T3 — 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
rann gazed Intently on It, pointed to Ills own 
feet and shook his head. I tried a seeond time 
and sketched the peculiar woman's headgear of 
his village, with the long, thick plaits elaborat¬ 
in'' the hair, which I adorned with ribbon 
streamers, simply indicating a woman's profile, 
the whole of it not much bigger than my thumb- 
As I went on 1 wondered whether I had hit It. 
1 heard a deep sigh, and a big tear spattered on 
the paper. My Dahl man rose with an over-joy¬ 
ous face and went to where he bad piled up Ills 
stock of bread and, breaking n loaf In two, 
handed mo half of it and offered me his brandy 
bottle. That awoke the guide, who had been 
clum over tho lo&s of bis own ipiritB in ;t full, 
yon might help him. I told him you were a can 
painter journeying about to draw waterfalls | e 
and mountains, and that your business might doses . 
“ Can’t do it,” said the agent. 
“ Veil, den, by golly, I spikes! to you what I 
oses ! Here is dem two dollar und zixty cints, 
have a kind heart, for I had no reason to think 
to the contrary, but I put it to him that as you 
hud never seen Telsla with the hair of gold and 
the deep blue eyes, how could you ever have 
known how she looked, so as to be able to tell 
him about your having met her in America? 
Bui he declared that you hud drawn her face. 
I made him believe after a long time that be 
had come on a fool's errand, and that be had 
Kl "n eremih^ out his baud for the bottle as better return to Ids mountain-side and go to 
ESrSS I 
Bleep In t he morning we Should have forgot- ( «y 0 u know they are very honest In those 
ten nil .tout tho visitor Ml It hot hoed for tho p „„. ,o «*»■»•*»* lot tho litto Kr.po 
-manor ™ ...... 
on bird- shot on their way down the rooun- H nd which ho had hold in bis hand all the time, H- .* 
” It Is good bread, even If It was kneaded with 8t , you sell tb«*.things. L boldl to make | mg m 
and by dem zewers, and l snail snow you udi.i 
shall haf noddings more to do mlt dis town 1” 
He went on the train. 
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THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. 
The following-will be interesting, in vtew of I 
the rumor that the Czar has become insane:— | 
“ His Majesty the Emperor Alexander II. of 
Russia, was born on the 29th of April, in the 
year 1818. He is consequently over fifty-six 
years of age. His education was attended to 
more carefully t han had hitherto been usual at : 
the Itiiwdan court, and his mind was, during 
hi» more youthful years, enlarged ami culti¬ 
vated by foreign travel and observation abroad. 
He Id of a pensive disposition, tending to mel¬ 
ancholy naturally, and It ia said that he lias 
given away to fits of gloomy despondency dur- 
tears.” 
“How so?" tasked. 1 
“ Why, the Dahl man-" ; 
“Well, what about him?" i inquired. What , 
did ho want? What did he moan by ‘ Telsla? , 
Where did he go to?" 1 
*• Pardon me, worthy sir,” said Erickson, with 
a certain degree of constraint; “I have done 
tho work as guide for a good many Englishmen 
and you arc the first American: but you see 
stranger:; might kind of laugh at the way of 
feeling or thinking of our poor country folks, 
and that young fellow's story might seem to be 
foolish to you." 
“But what did he want?" I asked. 
“Thai poor Dahl boy saw you when you pass¬ 
ed through his village. Tho coming and going - 
of a stranger there in summer Is an event; in 
winter it would not have had the same effect. 
Hearing, after you had left, that you were an 
American, ho packed up everything he had in 
the world- hb clothes and his tools, for he is a 
blacksmith—and baa been on foot for tho last 
three days and nights following us, and he 
wanted to join you and go across with you to 
America, wherever that may be." 
“ Why? what for?" 1 inquired. 
