MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
which ere long were answered, the first, hy the ap¬ 
pearance of Drusa, who took Willie, telling me 
to go to my supper, and the second hy a hasty 
glance at the tabic, from which the tureen had dis¬ 
appeared, as indeed had almost everything else.— 
The oysters were all gone!—“eaten up,” my aunt 
said, “except a saucer full, which were saved for 
old Tatty, the cook, who would be cross as fury 
if 8he didn’t get some.” 
I was terribly disappointed, but tried to console 
myself with the wing and back of the turkey, 
neither of which are my favorites. "When my 
supper was over I plead sleepiness and crept off 
to bed, in spite of my aunt's remark that “I kept 
the baby so much more quiet, than that hateful 
Drusa, who she ’most knew had pricked him to 
make him cry.” 
Of the next day's events, and Aunt Harding's 
successful manoeuvre to install me head nurse, 
thereby keeping me from church, I shall say 
nothing, but pass on to the Monday following, 
when, with the severest headache I ever expe¬ 
rienced, I lay down on the sofa in Cousin Mary’s 
room, while with her own soft, white hands she 
bathed my throbbing temples until I fell asleep.— 
When I awoke she was gone to ride, while at one 
end of the room were convened my aunt and 
cousins, discussing a party which they intended 
giving on Thursday evening. At first I thought, to 
let them know I was awake, but thinking they 
would not regard my presence, I kept still and un¬ 
wittingly became the possessor of some of the se¬ 
crets of party-making, which perhaps will amuse 
my readers. 
“Sometimes I think we had better give it up 
entirely—your father seems so blue,” said my 
aunt, with a slight shade of anxiety on her face. 
"Pshaw!” answered Theo., with a contemptuous 
toss of her handsome curls; “that's nothing. He 
always acts just so.” 
“But,” continued my aunt, “I know he is se¬ 
riously embarrassed. There’s that heavy debt at 
New York got to he paid next week, and he don't 
know where he’ll gcr the money.” 
“Why, I thought Uncle Jo. was going to let him 
have it,” said Plume. 
Here I was all attention, while my aunt replied: 
“ And possibly he will, provided there is a good 
report carried home,” (glancing at me,) “buteven 
that will have to be paid sometime. We already 
owe him four or five thousand.” 
“Oh, well,’’ returned Theme heartlessly; “he’ll 
wait ever so long. We'll coax them up next sum¬ 
mer by giving his girls some of our old things,— 
“ and if ne- 
satisfaetion that 1 was to be permitted to mingle 
in it. Then followed ahost of directions as to the 
mamier in which I was to demean myself, to all of 
which I promised compliance, and then, for the 
time between that and Thursday, I was left mostly 
to myself, my aunt and cousins being busied with 
their arrangements for the party, the probable ex¬ 
pense of which they footed up every night, my 
poor uncle groaning bitterly, as many a father of 
foolish and extravagant daughters has done and 
will do again. In my heart I pitied him, and 
whenever I looked at his pale, haggard face, i felt 
my resolution List giving way. Suppose I kept 
my own secret and suffered my father to lend him 
what he wanted, could it do any harm? He would 
surely manage someway to repay it, and we should 
not suffer. 
Thus I reasoned, while the days flew on until at 
last Thursday night came, and with a flush of sat¬ 
isfaction, I gazed at myself in the long mirror after 
my aunt and cousins had done their best to make 
me presentable, Theo.’s muslin dress, which con¬ 
sisted of little else than a skirt, the waist and 
sleeves being hardly perceptible, had been fixed 
for me, my hair had been twisted into long curls 
by a hot iron, Cousin Mary’s gold necklace was 
around my neck,—they all ridiculing the idea of 
grandma’s necklace which I proposed 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
HUSHED AND SWEET. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
A TALE OF WOE, 
WHICH DISCKIMTU TnK UNHAPPINESS OF THOSE DEPRIVED 
OP THEIR SENSES. 
Two Deacons old, some years ago, 
To meeting went, aa I shall show ; 
The one purblind, the other deaf— 
Good Deacon Jones und Deacon Jar*. 
Now Jones the deaf, had vainly tried 
Doctors and nostrnins far and wide, 
And when all failed to make him hear, 
Lo a nice tin tnimpet lent an ear. 
The church was dark, and ns he sat 
On the front scat, beside his hat 
His trumpet lay, all shiniug bright, 
While the chair sang with all their might. 
Good Deacon Jeff was seated next, 
And much desired to find the text, 
When, groping round to seek his book, 
He on the trumpet cast a look. 
Ah ! here’s a lump, thought he, just right 1 
I’ll blow a coal and have a light. 
