What Ib a Year? 'Tis but a wave 
On Life’s dark rolling stream. 
Which is so quickly gone that nrc 
Account It but a dream; 
’Tis bat a single earnest throb 
Of Time's old Iron heart, 
As tireless now and strong as wtmc 
It first with life did Mart. 
What Is a year ? ’Ti» bnt a torn 
Of Time’s old brazen wheel. 
Or bnt a page upon tbe book 
Which death must shortly scad; 
'Tls bat n step upon the road 
Which we mast travel oo’r; 
A few more steps, and we shall walk 
Life’s weary road no more. 
What is a year ? 'Tis but a breath 
From Time’s old nostrils blown; 
As rushing onward oe'r the earth. 
We bear his weary moan: 
’Tis like a babble on the wave 
Or dew upon the lawn. 
As transient as the mist of morn 
Beneath a summer's sun. 
What is a Veart Tis bat a type 
Of Life’s oft-changing scene: 
Youth’s happy mom comes gaily on 
With hills and valleys green: 
Next Summer's prime succeeds the Spring, 
With flowers everywhere; 
Then conus* old Winter—death and aD 
Must find their level there I 
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Written Expressly for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
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OR, MISMATED FOR LIFE. 
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BY CLIO STANLEY 
[Concluded from page 12, last number.'.! 
CHAPTER III. 
A fkw mornings after, at the table, Fhxlip 
announced the fact that a sleigh-ride wan the 
subject of dliicuHBion among some ol their 
friends, and banded Annie a note ol invitation 
from Mr. Banks, which she read and then tossed 
on the tabic, looking any tiling but pleased. 
“ What’s the. matter, sis? Don’t the prospect 
of the first sleigh-ride of the season tempt you ? 
Such a grand one as It will tic, too! ”—but seeing 
he was to meet with no reply he turned to 
Helen, sayaig, “Yon will go with me, won’t 
you ? ” 
“No, Indeed,” said she, giving him an arch 
glance; May Gulden is in nay way, and I do not 
feel badly about It, either.” 
Philip laughed. 
Mr. Warner said, “You, Phil, yon most 
carry your rejected invitation there, and if 
Helen doesn’t get another before night, I will 
take her myself.” 
Mrs. Warner hastened them, and they soon 
left the table and adjourned to the sitting-room, 
where Annie fidgeted around until her father 
told hor she. might take a premium for perpetual 
motion; and then aB he left the room with their 
mother Who was going out, she broke out with 
“I wonder who wiLi invite you, Nell; don’t you 
Hope it will be Herbert Bklden?” 
“ My hopes don’t jingle about to the music ol 
Blcigh-bells as yours seem to," replied her sister. 
“ Well, I must acknowledge mine do, and I 
cannot settle quietly down to anything. Did 
Phil say when it was to come off?” 
“To-morrow evening, I believe.” 
“I wish it was to-night! What if the snow 
Bliould melt to-morrow! ” 
“Even in that ease, I suppose moro will lidl 
this winter, so there is no reason to lament,” 
“Oh, Helen, you are the most matter-of-fact 
kind of a person I ever knew. 1 think you are 
just cut out for an old maid; but I do not believe 
you feel badly even about that.” 
Helen Warner made no reply, but bent her 
eyes, which had been wandering aimlessly around 
the room, once more to her work. 
“What arc you doing there?” was Ankle's 
next venture; “a little dress os I live; who Is it 
lor, pray ? ” 
“Mrs. Dean’s little Lucy.” 
“What l that little hump back child?” 
“Yes.” 
“ Well, I’m glad I do not fancy any such thing; 
I never can endure to go near mi ugly person.” 
“What is there ugly, as you express it, about 
little Lucy Dean ?” 
“ Why, she is so crooked; I never thought to 
look at her face, to be sore.” 
Meeting no answer here, she went dancing out 
of the room, and Helen sat very quietly there 
sewing for the next two hours. The sunbeams 
shone in upon tbe deep red of the carpet, making 
a warm light there and crept up on to the folds 
of her dress; but still she sat there, the bright 
little needle flashing In aud out ol the dark, soft 
flannel Her face was very grave, but whether 
she waa thinking of poor Lucy Dean, or whether 
her thoughts had taken a wider range, no one 
looking at her could have told. There was much 
to admire in Helen Warner’s fkee, plain though 
it waa, as she sat there that morning, and perhaps 
there were others than her father, (who was last 
learning to admire her,) and her brother Phil, 
who thought the same thing, even while they 
kept their thoughts to them solves. 
