MOOSE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMULI NEWSPAPER, 
IT ISN’T ALL IN BRINGING UF. 
(.Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION, 
TO THE MEMORY OF ALMIRA L. HENDEB. 
It isn’t all in “ bringing Up,” 
Let folks say what they Will | 
To silver scour a pewter Cup— 
It will be pewter still. 
E'en he of old, wise Solomon, 
YVho said “train up a Child,'’ 
If I mistake not, had a son 
Proved rattle-brained and Wild. 
A man of mark, who fain would pass 
For lord of sea and land, 
ifay have the training of a son. 
And bring him up full grand : 
May give him all the wealth of love, 
Of college and of school, 
Yet, after all, may make no more 
Than just a decent fool. 
Another, raised by Penury 
Upon her hitter bread, 
Whose road to knowledge is like that 
The good to heaven must tread, 
Has got a spark of Nature's light, 
He’ll fan it to a flame, 
Till in its burning letters bright 
The world may read his name. 
If it were all in “bringing up,” 
In counsel and restraint. 
Some rascals had been honest men— 
I’d been myself a saint. 
O! ’tisn’t all in “bringing up,” 
Let folks say what they will; 
Neglect may dim a silver cup— 
It will be silver still. 
[iY Y. Evening 
\St-PiVKSEURCH, 
MEXiCl 
" hose little feet found early rest, 
Within the “ better land 1” 
I ith smile .and song, she passed along- 
With bounding step and free_ 
A fair young girl, around whose path, 
Was falling silently, 
The benison of loving lips, and 
That He who guards earth's pn 
in his care I 
They knew not that the 
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answer came 
In that wild hour of wo, 
Which swept like scathing tempest o’< 
And crushed life’s blessings low 1 
Nor had they known those twining cc 
That ’round each heart-string lay, 
Until the clinging vine was torn_ 
How suddenly away 1 
The Hand which gave hath right again to ask 
trust— 
Yet oh! the agony that wailed above that cl 
Months have rolled on—the turf is gr t 
O’er that pale sleeper’s brow I 
Yet many a gentle memory 
Comes back unbidden now ! 
And when with pausing step we bend 
Beside “her mound of flowers,” 
With every leaf and bud is blent 
Some dream of girlhood’s hours 1 
“Her chestnut tree” is standing where me 
myrtle bloom— 
lie little thought who placed them there, 
grace so soon I 
We’re sitting in the easy-chair, 
Thy hands have cushioned o'er_ 
And thy needle swiftly phes its task, 
As in the pleasant yore 1 
Affection's souvenirs scattered here, 
The ’broidery at our side, 
Eacli is a sweet remembrancer 
Of thee, our household's pride ! 
Where’er we turn—where’er we look—Rome 
fair skill, 
Some dear memento of the Past, is treasured 
Thy books we turn their pages now, 
In deep and musing thought! 
And the “ token marks,” with hallowe< 
Or sweet device enwrought I 
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garnered 
SAN-FBAHCISCO, 
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[ For the Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE INFLUENCE OF EUUCATION. 
It is said, and said truly, that the people of 
this country enjoy the best educational advan¬ 
tages of any in the world. But our advantages 
are not greater than we need. When we reflect 
that the security of our government depends 
upon the general intelligence of the people, 
and see at the same time, the great number of 
emigrants that are continually arriving from 
the old world, who, flying from a despotism 
that crushes them down at home, bring wiih 
them the only education which such a govern¬ 
ment will 
CHARLESTON 
A 'VTA5HINCT0N 
NEW-ORLEAliS 
CIHCWATTI.YJ 
VARIATIONS OF TERRESTRIAL TIME 
give. One naturally will conclude 
that it is for our interest to scatter broadcast 
throughout the land the means of acquiring a 
liberal education. 
We are different from other nations. It is not 
essential for the government of England that 
the masses of the English people should be well 
educated. It is not necessary for Napoleon 
to retain the crown of France, that every 
Frenchman should become acquainted with the 
theory of the government. If they did it is 
very probable that the result would be the 
other way, and that instead of retaining the 
crown, he might lose his head, and none will 
pretend to deny that if the people of Europe 
were as intelligent and well informed as the 
people of this country, they would not remain 
or a single year under their present masters.— 
In fact the only safety of despotism, is in the 
ignorance of the people, and the only safety of 
Republicanism, is in the general intelligence of 
of the people. Whatever other foundations 
we may rest our institutions of government up¬ 
on, the first, and foremost, should be in the 
universal education of the masses of the people 
The meals of atta ining it must be placed with¬ 
in the reach of of every one so that none can 
well evade it. Let the next generation im¬ 
prove upon this! Let them understand the 
true theory of government! Let the duties of 
the citizen be taught in our schools! So that 
they may take a comprehensive view of things 
that maj concern the welfare of our country, j 
Greece, and Rome, 
sides the writer, has solved these problems 
j'ears before his eyes were blessed with the 
sight of any philosophical instrument or appa¬ 
ratus, except a black-board and a piece of chalk. 