Alas 1 deaf mortals cannot know 
What ill betides them here below. 
Of breath and patience quite bereft, 
Our Deacon soon the trumpet left; 
It would not light, but full of heat. 
Again it stood upon the seat. 
Jkfp sat him down with glowing cheek, 
The parsou coughed, thou rose to speak ; 
Good Jonhs looked round ns if perplexed— 
Now was the time to hear the text. 
“ Lift up thine ear!”—up Ue'v ihe tin, 
When lo I in meeting wh.v •' j 1 
The people looked in wild amaze, 
While Deacon Jones with ear ablaze, 
Screamed and cried fire, and danced about 
Not knowing what had caused the rout, 
Till Parson White in sore dismay 
Begged them to take tiie man away. 
OXYGEN. 
In our former chapter on the Air we Breathe, we 
spoke concerning the general uses and effect* of 
the atmosphere, and now turn our attention to its 
component parts. 
Though apparently pure and elementary, the air, 
is hy no means, a simple or pure substance. It Ib 
composed of several different kinds of matter, 
each of which performs a beautiful and useful part 
in relation to animal and vegetable life. Four 
substances are known to he necessary to its com¬ 
position. Two of these, Oxygen and Nitrogen, 
form nearly its entire bulk; the two others, Car¬ 
bonic Acid and Watery Vapor, being present only 
in small quantities. Johnston says:—“ These four 
substances the air everywhere and always contains. 
They are all necessary to the daily wants of animal 
and vegetable life; hut the two gases, oxygen and 
nitrogen, form so large a proportion of the whole, 
that we arc accustomed to say of dry air, that it 
consists- of nitrogen and oxygen only, in the ratio 
of four of the former to one of the latter. More 
correctly, however, air, when deprived of the 
watery vapor and carbonic, acid which it contains, 
consists, in 100 gallons, of 79 of nitrogen mixed 
with 21 of oxygen.” 
BY W. K. KNOWLSS. 
Thire's a melody, more than the tongue can express, 
When the murmuring zephyr sings sweetly and low, 
And the islands of verdure, of loveliest dress, 
Wake the echo agaiD in the valley below. 
All the night, while the word sleeps, the nightingale swayB 
To the murmuring music that rrralB her own, 
And sends, in the moments of silence, her bays 
Through the echoing valley, in answering tone. 
In the lull o t the hour ’ti* a pleasure to hear 
Such a mellow succession of agreeable strains. 
And dream on through the uight till the morning is near, 
And the heart is replete with the sound that remains. 
With the sound that continues to vibrate, though light 
May stream over in floods from the gates of the mom. 
And awaken the vale from the slumber ot night, 
To the routine of pleasure, or sorrow forlorn. 
And the sense of the sweetness will hasten the day, 
Lessen care and anxiety better than wine ; 
And leave, when the echoes are dying away, 
Such a lingering pleasure that seems most divine. 
All around us a halo of happiness springs, 
And the moments are freighted with diamonds yet, 
And the present, still golden, and hopeful, still brings 
A sweet flush of emotions we never forget. 
wearing,— 
Phkme's plain gold bracelet was around my arm, 
a thin gossamer fabric, which'Aunt Harding said 
was a handkerchief, and which she bade me hold 
so that the hole in it wouldn’t show, was in my 
hand, and, on the whole, I think I looked pretty 
well—yes, quite well, considering that I never was 
distinguished for any remarkable share of beauty. 
Between eight and nine the guosts began to as¬ 
semble. and hy ten they were all there, including 
Mrs. Urrisu, who was the last arrival, and who, as 
I supposed, proved to he the lady T had seen in the 
street. She was very large and, as I thought, 
quite coarse and awkward, laughing and talking 
very loud and making a great many speeches, 
which in any one else would have been termed 
rough, l.ut which in her—Mrs. Uppish— were said 
to be witty and original. But not in her was I 
particularly interested, for among the crowd I 
caught a sight of the gentleman, who had seen me 
home, and who to my astonishment I found was 
the Mr. Fulton, about whom Tueo. had talked so 
much. I did not wonder that she liked him, and 
once, when they stood together, I thought I had 
never seen a finer looking couple, for she was 
beautiful, while lie seemed noble, intellectual and 
good. They were standing very near to the corner 
where I sat alone, and I heard a part of their con¬ 
versation. 
Something he said to her concerning the “ young 
Miss whom he found crying in the street,” where¬ 
upon Thh<X turned scarlet and replied quickly:_ 
“ Oh, yes, an acquaintance we picked up iu Meadow 
Brook. She is somewhat countrified, hut a niceish 
kind of girl. Didn’t you think so?” 
