Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
L’ECHO, 
BY CLIO 8TASLEY. 
In the sunny light of a golden day in Summer, 
A birdling bright sang in a linden tree, 
And bis song, from out the green and fragrant branches, 
Sounded afar In accents glad and free; 
And its burden was the sweet and hopeful strain, 
What-yet-may-be. 
When the stars of evening ushered in the twilight, 
And the leaves had lost their young and teuder green, 
And the moonlight, radiant herald of the night-time, 
Shone with a gentle luster In between; 
The birdling sang with low and plaintive note, 
W hat-might have-been. 
A maiden fair, who wandered In the twilight, 
Sang softly, as she caught the joyful note, 
And the sweet song was welcomed by the Echoes, 
That ever on their tireless mission float 
To catch the sound from maiden s or 
From birdling's sunny throat 
But when the moonlight fell across her pathway, 
And on her hair, the starlight's golden sheen, 
She, too, with mournful eye and voice repeated 
The notes the birdling sang but yestere'uu; 
And ever as she wanders on, she sing* 
What-might-have been. 
Philadelphia, Pa., 1868. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
“ABOUT GIRLS.’’-RESPONSIVE. 
I was somewhat amused upon reading in the 
Rural, of Sept. 10th, an article from the pen of 
our old friend “Minnie Mintwood,” in which 
better to leave it to him in ordinary times, of 
course reserving the right to come to the rescue 
in cases of emergency. 
Now. my friends of the masculine persuasion, 
do not for a moment suppose that I have been 
endeavoring to underrate your Importance in the 
world’s economy. Far from it. You have done 
nobly, and be assured shall always receive that 
encouragement at our hands which you may 
deserve. It is only when you assume to your¬ 
selves honors which belong exclusively to us, as 
“all the world and the rest of mankind” know 
very well, that it becomes necessary to remind 
you that modesty is a virtue in which you are 
inclined to be sadly deficient. 
Eatonville, N. Y E. A. Eaton. 
■- - - ♦ «-»- - 
THE WOMEN IN REBELDOM. 
B. F. Taylor is the army correspondent of 
the Chicago Timas, and thus describes the ap¬ 
pearance of the women down in Secessia: 
Picture a human female in a dress hanging 
limp, with the look and grace of a dishcloth on a 
fork, and resembling in tint the inky map of the 
benighted portions of the globe, an unmarried 
female with the modesty of a cow, a piece of 
tobacco in her mouth, and two batches of chil¬ 
dren at, her heels, and you have the counterfeit 
presentment of several I have seen. They infest 
quartermasters, commissaries, commandants of 
posts; their hungry looks attest the nature of 
their errand, and their incessant “I’ve cum for 
sich’s as you’ve got,” always meets a response in 
the shape of ‘-hardtack” and bacon from our 
I large'hearted Uncle Samuel’s locomotive pan- F , 
tries. The men are with the Rebel armies, and p 
the women are starving. Ill through this valley, g ] 
the miserable inhabitants have no prospect of 
EQUINOCTIAL. 
Tub Sun of Life has crossed the line: 
The summer shine of lengthened light 
Faded and failed—till, where I stand, 
’Tis equal Day and equal Night. 
One after one, as dwindling hours, 
1 outh’s glowing hopes have dropped away, 
And soon may barely leave the gleam 
That coldly scores n winter's day. 
I am not young—I am not old; 
The flush of morn, the sunset calm, 
Paling and deepening, each to each, 
Meet midway with a solemn charm. 
One side I see the summer fields 
Not yet disrobed of all their green; 
While westerly, along the hills, 
Flame the first tints of frosty sheen. 
All, middle-point, where cloud and storm 
Make battle ground of this my life ! 
Where, even matched, the Night and Day 
Wage round me their September strife ! 
I bow me to the threatening gale: 
I know, when that is overpast, 
Among the peaceful harvest-days, 
An Indian summer comes at last! 
