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OGRE’S R¥RAL EEW-YORKER. 
THE SNOW SHOWEE. 
BY WH. Cl.IJ.EK BRYANT. 
t Stand hero by my side and turn, I pray, 
On the lake below thy gentle eyes; 
The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, 
And dark and a lion t the water lies ; 
And out of that, frozen mist the enow 
In waving flakes begins to flow; 
Flake alter flake, 
They sink In the dark and silent lake. 
See, now, in a living swarm they come 
From the chambers beyond that misty veil; 
Some hover awhile In air, and some 
Hash prone from tbc sky like summer hall. 
All dropping swiftly or settling slow 
Meet, and are still in the depth below; 
Flake after flake, 
Dissolved in the dark and silent lake. 
Here delicate snow-stars, out of the cloud 
Come floating downward in airy play, 
Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd 
That whiten hy night the Milky Way: 
There broader and burlier masses fall— 
Tbe sullen water boric* them all; 
Flake after flake, 
All drowned In the dark and silent lake. 
And some, as on tender wings they glide 
From their blrtb-cloud, dim and gray, 
Are joined in their fall, and side by side, 
Come clinging along tbeir unsteady way; 
As friend with friend or husband with wife 
Makes hand In hand the passage of life; 
Each mated flake 
Soon sinks in the dark and silent lake. 
Lo 1 while wc are gazing In swifter haste 
Stream down the snows till tho air Is white, 
As, myriads by myriads, madly chased. 
They fling themselves from the shadowy height. 
The fair frail creatures of middle sky, 
What speed they make with their graves so nigh; 
Flake after Uake, 
To lie in the dark and silent lake. 
I see in some gentle eyes a tear; 
They turn to me In sorrowful thought; 
Thou thinkeet of friends, the good and dear, 
Who were for a time and now' are not— 
Like these lair children of cloud and frost, 
That glisten a moment and then are lost; 
Flake after flake. 
All lost in the dark and silent lake. 
Yet look again, for the clouds divide; 
A gleam of bine on the water lies, 
And far away, on the mountain side, 
A sunbeam falls from the opening skies; 
But the hurrying host that flew between 
The cloud and the water no more iB seen; 
Flake after flake, 
At rest la the dark and silent lake. 
llii JTiffg 
FOUND THE HAT, 
AND FOUND THE HEART. 
Rdbai. life bas always a charm — a romance 
which clings around it, especially to one whose 
childhood was free and happy amid the society 
of brooks and vales and foliage and plea-sing 
rural haunts. Continually will some germ of 
old remembrance uncover Itself from the dust 
and cobwebs of dim recollection, and come up 
fresh, aud possessing an interest, with a kind of 
weirdness of pleasure, causing pangs of severe 
regret that childhood had not always lasted. 
A little stream which formed the outlet of a 
lake embow'crcd among the hills, as if to add 
only the charm of a ray of sunlight to the beauty 
of the landscape, ran, concealed along by the 
alders and flags, the mead and pastures, till at 
lost it crossed the highway and plunged Into a 
thick forest aud w as lost to comprehension. 
One summer day I tired of wonderiDg where 
this trout stream ran to ; for, like the “ brook” 
of Tennyson, there was a poetie romance about 
it which was Irresistible. Tempted by the wild¬ 
ness of the scene, I made a journey to its Bouree 
and wandered along its fringed banks. A slight 
rushing sound, as of distant falling waters, or 
the hastening of the wind through the foliage, 
led me down the gradually steeping declivity 
and by the increasing rugged banks, tow across 
the stream upon a huge suspended log, or pick¬ 
ing my footholds among the rocks which rose 
above the rapid*. 
Over the bed of the stream, as it deepened Into 
the forest, bung the birch and elm, forming a 
continuous shade and vista down which my eye* 
peered with all the admiration of a young poetic 
soul. Here and there a white cascade broke the 
regularity of the descent , aud wound around the 
base ol the jutting hill or rock, growing every 
step more wild, varied and picturesque. 
