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THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB. 
SEBT 20 
Driving Park, at Manchester, N. H., on 
September 1st, and continued until the 
5th inst. The weather was all that could 
be desired while the fair lasted; a bright sun 
gladdened every day, its rays being tem¬ 
pered by a gentle, refreshing breeze. Not a 
drop of rain fe.ll to dampen the ardor of the 
many visitors. Good judges estimated the 
crowd ou Thursday at 10,000. This was the 
largest attendance. The grounds have lieen so 
greatly improved since last year that they 
are now nearly as good as average fair 
grounds. Every one looked happy, and the 
fair was very enjoy aide. If only a little at¬ 
tention and money were given to the fitting 
up of adequate buildings for the numerous 
exhibits, there is no donbt that the New* Eng¬ 
land Fair would take a much higher rank 
among the leadiug fairs of the country. 
Exhibitors came long distances to show their 
wares; but the accommodations afforded them 
for doing so were meager; but in spite of this 
drawback, the show was an excellent one, and 
tho exhibitors of agricultural implements and 
live stock deserve much praise, for they were 
the principal contributors to the success 
achieved. A great deal of attention was given 
to the dog show, and newspaper correspond¬ 
ents were solicited to give particular notice to 
this department. In view of the injury done 
by dogs to sheep husbandry in this, and, in¬ 
deed, all other sections of the country, how¬ 
ever, an exhibition of an efficient dog exter¬ 
minator would be more appropriate than one 
of dugs at. an agricultural fair. 
Dotted all over the grounds gamblers, fa¬ 
kirs and side-shows could be seen. Pools were 
sold at the race-track, balloon ascensions were 
made, which attracted most of the visitors, 
and nothing could be done by manufacturers 
while this was going ou. ‘’Conversation- 
water” and spirituous liquor* were sold on the 
grounds surreptitiously (?). Not a drunken 
man could be seen, however, and a brawl was 
unknown. 
The agricultural implemeut department was 
full. T. B. Everett & Co., Boston, made a 
splendid display of implements for the farm 
and garden in a tent provided by themselves. 
The Syracuse Plow Co.; Bradley & Co.; Wal¬ 
ter A. Wood; the Johnston Harvester Co ; 
Belcher & Taylor; the Wiard Plow Co ; B. & 
J. W. Belcher, and many other manufactur¬ 
ers made displays of their different implex 
incuts. 
The show of cattle was fine. Jerseys out¬ 
numbered the other breeds. Hercfords are 
increasing in numbers in Now England, and 
the show of this stalwart breed was excellent. 
Holsteins, Ayrshire* and Short horns were in 
considerable numbers, and also some Brittany 
and Swiss cattle. There was but one exhibitor 
of Guernseys—A. Warner, of Connecticut. 
The beautiful Devons were uufherous, as this 
has always been a favorite breed in New En¬ 
gland. The *how of swine and sheep was not. 
very large. The display of poultry' could not 
be cotu|>ared with that at many of onr county 
fairs. Many tine horses were exhibited. Of 
vegetables, there were many exhibitors: 
Aroostook County. Maine, exhibited some 
splendid potatoes— among them the Beauty of 
Hebron—as well as wheats, rye, oats, etc. Of 
fruits there was a good display’. Apples were 
abundant and looked line. Pears were quite 
numerous. Grapes, not many—too early for 
them in this section. Very few flowers were 
to bo seen, though one good exhibit was made 
by a local florist. 
The Indies did well. Their department was 
fitted up magnificently; in fact, they always 
take hold here In New England, o in to 
show just what they can do when they once try. 
Let us hope that the officers of this society 
will conduct, their fair, another year, as 
an agricultural fair should be conducted. 
Gamblers, fakirs and side-showmen should not 
be permitted to ply their vocations ou tna 
grouuds, no matter how much money they 
may offer for the privilege or fleecing the 
unwary, robbing the innocent and corrupting 
the young. If the sale of liquor is prohibited, 
it should be prevented. More premiu ms should 
be offered, and farmers and stockmen only be 
appointed on committees. These are the best, 
judges of the merits of agricultural exhibits. 
It is distressing to hour a committeeman re¬ 
mark that, he never used or saw a mower work, 
llow can he judge of its merits, then! The 
New England Fair should not be a political 
affair, at least politicians should be kept off 
the committees. As it is now, “there is some¬ 
thing rotten in Denm ark.” _ J- E - s - 
+ov lUomnt. 
CONDUCTED BY MlSt RAY CLARK. 
A JEWEL FROM MEMORY’S TREASURY. 
The day with Its sandals dipped In dew. 
