crowned our effort?, and in our calm satisfaction we during its percolation of the earth; this, from its 
cared nothing for the few sneers thrown at us by perfect solution, would render it sparkling. Now, 
those who comprehended neither our labor nor its my good friend, you havo helped to enliven many a 
motive. ' Christmas party with ihe hot water you have sup- 
And now, after yfars of patient toil, lightened I plied, and cannot fail to have observed that when 
and glorified by the consciousness of something the guests were mixing their toddy, how much 
high and noble growing day by day into our lives, sooner the sugar dissolved in hot water than in cold; 
we sit in the old homfistead, and say with contented so it is with substances generally; they are more 
hearts — u Cfur Ship has came. in Ah, what a readily soluble in hot fluids than in cold.” 
golden freightage it lias brought us,—strength, and “ Yes, I’ve remarked that, sir,” said I. 
patience, and endurance, and hope,—lessons of “Lime, however, is an exception; at ordinary 
wisdom, of iiiith in Got) and man, and reliance temperature, a pint of water will dissolve fully 
upon the powers so long dormant within us. Our eleven grains of lime, while at the boiling point the 
mother, too. has learned content — and in the home same quantity will not take up seven, 01 this 
our hands have beautified and adorned, she too water, bright and brilliant, and fully saturated with 
dwells. We do not forget the two that have gone lime, or its carbonate, you were daily filled, and as 
“ over the river,’’ but looking hopefully onward, we it became hotter and hotter, down went the lime, 
labor as wc wait for the hour when wo shall go from leaving, day by day. an additional coat on your 
the sunshine here to the brighter sunshine there. poor sides; and as a very small snowball will, when 
And now, tired watcher for “ the ship that never set in motion, increase to a monster, so the continued 
conies over tho sea,” wait no longer idly upon the daily film of limy deposit increased to an 
ding for an abundant harvest, but after a year of 
neglect it was no light matter to free them from the 
grass and weeds that had sprung up thickly among 
them. Wo tried our gardening in gloves at first, 
but after a few days we abandoned them, except tor 
Old Jacob was our counselor, 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker ] 
“ NO OTHER LOSS.” 
A victory won, but “no other loss,” 
Save a private, late in the day; 
No captain or colonel, only a hoy— 
A drummer-boy shot in the fray. 
Only a drummer? hut where was the fight? 
And I pray you tell me his name: 
For my Wilms's hand is stationed somewhere 
Along on that white-tented plain. 
Not gay WtLLlfi I.kk? Oh. tell me not that! 
Not that bright eyed, sweet W.i.i.ii: Lek; 
. lii» mother's fond hope, her joy, and her pride— 
No! no! it is surely not he. 
Not Willie shot down and buried at night— 
At midnight, and no one knows where; 
No mothers fond hand to close the dark eyes, 
Or smooth back the curling brown hair. 
Dead? buried? oh, no' 'il» scarcely a month 
Since 1 kissed his soft, boyish check. 
As lie brushed from his eyelids the glittering tear 
He thought it unmanly to weep. 
Dead? buried? oli mil my Willie, come back. 
To thy mother's lone cottage return; 
There, at the window, she patiently waits. 
And all brightly the hearth-fires bum. 
Alas! he is dead, and never again 
Shall his stricken mother behold 
The dark, loving eyes, and red, laughing lips 
Of Wii.uk. so brave and so hold. 
All alone ou the battle-field that night. 
’Mid the carnage so fierce and so wild, 
Alope he went down to his soldier’s grave. 
My only, my beautiful cliild. 
“ No other loss!” they say it so coldly, 
As though it were only their own, 
As though no widowed mother were waiting. 
And weeping, and wailing alone. 
“ No other loss!” why a thousand men killed 
Would have been a small grief to me, 
Compared with my hoy, my only, my all. 
My honnte-eyed, sweet Wji.uk Lek. 
