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MOOKE’S SUJRJlL MEW-YOKEEK. 
' 27. 
■Written for Mjiore’8 Rural New-Yorke*. 
. WOBDS. 
EY ££U> CLINTON. 
Whitten as with a diamond point, 
Never to be effaced, 
Onr words, for evil, or for good, 
On living hearts axe traced. 
Did we hot oft'ner slop to think 
What would their Influence be, 
Lees sad regret oor own—lees grief 
Should we In others gee, 
Uarah, cruel words 1 leaving their scar 
On childhood’s tender heart,— 
They pierce the young and hopeful too, 
With cruel, poisoned dart. 
They pain the weary—failing one 
Of age with silvered, hair. 
And add to life the bitter drops 
Which savor of despair. 
False words!— they wrap the trusting heart 
With seeming silken toil, 
Then, serpent-like, they sting and crush 
With deadly, vonomed coil,— 
Black'nlng the lips which utter them, 
Blighting the heart betrayed, 
Marring in both the precious soul, 
In heavenly likeness made. 
Brave words of earnest, honest truth, 
Outrfipoken for the right 1 
Kind, loving words!—eo gently breathed 
In joy, or sorrow's night. 
BlessiDg who gives, and who receives— 
Priceless, beyond all worth— 
O, were there spoken none but these, 
How blest would be the Barth. 
Chenango Co., N. Y., 3666. 
out; nine o’clock, the till was almost as empty 
as at noon. The merchant dosed the door and 
sat down, after glancing once or twice np and 
down the street. He had been very sileDt all 
the evening, and young Keynolds knew well 
that something was upon his mind which would 
have to be spoken before they left the store. 
“ Sebastian,” said he, pointing to a chair, 
“Bit down here.” 
The young man obeyed, and Roderick theD 
proceeded: 
“Tve made up my mind to one thing: I alnt 
going to be so easy with folks as 1 hev been ! 
Them what pretend to pay money must pay it 
when they get their goods, and then our drawer 
wont be empty all the while. It i& trouble 
enough to get goods here so a* to accomodate 
them. They can’t trade any where else, and if 
we 6ay a few cents more for -profit they’ve got 
to fork ever. They've got to trade with ue, wheth¬ 
er or no/" 
The last sentence was put in a low and em¬ 
phatic tone. And then the merchant talked for 
nearly an hour, at the end of which time he had 
clearly proved, to himself, at least, that the 
people ol R. were but tools in his hands, and 
that he could use them more roughly than he 
had yet done with perfect impunity. The mor¬ 
row was to witness the adoption of the new 
@1$ SiMS MtlUx. 
Written lor Moore’s F.ural New-Yorker. 
A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. 
A STOEY AND A MIBROE. 
BY JAMES L. BOWEN. 
Roderick Houseman was one of those per¬ 
sonages who are met everywhere, — there is no 
need, therefore, that we should specify the par¬ 
ticular location of our -story. Suffice it to Buy, 
then, that it was in a pleasant country village, 
where the “stars and stripes” waved regularly 
every Fourth of July, and men duly waUied ac¬ 
cording to the traditions of their elders. In that 
pleasant village there were a few points of gene¬ 
ral interest, and among them “the store,” at 
present under the control of Roderick and a 
single clerk, was the great center of attraction. 
To those who have seen anything of country 
life wc need not soy that Houseman was the 
principal man of the place, especially when to 
his position as store-keeper were added the fact 
that he was postmaster, deacon of the village 
church, aud held several petty offices in the af¬ 
fairs ol the to wn. Surely this was honor enough 
for one man, and so Roderick felt. The sense 
of his own importance did not desert him at 
any time, Step by step he had ascended the 
ladder of worldly fame, and at each aseeut lie 
could see further and further over the heads of 
his fellow men. Gradually they seemed of less 
and less importance. Their place& could be 
filled readily enough, and the world would wag 
on all the same; but with him —all! when he 
should be called upon to fhuffle off the mortal 
coil, how would the breach in society be repair¬ 
ed ? And that thought — a very bad thought it 
was — because each day more ingrained with his 
feelings and daily life, As a merchant he was 
too olten harsh, exacting and unreasonable. 
