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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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A RECIPE. 
BY AUGUST NOON. 
Dear Editor, 
My creditor, 
X hope you won’t rcfuso 
This recipe 
From Bbssxe B., 
Which every one should use. 
This recipe 
From BmaiK B. 
Will tell your readers how, 
With cunning deep. 
They long may Keep 
All wrinkles from tbc brow ; 
To homely faces 
Such lovely graces 
By it they muy impart, 
With tom per sweet. 
And manners moot 
To captivate oaoh heart. 
Empty the measure 
Of selfish pleasure. 
With love one-hulf refill.— 
Some common sense. 
And excellence. 
Some truth uud kind good will,— 
Take pleasure fraught 
With pious thought, 
(Here’s no disparity,) 
Put lo the measure 
Your own heart’s treasure. 
Fill up with charity. 
Heat every part 
Upon your heart . 
If It be warm and kind ; 
Thoroughly si ako it. 
Constantly take it, 
And benefit you'll find. 
Any swoot. Mi**. 
That umB this 
And finds It make* her bettor. 
Can cusily 
Make BKrone B, 
Her evcrlustlng debtor: 
Because if t he 
Can roniedy 
What long has made mo mourn. 
She'll send to mo 
A re ipe 
To keep my clothes from getting torn. 
RECUPERATION AT THE SEASIDE. 
BY AUNT KATE. 
In woman’s life there falls little leisure, lit¬ 
tle time to recuperate the waning, overtaxed 
strength—to relax the fret-work and untangle 
the woof and warp In the intricate web of life. 
If any chance opens to run away from stern 
duty, wo, like Lot’s wife, look hack and falter, 
reluctant to be missed, foolishly reproach our¬ 
selves that we have'nt another life to use in the 
service of those we are bound to love, while, 
away down in the depths of our inner lifo there 
pulsates a wUli t » rest, to forget—to sec what's 
outsido this little world all our own,—if per¬ 
chance to visit Bome distant, loved friend or 
rclai lve, or better still if there’s a parent in the 
old house. Oh, It fills the heart and eye to go 
back in thought to the girlhood homo l a wail 
of tad regret comes up from the burled past. 
Oh, If we could cat! them back,how muchoften- 
er we'd visit them autl lavish every attention ! 
Yes, we'd bathe ibeh very foot In tears of joy to 
be with them again, and to toll them how, by 
their faithful duty to ourselves, we’d learned 
the stern lessons of living; we'd also learned 
why mother was sad when wo were so happy in 
the choice and change. It was not scilfob tears; 
no, nol hut the anxious outlouk into the dim, 
distant future, so fraught with uncertainty and 
risk. 
Iu consideration of all this we shako the 
shackles off and join dear friends in a trip 
to smell old Ocean—to explore and critic!*- 
our own new watering-place, “Rehobnth," 
that Decks the At lantic seaboard, scarce thirty 
miles away from our home, four miles south of 
Cape Henlnpen and the far-famed Breakwater, 
and two miles north of Rchoboth Bay and In¬ 
dian River Inlet 1 This beach seems to be get¬ 
ting up a, reputation, notwithstanding its ob¬ 
scure locality. It* bathing I* pronounced ex¬ 
cellent, because of the absence of seaweed and 
under-current und It* even bottom, by habitual 
health and pleasure-seekers. An organized as¬ 
sociation regulates and plans the Improvements 
and outlays. Small, elegant cottages are al¬ 
ready erected, and many in prospective. There 
are two hotels; the best one, the Surf House, is 
kept and managed by a lady of groat ability, 
from Wilmington, and is filled to its utmost 
capacity with guests. Board. £2.50 pur day, $10 
to $13 por week, with the beat of fare, which la 
far removed from a Saratoga or a Newport, 
while to substantial people the enjoyrncut is 
perhaps greater. Good conveyances are con¬ 
stantly on the spot to take the curious and In¬ 
quiring to points of interest, and at the most 
reasonable rates. The driving generally is good, 
and at low’ tide magnificent. One of the most 
interesting drives is to Cape Henlopen Light¬ 
house, from the tmver of which is seen far and 
wide the wildest view of the ocean on the east, 
and the grandest upheaval of pure, heavy, 
shining, snowy sand, and an almost burled 
forest on the northwest, with its little Oasis 
Valley beneath. Inside this Capo Tower wo 
found the $14,000 lantern, recently Imported. 
Opposite here, when the atmosphere Is very 
clear, in the far distance we see on the Jersey 
shore Cape May—a fashionable watering-place. 
Along the beach,between the cape and ftobo- 
both, are strewn many wrecks. We viewed 
these marks of desolation with Interest, and 
thought of the hope and agony that struggled 
in the hearts of those on those ships now par¬ 
tially burled beneath tho relentless sands and 
fashed by tho briny waves, whose tircloss 
breakers remind nuo of tho over-recoding toll 
and care of woman's work. lts spray nod foam, 
like our constant hope for ease and happiness, 
dissolves in its own vapor with every receding 
wave. 
