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THE AURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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TALKS BY UNCLE MARK. 
I have just been reading about a curious 
thing. A woman gave her grandson three 
ducks wiih tlie understanding that he should 
keep the clucks and their increase. This was 
in 1866. 1 he lady died in 1886 and her grand¬ 
son brings a claim against her estate for 3,072 
oucks, which, at 50 cents each, would be worth 
SI ,586—a pretty good round sum, surely. This 
case is, as I understand, actually argued oe- 
fore a court. This makes me think that I 
may have missed my chance for a fortune. 
A good many years ago a man gave me a 
heifer calf. I never kept it at all, but he said 
it was miue—that was the extent of my own¬ 
ership. It may be that 1 have a fine herd of 
cattle somewhere. Another man gave me a 
lieu and another a pig. Perhaps I had better 
give up my business and start out to collect 
my live stock. 
But all joking aside, there is a point in 
the foolish lawsuit well worth considering. 
When a man makes a boy a present of a young 
animal, the present should be a genuine one. 
It represents more to the boy than the $1,536 
that the three ducks will bring. The boy 
looss upon his own animal as a valuable 
thing, and the man should realize this and 
not sell it and pocket the money. Again, this 
lawsuit s’ ould remind us that little things’ 
well taken care of and fostered, grow big at 
a surprising rate. Take any little thing, I 
don’t care how small it may be, and look 
alter it and keep it in good condition and 
it is sure to amount to something. Take 
any good thing, no matter how good it may 
be, and let it look after itself and it will work 
down toa pretty small chance. We can change 
the three ducks to the $1,536, or the $1,536 
into the three ducks, just as we see lit. 
I have a very great respect for patient 
people. Those who try to make the best of 
things and keep their troubles at home and try 
to grind them down have my deepest respect. 
As the poet puts it: 
Oh the virtue r&re, 
Of the souls that dare, 
To be silent, yet sublime.” 
It is a great thing to be able to meet trouble, 
when it comes, bravely and well. The people 
who run about, advertising their trouble, never 
get that deep, hearty sympathy that does one 
real good. It trouble comes, as it is pretty 
sure to come to all of us, try to meet it pa¬ 
tiently and well. 
The Cniueso people who live in New York 
baa a picnic ihe other day. They hired a 
s earner and sailed down the bay, with fire¬ 
crackers, tin horns and all the other tools of 
celebration that American boys know so well. 
They seemed to have a good time in their 
way. They had a band along that played Chi¬ 
nese music, and s range stuff it was, too. 
There may have been music in it to those who 
undei stood it, but to ordinary people it 
sounded like pounding on a board. 
New York City is like a congress of small 
nauons. We have them all here—Chin«se> 
Italians. Arabians, Russians, Roles and all the 
rest. Each nation seems to have its certain 
part ot the city to live in. Thus we have 
“ Little Italy,” as the place where tno Italians 
congregate. We see some curious phases of 
hie here. 1 doubt it there is a city in the 
worlu where one can see such a wide range of 
habits and methods of living as we see here- 
One bad leature is that many of the woist ot 
the immigrants stay right here and make 
these bad places worse by adding to the num¬ 
bers of tne lascais that congregate in them. 
By getting here in gangs they become doubly 
oangeious because they cau plot and scheme 
logetuer. 11 they were scattered they could 
not oiguLi^ . The very fact that this is a 
fiee country makes it impossible for the au- 
thornies to drive these lellows out of the city 
until they do something bad enough to put 
them uuaer the law. They are sharp enough 
to know how far they can go with impunity. 
“ The Average City Girl.” —Will some 
one tell tne Rural readers what the average 
city girl docs after she leaves school ? I mean 
those whose circumstances correspond as near¬ 
ly to the average country girl as possible, 
not the very lieu, nor the very poor. Tell us, 
too, is sue any more contented than country 
gnJs are withtneir lot! Isn’t it a disease 
that almost every one has a touch of, to be a 
little discontented at times? When the 
daughter of the minister, doctor or merchant 
sees the dtmands on her father’s time and pa¬ 
tience, doesu’t she sometimes say, “ I will nev¬ 
er marry a mimsier,” “ doctor,” or “mer¬ 
chant,” as the case may be ? Compare us 
country girls with others in the same station 
in life and I think we stand equal. 
