MAR6H 3 
MOORE’S BUBAL WEW-VORKER 
THE LONELY FLOWER. 
A little flower 30 lowly grew, 
So lonely was It left, » 
That Heaven looked like aneye of blue, 
Down In lt» rocky cleft. 
What could the little flower do 
In such a darksome place, 
But try to reach that eye of hlne, 
And climb to kiss Heaven's face ? 
And tbere'a no life so lone aud low 
But strength may attll be given. 
From narrowest lot On earth to grow 
Tho straighier up to Heaven. 
T Gerald Hasten. 
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A TALK WITH MY SISTERS. 
I have been an interested but silent reader 
of the Run at, for quite n while. There arc few, 
I should think, who cannot find satisfaction In 
Its columns while it offers such a variety of 
reading matter. I cannot, say that the " Ladles’ 
Portfolio” has interested me more than some 
other departments; yet, whatever tends to ele¬ 
vate women always receives very careful atten¬ 
tion, and perhaps n few thoughts from me may 
not be amiss. 
I was somewhat amused at Lnu M. Kelsey's 
idea, of man. Kcatly, I should think she had 
been rather unfortunate in her acquaintances. 
I once heard a conversation between two men 
—both church members—in regard to the exist¬ 
ence of a literal hell of (ire and brimstone for 
the never-ending punishment of the wicked. 
“ Why, grandfather," said the younger one, 
“if I did not believe there is a hell of flre nnd 
brimstone, where 1 should be punished ages 
without end, I would give vent to all my evil 
propensities—cut, slash, kill, and go it Jchu- 
like.” 
The older man looked him In the eye, and 
said:—"I believe you are just as moau as you 
say you aro." 
So we shall have to think that L. M. K. Is just 
as ill-tempered as she says she is. (I am glad I 
am not a man, so 1 will not have to risk getting 
such a woman for a wife.) 
I have seen women in just such a passion as 
L. >f. K. describes; and If she hud added the 
slamming of doors, kicking over of chairs, and 
"boxing” the ears of the "pinafores,” the pic¬ 
ture would have been complete. 
!I would BUggest that the next time the 
sparks from her eyes are so dangerous that 
"That important representative of the malo 
sex” so abruptly makes his exit, (perhaps he, 
too, had "an undignified sensation of pleasure 
at the bare petdbijjty" of finding tlm femul, 
portion of the family in a pleasant humor, and 
of spending the rest of the evening in pleasant 
forgetfulness of the toils of the day,) that she 
follow him, and see where he spends the re¬ 
mainder of the evening. ! will venture to say 
it will be whore there are no scolding women. 
O ! that women would uw^b to a sense of 
their—which shall I s^-duty or dai^er? Per¬ 
haps both v"»ui<1 not hft amiss. Will women 
evt,r <-ahi that their own conduct Is driving 
men away from them to tho billiard roonj and 
the saloon. Such conduct Will do it, if it is not 
always the cause. Ido not wish to be under¬ 
stood to be putting all the blame upon women 
not at ail; but there seem to be some who 
think women arc faultless, (I know they are 
not, for I am one,) and the men all to blame. 
If all women who indulge In such, would stop 
talking disparagingly of the men and meddling 
with politics, and take time to look to the “ in¬ 
ner man, I think they Would find so much 
room for improvement, that, the change would 
be felt in a great many homes. 
We are ail imperfect; and I presume, wherc- 
ever discomrort exists to any great extent, that 
both sides are to blame; but why not woman 
begin a reformation? Suppose she does have 
to force a smile sometimes; did smiling ever 
hurt any one? Perhaps she will feel better 
after the effort, and if cont inued pleasant atten¬ 
tion faj|$ to make a husband more loving and 
attentive, thon he is unworthy the loved name I 
of husband. We must remember t hat the hus¬ 
band and father is toiling for us, and has a great 
many more temptations and trials, where his 
business Is among so many different classes of 
men, than we can possibly have at home. Then 
shall we add to his unhappiness by giving a 
frown instead of a smile when he returns in the 
evening? Ah, sisters! it would he neither, if 
some accident should happen and lie should be 
brought: home a corpse, as often does happen. 