People who spoke plausible words to lus lace, 
re-weighed and measured articles which came 
from his store with an exactness which would 
seem to indicate that his Sabbath and prayer¬ 
meeting professions of godliness and falr-dealiDg 
were received with many grains of allowance. 
Roderick had many good traits of character, 
no doubt, but too often ho allowed his own self- 
conscquencc to blind him. The good people ol 
R. murmured when he demanded extravagant 
prices, and spoke harsh words to them when 
there was no occasion for anything of the kind; 
but there was no other store within many miles, 
and they could but submit. 
“ I should like the balance of my last month’s 
wages, if convenient,” said a young man to 
Houseman, one day. He had been in the latter’s 
employ for some time, and being a valued baud 
the self-sufficient man was rather anxions to 
please hiua. 
“ Well, Zacb,” was the hesitating reply, “if 
it would be just as handy for you to morrow — 
I-” 
The fact was, Roderick was “ short” at that 
particular time, though he was not anxious to 
confess it. Rut Zachaklah Haynes had need 
of the* money, and be knew that his claim was 
just. The merchant was finally forced to con¬ 
fess that be was unable to make the payment 
upon that day, but agreed to meet it with the 
first funds which came to hand. Zacuariaji 
was ready enough to wait, upon learning the 
state of affairs, while the merchant returned to 
his store chewing a bitter quid. As he entered 
a woman emerged, bearing several bundles which 
she Eeemed to have just purchased. 
“ A good trade,” remarked the clerk, Sebas¬ 
tian Reynolds, as his employer closed the door 
behind her. 
“How much?” 
“ Seventeen dollars forty.” 
He turned away from the blotter in which he 
bad been mailing an entry, as he spoke. 
“ Charge it?” 
“ Yes, sir. She is going to send up some but¬ 
ter or pay the money in a week or two.” 
Houseman said no more, but he paced up and 
down the etore lor nearly an hour. He was 
waitiog for stnhe cash customers, bnt they came 
not, and finally, when the village bell chimed 
Sebastian Reynolds wa6 a young man of 
generous disposition, and while seeking his 
lodgings he mused: — “ Houseman is going to 
take a step in the wrong direction, I fear. Peo¬ 
ple do not ffegard him with any too much good 
feeling now, and if he goes to putting on more 
airs, and feeling too proud, Pm afraid he will 
have a fall. Yet perhaps it would benefit him 
in the end.” 
The morning came, bright and clear. Filled 
with his selfish thoughts and purposes, Roder¬ 
ick took his way to the store. Sebastian was 
there before him, and at the moment of his 
entrance a customer stood belorc the counter. 
Shc.was a middle-aged, pale, neatly-dressed wo¬ 
man, who met the self-important merchant with 
a pleasant smile and greeting. Flora Con no nr. 
was her name, and she was a widow, in limited 
circumstances, chiefly dependant upon her only 
son for support. He Lad not much of this 
world’s goods in etore, but managed to earn a 
comfortable living for himself and mother by 
daily toil. Lately he had been unable to work 
for some weeks, and bis mother had been obliged 
to incur indebtedness for tbe necessaries of life. 
This fact had not escaped the mind of Roder¬ 
ick Houseman, and he wheeled behind the 
counter, facing the woman. 
“ Believe we’ve got a little account against 
yon,” he said, in the blandest manner. 
“ Yes, 1 know,” replied the widow, in pained 
tOBe6. “ I should have settled with you before 
this if Stlvestbr had not been sick much long¬ 
er than wc anticipated. Bnt he is better now, 
and 1 trust will be. able to work next week.” 
“ Then you don’t want to pay your account 
this momin’ Y" 
“I cannot, sir.” 
The woman looked a litttle frightened, evi¬ 
dently uncertain whether her interlocutor was 
really in earnest. 