“ Oh, it Is quite a story. He '-old it all to me, 
last night, and’most snapped his heart-strings I 
in the tolling of It. Ho waited until you were 
asleep: for though he had plucked up courage | 
enough to follow mo so far, he was afraid to tell 
it all to me. Tolsla wa > the freshest, rosiest 
maiden In tlm village. I ••.•member her well 
three years ago. She was 10 then. How pretty 
she was In her sheepskin jacket and her blue 
petticoat! Modest and pure-minded was she, 
and no ouc could say a word against her. . he 
was the daughter of the inu-keeper and her 
condition was a good one. It was a merry 
house ami Ir. winter u constant round of foot¬ 
ings took Place. Telsla ha 1 a good bit or learn¬ 
ing; but what was batter,sho wasa tidy house¬ 
wife and made fine cheeses and had a sweet 
voice and sang well and had a good heart. 1 
think sho must have loved our friend of last 
fellow bogge. arcau ,.uuy - • i — —^ I ^ thc p!l8t few years, particularly since the 
pose yoni sell these thugs. I t ! pcri od of blx governmental rupture with Pope 
a kind of bargain about it .It tmik you, inup- , whom he had been a personal 
poae, not over a half-hour to dra ^ n ’ t favortte -oii account of the treatment of the 
arnll thought one " li ‘ y ,., Catholic Church In Poland and other part* of 
your guide waa worth about as■ " ""l Kmoire . aIld the advent of the ex¬ 
think sho must have loved ourinwav 
night, though nobody could ever say that she 
told her thoughts. 
“Two years ago that girl’s father married a 
woman from the Mora country. 1 ll,lve One afternoon recently an old man appeared ALMOST FORGOTTEN HERO. v 
to say against the Mora people, only y before the Detroit and Lansing Railroad ticket - - ii 
apt to try and hold their wlndoW al lhe Central Depot and asked : Gen F p i.mokt is thus described by a Wash- *• 
geese, and lord It over the * * “What do you charge for a ticket to lianfclog/' iptter writer*—Ho is now old and bent, 
and so Telsla and her step-mother« id not agree Blp ,„ rcpll cd tho agent, wetting «»* }££ ™£ ply „ y th# fumm1 ng I 
very well- Then ' w Zw!a claimed hte thumb and reaching out for the money, hand ()f UnJ0< U ls eyes are slightly bleared ; a 
old father died and the . ‘ . “TWO dollars und zixty oints!’’ exclaimed cliee k bones stand out. as prominent as f 
the Stranger, pul.ing hfe head out of the win- of a 6 ioux chief. Hon-gray whiskers | s 
scandal among tho Dani iont, w«a * . . .in-pi., trimmed down from the base of his f 
»«• out^bTsLpmoS "Yes. Blr.that is the regular fare" jawbone, grow down upon his thin neck. His 
one fine day. 1 ulsla Bold out to her - - l lt ™. T htay8 here by Detroit forty years! . Js yel a dark Iron-gray, and is worn 
all her right In he.’father*, estate *»d«adawj man,getting red In the face. "I haf Yon *\\ combed well forward and ] 
r a 11 o n -11 k ewa I ke da Ua b u mt< , to n6ver seen no stish’n swindle as dathangs down In front of his ears. A well-worn ( 
got on board a cattle boat at Hen ^ “Two-sixty 1 b the regular fare, and you will BCt well back upon h\p head ; a bright , 
Stookhoim, wheaco ■ ■ ' ‘ \ t thflt for have to pay It if you go," replied the agent. scarlet comforter, a gray tweed light overcoat 
There ain t much that ls si r. nge aO£ ri1 ' .., shust ge f you two dollar und no more, d d k su)t ot underclothing make up tho 
lots of our people have*‘>d *^ er - general articles of his attire. He looks little 
“Either because the Dahl blacksmith bad not . iNo . csn . t do it." „ like, the hero of tbe Rocky Mountains, whose | 
been quick enough in tolling his love, i>mu„ a M y den r sthay3 mtfc Det roit till I dies, plctarea during the Presidential campaign of 
modest kind of fellow, or whether they nan a ,, ed the old mani an d he went away and always represented him with long curls, In 
