“And tie stronger virtue of your will, Miriam.” 
“Yes, bless you for the words, Mr. Morgan. I 
am strong; my will is a virtue now. 1 am doing 
right, and I shall be rewarded tor it 1 have enough 
to support me while traveling; it will do me good; 
it will inspire me with hope; it will bring the warm 
flush to my cheeks. I shall correspond regularly 
with you. Mr. Morgan —in a friendly, business-like 
way. you know. Keep me advised of what is going 
on; and when the true heirs appear, and you are 
satisfied in your own mind of the validity of their 
claims, give them immediate possession. My address 
while abroad is to be an inviolate secret.” 
“ And if Mr. Devareux should ask?” questioned 
Mr. Morgan, shrugging up his shoulders. 
“ It iB not likely that he will ask. If he does, do 
not tell him nntil I conFent.” 
■‘Which will be in your first letter home.” 
“Be still. Mr. Morgan,” said Miriam, with a 
blush mingled with a look of pain upon her face. “ 1 
may be very sensitive to your jests.” 
Mr. Morgan apologized — and in a few minutes 
afterwards w as riding from Remstead Place, moral¬ 
izing on the different phases in society, and wiping 
his very red face with his very red handkerchief. 
^t&mlisnuente 
frightful, and the peals of thunder more quick and 
startling. As is usual with such storms, it was soon 
over, and a sort of drowsy yet regular and con¬ 
tinuous min followed. 
The thoughts of M iriam were upon Pact. —Paul 
thebeloved— Paul the spiritually beautiful. And 
once, as if a magnetic current had been established 
between their minds, she saw.’ a cold, dim attic, with 
a corpse lying upon a snow-white counterpane, and 
kneeling by the bed was one with the dark locks 
and kindly face of Tacl Devaueux, She started, 
pressed her hands upon her brow, and then the 
vision vanished. 
Ah! hud not Paul prophesied right that quiet 
eve upon the veranda? Her restlessness at one 
time, and her vacant, aimless movements at another, 
fully attested it. Her tapered lingers could not 
draw from her guitar the witching sounds of the 
long ago: and the song died upon her lips or wan¬ 
dered into a plaintiveness that made her heart ache. 
Seldom stood her neighing steed at the gate: it wus 
so dull, so monotonous to ride: the long, shady 
groves had lost their beauty, Ibr Paul was not there! 
The dreamings of the poets no longer contained the 
rich gems the deep, musical voice of Paul had held 
up so gloriously to her mind. Her eyes read, but 
her heart did not understand. And often the letters 
seemed to shapen themselves into earnest, truthful, 
lovintr words that Paul may once have said. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
COLUMBIA. 
YrANUAL of AGRICULTURE. 
d-’-L Prepared under the direction and published 
with the sanction of the 
Massachusetts state board of agriculture. 
An Elementary Treatise, com prising the Principle* and Practice 
of Agriculture, including the Corppnrition of Soils, the At¬ 
mosphere. Water, Manures, etc. the Preparation of 
Lands, the Culture ofSpecisl Crops, the Principles 
of Rotation, the Disea.-es and Enemies of Grow¬ 
ing Plant., the Choice and Management of 
Farm Stock, and the General Economy 
of the Farm and the Household. 
FOR THE f*E OF SCHOOLS, FAMILIES, AND 
FARMERS. 
BY GEORGE B. EMERSON, 
For many years connected with the Massachusetts Board of 
Education, and author of a valuable Report on the Trees 
and Shrub* of Massachusetts, and 
CHARLES* I. FLINT, 
Secretary ot tlm Massachnsetts State Board of Agriculture, 
author of a Treatise on Milch Cows and Dairy Fanning, 
Glasses and Forage Flams, etc., 
ILLUSTRATED BY MANY ENGHVINGS. 
RECOMMENDATIONS. 
