The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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bring down the “cant hook.” After a 
Ion™ time he looked up and saw the city- 
man coming down the lane leading the 
dishorned cow. Take those waiters on 
your farm, and they would be puzzled at 
the common directions you give every 
day. 
The literary critic of my family tells 
me this is not slang, but strong expres¬ 
sion. ranking with the poet who alludes 
to the sun as “rosy-fingered Aurora.” 
But here comes the little girl to tell us 
dinner is ready. Tf she were a skilled 
waiter she would say : 
“Brain food ! Adam !” 
For do we not have headcheese and 
baked apples for dinner? ir. w. c. 
“White Woman of the Genesee” 
The fertile Genesee Valley of Western 
New York has paid fitting tribute to one 
of its pioneer women in the statue at 
Letchworth Park of Mary Jemison. the 
“White Woman of the Genesee.” Hers 
is easily the most romantic of any life 
in the early history of “the pleasant val¬ 
ley.” Her long and eventful life was 
heroic and self-sacrificing in submission 
to adverse destiny. Mary Jemison was 
born on the ocean in 1742 or 174“. of 
parents whose nationality she never knew. 
They settled in the Pennsylvania fron¬ 
tier. where Mary lived until she was 13 
years old. In the massacre of 175,7 all 
her relatives were killed and she was 
carried captive to the Ohio country, 
where she was adopted by an Indian fam¬ 
ily. and became the wife of an Indian. 
In 1750 she came to the Genesee Flats, 
where she again met English-speaking 
people. For nearly 72 years this remark¬ 
able woman lived on the banks of the 
Genesee near Moscow and Cuylerville. 
She moved to the Buffalo Reservation in 
1831. and died there in 1833. T<> the 
time of her death she was true to her 
adopted people, and proved many times a 
bond of peace between the Indians and 
the white settlers. From Mary Jemison 
have come many of the traditions and 
legends of the Seneca Indians, still hand¬ 
ed down in this wonderful valley. 
• A. IT. PULVER. 
How to Burn Corn Economically 
In a Nebraska Winter soft coal was 
$0 a ton. corn on the cob 15 cents a 
bushel, so we burned corn, though it 
seemed a very great sin. The writer 
found that the half-burned grains fell 
through the grate bars, requiring the ash 
pan to be emptied two or three times a 
day. and wasting a large proportion of 
the heat force. I cut a strip of galvan¬ 
ized wire cloth, %-ia. mesh, the size to 
cover the front and bottom of the grate, 
inside. Result, the completely burned 
corn formed a white crust on the new 
wire grate, so the ash pan was emptied 
but twice a week, and we removed the 
crust twice a week. The combustion be¬ 
ing more complete, we got more heat 
from our corn wickedness. J. J. p. 
Cleveland, O. 
Apple Marmalade 
Take 12 large apples, wash them and 
cut in quarters. Put on to cook with 
water enough to partly cover. When 
done strain through colander. To three 
pints of apple and juice add three pints 
of sugar, two oranges, only the rind of 
one. and one-half pound of seedless rais¬ 
ins. Grind oranges and raisins in meat 
chopper, then put all together and cook 
for half-hour; stir often. Very nice. 
MRS. A. J. B. 
Some time ago two correspondents were 
asking why their corn binders pulled so 
hard. If they will bind the bundles above 
or below the ears it will be much easier 
for the horses. J. E. healy. 
Illinois. 
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