They tell mo other mothers are weeping 
Am! grieving as sorely as I; 
But little enough doth it comfort me 
That others thus bitterly cry 
Ah. no other loss! most surely tis true. 
I have nothing left me to lose, 
But Heaven gmnt that those who caused this wreck 
May receive their righteous dues. . 
Ah! just such a loss; I'll pray till I die 
That just such a dark, sable pall, 
A shadow as cruel and heavy as mine, 
Ou those trnit’rousrebels may fall; 
On those rile, selfish men. with vile, selfish aims, 
In their crafty, ambitious schemes, 
Who reCk not what woe and misery blight 
A fond mother's holiest dreams. 
Fayetteville, N. Y., 1862. A. M. I 
the roughest, of work, 
and did much of tho hardest of the work for us. 
but many and many a nijtlit did we go to our beds 
with bodies aching in every muscle. Still, to our 
great surprise, we found that after a short time the 
early morning hour that called us from our beds 
found us l’ul ly rested and refreshed, and ready for 
more vigorous exertion. 
“ It is such a blessing,” said Mart, one morning, 
ns she dashed the cool water over her sleepy eyes, 
“ that 1 am feeling so well this summer. This early 
rising and hard work would kill me if 1 were as 
languid as I usually am.” 
It never occurred to her that the good health was 
only a result of the active exercise and early rising, 
and none of us suggested it, for Mary had a will and 
a way of her own, and never liked to he helped to 
conclusions. 
We grew in time to be really interested in the pro¬ 
gress of the fruits and vegetables we tended and 
gathered, and even old ‘ Whi ley ’ and the market 
wagon ceased to be a daily horror to me. Mary 
brought her natural ingenuity to our aid, in devis¬ 
ing, and actually constructing, such supports for 
our tomatoes and slender fruits as were found needed, 
while Patience studied unweariedly the agricul¬ 
tural books which our father had done little more 
than purchase, gleaniug here and there such hints 
as we needed beyond what Jacob’s experience 
could furnish. She kept a strict account of all items 
of expenditure and receipt; every pint of milk, and 
every penny’s worth of truit or other “trash,” as 
Sallt called it, which found its way to the market, 
was carefully recorded, while one of my duties was 
the keeping of a kind of gardener's diary; noting 
the time when each crop of fruit or vegetables was 
planted, when it matured, and the length of its sea¬ 
son. This was for future reference, and to guide 
our operations another year. If would be well to 
know that peas or potatoes planted at a certain date, 
hail blossomed in a given leugth of time, and been 
first ready fur table at a specified day. 
We were not without some disappointments. Thc- 
Btriped bugs made sad havoc with our cucumbers 
and melons, before we learned to fight them effect¬ 
ually; the cut worms destroyed our sweet corn and 
cabbages, and 1 unwittingly sowed and tended a 
large crop of double sunflowers, the seeds of which 
were sent me by a roguish boy as a new and rare 
plant from Virginia. 
Picking strawberries! Shall I ever forget those 
agonizing hours that we spent crouching among the 
HIl.VS I'Oil ITS MFFV8IOJY! 
incon¬ 
venient and uncomfortable thickness, and ultimately 
brought you to grief, for this thick deposit, or ‘ furr,’ 
by reason of its being a bad conductor of heat, pre¬ 
vented its passage through you to the water; it would 
not boil, and you got blamed.” 
“You know best, sir; and no doubt it is as you 
say,” was all I could give utterance to. 
“ But to the point.” be continued. Yon are 
nearly half full of this troublesome stuff, and no 
doubt all good housewives will rejoice to learn an 
easy remedy. This limy deposit, though hard, and 
troublesome to remove by hammer and chisel, is 
easily got rid of by chemical agency. Hydrochloric 
acid ”—(giving a wince at this hard name, my mas¬ 
ter noticed it, and said, “Don’t be alarmed; it is 
commonly called spirits of salt.) will remove the 
cause of all your troubles in a very few minutes, 
without injury to yourself, and that we’ll at once 
prove.” 
