Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — Page 7

Farmers’ Visitors.

In the first days of August there is a hegira of townspeople toward up-country farms. It is the month when school children are everywhere free and when fruits are ripening. He who has a wife's cousin in the country now resumes his acquaintance, to drop it again with the advent of cooler days. Country relatives are bores in spring, nuisances in autumn, and utter evils in winter. August alone shows them In all their rural loveliness. We hope our render has a distant relative reveling in verdant luxury upon some green, sloping hill-side, where fishing is good, cucumbers brittle, bait easy to dig, and horses easy to ride. If by any possibility it is uncertain whether you are related to your distant cousin or his wife your welcome will be better, because each will treat yon well for the sake of the other. Be sure to take with you all your white duck clothes, so that the farmer’s wife may enjoy the hot wash days. A large empty basket will be lianay, for whea you leave you may bring with you the only half bushel of pears the poor fellow has been able to raise. For real country pleasure a long, thin walking-stick is desirable, and with it you may poke down the few peaches that the poor, red-faced woman has been watching all summer long and hoping to preserve for winter use. Nobodv goes into the country without

wishing to get fat on pure cream; so every morning at ten, when you rise for the second breakfast which has to be prepared for your sake, go into the cool cellar, skim the cream which is rising for the churn- <■ ing, and do not forget to leave a city-like taste of cocktails in the cup and pun. It would be well to go into the field at any time and ask the farmer to take you to town for your letters, and if you can invite .some fellow-citizen to visit you the armer Will go down for him with the best Duggy. He will be delighted to leave his work and go if you will only pay the six cents toll. Sometimes the quiet farmer has had the wish to give his children a taste of watermelons, and, as he has succeeded in raising five or sir, to the delight of the poor youngsters, who go down into the patch every day to see the green monsters grow, have no hesitation in plugging every blessed melon until you get one to suit you, then sit on the fence and eat it in sight of the little ones, and spurt the pits at them. They think city men are so nice. Melons are country productions, and you must not forget that you go to get country food and luxuries—“plain, healthy, country fare, you know.” Country people get so used to melons and plums that you can take them all for yourself. You had better go to church on Sunday, when the farmer’s wife can stay at home and stew over the stove, boiling pears and getting up a nice tea against your return. Before you start ask her to wash and iron a white necktie for you. When you come back make fun of the music; it may be her sister who plays the melodeon. Last of all, when you are leaving with that basket with the only half bushel of pears tucked between your knees, and you are hinting that you do not hold baskets in the city, he so good as to tell the poor woman that you do not suppose 9he ever comes to the city, but that if John happens to be in New YojJi you hope he will run into the store for a minute and let you know how they all get along. Do not refuse the piece of sponge cake she has put up for you; it is easy to throw it out of the car window. 'Do not ask John to come to spend a week, with his poor, tired wife, at your house; but with the joyous exclamation that the first thing you purpose to do the minute you reach the city is to get a first-class beafsteak, which you have been hungering after for a month, waft your hand grandly and sing out: “ Good-bye, John.” — N. Y. Herald.

“ The Golden Mean.”

