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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
SEPT. 22 
grafting for t|r JJoinig, 
THE BABY SOLDIER. 
Another little private 
Mustered in 
The awny of temptation 
And of Bin. 
Another soldier arming 
For the strife, 
To fight the toilsome battles 
For a life. 
Another little sentry 
Who will stand 
On guard while evils prowl 
On every hand. 
Lord, our little darling 
Guard and save 
'Mid the perils of the march 
To the grave. 
-- 
[Prize Story.] 
THE MYSTERY OF MORELAND 1 
BY MAKY L. MILLER. 
MANOR. 
A merry party were gathered In the old wains¬ 
coted parlor at tho Oaks, noble men uud fair 
maidens, each vying to make the Christmas eve 
pass pleasantly. 
“ Hurrah for some fun! I have an Idea. 
What do you say, girls, to going over to 
Moreland Manor, hi visit his gftOStehlp to-night,” 
said Guy Arlington, a tall, broad-shouldered 
young man, with saucy brown eyes, aud a face 
beaming all over with fun and good nature. 
“Oh! Guy, howcanyoulhlnkofsuchathlng7" 
cried several of the girls, turning pale at the 
thought. “ That la Just prime, Guy. You arc a 
perfect treasure.” And saucy, brown-eyed, rosy- 
chcckcd Kosk Ricitmond tossed back her curls, 
and clapped her hands with delight. This speech 
was greeted with the exclamation “ ltoss Is 
always ready for any such thing,” from a bevy of 
girls. 
“ That Is a bargain then,” said Gov. 
« At. 0 o’clock we will start for tho Manor, and 
take his ghostshlp so by surprise, that he will 
capitulate at once,” said the boys. 
After many demurs from the girls, and promises 
of protection from the boys, tho merry party 
started at 9 precisely, laden with wraps and 
Shawls; GOT and KosB leading the way. 
Moreland Manor was situated on a high bluff 
overlooking the little village of Moreland; and 
for many years had been no ten an ted. There 
was a legend concerning It: that every Christ¬ 
mas eve at 12 , strange sounds, as of some one 
moaning and crying, would bo heard. As yet, no 
one had been bold enough to investigate; but. 
our party were undaunted. Arriving at the 
entrance, one Of the gentlemen entered a window 
and unfastened the door. Filing through the 
halt, and up the stairs they reached the old par¬ 
lor, damp and musty from long disuse. A fire 
was soon lighted,the lunch spread out, and aU pre¬ 
pared to pass the Intervening hours as pleasantly 
as possible. One of the boys cried out, raising a 
glass of wine, “ Here’s to the health of the ghost, 
of the Manor, and may he be endowei with 
strength to withstand the raid made on his 
ghostshlp to-night." Instantly every glass was 
drained. With toasts, fun an<F rapartee, the 
time, passed away, when Annum St. Clair took 
out his watch and said: “ It is three mtnutes to 
twelve." 
Instantly every sound was hushed. The 
breath coming from their parted lips was scarcely 
perceptible. “ Twelve o’clock ” came in husky 
accents from his Ups. One mornonl they sat In 
breathless silence, fend then through the old 
house rang a low, weird, moaning cry which 
made the manly fanes turn pale and the ladles 
cling faint) ngly to their protectors. 
Through tho door, and up the stairs flew a 
little figure, followed by the cry “Rose come 
back.” Only one of tho group dared loUow, and 
on they sped, following the sound through hull 
and corridor, up staircase alter staircase, to the 
tower, where only a door stood between them 
and the mystory. She placed her hand on the 
knob, paused a moment, then tho door swung 
back, and Rose was in tho presence of the 
“ Ghost, or Moreland Manor." 
Before her was an old clock, time-worn and 
moth-eaten, slowly tolling its Christmas chime. 
Guy took the half tainting Rose In his arms, 
kissed her pale cheek, calling her Ills brave little 
durUug and led her back to the parlor, where 
they told tho story to the frightened group, and 
led them up to the tower. 
