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THE T5URAL NEW-Y08KER. 
SEPT 6 
proper seasons, is to set out a few shade, ever¬ 
green and ornamental trees, and shrubberry, 
about and around t he house. 
Largo grown troos should not be within 40 
feet of the building or eaeh other, unless you 
provide for cutting out the surplus growth 
afterwards when they crowd. 
Set out an orchard at once on the highest 
eligible ground you have, setting the trees 40 
feet apart each way. 
In selecting varieties, go to the nearest suc¬ 
cessful fruitgrower and see what varieties 
succeed the best with him, and set out these. 
Let there be but few kinds, and these chiefly 
winter varieties 
Go into no new speculation in this matter, 
neither be enticed by fine cuts shown by the 
agents; but go to some reliable uursery, and 
purchase young, vigorous stock. 
Ket out a few grapes, as the Concord and 
Early Victor; cherries, as Early Richmond 
and English Morello; blackberries, as the Tay¬ 
lor and Hnyder; raspberries, as the Doolittle 
and Gregg; rod raspberries, us the Turner 
and Brandywine; strawberries, as the Charles 
Downing and Crescent. These varieties gen¬ 
erally succeed; new varieties can be added 
after more experience. 
Set out also a few pears, peaches, plums and 
quince* ; such as succeed best in your neigh¬ 
borhood. 
A few currants, gooseberries, and rhubarb 
plants may be added. 
By so doing, you will have plenty of all 
kinds of fruit for your family. 
Htore itup.preserve and can it; use it freely, 
instead of pork, and you will enjoy better 
health, live longer, be more cheerful aud 
happy. 
Head your trees when young to a proper 
higbt and natural form. 
Trim them mostly when young. 
The gieatest enemy to the orchard is tlje 
round-headed borer. 
A band of strong tarred paper, put arouud 
the trees next the ground, 20 inches high, is 
the beat preventive of injury from this pest, 
as well as from rabbits. 
When once in the trees, lose no time in cut¬ 
ting them out with a knife. 
Thorough and repeated culture should be 
your motto with all kinds of fruit. 
House your poultry, and do not make your 
fruit trees a roost for the fowls. 
Do not mortgage your property when once 
paid for. 
Keepout of debt. Pay what you owe. Buy 
only what you need. 
Borrow as little as possible; return when 
promised, and in as good order as when re¬ 
ceived 
Attend to your business. Govern your 
temper. “ Bridl® your tongue.” 
If you have Dothiug good to say of your 
neighbors, say nothing evil of them. 
Observe the ‘‘Golden Rule": “Do unto 
others as you would that they should do unto 
you." 
Educate your children well; make home at¬ 
tractive, cheerful, and agreeable. 
Furnish them with good books. 
Use no tobacco or alcohol, aud discourage 
its use in others. 
Subscribe for the Rural New-Yorker. It 
is invaluable on the farm, aud in the family; 
and its Free Seed Distribution is anuually 
worth many times the cost of the paper. 
Set no example before your children, that 
you do not wish them to follow. 
If these instructions and precepts are ob¬ 
served, and carried out, you will not only 
succeed, but your children will do so also, and 
you and your land will never become poor. 
“Thompson & Co." are still swindling the 
afflicted by means of the Brabmo Yan “cure 
for deafuess.” Their circulars still contain 
numerous references to marvelous cures ef¬ 
fected by the nostrum. The last one sent us 
pledges the business responsibility of the con¬ 
cern that the recommendations are not bogus. 
The business res|>onsibillty of Thompson & 
Co. ! ! ! We wrote to a number of parties 
mentioned in one ot these circulars, and in 
nearly all cases the postmaster sent us word 
that there was no such person. We have ex¬ 
posed this humbug before, several times, yet 
withiu the last week we have had three inqui¬ 
ries Bbout its character. We have just learnt 
that D. C Thompson & Co., 1193 Broadway 
(this concern), are advertising themselves as 
“manura during chemists." This is doubtless 
a dodge to perpetrate a new fiaud or support 
the old one. 
