sash just as yours was fixed,” said the heartless 
Adelaide, as she saw Alice about to tie on her 
bonnet. 
In a box which stood upon the table laid the 
bead purse , and glancing at that, Alice did what¬ 
ever was required of her, nor scarcely feit a pang 
when at last the toilet was completed, and Ade¬ 
laide Huntington stood before her, arrayed in the 
self same dress which she had worn but two short 
years ago. 
u 1 meant you should dress me all the time,” said 
Adelaide, glancing complacently at herself in the 
mirror. “ I meant you should dress me,—mother 
knows so little abont such matters, and then, too, 
she is sick up stairs with a violent headache, but 
I do not need you any longer—what are you wait¬ 
ing for ?” she continued, as Alice made no move¬ 
ment to go. 
“ I am waiting for the money, which I want so 
much to-night,” answered Alice. 
“Ah, yes, the money,” said Adelaide, making 
a feint to examine the purse, which she knew was 
empty. 
Altce knew it, too, all too soon, and sinking 
down upon a little stool she cried aloud. 
“ What shall we do! The wood is almost gone, 
and I baked the last cake to-night. Oh, father, 
father, what will you do to-morrow!” 
Adelaide Huntington was not hard-heart,ed 
enough to be unmoved by that appeal, and forget¬ 
ting entirely the soap, she glided from the room to 
which she soon returned, bringing a basket of food 
for Alice, whom she comforted with the assurance 
that she should be paid as soon as possible. 
“ I’d no idea they were so poor," said Adelaide 
to herself, as the door closed upon Alice, and then 
she wished the agent would send the money so she 
could pay the debt and have it oil' her mind. 
Just then the village omnibus stopped at the 
gate, and Adelaide ran for a moment to show her 
mother how she looked, then gathering up the 
folds of her rich lace skirt and throwing on her 
shawl, she entered the carriage and was soon riding 
towards the scene of gayety, while Alice Warren 
was hurrying home, a nameless terror creeping into 
her heart and vaguely whispering that the moirow, 
for which she had been so anxious, might bring her 
a sorrow such as orphans only know. 
Tub following beautiful poem we find drilling a ) 
onr exchanges, with no acknowledgment of author 
It is from the pen of onr l'riend and editorial brother 
Bates of the Detroit Post, who has written some c 
sweetest verse extant.— Bd. Rural. 
17n del the ice the waters run; 
Under the ice our spirits lie; 
The genial glow of the summer sun 
Shall loosen their fetters by-and-by. 
Moan and groan in thy prison cold, 
River of life—river of love; 
The winter is growing worn and old, 
The frost is leaving the melting mould, 
And the stiu shines bright above. 
Under the ice—under the snow, 
Our lives are bound in a crystal ring; 
By-and-by will the south wind blow, 
And the roses bloom on the banks of spring, 
Moan aud groan in thy fetters strong, 
River of life—river of love; 
The nights grow short—the days grow long, 
Weaker aud weaker the bonds of wrong, 
And the suu shines bright above. 
Under the ice our souls are hid; 
Under the ice our good deeds grow; 
Men but credit the wrong we did— 
Never the motive that lAy below. 
Moan and groau in ihy prison cold, 
River of life—river of love; 
The winter or life is growing old, 
The host is leaving the melting mould. 
And the sun shines warm above. 
Under the icc we hide our wrong— 
Under the ice that, has chilled us through; 
O, that the friends who have known ub long 
Dare to doubt we are good and true 1 
Moan and groan in thy prison cold; 
River of life—river of love; 
The winter is growing worn and old, 
»The roses stir in the meltinglmould; 
We 6hall be known above. 
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ONTHFHm, 
as GOD / 
■jiMrJj / « 
lips, “ If you only mil pay me jmrt to day! Father 
is sick, and we are so poor,” and the little blue- 
veinecl hands were clasped beseechingly together. 
“ There’s a dollar, if that will do you any good,” 
said Adelaide, tbrusting a bill into Alice’s hand, 
and then hurrying away. 
She had no intention whatever of cheating Alice 
out of her pay, but she hated to part with her 
money, and on her way home she thought of so 
many things which she must have, that she began 
at last to wouder if Alice would not just as soon 
take something from the house, bread , or potatoes, 
or soap —she heard old Peggy boastiDg of having 
made a barrel full, and soap was a very useful arti- 
cle,—Bhe’d ask Alice when she brought home the 
dress !—and, feeling a good deal of confidence in 
her soaping plan, she stopped at Mr. Howland’s 
store, where she spent a portion of her remaining 
six; dollars for white kids , satin ribbon, blonde lace, 
and so forth. 
As she was leaving the store, she met with Mr. 
Howland, who accompanied her to the door, casu¬ 
ally, asking if she knew how Mr. Wakren wa3 get¬ 
ting along. “’Tis some time since I was there,” 
said he, “and I think of going round to-night. As 
he is sick they may perhaps be suffering.” 
