MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
“ Look to the end, noratand to doubt, 
Nothing 80 hard but search will find it out.” 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
RURAL RHAPSODIES 
For the New-Yorker. 
ENIGMA ON INDIAN NAMES. 
BY WILL WICKLIFFE, 
SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS. 
A joyous mom hath dawned: the thril¬ 
ling voices of nature have spoken and sang 
to us with that melody that inspires high 
hopes and leads us to extend the right hand 
of fellowship to those around us, and recog¬ 
nise them as brothers. But a change has 
worked into our day-dreama The clear 
blue sky is thickly veiled, and the great orb 
of day hath drawn back each little my of 
light and heat that contributed its mite to¬ 
ward fulfilling the dictates of an //* mighty 
Power. The gloomy night-storm is here, 
and hath brought with it gloomy thoughts. 
The mind wanders fiir, far away, and the 
forms of loved ones, absent, appear in all 
of their manly beauty, into ideal presence. 
Where can they be, and how are they situ¬ 
ated this day! this hour! this minute!— 
Recollections of happy hours forever gone, 
rush back upon the memory—reminding us 
that orir lives, borne upon the wings of 
time, are being carried swiftly away from 
our earth-home, to be launched upon a sea 
of impenetrable mystery. Perhaps the dear 
friend that squeezed the hand almost con¬ 
vulsively and whispered farewell, only a few 
short months ago, now lies famishing upon 
the arid pkiin that was leading him toward 
Mammon’s shrine, reared amid the western 
hills, behind which sinks to rest the wearied 
sun. Aye, could it be ? perhaps lies mould¬ 
ering beneath the golden sands that allured 
him from a happy home to seek treasure in 
a foreign land. Gold, gold, thou bluntest 
the affections and causeth the world to go 
mad! 
Good-bye has been uttered from the full¬ 
ness of the heart to the many endeared, 
that are scattered to nearly sill parts of the 
world. Some of these have gone down to 
the narrow charnel-house, to rest in peace 
from the cares and toils which we are still 
striving to bear up against Others have 
wandered beyond the precincts of our knowl¬ 
edge, and the soft breathings of confidence 
to which we used to listen so fondly, may 
have been hushed in the silence of death. 
Stillness reigns around, its echo reverbe¬ 
rates into mine ear. Nature has become in- 
I am compoaed of 19 lettera. 
My 2, 11, 17, C wag the Indian name of the Grover- 
nor of Penn«ylvani.a, in 1742. 
My 3, 17, 14, 17, 19, 6, 17, 7, 12, 8, 15, 13 was a 
celebrated Chief of the Six Nations. 
My 4, 10, 9, 2,11 ia one of the three primitive lan¬ 
guages spoken by the North American Indians. 
My 5, 7, 13, 4 is an Indian name for wood. 
My 6, 8, 11, 5, 3, 17, 19 was a prowerfui and war¬ 
like tribe of Indians. 
My 7, 2, 14, 15, 10, 6, 12 is a tribe who once inhab¬ 
ited the north-eastern parts of Asia. 
My 11, 12, 2, 4 is an Indian name given to God. 
Mv 13, 7, 7, 5, 16, 6 is the name of a tribe of Indi¬ 
ans in the west. 
My 14, 2, 11, 6, 17, 4 is an Indian name for FatJier. 
My 15, 16, 8, 17, 7, 4. 17, 16, 5 is another Indian 
name for the Almighty. 
My 17, 6, 19, 17, 16, 17, 15, 2, 17 was the Indmn 
name given to the Governor of New York, 
the year 1744. 
My 18, 17, 3, 17 ia an Indian name for part of the 
face. 
My 19, 5, 6, 17, 4 is an Indian name for Brother. 
My whole is the title of an Association in Roch¬ 
ester. c. T. w. 
2;^” Answer in two weeks. 
ARITHMEnCAL PROBLEM. 
Suppose a doe, on the day she was 2 years old, 
would have a fawn, and on the day she was 3 years 
old, another; and so on every year, until she would 
be 20 years old; and also her fawns, and their fawns, 
her whole progeny—supposing them to be all fe¬ 
male,—would have fawns on the day they were two 
years old, and one every year from that, until the 
time the old doe would be 20 years old. Now, how 
many head of deer would there be,—the old doe 
and her progeny,—when the old doe would be 20 
years and one day old? 
[Jj^Answer in two weeks. 
CHARADE 
My First is distilled from the flowers of spring, 
My Second’s the name of a changeable thing; 
My whole is a season that’s commonly reckoned. 
To taste like my First, and to change like ray Second. 
{LJ* Answer in two weeks. 
ARITHMETICAL QUESTION. 
As I was beating on the forest grounds, 
Up starts a hare before my two grey hounds; 
The dogs, being light of foot, did fairly run 
Unto her fifteen rods just twenty-one. 
The distance that she started up before 
Was fourscore sixteen rods just and no more: 
Now this I’d have you unto me declare, 
How far they ran before they caught the hare, 
jy Answer in two weeks. 
