The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-06

corn bread and griddle-cakes. We get up at
3, and Orange Zee aud go ont and do ''the
cbores"-in other words, attend to the stock,
draw water, and make Dollie's fire, chop
wood, etc. AT we breakfast aud at midday
we dine, and at six we have supper and do
our ''chores" again. The quantity of things
Dollie does by machinery is surprising. She
washes with - machine, aud she dries with
machine. and she sews with machine, aud
can knit a pair of stockings in half an hour
with machine, and makes butter with
machine, and pares apples with machine;
and she ''csns" tomatoes and sweet corn, and
preserves blackberries, and saves wood ashes,
and makes soap with 'lye" (Which is water
that has soaked through them), and
is perfect repository of domestic receipts;
and turns ont on Sunday to go to meeting
with big ''chignon" which she calls
waterfall, aud long train, as neatly
chduSee and gantee as if she lived on the
Boulevsrds instead of on Beaver Lake. How
she manages to effect these sudden aud entire
transformations is only one of the mysteries
which attach to Dollie, aud are q source of
perpetual wonder and admiration to Orange
Zee and myself. Then she takes in The Re0O-
luton, and seems to me to have more ad-
vanced opinions on "Womans Rights, than
Susan b. Anthony herself; aud she reads
Tie Radical regularly, and watches the
new development of the religious idea Of
times suspect she is secret contributor. 1
verify believe she is corresponding with those
two strong minded opponents of stringent
| ceremonial observa1ces, Olive Logan and
Eleanor Kirke on the marriage question; but
she does not at present admit either Orange
Zee myself into her reasons for always
going to the post office herself for her letters
We have perfect confidence in her, and are
waiting without alarm for the results. SO
| long she is the most efficient housewife in
| the county we have no ri Sht to complain; aud
| believe that it is when she is on her knees
scrubbrg the floor that her most brilliant in
| spirations come to her, and suggest those alb
struse problems of theology with which she
occasionally plies Elder Fisher, much to that
poor orthodox minister's embarrassment.
Notwithstanding all which there is not
Sunday. school teacher in the district (pro-
| nounced deestrict) more universally respected
and beloved; and no ''sewing bees" are SO
popular as those which our pretty little Mrs.
Dollie gives alternately with Orange Zee's
prayer meetings in the front parlor. Upon
these occasions the neighboring farmers wives
flock to the manufacture of our 'pants' and
| petticoats, and discuss the latest inventions
in sewing machines and theology over an
abundant supply of tea. Dollie is a specimen
| of a new type developed since the race was
transplanted to America, and is as peculiar to
the soil as are the beavers which used for
merly to inhabit our lake, and believe, not
| withstanding her regular attendance at Elder
Fishers, she is surely but silently sapping the
foundations of his theology in the minds of
large section OF his congregation. Like the
| beavers aforesaid, l sometimes think that
| Dollie acts entirely by instinct, and with
out any exercise Of the reasoning faculty
She always speaks under some strong, quick
impulse, which is irresistible to the listener.
A beaver is taught by intuition how to make
| Of hio tntl. oh nk
tuition teach woman how to use her tongue?
The fact that it has never done so yet does
not cause me to despair. Since have known
| Dollie have become sanguine. Orange Zee
and both feel that she is rapidly developing
us into something, but we don't yet know
into what. Time will show.
Meantime, like Dollie, we do as much farm
work as we can by machinery too. We have
a moving machine and reaping- machine.
In the hot haying-time we NOV before break
fast, and rake and cure our hay with horse
rakes and tedders, and load it by patent
process on to our wagon, and get our bright
"Iimothy" into our barn with another patent
thing like harpoon, the same afternoon.
| Think of that, you poor befogged farmers of
the old country The amount of hay that
we two can cut, cure, and NOW away in one
day, is 30 great that / shall not mention it,
lest you should imagine that had been born
as we'll as naturalized in America. We never
stack it outside, and have hay-press of our
| own, which we work, as we do most
things, by horsepower, and press
for our neighbors as we'll. We have horse
power threshing- machine also, with which we
thresh our neighbors' grain at from four to
eight cents bushel, and make a good thing
of it; and by killing all our calves two days
after they are born, and sending all our milk
to the cheese factory, we are able to contri-
butte to the large cargoes of cheeses which
annually cross the Atlantic for consumption
in the British Isles. What old fogies you
British farmers are not to kill your calves,
and SO save the milk
Then Orange Zee can do almost
anything he wants with plough
and team; he has surface-drained all our farm
with open bitches three feet deep with the
plough alone. AS for me, all my most bril-
liant inspirations in regard to agriculture
have been suggested by the remarkable farm
ing experiences published by Mr.. Horace
Greeley in the columns of the Tribune.
believe, in spite of Orange Zee's knowledge
we should have been repeatedly ruined had
it not been for the original ideas we derived
from the lucubrations of that truly great man
Indeed, as can't be of much assistance to
Orange Zee by my practical knowledge, en-
deavOr to make up for it theoretically by
studying the rural NeU Yorker, the Country
Gentleman, and other agricultural
journals. Had / been allowed to
have my own way, should have invested
in variety of advantageous patents, and
entered upon a large scale upon experiments
with all the numerous varieties of oats, po-
tatoes, tomatoes, and other produce which
are warranted to make the fortunes of farmers