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—ter nncle was dozing in his chair, while she 
laid plans for the morrow and each succeeding 
day, until she should finally make their home 
comfortable and pleasant. The following morn¬ 
ing, while they were eating their frugal breakfast, 
Oj.au \ asked her uncle if he could set glass. 
“To be sure I can—why?” 
"I was thinking,” said Clara, “that it would 
be lighter, as well as warmer here, if the broken 
windows were mended; and I have some money 
to pay for the glass, if you will only get it and 
put it in. 
“Nonsense, child,” Baid Jacob, cheerily, “you ! ll 
do no' such thing; I'Jl huy the glass, and put it 
in, too. and that right away.” So he went to the 
same store where Clara had traded the day be¬ 
fore; and there the tradesman was loud in com¬ 
mendation of the “pretty-spoken girl,” who had 
called herself Mr. Haudjno'h niece. He told 
Jaoo 4 what she had bought, and, though the old 
man, as nsual, said nothing, he felt none the less 
deeply the kind impulses which had actuated her. 
The glass was duly set, and then Clara washed 
the windows, and wished that she had some green 
paper, of which to make shades for them, which 
resulted in the desired article being brought 
home at noon 
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Eaklt rsowuboi-bI pearl' unfeldm! 
Laughed a blno-eyed child in glee, 
Mingled with the crocus golden. 
Ye shall make a wreath for roe' 
While the ice Is on the river, 
And its gushing song is dumb, 
Ere the arrowy sunbeams quiver, 
Ah the pnrple violets come. 
Early snowdrop*, white and shining, 
Said a mother, with a sigh. 
O'er a little grave yoo're twining, 
Pore at angels’ wing* on high; 
When my soul Is tempest-driven, 
Those starred portal* brighten there, 
Doth my little Hose in Heaven 
Wreathed celestial snowdrops wear? 
Early snowdrops, flowen? of blessing, 
Said a sick girl, bending low. 
Shall I see the *un caressing 
June's fair roses ere I go; 
In my home were jasmines growing, 
O’er the porch where sunrise burst? 
Bnt my tear* ye urge to flowing. 
Early snowdrop*, ye were first. 
Early (mowdrop*. meek and lowly 
As the thoughts our childhood knew, 
Type* of faith so high and holy. 
Watered by salvation's dew; 
Angel flower* to mortals granted, 
Teaching men white thoughts to wear, 
Children's souls, to Heaven transplanted, 
Once earth's early snowdrops were. 
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TRADE 
And then JaoOB, under her direc¬ 
tions whittled some sticks for them, and before 
dark they were pasted, dried, and hung. 
The next day being Saturday, Clar a suggested 
that she should made some pies "to last over 
Sunday,” acccording to her mother's time-honored 
custom; but it would need more milk and eggs, 
if she made custard, and some apples and spices, 
if apple pieB,—there was enough flour and lard in 
the houEC, she thought. 
“ 01), mako custard pics,” was the eager re- 
ponsc. “Racitrl used t* make ’em for me, and 
she always grated nutmeg on the top, so I’ll get 
some of that.” 
“And a grater, too,” added Ci.ara; “and I 
guess you had better get two or three deep baking 
plates—the old ones would break, I am afraid, if 
I were to nsc them.” 
So eggs, milk, nutmeg, grater, and plates, were 
forthcoming, with a nice codfish and some more 
potatoes. Saturday night beheld the larder of 
Jacob II adding in a far more prosperous condi¬ 
tion than ever before, 
Clara was quite fatigued by her manifold 
labors, and retired early, her uncle saying he 
supposed they needn't hurry about breakfast the 
next morning, he generally lay in bed very late 
Sundays. 
“But I want to go to Cliorch and'Sabbath- 
School,” remonstrated Clara. . 
“Oh, do you?—well, then, we'll get up. so you 
can be in season ”—and lie sighed, remembering 
the time when be, too, had been wont to enter the 
Sanctuary every Lord’s day. 
Clara was ready to go when the bells began to 
ring, and, kissing her uncle, said, "I wish you 
were going with me.” 
“ Sometime, perhaps, 1 will, hut not to-day.” 
After their early supper, Clara was reading 
her Bible by the window. 
“Won't you read aloud?" asked her uncle. 
“Certainly, if you wish me to,” and she went 
on in her clear, sweet voice: 
“ Lay not np for yourselveB treasures upon eartb, 
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves 
break through and steal; 
“ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where 
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves 
do not break through nor steal. 
“ For where yonr treasure is, there will your heart be 
also.” 
And much more she read, until it grew too 
dark for her to see, and all the while Jacob sat, 
with his head bowed in his hands. 
Thq next Sabbath, to the astonishment of all 
tho Glenvill© people, Jacob Harding went to 
church. Clara had carefully brushed and mend¬ 
ed his clothes, and although he did not look like 
a rich man, lie had a respectable air, and wore a 
smile, which had been a stranger to his face for 
many a year. And this was but the beginning of 
a long scries of Sabbaths that found the old man 
and his niece attentive listeners to the preaching 
of the Gospel. 
We will not follow the career of our friends, 
step by step; but passing over one year, again 
enter the familiar kitchen, now so much improved 
by plaster, whitewash and paint, that we scarcely 
recognize it. Oar attention is first attracted by a 
nice cooking stove, which Jacob lias bought “to 
make the work easier for Clara;” and for the 
same reason, many conveniences have been added 
to the household furniture. A good sink takes 
the place of the old wash bench,—the rickety 
r ririO JilTTIiOj ‘KAN SIAMESE TWINS. 
Late arrivals from the old world say: —“There is great joy among the British people on 
account of the ‘ free-trade ’ alliance of England and France. Austria is exceedingly sore because 
of this alliance, while Russia takes no interest one way or the other.” 