IMPORTANCE OF ACCURACY. 
Wb have more than once alluded to the 
desirableness of precision in the use of 
terms, and the formation of a habit of ac¬ 
curacy in tlie recitatio^ and exercises of 
school. The following amusing illustrations 
collected from various sources may aid 
teachers in impres.sing its importance upon 
their scholars, and in exhibiting the effects 
of a want of accuracy: 
“A man is said to have sent a friend in 
the East Indies a request in the following- 
form: ‘I wish you to send me loo mon¬ 
keys,’ &c., to which wfis returned the follow¬ 
ing reply: ‘ We have received your order 
for 100 monkeys. We have found it im¬ 
possible to procure so large a number; w'e 
send 80 and will forward the other 20 as 
soon as they can be procured.’ Thus for 
his ignorance of the spelling of the word 
two, and his failure to cross the t, he had to 
pay a bill of several hundred dollars, and 
what wfis equally vexing, he never heard 
the last of his monkey speculation.” 
“ An English gentleman applied to the 
East India Company for an office for a friend 
of his in India, and succeeded in obtaining 
an appointment, Ilis friend wrote him a 
letter of thanks and signified his intention 
to send him an equivalent. The English 
gentleman could make nothing of the word 
but elephant, and being pleased with the 
idea of possessing so noble an animal, ho 
was at the expense of erecting a building 
for his accommodation. In a few weeks the 
equivalent came, which was nothing more 
nor less than a pot of sweet-meats.” 
“ A clergyman in Massachusetts, more 
than a century' since, addressed a letter to 
the legislature on some subject of interest 
which w.'us under discussion. The clerk 
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, (Sic., IN NO. 15. 
Answer to Enigma ;—" Romi;, the mistress of the 
world.” 
Answer to Charade: —Mary. 
SMALL GAINS. 
monds. Such people always wait in vain, 
and at last die poor. The best way is to 
gain property by degrees. If you can save 
but a dollar a week above all your expenses, 
it is better than nothing. If you do as 
much now, more you will do by and by.— 
We have known men and women to grow 
rich by rebiiling goods by the cent’s worth. 
Our eye is on several at this moment, who 
are really independent who perhaps never 
in their lives sold to one person at a time 
goods to the value of fifty cents, yet they 
“ The night is mother of the day, 
The winter of the spring. 
And ever upon old decay, 
The greenest mosses cling. 
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, 
Through showers the sunbeams fall. 
For God, who loveth all his works, 
ILis left his hopes with all.” 
Glen Cole, April, 1850. 
KEEP COOL. 
a cargo of corn. A bushel of peaches re¬ 
tailed may be more profitable than a thou¬ 
sand barrels of flour. light gains make 
heavy purses. Despise not these small prof¬ 
its. Expect not—desire not to be made 
rich in a day. Accumulate by degrees, a 
cent at a time, and it will do you more good 
and make you happier than ocean of dollars. 
Mark all our rich men, and with but few 
exceptions, you will find they all accumula¬ 
ted property by little and little. If you des¬ 
pise small gains, we are sure you will al¬ 
ways be poor. 
A Generation. —A generation is the in¬ 
terval of time elapsed between the birth of 
a father and the birth of his son, and was 
generally used in computing considerable 
periods of time both in sacred and profane 
liistory. The interval of a generation is 
consequently of uncertain length, and de¬ 
pends on the standard of human life, and 
whether the generations are recorded by 
eldest, middle, or younger sons. Thirty- 
three years have usually been allowed as 
the mean length of a generation, or three 
generations for every 100 years. 
When thou has a hard task, upon timely 
accomplishment of which much is depend¬ 
ing, then keep cool! Otherwise, the ener¬ 
gy which it demands, being expended up¬ 
on thy passion, thou shalt fail of success. 
When circumstances seem to thy short 
sight to combine for thy vexation, and thou 
art met by untowardness at every turn, 
then keep cool! To lose thy self-possession 
then, will be a circumstance more to be de¬ 
plored, than all those which would steal it 
from thee. 
When thou art brought face to face with 
a man, who, in utter disregard to our mot¬ 
to, has lost his temper, and who, in the 
heat of his excitement, charges thee strange¬ 
ly and falsely, then say in thy heart, “Friend 
thou art beside thyself,” and keep cool .— 
Only control tliyself, and thou shMl not fail 
to conquer him. Unles.s his spirit excite 
yours it will soon be subdued by it Stand 
coolly—wait patiently, and thou shalt tame 
a “Nemean lion,” or an “ Erymanthean 
boar.” Keep cool, and thy fellow will be¬ 
come so. And when this is done, perform 
thy message—speak thy heart, thy ser- 
No man who improves his leisure hours 
in useful reading and study, can fail of be¬ 
coming distinguished and useful in his pro¬ 
fession—while he who spends his time in 
idleness or self indulgence, is sure to occu¬ 
py an inferior position in life. 
The friendships of the world are often 
confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. 
