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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AM AGRICULTURAL AM) FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 



OCT. 23. 



&Ww 



of blockade. Nothing d 



akept<ea* tegarts domestic hippie 

 sUnlly iffirmcd that there wa* do) 

 world world hating — thai they we 

 and that there wss not oca woman in fiT y but I 

 would get onmurird U ah« could. To prove tlra ' 

 poiLt, many were her recitals of family fends and 

 as I tis'eoed to her gloomy tragedies enacted as 

 Itey nere inonr very neighborhood witi the cold 

 bias's cf a Pd ember wind whistling ita shrill mtalc 

 around the bouse, a kind of terror used to creep 



Bl; liakH 



1.m Macilj stlltd by " 



" "Show a light I" She i 

 "BilDgharto!" "Salla-hoj!" 





^hftrli-^o^li. 



THE TAILORESS. 



old clothes to 

 i nlwa^s a six 



t nf winter, was 

 My mother al- 



Tiie fall tailoring waa no small i 

 hold. With oew soitn for lather | 

 bo vamped over fur (he boys, It 

 weeka* job. Tho arrival of the 

 invar i iidy caino In the early pai 

 heralded by active prep,, mi tuns. 

 ways li.iki.-fl an extra batch of ruin 

 her winter's supply of sansagep, and thoi 

 cleaned the house from top to bottom. Sewing- 

 women In cities are usually stowed away In some 



lonesome chamber, and eat at the second table. 



Nutso in tho country— there they expeot to be 

 trented as distinguished guests. Going from house 

 to house, they retail any amount of gossip, a thing 

 which my mother knew, and hence we wero ex. 

 hortcrJ, for the fortieth 



setralnt, for six weeka 

 was a long while to behave. 



The north-west corner of the kitchen, helug the 

 lightest, was alwaya set apart for the tailoreta. It 

 Is early Monday morning, and w< 



watching the nrrlval. Soon we see the top 



eeeotioca of the early Chiistiaas, of which I had 

 already leirned something from " The Lw» , 

 Afaiytn." which lay on a awing shelf Just abc 

 J not Hifirca's bead. It was her failing to me 

 die Id family sffitra. Many were the difficult! 

 she made between man and wife; few did she act 

 Yc, s'rsngB as it may seem, ao one entered into 



: lea more heartily than did she. 

 skill in cooking was proverbial. There could 

 he a wedding without Aunt Bestkr, and though 

 she fcftve the bride a world of advice and opened 

 to her rather a mournful picture of the fumre, her 

 face waa so thoroughly genial as to belie her words. 

 If sny were sick, there was Annt Hesteii to watch 

 over them without money and without price. Her 

 fingers had plaited the shroud for nearly every 

 sleeper ia our little gravejard; she it waBwhopot 

 everything "to right)" in the desolate home and 

 welcomed hack the funeral proce nr-ion, though per- 

 haps her comfonings were a little donhtfat, for 

 she always asked those moat bereaved the plain, 

 practical qnestloD, " Welt, what are you goiDg to 

 do now.'' If a babs had gone to its reat.she never 

 failed to tell the afllic'ed mother "that the child 

 waa enough sight better off— that this was a dread- 

 ful wicked world, and that if it bad been her bnhy 



that had died, she should hive been glad on't." 



Aunt Bestir was never known to faint away under 

 any emergency, or to iodnlge lu aQood of hysteri- 

 al tears, or even to look tired like other people. 

 The storm lasted several days, bat at len 

 broke away. During this lime that roll of cloth 

 bad been suddenly turned into coats, large and 

 email, as if by the skill of a magician. Aunt Hes- 

 ter had gone the rounds of the neighborhood in 

 her criticisms, in almost every instance presenting 

 a doleful picture of humanity. Bhe hnd Just taken 

 fin her text the " Elder's folks." 