Accordingly my good master sent to a druggist a 
bottle, and procured half a pound of spirits of salts, 
costing but a few pence; he placed me in the open 
air. and having diluted the “spirit" with a pint or 
so of water, poiyed it into me! Oh. what a commo¬ 
tion it did produce! I laugh now; but really I was 
alarmed at the effervescence that took place within 
me; hut os in a moment the “furr” began to get 
less and less, I felt relieved, and my spirits began to 
rise accordingly. My master shook me about now 
and then, taking care, I observed, to avoid the fumes 
that arose, and in a lew moments exclaimed. “All 
right, old follow, I can see your copper; now you'll 
do. Come with me to the pump, and a douche will 
set you quite to rights.” For ten minutes I was 
under hydropathic treatment—such as patients at 
Ben Rbydding or Malvern rarely experience—and 
I was well as ever, “ good as new.” 
I am now happy to tell I have never had a relapse 
of my old complaint, am happy as the day is long, 
and sing as readily as ever. 
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CONFESSIONS OF A TEA-KETTLE 
OH, A HINT TO HOUSEWIVES. 
EVERY CLUB AGENT REWARDED! 
Now that the period of competition for the 
Premiums offered last November for early lists, 
(and the largest clubs remitted for on or before Feb. 
1st.) has expired —and as the large lists have 
already been received — we purpose giving every 
friend of the Rural who will obtain a small number 
of subscribers (say 6 to 24 or more,) a valuable 
Reward for his or her effort in so doing. Our 
Programme for the Spring Campaign is in this wise: 
Fvekybouy said so, and we all know what 
everybody says must be true, especially what every 
lady says. Now, what every lady said was this, 
that I was a “love of a tea-kettle.” I'm not a 
vain tea-kettle; and, although I say it, who shouldn’t 
say it. in my youth I was pretty. Ah! you may 
laugh, but you’ll be old some day, depend on it. 
Well, I promised you ray history, and now I'll 
tell it, if you'll only listen. 
I was made of copper, and no sooner was the last 
polish put upon me than my owner, a furnishing 
ironmonger, placed me in a conspicuous position in 
liis shop window. My bright appearance and neat 
shape very soon attracted the attention of passers-by. 
Every one admired me, and some pleased me by 
openly expressing their admiration. One day a 
young lady—evidently newly married—declared J 
was a “ love oi a tea-kettle,” and having satisfied 
the ironmonger as to his demand for rne, requested 
I should be forthwith sent to her house. Home I 
went and had the satisfaction of hearing both ihe 
cook and the housemaid speak favorably of my 
appearance; and that's a great thing, mind, lor a 
kettle. 1 was very comfortable in my new abode, 
and each evening, when tilled with water, pure and 
soft, and placed upon a hob by the side of a cheerful 
fire, soon sang away to my master and mistress’ 
satisfaction, and my own content. 
I went smoothly on. until one day my master 
having received an appointment abroad, resolved 
to dispose of liis household goods, myself among 
the rest. A lady residing in a neighboring village 
purchased me, and 1 was soon packed off. Some¬ 
how or other 1 speedily found that, although the 
wafer I was daily filled with was clear and bright- 
more sparkling indeed than that I had been 
accustomed to—it made me feel very uncomfortable 
about the stomach, accompanied with a tight sort of 
feeling, and a thickening of my inside, together 
with a great disinclination to boil and sing as 1 was 
wont. 
My mistress constantly complained of me; and 
as for the cook, she was positively rude, for on 
more than one occasion she shook her fist at me and 
exclaimed, “Drat that kettle, ’twill never bile!” 