We do nut recommend our friends to have 
any dealings with the United States Medical 
Company, of this city; a quack called Kel¬ 
logg, of Ann Arbor. Mich.; the American 
Manufacturing Company or the British Cut¬ 
lery Company, of Boston, Mass.; the Juvenile 
Steam Engine Company or the Sprague Man¬ 
ufacturing Company, of Chicago, Ill.; the 
Columbia Manufacturing Company, of De¬ 
troit, Mich ; or the Union Trust Company, of 
Graud Rapids, Mich. 
The Ontario Hewing Machine Company, of 
Toronto, Canada, Is a concern that is swindling 
Canadian farmers by getting them to sign 
notes for various sums, while they suppose, 
they arc merely accepting an agency for t he 
machines. The Dominion appears to be badly 
infested with swindling rascals just now. 
To several inquirers: Yes, E. C. Allen & Co. 
of Augusta, Maine, are reported to be trust¬ 
worthy; credit “ very good.” 
for ID omnu 
CONDUCTED BY MlSi RAY CLARK 
THE CRAZY QUILT. 
I. 
My darling wife, pray tell me 
Why not In time for your cup of tea 
Ami the lady told me pensively: 
Kew, sister*, sew: now with care; 
Sew on the work of the 10 inch square. 
A blue slllc hit for the upper side, 
And a pink mlk bit. not quite so wide: 
A bit of plush of an olive green. 
And a smaller piece of velveteen ; 
A scarlet piece for the corner there, 
And a scrap of white, and here’s your square. 
II. 
My darllnit wife, p-ay. promise me 
To be In time for our cup of tea. 
And the ludv answered pensively : 
Sew, sisters, sew; sew with care: 
Put tn your tltnc on the in Inch square. 
Send by the post and go by the car. 
And bore your friends both near and far; 
The attic search, and senreh the ehest. 
For grandma's dres* and grandpa’s vest. 
Cut, sisters, cut’ cut with care, 
Straight or zigzag, round or square. 
III. 
But. darling wife, do promise me 
To Vie In time for our cup of lea. 
And still she answered pensively; 
Ktltoh,sister*, stitch; stitch with care: 
Stitch on the work of the lo-lnch square. 
A bonnet eroivn’* a very good tiling, 
And a splendid “find” Is a bonnet string. 
Most anything 1» sure to lit. 
For It’s hit and miss, aud mis* and hit: 
The feather stitch or the herring-bone. 
Or ‘‘get up" n stitch that’s all your own; 
The trident stitch or the button hole. 
And sew away by the perch or pole. 
Cut, sisters, cut: sew with care. 
Stitch ahead on the til inch square. 
A yellow- patch with a hit of blue, 
A pumpkin-brown with an old-gold hue, 
Aud a lemon-orange reddish glare. 
You’re sure to have to your 10 Inch square ! 
” Victim ,'” in New York Graphic. 
THE CITY AND COUNTRY KITCHEN. 
MRS R. J. GODFREY. 
Every Saturday evening for the last four 
or five years, my husband has not failed to 
bring home with him the Rural New-York¬ 
er. 1 said, sometime since, why not subscribe 
for it? wbeu be said. “it. is well to give Sam- 
mie, the newsboy, a little help, as be never 
fails, rain or shine, as l jiass ou my way to 
the ferrv to have it, just ready to hand me." 
We both passed our childhood days in the 
good old farmhouse; hence comes tilt* week¬ 
ly visitor ns an old friend, with all its good, 
fresh news from North to South, from East 
to West, telling us what, we may expect from 
the great fertile fields of our wonderful coun¬ 
try, comes also with its many good hints of 
wholesome advice for us wives aud mothers, 
and in December last it urged us also to 
write on ten common subjects, offering as an 
inducement, u handsome premium for the 
best. Of course, we said to ourselves. I never 
wrote for the newspaper, and there is Mary 
Wager Fisher and Annie L. Jack, with their 
ready pens, and others thus accustomed will 
‘‘sweep the boards at once." But 1 have so 
often enjoyed their articles that I have heart¬ 
ily wished others would take up the pen and 
write iu the kitchen, on the kitchen table, us 
1 am while my irons are heatiug. As far as 
my observation aud experience extend, we 
are compelled to give our preference to the 
city kitchen. The never failing supply of hot 
and cold water would make many a farmer's 
wife feel as if half of the baldest labor was 
lifted from her shoulders: aud with the snug 
stationary wash tubs with their tight-fitting 
lids, giving us the opportunity of ever being 
ready to wash, and always convenient to use 
as a bath tub for our little children it we 
have none other. 1 have often thought if 
farmers' wives could only have such conve¬ 
niences in their kitchens, what a blessing they 
would find them, 1 have been to mauy farm 
era’ houses where the pi ice paid for a fine car¬ 
riage which was seldom used, would have i 
placed in the kitchen, that never-failing 
source of comfort, a force pump; instead of 
which, their wives and daughters carried wa¬ 
ter up a hill from a spring, or drew it with a 
stick and pail from an out-door cistern. The 
common custom of putting an old or rag car¬ 
pet on a kitchen floor 1 do not approve. 
