FUN, FACT, AND FANCY, 
THE STARS AND STRIFES 
BY KDNA BRAN PROCTOR. 
(Air—“ The Star-Spangled Banner.*). 
0, Star-Spangled Banker! the Flag of our pride! 
Though trampled by traitors and basely defied, 
Fling out to the glad winds your Red, White, and Blue, 
For the heart of the North-land is beating for you! 
And her strong arm i» nerriug to strike with a will, 
Till the foe and hts boastings are humbled and still ! 
Here’s welcome to wounding, and combat, an d scars, 
And the glory of death—for the Stripes and the Stars! 
From prairie, O, plowman! speed boldly away— 
There’s seed to he sown in God's furrows to-day 
Row landward, lone fisher! stout woodman, come home! 
Let smith leave his anvil and weaver his loom, 
And hamlet and city ring loud with the cry, 
“ For God and our country we’ll fight till we die! 
Here’s welcome to wounding, and combat, and scars, 
And the glory of death—for the Stripes and the Stars!” 
Invincible Banner! the Flag of the Free! 
O, where treads the foot that would falter for thee? 
Or the hands to be folded till triumph is won, 
And the Eagle looks proud, as of old, to the snu? 
Give tears for the parting—a murmur of prayer— 
Then Forward! the fame of our standard to share! 
With welcome to wounding, and combat, aud scars, 
And the glory of death—for the Stripes and the Star*! 
O, God of our Fathers! this Banner most shine 
Where battle is hottest, in warfare divine! 
The cannon has thundered, the bugle has blown— 
We fear not the summons—we fight not alone! 
O, lead us, till wide from the Gulf to the Sea 
The land shall be sacred to Freedom and Thee! 
With love, for oppression; with blessing, for gears— 
One Country—one Banner—the Stripes and the Stars! 
regard for wifcl’or womanly dignity; saw tha\ to 
hold fast her husband’s love, she must do something 
more for him than offer loving words; for, life being 
real and earnest, demands earnest work from all — 
from the delicate wire as well as from the more 
enduring husband. 
On the next morning, a? Edward lifted his cup to 
his lips, he said, with a smile of pleasure: 
“What hue coflee, Martha! I don’t know when 
I have tasted anything so delicious. Your handi¬ 
work, I infer?” 
And Edward looked from bis wife to her mother. 
“No,” replied Mrs. Barton; “it is none of my 
handiwork." 
“But it's mine,” said the young wife, who could 
not keep hack the acknowledgment — her pleasure in 
seeing her husband's pleasure was so great. 
“Yours?” Edward set cown his cup, and looked 
across the table in real surprise. 
“ Yes, mine. I made the coffee this morning.” 
“You did? Well, as 1 said, it is delicious! I 
wouldn’t give this cup of coffee for all the stuff that 
has been made in the house since we entered it.” 
The steak was praised next. 
“ Did you cook this also?” asked the husband. 
“I superintended the work,” was answered. 
“It is only necessary for some people to look at 
thiDgs, and they will come all right," said Edward, 
“aud J shouldn’t wonder, Martha, if you belonged 
to the number.” 
There was a compliment and a reproof in the sen¬ 
tence, and both were felt. 
“Do I need to say another word, my daughter?” 
said Mrs. Barton, when she was alone with Martha 
again. 
“I think no’t, mother,” was answered. “Since 
our talk yesterday 1 have been looking at my place, 
as a young wife, from a new stand-point, and I find 
that I have not understood my duties. But they are 
v ry plain now; and J shall not need another 
reminder. Young girls fall into some strange notions 
about a wife’s condition. They think of it ns some¬ 
thing more ornamental than useful: as invested with 
more queenly dignity than A homely administration 
of service in ihc household. She Is to be loved, ana 
petted, And cared for with untiring devotion and ten¬ 
derness; but caiing for her husband, in the unattrac¬ 
tive usee of a family, in the kitchen, it need be, does 
not enter some imaginations as a thing at all included 
in the relation of husband and wife.” 
“And coldness, irritation, ill-nature, and too often 
alienations, are the consequence,” said Mrs. Barton. 
“You felt a change in your husband. Did not the 
cause present itself?” 
“ Not, until you pointed it out to me.” 
“Can it be possible that you were so blind, my 
daughter?” 
" l was just so blind, mother!” 
“ Do you wonder that Edward was annoyed, at 
time 
“ J wonder that he had so much forbearance,” was 
the reply. “ 1 wonder that he did not speak out 
plainly, and tell me my duty." 
“Yoa might not have understood him,” said Mrs. 
