MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
d; hint timid. 
EDUCATION OF FARMERS. 
Titat Education is not necessary to suc¬ 
cessful farming has long been a prevailing 
sentiment. It has been considered import¬ 
ant for the professional man, but as useless, 
or a luxury at most, to the agriculturist. In- 
Republic—-disdaining the pomp and splendor 
of rank—did not hesitate to return to tho 
plow, and pass tho remainder of their days 
in tho quiet enjoyment of rural life. It was 
held that the highest virtues were cherished 
amid rustic pursuits, and that for a censor 
to say of any one that he was a good hus¬ 
bandman and farmer was to confer the 
highest praise.” 
Tho policy that has heretofore prevailed 
dustrv—plodding, pationt industry—qualifi- of selecting lawyers for our State Legisla- 
od for success in carrying on a farm ; butthat turcs, is wrong from the foundation. Thede- 
boy whoso aversion to work and love of mis¬ 
chief, made his parents at a loss how to em- 
sign of legislation is to subserve the interests 
of the masses : and who is so well acquaint- 
pl°y his energies, must study somo profess- c d with them as the farmer ? Everybody 
ion. Did one seem rather dull and stupid, knows that lawyers have made a thousand 
ho could never bo qualified for anything but intricacies in tho law, only—wo naturally 
farming. Another, who seemed unusually conclude—so they may bo called upon to 
bright—who thirsted for knowledge—must unravel them. There has in this respect 
bo a minister, physician or lawyer ; the life been considerable improvement, but there 
of a farmer could furnish no facilities for im- is room for more. This state of things has 
provement or the gratification of his desires, arisen, in part, from tho fact that it has 
Now, this is all wrong—for no good reason been difficult to find men out of the pro¬ 
can bo shown why every farmer should not fessions, who have so familiarized themselves 
be liberally educated why he should not with our State and National polity as to be 
find use for a good education in carrying on qualified for Legislators. Farmers have not 
the operations of his farm. If his knowl- felt tho importance of these qualifications, 
edge need bo of a different quality, it should and hence have not been called out into 
not be less in quantity than that of tho pro- their active duties. 
fossional man. All general arguments in The g rea t conservative power of this na- 
favor of the thorough culture of our mental tion must ever lio wit h this class of our em¬ 
powers, will apply with equal force to the zens, and that farmer who neglects tho prop- 
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particular education of those who till the er cu ltu 
soil. That knowledge is valuable for its d ou bl G s 
own sake—that it furnishes a continual foast ^.,. v a ] g0 
for the mind—that it qualifies its possessor Rojaiton 
for a large measure of enjoyment during tho 
whole course of his being, are truths general¬ 
ly admitted. But leaving out of the ac- When 
er culture of his children is guilty of the 
double sin of wronging them and his coun- 
Royalton, N. Y., 185.3. •'< 
BOYS, GET AHEAD. 
When we see young men spending all 
THE LIVING GIRAFFES. 
HOMES OF THE DEPARTED. 
If yon bright stars which gem the night 
Be each a blissful dwelling sphere, 
"Where kindred spirits re-unite 
"Whom death hath torn asunder here— 
How sweet it were at once to die, 
And leave this blighted orb afar, 
Mix soul with soul to cleave the sky, 
And soar away from star to star 1 
B ut, oh 1 how dark, how drear, how lorre 
Would seem the brightest world of bliss, 
If, wandering through each radiant zone, 
We failed to find the loved of this! 
If there no more the ties should twine, 
Which death’s cold hand alone can sever, 
Ah! then these stars in mockery shine, 
More hateful as they.shine forever! 
It cannot be—each hope and fear 
That lights the eye and clouds the brow, 
Proclaims there is a happier sphere 
Than this bleak world that holds us now : 
There is a voice which sorrow hears, 
When heaviest weighs life’s galling chain ; 
’Tis Heaven that whispers, “ Dry thy tears; 
The pure in heart shall meet again 1” 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
A SKETCH. 
A young person lay upon a bed of pain. 
