©ORE'S &OTAL KEW-Y03&K3E&. 



a steady employment, Jou 



Johb looked bo indigo 

 bad I been a Romanist, I should have devoutly 

 " crossed" myself. 



"Is it I, ma'am? Bless your soul I and isn't 

 eeks I am after going on without ary 

 stroke of work I" 



" Very bad, indeed. How do you find enough 

 to fill those six little mouths:'" 



They weren't such very little mouths either 





That should whlspei 



Wi MOTHER. 



What pleasing yet hallow 

 around the name of Mother! What long pent-up 

 fountains burst Wlh as memory takes us by the 

 hand aud leads us far buck through the mazy 

 labyrinths oFthe Past, when blessed with the lore, 

 guidance and admonitions of that pure spirit 

 whom Heaven destined us to call Mother. A 

 mother's love,— how pure, bow devoted. Tbesun- 

 shine of prosperity and the dark storms of adver- 

 sity, alike fail to quench the flame which Mont- 

 gomery has most beautifully described. 





N»r ihnnipli ■ 



a Mother's Love, 

 Kind reader, has thou been bereft of such a 

 treasure? Hast thou been called to take the last 

 lingering look upon her who was dearest to thee 

 of earth, and whose latest breath, perchance, was 

 spent in prajer for her child? As her cold and 

 lifeless remains were consigned to the "narrow 

 bouse," to be forever hid from tby longing gaze, 

 did not the consciousness that tbou wert indeed 



"on. we gels a 





When we has anything 



we don't, we goes without, Sorra abilhave I put 



Mr. B. "fares sumptuously every day;" to be 

 sure he asks a blessing upon his food before eating 

 it— because it's the fashion— but he growls between 

 every mouthful. Grumbling is very bad for diges- 

 tion, Mr. B —if you don't believe it, ask some M. 

 D. The meal concluded, Mr. B. " returns tbaoks" 

 — because it is the fashion, also — but be does it in 

 a manner that says very plainly, " Thank you for 

 nothing I Didn't I get all this myself?" 



" I am afraid you will all starve to death yet 



Very consoling, wasn't it* 

 "No foar of it, ma'am. Doesn't the Big Book 

 say a 'continted mind is a continual feost?' No 

 fear of us starving as long as that's true." 



There was such a look of content in his poverty, 

 and of faith in the "Big Book" upon John's 

 homely face, (it seemed beautiful then,) that I 

 involuntarily thought of Elijah's beiug fed by 

 is, and wondered if John's bodily wants were 

 upplied in some such way. At any rate, I 

 ure that Goo's angels visited that poor hovel, 

 and I tell you truly, I bad sooner be Joiin— with 

 his poverty, six children, and "a' that "—together 

 contented miud— than Mr. B. with his 

 his little, dried-up soul, and his cold, 

 bard heart. John is the richer of the two. 



STRIVE WAIT . 



* w t>n In- 



r repay your pleading, 



. COUNTRY COTTAGE. 



with the 



deepest philosophy, there 





OTever mighty, which it c» 



tttm ove 



r, culling the lightest and 



perceive 



truths, as a henlihr.il ■ 





a for the mind. W. J 



Bwilcl 



a, St. T., IBM. 



MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. 



odle< 



uhed 



But yesterday." 



It was swept by tk'Hful fingers and gave forth 



wild grandeur and sublimity, uow falling 



soft cadences,— as though so 



gently breathed over its m 



enchanted at the melody its footsteps called forth 



still lingered at the play; or, as if telling earth'; 



children some sweet, bewildering dream of the 



lor-off laud and its spirit inhabitants, who, clothed 



; stray sepbyr bad 



their Giihk'n ( 



n&Uj i 



THE TYRANNY OF FEMALE "HELP." 



i conquered people," ;uid Wi.-lnn- 



.-feri 







mother,— what a thought.) If j 



whelm thee? 



thou hoi 



>:iitji!-o with a kindred s 



(N, 



Well might angels with unrullled pinions hoi 

 round a heart thus rudely shattered. 