The mystery was explained by discovering 
that the clock was so constructed as to require 
winding but once In a hundred years, aud to 
strike but on Christinas. Twenty-five years be¬ 
fore It had been wound, and each year at twelve 
o’clock on Christmas eve it had slowly tolled its 
muffled chime, which was the moaning that had 
frightened so many, and given the legend birth. 
Gdy purchased the place but could not live there 
alone, and to-day there Is no room so dearly 
loved as the old tower where Rose, now his wife, 
discovered the “ Ghost of Moreland Manor.” 
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MEMORIA TECHNICA. 
first place, Louis was the 14th King of Franco who 
bore that name. He ascended the throne at a 
date the figures of which added together make 14 
(1643-1 + 01 4+4=14.) He attained bis majority at 
14, and In 1052 (l +0+5+2-U.) His personal gov¬ 
ernment (“ L'elat e’est mof”) began with tbedeath 
of Mazarin In lCOl. Here again we have the same 
curious play of figures as In 1043 and 1052: 1 +6 + 
6 + 1-14. His reign lasted ?2 years (7 * 2—14.) He 
died at the age of T7 (7-7=14.) He died In 1715 
(1 + 7 1 1 + 5 - 14 .) lien ry IV., his grand rather, died 
on the uth of May (1010); Louis Xtll., his father, 
died on the 14th of May (1043.) 
Here Is a fact which it, Is helpful to remember. 
Tbere have been three groups of brothers who 
have sat on the throne of France. Itieach case 
the third brother has been the last of Ills line. 
Thus the three sons of Philip the Fair reigned 
one after the other, being knowu as Louis X. (le 
Hutln), Philip v„ tbe Tall, and Charles IV., the 
Fair, After Charles IV. came the line of Valois 
In the per.on of Philip VI. 
in the sixteenth century we again sec three 
brothers reigning In succession — Francis II., 
Charles IX., Henry 111., all sons of Catherine de 
Medici. With Henry ill. was extinguished the 
line Of Valois, which tbus wont with the same 
sign with which It came. The house of Ilourbon, 
which succeeded It, also Anally lost the throne 
after the reigns of three brothers. Louis XVI., 
Louis XVIIL, and Charles X„ all grandsons or 
Louis XV. 
Curiously euough, the Norman line of the kings 
of England went out with two brothers, William 
II. and Henry I., who reigned In succession, sim¬ 
ilarly, the house of Plantaganet was extinguished 
after the reign of two brothers, Edward 1V. and 
Richard ill., Edward V. having no more reigned 
than Louis XVII. 
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 
A man walks three miles an hour. 
A horse trots seven. 
Steamboats run eighteen. 
Sailing vessels make ten. 
Slow rivers flow rour. 
Rapid rivers flow seven. 
Storms move thirty-six. 
Hurricanes eighty. 
A barrel of Dour weighs one hundred and ninety- 
six pounds. 
A barrel of pork, two hundred. 
A barrel or powder, twenty-five. 
A firkin of butter, tirty-slx. 
A tub of butter, elghly-rour. 
Wheat, beans and clover-seed sixty pounds to 
the busheL 
Corn, rye and flax seed, fifty-six. 
Buckwheat, fifty-two. 
Oats, thirty-five. 
Coarse salt, elghty-llvo. 
Sixty drops make a teaspooutul. 
Three teaspoon!ul or a tablespoonful, ono-thlrd 
of au ounce. 
Four thousand eight hundred and forty square 
yards make an acre. 
A square mile, six hundred and forty acres. 
To measure an aero: Two hundred and nine 
feet on each side, making a square acre within an 
Inch. 
There are two thousand seven hundred and fifty 
languages. 
One person dies at each pulsation of the heart. 
Average of life, thirty-one years. 
>abbat!j failing, Industrial Implements, 
SUPPLICATION. 
