AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
229 
1868 .] 
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Wanted—A ISoy with 'fl'en IPoints. 
1, Honest. 2, Pure. 3, Intelligent. 4, Active. 5, In¬ 
dustrious. 6, Obedient. 7, Steady. 8, Obliging. 9, 
Polite. 10, Neat. One thousand first-rate places are 
open for one thousand boys who can come up to the 
standard. Each boy can suit his taste as to the kind of 
business lie would prefer. The places are ready in every 
kind of occupation. Many of them are already filled by 
boys who lack some of the most important points, but 
they will soon bo vacant. One is in an office not far 
from where we write. The lad who has the situation is 
losing liis first point. He likes to attend the circus and 
the theater. This costs more money than he can afford, 
but somehow he manages to be there frequently. His 
employers are quietly watching to learn how he gets so 
much extra spending money; they will soon discover a 
leak in the money drawer, detect the dishonest boy, and 
his place will he ready for some one who is now getting 
ready for itby observing point No. 1, and being truthful in 
all his ways. Some situations will soon bo vacant, because 
the boys have been poisoned by reading bad books, such 
as they would not dare to show to their fathers, and would 
be ashamed to have their mothers see. The impure 
thoughts suggested by these books will lead to vicious 
acts; the boys will be ruined, and their places must be 
filled. Who will be ready for one of these vacancies ? 
Distinguished lawyers, useful ministers, skillful physi¬ 
cians, successful merchants, must all soon leave their 
places for somebody else to fill. One by one they are re¬ 
moved by death. Mind your ten points, boys ; they will 
prepare you to step into the vacancies in the front rank. 
Every man who is worthy to employ a boy is looking for 
you, if you have the points. Do not fear that you will be 
overlooked. A young person having these qualities will 
shine as plainly as a star at night. We have named ten 
points that go toward making up the character of a suc¬ 
cessful boy, so that they can.be easily remembered. You 
can imagine one on each finger, and so keep them in 
mind—they will be worth more than diamond rings, and 
you will then never be ashamed to “show.your hand.” 
Presence of Mind. —An English writer 
relates the following incident. A lady was in front of her 
lawn with her children, when a mad dog rushed toward 
them pursued by several men. Most persons would have 
screamed and done nothing, or at once taken to their 
heels and left the poor children to their fate. Not so this 
mother. Nerved to resolution by love of her children, 
she walked straight toward the dog, received his head in 
the folds of her skirts between her knees, and held it 
with all her might until the men came up and secured it. 
Ways of ©etting- a ILivsng. 
9 THE BLIND PIPER. 
One of the first thoughts of a person coming from the 
country to New York, and seeing the crowds of people 
who throng the streets, is, “How do they all get a living ?” 
To answer this fully would require large volumes. There 
are hundreds of ways of making money in a large city, 
which, fortunately, are unknown outside of its limits. 
We have prepared illustrations showing some of these 
that may interest the young readers of the Agriculturist. 
The above is a correct portrait of a blind piper that has 
been regularly seen in the streets of New York for many 
years. His favorite resting-place is on the stone coping 
of the railing around Trinity Church, on Broadway, at 
the head of Wall Street. Usually a little girl sits by him 
to receive the pennies that may be dropped by the com¬ 
passionate passers. The sound produced by his playing 
on the bagpipes is execrable. Filing saws would be 
music compared with it. When performing, he twists 
and works his body convulsively, and it might reasonably 
be thought that the sounds brought out from his instru¬ 
ment were the voices of the aches and pains tormenting 
his poor body. Of course, such a spectacle excites the 
pity of the beholders, and that pity is worth to him prob¬ 
ably several dollars per day. We do not know how much 
he has realized by his performances, but probably con¬ 
siderably more than if he had played passably well, and 
left out the accompanying contortions with which he 
plays on the public as well as on the bagpipes. At any 
rate he makes a living, and looks able to blow for years. 
'WIb.® First ILived in America ? 