quarrel over a bit of ribbon, certain wa [ ke d around the depot. He expected to be t h<J Karh of a w^stero frontiersman, charging 
while her lovor was absent Telsla went away | calJed b acb as he left the window, as a man is a , )a< *. upoIJ a ffory chiirgcr, breathing tbe smoke i 
and left the country. All 1 could learn >\as caiied backlo .. take ft along” when he and flro of a bloody war. It la said that Fre- 
what. he told me, and ho has been eating ms ^ hoen chaffing wl th a clothing dealer. Such montis trying to get some allowance from the 
own heart ever since arid living tn toe j , an evon t did not occur and, aft«r a few minutes, Q 0vernment for his past services In the West, 
though it happened ’most a year “go. want- ^ oId man returne d and called out: __— 
I 
cuide^nd b not oneof those sutSt-up fellows, " Veil, f c : n ' n r ‘^ sfalT bay Vert often we do not sufficiently appreciate 
X the Mora people, who think they can learn have lived In Detroit thr ( ? e £ . ' St the ordinary type of character. We are prone 
‘ . hi go w-ben tie told me his l"Dg story, I bollce .ax. Mwer tax, unfl want R p underrate a character which is without bold I 
SOTni"l!.rpS and took book you ate «o«a, a.41 ,b.ll a« M and Btrlkina GeDla.. eccentric an- 
„nrrvw!th the maps in it. It took me an hour ne walked off again, looking back to see if &tab]e , t UDprac ticable, we esteem above those 
to fxnliir to the poor simple fellow that lb this the agent would not. call him and, after a stroll sub9tan ti a i, well-balanced qualities, which we 
world Sweden is a Hny speck and that America around be returned to the window, threw down ^ « talent3t n aI1 d which achieve real success. 
all the rest “I tho earth. I took him BO nie money, and said: Those moral characteristics which are most 
ri- it off' to that cliff there, where there Is a “ Veil, duke two dollar und twenty cints and apparent !UK i demonstrative, drew attention 
01011 ' f ill of » thousand feet to the jagged rocks ^if ,n«’ri dicketto." ... „ | from the sterling, genuine worth which reveals 
l.r luw and I bid him toss a pebble into the “ My dear sir, can’t you understand that we ot ,i y on better acquaintance. As Everett 
denllis and said to him,‘That little atone is have uschedule of price* here and that I must 8a , d of Washington, to depreciate a man 
'ivlPli. - America Is that waste of stones and gobyit?" replied the agent. necause his character has only that harmonious 
splintered rocks and gravel below there. Do l “ Veil, den, I sthays mlt Detroit von dousand oon , p i ef . eiie9 s which presents no bold and con- 
vmi think you could ever find thrl little, round, yar .e !" exclaimed the stranger, madder than spJouoUB inequalities, la like finding fault v 1th 
white shining pebble again you have just C v er . “ I bays bolice taxes und sewer taxes, ^ ( . in . le because It has no salient points or 
thrown down ? The stone is lost.’ und 1 shall see about this by the Sheaf of Bo- an£r , eB) fol . ge tting that the very perfection of a 
• Thi« aeemed to strike him, and that neither line." circle demands that every point in Us curve 
In. sir. nor anv one else save Ho walked off again, nnd **he savv tb* loco- ^ „ e equl-dlsta.it from Its center. 
tore, so, If you are agreed to It. I will buy It in 
that way for the lad. The Dahl boy will cer¬ 
tainly repay mo tho price <>r this little picture, 
either this winter or the next, when I go 
through his village. Or, if you hold to your 
picture, and must have It, as you will stay at 
the porphyry works to-morrow, this very night 
I can cross tho country and get the picture 
back, and, having hired you a new guide for a 
day or so, I can head you off and join you that 
is to say, If you arc not offended with me ab tut 
the picture. These love scrapes always get 
oilier people into trouble. That is all, only 
Dahl men and Dahl women love through life 
and death." , . ... 