Ho thought of his sufferings, which wero 
past description — of tho toil and trouble 
which his friends had for his sake, and his 
inability to render them anything in return 
and, devoid as ho was of heavenly wisdom, 
why wonder that ho exclaimed in his agony 
“For what was I ever created ?” Another 
stood beside his couch. It was a child.— 
I hough surrounded by poverty and afflic¬ 
tion from infancy, that child had boon 
First—it makes labor more productive. dut Y °* trying to save, if it be ever so little, creatures of this rare kind, ever seen in this stuffed specimen of this animal. Tho first ^ cc *’ and § cms ob mora ^ purity and beauty,' 
The great object of toil is not to wear away * l0! ? present earnings towards a future country the one reaching to a bight of live ones seen in Europe, were given bv the “Which never could have sparkled there, 
tho weary hours, but to secure tho greatest Ca ^ aL , , . seventeen feet, and the other standing about Prince of Damas to Frederick II. Their „ But for their bright originals in heaven.” 
We once heard a gentleman who had risen a foot or so less. _ They were captured in names wero Anabulla and Geraph—from Ho drew near tho sick ones couch, and with 
:otn poverty to wealth and influence, by Jjssima, in tho interior of Africa, among the latter name writers have derived the all the artlessness of childhood pictured to 
is own prudence and industry, enforcing the tangled mazes of the dense forests, and word giraffe the cm ,, . „ 
lie saving plan in this way. Suppose, said in the pestilent atmospheres that few Euro- The Hottentots prize tho flesh of this ani- 1 . y a ” d happmess ofman 
the nature of the soil he cultivates, what ° 0 ’ >'? u . fcad S1 ? eggs to live upon daily, poans have ever ventured with impunity to mal for food, and from its skin they manu- , ,. ist creation—his ingratitude and 
crops are best adapted to it what succession ?° W ’ Ifc 18 clear, if you oat all tho eggs every invade; and they are admitted by natural- facture various domestic articles— JY. Y. ^obedience m transgressing God's law, 
1 ’ da y> y° u Wl11 never have any ahead to de- lbts t( > be among the most superb specimens Illustrated JYews. thereby bringing upon him God’s curse • 
the nature of the soil he cultivates, what ll 0 ’ y ? u . bad si * eggs to live upon daily, peans have ever ventured with impunity to 
• . u t. • A ow it is clear. it you oat all tho eggs every invade; and they are admitted by natural- 
c. ops are best adapted to it, what success,on day _ you „. m novhare ah J§ t0 J to be among the most superb specimens 
of the same will yield most profit, what kind pend upon. But if, by self-denial, you can y et placed before tho eyes of the civilized 
and quantity of manure it noeds to keep it save one of these eggs to-day, or this week, world. 
in proper condition; and this requires knowl- and another next day or week, you can soon Those colossal giraffes, or camoleopards, 
edge of Agricultural Chemistry. And to havo ’ besidcs y° ur six eggs daily, one, two as th °y are sometimes called, belong to a I { 
understand CRmmist.rv other neneml l-„ll. ?, r m01 \ 6 hons ’ that . wUl S\ VG J°. u one, two or German, named Ilerr Bernhard Hartmann, | tur 
understand Chemistry, other general knowl 
edge is indispensable. How much labor ii 
lost by this want of adaption of crops to th< 
AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE- 
Sixty-nine years ago a party of advi 
rers from the Eastern States, after a 1c 
thev manu- at llIS first creation —his ingratitude and 
e g > _jY’. y. disobedience in transgressing God's law, 
thereby bringing upon him God’s curse; 
- then ho showed tho utter holplessncss of 
hHlE- man, and tho prospect before him of eternal 
’ of adven < ^ esbruc fi on s when the son of God came to 
ifter a long b ‘ s relief saying, “All that will come may 
l the Ohio como.” The sufferer raised his eyes in hope; 
spot where ho saw tho object of his creation — that ho 
soil on which they are attempted to bo cul- at first, and when once you have set in train transporting them thence to Germany, separated from tho several “stations” in 
tivated ! * the egg-producing influence, it goes on of whence ho accompanied them in tho steam- Kentuckev, and turned their steps through another ’ and lf ho accepted tho atonement 
The facilities for improvement are con- 1 ' T ^ Th ,° ono . e £g sa ved, gives er to.New York. As however, we have no the wilderness, first pledging each other, in of tho Son of Cod his trials would soon he 
c . • - ] pioveme aie con you a hen which produces indefinitely, and curiosity of this kind alive, in America— a spirit that may bo termed as prophetically over, and ho be forever at rest. Learning 
