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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Iflri-Jfulifl. 
CONDUCTED BY AZILE. 
THE FAIRY THAT I KNOW. 
BY W. BRAILSFORD. 
I do not say she 13 so fair 
fvo maiden may with her compare ; 
I do not say those eye 3 so bright 
Wih dazzle by their brilliant light ; 
Or that the roses on her face 
Will shame all others by their grace : 
But this I can in truth declare, 
That she is very sweet and fair ; 
That never truer heart was found 
Within Love’s consecrated ground ; 
That all the charms that love can show 
Meet in the fairy that I know. 
I do not say she is so wise 
That lowly lore she would despise ; 
Or that the structure of her mind 
To lofty uses Is designed ; 
I do not say she lives and seems 
Like some great princess of our dreams • 
But yet I never hesitate 
To bend unto her gracious state, 
For skilled she is in pity’s art, 
In all the kindness of the heart ; 
Even pride would all its pomp forego 
To greet the fai ry that I know. 
I do not say her voice is such 
Mo nightingale its tones can touch ; 
Or when perchance she speaks and’sings 
Some angel-nature round her springs • ’ 
Yet all her notes are clear and free ' 
As childhood’s cheerful ecstasy : 
And when she moves, so self-possessed 
Her dignity beats her best; 
Still fairest of the fair in thi 3 , 
Her ways are ways of peace and bliss, 
What marvel that long time ago 
I loved the fairy that I know. 
boys to deal with, while the poor wife has flip « Anri to ,, 
She did not reply at onefio her husband »v™ “ She ,'™ llld d ™gtta. 
She could not, indeed, for there was a choking snare wm T c 1 ?. ,ne ° bl!d ’ God bless Y ou and 
sob struggling in iter throat Hut with : 1 -nr - k o -*°i b I m tbese many a year, for I 
woman like heroism she swabowed it wli ] • 1 W i y ~ 13 0e ! ks y° u have made him happy 
and then said pteEntR-! ° h 4l Com ? m chi!dl ' en ’ come and she 
« I know jCTT . ushe T d them int0 a cheerful kitchen, and was 
nr . P1rl p a , r . r D y°. ur m °fher is a paragon soon busy in assisting them to rid themselves 
ifke^M 01, a l mothe J 8 are ’ and I should of the dust that had gathered upoTtE 
1 . Q f r „ y to eat somQ . of her nice victuals. I clothes and in carrying off outer garments to 
do wish,” and her voice assumed an earnest her nice spare room. foments to 
U ae ’ J , , 0 wisb y° u would take me to see “But why in the world, Harry,” said she 
licr and let me serve an wlipn i* .a i i r 
iq K rir i a__ . *1 ^ 7 ^ 7 ,. o w u p * mue, ana naa some- 
nlrnn t tt, * „ ’ here , ?’ e , bave been married thing good for your dinner. You'll have to 
f a , l 3 ears, and I have never seen one take farmer’s fare now—its pot luck to-dav ” 
.°! tS” 1 . Come, let's give up going "If iu only some „f Z& eoo 7 
to New YoTtk, g ' Ve r I, - g0in « I •„ i 7 ?“' 7 sorae of raotl ‘ et ’ 3 ooWtg, it ceded the battle of AusTeribu Se of mvYff 
country to your ** K *7* 
trnrlSl^K^ t I . ong 1 deterred bim fro min- y ? u [each me your ways, that I mav make [Montgomery. killed five men witL ryr hi ? quadron8 ' 
troducing his wife to the paternal homestead. hlm Io ™ me all the more. You will show me .... ried off a standard Ik ™ “ ’ ^ C *v 
She was a city born and city bred woman won’t you, now, mother ?” ’ mrT ,Uen for the Rnr«i New-Yorw. blood especiallv on 'h\* f !■ , red . Wlth 
Xtefi! U fer d H affluence ’ and ahvays ’ 1 7 h& ? 1 willchi,d ’” said the old lady kind- 1Hh SPRING-TIME, “OUT WEST.” part of ihich ^ h As TeVaT ra 
^ g! . ed m ffhionable society; and he did ^ ber heart won completely by the gentle „ - turning to his re-Lent tS%W ! \ 
€\m $SkdIa% 
THE SEASONS. 
Who loves not Spring’s voluptuous hours, 
The carnival of birds and flowers ? 
