“Mr. Graves, will you keep my secret?” she 
asked, tremulously. 
“ As sacredly us if it were my own.” 
She knew by the sympathetic and re-assuring 
clasp of his hand that 6hc could trust him. He 
was a family friend, somewhat bachelor-like in 
his habits, scholarly and reserved. Ursula had 
always been a little afraid of him, for ho was a 
handsome, strong-built, really noble man, and 
60 wise end intelligent that she felt very insig. 
nificant in his eyes. He had come to F.imsford 
two years before, and opened a iaw office, and 
was called a very able man 
would censure my foolishness sharper than ever 
before. Hut if this is nonsense, let me forever 
bid adieu to wisdom, and treasure this precious 
little flower, whose new fragrance begins to 
sweeten iny life. What am I saying! O if I 
had somebody to counsel and advise me!” 
flower ” was dead! She turned 
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Sooner or later the storm shall beat 
Over my slumber from head to feet; 
Sooner or later the winds shall rave 
In the long grass above my grave. 
I shall not heed them where I lie, 
Nothing their Bound shall signify, 
Nothing the headstone’B fret of rain, 
Nothing to me the dark day’s pain. 
Sooner or later the sun shall shine 
With tender warmth on that mound of mine, 
Sooner or later in Summer air, 
Clover and violet blossom there. 
I shall not feel in that deep-laid rest, 
The sheeted light fall over my breast; 
Nor ever note in thoBo hidden hours 
The wind-blown breath of the tossing flowers, 
Sooner or later the stainless snows 
Shall add their hush to my mute repose ; 
Sooner or later ehall elant and shift, 
And heap my bed with their dazzling drift. 
Chill though that frozen pall shall seem, 
Its touch no colder can make the dream 
That recks not the sweet and sacred dread 
Shrouding the city of the dead. 
Sooner or later the bee shall come 
And All the noon with his golden hum ; 
Sooner or later, on half-poised wing, 
The bluebird's warble about me ring,— 
King and chirrup and whistle with glee,— 
Nothing his music means to me;; 
None of these beautiful thinge shall know 
How soundly their lover sleeps below. 
Sooner or Jater, far ont in the night, 
The stars shall over me wing their flight ; 
Sooner or later tny darkling dews 
Catch the white spark in their silent ooze. 
Never a ray shall part the gloom 
That wraps me round In the kindly tomb; 
Peace shall be perfect for lip and brow 
Sooner or later—Oh! why not now 1 
[Atlantic Monthly for October 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
And now her 
from the past to the present with sudden, stun¬ 
ning rapidity. No, not dead. It still writhed, 
transformed into a tiery serpent, to sting her for 
all time to conic! 
We are none of us strong. This girl was only 
a sixteen-year-old mortal, and her temptation 
had been a sore one. More depraved sinners 
kneel daily at the Footstool, yet censure their 
weaker brethren. 
Ursula was surprised to hear next morning, 
at the breakfast table, that Mr. Graves had 
raised a volunteer company for the service, and 
was to lend It away as Its captain In a few days. 
“lam sorry to part with Graves,” said her 
father. “ lie is one of our best men, and a vig¬ 
orous, sterling character. He intends calling on 
ub again before he leaves.” . 
The girl was too much occupied with her own 
trouble to heed aught else, but she too was sorry 
he was to leave them; for she owed him a debt 
of gratitude she felt it impossible to pay, and 
she liked and comprehended him better than 
formerly. 
He called, and spent a long, pleasant evening 
with them. Even pale, silent Ursula experi¬ 
enced some satisfaction from it. His eyes told 
1 am composed of SI letters. 
My 21, 7, 9, C is a fruit. 
My 19, 2,17, 23, 21 is an animal. 
My 14, a, 9,21 is a gathering. 
My 8,5, 6,24 ,15 is a migratory band. 
My 4, 9,1 is a rug. 
My 20,22, 11 ,34 is a boy's name. 
My 21, 16,13,12 Is a dish. 
My 1(1, 3,10,18 is not more. 
My whole is an old and true saying. 
