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t&T btm standard medicine. V 
Tin Horses and Cattle 
Si/ 1 ", 4 ■ {Amu(Wi hvVcN 1 ''A 1 *^»i :* ‘ * -if 4 (, / 
S AN K/IOIiI>II5NT 
1)'- had been so recently elevated by the «<• 
ful condescension of Miss Effie Gakdnei 
[The following very expressive poem we find in 
manyof onr exchanges, credited to Mrs. Julia Ward 
Howe. Wc do not. think she claims it. It was writ¬ 
ten by Owen Meredith— a noin dt plume thinly veil¬ 
ing the identity of Bulwkr Lytton, Jr.—who has 
produced several volumes of very excellent verse ] 
WHOM FIRST WE LOVE. 
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IS UNSURPASSED. 
The ROUGHEST SKIS’ Is made smooth. 
CHAPPED HANDS 3re Instantly healed. 
CRACKED and DRIED LIPS are healed and softened. 
To keep the hands and face comfortable (luring the 
cold weather, put a little of the Ointment on when go¬ 
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SOLD ST ALL DRUGGISTS. 
Six months were sileutlv drifted down 
boundless ocean of time, and the eventful v. 
ding day of Effie Gardner arrived; but Ei 
and Henry Lewis were not the only one- w>, 
were to be made happy on that great die 
George Gardner (Effib’s brother) and Tilli . 
Parker had concluded they would be joined 
together too by the matrimonial bonds; and con¬ 
sequently, instead of a single one, then w as n 
double wedding. 
The brides were dressed in pure white; mill 
delicate, wreaths of orange blossoms rested 
above their sunny brows, aud were twined amid 
the delicate folds of their misty bridal veils. 
After the marriage ceremony had been per¬ 
formed, the bridal parties bade adieu to Die few 
intimate friends who bad been Invited to be 
present, and then the two happy couples started 
off on Uieir wedding tour. The party had been 
gone but two or three hours, when a barOhchc 
and bay team of horse. 1 - were driven up to the 
door, and Mr. James Stuart alighted. lie 
ordered bis coachman to tie the team securely to 
the firm iron hitehiug-post, us they might be 
obliged to remain for sorae little time, he said, j 
before ail parties would be in readiness to start. 
As he glanced towards the door he wondered 
why it was that everything about the house ap¬ 
peared so still and quiet. The blinds on the 
front side Were all carefully closed, and every¬ 
thing in general about the premises denoted 
gloominess. James Stuart wondered at all 
this ; however, he waited not long in his solilo¬ 
quizing attitude, but stepped up to the front 
entrance aud gave Die door-beil an emphatic 
pull. The servant waited upon him at the door. 
Upon inquiry for Miss Effie, lie was informed 
that she was “ not at home,” but that here was 
a note which had been left for him ; and the note 
was placed in his hand. Nervously he reached 
forth his hand, and in faltering tones, repeated 
the words, “ not at home ? ” “Byjove! what 
means this?” The door was closed upon him ; 
he started off down the steps; entered Die 
coach, and ordered his coachman to drive him 
home again. On his way lie tore open the note, 
which was directed in a hand writing very famil¬ 
iar to him, not Effie’s, though, but. lie recog¬ 
nized it at once as that of Tillie Parker. It 
read as follows: 
“Mr. Stuart: —Your bird has flown with 
one to whom she has for some time been be¬ 
trothed, Tt is to be hoped that you will not 
take her flight, too greatly to heart,; "but that you 
will allow the thought to console yon that others 
have in times past been deceived by you. even as 
yon are now deceived by one who" pledged her¬ 
self to be the avenger of those whom you would 
blight in hope and happiness. Thlnktiur you 
nowsutBcienfly punished tor yourungeuUemiinly 
conduct, this whole transaction from beginning 
to end lias been, and forever sball 1 ie,foryou r sake, 
kept a secret from the outside world, provide g 
von also act well your port by not mentioning to 
any one the particulars of the unpleasant affair. 
We sincerely hope and trust that the next, tinn 
you undertake to court, more than one at a t ime, 
and in the same locality, you mav be more suc¬ 
cessful. With the very best wishes for your 
health, happiness and welfare, we remain, 
yours iu Sympathy, 
Effie, Tii.i.ie and Anna.” 
Anger and dismay were plainly stamped on 
James Stuart’s features, as he finished reading 
the. note — though one thought, consoled him. 
and that was, his intended marriage with Effie 
had from the beginning of their engagement, six 
months previous, been kept a secret from all. 
