MOOKE'S USUAL HEW-YOKEEH. 



Stlcr 





Whlla gulag ">n hl» pMMfU r.-l 

 Hli'im- Ihe »tar-«*ntlnrl» <»f nlRht. 



We Monad Uu «ii»a-w« 'Nil the; On 



■aria now puscd nwoj 



Two note IliuV I. 



Our Ruber, 



others, and of His personality, we would still hav. 

 . «ith the ide. 

 LflTft, tt'c would tore our nurseries 

 I ,-tratiou* of Ibis glowing tmlli, and 

 wc would have our darling* feel that it w "sown in 

 oar gardens of living green," that it is written upon 

 in oar [tail.**?, that it twinkle* in 

 every star that blues upon tlic coronet of hcarcn, 

 and that in br. : . t> il ** engraven 



upon tbe cross of Cmuir. 

 Mother, take the soft, dimpled bund of that dear 

 0WU and lead it out among the roses 

 and the violets— snow the little one how from liny 

 . :. ,1 in the earth, ha* upsprung all the 

 loveliness which ii behold*. Take in jour band a 

 and delicacy as risible to 

 the naked eye, then under tbe micro 

 ita still more wonderful beauty and delicacy. — 

 Compare this work of Goo with sonic exquisite 

 work of art, and show how, in the comparison, the 

 latter becomes coarse and imperfect Slum him 

 how well adapted ia the beauty of the blossom to 

 please tbe eye, how grateful to the sense of smell 

 is its fragrance — bow the prevalent emerald of 

 Nature's summer robe is suited (o tho organ of 

 vision, being jus! tho soft tint moat agreeable to its 

 nature — bid the thought a of the obild S° l "" rtu over 

 tbe wide world, mid recognise in the abundance 

 ond variety of bloom and verdure, the infinite 

 wisdom, and the goodness of the Almighty, sod 

 ■ -mil k nee Is ill your side with clasped 

 bandl Lad upturned eyes for his evening prayer, 

 . i ■! that ihe Father of whom be asks a 

 bit tog, i indeed a God of Love. 



Take bun at night out beneath the bending 

 li.n.ii , ■ Mh rudiunt with the light ol'alhousaud 

 gems; explain to him that these oro all worlds, 

 idled into existence from nothing, by the will of the 

 groat 1 Am, ihiit they all have their appointed 

 ■•■ loch ii' any one should greatly devi- 



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.. .M.tvri sul ' 



ad cnuh QJ worlds "—take 1 



k ..i i 



HAVE FAITH AND 





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Wlih pattern art, bote 



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And built b-. r 



nln wrought; 



h earth and grasses brought. 



The last soft feather on 



d she placed 

 Is ample Boor, 



A.d-lSUl'l'd 



rt sho kept, 



asl night, bearing calls. 



PLOWHANDLE PAPERS. 



■■'" somewhat, 

 ■wssriotn' a 



- -lightly slipped my arm 

 My good little 



r Si'v^'t wedding ji, S | 

 ,rs ago," 

 twrutj nine. Bui you 



around her 



as I danced at yours 30 \ 



"Notthir' 

 are old and grey-headed 



■ Well, if toy head is grey, my heels niu't, no 

 bow," and f just come one of my old-fashioned 

 breakdown double-shuffles, and n pigeon-wing at 

 the end on't, and bale-need up to her. "There," says 

 I, "did you see ony grey hairs in that?" And I 

 took her in my arms, and pare her a smacking 

 kiss. " Well, says she, there ain't any in that any 

 way.'' " Uesides," says I, " you used to love dan- 

 cing before we were married, as much as anybody, 

 and I used to think sometimes you danced with to 

 other fellows just to show mo what a pretty figure 

 you made on the floor." 



"Oh, JohkI" soya s 



is.es I e 

 You sc 



er bad. 

 , Col., I 1 



! 



