Sraiina for % foil tig. 
LINES FJR BOYS TO REMEMBER. 
“ What eliull I do?” My boy don't stand asking : 
Take hold of something—^whatever yon can. 
Don’t turn aside for the toiling or tasking ; 
Idle, soft hands never yet made a man. 
Grasp with a will whatever needs doing ; 
Still stand ready, when one work is done, 
Another to seize, then still pursuing 
In duty your course, flud the victory won. 
Do your best for to-day. trust God for to-morrow ; 
Don't be. afraid of a jest or a sneer ; 
Bp. cheerful aud hopeful, and no trouble borrow: 
Keep the heart true, and the head cool and clear. 
If you can climb to the top without falling, 
Do it. If not, go as high as you can. 
Man is not honored by busiuess or calling ; 
Business and calling are honored by man. 
Mbs. Gage. 
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“POCKET-MONEY FOR THE YOUNG 
PEOPLE.”—No. 17. 
W T. ALAN, 
I hate a new idea for the young folks for earn- 
ng pocket-money, which will bring prleesaceord- 
ng to the quality or workmanship. It Is a window- 
bracket tor pots—something that everyone who 
ke’ps a pot for plants needs, and which many 
think Is too expensive when purchased at stores. 
This one of wood Is very simple, and can be 
made according to the strength of the wood and 
the weight, it will have to bear. After the strips 
are made, they should be put together with a 
square, I hat they may be perfect. Mark the ends 
of the brace by laying them on a square and saw¬ 
ing them accordingly. Where the brace connects 
Window-Bracket for Pots. 
with the arm at A, fasten with a screw: at B and 
C, long screws are needed, a couple of inches or 
more: cm. off the heads, and heat and bend to 
form hooks: then get small eyes at the hardware 
store, and screw to the window-casing where the 
hooks come; let there he room for plenty of play 
so that the bracket will swing around well. At 
E set a spool or turned piece of wood, and on this 
put the top or bottom of a tin fruit can; put a 
screw down through the tin aud spool Into the 
arm; use glue where the braces are jolued. Give 
the whole a coot of black paint, and dust with a 
ltt.le bronze after varnishing, and It will resemble 
bronzed lron*work, or with bronze and varnish 
run a line vine along the arm. 
At the point D on the brace, any sawed orna¬ 
ment may he added to make the work look more 
finished. If a number of brackets are to he made. 
It will pay best to have the stuff sawed out by 
machinery, and the screws bent and cut at a 
blacksmith’s—a scroll-saw will be found conven- 
ent for any ornaments to be attached to the 
brace. 
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE. 
1. Child two years old has an attack of croup 
at night. Doctor at a distance. What la to be 
done 7 
The child should be immediately undressed, 
and put In a warm bath. Then give an emetic, 
composed of one part of antimony wine to two 
of Ipecac. The dose Isa teaspoonful. If the an¬ 
timony Is not at hand, give warm water, mus¬ 
tard and water, or any other simple emetic; 
dry the child, and wrap It carefully In a warm 
blanket. 
2 . Hired girl sprains her ankle violently. 
First bathe In cold water, then put the white 
of an egg In a saucer, stir with a piece of alum, 
the size of a walnut, until It Is a thick Jelly; 
place a portion of It on a piece of lint or tow 
arge enough to cover the sprain, changing It 
as of ten as It feels warm or dry; the Umb la to 
be kept In a horizontal position by placing It on 
a chair. 
3. Bees swarm, and the man who hives them 
gets severely stung in the face. 
The sting of a bee Is hollow and barbed, and as 
It contaius the poison the first thing to he done 
Is to remove It. The parts stung should then be 
bathed In warm water, and a little ammonia 
be rubbed on them. 
4. Some one’s nose bleeds, and cannot be stop¬ 
ped. 
Take a plug of lint, moisten, dip In equal parts 
of powdered alum and gum arable, and insert In 
the nose. Bathe the forehead In cold water. 
5. Child eats a piece of bread on which ar¬ 
senic has been placed for killing rats. 
Give plenty of warm water, new milk In large 
quantities, gruel, linseed tea; foment the bow¬ 
els. Scrape Iron rust off anything, mix with 
warm water, and give in large draughts fre¬ 
quently. Never give large draughts of fluid un¬ 
til those given before have been vomited, be¬ 
cause the stomach will not contract properly If 
Ailed, aud the object Is to get rid of the poison as 
quickly as possible. 
a. Young lady sits In a draught, and comes 
home with a had sore throat. 
