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MOOI-tE'S KUKAL HEW-YOEKEH. 



APRIL 2. 



lojtet, which commend* itsell i ir 



bile treating mow particular!} a] 



i : m.i,, i , .,i„, kUoa, ii ir„ihj>,in,-.-. [tii sad Hut to 



■ 

 l.nuil lips' ui. I.t.I, iv (.■ believe mutic mothers urc 



twaro bow untruthful tboj are to their littla 



illn 



■ 



DomiusJ el sli iiuiii id U b i 



desires ih, it ii. i < . j j i ■ i . . r b - - i,.,,!. bo early imbued 



I "bed, nnd gneied, sonu- tiny. lo In'. ii lii-i lit 



mill, iilieii ropn.v.-il by hi* sislcr foi lolling u fill 



■ She ■ all [he little I 



l '' ■■■■' 'i ' ni\ i bild ■■ ,-,- 



' ■ w i" . ><■-. 'Ho," bo ingen ii 



ii hi II urn iun; 



town 'I 'In i iliu. roU -inil it I would .tiny 



I .,ii,|i,, ,i : I l»n, vim nun Id bring mc 801 



Hun ■ mm I i ImIi.'i I ■■ i ., rmvllill]^ ill i 



though I dldn i cry n bll ! Wasn't I 



Ml- \ In. nil, I.imhi- n Ii il l.i .iii ;«,-. 



"Wi M, [forgot il w i! : , — I will get 



lime P i 11, . ■■ i , , thai rou do not forget 

 a/gain ' . ' w ' II , ■ \\ .i , , , mphantlj . " jbou 



I was naughty, and I ion ever ro nought r, and you 



dhjn ' pnnlsli me ol alt, I Id Mrs. Surra wl 



had in I ooi tiini children would be children 



fjailuro that win a Uol" 



flow can ilinl mother lift up her head beforo the 

 i," o ol u lelligenl and trusting child, who ■ i 



Mini nliC bus told him il falsehood, nnd 



"■ b.i [, foi i ii.'i i- I. Ohruvtioni Ah, the 



beat slip DftD .in, I- Im g«l 40WB into iho volley ol 



iniiiiiitiitiiin, and confess her sin— yes, confess it 

 to ben . bild, nnd with him oak God to IbrgiTi bar, 



and umiiI Ih-i in ImIuil t.i nli< v Ins law. and then, 



U the midi i "i i n ■' tears, ] ■■mi .mi inn! illus- 



trele the sin lulu. ■ mil ill..- i- -nil.. I untruthfulness. 



again. Mil ll.ii nnrri -In nrled mmimi bill 



»rilli mi M'ty decided, |itiii,i|,|i- u|i[iii this subject, 

 in eidlcd In iho u in,!"" - ■ ilni In the exclama- 

 tion nl l.i r UtUcdaugl ler, ■ -Mien art com- 

 /.'" "Where. I.izzib?" 

 llieiu '" "O mother," re- 

 pln- (be ■ Lilt. ■' 1 ,„,li -,,i,l n ,,.. fuii! Don'l you 



iii.. ,,■;» i,,hif. «i... i v.. ii told father you had some 

 ■ ■I (he beat tea lie evoi drank, right f Y.n m.'s. 



u»d it «u» ..iilv linl Mulvi ■ *«> il. tied willi brown 



id wlii-n yini bml tin' blank letter under 



Ms j.iuti. !„,«, »i, ,, t,,. Mated the tea and open- 



■■■ii -;m.I \|,u, fcoii ik;i ,| .i,,.,, K0 ,j| 



I 



''Well, (iiaaiB^yoti urc a bright child!" eiclaims 



""' I'"'-. "- -!" I.'n--liiiii;lv u I urns to her work, 



1 



. in i -i" be '■■■■■ ■ i ,i,-, e't\ iimj I.,- 1 



mother, i>< i--.i i 



■ ■ i.ii.i,,,, 



I'mi i! i- n- M. I- i -|.i .i.-.l, under such rir- 



■ lb il child "ill LL.i.n .i|. In, I [ n n.l 



tmih -loving T VUfaamit, The heartless coquette 

 of future y«r» will uke the some i ■ 



■ 

 heart, that the. child at the » iudon I 

 iug i lolhni ' Jf, " ' Wrilci • iy9 , ■■ \ 



Straw Hill mill... nil llnpte-sioll nn,.,ii ll b .. Mini, 



Of Feb 



Apparel"— « 



•be sayi that ull tmtiU 



people are on her siile, J would like to exjireas m; 



" IbeHnfce," if i do 'i"i Intrude a\ 



, bill in general. I mu 



..,,;,«" ui,[iniw ii.. lij;iiii- ut' a lady, but, lik.> 



« I ■ I I I" I.- ,1 III. IIMll ,,| . 

