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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MARCH 27 
A cloud had come over the man’s face, and I 
when she stood beside him be said slowly: C 
“That is your own window. Is It not? 1 am 
thinking how It may mar all your cousin’s view j 
/or him, If it shines on there all the while, < 
beckoning to him; and yet he knows that he f 
may never reach it.’’ * 
The girl’s color rose. ( 
“It will never beckon to him!” she cried, i 
hotly. * 
Paul Hurst laid his hand upon hers, upon the I 
window-sill. Returned his face round on hers, r 
It was strangely moved und earnest. ■ 
“ Lett ice," lie said “ Lattice, next week 1 go t 
away; next week your cousin conies'. You and h 
I have been friends, have we not? and in the v 
name of our friendship I ask you to receive I 
your.uousin. once—to hear him once speak for c 
himself—” * 
The man’s voice was grown so husky and so < 
tremulous that the girl glanced up at him sud¬ 
denly. 8 
“ j—I do not understand,” she said. “ I did I 
not know you knew him. 1—” s 
Aud then a sudden light broke on her. She n 
snatched away her hand and turned aside, hid- t 
ing her Jaee. 
Hut both her hands were drawn away pres- ' 
ently, and he had her in hie arms. ' 
“ Lettlce,Lattice,you forgive me? i thought 
to win a cousin by coming unknown to you; t 
but have 1 won a w ife ?" 1 
She lifted her eyes shyly up to him. a 
“ What is in a name?'’ she said. “ Whether i 
you are Paul Hurst or Philip Lyude, w hy should a 
1 cui e ? For J—” 
“ You love me, Lettice ?” 
But he had his answ er in her eyes ! I 
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ANECDOTE OF JUDGE WEST. , 
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Many years ago there lived in Tolland,Conn., 
Judge West, w ho bad been a magistrate foi 
many years and was also elected to the Con¬ 
necticut General Assembly. One day as the 
Judge was in his Held plowing, having an ox 
team with a boy for a driver, a man came in 
great haste with no hut on, Coat badly torn ano 1 
looking ns t hough ho had fared bard in a hand- 1 
to-haml encounter. The Judge, who conjee- ) 
tured what was t he trouble, kept on plowing, 1 
merely asking; 
“ What, is the matter, Nate Smith ? You seem 6 
to be in a hurry.” 
“ Matter enough," said Nate, following along; 
“you see, wo had a little fuss, Bill Jones umi 
me, down at the tavern. He insulted me, a no 
because I resented it, lie pitched in and nearly 
half killed me as you see. Now, l want you to 
give me a writ.” 
“ Can’t, do It," said the Judge. 
“ 1 won’t stand the abuse of that rascal Jones 
any longer," said Nate, “and I must have a 
writ." 
“If you had been at home about your busi¬ 
ness," replied the Judge, who still kept on 
plowing, "you would have had no trouble.” 
“If you don't give me a writ, i’ll have you 
brought before your betters,” said Nate, think¬ 
ing to accomplish Ills object by a threat. 
“Whoa!” said the Judge. “ Hoy, give me 
that w hip.” 
The Judge, who was a powerful man, gave 
Nate a good whipping and resumed his work as 
t hough nothing unusual had happened. 
Smith was hardly out of sight before a man 
oame puffitig and blowing from anot her direc¬ 
tion. 
“What’s the matter with yon, Jones?” said 
the Judge. 
"The matter is,” said he, when he got Ids 
breath, “ I’ve been assaulted and abused by 
Nate Smith at the tavern, and T want a writ for 
his arrest." 
“ What business bud you to be at the tavern ? 
If you had been about your work, at home, 
Smith would not have troubled you.” 
" Give me u writ or I’ll have you before your 
betters before night.’’ 
“ Whoa! Boy, give me the whip." 
The Judge gave Hill a sound thrashing with 
the ox whip and went on with his work. After 
going around the field once or twice, the Judgt 
stopped and delivered himself of the following: 
“Well, John,” said lie, addressing the.boy, 
“I declare, 1 believe l have broken the law! 
