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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
fjoijtfolio. 
HER CHOICE. 
BY MBS. C. H. CRESWELL. 
Three lovers Bweet Carlotta had: 
The one a banker, rich and Brand, 
The next held courts at his command. 
The third was but a farmer lad. 
The wealthy banker sued her long— 
Sued her with gold and diamonds bright; 
The learned Judge was a man of might, 
With sapient mind he righted wrong. 
The farmer lad had but his land. 
Whereon he toiled oft wearily; 
And yet an honest heart had he— 
An humble heart at her command. 
The banker dally pressed hla suit: 
The brave Judge, with his coursers gay, 
Drove her through parks In his coupe ; 
At eve young Ehoenk proffered fruit. 
The maid appeared by none impressed— 
Still smiled her sweet, angelic smile. 
And seemed unconscious all the while; 
None knew the secret of her breast. 
At length the farmer lad fell III; 
He ne’er had breathed his passion deep— 
Smothered and hid ho tried to keep 
The flame that burned unceasing still. 
“ 111 unto death I " Carlotta’s heart 
Was stirred aa ne’er 'twas moved before: 
Her light feet strayed to Kdoene’s door 
“ Great Father, let him not depart! ” 
She clasped his hand, she kissed tils brow; 
He turnod his white face from the wall. 
“ The hnmble heart's the best of all! 
My darling! wilt thou love me now / " 
Brooklyn, I,. I., August, 1875. 
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AN EXTKAOT FROM A LETTER, 
BY MAY MAPLE. 
Sabbath Morning. 
I have settled In our summer residence just 
a week. And a busy one it has heen —unpack¬ 
ing trunks, arranging furniture, getting lunches 
for farm hands, assisting mother with the gen¬ 
eral work of a farm house, sewing, and, lastly, 
but by no means least, gathering the red berries 
that grow upon the margins of the meadows 
and grain fields, which hang like poudant jew¬ 
els upon the wino-colored stalks amid the 
emerald leaves. I always feel like going Into 
ccstneles over their beauty and gracefulness 
when I visit the bushes In the early morning 
while the dewdrops aro glistening like dia¬ 
monds on leaf and fruit. With all these thiugs 
to keep me busily Interested, 1 have not found 
much time for morning writing; and when the 
broadfaced sun hides Ills smiling face I am too 
weary to take the pen in hand. 
your letter greeted me on the evening of my 
return from my long sojourn in M-; and a 
pleasant time we had reading and remarking 
its contents. 1 think you aro developing a 
splendid talent for descriptive let ter writing. 
And now while f am writing l Imagine you 
are attending the morning service, half listen¬ 
ing to a somewhat lengthy sermon, and half 
dreaming of the future of your present life—of 
Its hopes and aspirat ions of the possible disap¬ 
pointments and heart-aches. For you have 
lived long enough iu the world and have had 
enough of bitter experience to understand that 
the gods of this world do not bring unalloyed 
happiness to but very few of the Inhabitants. 
And so there are “Us” innumerable in your 
calculations. Then, again, I presume you have 
not yet sought and found the “ Pearl of Great 
Price,” and therefore cannot foel much more 
than a critic's interest In what, the “preacher 
saith,” no matter how gifted he may be. Thus 
the hour for service drifts by, and you ariso 
with the congregatiou to receive the benedic¬ 
tion, with just a little sigh of relief. Say what 
one will of the school-room, as an appetizer. It 
is scarcely to be compared with a church ; and 
not uufrequently the soul famishes for the 
morsel of the bread of Life it seeks quite as 
much as the stomach. After your 6hort walk 
home you will enjoy one of Uncle’s “oleau 
meals,” which he is so strict to prepare that I 
Imagine he thinks It a very Important part of 
bis religion. 
And now, when you are rested, If you could 
Just drop into my airy sanctum, and spend the 
hours that you don’t kuow how to dispose of 
until a certain somebody comes, that for the 
present at least is just the dearest fellow in all 
the wide country round, we would have a social 
time. By-the-way, tell him that Cousin May Is 
sure he will find it quite as easy to climb the 
ladder to a competency by “working out” a 
few years as by trylug to get a farm before he Is 
able to make a large payment. If his paymaster 
is a good ono it's more than can be said of some 
so-called good farms—and he baa none of the 
care and anxiety about the coming crops. If 
he uses close economy with his earnings now , 
as he will be obliged to use when he owns a 
farm, he will lay by quite as much ready money 
and at the same time enjoy more luxuries and 
privileges. 