Two miles south of the bathing and tho 8urf 
House is tho lovely Rchoboth Bay, six by eight 
miles, with its line fishing and sailing. Boat¬ 
men are waiting constantly on Us bank, with 
their pretty little sailboats that will seat a party 
of twelve, and charge only 26o. per head for the 
round sail—the entire length of the bay. Wo 
found Governors, cx-Govcrnors, Senators and 
Congressmen and their families. The elite of 
Baltimore and Wilmington,all social and kind¬ 
ly in their associations; clergymen enjoying 
their rejuvenation and respite from their beau¬ 
tiful ministration. Looking away from the 
white fields, “ proving all things ” and to “ hold 
fast to that which Is good" in watching the 
bathers we concluded tho glee and merry¬ 
making as health-restoring as tho bath. The 
dressing, so substantial and seasonable, linens 
and percales taking the. preponderance, which 
on the promenade wore most admired. 
Adieu, OU1 Ocean 1 perhaps tho future con¬ 
tains another rejuvenation, another respite, 
another paragraph out of which may emanate 
some now pleasure—some new facts. Wo turn 
our face toward Our loved homo-nest, renewed 
in mind, body and appetite, ready to finish up 
the year's work, happier il wo could persuade 
our tolling, weary sisters to occasionally lay off 
the harness to look awayfiotu tho treadmill 
that crushes out the spirit and patience, mak¬ 
ing us prematurely old and faded, unloved and 
un admired. 
Bridge vide, Del., August, 1874. 
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THE RIGHT OR LEFT ARM. 
The question whether a gentleman walking 
with a lady should give her his right arm, Is 
frequently discussed. Custom and written eti¬ 
quette are rather la favor of tho right, although 
there pro excellent reasons in favor of the loft 
arm. Either one or the other, permanently 
retained, is vastly better than the awkward and 
absurd habit of changing arms, so as to place 
the ladies on the Inside or the promenade. One 
advantage of giving tho left arm Is that the 
person on the right naturally takes the lead, so 
that In the country or city, In the street or park, 
he thus directs the way. Instead of waiting to 
consult with ids companion, or causing a jost¬ 
ling by each of them trying to move toward 
opposite points. Another advantage is, that in 
it crowded thoroughfare, such as Broadway, for 
example, whore the sidewalk is Invariably en¬ 
cumbered with merchandise and thronged with 
people, a gentleman needs his right arm to re- 
movw obstructions and keep rude or careless 
folks out of the way.—Scribner’s. 
Hunting for thq Hoang. 
BABY AND I. 
WE are so huopy. 
Baby and 1, 
You might not tblnk so 
iryou were nigh; 
Von only sou the light 
In his blue eyn; 
Wo know what makes It bright— 
Baby and 1. 
Whnn we are singing. 
Baby ami 1. 
We hoar a blrille sing 
Up In tho sky. 
You could not get near it 
If you should try ; 
TVr only can hoar It— 
Baby and 1. 
When we are playing, 
Baby and I, 
Out In the sunshine. 
Where tho birds fly; 
Through the leaves at us peep, 
Sing lullaby, 
TUI we are fast asleep— 
Baby and I. 
Oh. how we love them 
Ruby and I. 
Birdies and blossoms. 
And tho blue sky. 
They show u* many things 
We’d never spy: 
They know we are their friends— 
Baby and l. A 
LITTLE SNOW. 
[See illustration, paoe 291. J 
Dicah little Harry Ims fallen asleep, 
B l " Hnow " a very good watch will keep; 
For he loves Utile Harry, and Harry loves him, 
And when iwifclitufl poor "Snow" Is as proud ns a 
king. 
You see Liow he sits with his ears quite erect, 
And looking us tUough he would say, 
“ If any one conies near my master Just now, 
I will very soon send them away." 
HASTY FRIENDSHIP. 
SOME people are continually acquiring u dear 
friends.” Ladies of an impressible nature have 
been known to add two or three to their list 
every week during tho season. Men are not, 
generally speaking, as apt to rush Into friend¬ 
ship as the more amiable sex; yet many of us 
contract friendships iu baste that wo repent at 
leisure. True friends are scurco articles. They 
cannot be picked up like pebbles. Will the 
ladles excuse us for saying that men's friend¬ 
ships are, in most cases, stronger than theirs V 
The charming young creatures who walk with 
their arms Jinked around each other's waists 
and exchange kisses and confidences daily, are 
not, a« a general thing, so closely welded to¬ 
gether by natural affection but that envy or 
jealousy may part them or even make them 
enemies. 
