344 A furnace is in glowing heat Bold Jonathan, hold your own; Twelve-fold his size has grown. Hurrah! hurrah! for Jonathan Maize, Pureness and beauty burst to sight; All honored now is Jonathan Maize- With skilful sweetness planned. Then in a box that's clean and white, Upon my word, if you would bite, LAURA ELMER, in Merry's Museum. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. RHUBARB WINE, JULY To every five pounds of rhubarb stalk, when sliced and bruised, put a gallon of cold spring water; let it stand three days in a tub, stirring it twice every day; and then press and strain it through a sieve, and to every gallon of the liquor put three pounds of loaf-sugar; put it in a barrel, and hang some isinglass within the barrel, and bung it up directly. In six months, it will be ready to bottle. Currant juice to color, if you like. Take six pounds of rhubarb, and cut it into half-inch pieces, put it into a pot, add one gallon of cold water, and let it stand three weeks, stirring it every day; then strain out the rhubarb, put the liquor into the pot again, and add three pounds of sugar to every gallon of the liquor; let it stand three weeks longer; then strain it through a flannel bag, put it into a keg or stone bottles, and add a little isinglass to clear it. It will be ready for use in three or four months. Take four and a half pounds of rhubarb, bruise it in a tub with a mallet till quite soft; add one gallon of cold water, and let it stand three or four days; stir it frequently; strain it off through a wort sieve, and press the juice out; then measure the liquor; to every gallon, put three and a half pounds of moist sugar; let it stand a day or two, that all the sugar may dissolve; put it into the cask; do not stop it up close for a week; leave the top cork out; when put into the cask, add two or three ounces of isinglass; stir it well together, and in two months rack it, and run it through a flannel bag; then put it into the cask again, with a little more isinglass, if required. To ten gallons of wine, add six pounds of chopped raisins; the isinglass should be dissolved, and whisked to a froth; add what quantity of brandy you think right.-Godey's Lady's Book for June. HOW TO COOK RHUBARB OR PIE PLANT.-Get the Linnæus rhubarb. It is larger, more tender To every gallon of water, add five pounds of rhubarb cut in thin slices; let it stand nine days,| stirring it three times a day; cover the pan containing it with a coarse cloth; strain it; to every and better flavored than any other, requires less gallon of the liquor, add four pounds of loaf-su-sugar by one-fourth, and has no skin to be taken gar, the juice of two lemons, and the rind of one; dissolve one ounce of isinglass (to fine it) in a off. Do not attempt to peel it, but cut in pieces pint of the liquor over a slow fire, then add it, them with your sugar in an earthen dish without as long as the thickness of the stalk, and put when cold, to the rest; when fermentation has water; cover it to retain the flavor, and place it ceased, bung it close, and bottle it in March. A few raisins improve it. The lemon rind should stirring or breaking the pieces. If too much in an oven and cook till quite tender without not remain in after fermentation has ceased. cooked it assumes a disgusting stringy appearCut the rhubarb into rather thin slices; squeeze ance, and loses all fruity character. The rosy through a sieve to extract the juice; this being color of the stalks will give your dish an attrac done, mix with it as much sugar as will suit the tive appearance, and the dyspeptic will find in it taste, and some water, after which it must sim- a powerful aid to digestion. mer on the fire for an hour or two; then put as much yeast as will cause it to ferment; put it into a cask for three weeks; draw through a tap; mother! what a beautiful, comprehensive word THE MISTRESS OF A FAMILY.-The housebottle. It will be good at the time, if properly it is! how suggestive of all that is wise and kindfermented, but, if allowed to stand a year, would ly, comfortable and good! Surely, whether the be perfect. Seven pounds of rhubarb to be bruised in a tions of wifehood and motherhood, or as the lot comes to her naturally, in the happy gradamortar ; and, when bruised, put to it three quarts maiden-mistress of an adopted family, or-as of water; let the water be boiled, and stand until one could find many instances, in this our modcold; stir them every day for five days; then ern England-when the possession of a large add three and a half pounds of coarse sugar; fortune, received or earned, gives ner, with all then put it into a bottle or cask, and in three the cares and duties, many of the advantages of months add a quarter of a pint of the best bran-matronhood-every such woman must acknowl dy, and in six months bottle it for use. Twenty edge that it is a solemn as well as a happy thing pounds of rhubarb, twelve pounds of sugar and to be the mistress of a family.