MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AM AGRICULTURAL . AMD EAMILY JOURNAL. 
BY CHARLES MACKA.Y. 
BY WM. WORDSWORTH. 
Come back—come back—thou youthful tirce I 
When joy and innocence were ours, 
When life was in its vernal prime, 
And redolent of sweets and flowers. 
Come back and let us roam once more. 
Free hearted through life’s pleasant ways. 
And gather garlands as of yore, 
Come back—comeback—ye happy diya ! 
Come back—come back—’twas pleasantthen, 
To cherish faith in love and truth, 
For nothing in dispraise of men 
Had sour’d the temper of our youth; 
Come back ! and let us still believe 
The gorgeous dream romance displays, 
Nor trust the tale that men believe, 
Come back—come back—ye happy days 7 
Come back, oil freshness of the pat! 
When every face seemed fair aijl kind. 
When sunward every eye was cait. 
And all the shadows fel! behind 
Come back ’twill come: true hearts can turn 
Their own Decembers into Mqys ; 
The secret be it ours to learn. 
They come—they come—thosehappy days ! 
She was a phantom of delight 
When first she beamed upon my sight; 
A lovely apparition, sent 
To be a moment’s ornament; 
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; 
Like twilight, too, her dusky hair ; 
But all things else about her drawn 
From May-time and the cheerful dawn , 
A dancing shape, an image gay. 
To haunt, to startle, and waylay. 
I saw her upon nearer view, 
A spirit, yet a woman too ! 
Her house-hold motions light and free. 
And steps of virgin liberty ; 
A countenance in which did meet 
Sweet records, promises as sweet; 
A creature not too bright or good. 
For human nature’s daily food ; 
For transient sorrows, simple wiles. 
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
And I now see with eyes serene 
The very pulse of the machine, 
A being breathing thoughtful breath, 
A traveler between life and death; 
The reason firm, the temperate will, 
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill , 
A perfect woman, nobly planned. 
To warn,;to comfort and command -, 
And yet a spirit still, and bright 
With something of an angel light. 
PYRAMID LAKE, OREGON 
It is pleasing to contemplate the theme 
of female excellence. The heart of man 
warms with emotion as he hears of the noble 
deeds of woman—as he views her quiet 
goodness—as ho marks her conjugal de¬ 
votion, her fidelity, her firmness of principle, 
the thousand little tendernesses clinging 
around her heart, animating her to please 
by all the winning gVaces and attractions 
that can fix affection; nor relaxing after 
• marriage in the cultivation of those powers 
which first commanded admiration, because 
she has secured her victory. He loves and 
admires her when thus true to the amiable 
impulses of her nature. But, if captivating 
in the freshness 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 in his esteem 
when the hour of trial comes, when adversity 
overtakes those she loves, and the appeal to 
her sympathies is the strongest that can be 
made, because it comes through the channel 
of her affect 0 : 1 s. 
Then see what a power of endurance she 
exhibits; wbat fortitude, what energy. 
Qualities which, amid the sunshine of pros¬ 
perity, lay latent and unperceived, for want 
of occasion to call them forth, now appear 
to view with the hope-reviving- influences 
which we may suppose a near and friendly 
beacon would have upon the sinking heart 
of the shipwrecked mariner. Difficulties 
which crush the hearty spirit of man, and 
subdue his strength to the weakness of a 
child, are met by her with a courage that 
seems to increase proportionally to its de¬ 
mand. With a self-sustaining energy, she 
counteracts the impression of grief in her 
own heart, and roused by her love and con¬ 
stancy, she turns to her partner, now dearer 
than ever from the touch of misfortune, to 
console, to invigorate, to assist; shedding a 
benign influence upon his existence, which 
causes him to feel, amid all his misery, that 
happiness still remains for him while blessed 
with the affection of such a friend and min- 
istrant; that labor, however rude, cannot de¬ 
grade him while he is encouraged by the 
esteem of a heart so noble and so true. 
a much more striking resemblance between 
this rock and the Pyramids of Egypt than 
there is between them and the object from 
which they take their name. 
