THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
painted with red. She wore bracelets, and 
rings in her ears as becometh a heathen, 
while on her head was a marvelous head-dress 
of artificial flowers, tinsel and fringe: other¬ 
wise, her dress was that of au American child. 
She speaks Chinese. Chinook and English. The 
boy looks very stupid, fat as a porker, and his 
small eyes peer out of their slanting “slits,” 
with unpromising stolidity. The children, as 
always with the Chinese, were the center of 
attraction, and received unstinted petting. 
1 drauk tea (some of Chong’s 812 tea!) at the 
invitation of a Chinaman, who took delicate 
small cups, without handles, holding about 
three tablespoonfuls, from a china tray of 
water, in which a dozen or more were im¬ 
mersed and filled them with the gentle bever¬ 
age from a mysterious-lookiug arrangement 
on the counter, and saying something in his 
own language, which I was pleased to inter¬ 
pret as, “Happy New Year to you, and may 
you live a thousand years,” the tea was swal 
lowed with a formality befittiDg the occasion: 
the cups were then returned to their bath of 
water to await further use. Close at hand 
was a pile of New Year’s cards, brilliant red 
paper, several inches long, and narrow or 
folded into small books, ami bearing appropri¬ 
ate legends in the strange, black characters of 
the language. Back of one of the counters, a 
man was writing with the Chinese pen—a 
stick with a tapering,brush-like end—which 
was dipped in ink like paint, and the writing 
proceeded in columns, these columns being 
arranged backwards, according to our way of 
reckoning. Chinamen of prominence, who 
are acquainted with the people, send their 
New Year’s cards and often accompany them 
with a gift—a bottle of wine or a silk hand¬ 
kerchief. 
The “China Lily,” which they make so much 
of, and force into bloom for New Year’s by 
placing the bulbs in a shell or vase filled with 
pebbles and water, is nothing more or less, I 
think, than a species of Narcissus. Several 
stalks about 12 inches high, spring from one 
bulb, and each bears a cluster of star-like 
flowers au inch across and very fragraut, In 
another Chinese interior which we visited, I 
saw a camellia hearing a single red blossom. 
But the strikiug feature of the festivities was 
the quiet order that prevailed throughout, 
ami no Chinaman “got on a drunk.” Iu this 
respect at least, our Asiatic neighbor should 
put Christendom to the blush. Concerning 
the remarkably good behavior of Chinese 
babies, to which I have heretofore referred, 
it must be, I think, that civilization is un¬ 
favorable to infantile amiability! Mr. Mel¬ 
ville, chief-engineer of the Jeanette on her 
ill-fated Arctic cruise, iu his interesting book, 
“In the Lena Delta,” commeuts upon the de¬ 
cidedly superior temper and behavior of both 
Yokut atid Tunguso balnea over those of en¬ 
lightened Christendom. It may be the early 
out-cropping of the great patience that 
characterizes so much of the “untutored 
miml” of the worlJ, and is strikingly exempli¬ 
fied iu the Chinese and the American Indians, 
who bear so close a kindship. 
I had so often heard the remark made by 
Puget Sound—ers, that flowers bloom here 
every month in the year, that I concluded the 
Winter of ’84 and '85 would be an exception. 
They bloomed until the snow fell in December, 
and as soon as the snow had disappeared in 
January, I suw the English daisy in bloom, 
looking as complacent as if the mouth were 
April. On February fith, I walked with a 
lady in her garden where she had spent most 
of the day in gardening, and she picked for 
me a nosegay. The flowers I noted in bloom 
were the violet (sweet-scented), primrose, 
wall flower, polyanthus, pansy, daisy and 
crocus, while daffodils were just burstiug 
their buds. A lady in Seattle, on Christmas 
Day, dug under the snow to look for straw¬ 
berries on her vines, and found a flue cluster 
well ripened under the leaves, which, of 
course, served as a centerpiece for the Christ¬ 
mas spread. 
Washington Territory is settled with much 
the same class ol' people as is California, aud 
they are not people to “get left” to use an ex¬ 
pressive westeruism. I attended a “party,” not 
long ago which well illustrated the savoir 
faire of the entertainers nt least. The spa¬ 
cious house, newly built aud occupied, was 
lumg with signal flags of various nations aud 
festoous of greeus. There were opou-grate 
tires iu every room, including the wide halls 
the refreshments were very nice and served 
very tastefully. The host iu a full dress uni¬ 
form of a eolouelof the army, ami the hostess 
in black velvet and choice luce, received their 
guests- of whom SOU had been bidden—in the 
library; there were rooms for billiards, for 
dancing and for “whist.” The lutter is the 
standard game on this const, aud everybody 
is supposed to bo devoted to it. I am always 
anuued ut the expression awakened whenever 
1 am asked to play “whist”—as I am obliged 
to confess tbflt l do not know one card from 
another, aud never have bad tba time to Jearu I 
In the East—Philadelphia and New York— 
no reputable physician of good standing in 
the profession, advertises himself and his 
business. But here doctors advertise as well 
as lawyers, and it is not considered “unpro¬ 
fessional.” Doctors have their offices in the 
business part of the towns, the same as law¬ 
yers, and not in their dwellings as is customary 
in the East—which is an improvement on the 
old plan I think; even in the best newspapers 
quack doctors, “specialists,” etc,, advertise 
their nefarious and abominable trade—all 
unseemly literature totally unfit for publica¬ 
tion and which a healthy public sentiment 
would condemn. 
