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\ AUTUMN. 
r The soft calm days of autumn once again 
Have brought that lovely, melancholy spell 
Which binds the hearts of thinking, dreaming men 
With that mysterious, lingering ken, 
Which, if it has no ifcture tale to tell, 
May tom into forgotten past, and dwell 
On all its scenes of happiness and pleasure then. 
And while the sun is struggling to diffuse 
Its bright effulgence through the soft dim air, 
It Is not ali within our power to choose 
The many subjects of our thoughts, hut muse— 
In memory freed from every care— 
In thought to wander—scarcely knowing where, 
While subject to this changing, mystic, Autumn ruse. 
Who has not strolled along some sylvan Btream, 
To hear the gentle whispering of the ride, 
When leaves were falling through the suu’s pale beam, 
And watched alone till all was like a dream ? 
And in that dream how many to our side 
Have come again, with gentle words to chide. 
By saying, “Ah I how cold we all, in absence, seem !” 
How oft I’ve asked the futnre if ’twore mine 
To live so good, so upright, and bo pure, 
That, when this life was sinking in decline, 
The light of Heaven would as softly shine 
As this to-day, and calmly thus allure 
The chastened soul to realms that shall endure: 
Where all is like the Clod who made it—all divine. 
[Evening Post. 
heart run out to meet the semblance of love evenings,” she 
elsewhere, even though the object be an un- thank my stars 
worthy one? town nights, br 
Lieutenant Frank Ellerton was a young alike. I don’t t 
officer, a resident oi a neighboring town, but any further thai 
stationed, for the purpose of recruiting for his dark. Dear me 
regiment, in this Ohio village and its vicinity. I am afraid I e 
As Ursula swept and dusted the parlor, with though she is ne 
the tears dropping on her hands, she thought of —a flush of ma 
their meeting, and all the circumstances of while little Ali 
their subsequent acquaintance. She had only out at the dark 
known him three months; yet it now seemed ventured, 
that every throb of her foolish little heart was Ursula hurrii 
an echo to his name. “ How can I ever give and yet tbankfu 
him up ?” she asked herself, startled suddenly She had only o 
into the question, and gasping at the very being discovered 
thought. O 6he was sure 
“ Shoe ’tring all knotty, ’Sula pleaded her through fire to 
baby sister, Allie, clinging to her skirts with elded in her acti 
lispiDg earnestness. would swallow x 
“Go away I” priety. “Thee 
The mother’s angry impatience had wrought wiser, and pro 
a like spirit in her daughter. The mire in the Ursula Darmn 
fountain-head had mixed with all its waters. She stood alo 
The child’s little month quivered — it was a werc on the 6tre< 
evenings,” she idded to herself. “I used to 
thank my stars that I had no boys to run about 
town nights, bu) all children are troublesome 
alike. I don’t tljnk Ursula would venture out 
any further than to call on her cousin, after 
dark. Dear me !j 6be is & strange, willful child. 
I am afraid I sliall set trouble with her; al¬ 
though she is not a dauglter to be ashamed of,” 
— a flush of maternal pride crossing her face, 
while little Allie parted the curtains to look 
out at the darkness into which her sister had 
ventured. 
Ursula hurried down the street, shuddering 
and yet thankful fir the blackness of the night. 
She had only ouf thought, one fear,— that of 
berng discovered. “World Frank be there?” 
O she was sure jhu would! She would wade 
through fire to sje him, now that she had de¬ 
cided in her actum! And the bliss of meeting 
would swallow up all mlior feelings about pro¬ 
priety. “ The end sanctifies the means," and 
wiser, and professedly better mortals than 
Ursula Darling have pleaded this argument. 
She stood aloae on the comer. Not many 
werc on the streets that light; but she shrank 
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mouth like Vrsula’s — and she went hobbling farther into the shadow ol the buildings at every 
off with one shoe on, and the other, whose sound. So long! 0 was he never coming? Had 
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Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ONE INNER LIFE. 
BY MART HARTWELL. 
Ursula Darling sat at her writing desk in 
the silence of her own room. Her pen slid 
waveringly along the lines, in trembling fiDgers, 
and her hazel eyes were black and pitiful rvith 
pain. Do not imagine you are going to have a 
heroine painted to you. She was only a young 
girl, in her sixteenth year or thereabouts, and 
she was writing just such words in her diary as 
you have perhaps written in yours at sometime, 
my sister-woman, or just such as you have often 
thought, if you did not write them. Her mouth 
was tremulous, aud it was a pretty mouth, 
made touchingly sweet by the expression it now 
wore. She was called pretty. Some people, 
who looked only on the clear, oval face, regularly 
featured, framed in dark, rich hands of hair, aud 
made childishly winning by the tempting little 
mouth with its two rows of milky teeth, ren¬ 
dered 6uch a verdict; whieh verdict was en¬ 
dorsed by those whose deeper eyes saw, through 
all these, the rich material of mind and soul 
that 6he possessed. 
