 
treaty with the Indians, and other events in 
his career. After these came a series of emi¬ 
nent women—Zenobia on an elephant., Cleo¬ 
patra in her barge, Elizabeth on her throne, 
Joan of Arc on horseback, Marie Bt.uart, 
Josephine, Isabella of Spain, etc.; an4 these 
in turn, followed by a series of Indian or 
Hindoo legends. Nothing could have been 
gayer than these moving floats, looking as 
they approached in the distance like flery- 
eyed, steaming-nosed dragons; but most of 
them had nothing to do with William Penn 
or the colony he founded. 
One could not hut wonder what he would 
think of it all could he be resurrected from 
his grave in Jordan’s Meeting-house yard in 
England, and be perched on top of tbe city he 
laid out! He had never even seen the flag 
that everywhere floated in his honor, aud per¬ 
haps in his most enthusiastic moments he had 
never dreamed of the great success of his 
colony—the asylum for the good oppressed of 
all nations, where they conld worship Gk>d 
according to the dictates of their conscience; 
and if there is any one State in the Union 
where the number of sects is legion, it is the 
good State of Pennsylvania. There are not 
so mauy Quakers left in it—one regrets that 
their numbers grow less. But their character 
stamped the character of the State, and the 
catholic spirit of Penn, diffused 200 years ago, 
has never died out. While raeu and women 
were being slaughtered in New England for 
witchcraft, but one was accused of it in Penn¬ 
sylvania. This poor woman was brought 
before Penn, who bade her go in peace, and 
charged her friends to care tor her—a most 
Christian judgment that doubtless saved a 
world of suffering. 
Naturally at this time, the character of 
Penn has been studied anew, and despite the 
malicious (apparently) picture drawn of him 
by Maoauley, his whole career was admirable. 
If ever a young man had inducements to 
smother hi 1 * own convictions, it was Penn. 
Of distinguished birth, of great personal 
beauty, possessing the highest opportunities 
that schools and courts could afford for ele¬ 
gance of manners as well as of mental cul¬ 
ture, he renounced the position these things 
could give him, in order to ally himself with 
the most despispd and persecuted class in all 
England—the Quakers He even went wan¬ 
dering over Europe, preaching his doctrines, 
and keeping his hat on his bead at all costs. 
He was put In prison rei*eahedly, denounced 
by his father, who whs broken hearted over 
his conduct—everything but outright death 
was inflicted upon him, to turn him from the 
'* error of his ways”—butall in vain. He was 
beset with his idea of Quakerism, and as ob 
stinate in it as the veriestcrank. He felt that 
he had a mission direct from God, and made 
himself undoubtedly as obnoxious as people 
do now a days who are “charged with a holy 
mission.” But witbal, be seems to have been 
a jolly, winsome and attractive fellow, and 
when at the early age of 38,‘he came to t ke 
charge cf his domain here, it was no wonder 
that with Ids beauty, his courtly manners and 
his fine sense of justice, that he won the In¬ 
dians aud everybody else, for that matter. 
When the English king gave him the State 
of Pfnnsylvania in payment of a debt, and 
probably with tbe desire to be rid of him also, 
he could never have dreamed what was to 
come of it. It was one of those events that 
seem shaped throughout by the hand of Provi¬ 
dence. With his vast possessions, and the 
wealth and homes that he gave to thousands 
of people, it still appears that Penn died, 
feeling very keenly the pangs of neglect and 
ingratitude. But ingratitude and poverty 
are usually attendants upon the career of all 
great reformers and philanthropists, and men 
who lay down their lives for their fellows, if 
they are familiar with history, can expect no 
happier fate. It is only in after years, when 
the seed they sowed comes into splendid fruit¬ 
age that they are fitly crowned with honor 
aud justice. 
FALSE PRIDE. 
