APRIL 18 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
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full, ami her eyes had not for a moment wandered 
from the face of her son. It seemed as if the 
whole soul of a mother beamed from thoir earnest 
depths, as she searchingly and anxiously scanned 
the somewhat careworn face whose paleness and 
thinness was made still more apparent by the dark 
curling moustache. With a mother’s keenness of 
perception she noticed that lassitude of manner 
tfhioh betokens late hours and unwholesome liv¬ 
ing, while the hurried and rather bravado expres¬ 
sion of voice told of a conscience ill at ease. 
When at length the gentle Srsv had left them 
with a “ good-night,” kiss, Mrs. Fabnham gradually 
drew Willie on to talk of his alfairs and prospects. 
Once or twice her face grew pale, or she shook her 
head, hut no disparaging or suspicions word 
escaped her lips, 
“Your letters have been so unsatisfactory,” she 
said, “with regard to your business that I confess 
1 have felt anxious to see you. One thing has 
troubled me more than any thing else, and that was 
your changing places so often; I could not under¬ 
stand it.” 
A slight flush was on Wili.ie’s brow as here- 
plied, “01 that’s nothing! All the hoys do that 
as often as they can hotter themselves. My ex¬ 
penses have been so numerous that I have been 
obliged to change whenever I have bad an oppor¬ 
tunity of increasing my salary. Next week I shall 
make another change, which I think will be the 
last one for sometime. I have, through the influ¬ 
ence of a friend, got a first-rate situation in the 
-Bank.” 
The mother replied with many words of good 
counsel and encouragement, bnt not without a 
drooping heart as she thought of the many faults 
and temptations which beset his path. It was not 
until he kissed her pale cheek 08 he arose to leave 
her, that he perceived how great a change had ta- 
keD place in her since he had seen her last. 
“Why, mother!” he exclaimed, "how pale yon 
are, and there are dark streaks beneath your eyes. 
Have you done nothing yet for your cough? You 
onght to see Hr. Smith. Do he careful of yourself, 
mother, for my sake, for you and Susy are all the 
world to me!” 
[Concluded next week.] 
F OR SALK AT $55 PER ACRE, A FARM OF 1S5 ACRES. 
of which 35, are timber in the (own of Cum ill ns, Onondaga 
Co., six miles from Syracuse, mo from Camillas, on Central 
Railroad—Church, School-house and mills of all kinds near by 
Belle lelo P. O. IKfGwieow| HAROLD M. WHITE. 
“No, mother. 1 have thought, of that, but it is 
not what I was thinking of now. I have wanted to 
tell yon for this long time, but dreaded it for fear 
of making you unhappy. The fact is that if I go 
hack to school, I must have an allowance. You 
know that all I had last term was a dollar, half of 
which was my own money and the other half was 
your gift. I am older than a good many of the 
hoys at Wildeville, who have lots of poeket money 
and their fathers are no richer than mine.” 
“That may be, ray son, but you cannot know 
how many uses your father has for his money. It 
already costs a rouud sum to clothe and educate 
you, and you know your father's business has not 
been nearly as prosperous for a year past. So I 
think you will have to be economical and make it 
do with Avbat I can let you have.” 
Wilije was silent a few moments and it was evi¬ 
dent that a severe struggle was going on in his 
mind. At length he spoke, but his voice was husky 
and hesitating. 
“ I would, mother, if it were not for—for one 
thing. I have borrowed money of the other boys. 
I had to, or else appear mean. I knew yon would 
disapprove of it, bnt it is done and can’t be helped. 
Yon must not tell father, for I- know he will be 
angry. He is always talking about my extrava¬ 
gance. One thing is certain—I must get out of 
debt somehow, or I cannot go back.” 
“And how much do you owe 7” 
“Five Dollars," said Willie with the air of one 
who wishes the worst to be known at once—an air 
which was in strange contrast to bis choking voice. 
His mothers face grew sad, and for a few mo¬ 
ments she did not speak. Then she said: 
“I would most gladly extricate you from this 
difficulty, myself, bat it is not in my power. It is 
very seldom that 1 have in my possession at once 
so large a sum as you have named, and not unfre- 
I think, upon the 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 48 letters. 
My 8, 38,18, 35, 32, 16, 45, 22, 45, 18, 26, 46,10, 8, 
20, 4, 22 is a Syriac exclamation used by the 
Jews, when commencing a sentence of ex- 
communication. 
