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MOOHE'S RtfKAL KEW-YORKER. 



, Aunt, Urs. B>0«Va childr* 



SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. 





' No, and for the situ 

 l o bit like yon. Itii 

 fault, b it jo! 



reason their mother is 

 : your children who ore 

 . 

 How da your children koo* what is 

 best for them to b*ve or to do r Krey are placed 

 in your care, and under jour guidance, end should 

 be Uoght to snbmil la 



i tan them off 

 seek amusement, and scarcely kaoil 

 ■re, or wbetii 



leave everything where they cio get it, and allot* 

 Ibem to de-toy It, and exclaim, *' Sfl 



how astonished I am!" Ac , and that 

 ia the end of iL Fa.snt. there is do Deed ol 

 mischievous children. It t» because they a 

 governed, out ft ia the n< 



habits of di'ordcr, od8 the heedless example j. 

 day, Tike the ndaiouiti 



. :,ip. find r-fi ynijrseli nnd etuldrei: 



And Aant folded her knitting, and left Fanny 

 phew (be bHttrcOt Of IDoTtiB 6 'Tide and vonit 

 May she profit thereby. QtnRCBT. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



Than gut on tin 



Tbe bcirt-biiiMl* a 

 Go to tbo»o gffttM 



Qo wlum (ha wsrii 



i the 



light Of B 



All •<■,( 



i lonely nnd desolate □ 



MANAGEMENT OF CHTLDEEN, 

 • glad you t 



"0, Al'NT POI 



I was just going 

 needle, hut now you can lei 

 "No, i >»., I baren't ,, 

 only brought my knitting 

 But how li | 



"0, the aamo old atory, 

 little witch, has curried tbt 



suppose. I nevcrdid see such troublesome children 

 as mine are! I declare, I can hardly keep a thing 

 in my house. You can't imagine what a sight of 

 trouble I hove with them. Yesterday, when Ei 

 wiu got hurt, and won faint, I ran for the can 

 phor, and don't you tbink, they bad filled it with 



itide of Saturday. Tbo mellow 

 t sunset had slowly climbed tbe 

 left the frowning forests it for a 

 iih iis smiles in deeper gloom. 

 it hushed, for the calla of a lonely 

 robin, pining for its mate, issued from amid the 

 sighing branches of the old elm, and crickets In the 

 long grass chirped a requiem o'er tbe expiring 

 aeaaoD. Yes, summer was dying, and with it much 

 that was bright, beautiful and good. Hope-flow- 

 ere that bloomed id the summer of the heart, were 

 withering 'nenth the blast of the soul's approach- 

 ing Autumn, — lores that for a long time had 

 cheered our pathway, wero with it finding their 

 grave,— and the fading lenves upon earth's bosom 

 d tbe forms of many we hod loved, nnd wore 

 o nestle above one who bad been so long and 

 kindly spared, that we forgot she was Heaven'] 



Tbo mild eyes that had 

 beamed with looks of kindly love were turned 

 towards the open door with one Inst, eager glance, 

 aa though her soul went out to meet absent ones ; 

 and a? aha quaffed ihe bitter cup of " hope defer- 

 red," they were gently closed, like a flower thai 

 sloeps at even. Loving, faithful hearts were near, 

 weeping that ono so good must die, and as they 

 leaned to catch the last sweet whispered words, 

 "peace, peace,"— her spirit passed o'er the dark 

 stream to o home of eternal peace beyond. 



'Twos Sabbath eve. O'er the little village, nes- 

 tled amid the green hills which she was wont to 

 coll "home," tbe solemn stillness of that holy 

 hour prevailed. The ewcel tones of Sabbath even- 

 ing bells rong on tbe clear night air, calling the 

 nutot villagers to tbo hoose of prayer, when 'twas 



hispered "«£■ ia dead." and with pallid lips and 



pbjnplay, 

 • inv.lt bj night thon by day ; 

 loogbt while her pais face I 



few | 



> of < 



1 mo one of yours." 

 r needle book ; I have 

 i sit with you awhile, 

 are out of needles, 



ff, and lost them, I 



ad l l 



> go I 



. Hhdhs fur h 



and they fill my vinegar cruises with water, and I 



can't begin to tell you all the pranka they 



Do Ml mo, Aunt, now you have raised a large 



yonllvor" 



'■W.ll, Fakkv, [will tell you. I bavo,u*yoe 



r^j.muly. „nd am getting old, and 



shell uselheprivilogeorogc to talk plninlyto you.' 



