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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAY 25 
|Uatiutg for tljx |omig. 
AN ANGRY BABY, 
No human being who saw that sight 
But felt a shudder of pale affright. 
He sat in a window three stories high— 
A little baby, with no one nigh. 
A strauger saw him, and stopped to stare; 
A crowd soon gathered to watch him there; 
A gleam 1 a flutter!—in airy flight 
Came past the window, a butterfly bright! 
From fields of clover and perfumed air. 
Wayfaring insect, what brought you there 1 
The baby saw it, and eagerly 
Beached out to catch it with glowing glee— 
With fat, pink Angers reached ont—and fell! 
The awful horror no tongue can tell! 
Poor little baby, so sweet and bright! 
Pale faces quivered, and lips grew white; 
Weak women fainted; Btrong men grew weak; 
Up rose one woman's heart-piercing shriek. 
Hurrah for the awning! Upon the fly 
It caught the youngster aud tossed him high. 
The bounce prodigious made baby scowl; 
He caught his breath, sir, aud sent up a howl. 
AU blessed tbe awning that had no flaw— 
But a madder baby you never saw! 
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“POCKET MONEY FOR THE YOUNG 
PEOPLE.”—No. 3. 
M. B. PRINCE. 
One of the prominent, if not the most promi¬ 
nent, causes of the desire to leave the farm so 
prevalent, among farmers’ sons is, no doubt., a 
lack of pecuniary remuneration for services 
rendered. Though this may be an old idea ad¬ 
vanced by some one of the few who have at¬ 
tempted to give us light, on the subjeot, we do 
not now remember to have seen any explanation 
as to the how to do U; that is, how to give the boy 
an opportunity, how he may Improve it both 
mentally and pecuniarily; all of which I propose 
to show, In a practical way, I ho pe. 
But first a word to parents. I)o not work the 
boys too hard, making men of them before their 
time—a practice that will surely destroy all the 
beneficial lnilnonces Of rural life, and bring 
about the same results finally that la seen la the 
hot-bed growth of our cities. 
As the boy labors by your side in the field, t he 
orchard or garden, explain to him as far as you 
are able, the mysteries of plant growth; the 
principles of deep or shallow tillage,drainage, the 
effect of weeds in the hill of corn; tbe results of 
good or bad management In the care or domestic 
animals, as well as the different points of excel¬ 
lence In the various breeds, and their adaptation 
to different purposes. Assist him In procuring 
tools with which to while away a leisure hour, or 
allot to him a patch of land whereon to grow 
some crop for hla own ; to be disposed or as he 
pleases, advising him, or course, as to a proper 
Investment of the proceeds. The ways are so 
many by which the young people can secure 
pocket-money, and the circumstances of location 
so different that to go through the whole category 
would be an endless task. Near small towns and 
in thickly populated rural districts, the growing 
of vegetables, plants and perhaps fiowers will be 
found to afford a profit as well as a prolific source 
of pleasure and education. 
Commence in a small way, enlarging a3 the 
business demands it. Secure good seeds of the 
best varieties, not too many, say two kluds of 
tomatoes, three or cabbage, etc.; when the prop¬ 
er season arrives, make an ordinary hot-bed. In¬ 
structions for which you will find m many of the 
catalogues of seedsmen that are sent free by 
most of the Rural's advertisers. 
One sash, Sxe feet, is large enough for the first; 
when your tomato, pepper and egg-plants are 
about two Inches high, have another bed ready, 
In which transplant two or three Inches apart, 
then as the weather becomes more mild, a cold- 
frame or bed may be used to advantage for a 
second transplanting, where more Bun and air 
should be allowed, which will •* harden off” the 
plants, as the gardeners say, rendering them 
more able to withstand the after open-ground 
culture. 
A cheap cover for the two later beds can be 
made or cambric, stretched on a frame; it does 
admirably for mild weather. Cabbages, eaull- 
flowers, celery, etc., are usually sown where they 
are to remain until planted In the open ground. 
In this, as well as In other plans which ,we may 
propose, make It a point to produce the best. 
Establish a reputation In your neighborhood; 
above all, study the wants of your plants; ob¬ 
serve tbe effect of much or little water, different 
fertilizers, etc., thus storing the mind with useful 
knowledge. 
