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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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[Written for the Rural New-Yorker.] 
SPEAK GENTLY. 
Enough of sorrow, enough of sin 
Is veiled the sunniest eye within ; 
Enough of grief and hitler care 
The lightest, .gayest heart must hear. 
Oh! speak not rudely, lest thy mirth 
Should chill some aching heart of earth, 
And the word thou hast so lightly spoken 
Wound a heart that’s already broken. 
A gentle word hath a wondrous power, 
It will calm the heart in the darkest hour, 
’Tisa chord of music from harp-strings riven, 
Which once were attuned to the songs of Heaven. 
Rose Bower, 1854. Myrt.v J.ai. 
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[For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE STUDENT’S CAREER. 
TALE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. 
BY EDWARD WEBSTER, ESQ. 
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[Continued from Page 304.] 
Solomon liad no very extensive preparations 
to make before leaving home for the scene of 
his future literary labors. A comfortable but 
plain wardrobe to pack up, conspicuous among 
the articles in which was an abundant supply 
of home-made linen and lioisery, and a small 
bag filled with needles, thread and buttons, a 
lump of wax, a pair ot scissors, and the other 
et cetercis, which are supposed to belong 
(although no one knows except the membeis 
of that most unfortunate fraternity) to a bach¬ 
elor’s kit. 
“ Solomon,” remarked his mother, a thorough 
going and economical housewife, “ you are 
now about to go away from home, and will not 
have a mother and sisters to look after your 
clothing. These things are put in for you to 
use, and you must not be too proud or too 
neglectful to use them either, when needed. If 
a button comes off your shirts, and the washer¬ 
woman overlooks it, sew it on yourself. 
“Never fear me, mother; cash is not so 
abundant with me as to warrant either extrav¬ 
agance or folly. If I do not give a good ac¬ 
count of myself in the end, lecture me tlien^ 
not now.” 
“You boys are apt to be so careless !” re¬ 
joined the good old lady; “and when away 
from home go to dilapidation very fast.” 
“Not always in clothing only,” added the 
son, good humoredly; “dilapidation in body, 
in mind, and in character, too, often occur. I 
have seen all this myself, circumscribed as my 
spherc of observation has been, and trust I 
shall not soon forget the blessed influences of 
a home, where one of the best of mothers has 
striven to guide my youthful feet in the right 
path.” “ Mother,” he added with a good deal 
of feeling, “I have a difficult task before me, 
and may fail in the accomplishment of my un 
dertaking ; but whatever the result may be, 
vou at least will give me credit for doing my 
bfest.” 
“ Never fear, my son,” responded the mother, 
wiping the moisture from her eye, ‘ where 
there is a will there is a way ! go on with a 
stout heart, make use of all honorable means, 
and trust the event with God.” 
Among the few friends on whom the young 
man called, in order to bid them adieu before 
leaving home for the first time in his life, wrs 
an old gentleman residing in the neighboring 
village, a rough, stern man, severe in appear¬ 
ance and address, and one who had a hard 
name among the generality of men. Wo to' 
the dishonest debtor who fell into the hands of 
old Simon Bonesteel. The lazy, the shiftless, 
and the improvident, usually fared no better at 
his hands; but honest and industrious men, 
although dreading to be found in default, were 
generally much better dealt by when in real 
difficulty by him, than when found at the 
mercy of many other, and ostensibly better 
men. On being asked by the old gentleman 
how much money he had to depend upon in 
order to get through College, Solomon an¬ 
swered, “ three hundred dollars.” 
“And you expect to pursue a four years 
course of study on such a sum as that ! I have 
known a young man, and one not deemed ex¬ 
travagant either, spend two thousand dollars 
on the same course. You have not, I am 
afraid, counted the cost of this undertaking.” 
« Yes I have. I do not expect to finish the 
course upon that sum. I can earn something 
in the way of teaching winters, and when 1 can 
go no further, why I must suspend my studies 
and recruit my finances.” 
“ Your object is a laudable one, at all events,” 
rejoined the old gentleman; “ and you deserve 
success whether you obtain it or not. Depend 
upon yourself as far as possible, but when you 
can go no farther, call upon me. I may be 
disposed, if you show yourself worthy, as 1 
have no doubt you will, to lend a helping 
hand.” 