Bui I’ve done those rascals justice, anyhow.” 
It is, perhaps, needless to add that Judge 
West was not ” brought, before his betters.” 
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UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, 
Mr. John P. Jewett, famous at one time as 
the publisher of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," tells 
some interesting facts connected with the pub¬ 
lication of that work. When Professor and 
Mrs. Stowe came to Boston to negotiate about 
it. Professor Stowe was very conscientious and 
after agreeing to let Jewett publish it, said he | 
did not believe ii right. lie was sure Mr. Jew¬ 
ett would lose money; none would want to read 
an anti-slavery novel except those wbn read it 
In the Era. OX course the publisher said it was 
his risk. Then the question came up whether 
the copyright should be sold in full or retain¬ 
ed, Mr. Jewitt strongly advising the latter 
course. So the contract was closed Professor 
Stowe remarking with a dubious smile, “ 1 
shall bo well pleased if Harriet gets a good 
black silk dress out of it." Subsequently 
Professor Stowe (after the book .began to sell 
and was noticed.) confessed they dared to hope 
that they might really get enough out of it to 
buy a little cottage and a quarter of an acre of 
ground. 
The financial romance came when the first 
payment for copyright was made. It consisted 
of a check for fl0,000. The anthor-then 
famous; but not realizing the money value of 
her fame—with her husband, the simple-mind¬ 
ed professor, stood looking with a' dazed sur¬ 
prise and perplexity at the little bit. of paper 
by which they were informed that tlieTreruont 
Bank would pay to Harriot Beecher Stowe 
or order, the sum of #10,000. At laat, with 
a queer and almost pathetic simplicity, 
the Professor asked the publisher what he 
should do wit h it. Doubtless that gentleman 
would now bo surprised at hia own simplicity. 
It was questionable whether lie had ever seen a 
check before, and certainly she had as little 
knowledge as most women have of the modes 
of banking operations. 
Mr. Jo welt, rearing they might easily be 
swindled or robbed, went with them to the 
bank, having flint advised them to open an 
account, to keep but little money' about them, 
and draw a check when they wanted any. At 
the bank t he Professor was introduced to the 
cashier, and then to the directors, a hoard 
meeting being in progress The gentlemen 
wore all desirous of meeting Mr. Stowe. As 
Mr. Jewett expressed It, the Professor sat in 
every chair in the room during the few 
minutes the clerks consumed In opening an 
account current. Mrs. Stowe remained at the 
publisher’s office. There were of course, pleas¬ 
ant bopvs and associat ions In that home and 
family on that date. The famous book sold by 
million copies. The unaffected, simple little 
lady was soon transformed Into the renowned 
authoress and “the Beecher "as Mr.Jewettex- 
presses it, became from that date the upper¬ 
most trait, lie paid iu all over#30,000 for the 
copyright. 
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DON’T QUARREL. 
One of the most easy, the most common, and 
most perfectly foolish things is,—to quarrel- 
no matter with whom, man, woman or child ; or 
upon what pretense, provocation or occasion 
whatsoever. 'There U no kind of necessity for 
it,; no manner of uno In it, and no species or de¬ 
gree of benefit to bo gained by It. And yet 
strange as the fact may be, theologians quarrel, 
and politicians, lawyers, doctors and princes 
quarrel; the church quarrels and the State 
quarrels; nations, tribes, corporations, men, 
women, children, dogs, cats, birds and beasts 
quarrel about all manner of things, and ou all 
manner of occasions, if there is anything iu 
the world that will make a man feet bad— 
except pinching his lingers in the door—It is 
unquestionably a quarrel. No man ever fails 
to think less of himself after, than h< did 
before one -it degrades him iu his own Vyes, 
and in the eyes or others—and, what la worse, 
blunts his sensibility to disgrace) on the one 
hand, ami Increases the power of passionate 
irritability on the other. The reason people 
quarrel about religion is, because they have so 
little of it, aud the harder they quarrel the 
more abundantly do they prove it. 
