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of my old age ? I am rich, Minnie, and yon are 
all I have in the world.” 
Bat Minnie stole her hand through her hus¬ 
band’s arm. 
“Dearest uncle, he was hind to me when I 
was most desolate and alone. 1 cannot leave 
my husband, Uncle Walter; I love him!” 
“ Then you must both of you come and be 
my children,” said the old man, doggedly. 
“ And you must come now, for the great house 
la as lonely as a tomb.” 
Frank Evans is no longer an express elerk, 
and pretty Minnie moves in velvet and dia¬ 
monds; but they are quite as happy as they 
were in the old days, and that is saying enough. 
Uncle Walter Harrington grows older and feebler 
every duy, and his two children are the sunshine 
of his declining life. 
€otmtt lot Hoang 
“ Perhaps I can have yonr things sent to some 
hotel?” 
Minnie opened the little leathern puree and 
showed him two ten cent pieces, with a smile 
that was almost a tear. 
“ That’s all the money 1 have in the world.” 
So young, so beautiful, ami so desolate! 
Frank Evans had been in New York all his life, 
but he had never met with ail exact parallel ease 
to this. Ho bit the end of bis pen in dire per¬ 
plexity. . 
“Bntwbat in the world are you going to do? ” 
“I don’t know, sir. Isn't there a work-house 
or some snch place I could go to, until I conld 
find something to do?” 
“Hardly.” Frank Evans conld scarcely btlp 
smiling at poor Minnie’s ‘simplicity. 
“ They are putting out the lights and pre¬ 
paring to close the oilice,” Bhe mud, starting to 
her feet, and added “I must go somewhere.” 
“ Miss Harlan,” said Frank, quietly, “my 
home Is a very poor one; I am only a live hun¬ 
dred dollar clerk; but 1 arn sure my mother 
will receive you under her rool for a day or two, 
if you can trust me.” 
“ Trust you ?” Minnie looked at hint through 
violet eyes obscured in tears. “ Oh, sir, I should 
be so thankful.” _^_ 
"How lute you arc, Frank. Here, give me 
your overcoat; it is all powdered with snow, 
aud — ” 
But Frank interrupted his bustling cherry¬ 
cheeked mother, aa she stood on t5p-toe to take 
off his outer wrappings. 
“Hush, mother, there’s a young lady down 
stairs.” 
“ A young lady, Frank ? ” 
“Yes, mother; expressed on from iowa to old 
Harrington, the rich merchant, and she is en¬ 
tirely alone. Mother, she looks like poor 
Blanche, turd I knew you wouldn’t rcluse her a 
corner Imre until she could find something to do.” 
Mrs. Evans went to the door and called 
cheerily out: 
“Come up stairs, my dear; you’ro welcome 
as flowers in May. Frank, yon did quite right.” 
The days and weeks passed on, and still Min¬ 
nie Harlan remained an inmate of Mrs. Evans’ 
humble dwelling. “It seems just aa though 
elm had taken our dead Blanche’s place,” said 
the cosy little widow, “and she is so useful 
about the house. I don’t know how I man¬ 
aged without her.” 
“Now, Minnie, you are not in earnest about 
leaving us to-morrow?” 
“ T must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only think; I have 
been here two months to-morrow, and the situ¬ 
ation aa governess is very advantageous.” 
“Very well; I shall tell Frank how very 
obstinate you are.” 
“Dearest Mrs. Evans, please don’t! please 
keep my secret.” 
“ What secret is it that is to be so religiously 
kept?” asked Frank Evans, coolly walking into 
the midst of the discussion, with his dark hair 
tossed about fcy the wind, and his hazel brown 
eyes sparkling archly. 
“Secretl” repeated Mrs. Evans, energetically 
wipingherdim spectacled glasses. “ Why, Min¬ 
nie is determined to leave to-morrow'.” 
“ Minnie.” 
“I must, Frank; I have no right farther to 
trespass on your kindness.” 
“No right, eb ? Minnie, do you know that 
tba house has been a different one since you 
came into it ? Do you suppose we want to lose 
our little sunbeam ? ” 
Minnie tuuilad sadly, but her hand Cult very 
cold and passive in Frank’s grasp. 
“You’ll stay, Minnie?” 
“No.” She shook her head determinedly, 
“ Then you must he made to stay,” said Frank. 
“I’ve missed something of great value lately, 
and I hereby arrest yon on suspicion of the 
tlmft!” 
