THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB 
profanity, drunkenness and vice. Our alms¬ 
houses, reform schools, and prisons only too 
plainly tell the tale. To have children who 
will grow up to he an honor to their parents 
and the community, we must have mm who 
are upright and honorable for husbands aud 
fathers; who will help teach their children 
that truth and honor are more than gold. In 
so doing we shall have less cause for the dis¬ 
grace that “ Disgrace” speaks of, aud let “ A 
Man” who rends such articles be not too hasty 
to ridicule. 
“Many au arrow at random sent 
May hit. a mark that wasn't meant. 
Many a word at random spoken 
May heal a heart that's sadly broken.” 
.TERUSHA. 
the rays of the hot sun shoue aslant her ele¬ 
gant curtains and carpets. She had used and 
swept her rooms; she had not a single screen 
to her windows or doors, ouly the green 
blinds outside, and the warm and dry air had 
been allowed to pervade every part of her 
house. m. h. s. 
Ptettltaneausi 
$ tup t entente anti gtahitwttj 
EVERY FARMER HIS OWN MILLER 
fa THE HALLADAY 
THE KITCHEN TABLE 
How differently we look at tilings! My 
kitchen is my work-room. It is used neither as 
the family sitting-room nor as the diniug- 
room. Nevertheless, it is the room in whi -h 
I spend more than half the day, and if a 
neighbor calls while 1 am necessarily busy 
thara, she sits down there. Now, if one scorn's 
the table with red-hot ashes aud coals, will it 
ever be presentable again! My table was 
mother’s before it was mine, and I could not 
see it used so. But a large board on which 
lard is cutcau be scoured as thoroughly as 
one pleases, aud then set aside until needed 
again. Boards to rest things on .just from 
the oven, seem to me just as necessary as 
aprons ami holders I would not shut up the 
rest of the house and live in the kitchen, but 
I would have it pleasant, tidy and convenient. 
MRS. H. 
TO A MAN (?) 
Is the only remedy that can be relied upon, 
in all ruses, to eradicate the tailltof hered¬ 
itary disease aud the special corruptions 
of the blood. II is the only alterative 
that is sufficiently powerful to* Ihoroughly 
cleanse the system of Scrofulous anil 
Mercurial impurities aiul the pollution 
of Contagious Diseases, It also neu¬ 
tralizes the poisons left 1 >\ Diphtheria 
and Scarlet Fever, and enables rapid 
recuperation from tin- enfeeblcment and 
debility caused by these diseases. 
Wk do not, object to hearing from “ Dis¬ 
grace” out here in Dakota; but we do object 
to hearing anything from “A Man,” (if such 
ho be) who answered the well and truly ex¬ 
pressed sentiments of the majority of our 
farmers’ wives. a man wrote that reply 
doubtless “Disgrace” hit him; or, iu other 
words, the saddle fitted. Probably he didn’t 
like to hear the truth! If a woman and a farm¬ 
er's wife wrote it, she is one of the few excep¬ 
tions, and islucky in having so good a husband. 
1 am a "fermented old maid who never had an 
offer,” and never wish one from a fanner,—if 
all are so self-thoughtful as this country’shows 
hem to be. I speak from the experience of a 
lady Mend, in whose family I have been 
year. She, like many others, "left beautiful 
surroundings and kind friends, and came, with 
husband aud family, to open up a farm in a 
new country, for a future support, so that the 
husbaud would not be obliged to work so 
hard (?i as ho was doing to keep up appear¬ 
ances in the city. After coming here the land 
did not prove to be us productive as expected 
and represented, and, consequently, hard times 
immediately began, ami the poor wife must 
save by doing for a family of nine (the year 
rouudl, all of the washing, ironing, scrub¬ 
bing, cooking, sewing, mending, and a thous¬ 
and other things, of which men know uothing. 
Then, as hay is cheaper than wood, and the 
wife has not enough to do, she must not only 
be obliged to burn this, but must bring it in 
every half hour. This to save expense. I 
think it is to save a man’s sawing wood. As 
two doors would let in so much cold, one must 
answer for both barn-yard door and front 
door. As the cattle, hens, and pigs are healt h 
ier for running around, the whole yard, which 
surrounds the house, must be given up to cat¬ 
tle and pork. “But never mind,’’ says the 
once thoughtful husbaud and protector, “as 
long as we have health and enough to eat, 
what do wo care for ‘style' out hero ( We're 
hero to make money, not to put on style,” Just 
as if common decency were style! Of course, 
farmers have to work hard and have good, 
healthy appetites, but should they expect their 
wives to be slaves for the sake of giving them 
dainties, instead of plain, easily made dishes ? 
