good deal; and there had bef it recent tears, for tne 
eyelids were tomewhiit swollen. She was not sad 
at present, however, for she played on the piano for 
the children and for me, their old godfather, to 
dance to, and she joined with us in a game of blind 
man’s buff. When the children retired, she retired 
also. 
“ What a charming person,” 1 said. 
“She is most excellent," said my friend. “Al¬ 
though she is so young, Miss-is the bread pro¬ 
vider of her family, ller father and mother have, 
according to the cant phrase, seen better days, in 
fact, they are people of good birth, and once had a 
good fortune. They have a sou and daughter; the 
son is a fine, fellow also. Both the son and the 
daughter give a greater part of their earnings to 
their parents; but the son has not been very fortu¬ 
nate. My little governess,—she is only seventeen, 
_(my children are so young they do not require a 
prim, regular governess, for they only study with 
her three hours a day,) does more with her salary, 
mediocre as it is, than her brother can do with his 
hard work. He is clerk in a bauk.” 
“ And she helps him also, I suppose ?” 
“I dare 6ay she does, but I have never inquired, 
for she is full of reticence and reserve on those 
points. I only know she would sit up all night, and 
work like a horse all day, to help both her parents 
and her brother. She is going home to-morrow; 
but he, I fear, cannot afford the expense of the 
journey. The parents live now In Scotland.*’ 
iECUBE PROFITABLE INVESTMENT, 
I wait : for what ? For better things ♦ 
For hours of which the poet sings ? 
To drink from purer, sweeter springs ? 
I hardly know. 
Perchance you wonder if there be, 
In distant years that we may see, 
Some greater good for you and m* ?— 
It must be so. 
I hold my fkitb in coming years. 
Though dark the present time appears, 
The light to be my pathway cheers 
And onward leads; 
The Past is but a land of dreams— 
The Present little that it seems— 
The Future hides the golden beams, 
The fruitful deeds I 
That which T wait will come sometime; 
The greatest good will reach its prime, 
And of its fullness, ripe, sublime, 
I shall partake; 
The nectar springs of which I dream 
Will in the sunlight brightly gleam, 
My longing thirst at their cool stream 
T then shall slake I 
’Till then I wait; not hoping less 
Because the greater happiness 
Succeeding days do not. possess— 
My faith i* slroDg: 
1 wait with patient, firm belief 
That joy will give Its crown to grief. 
And harrest-time will bring the sheaf 
Awaitsd long. 
God pity him whose failh is dead 
In good to come, who may have said 
“ There is no brighter day ahead, 
No warmer sun 
For him the years will slowly wane, 
To him will come no end of pain, 
With him will be each lasting bane 
But just begun 1 
The mocking lights we ever chase, 
That with our steps forcer keep pace, 
Familiar grow as does the face 
Of dearest friend; 
And if in all their mocking (light 
Our hope of capture stilt i-. bright. 
The brilliance of the fleeting light 
Will never end 1 
The greatest good we never hold; 
The buds of promise ne’er unfold 
Within our grasp their flowers of gold, 
But blossom late. 
The sweetest hopes are all before; 
The rarest joys are still in store; 
And patiently forevermore 
We for them wait I 
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For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. 
wife sought to “ cheer me up, an she saul. l even 
dreamed of the man. If I hud known where to find 
him, I would have gone the next day, to satisfy my¬ 
self that he had received assistance. 
But the impression gradually wore off There is 
so much suffering now in great cities, that almost 
every one becomes hardened to it. I pursuaded my¬ 
self finally that the mail had been helped by others. 
“ There are so many societies to aid soldiers, ’ 1 said. 
It was uncomfortable to think otherwise. 
One morning, about four days after the interview, 
my wife was reading the paper, when she suddenly 
laid it down, and cried, “ llow shocking!” 
1 do not know how it was, but 1 felt a sudden chill. 
1 thought instantly of that man’s wan'face. But 1 
said carelessly, as i broke my egg,— 
“What is It, my dear?” 
“ Oh 1 such a horrible story. A discharged soldier, 
his wife and two children, dying of starvation. At 
least the wife is dead, and one of the children not 
expected to live. None have had anything to eat 
for four days. They were found in an old out¬ 
house. The husband is said to have lost both arms 
EPISODE IN AN EDITOR’S LIFE 
One bitter cold morning, a few days before Christ¬ 
mas, in the year -, I sat as usual at my desk. 
Among the heap of manuscripts was one, written 
on the softest cream-laid French white paper, in a 
childish lady’s band, on lines which had been care¬ 
fully erased afterwards, 
but there was an aroma of 
“ ), There was a 
it was like the light iu the sky before 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Answer in two weeks. 