Wrap flannel around the throat, keep out or 
draughts and sudden changes of atmosphere, 
andu|very half hour take a pitch of chloride of 
poi ■ i, place It on the tongue, and allow It to 
dissolve In the mouth. 
7. Nurse suffers from a whitlow on her finger. 
Place the whitlow In water as hot as can be 
borne, then poultice with linseed meal, taking 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
care to mix a little grease with the poultice, to 
prevent It from growing hard. Bathe and poul¬ 
tice morning and evening. 
8. Child falls backwards against a tub of boil¬ 
ing water, and Is much scalded. 
Carefully undress the child, lay It on a bed, 
on Its breast, as the hack la scalded, be sure all 
draughts are excluded, then dust over the parts 
scalded bl-carbonato of soda, lay muslin over it,, 
then make a tent, by placing two boxes with a 
hoard over them In the bed, to prevent the cov¬ 
ering from pressing on the scald; cover up 
warmly. 
9. Mower cuts driver’s leg as lie Is thrown from 
seat. 
Put a tight bandage around the limb, above the 
cut, slip a cork under It, In the direction of aline 
drawn rrom the inner part of the knee to a little 
outside of the groin. Dim w the edges of the cut 
together with sticking plaster. 
10 . Child has a bad earache. 
Dip a plug of cotton wool In olive oil, warm It, 
and place In tUe ear. Wrap up the head an l 
keep out of draughts. 
11. Youth goes to skate; falls through the Ice; 
brought home Insensible. 
Strip the body, and rub It dry; then rub It, 
with a warm blanket, and place It In a warm 
bed, In a warm room. Cleanse away froth and 
mucus from the nose and mouth. Apply warm 
bottles, bricks, &e., to the arm-plis, between the 
thighs, and to the soles of the reet. Rub the 
surface of the body with the hand encased In a 
warm dry worsted sock. To restore breathing, 
close tUe nostrils and breathe steadily into the 
mouth; Inflate the lungs till the breast be raised 
a little, then set the nostrils free, and press 
gently on the chest until signs of life appear. 
Then give a warm drink, and put to bed. Do not 
give up hope for at least turee hours after the 
accident. 
12 . Child gets sand In his eye. 
Place your forednger on the cheek hone having 
the child before you. Then draw up your fin¬ 
ger, and you will probably be able to remove It,; 
but If you cannot get at the sand this way, re¬ 
peat the operation while you have a knitting 
needle laid against tUe eyelids, this will turn the 
lid Inside out, and then the sand may be re¬ 
moved with a silk handkerchief. Bathe In cold 
water, and exclude the light tor a day. 
Sairey Gamp. 
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THE COCKROACH AND ITS ENEMY. 
0. A. PERKINS, M. D. 
The Instinctive habltB of Insects furnish no 
small proportion of the Interest wlilch attaches 
to the study of that class of the animal kingdom. 
The wasps furnish their full share, and the stu¬ 
dent of narure never tires of Investigating the 
different methods by which they arrive at the 
saijoe end,—each species following out the law 
impressed upon It by the Creator with Its very 
being. 
Various species of Vespa deposit their eggs 
in a paper cell, and feed their young, In a larval 
stage, with Insects, which they chew, and par¬ 
tially digest for this purpose. Another genus 
(Pompllus) excavates a hole In the sand In which 
she deposits numbers of flies, spiders, etc., and 
with them an egg, and, burying them, leaves the 
larva to select, Its own food from these materials. 
OLhers, such as Polopueus, the Mu .-dauber, place 
the same materials In curiously constructed cells 
of clay, and closes them up with the same mason¬ 
ry. Others still, not content with such small 
game, select the body of one of the larger Insects, 
and deposit In It the germ of their future off¬ 
spring. 
Of this latter class is a beautiful trig little Bpe- 
cles (Ampulex Slblrlca Fabr.), very common In 
Western Africa, and whose polished metallic 
body, shlDlng like burnished steel, Is familiar to 
all dwellers on that coast. The Ampulex selects 
the body of the gigantic Cockroach as the re¬ 
ceptacle of Its egg, aud It Is not a little amusing 
to see in what a bustness-llko and determined 
manner she sets herself to the task of capturing 
her victim, and serving her writ of habeas corpus 
upon the doomed roach, full a dozen times her 
size. 
