WEALTH AND WORK, 
f|ODGE’S PATENT 
Jl-i reaper 
BY GBOaOE W. MCNGAY. 
SECOND QUARTER OF VOL. XX 
The farmer with the nabob ranks. 
And with the gilded millionaires; 
For he controls substantial banks, 
And holds in them the safest shares. 
His banks ure banks of loam and clay. 
His shares are plow-shares in the mold 
The more they break, the morn they pay, 
In dividends of green and gold. 
WMNWUB 
A New (Quarter of ths Rural commenced 
last week — April 3d — under suth favorable auspices 
that we are greatly encouraged. Club Agents, Sub¬ 
scribers, and others interested, wh] please bear in 
mind that Now is the Time to fonr.ncw clubs. All 
up those started, subscribe singly, or rensw subscrip¬ 
tions. Thanking all Agent-Friends for th« r spirited 
and successful efforts during the Fall uud Winter 
Campaign— efforts which added many thousands of 
recruits to the “ Ilural Brigade ”— we bespeak a con¬ 
tinuance of their kind offices, so far as consistent. 
Our Premiums aiib continued, so that all who 
form new clubs, or till up those already started, will 
be Liberally Rewarded, 
Send for our Premium Programme and examine 
the list of Harvesting, Mewing and Knit¬ 
ting Machine*, Alimicul Instruments, (in¬ 
cluding Pianos, Organs and Melodeoua,) 
Gold and Silver Ware lies. Cuckoo and Mnn- 
le! Clocks, Improved Plows, Washing Ma¬ 
chine* and Wringers, Plated Ware, Dic¬ 
tionaries, llooks, Albums, &c„ which are 
offered for Clubs. The list Is too long to publish 
here, but is sent free to all applicants. Thousands 
of our Subscribers can easily make from |10 to $200 
each, during the ensuing month, by working for the 
KUHA.li, - and also do good and benefit eommunity 
by introducing such a paper a* the RURAL New- 
YOKKER. How many of our readers Will kindly 
aid the Rural during Its Spring Campaign ? 
. f~ New Subscribers can begin with this Quarter 
(April 3d.) or with the Volume, ( Jan. 3d.) as preferred. 
Those forming Clubs can have all the subscriptions 
begin together—with either January or April—or part 
can start at one date and part at another, the agent 
being allowed the same premiums offered for clubs 
commencing with the Year and Volume. 
Let Wall street brokers boast of “ bears,” 
And other brutes that kick and roar— 
Of Krie stock and Central shares, 
And " bulls ” that bellow loud for more. 
The farmer's "stock" is sure to rise. 
When lie calls Wbltefuco and the Roan; 
Was over beef so near the skies, 
“ Since the- old cow Jam-pud e'er the moon 1 
HE SUCCESS OF THE DODGE 
SELF RA KER during tho 
__ — . st season has been 
beyond ail precedent, its superior merits have been 
fully established by the uniform satisfaction It has 
given.and by the enthusiastic reports of the thou¬ 
sand* of purchasers. The great advantage of this 
Raker over all others is. that it requires no adjust¬ 
ment, but Is always ready for work in any kind of 
c»op, short- or long, lodged or otherwise, and the 
driver can make gavels with cither pf rlie Rakes, 
at,t| whenever he chooses, in perfect order for bind¬ 
ing The Machine Is also a splendid Mower. For 
further Information, please write for a pamphlet. 
Shoddy may pass for silk and wool, 
And burnished brass for solid gold, 
And he who Has his pockets full, 
In chariots of velvet rolled, 
May win the suiHo where be may go; 
But there are those who understand 
The tinsel of his outside show 
Reveal* a fool with lonr-ln-huud. 
'HHOAT AFFECTIONS.—A PHYSI 
clan writing from Newfnne, New York, spcufltlnj 
_M. ciuii irjibMiiiiruui iicwiauct dcit 
of the beneficial effects resulting from the use of 
“Brown'* Bronchial Troche*, 1 ' says s—“ For alleviating 
that horrid Irritation only felt by those who have 
suffered from any IirtmchUtl Affection, nod for Hoarse¬ 
ness and Sore Throat, too. 1 am free to confess 
(though 1 am an M. D.i they answer all you claim for 
them. To avoid disappointment, be sure to obtain 
the genuine " Brown’s Bronchial Troches.'’ 