It was a little story of no 
great literary merit, 
youth aud of sweetness in every line, 
promise in it; L 
the sun had risen on a fine day—an omen, a portent 
of sunshine and warmth, but no more. I put it 
down as if I had touched the petal of a rose. There 
was a tiny scented note beside it, full of italics: 
-Street, Dublin, Dec. —, 186—. 
“Dear Mit. Editor:—I send you a little story. 
I am only sixteen, and papa ana mamma do not 
know anything about it, but please tell me if it be 
worth anything. I want it to be printed; I want to 
be paid for It. It is not for myself, though, but 1 
want the money to give my dear little brother a nice 
little birthday present. I am, dear Mr. Editor, 
yours, &c., Emily . 
Then came the address and the signature. The 
writing of the note was less neat and regular than 
the mauuscript. But there was the same fragrance 
of dainty youth about it. 
I held it a long time in my hand. 1 am an old 
man; at ail events middle-aged—perhaps something 
more; my beard is gray, my hair is gray too. I 
have no doubt that to the jcivnem done whom I 
occasionally meet I wear the look of Dickens’ patri¬ 
arch, but my heart is younger than my appearance. 
Little distillations came, or seemed to come, from 
the paper I held. Had I been a Foster or a Home, 
I might perhaps have divined the writer; but, 
certes, it was with uo common feeling of interest 
that I sat down aud wrote my answer to the note. 
I returned the manuscript, but I wrote gently and 
tenderly. I gave it as my hope and my opinion 
that, with a little more care and study, the youthful 
writer would achieve a success. I even promised 
to print that identical manuscript if it were a little 
revised and corrected, aud I pointed out how it 
might be made available. 1 opened the window of 
my den after I had written my note. The weeds 
piercing through the flags below bad a less dreary 
look thau they had ever had before; a gleam of 
E XV VO K K WEEKLY TRIBUNE 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCEULANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 29 letters. 
My 7, 2*5, 21,15,17 is a domestic anjmal. 
My 21, 12, C, 10 is is a kind of bird. 
My 9, 7. 12 14 is a kind of fish. 
My 1, 26,18, 22 is finished. 
My 25,12, 2, 9, 21 is a kind of swamp. 
My 29, 28, 15 is a word which expresses affirmation. 
My 7,12.20,20. 3, IT is a girl’s name. 
My 16,17, 4.18.11 is a part of a dollar. 
My 5, 8, 20. 22 boys are fond of. 
My 9, 23, 27 is l<< transgress. 
My 19, 2,11 is not wet. • 
My whole is what young men often do. 
Hillsdale, Mich. Arthur L. Close. 
t'-r/" Answer in two weeks. 
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to push into circulation jouruuis which sympathized with 
the Rebellion during Its progress, and are now moved and 
inspired by its fundamental principle that Liberty is right¬ 
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Blacks have no rights which Whites are hound to respect. 
A desperate effort is preparing to give ascendancy to tills 
Reactionary principle In our Government through the tri¬ 
umph of its champions in the choice of onr next President 
and Congress. 
The journals thus crowded Into circulation by offering 
them at coat are neither so large nor so varied in their con¬ 
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Tribune wus offured at that price; anti TnE Tribune then 
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any more ?—wfiere ana now was sue r 
Every moment I became more and more possessed 
with this memory. I was so happy myself that I 
felt for all w ho seemed to have care aud struggle in 
their lives. I looked out the address to which 1 
had written before, aud wrote to the unknown a 
few lines. I said that time had passed away, (five 
years, almost,) that the youthful inexperience which 
had prevented the paper she had sent from being 
accepted must now be corrected, aud that I should 
he glad and willing to see anything else she had 
written, if she had written anything since then. 
I smiled at the romantic fervor of this reply, aud 
a faint desire arose that my wife and the writer of 
that letter should know each other, and then I went 
on with my stupefying rivociations. 
As I went home, 1 confess 1 looked about for a 
woman with a rose in her hand, but as might nat¬ 
urally be supposed, neither in cabs nor omnibuses 
did such an apparition manifest itself. 
As I entered my own door I gave an impatient 
shrug at the idea of having been the subject of a 
foolish jest. But whom did 1 see standing just 
within the threshold of my home? My darling, 
with her fair, child-like face, and bright hair; love 
and joy and youth crowning her with a triple crown, 
and in her hand was a rose I 
“Dear husband,” she said, as 1 kissed her, “I 
think I loved you from the moment I had your 
kind, indulgent, thoughtful uote. I had written 
that absurd little story, for I sadly wanted a little 
money to pay for Herald’s return home at Christmas 
to he with papa aud mamma, and I had a foolish 
notion I could write.” 
“And you were disappointed, my pet; what a 
savage 1 mast have seemed.” 
