MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 3 
ooHsbly admired the pretty charms and 
thought him decidedly the more attractive of 
the two as far as dress was concerned," 
“ I’erhapu bo,” said she. “ I suppose I should 
have thought nothing of It If 1 had liked him," 
and so died LinA'h part in the little romance. 
’TIs true that they called upon us several 
times during the remainder of her v isit, but she 
never changed her opinion. As for i'n arlky, 
he came a greatmany times afterwards, and I 
never had cause to regret our brief acquaint¬ 
ance, as the longer I knew him the more 1 saw 
that seemed admirable In him. 
Ah the autumn came on we sometimes in¬ 
dulged In our early taste for rambles, when we 
would talk ovor our hopes and dreams together 
as at first, always with more or less sadness, as 
though we were never to realize them. 
Like song birds of sorrow we uiulllcU 
Our music as clouds do their fire." 
During these pleasant confidences ho once 
gave me a history of hia life. Left fatherless at 
an early age he, with I wo of his sisters, had 
been adopted by a wealthy gentleman who, 
though kind and Indulgent In many respects, 
was also strict in his requirement*., belonging 
to the Old school of moral teachers. This re- 
Btralnt over Charley ’3 froodom-loving spirit 
at last grew to he so Intolerable that he quitted 
his father’s old friend to return once more to 
his mother’s home. Hut she meanwhile had 
married a second time not, as time proved, very 
fortunately. It may have been partly for this 
reason that he always spoke so tenderly of her, 
never returning home from one of his visits to 
me without asking for Ids little bouquet of 
dowers for her, which 1 sometimes gathered 
from our abundant garden. 
So the autumn months flow away, and when 
the winter had hidden tin* fair world of beauty 
from our sight 1 received one day a letter from 
him which piqued me a little about something, 
1 cannot DOW recall what It was, and Jeanne, 
who had also annoyed mo, made some unkind 
speech about him. As 1 look back upon It now 
It was probably a trilling affair, but then, sore 
and unhappy, 1 threw the letter Into tlm grate. 
I boliovo she asked mo when wo were going to 
be married? 
Always unhappy In my dependence on them 
for a home, I proudly answered, “ Never!" I 
do not know, now, why I answered so, but hav¬ 
ing once done so, my determination never 
changod. That night I wrote to.him my decis¬ 
ion, and then cried all the next week because 
he did not omno as usual. 
Do girls know their own minds at fifteen ? I 
think hot few do. Ucrtnlnly 1 was not among 
that number. Long ago 1 stood by the grave of 
my old self- the girl that>'as then—and among 
the many experiences I have passed through 
since, and the treasures my heart has garnered, 
days before. * We met each other several 
times,’ she aald, ‘In the Society for Social 
Intercourse here, but had not much opportuni¬ 
ty to speak to one another. Last week the 
society gave its anniversary festival and a little 
dance after the ceremonies. w« danced to¬ 
gether a great many times ; and at the end of 
the evening felt ourselves quite well acquaint¬ 
ed. The next Wednesday he paid his first visit 
and the following day our betrothal took 
place.’ Such a rapid march of events quite 
took away my mental breath and I ventured to 
make some remarks as to the different fashion 
Of doing mich matters In Germany and In 
America. 'The ladles with ns,’ I remarked, 
‘generally make their admirers wait awhile 
before they give their cousont.’ ‘ Why do they 
do that,' Innocently Inquired the newly be¬ 
trothed, ‘If they intend to marry them ?’ 1 Oh !' 
I replied, ‘we think It is the right thing to 
keep them in uneasy suspense for awhile and 
torture them a little that they may afterward 
better appreciate their good fortune,’ ‘ Oh ! I 
am sure you cannot moan that in earnest!’ 
cried the kind-hearted mudv.hm ; ‘ nogirl could 
be so unkind and cruel to a man she really 
loved !’ 
1 hat was the German view of your super- 
refinoment, young ladles of America! My 
friends the ladles of the house, who paid the 
regular congratulation call, came back quite 
full of the lovely picture of family joy which 
they had seen : ‘Such happiness!* they said; 
‘the father, mother, the sister, the whole 
family circle so proud and pleased and joyful!’ 
and they seem to sympathize with this joy In a 
hearty, friendly, neighborly fashion that was 
pleasant to see. The formal betrothal Is a 
family festival to which only relatives or the 
nearest friends are Invited. An soon as it lakes 
place the lady Is called a brawl that Is a 
1 l ,f 'de ’ and the gentleman in her brautigom — 
her bridegroom-and Ihoy always use these 
titles In speaking of one another. The lady, 
with all the quiet simplicity possible, Intro¬ 
duces the gentleman to any new acquaintance 
as ‘My bridegroom,' and ho speaks quite 
naturally of her as ‘ My bride,’ The marriage 
ceremony, Instead of giving them a right to 
those titles, as with us, deprives them of them 
forever, unless one of them should bo so un¬ 
fortunate as to be hereafter left desolate and 
compelled to choose another mate.” 
t'urrents caused by a tendency to re-establish 
in a horizontal direction, from the Equator to 
the Poles and from the Poles to the Equator, 
an equilibrium which has been disturbed." 