And to you, my darling cousin, let me say, 
Don’t marry any man who has not pioperty 
enough to make a comfortable (I do not say ele- 
gaut) start In life, unless you want to burden 
him and hang as a clog to his otherwise lofty 
aspirations. Go and visit the homes of your 
acquaintances, those who married and had 
nothing with which to begin a matrimonial ex¬ 
istence, and see them harrassed with debt for 
the few articles of furniture they use and the 
very food they eat---numerous email mouths to 
feed and forms to clothe, and only day’s work 
and odd jobs with which to provide the actual 
necessities. Shabby clothes and no household 
conveniences—frowns on the husband’s brow 
and oaths blistering his lips- while the wire 
drags listlessly through her life work with tear¬ 
ful eyes and almost broken heart; oast out of 
society as a vagrant. 
Ab! a few such life pictures will be enough 
for your good common sense, and you will en¬ 
courage C. with your smiles, cheerful conversa¬ 
tion and tasteful dress to bear patiently the 
toilsome journey toa pleasurable maintenance. 
And instead of dragging him down In the Social 
scale you will assist him to fulfill his life duties 
with better capabilities and more intelligent 
purposes, and at the same time elevate your 
moral worth. 
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DO NOT QUARREL. 
People talk of lovers’ quarrels as rather 
pleasant episodes probably because they aro 
not quarrels af all. She pouts: be kisses. He 
frowns; she coaxes. It is half play, ami they 
know it. Matrimonial quarrels aro another 
thing. I doubt seriously if married people over 
truly forgive each other after the first falling 
out. They gloss It over; they kiss and make 
up; the wound apparently heals, but only as 
some of those horrible wounds given In battle 
do, to bienk out again at some unexpected 
moment. The man who has sneered and said 
cruel things to a sensitive woman never has her 
whole heart again. The woman who has ut¬ 
tered reproaches to a man can never ho taken 
to bl& bosom with the same tenderness aa be¬ 
fore those words were spoken. 
The two people who must never quarrel are 
husband and wife. One may fall out with kins¬ 
men, and make up and he friends again. The 
tie of blood Is a strong one, and affection may 
return after it has flown away ; but love, once 
banished, is a dead ami hurled thing. The heart 
may ache, but It is with hopelessness. It may 
be Impossible to love anyone else, but it Is more 
impossible to restore the old Idol to Its empty 
aiche. For a word, too. for a sharpening of the 
wits, fora moment's self-assertion, two people 
have often been made miserable for life. For, 
whatever there may be before, there aro no 
lovers’ quarrels after marriage. 
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DON’T, GIRLS. 
Don’t think that yards and yrrds of ribbons, 
ruffles and lace will add one particle to your 
value. Don't make a walking milliner’s »boj> 
or a Jeweler's store of yourselves, covering all 
that Is or true merit within you with that which 
will only attract the shallow-brained. Don’t 
think sensible people are to be deceived with 
vatu show; they look for beauty of heart and 
mtnd. Don't flatter yoursolvoa It I a smart to 
uffeet ignorance of manual labor, or to be igno¬ 
rant of It. Don’t give the subject of matrimony 
a thought while you aro In your teens, except 
to qualify yourself Tor the rospoimiule position 
It places you in; you need all of that time of 
your life (0 fit yourselves for It. You need to 
study books, the laws of life and health ; to be 
well experienced In the culinary art, os perhaps 
the happiness and health of hundreds are de¬ 
pending on your knowledge of this. Don’t give 
your tlrno and talents to the world, or to seek¬ 
ing tho things of time and sense that perish 
with their using. God has created you fora 
nobler purpose, and made you accountable for 
what He has given you. Don't sell your birth¬ 
right for a mess of pottage. 
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UNWILLING BRIDES. 
If there is a person on earth entitled to sin¬ 
cere commiseration, it Is an unwilling bride—a 
girl who has given her hand, without her heart, 
In marriage; aud more especially la she to bo 
pitied If her heart, unhappily, has been prepos¬ 
sessed by another: Can any prospect be more 
dreary than that which lle3 before such a brido? 
Wbat has she to look forward to, what to ex¬ 
pect, what to hope ? Linked, not lor a day, but 
for life, to one with whom she has no sympathy 
—who Is no more than a stranger, save that in 
law and iD fact, but not In soul, he is her hus¬ 
band! Is U not dreadful to contemplate ? How 
much more bo to experience! It is natural and 
It la proper that parents ebould desire that 
their daughters should marry well, and it, ia 
reasonable that they should prefer for them 
husbands in comfortable clreumstancos. But 
wbeu It comes to the exercise of compulsion in 
the selection of a husband — to commanding a 
daughter to relinquish an engagement or un 
attachment on which her whole soul is fixed, 
and to marry a man towards whom she feels 
indifference or dislike —that Is a very different 
matter. 
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A WELL-ORDERED house La a jjaradise on 
earth. No other earthly pleasure is equal to the 
calm contentment at the family fireside. The 
excitement of even successful business is at¬ 
tended with vexation; the enjoyments of travel 
are associated with fatigue aud danger; and 
even the pleasures of knowledge are combined 
with bitterness. But the happiness of the lire- I 
side is unalloyed. 
