AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ed out upon the slight figure that was so reckless 
as to beard them in their very dens, and, with an 
annihilating expression of countenance, very 
promptly vindicated the majesty of the law by 
sending him about his business in no very gentle 
manner, looking whole folios of black-letter at his 
retreating form. 
For days the search went on, and ever with the 
same discouraging results. Few civil words were 
spoken to the wanderer, few smiles beamed upon 
bis weary path. Of all tho great human brother¬ 
hood not one was found to extend a helping hand 
to cheer his “poor relation.” The search grew 
tiresome—the Beauty store of pence had been 
nearly spent, and the heart of tho youth was sink¬ 
ing in hia bosom, when he chanced to call at a 
publishing office in Nassau street, and there re¬ 
peated bis request, avowing his willingness to do 
anything for which lie might receive such a bare 
pittance as should serve to feed and clothe him. 
The “gentlemanly clerk” to whom he applied 
coolly surveyed him for a moment through his 
golden-rimmed spectacles, and very unconcerned¬ 
ly told him there was nothing for him to do there. 
Wearied by his long search the youth turned away 
with a downcast look that very plainly bespoke 
a principal 
the grey, overshadowing mountain, and the glo¬ 
ries of the ever-changing sky, were ever present 
to his vision. 
So the boy grew np; he had lessons from the 
lips of his patient, God-fearing mother within the 
smoky precincts of the little cabin; from those 
lips he heard the sublime words of tho inspired 
writers—the appalling denunciation, the glowing 
praise, the eloquence of promise. And without 
was the Great Teacher, teaching sublimity, purity 
and truth. The child grew up a poet—with the 
poet's eye, the poet's ear, the poet’s soul. 
When the last clod was added to the oblongpile 
of earthy when the little band of neighbors scat¬ 
tered, and the grave-digger shouldered his tools 
and strode rapidly back to the village, then the 
youth lifted his eye to the river, and beyond it, 
where large and red the August sun was slowly 
going down behind the distant hills. The youth’s 
sorrow was no mock woe; his tears, glistening in 
the last beams of sunset, were no mock tears; they 
came up from the depths of real and honest 
affliction—an anguish too deep for the sounding of 
ordinary spirits. His loneliness was palpable; it 
was like thatthick darkness which may be cut with 
a knife; a gloom through which hope, and only 
hope may enter and illumine—very faiutly illumine 
—a narrow and uncertain way toward the great 
mysteries of the Future. 
Yet Charles Anderson chose to be alone.— 
From more than one of the pitying villagers he 
received urgent requests to accompany them to 
their houses; he did not doubt their sincerity, yet 
he did not go; he stood almost motionless beside 
the new-made grave until the moon shone out and 
the night was far spent. The thoughts, the re¬ 
solves, the aspirations and the prayers of those 
hours are sacred: we will not tell them, but they 
were noble. 
We have met the youth alone in the crowd with 
the memory of that solitary vigil fresh—very fresh 
—in his mind. He passed from the solitude of the 
deserted cabin to the solitude of the roaring 
streets, and the latter loneliness was more pro¬ 
found, more dismal and more hopeless than the 
former. 
The crowd surged on, eddying about the shop 
windows, setting back at the crossings, then break¬ 
ing loose and plunging desperately down the nar¬ 
row streets like the muddy waters of a "fresh,” 
confined between the walls of a narrow gorge. A 
confased routof cabs, carts and omnibusses thun¬ 
dered along, with here and there an unlucky por¬ 
ter-clinging with death-like tenacity to his hand¬ 
cart—bobbing desperately about among the tangled 
rush, like a waif of bark carried helplessly along 
on the aDgry crest of a swollen flood. 
There was no cessation of the roar, no check to 
the hurrying escapade of the eager human tide; 
and Charles Anderson, newly arrived at the 
great metropolis, wandering uncertainly in the 
dizzy maze, with the diminutive bundle containing 
his scanty earthly goods upon his arm, was in the 
fullest sense a waif floating almost helplessly upon 
a tide as uncaring and ruthless as any that tumbles 
in the spring-time among the mountain canons. 
And here, kind reader, permitmeto saythatthis 
is no Btory and has no plot; so look for none and 
he not disappointed. 