Let those men who fought so bravely tor the 
colored slaves show their manhood by fight¬ 
ing for the farmers' slaves; iu other words, by 
helping to free farmers’ wives from the num¬ 
erous burdens, unbearable tolls, and petty 
trials of every-day life. If the men were : 
thoughtful of other persons’ wishes and 
forts, and cared not so much for “self,” we 
would hear from fewer “Disgraces.” It is true 
“ull bad men are not farmers,” but all farm¬ 
ers are not good men, either. 
Let us hear from a woman next time—a 
real farmer’s wife. “fermented maid.” 
Shelling anil Elevating Com, Grinding Feed, Cut 
ting Hay, Sawing Wood, Pumping Water, etc. 
Send lor Catalogue illostratingthe above machin¬ 
ery. *lso Pumping Wind Mills, Pumps, Tanks, 
Noyes Haying Tools, Horse Powers, lacks, Ac. 
Reliable Agents wanted in all unassigned counties. 
U.S. WIND ENGINE & PUMP CO., 
BATAVIA, Kane Co., ILL, 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED 
Achieved by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, in 
the past forty yen is, arc attested, and there 
is no blood disease, at all possible of cure, 
that will not yield to ii. Whatever the 
ailments of this class,ami wherever found, 
from the *clirvy of the Arctic circle to the 
“veldt-sores'* of South Africa, this rem¬ 
edy bus afford'd health to the sufferers 
by whom it wits employed. Druggists 
everywhere can cite numerous eases, with¬ 
in their personal knowledge, of remark¬ 
able cures wrought by it. where all other 
treatment had been unavailing. People 
will do well to 
BAKING POWDER. 
A friend writing from Western New York 
says: “I wish to suggest a new feature for 
the Rural by treating on some of the useful 
articles W 6 need and use, like sugar, including 
sirup and molasses. Tell us which kinds to 
buy, and why. Do not forget baking powder; 
tell us how to make our own so that we may 
know that it contains no alum. Is alum in¬ 
jurious? By giving us one article of this sort 
each week a great deal of good can lie done. 
Bur. let your main object be to tell us the dif¬ 
ference in the kinds, and which kind is best to 
buy and how to judge. Those living in cities 
can get the best of everything, but country 
stores keep nothing but poor, cheap aud dam¬ 
aged stuff, charging the highest price for it, 
and nine out of ton of the consumers do not 
know that there is anything different or tet¬ 
ter. Do not think this a small matter; it can 
be made an interesting one to us. ” 
Your suggestion is a good oue aud we thank 
you for it. Wo are always glad to have sug¬ 
gestions from our readers. Alum is a poison. 
It is a sulphate of alumina and potash and is 
an exceedingly astringent,noxious salt. A good 
baking powder requires nothing more tiian 
carbonate of soda and tartaric acid. These 
are both free from any objectionable quality. 
When they are mixed in water the tartaric 
acid decompose the carbonate of soda aud 
unites with the soda, setting the carbonic acid 
free, causing effervesence or violent bubbling 
by the escaping gas. In making bread this 
gas cannot escape, but is held by the tough 
paste aud so puffs it up and makes it light. 
The union of the two substances then forms a 
tartrate of soda. Usually cream-of-tartar is 
Used to supply the acid, tills salt being a bi¬ 
tartrate of potash and soda, a healthful eool- 
iug, slightly laxative salt, known as Rochelle 
salts, and which might be frequently taken 
with good effects in the form of a cooling 
driuk. An excellent baking powder is made 
by uiixiug four ounces of tartaric acid or 
eight ounces of cream-of-tartar with eight 
ounces of fine ground rice or ai row-root and 
sifting and making over several times. This 
powder is bottled and kept dry. In another 
bottle eight ounces of carbonate of soda ara 
similarly mixed with eight ounces of rice or 
arrowroot. For use take equal parts ot these 
powders, mix them together and then with 
the flour dry. The use of the rice flour or 
arrow-root is to facilitate the eveu division of 
the two salts aud their better mixtuie. Or 
the acid and the soda may he mixed with the 
arrow-root altogether if the mixture is kept 
perfectly dry, as the least dampness would 
cause the one to neutralize the other. 