Yet who would choose, however dear. 
That Spring should revel all the year ? 
Who loves not Summer’s splon lid reigu, 
The bridal of the earth and main ? 
Yet who would choose, however bright, 
A dog-day noon without a night ? 
Who loves not Autumn’s joyous round, 
When corn, and wine, and oil abound ? 
Yet who would choose, however gay, 
A year of unrenewed decay ? 
Mho loves not Winter’s awful form ? 
The sphere-born music of the storm? 
Yet who would choose, how grand soever 
The shortest day to last forever ? 
[ Montgomery. 
Written for the Rural New-Yorker 
THE SPBING-TIME, “OUT WEST.” 
THE LEGION OF HONOR. 
Napoleon used to say“ Of all orders 
tiiat have been created, either in ancient or 
modern times, (here is not one which has been 
of such advantage to its founder as the Legion 
of Honor. It 13 my handi-work, and my mas¬ 
terpiece. No one, either now or in future 
days cau dispute my right to the glory of 
founding it. I am indebted to it for half my 
victory.” Napoleon stated what was per- 
fectlj true The hope of obtaining the cross 
has been the parent of incredible acts of valor, 
many of which are still unknown to the world. 
Here is one, amongst others which a chef d'es- 
cadron used to take particular delight in rela- 
P ' , the course of the night which pre¬ 
ceded the battle of Austerlbz, one of my b?ig- 
adiers wagered his comrades that he would 
fn’, cr °sa of 1 donor ou the following day. 
n fact, in a brilliant charge against a suoe- 
killed ' fivp to |K “ etrat «i the enemy’s squadron^ 
“en ,vnh bis own hand/and ear- 
ed off a standard. lie was covered with 
narSf^wll 7 ° a i?' S faCC ’ t: ' e °n>y visible 
pait of which was his eyes. As he was re- 
As childhood’s cheerful ecstasy ; strae-lum ofpWA ^ L b ® amin ff garden, its n °M, you shouldcook just as you used to; I where she has been so cosily tucked in durino- conf er upon you the Cross of Honor’ Thp 
^ «K ‘ wdUo* did’he know that in all that & ^„„ h tTnner“n **** Bnt wewSoml -if-Sm™ 
mothbr-s^w. 
By MBS. caeolink a. soom tlin« ofT t had c,aimed young afTec- now aged woman came a blooming bride to N h . ° redundant dampness and shall either have to s?pp g r L the old?. YY 1 
- Yes ST, , er hon e. The linen was fauitlelly “»«- odo «’- «• Wta germs of verdure orate the whole 
The countenance of Mrs. Lawrence wore a iy SoYthaM^T t W, T, a t- amed » f «e on- b . at 11 "? s , h . ome mad «. “d not as line even as a " d ^“>‘7 waking to sudden life. Imagcsof - 1 JWJtofolmm. 
sa^f C: “xlr c 'i.f chi " How ® 
° r b r? i0 “' “f »1ThouVtTnt“wUh°aTS: sFitV“n3mereh?ofL^„ W p a i' ^ d “» a " d ^ wffi . b was a small bacT^om in a large build- 
centre of each slice was a small spmL not lar! ^ thou ? h P olished witS labor,’ mis f ry le * Ti™ * % 1°™’ and looking im- 
uuuga, out a little, just a little “socm-v ” cidcd imm Qa . r*' " cc “- was ae - B 7T 1UI bllvur - uiessea me. j 
Not every one would have noticed it nof’pvp. Marv Fn W J* lch shou,d present But when the old lady prepared to dish up —the immature plan 
SSSsSKi iSSHSSs 
I . --kJVAJ UVAUC UI Llie 
slumbering thought, the neighborhood, that miYht 
07 folrn, -__1 I.' . ‘ P 
I. uisn up -cue immature plan now takes shape and remind ''him in summer T , U - t0 
he dimnfes ® abstance ’ ^fpUited by the life-giving world landscapes, or in winter of falling avalanche 
Old men grow garrulous 
)r]d lanascapes or in winter of falling avalanches 
the , °o 1 •? C 0 I tta g e3 - the lakes, or the waterfalls 
rauaie in ner sensifivp IiParf ir„_i „ -,rr ^ — ~“ vu i L r eb u, -■*, „„„ , utu i UC irua cover removed Irom mufim ulu j , . ° e . . - ua luc oeauiy and var¬ 