Hut women can sometimes bo too timid. To 
illustrate : The wife of a cattle dealer wanted 
to go to her sister's wedding, and she had no 
dross good enougii to wear, so her mother let 
her have one of her's, and as there was consid¬ 
erable difference in tiieir size, the dress had to 
be remodeled, The husband went with his wife 
lo the wedding, and while going, ho discovered 
that she was weeping. In answer to hisinquiry | 
of the cause, she replied that siie had on her 1 1 
mol her’s dress, and she was afraid that every < 
one would know that it was her mother’s old ' 
dress made over. 
" by didn't you tell me you had no dress to 
wear, and you should have had one?” said the | i 
husband. " ] did not know that you had no t 
dress good enough to wear." The next time he a 
went to tho city he bought three dresses for her. a 
L et woman be mistress of her situation, and x 
I t hink she wi 11 have less room for complaint. 
The Avoman who w ill not govern lierself, cer¬ 
tainly cannot govern her household ; conse¬ 
quently, it governs her. She spends her ener¬ 
gies in vain fretting and passion, and then com¬ 
plains that shots “worked down." Of course 
| she is worked down ; for the haste with which 
j such women sometimes Avork, together with 
the amount of nervous fluid necessary to sup¬ 
ply such temperaments, is enough to exhaust 
j the energies of any ordinary woman. 
V BfttfNA. 
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WHICH WAS THE WASTER 1 
"Sarah, 1 am very sorry to see such waste¬ 
fulness,” said William Andrews, as he picked 
some papersout of the wood-box aud held them 
up. " The ragman pays two cents a pound for 
these. Tom Day told me his wife bought all 
her tinware with her paper-rags. We never can 
thrive unless you attend to thbai) little wastes. 
You know the old saving, * Small leaks sink a 
ship.’" 
dAivAii was a wise Avonmn, who didn't “ flare 
up " at every trifle ; so she t ucked the paper into 
the rag-bag which hung in the eellanvay.and as 
she was busy paring apples, she thought, she 
would pursue this subject of waste still further. 
She evidently had something on her mind, too. 
She spoke more pleasantly than William did, 
but quite as decidedly. 
“ What would you say of me, William, if, in¬ 
stead of wasting a tenth of a cent in old paper, 
I took two dollars worth of sugar and threiv it 
out in the door-yard? " 
William looked up with surprise at the ab¬ 
surd question. 
"Or if I should burn up a new dress of Jen- | 
ME'nto kindle a flre?" 
" Don’t talk nonsense, wife," said he, angi ily, ! 
Avlth a dim conviction that in some Avay ho was 
tho man. 
"What difference Is there between my acting 
so and your losing one or two days’ Avork every 
week for a more trifle ? Six dollars you lost last 
week, for a mere dispute with your employer. 
It la out> a. Wonder that you have your place 
back this week. I presume you wouldn’t if ho 
had not been ho pressed with work. To-day you 
might have been busy, but a trifle has kept you 
homo. Now, ii I struck work for every wiiim 
also, whore would the house go to? Suppose 
women struck for eight, hours a day. The ma¬ 
jority of us work sixteen, and make less fuss 
about it than ntort do at their ten hours. We 
never have a day, cither, unless really sick. 
Tho small savings i might make in a month 
would not amount to half what you waste every 
day you lie idle." 
Sarah may have grown a little warmer as she 
proceeded, but she kept- her temper. William j 
looked "cheap," and Mt. convicted. lie rwdly 1 
iiau not looked on profit and' loss in just this 
light . He knew lie did not get on well, and 
somehow fell into the way men have had since 
Adam’s l ime, of blaming It all on his wife, i or 
a wonder, lie did riot reply, bhf look a hammer 
and went out atwi tinkered up the front fence. 
