1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
647 
lru)x\$i'l Societies* 
THE LONG ISLAND LIVE STOCK 
ASSOCIATION. 
(KURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
The second semi-annual exhibition of the 
Long Island Stock Association was held on 
the association’s grounds near Huntington, 
L. I., from September 10 to 14. It rain¬ 
ed every day during the week and the at¬ 
tendance was extremely small. The ex¬ 
hibition, however, was a good one and had 
the weather been favorable, it would have 
been a great success. The fruit and vege¬ 
table display was exceptionally fine. It 
filled several tents, and a portion of the 
main building. 
Although the latter is fully 200 feet in 
length, yet it was completely filled with 
flowers, fancy-work and other articles of in¬ 
terest to the ladies. One side of it was de¬ 
voted to bread and cake and other products 
of culinary art. On this side Mr. Burgess 
showed a hive of bees at work and a quantity 
of White Clover honey. In the fancy- 
goods department a bed-quilt made at sea 
by Captain Hallock attracted much atten¬ 
tion and received honorable mention. 
Surely when a sea captain exhibits a hand¬ 
made bed-quilt and the ladies stock and 
poultry, the millennium must be close at 
hand. 
Owing to the storm many of the imple¬ 
ments were not unpacked, and the display 
inconsequence seemed very meager. Mr. 
C. B. Vail of Huntington, made a fine dis¬ 
play of carriages, including his famous 
buckboards and farm wagons. The show 
of stock and poultry—what there was of it— 
was good. It is said that the result of the 
fair will be a heavy debt for the associat ion. 
It is to be hoped that the managers will not 
be discouraged, as the association had all 
the elements required to make a successful 
exhibition and another year will doubtless 
retrieve all the losses. J. H. G. 
CROPS : AN OHIO FAIR. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
Thrifty farmers in western New Fork; 
crops there and in western Pennsyl¬ 
vania and northern Ohio; the Huron 
County Fair; fine displays of cattle, 
swine, sheep and horses; dairy exhibit 
small, but good; fine potatoes and other 
vegetables; the inevitable “boss trot;” 
general satisfaction. 
In passing along the shore of Chautauqua 
Lake even at a rapid rate, one can discover 
the thrift and enterprise of the average 
farmer in the tidy appearance and the fine 
surroundings of his home. The crops yet 
remaining in the fields—corn and potatoes— 
are looking reasonably well, better than 
could have been expected considering the 
late frost and excessive rainfall of early 
summer, and the comparatively dry 
weather since August 1. Meadows and 
aftermath are looking well; buckwheat has 
an average growth and is well filled. 
Fruit is exceedingly scarce: there isn’t one- 
tenth enough for home consumption. 
As we leave the lake region and come on 
to the slope towards Lake Erie, the grape¬ 
growing industry is the great object of re¬ 
munerative interest. Immense vineyards 
stretch as far as the eye can reach, well 
laden with fruit of superior merit as re¬ 
gards size and quality. 1 heard an old 
grape-grower remark that he had never 
seen the sugar in the grape so abundant as 
this year, and that the growers hoped to 
receive better prices than they did last year 
for better grapes. It is expected that the 
shipments will exceed those of last season. 
The Worden is considered tin best early 
grape; while Moore’s and Talman come 
next; but for a general-purpose grape noth¬ 
ing exceeds the Concord. Apples are 
scarce; while pears are quite plentiful at 
from £1 to $1.50 per bushel. 
Along through Western Pennsylvania 
and Northern Ohio rain is needed, though 
crops are not particularly suffering. Many 
are putting in their wheat or preparing 
tpr it. Most of the plowing is leaving the 
land very lumpy on account of it being so 
dry. About the usual area will be sown to 
wheat. 
Huron County was well represented at 
it s agricultural fair, which was held at Nor¬ 
walk. The grounds are commodious and 
pleasantly situated in a beautiful grove. 