Jjkadmg for tfq $|oung. 
THE BOYS. 
There come the hoys ! ob, dear, the noise! 
The whole bouse feels the racket; 
Behold the knee of Christie's pants. 
And weep o'er Bertie’s jacket! 
But never mind i if eyes keep bright, 
And limbs grow straight aud limber. 
We'd rather lose the tree’s whole hark 
Than And unsound the timber. 
Now hear the tope and marbles roll! 
The floors—oh, woe betide them! 
And I most watch the banisters. 
For I know the boys who ride them! 
Look well as you descend the stairs. 
I often find them haunted 
By ghostly toys that make no noise 
Just when their noise Is wanted. 
The very chairs aro tied In pairs 
And made to pr.mccand caper; 
What swords are whittled out of sticks; 
Whet brave hats made of paper! 
The dinner bell peals loud and well, 
To tell tho milkman's coming; 
And then tin? rush of ”steam-cur trains ” 
Sets all our ears a-humralng. 
How oft 1 say, " What shall I do 
To keep these children quiet?” 
If I could lirid a good receipt, 
I certainly should try It, 
But what to do with tlieso wild hoys 
And nil their diu and clatter, 
Is really quite a grave uflnlr— 
No laughing, trilling matter. 
“ Boys will he boys hut not for long; 
All, could we bear about us 
This thought:—How very soon our boys 
Will learn to do without um ; 
How soon but tall, deep-voiced men 
Will gravely cull us " Mother," 
Or we bo stretching empty bands 
From this world to the other, 
More gently should we chide tho noise, 
And when night quells the racket, 
Stitch In but loving thought*nad prayers 
While, mending pants and Jacket. 
| Mrs. Julia A. Carney, in New Covenant. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. 
Fourth of July In California. 
Dear Rural Seeing that ray first letter 
was not printed, I will try again. Well, tho 
Fourth of July came on Sunday, and its cele¬ 
bration here was postponed till the next day, 
Monday, beginning at 10 o'clock. There was a 
very long string of people. First came the 
band; second, the Thurston Guard; third, the 
Ore engine companies; fourth, the Odd Fel- 
w ; fifth, Ft. Patrick’s Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion ; sixth, a bruss cannon pulled by 200 
boys with straw bats and flags; seventh, tho 
Grangers In wagons. They marched up and 
down the streets till 12 o'clock, and then they 
escorted each party to its abode. In the after¬ 
noon at 3 ca.no the Growlers. They were all 
masked and looked very funny. Tho strootB 
were crowded at that time. The day closed 
with a grand ball at the Petaluma Theater, 
Tell Lotus Lincoln that the bird that chased 
the hawk is called a, hullflnch.— Willie Cary, 
Petaluma, Cal,. 
From a Mohawk Valley <N. Y.) Ctrl. 
Dear Rural: As I sit here and read the 
letters from boys and girls I am tempted to try 
and write one, too. I am a littlo girl almost 
eleven years old. We llveou a farm of 21 acres, 
Mv mother is sick a-bed and never gets up only 
when she is moved. She has been sick three 
years, f have one sister and two brothers. 
They aro all younger than myself, l ut I nave 
only my oldest brother home, and ho isn’t much 
company for me, as lie Is most of the time out 
in tho Held with pa. I go to school most of tho 
time. I study History, National Fifth Header, 
Montelth's Geography No. 3, Rudiments of 
Arithmetic, Grammar, Writing and Spelling. 
If I am not much mistaken 1 think l can toil 
what Cross-Word Enigma No. 2 Is. I think it 
Is Washington. As my letter is pretty loDg, I 
will have to stop.— Minnie E. V. D., Montgom- 
etry Co., N. 1". 
A Good Buckeye State County. 
Tuscarawas Co., Oh'o, Is one of the wealthy 
counties of the State. There are large tracts of 
level land, and rocks and hills, streams and 
springs are also abundant. Timber Is plonty, 
white oak especially. Grain and fruits grow 
well hore, although we have no fruit tills year. 
There are from five to seven free schools iu 
each live miles square, and two to live churches 
in each township. All the land, except timber 
land, Is uuder cultivation. Our land is worth 
from $30 to $100 per acre. Good farm hands 
get from $11 to $21 per month In summer, and 
$10 to $12 Li winter. We have good society 
hero. The people are generally educated, arid 
tho majority wear good or liuo clothes. There 
are some very rich men here, some poor ones, 
and a groat many workingmen. During the 
past five weeks it rained nearly every day. Corn 
and potatoes are very good. The warmest this 
summer was 90\ and the average 70*. We have 
had no dust yet i Aug. 10). Hay is plenty. The 
cattle and sheep trade is good. In this county 
the a*r is pure and the people are generally 
healthy. I would like to have some Rural 
reader iu one of the Eastern or Southeastern 
States to write a letter of this kind about his 
county and have it published in the Rural.— 
Frank R., Tuscarawas Co., O. 
