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In the morning, at hie urgent request, I accompa¬ 
nied him “ down town,” 
“0, Nell," said he, “this is so much pleasanter 
than our hum-drum life on the farm. There is some 
excitement here — something to keep one’s soul and 
body together.” 
And thus several months passed away very pleas¬ 
antly, and I was getting quite accustomed to our 
new style of living. Calls, visits, party going, with 
various other rounds of amusement and convention¬ 
alities, were becoming quite familiar to me. Harry 
had been very gay and dashing of late, and yet I 
thought I could detect a little shade of anxiety upon 
his face now and then, when he came home later 
than usual. Yet, as there was nothing said upon the 
subject I did not know but the anxiety was wholly 
of my own imagining. 
chaser for our home ?” inquired I, making a great 
effort to stifle the rising emotion, which I could 
but illy suppress. 
“ Tes, to-morrow it is to be sold: at least should 
you consent to it.” 
“ And who is to he the purchaser ?” 
“ Nei» Freeman.” 
“ O, Harrt ! sold, and to Jam /” cried I, my feel¬ 
ings quite overcoming my hastily formed resolu¬ 
tions to be brave. 
“ And why not to him, Nell ?” 
“ He was my father’s bitter enemy, Harrt ; and 
even after his death the animosity continued, and 
in more ways than one did my poor mother feel the 
depths of his seething and abiding hatred. To 
think of our pleasant home falling into his hands,— 
were it any one else, I could have home it better.” 
“ Pray compose yourself,” said Harrt. “ Had I 
known this sooner, 1 can assure you I would have 
looked further for a purchaser. Bnt never mind, 
Nell. Make the best of the matter now. Free¬ 
man is rich, you know, and will pay for the prop¬ 
erty at once, which is quite a consideration. Do 
yon consent to this, Nell ?" 
“ If yon are convinced it is for the best,” was my 
tearful reply; “ hut I fear Booner or later you will 
regret it” 
“ Never! never! take my word for it,” was his 
eager rejoinder. “I consider myself a'lnckyman. 
One week ago I could not have dreamed that this 
freak of fortune might be mine. Be a brave little 
woman, Nell,” continued Harrt, getting down 
and turning a complete somerset towards the baby, 
who laughed gleefully, while 1 sat smiling through 
my tears. And was I brave ? We shall see ? 
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CHAPTER III. 
“ Fortune favors the brave, Nell,” said Habby, 
one night, bursting into the room where I had been 
sitting until a later hour than usual awaiting his re¬ 
turn. He had an unsealed package in his hand and 
acted almost like a crazy man as he hopped about, 
crying, “Guess, Nell! Guess quick—what’s in 
store for us now?” at the same time holding the 
package at anus-length and dancing around my chair 
like a little urchin about a May-pole. 
“But I never could, Harrt,” I said; “so please 
he quick and tell me all about it, for the suspense is 
intolerable 1 ” 
“ Woman’s curiosity—intolerable is it? Ha! ha! 
But you’ve heard me sp>eak of my grandfather in 
England, on my father’s side ? Well, this veritable 
old grandfather whom I never saw, has seen fit to 
die, and in his ' last will and testament ’ bequeath 
to his ‘darling grandchild Harry, he being the only 
child of his well beloved and long since deceased son 
William,’ the nice little sum of —what, Nell? 
Guess, now.” 
“Ten thousand, then.” 
“ Mure, more — guess again.” 
“Fifteen thousand, perhaps.” 
“ No I no! steeper yet, 1 tell you.” 
“ Can it he twenty thousand, Harry ? ” 
“ O, Nell, you never could guc6e. Forty thousand 
dollars! ” 
“Is it ■possible?’ 1 ' 1 exclaimed, not a little bewil¬ 
dered, I confess, by this sudden freak of fortune. 
“ Yes, possible! and in a most opportune moment, 
too,” said Harry, sitting down for the first time. 
“I tell you, Nell, I was beginning to fear we could 
hardly make ends meet, as the saying goes. Yon 
see 1 had so little invested, and with onr expensive 
style of living, I really didn’t know just where to 
place myself. But good - by to uncertainties now. 
With this nice little sum invested I shall be equal 
partner, which is the very height of my ambition. 
And this little wife of mine — 1 tell you, Nell, you 
shall not have a wish ungratified; and papa’s darl¬ 
ing—what will he not do for his idol nowU” he said, 
stooping to press a kiss upon the waxen brow. 
