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AUG. 28 
We saw, la the environs of Shanghai, cotton 
trees with yellow down growing In close neighbor¬ 
hood with white cotton-trees, the latter, however, 
being much the most numerous. There were 
some, also, producing a down of an Intermediate 
shade, but It appears that the yellow cotton pre¬ 
vails most on the banks of the Yang-tse-kiang, in 
the environs of Nankin, and on the borders of the 
great canal. Its color is attributed by many to the 
oxide of Iron contained in the soil where it grows, 
and this would explain Its being subject, when 
transplanted, to degenerate and produce white 
cotton. 
Ilocos, one of the provinces of the Philippine 
Isles, has ilkewlse a reddish cotton named coyote, 
a still deeper color than that of Klang-nan; and 
the plant, like that of China, deteriorates when 
expatriated, and produces a white down but, on 
being restored to Its native soil, is again covered 
with red cotton. 
From every opportunity of comparing, on the 
spot, the color of the calico of Nankin and of Ilocos 
with that of the raw material, we were compelled 
to draw the same conclusion that It was natural, 
and to admit, as a certain and Indubitable fact, 
the pre-existence of this shade In the thread em- 
pl oyed by the w eaver. 
The cottons of llaytl, of caraccas, of many parts 
of India, and especially of 1’urneah and Orissa, as 
also the cottons of Egypt, present a hue which 
closely resembles that of the Nankin cottons, and 
which would probably remain In the unbleached 
manufactured article. 
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BOREL AND COURVOISIER WATCHES. 
Among the finest watches of Swiss manufacture 
are the ** Borel and Courvolsier,” which have been 
made by the ilnn whose name they bear since tbe 
year leso, and daring all the space of time which 
has elapsed since that date, nave been proved to be 
mosr excellent and perfect-working time-pieces 
The first medal awarded to a foreign w atch manu¬ 
facturer was given to tUese watches at the Great 
World’s Fair, held la the city ol London in 1S02. 
They also received the highest awards at the Cen¬ 
tennial Exposition In 18T(5, and that ol Paris In 
1878. The decislou of the Judges at the Centennial 
Exposition signed by their chairman, Judge J. C. 
Watson, was as follows: 
“The undersigned having examined the product 
herein described, respectfully recommends the 
same to the United States Centennial commission 
tor Award, ror the following reasons, viz.: The ex¬ 
cellence of workmanship in the manufacture or 
watches and pocket chronometers, of which live 
were accompanied by the transcript of the records 
of their trial at the Observatory at Neuchaiel, offi¬ 
cially verified, showing that lUelr adjustments 
are good.” signed: J. C. Watson. 
The award given them by tne Paris Exposition 
was the highest given the gold medal. The 
superiority ol the-Swiss watch-makers In the work 
they turn out has been acknowledged by nearly 
all of the Sovereigns of Europe. They have made 
watches for the crowned heads of France, Ger¬ 
many, Austria, Prussia, England, Italy, etc., and 
In fact, supplied the world with the works of their 
genius, and in their turn these same monarchs 
have at times, by the conferring of honors and 
princely gifts, shown their appreciation of the 
taient, enterprise and industry or the hardy, free¬ 
born Swiss artisan. At the Paris Exposition, oue 
or Switzerland's sons, Louis Andeiuan, watt deco¬ 
rated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. 
These things show how unjust Is the attack made 
upon the product of these same workmen, who 
on the contrary should receive the praise and 
justice due their manui. -tureis. 
All Americans, however, are not so prejudiced, 
and the majority do not Indorse such a senseless 
attack upon goods which, of their kind, are with¬ 
out a superior. Writing from Athol, Mass, under 
date of February 20th, 1880, Mr. I). J. Wandell, for 
example, Ur a letter to Messrs, tjulnche & Krug- 
ler, No. 17 Maiden Lane, this city, agents for Borel 
& courvolsier watches, in speaking of these latter, 
3ays: “ A people (the Swiss) so exquisite In nature 
and capacity, ami rhe very pioneers of the ltneat 
styles of mechanism, do not deserve to be run out 
of the market quite yet, and Indeed cannot well 
be dispossessed of their ancient and well-earned 
tame for reliable and finely finished time-pieces. 
