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shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the 
silken wretch because ho hath riches, nor pocket 
an abuse because the hand which offers it wears 
a ring set with diamonds.— LYanklm. 
Written for Moore's Kara! New-Yorker 
THE VALUE OF BOOKS. 
KrsnuEss.— Kind words, looks and acts are 
the 6mall currency of social life, each of incon¬ 
siderable value, but in the aggregate forming the 
wealth of society. They are the “ excellent oil” 
which keeps the machinery from rusting, wearing 
or creaking. They are the dew that refreshens 
and nourishes the otherwise arid fields. They 
are the sunshine of an else murky, dreary world. 
Through the medium of books we are enabled 
to converse with kindred spirits who have lived 
in every age of the world. What an exhaustleas 
fountain of pure enjoyment! Whose heart has 
not glowed with extacy while reading some favor¬ 
ite author, and seen the world, as it were, re- 
ceeding in the far distance, while dwelling, in 
imagination, in some fairly land where all is. 
purity, harmony and love, and breathed the 
hallowed ftttmosphere of a more exalted state of 
existence. Oftentimes when gloomy thoughts 
have chased all the sunshine from the heart and 
the darkness in vain for one ray of 
Knowledge of the world is regarded as a use¬ 
ful if not an elegant accomplishment; but this 
advantage, like every other good, Is mixed with 
some alloy; the acute observer of men and 
manners cannot but bo disgusted with the 
scenes that take place around him, and hla 
knowledge may at last have the effect of sour¬ 
ing his own disposition. 
we pierce 
light, some little word of encouragement, clothed | 
in the beautiful language of poesy, and perhaps 
buried deep among the precious treasures of 
memory, has dispelled the gloom aud awakened 
within us new and holler aspirations, made us 
to feel that there are yet higher attainments and 
more glorious achievements before us, and by 
thus nnvailing the star of hope, has filled us 
with joy aud peace unutterable. 
When deprived of the society of the cultivated 
and the refined, what can compensate l'or the 
loss, what can keep the soul unpollutod when 
brought, daily and hourly, perhaps, lu contact 
with low and vulgar minds ? What but familiar 
intercourse with the great and good of other 
times, the record of whose deeds has been trans¬ 
mitted to us by the pen of the historian. The 
arm of the patriot soldier has been nerved for 
deeds of valor by peruslug the lives of those who 
have poured out blood and treasure like water 
for country and the sacred cause of liberty. The 
heart of the Christian has been warmed with a 
holier zeal by reading of the martyrs and evan¬ 
gelists who have risen above the vanities of 
the world aud whose virtues tower aiofit iii sub¬ 
lime grandeur, their follies and weaknesses 
buried by the laps® of years How base, how un¬ 
worthy of our high destiny, is the light and 
trifling conversation which occupies so large a 
part of the precious time in which wo might 
enjoy the companionship of poets, philosophers 
and sages, and receive inspiration from them to 
strengthen us to fight bravely the battle of life. 
If there is anything more than the blissful assur¬ 
ance that we shall see the King in Hla beauty aud 
dwell forever with Him in glory required to lure 
the soul to Heaven, it must be the delightful 
anticipation of meeting aud conversing with 
those whose characters we so love to contem¬ 
plate. Lynde. 
Waukesha, Wis., 1866. 
FOE BOYS AND GIELS, 
The Little Corporal.— The Pittsburgh Chris¬ 
tian Advocate says:—“The best paper for chil¬ 
dren,.published In this great country of ours, is 
The Little Corporal. It is ft gem ill the catalogue 
of monthlies.” Published monthly in Chicago, 
Ill., by Alfred L. Srwet.l. Terms, $1 a year; 
10 cents for a specimen number. 
North-Western Indian Expedition (concerning 
which Rural readers have probably both heard 
and read more or less,) reached the Fort on its 
return in August, 1364, and was there provisioned 
for its tedious journey to the States. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ILLUSTBATED BEBUS. 
EFFECT OF LIGHT 
OUE SYSTEM OF TAXATION 
DA. Moore, the metaphysician, thus speaks of 
the effect of light on body and mind:— A tad¬ 
pole confined in darkness, would never become a 
frog; and an infant deprived of heaven’s free 
light will only grow into a beautiful and re¬ 
sponsible being, lienee, in the deep, dark gorges 
of the Swiss Valais, where the direct sunshine 
never reaches, the hideous prevalence of idiocy 
startles the traveler. It is a strange melancholy 
idiocy. Many are lucapable of any articulate 
speech ; some are deaf, Borne blind, some labor 
under all these privations, and all are misshapen 
In some part of the body. I believe there is in 
all places ft marked difference in the healthiness 
of houses according to their aspect with regard 
to the sun; and those are decidedly the healthi¬ 
est, other tilings being equal, in which all the 
rooms are, during some part of the day, fully ex¬ 
posed to the direct light. Epidemics attack in¬ 
habitants on the shady side of the street, and 
exempt those on the other side 
Harper’s Weekly, deducting a certain per¬ 
centage for contingencies, estimates our taxes 
at fifteen dollars per head of the whole popula¬ 
tion - a heavier amount than is paid in any other 
country, and argues in favor of the re-adjust¬ 
ment of our system of taxation, with ft view to 
relieve industry from the burdens which now 
press upon it. The present system, it is con¬ 
tended, fails in two essential particulars. 