“Oh, no, they are not,” quickly rejoined Ade¬ 
laide, who did not wish to have him go there, lest 
he should see the dress, and ascertain that it had 
once belonged to Alice. “ 1 have just been to see 
them, myself. Mr. Warren is no worse, and they 
are doing very well I gave Alice some work, too, 
paying her in advance.” 
“And, on the whole, you think I had better spend 
the evening with you!” said Mr. Howland, play¬ 
fully interrupting her, as he saw that one of his 
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My 27,11, 23, 32, 7. 8 is a town in Monroe Co. 
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My 13, 29,17,14, 22, 0 is a river in Indiana. 
My 18, 33,16 is an affirmative answer. 
My whole is one of Jefferson's ten rules of life. 
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Ep. nikd ot ytb ctrbohr vihweeer oyu era, 
Teh olve ft) a bortrbr lhsal be 
Na tearonmn uprer nad cerihr yb raf 
Tnah sepals ofrrn eht htedps fo hte esa. 
Fairfield, Herk. Co., N. Y. m. v 
J3?” Answer in two weeks. 
[Written and Copyrighted for Vol. X of Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker, and Republished by Request.] 
ALICE AND ADELAIDE 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—My son if sinners 
entice thee consent thou not. 
Answer to (7 ram mat i cal Enigma:—Lo the poor Indian. 
Answer to Anagram: 
The spider wears a plain brown dress, 
And she is a steady spinner; 
To see her, quiet, as a mouse. 
Going about her silver house, 
Yon would never, never, never guess 
The way she gets her dinner. 
Answer to CharadeHeel. 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus:—Many a cow stands in 
the green pasture and longs for the barren heath. 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus iu No. 942:— Too little at¬ 
tention is paid to the teaching of divine Inspiration. 
Answer to Illustrated Prize Rebus in No. 941 of the 
Rural One realizes the misfit of a boot when he puts 
his foot in it..’’ The prize for first correct rendering is 
awarded to Mrs. E. A. Foster. Leicester, Mass. 
BV MRS. MARY J. HOLMES. 
Wht is hay like an intemperate man? Because it gets 
cocked. 
According to the Articles of War, it is death to stop a 
cannon ball. 
A contemporary styles a race between two milk cans 
aqnattc sports. 
Why is a prosy, long-winded talker like an oil-well? 
Because he is a precious bore. 
Why is kissing a girl like eating soup with a fork? 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
it is easily shocked by the farmer. 
“ Wfiat,” inquired a schoolmaster. “ is the. plnral of 
penny ?’’ “ Twopence I” shout ed the sharpest in the class. 
Wht (asked Prentice) don’t the planets cut off the 
comet’s tail when it passes among them ? T hey all have 
axes. 
A Shoemaker, intending to be absent a few (lays, larnp- 
... . without date, and 
Will be home in ten days 
A COUGH, a COL®, or a SORE THROAT, 
requires immediate attention, and should be checked. 
If allowed to continue, 
Irritation of the Langs, a Pei’innnent Throat 
Disease or Consumption, 
is often the result. 
BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES 
Haying a direct Influence to the parts, give immediate relief. 
For Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, Consumption, 
and Throat Diseases, Troches are used with always 
good success. 
Wingers aud Public Speakers use them to clear and 
strengthen the voice. 
Obtajn only "Brown’s Bronchial Troches," and do not 
take any of the worthless imitations that may be offered, 
ft/vi.n FVUGIVT!• DSS-SmO 
blacked a shingle with the lnllowing. 
nailed it upon the door:-“w,li r„ 
from the time yon see this shingle. 
An Irishman, speaking of the excellence of a telescope, 
saiel:—"Do yon see that, small speck on yonder hill? 
Thai is my pig, though it is hardly to be seen, but when 
I look at him with my glass, it brings him so near J can 
plainly bear him grunt." 
Oub neighbor’s little seven year-old boy learned that 
our horse, "Colonel." ip a French, horse. Hearing also, 
one day. (bat we proposed to have a daughter speak 
French, he gleefully exclaimed, "Oh, wont that he nice! 
then she can talk to Colonel 
An old man picked up half a dollar in the street. "'Old 
man that’s mine.” said a keen-looking raseal. “ Did 
thine have a hole in it ? ” a-ked the old gentleman. 
“ Yesl’’ replied the other smartly. “Then it is not 
thine," replied the old gentleman; " thee must learn to 
be a little sharper next time.” 