[Atlantic Monthly. 
while every influence of early years could but 
tend to corrupt He may never have known a 
want, or felt the weight of a care, and when, in 
life, he was forced to meet these, his ill-guided 
way but too surely led to min. His honest but 
ignorant heart may have desired good: his com¬ 
panions may have been indiscreetly chosen: his 
downward way paved with “good desires:” but 
the truth comes flashing out that he was wrecked 
in youth. The hand that shook his pillow in 
childhood, hid within it a thorn, to be felt in after 
years. The one that we chide as an unstable, 
faithless Christian, may have had for his earliest 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? 
What is Christianity ? This question oft 
Hath pressed upon my heart demanding to 
Be answered, as I’ve seen those who professed 
To follow out that holy law, depart 
So plainly from its teachings. 
faithless Christian, may have bad for his earliest t, . I have seen, 
the foulest heterodoxy. We would no, Hu .3“,^ 
wern to hold that eotl live, r.,«f he the result of T„« Throo. of „„ h „ -„ nded t „„ „ t (Mi 
incorrect instruction, but that habits, and early With reverent voice, in mercy to forgive 
rneoi'n.iil _7• j i»» . _ TTi. i t_L * • 
received opinions, cling to v.s like an iron-toothed 
monster. In our criticisms, we often disremem- 
ber how striking the contrast between the early 
advantages of ourselves and those equally worthy. 
These give life its coloring. Thus we see how 
trequentiy we fail to comprehend what men 
really are. Did we but search for their hidden 
HU sins, to bless the needy, and to- spread 
Hh gospel thro’ the land, and then, perchance, 
He'd rise to count his thousands o’er, or to 
Devise new schemes his treasures to increase, 
And calculate how much his hardness to 
The poor would to his coffers add, and when, 
" Ith thoughtful eye, I've seen this man go through 
The mockery of prayer, I've heard a voice 
lives, how joyfully would We extend the nharitv W,tWn “V lieart > solemn and tender, a«k, 
-M_ V to vl.:.. _„ . ... . 
of silence. 
Jatnesville, N. Y., 1863. 
OCTOBER. 
M. S. Hard. Is thi * c,lrirti » n 'ty ? b this the meek 
Religion Jescs taught,— arc these the eflects 
__ Of that great law of love and holiness 
Which the blessed Savior. taught, and from my soul 
Would come the answer no: that only can 
Be true religion which doth bid us love 
nan in the city. 0ur brethren as ourselves, which purifies 
B. c. Dt 
it is assumed that man has reached the limit of P,od ‘ or 4be cotnin # w ’ n ^ ftr but the bounty of the 
his powers, as regards the progress of the human 
race, and what remains to be accomplished must 
be done by woman. AIL honor and gratitude 
to the learned Professor for the high compli¬ 
ment paid us in thus transferring to our shoul¬ 
ders the immense responsibilities attending “the 
further advancement in the cultivation of 
humility, in the spread of religion, in the deep 
culture of the human heart.” All this is doubt¬ 
less designed to be very flattering, and the 
Government. These people are free to talk and 
to “allow” that the ’•Yanks” are not the terrible 
Huns they fancied them, if anything so light* I 
footed as fancy can be predicated upon any thing 
so lifeless as these poor creatures. They all 
indulge, when they can, in the practice of which 
so many disgusting pictures have been made— 
the practice called -dipping.” Take u little 
stem of Althea, chew it into a bit of broom at 
one end, dip it in snuff, sweep your mouth out 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MARY AND MARTHA. 
There are some indices which point to the 
humanity displayed by this representative of wi,h >> and leave the handle sticking out of one 
^ ... * AAOVliiM lib/v n ^ I.. *1 *1 
the lords of creation in acknowledging that the 
fraternity have become superannuated, while so 
gracefully resigning the responsible position 
hitherto occupied by them into more competent 
hands. Is really quite edifying, especially when 
we take into consideration the fact that the 
greater part of the work in question has always 
been done by women, and if there is to be any 
talk of “retiring from business” she would be 
the one justly entitled to a rest from labor — 
not, indeed, for the reason that she has gone 
as far as she can go, but because she has already 
done more than her share toward the “ redemp¬ 
tion of the world.” 