The farmer with his honest team, 
Light toot and Swift can sweep the plain — 
His •* bay ’’ is not bay rum; his “ cream ” 
. rmethtng which goes with might and mane, 
When mercy wings Its flying feet, 
Or justice hastes with lifted lash ; 
One the rewards of honor meet,— 
The other chtu>>, in its crash. 
--- ANTED — AGENTS — 
¥75 to fr3XI per month, i-very- 
- where, male and female, to 
{■agHK"52S5G3BXiH introduce iheGF.NMJNK I AT— 
ritOVKD COMMON SENSE 
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. This Machine will 
stitch, hem, fell, tuck, quilt, cord, bind, timid and em¬ 
broider In ii most superior manner. Price only ¥18. 
Fully warranted for five years. We will pay (1,000 
forariy machine that will sewa stronger, more beau¬ 
tiful nr more elastic seam than ours. 1] makes the 
“ Elastic Lock Stitch." Every second stitch can be 
cut, and still the cloth cannot be pulled apart, w ith¬ 
out. tearing It. Wo pay Agent- from ¥75 to ¥-00 per 
month and expenses, or a commission from which 
t wice that amount can be made. Address SECOMB 
& CO., PITTS BUKO, Pa.; BOSTON, Mass., or St. 
Lons. Mo. 
CAUTION.—T>0 not be imposed upon by other par¬ 
ties palming dtl worthless' turt-irnn machines under 
the same name or otherwise. Ours is the only genu¬ 
ine and really practical cheap machine manufactured. 
Hr. who l« balanced well and true, 
Will never hand the supple knea 
For office: he will get his dew — 
He ruisos his own eelcry. 
In tied! and orchard wo beuold 
In bud* his promissory notes, 
To tie redeemed In glowing gold. 
When bobolinks shall time their throats, 
There’s nothing “blue" about him save 
The sky; and there Is nothing "green” 
Except tho fields, where grasses wave 
Their plumes, and beautify the scene. 
His road was not by Vendor built, 
nut It is sufe and straight and wide; 
Gold beaten tbtn, and spread in guilt, 
Glows not where he would rule and ride. 
Form Nmv Club*. It Is not too late to start 
new clubs for our present volume, as some suppose, 
uor to make additions to those already formed. 
We can tilll supply buck numbers, and shall be able 
to do so for v.-ceks to come, as the early number* ure 
eleetrotyped- Those who have received a premium 
for one club, Can secure another for a new club or 
additions to the old one. So please keep the bull 
moving until oil are supplied with the Indispensable 
RURAL, Specimens, Show-Bills, Premium Lists, Ac., 
sent free to all disposed to act as Ageut-Frlends. 
HU face is bronzed by summer skies. 
His honest hands are hard and brown; 
And there Is something In his eye*. 
That came with light from Rouwrt down, 
He Is uot of tho earth a elod, 
But nature’s child, erect and free 
Whore wuod birds sing, and blossoms nod. 
And rivers shout In ocstacy. 
TV MEW-SICKAL SA.R.AH-NADE 
Witli a Somewhat -A.flectin<£ Involuntary on the CJateuiTi 1 
(BY OUR ILLITERATE ARTIST.) 
No Traveling Agent* are cm ployed by us, but 
any person so disposed cun act as Local Agent, on his 
or her own authority, and secure premiums, etc. 
deeper, the exaggerated corduroy fairly 
abominable. Everybody grew silent, and 
clutched his or her seat more firmly. Even 
Mein Iferr lost speech for a season, clutched 
the trunk handles closer, and hung on foi 
dear life. Bump — bum]) — bump — bum]), 
bump. Ditto, Ditto again. Ditto nu¬ 
merously. 
