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“A quotation from the poets’*:— 
Do yon like pork? If not, you shall have mutton. 
Do you like pork ? If not, yon are a glutton. 
Do you like pork f I did not ask youc brother. 
Do you like pork ? Pray say wi thout more bother. 
“ What did you used to do, mamma, before 
you were married ?” asked a cherubic four years’ 
old. “ Well,- my dear, I had a very good time. ’ 
“A good time!” he exclaimed, indignantly— 
“what, without me!” 
A lauv took her little boy to church for the 
first time. Upon hearing the organ he was on 
his feet instanter. “Sit down,” said the moth¬ 
er. “ I won’t,” he shouted, “ I want to Bee the 
monkey.” 
“ How came such a greasy mess in the oven ?” 
said a fidgety old spinster to her maid-of-all- 
work. “ Why,” replied the girl, “ the candles 
fell into the water, and I put them in the oven 
to dry.” 
“ What brought yon to prison, my colored 
friend?” “Two constables, sah.” “Yes, but 
I mean, had intemperance anything to do with 
it?” “ Yes, sah, dey was bofeof’em drunk.” 
Josh Billings says:—" 1 never bet any stamps 
on the man who iz always telling what he would 
have did if he had been tbare, I have notified 
that this kind never git thare,” 
“ Atn't it wicked to rob this chicken roost, 
Dick ?” “ Dat’s a great moral question, Gumbo; 
and we ain’t to arguefy it now; hand down an- 
oder pullet,.” 
When ladies vote, candidates will always he 
elected by “handsome,” and sometimes by 
“sweeping” majorities. 
BT J. WAITER SPIKULER, 
Unknown i what a terrible name! 
Oh, was there no mark that would tell 
Who died, when those heroes Of fame 
Still battling for liberty fell? 
Ah no I we but. know they have gone, 
Have perished for Union and Right; 
We number their graves and pass on. 
But their names are enshrouded in night. 
O! heroes, who <jnailed not iti fear at the wrath 
Of battle, how sad to be nameless in death! 
Search, friends of the eleoping 1 In vain 
Ye gaze on each headboard and stone; 
Ye know they arc free from all pain, 
Ye know that a dear one is gone. 
Be proud, O thou sorrowing heart! 
Joy mother, thy son was thus slain; 
Tlio’ ids story no tongue may impart, 
He cannot have perished in vain. 
O, know that the glory our army has won 
Belongs with the rest to the buried unknown ! 
Tho’ their names are enshrouded in night, 
Their arms in the. battle were strong: 
They, too, in the thickest of tight. 
Wiped out onr deep national wrong. 
Oh! mourn them, who sleep in those graves, 
Tho' “ nameless ” marks headboard and stone 
Oh! mourn them the noblest of braves, 
Tho’ hist’ry records them unknown. 
Tho’ fate may their names to oblivion condemn, 
Oh let not forgotten he written of them! 
McLean, 111., June, 1867. 
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A SOUTHERN SKETCH 
It was a beautiful early May morning that I 
took my seat in the ears at Macon for Atlanta. 
To a Northerner the Bpring at the South is 
most^delieious. She comes so early and stays so 
long that yon forget the disagreeable rains and 
cold, unpleasant days even of a Southern winter. 
Like a'gay maiden she puts on her adornments, 
that her lovers may see her in her most attract¬ 
ive dress, (Aiut that father line ?) The South in 
the spring is. the land o! flowers. Nature seems 
to scatter them with the profusion of a prodigal. 
Only a few days before I had attended the anni¬ 
versary for decorating the graves of the Confed¬ 
erate dead, who were buried in the beautiful 
cemetery of that town. There are some seven 
or eight hundred graves, and each had a wreath 
of beautiful (lowers. Many Itad elaborate crosses 
and wreaths, and all had been placed there by 
thc|fcmale worshipers of the “ lost cause.” 
As 1 walked among the decorated graves, the 
afteruoou the ceremony had taken place, I could 
not help thinking that if the departed spirits of 
those soldiers, who fell in the late war, whether 
Rebel or Union, could know how fervently their 
memories arc cherished in female hearts, it 
would add a thrill of delight, even though they 
might then be in bliss. The undying affection 
of woman is confined to no section, bounded by 
no locality. 
About a mile out of town the train usually 
makes a stop to take on passengers. Here my 
friend met me w ith a couple of baskets of straw¬ 
berries, large, fresh and most tempting. He 
prided himself upon his garden, that richly just- 
ified judicious care, and demonstrated what 
might'be done under the genial skies of the 
South by a little industry. My mouth waters at 
the thought of the nice fruit w hich he is daily 
eating from his garden—those luscious peaches 
and figs, to say nothing of the endless varieties 
of berries, which are found in such profusion 
upon his table at any meal. My regrets are 
somewhat mitigated by the thought that he and 
his family arc worthy of the feast, 
1 placed my baskets on the seat beside me. It 
was rather tautalizing, hut as I had been bounti¬ 
fully supplied with a full feed of strawberries 
and cream only the evening before, I concluded 
appetite could afford to wait a little while; so, 
tucking the paper that covered them carefully 
down all round the top of the basket, I turned 
and began to look about the car to see who my 
fellow passengers were. It was in the Indie's car, 
which on many roads 1 found the only comforta¬ 
ble one, arid albeit I had no lady with me, I did 
have a little piece of paper that procured a scat 
whenever I found it desirable. 