“Her finer sensibilities, her greater elevation 
of soul, her keener perception," Ac., have not, 
as the remarks of our good Professor would 
seem to imply, been lying dormant through all 
the past ages of the world's history, to be ren¬ 
dered available only at the present important 
crisis when man begins to suspect his insuffi¬ 
ciency. Her influence has not been unimportant, 
neither has her work been trivial or contempti¬ 
ble. And herein, it seems to me. consists the 
great mistake which underlies all the so-called 
Woman’s Rights Movements. Woman does not 
sufficiently magnity her office; she does not 
consider that to her has been committed the 
noblest work—that she wields the most powerful 
influence, Man does very well in his place, 
there is a vast deal of hard, coarse work—such 
as fighting battles, building railroads, and the 
like, for which he seems to have a tolerable 
degree of capacity, and which we are very glad 
to have him take off our hands, and, indeed,— 
although I say it at the risk of shocking friend 
Mi.\x ik and bringing down upon my head “a , 
very tempest, torrent, and whirlwind"’ of indig- , 
nant remonstrance, — I must confess that I 
consider it infinitely preferable that he should 
“ harness horses, plant corn, dig potatoes, rase 
hay, gather fruit,” Ac., rather than leave it for 
woman to do, because what with attending to a 
I presentment oi several i nave seen. 1 bey infest If the boy, grown now to be a man in the citv. Oar brethren a, oum^ whW, p^ fies 
quartermasters, commissary commandants of -..._ who was brought up in a country home, willS Oar heart,, and fill, themwiS 0 f prayer 
their err * nd ‘“To ““**,! ,n? nUt " re ° f Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 40 HeIect that Portion of the year which lingere In gratitude for all the gift* of heaven, 
their errand, and their incessant “Ive curnfor THE CHARITY OF SILENCE most clearly and deliciously in his mind, he will Audtc - b - “^your **ur*,up 
stch s a.s you we got. al ways meets a response in _ be very apt to select th/ month of October ° 1110,11 * nd ri,st<loth not con "upt, 
the shape o “hardtack and bacon from our The charity of silence, though so rarely p08 . Memory will bring back to him. with singular ^ 
large-hearted Uncle Samuel s locomotive pan-1 c „ oaor i • „ . ,, . , s _ r t * , riistln/tnoaa f .,. , ,I The Loro our Con, with all our hearts, and not, 
tries. The men are with the Rebel armies and • ’ , T J , Wulng Vlrtue ' W « form opin- distinctness, the scenes of this month, in the With idle words, but with pure hearts atone 
the women are starving. All through this vallev I ? U8> pa ? 8 deci " :ioa ' H - aiia t0 the “ exprep- form iland and the forest, and he will hear the To worship Him to spirit and in troth. 