Here, Jamks, 



Of them 



"Wait 

 dear, what hat beet 

 you mischief, where a 



" Why Ma, FlLUfCIS had them dow: 



•Of all the world! Go call her. J 



"She aint there nt 



•■ Well, ben, my 

 BltOwY, mill iLik her 



o the barn.' 



Ma-she'a gone way off." 



ghj -mil sii,' nronld't 



"O.Mo, Idoo'l 



rou again." 

 "Well, go nlong with you, to your ploy. Did 

 youcver, Auiu! Would'nt lend them tome agaiu 1 

 1 declare!'' 



bwHr&BBOWH any children:" 

 "Dear, yea— holfadoieu." 



tint send here to borrow needles, 



-nd for a very good.reasou ; she baa 

 • greot abundance of everything, and Mr. Blown 

 is able to fa»B her well supplied." 



' Wy get their me*in. P«ST? Was 

 Mr. Brawl any better off than ,our husband, 

 when they started for it.-, , 



always hod good luck, while it really seems we 



UpUia e U0ugu You will 

 always have bad luck, and will , 



independence, unless j^ ^, cr J 

 way rr/y » 



■ ■ ■■ 

 what would become of tha world if all women were 



that wept, the 

 Sanctuary and repaired to her cottage hi 

 There were tho mourner* that leaned o'er tl 

 raw coffin for a lost look at the sleeping "Mother 

 in Israel." Their grief was great, but how doubly 

 painful to bear, for not having been permitted to 

 close thoso loving eyes in their dreamless sleep, 

 short time previous she bad left them in 

 apparent health, and far from home, — not amid 

 strangers, however, for none could meet her witb- 

 iving, but denied the nearer and more dovoted 

 who lovo only ns lifelong companions can 

 lore,— with the harvest of life past and its summer 

 ended, like a "shock of corn fully ripe," she 

 was gathered home. Weeping mouruer, weep no 

 longer 1 Though boit 

 the tomb, beyond, all i 

 of her peaceful life, a 

 future, comes the sw< 

 "Be ye also faithful." 



Tusr who*e perceptions of tbe poetical in tho 

 etill lire of a winter landscape have never led 

 to observe how much more interesting and 

 live an object is o brown, leafless tree, with 

 r more birds'-neats resting on or hanging 

 from its branches, than another destitute of such 

 nmeEt, must havo overlooked or nnderlooked 

 >ry charming feature of winter scenery. The 

 .Ith of bird architecture that only winter dis- 

 es to v-iew, as if in compensation for the 

 porary absence of the foliage that makes the 

 distinguishing glory of trees in summer consti- 

 to an eye oppreciotive of the lesser, mors 

 te troita of natural scenery, an important 

 it of the beauty for which wo are indebted 

 season of frost and snow. Especially as a 

 source of quiet, refined enjoyment, in o pleasant 

 winter ride over a road lined with orchards, fruit 

 gardens, and frequent forest tree?, tbe birds'-nesU 

 scattered, generally with sparing band, amont 

 the branches, are of infinite worth; and a habi 

 of looking for them, observing their peculiaritiei 

 of form nnd position, tbo case and security will 

 which tbey rest in the chosen places, and specu- 

 lating on, if unable to decide, to what species ol 

 the feathered tribe tbe different patterns ond size; 

 of nests belong, is well worth cultivating for tbe 

 constant pleasure and amusement it affords tfa. 

 traveler. 



