AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
and sealed, and are then ready for the market. 
We were shown a necessary appendage to the 
steel pen, at the works of the Washington Medal¬ 
lion PenCompany, which, although notasteel pen, 
is so closely allied to it that we make a passing 
note of it. It is a newly invented pen-holden 
which we are informed has been patented under 
the title of the Washington Medallion Pen-holder. 
HOW STEEL PENS ABB MADE 
“ What, in broad daylight .?” exclaimed grandma 
W-. “ Well, if I ever heard of or see the 
like on’t.” 
Little Nell, the old lady’s youngest grandchild, 
wondered to herself whether it really was any 
worse in broad daylight than any other time.— 
Perhaps you will wonder, too. We do, at least. 
There was a large attendance that afternoon at 
the weekly meeting of the sewing society. Every¬ 
body went that could possibly leave home. 
And what a chattering there was when the bus¬ 
tle of assemblage was over. There was bnt one 
topic; but that was all-sufficient, all-engrossing— 
the widow’s bean—for he must he her beau, or 
ought to be. 
Everybody had something to tell, something 
to wonder about. But suddenly every magpie 
tongue was hushed, a universal stroke of dumb 
palsy seemed to have fallen on the group, as, look¬ 
ing up, they perceived the very lady about whom 
they were conversing so eagerly, standing in the 
door-way. 
“ Good afternoon, ladies,” said she, in her nsual 
quiet way. “I am glad to see so large and hap¬ 
py a gathering. It is beautiful day for our meet- 
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The proper slitting of the pen will be found, 
on doe consideration, no essy task. Let those 
who regard it otherwise take a pair of scissors 
and try the experiment with a piece of tin or 
lead, and look what a gaping, wedge-like aperture 
NIGHT SCENE, 
BY JOHN G. WHITTIKK. 
Yon moumain's side is black with night. 
While broad orbed, o’ei its gleaming crown, 
The moon, slow rounding into sight, 
On the hushed inland sea looks down. 
How start to light the clustering isles, 
Each silver hemmed! How sharply show 
The shadows of their rocky piles, 
And tree tops in the ware below! 
How far and strange the mountains seem, 
Dim looming through the pale, still light! 
The vague, vast grouping of a dream, 
They stretch into the solemn night! 
Beneath—lake, wood and peopled vale. 
Hushed by the presence grand and grave, 
Are silent, save the cricket's wail, 
And low response of leaf and wave. 
than the eye. .The education of Kg? U t fl 
the hand in some trades is a Ifijf; |g S f 
moro important matter than L iff 
would appear at first sight. If 
the reader ever watched the \ \>] 
type-founder as he poors the . ;^\ V{ 
melted metal into the little steel j v' v j 
matrix with one hand, with the i I 
other touches a spring, closes \ 
the orifice, swings the mold up- '! 
ward in a way of hia own, touch- ' 
es the spring aod releases the 
newly made metal letter, he '; / 
would understand the peculiar uH* am 
readiness which the fingers ac¬ 
quire by constant practice. The 
twisting and straightening the MX 
cottons for candles, the rolling 
np of a cigar, the pasting of la- Jf'ifilHj Sp)V\ 
bels on pen or match-boxes, are . r 'r •/ b 
all operations which, simple as Mli |jj|P Iflfw. 
they appear, are not easily ac- 1 jjl S 1 1|| Si® 
quired, and only by application. V-’Ak«ipW: f'ji 
This Company employs about ra 
one hundred operatives, about / ''wo//'' 
three-fourths of whom are fe- \ jlpy 
males; their business Is rapidly \\» c 
increasing, and, from present V® jml 
appearances, ere another year VI W',’ 
their operations will be quite as \\ 1 ;///!'/ 
extensive as the largest Bir- Uy 
mingham manufactories. VS, W 
Our first experience with the y ' wj 
Washington Medallion Pen was V- f 
from a few samples procured at 
the exhibition of the American 
Institute in October last. We 
found them very superior, and 
Blnce that time they have been 
universally adopted throughout MEDAI - LI0N PENi 
the establishment. Many iri-nda who have tried 
them coincide in opinion with ub. They are really 
a most excellent writing pen, and as they are of 
American manufacture, it is to he hoped they will 
supersede ail others for home consumption.— L. 