Webster’s famous saying: “There is always room enough at the top,” is no encouragement to the majority in any calling. What has the young man of fair average ability to hope for? He is no genius. What does it signify to him that the few brilliant were always in demand, and had no trouble in getting a living? Most lawyers, ministers ana physicians can reach no such eminence, have no such gigantic powers. Appeals to ambition are too common in education. If urged excessively, they bring essential discouragement to those who fail to reach some definite end. If by stimulating the few we dishearten the many we may do more harm than good. All offers of prizes, the marking systems of schools and colleges, are subject to the same danger. Those who do not win any* prizes or attain eminent rank should not feel that their failure is essential. In tire great battle of life they may win higher prizes, may have greater usefulness. Satisfaction with moderate success is better than the attainment of eminence. “ Room at the top,” to be sure; but that is of no use to you, if you cannot reach the top, though you rise up early, sit up late, and labor with all your might, with an energy and perseverance that never tire. Very likely this is true. Then he assured there is room enough for comfort, happiness and usefulness half way up. There may even be true peace and contentment at the base more than the man at the top ever knows, if Providenee does not give facilities and ability to rise. The great danger of our country is the unscrupulous pushing for position, office, wealth and fame. Men act as if it were essential to reach some particular place or the game of life was lost. Hence comes the restlessness, discontent/and sometimes complete wretchedness of those who fail. The ambitious! use unscrupulous means, put forth the most desperate efforts, disregarding the claims of health, of conscience, and of God. The youth who entered college with the resolution, “ I will have the valedictory or die,” died in his Junior year. He is the type of man}' in ail the walks of life. Moreover, that “room at the top” is not always reached by merit, but often by mere accident It is sometimes gained by trickery, intrigue and downright dishonesty, Of ail “ mentioned ” for Governor, the successful candidate may not be superior in integrity, intellect, or any qualification. He may be inferior in everything except caucus management. Excessive ambition for eminence, even twhen most successful, always begets discontent, for there is* always a higher eminence not yet attained. Of the forty men who think the Presidency is possibly within their reach, thirty-nine will quite certainly be disappointed, veiy likely all. Some other man, who has no expectation himself, who is not now mentioned by his friends, may supplant every one. No public men ever went to their graves more thoroughly disappointed than Daniel Webster and Henrv Clay. Their “room at the top,” their hosts of admiring friends, all the honors they had gained, could not .fill “the aching void,” could not console them for the failure to reach the Presidency. They saw men fill

the position far inferior in every qualiflcation. Strange they coOld not have afien that the office was far below them, pot above them. “Aut, Caesar, ant nullus,” Casnrfr nobody, is a dangerous motto. A minister need not be a Phillips Brooks, a lawyer need not be a Choate, a physician need not be a Dr. Parker, in order to be very successful. The minister who dpes the work of a country parish, whfise name is hardly known in the great city J too faq; cures a high place in the esteem and love of his own people, who is regarded as an angel of mercy by the sick and afflicted, may be more happy and more usethl than the eminent city clergyman. The lawyer who honestly serves the interests of his clients, who is a peacemaker by dissuading from litigation, although be does not Sto Congress, or even to the State Eegis;ure, need not be dissatisfied because he has not the wide-spread reputation of his rivals. If we so strongly urge young men to strive for the highest eminencte as to lead, them to think they have mistaken their calling if they do not reach it, we may do immense harm. We need men in every profession, in every honorable employment, of moderate qualifications, we should do all in our power to welcome such and make them satisfied. Young man, aspire after real excellence in your chosen field, whether you are eminent or not. If you cannot be contented without eminence, you will probably never be contented. If you imagine you are a genius it is likely you are mistaken. Be satisfied with what God has given you the power to do, whether you reach the topmost or the lowest round in the ladder of fame. On that ladder there may be no room for you at all. The world’s special prizes may not be yours, however earnestly you may strive for them, however justly you may deserve them. But by faithful perseverance, by honest service, by untiring industry, you may probably have success in your chosen sphere, you may certainly have true success in life. — “ A . T.” in Christian Union.

Death.

Death, like a mother, stands at the end of the summer day of life to take to his arms earth’s weary children, and open for them the door of rest that they may awake in the bright sunshine of another life. Every night Sleep takes us, folded in her downy mantle, from the busy land of the living, over the borders, into the realms of an unknown world, and with the morning light, we are bom into the new life of another day. We have no dread-of tlxSi death we die daily, which certainly takes us from one world to another, from one life to another. We do not shrink from it, though we must go solitary and alone, and have no promises, shining like lamps along the way, that we shall meet with those we love, and find answer to all the hungry yearnings of our souls within its shtuiowy bounaanea. Nay, it draws the curtains of slumber around us, and shuts us from the clinging arms of lowed ones though they are at our side. It gives us forgetfulness in answer to all our soul’s inmost longings, and morning brings back to us the heavy burden that we laid down, and we must take it up again for the journey of another day, yet we yield to its influence and go down to it peacefully as rivers to the sea. When Sleep’s elder brother, Death, comes, his garments shining with (he beautiful jewels of the promises, in his hand the keys that open the door of that Temple “not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” his face glowing with the “ glad tidings of great joy” When exile is ended, and the years of bondage, in the “ dark house of the body,” to the “ lusts of the flesh” are finished, and our weary, wandering feet may come nearer home, we struggle and shrink and cling lo these old chains and loads that we have groaned under for years, longing for the day of freedom, and praying that we might be set at liberty, and when the angel has come to open the prison doors we crouch back into the comer of the loathsome old cell instead of rushing out into the glorious freedom of the sunshine that covers the land with the rich fullness of its beauty and its gladness. When one is '** only waiting” why do the tears blind our eyes, and the sound of weeping fill our ears, so we cannot catch the glimmer of white robes through the opening gates of the Eternal City, and hear the glad songs of rejoicing welcome that greet the children returning home to the Father’s house ?

