thing useful, and no superfluous words arc 
used. We shall he glad to hear from George 
again. 
Concerning Gophcre. 
We have an interesting letter from “ A 
Farmer’s Son" in Minnesota, in answer to 
inquiries in this Department, July 30, about 
Gophers. We print it in the Naturalist De¬ 
partment, and ask the hoys who read the 
Rural New-Yorker to read it. It will 
interest them. It does nut appear here for 
want of space. 
A Physician's Opinion nliont n Sick Hnby. 
Baby was much worse ; it had not only 
sucked its thumbs, but wriggled its toes. 
The doctor, with a grave face, entered the 
sick room as Biddy rubbed her mistress with 
camphor, and Mr. Philips stood by wiping 
his eyes with the drapery ot his scant attire. 
“Oh, doctor, doctor I will it die? Only 
save it, and you may take all I have,” cried 
Mrs. Philips, wringing her hands. “I’ll get 
down on my knees and thank you forever,” 
“ Keep your sitting, marm, keep your sit¬ 
ting,” said the doctor, taking a large pinch 
of snuff. 
“Don’t keep us in suspense! Only look 
at its precious arm! What is it ? For the 
love, of heaven tell me—let me know the 
worst.” 
“ Well, marm, if I speak out, you promise 
not to blame me?” said the doctor, gravely. 
“ No, no!” 
“ Marm,” said ae, with his long face still 
more elongated, “ it’s my opinion, as a man 
and a physician, that the child Iuib been hit- 
ten by four bedbugs, or else it has been hit- 
ten in four places by one insect of that de¬ 
scription.” 
“Dr. Gray,” cried the father, “do you 
mean to insult us?” 
“By no means, sir—I repeat it.” 
“No, you don’t!” yelled Mrs. P. “It’s 
enough to insinuate that I have bedbugs, to 
say nothing of your libel on that little angel 
cherub. Get out of this house this instant, 
you mean, cheating, insulting old vagabond!” 
timer 
None* to Contributors to this IikrArtiikst.— Correct 
answers must accompany all Problems, Pnr/.les, Rebuses, Enigmas, 
Ac. When Enigmas are given not only the answer to the whole 
but to each section of the Enigma mast he furnished. Pains must be 
taken lo so arrange contributions Hint the Editor can verify their 
accuracy with tlio least loss of time. Preference will be given 
always, to those which hint meet these requirements. 
LITTLE AND BIG. 
The child in father to the man."~WoRDSWORTH 
Exct'Si: too for turning my nose Up 
At sight of this paradox wild: 
1 assert that no son ever grows up 
A bit like his father the child. 
Just observe what mammas, amongst others, 
Declare of nine babies in ten, 
They tire “sweet pretty things," ery the mothers. 
Well, where are the sweet pretty men / 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 7, 
Having completed an Important addition to their 
Factory, together with improvements made neces¬ 
sary by their largely increased business, the .Manu¬ 
facturers take pleasure in Informing their friends 
and the musical public that they are now prepared to 
answer orders for all the various styles of their in¬ 
struments. 
As their reputation has been the slow growth of 
twenty years, and not the result of puffery, they pro¬ 
pose to adhere to the principles by which they have 
succeeded, viz.: 
Then the babes, as a rule, are “ so clever. 
They notice whatever takes place. 
Do they make men cf intellect? Never: 
At least, such Is rarely the ease. 
I myself was a genius—a beauty— 
Past rlvnlry many degrees; 
Has my father's own son done his duty? 
J ust look at me now, if you please! 
LETTERS FROM GIRLS, 
(■iris Who Give no Information. 
Hattie is going to try Elea’s rccipo, lias 
baked some, hut does not. know much about 
it. Her letter contains nothing that will 
benefit her little friends. She should try to 
give in her letters something that will bene¬ 
fit somebody else. Clara sends a similar 
letter. She hits a hanging basket with a 
strawberry geranium in it; also nine differ¬ 
ent kinds of plants, including a nice fuchsia. 
Why didn't she tell how she keeps her plants 
healthy ? 