A well painted floor of oak color is best, 
next to whi di comes the oil cloth. Many ob¬ 
ject, tooil-cloth on account of its being so cold 
tn Winter. If you have several yards of old 
carpet., double and tack some stiff paper be¬ 
tween, and you will hare an excellent mat on 
which to stand while at your work. I have 
several on my floor. The children call them 
“floats," as I manage to “float" them where I 
stand. A carpet on a kitchen floor, unless 
shaken very frequently, accumulates too much 
dust and is both unhealthy aud untidy. I 
have pasted on my kitchen walls several maps 
of the United States cut from railroad guides, 
and I have often been surprised to see the 
grocer boys run up to them aud point out to 
me where this uncle lives, and that cousin, 
and so on. in the great Western 8trites, and 
say, “There is where they would love to go,” 
l have also a small blackboard, which I 
bought years ago, that I might teach my little 
boys on it while at my work, and, tx>. that 
they might amuse themselves. The board 
soon became one of the great helpers of the 
household; articles which I did not wish to 
forget, I would call some one to write on the 
board. 1 found that if I wished to correct, a 
fault, in habit or manners, of the children, it 
was much more surely done by writing the 
words on the board than by speaking to them. 
But now, as I often turn my eve to the board, 
in memory do 1 see a little name, just 
three little letters, printed by the chubby left 
hand of a boy of four, and the bolder capi¬ 
tals of a boy of ten, and I say to myself, 
“Precious sous, you have been gathered to a 
higher school.” 
Iu conclusion, I must say that there is so 
much to be suid iu regard to the kitchen, that 
we can but touch the subject and leave it, iu 
the space alloted to us, but we mav rest as¬ 
sured that it, is emblematical of the house¬ 
keeper; so when you enter a neat, pleasant, 
cosy, well-ordered kitchen, be it ou farm or in 
city, you will never fail to find order aud 
thrift throughout the entire household. 
PAY AS YOU GO. 
“Well, Johnson, you astonish me! Bought 
the house you have lived in these five years, 
while here 1 am house-hunting because I must 
find cheaper rent. Yet our salaries are the 
same, I believe, uuless you have had a raise.” 
“ Oh, you live too high, Robinson,” said his 
friend. 
“No such thing. In fact, we live misera¬ 
bly poor. Don’t have dessert over once or 
twice a week, for Mary says we positively 
can’t afford it, on our small income. Bills are 
so high at the very best. Yet here you are 
laying upmouey and buying a home.” 
“ I don’t make bills I believe that is the 
keystone of this house business. I supposed, 
of course, that we must do so when we began 
housekeeping. Indeed, 1 thought that was 
the natural way of living. Wealwuysdid at 
home, and I remember the hard scratch we 
had to make the month's pay go arouud to 
the ‘ butcher, and baker, and candlestick 
maker.’ But Laura was very decided on this 
question. She had a little money ou hand 
and l a few dollars, aud she said ‘ Let us make 
it last through the month somehow, aud then 
start fair. We can see by that time about 
what it will cost us to live each mouth ” 
Hbe lias the science of making u little 
go a long way, and can get up a dainty dish 
out of next to nothing. Ho we pulled through 
aud began fair after the first month's pay 
came in. and seemed from the start, really 
fore handed. The rent-money is always laid 
aside first, then my car fare in and out of the 
city, and after that come our regular expenses. 