First, that Its operation is too costly; aud 
secondly, that it opens the door to too many 
frauds. Both of these defects arise from the 
unwise attempt of Congress to tax every article 
that is eaten or drank or worn or used for neces¬ 
sity or pleasure, or manufactured, or consumed, 
Under the present law almost every 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
CHOOSING AN OCCUPATION. 
or enjoyed, 
object that can be named pays not only one but 
many taxes. Take a book, for instance. The 
author pays a tax on the product of his copy¬ 
right; the publisher pays a license, pays a tax ou 
his sales, and again an income tax on the profit 
on those sales; the paper used has paid a manu¬ 
facturer's tax, and a tax ou its sale; the ink pays 
the same, the leather use/1 In the binding has 
also paid two taxes; the- binder pays his income 
tax, and so also the printer; the retailer who 
sells the books pays for his license, a tax on ids 
Bales, and an income tax; so that by the time 
the book reaches the reader it lias actually paid 
fifteen separate taxes to the Government. Other 
articles-a coat, a pale of hoots, a carriage, a 
dwelling house-pay in about the same propor¬ 
tion. The worst of all this multiplied and vari¬ 
egated taxation is that the Government does not 
got, any thing like the whole amount the public 
pays, aud that while honest, men. pay their taxes, 
it is impossible to prevent rogues evading theirs. 
To collect bo infinite a number of small taxes re¬ 
quires an army of paid officials. To collect 
them so thoroughly as to prevent fraud would 
require every second man to be a detective. 
657” Answer in two weeks, 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
BEAD ALOUD 
; and even in 
epidemics such as ague, the morbid iuilueuce is 
often thus partial in its labors. 
Heading aloud is one of those exercises that 
combine mental aud muscular effort, and 
hence has a double advantage. To read aloud 
well, a person should not only understand the 
subject, but should hear his own voice, and feel 
within him that every syllable was distinctly 
enunciated, while there is un instinct presiding 
which modulates the voice to the number and 
distance of the hearers. Every public speaker 
ought to be able to tell whether he is distinctly 
heard by the furthest listener iu the room; if 
he is not able to do so, it is for want of proper 
judgment and observation. 
Heading aloud helps develop the lungs just as 
singing docs, if properly performed. The effect 
is to induce the drawing of a long breath once iu 
a while, oftener and deeper than that of reading 
without enunciating. These deep inhalations 
never fail to develop the capacity of the lungs 
in direct proportion to their practice. 
Common consumption begins uniformly with 
imperfect, insufficient breathing; it is the char¬ 
acteristic of tlie disease that the breath becomes 
shorter and shorter through weary months, dow u 
to the close of life, and whatever counteracts the 
short breathing, whatever promotes deeper in¬ 
spirations is curative to that extent, inevitably 
and under all circumstances. Let any person 
make the experiment by reading this page aloud, 
and in less than three minutes the instinct of a 
long breath will show itself. This reading aloud 
develops a weak voice aud makes it sonorous. 
It has a great efficiency, also, in making the 
tones clear aud distinct, freeing them from that 
annoying hoarseness which the unaccustomed 
reader exhibits before he has gone over half a 
page, when he has to stop and clear away, to 
the confusion of himself as much as that of the 
subject. 
This loud reading, when properly done, has a 
great agency in inducing vocal power, on the 
same principle that muscles are strengthened by 
exercise—those of voice-making organs being no 
exception to the general rule. Hence in many 
cases, absolute silence diminishes the vocal 
power, just as the protracted non-use of the arm 
of the Hindoo devotee at length paralyzes it for¬ 
ever. The general plan in appropriate cases, is to 
read aloud in a conversational tone, thrice a day, 
for a minute or two, or three at a time, increas¬ 
ing a minute every day, which is to he continued 
uutil the desired object is accomplished. Man¬ 
aged thus, there is safely and efficiency as a uni¬ 
form result. 
,\s a means, then, of health, of averting con¬ 
sumption, of being social and entertaining in 
any company, as a means of showing the quality 
of the mind, let reading aloud be considered an 
accomplishment far more iudispenslble than that 
of smattering French, or lisping Italian, or danc¬ 
ing cotillions, gallopades, polkas and quadrilles. 
