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MOORE’S RUR.IL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
" It’s a great ])ity you are not smart enough to 
earn a living, Sam, — but seeing you are not, you 
had better marry somebody's money bag.” 
Minnie bad returned for a pocket handkerchief 
.which she had dropped upon the stairs, aud hear¬ 
ing her own name pronounced by Samuei., the 
temptation was irresistible — she paused, and list¬ 
ened, as girls will, sometimes. 
Every nerve was strained to its utmost tension, 
in her eagerness to hear the whole, aud there she 
stood, riveted to the spot, without one thought for 
the innocent pedagogue—whom she had so uncer¬ 
emoniously left—on the outside of the door. Her 
heart and new-born hopes were crushed to the 
earth. “Then all the unspoken professions he 
has made in looks, mauner and voice, are but ly¬ 
ing emanation* from his deceptive heart," thought 
she, “and here I, who have ever mocked at love, 
have trusted to them and been deceived! Fool 
that I am!—I don’t care for yon, and that you shall 
know,” she mentally exclaimed. 
Recollecting Mr. Mathews, who had risen in 
her estimation in proportion as Samuel had sunk, 
she hurried out. 
“Did you find it?” asked the patient Mathews. 
Wholly oblivious of her errand, Minnie abstract¬ 
edly replied, “ I presume so." And when he took 
the trembling band which rested upon his wm, 
into bis own, and said, 
“ You appear somewhat agitated, Miss Waters; 
do away with alt embarrassment, madam, and feel 
that you are with only your equal.” 
“Go—She liked to have said goose! but. 
checking herself, she remained silent 
“ Express yourself freely, Miss Waters. Noth¬ 
ing will give me greater pleasure than your re¬ 
marks. Man was made for social life." 
“And women, too,” she said, thinking only of 
replied with spirit, “and you are bound, as a Christ¬ 
ian and a gentleman, to talk candidly and freely 
with me on the subject. I wish to know why you 
are urging her to appoint a day for your wedding, 
while you are, at the same time, offering yourself 
to another?” 
Mathews’ ire was kindled, and his face, usually 
dark, grew blacker—his eyes flashed like a couple 
of small lightning bugs, as he replied— 
“I moan, madam, to ruiml my own business,and 
should be obliged if you would do the same.” 
"You insulting rascal,” she exclaimed, rising 
and opening the door, “you leave ray house imme¬ 
diately. You deserve a cowhiding, aud if I were 
a man you would get it too—leave 1" 
Mathews, in the coolest manner imaginable, 
kept liis seat, aud said— 
“ I shall not go till I see Miss Waters.” 
“She will not see you, and there’s no use in 
speaking of it; so go.” 
“ I shall not go till 1 do,” he replied. 
Minnie, hearing the loud talking, and becoming 
alarmed, had slipped out and brought back Sam¬ 
uel and Jenny, and the three were now listeners 
at t!ie top of the stairs, in the hall. 
Mrs. Wilson found that neither threats nor per¬ 
suasions would move him, and stepping to the 
hall, she said— 
“Minnie, Minnie; will you see this rascal to¬ 
night?" 
“No, Mrs. Wilson, neither to-night nor any other 
time,” she exclaimed with a trembling voice. 
“Yes, you will,” bellowed out the infuriated 
Mathews, rushing into the hall aud up the stairs. 
Samuel was ready, and with a strong arm caught 
him as he came, and with one jerk whirled him 
back rough-and-tumble, from the top to the bottom. 
Here be gathered himself up, as best he could, 
and, without a word, left the house. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
KIND WORDS AND GOOD DEEDS. 
LITTLE THING& 
A contemporary publishes the following flight 
of synonyms, of which its soys that so far as its 
knowledge extends, no work on the subject has 
ever given so full a list of substitute words for 
money ns is embodied in it. Aside from the inter¬ 
esting moral which it conveys, it possesses a high 
degree of etymological excellence, and wc com¬ 
mend it to the serious attention of all who have 
any doubt of the richness of the English language, 
or any fancy for depositing their money in that 
“bank entitled—the Pharo Bank:” 
Fighting the Tiger. —Somebody who went to fight 
the tiger, aud didn’t win, thus describes bis en¬ 
counter with the “ anamile.” How many Young 
Americans recognize the picture? 