EMMA L. BLISS. 
Yes, indeed you do. It would indeed be a 
strange person who does not, at some time 
during life, have a little something to make 
him discontented. What becomes of the 
average city girl ? They all seem to find some 
means of keeping alive. Many of them live 
the bravest of lives, adding their earnings to 
the support of parents and sinking their own 
ambitions and desires in the struggle for fam¬ 
ily support. In fact, I believe the “ average 
city girl ” is a braver and more patient work¬ 
er than the average city boy. Many city girls 
are married soon after leaving school. Otnets 
find clerical work at libraries, stores or offices. 
Type-writing and stenography offer induce¬ 
ments to those specially fitted for such work. 
Many girls become expert compositors—several 
are earning a living setting type in the Rural 
Office. Dress making offers inducements to 
those who are sensible enongh to get over the 
idea that this work is degrading. Expert 
dress makeis are always in demand. We have 
been for weeks unable to get one to come to 
our own house. Many city girls become 
teachers. The majority of our school-rooms 
are presided over by city-school graduates. It 
is hard enough for a boy to be obliged to eat n 
his own living—it is doubly hard for a girl. 
A girl living in the city with a good home to 
go to and a good mother to sympathize with 
her and comfort her can get along at city 
work where a strange country girl would 
surely fail. Many city girls work—some be¬ 
cause they really want to help support the 
family, aud olheisbecause they have to. Some 
wou’i work. They are mean, lazy and proud, 
and prefer to make father and mother do the 
toiling. This has always been so. How Dick¬ 
ens and Thackeray loved to give such people a 
keen thrust wherever it could be done. We 
have a class of people in the city who seem to 
live for the purpose of “ keeping up appear¬ 
ances.” They will dodge the baker and the 
grocer and the butcher as long as they can, for 
tne sake of wearing fine clotnes aud speuaing 
money where people will notice it. Girls 
brought up in such families are generally the 
mean and proud ones and taeir parents are to 
blame for it. is the average city girl any 
more contented than the average country 
girl ? That is hard to say. W hat is happi¬ 
ness ? Answer that and 1 can tell more aoout 
it. My idea is that we are all surtounded by 
certain conditions of life—location, friends— 
everything that enters into our lives. Our hap¬ 
piness will be measured by the advantage we 
take of these conditions aud the skill we show 
in bringing out the bright side. Judged by this 
standard,! am sure 1 can be happier in the 
country than i can in the city. Others may 
not feel as 1 do about it. u. m. 
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RUMINATION. 
HENRY STEWART. 
From What Depth of Milk will Butter 
Globules Rise! —The difference of opinion 
upon questions relating to the dairy are amaz¬ 
ingly various aud numerous. Tuts is shown 
very conspicuously in the remarks upon the 
methods ot setting milk for cream by several 
experts on the subject. But there are clearly 
some errors made in some of the statements 
given. My friend, Mr. L. IS. Hardin, who 
several years ago was a pioneer in mtioduc- 
ing the dtep-setting method, and invented a 
system which had some excellent and novel 
points about it, and who consequently should 
Know a good deal of this matter, says cream 
(he means butter; globules will not pass 
through the milk at any depth between 50 aud 
60 degrees. Mr. Hardiu, no doubt, wrote 
that hastily and did not mean to say it, be¬ 
cause it is most certainly a mistake, if he 
really believes it, it may explain the reason 
why he does not, (1 won’t say cannot) compre¬ 
hend the principle upon which the separation 
of cream from milk is based. 