Plain Talks to American Wnmen.-No. 10, 



. . on Ooo.-The child comes in 



world ignorant of tho being of a Cion. So 



Christian countries, it learns offlifl c.vislene 



begins to gather somo dimly-conccivod-of pi 



i . attributes, und to entertain toi 



Him feelings of love, or of hatred— of trust, or of 



"■; oi ' nil, iin'ii. Um| [in- Impression i 



made upon its mind relative to the " High and 



Lofty one that iuuabilelli Eternity," bo just im- 



i. Ii ii- will i ini-e ii h vuung affections 



to go out towards Him as uu All'-Wite. All-Holy. 



All-I'owerfu), and AH -Loving Father! We counsel 



no precocious unfolding of tho spiritual nature, 



this is unnecessary ; but as the intellect and heart, 



in natural und healthful development, reach forth 



Mill il.. Unseen, lot tho feeling become full and 



Bottled that tho ultima thuh of all perfection, that 



■ 1 1 point of oil the glory of the Universe, 



is Goo. 



Perhaps the first idea of Goo which should be 

 taught tho child, is that Lie is tho Creator of all 

 things — and the second, that He is Love. This 

 order is nature], and easy. Who made this?— how- 

 came il to be?— are early inquiries of childhood, 

 and when il learns that the ultimate cause of nil 

 things is (Ion, and looks abroad upon nature, and 

 boholds the beauty and fitness, so far as it is able 

 to comprehend, of its various parts, it will be easy 

 for it to be led to feel that no one but a being full 

 of love could have formed and arranged it. Im- 

 pressions of other divine attributes, such as wis- 

 dom, and omnipotence, "ill readily follow. 



Few of us realize as we should, and as our capac- 

 ities if properly cultivated would enable us to do, 

 these Infinite attributes of Jeuovau. Wo are not 

 ■aflMatlj accustomed to trace iu His works the 

 evidences of their existence. Very low and un- 

 worthy oro our ideas ofllim " who hath stretched 

 nut the heavens as a curtain, and before whom the 

 inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers," to 

 whom "the nations arc as the small dust of tbe 

 bolonce," "who hath measured tho waters in the 

 hallow ,,t Ml hand," and " takctb up the isles as ti 

 very little thing. " If mothers, to whom is given 

 1 "orknfimprintingupouthesoflheart 

 of infancy, its first impressions of a God, would 

 d Lheii own nun.], the evidences of 

 perfection, a deeper lore would be en- 

 koilli I m their own bosoms— a loftier faith would 



burn u| the altars of theirhearts— and wo might 



look for the glow of the love and of the faith to 

 the souls of the precious ones com- 

 1' with n glory 

 ■ i I Heaven Sui i, niedita 

 tiom are eminently elevating in ih- 

 Combined with rellcctious upon tbe divine plan of 

 n soul to flow 

 ' Itghtaud love, 

 ; praise. Adeep 

 ihutes, and the 

 ,. : i. . ■ - - . ■ . 



ds in-, and fcrvcntlj to pr»y thai ti ■ 

 . ■ 

 ■ ; '"■ grand orchestra, of lht I 

 the praise of Him i whom at unj 



" from "every creature which is in 



besTtMi » n ,i DD tt,,, Ci utb, and under tho earth, and 



such a* ar,- in the sea." this ooble ascription:— 



"1 honor, and glorr, and power, be 



" sltteth upon the ihrone, and unto 



ill also lead her 



to inquire by whalmeans.hi, maymost effccluallv 



be secured. H u , v wt w lofl ^ ^ ^ 



" ,tlbCb - ' whichh«W 



her own mind to talc delight in the deep Unngs of 



I-o'c." "Why i. Bot 

 •dens of living green- 

 framed and hung in our nurserie*— Uught as th 

 first sounds to little ones? Why.,.' 

 ^^hy not change the name of our Peily? Why not 

 I ,-lnldren to answer, when asked who made 

 i Father. Who redeems you*— 

 ,. sanctifies jou* Love, the 

 Holy Gboat." Without admitting the propriety of 



upon your knei 



hotly, tho breathing of his lungs, tho beating of hif 

 heart, the circulation of his blood— show to bin 

 that if any of tlu-e operations should by any cause 

 be BTKBted life would become extinct ; that causcj 

 sufficient to this c:ust all around him, at all times, 

 and, alter all ihe.ie illustrations, will he not feel, 

 and feel deeply, that he is dependent upon a God of 

 Lov( for Bi BTJ moment of existence? 



