MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Jfadtys' foi’tfoliu. 
PHEBE. 
BY MRS. N. ORIL 
From the hills the streams are welling—red the 
maple buds are swelling, 
W>thcs of willow, lithe and golden, sway above 
the grassy ground. 
In a heavonly baptism falls the cloudlets pearly 
chrism 
On the flow’rets while the Thebe birds are singing 
all around. 
Darts the sun his fiery lunccs where the laughing 
brooklet dances, 
Flashing back the order catkins with a rippling 
silver sound. 
Till the sweet Arbutus, creeping from the bed where 
it lay sleeping. 
Whispered. “List, oh list, the Thebe birds are 
singipg ah around 1" 
“Phcbe, Thebe, Phebe, Thebe,’ —Ah the coquette, 
where can she be ? 
Hiding neath the browned branches, or the sloping 
mossy eayp. 
“Phebe, Phebe, Thebe. Phebe,’’—thou embodied 
little Hebe. 
Trill him back a merry carol, nor t by faithful lover 
grieve. 
From her nest so still and holy, warbles she in soft 
notes lowly, 
Tempt me not with song and pleasure, to your 
bright and airy round ; 
Forf hear the hope* that lores'tc with my fears until 
they nestle 
'Neath my winy, while other Thebe birds are sing¬ 
ing all around. 
Hohokus, N. J., 1871. 
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WAYSIDE NOTES. 
BY MARGARET LIVINGSTON. 
Dear Mil Moore:—W ere you ever com- t 
polled to go to town when you preferred to k 
remain at homey If so, you can sympathize 1 
with me in my distress. Hero I luid decided in c 
my own mind to have one day for rest, when >' 
urgent necessity steps In and demands that I i 
don my best calle i and hie away through I lie ( 
dust and fierce broiling Him to the busy aide- 
walks and hot brick walls. • 
Of course I was in no very desirable frame of < 
mind as I stepped Inlo a “Missouri couch,” in ' 
which I, In company with three others, was to 1 
be shaken and Jerked, rattled and jolted, like I 
a load of pumpkins, through the dust and ruts, 1 
for seven long miles, lint every cloud has a 
silver lining, and every disagreeable necessity 
some Compensating clause by means of which 1 
wo may turn it Into satisfaction and enjoy¬ 
ment. feo the trip proved entertaining as well 
as useful. A most delicious breeze was s' irrbig 
the leaflets and lifting the nodding flowers, and 
though the sun watshinlng with Intense power 
we congratulated ourselves on u propitious day. 
But as every sweet must be Intermingled with 
bitter, so the beauty of the day and l lie pleasure 
of the trip were marred by sundry gratuitous 
performances on the part of the wagon tire, 
which, In consequence of being long exposed 
to a July sun, persisted in parting company 
with its felloes and assuming a horizontal, in 
spite of divers blocks and wedges. 
The fields and woods seemed to have donned 
their loveliest attire for tho occasion, and 
though wo saw no beautiful rivers, purling 
brooks, or shadowy lakes, our vision was re¬ 
freshed by the green, waving corn-fields and 
billowy grain ready tor the reaper,while the air 
was laden with the perfume of new mown bay. 
We mot a train of "prairie schooners,’’ 
bound for Iowa, their white covers looking in 
the distance like the white sails of vessels on 
the bosom of some glassy lake. Eight W'ugons, 
filled with tired women, surly men and crying 
children, and followed by fifteen dogs, which 
were nearly ail lean and hungry looking. 1 
presume they, as well as their masters, wore 
tired of traveling. 
At a farmer’s house by the wayside we spied 
a board fastened to a fence post, upon which 
were the words, “Hungurycn for Sail,” We 
failed to understand how it could mil, unless it 
made a balloon ascension, for there was uo 
water near. A little further on were two mag¬ 
nificent catulpa trees In full bloom. Wc were 
now’ on a high, gently rolling prairie, and In 
the distance could see the steeples of the 
churches and the high mansard roof of the 
Normal School building, four miles away. The 
smoke-plpc of the woolen mill was also visible 
in bold relief against, the clear sky. A dozen 
new buildings in process of erection could bo 
seen within two miles of the town, and as we 
drew nearer and stood on an eminence which 
commanded a view of the whole village, I could 
but remark the change which ( lie last five years 
had wrought. 
Five years ago a little, dingy town, nearly 
destitute of sidewalks, no school-house, but 
three churches, and half a dozen little stores, 
so dark and dingy as to obscure the Bight. Now 
we saw a stately brick edifice for the training 
of the teachers of North Missouri, a large 
building, also of brick, for the graded school, 
new churches, a Masonic ball, several brick 
blocks, containing dry goodB (stores, banks, 
printing offices, milliner shops and everything 
else found in a lively, bustling, embryo city. 