Bending his full, dark eyes upon her Mr. Fulton 
replied: 
“Yes, I was quite interested in her, and I 
thought perhaps she might be a relative. I fan¬ 
cied there was a family resemblance?” 
He paused i*-r the anpwer, which was simply 
“A—ah,” as she rather abruptly turned to address 
some one else. She did not deny our relationship 
in words, but she did in manner, and I felt sure 
that he saw no difference. There was a look of 
pain on liis tine features, and for some time he 
seemed lost in thought. At last, turning around, 
he crime suddenly upon me, recognizing me at 
once, and extending his hand. 
“ So yon are at your uncle’s yet?” he said, add¬ 
ing, ere I could answer him, " I think you said 
Col. Harding was your uncle?” 
“ Yes, sir; my father's brother,” I returned. 
The disappointed look deepened on his lace, hut 
he continued conversing with me easily and natu¬ 
rally until Thko. spied him out, and immediately 
joined us. 
“I found your cousin all alone, and am as yon 
see trying to entertain her,” he said, fixing tbe 
same searching look upon her which I had before 
observed. 
Farther evasion was nseless, and with a depre¬ 
cating glance at me, Theo. said, “ Ob, yes—Cousin 
Jenny, Mr. Fulton. Come,” turning to him, “let 
us go and hear Miss Everts sing; - ' hut the loud, 
ringing tones which reached us, even above the 
din of the drawing-room, had no charms-for him, 
and be did not move from the spot, while Tjiro., 
as if afraid of again leaving us alone, remained 
where she was until summoned awny by her mother. 
Later iu the evening Mrs. Urrisu chanced to be 
near me, together with Mr. Fulton, when the 
former, catching a sight of me, asked who I was. 
“A neice of Col. Harding from Meadow Brook,” 
answered Mr. Fulton, whereupon the lady return¬ 
ed in a low tone, 
SONG FOR THINKERS. 
TxKP.'the Spade of Perseverance, 
Dig the field of Progress wide ; 
Every rotten root of Faction 
Carry out and cast aside; 
Every stubborn weed of Error, 
Every seed that hurts the soil, 
Tares, whose very growth is terror— 
Dig them out, w Imte’vr tins toil I 
Give the stream of Education 
Broader channel, bolder force ; 
Hurl the stones of Persecution 
Out where'er they block its course; 
Seek for strength in self-exertion; 
Work, and still have faith to wait; 
Close the crooked gate to fortune ; 
Make the road to honor straight I 
Men are agents for the future! 
As they work, so ages win 
Either harvest of advancement, 
Or the products of tlo-ir git, ! 
Follow out true Cultivation, 
Widen Education's plan ; • 
From the Majesty ot Nature 
Teach the Majesty of Man I 
Take the Spade of Perseverance, 
Dig the field of Progress wide ; 
Every bar to true instruction 
Carry out and cast aside ; 
Feed the Plant whose Fruit is Wisdom : 
Cleanse from Crime the common Sod 
So that from the Throne of Heaven 
It may bear the glance of God. 
Two friends met after a long absence—one had 
waxed fat, the other lean. 
“Why,” said the first, “yon look aa if you had 
not had a dinner since I saw yon last” 
“And yon,” replied the other, “look as if you 
had been at dinner ever since.” 
A man, whiskered up to the very eyes, was pass¬ 
ing along the street, when a couple of jolly tars on 
Oxygen, like the atmosphere, is devoid of color, a land cruise observed him. “Shiver my timbers, 
taste or smell. It can be easily prepared by mix- Jack,” said one to the other, “that fellow looks 
ing chlorate of potash with a little sand, powdered like a rat peeping out of a bunch of oakum.” 
glass, or oxide of manganese, and heating the mix¬ 
ture in a fiask over a spirit lamp, as seen in the 
engraving. When these melt the gas is given olf, 
and will soon fill the fiask. Its presence will be 
readily shown by introducing a candle, a bit of 
red-hot charcoal, or of kindled phosphorus, all of 
which will burn with much greater brilliancy and 
rapidity thus placed, than in common air. This 
gas may be properly termed the great incendiary — 
without it, neither light dor heat could be pro¬ 
duced from coal, wood or other cmbnstible sub¬ 
stance. Did the atmosphere consist entirely of 
oxygeu, bodies once in flame* would burn so fast 
as to be absolutely beyond control. Animal life, 
too, would soou wear out in an atmosphere com¬ 
posed entirely of this gas. We would breathe it 
with pleasure—it excites and quickens circulation, 
hut a fever would result, and dentil ensue, iroin the 
excess of excitement. Wo would live too rapidly 
—burn away in it, like the fast-flaming caudio. In 
its present condition it is one of the absolute ne¬ 
cessities to the sustaining of life. Every breath 
we take into the lungs extracts a portion of it— it 
is taken up hy the blood and becomes food for the 
We can obtain it from no other source. 
and—” (here she lowered her voice) 
cessary, we'll dress her up and let her stay iu the 
parlor Thursday night.” 