He wondered, at the time of his plighting his 
love to Effie, why it was that she requested 
their engagement to be kept, an entire secret from 
everybody excepting merely their own families, 
but now he understood it all. This thought 
afforded him the greatest consolation, to think 
that no one outside would know, or ever hear of 
his being thus duped, auil Dial, too, by a woman. 
The changed manner of James Stuart became 
a wonderment to many who were acquainted 
with him. He was altogether a different person. 
The matter of his disappointment was never 
made known, hut always remained a secret wiUi 
the parties concerned. His old love for Anna 
Perry died not, and he could not quell the affec¬ 
tion he bore for her, notwithstanding the trying 
circumstances and the fiery ordeal through which 
lie had passed. It was well for both James aud 
Effie that they were never united, because 
James really loved only Anna Perry, although 
he tried very hard to keep company with Tili.ie 
Parker and Effie Gardner at the same time. 
Two years afterward, we find James Stuart at 
the feel of the only girl he really ever loved. 
Now he fairly worships her—for time has doubly 
strengthened the enkiudliug passion—and has 
sought her heart and hand. And what says 
Anna, in answer to his proposal ? Why, she 
looks Die love she dare not speak in so many 
words, aud simply says, “yes, dear James, 1 love 
yon, and will be your wife.” 
If the self-conceit was ever effectually taken 
out. of any poor mortal, James Stuart was 
that one. 
Male flirts, take lieed, lest iu your wholesale 
love-making to Mother Eve’s fair daughters you 
meet the lamentablebut just fate of being “ paid 
off in your own coin." 
Whom first, we love, yon know, we seldom wed. 
Time rules us all. And life, indeed, is not, 
The thing we planned it out ere hope was dead; 
And then we women cannot choose our lot. 
Mach must lie homo which it is hard to bear, 
Much given away which if were sweet to keep. 
God help ns all I who need, indeed, Bis care; 
And yet I know the Shepherd loves Bis sheep. 
My little boy begin? to babble now, 
Upon my knee his earliest infant prayer; 
Be has his father's eager eyes, J know, 
And they eay, too, his mother's sunny hair. 
But when he sleeps and smiles upon my knee, 
And I can feel his light breath come and go, 
I think of one—Heaven help aDd pity me ! 
Who loved me, and whom I loved long ago. 
Who might have been—ah! what, I dftjro not think. 
We al! are changed. God judges for us best. 
God help us do our duty, and not shrink, 
And trust in Heaven humbly for the rest, 
But blame us women not, if some appear 
Too cold at times, and some too gay and light; 
Some griefs gnaw deep, some woes are hard to hear. 
Who knows the past i And who can judge us right ) 
Ah, were wc judged by what we might have been, 
And not by what wc are—too apt to fall i 
My little child—he sleeps aud smiles between 
These thoughts aud me. In Heaven we shall 
know all. 
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ILLUSTRATED PRIZE REBUS, 
The hopes that I have seen depart 
My visions only can review; 
Ah, happy freshness of the heart 
That fell upon me like a dew, 
Adieu! 
I flung my golden time away 
In dreams, and never felt it pass: 
I wake aud fiud myself to-day 
A silly, sentimental ass, 
Alas! 
The high desires of other days 
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[Concluded from page 383, last number.] 
“ Mr, Stuart, I am—really—very much sur¬ 
prised ;—why,—I had no idea ” — 
“ You had no idea! Of course not,” inter¬ 
rupted James Stuart, standing up in anger; — 
but remember, Miss Gardner, I am not to be 
trifled with." 
“Indeed, Mr. Stuart, 1 have no Intention of 
trifling with you.” 
“Then I once more repeat, 1 love you. Will 
you be my wile?” and James Stuart stood 
before Effie Gardner us if he was demanding 
or compelling instead of soliciting a favor. 
Effie sat with her head bowed down, half 
regretting the part she had been playing in the 
affair; but, as he finished ills remark, and waB 
waiting for her auswer, a sudden thought flitted 
through her designing, scheming brain; yet 
quickly withholding the old, wicked twinkling 
in her eyes by their drooping lashes, she held out 
her hand and answered quietly: 
“Yes, James, I will be your wife.” 
WOULD -HELL AT A HAHGAIN-FARIH 
it rn acre*; also, Fruit Orchard, 22 acres, in Gaines 
Orleans Co., N. Y. Address, with stamp, 
922-omtl D. J. B. HOYT, Gaines, N. Y. 