ious look. ' ' IcnceJi eranx- Sunday. Y e must always make some allow- a P°t of ample dimensions. First the old ti ^ ‘ght days even as do the birdlings. nety °f the scenery, according to the current 
It was as she exnecfcd a« m t ance lor country mails. But if they get it Ja dy took from it a piece of salt’pork all 1 he Iau gbmg baby crows and chirrups at the °P ln . 10n ’ would induce sublime thoughts. He 
laid the slice he had just day non., “? *»! a mai of l Ule « lim P se ° f ^i 3 ‘ence gleaming in observing that he 
Pla^he exclaimed £*£* ^s» 
Y^r-r^^e.bo,- 
expeced. „f course, each tmtTt 
ovu uciure mm." M) -*— t'auuiy mi me time.— * ““ cab bage and it moulded into Do wo rpmpmhpr +bot a- ~ Y ” 1 -ficscui to me 
“The bread is not so heavv v, J? u 1 . never taIk of mother’s victuals after a c° m ely form, the beets and carrots sliced J Y emembir that 8ucce edmg genial days, eye net her beauty, variety, nor anything else 
his wife, mildly““?it^is ver/lShf p V thls ^ 18 I lt - and seasoned, and the skins removed from ?he f arae burniD ff’ parching drouth, and soon ^ated to inspire a single thought, except 
Dio L- . ,, ' er Y light, and with “ Only to sav this La«fp a i;t- a h-i potatoes. But not, so Pmnriiw n.. 1 . .-a thereafter, famishino- want <,n.) _ concerning the roue-h snrfRpp of 
f spring? and the back of houses, which present to the 
T1S1 "“ or “f -MU- and anxions to he derived 
ing. Asit ,K b!(w7fronf,!T,T "“h his darling wife, although h r vicfcS , “ There is a real old fashioMd dinner, and I ' 40m “" w” 1 ' wh.ch our cities have been ^ore we at down, to compose-tbe impr^ 
a few moments tio soon But itSnt nIS h„1 S ’ 1 taste to hlm likc th »* ^ boyhoods *“<« t» Harry as it used to," and ^wded.-no memories of groups of strong 8 ‘““ Cot, f ft alrcadd ’’ “” d "> i “ d 
bread, aud as Bridget said lood nSreflt t, . m , m T.T a “ d Went ^ t0 tte b “‘ to J' t0 mC " with de J octcd faccs » b o have stood helif H lF,o, a , ”i fr0m s .“''ro““ d inS objects, 
whnn T rminW a...., ^ naturedly, Hie next luesdav rnornim? fomirl Mr or a lld °ut the unoccupied snacc. Thp» o Wlw ilh_i_.-ji_o ^ . i it will not do to be expatiating abroad In oh. 
somethin? is the matter nni r -/ ° a f’ V * ■ tnem Wlthin ten milas of the vvmcu . Bfle aa ^. s ,° 0l ^n heard her husband ” uu su merciIul 1Q Mis judgment, 
it should^be so ” U ’ d 1 Can see why fi aCe> A ^ ar / ia ? e wa s tired at once, and ^ P £ ak ln 8uch bl & h terms . for it was certainly or Wlth a ra mpant triumph that now the ev* 
“Don’t pray make me rmt^i ^ i they proceeded. different Irom a r,y brend she had ever seen, is P a st, aud we will in our own strength mend A MODERN CINDERELLA 
keeper as all that ” said hi<a *f^ ad | a b 01186 * tb ^ en ^ ere d it, Mr. Lawrence observed , ien ^ e J e were P lc kles and apple sauce, and our damaged prospects - 
though a close observer ml, it Kfc ?°° T M they ! ook > can 0 nk>l« ^dlTwldne V “i gar with But ah, wehave yet only the tunef I I folll 11 ^ ° f Lyons ’ contains the 
onions, and stewed pears, and sage cheese and n ’ e yet on N the tuneful her- following strange tale, the truth of which it 
though a closp ohservor m V 4,1 . ul V' 6 ^ U1 nuiscs, poor as tkey look, can . «uuumoerB Sliced in vinegar with p ntn h ^ , . , the Halut Bublic, of Lyons contains thn 
tiny tear nestUn? T Z Zt frP n ° u ticed a eaSl y carry ™ there b 7 noon-we shall be in ® moa8 ’ aud st «^d pears, and sage cheese and J f’ We have yet on, y th « tuneful her- following strange tale, the truth of whTch it 