7 lie causal relations between these currents 
and the clouds, with the nutans of predicting 
storms, are fully explained. Considering how 
Insufficient and conllicting have been the theo¬ 
ries of scientist* for the past quarter of a cen¬ 
tury with reference to the Important, problems 
of Meteorology, we shall watch with interest 
the fate of this volume. If Prof. Blasts has 
proved his theory, the Importance of his dis¬ 
coveries cannot well be over-estimated. Defin¬ 
ite projiheclcs of the weather will take the 
pluce at “ probabilities "—weather disasters by 
sea and land will be well nigh disarmed of their 
terror, and it is not, perhaps, too much to say 
that the author will take rank among the fore¬ 
most benefactors and discoverers of the age. 
Sabbath Jtciulmg. 
The Keys of the Creeds. [IGmo.-pp. 201.] New 
York ; U, P. Putnam's Sons. 
THIS volume consists of a series of letters by 
a Cat holic Priest to a young friend whose mind 
was so filled with religious doubts and so Impa¬ 
tient to solve the mysteries of faith, or “the 
problem of the World's Creeds," that he coolly 
resolved to commit suicide to gratify his ab¬ 
sorbing curiosity. The author assures us that 
he loved this friend to idolatry, and he has the 
satisfaction of knowing that he not only dis¬ 
suaded him from his fatal purpose and brought 
peace and comfort to Ids mind, but that by his 
work of love he materially improved his own 
falling health—a result that his physicians had 
failed to effect. This work la the author's 
"Key" to his wonderful success, and will 
doubtless bo interesting to persons of an in¬ 
quisitive and theological turn of mind, while 
to those calmly intending suicide It may prove 
“ a friend In need." 
“Of fair passions and bountiful puiea 
And loves without stain,” 
None stand out more pleasant to revert to 
than my brief friendship for Uuaiclky Keti.aw. 
I did not see him again until many months 
after my letter was sent. A brief regret, proudly 
worded, came from him the next day In re¬ 
sponse to it. And that was all! I think now I 
wrote m> letter recklessly, while feeling un¬ 
happy, taking it for granted i could undo my 
work again; but when next we met he was 
dressed in an officer's uniform, having Joined 
that unfortunate band who wont on the Nioa- 
rauga expedition to Central America where, 1 
believed, be remained two years. That be re- 
turned I know, as I saw a notice of It in the 
papers. Whether in health or not 1 never 
heard, as we never met again. 
Some llttlo time after, while visiting friends 
In the country, I picked up a newspaper and 
more by accident than Intentionally glanced 
over the list of deaths. What was my surprise, 
as well as sorrow, to see his narue among them. 
He died of a fever some five years or so after 
we first mot. 
Tom Pahmia* I never saw again al ter our ex¬ 
cursion, he dying soon after of consumption. 
“ So the birds that flow Hinging to me-ward 
Uecoded from sight,” 
Where Is he now? Where does the spirit 
wing itself to when freed from clay? Does it 
retain Its memories, its loves ? If so I am sure 
1 shall some time or other uieot again Charley 
Retlaw, my dream-lover. 
" Dope* dto and their tombs aro for token 
That the grief ns the Joy or them ends. 
Kro time that breaks all men has broken 
The faith between friends,” 
--- 
GERMAN BETROTHALS. 
A Berlin correspondent of a Han Francisco 
paper says, In speaking of German marriages 
and betrothals : "After the announcement of 
betrothal it is at regie for all who have received 
it to call and congratulate the lucky young 
lady and her fortunate parents, in this case I 
had a slight acquaintance with the young lady 
—a fresh, fair, handsome German blonde—but 
I thought my Intercourse with her hud been too 
limited for me either to take the llborty of 
calling to congratulate her or even or doing 
this when i mother on the following Sunday 
coming out of the church on the arm of the 
bridegroom. But the next time i met her, in a 
private circle, 1 found that such scruples op niy 
part had been quite uncalled for, since, in the 
frankest manner, though with great modesty 
und simplicity, on my saying a word or two on 
the subject, she began' to relate to me the his¬ 
tory of the whole love affair from the beginning 
to the crowning point, the betrothal, a few 
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(ur THE BEAUTIFUL SONG, 
Tii cue's a song In the air ! 
°~ There's a star In the sky ! 
n ~ There's a mother's deep prayer 
11H And a baby's low cry ! 
lat And the star rains Its flro while the Beautiful sing, 
as For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a K lag ! 