The display in all its various departments 
was good. In Short-horns and Herefords lit¬ 
tle improvement could be made. Of Jerseys 
and Guernseys there was only a small dis¬ 
play, but those present were of good quali¬ 
ty. Among swine, Berkshiresand Chester- 
Whites were the favorites, and the exhibits 
were of superior quality. The sheep ex¬ 
ceeded anything I have witnessed this year, 
cassimere Merinos and Shropshire Downs 
being the favorites. The poultry depart¬ 
ment was of excellent quality but not a 
large display. Of agricultural machinery, 
the display was varied and fine. As we en¬ 
tered the Dairy Hall we were forcibly 
struck with the meager display both of but¬ 
ter and cheese, but what was on exhibition 
was of unquestionable quality. The vege¬ 
tables on display were exceedingly fine, 
especially the potatoes. Some specimens 
of the Pride of the Valley were commented 
on as superior to any variety raised in that 
section and certainly their appearance de¬ 
noted productiveness and excellent quality. 
In the fine arts and domestic manufacture 
everything was in good taste and showed 
conclusively that the fair daughters of 
Huron County rank high among America’s 
fair women as to skill and taste. 
There were many fine horses upon the 
grounds, though the average farmer is be¬ 
hind the age in the farm team. The only 
excuse offered by him is that all good 
horses are picked up for the Eastern mark¬ 
ets. The afternoons of the third and 
fourth days were mostly devoted to horse 
trotting and balloon ascensions. A number 
of fine horses were on the track, but no one 
showed a better gait than a 2.37)^, a brown 
stallion ‘‘Happy King” winning the stal¬ 
lion race at that. The results of the fair 
were satisfactory to the managers and to 
the people. The representative of the 
Rural. New-Yorker on the ground was 
doing his utmost to convince the people 
that it is the reading, thinking man that 
makes the successful experimental farmer, 
and that success comes to the man who 
does his work in the most thorough man¬ 
ner and feeds his land most liberally that it 
may produce large returns. 
Woman’s Work. 
CONDUCTED* * BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
CHAT BY THE WAY. 
Q UITE a pretty idea in decoration is to 
hang a gay Chinese or Japanese paper 
lantern from the center chandelier. It is 
far prettier than any of the absurd air-cas¬ 
tles or fancy baskets one often sees sus¬ 
pended there, and it has the merit of 
utility too. When only a dim light is 
needed, instead of turning down the gas or 
lamps, the candle may be lighted in this 
lantern—it gives a pretty, mellow light, 
and is economical too. 
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The newest fairy lamps are of China, 
three-sided; these sides show respectively 
the head of a cat, a dog and an owl. The 
eyes are of glass, and the light shines 
through them with a very realistic effect. 
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The Art Interchange describes some very 
pretty lampshades. Upona frame of wire a 
piece of muslin is sewed, fitt ing very closely. 
Upon this cover, rows of silk niching are 
tacked; they are pinked at the edges, and 
put very closely together, entirely covering 
the muslin foundation. A box-plaited 
ruffle of gold lace is put around the top, 
standing upwards, and a band of ribbon 
tied in a bow at the side draws it securely 
together. Another shade made on this 
same model has the muslin foundation 
covered with two silk flounces in different 
shades of the same color, the lower one 
being the darker. A full ruche of silk or 
lace is put around the top. A parasol lamp 
shade described is of thin yellow silk, 
crimped in close folds, and smocked with 
orange silk. The smocking is done loosely, 
so that t he frame is elastic; it is finished by 
a fall of black lace and three little black 
birds on one side. 
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Charming screen photograph frames are 
made of heavy cardboard covered with 
flowered French chintz. They may be made 
with either three or four leaves, the larger 
ones having spaces for two rows of pictures. 
The smaller ones are charmingly dainty 
when covered with flowered art silk. Some 
very dainty photograph frames are covered 
with white kid, having a painted design. 
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Many of the new basques and jackets, too, 
have sleeves of a different material, usual¬ 
ly made in a wrinkly leg-of-mutton shape. 
