“ Good morning, Miss Kane,” said 
the other gentleman, lifting his hat in 
the most graceful manner, “are you , w||| 
the good genius of the place that you 'w| 
spring up so suddenly V” 
“Josiah, Josiaii,” called Aunt. Han¬ 
nah from the kitchen door above, “ I 
want you to come and help me get 
this soap off, at once.” ^ 
“Coming, mother. Captain, you 
just wait a few minutes.” 
“ With pleasure, sir,” in a bland 
tone, and we were left alone. 
“ Don’t you think you would find 
it pleasanter out of doors?” I sug- 
gested. 
“ It would he only darkness to me 
if deprived of the light of your pre- 
sence,” he answered. "Allow me to s^2^|||3p| 
offer yon a Beat on thie keg.” 
It was a funny place for it,—the 
surroundings not in the least roman- 
tie, not at all as I bad fancied such a 
thing might ever come to me when 
I had read magazine stories, — nev- 
erthelees it did happen that the old 
dark cellar became all at once sun- 
light to me, and I forgot the lilac 
dress and my disappointment, aud I 
must confess, everything else. 
Uncle was gone to the soap a long ’ ™‘WS 
time,—I believe he had an intuition 
that he was not needed then,—and — 
Aunt Hannah had a call from the minister, 60 that 
when I obeyed the summons to dinner my cheeks 
were still holding their roseB, and I suspect my eyes 
were not dim, for aunt said,— 
“ Cleaning cellar seems to agree wonderfully with 
you, niece.” 
I wore my old dress to the “ bee” in the eve, but 
that was no matter, for Frank told me on the way 
home that 1 had never looked “half so well-in 
his eyes.” 
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And never a wearying sound can come, 
Where leaves softly whisper, ami grand old trees 
Go swaying all day in' the summer breeze. 
And the murmur of waters comes from afar, 
From a lakelet that gleams like a silver star. 
’Twoald be sweet to rest hereto fall asleep. 
Never to waken, and never to weep; 
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Of daisied meadows ami clover bloom; 
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The nights with the stars, and the darkling dew,— 
And never a dream to disturb that rest, 
Save the dream of the flower o’er the sleeper's breast. 
I think sometimes as I watch and wait 
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Glad to leave all that Is ead or untrue. 
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Away from lift's shadows, away from its pain, 
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BY JOHN «. SAXE, 
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Stdnet SMiTn wrote to a friend“ Unfortunately the 
house is full of cousins; would they were once removed.” 
“ Bobbt, what is steam ?” “ Boiling water.” “ That’s 
right : compare It.” “Positive, boil; comparative, bilcr: 
superlative, bust.” 
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burst out a-erying.” 
Dmso a senes of wet days, a gentleman ventured to 
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evej doing in parasols." 
A bald man made merry at the expense of another 
who covered his partial baldness with a wig, adding, as a 
clincher, “ Yon see how bald I am, and I <’ 
wig.” “ True,” was the retort, 
cjnires no thatch.” 
A certain lady had a custom of sa^l, 
little poodle dog, to make him follow her. 
sir.” A won kibe witty gentleman step pi 
day, and accosted her with—*' Is it mi 
called y " Oh, no, sir," i ’ 
“ it was another poppy I spoke to. 
A clergyman of indifferent character, going to read 
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ting on an old-fashioned surplice. “ I think," said he to 
the cleric, “ the devil is in the surplice." The astonished 
Clerk stared until the parson got the garment on, nnd 
then sarcastically exclaimed, "Ithlnk as how he is, sir." 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
the most desirable and pleasant apartment of all, 
“I think,” Eaid Martha—Lionel’s wife—refer¬ 
ring, for the fifteenth time that day, to the plan of 
the new house, which lay upon the sitting-room 
table, “ I think, Maria, yon can’t object to giving 
that room up to me. Lionel has spoken of it; 1 
think he is set upon it; and, really, I think we 
ought to have it.” 
“ I don’t know about that,” replied Maria, bend¬ 
ing over her work, and plying her needle very rap¬ 
idly. “ Richard and I were thinking we ought to 
have that room; in fact, we didn’t suppose there 
would be a word said against it.” 
“Well, we won’t, quarrel about it, of course,” 
pursued Martha, pushing the drawing across the 
table in a rather abrupt manner; “ but I am sure, 
when yon come to reflect, you will allow that we 
have the best right to the room.” 
“ How the beet right ?” asked Maria in a quiet 
tone. 
