OCT. 23. 



MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 



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PEESEVEBAHCE 



Hi who would accomplish anything in this 

 world mast sot fluid gazing idly open 

 circumstances, with the vain hope of equating 

 nice chances; bot with raolut* **Tgy. «nd the 

 most vuluntiailr perseverance, press boldly 



This li an age In which the sluggard need 

 think of coping with bfm who U active and wide 

 awake, much leas to aspire to arr 

 and fame. Bow man; men have started in life 

 with the molt flattering proapeote of success, and 

 because of a tow dark clouda of opposing 

 element* floating ominously across the horizon of 

 their career, havo sunk down faint-hearted into a 

 grave of hopeless obscurity! Many an aspiring 

 youth haa had his brightest anticipations shivered, 

 because the bark of bis hopes sprung a leak on 

 the oat jottings rocks of opposition; whereas, if 

 he bad repaired the breach and sailed perseverlng- 

 ly onward, he wonld soon have left all obstacles 

 behind, his coarse wonld have been unimpeded by 

 the fierce blasts of envy, and be might have 



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siTull of fame, und have left a be'ter memorial of 

 bis existence behind than the simple elab which 

 murks his grave. 



I^et pavmnsicn then, te the waichward of every 

 true progressionist, and like the nerot-a of the past 



WILL CLEBKS MAKE FABMERS? 



BigflBH Fi.a. :— In ibe Iipnat. of Sept. 18tb,~I 

 notice a communication from "J. W." Be goes 

 off In a wratby wanner, makes strong assertions, 

 bat does not advance a Blngle proof. Every per- 

 BOB UflntlUvd to bis or her opinion, hut bflore 

 tin ■)- aH-iujit to pats them off on community as 

 facta, they should present proofs. In regard to the 

 ■ l"i r. Bit l.ty clerks" being unfit for the West, I 

 will say, in my opinion, tbere Is no better place for 



I propose to give yon my experience. The 

 i m c<f my life haa been spent fn the 

 city, both n* ft student and clerk, and I can cay, In 

 truth, thai I never enjoyed a month of good health 

 i Dgftged. The rose-tint of health found 

 no plaoe DpOD to) cheek. Through Ibe advice of 

 friends I was Induced, In 185G, 1o quit the city and 

 try country life. I will admit plowing.harrowing, 

 Ac , went rather bard with mo at first, but by per- 

 severance 1 was soon enabled to take the place of 

 of a band. For two years 1 have enjoyed good 

 health; In fact, I have not been slok a day for more 

 than two years. " J. W." may ridicule tbe Idea ae 

 mnoh as be like?, bot I can prove, upon good au- 

 thority, what I have stated to be true. 





THE FLRST TWENTY YEARS. 



"Lira long aa you may, the first twenty years 

 irm the greater part of yoor life. They appear ao 

 bile they are passing; they seem to have been 

 j when we look back to them, and they take up 

 lore room in onr memory than all the years that 



If this be eo, how important that they shonld be 

 i planting g«od principles, cultivating 

 good tastes, strengthi ning good habits, and fleeing 

 all those pleasures which lay up bitterness and 

 sorrow for lime to come. Many of the youth of 

 this country take no heed of tbe present moment; 

 they let the time piss unnoticed and unimproved. 

 Tbetr only care is to seek present pleasure and 

 amusement. No thought is given to the atern ne- 

 critics of manhood and old age. Pleasure is 

 their hearl'a desire, nnd pleasure will finally be tbe 

 cause of their future sorrow. No exertion 1b made 

 for tbe rapid Improvement of tbe mind, aa they sup- 

 pose there Is time enough at a future day, bot they 

 will And It tho contrary. Take good care of the 

 first twenty yeara of your life and you may hope 

 that the last twenty will take care of you. 



GLASS-ITS USES 



Tub cheapness of glass, fur common 01 •■. t hlOD 

 cheapness is tbe result of chemical discovery, has 

 of late years sot the ingenuity of man to work to 

 gi?o greater beauty to glass as an article of luxu- 

 ry. The employment of sharp grinding wheels, 

 put in motion by a treadle, and used In conjunc- 

 tion with a very alee baud, produces cut glass; 

 and tbe latter is now comparatively BO cheap that 

 scarcely a family Is without some beautiful article 

 of thla manufacture. Ordinary drinking glasses, 

 lamps, Ac, aro made In imitation of cut glass, by 

 sol jecting a portion of the melted glass to pres- 

 sure In a mould ; in this manner articles of great 

 beauty, but of a less cost, closely resembling 

 glass, are made In groat quantity. The reduction 

 of the cost of the manufacture of glass has also 

 had tbe effect of improving the architect!; 

 our bouses to a very great degree. Wo bavi 

 plate glass of the largest dimensions, giving light 

 and beauty to onr shops; and sheet glass, nearly 

 aa effective si plate, adorning our private dwel- 

 lings. Sheet glass. In the making of which an 

 amount of Ingenuity Is exercised which would 

 bave been thought impossible in the early stages 

 of glass making, U dolcg for the ordinary pur- 

 pose* of building what p i» w gi^ did formerly 

 for the rich. A portion of melted glass, weigh- 

 ing twelve or fourteen pound*, ^ t, T , ae exercise 

 ol this skill, converted into a ball, ftD1 i a> ta iuto « 

 ts Under, and then Into a flat piste. 



To Mam a Bark Canoe.— Some time afnee five, 

 young readers of the Rritu. who were about to 

 ■j>end a few weeks in the country, on the bank* tJ \ 

 a beantlful liver, wrote us to know bow to make i 

 birch bark canoe. As we bad never made a canoe 

 aioce a long time ago, when we floated our ttoj 

 birquM with paper sail*, we wrote to a friend who 

 *" knew to be as adept at making and managing 

 canoes, and other water craft, — one who delights 

 to uih and hunt, and who declares bo would have 

 made an excellent Indian. For some unexplained 

 cauie we have failed to receive a response, so 

 we place the question be/ore our readers. Who 

 can tell ua how u> make a birch bark canoe! 



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