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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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Wtitten for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
Wanderings in Europe—New Series. 
LETTER NO. V. 
BT GLEZKN F. WILCOX. 
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Ulm to Munich.—Augsburg. 
I had loitered ho long with ray frieDda in the 
valley of the Necliar, that I did not think it ex¬ 
pedient to devote more time to walking over the 
comparatively unintereBtiDg connfry between Ulm 
and Munich. On my way to the railway station I 
saw a fat little boy in frocks, ruu ont of an alley, 
and cry, “there come the chimney sweeps,— there 
come the chimney sweeps;” and then the rogue 
raa back, laaghing heartily at the attention he at¬ 
tracted. The two sweeps, as black aa soot conld 
make them, were passing by at the moment, car¬ 
rying ladders on their shoulders. A chimney 
sweep is a carious looking fellow at any rate; I 
have often stopped In the middle of the street, and 
looked after them, half wondering and half laagh¬ 
ing. Four hours of slow riding brought me to 
Augsburg, and hungry and tired, I sought the inn 
of the “ flat dene Traube' for a sapper and bed. 
My hotel was situated in the Maximilian Strasse, 
the principal Btreet in the city, being about forty 
paces wide. In the Bame street is the hotel “ The 
Three Moors ,” which, besides being celebrated as 
the oldest inn in Europe, is also famous for the 
quantity and quality of its wines. Contrary to my 
expectation, I found it a large and Bbowy building f 
four stories nigh, and bearing on its exterior few ( 
marks of the age It is said to possess. Over the 
main entrance are three carved Moors’ heads, 8 
which have imparted its curious name. The Em- { 
peror Chahlbs V, once occupied some of the 
rooms in it, and they are said to retain the condi- ' 
tion in which he left them. The most interesting 
curiosity in the hotel 1 b the Strangers Album, of 
which the English part reaches back to 1814, and 1 
contains some names renowned in history. The • 
most celebrated among these is the Duke of Well¬ 
ington's who ” descended to do it as the book Bays, 
while on his way to the Congress” of Vienna. ( 
The Brunnens, or public fountains, are distin¬ 
guished among the “Bights,” of Augsbnrg. They ( 
stand In the streets and squares, and are enclosed 
by iron railings which prevent the people from 
using the water. They are richly ornamented 
with sculpture and figures in bronze. The Hercu¬ 
les fountain, in the Maximilian Strasse, has nine ! 
figures; three are of women, one being represented i 
as wringing her hair, another a cloth, and the 
third holding a jar. Three angels are seated on ! 
large birds from whose bills flow streams of water, 
and there are three busts with streams of water 
pouring ftrom their months. On the summit is a 
bronze statue of Hercules, which represents the 
hero in combat with the Hydra. Further down 
the street is the Mercnry fountain, which bears a 
large bronze statue of the thievish god, clad in 
the winged cap and shoes. Before the Rithhatis 
is the most magnificent fountain of alL There are 
twelve figures, carved in atone round about D, and 
on the top a bronze statue of Augustus O.f.sab, 
the founder of the oity. One arm of the Emperor 
Is extended towards the Rathhans, in which direc¬ 
tion be is also looking. A flock of small birds was 
twittering and flying about the fountain, and I saw 
one sitting in the shadow of the outstretched arm 
of Casar, and another perched on his sword hilt. 
The water works of Augsburg are very extensive 
and perfect, the pipes are conducted into every 
house, and even to the topmost stories. 
A brisk market was going on around the last 
mentioned fountain and I was curious enough to 
learn the ptice of butter and eggs. I found the 
first to be worth about eighteen cents per pound, 
and the latter six cents p er dozen. The country 
women wore a different costume from any I had 
ever before seen; the skirts of their dresses were 
thickly quilted and colored brightly on the bot¬ 
toms, while their sleeves were padded so full that 
their arms at the shoulders measured as much in 
circumference as their waists. They commonly 
wore high gilt combs in their hair fTom which long 
black ribbons hong down behind. 
A lively mark £ in a tolerably sized village or 
city, is about as interesting to the student ot the 
customs and manners of a foreign nation, as any 
sight he can behold. In Germany the article* 
exposed for sale, are commonly brought into mar¬ 
ket on the headB of women, who dispose of them 
and return to their homes in the country, laden 
with articles of household use, which they are 
obliged to procure in the town. They are gene¬ 
rally mixed together promiscuously, bat sometimes 
when the market place was crowded, I have seen 
them Bit in rows with thoir wares at their feet, on 
the ground or in baskets. The elderly women 
wear white cups, or at least handkerchiefs tied 
over their hair, but the younger go without any 
head covering. One looks in vain for. even a 
gprinkliDg of handsome forma and countenances. 