“Missed something!” Minnie tobc, tnraod 
red and white. "Ob, Frank, yon never can 
suspect me! ” 
“But I do suspect you. In fact 1 am quite 
sure the article is in your possession.” 
“The article! ” 
“ My heart, Miss Minnie! Now look here; I 
love* you, Minnie Harlan, and I will be a good 
and true husband to you. Btay and be my little 
wife I ” 
So Minnie Harlan, iustead of going out as 
governess, according to the programme, married 
the dark-haired clerk in Ellison’s express office. 
They were quietly married early in the morn¬ 
ing, and Frank took Minnie home to his mother, 
and then went ealmly about his business in the 
wire cage, under the circlet of gas-light 
“ Evans!” 
“Yes, sir.” 
Frank, with his pen behind his ear as of yore, 
quietly obeyed the behest of the gray-headed 
official 
“Do you remember the young woman who 
was expressed on from Millington, Iowa, two 
months since?” 
“Yes, sir; I remember her.” 
A tall, silver-haired gentleman here interposed 
with eager quickness: 
“ Where is she ? I am her uncle, Walter Har¬ 
rington. 1 have just returned from Paris where 
the news of her arrival reached me! 1 want her; 
she is the only living relative left m t ! " 
“Ah! bat sir,” said Frank, “you can’t have 
her.” 
“Can’t have herl what do you mean? Has 
anything happened?” 
“Yes, sir, something has happened; Miss 
Harlan was married to me this morning. 
Walter Harrington started. 
“ Take me to her,” he Bald, hoarsely, “ I can’t 
be polled from my only relative for Bueh a mere 
whim.” 
“I wonder il he calls the marriage service 
and wedding ring more whims,” thought honest 
Frank; hut he obeyed in silence. 
“Minnie,” said the old man, in filtering ac¬ 
cents, “yon will come to me and be the daughter 
THE SNOW-FLOWER 
fsY ALICE GABT 
For Moore’a Rural New-Yorker- 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
Tub fields were all one field of snow. 
The hedge was like a silver wall, 
And when the March began to Mow, 
And cl on (Is to till, aiul rain to faff, 
1 wept that they should spoil it all. 
At first the (takes with flurrying whirl 
Hid from my eyes the rivulet, 
Lying crooked, like a seam of pearl 
Along Borne royal coverlet — 
I stood, aa I remember yet. 
With cheeks close-pressed against the pone. 
And saw the hedge's hidden brown 
Come ont beneath the fretting rain; 
And then 1 saw the wall go down — 
My silver wall, and all wan brown. 
And then, where all had been bo white, 
Aa still the rain slid slant and slow, 
Bashes and briars came ont In sight, 
And spikes of reeds began to show, 
And then the knot-grass, black and low. 
One day, when March was at the close, 
The mild air balm, the rky serene, 
’l^hc fields that had been fields of snows, 
And, after, withered wastes, were seen 
With hero and there some teuder green; 
That day my heart came sudden up 
With pleasure that was almost pain — 
Being in the fields, 1 found a cup, 
Pure white, with just a blood-red rein 
Dashed round the edges, by the min. 
The rain, which I that wild March hour 
So foolishly had wept to see, 
Had shaped the snow Into a flower. 
And thus had brought It back to rue 
Sweeter than only snow could be. 
1 ak composed of 30 letters. 
My 10, 2,12, 25, 21 Is very sweet. 
My 14, 2,18, 19,10, 25,11,13, 30 is a coin. 
My 4, 22, 27, 5, 17, 30 Yankees are fond of. 
My 1, 3, 23, SM, 17 is common in school rooms. 
My 1(1, 2, 7, 80, 24,19 is a game. 
My 0, 8, 22, 0, 25 Is a musical instrument. 
My 24, 28, 4, 4, 15, 13,17 is always found in an Irish¬ 
man’s garden. 
My 4,20, 29,13 is a salting vessel 
My whole we all learn by experience. 
Batavia, N. Y Big Tube. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Nad litew si pheo? A yard melag. 
A amc.rh hatt toosseh a helwi; 
Na peytm, naiv, seedvlin ademr, 
Rroeo folks nath erfnnot’e miles. 
A sore hatt dubs tub veem somlbo 
Ot sleba hot gloning sthig 
A dat’ef hrtwee “ gmnao eth sobtm.” 
A wadoeh fo eht ghitn. 
Madison Co., N. Y, A. 8. Saggar* 
Answer in two weeks. 