S. Magazine, 
And then she proceeded to the table and helped 
herself to a block of patchwork, inquired for the 
sewing-silk, which having received, she sat down 
in the only vacant chair, and commenced hem¬ 
ming a very red bird with a yellow wing on a very 
green twig, which latter had already been hemmed 
on to a square piece of doth, and the whole, when 
completed, was designed to form the twentieth 
part of a bed-quilt. She seemed all engrossed 
with the bird’s bill, and spoke to no one. Every¬ 
body wondered if Bhe had heard what they were 
saying when she came in—bnt her placid counte¬ 
nance raised the most fearful, and every one long¬ 
ed to commence a personal attack. Old grandma 
W-was the first to commence. She meant 
to “ do np the matter” very delicately, and in so 
roundubout a way, that the lady should not suspect 
her of curiosity. So she began by praising Mrs. 
E-'s dress. 
“ Why, it is really beautiful. Where did yon get 
it?” 
“ I bought it,” wsb the quick reply. 
“Here?” 
“No.” 
“ Where then?” 
“ In New York, last spring.” 
“Oh, yon did, did you? But I thought yon j 
were never going to wear anything but black 
again!” 
Every eye scrutinized the lady’s face in search 
of a blush, but it continued as pale as usual, as she 
answered: 
“ I did say so once, bnt I have finally changed 
my mind.” 
“You have, ha; what made you?” 
“ Oh, I have good reasons.” 
Here the bearers and lookers on winked and 
blinked, and looked very expressively at each 
other. 
“But did yon not Bpoil your beautiful white 
dress on Sunday night, wearing it up to the burying 
ground ?” 
“ I did not wear it.” 
Here was a damper to the old lady. She had 
such a long lecture to read on extravagance, and 
she was determined to do it, too, when unfortu¬ 
nately for her eloquent strain, Mrs. E-'s dress 
had hung np in her wardrobe all the time, and she 
had worn an old black silk. 
After a while the old lady took a fresh start.— 
She would not be so baffled again. She intend¬ 
ed and would find out all about her beau before 
she went home, that she would. So she began by 
saying: 
“ Your company went away this morning, didn’t 
they?” 
“ They did,” was the reply. 
“ He didn’t stay very long, did he?” 
“Not so long bb I wished he had,” was the 
emphatic answer. 
And how the ladies looked at each other. It 
was as good as a confession. 
“When did he come?” 
“ Saturday evening.” 
“ Was yon looking for him?” 
“ I had been expecting him for a fortnight or 
more.” 
“ Why, dn tell if you had then, and yon never 
told on't neither. Had he any business in the 
place?” 
“He had.” 
“ Wbat was it?” 
Tbis was rather more direct and blunt than the 
old lady had meant to pat, and she forthwith apol¬ 
ogized by saying: 
“I didn’t mean that —I —I —I only thought 
_ 
" Oh, I’d as lief you’d know as not; he came to 
Bee me.” 
Oh, widow E-, how did your good name 
go down, then! Be careful what yon say, or you 
will only have a remnant of character to go home 
with—and remnants go very cheap. 
“He did, did be? and he didn’t come for any¬ 
thing else, then? Bnt was you glad to see him?” 
“ Indeed I was. It was one of the happiest mo¬ 
ments of my existence.” y~y“ 
“Well, well,” said the bid lady, hardly knowing 
howto frame the next question; “well—well, he 
is a real good-looking man, any way.” 
“I think so, too; and he iB not only good-look¬ 
ing, but he is good-hearted—one of the best men 
r knew.” 
“ You don’t say so! Bnt is he rich?” 