Solomon left for one of the New England 
Colleges next day. He was examined and ad¬ 
mitted to the Freshman class, and for a time 
lost his identity among the numbers of his 
associates. In a body of young men, thrown 
together indiscriminately from all parts of the 
country, on terms of perfect equality, it takes 
a little time to discriminate and develop dif¬ 
ferent traits of character. A new class is usu¬ 
ally an epitome of the world at large. Differ¬ 
ent feelings, different notions, different capaci 
ties, different modes of thought and action are 
all mingled and jumbled together, in a mass, 
without cohesion or agglomeration, but soon 
distinctions begin to appear, the affinities of 
each draw hint to others of his own turn of 
thought and feeling, and the skillful Professor 
who has his eye upon the class, very soon dis¬ 
criminates between the industrious, earnest 
student, and the one of the opposite tendencies. 
Our hero was not long in making a favorable 
impression, not by presenting himself before 
the Faculty and the class, and challenging ad¬ 
miration, but by attending strictly to his duties, 
and observing, under all circumstances, a be¬ 
coming and orderly deportment. He made 
but few acquaintances, at least for a time, and 
was scarcely known for several terms, outside 
of the class and its immediate instructors. 
When leaving for College, Soloman, from 
motives of prudence and precaution, took 
along only a portion of the small sum at his 
command, placing the balance in the hands of 
a safe person, with directions to forward it to 
him by draft, in such sums as he might call for. 
As the first fall term was drawing towards a 
close, finding his funds beginning to run low, he 
wrote to his trustee for a remittance of fifty 
dollars. Day by day he watched the post-office 
for a return, but was disappointed. His bills 
were falling due with no means to pay them, 
and small as they were, he was compelled to 
turn the creditors away. Even the poor wash¬ 
erwoman, who supported herself and a family 
of small children by the labor of her hands, 
was put off a week, in the hopte and expecta¬ 
tion of the remittance; but it did not come.— 
The last day of the term at length came round, 
and found our hero penniless. Never before 
had he been in quite so bad a predicament, 
and without a counseller or friend within five 
hundred miles, with whom to consult, the first 
severe obstacle he had yet encountered now 
loomed up threateningly across his path. 
He had engaged a school for the winter, 
twenty-five miles from the College, in a neigh¬ 
boring town, and was to commence on the 
Monday following the close of the term, which 
occurred on Thursday; but still hoping to hear 
from his friends in the mean time, he wrote to 
the Committee to defer the opening of the 
school for one week. This week of suspense 
was one of the most uuhappy he had yet ex¬ 
perienced, and it waned away leaving him un 
relieved in purse and uncomforted in mind.— 
The students had all taken their departure for 
the long winter vacation, and his lonely foot¬ 
fall as he ptesed along the empty hall, sounded 
as hollow and mocking as a sepulchre. 
“ If that man fails me,” said Soloman, “ on 
the small sum I have placed in his hands, then 
farewell to all expectations of a College course 
my aspirations will be nipped in the bud, and 
I shall bid adieu to these halls and to a short¬ 
lived hope, and betake myself to some mechan 
ical employment that shall at least afford me a 
comfortable living, and the means ot paying 
my honest debts. I might write to Mr. Bone 
steel, as he directed me to do, but it is too 
soon. He will not give me credit for any 
effort deserving of success, and besides he is 
under no obligation, either by pecuniary ties or 
ties of kindred, and what assurance have I ot 
his regard, except the casual remark he made 
when I came away. But it will not do to de 
spair too soon. I will put off the payment of 
my bills until spring, get to my school in some 
way, and then await the breaking away or the 
gathering still deeper of the threatening cloud. 
Thus soliloquizing, he set himself about his 
preparations for departure, lie found no dffi- 
culty in putting off the payment of his bills, 
the frank open way in which he explained the 
matter, was satisfactory to all; it is far too apt 
to be the case, that students, even with lavish 
means at their command, are compelled to let 
their accounts run over until they return again 
with funds replenished from the paternal trea¬ 
sury. Lavish expenditures, and too often even 
criminal indulgences, ruin the habits as well as 
the credit of far too many of our young colle. 
giates. Far too many brilliant intellects have 
gone down in night and darkness, where the 
elements of the storm have been engendered in 
the vicious practices of a College life—a life 
above all others potent in immeasurable good 
or fraught with the worst and most unmitiga¬ 
ted evils. It is not, however, the fault of the 
system so much as the men; for the greatest 
and most glorious boon ever vouchsafed to 
men by heaven, if perverted, becomes a direful 
curse. 
