THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAR IK 
Parr’s English Pad Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., is 
‘•very good,’ 1 so that there is no doubt that 
the goods will be sent in return for the money 
forwarded; but we are miles and miles away 
from a full raitb in all or any of the claims 
made in behalf of the device. We do not be- 
liove that there is any “cure-all” for “ague, 
dumb ague, fever, malaria, rheumatism, liver 
complaint and all troubles of a chronic 
nature. 1 ' Even the sight of the nice “ebromo,” 
presented by the glib tougued agent who sells 
the pads, would not induce us to invest |2 in 
one. unless we had a great deal oi paius and 
money, and were willing to part with some of 
the latter for a bare chance of getting rid of 
some of the former. As it is for external ap 
plication, the thing can’t do much evil, aud it 
may do some good, especially to credulous 
folks, for the imagination is, in some cases, a 
marvelous curative agent. 
±0f iUjOUUtt. 
CONDUCTED BY 111 SC RAY CLARK. 
A WOMAN OF THE TIMES. 
BERTHA A ZKDI WINKLER. 
PART I. 
“Well, this is fine! Just shriving one’s 
tutelary strait-jacket, only to enter the mat¬ 
rimonial cage! You are in a hurry, pater¬ 
familias.” 
The speaker, delivering his thoughts to the 
door, behind which a college messenger had 
disappeared, resumed the reading of a letter 
in a voice not very confidential,—“her 
father’s great confidence makes me sole 
guardian of her person and fortune. You 
have never seen her. She is an independent 
heiress, and, in the present crisis of my bus¬ 
iness, a most necessary, as well as desirable 
alliance, i beg of you therefore, abandon all 
bad habits to win and prove worthy of my 
ward.” 
“Not a word about beauty or amiability. 
An angular Xauthippe in all probability. Well, 
what is sufficient for the father must be suf¬ 
ficient for the son, after—ahem—a little sow¬ 
ing of wild oats, society’s petted sin, without 
which one wouldn't be a lion.’’ 
After this soliloquy, Harry Glendale ex 
pressed his trunk home, with the message that 
he would see the country a little before his 
projected courtship. 
Coming out as champion of ba-e-ball match¬ 
es and boat-races, it was the proper thing to 
guide bis triumphant career into a little By- 
ronic dissipation. His ideal of manhood was 
completed with little private histories, that 
might be presumed and tongue-drilled in 
fashionable circles. 
S<> the wingless eagle flew in steam coaches 
prospecting Cor a beauty worthy of learning 
his version of love. 
He soon found that they were not to be seen 
posing for his benefit near railway tracks. 
And the idea of setting down as prosaic 
husband with no romantic love episodes to 
dream of, was so repugnant that he determin¬ 
ed to alight at the next station, and foot it to 
the first neighborhood that rumored a pretty 
girl. 
Fortune favors the determined. He no soon¬ 
er stepped down, thau he sighted a figure 
whose bearing, gesture, and poise of the head, 
indicated more than ordinary energy, and 
a. self forgetfulness that might make the 
most homely face interesting. 
She had her back towards him, and her 
voice, considerably above the conversational 
pitch, sent every word as distinctly to his ears 
as to the seemingly crest fallen auditor who 
stood before her in the garb of a railway offi¬ 
cial. 
“Business is business, Mr. Jackson, no mat¬ 
ter by whom transacted; so we had better 
keep to it. It makes very little difference to 
the company who brings the freight, servant 
or mistress; and whether it becomes her or 
him best is not iu the catechism of a freight- 
master.” 
“Pardou me, madam; 1 only ventured an 
opinion on the strength of my esteem for a 
lady of your social-” 
“Society is what we make it,” she interrupt¬ 
ed the freight-master, the frown gradually 
vanishing into a good humored smile. “Just 
now, I give morning receptions to my chick¬ 
ens, pay calls to my horses and cattle, and 
count myself well repaid for my attention, as 
you see, in these cases of butter and eggs, and 
in the docile animal yonder, which would turn 
into a regular danger signal at any other 
touch but my own.” 
A moment’s pause gave Harry Glendale the 
opportunity to step up and inquire for an ac¬ 
commodating farm house to a summer-board¬ 
er. 
A pair of large, brown eyes seemed to take 
him iu with one thorough gaze. Elio men¬ 
tioned several likely places, and, after a 
pause, added: “If you wait a few minutes I 
will point them out to you on my way back 
to the farm.” 
After the first uncomfortable sensation of 
suspecting the daylight of her clear eyes pene¬ 
trating through him and his motives, he gave 
himself up to his apparent luck and retired a 
little distance, ostentatiously respectful, but 
really to better watch his prospective guide 
attend to the shipment of her stock iu trade. 