The purpose of the youth who paced with un¬ 
certain steps over the side-walks of the thronged 
street, was the same old purpose which from time 
immemorial has carried aapirlng youth from lane 
and cottage to office and attic—from the wilder¬ 
ness of wood to the wilderness of brick and mor¬ 
tar. The same old purpose of “getting on;” the 
same stuUbomresolntion of making a way through 
the sediment np to the surface; the same dogged 
determination sustained by the same young and 
robust hope. Charles Anderson had few fixed 
plans; he had no friends and little money; but 
from the river side be shortly found his way to the 
city, and here, in the steady prosecution of an un¬ 
wavering course, he expected to rise—how he did 
not know—to usefulness and position. He was a 
dreamer, but he went very sensibly at work.— 
Edging out of the current, he dropped in at places 
of business find modestly asked for employment. 
The request for employment, modestly made, is 
certainly an innocent request; there is nothlngdn 
it which threatens the integrity of society—nothing 
which would seem to put in peril any of the pet 
social institutions; — and why this simple and 
seemingly very innocuous request should produce 
effects upon the social placidity so nearly akin to 
the reckless results of an intractible bombshell, is 
at the very least a great mystery. But whatever 
the reason of this strange thing may be, there is 
an unquestionable kindred between the request 
and the shell, albeit in the former case it is society 
that is apt to explode and the great sufferer is the 
unlucky wight who is so indiscreet as to put the 
incendiary question. 
Charles was at first much astonished at the 
various reception which he met at the hands of 
the successive magnates to whom ho went with his 
unfortunate inquiry. He could not conceive that 
there was any wrong in his modest proceeding, 
and he was at great loss to divine the cause of the 
treatment which it called forth. Busy, bustling 
merchants, with shipping lists very legibly written 
upon their brows, and a profit and loss account 
fully traced out by the crow-feet at the corner of 
their eyes, looked np from their invoices, and in an 
injured manner, and with explosive tone, very 
promptly replied to the hall-heard request—“No! 
nothing at all—all full.” 
Oily young men—radiant in all the glories of a 
fashionable tailor and hair dresser—floating lightly 
at the head of a business built up years before by 
their plodding fathers, and now carried on by some 
half-paid dry-nurseB of old clerks, lolled their 
beads a little to one side, shifted their patent 
leather encased pedals a little in their rest upon 
the' cushioned office chair, and withdrawing with 
jewelled hand their " Havanas” for a moment from 
their lips, managed to achieve a proper sneer and 
puff out with the volume of smoke—“ You,?— No, 
we don’t want yon,” 
Veteran Barristers, whom the rash youth had 
holed in their very dusty of dusties, sacred for gene¬ 
rations to red tape and cobwebs, where the veteran 
limbs of the law did their business and their 
clients, in many cases as effectually as their type 
amor g the animals, the spider—fat and bloated 
spider be it understood—does those injudicious 
insects whose lack of prndenoe and surplus of 
curiosity send into the fatal precincts of his dark 
and dusty sanctum. These worthy people glower- 
PUBLIG SALE OF 
IMPROVED SHORT HORNS (DURHAM CATTLE.) 
J AMES QOWEN, will rell at Public Sale, on Wednesday the 
llith of Jnno next, at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, a choice Herd 
of SnoBT-llOKNS, consisting ol Cows, young Hulls, Ileilers and 
Calves, bred expressly with tho view of establishing the fine 
Milking and easy Feeding properties of the 11 Durham Breed." 
Catalogues, with Pedigrees, will be furnished to due lime. Sale 
to commence at 11 o'clock. 385w3 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
POETICAL ENIGMA. 
For Moore’a Rural New-Yorker. 
OLD ABEL’S WILL. 
A FABLE FOH FAKHEB BOYS. 
My first a dread curse, 
Or a blessing may prove; 
Can be fierce as a fury, 
Or mild as a dove; 
It has wasted mankind 
Till the earth seem’d a tomb; 
Yet can bid the wild desert 
Like Paradise bloom. 
My second’s a power 
Whose tremendous sway 
Crowned England with conquest 
Iu many a fray; 
But the glory of Sherwood 
Has faded at last, 
Or, lives in our minds 
Like a dream of the past. 
My whole is a creature 
Of glory and light; 
Unequalled in beauty 
It bursts on our sight; 
It comes as a herald 
Of heavenly birth, 
Bearing Hope, Peace and Love, 
To the dwellers of earth. 
