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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AM AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
AN EVENING MEDITATION. 
BY WJf. E. C. KNOWLES. 
Tnit shadows of the coming night fall round, 
Where shone before the splendors of the daj : 
And hushed in drowsy quiet is the sound 
Of many feet that trod the crowded way. 
A lonely night-bird, from some covert spray, 
Sparkling with pearl-drops by the evening shower, 
Walts to the list’ning ear her mournful lay, 
Adapted well to suit the solemn hour. 
A hollow murmur fills the dreamy vale, 
Like the faint echo of a distant roar, 
When Bullen waves, outliving storm and gale, 
Weary and restless, sink upon the shore. 
And all around, though silently and slow, 
The pulses of the universe beat on; 
Throbbing responsive to the solemn llow 
Of years that bring their seasons—and are gone : 
The same deep pulses that with mighty power 
Have beat in ev’ry altitude and clime, 
Since the flist dawning of Creation’s hour. 
Yet never wearied by the lapse of time. 
From out the distant west the ruddy flush 
Of sunset slowly fades to russet gray : 
Fainter and fainter grows each ling’ring blush. 
Till darkness drowns the glory of the day. 
And all is still. The rush of busy life 
Is heard no more from thoroughfare or grove : 
And sleep and silence take the place of strife, 
Like noiseless visitors from worlds above. 
Fit time is this to muse—to call to mind, 
In retrospective view, the scenes of youth; 
Which, passing, left their pleasure far behind. 
And graver lessons of sublimer truth. 
Our early home, within a grassy vale, 
Comes up to view with forests waving near ; 
And granite hills protecting from the gale 
The cherished spot that is to memory dear. 
Ah, there the sweets of life were first enjoyed— 
Our earliest sports were near the guigling brook : 
The sunshine of those happy days ne’er cloyed, 
While on their shadows we ne’er deigned to look. 
And in the morning, when the east was red, 
We climbed the hills to view the glowing sight; 
And saw the sun, from out its golden bed, 
Tread up its customary path of light. 
And then when came the mellow twilight hour, 
And shadows stole to earth—a sable train 
We watched the stars—fair orbs of feeble power 
Come, one by one, and look to earth again. 
And when the woods were bathed in Autumn’s glow, 
In Autumn’s sunshine, with her clouds dyed red. 
We roamed the hills, and in the vales below, 
While fallen leaves were pressed beneath our tread. 
Ah, childhood’s home! Our spirits often yearn 
For purer joys like those of early j ears; 
And ofeen scenes of youthful days return 
In manhood dreams, and bathed in bitter tears. _ 
Our thoughts steal often to that peaceful home— 
Its hills and forests to our vision rise ; 
And oft in noon-day reveries, there come 
Its prospects, tinged with bright autumnal dy«s. 
The sterner lessons of maturer life 
Have put to flight all visionary schemes; 
And stern necessity, and eager strife, 
Have stepped between us and our childish dreams. 
years ago, when he and his wife with two sony 
horses, °one cow, and three pigs, began the 
world at Dean Gate, a little bargain of twenty 
acres, two miles off. Ay, and his wife is the 
same woman!—the same frugal, tidy, industri¬ 
ous, good-natured Mrs. Evans—so noted for 
activity of tongue and limb, her good look?, 
and plain dressing; as frugal, as good-natured, 
as active, and as plain-dressing Airs. Evans at 
forty-five, as she was at nineteen, and, in a dif¬ 
ferent way, almost as good looking. 
Their children—six “boys, ’ as farmer Evans 
promiscuously calls them, whose ages vary 
from eight to twenty, and three girls, two 
crown up, and one, the youngest of the family 
—are just what might be expected from pa¬ 
rents so simple and good. The young man in¬ 
telligent and well-conducted; the boys, docile 
and promising; and the little girl, as pretty a 
curly-head, rosy-cheeked poppet, as ever was 
the pet and plaything of a large family. It is, 
with the eldest daughters that we have to do. 