To Millie Si raw Fi'ninea, 
To make straw frames, get some nice, 
smooth straws, (wheat or rye is the best,) 
and cut, them according to the size of your 
picture, only a little larger, so that the end, 
will form a sort of cross; then take four or 
five of the same length, and lay them side by 
side, and fasten them in this position, by 
taking a fine needle and thread and running 
it through the straws. Then make another 
part for the end, and so on. When you 
have four pieces made, fasten, them on the 
picture by sewing, the ends, as I have said 
before, forming a sort of cross. Tie this 
cross 111111 some pretty-colored ribbon close 
down to the picture, and you have a straw 
frame.— Millie. 
TWO ANNS IN TIIE FAMILY. 
To use best 'material onlyf without 
reyard to price ,* 
To insist on the highest style of 
Work ; 
To combine all the elements of 
power , but not at the sacrifice 
of sweetness and detieary ; 
To look for constant improve¬ 
ment. keeping absolute perfec¬ 
tion in view. 
It iv as about nine o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, June 15,1809, when .Miss Ann Bella¬ 
my, aged five months, returned from church, 
in company of her grandmother Bellamy 
and Ann McGuire. 
There she comics ! A nice little Christian 
as ever was; and her name is Ann,” said 
grandmother Bellamy, with cheerful sim¬ 
plicity, as she came into the breakfast room. 
“Yes, the morning was fine, and we went, 
out for a walk ; and we saw a church open, 
and in we just popped, and Ann McGuire 
and me, and a good-natured man with one 
arm stood sponsors, and the minister read 
every word out of the book—all kind he 
was.” 
“ Mother Bellamy !” exclaimed Mrs. Bel¬ 
lamy, Jr., as the * nice little Christian’ was 
thrust into tier maternal arms. “Mother 
Bellamy ! what do you mean 1” 
To Mrs. Bellamy it was surprise, vexa¬ 
tion, and tears; to Mr. Bellamy for the 
most part, a shout of laughter. For tin* 
first five minutes, indeed, astonishment was 
too great for much speech with Mrs. Bel¬ 
lamy —then came the tears, and then the 
torrent of words launched at poor grand¬ 
mother Bellamy —the simple, little old 
woman. 
“It’s too bad! too bad !—a perfect slmmc!” 
she said ; “ 1 don’t see hoiv you came to do 
such a iliing. You must have known how 
it would vex me,” she went on, between her 
handkerchief and her sobs. 
“ Well, that is a good joke,” roared Mr. 
Bellamy, who all this time had kept up a 
low chuckle, 
Miss Ann Bellamy, aged five months, 
seeing the divided slate of the bouse, was 
undecided at first to which opposite emot ion 
she herself should yield. A taste of the fresh, 
morning air invariably inclined her to a 
cheerful view of life; I ml here was a com¬ 
motion,—a difference of sentiment, and she 
must take her part. A glance at grandmoth¬ 
er Bellamy’s lace was suflicient, and Miss 
Ann Bellamy, —aged live months, and new¬ 
ly christened,—not only wept, but uttered a 
series of roars, scarcely to he expected of five 
months’ practive. 
Miss Ann McGuire, after depositing the 
child in its mother’s arms, had stood five 
minutes or so behind the breakfast room 
door; then concluding thebe would be but 
little change of performance, she ran to (lie 
kitchen to tell the servants that the baby was 
named for her. 
“ I declare, it is too bad ! I never shall 
forgive you, Mother Bellamy!” went on 
Mrs. Bellamy, J r,,, drawing a second hand¬ 
kerchief from her pocket . “ You know, for 
the last two months 1 have been making ar¬ 
rangements for the christening party, and 
only waited lo find out if Lady Elkins 
would stand sponsor; and you know very 
well I said I didn’t know how it would do, 
because Lady Elkins’ name is Ann, and I 
had one child mimed Ann already. And 
you know I hate the name Ann, and only 
named the first baby so to please old Auntie, 
and because 1 thought it. would he for the 
child’s good. And here this one l meant to 
call Alimionsine F.kmlna; and now she is 
Ann too!— Ann, ugh!—two Anns!” 