Iestxr kept | sight of arrangers. fl 9 went regularly to church, 

 a. Bbe was I bni had a habit of sUnking unnoticed into his seat 

 uaperfeol ccder the gallery. Ko living man could say aught 

 .. Sheen- against bim. Hepaid his tithe* oaceayear.fasted 

 man in the j if we may ao judge by his lean, lank figure, bnt in 

 all de-pots, no other respect was be a Pharisee. That nl«ht of 

 in fify but j the donation, after the guest* were all assembled, 

 heard a timid knock at the door. It 

 Gbj.zn'9. His poor old mother bad 

 been taken suddenly ill, and be had come for Has- 

 t«b to go and take care of ber. As usual she was 

 ready at on.;e. The quiet Jacob had no words to 

 express his grief, bnt aa they rode along she eonld 

 see by the starlight that his tears were falling fast 

 He loved bis old, stricken mother with an all- 

 absorbing love. When he reached home, he hur- 

 ried Into the house to see if &he were worse. "Ob, 

 mother," said he, sinking down by the bed, 

 don't ever want to leave you alone again. I 

 afraid you'd die afore I came back." The poor 

 motionless as that of a corpse, 



iomw for i&t fjmmt). 



but a 



nd of Jacob's 





I am going to leave you, and I want you to be wil 

 ling to give me up » J JC oa answered only by hi* 

 groans; meantime, Hestek had been busy straight- 

 ening the bed, Bhaking op the pillows, and prepar 

 log some gruel. " Hbstbr," said the dying woman, 

 " come nearer, I want to take your hands in mine.— 

 d yon these great many years yon 



hymn. Hsa- 

 ODg. She 



seemed t 





f (hem 







of an old buggy 

 horse, which we rec 

 and aa It draws nea 

 scooping chaise top, 

 Aunt Histkr Leaci 

 Uquo oloaV, by her 



' d'.O h 



,.,(,.;, 





nd we look under the 

 e father, and byhiaeide, 

 e know her by her an- 

 bonnet with itt 



whether c 



of black ribbon going over the top and tying 

 der her chin, by which she ha9 been feebly nioi 



: uco my earliest remembrances, but 

 r the degeneracy of the world in gen 

 n,u> mi me decease of some friend io particular, 

 lever kaew. Now the buggy drives into the 

 ■d and stops before the horse-block. 

 * needs no asatstaocB in alighting DO t she.— 

 o la a head taller than father, and asks no 

 m anybody, M/ mother oomes to the do 

 lcame her visitor, six children following in the 



-ll., 



d'yo do!— how d'ye do?'' says 



" you'd have i 



tuiltbfal 



one of tho la 



earlier in the Uiorn'ir' than this. 

 By this time there was a firm step on the thresh- 



t down by 



iy broad, 



tlio t\re, took oft her 

 largo kanda to wan 

 woman, of about fifty; hi 



IB j iiindlcDil, and there 

 bald apot on tlio top of bar head. In tin *££, 

 aha Invariably wore a plaid woolen dreap, no collar. 

 bat a ribbon, cither green or atraw colored, pinned 

 light aronnd her mclr.' Now ahi- j , 

 a eudden jerl: a. .J docUrea she'* ,,. 

 there doln K nothing; I!', ti,ne> fjr her to begin. 



" For BBJ pin » abe •ajs, "I don't see bow some 

 fulkacinbocontentc! I 

 ban^ PMjralbeeooTO 

 'nowaho'a been fallln' all »!„,„ , nJ , h , , ow „ 

 btlpa ber. Dim ray ,„„, . , „, b(r ,„„,„, ,„ ul| 

 •oat moia and loolm- ao onconsarned. I'd antlnd 

 to get abroom and go at it mytetf. I cooldn't help 

 ',' ' " i " C ""'. , »lH 'then -i 

 °'?Z 1°' " """ *'""■ I «»ow yon ain't 



I aba and I pm 



In my humble opln- 



fcbe jnmje 1 u\; 

 rights' in less than 



Ion l„dU,. town ha. dene .-;;, 

 Aunt Hi-irn has by this u mc _„ ... , . 



