appreciative audience. When the story was 
ended the boys started to school looking so 
bright and happy I felt doubly reproached 
that 1 had made them sorrowful when so little 
effort covered t heir faces with mirthful smiles. 
The postman came while I stood looking af¬ 
ter my little cousins, and brought me a pack¬ 
age and a letter from my sjster, I had written 
her of my afflicted feet and this package con¬ 
tained a pair of crocheted slippers attached to 
soles bought from a shoemaker. The uppers 
of an old pair of button shoes were fastened 
to the slippers, making a complete shoe of each 
one. 
The letter said: “I’myour physician now, 
Anne Thrifty, and you are to follow my di¬ 
rections exactly. Wear a pair of cotton stock¬ 
ings inside your woolen ones, wash your feet 
every day in warm, soapy water. Wear the 
shoes T send you, and put on overshoes right 
over them, when you go out-of-doors. If you 
follow my directions, I warraubtho shoes to 
cure your feet within one week. Your money 
refunded if they fail to do all 1 guarantee,’“she 
concluded with a flourish. 
I tried on the shoes and found thorn a great 
relief, for my oldest shoes were not soft 
enough to be comfortable on my swollen feet. 
After wearing the new shoes for a few days, 
there was a great improvement in my feet, 
and they did not pain me unless I put them 
into still' shoes, hut I wore the slipper-shoes, 
quite out before a complete cure was effected, 
and at the end of a week I demanded my 
“money refunded” from my medical adviser, 
and she sent me a check on the “Bank of 
Earth” for $1,000, the value she put upon the 
shoes, bidding me to return to the country and 
present the check in person. 
After reading the letter an almost irresisti¬ 
ble longing to obey her seized me. 1 knew 
she had been thinking of High Bank and the 
banks of Goldie Hollow when she drew the 
cheek for me. They were banks in the woods, 
and by a pretty stream, where we had spent 
many hours together at all seasons of the 
year. We used to go iu mid-winter for ever¬ 
green ferns to a hollow in High Bank, scooped 
out at the very top of the bank, like a great 
bowl with the side next the stream brpken 
out. In this “bowl” we could And beautiful 
ferns, even when the snow lay deep elsewhere. 
We had haunted Goldie Hollow for weeks iu 
the early spring lest we should fall to flud the 
earliest spring blossom. And after it came 
we took every opportunity to spend an hour 
there, to had each later flower as it opened. 
We reveled in the Hollow when its banks were 
covered with the nodding gold of the Cclcu- 
dine Poppy. We climbed the steep banks up 
and up, with rapid, scrambling steps, until 
out of breath we stood at the top, where the 
pale, long-spurred violets grew in clusters 
everywhere. 
Again in mid-summer we loaded ourselves 
with faintly perfumed ferns and wild roses, 
while later, autunm filled the Hollow again 
with gold, when the “wild sunflowers,” as we 
called them, tempted us to fill vases, pitchers 
and bowls with them, to the exclusion of cul¬ 
tivated favorites. 
I thought of all this, and of the details of 
our many excursions, of the nettles that we 
unwittingly ran into at one time, of the 
hatchet we lost at another, and the rails that 
used to fall as we climbed the old rail fences, 
and a genuine feeling of homesickness came 
over tuo. If l cried fora little while, the fur¬ 
niture kept it secret, the rocking-chair looked 
just as comfortable as ever when Uncle John 
came home, the stove stood just as gravely 
easting its glow through the mica doors, and 
the broom did not move a straw where it stood 
in the corner, so no one knew that other tears 
than Ha ramie's had been shed in the pleasant 
sitting-room. 
-« « ♦ — 
NOTES FROM A 1RIYATE LETTER. 
I so enjoyed Mrs. Wager-Fisher’s “Some of 
ho Thiugs Left Out” iu the Rural of Feb. 
5, and that paper is full of mother’s helps. I 
dread the time when my little ones must go to 
school. Sometimes 1 think I won t let them 
go under any circumstances. I have received 
help and expect to receive more from Miss 
Brown’s “Ways and Things at. the R. U.” 
I was looking over an old Re UAL and found 
something about, holders. My mother gave 
me one made of one thickness of leather cut 
from an old shoe covered with several thick¬ 
nesses of cloth, and over all some thick panta¬ 
loon cloth. It has lasted some five or six years 
PimUanfo«$ pUvcttWttfl. 
When llaby was sick, we gave her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Sllss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
for ironing, and keeps the heat from the hand 
nicely, 
I have always been troubled with cold feet 
till this winter. Every night, the last thing 
before going to bed, I toast rny feet, till they 
are dr >/ and hot. 1 never have been troubled 
so little with cold feet. 
MRS. JULIA A. HARTWELL. 