“Went to fight the furious tiger, 
Went to fight the beast at faro. 
And was cleaned out so completely, 
That he lost his every ‘mopus;’ 
Every single spec of ‘pewter,’ 
Every solitary ‘shiner,’ 
Every ‘brad* and every ‘dollar,’ 
All (he ‘dough’in his possession, 
All the ‘ spoons' his labor earned him. 
All the blight nod lovely ‘ready,’ 
All the ‘rowdy,’ all the ‘stumpy,’ 
All the ‘ cash’ and all the ‘ rhino,’ 
All the ‘tin’ ho did inherit, 
All the * dibs’ ho could discover. 
All tire ‘browns' his undo lent him. 
All the ‘ chips’ aud ‘dust’ and ‘ chinkers,' 
All the ‘ dimes’ and all the ‘horse-nails,’ 
All the ‘brass' aud all the ‘needlul,’ 
All the ‘spondulix,’ and ‘buttons,’ 
All the ‘ rocks' and all the ‘mint-drops,’ 
All the ‘lumps' and (ihby ‘lucre,’ 
All the ‘golf aud all the ‘heavy,’ 
All the ‘sweet pecuniary,' 
All the ‘Laid’ and all his ‘funds,’ too. 
All the ‘root of every evil,’ 
All the ‘circulating mcdiuniB,’ 
All the ‘ mammon’ he hud gathered, 
All his money in a word.’* 
I)o something for each other— 
Though small the help may be, 
There’s comfort ot'l in little things, 
Far more than others see I 
It takes the sorrow from the eye, 
It leaves the world Icsn bare, 
If but a friendly hnwi come nigh 
When friendly hands are rare I 
Then cheer the heart which toils each hour, 
Yet finds it hard to live; 
And though but little in our power, 
That little let us give. 
BT MRS. A. O. IUDSOX. 
[Suggested by Mr. Arthur’s beautiful New-Year’s story 
published in the Rural of January 3.J 
They fall like genial showers 
Upon the burden’d heart, 
And forthwith epriogeth (lowers, 
While care aud woe depart; 
They're like starlight in the darkness, 
Or sunshine 'tuid the storm, 
And there, welteth tip a fountain 
Of ieeling, fresh and warm. 
0 ! who that hath bestowed them 
Would e’er the step retrace? 
Or wish from memory's tablet 
The record to efface? 
For a joy ig his far dearer 
Than Pleasure’s votaries know. 
Or all that wealth and honor 
United can bestow. 
They are not earth-born truly, 
But have their source above, 
Their Author, that great Giver, 
Whose very name is Love. 
Kind words and deeds of mercy, 
Exotics rich and rare. 
For in this world-wide desert, 
These are oases fair. 
The gems of earth are fading, 
Its pleasures droop and die. 
And riches, though abundaut, 
“Take to them wings aud fly;** 
But these—0 I these are lasting, 
Upon bright memoiy's page. 
They’ll stand in glowing colors 
Through many a future age. 
Victor, N. Y., 1857. 
THE NEW KEY, 
“Aunty,” said a little girl, “I believe I have 
found a new key to unlock people’s hearts, and 
make them bo w 
iUing; for you know, aunty, God 
took my father and my mother, and they want 
people to be kind to their poor little daughter.” 
" What is the key?” asked aunty. 
“ It is only one little word — guess what?” But 
aunty was no guesser. 
“ It is please," said tlic child, “aunty, it is please. 
If I ask one of the great girls in school, ‘please 
show me my parsing lesson?’ she says *0h yes,’ 
and helps me. If I ask, ‘Sarah, please do this for 
me?’no matter, she’ll take her bands out of the 
suds. If I ask uncle, ‘please,’ he says, ‘yes, puss, 
if I can;’ and if I say ‘please, aunty—’ ” 
“What does auuty do?” said aunty herself. 
“Oh you look and smile just like mother, and that 
is best of all,” cried the little girl, throwing her 
arms around her aunty’s neck, with a tear in her 
eye. 
Perhaps other children would like to know about 
this key; and I hope they will use it also, for there 
is a great power in the small kind courtesies of 
life.— Selected. 
“I am happy to know,” he replied, “that there 
is so much congeniality of thought and feeling 
between ns. I have hitherto confined my best 
affections to a gentleman of the name of Jupson, 
a most exemplary young man, but I am happy in 
transferring them to yourself.” 
