AN EVANGEL. 
A rifted leaf went quivering by 
Beneath the blue of heaven; 
A yellow leaf—and summer's, sigh 
Passed with the breath of even. 
It was a weird-like messenger 
Of darkness and decay— 
A lonely, mournful traveler 
To point the weary way; 
The sexton wind would surely pass 
To bury all the flowers, 
And leave his spade upon the grass 
His mattock in the bowers. 
And still as deeper grew the e’en, 
A blood-red dome raised high 
Its dire, above the clouds between 
The earth and crimsoned sky; 
And the flood of glory shone 
Down golden vistas bright, 
Till darkness clasped a starry zone 
Around the waist of Night. 
And then 1 knew September kept 
Within her burnished Hall 
An orgie wild, and never wept 
O'er Summer in her pall. 
1 questioned then the sleepless Night 
Upon her ebon car, 
Chasing the fiery steeds of light, 
Bed by the vesper star— 
And asked. “ What meed is to bo won 
Within the round of years, 
That Summer's goldeu belt's undone, 
When Autumn’s finger sears 
And King October's crown of grain 
Falls 'neath old Winter's snows, 
That yield when April's tender rain 
Is kissing up the rose';” 
And low ami deep a voice came out 
The starry sweep, and said, 
“ O, man,-the wisdom do not doubt 
That has these changes made, 
From evil still evolving good— 
The wholesome lesson see. 
And o’er it humbly ponder, brood, 
'Twas written all tor thee!” 
E'en in the storm-cloud's augry din 
A golden page appears— 
The prism-how of promise in 
A baptism of tears! [Louisville Journal. 
I don’t know how many, lint it began away above 
us, and stretched down into Carolina. People there 
always called it the Piney Woods, and the trees 
were not like these—oh, what splendid trees they 
were. Great, smooth trunks, shooting way up like 
pillars, without any branches for a great many feet. 
The dead leaves always lay thick over all the turf, 
and we used to scrape them away, to find the little 
wild flowers that came up thick in the spring. We 
lived on a plantation, a long way from any neigh¬ 
bors, so I never hud much young company, and I 
used to spend my time reading foolish novels, and 
doing fancy work, and rambling in the woods 
Thanks to the joyous Frank no, who helped us 
through an awkward scene by her ready spirits. 
She had fifty questions to ask the Doctor, and 
interesting, and I have become really attached to 
them." 
Archie looked at Dr. Harley and smile'd. “I 
must challenge his admiration for every .new leaf was thinking, sir,” said he to his father, 
and flower that had ruade its appearance. Then 
came dinner, and in the pleasure of listening to 
the conversation I quite forgot my uncomfortable 
feelings. There was a pleasant compuny assem¬ 
bled. Judge Hyuk, at the head of the table, pre¬ 
sided with all that dignity of bearing that he 
most men would simply have said, ’it is odd how 
these trees have all grown out of shape,’ and 
then had them trimmed up, and thought no more 
about it/' 
“ Trimmed them!” exclaimed the Judge, “trim 
a pine! Earbarous! I wouldn't have a man on 
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never lays aside. Opposite him, his gentle, lady- my premises that would do such a thing. 1 should 
like wife, who wears upon every feature the visible expect him to bo cutting the horns and ears off 
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doing fancy work, and rambling in the woods impress of her womanly virtues; and, occupying from my cattle. Jlow many pine trees I have seen -- 
with my old nurse, Celia. I have done a great the remaining seats, were the other members of spoilt by this absurd fancy for shaping everything 1 am eomposed of 34 letters. 
deal of embroidery, and 1 always in summer time the family — Frankie and Wallace, the two un- by one mode). Why can’t men find out, with so J"' / t’,V 11 n /T f:i '' inU ' classmate s name. 
used to go out to the woods, only a few rods from earned children; Archie, a married son, who much of Nature s gardening bcfore#tlieir eyes, Mv 9 2614 iaoue of the mne di it- 
the house, and, while Celia lay and slept on the fifes near by, with his young wife beside him; Dr. that diversity is the soul of harmony? I never lk fl.'4,'so, 19,11* a goddess of tbe^morning 
pine leaves, 1 would embroider, and think over Harley and myself, mere guests of the family. could admire our New England factory villages, My IT,27,12 b a part of the human body. 