 Mil llllll, 



than a human being, and tl.cn. again, she 

 il,, I., so i'- to look vi'iy pretty. 

 look /.'if 



Inn t dress and pants on. No, I say they cat 

 designed, from the beginning, 

 wcur long, llniiiiij: robes, and the 



panto nnd I think that 



ndhi rate long an -■ i, ■ he > iewa the stibject 



wrong light. I have seen several ladt i 



called iImim-mIii'i — dress in short robes 

 and pants, their hair col nnd combed in true maV 

 Olllldi i.l', iri in, 1 1, ii-. mill I must agree wit h 



ii'.i 1 1,- i "im *uy* thiii i hey are regular speci- 



iiiriiH .,i iiu.i ffi'riin ol win. in every one has heard, 

 vi/., ■■ <;„■! r- ■ 



hloomers nt home about her 

 work, bm i. hen thnl is done, then put on a long 

 Iraai and be n lady. If 1 ever should pot on a 

 abort droaa and panla, (and I sincerely .hone I 

 shall,) 1 shall soon dull' the >)u,ri skirt uu.l 

 i ii i'liul I mil di-ci.i tiki- .1 iiuiii nnd be .1i.hl- 

 t— nut go half. My motto ■-. "th whoU or 



THE CROOKED FOOTPATH. 



irfca Ui> "1<1 resnenil*rcJ »pot,— 



\v,n, irequenl n.-ud? u. I..n or right. 

 Bat alwayaajaAUe door in sigbL 

 rhr gmhtcJ porek, mull w.widhinc grw 





hardly paaMTOtf " So 'I 



mind \ h ;ii.' 



. with til. 



.., _ut after a few years the must 

 po«e^appMlauajoaa« 



, thereon a* mil 

 ilHeeraad UmpU- 



■ ■■ . T 1,1 ■ 



1 ' there would aeem to be 



mi aeeewiu of itnpteaalag upon the ■ 



invplaotLng k, pnartph-, in \* r rtui,i 

 weuldheteihe cbiM'. minX ch » tJ 

 toe, oohle atondard. Boioa wi lU r ibu. el^mly 



.Ii mOOOiu or bnnui^ r«bic« : M l 0Vf ] v 



I i pure as pearls in a lake of crrsui J. 

 Ha as peaceful as a Mimmer's mMnighi w 'i, wa liA _ 

 tore, ftr a swaaou, nleaps in calm repoev ; aautlan 

 an an n.»«rl < I 



■ 

 ■ 

 and aa coaeasteat aa goodoeaa associated with 



but I am sayiug too much ngninst 



if n ions, but I moat (roe mj mind. 



think nt these Ibtoga a second 



line ymh Ibonghl of them .11, 1 " I v. 

 Mi's" advice- but think of them n second time, 



■ iM.i 1, I ,1,,- I !..■-■. !;,'!,. in, c,., uinl k.-i-j Hi,, lumps 



n<l long robas 



Moli.ir FtAOO. 



SOU Im, 



group "i boj -. one dari from the rest, nnd 

 his arms above bis head, about, " Tki 

 '■<■>'■■> "' u bo runs to meet him. Yon may be 



.sun', im mutter ivluif Imimih-s h..ublr, 



iiinn mm laTe, thai there Is a spotiu his heart 



id n»D, -1 im li lb. 1 ..ii'.s ftftbo world 



ii.i-. .Ii.mI nn power to blight, "There.afflj Ibthorl 



Will, wliiit 11 |iii'llv |, 11, In lb, - bill,' follow Shouts 



brute, wh"M- luiln ilv 



■ 

 gll 





-.I..11 



H lOOS 





l.'l 



:■!*■ repaid foi thai daj '-■ toil, n alter how 



■11. ■ ' kflOl Bll, /."■• is III,' .mil tiling iv, nth 



li a in-.' 111 Ilni WOrld, Finn-', nnd liiinni, un.l 



bition, dwindle tn nolliini,' beside the white, calm 

 w of death, though (Jod knows it may be but 

 roungliugof the Bock, whoso lips have 

 11 leiiriu-d tn syllable llieirnnmc. 



