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WANTED-A WIFE. 
RESPECTFUL!. Y DEDICATED TO LADY READERS 
OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, BY F-. 
I want it wife, a flrst-ratc wife, 
A girl that's nil niy own, 
To cook my meals and cheer my life 
With smiling word and tone. 
1 want a kind of nppley girl, 
Ripe, rosy-cheeked and sound, 
Whose tender feelings sort o' quirl 
And twine me alt around. 
A girl with cheeks like hollyhocks, 
Industrious, kind and true, 
That’s smart enough to foot my socks 
And mend my clothes like new. 
A girl that never pledged a vow 
To any chap but me— 
That’s been brought up to milk a cow 
And have warm cakes for tea. 
Like tallow dips her eyes must be, 
As melting and as bright, 
(They’ll do to court her by, you see, 
And sure another light.) 
She must be graceful as the bell 
Upon the lily found, 
And make such butter as will sell 
For sixty cents a pound. 
If she I’ve spoke for should appear 
In answer to these rhymes, 
She'll tlnd a partner most sincere 
By marrying JOEL OlUMJCS, 
Campville, Tioga Co., N. Y. 
WHAT WOMEN CAN DO. 
If they can neither vote, nor hold office, c 
nor sit on juries, they can speak the truth , c 
and thus bring about a much needed and i 
blessed reform. The amount of sheer lying t 
women do in the course of a year, aside from i 
the insinuations and suggestions that are 1 
forever meaner than the very meanest asser- < 
tion, is overwhelming. Inventive,ingenious i 
and quick, they lie, and then lie themselves 1 
clear of it, before you can put your fiugcr t 
down. 1 
Women do not often lie from a natural < 
propensity for falsehood, but from habit, i 
From a slight prevarication or exaggeration, 
they become accomplished liars. Some 
“exaggerate” from a purely artistic sense ; 
the extra points they put in, fill up the 
chinks so nicely and make the story so much 
more harmonious. Selfishness, Jealousy and 
pure malice actuate a vast deal of the false- 
ness that takes shape in misrepresentation of 
facts and slight perversions of truth that ac¬ 
complish the end desired as well as would 
entire falsity. 
I have no sympathy whatever with those 
extenuut ors of faults in women, on the ground 
of the defects of their education, the narrow¬ 
ness of their training, or the idleness of their 
lives. There may be excuses for theft, for 
profanity, for immorality even ; hut there is 
no excuse for general lmtrutUfuluess. If 
there is ever any excuse for deception, it is 
when done to save some one pain, and doing 
no other person harm, unless it be the de¬ 
ceiver himself. Many comparatively good 
women are most dreadful story tellers, with¬ 
out ever comprehending the fact. Serious 
introspection might alarm them to reform in 
the matter and manner of their speech, and 
that such self-study may take the place of 
idle talk, is most devoutly to be desired. 
M. a. e. w. 
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WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE OPPOSED. 
I am not a vain creature; 1 am aware I 
cannot compose well; I labor steadily and 
my hand trembles; I have also nearly for¬ 
gotten grammatical rules; neither do l claim 
to be a first-rate speller; but all the mistakes 
I may make will not he difficult for you to 
correct, in case I offer an idea which you 
may consider worth the trouble. 
I dislike the thought of female suffrage so 
much! How dark, oh! how much discord 
and confusion it will create if it should ever 
become a law. 1 see Mr. Beecher says there 
are men enough. I do not hesitate to differ 
with him, so long as there are not as many 
males aa females. Women are now largely 
in the majority, and still our men are called 
to fill so many places that women find it 
impossible to fill. The farms are to be cul¬ 
tivated; the railroads must be built; trains 
must have their engineers, brakesmen, and 
such others as may be necessary; then there 
must be mechanics, architects, machinists; 
and far worse, many have been called to bat¬ 
tle with the untamed aud, it appeals, never 
to be governed aboriginals. 
Brigham Young lias also defied our 
people; and I doubt not hundreds of men 
will lose their precious lives before those 
worshippers of the Dragon cease to speak 
their pernicious blasphemies. 
Another says, 1 pay just as much for my 
boots though 1 am better than men. Who 
ever heard a shallower word ? What could 
have produced that vain idea in our petted 
sex lmt the many acts of kindness we have 
v always been used to receiving from men. 
The men always stand in a crowded church 
or car aud m sit; if there is a heavy burden 
to he borne, men are usually called upon to 
bear it. If wives are suffering beings, a kind 
husband (and I know of many) will hover 
around a worthy wife so fondly and say so 
many words to cheer and comfort, that the 
soul is glad, the body is culled upon to en¬ 
dure something, in order to feel assured that 
in one heart that home-honored sufferer sits 
queen. 