Politicians need not quarrel. Whoever quar¬ 
rels with a man for his political opinions. Is 
hlmscir denying the first principle of freedom - 
frecuom of thought, moral liberty, without 
which there Is nothing in politics worth a 
groat; it la, therefore, wrong upon principle. 
You have on this subject a right to your own 
opinions ; so have others. You have a right to 
convince them, if you can ; they have the same. 
Exercise your rights; but again 1 say—don’t 
quarrel. 
The truth is. the more quietly aud peaceably 
we all get on, the better—the better for our¬ 
selves; the better for our neighbors. Hi nine 
cases out of fen, the wisest policy is, if a man 
cheats you, to quit dealing with him ; If he is 
abusive, quit Ills company: if he Blander* you— 
unless lliere be something outrageous to com¬ 
plain of—the wisest way is, generally, Just to 
let him aloue, for there is nothing better than 
this cool, calm, quiet way of dealing with most 
of the wrongs we meet with.— American Jioinos- 
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CHINESE ELOPEMENT. 
for the General has written to the fiance offer¬ 
ing to return him his wife and to pay a good 
round sum to be rid of her. The General's 
influence will be sufficiently strong to protect 
him from punishment, but the tapao who 
“ made it ait right ” with the police will prob¬ 
ably suffer for his share in the offense of separ¬ 
ating two affianced persons, which is visited 
with severe penalt ies in China and most Eastern 
countries .—I’all Mall Gazette. 
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MEANS TO GET RICH. 
Ten or twelve years ago there was a miner 
working in the upper levels of the Comstock at 
£■» per day. He lived in a little cabin down the 
canyon, did his own cooking, and whistled 
soltly, “There's a good time coming, boys.” 
To-day that miner walks about the streets of 
Virginia <Hly, as cordial as in the old day*; he 
UreBaes no better than any ordinary gentleman 
of Virginia, and cats no better food than a 
conscientious editor ought to have. Ami yet 
as his fortune is rated in the stock list dally,he 
is so rich that, were his stocks turned into 
money, lie could lend Scott that $70,009,000 ho 
wants and have enough left to live comfortably 
upon, lie could, unaided, go down and open, 
at his own expense,the Darien Oanal; or should 
his fancy run that wav lie could advertise to¬ 
morrow that the Government through him had 
determined to resume immediately specie pay¬ 
ment, and pretty nearly make'the promise 
good. He could endow a college in each State 
of the Union with *2,000,000 each, or could 
build a double-track narrow-gage railroad from 
San Francisco to New York, and solve at once 
the problem of cheap t ransportation. There is 
no telling indeed, what lie might do; but what 
he will do is apparent enough, lie was here 
when thirty feet of ore near the surface was a 
big mine. At 1,500 feet he has found it three or 
four times as wide. He believes at 4,000 he will 
strike it 500 feet wide, aud get rich, and he is 
going for it. 
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EXTENT OF COUNTRIES AND SEAS. 
Greece is about the size of Vermoiit. Pales¬ 
tine is one-fourth the size of Now York. Hin- 
doostan is more than a hundred times as large 
as Palestine. The Great Desert of Africa has 
nearly the present dimensions of the United 
States. The Ited Sea would reach from Wash¬ 
ington to Colorado, aDd it is three times as 
wide as Lake Ontario, The English Channel is 
nearly as large as Lake Superior. The Mediler- 
rauean if placed across North America, would 
make sea navigation from San Diego to Balti¬ 
more. The Caspian Sea would stretch from 
New York to St. Augustine, and as wide as 
from New York to Rochester. Great Britain is 
two-thirds the size of Japan, one-twelfth the 
size of JiludooHian, one-twentieth of China, 
and one-twentieth of the United State , the 
Gulf of Mexico is about ten times the size <>f 
Luke Superior, and about as large as the sea ot 
Kamsehatna, Bay of Bengal,Chlua Sea, Okliotsb 
or Japan Sea: Lake Ontario would go in either 
of them more than fifty limes, Tim following 
named bodies of water are nearly equal in 
size:—German Ocean, Black Ssa, Yellow Sea; 
Hudson Bay is rather larger; the Baltic, Adri¬ 
atic, Persian Gulf and JBgean Sea half as large 
and somewhat larger than Lake Superior. 