Jane and Patty Evaus were so much alike, 
as hath often befallen any two sisters not born 
at one time; for, in the matter ot twin children, 
there has been a series of .puzzles ever since 
the days of the Dromios. Nearly of an age— 
([ believe that at this moment both are turned 
nineteen, and neither has reached twenty) ex¬ 
actly of a stature, so high that Frederick t he 
Great would have coveted them tor his tall 
regiment,—with hazle eyes, large mouths, full 
lips, white teeth, brown hair, and that sort ot 
nose which is neither Grecian, nor lloman nor 
aquiline, nor le petit nez retrousse, that some 
persons prefer to them all; but a nose which, 
moderately prominent, aud sufficiently wen 
shaped, is yet, as far as I know, anony mo us, 
although it be perhaps as common and as well 
looking feature as is seen on an English f ;ice - 
Altogether, they were a pair ot tall and 
comely maidens, and being constantly attired 
in garments of the same color and fashion, 
looked at all times so much alike, that no 
stranger ever dreamed of knowing them apart; 
and even their acquaintances were rather ac¬ 
customed to think and speak ot them generally 
as “ the Evanses,” than as the separate individ¬ 
uals Jane and Patty. Even those who did 
which blended well with the sterling goodness 
and genuine prudence of the great English farm¬ 
house. The women especially pleased him 
much. They formed a strong contrast with 
anything he had met with before. . No finery 
—no coquetrv—no French—no piano! It’ 
impossible to' describe the sensation of relief 
and comfort with which Charles Foster, sick 
of musical misses, ascertained that the whole 
dwelling did not contain a single instrument, 
except xhe bassoon on which George Evans 
was wont, every Sunday at church, to excru- 
Cm r>nrQ nf the whole congregati 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS, NO. 24. 
pretend to distinguish the one from the othei, 
were not exempt from mistakes, which the sis¬ 
ters—Patty especially, who delighted in the 
fun so often produced by the unusual resem¬ 
blance—were apt to favor by changing places j 
in <i walk, or slipping from 011 c side to the othei 
ciate the ears of the whole congregation, 
liked both sisters. J ane’s softness and consid- 
erateness engaged his tall esteem; one I atty s 
inuoceiit playfulness suited best with his own 
high spirits and animated conversation. He 
had known them apart, from the first; and in¬ 
deed denied that the likeness was at all puz- 
zlin <T , or more than is usual between.sisters; 
and secretly thought Patty much prettier t han 
her sister, as she was avowedly meiriei. . In 
doors and out, he was constantly at her side, 
and before he had been a month in the house 
all the inmates had given Charles Foster as a 
lover of his young cousin; and she, when ral¬ 
lied on the subject, cried fie! and pish! and 
pshaw! and wondered how people could talk 
such’nonsense—and liked to have such nonsense 
talke'd to her better than anything in the world. 
Affairs were in this state when one night 
Jane appeared even graver and more thought¬ 
ful than usual, and far, far sadder. She sighed 
deeply: and Patty—for the two sisters shared 
the same little room—inquired tenderly, what 
ailed her? The inquiry seemed to make Jane 
worse. She burst into tears, while Putty hung 
over her and soothed her. At length she 
roused herself by a strong effort; and, turning 
away from her affectionate comforter, said in a 
low'tone— . , , „ ,, 
“ I have a great vexation to night, i atty. 
Charles Foster has asked me to marry him! 
“ Charles Foster! did you say Charles Fos¬ 
ter?” asked poor Patty, trembling, unwilling to 
trust her own senses against the evidence oi 
her heart; “ Charles Foster? ’ ^ 
“Yes, our cousin, Charles Foster. 
“ Aud you have accepted himinquired 
Patty, in a hoarse voice. 
« Oh, no—no—no! Do you think I have 
forgotten poor Archibald? Besides, I am not 
the person whom he ought to have asked to 
arrv him; false and heartless as he is, I would 
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[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
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229-2t 
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[For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
Problem— A. and B. dug 100 rods of ditch 
for $100. A had the hardest end, and his price 
per rod in proportion to B.’s was as 10 to 6, 
How many rods must each dig, and what price 
per rod, that it may amount to $50 each ? 