“ How do you suppose 1 can live and support 
half ol R. ?” the brute demanded, with a suarh 
Flora Conuode stepped back aghast. She 
had ever been prompt in the payment of such 
little debts as 6he had by necessity contracted, 
and very naturally she felt wounded most deeply 
by tbebrufcd remark. She did not attempt to 
answer, but turned and walked out of the store, 
dashing away a tear when she fancied no one 
observed her. 
Later in the day, when Houseman was absent, 
she entered, and paid the sum owed, but took no 
more goods, though young Kktnolds endeavor¬ 
ed to atone for his employer’s unklndness, 
“ 1 knew she w ould pay up if she was a mind 
to,” the latter exclaimed, when the entry met 
his eye. 
“ But I guess you lost a customer,” remarked 
Sebastian. 
“Lost one!” was the almost contemptuous 
rejoinder. “ Where’ll she go, I’d like to know ? 
1 tell you, what trading is done in R. I mean to 
do; and I’m goin ’ to do it, too /” 
Thus weeks rolled on. Where he had put his 
foot Roderick Houseman kept it. More than 
one customer had declared that they would 
never trade more with him, but the conceited 
man was waiting in ardent expectation for them 
to return, and purchase of him again. 
“ I’ve been bamboozled long enongh,” be re¬ 
marked. “They arc mad now because I wont 
stand it longer. Well, this is my store, and if 
my word isn’t law, I wonder whose is.” 
But .Houseman had cause of anxiety soon, 
though he did not allow himself to manifest 
much concern. A neighbor happened in one day, 
and after the usual salutations had passed, he 
said, bluntly enough:—“Well, Rod, what d’ye 
think of this new store we’re goin’ tew hev?” 
“New store?” 
“Yes; didn’t ye'kuovv Sylvet Conrode was 
fittin’ up a 6tore ?” 
“He aint!” 
“But he is,—I seen ’em to work thar when I 
come over.” 
“ Foolish feller,” was the. exclamation; “ I’d 
like to know what he’s got to set up in trade 
with ?” 
For several days Houseman repeated his ques¬ 
tion to every caller, because he considered it 
unanswerable. He knew, as all knew, that Syl- 
vesteu Conrode had been obliged to toil every 
day to support himself and mother, aud the very 
idea that he could thin k seriously of opening 
trade was preposterous. Still so it was, lor car- 
pentere were busy ut work fitting up a portion 
Of the large dwelling which they occupied for a 
sales-room. 
“ I see how it is,” Roderick argued, after the 
fact could be no longer doubted. “ I made ’em 
I pay up up an old account that they meant to 
shirk off, and now they’re going to show people 
that anybody can start a store and get rich out 
of it.” 
So Houseman argued, brut he was far from 
feeling at ease. He felt that some part of the 
story had not ub yet reached his ears. And so 
it was. One day a friend came in and followed 
Houseman into the cellar. 
“ I’ve found out about Conrode,” he said, in 
mysterious tones. 
“What is it?” 
“They say an old uncle of his’n has died, 
somewhere off, and left him about five thousand 
dollars!” 
Houseman did not say a word, bnt his face 
elongated to a fearful extent During the day 
be was decidedly taciturn, and more morose 
than ever before; but finally be persuaded him¬ 
self that there was nothing to fear, more espe¬ 
cially when he learned that the reported five 
thousand was hut as many hundred 
“ What can he do with five hundred dollars ?” 
was the mode of his reasoning. “ It will all be 
gone by the time he Is raady to buy goods, and 
I shall have to take hi* stock off his hands. I’ll 
never do it, though—not even to keep him from 
starving!” 
Far sooner than had been expected bales and 
boxes began to arrive, followed by casks and 
barrels. That day witnessed the close of Rod¬ 
erick Houseman’s prosperity. 
Day after day, and a week passed; but at its 
end the self-important merchant confessed that 
his sales never had been so small for the same 
space of time. He really began to feel alarmed. 