I went into a farmer’s house the other day 
with a friend, and was highly amused at the 
remarks of the ts farmerines ” of the house¬ 
hold. The conversation turned on potato 
picking aud the scarcity of help, and it was 
mentioned that in several families all the 
members of both sexes had turned out to 
secure the crop. But this course of proceed¬ 
ing was not in accord with the ideas of the 
household mentioned, and the mother ex¬ 
claimed; “ I never saw potatoes picked until 
this year when the workers were near the 
house, and I watched them awhile;” and the 
daughter added, “ 1 never picked potatoes in 
my life.” Knowing that this family bad 
lived their lives on the farm, that they had 
been settled there nearly fifty years, that 
husband and sons had worked late and early, 
meanly dad, and iu all sorts of weather, I 
felt a sort of disdain for the small pride that 
would not suffer its possessor to pick potatoes, 
and afterwards found that the mother’s asser¬ 
tion was untrue. I wondered why such things 
were, and asked why it was considered less 
creditable to pick potatoes than to do any 
other necessary work of farm or household. 
Tbe affectation of some of the workers now a¬ 
days contrasts with the feeling that animates 
the truly noble or high minded, and is far re¬ 
moved from the words of the precept, “ What¬ 
soever thy bands find to do do it with thy 
might.” Annie L. Jack. 
The cut No. 428, represents a trimmed sash 
for a white dress, which makes a very hand¬ 
some finish to the suit, and it is incomplete 
Fig. 428. 
without one. It makes a handsome trimming 
for a white skirt, eveu though the muslin 
should run up under the point, though it 
would look prettier cut out. The other cut is 
a pattern for making feather edge braid. It 
may be familiar to some, as it is a favorite 
design. 
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A PRKTTY^and useful rug can be made of a 
piece of stair-carpet. Put fringe on each end. 
Often hen the stair carpet is so much worn 
that a new one is necessary there will be a 
yard or more that is good enough to use for 
the rug. If you choose, you can put the 
fringe all around it. 
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CONDUCTED BV EMILY MAPLE 
UTILIZING OLD CANS. 
MRS. K K. BUCKS. 
Last year, when putting up the last of our 
fruit—late grapes, quinces, pears, etc.—we 
ran short of fruit cans, and it being incon 
venieut just then to drive to town for new 
ones, we hunted ui» all the old, disabled cans 
that bad been “ off duty” on account of some 
little defect—a nick broken out of the rim or a 
little crack, or perhaps they were minus a 
top or ring. We were rather astonished at 
the number of such invalids we mustered out 
of various hiding-places, but every house¬ 
keeper who puts up much fruit knows how 
they will accumulate even with the most 
careful usage. 
As fast as one pair of bands filled those old 
cans with boiling fruit another pair pasted 
several thicknesses of paper over each one, 
using uncooked flour paste, puttiug on one 
piece at a time, lapping it well down around 
the rim, and covering the whole of each piece 
(except the outer one) with paste. The steam 
cooked and hardened the paste so that an 
hour afterward each cover was as hard and 
tight as a drum-head, and the fruit kept per¬ 
fectly until the last was gone. 
Several of the perfect cans, that proved 
unreliable last year, were made just as good 
as new by using new rubber rings. Old 
rubber becomes hardened and inelastic from 
long usage. New ones cost but a few cents 
each by the dozen. 
RAW CHESTNUTS. 
It sometimes takes a severe lesson to make 
people heed the warning so often given by 
physicians in regard to the unhealthfulness 
of raw, i^reeu chestnuts as food. A young 
lad near ns not long since died of inflamma¬ 
tion of tbe stomach and bowels after a very 
short illness. A post mortem examination 
proved that a large quantity of undigested 
green chestnuts had been the cause of his 
death. Make the children understand that 
after the nuts are boiled or roasted there is no 
such danger, for they are then a healthful 
and agreeable food. 
PARSLEY FOR WINTER. 
I hope you have all saved a supply of that 
beautiful Rural Parsley for next Winter. 
Before the frost touches it be sure that you 
cut a good supply, dry it a few raiuutes in a 
hot oven, then crumble it fine and store it 
in corked bottles. I have had it keep its flavor 
for years in that way. Of course it cannot be 
UBed as a garnish, but it makes a nice, deli¬ 
cate flavoring for many dishes. A neighbor 
tells me that she often pack? sprigs of parsley 
down in brine for use as a winter garnish. 