There has not been a time yet when a little 
was not laid aside. Laura has done some 
dress-makiug for the neighbors, though 1 
never wished her to, and that she would put 
into the house-fund. So it has grown, little 
by r little, unt il we saw our way clear to buy it. 
The future payments are on easy terms, and 
if we have our health, we cau more thau meet 
them. 
Depend upon it, “pay as you go,” is the true 
philosopher’s stone. No income in hand ever 
looks so large as it does in prospect. On the 
contrary, small debts are only small before 
pay-day comes around. They foot-up aud 
multiply like thistle seeds. Laura says she 
always thinks twice over her orders when she 
is to pay cash down, whereas she would be far 
less considerate if it was her plan to just 
“charge it." i know it is hard getting out of 
this t ut when once you are in, but it is worth 
a desperate struggle to workingmen like us. 
1 am convinced there is no real prosperity for 
us ou any other basis Of course, we pay a 
higher price for every thing when it is charged, 
as it is only right we should, and webuvmany 
things we could do without aDd never miss. 
Try my plan a half a year, and see if you do 
not like it. roselle. 
RUSTIC HOUR-GLASS STAND. 
An attractive form of the old time hour¬ 
glass stand is made by fastening two peach- 
bankets together by their liottoms. then neatly 
painting them, outside and iu. with brown or 
olive-green color; when dry, varnishing with 
copal; upon which, while still a little sticky . 
apply some one of the bronze powders—gold, 
green, crimson, etc. Upon this foundation 
fasten gnarled branches, roots, or the dry 
fungi found upon old trees; using aunealed 
wire, and piercing holes with a slender brad¬ 
awl. Select three or fonr suitable branches 
for feet, sawing them off smoothly on the bot¬ 
tom, and fastening them very securely by 
driving nails through the baskets into the 
upper ends. Handles upon each side, or one 
across the top, may be made of pliable grape¬ 
vines. Paint and finish in the same manner 
as the foundation, touching up with brilliant, 
colors tn distemper. Such basket* form appro¬ 
priate and very useful hall ornaments, wheth¬ 
er occupied with a large pot, stocked with fine 
growing filants, or painted inside with ena¬ 
mel, such as red lead, or other color well in¬ 
corporated with Datnar varnish, as scrap 
baskets. Again close with a mossy lid, made 
by fastening moss, lichens and similar mate¬ 
rials upon a wooden cover, aud you have an 
appropriate pedestal for a basket, or vase of 
cut-flowers. Covered and lined with colored 
glazed muslin, with pockets arranged round 
the edge, and tastefully trimmed with Swiss 
ruchings and bows—capacious and pretty 
work-baskets are formed for standing beside 
the sewing-machine. 
Honor the Dear Old Mother.— Honor 
the dear oM mother. Time has scattered the 
snowy flakes on her brow, plowed deep fur¬ 
rows on her cheeks, but is she not sweeter and 
more beautiful now? The lip* ife thiu and 
suuken, but those are the lips which have kissed 
many a but tear from the childish cheeks, and 
they are the sweetest lips in all the world. The 
eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance of 
holy love which never fades. Ah, yes; she is 
a dear old mother. The sands of life are 
nearly run out; but. feeole as she is. she will 
go further and reach down lower for you than 
auy other upon earth. Love her tenderly, 
and cheer her declining years with holy 
devotion. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
HOME THOUGHTS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
“I really envy you the quiet and the 
leisure you enjoy more thau anything else iu 
your home,” said a city frieml to me lately, 
and while 1 did uot deny, it set me thinking 
as to whether she really had cause to envv 
me that portion of my blessings; for my 
tired limbs and brain did not respond as they 
should to the implied rest, aud I set myself 
to observe a day’s duties in my household. 
The remit is too tiresome to repeat here; but 
I satisfied myself tnat “quiet” and “leisure,” 
as applied to housekeepers iu the county, 
are really misnomers. Besides the routine 
of regular work, there is the added care of 
irregular hospitality, required at all times, 
without any confectioner near at hand,and 
often with only a remnant of food that re¬ 
quires double duty from the cook to make it 
preseutable, aud even butter and eggs require 
