OCT. 2 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ladies’ flqtfolio. 
BLESSINGS on the hand of woman ! 
Ansels guard her strength anrl gnro 
In the cottage, palace, hovel. 
O, no matter where the place! 
Would that never storms assailed it: 
Rainbows ever getitlv our'ed: 
For the hand that rocfc3 the cradle 
Is tha hand that roelcs the world. 
Infancy’s the tender fountain: 
Power ma y with beatify flow; 
Mothers first to guide the streamlet. 
From them souls unresting grow. 
Grow on for the good or evil. 
Sunshine streamed nr darkness hurled: 
For the hand that rocks the cradle 
Is tbo hand that rocks the world. 
Woman, how divine your mission 
Here upon our natat sod; 
Keep, O keep the young heart open 
Always to tno breath of God ! 
AH true trophies at the Ages 
Are from Mother Love, irapearled; 
For the hand that rocks the cradle 
Is the hand that rocks the world. 
Blessings on the hand of woman! 
Fathers, son., aad d?ughters cry, 
And the sacred song is mingled 
With the worship in the sky— 
Mingles where no tempest darkens, 
Rainbows evermore are curled; 
For the baud that, rocks the cradle 
Is the hand that rocks the world. 
llVhliamllASS Wallace. 
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OUR HOMES. 
and so on till this state of things is reached, 
and neither one would ho unable to tell how. 
Let the desire to do right, be ever so strong, 
wo are so frail, so apt. to err, that we must be 
constant!; on the watch not t» Injure or grieve, 
and heaven pity the inmates of a home where 
this desire Is not. We cannot afford to make 
ourselves and others unhappy here. The world 
is a beautiful one, but there are many, many 
hard places tn it. Wo need all the sympathy 
and love we can get,and others need all we can 
give. We have no right, to shut ourselves up 
from others hnpesand pleasuresand good times, 
but should strive w ith considerable self-abne¬ 
gation to help along, to give them a lift over 
the hard spots and to provoke a smile on their 
discouraged faces when we can. If they want 
to spend a day.'or evening in a way we do not care 
for, it will not hurt us to put aside our own in¬ 
clinations and show them that we love them 
we 1 enough to try to enjoy it. It will do us 
good to practice Iho nseessayy forbearance; it 
will make us gentler anil kinder, and a little 
more of these eIomen T s lu our character we cas 
all bear. How much better this than oelrig 
short, crops. crusty, and marring, if not quite 
spoiling, their pleasure! If love points the way 
we shall he glad to make them happy, even if it 
costs us much effort.. Ah ! this is the grand se¬ 
cret-lack of love for one another—of unselfish, 
sulf-s/ erifleitig love. Anti that, after all, Is the 
only kind that amounts to muoh. 
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SOME OWE TO LOVE. 
Perhaps one of tbe most positive proofs we 
have of the soul's independence of the body is 
our great need of loveand of something tolove. 
Were we mere animals—creatures doomed to 
perish after a few years of lifo in this world— 
that which contents the brute would also -un- 
tent us. To eat and sleep well, to havo an easy 
time of It would be enough. As it is, wo may 
have all these things and health to enjoy them 
and vet, he utterly wretched. Neither can mental 
food satisfy us. “Some cue to love" is our 
heart’s cry. 
When the atmosphere of tenderness is about 
us we rejoice; when perqile aro harsh and un¬ 
kind we sillier. Wo begin life wishing to invo 
all people, and believing that they Inve us. Ex¬ 
perience hardens us. Our dear ones grow fewer; 
but, as long as reason lasts, we must have some 
one- wo must, at least imagine that some one 
loves us. The parents, sisters and brothers— 
that dearest friend whom wo promise to love 
and cherish until death ports us—these come 
into our lives sud fill thorn up. Afterwards come 
l.iie little children—frail, helpless babies, who 
need our care so much, and friends to whom we 
are not kin, yet who grow dear to us. 
Some have many loved ones, and some but 
one. Heaven belp those who have none, though 
they are generally to blame for their empty- 
bearteduess, for kindness wins love. They are 
alwnys wretched, and they often show their 
craving for something to love by cherishing 
some dumh animal—a dog, a kitten, a parrot, 
perhaps, on which they lavish caresses, which, 
better spent, would have bound soma human 
heart to thelra. Pride or moreid sensitiveness 
may have hcen at the bottom of their loneli¬ 
ness, and these put;, of their- llll tho aohing 
void a little. 
Some one to love! It is the cry of the human 
soul, the note to which every human heart re¬ 
sponds; the bond which will bind us all 
together in that other world whero mourners 
shall be comforted aud love shall reign forever. 
MOTHER'3 BOY. 