Tell him the sad story of man's failure in Eden— 

 of ils fearful consequences, sin and death — bow 

 through the (hie!, darkness that Irll upon tho world 

 wfien man first did wrong, uolight.no ruy of hope 

 penetrated, till Uon sent a beam of glory from the 

 fountain of his own goodness, and lo ! tbero broke 

 upon the earth a brightness that only culminated 

 in the death and resurrection of his Son. Teach 

 bim that "Gou so loved tbo world that he" 

 thus rescued it from eternal gloom— that it was 

 Jssns' love that led Him to become tbo "man of 

 Borrows," to give himself a sacrifice for sin, to be- 

 come the Redeemer of sinners, and will not tho 

 In '.i 1 1 "i i inlilii.mil ijini ii i ih deeper, fuller throbs of 

 sorrow for sin, throbs of pity for tbe Sayioii, and 

 throbs of love for "Our Father" und our "Elder 

 Brother r" And will not a holy faith bud there, a 

 faith that shall blossom into a glonou;i nuituntv, 

 and bear fruit for the future Paradise of Gon? 0, 

 mother, do you realize your mission ? 



In similar ways may you impress upon the minds 

 of your children a sense of the power, the wisdom, 

 and the justice of Goi>, and thus, step by step, lead 

 them on in the delightful paths of the truest wis- 

 dom. And bow in alter years, when your own dust 

 shall be reposing in tho wasting tomb, may the 

 remembrance of the precious instruction you have 

 given, come home each day freshly to their hearts, 

 and bring fresh tears to their eyes, which they 

 would fain shed as the evening detvs upon the 

 flowers that bloom upon yourgrave, or with which 

 they would embalm every relic of a mother's love. 

 How worn may be the spot where their knees shall 

 press the sod above you— how tender will bo their 

 hearts when they remember that the God to whom 

 they pray is tbe Gon of a sleeping mother! And 

 how will they long for the immortal rising ! Yes, 

 softly, like the echoes of a music that has floated 

 away, will come home to their souls the vibrations 

 a mother's harp of love, touched by the soft breath 

 of holy flu i -ti. in Faith ! 



A FACT FOR LADIES. 



■it.i-Kn, 



stbntfl 



by mark- 

 ing the height at regular intervals, lake away from 

 it and make a short Jigtirt look shorter. For this 

 reason, short persons should not wear strips run- 

 ning In parallel rings round the dress. Perpendic- 

 ular stripes upon a dress make the wearer look 

 taller, like the flutes in n eumruiMte. It is too much 

 theeu lomoi all who would bo considered fash- 

 ionable, to imitate the prevailing mode, regardless 

 or its suitability to face or form. When flouuoes 

 and hoops, us now, are worn, short, dumpy ladies 

 flounce up tothi Itheii diameter 



infinitely beyond their perpendicular measure, 

 which gives them a ludicrous appeal 

 somewhat similar to a Dutch built brig, under full 



There is nothing moves a geutten. u 

 tion for a lady so quicklj 



! i stature end figure. In choosing 

 colors, great care should be taken— a gaudy show 

 in theyshould 

 be plainer than the dre-M-r likes. tL.u. ■. 



me No one ever lust bj 

 Miniiluity. Slmnlicil) of manners and simplicity 

 of dress are the greatest chonnsin tbe world. And 

 i ihered, let there always be a sympa- 

 thy bclwc*n yourselvea and your dre>s The rose 

 would appear less beautiful with the tint of the 

 violet, and yet both are beautiful. 



