1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
487 
Twice a week as regularly as Wed¬ 
nesday and Saturday came, I saw her 
and her little boy trudging down the 
mountain, up gullies, over rocks, up to 
some lone miners’ cabins, with baskets, 
the contents of which were a mystery to 
me for a long time. It made no differ¬ 
ence whether the rain was coming down 
in torrents, or showers of hail pelted 
them; on they went, never minding the 
elements. One Saturday the little girl 
was with them, and they nad more bas¬ 
kets. 
They called at a house not far from 
me, where two miners lived and did 
their own cooking, and I heard the con¬ 
versation which passed between them, 
and solved the mystery for me of what 
those baskets contained. “Yes, sir; real 
apple pie just as your mother used to 
make; the apples are sliced, sugar, a lit¬ 
tle water, a sprinkle of flour, salt and 
nutmeg.” Tne men were examining 
them very carefully. 
“Well! we will take two, and if they 
are as good as Mother used to make, we 
want more.” 
“Ten cents apiece, sir.” 
They were baked on very small tins, 
but they looked good. I found out after¬ 
ward that she had regular customers for 
her apple pies; nothing else did she 
carry, and her trade grew every week. 
There were scores of men who boarded 
themselves, and these were her best cus¬ 
tomers. Through sorrows and discour¬ 
agement, she kept “a brave heart still.” 
No doubt she is still baking her little 
apple pies, and trudging over the moun¬ 
tains to deliver them. 
MRS. FREDERICK C. JOHNSON. 
Everyday Happiness. 
In the Cosmopolitan Magazine, Prof. 
Harry Thurston Peck gives his view of 
The Woman of To-day and To-morrow, 
in opposition to Mrs. Charlotte Perkins 
Stetson, who urges the entire economic 
independence of women. Mrs. Stetson 
thinks that the woman who lives a re¬ 
stricted domestic life is a slave, and teiis 
her so; Prof. PecK points out her com¬ 
pensations. We have a tremendous re¬ 
spect for Mrs. Stetson, who is a very 
able woman; but we think that there is 
something in the influence of domestic 
life which holds together the State and 
the Nation, though it may not appear 
in a table of economic reports. Says 
Prof. Peck: 
“The plain truth is that there is an im¬ 
mense amount of sordid, squand, unin¬ 
teresting, commonplace labor to be done 
in this our world, and some one has to 
do it. A'man whose mental limitations 
and whose early training and surround¬ 
ings make it impossible for him to be 
anything but a modest toiler, will sim¬ 
ply have to be one—and he i*as usually 
sense enough to know it. Moreover, the 
woman whom he marries, as may be as¬ 
sumed from the very fact of her marry¬ 
ing him, is one who is both mentally 
• ana morally Ins mate. 
‘He uoes not mind the weighing of 
the cod-fish, and the selling of the five- 
cent Connecticut cigars, neither does his 
wife, on her side, mind the cook-stove, 
the soap-vat, the pickle-jar and the 
wash-tub. They are just as happy in 
their ways as others are in theirs, for 
it is the only way that they have known. 
They get as much enjoyment from a visit 
to the circus as another person does 
from the possession of an opera-box. 
Their little savings represent to them 
as much potential security and future 
ease as a whole safe-deposit vault pi.ed 
full of railway bonds can represent to 
the multi-millionaire. 
“If the wife has common sense and 
taste, and knows how to manage and 
contrive she need not find her home a 
horror, a greasy, reeking kitchen, but she 
can, by a hundred little touches, bright¬ 
en it and make it, both in her husband’s 
eyes and in her own, not only bearable 
but beautiful, as every home must be 
where there abide affection and content¬ 
ment. It is all a matter of proportion 
and of scale; for the possibility of happi¬ 
ness is no greater in one normal life 
than in another, and the capacity for en¬ 
joyment is a fixed quantity which can¬ 
not be augmented or diminished by ex¬ 
ternals.” 
With the Procession. 
_Among all sources of earthly power, 
the most potent, palpable and beneficent 
is that which accompanies the posses¬ 
sion of money honestly acquired and 
honorably employed. 
