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hy its author, (whose melodics urc widely sung,) and 
is issued as a Song and Chorus from the publishing 
bouse of II, Tolman & Co., Boston. 
FLITTING AWAY. 
MOORE S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
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Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
LS PC ELI SHED LVEK.Y SATURDAY 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N, Y. 
All Shelbyvillc was shocked one morning to 
hear that good Dr. Mattiaon had been found 
quietly sleeping his last sleep in his bed. Every 
family felt a keen sense of personal loss in the 
death of the old physician, whose cheery pres¬ 
ence and genial sympathy bad always brought a 
healing influence into their sick-rooms quite in¬ 
dependent of his careful prescriptions; who had 
presided at the birth of their children, and whose 
tender bauds had closed the eyes of some of their 
lorcd ones when human care and skill could 
avail no longer. 
The people, who came in great numbers to 
Dr. Mattison’s funeral, saw in the place of chief 
mourner his nephew, Dr. Alfred Lashley, who, 
it was understood, would now leave his position 
in a city hospital, In order to succeed to his un¬ 
cle’s business and estate. The good old doctor 
had been wont to speak proudly of this nephew, 
as a young man of uncommon talent and thor¬ 
ough education; indeed it had been his cher¬ 
ished plan to see his practice established in these 
younger and stonger hands while he himself yet 
lived. 
Dr. Lash ley found a hearty welcome to Shei- 
byvllle, for his uncle’s sake as well as for his 
own. As days passed one and another of the 
friends of Dr. Mattlson called to grasp the young 
man’s hand, and speak words of hearty sympa¬ 
thy and encouragement. 
“Come up to the Hall whenever you have 
time and inclination; the latch-string hangs 
outside,’’ said Square Darrell, with a blunt cord¬ 
iality, to which Dr. Laehley was not slow to re¬ 
spond. 
Calling soon at Darrell Hall he met Helen for 
the first time In some years. He was quite un¬ 
prepared to find her what she was. The most 
bountiful woman he had ever met—he settled 
that at a glance—cultivated and refined evident¬ 
ly, and yet with a fresh spontaneous manner, as 
charming rs rare, 
for fever. I should greatly dread the appear¬ 
ance of any malignant form of disease amoDg 
them. Their ignorant and unreasoning fears 
succumb to the first attack, and there is no 
lever by which to lift them.” 
“ Can there be no means of prevention ?” 
asked Helen. 
“Can be? Yes. Will be? No. I rode 
down there only yesterday, and tried in vain 
to induce an effort at something like care and 
cleanliness. It’s of no use.” * 
Dr. Lasliley’B fears soon began to be realized 
in the breaking out of an obstinate and con¬ 
tagion* fever in the valley. Within twenty- 
four hours after the appearance of the first case 
symptoms of the same disease manifested them¬ 
selves In several others. The poor people were 
thrown into consternation, and showed the wild¬ 
est inefficiency in ministering to the wants of 
those already stricken down. 
Dr. Lash Icy found the work which seemed 
necessary among them in the last degree re¬ 
pulsive to his fastidious sense. He was un¬ 
willing to acknowledge, even to himself, how 
mnch he shrank from uniting the office of nurse 
to tbat^of physician in those miserable abodes. 
He was anxious to leave nothing undone which 
duty and humanity could suggest in the case; 
still, as almost every day added to his list of 
patients, he found strength and courage failing. 
Helen, going into her kitchen one morning, 
found Bridget Mahoney, her maid-of-ali-work, 
sobbing bitterly over her wash-tub, and learned, 
on inquiry, that the poor girl’s father and mother 
were both lying sick of the fever. Helen made 
Bridget dry her hands and eyes, while she her 
self packed a huge basket w ith articles useful in 
illness. Then, having sent the girl to her home, 
“Good afternoon, Miss Darrell,” he said, 
with his bright smile transfiguring all his face. 
He did not say, 
“ You here, Miss Darrell ?” His whole man¬ 
ner seemed to recognize her right and pleasure 
to be there, and Helen felt that bis very silence 
paid her a truer and more delicate compliment 
than Dr. Lashley’s most elaborate period could 
ever have conveyed. 
“Tell me what to do, John,” she said, using 
the old, familiar address of her childhood. 