The fact is of course well known to every 
reader of the Rural, that the time at 
different places varies with the differences of 
meridian, every degree of longitude making 
four minutes variation of time. Hence there 
will usually be seen in Railroad advertisements, 
especially those with long eastward or west¬ 
ward departures from a given point, a notice 
that the cars start by the time of a particular 
meridian. The New York Central, for in¬ 
stance, arranges its time tables by the Albany 
meridian; and woe to the Buffalo or Roches¬ 
ter man who regulates his arrival at the depot 
by the sun in his own sky ; as in that case he 
will be a dozen or fifteen minutes behind time. 
The above cut represents a clock with one 
central and twenty surrounding dials, each 
labeled with the name of some important place 
upon the earth’s surface, the hands of each dial 
being adjusted to the time of those places, as 
compared with that of a given meridian; which, 
in this instance, is that of New York. The 
[ hands are all connected by a system of wheels, 
and may be driven by any power, as a weight 
or spring. In this instance the motive power 
is electro magnetism, which, within a few years 
lias been adopted in many instances for scien¬ 
tific purposes, and is undoubtedly destined to 
work still more important changes in operations 
not yet “ dreamed of in our philosophy.” A 
glance at any two of the dials, when properly 
adjusted, will show at once the variation in 
time between any two places on the earth’s 
is usually a sore puzzle to the tyro in mathe¬ 
matical science; and sometimes they are not 
clearly and definitely understood even by 
teachers themselves. A problem of this kind 
proves not unfrequently the pons asinorum so 
difficult to cross, and over which many an aspi¬ 
rant for advanced classes has to be carried on 
the shoulders of his companions. A terrestial 
globe, with its dial-plate and brazen meridian, 
is the best instrument by which to render an 
intelligent explanation; and dull must be the 
scholar who, by its aid and a few lucid expla¬ 
nations from the teacher, cannot readily grasp 
the idea. But, with regret be it spoken, a 
majority of our country schools cannot boast 
the possession of a globe; and many a boy be- 
We look that lovod Herbarium o’er, 
Arranged nitli school-girt care— 
But where, alas ! the hand that placed 
Each fading wild flower there ? 
—For not of Summer woods alone, 
Unto our hearts they tell_ 
Meet type of human hopes I we read 
Their mournful lesson well I 
She too, a lair slight floweret, drooped in Life’s glad one 
ing May- 
And in her gentle purity, Ai.mira passed away 1 
West Bloomfield, N. Y„ 1854. Marianna. 
surface named thereon. 
| with our strength, and kept pace with the 
march of improvement We owe our contin¬ 
uance as a Republic to the existence of our 
common schools. 
Let education keep pace with the extension 
of our territory, and the increase of our popu¬ 
lation. It will keep the Church and the 
State separate. That alone would counteract 
the influence that the moral powers of the 
Church, might exert against the civil powers 
of the land—against the preservation of o-ood 
Our happiness depends quite as much on 
little things as on great Small trials ai 
difficult to bear as any. People often 
their patience when a dress is torn, or a pit 
broken, who would be quiet and calm if £ 
serious misfortune had befallen them. 
I hope, boys, you intend to be gentlrmen. 
l ou have perhaps seen the remark made by 
Henry Ward Beecher, that “dress does not 
make the man, but after he is made, he looks 
better dressed up.” Neither do gentlemanly 
manners and habits make the man, but thev 
certainly improve him after he is made, and 
render him agreeable and prepossessing. 
. intend to be gentlemen, you must be- 
Here is a man leading a white goat with 
only three legs, which he wishes to sell, but on 
a careful examination we perceive that one of 
the forelegs had been neatly amputated, while 
the animal was young. There are half a dozen 
gaming tables, each surrounded by its players 
and spectators. The Chinese are inveterate 
PAINFUL REGRETS, 
Bulwer, a man of genius, and greatly ad¬ 
mired by some, said in a letter to a gentleman 
in Boston, in lb-13, “ I have closed my career 
as a writer ot fiction. 1 am gloomy and uu- 
huppy. 1 have exhausted the powers of life 
chasing pleasure where it is not to be found.” 
How much better if Bulwer had discovered 
his mistake at an earlier period! Had he em¬ 
ployed his gifted mind in strengthening the 
cords ol virtue, in repressing unholy passions 
instead of fanning them, how different would 
have been his review of life! 
“1 am gloomy and unhappy!” Richard 
Baxter said no Such thing at the close of his 
useful life. He had written much, but he had 
not “chased pleasure where it is not to be 
found.” John Bunyau made no such reeoid 
at the close of his; nor did Owen, or Edwards, 
or Brainard, or Wesley, or Fuller, or Scott, or 
Payson. Men will reap as they sow, in spite of 
all their hopes and efforts to the contrary.— 
We have often thought of the Italian actor in 
Paris. He was gloomy and unhappy, like Bnl- 
wer. He consulted a physician. J Lis physi¬ 
cian advised him to mingle in scenes of gayetv. 