Our student, as we said above, set himself 
about his preparations for departure to the 
scene of his winter labors. Packing up a lew 
articles of clothing in a carpet-bag, he was in¬ 
tending to set out on foot next day. It was 
now late in November; th; weather had thus 
far been remarkably pleasant, and scarcely a 
pavticlc of snow as yet had fallen, but winter 
was quietly mustering all its forces, and gath¬ 
ering strength for a fierce struggle for the 
mastery over retiring Autumn. During the 
night the north-east wind commenced blowing 
in loud and roaring gusts, accompanied by a 
thick fall of snow; and next morning the sky 
was so thick with the whirling and blinding 
wreaths, and the roads so blocked up with the 
piling drifts, that scarcely a man ventured 
abroad, or had courage to face the howling 
blasts. Twenty-five miles through such a 
storm, and on foot, was out ol the question; so 
sitting down in his room, in a very melancholy 
state of mind, Solomon gave way to a feeling 
of utter despondency. At length, however, 
rising from his seat as a new idea struck him, 
he descended to the hall below, in which was 
situated the Treasurer’s office of the College. 
That officer was alone in the room, busy post¬ 
ing up his books, and preparing an exhibit of 
his accounts for the inspection of the Trustees. 
With few words the young man requested him 
to go up for a moment to his room. The offi¬ 
cer complied, and when seated, Solomon, aiter 
briefly stating the predicament in which he 
was placed, took from his trunk an elegant 
coat pattern,saying :—“Here are two yardsoi 
cloth, which cost me twelve dollars; if you will 
be kind enough to deposit it in your office, 
and leud me ten dollars until spring, it will be 
a very great accommodation.” 
“ You are welcome to the use of the money, 
responded the Treasurer ; “ put back your 
cloth into its place, and before I return home 
I will call again, and give you the amount de¬ 
sired ;” saying which the Treasurer withdrew. 
Solomon had gone through the ordeal thus 
far with a tolerable degree of composure, but 
the feeling of utter humiliation which he felt 
in being compelled to make such a request, 
added to the prompt kindness and generous 
compliance of the officer, completely unmaned 
him; so sitting down beside the lonely grate, 
he burst into an uncontrollable flood of tears. 
He had not calculated upon ,an immediate re¬ 
turn of the officer, who had in fact gone down 
to his safe, obtained the required sum, and at 
once stepped back to the students room. 
The predicament of the poor youth was it pos¬ 
sible more lamentable than ever. lie tried to 
conceal his tears, but in vain, and mertified 
beyond measure at being caught in such an 
undignified position, he vainly endeavored to 
elude the scrutiny of the officer, but after one 
or two efforts at choking in his emotions, to no 
purpose, as they became overpowering, be hid 
his face in both hands and wept likaa child. 
The officer was so taken by surprise himself, 
as to be completely at a loss for a few moments; 
but quickly recovering his self-possession, and 
judging correctly as to the occasion of the 
young man’s manifestation of feeling, he spoke 
to him very kindly, commending the course he 
had taken, and paid high honor to the very 
tears of which the young man had been so 
much ashamed. He urged him to confide in 
him at any and all times, and if difficulties 
pecuniary or otherwise arose again, to consult 
him at once. Thus encouraged and soothed, 
the student resumed his wonted cheerfulness of 
temper, packed his trunk, and on the following 
day, as the storm had abated, took his seat in 
a stage sleigh, (for the railroad, since complet¬ 
ed, was not then commenced,) and at the ap¬ 
pointed time was on the ground, prepared for 
a winter campaign as a school-master. The 
interview with the Treasurer, although always 
contemplated with mortification by Solomon, 
bound that functionary to him as a fast friend, 
and was remembered and spoken ot by him 
years after the student’s connection with the 
College had ceased. 
From that day forward to the end of his 
College course, the clouds brightened in the 
young man’s sky. The remittance, w’hich, by 
its failure in coming to hand, had caused him 
so much trouble, had been duly sent, but mis¬ 
carried; and after finding its way to the dead- 
letter office at Washington, was returned safely 
to the hands of the trustee. It was again dis¬ 
patched under more favorable auspices, and 
with the balance then due the student, was at 
length received by him. This, with the avails 
of his winter’s school, carried him through two 
years of his course, at the end of which he 
withdrew’a year from the institution, tempora¬ 
rily took up his connection therewith, and 
taught a Union school; in which way he earned 
sufficient funds to carry him through the re¬ 
maining two years. 
