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^railing for i|c jjouitg. 
DOUGH-FACES. 
MltS T. H. GRIFFITH. 
Did you eyer see one ? 1 never did except In one 
place where we lived, and there the young people 
made “playing the ghost ” one or their principal 
pastimes, and as a dough-face was considered 
quite an lndlspenslble addition to the gbOBMIneaa 
or the object, I became quite laminar with it, and 
often had a hand In the run. Many a time, winter 
evenings, when the room was tilled with young 
folks, chatting pleasantly before the brightly blaz¬ 
ing lire, half a dozen of us slipped out, and, mix¬ 
ing up some Hour and water Into a still dough, 
made holes In It for eyes, nose, and mouth, and 
selecting one or the tallest or our group, fastened 
It on amid suppressed laughter, winding a sheet 
about the form to add to the hori ibLe effect, 'Hum 
slipping back Into the room unperceived, we man¬ 
aged to darken It, so Hint when the ghost glided 
in, the effect, would be to witness boys and girls, 
both, often times, running pell-mell from the room, 
In dire contusion, screaming os they went, uud 
tumbling over each other In their eagerness to get 
away from what looked the exact Image of a ghost. 
Of course we never Intended any ill results, and 
thought 01 none; but, with the natural reckless¬ 
ness of youth, pursued “the tun or scaring each 
other," until something Occurred which proved so 
serious in ilb results, that wo entirely abandoned 
the abominable practice, it was a beauiltul sum¬ 
mer evening; Just one of those quiet, calm, moon¬ 
light niguts wnen to stay Indoors Beems a punish¬ 
ment. 1 nad gone to stay over night, with a friend 
about the same age, whose lolks had gone away 
on a visit leaving ner alone to take charge or the 
house. 
Their house stood upon a main road, and 
was a large gloomy affair, with a wonderful 
growth of evergreens and shrubbery In front serv¬ 
ing to hide it from the view ot the passer-by, and 
extending the whole length of their yard. The 
road was extensively traveled, and as we sat to¬ 
gether on the front portico, calling up to each 
other’s remembrance the tricks we had daringly 
played ok different people, an Idea popped into 
my mischief-loving head, which I Immediately de¬ 
veloped In detail to my companion. Mo sooner 
was it laid before her than l« was received with 
enthuslain; and entering the house we began 
our preparations, emerging in about half an hour, 
wrapped In sheets, and peering out from the eyes 
cutlu our wrinkled, dough-faces, ripe for mischief 
Our plan was to hide behind the dense shrubbery 
until we saw someone approach! ug, then wo were 
to steal softly out Into the road, beokonlng and 
groaning, and if we succeeded m mgh’.ening 
them, we wore to pursue them as far. down the 
road as prudence would permit. 
The Hist of our victims was a tall, dandy young 
man, who came along with independent stride, 
whistling a merry air, whom llustauily recognized 
as my slater s beau, but as he looked neither to the 
right nor left, we were unpercelvcd. But, not 
liking to lose oU r fun, nor thinking It best to appear 
directly In iront or him for fear of being recognized, 
we ran along the inside or the fence, shielded by 
the evergreens, until wc reached the boLtorn of a 
little hill, where we climbed, or rather rolled over, 
as our winding sheets rather Impeded the free use 
of our limbs, and waited his coming In a fence 
corner. 
As he reached t.hc top of the little emlnenoe, we 
glided out and burst forth with our hollow groans. 
Answering us with a shriek of laughter, he bore 
down upon us, ruuulng so swiftly that we had no 
time to escape, but were forced to bear the severe 
pinches with which he tested us to see if we were 
flesh and blood, at last making us scream ouL lor 
mercy, when he released us, saying, “ That’s ll; 
stop shamming. 1 thought I’d make you squeal, 
although 1 must own you are a plucky kind ol 
ghosts. 1 can soon put you into the way of a rich 
Joke, girls. Old Finley's coming ulong back there 
on his mule, stay light here lu the fence corner, 
and walk out as ho comes up. It may be possible 
you may succeed lu searing him out of me even 
tenor of nis way. The effect or such u thing would 
be simply sublime. ’ ihla lltue piece 01 Intelli¬ 
gence put us Into a perfect transport of delight, 
for be It known that •* * old Fluiey," as he was 
familiarly called, was a “ thorn In our fleshIn 
fact, we had always considered It a great and un¬ 
deserved kindness that ho was permitted to live. 