Answer next week. 
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not be his wife—cruel, unfeeling, unmanly as 
at a, country tea-party, or playing a hundred his conduct has been! No! not if ho would 
little innocent tricks to occasion at once a make me Queen of England. 
grave blunder and a merry laugh. 
Old Dina Goodwin, for instance—who be-, 
ing rather purblind, was jealous ot being sus- ; 
pectcd of seeing less clearly than her neigh- ■ 
Krvvc rmrl hnd dofied even the Evanses to puz- 
The higher duties of a higher flight, 
Quickened an aspiration then to rise; 
And a rough pathway rose before our sight. 
In which to walk with willing sacrifice. 
And we have toiled nobly, and done our best; 
Does God require of erring mortals more f 
When this they’ve done they then can henceforth rest 
"Within the structure they had reared before. 
bors, and had defied even the Evanses to puz¬ 
zle her discernment—seeking in vain on Fat- j 
ty’s hand the cut finger which she had dressed 
on Jane’s, ascribed the incredible cure to the 
merits ot her own incomparable sabe; and 
could be hardly undeceived, even by the pull- 
in<v off of Jane’s glove and the exhibition ot 
the lacerated digital sewed round by her own 
bandage. Young George Kaily, the greatest 
beau in the parish, having betted at a Christ¬ 
mas party that lie would dance with every 
pretty girl in the room, lost his wager (which 
Patty had overheard,) by that saucy damsel’s 
lipping into her sister’s place, and persuading 
“ You refused him, then? 1 
“No, my father mot us suddenly, just as I 
was recovering from the surprise aud indigna¬ 
tion that at first struck me dumb. But I 
shall refuse him most certainly—the false, de¬ 
ceitful, ungrateful villain! " I 
“Poor father. He will be disappointed, bo | 
will mother!” 
“ They will be disappointed, and both angry 
—but not at my retusal. Oh, how they will 
despise him,” added Jane. 
Poor Patty, melted by her sister’s sympathy, 
and touched by an indignation most unusual 
in that mild, and gentle girl, could no longer 
command her feelings, but flung herself on the 
bed, in that agony of passion and grief which 
the first great sorrow seldom lails to excite in 
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a young heart. 
After a while she resumed the conversation. 
And like the evening of some wilder day, 
A settled calm shall cheer their ling’ring years: 
A golden halo, whose remotest ray, 
Shall recompense them for their grief and teais 
And this reward, descending to the good, 
Creates an aspiration here to rise; 
While round our pathway, in serener mood, 
Hope spreads her drapery of humbler guise. 
Our task seems lighter, and seems less to bear 
The goal is near us,’and in glory crowned : 
We rise like some majestic bird of air, 
Higher and higher, with each ethereal round 1 
Wilson, N. Y., 1S54. 
jjral J&kettjj 
Dorr PROPOSE IN THE DARK! 
BY MISS MITFORD. 
her*to°join her own unconscious partner; so , „ .. 
that Georo-e danced twice with Patty, and not.! “We must not blame him top severely, 
at all with Jane. ! Perhaps my vanity made me think his atteii- 
In short, from their school days, when Jane j tions meant more than they really mu, ana you 
was chidden for Patty’s bad work, and Patty j } ia d all taken up the notion. But you must 
slapped for Jane’s bad spinning, down to this ; not speak of him so unkindly, lie has done 
their prime of womanhood, there had been no 1 ” ’ rmir ' 1 ’ 
end to the confusion produced by this remark¬ 
able instance of family likeness. 
22.—“ Al- 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus No. 
ways look before you leap 
Answer to Geographical Enigma in No. 22.— 
Niagara Nalls and Suspension lot idge. 
Answer to Question for Boys in No. 22. 
4 ,000,000 square miles, or 2,000 miles on a side. 
Answer to Conundrum in No. 22.— Ushant, 
Havre, (you shan’t have liei.) 