Vaxitv ix Daiss. — Some young ladles, feeling 

 themselves sggrieied by the severity with which 

 their friends animadverted on then g 

 crinolines, scarlet petticoats, and flounce-, went lo 

 Icirn his opinion. " I*o you think," 

 seH ihev. " thai there can be any impropriety iu 

 ourwaaring these things:" "By no means," was 

 ,'. ben the heart i* full of 

 nectly proper to hang out 



•■?"■ ' 





, Feb, i 



Col. Moore.— Dear Sir:— I felt so kinder rung 

 out when I wrote my last letter, that I thought ] 

 should never get pluck enough to write i 

 again. But since I got the bound volume 

 Rural for last year, I have been reading i 

 especially my letters, ond I find there are 

 gaps in the account of our folks that 

 lo be closed up. Between ourselves. Col., I feel 

 pretty grand to see my letters bound up in a hook 

 like the Rcral. It looks considerable like going 

 down to posterity, and being read, and talked about 

 when you are dead, like Webster and Gen. Jaci 







Don't you think it would be a good plan t 

 all my letters into a book by themselves, an 

 my picture on tho front, and your'n and mother's 

 along between the leaves. I think the book W 

 sell well, especially if you would make a perfai 

 beginning on't. I do believe I could sell r 

 a dozen copies down at the corners : 



halves with you uu the prouts, and you might go a 

 long ways over a good road before you'd find 

 another man that wuuld umke the aume offer. 



But I'm takin my pen in hand now mostly to let 

 iu know what became of Sasi and Susan's 

 all'uirs. You see, Sau got his girl in spite of us ; 

 Then I thought about getting into office I 

 didn't make much opposition, for I knew Saiiaii 

 had been where they knew how to set out their 

 best mahogany as naturally as we do our best 

 cherry ; and as mother and I might go to tbo As- 

 sembly, it would be a good plan to know how to 

 ur feet under it kinder scrumpliously. Of 

 b I was dreadful glad when Bob won SoHAK. 

 We all concluded to have the weddings Monday 

 after New Year's day, so as to have both the girls 

 ,ke their wedding party at the same time, and 

 'd have a grand smash-up of it all at once. — 

 Mother and Susan were for having a kinder patent 

 ather affair of it, and only ask in a few of their fine 

 :quaintances ; but I and Sau didn't like it at all, 

 and Smith didn't like it any better than we did, for 

 he wanted the second day wedding at his house, 

 when he was going to bring home the widder; for, 

 ;c, just as soon as he got elected, she came 

 right down and agreed to have him on sight. 

 We'd been talking about it at tea, and when the 

 amen lit the candles, Sau, and I, and Bob, were 

 all together in tbe setting-room, and Mother, and 

 Susan, and Sarau, and I thought I'd just jump 

 right iu and paddle out the best way 1 could; so 

 ■aye I to Sau, says I, "Saw, have you seen Ick 

 coming with his fiddle i" 

 i ought to have seen Mother how quick she 

 look off her spectacles, and laid down her stitching, 

 und looking up, says alio— and there was a little 

 ■it in il— says she: 

 " What did you say, John X' 

 But I pretended not to hear her, and kept look- 

 g right straight at Sam. 



Bah wen 



on just as though nobody had spoken 



but me— sa 



rshe, "Isawles.andhe 



says four of 



You see 



the cloud bust right on 



mv devoted 



icad. The 



girls leaned back in their chairs. — 



Mother go 



up and came towards me, 



ud Bob and 





shied But thinks I, who 



safcard; so 



i straightened uptomv tallest inches 



so she came 



right up to 





ay shoulder, 





e, pretty sharp, 







1 dancing in 



his bouse 



o-morrow night, Jonv - 





Says I, ' 



You never said a truer tt 



ing m your 



t be done." 



■■ IVrhapa n 



dance— no place for tb 

 . what wilt people say!" 



There's the front room, ih« 

 ill hold a good lloorwing, and the big bed-roon: 

 that will hold a good French four." 

 '* But the carpets will be spoiled, and the bed i 

 the way." 



" We can lake up the carpets," said the girls. 

 "Then then will be tbe bed," 

 "Well, we can take it do«n in fire minutes, 



i that time on the honey 

 principle, and I do think, after all, that 



blessed institution in a family, and perhaps it 

 would'nt be bad in a small town like yourn. 



Everybody sposed they'd be married in church on 

 Sunday, and the house was fuller than I'd seen it 

 before since Deacon CooDESonon'a funeral. But 

 they got a good sermon for nothing, and that's all 

 they did get anyhow. The young people Won't 

 married till the next day ; and then we had one of 

 mother's grandest kind of dinners, rice pudding 

 es, ond custard, just as much as WC 

 Well. Ifs DO use of talking about the 



to be wanting lo eat them again when you cau't. 



