MOORE'S RURAL HEW-YORKER. 



iLICE AND ADELAIDE; 



Chapter I. -New Year's Ere. 



Is the porton baton nil vroa elegant, princely 



mill grand Hare flowers, in vases rarer still, sent 



through tlie rooms n fragrant odor, bringing back 



ii, 1 1 iv.-f tin' -nil i nl"i-.v which ImiJ faded in the 



autumn light, ftnd died 'neath tbo chill Ducembor'a 

 branth FYeioo paintings gleamed from the ceil- 

 ing, costly pictures adorned llie walls; carpets, 



ffhi ii id i" tho aye like a ssy bi d inlaid 



wiili rosoi, Covered Uio Boors, while over nil the 



goa-Ught foil, making 11 we I brilliant beauty 



mm ii uwu ' Idom witnessed in the stunl city of 

 , where our story opens. 



*TlViH tin- Digul ■ • I Ami; W.mui s\ first ]iriwn- 



Utlon to thai portion ofthewortd known a*ery- 



' . T 1 L - . ri . L 1 > I <_- -,.l ir l\," Illl. I IH US HI hoi 



ofonlj sixteen summers, and which now shone 

 with more than their wonted brightness, us, 

 :■ thing down tbj (bids of hoi elegant Lace dress, 



uln- fliiiM'i'd iiiiiim iii tin' niirr pposito, and then 



turned toward ■ I. it i!.. i ju-' ..- a movement 



the hall without allriu-lcd i lie iittcntion of both.— 

 Twas a slow, uncertain (hot-fall, and dmiing for 

 wind, Ai.kt: i riod, " "i'i> lather,— come toaeejusl 

 bowl look on 1 1n-, inv sixteenth birth-night" 



" Ni.l to )'<i», nij child, the doting futher an- 



iwared . I In the tones of bis voice there was t 



woil of sorrow, u if the struggle of seven tec t: 

 lung yearo wore not yd folly o 



Tall, digoilied, and rather aristocratic in her 



bearing, was Adelaide BtnnrUtOMV. Handsome, 



aud agreeable the ml called I ■ 



J lo see the treachery hidden in bar targe, dark 



eye*, or tbo constant effort she mode to seem what 



To bo noticed by those »lm-^ po-i- 



j far above her own was her aim. and 



when the envied AlicbWaiuies extended lo her 



Quail) mi im nation to be prewnt at hot birthday 



party, her delight WO! unbounded. -'She .should 

 go, of course, aud her father would go 



mid 1 



would give her the money,— lie touU, 

 d be did, sighing deeply as be place 

 band and thought from whom it came. 

 purchased, aud thouj 



iier father 





Tin' dr-.'-s 



handsome 



became the queenly form of the 



haughty ■' 



stood before her father, seeking from him a word 

 of commendation, and asking if " be did not think 



she would over.liaJovv (lie illlilil.llllVe Al.II K? 



1 don't see why there should be tins difference 

 veen us," she continued, as her father made no 

 ivcr. "Herel must be poor nil my life while 

 will be rich, unless Mr. W a nuts chances to 



Then, with wild, startled look be grasped bis 



daughter's arm, exclaiming, " Forget what I just 



said— breathe not a word of it to any one, for 



a knows I'd help it if 1 could. But 'tis too 



'Twas 



Sought 111 

 lllNTIM.1 



nlmosl i 



that Adelaide aud her mother 

 explanation of these .strange words, Mr. 

 rjx would make them no reply, nnd in 

 nbroken silence be accompanied lii- 



daughtcr to the house 

 Very kindly did At 



: the young girl, 





) relieve her fro 



i the 



embarrassment she would naturally feel at finding 

 herself among so many strangers. And Adelaide 

 isc, for the spirit of jealous envy which 

 home in her heart whispered to her of 

 insult where none hud been intended; 

 too, that her mtuHn tlr<.**, which at 

 her mother and Aunt I'ec.uy to admire 

 t beautiful, was naught compared with 

 iwing robes of Ai.u r. Warrks, whose 

 utions she construed into a kiud of 

 • pit i) exceedingly annoying to o 

 lature. Then, as she remembered lier 

 rds, she thought, " We may be t 



," and passing through the crowded apart 

 i she came to the little ante-room, where at 



cning her father had been sitting, — a hard 

 dark look upon his face and his eyes bent on the 



as if for him that festive scene possessed nc 



lther," she said, but he made her no reply; 



l kuo 



llldlllt! 