Presently he was invited to a seat beside her 
in an old-fashioned earriuge, to the undisguised 
astonishment of the old freight master. 
“Ttiat’s one of them women of the times I 
heerd tell of, and the times with its new 
fauglc-d ways an’ means is about as puzzling 
as she is to a old mau of my settled respecta¬ 
ble notions,” he muttered gazing after them 
with an expression of fatherly anxiety, and 
indignation. 
Harry Glendale had ceased looking around 
for the driver when his companion broke the 
silence. “Our hired man is ill, that is why l 
atteuded to the shipping of the produce my¬ 
self We have our regular city customers, 
and a farmer's daughter mu*t be equal to any 
emergency even though old fogy freight- 
masters maintain the contrary,” she laughed. 
“But are you not afraid of strolling vaga¬ 
bonds! I am—” 
“Ob, rest assured, if 1 thought you were one 
I should have allowed you to tramp,” she in¬ 
terrupted with a self-satisfied smile. “Besides, 
there is a great redeeming power in trusting 
the honor one has never tried. I am not 
afraid to let a man prove himself a gentle¬ 
man.” 
“in that case allow me to take charge of 
the horse,” replied the graduate reaebiug for 
the reins. “It looks ungallant for a lady to 
drive a gentleman.” 
“Not half so nngallant as for a gentleman 
to upset a lady’s carriage. My horse is very 
fractious with strangers, and I prefer safety 
to appearances.” 
“Prudence keeps the reins,” he thought. 
“These rustic beauties are not so trusting but 
what they keep on their guard.” 
They rode ou in silence. Harry Glendale, 
left to his own observation could not but know 
that he bad made an impression on his fair 
escort. And in view of bis prepossessing ap¬ 
pearance, it was not strange that he thought 
that impression iu his favor. 
Following up this advantage he took pains 
to explain his object in the country with his 
elaborate language of erudition, viz: exces¬ 
sive mental exertion and consequent uervous 
prostration, necessitated recuperative exer¬ 
cise in rural districts to restore healthy equi¬ 
librium. 
“I should think it a very uncomfortable 
unbalance, indeed, taxing your brains for 
means of bodily sustenauce,” was the simple 
rejoinder which left him somewhat uncertain 
whether she understood him at all. 
“You did wisely, however, iu coming to 
the country,” she continued. “Farmers have 
plenty to eat and hands are in demand at this 
season. There now, is Farmer Bruner to your 
left, short of men by four. I never see bim 
but what he regrets the blessing of his four 
daughters, industrious girls, too. He doesn’t 
mind paying well for work, so its done by a 
man. Would you like to step down and in¬ 
quire!” 
“You have misunderstood me,” replied the 
graduate, determined to display his worldly 
advantage iu plaiu country Euglisb. “1 am 
above the paltry considerations of money, 
aud only seek country air and exercise for the 
restoration of my health and strength,reduced 
by a severe university course.” 
"How distressing!” she exclaimed inno¬ 
cently, “that a man basso much to go through 
with to enable him to do something. We wo¬ 
men are not troubled that way. We can go 
right straight at everything and learn how as 
we do it; then by the time we have lost health 
and strength it is done and doesn’t much 
matter. 
“Squ.re Toney’s place would perhaps suit 
you better. He is a close man with wide 
stretches of land and can give you plenty of 
farm implements for exercise, if money is no 
object.” 
“Blamesuch country stu¬ 
pidity!” muttered Harry 
Glendale, wiping the pers¬ 
piration from the facing of 
bis bat. 
“What did you say!” she 
asked. 
“1 said such elegant sim¬ 
plicity was powerfully fas¬ 
cinating. And meant to 
ask for the privilege of look¬ 
ing for an abode iu your 
neighborhood. An occa¬ 
sional walk with you of 
evenings would be quite 
salutary to my wearied 
spirit, and make a poet 
even of your humble ser¬ 
vant.” 
She blushed most becomingly, “if that is 
all, Widow Brown’s would suit you admir¬ 
ably. Her 30 acres join my—our farm and 
she dotes so much ou poeTs of the plow, like 
Burns, that I have no doubt she will make 
you permanently welcome.” 
“But, good gracious! Miss, I don’t have to 
work. 1 want nothing but rest, aud the 
agreeable companionship I now enjoy.” 
The young girl looked up in astonishment 
as she exclaimed: “Qualified almost to death 
at a college for work and don't have to!’’ 
“No, I’m a gentleman of leisure; the son of 
banker Glendale. You may have heard of 
him,” 
“Heard of him? Haven’t we supplied him 
with the richest butter and biggest eggs for 
the last six months! Didn't 1 myself this very 
day ship his order! Well, Mr. Glendale, you 
may drive now; I think I can trust you with 
the horse.” 