One of the salesmen in a large dry goods establishment 
in New York city is a bachelor on the further side of 
thirty, to a certain degree vaiu of his personal appear¬ 
ance! aud not willing to admit to himself or others that 
he is getting old. One day he went into a bather shop 
mid seated himself for a btur-dreusing. Looking into the 
mirror he saw relief ted the slightly bald, and growing 
balder, crown of a gentleman behind him. to whom he 
extended sympathy in the sol iloqn i zingTeBection. “Well, 
old gentleman! whether you know it or nut, you are get- 
ling old amt losing yOtP hair, notwithstanding your 
spruce appearance. I’m sorry for yon, but you have got 
to cyme t,o the sober fact," lie had barely concluded bis 
mental observation when the knight of the pole and 
shampoo applied bis vigorous digit s to the auburn locks 
of our stylish friend, who, glancing once more to the mir¬ 
ror, to his disgust found a second mirror had thrown back 
the vision of his own bald pate, and unwittingly deceived, 
kirn. 
the,Be. She only knew her father was very sick, 
and she fancied that the luxuries to which he had 
been accustomed would make him well again. 
So with untiring patience she worked on, think¬ 
ing how the money which Adelaide was to pay 
her should he expended for her father’s comfort. 
Alas for the poor little girl who, just as it was 
growing dark on the night of the party, folded 
carefully the finished drees, and then stole softly to 
her father’s bedside, to see if he was sleeping. He 
was very—very pale, and on his face there was a 
look like that of her dead mother. 
But Alice was not alarmed. She had never 
thought it possible for him to die, so quiet, so 
o-entle, so uncomplaining he seemed. 
“Father,” she said, “ can you stay alone while I 
carry Adelaide her dress ? She is to pay me more 
than that dollar, and 1 will buy you ever so many 
nice thing's.” 
<* By-and-by,” he whispered, “it is early yet,’ 
and drawing Alice to him, he talked to her of her 
mother, who he said seemed very near to him that 
night.,— so near that he could almost feel her soft 
hand clasp hi6 own, just as it used to do in the 
happy days ’gone by. And while he talked, the 
darkness in the room increased,—the clock struck 
six, and .releasing his daughter, Mr. Warren bade 
her go. 
“I feel better," he said, “and am not afraid to 
stay alone.” 
U You must sleep till I return; I shall not he 
gone long,” -were Alice’s parting words, and going 
out, she. walked rapidly in the direction of Mrs. 
Huntington’s. 
In a very unamiable mood Adelaide met her at 
the door, chiding her for her delay, and saying, “ I 
Valuable lives are often thrown away, lost, 
through ignorance of some of the most simple 
truths in nature, or errors of judgment in matters 
where, error becomes a crime. Some of the best 
and wisest and greatest meu of our race have per¬ 
ished from the world in consequence of what might 
be considered a carelessness, a recklessness, or au 
as found in minds like 
ignorance, which is amazing, 
theirs. The immediate cause of Lord Bacon’s death 
was sleeping iu a damp bed. Any old woman, who 
"didn’t know B from bull’s foot,” would have had 
sense than that. Yet it was the mistake of 
more 
the greatest mind of his age and generation. 
Rachel, the greatest tragic actress of her time, took 
a cold which carried her to her grave, by riding 
from New Y ork to Boston iu a railway carriage, not 
sufficiently warmed, on a hitter cold winter’s night, 
immediately after a performance which hud heated 
up her whole system far beyond its natural standard. 
The American theologian, Addison Alexandra, for 
whom it is claimed that he had powers Of mind not 
equalled in his day, died in the very prime of life, 
because, “having a feeling almost bordering on con¬ 
tempt for physicians,” he allowed the mortal malady 
to prey upon him secretly; and the day lie died, he 
thought he was going to get well. Because he 
knew nothing about disease, he concluded, with all 
his resplendent intellect, that men who had made it 
a life-long study knew nothing about it. The mag¬ 
nificent deduction cost him his life. 
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sell It, telling no one, of course, that it had ever 
belonged to her.” 
At the first meutiou of the dross, Alice’s tears 
began to flow, for ’twas almost the only relic of 
the past which she possessed, and now, laying her 
head in Adelaide’s lap, she sobbed out, “ Oh, Ade¬ 
laide, my mother bought it for me, admiring it so 
much, and can I let it go V” 
“You know which you need the most, that or 
the money,” Was Adelaide’ scold reply, wi, ile from 
his pillow the sick man faintly murmured “soma- 
thing to make me well.” 
’Twas enough, and wiping her tears away, Alice 
took from her trunk the dress, sighing deeply as she 
recalled the night when first aud last she wore it. 
“I did not know it was so exquisitely beautiful," 
was Adelaide’s mental comment, as Alice shook 
out, the soft, fleecy folds, but she did not say so. 
On the contrary she depreciated its value, saying 
“ it had turned yellow, was rather old-fashioned, and 
i a second-hand article at most, besides being quite 
■a too short for her in its present condition. 1 ’ 
p In this manner she paved the way to the price 
h W hich she finally offered, aud which Alice at first 
f refused to take. Four dollars seemed so little for 
what had cost so much. But Alice’s necessities 
1) were great, and when Adelaide offered her another 
ft dollar to fix the dress as it would have to be fixed 
to have it in readi- 
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for her, she yielded, promising 
ness and bring it homo on the night of the party. 