“ Worth a thousand or bo,” said the lady care¬ 
lessly. 
“ Why, du tell if be is! Why, yon will live like 
a lady, won’t you? Bnt what is his name?” 
“ Henry Macon.” 
“ Macon—Macon! Why that was your name be¬ 
fore yon were married!” 
“ It was ” 
“Then he is a connection, is he?” 
“He is.” 
“Du tell if he is, then. Not a cousin, I hope; 
never did think much of marriages between 
cousins.” 
“ Henry is not my cousin.” 
“He isn’t? Not your cousin! But what con¬ 
nection is he, dn tel), now?” 
“ He is my youngest brother.” 
If ever there was a rapid progress made in sew- 
THE WIDOW'S BEAU 
Services had commenced in the neat, little 
Banctnary which the inhabitants of Fairmount had 
consecrated to the service of God. The minister 
had reached the psalm and Scripture lesson, and 
the first line of the opening hymn. The eyes of 
people were fixed intently upon him, for he was 
not only a good, sound, eloquent preacher, bnt he 
wa 3 a fine-looking one, too, and thus enchained 
not only the attention of the true but of the false 
worshipers. The house was very still—the clear, 
melodious toueB of the speaker were the only 
sounds that throbbed on the balmy, golden air, 
which the mid-summer Sabbath morn Lad breath¬ 
ed in that holy place. The first syllable of the 
second line was trembling on the lips, when a rus¬ 
tle at the door, and the entrance of two persons, a 
lady and a gentleman, dissolved the charm. In a 
second every eye turned from the pulpit to the 
broad aisle, and watched with more than ordinary 
eagerness the progressing of the couple. A most 
searching ordeal were they subjected to; and when 
qniety seated in the front pew, immediately in front 
of the pulpit, what a nudging of elbows there was 
—aye, how many whispers, too. 
In vain the sound, the good, the eloquent Mr. 
D- sought again to Bteel the attention of 
his hearers. They had no thoughts or eyes for 
anybody else, but the widow, and the widow 
E-’s young, genteel, and dashing-looking at¬ 
tendant. 
How she had cheated them! Hadn’t she said 
she didn’t fee! as though she could wear anything 
bnt mourning? And, in spite of these protesta¬ 
tions, hadn’t she come out all at once dressed in 
white, and walked into the church in broad day¬ 
light, leaning on the arm of a young gentleman! 
Yes, indeed, she had. She would plead guilty 
to all these charges, grave ones as they were; and 
on the last two, how many witnesses had been sub¬ 
poenaed! She was actually dressed in white; a 
beautiful robe of India mull, tucked to the waist 
with an open corsage, displaying the elaborately- 
wrought chemisette, drapery trimmed sleeves, trim¬ 
med with the richest Mechlin lace, undersleeves 
of the same expensive material, a white crape, 
shawl, a white lace hat, with orange bnd flowers, 
white kid gloves and light gaiters—Bach was the 
description every lady had on her tongue's end to 
repeat over as soon as the service was ended. 
And the gentleman—he was dressed in style.— 
Don’t he wear white pants of the latest pattern, 
and a white vest, and a coat of “satin finish,” and 
white kids, too, and don’t he sport a massive chain, 
and didn’t he gaze often and lovingly on the fair 
creature beside him? 
Yes, he did so, and there is no further room to 
doubt. Widow E-had cheated them. Bhe 
had won a beau, laid aside her mourning, put on 
a bridal attire, and was going to be married in 
church. Who the beau was, or whence be came, 
was more difficult to solve. 
Service proceeded. The choir sung, and the 
minister prayed and preached—the people won¬ 
dered when the ceremony took place. 
To their utier astonishment they were left to 
wonder. 
v For when the benediction was pronounced, wid- 
oVjS- and the strange gentleman walked 
with' the rest of the congregation quietly out of the 
church. When they reached the pavement he of¬ 
fered her his arm very gracefully, and she placed 
her hand very confidingly on the beautifally soft 
coat Bleeve aa they passed on. 
