3.bi)ct1tscincnts 
My daughter was happy in her hosband, happy in her 
new home. But I saw very plainly that the bliss of 
the old home was lost to her. 
Nearly two years went back tnto the past, 
shadowed in this manner, when a little human 
blossom was laid in its cradle. A little struggling 
wee thing,—another Minnie. Poor me! Here was 
another influence to be stemmed, as boats stem 
another wave and another gust. But I braced 
myself; and when 1 had been forced into Minnie’s 
chamber, stood over the poor child with the little 
one on her arm, arid heard the faint voice add to the 
sweetly beseeching look, “ do kiss me, father!” I 
shook my head and went ont. 
One day a strange change came over the young 
mother, alarming the experienced, and giving to the 
physician that ominous a>r of grave mystery which 
strikes into the soul of the loving. I moved about 
full of fear and guilty distress. The symptoms 
became more and more alarming,— she was sinking. 
I was called to her bedside, aa that of my first (lying 
child. As I bent over the white face, almost trans¬ 
lucent with meekness illuminated, my eyes all 
had never said a word to her which any man might 
So wife and I got easy 
not have said to any maiden 
again. 
But what should 1 see, one evening at twilight, 
while sauntering out under the shadows of my own 
grove of forest oaks, not far from the house, but two 
figures flitting hither and thither among the distant 
trees? Like a knave, as I was, T sat on the ground 
and watched them; watched them nervously, glar¬ 
ingly, till 1 saw Jemmy Bran give Minnie a kiss on 
her lips; and looked lovingly after her as she slipped 
away. I was reclining upon the sward by ber path. 
Determined to meet and confront them. I sat and 
watched her coming. Certainly Minnie’s face never 
wore that expression before. It was not gleeful, but 
it was radiant, and her eyes, which were bent on the 
ground, and hence only visible as she came very near 
me, had a light and depth that 1 uever saw before. 
She passed me; so utterly was the child absorbed in 
her own emotions. 
“Minnie!” I said, in a tone which startled myself 
scarcely less than my child. 
“ Oh!” and she sprang from the path as though the 
sound had been a rattle among the grass. 
I raised myself slowly 1 am very slow when very 
angry, and standing stiffly before her, glowered down 
into her eyes,— Minnie’* beautiful, living eyep,— 
with a sternness which had never failed to terrify. 
But the child, though she trembled like an aspen at 
first, brought her father's spirit to the rescue, and, in 
the strength of love and innocence, looked into her 
father’s angry face with groat composure. 
I must not repeat the words that followed; they 
never shall he written; and would to God they had 
never been spoken! Minnie had given him her 
heart, and would give her hand. How could she 
help it? Even her father's anger should not prevent 
her fulfilling her word; for was not Jemmy Brun 
worthy, and was not her father’s anger unreasonable 
and unjust? All this she said to me with the deep 
calmness of a perfect heroine, while I stood there 
almost as much astonished as angry. 
“Wife, it’s all up with Minnie,” said I, striding 
into the sitting room, and breaking in upon a most 
delightful reverie, only relieved by the solemn tick¬ 
ing, of the clock and the busy click of knitting 
needles. 
“Lord! what’s the matter?” and the ball of yarn 
rolled across the floor, while a flower pot on the win¬ 
dow fell, spilling and crashing on the bricks outside, 
“there goes the flower-pot—tell me quick—you look 
us pale as a sheet.” 
“Minnie has promised to marry that scape-grace 
in spite of us; she says she will to me, in the face of 
my absolute commands.” Thereupon I walked the 
floor, wife staring at me the while. “ I’ll never for¬ 
give her—never!” 
“ Husband, stop and think. He —’’ 
“! won’t stop and think. 1 say I’ll never forgive 
her, and I won’t. Call her in.” 
Wife left the room in search of Minnie. At length 
they came; both tearful. We sat down together, a 
constrained group; Minnie very tearful, but very 
sweet and beautiful. The interview was short, aud 
It was an old, distorted face,— 
An uncouth visage, rough and wild; 
Yet from behind, with laughing grace, 
Peeped the fresh bean tv of a child. 
And so contrasting, fair, and bright, 
It made me of my fancy ask 
If half earth’s wrinkled grimness might 
Be but the baby in the mask. 
Behind gray heirs and furrowed brow, 
And withered look that life puts on, 
Each, as he wears it, cornes to know 
How the child bides, and is not gone. 