The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, after a careful 
revision of the work, passed the following resolution: 
•* Resolved. That this Board approve of the Manual of Agricul¬ 
ture submitted by its authors. Messrs. George B. Emerson and 
Charles L. Flint, aud recommend its publication by these gen¬ 
tlemen as a work well adapted for use in the schools of Massa¬ 
chusetts " _ 
From Hon. Marshall P Wilder. 
•***'’ .Most cordially do I recommend the book as being 
admiafbl) adapted to the use of school*, and equally valuable 
to the cultivators of the soil. I take great pleasure in com¬ 
mending it not only to the people of Massachusetts, but to the 
farming community throughout our country ’ 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
From The Montreal Transcript 
" One of the most useful Imoks of the kind we have ever met 
■with.” _ m , , , _ 
From The Ohio Farmer. 
• The plan of the work i* excellent, and the matter equal to 
the plan. Hail we the power, we would have it taught iu every 
school in America." 
From The Barnstable Patriot, 
" It may be safely accepted as a standard work upon all that 
it professes to teach We recommend it to all our farmers as a 
most useful band hook." 
From The Gazette. Montreal 
■•The plan of the work is admirable, and the writing has the 
merit of being both clear and concise " 
[ Re-published from a former Volume, by Special Request] 
Columbia, thou peerless one. 
Through glory’s gates exulting enter; 
For thou art Freedom’s morning sun. 
Of all her stars the alibiing eeuter. 
The King of kings, whom worlds revere, 
Bent down, and from the itarkness won thee; 
Placed thee in thine effulgent sphere, 
And set his radiant seal upon thee. 
Columbia! Columbiai— 
Blest land where tyrants flourish never — 
On thy green soil we bend the knee, 
And hail thee God’s and cure forever. 
Ah ! well we know Jkhovaii’h love, 
When all earth's Eastern flowers did wither. 
Bade the swill breezes westward move 
To waft the seed of Freedom hither. 
Wild roared the blast — the hardy germ 
By secret dews of eve was nourished ; 
Soft sang the wind — erect and firm 
It rose, and by the waters flourished. 
Columbia, etc. 
Eden of earth ! thy generous clime 
Gave Freedom's plant sun, wind, and shower; 
It. bloomed — the brightest rose of time. 
And on our hearts we wear the flower. 
With loyal blood in every vein, 
In spirit fi-ce. though bond in letter. • 
We link our golden Union chain, * 
And bless tins Power that forged the fetter. 
Columbia, etc. 
Queen o i, the seas I when o’er the flood 
Caw armiee, mad with thirst for slaughter, 
Upon thy hills our fathers' blood 
For love of thee ran down like water. 
And when the blatant cannon stormed. 
By Treason s dastard hand directed, 
At once thy patriot-legions swarmed, 
And every stream their swords reflected. 
Columbia, etc 
Live on, unstrained and unenslaved, 
When all that seek thy hurt have perished ! 
By Freemen won. by Freemen saved. 
And by the GuD of Freemen cherished ! 
Heaven’s crystal gates, thou peerless one. 
Uplift, their headB to hid thee enter; 
For thou art Freedom's morning sun. 
And all her stars around thcc center. 
Columbia! Columbia! 
Bright land where tyrants flourish never. 
With reverent love we bend the knee.. 
For thou art God's and ours forever! 
Buffalo, N. Y., 1861. 
DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF TERRA-CULTURE. 
First Farmer .—In the name of wonder?, neighbor 
Smith, wbat have you got there? 
Second Farmer .— Why, you see last year I paid 
$1 for the secret of terra-culture, and this year it 
will cost me Si,000 to get my farm rid of these 
pumpkins, and the trunks of corn stalks which we 
have commenced chopping down this morning. 
Don’t forget to come to (he logging bee! 
An Inference. —Toaservantwhohad lived many 
years with a clergyman, his master took occasion to 
say: 
- John, you have been a long time in my service; 
1 dare say you will lie able to preach a sermon as 
well as I.” 
