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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 1 
[ Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day.', 
THE OVER-NEAT WIFE. 
The neatest woman in town 
Folks say I’ve got for a wife; 
And what folks say is gospel truth 
This time, you bet your life. 
Keturah Brown she beats the world 
On bakin’ breads and pies; 
But her best holt is flghtin’ dirt 
And circumventin’ flies. 
Her temper’s like her piecrust, which 
They’re both uncommon short, 
An’ tho’ I am free-and-easy like 
Sometimes she makes me snort, 
There ain’t no sense in havin’ things 
So dum’d all-fired neat, 
Nor sayin’ ev’ry time I step, 
“Now, Zek’l, wipe your feet!” 
I can’t set down in our best room, 
It is too slick and spruce; 
Fact is, ’most everything we’ve got’s 
Too good for common use. 
Though next to godliness the Book 
Puts cleanliness, I am bound 
To say Keturah’s mighty apt 
To run it in the ground. 
There ain’t no use in kickin’; I am 
Prepared to bear my cross. 
Some day, perhaps, I’ll wear my crown, 
Keturah she can’t boss 
Things round in heaven. An’ since we re 
told 
That there no moth nor rust 
Comes to corrupt, I guess it’s safe 
To say there ain’t no dust. 
But, oh, what will Keturah do 
Within those pearly gates 
If she no longer finds the dirt 
That she so dearly hates? 
O’ershadowed heaven Itself will be, 
Engulfed in awful gloom, 
When my Keturah enters in 
And cannot use a broom. 
—Portland Transcript. 
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Regarding the statement recently 
made in the The R. N. Y. that common 
salt, stirred among chestnuts when 
stored away, will prevent them from 
molding, a correspondent informs us 
that the same method is used in Eng¬ 
land to keep filberts. The salt is stirred 
among the nuts when put away in jars, 
and this keeps them in good condition. 
* 
College degrees are often rather 
meaningless distinctions, and no spe¬ 
cial interest is excited by a recent 
newspaper note announcing that the 
University of Glasgow, Scotland, has 
conferred the title of Doctor of Laws 
upon Miss Agnes Weston. This re¬ 
cipient, however, already bears a title 
that means far more than LL.D., 
she being known throughout the wide 
seas, wherever British sailors go, as 
“The Bishop of the Bluejackets.” Many 
years ago, while still a girl, Miss Weston 
was shocked by the squalid and vicious 
surroundings forced upon sailors when 
ashore. She interested herself in pro¬ 
viding clean, cheap accommodations for 
Jack ashore, in furnishing wholesome 
amusements, and in defending ignorant 
seamen from the harpies who rob them. 
She went from one seaport to another, 
making friends among the sailors, writ¬ 
ing to them while at sea, caring for their 
families and influencing them for the 
right. To many a wandering sailor 
“Mother Weston,” as she is affection¬ 
ately called, has been the only real 
friend in the world. A college degree 
sounds like a misfit recognition for such 
work, but it is the best that a university 
may do, and Glasgow honors itself in 
conferring such honor upon a great and 
good woman. 
In common with most acid fruits, 
cranberries make a very refreshing 
drink. Cook one quart of cranberries 
with one quart of water for 30 minutes, 
strain through a jelly bag. Allow one 
pound of loaf sugar to each pint of 
juice; boil to a rich syrup and bottle. 
About two tablespoonfuls are used to a 
glass of water. It is well to plan the 
Meat smoked in a few hours with 
KRAUSERS’ LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. 
Made from hickory wood. Gives fine flavor. 
Cleanest, cheapest; free from inBects. Send for 
circular. E. K.HAUSER A BRO., Milton, Pa. 
making of fruit syrups and juices from 
the beginning of the season, putting 
away a full assortment. There is no 
season of the year when use may not be 
found for them, in preparing drinks, in 
making sauces or as flavorings in ices 
and similar preparations. A syrup made 
from Green Gage plums is, to our mind, 
a valuable addition to mincemeat, giv¬ 
ing a distinct richness of flavor, and a 
simple bread pudding is wonderfully 
improved by any fruit sauce. One of the 
greatest gains we have made in dietary 
knowledge during the last two decades 
is our better acquaintance with whole¬ 
some fruit. 
* 
Familiarity with them never de¬ 
stroys the wonder of the moving pic¬ 
tures projected by the biograph. Popu¬ 
lar iScience tells of a pathetic incident 
that occurred at a biograph entertain¬ 
ment in a western city. Some of the 
views showed incidents of the occupa¬ 
tion of Pekin by the foreign troops. One 
represented a detachment of the Four¬ 
teenth United States Infantry entering 
the gates. As the last file of soldiers 
seemed to be literally stepping from the 
frame to the stage, there came a scream 
fi’om a woman sitting in one of the 
front rows, 
“My brother! my brother!” she cried. 