“ I didn’t know you cared anything about 
the name, and I forgot there was one Ann,” 
plaintively put in Grandmother Bellamy, 
“and 1 thought you were having so much 
trouble.” • 
“ It’s a great joke,” laughed Mr. Bellamy. 
“ Hush f’ exclaimed Mrs. Bellamy, sharp¬ 
ly, addressing her daughter—A nn number 
two. 
Ann number two instantly drew in a large 
supply of breath, which, with great rapidity 
she converted into another series of roars. 
“ Yes," continued Mrs. Bellamy, Jr., “ and 
then there’s that dress I bought for the baby, 
expressly for a christening robe,—and paid 
fifteen pounds for it—and then 1 have writ¬ 
ten to the curate to know if I could have the 
loan of the silver font from m. -Tilde’s. Oh, 
it is a perfect shame! a perfect siume! And 
what am I to say to Lady Elkins, a id the 
curate,—and then the drees beside,—and 
what am I to do with two Ann’s ?” 
• “ Give one away,” said Mr. Bellamy. 
“Oh, it’s a perfect; shame!—a perfect 
shame!” and a fresh hurst of tears was 
wrung from Mrs. Bellamy’s aggrieved soul. 
Laura Southgate. 
Answer in two weeks. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.-No. 5 
I AM composed of one hundred and nine let 
ters. 
My 1,19, 28, 49, 02 , 82. 108 is a plant. 
My 4, TO, 89, 100. 21, 47, 2 is a bird. 
My 8 , r»2, 01,32,3, 40, 99 is a mineral. 
My 17. 107, 78, 57,27. 12, 40 is an animal. 
My 28, 0,13, 31,58,34, 97 is a flsli. 
My 28,10, 53, 5, 104, CO, 50 is a flower. 
My 35, 20,25, 2,103, »L 83 Is a plant. 
My 39, 70,95, OH, 79,15, 7 is a fruit. 
My 43, 88 . It, 38, 03,100, 50 is a plant. 
My 4R, 3,105, 70, 8 , 91, II is a tree. 
My 55,28, 18, 44,88,64, 51, Is a water fowl. 
My 00,24,25,71, 58,10, 59 is an animal. 
My 70.$B, 17, 22.41. 8 b f>5 is ft vessel. 
My 75, 39, 21,90, 45,101, 11 is an animal. 
My 79, 6 , 40.63, 50,13, 84 is a fruit. 
My 87, 38,52, 74, 01, 08, 29 is a bird. 
My 90, 03, 79, :t7. 73,28, 89 is n flower. 
My 93,58,57, 41, 72, 30, 10 la a water fowl. 
My 98, 59, 42, 9, 33, 13, 77 is n flower. 
My 102,81, 40,04, 54, 07, 70 is a plant. 
My 100, 85, 98 ,09, 80, 08, 4 is an animal. 
My 109, 92, 29, 70, 19, 28, 51 is a flsli. 
My whole is a poetic qnotHtlon. 
{3?S~ Anawor In two weeks. Iso LA. 
With every possible facility for the production of 
the best work at fair rates, and guided by their 
long experience, the manufacturers claim that their 
Organs 
NOT SURPASSED 
For proof it is only necessary to point to their 
ready sale In England, at double the price, in competi¬ 
tion with the Alexandre Organ, which, as is well 
known, received the first nrize at the Paris Expo¬ 
sition. 
as to all the points of superiority claimed by tlie.se 
splendid instruments. 
At the present rate of production, it will not he 
long before there will be 
AN ORGAN IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD. 
*»* An elegantly Illustrated Circular, containing 
descriptions anil prices, will be sent, post-paid, on 
application. 
To Frame Picture** 
Cut out of pasteboard an oval frame, about 
three-quarters of an inch broad, and cover 
with brown paper. Cover the glass edge 
with a strip of paper extending beyond it, 
and fasten it by this means to the hack of 
the pasteboard edge; then take an oval 
pressed picture edge, (such as would do for 
photographs,) and gum it under the glass; 
place a loop*io hang it up by, and cover the 
upper part of the buck with brown paper. 