Hartland, N, V., 1867. D. S. Cleghorn, 
Answer next week. 
KOC111CSTJ5K. HAVINGS’ HANK. 
NEW BUILDING, 
Corner of Buffalo and Fitzhugh Streets. 
[WHS BANK PAYS STX PER CENT INTEREST ON ALL 
L Deposits, instead of five us heretofore allowcil. 
Open irom 9 A M. to 4 P. M., and on Saturday evening. 
May 1st, 1887. EDWARD WHALEN, Secretary. 
Trustees. 
Jonathan Child, Isaac Hills, J. Haywood, 
K F. Smith, Wm. Brew„ter, Wm. Pitkin, 
W, II. Clumpy, U. II. Mumford. 0. Hylngton, 
H. Stillwell, L. It. Swan, Rufus Keeler, 
T. KompshaU, W- A. Reynold*. Wa Kidd 
BY MRS. HOTT, 
A vineyard, orchaid and a field, 
Was all old Ab hi. bad,— 
Except, Indeed, three idle sons, 
Each one a gTaceless lad. 
For once, obedient to his call, 
They sought bis dying bed, 
When, with bis last, expiring breath, 
The lather spoke, and said: 
“Ye children of my grief and shame — 
Once, of my hope and pride — 
To teach you thrift and honest ways, 
How earnestly I've tried. 
“ But ail in vain. ADd now because, 
Soon as my knell waB tolled, 
I knew the vineyard, orchard, field, 
Would all of them be sold; f 
«In spendthrift haste the money gone, 
Ye, beggars, every one, 
I’ll tell you now, ye good for naughts! 
What for your weal I've done. 
“ The hoarded wealth that I have gained 
By years of faithful toil, 
In vineyard, field, or orchard, lies, 
Deep bidden in the soil. 
“ Go one to each, and search it out, 
To whom such luck my fall 
To find the treasure, this my will, 
That one, may have it all," 
Old Abel rested In his grave, 
But scarce the sods were laid. 
Till, all elate, the sons were seen, 
DelvlDg with careful spade. 
One to the orchard, one the field, 
One to the vineyard went; 
To find the heap of hidden gold. 
Sole thought, and last intent. 
No foot ol gronnd was left unturned, 
Ab deeper, deeper still 
Each dug, reluctant to give np 
The right to claim the WU1. 
Time sped. With flagging hopes, at length, 
They thought no more to try j 
But soon the disappointment fled, 
As, “ what la this ?'' they cry. 
For lo ! the wealth they sought Is there, 
Between the earth and skies, 
And so abundantly that scarce 
They can believe their eyes. 
As waves the field with such a crop 
Was -never seen before; 
With crimson frnits the orchard groans, 
The vine with purple store. 
The secret ol old Abel’s will, 
A harvest wealth untold, 
Not one alone, each found the prize, 
Long Bought of burled gold. 
Madison, Wis., 1867. 
MONROE COUNTY SAVINGS INSTITUTION. 
rriHlS BANK ALLOWS INTEREST AT THE KATE OF SIX 
A. per cent per amiuto upon all deposits. Office No. 88 Buffalo 
street, directly opposite tne Court House. 
CHARLES W DONDA 8 , President. 
J. E. PJKRPONT, Secretary. 
Trustees. 
Martin Briggs, Samuel Miller, 
Amon Bronson, Thomas Uanvey, 
Aristarchus Champion, Nathaniel B. Merrick, 
Moses Chapin, Nehemlab Osbttru, 
Freeman Clarke, George W. Parsons, 
Louis Chaptn, Edwin Pancoat, 
Charles W Dnndas, William N. Sage, 
George Kllwangor, Lowls Bolye, 
Ebenezor Ely, Alvah Strong, 
William W, Ely, Ljvl A Ward. 
Rochester, February 34th, 1H57. S7Stf 
the heaviness of his heart. Mr. 
member of the firm, happened to notice the de¬ 
jected couutenanco of the departing youth, and 
touched by a moment's sympathy, resulting in part 
from a sudden remembrance of the time—some 
thirty years before—when he was a homeless wan¬ 
derer seeking employment in the great Babel, 
called him back. 