“ How nery beautiful she is, Nell, he continued, 
forgetting for the moment his new-found happiness 
in contemplation of the little sleeper, “ How beau¬ 
tiful she is, Nell ! ” 
“Yes, beautiful, Harry.” 
Two years passed quickly away. In the first, 
Harry came into possession of his property, which 
was even larger than he had supposed, aud in the 
generosity of his heart he purchased the little home¬ 
stead again, a:ub presenting mu with the title of 
ownership, saic* 
“It Is KLL.” 
And the seixam year,—I can write it now, dear 
reader, for time has somewhat smoothed the first 
bitter anguish of my mother heart, — we laid our 
darling to rest beneath that little mound of earth 
where she sleeps in the dust, our treasure, with the 
damp sod and marble upon her breast. We planted 
a rose at her head; and at her feet, with the soft 
winds sighing a faint requiem among the low droop¬ 
ing branches, stands a willow. 
With the death of onr darling came the failure of 
the firm in which Harrt was partner. Long had 
they struggled, aud firmly, against the great com¬ 
mercial crisis. Step after step had been taken to 
prevent the worst; but it came at last, and with it 
all hope of recovery. 
“ I am a ruined man,” said Harry, when the worst 
had become known, “ but my heart is in the grave 
of our idol. My sudden wealth has flown, and with 
it every ambitions motive. Oh! how I loved her, 
Nell: my darling, — my idol, — bnt perhaps ’tis 
better so.” 
4 ‘Let us go back to our country home, my husband.’> 
“ We will go.” 
And we went, kind reader; and it is in that same 
little parlor with the wealth of honeysuckles peep¬ 
ing through the white dimity curtains that I have 
gleaned from my diary this sketch for you. Our 
little farm is as productive as formerly, and supplies 
us bountifully. It is just live years to-day since 
Harry and 1 commenced housekeeping here, and 
with very few exceptions everything wears the ap¬ 
pearance of yore. Within the hearts of its posses¬ 
sors time has wrought, but not idly. We have 
learned in these few years lessons which He alone 
may teach who dealeth with us according to our 
deserving. Bitter ones they may have been, hut 
profitable to us; and we thank Thee, O, Father, 
for the teaching! 
answered the 
grandfather. It runs in the blood." 
Stdnet Smith said to ’.he canons, of St. Paul's, when 
they wrote to him uivIdc the 'idrisability of a wood 
pavement round the rtuirchyard—“Let them lay their 
heads together and it will be done/' 
Blindman’s B'—r u- supposed to come nearer to gen- 
nine human sympathy than any other amusement known 
to the children of men, because it is a fellow feeling for a 
fellow-creature. 
“Sammy, my son, don’t stand there scratching your 
head; stir your stumps, or you'll make no progress in 
life." 4 * Why. father, I've heard von say the only way to 
get along was to scratch ahead." 
"How Ft»all I sell my horse?” said a jockey to su> 
acquaintance: “ hir mil came off in less than six hours 
alter I bought him." “ Sell him by wholesale: ior no 
honorable man will re-tail him." was the reply. 
A Western editor remarks that he is glad to receive 
marriage notices, bnt.request- That they may be sent soon 
after the ceremony, and before the divorce is applied for. 
He has had several notices spoilt, in this way. 
“People talk about their grand bu-lness enterprises,” 
exclaimed Mother Seahold?, " why there isn't one of 'em 
that's equal to my old clock 1 They can't go alter they're 
wound up. bnt my old clock, always goes the better for it.” 
There is a man down East, a rather facetious fellow-, 
whose tame is New, Do named bis first child Some¬ 
thing; it was Something Now 1 . The next child was 
Nothing: it being Nothing New. And on being asked, 
“ Wby r was the rudder of a steamboat like a tinbTic hang¬ 
man he answered the question thus: " Because it has 
a stern duty to perform." 
A lady found occasion to call upon a dentist, to have 
her teeth tilled. Among tbnee filled were two front ones, 
and when In a pleasant mood the lady's face shone with 
smiles, while polished gold glittered from the upper in¬ 
cisors. These were observed with admiration by her 
little niece, who by-and-by seriously remarked:—"Aunt 
Mary, I wish I bad copper-toed teeth like yours.” 
GREAT FERMENTATION IN CHINA, 
[Beer has been successfully brewed at Shanghai.] 
For " the cup that cheers,” in spite of your leers, 
I shall never be loth to speak up; 
But I thought till to-day, in the land of Cathay, 
That the cup so Gamed was the t*ea-cup. 