“ Your poor Dahl friend is welcome to my lit¬ 
tle sketch, which has really no value,” 1 re- 
! plt&cU 
J muBcd for a moment over this simple story, 
I when Erickson thanked me warmly and added, 
“He wrote something which I promised to 
give you," and my guide took from the liplOB 
of Ills cap a scrap at my sketching paper which 
Iliad dropped somewhere, and on which was . 
penciled some faint character*. "I gave him ! 
mv sacred word that 1 would beg you, whenever 
you went to America, to put thin In your post- 
office, if you have any In your country, so lhat 
It Blight reach Telsla that way. It was a good 
idea or the Dahl man." 
“ But, Erickson, my good fellow, what Is writ¬ 
ten on thtd paper?” I Inquired. 
“ Only this," he replied, “ on this side is, 1 To 
Tllsla, America.’ On tho other. ‘If this over 
reaches you anywhere, for the love of God 
write to me, so that 1 may join you, and keep 
my heart from breaking. You know who it is 
that write* you.'" 
Does any one in this wide land know anything 
about Telsla. tho one with the golden hair and 
the blue eyes ? 
I’ius LX.—with whom he had been a personal , 
favorite—on account of the treatment of the I 
Catholic Church in Poland and other parts of 
the Russian Empire, and the advent of the ex¬ 
citement which lias been produced by the so¬ 
cialist radical agitation in the Russian prov¬ 
inces. It has already been rumored that the 
Emperor bad developed symptoms of the soft¬ 
ening of the brain, that he'refused occasionally 
to converse or even take food, and that his lu¬ 
cent visit to England was undertaken at the in¬ 
stance Of Ills medical advisers, who thought the 
journey would tend to brace up his physical 
system, and thus restore tbe mental equilibri¬ 
um. He Is, it Is also alleged, haunted with the 
fear of assassination, and is anxious to abandon 
his position as head of the Greek Church. 
_-♦♦♦-- 
ANECDOTE OF ‘‘KAISER WILLIAM.” 
AViten the Emperor of Germany was lately on 
a visit in a distant portion of his dominions, he 
was welcomed by the school children of the 
village. After their speaker hud made a speech 
for them bo thanked them. Then taking an 
orange from a plate, asked : . 
“To what kingdom does this belong?” 
“ To the vegetable kingdom, sire," replied 
the little girl. 
Tho Emperor took a gold coin from his 
pocket, and holding it up, asked : 
"And to what kingdom does this belong?" 
“To the mineral kingdom, sire,” replied the 
little girl. 
“ And to what kingdom do I belong, then t 
asked tho Emperor. 
The little girl colored deeply, for sho did not 
like to say “the animal kingdom,” as be 
thought she would, lest his Majesty should be 
offended, when a bright thought came, and she 
said, with radiant eyes: 
UCOll V^u.vw --- , _ , L„ J «V I ' Y I'll, UUU 1 SB/UUJO 
modest ldnd of follow, or whether < h*> ‘ prow i e d the old man, and 
quarrel over a bit of ribbon, certain j ^ walked around the depot. 
HE FINALLY WENT. 
One afternoon recently an old man appeared 
before the Detroit and Lansing Railroad ticket 
window at the Central Depot and asked : 
“What, do you charge for a ticket to Lansing < 
“Two-sixty, sir,” replied the agent, wetting 
bis thumb and reaching out for tbe monc\, 
“Two dollars und zixty flints 1” exclaimed 
the stranger, pulling his head out of the win¬ 
dow. 
“Yes, sir, that Is the regular fare. 
“Then I ?htaya here by Detroit forty years . 
said the man, getting red in the face. “I haf 
never seen no sush’n swindle as dat . 