t.ltohing ..., at .coat cX .IT.^^ 

 gy. sad si her needfc Dies ber tongas s„r* wii& ir 

 It b»ppened that on the <l*y of her arrive, jreajtj 



thin I did, buttha 

 by. Now they're getting up a donation 

 and. there ain't no sort of use on't. I b'lieve I 

 shan't go though I never did plight my minister.— 

 Why I've been there end I've seen things I ain't 

 ever told, and ain't agoin' to tell. To be sare, you 

 can't call 'em wasteful folks, but I've seen 'em have 

 cake neither yon nor I could alford. Then, when 

 other ministers come they git it ont, and you ought 

 to hear 'em laugh. I think a mioMerBhould be 

 solemn. Ob, it doea seem dreadful to ine, right 

 hero in this wicked world where there is so much 

 djin'and nufferit.', to », e preachers a langbin.'— 

 Ab I said before, I ahun't go." 



Jast then there was heard the sorapiug of feet at 



the door, and the minister himsolf entered. He 



shook banda with us all, then turning to Hester, 



said, "I have come for you to go borne with me." 



"What for r» said Hester. 



" My wife is'ot well, and she can't get along with 



the donation ntless yon come to help her. We'll 



ee yon get yonr pay for il." 



"GetmypBy!" exclaimed Hester, indignantly. 



I ain't on the town. I was a tslkbg abontyon, 



Elder, Ji.it as yoa came In. Iaiidthen I did'ntsee 



no ose of yonr bavin' a donation, and I don't now, 



criat on't, I B'pose I must go. I was 



savin' too, I thought yon was too light and triflin' 



for a minister, md I'm glad you've come so I can 



tell you on't Too ought to look solemner than 



yon do." WhftMupOD the smile upon the mlnister'a 



face grew all the merrier. 



Having given htm a "piece ol bet mind," infl 

 good-naturedly pnt on her cloak and bonnet and 

 accompanied him home. She was no* in her ele- 

 ment) putting the "Eldet's house to rigbti,'' quiet 

 Ingthe nerves of his wife, and taking the charge 

 of the whole thing on her own broad shoulders. 



When the evening of donatiou came, not a speck 

 of dost was to be seen anywhere in the house. Ev. 

 ery thing w.iair, ••rd-r. Theii! were no hooks scatter 

 ed negligently on the centrr-tul,].', but plied iu out 

 large pile In the midi'le, one on the top of the 

 other, according to their reactive elzes. The 

 ill the will. Ev- 

 erything waa clean and proper, and though the min- 

 ister'* wife did try to loop up the i 

 gracefully, a moment alter Aunt Hester's coarse, 

 rough hands lu<l itntoned them tightly back.— 

 I Ke matter with her,— at 

 .... 



Nothing could exoeed her activity 

 during the evening. Sho it waa that welcomed 

 tho chorea to the llMle parsoi)Sj;e, if welcome it 

 could be c.11 ' ,, was thrown 



■ 

 To the littlo frizzly dressmaker, who tried to 

 look so young, and who could never remember an 

 event which happened twenty years before, she 

 remarked, " How your hair does turn grey. Well 

 we're both growing old together." The haughty 



Ura - ■ . who bad married rich and who had come 



in. she reminded of the time when 

 she li»cd tu a little log house and was helped by 

 the town. With child like simplicity she went to 

 Sar*ii ll.Lt, .tho wis noted for her plainness, and 

 asked if sho hurt her filings when she wa* there 

 sewing a year ago. '■ Don't yoa remember," said 

 she. '■ that I told you you was dreadful h«mhM 

 I did at mean anything by II I've thought 

 about it a great many tiraei since. You ain't to 

 blame for It; If* Jast a, the Lon D made yoo, and I 

 think anytl 



have been eo kind In sick 



body. Now I want yoi 



TBit's voice was sharp, unmusical, but 



bnt for the first time in her life, ber voice fal- 

 tered. She was weeping like a little child. When 

 Bhe tamed to look on that wasted face, she was 

 startled, for Death had already been there and 

 stolen away the sonl. J AC qb went for some neigh- 

 bora, and soon Hbsteb, strangely silent, was stitch- 

 ing away at the shrond. 