_The offer of the British South Af¬ 
rican Company to reserve a plot of 10U 
acres around tne spot where the neart of 
Livingston is buried, has been accepted, 
and a memorial column 40 feet nigh will 
mariv the spot. 
....The reason why red infuriates the 
members of the ox family, is that red is 
the complementary color of green, and 
the eyes of cattle being long fixed on 
herbage while feeding, when they espy 
anything red, it impresses their sight 
with greatly increased intensity. 
....A born farmer does not leave off 
tilling the soil, though it may not rain 
ror 12 consecutive years, while a mer¬ 
chant who has but lately taken himself 
to the plow, is discouraged by one sea¬ 
son of drought. The true believer is 
never aiscouiaged, if ever, with his life¬ 
long devotion, he fails to see. God.— 
Kamaknshna. 
....The N. Y. Bun says that a young 
woman, whose leg was broken in an ac¬ 
cident on the Orleans Railroad in 
France, has received ?8,uv0 damages on 
the ground that her value from the mat¬ 
rimonial standpoint had deteriorated 
through the damage done to her. A 
bachelor friend remarks that, if her 
tongue had been broken, her matri¬ 
monial value might have been doubled. 
....For the individual, money means 
education, travel, books, leisure, supe¬ 
riority to the accidents of life, comely 
apparel, in health the best cook, in sick¬ 
ness the most skillful physician, the hap¬ 
piness of those beloved, the luxury of 
doing good. For society, it means li¬ 
braries, museums, parks, galleries of art, 
hospitals, universities, comfort for the 
unfortunate, splendor for the rich, 
everything that distinguishes civiliza¬ 
tion from barbarism.—John J. Ingails. 
_Mr. Marcus Tindal, in Peaison’s, 
explains what tidal bores are:—“Three 
conditions go to make up a bore. First¬ 
ly, there must be a swiftly-flowing river; 
secondly, an extensive bar of sand 
stretching across the mouth, dry at low 
water, except in certain narrow channels 
kept open by the outgoing stream; and, 
thirdly, the estuary into which the river 
discharges must be funnel-shaped, with 
wide mouth, open to receive the tidal 
wave from the ocean. The spring flood 
tides drive into estuaries an immense 
volume of water which accumulates 
more rapidly than it can flow up stream. 
A watery ridge or bore is thus formed, 
measuring often several feet in height, 
and stretching across the estuary. Pres¬ 
ently, with a great noise that sometimes 
may be heard for miles, the wall of 
waves advances and travels upwards at 
terrific speed over the comparatively 
placid waters of the flowing river. The 
bore on the Hoogly branch of the 
Ganges travels 70 miles in four hours, 
and often suddenly appears as a liquid 
wall over seven feet in height, to the 
alarm of any unfortunate person who 
may happen to be on the river at the 
time. The largest known bore occurs on 
the Tsien-TangKiang, in China. ’ 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
... .Among other reasons for the present 
hot weather, is the following from an 
old colored mammy in Washington, re¬ 
ported by the Sun: “I tells you dat, for¬ 
ty yeahs ago, when de good Lawd made 
de wedder, we didn’t have no sich siz¬ 
zlin’ days as dese; but sence dese here 
wedder bureau men’s taken to fixin’ it, 
dey jes’ sends us anything dey liKes, an’ 
dey ain't skillful, chile, dey ain’t skill¬ 
ful!” 
-The doctrine that commonly obtains 
concerning soil formation is that 
lichens, the first occupants of the thin 
initial layer so formed, contributed by 
their life and death in turn to soil for¬ 
mation, and thereby made life possible 
for the mosses. These in like manner 
yielded their increase, and rendered it 
possible for plants of a still higher or¬ 
der to grow and flourish, and so on, un¬ 
til perfect soils were produced, in which 
all plants might luxuriate. 
_Oliver Wendell Holmes, most 
amiable of “autocrats,” was a life-long 
lover of children, and could “skip back 
70 years” at a moment’s notice, at a 
child’s bidding. Could anything be 
sweeter than the letter he wrote, ac¬ 
knowledging the photograph of one of 
his little girl friends? “May those lips,” 
he wrote, “speak but what is pure and 
true; may those ears hear but what is 
good; and may those eyes always mir¬ 
ror a soul as beautiful as themselves.”— 
Tit-Bits. 
