MABSH 23 
MOOSE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
SO GOES THE WORLD. 
OUR varied flays pass on and on, 
Our hopes fade unfulfilled away. 
And things which seem the life of life 
Are taken from us day by day; 
And yet through all the busy streets. 
The crowd of pleasure-seekers throng; 
The puppets play, the showman calls, 
And gossips chat, the whole day long. 
And so the world goes on. 
Our little dramas come to naught; 
Our lives may fall; our darling plan 
May crumble into nothingness; 
Our firmest, castle fall to sand; 
And yet tho chlktreii sing and dance, 
Thu money-makers laugh and shout, 
The stars, unmindful, still shine bright. 
Unconscious that our light is out, 
And so tho world goes on. 
The house grows sad that once was gay, 
Tho dear ones seek llielr Messed Home, 
And wo may watch and wait in vain 
To hear their well known footsteps come. 
And yet tho sunlight checks the floor. 
And makes tho summer shadows long; 
Tho rosebuds at the casement bloom, 
Tho bird pours forth liis cheerful song. 
And so the world goes on. 
And God goes on, and with our woe 
Weaves golden thrombi of joy and peace; 
Guarding with His heart of hearts 
Our days of pain, our days of ease : 
Hi? marks thorn alt the seed, tho sheaves, 
The danger's smile, the nioumoi's tears - 
And keeps them safe, Ills children all. 
Through all the great eternal years. 
And so, thank God, the world goes on. 
modern sun of intelligence has not reached. 
Let good rending go into a home, and the 
very atmosphere of that home gradually 
but surely changes. The boys begin to 
grow ambitious, to talk about men, books, 
the past and the future. The girls begin to 
feel a new life opening before them in 
knowledge, duty and love. They see new 
fields of usefulness and pleasure. And so 
the family changes, and out front its num¬ 
ber will grow intelligent men and women, 
to till honorable places, and be useful mem¬ 
bers of society. Let the torch of intelli¬ 
gence be lit in every household. Let t he 
old and young vie with each other in intro¬ 
ducing new and useful topics of investiga¬ 
tion, and in cherishing a love of reading, 
study and improvement. 
-- 
STJCCE8S MAKES ENEMIES. 
They who are eminently successful in 
business, who achieve greatness, notoriety 
in any pursuit, must expect to make ene¬ 
mies. So proue to petty jealousy and sordid 
envy is poor human nature, that, whoever 
becomes distinguished is sure to become a 
mark for the malicious spite of those who, 
not deserving success themselvess, are en¬ 
vious of the merited triumph of the more 
worthy. Moreover, the opposition which 
originates in such despicable motives is sure 
to be of the most unscrupulous character; 
hesitating at no iniquity, descending to tho 
shabbiest littleness. Opposition, if it be 
honest and manly, is not in itself undesir¬ 
able. The competitor in life’s struggles, 
who is of true mettle, deprecates not oppo¬ 
sition of tut honorable character, but rather 
rejoices in it. It. is only injustice or mean¬ 
ness whioh he deprecates; and it is this 
which the successful must meet, propor¬ 
tioned in bitterness, oftentimes, to the 
measure of success which excites it. 
-- 
THE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN. 
He is above a mean thing. He cannot 
stoop to a mean fraud. He invades no secret 
in the keeping of another. He betrays no 
secrets confided to his keeping. Ho never 
struts in borrowed plumage. He never takes 
selfish advantages of our mistakes. He uses 
no ignoble weapons in controversy. He 
never fitabs in the dark. He Is ashamed of 
inuendoes. He is not one thing to a man’s 
face and another behind his back. If by ac¬ 
cident ho comes in possession of his neigh¬ 
bor's counsels, ho passes upon them an act 
of instant oblivion. Ho bears sealed pack¬ 
ages without tampering with the wax. Pa¬ 
pers not meant for his eye, whether they 
fluttered at the window or lie open before 
him in unguarded exposure, are sacred to 
him. Ho invades no privacy of others, how¬ 
ever the sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks 
and keys, hedges and pickets, bonds and se¬ 
curities, notices to trespassers, are nouo of 
them for him. lie may be trusted alone, 
out of sight, near the thinnest, partition— 
anywhere. Ho buy’s no offices, ho soils none, 
ho intrigues for noue. lie would rather fail 
of his rights than win t hem through dishon¬ 
or. He will eat honest, bread. He tramples 
on no sensitive feeling. He insults no man. 
