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MOORE’S RURAL MEW-YORMER. 
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TWO PICTURES. 
BEFORE MARRIAGE, 
MT Maggie, my beautiful darling, 
Como Into my arms, my sweet. 
Let me fold yon again to my bosom 
So close I can hear your heart boat. 
Whatl these little Honors boon f-oivlng? 
One’s been pricked by the needle, I see; 
These bands shall be kept tree itom labor 
When once they ore given to me. 
All mine. Utile pet, T will shield you 
From trouble and labor and care, 
I will robe yon like somu fairy princess. 
And Jewels shall gleam In your hair; 
Those slippers you gave me are perfect. 
That dressing gown tits to a T— 
My darling, 1 wonder that heaven 
Should give such a treasure to me. 
Eight—nine—ten—eteveu! my precious. 
Time flies so when I’m with you. 
It seems but a moment l’te been here. 
And now must f say it ? -Adieu ! 
AFTER MARRIAGE. 
O, Meg, you are heavy—Vm tired; 
Go sit In the rocker, l pray ; 
Your weight seems a hundred and ninety 
When you plump down in that sort of way; 
You had better be mending my coat sleeve— 
I’ve spoken about It before— 
And I want to finish this novel 
And look river those hills from the store. 
This dressing gown acts like the dickens! 
These slippers run down in the heel; 
Strange, nothing can ever look decent; 
I wish you could know how they feci. 
What’s tills hill from Morgan’s? why, surely. 
It’s not for oootber new oress ? 
Look hero l I’ll bo a bankrupt cro New Year, 
Or your etore bills will have to grow less. 
Eight o'clock! Meg, sow os this button 
A*s soon as yon finish that sleeve; 
Beleh-ho! I'm so dreadfull) sleepy, 
I’ll pile off to bed, I believe. 
HOW WE PUT UP OUR LAOS CUR¬ 
TAINS. 
BT GERALDINE GERMANE. 
“How much Is your molding for windows ?’’ 
“ We have different prices, madam. The 
heaviest we have is a dollar a foot; we have an¬ 
other kind .at soventy-Ovc conts, and another 
at fifty.” 
“ Is fifty cents a foot the cheapest you have?” 
“ The very cheapest wo have, madam, and It's 
very cheap indeed. All Of our molding Is cheap 
for the quality, madam. Here la a first-rate 
article for fifty cent 3 , and this for a dollar is 
really elegant. It’ll pay 5 011 to get the best, 
madam ; It's the cheapest In the end, aid It's 
just■ what you want.” 
Thus he rattled on, as salesmen will. Mater- 
familiu 3 was silent in thought. “ We can’t get 
it, not even the cheapest," she sold, aside, to 
Janet and me. “ It’ll take ns much as four 
feet to a window, and that’ll be two doll sis, 
aud there are four of ’em (you see we believed 
in windows), which would make eight dollars 
in all, and I haven’t but three dollars left, and 
you see that wouldn’t much inore'n pay for ono 
window." 
“Get trusted for it,” said Janet, who was 
particularly anxious. 
*iNo,” said mater, decidedly; “It’s a good 
deal harder to pay when you get trusted than 
when you pay down. I've tried id, an' I know. 
We’ll bave to wait till l get the money. Then, 
to the man in waiting;—“I think I'll not take 
any to-day, sir." Ami wo passed out. 
“How foolish I was to get them curtains. I 
might ’a bought a cheaper sot an' had onough 
left to got tbo molding. But that's just the 
way; a lady sees something they think they 
want, and they up au* buy it without stopping 
to think whether t hey'll have money enough to 
get anything to go with It or not. Yon don’t 
catch mo a doing It agin ; but they did look so 
neat an’ pretty I thought they’d be just the 
thing to set out our sitting room, an’ now we 
can't have ’em up after all." 
Thus discoursed mater on our way home. 
“ Oh dear 1 those old muslin curtains do look 
so shabby,” said Janet, as we went up to our 
room to put away our “things.” “I surely 
thought we'd have some new ooes put up when 
we cleaned house this fall.” 
“ We will,” I said, hopefully. 
“ I don’t see how. if we wait for mother to 
pay for that molding.” 
“ We won’t wait," and I told her my plan. 
“ D’ye s’pose they'll look anyhow ?" 
“ I guess so : we'll try it and see.” 