,i • ...... r ‘ ' slon. Nor is this, in the general, foreign from October whistling of the quails with far more I Elkhom, Wig,, 1863. .. „ n , 
he miserable inhabitants have no prospect of the golUeu rule . 8 ’ ,0U,feU distinctness than the songs of anylummev Zs _____ ' 
Governmen "t h e«e m / nto -!r! f H True criticism must have its stand-point in the r I he forest grows ruddy now, and the tints be- I Writieu Tor Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
to “Blb'w” ’ ^ Tl,?, ^eniions. To take an isolated act, a single Come richer as the month advances. The leaves MARY AND MARTHA 
Iunf hev S! 2 ' r d( * d “ *® of a man, and upon if pass J et to the trees, and the garment of the . -- 
rooted us lanevt -m !»> h.'t ^ ,'r * heartless censure or load with debasing epithets, J ore8t tak ° 8 on these hues which have so often ' l8ERE are some indices which point to the 
UnWOrthy 80 «“»*htou«d reviewer. 1, was *>«*«<* the subject of the poet’s verses, and very first thoughts of Got>,-some rare, lofty 
indulge when ihev can in III ll'L \ !? v 1 the P 1 ®* 88 * 5 of GoD r at the origin of His eeon- alraGSt In vain, the skill of the artist to chffs upon which occasionally we find ourselves 
f; ‘ ,, . ' . 1 , - i P . t . C ° VV j U:h 0IH y) that the intentions of a heart should only luu, ate. Down the mountain side, where a few looking,—some honors which yield more real 
h „ j )r a c !ic ( f oaUed ’-dlSni”' 0 Trie "Zh? b ® known to iuelf ' We can pass judgment upon w ®* ka a K° a flood of green seemed pouring in a sat kfaeUon to the wearers than the whole sum 
•tom nf Alfiv.« infr . .. Vi , U 1 ' I a Ufo) t° r have its outworkings. We are not tn fo'hty cataract, ail now is still and silent splen-1 ot baubles spread out lu earth’s best storehouse, 
L, An d dinVr !~n J’ ir ” ° at deceived as to the powers of a given mind, for tlor > ^°l d and crimson adornments of the —80m0 characters, which show us what a 
rilh lt 11 ,, f T VT mo , u ‘ h 01,1 we know IUWWK Wo cannot indnlco an <!*«»-• 8“ ~I#y Ufa ,*««*» l*,-, 0 ln« trace, of the 
Corner Hke ^ broom to' J ? n L 7 ° f ° Ke Crror ’ as to ouc ’ 8 ,axne89 of morals, for we see The winter ^ coming. Beautiful as is the vei 7 P encil of love just loosed from the infinite 
)<»!• all ilia Tvliti th it it ,• P P ’ a!l< rt , metn " his profiigacy. But these are elements of the raon ^, it is the beauty of ripeness mingled with ap ^ st hand .—something to point us above and 
!oL hi™ a^ct of XZoTt” 1 fro “ « claim right form non- '«»V «f Oecay. As it come, apace, the '>«?<■»» <M. life of .yearning. ,o .ha, life of lafi. 
[e8C)ibe ‘ ' ' f 1 P r °P° Re fo elusions, but the Intentions that conceived the land ls m mourning, and men look darkly to the nite fo^ness at the right hand of Goo. 
J * _ _ __ idea,which had an unhappy development, are biture. The farmer gathers in his crops, not ’ 5he richest beauty is concentrated in the 
FOOT OF A CHINESE BELLE deeply hidden in the inner heart, nor may its « h co-’ily, nor does he read thanksgiving proc!a- smallest space, beautiful because so rarely sim- 
_ sacred precincts be entered. Borne, as earth was mation8 now as in old times, with joyous heart pl“- God ha s touched the little petal with a 
An English traveler thus describes the com- M ad,n K frorn view, hare usked. as a dying re- *nd hopefljlness. It costs him an argument with myriad host of histories, and man might become 
iressed feet of Chinese women as he saw them qiiest ’ B ‘ n ? e their 8UU *''*’*•' a11 uufortunato sky, 10 be thankful, yet the argument is sue- P we lu studying them, and yet their beauties 
uring a tour through Chinese Tartary:—“Curi- lka4 cou tl niu - d silen.e might be their epitaph, cei * s fol ; tor he knows that his blessings are many. I would not be half revealed. The little coral 
sity impelled me once to be one of a party in Thfiir intea ded hopes failed to find development, and tL . at 1116 vei "y sufferings of the land may yet insect throwing from its side tiny buds of future 
xamiuing an uncovered foot. The young wo- 80 4ka * anight scan, and since none might " llJ k tor good to some of us. In the house, in J iST^atness, Is only billy realized iu the great coral 
lan was not at first very ready to remove the hnow the purity ot the thought that gave birth l ‘ i<3 evening, the fire blazes up the chimney and re<da our Atlantic. As iu organic so in inor- 