the stories J had read, and build air castles. It I * 1 some queer way the conversation turned as many do. So many rows of white houses, all Hy 21,31, 4. 9.28 is the superlative of 81,13,34. 
was a foolish way of spending time, but I didn’t ll P on the reliability of our impressions of cliarac- precisely alike; just so many doors and windows 2i ’ 13 ; 10 = 5 * 2S - 10 - — is a small thorny tree, some- 
know of any better, and T was young and light- ter, and how far the mere formation of feature and in each—why T believe I should go crazy in one. tixnes cultivated for hedges and ornament. 
hearted, and full of happiness. It all seems like a expression was an index to the mind and heart. I should feel as if I was on a checker-board, an'd M " p^ 7 ^ 3 ’ 18 ’ 20; 27 ' 2215 a 9 uadru P cd spoken of in the 
dream now, but I always feel, when I think about Some curious instances weYc adduced on both must not move out of my place.” M si isms p> 30 >3 - h 20 • 
it, as though, if I could only go back once to the - H idcs, am) I was listening with great interest to the The afternoon passed pleasantly, and in the bustible. 
hearted, and full of happiness. It all seems like a expression was an index to the mind and heart. I should feel as if I was on a checker-board, an'd ' ‘ ' ~ 7 ’" 19 a qnadrui>cd g P° ke ° of in the 
dream now, but I always feel, when I think about Some curious instances weVc adduced on both must not move out of my place.” M r , 3(l ,, _ J4 ^ . 
it, as though, if I could only go back once to the sides, ftud I was listening with great interest to the The afternoon passed pleasantly, and in the bustible. 
old spot, and sit under those pine trees as I use Jud 8 ^ whose w ell-stored mind is a perfect treas- evening some friends came in, and we had conver- My 32,8. 5, 6 .12,22 is one of the fourseasons of the year 
to, listening to the wind, all the old peace would ure-house on almost every subject, when all at sation and music, and Dr. Harley read aloud, at My 33. 29, 14, is. 15 , n ^ an embassador of the Pope.’ 
come hack again, and J should forget all the years i*'" furned to ntc, saying, “I believe we Mrs. Hyde's request, from Evangeline, lie has 
between now and then.” haven t hoard a word from my friend Lydia, here, fine voice, and the rendimr was nerfeetlv fane.im 
;iT@ 
am 
C<s^r~ 
I had laid my hand upon her arm, as an involun¬ 
tary expression of sympathy, when she first spoke 
of the soothing influences of nature, and, almost 
without knowing it, her hands were unfolded to 
clasp mine, as she went on, and when she stopped 
talking she sat still for some moments, Holding 
my bund in hers. How beautiful it was it) that 
quiet wood! The sun was so low that the long, 
slanting beams stole in unbroken under the pine 
branches, and lay warm and golden on the brown 
turf. Small, shy birds were flitting about, looking 
at us with their clear round eyes, as if full of win¬ 
der. Far down in the woods, we could hear that 
constant surge of the wind among the pines; but 
coming nearer it died away to a soft sigh, as the 
trees grow more scattering, and was only strong 
enough to waft ns the breath of the resinous gums, 
that scented it like spices of A ruby. For a little 
while we sat so, and then my aunt got up and 
folded her shawl closer around her, and I gathered 
up my flowers that had fallen neglected from my 
hand, and we went home. Home through the 
haven t heard a word from my friend Lydia, here, fine voice, and the reading was perfectly fascina- 
Come, you arc something of a philosopher; what ting to me. That was two hours ago, and, since 
should you say in this case Archie mentions, the company separated for the night, I have been 
where two persons, with the same opportunities sitting by my window, sometimes writing, and 
for observation, and with equal capabilities, came sometimes looking out upon the beauty of the 
to almost opposite conclusions in regard to night, and repeating the lines that haunt me yet, 
another 
“ Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven. 