... .Let us ask for a moment what it is 
“to deal honestly with a child’s moral 
and intellectual life.” Is it not to set 
before him a worthy example; to fill 
him with honest aspirations; to incul¬ 
cate pure motives; to aid him in his en¬ 
deavors to overcome evil influences? Is 
it not to give him a glimpse, even if it 
be only a glimpse, of the highest possi¬ 
ble ideal? If this is put off until the 
child reaches school age, if it is not done 
in the home under the influence of 
father and mother, if they do not per¬ 
sist in it while the child remains under 
the parental roof, it is often in vain to 
attempt it in school.—Teachers’ World. 
_Coin-collectors have become in¬ 
terested of late in the old-fashioned cop¬ 
per cent once so common in our country. 
According to a statement made by an 
official in the Sub-Treasury, at Phila¬ 
delphia, there are now 199,000,000 of the 
old cents somewhere in existence, and 
nobody can tell just where. Except at 
rare intervals, none is ever seen—never 
more than one at a time, given perhaps 
in change. The bronze two-cent piece 
has disappeared much in the same way. 
Out of the 4,005,000 which were put in 
circulation a few years since, 3,000,000 
have, to all intents and purposes, been 
lost; 1,000,000 three-cent saver pieces 
have also gone, but, stranger still, of 
the 800,000 half-cent pieces also put into 
general circulation, “not one has been 
returned to the Government for coinage, 
or is held by the Treasury.”—Harper’s 
Bazar. 
B.*B. 
read—heed 
—to your profit 
45 cent figured Mohairs, 15e—cost the 
mill more than twice that to make. 
Light gray effects—summery—splendid 
quality. 
75 cent check Suitings 35e. 
Dollar ones, 50c. 
Lot of 10 cent Madras Ginghams, 6Kc. 
pretty styles. 
Fine 25c. Madras 12t£c. 
Genuine Imported Organdies, 10c — 
neat floral printings on white and light 
colored grounds — genuine imported — 
10c. 
It’s good, desirable seasonable goods 
we’re talking about. 
Telling you exactly what they’re 
worth. 
Prices so far under worth as makes 
them offerings without equal. 
Get samples — Worth writing about 
this very day. 
Superb India and Foulard Silks — 
handsome summery styles—50c. 
And choice wash silks 35c. that will 
nterest every woman who wants fash¬ 
ionable hot weather silks. 
BOGGS & BUHL, 
Department C, 
ALLEGHENY, PA. 
FRUIT EVAPORATOR 
“THE GRANGER.”- 
-For family use. Cheapest In 
the market. i#3, IBS & #8. 
Cir. EASTERN MEG. CO , 257 S. 5ih St., Phila., Fa. 
$5 to $39 H grade T BIGYGLES 
Gruml clearing mile 8000 RlcyclcN. 
Over 50 different well known itutkcH, 
new and second hand must be close*! out; 
threat opportunity for ngent«; new plan by 
which you can earn a bicycle. The Trust is 
bound to raise prices. Write at once for lists, 
going fast, the old and reliable Bicycle House 
Brown-Lewis Co., Dept. D. M, Chlengo, Ills. 
‘21)1 Wabash Are. The above company is reliable— Editor. 
$ 2.45 buysa Baby Carriage 
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Flies. Mail, 15c.; two for 25c. Agents Wanted. 
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NewYork State Fair, 
SYRACUSE iV F, 
September 4 to 9, 1899. 
$25,000 in Premiums. 
New Buildings, New Water Plant. 
Great Attractions. 
Premium lists now ready. App'y to 
JAS. li. DOCHARTY, See’y, Albany, N. Y. 
Special Railroad Facilities. Reduced Rates, and all 
exhibits unloaded from cars on 
the Fair Grounds. 
For 50 Gents 
TUB RURAL NEW- 
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and send us his subscription. For your trouble, we 
will send you that great historical romance, Qu 
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