For, while the inexorable years 
To widened features tit their mould, 
Beneath the work of time and tears 
Waits something that will not grow oldl 
And pain, and petulance, and care, 
And wasted hope, and sinful stain, 
Shape the strange guise the soul doth wear, 
Till her young life look forth again 
The beauty of bis boyhood’s smile,— 
What human faith could find it now 
In yonder man of grief and guile,— 
A very Cain, with branded brow? 
Yet, overlaid and hidden, still 
It lingers,— of hi* life a part; 
As the scathed pine upon the hill 
Holds the young fibers at its heart. 
And, haply, round the Eternal Throne, 
Heaven’s pitying angels shall not ask 
For that last look the world bath known, 
But for the face behind the mask! 
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Husbands and letter paper should always be well 
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If a man is dissipated, his fortune will probably 
soon be so too. 
What sea would make a sleeping room? A dry 
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When you dispute with a fool, he is very certain to 
be similarly employed. • 
When two gentlemen fight a duel, each of them 
is a man after the other’s own heart. 
A van may generally expect a domestic “ breeze ” 
when bis wife begins to put on " airs.” 
Why is a selfish friend like the letter-P? Because, 
though the first in pity, he is the last in help. 
The wise carry their knowledge as they do their 
watches—not for display, but for their own use. 
Why is the letter G like an individual who has left 
an evening party? Because it makes one gone. 
When is the letter L like a piece of unparalleled 
generosity? When it enables a lady to make over a 
lover. 
Seneca says that love is a disease. It seems some¬ 
times to be a combination of diseases—an affection 
of the heart, and an inflammation of the brain. 
A retired schoolmaster excuses his passion for 
angling, by saying that, from constant habit, he never 
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"t have six different kinds of Grapes, and. the Oporto is the 
best of either of them for wine, and belter than any other grape 
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1866 
" For several years we have mult wine from the Oporto 
Grape, and Itnd a ready sale at one dollar per bottle, selling 50 
bottles for .-ingle order*/- Sylvester Clark. 
Strong vice* SI to $3 For vines or chcnlnrs address 
Good Farmer. — “ Sambo, is your master a gootl 
fanner?” 
“O yes, massa, fuss rate farmer — he make two 
crops in one year.” 
“ How is that, Sambo?” 
“Why, he sell all his hay in de fall, and make 
money once; den in de spring he sell de hides of de 
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MY DAUGHTER MINNIE 
COURTING BY TELEGRAPH 
A few years ago—well it is not less than forty — 
my little home-flock was led, in the matter of years, 
by my daughter Minnie —a pretty name, I always 
thought Minnie was a good child, and being the 
first-born, was half maternal in her management of 
the later comers, even down to little “Pigeon,” the 
latest and tiniest of all. 
The picture of Minnie is just as fresh in my memory 
as though the forty years which have simmered and 
evaporated since, had been weeks instead. But it is 
a father’s eye that looks over these years at Minnie, 
and the beauty may be half fancy—a sort of affectional 
illusion. Those we love are transparent, you know— 
we imagino it is surface tint and surface-light of 
which we arc thinking. This much I know, Minnie 
was the best, most affectionate, and wildest of 
daughters — one of those spirited, but industrious 
little creatures, upon whose enterprise and tact the 
greatest and strongest of us will involuntarily Jean. 
“ Minnie, shall I want five or six breadthB in this 
skirt?” her mother would say. 
Looking up with just a little knitting of the fore¬ 
head, after a moment's thought* Minnie would answer: 
“ J think five will do, mother;” and five it was. 
I can hear, even now, the voice of Minnie’s mother, 
—she has been gone twenty years, dear heart!—call¬ 
ing from the head of the stairs: 
“ Minnie! Say—Minnie! ” 
“ What, mother? ” 
“ What shall we have for dinner to-day? ” 
“ You are tired, mother; let’s have a little ham and 
some r.£ga, v*itb »nmt» peas from the fr.urtlen, and 
bread.” That settled the bill of fare. 
And so it was through the livelong day; for in all 
domestic policy Minnie, though only prime minister, 
possessed regal power. 
At this time,—this forty years ago,—1 was, of 
course, in the prime of life, and full of the cares and 
responsibilities which cluster and cling to one’s man¬ 
hood. I was largely engaged in active business,— 
received some slight evidences of public confidence, 
—saw a large family coming up about me,—from all 
of which my natural positiveness and force of charac¬ 
ter received more or less strengthening. One night, 
■when the lust candle had been extinguished, and all 
was hushed, my wife said, with some anxiety of tone: 
“ Husband, I feel uneasy about our Minnie.” 