“1 have somewhere read, sir,” said I, “ that we Blossomed trie beautiful stars, the forget-me-nots of the 
draw out from those with whom we are associated angc-ls.” 
the qualities that are most prominent, or, for the May ID A. Dr. Harley—I am provoked to see 
My 34, 20 is a prefix denoting separation. 
My whole is a Proverb. Hannah Lee. 
Cross Creek Village, Pa., 1860. 
Ansver in two weeks. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. 
time, most active in ourselves. If this is so, an his name appearing again in my journal, but I 
amiable perfcon might find in his friend many have one thing more to write of him, and then I 
lovely qualities, while one inclined to be ccnsori- shall drop him forever. Dr. Harley went back 
ous and harsh, would only observe the traits that to the city with the Judge after breakfast, and, as 
responded to" his own. Something as if the he is going South on business, we are not likely to 
shadow of one spirit fell over the other.” 
meet again. This morning I wanted to write to 
“I think you are about right,” said the Judge; Eddy in time for the mail, so 1 took my portfolio, 
"a great deal depends upon the mood of the ob- as I often do, and went to the summer-house, to 
server. •’ get a breath of the sweet air, and finish my letter 
Dr. Harley gave me an expressive glance, as before breakfast. Who should I find there but 
if to say, “I understand your theory, and can the omnipresent Dr. Harley, very comfortably 
t~£T' Answer in two weeks. 
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make the application.' 
Then the conversation took a wider range, and Lave retreated unseen, hut, as I turned, the wind 
turned upon national and sectional characteristics. Uuttered the loaves of my portfolio, and I was 
Judge. Hyde related a circumstance, in speaking forced to stop and apologize, ”1 beg pardon for 
of our Yankee propensity for finding out just how interrupting you, sir, but I came out here to write, 
._ everything was done, that pleased me much, thinking I was the only early riser.” 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
LYDIA MATHEWSON’S JOURNAL. 
BY EMILY C. HUNTINGTON. 
[Continued from page 20, last number.] 
April 1 2/7i.— Another long column of silent days 
that our lives and our hearts are not quite so far 
apart, and that is a great deal gained. 
May 4(1 1 .— Next week T am going to Judge 
Hyde's for a long visit with my sweet Frankie. 
I am so glad when I think about it, that I can 
hardly wait for the day to come. 1 do believe 
Eddy is more than half in Jove with Frankie, 
though he would be very indignant if I should 
in my journal, but Nature has been more busy than H int such a thing. J am sure T don't see how any- five to thirty dollars for. while the actual cost 
I, and she has written up her books day by day. 
Ah, what sweet things she is writing—what ten¬ 
der prophecies an; hidden away in.the swelling 
buds, on every naked bough, ftud how soon May 
will intepret them in glad fulfillment. There is a 
hunt and a stirring every where, und it seems to ine 
as if the great earth were awaking from her slum¬ 
ber, and 1 can hear the life-throbs pulsing in her 
brown bosom, and the blood coursing through her 
myriad veins again. Spring comes slowly in New 
body can help loving her, with her sweet, pure 
face, that looks like a delicate blossom with the 
dew lying fresh upon it. Her father calls her his 
sunshine, and so she is; she makes light and sum¬ 
mer everywhere. Aunt Esther is not at all 
pleased with the prospect of this visit. “We can 
get along without you well enough, for that mat¬ 
ter,” said she this morning, “thoughyou are more 
useful than you used to be, and it will be rather 
lonesome to have you and Helen both gone, but I 
“When I was last in Virginia,” said lie, “I went “And much to your dismay,” said he, laughing, 
to see ail old school-male of mine, a native of “you found your evil genius here before you.” 