Many pleasant fancies arise in one's mind a 

 sight of thoso pretty summer-houses of tbe birds 

 easy to imagine that the trees, whose arm 

 they grace, put them on for the sake of decoration 



Tn„ 



h Of G 



tbe at range 



nhern birds, lh ongh |„ 

 or every gradation of size, from tne BVByntUTolj 

 rude Rraotaraa of the Hawk ond Crow dow u to 

 tbe Humming Bird's mite or a bouse, do not 

 present tbe remarkable varieties of style that wc 

 find, especially in tropjool OOOutrie*, where birds 

 ■■*<""« every artifice to deceit their 

 rapacious enemies What 



bouse, would be a well-prevrved specimen of Tho 

 Tailor Bird'a craft— or tbe bottle-shaped ncit of 

 the Titmouse— or the long, purse-like contrivance 

 or the Loria Bengaleosis — or a cluster of the 

 or others 



description. A collection or neb 



would be a valuable possession indeed, whether 



to the resident of town or country ; and doubtless 



recs andabrubs of 

 -ing them in our 1 

 r better advantage where the 

 wklng froi 



.in-mc, 



ity favors the idea—and i 

 oed with m unusual rich 

 jewels, what more natu 



' endows the portals of 

 light, o 



i tbe t 



It is P l, 



CONSTANCY OF WOMAN, 

 template female e 



cellei 



* lie hen™ 



The heart of 

 of the noble 

 quiet goodness — as he marks her conjugol dcTO 

 tion, her fidelity, her firmness of principle, thi 

 thousand little tendernesses clinging around bet 

 heart animating her to please by nil the winning 

 graces and attractions that can fix affection; 

 relaxing after marriage in the cultivation of I 

 powers which first commanded admiration, 



he bos secured her victory. He loves and 







i of her nature. But if captivating i 

 rrcahness and poetry of her early feelings, when 

 the fragrance of her own spirit falls on everything 

 like dew, how much higher does she erect herself 



^ lien tbe hour of trial comes— w 

 idversity overtake? those >1. . 

 |icnl to her sympathies is tho strongest that 

 be made, because it comes through tbe chunn 

 affections? See what a power of endurance 

 ■'^ liibit 9— what fortitude, what energy. Quali- 

 which, umid the sunshine of prosperity, lay 



I Mill. 



ocall 



them forth, now ai 



iving influanoea which ire may iu 

 and friendly beacon would hive upon the sinking 

 heart of the shipwrecked mariner. Difficulties] 

 which crash lb. B fl subdue his 



.trcngth to the 



her with a courage that seems to increase propor- 

 ly to its demand. With a lalf-nutaijiiDfl 

 lion of grief m 

 vn bcarl, and, mused b) her 

 slancy, she turns to her partial, dow dearer than 

 rfrom the touch of niisl'artune, to console, to 

 ign influence 

 upon his existence — causing him to feel, amid all 

 his misery, that happiness still remains for him 

 while blessed with the affection of such a friend 

 inistra.nl. Labor, however rude, cannot de- 

 grade him whili bj the esteem 

 heart so noble and so tree. L s. B, 



profusiou of those jewels, what more naturol thai 

 ; down that one as king, queen, or other 

 personage of royal rank? Or, the location of a 

 nest may furnish on indf x to the character of the 

 proprietor and late occupant. If placed among 

 the topmost branches or a lofty tree, high above 

 the homes of other birds, the builder was a bold 

 ambitious spirit; if remote Irom the habitations 

 of its kind, it wns tbo abode of a grand, solitary 

 nature, careless of tho small chatter of social life ; 

 if in near neighborhood with tho dwellings of 

 other birds, odc can fancy the pretty, gossiping 

 visits the tiny matrons paid each other, to talk of 

 their house-keeping cares and their little 

 and if ono or theso cunning little architects has 

 hid its houso in tbe bush close under the window, 



some other secluded nook of man's habitation wo 

 imagine it cbosc tbat spot for the opportunity it 

 gave of observing the ways of human, domestio 

 life; and we trust that if the wee mansion was 

 discovered before it was abandoned by its owner, 

 the tenant's curiosity was not punished nor its 

 ehy confidence abused. Dot there is no noed of 

 d of imagination to invest these 

 res with poetic interest. Fiction 

 our admiration of such moster- 

 and ingenuity, nor can it odd 

 omonce of the actual lives of the 

 istructcd them. Coming among 

 *, with voices full of the sunshine 

 commonest materials 



tbe sake or bi 

 thoy show to f 

 placed them; 



ties of Brown Birds, the little Yellow Bi 



tbat we contributed candle wick for, and which, 



when finished, was as whito outside 



ball, (we mean to furnish colored ma 



summer,) the hollow branch or a tr 



Blue Bird inhabited, ond tbe deep, 



pouch-like nest or the Oriole. But if 



the city, and were privileged to spend Ihe 



months of tbe year in the green country, 



should certainly carry bock, as a memorial of 



summer visit, at least one bird's-nest, with the 



bough the bird fastened it to; and we doubt i 



it would tell as sweetly and as faithfully of 



native home as tbe shell 6ings or the sea. 



and or our very being. Change and ex- 

 change but fill up the measure or our existence. 

 The seasons change ; tho times and tbe men chonge. 

 The mind changes— our likes ond dislikes change. 