My 13, 28, 38, 25, 24, 37, 41 was the rival city of 
Babylon, 
My 40. 15, 37, 44, 27, 18, 48, 20, 10, 9, 22,13, 43 is a 
book of the Bible. 
My 34, 46, 6, 47 was a king of Israel. 
My 21, 1, 86, 11, 26,16, 37 is an evergreen that grew 
luxuriantly upon Mount Lebanon. 
My 31,10, 36, C, 43 was a city of Phoenicia, 
My 23, 18, 24, 42, 17 was a champion of the Israel¬ 
ites against Goliath. 
My 39,1, 17, 37, 5, 10 was the son of Joash. 
My 47, 30, 27, 14, 26, 46 is a city of Lycaonia. 
My 7, 22, 12, 3, 41, 2, 6, 48, 13, 16, 27, 34 is a divine 
attribute, denoting the certain accomplishment 
of all that God has declared. 
My 45, 33, 27,12, 8 is a province of Asia Minor. 
My whole is a portion of the 24th chap, of Prov. 
Jonesville, Mich,, 1857. S. A. II. 
Answer next week. 
G rafts, stocks, ao.—i will sell jou/M) drafts 
well selected, nt $7purihoogaud. Also. Rear, Quince, Oher- 
Ty ami Mnhalrb stocks lor sale, a good assortment of one and 
two your old ApplM^ fteu,.. Also, 60 bushel* 1'uech pits. Send 
in your orders early, (.'KAwHoowI JAMES > 1 . TAYLOR, 
Jan. 1. 1857. Commercial Nursery, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Thet spring unnoticed and unknown, 
Mid rocky wilds they bloom, 
They flourish mid the desert lone, 
They deck the silent tomb. 
They cheer the peasant’s lowly cot, 
Adorn the monarch's hall, 
They fill each quiet, shady spot— 
O, who can tell them all ? 
Some o’er the mnrm'ring streamlet fling 
Their blossoms bright and fair, 
And thete, in vernal ie«uty, spring, 
Fann’d by the fragrant air. 
Some ’neatli the ocean's rolling waves 
In silent grandeur grow, 
Nor heed the storm which o’er them raves, 
But still in beauty blow. 
Some, where the eagle builds her ueBt, 
Where man has never trod, 
Where even the chamois dare not rest 
Upon the crumbling sod— 
Yes, there, e’en there, wild flow rets grow, 
In richest dress array’d, 
And o’er the clamorous eaglets throw 
Their light and graceful shade. 
Mid mountains of perpetual snow, 
By icy girdles bound. 
Some, render’d doubly beauteous, glow, 
And deck the frozen ground. 
And mid cold winter's angry storm, 
The show- drop rears its head. 
And shows its pure, unspotted form 
When other flowers have fled. 
Some on the breezes of the night 
Their grateful odors send ; 
While others, children of the light, 
To day their perfume lend. 
Some bloom beneath the torrid zone, 
’Neath India’s sultry skies; 
Mid Iceland's mountains, chill and lone, 
The forms id others rise. 
The stately fern, lhe golden broom, 
The lily, tall and fair— 
All these in rich succession bloom, 
And scent the summer air. 
In secret dell,by murm’ring rill, 
In gardens bright and gay. 
Within the valley, on tbe hill, 
Flowers cheer our toilsome >vay 1 
Flowers Image forth the boundless love 
God bears his children all, 
Which ever droppeth from above 
Upon the great and small: 
Each blossom that adorns our path, 
So joyful and so fair, 
Is but a drop of love divine, 
That fell and flourished there I 
Chamber'* Journal. 
WHO WANTS A CKEAf PIANO I 
T ire rubscribkh was for teaks been mnoagrd 
hi the purchase anti sale of / '.ax/jf, Harps, Mslti L, -T‘l. Uellarfl, 
Organs, Music, ok'., and bailie a ®railicai r/tutfewre, hn« given 
entile sntixtncrion He hay* airtpy from Hit manufaeh.ettt. and 
is (hereby roleived from heavy rente and ether expansva Every 
Instrument wold hy him. receive" hi* ptrionn oMmluM, aud is 
mtnraniiri not only as to qua! rty, bnt as being cheaper than It can 
be proem* *1 At nuy ’.‘Uiohuafo houso in Ajuvriew. A printed list, 
of prices, accompanied by the most nnqucsUounbla references, 
will be sent on nppUcalion, free of charge, to nil purta of the 
world. Address JAMES M. KUmCY, 
STtVeaw II -Vi Johu St., New York. 