Barton. “ He could not have said all that I have 
said. There would have been the appearance of a 
selfish regard lor his own comfort. Young wives do 
not always understand a husband’s reproving words, 
which are more apt to olind than to enlighten; lor 
they are usually spoken under the Impulses of chafed 
feelings. It is better, therefore, that I should have 
helped you to see clearly in a matter involving so 
many consequences.” 
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Tears began to fall over the young wife s cheeks. 
“I’m sure,” she said, sobbing, “that I have been 
to him all that I know how to be. If love would 
draw upon me favors and kindness, be would never 
look at me, as he does, sometimes, with cold eyes 
and a clouded face, nor speak, in angry impatience, 
words that hurt me worse than blows.” 
“ But you have not done for him all that you know 
how to do,” said Mrs. Barton. 
“ I fail to comprehend you, mother,” was replied 
to this. 
“You do not make his homo as pleasant as it 
should be. There seems to be no anticipation of his 
wants, and no provision against discomfort. Every¬ 
thing is left to your two servants, who do pretty 
much as they please.” 
“Why, mother!” 
“ It is true, my daughter. I have looked on with 
closely observant eyes, since 1 have been here; and 
must say, that I uni disappointed in you, In every 
case that Edward has shown impatience in my pres¬ 
ence, the source of annoyance lay in your neglect of 
a plain household duty, ’ll was bo this morning; and 
bo yesterday.” 
“He was annoyed at the burnt steak this morning,” 
said Martha, in answer. “That wasn’t my fault, I 
am sure. I’m not the cook.” 
“It Is your place to have a competent cook,” said 
Mrs. Barton. 
“ If I can find one, mother.” 
“The one you have now is not to be trusted to 
prepare a meal.” 
“ I know that: but how can T help myself?” 
“And knowing that, yon never went near the 
kitchen to sec that she did not spoil the steak 
intended for your husband’s breakfast. It might 
have taken you ten or fifteen minutes to superintend, 
personally, ' the preparation of this morning meal, 
and so made it worthy of being set before your hus¬ 
band; but, instead of this, you sat reading or talking, 
from the time you were dressed until the bell rang. 
When we went down, there was no butter on the 
table: no knife and fork to the dish of meat: no sali; 
nor any napkin at your husband's plate. The table¬ 
cloth was soiled, and you scolded the waiter for not 
putting on a clean one. The meal opened in disor¬ 
der, which you might have prevented by a little fore¬ 
thought, and progressed ana ended in annoyance and 
bad feeling. Now, who was to blame for all this?” 
“ But, mother, yon don’t expect me to go into the 
kitchen and cook?” said Martha. 
“The captain who undertakes to sail a ship, must 
know all about navigation. Is It more unreasonable 
to expect that a woman who takes upon herself the 
obligations of a wife, should know how to conduct a 
household? Is a woman less responsible in her posi¬ 
tion than a man? If so, what moral laws give the 
distinction? 1 have not seen them. The captain 
does not trust,the ship wholly to the man at the 
helm. He take's observations, examines charts, and 
sees and knows for himself that everything is done 
at the right time and in the right place. Ill's thought 
and his will arc active and predominant in every part 
of the ship; for on him rests all Iho responsibility. 
And It is so every where in man’s work. You ask if 
I expect you to go into the kitchen and cook? 1 
answer ves, In case there is no one else to prepare 
your husband's food. If you have an incompetent 
cook, or one not to be trusted, then it ia your duty to 
make up her deficiencies by a personal attendance in 
the kitchen just as often and just as long as the case 
may require Y’ou contracted to do this when you 
became a w fe,” 
“ I don’t remember that the subject was even 
referred to,” said Martha, who did not yet see 
clearly; and who felt that her mother’s view of the 
case actually degraded the wife into a household 
drudge. 
“ Was it stipulated,” answered Mrs. Barton, “that 
Edward should engage in business, giving himself 
up to daily care and work, in order to secure for his 
wife the comforts of a home? I don’t remember that 
the subject was even referred to. And yet it was as 
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A YOUNG WIFE’S SORROW. 
by T. 8 . ARTHUR 
“I don’t just like the tone of Martha’s letters,” 
said Mrs. Barton to her husband one day. Martha 
was a daughter who had been married for three or 
four months, and was then living several hundred 
miles away from the town in which her parents 
resided. 
“Nor do I,” was the answer. “ If Edward is, in 
anything, unkind to her, I have been greatly deceived 
in him.” 
“There are peculiarities of character aud tempera¬ 
ment in every one, that only a close intimacy can 
make apparent. And Martha has these as well as 
Edward. It is not improbable that something, 
unseen before, has revealed itself since marriage, 
and stands as a source of irritation hetween them.” 
Mr. Barton sighed. He was very fond of Martha. 