Perhaps only such Indians as were found here by Co¬ 
lumbus and those who followed him were the aborigines 
of America, but discoveries are continually coming to 
light that point to races of men superior to savages. The 
following account of a recent occurrence is given by the 
KnoxvHle Press. “Mr. William Staples owns a valuable 
farm on Poplar Creek, about twelve miles north-east of 
Kingston. For many years past attention has been at¬ 
tracted to a particular locality on his farm, from the fact 
that the cattle were in the habit of resorting to the place, 
and making thereby what was known as a ‘ lick.’ The 
attention of Mr. Staples being thus called to the subject, 
he resolved to investigate the matter. Accordingly he 
commenced to excavate upon the premises. After dig¬ 
ging down about seven feet, he struck a solid limestone 
rock. He found a well about eight inches in diameter, 
from which he procured salt water strong enough to en¬ 
able him to obtain salt by boiling. The most remarkable 
feature of this discovery consists in the following: After 
the discovery of the well, Mr. Staples prosecuted his in¬ 
vestigations, and found, to his surprise, a line of salt ket¬ 
tles. ■ The kettles were of stone ware, made of the same 
material as that used by the Indians for their home ware, 
such as plates, dishes, etc. The kettles were broken, but 
the curvature indicated that they were about three feet in 
diameter, and were about forty in number. A most 
striking fact connected with this discovery is that these 
kettles were found at a depth of seventy feet below the 
surface of the ground. Growing above them were trees— 
poplar and oak—which were evidently two centuries old. 
Will some of the antiquarians explain this ? Who bored 
that salt well ? Who made those kettles ? Who founded 
that furnace ? Who were our aborigines ?” Who can tell ? 
A Fleasant Picture. 
A young correspondent writes to the American Agricul¬ 
turist: “ On the morning of the 16th of May, (my birth¬ 
day,) I shall hear the well-remembered call, ‘ Frank! 
Frank 1 come and drive the cows to pasture.’ Going to 
pasture is quite an event of the season to me. No more 
naps in the morning 1 I have to go a mile and a half, and 
in summer get back in season to ride horse after break¬ 
fast, for cultivating, while father holds the cultivator, so 
the men can hoe while I am at school, a mile in another 
direction. On this particular' first morning or two, it 
takes two of ns to go, as the cows and young heifers are 
.so delighted to get out at their liberty that they cut up 
all sorts of antics, and start off up any road they choose. 
Father goes in the wagon as a rear guard, and I have to 
dart up the road nearest to us, and drive them back, and 
by the time I get them into the main road they are racing 
madly along, and do not go quietly until they run into 
the lake; they must take a drink there. Father rides in 
after them, and after a while we get them all out, and then 
up a long, gradual slope of the road to the pasture bars; then 
I run ahead, let them down, and drive the cows in, when 
"they all run off to eat the soft, fresh grass. At night two 
of us must go again, to separate the milch cows from the 
heifers, which are to stay there. I can now have leisure 
to look about me as I go home. There is always some¬ 
thing to notice or to find. The Lake Kenoza is about two 
miles long and one mile wide. The name Kenoza is an 
Indian word for pickerel, and it is a good place for fish¬ 
ing. When the sun is rising over the wooded hills, and 
shines upon the thin, fleecy vapor rising from its surface, 
it is very beautiful. I might say it is always beautiful. On 
the east side it is bounded by a hill, covered partly with 
dark hemlock—a great place for mosses and Mitchella, 
which blossoms the first week in July; then south-east 
there is ‘sour meadows,’ which is remarkable for its 
great variety of flowers in summer, and its black turtles. 
South of the lake there is a beautiful wooded hill, and 
west, a locust grove and cultivated fields. North-west rises 
Mount ‘ Meenahyah,’—which means blueberry—where 
the earliest blueberries grow; and on the north side the 
road winds along ‘As old roads will. This to a ferry 
and that to a mill.’ Cresent Point is a peninsula project¬ 
ing into the lake on its north side, and is covered with 
maples, birches, willows, and filled up with underbrush. 