We made a confidant of Harry, who has 
nearly a full set-of carpenter tools (as every 
farmer boy should have), aud he agreed to take 
some boards, about as thick as those commouly 
used for molding, make them straight on one 
side, so as to fit on the window casings, and 
rounding on the other, projecting* about two 
inches at the cods and rounding out to four la 
the middle. By improving odd bits of time be 
soon had them finished and safely stowdd away 
on an upper beam in the wood-house. 
Janet and I measured off the curtains, turned 
them down about two lDCbes at the top ahd ran 
tidy yarn through the mashes ot the lace, just 
above the edge turned down, for a gathering 
etrlng. One sunshiuy day, alter we had got the 
bouse all rejuvenated excepting the sitting- 
room windows, and motner had wondered 
“ why we didn’t do up the curtains,” she went 
over to Mrs, Brady’s to spend the afternoou, 
and I said to Janf.t, “ Now Is our time." 
We each took a market basket and started 
for t he woods. Wo gathered a good supply of 
an evergreen vine that runs on the ground and 
is common to most NoYthorn States (if we 
couldu't have found anything of the kind we 
should have taken myrtle or branches of an 
evergreen Iree). Then we selected some bright- 
colored aui 11 mu leaves of smallish slza, and, as 
wo knew mother would be home early, hurried 
to the house, though we were loth to go. 
Whllo we were gone Haury had nailed the 
boards on t he window casings, and with carpet 
tacks we fastened the curtains on the project¬ 
ing edges, where they were gathered, so as to 
leave the part doubled down fora “heading” 
above the board, taking care to keep them 
gathered evenly, excepting wo had them a lit¬ 
tle the fullest where they emue together In the 
middle. 
We sorted out some of our brightest and 
freshest, evergreens and fastened them around 
where the curtains were tacked, put clusters 
of autumn leaves, arranged with reference to 
their different shades aud colors, at the corners 
and In the middle, then twisted together some 
of tbo vine and with a hunch of leaves at the 
end looped them back. 
“Mow pretty they do look! I didn’t think 
they'd begin to look 00 well," said Janet, 
whose faith, I Hnew , was much smaller than a 
grain of mustard seed. 
We had got the last one finished and Harry 
w as taking a double shuffl-t in the middle of the 
room, by way of expressing his delight, when 
we beard tbo click of the gate.latch, and with 
“ Mother's coming,” we all rushed from the 
room. When she came in we girls were in the 
kltohen hurrying about supper and Harry, 
with the milk pails on his arm, was loaning 
against the corner M the house, “just, to see 
wbat she'd say." 
After 6 he had Tested a bit and given us sonic 
aecbUtii of her visit sho took a lighted lamp 
and started to put her bonnet and shawl away 
in the spare bedroom closet. S!.n soon came 
back with a look of astonishment. “What 
have you girls been up to, J'd like to know !” 
“ Been up with the curtains, mother.” We 
could boar Harry chuckling arouud the cor¬ 
ner. 
"Why, how in tbo world did you fix 'em? I 
never saw anything look so neat and pretty in 
my life.” 
They wore charming by lamp light. We told 
her all about it. 
“ Well, 1 declare 1 and so cheap too 1” 
Yes It watt cheap,—only a littlo willing from 
Barry that, made him still nearer to u?, and a 
delightful ramble In the woods, that otherwise 
we should not have bed, and while otir lace 
curtains are a “joy forever,” not the least or 
our enjoyment Is the thought that wo are In 
debt to no man for their beauty. 
Oh, ye who sl^h for means wherewith to 
adorn your houses, there la not a hillside for¬ 
est, not a bank of a singing brooklet, not a (era 
or moss-covered rook, not an old rail fence, but 
that will gtvo to you that which will make your 
homes bright and beautiful, and “so cheap I “ 
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WOMEN PERSON ALU, 
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb has finished a htstory 
of New York. 
Charlotte Cushman will make Boston her 
home during the coming winter. 
Elizabeth Stuart Pui lps Is commended 
by the London AUieueutn us a poet. 
Kate I). Foot’S, story “ Tilda,” lu Scribner's 
for September, has met merited encomium. 
MISS Helen M. Ely Is the first female grad¬ 
uate ol the Minnesota State University. 
Miss Remington, after a sojourn of study 
abroad, has opened a studio ut Niagara F ills. 