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ENGLISH Vs. AMERICAN LADIES. 
Ex-MAYOR Meiui.l of Chicago, writing from 
Switzerland to the Tribune of that city, says 
that he has seen hundreds of English ladies 
tramping over the mountains. Alpenstock in 
hand, and evidently quite able to take care of 
themselves. They care nothing about a walk 
of fifteen or twenty miles a day upon a stoop 
acclivity or along a narrow mule path skirting 
the edge of a precipice. " But," he says, " when¬ 
ever I meet a woman carried on a sedan chair 
by four Switzers up a mountain, to see aglacsler, 
an avalanche. Or a cascade, it is not necessary 
to look at her prodigious mass of back hair to 
know that she is not English but American." 
A Royal Marriage.— When two young 
people start out In life together with nothing 
but a determination to succeed, avoiding the 
invasion of each other’s idiosyncrasies, not 
carrying the candle near tho gunpowder, sym¬ 
pathetic with each other’s employment, willing 
to live on small means till they get large facili¬ 
ties, paying as tjiey go, taking lifo Imre as a 
discipline, with four eyes watching its perils, 
and four hands fighting its battles—whatever 
others may say or do, that Is a royal marriage. 
It Is so set down In the heavenly archives, and 
the orange-blossoms shall wither on neither 
side tho grave. 
THE OLD BROOM. 
BY RUNE BLUFF. 
It is worn away to nothing but, a short, stiff, 
uneven, useless stump, fastened by loose, tar¬ 
nished wires to a dirty, brokoti handle. It evi¬ 
dently has had Its day, if ever anything had. 
No one would bo crazy enough to say of it, now, 
“ It will sweep clean.” It couldn't sweep at all. 
But there was a time. I remember well when 
it was first brought home a trim, tidy, respect¬ 
able broom. 1 felt It a powei In my hands. All 
things went before It. Lt had a special hatred 
of spiders mid all dust-foatering things. Its 
bump of cleanliness was extraordinarily devel¬ 
oped. 'Twaa a pleasure to sweep with that 
hroom, lt scorned to have a pride in Its work. 
But age crept on apace. Like a few human 
beings, its ambition and physical endurance 
were unevenly balanced. Hut it felt that It 
was better to be useful and die, than to be use¬ 
less and live, so It did Its best until lt was voted 
superannuated and replaced by a younger rela¬ 
tive. Then Tommy took lt for tho garden walks, 
and then for his horse. Since that It has played 
the part of promiscuous helper wherever neces¬ 
sity, as the mother of Invention, has called It 
into use. 
Little folks, you may learn a lesson from this 
old broom. It was always ready to work and 
never shirked. It did just as well as it, knew 
how, and was not to blame for what it did not 
know. So If a loug raveling or a few chips, a 
spidor's web or a handftd of loose dust, was 
left behind, wo never thought of blaming the 
broom; Instead of that we never doubted that 
It was mortified at the state of things, though 
unable to remedy it of its own accord. When 
it "gave out” In the higher duties of broom- 
life It readily took Its plaoo lower down and 
never murmured at its untimely fate, but did 
its heat, wherever It was, cheerfully and un¬ 
falteringly, 
Little boys and girls, you are each one of you 
a broom in your own way. Sweep clean as far 
as you go. 
-♦♦♦- 
REMINGTON, THE GUN-MAKER. 
Over fifty years ago, a youth, working on 
a farm, asked blB father to give him money 
onough to buy a gun. Tho old man could not 
spare It, but the boy, nothing daunted, found 
an old piece of Iron about the plaeo, and in the 
course of time contrived to make a gun barrel 
out of It, with the very meager facilities afford¬ 
ed by a country blacksmith’s shop. He bad 
not tho materials to make a lock and stock, so 
he walked to I be nearest town and traded for 
the necessary attachments, and was encouraged 
by the smith for having made so good a shooter; 
Mds gave him the ambition to make another, so 
he wont to cutting nut grindstones from the 
native Pock, to raise the money for gun materi¬ 
als ; iu a short time there was a considerable 
demand for guns of his make. During the 
French war with Prussia, be was called upon 
to furnish gnus for the army, and in leas than 
eight months he made and delivered to tho 
government of France rifles of a particular pat¬ 
tern, costing five millions of dollars, which 
1 amount was duly paid. Tho same man fur¬ 
nishes rifles now for the United States, South 
America, Rome, Spain, Egypt and Japan. The 
farmer’s boy who wanted a gun 1 b Ellphalot 
Remington or lllon, N.Y. His manufactory 
covers four acres of ground, and lie employs 
twelve hundred men. This la tho typo of a boy 
who, when there Is not a way, makes a way for 
himself. 
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KEEP YOUR PROMISE. 