THU NORTHERN LNOEPKN1UCNT. 
P RICK SI A YE AR. — TN THF, FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 
its existence, Tho Northern Independent hue attained a 
circulation of Over NINE THOUSAND. 
REV. WILLIAM IIOHUEU, Kdltor. 
Rev. 1>. W. Bristol Rev. It. Matt: sox. Rev. .1. Watts. Rev. 
H. H. I'l.AitKc, Rev. B. T. Robsrts, Corresponding Editor*. 
Tut. IxcBi'Bxpr.KT Is a weekly KoligtOH* paper, published at 
Aiibun», CuytigH t'O., N V., by the Coni ml New York 1’*1|- 
Bailing Association. Devoted to the Interests of the M. E. 
Church, and morn staunchly Antl-Blavory than any official pa¬ 
per in the Church This paper la ileaignrd especially for the 
Laitv, and will enlist tlioir energies more fully than any paper 
which they cannot own or control. 
Til a .N'nmnxun IxmsruxofcfiT is whnl its niton Imports—it 
is northern and independent In the full sense of theso fermr. It 
was started to redress n great wrong Inflicted by (be late (Icna- 
ral Conference, at Indianapolis, in denying the Annual Confer¬ 
ence* of Western and Central New York, their customary and 
proper voice In tbe choice of an Editor for tbe Northern Chriit- 
Inn Advocate,—>» paper published in thoir midst, originated by 
them, and np to Inst Juno, provided with Editors selected by the 
official representatives of the Patronizing District. 
All orders for the paper shonld be addre«eed to 
374wloow REV. WILLIAM BOSMBR, Auburn, N. Y. 
For Meera’i Rural Naw-York»r. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
EMKUY BROTHERS, 
OBIUJXAL A XU SOUS PROl'KWTOBS 0* TUB 
ALIUNV .Ui’L WORKS AND SKEW STORE, 
N O. bit STATE STREET, ALBANY, N. Y-, MANUFAC- 
turerrf tuid Wholesale and Retail Dealers of end in tho 
most approved Agricultural and Horticultural Machines and 
Implements extant. .Also, dealers in 1 
Grain, Field, Ursw and Garden Seeds anil FertiUvcra. 
Thoir loading business being the manufacture ami sale of their 
lastly celebrated E.Niu.xtw Railroad House Powkk, together 
with a great number of l»b<;>r-#t» lug machines to be propelled 
by ii for the almost Endless \ uriely of purpose* to which horse 
power bun been or can ho applied for tho uso of tho Farm, 
Plantation, or Machine Sucre. , , ,, 
All tho mnoliiuery ig constructed will) an especial view of its 
being operated bv tho Power Itself, so that no disappointment 
will occur to purchasers in their failure to operate as represent¬ 
ed- us often doc a incases where different machines ureoblained 
from different sources, or from manufacturers whoso experience 
has not. vuahlinl them to give this subject it* duo attention, and 
which I* so Important to tlioir best success aud preil l to the pur- 
chaser, the want of which Ig often tho cause of failure and dis¬ 
appointment to both purcha»er and seller. 
The experieoco of tho proprietors tma been more extolm* e and 
varied In this branch of mechanism thau that of any other firm 
now In tho business Of manufacturing agricultural machinery. 
Their snee r-., nr to lhe satlifnetoiy operation of ibeir numerous 
machine# brought before the public,has been unexampled in this 
counter, either in the number of machines or their utility 
They have submitted their machines to more severe trials both 
publia and pri* ale, timing the past si x years, than any Other and 
perhaps thau all others together in tho country, and Invariably 
have been successful in w inning tho prizes where uflowed to 
compete. it may not be Hrni## Id quote soma few extracts from 
letters received from persons using them—many hundreds ot 
similar character arc. on tile, but (feme quoted will show what 
they may be expected to do under fair average circumstances as 
to kinilv and conditions of grains, 4c, Ac. 
Irani Aaron Chnjimiui, CrauforJ Co., Pa., Icb.'IS, 1857. 