If he have rebuke for another, ho is straight¬ 
forward, open, manly. Ho cannot descend 
to scurrility. In short, whatever he judges 
honorable, he practices towards every man. 
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Successful Editors.—An English writ¬ 
er says: “A good edit or, or competent news¬ 
paper conductor, is like a general nr a poet, 
born, not made. Exorcise and experience 
give facility, but the qualification Ib innate, 
or it is never manifested. On the London 
daily papers, all the great historians, nove¬ 
lists, poets, essayists and writers of travels 
have boon tried and nearly every one has 
failed. * I can,’ said the late editor of the 
London Times, ‘findany number of men of 
genius to write for me, but very seldom one 
man of common sense.' Nearly all success¬ 
ful editors are of this description.” 
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A Worthy Quaker thus wrote: — “I 
expect to pass through t his world but once. 
If, therefore, there can be any kindness I 
can do to any fellow-being, let mo do it now. 
Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I will 
not pass this way again.” Were all to act 
thus many would be made happy. 
One of the pleasantest and no¬ 
blest duties of the head of the fami¬ 
ly is to furnish its members with 
good reading. In times which are 
past it was considered enough to 
clothe and feed and shelter ft fami¬ 
ly. This was the sum of parental 
duty. But lately it. has been dis¬ 
covered that, wives and children 
have minds, so that it becomes ne¬ 
cessary to educate the children and 
furnish reading for the whole house¬ 
hold. It has been found out that 
the mind wants food as well as the 
body, and that it wants to be shel¬ 
tered from the pitiless storms of 
error and vice by the guarding and 
friendly roof of intelligence and 
virtue. An ignorant family in our 
day r is an antiquated Institution. 
Tt smells of the musty pa* 1 *. It is a 
dark spot which the light of the 
GRANDFATHER’S "V ISIT.- (Page 203.) 
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BEFOKE AND AFTEE. 
THE PLANTAMOTJR COMET-A REASSUR¬ 
ING VIEW- 
“Nature” quiets the apprehensions of the 
public,with regard to the Apocryphal comet 
of the Geneva astronomer, after the man¬ 
ner following:—“ We have reason to know 
that many weak people have been alarmed, 
and many still weaker people made posi¬ 
tively ill, by an aurionnoement that has ap¬ 
peared in almost all the newspapers, to the 
effect that Professor Plantamourof Geneva, 
has discovered a comet of immense size, 
which isto ‘collide,’ as our American friends 
would say, with our planet, on the twelfth 
of August next. Wo fear that there ia no 
foundation whatever for t he rumor. In the 
present state of science, nothing could be 
more acceptable than tho appearance of a 
good large comet, and the nearer it comes 
to us the better, for the spectroscope has a 
long account to settle with the whole genus, 
which, up to tho present time, has fairly 
eluded our grasp. But it is not too much 
to suppose that the laymen in these matters 
might imagine that the discovery would he 
too dearly bought by the ruin of our planet. 
Doubtless, if such ruin were possible, or in¬ 
deed probable—but let us discuss this poiut. 
