crochet for coveted ornaments for her own par¬ 
lor table; and Mrs. Marshall chatted about her 
dairy and poultry, and gave a long history ofher 
soldier son, who had passed through the siege ol 
Vicksburg without even a scratch. While Mr. 
Marshall was doing chores, and tiis wife and 
daughters preparing ten, Mr. Crawford stood np, 
and, with a low whistle, tried the strength of the 
mantel, and turned aside the curtains to see the 
nicety of the window joints, and declared to his 
wife, sotto ivcc, that, his parlor was finished off 
fifty per cent, better than Marshall’s; and &be, 
following her husband's example, pried under 
the carpet and discovered it was not real Brus¬ 
sels ; and there was no book on their table, if 
they did have so many knick-knacks, that, was as 
elegant as their “History of the Rebellion.” 
After the tea, that did much honor to the host¬ 
ess, was over, all parties gathered again into the 
parlor, and so pleasantly were the moments oc¬ 
cupied, that the hour of eleven rang out loud 
and clear from the dining-room clock before one 
of the company was ready to separate for the 
night. Mrs, Crawford shivered with the cold as 
she passed out of the warm parlor into the cold 
hall, and up the stairs to the spare chamber, and 
her teeth feirty chattered as sue crept between 
the cotton Bbcets, that had been gathering damp¬ 
ness for the last four weeks over the best bed, 
and as hour after hour dragged by before she 
could get warm enough to close her eyes in 
sleep, she mentally promised, for the tenth time, 
that if her spare bed must be kept ready made 
for visitors, she w ould undo it aed air the sheets 
before company should be thrown into them to 
suffer as If in an ague lit. 
Morning found Airs. Crawford with a dull pain 
in her head, and a sharp ono in her Bide, and 
though she tried to chat with a pleasant smile at 
the breakfast table, and felt really grateful to her 
friends for their kind urging to have her spend 
the day, yet beneath all was the one longing de¬ 
sire to curl np on the lounge at home close by 
the stove, and warm herself with a hot cup of 
ginger tea, and see if she could not sleep off the 
pain that now came with respiration, as if each 
breath was a sharp-edged knife. 
It was noon before they reached home, and 
Mrs. Crawford’s lips were so blue with the cold 
that her husband was frightened, and only stop¬ 
ped to throw a blanket over his heated beast, be¬ 
fore he filled the stove with kindlings and dry 
wood, and had a tea-kettle on, and his wife cov¬ 
ered deep with comforters on the lounge close 
by the fire.—(Concluded on page 113, this No. 
skeleton of the large house must he raised, then 
the roof covered, lloors laid, and doors made, 
and the thousand and one separate things done, 
that build up a goodly mansion. June came 
with its enervating days ere the floors were laid, 
and the cooking in the sultry kitchen, with the 
constant noise of the hammering in her ears, and 
the care of providing not only wholesome, but 
nice food—for Mrs. Crawford was one who 
prided herself upon her table, told upon her 
strength, hut ueither husband nor wife thought 
for a moment of adding to their other expenses, 
the board and wages oi a lured girl. It is true, 
after a neighbor of blunt good sense thrust hia 
face inside the door one day and iu his serious, 
drawling way said, “Lydia, don’t work yourself 
to death building a new house, so your husband 
will have to have a new wife too,” the subject 
was talked over rather earnestly. But it seemed 
such an innovation on their, or rather Mr. Craw¬ 
ford’s life, for such a thing as help had not been 
needed since their boy, now fourteen years old, 
was a baby; and then, though he was not a penu¬ 
rious man, yet the cellar had cost so much more 
than if it had been pleasanter weather, and paint 
was higher, and they must save what they could 
to give their boy a start in the world. Couldn’t 
6 he manage it somehow! Give the men more 
potatoes and other vegetables, and not work so 
hard to make cakes and pies. And so the good 
wife—good as the verdict of half the world goes, 
who had never a thought contrary to her hus¬ 
band's wishes and interests, leaned over to hu¬ 
mor the pain in her side, that now canght her so 
often, and with a cheerful smile said the summer 
was more than half gone, and if she could pass 
through the first part without help, she was sure 
she could the last, and she would have all winter 
to rest in, and so the subject was dropped. 
It was one of the last days of November, dull, 
and gray, and stormy, as the one in which our 
story opened, and for the first day in seven 
months, the table was laid for four persons; and 
as the kettle suug aguin upon the stove waiting 
for the entrance of the men, Mrs. Crawford 
leaned over the heap of carpeting piled np under 
the window, and gave the last stitches to a long 
seam. The sixty yards of carpeting were finish¬ 
ed. Enough for the dining-room, the hack 
chamber and two bed-rooms, and made np ready 
to tack down at an early day. The new house 
that night was finished too. Tull and stately in 
proportions, the walls, and celling of the parlor, 
white as snow, and the sitting-room neatly 
grained and papered, and the kitchen opening 
into it, convenient with its low sinks, and cup¬ 
boards, and painted floor, ail wortay of the pa¬ 
tient hands that for long years had worked for 
the funds for its completion. 