EDUCATION. 
This Is what Mr. Fowle says about cleanliness 
In a teacher: ‘‘Perhaps In no particular can a 
teacher be more useful to his pupils than by in¬ 
culcating a habit of neatness, and In no one thing, 
perhaps, will the Importance of our example be 
so dlnstlntly felt. The superiority of female 
teachers la this respect la, perhaps one of the 
strongest reasons lor the growing preference 
which Is given to them. At every Institute 1 saw 
young gentlemeu who, In manner and personal 
appearance, were all that could he wished; hut 
1 saw also many who In these respects were far 
better fitted to be warnings than models for the 
imitation of youth. I do not wish the young 
teacher to expend all he earns In dress, but I do 
wish to see every teacher careful in regard to ex¬ 
ternal Influence. His clothes may always be neat 
and whole, however coarse. Hla boots may al¬ 
ways be cleaned, His hair may always be neatly 
combed, his teeth perfectly white, his finger nails 
cut, his hat and clothes brushed, and his hands, 
nose, ears and neck perfectly clean. Frequent 
ablutions of his whole person, as well as of his 
face and hands, are indispensable. He must 
have a care as to his breath, that It be not offen¬ 
sive to those whom he U obliged to face so often. 
I do not hesitate to say that if I were on a school 
committee no man who used tobacco and who 
spit on the floor, should ever have my vote, 
If he applied for a school and would teach for 
nothing.” 
Large committees of our ablest teachers after 
full examination have reported that the com¬ 
plete Introduction of the metric weights and 
measures, now making so rapid progress In this 
country, would save a full year of the school- 
life of every child. 
In spite of all the efforts that are made la the 
cause of popular education, Illiteracy is Increas¬ 
ing faster tuan our population. The year saved 
would he enough to turn t he scale. In a coun¬ 
try depending for the safety of Its rree Institu¬ 
tions upon the education of the people, these 
facts are of the most serious Importance. 
Such being the case, every friend or education, 
economy, and progress, must have a strong in¬ 
terest In the efforts now meeting with so much 
success, to secure these advantages for our coun¬ 
try. 
The Printing Times says wo must accept the 
following data on the authority or the compiler, 
who has evidently more time than business on 
his hands: “A rapid penman can write thirty 
words In a minute. To do this, lie must draw his 
pen through the space of a rod, feet. In 
forty minutes his pen travels a furlong. We 
make on an average sixteen curves or turns of 
the pen In writing each word. Writing thirty 
words a minute, we must make 480 vo each min¬ 
ute; In an hour, 28 , 000 ; in a day or only five 
hours, 144,000; and In a year of 300 days, 43, 000 , 000 . 
The man who made 1 , 000,000 strokes with his pen 
in a month, was not at all remarkable. Many men, 
newspaper writers, for Instance, make 4,000,000. 
Here, we have, in the aggregate, a mark of 300 
miles long to be traced on paper by such a writer 
In a year. In making each letter of the ordinary 
alphabet we must make from three to seven turns 
of the pen, or an average or three and a half to 
four." Perhaps some equally Ingenious person 
will next inform us how much Ink a Journalist 
can save by not dotting his “ l’s.” 
Many Iowa towns have elected women to the 
office of school director under the new state law 
allowing women to hold office. The experiment 
is reported to be a successful one. 
Princeton will send a party to Denver, to wit¬ 
ness the solar eclipse of July 28th. It will be 
occupied principally with spectroscopic work. 
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I will never purchase lottery tickets so long as 
1 can hire a man to rob me at reasonable wages. 
—Josh Billings. 
A ccltiatfd EAR.— An ear of corn. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
Our Foreign Cousin Again. 
Dear Uncle True and cousins :—With great 
pleasure I see that my last letter has found lt.B 
way Into the dear Rural, and encouraged by 
your very kind remarks, I will try again to step 
before the cousins to-day. 