“ Especially,” said he “ go to the Italian thea¬ 
tre, and if Carlinn does not dispel your gloom, 
your case must be desperate indeed.” ‘’ Alas,’ 
sir,” replied the patient, “I myself am Carlina; 
ami v liile I make all Paris lull ol laughter and 
merriment, I am dying with melancholy and 
chagrin,” What a commentary on those pleas¬ 
ures, in which so many indulge to keen unthe 
The Chinese are inveterate 
gamblers, and as the stakes at many of these 
tables are as low as a single cash, few are so 
poor that they cannot make a venture. One of 
these methods 1ms some resemblance of the 
little jokers, so well known at our race courses 
J lie player has three sticks, the ends of which 
are thrust through his fingers. There is a hole 
thiougli each of the other ends, which are held 
in his hand, a cord was passed through one of 
them, and the play consists in guessing which 
one, as the cord may be transferred from one 
were once Republics, 
yet after a while they relapsed into monarchies. 
France has twice tried it and failed, and hither¬ 
to no nation has succeeded in establishing a 
Republican form of government that has stood 
the test of Time. And from that the friends 
of despotism presage the end of this. But the 
Republics of Greece and Rome were not plant¬ 
ed upon the broad foundation of universal 
learning. It is true, that they handed down 
to us a literature, which has lasted longer than 
their nationality, and which has never been 
equalled. But they lacked that mighty engine 
of human improvement, the press, and knowl¬ 
edge could not be so universally diffused among 
the people as at the present day. It could be 
j ji . ilUill UIIU 
to tne other by a quick movement of the fing- 
crs. 1 put a cash on the board, made a gue.<S, 
and won a cake of suspicious looking candy! 
which I gave to the nearest boy, to the great 
merriment of the bystanders. There are also 
stands for the sale of pea-nuts, reminding us of 
the classic side-walki 
for the sake of Y 
:s of Chatham street, and 
oung America, we must invest 
a few cash in its favorite fruit. But here is an 
enteitainment ol an entire novel character. A 
man seated on the pavement, holds in his hand 
a white porcelain tile, about a foot square. 
1 Ins he overspreads with a deep blue color, 
from a sponge dipped in a thin paste of indigo, 
and asks us to name some design. I suggested 
the lotus. He extended his forefinger, crooked, 
flexible as an elephant’s trunk, and as sharp as 
il the end had been whittled off; gives three or 
four quick dashes across the tile, and in ten 
seconds or less, lo ! there is the flower, ex- 
quisitively drawn and shaded, its snowy cup 
hanging in the midst of its long swaying leaves, 
ihree more strokes, and a white bird, with 
spread wings, hovers over it; two more, and a 
dog stands beside it. The rapidity and preci¬ 
sion of that forefinger 
DO YOU INTEND TO BE A GENTLEMAN? 
A QUESTION FOR BOVS. 
seize upon the reins of government. In France, 
too, the revolution failed from the same cause, 
that is, the people were uneducated, and not 
being able to judge themselves, and guard the 
rights which their sword had obtained, they 
listened to the voice of party leadens, who 
wickedly deceived them, and gathered the 
power into their own hands. 
With us it is different The good sense of 
our ancestors planted early the institutions of 
learning, and as the forest disappeared before 
the hand of civilization, the school-house rose, 
and stood side by side with the humble log 
cabin. This early education instilled into the 
minds of the people enabled them to oppose a 
successful resistance to the encroachments of 
Great Britain. And when we emerged into a 
Republic, this early principle strengthened 
Resignation.— It pleases heaven to give us 
no more light in our way than will leave virtue 
in possession of its recompense. Lrant me, 
gracious God, to go cheerfully on the road 
which '1 liou hast marked out; 1 wish it neither 
more wise nor more smooth; continue the light 
of this dim taper Thou hast put into my hands; 
1 will kneel upon the ground several times a 
day, to seek the best track I can with it; and 
having done that, I will trust myself and the 
issue of .my journey to Thee, who art the foun¬ 
tain of joy, and will sing of comfort as I go 
along. 
When Philip H enry, the father of the cel¬ 
ebrated commentator, sought the hand of the 
onlj daughter and heiress of Mathews in mar¬ 
riage, an objection was made by her father, who 
admitted that he was a gentleman, a scholar, 
and an excellent preacher, hut he was a strang¬ 
er, and “ they did not even know tvhere he came 
from.’’ . “True,” said the daughter, who had 
well weighed the excellent qualities and graces 
ol the stranger, “ but I know where he is going 
and I should like to go with him,” and they 
walked life’s pilgrimage together. ' 
As when sheep or other creatures are nour¬ 
ished by their pastures, the food they have eat¬ 
en appeal’s not in the same fushion upon them, 
not in grass, but in growth of flesh and fleece, 
thus the Word would truly appear to feed you, 
not by the bare discoursing of the Word over 
again, but by the temper of your spirit and ac¬ 
tions, if in them you grow really more spirit¬ 
ual 
N\ ith love, the heart becomes a fair and 
fertile garden, glowing with suushine and 
lumie garuen, glowing with suushine and warm tj 
hues, and exhaling sweet odors; but without it y 
it is a bleak desert covered with ashes. )! 