My ailment increased, and I continued to get worse, 
and mj owner requested the cook to call in a 
doctor. A smith, residing hard-by. was my medical 
attendant, and he undertook to effect my cure: he 
saw at once that it was not my fault I did not boil— 
that I was coated inside with a substance foreign 
to my nature, which he termed “furr.” Taking me 
to his smithy, he set to work with hammer and 
chisel, and speedily removed the cause of all my 
troubles. Cut. oh, the remedy was as bad as the 
disease; my poor sides were so battered and bruised 
that I felt sure that when I reached home I should 
be dismissed to tho kitchen, and never more he 
summoned to the tidy parlor fire; and. moreover, 
one small holo was knocked right through me. 
which pained me much; that, however, was patched 
up, and. as I didn't complain, no one noticed it. 
although the “ furr ” was removed, I was left very 
rough in my inside, and being once more brought 
into daily requisition, soon became as bad as ever. 
Neighbors wore consulted, and all sorts of remedies 
proposed for rny cure; one, that potato peelings 
were to be boiled in me; another, a marble, and so 
forth; but no good came of them, and I continued 
to get so bad and clogged up with “furr.” instead 
of holding three quarts, I hardly could contain as 
many pints. One day a traveling linker happened 
to pass through our village; he was a loquacious 
follow, and soon made the acquaintance of my 
mistress’ cook; she happened to mention me to him, 
and he undertook to put me to rights in half .an 
hour. In an evil moment lor her, she parted with 
me. and next day I was miles away, in a large man¬ 
ufacturing town, never more to return, for the tinker 
was not accustomed to the method of business 
according to the rule of meum ct hum. He soon 
sold me for half my weight's value to a chemist, 
who, taking off’ my lid. exclaimed, •• Ah. my poor 
fellow! you've been badly used, I can see.” 
liis sympathizing tone induced me to open my 
heart to him. and to tell him rny whole history from 
the very first. 
“I sec how it is,” said he, “but we'll soon have 
it all right. I understand you to say that the water 
you were first supplied with seemed to be very pui e 
and soft, though not so sparkling and bright as that 
yon were filled with by your second owner. Well, 
that is quite in accordance with chemical facts; the 
water from the pump of your second mistress owed 
its brilliancy to the quantity of lime it held in solu¬ 
tion. Rain 'water, caught in clean vessels away 
from large towns, is the purest water that can be 
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April 15, 1862. we will give a United States Treasury Note for 
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Flower Seeds 
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others who receive this, will at unee commeuce the Spring 
Campaign. 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.) 
BY EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER. 
[Concluded from page 60. last week.] 
Our mother was so much enfeebled hv years of 
sickness, and had grown so accustomed to relying 
wholly upon Patience, in all matters that required 
judgment or decision, that she interposed no objec¬ 
tions when some of the plans for our summer’s 
campaign were opened to her. nnd only damped 
our confidence a little by her total lack of faith in 
our success. In less than a week Jacob Ball and 
his wife, Sally', were quietly installed in the deso¬ 
late west wing, as much delighted with their com¬ 
modious quarters as old ‘ W hi toy ’ was with the 
unwonted luxuriance of his new pasturage. 
As yet Mary and I had done nothing beyond 
finishing some sewing that was needed, for we were 
our own milliners and mantua-makers. Directly 
after dinner, one day. Patience brought her beau¬ 
tiful saddle-horse from the stable and fastened him 
in front of the house, while she went up stairs for 
her riding habit. We knew what was coming, and 
bent lower over our needles, avoiding even a glance 
tow ard the windows, and taking no notice of the 
familiar call of recognition, by which the intelligent 
creature strove to win from ns his customary share 
of caresses. Neither of us spoke to Patience as she 
passed through the room in her riding-dross, bur. 
after she was seated in the saddle, she called Mart 
to fasten something that seemed loose about the 
head-gear of the horse. Mary’s fingers worked 
slowly, and all the lime she kept her face Mimed 
away from Patience; but when the buckle w as at 
last secured, she threw her arms around the neck of 
the horse with a sudden, passionate impulse, and 
hastily kissed the* glossy head bent down to her 
shoulder, then rushing up to her room was invisible 
for an hour. As for me, I w atched Patience ride 
slowly away, and my busy thoughts kept time with 
my busy fingers, as 1 reviewed the past few years, 
and remembered all that our elder sister had been, 
and still w as to us. The daily beauty of her life 
was making something higher and nobler within 
me. She was my Evangel. 