^ A i 
ONE WAY TO ECONOMIZE SPACE. 
Mrs. B. lives in a pretty cottage, but the 
family-room is rather small, so shehas learned 
to make many conveniences occupy a very 
small space. For instance, I noticed a square 
of pretty oil-cloth tacked upon the wall be¬ 
neath a good-sized mirror. The edge was 
bound with ribbon, and straps and pockets 
also bound and ornamented with bows and 
knots of ribbon, were sowed on here and there, 
in an “artlessly artful” manner, "fhere were 
straps for brush-broom, clothes-brush, hair¬ 
brush, and nail-brush. The pockets were of 
various shapes and sizes—one for combs: one 
for perfumery; another for scissors; also one 
for thread and thimble. So many things 
right at hand, and yet no space for the room 
taken up. Of course, I mentally exclaimed; 
“I’ll go home and do likewise. 
MAY MAPLE. 
According to Elsie Bee, iu the Jeweler’s 
Circular, the old-time hesitation about wear¬ 
ing many rings at one time, is a thing of the 
past. Ladies are now wearing their rings ns 
they do other articles of jewelry —ad libitum. 
So beautiful are most of the finger rings made 
nowadays, that even an embarrassment of 
riches iu this direction can hardly be called 
coarse or common. 
-*-**- 
CLAM CHOWDER. 
An invalid bad sent to her a dish of clam 
chowder that she relished greatly. She asked 
the sender to write her exactly how she made 
it. The following recipe is the answer to that 
request: “I have uo exact rule for making 
chowder, but I will guess as near as I cun at a 
recipe: For one-half peck of clams, four slices 
of pork, each four and a quarter by fourand a 
half inches. Fry until crisp, then remove the 
pork and slice into the hot fat six onions one 
and one-half inch in diameter. Brown them. 
Then ndd eight potatoes, two by three inches, 
sliced with a feat her-edge, two quarts of boil¬ 
ing water and the broth of the clams. Boil 
for one hour, then add the clams dressed and 
chopped. When this boils add one quart of 
milk, previously scalded (scalding milk will 
prevent (flam or oyster broth from curdling 
when it is added to them), one tublespootiful 
of flour stirred smooth in water and one-fourth 
of a teuspoonful of Cayenne pepper, or less. 
Remove from the fire as soon as it boils, disli 
and ear with oyster crackers and thankful¬ 
ness. If it doesn’t taste right, keep adding 
something until it does.” 
Explanations.— The slices of pork can be 
chopped fine and added, if liked. The pota¬ 
toes are said to be cut feather-edge when one 
side is cut one-sixteenth of an inch thick and 
the other side as thin as possible. The object 
desired is to have the potatoes to cook off the 
thin edge and thicken the chowder, leaviug 
the slices about the size and shape of an old- 
fashioned Jlint for guns. m. m. wakemans. 
CHICKEN OR TURKEY CHOWDER. 
Mrs. I. II. Esterbrook calls uponthecon- 
tributors to D. E. for directions for making 
chicken or turkey chowder. We have never- 
made or eaten it. Willsonie’oue having experi¬ 
ence kindly respond? 
i,occUancou0 ^dvrrti.$inn 
Ovkh the garden wall. 
Apple trees big and tall. 
No apple- yet, so hard to get. 
On account of the baits an 1 the Wee, yon bet. 
(in Field's fort-o pump and some Paris green— 
The very best rig you ever have seen 
To kill those bugs, you bet! 
For further parlleulais, address 
KIKl.lt FORCE mil' t’O.. LOCK PORT, N. Y. 
4 MONTH and 
Itoni-d for Three Sn 
dents or live men iu 
P. W. ZIKOLKU it 
TEACHERS 
each county. 
CO., Philadelphia. 
N. L. DOUGLAS 
$3 SHOE. 
Stylish, Durable, Easy Kitting. 
The best ijc. (shoo in the World. 
W. L. 1101(11. AN 
equals the $3Shoes mlver 
Used by other firms. 
SHOE KOK HOYS gives great satisfaction. The 
above are made iu Button, congress and Lace, alt 
styles of toe. AV««#v pair irarrantol; n it me and price 
stamped on bottom of mrli shoe. No others genuine. 
Sold by 3,(1011 dealers throughout the U. s. it your 
dealer does nut keep litem, send name on postal to 
W. L. DOUGLAS, Itrockton. Mass., for tree 
Information. Shoes mailed, postage free. 
EMBROIDERY SILK 
Factory At half uric?; on« ounce in a 
box—all <oo4l Silk »nrt good color-*. Sent by 
m:dl "H IfCcipk of 40 dro*-* 100 CruiT Stitohej 
in each flankm***. iv ud Postal rot*- or Stamp* 
to Tin: itmiNKR!) .v iiwstkoxl spool 
SII.K tO,, 021 HarWel Slrerl, I’hiludelplilu, Pa. 
or 4 «U Itrmutmray. New York. 