From a New Jersey Girl. 
Dear Rural:— 1 am glad that you receive 
and publish letters from your little boy and 
girl readers, as I am very much Interested in 
them. I always long for the return of my 
father from tho city on Wednesday, to got the 
paper. We may not bo able to write a<j good 
letters as our elders, but remember, Mr. Ru¬ 
ral, that wo aro growing older every day, and 
some of these days we will be men and women, 
too, and be able to write better. Thanks for 
opening your columns to us. If you publish 
this (my first) letter, I will try and write you 
another.— Ella W., MUMlcbush, N. J. 
From a Kansas Boy. 
Dear Editor I am a boy eleven years old. 
This Is my first attempt to write to the Rural. 
Papa takes tho Rural, and T am so pleased 
with the hoys’ and girls’ letters that T want to 
thank you for being so kind as to publish l hem. 
I have 150 young chickens, several goslings and 
duoks and three oalvos to feed. 1 like to work 
and 1 like to go to school. I guess this will do 
for this time.— Nevada Alpine Kent, Labeit 
Co., Kan. 
An Ohio Girl’s Fishing Party. 
Dear Cousins ; 1 like to read your letters, 
and I fool quite disappointed when there are 
none. I will tell you of a pleasant afternoon 
wo spent by a crook and In the woods. Wo 
were six in number-five girls and ouo boy. 
Our equipments were three fish-hooks, as many 
lines, a basket and two tin cups. Wo wont 
through the woods on our way to the crook 
and dug up a few flowers, but when the crook 
was reached they were thrown away. I then 
tried to catch a few fish in a tin cup, and with 
splendid success, as I caught ono dead fish an 
inch long. It was quite a prize. I think 1 will 
preserve it in alcohol. After crossing the creek 
three or four times one of the girls stumbled 
over a snake. She soon killed It. The next we 
done was to got our feet nicely soaked in re- 
crossing the creek. Those Using the hooks 
were very successful; they caught six fish 
about five Inches long. Wo returned through 
the woods and filled the basket with plants of 
wild (lowers, which grow there In abundance. 
We were pretty tired when wo roached home, 
but enjoyed our tramp nevertheless.— Eva B., 
High land Farm, (). 
From n Pennsylvania Girl. 
Dear Mr. Editor ;—I am ft little girl nearly 
eleven years old. 1 have read so many letters 
in your paper that I thought I would like to 
write one also. Wo live In tho city, beft every 
summer wo come to tho country. 1 have one 
brother and two sisters, and we bar# grand 
times riding on horseback and goiDg out, to the 
harvest Hold to see the men cutting gwdn and 
grass. Mamma says she wants ua tq get roses 
enough on our cheeks now to bloom ail winter 
for her.— May W. H., Lluffalo, Pa. 
®he fuller. 
PROBLEMS.-No. 1. 
1. I BOUGnT a horse for a certain sum and 
sold it again for $132.5054, and thereby gained 
as much per cent, aa the horse cost me. What 
was the original cost ? 
2. The sum of two numbers Is 31, and their 
product is 108. What are tho numbers ? 
3. The sum of two numbers is 12, and the 
sum of their cubes Is 858. Required, the uum- 
bers - R. T. James. 
Answer in two weeks. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.—No. 4. 
My first is in now but not In old, 
My second Is In brave but not in bold ; 
My third Is in white but not in red, 
My fourth is in yarn but not in thread ; 
My fifth is in oalt but not In beach. 
My sixth is In learn but not In teach ; 
My seventh Is In walk but not in run. 
Of the United States my whole is one. 
£3?” Answer In two weeks. H. f. s. 
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WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA.—No. 2. 
1. To rend with the teeth. 2. A thought. 3 
Moisture from the eye. 4. To obtain by labor. 
C8 r " Answer iu two weeks. l. o. 
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DROP-LETTER PUZZLE-No. 2. 
Th-- th-t s-w -n t--rs sh-ll r--p -n 
j-y- Little One. 
J3i?” Answer in two weeks. 
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• PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Aug. 7. 
Hidden Birds No. 1.—1. Macaw. 2. Plover. 
3. Egret. 4. Curassow. 5. Ibis. 8. Bittern. 7. 
Oriole. 8. Martin. 9. Buzzard. 10. Roc. 11 
Kingfisher. 12. Osprey. 13. Pigeon. 14. Crane. 
15. Falcon. 10. Torn-tit, 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 3. —Estelle C. 
Fowler. 
