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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 



DEC. 18. 



pitas' fort- Jolic. 



WBAT DOEd TBE BABY THINK? 



f uip b**i war* H (all of Bisks, 



W*rp*d b; Mile. AOd "el bj lean, 

 Punctuinl by jilt*, and tAitund by f'ir< 



. pbl 



HOOPOLOOT, ONCE MOBS. 



K. 0. II . has been i 



portion of petty ed: 

 paiier',— if they nay t 

 OOXUfder tbe foolish 



i nis.ty looking to see it 

 i of tbffl world (which it 

 , aa h-gkly as E. C. H. 



I who have reached tbe 

 i, or writers for newe- 

 blag against what they 



No doaht, {jidglngl 





» Mat n. i 

 thus:— "But all their works l 

 r mm; they make broad tl.elr | 

 Blarge the borders of their gai 



u-i.t love the D 



the markets, aw 

 it mob oh-reoi 

 Mne-er, Beelnel 

 dtj ohtr.oten 



[kith, thin ol i 



fell<.« being*, bat we 



ign '." and suck a 



lift. «v aUo beltev. 



\ and greeting* In 

 i men Rabbi, BabbL" 

 id ahove, called the 

 i more likely latter- 



ildd rather be of tbe household of 

 e household of Utter-day fashions 

 cribhlers and street rowdies. Bat 

 •Ister E. C II distinctly ondonstand 



should like to know, for the 



sake of 







to be found, tli. ii Fpeak of be 









e of females? We have read 





no pb>alology and tbe Intra 



r health, 



failed to dhooTei one who 



minutes 



id which health depeuds than the; ure , 

 swi aud follies of mankind,— la tbe only r( 

 .!'!■' n.ud real causa of all the Ailments poor b 



Bat 



* hul-je. 



ady to admt that the woman 

 I* herwlf dowo with skirts sod qnllu to 

 tall appear larger than a ci mi' or table 

 lid, U precisely aa foolish as tbe one who 

 huopt and cntiulkoe for the nine purpose. 



pfit'iog nn of appareL' 

 ■bat ia good:— ■'Bullet 

 'be heart. i Q th , t wbll 

 ta not corruptible; even eh* c.T U , m , n t ^i a 

 and qnielapirlt, which in the »s gtlt oI CoD £ Q . 

 ■ 



But Pan. and Pstik sajfng a. thtn R i B ^ doea 

 oot prove it Troth was truth btfcre ^clr per- 



existence commenced on earth, arid all they 

 do wis to discover It But the great m we 

 nericau women we think (judging from their 

 actions) btltere there la no virion tube faund 

 anywhere except In fjllo-ing a MtUln bag, called 

 Custom— who i« more tyrannical t>ian Phabaoij 

 himself,— and the foundation on which she stands 

 la Mr. and Mr*. Ignoka>cs, the same weaknew and 

 imbecility on which all Tjraota depend for tbeir 

 po«er orer tbe children of men. So those woo 

 follow the unnecetaary fashions of the Nineteenth 

 Century show by their dress, plaiting of their hair, 

 and the g"ld tbey wtar, tbat they think more of 

 maklt g an appearance externally. iban they do of 

 cultivating their immortal mitd* with an eye 

 ■Ingle to the glory of God. and the everlasting 

 good aud happiness of mankind. 



Though tbr path la daik aa night , 



DUTIES AND PLEASURES OF WOMEN. 



Orbat indeed is the la-k asHgned to women, 

 fbo can exaggerate its importance? Not to make 

 iwe, not to govern empires, but to form thoBe by 

 how laws are made, armies led, and empires are 

 overned; to guard from the slightest taint of 

 ussiole iulii luity, the frail and yet spotless 





phyil 



irived from her; to inspii 

 mlcate those dootriiies, to animal 

 which generations yet nnbo 



pies, to inculcate those doctrines, to animate those 



itiona yet uncivilized, Bhall learn to bless; to 



ften firmness into mercy, to chasten honor into 



rtue; by ber soothing cares to allay the auguiBh 



the mind; by her tenderness to disarm passion; 



- her parity to triumph over sense; tooheerthe 



sobolar laboring nnder bis toil; to console the 



unfortbe ingratitude of a mistaken people; 



pensate for hopes that are blighted, fur the 



friends that are perhdious, for happiness that has 



passed away. Sach is her vocation — the conch of 



tortured Batterer, the cross of the neglected 



i.p'.ah 



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myriads, to remember; amid the execrations of 

 Ititndes, to bless; wben monarcba abandon, 

 when brethren and disciples fly, to remain un- 

 shaken and unchanged, and to exhibit in this 

 world a type of that love — pure, constant, 

 m il. iilc — which in another world, as we are 

 tanght to believe, is the best reward of virtue. 