The position given to Charles was a very hum¬ 
ble one, merely that of porter in the printing es¬ 
tablishment of the “New York Pursuivant,” but 
humble as it was he felt it to he a beginning, and 
went to his labor with a light heart. For many 
days he wrought with steady faithfulness at the 
humble tasks that were allotted to him. He 
begged of his employers the privilege of sleeping 
in one of the rooms ol the establishment, a boon 
which they very gladly granted, feeling certain of 
his integrity, and being nowise unwilling to avail 
themselves of the additional security which his 
presence might give to its contents. He was eco¬ 
nomical in his expenditures, subsisting on cheap 
though wholesome food, wearing inexpensive 
clothing, which, by care and the exercise of native 
taste, was made to give him a neat and becoming 
appearance; and thus, though his stipend was 
small, he lived within it and saved money. With 
his savings he added to his scanty stock of hooks, 
always making such choice as would have done 
honor to the most scholarly taste in the city, Hia 
leisure hours were devoted to study and composi¬ 
tion, and the progress that he made, though alone 
and nnasaisted, was equal to the ambition by which 
his efforts were prompted. 
There were those among his fellows who jeered 
at his steadiness and amused themselves by calling 
him the " Puritan,” But these things did not for 
a moment trouble his mind or unsettle his purpose 
—the purpose which was the great polar Btar that 
kept his every thought and action true to the 
meridian of his onward course. It was not long 
before his employers began to observe the native 
gentility and refinement of his manner; quiet, low- 
spoken, mild and obliging, there was in him that 
nameless charm which distinguishes the trne gen¬ 
tleman. These qualities were In strange contrast 
with the menial nature of his service; yet, though 
his spirit was high and aspiring, he felt his lowly 
position and hard toil to be no disgrace, but rather 
endeavored to adorn them by the graces of gentle 
breeding. 
The columns of the “ Pursuivant” began to be 
enriched by occasional scraps of verse,—short 
poems, conceived and executed in the truest spirit 
of the divine art,—racy sketches of life, and spir¬ 
ited and truthful essays, the MBS. of all of which 
was very mysteriously introduced to the editor’s 
desk. There was no little stir in the “sanctum” 
concerning the new contributor, and not a few 
conjectures were hazarded as to who and what he 
might he. Manifold expedients were resorted to 
for the purpose of penetrating the mystery, but 
for some time without success. Still the contri. 
bntions came—verse, sketch, and essay, with now 
and then a scrap of spicy editorial—until the ed¬ 
itor began to grow excited. He read Scott'b De¬ 
monology aDd Witchcraft, and perused with care 
ullthe records of unearthly doings which were 
within his reach; but all was vain—he found no 
account of an editorial familiar, and in final despair 
resorted with fear and trembling to the desperate 
expedient, of watching through the night in a 
corner of the sanctum. By this means the aston¬ 
ishing discovery was made that the cause of aU 
the rumpus in the editorial kingdom was the quiet 
porter, Charles Anderson. 
And thus it came about that Charles Ander¬ 
son was a porter no longer, and is now at the head 
of one of the most prosperous and influential pub¬ 
lishing establishments in New York. The secret 
of his success is Purpose, Energy and Essential 
Manhood. j. g. k. 
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SIKTG-LE REA.FEU, 
Seymour fy Morgan'* Patent, Improved for the 
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T HIS MACHINE IS MORE SIMPLE, rad loss liable to get 
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and rakes off better than liny other machine, either hand or 
self-raker. Tho suo of tho bandlo muy bo regulated by tho dri¬ 
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SEYMOUR, MORGAN k ALLEN. 
Brockport, Monroe Co., N. Y. _SStwfi 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of SC letters. 
My 1, 7, II, is a river in North Carolina. 
My 2, 3, 33, 19, 13, iB a mountain in North America. 
My 4,10, 11, 14, is a river in Virginia. 
My 5, 25, 28, 32, 33, 7, 33,_20, is a lake in South 
America. t 
My 6, 24, 4, 8, 32, is one of the WeBt Indies. 
My 9, 10,11,16,17, is a river in Scotland. 
My 12,10, II, 18,19,19, 27, is a river in Canada. 
My 15, 23, 26, 27, is a lake in the United States. 
My 21, 29, 25, 28, 35, is a sea in Europe. 
My 2,10, is a river in Italy. 
My 26,13, 19,1, is a lake in Texas. 
My 31, 32, 19,19,10, 21, is a river in Wisconsin. 