In my letter I promised to write to you about 
rural life In Switzerland, and hoping that you 
will not find my letters too long and dry, I under¬ 
take to fulfill my promise by giving first, an in¬ 
troduction on the outlines or the history. In old 
times, the tunes of the Middle Ages, half of 
Europe was the exclusive property of the govern¬ 
ment, the church and the numberless counts and 
barons. They possessed aud exercised a most 
despotic power over their subjects. The common 
people owned no land In their own name; they 
had to work it either on shares or to rent from 
the proprietors; but they had no chance to buy 
it. or to free themselves from the rent. 
The constant wars In which the smaller and 
greater sovereigns were involved, and for which 
their respective subjects had to pay dear enough 
with life and property, led to the entire ruin of 
the people. Only after the spirit of civilization 
commenced to reaoh the heart of the population 
the serfs shook off the yoke and taking possession 
of the property of their former oppressors, they 
became for the first time owners of real estate; 
but this freedom was bought with the lives of 
thousands of our ancestors who fought like heroes 
against the foes of liberty. 
The old Swiss were the first that protested, 
and the deeds of William Tell aDd others are well 
known across the Atlantic to a good many of our 
cousins. After liberty carried the victory over 
slavery, a revolution took place In tlie|socia life 
of the people; darkness, Ignorance and religious 
persecutions had to make room for fight, civiliza¬ 
tion and freedom of religion; new Inventions 
and Improvements were made from year to year 
in agriculture and other sciences, population and 
prosperity increased, and after America was dis¬ 
covered the old world had means enough to ex¬ 
plore the new, to settle there, and to turn the 
vast, wilderness into the most productive country 
on the globe. 
But as population Increased very large farms 
became smaller aud smaller; every generation 
had to divide the farm in smaller lots In order to 
content their successors, until our land Is now 
all divided Into one-quarter to five acre lots; and 
It Is not very seldom that a farmer owning 50 
acres of land, has It, perhaps, la 50 different lots, 
situated four or five miles around the village he 
lives in; and worklDg on such a farm Is what 1 
call “ small farming,” 
As I am through now with the Introduction, 1 
fear that more of my bad writing, (which, by the 
way Is caused by bad pen and hard labor for the 
past days), would annoy Uncle True. If it 
should please you I shall write In my next letter 
something about small farming. Au revoir done ! 
Clinton Co., N. Y. John Schwyn. 
Our Pert Cousin. 
80 Wildfire actually considered me talented? 
Really I didn’t expect, to receive such a compli¬ 
ment from him. We sigh for another po etlcal ef¬ 
fusion. Wildfire, why didst, thou cease thy efforts ? 
Renew them, we beseech thee, and gladden our 
hearts. 
Where Is Solomon ? I fear his residence was 
among the sugar maples, and he has been boiled 
down, and some one has gobbled blm up. Oh, 
heart-rending thought! 
Where is Young Naturalist ? Echo answers, 
where I Has he disappeared from this mundane 
sphere, or lias he succumbed to Dew-Drop’s 
smiles and departed our circle to be forever at 
her side 7 
Do any of you know the whereabouts of Belle 
E. F, ? I have not seen a letter from her for some 
time; hope she will write again soon, you know 
“ tbe more tbe merrier." 
Will some one pleaso tell me how to Bkeletonize 
leaves ? Yours, excruciatingly, 
Norfolk Co., Va. Bertha, alias Gerfalcon. 
®Ije fugltr. 
HIDDEN STREAMS OF WATER. 
t. DRtvE rather fast. 
2 . There’s a flake of snow. 
3 . ’Tls Alla Baba, you know. 
4 . Let Ella go once. 
6 . Why, Bub, a yell Is a scream. 
6. Is this easy ? 
I. Doc., Kantce loves yon. 
s. I met Eric reeking with vile rum. 
9. I live In Brooklyn, E. D. 
to, is Dover ill? 
11 . Will Rtvu let egg-nog alone ? 
12 . 80 , under the sod he sleeps. 
13. C&stra, It seems wrong. 
14 . Nlc., Han., NeH and 1. 
15. 1 wonder If “ Rlth ” la right ? 
ig. In the march I (Pela) got out of step. 
IT. The Mogul fainted. 
18. See the Uypoo laugh! 
19. Upon Dave's word. 
• 20 . can Allen go ? 