She was making this entry: 
“ July IWu —What shall I do, oh ! heart of 
mine! what shall I do! I have just received a 
note from Frank, requesting a meeting to¬ 
night. He will be at the post-office corner 
about half-past six, and I am to join him there. 
He knows mother docs not wish me to accept 
his attentions, although I never told him 60 . 
Oh! how can I help it ? He may not be perfect 
— none of us are, aud I least of all; but he is so 
manly and bewitching. I know he cares for me, 
(my cheeks are blaring while I write it,) for 
glance and touch, and my own woman’s instinct 
tell me so. And I tried to conquer myself after 
mother told me she was displeased with me for 
encouraging his advances. As if I could help 
the fluttering of heart and pulse, and the thrill 
his glance 6ends through me! If she would 
only pity and help me, perhaps 1 could obey 
her; but she has no tenderness In her. Oh! if 
I had somebody to advise me—to tell toe what to 
do! 'Will it be right for me to fulfill his re¬ 
quest?—will it be lady-like aud proper? How 
can I let him go away without seeing me ?—and 
he says he is to return to his regiment next 
week. Oh ! what shall I do! what shall I do ?” 
She pushed the book away, aud covered it up 
with a pile of newspapers, lor a footstep sound¬ 
ed on the stairs. 0, American mother I—what 
a reproach to your maternity, when a daughter 
hides her heart-secrets from your eye! 
Mrs. Darling came into the room with an 
angry expression on her countenance. You 
could see at once why her daughter did not 
string was knotted, in hand. 
“ Come hack, Allie !” 
The girl’s better nature prevailed, and she 
took the little one up in her arms with. kisses 
and tender words, and 600 n dispelled her trouble 
She felt better after this; her own pain seemed 
lessoned, she knew not why. 
URSULA riettw Bert yd to learn lessons of 
patience and self-denial before she could folly 
conquer her selfishness. She was no heroine, 
but only a weak mortal like you or me, and a 
very young and sorely tempted one at that. All 
that day was a period of doubt and misery to 
her. In the afternoon, while her father was at 
his store, and her mother was calling on a neigh¬ 
bor, she hid herself iu her own room again. 
Leaning with her head against the window ledge, 
she sat for a long time with her eyes fixed in a 
dreamy stare. “Idling,” her mother would 
have said. O thoughtless lips, how can the 
hands lint, lie nseless, when heart and reason arc 
striving 60 ! Half unconsciously she reached 
her arm toward the table, and took up a little 
volume of “ Moore’s Poems.” Turning the leaves 
listlessly her eyes fell on those lines: 
“ Then fare-thec-woll! my own dear love; 
This world has now for us 
>"o greater grief, no pain above 
The paip of parting thus, dear love I the pain of 
parting thnst" 
Was it an omen ? She closed the book to shut 
from her sight a poem that Bhc had always be¬ 
fore thought so tender and pathetic. Her heart 
turned to its burden agaiu; “Oh! what shall I 
do! what shall I do?” Such struggles as were 
lacerating that girl’s heart the angels weep to 
see! 
Such natures as Ursula Darling’s, love 
strongly,'even an unworthy object. And when 
that love is countermanded and opposed, it 
develops into a passion. Her mother might 
signify disapproval of her intimacy with Frank 
Ellebton, but that only made the dream more 
precious; because it was forbidden and so hope¬ 
less. We all have this propensity, transmitted 
from mother Eve, and some possess it in a ter¬ 
rible degree. 
They had both done wrong. Mrs. Darling 
had told her daughter in a cool, decided tone, 
that Frank Ellbbton’s calls must cease; for 
she had been informed on reliable authority, 
that he was a loose character, and a confirmed 
gambler, although an officer in the Federal ser¬ 
vice. She never heeded whether her child was 
hurt by her words, or whether the susceptible 
young nature had received as yet any strong 
impressions. 
The girl had done wrong to let the dream 
overpower her so,— to paint her hero in such 
impossible colors. She should have been strug¬ 
gling to yield obedience to her parents. But 
she was of a liner, deeper nature than her 
mother; the elements of their characters were 
almost opposites, aud they clashed frequently. 