Here grows a great profusion of partridge berry, which 
blossoms the last of July, and so much ‘white spiked’ 
Clethra that we thought of naming it Clethra Point. I 
carry home large quantities of it in its season. By the 
roadside I find the beautiful white Morning Glory tinged 
with pink, which we have named the Sunrise Morning 
Glory, and wild roses in abundance. In the autumn, by 
the lake side, we find a rich, dark, purple Aster, with 
larger flowers than usual, which we find nowhere else. 
Mother has had them from this place for 27 years, and 
never saw them elsewhere. These things are not all I 
see. I get a chance at a rare birds-egg now and then 
—but you will not want my letter to be too long.” 
India 64 !£nTli>l»er ” Slaocs received 
their name from the fact that the gum of which they are 
made was first brought from India, and because the first 
use found for it was to rub out pencil marks from paper. 
The proper name of the gum is Caoutchouc. In some 
places, rubber overshoes are called “gums,” referring to 
the substance of which they are made. It is related that 
a gentleman and his wife going to spend the evening at 
a house where they were well acquainted, he entered the 
parlor alone. Some one asked “ Where is Emily ”— 
meaning his-wife. He at once answered, “ Oh, she is 
outside, cleaning her gums on the mat.” The reply 
caused a stare of astonishment, and then a hearty laugh 
naturally followed when the meaning was comprehended. 
A Natural Mlstalse.—A lady promised 
to bring her little boy a cocoanut on her return from the 
city, but could only find one with the husk on. This she 
gave to the child, who had never seen one in this state. 
He looked at it curiously, smiled, and laid it down. 
Presently he said, “ Mother, where is the cocoanut you 
promised me?” “I just gave it to you,” she replied. 
Taking it up again he viewed it contemptuously for a 
moment, and then exclaimed, “That thing a cocoanut! 
I thought it was a new waterfall you had bought.” 
Sparse W««ds.—A miner who lately came 
from Virginia City says that vegetation is so scarce in 
that region that “two mullein p stalks and a bunch of 
thistles are called a grove.” 
Answers to Problems' and JPnzzles;. 
The following are the answers to the puzzles in the 
May number, pajje 191: No. 304. Illustrated Jlebvs .—,4 
great awk er is General y a great bore, or A great talker is 
generally a great bore-... .No. 305. Puzzle Picture.—A race 
of pale faces_No. 306. Pig lead (fed)_The following 
have sent in correct answers to puzzles previously pub¬ 
lished. Arthur 11. Sawyer, L. M. Wright, John M. Miller, 
Daisy Wilder, J. Milton Snyder, (as usual), Arthur Moffatt, 
Albert Cope, Mrs. Morgan, Emma L. Leavitt, “Hebei,” 
Jas. & E. Lowe, Geo. C. Gill, Etta M. Danser, J. N. Aver- 
ill, Carrie Leslie, T. S. Cadwallader, Frank A. White, 
David M. Neill, Marie D. Butler, Albion C. St. Cyr, A. 
G. Hamblin, Lydia E. Moore, A. II. Haddock, Henry 
Dunn, Annie Brown, Susie Jones, M. Vandervoort, Ruth 
Carter, Frank Monroe, John Nicoli, C. O. Bassett, Oscar 
Kissam, Ellie L. Rankin, J. McClaskey, Andy Brink, 
Jas. A. Johnson, Ettie Woolman, J. II. Brust, Philo Hall, 
W. Shelly, Hammond W. Ormsbee, MaryE. Oster, Alfred 
Delisle, Augustus Reifsteclc, James E. Demurest, George 
Smith, A. Leach, S. Ambrose Parmelee, Levi Capp, Carrie 
Langdon, J. West Homer, A. Underwood. 
New Penzzles to l»e Answered. 
No. 307. Illustrated Pebus.— Something often forgotten. 
No. 308. Illustrated Pebus.— Line from a favorite hymn. 
No. 309. Arithmetical Problem.— One man had two 
loaves of bread, his companion had five loaves. Another 
joined them and gave them one dollar to share their meal. 
The bread was all eaten by the three men. How much 
of the money should each of the bread owners receive y 