We saw two railroad depots where there had 
been but one, also several large uud beautiful 
private residences, exhibiting the wealth and 
taste of the owners and the skill of the archi¬ 
tect. Tho streets are Well graded, and nice 
sidewalks invito I he root of the pedestrian to a 
stroll through the village. There is not a li¬ 
censed liquor saloon in the place, but Instead a 
thriving Good Templars’ Lodge wields a strong 
influence. The Templars’ Hall is just com¬ 
pleted. 
After completing my business transactions 
for the day I wended my way to the bouse of a 
ffiend and arrived in time to dino with the 
family—and, as 1 sipped a delicious cup of 
mocha and enjoyed tho charm or my friend’s 
conversation, 1 forgot my long rkle and its ac¬ 
companying weariness. A little daughter o! 
tho family, but two years old, fully demon¬ 
strated the power Of example by bonding very 
low over her Plato while her grandpa" returned 
thanks.” Her lovely blue eyes shine like stars, 
and her winsome ways have endeared her to all 
who know her. 
I finally made my adieus and started “ home¬ 
ward hound," nod as wo rattled along I thought 
how much enjoyment l had glsuucd from what, 
at first was a disagreeable necessity, and * de¬ 
cided, in my own mind, that I would endeavor 
to profit by every occurrence of life, however 
uninviting it may seem. And as wo may learn 
to love our friends by searching for virtues In¬ 
stead of faults; so I may yet. learn to love the 
home of my adoption by admiring tts many 
beauties and closing my eyes to that which is 
unpleasant. I arrived at homo thoroughly 
fatigued, but after a refreshing cup of tea was 
sufficiently recovered to transcribe a history of 
the day 's adventures for tho bonoflt of tho ^ 
Rural readers, fee ling thankful that my homo 
was In tho freedom and stillness of tho country, 
instead of tho brick walls and dusty streets of 
a noisy city. 
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FOR WIVES. 
In domestic happiness the wife’s influence is 
much better than the husband’s; for tho one, 
the first cause, mutual love and confidence 
being granted, the whole comfort of the house¬ 
hold depend- upon trifles more Immediately 
dependent upon her jurisdiction. By her man¬ 
agement or small sums her husband’s respect¬ 
ability and credit are created <»r destroyed. No 
fori hoc can stand the leakage id extravagances 
and mismanagement; and more is spent in 
trifles than women would easily believe. Tho j ^ 
one groat expense, wnatovorit may be, is turned 
over and carefully reflected mi ere incurred ; ^ 
the income is prepared to meet It; but it. is 
pennies imperceptibly sliding away which do 
mischief; and lids the wife alone can stop, for ( 
it docs not come within a man’s province 
There Is often an unsuspected trifle to bn saved 
in every hou-eliold. Fl is not in economy alone, , 
however, that the wife’s iitlentioii Is so .. ■- ^ 
,,„ry, but in those niceties which make a well- - 
regulated house. An unfurnished cruet stand, 
a missing Key, a huttonlemshirt, a soiled table¬ 
cloth, a mustard-pot with Its old contents ; 
shaken hard and down about it, arc really 
nothing; but each can raise angry words and 
cause discomfort. Depend upon it, there Is a 1 
good deal of domestic happiness about u well- 
dressed mutton-chop or a tidy breakfast-table. 
Men grow sated oT beauty, tired of music, and 
are often wearied of conversation, however in¬ 
tellectual; but they can always appreciate a 
well-swept hearth and smiling comforts. 
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ITEMS FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. 
Paper sunshades aro something new. 
Necklaces of large coral beads aro fash¬ 
ionable. 
A leather braid for binding dresses is in 
the market. 
A new seaside hat looks like an inverted 
chopping dish. 
The feminine assistants in the Harvard 
grammar schools have salaries of j-.SOO a year. 
It took Mrs. Murphy of Arkansas, just thir¬ 
ty-five minutes to win a fight with an immense 
rattlesnake. 
Muh. Harriet Beecher Stowe and son aro 
passing the summer with Mrs. I’rcd. Oates of 
Castine, Me. 
Me.m. for young ladies : An Iowa court holds 
that a promise to marry must be in writing in 
order to bind. 
Mrs. Lucy A. Hall has been appointed 
Postmistress, iu Americas, Kan., in place of 
T. A. Wright resigned. 
Diamond shaped funs are the latest. They 
arc of black satin, handsomely and cleverly 
braided with gold cord. 
Queen Victoria deploring the prevalence of 
intemperance in her dominions has cut off 
Brown’s beer, so they say. 
Miss Harriet Upton has bequeathed $1,000 
to the City of Salem, Mass., the interest to be 
devoted to the poor every Thanksgiving Day. 
Mme. Nilsson ROUZISACD recently gave a 
concert for the benefit of the Westminster 
- Training School and Home for Nurses, which 
netted £1,000. 