“Day unto day uttcreth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.” We ha e seen the sun go down the west through a gorgeous gateway of gold and purple ana pearl, and rise again in the rosy-tinted chambers of the east. The shining stars have held their high places through the hours of night, with a silence full of music till their light melted in the flush of dawn brought the perfect day. The trees and the grasses and the flowers, the countless seasons and the “eternal years of God,” have been ever as living witnesses before us, teachers full of God’s divinest truth, whispering of things ‘beyond, and as yet we sit in darkness. How long shall these things be with us before we can wait by the river to pass over to the othef side, as a tree heavily laden with fruit, waits in the beautiful dream-days of autumn for the winter to come, or as the white fields of harvest, 1 " ripe and full of golden grain, wait for the gathering sickle of the reaper. —Duff Porter, in Chicago Alliance.

A Model Letter.

This is what may be called a sample practical affection. True love is not content to bask in the sunshine without an umbrella handy in case of rain. The following letter is a sample in question: “ My Dear Husband: I got here last night all safe, and was met at the station: by uncle and aunt. They were so glad I had come, but were sorry that you were 1 not along. I miss you so much. We had hot rolls for breakfast this morning, and they were so delicious. I want you to be so happy while lam here. Don’t keep the meat up-stairs. It will surely spoil. Do you miss me now? Oh! if you were only here, if but for one hour. Has Mrs. O’K brought back your shirts ? I hope the bosoms will suit you. You will find the milk tickets in the clock. I forgot to tell you about them when I came away. What did you do last evening? Wefe you lonesome without me ? Don’t forget to scald the milk every morning. Ana l wish you would see if I left the potatoes in the pantiy. If I did they must be sour by this time. How are you getting along? Write me ail about it. But I must ckwe now. Oceans of love to you. Affection-, ately your wife. “P. B.—Don’t set the teapot on the stove.” —Danbury Nrnxs

—A Baltimore lawyer killed himself because it was too hot to live, and five minutes afterward a cool breeze sprang up from the bay, running the thermometer down twenty degrees.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—A California man grafted a slip of a da* red bobc bush on an oak, and the result is a black rose. Brown rcses were got from a graft on a locust. —The question whether fanning pays is a question as to whether labors pay which are intrinsically healthful to the individual and useful to society,.and whose sure reward is independence and competence. To this there can be but one answer. —The lemon plant, or sweet-scented verbena, is highly regarded as an herb in Spain. Every leaf is treasured and dried for winter use, and it is regarded as one of the best cordials in the world. It is taken in two ways, either as a decoction drank cold with sugar, or with a cup of tea. A sprig of lemon verbena put into a tca-cup and the tea poured over it makes, it is said, a delicious beverage. • —Don’t allow your carriage to rattle like a threshing machine. Washers of sole leather on tne spindles or axletrees will stop the clatter caused by too much play; a piece of rubber put in between the trill iron and clip will silence matters; apd a little ooal oil on the circle or fifth wheel will stop its squeaking. Where nuts work loose, cut a thread In front of them with a cold chisel after screwing them up tight. —New England black cake is thus made:. Take three pounds butter; three pounds sugar; three pounds flour; three pounds raisins; six pounds currants; one pound citron; twelve eggs; one gill of molasses; one c ince Cinnamon ; one ounce mace; one ounce nutmeg. A light-brown sugar is best. Beat well together the sugar and butter; add the yolks of the eggs; have the currants well washed and thoroughly dried; the raisins seeded and chopped; add in the flour and spices; stir in the whites of the eggs well beaten the last thing. It will make twenty pounds. I divide the mixture into three loaves. Paper and butter the pans; make the thickness you wish, for the cakes do not rise any; but bake smoothly over, as they take a long time to bake, fhenfrost, and put away for some great occasion.— Cor. Chicaqo Tribune.