 Weeks and months went by, and the shy Jacob 

 ;row all the lonelier. One Sunday the 

 were electrified by the news that Jacob 

 Ukeeh and Hbstek Lbach wero that dsy to bo mar- 

 ried. The event had been heralded by no snspi- 

 clooa circumstances. Where in the annals of 

 biBtory did yon ever hear of a bachelor of fifty five 

 wedding a maiden of fifty, and no attempta on 

 either Bide to appear youthful— no mysterious bot- 

 tles of hair iy« making their way into bureau 

 drawers— no false teeth— no "Balm of a Thousand 

 Flowers" to beauti fy the complexion ! There they 

 stood Bide hy Bide in the broad aieleof the church, 

 Jacob Gheen looking painfully embarrassed, Atjnt 

 Hester firm and anmoved, and attired in her usual 

 Sunday coBtome. Bhe bbjs she married for love, 

 and no one who knows her blunt, honest nature 

 doubts her word. The acidity has in a measure 

 gone from her voice, and though she fully believes 

 In the frailty of mankind In general, she invariably 



makes a 



eptlon c 



lOSCELLANEOUs EKIG1U. 



I am composed of 37 letters. 



Mr 33, ;i. 16, ? is the name or a bird. 



iiy 23, 10, 3 is a monosyllable. 



Hy 13, 15, n, 3 is a preposition. 



My 1, 7, 5, is an lDdustriooa inieck 



My 3, 11, 10, 15 is a boy'* name. 



My i, 6, 7, 8 are essential in warm weather. 



My 9, 35. 2C, 16, 2« is necessary to eastain life. 



My 24, 35, 13. 6 are great pests. 



Hy 30, 18, 16, 21, 36 is a kind of grain. 



My 18, 19, 26 is a part of our drees. 



My 13, 14, 13, 17, 37 is a virtue. 



My whole is a proverb of Solohon worth remen 

 beting. Jpui B. B. 



Caton, M. T., 1868. 



£&- Answer In two week*. 



HICHL 5a^.'?.i;;s ERI E S . 



tx-merly 



GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 



I ah composed of 33 letters, 

 Mr 1, 4, 11, 13, 17, 15, 6 is a oonnty In Wlsoonaln. 

 My 3, 18, 15, 8, 11, 17 la the capital of a country in 



Europe. 

 My 3, 12, 10, 22 is a city In New York. 

 My 4, 6, 3, 13, 21 is a county In Michigan. 

 My 5, 10, 11, 15, 13, 14, ltj, 10, 21 is a river in New 



York. 

 My 6, 0, 1, 2, 11, 17, 3,17 is one of the United States. 

 My 7, 16, 12, 17, 19, 22 Is a river fa In England. 

 My 8, 7, 7. 4, 18, 3 ia a coantv In Iowa. 

 My 0, 13, 7, 10 Is a village in Central New York. 

 My 10, 14, 16, 2, 21, 6 is a oonnty in Michigan. 

 My 11, 13, 20, 16 is a cape on the coast of Europe. 



My whole Is the name and place of residence of 

 a contributor to the Rural New-Yohksb. 



i In b 





MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 



Surross the earth'* mean radius, regarding it as 

 sphere, to be 3,956 miles, that of the moon, 1,0*0, 

 ud that the distance of the moon's centre from 

 rat of the earth is 239,000 miles, at what distance 

 i the earth's centre, in the line Joining the 



s of the i 



and eartb, 

 that the nntnbt 

 that ho can see of the earth's su 

 umber of Bquare miles that b 

 joon'a surface, shall be grcate 

 iationed at any other point of 



$3* Answer in two weekp. 



observer be 

 of square miles 



ace, added to the 

 can see of the 



than If he 



mm. 



A Tax Di-on Toadibb— Brown was said 1 

 his friends to be the toady of Jonea, The ap 

 anceof JoneB in a room was the proof that Brown 



was in the passage. When Jones had the infiu 



Brown dutifully caught a cold in the head. Jerrold 

 met Brown one day, and holding him by the but- 

 ton-hole said,— "Have you heard tho rumor that 

 ia flying about town?" "No." "Well, they say 

 Jones pays the dog-tax for yon." 