Methinks, while gazing upward to Heave 

 blue vault, that wore the starry veil thrown asu 

 I should see the same familiar face, (save it wi 

 illuminated by the glory which procecdeth from 

 the Throne,) while the 

 wonted love and tenderness, seemed silently to 

 speak of that heaven which is now htr home; 

 that if faithful in striving to escape the pollu 

 of earth, I too might share in the glories revealed 

 in His kingdom, and enjoy ber society withoul 

 interruption through the vast cycles of Eternity 

 will lessen the affec 

 at it will almost 01 

 nee from the heart, 



Some have s 

 tion for departed trie 

 wholly effaco their rei 

 Such experience 





,11, ^.T ' 



i of o 



Though 



ml orr 





■1iL-ll ll.'l.'k 





ussed inlo oblivion's 

 her and other "loved 

 »h, yet bow distinctly 

 sac-h tone. 'Tisallin 



oft clasp of the baud 



fancy that we again feel tbe 

 and the good-night kiss as 

 ago." We wake from the dream only to find it un 

 illusion, yet we are consoled by tbe recollection 

 that these beert-gems are sacredly treasured in 

 Memory's casket. Do we not feel their loss as 

 keenly now as then ? Ab, yes ! Though we have 

 appeared to the world, while mingling in its socie- 

 ty, to have forgotten the past and its mournful 

 associations, yet hod they been gifted with the 

 powers of divination, they would have seen it was 

 "but a name,"— that mirth would gratefully have 

 given place to tears. They saw not the sorrow 

 lurking within the secret borders of the soul. We 

 have sadly proved the impossibility of contact 

 with the world repairing the breach which the icy 

 jers of 1)^, playing among the heart-strings 

 «ve caused, and as years are 



• sensible are we or the irre- 



• sustained. There is indeed 



l)f Uiu.r «,. luv,,,!, 



parable loss which v, 



Our friends, where arc tbey V They are not 

 With us now No. they have B of c | y passed over 

 the River. But we would not murmur- 

 Fother thought it best. Be saw that huds so del'i- 

 ■ately formed if lelt to the cold, bligbimg i flu- 

 s of earth, would wither and die, bo he kindly 



iquisbed reach our 

 rs continually. A writer in the Peith Amboy 

 mrnal recommends that lady housekeepers make 

 strike; or, if that cannot be done, (as it cer- 

 tainly cannot,} that tbe young ladies of a family- 

 be less dependent upon servant labor. "I believe 

 physical labor," says tbe writer, " to be as neces- 

 ilopment of human intellect a3 

 rating the soil is to perfect tbe 

 mny, where, certainly, intellect 

 and literary acquirements are pre-eminent, the 

 ipend the early part 

 of each day in their kitchens, which are fitted up 

 order and elegance, so 

 that they can allow a friend to see tbem so oocu- 

 In France, every lady understands the 

 mysteries of the cuisine, and with a small furnace 

 filled with charcoal, a frying-pan, and a skillet, 

 will perform miracles of cooking. 



In England, the servants are kept for years ; a 

 good servant considers her interest identified with 

 that of the family with whom she resides, and 

 seldom changes; this promotes an attachment 

 between them, which is frequently preserved for 

 generations, and il.e families of I he same domestics 



, for s. 



.■itb 1 



How | 



1th tbe United States? The youDg 

 inuies are most generally brought ftp with no cul- 

 ture. Their habits are indolent, as regards bodily 

 exertion, and they think makiDg any exertion 

 degrading. This being the case, they are tt 

 completely in the power of a class who are a 1 

 promoted to the office of regulators and arbiters 

 at home.— Selected. 



THE AKT OF CONVERSATION. 



Toe art of maintaining natural and easy conver- 

 sation, demands a celerity of thought not required 

 in any other attempt to communicate ideas. The 

 conversationalist must be able to turn bis mind 

 quickly in ony direction, in order to adept his re- 

 marks to tbe varying topics of the moment. The 

 writer and orator are independent in the choice 

 and management of tbeir respective themes. They 

 cao deliberate, and they can follow out any line of 





u.J.r 



i for ( 



, the 



ng. He ci 



>urse of tl 



Lad: 