“ Who is this Mr. Jupson you speak of?” asked 
Minnie. 
“ lie is a native of this place, madam, but is 
now attending a law school in Albany. I think, 
however, lie will soon return, as his father’s health 
is poor, and he is needed at home.” 
The concert was past, no part of which Minnie 
appreciated; and as Mathews was about to bow 
off bis good night to her, at Mrs. Wilson's door, 
he said, “ Will you allow me to hope that the deep 
interestl feel in you lsreciprocated, Miss Waters?” 
“Undoubtedly,” she replied, hardly knowing 
what she said, aud curing less. She pulled away 
her hand indignantly which he attempted to kiss, 
and, closing the door in his face, flew up stairs. 
Samuel had seen the transaction from an open 
window, and with a heart full of laughter was 
ready t.o rally her. Buthis frequent calls to 
down and tell us about the concert, 
For Moore's Kura! New-Yorker. 
THAT IS A BOY I CANT TBUST. 
LOVE AND MONEY 
Music and Money.—A punster, asked by a mu¬ 
sician whether he was not a lover of harmony, re¬ 
plied ,—“Yes, but 1 prefer it rather abridged—that 
is, dropping the first syllable, for then it becomes 
—money! and that, you know, is the better half of 
it. Again, I have no objection to your notes, but 
1 like those of the Bank of England much better; 
you may make good tunes, but those make infinitely 
the best of times.” "How so? That banknotes 
arc good things I allow; but pray what tune can 
be made out of them?” “The best tune in tbo 
world,— a for-tune.” 
“I once visited,” says a gentleman, “a large 
public school. At recess, a little fellow came up, 
and spoke to the master; and ns he (urned to go 
down the. platform, the m:\sler said, 'That is a boy 
1 can trust. He never tailed me.' I followed him 
with my eye, and looked at him when he took his 
seat after recess. He had a line, open, manly face. 
1 thought a good deal about the master’s remark. 
What a character bad that little boy earned. He 
had already got what would be worth to him more 
than a fortune. It would be a passportt.o the best 
office in the city, and, what is better, to the confi¬ 
dence of the whole community. I wonder if the 
boys know how soon they are rated by elder peo¬ 
ple. Every hoy in the neighborhood is known, 
opinions are formed of him, and he has a charac¬ 
ter either favorable or unfavorable. A boy of 
whom the master can say, *1 can trust him; he 
never failed me;' will never want employment.— 
The fidelity, promptness, and industry, which he 
has shown at schoul, arc prized everywhere. • He 
who is faithful in little, will be faithful in much.”' 
— Selected, 
BY MRS. M. A. LATHliOP. 
height, with hair thick and bushy, and as black as 
Egyptian darkness. His complexion was quite 
dark enough, while his eyes were small and deep 
set, and arched by a heavy and stern brow. The 
lower part of his face was better, and his teeth 
fine. These he had the good fortune to show 
whenever he smiled, but his laugh was sardonic, 
his dress and manners punctilious, and as he tip¬ 
ped back in his chair with his thumb in his arm¬ 
hole, familiarity withdrew, and left only constraint. 
Mrs. Wilson had said that his education and heart 
were good, and Minnie respected him. 
Samuel’s attentions were, the greater part of 
the evening, devoted to Jenny; and more than 
once, when tired of the set and learned speeches 
of the schoolmaster, did Minnie cast wishful 
glances towards the sofa, where Jenny and Sam 
were in high glee. 
The hour finally arrived for the visitors to leave, 
and while Jenny and Sam were half way home, 
Mr. Mathews still lingered to express his grati¬ 
tude for his visit, and to request the pleasure of 
renewing it at no distant day. 
As Minnie entered the sitting room, she drew a 
long breath, and said, “that’s got along with.” 
“Are you tired?” asked Mrs. Wilson. 
“No, not so very tired,” said Minnie, “but I 
haven’t dared to draw a long breath all of the 
evening. 
A BioGHArnY of Robespierre, published iu alate 
Irish paper, concludes with the following remark¬ 
able sentence:—“This extraordinary man left no 
children behind him except his brother, who was 
killed at the same time.” 
'come 
were by her 
unheeded; and with a sad tone he said, “You see, 
aunt, she has jilted me.” 