“ Why, my dear woman, you can’t deny but that 
Lionel has done all the planning, and headed every 
enterprise about the new house. He first suggest 
ed the idea of building, as Richard himself allows. 
Now, really, every person of sense must say that he 
ought to have his choice of the rooms.” 
“Every person of sense?” echoed Maria, losing 
patience with her sister-in-law, “ You appear to 
think I am not a person of sense.” 
“ Maria—” 
“ Because I don’t happen to think just as yon do. 
Now, I must say that I think any person of sense 
must give the right of the square bed-room to me.” 
“ Well,” said Martha, with an angry gesture, “by 
what right do you lay claim to the room ?” 
“ I can tell you, without getting angry," replied 
Maria in a significant tone. “You say Lionel has 
taken the lead ii 4^»verything connected with the 
new house; and f=\ he has, because Richard has 
been willing to give in to his opinions, as younger 
brothers generally do. Lionel has had his way 
about everything, but Richard has done as much 
hard work' as your husband has; and he could 
have done the head word as well, if Lionel had not 
insisted on having it all done to please himself. 
Now, after giving up all to Lionel, Richard cer¬ 
tainly ought to have his way about one trifling 
matter—and that is, the square bed-room.” 
“How unreasonable you are!” exclaimed Mar¬ 
tha. “ You haven’t any sense on this subieet. 
HOW I CLEANED THE CELLAE, 
BY DOWK BENNING, 
“ Wiiat a beautiful morning,” 1 exclaimed, as I 
put aside the little plain white curtain of my win¬ 
dow, and brushed the lilac branches with their half 
open blossoms away. It is the first day this spring 
that has had a breath of summer in it. I must 
finish my new calico to wear to tbe 1 bee’ to-night. 
I am so glad it is jast that color,—lilac is so be¬ 
coming to me, at least people say so.” 
Strange that when 16ald “ people,” 1 only thought 
of one person, of medium stature and tolerably black 
whiskers ; but then, that is a very general word and 
the mind of woman particularizes, they say. I had 
no sister, so of course all these remarks had been 
only for my own benefit. 
Down stairs I went, still in the lilac dress humor, 
only to pass into the shadow of a great cloud. Aunt 
Hannaji was buetlittg around in her highest excite¬ 
ment and her ‘cleaning dress,’—the former noth¬ 
ing unusual; the latter—well, 1 knew all that fore¬ 
tokened. Sometimes I believed it to be an honor 
to be counted the unworthy niece of the most nota¬ 
ble housekeeper in town; hut that was when at a 
picnic, no seed cakes were so fair and tender, no 
crullers of such delicate crispness. At home it was 
a different matter. 1 lost all appetite at once, notic¬ 
ing which Aunt Hannan said— 
“Eat a hearty breakfast, niece Jane, we must 
clean the cellar to-day; and of all places I know 
that needs it the most." 
So, while 1 swallowed my coffee in gulps, I medi¬ 
tated on the situation in no enviable mood. 1 had 
submitted to house eleaulng as a necessary evil, a 
8ort of spring disease; but this afterpiece, especially 
in my preoccupied state, was no soother. 
An hour after, any oue tftkiDg the trouble to look, 
would have Been “ Niece Jane" slowly descending 
the cellar stairs in a short and somewhat soiled de¬ 
laine, sleeves rolled to the elbow, and hair done up 
in anything but a becoming knot “ For what is 
the use of getting one’s net all filled with cobwebs 
in that old cellar?” had been my mental 
THE TWIN COTTAGES 
don’t wear a 
but au empty barn re¬ 
lying to a favorite 
ter, " Come along, 
pped np to her one 
me, Madam, you 
raid she, with great composure, 
RTinkp t ft y - 
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HE GREAT DESIDERATUM. 
HAD ENCASED BLOCK TIN PIPE. 
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PURE 
WATER. 
ik IMI 1 XI.UV, Him t-ttDiiy eviuereu. 
Tbe use of tills pipe la recommended by 
Pbyslclaijs, Chemists and Water Oomnila- 
Yf sloners. To give lira cost per loot, wc 
' should know tue head or press urn ol water 
and bore of pipe, i'lcnse states in what 
r>er vou saw this advertisement, bend ror circular. 
Uii COLWELLS, 8UAW & WILLARD M’F’G CO. 
ry, foot West27th Street; Office, 100 Beetman Street, 
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flourishing township of Pennfield. The brothers 
were brothere In feeling as well as in name; their 
wives were like sisters, and their children were 
like the children of the same parents, in their kind¬ 
ness toward each other. Neither of the brothers 
ever visited the city and brought home presents to 
his own children, without distributing gifts equally 
curious and gratifying to his little nephews and 
nieces. Tbe two families enjoyed everything in 
common, eatmg at the same table, riding in tbe 
same great carriage, sitting in the 6ame pew at 
church, and laboring together to advance their com¬ 
mon interest. 