She had been a pet witli him since childhood, and 
this separation, in ooiisoqntMjce of her marriage, was 
a great trial. The thought of her being unhappy 
pained him. 
“ Suppose,” be said, “ that we send for her to come 
home and make us a visit. It is nearly four months 
since she went away.” 
“ J was going to suggest something different.” 
“What?” 
“ A visit to Martha.” 
“That will be out of the question, at least for me,” 
said Mr. Barton. 
“J did not mean,” replied Mrs, Barton, smiling, 
“to include you in the visit.” 
“ Oh, then you propose to take all the pleasure to 
yourself. Now, it strikes me as a better arrangement 
to have Martha pay us u visit. It will do her a 
great deal more good than merely to receive a visit 
from you. She will get back, for a little while, into 
her old home, aud see father and mother both. Aud 
then 1 will come in for a portion of the enjoyment, 
which is to be considered.” 
“ Eve thought of all that,” replied Mrs. Barton. 
“and yet favor the visit to Martha. The reason is 
this. If I go there and stay a week or two, 1 will 
have an opportunity to see how she and Edward are 
getting nlong together. We must live with people, 
you know, to find out all about them. There may be 
some little impe diments to happiness lying right in 
their path, which I may help them to pick up and 
little want of adaptation in the 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 14 letters. 
My 11,10, 9, 7, 8, 6 is a little insect. 
My 12. 13, 6 is what no hoy should become. 
My 6. 13, 12, 10 i» a beautiful flower. 
My 9, 4, 4. I is a wild animal. 
My 8, 4, 9 is a nickname. 
My 14. 2, 12. 4 is a part of the body. 
My 3, 7, 6, 3,10,11 Is the mime of a trade. 
My whole is the name of one now occupying a prominent 
position among our people. 
Watertown, N. Y., 1861. Fred. S. Camp. 
J3f" Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
A BOUQUET OP FLOWERS. 
My 1st is a kind of bird and a color 
My 2d is the head of a plant aud superficial luster. 
My 3d is a small quadruped and a girl’s name. 
My 4th is used in games, an article, aud a pronoun. 
My 6th is a kind of berry and a tree. 
My 6th is a boy’s name, u preposition, and public rates. 
My 7th Isn ruler and social entertainment. 
My Kth is a girl's name, au article, and an adverb. 
My 9th Is a country and a color. 
My 10th is a governess and a kind of flower. 
My 11th Is loftiness of air, a preposition, and an empire. 
My 12th if fulling vapor and any vegetable production. 
Genoa, N. Y., 1861. H. F 
tTsF" Answer in two weeks. 
jet there are some things that they do nut say or 
envy; else why do they not adopt such a desirable 
calling, or bring up their sous to follow it? 
Farmers, unlike those of other professions, neces¬ 
sarily live apart and more or less secluded from each 
other, and from mankind generally; consequently 
social privileges are enjoyed to but a limited extent. 
This gives rise to a dread of going into society. It 
makes the hoys and girls awkward and bashful,—to 
lack the case and assurance which contact with the 
world gives. But few of our country youths can sit 
down and carry on a sober, intelligent conversation, 
for any length of time. Any one can see this who 
has ever attended a young folks evening party in the 
country, where the time is spent in playing foolish 
games. 
Take the farmer’s family at home. Suppose a car¬ 
riage with friends from the town is seen approach¬ 
ing. The children scamper, like a flock of sheep, for 
the garret or woodbouse. The mother glances down 
at her dress, andtakesalookathersell'iii the glass, and 
bustles aronnd nervous and fidgety. The paternal 
head thinks up about the weather, so as to have some¬ 
thing to talk about. 
Well! The visitors arrive, and are hustled off to 
the parlor, aud the mother betakes herself to the 
kitchen till mealtime, leaving the company to take 
care of themselves as best they can without her. 
When the meal is ready, the children appear, but it is 
not till after it is finished that the ice is thoroughly 
broken aud a social feeling prevails. 
Now, this picture is not overdrawn, but has many 
realities. It goes even further in some particulars. 
Some may have shivering recollections, as the writer 
has, of haviug spent an hour in a cold garret, look¬ 
ing over old papers, simply because au Irish pedlar 
happened to call. Then again it is not as bad. There 
are ladies iu farm-houses that can carry themselves 
with as much ease and grace, aud can entertain a 
company as well as their neighbors of the city, who 
are sometimes so stiff in their silks and satins as to 
suggest the idea of a darning-needle stuck in a board. 