Even the gold and silver of their cases are better 
than Those of the American manufacture. The 
machine method of Americans does well, and 
they can produce good time-keepers, but 1 have a 
Waltham ($76) watch, aud a Swiss ($5oj watch, the 
latter is far preferable to the former. The Walt¬ 
ham regulator put to Its utmost of slow husgalned 
right along 2 minutes per day. The. foreign watch 
is true to the sllgntest variation and runs steadily 
on time.” 
Mr. Pearce Rogers, of Wine Hill, Morris County, 
N. J., writes: “ 1 tender you my hearty gratitude 
lor the excellent time-keeper with which you sup¬ 
plied me. After a trial in severe heat and cold, I 
am satisfied that the watches of Borel aud Cour¬ 
volsier are all that you claim for them, and In 
my own chronometer the variations from the 
regularity of the heavenly bodies has been so 
Slight as to be not worth mentioning.” 
These two are but samples of hundreds of letters 
of similar Import irom all parts ol the country 
addressed to Messrs. Q,uinche & Krugler, lndors- 
ng the Borel <£ Courvolsier watches. For years 
■we have used these watches largely in our pre¬ 
mium fists, and do not remember to have ever re¬ 
ceived a complaint ot their -working” from any 
one of the hundreds who have obtained them 
through us, while we have received very many 
praises ot their excellence stronger than even 
lther ot the above. 
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To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and 
ay, not gloomy ana melancholy. Hope and joy, 
ire real riches. Fear and sorrow real poverty. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
BRIC-A-BRAC. 
bavx roc? 
Have you ever helped tba drunkard 
To become a sober man f 
If you have not, from this moment 
Do for him what e’er you can. 
He’s yonr brother—thouch so fallen- 
And tils “ keener” you should be; 
Talking:, coaxing, helping, loving-, 
Ih the work for yon and me. 
EXAGGERATIONS. 
A family while at the breakfast-table one 
morning pledged to observe the strictest, veracity 
for that day. A member o: the family tells the 
“ consequences.’’ 
Asa first-fruit of the resolve, we asked the one 
who suggested it: 
“ What made you so late at breakfast this morn¬ 
ing?” 
She hesitated, began with, “ Because 1 couldn’t” 
—and then, true lo her compact, said, “ The truth 
Is, T was lazy and didn’t hurry, or I might have 
been down long ago. 
Presently uuothpr one remarked that she had 
been very cold, adding, I never was so cold In all 
my lire.” 
An Inquiring look caused the last speaker to 
modiry this statement Instantly with, “ Oh, l don’t 
mean that! Ot course I’ve been much colder 
mauy times, and l don’t think It was so cold, after 
nil.” 
A third remark to the effect! ha t “ Miss So-and- 
so was the homeliest girl lit the city," was recalled 
as soon as made, the speaker being compelled to 
own that Miss So-and-so was onty rather plain In¬ 
stead of excessively homely. 
So It went on throughout the day, causing much 
merriment, which was good nntnredly accepted 
by the subjects, and giving rise to constant cor¬ 
rections in the interest of truth, 
one tiling became more aud more surprising, 
however, to each one of us, and that was the 
amount of cutting down which our most careless 
statements demanded under the new rule. 
LIFE, 
“ We live but one life here, ** he said -, 
" The soul needB love, the body bread." 
Ho to the needy and the poor 
He grave, nor turned one from the door 
That asked admittance to his heart. 
Each, with a blessing:, did depart. 
This man will rind, when death arrives. 
He’s Jived a part of many lives. 
WANTED TO SEE THE EDITOR. 
A At an on the cars was offered a newspaper. 
He took It, looked at the heading, and then threw 
it aside with disgust, and remarked: 
“ 1 don’t want news from that paper.” 
“ I supposed everybody read It in these pai ls,” I 
answered. •• Has It been pitching into you ?” 
“ Pitching Into me ? Great Cassar 1 I should 
think It had. But you just let me meet the editor 
of that paper." 
•' You never make anything by striking an edi¬ 
tor,” I Bald; “ better grin and bear It.” 
“ Yes, that’s all rigor, for you to say; but Just 
let me meet that man! I’ll show him how to run 
a newspaper.” 