I might Hi Tin W.smiKN's voice be tuned 



tn a note of sadne-s lor lo bini the world was one 



il.nl. ih i hi inglil. mill llie gnld so iitiiuy i'ove.te.1 

 would hiii i' I" rn In . Ii ^i.-.ii euuld he hut unci 



have looked upon the face of bis only child, who, 

 bounding to his side, parted the MOW-WhltC boa.tr 

 from oil' his forehead, and laying his band upon 



her In nl. a-ks-.l him "to /■■> if she were not beau- 

 tiful." 



Slowly tcnderl] caressingly the hand of inm 



who could nut see, moved over the shining hair, 

 touched the glowing check, the snowy neck and 

 rounded arms of tho graceful little figure winch 

 Stood before Inm, then dashing a tear away, the 

 blind limn nimle her answer, ■■ Yes. beautiful HIV 



Alice munt be. if she is, as they tell nie, like her 



niolhei," uml l he sightless eyes turned in-l inrl iv.ly 

 towards I In- mOfA«r, ffho, Coming to his .side, I'c- 

 plii .1, " Ai.n r ii like me as 1 was wlicu last you 

 saw my fuee but I have changed since then— there 

 ore lines of silver in inv hair, aud lines of time 

 upon my face." 



The blind man -.hook his head. The picture of 

 the fond, girl wile, who, in his hour of bitter agony, 



■ d hi Ins ear, " 1 will be lun-light 

 nmou-lijrbl. star-light, everything to you, my 

 husband," bad never changed to him — for faithfully 

 and well that proun-e h;..l been kept, and 'twas bct- 

 ter far. perhaps, that he could not -,■. the -li.,,l,,n. 



on thai (ana, ngTiidowa which foretold a darker 



hour than any It bad ever known,— an 1 ffboD 



the sun IikI.i ,,| lier love would sc ■,,-,■ lint 



Far back through the "long ago" his thougl 

 were straying,— back to the Neiv Yeur'j. live wli 

 penniless, fnendless mid alone he had conic to t 

 • Hi , asking employment from one whose huir w 

 nol then while us now. whose eyes were not th 

 : .n darkness, but looked kindly down 

 lino, as the wealthy lUi'iclunii said. "I will gi 

 you work so long as you do well " 



Ilt'iio Warren was older than Williui J I < s- 

 TtM.ios by many years, and his station in life had 

 eier been different, but far over the mountaii 

 the same Sabbath bell bad once called them both 

 to the house of God— the same tail tree on the 

 river bank bore on its bark their names— the same 

 blue sky had bent above their childhood's home, 

 nod for this reason he had given him a helping 

 hand, aiding him step by step until now li 

 the confidential clerk,— the one trusted above all 

 others— for the helpless man when thr <taiiit.*< first 

 came upon him bad lain his hand on William's 

 head, sayiug, n.s he did so. '■ 1 trust you. Will la u 

 with my all, and as you hope for Heaven, deal nol 

 falsely with the blind." 



■' Deal not falsely with the blind 1 " How those 

 words, spoken seventeen years before, rang in 

 William Hcxtwgtos's cars as he sat there, think 

 of the pant, until the great drops of perspira 

 gathered thickly around his lips nnd dropjud 

 upon the floor. He had betrayed his trust, — nay. 



held b. s wife , 



and holding II 



he w as bliud. 



■ DM yon 



IM- 1 







M, 





replied, "Yea, 



Slu M very 



deiihllnl »l 



prou.i, her father say*, and di 

 her-cll m a pi..|[ioii to I,,- ~li-U. ,| ■ 

 "tlh, blber," an-werv.l Alic*, "AniL. 



T,v """ 1 '"'" "" V M [""WnoteHghthB 



ii m comparatively poor, ttIld lf ,, K 



i royal i 



be i 



cm Wuinfl fuc. 



i, an alio thought h 



i daughter of her fnlbci's "ooofldi i,, 



ixteentb birth-day party. The blind man, 



. sleeping, and in hid dreams, as he always 

 does, he sees again the forms of those he loves, but 



he does not see the storm-el I hovering near, uor 



e crouching figure which, iieross the way, is 

 looking towards his window and bidding him 



farewell. 