stantly increasing, and educated enterprise then, it you choose, you can eat your half- and tho two that were here, and died so sud- romantic to meet on tho same Knot fif'rv tills thnnT,™c™n n f. • , , , 
already making use of Nature’s powers dozen eggs daily, and still be gaining from denly, some fifteen years ago, were valued years from that day This agreement was + ’ 1 ’ an S ulsh was changed 
and machinery* to save labor. Tbit mil- the fta. min*. atfeO.OOO-HeirHartmaun^ill.inaHprob- Lad" on tee 4th2y of»f ^gnat,on ; he wa S enabled 
lenium will never como, when the soil will lav0 often tho "g h * of this simple ability, realize a handsome sum by his en- In the year 1832, on the 4th day of Novem- T ropay in 80,110 do S rco tho kindness of 
yield abundant harvests without lahor hut 1 lu f tra J ,on a « comprehending m an egg ^eiprize, should they survive the perilous her, precisely fifty years after the time of thoso around him, by cheering words of 
tho imnrnvnmontc nf +1 •„ -, ’ shell whole volumes of political economy, C langes of this climate. the agreement, four of the old band met on consolation, and, by his calm peace, to in- 
tho impioiements of tho ago will aid con- and recommend it to our young readers as I he giraffe, or cameleopara, is tho largest the snot to fulfill their nromiso One nf c™™ tbon- k , *i •> e re -n 
tinnallj to diminish tho amount required, worthy of study and prlctice.-PeopIe’s of all animals. It is found them™,everntae ofTe ■ tho rost S' / h ““» boar tho .lUof l,fow.th 
And yet wo nood nover fear we shall bo out Organ. throughout Central Africa, and in Abyssinia, were undo” three score and teS After rt “ d ? Ushered 1I,t0 
of employment-and enough of it, too. " ’ “Ifod'a famdy °‘ “ " lining a few day. they turned thoir steps 1"^ '° mC °‘ lh ° 
Some protest against tho introduction of - It is remarkable for the groat length of Z h ST? through a wilderness as ob J ect tor ho was cieated. 
the improvements referred to, simply be- Parents too frequently commit the error neck, and its head sometimes attains a scones^f busy Hfo and tho 1 hum of Tmhfs- la dy was sitting in an elegant apart- 
cause they interfere with manual labor.— °, ^ IV! ! 1 S tbeir children a merely literary height of eighteen or twenty feet. Tho trial millions 1 Nor did thov nromiso inv ment ’ sul ’ round cd by every luxury of life. 
When Railroads first began to take tho place ffitlTrS Iwnnnrfi?/’' 6 very flat and other meeting, as that was an event fixed Wi ^ a refined taste and liberal education 
of tho old stage routes, some men who never of usefulness to themselves and society.- is Sgllteen inches o^lesswhife The "parts they ’Sqi dl-ul ' and ^ b&S tUk ° n plaCe ! ~ th° W “ , 8pondins he !' tim ° in idleness ’ while 
see but an inch ahead, cried out, “This will They too often make them lawyers, pliysi- whore it joins the body increases to a size y dead . thousands of her fellows were nearlyper- 
spoil our market for horses and oats”—and cians, and merchants, without making them which gives the animal an oblique appear- * 77 ' ishmg for the bread of life, tho knowledge 
yet horses and oats have been rising in val- llonost m fn-and turn out drones or (not ance, quite extraordinary. Upon tho head the Savannah^Sm SJSfrom '*h°f ° f Which !t WaS in h ° r power to ira P art — 
7bT77 co d A t namu f si f ngs ‘ oryis n oWof SSSSS 
the first introduction of fanning mills into quacks, and cheat it by adulterations. This the horns. Its legs are very long—the fore- ■ P 0sse , ssi0n » very extraordinary st u, ana teeiing tnat ennui which idleness 
Scotland. A preacher denounced tho new is tho too common result with such as have legs are a few inches longer than the hind ” 10us e, recently caught by his overseer.— always produces, she exclaimed, “ what was 
invention in no gentle terms. “ We used not tho capacity to succeed in those occu- ones. The whole body is somewhat flat on f in P <Pn PP oaranco the J, lfc . tle ani . mal 1 created for ?” Something whispered, 
to trust to Providence” said ho, « for wind to P at i° ns ’ no T r T the Christian honesty to starve tho sides and towards tho chest. Tho tail wlnfc °L ??□ I “ God has S ivcn much to J'our care, and to 
fan our grain, and it is but wicked presump- ^ given, o, hi m win be 
CO to Germany fonTtod f n A “ 0W was pIaced in th « world but to prepare for 
co to cxciinanj, sepaiatod from the several stations in , .. 1 1 
hem in the steam- Kentuckev, and turned their steps through * a " C lf h ° a ? ce P. ted tho atonement 
yever, we have no the wilderness, first pledging each other in ® on Cod his trials would soon be 
PHYSICAL TRAINING. 