It was at last too much for human pa¬ 
tience—of the Dutch species. Silence would 
no longer consent to it. Mein Herr spoke: 
“ Tot a road ! Vot a vagon! Seems like 
vun tilt putcher’s vagon.I" 
The frow opened her mouth then, — not, 
like Mrs, Partington, to put her loot in it, 
but to make fitting, if not wifely answer,— 
“ Yes; and the calf'a in theback end,J” 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
METAGRAM.-No. 4 
A REMINISCENCE OF THE STAGE, 
Upon live feet, from day to day, 
I warning give of something lost; 
r preach a sermon. In ray way, 
Men disregard it at their cost. 
My first take u and then I keep 
A million secrets in my hold, 
Or guard the helpless while they sleep, 
Or render sale the miser's gold. 
Arcadia. 
Ca/'"A nswer in two weeks. 
Are most desirable for quality, 
finish and price. 
Hoes uot affect the Patent . Hard Rubber Randle 
Since the days of railroads, the humor of 
stage-riding 1ms well nigh gone by. Stage 
routes in civilized countries are so very 
shorl, where any remain, that fellow-travel¬ 
ers by coach seldom put themselves in their 
happiest mood for the purpose of killing 
time; and consequently staging is dull and 
tedious. It was different, years ftgone,— 
when the Albany and Cherry Valley Turn¬ 
pike was our proudest thoroughfare, and 
the post-horn woke mellifluous echoes up 
and down the then frontier country. If 
some old fellow, whose recollections run 
away back to those four-in-hand times, 
would only give us a volume of “Humors 
of the Stage,” it would prove as interesting 
as, and decidedly more funny than, any re¬ 
membrances of mimic life ever put into 
musliu. 
Our stage reminiscence doesn't go back 
quite a hundred years. It isn’t even of the 
Turnpike alluded to. But maybe it will 
bear telling, notwithstanding. 
Before the new stone road was constructed 
between the villages of C- and M-, 
not a thousand miles from Syracuse, a ride 
lr®m one place to the other in early spring 
or late autumn was fearful to contemplate, 
awful to experience. The worst corduroy 
road was simply suggestive, in comparison to 
that long and crooked highway. 
One dreary day in the fall, when the 
coach had been discarded because it could 
not maintain its equilibrium, and a long, 
open conveyance waited at the depot in 
C-- to receive southward bound passen¬ 
gers, a Dutchman, his frow and two children 
Mein Herr was well 
Sold by all dealers In Cutlery, and made ex¬ 
clusively by the 
MERIDEN CUTLERY CO., 
15 llcektnun Street, New York. 
MARVIN’S 
F VOUlt DRUGGIST DON’T HAVE IT, 
send *a to Hr. Walcott, 170 Chatham square, N. Y., 
^-— --■ - pint* or 
and you will get a pint of fain faint, oral 
ANNIRILATCH, free Of uxpreaa charges. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 11 
A reliable time-keeper is now an article 
of necessity to every one, and as such tho 
Genuine Waltham Watches, wi th th e late 
improvenlents, Jie sop-eriorlto bfl others. 
GLIMPSES OF GENIUS. 
We send Dingle jWaticntes J 6 yl Exm^ss, with 
bill to collect oft ddliv^r/, o aRy part of 
the counjry, at ; jre.M ] 1 y t|/d u ( |q c 1 ^ricef , and 
allow the purchaser to open the package 
and examine the Watch before paying,and 
if afterward it dies nc/Qtfe satisfaction, we 
will exchange itlor reftmd the money. Solid 
Silver HuntingiiValk^hc^iiS; Gold Hunt¬ 
ing Watches, $ 70 . Ev^fy Watch warranted 
by special certificate from the American 
Watch Co. We ".end our FriCfc List, which 
expl&ns tl-e^iff&Kent\l(inJr,n? ?,es V/ylglit 
and q\a!& of the Aa ;cA v ith prices o/each 
to 1 ny'idc rtW pdbl pak ot» application. 
Dojiot/rdjir till vio u havq sejtfora 
Price List, and when you write please state 
son. “And *11 I have,” implied the yuiing hope¬ 
ful. “ Wlmt ?“ asiiod the fatuor. “An umbrella!" 
was the iuiiKTtiuont reply. 