“Two-sixty is tho regular fare, and you will 
have to pay it it you go," replied the agent. ^ 
“ r shust gef you two dollar und no more, 
said tho stranger. 
“No; can’t do it." _ „ 
“ Veil, den Isthays mit Detroit till I dies, 
nmniMl the old man. and he went away and 
w ua» ux voh - , . , lias noen uunmug rn ^ - - - 
own heart ever since and living in the oars, an evoot did uotocoUra nd, after a few minutes, 
though It happened ’most a year ago. He * am - old man r6turn ed and called out: 
ed to go to America In nambor hMd tho, ght dollar and ten cints." 
openc^th upland m.ok^out'thaTbookyou i dis town, und 1 shall not be e wind let.” 
carrv with the maps in it. It took me an hour ne walked off again, looking back to see if 
to expl lin to the poor simplefellow that in this the agent would not. call him and, after a stroll 
world Sweden Is a tIny speck and that America ar0 und be returned to the window, threw down 
Is’most all the rest of tho earth. I took him gome money, and said: 
r i„ , t off to that cliff there, where there Is a “ Veil, dake two dolll 
clear f ill ■ f a thousand feet to the jagged rocks gl f dickette." 
beh.w and 1 bid him toss a pebble into Hie “ My dear sir, can’t > 
depths uml said to him,‘That little atone is b avo a schedule of pric 
Tel&lii • America is that waste of stones and go by it?" replied tho : 
splintered rocks and gravel below there. Do i “ Veil, den, I sthaya i 
you think you could ever find thr.t little, round, ya r >e !" exclaimed the 
white, shining pebble again you have just cv er. “ I bays bolice 
thrown down? The stone is lost.’ und I shall see about 
• This seemed to strike him, and that neither lice.” 
he, nor I. nor you, sir, nor any one else save Ho walked off again, 
God c-mld find for him where Telsla had gone motive backing up to 
to. He seemed stunned at this, but men n went bimk to the wind 
SUIUC IIH/Uvjf - „ , 
" Veil, duke two dollar und twenty cints and 
gif tne’n dicketto." 
“ My dear sir, can’t y ou understand that we 
have a schedule of prices here and that I must 
go by it?" replied tho agent. 
u Veil, den, I sthaya mit Detroit von dousand 
yare!" exclaimed the stranger, madder than 
ever. “ I bays bolice taxes und sewer taxes, 
und 1 shall see about this by the Sheaf of Bo- 
lioe." , , 
Ho walked off again, and as he saw the loco- 
i motive backing up to couple on the train, he 
went back to the window and said : 
fp!rs“e ■ cints nnd I rides on de platform 1- 
™do,,ar„ad,.,t y 
TriE readiest and best way to find out what 
future duty will be, is to do present duty. 
Sabbath Reading. 
UNSEEN HELPERS. 
BT ALICE I). LIND BLEY. 
God sends his angels to help us: 
Though we may not see or hear 
Any token of their presence. 
Yet we know that they are near 
When we feel the burden lifted. 
That was wearing life away, 
ne sees the heart* of his children. 
How oft It Is hard to *uy, 
“ Not my will, but Thine, dear Futlior." 
And to put aside oar pain 
To minister to other hearts— 
Though it seem to be in vain— 
Relief wilt ernne to our own souls. 
That shall make them strong again. 
Sometimes when'the days are darkest. 
And we think we cannot boar 
In silence the trials sent us. 
lie Cun hear the faintest prayer. 
Then sudden—the sky Is brighter. 
Once wore we cun see the blue; 
“Ah Heart 1" that Is Gods angels 
Coming to comfort you. 
And though you mart hide yonr sorrow. 
Despair not.—bo brave und strong; 
The darkest day must surely end. 
Though it seem so sad and tong. 
Beyond this life I* Joy and rest, 
There tear* shall give place to song. 
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SERIOUS AND SUGGESTIVE. 