The Ripening or Souring of Cream.— 
Equally Mr. T. D. Curtis 1 think is in error 
in his theory of the ripening of cream. He 
calls this complete oxidation by absorption of 
oxygen from the atmosphere. Now, complete 
oxidation would be complete decomposition 
and destruction. Again, Mr. Curtis says 
'• this enables the cream to ripen with only a 
very slignt acidity, just enough to convert the 
milk sugar into lactic acid and prevent this 
fermentative change in the butter.” It is diffi¬ 
cult to understand what fermentative change 
is referred to, and if all the sugar is changed 
into acid, the acidity of the cream must be 
extreme and complete. Is uot the whole of 
this change due to fermentation ? I think it is. 
The oxidation is the means by which the 
process is fed ; the original activity is that of 
the germs which cause the change of the sugar 
into acid. If Mr. Curtis means that when the 
cream is slightly acid it is i ipe for churning, 
he then states what 1 believe to be the truth, 
which is consistent with common good prac¬ 
tice. But the ripening is no more nor no less 
than the acidification or souring of the cream 
by the change of the sugar into acid, by the 
aid of oxygen of the atmosphere, and why 
could we not continue to call this change sour¬ 
ing, which every one understands, as well as 
ripening, which is misleading. 
Middlemen’s Profits. —The question raised 
by a friend of the Rural in regard to the 
middlemen’s profits, is one that must soon 
come prominently before the farmers. Why 
is it that every one who handles the farmer’s 
produce becomes rich, some enormously so, 
while the farmers get only a bare living and 
the consumers are taxed to the utmost to keep 
within their income. The produce dealers, 
railroad men, merchants, and every one else 
through whose hands the crops pass, retain a 
large proportion of the value of what they 
handle for their services. And “the farmer 
pays for all.” Real estate bears a full tax al¬ 
though the farmer may owe more than half 
its value, while his creditor escapes the tax. 
It has alwa)S been so. Is it to continue so 
always? It rests with the farmers to say. 
SEEDLING PEACHES. 
Both economical and jjroJitable. 
After all that can be claimed for the budded 
or grufted varieties of the peach, I am now 
convinced that the two items of eoon my and 
profit are in favor of seedlings. It is not only 
less trouble to grow a tree from the seed, with¬ 
out having it to graft or bud, hut it can be 
brought into Deal ing about one year earlier. 
All that you have to do is to plant the seed 
where you wish the tree to grow, drive down a 
strong stake to mark the place, and then let the 
plant come up and grow. Or you may plaut 
in the nursery and transplant when one year 
old. You have no trouble about budding. 
You can raise all the trees you want for your¬ 
self, and thus save any outlay for peach trees 
from nurserymen. So much on the score of 
economy. 
As to profits, I know of a certainty that 
there are seedling peaches that are as large 
and fair to look upon, and of as fine flavor as 
most of the budded sorts, or even finer. I 
know of both clingstone and open seedlings 
that are as fair and salable as any of the more 
common budded sorts. 
It is known, too, by many that s c edling 
peaches make a hit, and yield paying crops 
much ofteuer than the ot- ers. Tne rule with 
budded piachtsisto fail of a crop; the rule 
with seeolmgs is to bear. Seedlings are 
healthier, longer-lived and more productive 
than the doctored sorts. This is the general 
observation here as well as my own, and I 
could advauce much testimony, were it neces¬ 
sary, to show the superiority ot seedling over 
budded peaches. 
But how about perpetuating the kind ? 
There is no difficulty about that either; i can 
point to an orchard of fine, large, yellow 
plums, seedlings of the third generation. All 
are alike, aud there is no variation from the 
parent. It is the case generally. Peaches do 
uot sport to any great extent. Why should 1 
they ? I do not claim, of course, that there 
are no advantages on the side of the budded 
sorts, but farmers generally would find the 
seedlings more satisfactory and profitable in 
the end. b. w. J. 
Surry Co., Va. 
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“ little (?) ailments ” are the promonitions of 
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