Aqbd WniiAV.— Let the aged w, 1111.111 }<•■ 

 longer an object ol' contempt. She is as helpli 

 child , but as a child she may be loui-mui: the 

 iiivlul li'ssnu from her lK-uvi-nlv Fnlbvi. Her 

 feeble atop ii traading.oD the brink of the gra' 



bill her hopes may be lirmly planted mi tin- botlOJ 

 shore which is beyond. Her e.i ,■ is dim « uli snf- 

 hTing and team ; but her spiritual vision may be 



iteuipliiting the [iriidiiul unli.ddnti* of the L.'i''"s 



Sternal bins Beauty bus bided from her form ; 



■'.- W01 Id of light may be weaving a 



wreath of glorj for bei brow Her lip is silent . 



bul il Mini imlv Iim wuiiitip to pom- forth clvsli-.d 



s of grutilude and praise. Lowly, and fallen, 



nnd siul, she siis iimoiy Hie living; but exulted, 



punliLiI, uiiil hiijipy, she may rise- I'rimi tin- iliitil. 



11 turn, if tli mi inlt, from the aged woman in 



loneliness ; bm remombei she is uol (brgotten 



b> Ini 1., 1. 1. !/■■■ Bij iu.ij. 



■■ 1 u,„ ■ Beautlfiil, exceed ingly," 

 the burial of cliildnn uuuun; Mi,- Mexicans, Nn 

 dark procession 01 gloomy looks murk the pnwiijc 

 grave; bm dreaeod in its holiday attire, and 

 garlanded with bright, (rash flowers, the little 

 r is home to its rest. Glad sougs. and joy- 

 ful bells are rung, nnd lightly 01 In a festival, tho 

 k'»j «r.tup -•■" - its «-:iy The child is not ,1,-ud, 

 they say. but '"going BOme." The Uexioon moth- 



10 has household trensures Inid aivay in (he 

 etimpo Hinta— V. un's sacred field— breathes a, sweet 



only heard .1 ie» ban m the ft utterance. 



Ask her how many children bless her I1011.se, and 



l , , tiro here, and three yon- 



di 1 " Bo, despite di-. lib ind the grave, it is yet an 



■ ii i' ■■!.' n 1. .us. hold, nnd the simple mother ever 



11 the thought. 



SrBAX Kixbli vo All.— How beauiiliiUv kind 



H..I.1. s.niinl I,, tb. 1 ,, . 1U |,I Iii.h hum 



■ reu of those that are -■■■ 

 posed to the use of callous words. Reader, if you 

 iave a mother or father who has (badly nursed 

 ■hi from your infancy up to man- 

 kindly to them. Gentle words ore 



nothing loolta 001 re bat : :. than 1 



cut* who have 

 lied over them in their infancy.— S. 

 .R.,.&>4<r.'' 



Jbak Pjhil »aya— Cod and love are everywhere ; 



lors id flowers, in the beauty of man, 



1 Lhe iMpniucesof oaimals. in the human mind, 



• -pheres: as the aun abine» on all, 



liko jei diflt-rvnttr, and is njsueatw on the ocsju, 



ruddy mi the ripe fruil, 



mauy colored in the rainbow. 



THE BOOKS TO READ. 