-A Woman's eight quarts of water will make three gallons. Thoughts about Women. VOL. X. JOEL NOURSE, PROPRIETOR. BOSTON, AUGUST, 1858. SIMON BROWN, EDITOR. CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. MICHAEL BRUCE. NO. 8. FRED'K HOLBROOK, AssOCIATE fancy itself young, because it does not begin to feel itself getting old. And perhaps there is no period like this for encouraging and bringing to perfection that habit of tranquil enjoyment in which all true happiness must mainly consist; with pleasure it has, indeed, little to do; but with happiness it is every thing." Hay making is now nearly completed, or, at least, the principal part of it is done, and a genHOT, dusty, dog-day erous crop has been gathered in. The copious Month is AUGUST rains of June overflowed the low meadows, and -when the wise in some places, the water stood upon them so denizens of the ci- long as greatly to injure the growing crop, and ty fly to the cool make it somewhat later than usual. But a few retreats of the good days in August will see these meadows country, to enjoy cleared off. their dolce far ni- Our farmers are learning to value this deente there, or those scription of hay less and less, and to depend who love show and more upon the clover, red-top and timothy. excitement tor- There are many acres of wet meadow in New ment themselves England that ought to yield better hay than they in stifled rooms, do. They need to be drained, that the surface preyed upon by water may run off early, and not stand upon musquitoes and other night- them long enough to kill out the sweet grasses, walkers, and the scarcely and now is the time to do it. There is a little less remorseless customs of respite between hay-making and harvesting, and popular watering-places! What is every farmer who has a piece of meadow that may Saratoga water or Sulphur water be improved by ditching, especially if it is near to the sweet breath of cows, and zephyrs, and his dwelling, should embrace the present time to the bleating of lambs or the chirping of crickets begin it, at least. For this, we might suggest in the fresh and cool and invigorating country several reasons. The present is usually the dryest season of the year, and of course is the most air? A feeling and accomplished writer in the Edin- convenient time for such work. As we have alburgh Review, many years ago, said, "The Year ready said, the farm work does not crowd as hard has now reached the parallel to that brief, but as it did in haytime, or as it will in harvesting, perhaps best period of human life, when the prom- and thirdly, you need a pile of meadow muck for ises of youth are either fulfilled or forgotten, and the barn-yard, the hog-sty, and barn-cellar, and the fears and forethoughts connected with de- by ditching where this material abounds you cline have not yet grown strong enough to make will "kill two birds with one stone." themselves felt; and consequently when we have Throw the mud into heaps, and when the nothing to do but look around us and be happy. ground is frozen, it will be ready to haul off. Put It has, indeed, like a man at forty, turned the cor- it into convenient piles near the barn, and let ner of its existence; but, like him, it may still the frosts of winter pulverize it, and after you have carried out the manure in the spring, you portance of keeping a watchful eye upon the will know what use to make of it. You cannot weeds. This matter is no less important this spend a few days, at this time, more profitably in month, for now the weeds are maturing their any other way, than in ditching and reclaiming. seeds, and if you let them ripen, they will make AUGUST is the time for plowing and seeding much work for next year. down such mowing lands as need re-seeding. The hoeing is now generally finished, but if That is, if the work is done in this month, the the ground is weedy, it will pay well to go through grass will gain such growth and strength as the field, row by row, and pull out with care all to go through the winter with more safety than the weeds that have escaped the hoe. Make if postponed to a later day,—it will not be so thorough work of this, and it will save a deal of likely to get winter-killed. From the 10th of vexatious labor next year. August to September 20, is appropriate time for We have a friend who takes the utmost care of this work. There can be no doubt that this is the his garden in the early part of the season. He best way to resuscitate worn-out grass lands. rakes it over as often as twice a week, and not a But it is important that it be done in season. weed can be found in it during the month of The warmth of AUGUST will cause the seed to June. But after he has got his first mess of pogerminate, and get a good start, and be pre- tatoes, which he usually does on the Fourth of pared to resist the frosts of autumn. By this