Dear Jesus, hear tny call, 
To thee I eotnc for aid. 
Thou art my all iu all. 
On thee my hope ia staid. 
I’m on the desert wild, 
I’m wandering lost and lone, 
Call back thine erring child 
And change this heart of stone. 
Dear, blessed, loving Lord, 
I would come back to thee. 
Trusting thy precious word 
To set a sinner free. 
Oh, let thy oleansing blood 
Wash every stain away; 
Cleansed by that healing flood, 
I’ll walk the narrow way. 
Lord, in thy power to save 
There’s only hope for me. 
I'll sink beneath death’s wave 
If I’m not waved by thee. 
Thine all the honors, Lord, 
Thine all the glory be; 
Oh, speak the helping word 
That draws me close to thee. 
And when from earth set free, 
I rise to thee above, 
I’ll wake to eestacy, 
And sing thy dying love. 
If. J. Morgan. 
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ORIENTALS IN LONDON. 
M. Taknikr hopes for much instruction not only 
by the removal of errors, but by intelligent meth¬ 
ods of teaching. Many persons may scarcely real¬ 
ize how amusing, for instance, a nu'inorla lechnU 
ca, well handled, can become. Thus take this 
Btudy on the number 14 and Louis XIV.. In the 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 12 letters : 
My 12, 8, 3, 2 Is a river in Africa. 
My 11, 3,10,11, 8 a range of mountains In Asia. 
My l, 4, 9, 10, 4,12 capital of one of the. Eastern 
States. 
My H, 9, 8, u one of the Grand Divisions. 
My 4, 7, 8, 4 one or the United States. 
My 4,1, 2 a river in Siberia. 
My 7, ll, 12,12, s, i, ll, 3 a lawn In Missouri. 
My 7, 2 , 3, 2,12, ll an island on the coast of Africa. 
My ll, 10, T, 2,12, 9 a town In Greece. 
My 10, s, 10 , 8, o, ll, o, it a lake In South America. 
My 11,10, 3, ll, 12, 10, 8, 6 au ocean. 
My whole is one of the political divisions of 
Asia. 
tsr Answer In two weeks. m. 
CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. 
My first Is in Hecla but not In Olympus, 
My second Is In Tenerlffe but not in Scardus; 
My third Is In Mount Tom but not in Vesuvius, 
My fourth is m Mauna Loa but not in Erebus. 
My whole Is a volcano. 
tsr Answer In two weeks. Little One. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS.— Sept. 8. 
Hidden Authors.—1, Milton ; 2, Wordsworth ; 3, 
Cornwall; 4, Buiwer; 5. Randolph; 6. Rogers: 7. 
Parker: 8, Woods; 9, Cobb; lu. Petrarch ; 11, Cham¬ 
bers; 12, Franklin: 13, Tasso; 14, Humpnrey: 15, 
Sheridan; 10, Uemans: 17, Victor Hugo; 18, Abbot; 
19, Trollope. 
Cross puzzle.— 
p a m r a 
K H O N E 
XENIA 
6H EBOYGAN 
DAVE SPORT 
HAGUE 
OMAHA 
ll A H A I 
ONEGA 
SELMA 
SPAIN 
Biblical Enigma.— Remember now thy Creator 
In the days of thy youth. 