Towards evening Patience made her appear¬ 
ance, coming down the road wilb the long skirt of 
her dress raised in one hand, while in the other she 
carried a formidable birch stick, with which she was 
driving before her two cows. It was impossible not 
to laugh at the appearance of the group, but 
Patience quietly kept on her way, until she had 
secured the new purchases in the barn-yard, and 
53^” Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ACROSTICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 10 letters. 
My 1,4 is an island near tlie coast of France. 
Mv 2, 1. 3 is a spherical body. 
My 3, 9, 8 is ui insect 
My 4. 10, 10 is a measure. 
M,v 5, 2, 3 is to plunder. 
My 6, 2. 7 Is tho upper end. 
My 7, 2 B a river in Italy. 
My 8. 3. 3 is to tiow back. 
My 9, 3, 3, 2 is a river In Spain. 
My 10, 2. 7 ie a flea. 
My whole vvas the most distinguished English statesman of 
his age. 
Alabama. N. Y., 1862. A. B. Norton. 
£"gr = Answer in two weeks. 
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Fbbruaky 3. 1S62. 
before the clouds rolled quite away, there fell one 
bolt that smote us all to the very heart. M'e lost 
our little Nellie — our sunbeam, our song-bird 
went away and left us alone. She had but a short 
sickness, and she smiled and sung to the last; and 
almost before we 1 bought of danger or loss, the 
happy thing that had made Our light and our music 
was gone from ns forever. lfer ship come f?i, Not 
the one from that rosy dream-land she watched for. 
but that shadowy bark whose prow touches silently 
the shores of our mortality, and bears over the dim 
unsounded sea the souls of our best beloved. 
Strong und tender was the angel that sat at the 
helm, and the sails wore yet radiant with the glory 
of the further'shore: we said •* Got) wills it.” and 
we strqve to say also it is ■ ceil, but ihe house was so 
dark, and the world so empty without Nellie. 
Then, after the first passionate grief, the old de¬ 
sponding caine upon us. We were toiling, and for 
what? We were struggling, and to what end? It 
all seemed so useless and wearisome, that we were 
ready to sit down and fold our hands and weep. 
“After all,” said Mary, “it is only to live, and 
what is the use in living: why not in one way as 
well as another; it is not long, and it cannot matter 
mucht” 
•• God gave us these lives to live,” said Patience, 
always so much greater than we; “we will not be 
too weak, too cowardly, to live them well and 
nobly.” 
And so we went on. Mary secured a favorable 
situation to teach, while I. fortunately, failed. I say 
fortunately, for I was but fifteen, undisciplined, and 
in no respect fitted for the responsibility, and spring 
found me with mental wealth secured by diligent 
study, during those long winter evenings which far 
outvalued the money I might have earned bv 
attempting to teach. 
We took hold of our farming with new enthusiasm 
In the spring, enlarging our operations, and improv¬ 
ing upon the mistakes and failures of the previous 
season. Ah, the delight of that budding spring¬ 
time. when new hopes and stronger purposes than 
our old lives had ever known, budded and grew in 
daily strength and beauty, with a growth more last¬ 
ing than that we watched in the tender plants 
about us. 
Success, beyond what we had dared to dream 
Answer to Geographical Enigma:—Whatsoever ye would 
that men should do to you. do ye even so to them. 
Answer to Historical Enigma:—I am willing to die. 1 have 
done my duty. 
Answer to Rebuses on the Names of Animals:—Ounce, 
panther, lion, jackal, mandrill, bear, coati, seal, beaver, stag, 
whale, agouti, chinchilla, genet, polecat, muskrat, mole, eat, 
civet, tapir, roebuck 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
TilS largest circulated 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY WEEKLY, 
18 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 
D. D. T. MOORE, It Of II ESTER, N. Y. 
ANSWER TO MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA IN No. 62S. 