11 Messrs. Ktutuv BiiOTHEUS—Sire: 7 received from yon in 
Juno last, ono of your Two Uorso Rowers and IhraMutlg Ma¬ 
chines it "lore than meets my most sanguine expectations. f 
have had nil ( could do with mine sincu threshing season com- 
mence.L I think 1 can sell several tho coming season, and wonld 
like to have you (rive mo authority to do so, and any lutirnc- 
tioiitf which bo nti'i'sisiuy aa to tennis Ac- Yvjuin in haste. 
Fr om It J- iniren, Sussex Co., New Jersey, Jan. 2<l, LSh7. 
“Messrs. Emkuv HuotubuS— I am very well pleased with 
your Patent One Movho Power and Threshing Machine. It works 
to a charm, and far surpasses any tiling l have over seen work. 
I am satisfied that I cun with one honso thresh aamneh giaiu as 
any other kind of machine in this county can do with two 
horses." 
Prqm A. MeUrjJe, nfJJtnmark, Term., Jan. 27. 1S07. 
“Messrs EsHSRY UnoTiiRR* — Gentlemens With root Two 
Horse Power and Thresher, which 1 u*o with two males, mneh 
lighter limn the Northern Farm Hone. 1 avurawed tho whole 
season two hundred bushels wheat threshing per dnv—the wheat 
was good—the previous hnrveet wax mneh injured by lvust and 
as large results could uot ho nttained. 
« Mourn. Embrv Bkotueks— In answer to your tawdry, of 
whom and what kind or Hor- e Power* and Threshing Machines 
Inureha.ed, 1 have lo my that I purchased It from cm agricul¬ 
tural deal. ' In imuiivillo, Ky. Tire casting* havo the words 
■ Emery's Patent' on them, 1l was n good much me and 1 thresh¬ 
ed eleven thousand bushels wheal, and one thousand bushel* or 
oats and rye. '>"‘1 my lull brought me one thousand dolls r s, all or 
pavlne ail expenses, all in lire season of If&i.—hAMl'KL JOHN¬ 
SON, Bonham, Tex.: ;. January 3d, 1S56" 
"Messrs. Kmxut BkOIHZRS- I'm pletiaeil will: the opvration 
of mv Power and Thresher piirehnxcd from you this season, and 
have gotten out twenty-flcveu bushels of wheat per hour. 1 Monk 
I can Imat the mamifaetniers 111 gelling out Wheat. My horses 
aro liitlil. weighing but 1.400 lbs. at most- Kudosed plcaro Und 
draft. Acr've. ml \V Mi* T. UANNAFORD, Nanseu.ond County, 
Virginia, July 7, 1MM*. 
"Messrs, Euiturs— t purchased of an agrioaUttral doalorin 
Loui*vtll", Ky., June, I Safi, one of year patent Horse Power and 
Threshiug Miichtnc*, being the Ihixl 1 have purchased of the 
kluiL Wo ootmiiuncnd tluvshlng July .'th, have been suiround- 
ed with nivoral otlims of dlllsreut patterns Have gone Uirongh 
tho length and breadth of iholr circuits ami Unishoil Jobs after 
tho most noted machines, and came off' victorious in every 
neighborhood. The first machine I sold. With ono of the others 
my youngeot a<>n Uiresnod nearly fifty thousand bushel* whont 
and r*«, and my oldest son with the other threshed ten tbonsand 
bushel*, and then sold Iba maohlrn*. \\ r e could have so Id the one 
wo now have long ago, if wo had desired to do so. ThJ* was all 
in the harvest of ISVi. C C. TA V LOK, i'ala-l.i L'o., Kniitaeky. 
Jan.7th, law. 
Mow Ira S IinolOsj, JMchlUlJ Co., Conn, Jan 1, 1S5T. 
•• Messrs. Emekt BuottiBBS—Your Two Uoiisk Fowkk has 
fur exceeded my moot sanguine expectations. Tho TuuEsnfK 
and Cl&axkk Konmxgn, whloli I first received, did not do ns 
well ns 1 desired, although much better limn any other in this 
Section of country, hut after receiving the .Ve«*Slraw Carrier 
you sent mo, it hns proved a mo*t perfect and satisfactory ma¬ 
chine In even wayciiUBlIitUf Mm pnweritself. Had 1 purchased 
it earlier in tlm semen tuid it had operated a* well ns now, I 
could have mado a clear profit of two hundred dollars over 
what 1 shall now this season, althongh I have hud all Icoulddo 
since I purchased it, My oxen which are light, I find preferable 
lo horses, anil tna work seems In suit them. They have im¬ 
proved In eoDiiitlon during the whole lime, nearly four mouths, 
since they have been worked on It. 