Mr Hi NTiM.ros had ocoompanied Adklaide to 



is door nnd then, making some trivial excuse, 



had gone from his home forever, having his wife 

 tcb and wail us nho had often done before. 



Slowly waned the December night, and just as the 

 was breaking— th* morn of the bright Koi 





. the 



s pUSMTIglTs • 



wlm Bod from 



Chapter II. -The Houso of Mourning. 



light shadows fell upon tho city, Alice and her 

 mother pushed back the heavy damask curtain 



which shaded the window of their pleasant slttilig- 



m, and looked anxiously down the street for 

 who seldom tarried long. Au hour went by, 



tber, and another still, and (A*» he came,— but 

 more helptcss than when be left them in the 



raiug. The blinded eyes were red with tears,— 

 stately form was heut with grief, — the frtroug 



a was crushed with the blow which had fallen 



lesaly, irretrievably ruined, and in all the wide 

 was naught be could call bis save the 

 loved ones who soothed him now, as one had done 

 before when a mighty mhtiiiv overshadowed him 

 As best he could he I old Hutu of (he fraud which 

 for many years had been imposed upon him— told 

 them how he had trusted and been betrayed by 

 one whom he would not that the oflicers slmuld 

 follow — he would nut have him brought back to a 

 felon's cell. " 'Twould do no good," he said, " aud 

 'twould save the wife aud dough 

 grace," and so William Hustimitu.v was suffered 



ed there was licartielt mourning made and bitter 

 tears shed— the blind mini groping often through 

 the familiar rooms which would soon be his no 

 longer— the daughter stifling her own grief to 



mother's wants. 

 As has before been hinted, Mrs. Warren was 



burst upon her with an overwhelming power, pros- 

 trating her at once, so that ere two weeks were 

 passed the blind man forgot his ruined fortune — 

 forgot everything, save the prayer that she, the 

 wife of his bosom, the light of Ins eyes, the mother 

 of his child, might live. 



But "tie who doelh all things well," had no 

 decreed it thus, and she, who had beeu reared ii 

 the lap of luxury, was never to know the piuchiuj 

 wants of poverty- never to know what 'twas tub 

 hungry, and cold, and poor. All this was reserve 



too, could bear the trial better. And so, as da 



after day weut by, the bli 



aide felt what he could 



shadows 



waa deepening 



going from Inm fast - kin u , ala-, 



die, and one bright, beautiful morning, wl 



thoughtless passers by, punning ■<> the Inm 



one to another. " lie h, i- h 



the iiium. t depths of his bleeding heart, 



scion sly made answer, "Lost everything — lost 



everything," while Alice, the motherless, bov 



her head in anguish, halt wishing she. too, w 



blind, so she could not see what was written 



the still, while face which lay upon the pillow. 



Suddenly the deep silliness of the room \ 

 broken by the sou ml of tramping footsteps in 

 hall below, and, lifting up her head, Alice se 

 "Who is it, father, say," but Mr. Waiires did 

 not answer, lie knew \rho ii 

 they had come, and, going, 01 

 stood upon ihe stairs, I -"> a 

 oak which the lightning 



. he could not sec — ftU the deatl 

 creeping 3l ftlt how the pa|Io: 

 ■ ■ !■■ . " knew that she-wtt 



ejH trial handsome ho 



se, for R 



charo Howuxn 



■■ 



ie B-erOj 

 xeeeding 



both blonde aud 

 indues* of their 





have born 



e that relation to 





odneaawa 



snot appreciated, 



mi IT. ti n-iii n hi ii 





t reduced him to 



ur readera, he btbj 



ill unmu 



ned, and in Ins 



rt at his command, he 



wonder- how any one can think he is not happy. 



chill December wind which howls among the 



naked branches of the maples, „r sighs through 



drooping cedar houghs, cannot find entniuce 



there. The blinds are closely shut,— the heavy 



Main* sweep ihe Hour.— the fire burns brightly 



the grate, casting fantastic shadows on the wall, 



id with his favorite paper in his hand, (the RcitAL, 



it may be,) be almost forgets that in the world 



itbont there is such u thing as poverty or pain. 