Christians In London send missionaries to the 
heathen lu distant lands, and they thus obey the 1 
Injunction of the Lord Jesus Christ. But they 
have numerous heathens who visit their city, aud 1 
to whom they can declare the Gospel, Mr. Salter, 1 
a missionary of the London City Mission, has for ] 
tho last twenty-l'our years devoted his whole time i 
to these *• orientals Iri London,” 1 have before } 
me his report for last year, tn which he states that 
during the year be has met with 9,779 of these 
persons, or this number, 6.209 were sailors on 
board ships, 200 were passengers, 100 ayahs, 120 1 
visitors In different parts of London. The nation- 1 
atity of these persons was. East India, 5,729 ; East : 
Africa, 2,500; Turks and Egyptians, 200 ; Arabs, < 
150 ; Chinese, Burmese and Malays 150. i 
The missionary looks out. for the arrival of < 
steamers from the East, some of which have as i 
many as a hundred sailors on board; aud he then | 
seeks opportunities of com erslog with them. He , 
has to be careful not to Interrupt them at their 
work, as this might lead to tils being ordered 
from the ship; but he meets them at their meals, 
In the evening, on the Lord’s Day, and when they 
are sick. Thus he has numerous opportunities or 
talking with them, either In groups or singly, and 
bringing before tbem the Gospel of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, of the whole number met with 
during the year, 5,575 were regular Mohamme¬ 
dans, and 2,600 Fetish Moslems ; and this renders 
It necessary that he should bo well acquainted 
with the Koran ; and as the former are very big¬ 
oted, tne work Is far from easy. But tact and 
prudence both came tnto play, and the missionary 
Is able to show that even according to the liorau 
Jesus Christ Is superior to Mohammed. 
This work is, of course, of a very desultory char¬ 
acter. Thousands of men who are spoken to once 
or twice, are never seen again; but even these 
have the Gospel set before them. And some are 
Induced to attend the Bible classes aud Bcrlpturo 
readings at the house of the missionary, aud there 
are sick ones with whom he Is able to hold pro¬ 
longed conversations, and occasionally men arc 
met with who have been spoken to on previous 
visits, and In whom the seed has taken root. By 
persistent efforts Mr. Balter Is able to bring the 
Gospel before various classes of orientals. Writ¬ 
ing on tUls subject some time ago, he said; 
“From the beggar dying In his rags to the Na- 
wab arid Rajah In gaudy silk aud spangled tur¬ 
ban, tho tain of wondrous love has round its way. 
Among the aristocracy of lndla,l have a uoble 
line before me who have mado Inquiries about, 
and listened to the way God saves a sinner and 
takes nim to heaven. * * * One of these Is the 
Rajah of i’utialla and Ills Persian secretary. The 
latter, more used to a carpet Gian a chulr, sat a 
la lailleur wbllo he conversed with me. The Ra¬ 
jah was young, Intelligent, and spoke freely on 
Christian subjects.” 
Among those of the upper classes ut India wltb 
whom Mr. Salter came in contact last year, was 
Irnan Khan, a man of station and Influence, whose 
faith in Mohammedanism was shaken before he 
reached England, and who was thus prepared to 
listen to the Gospel. He seemed to yield to Its 
Influence, and before he left England he professed 
to receive Christianity. On his last visit to the 
missionary, he celebrated the chunge In a stanza 
in the classical Persian, which Mr. Salter gives us 
In English: 
” I had a Saviour of my own, 
False priests and prophets, too: 
Till God revealed in me Hia Son, 
And formed my heart anew I 
Now, priests and prophets all may flee; 
But, Lord, I cannot part with thee.” 
This seems to be a time when many “ run to 
and fro,” and we are glad to know of those who 
either on this or the other side of the Atlantic 
“ sow beside all waters.”— ir. ll. 
Sin gives Satan a power over us, and an advan¬ 
tage to accuse us, and to lay claim to us, as those 
that wear his badge, 
THE BUCKEYE FORCE FEED. 
The improvement in grain drills has been rapid 
of late, and a point is now reached where seeds 
and grains may be sown and regulated with 
positive accuracy. 
Messrs. F. P. Mast and Co., Springfield O., 
have become known throughout the world as 
among the most conspicuous pioneers in this 
connection, and the Buckeye maintains a reputa¬ 
tion in proportion to the sensation it created 
when it demonstrated that force Teed could be 
regulated as nicely as a clock. 
A writer in the Michigan Farmer, discussing 
this subject, given a lucid account of the force 
feed, which we condense. 