of employment—and enough of it, too. 
Some protest against tho introduction of 
the improvements referred to, simply be- 
iumtiijvuuio J.KJX LUU .1(31154 LU ui 
1 arents too frequently commit the error neck, and its head sometimes attains a 
fan our grain, and it is but wicked presump- 
7/:S y in 7bite“o h r' notes of tho can ^ IT’. 
tion thus to interfere with tho Divine pro- edge, in his youth, as will enable him to earn is usually white, or whitish-grey more or th f ° 0xqui f° notes of tho canary bird > "T™, P ° y y0Ur < tia10 ’ your talont ’ 
rogatives and manufacture wind for our- a subsistence by physical labor—should the loss regularly spotted with fawn or ground- lts Ini . !tatl011 tbo ( l aad or partridge, the m building up the cause of God in your own 
selves!” demand for mental labor be mot with an colored spots, extending from tho back of P 6 .' a |' yelp of the wild turkey, with anoc- heart, and in the world, and endeavor by 
Tho general truth that knowledge saves suirnlv. Evfirv hovsTinnlrl Imrp n. ornnr] t.hA advq tn fim foU tu Ccisional imitation ot the mocking bird, vnnr ATamnlA arwi nnnefonf 
labor is seen in every department of life — 
over supply. Every boy should have a good the ears to tho tail. The giraffe, by its or 
trade, were his parents as rich as Croesus, ganization, is compelled to amble along— j ! j °, ur 
and then his knowledge, acquired by the that is, carrying forward the two feet of the I i nnd t ] S 
says our correspondent, “ is truly wonder¬ 
ful. Its notes aro very sweet, but not very 
your example and constant exertions, to do 
all tho good you can. If you fail to do this 
you will fail to meet the object of your crea¬ 
tion, and unto yon it will be said, ‘ ye know 
prepare in the same time. So of a thousand 
operations connected with agriculture, rae- 
IMPORTANCE CF A COMMA 
wards, similar to the pendulum of a clock. 
For the purpose of drinking, it is obliged to 
w , i it it , • i , vai Halving, n UUlfflUU 
chanics, &c. “ Knowledge is Power,” and . ™ E yesterday published an article on tho kneel, or enter tho wuitor, and to get at any 
may be successfully used in every depart- | m P ortance 0 a couect punctuation. YY o thing on the ground it is obliged to open its 
n „ . i . , j. ■ nave soon a letter from a gentleman m Ohio fore le^s wido nr 1« down Tk nnLv lm 
ment of human mdustr) and enterpuse. to Mr. D. Bennett, which morn fnllv illns- -. ii. y x_• u PP ei jP 
, and is said to bo incapable of committing . _ uc * en t 5va3 poring over his lessons at 
. impositon upon the public. midnight. At times his mind wandered 
---—-- from tho volume that lay before him and 
Sleep. —Few of our readers, perhaps, aro was occupied with tho occurrences of the 
importance of a correct punctuation. We thing on the ground it is obliged to open its aware that the human body falls asleep by day. IIo had been unsuccessful in his 
toMrl) Benne , t r Xfmo?rfun , vinu 1 s 0 ^e, or lay down. Its upper lip degrees. According to M. Carbinis, a studios, had received unjust treatment from 
v in. u. nennett, wmen moie xuily ulus- is verv movah o : t.h« tnnmifi is lnno- l-mm-L French Phvsiolno-isr, “tho muse os of tho . ... 
