Xew Advertisements, 
exactly. It may have been merejy an une w uro, 
«poken with no thought of harm. Certain am 
I that it was no true word. Agnes was guile¬ 
less and undeceiving; he had no reason to mis¬ 
trust her faithfulness, however much he may 
Lave fancied he had. But there was mistrust in 
Lia heart, nevertheless. Throughout the au¬ 
tumn, as the golden glory deepened ia the 
forests, this mistrust had deepened in his heart. 
As he had not met her whom he. doubted, mean¬ 
while, and as they had entered into no corre¬ 
spondence, no opportunity had been afforded for 
proving the correctness of his suspicion. 
He looked forward to Christmas to decide his 
doubts. With the ready faith in self of twenty* 
one years, he relied upon his ability to judge 
woman’s heart. He would meet her again, and 
would read her truth or faithlessness for him¬ 
self. She could not deceive him. And if she 
really were not true—what then? He did not 
like to think upon this contingency. Though 
bis distrust was considerable, his hope—half 
hope, half belief-that everything would be 
satisfactorily explained, was stronger than that, 
even stronger than he knew. For hope is, 
oftener than one would suspect, partially blind. 
fromientlv it will not see when it 
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It madly leaps each rugged cliff 
And stops below to rest— 
Then soft and slow all peaceful flow 
Thejripplee o’er Its breast. 
I sit npou the mossy bank 
And list its music grand, 
For, all along, it sings a song. 
I always understand. 
Sometimes it siDgs of joy and hope— 
A pleasant, lively strain ; 
But sighing «oft, it tells me oft 
Of sorrow siul of pain. 
Sometimes It Kings of other days, 
And brings to mind each dream 
That, when a child, in fancy wild, 
Came o’er me, by the stream. 
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Those dreams I cherish still; 
And, sad or gay, I love the lay— 
The music of the rill. 
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and WILLIAM B. BRADBURY, first published only a 
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It is the first hook in which Dr. Mason and Mr. Bradbury 
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CHATTER II. 
Agnes arrived at Jngleelde in time to cDjoy 
Chrifiimas-Eve with those already assembled 
there. And a merry season they all had of it. 
A half-dozen uncles and aunts, together with a 
troop of cousins and friends, made up the party. 
Howard was to come next day. 
Agnes was gov as the gayest, and entered into 
all* the sports of the evening with even more 
than her wonted zeet. It was to he such a glad 
to-morrow, surely she must he happy to-day! 
So she thought, so think many of us whose 
glad to-morrows are full of moanings, instead 
of the joy we looked for! 
When the rooming came, and she looked 
through the crystalline air out upon the white- 
spread lawn and down the winding road in 
front, where* everything was 60 still and Sab¬ 
bath-like, it seemed to her like a holy day 
indeed. She fancied, then, that the year would 
be incomplete without its Christmas, just as 
the week would be incomplete without its Sab¬ 
bath. There are a few days, set here and there 
in the year’s casket, which are not as common 
days. They are quiet resting places, where we 
stop and look back upon the way passed over, 
and in which we gather strength for the dis¬ 
tance yet before us. Perhaps Agnes hardly 
realized just this, yet a vague impression that 
there was’something unusual in the very atmos¬ 
phere,"exited in her mind. Still, though for 
the moment sober-hearted, she was not sad. 
She would have trilled the merriest carol rather 
than a Tc Drum Lavdamus; meanwhile in her 
song, however bird-like, a tone of praise would 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
ECUKE PROFITABLE INVESTMENT 
BY A. A. HOPKINS, 
CHAPTER I. 
The earliest recollection that haunted the 
memory of Agnes Livermore waB of a Christ¬ 
mas spent at Ingleside Farm, when she was four 
y ea rB old. It and its gladness hud been fastened 
npon her mind, somehow, and were the first 
circumstances in life which she definitely re¬ 
membered. Certain other things there were 
that must have come iD contact with her living 
at a time earlier, by perhaps a few weeks, than 
that, which seemed to have a vague and shadowy 
existence in her mind; but 6he never could 
really go beyond that Christmas-time in her 
backward looking. It is well if our first mem¬ 
ory be not one of sorrow or unpleasantness. 
suicidal notions—but a healthy em 
might he long felt but without re 
to life. 