The elevation of this lake above the sea 
is 4,890 feet, being nearly 700 feet higher 
than the Great Salt Lake, from which it lies 
nearly west, and distant about eight degrees 
of longitude. The position and elevation of 
this lake make it an object of geographical 
interest It is the nearest lake to the west¬ 
ern rim, as the Great Salt Lake is to the 
eastern rim, of the Great Basin which lies 
between the base of the Rocky Mountains 
and the Sierra Nevada; and the extent and 
character of which, its whole circumference 
and contents, it is so desirable to know.” 
The accompanying scene is striking — 
“the Pass of the Standing Bock”—with 
much of the romantic character of the ravine, 
scarcely trodden by civilization.— Holden's 
Magazine. 
free expanse of moving waves was very 
grateful. It was set like a gem in the moun¬ 
tains, which, from our position, seemed to 
enclose it almost entirely. At the western 
end it communicated with the line of basins 
we had left a few days since; and on the 
opposite side it swept a ridge of snowy 
mountains, the foot of the great Sierra. 
The next morning we encamped on the 
shore, opposite a very remarkable rock in 
the lake, which had attracted our attention 
for many miles. It rose, according to our 
estimate, COO feet above the water, and, 
from the point we viewed it, presented a 
pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of 
Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, 
it seemed to be encrusted with calcareous 
1 cement This striking feature suggested a 
name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid 
Lake; and, though it may be deemed by 
some a fanciful resemblam e, r can under¬ 
take to s.uv that the future K'-V -ter will find 
The engraving of the very remarkable 1 
scene called Pyramid Lake, in Oregon, from | 
the pyramid-sbape mountain which rises 
from the centre of the water, is taken from 
Col. Fremont’s narrative of his adventurous 
journey from the Dalles to the Missouri 
River. We cannot do better than to give 
Col. Fremont’s own language in the descrip¬ 
tion of the remarkable scene. 
The Exploring Party having reached a 
defile between the mountains, descending 
rapidly about 2,000 feet, saw, filling up all 
the lower space, a sheet of green water, 
some 20 miles broad. “ It broke upon our 
eyes like the ocean,” says the narrator.— 
“ The neighboring peaks rose high above us, 
and we ascended one of them to obtain a 
better view. The waves were curling in the 
breeze, and their dark green color showed 
it to be a body of deep water. For a long 
time we sat enjoying the view, for we had 
become fatigued with mountains, and the 
TEE TELLE GENTLEMAN 
ALL ABOUT A KISS. 
THE FAMILY FAIER. 
Show me the man that can quit the 
brilliant society of the young to listen to the 
kindly voice of age—who can hold cheerful 
converse with one whom years have de¬ 
prived of charms—show me th eman who is 
as willing to help the deformed who stands 
in need of help, as if the blush of Helen 
mantled her cheek—show me the man 
who would no more look rudely at the 
poor girl in the village, than at the elegant 
and well-dressed lady in the saloon—show 
me the man who treats unprotected maid¬ 
enhood as jie would the heiress, surrounded 
by the powerful protection of rank, riches 
and family—show me the man who would 
abhor the libertine’s gibe, who shuns as a 
blasphemer the traducer of his mother’s sex 
—who scorns, as he would a coward, the 
1 ridiculer of woman’s foibles, or the ex¬ 
poser of womanly reputation—show me 
that man who never forgets for an instant, 
the delicacy, the respect that is due to 
condition or 
FROM THE GERMAN, BY GODFREY GRAYLOCK. 