Motiier, cherish your boy. Respect him, 
and encourage him to talk with you. A-skquea 
tions about things that interest him. CtrcsB 
and kiss him, and prove yourself the best friend 
by showing your love. Howls your little boy 
to know that you love him, If you never fondle 
him? If you continually repel bis advances? 
Many mothers cease to show their love as 
soon as a child is four or five years old. Little 
boys after this get fewer kiBses, because, fre¬ 
quently they soiled their bauds and faces lu 
play, and coma in noisy, warm and dirty, not 
just the sweet cheeks and lips we loved to kiss, 
and instead of putting back the matted curls, 
aDd with a little cold water bathing the hot 
face, we say, go away with you, dirty boys, I 
don’t want to look at you. How much better 
fold him to your heart, kiss him and send hitn 
away happy. I havo not said Indulge your toy, 
but make him love you. 
You need not suffer him to correct you, when 
older persons are talking. Teach him to be si¬ 
lent In company, unless drawn out by your 
guests, but alone at home, make him your com¬ 
panion. If you hold his love till he Is Hit eu, 
ho will always cherlBh you. Up to that age, 
many boys have little real lovo or respect for 
their mothers, and the fault lies nearer the 
mother than the son. 
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In deciding questions of truth and duty, re¬ 
member that tlie wrong side has a crafty and 
powerful advocate iu your own heart. 
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THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE WORLD 
BY It TINE BLUFF. 
We wrote of “Home" In high-flown stylo 
when boys and girls at school. Wo love it, we 
believe In It. To have no home means to us 
poverty in the saddest sense, for homo means 
love and loved one?, just that which makes the 
j best part of our own little world. And yet, to 
look a-Jown Just, one short street, with every 
few rods a ho se where people live and call It 
hove, to think of their being juat so over all 
the land until their nameia legion, and then to 
remember how few really aro the blessed places 
that “ Home, Sweet Home," should bel Dis¬ 
cord velgns in so many of them. 
Why need It be so? Every one within tho 
four walls bewail it mentally. Each one feel* 
It a relief to go into some other homo where 
happiness preside#, and the feeling, the risk is 
there, oven if it never finds form In words— 
would that, my homo were like this! There are 
so many sources of ti oulde. Lack of confidence, 
short answers, glum looks, even whore no ac¬ 
tual warfare cxIeis. How often we put our¬ 
selves out for strangers when the botvIcc would 
b© refused to our friends 1 Wo are polite and 
Civil and kind to tbo neighbor who drops In, 
but we seem to think it. not worth while to he 
so as to t he dear home folks. Yet we lovo them 
far the best, and if occasion should call forth 
tbo effort, would sacrifice almost anything for 
them. 
But in tbi? world it is only now and then that 
some great thing Is required, ft U the little 
things that, count. Tne small, unobtrusive at¬ 
tentions, the quiet., thoughtful kindness, the 
little helps, the pleasant look and smile, the 
ready hand and gentle forbearance that trII, 
that win, that do the great work of making 
home happy. Keeping in mind that others have 
j iglits which wo arc bound to respect, or rather 
that we wish to further if uffaotion prompts 
us—interesting ourselvesin their work or play— 
these are ttie things that help the home atmos¬ 
phere. C ouds cannot come If sunny hearts 
and faces take up all the room, and warm, kind 
love will drive away all the coldness from the 
family hearth. 
One great trouble is a feeling ol “going my 
owui way, independent of all else.’’ A lack of 
interest lu each other's pursuits or too much ex- 
Oe>s of Interest In our own affairs over that of 
others. And it comes to pass that we go and 
come, and tho others know not where, and vice 
ftTSck while any looking into the matter, right 
or wrong. U regarded as an infringement on 
liberty. There are all degrees of unpleasant¬ 
ness at ljome. from the dreadful places where 
all the spirits of hatred and abuse have play to 
the outward show of ne-oeasury civilities, but 
where, underneath, lies unsympathetic, care¬ 
less indifference. _ t c 
It Is aimost incredible to look at a husband 
and wire who elt at the table with no word of 
rooming greeting, who eat in silence save the 
few words called forth by passing the food, 
who eoperate for the day without a pleasant 
good-by, who notice by no outward sign the re¬ 
turn at evening lime, who take their places op¬ 
posite ouch other aiain to dlscius tbo evening 
meal, perhaps In utter silence, who sit reading 
and sewing, each in calm indifference to tbe 
other, and so on day aftsr day, perhaps week 
after week, till some calamity opens their 
hearts, or something more than usual leads on 
from cool politeness to a war of words. 1 say 
It teems Incredible to think that somewhere In 
the pa?t there was a time when those two were 
happy only In each other’s society, when they 
thought nolhjrg In the world oouid ever 
estrange them. And yet it may he that all this 
h»s been brought about by the smallest of 
trifles, overlookiuga, forgettint’S, careless ways 
that showed a diminution of thoughtful love. 