1st. “ Is he good-looking?" is a query generally asked by 
“ ladies " on the advent of “ gentlemen ’’ into society. 
2d. “ It is bed-time " is a short sentence which is, at certain 
times, used with some effect by “old farmers," who have 
marriageable daughters, to the discomfiture of their " beaux." 
3d. “17" or seventeen, placed before “7 ty 6" or 76, 
represents a rime long to be remembered by American citizens, 
4th. “1 or one is in the singular number, but if “0 " or 
naught be added, it becomes plural, or 10. 
5th. -'Wife'' is a name wliieh ought to be held dear by 
every •• husband " but when “ children " use it, it is changed 
to that of “ mother.” 
6th. “Alpha" comes next before “Beta," but “Omega 
comes last of nil. 
7th. “Thanks” are due by all “true patriots” to "the 
Press;” that is. those who have stood up manfully for the 
“ right " in this the time of our country's “ distress. " 
8th. “Cinque" bears the same relation to “five" that 
• 8 ty 5 ■' does to ihe stun of •• fifty 4” and “thirty 1.” 
0th. "Jesus" was the means of raising “Lazarus" from 
the "grave" to “life." thereby causing great astonishment 
among the “Jews.’ 
10tli “23450789” is another form of expressing ‘ twenty - 
three millions four hundred and lifry-six thousand seven hun¬ 
dred and eighty-nine." 
11th.’By using "perseverance" and ‘‘ingenuity” this 
enigma may be worked. 
. 12th. “ D. D. T. Moore " conducts one of the best papers 
for the benefit of “ farmers “ that lias ever been published in 
“the States." 
13th. Takeaway my “head.’my “body.''and my “hands,* 
together with my “arms,” my "feet, "and my “legs,” from 
the “ human frame." and nothing will remain. 
14th. “Paul" was once called • Mercurius," and “Barna¬ 
bas ” was called ■• Jupiter," because they were supposed to be 
“ gods " until Paul told the Jew s they were men. 
My whole is as follows:—The letters of the alphabet, a. b, 
e, d. e. f. g, h, i, j. k, 1. m. n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y. z, 
and the arithmetical figures, 1, 2, 3. 4. 5, 0. 7, S, 9. 0. 
[We would be glad to give the names of those who have 
sent in correct answers -ome have suggested in replying, 
but lack of space forbids.—E d.] 
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tances. The only way to get the Rural for less than $2 a year, 
is to form or join a club. 
Back Volumes.— Bound copies of onr last volumes will be 
ready in a few days—price, $3; unbound, $2. We would again 
state that neitLer of the first five volumes of the Rural can be 
furnished by us at any price- The subsequent volumes will he 
supplied, bound, at $3 each—or if several are taken, at $2 50 
each. The only complete volumes we can furnish, unbound, are 
those of 1359, fitl and 61 — price, $2 each. 
The Cash System is strictly adhered to in publishing the 
Rural— copies are never mailed to individual subscribers until 
paid for, and always discontinued when the txfbtcripticn ter m 
expires. Hence, we force the paper upon none, and keep no 
credit books, long experience having demonstrated that the 
Cash Plan is the best for both Subscriber and Publisher. 
Additions to Clubs are always in order, whether in ones, 
twos, fives, tens, twenties, or any other number Subscriptions 
can commence with the volume or any' number; but the former 
is the best time, and we shall send from it for some weeks, unless 
specially directed otherwise. Please “make a note of it." 
Any person so disposed can act as local age tit for the Rural 
New-Yorker, and those who volunteer in the good cause will 
receive gratuities, and their kindness be appreciated. 
No Travelin,; Agents are employed by us, as we wish to 
give the whole field to local agents and those who form clubs. 