Such a crusty old fellow as he was, never so much 
as giving you a civil “howdy" when you passed 
him on the load, and seeming to think the bony, 
vicious old animal he rode the only being, worthy 
of notice. 
llow ne lived nobody knew, and I don’t think, 
anybody cared. At least, however curious we 
might have been, not one or us bad ever round the 
courage tc approach tne old log-cabin, guarded as 
It was, day and night, by the ilercest or dogs. All 
we knew was, that each night wo saw him lide 
past on his old mule, and every morning, just at 
dawn, hack again, and at no other i lines, never 
lining his head to speak lo a living soul, never 
looking Huy one lu the lace, but keeping on his 
lone, solitary way from oholoe, repelling all at¬ 
tempts at acquaintance with a gruff, “ Don’t know 
you, sir." Arid so, because he was surly, and old, 
and poor, we young lolks hatvd him, and counted 
an opportunity to persecute hlin one or the 
choicest privileges which could rail to our lot. 
He certainly was a queer looking object as he 
came over the brow or the hill, astride the long- 
eared, old mule; nis broad-brimmed straw hat, 
tattered and torn, Happing over his yellow, wrluk- 
led race, while every other moment, he would 
dig his heels Into the poor creature’s sides with a 
“Uit along, b’y." Indeed, we round It a matter 
of great oilliculty to preserve the decorum consid¬ 
ered a necessary adjunct to a ghostly character; 
but by dint of half smothering ourselves with our 
shrouds, we were enabled to keep from betraying 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAY 22 
ourselves; although I laughed so hard that the 
tears flowed abundantly down my cheeks, wetting 
the dough Into a very sticky and unpleasant con¬ 
sistency. 
As he came Blowly down the hill, we stalked 
from our hiding-place, and with a hideous groan, 
arrayed ourselves before him. We had no Idea It 
■would happen the way It did, or course, but as we 
appeared before the eyes of the mule old Finley 
was riding, the let rilled creature slopped short, 
then wheeled about with a rrlghtened snort, and 
clearing the low fence with a bound, galloped 
away, leaving his master In the middle of a frog- 
pond to look out for hlmaclf. 
At first we laughed In triumph over our success¬ 
ful veni ure, but when two or three minutes had 
elapsed, and the old man still lay on his hack 
where he had fallen, apparently motionless, our 
hearts grew still for fear, and we called Will, who 
had stopped to see the fun, and throwing off our 
encumbrances, helped him draw the dripping old 
man to a dry spot. To our horror wo found that 
he had sustained a serious Injury, and conveying 
him to the house, sent fora pnyslclan. And then, 
such a night as followed. Oh! how we worked, 
and how willingly we obeyed every command 
given, while our hearts railed us for fear or what 
might yet lie. But when morning dawned, it 
found him much more comfortable, but uneasy 
and anxious to get home. "Jimmy will wake and 
fret," was his constant cry, and, at last, we were 
obliged to remove him to the old log cabin In the 
woods. And then the story of hlssteady tramplDg 
to and fro under cover of darkness was revealed. 
It seems that for many years he had sheltered 
and cared for an Idiot brother, and, unable to 
leave him during the day, spent the hours of the 
night at work In the paper mill about four miles 
away, thereby earning sufficient to cover all their 
wants. Indeed, he had contrived to lay up quite 
a little sum, which, together with what our par¬ 
ents were obliged to lurulsb for damages, occa¬ 
sioned by our thoughtlessness, made the two 
quite comrortablc ror the rest of their lives. But 
we had learned a lesson we were not likely to for¬ 
ger, that sometimes true heroism hides beneath a 
ragged vest, and, you may be sure, that was the 
last of our dough-faccs. 
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LETTEES FEOM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Rural Friends : “ The spirit moves" me 
to write, and so here I am wielding a "quarrel¬ 
some pen." I have J uni finished reading the Rural 
of the 24th (ol April), and lelt like shouting when 
1 came to Peaceable Bob’s letter, oood lor you; 
just what those girls need! Now, I will tell you 
that that girl, Frizzle Top, who wrote to you awhile 
ago la a relative of mine, uud such a *• cut up" as 
she Is never was seen before. I think her equal to 
Madcap Mollte. One evening she, with two of her 
most Intimate friends, dressed up as nuns. What 
looking things they were i Perhaps 1 can describe 
them to you. All three had on plain black skirts 
black waists, white bands around ihelr faces, re¬ 
sembling a bandage for toothache; and capes 
pinned around their heads In a loose way, faUlng 
to tne bottom of me dress. 