Miss Susan Banks, Gen. Banks' sister, has 
just resigued tho position she has Hold foi 
! many years as first assistant in tho Waltham 
High School. 
5 Miss Ellen M. Soule of Sing Sing, N. Y., has 
been elected dean of the Woman's College at 
1 Evanston. Miss Soule will also fill tho chair of 
1 French In tho Northwestern U Diversity. 
Reading for tint Igimg. ; 
A DFAR LITTLE GRANNY ! ! 
[see illustration 1 , take 129.] J 
I want to bo your granny— I 
Granny, granny dear! , 
Do you think In glasses 
I m anything like near 't ( 
Would you lake rue for her 
If I wore her cap, 
Told yon pretty stories. 
Took you in my lop, 
Gave you lots of sweeties. 
Cakes and apples too’.'- 
Tbiit's tho way that grannies— 
Dear old granules dn ! 
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BOYS, WAKE UP! 
BOYS, wake up! Don’t sit dreaming as 
though the world was just made to sleep in. 
Don't imagine somebody is going to clothe and 
1 feed you while you do nothing but read love 
stories. Have more ambition than to part your 
Hair in tho middle, carry a cane, wear fine 
bools, and flourish a cigar. Don’t, any of yon, 
belittle yourselves by using tobacco in any 
form. It will make you filthy, create an appe¬ 
tite for liquor, and make you old and nervous. 
Wttko up! Try to bo somebody. Try to do 
something. Try to be noble, honest and if'* - 
dustrioua. By being somebody wc do not mean 
simply being rich, or just liHu all the rest of 
tho boys. Step out boldly into new l ath* that 
other boys are loo indolent and timid to try. 
In doing tills, you may not bo like Ned, who 
uses oat ha; or Fred, who plays cards ; oi loin, 
who says his mother and I'atncr don't know 
anything; or like any of a score of other hoys 
who all do about I lie same way for fear the rest 
will laugh at them. 
To do something is to shovel coal or run er¬ 
rands; Indeed, anything that is right, rather 
than lounge on hotel steps or hang around sa¬ 
loons, If you would rather tell a little false¬ 
hood, or smoke, or drink, than to ho seen iu 
plain clothes, coarse boots and at work -you 
aro Just nobody. 
Truth, temperance and good deeds make 
men; clothes have nothing to do with it. If 
t he lads you associate with talk snccringly «d 
their mothers and sisters, avoid them as you 
would a deadly poison. The influence of low, 
vulgar language may load you to infamy. Be 
pure. O, how pleasant it is to look into the 
face of an Innocent lad who is chaste and vir¬ 
tuous ! Take care of your bodies; do not abuse 
’ them. Keep thorn sacredly pure, clean and 
I wholesome. 
Don’t, think I bat because you are only a lad 
it will not make any difference If you do juntas 
you please. Don’t think that bon cares very 
little about you, when t he most trifling art. you 
' may do Is hold In 11 is everlasting remembrance. 
’ He says Even a child is known by bis do- 
4 jugs, whether his works tie pure, or whether 
i they be right." .Just think of that! Oil, how 
good, and right and pure, then, ought every 
1 child to be, because for such God is fitting up a 
beautiful mansion In glory l Bessie Beach in 
J SundaiJ School Advocate. 
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A FAIRY COTTAGE. 
A nut dropped by a squirrel fell through tho 
opening in the middle of an old mill stone 
which lay upon tho ground, and, being thus 
protected, grew into a thriving sapling that shot 
up through the opening. In a few years It had 
increased so that It filled tho apace aiul was 
firmly wedged to tho inside ortho heavy stone. 
Still It grow, and in a few years more, little by 
little, it lifted the entire weight, dear from tho 
earth, ao that a man could sit, beneat h it. All 
was done by atom after atom, borne by tho sap 
to the growing trunk. 
Think o( tills, littl a man, puzzling over "long 
division" in arithmetic; little by little of 
thinking and working will take you through 
fractions, rule of three,and those terrible prob- 
Uumvat, the end of the book by and by ; but bo 
sure tHat. little is not. neglected. 
And you, hard working lad on the farm or in 
the shops, look at Franklin, Watts, Morse, 
Field and thousands more who have lifted tho 
weight of circumstances that would hold them 
down like millstone*, flail who have, by their 
steady porserveranoe, risen above tlmir fellows, 
easily bearing their burdens, and keep " peg¬ 
ging away.” 
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MIND THE TWO ENDS. 
This is good advice. A writer in the American 
Agriculturist enforces it as follows:—When a 
small boy, I was carrying a not very largo lad¬ 
der, when there was a crash. An unlucky 
movement had brought the rear end of my lad¬ 
der against a window. Iostoad of scolding me, 
my father made nio stop, and said very quietly, 
" Look here, my son, there is one t iling I wish 
you always to remember; that Is, every ladder 
has two ends.” 1 never have forgotten that, 
though many, many years have gone, arid l 
never see a man carrying a ladder or other long 
thing, but I remember tho two ends. Don't wo 
carry things besides ladders that have two ends? 