Mbs. Db. Bacon of New Haven ia the acting 
agent of the Connecticut Training School for 
Nurses. 
Mbs. Hogan of Baltimore, Md., has recovered 
$8,000 from the Cumberland Railroad lor killing 
her husband. 
Mmz. Pauline Locca is contemplating one 
more tour through Germany, after which she 
will retire to private life. 
Mbs. E. 8. Topper of Dos Moines, Iowa, will 
sell about 20,000 pouudf, of honey this year—the 
product of tier own bees. 
Mbs. Lizzie Ehlino is a lady mronaut who 
recently made an ascent at Harrisburg, Pa., 
without breaking her neck. 
Kate Field, tho plucky woman, is studying 
for the stage in England. She will bring home 
a new play, aud try it ouco again. 
Miss Charlotte Cushman, Mrs. Fannie 
Kemble, and Mr. Bret Haute and family were 
recently stopping at tbo same hotel In Lenox, 
Mas 3 . 
Mas. Cornelia Loring of Boston left 85,000 
to the New England Hospital for Women and 
Children and $2,000 to tto Boston Children’s 
Aid Society. 
Miss Isa Cromwell, a soldier’s orphan from 
tho Bath (Me.) Home, has been admitted to 
Wellesley College, her pension money of §500 
being nearly enough to carry her through. 
Fanny Elsslkb, the once famous dancer. Is 
the wife of a welt known German doctor, aud 
lives at Berlin, where she Is celebrated for her 
extensive charities and great benevolence. 
fading for lh^ igouitg. 
THE PUMPKIN. 
Little folks are much beholden 
To the pumpkin, fait and golden, 
Who, within a pumpkin shell, 
Put his wife and kept her well ? 
Peter, Totcr was the man; 
Catch the fellow. If you can! 
Cinderella, lor her carriage, ' • 
Cinderella, for her marriage. 
To the pumpkin owed a debt; 
Has Bln? paid It, think you yet ? 
Jaek-o’-Lnntorn ii bchoklon 
To the pumpkin, fair and golden ; 
Bat tiie shell Is his nlnne, 
For the pudding 1» oar own; 
And, if we the stuiic con take, 
We a pipe to play on make. 
I The Nursery. 
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THE TRUE STORY OF JA0K0. 
[See Illustration, page 305.] 
Who Is Jacko ? GU03S. 
A boy? No. 
Something very like a boy, then—a monkey? 
No. Thou who is Jacko ? 
Well, l suppose I must tell you. Jacko Isa 
bird. Jacko la a bird called a Macaw. Jacko 
tho Macaw has fine feathers, sea’let, and yel¬ 
low, and blue. Uo has groat wings, and great 
claws, and a great beak; he is a great bird alto¬ 
gether. I urn happy to eay he cannot fly be¬ 
cause he Is old, so hli great wings aro now only 
for Bhow ; but he cau run after you pretty 
quickly with his great feet, and with bis groat 
beak he can bite off your finger if you like to 
try him. 
Jacko bite* bis on^mios In anger, which is 
very naughty of Mm; aud bo biles his friends 
sornetimoB in friendship, which Is very disa¬ 
greeable of him, and makes him rather a terri¬ 
ble fellow altogether. He is very fond of his 
master end mistress, and has bitten them both 
in love; but ho is generally very well behaved 
with them, and will sit on Ills master's or mis¬ 
tress’s foot quite peaoeably for an hour. When 
be is III he will lie iu hie mistress’s lap liken 
sick child. (Jnce 1 saw him perch upon his 
master’s arm and take Ms master's noae in his 
beak, and rock his muster's head gently from 
side to side. It was fortunate that ho was nbt 
in the mood for biting off the nose In friend¬ 
ship just then. 
Jacko cm talk a little, lie spiyr, “Como 
along, Jacko, come alongand when you 
00 me, as soon as ho thinks you aro near enough 
he pecks at you with his great beak. When he 
is iu it good temper lie will say “ Four, poor!” 
Ho will sit up 011 the ivy all the morning and 
talk to himself, and he will call tho gardoner. 
“AH'’, no will cough aud ruccze, aud oro.v and 
cackle, in a very fuuuy manner. 