She was only eighteen years old, though she 
looked even older than Annie, who was petite 
in figure, hud blue eyes, sunny hair and a fair 
complexion, where the pink and white blended 
like the inner hues of a sea-shell. Helen wat 
tall and straight, her form almost too thin, and 
her skin dark like her father’s. Her features 
were irregular, and at times there was an expres¬ 
sion Of scorn lingering about her mouth that 
took away all pretensions to beauty from what 
might otherwise have been called the one redeem¬ 
ing feature. But as she sat there now, so still 
there came a positive smile over her face, and 
dropping her work in her lap, she loldod ncr 
Herewith we present Rural readers an illus¬ 
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D. 8* Government have designated as the best in 
America, and one lias accordingly been sent by 
the Government to Paris, France, to represent 
this Country in the com-shellcr line at the Great 
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have taken pains to examine and tost this ma¬ 
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knowledge, and wc cheerfully add our testimony 
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is the most complete and perfect working eorn- 
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to turn and feed. It is worked very easily, and 
not only shells rapidly und clean, but at the same 
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siz*i or shape of tbe car, or whether the corn bo 
seasoned or not—it must come oJj‘ if it gets into 
the machine. For further information we refer 
onr readers to Mr. Brinkkkhoer’s advertise¬ 
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INVENTIONS OF BRITISH ARTISANS. 
At a recent industrial exhibition In London 
sixteen hundred British artisans were the exhib¬ 
itors, and 820 different occupations were repre¬ 
sented. Of the exhibitors 44 were printers, 41 
engineers, 3d carvers, 38 carpenters, 35 engrav¬ 
ers, 14 watchmakers, and 10 laborers. The Lon¬ 
don Times says:—“It is a remarkable fact, and 
one highly creditable to our operatives, that, iu 
the class of ‘ inventions. Improvements, and In¬ 
genious Contrivances,’ there were no fewer thou 
134 entries. It 5 b not a little curious also that 
some of the inventions were about tbe Inst wc 
would expect from persons of the calling of the 
inventors; for instance, a butcher exhibited a 
decimal calculator; a short-band writer exhib¬ 
ited u mill to grind crusts into flour; a clerk 
exhibited a novel machine for cutting meat for 
pies; and a printer exhibited a teapot and a silk 
hat” 
CHAPTER IV. 
Four years have passed away. Annie has long 
ago returned from her grand “ tour,” and for 
two years has been Percy Hamilton’s wife. 
Hkuw herself, with grief, pride and resolution all 
straggling for the mastery, has at length gained 
outward composure, at least, and learned to 
meet her brother’s watchful tenderness with a 
quietness of manner that commpletely deceived 
Annie ; but Percy himself had long ago guessed 
the troth, and while tri% will held him to his 
duty, bis fancied lovo for his wife had long ago 
melted into thin air, and ho walked by her side a 
disappointed man. 
Herbert Burden at length gained the prize 
he had waited for those long years. Helen be¬ 
came his wife, and wus a dutiful ofle, but. words 
of affection rarely full from her Ups. She grew 
cold and hard to all about her, and while others 
said “They always knew Helen Warner would 
malic just such a kind of a woman," her sister’s 
husband saw beneath the calm exterior the bro¬ 
ken spirit and heart-wretehednoss of the woman 
he had loved so loudly, and he almost cursed the 
woman who had stood between them. They had 
each their separate burden to bear through life, 
and Gon aioue could give them the requisite 
strength and courage to bear it. 
Outwardly Helen’s life was one almost of 
perfect beauty. Comfort aud elegance surround¬ 
ed her, aud she could not fail in being satisfied 
with everything but herself. She had wished for 
a lovo as broad as the earth, and she found it in 
her husband’s earnest, entire devotion to her 
daily happiness. She hod wished lbr admiration 
that cornu from the soul, and she could read it 
now in every tone of her husband’s voice and in 
his face—in tbe quiet, grave way iu which he 
held her to his heart as he returned from each 
day’B duties, and the bright expression which 
lingered in his eye It she occasionally granted 
u im an unwonted caress. She had wished for 
care and tenderness, and what woman could n>k 
for greater than she received constantly,—bnt 
•he, herself! There was the trial! She had giv¬ 
en herself away for selfish ends, when the whole, 
trong love of her woman’s heart belonged to 
■mother—and now she must reap the bitter fruits 
>f such base betrayal of her heart unto the end, 
and In the end be written down —Unsatisfied. 
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