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as it stood in the corner, and its head had been 
broken short off. There was a deep scratch a 
foot long on the piano, and the music was one 
hideous daub of molasses candy from first to 
last. A lamp had been tipped over on the Brus¬ 
sels carpet and left a great grease spot in the 
middle of the room. ADd worst of all, some am¬ 
bitious youngster had been at my paintings, 
and had broken a hole through the eanva& of a 
choice landscape—an original Sontag which I 
valued highly. 
“Oh, Susan! Susan!” I cried, “behold the 
havoc of this economical soiree!” 
But Mrs. Dobb had no answer for me. 
I got out a pencil and a piece of paper and 
made the following reckoning: 
Beheaded Douglas... $25 
Mutilated Sontag. 50 
Molasses candy and other damages to piano 
and music... 10 
Ruined carpet. 100 
“ A total, my dear, of $1S5.” 
“I think you are extravagant, James,” said 
my wife. “ A little Spaulding’s glue will put the 
statue’s head in place.” 
“.And then you could tie a red ribbon around 
his neck to hide the crack, couldn’t you dear?” 
16aid. in a tone of intense irony. 
"As for the painting, it BeemB to me you might 
mend it in Borne way, James, since you make 
those things yourself.” 
“ Those things l That’s a wife for an artist!” 
“ The piano and music I will see whatl can do 
with; and as for the carpet, we can get a rug for 
the centre of the room, the spot will never 
show.” 
“Another expense, my dear.” 
“ James,.I have wanted a mat for that room 
this long time. For my part, I don’t know as 
I’m very sorry. At least, it can’t be helped, 
now; and there are no more birthdays in the 
family this year." 
“ Let us be thankful for that, then,” said I. 
out of the full fondness of a father’6 heart. 
“Won’t it be bully, Sis,” cried Fred, from bis 
side of the table. 
How that boy does pick up the slang of this 
vicious age is astonishing! It’s no use reprov¬ 
ing him for it. “ Boys will be boys,” as a friend 
of mine once remarked when he sat down on a 
bent pin that liis oldest son had placed in his 
chair in hi* frolicsome moment. 
“ What a good papa he is! ” whispered Sallie 
to her sister, next plate east. 
“Ob, he’Bgay!” slanged Fred. 
I gave Sallie some more gravy. 
“ Do you like kisses, papa ? ” put in Nellie. 
“ 1 like everything good, dear. Why do you 
ask?” 
"Because we’re going to have all the girls kiss 
you to-night.” 
"They won’t be big enough, Nell — not half. 
I prefer big girls to little ones.” 
“James!" said Mrs. Dobb, reprovingly. 
“ Ob, Mary Ann Smith is a great big girl! ” 
said Nell. “ Her dresses almost come down to 
the ground.” 
“Do they? That’s encouraging. Is Mary 
Ann coming ? ” 
“Yes; and two other big girls. They write 
compositions.” 
“ Compositions! They must be getting very 
old." 
Compositions are such a proof of maturity 
among these little bodies! Did you ever no¬ 
tice it? 
“ Bring up the nuts when you come to dinner, 
James,” was my wife’s parting advice. 
“All right, my dear.” 
I was detained down town later that afternoon 
than usual, and when 1 came home in the even¬ 
ing I fonnd the four little Dobbs sitting in sol¬ 
emn state in the parlor, awaiting the coming of 
the guests. § 
Shortly after, the door-bell rang, and the chil¬ 
dren were in a high state of commotion. Sallie 
jumped down from the sofa and made a dash for 
the door, but suddenly recollecting herself, re¬ 
turned to her perch and smoothed her hands 
over her apron, 
Bridget ushered into the j>arlar a string of 
seven boys of assorted sizes, who ranged them¬ 
selves against the wall without saying a word. 
But there was any amount of subdued giggling 
among them. 
I went out to tea, and when I looked in again 
the room was filled with the neighbors’ progeny, 
including Many Ann Smith and the two other 
big girls. 
The next arrival was a cluster of little girls, 
looking as 6weet as June roses. 
Such a staid conclave I never 6aw in my life. 