As the descent grew steeper, the roughness of 
the banka compelled me to leave the shore aud 
clamber around a distance of a few rods, when 1 
again came full upon the stream and beheld the 
pouring waters, the sound of which had grown 
more distinct as 1 approached. Turning sud¬ 
denly to the left around a projecting ledge, the 
stream plunged down a height of a hundred feet 
or niofe into a ravine still more dark and wild, 
and forming a beautiful cascade, which broke in 
spray and sprinkled the mosses and wild flowers 
upon its banks with a delicious coolness. 
Upon the brow of the opposite shore and the 
shelving rocks, the fir and hemlock grew so close 
and dense as to completely shut out all view of 
the scene beyond. Tho vine and gooseberry 
intermingled with the dark gray rocks, while 
over tbc fall the mingling branches of trees 
formed a beautiful gateway from which the white 
cascade darted like a thing of lii'c and fled away 
down the deepening vista. 
At the foot of the fall stood the ruins of an 
old mill, the stones growing over with moss and 
weeds, while a little green plot of grass and wild 
flowers spread out before it, As I clambered 
upon the ruins, lost in the roar of the falling 
waters, and unconscious of outer things, I dis¬ 
covered a pretty summer hat, decorated with rib¬ 
bons and wild flowers, lying partially concealed 
by some overhanging branches, and I suddenly 
recollected having caught an indistinct strain of 
a song as it mingled and seemed lost in the 
sound of tbe waters, so as not to have before 
left a distinct impression upon my car. I lis¬ 
tened and gazed about carefully, »eaching for 
some indication of the lair owner, but to no 
purpose. 
Whether the wearer had noticed me and has¬ 
tened away, fearing to 6tay to claim it, or whether 
some accident might not Lave befallen her, were 
thoughts which engaged my curiosity until near 
the sinking of the evening sunshine into twilight 
The soft air grew eool and balmy, and the fall 
more beautiful in the contrast of the deepening 
shade, but still I waited, thoughtlessly carving a 
device upon a shelving rock, and musing until 
the moon was up and shining, when I wound 
along by tho ravine outward, bearing and admir¬ 
ing the hat, to my yonthfnl fancy tbc embodi¬ 
ment of beauty aud loveliness. I doubted not 
the waving tresses of the flower of sixteen sum¬ 
mers hud often been concealed beneath it. 
Many a year later I strayed again to the thicket 
and the fall, still hidden In the depth* of u larger 
nest. There lay the old millstone, a tree of 
onsiderable size growing through it, and the 
,vild flowcrB and the bramble* w ere thicker and 
:oarser. The nins suddenly called to mind the 
neidents of the former visit, so long before that 
.he precise time wan not recalled ; but before I 
.eft my eye fell upon the following inscription : 
‘‘.June 16, lb-15. Found a hat and lost my 
heart. 6. 8.” 
Just below, cut In a similar style, by the chis¬ 
eling of a piece of quartz, was: 
“ Lost my hat, but found no heart. A. B.” 
I called to my mind my impre»siou of the 
time that the hat was out of style and trimming 
usually worn in the country, and that it was no 
doubt that of a visitor in the locality, who had, 
unattended, strayed to gratify a curiosity for 
romantic scenery, similar to my own, and that, 
rambling away from the locality, had mistaken 
the place where the hat was left. 
It w'bs, In a moment, my full determination to 
discover who was the fair “A B.,” and then lor 
the first time in ray life I seriously thought of 
the idea of choosing a companion to with me 
admire the romance of nature. 
“Yes,” said i, “she could not have come 
here unlCBB tempted by the same fancy, and If the 
germ budding so young bas been cultivated, she 
must be all I could imagine, both in body 
and soul.” 
But the wide world spread out before me, and 
with it a vista of uncounted years, while how 
many times might the fancied “ A. B.” have 
become A--any of the the twenty-six. letters of 
the alphabet, yes, and the & besides.- And I was 
no longer a resident of the country, and she 
might be abroad. 
Tbe meditation was well nigh distracting, and 
the few moments of sleep that night were but 
snatches of wild songs and fairy nymphs just 
eluding my gaze and grasp by the foaming spray. 
