MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 15 
dren, appeared at. the door of the principal 
saloon. 
The countenance of this man was respectful 
and modest; that of the children was more 
assured, and not frightened bp all this luxury 
by all those irrand lords, or by all those beauti¬ 
ful ladles, who stared at them wit h curiosity. 
“ Is this the chapel master and his marvelous 
ohlldren of whom all Vienna Is talking?” asked 
the Empress of her master of ceremonies. 
"Yes, your Majesty,” answered he," atid I 
can enure you that- nothin? equals them. I 
heard thorn yesterday at. the French Ambassa¬ 
dor’s. The little girl Is very clever, but t he boy 
Is still more surprising.’’ 
" Let them begin," aaldthe Empress. 
Th« master of ceremonies Invited Mozart, to 
place his children at the piano. The chapel 
master conducted them to t he Instrument and 
seated them both before It. The young Frede¬ 
rica was dressed In a white taffeta frock, and 
little Wolfgang had a lilac cloth Jacket and a 
watered silk waistcoat of the r.amo color, the 
whole fringed with broad lace. 
Frederica began, and her execution was so 
clear and brilliant that every one went Into 
raptures over the pale and delicate child. 
When she bad finished a concert of praises 
was raised around her. 
M This la nothing, however," she said to those 
who complimented her, " In comparison to my 
brother." 
And the young girl watched with a motherly 
attention to see that her brother was comfort¬ 
ably, ns well as high enough, seated, so that 
the movement of his little arms would not be 
cramped. 
Then the little boy, after all these attentions, 
placed his tiny hands upon the keys, aud with¬ 
out apparent effort, without having any air of 
doubt that his talent would excite general ad¬ 
miration, let his fingers go— come—run ; they 
seemed to play with the keys, which he lowered 
and raised successively, and over which they 
flow, drawing fort h every time he touched them 
pure, grave, sonorous, soft and harmonious 
sounds. All eyes were fastened upon these 
fingers, HO agile, eu slender, aud so expressive; 
the most experienced chapel master could not 
have better given the harmonies and modula¬ 
tions of music. All hearts were moved with 
admiration. The key-hoard was then covered 
with ft napkin ; but the child was so accustomed 
to this that he played wli.h the same precision 
and rapidity'. The limp«ror and Empress aDd 
all the court were enchanted. 
When Wolfgang, out of breath, stopped, the 
Empross signed to him to oomo and kiss her 
hand. Re got up to obey, but being giddy from 
the noise of the praises and with the lights, and 
stiff with sitting so long a time, hi-Jslipped 
and fell the first step he took on the polished 
floor, A young lady hurried to the place aud 
raised him. 
“Are you hurt, my little friend ?” she asked, 
with the most touching Interest. 
As If dazzled hy the beauty of the young lady, 
the child did not. answer for a minute; then, 
recovering bis voice and putting his delicate 
little hands into hers, he exclaimed, “ You are 
so beautiful, madam 1 I wish to marry you !’’ 
A burst of laughtor greeted this speech ; but, 
without being hafllod, the child continued, 
“They call me Master Mozart; aud you—what 
is your name?" 
"Mine is Marie Antoinette," answered the 
young lady, with a voice t hat went to the heart. 
Alas! the Wife which Mozart's child chose so 
ingenuously was the Archduchess of Austria, 
the future Quomi of France. The poor girl had 
not so much happiness as If she had become 
tbe wife of Mozart. 
A few years after, while the great composer 
was being publicly crowned aud saluted by the 
cheers of the populace of Vienna, the young 
and beautiful Marie Antoinette. Queen of 
Franco, wile of Louis XVJ., mouuted the 
scaffold and perished In disgrace beneath the 
cruel guillotine, amid the mockery and insults 
of the people ot .Paris, who but a few months 
before had, In a similar way, murdered her 
kind-hearted husband. 
PRETTY SPEECHES. 
To bo able, readily, and without, premedita¬ 
tion, to Bay the right thing, Is an enviable gift, 
and may be made a wonderful instrument of 
conciliation anil pacification. The worst of it 
Is that persons possessing the power of repartee 
are apt to make a hostile rather than an ami¬ 
cable use of It; and indoed, most of us covet 
it rather as a whip to sting wit h than a feather 
to tickle. Caustic speeches are sura to draw, 
and the most amiable people, who would not 
themselves hurt their friends' feelings on any 
account, chuckle oy*Tthem as much as others. 
Therefore thsy are eoutluualiy chronicled, Imt 
pretty speeches lack the same pungency, and 
arc passed by as Insipid ; yet, I think, there Is a 
fine savor about one or two that l remember— 
that Bald by George the Fourth to the officer 
of marines, t >r example. It may be lamijur to 
you. but will really boar repetition. 
There was an empty bottle on the table and 
the king told the servant to “ take away that 
marine." 
A guest, sitting next the king whispered in his 
ear tint an offb'er present belonged to that 
branch of the service. George the Fourth 
ascertained his name, and then addressing him 
aloud, a-dted If he knew why an empty bottle 
was called a nurinu, 
“ No, your Majesty," replied the officer. 
“ Because," said the king, “it haa doDe Its 
duty, and is ready to do It again.” 
Which was an neat a way of getting out of a 
rather awkward phrase as one can well 
imagine. 
Ladies, however, are the fair and proper 
recipients of pretty speeches, and a man who 
gels them Is a sort of poacher. The Due de 
Nlvernois made an ingenious one to Madame 
du lfarri, who was endeavoring to persuade 
him to withdraw hl» opposition to some 
measure she had set her heart on. " It lx of no 
use. Monsieur le Due," she 6aid, “you are only 
injuring your Influence, for the king has made 
up his mind, and T have mvself heard him say 
that he will never change.” 
"Ah, madame he was looking at you,” re¬ 
plied the duke. 