Oil do not want to he loved by more 
than one, for fear I lose that one. There are 
some brutal men, I know; but how have we, 
as a general thing, been wronged by our 
men ? I cannot, think of any way m which 
men have legally wronged us; on the con¬ 
trary, I know of hundreds of blessings that 
were bestowed by a mighty haml because 
we realized our true position so long and 
filled it unmunnuriugly. 0! how few know 
the strength of our vast army when our only 
weapons were Virtue and pure Love. 
What weapons are to he used in the next 
campaign? I am sure I do not know. 
Satan has enough for all who are willing to 
assist him, and I fear tiie final issue will be 
a universal polygamy. Kate Case. 
Dea Moines, towa, 1870. 
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WOMAN’S VIRTUE. 
[A correspondent sends us the following ex¬ 
tract. of a letter from one. of our soldiers to his 
daughter, prompted hy what he saw in the 
South. He writes on board the U. 8. gun-boat, 
Paw-Paw, at Paducah, Ivy. 
Most of the women that throng the trad¬ 
ing boats are coarse, lacking that refined 
modesty and reserve which always throws a 
charm around the female. 1 always did 
entertain a high estimate of tliat woman 
who possessed real, genuine modesty—a cul¬ 
tivated mind, together with those moral and 
religious virtues which give, her such a com¬ 
manding inlluetice in society. And, my 
daughter, since I have been in the t5oul.li, 
and have seen what I have seen, ami heard 
what I have of Llie low depravity to which 
so inauy of them are sunken by their own 
folly and wickeduess, lean usoustill strong¬ 
er term, and say I almost adore the woman 
of virtue and refinement. 
‘octal topics. 
“UNTIL THE DAY BREAK.” 
Will It pain roe then forever, 
Will It leave roe happy never, 
This weary, weary, gnawing ol the old dull pain? 
Will the sweet yet hitter yearning, 
That at my heart la burning, 
Throb on and on forever, and forever be In vain? 
From the conflict ceasing ucver, 
From the toil increasing ever, 
From the hard and bitter battle with the cold and 
callous world ? 
Will the sky grow never clearer ? 
Will the hills draw never nearer, 
Where the gulden city glitters, la Its rainbow miats 
impeurled? 
Ah mel that golden city! 
Can God then Imvc no pity? 
I have sought It with aucli yearning for so many 
bitter years 1 
And yet the hills’ blue glimmer, 
And the portals' golden shimmer 
Fade ever with the evening, and the distance never 
selfish as men; aud In their relations to each 
other more so. It seems to me rare—I have 
observed pretty closely, too—to find an ac¬ 
tive, practical sympathy among women for 
each other. The little Miss of fourteen to 
sixteen rarely leaves her seat in a car to ac¬ 
commodate an old or invalid lady. She 
will allow an aged man to leave his place 
for the woman rather thau rise. And all 
this meets with no rebuke—to my knowledge 
—from mothers. 
What is true politeness? Is it a matter of 
the heart or of form ? I confess I rarely see ' 
it in ray street wanderings. I oftener see it 
among men than women, and I dislike 
to say so too! The foundation of true 
politeness is unselfishness; the base of boor¬ 
ish manners is selfishness. 
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TRUTHS- MALE AND FEMALE. 
O weary, weary living! 
O foomon unforgiving! 
O enemies that moot me on the earth and In the air 1 
O tlosli, thut clogs my yearning 1 
O weakness aye returning! 
Will ye never cense to trouble? Will ye never, never 
spare ? 
Alas! the clouds grow darker 
And the hills loom ever starker, 
Across the leaden mist-screen of the heavons dull 
and gran! 
Tliou must learn to bear thy burden, 
Thou must wait to win thy guerdon, 
Until the daybreak cometh and the shadows tloo 
away 1 [St. Pauls. 
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EVERY-DAY LIFE. 
BY LEAD PENCIL, ESQ. 
“ But would you have one contented ? 
Do you meau to say that the highest attain¬ 
ments are secured without discontent?" said 
Peikins to me yesterday. 