To free myself from tbe effect the madness had 
produced, I quickened my departure to a con¬ 
templated tour among the northern hills and 
lakes. The long absence from these scenes had 
a new charm to me, or else the interruption of 
my peace of mind had suddenly made me more 
appreciative. 1 passed a week at a fine hotel 
which had grown up on the shores of Wil¬ 
loughby lake, and which was now a favorite 
resort. 
My unsettled fancy led me to long wanderings 
among tbc forest shores and by the new-found 
pasture*, in search of a wild flower or a stray 
berry. One afternoon I came upon a party of 
ladies wreathing garlands for a couple of little 
girls, the very embodiment of loveliness and 
health, and, placing upon them their summer 
hats, the party strolled down to the lake to 
watch the white fringed waves as they laved tho 
shining sand. 
I had not heeded the ladies. None could ho 
beautiful nor charming to mo but “ A. B.; ” but 
a sudden remark caught my ear: — “How sin¬ 
gular it is, Annie, that, wc never had a trace of 
your lost hat.” 
I hardly understood the words at first, nor did 
I catch tbe reply; but I looked up, startled with 
a pang of despair, as I had no doubt from the 
appearance of the group that one lady was the 
mother of the children, and the other an auut or 
grandmother. I, however, caught a hasty glance 
of the feature* of the mother, and beheld all my 
fancy Ideal, with but a bearing of still greater 
loveliness and grace than my fevered imagina¬ 
tion ever had pictured. 
“ Confound the fortune 1 ” 1 ejaculated, and 
turned away to the hotel to consult the record. 
But nothiug satisfactory was gained. Mr. and 
Mrs. Bigelow were there, and numerous other 
B.’s, but no “ A. B.’e,” although 1 was satisfied 
that “ Annie” was the real “ A. B.” 
I cared not to learn further of my fate, and 
came near quitting on the curly stage for the 
Queen's dominions, when the landlord accosted 
me, and asked me if I would not join a party 
upon tbe lake, “ another gentleman was wanted, 
and the ladies had proposed you.” I consented, 
was presented to the good-natured company, but 
forgot the name in my thoughtlessness until every 
indication of attention on her part, and frequent 
raillery of my melancholy proved, to my satis¬ 
faction, that she was not the mother of the two 
lovely children I had seen her in company with. 
Thu boating party returned, and with it my 
drooping spirits, while the acquaintance begun 
ripened into admiration. Tho rambles were fre¬ 
quent, and wreaths of wild flowers often sug¬ 
gested a subject which I could not summon 
courage enough to touch upou. One day, when 
her hat bad received a few flowers of my culling, 
I, while stooping to pluck a flower, and with my 
face turned away, mustered sufficient courage to 
say that I heard her once remark tliai Bhe had 
lost a hat decked with flowers. 
“Yes,” she replied, “1 lost my traveling hat 
once when I was a little girl, and I would give 
my heart to know who found it.” 
“Why?” suggested I, musing, and learned 
that there was some mystery which she con¬ 
cealed with playfulness. 
“I found the hat," said I, as we sat down 
upon a knoll, shaded by an overhanging maple, 
| “and I will take the heart.” 
“You, Mr. Smith,” said she, in surprise, “you 
found my hat by that beautiful waterfall ? ” 
# ” * * * * * 
There followed no surprise nor exclamation at 
my lust remark, but her hand unconsciously 
dropped upon rulne, as we both at the same 
moment asked ho w it came about. As 1 divined, 
she had thoughtlessly Ftraycd away from the 
spot where tbe hat was left, until too near night 
and too far away to return for it. Upon return¬ 
ing with a companion the next morning the hat 
was not to be found, but instead the inscription 
as I had made it. She added the playful sugges¬ 
tion, and returned, harboriDg the same curiosity 
as 1 had done. 
The hat had been carefully kept as a bachelor 
relic, stowed in my garret, but it has since been 
pulled out, and embodies to two happy hearts a 
bright page of childhood. We have both since 
visited the fall and the mill rums, while some¬ 
body has added to the former inscription; 
“Found the Hat, and Found the Heart.” 
- n 1. . ~ »!♦ 
THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA AND THE 
WORTH OF FAME. 