21. Leutu, a rye-field took fire. 
22 . He’s a tar no more. 
23. At last, Rea M. let me kiss her. 
24. I am ill, Racero, 
25. I live In Maine. 
Answer In two weeks. Little One. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. 
Mr first Is In you but not In me, 
My second Is In neither, I think you’ll agree; 
My third is In cedar but not In pine, 
My fourth Is In liquor but not In wine; 
My fifth is in stone but not In wall, 
My sixth gets In trouble, I leave to you all; 
My seventh Is in riddle but not In sieve, 
My eighth Is In Utah, where “ latter days " live ; 
My ninth comes In yearly, not monthly, I ween, 
My whole 1 prize dearly, though never have seen. 
Vtr Answer In two weeks. Mary Waley. 
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DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
1. A native of India and Elndostan. 2. Illegal. 
3. A measure. 4. A complimentary title applied 
to married or elderly ladles. 5. Bustle. 6. In no 
degree. 7. Clean. 6. A girl’s name. 9. A dance. 
10. A peak of the Andes Mountains. 11. A lizard. 
12. A place of toll and misery. Prlmals and finals 
form two of Sir Walter Scott’s works, 
pr Answer In two weeks. a. 0. l. 
DIAMOND PUZZLE. 
1. A consonant. 2. A month. 3 . A woman’s 
name. 4. Weakness of resolution. 5. A modified 
disease. 6. New doctrines. 7. An earthen vessel. 
8 . Wickedness. 9. A consonant. 
tsf~ Answer In two weeks. s. c. 
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TRIPLE ACROSTIC. 
1 . Having six sides. 2. A lady’s name. 3 . An 
ancient religion. 4. Exhumed. 5. A tyrant, c. 
Part of a ship. 7. To dry in a kiln. Prlmals, cen¬ 
trals and finals form three fishes. 
&r Answer In two weeks. Balto. 
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WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA. 
1 . A city of Russia. 2 . one of the Caroline Isl¬ 
ands. 3. The primitive form of a word. 4. A 
fable. 
13T Answer in two weeks. Dr, 
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PYRAMID PUZZLE. 
1 . A consonant. 2 . A boy’s nickname. 3. Fool¬ 
ish. 4. An Idle prater. 5. A female writer, c. 
Heedfully. Centrals form a county of Maryland. 
isr Answer in two weeks. Floridian. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-May 11. 
Curtailments— l,Nith, nit: 2, Yew,ye; 3, Wet, 
we- 1. Coos, coo; 5, Deep. Dee: 6. Early, Earl; 7, 
Weed, wee: 8 , Tooth, loot: 9, KJnk, kin ; 10. Wart, 
wur; 11, Hope, hop; 12, Horn, Hor; 13. Rouen, roue; 
14, Thine, thin: It, Loo, lo ; 10, Booty, boot: 17, Vesta, 
vest; 18, StatTn, staff: 19, Borneo, Koine; 20. Doth, 
dot; 21, Pear, pea; 32, Heron, hero; 23, Met, tne ; 24, 
Beet, bee; 25, Bet, be. 
TRANSPOSITION.— 
•' Is Knot sweet, beloved youth. 
To rove through erudition’s bowers, 
And cull tbe golden fruits of truth. 
And gather fancy’s brilliant flower* 
jSabbatl) pairing. 
CHRIST AND THE LITTLE ONES. 
Mark 10; 13. Luke 18; 15. 
“ The Master has come over Jordan,” 
Said Hannah, the mother, one day; 
'• He la healing the people who throng Him 
With a touch of Hte finger they say. 
“ And now I shall carry the children, 
Little It&chel, and Samuel, and John; 
I shall carry the baby Esther, 
For the Lord to look upon. 
The father looked at her kindly. 
But he shook his head and smiled: 
** Now who but a doting mother 
Would think of a thing so wild ? 
” If the clilldreu were tortured by demons, 
Or dying of fever, ’twere well; 
Or had they a taint of the leper. 
Like many in Israel.” 
“ Nay, do not hinder mo, Nathan, 
I fee] such a burden of care; 
If I carry It to the Master, 
Perhaps I shall leave it there. 