There they all sat, as bashful as mice, never 
uttering a loud word, and scarcely daring to 
look each other in the face. It was vastly amusing 
to me to observe the conventional awe under 
which these boys, especially, labored; the very 
boys that had been saluting each other roughly 
in the street an hour before, perhaps pulling 
each other’s hair, were as sedate as deacons now. 
The ice was broken In this way: 
One of the big girls, by way of opening the 
ball, said to a youngster of some eight summers, 
named Joey Perry, 
“It’s a pleasant evening, Mr. Perry.” 
“Oh, how are you, Mr. Perry! ” burst forth 
our Fred, derisively, at the top of his voice. 
And then such a broadside of laughter! In 
lees time than it takes me to write it the young¬ 
sters were in a hubbub as noisy as the meeting 
had before been sedate. 
They played “Post-office,” and “Cedar 
Swamp,” and “Forfeits,” and all that sort of 
games, whose principle feature is an abundance 
of kissing. I went into my study and began 
writing. The merry bursts of laughter came 
echoing to my ears, but they did not disturb me. 
1 am a fond father. 
One of the big girls came into my august pres¬ 
ence and threw a cushion at my feet, on which 
she kneeled; pouting up a pair of ripe red lips. 
“ Who’s this ?” said 1, laying down my pen. 
“That’s Mary Ann!” cried Fred from the 
doorway ; which was thronged with little gig- 
gliDg spectators. “ She wants you to kiss her.” 
“Ah !” said I, as memory suddenly recalled 
to my mind the old time game. “ How many 
can I have ?” 
A hundred!” cried 
a dozen voices. 
“ Well, I’ll take three,” said I, “ and you may 
have the rest, Fred.” 
“Can’t see it!” slanged that young hopeful, 
backing off. 
The young girl struggled after the orthodox 
manner, handed down from generation to gene¬ 
ration of young ladies, and the children screamed 
With delight. 
“Hold her, Mr. Dobb!” 
u Kiss her, Mr. Dobb!” 
“ Hub her nose with your whiskers, papa.” 
That last was from Fred, who had memories. 
We left them alone at last. I don’t believe iu 
old folks intruding too much on the enjoyment 
of the little ones. They get along a great deal 
merrier themselves. So Mrs. Dobb shut the par¬ 
lor door and left them alone, while I shut my¬ 
self up in my study. 
About half-past nine I went out and found the 
little guests had gone. 
Sallie was missing, but we presently found her 
in the hall crying bitterly. 
“ What’s the matter with my bird ?” said I, 
taking her in my arms. 
She was loth to tell, hut at last sobbed out 
that she had been kissed too much, and had had 
her six years pounded on her little back, in hon¬ 
or of birthday usage, till 6he was sore all over. 
Added to which one of the boys had caught hold 
of her dress and tom it in a shocking manner. 
She was soothed and put to bed, and then 1 
went into the parlor. 
Oh, spectacle for an economical parent! My 
statuette of Senator Donglass—only a cast, but 
a gift from the sculptor—had been knocked ever 
Written tor Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
ON THE SEA SHORE. 
AND 
I stand on the shore 
And hear the deep roar 
Or billows along the vast main; 
And the sky 5* decked 
With tempest, and flecked 
With surges of desolate rain. 
The waves rise and curl 
Then break, fell, and whirl 
The foam with endless commotion; 
Down stooping, the clondB 
Roll their ghastly shrouds 
O'er the hoary locks of ocean. 
On reefs far away 
Is breaking the spray,— 
Sea bird* above it are wheeling; 
And the beat of the bell, 
An unmeasured knell, 
Through the fog and the rain is stealing. 
Tis’ perilous now 
To turn the bold prow 
Landward, and Eeck the Btill haven: 
Tie* better to ran 
Far seaward, and shnn 
Rocks on which ships have been riven. 
How like to our life 
Is this constant strife 
Of the ocean, and wind, and rain; 
And whcD we are near 
To that we love dear 
How oft are we parted again. w 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
POETICAL, ACROSTICAL ENIGMA. 