That sound* very ranch aa though it might have 



Vexed to see his own work sink into oblivion, he 

 could not endure to behold with good gruce the sea 

 oflitcruture crowded with other craft. But books 

 are great blessings. The work of some favorite 



iiulhor neatly bound, is a "thing of beauty." They 

 mi- 1 1 "i"' the less 11 blessing from the fact that they 

 ••puke up their ugly beads 



1 linn _- 





they are universal. Does uot tho wri 

 gi-iilei- plensnie from the idea (hat a thousand 11 

 follow the track of his though!, than if only c 

 could do so? There was once a lime when books 

 were only to bo found in the cell of the monk, 1 

 in the libraries ol the learned, But the fountain 

 knowledge lias bei-11 opeued, and its crystal watc 

 refresh alike the lowly and the great. One, in his 

 richly furnished and altrnctive library, reads Mil- 

 tox " bound in gold," and another, by his eoltage 

 lamp, reads a "cheap edition" o 

 tithe of the beauty the poet has created, is denied 



thanks lo the multitudes of printing presses, thai 

 have rendered the choicest literature so common, 



What rnre plet 

 bold common. cal 



thai has once tasted so sweet a plet 

 soke the quiet walks of literature 

 clamor of the pleasure-seeking world. Men, highly 

 gifted by genius, ore very rarely favored with 

 those tastes and habits that fit one to be a fuvorile 

 in society. Neither are great readers. The tastes 

 and habits that qualify him to enjoy the pleasures 

 of literature, disqualify him to be cither a lover of, 

 or a favorite in society. True, conversation with 

 an appreciative companion, adds zest lo reading, 

 yet mixing up tun much lu society will destroy the 

 taste for it. This should not be, and when society- 

 is what it ought to be, the reader and the coDversa- 

 tionist will derive mutual p leisure from each others 

 company. The real Ion-rot bunks can smileat the 

 allurements of ambition, and say with the oft 

 quoted poet, 



' 



read those of lbs lime ol QstAl >n ■: Q 



If yon are In indolent moo,i.,,. s j 1,,, 



tie of IndolsVi 



will not appr. 



preached to, 1 



you wish to enjoy a pure. BbBSBital flow of language. 



study I'ofk ami QoUSSMfTfl II VO 



ull good qualities, combined will, i> - ; 



. read lbs best works ■ 



Perhaps v,. 

 branch of literature ombre 



natmg than history, If 1.,,, *ouId n 

 readonly the best authora. There 1 1 



,: '"' produi ■■■■■ ,., , mploj >N 



the leisure lime the geneniliCi ol ;-. ■■ 



s to literary piiTMiits win ihen should 



spend so brief a life in peru-n. j | 



those wnlers uusound in moral.-.. <>r tasking 



healihlul food fur the intellect? From .XfiNorusx 



lo I'iiescott, there nro a porieol 1 rowd ol 



tudyof ull will 



sure uncomplete a kumi ledge of history as 

 the careful study of only the best, So it is u nb 

 poetry, essays, mid biography. Probably there is 

 no branch of composition, that has sulrerod mors 

 from second-rate writers than flction Bfovelists, 

 in order to command the interest of II,,,, randare, 

 hold up to the imagination, highly wrought pic- 

 tures. The false glare nnd glutei- v Unite the taste 

 of the reader, and he soon becomes dissatisfied 

 with an Win m- Ir.s J 1, 1 in M i. in. ,v, I)'Aiih,,;nk 

 and lBVXtro,are neglected for the Mrs Soorn- 

 wonms. Reader be corefnt to cultivate a taste for 

 pure literature. It will do much toward building 

 up a good and beautiful character. It will help t' 

 lead you to greatness. Select your library as you 

 do your companions, uiih n n eve to the nillueiue 



ill exert upon your character. 



FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES. 



"A DIRGE FOR THE DEPARTED." 



t great speech was made at the age 



1 1 9 





■■Mil 



m K l - 



If J 





ad pah sad. Irsjunjn 



1, the 1. 



Books ore greal Iravch 



the privilege of nn evening's chi 



nl. 'man. the best way y 



the deficiency is to read some well-written book of 



travels. If you urc of a poetic temperament, lake 



pnsMiiio with duns or with IK yard Taylor up 



the far-famed old Nile. Mount a dromedary and 



-ween ili-i-.i-s the wild and terrible desert. Wander 



moonlight with an Arab guide through the 



Mtifnl ruins that crowd upon either bank, or 



I away, " beyond civilization, away into the 



age heart of Africa." If you are a plain, matter- 



'act man, peruse Livingstone's Researches in 



South Africa Trace him in his fatiguing journeys 



■back through tribes, friendly and unfriendly, 



you close the volume, you will feel that you have 



For plain common sense, sound philosophy and 

 valuable information, he cannot be excelled. If 



u are fond of Polar Seas and icebergs, Dr. Kxnk 



II charm you many an hour. 