A sCHOL in was turned out of a public school 
in Sutton, MftF-moluisoi'i ?, the other day, because 
he was “too old." He is over forty-eight, and 
hasa family of grown up children. Ho wits am¬ 
bitious, lie said, to “ lev tub up with his boys and 
gals." 
An Irishman was employed to trim some fruit 
trees, lie wont in the morning, and, on retimi¬ 
ng at noon, wus a&kod if lie had completed bis 
work. “ No,” was the reply:— “ but I have cut 
thorn all down, and am going to trim them in the 
afternoon." 
Some one sought to comfort a mother who hud 
lost her little boy. by reminding her that he was 
then happy with the saints In bliss. "Oh, yes," 
cried the afflicted mother, “but Tommy always 
was a shy boy, and now he's among perfect 
strangers?’ 
An apprenl ice sailor fell from the “round top" 
to the deck, stunned, but little hurl. The cap¬ 
tain exclaimed, in surprise, “Why, whore did 
you come from ?’’ “ Front the north of 1 reland, 
yer honor.” was the prompt reply, us the poor 
follow gathered himself up. 
Thkooork Hook onco dined with Mr. Hatchet. 
“Ah, my dear fellow, said his host depre- 
eatlogly, "1 am sorry to say that you will not 
get to-day such a dinner as our friend Tom 
Moore gave us." “Certainly not," replied Hook, 
“ from a Hatchet one can expect nothing but u 
chop,” 
Lilli t: L—-— and her little brother called ata 
house on their way to school, one eold morning, 
to warm themselves. Nome doubts were ex- 
Cannot be Sledged! 
Cannot be Wedged! 
Cannot be DrilledJ 
BANK VAULTS, 
VAULT DOORS, 
EXPRESS BOXES, 
FAMILY PLATE SAFES, 
COMBINATION LOCKS 
Please staid for a catalogue to 
MARVIN & CO., 
(oldest safe manufacturers) 
. . , (2G5 Broadway, New York. 
Principal J ?21 chestnut St., Fhila. 
Answer in two weeks, 
C HURCH a nq pf 
isr 7<&!K 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA—No. 1 
I am composed of twenty-six letters. 
My 11, I K 12,21, -'A, 2 is a lake in New York. 
My is, 17, 0,10,;.’(), 2(5 is a country in Europe. 
My 21, 23,10, 2, 21 is a mountain in Asia, 
My 15, fi, 21,11, U Is a river in Europe. 
My 6,20, 20, 5, 21 is one of the West India Islands, 
My 0, 8, J3, 23, 7 is a city in France. 
My 1,23,17, 15,8,25, 20 Is one of t he U. S. 
My 19, 9,3, 7, 11, 25, 23, 20 is a group of Islands. 
My whole la good ud\ Ice to young men. 
Ovid, N. Y. Ci. a til. 
were of the number 
dressed, and evidently intelligent. (Wedon’t 
mind telling you, privately, that he had held 
honorable position in i he State Engineer ser¬ 
vice.) Mein Herr’s wife was ditto. But Mein 
Herr had drunk “ zwei glass lager-bier,” un, 
zwei, several dimes, and when the stage was 
ready to start he had gone “ roun’ tier corner” 
to take “ zwei glasses more.” Having taken 
them, — several times also, — he was ready 
to swear that “ lager-bier ain’t tossicatin’,” 
and to mount one of the leaders. Which 
he did. 
The Excise Law put him on the horse. 
Moral suasion took him ofl’. Madame 
Herr’s indignant trlances, and the driver’s 
assistance, pul him on the pile of trunks in 
the rear ot the vehicle, facing forward, in¬ 
stead of by liis good (row’s side, on the scat 
next the driver’s, facing to the rear. Thus 
established, and holding on to the trunk 
with the strength of a whole keg of lager, 
he enlivened the passengers with Lis droll 
remarks through several miles of mud, ex¬ 
aggerated corduroy, pitch-holes and feminine 
terror. Meanwhile mine frow glared angrily 
across the distance at him, but failed to 
silence him. lie, firing occasional drolleries 
across at her, failed to soften her. 