A large portion of our best impressions 
and sentiments have been suggested, reiter¬ 
ated, and fastened on the mind by the fam¬ 
ily press. The pulpit does much; parental 
instruction, in many cases, does much; but 
the press is in the present day necessary to 
both. Let any reader of a well-conducted 
family paper open its pages, and consider 
thoughtfully its contents, there arc, in a 
single number, sometimes from one hundred 
and fifty to two hundred separate and dis¬ 
tinct articles, and each one conveying an 
idea, a fact, or a sentiment, U:nd stated or 
illustrated so as to produce an effect in en¬ 
larging the reader’s store of knowledge, or 
giving a right direction to thought, feeling 
or action. Must not all this have its influ¬ 
ence, and in the aggregate a mighty influ¬ 
ence, upon the reader? No reflecting man 
can fail to see that the fifty-two visits in a 
year of a carefully conducted paper, intelli¬ 
gent, correct, elevated in its moral tone, and 
withal interesting in its contents, must exert 
a great and blessed influence upon domes¬ 
tic life. Children growing up under such 
influences are far more likely to be intelli¬ 
gent, correct in their opinions and morals, 
and better prepared for the active duties of 
life, than they could possibly have been 
without it. 
“ The melting juncture of four rosy lips,” 
is thus defined by the different professions: 
The Naturalist. —A kiss is the bringing 
into juxtaposition two contrarily charged | 
poles by which it, like an electric spark, is : 
elicited. 
The Moralist. —A kiss is the token of 
the most intimate communion of love, and 
is therefore only to be permitted in the mar¬ 
ried state. 
The Physician. —A kiss is the art of so 
moving the labial muscles that the lips are 
first brought suddenly together, and then 
explosively separated; so that after all a kiss 
is only an arliticial spasm. 
The Philologist. —Kiss is an onamato- 
poetic word, in which the curtness of the 
thing is represented by the brief sound of 
the word. 
The Antiquarian.— Kissing is a custom 
handed down to us from the Greeks and 
Romans, as to the true signification of which 
we are not perfectly clear. Probably it is 
symbolic of the sun’s 
THE FIRST WEDDING. 
Major Noah thus pleasantly and philo¬ 
sophically discourses upon the “ first wed¬ 
ding.” He says: — 
“ We like short courtships, and in this 
Adam acted like a sensible man—he fijll 
asleep a bachelor, and awoke to find him¬ 
self a married man. He appears to have 
popped the question almost immediately af¬ 
ter meeting Md’lle Eve, and she without 
any flirtation or shyness gave him a kiss 
and herself. Of that first kiss in this world 
we have had, however, our own thoughts, 
and sometimes in a poetical mood have 
wished we were the man ‘ what did it’— 
But the deed is done—the chance was Ad¬ 
am’s and he improved it. 
We like the notion of getting married in 
a garden. It is in good taste. We like a 
private wedding. Adam’s was private. No 
envious beaux were there; no croaking old 
maids; no chattering aunts and grumbling 
grandmothers. The birds of heaven were 
the minstrels, and the glad sky flung its 
light upon the scene. 
One thing about the first wedding brings 
queer things to us, in spite of its scriptural 
truth. Adam and his wife were rather 
young to be married—some two or three 
days old according to the sagest specula¬ 
tions of theologians—mere babies—large 
but not older—without experience—with¬ 
out a house—without a pot or kettle—noth¬ 
ing but love and Eden.” 
woman as woman, in any 
class—show me such a man, and you show 
me a gentleman—nay, you show me better, 
you show me a true Christian. 
rays greeting the 
earth; and if so, doubtless was received | 
with all the other lore of sun worship from 
the orientals. 
Theologians (a host of them.)—A kiss is 
an emblematic action by which the bending 
of the heavens to the earth is designed to 
be symbolized. 
The Philosopher. —A kiss is that protru¬ 
ding the circle of the lips, where by the 
quantitative difference of the sine of one is 
placed in such relation to the quantitative 
difference of the sine of another, that there¬ 
by the identity of the subject-object with 
the ideal-real is proved. 
The Punster.— A kiss ikuss) is the 
gush ( guss ) of one soul to another. The 
pressing of the lemon into the insipid bever¬ 
age of life. This pressure is the expression 
of the impression which oppresses the heart. 
It is the only press with which no censor¬ 
ship can interfere. Here still we have “ fre- 
dom of the press.” 
