MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
XV 
Mies' 
THE GIRL I’M GOING TO WED. 
BY FANNY M. BARTON. 
There was never a eirl 
With so golden n curl. 
With lips so fragrant and red, 
With teeth so white 
And with smile so Bright 
As the girl I’m going to wed. 
O, the blue of the sky 
Is in her eye. 
And the roses of June on her check ; 
And the words leap out 
With a dimple and pout. 
When she opens her sweet mouth to speak. 
’Tis only one, dear, 
One beautiful year, 
Since the tlrst time I met Bessie Lee, 
Where the May breezes blow 
The orchard’s pink snow 
In the shade of un old apple tree. 
The robiifs made love 
In the branches above, 
And the sky seemed bending to hear 
Her musical words, 
I.ike the soft notea of birds, 
And her laughter, so ringing and clear. 
I saw her last night, 
In the dim twilight, 
Under the same apple tree; 
And persuaded her there 
With a kiss and 11 prayer. 
To he my own BESSIE Lee. 
Like un angel she seemed 
When her foml smile beamed, 
Won from Its bashful eclipse, 
Her face was so fair, 
From the soft, shining hair 
Down to the sweet, roguish lips. 
I shall go for my bride 
In the Autumn tide, 
When tho starry asters shine ; 
When the wild grapes glow 
With the purple flow 
Of the ripe, imprisoned wine. 
Then sorrow will Uee, 
For with sweet Bessie lee 
Nothing but Joy can abide, 
And life’* Weary wuy 
Will be tlowcry aud gay 
With my bonny wee wife by my side. 
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WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA. 
BY FULLER-WALKER. 
“There have boon A mericans who saw Rome 
before they saw Niagara ; and for one who has 
visited the Yoscmfte, a hundred will tell you 
about lh< Alps, and n thousand about Paris," 
says Mr. Charles Norduofy, in opening Vila 
book on California. He would turn the ride of 
travel towards the Fad lie coast, into a tropical 
country, where we may enjoy homo-comforts. 
In making the trip over the lioalen truck in Cal¬ 
ifornia, ho says there are no inconveniences 
which a tenderly reared woman would not 
laugh at. The noble art of onoking is better 
understood in California than in the East, the 
bread is far bettor, and the people are more 
civil. Ho finds the Journey over the Pacific 
Railroad nothing but a pleasure. You are in a 
drawing-room ear; your wife sits at the win¬ 
dow sewing and looking out on long ranges of 
snow-clad mountains, or t>n boundless ocean 
plains; children play on the floor, or watch at 
the windows for the comical prairie dog. You 
converse as you would in your parlorat home. 
On his way to Salt Luke City Mr. NoRDHOfi 
fell in with a party of Brigham young’s family. 
He says; “Mrs. Young fell to my lid—a hand¬ 
some and clever person, well made up In c\ cry 
way. Mrs. Young - I rneananotherMrs. Young, 
also handsome and clever—was seated beside 
another gentleman. I believe six or seven of 
Mr. Young’s w ivos were d 1st ributod through the 
cars, and quite a number of hisehlMron." Mrs. 
Young, speaking of Indian girls, said that if 
they were taken early and trained, they made 
excellent and faithful servants. “ Mr. Voting,” 
she said, “has had one in his house for many 
years, and she is a very good woman, and would 
not return to her people.” One Mrs. Young 
related to some of tho ladles ltint Mr. Young 
takes no dinner, but only two meals per day. 
He is not able to meet all of his fifty-live Chil¬ 
dren at one meal, and therefore breakfasts with 
one-half of them on one day, and with the oth¬ 
er half at another time. Two of Mr. Young's 
married daughters take part In the theater at 
Salt Lake. 
In San Franciseo our author says Indies and 
children may safely and properly walk in the 
main streets In the Chinese quarter by day. He 
took his wife and family to theChine.se theater. 
The boxes are up stairs at one end of the gal¬ 
lery; opposite you will 'see Ihe Chinese women 
huddled together in a place by themselves; the 
audience below vehemently resents the Inde¬ 
corum of a woman appearing in tho pit. Going 
to the Yoseinitc Valley, which in the Indian 
tongue signifies “Large Grizzly Bear,” Mr. 
Nordhoff took with him a weakly girl of ten 
years, who enjoyed every foot of the ride and 
was benefited by It, No lady who is not physi¬ 
cally or mentally incapable of walking a mile, 
or sittingon a very quiet*and sure-footed horse, 
need have the slightest, apprehension of the 
tour of this valley. The finest excursion within 
the valley is to the Nevada Falls, which ladles 
and children are sure to enjoy. Mr. Non oho ff 
says ladies and obildren may make the tour of 
the rim of the valley with perfect safety and I 
convenience. Tho wayside Inns arc clean, the 
food abundant and the service polite. 