" Sqt on dinner early, K.vLLy," he said, looking 
In at the door. " I guess I won't go to Hieefleld 
this afternoon ; I’ll go over to the shop." 
Sarah rejoiced at this decision, and set him 
on the nicest of dinners, served in the pleasant¬ 
est manner. She encouraged and helped him 
in time to break up his wasteful habit of losing 
a day’s work so often unnecessarily, and they 
began " to thrive like mice in a mill.” 
J. E. McC. 
failing for the Uoitng. 
KING BABY. 
His scepter Is a rattle, 
His throne is mother's arms; 
He vetgns a tiny tyrant, 
In all his dimpled charms ’, 
Yet round hla royal presence 
Our loving hearts entwine: 
Dictator ol' tho cradle. 
And king by right divine ! 
Whatever be his mandates, 
No courtiers dare rebel; 
Ills mother’s chief of the household, 
Prime mInlstor as '.veil! 
In yon perambulator, 
His doAvny car of state; 
Exacting, rosy monarch, 
What triumphs on him wait! 
In purple, ease ami splendor, 
Long, long be •eric, to reign ; 
All hints of nose disjointed. 
He smiles at with disdain l 
Alas I that royal greatness 
Should ever he disowned i 
More comes a tiny stranger,- 
King Baby is dethroned. 
Ulldinr, 
WOMEN AT HOME, 
A Poetical w riter has said that some men 
move through lifo as a band of music moves 
down the street, flinging out, pleasure on every 
side through the air to every one, far and near, 
that can listen. Some men HI) the air rvith 
their strength and sweetness as the orchards in 
October days fill the fiir Avlt.h ripe fruif. Some 
women cling to their own houses like tho hon¬ 
eysuckle over the door; yet, like, it, fill the 
region with the subtle fragrance of 1 heir good¬ 
ness. How great a bounty and blessing is it so 
to bold tho royal gifts of tho soul that they 
shall be music to florae, fragrance toothers, and 
life to all ! II, would be no unworthy thing to 
live for, to make the power which wc have 
within us the breath of other men’s Joy; to fill 
the atmosphere which they must stand in with 
a brightness which they cannot create Tor 
themselves. 
LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
The Noble Dog. 
We had a noble dog by iiie name of Ilcro. 
Hoavus a very savage dog, but with those ho 
| w»B a, quatntod with he was kind. Warm Siun- 
| merdaya lie would roam off into a little grove 
near the house, and there he would stay until 
the sun had net, and then he would ;,l.art for 
homo. Out one day Haro disappeared; where 
he had go tie, wo could not tell; we looked and 
hunted everywhere for him, but still he ivas not 
found ; wc even advertised in the county papers 
for him, but all in vain. One of our nearest, 
neighbors Avont to Ruffalo to visit Ids friends, 
and it happened that no Avent into a store; as 
be AVas looking around, he looked to the further 
ond of the store, and Avhat, should ho see but 
our noble pet Horn. lie walked up to him and 
Bald" Hero, you brave fellow, hoAV came you 
hero?" Hero sprang to his feet.and Commenced 
i>at king and making a great disturbance. And 
all the chirks in the Unto i'tui to see what was 
(ho matter; and our friend turned to them and 
••.aid; "Whore did you .purchase this noble 
dog?” And they replied, saying, “We found 
him in the street one cold morning, and brought 
him to t his store, and here bC has stayed with 
us ever since.” Our friend told t horn hotv such 
a dog had been lost, and that ha would pay them 
4 ’od nrler nnd Like the d-vr. And i> he 
brought Hero home. And as l sit here writing, 
IP is, is Sleeping on hU rug near the stove ; and 
I thick if ho could speak, lie would say:—“I 
never want to go to Buffalo again, hut stay at 
my country home,”— Jessie Tanner, aged 15. 
