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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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frequently and the vines will bloom nearly 
all summer. The sweet pea Is a fashion¬ 
able flower at present; little bunches are 
worn, carried or put in vases, and a bowl of 
them on the breakfast table looks delicious; 
so you must have them. Just screw your 
energy to the “sticking point” and you’ll 
not fail. 
I do not rave over chrysanthemums, 
though they are wonderfully popular at 
present, and florists can force them to re¬ 
markable size and make splendid shows of 
them. Gladioli and dahlias with their 
wonderful brilliancy of color, are my favor¬ 
ite fall flowers. Gladiolus bulbs planted 
as late as the last of June produce the 
finest and richest blooms. If you want a 
rapid-growing vine get the “ moon-flower.” 
You will be charmed with it, for it is quite 
up to its advertised value, which one can’t 
say of many florists’ novelties. But it is a 
tender plant and you must plant cuttings 
of it during the summer and keep them in 
the house through the winter in order to 
have them the next season without going 
to a florist’s for them. 
Sydney Lanier wrote: “To make a 
home out of a household, given the raw 
materials—to wit, wife, children, a friend 
or two, and a house—two other things are 
necessary. . . These are a good fire and good 
music. . . and inasmuch as we can do with¬ 
out the fire for half the year, I may say 
music is the one essential. Music means 
harmony, harmony means love, love means 
God ! ” When members of a family are in 
sympathy, what more natural than that 
they should blend their voices in song or 
accompany each other through the har¬ 
mony of musical instruments, expressing 
their souls’ delight through the medium of 
this, the highest, the most sacred of all 
arts. 
Thus endeth my little homily for to-day, 
cousin. Affectionately, 
“DOCIA DYKENS.” 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
THE DUTY OF SHARING HOUSE¬ 
HOLD LABORS. 
D ESPITE the admonition : “Bear ye 
one another’s burdens,” there is in 
many homes one burden-bearer. Like 
Samantha Allen’s niece Serepta, who “ car¬ 
ried the meetin’ house on her shoulders,” 
one person is apt to assume or accept the 
burdens that rightfully should be borne 
by others. In one household, it may be the 
patient, uncomplaining mother, who does 
all the thinking, planning and serving, 
while the rest wholly unconscious of the 
numberless sacrifices made for them, enjoy 
life without a care. No one thinks of saving 
the precious mother or helping her in count¬ 
less possible ways, for all have come to feel 
that “mother doesn’t mind.” In another 
home, perhaps it is a daughter who is the 
burden-bearer. It is her good (?) fortune 
to be able to “ turn her hand to almost 
anything,” and she is called upon to do for 
all the rest and no one mistrusts that she 
is doing more than her share, and that, too, 
without thanks. The mother has become 
accustomed to rely upon the daughter’s 
judgment in all things, and the latter ac¬ 
cepts the task of “going ahead.” Nor is it 
in every home, a mother or daughter, who, 
as a friend once said, becomes the pack- 
horse of the family. But in far too many 
homes, the cares and burdens are not 
equally divided. The happiest homes, I 
ween, are those in which the spirit of sacri¬ 
fice is present with each, instead of one, 
and with loving thoughtfulness for others, 
each bears his part. There, the father and 
sons are welcomed at the close of a busy 
day and in the family circle, the harassing 
thoughts and perplexities are laid aside. 
Not in a spirit of harsh criticism, nor 
with an unkind thought, but to satisfy 
yourself of the prevalence of the pack- 
horse system, look about you and observe 
who are the burden-bearers in the homes 
you know. Perhaps you will find a pack- 
horse in your own household. If so, try 
to remedy the evil that has a foothold in 
your home ; for it is a crying evil and does 
injury to each one in that home. It is a 
gross injustice to the one who accepts the 
bearing of burdens, and fosters selfishness 
in those who permit it. And you who 
have unconsciously accepted the task 
which, mayhap, has been unconsciously 
imposed upon you, pause to consider what 
you have been doing. You have been liv¬ 
ing as though the command had been to 
you: “ Bear thou all the others’ burdens.” 
From this day try a new plan, and see 
whether it will not be better for you, better 
for those with whom and for whom you la¬ 
bor and more just to all concerned. 
F. M.Lt. 
O NE unquiet, perverse disposition, dis¬ 
tempers the peace and unity of a 
whole family, or society, as one jarring in¬ 
strument will spoil a whole concert. 
Prof. Agassiz : “ I will frankly tell you 
that my experience in prolonged scientific 
investigations, convinces me that a belief 
in God—a God who is behind and within 
the chaos of vanishing points of human 
knowledge—adds a wonderful stimulus to 
the man who attempts to penetrate into 
the regions of the unknown.”. 
The London Spectator thus character¬ 
izes a bazar, for which people make what 
nobody values in order that other people 
may buy what nobody wants, all to help 
an association which badly needs both time 
and money, and ought, therefore, to en¬ 
courage in every way the economy of time 
and money. 
It does us good to admire what is good 
and beautiful; but it does us infinitely 
more good to love it. We grow like what 
we admire ; but we become one with what 
we love. 