Has pa««ed t hrough tne evening's golden gates, 
And a single star In the cloudless blue 
V or the rising moon lu silence waits: 
While the winds that sigh to the languid hours 
A lullaby Itri alhe o’er the felded flower*. 
The lilies nod to the sound of the stream 
That wlndsalong with lulling flow. 
And either awake, or half a-dream, 
I pa** through the realm* of long ago; 
While face* peer with many a smile 
From the bower of memory’* magical tale. 
There nre Joys and sunshine, sorrow and tears 
That cheek the path of life’s April hours, 
And a longing wish for the coming years. 
That hope ever wreaths with the fairest flowers; 
There are friendship* guileless—love as bright 
And pure as the stars In the halls of night. 
There are ashen jnetnorleit, bitter pain, 
And bnrled hopes and a broken vow. 
And an aching heart by the reckless main. 
And the sea bree/.e fanning the pallid brow; 
And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore 
Listening for voices that speak no more. 
There are pawdona strong and nmbltlons wild. 
And the fleree desire to stand In the van 
Of the buttle Of life nnd the heart of the child 
I* crushed m the bresst of the struggling man; 
But short the regrets, nnd few are the tears 
That fall at the tomb of the banished years. 
There is a quiet, and peace, and domestic love. 
And Joys arising from fallh and truth, 
And a truth unquestioning, far above 
The passionate dreaming* of ardent youth; 
And kisses of children ou l'p* and cheek. 
And the parents’I jIIsb which no tongue ran speak. 
There are loved ones lost! There are little graves 
In the distant, dell, ’math protecting tree*. 
Where the streamlet winds nnd the violet waves, 
And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze; 
And w-c mourn for thp pressure Of tender lips, 
And the light, of eyes darkened In denlh'* eclipse. 
And thus as the glow of the daylight dies, 
And the night’s flrst look to the earth Is east, 
I ga/.e, 'neatb those beautiful summer skies. 
At pictures that, hung tii the hall of the past. 
Oh! Sorrow and Joy chant a mingled lay, 
When to Memory's wild wood we wander away. 
LEISURE AT HOME. 
When circumstances permit a busy man or 
woman to travel and visit relatives or places 
of interest, every movement is made to yield 
as much enjoyment as possible. Tins same 
plan might be profitably followed with tne 
moment*, or hours of leisure, at home. Habit 
is an ever-present max ter; and if it is the rule 
to make pleasant every stray piece of time 
that is not freighted with work, it will soon 
become a habit, and the habit wifi encroach 
on the working hours too, not causing any 
neglect of work, but leading to an endeavor 
to make it pleasant; ami such work as shelling 
peas, peeling apples and potatoes, will often 
be done in t he cool sitting-room or under the 
shade of the Iris* near the door. But the hours 
that have no mortgage of work claiming them 
as fast as they come, will be given to some¬ 
thing that is recreative. 
The parlor of the house tuay profitably be 
made a place for pleasant, occupation; nothing 
that is work ought to intrude here. If the 
house has a parlor, let it be throne place where 
busy, hurrying work is shut out, though fancy 
work that the fingers and eye deiignt in, may 
be admitted. Here the iusti net that sets child* 
jsU hands to building play-housesand adorning 
thorn—tnis iustinct still alive, though child¬ 
hood is past, may Ik? indulged in again, and 
this room be furnished for beauty, though all 
tho rest of the house must be fitted for rough 
work a day use. Here the carpet need uot be 
of serviceable rags, but of finer texture and 
attractive pattern: frail vuscs may stand in 
safety, and pictures and books be scattered on 
the table convenient for reference, and free 
from dust and hurried handling Tidies and 
mats, that would lose their beauty in a few 
weeks in tbecouifortublesitting-room’s every¬ 
day wear, keep bright and clean. The house¬ 
wife can here enjoy a quiet rest sitting iu a 
comfortable chair, and looking at the pictures 
on the walls and the ornaments about the 
room, collected by herself or received os gifts 
from husband, children, or friends. If no other 
day iu the week gives time for quiet enjoyment 
of the parlor, Sunday will afford some leisure; 
and it is pleasant to throw open the room on 
Saturday morning, sweep and dust it, and fill 
the vases with fresh favorite flowers, making 
ready to spend here the hours of Sunday rest. 
If a love for beauty pervades the family, even 
the little children will handle with loving fin¬ 
gers the pretty books, and soon learn to respect 
the order and quiet of the room, going out¬ 
door* or to the sitting-room to romp, and 
coming here for the quieter pleasures of a 
story perhaps, or a song. 