“I fear I shall make but a poor teacher,” he 
answered; “hut if yon could take my place 
here I could go somewhere else where help is 
needed. Poor Mrs. Reagan Is trying to sleep a lit¬ 
tle. Patrick is very quiet, as yon see; there is 
little to be done beyond keeping his lips moist¬ 
ened with this sponge—and pray don’t let him 
sleep too heavily.” 
Helen sat down by the bedside, and John went 
out, bat soon came back, saying, “ You know 
where Mary Morrison lives, Miss Helen ? The 
next cabin but one is hers. Her little child 
looks badly—head and hands burning hot. If 
yon could help her get it into a warm bath, 
and show her what to do, it might throw off 
an attack.” 
Helen went gladly to do as she was bidden, 
[ and came by-and-by, laden with the blessings of 
the anxious mother, to report the child sleeping 
sweetly. 
Wherever she went the praises of “ Air. Iver- 
dale” were sounded in her ears, and she real¬ 
ized, aa never before, how much confidence and 
courage a strong will, cleai head, and warm 
heart may infuse into an ignorant and suffering 
community. 
“ I hope Dr. Lashley iB not very ill ?” John 
said, anxiously, as they parted for the night; 
and Helen felt her cheeks flash hotly as she an¬ 
swered, “ He will soon be able to come back, 
I think.” 
That night a strong tempest tore down from 
the mountains, terrible in the boar of its strength 
and fury, but leaving the atmosphere cool and 
pure behind it. The sick, except such as were 
past recovery, began to mend under the favor¬ 
able change, and fresh life aud hope were astir 
in “ New Dublin.”— ["Concluded on page 337. 
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For the hopes that abont me were thronging, 
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Beauties I thought ne’er would perish 
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Robcs must die with the year. 
There are eyes that with brightness were brimming, 
There are lips that our own often met, 
That the mold of the grave is now dimming, 
That in silence unbroken are set I 
Sadly we Jong for their greetings— 
Tender and true they liad proved— 
OI the hearts soonest hushed in their heatings 
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’Tie the joys the most prized that are fleetest, 
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Fade as upon them we gaze; 
And the hours that are brightest and fairest 
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Far away where the summers are sleeping 
Are the beautiful dreams of the past, 
And our eyes are grown weary with weeping 
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Over their ashes we sit; 
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How could she have kept 
this childish simplicity, he wondered, through 
all the flattery and caresses which must have 
been lavished upon her. The truth was that 
Helen Darrell had been praised too much to he 
spoiled by it. There may he an extreme of 
adulation which shall hold in itself the germ of 
its own antidote. The homage which enveloped 
Helen like an atmosphere she accepted as a trib¬ 
ute of love, rather than as the reward of real 
desert. 
Square Darrell naturally spoke mnch of Dr. 
Muttison, whom he had dearly loved, and Dr, 
Lashley responded with a filial enthusiasm which 
quite won Helen's heart. As the conversation 
men of his native county, nearest his own age, progressed he seemed drawn unconsciously to 
not one could have been found bettor educated, speak of hie own plans and purposes of life; of 
In a certain true and practical sense, than he. his profession, which he considered second to 
In the absence of text-books he had thought for none in means and opportunities of good, 
himself. The calculus might be beyond his Alfred Lashley was not intentionally dishonest, 
comprehension, hut he had learned long ago the but he had a marvelous power of expressing 
ratio of honesty to success, and knew how to more than he really felt. Some tell us that the 
deduce from it the formula of upright living, absolute possession of any great virtue is neces- 1 
He could not read a line of Homer or Virgil, eary to its real appreciation; but this man com- 
but he did know something of the works of blued with unbounded aspirations after true 
those great English thinkers, who have lain nobility a constitution ready to fall at the first 
nearest the world’s heart, thus catching and per* great trial. He did not know his own weakness 
petHftting its throbblngs, and incorporating upon —would never know it until some test-moment 
their own page the best of all past and present came suddenly upon him, aud even then some 
inspiration*. A boy who kept a leaf of Bhak- loop-hole of expediency would perhaps broaden 
speare folded in his vest-pocket, to he taken out before distorted vision Intoagreat archway over 
and learned by heart as he followed the plow, the entrance of duty. 