A boy borrowed a tool from a carpenter, 
prondsing to return it at night. Before even¬ 
ing be was sent away on an errand, and did not 
return until late. Before bo went lie was told 
that Ids brother should see the article returned. 
After he had come homo und gone to bed, ho 
Inquired, and found that the tool had not been 
sent, to ltd owner. He was much distressed to 
think his promise bail not been kept, but was 
persuaded to go to sleep, and rise early and 
carry It home tho next morning. 
By daylight be was up, und nowhere was tho 
tool to ho found. After a long and fruitless 
search, tie set off for his neighbor's in great dis¬ 
tress, to acknowledge bis fault. But how great 
was bis surprise to find the loot on Ids neigh¬ 
bor’s door-stone! Arid then it appeared from 
the print of his little burn feet in the mud, that 
tho lad had got lip in his sleep and carrlod the 
tool home, and gone to bod again, without 
knowing it. 
Of course a boy who was prompt In his sleep 
was prompt when awake. Ho lived respected, 
had the confidence of his neighbors, and was 
placed in many offices of trust and profit. 
If all grown folk felt as this boy did, there 
would bo a good many tracks of bare foot found 
some of tlieso bright mornings; and what piles 
of tools and books would bo found at their 
owners’ doors ! -Phrenological .Journal, 
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EXERCISE OF THE MIND. 
Tiie exercise of taste and sound criticism is 
one of the most improving employments of the 
understanding. To apply tbc principles of good 
sonsc to composition and discourse—to exam¬ 
ine what is beautiful and why It Is so to em¬ 
ploy ourselves in distinguishing accurately be¬ 
tween the specious ami tho solid, between 
affected and natural ornament, must oortainly 
Improve us not a little iu the most valuable 
part of all philosophy, tho philosophy of human 
nature; for such disquisitions arc very inti¬ 
mately connected with the knowledge of our¬ 
selves. They necessarily lend us to reflect on 
tho operations of tho imagination, and the 
movements of the heart, and Increase our ac¬ 
quaintance with Home of tho most refined feel¬ 
ings which belong to our frame. 
8Che IpttsSskr. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. 8. 
I am composed of 1)3 letters: 
My 73, 02, 4, 21 is a river in Scotland. 
My CO, U, 74, 90, 37, 75 was a Jewish prophot. 
My 9, 03, 84, 9H, 7, 35 is a girl’s name. 
My 91, 49,3,3(1. 76, (58, Is a musical instrument. 
My 53, 39, 83, 93, 40 is one of the Territories. 
My 10, 73,37, 01 Is a flower. 
My 33, 43, 79, 61, 1«, 1, 41 Is a city In Prussia. 
My 5, 46, 30,87 Is a pronoun. 
My 34, U, 65, 80, 17, 58, 34 is a bird. 
My 89, 44, 33 Is a fruit. 
My 30, 0, 18, 37, 35 a grain. 
My 81, 06, 47 , 83, 71, 18, 55 was an apostle. 
My 24, 15, 04,8,87 Is a month. 
My 45, 72, 53,33, 35, 08, 43 is a group of Islands In 
the Pacific. 
My 13, 52, 19, 40, 28, 78 Is a tree. 
My 56, 4, 57,30, 85, 04 is a domestic animal. 
My 87, 73, 39, 70, 31, 77, 23, 38, 9, was a heathen 
goddess. 
Mv 48, 13, 09, 54 is a color. 
My 67, 80, 88, 33, 50 Is a fish. 
My 71,51, 80, 79, 48, 23, 14, 2 Is a flower. 
My whole is a quotation from Tennyson. 
z#r Answer In two weeks. Azile. 
CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.—No. 8. 
* 
My first is in run but not In wait; 
My second is in unite but not in eight; 
My third is in dry but not in wot; 
My fourth is in sat but not in set; 
My fifth is iu lock but not in see ; 
My sixth 1* iu man but not in mo ; 
My seventh is In deaf but not in dumb ; 
My eighth 1 b in went but not in come ; 
My ninth is in Hy but not in flew ; 
My tenth is in constant but not in true ; 
My eleventh is in frow but not In wife; 
My twelfth is in kite, also in knife ; 
My thirteenth is In waiter but not in host; 
My fourteenth is In terror but not in ghost. 
My whole Is a welcome family visitor. 
pgr Answer in two weeks. k. b. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Oct. 3. 
Problem No. 13 .—Area, 3683.3606 square rods. 
BC, 33.620461 rods. 
CD, 39.332270 rods. 
DE, 36.725183 rodB. 
EA, 58.354240 rods. 
Hidden Flowers No. 1.—L Verbena; 2. Gan¬ 
na : 3. Rose ; 4. Carnation ; 5. Ylnca; 6. Perilla ; 
7. Lobelia; 8. Aster. 