Arrived in 
Represent the preferred claim upon one oi me musi 
IMPORTANT LLNE8 OF COMMTXICATIOX IX THE WORLD, 
as it is the sole link between the Pacific Coast and the 
Great Interior Basin, over which the immense Overland 
travel must pass, and the 
ITIain Trunk Line Across tlie Continent. 
The Road is now nearly completed from Sacramento 
to the Richest Mining Regions iu the- Salt Lake Basin, 
and is being rapidly carried forward by the largest force 
of laborers ever employed by any Railroad Company on 
this continent. 
The natural, legitimate, commercial business of the 
Road surpasses all previous expectation, and l* profit¬ 
able beyond parallel, even among the oldest roads in 
The Earnings and Expenses for the Quar- 
as follows, IN CHILD: 
It RATTYG NB C 
PltXSKB, EARNINGS, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. 
Calcutta, at length, his new sur¬ 
roundings filled the present wi.„ _ 
novelty that the p 
into dim distance, 
former years 
owv. He did not forget 
‘ rith so much of 
tast slid away Imperceptibly 
Life was to unlike that of 
that they seemed unreal and sbad- 
; very often, indeed, 
remembered the old pleasure and the old 
d, but both were dream-like, for the most 
t, and had only a vague existence In mcm- 
Now and then, however—but the inter- 
s grew rarer as the months increased—that 
t, Christmas came back with the keen vivid- 
,s of a full aud perfect resurrection; he saw 
ovely and loved form as he saw it when 
-y parted; heard a sweet, rich voice as he 
ird it then; and realized deeply the bitter¬ 
ly of a love tbi t (lied n<fv, but which brought 
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existence 
ter ending Oct. 31, were 
Gross Qj 
Earnings. Kx 
This result, however, weald have been iar greater but 
for tbc inability of wagon team* to forward the freight 
and passengers from the temporary terminuB In the 
mountains. 
The United State* Government and the State and 
Cities of California have eo aided and fostered the Great 
Enterprise, that the Company will assume very light 
annual Interest obligations, and will have the following 
ample Resources at command for the Construction: 
DONATIONS iu hands. Bonds,Conces- 
Rochester, N. Y. 
{3T" Answer in two weeks, 
»lons,Cle., (Without Urn) . 
CAPITAL H’fot'K. Net Earnings, ete. ( 
fuo IIPII'.. .. 11 *000* till If 
LOANS iKuiinrcIlnate lien). . 3,000,000 
U. sV SUBSIDY BONDS, 7!2U miles 
(subordinate lien),. .. 
first mortgage Bonds . tf-v 317,000 
Resources, Orst 7*26 miles..£77,83-1,000 
The FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS are in sums of *1,000 
each, with K-mi-unnual gold coupons attached, and are 
offered for sale, for the present, at 95 per cent, and ac¬ 
crued Interest from July 1st, in currency, at which rate 
they yield nearly 
Nine per Cent, upon tlie Investment. 
These Bonds, authorized by the Pacific Railroad Acta 
of Congress, arc Issued only aa the work progresses, and 
to the same extent only aa the Bonds granted by the 
Government, and are the prior lien upon the whole valu¬ 
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Conversions of Government Securities 
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now realize for the holders from twelve to eighteen 
per cent, advantage, with the same rale oflnterest. 
Bonds can be obtained through the subscribers direct- 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 46 letters. 
My 23, 31. 27,19. 25. 2, 39, 37 arc worn by the ladies. 
My 43, 33, H, 46, 80 is one of the natural elements. 
My 16, 7, 4, 9, 20, 88, 22 is a man’s name. 
My 16, 9, 8, 5 is an Insect. 
My 41, 32,29,11 is a vegetable. 
My 46, 24,14, 3, 6 is u point of the compass. 
My 21, 88,16, 42, 44,18,12 is a city in North Carolina 
My 26, 88, 84 is a very useful article. 
My 17,15 is a pronouD. 
My 40, 8, 86 is a portion of time. 
My 26.13,1 is a domestic animal. 
My 10,14,19 is a part of a harness. 
My whole is a verse in Proverbs. 
Norwalk, Ohio. E- Hackett. 
|VT Answer in two weeks. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 933 
came its renewal. A round dozen Christmas- 
times, with one to spare, had Agnes counted 
there, each one of which had been marked by 
some little happiness peculiar to itself. Of 
them all, the la6t had brought to her most—had 
been tilled with delight the most supreme. In 
the first were her first real inflowings of life, as 
she remembered them; hut in the last was the 
fullness of something sweeter than life—love, 
and love returned. 