The 29th of May was kept in Spain as tbe 
anniversary of the death of this famous heroine, 
of whom so many poets have sung somewhat in 
the dork, and whose features “constructed out 
of the consciousness” of enthusiastic artist*, 
have adorned so many album* and bookB of 
beauty. In commenting upon her great services 
to her country, one of the Madrid Journals gives 
us a curious illustration of the unreliability of 
history. 
The Maid of Saragossa, we arc informed, has 
been described by Spanish writers of credit and 
painted by Spanish painters as a damsel of the 
lower classes, wearihg the picturesque mya coria 
and brilliant petticoat of that order of Spanish 
women; ft lias been asserted that she died insane 
at a hospital in Saragossa. So far are these 
assertions from the truth that the heroine be¬ 
longed to the upper middle classes; dressed as 
ladies of condition commonly dress all over the 
civilized world ; never went mad, and died, not 
in in the hospital at Saragossa, but in her 
own house at Centa, in the year 1S57, and in the 
complete possession of her faculties. 
What, indeed, is the worth of fame, if such 
extraordinary blunder* eart pass current with 
her own countrymen and contemporaries about 
the most popular heroine whom the age ha* pro¬ 
duced, among a people notoriously gallant, chiv¬ 
alrous and enthusiastic? 
At. this rate, we mny expect to find General 
Sherman described in Massachusetts, before the 
end of the century, aB an Englishman of small 
statue, with hut one eye, and General Butler re¬ 
membered jib u stout negro, the Touissant of 
Louisiana, who ended his career by dying glo¬ 
riously in the trenches of Fort Fisher. 
Wc are sorry to be obliged to add, in reference 
to the “Maid of Saragossa,” that this descrip¬ 
tive phrase, by which she is commonly known, 
is just, us inaccurate as the particular* of her 
appearance and history above recited. The prop¬ 
er name of the city for which she has so heroic¬ 
ally fought, is not Saragossa, but. Zaragoza; and 
she was so far from being a minion of the maiden 
moon, that she wub married no less than three 
time*! It l* bad enough to know that the “ Maid 
of Athens” expired as “ Mrs. Black but atrip- 
ley-wedded “ Maid of Saragossa” is still worse. 
The heroine began her matrimonial campaigns 
with a captain of artillery, continued them with 
a captain of infantry, and finally died in the fos¬ 
tering arms of her third spouse, a surgeon iu the 
army. 
These are facts, but what is the use of reciting 
them ? A well established falsehood is harder 
to be overthrown than a dynasty; and popular 
tradition will doubtless insist upon applying to 
the Spanish heroine the epithet which Margaret 
of Flanders wrote for herself. Being caught by 
a storm in tbc Bay of Biscay, and in danger of 
drowning, on her way to Join the third prince 
to whom she had been aflianeed, both of her pre¬ 
vious nuptials having been annulled ere they 
were consummated, that indomitable young lady 
had the spirit to entertain herself with compo¬ 
sing the following couplet: 
“ Cy-git Marguerite, gente demoiselle, 
(Jui tat trois lois marie — at muurut pucelle.” 
It is satisfeatory to know that one accurate 
portrait of the much misunderstood lady exists. 
It is not in Spain, however; but in England, 
having been painted at Gibralter in 1809, at the 
request of an English General, and presented to 
George ITT. 
Salute Yotm Own Conscience. — That a 
man should be just and respectful towards all 
mankind, he must first begin with himself. A 
man — so to speak — who is not able to make a 
bow to his own conscience every morning, is 
hardly iu a condition to respectfully salute the 
world at any other time of the day. 
Why are books our best briends ? Because 
when they bore us we can always shut them up 
without offence. 
jgpAmong tho articles taken into the Far 
West last year by oue or two Indian traders, 
were a few gross of Phnlon’s “Night-Blooming 
Cereus,” with which some of the red ladies were 
so delighted that they would not look at the 
other notions as long as it lasted. Even in the 
savage state woman is tasteful. Sold every¬ 
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“ I* It anybody's business, 
If a gentleman should choose 
To wait upon a lady, 
If the lady don't refuse ? 