The wasp enters the apartment, and instantly 
a great commotion takes place among the cock¬ 
roaches (and their name Is legion in the tropics); 
frantic with fear, they seek a place of greater 
security, and, In their haste, often rush Into the 
very danger they seek to avoid; lor, should the 
keen eye of the wasp light, upon them, the case 
is a hopeless one. (It Is a matter of wonder in 
what manner tho roach should know of the pres¬ 
ence of the wasp, and we can only conjecture 
that Its keen perception may distinguish a pecu¬ 
liar souud In the vibrations of the wings of its 
enemy, as the larger animals are said to In the 
roaring of the lion.) The wasp flies like fury at tli e 
roach, and a severe struggle takes place; both 
using legs and wings In the tight, the contest is 
usually a short one, ror the wasp, seizing Its vic¬ 
tim by the head, or front of the thorax, bends Its 
body shorL round and plunges Its sting Into the 
nearest port,, and the roach, who a moment be¬ 
fore was fighting tor dear life, becomes as quiet 
as a sleeping Infant,—not a leg moves. The vic¬ 
torious wasp draws off a few Inches, seeming to 
survey her vanquished roe with pride, then pro¬ 
ceeds to bruan off the dust from Its brilliant coat 
and wings, and, after pluming Its an ten me, pre¬ 
pares to place Its prize in a secluded spot. Tak¬ 
ing the roach by the head, she leads him away a 
few feet, and, leaving him, examines the vicinity 
for this purpose. In one Instance, the cockroach 
was dragged with considerable trouble between 
the leaden lining of a tea-chest and the outer 
box ; In another, an open-backed hook answered 
her purpose; but the most singular spot was the 
inside of a door-lock. The cockroach walked 
slowly up the door to the key-hole, led by the 
wasp, and, after much pulling on the part of the 
wasp, was forced Into the Interior. 
After being out of sight a few minutes, the 
wasp returned, took several nails from a paper 
which lay on the floor near by, and carried them, 
one by one. Into the key-hole. I could not hut 
admire the perseverance manifested In this effort. 
The wasp was obliged to walk backwards up the 
door to the key-hole; the nail could not be turn¬ 
ed by rhe wasp Into a proper position to enter 
endwise, and, consequently, fell to the floor sev¬ 
eral times before being successfully drawn in, 
and each time tUe wasp descended Immediately 
to renew the attempt. The lock was taken off 
carefully, and Stic four-penny nails found cover¬ 
ing the body of the roach. 
Not,the least singular feature In the easels, 
that the sting of the wasp does not kill the Cock¬ 
roach, hut, only stupefies him, so that the roach, 
when he walks to his Anal resting-place, may 
certainly be said to go to lus own funeral as chief 
mourner ! 
The oodles of this species of cockroach are 
often found with the empty cocoon of the wasp 
occupying the cavity of the abdomen; the young 
wasp, having been hatched there, and, after com¬ 
pleting Its larval stage, spinning this cocoon, still 
remains there to complete Its development, when 
it eouies forth a perreet Insect, In all respects 
like Its parent. 
To show with what tenacity the wasp sticks to 
her prey when once within her grasp, we once 
pur. a cockroach, which had been paralyzed, with 
the wasp. In a glazed earthen pitcher, nod watch¬ 
ed the result. The wasp attempted to lead the 
roach out of the pitcher, to wtiicb move the cock¬ 
roach made no object ions, and walked up the In¬ 
clined side of the pitcher as far as his feet would 
permit him, but not being furnished with the lit- 
tle pads or suckers with which our common fly 
and many other Insects are provided, he found It 
out ot his power to comply with the requirements 
of his master, an l on attempting to continue his 
walk, fell to the bottom. The wasp again led 
him up, and agalu he fell. Tli Is was repeated for 
the space of three hours, the wasp, in some of 
her attempts, nearly sustaining the whole weight 
of the roach. Alter being convinced of the impos¬ 
sibility of her accomplishing the feat, I liberated 
the pair, the wasp soon storing her prize away 
under a bookcase. 