The FcltonB lived together thus for years. But 
at length, when the brothers saw new and beauti¬ 
ful houses rising about their estate, in the fairest 
portion of Pennfield, they couceived a desire to 
build a more splendid house than the humble cot¬ 
tage in which their parents had lived and died. 
“ Why not ?” asked Lionel, the elder of the two 
brothers, as they were walking across the fields 
together, one mild Sabbath afternoon. “The old 
house is really getting to look quite poverty- 
stricken, in the midst of the improvements which 
are going on around us.” 
“Aud as our families increase,” rejoined Rich¬ 
ard, who was no less ambitious than his brother, 
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For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
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query. 
When I had fully arrayed myself in this becoming 
manner, 1 had taken a look in my small mirror, 
just to 6ee if it would break. “A pity Frank 
Carter could not see you,” I apostrophized. And 
now you know all about it. Of course Frank Car¬ 
ter was the person of medium height aud black 
whiskers before mentioned, and who was in some 
way connected with the lilac dress,—a spruce young 
merchant in the village, not exactly of the hand-box 
order, and yet approaching thereto. 
But I have been on the cellar stairs a long while, 
you will think. Aunt Hannah’s voice arouses me. 
“ Josiaii shall come in a little while aud take out 
the heavy things. Open the outside door and bustle 
around, don’t dream away the time. 1 will come as 
soon as I get this soap off.” 
Mechanically I obeyed, and opened the outside 
door, letting in the sweet spring breath and sun¬ 
light, and revealing only dust and ashes for beauty. 
In the corners there, hung the great webs, filled with 
dust, swaying lightly in the air, and my uplifted 
broom dropped, while I looked through the filmy 
network, shining like silver in the sunlight that 
struck it aslant through the window; and I thought 
how few in our daily lives are willing to weave rare 
beauty in the corners, and await the time of God’s 
opening for the world to see. 
Then I saw the bins of potatoes sending out their 
pale shoots,—grand cathedral columns for the mice • 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
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MECHANICAL PROBLEM. 
proposed bawling there, hud he lived. The finest 
orchard on the farm, you know, is on the North 
road; the new house shall go up directly in front 
of the orchard, with its front door looking towards 
the east.” 
Richard was accustomed to rely upon his elder 
brother’s judgment, and on this occasion he coin¬ 
cided with him in any suggestion he made touch¬ 
ing the new house. They walked leisurely over 
to the North road, and, in their imagination, con¬ 
structed just such a cottage as they wished to build 
them in reality, and admired its imposing beauty, 
until it would have been a difficult thing for them to 
dismiss the subject from their minds, and live con¬ 
tented in the old house half-a-dozen years longer. 
It was resolved, then, that the new house should 
he built; and you may be sure that the wives of 
Lionel and Richard showed no disposition to dis¬ 
courage the enterprise. It was something they had 
long desired, but to which they had small hopes of 
being able to persuade their husbands, for—if the 
truth must he told—the old Felten house was quite 
large enough and sullicicntly convenient for buth 
families for ten years to come; and it was hardly 
thought two 6ueh sober-minded men as Lionel and 
Richard would be to the expense of a new house 
merely for the sake of appearances. 
The new house was the subject of much talk and 
study during the subsequent fall and winter, and 
after the principal points in the construction of the 
proposed cottage were resolved upon, an architect 
was employed to draw np a plan of it. . 
Whilst the brothers were engaged in getting choice 
framing-timber out of the woods, and in drawing 
logs to the saw-mill, their wives at home employed 
their time in constructing quilts, curtains and rags, 
aud in preparing rags for carpets, to decorate the 
new cottage. Long before spring, they had agreed 
upon the. style in which each room was to he fur¬ 
nished, and given a thought to every article, whether 
for use or show, from the ornaments on the parlor 
mantle-piece to the stove in the kitchen. All this 
time their labors and discussions were conducted 
with great cheerfulness and commendable good 
feeling. 
One important arrangement, however, still re¬ 
mained to be made. The large square bed-room, 
in the southeast comer of the house, would be 
Turee men agree to curry a gticlc of timber in the form 
of a right coue, 19 feet in length, aad 18 inches in diam¬ 
eter at the base. At what distance from the base must a 
handspike be placed so that each man shall carry one- 
third of the stick ? 