“Whatdid he do?” 
“Do! He did a deal. Here’s how it is: i often 
go up to Springfield In the evening and come home 
on the first train in the morning. Well, one night 
1 met an old crony, and we went to the music 
hall and the theatre. When we came out we met 
some friends, or course I could not get right, out, 
so 1 treated; In fact, we were having a pretty 
good time, when some fellows came in and tried 
to raise a row. In less than no time the police 
were in and had us. The next morning I was 
hauled before the court aud fined $7.40. I did not 
care much, because I gave a false name, and I 
knew my wife couldn’t find It out; but the very 
next morning I’ll be eternally confused If that 
paper didn’t nave It all in, aud my name, too.” 
“ Did your wife see It?" 
“ 1 should say site did.” 
“ Did she make a fuss?” 
“Fuss! Godfrey Elthu! Arc you married?”— 
Rural World. 
Hum up at night wlmt thou liaBt (lone by day, 
And in the morniiiK what them hast to ilo. 
DresB and undress thy soul; mark tho decay 
And growth of it. If, with thy watch, that too 
Be down, then wind up both. .Since thou Shalt be 
Moat surely judged, ruakn tldne accounts agree. 
-George Herbert. 
A very grand head is Gaiiioettae. The lines are 
ample, and express power at its ease. About the 
temples and over the eyes the development ot the 
forehead Is abnormal. Gambetta’s superiority Is 
not of a kind to awake Jealousy. It is very mani¬ 
fest, but, It Is so unalloyed with egotism, and it is 
so sottened by good-tellowshlp that a man of tal¬ 
ent, who feels small In the presence of the great 
tribune, does nor for that, feel humiliated, Gau- 
betta enjoys companionship more than “ society,” 
as *• society ” Is understood In our time. He likes 
clever women if they are unaffected, and he does 
not believe a woman’s conversation can charm a 
man of Intellect unless It Is the outcome or much 
study, observation, and long-sustained mental 
effortB. The professional beauty would be nothing 
to him unless her loveliness were lighted up by 
wit. 
“ If we know when friends around us 
Closely press to say “ Good bye,” 
Which among the lips that kiss us. 
First beneath the flowers should lie. 
While like rain upon their faces 
Fell our bitter, blinding tears. 
Tender words of love eternal 
We would whisper in their ears.” 
Life’s evening will take Its character from the 
day which has preceded It; and If we would close 
our career In religious hope, we must prepare for 
It by e onilnuous religious habit. 
Jot ©lomra. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
OVER THE LEFT. 
EDGEUTON. 
" Well, Jane, it really does appear 
That everything goes wrong! 
I've pulled and tugged ut that old brute, 
For I can't tell how long. 
And now T’vo got to grind the knives, 
Whatever else betide. 
And toddle over to the branch 
And lift the old beast's hide.” 
“ It’s just too bad ! and I can’t see 
Why we should have such luck— 
Tbe only decent cow we had 
Fast in a mud-hole stuck ! 
It's true the crossing needed work. 
Was sorely out of fix. 
I’ll go to-morrow, if I live, 
And patch it up with sticks. 
" If till a were all, 1 might not growl, 
But, bad luck ever comes 
Not singly, but in pairs, you know. 
As do the *' Wild-goose 5 ’ plums. 
And neighbor Jones who .just passed by, 
Leaves word with Agnes Thome, 
That wayside stock are ravaging 
That bottom field ol' corn. 
“ X told our boys a mouth ago 
Just how this thing would be: 
But that is all the good it did. 
They pay no heed tome! 
To-morrow, if I live. I’ll go 
Aud mend that broken fence, 
But this, for all our wasted corn 
Will poorly recompense. 
“ But worse than all our other luck, 
And hardest yet to bear. 
Is that misfortune of last night, 
The loss of our bestmaro— 
Our trustful friend throughout the year 
In every time of need. 
The ever-faithfui one to work 
And witling for her feed. 
“ I’d liko to see the sneaking thief 
Who rode that beast away. 
Hung high aud dry to some stout limb 
Hard by tbe public way! 
Let him u warning be to tramps 
Who prowl our country o’er 
On evil purposes intent, 
Aud beg from door to door. 