Some mourn more the shame which sin brings 
than the sin which bring:; the shame. 
How small, of all that human hearts endure, 
the part that kings or laws can cause or curel 
The passionate are like men standing on 
their heads, 4 they eeo all things the wrong way. 
—Plato. 
Doctrines are of use only as they are prac¬ 
ticed. Men may go to perdition with ibclr 
heads full of truth. 
“ How many peoyle,” says Jeremy Taylor, 
i “are busy In this world gathering together a 
handful of thorns to sit upon 1” 
He who is falso to present duty breaks a 
I thread in the loom, and will see the defect when 
the weaving of a lifetime Is unrolled. 
He that does not go as fur as his heart urges 
and bis mind directs is a coward ; but he who 
goes further than he intended Is a slave.— 
Laixitcr. 
It would bo foolish to refuse to go into our 
houses by the open door under the fear that we 
are limited by having to go through that, one 
door. If Jesus Is the door. If he is the way, if 
he does teach us the truth, lot us follow btm.- 
Rcv. J. F. Clarke. 
Meditation on tbo dead quickens our faith 
in the unseen, for sorrow hath a sucred efficacy, 
“T<> God’s kingdom, sire." 1 there being no touch so purifytngas that of a 
The Er' tioror was deeply moved. A tear* dead man’s hand, and few living objects having 
stood in his eye. He placed his hand on the such re^r.native powe^as^ sight of fel- 
chlid’s head and said, most devoutly: low mor.al s death. Mn ntf jrd. 
“Grant that I maybe accounted worthy of The outside world will not consent to judge 
that kingdom." us by the standard of the prayer meeting. It is 
easy to rise to a high pitch of devotion in tho 
warm atmosphere of a social meeting: hut out 
in the chitling air or active life that same ther¬ 
mometer Is In danger oT dropping to zero. 
. Do not require in others more perfections 
; than are in yourself, and do not be astonished 
at the diversity of imperfections, for imper- 
3 fectlon is not greater merely because it is unu- 
, | sual. Behave like the bees-suck the honey 
s i from all floworsaud herbs.— St.Fra/ntilstte Sales. , 
s The old city of Troy had but oce, gate. Go j 
a round and round and round the city and you 
1 could find no other. If you wanted to get in, I 
n there was but one way, ai d no oilier. So to 
1 the strong and beautiful city of neavc-n there 
1 Is but one gate and no other. Do you know 
0 what It is? Christ says. “I am the door." 
A man must not only desire to be right—he 
if ’ must be right. You may say, “ 1 wish to send 
this ball so as to kill tho lion crouching yon- 
der, ready to spring upon me. M.v wishes are 
•o all right, and I hope Providence will direct tbe 
a. ball.” Providence won’t. You must do It; 
je ' and if you do not., you are a dead man.— 
» \ Beecher- 
I The teaching of Paul may be generalized 
into the maxim: “Avoid an Innocent practice 
when q Christian brother, weak In judgment 
and in will, will follow your example to the 
te I injury of his conscience." Or. in an inferen- 
De 1 tlal and still more generalized form,tbe maxim 
,ld I results: Avoid what is Innocent when it will be 
in ‘ the occasion of another’s sin. 
>se jEErsALEM. tbe golden ! 
we With milk and honey blest, 1 
iss. Beneath thy contemplation 
ost sink voice and lie.irt "pprett, 
ion 1 I know not, oh I I know not 
als | What Joys await tis there— 
ot,t What radiancy of glory, 
mn | What bliss beyond compare! 
dub jj e f, ba t can appreciate and consider vice, 
OT1 ’ with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and 
•l<- h I yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer 
or (hat. which is truly better, he is a true warfarins 
if a Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and un- 
irve cloistered virtue, unexerclsed and unbreathe , 
I that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, 
but sinks nut of the race, where that immortal 
rhat. i garland Is to be run for, not without dust an 
heat.— Milton. 