Do Rnyter, N. Y. Alida H. Benjamin 
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As for his ngc (she 
had a passion for ascertaining ages,) she could 
never make ont exactly how old he was; but he 
must have been about twenty-eight, or thirty 
very old it appeared to her t hen. His penetra¬ 
tion and kindliness were too keen to force her 
into conversation, and they passed silently into 
the house. 
Mrs. Darung forgot to chide Ursula for go¬ 
ing off without saying a word, in her genuine 
pleasure at seeing Mr. Graves. 
Her father coming in soon after, Ursula ex¬ 
cused herself by pleading a headache, and slip¬ 
ped away to her room. 
Sinking to lier kuees, she laid herself prone 
on the floor and sobbed in uncontrollable 
anguish. 
Do not censure her too sorely, O world-wise 
women l who imagine that your own well-train¬ 
ed daughters would never be guilty of like nils- i 
Only be careful, while cultivating 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
AN ANAGRAM. 
SyuoxcET si runs—lain ot het tares, 
Rewh heyt liwl vacw nl morseed’F stab), 
Eth “srats nnd Bplrtes,” dna twierta salt 
Ni dowrs fo boldo, atth lal yam ese 
Ve’cw adh a sourligo toycriv 1 
Tneeconq si sour. 
Jackson, Mich. “Frank 
t3t~ Answer in two weeke. • 
A RIDDLE, 
demeanors. 
their heads, that you do not forget the heart¬ 
training. 
By and by the girl rose and walked the floor, 
with flashing eyes, and mouth drawn into one 
firm line. Her idol was crushed —all shattered. 
She wondered that she had never before discov¬ 
ered bis coarseness. Poor, blind littl c d reamer 1 
she had so covered it up with imaginary attri¬ 
butes of goodness and manlluess, that she had 
never known the real Fra nk ElubrtoN at all. 
She was weak and feverish. She went to the 
table, and half unconsciously, as before, took up 
the volume of poems. Her eyes fell on that 
poem, and the sobs burst out again. Turning 
the leaves quickly to hide it from her sight, she 
paused with her finger on one she had hardly 
ever heeded before. 
“ There's nothing tme but Heaven!’’ 
She repeated it to herself again and again. 
“ But Heaven Is 60 far away! I never can reach 
it! O Heaven is so far away !” She turned au- 
Mt number, definite and known, 
Is ten times ten, told ten times o'er; 
Though half of me is one alone, 
And half exceeds all count and score, 
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ANSWER TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 819, 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem80 cows,—since 
It requires 2 2 5 cows continually to eat the grass that 
grows upon one acre, and 8 cows will eat one acre 
per week. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Queen Victoria. 
Answer to Anagram: 
I sometimes dream their pleasant smiles 
Still on me sweetly fall. 
Their tones of love I faintly hear 
My name to sadness call. 
WrltteB for Moore’* Rural New-Yorker. 
MOOEE’S EUEAL NEW-Y0EKEE, 
TUB LMlOKST-en:Ce LATINO 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper 
is rvni.tamn jcvkjit Saturday 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
BY MARY HARTWELL. 
[Continued from page 324, last number.] 
“Miss Ursula, is this you ?” 
The gentleman spoke just in time to arrest 
the name her lips were flinging out. 
“ H is, Mr. Graves;” and the girl grew heart¬ 
sick as she spoke. 
“Are you unattended? My child, this is a 
dark night.” 
“Yes, it’s very dark,” she responded drearily. 
“ Have you lost anything ? I will go and get 
a lantern to search with.” 
“No, no!” she burst out vehemently;” you 
shall not take that tremble. 11 ft docs non mat¬ 
ter—I cannot find it to-night —I will go 
home!” 
“ Then you will accept my escort, and pardon 
me for rueddiiug, if I have done so. I cannot 
see you out aloue. I was going to call at your 
house this evening.” 
He drew her hand upon his arm and they 
passed into the shadow of the buildings on their 
way. 