July, he gets tired of the work, and hangs up his mode of reseeding, nothing is lost but the fall hoe and rake, and in September his ground is feed, and on land where the crop of grass is covered with weeds which yield a fine crop of small, this is of little value. seed, and of course, he will find enough to do Plow to a good depth, according to the nature next spring, and indeed, every spring, as long as of the land, and spread on a liberal dressing of he lives, if he continues the same course. Now compost, and harrow thoroughly. Then sow the if he would take as much pride in showing a clean seed and harrow again, and follow with the roller, surface among his plants in AUGUST and SEPleaving the surface as smooth as a floor. If the TEMBER, as he does in JUNE, he would find the ground is wet, and the surface should be thrown labor of tending his garden grow less and less by the frost of the coming winter, pass over it every year. He is not the only one who needs a with the roller again in the spring. This will little good advice in this respect. There are many leave it in good condition for the mowing ma- gardens that look well in the spring and early chine. The compost will give the grass an early summer, but in autumn are like the garden of start in the spring, and the roots will soon find the sluggard, all overgrown with weeds. This is the mellow, decaying sod, and you will have a poor economy. It will be cheaper in the long run full crop of grass the next season. It will be to pull out every weed that shows itself, not only a week later than the crop on fields that have in the spring, but in the summer and autumn. been laid down two or three years, but quite This will leave the ground in a state to be much equal in quantity and quality. A good soil, more easily taken care of next year. And even moderately moist, may be plowed and re-seeded if the ground is to be seeded down next year, it in this way, once in six or eight years, and made will pay well to keep it free from weeds, in order to yield steadily a fine crop of hay, of the very to prevent a mixture of weeds with the grain best quality, at a trifling expense. crop. We have long been convinced that this is the The farmer always has enough to do. He can best way of treating grass lands, that are rather never afford to be idle. But it is a matter of low and moist. If they are planted with hoed much importance that he be employed in labors crops, it takes about three years to get the sod appropriate to the season. As he cannot do every well rotted and pulverized. They are cold, and thing at once, he must use his best judgment in cannot always be planted early, and are hard to selecting the proper labor for to-day. Let him work, and the crops are apt to be injured by the do this well, and to-morrow will bring its approcut worm, and require re-planting, and if after priate work. Thus every day will be spent to the two or three years of cultivation, they are sowed best advantage, and at the close of the season, he down with grass and oats, the grass-seed is much will not have to lament his "lost days." less certain to catch well, so that on the whole, we consider fall-seeding, as it is called, much the most certain and economical way of keeping grass lands in good condition. But as we have aiready said, success will depend very much on doing the work at the right time,—and now is a good time to be about it. In June, and also in July, we hinted at the im DRUGGING ANIMALS.-Continual dosing aniis constant swallowing drugs and poisonous mals is just as useless and injurious to them, as compounds to the human system. It is all folly to allow your stables to become hospitals, and to smell and appear like an apothecary's shop. It is much more humane to shoot a horse, or knock an animal in the head at once, than to force kind and docile, but at the same time high-spirdown its throat doses of drugs whose quality or ited, as to be perfectly manageable in any hands action you know little about, having the effect to and every kind of carriage; and until of late create disease when it did not exist, and prolong years has not required urging by the whip. suffering much beyond the time in which nature would herself effect a cure.