^ wife ;: 1 hope H wi " 
the best of cooks I never knZ n happen aad glvw S the word to the driver, they were dreadfu i I g lad on’t now, for Harry, jL, . . f H ° W . s 5 rikin gly typical of human aming it, he found it must have been made for 
but had, once in a while, badluck ” 7 ^ 7Gt paSsing many a rich a n/pleas- haffl^eTkl,? ^ ?7 ’ ^ t0 S&7 he COuld Cat I ^ v )' 1CIflS1 . tudes and g ra spings 1 Life, a remarkably small and elegant. He 
“ Bad luck ” remnnrlp l I u T y fie d i! and now aud then under the shadows bal , f a P eck any time. even as Nature, is a myth and a puzzle, as lt home Wllh him - The more he saw of 
contemptuously « hu3band ’ rather of P at .ckes of woodland, they turned about n m , ? y , 8 Wlfe compared the masses of fried many may know who in their sober and faith the m ° re he admire d it; and he jumped to 
SSSu 17u V T G 0ughfc tobe n t °° 0 ’ into what seemed a long, grassy lane- dou ^ h ’ each , oae as large as a farmer’s fist and ful research have failed to 1 the ^conclusion that the owner, havim so 
mother ”^3 Sf m ltC ^ a departm cnt. My A beautiful light played in the hulband’s eve b TO Wlth the delicate - Pa iry-Hke crullers natural ZZ ” ^ T ff, ° theiF f ™ 11 a foot ’ was “ aP probability extremely 
s’Ved n( , a f d M tho blessed name wa s empha- as they rolled along, and he whispered sofite sh c had been wont to set before him at tea, • s cs, or to comprehend the mystery beautiful. After eight days spent in inouir/ 
th^ C l “J mother bas cooked as though he feared to break thi holy srSl aad wondered mentally, if Harry, now that incarnated mind. How wise is the philoso- found a driver who remembered having 
luck. I te^l IS m voT’slTn d M neV f bad ‘ this 18 tbe homestead road. I’ve playefon hera ^Bu^Lp W °M 7u - B half peck of pher who cau cla ssify and methodize his own dnv « n a yc u «g woman who had lost a shoe i? 
ofhefbreS X.' t7’JV h< ° uId eat some >ts sunny banks many an hour with the only Z 1,ut 6ke said nothing, about the dinner sensations, feelings and thoughts : and far- the R ue Phomassin. M. de Khet at last dis- 
ter to think of it “ ake s my mouth wa- brother heaven ever gave me ; and along this ° raeaa ’P atientl y BII he should reaching beyond mortal ken what rAW covered a young work-woman who bluahingly 
suchvicS f I: I shall never again eat we passed when we carried him to hislittle re r tarn ’ to 8e e b °w he could manage to dispose mysteries down^i , ? confessed that the shoe was hers. As he an 
This wa? Z - U f d f° C u°°y grave ’ °’ h is lined with autumn flowers but ° t ? 6 heart ? and bountifuI raeal rTlT , 7 ^ rcGiyG ’~^ ka lf- ticipated, he found that she was remarkably 
dreaded She lFTl Wh !° h MrS ‘ ^wrence thicker are the spring-time memories that li?*? 111 !- 111 shortl y and wlLb hi m the dear, . d wonders do we darkly view,—what beautiful, aud on inquiry he learned that her 
“mother’s cooking’ during tL he turned ^ bead a » d ZILTF 5 ^® ^ “ t0 ^ faintly A fe ^ d ^ ago 
could endure to re3 up7n 2 about and?gardenTtf child ’ 
S n , C °fk«K“L.“T“5- ^ morning, radiant wfth^blosno™, but to Urf- «■ hi 
i, MJu giaa, inaeed, we are 
come, you must be hungry, 
though she knew nth*. ■ ruining, WJL u oiossoms, but to the surprise of L jT’, J ' U3L hungry, i Know ; sit 
her fffrlish vear<T 7 g T- Ves ’ Mates of Mrs> La wrence, no one came to the gate to by ,, a j d take a farmer ’ s fare - Are the men 
nergirlish years, were promenading the pleas- meet them nor did anv one c/w™ ; ga Z 10 called, wife? 