The under half must be covered after the 
picture has been put in. Put a row of fine 
roasted coffee berries around the outer edge, 
and a row of smaller ones, not roasted, in¬ 
side, all previously covered with a thin coat¬ 
ing of gum water. The berries must he 
gummed to the frame with thick gum. This 
done, the whole is complete.— Mollie, Point 
Pleasant , Aug., 1870. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS, 
Dilapidated Youth. “ Hollo, John ! I 
thought, tlio Rural New-Yorker matte you 
raise such 'tarnnl big crops you couldn't go to 
school 'till lift or corn shuck in?" 
JOHN,—“ Alt ! 1 »ut. you see out* crops are so 
largo that father etui afford to hire a hand in 
my place.” 
(Tin* father of dilapidated boy resolves to take 
the Rural New-Yorker — when he uds the 
money.) 
PUZZLER No. 4.—The farm will bo in tlio shape il 
Installed. 
) K O C I. A M A T ION 
UY THE 
In accordance with authority vested in us by the 
owners, we offer for sale, on the most liberal terras, 
from 100 to an) improved Farm*, containing from i'.tl 
to hut lore.,. Price from F'> to $15 per lierc. Houses 
stables, fences, Ac..all In Knot! order. Also, 1,000, non 
acres rich mineral, timber and mountain land, ut 
front f 1 to 8.1 per acre. 
Maid for Catalogues. Address 
NORTH CAROLINA I,AND COMPANY, 
Itulelgh, North Carolina. 
R. KlNGSLANU, Secretary. 
Illustrated Hemes No. n. i saw Esau kissing 
Kate; the fact is, wenli three saw; I saw EstAU.lie 
saw me, and site saw I saw Esau. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 4.—Potatoes. 
Problem No. 6.—$130. 
LETTERS FROM BOYS 
Jnr Decker thinks the boys who read 
the Rural New - Yorker don’t write 
enough for it, and urges that, they write 
more. And ho tells us what lie is going to 
do. But, Jim, it is better never to promise, 
but always (?<? what you can. We are not 
going to publish promises at all. The girls 
are beating the hoys, out and out, writing. 
What are you going to do about it, boys ? 
Willie Cooley wishes Sam Carter 
would tell where he lives, and says:—“ Why 
don’t Addi and other correspondents who 
write about the cultivation of flowers and 
fruit tell where they live? It would be a 
great good to many readers, For instance, 
Addi tells how to raise certain kinds of 
flowers; hut we don’t know whether his di¬ 
rections are for the South or North.” Sam 
Carter lives on the shore of Lake Ontario; 
hut any letters addressed him in cure of 
editor of Rural New-Yorker, 41 Park 
Row, New York City, will reach him. 
W. II. Barrette asks if any of the boys 
can tell him how to preserve and stuff the 
skins of animals and reptiles. 
miscellaneous OVbDcrtisemenls 
« f | fk ■ 1—HOW MADE FROM 
V 0 S\! r I iflK CIDER, WINE. MO- 
•Hi K— la LASSES, OR SOR¬ 
GHUM, in Ten Hours, without using drugs. 
For Circulars, address F. I. SAGE, Vinegar Maker, 
Ctotnwell, Conn. 
RURAL FOUR-YEAR-OLDS 
Mothers of Smart dhild re n arc invited to contri 
bute to this Department. J 
Trade Viaill. To enable our Patent TIN- 
# LINED I.HAD PIPE to he nn- 
mUtukabln dint UiguUhod tr./in 
tlio ordinary LEAD PIPE, «e 
have adopted a* a’ I’u auk M auk 
four .-mull ribbed lines iimootr. 
lengthways ut the pipe a I quar¬ 
ter distances. This wan done u.t 
the suggesliou of several plumb¬ 
ers, who hud been underbid by 
unscrupulous purlieu work lav ol 
baht, ordinary LEA |l PI UK. 