“There is my dead brother Allen, march¬ 
ing with the soldiers!” 
She had recognized the figure as that 
of a man who had mysteriously disap¬ 
peared several years before, and had 
been regarded as dead, no word having 
been received from him. The woman 
wrote at once to the War Department, 
and in time learned that the man who 
had been so strangely discovered to her 
was indeed her brother. 
* 
Here is a woman’s intellectual creed, 
voiced by Mme. Qui Vive of the Chicago 
Record-Herald; it is worth absorbing 
and adopting for one’s own: 
You are striving toward what? Not the 
vanities, the splurging about, the making 
of a great show and fuss, gathering flattery 
here and attention there from anyone who 
chances to be—at that particular moment— 
a fellow passenger in this wonderful cara¬ 
van of life. But this: To be a woman who 
is slowly but surely lifting herself up 
above the common, everyday, lazy and “no 
’count” sort; to learn to speak because 
you think and because you have something 
timely, bright, cheery or interesting to say, 
not because you think the air is rather 
calm and a few voice vibrations might stir 
it up; to be good and honest always, not 
for anybody’s sake or for any reason but 
that greatest reason of all—for the sake of 
having a clear, clean, beautiful conscience; 
to know refinement of speech, action, be¬ 
liefs, opinion and thought; to be intellec¬ 
tual. By that it is not meant that one 
should talk wisely of Ibsen and all those 
others that not one of us really under¬ 
stands, although we all think we do, but to 
learn something each day, gradually gath¬ 
ering such a nice little collection of the | 
world’s wisdom that we must agree with 
ourselves that what we have learned is but 
a drop or two out of a sea of learning. To 
be kind and sweet, considerate and charit¬ 
able, for it is in these things that one finds 
the only real rewards for all the scram¬ 
bling, cares, suffering, tired nerves and 
heavy spirits. To be loved, not because you 
are beautiful or stately or stunning, but | 
because you are worthy of deepest regard 
and because you are good and dear and 
filled with human sympathy and deep, 
tender emotions. Be impulsive when the 
impulses are good ones; be cautious when 
they are not, and thus learn how to live 
wisely and well. __ 
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK ? 
Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the 
new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious 
and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. 1 he 
more Grain-0 you give the children the more health 
you distribute through their systems. Grain-0 is 
made of pure grains, and when properly prepared 
tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about 
Vi as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. 
A Disabled Nan 
is certainly not in it, and 
Sprains and Bruises I 
dlaabla, but thia Is where 
StJacobsOil 
comes In for a prompt, sure cure. 
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Price, 25c. tad 50c. 
T sold bt all dealers in medicine. 
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Entering 
Wedge. 
Give us a few 
samples on every 
l route, rather than the 
l full equipment of a part 
of them. That insures 
us steady work replacing the light 
weight boxes, as they fade away. 
Send for description and prices. 
Bond Steel Post Co., Adrian. Mich. 
Use any pen, any 
paper, any ink; no 
brush, no press, 
and our 
Pen~ Carbon 
Letter Book 
gives a perfect copy. If 
your stationer does not 
keep it, write for samples 
of work. 
Beware of 
Infringements 
Address Dept. 50 
Pan-Carbon Manifold Co. 
145 Centre St., New York 
$ 100.00 
MONTHLY 
LET US START YOU! 
Gold, Silver, Nickel and Metal 
Plating. At home or traveling, taking 
orders, using and selling Prof. Gray’* 
Machines. Plates Watches, Jewelry, 
Tableware, Bicycles, all metal goods. No 
Experience. Heavy plate. New methods. 
We do plating, manufacture outfits, all 
sizes. Guaranteed. Only outfits complete, 
all tools, lathes, material, etc., ready for 
___ work. We teach you, furnish secrets, 
formulas free. Write today. Pamphlet, samples, etc. FREE. 
P. GRAY CO., Plating Work*, CINCINNATI, O. 
PRICES REDUCED DAYS? 
$4.00 Vapor Bath Cabinet #2.25 each 
$5.00 Quaker** “ 8.50 each 
$10.00 “ ** “ 0.10 each 
$1.00 Face & Head Steam. Attch. C5c 
Quality beet. Guaranteed. $2. Book 
Free with all “Quakere.” 
Write for our Hew Cata¬ 
logue, special 60-Day offer. 
Don’t miss it. Your last 
chnnce. New plan, new 
prices to agents, sales- 
--- 1 men, managers. Wonder¬ 
ful selieri. Hustlers getting rich. Plenty territory. 
World M*f*g Co., 97 World Bldg., Cincinnati, O. 
SALESMEN and 
AGENTS WANTED 
BIG WACES-Our Famous 
Puritan Water Still, a won- 
derful invention— not a filter. 