talv 8 !S < tPnS!S Se -«? e -* l0Ved her , husband 00 the threshold. ‘ n wai ing “They are here,” and as she spoke there was 
m re wclcn Jl eterDal y0uth in Him t0 whom all time and . 1 KRS Z,? AN ' CK ’- Mira bcau said of Robes- 
to ree von ’ eternit y bu ^ as a da y> which hath neither pi f1 ,e ’ „ I hat man will succeed in hi3 under- 
T ul F beginning nor end u k . ing ’ for , he believes every word he says.”- 
> L know ; sit eua - l. A. T. It is remarkable, on scanning h; a t*^ L 
April. 1855. ’ L ' A ' T ‘ -i 1 - 13 remarkable, on scanning history, to find 
-- - t . __wnat great works have been accomplished by 
q „ _ the mdouiitable perseverance of single individ- 
SuADow 8 .—Beautiful sentiments are not uak To a man of the right stamn. settinrr 
inaassi s*saa«s 
was a part he said, pettishly, “ my letter must have failed f moments the three hired men entered, di- gems of thought originating, like the follow 
ne she must -what a nuisance are these country mails— g - h r eir gla " ces b ftween the beautiful mg from the %rra Citizen, on the shores of 
though the But we shall find them home, for mother nev 7 g Wlfe aud the sra oking platter. YYith- the Pacific : 1 
b B t ° h n e t S~ ?they “ Udre ’' ,hei '' chl ‘ ire ‘» “This weqk we have beeB too ill to atteed 
of every woman's experience, andoneTheTuel .T/tt^cZlv™ T'!l 
tet£Tmt‘J l,! fa,:e - tho “? b tte Bat we shall find them home, for mother nev- J T ,g Wi ‘ 
She coaid even hav/’borne to be called withhfhWomtaMter"'“"J” the 
are less, extravagant, wasteful, though she way. Just as they reachedthe sten«t ) 7 When a 
tbe ad jectives would have been misap- was opened and a^little old fashioned’ 7 d °° r entJy boW( 
plied, because mall those things she could dressed in «ahort To7n 7nd «n the foot 
tZ J T0VC t ° + h f husbaad 8he was daily advanced to meet them ^ ad ' take ’ aad 1 
!4 ad 4 g .l,. bll Y - t0 be cemmred because she did Ere Mrs. Lawrence w .__ , onc e again 
seem as chaff before the wind. When a man 
is in earnest, and kuow3 what he is about, his 
work is half done. 
When all was still, the aged father rever- goiTatl s!xm U aml US ^vS’ o atld Ar eVer 7 tbi i Ug L ha3 a Tl , IK J? u J Iish term “ husband,” is from the 
entiy bowed his head aud asked a blessing up- shadows fall athwart one’- Tat 0 !"" ^’ ld , lbe . n ’ w° rds /ius aud ban<i ’ which sig- 
on the food or which they were now to par- hisgSgs to ^ b ? Dd ° f the Louse i” aad ^ was 
take, and then returned thanks to Heaven that door, bidding the sterUed fnmltfK ^ 6 ° a 7 ■ bousebond ’” ail d continued 
Ono.P fl.frn.in final i ° olul liCU Jlimate DG readv. to be SDClt thus in fifimp nrltfinrta rxP iLa n_ 
d i r pat I ently - .. Tt was a hopeless ed bv her Wh’anl streaming down his cheeks as he concluded Ihrn.uL, ' ,u „ r, h . UrU3 ’ the warning is A husband, then, is a house-bond — the bo.fd 
c^e for no P w a r tl 7 Z-r a hopeless ed b y he? ^husband, wS tiSToSf W' s ^ a miog down his cheeks as he concluded and forgot en^ and aTw Z5 7 ^ A husband, then, is a house-bond — the bond 
^HS=~srs BSBSsm ASSESS -MfEsMm 
ucxbca. [Concluded on page 172.] t» ’ w uusi, ana ail IS Beautv and genius one mud n„i f„>. e 
[ _ Beauty and genius one must put far from 
bim, if lie will not be their servant. 