Neither does he see tin- fragile form toiling through 



kness up the street, aud pausing at his gale, 



does hear the ringing of the doorbell, and 



catches the sound of some one in the hall. 



"I wish 1 couiJ be alone for one evening," he 



d, and with a slight frown fif impatience upon 



i brow, he awaited the approach of his visitor. 



Twas a delicate young female, and her dress of 



black showed that sorrow had thus early come to 



"Are you Mr. Howlanu?" she said, and her 



oiirnful eves of blue Sought the face of the young 

 mi. who involuntarily arose and offered heraseat. 

 Her errand was soon told She had come to rent 



hollow, which she had heard was vacant, and she 

 wished him lo furnish her with work — "she could 

 make both shirts and vests tolerably well, and she 

 on Id try mi hard to pay the rent I" 

 The stranger paused, nnd Miss Elinor, win 

 :cti watching her with mingled feelings of cu: 

 long eye-lashcs 



oist with tears, 

 arvclling that i 



Mr How 





friends- 



> young and timid should 

 lid,—" Little girl, have you 

 n whom to depend, 



SCHIPTT7RAX ENIGMA. 



My 8,13,83,88, SS, 15,23, SOsigTiiaV* " 



MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 



i tingle, each side of whi 



yourself* 



Very beseechingly the little hands- were clasped 

 together, ond the tear ou the eye-lasbea now 



dropped upon the cheek, for the little girl, as Mr. 

 Howlam) hail called her, mistook his meaning,— 

 fancied he was thinking ol m-runty, payment, and 

 all those dreadful words whose definition she was 

 fast learning to understand. 



" 1 have a father," she said, and ere she had time 

 for more, the plain spoken Miss Elinor asked, — 

 "Why didn't h< come himself, and not send you, 



There was reproach in the question, ond the 

 young girl felt it keenly — felt that her father was 

 censured, and turning towards Miss Elinor, she 

 Riiswered, *' Alas, lady, my father couldn't find the 

 way — he never even saw my face — he couldn't 

 see" my mother when ,s7/, died.' Oh, he's bliud, lie's 



'Twas enough, The hearts of both brother and 

 -ister wen: lunched, and the brown house in the 

 hollow —nay, any house which Kiru.uii. I low la*, 

 rented, was al that orphan girl's commatid. But 

 he w as u man of few words, and so be merely told 

 her she could have both tenement and work, while 

 his sister thought how she would make that blind 

 man and his child her especial care. 



[ As this is a story of absorbing interest, and ex- 

 cellent moral, the reader will thank us for giving 

 it, though 

 through several 



iDit anb (junior. 



KNICKERBOCKER i 





"1 know ; 



and" be i 



i, but < 



, " 1 expected 

 id then say .f 



, ho 1 



■ wloti-lia 



een so kind to him, and ere three days were 

 1 bis sin would find him out. Heavy bank 

 must be paid, and in hi- employer's coffers 

 there was naught with which to pay them. The 

 gambling table bad been his ruin. Gradually had 

 he gone down, meaning ulwuy- lo replace whal he 

 taken, and oftentimes doing so; but fortune 

 hud deserted him nt lost, and rather than meet the 



rebuking glance Ol" those sightless eye., when llie 



truth should all be known, he had resolved to go 



nwav. lie had asked lor iv holiday on the morrow, 

 and ere the tirst New Year's sun was set, he would 

 bo an outcast — a wanderer ou the earth. Of all 

 this, then, was he thinking, when Adelaide came 



tO hi, sule 



The sound of her voice aroused him at last, and 

 (starting up he exclaimed, "It's time we were nt 



home. The atiiiosjihere of llic-e moms i> -filling 



Get your things at once." 



Rather unwillingly Aoelajok obeyed, nnd ten 



minutes later -he was saying g I night to Alice 



and her mother, both of whom expressed their 

 surprise that she should go so soon, js did oIh Mi 

 W a lines. 