“Minnie? Why, what is the matter? is she sick?” 
“ No; she. isn’t sick, but-” 
“ But what, my wife?” 
“Why Minnie is—1 mean, she seems to be—well, 
Pm afraid she like* Jemmy Brun.” 
“Jemmy Brun! She’d better not.” And I leaped 
to the floor and walked to the window. “Jemmy 
Brun and our Minnie! a pretty match!” 
Everybody knows that for the last few years, tele¬ 
graph companies in England have employed females 
in the instrument department of some of their prin¬ 
cipal stations. The work is light and clean, and very 
well adapted for young ladies. Mostof them acquire 
the art of tclcgraplng in a very short time, and there 
are now in the service many who are able to Bend 
and receive messages as well as the best of the male 
staff. Young ladies ore much the same everywhere, 
and it would, of course, be next to impossible for 
them to remain any length of time in a room without 
desiring to hold a fair amount of conversation. As 
the nature of their employment demands that for the 
greater part of the time they arc at the oflicc they 
must sit at the instrument to which they are appoint¬ 
ee, tkey cannot very well hold conversation with 
their companions. Ho, when a circuit happens to be 
slack, the young lady who has charge of it tinds a 
great deal of relief in speaking to the clerks at the 
other end of the wire. After 1 lmd been sometime in 
the service, and was supposed to be thoroughly ac¬ 
quainted with the work, 1 was appointed to a station 
which I do not wish to be known by any other name 
than Merton. After I had introduced myself to those 
who were to be my fellow clerks, 1 took possession of 
the instrument appropriated to me, and, as usual, 
inquired the name of the lady with whom J was to 
work. Quick >s thought, 1 received for answer, 
“Amy Wat-on. Who are you?” Having given my 
name and W nation from t ftjcb 1 had come, we 
entered into lynwrantion ipou general : bjt-cto, 
H lV * 1 1 n".: • flifierem town* 
through ^ r Lad passed, Ac. I soon found 
that in aiiditnn v> being an Excellent hand ftt tele¬ 
graphing, my fait correspondent was very entertain¬ 
ing in conversation; and it was easy to discover 
from the way in which she acted during a press of 
business, that she was of a very amiable disposition. 
These conversations went on for some time, till at 
length 1 was miserably dull when away from the in¬ 
strument, and always eager to discharge, as quickly 
as possible, those duties which occasionally called 
me away, ac that I might return to speak to Amy. I 
was most anxious to see the being who exercised such 
an influence over me. and at length, after much per¬ 
suasion, and having obtained the consent of her 
widowed mother, we exchanged portraits. If I was 
in love before, I was doubly fo now. 
Having obtained the likeness, 1 was more eager 
than eve ’ to see the original. To hear the sound of 
her voice—which I was sure, from the expression of 
her face in the portrait, was soft and sweet—to see 
her smile on me, and to gaze into her large, bright, 
blue eyes, seemed to ine the objects most to be de¬ 
sired of any in the world. 1 applied for, and obtained, 
leave ol absence for a fortnight., and instantly pro¬ 
ceeded to N-. We met; aud everything that I bad 
pictured was naught compared to the beauty and 
amiability of the original. Before 1 left, we were 
engaged tube married; and three months afterwards, 
having obt iined, through the kindness of my superior 
officer, a transfer from Merton to N-, Amy Watson 
ohau • i iisr name for mine. Since then we have 
lived happily, for we are still lovers, and have never 
had cause to regret thatthe principal part of our love 
making was by telegraph. 
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I beg your pardon,” said Randolph, quietly, “ I 
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For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 46 letters. 
My 2, 24, 17, 45 was a husbandman. 
My 20, 26, 22, 15, 11,18, 37 gathereth in summer. 
My 1ft, 27, 30, 35, 41, 33 was a Jewish queen. 
My 12, 16, 26, 23, 29 goet.h before destruction. 
My 17, 28, 40. 36, 25 was very rich in cattle, in silver, &e. 
, ......100 
etuistiy 
... 25 
LanestrotU on the Hive and 
Honey lid*..I 26 
LettC-nur’s Hot Houses t 25 
Li etna's Familiar letters to 
Fat 1 in' vs. 50 
I.’-': ~ '“ 
Mile* 1 tie Hors, - Font ' . 