Their unnutural custom of performing constantly 
tho severest out-door labor, which they begin at 
an early age, destroys their symmetry of form and 
gracefulness of motion; the sun robs the complex¬ 
ion of ita freshness and delicacy, giving instead a 
tawny, freckled skin, and the hair becomes of a 
sort of dirty brown, intermixed with spots of yel¬ 
low looks, I have often observed the hands of 
young women, made so hard and large by labor, 
that had I secu them without seeing their owner, I 
should have concluded that they belonged to as 
Bturdy a laborer as ever wielded the hoe or the 
Bpade. 
Tho ltathhaus, which is about two hundred and 
fifty years old, was, at tho time of Us construction, 
the moBt magnificent structure of its kind in Ger¬ 
many. In one of the halls I saw a bronze eagle, 
weighing oightcen hundred pounds, which was 
once perohed on its summit. In the Golden Hall, 
a room one hundred and twenty feet long, sixty- 
two wide and fifty-two high, all the art of the age 
in which it was built was exhuuBted in its decora* 
tion. The floor is of marble; the massive ceiling, 
of oak, ash and maple, la wrought into rich de¬ 
signs, gorgeously gilded, and adorned with em¬ 
blematic paintings by the great masters of that 
age. Four smaller rooms, called tho Prince’a 
chambers open out of It They are each forty 
feet square and eighteen high. They contain some 
abbatlj Uhtsiw)s. 
THE KOODOO, OR AFRICAN GAZELLE. 
Charles John Andbbsson, the celebrated ex¬ 
plorer, in his “Four Years’ Wanderings” through 
Africa, with its burning zones and arid deserts; its 
ferocious animals and terrible reptiles; its golden 
Bands and barbaric blazonry, saw and learned 
much that has proved and will still prove of value 
to the world. He made a large collection of birds, 
animals, and cariosities of various kinds, and de¬ 
voted much time and careful observation in 
studying the habits of the various specimens of 
animated nature which came in his way. While 
in the vicinity of Lake Ngami, (by which title his 
book is known,) he saw many of the Koodoos, a 
specieB of antelope, and describes them aa follows: 
“Koodoos were also occasionally seen and killed. 
Of all that varied and beauteous form of animal 
life to be found in the bonndless woods and plains 
of tropical South Africa the koodoo is unquestion¬ 
ably the most distinguished for elegance and 
gracefulness united with strength. The height of 
the male at the shoulder is about four feet. The 
general color of his body is a ‘rufous gray,' marked 
with several white bars over the back and croup. 
The male carries his exquisitely formed head, 
ornamented with ponderous spiral horns of about 
three feet or more in length, very erect, which 
gives him an air of nobility and independence.— 
The koodoo, in short, is a perfect pictnre; and, 
‘when standing broadside on, is decidedly one of 
the grandest looking antelopes in the world.’ 
valuable pictures and ornaments in silver, and the 
roofs equal in richness that of the great hall.— 
From the top of the Rathhans I had my first view 
of the Alps. All the mountains I had ever before 
seen gave mo but a faint idea-of their grand ap- 
The koodoo is not uncommon throughout the 
more wooded districts of Damaraland; but from 
its leading a very Becluded life, it is not so often 
seen as others of the antelope tribe. His favorite 
haunts are the story slopes of hills overgrown 
with brushwood. In localities not much frequent¬ 
ed by man, however, and in the early part of the 
day, he may be seen in more open ground, on the 
outskirts of woods, borders of valleys, and banks 
of rivers. 
His gait is very graceful; but his pace, which 
consists of a moderately fast gallop, is less elegant. 
When pursued, he clears, with considerable agility, 
bushes, stones, and other minor obstructions that I 
may oppose hia course, bis leaps befog often of 
very considerable extent. Hia food consists chiefly 
of leaves, bads, and the yoang shoots of trees and 
bushes. He seems capable of going a very long 
time without water, and only occasionally frequents 
the pool 
The koodoo produces only one young at a time. 
His flesh, when in good condition, is excellent, and 
the soup, or bouillon, made from it is delicious. 