The very capsheaf of glory was the dance in the 

 evening. Tho', to be sure, I did feel kinder bad to 

 see Susan get married, and know that she was 

 going to love another man better than her father. 

 She'd always been a good, kind girl, and tbe thou- 

 sand and one little thiugs thai she would contrive 

 to do to make me feel bow pleasant home was, 

 made it seem kinder hard to part with her. But 

 then as I had .'-cited anoili. r man pretty much the 

 same trick I didn't think I ought to worry 

 about it; besides, mother was left. 



Il won't long after the candles ivire 1 1.: l.n .1 L, i,,i, 

 the young people began to como in, and pretty 

 soon there was a heap of them. Smith wanted 

 tne to open the dance with the widder. and In 

 take mother, and the boys and girls all set in, a 

 they wouldn't take no for an answer ; so, I had 

 lead off. After all, I felt sorter of queerish, for I 

 hadn't danced iu a great while, nnd I feared I 

 might go wrong, liul I knowed (ho widder 

 up lo snuff in tbeso kind of things, and w 



" What'll you dance, Mr. PlowhasdleT," says 

 Ick. 



" Money Musk,'' says I, " Itcady," says Ick, aud 

 off we started. 



Perhaps, Col., you've never danced Money Musk 

 If you havn't, you don't know what good dancing 

 is, that's all. There's no other figure that I 

 heard on that begins to hove the real old-fashioned 

 dancing in that this has, nor ono that yon 

 show off in, if you've got the steps, like it. 

 sometimes thought it was a goad deal like the 

 world generally, for you dance with your pan 



me, but you balance to other people's parti 



Well, the weddings are over, and I go about 

 chores just as usual ; but the remembrance of the 

 kind of green spot of pinks 

 and violets on a dry knoll. 



I don't think I shall erer hove any thing more to 

 rile about. Col., though Sinrn writes to me that 

 ;'d want me to help him lobby or he won't get 

 c law for the bridge over tbe Toe-muddy. If I 

 i perhaps I'll write tu you again. 



Yours, to command. 



"BOUGH, BUT HONEST." 



Puruai's so. Such persons have existed, beyond 

 question. The fallacy lies in the implication that 

 roughness and honesty are naturally twinned ; the 

 often that they are not in 

 the least related. Good manners and good morals 

 found in company than rudeness and 



g iness. Genuine kindness of heart rarely fails 



ice gentle words and tv benignant counte- 

 Coarse manners ore cither tho result of i\ 

 uture, or are assumed on the strength of 

 the "rough-but-honeat proverb, to get credit 

 ith shallow observers for a sincerity that does 

 ot exist. Shokspeare, who knew a thing oi two 

 about human nature, was not deceived by pretexts 

 Us portrait of one of these 



humbug* : 



THE EVENING- AND THE MORNING. 



I*h lingered among Uie . 

 i with i golden gleam, 



MB tee f.llins ,n.nr. 



d-watch a •plrrt of tight 



■d down and beckoned mi 

 at 1 was going home. 

 alng broke— tneglortonti 



That stretch D 



Human nature has not greatly changed llnoe. 



he time of the great poet. The old tricks are all 

 n vogue, and make, perhaps, us many dupes as 

 iver. Your genuine "blunt-nnd-houejt " fellow 

 sat least tolerable; but the imitator is the most 

 disagreeable of all the impo»torseitant, Luckily, 

 iurc to show hi* real cbarocter al a pretty 

 early day, and is branded thenceforth "rough and 

 iMaIJhr."-~iZ 



Camca are a kind of freebooters in the republic 



, like deer, goats, and divers other 



graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorg- 



! and leaves of the young aurubs of 



i.' them of their verdure, 



and retarding their progress to moturit v. Wathr 



infton Irviny. ' 



TnEns: is something in the passing of a fuueral 

 procession which appeals to tl.e heart with won- 

 derful power. A soul has departed from among 

 the living, and we are now rendering the lost 

 tribute we can ever give. First comes the slowly 

 moving hearse, shrouded iu black, symbolical of 

 the darkness within. Closely following are weep- 

 ing friends, attending to its lasting place, that 

 loved form which, a short time ago, was animate 

 with life nnd health, aud spake loving words, but 

 now, cold and silent in the embrace of Death. — 

 Then come friends and neighbors, to pay their last 

 respects to the departed, and witness his consign- 

 ment to ths narrow tomb. Il is wonderfully touch- 

 ing. That mortal will never walk this beautiful 

 earth again. He has had but one short lite to live 

 and that is done Now he has put on immortality. 