hoe and the collection of bands around the limb 40 llie ' r an, * c ipntl'jVA— y*r, wished, as a parthig ^ J area ac ross the kitchen, and the family sit more ^ aa ’ lc An old harp-string hung for many 
I satisfy the request we made, but a few dollars booa ’ tkftl 4b<, 7 be permitted to rest with the for- 8llL ’ nt 1,ian fo^y used to sit The boys are not as 11 y° ar H P on tlie willow may play for us such 
uickly dissipated her reticence, and also in-1 K 0T t( ' n - Ambitious ones, desirious of literary “’u-ry. with the chestnuts crackling in the ashes, as melodies of the by-gone as we have never earth- 
need another to increase the exhibition. it wag commendation, have oiten disremembered these fooy were three years ago.^ This October is not as ward heard. A simple name may be to us a 
3 treat. The removal of the bandages was like ^breathings, and have opened the channel, lho8c Octobers were. It is no use to try to make P^foct nucleus around which is a whole constel- 
leexhumationof a halt-decomposed bod V. and wbicllled 40 contimiedmisa PP Ivtiension 01 what !i °" 14 n 'Hl not be. IVe may gather around I laliun of charm r. Mary and Martha! Two 
adeour party close their mouths and hold their mi ^ bt truly 1)ttve been nnl worti - firp ’ wo mft y fl 7 ring old songs, try to tell HI 'mple words, both beginning alike and both 
istrils, much to the augmented astonishment of must not be of earth, who is destitute of ubi lor ^® 8) lI ^ 40 P la y old games, but there are rt ^guiticant of mortality as well as sex. And yet 
o young ladies, while we stretched our necks fo u4ls - In this mystic bundle, composed of a ar0und us that were not in the October w ho that has not found himself raising to their 
see all as quickly as possible. No toe was human soul and body, is wrapped up all the atm08 P ber ' : ‘ * u (ormer times, and the smoke of mem ory a monument of purity, of greatness and 
visible but the big toe; the others had been opponents of goodness. The first moment ot the distant battle-fields obscures the stars of our ° 4 meaning? 
' doubled under the sole, with which, after weeks accountability, we delight in evil, not merely as , pl h” rn ricies. It is an involuntary characteristic of our na- 
ot suffering and excruciating pain, they had be- Sllc K but having its cause, in the elements of our il used not 40 be 80 u^ays. Let us re- 4ures 40 yfofo to the influence of association, 
come incorporated, and were not to be distln- being. Siuce these, composing human existence. men »oer that and be cheery with that hope. We Tid mgsot a brave hero, who loved his brother 
gnished from it except by the number of white 1,140 they have thejr developments, and lU ' 6 buried our dead, and the leaves of this we * 1 enough to die for him upon the field of bat- 
seams and scars that deeply furrowed the skin. wor!i wit/<oid, thus oecarioning life’s diversity. autumn are 80011 4o foil on their graves. We lle ’ are S>'"en a sacred place within the inner 
The instep was sadly marked by the vestiges of The natural heart of ntaa (if not of woman) “is bav ® ^ et 10 bur y °lher dead, as dear its they I temple ol our hearts. A name coming to us 
large ulcers that had covered the surface, conse- ut ‘Htabie as water.” We fix it, and we think we vvere ’ and the red leaves will cover them too, warni w *th the very breath of divine nearness is 
quent on the violence used to bend it up into a can P 4ac0 our hand upon it. but a passing breeze f nd bide 4beb ’ ver ^ " rav ° 8 4r0ra our sight. But re £ arded a 8 a connecting link left by the “I go 
lump, and in form as well as color was like a has quite reversed its tendencies. We see that 14 " a44 . be over a4 luri* aod we shall have a '' , ''W ” 4o make heaven and earth relatives, 
dumpling; whilst the limb, from the foot to the il8 ii'idk to-day, because of its universal accept- P eace _ a 2 aln ' How soon, God alone knoweth, comes 10 as 4r om the vista of the present, 
knee, was withered and flaccid as that of one ancfJ - but “public opinion"’ may to-morrow be 1,114 i4 does not come 111 one wa 3 r 11 will in hhnlling us by its very nearness and newness, 
long paralyzed. The display was repugnant in revei ' Sl ’ d > and we drift with the tide. We may, a ' K ‘ l h” r 10 oue a ud all. and the leaves of some other, like an ancient glacier, rolls down 
every way. We fled, and have been careful ever hour, sit at the feet of Christ, learning pre- u °fo ,)er will tall on that place, and it will not 4rom ever y scene of the sacred long ago, and 
rAiirtVinnl tliA ma m .1* ... 