would not be likely to grow np with tastes He knew how to use the words “work” and 
wholly uncultivated. “mission,” In a way that suggested to Helen’s 
Yet John Evcrdolc loved his work. If all ardent imagination all the sublimest possibili- 
pathways bad opened to him alike, I doubt if he ^ es mor< d heroism, while, in the same breath, 
would have chosen to be anything else than tbe ea 'd he felt this to be an age for saying little 
fanner be was. His aspirations, though not ftl) d doing much. Helen felt, as did all others 
groveling in the soil, 6till arose from it, group- wljo Inet llim » s P fc U of his magnetic pres¬ 
ing themselves about a home, aud friends, un- cnee, the fascination of his brilliant intellect and 
tarnished .Dame, and sturdy service wherever fine culture. She sang for him, aud, looking up 
needed most. between her ballads, saw bis dark eyes full of 
11c found^bimeelf at twenty-two in possession tear8 - 
of his patrimony, a small farm, heavily raort- Poor John Everdale, riding slowly past D.ir- 
gaged, together with the title to a tract of wild rel1 DaU ln Uie winter moonlight, saw the new 
western land. This lost the specious represent- doctor’s tali figure bend gracefully in a parting 
atlor.s of un agent had induced his father, ' J0W to Helen in the doorway, aud started with 
always over-sanguine, to purchase, only to find a 6l) dden pang, for which he was angry with him- 
it qnite useless thereafter, for any immediate sclf a moment after. But the vague sense of 
ad vantage. 
John saw years of hard work and eloi 
THE BLUE RIBBON; 
OR, RURAL LIFE AND LOVE 
NATRONA REFINED 
noon, when, standing at the gate, she saw his 
chaise driving rapidly np the street. He wore a 
linen traveling suit, and a portmanteau lay be¬ 
side him on the seat. 
“Not going away, Dr. Lashley?” she ex¬ 
claimed, ns he drew rain and sprang out with 
extended hand. 
“ To the beach, for a few days,” he answered, 
without noticing the tone of surprise in which 
she hud spoken. “ I am very sorry to bo obliged 
to leave now; but I have uot^een well for some 
months, and tbe strain of the last two weeks has 
been terrible for me. 1 feel it to bean Impera¬ 
tive duty which I owe to myself and my work 
hi life to give myself the short rest which alone 
can save me from utter prostration.” 
“ Bo you will leave those poor people to die ?” 
“ My dear Helen !” Dr. Lashley looked both 
surprised and grieved. “Harris, my student, 
will give them the closest attention; besides” 
—be hesitated a moment—“ there is Dr. Arnam, 
you know, at the Corners.” 
“ The one an inexperienced boy, the other a 
heartless quack 1” 
“ Helen ! you are very hasty iu your judg¬ 
ment of Dr. Arnam, and ns for Harris—why, 
Helen, be ha6 shown wonderful ability in these 
very eases, and 1 have spared no pains to make 
him fully understand the line of treatment I 
wish him to follow. Remember, it is only a 
careful balancing of the apparently conflicting 
claims of duty which has decided me to go.” 
He spoke earnestly, and with o look and tone 
which showed how entirely he felt himself mis¬ 
judged. 
“There comes the train, Dr. Lashley —you 
will be late!” said Helen, letting her hand rest 
on his a moment, and then drawing it away. 
He stood an instant longer, with an expression 
of painful indecision on his handsome face; then 
he said, hastily, “Good-by, Helen! My dear 
Helen, I am sure that a moment’s thought will 
convince yon that I am acting for the best!” 
and so was gone. 
Helen Darrell stood quite still lor a few mo¬ 
ments ; then 6he turned and walked with a firm 
step up the garden-walk, through the hall, aud 
into the pleasant library, where her father sat 
reading in his easy-ehair. She stood behind 
him, and drew his head backward, looking into 
his eyes. 
“ Well, Lady Nell ?” 
“ Papa, I am going to help nurse those 6ick 
people.” 
Squire Darrell gave a great start. 
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my stretching ahead before he could hope to 
stand witbj'uueneumbered hold upon his ances¬ 
tral acres. No golden prospect, certainly; but 
wltb bis brave, hopeful heart and rugged health 
he saw it unflinching. Besides, he loved Helen 
Darrell. From the times when be had gone, a 
boy, to Darrell Hall, on his father's errands, and 
the beautiful child, with her marvelous brown 
eyes and golden glory of curls, had flown out to 
learn from him how to tame the wild ponies her 
father bought for her, until now, when her more 
mature loveliness was the pride not alone of 
Squire Darrell’s heart but of all Shelbyvillc, he 
could not remember when his love for her had 
not seemed a part of his very breath aud being. 