HUMOROUS SALAMAGUNDI 
USE PRATT ie, BUTCHER'S 
A Lawyer, uot over young or handsome, 
made many attempts to confuse a young lady 
whom lie^jWas examining as a witness. She, 
however, remained calm. At last, determined to 
perplex her, the lawyer said, “ Miss, you are 
very pretty!” The young lady promptly replied 
“ I would return the compliment, sir, if I were 
not on oath!” 
Scene in a Perfumer’s. —Sentimental young 
lady to perfumer:—“I don't think you forward¬ 
ed Die scent I meant; it seems entirely different 
to that 1 ordered.” , Perfumer, (who is loud of 
punning:)—“ M.uli ■>, 1 am sure that wind you 
meant I sent; the scent I 6ent was the scent 
you meant; consequently, we are both ot one 
sentiment.” 
A young buck oJ the soap-lock order, who 
wore an unshaven face, because, as lie said, 
“it looked foreign,” lately accosted a Yankee 
eg follows:—“I say, fellow, some individuals 
think 1 am a Frenchman, and some take me for 
an Etalyean; now what do you think I am?” 
“ Waal, I think you’r a darn’d fool,” replied 
Jonathan. 
About Babies. —An exchange says :—“Babies 
resemble wheat in many respects. First — 
Neither are good for much until they arrive at 
maturity. Second—Both are bred iu the house, 
and arc also the flower of Die family. Third— 
Both have to he cradled. Fourth—Both are gen¬ 
erally well-thrashed before they are done with.” 
“ You are from the country, are you not sir ?” 
said a dandy young book-seller to a homely 
dressed Quaker who had given him some 
trouble. “Yes.” “Well, here’s an Essay on 
the Rearing of Cahws." “ That,” said Amiuadab, 
as he turned to leave the shop, “ thee had better 
present to thy mother.” 
“My friend,” said the Rev, Sidney Smith to 
a cobbler who was mending his shoe when Die 
great wit was a poor curate in Gloucestershire, 
“you remind me of the sacred ordinance of 
matrimony.” “ llow so ?” quoth the cobbler. 
“ Because you bind two souls together iu unity!” 
A Western editor thinks that if the proper 
way of spelling tho is “though,” and ate 
“ eight,” and bo “ beau,” the proper way of 
spelling potatoes must bo “ poughteigliteaux.” 
The new way of spelling softly is “psought* 
leigh.” 
A correspondent (and, we are sorry to say, 
one of the fair sex) has sent us the following 
atrocity:—“ If my father’s head were divided 
into two equal parts, what lime of day would 
each portion represent? Half-past eight (half 
pa’s fete,") 
A French wit says the gibbet is a species of 
flattery to the human race. Three or four per¬ 
sons are huug from time to time, lor the sake of 
making the rest believe that they are virtuous. 
On a tombstone iu a churchyard iu Ulster is 
the following epitaph: "Erected to the memory 
of John Phillips, accidentally shot as a murk of 
affection by his brother.” 
A Miss Gillmore, somewhere down East, was 
courted by a man whose name was Haddock, who 
told her that he only wauled one Gill more to 
make a perfect fish. 
An editor in Michigan, talking of corn, pro¬ 
fesses to have a couple of ears fifteen inches long. 
Some folks are remarkable for the length of their 
two ears. 
If you trade with a Y'ankee, steal his jack¬ 
knife fust; for if he gets tew whittling, yu are 
gone.— Josh Hillings, 
An Irishman asked if Rome was called the Pa¬ 
pal States, what was the state of the paple? 
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or Pains. 
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Medicine in the World! 
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k®” To the person (residing out o’ thi- county) 
forwarding the first correct answer to the above Re¬ 
bus (w'uhin two weeks) w> will send iht- Rural 
Nkw-Yorklr for 1868,— or for one year from Oct. 1, 
1867, if preferred 
S3S'" Answer in three v. eeks. 
» For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
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Used throughout the United Staten and Can. 
a dan during the tost 1/3 gears. 
For the cure of the various Diseases to which 
Horses ;ul (i Cattle arc subject; such as 
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Grensr, Mange, Inflammation of the 
Eyes, and Fatlguo from Hard Labor; 
also, Rheumatism, (commonly called 
still'compla mi/u which proves fatal to so 
many valuable horses in'Dus Country. 
I am composed of 25 letter?. 
My 6, 4. 2,:) is a bird. 
My 1, 7. 8. Bi. 21 is an animal. 
My 11,12,18,14.15 ie a word used to denote value, 
My It 17,16, 22 is a toy. 