When I see a young man getting " fast" habits 
I think lie sees only one end of the ladder, t.ho 
one pointed towards pleasure, and that ho does 
not know that tho other end Is wounding his 
parents’ hearts, &c., &e. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS-No. 1. 
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In a letter of Grace Greenwood to the New 
York Times, she describes tho wonderful house 
and grounds of Mr. Thomas Winana in Balti¬ 
more. This gentleman mads an immense for¬ 
tune building rail way* in India,and on his return 
to this country, planned a city and county 
which are the delight of visitors. A ft or speak¬ 
ing of these In detail, all© adds : 
Butastill more interesting building is a pretty 
little cottage, or rather, a play-house of ambi¬ 
tious proportions, really elegant and commo¬ 
dious, built for the Wlnan* children in the 
happy long ago. The small mansion was con¬ 
structed ju sections, and tho furniture manu¬ 
factured to order in town ; everything marvel¬ 
ously complete. The children knew nothing of 
it. There was nothing on the lawn before their 
window* when they went to bed on Christmas 
eve, but while they slept there were mysterious 
arrivals of wagons and workmen from Baltimore 
and great doings by moon light and lamp-light. 
All night they worked the carpenters and 
upholsterers—and at dawn gathered up their 
traps like the fairies, and as silently stole away. 
In the morning, the mother going to wake the 
children, happened to look out on tho law u, and 
witli an excellent Imitation of innocence, ex¬ 
claimed at the surprising sight, and then, of 
course, tho children ran pell-mell to see what 
the marvelous thing could be, and beheld t he 
charming little villa, gay and bright, Us windows 
flashing In ilio suu, and a fancy flag floating 
from its tower. 
Happy children ! with a Santa Claus of their 
own and a domesticated good fairy, and to 
whom I lie marvels and in agio of the Arabian 
nights must have seemed quite possible and 
probable, The edltlce was not of such fairy 
proportions that they could not keep house in 
it handsomely and outer! aiu their little friends, 
and mamma ; and even papa, if he would stoop 
a little and make himself as small as ho com¬ 
fortably could. 
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AN INSPIRATION FOR THE YOUNG. 
Here Is a litt le story with a moral Hint should 
inspire [every youthful reader. Study it well, 
i and lay the lesson to heart. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Answer la two weeks. 
G. U. U. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. No. 4. 
I am composed of tv/euty-four letters: 
My 1, 5,3, IS, 22, 3, 8 is a boy’s name. 
My 24, 6 ,'! is a vegetable. 
My 12,11, 19,23 is a fruit. 
My 18, a. 13, 21 i* a kind of conveyance. 
My 8,2,10, Iff is a nickname. 
My 1,13, 17 U a word meaning wet. 
My 20.1L, 13 is un article of dress. 
My whole is a noted author. Addie. 
IW Answer in two weeks. 
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PROBLEM,- No. 5. 
SUPPOSE tho diameter of a circle to be 12 
inches, what would be the diameter of each of 
10 equal circles forming a ring around the out¬ 
side, touching the circumference and each 
other? Also, what would bo their diameter if 
they were within the given circle? 
ji/” Answer in two weeks. U. Church. 
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ANAGRAM.-No. 2. 
“ Ft u rccfwu lotst hot lokln fo ripangt dya. 
Toil ogllwn rohd dswnl wollsy re’e hte ale ; 
Hot wolpmna mdarhwoe duple shi awery ywa, 
Dna velosa ten lordw ot kdsasren tlnaot cm. 
f v/~ Answer in two weeks. Hattie. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.—Aug, 8. 
Anagram No. 1. 
“ Some feelings are to mortals given, 
With less of earth in tnom than heaven ; 
And if there bo a human tear 
From passion’s dross refined and c.ear 
A tear so limpid and so meek, 
It, would not stain an angel’s cheek, 
’Tie that which pious fathers shed 
Upon a duteous daughter’s lo ad. 
L Lady of the Lnla\-Canto 11.; bony XX.ll. 
Problem No, 3. —24(5901. 
Hidden Cities, Vo- 3. 1. Paris; 2. Sparta; 
3. Quito; 4. Jackson; 3- Havana; fl. Goa. 
Cross-word Enigma No. 4.— Temperance. 
Geook vmacAL Enigma No.2.—Empire State. 
Hidden Rivers No. 3.—1. Salmon; 2. Rock¬ 
ett; 3, Indian; L Black; 5. Cash: (i. Virgin; 
7. Boyer; 8. Lewis; 9. Clarks; 10, Big Horn. 