This fact was itself a key to bis character. If 
he had been less iban be was be could never have 
dared to love her. Not that he had any puffed- 
np certainty of success; but the manhood within 
him, humble and self-respectful, claimed for him 
the right to love the woman who embodied his 
noblest ideal of womanhood, and to be judged 
by her, irrespective of any untoward decisions 
of outward circumstances. 
He Loped for no pledge as yet—would not if 
he could have exacted such. His native sense of 
the fitness of things forbade it, until his own 
hand, under kind Providence, should have carved 
out for himself a more certain fortune. It might 
be a long labor, but the years of waiting, like 
Jacob s, would seem as “so many days,” if only 
he were sure of Jacob’s reward. 
Meanwhile he wooed her at a distance, and bad 
the satisfaction of knowing that at least she was 
not wholly indifferent to him. How much her 
manner meant he did not dare to guess; she 
was so kind to all. Forgive him if he watched ! 
all other admirers jealously; be was but human, 
and the daily fear went with him, “ Will it not 
be too late when my turn comes to speak?” 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
A CHARADE. 
My first is used upon a railway, 
And does my whole sometimes convey 
My second’s a word denoting decay, 
And makes my whole to waste away; 
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Night after night John Everdale lay sleepless, 
facing his trouble, and waging unequal contest 
with his own heart. He believed in Dr. Lashley 
with all the force of his generous nature, and 
his whole soul ratified Helen’s choice. He felt 
that he could not w illingly cast tbe temporary 
cloud of a knowledge of his own unhappiness 
across her perfect sunshine. So he found cour¬ 
age to meet her at Dr. Lashley’s side, with his 
old, frank smile of greeting, though he was not 
strong enough to go any more to Darrell Hall. 
The summer heats came on with an intensity 
almost unparalleled. The very air seemed 
scorching, and man and beast drooped with ex¬ 
haustion. 
Shelbyvillc proper was built mainly upon two 
hills, separated from each other by alow, marshy 
valley, now’ temporarily occupied by a collection 
of some fifty or more wretched cabins, which 
bad received tbe name ol' “ New Dublin.” These 
huts were tenanted by the families of a gang of 
the lowest class of Irish laborers, then employed 
in excavating a tunnel for u new railway. 
An occasional breeze brought some fresh vi¬ 
tality to the hill-side air, hut the stagnant at¬ 
mosphere of the valley was foul with the fume* 
of a poorly drained soil and over-crowded living. 
“Such weather must breed sickness, Doctor?” 
said Sqmre Darrell to Dr. Lashley, one day, as 
the two sat with Helen in the porch. 
“In the valley, undoubtedly,” was the an¬ 
swer. “ The poor New Dublinites are ripe food 
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of?” 
She put her soft hand over his lips. 
“Not a word, little papa! I’m your spoiled 
daughter, you know. Yon can’t deny me any¬ 
thing—you have said so a thousand times.” 
“ But, Helen, this is worse than folly—it’s 
absolute insanity! What could you do?” 
“ A little, 1 hope; I wish I could do a great 
deal more. Papa! some of them are dying, aud 
Dr. Lashley has gone away !” 
“ Gone away ! and where ?” 
“ To the beach—he’s ill, he said, papa,” in a 
low tone, with her brown eye9 clear and steady; 
“ if mamma were alive site would have gone be¬ 
fore this time. Sbu’n’t I go ?” 
“My darling!” said Squire Darrell, and drew 
her down into hiB arms.” 
A few hours later John Everdale, bending over 
poor Pat Reagan, and trying to arouse him from 
the deep stupor into which he was constantly 
falling, looked np to see Helen Darrell standing 
at the door. His face grew very pale for an in¬ 
stant, but there was no other 6ign ol surprise. 
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ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 924 
Answer to Miscellaneous EnigmaWhere there’s 
a w 111 there’s a way. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Let me not die before I’ve done for Thee 
.My earthly work, whatever it may be 
Call me not hence with mission unfulfilled: 
Let me not leave tny space ol ground untilled : 
Impress this truth upon me, that not one 
Can do my portion that I leave undone. 
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Answer to CharadePil-low. 