Gov, Fletcher’s Iwitatiox 
To Come to Free Missouri. Hear him: 
“ Within nine months past over a hundred thou¬ 
sand persons have come to free Missouri to make 
their future bomee. Still there are wide undulating 
prairies green with their natural grasses, and beauti¬ 
fied by wild flowers: still there are valleys reposing 
in their primeval silence; streams, affording the 
finest water-power In the world, pontine on in unob- 
structed wUdne-?s: the eoll of the richest mineral dis¬ 
tricts unbroken by the enterprise of treasure-seekers; 
forests gracefully bowing their plumed heads to the 
breeze, where no sonna of the industry of man is 
heard. There is room enough in Missouri for mil- 
lions more of people. This territory, of unexampled 
aggregation or industrial resources’larger than Eng¬ 
land and Wales combined, or than Ireland and Scot¬ 
land united, will afford happy and prosperous homes 
for two hundred thousand Immigrants annually for 
the next decade, and still have rich and inviting fields 
for more labor and capital. 
“Free Missouri opens wide her arms, and invites 
the young, brave ana enterprising, both rich and 
poor, to come and settle on her soil. 
“Missouri guarantees protection, equal laws, life, 
liberty and the pursuit of happiness to every one who 
comes to dwell in her borders. Her prairies are rich 
and beautiful, her rivers mighty, her rllmate charm¬ 
ing, without the extremes oi the arctic north or the 
tropical south. Soal. timber, lead, iron, and other 
minerals are lnhanstihle. Come, then rrom the sterile 
and bleak hilts of New-England. Como, from the 
over populated and high-priced lands of the Eastern 
States. Conte, from the crowded cities washed by 
the sea —come from wornout cities to the splendid 
territory of Missouri, an Empire within itself.” 
Such are the eloquent and true words of Missouri’s 
noble Governor. They are worthy of the attention of 
all who are or should oe seeking a new home in the 
West. 
The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Go, 
offer fnr sale, at low prices, on two or ten years’ credit, 
500,000 A cat* of best prairie, timber and coal 
lands mNorthern Missouri, which la the best agricul¬ 
tural part or the Slate. 
These lands are mostly within nine miles, and none 
over fifteen mileB from, the railroad, and good mar¬ 
kets. Anyone wishing to emigrate, xnd to induce 
hi* friends to make with him a neighborhood or col¬ 
ony, should apply for a package to distribute of our 
gratuitous advertising documents, which give full 
particular*. A eectional map, showing the exact 
location of all our lauds, is sold at 80 cents, 
Address, GEO, S. HARRIS, Land Com., 
871-18t. Hannibal. Missouri. 
Fifteen letters In prose, 
My whole will compose. 
My 1,13, 4 is what we should abhor. 
My 2,10,14 self Is apt to look out for. 
My 3,11,18,10 conveys the source of life. 
My 4,10, 8, 5 is apt to engender strife. 
My 5, 9,15 asserts to what you say. 
My 6,18,1 prevents wear and decay. 
My 7,15, 4 will keep an armor bright. 
My 8,5,111* seldom used aright. 
My 9,14,1 makes a very savory meBS. 
My 10, G, 15,4 Is what we all possess. 
My 11, 5,14 we do not wish to lose. 
My 12, 0,1, 4 scarce has, or needs its use. 
My 18,3, 5 yon must shun or bear the blame. 
My 14, 8,18,1 Is what we should disclaim. 
My 15,18,10 Is that of which we should beware. 
My whole reveals a precept well worthy of our care, 
Gates, Monroe Co., N. Y. t. 
tcW~ Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 24 letters. 
My 11, 5, 20,10 is a river in Africa. 
My 2,10, 20, 21 is a cape In South America. 
My 4,14,17, It, 5,24,12 is a town in England. 
My 1, 22, 21, 21, 8, 24,28, 9,19 Is one the United States. 
My 15,18,16, 7,14 iB a river in Arkansas. 
My 4, 20, IB, 23, ti, 10, 8 is a bay in North America. 
My 23,16, 18,20, 5 Is a gulf in Africa. 
My whole is the name of one of the battles fought 
during the Rebellion. Susie. 
Androscoggin Co., Maine, 1S66. 
t3T~ Answer in two weeks. 