My 12, 13, 30, 36, 19, 30, is a mountain in Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
My 26, 24, 33, 34, 35, 1, 12, is a harbor in New York. 
My whole is one of the proverbs of Solomon. 
Pultney, N. Y., 1867. L. P. Parker. 
J&P Answer next week. 
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OR, 
Self-Baking Reaper and Mower. 
BEST MACHINE IN E8K. 
1 (The first) twill in 1862. 
40 Used turcertfullij in 1863. 
300 In diftrenl States in 1864. 
1,200 Well distributed in 1866. 
2,800 Throughout the Union 1858. 
6,000 Building for 1807. 
T here are six hood reasons for this unpar- 
nlleled increase rind great, popularity1st It In strong and 
reliable, and easily managed. 2 d. U eaves tho hard labor of 
Raking. 3d. It unvos at least another bund In binding. 4th, It 
saves shattering by tho carton! handling In rating ; besides, the 
straw being laid straight, It Is wall socorod tu tho sheot, and 
does not drop in the iitiur-hatiiilfiag am! tho heads are not ex¬ 
posed In tho stock, so tlmttbe GhaiH saving oven exceeds the 
labor saving. 6 th. It ii a good Mower, being one of tho best 
convertible machines In tino. 6 th. It bus a knifo that does not 
choke. 
Over 80 First Premiums Kecctvod la Font- Tear*. 
Prico of Reaper and Mower $191)—$6(1 cash, balance In note due 
Jan. 1,1868, Price of Reaper only $165—$41) cash, balance in 
unto dne Jon. 1,1868. 
For cash 12 per cent, discount from tho above prices. 
To secure a Machine, ordor Immediately. Though so little 
known the pmsl Besson, and none ready lor dellvory till 1st May, 
yet not two thirds the customers could bo supplied. The repu¬ 
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t~P~ Order early, if yon would not b« disappointed, 
PamPHLctS gtring t¥FARTlAt.Lr the OPINIONS OF FARM- 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
HISTOBICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 40 letters. 
My 29,18, 8,10, 12, 28, was capital of Bceotia. 
My 32, 40, 29, 25,11, was a river of Hades. 
My 38, 22,15, 35, was once Mistress of the World. 
My 1, 26, 5, 13, 4, 33,14, 31, was the sworn enemy 
of Rome. 
My 7, 39, 28, 17, 20, was the Goddess of fire. 
My 18, 34, 33, 21, 1(1, 30, was the sepulchre of Abra¬ 
ham. 
My 10, 0, 17. 1. 24, 28, 30, 27, 2, was one of the an¬ 
cient pools. 
My 19, 20, 2, 17, 22, was one of the Muses. 
My 37, 9,19, 3, a nick-name for tho King of Prus¬ 
sia, who ascended the throne in 1740. 
My 23, 30, 30, 16, 28, was a judge of the souls of 
the dead. 
My whole was the exclamation of a Roman 
matron, when her son was about to besiege the 
beloved city. Willib W. Minott. 
sclmyler, N. Y., 1857. 
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MUSIC PUBLISHERS, 
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For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARLES ANDERSON. 
All alone; not in tho dusky depths of the 
forest, not in the sandy wastes of the desert, not 
in the silent Bbadows of a deserted abbey—neither 
on the treeless prairie, nor on the pathless sea; but 
in the midst of the noisy crowd, surging eagerly, 
restlessly, untiringly through the narrow thorough¬ 
fares of the busy city. Busy? Yes, very busy.— 
So busy with the countless projects—some good 
and more evil—that fill np the weary round of the 
day; so busy with the schemes of gain, holy and 
unholy; so busy with plottings—dark, dusty plot¬ 
tings, for political preferment and public plunder; 
so busy with efforts for the gratification of vanity, 
of envy and of malice; so busy in the breathless 
chase for gilded phantoms of fancied good, which 
ever fleeing take their course among the fatal pit. 
falls of real evil. So busy!—ah, so busy as to for¬ 
get the great ends of this life upon earth, and also 
the Life which is to come at the end of this. 
Alone in the city, in the crowd, in the fevered 
throng of men too busy, far too busy to remember 
their own great Brotherhood, and the duties grow¬ 
ing out of it He was, really, appallingly alone. 