“ Served you right, too. I’m glad of it,” she 
answered. 
Sleep with its downy pinions, visited happier 
hearts that night than Sam’s or Minnie’s. 
CHAPTER IV. 
The long winter came and went, in which 
Mathews often insisted upon Minnie’s fulfilling 
what he was pleased to consider her promise, and 
set the day for their marriage, whife Mrs. Wilson 
seconded his wishes, and suggested to her the im¬ 
propriety of trifling with the feelings oi so good 
and honorable a man. 
“By some strange combination of ideas," Baid 
Minnie, “lie considers me engaged to him; but I 
cannot set a day, for T never loved him, and never 
can. I should as soon think of throwing my self 
into the extended arms of a guide-board, for sym¬ 
pathy', as into his.” 
Jenny returned from school full oflife and glee, 
and Samuel had, while with her, that over joyous 
appearance which often indicates a heart ill at 
ease, hut with. Minnie he was void of levity, and 
almost of words. He felt that something was 
wrong, yet he would not stoop to ask an explana¬ 
tion. 
One morning as Jenny entered Minnie’s room, 
(as she usually did without ceremony,) she found 
her resting her head upon the table with her face 
hid in her hands. A half smile illumined her eye 
as she partially looked up, but she immediately 
resumed her former position. 
“What is the matter now?” asked Jenny, throw¬ 
ing her arm around her reck, and imprinting a 
kiss between her lingers. “Any heart-grief that’s 
going to kill you, eh?” 
“If you were dependent for a home, Jenny, and 
urged to have a man you couldn’t tolerate, then 
you would know jost what ails me. The hateful 
Mathews! would you have him?” 
"Mathews!” exclaimed Jenny. “No indeed; 
he asked me last week, and I said no at once—and 
if he is plying you with the same questions, I think 
we had better have an understanding. I don't 
propose to go ‘souks’ with any one in this matter.” 
Minnie looked up, and laughing through her 
tears, exclaimed, “1 h it possible! The old biga¬ 
mist! Here iu this drawer is a letter lie wrote me 
the last week Tuesday, urging me to set the day, as 
he had already written to his friend Juuson that 
he would he expected as one of the groomsmen.” 
“ Last Tucsd.iy V” asked J enny. “ Ton my word 
it was the very day he presented his dignity be¬ 
fore me with the same question—ha, ha, ha,—isn’t 
it rich?” 
At this moment Mrs. Wilson entered, and the 
matter was laid before her and her spectacles, 
much to her horror and indignation. 
“I see I have got you into trouble, Minnie,” she 
said, “and now trust, me to get you out. If there 
is a soul in the rascal, I’ll shame him.” 
A note was forthwith dispatched to the school- 
house, requesting him to call at seven o’clock that, 
evening, and Daman never entered into the pres¬ 
ence of Queen Esther with more self-complacency 
than Mathews obeyed the summons. After the 
usual forms of reception wore past, Mrs. Wilson 
said, very gently— 
“L have, as Minnie’s only guardian, sought this 
interview with you, Mr. Mathews, to make some 
inquiries in regard to yonr course of conduct 
towards her of late ” 
“Old people have no right to meddle with young 
folks’ affairs,” he growled out 
A coiffeur at New Orleans writes on his cards: 
Mermaids’ hair dressed on the shortest notice, and 
a large assortment of false tails for comets always 
on view in the show-room. 
There is a firm in New York, the name of which 
is Lay, Hatch & Cluck. The clerks are presumed 
to be all Shanghais. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 18 letters. 
My ». RJ| 13, 6, M, 7 is a mathematical instrument. 
My 13, 9, 5, 6, 9,15,12, 6 is an instrument ol’music. 
My 17, 1G, 7,14, 13, 13, 1G is a kind of leather. 
My 12, 4, 3, ), 14, 17, 12, G, 12, 7 is an instrument 
to ascertam the purity of air. 
My 7, 9, 13, 1, 2, 12 is a city in Wisconsin. 
My 13, 7, 9,10, 12 is a migratory fowl. 
My 11, 4, 13, 9, 0 is a foreign coin. 
My 14, 7, 7, 12, 7, 18 is an instrument to show the 
revolutions of the planets. 
My 17, 14, 2, 12, 8 is an indispensable article. 