OUE ECONOMICAL SOIEEE 
Economy in household expenses has come to 
be the leading idea of terrestrial existence in the 
minds of Mrs. Dobb and myself. We calculate 
closely. We never did before, since we can re¬ 
member. But when butter costs at the rate of 
fifty-five cents a pound, and everything in pro¬ 
portion, honse-keeping expenses become a seri¬ 
ous matter. 
I was musing upon the announcement that 
there was a rise of three cents a pound upon 
veal since the day before—musing and eating veal 
at the breakfast table, when Mrs. Dobb spoke; 
“James, did you know to-day was SaUie’s 
birthday ? ” 
“ Is it? ” said I. “ How old is she now ? ” 
“ She is six years old, and I have promised to 
hold a little party for her in the evening.” 
“ Susan, will it cost anything? ” 
“ Why, but a trifle, J times. Besides, Sallie has 
never had a birthday party, you know.” 
“ Sally should not have her birthday come so 
often, wife, in such times as these. How long is 
it since I bougbthcr a self-operating locomotive 
for a birthday present ? ” 
“ That was Susie, my dear. It’s perfectly dis¬ 
tressing to me the way you do mix those chil¬ 
dren up.” 
“But what will this soiree co6t us, Susan. 
You are forever preaching economy to me, and 
I’d like you to practice it a little, and let me 
preach. It’s more fun to preach. I like to 
preach first rate." 
“Oh! there will have to be some nuts and 
apples bought. 
“ And some candy of course ? ” 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Nhwe itsh yomglo ielf el r’oe, 
Hnew ew Sselm nl slbsi vaoeb, 
Ewnh no atth gdfellluth oeshr 
We youjc ethvnehae fo vloe,— 
O! ataw gilzandz ghilt hlale nishe 
Uaord taviToa&ns ruspet emg; 
© ! twha sayr fo veol venldi 
Dgll bet rate fo Bhtleheme. 
White’s Corners, N. Y. ] 
tST’ Answer in two weeks. 
A CURIOSITY 
One of the most curious instruments of late 
years is a little wooden barometer invented by a 
Mexican guitar maker, a few years since. It 
consists only of a strip of cedar, very thin, 
about two and a half feet in length, about an 
inch wide, cut with the grain, set in a block or 
fort. Tbi6 cedar strip is backed or lined with 
one of white pine cut across the grain, and the 
two are tightly glued together. To bend these 
when dry is to 6nap them, but on the approach 
of bad weather t he cedar curls over until at times 
it touches the gTound. 
It is said this simple instrument will indicate 
the coming of a “norther” full twenty-four hours 
before any other kind of barometer known on 
the coast. The philosophy of the thing seem6 
to be that the pine dries and contracts under the 
influence of fair weather, and curls over ou its 
side; while in fob! weather, swelling and ex¬ 
panding, its motion is tow r ardB the other side, 
the cedar yielding to the pressure, because cut 
with the grain, andA not susceptible to the in¬ 
fluence of (Iry n est-Tr'fluiriRiyty of atmosphere. 
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Intelligent voter of the need of the knowledge presented. 
It i» strictly a *un»CittF-«ox book. Reliable, ac 
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lar. giving Title-page. Table ol Contents, Testimonials, 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, Ac., IN No. 869 
Answer to Miscellaneous EnigmaAll that’s bright 
must fade. 
Answer to Anagram; 
All’s for the best! be sanguine and cheerful, 
Trouble and sorrow arc friend* in disguise, 
Nothing but folly goes faithless and fearful, 
Courage for ever is happy and wise; 
All’s for the best—if a man would but know it 
Providence wishes us all to be blest, 
ThlB is no dream of the pundit or poet, 
Heaven is gracious, and—all’s for the best. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem7S 2-9 yards. 