The tallest oue, who represented Lady Superior, 
had a large rosary and cross. Well, they walked up 
Euclid Ave., and no one knew who they were. 
When they came up to the C. church, they went up 
the steps and, as luck would have It, the vestibule 
door unlocked and actually they went in, and 
utter a while came out and went to the cemetery, 
and knelt on some of the graves. It being such a 
public place, people could see them easily, and 
really believed them to be nuns, Bent here to vlstt 
tue Catholics. Now what do you think of tnat ? 
She (F. T.) has Just received about fifty plants 
from the greenhouse, and 1 suppose you will have 
a full report about her success with them, and the 
seeds you sent her, soon, l now sign myself for 
the first time, Tux Little Detective. 
Willoughby, Ohio. 
[Since the correspondent challenges an opinion 
I must say that 1 cannot sanction this "cutting 
up ” of Frizzle Top aud her run-loving friends, and 
1 advise them lo read the story ot the Dough-faces 
on this page and learn how they came to grief. 
Suppose some one should have discovered who 
they were and dismantled them before all the 
people In the cemetery, would they not have been 
thoroughly ashamed? Moreover, though these 
three thoughtless girls have themselves no respect 
for the Catholic religion. It is exceedingly bad 
grace to mock and ridicule. In that maimer, what, 
others regard with reverence.—U. M ] 
HIDDEN COLORS. 
1. This car let us take. 
2. Arctic rims on the pole. 
2 . I live In Frederick. Md. 
4. What big rays are round the gas. 
s. Nero and Draco wrote with blood. 
6. Dundee Is In Urcat Britain. 
7. The bib lacks starch, 
s. Did Shaw lilt Eva? 
it. The voice of Agre enchants me. 
10. Hand me that spur, please. 
11. See the cub, Luclla. 
12. Mamma, Zarlne wants my hat. 
in. Mag entails disgrace. 
14. Do not yell, Owen. 
15. can you spin, Katie 7 
16 . Wuy do you cry, stalley? 
17. We Uad rabbit pot pie. 
18: Lib, row Noah home7 
19. Do you play the viol, Ettle? 
20. Ah, Paul, 1 lack sincerity. 
21. Never, Millo; no use coaxing. 
22 . We crossed the bayou In a boat. 
23. The line got tangled. 
24. I tell you, Sal, Monco lords It. 
25. Mamma, uveous means like a grape, 
26. I scorn Colorado. 
27. I went Into my chamber. 
23. Rub your watch chain. 
22 . Mamma, Roona has come. 
tw~ Answer In two weeks. Littlb Onh. 
--- 
HALF SQUARE. 
1. A kind of mixed linen. , 
2. A group of scattered islands. 
3. Having a tongue. 
4. Musical Instruments. 
6. A kind ot food. 
c. The 16th day of March. 
7. Inclined. 
8. Place of seal. 
9. A letter. 
Waterloo, Ind. “ Gus.” 
I»* Answer In two weeks. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-May 1. 
Hidden Trees.— 1. Talipot; 2. Ka<?o; 3. Kettal; 4. 
Cinnamon; 5. Yucca; 6. Betel; 7. Teak: 8. Medlar; 9. 
Titcsmaliac; 10. Tamarisk; 11. Tamarind; 12. Tore- 
brintb; 13, Turpentine; 14. Plum. 
Cross Word. LIBELLA. 
Pyramid: 
C 
GAS 
K A N L Y 
SALTIER 
COREOPSIS 
.Square Word : 
PIC 
ICO 
COS 
Various. 
BRIEFLETS. 
The Pacific Rural Press reports strawberry 
blight in California. . . Robert Fortune is 
dead. He devoted his life to the enrichment 
of his country (England) with new and valua¬ 
ble plants. Our own country, as we have re¬ 
cently shown, is greatly indebted to the good 
man for many of our finest ornamental plants. 