J, , oiv, A , >iT II IfoU, Orsnye Co., IVTavr/. Jan. Id, 1857. 
“Messrs- KwKnr Huotiikus — I have used several different 
-patterns of Horse Power* and Threshing Machines the past 
three years, and had much experience In repairing ns well n« 
using them. Some with cylinders loo heavy, arid not properly 
balanced, requiring n greater portion of tho power of tho horse* 
to operate them, doing a proportionately less nmonnl of work 
—many are cumbered by tinnreroTi# bunas, Ac., Ac. While with 
the Runty's PiTENT Two House Pnwr.u and TnnRSHEti and 
Ci.ksn m<MOUtllN*n,whioh I purchased of you, a different stnto 
of things exists—tire straw, elniff and pniii can. If desired, all 
lio cleaned and saved separate, and ail with tho force of four 
hands to attend It. lira grain being cleaned tit for market,— 
Wheal at tlm rale of twenty bushels, nod double the amount of 
ontx per hour To those farmers desiring a good machine, 1 
wiiiildonrnestlv rucOUmiOlid Emery*' Patent Machine* nmnplele, 
for ri/ni.aViL, tan C>1 0!*ra(hm, mill superiority over all others, turd 
would fortla.'r »ay, that they no- not over estimated or recom¬ 
mended by tbo inanufnotmer* In their published circulars." 
For Prices, Description, Warrants and Terms, seo Full De- 
eoriptive Price t’atalogue furnished gratis to all applications 
upon receipt of a throe cent postage stamp to prepay tho postage 
on them. pSTtalwlltl KMlvRV BKOTHER8, Albany, N. Y. 
I am composed of 30 letters. 
My 6, 19, 4, 21 is one of the United States. 
My 29, 25, 8,18,1, 19, 17 is a town in New Jersey. 
My 26, 19, 25, 21,29, 21 is a mountain in S. America. 
My 17,13, 4, 19; 25, 11, 12, 21, 22, 26 is one of the 
largest cities of the U. S. 
My 23, 28, 25, 27 is one of the countries of South 
America. 
My C, 30, 5,17, 21 is a large empire in Asia. 
My 20, 24, P, 25, 6, 9 is a city in the south-west of 
Europe. 
My 14, 21, 11,13, 26 is a part of the British Empire. 
My 15, 21,11, 11, 8 is a town in Austria. 
My 10, 24,18, 5,11 is a town in BraziL 
My 7, 2,19, 23,1C, 25 is a river in the Russian Em¬ 
pire. 
My whole is one of the proverbs of Solomon. 
Vienna, Micb.. 1S57. L. G. Crawford. 
Answer next week. 
quently I am entirely without 
whole, that it will he best for you to ask your father 
for Borne spending money, and whatever he gives 
you should go towards liquidating your debt In 
this way you will soon ho rid of it. and let this be 
the last time daring your life that, you allow your¬ 
self to get into debt” 
This was good advice, as far as it went, but cer¬ 
tainly not judicious, inasmuch as it countenanced 
her child in concealing his fault from his father. 
Poor woman! Past experience had taught her 
that, passion was too apt to ont-weigh principle in 
her husband’s acts, and especially where money was 
concerned, he was as unyielding as a rock; there¬ 
fore it was with some trepidation and misgiving 
that she awaited the result of her advice. 
“ Father, can you spare me some pocket-money 
this term ? The other boys have it, and when I 
share with them so often I feel as if I must return 
the civility." 
“Fudge! It, is all folly to put money into the 
hands of hoys before they know how to use it. It 
only creates temptation and extravagance.” 
“ But father, consider bow mean it looks in your 
son to take no part in anything which is for the 
pleasure or benefit of the whole, because he alone 
is without means.” 