My whole should be practiced by those who wish 
to prosper. 
Hartford, Wig., Jan., 1857. E. W. D. 
f£s3~ Answer next week. 
What is the dillerence between a confirmed sin¬ 
ner and a beggar? One is a mendicant and the 
other is a meml-i-won’t. 
It has been suggested that the inventor of 
crinoline did more to enlarge (he sphere of woman 
than any reformer of this or earlier agesl 
Mr. Mathews is so formal 1 am afraid 
of him. Sam is worth a dozen of hitn.” 
“ Well, If it isn’t, astonishing,” said Mrs. Wilson 
with emphasis, “that you girls should prefer non¬ 
sense to worth, if Mathews should ever make 
any honorable proposals to you, you’d letter think 
twice before you say no.” 
" If I did I should then say no,” thought Minnie, 
“if I acted freely;" but us she respected Mrs. 
Wilson’s wishes and judgment, she resolved to 
act as far as she could upon her advice. 
IDs visits became frequent, though none the 
less tiresome, and when he asked her to attend 
with hi in a concert, she consented, though her 
heart stoutly maintained that it would be pleasanter 
at home with the fun-making Sam. 
True to the hour, his pedagogical dignity was 
on hand with highly polished boots, and a stand¬ 
ing collar which gave cutting indications of a 
murderous design upon liis cars. But with a well- 
balanced head he had thus far escaped without 
bloodshed. He arose as Minnie entered the room, 
and made his stereotype bow, then seating himself 
and making a few dry remarks about, the wet 
weather, lie arose and inquired if she weie ready. 
They proceeded to the door, while Minnie cast a 
glance back towards the dining room, and had a 
glimpse of Samuel performing sundry silent gym¬ 
nastics for her notice, while his face and eyes 
wore a woe-begoue look in imitation of lierescort. 
“Blame him,” said Samuel, as be settled him¬ 
self down in a chair and leaned his head upon 
his hands, “what business had he to come and 
take her away?" 
“ Why shouldn't he?" said his aunt.. “ He prob¬ 
ably admires her for her own worth, independent 
of Money, which you consider so indispensable. 
And now 1 would like to say a lew things to you 
in regard to your wish to monopolize Minnie’s 
company, while you have no intention of marrying 
A strange genius, in describing a lake in Min¬ 
nesota, says it is so clear that by looking into it 
you can see them making tea in China. 
Why are kisses like Creation? Because they are 
made out of nothing, and are pronounced good. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
TUB I.EAOI.NG WKKKI.Y 
AGRICULTURAL. LITERARY AND FAMILY JOURNAL, 
18 I'UBUSHKU KVKRY SATPKPAY 
BY n. ». T. MOO HE, KOCH ESTER, N. V. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
If 6 sheep, or 10 lambs, eat 10 bushels of oats 
in 40 days, how long will the Biime last 14 sheep 
and G lambs? 
Milford, Mich., 1857. D. M. Knox. 
ffSsS' A nswer next week. 
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"Oh! iioihing—only a little jealousy on her 
part; she thinks I Jo not pity her sufficient atten¬ 
tion if I look towards any other girl.” 
" Well, well, reconcile your difficulties quick if 
you wish for my services. You will be a lucky 
dog if you get a lady as accomplished as that same 
Miss Waters.” 
Frequent attempts were made after this by 
Mathews to effect a reconciliation with Minnie, 
but as no admittance was allowed him at Mrs. 
Wilson's, and site refused to see him anywhere 
else, he was obliged to yield up (what ho was 
pleased lo term hisrighl) to another, while Judson, 
with Samuel, became a frequent visitor. 
Minnie felt that site bad lowered herself by re¬ 
ceiving the attention of so base a man, and re¬ 
quested Mrs, Wilson to explain to Mr. Judson the 
circumstances as they were, and exonerate her 
from blame, if possible. 
“Land alive, child," exclaimed Mrs. Wilson, 
" didn’t Sam tell him? mid didn't lie laugh till lie 
bust olf bis spender buttons? He thinks enough 
of yon,” she added with one of her peculiar know¬ 
ing nods. 
[Continued on page 40, this No.] 
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George Washington. 
Answer to Charade in No. 368:—Kiugs-ton. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem in No. 368:— 
27 and 9. 
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