Happening to meet his old friend Bonesteel 
during this interval of teaching, and, in answer 
to his inquiries as to how he succeeded, telling 
him of the unfortunate predicament in which 
he was placed during his first term, the old 
man exclaimed “ Did 1 not tell you to apply 
to me, in case you found yourself in difficulty?” 
“ Certainly you did,” answered Solomon ; 
“but I felt that you was under no obligation to 
aid me, and besides, if I should die you w’ould 
never be able to recover your funds.” 
“ That is none of your business !” responded 
the old man indignantly. “ If I choose to ven¬ 
ture my money foolishly, who does it concern 
except myself ? If you are so proud as to re¬ 
fuse a voluntary offer from a friend, you de 
serve to starve to death, and I hope you will! 
Remember,” he added, “if such an occasion 
occurs again, and you fail to apprise me ol it, 
I’ll never forgive you for the insult to my gen¬ 
erosity !” 
“ A thousand thanks !” said the young man, 
grasping the hand of his rough but generous 
old friend; “I shall certainly do so, but I trust 
there will be no occasion now. I can see my 
way clear, and if nothing happens shall come 
out triumphant. Your kind offer is as fully 
appreciated, and as gratefully acknowledged, 
as though it had been put to the severest test.” 
Tn the case of how many a fainting heart, had 
such a generous support been proffered, w’ould 
life, and hope, and glorious success have taken 
the place of failure, despondency, and ultimate 
despair! 
[Concluded next week ] 
ILLUSTRATED DEBUS, NO. 46. 
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nor. 
THE DISAPPOINTED. 
I thought her mine : I thought the world 
Shone forth with joy for me; 
I did not dream in after years 
Its folly I should see. 
But so it proved. I sought her hand— 
(1 really thought I’d get her) — 
But oh! alas 1 her answer came— 
Her mother wouldn't let her 
TURKISH SEAMANSHIP. 
Dickens, in his Household lVords, states 
that at the close of the Greek insurrection in 
1829, the Turks turned every Greek out of 
their Naval service. Henceforth they were 
determined to fight, work, and navigate their 
ships themselves. The first they could do in¬ 
differently well, the second and third not at all. 
The seamen draughted on board ship by the 
marine conscription did not know the use or 
even the name of one single spar, block, or rope, 
and the officers were utterly ignorant of the 
terms of the nautical vocabulary whereby to 
convey their orders to the men. Moreover the 
men could not have understood them if they 
had been as learned in nautical slang a3 an 
English boatswain or a Dutch skipper. 
In this dilemma, the Turkish naval instruc¬ 
tors hit upon an ingenious plan. They sym 
bolized and named the various parts of the 
vessel by anything that came nearest to hand. 
They tied a pear, for instance, to the mainmast, 
a pomegranate to the mizenmast, a bunch of 
grapes to the foremast. The poop was distin¬ 
guished by a string of onions, the forecastle by 
a basket of figs, the ropes by vine leaves or 
boughs of trees; the different sails by pipe- 
sticks, mutton bones, or any other convenient 
odds and ends. 
Here was a new nautical dictionary invented 
at once:—“Haul down the pipe-stick!” “Take 
two reefs in the rice bags!” “Stand by the 
grape-mast!” “Go forward to the onion castle!” 
were as good words ol command when the 
sailors understood them (which they soon 
learned to do) as the correct ones; and men 
who, on their arrival on ship-board, scarcely 
knew a clew-line from a kedge-anehor, or stem 
from stern, speedily acquired a competent 
knowledge of the different parts of the ship. 
m 
' Answer in two weeks. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 42 letters. 
My 33, 7,14,2(5, 34 is an official expounder of 
the Mahomedan law in Turkey. 
My 42, 9, 36,19,29,3 is the shoulder of a Bas¬ 
tion. 
My 40, 4, 41. 6, 7, 30, 10 is upon the route. 
My 22, 15, 20. 34, 23, 8, 32 is a failure. 
My 2, 17, 41, 28, 13, 25, 12 is a plant. 