The marrow extracted from the bones is highly 
prized by the natives, who deem it better than that 
obtained irom any other animal. They conse¬ 
quently devour it greedily, and often without any 
kind of preparation. 
The hide of the koodoo is greatly valued, as well 
by the butter as the colonist. It is rather thin, 
THE MOCKING- BIRD OF AMERICA. 
The American mocking bird is the prince of all 
song birds, being altogether unrivalled in the ex¬ 
tent and variety of his vocal powers; and besides 
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BIBLE PROMISES. 
My Grace is Sufficient for Thee.—-2d Cor., 12; 9. 
By grief and doubt* oppreBt, 
My aoul crept on her way; 
Longing for the promised rest, 
Yet fainting at mid-day. 
In agonizing prayer 
I bowed before the Lord; 
I felt His presence there, 
And heard Hi 5 L racious word. 
“Say, wherefore dost thou fear? 
Oh, thon of little fhith > 
Behold thy Savior near, 
Listen to wbat He saith. 
“ My grace sufficient is. 
For every time of need; 
Sustaining power is His 
K|s. ; Who hath thy lot decreed. 
" Then onward press thy way, 
%, : <t A Though foes stand thick around; 
*6^ ,1 Thy faith shall w in the day, 
J’ And thon with joy he crowned. 
“ Then test thy Savior's power; 
Sin and thyself deny; 
Accept thy glorious dower, 
A mansion in the sky.” 
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but exceedingly tough and pliable, and will Btand THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD, 
more wear and tear than any other hide of the 
same substance. It is chiefly used for shoes, They ^ ew n P side by side with the blessings 
lashes of whips, thongs, straps and harness in gene- ot load parents lingering upon their heads. The 
ral. A koodoo hide, well prepared according to 9ame & entIe mother bent over them sleeping, as 
the custom of the country, is worth from twenty to thfi Y lay like folded bads when Nature clasps them 
thirty shiliin gs; and, being much in request among - n ber embraces. 
the farmers, is no despicable article of commerce The same house was filled with their glee, their 
for home consumption. j°y° ua infantile sporta echoed through the old 
The koodoo is naturally of a shy and timid na- balls and along the forest paths alike. But where 
tore; bat the male, when hotly pressed or wounded, now are ^ose sleepers that household ? They 
will not unfreqaently face about, and even attack are treading the ezoxe fields of bliss, hand in 
his pursuer. This species of antelope is gregari- band, yet their graves are severed far and wide- 
ous, thongh seldom seen in large herds, five or six by mountain stream and sem' 
being the usual number. The males are frequently One journeyed to the Far West where he found 
met with slnclv an earIy ? Tave * Tal1 cedars threw their Bombre 
As already ^en, when taken young, this animal ahade across the dark turbid stream where the 
is easily domesticated, aud becomes very tame. Indtaas scooped a grave and deposited the loved 
Notwithstanding, to the best of my belief, no sped- dead ' N ° l k * nd fnead hn f red aear to P ay the 
men has ever been brought to England alive. parting tribute, but the rode savage threw upon 
From the koodoo's secluded habits, fewer of the lowly mound his last demonstration of regard 
these animals are killed-as regards Damaraland, “ the ****** flowe,9 ‘ AQd *** alone ' 
at least- than any other species of antelope indi- The dark roUin ? f a ^ hered oae of the tre “‘ 
genous to Southern Africa. He is sometimes area aad be now s.eeps far down m ita depths 
hunted on horseback; and If a banter has the good " here P e f la h ® ae f ed ^ lth ** “P ale 8 ea-weed.” 
fortune to meet with one in a favorable and open Ha woa the beloved of aP, yet none can go at the 
, ... . .. soft twilight hour and weep above his grave, or 
locality, there is no great difficulty in running it 6 ... . . ? - . 