CAULIFLOWER. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
There is no vegetable of finer flavor than 
the cauliflower, and yet it is so rare to see it 
on tbe table of a country house. During the 
last few years the Brassica tribe have all 
been greatly injured by the ravages of the 
cabbage worm, but with us this season this 
pest has done comparatively little damage. 
Consequently, we have had an abundance 
and to spare of fine cauliflower. The method 
of cooktDg most in vogue is to put it into 
well salted water and boil until tender. Make 
in a saucepan a white sauce as follows; Butter 
the size of an egg is put into a saucepan and 
melted; a teacupful of thin cream is added 
and a tablespoonfnl of flour mixed and stirred 
in. Add pepper and salt; stir till smooth and 
sufficiently boiled and pour over tbe boiled 
cauliflower. Cauliflower is delicious served 
as a garnish around fried Spring chickens, 
and is very valuable as a salad, which is pre¬ 
pared in this wise: Put tbe cauliflower into 
enough boiling water to cover it; add a little 
salt and butter to the water. When cooked 
let it become cold; then season with salt and 
pepper, a little vinegar and oil. Let it remain 
for an hour. When ready to serve, pile it on 
a dish to a point; then mask it with a Mayon¬ 
naise sauce. This vegetable is safd to possess 
the same good qualities that are attributed to 
asparagus from a medicinal point of view, 
being, it is claimed, a strong diuretic, and re¬ 
lieving or preventing rtu umatism. The virtue 
is in the stalks, and not in the flower. It is 
as well, when possible, to encourage a vege¬ 
table diet which is health-giving and nutri¬ 
tious, and which, when properly cooked, is 
especially suited for children and the young. 
FRAGMENTS. 
GLADDYS WAYNE. 
It pays to “gather up the fragments.” In 
the cnliuary department the inventive house¬ 
keeper finds almost innumerable ways of 
forming palatable and attractive dishes from 
very unpromising material, often of “odds 
and ends” that in themselves, separably, per¬ 
haps amount to but lit tle, but, as the carpenter 
said to bis employer in regard to the missing 
nails, “You will find them in the bill;” and 
taken as a whole, they may at the end of the 
year amount to quite a sum. Sometimes 
when there is only a cupful or so of boiled 
rice left cold, a nice little pudding may be 
made by beating with it an egg, a spoonful or 
two of sugar, add a pint of sweet milk, flavor 
Blightly with lemon, nutmeg or cinnamon, as 
preferred. Bake. If rice balls are preferred, 
I take a cupful more or less of boiled rice, an 
egg or t wo, as much stale bread crumbed flue 
as there is of rice, and a few mashed potatoes 
may also be added if one has them. Season 
with salt and pepper, mix all well together, 
adding sweet cream or milk if necessary to 
moisten as for fish balls, form into balls, 
flatten and roll them in flour, fry them in a 
little butter; when brown and crisp on both 
sides, lay them on paper on a warm plate, and 
serve soon, slipping the paper from under 
them as they are taken to table. 
In the absence of parsley, water cress and 
pepper-grass are nice for garnishing; if looks 
only be the object, carrot, caraway and 
yarrow leaves are pretty. 
Rnmford Chemical Works. 
This is one of the prominent manufacturing 
concerns of Providence. R. I., whose reputa¬ 
tion is world wide. It was organized with a 
limited capital, but by en'ergetic, persevering 
industry in the manufacture of their standard 
preparations, they have grown to a magni¬ 
tude which is little short of the marvelous. 
They manufacture in enormous quantities, 
Prof. Horsford’s Phosphatie Baking Powder, 
made from his Acid Phosphate. This Powder 
is packed in tin cans of the usual sizes, and is 
made according to the directions of Prof. 
Horsford, the well known authority on bread. 
The names of the inventor and manufacturer 
of the Powder are a guarantee of its superior¬ 
ity and healthfulness,—Adu. 
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Hor»(brd ! s Acid Phosphate 
AS A NERVE FOOD. 
Dr. J. W. Smith, Wellington, O., says: “I 
have used it advantageously in impaired 
nervous supply.”—Adv. 