“ O no, sir.” said John, “ but many an inference I 
have drawn from yours.” 
“Well,” said the clergyman, “I will give you a 
text out of Job — let me know what you infer from 
it — * And the asses snuffed up the east wind.’ ” 
“Well,” said John, “the only inference I can 
draw from this is, that it would be a long time 
before they would grow fat upon it.” 
She sat by the window with something of an air of sad¬ 
ness and weariness. Traveling had done her good. 
Her form had developed more fully in its beauty; 
her cheeks were round and ruddy: her eyes were 
more brilliant and vivacious, and bathed in the 
earnestness of thought Her whole air was that, of 
a calm, contented, self-possessed woman. 
Yet she was weary of Paris—and her thoughts 
were turned toward the sunny shores of her own be¬ 
loved land. Thither she was slowly making up her 
mind to boud her steps. Almost every place of note 
in populace-heaving Paris had been visited : the 
Jardin des J'lantes , with its birds, beasts, and 
flowers, a practical lecture upon natural history: the 
galleries of the Louvre, awakening the innate taste 
for the arts and conveying the history of the country 
by the events they commemorate; the Tuilleries. the 
Champs ElysSecs. St. Cloud. Versailles with its pal¬ 
aces and parks— all these Miriam had visited—and 
on that day she had even entered the low gray stone 
building. Uie Morgue, that city of the suicidal dead 
— that lust refuge of passion, misery and crime. 
The room which Mhuam occupied was plainly 
furnished. There were two large airy windows, 
with red and white curtains; a fine mirror between 
the windows, a round marble-topped table in the 
middle of the room, a snug bed with befrilled pil¬ 
lows and drapery to match the windows, a clock and 
flower vases on the mantel, and a Beautiful piece of 
carpet before the hearth, and another by the bed. 
Upoll the table Jay two letters yet unopened. At 
last, as if weary of her silent meditations. Miriam 
left the window, sat down by the table, and slowly 
opening one of the letters, she began to read. It was 
one from Mr. Morgan, filled with his usual eccen¬ 
tricities, tiis “ positive ” assurances, his abrupt 
admonitions, his playful raillery. The closing part 
of the letter, however, made her cheek blanch, and 
a low cry to escape, from her tips. The extract ran 
as follows: 
“Well, Miriam, as 1 have told you several times 
before, the heir has appeared, and the homestead 
has been passing by a regular process into his 
hands. To-day the last legal conventionality was 
Price 75 cent*. Copies sent fiv mail on receipt of the price. 
A liberal discount made to School*. Academic*, or Public 
Institutions. . . . . 
t'i 7 ~ a liberal discount will also be made to Agents 
Every farmer and every man who cultivates a garden should 
have this AN BRKWEn k TILBSTON, 
625 . 0 No 131 Washington Street. Boston, Mass. 
The sun rose beautifully the next morning over 
the storm. The birds twittered, the flowers opened 
their-velvet petals, and the river had learned some 
deeper monotones. Miriam sat in the parlor. She 
was arrayed in a plain white dresR, her hair taste¬ 
fully arranged and in harmony with the pale, quiet, 
spiritual beauty of her face. Her lips were 
expressive of resolution, and there was much of 
earnestness and thought in her liquid eyes. 
Soon a short, portly gentleman entered the room— 
a middle aged man, with red face, red hair, red 
whiskers, and a remarkably red waistcoat He was 
puffing like a porpoise, and giving expression to 
eccentricities in every word and movement. 
“Good morning, Mr. Morgan,” said Miriam;” 
“ take a chair.” 
“Thank you”—and out came a red handkerchief 
of inexpressible dimensions, which didn’t remove 
any of the redness from his face. “It's warm; it’s 
very warm: it's positively warm; no, it’s hot! My 
head seems on fire, and if I were to stick it into a 
bucket of water it would s-p-l-u-r-p/iiz? It’s a fact; 
but wbat is wrong, now?” 