corner, like a broom iu a mop-pail, and remem¬ 
ber all the while that it is a woman’s mouth, and 
you have as much of the fashion as I propose to 
describe. 
FOOT OF A CHINESE BELLE, 
An English traveler thus describes the com¬ 
pressed feet of Chinese women as he saw them 
during a tour through Chinese Tartary:—“Curi¬ 
osity impelled me once to be one of a party in 
examining an uncovered foot. The young wo- 
to satisfy the request we made, but a few dollars boori > 4bftl 4tl< ‘y be permitted to rest with the for- 
quickly dissipated her reticence, and also in- g<Jl4( ' n - Ambitious ones, desirious of literary 
diiced another to increase the exhibition. It was commendation, have often disremembered these 
no treat. The removal of the bandages was like ^breathings, uud have opened the channel, 
the exhumation of a halt-decomposed body, and wbich k ‘ d 40 conti uued misapprehension of what 
made our party close their mouths aud hold their trnly buve been real worth. 
nostrils, much to the augmented astonishment of 
the young ladies, while we stretched our necks 
to see all as quickly as possible. No toe was 
visible but the big toe; the others had been 
doubled under the sole, with which, after weeks 
He must not be of earth, who is destitute of 
faults. In this mystic bundle, composed of a 
human soul and body, is wrapped up all the 
opponents of goodness. The first moment of 
accountability, we delight in evil, not merely as 
h«v rath r C °:; n ' P° 4atof, '\ raKe - rest, where the receding tide may leave us. We r * Journ «l Commerce. untarily expect those quaUtles from everyone 
w«tn«n tori- 1 'tl l ' c ' 5 ra 0r 4ban fo av ® 11 <or Around the ideas of one's mother the mind of build castles, founding them in air, and the next--- wbo h as received at the christening font this 
thr. K'riv (1 n •' atl fondmg to a man clings with fond affection. It is the first flow of sympathy from tar tidy hearts, sweeps True eloquence I find to be nothing but the eacred name. Our Father Iu His wisdom passed 
• '/ ' •'"or i in general, and look- deep thought stamped upon our infant hearts Lh°m from view. ‘ serious and hearty love of truth: aud that, whose tiie princely dwclliugs of the rich and titled, 
she has alreadyTulte M mS'oa'teMnX wh “ and . ca P aW « « Sttcb i, ,be ebb ana «.»• of mUml beertt. ” U “ d ,oe ’'” jf. **• to to J be *»«• «» mat,: 
she can conveniently manage. ' profound impression, and all the alter feelings of As we look not alike, nv differ we In heart devel- 'bow good things, and with the dearest charity ^, r ’ e . ch ^ r S^of mother of His only son. 