—There is an objection to the commfn way of boiling eggs which people do not understand. It is this; the white under three minutes’ rapid cooking becomes tough and indigestible, while the yelk is left out. When properly cooked, eggs are done evenly tlirough like any other food. This resiilt may be obtained by putting the eggs into a dish with a cover, as a tin pail, and then pouring upon them boiling water, two quarts or more to a dozen eggs, and cover and set them away from the stove for fifteen minutes. The heat of the water cooks the eggs slowly and evenly and sufficiently, and to a jelly-like consistency, leaving the center or yelk harder than the white, and the egg tastes as much richer and nicer as a fresh egg is nicer than a stale egg, and no person will want to eat them boiled after frying this method once. —Boston Transcript. —To destroy roaches, take dry red lead, mix with thin molasses to a consistency of thin cream; then take pieces of glass and broken plates, etc., spread it on about as thick as thin window glass. Where roaches are veiy numerous, give them plenty of the mixture, as they eat veiy greedily of it. I think the general failure with roach poisons is this: The poison is so qtltck In sickening the roaches that they will not eat enough ,of it to kill them, fofcthey are slow eaters. The red lead being s\pw in its effect on them, they will get a gcKid quantity into them before it will sicken them. I have noticed when afiy’ef them would happen to be trampled upiori it would appear that they were entirely filled with the red lead. Place the lead where the roaches can get at it most conveniently. If the lead should become too dry and hard, mix a little more lead and molasses with the old to freshen it up again, and place it in other places.—Prairie Farmer.

—ln nutting up pickles, anure, strong and palatable vinegar forms the most essential part of the programme. There is nothing in the world so aggravating to a thrifty housewife as to find, on opening her pickle jar, that instead of the firm, crisp and refreshing pickle, so much desired and looked forward to, she has for all her trouble, time and money, simply a mass of soft, tasteless and insipid rubbish that has been rendered so by the use of vinegar lacking proper strength, or containing all sorts of mineral acids and deleterious substances. The following recipe will prove a success: Pour boiling salt water over the pickles, using a handful of salt to one gallon of water; let them stand ovCr night, theft drain them off thoroughly and cover them entirely with good vinegar (that known as white wine vinegar is generally considered the best for this purpose) ; let them stand a few days; thpn scald with the vinegar, pour it off and cover thefii again with fresh vinegar, cold; spice to taste; a small piece of alum may be added to improve the color; keep your pickle jar well covered and you will have fine and crisp pickles for years. — Exchange.

Renovating Meadows.

fyben the grass appears to be partially run out it is sometimes the better way to plow the ground and reseed it in September. But when the surface is smooth and there arc no bare places, that is no places which are not occupied with grass, the most, economical way to renovate such ground is to apply a generons dressing Of fine barnyard manure. If this cannot be procured conveniently, gh'e the land a top-dressing off fine muck. In lieu of any other fertilizing substances procure some bonedust and sow 600 to 1,000 pounds per acre. A great many farmers fall into the grave error of plowing deep their meadows and other grass land. The thin layer of humus that is on the surface should be kept there. When an old established sod is first plowed there is a large amount of vegetable substance in a more or lc9B advanced state of decay, comprising a dark layer on milch of the surface, and formed by the annual deposits of dead grass blades, and more or less matter of dead roots distributed through the original surface moldWhere the surface is well sodded over the ground receives an annual addition of vegetable mutter as long as it is not close f razed in the fall. Suppose a pasture, owever, that has been close grazed in the fall and not manured for many years, having yielded from twelve to sixteen tons of green feed per annum, begins to fail, should the sod therefore be plowed under? Should the goose that fays the golden egg be killed after having been annually close plucked ? I can perceive neither reason nor object for each a backward step; for, as far as I have had time to ascertain, the practice is to manure a failing upland pasture —lowland or meadow pastures being seldom disturbed with the pl6W—either before or after plowing, heavily, and after sowing the seed to pulverize thoroughly. These processes and the m&Bure together involve quitch full