Of Chinese house-servants In San Francisco 
our author says:—“You ask hts mistress, and 
she tells you that, she has no disputes, no 
troubles, no worry; that John has made house¬ 
keeping a pleasure to her; If he is cook he does 
not object to help with the washing and iron¬ 
ing—in fart docs it better and quicker than any 
Bridget in the world. And John's master 
chimes in with an assertion that since John has 
reigned below the kitchen lias been the delight 
of his eyes, so clean and sweet is It. Moreover, 
John markets for his mistress; be is economical, 
and ho does not make a fuss." 
Our experience with “John ” in a New York 
kitchen has been quite different. He.could only 
cook rice well; he put a whole half of a sheep 
into the oven to roast for a small family; he 
was very sloppy In Ihe kitchen and ho made 
such violent love to Ihe Irish girls we wore 
obliged to dismiss him. 
Mr. Nordhoff writes of Southern California 
as a delightful place for invalids, women as well 
as men. The temperature is even, the air dry 
and warm in the Winter, the scenery grand and 
beautiful. He especially recommends It for all 
suffering with lung complaints and throat dis¬ 
eases. All through Ilia book Mr. N. has uu eye 
out for the women and children. It is to bo 
commended for that besides its other merits. 
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WOMAN PERSONALS. 
According to a letter (seemingly well in¬ 
spired) in the XIX. xiirlr , the Empress Cari.ot i A 
maintained her physical health, not only unim¬ 
paired Inil to some extent improved, while her 
mental derangement has reached the last stage 
or imbecility. She lives estranged from all lu r 
family, resolutely declining to see either King 
or Queen, who are forced to content themselves 
with catching a glimpse of her during her occa¬ 
sional walks in tho grounds of the Chutcau 
Tervuercr. Her physicians have abandoned ail 
hope for her restoration to sanity, while .they 
augur favorably to her general health. Her 
inind still dotes on her lost empire, and all her 
caprices, and they are many, run in tho direc¬ 
tion of imperial state pageant. Sho constantly 
dispatches telegrams to Napoleon III., who,she 
believes, Still reigns; and, saddest of nil, the 
name of Maximilian Is seldom oil’ her lips. 
In the Patent . Department at Washington 
there hangs the picture of a Yankee woman 
who is regarded as one of I he smartest in ihe 
country. Kho worked in a paper bag manufac¬ 
tory in Springfield, and there studied out a ma¬ 
chine for turning out'at one process a paper 
bag, pasted, stamped and ready for use. The 
model and exemplary masculine whom she em¬ 
ployed to get ready her tMtitcrn started off to 
Washington on his own account and patented 
her Idea in bis own name. Whereupon began a 
long and hard light before the Patent Office, 
lasting several days. She won her case, and has 
since refused $100,000 for her patent. She has 
also invented a pate ni run, to be suspended in 
rooms and halls, it being wound up like u clock 
and running several hours. 
Mits. Minnie Milt.f.b, wife of tho poet, 
Joaquin, has been lecturing in San Francisco 
about her husband. Her lecture was a success, 
and she Is spoken of as a genius, u greater 
woman than he is a man. She is tho mistress of 
satire, a woman of energy, who has passed 
through a world of cure and sorrow. She Is a 
pale, thoughtful woman, not so handsome In 
form and figure us she Is In soul, which gleams 
out of her eyes and lights up her face. Her 
hair droops about her shoulders In a wreath of 
ringlets. She had tmt a four or II vo days’ court¬ 
ship with the poet, and says: —“On Sunday we 
were married. It wns mostly my fault. Joaquin 
bus often reproached me for it, and I feel the 
Just ice of his reproaches." 
Miss Ransom <.r Cleveland, Ohio, painted the 
first picture ever bought by tho Government, of 
a woman. She has recently finished a full- 
length portrait of Gen. Thomas, which is re¬ 
garded as a work of great merit. 
Miss Minnie C. Swayzk has lectured on “A 
Woman’s Plea for Reform.” 
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MARRIAGE. 