A great, ways off, miles and miles out into the 
green and open country, where a grassy slope ran 
down to the brink of a rapid stream, and ran back 
—growing steeper and steeper very fast—until 
broken by precipices, and piled with great bould¬ 
ers, the way was overgrown by the dismal umbra- 
geousness of old and thunder-scarred hemlocks, 
and the grassy slope became the rugged mountain. 
There, where the slope was greenest and widest— 
though still very narrow—stood the brown cottage 
of the widow, the poverty-burdened mother of the 
youth who stands gazing with wonder and almost 
dread upon the tumult of tho roaring city. 
The brown cottage is little better than a cabin; 
it is low, weather-stained, ill-lighted, in all things 
unmistakably poor; it is also deserted, Down by 
the river side, where the tireless waters chant 
their never-ceasing monody—where the winds that 
come np the bosom ot the stream make meanings 
in the branches of the birch—there is an oblong 
pile of unmosBed earth; beneath it- the worn-out 
body of the widow moulders silently back to its 
mother dust. After the pains of her wearisome 
pilgrimage, she slumbers sweetly, soundly in the 
close embrace of the common parent. 
Charles Anderson was alone in the world, very 
sensibly alone. In the low cottage, down by the 
river side, and among the hemlocks, he grew 
through a lonesome childhood up to a strange and 
dreamful youth. With few companions, few books 
and few comforts, the boy waxed to the man. At 
the red school-house in the little village up the 
river, he was an unfrequent visitor. Mrs. Ander¬ 
son was very poor, and the lore of the schools wag 
not for her son, But the voice of the waters, the 
voice of the winds, the voices of the mountain, 
and the voice—smile not, reader —the mighty 
voice of the solemn silence were ever in hia ear. 
The beauties and wonders of the humble mosseB, 
of the tiny wiid-flowero, of the laughing waves, of 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
A gentleman wishes to lay out a lot of land in 
the form of a rectangle, containing 4 acres, that 
shall take just 176 rods of fence to enclose it— 
How many rods long and how many wide must tho 
lot he? o. s. t. 
Hmnbersione, 'Welland Co., C. W., 1857. 
Answer next week. 
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which is the same as if a man jumped to the height 
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The Koran was written about A. D. 610. Its 
general aim was to unite the professions of Idola¬ 
try ann the Jews and Christians in the worship of 
one God—whose unity was the chief point incul- 
cated—under certain laws and territories, exacting 
obedience to Mahomet as the prophet It, was 
written in the Koreish Arabic, nnd this language, 
which certainly possessed every fine quality, was 
said to be that of paradise. Mahomet asserted 
that the Koran was revealed to him, during a pe¬ 
riod of twenty-three years by the Angel Gabriel. 
The style of the volume is beautiful, fluent and 
concise; and where the majesty and attributes of 
God are described it is sublime and magnificent. 
Mahomet admitted the divine mission both of 
Moses and JesuB Christ, According to Gibbon, 
the leading article of faith which Mahomet preach¬ 
ed is compounded of an eternal truth and a neces¬ 
sary fiction, namely, that there is only one God, 
and that Mahomet is tho apostle of God. The Ko¬ 
ran was translated into Latin in 1143, and into 
English and other European languages about 1763. 
It is a rhapsody of 3,000 verses, divided in 114 
sections. 
TUB LBADIXCJ WKIKLT 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
is nmusnxD kvkry satpbdat 
IIY D. I>. T. MOOKE, HOC1IE8TE1I, N. Y. 
A Fact for Naturalists.— A Norgegian fable 
satisfactorily accounts for the short tail of a bear. 
The bear, it seems, was once met by a fox, who 
carried a load of fish, and who in answer to the 
question how he had obtained them, replied that 
he Lad caught, them by angling. The bear expres¬ 
sed a desire to know an art so useful; when tho 
fox informed him that he had only to make ft hole 
in the ice and insert liis tail. “You must stop long 
enough, and not mind if it hurts you a little, (said 
the friendly adviser,) for a sensation of pain is a 
sure sign that you have a bite. The longer tho 
time, the more the fish. Nevertheless, when you 
have a good strong bite, he sure yon pull out.”— 
The credulous bear followed the instructions and 
kept his tail in the hole till it was frozen fast.— 
When he pulled, the end of bis tail came oil’; and 
hence the shortness of the appendage at the pres¬ 
ent day.— Fraser's Magazine. 
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