Massachusetts, who has lived for a good many Then he < /id hear, after all:—I was too much 
years at the South, farming it in a small way, and confused to do anything but color deeply and 
working at his trade as a mason, lie is a very how, as I turned away. 
intelligent man, and we had some conversation “Stop," said he, “I beg you will not run away 
about business matters. He told me that the most from me. 1 will leave you the arbor, if you say 
profitable work he did was making cisterns, lined * 0 ; but I wish you would allow me to beg your 
with a kind of cement. These be got from twenty- pardon first, for some remarks that were really 
five to thirty dollars for. while the actual cost to unpardonable.” 
him was a mere trifle. ‘ Now,’ said I, ‘ why don't. I sat down, too much frightened to realize what 
, /V 7 ; V . \ J I am composed of 17 letters. 
stretched on the seat, reading the paper. I could Mj L u . 9.13,13,10.17 was the name of an island in the 
ive retreated unseen, hut, ns J turned, the wind .Mediterranean, noted for the licentiousness of its 
ittered the loaves of my portfolio, and I Was inhabitants 
reed to stop and apologize. “ 1 beg pardon for My 2,3.10.14. 6,16 was a native of Arclii, and a parlicu- 
torrupting you, sir, but I came out here to write, hlr and faithful frie nd of David, 
inking I was the only early riser.” 3 ’ 8 ’ 1G ' 12 > 2 an “kicer in David's army, and mur- 
“ And much to your dismay,” said be, laughing, „ J ^ , T , P 
you found your mV genius here before you ” ' A ’ / > ,T * ° Judca ’ foundod bjr 
_ , , ° * v Oran, and subdued by bhalmanezar, in the reign of 
Then he did hear, after all: — 1 was too much Hosea. 
infused to do any tiring hut color deeply and My S, 12,17,6,13,2 was a province, originally the resi- 
iw, as I turned away. dence.of the Canaauiteg. 
“ Stop,” said he, “ I beg you will not run away My 6 i L ? was a son of Carmi, by whose siu brought 
him was a mere trifle. ‘Now,’ said I, ‘ why don’t 
you go back to Nc tv England and follow your 
trade there? You would get more work, and 
could certainly enjoy fife more among your old 
from me. I will leave you the arbor, if you say judgment on the whole camp of Israel. 
so; but I wish you would allow me to beg your My 7 ' 15 ’ 6 ’ 17 ' 72) 7 was a s * rian G ene >' a lor great bravery 
pardon first, for some remarks that were really u ,-r i v ^- c'Tt , , D . . . , , 
, ,, „ J in », lo, 17, 0,11 was a town of Benjamin, noted for be- 
1 wp o a i e. ing the birth-place of Samuel, and where Rachel was 
I sat down, too much frightened to realize what buried. 
was going on, while lie commenced speaking of My 9, 4, 12,16, 6 , 14 was a prophet of Israel, of whose 
that unfortunate occurrence at Helen’s wedding; 
said he had made human nature a cIomc study, and 
England, but 1 believe we prize Its leaves and vtelling is good for folks, especially 
blossoms more for their tardy unfolding than if for y oun K it makes them discontented at 
* 1, Av>l A A*li) 1A - fill SiimAii tvf an..... . - i _ T > 
friends/ ‘ Wfcli,’ said he, ‘ i will tell you just how prided himself on his ability to read eharac- 
it is. I have been here now for ten years, und ter infallibly, and that liis own self-confidence had 
have built cisterns on half the plantations within often led him to ho severe and unjust in hisjndg- 
a hundred miles, besides all that I do in the towns, meats ot others. In short, I cannot begin to 
It is 11 very simple process, and any two smart remember What he said, for I did not hear half of 
slaves could do It, but nobody has attempted any it, only that he had been deeply mortified, and 
opposition. 1 have the whole business, and con- taught a profttable.lesson, and that he begged my 
they burst at once into full beauty and bloom. 
The blue birds have been singing for some time, 
and now and then a robin ventures a warble, but 
a few weeks will work miracles in these silent 
woods and meadows, and a thousand wings will 
tremble in the sunny air. 
Apr.il 20th. —Aunt Esther and I went over to 
the pine woods for a walk this afternoon. Iliad 
no difficulty in persuading her to go, as the 
ground was dry, ftud the air soft and balmy, and 
rambling in the fields and woods is one of the few 
tilings she really enjoys. She was brought up to 
run almost wild in the woods, and it seems as if, 
while every other love has died out of her heart, 
the love of Nature lives as strong as ever. 
We found a lew blossoms of that darling of all 
wild flowers, the trailing Arbutus, in the sheltered 
hollows of the pine grove, and with the pretty 
green leaves and coral berries of the partridge 
vine, I made quite a charming boquet Aunt 
Esther sat down to rest upon a little knoll, all 
carpeted with the dry leave-s and cones of the 
pines, while I wove my flowers into symmetry. 