— Mali's Journal. 
former will not be neglected. What can be more 
imprudent —we tuay truly say more cruel — 
than for a parent, from motives of pride, ambi¬ 
tion, caprice, or lust, to force a son into a calling 
at which his whole nature revolts, or for which 
he is unqualified by mental or physical organiza¬ 
tion? Who is there that can for a moment 
doubt that by bo doing many a man “ runs his 
head against a pulpit,” as Southey says, who 
might have been infinitely happy at the plow, or 
opulent behind the counter? 
How many persons eke out a miserable sub¬ 
sistence as lawyers and doctors, descending to 
arts of pettifogging and quackery which makes 
them almost loathu themselves, who might have 
been abundantly successful aa artisans or me¬ 
chanics? Every reader of the Rural, of dis¬ 
crimination, well knows that the wily Jesuits — 
who evinced an extraordinary power of pene¬ 
trating the secrets of the human heart—achieved 
miracles of success iu educating youth. One 
chief source of the astonishing influence which 
they exercised over the whole world, is said to 
have been the sagacity they manifestly!, in adapt¬ 
ing the peculiar business or agency of the differ¬ 
ent members of their order, to the peculiar 
qualifications with which they were endowed by 
nature. There is hardly any human being who 
is not qualified to shine in some profession or 
calling, and it is far better to be at the head of 
an inglorious profession or calling than at Ihe 
foot of one which the world calls, par excellence , 
“respectable.” Better be the Napoleon of 
boot-blaeks, than a “jack of all trades and mas- 
I am composed of 37 letters. 
My 19, 23,11, 87, 31, 23, 84, 27 is one of the United 
States. 
My 7, 10, 18, 11, 85. 10, 26, 83, 17, 22, 5, 34, 35,10,12, 0 
is a name dear to every American heart. 
My 34, 13 is one of the letters of the Greek alphabet. 
My 2, 19, 10, 7. 23 Is also one of the letters of tin* 
Greek alphabet. 
My 29, in is a pronoun. 
My 19, 20, 3, 3, 9 Is ono of the Astertodes. 
My 4, 23, 21, 24, 30,10 is a girl's name. 
My 15, 38, 32, 30, 37 Is a flower. 
My 1,10,14, 31, 201a brave. 
My 14,28,12, 81, 22 was an assassin. 
My 9, 4,10, U, 19,83,1 i* a Union General. 
My 19, 28, 37, 20, 11 la a composer or music. 
My 14,16,86,10 is an esculent root. 
My whole is ono of Thomas .Jeirerson’s ten rules 
of ufo. Frankie J. Gibbs. 
Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y 
Answer in two weeks. 
A W0BD TO BOYS, 
A writer in an educational journal makes the 
following pertinent and truthful remarks to boys, 
which we deem worthy a prominent place in our 
columns. Boys, listen: 
The first thing you want to learn, to develop 
what force is in you, is self-reliance; that is, as 
regards your relation to man. If I was going to 
give a formula for developing the moat forcible 
set ot men, I should say:—Turn them upon 
their own resources with moral and religious 
truths wheu they are boys, and teach them to 
“depend on self and not ou father.” If a boy 
is thrown i$on his own resources at fifteen, 
with the world all before him where to choose, 
and he lights the battle single-handed up to man¬ 
hood, and don’t develop more 4 thau an average 
share of executive ability, then there is no stuff 
In him worth talking about. He may learn to 
“plow, and sow, and reap,[and mow,” but this 
can all be done with machines and horses, and 
a man wants to be better than cither of these. 
Wipe out of your vocabulary every such word as 
fail, give up wishing for improbable results, put 
your baud to the plow,'or whatever tool you 
take to, and then drive on, and never look back. 
Don’t even sight your person to see if it is 
straight; “don’t be consistent, but bo simply 
true.” If you go out to “see a reed shaken by 
the wind,” It is pretty likely you will never see 
anything Of more consequence. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. 
THE SANITARY COMMISSION 
I am composed of 29 letters. 
My 29,11, 8, 85, 33,16 was a Prophet. 
My 7,18,13, 20,17, 9, 2 was a King of Judah. 
My 16, 4,12,19, 8,3 wuh a city In Asia Minor. 
My 26,14,^7 is a Scripture measure. 
My 1,14, 81,19,13, 88, 81 was un Apostle. 
My 11,13,18, 27, 23,16 is a Jewish weight. 
My 5,10, 20, 8, 29 is a weapon mentioned in Scrip¬ 
ture. 
My whole may bo found in the Book of Psalms. 
Chautauqua, N. Y. R. s. u. 
itr Answer in two weeks. 