If Jacko soe» sparrows picking up a few 
crumbs he will rush up, sweeping hl3 great 
wings along the ground, and take t boir meal 
for himself. If he sees poor pussy picking up 
a bone lm creeps down from his Ivy, helping 
himself down with beak and claws, and all at 
once pussy darto away from th« bone 3be is en¬ 
joying, and you may guess what follows. Jacko 
uas it to himself, while poor puss stands at a 
llttie distance, watching. 
Jacko spends his days In the garden aud his 
nights In an out-hou>« where garden tools are 
kept. He used once to bo taken every night to 
a room in the house, where he had a very good 
perch on a clothes-horse, and was very com¬ 
fortable, but by-aod-by ho bit a groat hole In 
tho door, and was obliged to be sent to Ms 
present, abode. Before very long be bit a great 
hole lu that door also, and the carpenter had 
to come and mend it. He used once to have a. 
proper perch and a olutiu, but ho bit through 
any chain that can be put upou him. 
Jacko Is more than a lm mired yeao old. He 
was ouoe the property of a heathen chief, and 
was worshipped. 1 suppose Jacko la about as 
good as any other heathen gods or idols; which 
is not saying much, however, for either. The 
chief wiien converted gave Jacko to a mission¬ 
ary, aud the missionary brought him with to 
this country, and gave Mm to a friend, and the 
friend gave him to Mb present master. 
Now this Is my story of Jacko. I am arraid 
you will think, he is not a very amiable fel¬ 
low. But he has his good qualities: he (3 fond 
of some people, you see, and bis fondness is in 
return for kindness; whioti is a very good point, 
for it seems like gratitude. Perhaps very many 
of Lis bad qualities come from his having been 
made too much of lu his own country—spoilt, 
In fact; which is no better for macaws, I dare 1 
say, than it la for children. 
♦ ♦»- — ■— 
Forgive and Forget. — I heard two little 
girls talking under my window. Ouo of them 
said, iu a voice full of Indignation “ If f were 
jn your place. I'd never spauk to her again. I'd 
be angry with her as long as l lived." I listen¬ 
ed, feeling anxious about the reply. My heart 
beat more Ugtitly when it came. “No, Lou," 
answered the other, lu a sweet aud gentle voice, 
“ I wouldn’t do so for all the world. I'm going 
to forgive aud forgot just as soon as I can.” 
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Believe nothing against another but upou 
good authority; no report that may hurt an¬ 
other, unless it be a greater hurt to others to 
conceal it. 
Beware of the geese when the fox preaches- | 
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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. 4. 
I am composed of 54 letters : 
My 59, 47, 24,49, 20 Is a wild animal. 
My 53, 45,3,11,41,8, 42, 21,16,40 is a kind of fruit. 
My 61, 1, lu, 33, 35, 23, 13, 33, 18 is a day of the 
week. 
My 84,48,3t, 25, 28, 3 ia a tool. 
My 10,51,12, 21, 6 l* a. boy’s name. 
My 4,15,27, 9 Is a body of water. 
My 39, 0,2,17, 44 is a place where cattle are kept 
My ID, 80, 37, 44 means high. 
My 50, 7.13, 30, 19, 53,30, 33 Is a gift. 
My 14, 43,38 Is to devour. 
My 22 Is a proooun. 
My whole is uu old and pretty true saying. 
Answer in two weeks. s. f. h. 
CENTRAL PUZZLE,—No. 4. 
1. Isa bird. 2. I 3 the stem of a plant. 3. Is a 
useful animal. 4. A kind of fruit. 5. A kiDd 
of tree. 6 . Is a purchaser. These aro all words 
of five letters, and the centrals are a kind of 
grain. 
Answer in two weeks. h. f. s. 
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DIAMOND PUZZLE-No. 8. 
1. A consonant. 2. A falsehood. 3. One of 
the Lord’s disciples. 4. An acid. 5. A clan or 
band. 6 . A river of Europe. 7. A consonant. 
Centrals form an add. 
Answer In two weeks. Little On*. 
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WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA.—No. 7. 
1. A woman’s name. 2. A man’s name. 3. A 
boy’s name. 4. A girl’s tame. 
4=®’“ Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS-Oot. 23. 
Word-Square Enigma No. 6.— 
OVEN 
VALE 
ELSE 
NEED 
Hidden Names No. 1.—1, Owen; 2, Seth; 3, 
Dora; 4, Ira; 5, Ada ; 6 , Arthur. 