The road became worse, the pitch-holes 
U AY E 1 O II It itl u A B.I •*, 
O factoring Cloth of all kinds for yourselfland[all 
your neighbors, on MENDEN11 ALL’S IMPROl ED 
SELF-ACTING HAND LOOM. The only Loom 
adapted to weaving Rao Oakfkt with a Fly Sffux- 
Ti. 11 . For Circular* and sample of cloth, address, 
with stamps, II. T. THOMAS Successor to A. B. 
GAme \ Co., No. iW N. 13 81., Philadelphia. 9»3-6t 
/ 111 11501*KK SEWING JHAU’IUJS'E. —First- 
* si, tinrt fullv lieoiisod. AwnU H anted, lor 
H/trtr flim rnion-n- S. M. to., Boston, Mass. 
„.„ICK U 1 <H IN I'i. LAFI.EK’S 
NEW IRON-CLAD hns more advantages com¬ 
bined In one nnu'hitie than any other ever invented. 
Three kinds of Uriel; aio mo do from aame machine, 
viz., Common, Stork and Pressed. Received first 
premium ut N. Y. State Fair, iWCi, H7, IStSS. Can make 
1,000 Pressed Hack v r hour of better qua tit 1 / than can. 
b, vrodwtd by any Other mneUinc, t ommon and Mock 
Brick are made with rapidity unsurpassed. For He- 
s.-riutive Circular, address J. A. I.AFLEH & CO., 
PUZZLER ANSWERS, 
MELODEONS 
MiSCELLANEOtTS Enigma, No. 12.—The more 
haste, tho less speed. 
Mf.tacjram, No. 3. - Monkey—monk. 
Illustk vied Rebus No. 10'.- He tills to creat¬ 
es l gain who tills a small farm well. 
Square Word Enigma.— 
liOAT. 
OHIO. 
A I R i , 
T O A J. 
Puzzle, No. 1.-- 
torms, 
W K HAVE MANDFACrUBIiD 
Mclodcous uud Organs twenty-two years.and 
will not risk our well-earned reputation by making 
cheap instrument#. 
We ham not made a great induction in prices, and 
cannot, until a reduction in the price of labor und 
material will warrant us in doing so. Organs are ad¬ 
vertised at $50, Gold Watches at $15, etc., etc. Sensi¬ 
ble people can judge of their value. 
Instruments of oar own make (twenty years old) 
are now valued by their owners us highly as the day 
they were bought, and it is our intention to sustain 
our old reputation. 
Illustrated Catalogues and Price Lists sent free 
to any address. A liberal dit :ount to Churches and 
Clergymen. „ „ 
GEO. ... PRINCE & CO. 
....S. T. GORDON. 
JAMES BELLAK. 
years old, of most or the leading varieties, very 
8trongand healthy, growing on land which must be 
cliiiired, :tri» offered in Jai'^e ur Mihail f|U«intities at 
extremely low Prices- Address .... 
E. WARE SYLVESTER, Lyons, N. Y. 
T>ONE-DUST FINK AND COARSE, FOR 
IJ fertilizing inirpusi-s and potteries. Flour Bone 
Dust for chemical uses. Warranted pure, und for 
sale In qualities to suit mUvhasers. 
PETER COOPER’S cine Factory, 
1001-it No. 17 Bulling Slip, New York. 
Agent in New York_ 
Agent in Phlludeb hiu 
ILLAK'8 PATENT CHEESE VATS 
and Heaters, 
__ for Factories of Private Haries, 
Positively the best in use. Also other lyeat improve- 
raents in factory und dairy articles. Send for an Illus¬ 
trated Circular. CilAS. MILLAR & SON, Uticu, N.Y. 
Q PliototrrnpliM of Beautiful Women 
sent, postpafn ' ’ic. Send stamp for circu- 
Address C. Seymour, Holland, Erie Co., N. Y. 