“ Horror!’’ was Theo.’s exclamation. “ A coun¬ 
try girl of twelve at a fashionable party. What 
would Mrs. Urrisu say? And besides that, I don't 
want Henry Fulton to know we have any rela¬ 
tives at Meadow Brook, for somehow he’s got the 
idea that we have a country seat there,” 
“And pray why shouldn't he have such an idea, 
when yon always talk so largely about ‘ our sum¬ 
mer house,’” interrupted the more truthful 
Pheme. 
Theo, colored and continued, “I think (he end 
warrants the means. You know old Mr. Fulton 
is very particular thathis sonshould marry wealthy, 
and though Henry don’t care a lig for it him¬ 
self, he still will try to please his father in that 
respect. Now I’m certain he thinks pa a great 
deal richer than he is, and its for my interest that 
he should continue to think so, at least until 1 get 
him fast. He has almost proposed once or twice, 
and I am in hopes this parly will decide him. But 
for conscience’sake don’t let Jenny appear. He 
always talks to those who seem neglected, and she 
may let out some tilings we do not wish him to 
know.” 
“But your father insists upon it,” said my aunt. 
“He says we have slighted her too much already, 
and he greatly fears lest she tell your uncle, who 
will surely resent it and refuse to let me have 
money in our need. So, which will be the worse 
for your prospecks, allowing her to appear, or fail¬ 
ing outright, as we shall have to do, unless we get 
help.” 
Of course Tiieo. preferred the first alternative, 
Stipulating that if I did appear I should be dressed 
decently, und also he made to understand that I 
was not to speak a word, especially to Mr. Fulton, 
and here the conference ended. 
All this time I lay like one benumbed, and 1 
hardly think I could have spoken, had I wished, 
but I did not. I was too much astonished—too 
indignant to speak. On one point, however, I was 
deteimined, which waa that if I could prevent it, 
not auother penny of iny father's hard-earned 
gains should go lor the support of a family so ut- 
The better to effect tills, I resolved 
That was a noble toast which Mr.Bogert offered 
at the St. Nicholas dinner:—“One people, one wife, 
one country, one destiny.” Three cheers for that, 
and a tiger too! 
St. Martin is one of the worthies of the Roman 
Calendar, and <i form of prayer commences with 
the words, “0, mihi, beate Martine,” which was 
corrupted into “My eye and Betty Martin.” 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by 
D. D T. Moobb, in the Clerk's Office ol the District 
Court, for the Northern District ot New York. 
Miss Tucker says it is with old bachelors as 
with old wool; it is hard to get them started, but 
when they do flame, they burn prodigiously. 
For Moore's Rnral New-Yorker. 
MY CITY COUSINS 
BY MRS. MARY J. HOLMES. 
system, 
and now supplies are wanted at every moment.— 
Fijorn this fact arises the necessity of ventilation of 
our houses und public halls. 
Prof. Youman, in a learned lecture on this sub¬ 
ject, said:—“ What is the relation of oxygen to the 
living hotly? Every animal is busy drawingin and 
throwing out air—an increasing tidal ebb and flow. 
The oxygen of the air passes through the mem¬ 
branes of the lungs, is taken up by the blood, and 
carried to all parts of the body. It docs here what 
it does everywhere—it burns. Slow combustion 
goes on in the body, and carbonic add and water 
are produced. This combustion is necessary to 
keep up heat and fever, and the oxygen of tho air 
must have carbon and hydrogen, in tho form of 
food and drink, to feed upon. Cut off’a man from 
everything but air, and the oxygen at every breath 
will cut away a portion of his own frame. The 
most combustible parts arc first consumed; ho 
grows lighter and more emaciated every hour.— 
First, the fat disappears, then the muscles arc as¬ 
sailed, and lastly, the devouring giant, oxygen, 
attacks the brain and nerves, delirium ensues and 
death closes the scene. Men say lie hits starved to 
death, but the scientific truth is that he has been 
burned to cinders.” 
The latest way to pop the qnestion is to ask tho 
fair lady “ If you shall have the pleasure of seeing 
her at the minister's. 
New Definitions. —Transported for life: married 
happily; imprisonment for life,married miserably. 