There was ft faint resinous smell from the pines 
that was very pleasant, and the warm south wind 
seemed to me to bear a freight of old memories 
on its wings. Tt stirred so many happy thoughts, 
that 1 longed to utter hut dared not; so T sat, say¬ 
ing them over and over iu my heart, as i arranged 
the delicate woodland blossoms. I looked up, by- 
and-by, at Aunt EsTJIEU. She was sitting with 
her hands folded in her lap, and her head leaned 
back against the tree. Her lace was sad, and 
wistful in its expression, and I saw that the wind 
had left its burden of memories with her. Pleas¬ 
ant memories they were, and she told them over 
home, and puts ftjl sorts of flighty ways into tlieir 
heads/’ 
“Oh, you have forgotten your young day, Aunt 
Esther,” said I, laughing. “I'll warrant you nsed 
to enjoy getting out of those ‘Piney Woods’ for 
a visit now and then; and when you came back 
the quiet ol<l place seemed all the pleasanter for 
a short absence.” 
“I never went away from home to spend a week 
visiting, but once in my life, till 1 was a deal older 
than you are — never but once, mid J bad a great 
deal better have laid down under the old pine 
trees and died, than have gone then. Oh, h.nr 
vmrh belter ,” said Aunt Esther, brushing up the 
hearth with a vigor that sent sparks and ashes 
sailing in a cloud about, her lieud. I wanted to 
ask her about that visit, but I knew it would be 
useless, so I went on with my dusting, and only 
ventured to imagine that it was then she first met 
the lover that turned all her girlish dreams in a 
new channel. 
May V'dh. From my open window I can look 
out to-night over the beautiful grounds around the 
mansion of Judge Hyde. Every tree and shrub 
stands out, clearly defined in the moonlight, and, 
trol my price. But if I should do this at the 
North, the first farmer I worked for would stand 
by and reckon, it wasn't no great shakes to do that, 
and the next day ho, and his wife, and hired man 
would make one just like it, and my business 
would he gone in a year/” 
After dinner the gentlemen stilted for the or¬ 
chard, and Frankie and I strolled into the garden, 
after a half hour’s lounging in our room. 
“I did not know you were acquainted with Dr. 
Harley, Frankie, said J, twisting some apple- 
blossoms into her soft hair. 
“I! why T have known him ever since I can 
remember. He doesn’t, live a great way from 
here; but where did you ever meet him?” 
“At Helen’s wedding,” was my answer; “I am 
not much acquainted with him.” 
“Well, ymi will like him, 1 know,” said the en¬ 
thusiastic girl; “at any rate I do, and so does 
papa, very, very much.” 
Somehow her words irritated me, and when she 
insisted upon my owning that I thought I should 
like him, J exclaimed impatiently, '“ Don't talk to 
me about Dr. Harley, I believe be is my evil 
genius. He stirs up everything bad in me.” 
The trouble was that 1 was vexed with myself 
beyond the garden, T can see the white boughs of for having been betrayed into making several 
the orchards that are just bursting into bloom. 
This is a lovely home. About two miles from 
Hoston, it is one of those charming suburban 
villas with which so many of our New England 
cities arc begirt, as Cow ran says of Loudon, 
“Like a swart Indiau with liis belt of Loads.'' 
I am always happy here. The pleasant grounds, 
the richly stored library, the rare pictures and 
works of art, and above all, the refined and intel- 
sarcastic remarks to him, after having so earnestly 
resolved, and so really striven, to overcome the 
fault. 1 saw the wonder in Frankie's face, and 1 
said lightly, “Never mind about him, dear; let's 
have a run to the summer-house; come, Splendid!” 
and snapping my lingers to the great Newfound¬ 
land dog, we all raced down the walk together. 
We had not gone far before we saw the gentlemen 
standing by a group of evergreens, only a short 
ligent family, in which there seems no element of distance from where we had been talking. What 
forgiveness, which, of course, I granted. In re¬ 
gard to my remarks yesterday, he said he lingered 
in the orchard with little Wallace, to look at a 
bird's nest, and so was passing close by ns, to join 
the others, when I declared him my “evil genius.” 