It was little wonder, theD, that Agnes Liv¬ 
ermore, in the flush of her seventeen years, and 
with her heart attuned wholly to the witching 
music of love, felt a thrill of intensest pleasure 
as. she anticipated the joyousness so soon to be 
hers. For at Ingleside, where they had met 
year alter year, and where, at the last bright 
meeting, he had gladdened her life by the same 
sweet story that has gladdened many another’s, 
she was to meet Howard Landor. If she 
fancied the Christmas-time would possess a new 
holiness, it was because in every young and 
pure heart love is a holy revelation that tinges 
everything around it with its own charms, if 
tier faith in the gladness that, time should bring 
was more implicit than formerly, it was for the 
reason that love deepens the trust in all things, 
aud throws a halo of uudoubtingness over the 
future. 
Were i an artist, desiring to paint woman¬ 
hood in all its perfection of loveliness, I would 
choose for my subject one iu the freshness of 
love’s young dream. There may be most com¬ 
plete beauty of form and feature, but until the 
heart- has warmed to the awakening of Jove, 
something is wanting. And homeliness may be 
bo transfigured by love as to be lost sight of, 
may,’.indeed, approximate to beauty. 
Howard Landor, thinking of the holidays 
approaching, experienced little of the joy so 
peculiar tolove’s young anticipations. Some¬ 
thing had been whispered to him which threw a 
shadow over his trust, and made him doubtful 
of the good to come. 1 never knew what it was, 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma :-Uenry Words¬ 
worth Longfellow. 
Answer to Anagram; 
The fate of nations, like a mighty sea, 
Is full of hidden whirlpools, rocks and graves; 
And he Is blind that in their destiny 
Sees but the conflict of the wind and waves. 
To Miss H. A. French, Bath, N. Y„ ie awarded the 
prize for the first correct answer to Illustrated Prize 
Rebus in No. 932 of the Rural. It is as follows: 
This world is fall of beauty, 
As are the worlds above. 
HUMOROUS SALMAGUNDI, 
Tailor’s Revenge.— diving a customer ms. 
When is an extravagant youth like a dog? 
When he’s cur-tailed. 
Wanted, a strong adhesive plaster, to make 
busy-bodies 6tick to their own business. 
When does an itinerant barber resemble a flash 
of light ? When he flits from poll to -poll. 
We once knew of a fellow who fancied he was 
a Donkey. The beauty of it was he wasn’t much 
mistaken. 
AN editor of a paper in Indiana wants to know if 
western whisky was ever seen “ coming through 
the rye?” 
A man who bumps his head against that of his 
neighbors isn’t apt to think that two heads are 
better than one. 
Why is a husband like a Mississippi steam¬ 
boat ? Because he never knows when he may- 
get a blowing up. 
A man named Peck, in St. Louis, raises chil¬ 
dren by the bushel. He has ten Pecks now—two 
bushels and a half. 
Dobbs says the first lime a girl kissed him, he 
felt as if he was sliding down a rain-bow, with 
Yankee Doodle in each hand. 
An exchange says—There is something sweet 
about little girls. The. Louisville Journal adds, 
"And it grows on ’em as they grow bigger.” 
Hood speaks of a bird building its nest on the 
ledge over the door of a doctor's office, as an at¬ 
tempt to rear its young in the very jaws of death. 
MOORE S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THE LAEGEST-CI ECU LATINS 
AGR1C0LTGRAI, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
18 PUBLISHED EVIEY SATHEDAY 
BY B. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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Three Dollar* a Y r ear -To Clubs and Agents as 
follows:—Five copies one yew. lor *14; Eeven, aud one 
free to Club Agent, for *19; Ten, and one tree, for *25, 
and any greater suinber at the same rate—Only *-,M per 
copy. Club papers directed to Indlvldur.R and sent to,a* 
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lowest Club rate for Canada, and *3,50 to Europe. The 
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Premium List, Show-Bill, dic.-Our Premiums 
to Club Agents are more liberal than ever before, but 
T he weed sewing 
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OF HARTPOHD, CONT3Y-, 
Bee leave to ask the readers of the "Rural" to examine 
tlnFr Machines and compare the ease Of running, rapid¬ 
ity qidetJ^ and superior stitch, with any others pro- 
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