Is- 
n _ There's a tmnult of Joy 
3e G'er tin* wonderful birth. 
For the Virgin’s sweet boy 
Is the Lord of the earth. 
I,r Av! the star ratnslis Arc and the Beautiful sing 
W For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King 
0“ 
In the light of that star 
Lie tho ages impearled ; 
And that song from afar 
IW Has swept over the world. 
Every hearth is aflame, and the Beautiful sin" 
,y In the homes of the nations, that Jesus Is KIug ! 
ld We rejoice in Ibe light, 
lt * A nd wo echo the song 
10 That comes down through the night 
ly From the heavenly throng. 
>- I A?' we shout to the luVely evangel they bring, 
it And we greet In his cradle our Saviour and king ! 
i« - •* ♦ • 
’* THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS. 
Is His outward life was the life of all those of 
u his ago and station, and place of birth He 
d lived as lived the other children of peasant 
'* parents In that quiet towu, and In u great 
11 measure aa they live now. Ho who has seen 
i- the children of Nazareth In their red caftans 
o and bright tunics of silk cloth, girded wit h a 
e many-colored sash, ami sometimes covered 
with a loose outer jacket of white or blue-he 
I who has watched their games, and heard their 
1 ringing laughter as they wander about the hills 
y Ilf their tittle native valley, or play In hands on 
r the hillside beside their sweet and abundant 
« fountains- may perhaps form some conception 
of Imw Joaua looked and played when he, too 
V was a child. And the traveler who has follow- 
- od any of those children -as I have done-to 
3 their simple homos, and seen the scanty furni- 
* tore, tho plain but sweet and wholesome food, 
f tb ® uneventful, happy patriarchal life, may 
’ r ° rm 11 conception of tho manner in 
1 which Jesus Jived, Nothing can he plainer 
than thoso houses, with tho doves sunning 
■ themselves on the white roofs, and the vines 
wreathing about them. The mats or carpets, 
' are laid loose along the walls; shoes and 
• scandals are taken off at tho threshold ; from 
l the center of tlm ceiling hangs a lamp, which 
form* the only ornament of tho room; In some 
recess in the wail is placed the wooden chest, 
painted with bright colors, which contains the 
I books or other possessions of the family; on a 
ledge that runs around the wall, within easy 
roach, are neatly rolled up the gay-colored 
quilts which servo aa beds; and on the same 
ledge ure ranged the earthen vessels for dally 
I use; near the stand the large common water- 
jars of red clay, with a few twigs and green 
loaves—often ol aromatic shruba-thruat iuto 
their orifices to keep the water cool. At meal¬ 
times a painted wooden stool is placed in the 
I center of the apart ment, a large tray Is put up¬ 
on It, and in the middle of the tray stands the 
dish of rlcu or meat, or UIiihui , or stewed fruits, 
from which all help themselves in common. 
Both before und after the meal, the servant, or 
the youngest member of the family, pours 
water over tho bunds from a brazen ewer Into 
a brazed bowl. fio quiet, so simple, so bumble, 
so Uneventful, was the outward life of tho 
family of Nazareth.— Farrar's Life of Christ. 
-♦-*-*- 
WAITING FOR HOME. 
I ho not know a more beautiful sight on 
earth than a man who has served his Lord for 
many years, and who, having grown gray In 
service, fools that, in the order of nature, he 
must soon be called home. He i« rejoicing in 
the first fruits of the Spirit which he has ob¬ 
tained. aud he is panting after tho full hurvest 
which is guaranteed to him. 1 think I se„ him 
sitting on a jutting crag by the edge of Jordan, 
listening to tho harpers on the other side, and' 
waiting till the pitcher shall he broken at the 
I fountain and the wheel at the cistern, and the 
spirit shall depart to God who gave it. A wife 
waiting for the husband's footsteps, a child 
waiting In the darkness of the night till its 
mother comes to give it the evening kiss, are 
portraits of our waiting. H Is a precious thing 
so to wait and so to hope. 
— » »♦-- 
An Old Copy of tub Biblk.-A copy of the 
edition of the Bible printed by Guttenberg at 
Mayonee, between 1450 and 1450, was discovered 
last autumn iu tho vestry of the Church of 
Klein Bautzen, in Saxony. It Is printed partly 
on paper and partly on parchment. It was 
presented to the church in 1077, and had lain 
nearly L*00 years mnoug the psalm hooka and 
Bibles, being mistuken for a manuscript Bible, 
lt lias been purchased for about JC150 by an 
English collector. 
Nature Is sent to teach us by her autumnal 
parables; aud every fading leaf on every tree, 
with Its bud of future growth hid behind it, 
becomes a solemn text, warning us to "secure 
while the leaf is yet green the germ that shall 
live when the frostof death hasdeatroyed both 
fruit and flower.”— McuimiUian. 