The Lawyer. —The kiss is a nullity in 
law, being neither a right in posse, nor a 
right in esse. Some, however, have consid¬ 
ered it as a family right, and would treat it 
after the analogy of the dos. But “L. 74 
D. de dote constit ,” does not treat of the kiss 
at any length. Still, in the married state 
we may venture to consider a kiss in the 
light of a donatio inter vivos. 
The Lover.— A kiss is-heaven! 
The Translator.— To be sure-with 
a dif&rencc !—New Englander. 
LIVE FOR SOMETHIHG. 
Thousands of men breathe, move and 
live—pass off the stage of life, and are 
heard of no more. Why ? They did not a 
particle of good in the world, and none were 
blessed by them; none could point to them 
as there instrument of their redemption; not 
a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, 
could be recalled, and so they perished; their 
light went out iu darkness, and they were 
not remembered more than the insects 
of yesterday. Will you thus live and die; 
O man immortal? Live for something. 
Do good, and leave behind you a monu¬ 
ment of virtue, that the storm can never 
destroy. Write your name by kindness, 
love and mercy on the hearts of the thou¬ 
sands you come in contact with year by year, 
and you will never be forgotten. No, your 
name—your deeds will be as legible on the 
hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the 
brow of evening. Good deeds will shine 
as brightly on the earth as the stars of 
heaven. — Act'. I)r. Chalmers. 
THE THUMB'S EXPRESSION. 
The thumb deserves particular notice in 
treating of the hand. It is the presence of 
a thumb that imparts to the hand of the 
higher animals its character of superiority. 
It is the higher development and greater 
mobility of the human hand that render it 
so much more perfect than that of the ape. 
The thumb being, then, the characteristic 
element of the human hand—the part last 
developed, and most strongly typical of its 
superiority over that of the lower animals 
—the perfect formation of this part of the 
hand must be regarded an a sign of .the 
character of species being the well-marked 
—of a strong active individuality, while the 
reverse obtains when it is small anu rudi¬ 
mentary. The ball of the thumb is made 
up of strong muscles, and in it the motive 
function of the hand is, as it were, concen¬ 
trated. Persons with a small thumb are 
ruled by the heart—those with a large, by 
the head. 
■aid have been impossible 
ngs in a world so filled, 
warbles, and the mute still air 
,ng on her instrument.” 
“ Kb.' a Li\ tk to Himself.” —God has 
'ati tYen upon the Sower that sweetens the 
air, /upon the breeze that rocks it on its 
su i ;i ; upon die rainbow that refreshes the 
snJallest sprig of moss that rears its head in 
sort, upon the wean that rocks every 
swi.i mer in its chambers, upon every pen- 
cillej i shell that sleeps in the caverns of the 
deer;., as \\ as upon the mighty sun that 
warims am! heers the millions of creatures 
tha1 live iu his light—upon all he has writ¬ 
ten* ‘ None of us liveth to himself.” 
'tiat m; n has no conception of the ex¬ 
tent to which he robs himself, who, with all 
the'rich lV niture of books around him, fails 
\ f° supply himself with useful reading, spend- 
;> ing Am precious hours—hours never to be 
\ ret ulied—in frivolous pursuits. — Dr. Tefft. 
Absorbent Minds. —How sad the re¬ 
grets of one without the power of express¬ 
ing what he feels within him;—whose high 
conceptions of the pure and beautiful are 
like sunbeams falling upon an absorbent 
body, lighting and warming that, to be 
sure; but not to be reflected or given out 
again to another object—not seen or felt by 
the eyes or minds of those around him. 
Christ was bom among the poor, grew 
up among the poor, toiled with the poor, 
and died for the poor. The cases in which 
he ever came in contact with rich men, are 
noted with emphasis in Scripture, as re¬ 
markable exceptions. 
A wife full of truth, innocence and love, 
is the prettiest flower a man can wear next 
to his heart 
>u would properly erect the edifice 
:>nal improvement—the foundation 
3 laiu in moral purity. 
Better that a house be too small for a 
night than too large for a year. 
must 