“■Who cares for the looksl You go to school to 
get an education to fit yon to earn money, not to 
spend it. 1 have always told yon that you were full 
of extravagant habits, aud you shall do nothingto 
strengthen them if I can prevent it. When 1 was 
of your age I got my learning at the district 
school, and I do not doubt that I am a better mer¬ 
chant than half the boarding-school hoys of these 
days will make,” 
" Then you will not give me any money?” said 
"Willie in a faltering voice. 
“ No, sir—not a cent.” 
Wilub looked at his mother. She spoke and 
said, “Mr. Fakniiam, I think you ought to allow 
Willie something over his traveling expenses.— 
We cannot know what exigencies may arise to de¬ 
mand ready money, and it is not always practicable 
to write home for a supply.” 
Mr. Fabnham drew out his pocket-book and 
fumbled it over for tho space of several minutes, 
during which Willie’s heart beat so loud that you 
might have beard it Presently he took out half 
a dollar! 
“There!” said he, “ since your mother insists on 
it, take that and mind you, make the most of it.” 
Willie stood erect and speechless. He looked 
from the coin in his hand to hia father and back 
again, as if he could not believe his senses. A 
cloud gathered darkly on his faco and an angry 
light was in hiB eyes. With a hasty and indignant 
gesture he flung the coin upon the floor exclaiming, 
“Take it! I do not want it! What will that do 
towards cancelling a debt of ten times the amount ? 
Since money is so dear to you, keep it; I will have 
no more of it! If I live to soc the sun rise you 
shall no longer bo burdened with my presence or 
my expenses. I will go to the city to-morrow and 
find employment. I will bo independent!” 
WIT AND SENTIMENT 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARADE. 
I know an object, small and queer, 
Which all the wise men hold most dear: 
Though foolish ones often disdain 
Its form, it would not rack their brains, 
Nor cause their “ standing” low to fall, 
If they but knew its merits all. 
’Tis never seen up in the sky, 
Yet found in every star on high; 
It never makes tho deep its grave, 
Yet ri^es within the ocean’s wave; 
And, thousands, with me, will agree, 
Its touch is in tbe rugiDg sea. 
In war, ’tis ever in tho van; 
Yet, in the rear gets if it can. 
Of the king’s throne, it will not share, 
Y’et sits in the Presidential chair; 
But, with tho tyrant^ and the knave, 
It helps to make the cringing slave. 
"Tis seen in Oriental East, 
Yet natives seldom on it feast, 
But those who do, with one consent, 
Pronounce it a great blessing Bent. 
It loves the handsome man and gay, 
Protects the aged man and gray; 
Yet, ’tis so proud, none will behold 
It with the youthful or the old. 
In fact, though near and ever rife, 
You never saw it in your life. 
Marshall, N. Y., 1857. S. 
JST* Answer next week. 
to trees. One of them in despair exclaimed, u, 
I’m undone!” “ Are you?” said the other joyfully; 
“then I wish you would come and undo me!” 
It is a question whether being called “ the son 
of a gun” should uot rather be taken as a compli¬ 
ment than as a term of abuse, as it is well known 
that no gun is good for anything unless it descends 
in a straight line from a good stock. 
Dk. Cassin, having heard the famous Thomas 
Fuller repeat some verses on a scolding wife, was 
so delighted with them as to request a copy.— 
“There is no necessity for that,” said Fuller, “you 
have the original.” 
(_ oleridge was very luminous in conversation, 
and invariably commanded listeners; yet the old 
lady rated his talent very lowly, when she declared 
she had nb patience with a man who would have 
all the talk to himself. 
Men before they die see and comprehend enig¬ 
mas hidden from them before. The greatest poet, 
and one of the noblest thinkers of the last age, 
said on his death-bed" Mauy things obscure to 
me before, now clear up and become visible.” 
God has given us four hooks: — the Book of 
G* ace —the Book of Nature —the Book of the 
World — and the Book of Providence. Every oc¬ 
currence is a leaf in one of these hook; and it 
does not become us to be negligent in the use of 
any of them. 
A Frenchman having made a portfolio into an 
umbrtdln, an American, in order that he might not 
be behind in ingenaity, made a Bnufl’-box in the 
shape of a pistol, and by means ol a slight spring 
fired the snuff up his nose. At least we heard so. 
An unloving woman is an impossibility, unless 
we can imagine a pillar of ice to stand out 
against a July sun. But all women love, and that 
passionately. Those who profess they do not, are 
only seeking to hide it hitter disappointment be¬ 
hind the transparent mask of affectation. 