Or, to speak a little plainer, 
That the meaning all may know, 
Is it anybody’s business 
If a lady has a beau ? 
“ Is it anybody's business 
When that gentleman doth call, 
Or when he leaves the lady, 
Or if be leaves at all ? 
Or is it necessary 
That tbc curtain should be drawn, 
To save from farther trouble 
Tbe outside lookers-on ? 
“Is it anybody's business, 
But tbe lady's, if her beau 
Rideth out with other ladies, 
And doesn't let her know ? 
Is it anybody's business, 
But the gentleman's, If she 
Should accept another escort, 
Whore he doesn’t chance to be ? 
“If a person's on the side-walk, 
Whether great, or whether Bmail, 
Is it anybody’s business 
Where that person means to call ? 
Or if yon see a person 
While he’e calling anywhere, 
Is it any of your business 
What ht* business may be there ? 
“ The substance of our query, 
Simply stated, would be this: 
Is it anybody's business 
What another’s business is ? 
Whether ’tis or whether 'tisn't 
Wc ebon id really like to know, 
For we are certain, if it isn’t, 
There are some who make it so.’’ 
NUTS TO CRACK. 
Way is wine made up for the British market, 
like a deserter from the army? Because It’* 
always brand led (branded) before it’s Bent off. 
Why is a hat made of beaver, like land that 
always yields lino crops ? Because it may be 
called fertile—fur-tile. 
Why ib a horse attached to the vehicle of a 
miser, like a war steamer of the present day? 
Because he’s driven by a screw. 
Why is a little man who is always telling long 
stories about nothing, like a certain new kind of 
rifle? Because he’s a small-bore. 
Why is the Atlantic cable, in its present con¬ 
dition, like a schoolmaster* Because it’s sup¬ 
ported by buoys—b 03 *s. 
Why was Herodins’ mother like a Fenian or¬ 
ganization ? Because sbe had a head sent her, 
(Head Center.J 
Why is the coal-scuttle which Mary has con¬ 
veyed from the kitchen to the second floor, like 
an infant put out to dry-nurse? Because it’s 
brought up by hand. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 36 letters. 
My 554,17, 0, S, 27 was a prophet 
My 5, 24, 27, 22 is what tier soldiers often needed. 
My 9, 28, 32, 88, 36, 82,26 ie the name of a battle. 
My 23,11, 81,10, 8, 25 is a Union General. 
My 1, -1, IS, 13,11,16,10 i« one of the United States. 
My 31, 19,15, 1, 28, 3, .30, 5, 36,11,19 ie a distinguished 
place. 
My 5, 29, 31, -33, 21 is a girl's name. 
My 12,14,15, 25 is one of the nine digits. 
My 7,15, 22 le a verb. 
My 32, 2, 30 was a rebel General. 
My 20, 82,24, 9 is an insect. 
My 6, 28, 30, 34 was one of the sonB of Noah. 
My 34, 26, 7, 82, 4 is a kind of tree 
My whole is an excellent maxim. 
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York, Alban v, Buffalo,&c. Money letters'Intended for 
us are almost dally mailed to the above places. 
Remit by DmlL- Whenever draft* can be obtained 
Club Agents are requested to remit them In preference to 
Currency or P. O. Money Ciders. As we pay coat of ex- 1 1 
change, and allow them to be sent ut our risk, it Is tlie v 
safest and cheapest to remit by draft. | i 
If Yon, Reader, cannot consistently act as agent , c 
for the. Rural, please solicit the Influence of some 
active friend who will be sure and give the mutter atten- h: 
tion—especially if there Is not a wide-awake agent in 
your neighborhood. y p 
No Traveling Agent* are employed bv us, and we ,-vj 
give no certificates of agency. Any person so disposed ,V» 
can net as Local Clnh Agent, on his or her own authority, t { 
and compete Tor premiums, etc. 
About Premium*. — Those who may become on- ^“5. 
titled to premiums of extra copies, books, k c., for clubs, j.-ill 
will please designate what they wish. In the letters con- ;W 
tainlug their lists, so far as convenient, so that we may /-JR 
send without delay. • JgQv 