• . The moles have given us no rest 
this winter. . . Mr. Griffin thinks the furni¬ 
ture made in New Zealand the most beautiful 
he has ever seen. It is made of Kauri wood. 
. . The gum from Kauri wood is so trans¬ 
parent that one can 6ee through a block a foot 
in thickness. It looks like amber. . . There 
are 795.000 paupers in England, and the crown 
jewels, if turned into money, would feed them 
all.—N. Y. Corn. Advertiser. . . The New 
York Tribune says oleomargarine is pronoun¬ 
ced oleomargtthreen, with Lhe g hard. Nearly 
all tbe papers we have seen pronounce oleo¬ 
margarine have pronounced it a fraud. And 
perhaps that is the best way, as it requires 
fewer letters and is much more easily pro¬ 
nounced.—Norristown Herald. . . Busy, 
busy, busy; busy as a bee. . . Those farmers who 
have best improved the winter mouths will find 
the most to do now. And they will do it with 
more pleasure and more effectually for the win¬ 
ter's study, . . Mr. S. B. Parsons read an 
essay upon “ Woman in Horticulture” at 
the last meeting of the N. Y. Uort. Society. 
. . Pride of the Hudson Raspberry is again 
killed to the ground with us. ... The Rural 
New-Yorker tbinks it has fully demonstrated 
that weevil-eaten peas are substantially worth¬ 
less. We have yet to hear from Major Freas, 
of the Germantown Telegraph, however. It will 
be remembered that we have an immense wager 
with that veteran on the result of a tost which 
he is to make. . . A sowing of bone-flour 
may now prove of much advantage to iuwus. . . 
The curculio deposits her eggs on plums and 
most stone fruits when very small. The larvte 
soon hatch out and cat into the flesh, when the 
fruit begius to decay and finally drop off. The 
only feasible method of saving the plum, apri¬ 
cot, etc., is by jarring the trees and 
catching the insects upon sheets spread out 
underneath. If there are pleuty of curculios 
in your locality, kind reader, you need not 
hope to gather plums from your own trees, un¬ 
less you are willing to adopt the above method 
of destroying the beetles. . . In sending ns 
specimens, please write your name upon the 
packages. It is now permitted by the P. O. 
Dep’t. . . Speaking of destroying the eur- 
culio, a fruit grower in New Hartford, N. Y., 
proposes to cut the ends of three-eights iron 
bolts square, and insert them in the trees, leav¬ 
ing the heads projecting an inch aud a half or 
two inches, to receive the blow of the ham¬ 
mer. It will take the bark a good uuauv years 
to grow over them. . , Mr. Allen tells us 
that chicken cholera usually cornea from close, 
foul, dirty roosting houses, or Biuall, dirty 
yards. Give them pure air, decent food and 
water and plenty of exercise, especially on 
grass, and the cholera will never come. . . 
The promise of the strawberry crop in New 
Jersey is that of a heavier yield than ever bo 
fore. . . We read in a contemporary that 
Mr. E. W. Durand of Irvington, N. J., boasts 
of being the propagator (originator is meant, 
we suppose) of over 2,090 varieties of Straw¬ 
berries. The public may be permitted to hope 
that out of so great a number, at least oue 
variety will prove to be of some value outside 
ot his own grounds. So far as we are iutormed 
the great splurge made over his varieties has 
been equalled only by the disappointment 
of the majority of those who have tested them. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Quarterly Report of the Kansas Slate 
Board of Agriculture for the quarter ending 
March 31. 1880. This first quarterly report Is a 
volume of 120 pages. Of these the first 44 
pages contain valuable tables, giving by coun¬ 
ties, the value per capita of the products of th3 
farm for 1879. the real value ol the assessed 
property per capita, tax on each $100 of as¬ 
sessed valuation, number of school districts, 
school houses, teachers, average wages and 
value of school buildings and grounds iu each 
county; the acreage of corn aud wheat to the 
square mile rauked by couuties. and the area 
in square miles of each county, besides a mass 
of other statistical information of use and inter¬ 
est to ActUii residents aud emigrants seeking 
an eligible place of settlement. Its special 
feature, however, is au extended manual on 
swine husbandry, covering the remainder of the 
work, giving the practical experience of swine 
breeders for every county, and valuable facts 
concerning the treatment, breeding, and cost of 
raising pork for market, together with many 
and varied suggestions for the profitable care 
and management of swine. The work may be 
bad by applying to the Seerctaiy of the Board, 
J. K. Hudson, Topeka, Kansas. 
Practical Artificial Incubation. —This 
handsome work, of 110 pages, is a resume of 
the progress made in tbe past few years in ar¬ 
tificial incubation in this country and in Eu¬ 
rope, with a doBcriptkm of a score of leading 
Incubators in successful operation here aud be¬ 
yond the Atlantic. It has also an instructive 
chapter on the care, management and diseases 
of young chicks, aud is profusely illustrated. 