“ I have a little matter that 1 wish you to attend 
to for mo, if it is not too troublesome.” 
“Your commands are never troublesome, never 
annoying, never executed with displeasure. What 
a cool air comes in at that window. It is quite 
refreshing; it is positively refreshing! Well?” 
“ Would it be asking too much to request you to 
take charge of the estates for one year?' 
“There ir is again! Ho dreadfully afraid ol im¬ 
posing on me. I am provoked —positively pro¬ 
voked. But why do you ask this?” 
“ 1 am going to Europe.” 
“ To Europe? Why. you are a little goose.’’ 
“ Thank you.” said Miriam, smiling at the abrupt¬ 
ness and eccentricity ot her friend. “You will 
think me more of a goose still, when you hear 
further of ray intentions. I want you to have this 
notice published in the different papers.” As Miriam 
spoke, she handed him a slip of paper. 
In went the handkerchief and out came the specs. 
Mr. Morgan took a pinch of snuff, crossed his legs, 
pushed back his chair, and opening the paper read 
aloud:— 
Notice.— The heirs of hemstead Place, Orange 
county. New York, are notified that they can have 
immediate and peaceable possession thereof. The 
right of possession is hereby voluntarily relin- 
gUBRARD & NORTHROP 
Are now offering, at their 
POPULAR SALES ROOM, 
Nos. 69 & 71 Main St, Marble Buildings, 
ROCHESTER, 1ST. Y., 
A CHOICE AND COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF 
European anil American Dress Goods, 
Black and Fancy Dm* Site, 
Brocheand Woolen laing Shawls, 
Broche and Woolen Square Shawl*. 
Bombazine*. Alpacas and Paramettas, 
French Merinos, (best assortment in Rochester,) 
French and American Prints and Ginghams, , 
House Furnishing Goods, Woolen Blankets, 
Lace and Muslin Drapery. (Yard orSet.) 
Wrappers and Drawers, (Ladies’and Gentlemen s,) 
White Goods, Embroideries, Hosiery, Ac. 
— AL S O — 
Bleached, and Brown Sheetings and Shirtings, 
Tickings, Denims and Towelings, 
At less tgan the present New York prices. 
Don't Ji mp. —Never jump out of a third story 
window when there is any means of escape. 
Never jump at conclusions. 
Try lo avoid jumping out of the frying pan into 
the fire. 
Never jump off the dock because you are in debt 
or in love. You’ll get wet if you do. 
Never jump at a flash of lightning— you can’t 
catch it. 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE HEIR OF REMSTEAD PLACE, 
BY P. H. STAUFFER, 
AUTHOR OF “UNDER A CLOUD 
•■Does the razor take hold well?” inquired a 
donkey, who was shaving a gentleman from the 
country. 
“Yes,” replied the customer, with tears in his 
eyes, “it takes hold first rate, but it don’t let go 
worth a cent.” 
Notwithstanding the general Stagnation in almost every de- 
partment of bUfiinufis tturinjr the la^t K w months, it is with 
much satisfaction that, we are aole to record the tact that our 
efforts to maintain our fomier amount of business have been 
entirely successful, and iu Rome department* the sale* have in¬ 
creased over those of any previous year, 
EVERY DEPARTMENT CONTAINS BARGAINS! 
Which we should be happv to exhibit, confidently believing 
that thev would be appreciated by the most economical pur¬ 
chaser. "We are also extensive manufacturers of 
LADLES' CLOT LI GARMENTS. 
Every desirable grade of Cloth and Beaver CLOAKS, of the 
most approved and Fashionable Styles* are now ottered by us in 
great variety. W e are also pro pared 
TO MANUFACTURE GARMENTS TO ORDER, 
AT A FEW HOURS' NOTICE, 
For those who prefer selecting their own Cloths. . 