So we have the spectacle of the lion and the frag, united by the ligaments of “ free-trade; ’ 
and while the double-headed “buzzard” of Austria is furious at the Bight, the old black bear of 
Russia sleepB on indifferent to alL _ 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE ANGEL-SIDE. 
Ol&Dcriisements 
THE DOMICIL ERECTED EY JOHN. 
BY KATE CAMERON. 
TRANSLATED raOM TI1B VtJLtlATK <ir M. LOOSE, BY 
Behold the Mansion reared by dicdal Jack, 
See the malt stored in many a plethoric sack, 
In the proud cirque of Ivan's bivouac. 
Mark how the rat's felonious fangs invade 
The golden store* in John's pavilion laid. 
Anon, with velvet foot and Tarquin strides, 
Subtle Grimalkin to liis quarry glides— 
Grimalkin grim, that slew the fierce rodent, 
Whose tooth insidious, Johann's sackcloth rent. 
Lot now the deep-mouthed canine foe's assualt, 
That vexed the avenger of the stolen malt 
Stored in the hallowed precinct* of that ball 
That rose complete at Jack’s creative call. 
nere stalks the impetuous cow with crumpled horn, 
Whereon the exacerbating hound was torn, 
Who bayed the feline slaughter-beast that slew 
The rat, predaceous, whose keen tangs ran through 
The textile fibers that involved the gram 
Which lay in Han* inviolate domain. 
Here walks forlorn tlio damsel crowned with me, 
Lactiferous spoil* from vaccine drugs who drew 
Of that corniculate beast whose tortuous horn 
Tossed to the clouds, in fierce, vindictive scorn, 
The harrying hound, whose braggart hark and stir 
Arched the lithe spine and raised the indignant fur 
Of Pus*, that with verminicidal claw 
Struck the wierd rat, in whose insatiate maw 
Lay leaking malt that erst in Juan'* courts we saw. 
Robed ill senescent garb that seems in south 
Too long a prey to Chrouoa' iron tooth, 
Behold the man whoso amorous lips incline, 
Full with young Eros’ oaculative sign, 
To the 'lorn maiden whose lact-albtc hands 
Drew aUm-lactic wealth from lacteal glands 
Of that immortal bovine by whose horn, 
Distort, to realms ethereal was born 
The beast entuienn, vt-xer of that sly 
L'lysses quadrupedul. who made die 
The old morendiou* rat that dared devour 
Antecedanoous ale iu John’s domestic bower. 
l,r>! here, with hirsute honors dolled, succinct 
Of saponaceous lucks, the Priest who linked 
In Hymen's golden bauds the torn uuthrift, 
W hose means exiguous stared from rnuuy a rift, 
E'en as he kissed the virgin nil forlorn 
Who milked the cow with implicated horn, 
Who in line wrath the canine torturer skied 
That dared to vex the insiduoug muricide, 
Who let auroral elliuence through the pelt 
Of the sly rat that robbed the palace Jack had built. 
The loud cantankerous Shanghac come* at last, 
Whose shout* arouse the shorn ecclesiast 
Who sealed the vows of Hymen's sacrament 
To him who, robed in garments indigent, 
Kxosculates the damsel lachrymose, 
The cmulgator of that horned brute morose, 
That tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that kilt 
The rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that 
Jack built. 
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per acre, and weigh* by railed measure, do pounds to the 
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To anv person who will Inclose in n lerier, On« Dollar, in 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
A MAINE LAW IN AFRICA. 
An African prince recently issued a proclama¬ 
tion to his people in relation to trade, which 
ought to put to the blush the civil anthorities of 
Christian countries. Here is the proclamation: 
I, Moshesh, writes for any trader, whoever he 
may he, already in my land, and for any who may 
come to trade with the Bashutus: and my word is 
this—Trade to me and my tribe is jt good thing; 
I wish to promote it * * * Farther, the law 
that I issued on the 8th day of November, 185-1.1 
renew this day, that people may be reminded of it, 
and conform thetnseves to it. The law runs as 
follows:—The- brandy of the whites was unknown 
to Matic, and to Motlomi, aud to the ancestors of 
the tribe as far as Manaheng. And Mokaehane 
has attained to an old :tge, drinking only milk and 
water, for intoxicating drinks do not become a 
good judge. Drink brings in contention: it de¬ 
teriorates the judgment; it cannot uphold the 
town. The brandy of the whites is fire. There¬ 
fore. let it be known that it is not lawful to sell it 
among Bashutus, aud any man who brings, whether 
he be black or white, to sell it in the tribes 
exposes himself to its being spilled on the ground’ 
And this is all. I am, Moshesh, X (his mark) 
Chief of the Bashutus. 
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My 3. 5,10 is What we do every day. 
My 11.12,15,12, 19 is a woman’s name. 
My 8. 6,14, 8, 6 is a vegetable. 
My 21, 22. 27, 29, 30 is a month of the year. 
My 9,16.17 is a kind of fruit. 
My 2, 5, 27, 24 is a small animal. 
M> 7, 8. 29, 23 is the name of an herb 
My 26, 28.27, 22. 21 was the name of an ancient king, 
ily 2(1, 27. 3,19, 20 is the name of a river in North Caro¬ 
lina. 
My 9,15, 8, 27, 28.13, 5 is one of the United States. 
My 25,14, 6 is a kind of metal. 
My whole is one of Solomon’s Proverbs. 
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ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c„ IN NO. 531. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma: 
“ In early day the conscience has, in most, 
A quickness, which in later life is lost 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem:—Eighty cents and 
twenty-eight apples. 