Fashionable circles at Shanghai have re¬ 
cently found abundant food for gossip in an 
exciting incident of which a Chinese General is 
the hero. The warrior, after haviug reaped his 
laurels by defending the Mohammedans in 
Y uman, happened to be struck with one of the 
Celestial beauties whom lie saw while passing 
through Shanghai on his way to Peking. Un¬ 
fortunately, this young lady wus the daughter 
of a distinguished personage, and was affianced 
to a wealthy Chinese. This only inflamed Hie 
passion of the aged warrior, who, by a liberal 
distribution of presents, gained the confidence 
of several persons belonging to the young lady’s 
household, and what was still better, of her 
mother. It only remained for him, in order to 
insure the success of the elopement, to secure 
the passive co-operation of the police, and this 
he was enabled to do by judicious arrange¬ 
ments with a tapao, once a member of tbe 
municipal police, who undertook to “ make it. 
right" with his former colleagues. Mo at the 
appointed time the General was enabled to 
carry the young lady off from tier house, and 
Llie “happy couple,’’ embarking in a richly 
decorated sampan which was lying in the river 
got off safely to BOOchOW. The marriage does 
nut appear, however, to have been a happy one, 
CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. 
CiROU.usTAi.TTAr, evidence of a crime is some¬ 
times so strong as to render proof of Innocence 
—If the law demanded such proof—almost im¬ 
possible. A graduate of Yale lias for years past 
ministered to a parish In Haywood, near San 
Francisco. Not long ago he joined the Odd 
Fellows, and was one of two persons in the 
Lodge who knew where the key of the safe 
was kept. One day the sure was robbed. On 
being informed of it the reverend gentleman 
examined the room and found the false key 
with which Hie safe had been opened and some 
of the money under ttie safe. Subsequently 
going to the room alone, he found tlie stolen 
purse, empty, under the mat. Suddenly it oc¬ 
curred to him that circumstantial evidence bad 
accumulated which would point in him as the 
robber, and, actuated by strange fear, be let the 
purse remain, and that night returned private¬ 
ly, intending to destroy it. The room chanced 
to be watched, and he was caught iu the act. 
Circumstantial evidence was strong against 
him, but the jury, hearing his pitiable story of 
cowardice,acquitted him, under the conviction 
that he told Hie truth. 
Sabbath pestling. 
MOURNING. 
by aliqua. 
O quiet sleeper! whose fair hands 
Are folded from their work to-day.— 
Whose lips to our* ret urn no press, 
Whose feet n<> more the rugged way 
Of changeful earthly life shall tread.— 
Whose eyes give hack no glance to ours. 
Above whose bieust we whisper—” dead !” 
The while we scatter snowy flowers. 
O. quiet sleepeT! yours to-day 
A fair new life within the veil. 
Yet ’mid its perfect peace and joy 
Vour love for us can never fail; 
We touch the hooks you loved to read. 
We note the words you marked with care, 
And feci a gentle presence near,— 
A breath of benediction prayer. 
The greens you formed in lettering 
Retain their Christmas color still. 
The autumn leaves nro bright as when 
You brought them from the wooden hill; 
The budding Ivies wreathe the wall 
Above the window garden’s bloom. 
And you sleep ou In dreamless rest 
Within the dear, fandtar room. 
O. quiet sleeper ! ours to-day 
To drop hot tears upon your face,— 
To miss a wealth of hope and love, 
Of woman's tenderness and grace,— 
And yours to reach (he Infinite, 
To drink the living waters sweet, 
And in white robes of righteousness 
To worship at the Saviour’s feet. 
Newark, N. Y., 1875. 
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THE CHRISTIAN’S TONGUE. 
The apostle James teaches that a man’s re¬ 
ligion ia vain who doeB not bridle ids tongue. 