A Long Churning, 
Dear Editor:—! am a ittriiier’a daughter, and 
was brought up to milk, make oliecao aud hut- 
tor, and think l can make Just as good butter 
in the Spring or early in the Fall, as, any one; 
but late in the season 1 am puzzled to Lu'-'w 
why the cream wilt not come without, bo much 
churning! i churned four hours not long ago, 
and the next time f churned from eight In the 
CAuming till four in the morning; then I look a 
short nap in my rooking chair, for I thought it 
might do the cream good to rest, nnd war, sure 
that my arms were tired. At 0 1 resumed the 
task, leaving It long enough to cal my breakfast 
and milk, and did not, get the butter till 9ti; it 
looked white, but was not too hard. This is no 
yarn, but a positive fact. But just to Satisfy 
3omo of my friend a, who say that I do not get 
the cream warm enough, I tried it by the flicr- 
monieter, and it was then ai 82 after daylight. 
The next l liuo I said I would not chum all night, 
and had the cream so warm that I expected to 
have Avhitc butter in half an hour; but to my 
surprise, churned till 2, and left it without get¬ 
ting butter. There was butter in the churuat 1 
o’clock,but separate it would and did not. We 
have six cows, and Iced them on roni fodder , 
but it is bright and nice; my neighbors do the 
same, but do not havo to churn all night. If my 
fault, 1 wish to know what It is. Please answer 
in the Rural New-Yorker and that without 
delay, and oblige—E. M. T., Eric Co., N. Y. 
make my “ Castle," and six hundred straws in 
all. It is a real “ Fairy Castle.”— Kitty Clark. 
A Busy Little Clrl. 
Dear Mr, Editor: — As the rest, of the itttlo 
girls are writing, T thought 1 would. I am 11 
years old. One who It ago two dogs killed 21 
sheep for pa. There was snow on I he ground, 
and pa and my brother followed them up until 
they caught, them, 1 haven large doll; it was 
broke, but ma fixed it.. I have some plants in 
t ho house. Wo havo a farm and live on It. My 
brother lives on it, too; ho line one little girl; 
her name Is Isabel. bho lux.; got rod hair, and 
so have I. Her pa ia In a baud. There are 11 in* 
the band; they can play 17 pieces. They have 
played for ft good many suppers. I am sewing 
carpet rags by tho hall; 1 get three cents a 
ball. Our homes have got t he epizootic. I ex¬ 
pect, our folks will not get to slelgh-ridc much 
this Winter, because the horses are Hick. I love 
to read the boys' and girls' letter- f have got 
two lit tie sisters and tivplittle bio! h-.-nu Ellie 
B., Marlon Co., V. 
Flailing With Tlp-Upo. 
Dear Mr. Editor. : -We are two boys, twelve 
and thirteen years old. We live on the line of 
the N. Y. and O. M. R. ft. We saw the picture 
n the itURAL, telling how to catch fish with a 
snore, and we thought we wotild try it through 
the ice, We took four tip-ups with us. Well, 
we set, Ihil tip-ups. and then tried the snare. 
At llrst. we could not get, any, but alter a while 
we got. three nice big suckers; then we went 
and took our tip-ups out, and got a perch and a 
bullhead; ive baited them new, using fresh liver 
fur ball,. Next time wo got a pick eret most, but; 
and the honk cniight against the ice mid broke 
t he line, and tie got anvny; but ho has got some¬ 
thing to remember its hy if ho lias not got the 
hook out of his mouth. We would like to htn-e 
some of the other boys tell how they fish. Ed¬ 
die and Willie Tip-Up. 
ILLUSTRATED REB(JS.-No. 8. 
ZW" Answer in two weeks: 
PUZZLE. No. 5. 
I am 14 letters. I am a bird, a crowned head, 
a fish and a Sportsman. Mv Hist, resembles mo 
very closely—In fact |t Is idvutkal With "df, 
FEMININE FELICITIES. 
Certain ladles are bound to get up a fan¬ 
dango even if it ts church. 
A rouxo lady mi being asked what calling 
slm wished her sweetheart to follow, biushfngly 
replied that she wished him to beahusbamlmau. 