-The old f 



for decorating 

 lies' suppers cither by needlework, by figured 

 tterns on leather, or other material, or b 

 iertion of colored silk or satin, may be mate 

 proved upon by a method which permits of the 

 ;ces of colored satin to be changed as often as 

 D wearer desires, without in any way Injuring 

 e slipper. A little pocket may be made in the 

 upper port of the slipper, under the perforations 

 which place the piece of colored 





WI,,., 





i thai 



A Beahtifi-l Tnootiur.-B. F. Toylc 



r, of tbe 



liicii^i Journal 



paints the following 



bfiiuliliil 



iicturc of the li 



mes of the immortal 





'over the river:' 



— " There is a dignity 



bout that 



50ing away alon 



, we call dying, wrapping the 





lulity about us; that putting 



iside with a pule 



>and the azure curtain 





drawn about this 



cradle of a world ; tb 



t ventur- 



ng awoy from 1 



ome for the first tim 





ives, for we ore 



ot dead— there is nothing dead 



o speak of— and 



eeing foreign countrie 



s not laid 





we know about. Toer 





ovely lands som 



where starward, for 





return that go thi 



her, and we vcrv mue 



doubt if 



any would if they 



could." 





Els are like the beings that endure them — 



tbe little ones tbe most clamorous and noisy; 



those of older growth and greater magnitude, are 



generally tranquil— sometimes silent. Our minds 



like ill-hung vehicles; when they have little 



:orry they raise a prodigious clatter; when 



fily ladcued they neither creak nor rumble. 



the subject 



another mind jointly with his own, and the asso- 

 ciation oT ideas differs so widely, that the same re- 

 mark will ofien awaken very diverse troinsof tbo't 

 in different minds. Every turn in the talk is, 

 therefore, a leap in tbe dark, and it is tbe part of 

 the skillful colloquial always to strike on bis feet, 

 ready for another spring. 



is maintained must be 



and logical order of 

 thought which we expect in the elaborately pre- 

 essay or oration. It is true, also, that these 

 though often brilliant and showy, will not be 

 most profound or philosophic character, for 

 lod studied premeditation is wholly at war 

 the very nature of conversation, which cou- 

 ather in saying what wo are thinkiny than 

 what we are remembering. Nor is this so much to 

 be regretted. What is lost in profundity 

 n reguined in increased vivacity and i 

 There is a freshness about the new ide; 

 warm from tbe teeming brain, (sometimes 

 letting us nee the workings of the mind,] 

 gives a charm to natural conversation that far 

 surpasses even tbe most profound 

 ralely prepared beforehand in the study, and coldly 



To-day, I list if, perchance, I may catch some 

 low whisper, some faint breath; but alas! those 

 chords are broken, mute, speechless. Aye I thou 

 art the Music of Yesterday— tbon art buried in 

 tbe post. 



7'csterday the spirit'* barp may have caught 

 aome song of gladness, the chords of 

 may have been swept by some joy, am 

 touch flowed on free, free as oir, but buoyed up 

 higher and still higher, found oo rest, no founda- 

 tion for their gladsome harmonies, and sunk sadly, 

 wearily, heavily to earth. Ab ! it is a sight which 

 might e'eo make the dwellers 



the chords of the spirii 

 forever bushed. 



Obi Music of Yesterday, bright, joyous and 

 g'ad were the songs, the melodies tbou didst 

 weave for us; naught but happiness swept our 

 spirit-strings; and when eager bands, prompted 

 by eager hearts, were waiting, watching, readv to 

 grasp thee, tbou didst fade away into mist. The 

 strings of our spirit's harp were loosed, yea, 

 snapped, and buried was all onr joy in tbe Muniu 

 of Yesterday. No, not all our joy, for in the Para- 

 dise obove golden harps are swept, whoso chords 

 vibrate and re-vibrate as the ceaseless ages of 

 eternity roll onward. Addib E. Walkeh. 





f yon Golden City 



p were possible— to see 

 i harp severed, broken, 



THE STUDY OF NATURE, 



From a recent educational lecture by Hon. Geo. 

 J. EuEnsoy, we make the following extracts : 



Teachers are too much limited in their thoughts 

 o dry and abstract subjects. They need to spend 

 aore time in the study of Nature, examining the 

 aitses that give strength and vigor to tbe o 

 ?cll as vigor and spirit to man. Too little is done 



GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HLM. 