Trh editor of the Cleveland Herald, having 
been tolerably profuse In his compliments to the 
pretty girls of Cleveland, has been requested to 
say a good thing in behalf of the homely ones, 
and he does It thus: , 
First—The homely girls of Cleveland are in a 
hopeless minority, but they mean well. 2. They 
go to church every Sunday, and are fond of their 
meals. They had rather have their meals regu¬ 
larly than new bonnets. They understand 
their business and wear No. 6 gaiters. 4. They 
are bright, intelligent, devoid of low jealousy, 
fond of music, dance at parlies a* though it was 
the chief end of life, and always go in when it 
rains, fi. They siIwuvb thank the gentlemen for 
giving them seats in the street cars; never flirt 
witti the boys, because it is out of their lino, and 
keep out of the fire. (i. They never have half a 
dozen young sprigs keeping company with them. 
7. They wash there own handkerchiefs, iron 
their own collars, and darn their own stockings. 
8. They never wear waterfalls that weigh over 
one hundred and fifty pounds, and have neither 
“ rats " nor other animals in the hair. 0. They 
don’t call the young trash “ perfectly splendid,” 
to. They never eat between meals. 11. They 
are all going to got married. 12. They will all 
marry well. 18. Their children will be bright 
and shining lights in the world. 11 They won’t 
keey hired girls till their husbands can afford 
them. 15. They sleep under miisquito bars 
when convenient. 1(1. They can make coffee 
and nut cakes, and can do chamber-work. 17. 
They are O. K. 
nurrah for the fellow who wrote that, llis 
head is level. We Hke homely girls ourself, with 
their quiet, kind, cheerful ways. We eudorse 
them. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
A RIDDLE. 
Tnocon I live in a study, I know not a letter; 
1 feast on the muses, but ne’er am the he tier; 
Can run over English, or Latin, or Greek, 
Yet none of these languages over could speak. 
Troy, Penu. 
£57“ Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
Marian Harlan was alone in the world — her 
mother just buried. 
She was a beautiful^ brown-haired girl, with 
soli., shy eyes ol a velvet-gray, and rosy Ups 
compressed to a firmness far beyond her years. 
For after all site was only seventeen, and so Dea¬ 
con dray was telling her, as he sat by the fire 
Bpreading his huge hands over the tardy blaze 
and asked; 
“ But what are you going to do to ’am your 
bread and butter?” 
“ I don’t know. Mamma hod an uncle in New 
York who-” 
“ Yes, yes; I’ve beam tell about him; he was 
mad ’cause your mother did not marry just to 
suit him, wasn’t lie ? ” 
Marian was silent. Deacon Gray waited a few 
minutes, hoping she would lot him into her 
secret meditations; but she did not, and the 
Deacon went home to tell his wife that “ that 
Harlan girl was the queerest creature he had 
over come across.” 
In the meantime Marian was packing her few 
scanty things Into a little carpet bag, by the 
weird flickering light of the dying wood Are. 
“ I will go to New York,” she said to herself, 
setting her pearly teeth firmly together. 
“My mother’s uncle shall hear her cause 
pleaded through my own lips. Oh I wish my 
heart would not throb so wildly! I am no 
longer meek Minnie Harlan; I am an orphan all 
alone in the world who must fight life’s battle 
witli her own single handB.” 
Lower Broadway at seven o’clock P. M. What 
a Babel of crashing wheels, hurrying humanity 
and conglomerate noise It was. Minnie Harlan 
sat in the corner of an express office, nnder the 
flare of gas lights, surrounded by boxes, and 
wondering whether the people ever went crazed 
in fills perpetual din and tumult, ner dress was 
plain, gray poplin, with a shabby, old-fashioned 
little straw bonnet tied with black ribbons, und 
a blue vail lay on her lap. She had sat there 
almost two hours, and was very, very tired. 
“Poor little thing,” thought the dark-haired 
youngest clerk nearest her who inhabited a Bort 
of wire cage uuder a circle of gas lights. 
“Mr, Evans.” 
The dark haired clerk emerged from his cage 
with his pen behind his ear in obedience to the 
beckoning figure of his superior. 
“I have noticed that yonng woman sitting 
here for some time; how came she here?" 
“Expressed on, sir, from Millington, Iowa.” 
As though Minnie Harlan were a box or a 
paper parcel. 
“Who for?” 
“Consigned to Waiter Harrington, Esq.” 
“ And why has she not been sent for?” 
“ I sent up Mr. Harrington’s address to notify 
him some time ago. I expect an answer every 
moment.” 
“ Very odd,” said the gray-haired gentleman. 
"Yes, sir, rather.” 