• 
There were few persons in the car, perhaps 
not more than half a dozen ladles, 
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tST* Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
A man purchased a tract of land In the form of an 
equilateral triangle, containing 700 acres; and dying 
left his estate to 3 sons and 5 daughters, By the pro¬ 
visions of the will the land wus divided as follows: 
A circle was inscribed within the triangle and divided 
equally among the C daughters, the three comers 
outside of the circle being reserved for the sons. 
How many acres were there in each son’s and each 
daughter’s share 7 
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Answer to Arithmetical Problem$740. 
Answer to Aua.raras of LakesOneida, Onondaga, 
Canundaigua, Michigan, Ontario, Huron’. Skaneateles, 
Champlain. 
However, when they become used to the changed 
order of things there is ill be much less regret 
and repining, though J don’t promise that our 
women will like you Yankees any better.” 
“Still they can he kind, I find, even to a 
Yankee.” 
“ Git, yes, kind words and strawberries will 
sometimes do wonders. But then, perhaps, I 
am not a proper sample of our Southern women, 
for I feel that there is good to come out of this 
great calamity. Our family, before the war, were 
What Is called wealthy; we had slaves, and money 
ut interest, and all "the comforts and luxuries 
usually Incident to such a situation. They are 
all gone new, except onr devastated fields j and 
my father is old and inlirot, aud I l'uliy realize 
what poverty is; but I assure you that no con¬ 
sideration would induce me to wish the former 
state of things back.” 
“ What, not the forced, labor of the slave ?” 
“ No not the forced labor ol the slave. To 
tell the truth, there was always something un¬ 
pleasant to mi in the results of slavery. I never 
liked to see any human being so completely 
in the power of another as the slave was in that 
ol the master. If all masters could have been 
as kind to their people as our family were, it 
might have seemed better; but there were often 
harsh and uukiud masters and mistresses in our 
place, and there was no help for the poor slave.” 
“ But then you had laws.” 
“ What do laws amount to when public opin¬ 
ion does not sanction their enforcement? Luck¬ 
ily the change has not l’ouud me unprepared. It 
almost seems to me like a special Providence. 
I was always something Of a romp; the woods 
aud fields used to have more attraction for me 
than novels. They used to tell me that I should 
he such a coarse girl that nobody would ever 
like me, and 1 should be an old maid. Gallop¬ 
ing over the fields and through the country on 
a favorite horse, I never thought much about 
likes or dislikes; 1 ielt too free and happy to 
trouble my mind about either. Oh, isn’t it nice, 
though, to ride forth on u mild, balmy morning, 
feeliug as free as the air you breathe, aud almost 
as buoyant.” 
“ I can imagine nothing finer than such a ride 
on one of these delightful spring mornings.” 
“ One day a change came over me. We had 
been entertaining quite a number of my mates 
just after the war broke out. We thought it 
was only to be a gala day lor our boys. Girl¬ 
like, they had been picking out their "husbands 
... a..,*.*.,-. * V. IT . . »i.„i i . j i_ A 
BHIKKtRliOj 
At present, 
people are too poor to travel except, on urgent 
business. The contrast between the Northern 
and Southern roads in this particular is very 
marked. Few trains, however, that did not have 
many colored persons, and sometimes they were 
nearly equal to the whites in numbers. The 
colored travel is already an important item in 
the receipts of Southern roads. 
I had casually noticed a young lady who came 
into the car while yet in the depot There was 
a freedom and gracefulness in her motions that 
at the time gave me a favorable opinion, but as 
she was taking leave of friends and I was busy 
looking at the motley crowd which stood on the 
platform, I gave her no further thought. She 
■was not handsome at first sight, yet there was 
such an easy, self-reliant way in her manners aud 
conversation that you would not call her homely 
or plain looking—and unconsciously one could 
not help feeling attracted towards her. I made 
np my mind she was worth a study. My expe¬ 
rience had generally been that there is an ungra¬ 
cious kind of way with Southern woman which 
makes it unpleasant for a Northern man to make 
any attempts at even casual conversation; they 
allow their prejudices to mar sadly their other¬ 
wise pleasant social qualities. My observation 
all over the South has convinced me that social 
and real friendly reconstruction must begin with 
the women and clergy. They remain sullen and 
vindictive. I was talking with a bachelor friend 
on this subject the other day. Said he: 
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