LEion Hunt concludes an essay on marriage 
as follows“ There is no one thing more lovely 
in Ibis life, more full of the divino oourage, 
than when a young maiden, from her past life, 
from her happy childhood, when she rambled 
over every field and moor around her homo; 
when a mother anticipated her wants and 
soothed her little cares, when her brothers ami 
sisters grew from merry playmates to loving, 
trustI' iiI friends; from Christmas gatherings 
and romps* Ihe Summer festivals Tin bower or 
garden; front I bo rooms sanctified by tho death 
of relatives: from the secure backgrounds of 
her childhood, and girlhood, and maidenhood, 
looks out into tho dark and unillumlnated fu¬ 
ture away from all that, and yet unterrifted, 
undaunted, leans her fair cheek upon her lov¬ 
er’s breast, and whispers. “ Dear heart I I can¬ 
not see, but I believe. The past was beautiful, 
but the future I can trust— with thee!” 
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Devotion to public opinion was evinced by 
a lady aged eighty, who recently married a man 
of correspondingly appropriate age, because he 
“comes about rny house so much, if I don’t 
marry him people will talk.” 
BY ANNIE JENNIE. 
It may be that ynu passed her. Sir, 
When coining down this lane ? 
A woman bent, with tired look, 
Her clothes, you know, are plain 
And coarse, but. clean and tidy-like— 
There’s coming up a ruin! 
I’ve brought her out this cld umberell— 
She is my mother, Sir! 
And though she washes, is not well. 
But I’m her launtnrter; 
If I’d grown up like other boys. 
I’d have Supported her. 
But since I got that awful fall 
I’ve been a cripple milte, 
And mother has to work so much 
Her face grows tldn and white. 
It’s hardest pain I have to boar 
To see her sew at night! 
Yes, Sir; we manage very well, 
If ladies only’d pay 
Last week, new cushions for the church 
Took thulr spare change away ; 
The ladle » said, our HI,tie bills — 
They’d pay thorn all to-day! 
I s’posc, Sir, ladies never think 
How mlieh n dollar ’ll buy,— 
They never get an ounce of ten. 
My mother says that’s why; 
Do you suppose that thru could guess 
How " hungry days" drag by! 
My mother. Sir, s n Indy, too ; 
She’s gentle, and polite. 
She says our griefs. If bravely borne, 
Are like tho slurs at night,— 
When shining thro’ the deepest gloom 
They show their sweetest light. 
She’s never cross, but always kind. 
And ho) cl’ul all the while.— 
Oh, there she comes! i’ll hobble on, 
To see me ’ll make her audio. 
’By, Sir; just see how spry she walks— 
Two dollars’s quite a pile ! 
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YOUNG FEIENDS, SEE HERE! 
HOW YOU CAN MO GOOD AND MAKE IT PAY. 
Roys and Gibi.s, Young Men and Maidens, 
who read the Kura l New-York i;r— ytmr atten¬ 
tion, please, while we briefly talk about a plan 
for tlm mutual benefit of Yourselves, the People 
and t he Rural. 
And first,—now that the long evenings are 
coming, or have come, and Winter Is rapidly 
approaching, thousands of people who have 
been busy for months, have, or soon will have, 
abundant leisure for reading and study. Good 
papers and books therefore will, or ought to bo, 
In-demand Tor weeks and months to come, es¬ 
pecially throughout the Rural Districts, which 
extend from Uanada to California and Maine to 
(Minnesota would be alliterative, but wo must 
go further now and say) Alaska. Now we think 
Iho Rural worthy' of a i nrdial welcome in the 
homes of the intelligent and progressive all 
over the a fore-mem ioned widely-extended dis¬ 
tricts, and that it will speedily receive such 
in tens of thousands of them, provided Its rend¬ 
ers give it a proper introduction. But “ there’s 
the rub." Who, and how many, of its friends 
will make the Rural favorably known to their 
1 'lends and acquaintances?—thereby inducing 
them to become members of the great. “Rural 
Brigade,” which already has representatives in 
every Stato and Territory of this Union, the 
Canadas, and nearly every foreign country 
where civilized people dwell. 
To accomplish our object — viz., to largely 
extend the circulation and influence (we 
ti-Lisi for good only) of tho Rural New- 
Fork i a we especially need and ask tho aid of 
those herein addressed, tho Young People of 
America, or, in common parlance, “Young 
America." We know that liicy con, if they will, 
give tlds Journal an Immense Circulation. All 
that Is necessary is a litt lo timely and persistent 
effort, fur almost any young person of either sex 
to obtain from ton to fifty or one hundred sub¬ 
scribers. While in our teens we obtained large 
lists or subscribers for popular papers, aud, us 
th <3 book says, “What lias been done can bo 
done again." Wo began business ns editor and 
publisher while u minor, and our observation 
thus far proves that, as a rule, the world is 
moved -that its business Is mainly transacto 1 
by intelligent, industrious and enthusiastic 
Young People. This is neither flattery nor 
sophistry only the plain, unvarnished, de¬ 
monstrable Truth. 