He smiled as lie repeated the words, yet he looked 
a little troubled; so, after some hesitation, I told 
him all about it. How I had asked 'Eddy about 
my faults, and how he had given me the very 
same list, and how earnestly 1 bftd resolved to 
overcome them, and how much stronger I had 
grown by struggling with them; until yesterday, 
when I met him so unexpectedly, and the memory 
of his words came back so fresh, with all the 
bitter resentment they awakened. Then 1 gave 
way to them just as bad as ever, and forgot all 
my resolutions—not exactly forgot, either, hut— 
“But,” said he, “you thought this conceited 
young man would think you were trying to over¬ 
come your faults out of regard to his opinion, and 
you were determined to show him you did not 
care at all what he chose to think of you. Was 
not that it?” 
“Yes,” said I, laughing in spite of myself, 
“that was exactly the case.” 
“Well,” said he, more gravely, "with all my 
conceit 1 should hardly have imagined that” 
The breakfast bell rang at this moment, anil we 
started slowly up the walk. “ I am going directly 
after breakfast,” said he, “ and we shall probably 
not meet again, for years at least. Allow me to 
say one word in regard to this struggle with 
easily besetting sins. It is a life-work, so do not 
he discouraged if you fail at first in some measure; 
and the greater the difficulty, the greater the 
triumph. The sculptor would find it easier shap¬ 
ing the soft sandstone than tl«e unyielding marble, 
in silence, as the pilgrim tells his beads in prayer, discord—these are surely enough to secure happi- if they overheard us! was my instant thought, as | ,ut *“ onc easfi tllL ‘ lj ^ oe ^ c soou crumbles back to 
“Aunt Esther,” said T, softly, “is it not beautiful ness to every inmate of the house, 1 have been 
here? It seems to me this sunshine falls straight here now three days, and nothing has occurred 
down into my heart” 
“Yes, child,” said she, half starting at my voice, 
“it is very pleasant here. I think I should go 
mad sometimes if it wasn't for the quiet T get out 
of doors. Sometimes, when 1 get to thinking in the window, admiring its rich green leaves, These pines have been set out here for several Waiting the hour when, at fiorrV command, terms int ADVANCE: 
over all my life that is past, and all the trouble and did not notice that any one entered the room, years, but have made a very slow growth, because Our luc-dream passes o'er us " Two Dollars a Ykar—Si for *ix months. To Clubs and 
and toil I’ve been through, my brain seems to get until Judge Hyde suddenly said, “ Frankie! here the soil is deficient in their natural nutriment. Frankie came bonndiug down the steps to for &>; Six, and 
fairly on lire, and I think all kinds of wicked is an old friend of yours, I believe,” and I turned They want silica, and that is not abundant in this meet us, and, with a merry good morning to the >Tfteen%nd one tee” for Wq Tweaty.Tndtmof-ee’for ait- 
thoughts. And then T go away under the trees, from the window to be formally introduced to Dr. garden. Two years ago I had a few loads of beacb Doctor, and a roguish glance at me. ushered us and auy greater uaiuK-r at same rafo-oajy per copy 
and where everything is green and quiet, and it Harley. sand and gravel put upon the walk yonder, which ' nt0 kreaktast room, where the family —with mi extra lree copy for every Ten Subscribers over 
seems as if there was a great, cool hand laid right “I think I have met Miss Mathewson before,” yon sec is nearly a rod from the trees. Straight- !nv!llU ‘ d u3 ’ was a cheerful meal, and I almost we ore^niv 
on to my head: and the wind, and the water, and said lie, coloring awkwardly, and greatly puzzling way the roots found it out, and went Creeping regretted when it was over, and the Judge drove the British Provinces, oar Canadian .agents im-ifriends must 
the trees, and everything says, 'hush! hush!’; and both Frankie and her father by his evident em- after it, and the branches did their best to keep ;nv uy front the gate, driving his beaulilul grays, aJJ ia?i ceni B per copy to the clnb rates'of the Rural- 
bo I grow calmer, find patienter, for it seems as if bnrrassment. “T did not know you were visiting pace with them, so that in two years the trees and — carrying the Doctor with him, Wei), i think 01 col,5u * 8eut to Europe, &o, island— in¬ 
to even shadow my joy until to-day. Frankie 
and 1 had dressed for dinner, and were in the 
parlor, waiting for the Judge to come in from the 
city. We were bending over ft beautiful geranium 
in the window, admiring its rich green leaves, 
and did not notice that :<qy one entered the room, 
until Judge Hyde suddenly said, “Frankie! here 
is an old friend of yours, I believe,” and I turned 
from the window to he formally introduced to Dr. 