Millmru ’n Cmv. 25 
Modern Cookery by Mis* 
Artou and Mrs. 8. .1. Ha*'' l 25 
Mrs. Abel’s Skillful House 
wife and Ladle if Guide. to 
Easton's Rural Hand Books, 
bound in 4 Dentil. . .each 1 25 
Munc s land Drainer. 50 
Nash* Fnjttvtsivo Farmer '<) 
Neill - fiord. Companion .1 tt) 
Norton's Element* of A.-rt 
calUiin 60 
Olcoll'sBOivho and rmphei'l 00 
Pardee oi) the Strawberry to 
PcdderV Land Measurer 5o 
pcrwo i New Culture of the 
Vine. 25 
Phelps" Bee •keeper'* Chat t 25 
Vuiuby a Mysteries of JJei;- 
. pine ' • 100 
quincy on .Soiling Cattle, 50 
Rabbit Fancier SO 
Randall's Sheep Husband¬ 
ry . .-..1 25 
Richardson on the 1 torso,.. 25 
Dri, Pests of the Farm.. . 25 
Do. Domestic Fowls. 25 
Do. ontbeHoK ...... 25 
Do. on the Honey Bee 25 
Do. on the Dog.. 25 
K. inieliuV Yine-tlresecra 
Manual. 50 
Shepherd s Own Book ,2tt) 
Stewart's Stable. Bonk 2 00 
Stray Leaves from the Book 
of Nature ..1 00 
Stephens’ Book of the Farm 
2 voU.4 00 
SkBlfnl Housewife. 25 
Skinner's Element* of Ag¬ 
riculture . 25 
Smith's Landscape Gar- 
denim:. ..... _ 1 25 
Timer's Principle!! of Agri¬ 
culture . . 200 
Thomas Form Implements 100 
Thompson's Food of Ani¬ 
mals ...... . . 75 
The Rose Culturiwt- 25 
Topha m's Chemistry Marie 
Ett*v.. 25 
Turner's Cotton Planter's 
Manna) . .100 
Warder's Hedy> t) and Ever- 
greens’. .1 00 
Wiring's Elements of Ag¬ 
riculture . 75 
Weeks on Bees. ?-5 
White* Gardening for the 
riai’Jtll .1 85 
Wilson on Flax. 25 
Youatt ft Martin on Cattle 1 25 
Y 01 u.il on the Horae.125 
Do. on ?hcep. 7.5 
Do on the Hog. ... 75 
Berry'* Fruit Get640 . >25 
Rlake’s Far cer «t Mono . I 2 "' 
AousMos.Ht. t'.* KuraJ Econ¬ 
omy . ......1 2"' 
Bnght on Grape Culture 50 
Browne's Bird Fancier 50 
Browne's Poultry Yard. .1 to 
•jo. Field Book 01 Manure*. 1 26 
Aridgematj’s Card. Ass 1. .. 1 50 
Do. Florist's Guidjj.... 60 
Do. Kitchen Gardener's In¬ 
structor .. T •- to 
Do. Fruit Cult. Manual ... 60 
Brack's Book of Flowers... .1 90 
Biiiat’e Flower Garden— 126 
Do. Family Kitchen Card 75 
Chemical Field lectures. 1 00 
Chinese Sugar Cane aud 
Sugar Making. 25 
Chorlton s Grape Grower * 
Guide .. to 
CohheU's Am. Gardener to 
Cottago aud Farm Bee¬ 
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Cole's Am. Fruit Book. to 
Do. Am. Veterinarian.. 50 
Dadd's Modern Horw) Doe 1 tt) 
DO. Am. Cattle Doctor l t)u 
Do. Anatomy and Pr>ysi- 
oloy of t he Horse.2 00 
Do. onion'd plates..4 00 
Dana's Muck Manual.1«> 
Do P|ic« [•:<•;<y on Manures 25 
Darlington s Weeds and Use¬ 
ful Plants . -.1 to 
Duty's Devon Herd Book .100 
Domestic amt Ornaments*! 
Poultry.1 to 
Do. colors'll plates. .......2 (K) 
Downing's Fruit.- aud bruit 
Trees. 1 60 
Downing's Landscape Gar¬ 
dening. . . 3 to 
Do. Rural E-*avs. 3 00 
Eastwood's Cranberry Cul 
tnre. to 
Elliott’s West. Fruit Book 1 25 
Every Lady her own Flower 
Gardener. . 50 
Family Doctor bv Prof. 11. 