I replied, “ I make a distinction betweeu 
discontent and ambition. Ambition nerves 
a man; discontent unnerves. Ambition 
stimulates; discontent palsies. Ambition 
begets or is born of hope; discontent ren¬ 
ders hopeless. The discontented man or 
woman sees nothing good and satisfactory 
I wish to make a few remarks on the arti¬ 
cle, “ Every-Day Life,” contained in Rural 
New-Yorker, June 11th, page 387. 1 en¬ 
tirely agree with Lead Pencil’s female 
friend who objects to die term female philo¬ 
sophers and female thoughts. She asked if 
he really thought, that female and male 
thoughts differed upon self-evident truths, 
sin: not seeing the reason why they should, 
since truth is truth under all circumstances 
and indentical with right. Lead Pencil 
replies that the experience, intuition and 
perception of men and women do not har¬ 
monize with Divine inspiration and truth; 
that what one thinks, feels, sties and knows 
as truth, another may find it impossible, to 
believe to be true; for the woman's philo¬ 
sophy is based upon experience peculiar to 
her sex, and can never bo his except by 
faitli in her and the accuracy of her reason¬ 
ing. 
Strange that Lead Pencil cannot see 
tliat both sexes come from the same womb; 
the food, atmosphere and surroundings are 
identical; the fount of parental influences 
perfect in their nature. Up to thin point of 
man’s power, there is enough for all and to 
spare; but here, instead of woman’s duties 
and rights being demanded aud carried out, 
we have pride, idleness, ignorance aud liy- 
You little know at this stage of life the in- j n a))y possession, situation, circumstance or pocrisy cultivated both in Clmrcli and State, 
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fluence which female character has in con- 
troling and moulding the character of man 
But when woman departs from the paths 
of virtue, and loses all self-respect, as well as 
the respect of others, it is almost impossible 
to conceive of the depths of infamy and deg¬ 
radation into which she may sink. 
How important is the scripture injunction, 
“Shun the very appearance of evil.” It is 
said, “Resist the Devil and he will flee from 
you.” It, might with the same truthfulness 
be said, resist temptation and it will flee 
from you. 
My daughter, I most sincerely hope and 
pray that you may seek those virtues which 
are so Important iu forming the female char¬ 
acter—in fitting her for the exalted sphere 
she is intended hy the Creator to occupy in 
this world. Aud I wish you to remember 
one thing, which is this:—If man is ever 
seen to exhibit refinement of manners, chas 
tity m conversation, or a high sense of moral 
virtue he is always indebted to female influ¬ 
ence and example for i t. I have no hope of a 
thorough reform on the part of either sex 
only as it is brought about through the in 
influence of woman. d. d. p. 
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AMERICAN WOMEN. 
JU8TIN McCarthy in the Galaxy pays 
the following tribute to the American respect 
for women :—“ Much as I had read of the 
politeness and deference shown to women by 
all classes of Americans, I had not by any 
means realized the self-sacrificing clnvalry 
with which the American everywhere defers 
to womanhood. . . . Of course the free¬ 
dom with which men and women mingle 
together in this country is a source of almost 
perpetual wonder to a stranger from Europe. 
Such a freedom would he impossible, but for 
the strength and reality of that chivalrous 
sentiment of deference to woman as woman 
which is found among American men as 
among the men of no other country of which 
I have any knowledge. I preseme tills sen¬ 
timent will not survive the establishment of 
perfect political equality between the sexes; 
and slight as this fact may seem it is one of the 
only things which would make me at all re¬ 
gret what is called the enfranchisement of wo¬ 
men. One cannot but see that the moment a 
woman iu this country emerges from what 
tradition and prejudice regard ns woman’s 
sphere, she is subjected to just the same ir¬ 
reverent and vehement criticism with which 
a public man is assailed. I do uot know 
that this would do tlie woman any special 
harm, but I think American men can ill 
afford to lose a sentiment of reverence of any 
. kind.” 
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SORROW’S TIMES. 
\ Woe and alas! the times of sorrow come. 
And make us doubt if we were ever glad ! 
' So utterly that inner voice Is dumb, 
Whoso music through our happy days we had ! 
So. at the touch of Uriel. without our will. 
The sweet voice drops from us, and all Is still. 
I [Jean Ingeloxo. 
condition. Ambition takes hold of every i 
possession, situation, circumstance and con- i 
ditioo, and mold-*and uses them to promote < 
purposes, to enable it to reach the goal. 
Discontent innkejLmen and women quern- . 
ions, cynical, purposeless, puerile. Ambi- i 
tion strengthens, vitalizes and sweetens life. 
Discontented? No. Contented? \es. Cul¬ 
tivate content, hqj ji^per cease to have a pur¬ 
pose— a worthy one —aud work for its ac¬ 
complishment.”_ 
Some people must lie idealists. There is' 
no sort of use sneering at. such Their work 
in life is to point out objects worth Climbing 
to reach. But the idealist may not be able 
to climb. It often requires a strong-limbed 
yeoman, without a half dozen ideas iu his 
head, to do the climbing. The botanist may 
point to a new species of lichen high on a 
wall ot rock; but lie may require the ser¬ 
vices of a stout, skilled mouutaineer to 
climb the rock aud reach the lichen. Neither 
the botanist who cannot climb uor the 
mountaineer who can, could serve science 
alone; but together they add to its wealth. 