The only brew John Chinaman knew, 
I’d have wagered a pound of Hyson, 
Was the tea of that Ilk, which with sugar and milk, 
Is a pleasantly negatived p'isuu, 
Bnt it seems, that a gent, frem Bnron-on-Trent, 
Connected with one of the ale-men, 
Bass, Allsopp, or Salt, the uses of malt 
Has imparted un-(o the pig-tail men. 
CHAPTER II. 
One week from the day on which Harry and I 
held the preceding conversation, our household 
things were to be aold. At an early hour the 
neighbors began to flock in, and at ten the sale 
commenced. Then came the struggle. There was 
each dear, familiar object, one after the other, 
brought out and placed under the auctioneer’s 
hammer, while his dismal cry of “Going! Going! 
Gone!” echoed throngh the house like a death- 
knell! Each dear object was associated in Rome 
way with my happy past,—some fond remembrance 
was clinging to each,—until link after link of that 
past seemed broken, as neighbors one after another 
bore away triumphantly each and every article of 
furniture with which I had ever been familiar. 1 
could bear it no longer, but ran up to my now 
empty, desolate room, where 1 thought unper¬ 
ceived to give vent to long rent up sorrow in a 
flow of tears. But the room was already occupied, 
for there stood Katt, our old domestic, so long- 
tried and faithful, the tears streaming down her 
honest, sunbrowned face, striving in vain to soothe 
little Ida, who would not be comforted because 
“ de nau'ty man ” had borne her little high chair 
by the window, “ and was doin to tarry it off wis 
him!” Poor little Ida. This was her first great 
sorrow! 
The saddest day must have an end, and the morn¬ 
ing after the sale dawned bright aud beautiful. Our 
kind neighbors with whom we had been invited to 
pass the night were early astir, aud busily engaged 
in preparing our breakfast, that we might not be 
too late for the “train” which was to bear us 
cityward. 1 rose not very much refreshed, but 
to look very cb-’orful and happy. Harry 
was in his element, and baby in ecstaeies over her 
anticipated “jide,” while Katy looked sad and 
thoughtful. Harry had insisted upon my keeping 
Katy, saying that we should need one domestic 
at least in our new home, although we were to 
“board” for the present. 
We bade onr kind neighbor “ good-by ” at the 
“ station,” whither he had volunteered to see us 
off, “bag and baggage.” A few hours’ ride in the 
dusty cars brought us to our city home, and a few 
minutes before twelve we drew up before a three- 
story stone boarding-house, of modem style, and 
rather commanding appearance, so to speak. We 
were immediately shown to onr rooms ( which bad 
been previously engaged by Harry,) by a colored 
servant who acted as porter for the house, and who, 
with much bowing and scraping, said he should be 
happy to receive our further commands, 
“Order dinner for three,” said Harry; “andas 
we are somewhat fatigued, say that we will dine iu 
onr rooms to-day.” 
“Yea, eah; my name is Sambo Fitzfizzle, eah; 
the missa calls me Sam for short, sah; I shall be 
most happy to ’bey your orders in de future, sah 1” 
said Mr. Sambo Fitzfizzle, with a sly glance and a 
twinkle of the eye at Ivaty, who manifested her 
appreciation of the same by a haughty curve of the 
head in another direction. 
“I wonder does he think we niver saw a nigger 
afore, or ‘ gintleman of color, 1 as no doubt he calls 
hi6solf,” said Katy, indignantly. ” He had betther 
lave his airs below, aud not be afther bowin and 
serapin at sich a rate, or I’ll let him knew that a 
thrue born Irish is as good as a nigger, any day!” 
“ Ha! ha! ha!” shouted Harry. “Why, you'd 
not quarrel with a ‘gentleman of color,' would you, 
Katy V” 
“He must not be after lookin at me the likes o’ 
that agin, sir,” answered Katy, whose indignation 
knew uo bounds, aud who seemed to entertain no 
very kiudly leeliOg toward “gentlemen of coior” 
in general, and, judging from appearances, Mr. 
Sambo Fitzfizzle in particular. 
Our dinner was soon brought in, by a tidy looking 
serving maid, who informed us that her mistress 
would look in upon ns after giving us time to refresh 
ourselves. We must have done ample justice to the 
dinner, for Harry declared there was “nothing left 
but the dishes” when we had finished. 