If the people of our country were 
as they are in Europe into two great 
fore legs wido, or lay down. Its upper lip degrees. According to M. Carbinis, a studios, had received unjust treatment from 
is very movable ; tho tongue is long, rough. French Physiologist, “ tho muscles of tho . wira j ... 
black and pointed, and it has tho faculty of legs and arms lose their power before those ’ owinlnsrotne- 
forcing it a foot or moro out of its mouth, which support tho head; and these last n ^ ent brooded ovor Ins troubles and said to 
thus to encircle branches that would othor^ sooner than those which support tho back, himself, “ 0, what do 1 live for ?” He was 
liu uuues. m ;n- . p , n , „«=> -, , . 7 , wise bo out of its roach. Its eyes are large, ^-nd ho illustrates this by cases of persons immediately answered, “To serve and glo- 
e divided Sigh Jofo tXn"dAfoL^tu l a°noth 5 bck ’?” d ? f S °‘f eXfra * io ? » ™ h ° f! oe P on ■'Or.ebacfc o r while they are rify Him who created you.” Here a now 
xiugn, uonn,ana uaniel Nlosier, but anoth- bear a ferocious character. In confinement standing or walking. Ho conceives that fl .- !n n ,, ,, 
at classes, er paper m copying the advertisement care- its manners aro docile to timidity. In its tho sente of sight sleeps first; then the tia 11 of bought presented itself. lie tho -1 
Avonvr loss V mmtlrri thn Anmmo QffQr TTiin.li /• i . J _ _ ._a ^ nf Vna /Infir hlo O, 
laruiers inigui iiavoa uetter excuse ior neff- nnQ nrl u u • j. i 1 vuwuuuvu.gut. n 10 (di j uoot, auu --muu i/uu vxoouia auu uiu binau itJium lie nau iiicor 
lecting their own and their children’s edu- property and went to considerable°exnenfo f 10 best race r bor .®° bo incapable of :dls asleep, one alter another, and sleep long reasoning and striving he yielded up 
.. 6 „ . , . ., , piupoit),ariu went to considerable expenso keeping up with it. The female carries its with different degrees of soundness. n „ n „ , Ta *7 , , 
cation. But here, where the great problem to investigate the matter, when thoy found young for one year and never has more -___ all to Ins Creator. It was then ho learned 
of self-government is to be decided, every that in the original notice it read the heirs than one at a birth.’ ’ « n w . ,. . to forgive those who by their unkindnoss 
man is a sovereign, and a plowman may be nuH^JolirT and' Daniel -mi™ Oh^ru7~ r Theseanir " al s w ere known to the ancients, ent relative merits'onheUnited^tatefaud CauSod hhn to pass his ni « hts in rostloss 
called to fill the highest office of tho nation. ^ ’ _ - nrm _X a U se,ver - Gesar caused them to be introduced into the mother country, says :_“Mrs. Britannia anx ioty, and ho endeavored by example as 
In Rome’s best day she was indebted for Make sure, first and Drincinallv of that 1 a • « . , ., was once a very respectable old woman, and well as precept, to toach all to obey tho 
her newer to the general education nf bn- knowledge which ST ,when she ‘ ruled the waves’ very straight, rule, « Do unto others as ye would others 
victories and triumphs, and illustrions states- useful and or: 
men after guiding for a time the helm of the your capacity. 
rYtterwards improve yourself in all eleven feet highland was accompanied by andThrew up the trident wlfich she 
an - 0:rn ‘ l 7i enta, l kn o«ledgo as far as two cows, for whom it manifested tho groat- dently could no longer kocD on her st 
ipacity, leisure and fortune will allow, est attachment—they being its nurses. It ach.” ^ P 
tie evi- acquirements wero laid, a humble, conse- 
stom- crated offering, at tho foot of tho Cross. 
Victor, N. Y., 1853. ELIZA. 