Braided cloth jackets have these sleeves in 
velvet of the same color. This is a very 
convenient fashion in making over-dresses 
where there is some scarcity of stuff. Sup¬ 
pose one has an old cloth dress in solid color, 
and a few yards of plaid or figured goods, 
or silk in harmonizing tint. We would 
make a plain round skirt.—it might be 
shirred, or left in loose plaits. It should 
have a plain round waist with surplus 
folds of the contrasting stuff, and leg-of- 
mutton sleeves of the trimming. It would 
be finished by a belt and Empire sash of 
the contrasting stuff, the sash ends hang¬ 
ing at the side, being gathered at the end, 
and finished by a tassel or crocheted ball. 
The collar, if any, should be very narrow, 
aud finished with a turn-over Empire frill. 
With a little oval toque, made of the 
goods, and trimmed to match, this would 
be a very pretty fall dress. 
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“ Fall Dress.” Why do we say fall, in¬ 
stead of autumn? It is the fall of the leaf 
—yet this is a somewhat indescriptive term. 
We are so apt to take liberties with our 
language, in this free land, that some care 
is necessary, or we shall become a nation 
of slip-shod talkers. Apropos of seasons, 
how absurd it is to say one is “ summer¬ 
ing” here or “wintering” there—we may 
yet live to hear that our friends are spring¬ 
ing in town and falling in the mountains— 
but we hope not. 
THINGS THAT COST NOTHING. 
OLIVE E. DANA. 
A TY title is a misnomer. I believe there 
_1 t are very few things which are of use 
and value that literally cost nothing. 
“ From nothing, nothing comes,” runs the 
old proberb. and the very appropriation of 
any gift or blessing implies energy, recep¬ 
tivity, or feeling. 
There are things which literally cost 
nothing in dollars or cents, and the money- 
value of any article is its common apprais¬ 
al. So I have adopted the old phrase be¬ 
cause I do believe that many of the things 
that give savor and flavor to life and its 
duties are uupriced and too often unprized. 
We slight our common mercies and deem 
that only rich or sweet or beautiful which 
is almost if not quite out of reach. 
We complain of the narrowness of our 
lives, and their barren surroundings when, 
very likely, we ourselves set those limits far 
within their possible range of privilege and 
pleasure, and perhaps not only refuse to 
make our bit of arable land yield any other, 
sweeter growths, but even shut our eyes to 
the beauty that already is in daily sight. 
But 1 am wandering from my subject. I 
meant to speak only of the capabilities that 
are in all our lives, I trust capabilities of 
enlargement and elevation of joy-getting 
and joy-giving. I wanted to speak of the 
riches of the things that “ cost nothing,”— 
nothing save tact and patience and a will¬ 
ing hand, and a seeing eye, and a loving 
and trustful spirit. And if this last named 
possession seems to you who read this, as it 
does to me, the most desirable of earth¬ 
ly possessions, let me enlist your sympathy 
with mine still further by asserting that 
a right use of the things that cost nothing 
is one of the best possible helps (on the hu¬ 
man side) to its attainment. I am digress¬ 
ing again, am I not? 
Let me hasten, then, to specify. 1 might 
remind you, as I am tempted to do, that 
the best preservatives of health, the best 
aids to its recovery if lost, are the cheapest 
aud simplest things, the elementals. I 
wonder how many times a week a really 
wise physician, either unconsciously or on 
purpose, reminds his patients of the 
wonderful healing potencies of sun and air, 
of pure water, of plain, wholesome abun¬ 
dant food, of exercise and cheerfulness? 
These are Nature's simples. The most and 
best of the things that cost nothing come 
from the same store-rooms. 
But there are other things of which uo 
physician is likely to remind us, yet which 
contribute very largely to that health of 
mind to which the best physical conditions 
are tributary—without which the latter, if 
they can exist at all. seem of comparatively 
little value. These are the little habitudes 
of household and personal adornment, to 
begin with: the neatly spread table; the 
tastefully tidy room; the vase of flowers for 
tea-time; the freshened toilet after dinner; 
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disease from pimples to scrofula. 
Sold everywhere. Price. Ccticura, 50c ; Soap. 25c ; 
Resolvent, $1. Prepared by the Potter Drug and 
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the old method 
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work’d and wash¬ 
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