And why did the multitude thus follow Jesusr 

 Why did ibe expectant throng crowd tbe quiet 

 Bhores of Galilee, the streets of Jerusalem, and 



i i be 





e.lpU 



There it 

 >ith i 





ight upon 



Hearts. With sweetness, yet dignity, He spake 

 words they could not forget. Tbey turned away 

 trom the jeerings and mockings of the Poarisees 

 to hear tbe words of truth from Him who spako as 

 nerermao spake. Weare told in the Bible accouot 

 that tbey were "gathered together an innumera- 

 ble multitude of people, insomuch that thev trodo 

 one upon another." What compassion must hove 

 moved the heart of the Saviou when His eye 

 rested on tbe weary, eager throng. Soonest did 

 bis eye seek out the suffering ones, the downcast 



, the 





I blind. Be 



knew, 



a% what 



words to s 



eak, whether to 



reboJH 





urage; 



or He knet 

















forgot 



not to sa 



" Come u 



utomeallyetb 



■ i iboi 













How 



weaned 



must Jbsus hove been w 



th his 





For three years He 











villages o 



Galilee, Sima 





Juden, 





' bad not 



rbereto lay His 





Doubtless He n 



ight bare 



rested, if He w 



uld. ID 



igle with the lowly and the humble. He min- 

 gled freely with them, and gently did He bear with 

 and rudeness. Should not this be 



i danger of losi 



■ I be i 



«-H,-.V:al!< 

 I. for wan 



referred to of the training of the a 



The forest and gardens are tbe schools where 



e first lessons in beauty are to be learned ; tbey 



ay be given in tbe school room, or the parlor, oi 



by tbe way. Each mass of trees has its own ele 



of beauty, as distinct in its character a; 



that of different individuals. Color, form and 



conspire to add beauty to the for 



these in infinite variety are combined, us trees 



ped in larger or smaller numbers. 



..1.1 ha- 



;udy t 



; of I 



i tbe i: 



t of mind with mind,* 



ing the bright sparkles of fancy, and the br. 

 wit, (which seems to belong rather to the company 

 than to any particular im.livi'liial,) that gn 

 conversation its peculiar charm; and nothing is 

 more at war with ibll thau the long, premeditated 



speedie.-i \\ 



but deliv 



which g 



e persona are ever inte 

 id. Aud what is wors 

 t always, some particul 

 er thrusting before yo 

 .son, (most generally the 





) ofo 



Con' 



But why not study the originals? 



more beautiful, aod of a higher order 

 an anything to be seen in tbe forest or 

 pe. Childhood, in everything that 



guileless simplicity, its gentleness, ita bopeful- 

 js, its quickuess to enjoy the external about 

 n nil tbe shapes and forms of life! 



me has come when instruction should be 

 children to prepare them for the work they 



[■iiiuli!,--. 



Doubtle: 



tbe landsc 



The 



i the vM.rlil. ■ 



v.\.;\^ 



of those principles of science upon which 

 of farming, gardening and managing trees depend. 

 The better educated teachers should make a begin- 

 ning and set the example. Nothing so fully com- 

 bines oil tbe advantages of the exercise which 

 teachers need Id tbe open air, as tbe study ofsome 

 branch of botany. In concluding, the lecturer 

 urged upou teachers the motives they have to form 

 tbe higher spiritual natures of children. Tbey 

 should see that there is nothing iu their own char- 

 ngly have rcpro- 



,1,11 .-,1 l: 



Tub 



, fllAV.'I 



s fruit 



THE GREAT MYSTERY. 



heautiful passage is taken from 

 Timothy Titcomb's "Preaching* upon Popular 

 Proverbt," which the Springfield Republic 

 now giving to tbe world : 



" The body is to die ; so much is certain. What 

 lies beyond? No one who passes the charmed 

 boundory comes to tell. Tbe imagination 

 the realm of shadows — sent out from some wi 

 of tbe soul over life's restless waters— but 

 its way wearily buck with no olive leof in its 

 as a token of emerging life beyond the closely 

 bending hori/on. The great sun comes aod goes 

 in heoven, yet breathes no Becret of the etberial 

 wilderness. Tbe crescent moon cleaves her nigbtly 

 passage across tbe upper deep, but tosses over- 

 board no message and displnys no signals. Tbe 

 nel stars challenge each other as Uiey walk 

 nightly rounds, but we catch no syllable of 

 countersign which gives passage to the 





o His followers? 