- I"ver of poetry, you certainly must 



hard to please if you can nnd nothing to suit 

 your taste. Every age has its crowd of poets, 

 though some tower like giants above the rest. — 

 Though the names of Milton - and Shaksi'eare are 

 m Mil- pen of nearly every BSsajeet, we need not 

 go back lollies,- to Hud true poetry. Neither need 

 we go across the water, for we have a U avast, 

 YVuittiei:, llAU-tcK, LosoFELLOw.andnPBEXTica. 

 Their productions are sweet, charming, aud true. 

 But it you on- paj-unl t,-> the old) I 

 British bards look iovitinel r at yon. Not lo men- 



,-lln.uis distinguished himself in the 



n.uiin published his " Vita 



'-'" when |ii-t t.v,i-u'y -I'lvn I H-| ih-n Im I 



testimony to his poetical genius at the age of 

 y-Seven. Bacon begun lo form Ins new sya- 

 >f pbilosophj into some form when about 

 y-seveu. Burns issued his first publication 

 1. n islnngton was but 

 y-seveu when he covered tho retreat of the 



hvroopa nt Braddoek's defeat, aud was tip- 

 id to the command- in-cbicf of all (he Virginia 

 ,. John Quincy Adams woe appointed by 



.inglou.in 17',i4,rniuxsler resident lo tho United 



Neili, ib.n.b. — ilius commencing his public life at 



tho age of twenty-seven. Napoleon. \\< believe, 



only twenty-seven when be led the unm nil,, 



Egypt. Soineof Hie poets lb. it lime been the pride 



"England, hare commenced to write eorlj iii life, 



me few, however, lime pi udu.-ed I In ai' ln-sl piee,;.. 



old age. Couper was liliy before he obluiued 

 any reputation us an author. Young ncvoi 

 anything that could be called poetry till 

 over sixty J and was more than eighty w 

 published his poem on "Resignation." 

 wrote bis best poetry after he wus sixty, Pope 

 wrote ut twelve years of ngc. Cowley at llftueu. 



Cbatlcrton at eleven. Sat 1 Bogers was fixed in 



his determination to become a poet by the perusal 

 of Beattie's "Minstrel," when only nine years of 

 nge. Thomas Moore wrote poetry in bis l.iurlevuth 

 year, which was published in lb,- Dublin Magariue. 

 Campbell wrote his poem on the '■ Pleasures of 

 Hope" at twenty -1 me— the sunn- ng,-ni which l'ope 

 wrote his essay on " Criticism." Shelley wrote at 

 it eighteen he produced his wild, 

 Queen afab," Keats published 

 in his twenty-second year, a 

 which caused his death. Mrs. 

 Hemaus ventured on publication in her fifteenth 

 year. Mrs. Norton composed her "Sorrows of 

 Rosalie" in her seventeenth year. John May tic in 

 his sixteenth yea: pnbUabed the germ of his "Sil- 

 lie Gun." Ilaunah More published her "Search 

 afler Happiness" in her sevinti-euth year. Sir 

 Edward Lytlon wrote verses at the age of five or 



Win 



Tln->\. sio'ii'ln a hrlglite-T »1 



WHY DELAY? 



.■ beat 



the age of fifteen 

 atheistical poem 

 his "Endymion 



died in M$. 