Mr. Punch suggests that the new water proof 
paper should be used for lining milk cans! 
course I was curious to see a lady who was of so 
much importance, and when about five o'clock the 
carriage which had been sent to the depot for 
them returned, I stole unnoticed into the parlor, 
and seating myself in a corner, anxiously awaited 
her entrance. But she went immediately to her 
room, followed by Cousin Edward, whom I had 
once seen, and whom I remembered as a red-faced 
young man, with a very loud voice and coarse 
laugh, the latter of which greeted my ear as be 
passed the door. There seemed to be quite a con¬ 
sultation iu the chamber above, and after a time I 
heard my aunt say, as she started to come down, 
“That’s the very thing;—she’ll like it, I know. 
Jenny, dear,” site continued, as she entered the 
room, “ Mary’s nurse, the hateful thing, left her in 
a mad fit on her way here, and there is nobody to 
take care of the baby. It is a sweet little thing.— 
Don’t you believe you can keep it quiet while we 
eat supper?” 
Through the open doors there came the savory 
smell of the turkey and oysters. I was half starv¬ 
ed, comparatively speaking, and the “ Ye-es, I 
don't know hut 1 can,” which dropped from my 
lips was not remarkably gracious. But it was 
unnoticed by rny aunt, who replied, “That’sa good 
girl.—Come right up now.” 
Edward was an impulsive, good-natured fellow, 
and he greeted me kindly, telling his wife, to whom 
he presented me, that "I was his 
from the woods." 
I felt my spirit rising up, hut, one look at the 
pale, uugelic face aud soft blue eyes which turned 
towards me, disarmed me of all my anger. She 
was beautiful, beyond what I had ever dreamed, 
hut ’twas the beauty of decay, and spoke to the 
heart of the grass-grown grave on which the next 
summer's sun would shine. Tho turkey and oysters 
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terly unworthy, 
to appear wholly ignorant of their plans, ami to 
do as they hade me, and when uiy father came I 
would see him alone and tell him all. So the next 
day when Theo., who was not much taller than 
myself, took me to her loom, bidding me try on 
several dresses, which lay upon the lied, I passive¬ 
ly complied, donning one after another, until I 
oame to a handsome white muslin, which she de¬ 
clared “just the thing,” asking me if I ever at¬ 
tended a Urge party. 
A ctuated by a feeling I conld not resist, I replied 
that “ I had been to a big up/ leparing where there 
were as many as fifty 1 Will there lie more than 
Lliat. here?” I asked very demnreiy. 
“Fifty!” she repeated. “We’ve invited fonr 
hundred!” 
This 1 knew as well as she, for I had heard the 
matter discussed, and 1 knew, too, that out of the 
four hundred there was not one (if we except 
Henry Fulton) for whom they had the leant real 
regard. Rome, whom they pronounced “ugly as 
sin,” were invited because they dressed go elegant¬ 
ly- Others, who were “ poor as poverty,” (1 quote 
from their own words) were invited because they 
were funny und " made things go off well.” Others, 
too, who were voted " intolerable bores,” were in¬ 
vited because they were “well connected, and it 
wouldn't do to slight them,” while two or three 
Her father, 
they say, lends money to the Colonel to help him 
support all this style:—poor man, I hope he’ll get 
his pay,—but it's doubtlul. Mr. Urrisu says the 
Colonel is liable to fail any day. I wonder at 
their giving this expensive party,” and so saying 
the particular friend of my aunt led the way into 
the upper room, where she praised everything 
before the face of her hostess, aud then at her 
back repeated to every fifth one her belief that 
“they couldn’t hold np their heads much longer.” 
That lityhi long after the guests were gone, I 
heard the ceaseless tread of my uncle as he paced 
through the deserted parlors, and when at a late 
hour next morning we met at the breakfast table, 
he locked as if years had passed over his head 
since last I saw him. My resolution was all gone; 
—if father could help him, I would not prevent 
it, hut iu this matter a wise Providence interfered. 
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PUZZLE. 
Danger of Early Eminence, —The danger of 
early eminence has been extended hy some even 
to the gifts of nature; and an opinion has long 
been conceived, that quickness of invention, ac¬ 
curacy of Judgment or extent of knowledge, ap¬ 
pearing l» fun the usual time, presage a short life. 
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conclusions, from instances which by their own 
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nosticate no suitable progress from Ihe first sallies 
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perseverance of slower understandings. 
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And you will discover a fine city's name. 
Pittslord, Feb., 1857. A. A. H. 
Answer next week. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 371 
William Cullen Bryant, 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem in No. 371 
33 1-5 days nearly. 
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