“ If He lay Hla hand on the children, 
My heart will be lighter, 1 know; 
For a blessing forever and ever 
Will follow them as they go." 
So oyer the hills of Judah, 
Along the vine rows green, 
With Esther asleep on her bosom, 
And Itachel her brothers between,— 
’Mong the people who hang on His teaching, 
Or waiting His touch or His word, 
Through the row of proud Pharisees listening. 
She pressed to the teet of her Lord. 
“ Now, why Bhonld’st thou hinder the Master,” 
, Said Peter, ” with children like these ? 
Seest not how from morning to evening 
He teaelieth and healeth disease ?” 
Then Christ said, “ Forbid not the children! 
Permit tkam to come unto Me I” 
And He took In His arms little Esther, 
And Rachel He sat on His kuee. 
And the heavy heart of the mother 
Was lifted all earth care above, 
As He laid His hands ou the brothers, 
Aud blest them with tenderest love,— 
As He said of the babes in His bosom, 
" Of Bnch is the Kingdom of Heaven 
And strength for all duty aud trial 
That hour to her spirit was given. 
[Julia GUI. 
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SINAI. 
If the Wady Feiran, by its palm-grove and Its 
brook, be marked out as the first long halting- 
place or Israel, the high valleys of JebelMusa 
with their abundant springs no leas mark out the 
second. The great thoroughfare of the desert, 
the longest and widest and most continuous of 
all the valleys, the Wady es-Sheykfi, would lead 
the great bulk of the host, with the flocks and 
herds, by the more accessible though more cir¬ 
cuitous route into the central upland; while the 
chiefs of the people would mount directly to the 
same point by the Nukb Hawy, and all would 
meet In the Wady er-Rahah, the “ inclosed 
plain ’’ In rront of the magnificent cliffs of the 
RasSufsafeh . . . No one who has approached 
the Ras Sufsafeh through that noble plain, or 
who has looked down upon the plain from that 
majestic lfight, will willingly part with the belief 
that these are the two essential rearures of the 
view of the Israelite camp. That such a plain 
should exist at all in front or such a cliff is so re¬ 
markable a coincidence with the sacred narrative 
as to furnish a strong Internal argument, not 
merely of Its Identity with the scene, but of U 10 
scene Itseir having been described by an eye¬ 
witness. The awful and lengthened approach, 
as to some natural sanctuary, would have been 
the fittest preparation for the coming scene. 
The low fine of alluvial mounds at the foot of the 
cliff exactly answers to the ” bounds ” which 
were to keep the people off from “ touching the 
mount." The plain Itself 1 h not broken and un¬ 
even and narrowly shut In, like almost all others 
in the range, but presents a long retiring sweep, 
against which the people could “remove aud 
stand afar off." The cliff, rising like a huge altar 
In front of the whole congregation, and visible 
against the sky In lonely grandeur from end to 
end of the whole plain, is the very Image of the 
“ mount that might be touched,” and from which 
the “ voice ” of God might be heard far and wide 
over the stillness of the plain below, widened at 
that point to Its utmost extent by the confluence 
of all the contiguous valleys. 
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Remember that God is no curious or critical ob¬ 
server or the plain expressions that fall from his 
poor children when they are In their closet duties; 
’tls not a flow of words, or studied notions, seraph- 
leal expressions, or elegant phrases In prayer, 
which take the ear, or delight the heart of God, 
or open tUe gate of glory, or bring down the best 
of blesslugs upon the soul; but uprightness, holi¬ 
ness, heavenlluess, spirituality ana brokenness of 
hearte-these are the things that make a conquest 
upon God, and turn most to the soul’s account. 
The Lord defines faith to be a coining to God In 
Christ; to be a resting, or staying, or rolling of 
the soul upon Christ. And It la always safest and 
sweetest to define as God defines, both vices aud 
graces. This is the only way to settle the soul, 
and to secure It against all the wiles of man and 
devils, who labor by false definitions of grace to 
keep precious souls In a doubting, staggering and 
languishing condition; and to make their lives a 
burden and a misery unto them. 
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Gon hath bestowed himself as a portion upon 
as great sinners as any are that as yet have not 
God for their portion. 