swejil away so many of the great 

 pean world— among others, Cuvier, Crubbc, and 

 Sir Walter Seott, Cuvier and Napoleon were born 

 in the same year, 17fly. Moiurt and Kosciusko 

 were born in the year 1773. Alexander Hamilton 

 ntni Lafayette in.n' born in tin 1 ear 1757. Hegel, 

 Wordsworth, and Chalmers were each horn in the 

 year 1770. Macpherson, Uersebel, and West were 

 all born in the same year, 17.38. Currnn, Ueber, 



a* id tin- painter, and Dr. Rush were each horuin 



r60.— Bom* Journal 



Sweet Olo Anr.— God sometimes gives lo man 

 guiltless ami holy second childhood, in which 

 le soul becomes child-like, not childish — ond the 

 cullies, in full fruit and ripeness, urn mellow, 

 ithout sign of decay. This is that fought ft 

 land of Beultth, where they who have traveled 



lfully tho christian way abide awhile 

 the world a perfect manhood. Life, witl 

 ties and its sorrows, lies far behind them 

 has thrown off his armor, and sits in an evening 

 and holy leisure. Thrice bJsfjcd 

 ighborbood that numbers among ii 

 yet ascended saiuU '. Geutle are 

 they and tolerant, and apt to play with little chil- 

 " -en, easy to he pleased with litib- pi- 



PnEjL'DiCt. — One of the greatest obstacles to the 

 progress and admission of truth, is prejudice. It 

 in to jealousy ; a compound of the conccntra- 

 of whims ; a mote in the eye of reason. No 

 g man can entirely divest himself of it. Il 

 nly greatly controls and biases the most of 

 but it unconsciously lingers around iodic of 

 -t men till the day of deolh. If we cannot 



my of truth, let us never 



battle, and thus escape being 



, lone bowed down by cou- 

 " long -'.) lowing — so long 



doubting 1 Cun we thereby add anything toodr 

 be neeepted of Qon, 01 will lie 



'■" ,,l "■ ■ trilling to receive us? Nay, fellow- 

 sinners, (Ion does not require 11s lo prepare our- 

 selves for His kingdom , nor can we, bv any e 



-lOl M 



\..|lhc 



Dow 



, make ourselves 1 



I 1. 11 1 



I Mis 



.ill,, 



and nl the foot of the neoea give up every- 

 ) II nn, molting no reserve, and the self-same 



B do tins <;,,;, will urnenusly pardon OUT 

 .1 jov unspeakable will lill the sinuer'shearl. 



t by our long 1 



lief of Cm 



promisee I Or, does it not 

 deuce on our part to trust 01 

 and while thus, by our actit 

 Inability ..r anfaltnfuIneae,oan we expect so great, 

 so very great a blessing from Him'' As a friend, 

 then, who fondly hopes to have tasted the " good 

 till who hove not given 



• Con. if 



word of life" let 11 



their hearts to Cod, that 



""'''"'■','/ give themselves up to llim— go humbly 

 in prayei and pieud earnestly for the forgiveness 

 of their sins, 

 Ami do ■pre doubt bein 



Aye, 



ritbout r 



.1",,, 



sayu 



at likewise joy .shall be 11 

 hat rcpeutetb, more thai 

 t persons, which need n 



heaven o 



repentance." 

 world, the cause or Mis gwat suffering and death 

 to provide a way, and (Ms i-.ry way by which you 

 might be saved. Bead the account of His life and 

 s.e bow kind, bun ,.nj kind He was to sinnera 

 while <m earth. See how much compassion and 

 BOO is well pleased nt the 



return of t 



1 and i.- 



Rutland, Ta., IsStt. 



Go therc- 



',, ','.!■ I 





BaAurmiL Sxntimknt. — The Into eminent 

 judge, Sir Alien Park, once said at a public meet- 

 London:— "We Jive in the midst of bless- 

 ings till we an- utterly Insensible of their grent- 

 nnd of the source from whence they flow. 

 We speak of our civilization, our arts, our free- 

 ,nd forget entirely how large a 

 shure is due lo Christianity, Bint Christianity 

 out of the pages of man's history, und what would 

 have been T— what his civilization ? Chris- 

 ur very being and our 

 iiibar object around us 

 different aspect, because 



daily life ; 



the light of Christian love 

 which does not owe its truth a 

 Christianity— not a custom which 

 in all its holy, healthful pun, \., the Q 



OtT 



gentleness 



Gnn— Keep not back port of tho 

 ■ full surrender of every motion of 

 one object, and one ami. 

 And for Ibja purpose give God the keeping of 

 thine heart. Cry out for more of the divine influ- 

 ences of Ihe Holy Spirit, that so when the soul is 

 preserved and , •■ be direct- 



ed into one channel, and one only, that I by life 

 niay run deep an.l pure, ami clear ud 



will, its only channel 



■ 



We for os to i 



. ■ 



idea in the progress, ol I 

 B _ fftyfojwf. • 



'^Sg^ESs 