Neither are to be despised. 
So in every day life. Each person has his 
and her place. Each place must be filled— 
if the grand purpose is fulfilled. The phi¬ 
lanthropist, who projects may be as powerless 
to execute as tbe man who executes may he 
powerless to project. Is the life of either a 
failure? Not a bit of it! The saw cannot 
cut a log except the power is applied; and 
the water-wheel may revolve uselessly with¬ 
out the saw. _ 
“ What are men made of?” said Blondinf, 
to mo to-day. “ They seem as hard as ada¬ 
mant, when we women think they should be 
tender, and like sensitive plants when we 
would have them strong.” 
“They are not women," I replied. “They 
are just the reverse, and it is well that they 
are. For instance, I rode up town to-day, 
sittiug beside Adrienne in the crowded car. 
A lady came in, and I said, 4 Shall I not give 
her a scat ?’ 
‘“No, you are more tired than she; she 
knew that the car was crowded before she 
got in, and that the chances were she would 
have to stand. She took the chances. Let 
her take them. Besides, I want to talk with 
you.’ 
“‘But,’I replied, ‘suppose the situation 
were reversed? Suppose you were the wo¬ 
man, aud she was in your place; would you 
not be grateful to me if I offered, you a scat 
after you hatl been walking all about town 
and shopping?’ 
“‘I presume so,’ was the reply. 
“ ‘ And I know I should lie very grateful 
to any gentleman who would give a lady 
accompanying me a seat..’ 
“ I gave up my scat, the lady said ‘ Thank 
you, sir; lam very tired.’ I believed her, 
and was compensated.” 
Now this is a common, every-day circum¬ 
stance. The fact is women arc, at least, as 
until the whole creation groaueth together 
in bondage waiting for a day that will never 
come if those people rule. 
Lot woman's rights and duties become the 
Alpha and Omega of the happy few who 
appreciate them, and time will accomplish 
the rest. I will close with the Axioms of 
James Pierrepont Greaves, which I hope 
you will insert. 
1 Deity ancl Truth are one. The knowl¬ 
edge of divine facts, coming from Truth, can, 
therefore, never he injurious to mankind. 
2. Trulh is one; each separate truth is in 
accordance with truth itself. 
3. No two truths, agreeing with Truth it¬ 
self, can disagree with each other, or be in 
opposition or contradiction to each other. 
4. No name or authority, whatever be its 
nature, can change Truth into falsehood, or 
falsehood into truth, or can in anyway make 
that which is truly related to truth to be 
false, or that which is falsely related to truth 
to be true. 
5. Truth can ucver he opposed to true re¬ 
ligion, nor can true religion ever oppose 
truth. All religions that do not accord with 
truth, must bo founded on error, and ac¬ 
knowledged to be but superstitions of man’s 
inventions. 
6. Man is subject to universal laws, and 
both man and the universal laws are subject 
to the Ineffable. 
7. All human laws, not iu accordance 
with the Divine laws, are founded in error. 
8. All systems for man’s improvement, 
which are not, like the Divine laws, in har¬ 
mony with Love*, must be wrong, and must 
produce misery and disappointment. 
9. As man to be happy, must co-operate 
with the Divine laws ever acting withiu him, 
submission to these laws is a question of the 
greatest importance, and the how to submit 
must he ascertained. James Brook. 
July, 1870. 
abbatb limbing; 
LESSONS TAUGHT. 
BY GRACE GLENN. 
Thou teaclic*t. mo with lessons stern. 
Oh, God! to loan on Thee, 
By taking oft roy earthly props 
From under mo, 
Ami showing, us thoy break, how weak. 
Their strength to Thee. 
By firm decree 1 follow Thee, 
Thou only living way ; 
Who suflhmdst hutuau hands to lead 
Me for a day, 
Lest 1 hud never known how e’en 
The wise may stray. 
1 learn tho might of Thy great loro 
With feeble mind and slow, 
And only thus Its power prove. 
As blow on blow, 
So slight yet. strike to dust all loves 
Of mine below. 
Thus, with no glorying of self 
Iu which, Oh, God ! to boast, 
I love, embrace and follow Thee 
Because I must; 
Yet pray Thee make me glad In Thee, 
Alone, to trust. 