“ The next week the furniture must be moved, 
and the carpets tacked down, and the old house 
moved away," talked Mr! Crawford to his wife, 
as she, almost for the first time since early 
spring, set down by his side with idle hands, aud 
gazed into the coals that sparkled on the heart h. 
“ Well, for ray part, 1 am glad it is over with ; 
and now we can rest and enjoy it, and visit some. 
Are the carpets all ready?" 
“ Yes, to the last stitch.” 
“Well, I would like to see a smarter woman 
than you, Lydia,” and he playfully touched her 
cheek, as he gave the praise so dear to every wo¬ 
man’s heart. “ Six hired men steady all summer 
besides extra ones, aud sixty yards of carpeting. 
Just think of Mrs. Reed! She had a girl, and 
often hired her washing done. Simon Burt was 
telling me about, it, and lie worked there when 
they built their house; and it is over a year now, 
and he has not cleared himself from debt yet, 
and we arc square to-night, ft’s a lucky chance 
that I did not choose her instead of you, as I 
fear I should have done, if your father hadn’t 
moved Into the place in just the right time. 
But where is the newspaper, wife V” and Mr. 
Crawford took it from her hand, and settled 
hack to enjoy St, while she, perhaps more from 
habit than necessity, unrolled her knitting, and 
tried to keep awake by giving herself a stint, as 
her mother used to do for her, when she was a 
child. 
It was a beautiful winter day. Tire sleighing 
excellent, and the air clear and frosty, and brim¬ 
med with the elixir oflife. The trees and bushes 
were full of spangles of ice, lit up by the sun, 
and the snow sparkled bright, as if sifted with 
pearls. 81eigh-bells jingled in ail directions, 
and horses arched their necks, and proudly 
skimmed the beaten roads, as if—for that day 
at least —they were rulers of the pleasure ef 
the world. 
There was nothing for Mr. Crawford to do. 
His house wub built, his wood sawed, aud split, 
and piled in his wood-house, and his cattle were 
watered and fed, and, as he urged his wife, it was 
preposterous to settle down by the stove on such 
ft day, and they must have a sleigh-ride. 
“ Where can we go? I was over home last, 
week,” was questioned, as she paused beside him 
for an answer. 
“Over to Stonehain to see Mr. Marshall. 
That’s just the place, Lydia.” 
“ But we hardly know them. It’s two years 
next March since we have met.” 
“It’s our fault, not theirs! Yon know our 
little tueked-up house looked so mean beside 
their large one, that I could not bear to return 
their visits. But I’d like to have them come 
now,” and no small measure of pride w»as dis- 
cernablc in the look Mr. Crawford east around 
the room. 
He carried the point as usual, and an hour later 
Mrs. Crawford, in noat alapaca dress and velvet 
hood and furs, stepped into the sleigh beside her 
husband, and in the merry Jingling and exhilara¬ 
tion of the. swift drive through the frosty air, 
almost forgot the side, that first from a catching 
spasm, had now settled down into a steady ache 
that never forgot its hold. 
The old friends greeted them with smiles and 
warm shakes of the hand, and a pleasant utter- 
noon was spent in the ample parlor; Elsie Mar¬ 
shall playing for them on the piano, while a 
younger sister taught the visitor a new stitch in 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
IN BLACK. 
BY OLOFFE VOX KOETJ.ANDT 
Drifting with the rapid current 
Down the city’s busy street, 
Here and yonder, quiet figures, 
Rohed iu sombre black, we meet. 
Outward symbol of a shadow 
Clouding thick the wearer’s heart,— 
Piercing days of pleasant snn shine 
With the keen-edged sorrow’s dart. 
Emblem of a broken circle 
Round the hearthstone of their homes, 
Whither some one. worshipped blindly. 
Never more in fondness comes. 
Brother, child, or gentle parent,— 
Sister, maybe,—who above 
Now with eyes of liqnid star-fire 
See Him they learned here to love. 
Shrouded in the deep, drear sadness, 
Only God and they can know. 
Those who’ve heard the battle's whisper 
Telling where their life-loves go. 
Ah, so many in sweet elnmber 
Under grass xe fresh as youth. 
Are awaiting well-earned guerdons— 
Martyrs to Eternal Truth. 
’Mid earth’s scenes of Joy and gladnees, 
Not few arc the darksome hearts. 
Whence the grim and glooming chillness, 
Sorrow-burdened, ne’er departs. 
Vain will Hope, the kindly spirit. 
Woo with whispers of that shore, 
Ne’er disturbed by troubling ronghness- 
They may gain when toil is o’er. 
Tightly, in the God-wrought knotting 
Of this skein or human life, 
Interwoven with each heart-string, 
Are the strands with sadness rife. 
O, our Father t who cans! temper 
Each breath of the chilling blast, 
Some are worn so nigh to breaking— 
Ease the heavy strain at last 1 
BEST FARMING LANDS in the WORLD 
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The attention of persons, whoso limited menus forbid the purchase of a homestead In the older States, is 
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LAND COMMISSIONER, Illinois Central R. R. Co., Chicago, Illinois. 