where ilia tqiccdic.ilioii? culled 
for TIN LINED LEAD PIPE. Tli(.\ t‘ oiiiiki itu are 
now making tlio TIN-LINED LEAD PIPE til esiiMMc 
thickness and weight- »8 ordinary L1IA1> PIPE or 
correspond lag sizes and letters This n rni ligament, 
enables ns to reduce the cost of the sizes sulcahle- 
lor conveying water from Springs nod iviei™ fully 
one-third. In ordering or making inquiries for price, 
send bore of pipe required and head of plies sure or 
water. Circular* and sample of pipe sent by muil 
fl+e. Warranted to bo stronger and more durable 
than l.eml Pipe of corresponding sizes and letters. 
Address the COLWELLS, 8HAW X Wll.ldUU M'l'U 
Co,, No. 213 Center Street, New York. 
1C OLDEST, UROIvST V N If 
1 Must PeiTeri .Mumifnotorv 111 Die United States. 
4.3,000 TV O -W I IV USE. 
CEO. A. PRINCE &. CO.’S 
ORGANS di MHLOBEQN3 
will ho delivered In any part of the United State s 
reached by Ex pres- {where thev have no agent,) 
FREE UP CHARGE, oil receipt, ol list price. 
Send for Price List and • oculars. Address 
GEO. A. PRINCE A CO., RnUiilu, N. V. 
OHO. A. PRINCE A CO.. Chicago, 111. 
“ f HAVE WITNESSED THE OPEN \- 
I tinn of the Apple Paring, Coring rind Slicing 
Machine-; invented by 1) II Wliiitomoiv Worcester. 
Mass. If sold ut no more Ilian 87 end). I consider it 
wort hv of universal adopt ion." -Horace tin eliii. H* .1*1 
by CLARK, WILSON A CO., Si lleOlcinmi St., N. V. 
EDWARD SEARS' 
ENGRAVING ESTABLISHMENT 
KNITTING 
THE UNIVERSAL SIIABPI5NEU.— 
X An indispensable household helper; sharpens 
all SHEARS and SCISSORS as well as T’ARLE 
CUTLERY. So simple any one can use It. Never out 
of repair. Makes a perfectly sharp, even edge. Does 
•tot wear the blade. Lusts a lircdliue. Simple, effect¬ 
ive. convenient and durable. Sold by I raid wave ami 
House Furnishing Stores. Price $1. Send for Sam¬ 
ple. A.u. IV JtiS, Sole Proprietor, 4» Reck mail street. 
New York. 
T > V Tin: I NK of tlio 1, A ill IS KNIT* 
I > TJNU M ACHINE:, fa in i lies are enabled to pro¬ 
vide rworythlug in knit goods, superior la quality 
anti nit half the cost of common boughton goods. 
The rnis'ldne knits a pair ttl sock.* m ;10 minutes, 
sdiaper.nliom perfectly, making its work tlipfuime as 
tJiut j•>.<!• Iuced by hand. Any one. dependent upon 
ubeir own exertions for their livelihood, can procure 
kt Murtieadly ny tlio use of this machine lit in in any 
• alier «av. For Circular ami sample storking. ad¬ 
dress, inclosing stamp. ,1. If. OR YE A CD., 
1 anil Market St., Rochester, N. t. 
All low-priced Knitting Machines compare with 
Luiut/s Family Knitter us does a ien-dollar hand 
sewing machine with any first-dust newer—like the 
Singer, Howe, 45 rover & Raker, and other*. 
Tannine Woodchuck Skins. 