Could any but a Frenchman have ever con¬ 
veyed determined resistance in so polite a 
form ? 
There was an ingenious amount of devotion 
implied In tbe remark of a love-sick million¬ 
aire when the object of his affections became 
eostat in oyer tbe beauty of tbe evening star. 
“Oh, do not, do not praise It like that!’’ he 
cried, “ f cannot get it for you." 
ft la no wonder that Tom Moore was such a 
general favorite, if he often said such charm¬ 
ing little things as he wrote. I think the very 
prettiest, quaintest quip ever penned is one of 
Ids love songs. The lover cannot deny that he 
lias paid homage to others before lie saw the 
present, object of Ids affections; In fact, he 
learned lip-service very early. 
“ That, lesson of sweet and crapturing lore 
I have never forgot. I’ll allow ; 
T have had It hy rolt very often beforo, 
But never by Itmrl until now." 
Irishmen generally do manage to say prettier 
things than others can. They have a certain con¬ 
fidence or assurance that enable* them to blurt 
ut whatever emues uppermost in their minds; 
that is why they make bulls. A man who is al¬ 
ways shooting must raise sometimes. The 
more cautious Englishman or Scpthman escapes 
he blunders, but makes fewer hits, and does 
not so often marry a n heiress. 
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Sabbath Reading. 
WHATEVER LIES BEFORE ME. 
BY RUNE BLUFF. 
Within the Past, the dead year lies. 
Shrouded away forever: 
Filled, like the years that went before, 
With failure and endeavor. 
The days were not all sunny-bright; 
Over the bine, clouds drifted; 
And many a night was starless too,— 
Life was not sorrow-sifted. 
My feet have slipped, my strength has failed, 
My bauds have grown so weary 
That sometimes, f well nigh forget 
That, though mr path Is dreary. 
'Twill sometime turn, that further on. 
Gloom may bn lost In beauty, 
For rosy Pleasure now and then 
Goes hand in hand with Duty. 
I know not what this year may bring. 
But this I know for certain: 
Wbatever’s hidden now for me 
Behind Time's shadowy curtain, 
The strength will come to bear It all. 
Though much of it be sorrow. 
And God will give us good enough 
And more, In every morrow. 
WHY DOES NOT SCIENCE FIND OUT G0D1 
See, then, why science does not discover 
God. Because It is working with great instru¬ 
ments—with physical analysis and metaphysical 
speculation, Instead of which the moral nature 
in exercise. It is like hunting for love with a 
microscope; like sweeping up music with a 
broom. The Alpenstock is well to climb the 
glacier with, but to measure the Matterhorn, 
the scientist nouds the barometer, and to sweep 
the horizon he needs the telescope: and, so, no 
matter how high he may climb In hlasearch for 
God, he needs at the summit the lenses of faith 
and love. Suppose I am told that Naples is not, 
but my memory of tho vision of beauty none 
other than a dream; that Venice, lying anch¬ 
ored at her lagoons, and Mont Blanc, raising 
its dome as If it. were the Great White Throne 
itself, are nought; shall I disbelieve what my 
own eyes have seen ? So men who have not 
been able to find God toll me that there is no 
God. But I put over against the negative that 
is In thorn tho positive that. Is tn me; the reve¬ 
lation which this soul of mine, illumined hy 
tbe 8plrlt of God, has had of him; and I stand 
invincible in ray faith upon him. You may 
reason the bluo out of tho heaven that Is above 
us ; you may untwist the strands of the ray of 
light as It comes to us from above, and prove it 
to be but darkness; you may dispute that there 
is any air to breathe, but. not till then may you 
wrest from me the knowledge that has been 
vouchsafed me of this God of love and truth. 
Against this knowledge the shaft of argumeut 
oannot prevail, but, falls shattered like the 
lance beforo the unyielding bronze.-Rcu. Dr. 
Stem. 
INWARD PEACE. 
Many say they have no peace nor rest, but so 
many crosses and trials, afflictions and sorrows, 
that they know not how they shall ever get 
through them. Now he who In truth will per¬ 
ceive and take note, pereelreth clearly that 
true peace and rest He not In outward things; 
for if It were so, the evil spirit also would have 
peace when things go according to hts will, 
w-bich is nowise the case. Therefore we must 
consider and see what Is that peace which 
Christ left to his disciples when he said“ My 
peace I leave with you, my peaoe I give unto 
you.” Christ meant that Inward peace which 
can break Lhrougb all assaults and crosses of 
oppression, suffering, misery, humiliation and 
what more there may be of the like, so that a 
man may be Joyful and patient therein; and 
what was bitter to him before shill become 
sweet, and his heart shall remain unmoved 
under all changes and at ali times. 
-»>■» 
TIME WAITETH NOT. 
Time waits for no man; it travels onward 
with an even, uninterrupted, inexorable step, 
without accommodating itself to the delays of 
mortals. The restless hours pursue their 
course; moments pres3 after moments; day 
treads upon day; year rolls after year. Does 
man procrastinate ? Is he listless or Indolent ? 
Behold the days and months and years, un¬ 
mindful or this delay, are never sluggish, but 
march forward lu silent aud solemn procession. 
Our labors and tolls, uur Ideas and feelings 
may be suspended by Bleep; darkness and 
silence and death may reign around us; but 
time la beyond the power of any being besides 
Omnipotence. The clock may cease to strike, 
the sun to s 111 no; but the busy hours pass on. 
The months and years must continue to move 
forward. 
-- 
Religion Is not confined to devotional 
exercises, but rather oonsists lu doing all we 
are called and qualified to do, with a single eye 
to God’s glory end will, from a grateful sense 
of his mercy to us. This is the alchemy which 
turns everything Into gold, and stamps a value 
upon oommon actions. 