Younc ladies, always give precedence to age. 
Never go to the wash-tab if your mother or 
grand mother are present; they might consider 
it disrespectful. 
In Alaska, if a native murders his wife her 
relatives will not be satisfied until he gives them 
a lot of blankets. They think a Avife is worth 
fifteen blankets in Summer and twenty in 
Winter. 
A n old bachelor says if a girl wants to know 
when she looks most charming in the men's 
eyes, it is when she wears a simple muslin dross, 
with a frill of lace around the neck and at the 
waist, and no ornaments but youth and fresh¬ 
ness. 
very closely In fact It I i idvutkal w Uil MY "dl, 
My first two are m theaciitenop i!«’forn Imk. 
first, thrbo would lisp lf I i-ohl ) add 40 IhHifryu, 
t hem. My llrst four is a.game that, tho boH -b* 
light in. My fourth, fifth and sixth i.s the name 
or somebody', mother, wife, sister and daugh¬ 
ter, MJr Diree lasr. suggest the CoiostiiJl empire. 
My last eight embrace a vehicle, an insect and a 
fragrant decoction , also a plant. I am between 
my seven and eighth, and while I am there 
there is but one meaning to u.> three, no matter 
if you spell os back 1 ,cards or forwards 
Now, wher is the dt p u. hoy or girl smart 
enough to tell whal I tun, my name and voc;r- 
Uncle Charles. 
Answer in two weeks, 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. \> 
Ma (i. 10, 10, 5,15, 21 copied tihee a year 
Mv SO,.. II. f i-s part of the human body! 
My 4, in. lb, la was an explorer. 
-M v 1®’ |rv% U ’ ' f,n fltieiont city of Syria. 
J .' ~4, 8, I, l.i is a piece of mones. 
’!' ' s a sacred mount. 
V' f' 1 ’ I* 1 b, 15 is no r>on«e. 
My whole is an amusing account or travel and 
adventure. Emma and Libbie. 
£3/” Answer in two weeks. 
Howto Make Air Castles. CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. No. 6. 
Mr. Editor I am ten years old ; my father _ 
takes the Rural, and I like to read it very Mv first is in ask but not in give 
much, especially the "Young Rural 1st’* cor- My second is in mill but notIn sieve; 
tier." I thought perhaps Borne of you would like )}•' third la In uomo but not in go, 
to learn haw to make an "Air Castle,” I have My fifths Snnl“ mil not !n feu/ 
made several, and they were admired very much. My last is in goose but, not j n hex! • 
To make my “Castle," you must have scarlet, M V whole is in one of our noted men. 
flannel, or shoddy will do, cut in small round Answer lu two weeks. a. c. e. 
pieces as large as thO end of your little linger; ---.— 
Mien get some straw; cut twelve straws sevox. PUZZLER ANSWERS. Feb. 22 
Inches long, string them wit h u darning needle | - 
In the form of a diamond, first a strxw, then a Word and Phrase Puzzle No. 2.— Mr Dcn- 
Pioco of flannel, and so on until you got It com- was summoned In- Mr. Young, the Justice 
pletod ; then for the next size cut straw three Hetuimeon the witnU^Jx"/')’ abo , ut 1l ', e l H,1< !i i ! r ; 
inches long, string tlxe#e the same a* 1.of ore; not see the qitrrel! s.i </.u!d't^rfm/hing 1 'o2i‘y 
for the next size, cut straw one inch long, fasten i from hearsay; so wa* djaiulssod. 
on,and in, the three-inch diamond seven of the | Anagrams of Animals No. J.- I. ; 
one-inch ones; then Listen seven or these on. LToeodUe; 8 Rhinoceros; 4, Bw 
and in the large and center seven-inch dla- Hunting; ffiAntSt'Si " 
mond. It takes one seven-inch diamond, seven can Shrike; f:j, Pheasant; 12, Condor, 
three-inch ones and forty-nine inch ones, to Problem No. 4.—7.036453125 acres. 