8. Taylor... .- 1 26 
Farm Drainage. (H. F 
French). 1 tt) 
Fessenden's Farmer and 
Gardener . ..125 
Do. Am Kitchen Garden.. 50 
Field'llPuirCulture. . .. i to 
Fish Culture..1 to 
Flint on Grasses..125 
I Guenon on Milch Cows_ to 
Herbert to Horse-keepers. 125 
I flooiie r's Dog k G u». paper, 26 
My 43, 33. 36 12, *J, 38 were cultivated in olden times. 
Mr 1. fl 42, « 1* what our Sutb-r in - "w-tiroo* colle 1. 
M* 14, «, 17, ft, 34, 45 muketh many friends. 
My 7, Jft, 36, 3d, 35 is the lost enemy to be destroyed. 
My 44, 3ft, 13, 25, 17. 22 was one of the Apostles. 
My 19, 40, 32,17, 25,11 troubled the king of Babylon. 
My 6, 3, 31 had (locks and herds. 
My whole is a proverb. 
Sebrnon Lake, N. Y , 1861. Samvel Whitney. 
rr' Answer in two w eeks. 
fathers are said to do; but I told Minnie again that 
she had lost my love and care. Then 1 was so foolish 
as to see Jemmy Brun, and in a very silly speech 
inform him that since he was taking my daughter 
from her father without his consent, he need expect 
no gifts or favors now or henceforth. She w ould not 
be allowed to share in the family inheritance, nor 
should I render the least assistance if they “should 
come to want.” 1 shall never forget the queer look 
the young man gave, — a glance in which pride 
seemed almost vainly struggling with a duster of 
mirth-sparkles. 
“Very well, sir; >ve will try not to ‘come to 
want.’” That was all he said; hut the cool self-pos¬ 
session of his manner made me feel as though I had 
undertaken to drive a nail and had pounded my 
fingers. 
I had always been demonstrative toward my child¬ 
ren,—the elder as well as the younger. .Minnie hud 
never lost her right to her father's knee, nor did she 
ever meet me in the morning or part from me at 
night without a kiss. This was denied her now. 
Poor child! It was the sorest trial of all. Once or 
twice she clung tearfully to me in my sternness, and 
reaching up to clasp my neck with her white arms, 
tried to bend my lips to hers. No. I promised her 
never a kiss while J lived. 
Women are strange creatures. There was wife, 
who had entirely sympathized with me, as 1 sup¬ 
posed, absolutely giving aid and comfort to our 
recreant daughter. 1 verily helieve that long before 
the wedding day came she was as tlu r -uglily inter¬ 
ested in the whole aflair as though Minnie had been 
about to marry the best business man in town.— 
Little use was it for me to tighten my purse strings, 
and direct that the child should have no marriage 
outfit of ward-robes, pillow-cases, counterpanes and 
the thousand and one et cr?»rvi« in which mothers 
take such pride aud pleasure. In spite of me, but 
surreptitiously, Minnie was well provided for, I am 
sure. I remember that the shopman’s bills for some 
ten months thereafter seemed unusually full, both 
in number of items and footing of column; and I 
shrewdly suspect that my wife had arranged with 
the tradesman to have the articles scattered along 
through the months. She was always a good 
financier. 
The ceremony was performed in church. 1 was 
present, lest my absence should give too great 
notoriety to the family jar. Useless. The whole 
town having long since been made acquainted with 
the state of a flairs, the bride's beauty and the brldc- 
me with a 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 19 letters. 
My 12, 2, B, 7, 9,14 is a town in Maine. 
My 12, 9, 11.15, 9, 10 is a city in Massachusetts 
My 5, 10, 17,13, 2, 6, 18 is one of the United States. 
My 1, 18, 3,16,13. 0, 7, 15, 9, 6 is one of the principal cities 
of the United States. 
My 4, 18, 14, S is a county in Kentucky. 
My 17, 2, 19, 8, 9, 10 is a town in Ohio. 
My whole is a day very much celebrated. 
Buffalo, N. Y., 1861. Frank A. Rathbcn. 
Jpps" Answer id two weeks. 
Ti ; : t ic a thousand things in this world to afflict 
and sadflen — but oh! how many that are beautiful 
and - " 0. The world teems with beauty—with 
object that gladden the eye aud warm the heart. 