This is one disadvantage which the farmer and his 
family labor under. There are others: They often 
live at a considerable distance from the church and 
school-house, and thus are liable to neglect the edu¬ 
cation of the mind and soul. Crops of late are very 
uncertain, the weather, which affects the farmer so 
much, is often fickle, and, to cap the whole, it re¬ 
quires the closest management to make his labor 
remunerative. But why dwell on the dark side; it is 
only made darker by so doing. The other side is 
enough brighter to more than compensate. All that 
is said about the pleasures of farm-life is true, and as 
for the writer, 
A farmer's life is the life for me, 
I own I love it dearly. 
Livonia, N. Y., 1861. C. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
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From this number take two letters, and a woman will b* here 
Pray tell what river this can be, 
And thus unfold the mystery. 
Windham, Ohio, 1861. Milton J. Snow. 
E5T Answer in two weeks. 
Wheeling, V&. 
Salem, N. C. 
Newbery, S. C. 
N orthsm pton, Mass 
New Bedford,"' 
Taunton, 
Fall River, " 
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Gloucester, " 
Salem, 
Worcester. “ 
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ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
cast aside; boiuc 
machinery of their lives, which prevents a movement 
in harmony, that 1 may show them how to adjust.” 
“ I guess you are right, taking that view of the 
case,” said Mr. Barton. 
The visit of Mrs. Barton was made accordingly. 
After the first brief season of gladness that followed 
a meeting with her mother had passed, Martha’s 
countenance showed some lines not written there by 
sweet cunteut. The mother asked no questions, 
however, in the beginning, calculated to draw 
Martha out. She wanted a little time for observa¬ 
tion. The young husbaud was bright, cheerful, 
attentive and fond, as he had appeared to her before 
the wedding day. But on the second morning after 
her arrival, she noticed that be did not talk quite so 
freely as usual at the breakfast tabic, and had some¬ 
thing very much like a cloud over the snnshine of 
his countenance. Martha’s manner was a little 
constrained, also, aud her face a little sober. Once, 
or twice during the meal, Edward exhibited a feel¬ 
ing of annoyance at things not rightly ordered. 
Mrs. Barton was already beginning to 6ee the 
little impediments and obstructions to which she had 
referred in talkiug with her husband. But she did 
not encourage Martha to speak on the subject. 
She wanted to see more and understand the ease 
better. On the third day, the cause of trouble 
between Edward aud Martha — for a discordant 
string was really jarring iu the harmony of their 
lives — became more clearly apparent to the mother. 
The little external restraint which bad been assumed 
at the beginning of her visit by both of the young 
people, was gradually laid aside, and she saw them 
in the real life they were living. 
The basis of the difficulty lay in the total unfitness 
of Martha for the position she had assumed — that 
of housekeeper, we mean. And in consequence, her 
yonng husband, in whose ideal of home perfect order 
had been included, found everything so different 
from his anticipations, that ft graceful acquiescence 
was impossible. 
“ I don’t know what has come over Edward,” said 
Martha to her mother on the morning of the fourth 
day, after her husband had left for his place of busi¬ 
ness. Her eyes were swimming iu tears, for Enw akd 
had spoken hastily, aud with ill nature, at the break¬ 
fast table. “lie used to be so kind, so gentle, so 
considerate of my comfort and feelings. But he 
seems to he growing more impatient aud harsh iu his 
manner every day.” 
“Hft 3 the reason of this never occurred to you?” 
Mrs. Barton’s manner was grave. 
Three men, A, B, and C, agree to dig a ditch for $24.80. 
A and B calculate that they can do four-fifths of the labor; 
A and C teat they can do two-thirds; and B and C that they 
can do three fifths How much should each receive accord¬ 
ing to the estimates? 
Gidley’s Station, Mich., 1861. Wm. H. Mason. 
fgF" Answer in two weeks. 
Waltham, ” 
Lowell, ’ “ 
Lynn. 
Lawrence, " 
Pittsfield, “ 
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Greenfield. “ 
Springfield, " 
Providence, R- I 
E. Greenwich 
Hartford, Com. 
Some Water and Oil 
One day had a broil, 
As down in a glass they were dropping, 
And would not unite, 
But continued to fight, 
Without any prospect of stopping. 
Some Perlash o’erheard— 
As quick as a word, 
He jumped in the midst of the clashing; 
When all three agreed, 
And united with speed, 
And soap was created for washing. 
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Hanover, ’’ 
Claremont, 
Exeter, 
Lacenia, 
Nashua, 
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So. Berwick. Me. 
Saco, " 
Augusta, 
Portland, 
BuCkspiut, 
Rockland, " 
Portsmouth, 
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iB worth two in the afternoon. 
Answer to Magic Square Puzzle: 
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20 8 21 14 2 
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SIMEON BLOOD. 
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