Implements and Paehinetij 
ROBINSON <Jfc CO Richmond, Ind„ 
Build Traction and Portable Engines. Threshers, Saw 
Mills, etc. Circulars free. Agents wanted. 
have made great reduct¬ 
ions In their UPHOLST¬ 
ERY DEPARTMENT. 
They have now on sale a 
large and complete stock 
orchoice new goods which 
they offer at greatly reduc¬ 
ed prices throughout. 
Special attention is call¬ 
ed to the following bar¬ 
gains: 
Portieres, §20 per pair; 
former price $30. Guipure 
C urtains, $6 to $10, a re¬ 
duction of 33 1-3 per cent. 
Also special inducements 
in Lace Curtains, Renais¬ 
sance Laces, lYottinghams, 
Cluny, Antiques, etc. 
Just received a line of 
Anglo-Indu and Palatine 
Curtains and Scarfs, some¬ 
thing- entirely new. 
Parties about furnishing 
w ill find this a rare chance 
for buying reliable goods 
at the lowest possible fig¬ 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
K annas. 
New Salem, Cowley Co., May ti.—The 
people surely cannot cry “Droughty Kansas” 
this Spring, for the weather is extremely wet; 
in fact, it is so wet in some parts of this 
county that the farmers have not been able 
to plow for com. The Spring seems late, 
but when I read the reports from other places, 
things appear pretty forward here. I com¬ 
menced planting corn three weeks ago and 
have some to plant yet. Farmers are pretty 
well through in this vicinity. Wheat is very 
poor; I think fully one third of the wheat 
land has been plowed op and planted to corn. 
Oats are doing finely; so is grass, and stock is 
gaining on it. My tomato plants from the 
Rural seeds are looking nice; they are from 
six to ten inches high. The peas, too, are do¬ 
ing finely. The Rural Coni is up and looking 
fair. Gooseberries, one-fourth grown; straw¬ 
berries full of bloom; in fact, every fruit tree 
is loaded with sets for fruit. Every peach 
that was two years old was full of bloom. 
We have a prospect of a better fruit crop 
than any we have ever had. I put out over 
(500 trees this Spring aud nearly all are alive. 
I also planted an acre of small fruits. Com 
is high—(50 cents to 65 cents; potatoes, 81 to 
§1.50; oats, 00 cents to 65 cents. Onions sold 
as high as §3 per bushel, llay, $8 to 810 per 
ton. Wheat, 80 cents. e. e. v. 
Maryland. 
Westover, Somerset Co , May 11.—Com, 
wheat, oats and strawberries are the staple 
crops with the great majority of farmers of 
this section. I should judge that one-third of 
the corn planting is done—perhaps more. 
Planters have little trouble getting their land 
in order this Spring, except those who are 
breaking new land, and that can be planted 
later and will do as well as if planted early, or 
eveu better. The weather is very favorable 
for wheat, heing cool with frequent rains, and 
tho crop is making a very rapid growth; but 
the cool weather is rather unfavorable for 
some other crops. Strawberries, though severe¬ 
ly injured by the Winter, are recovering 
wonderfully aud appear as if they would yield 
a full crop, though they will be later than 
usual, the season here b ing from two to three 
weeks later than the average. There is but 
little money in com aud oats us grown and 
marketed here, and there is uo profit in wheat, 
when it sells as low as it did last harvest; but 
such a thing may uot occur again soon. 
Strawberries, however, scarcely ever fail to 
be a reliable aud paying crop, and tben there 
is a class of land here bordering on the rivers, 
adapted to market gardening, and occupied 
by a class of far < era, who follow a business 
commonly called “trucking; upon these furms 
peas are coming into bloom, musk-melons are 
up, aud tomatoes have been transplanted from 
the beds to the field during the past week, but 
the northerly winds and very cool nights, 
almost approaching to frost, are very un¬ 
favorable for the plants. s. c. s. 
Macomber's Hand Planter 
The best In the worlil'for planting corn, beans, and 
l ed seed. See. of Vt. Board of Agr. Id report for 
i-tM. say*: “It is really the sreatest Improvement for 
the least money 1 he ve ever become fully acquainted 
with." Agents wanted everywhere. 
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BROADWAY AND 11TH ST 
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Sold by Druggists, or sent postpaid on receipt of price. 
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heavy or green grass. Is easily held down while at 
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Many thousands In use. Sawed fingers. Best 
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the dots. Agents wanted Send for 
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