, I , .. . , , ,, , .. . . rear a monumental stone. The sad sighs of the 
down; but, as the animal holds, for the most part, u . . . ,,, , * f , 
, . , . , , , . . T wind aa it Btire the waves above will be his only 
to hilly and stony ground, and such as is wooded . .. , . . . ., . ’ , 3 
,v, , .. . . . „ requiem until the last trump aha.l sound and the 
withal, the chase—if successful—proves arduous.” H ... . . , • 
_____ “ sea will give up its dead.” 
~ ■ One sleeps on the broad blood-red field of Spain, 
overpowers and often silences all competition: j n fouj 0 f strangers, where southern vines 
The natural notes of the American mocking bird ^ ra ji above the noble slain. None smoothed his 
withal, the chase—if successful—proves arduous.” 
overpowers and often silences all competition?— 
The natural notes of the American mocking bird 
are similar to those of the brown thrash. 
pear&nce, I wa* not expecting to see them, and at tbe fullness and melody 0 / his original notes he has 
first sight mistook them for heavy masses of thun- { a ^ alt y of imitating tie notes of all other birds, 
der clouds, lying along the horizon in such a posi- from the humming bird to the eagle. 
tion that the sun lit up the greatest part of them 
to a dazzling whiteness. 
In the early part of the evening I arrived in 
Munich, after a monotonous ride of three hours 
over the level country of Bavaria. At one of the 
stations a country women came into the car with 
a basket of boiled eggs which were colored red 
and blue. She sold them for about two-thirds of a 
cent a piece aud threw in the salt; they happened 
to take the fancy of the passengers, and directly 
all in the car were engaged in shelling and eating 
them. I fell in conversation with two stndentB, a 
German and Frenchman, who intended xo spend a 
few days in Munich for a purpose similar to my 
own. They asked me to go with them to the 
j from the humming bird to the eagle. 
Pennant Btates that he heard a caged one imi¬ 
tate the mewing of a cat, and the creaking of a 
sign in high winds. Barrington says, his pipes 
J comes nesreat to the nightingale of any bird he 
ever heard. The description, however, given by 
Wilson, in his own inimitable manner, as far excels 
Pennant and Barrington aa the bird excels his fel¬ 
low songsters. Wilson tells us that the ease, ele¬ 
gance and rapidity of bis movement?, the anima¬ 
tion of his eye, and the Intelligence he displays in 
laying up lessons, mark the peculiarity of bis 
j genius. Hia voice is full, strong and musical, and 
capable of almost every modulation, from the clear 
and mellow tones of the wood thrash to tho sav- 
CC2TCERT OF THE FBATHBBBD CREATION. 
First, the robin, and not the lark, as has been 
generally imagined, as soon as twilight has drawn 
the imperceptible line between night and day, be¬ 
gins his lonely song. How sweetly does this har¬ 
monize with the soft dawning of the day. He 
goes on till the twinkling sunbeams begin to tell 
bim his notes no longer accord with the scene.— 
Upsfartathe iark; and with him a great variety 
of sprightly songBters, whose lively notes are in 
perfect accordance with the gaiety of the morn¬ 
ing. The general warbling continues, with now 
and then an interruption, for reasons before as¬ 
signed, by the transient croak of the raven, the 
screaming of the jay and the swift, or the pert 
chattering of the daw. The nightingale, unwearied 
by the vocal exertions of the night, withdraws not 
w * —V —— —-- " — --- - *. « . . I . . t j • * _ • ut tuc J JOJIVI Vkvua 4V1 wax nua uuiuy uvut J w ua 
own. They asked me to go with them to the t age scream of the bald eagle* In measure and ac- j y y rom lu ^ 8 f ..' | character. Jeremiah sung psalms in the dam geon; 
“OAer Pm linger,' 1 a hotel which, they mid, was cents, he faithfully follows hia original, while in J oina 1 emmtoege~era armory. e a.us is . L n ^ er translated the Bible while in prison; John 
11 cheap and furnished good beer It is apt to be strength and sweetness of expression, he greatly ^ - e y P oa * , e summit -1 some oity tr^e, ^>j e brightest visions of the New Jerusalem 
dying pillow, but the zephyr at eve swept o’er the 
earth fanning the fevered brow and whispering 
hope to the stricken heart whose sands of life were 
ebbing feat away. There ’ne&th foreign skies he 
is dreaming. 
Where the myrtle boughs join their leaves by 
soft winds, and babbling brooks murmur gently, 
has the last of that fair group taded. The fair 
sriea of Italy could not woo her to stay and she 
passed from earth an angel, to revel in fairer lands 
than ours. Her beautiful but inanimate form was 
deposited on the banks of the picturesque Arno. 
Lovely even in death were those sleepers who once 
composed the band of a Household. 
New York, Nov-, 1857, Kats M-. 