Tbe “young upstart” seemed to make vastly 
more difference with his business transactions 
than he had anticipated Thoughts of buying 
oat Sylvester to prevent his starvation no 
longer had any place In bis brain. Standing 
upon a distant eminence, which commanded a 
view of both Btores, he saw plenty of customers 
leave, the rival establishment, carrying bundles 
and packages in any quantity, while not one such 
left his own store. It was a painful sight to the 
proud man, bnt not so painful as many harsh 
words of his had been to sensitive breasts in 
that little community. He could justly blame 
no one but himself. 
Anon other whisperings began to be heard, 
which he would not believe, until, one pleasant 
day, an ominous package came to him through 
the mail, directing him to make out the proper 
accounts, and turn over the post- office to his 
successor, Sylvester Conrode, Esq! Tbe 
proud man felt his heart sinking, bnt the power 
at the National capital was greater than his, and 
the desired change was sorrowfully made. 
Shorn of his most important office, and with 
a 6tore which scarcely paid its expenses, the 
heartless man of former days began to led that 
he was not so important to the life of R. after 
all. Every means in his power was used to re¬ 
store his lost prestige and Influence, but it 
proved of no avail. [Low prices and easy terms 
would not avail him now. People preferred to 
deal with one whose word and honor they could 
trust. 
The annual election of town officers came in 
due course of time, and Houseman began to 
feel that his chance Mas not po good as hitherto. 
But men talked cheerfully of retaining him in 
the positions he occupied, and one or two 
shrewdly hinted that he would stand higher 
than ever. The day came. The votes were 
polled, aud then the result was made known. 
Roderick went home a humbled man. Every 
office of public trust had been taken from him, 
and, worst of all, most of them had been given 
to Sylvester Conrode ! 
For some time he waited patiently, trusting 
that a change of deportment, and many smooth 
words at weekly prayer meetings, would bring 
him favor; but it was not to be. Early in the 
spring he hade adieu to R. forever, while Syl¬ 
vester Conkodb purchased his goods at lower 
than “panicprices.” 
“ I have paid him for that insult he gave you, 
dear mother,” Baid the young merchant, as he 
recounted the event to Lis pleased parent. “ His 
falseness and double-dealing proved his ruin. I 
will see if honor will not bring an equally cer¬ 
tain reward.” 
It did. To-day Sylvester Conrode U a suc¬ 
cessful merchant and respected citizen, while 
Roderick Houseman toils day by day for his 
bread. Bnt all in all he is more honest, because 
poorer and with no influence beyond his family 
circle. An inward monitor may sometimes tell 
him that the judgments of God are righteous 
altogether: and though he may repine at his lot, 
that voice will ever say, in thunder tones, that 
liis punishment is just.. 
A SHARK STORY. 
Sincerity is to speak as we think, believe as 
we pretend, act as we confess, perform as we 
promise, and really be what we would Beem to be. 
WIT AND WISDOM. 
An angel’s harp requires an angel’s touch. 
Never chase a bullet that has gone by you. 
Better bow your head than break your neck. 
Tns gayest smilere are often the saddest 
weepers. 
You can tell how wide a man's reputation is, 
but you can’t tell how loDg. 
No man will assume the character of another 
unless he is ashamed of his own. 
Some persons live on the kindness of others, 
and claim to be their benefactors. 
The villainy that accomplishes the most evil 
is the most accomplished villainy. 
Thebe is nothing upon earth more miserable 
than she that has a son and sees him err. 
Luck is ever waiting lor something to turn 
up. Labor, with keeD eyes and strong will, will 
turn up something. 
To bear evil speaking and illiterate judgments 
with unanimity, is the highest bravery. It is, 
iu fact, the repose of mental courage. 
My first is what lies at the door; my second Is 
a kind of corn; my third is what nobody can do 
without, and my whole is one of the United 
States. Mat-ri-mony. 
Hebe is the pithieet sermon ever preached: 
“ Our ingress in life is naked and bare; our pro¬ 
gress through life is troubleand care; our egress 
out of it we do not know where; bnt doing well 
here, we shall do well there; 1 could not tell 
more by preaching a year.” 