Answer to Tuzzle:— 6 1 S 
7 5 3 
2 9 4 
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BEYNOLD’S ARCADE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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Country, Kxiabllxhed In 1842- 
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION In Book-Keeping and 
UtiB'ues* originated in this Institution, and Is more per¬ 
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Address A. If. KASTMAN. Principal, 
SlKMteo HESTER, N. Y. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THE LARGEST-CIRCULATING 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
IS PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
A Vert Novel Illustration of tre Tele¬ 
graph.— A most ludicrous conversation took 
place a few weeks ago in a small village near 
Paris. Two peasants were discussing abont the 
war between Austria and Prussia, when one of 
them remarked that he could not understand 
how messages could be sent by the electric tele¬ 
graph. His companion, after having tried to 
make him comprehend the manner in which the 
telegraph works, at last, struck with a bright 
idea, exclaimed: 
“Imagine that the telegraph is an immense 
long dog—so long that its head is at Vienna and 
its tall at Paris, Well, tread on its tail which is 
at Paris, and it will bark at Vienna. Do you 
understand now, Etupid, what the telegraph 
is like?" 
“O, yes,” replied the other, “I have an idea 
now what a telegraph must be.” 
“ What! A baby party and no candy ? ” 
“If you won’t interrupt me at every word, 
James, I’ll tell yon. 1 have bought two quarts 
of molasses, and I am going to make all the 
candy myself, Now there’s one oi my economi¬ 
cal shifts. I never get any credit for it.” 
“ But what a dauby job, Susan! Stretching 
candy sticks a body’s fingers up so!” 
“You didn’t mind it when yon were a young 
man, Mr. Dohb. Have you forgotten the candy 
parties we used to have at our house when I was 
a girl, James ? Such glorious times as we used 
to have in that old kitchen? "Why, it was at 
one of those candy parties that you paid me the 
first compliment I ever received from you.” 
“ Ah! what was that ? ” 
“You said I was the sweetest girl in the room.” 
“ That was because you was daubed all over 
with molasses, my dear—as you’ll be to-night 
again.” 
“ I should think, James, it would be a pleasure 
to you to revive, here iu the city, the recollec¬ 
tions of those old days at the farm-house. Do 
you remember those big hooks in the ceiling of 
the kitchen that you threw a big twist of candy 
over to 6t retch it the easier, when Mary Howard 
helped you ? ” 
“Ah, those happy days!” I said, musingly, 
sipping my coffee. 
“ You enjoyed candy-making then, James.” 
“Yes,” said I, coming back to the present 
and economy. “I enjoyed a great many foolish 
things when I was young and innocent — court¬ 
ing, for instance.” 
“ Well,/haven’t lost my zeal for simple pleas¬ 
ures,” said Mrs. D., with enthusiasm. “I think 
it will he splendid to make the candy. I had a 
thousand times rather make it than buy it.” 
“ Which accouutsfoi' one of those economical 
shifts that you never get any credit for. Eh, my 
dear ? ” 
Mrs. Debb looked daggers at me. 
“Well, Susan, let’s see what it will cdst. 
What’s molasses the pound now?” 
" I paid sixty cents for two quarts.’ 
“ And apples?" 
“A peck will supply the jarty; that will be 
sixty cents more. 
“ And say a dollar and a half for nuts. That 
makes two dollars and seventy cents. It will be 
a very economical soiree.” 
“I should say it would, Mr. Dobb.” 
“ Can I, papa?” said Sallie, looking up at me, 
with her Bpoon between her lips. 
“Can you what, darling? Have the party? 
Why, of course, you can, you little blessing! ” 
And I helped her to another spoonful of gravy i 
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“Husband, I wish you would buy me some 
pretty feathers, ” “ Indeed, my dear little wife, 
you look better without them.” “Oh, no,” 
said she, eoaxiugly, “ you always call me your 
little bird, and how does a bird look without 
feathers ?” “ Why, dressed to be sure,” said he. 
“Well, George,” asked a friend of a young 
lawyer, “how do you like your profession?” 
“Alas, sir, my profession is better than my 
practice.” 
Pulpenickel says a woman’s heart is the 
“most sweetest” thing in the world; in fact a 
perfect honey-comb —full of sells. Jke-yr are. 
Tub present style of hoops reveal the posts of 
many a swinging gait. 
What length ought a lady’s crinoline to be ? 
A litte above two feet 
How long did Cain hate his brother ? As long 
as he was Abel. 
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