the world are more or less light in comparison opment. One possessed of fine sensibilities t0 "uusethe knowledge of them into others, when Gura ^ 1 4oPed to visit at the lowly cot of Laza- 
l neretora, girls, I would by no means advise I do not know, that even in our old age we do with generous Impulses predominant mav draw 8uch a mau would speak. h:s words, like so many tov tbere he met one calJed MAitY-the 
you au to rush to the hay field or potato patch not look back to Lnat feeling as the sweetest we from the “harp oi a thousand string* ” music, kin nimljli ‘ and any servitors, trip about him at com- Sister o{ Hls hearL Ic 8eei u 8 to us, that Christ 
as preventive against becoming “soft aud have through life. to that which departing saims hear, as their feet inaud ' aud in wel1 ordered files, as he would wish, crowned this, name with a rose wreath of 
siny, more especially as the course of disci- Our passions and wilfulness may lead us far touch the “ cold waters. ’ Another wanting in fal1 abru P 4l 7 into 4heir own places.— Wilton. laurel, and given it as a legacy to mortals to do 
!w! 8l S! , ‘ as Iie , Ver Mrv ® d 40 eradicate from the object of our filial love; we learn even the delicacies of tiie former, may bring forth that -- 3 ? reat , work " At the cradle and a4 ,he cr °88. its 
t ■«-. qualities horn the masculine character, to pain her heart, to oppose her wishes, to violate which will shock the ear of t>>e cultivated while the picture. principles are truth and goodness,—its offspring 
as to pjysical development,” there are other her commands ; we may become wild, headstrong a third, destitute of the components which make A sweet face, with earnest eyes { 31tb ’ gen , tJeU( T r s and goodness. Ruth followed 
ways ut securing that which are a thousand or angry at her counsel or opposition; but when up the life of each, deals out varieties ot blithe- And thoughtful brow toll arched above it; „ Mr ’ b,lt MaRV 6111 at feet of Jescs. 
Umes moie pleasant and profitable. Let your death has stilled her monitory voice, aud nothing some sweetness and shrieking discord. God a mouth, whose graveness won surprise, Martha prepared diligently a feasf for her 
flower garden tosttiy to your activity and love of bat calm memory remains to recapitulate her never designed that wo should be alike Wp Whose tender sweetness made one love it; Lord, but Mary anointed Him with the soul's 
neatness, or culiivato an acquaintance with the virtues and good deeds, affection, like a flower may seek to remodel nature, until life i* ex- ^ ^ best comtuimion ' 14 was said to Martha, 
the picture. 
uphold the innateness of genius. 
A calm, sweet face, with earnest eyes 
And thoughtful brow fall arched above it; 
A mouth, whose graveness won surprise, 
Whose tender sweetness made one love it; 
A face that told how souls aspire, 
That look beyond to-day’s revealing; 
A boy with all of manhood’s fire, 
A man with all of boyhood's feeling. 
sister of His heard It seems to us, that Christ 
has crowned this.name with a rose wreath of 
laurel, aud given it as a legacy to mortals to do 
a great work. At the cradle and at the cross, its 
principles are truth and goodness,—its offspring 
faith, gentleness and goodness. Ruth followed 
Naomi, but Mary sat at the feet of Jescs. 
Martha prepared diligently a feasf for her 
Lord, but Mary anointed Him with the soul's 
richest communion. It was said to Martha, 
“Thou art careful and troubled about many 
things, but to Mary, “Thou hast chosen the 
good part, which shall never be taken from thee.” 
John was the best male friend of Christ. 
Mary was His best femaie friend. How char¬ 
acteristic ol the women of our land! How 
and brothers have responded to our country’s 
call and are battling for freedom and right, you 
are none the less effectually helping on the 
glorious cause by taking up the work which they 
have been compelled to leave. And this you 
can do without that affectation of “mannishness" 
c - —-—** j «ucu me ui iuo cquauiy ih mum. mu nature icw wve US LEX sure.— it is lolly lor an eminent man to rr- . . 