We have taken great pains to perfect arrangements appertain¬ 
ing to this popular Ranch of our business, and we are every 
month acquiring more aud more popularity in the Manufac¬ 
turing Department. 
tjr OUR PRICES. ALWAYS SATISFACTORY. 
HUBBARD As NORTH ROD, 
612 Noa 69 & 71 Main Street, Rochester, N. Y 
A story is told of a person asking another one 
whether he would advise him to lend a certain 
friend money. 
“What! lend him money! You might lend him 
an emetic, and he wouldn’t return it.” 
and precursing either, flashes of lightning shot \ 
across the sky. glimmering brightly even in that 
high old attic. 
On the bed. in the cold embrace of death, lay his 
mother. One arm was thrown in a half circle 
around her head, while the other hand rested where, 
in its sudden coldness and stillness, it had dropped 
from the hand of Paul. Her lips were slightly 
apart, as if she were yet murmuring earnest words 
of love and faith; the lids of her eyes were merely 
drooped, just as if they had involuntarily closed 
before the awakening light of which she had Spoken; 
while upon her face lingered a sweet expression of 
resignation and hope. Her spirit had assumed its 
eternal embodiment. The grandeur of the soul 
that had suffered aud was strong, that had been 
tempted and yet did not fall, twinkled a star in the 
firmament of God’s brightness, crowned with honor 
and glory forever. 
Paul sat in a profound reverie. Thought was 
busy with his soul, and the changes of light and 
shadow on his face revealed their alternations of 
pleasure and bitterness. And so he was the true 
heir of Remstead Place? to the titled lands, the 
noble mansion, the sloping lawns, the blossoming 
orchards, the luxuriant gardens? He could hardly 
realize the fact—he hardly knew whether he ought 
to feel happy or sorrowful. And then came thoughts 
of Minus*, and his couree of action toward her 
from the change of circumstances. The property 
was Ms, and he could honestly, justly accept of her 
offer to share it with her. But it was the principle 
from which she had acted that came up against her 
in the eloquent pleading of love. Tin- past sacrifice 
of her love to her pride—the immolation of the 
gushing affections of her young heart upon the altar 
of fashion and avarice — these came up against her. 
No, she was still in the refining tire, and he would 
watch and wait until she came thence purified. One 
year had passed, and he would allow another to go 
by ere he asserted his claims or divulged his secret. 
He had been schooling his heart, and wild, thrilling, 
ecstatic as his love had l>een, he learned to look 
upon it without tremor or dread; and it came to 
him like a beautiful dream of the past — a picture 
on the clouds, that passed away with their shifting 
vapors. And at times, when it mould come up to 
him as a reality, he would bring her to mind in the 
light she appeared at the last interview: and thus 
arrayed in the hideousness of her haughtiness and 
pride, she stood before him a “deformed beauty.” 
and he almost turned away with a shudder. 
But in his reverie beside the dead, it docs not seem 
strange that the memory of Miriam should have 
been tinted with something of its olden beauty. 
Towed her now would not cause npbraidiugs from 
the voice of liis integrity: could she not have 
mourned in self-reproach, have repented, and he 
yearning tor the sweet reunion again? Ah! love is 
an eloquent pleader; its voice is the voice of melody; 
its bribe is the full happiness of life; and its inspira¬ 
tion is the inspiration of the impassioned soul. 
And Miriam! 
She, too. sat alone, engaged in communion with 
her own soul on that night of tempest and storm. 
The lightning in her vicinity was more vivid and 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AGRICULTURAL ENIGMA. 
I am comjiosed of 35 letters. 
M,v 6, 9, 2, 36 is a kind of soil. 
My 4,11, 33, 20, 5 is i: very useful domestic animal. 
My 14, 27, 33, 10, 1, IS, 28, 23, 3, 28, 33, 1, 6, 13 is one who 
cultivates fruit. 
My 30. 2, 11, 33, 18, 21, 36, 33, 36 is much needed on every 
farm. 