Hit imk 
Tire pretty farm-house standing at the cor¬ 
ner where Kibes lane crosses the brook, or tne 
brook crosses Kibes lane, (for the first phrase, 
although giving by far the closest picture of 
the place, does, it must be confessed, look rath¬ 
er Irish,) and where the aforesaid brook winds 
away by the side of another lane, until it 
spreads into river-like dignity as it meanders 
through the sunny plain of Hartly Common, 
and finally disappears amid the green recesses 
of Perge Wood — that pretty square farm¬ 
house, half hidden by the tall elms in the flow¬ 
er court before it, which with spacious garden 
and orchard behind, and the extensive barns, 
yards, and out-buildings, so completely occu¬ 
pies one of the angles formed by the crossing 
of the lane and the stream—that pretty farm¬ 
house contains one of the happiest and most 
prosperous families in Aberleigh — the large 
and thriving family of farmer Evans. 
Whether from skill or good fortune—or, as 
is most probable, from a lucky mixture of 
both—everything goes right on his great farm. 
His crops are the best iu the parish; his hay 
is never spoiled; his cattle never die; his ser¬ 
vants never thieve; his children are never ill. 
He buys cheap, and sells dear: money gathers 
about him like a snow-ball; and yet, in spite of 
all this provoking and intolerable prosperity, 
everybody loves tanner Evans. He is so hos¬ 
pitable, so good-natured, so generous, so home¬ 
ly! There, after all, lies the charm. Riches 
have not only not spoiled the man, but they 
have not altered him. He is just the same in 
And yet Nature—who sets some mark of 
individuality upon even her meanest produc¬ 
tions, making some unnoted difference between 
the lambs dropped from one ewe, the robins 
bred in one nest, the flowers growing on one 
stalk, and the leaves hanging from one tree- 
had not left these young maidens without one 
great and permanent distinction—a natural and 
strikmg dissimilarity of temper. Equally in- 
dustrious, affectionate, happy and kind; each 
was kind, happy, affectionate, and industrious 
in a different way. Jane was grave, 1 atty 
was gay. If you heard a laugh or a song, be 
sure it was Patty; she who jumped the stile, 
when her sister opened the gate, was Patty; 
she who chased the pigs trom the garden as 
merrily as if she was running a race, so that 
the pigs did not mind her, was Fatty. 
On the other hand, she that so carefully was 
making, with its own ravelled threads, an in¬ 
visible darn in her mother s handkerchief, and 
hearing her little sister read the while; she 
that was so patiently feeding, one by one, two i 
broods of youDg turkeys; she that so pensive-1 
ly was watering her own bed of rare flowers— ' 
the pale hues of the Alpine pink, or the alabas-; 
ter blossoms of the white evening primrose 
nothing but what is natural. Y ou are so much 
better than I am, mv own dear Jane! lie 
laughed and talked with me—but lie felt your 
goodness; and he was right. I tvas never 
worthy of him, and you arc; and if it were not 
for Archibald, I should rejoice from the bot¬ 
tom of my heart,” continued Patty, sobbing, 
“ if you would accept-—-,” but unable to speak 
her generous wish, she burst into a fresh Low 
of tears; and the sisters, mutually and strongly 
affected, wept in each other’s arms, and were 
comforted. 
That night Patty cried herself to sleep; but 
such sleep is not of long duration. Before 
dawn she was up, and pacing, with restless ir¬ 
ritability, the dewy grass-walks of the garden 
and orchard. In less than halt an hour, alight 
elastic step—she knew the sound well came 
rapping behind her; a hand—oh, how often 
had she thrilled at the touch of that hand!— 
tried to draw hers under his own; while a well 
known voice addressed her in the softest and 
tenderest accents. 
“Patty—my own sweet Patty! have you 
thought of what I said to you last night. 1 ' 
«To me?” replied Patty, with bitterness. 
“Ay, to be sure—to your own dear self! Do 
you not remember the question I asked you, 
when your good father—tor the first time un¬ 
welcome—-joined us so suddenly, that you had 
A Successful Witticism. —In an exclusive 
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whostTmodest flowers, dying off into' a blush, j not timetosay ‘ Ye*'now?” 
resembled her own character—was Jane. i Mr. Fo»tu. 1 - 7’ . V, K. 