Now, Young Friends, while soliciting your 
efforts m behalf of the Rural, we do not ask 
orexpcct you to “work for nothing and find 
yourself." On tho contrary we not only offer, 
but actually give you “Good Pat / for Duinp 
Good." For particulars see our new List of 
Premiums on page 271 of this paper. You will 
there find that we offer a variety or choice* 
beautiful and valuable articles, many of which 
are useful and desirable for Young People, 
Please look over t he list and then decide wheth¬ 
er it will pay you to introduce the Rural New- 
Yorker- to notice and support In your locality. 
We think it will, but you must decide and gov¬ 
ern yourselves accordingly. If you decide to 
form a Club, however, remember that Nvw is 
the Time to Start , as those early In the field will 
bo most certain to succeed. 
WHO IS ITT 
Did you ever play “ Who is it?” If not, pro¬ 
cure some card board and prepare a number of 
cards. I bad fifteen to comnence with, and 
have over sixty now, the right size to hold con¬ 
veniently. Number those 1, S, 3, and so on until 
they each boar a number. Then prepare some 
small cards to correspond. Place tho small ones 
in a bwc and shake. Distribute the largo ones 
among the playflrg. Then ask a question, be¬ 
ginning with “Who." Draw one of Iho small 
cards and read the number, Tho one who holds 
the huger card of the same number is the an¬ 
swer to the question, mid must ask tho next 
question. You need not feel fluttered if you 
happen to bo the one who is wisest, or wittiest, 
or the best musician, for your next, curd may 
pronounce you tho silliest, vainest, or greatest 
humbug in the crowd. Here Is a sample of snmo 
of our questions. Who wears No. 3 shoes when 
they ought to wear l.Ys? As Harry likes to 
have his feet, calk’d small, we were rather 
amused that It fell on him, and declared tho 
cards always told the truth. But when the an¬ 
swer to the question Who hns not combed his 
hair in a month? fell on Emma, the neatest one 
of ns all, we pronounced them fallible. 
North Fairfield, O. l. e. ic. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 14. 
M 
ID©” Answer in two weeks. 
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PROBLEM. No. 5. 
A triangle having a perimeter of 100 rods, 
and an area of 400 square rods, has one of its 
angles bisected by a line drawn to Its opposite 
side, which line Is 30 rods in length. Required, 
the sides of the triangle. 
B 
Answer in two weeks. 
HIDDEN TREES.—No. 1. 
1. Bring that map, Leonard, and I will show 
you. 
2. See t hut bee chasing a butterfly. 
3. He puts his top in every place but the right 
one. 
t. Bring me, In exchange for that butter, nut¬ 
meg and allspice. 
O, a katydid 'caught u shad. (Two trees.) 
6. Go und tell Ihom ; lock the door first. 
7. Did you say that wusa thick or yellow cloud? 
Answer in two weeks. J. M. Sherk. 
MY PLANTATION. No. 1. 
1. If 1 plant a milk Rouse, what will come up? 
3. If I plant a cross llttlegiiJ, what will come up? 
3. II r plant sumo birds, what will come up? 
4. If 1 plant a bee, whut will spring up? 
•>. If I plant a Winter, what comes up? 
0. it I plant a sunrise, what will come up? 
Answer in two weens. GraOe. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Oct. 12. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 13. — Governors, 
rulers and statesmen should possess courage, 
honor, wisdom and integrity. 
Riddle No. 1.— Jonah — tho dwelling-place 
within a great fish. 
Problem (Vo. 3. I hav e received several com¬ 
munications from various iooulilics, asking for 
the solution to Problem No. 3, of Sept, 7. Will 
you permit, me through tlm Rural to say to 
these, und to all others interested in that prob¬ 
lem, that its solution is very long and Intricate; 
the essence whereof, however, Is all contained 
in the following principle, discovered, ns others 
may discover It, by dint of hard study;—The 
supplements of Ihe three angles about the point 
(P) [see figure] are found In the same manner as 
the three angles of a triangle are found when 
The Sides are given, by considering ihe lines 
given in the problem as constituting tho aides of 
a single ti i.ingle. \V hen the three angles about 
the point (P) are determined, wo shuil have t wo 
sides and their included angle given In each of 
three triangles to flud the third side. These 
third sides constitute the sides of the triangle 
required. B. F. Buhlf. SON. 