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Potato Beetles. 
Dear Rural “ Render honor to whom honor 
Is due,” Is an old saying, and 1 think it Just and 
right to give you ray experience with the Colo¬ 
rado beetle, or potato bug, ibis season, as it may 
be a benefit to others. My neighbors have been 
using Parl.vgreen to kill theirs. 1 watched the 
offsets of the stuff and made up my mind that 
none would go on my potato vines. Seeing an 
advertisement of the Pest Killer, made at Kear¬ 
ney’s Chemical Works In New York City, I sent 
for a trial box, tested It to my lull satisfaction 
and found It was Just what was represented. I 
then sent for more and have dosed my potato 
Selds effectually, according to directions with the 
packages. The results are, the bugs are van¬ 
quished, my potato vines are bright and green 
aud present quite a contrast to the sorry-looking 
Paris-green dosed flelds, where the bugs still riot 
on the remains of the vines. s. h. r. 
HIDDEN TREES. 
1. See the cat, Alpa, on the fence. 
2 . Did you ever pop large ears ot corn 7 
3. Sarah, Em locks her door every night. 
4. Pap, awfully blows the wind. 
5. I can spell b, a; O, Bob, can you do lt7 
6. Sew on the button, Woodworth. 
7. After churning butter, nutB were cracked. 
8 . In the arbor Vltaela waited for her lover. 
9. Why, Rose ; wood stoves are much the best. 
10 . Jenny Lind entranced her hearers. 
31. Mamma gave me a watch. 
12 . Cal derived benefit from tar drops. 
13. Hal, Monday Is the day appointed. 
14. The moon Is lu a haze, Lily. 
15. Hiram Blr chased the geese. 
16. ’Twas a 'i’obam-book of the Jews. 
17. 1 took Mlatle to Elmira. 
18 . Urban, I angrily denounce you. 
Sir Answer in two weeks. Little One. 
ENIGMA. 
There Is a noun of plural number, 
Foe to sleep and quiot slumber; 
Now, any other noun you take, 
By addlug “s” you plural make; 
But If an “s ” you add to this, 
Strange Is the metamorphosis; 
Plural Is plural now no more, 
And sweet what hitter was before. 
Chlpmonk Hollow. Rosa A. Frost. 
Answer In two weeks. 
TRANSPOSITION. 
Rafi Nual vatlers tlon wtvo, 
Fllugsfudl nayrn a relvls yar; 
Nad gllntwlnk trass ear nlrucog oto, 
N1 soport Barcos het llkmy yaw. 
tr Answer In two weeks. Mary Waley. 
PUZZLER ANSWER8,—Sept. 7. 
Miscellaneous Enigma—K ind words are jew¬ 
els beyond price, powerful to oval tho wounaed 
heart and to make the weighed-down spirit clad. 
Geographical Enigma.— State, North Carolina; 
capital, Ruleiah. 
Hour-glabs Puzzle.— 
SORROWFULLY 
INTRIGUER 
WALLACE 
Raker 
RED 
s 
a n s 
BLADE 
MARRIED 
INCORRECT 
INDEPENDENT 
Drop-letter Puzzle.—W here are now the hopes 
I’ve cherished ? 
SEPT.'ll 
j§al)ht| $Lratring, 
SHALL WE HAVE A SABBATH ] 
The season now drawlDg to a close has been 
remarkable for the Increased disregard of the 
sacredness of the Lord’s Day. Sunday excursions 
by steamboats, Sunday trains on railroads, Sun¬ 
day amusements of all kinds, have abounded. 
Much of this Is in an open aud apparent contempt 
of the law, but uobody moves to enforce the law. 
Appeals are sometimes made for the Interposition 
of the executive authorities to see that this, 
among other laws, be faithfully executed, hut no 
one regards them. Tr would be better Just to say 
that the law la a dead letter, An attempt to 
prosecute ordinary labor through seven days of 
the week, robbing the employed classes of their 
rest-day, would be quickly animadverted upon, 
and, If persisted In, would be held In check by the 
unquestioned force of the statute. But where 
amusements are concerned, though they Involve 
a great amount of servile labor on the part of 
those who provide them, and the means of enjoy¬ 
ing then?, they are viewed with an Indulgence 
that DOtblng seems likely to disturb In the pres¬ 
ent state of public opinion, the law of the Sab¬ 
bath is relaxed beyond any known preetdent In 
the United states. 