-American Agriculturist. For the New England Farmer. A HORSE WORTH OWNING. "Old White," in her best estate, weighed only about eight hundred and fifty pounds, and recently at her present advanced age, drew a load from Essex, over a very hilly road, weighing twenty-three hundred pounds. In regard to keeping, she has had but little grain, and other food not extra in quality; and notwithstanding MR. EDITOR:-The following is a biographical her constant labor, has kept herself looking well. sketch of one of the most noble specimens of the One thing in the history of "Old White" is horse species; and appreciating the design and worthy of special notice, that for many years past usefulness which this superior animal, the horse, she has been a faithful and trustworthy servant subserves to the service and pleasure of the to convey a venerable lady now ninety-five years "Lords of Creation," the writer would heartily old, a connection of the family in which she is concur with the views of others, and commend owned, to Ipswich and back again, this aged lady their laudable efforts to improve the condition, having in both towns sons and daughters with not only in enacting laws against inhuman and whom she resides alternately. brutal treatment, but in personal care and proper Her owner thought a few years since in the attention to the keeping, driving and health of fall that he would kill her, thinking she might this noblest of all beasts. fail during the winter, rather than let her be sold, "Old White," as she is called, was first owned subject to fall into hands which might abuse her, in this town by Capt. Joshua Dodge, Mr. Dodge but though she shows some signs of declining having purchased her of a horse-dealer at Lynn. years, she still survives, and it is not impossiOf her birth-place, sireship and previous history ble that she will live to bless the next generation we have not yet learned anything, except that with her valuable service. Z. A. APPLETON. she probably passed through the hands of several owners; and it appears that up to that time, her merits were not fully discovered, as she was bought by Mr. Dodge for only fifty dollars, though then with foal. She served her owner on a farm to his highest satisfaction, till her colt was old enough and broken to work, when she was supposed to be eighteen years old, and Mr. Dodge not having use for more than one horse, sold her for fifty dollars, to Capt. George Appleton, of this town, her present owner, (and by the way, we might suppose that "Old White" must be thoroughly disciplined, as she had been under two captains, covering a period of seventeen years of her existence!) Capt. Appleton has owned her upwards of fourteen years, and her present age must, of course, exceed thirty-two years. During the time owned by Capt. Appleton, she had been put to most every use in which HOW TO PROTECT SHEEP FROM THE RAVAany horse is capable of service; and was able to GES OF THE CANINE SPECIES.-"A subscriber," perform as much labor in a given time. She whose sheep-fold has been often visited by would endure fatigue and exposure without dis- prowling dogs, wishes to know how he can proqualifying her for actual and constant work. tect his flock. With pleasure we give the following prescription: Hamilton, Mass., June, 1858. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. The darkest wave hath bright foam near it, The gloomiest soul is not all gloom, The saddest heart is not all sadness; And sweetly o'er the darkest doom, There shines some lingering beam of gladness. Nor life nor death the future closes; Will Hope and Fancy twine their roses. Beef Steak.. MRS. HEMANS. 16 ounces. ..4 scruples DIRECTIONS.-Divide the beef-steak or tit-bit Even at the age of twenty and upwards, she was quite distinguished for speed; and in many instances has proved more than a match for quite smart horses. She has drawn loads of hay of twenty and twenty-five hundred weight to Sa- into sixteen parts; take a sharp knife and make lem, a distance of nine miles, without difficulty, an incision into each one of them, and insert onenot excepting even the steep and difficult hills sixteenth of the above quantity (which should be on this route; and has been used in carrying five grains,) drop a few of these medicated "titthe mail to the depot, Capt. Appleton being bits" around your sheep preserves, and have a postmaster, performing this once a day most of few in your coat pocket, so that when you come the time, Sundays excepted, for the past ten or across an ugly cuss of a dog-a perfect Nena Satwelve years, and has probably by private car-hib-just come the "Rarey" over him-make his riage, carried five thousand to six thousand per- acquaintance, coax him to stay by long enough, while you draw forth just one morsel. In the Persons of all ages, from the boy of seven to name of mutton let the medicine be given.the adult of four-score years, have driven her to Dadd's Veterinary Journal. sons to the cars. different places, either fast or slow, as desirable, and might leave her at any place without tying. When turned out to pasture or into the highway, When corn costs 50 cents per bushel, pork ene might be bridled by a mere child, and is so costs 5 cents per pound. For the New England Farmer. STEAMSHIP EURopa, at Sea, pression like a man of thought and determination, with a quizzical twinkle of his gray eye, which made me doubt from the first, whether he was not enjoying the jokes which others were MY DEAR BROWN:-After four months' ab- putting upon him full as much as they. He had sence from home, once more I am upon the sea, a strong