$77,099 51; Maine, $24,988 43; New Hampshire, 
$1,996 8*1; Vermont, $3,5:31 17; Rhode Island, 
$11,823 96, and Connecticut, $8,418 56. 
Of the above named sum, ($4,813,750 04,) the 
Commission disbursed four million Jive hundred 
and thirty thousand dollars , of which amount 
$322,472 19 were for general expenses; $88,90850 
for publications; $1)09,011 51 for hospital expen¬ 
ses, and $8,212,488 39 for supplies, their pur¬ 
chase, distribution, tfcc. A balance of cash in 
hand ou July 1 amounted to $232,975 09. At 
this period, when the relief bureau of the Com¬ 
mission closed, there'were vast stores and mate¬ 
rial on hand, all of which has been turned over 
to Gen. Howard's bureau, and receipted for by 
the officer in charge. The Claim Bureau, (which 
has been associated with the Commission,) closed 
ou the 1st of January, and turned over to the 
Central Bureau at Washington all the papers and 
documents in its possession. From that time 
on the Commission will devote itself to ($ie 
objects indicated1. The preparation of a final 
and full report; 2. The settlement of its general 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
AN ANAGRAM. 
MY LADIE. 
Lape dan tinpate ingawteh reve, 
Reway awingehat pamd whit stear; 
Nigchawt orf hut soyj tiheiw moce tno 
lihguort hot ogindrop palso fo seary. 
Stareh htgn surbittig tenp cbtir efllgnse, 
Dhhsue etrlh neglot funlUo ssinrat— 
Daehe htta ta herit utrshe uoldsh pirshwo, 
Wob ta rothe, rrfaei enlas. 
Clinton, N-. Y. Ss 
Answer in two weeks. 
HONESTY AND INDUSTRY 
Let honesty and industry be thy constant 
companions, and spend one penny less than thy 
clear gains. Then shall thy hide-bound pocket 
boou begin to thrive; and will never again cry 
with the empty belly-ache; neither will creditors 
insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, 
nor nakedness freeze thee. The whole atmos¬ 
phere will shine brighter, and pleasure spring 
up in every corner of thy heart. Nosv, there¬ 
fore, embrace these rales and be happy. Banish 
the bleak winds of sorrow from thy mind, and 
live independent. Then shalt thou be a man, 
and not hide thy lace at the approach of the 
rich, nor suffer the pain of feeilug little when 
the sons of fortune walk at thy right baud; for 
independency, whether with little or much, is 
good fortune, aud places thee ou even ground 
with the proudest of the golden fleece. Oh, 
then, be wise, and let industry walk with thee 
in the morning, and attend thee until thou 
readiest the evening hour for rest. Let honesty 
be as tbe breath of thy soul, and never forget to 
have a penny, when all thy expenses are enumer¬ 
ated and paid; then shall thou reach the point 
of happiness, and independence shall be thy 
shield and buckler, thy kernlet and crown; then 
My first is good although tie bad, 
My last is where we got when sad, 
My whole the weary long to find, 
To ease the head and calm the mind. 
Answer iu two weeka. 
Turtles. The Chinese gourmands have, it is ftgencica . What wiU be done with lho Barplus 
recorded, a method of cooking turtles that even fundB h;UJ u0t yet bccn determined. They will 
a London alderman would esteem rare. A tur- undoubtedIv be “ transferred as an endowment to 
tie is put into water at first only moderately restitution devoted to the interests of sol- 
warm, and covered over with a lid just sufficient dicrg gnd soIdiers famllies . 
to admit the animal all but the head, aud neck. 
Within reach of his mouth is placed a bowl filled 
with highly spiced wine. As the water gets As the twinkling stars go out one by one 
warmer the turtle gets thirsty, and is thus iu- iu the golden luster of the morn, so the once- 
duced to drink spiced wine, aud with more and popular perfumes of the American market have 
more eagerness until he becomes so completely faded into oblivion before the superior claims of 
saturated with it that when cooked every part of 1 Phalon’s “ Night Blooming Cereus,” the standard 
his body is impregnated with a delicate flavor of perfume of the Western Hemisphere, Sold every 
wine and spices that is highly prized. where. 
ANSWER TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 834, 
Answer to Anagram: 
Early joys, how false and fleeting! 
Vanishing within the hour; 
Envious, murky west winds, beating, 
Come and wither every flower. 
Can I in the verdury gladden, 
Casting now Its gradual shade, 
Which the autumn storms must sadden, 
And whose fairest forms must fade. 
Answer to Charade:—Charade 
Answer to Puzzle:—I am above making quarrels in 
a family between husband and wife 
A man proves himself fit to go higher, who 
shows that he is faithful where he is. A man 
that will not do well in his present place because 
he longs to be higher, is fit neither to be where 
he is nor yet above it. 