niter period of our .loss forces memory to be way. We curb it, and it sulks,-we crush it. and think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be ft • r™ ° e?t emale f nend ' How char ' 
lent, fancy takes the place ot our remembrance, recuperation is found within itself,-we bind it. effected with it. All the illustrious persons of s i.‘ C 04 the 01 °ur land! How 
rime when , K i ld ‘' v l u«s the image ot our dead parent with a and it snaps the bands. Thus we are by nature, antiquity, and iudeed of every age in the maDy J^ lA ^ TIIAS ^ d Makys are ther e among 
time, when .0 many husbands garland of graces and beauties and virtues, which Education, the polish of society, and divine world, have passed through thi/fier- persecu ? N ''‘ iU ' y e , very househoki contains a Mar- 
^nfedomiZ -T 76 wed ^ b4R 0t that she possessed. grace, come in as modifiers. Though ,he affect «on. There is no de ^ ° *****? to 0Ur pbysicai 
g for freedom and right, you ---- lions of no two hearts ran in positively the same obscurity: it is a kind of conTomSuo m-eatt Zh 7% l0e ^ , ling b0ard ’ and t0 
Home.— The domestic relations precede, and, channel; the ambition and fame-longings of each ness, as satires and invectives were an essential U ° « th ® dov '’ n y P l]Iow of re P 08e > but 
our present existence, are worth more than all differ: the knowledge and spiritual power of part of a Roman triumph.-Addiso?i buW man , y uf 8,des 4eel ^ force of a Mary's 
her social ties. They give the first throb to souls be dissimilar; still, the intentions, which _...__ presence. Patiently cheer Ail the radii of the 
e heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its aimed at similar goals, may have had equally Avarice.- The avaricious man in™ #k„ !° U ' °~ n 6l , mllght f ® 1] lerveDll y upon every 
m our present existence, are worth more than all differ: the knowledge and spiritual power of part of a Roman triumph.— Addison. 
other social ties. They give the first throb to souls be dissimilar; still, the intentions, which ___ 
the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its aimed at similar goals, may have had equally Avarice.- The avaricious man is like the 
love. Home is the chief school of )i liman rivhm ni7rP nricrina w/i cod rKta fall s.f V.,. __ •_ xt. . * * . 
which eeem< to h* thfi rrrqn c\ rotnm ^ ti . \ 7. IVUUWUB cimuai uiajr uavv uaa equauv AVARICE.— Tiie avaricious man is like the 
many who cry out Gainst the masculine p H ° m q ch,ef sch ° o1 of human virtu0 - pure origins. When we see i he fall of a brother, barren, sandy ground in the desert, which sucks 
monopoly of many classes of employments Put j S - pull8jbdlde8 ' sorrows. smUes. tears, and witness the blasting of his fairest hopes, our' in all the rain and dews with greediness but 
, i 4 r ", '' ^ . . ' ' p J " ■ J nopes and soheuudes, form the chief interest of thoughtless hearts leave him alone in his follie« yields no fruitful herbs or olanta for tht> Lon n, 
what I do contend is, that as there must, of human life.— Chamfag. and bid him not tread in our path We fbraet of others ‘ 1 f th f 01 a se u-sacrmcing always, 
necessity, always be a division of labor in this -- vrith wh«t s,,™™ th 0 ri r | • ,* r c e “ with open hands extended to the assistance of 
world,and field work is one of the lew things Hex and woman have become extinct They i-een ™ orbYwhirtlri'^ ° ^ -- the needy,-with hearts filled with live arri 
which man can do with credit to himself and died rixtv years am and toft n ■» L; , ' T 1 r 7 7 j 7 h L ? da th warp of bl8 Tiie hu man soul is hospitable, and will enter- ; 7 m P at by.-sueh are very rare. Still we have 
1 . , 1 “ , . “ imM h anu Ulecl years ago and lett no heir! Ladies character made. He may the hundredth ni»ht tain rvmflto t too- „„ 1 * . them with us, and in the light of their nurif vine 
benefit to the community, I think it altogether 1 and gentlemen have usurped their places. have slept in the arms of a drunken fatter! opinions with -real impartial 17 iu^ence we know they at tfe feet of jJlJ 
1 J‘ Adrian, Mich., 1863. M. J. Prick. 
surrounding object; reflectingearnestly the “one 
thing needful” Many are honored with the 
name; but how many possess all the character¬ 
istics of a real Mary. Sell-sacrificing always, 
with open hands extended to the assistance of 
the needy, — with hearts filled with love and 
•/ --•-a**" wmuouug Bcuuiucma alUi 
have slept in the arms of a drunken father.! upinions with great impartiality. 