A sudden step rung along the walk. She 
knew who was coming, and he would not meet 
her. The door of a low saloon opened just as 
he was opposite it, and a broad stream of light 
fell over him. But she hardly needed the evi¬ 
dence of her eyes to know it was Frank. 
“ Hallo! Ellerton, is that you ?” the figure 
oi a man issued from the door, which closed 
after him. 
“ I guess it is,” was the rather cool reply. 
“Are you looking for anybody particular ? If 
you are, I’m the man.” 
“ But you ain’t the woman /” said Frank in a 
surly tone. 
“Got an engagement out, eh ?” 
“Yes, on this street corner.” 
He was vexed that his request had been disre¬ 
garded, and was venting his spleen in a very un¬ 
manly way. 
“ Who do you suppose would race out this 
dark night to see you ?” 
“That’s my own business.” 
“ I bet, a dollar it’s 8c Darling ! You must 
think she’B over-fond of you. Darned pretty 
girl, ain’t she?—only has a mighty good opinion 
of herself! But the old folks have kept too 
strict, a watch over your bird I” 
Lieut. Frank Ei.lerton, getting irate, here- , 
upon broke out into a string of oaths and im¬ 
precations on all girls and parents in general — . 
- such curses as froze Ursula's heart with terror . 
t and agony. 
“ How you can lling the cuss-words around!” 
exeliumed his friend with a coarse, loud laugh, 
that ended in a whoop and yell, sending the i 
echoes bounding awny into the darkness. “ Now 
after that, let’s go and have come brandy and - 
cigars, and a game of ‘ seven-up.’ When do you , 
leave ?” 
Their footsteps echoed along the pavement, g 
and Lieutenant Ellkrton’b reply was lost in i 
the opening and closing of a door. f 
Ursula Darling clasped the arm she clung i 
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its anguish; for such girls as Ursula Darling 
love with dangerously strong passion in their 
first young dreams. It would cost a revolution 
of her whole being to cast it out. Ho she turned 
the leaves of her diary, and read over the records 
of other days. One was dated “ April 5th,” and 
the entry was like to this: 
“Milly and I went shopping and calling to¬ 
day. She is a good-natured cousin, or she 
would have trot vexed at me for ridiculing her 
taste in colors. Alter all our colls were made, 
HUMOROUS SCRAPS, 
Bread lias been called tho staff ol' life, and yet 
how seldom we see people Ran upon it. 
It is told of a Connecticut field officer, better 
acquainted with farming than soldiering, that 
when clrcumstnuces placed him in command of 
his regiment at Ilatteras, he wished to oblique 
his line in marching, aud gave the order, “ Iiaw 
around that mud puddle.” 
Dr. adam Smith, hearing his servant com¬ 
plain of a pain in ids back, said to him, “The 
pain, John, is not in your back—it is in your 
mind.” “ 
BEST FARMING LANDS in the WORLD 
FOU 8ALK BY THE 
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In Tracts to suit Purchasers, AT SLOW PRICES. 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY II WE FOR RALE, 
900,000 ACRES of the best Fanning Lands in the Country. 
Deed, sir,” replied John, “gif ye’ll 
talc it out o’my back and pit in my mind, I’ue be 
singularly obleeged to ye.” 
An English baronet, who died not many years 
ago, being on one occasion found Beated iu his 
arm-chair alone, with three empty bottles before 
him, was asked, “ What! have you finished all 
that port without assistance?” “ No,” said he, 
“not quite so, certainly; I had the assistance 
of a bottle of Madeira.” 
Fuseli, a celebrated painter, was very sarcas¬ 
tic in criticising the productions of other artists. 
Northcoatc asked him to look at his painting of 
the angel meeting Balaam and his ass. 
“ How do you like it? ” said Northcoatc. 
“ Vastly,” replied Fused. “ You are an angel 
at au ass, but an ass at an angel.” 