Much pleasure for leisure time can be found 
iu such occupations as making scrap-books for 
gifts, and iu many kinds of fancy work that 
necessitates scattering of scraps and paper; 
unsuitable for the parlor, but just the thing 
in the sitting-room. The shady places in the 
yard will give a chance to spend some hours 
in the fresh air, and make a variety in the 
home recreations; an afternoon passed in a 
cool spot, with sewing, and some one to read 
aloud, will invest the place with a quiet charm 
for all the year, if the reading and shade prove 
as enchanting as they ought to on a bright 
summer day. In the Winter, the Saturday’s 
preparations for Sundaj s rest will be filling 
the wood-box for the parlor stove and polish¬ 
ing the lamp chimneys, that the Sunday even¬ 
ings may be bright ones. 
If every opportunity for home pleasure is 
improved, all pleasures will be enjoyed the 
more, for it will become easy to enter into the 
spirit enjoyment embodies. These hours when 
work can be laid aside, will in this way be¬ 
come hours of education; powers undeveloped 
will be drawn out, and when opportunities 
come for longer intervals of rest, the time will 
not hang heavy on idle bands, but will be 
gladly hailed, and filled with a larger measure 
of the pleasures which already have become 
familiar. It is as necessary to make friends 
with pleasure a* with work: to one uuaccus¬ 
tomed to recreation, it i* as awkward and 
unsatisfactory a* a first attempt to mold a loaf 
of bread, or to mow with a scythe. It is uot 
great opportunities, and much time for travel 
and recreation that make* enjoyment attain¬ 
able, but the power to !>e happy, ihe wisdom 
to enjoy, every day, the nearest pleasures; 
thus insuring a constant supply or a pleasant 
variety, and avoiding the unpleasant alterna¬ 
tions of famine and superabundance. 
What seem* then only idle pleasure, if right¬ 
ly used, become* a school for the kindlier side 
of human nature, a suDny and protected spot 
where delicate flower* can spring up unhurt 
by the wind* and storms of life. Our strength 
is not lessened by their growth but beautified, 
as the forest tree* lose nothtug of strength 
when encircled by the graceful ivy, but gain 
a drapery of wonderful grace through the 
Summer and of gorgeous crimson in Autumn. 
Sincere honesty i* very necessary in the 
making of pleasure*, real pleasures. If any¬ 
thing is accepted as a pleasure, because Others 
have found it *o, and persisted in a* a recrea¬ 
tion even though distasteful, the spirit of 
healthy enjoyment will never be thus caught; 
and all such attempts will result in disap¬ 
pointment. But the pleasures that make glad¬ 
ness, and the wish springs up iu the heart, to 
share the sunshine with everyone, are such as 
will turn everything into joy as the touch of 
Midas transformed thing* into gold. And as 
joy is brighter than the brightest gold, so 
this transforming touch is worth inestimably 
more to its possessor. beth sample. 
A WAYSIDE SKETCH. 
“ They take the Rural there,” said Mrs. 
Gilmore to her husband, as they were riding 
slowly past a trim-looking farmhouse whose 
front yard was ornamented with half a dozen 
shapely evergreens, and a wide strip of ground 
b<Mween the house and barn was gay with 
summer flowers. “What makes you think 
so?” said he. “Don't you see they must,” 
said she; “look at those flowers; I know they 
grew from seeds in the Rural’s free seed 
distribution. There are those blue flowers: 
I have been told they were called The Blue 
Bells of Scotland; they are like mine, and I 
never saw any such until miuo blossomed. 
And look In the garden, l believe those 
peas are Cleveland’s Rural New-Yorker; the 
only peas, you remember, that were ever 
raised that were ready for the table in June. 
“Well,” said he, “you had better save the 
rest of ours for seed; and,” he added with the 
flrst symptom of interest ho had yet shown, 
“do you see that row of oats heading out? 
They must be the Black Champion. They 
are worth looking at now. A woman always 
has more of an eye for posies in the door-yard 
than she has for growing crop*. For my part, I 
never could understand how folks could waste 
good ground raising flowers, wheu corn and 
rye would be so much more profitable.” “1 
do,” said she, “ I always think of some verses 
written many years ago by Mary flowitt, 
which l read when a little girl: 
“ Qod in Itch? have made enough, enough. 
For every want of oura, 
For luxury, medicine, and toil. 
And yet have made no flowers. 
Then wherefore, wherefore, were they made. 
All dyed with rainbow light. 
All fashioned with supremest grace, 
Upsprtnglng d*y anl night? 