That Feeling 
Of exhaustion expressed in the words 
“all run down,” indicates a thin and 
depraved state of the blood, reacting 
dipon the Nervous System. Nothing 
will reach this trouble with more speed 
and certainty than Ayer's Sarsaparilla. 
“I was ull run down,” writes Mrs. 
Alice West, of .Jefferson. W. Va., “ be¬ 
fore I began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla, 
and now I ant 
GAINING IN STRENGTH 
every day. I intend using it till my 
health is perfectly restored." 
“ Being very weak and despondent 
after an illness which caused frequent 
loss of blood, I tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
and two bottles have restored me to my 
former health," writes Miss Blanche S. 
Brownell, I Boylston Place, Boston. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr.J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, 
bold by all Druggists. Price 51; six bottles, So. 
1887-SPRING-1837 rflTNTl TIPI 
Now Is the time to prepare ' I ’ 3J Li V 
your orders for ue wand litre ■ rt ft. 
Fruit nnil orIiumen 111 1 ■ II j_iJMM 
Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens, A 
Rows, flrHtrt! Vines, etc. Be- 
skies niuliy Desirable .Novelties, we offer the largest 
nud most complete general stock In flu.* [ . S, Cu.u- 
Irtgues.»cnt !<> nil regular customers free. To other- : 
No t F-nltlo<-.; NolU, OriMupcUT.-tl Trees, eic., Illus- 
truteil. Ice.; No. it. Strawberries ; No.-1, Wholesale; No 
i>/| IIOI) APPLE TREES, all the leading varieties, 
.Ojt/t/O j a , l() -j y f .„ rs „|,| i in no of litem Baldwins; 
strong, healthy stock. 
llltOOkllANK A ALLEN, Hudson, V. Y. 
Ulster, Po’keepsie, and Duchess drapes; Minne 
waski BLACKBERRY; Lucretlu PRWBKRRV; Marl¬ 
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MARLBORO, N. Y. 
\ FLKGAiVT LARGE 
UUU TURKISH HUGS 
Given to the LADIES of purchasers of Sample 
Harness with a view of an agency Iu territory where 
we have no agent. Send for full particulars. 
SHERWOOD HARNESS CO.. Syracuse, N. Y. 
'^"I BUTTFP or CHEESE 
You can learn of some - hlng that will be very profit 
able to you bysendlngyouraddress to II. 1.. BOWKER 
N Co.. Manufacturing Chemists, 396 and 297 Franklin 
Street. Boston. Mass. 
ARTIST TUBE COLORS. 
For the purpose of showing tlio superiority 
of our Tube colors, we will semi—free of 
Postage, 8 Large Tubes Brushes aud Book 
ot instructions to any part of the U. S , on 
receipt ol'si .00. 
ESSEX PAINT WORKS, Essex, Conn. 
Mntnn Oft In To reduce our stock of music we 
111 11 \ 11. |N ft I H will send by mail, post paid,00 pieces 
HI UU1U U UIH full aii'-et-mnsicstgc. Including songs, 
marches,waltz, quadrilles (with calls i, etc., bj Mendels 
solin, Beethoven, Mozart, etc., fur 20r. Money refiuid- 
ed if not satisfactory. WHITE WINGS and 100 
Songs, words and M n.-le. 1 0e. Y HA Til W A Y, 
339 WASHINGTON STREET. BOR ION. MASS. 
WEAVER ORGANS 
Aw the )■'inert !i Tone. Stylo, Finis: and geierjl 
matte up of any goods made. Quarxnpvd for 6 yeera. 
Send for Caialtwue, leattmonlala and tonus, !Yuj, to. 
YVOliver Ontua and Plano Co., 
I factory, York, pjy. 
$100. 
We will pay one hundred dollars gold in premiums for 
best results from eight weeks’ trial of Sheridan’s 
Powder to Make Hens Lay. Send your name and 
post-ottlce tor particulars. I. S JOHNSON dt CO., 
22 Custom Hou.sk Mtkkkt. Boston, Mass 
3IT THIS iF’-ti-IT’ZZirS. 
GREAT BARGAINS IN TREES! 
Knbyion Nursery! Cloning not Stock! 
Fine, large, transplanted ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
The largest stock of NORWAY MAPLES In the State. 
SHRU BS, VINES. FRUIT TREKS, etc. Write fur prices. 
l‘. H. FOOTER. Babylon, N. Y. 