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horse, asked a negro whom he met how far it 
was to a neighboring town, whither he was 
going. The nearo, looking at the animal under 
the rider, with a broad grin of contempt, re¬ 
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miles. Wi’ a good chunk of a hoss, seben miles; 
but if you jist had Massa Jimmy’6 hoss! Go&h! 
you’re dare now / 
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My 20,19 is a personal pronoun. 
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Field’s Pear Culture..... le* 
Flint OU Grasses . 2,00 
Flower* lor the Parlor or Garden. . 3,00 
Fuller's Illustrated "strawberry Culturiet. 20 
Goodalc’* Principles of Breeding. 3,25 
Grape Culturirt. by Andrew 8. Fuller.1,50 
Guenon on Milch Cows .... 75 
Herbert's Hints to Horse-Keepers........1,75 
HoUey’s Art Ol Saw Filing. 75 
Bop Culture.. 40 
Hooper's Doy and Gun. :■•••: . 
Horse Training Made Easy. Jennings. .... 1,25 
Indian Corn; Its Value. Colture and Uses.1,75 
JaqaeM on FnUt and Fruit Trees. 00 
Jennings’ fcheep, Swine end Poultry. 1,60 
Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry . 1,75 
Johnson s Element* Agricultural Chemistry. 3 25 
Kemps' Landscape G.n deumit.2,00 
Kings' Text-Book, for Bee-Keepers, cloth 750; paper 40 
Langsuoth on the Hive and Honey Bee... . 2,00 
Letters on Modern Agriculture . .. 1,00 
Liebig's crest work on Agriculture..If® 
Liebig’s Familiar Letters an Chemistry. 80 
Manual of Agrieultaic, by kaar.ion ana Flint.1,25 
Miles on Horse'* Foot(cloih). 75 
Miss Beecher’s Keceint Book.14* 
Manual on Flax and llemp uuiluts. . ... 28 
Marhews Practical Booh-Keepiug (sdngiB and 
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Mathew’s Account Books (to go with the abovej... 1,20 
Modern Cookery, by Miss Acton and Mrs. 8 J Hole.. 1,50 
Nature's Bee Book.. .... — ... 25 
New and Complete Clock and Watchmaker sManual 2,00 
Norton’s Klenisnts BcientUlC Agriculture. 75 
Onion Culture.. 20 
Our Farm of Four Acres. . » 
redder M Land Measure .. --..... K> 
Practical and Scientific Frntt Culture (Baker).4,00 
Practical Shepherd, Kantian.. ..2,00 
Qiiimby’a Mysteries of Bee-Keeping.Li; 
Quincy on Soiling Cattle.. . .i,*> 
Rabbit Fancier.--• ••• ., *} 
Randall’s Fine Wool Husbandly. Inc 
Randaff’s Sheep Hu^Bandry,..1,50 
Richardson on the Dog... so 
Riven.' Orchurd Houses .. 50 
Rogers’ Bcientltio Agriculture.....1^0 
Sunnier* on Poultry irUustraled). 40 
Scherick V Gardeners Text-Boolc,.. .. 
Scribner's Produce Tables.. w 
Scribner's Ready ltecknor and Log Book. SO 
Bllvcr’s new Poultry Book (70 Illustrations). 50 
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TUe American House Carpenter (Hatfield's).. 
The Born Yard, a Manual.1,W 
Tbe Boston Machinist (Fitzgerald). ,» 
The Farm, with Illustration*.L'-jJ 
The Fruits mid Fruit Tree-of America (Downing). Si» 
The Garden, a Manual.... .L™ 
The Hou»rt with Original Plans. )#> 
Thomas* Farm implements. ..Li" 
Ton Acres Enough. .. . .Lg 
Todd’* Young Farmer* Manual and Work Shop.L>j 
Ventilation lu American Dwellings. L-~ 
TVorder’s Hedge* and Evergreens.. LJJ 
Wax Flowers, how to make them .... L™ 
Woe4word’s Graperies and Horticultural Buildings. JN-] 
Woodward's Country IJomes ... ••• 
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Young Housekeeper’s and Dairy Maid s Directory.. 
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