“ Now, Nell, I must go down to the store,’' said 
he, “ and commence operations there. It’s not fat 
from here,—just a pleasant walK, — and you, in 
the meantime, try to amuse yourself the best way 
you can. We 'are to occupy this suit of rooms — 
but bless my soul, Nell, you 
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COUNTEV AND CITY; 
AN EPISODE IN THE LIVES OF HABBY AND I, 
BY MRS. WILKINSON 
CHATTER I. 
We had always lived in the country— Harry and 
I,—our snug little farm and rural home being our 
only possessions. The cottage in which we lived 
had been my motber’s before me, and there, in its 
cozy little parlor, with a wealth of honeysuckles 
peeping in and out through the white dimity hang¬ 
ings, had 1 first promised to become Harry’s bride. 
Months afterward when 1 did become his bride, 
with how much pleasure did 1 commit to bis keep¬ 
ing papers making him “ sole owner and executor” 
of all my worldly wealth ! Smile not, kind reader, 
for wealth indeed it seemed to me, and with my 
husband’s love I was happy. 
Harry was poor, proud and ambitions, and often 
in those bright summer evenings, when the duties 
and labors of the day were finished, he wonld lead 
me to a seat on our vine-wreathed porch, where, 
with the summer breezes gently stirring the green 
branches overhead, we would sit for hours talking 
of our future. 
“ 1 do not exactly fancy this hum-drum sort of 
life, Nell,” be would say. “ To think of plodding 
on in this way, year after year, when I know I have 
talent for something nobler and more elevating, is 
almost unendurable at times. Do you ever think 
of it, Nell ? Are you perfectly satisfied and con¬ 
tented here?” 
Yes, I was; and why should I not be, I wonld 
ask, with my husband’s love and my childhood’s 
pleasant home? Yes, very bright had our future 
always looked to me ; bnt never until, with Harry’s 
arm about my waist, a little cherub head pressed 
close to my mother heart, had the world revealed 
to me so much of Paradise! For a time even Harry 
seemed satisfied. His was an all-absorbing love, but 
ere long the old discontent came back again 1 
“ I have my plans all laid for the future, at last, 
Nell,” he said one day. “ We must dispose of the 
farm — homestead and all—and 1 will commence 
business in town-” 
“ But have you any definite plans upon which 
you may act when there?” I asked, interrupting 
him. 
“ O, yes; but I had hoped to keep all a secret 
from you, Nell, until you should see me duly in¬ 
stalled ‘Dry Goods Dealer,’ ‘number,’ ‘street,’ 
&c., in glowing gilt characters. 
I was already in tears, and Harky, spying them, 
seemed the embodiment of chagrin and disappoint¬ 
ment. 
“ What, crying, Nell ? Why, I was never so 
elated in all my life! I tell you, darling, this is 
the happiest day of my existence!” And I, dear 
reader, could not help thinking of that other time 
when he had said the very same. It was in the 
little parlor, and on the day when I promised to 
become his wife! 
“ Rut this is never going to do, Nell ; not in the 
very least,” be said, coming over and kissing me. 
11 In tears! and just because you are for once to be 
rid of this miserable household drudgery! Why, 
darling! Well, women are mysterious creatures, 
after all,—always advocating ‘love in a cot,’ and 
all that sort o’ thing, bat jump up, little wife, 
now that yon are smiling throtigfc your tears, an3 
just let me take a look at you. Jump up, darling 
—there, that's right. Now let's see and compare 
notes. Fine figure —fair complexion—beautiful 
eyes—and those ringlets, Nell! Why, you’ll 
grace your position, and no mistake. Now, what 
of me? Just take a good, prolonged stare, and 
give in your verdict quick, little wife.” 
My noble young husband!—how proud be looked 
standing there with all the assumed dignity of a 
prince, until at last I smiled through my tears. 
“Now come and sit by me, Nell,” he said, 
“and I will tell you of my.plans. You remember 
Fred Horton, in town? He has found an open¬ 
ing, where, with his influence, and by disposing of 
the place here for ready means, I can at once accept 
a partnership in one of the most thriving firms in 
the city. And here you see is at once a stepping- 
stone to wealth and position.” 
“ Yes, Harry ; but onr snug little farm supports 
us so nicely here, and in your new position yon are 
assuming responsibilities to which you have hith¬ 
erto been a stranger.” 
“ Pooh! on the responsibilities, Nell ; they will 
be pleasant ones.*’ 
“ Ar.d tbe liabilities, Harry ?” 
uh, they will take care of themselves! Any 
more objections, little wife?” 
“ Yes, there is one more consideration, Harry : 
onr little Ida ; will it be as well for her ?” 