Orobr in the Economy of tub Hot seuold. — 

 A woman should never allow hurry or bustle to be 

 the practice of tbe household, or nothing will be 

 well dune. It is hardly consistent with due house- 

 keeping competency lor any womaa to say that 

 she has not time to perform some important duty, 

 but which ia essential to limily thrift and comfort; 

 a proper arrangement and economy of time leaves 

 opportunity for all things needful. Economy is 

 an arrangement or order of things designed 

 produce a certain result; therefore, no economy 

 can be so important aa the economy of timi 

 minote'a reflection In tbe morning will enable the 

 lady oi the. household to make due arrangements 

 for the emplojmeot of the day before her, bo 

 no time shall bo misspent,— the Important duties 

 to be performed at regular and Btated periods, the 

 lesser occupation to be introduced to fill up tbe 

 disengaged moments. In the day's pureullB of a 

 family there may be, however, unavoidable inter- 

 ruptions—visitors, unforeseen domestic affairs, or 

 accidents; hut for these, a well regulated mind u 

 alwoye prepared. Idle visitors must and will in- 

 fest the houses of the industrious, at unseasonable 

 hours; but tbe time need not be wholly lost; e 

 piece of knitting, needle work, drawing, or even 

 some simple household occupation may be carried 

 on without offense to the visitors, end may, on the 

 contrary, sflord them a useful leison. 



Mothbh.— O, word of undying beauty: thine 

 chocs sound aloug tbe walla of time till 

 rumble at the breath of tbe Eternal In a 

 »«rld there ft not a habitable spot where tb< 

 'c ot ihat holiest word ba* not sounded. By the 





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 t of the forest ti 

 > cane, in them 



ihsU'hea cottage, by the grand peaks of the sky 

 listing moantatna, the wide spresd valley, on the 

 bine ocean, in the changeless desert where the 

 angel came down to B t» e xbe p ftrche d n p8 lne 

 a»eet waters of ibe wihttrDtss, on the altar where 

 the father stajed the downward stroke of hla 

 rfSoUl kulfe, warmed by the voice of Ood, between 

 the billows, tbat like •olid walls of ruby tin 

 iMl BrimtAn on the awanby browa of Israeltttsh 

 men. aud li h h<td tbo dark ejes of ibe womei 

 der the white tent of the Arab, and in the 

 coveted wigwam of the Indian hunter— wh« 

 the pul-es uf a boman heart beat quick and t 

 or tJoat feet>'y along the current of falling life, 

 there ia that sweet word spoken, likeanni' 

 piater — ' Mo'hcr." 



©hair* fpswllaug. 



VERSES. 



r a f „ T .iri 



ethyrtqui«m-i.no«bjtl 



I for tbj clay, though the spirit it flue 



UNBDBNISHID JEWELS. 



An idler wandered along the tea-shore. Many 

 and beautiful were the shells and pebbles he bad 

 gathered, but among them all there was one Btone 

 of seemlDg roughness, and almost devoid of beaa- 

 ty. Looking upon it with contempt as he contrast- 

 ed it with the delicate sea shell, and moss-crested 

 pebble, he threw it back upon the sand, where It 

 lay many years, until another pasted that way, and 

 seeing the atone, noted with careful eye its atruo- 

 *are, and bore it away as a rich treasure. The 

 skill of tbe burnisher was employed, and lo, in- 

 stead of the rough stone, there appeared a jewel of 

 anoh wondrous brilliancy that it might well grace 

 a monarch's diadem. 



lectual world, there are nnburnished jewels. Men 

 have lived and died, unknown, nncared for by the 

 world, who were possessed of nob'e minda and 

 mighty capacities, while others, with no better 

 natural faculties, have men to places of eminence, 

 and have lefc their names In glowiog characters 

 upon the book of Fame. And why this differ- 

 ence? The one was chained down by the force of 

 circuniBtance?, while the other, by that same power, 

 seemed to be drawn upward in the scale of being. 

 Much genins slumbers for need of awakening 

 Let one of these minds be but polished by educa- 

 tion, tbe dross of ignorance removed, and it would 

 become even more brilliant than the polished 

 jeweL Life is be-gemmed with jewels— nnburnish- 

 ed jewels, ond we Bre endowed with the power of 

 polishing them ever so brightly if we will. We 

 ate, in a measure, our own fate makers. Sources 



, plat 



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CHOICE MELANGE. 