item in labor, manure, time, etc., and to what end except changing better for poorer surface rnoldt By plowing, the surface mold is virtually buried or laid by, for it is highly E notable that sufficient heat to decompose minis does not pcnetiate the surface mold of pasture soils more than two or three inches, If so deep. Hence, if the sod be plowed six incites deep—not an excessive estimate—a layer of three inches of tile soil is covered to a depth that C laces it beyond the reach of sufficient eat to promote, more or less, its decomposition. Thus removed from its natural position it becomes inert, remaining chiefly In an unavailable condition till the new sod, in its turn, be treated to the same process and position, and Its consequences. We have seen that a large proportion of the best part of upland soils is buried when a pasture is for tbe first time plowed, the humus and other organic matter thus C lowed under being replaced by soil that i much inferior, both as to quantity and availability of its nutritive ingredients. This first error of breaking up established pastures leads to the seeming, but unreal, necessity of repeating the mistake nine times in every ten. The npper four inches of the surface of upland soils that have not been plowed probably contains seventy per cent, of the organic matter—with a sufficient portion of mineral elements besides—of all the organic in tbe first seven or eight inches. In this case—which appears sufficiently correct as to proportion—those who plow their upland pastures and meadows the flrstf time turn under more than double the amount of organic or fertile matter brought to the surface by their plowing. Before the young gross on the poor soli brought up by the first plowing will cany an average growth of stock it must have time to root and establish itself by the usual ramification of fibrous rootlets in the soil—that is, a large root growth already formed is put down to where it becomes almost inert, decaying very slowly in consequence of tne soil being too cool to promote rapid’decay, and which would be chiefly unavailable if it did decay. The new grass then has fifty per cent, less organic matter in its upper soil than the old sward had to feed upon in the original surface mold! Hence the necessity for heavy manuring is seen when reseeding after plowing under the very cream of the soil. It is also evident that new crops of grass sown in such conditions arc sustained chiefly by the manure and only to a lesser extent by the mold of the land. That the process should therefore have to be repeated can hardly be surprising, for we all know that the effects of manuring as ordinarily conducted are far from being permanent, that, in fact, they are usually of short duration. Add to this tbe loss of ten or twelve tons of green and dead or dying roots plowed under—a great weight of substance and quantity of organic matter already formed into root growth—and we have, as the result of plowing up established pasture sods— First—As much, and in most instances probably more, fertile substances plowed under than are added in the manure. Secondr— The destruction of sufficient root growth already made. Third —The cost of feeding stock while waiting for tbe young grass to establish its roots in the poorer soil. Fourth—The loss of time, labor and cost of grass seed involved in reseeding. Instead of which, draining if necessary, a little reseeding in places and a moderate manuring once a year for two or three years, as soon after mowing as practicable, would have saved much labor and produced more permanent and profitable results.—if. Y. Herald.

An Operation in Insurance.

A man in business here, who is somewhat noted for his care in driving a bargain, applied to one of our insurance offices to know the lowest rate at which they would insure SIOO worth of pitch for a month. It was well stored, and the underwriter mechanically replied: “ One per ceDt, Mr. Squeezer.” “ Isn’t that a little high, and could’nt you say three-quarters?” asked the applicant. “ No, sir! Good gracious! Why, ’tie only sl, and we won’t write a policy for less.” “ Very well, send it down to my store, and I’ll take it.” Down to Squeezer’s store went the policy by a cierk, one of the hottest days of the season, and the dollar was collected, but about two weeks afterward the old man come panting into the office quite anxious. “ See here, Mr. President, I’m afraid I shall have to have this policy altered. The insurance on the pitch is all right, but I wish you would cross out the words “ war or civil commotions.” “We cannot do that, Mr. Squeezer, we insure your property against the ordinary hazard of fire, not war or riot." “ Well, well,” said the old man, then I suppose you’ll refund the premium, and. I’ll return the policy.” “ You forgot, Mr. Squeezer, that you, have been insured for two weeks already.^ “Yes, yes; then gi’ me back haif tne premium, an’ cancel it.” Amused at this display of meanness, the official draw fifty cents from his pocket, which the old man seized with avidity, slapped dowp his poliev, and shufHed off with a chuckle, for lie had soil the pitch that morning. The office clerks who overheard the conversation have since been ciphering out the amount of profit accruing to the company by the transaction. —Boston Commercial Bulletin.

