J3»« RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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as they all do, that nearly all of the busi¬ 
ness in the world is done on borrowed cap¬ 
ital, because any money put into a good 
business will earn far more than the pal¬ 
try four per cent a bond will yield. And 
he adds that there’s never yet been a 
time when Deacon Lander’s interest 
money wasn’t ready and waiting for him, 
and iie has no fear that there will be. 
Besides, that is his debt, he .says, and he 
doesn’t want my money to go to pay it. 
With another silo and some hill pastures 
that are going cheap, and some purebred 
stock, he could easily double our dairy 
income, and that is our chief resource, 
you know, and so far has made reason¬ 
able returns for all we’ve put into it. 
Sid says that he sees where he could re¬ 
arrange his affairs so as to make less 
work in the house for me and that when 
the children are big enough to go away to 
school we shall be easily able to send 
them anywhere we will. And, Aunt Em¬ 
ma, a woman does love to trust her hus¬ 
band and to have him see that she has all 
confidence in his judgment. It’s just that 
loyalty of hers that nerves him to do his 
best. And a man does need all the en¬ 
couragement that a sense of responsi¬ 
bility inspires in him. I should so love 
to help Sid to realize his ambitions, and 
I long to let him see how perfectly I 
trust him.” 
‘‘And he would allow you five or six 
per cent on the $3,000, out of the dairy 
Embroidery Designs 
39S. Designs of emblems for embroidering 
Rliields. sleeve tops and collars, caps for boys 
and girls, sailor blouses, reter Thompson and 
ItuBslan suits, etc. Ten emblems are Included 
In this pattern. The chevrons with the an¬ 
chors and the chevrons with the wheels, are 
designed to be worked In solid embroidery In 
white. The two plain stars ais? designed to be 
worked In solid colors or with gold or silver 
thread. The remaining stars are designed to be 
worked solid, but with two colors each, one 
for the interior portion, one for the heavy outer 
edges. The pointers can be used or omitted as 
liked; when used they are to be outlined. All 
emblems must be heavily padded to give raised 
effect. Price 10 cents. 
earnings, and you cotild lay that up 
against the rainy day and the children’s 
education ?” 
‘‘Oh, surely ! But, Aunt Emma, a mort¬ 
gage is the very twcuitieth century Old 
Man of the Sea. I’ve tried not to mind 
ours because I couldn’t do anything about 
it, but I grew up with one, and I know 
it, root and branch. Father’s was not 
big. Several times he was on the point 
of paying it up, and it never turned us 
out of house and hopie in story-book 
style. But it did gobble up every best 
pleasure we might have had in new 
things or in the legitimate little extrava¬ 
gances that young people love. Always 
that interest money hung over our heads. 
Every stroke of luck had to be laid on its 
altar. Mother would plan and work for 
something we longed for. Then the hate¬ 
ful first of October would loom up. and 
away went our cherished dreams. Final¬ 
ly Nat married young, Ed went to Nev¬ 
ada, Fred decided to earn his way into a 
profession, and when Sid same along it 
seemed as if I could help most by fol¬ 
lowing my leadings and marrying.” 
‘‘Never been sorry, I know,” said her 
aunt. 
‘‘No. indeed,” said Millie with energy. 
‘‘But, Sister Lizzie—she was the bright¬ 
est one of the lot—said that miserable 
mortgage had tormented us long enough. 
Father w'as getting old and it must not 
hang always like a millstone around his 
neck. So she and Mother took Summer 
boarders and paid it off. But all the 
heaviest of the work came onto my dar¬ 
ling mother, and I shall always believe 
that but for all that drudging in the hot 
kitchen she might have lived to a ripe old 
age. She went so suddenly when she was 
run down in the Fall.” 
‘‘We never can know about length of 
days.” .said Aunt Emma. 
‘‘Never, to be sure. But if we could 
have kept Mother carefree and in _ the 
leisure she would have so enjoyed! Lizzie 
hated the mortgage as much as I, but 
she has since said she was a fool to 
bother with it.” 
“She married into such ea.sy circum¬ 
stances that the few thousand dollars 
seemed not worth her effort.” 
“Yes,” said Millie, "Of course, I’ve 
never let her know how I felt about 
Mother. She says if she had been wise 
she would have let the mortgage lie and 
had some French lessons and studied 
pathology, in which she was always in¬ 
terested. Then she could have followed 
her husband’s interests and been com¬ 
panionable. But .1 do not know how 
Father would have managed if the mort¬ 
gage h.ad added itself to the cares of his 
last days. I have something the Hope 
Farm Man wrote about mortgages that 
I’ve saved to read to you. 
“As to your decision, it .seems to me 
that life determined that for you in the 
experiences of your youth. I guess that 
more things are decided in us that way 
than we dream of.” 
“You think, then, that Deacon Lander 
must be the one to buy Liberty bonds?” 
“I thipk,” said Aunt Emma thought¬ 
fully, “as your conclusions seem to indi¬ 
cate, that while a mortgage does for a 
temporary bridge to help one oyer a 
flooded .stream, it is not a good thing to 
keep always in use. Put one on if you 
must, but pay it off on the first oppor- 
.tunity; that would be my way for my 
own affairs. But for you, with an able 
and devoted husband-” 
“I guess I love Sid too much to see 
him always staggering under a mortgage.” 