The power of the cradle is greater than 
the power of the throne. Make me the 
monarch of the cradles, and I will give to 
whomsoever will the monarchy of king¬ 
doms. 
DR. Talmage, in one of his sermons re¬ 
cently said: 
“ Don’t say you will be benevolent when 
you get rich. As well might the rose say : 
‘I will emit no fragrance this month, but 
next month I will flood the gardens with 
aroma.’ Next month it is dead.” 
The Independent adds—The Bible rule of 
doing good to others is to do so “ as we have 
opportunity.” Then and there is the time. 
To wait for the future is to lose the op¬ 
portunity. 
“I consider a mole’s opinion of the 
structure and uses of my hyacinths to be 
very much like most folks’ notions of moral 
truth. The moles see the bottom and noth¬ 
ing else.”. 
A FARMER’S DAUGHTER ON A 
FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. 
An enthus iastic and well attended meet¬ 
ing ; Ihe dairy cow and her products; 
milk versus whisky; Col. Curtis on the 
pig; the “ sheep boom ”; “ leaks on the 
farmfighting the Colorado Beetle; 
organization among farmers; farmers ’ 
sons and daughters. 
The “sheep boom” had reached here 
last year, so the people were quite ready to 
indorse all Secretary Woodward could say 
of the importance of sheep as weed exter¬ 
minators, and as wool, mutton, and man¬ 
ure producers. A few in this region knew 
these facts even before the boom. A disser¬ 
tation on the dog-tax law of the Empire 
State in this connection was most timely. 
“Leaks on the Farm ” were given some 
attention—notably the manure leak; that 
is the worst one on the average farm. A 
remedy against the ravages of potato bugs 
was given, that I do not remember to have 
seen in the Rural. It was simply to 
scatter sliced potatoes, which had been 
dipped in a strong solution of Paris-green, 
over last year’s potato fields a few days be¬ 
fore planting this year’s crop. Our in¬ 
formant insisted that great numbers of 
bugs would eat these to their destruction, 
and of course for every one destroyed so 
early, the ravages of myriads would be 
prevented later. I should think that to be 
effectual the remedy would have to be ap¬ 
plied by the whole neighborhood of potato- 
growers. There was much talk of “ organ¬ 
ization ” among farmers by both visitors 
and natives, a well-written essay on the 
subject by one of the latter, being the key¬ 
note. While, of course, “we” are opposed 
to “combines,” and “rings” as the terms 
are usually understood, something for our 
self-defense and protection seems a neces¬ 
sity, and no better weapon seems practic¬ 
able than that employed by our oppressors. 
“ Agitation and education ” are the watch¬ 
words of to-day. 
Great stress was laid, in this institute, on 
the necessity of interesting the farmer’s 
son in the farm ; and it was urged that 
certain rights and privileges should be 
granted him, etc.; but nobody said that it 
was of equal importance to interest the 
farmer’s daughter, if the success of the 
farmer of the future is to be assured. But 
that one girl had been greatly interested in 
farm life, and had kept her love for it, 
while living on a farm to middle age, was 
proven by the enthusiasm which she put 
into her essay on the “ Possibilities of the 
Farmer’s Home.” Whatever criticism 
may be made against farmers’ institutes, 
they certainly do two good things: they 
bring farmers together, and give them a 
higher opinion of their own honorable 
occupation. jean. 
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If no one else will report the last farm¬ 
ers’institute held in our county of Scho¬ 
harie, I will give a farmer’s daughter’s 
notes taken on it. Secretary Woodward, 
Col. Curtis, Messrs. Powell, Pinkham and 
others have been here again,'telling us 
what they know about farming, and ex¬ 
citing the “natives” to tell what they 
know—or don't know—about it. These 
“ instructors,” received enthusiastic greet¬ 
ings, and were met by large audiences, 
composed mainly of farmers and their 
families, proving that this locality at least 
appreciates farmers’ institutes. 
The “ Dairy Cow ” came in for the largest 
share of attention, as was proper for this 
region. Much lively discussion occurred 
as to the quality and quantity of her feed; 
as to whether she should be kept doing 
duty at the milk pail the year ’round, or 
be given a rest; whether or not she should 
be closely stabled from fall to spring, or 
given out-door exercise on sunny days, etc. 
One speaker warned us that dairy products 
would never again command the high 
prices they did a few years ago, but he 
added that there was money in a dairy at 
present prices, if one could solve the prob¬ 
lem of producing the same quantity at less 
cost; but that it could not be done by keep¬ 
ing two cows to do the work of one. At 
this point he digressed enough to wonder 
if a can of milk—a big one—set down each 
day beside each saloon, and served out to the 
city’s thirsty crowds would not do much to 
rid the land of the rum curse. 
Col. Curtis discoursed, in his own in¬ 
imitable way, on his favorite theme, the 
“ Pig,” that evidently being his favorite 
domestic animal. He informed the audi¬ 
ence that selling everything off the farm, 
thereby lessening its fertility “would 
damn the doer thereof agriculturally, as 
surely as leading a wrong life would damn 
him eternally.” Strong language, but true. 
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