My 16, 11, 19,21,24, 19, 41 is pride. 
My 38, 5, 18, 34, 15, 11, 29 is emblematic. 
My 1, 39,6, 13, 9 is a shout of war. 
My 35. 31, 13, 6, 23 is a shout of pursuit. 
My 15, 6, 4, 14, 28,19,10, 4, 38 is running to¬ 
gether. 
My whole was the dying words of an officer 
in the New York regiment of volunteers, who 
was killed at the battle of Chapultepec, in 
Mexico. 
Leatherville, N. Y., 1854. C. n. 
Answer next week. 
Enigma. —I am what every honest person de¬ 
spises ; cut off my head and I am what you feel 
when you approach one of the four elements ; 
behead me again and I am what most people do 
several times a day ; transpose me, I am what 
some people like ; transpose me again, I am a 
word you might say after dinner ; add both my 
heads and extract my middle, I am what you 
love to do with your friends ; cut off my head, 
1 am what you assume when you take leave ; 
cut off my present head and add my first, I am 
your bachelor friends companion when you are 
gone. p. 
Answer next week. 
An Original Anecdote. — The Portland 
Argus relates, that Capt. K., a shrewd steam¬ 
boat captain from the State of Maiue, caught 
a “Jeremy Diddler” on board his boat one 
day, as he was making from Boston to “down 
East,” and pinned him up in good style. It 
seems the follow laid a traverse to get clear of 
paying his fare, and insisted to the clerk that 
he had paid but lost his ticket. 
“ Whom did you pay?” asked the clerk. 
He rather guessed it was the captain; so K. 
was summoned to the conference. 
“ Oh, yes, yes,” said Capt. K., “it appears to 
me, I do recollect. Let me see; you gave me 
a five dollar bill?” 
“ Yes,” said the Diddler; “I did.” 
“ And I gave you the change in half dollars, 
didn’t I?” (The fare was only half a dollar— 
competition was high. 
“ Yes,” says Jeremy, “ that’s it, I recollect it 
perfectly.” 
« Very well,” says Capt. Tv., “ I won’t dispute 
your word for anything—but it you please, I 
should like to see the halves!” 
The fellow was tripped when he least ex¬ 
pected it. He could not produce the halves, 
and had to fork out his fare. 
According to the newspapers, Mr. Hume, 
on the presentation of his picture, said that 
“ his chief aim in life had been to promote the 
good of the greatest number.” The reports 
omit to state that Lord John Russell here in¬ 
terrupted him with the question : 
“ What is the greatest number?” 
And that Mr. Hume, with great prompti¬ 
tude, replied : 
“ Number one, to be sure.” 
Answer to Illustrated Kebns i\o. 
Editor—here arc two dollars I owe you. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 45.— 
The sword and the pen. 
Answer to Charade in No. 45: 
Your first is l'lca, a beggar knave 
In city and at court. 
True—false—’tis at tbe Chancery bar 
The lawyer’s special sport. 
But it Is not in courts of law 
A plea is ever sure. 
Which sure your riddle’s second is— 
Or can the whole secure, 
Bnt when a plea is softest heard 
In whisper or a sigh, 
Or in a look—oh 1 then ’tis sure, 
And Pleasure must be nigh. 
There’s many a plea made out of time, 
And llius we often see 
The silly lover make too sure 
Before he makes his plea. 
But these two words, when well combined 
Both as to lime and measure, 
Will seldom f"iil to gain their end, 
And solve your rid lie, Pleasure. 
On the marriage of Thomas Hawk, of 
Mansfield, to Miss Sarah Jane Dove. 
It is not often that you seo 
So queer a kind of love ; 
Oh what a savage he must bo 
To Tommy-lJawk a Hove! 
Have you seen the sign I have got for my 
business? said a vender of the ardent. Yes, 
every time I see your face. 
To make a Russian name — imitate the 
“tchug” of a bull-frog, give one sneezo and 
say “ ski.” 
Does a man feel girlish when he makes a 
“maiden speech?” Answer next week. 
Bare-faced falsehoods—fibs told by the 
ladies in the present style of bonnets. 
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to act as Agent for the Rural Nkw-Yorkkr, and for the 
Wool Growkr and Stock Kkgistkr, in the counties of 
Chautauque and Cattaraugus, N. Y., and Warren, Pa. 
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