DOLOBBD firm in Newark, New Jersey, having 

 red Borne pecuniary embarrassments, recently 

 d boBicess, and the senior member gave the 

 following "notis" to the public:— "The dissolution 

 co-partships heretofore restating twlit me and 

 isea Jone?, iu the barber profession, am hereto- 

 resolved. Pussons who ose must pay the inscri 

 r. Dera what the form ose must call on Jones, 

 the farm is in3olved. Liobm Johnson." 



Ias'd " Thnsshe went the 



■ invariably giving c ■ 

 took away. 



In a galley not far from th* village lived a bach- 

 elor by the name of Jacob Gsitx. He was one 

 • of all quiet men. T 

 i l certain retiring look, aa If it longed 

 creep out of sight,— his bonse wa* balf bidden 

 der a Mil, — bU h"r«ea modestly bowed their 

 ads as they jogged along the road, — even hi* 

 nbehad a on , ; T a U at the 



Cato, doeB yon know dem Johnsrngs up dar in 

 Congo Plane is going to bo berry 'spectacle folks? 11 

 •■Wal Boipio, I thought dey war getting along 

 berry well, but I doesn't know bow 'spectable dey 



is." "How 'speetabledocgyoutink.Ca'o?'' "Wal, 

 guess about tree torjsaad dollars." "More 'specta- 

 blo dan daL" "Wal, how 'spectable is dey?"— 

 "Why, five touaand dollars, en' a house an' lot." 

 "Whew! good-by, Scipio; I must give 'em a call" 



Connubial Bliss.— I once met a free and easy 

 ctor, who told me he had passed three festive daja 



it the Marquis and Marchioness of , without 



By invitation, convinced (as proved to be the 

 ase) that my lord and my lady, not being on tpea/e- 

 tg terms, each would Euppose the other had aaked 

 Am.— Reynold^ Life and Times. 



l Btranje, 



Tijrek old women carried egga t 

 carried fifty; B. thirty; while C. < 

 They sold all their egfie, — each < 

 rate,— yet strange to soy, they ea< 



H. WOHCKSTER'S 

 PIANO MAKUPACTOEY AND WARKP.OOMS, 



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MANUFACTI P. HIS lit' I'lAMI FORTES, 



8USPBNDED MASSIVE DtON FRAMES, '^ 

 Corrugated Sounding-Board 



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LEA & PERKINS' 



ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, Ac, IN No. 457. 

 leal Enigma: 



JPMrtijseuuKtjs. 



,V.|„, l„- l'„„r,l 



■M8 





New Carpetings for the Fail of 1858, 



CoO.UUU from »a* vmt Aticdou 



afraid of women than w 



remarks that the fact is 



both cases the fear is proportioned to the dm 



Candid, but nne.allai 



"strange" at all; for in 



A watTEK gives the following advice to wives 

 "Should yon lind it necessary, as many of yon un 

 doubtedly wilt, to chastise your husbands, you wil 

 perform this sffuctioLaie duty with the soft end of 

 the broom and not the handle." 



"In Egypt I saw Cleopatra's needle," said a 

 young lady to her friends on her return from her 

 school in England, to her home in India, "bnt I 

 thought very little of i', I assure you, after having 

 seen the sewing machines iu London." 



" Patrick, yoo fool, what makes yon stale after 



en your gnn bes no loek on it ?"_ 



"Hush — hnah! my darling; the rabbit don't know 



CARPET ROOM COODS 







Wooden Water Pipe. 





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book M-Uinii eji.il.il VTt u*< to. 



dnrenjeDtaUmi, otbi boloro offered, mailiJJta to any aJJm StaA 



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^vnin out, 



A.HB OUTI 

 CLARK'S FALL STYLE 



t;i;.vrs ihikss i ia i s 



rather lend than borrow,'' 



. like cattle? When they a 



SI I'KltlOK LAND 