 Tqi world of;ener rewards tbe appearance of 



jast epirit and : 

 mischievous, 



Hb who tells a lie is not sensible how great a 

 task he undertakes; for he must be f. reed to Invent 

 twenty more to mafntain that one. 



To relieve the oppressed is the most glorious 

 act a man is capable of; it is (n some measure do- 

 ing the business of God aud Providence. 



Buhnb once said, — " My Idle reasonings some- 

 times makes me a little skeptical, but the necessi- 

 ties of my heart always give the cold phllosopbi- 

 siogs tbe lie." 



We beoeme familiar <* 1th the outeides of men, as 

 with the outages of homes, and think we know 

 them, while we are Ignorant of all that ia passing 

 within them— Bow*. 



A good work it Is, no donbt, to pare off all un- 

 necessary occasions of debate and differences in 

 religion, provided we go not so near tbe quick, as 

 to let out any of its vital apirlta— Oirm. 



Wa ought not to be over anxious to encourage 

 innovation, in oases of doubtful improvement, for 

 an old system must ever have two advantages over 

 a new one; it is established, and it is 



If a man would register all his opinion upon 

 love, politics, religion, learning, \<\, beginning 

 from his yoath, and eo go on to old age, what, a 

 bundle of Inconsistencies and contradictions would 

 appear at last 



All politeness is owing to liberty. We polish 

 one another, and and rub off our corners and rough 

 sides, by a sort of amiable collision. To restrain 

 this Is inevitable In bringing a rust upon men's un- 

 derstandings. 



Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the pros- 

 pect Age looks back on the happiness of youth; 

 and instead of hopes, seeks Kb enjoyment In the 

 recollection of hopes. Thus happiness ever reigns 

 in the imagination.— CoUtidgt. 



If, as Franklin Bays, every able bodied man and 

 woman would labor only four hours a day, there 

 would be Buperabundance for all. Nobody, of 

 course, would then talk of the world " owing them 

 a living" — they would take it 



As Isaac met his bride in the fields at eventide, 

 so do true tools frequently find their joy and con- 

 solation in the loneliness of solitude, and at the 

 sunset of their earthly pleasures. He who would 

 see the stars sparkling with ten-fold lustre, must 

 dwell in the cold regions of tnow. 



■liuiikiiti _£i£at£iiL _. Q ° 



Joeo isberdestlny There Ult) lunrVJi 



neas there are, but too often we leave them behind 

 us. Nature, teeming with beauty, opens fair be- 

 fore ub that all may eDjoy her lovelfnesa. She 

 awakes us each morning with the song of her 

 blrd3, and lolls ub to Bleep at night with the wind 

 mtislc— " /At whltpaing of the gales." AH this was 

 intended to afford delight bat too often the heart 

 of man is insensible to It, and thus one of the 

 brightest jewelB In the orown of his rejoicing ia 

 ihed. 



dividual there are planted gems of goodness 

 despite tbe bligbt which vice has ca-at there, i 

 feelings will come swelling up— holy, heaven 

 aspiration*. We should carefully seek out thee-e 

 gems of goodnesB In our owi 

 hearts of those with whom wi 

 over whom we exert an influence, and polish them 

 until they shall shine unclouded by the bligbt of 



Friendship is a fair gem in the human heart, and 

 lonely, aye, but a wreck seems the soul when i 

 uuburoished by sjmpathyand reflnement A je 

 ao valuable, let ob carefully polish it nntil it a 

 not only fill oar own hearls with light, but rel 

 its light back upon tbe hearts of those who i 

 round us. Hope is a jewel of untold worth, 

 wben its light la clouded by the darkness of 

 spalr, midnight blackuess settles over the s 

 crashing out the life of all its joy?. 



Ab the idler upon the sea shore, so do ire, n; 

 the shores of time, grasp with childish eagen 

 those pleasures tbat glisten like the bright si 

 while we leave jo}3 of a more substantial nai 

 nnnoiiced, because, perchance, they do notBh 

 We Beck with restless heart for something we i 

 cherish— something thst will afford ub delight, and 

 we forgot in our search that a kind Father bos 

 strewed our pathway with jewels of happiness. 