“ O ! it will be a capital change for onr darling. 
r when a little older she will there have all the 
superior advantages of education and society, be¬ 
sides many privileges which here she could never 
. hope to enjoy.” 
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The Company have selected the following kinds from their 
stock, which they recommend to meet the wants ol Clubs. 
They are. sold at cargo prices, the siune us the Company sell 
them in New Y'ovK. as tne list of prices will show. 
PRICE L.I*T OF TEAS. 
OOLONG (BiRck.) 70c.. kOe.. 90c., best ?1 V ft. 
MIXED (Green and Black.) 70c.We., best ft * ft. 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black,! t'.c.. .-JO., it, . .10, best 
Jl.'JO * ft. 
IMPERIAL (Green.) SOc.. H0e., fl, fl.10, besr *1.25 i* ft. 
YOUNG HYSON Gr.-en, Km., site.. M. ¥1.10. besU>1^5 V ft. 
■ 
GUNPOWDER (Green.) *1,25, best ?:,5U o* ft. 
00PTEES BOASTED AND GROUND DAILY. 
GROUND COFFEE, 20c.,25c.,Snc.,a5c.,best 40c.peT pound. 
Hotels. Saloons, Uoardiue-House Keepers and Families who 
Answer in two weeks, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 37 letters. 
My 1.16. 22. 4 is a point of the compass. 
My 5,8, 23,10 is a Latin word meaning behold. 
My 0,14, 6,36 means if so. 
My 11,26,3. 2 Is the destiny of humanity. 
My 12, ID, 17.10 is a symbol of subjection. 
My 10. 24. 21,13 is an expression of entreaty. 
My 18, 7. 20,27 is largely produced in Ohio. 
My whole, from the salutary influence it exerts, and its 
genuine popularity, has become the leading feature of 
our school, Debbie Blackburn 
Hillsboro, Ill. 
fW Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 86 letters. 
My 32,17, 27,8, 3, 38 is a town in Kansas. 
My 36.15, 4.13. 25. 26 is a country in Europe. 
My 6, 20, 30, 28, 34,11, ID, 35, 7 is a river in the U. S. 
My 12,5, 10, 22, 14,33, 7 is an island in the Pacific. 
My 18, 9,1,2,29,17. 33. 21 is an Island in the Baltic Sea. 
My 18, 2, 81, 24,17, 8 is a town in Turkestan. 
My whole is an old Spanish Proverb. 
Enterprise. Wis. Chas. L. Wood. 
per Answer in two weeks. 
6BEAT AMERICAN TEA CO 
Nos. 31 & 33 Vesey Street, 
Post-Office Box 5,643, New York City. 
In view of the manv frauds perpetrated, on the public by 
dealers in base metal Swiss Watches, which arc mainly ihe 
refuse of the lottery and gift enterprise swindlers, the under¬ 
signed desire to call attention to tne very low price at which 
he will send genuine Waltham Watches, now universally 
conceded to be the best made and at the same time the 
cheapest watch In the world. 
Hunt!m; Watch in 20 z. Com Silver Case.flS.Od 
The sAnitta Extra JelveuM.* * * • • * 
The same. Esti«eltd. Chronometer Balance A*. CO 
For either of the ala-ve, in 3oz. case. 2 . 0 O extra 
For either oi uit above, in case ....... — -2 .d 0 extra 
The Watches to be sent by Express. ACCOMPANIED 
WITH AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY’S 
CERTIFICATE OF GENUINENESS. 
THE BU V'ER TO HAVE PRIVILEGE OF EX¬ 
AMINATION IN POSSESSION OF EXPRESS 
COMPANY. 
Address must be plainly written, and purchaser must pay 
express charges. M. E. CHAPMAN & CO.. 
960-tf No. 17 Liberty Street, New York. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARADE. 
My first’s a stream in classic land; 
My second, all well understand 
Who traveled much by public aid 
Ere steam ingenious man obeyed. 
My first—when cut in two again— 
Has purt in shedding light mong men. 
In cities populous and gay. 
Bnt off is in the drunkard's way. 
My second, (though ’ tis no disgrace,) 
Writes wrinkles on the human face. 
And to the world is thus revealed 
What some desire should be concealed. 
By transposition, you will find 
An animal for use designed; 
A game that children often play, 
And something useful washing day. 
My whole is not of recent birth, 
But something known of real worth, 
Whose task is to facilitate 
The movement of the Ship of State. 
Norwich, N. Y. 
{2sF“ Answer in two weeks. 