 Our years change, and tbe events that mark them 

 change— at times so forcibly, bo mighty in their 

 effects upon ourselves. Sudden changes are noted 



ting— ever unsatisfied— like a troubled ocean tbo 

 mass of mankind are in constant commotion.— 

 There is an ever-restless longing for something 

 yet in tho shadowy future, intangible, indefinite, 

 and dim to our own imagination. A wish, an if, 

 a hope operates strongly on our action, and con- 

 tributes mach to the purpose of our conduct. We 

 cannot know the future.and bow fur tbo principles 

 nts of to-day shall be changed 



Tin 



BIYINE ENTHUSIASM. 

 ) many ministers, good, cor 



roithful, ond who do a ccr.a.n amount of R0 „d in 

 keeping up tho forms of religion in tbeir vanity, 

 who yet very seldom moke any very deep and defi- 

 nite mark on any soul. There ore conversions, nnd 

 sometimes even revivals, tinder their ministry, but 

 they teem to come more from tbe native yearning 

 and upheaving of souls feeling after Cod, than from 

 any impulse given by them. Tho most that can be 

 said of them is, that thoy do not hinder, and often 

 have skill to guide these aspirations Godward. 

 Many a poor weaver or tinker, in the days of tbe 



up an 



; 11, .11 





and conflic 



rill, i 



soft 



equally true in the revolution of years. Though 



who comes after us may con strange and con- 



ldictory pages in the history of our lives, those 



it follow him may read equally forcible contrasts 



d inconsistencies in the records of his existence, 



liloeome of our more palpable errors are ovoided. 



ght changes to weakness, power to dependence, 



fame, honor and position, to obscurity and obli 



Respect, confidence and frankness, change to 



"sguBt, suspicion, caution and deception. 



Our days chnoge to nights — our life to dei 



w. we .-»>, if this divine enthusiasm wrought 



ith uneducated men- if it mado the common 



share oud scythe-blade in their tm.killetl 



bands a mighty weapon — what would it do, might 



equal power in the breast of skilled and 



cultured ones— if it guided tho uso of polished 



spears nnd well-tempered swords? 



Now, we do not disparage in tho least tho diill 



nd culture or theological seminaries — the mental 



igor produced by that kind of othlctio Iroining 



'hich is given in theological dialcote. So much 



io more as a man eon muko of himself physically, 



lentally or morally, so much the more has he to 



ive to Christ ; but when all is done, of what nse 



i it if be lacks inspiration * An oltur candle may 



be mado of Ihe purest wax, in tbo straightest 



orthodox wick, and put into 



cry oppropri 



. but 



> the i 



) if it t 



c do: 



-Let t 





li.-aoLilnl ■■ 



early spring 

 of Southern skies 

 they fabricate net 





their absen 



till, 





perhaps their boat-like bodies have skimmed 

 through thousands of miles of tbe groat upper 

 eea, we suddenly find ourselves wondering that 

 we had not missed them before. 



Specimens or nil the attoinnhle varieties of 

 birds'-nests would form a mOBt curious and inter- 

 esting collection. Even children manifest more 

 wonder and admiration on being shown one of 

 these beautiful pieces of workmanship, than at 

 si^ht of the prettiest shell, notwithstanding shells 

 have the high ndrantages of color and polish. 

 Perhspg Ihe nest engages our deeper attention as 

 the habitation of a creature which owes its home 

 to its own consummate skill and untiring industry, 

 while the formation, and in great ptftthfl M0D.01 



Of the shell, ore mysicn 

 perhaps" a considereble share of our interest 

 [n the air is due to our i 

 Lance n ith builder, and 



arer relationship its circumstances of living 

 r a m to establish 

 ■ we admire 



the exquisite art displayed bj '" r,Js >n the con- 

 struction of tbeir nests, wo greatly undervalue 

 worth of these nests in tbe ornamentation of 

 dwellings. Nearly every houso in city or 

 country boast* its little cabinet or shells, rare 



bird's-neat! Sailors, bound on distant voyages, 

 ore commissioned by their frUadJ with innumera- 

 ble little errand, rdating to the procurement of 

 curious trifles in foreign Ujuli; hut bow rarely ' 



Prom joyous childhood to we 



rv, weak old iige, 



Our life is a series of changes. 



Change is written 



d imperishable characters oc 



oss the horizon of 



our life; inscribed on all sublu 



ary things unmis- 



akable, unavoidable. Let ua s 



nve, oh, earnestly, 



hat of ourselves tbey be not re 



orded changes for 





BUI BrJBDOOS. 