To comfort man. to whisper hope, 
Whene’er his faith grew dim; 
For he who caretn for the flowers, 
Will care much more for Him.” 
B. C. D. 
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A LESSON LEARNED IN WAR TIME. 
■ — 1 - 
The soldiers learned many new lessons in 
time of onr late war, which made them more 
considerate, appreciative men iu time of peace. 
Said one: “We had all our Jive* been accus¬ 
tomed to sit down to a good table with nicely 
cooked food, light bread, and clear, delicious 
coffee, and we had regarded these as a matter 
of course. It. seemed almost as if things cooked 
themselves But when we had our rations 
dealt out, and tried to turn them into some 
shape so we could make a meal of them, we re¬ 
membered with astonishment the good supper* 
of onr homes. It was discouraging to pour out 
our coffee aud have it come grouuds foremost, 
and to have our flour ration turned into book¬ 
binder's puste, aud burned at that.” They re 
membered gratefully and with admiration the 
pains that wives and mothers had taken all 
'heir lives to make them comfortable, and 
wondered how they managed to turn off such 
work with so much apparent ease. 
It has been a good, though wearisome lesson 
to a mm oftentimes to be shut up in the house 
awhile with a sprained foot, or some such ail¬ 
ment, and have nothing left to do but watch 
the domestic wheels go round. It was, no 
doubt, doubly hard for the wife, but unless he 
was a very obtuse man. he went forth to his 
work with a good many new ideas about wo¬ 
man’s work. 
When a man comes in from the hot hay- 
field, and takes his dinner in the cool, shaded 
dining room, which ha* been well-darkened all 
the day, he is apt to think what a comfortable 
time women folk have at work all day in the 
cool house, compared with their work under 
the June sun. A forenoon in the house, where 
they can watch the hurried wife busy over the 
broiling stove, which make* out-door air seem 
cool, would change their views. The multi¬ 
plicity of duties, hurrying on all together in 
order to have t he dinner in time for the hungry 
reapers, would drive a man half insane. Most 
likely, added on is the care of the little one in 
the cradle, and the toddler at one's feet al¬ 
ways getting into the chips or ashes, if not 
into the flour-pan or sugar-bowl. “Eternal 
vigilance is the price ol safety” in such a case, 
as we all know who have cared for these same 
troublesome comforts—the dear children, bless 
them! 
After all, it is each to his own profession. 
The best reward a wife asks is only apprecia¬ 
tion, and a righful share of the money she so 
laboriously earns. olive 
The Rural New-York¬ 
er from now until Janu¬ 
ary 1st, 1886, for $2.00! 
A special list of Pre¬ 
sents to Subscribers 
and to them only—valu¬ 
ed at $2,000! This list, 
together with the Ru¬ 
ral's Seed Distribution 
for 1885, will be publish¬ 
ed in a 16-page Supple¬ 
ment, to be issued early 
in November. Send one 
—send all! We will send 
the Rural containing 
this supplement to all 
names forwarded to us 
before October 1st with¬ 
out charge. 
Progressive Farm¬ 
ers ! You can not afford 
to be without the Rural 
for 1885. It will pay 
you 100 fold. _ 
Domestic (Economy 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE._ 
TACT IN ENTERTAINING. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
I have been visiting lately an old friend in 
a little town where the chief thing 1 noticed 
was the frequent conversation of the ladies 
regarding their present or departing guests. 
I was so much at home with my friend, who 
did not treat me as company, that they all 
felt free to talk before me; but 1 thought bow 
many who went from home to visit friends 
would resent the remarks passed upon them 
by those whom they visited. 
“Mrs. So-uud-8o has a happy release at 
last,” remarks one. speaking of friends who 
had gone away by the morning train. “Bella 
is worn out with company,” said another, “she 
has had some one straight along for a mouth. '’ 
And they went on with a tirade on the 
trouble of entertaining till it became quite 
tiresome. It seemed, as the children would 
say, “mean ” to discourse so, wheu the people 
who had left were doubtless all invited guests; 
and I thought how much better it would be if 
people would really give their friends “pot- 
luck ’’ instead of trying to make uu elaborate 
display that costs more in time aud in strength 
than all it is worth. 
I am so tired of shams, aud this seems one 
of the very worst kind. It out-rivals the 
sham pillows aud other make-believes in our 
homes. If a hostess enjoys her guests and 
wishes to make them tool at home, it is best 
to take them at once into the family, aud, 
without pretension, let the extra plate be the 
only extra preparation. The guest will feel 
at home at once, and it this plan is tried you 
i will soon enjoy it. There is surely no one 
1 who would desire that the hostess, iu efforts 