“No; I felt bow foolish I had been, and I cried 
heartily, but I thought you good and kind all the 
same. And Gerald got home, too, and we had a 
j^ppy Qhrhtmas after all. 
I kissed her. 
“ But are you never going to write a story for my 
magazine again?” 
“I do not know,” she said, archly; “meanwhile 
you can write ours if you like.”— Once a Week. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
PROBLEM. 
Required the surface of a polyglon of seven sides, de¬ 
scribed on a sphere whose diameter is seventeen miles, 
the bum of the angles being 1080" ? 
Fremont, Ill. Iroquois. 
Answer in two weeks. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:— 1 Only by pride com- 
eth contention; but with the well advised is wisdom. 
Answer to Problem:—The youngest child must receive 
per annum $253.31; the middle-aged $344.40; the oldest 
$565.90: and each will possess at the age of 21 $0,503.14. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Oh Friendship! flower of liiirest hue 
To earthly hands so seldom given; 
Thy bloom shall other climes renew, 
Thy native soil is lleaven. 
No correct answer has thus far been received to the 
Prize Rebus given in No. 936, aud we have concluded to 
defer giving any for the present. 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YOREER, 
the largest-circulating 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, Proprietor, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AND NEW YORK CITY. 
Why is love like a canal boat ? Because it is an internal 
transport. 
WnEN is a flea like a locomotive ? When it goes over 
the sleepers. 
Why is the letter D like a drunkard’s life ? Because it 
always ends bad. 
What vegetable, expresses the. relation between milk 
and water? Pump-kin. 
Whum were til® first sweetmeats made? when Noah 
preserved pairs In the ark. 
A trial trip—A trip with two Saratoga trunks, four 
hand-boxes and a—woman. 
A pedant remarked to a farmer, “ I cannot bear a fool.” 
“Your mother could,” was the reply. 
Beau Buummkl was asked the question—What consti¬ 
tutes a gentleman ? “ Starch, my lord,” was his reply, 
What is the difference between a town and its people? 
It is laid out at the beginning of its existence-, and they 
at the end of theirs. 
“Who is this Sahn-Salm?” asked Mr. Seward when he 
first heard the name. “I suppose he comes from Sing- 
Sing,” was t he reply. 
“ Well, my hoy, do yon know' what ‘ syntax ’ means ?” 
said a schoolmaster to his pupil. “Yes, sir, was the 
reply; “ the duty on spirits.” 
“Macduff! what a singular appellation for a hen. 
Pray, madam, why did yon give her that name? ’ “Be¬ 
cause I wanted her to 4 lay on.’ ” 
“Mother, ” said Ike Partington, “Did you know that 
the iron horse has got hut one ear ?” “ One ear ? Merci¬ 
ful gracious child I what do you mean?” “Why the 
engin-eer, to he sure. 
A fashionable but ignorant lady, desirous of purchas¬ 
ing a watch, was shown a very beautiful one, the shop¬ 
keeper remarking that it went thirty-six hours. 44 What, 
in one day?” she asked. 
ever, all thoughts oi tne manuscript. 
The author was too timid to reply. 
****** 
On Christmas Eve I was asked, as usual, to dine 
with an old friend of mine at St. John’s Wood. He 
was a married man, with a pleasant, comely wife, 
and several small children, male and female. We 
dined m petit vomits, 
“The children are not coming down to dinner,” 
said my hostess, “ for they are going to give us a 
surprise afterwards,” 
I bowed and was delighted, both at the anticipa¬ 
tion of pleasure to come and of privation for the 
first time of considerable present annoyance. I 
need not say I was then a bachelor. When wc went 
up stairs after dinner we found the fuldiug' doors 
which divided the front from the back room closed. 
They were opened after a while. The Christmas 
hymn was sung, aud a German tree of the most 
brilliant splendor was revealed; on its branches 
were hung gifts worked aud embroidered by the 
children for their parents, aud for the friends of 
their parents. The three little girls and their gov¬ 
erness had done it ail. 
While my friend aud his wife were embracing and 
thanking the children, 1 had time to notice the. gov¬ 
erness. She was very young, almost a child herself. 
A mass of bright hair was gathered up in great 
waves at each side of her head, and fastened ill a 
loose, thick loop behind. The bright curls were so 
arranged us to reveal the ear. The ear and cheek 
were —I &hould rather say they are—like those 
painted by Leighton in his 14 Painter’s Honeymoon.” 
Need I say more of their ravishing loveliness ? But 
the pretty blue eyes looked as if they had cried a 
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unbutton it and continue to hold my umbrella and 
book; and to crown all, the street car for which I 
had been waiting, at that moment came up. 
“I haven’t anything to-day,” I said, turning from 
the man and beckoning to the driver. 
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