Jewels are around the earth-weary pilgrim 

 gather them — burnish them— wear them next thy 

 heart. They shall light thy pathway, even to the 

 pearly gates — more, they ahall enter there, and, 

 blending with the light of Heaven, shall shine eter- 

 nally in glorious beauty. Anna A. Follbt. 



Constant Employment. — The man who Is 

 obliged to be constantly employed to earn t 

 necessaries of life and support his family, kno 

 not the unhappinesa he prays for when he dealt 

 wealth and idleness. To be constantly busy is 

 be always hippy. Persons who have suddenly i 

 qulied wealth, broken up their active pursuits, and 

 begun to live at their ease, waste away, and i 

 a very short time. Thousands would have been 

 blessings to the world, and added to the cor. 

 stock of happiness, if they had been conte 

 remain in an humble sphere, and earned every 

 mouthful of food tbat nourished their bodies. 

 Persons who are always busy, and go cheerfully 

 their daily tasks, are tbe least disturbed by t 

 fluctuations of business, and at night tleep with 

 perfect composure. 



Profakb LiNGrAOB—It is related by Dr. Send- 

 der, that on his return from his mission in India, 

 after a long absence, he was standing on the deck 

 of a steamer, with his bod, a youth, when he heard 

 a gentleman using loud and profane language.- 

 "See, friend,'' said the doctor, accosting the 

 swearer, " this boy, my son, was born and brought 

 up In a heathen country, and a land of pagan idola- 

 try; but in all bia life he never heard a man blas- 

 pheme his Maker until now". The man colored, 

 blurted out an apology, and looked not a little 

 ashamed of himself. 



Not 



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adversity; tbat man la not tried whether be 

 good or bad; and Ood never ctowdb those virt 

 which are only faculties and disposition.; 

 every act of virtue is an ingredient into reiver 

 God BO dreBses ua for heaven— Jtmiuy Taylor. 



Reading is one of the greatest consolation: 

 life; It is the nurse of virtue; the upholder In 

 verslty; the prop of Independence; the support 

 of a just pride; the strengihener of elevated opii ' 

 ions; it is the shield against the tyranny of ell 



alty i 



lellei 



How easily one can tell whether a man is ghn 

 from within; or whether It is only the play of th 

 sunbeams tbat chance to full upon him. Happi 

 ness is not the work of a chisel and mallet; no 

 mortised into the bouI, it fa "put out" like thearc 

 of a tree, whose green, unraveled sleeve llutiers 

 with the life it shares. — Taylor. 



AMERICAN CHILDREN. 



AiiFBii'AN children, we are sorry to be obliged 

 to say it, are not, as a general rule, well-bebi 

 They are rude and disrespectful, if not dirobei 

 Tbey inspire tenor rather then love in the b 

 of strangers and all persons who seek quiet and 

 love order. In our drawing-rooms, on board 

 steamere, in our railroad cars and atage cone 

 tbey contrive to make themselves generally and 

 particularly disagreeable by their familiarity, for- 

 wardnees aud pertness. "Young America," can- 

 not brook restraint, has no conception of superi- 

 ority, and reverences nothing. Hla ideas of equali- 

 ty admit neither limitation nor qualification. He 

 is born with a fall comprehension of hlsown indi- 

 vidual rights, but Is slow in learning his social dn 

 ties. Through whose fault comes this state ol 

 thingB? American boys and girls have naturally 

 as much good sense and good nature as those ol 

 any other nation, and, when well-trained, no chil 

 dren are more courteous and agreeable. In the 

 dayB of our grandfathers, children were tanght 

 manners at school — a rather rude, backwood'a sort 

 of manners, it is true, but better than the Horn 

 ners-at-all of the present day. We must blame 

 parents rather than their children. If you would 

 have your children beloved and reepected by 

 elders as well as their cotemporaries, teach them 

 good manners in their childhood. The young 

 sovereign should first learn to obey, that he may 

 be the better fitted to command in hia turn — /I.w 



Tns Divine Mercy.— However old, plain, hu; 

 ble> desolate, eftHcted we may be, so long as o 

 hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they 

 preserve also, shivering near that pale em 1 

 starred, ghostly longing for appreciation and af- 

 fection. To this attenoated spectre, perhaps 



gered and atbirst to famine — when all bnmani 

 bia forgotten the djiDg tenant of a decajing 

 bouse— divine mercy remembers the moi 

 aud a shower of manna falls for lips that eartbly 

 nutriment Is to pass no more. Biblical proml.es, 

 heard first in health, bat then unheeded, come 

 whispering to the coach of sickness; it is felt that 

 a pitjing Ood watches what all mankind have 

 forsaken; the tender compassion of Joanj if re- 

 called and relied on; the fading eye. gazipg be- 

 youd time, tees a home, a friend, a refuge In eter- 

 nity.— Charlotte BrmiU. 



i,. tatlalio to- morrow, 

 "yourself out of debt. 



f abbatli Hfusiuflu. 