Some three-quarters of an hour afterwards, 
Frank Evans came to the girl’s side with an 
indescribable pity In his hazel eyes. 
“Miss Harlan, we have sent to Mr. Harring¬ 
ton’s residence—” 
Minnie looked with a feverish red upon her 
cheeks, and her hands clasped tightly on the 
handle of her Aided carpet bag. 
“—And we regret to Inform yon that he sailed 
for Europe at 12 o’clock this day.” 
A sudden blur eamc over her eyes; she trem¬ 
bled like a leaf. In all her calculations, she 
made no allowance lor an exigency like this. 
“Can we do anything further for you?” he 
asked. • ’ 
“ Nothing; no one can do anything now.” 
Frank Evans had been turning away but 
something in the piteous tome of her voice ap¬ 
pealed to every manly instinct within him. 
"Shall I send yon to any other of yonr 
friends ? ” 
“1 have no friends.” 
A VARmm purchased 100 sheep for $100, paying $3 
apiece for the fat sheep, $2 for store sheep, and 40 cts. 
for the lambs. How many of each kind did he buy i 
East Troy, Wis., L. D. Sawyer. 
J3 7~ Answer in two weeks. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 887 
Answer to Geographical Enigma:—It is sport to a 
fool to do mischief; but a man of understanding hath 
wisdom. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Winfield Scott. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Oh 1 in the varied scenes or life 
Is there a joy so sweet, 
As when amid its busy strife 
Congenial spirits meet ? 
mo tiii: l a ones.— miss guild of- 
B fern to the public her -iiperior Crystal Palace Chart 
for Cutting Tikkbses. which Is conceded by competent 
judges to Kurpum any Invention of the hind ever ode red 
to the American public, she feels fully warranted in 
saying that It I* as perfect a ill itnmao Ingenuity can 
render It, and vhonlrl be in the poMCfirion or every lady. 
It l» simple, easy, and race.lnI,adnpt«ii'.»tO (it every form 
and size, from utile girls of seven years to (tie largest 
adults, ulrcctloim printed in full on every Chart. None 
genuine unless tile Crystal l'al.vte U engraved Upon It, 
and the addro*» of the (nventress printed. Copyright 
secured, and no Infringement allowed. Audits are 
wanted lb eyety part of the country, fins Chart will be 
sent to uuv person on reculutof ?.i addressed to 
Mbs LUCY RUIL1>, Rupert, Vt. 
tW Ladles wishing a tape measure must Inclose lfl 
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end of it. As a huiy posses, with her beautiful 
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the cane. If the lady kicks, the calves are gen¬ 
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nong Kong with a friend, I came to a portion of 
that establishment where four Chinamen were 
emptying a large tub of rum, which they were 
carrying in gallon measures to another portion 
of the building. Addressing myself to the one 
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On one occasion when John Sirne, the well- 
known banker of San Francisco, was beaten 
several times in succession at the game of whist, 
Will King indulged in themost uproarious laugh¬ 
ter, grinning froru ear to ear, much to the disgust 
of Mr. 8., who, turning upon him reprovingly 
said, “ What a pretty object your face would 
make should it become suddenly petrified! ” 
“Yes,” said a heretofore silent partuer, “it 
would become grin-stone.” 
A Poet baa undertaken to immortalize a 
recent flat-boat calamity on Oil Creek. The 
following melancholy stanza tells the whole 
story: 
“ She heaved and sot, and boI and heaved. 
And high her rudder flung; 
And every time she heaved and sot 
A worser leak she sprung.” 
“ Where is the East? ” inquired a tutor, one 
day, ol a little pnpiL “Where the morning 
comes from,” was the prompt and pleasant 
answer. 
A clergyman gave a toast that was not very 
gallant, at a late firemen’s celebration : — “ Our 
fire engines— may they be like old maids — ever 
ready, but never wanted.” 
Where is paper money first mentioned in the 
Bible ? When the dove brought the green-back 
to Noah. 
The man who courts a young lady in the 
starlight probably expects to get a wife in a 
twinkling. 
Bates' Patent Appliances. For descriptive 
[From our Regular Edition of Jan. 12.] 
—We commence the new year with a bona fide edition 
of Seoentg-Five Thoummt Copt**. In the belief that we 
shall have that number ot subscribers. But whether we 
shall Increase or diminish this edition will depend upon pared from 
the efforts and SQC-cese of Agent- Friends throughout the -with Glyw 
Country. What say, Gentlemen aud Ladies, Boys and 0 , j 
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