 seeking exclusively the society of the refined 

 agreeable:* Or, if we allow ourselves to come in, 

 tactwitbthelowly.sballwedeemitacoodescena 

 orcountoursacrificesgreotinsodoing!' What, 

 plisbed, or w 



' adr 



.ay I, , 



of life, wo ore inliuitely bebiod tbe Savi 



R. Yet 



He laid aside His glory that we might oo 



[.Tub 



He was sctat naught by tbe world. Set at 





Who realizes what this is* It is to be 





by" by the rich and great, to meet the 





glance, to bear the contemptuous remar 





"rulers." All this Jbscs endured that 





save the world. 0, that such love mie 



hi ever 





3 dor 



nothing of what Jcscs endured from men, am 

 men, we hardly think it a wonder that the Dis 

 les once asked Him if they should commam 

 i from heaven to destroy His enemies. It i 

 11 to give beed to tbe meek reply Christ mode 

 en such feelings arise, — "Ye know not whs 

 nner of spirit yo are of." K . . 



CONFESSIONS OF INFIDELITY. 



"I seem," says Hume, "affrighted and con- 

 founded with the solitude in which I am placed by 

 my philosophy. When I look abroad, on every 

 side I see dispute, contradiction, distraction.— 

 Wben I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but 

 doubt and ignorance. Where ami? or what am 

 I? To what condition shall I return? I am con- 

 founded with questions. I begin to fancy mv.solf 

 most deplorable condition, environed with 

 darkness on every side." Voltaire soya; "Tbe 

 world abounds with wonders, and also with vic- 



In i 





. tli.ii 



all 



in fact, and ough 



intellectual exercise, and et-en when it develops 

 and presents new ideas, it is not tbe proper health- 

 ful food of the mind, but, rather, tbe dessert ol 

 tbe intellectual feast. 



It may be said that by allowing these premedi- 

 tated speeches in conversation, it would gain as 

 ih in weight and solidity of instruction, as it 

 Id lose in sprigblliness. Aye I it would gain 

 as your sparkling wines would gain by beiug 

 dosed with Muscovado sugar. They would be 

 er, thicker, alronger and heavier, but the 

 t sparkle in the cup would be gone forever. 



other extreme,— unfortunately so common 

 iversation,— of directing it almost wholly to 

 ivial and unimportant, is an equal misap- 

 prehension of ibj true nature. Conversation should 



consist wholly, or eveu chiefly, of chit-chat, I her lips, and bands folded over a triumphant ! beat 

 hat is known aa " small talk." For while it heart ; but her lips were past speech, and 

 )t develop tbe profoundest truths, or gropple I led nothing of the vision tbut enthralled hi 



her life there is a great gulf fixed, 

 either eye nor foot can travel. Tbe 

 gentle friend whose eyes we closed in their last 

 eep long years ago, died with rapture in her 



wonder-stricken eves, a smile of ineffable joy upon 



By his own heart, fie adds: "Man loves 

 life, yet he knows be must die; spends bis exist- 

 ice in diffusing the miseries be has suffered— 

 ilting the throats of his fellow-creatures for pay 

 cheating aod being cheated. Tbe bulk of man- 

 tid," he continues, "ore nothing more tbon a 

 owd of wretches, equally criminal, equally un- 

 fortunate. I wish I bad never been born." Hear 

 bat St. Paul says : " I have fought a good fight, 

 I have kept the faith. 



laid i 



for e 



i of 



iiMiI'juiw 



Judge, wi 



rig bit* 



ik SatnTDrtes— As the beauty of 

 t off by a graceful variety, so is it 

 •9. There are sublime truths tbat 



delight and satisfaction. No 

 his garden for having a shady t 

 be offeuded with I 

 that among so many fair and ope 

 and there meet with a tbicket 

 human reason cannot look thr 



The ball mi the emblem 



Tbe harder you 

 gher I shall bound toward 

 do but elevate and r 



ven and heavenly thing: 