Kepler, who was wont to say that there are 
as many comets in the sky as fi. hes in t he 
ocean, has had his opinion indorsed hi later 
times by Arago, who has estimated the 
number of these bodies which traverse the 
solar system at 17,500,000. But what follows 
from this? Surely that comets are very 
harmless bodies, or we should have suffered 
from them long before this, even if wo do 
not admit t hat, the earth is as old as geolo¬ 
gists would make it. But this is not all. It 
is well known that, some among their num¬ 
ber which have, withal, put on a very por¬ 
tentous appearance, are merely the celes¬ 
tial equivalent of our t errestrial ‘ windbags’ 
—brought down to their proper level they 
would have shrunk into very small dimen¬ 
sions indeed. But there is more comfort 
still. The comet of 1770 positively got so 
near to Jupiter that it got entan¬ 
gled among his nmons. the diameter 
of the smallest of which is only 
some two thousand mil:;*; but the 
moons pursued their courses as if 
nothing had happened, while the 
comet was so discomfited by the 
encounter that it returned by an¬ 
other road — i. e„ astronomically 
speaking, its orbit was entirely 
changed. While, last of all, in our 
correspondence this week, will be 
found one fact the more in favor of 
the Idea that, in 1861, we actually 
did pass through a comet. We have 
a suggestion for those weak people 
who are still alarmed by these ce¬ 
lestial portents, and steadily refuse 
to acquaint themselves with the 
most elementary work on astrono¬ 
my. which would convince them 
how groundless their fears are. lu 
India, during the last eclipse, the 
priests reaped magnificent harvests 
from the offering of the fait hful. In 
England, possibly it would be con¬ 
sidered incorrect t.o make such of¬ 
ferings to the priest; but let them 
still be made to the Royal Astro¬ 
nomical Society. Ill this way the 
English Philistines would approach 
nearer the standard of his less civ¬ 
ilized brother; science would be 
benefited, and,doubtless, the omens 
would be averted — at all events, 
they already have been. 
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FURNISH GOOD READING. 
A THRILLING! ROMANCE OF THE 
WAR FOR THE UNION. 
Written Expressly for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
BY TWO WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS. 
[Continued from page 183.] 
XI.-Living In New York. 
Mrs. Heatiierstone did not like New 
York, neither did Margaret, for that mat¬ 
ter, but the elder lady found vent for her 
dissatisfaction in expression 1 
in gome unaccountable way appear¬ 
ed to hold Margaret respon iDL 
for her unhappiness. The qond 
lloor of a little brick house in the 
lower part of the city had ben se¬ 
cured for the wanderers t ill better 
days should bring better quarters. 
Their landlady—a queer little wo¬ 
man, who occupied the rest, of the 
house—was outwardly prickly, but 
inside good enough, provided one 
over reached the inside. Marga¬ 
ret, with 11 Ann i ijal as body-guard, 
had started out house-hunting on 
the day of their arrival In the city, 
and had decided upon the location 
of thiB particular house as desira¬ 
ble, If the inside should correspond 
with tho outward aspect. The 
landlady herself came to the door, 
and, with a grim glnuco at the gray 
old negro, asked MARGARET her 
business. 
“Do you keep Irish help?" slio 
inquired, sharply, after hearing tho 
voting lady’s explanation and show¬ 
ing the rooms; “if you do, this is 
no place for you. I won’t, lot one of 
the creatures cross my threshold." 
“Hannibal, here, will be our 
only servant,” answered Marga¬ 
ret, meekly. 
“I don’t like blacks cither,” the 
old lady continued, looking at poor 
Hannibal in a suspicions sort of 
way, evidently not quite under¬ 
standing how he could serve as 
“help.” 
“Very well,” said Maggie, turn¬ 
ing away and beckoning to her old 
friend,“then we will try somewhere 
else.” 
Hannibal stood for a moment, 
uncertain whether to turn or re¬ 
main; then, with a decided ex¬ 
pression on his good face, he turned 
to the woman, who was just about 
closing tho door, and said earnestly: 
“Now, Missus, don’t mind ole 
Hannibal. He be noting more nor 
less dau an ole dog. He be brack, 
but den he no make heself. Do 
Lobd Almighty fetched him into 
de world, and Missus wouldn’t do 
no such ting as find fault wid de 
Lord.” 
Evidently this view of the case 
had never presented itself to tho 
old lady's mental vision, for, in¬ 
stead of slamming the door in his 
face, as Margaret confidently ex- 