Some of the gossips of Aberleigh used to 
assert that Jane’s sighing over the flowers, as 
well as the early steadiness of her character, 
arose from an engagement to my lords head 
gardener, an intelligent, sedate and sober young 
Scotchman. Of this I know nothing. Certain 
it is, that the prettiest and newest plants were 
to be found‘in Jane’s little flower border; 
and if Mr. Archibald Machine did sometimes 
come to look after them, I do not see that it 
is any business of anybody’s. _ , 
In the meantime, a visitor of a different de- j 
scription arrived at the tarm. A cousin ol i 
Mrs. Evans had been as success! ul iu trade at- ■ 
her husband had been in agriculture, and he; 
had now sent his only son to become acquaint- . 
ed with his relations, and to spend some weeks ; 
it, “you are under a mistake here! It was to 
Jane that you made the proposal, and vou are 
taking me for her at this very moment!” 
“ Mistake you for your sister! Propose to 
Jane! Incredible! Impossible! v — 
Y ou are 
jesting!” 
“ Then he took Jane for me last night—and 
he is no deceiver! thought Patty to herselt, 
as with smiles beaming brightly through hei 
tears, she turned around at his reiterated pray¬ 
ers, and yielded the hand he sought to his 
"Wiiat an agony of wit is in the following. 
_, r phe Czar has mustered a hundred thousand 
men—the Sultan will pepper them, and En¬ 
gland and France will assault them, and Aus¬ 
tria and Prussia will show a vinegar face; so 
there will be a pretty pickle altogether. 
Baron Rothschild, while complaining to 
Lord Brougham of the hardship ot not being 
able to take his seat, said,—“ Y ou know I was 
the choice of -the people.” To which his 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
18 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
the choice of the people, n 
Lordship replied, “So was Barabbas. 
pressure. 
“ He mistook her for me! 
He that defied 
us to perplex him!” 
And so it was; an unconscious and unob¬ 
served change of place, as either sister rc 
suused her station beside little Betty, who hat 
Motherly Admonition. — An old lady, 
whose son was about to proceed to the Black 
Sea, among her parting admonitions, gave him 
strict injunctions not to bathe in that sea, loi^ 
slid did not want him to come back a “nigger.” 
A person pointed out a man who had a 
profusion of rings on his fingers, to a cooper. 
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“ All ” Sltid the artizan, “It’s a sure sign of] than that of any other Agricultural or similar journal i 
•akness when so many hoops are used.” *-. aot be ^'ortioed» 
;i„ scampered away after a glow-worm, added to i Eleoan 
in their family. „ . the deepening twilight and the lover’s natural hook, is n 
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Charles Foster was a fine young man, whose 
father was neither more 
draper in a great town 
done honor to a far higher station. He was, . was almost as glad to lose a loter as her sister 
in a word, one of nature’s gentlemen, and in ; was to regain one. Charles is gone home to 
nothing did he more thoroughly show his own 
3 nor less than l linen- embarrassment, had produced the confusion >£j|war upon 'm 
but whose manners, , which gave poor Patty a night of misery to be personal cum... 
character, might have compeneated by a Dtetime of iajppmess. Jane ^ ^ 
Elegant. —The phrase, “ fighting on his own 
now more elegantly rendered, “ wag- 
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taste and good breeding, than by entering en- ; 
tirely into the homely ways and old-fashioned , 
habits of his country cousins. He was delighted 
look, in word, and way, that he was thirty I with the simplicity, frugality and industry-, 
his father's to make preparations for his bride; 
Archibald has taken a great nursery garden, 
and there is some talk in Aberleigh that the 
marriage of the two sisters is to be celebrated 
on the same day. 
t the writer of “ Salad for the 
Solitary,” is about to write another book, 
probably—“ Hash for the Hungry.” 
“ Let us remove temptation from youth, as 
the frog said, as he plunged into the water, 
when he saw a boy pick up a stone. 
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