We have frequent inquiries with regard to in¬ 
cubators, and we would strongly advise all in- 
teiesled In this brauch of poultry-raising to 
send for this exhaustive little work, which is 
by that adept in poultry keeping. J. F. Ferris, 
Editor of the Poultry Monthly and the Funci- 
er’s Journal, Albany, N. Y. Prices: 50 cents, 
in handsome granite covers; 75 cents, iu dur¬ 
able cloth, and $1 iu fine cloth, .gilt edges. 
Sent, postpaid, on receipt of price. 
The Native Flowers and Ferns of the 
United States, by Tnomas Meehan. Phila¬ 
delphia : Charles Robson »fc Co. We are now 
in receipt of Parts 21, 22, 23 aud 24, Vol. II, 
Series 2, of this beautiful and valuable work. 
Among the most interesting of tbe colored 
plates of the present installment are Calypso 
borealis, Cassia nictitans (Wild Sensitive Pea), 
Cuseuta Gronovii (common American Dodder), 
Gentiaua Andrewsii (Closed Gentian), Calo- 
chorius vcnustus(MaripoBa Lilly); Butterfly Tu¬ 
lip, Peutstcmon Becundiflorus, Kalmia angus- 
tifolia (Dwarf Laurel) aud many others. These 
parts close the second volume of the second 
series. May the next series speedily appear— 
when we shall take much pleasure in announc¬ 
ing the fact to our readers, many of whom we 
find are as deeply interested in the work as we 
ourselves are. 
American Grape Growing and Wine Mak¬ 
ing, by Professor George IIuBmann; pub¬ 
lished by the Orange Judd Company, New 
York, price $1 50 Professor Hus maun is a 
recognized authority in the cultivation of the 
Grape and in wine-making, and this new work 
la much to his credit. He describes briefly 
some of the old aud most of the new and prom¬ 
ising varieties under each of the three classes 
to which Grapes respectively belong, viz: La- 
brusca, ^EstivulU and Cordifolia; aud he also 
gives a coucIhc bat plalu statement of the pro¬ 
pagation of thn Grape-vine, with the different 
modes of Lraiuing and its care and culture ul all 
seasons of the year. Some 50 pages are de¬ 
voted to an excellent treatise on the maiiufac- 
tuie of wine. Tbe book coutaius 240 pages, is 
neatly printed on tinted paper and substantial¬ 
ly bound in cloth. 
Address by Horatio Seymour, before the N. 
Y. Agricultural Society, at the meeting of 
Jan. 21, 1880. 
■ ■ — -»♦»- - . 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT S 1’ATION. 
bulletin 42 —MAY 8, 1880. 
fertilizer analyses. 
397. Sulphate of potash, 90 per cent., bought 
of H. J. Baker & Bros .215 Pearl St., New 
York, sampled and sent April 26 by M. S. Bald¬ 
win, Secretary of the Naugatuck Fanners’ 
Club. 
398. Castor pomaee, bought and sampled as 
397. 
899. Pine Island guano, made by Quinniplac 
Fertilizer Co., New London, sampled April 28, 
by R. B. Bradley <fc Co., dealers, New Haven. 
397 
398 
399 
Nitrogen. 
Sol. 1'noB. Acid. 
Bev. “ *• .. 
Ins. " " . 
• • • « a 
fi 66 
6 76 
86 
1 86 
4 63 
2 42 
Potash. 
Chlorine. 
. 49 17 
• • • 4 « 
1 62 
4 37 
4 46 
Estimated value. 
. $73 76 
$24 50 
$39 52 
COBt. 
. $72 0U" 
$19 06“ 
$46 66 
—•In New York 
8. W. Johnson, Director. 