As the cause of a relaxed practice is undoubt¬ 
edly a relaxation of principle, little can he gained 
by agitating In favor of a strict enforcement of 
the law. Agitation alone changes no opinions. It 
merely brings to the surface Sentiments that lay 
dormant, and puts them In action. But If the de¬ 
sired sentiments have ceased to exist, have given 
place to other sentiments, or to a feeling of care¬ 
less Indifference, the only effect of agitation will 
be to expose the vacuum that might otherwise 
escape notice. 
It is a fact of no small importance that the 
oplnlOLB and the habits of religious people have 
undergone a change for the worse. It Is not 
merely that the opinion formerly held has been 
reconsidered and modified, for that was Inevita¬ 
ble; hut that many, having discovered that the 
Puritan doctrine and discipline concerning the 
Sabbath were overstrlct, havlug gained do sub¬ 
stitute for what they reject. Feeling that they 
are not hound to keep the day with Judalcal re¬ 
straints, they throw off all restraints except the 
easy limits of decorous respectability. Now we 
are not likely to have a legal Sabbath If we have 
do Christian Sabbath. Every one who has, or 
meanB 1>o have, a consclenco In tho matter should 
define to himself, In tho light, or Scripture and 
good sense, what Is a proper use of the Lord's 
Day, and for hltuself and his household, If he be 
a householder, resolve firmly to abide by that. 
Let Christians set a proper example of keeping 
the day holy, and then they may, with some hope 
of success, insist on the protection wlilch the 
law provides for Its observance as a day of rest 
from toil.— Watchman. 
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“WOULD” MISUSED. 
In prayer we often hear such expressions as 
the following: ‘‘We would thank Thee,” “ We 
would bless Thee," “ We would praise Thee,” 
“ We would ask Thee,” etc. Some may fall into 
this habit by hearing others use such forms of 
speech without reflecting that they thereby re¬ 
duce their thanksgiving and supplications to al¬ 
most meaningless expressions. Others may 
have adopted It because It appears to them to 
savor of humility; as If It were almost presump¬ 
tion in them to bless or entreat God at all. But 
surely this Is no honer to Illm who has taken 
such palnB to open the way to slunera to His 
throne, and Invites them to come so freely. If 
any are so suspicious of the state of their own 
hearts as this seems to lmply.lt were far better 
to ask God to give them a devotional spirit than 
to use a form of words which implies that they 
do not at all what they profess to do. The ex¬ 
pressions, “ We would bless Thee,” “ We would, 
confess to Thee,” mean simply, "We should be 
glad to do thlB, but somehow or other, we can’t 
or don’t.” And I often felt, while hearing such 
addresses to God, that he might say to offerers, 
"If you wish to praise Me, and ask favors, why 
don't you do ill” 1 pray you, dear brethren 
lay aside these unsuitable and harmful forms 
of expressions. If we have only such would- 
be worship to offer to God, we are miserable 
Christians and undevoul ministers, ror this 
habit sometimes Invades tho desk. Cnrist, did 
not say,*“ I would thank Thee, O Father, Lord 
of heaven and earthbut, “ 1 thank Thee.” Let 
Him be our pattern .—interior 
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If a tree do not bud, blossom and bring forth 
fruit in tho spring, It generally Is dead all the 
year after; 80 If lu the spring and morning of 
your days you do not bring forth fruit to God, It is 
a hundred to ono that you bring not forth fruit to 
hltu when the evil days of old age shall overtake 
you, wherein you shall say you have no pleasure ; 
for, as the son of Slraoh observes, “If thou hast 
gathered nothlDg In thy youth, what caustthou 
find In thine old age 7” 
Cold prayers are like arrows without heads, 
swords without edges, birds without wings; they 
pierce not, they cut not, they fly not up to heav¬ 
en. Those prayers that have no heavenly Are In 
them always freeze before they reach as high as 
heaven; but fervent prayer is very prevalent 
with God. 
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Many take unfit seasons for private prayer, 
which more obstruct the Importunity of the soul 
in prayer than do all the suggestions aud Impor¬ 
tunities of Satan. 