Christian Chbbbfcxnbss.— Christian cheerful¬ 
ness is honorable to God, and of happy influence 
on man. Let the cheering and traDquilizing power 
of the gospel break forth and shine from your 
character. Jeremiah sung psalms In the dungeon; 
Luther translated the Bible while in prison; John 
tho case that a hotel which is “ cheap and furnishes 
good beer,” does not furnish much else that is ao. 
oeptable to the traveler, except it be the oppor¬ 
tunity of better observing the doingB of the com¬ 
mon people. In Germany, however, I have some¬ 
times actually found better accommodations, and 
improves upon them. In his native woods, upon 
a dewy morning, his song rises above every com¬ 
petitor, for the others appear merely as inferior 
accompaniments. His own notes are bold and 
full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They 
consist of short expressions of one, three, or at 
have been thrown into more inatiuctive andamua- most five or six syllables, uttered with great em- 
ing society, by going to an inn which all guide phasis and rapidity, and continued with undimin- 
books had negleoted to notice, instead of a first iahed ardor for half an hour, or for an hoar at a 
class hotel. This happened to mo in Munich. I time. 
obtained a tine, airy, comfortably and even luxu- | While singing, he expands his tail, glistening 
riously furnished room, tor twenty cents a day, and with white> taping time to his own music; and 
on comparing it afterwards with the room of a t jj e b a0 y an t gaiety of his action is no less faacina- 
young man who lodged in th8 " Bairischer Hof,' ting than his song. He sweeps rouud with enthu- 
the first hotel in tho city, where he paid about four gj^jg e cstacy; he mounts and descends, as his 
time* that amount, I found that mine was prefer- 80D g W ells or dies away; he bounds aloft with the 
able, eveu at equal prions. celerity of an arrow, as If to recover or recall his 
My passport required a good deal of attention ver y 3 oul, expired in the last elevated strain. A 
in Munich. The Austrian Embassador refused to b y 8tander might suppose that the whole feathered 
sign it, alleging, strangely enough, that, he didjnot j tribe had assembled together on a trial of skill, 
recognise the American Consul. He finally con- eac h striving to prodnee the utmost effort, so per- 
aented to sign it if the police would do so first- fect are h ia imitations. He often deceives the 
Ou the personal application of the American Con- sportsman, and even birds themselves are aome- 
sui, the police attached the requisite signature, ^ me8 imposed upon by this admirable mimic. 
and the Austrian minister could then no longer T . . . , _ 
re £ use In confinement, he loses little of the power or 
—-- energy of his song. He whistles for the dog; 
HOTELS IN NORWAY. Crosar starts up, wags his tail and ru?s to meet his 
- master. He crieB like a hurt chioken, and *be hen 
We drove to the Hotel de Belle Vne, one of the hurries about with feathers on end to protect her 
two little caravanserais of which the town boasts i injured brood. Ho repeats the tone taught him, 
and were fortunate in securing the two vacant thongh it be of considerable length, wllh perfect 
rooms, 1 he hotel business in Norway is far be- accuracy. He runs over the notes of the canary 
hind that of any other oountry, except in regard and the red-bird with snch superior execution and 
to charges, wherein It is far in advance. Consid- effect that the'mortified songsters confess histri- 
erlng what one gets for hiB money, this is the most umph by their immediate silence. His fondness 
expensive country in the world for foreigners.— for variety, some suppose, injures his song. His 
Except where the rates are fixed by law,as in post- 
<•*«•*»“.a*i. 
stance of double dealing which does not harmon- by the crowin S of COcks and h,s exqnkite warb- 
ixe with the renowned honesty of the Norwegians. ling* after the blue bird are mingled with the 
stance of double dealing which does not harmon¬ 
ize with the renowned honesty of the Norwegians. 
At the Belle Vue we were furnished with three 
very meagre meals a day, at the rate of two dol¬ 
lars and a half. The attendance was performed 
by two boys of fourteen or fifteen, whose services, 
as may bo supposed, were quite Inadequate to the 
wants of nearly twenty persons. The whole busi¬ 
ness of the establishment devolved on these two 
fellows, the landlady, thongh good humored aud 
corpulent, as was meet, knowing nothing about the 
business, and, on the whole, it was a wonder that 
matters were not worse .—Bayard 'laylor. 
screaming of swallows or the cackling of hens. 
During moonlight, both In the wild and tame 
state, he sings the whole night long. The hunters, 
in their nocturnal excursions, know that the moon 
is rising, the instant they hear his delightful solo. 