A French writer concludes au account of Ills 
shipwreck in these words: - “Having arrived 
at an unknown region, I traveled eleven hours 
without discovering the least trace of any human 
being. At. last I perceived, to my great joy, a 
wretch suspended on a gibbet. 1 Ah ! ’ I ex¬ 
claimed, 'I am now in a civilized country,”’ 
An editor and his wife were walking out in the 
bright moonlight one evening. Like all editors’ 
wives, she was of an exceedingly poetic nature, 
aud said to her mate, “ Notice that moon ; how 
bright, and calm, and beautiful! ” “Couldn’t 
think of noticing it,” returned the editor, “for 
anything less than tho usual rates— a dollar and I 
wheat, 100,696,823 bushels; oats, 176,090,004 bushel. ; of which ibo farms of Illinois yielded 188,300,135 bushels 
of Indian corn; 33,371,173 bushels of wheat; ami 24,273,761 bushels of oats—In reality more than one fourth of 
the corn, more than one-fifth of the wheal, and utmost one seventh of I he oats produced iu all tho United States. 
Grain—Stock Raising. 
Pre-eminently the first In tho lot of praln-osporting Plates, Illinois is also tlm great cattle Plato of (ho 
Union. Its fertlloprairies are well adapted hy nature to the raising of cattle, sheep, horses uml mules; ami hi 
the important Interest of pork packing, It Is far In advance of every other State. Tho Seeding of these prairie 
lands to tame grasses for pasturage or Imy, offers to formers with capital (he most profitable results. The 
I hay crop or Illinois in 1804 is estimated at 2,100,725 tons, which is more than half a million mns larger than tho 
crop of any other State, excepting only Now York. 
Inducements to Settlers. 
The attention of persons, whoso limited means forbid the purchase of a hmnesload iu Iho older States, is 
particularly Invited to those lands. Within ten years the Illinois Central Railroad Company has sold 1,400,000 
aorcB, to more than 20,009 actual settlors: amt during the last year 264,422 acres—a larger aggregate of sales 
than in any one year since the opening of the road. Tim farms are sold Iu tracts of forty or eighty acres, 
suited to tho settler w,th limited capital, or lu larger tracts, us may bo required by the capitalist aud stock 
ralsor. The soil is of unsurpassed fortuity j tlm climate is healthy ; taxes are low ; churches and schools 
nro becoming abundant throughout the length ami breadth of the Plate ; aud communication with all the great 
markets is uiado easy through railroads, canals and rivers. 
PRICES AND TERMS OP PAYMENT. 
Tho price of lands varies from *9 to *16 and upwards per acre, atul they are sold on short credit, or for 
cash. A deduction of ten per cent, ft am tho short credit price is made to those who buy for cash. 
EX A 1ST 1* L K : 
Forty acres at 319 per acre, on credit; the principal uuc-quartcr cash down—balance one, two aud throo 
years, at tsix per cent. Interest, iu advance, each year. 
I’KrWCISAI.. IXTKRKST. PRINCIPAL. 
C*»h Payment.tis 00 *100 oO I I’.iymon!. Ill two vosrs,.. . *« »U us) 00 
I’uguinitIn out) rear.14 00 100 00 | «• Itiruo year*,,... 100 00 
The Nome L,aml may l»o ■■urclintted for lektUO C'anli. 
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oil application, in person or hy letter, to ’ 
LAND COMMISSIONER, Illinois Central R. R. Co., Chicago, Illinois. 
to with a spasmodic «rip. She had heat’d it 
all. llor maidenly delicacy had been outraged, 
and hemdi insulted by the man she had believed 
would die to save her! Least of all, as she 
thought then, she lmd been degraded and ex¬ 
posed in the eyes of Mr. Graves, her father’s 
friend. He umlertflood it all, but. did not speak 
a word; though his wunly bouI was hot with 
indignation against, the. dishonorable man, and 
full of pity and sympathy for the poor, mis¬ 
guided giul beside him. Only once was the 
silence of their walk broken. 
Fair and fashionable Vouug America has 
installed Fhalon’s “ Night-Blooming C’erens ” 
as u Bpeeialty in all its drawing-rooms, dressing- 
rooms and boudoirs. It is well. Beauty should 
breathe a fragrant atmosphere, and Nature, in 
all her bowers, lias no richer perfume than this. 
Hold everywhere. 