What a morning was that in Fairmount. What 
a world of conjectures, surmises, inquiries and 
doubts rolled over and over in the brain not only 
of gossiping ladies, but sober, matter-of-fact— 
The like oi such a thing had never occurred in 
the village. There was something new under the 
sun: a lady had a beau, and nobody knew it. 
Ob, widow E-, didn’t your ears burn all 
SLITTING. 
It is briefly described by stating that it differs irom 
all other metallic pen-holders, in this respect—it 
reoeives and holds the pen firmly, and in a per¬ 
fectly proper position—straight with the handle, 
on the outside of the barrel or tube; whereas, all 
other metallic pen-holders are so constructed as to 
make it necessary for the heel of the pen to bo 
stuck into the tube, whereby pens are usually im¬ 
properly held, and with difficulty removed. When 
a pen is adjusted in this new holder, pen andholder 
present the appearance of being one piece of steel, 
so perfectly are they adapted to each other. 
The peculiarity of this art, as compared with al¬ 
most all others, is this: the quality of the product 
does, not in any degree depend upon the regular 
machinery of the establishing, In nearly all other 
mechanic arts, the product is characterized by the 
quality of the machiner 1 ’ used, whereas, in this pe¬ 
culiar art, the m&chinei:. although the most per¬ 
fect of its kind, plays only a secondary part, being 
used simply to operate the tools with which the va 
there will be. Compare this, for a moment, with 
a steel pen, which requires to be pressed on the 
thumb nail to show that it is slit, and the contrast 
will be (ally apparent. And yet so sharp and nice¬ 
ly tempered is the slitting tool, and so accurately 
is the place of the pen determined by means of a 
guard, that a girl can hardly put it in a wrong po¬ 
sition; and a pen slit aside of the centre is of rare 
occurrence. So perfect is the slit that it admits of 
no improvement. Although now complete in 
shape, several other processes have to be gone 
through before they are ready for market Slitting 
leaves a burr on the point—therefore polishing is 
necessary, which is done in the revolving cans, the 
accompaniment being the saw-dust of boxwood.— 
When removed from this dust they are as bright 
as silver. In this condition they are again put in 
the tempering barrel, but this time to color or 
bronze them; they are allowed to remain but a few 
moments, during which time their former temper¬ 
ing is not afleeted. After bronzing, the pens are 
out^'s (Konur 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorkor. 
GRAMMATICAL ENIGNA. 
I am composed of 29 letters. 
My 6, 23, 10, 10, 27, 5, 27, 22 is one of the genders. 
My 21, 25, 7 is an article. 
My 15, 3,13, 9, 7, 27, 20 is a tense. 
My 17, 4,11, 24, 20, 7, 29, 21 is an adjective. 
My 16 is an interjection. 
My 1,14, 3, 29 is a pronoun. 
My 15,13, 2, 3,11, 4 is one of the numbers. 
My 12, S, 12 is a verb signifying performance. 
My 26 is a pronoun. 
My 28,1C, 14,12 is a noun, the possession of which 
many covet. 
My whole Bbould be remembered by all. 
New York, 1857. Katbt W. 
gi&r Answer next week. 
GOOD TO MAKE MEN OP, 
A gentlemen once asked a company of little 
boys what they were good for ? One little fellow 
promptly answered: 
“We are good to make mm of.” 
Think of that my young friends, you are all good 
to make men and wemin of. We do not mean, nor 
did that little boy, that you are merely good to 
grow up to the sue of men and women. No, we 
mean a good deal more than this. Yon are to 
make persons that will be respected and useful— 
that will help to do good in the world. No one, 
who is not useful, and who does not seek to make 
the world better, deserves the name of man or 
woman. 
You should not forget that, if there are to be 
any men and women — any that deserve such a 
name—twenty or thirty years hence, they are to be 
made of you who are now children. What a world 
this will bo when you grow up, if all are only men 
and women t Will you not ponder this subject, and 
“show yourselves men ?” 