In fact, he maintains at large through his epis¬ 
tle that, speech Is the sign of character; that a 
BJtm who is offenseless In this respect is so in 
all respects, and, In fine, a perfect character. 
But it. will be asked, Why floes the apostle sin¬ 
gle out, one virtue, and make all religious ser¬ 
vice vain which does not manifest itself in 
well - governed speech? The answer is that 
speech is a mail's most spiritual act. An un¬ 
controlled and a conscienceless speech is the 
sign of a soul conscienceless and uncontrolled. 
On the contrary, an offeneclcss tongue Is evi¬ 
dence of perfectness in life. Think what self- 
control It argues to give a soft answer in place 
of a rough one, when unjust words, barbed and 
poisoned with Insult, provoke on the instant. 
Think what It costs sometimes, when the an¬ 
swer is hot iu the heart, to be still and not say 
a Word. Think of Jesus standing before the 
maddening priests and answering not. a word, 
standing before a " whited wail” and not call¬ 
ing him so—a test which the Impulsive and elo¬ 
quent Peter could not stand, although he re¬ 
covered quickly Ids self-consciousness and was 
prompt to apologize with Christian humility. 
Belf-contjol in speech U mastery of spirit—a 
batter victory than his who taketh a city. How 
many conquerors there have been who never 
conquered this little member!—Am. Messenger. 
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THE BREVITY OF LIFE. 
It was a sad cynic who said that youth passes 
Its time in wishing that It could, and age in re¬ 
gretting that it didn't. But it is true that all 
through Hie first half of our lives we are think¬ 
ing what wc u'itl do when once we get fairly 
started, and we go on pleasing ourselves with 
these dreams until, all of a sudden, we wake 
up to the fact that we have begun to go down 
the hill, and that now the time to hope and 
plan is past, and the time to remember and 
regret, has eotne. Dr. Hedge is fond of talking 
of the trollies of life. The saddest Irony la Its 
brevity—our days are but a span—our life but a 
“sleep and a forgetting." IT it were possible 
to realize in the beginning that three-score 
years and ten are not three hundred, and to 
say to ourselves calmly, “ Such and such things 
are, in so brief space, unattainable; lot us con¬ 
tent oursolvcs with striving for what we can 
reasonably hope to win,” we might live our 
short spaa more rationally. Then would the 
rich man begin iu season to dispense and to 
enjoy his riches, remembering that he can carry 
nothing w ith him into the next country—then 
would the philanthropist limit bis schemes to 
Ids possibilities—then, above all, would those 
, who love each other beware that they gave no 
space to estrangement Or fault-finding, since 
our life of so few days is all too brief for bitter- 
THE EX-KING OF OUDE. 
He receives a pension of #50,000 from the l 
I British Government, and spends the entire sum 
in maintaining a mimic court In his little do¬ 
main on thebaultsof theliooghly. Hisdevoted 
I subjects number about 0.000. His court is per¬ 
fect in form, bis officers of stale having the 
same titles and dignities as their predecessors 
had in Oudo. His menagerie ia the Unestin the 
world containing 20,000 birds, beasts aud snakeB. 
lie has four houses, where he alternately spends 
bis days. The grounds are beautifully kept, 
employing 800 gardeners. The ex-lving has two 
wives and a family of 31 sons aud 25 daughters. 
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| As gold is purified in tlie furnace, so is char¬ 
acter refined by pain. 
BE FAITHFUL. 
A man cannot afford to be unfaithful under 
any circumstances; a man cannot afford to be 
mean at anytime; a man cannot afford to do 
less than his beat at all times and under all 
circumstances. No matter how wrongfully 
you are placed, aud no matter bow’ unjustly 
you are treated, you cannot, for your own sake, 
afford to use anything but your better self, nor 
to render anything but. your better services; 
you cannot afford to cheat a cheater: you can¬ 
not lie to a liar; you cannot afford to be mean 
to a mean man; you cannot afford to do other 
than deal uprightly with any man. no matter 
what exigencies may exist between him and 
you. N<> man cat) afford to he anything but a 
true man, living in his higher nature and acting 
from HR' highest considerations. 