ME. OEAWFOED’S LESSON 
BY MRS. HARRIET E. FRANCIS. 
It was a dusky, dull April day, gloomier for 
the few bright promising ones that had ushered 
in the month, and Mrs. Crawford drew her chair 
closer to the window, to catch the little light 
that the thick gray clouds were fast hiding in 
an early twilight. There were no sounds in an 
early twilight. There were no sounds in the 
room but the singing of the tea-kettle on the 
stove, and the eliek of the shears as she cut 
stitches, and clipped corners, and tore into strips 
long pieces of doth, for the filling of the sixty 
yards of carpeting, that must be on the floor be¬ 
fore the same dull days came in the fall. The 
snow swept in gusts against the window aud the 
wind pierced through the casing, and with a lit¬ 
tle shiver, and rubbing of tb°- red chilled fingers, 
Mrs. Crawford gathered up the pieces iu aba-;Let 
and set them in the closet, and shaking the dust 
from her apron, she took up the table, and with 
one lift brought it to the center of the room. 
With a little pause she counted aloud, “Mr. 
Crawford and Henry, and Simeon Burt, yes, that 
is three, and four extra hands for the cellar, and 
myself, why, that is eight! What a family! I 
am afraid there are not cakes enough, and I fried 
twopansfnl yesterday!” and with a little sigh 
she questioned, “How can I do all this work 
through the hot summer months? but I must 
not stop to think about itand pausing but a 
moment to sec if the table set square with the 
sides of the room, and each corner of the table¬ 
cloth the same number of inches from the fioor, 
she bustled on to the pantry to bring out cold 
meat, and potatoes, and pie, and cheese, and a 
hnge platter of cakes, till the table seemed act¬ 
ually ready to be crushed by their weight. Not 
a moment was to be lost, for it was too dark, 
even out-doors, to see to work, so almost on the 
ran she hurried for the forgotten castor and 
cream cup, and just as the hissing um sent an 
aromatic fragrance through the room, a shuffling 
of feet w as heard in the wood-house, and the 
seven workers, their shoes fresh from the mud 
of the cellar poured into the room. 
There was not much but empty dishes to car- 
ryjaway from the table, and as the last workman, 
who had lingered a moment to chat with the 
master of the house, closed the door behind him, 
Mrs. Crawford poured hot water over the piled- 
up dishes, and with afresh towel wiped the set, 
then carried them away for the early breakfast. 
Ere the floor was brushed up, Mr. Crawford had 
settled back in the high-backed rocking-eh air, 
and with a newspaper still spread out in his 
hands, was nodding away, his body fast recuper¬ 
ating for the next day’s labor. Not more than 
Jive minutes his wife held her feet to the open 
grate, and taking the paper from his relaxed 
grasp she glanced it uver, and then threw it 
down, and brought out a pan of apples to pare 
for pies the next morning, and another dish full 
of potatoes to peel for breakfast, and the last 
hour before bed-time was filled np with work 
over the basket of carpet rags, until her hands 
ached ns if held in a vice from the pressure of 
the shears. 
The cellar for the new house progressed slow¬ 
ly. The walk from the back door led by it, and 
each day covered it with new layers of soft mud, 
as sudden showers drove the workmen out of 
it to the. house for shelter. The neat house¬ 
keeper tore up the carpet in despair, the second 
week of their labor, and bent her shoulders over 
the mop each day, until she almost wished the 
new house a thing—ns it so long had been — of 
the future. But the rain could not come down 
forever, and at. last the sky cleared off, and a 
week of pleasant weather finished np the wall, 
then the underpinning, and the heavy timbers 
that were to support the lighter framework were 
placed upon them.T Bu t this* brought. no r educ- 
lioiTofn umbers to Mr. Crawford’s table, lor the 
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and hence charge 25 cent* tot cacti change Of address. 
Direct to Rochester, N. V.—Peirons having occa¬ 
sion to address the Rural New Yorker will please 
direct to SochUSter, N. Y., anil not as many do, to New 
York, Albany, Buffalo, *c. Money letters Intended for 
us are almost dally mailed to the above places. 
ANSWERS TJ ENIGMAS, &c„ IN No. 792, 
Answer to Illustrated RebusIndigence and pen¬ 
ury onglit not toembark on the eea of matrimony. 
Answer to MifcllancmiB EnigmaMy yoke is easy 
and my burden I light. 
Answer to An]gram: 
Dear, coy mquette! lint once we met, 
But onct, and yct-’Dvas once too often! 
Plunged mm wares In silvery snares 
All vuLnjmy prayers her heart to eoften. 
Yet seemal so true ber oyefi of blue, 
Veined l ie nntl longest lashes tinder, 
Good angd* dwelt within, I felt, 
And eoull have knelt in reverent wonder. 
Answer to Matiematical Problem$1,61. 
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Philadelphia by the Cape May UR., at f20 to 125 per acre, 
V down, balance In rour year*. A line growfli or young 
timber with the land at the above price*. A fine stream 
with exeeUenl water power 1 mining through the center. 
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