Mv 4, 5, 21 is a kind of grain. 
My J9,24, IS, lfl is « noisy instrument. 
My 25, 7, 23, 20 is a wild animal. 
My whole is a distinguished poet. c. w. :i 
Answer in two weeks. 
“Why, Effie! what have you done?” ex¬ 
claimed both Anna and Tillie In one breath, as 
James Stuart took Ids departure, nnd Effie 
joined the other two girls in Die next room, 
where Anna and Tii.i.ie had been secreted during 
the entire colloquy between Mr. James Stuart 
and Effie Gardner. 
“What have I done?” repeated Effie. “I 
have only been fulfilling my promises to you.” 
“ Yes, but we did Dot tell you to marry him,” 
6aid Anna. 
“Neither do I intend to marry him,” 
“But Effie, you most assuredly said you 
would become Ids wife.” 
“Yes, to be sure I promised him, hut I intend 
to keep my promise with him just about the 
same as he has kept his promises to others iu 
times past; for, tell me candidly, girls, did you 
not, each of you, expect to be Die wife of Mr. 
James Stuart one day? And, were you not, 
one or both of you, engaged to him?” 
“Yes,” answered Annie, “7 was, I’m very 
sorry to say, engaged to James Stuart ; ” and 
the half-blushing girl looked thoughtfully to¬ 
wards her companions as she made the confes¬ 
sion. Then the companionable trio broke out 
in a hearty langli at the absurdity of the thing, 
“But what has that to do with your promising 
to marry him ? ” inquired Tillie, after their 
mirth had partially subsided. 
“It means simply this: James Stuart en¬ 
gaged himsel’' to Anna without the slightest 
idea of full!Ring his promise, as he was seeking 
to gain your aud my affections at the same time; 
and now I intend paying him off in his own coin 
by promising to marry him, nnd then leaving 
on our bridal day with some other man,” — and 
Effie’s lips again dimpled roguishly, significant 
of certain, triumphant success. 
“ How will you manage to keep your betrothal 
and intended marriage with Henry Lewis a 
secret from James Stuart?” asked Tillie. 
“0! that’s an easy matter. You know of 
course that 1 have confided the whole matter to 
Harry, and it not only met with his entire ap¬ 
probation, hut lie said he would help us all lie 
could in the furtherance of our project, and in 
punishing James Stuart for his folly in trilling 
with the affections of three at a time, and Harry 
said he deserved to be thwarted iu his plans even 
as he intended to disappoint others. You both 
arc aware that Harry and myself are to be mar¬ 
ried just,six months from to-day, and ou that 
very same day I have promised to become the 
wife of James Stuart also. I declare, girls, 
it’s too good a joke,” and the three laughed most 
merrily. 
After laughing and chatting together for a 
short time, our three heroines separated with 
many glowiDg anticipations of the grand sport 
tliej T were to have in Mr. James Stuart’s de¬ 
scent from “the third heaven of bliss,” where 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
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Eht tafe fo oneitan, kilc*a gihmty eas, 
Si lull fo neddita looplsrihw, corks dna verags; 
And eh si lindb halt ni lieht stinyeds 
Esse tub inn cictilon fo eth diuw dan eevaw. 
Sandoval, N. C. Mary. 
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ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 931 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Open rebuke 
is better than secret love.” 
Answer to Anagram: 
Who can tell me where have fled 
Hopes of yore f 
Like the summer leaves they’re dead, 
To come hack, ah. nevermore. 
Answer to illustrated Prize Rebus in No. 030.—"We 
have received many answers to the Prize Rebus in 
No 930 of the Rural, bnt none of them are strictly 
correct; two or three are nearly eo, one of which 
reads thus: — “Wornun sometimes inflames man 
against man." Many of the answers are amusing; 
here are some specimens: —"Woman inflames the 
times against tobacco" A woman tires three times 
at two pickpockets;” *• Behold how a great flame 
may sometimes be kindled by a little spark in a back 
room." The correct answer is—“ Mistakes sometimes 
inflame men against each other." 
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[Young ladies of the Rural Circle are wise 
enough to understand, without admonition, 
that the course pursued by the heroine in Die 
preceding sketch is not specially commendable, 
though there are male flirts and deceivers who 
undoubtedly deserve the heroic treatment de¬ 
scribed.— Ed.] 
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opinion. Alter taking a good look at him, Dr. 
Mason pointed to the knees ol’ Die horse, which 
were worn, indicatiug that he was in the habit 
of stumbling. “That,” said he, “U a good 
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minister’s horse.” 
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