My 7. 26. 1. 24, 29. 18. 22. 33, 26, 34, 33 is a kind of potato. 
Sly 11,17. 31 is a kind of grain. 
Mx 33. 9, 12, 13, S. 33 is part of a building. 
My 32, 11), 29, 18, 14 is h kind of wood. 
My 33, 16, 8 is a kiud of grain. 
My 16, 30, 23, 23. 11, 7 is to plow, harrow, and break, without 
sowing. 
My whole is a sentence pronounced by God upon Adam and 
his posterity. 
Mesopotamia, Ohio. 1861. C. N. Bates. 
23F’ Answer in two weeks. 
q dished to the stronger aud prior right of heirship. 
Call on, or address, Caleb y. Morgan. 
Attorney at Law. 
No. — Beckman street. N. Y. 
Humph." grunted Mr. Morgan, shoving back his 
specs and again having recourse to the handker¬ 
chief. "This is refreshing, positively refreshing! 
You were right; yon are really more of a goose 
than I thought you were.” 
“Will you do this for me, Mr. Morgan?” 
“No!” was the abrupt answer. 
“ Emphatically no?” 
“Yes — emphatically and positively no.” 
“ Then I shall apply elsewhere,” calmly returned 
Miriam. 
Mr. Morgan rose to his feet, and after passing 
once around the room, stopped in front of Miriam. 
“ Miss Lee.” he said, “ are you insane?” 
“ I am in earnest” 
“No, you are not It is a whim — a positive 
whim — a superlative whim.” 
“ The sense of right and duty, Mr. Morgan, is no 
whim.” 
“ Right? duty ? humph! There is no such a thing 
as right any more. It is an obsolete term and 
attribute. But where do you get this sense of right?” 
“Within my own soul, Mr. Morgan.” 
“It is simply an impulse.” 
If it is, it is a holy, earnest impulse. Men often 
err from judgment—women rarely from impulse. 
But 1 do not wish to argue the question. You 
know, too, what is right, and 1 do not want you to 
drive me from my purpose by your sophistry and 
quibbling—your law phrases and contorted defini¬ 
tions of right. My mind is made up; I am as 
immovable as a rock.” 
“ A large rock. Miss Lee?” 
“You are disposed to be facetious, this morning— 
• positively’ facetious. But, once for all. will you do 
this favor for me? You shall be remunerated.” 
“Since you are in earnest, and cannot be driven 
from your purpose, I consent. Your will shall be 
my law. Pardon me if I have been coarse and 
abrupt.” 
“I have nothing to pardon, Mr. Morgan. I have 
known you for years — and that is enough, My 
father’s friends are my friends, Mr. Morgan.” 
“Thank you, thank you, Mtriam; allow me to 
call you Miriam. Peace to the ashes of the dead!” 
and the lawyer brushed an honest tear from his eye. 
“ 1 shall proceed regularly and energetically in this 
matter.” 
That is what I wish. You are fully empowered to 
do so by virtue of your office—” 
QHORT-HORNS,- I have for sale a few Bulla and 
O Bull Calves. Cow* and Llelfcra the Yo'.inif 
Duke of GlOBter (1I38Z.I and GiandJJukc of Oxford (H>184) 
623-9t * White Spring Farm, Geneva, N. Y. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
A BOUQUET OP FLOWERS. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THE LARGEST CIRCULATED 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY WEEKLY, 
18 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 
D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
1 is a number, a letter, and a small but useful article. 
2 is un animal and a covering for the hand. 
3 is an adjective and a gentleman s name. 
4 is a color and 11 lady's name. / 
6 is a color.and something used in winter when riding. 
0 is two colors. 
7 is a woman. a letter, and a covering for the foot. 
8 is wealth and a lady's name. 
9 is an animal and an accidental movement. 
10 is religious persons and a covering for the head. 
11 is a lady's name and a place where metals are found. 