THE SABBATH EVENING. 



Ktrth ilpfn imh »!! Ii*r gtori'.ua thiots, 

 Bro.fh Ihr H.. t Spi-ii"*«fng», 

 Aud randmu* ruck ib» hue* above, 



So calmly more, -o ««uctlj glow, 



Thf.»piiit of tbe bolyt 



THE EARLY DEAD. 



We do not wonder when the aged die. Their 

 day of toil, activity aud care ia past, aud, like 

 shocks of grain fully rl pe, Mn>y have been tenderly 

 gathered by tho AurH Reaper, where there IsreBt 

 fur tbe worn and weary. Tbe deep founts of the 

 heart are stirred as memory, faithful to her trust, 

 leads ub through the shadowy path. We Badly 

 mils their love, their coodscI* and tbeir prayers. 

 They have been to us watchful guardians; faithful 

 friends. Tboirwork on earth baa been well done, 

 — tbey have gone from lubor to reward, and ultbo' 

 we sorrow, we cannot but feel that it was merciful 

 in our Heavenly Father to call them borne. It Is 

 not thus when the young— thotB in lifeWair morn- 

 ing— are called to go down to the Bllent tomb — 

 For them we bid planned a life of active useful- 

 ness, of high endeavor— a life tbat would dry many 

 a falling tear, ebed li«ht and joy upon many a 

 darkened pathway of ibis sin-shadowed eaiib.— 

 Tbey were so fall of life, aod enjoyed bo intensely 

 the melody of a world all new and beautiful. Jtmt 

 ready to enter upon tbe duties of their untried ex- 

 istance, with beans full of generous emotions, and 

 eyes beaming with joy and affection, the cold band 

 bas touched theoi, ami >bey are sleeping, pillowed 

 on the lap of Mother Earth. The broken shaft la 

 reared to their memory, feebly shadowing forth 

 perfect e 



..iv >i:r 





the pure air of a h'sher life, where that which was 

 so beautiful, so full of promise on earth, will for- 

 ever expand beneath ibe genial infinences of the 

 better land? Although death bas bushed the 

 music of tbeir voices on earth, with their flnceitt 

 on the golden wires of a celestial harp, they h-ive 

 glided into the uuutn, an) Joined those heaven'y 

 autbemB tbat are oulysunn In the Home of tbe 

 Sappy. Hearts that loved tbcm well may be bleed- 

 ing in the dnst, yet even amidst oor tears we can 

 but rejoice tbat Ibfy have gained a home radiant 

 with the Light of Infinite Love— never dimmed by 

 any passing Bhadow. Woold wo wish them bsck, 

 to grope with us in darkness, vainly longing for 

 tbe light? Goo (brbid. Let ob ratber struggle on 

 bravely and hopefully, gladdened, even In our 

 sorrow, by the thought tbat toon may we m- et 

 them in those munslonB piepared by tbe blessed 

 Saviob. for all tbat love Hlra. Hatty. 



FarDiicgton. Mich., 1868. 



I tell yoo, a pastor's labors are no cblWa play. 

 I have swung the axe and the grabbing boa,]!!" 

 handled the plow, the cradle, and Ike «c)the; I 

 bave bad to work till this stiffened „na bears proof 

 of its severity, but all this w«rk was play, mere 

 play, wben compared * lib the labm of a pa 



i this 

 — Dr. Plum 



wbu 



,t the whole e 



Christ's creating power drew the world oat 

 nothing hut hi* cu'ening frames the new en 

 tare out of a onmethiog worse than nothli 

 What power tbat most be whlub can stop tbe tl 

 of (be sea.^tbat csn change a Murk olond lob 

 glorious "u ? It is oot bo great a work to m 

 many rtoasaods killed In battle as to goaptllzc o 

 dearf 80oL— Charnatk. 



So often as thou remembercst thy slnnea wll 

 out griefe, en oft*n thou repeabest thoee siodc* f 

 not griefelDg; he that will not mournefor tbe ei 

 which be ba-h done, gives earnest foi lna« 

 which he means to doe; ooibiDg can osswage th 



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which repentanci 



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