Harley. 
“ I think I have met Miss Mathewson before,” 
the Judge beckoned us to come to him. 1 dared 
not look at Dr. Harley, but I was satisfied in a 
moment that the Judge had not heard. 
“ I was showing these gentlemen,” said he, “ an 
instance of what I call Nature's wonderful in¬ 
stincts, and I want you should notice it, too. 
These pines have been set out here for several 
years, but have made a very slow growth, because 
the soil is deficient in their natural nutriment. 
They want silica, and that is not abundant in this 
garden. Two years ago I had a few loads of beach 
sand and gravel put upon the walk yonder, which 
you sec is nearly <1 rod from the trees. Straight- 
its original shapelessness, and in the* other, the 
beautiful statue, w rought slowly into symmetry, 
keeps through ages its perfect proportions and 
exquisite polish. Do you remember Bishop 
Doane's lines? 
■Sculptor’s of life are we, as w© stand 
With our souls uucarveit before us, 
Waiting th© hour when, at Don's* command. 
Our life-dream passes o'er us,’" 
history hut little is known. 
My 10, 0, 10, 0, 8. 12. 9. 17 was a descendant of Benjamin, 
and father of a powerful people. 
My 17,-10, 8,12, 7 was the residence of Laban, and is still 
known by its ancient name. 
My 12, 8,1, 14, 9 was a town In the southern border of 
Ephraim. 
My 13, 6, 8. 4,14,16,10, 5 was a city with which lUram 
and Solomon traded, and took three years to complete 
a voyage there. 
My 14, 6, 3. 8,12, 7 was a country east of Jordan, supposed 
to be the same ns Iturea. 
My 15, 5,16,12, 2 was the son of Shislia, one of Solomon’s 
scribes. 
My 16,10, 4,12. 1,11, 15, 8 was a son of Jacob, whose 
posterity was noted for their industry and love of 
agriculture. 
My 17, 6,14,12, 7, 15, 9.17 was a city of Gad, situated on 
the river Jabbok. 
My whole was a king of Mesapotamia, who oppressed 
the Israelites. 
Ovid, h T . Y., 1860. c; Express.” 
Answer in two weeks 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
A man's desk was robbed three nights iu succession— 
the first night half the number of dollars were taken and 
half a dollar more; the second, half the remainder was 
taken and half a dollar more; the third night, half of 
what was then left and a half a dollar more, when he 
found he had $50 left; how much had he at first? 
Burnt Hills, N. Y.. 1860. D. A. W. 
Answer in two weeks. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c„ IN NO. 521. 
Answer to Classical Enigma:— Latin —Hotiora patrern 
el mutrem. Translation—Honor thy father and mother. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem:—Four sheep. 
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they pitied me. 
“I don't always feel so sad though. I was just that something must be said. 
here.” said he, a moment after, as if conscious have made a greater growth than they lmd done 
iu live before, and, what is curious, made it almost 
thinking, when you spoke, of the pine woods iu *'I supposed not,” was my rather malicious wholly in one direction, so that iny trees are all 
Virginia, where I used to ramble when I was a answer, and then I added, *‘ 1 have been here only one-sided. They are not quite so symmetrical as 
child. There was miles and miles of it. I'm sure a few days.” they were before, but they are a great deal more 
( have got considerable good from him, alter all, 
so I can ad'ord to forgive him his unmerciful cut¬ 
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grand lines he repeated—“ Sculptors of life." 1 
wonder wliat kind of a statue I shall carve mine 
into? [To be continued.] 
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