■■I meant to have talked with v,,„ mor. . he 

 said, at He Blood within the hull with Mr. Himim; 

 ton, who, grasping Ms hand, looked earnestly iulo 

 Ihe face which for all time to come would haunt 

 him as the face of one whom he hud greatly 



clerk.*' 



Meantime, in a distant pari of th. , ,,, ; n 

 dwelling far more humbli than that of Booi 

 WaatUK, another Euailj group were aaeemfatad 

 fsther, mother, daughter, —all, iare old Ann 



Pkmi, who, thankful for a home which HT«d lid 



,.o-e. |.e i formed willingly* mcuiul'i 

 r Tart, bearing patiently ihe whims ol the moiher W 





Uller of of 



Another mom 



nt aud 1 





whilo 



on the 



laud he had jus 



released there lay a 







imp, .uid the b 



lmd man 



bruabtng 



away 



knew 



tot that *t*aM 



ear. 









Pom o clock, and all 



■ still iron 



id the house 







since nnrtl 



and 







flushed 



With excite 









hful bcantT had called forth 







sight hei 



pillow, aud 



II, the 



irorli 



will leave meals i huh- h 



he led the way, followed by those men, who 



r forgot that picture •'!' Die pule, dead wife, the 



frightened, weeping child, aud the blind unau 



aiding by with outstretched arm to shield them 



from all barm. 



The Sheriff was a man of kindly feelings, ond 

 lilting his hat reverentially, he said, " We did not 

 know of this, or we would not have come," and, 

 motioning to his companions, he left the room, 

 walking with snhdoed foot leps down the stairs, 

 through the hall, out into the Open air. And when 

 the sun went down, not an article had been dis- 

 turbed in Huao Warbbh's home, fcr Sheriff, credi- 

 tors, lawyers, — all stood back in awe ol the mighty 

 potentate who had entered that house before them, 

 audUtifd upon its choicest treasure — the wliite- 

 Ii.hi.-.I, blind man's wife. 



a the Hollow. 



) left t 



I, hud i: 







Oakland, which is nestled among ihe New England 

 hills, and owes much of its prosperity aud rapid 



citizen, — its one "aristocrat," as the villagers 

 persisted in calling ItiritAim IIowland. the gentle- 

 man from Boston, who came to Oakland a few 

 yeara ago, giving lit business a new impetus, and 

 inlhaiiig new life into lta quiet, matter-of-fact people, 

 who io time looked up lu him u-» tht 'jr«it man of 

 the place. He it was who built the factory, bought 

 the mills, and owned the largest store and shoe- 

 shop in the town, furnishing employment to hun- 

 dreds of the poor, many n, whom moved into the 

 village, renting sif hnu the comfortable tenements 

 which he bad erected for that purpose. 



Very beautiful, indeed, was- Unman Howlano's 

 home, overlooking, ns it did, ihe town.aud the sur- 

 rounding country, und the parser by stopped often 

 to admire its winding walks, its musical fountains, 

 its grassy plats, graceful evergreens and wealth of 

 (lowers, the latter of which were ihe especial pride 

 of the stately Miss Exj.noh, the maiden sister, who 



Rkpartkk, — Coleridge was a remarkably awk- 

 ward horseman, nu much so ns generally to attract 

 attention. He was one day riding on the turnpike 

 road in tho county of Durham, when a wag ap- 

 proaching him, noticed In- peculiarity, and mis- 

 taking his man, thought the rider u fine subject for 

 a little sport, and, as he drew i 

 ed Ui I 



"I say, young man, did you 

 road?" 



"Yea," replied Mr. C, who 

 for a rejoinder, " I did ; and hs 

 little further 1 should meet his goose V 



The ossailaul was struck dumb, while the travel 

 or jogged on. 



■if I Weill 



Welilhel , 



a I'm 





■ llll 



eof I 



puhhc hou-c, a man of notorionaly bad character 



I'ncle Bill came in, he would make 



bin the hut of a joke, and, as the blackface of 



the weather-beaten man appeared in the door, be 

 tfarcj on us, how dark it grows!" 



,■ Kill. ■ 



eying him from 



Yes, sir — your character and 



GEOGRAPHICAL ANAGRAM. 



THE COOK WHO DOESN'T LIKE PEAS. 



ea^-mbled players in succession: 



■■M> cook doesn't like peas; wl.al .hall Wl give hi 



A player suggcsls " turnips," " potatoes," " a piece 



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