Barry, N.Y..1S80. 





Lovb or Co o xt ur.— There is o love or country 

 which comes uncalled for, one knows not how. It 

 cornea in with the very air, the eye, tbe ear ; the 

 instincts, tbe first taste of mother's milk, the first 

 beatings of the heart. Tho faces of brothers and 

 sisters, and the loved father and mother,— the 

 laugh of playmates, tbe old willow tree, and well, 

 and school-house, the bees at work in tbe spring, 

 tbo note of tho robin at eveniDg, tbo lullaby, tbo 

 cows coming home, tbe sing ing- book, tbe catechism, 

 tbo visits of noighbors, the general training, — all 

 things which muke childhood happy, begin; and 

 then Ibe age of tbo passions and the age of the 



and security of property under law, comes to 

 life;— and as the atory goes round, and as tho 

 book or tbe newspaper relates the less favored 

 lots of other lands, and the public and the private. 

 seosc of a man is forming and formed, there is a 

 typo of patriotism already. Thus they bad imbibed 

 o stood tbat charge at Concord, and they 

 brew up the hasty and imperfect redoubt on 

 ?r Hill by night, Ml oil it (be blood-red 

 icial flag, and passed So calmly wllhPrewOtl 

 uiuam mid Wwitu through the experience 

 Oral fire.— Rufut ChoaU. 





f Cod's faithful and tender care dm 

 3 of our lives, that tbey may c 

 aid to our fuitb and hope in tho last great Ci 

 let us carerully consider tbo examples or 

 whose happy death we witness, or or wh 

 read, or bear, to allay our fears 

 lu'nrt; . let us prepare daily for 

 son by faith and repentance, e 

 ottention to the duties of our stations ; and let us 

 watch and pruy against anxious and distressing 

 fears. The Lord will provide for our passage 

 over this Jordan when the time comes; yea, lie 

 will como and meet u», and by His unimatiog 

 faith and hope, till wojolo 



gn-,,1 [Mir 



tbo innumerable multitudo 



above are singing the praises of their 



erer, who bath both redeemed them fri 



than Egyptian bondage, and brought tbem safo to 



tbe promised land through His precious blood, 



and by His all-conquering <UBL-~8eoli, 



The Divivk Mkhci .— However old, plain, deso- 

 late, bumble, affiliated wo may be, so long as our 

 hearts prcserso the feeblest spark of life, they 

 preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a 

 starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and 

 affection. To this attenuated spectre, perhaps, a 

 crumb is not thrown once o year; but when 

 (hungered and uthirst to famine— when all human- 

 ly has forgotten the dying tenant of a decoying 

 louse — Divine mercy remembers tho mourner, 

 ind a shower of iiiumia falls for lips thai earthly 

 lutriment is to pass no more. Biblical promises, 

 heard first in bealtli, but then unheeded, como 

 whispering to the couch of sickness; it is felt that 

 pitying God watches what all mankind have lor- 

 saken; tbe tender compassion of Jesus is recalled 

 and relied on; tbe fading eye, gu/ingbeyond time, 

 sees a home, a friend, u refuge in eternity.— Char- 



-Th» 



■ ;■!>■ in the I 



lination to goodm 



l towards r 



insomuch 

 t will take unto 

 D in the Turks 

 , who nevertheless orekind to beasts, 

 Um to dogs and birds — insomuch, os 

 ■;..r[ttii, a Cbriaiiun buy in Constan- 

 tinople bad like to have been stoned for gagging, 

 eu, a long-billed fowl . — / 



tbem into nourishnici 

 of folios, tbey may h 



■ 



,• hecatombs 

 Dkju before; 



..to to Young 

 Preachers wns not to preach over thirty minutes, 

 aaying,— " There are no conversions after the first 

 half hour." V. opinion, ond 



soid, in O&e ol ... then, or tbe 



preachers exceed their lime (about tmi 

 whole service,; I hope you will always put theffl in 

 mind what is Hit afethodhrt rule. PeO] 



thfl more good it will do. 

 This a grand i. . 



All loca -Venn."— Why wan U- 



, tl„- hungry 

 " the brei I 



II by was tho 

 of 1'eoce" m trouble, but tbat the 

 bni the Image 

 of God could i 



old bring tbe God of 

 u iinners.— OU 





i chain by which society If 



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