Fattening Animals.

A very common error among farmers, which needs correction, is the opinion that animals may be fattened in a few weeks, and fitted for market, by heavy feeding, or, as It is termed, by pushing. Many farmers do not think of beginning to fatten their hogs or cattle for early winter market until autumn has actually commenced. Their food is then suddenly changed, and they are dosed with large quantities of grain or meal. This sudden change often deranges the system, and it is frequently some time before they recover from if. From observation and inquiry we find that the most successful managers adopt a very different course. They feed moderately, with great regularity, and for a longer period. The most successful pork-raiser that we have met with commences the fattening of his swine for the winter market early in the preceding spring. In fact, he keeps his young swine in a good growing condition all through the winter. He begins moderately, and increases the amount gradually, never placing before the animal more than it will- freely eat. With this treatment, and strict attention to the comfort and cleanliness of the animal, his spring pigß at ten months usually exceed &#) pounds, and have sometraes gone as hlgjh as 460 pounds; and pigs Win-

ton’d over reach a weight of 500 or 600. The corn, which is ground or scalded be. fora feeding, nets him, on an average, not less than one dollar per bushel when the market price for pork is .five cento per pound. -Christian Union. —Zellao Wendomutli, one year and three montlis old, in Dorchester, Mass., died the other day from the effects of eating fly paper. The little one suffered about ten hours.

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‘ THE VIBRATOR” 1000 BQLD LAST SEASON WITHOUT on FAILURE OB BUMBO* This is the Cmdoos Threshing machine Out SM "swept the field ” and creeled such a revolution in the trade, hjr its match lt/s Gun-Sanso urn Tnradavixo principles. i THE ENORMOUS WASTAGE of grain, so MMhdsWtcith other ttgla ot Thresher*, can be SAVED by tMe< Improved Machine, on every Joh, to man Has pay all expenses of threshing. FLAX, TIMOTHY. MII-LET, HUNGARIAN and like seeds are thrashed, separated, cleaned and saved as easily and perfectly aa Whetd, Onto, Bye or Barfsy. AN EXTRA PRICE is wmßf paid for grain and IN THE WET GRAIN at 1875, three weraaat—nas Gaily the ONLY MACHINES that could nm with profit or economy, doing bat, thorough and perfted wrote tries ofhert utterlf faded. ALL GRAIN . TIME and MONEY wssting compHe*. tions, such aa “Endless Apron* " "Saddle*," “Beaten," “ Pickers," etc., are mtirOg dupemcti wiik; tew than one-half the usual Gears, Belts, Boxes, and Journal*.easier managed; more dnrable; light running; no costly repair* no dost; no“ litterings" to clean up; no* troubled by advene winds, rain or storms. > FARMERS and GRAIN BAKERS who row prntom. In the huge saving made by it will not employ info; rior and wasteful machines, bid win foW» this improved Thresher doing their wort BOMB SIZES made tar A AW and IStHorey fnwan. Aim a specialty of Betaaaroafo darinat and made expumly rum steam power. ~ • TWO STYLES OF HORSE POWERS, rtxj awrim proved “Triple Gear,” and our “Spur Speed" (Woodbury Style), both “Mounted "on/bar wbwfc. IF INTERESTED in Thrashing or Grain BaUag, , asasßggpsteaHf mcea, Nichols, Shepard <C Cb., A.B.E. ft 4, OYt—K,'~ ’ Whes wnrrao to aovbktism**.