New London, N. Y. S. G. Cagwin. 
Esfi' - Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
ANAGRAM. 
Ntan nad rasph het reuenmno sill 
Yonweiu thiw rou mafer! 
Rome tinpood lilts, ew kame volsursee 
Ergert, romseer and emhaF ! 
And man showe neevah-cetdeer cafe 
Het misfile of vote round, 
Sam'n tinhiunmay to man 
Ekinas suncostle duenothas romnu. 
__ C. J. Andrubs, 
Answer in two weeks. 
ALBANY, 1ST. IT., 
Office and Factory on Thacher St., North End of the City, 
WM. B. EMERY, (Snnlror of Evert BnoTitERa.) Super- 
iniemliitit i>f Manufactory, Manufacturers of 
GENERAL AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, 
Comprising the Celebrated ‘‘STAR" 
" St ah " Railway for Entile* . 
much the better,” said Martha, with a provoking 
laugh. 
“ We’ll see if yon can!” retorted Maria, her eyes 
flashing upon her sneering sister. “ We’ll see!” 
Maria turned her back scornfully upon Martha, as 
if determined to have no more conversation with one 
so void of reason; and Martha deliberately moved 
her seat to the opposite comer of the room, appar¬ 
ently with the intention of getting as far from the 
insane Maria as possible.—[To be continued. 
___ . - Threshing Machines; 
'• St a a " Railway (or Kiidlr** Chain i and Lever Horse Pow¬ 
ers; “Star” Cotton Gin.; slid Condensers; ClrcularCross- 
Cut Huw Mills; Vegetable Cutters; Horse liny Forks; Corn 
and Feed Mills ; Power Cora Shelter* : Dog powers, &e.. Ac. 
Wc wish to cull the particular uttontion of Farmers to our 
celebrated ''ftTAU’’ THRESHER AND CLEANER, which, 
a- lately Improved. WC claim Is far superior to nny other ma¬ 
chine now in market, it Is compact, umi easily portable; 
simple in it* construction, aud therefore easy to operate by 
the must inexperienced, and will do Its work with marvel¬ 
ous rapidity and perfection, ami with comparatively the 
least demand upon the streDCtli of the animals driving It. 
li e have made recent Impiovomtuitu In till* machine by 
which we are. enabled to thoroughly cleati the. grain under 
almost any Combination of difficulties, and wo am now using 
an entirely new and effective device for relieving the feeder 
ol dust, thus making the operation of threshing as comfort¬ 
able and .safe, as with tlie. ordinary machine* U is annoying 
and frequently dinttructlve to health. 
These. Machines arc made of suitable sires Tor our “Stab ” 
Railway Power aud also for our "Staii” Lever Power. 
For full particular*, aeud for our Illustrated Descriptive 
Circular and Price List. 
AGENTS WANTED. 
fW" Correspondents will please address THE ALBANY 
COTTON GIN MANUFACTURING CO., P. O. Drawer 1C2, 
Albany, N. Y. 955 mtf 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—A soft answer turn- 
Cth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. 
Answer to Charade:—Pimento. (Pie-men-tow.) 
Answer to Anagram; 
There are two wavs to live on earth,— 
Two ways to judge, to act. to view; 
For all things here have double birth— 
A right and wrong—a false aud true 1 
Oh! happy they who happy make— 
Who, blessing, still themselves are blest! 
Who something spare for other’s sake. 
And strive in all things for the best! 
Answer to Problem:—A, 22 2-9 rods. B, 27 7-9. 
Mrs. Stowe has said the following about dressing 
for church in a way that applies particularly to the 
Episcopal service, but it ought to he equally impres¬ 
sive in reference to any other: —“Very estimable, 
and, we trust, very religions young women, some¬ 
times enter the house of God in a costume which 
makes the acts of devotion in the service seem 
almost burlesque. When a brisk little creature 
comes into a pew with hair frizzed till it stands on 
end in a most startling manner, rattling strings of 
beads and bits of tinsel, she may look exceedingly 
pretty and pUjnantc; and, if she came there for a 
game of croquet or a tableau party, would be all in 
very good taste; but as she comes to confess that she 
is a miserable siuner, that she has done the things 
she ought not to have done, and left undone the 
things she ought to have done — as she takes upon 
her lips most solemn and tremulous words, whose 
meaning runs far beyond life into a sublime eter¬ 
nity—there is a discrepancy which would be ludi¬ 
crous if it were not melancholy.” 
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