We might be happy if we would. There are ills that 
we cannot escape —the approach of disease and 
death; of misfortunes;, ibe sundering of the early 
ties, and the canker-worm of grief— but the vast 
majority of evil- that beset us might be avoided. 
The curse of Intemperance, interwoven as it is with 
all the ligaments of society, oue which never 
strikes but to destroy. There is not one bright page 
upon the record of its progress —nothing to shield 
it from the heartiest execration of the human race. 
It should not exist—it must not. Po away with all 
this -let wars come to an end, and let friendship, 
charity, love, purity and kindness murk the inter¬ 
com se between man and man. We are too selfish, as 
if the world was made for us alone. How much 
happier tvould we be, were we to labor more earnestly 
to promote each other's good. God has blessed us 
will) a. home that is not dark. There is snnshine 
everywhere — in the sky, upon the earth — there 
would be in most hearts If we would look around us. 
OF MO 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THK LAIIGK8T CIRCULATED 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND TAMILT WEEKLY, 
18 PUBLISHED AVERT SATURDAY 
BY D. D. T. MOORE. ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
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papers sent to the British Provinces, our Canadian agent* and 
friends must add 12.N cents per copy to the club rates of the 
Rural. The lowest price of copies sent to Eorope, Ac., i* $2,50 
—including postage, t'ir Agent* who take Premiums 
for cluba formed previous to April 1st, a.ro also entitled to one 
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Any person who is not au agent sending the club rate ($!,5U o; 
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request the paper for a year, or a return of the money, conn-.' 
tte acoommodcutd—ijv it would be unjUfit toothers to comp., 
and a great inconvenience to return remittances. The otdt 
to get the Rural for lees than $2 a year is to form or join a clu. 
one or two periodicals. There was an air of senti¬ 
ment about him, in his looks and manners, which 
came precisely within the scope of my contempt. 1 
had known it in others,—in strong business men,— 
this ntter contempt for the least possible manifesta¬ 
tion of sentiment: for those unthrifty fellows who 
have never an eye for business, hut hang upon the 
skirt-; of thought, clasp imagery, and ride upon 
rytbm. You may see it now every day in commercial 
antagonism of fact and fancy,—of the figures which 
dot the pages of the ledger and those which illumine 
the lines of the poet. “ The muses frowned on me,” 
said a German poet, “for keeping aeeoont books.” 
Undoubtedly. Nor is the knight of the balance-sheet 
lees intolerant toward those miserable fellows whose 
entire stock in trade can be stored within a very little 
cavity just behind the frontal bone, 
My good wife had a time of it cooling ine down, and 
prevented the adoption of most violent measures. 
Even when I had formally surrendered to her supe¬ 
rior discretion, I chafed by times like a hear in 
baruesa. Jf wife bad not been almost a Rarey in 
tact, I should certainly have broken into plunging 
even sooner than 1 did. 
Minnie was taken one day into solemn conference 
by her mother, with only pussy in the doorway as 
auditor. But the child, though she blushed very 
mach, moved about from seat to seat, and tore pieces 
of paper into bite, declared that she was heart-whole 
yet — as why should she not be? — for Jemmy Brun 
Answer in two weeks 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
A PUZZLING LETTER. 
friends Dear Sir: friends 
stand By your 
I bearing disposition 
that a 
man world 
is contempt whilst the 
ridicule 
ambitious. 
Peru, La Salle Co., Ill., 1861. 
Jfy Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEM. 
groom’s popularity set many eyes on 
sparkle of criticism in them. 
“ He needn't look so savage like," muttered a gruff' 
old yeoman behind me; “there ain’t a likelier young 
fellow anywheres hereabout than Jemmy Brun; an’ 
though Minnie be purty as a pink, it’s a good match, 
I say,— a real even bargain, —so.” 
l>ODg, long months went by after the marriage,— 
tedious, unhappy months for me. I knew 1 was 
being soured by this self-imposed restraint on the 
affectional part of my nature. Minnie came to her 
old home sometimes. Once or twice she begged for 
the return of the old love.—the old home kiss. No. 
IVhat number (excuse me if you find any fault,) is that of 
which the square root is equal to its Bquare, and if nine be 
added to the number, the square root of the sum will equal 
the number itself, plus three) C. R. Skinxkr. 
Unian Square, N. Y., 1861. 
Answer in two weeks. 