C Fruit nud ornamental 50,000 ^ 
Apples. Pears and Benches. I 
R M 4 fl 4 R 4 and all the best Grapes- n 
V BlAuAIlA IO.OuO Marlboro and ff 
A Cwthbert Raspberries. Fay’s Cur- p 
P ram and small traits. Q 
Send for Catalogue of full line of Nursery f- 
F Stock and Vegetable Heeds. 
o Dl Tt’ll Ef»fs Nl K.’sER IES. 
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Over 6 , 000,000 PEOPLE USE 
FERRY’S SEEDS 
5 ||l PR 
IJS'j'j 
■r. h 
^ D. M. FERRY & CO. 
ate admitted to he the 
largest seedsmen 
- , u in the world. 
. DJII. FERRY & CO’S 
SEEDANNUAL 
[slV-will he mailed 
FREE to all 
applicants, and 
llfvi* 'UN. to lust season's 
M \\AN' v - customers 
L.l-V\\ XNftMi without or- 
T i, \ \\\ N \ 11 dering it. 
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|A\ nlLXeeryper. 
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ny W 'u : for i!. A itdre_T 
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Detroit. Mich. 
ibley’s Tested Seed 
Catalogue free on application. 
•Send for it. 
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Rochester, N- Y. A Chicago. III. 
JOHN SAUL’S CATALOGUE. 
r»K 
NEW, RARE and BEAUTIFUL PLANTS for 1887 
Is* NOW READY. 
Plant lovers will find a large collection of very beau¬ 
tiful and rare Plants, as well a-s novelties of merit. 
This rich collect lull Is well-grown, and offered at very 
low prices. 
ORCHIDS—A very large stock of choice East Indian, 
American, etc. 
Also. Catalogues of Rases, Orchids, Seeds, Trees, etc. 
JOH> MAI'!.. WanbiiiKtou, I>. C. 
QECnQ Flower-Bed and Vegetable (harden 
dkCUB Free by .41 ail from our wholesale Bulk 
Bins. N ir .’i cts. we sen-1 li packets named varieties 
cholceFlower seeds nml .j pneVers fresh Vegetable Seed, 
nil lead lug varieties. Set,, I stamp forCatah >gue. seventh 
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W/ien K-nfing Ment on 1 he Rural .V« I arkrr. 
V I 1 I’llK, I’E t U. PLUM,CUK« RY. DRAPE 
VINES, SMALL FRUITS, ROOT 
GRAFTS, SKEEDLING, ETC 
’Q^' Send for New Price Lists FREE. 
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Normal. Ill. 
SUilPHUEYS’ 
Homeopathic Veterinary 
Specifics for 
HORSES, CATTLE. SHEEP. 
DOGS, HOGS, POULTRY. 
Used bj U. S. Sovernn’t. 
Chart on Rollers, 
Humphreys’ Med. Co., 109 Fulton St., N. Y. 
£ 
HUMPHEETS* 
dm* 
HOMEOPATHIC A A 
Sm. 
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In use 30 years. Tho only successful remedy for 
Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness, 
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fl porviaL orS vials and largo vi»l jinwder, for 
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PURE MILK, 
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-Amilk botties 
\ I’aleutrd March 33 d. ISHrt. 
1 Adapted I’or the Hflin n 
of Milk In ..li hit , 
dm nail Towns, 
z**' A lOUQ-Ht,::,' ’.VA r !T 
AT i A‘IT 3 ?li j. 
this oomr 
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EPPS’S 
CAULIFLOWERS AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Plain, practical and explicit direct tans hi minute tic 
tall By mall -JO ernta. Catalogue of CHOICE 
LONG ISLAND GARDEN SEEDS Fit EE. 
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nc *TU B lWOR .MM, and all 
L/ t aa | n I N - Ft TS In Gardens. Orchards 
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Address 
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%/s 3 r itti’itfal. RUSKS,YIb(h, 
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Ha Ibo UlAinKtich 
FR pU. Kiw to iMiMomcrb. 
f t 7 * WhttlitenU* Lint, FUEL. 
EVERGREENS 
vanelioa: FORKS'! TREES, 
SO vurietlos, ail sttus. Prices from 
ull cents per tOOO UP. SO vnrietlOB 
of TREE SEEDS. Lowest Prices. 
, Largest Stock and Greatest Varie- 
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Street aud Park Planting in great _ 
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SEEDS 
Catalogue frci 
Send :>c. to pay nostage. anti 1 will send a 
fret* packet new kind Tomato Si etl, choice, 
ve. B.K.MILLS, Seedsman, fHorn UU1.N.Y. 
p Q 411 \ e N V W AY! A package 
Mixrtl Flower Si-inis(Sui kinds.) 
w ith Punt's Hem:, OctuK, all 
for two stamps. Every Hi over lover delighted. Tell all 
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