Ionia, Mich., June, 1870. 
THOUGHTS BY THINKERS. 
Do Tliy Duty. 
Carlyle gives this practical advice: 
“ The situatiou that lias uot its duty, its 
ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, 
here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, des¬ 
picable actual, wherein thou even now 
standest, bore or nowhere is thy ideal; work 
it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, 
be free. Fool! tho ideal is in thyself; the 
impediment, too, is in thyself; thy condi¬ 
tion is but tho stuff thou art to shape that 
same ideal out of; what matters whether 
such stuff he of this sort or of that, so the 
form thou give it he heroic, be poetic V O, 
thou that piuest in the imprisonment of tho 
Actual, aud criest bitterly to the Gods for a 
kingdom, wherein to rule and create, know 
Hits of a truth; the thing thou seekest is 
already with thee, ' bore or nowhere,’ 
couldst lhou only see ! Let him who gropes 
painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and 
prays vehemently that tbe dawn may ripen 
into day, lay this precept well to heart: 
‘ Do the duty which lies nearest thee,’ which 
thou kqpwest to be a duty! Thy second 
duty will already have become clearer.” 
♦ Love h ere is expressive of Deity; It is coeval with 
light and life. 
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A little Indiana girl on Decoration Day 
strewed flowers on the grave of a Confeder¬ 
ate soldier. A little friend reminding her 
that it was a rebel’s grave, she replied: 
Our WitueM of Iiiniioi-tiillty. 
Dr. IIall says:—“The popular impres¬ 
sion is that ordinary men live wholly or 
mainly in tho present. If ‘the present’ as 
distinguished from the eternal he meant, it 
is true. But it is uot true that most men 
live in the present as contrasted with the 
nearer future. On the contrary, the present 
is little in most minds but as a step to the 
future. The child longs for boyhood, aud 
the boy for manhood. Manhood longs for 
the time of establishment, aud when it is 
reached—if it be—for the time of rest and 
relief from care. So the human, spirit, by its 
constant projecting of itself into the future, 
appears in some vague way to own its 
present unsatisfactory condition, aud to 1 feel 
after if liaply it may flud ’ something better 
in advance. It would be strange if this life¬ 
long habit of counting on the future were to 
be broken off abruptly in death, a»d end in 
nothing. It is the witness within ourselves 
of our immortality.” 
Averaion to 8iu. 
A writer in the National Baptist says : 
“ In proportion to the depth and clearness 
of the soul’s perceptions of its obligations 
to Christ, will be its aversion to sin. In 
some persons these arc so acute, that the 
most distant approach of temptation causes 
intense distress lest he should yield, and 
thus wound Him whom ho loves. This 
dread of committing sin, however, in a 
measure subsides as he gains strength to 
overcome it. By finding himsoU a daily 
victor, a precious confidence that he will 
still be such through ‘ strength which God 
supplies,’ takes possession of him. Thus, 
by degrees, he learns to rest implicitly iu 
his Redeemer." 
A Time to Laugh. 
Beecher says:—•“ There is a time to 
laugh. When it comes, every Christian 
should improve it. Moreover, it is particu- 
“ Yes, I know it, but my pa was a soldier, ly incumbent on ministers to set the flock a 
and died in Libby prison, and is buried down good example in this respect. A merry 
South. 1 so much hope some little girl there 
will strew flowers on his grave. 1 thought I 
would bring these and put them on the reb¬ 
els’ graves. Maybe some of them have little 
girls at home, you know.” 
It is often very easy to believe a doctrine 
because our grandfathers believed it, but it is 
frequently a difficult task to discover tho dif¬ 
ference between truth and error. Error 
sometimes looks so much like truth as: to de¬ 
ceive those who fail to sharply scrutini ‘her; 
while truth sometimes seems, to the areless 
observer, to have lost her credential . 
Few take care to live well, but nany to 
live long ; though it is in everybody’s power 
to do tlie former, but iu no man’s power to 
do the latter. 
heart doeth good like a medicine, and is 
much easier to take. The minister has no 
right to wear himself out hy unnecessary 
friction, when tlie oil of gladness is dropping 
upon tlie pastures from every side. To 
maintain cheerfulness, even in the face of 
real difficulty and trouble, is one of the 
crowning graces of Christianity, and the 
minister even beyond other men should seek 
for it.” 
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The Angels! Do they not watch over 
the saints ? Is it not written that they “ En¬ 
camp round about them that fear the Lord ?” 
Are they not charged to take care of the 
saints, to bear them up in their hands, lest 
they dash their feet against the stones ? 