Be satisfied to commence on a small scale. It is 
too common for young housekeepers to begin where 
their mothers ended. Buy all that is necessary to 
work skillfully with; adorn yonr house with ail 
that will render it comfortable. Do not look at 
richer homes, and covet their costly furniture. If 
secret dissatisfaction is ready to spring up, go a step 
further, and visit the home of the suffering poor; 
behold dark, cheerless apartments, insufficient cloth¬ 
ing, aud absence and all tbe comforts and refinement 
of social life, and then return to your own with a 
joyful spirit. You will then be prepared to meet 
your husband with a grateful heart, aud be ready to 
appreciate the toil of self-denial which he has en¬ 
dured tn the business world to surround you with 
the delights of home; and you will co-operate 
cheerfully with him in so arranging your expenses, 
that his mind will not be constantly harassed lest 
his family expenditures may epcrpacli upon public 
payments. 
Be independent; a young housekeeper never 
needed greater moral courage than she does now, 
to resist the arrogance of fashion. Do not let the 
A.’s and B.’s decide what you shall have, neither 
let them hold the strings of your purse. You know 
best what you can aud ought to afford. It matters 
but little what people think, provided you are true 
to yourself, to right and duty, and keep your ex¬ 
penses within your means. 
CtTOltEKEEPIiJiS L A \V YER S , POST- 
55 masters, Clergymen, Physicians.. F.x|.ri--:!ieu. l>"0k- 
lelFrs, Telusmph Operators, are Informed t.’.i.t lliey can 
make, wlibont any IntellereuCc with their regular ayoca- 
tlons,from twenty u> HTtj doflaw a week.ln anj nJIa 
town or cUy in tile Untied states, pv a; urn-;mi: 
JAY COOK u bTt.KDIN AN l. Secretary 
Fuiilb' Life insurance Onij.nriy 
No. 128 Komii Fifth »(.. Unilaaelpbla, r j 4. 
three in number 
haven’t seen the parlor yet, sure enough! Just 
step this way. - ’ 
It was a beautiful parlor. A carpet of tapestry 
covered the floor; easy chairs, ottomans aud divans, 
were scattered about in luxurious profusion; mir¬ 
rors, statuary and paintings were arranged tastefully 
aud elegantly; and altogether the room wore an air 
of combined elegance and simplicity seldom seen, 
and which at once gave me a favorable impression 
of the “lady of the house.” 
“Can you not be happy here, Nell?” 
“ 1 hope to be, Harry.” 
Mrs. Hall, our landlady, was just such a person 
as I had, from her surroundings, expected to meet; 
tasteful, elegant in manners, and a woman of supe¬ 
rior intellect. I felt at once drawn towards her, and 
knew that I had found at least one congenial heart in 
our new home. 
I saw- but little of Harry during the afternoon and 
I evening, hut when he came home for the night it 
1 was with a glowing account of matters at the store. 
For Moore’s Rnral New-Yorker. 
geometrical problem. 
E MPLOY.MENT.-Sl5 TO *30 A DAY GUAR- 
Burned. Mule or Female Agents Wanted in every town 
rtpserlntlve Circular? free. Ail drees 
teo-lit JAMES 6. BAND tz CO,. Blddeford, Me. 
Thebe is a circular lot containing one acre of ground. 
A horse is teddered on the outside of the circle with a 
halter as long as the radi::.- of ’.he circle. Over how much 
ground can the horse feed on ihe outside of the circle, 
and over how much on the inside ? 
Naples, N. Y. x. t. z. 
Answer in two weeke. 
T O THi* hADUiS. 
FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR, 
We are eelUn? Sices, Shawls. Dby acu* Kj.nct Goods of 
every deacripdoi* also. Siloee Ware, Furniture, &c. 
Valuable Presents, from *3,to f5M>, sent free of charge to 
agents sending clubs of ten and upwards. Circulars sent 
free to any address- ‘VYETil 6 c CO-, (Successors to Mrs- 
srnokb & Co-,) V. O. Box. 2.931.42 Hanover St..Boston, Maw. 
Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; 
if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her; 
but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can 
catch her again. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Give me liberty or 
give me death. 
Answer to CharadeSocrates. (Sock-ray-tease.) 
Answer to Problem:—SS5 feet. 
JULES 
ner acre. 
J SB AND, 
937 -eo 
F arm for sale.—so acres, a>j 
from Newark, W ayne Co., >■ 5. Price #10 
Inquire of J £• BRIGGS, Esq., Newark, or N. 8 
on the premises. 