accent, not exactly Irish or English, but looking homeward, anxiously anxiously, with as he soon mentioned that he was from Leeds in some two hundred others, many of whom, like England, we all took him for a true Yorkshiremyself, have been wanderers for a long season, man, a race whose dialect is as strongly marked and are now hoping soon to meet the "old famil- as any in England. Our Waterford man soon iar faces" of friends and kindred in America. If commenced his attack on Yorkshire, which our one would learn to value the peace and comforts man of Leeds defended in a quiet, moderate way, of a New England home, let him leave it for a showing very little feeling, but pretending all single season. If one would remove from his the time to be an Englishman. "The Yorkshire mind any lingering doubt he may entertain, that people," said the Waterford man, "are a hundred our own is the best land which the sun in all his years behind the South of Ireland, in civilizacourse looks down upon, let him wander over the tion; really they are in a very degraded condi best countries of Europe, and he will doubt no tion; you may take one hundred of them at ranlonger. But I sat down, amid the rolling of the dom," said he, "and you will find ninety of the ship, the Babel of tongues in conversation about hundred cannot read or write. In short, sir, me, the playing with cards, of chess and back- they are very nearly cannibals." "Do you know," gammon, the crying of children and the rumbling said he to me, "sir, that the Yorkshire men alof the padde wheels, to endeavor to make some ways bite off each other's noses when they get inuse of the twelve days usually occupied in the to a fight?" An English soldier who sat in a corpassage. ner, undertook to take up the defence of York The attempt to write under such circumstances, shire; everybody else put in a word, and I really is indeed an illustration of the pursuit of learn- thought we should soon be in a general fight. ing under difficulties, but the consciousness that We all expected to hear the Leeds man burst out on my arrival home, other duties will fill my in great wrath upon the Scot, but he sat unmoved, time, has induced me to attempt to write into till everybody else had said his say, when he looked publishable shape some of the notes of my travel up with a quiet smile and remarked, "Well, my since I wrote you at Waterford in Ireland. friends, if we are not very rich, surely we are all At about noon on the 21st of August I took very cheerful." This cool remark at once rethe train at Waterford for Dublin, in a second stored good humor, but the Scot had got a new class car, in which were about two dozen men, idea. "You are not an Englishman," said he to principally Scotch and Irish, and a single mo- the man of Leeds, "you are an Irishman by birth, ment was enough to convince me that the man- though you dress like a Yorkshireman." "I did ners and habits of England had not followed me not say I was a Yorkshireman," quietly rejoined across the channel. The fashion in England is the other; "it was your own opinion you were actfor each passenger to get snugly into his own ing upon, and I'll not contradict ye if ye abuse corner, to draw his head as far as possible into the English to your full content." his shell, and to neither say, hear nor see any- I kept along with the Leeds man to Dublin, body nor anything on the passage, although I and found him an intelligent and useful companhave usually found that a little Yankee inquisi- ion. He proved to be Mr. John Boyle, a man tiveness would soon draw John Bull out into well known in the agricultural world for his zeal something like sociability. But here, every man and knowledge about the culture of flax. I unwas wide awake, and ready for a part in any con- derstood that he was hired by a Yorkshire Comversation that might be introduced. On my left pany to leave his home in Ireland and go to sat a Waterford ship-builder, a shrewd and intel- Leeds to instruct the Yorkshire people in the flax ligent Scotchman, full of mischief and fun. culture. He gave me a pamphlet entitled "An On my right was a personage, who is worth Essay on the Growth and Management of Flax," knowing, and who continued with me some days, which may, at a convenient time, be well worth and is worth a brief description. His dress was publication in the Farmer. Before reaching that of a Yorkshire farmer, which, as may be Dublin, Mr. Boyle and I had struck up quite seen, would attract some attention in a New Eng-a pleasant acquaintance, and arranged to pass land village, though not uncommon in several the next day together in Dublin and vicinity, districts in England. He is a large, tall man of with which he seemed quite familiar. sixty or more, of about two hundred pounds We took an Irish jaunting car, in the afterweight, with a large head, a quiet, substantial ex-noon, and rode over the city, visited the Phoenix |