Farmers should iusixt upon their storekeep¬ 
ers supplying them whatever goods they wish. 
If the storekeepers will uot do this a few of 
them may join together aud semi an order for 
what they want to a city den Ier. It is t he 
farmers’own fault. They are the masters of 
the situation everywhere if they only recog¬ 
nized the fact and insisted upon their rights. 
Evaporates sap faster with less labor, Ty - 
making more and better Sugar with greater 
economy In fuel 
than any other: -eow< > ' 7 V3*r't.- - -ALgiS ^ 
also makes f v av , 
der,^without the ^ _ y 
gar or any for¬ 
eign substance. Send for Circulars. 
VT. FARM MACUIXE CO., Bellows Falls. Vt 
Trust Nothing Else 
than Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Numerous 
crude mixtures urn offered to the public 
as “blood purifiers,” which only allure 
the patient with the pretense of many 
cheap doses, and with which it is folly to 
experiment, while disease is steadily’be¬ 
coming more deep-seated ami difficult of 
cure. Some of these mixtures do much 
lasting harm. Bear in mind that the only 
medicine that can radically purify the 
vitiated blood is 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
PREPARED by 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all druggists; price $1, 
six bottles for $5. 
Jpeg’” Before buying an expensive 
Harrow, send for Illustrated Pam¬ 
phlet of the Thomas Harrow and 
Pulverizer, in Oak or Iron Frame. 
It is used by 150,000 best farmers, 
and has been manufactured for 15 
years. Ii combines effectiveness 
with cheapness and durability. For 
sale by over 1,000 dealers in all 
parts of the U. S. Agents wanted in 
unoccupied territory. Address The 
Thomas Harrow Co., Geneva, N.Y 
KNOW THYSELF. 
(8END FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS) 
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Exhausted VlMlit.. Nervous and Physical Debllliv. 
Premature lifeline in man aud the untold miseries 
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young, middlejiged aud old. It contains 135 prencrlp- 
uuuh for nil ncufa* and chronic <Uapah»*h. *Mirh ouc of 
which Is invaluable. No found by tlit* author, 
experience rotialyctw K -such as probnnly never l»t* 
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ail .—Tecnulon Lanctt, 
There U uo member of society to whom this book 
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Instructor or clergyman.— Anjonaui. 
Address the Peabody Medical Infinite, or Dr W.H. 
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com 
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KEEP OUT MOTHS 
Mr. Jenkins had long wauted a comfortable 
and commodious borne for his wife and four 
children. “ Fortune favors the brave,” and 
one day Mr. Jenkins had the groat joy of 
looking at. mirrors, curtains, costly carpets, 
furniture, etc., all his own, Iu the Summer, 
Mr. Jenkins made screens to keep out flies, 
and Mrs. Jenkins kept the spacious parlors 
shut up so tight that she felt quite certain that 
not a fly or insect of any description could 
iind its way iu. Alas! for human hopes. 
When the cold days came, what was Mi's. 
Jenkins’s surprise to find that moths had eaten 
large holes in carpet, curtains aud furniture. 
The childrens’ Winter clothing was all rid¬ 
dled; her fur-lined cloak was ruined. “ Well, 
1 declare,” said Mrs. J. toiler bewildered Iris 
band, “there is Mrs Jones who has had her 
doors and windows open all Slimmer, aiul she 
tells me that not a single moth lias found its 
way into her house. Her fur-lined cloak is 
all right, and her sable sit just us good as 
uew.” Poor Mrs Jenkins did uot kuow that 
the damp, eOol rooms were the very places 
for ruoth-breediiig. W lmt could be nicer than 
such undisturbed places for hatching out their 
evgs, aud after that, undisputed possession of 
curtains and carpels; Wise Mrs. Jones had 
let the air sweep through her rooms, aud often 
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1Y MAR OR ElfRESS U. O 1>.. to be 
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CNf*IIJCC THRESHER s, 
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11 sections an.i purposes. ) Write for Free Pamphlet 
rices to The Aultmnn Taylor Do.. Mansfield. Ohio 
HorslortP* Acid ■*lio*pliaIc, 
For Alcoholism. 
Dr, J. S. Hullman, Philadelphia, i J a.. says: 
"It is of good service in (lie troubles arising 
from alcoholism, and gives satisfaction in 1113 ' 
practice.”— Adc. 
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M more inmie in keeping Poultry. 
Also Power Alills ;md Karin 
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Ouurnnleed be perIVel. Wur- 
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