I’Jl go to-morrow, if I live, 
Down to the hardware store 
And buy a good stout bar and chain 
And lock the stable door- 
It might have been us well, perhaps, 
Had this been done before, 
Bince now the horse is stole, and gone 
SVliat need to lock the door Y 
“ It does seem, Jane, that we are blessed 
With every kind of luck ! 
Uur crops destroyed, our horses stole, 
Onr cattle in the muck! 
A rut I don’t seem to understand 
Why such should be the case -, 
I've lived an honest upright, life 
And no man fear to lace " 
"Come, David, now I’d not repine, 
What is to be, will Ire, 
The fates work out their own true ends, 
Despite of you aud me; 
We’ll change this luelc, I'll warrant you, 
Before we’re ten day’s older, 
By looking at the next new moon 
Over the other shoulder." 
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A WOMAN’S WANTS. 
Mus. a.— ran In just now to ask it i could give 
her a tew hints with regard to fall dresses. May 
and Lulu are going to a select school this fall, and 
tfielr wardrobe needs replenishing. 
Said she, “ let us look over your papers and mag¬ 
azines. Mr, A. thinks he can only afford the local 
weekly paper, and 1 go out In public so little, that 
I do not know what Is or Is not fashionable. When 
I try to dress the girls, 1 have no Idea what to buy 
or how to make It up, and the consequence Is l 
pay twice as much as I need to for material, get It 
made in some odd fashlon that we never like, and 
so at an extra cost, we manage to look as outland¬ 
ish as possible.” 
“1 know just how It Is,” I said, “and we who 
take one Ol the fashion magazines, and several 
other papers with the local paper, are but a little 
better off.” But, gathering up a packaged’ papers 
I sat down. 
“ llere are the fashion cuts, let us look at these 
hist,” I suggested “ Party dress, pink satin with 
overdress of lace ’’ “ pshaw ! Let's look farther, 
“dinner dress—black satin and brocade front of 
shirred satin—&c, &c.” 
We tossed the magazines one side and taking up 
the Rural I turned to that sure of some practica¬ 
ble suggestions. “Brocaded foulard,” “Surah In 
all colors,” "Heliotrope-colored cashmere," woolen 
crape, ashes of roses," well! we laid down the 
Rural, also, for what joulard , or surah, or crape 
were we did not know, could not buy them at our 
country stores anyway. 
Ho 1 put aside all the papers, set my wits to 
work, and with our own Ideas we planned an out¬ 
fit as circumstances required and means allowed, 
but It led me to wonder if paper’s could not give 
each week a few hints serviceable to us farmers’ 
wives ; as to kinds of material, colors—giving an 
explanation of the color not simply the name 
which Is usually in French, and conveys no mean¬ 
ing to us; the kind of lace or other trimmings 
used, cost etc., etc. 
Also hints as to making up lawns, ginghams 
etc., all and any Idea which a farmer’s family could 
find practicable. 
The fists ot short fashion notes are the moat 
practicable, usually, if they describe the more in¬ 
expensive materials, which come within moderate 
means. 
I think people of wealth and fashion aeldom re¬ 
fer to papers or magazines for fashions, but depend 
more upon their dressmakers, who follow latest 
Paris fashions. Farmer’s Wife. 
[We are glad to know of the wants or our frlend9, 
and shall endeavor to profit by the above sugges¬ 
tions and supply the needs of those lu moderate 
circumstances, and have not the opportunity of 
visiting neighboring cities. By way of explana¬ 
tion of torrner fashion reports; the presumption 
was that ladles would wish to be informed ot tbe 
latest and fashionable goods and styles, and also 
their proper names. Descriptions of the simpler 
materials have at times been given, 
“ Brocaded foulard ” la a figured silk, soft and 
tbln. 
“Surah" Is a soft twilled silk. 
“Heliotrope-colored cashmere” Is a woolen ma¬ 
teria), tbe color of the beautiful flower that adorns 
most of the rural gardens. 
“Crape” la a thlnnlsh material having a curled 
appearance. 
“ Ashes of roses” Is a peculiar shade, having the 
appearance ot a combination of pink and brown j 
REST AWHILE. 