 The realities of eternity he now knows, while wo 

 have them yet to learn. Thou following train, ho 

 goes before theo to tbe everlasting habitations, and 

 unto thee also is Ihe decree, " Dust thou art, and 

 unto dust shall thou return," Jam. 0, H, 



TEitrTATios Universal.— In no scene of earth, 

 in no condition, arc we exempt from tho incursions 

 of temptation. If we flee to the desert, and brook 

 not the sight of our fellow-creature's face, we bear 



bar out the indwelling evil spirit. Thogratingsof 

 the monastery cannot exclude the wings of tbo 

 fallen seraph, nor solitude sanctify the unregenc- 

 rate heart. In the garden or the grove, tho palace 

 or the hermitage, the crowded city or tbe howling 

 wilderness, sin tracks us, und self haunts us. If 

 the poor is tempted to envy and dishonesty, tho 

 rich, asAgur testified, is equally endangered by 

 pride and luxury. If the man with ten talents is 

 puffed up with self-confidence, ond arrogant im- 

 piety, the man of one talent is prone to bury 

 slothfully the portion intrusted to him in the earth, 

 and then to quarrel with its Holy Giver. 



The great adversary has in every scene his 

 snares, nnd varies bis bait for every variety of 

 condition and character. Each roan and child of 

 us has his easily besetting sin. The rash and the 

 cautious, the young and the old, the rude and tbe 

 educated, the visitant ol the sanctuary, and the 

 open neglecter of it, the profane and the devout, 

 the lover of solitude and the lover of society, all 

 have their snares. 



UKPH Oveb Evil.— We are rewarded for 

 triumph we make over temptation. I will 

 suppose there are many who have struggled 

 against the vanity of vain pleasures; many who 

 have put down evil thoughts with a strong will ; 

 many who, after a long, and it may be an uncor- 

 ■■■■■> ; ih the seductions of tbe world, have 

 at length triumphed, I will put it to them wheth- 

 er, when they have combatted nnd so prevailed 

 against the evil, and their heart- have not softened 

 and melted within them, whether they have felt 

 within their bosoms n seraphic inlluencof No 



r shall they have driven from them the 

 demon of pride, of vanity, of auger— no sooner 

 ishall the devil have left them, than angels will 



and minister unto Qiem.—Jtrrold, 



Tub Bii 



M - 



Out of i 



moriililic- 







charities. 



It Ii 





generation 



ani 



reform a 



! ill tbe pan 



sprung all sweet 

 ive power of re- 

 millions of men, 

 t bos comforted tho humble, consoled tbe mourn- 

 ng, sustained the suffering, and given trust and 

 rinmpb to the dying. Tbe wise old man has 

 illen asleep with il folded upon his breast. The 

 implc cottager has used it for a dying pill"* ; 

 nd even tbo innocent child has breathed his last 

 sppy sigh with his fingers between Us promise- 

 freighted leaves 



CaiUrus Tbavelbr.— Each Irue Chri^ti in is a 

 ight traveler; his life, his walk— Christ his wuy— 

 and Heaven his home. His walk painful, his way 

 perfect, his home pleasing. I will not loiter, lest I 



short of borne ; I will not wander, lest I a 



wide of home, but he content to travel hard and bo 



re I walk right, so shall mysafe way find its end 



home, and my painful wolk my home welcome 



■ 



Dmlv Ba**D. — Thai bread which uonrishetb t 

 Bj who bos lost bis appetite, i 

 tainly sick ; so is the soul that desireth i 



in th from God. We receive grace 

 in the same degree as we deal] 



52SS 