“Aud with yourself, saj r ?” he pleaded joy¬ 
fully, imprinting a kiss on the hand which 
placed the reins so willingly in his. 
“Have you come here direct from the col¬ 
lege?” she asked after a pause, regarding him 
for the first time with a thoughtful look, 
which made his heart beat faster as he replied 
in the affirmative, and begged her to say 
nothing of bis whereabouts. “For the simple 
reason,” he explained, “that I wrote to my 
father my intention to see the country, where¬ 
as now, I have determined to remain here.” 
The reason why he would remain, not even 
a simple country girl could fail to read in his 
ardent glance. 
Once safely established in Widow Brown's 
best room, Harrv Glendale laughed long over 
his remarkable fortune, and the still more re¬ 
markable girl, who, in spite of her prudent 
retention of the reins, was about to yield her 
heart as readily as she had yielded them. 
CHEAP LITERATURE. 
In a private note, Annie L. Jack says: 
“Let us make amende honorable, to the 
Franklin Square Library for its good deeds 
in the form of good uovels, or good anything. 
I acknowledge its uses, its value; but cannot 
Rural leaders see the good in my article as 
well as the flaws that annoy them, and so 
defend it in the interest of the young? 1 
simply state my experience as to the baneful 
effects of trashy literature, and I also learn 
that booksellers find the Franklin Squares 
interfere with the sale of bound books. But 
when neatly bound, as they should be when 
one can afford it, the Franklin’s make a neat 
and substantial set of books. 1 must say I 
object to the tattered appearance I have seen 
in some houses where the trashy novels were 
selected and read by all tbe family to the ex¬ 
clusion of more useful and needed matters. 
This is my meaning, and the protest of those 
who select and read judiciously and enjoy 
these cheap books, does not do away with the 
evil that results from reading at random, as 
too many of our growing boys and girls are 
apt to do. This is such a well-known ill ef¬ 
fect that teachers have had to protest against 
it. And, like everything else, this proves 
that “circumstances alter cases,” 
Domestic Ccortomi) 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
H. W. S , in one of her invaluable books, 
says that all discouragement is of the Devil, 
and when we tbiuk about it, tbe truth of the 
statement is evident; for what more can Satan 
ask than that we give up trying. Let us look 
back and see in bow many things we have 
hoped to do much but have become discourag¬ 
ed and said, “It's of no use, I : ball give up try¬ 
ing.” How about that piano practice which 
we determined should be kept up, but because 
we could never make sure of any certain hour’s 
practice each day, we abandoned it. to the 
great disappointment of our home friends ? 
Or, perhaps we iutended to follow up some 
particular line of study or reading for which 
we were adapted, but which ill-health or our 
necessary duties have sadly interfered with. 
While hoping that a time may come which 
will be more favorable for systematic study, 
we fail to make the best of the few minutes 
we could have given to study each day, and 
are apparently thankful that the old love is 
still in our hearts and wait and hope for its 
realization. Of course our first duty is to our 
family, but we owe it to our husband to pre¬ 
serve our individuality which first attracted 
him, aud to ourchildreu, to attain the fullest 
and richest development of which we are 
capable. But we must uot think this can be 
gained ouly nuder favorable condicions,for the 
very niche in which God lias placed tis is just 
where He can work out a beautiful and com¬ 
plete life, if we only let Him. 
Suppose our busbauds will use tobacco. It 
is a pity, but let us not give up the hope that 
they will see the evil of the habit and be in¬ 
fluenced by our gentle persuasion to give it up. 
Suppose tbe boys will not put on the coats we 
have provided for them, and refuse to behave 
like gentlemen at the table. Angerand harsh 
words will avail little, and it is only by love 
and wisdom that we can hope to make them 
well bred young men. If our efforts result 
like those of Mrs. Tulliver, in always produc¬ 
ing an effect contrary to the one we desire, we 
may better desist; but we believe women gen¬ 
erally have more tact than that. We are apt 
to think there is some merit in that sort of 
despair which says “Well! tbe fault lies at a*- 
other’s door, I have tried long enough. Let 
bim bear the responsibility.” Notso; resist the 
De\il! We have never tried long enough till 
the good is accompli-bed, if it is really a good, 
which is the first question to be determined. 
We must expect our friends to have faults. 
We have our own, and we do not wish them 
to give up striving in a kiudly way to correct 
ours. 
Suppose, worst of all, our own health is in¬ 
sufficient to the demands upon us. We must 
save ourselves just as much as possible, and 
never give up hopiug. Hope is the best health 
invigorator known. It is the yeast of life, which 
lightens it and makes it palatable. Hope is iin- 
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DISCOURAGEMENT. 