After Shakspeare, Barrington attributes, In part, 
the exquisitenesa of the nightingale’s song to the 
silenoe of the night; bat it bo, what are we to 
think of the bird which in the open glare of day, 
that his lond and piercing notes may be softened 
by distance before they reach the ear; while the 
mellow blackbirds seek the inferior branches.— 
Should the sun, having been eclipsed with a cloud, 
shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently 
we see the goldfinch perch on some blossom bough, 
and hear bis song poured forth in strains peculiar¬ 
ly energetic, iaach more sonorously and lively 
now than at other times; while the sun, fnll shin¬ 
ing on his beautiful plumes, displays his golden 
wiegs and crimson cheat to charming advantage. 
The notes of the cuckoo blend with this cheering 
concert in a perfectly pleasing manner, and for a 
short time are highly grateful to the ear; but sweet 
as this singular song is, it would tire by its uni- 
formity, were it not given in so transient a manner. 
At length the evening advances, the performers 
gradually retire, and the concert softly dies away. 
The sun is Been no mote. The robin again sets up 
his twilight song, till the still more eerene hour of 
night sends him to the bower to rest; and now, to 
close the scene in fnll and perfect harmony, no 
sooner is the voice of the robin hashed, and night 
again spreads a gloom over the horizon, than the 
owl sends forth bis slow and solemn tones. They 
are more than plaintive, and less than melancholy, 
and tend to inspire the imagination with a train 
of contemplation well adapted to the serious hour. 
A Cunning Horsx.— Franconi, director of the 
Hippodrome in Paris, and the famous artist in 
horsemanship, has trained a horse with great care 
to feign being severely wounded, and go limping 
back to his place. The four-looted aotor perform¬ 
ed his part admirably at rehearsal, knowing well 
that disobedience would be followed by immedi¬ 
ate punishment; but when the time oame for ex¬ 
hibition, the cunning beast made the discovery 
that there would be no whipping in the presence 
of an audience, and instead of limping, as it ought, 
galloped back as If nothin g had happened. Fran¬ 
coni was obliged to resort to the expedient of get¬ 
ting ap an audience to deceive the refractory ani¬ 
mal. Relying on the protection as before, the 
horse again refused to limp, and received a sound 
beating. This impaired his confidence in the pub¬ 
lic as a shield from his master’s whip, and from 
, that time his part was well performed at every 
1 representation. 
in Patmos; Banyan, in later days, composed his 
Pilgrim in confinement. There is very impressive 
power in Christian happiness, on those who see it 
from without. It is a sunshine amid dripping 
clouds—a Sabbath heart in a week-day body, and 
Sabbath speech amid the dialects of Babel. It is 
brightest when all around it is blackest When 
our natural affections cease their music, we then 
hear, snag ont of the sky, unutterable melodies 
which ear hath not heard; when the world is all 
gloom, a regenerated aoul treads glories ont of 
every pebble, and sees the stars as arteries along 
which pulsations of felicity reach him. He can 
say with Habakkuk—“Although the fig-tree shall 
not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vines; 
the labor of the olive shall laD, and the fields shall 
yield no meat; the flock shall be ont off from the 
field, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet 
I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of 
my salvation.” 
—-- - — -- 
Good Drrds Everlasting.— They may mourn 
over the failure of some seemingly useful plan of 
their own; bat God may be, by their irfloence, 
sowing the seeds of some plan of hia own, of which 
they little dream. For every good deed comes 
from God. His is the idea, His the inspiration, 
and H’s its fulfillment in time; and therefore no 
good deed but lives and grows with the everiast- 
iog life of God himself; and as the acorn, because 
God has given it “a forming form, - ' and lite after 
its kind, bears within it not only the bnllder oak, 
but shade for many a herd, food for countless ani¬ 
mals, and at last the gallant ship itself, and the 
materials of every use to which nature or art can 
put it and its descendents after it throughout all 
time, 30 does every good deed contain within itself 
endless and unexpected possibilities of other good 
which may and will grow and multiply forever in 
the genial light of Him whose eternal mind con¬ 
ceived it, and whose Eternal Spirit will forever 
quicken it with that life of which he is the giver 
, and the Lord.— Rev. C. Kotgtly. 
Thkrs is nothing purer than honesty; nothing 
sweeter than charity; nothing warmer than love; 
nothing richer than wistom; nothing brighter than 
virtue; nothing more steadfast than faith. 