I will try and help Onm Stoughton a 
little. I obtained a method for dressing 
woodchuck’s skins from a man who worked 
lor us, which 1 send you. Woodchuck skins 
are very greasy, and much pains must lie 
taken to rid litem thoroughly of this before 
dressing. This can he done best with a com¬ 
mon limner’s beaming knife; hut any knife 
will do if enough pains are taken, first scra¬ 
ping off all you can, and then rubbing and 
pressing the skin with a piece of hard wood 
shaved down to an edge. After getting as 
much grease out as you can, place them in 
a liquor made thus j— Dissolve a piece of 
alum nearly as large as a man's fist, and 
about bnlf the bulk of salt for each skin, in 
one-lialf pail of water; place the skins in 
ibis, and set in a cool place about two weeks; 
then take them out, wash them, and rub 
with the hands till dry; w hen dressed, these 
skins will make good mittens for workmen 
in winter. Cut skins treated in the same 
way also make good milieus. 
Now, Mr. Editor, this is a pretty long let¬ 
ter, and I hope I shall hear from other boys 
through your excellent paper. Perhaps, if 
you think this worth printing, I shall ask 
something of the other boys. 
Geo. a. Williams. 
It is a very good letter, contains some¬ 
1 outliful Philosopher. — Nurse. — “ The cat 
broke it? A pretty story, I should say ?" 
Lillie Neil (utter reflecting.) — “ Well, hut 
mightn't tiie cat have company?" 
The Old lien.—Little “ Clipper," three years 
old, was seen iu the garden, one day, busily 
scratching- up the dirt with her bare feet. On 
being asked by her papa what .she was doing, 
she replied“Oh, 1 ant tut old hen making a 
nest, and when t get the egg laid then I shall 
cackle." 
Peeling the Peach.—A New Jersey corres¬ 
pondent writes: —“Our Willie, three years 
old. asked his mamma for «i peach to give 
to Ktrq-Y, his name for an old lady living 
with us. Taking the peach out to her, he 
laid it on the table. The old lady went to tlio 
kitchen tor a knife, and during her absence 
AYii.lae ate the peach nearly to the stone, leav¬ 
ing the stone covered. On asking him where 
her poach was, as site came with the knife to 
peel it, Willie says, with a merry twinkle in 
his eye:—"There ’tis, on-er table; me peeled it 
for you l" 
Wooden Eyes. -Our little four-yenr-cld girl, 
one day, had a large pair of shears, trying to cut 
out an apron for her doll. “Allie,"I said, 
“you will put your eyes out with the shears, I 
tear." 
"Oh, well, mother," she answered, " if 1 do. 
Got* can malic mesome wooden ones!" 
rit -g /A M a TO Art ENTS heiainc 
Sin A HAY SILVERS' 
Patent Elastic Broom. 
75.000 NOW IN USE. C, A. 01.KUO A Co., 20Cort¬ 
land t St., N. Y., or 209 Luke St„ < 'hlcago, 111, 
WANTED 30 Experienced Sewing Mu- 
tt clitnoSalesmen. Liberal Hilaries and coin mis- 
slons paid. Address, with fall particulars ana reive 
cnee. PETERSON a 'cARUI .VI'EK, Lein i III Agents 
of the Wheeler A.Wilson Sewing Machine, 914 Chest¬ 
nut 8t., Philadelphia, X'u. 
M ENHICLVS’ IMCI.I.S. 
Delia for Uhurehes, Acade¬ 
mies, Factories, etc., of which 
more have been made at tin's es¬ 
tablishment that at all the other 
foumbtrios In the country com. 
Lined. All bells warranted. 
fl?!" An Illustrated Catalogue! 
sent Tret; upon application to 
E, l.ill. R MEN ICICI. V, 
West Troy, N. Y. 
II DEIt !>I ILL THATffEAWlh^jWlJ), 
ADDRESS G.E.CLEETON, NEW HAVEN, Ct. j 
Address 
-WILL NOT 
xciusive.y by the 
I,, Sew York. 
cpiIIC MOST DURABLE HANDLE TABLE KNIFE MATSSC. - 
1 CET LOOSE by HOT WATER. Sold by all dealers in Cutlery, and made 
MEU1DEN QBTLERY CO., 43 Beekmim Si 
The Rural New-Yorker has won a position 
where it need not ask commendation, and need not 
fear criticism. It has no equal In its own depart¬ 
ment in the country.— Standard, Chicago. 
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