“Good to make men of” What kind of men will 
our youthful rentiers he twenty years hence? Will 
they be classed with the intelligent, the respecta¬ 
ble, the industrious, the prosperous, the bonevo- 
lent, tho pious men of the time? for doubtless, 
thore will be such. It may require a little self- 
denial, and hard study, and hard work; but such a 
character we wish all our readers to bear.— 
Youth's Companion, 
.4. . - — 
Answers to Enigmas, &c., in No. 40S. 
INSPECTING, 
processes are performed—the tools being put 
varnished. The solution used for this purpose is 
peculiar to the establishment and therefore secret. 
In this solution the pens are immersed, and subse¬ 
quently exposed to the action of the open air to 
dry the varnish. As the pens have a tendency to 
stick together, the workmen exhibit no little dex¬ 
terity while tossing and moving them about, at this 
stage of the process; for, not only are the pens ef¬ 
fectually separated and scattered, but not one is 
allowed to fall to the floor. 
On the completion of the varnis ing, the pens 
are taken to the warerooms for inspection and as¬ 
sorting. In this process it is intended to reject 
every pen that haBbeen damaged in the numerous 
manipulations it has gone through, and in either 
of which it is liable to fatal injury. Tho inspec¬ 
tion is an extensive operation, for, beBideB the su¬ 
perficial examination, each pen must have its tem¬ 
per tested, and the slit proven by springing on the 
thumb nail. At this establishment there are no 
“seconds;” the least inaccuracy rejects a pen, and 
nous. 
in or attached to the presses and removed at pleas¬ 
ure. Upon the make and perfect truthfulness of 
the tools depend the quality of the pens. Tho tools 
are manufactured on the premises by artists who 
are known as peu-tool makers. These tool-makcrB 
rank in Birmingham as the best mechanics in Eng¬ 
land, and command higher wages than any other 
mechanics in that country. They are the chiefs 
of their Bhops—all the work being performed un¬ 
der their charge and responsibility. They are ne¬ 
cessarily constantly on the watch lest the tools 
get dull, or break, or in some way become imper¬ 
fect, and require repairing or making anew—for 
it most he remembered that it is steel tools 
cutting steel, not steel tools cutting wood, 
cloth, or leather. Hence It ia that the art is 
a difficult one. And without that which we pay for 
liberty—eternal vigilance—the steel pen cannot be 
made perfect, as a set of tools perfect in the morn¬ 
ing may be doing imperfect work before noon.— 
AnBwcrto Historical Enigma:—Into thy hands, 
0 God, I commend my spirit. 
Men of superior virtue are ignorant of their 
virtue; men of inferior virtue do not forget their 
virtue; men of superior virtue practice it without 
thinking of it; men of inferior virtue practice it 
with intention. 
The taste for emotion may become a dangerous 
taste; we should be very cautious how we attempt 
to squeeze out of human life more ecstacy and 
paroxysm than it can well afford.— Sidney Smith. 
TUS ULUUKfl WIKKLT 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
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BT ». 1>. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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not advertised In the Rdkal on any conditions. 
ing and knitting by any circle of ladies, it was 
those composing tbis society for the next fifteen 
minutes. Not a word was uttered, not an eye was 
raised. H-:d tbe latter been done, the roguish 
and expressive glances which passed between Mrs. 
E-and the minister, who, unobserved, had 
stood on the threshold a silent spectator and a 
curious hearer, perhaps (mind you, we only say 
perhaps) they might have guessed more correctly 
the name, character, standing, and profession of 
the Widow’s Beau. 
BOXING 
Another necessity of this peculiar business is that 
It requires for its successful prosecution a constant 
supervising throughout tho various trades, that 
work may pass regularly through all the numerous 
processes, from the “ cutting out” ol the “blank 
to the inspection, assorting and boxing. Tho least 
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