M. H. 
Conserving the Old Oil Stove 
As long as the burners of a flat wick 
oil stove are in working condition, even if 
when lighted there is a thin vapor-like 
smoke—not Bum the wick but from the 
metal chimney—with an objectionable 
odor, such a stove can be made odorless 
and again give good service by boiling 
the chimney section in lye made by tying 
a quart of clean wood ashes in a cloth, 
in a crock, and covering with boiling soft 
water. Let stand over night, then in a 
deep kettle boil the chimney part, turning 
it about from time to time, that the hot 
lye may I'each every particle of oil-per¬ 
meated dusty smudge which has been be¬ 
yond the reach and strength of ordinary 
cleaning with warm water and soap. 
When it is not possible to separate the 
chimney section from the burners and the 
base, the whole stove must be subjected , 
to the boiling process, after removing the 
oil and the wicks—an easy matter, as the 
one or the two flat-wick oil stoves are 
small, with a top framework nearly as 
large as the ba.se, and such .stoves can be 
turned upside down. And, then, the burn¬ 
ers and the base of oil stoves always 
need a thoroughly good cleaning once a 
year, although the odor is located in the 
chimney section. After thus cleaning a 
stove it must be thoroughly rinsed and 
dried in a warm (not hot) oven or above 
the top of a stove. Too great dry heat 
is not safe for metal joints and fixtures. 
The present writer, after placing a tin 
ricer in a hot oven (for a safe length of 
time?) found it unsoldered and useless. 
New isinglass is always desirable but 
not a pressing necessity. The tops of tin 
cans are flexible and can be cut and fitted 
over the openings in the metal chimneys 
of oil stoves—if not entirely, at least 
across the top and the lower section, with 
a little isinglass between. Before adjust¬ 
ing new wicks, always trim the raw edge 
with sharp shears and round the corners, 
then insert the wick at the top and turn 
downward, and trim the upper edge and 
take a little clip from the corners. Baste 
four or five inches of knit goods on the 
lower end of the wick, and thus_ be able 
to use every inch of yoiir new wick ; and 
never have wick material that does not 
touch the bottom of the stove base, and 
therebv be assured of a continuous fire 
until the last drop of oil has been ab-<^ 
sorbed by the regular wick. 
The only way to keep an oil stove free 
from an odor is to keep it clean from 
day to day, and while it is lighted, by 
gripping a wad of soft wet cloth with 
the points of an old pair of shears and 
removing smoke smudges as soon as ob¬ 
served. To keep an oil stove filled, and 
never allow it to burn out, is to conserve 
both wick and your oil stove—your new, 
or your old one made new by the lye 
cleaning process. medora corbett. 
More Green Tomato Mincemeat 
The following are fine recipes for green 
tomato mincemeat; 
1. Chop one peck green tomatoes, drain 
off juice, add as much water as there was 
juice, also five pounds of brown sugar and 
two pounds chopped raisins. Cook slowly 
until tomatoes are soft or tender, add 
two tablespoons of cloves, cinnamon, all¬ 
spice and salt, one cup vinegar. Boil 
until thick; add six large sour apples 
chopped fine. When apples are done, 
seal in jars while hot. When making 
pies add bits of butter. 
2. One peck green tomatoes chopped, 
drain off' juice and add as much water as 
there was juice. Cook until tender, add 
four pounds brown sugar, two pounds 
raisins, two tablespoons allspice, one-half 
tablespoon cloves, two tablespoons cinna¬ 
mon, one nutmeg grated, two tablespoons 
salt, one cup of butter or one pound of 
suet chopi>ed fine. Cook until it is thick, 
add one cup of vinegar; seal boiling hot. 
Here is a good recipe for Indian relish: 
Two quarts green tomatoes chopped fine; 
dr.nin off most of the juice; three large 
onions, one red and one green pepper, 
chopped; two tablespoons turmeric pow¬ 
der, two tablespoons yellow mustard seed, 
one quart vinegar, three cups brown 
sugar, a little salt ; cook one hour; put 
in cans. s. G. s. 
|801 
T he most convenient and dependable iron to iron 
with is a self-heated Carbide gas iron. The farm¬ 
er’s wife who lights her house and does her cooking 
with Carbide gas can do the family ironing with the 
same gas burned inside the iron. 
The farmer was the first to profit by the discovery 
that by putting a little Union Carbide (like crushed 
lime) into a generator about once a month with some 
plain water, he could have all the home-made gas he 
could use for lighting, cooking, and ironing. 
Of course he found out that Carbide gas was far 
superior to city gas—more powerful light—richer, 
whiter, softer—and he told his neighbors. 
He told his neighbors so effectually that Union 
Carbide today supplies the light in over 250,000 
country homes. 
Some of his neighbors were miners. A miner’s Carbide 
lamp was invented to meet their demands. Today, Union 
Carbide supplies the light in over 700,000 of these miners’ 
lamps. 
About the same time metal workers and machinists 
discovered they could weld and cut metals quicker and 
more economically with Carbide gas (when combined with 
oxygen) than by any other method. 
And contractors, stevedores, and other night workers 
were quick to adoptUnion Carbide for flare lamps and torches. 
Thus by natural stages Union Carbide has become a 
powerful factor in all branches of industry. 
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Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins 
with hair or fur on, and make them 
Into coats (for men and women), robes, 
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your 
fur goods will coal you loss than to buy 
them and be worth more. 
Our illusiralod catalog gives a lot of 
Inform.-ition. It tolls how to take olf 
and care for hides ; how and when wo 
pay the freight both ways; about our 
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fur goods and game trophies we sell, 
taxidermy, etc. 
Then we have recently got out an¬ 
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neckwear and other fine fur garments. 
With prices ; also fur garments remod- 
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You can have either book by 
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both l)Ooks if you need both. Address 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
671 Lyell Ave.. Rochester. Y. 
The New York Grange 
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Wishes to announce to the farmers of 
the State of New York 
1st.—That it will be ready for business 
October 1st. 
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