Ursula Darling was intensely pat nolle. She 
loved her Country and Its Government, jnst as 
strongly as an American girl can. Was It any 
more than natural, then, for her to be fascinated 
by a chivalrous young cavalier, who was over- 
lie deceived her V What had she done, coming 
here all alone, poor rasl child! She clasped 
her hands, looking up it the inky skies and 
prayed —prayed selfishly and passionately, with 
energetic despair. A footstep sounded along 
Vho pavement at a distance. She listened eager¬ 
ly- was coming —she had been early; the 
step wa» <]uick and elastic, like his. She 
^'-rained her eyes to define the approaching 
orm, ue ii.. Meekness enveloped it. She 
sprang out Iroui 
fondle dallying and co, cor 1 , lWry The w - md 
surged up the street, bringing with it iiuie pat¬ 
ters of cold raiu, but she hardly felt its chill! 
Her shawl had fallen to her shoulders, and her 
uncovered head and muffied figure were dimly 
defined in the darkness. [To be continued. 
—---»•» 4 -- 
The Soul of Flowers. — Poetry Las given 
the title to the living breath of fragrant blos¬ 
soms, and this floral soul — ibis quintessence of 
olfactory luxuries —exists, in its full perfection, 
in Pbalou’s “ Night-Blooming Cereus.” Sold 
everywhere. 
€atm fun; fffiitwj. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 27 letters. 
My 10,13, 4 Is what a boy is sometimes called. 
My 3, 21, 2G, 2, G is a girl’s name. 
My 1, 5, 20 js ft drink, 
My 26, 8, 27,18,18, IS. 6 is an animal. 
My ll, 17.24 is a luminous body. 
My 4, 8,14,15 is used by girl’s. 
My 22,0,4,16, 8,21 is a river in New York. 
My 21, 23, 7,12 is a kjnd of plant. 
My whole is a pro \Urb. 
Java, N. Y. Belle Willoughby. 
Answer in two weeks. 
MATHEMATICAL PEOBLEM. 
A man bought a farm for four thousand dollars, pay¬ 
able in one, two, three and fonr years, with simple In¬ 
terest. He wishes to know how he shall divide the 
notes for the purchase money, so that when paid the 
principal and interest shall make even amounts ? 
£55“ Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGEAM. 
Twah si amn, 
Fi shi ehfei odgo, nad tmeakr fo ish etmi, 
Eb ubt ot psele dna dfee ? A these, on rmeo. 
Hseu, eh, tath emda su hwti esnh e-aglr edsirsuco, 
Gonliok ebreof dan earft, vgea sn tuo 
Atht yctaiplaib nda koegidl nroesa 
Ot sftu ni sn dnensu. a. d. r. y. 
Enon Valley, Pa. 
DT Answer in two weeks. 
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think of making her a confidante. She was of flowing with such burning patriotism, aud wore 
that repulsive type of women, austere even in the “ shoulder-straps" of an officer in her coun- 
the affections, who reduce everything to rule try’s service? 
and system, and let the overshadowing part of “He would not ask me to do anything im- 
their character repel you from seeking their proper,” she reasoned; “it would he only a 
finer qualities. promenade. But the nights are so dark now. 
“ I declare, Ursula I" she burst out; “if you U if the moon only shone! And how shall I 
ain’t sitting here peeling your finger-nails, in- £ ct aw8 Y ? Mother thinks it wrong for young 
stead of sweeping the parlor! What do you gid’sto go out, unattended, after dark. I might 
expect to come to ? When I was of your age I ^ er 1 was tfotog fo run across the streets to 
never got time to idle as you do. lt’6 shameful, Milly’.s a little while, bat I will not lie! Would 
the wny you’ve acted lately! Seems to rne you ^ 1,13 disobeying “F mother to meet Frank? 
get lazier every day! Go right along to your Would it be wrong and imprudent?” 
"work l” She would not look at it in the light of steal- 
UrSULA was used to fault-finding, but this re- ing off to a clandestine meeting with a man 
proof stung her more sharply than usual. Her whose attentions parental authority bad forbid- 
feelings were sore enough without this thrust, den. It would have startled her to think so. It 
Could not that mother read her child better? would have shaken her faith in the one who re- 
Couid she not discern the girlish trouble in her quiredit. But If some clear-sighted friend had 
eyas ? If she had gone gently to the poor you ng told her, gently but firmly, that she was about 
thing, and, drawing her bead against her breast, to commit a great error, Ursula Darling 
asked tenderly; — “ What troubles you, my would have been Convinced, and have striven to 
daughter?—tell me what is the matter!”—what do what was right. 
a balm and relief it would have been to Ursula By tea-time her unnatural excitement had 
Darling 1 And would she have forfeited her risen into a high fever. She was nervous and 
dignity by so doing, think you, American moth- weak, and without appetite. After Bridget 
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