1 never knew many lazy women In any walk of 
life. Sometimes a young girl will be lazy, Out she 
usually gets over It with added years. Most 
women go to the limit or their ability, and then 
see enough beyond which they seriously believe 
they ought to do, which would take another 
woman's full Lime. A morbid cousolence will set 
these sins of omission lu such order before a 
woman’s mind sometimes that life Is robbed of all 
Its sunshine. Or a sensorlous neighbor will so 
goad on the )agglLg energies that the whole ma¬ 
chine at last must come to a final crash. 
Many a young wile and mother owes her death 
to the sharp tongue of some Iron clad woman 
among her kindred. 
Any Jury who understood the ease would bring 
In a verdict ot " murder in the first degree,” All 
who have helped to “ hunt down,” so to speak, a 
feeble woman of their acquaintance, calling her 
••lazy and inefficient,” and pitying her family be¬ 
cause of it, can have the happy consciousness 
that they have done their share in placing her In 
her coffin, or sending her to an Insane retreat. 
“Man's Inhumanity to man” cannot begin to 
equal “woman’s Inhumanity to woman" very 
often, especially in communities where “ work ” is 
the enthroned deity. 
When the industrious woman feels these “lazy 
fits,” as she calls them, coming on, when the 
pulse beats low and the step loses its elasticity, 
when she doesn’t even “ care much” what. Mrs. 
Blank says about her housekeeplng-she may 
know It Is nature’s warning signal bell, telling of 
“ breakers ahead,” Her choice must be between 
a little rest now, or total wreck by-and-by. 
“Come apart and rest a while,” were the loving 
words ol' One who "kuoweth our frame” to His 
tired followers. He says the same now to many a 
tolling Martha. 
Perhaps a day cannot be spared, but why should 
you so grudge an hour tor an afternoon nap which 
you may so greatly need, or a hair-hour lor a book 
or paper you would so much enjoy. 
There are women to whom it would come almost 
like a new revelation to know that it was “ right” 
to stop In the midst of the busy day and listen 
with rapture to the oriole’s song in the plum tree, 
or drink lu the beauty and fragrance of n bed or 
pansies, or watch musingly tbe drlpplDg rain drops 
among the foliage ot tho maple by t he window. 
They put back the sweet thoughts that come like 
strains of music to the soul, and turn agalu to 
tfielr cumbering cares, with the unspoken thought 
that “time is too precious to bo thus wasted.” 
Yet, who bids us “ consider tho lilies v ” Are not 
there sweet whispers to our soul to win us to a 
better portion, t hat will not perish like the labor 
of our bands? 
Let us learn to redeem the time from much that 
Is really useless, and give it to wholesome rest and 
pleasing recreation. If we would have our days 
long In the land and spent l u health and happiness. 
Lois. 
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CHARACTER. 
Character is the estimation or worth In which 
one is held; or simply the sum of our actions, 
words and deeds. Therefore, forming our charac¬ 
ter should be the first aud most essential art that 
we study. Although perfection has never been 
attained, It may ltke other arts be so thorougly 
studied that, the eye ol man cannot rightly detect 
but few imperfections. 
In the choice ot our friends we, fit some measure, 
form our character, for we are likely to be lutlu- 
eneed by the character of those whom we choose 
for our friends. The porson who possesses a true 
and noble character has won many victories; has 
many pleasures and advantages that one of a bid 
and unfriendly character never realizes or enjoys. 
By strangers our character can be read in our 
countenances, especially by those who study that 
art, because there Is not a thought, word or deed 
that does uot leave its autograph on the human 
countenance. 
It has been truly Bald that “ what we do not do 
Is more often a better ludex of character than 
what we do.” Who of us will acknowledge that 
we could not possibly have formed a better char¬ 
acter. Maud. 
POWER OF ASSOCIATION. 
How strong is the power of association! espe¬ 
cially that of our earlier years. 
I have often noticed many families In the West 
who continue to subscribe for the local paper pub¬ 
lished at the place where they resided In their 
young days. Nearly every county in the western 
part of the State ot New York Is thus represented. 
A lady said to me the other day, as I remarked 
her having the newspaper from her native town, 
In a distant Eastern State, “Yes, I have been here 