12 is a woman, a preposition, the definite article, and a sheet 
Of water. 
13 Is a hard substance and a color. 
14 is a kind of cloth and a line shrub. 
16 is a bird and an article used in riding. 
16 two ladies’ names. 
17 is a part of the day and something much sought after when 
it signifies fame. 
18 is a vehicle and a country. 
December, 1861. 
Answer in two weeks. 
TERMS IN ADVANCE: 
Two Dollars a Year.— To Clubs and Agents as follows 
Three Copies one year, for $5; Six, and one free to club agent, 
for $10; Ten, and one free, for $15; Fifteen, and one free, for $21; 
Twenty, and one free, for $26. aud any greater number at game 
rate — only $126 per copy. Club papers directed to individuals 
and sent to as many different Post-Offices as desired. As we pre¬ 
pay American postage on papers sent to the British Provinces, 
our Canadian agents and friends must add 1% cents pew copy to 
the club rates or the Rural The lowest price of copies sent to 
Europe, Ac., is $2,60— including postage. 
13’“ The above Terms and Rato* are invariable. Therefore, 
any person who is not an agent, sending the club rate ($1.50 or 
$1.25) for a single copy (the price of which is $2.) wilt only 
receive the paper the length of time the money pays fur at Bill 
single copy price. People’ who send us lets than published 
rates, and request the paper for a year, or a return of the 
monev. cannot be tUXOtniilfflaUd— for it would be unjust to 
Children often rise in the morning in anything 
but an amiable frame of mind. Petulant, impatient, 
quarrelsome, they cannot be. spoken to or touched 
without producing an explosion of ill-nature. Sleep 
seems to have been a hath of vinegar to them, and 
one would ihink the tluid had invaded their mouth 
and nose, and eyes aud ears, and had been absorbed 
by eveiy pore of their sensitive skins. In a condi¬ 
tion like this, I have seen them bent over the paren¬ 
tal knee and their persons subjected to blows from 
the parental palm; and they have emerged from the 
infliction with the vinegar all expelled, and their 
faces shining like the morning—the transition com¬ 
plete and satisfactory to all the parties. Three- 
quarters of the moods that men and women find 
themselves in are just as much under the control oi 
the will as this. The man who rises in the morning, 
with his feelings all bristling like the quills of a 
hedgehog, simply needs to be knocked down. Like 
a solution of certain salts, he requires a rap to make 
him crystalize. A great many mean things are 
done in the family for which moods are put forward 
as the excuse, when the moods themselves are the 
most inexcusable things of all. A man or a woman 
in tolerable health has no right to indulge in an 
unpleasant mood, or to depend upon moods for the 
performance of the duties of life. If a bad mood 
come to such persons as these, it is to be shaken off 
by a direct effort of the will, under all circum¬ 
stances.—“ Lessons in Life." 
Frank E. IIortov 
Behead a household article and leave a part of a gun. 
Beheud a craft and leave a grain. 
Behead a tumor and leave a substance. 
Behead a fruit and leave a part of the body. 
Behead a stream and leave a bird. 
Behead a number and leave a part of the day. 
Behead a.joiner's tool and leave a short road. 
Behead a domestic article and leave a part of a house. 
Behead a pack of goods and leave a beverage. 
Behead a coffer and leave an animal. 
Behead a deep utt-nsil and leave a fierce hird. 
Behead a piece of furniture and leave the name of a shepherd. 
JUS?” Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
geometrical problem. 
A semi-oircumfkrbnce of a circle is drawn with a radius 
equal to 10 Suppose another are to be drawn within the 
former, cutting it at its extremities with a radius equal to 
14,142 (which is the square root of twice the square of 10.) 
Required, the area of the crescent thus formed. 
Batavia. N. Y., 1S61. 4- RkaSTEB, 4k. 
tCW” Answer in two weeks. 
The busybody labors without thanks, talks with¬ 
out credit, lives without love, and dies without tears, 