22,000 already sold. Demand 
enormous. Everybody buys. 
Over the kitchen stove it fur* 
a nishes plenty of distilled, aer* 
ja ated drinking water, pure, de* 
Z licious and safe. Only method. 
3 Distilled Water cures Dyspep* 
3 gia, Stomach, Bowel, Kidney, 
Bladder and Heart Troubles; 
•prevents fevers and sickness. 
Write for Booklet, New 
Plan, Term a, etc. FREE 
llarrifton Mfff. Co., 
422 Harrison Bldg., Cincinnati. O 
USE OF 
RUBEROID 
(Trade-Mark Registered) 
Roofing 
on his buildings, an old customer writes 
us that it is still in good condition, and 
“ has not cost one cent for repairs." You 
cun save money .too, by using Kuberoidon 
your poultry houses, barns, etc. Excludes 
draughts and dampness. Waterproof. 
THE 
Standard Paint Company, 
100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK 
Your heavy bedding and woolen blankets will soon need washing 
Syracuse Easy Washer 
will save its cost in washing them once. It leaves them soft, fleecy and clean. 
They do not shrink when washed with the EASY. I hey lie in the suds without 
handling, while water is forced over and through them. They are cleansed without 
friction, without wear or strain of any kind on the goods or on the operator. 
WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO. 
TRY IT. Compare it with the hest you have ever known and if it don t save 
its price in five weeks, send it back. Wash everything in the house , wearing 
apparel, heavy bedding, grain sacks or horse blankets, then send it back it you wish. 
You won’t send it bach, because you will know its ease and economy. An article 
that saves its price several times over each year is a good investment. 
Begin saving at once. Write for full information and price. 
DODGE & ZUILL, 539 S. Clinton Street, Syracuse, M. Y. 
29 Years Selling Direct. 
; We are the largest manufac¬ 
turers of vehiclesand harness 
in the world selling to consum¬ 
ers, and we have been doing 
business in this way for 29 years 
WE HAVE NO AGENTS 
No. 202 
Farr i Harness 
Price $24. — 
As fine as sells for 
36.00 to 38.00 more. 
No. 609_Surrey. Price $75. As 
. -- — -- — __ fine as sells for $35 more. 
\ but ship anywhere for examination 
guaranteeing bate delivery. You are out nothing if not 
k \ \ i ^satisfied. We make 195 styles of vehicles and 65 styles of 
harness. Our prices represent the cost of material and making, plus one profit. Our 
large Tree catalogue shows complete line. Send for it. 
O.WW»o.w rnuiu. large Iiec UUV'. v ---- 
Flbhnrt Carriaae & Harness Manufacturing Co.,Elkhart, Ind. 
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,00. Different 
from the ordinary buggy, is our latest style 
for 1902 We use Long: Distance Axle 
_ with bell collar which keens out all dust and 
mud, runs 1000 miles without reoiling. Combined Quick Shift Shalt 
Coupler and Anti-Rattler, positively prevents all rattling, can change from 
shaft to pole In ore minute. AY heels and Gear, every stick of timber guaranteed best second 
growth hickory, every forging and bolt best Norway iron. (Wheels iurnished any siw.) 
Plano Rody, 20 . 22 or 24 inches wide, 55 in. long. Corn ins; liody, 24 in. wide. 
Spring cushion and back,upholstered with bestgraue gold figured 
lining 
stays pinked and stitched a special <- e -- - . . ,* A 
caipeted to match trimmings. (Leather or dark broadcloth trimmings, dark top 
and carpet to match when desired.) , „ . . , 
E»|.i M,*«»m45***i*» Dash rail, panel back rail, prop nuts, seat handles 
_ nlCKCI lf10UIUlIlg!»i and hub bands. We use Kpeclal car© to have 
trimmings, paintinglS .verythingl^h. We give you choice of «y stjTe uph^ngandany sty le and color 
■i, m ‘ Vi- A but sell direct to you at wholesalesale prlcefe |U /% MAMCV We “ P s ““J ec ‘ «> 
We Have No Agents, and save you the middlemao-sprofit. N W WUNC ■ . examinat.onwjtuoutany 
Tt HMT W * , *, ali d in ev, rv wttVi and do not feel you have saved money and have a bitter buggy than you 
“ul^hlve bought elsewhS,? ;S.^turu to us and we will pay all freight. We warrant our buggies * 
w.“a.«andVuar ante© safe delivery. Do you want, or are you interested in any way in a vehicle or harness of any kind I 
Ff'so, r ae l |id for'our'n^w^l’ree vehicle Catalogue. Wehave all at^ea at prices that wilMnter.st s^save 
MARVIN SMITH COMPANY, 63 N. JEFFERSON ST., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