“In 1874, after long and patient 6tudy, the 
Buckeye came out with its new feed. Hitherto 
all drills had changed tho quantity by increasing 
the spued of ita food, necessitating the car¬ 
rying of a large number of cogwheels which 
were liable to become lost or broken, and, unless 
care was exercised, mistakes were liable to be 
made in changing for different kinds and quan¬ 
tities of grain. 
Again, large and small grains were crowded 
through tho same opening, or at best had but 
two openings; so that if the larger grain, corn, 
beans, peas, etc., could be sown at all, an unnec¬ 
essarily large Bpaoo was left for wheat, oats, 
barley, etc., making them oitber break the ker¬ 
nels of tho larger grains or bunch the smaller 
Tho “Buckeye” changed all this, reducing tho 
feed almost to an exact science. Au indicator 
was used by the operator which put it in his 
power to regulate the fetal of the drill by simply 
moving a point above a dial that was marked so 
a b to show the delivery. 
Tho writer continues ; 
But in the ntw Buckeye not only has conveni¬ 
ence of feed been sought, but accuracy has been 
most carefully looked after, Every feed wheel 
is turned up in a lathe ; they are carefully bored 
out, and exactly fitted to a perfectly round, 
straight shaft. By this means every wheel is 
exactly alike, aud is plaoed on tho foed shaft 
exactly so far from the feed cup. Then, to 
guard against any difference in tho thickness of 
eastings, every drill is tested before leaving the 
factory, and the quantity from oach cup weighed , 
aud tho slightest imperfection corrected ;. so.j^iat 
when they leave the shop every cup sows exact¬ 
ly alike. A drill feed ia a delicate thing. Moving 
the feeder a little more than one sixteenth of au 
inch will vary the quantity that cups sows nearly 
a half-bushel to the acre. 
Feeding as does the “ Buckeye,’' from tho side 
of a wheel, there is no possible chance for bunch¬ 
ing, but the seed runs out as even and continuous 
as a “ stream of water.” We have been, thus par¬ 
ticular in describing the feed, for therein lies tho 
vital part of a drill, aud one with a poor feed is 
little better than none at all; for, unlike a poor 
reaper, it will ruu and is consequently used to 
the detriment of the crop. 
But the enterprising manufacturers of tho 
Buckeye did not stop hero. Tho old shake feed 
grass seeder was still in nso, with its sheet-iron 
slide in the bottom, in which were puuched 3 or 
4 holes, through one of which it was supposed 
two quarts to tbe acre would somehow got sown, 
and four quarts through two holes. In reality IhiB 
was about as accurate as to punch a certain sized 
hole through the bottom of the drill hopper and 
suppose a bushel and a half to the acre would 
run through it. Believing that what was worth 
doing at all was worth doing well, they put the 
new feed on the grass seeder, tbus securing a 
force-feed grass seeder as accurate and positive 
as the feed to the drill, and requiring no ehaugo 
of cogwheels. 
Of coursoto build a drill in this way is expens¬ 
ive, as the lathe work on a piece of casting is 
many times the cost of the wheel itself; but that 
the implement was appreciated and bought may 
be inferred from-the fact that these shops have 
had their producing capacity increased until they 
are now capable of turning out a complete drill 
every seven minutes, which goes to supply an 
increasing demand. 
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A NEW PLOW. 
Messes. Case, Whiting & Co., Racine, Wis., 
have erected new buildings and machinery, and 
are busily at work making an entirely new plow. 
It ia a complete departure from all recent 
methods, aud we suppose is regarded as a new 
idea. To all intents it is, but its Egyptian 
prototype is astonishingly like the present pro¬ 
duct in dosign at least. 
This plow entirely abolishes the standard, the 
spring stoel beam being carried back, gracefully 
curved, aud fastened to a solid steel frame at the 
base together with the mold-board aud land- 
side. The attachment being made exactly at 
the center, it is claimed that a perfect center- 
draft is secured; that tho implement runs one- 