Turner, the painter, was a ready wit Once at 
a dinner, where several artists, amateurs, and lit 
erary men were convened, a poet, by way of being 
facetious, proposed as a toast the health of the 
painters and glaziers of Great Britain. The toast 
waB drank; and Turner, after returning thanks for 
it, proposed the health of the British paper- 
stainers. 
Lord Chancellor Clare, on one occasion, 
while Curran was addressing him in a most impor¬ 
tant case occupied himself with a favorite spaniel, 
seated near him. Curran having eeased speaking 
through indignation or malice prepense, Lord 
Clare raised his head aud asked:—“ Why don t you 
proceed, Mr. Curran?” “ I thought your Lord- 
Bhips were in consultation,” replied Curran. 
Btammekimo is sometimes the cause of a pun.— 
Some one was mentioning in Lamb’s presence tbo 
cold-heartcduess of tbe Duke of Cumberland, in 
restraining the duchess from rushing up to the em¬ 
brace of Iter sou, whom she had not seen for a con¬ 
siderable time, and insisting on her receiving him 
in state. “ How horribly cold it was,” said the 
narrator. “ Yes,” said Lamb in his Btuttering way, 
<‘but you know he is the Duke of Cu-cum-ber-land 
asked. Mr. Fabnham was not in a mood for gen¬ 
tleness. Business had been dull that day, and bills, 
those ever-nnwelcome visitors, had come in thick 
and fast. A gloomy frown had brooded darkly on 
his brow all day, showing a mind harassed with 
care and uncertainty. Instead of casting it aside 
as he left behind him the counting-room and 
ledger, he had suffered it to remain to darken or 
dispel the sunlight of his home. 
Mrs. Fakniiam, with a woman’s instinct, saw 
that something was amiss, but she had learned to 
observe and be silent, for this was not a solitary 
instance of the kind. She knew that her husband 
was not well, and hoped a cup of tea would revive 
his strength and cheerfulness; but tea was now 
over and he had just drawn his chair to the fire, 
when the door opened and their eldest child, a 
hoy of twelve years, entered with glowiDg cheeks 
and sparkling eyes. There is something in a selfish 
nature which cannot bear the exhibition of hap¬ 
piness in others when it contrasts with their own 
feelings, and this it was which caused Mr. Farn- 
ttam to make the remark quoted above. 
“ On the pond, skating, with Feed Hunt and 
Charley Green,” was Willie’s unhesitating reply. 
“ Have I not told you, more than once, not to 
skate there again without my express permission? 
When Theodore Archer was drowned there, I 
told you that it was unsafe and forbade your going 
again ?” 
“I do not remember that you did sir. I know 
you said that we ought to be very careful how we 
ventured upon it before it had been well tested.” 
“I understand. Your memory is conveniently 
short at times. Now eat your supper and go to 
bod; perhaps it will improve on reflection.” 
The boy’s under-lip quivered an instant, boy¬ 
like, bnt the firm, determined expression of man¬ 
hood quickly suppressed the childish emotion, and 
he left the room without a word. 
“I think, my dear,” said Mrs. Fabnham, gently, 
“ that you were mistaken about forbidding Willie 
to go on tho pond. Had I known that it was 
against your wish, I should not have allowed him 
to go; hut I could Bee no harm in his doing so, as 
tliepond lias been considereclsafe for Beveral days.” 
“ It is no matter what you knew, he knew that I 
had told Mm to come to me if he wanted to go, 
and he should have known better than to disobey, 
even in as slight a particular as asking my per¬ 
mission instead of yours.” 
Mis/Farnham sighed, but like a true wife did 
not argue Abe point, even while fully convinced 
that she was right. She had seen the look upon 
her sou’s faco and when she beat over him in his 
troubled sleep she kissed a tear from his eyelids 
with the inward prayer that the unnecessary harsh¬ 
ness of the father might not smother every kindly 
emotion in the bosom of the child. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yoritor. 
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CHAPTER II. 
It Breaks. 
“ What are you thii-kingof, my son? You seem 
to be scrutinizing the fire very closely. Are you 
thinking that to-morrow you will he off again to 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 379 
Madam. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem in No. 379 
A was 48 years old and his wife 16. 