A GREAT nature revoals itself less by its es¬ 
capes thau by Its recoveries, as s'cknasa shows 
the native vigor of the constitution. 
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Life, according to an Arab' o proverb, is com¬ 
posed of two parts—that which is past, a dream 
and that which is to come, a wish. 
leading for the fmtng. 
CALLING THE FLOWERS. 
Sweet I.adr Pea. fly hither fco me! 
Light and white are your wings, I see- 
Golden Rod. touch me, I pray you. over 
Tho thousand heads of the low, sweet clover. 
Snr.p-dmgon, quick I There’s a “bee in your bon¬ 
net !” 
Pineb him a nd send hint off thinking upon It. 
Lily-bell, whisper and toil me true.— 
What was the humm'ng-blrd saying to you ? 
Poppy, flauntin'; your silken dress, 
You’ll yet wear a seedy cap, I guess. 
Buttercup, bring your gold saucers to me; 
Hero are two butterflies coming to tea. 
Daisy, Daisy, look over this way ! 
Why do you stare at tho sun all day 7 
Pansy, wbnt are you laughing about 7 
“ Born to tbe purple” wore you, no doubt. 
But Violet sweet! O Violet sweet I 
Fairer are you at the Pansy’s feet. 
[Mon/ A. Lathbury, In St. A 'icholae. 
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LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRL3. 
From a Western New York Olrl. 
To My Dear Cousins; — Three cheers for 
“Young Tom” and his orltlclsm on the “too 
long” partol it; and sine® It seems quite the 
fashion sraoo; us cousins to criticise each other 
allow me to tell you, dear Cousins, that those 
phrases which Tom speaks about have been 
used by so many of you that they sound old. 
And another thing, you need not bo afraid of 
writing too long letters, if you can give us as 
good a description of tho scenery about your 
homeae Cousin TOM old. For my part, I live 
blit a short distance from tho shores of Chau- 
tr.uqua Like, which is fast becoming renowned 
for Its beautiful scenery. There are at present 
four large steamboats (as well as many small 
ones) on the lake. Yacht, scull and tub races 
are of frequent occurrence, 
Besides Mayvllle at the head, and Jamestown 
at the foot of the lake, there are four beautiful 
points on which hotels aro erected; sevural 
where there are none, and two villages on the 
cast shore. At Lake View and Fair Point there 
are many cottages also, and at the latter place 
an annual Camp Meeting, as well as the re¬ 
nowned National Sunday School Assembly, Is 
held. The A ; sorablv Is very interesting, and Is 
attended by groat numbers from «.|] parts of tbe 
United States. The President was entertained 
ou tbe ground for a day and a half or two days 
during thl.-. year's Assembly. A very excellent 
.i-.d Intcrestingrruido book of Chautauqua Lake, 
written by M'ss Denhur&t of Jamestown, can 
he obtained for 25 cents. 
Tell Cousin MAUD for me that I think she is 
a great way advanced for such a little girl; but 
if I am not mistaken, she cannot reach school 
for some time yet., as the law will not allow her 
to until she is sixteen. I am fully as far ad¬ 
vanced as most giila of my age, having passed 
the Suite ISxam'natlon two years ago, when but 
thirteen years of age, but little Maud, I'm 
afraid, is ahead of that. I have only been to 
school about half of the time since 1 passed, 
and consequently am just finishing algebra, 
rhetoric ami physiology this term, having pre¬ 
viously finished U. S. history, analysis, arith¬ 
metic, grammar and geography. 
Our school Is a pr ided Union, there being five 
depart.mrnts and ten school rooms (not count¬ 
ing the commercial. mu=ic, etc., ikpartmeots,) 
In tho main bulld.iog. Tho highest of the regu¬ 
lar departments (t. c., academic), I am in now. 
A vocal music lesson Is given to each room once 
a week, aud lossons In gymnastics nearly cvi ry 
day. Wodncsday afternoon wo have rhetorical 
duties. We have a fine circulating library, a 
museum, laboratory, etc. Those who wish may 
take music, painting, etc., (paying extra of 
course for those privilege ,) and in fact every¬ 
thing that Is taught at a flrst-claaa school, ex¬ 
cepting elocution. 
And now', Dear Cousins, 1 must tay what you 
are probably wishing to hear— Good-By.— Wil¬ 
lie C. Gifford, Jamestown, Chant. Co., N. Y. 
A City Hoy’s Vacation. 
My long wished-for vacation time at last ap¬ 
proached, and a olear, cool July morning found 
me speeding In a Grand Central train along the 
right bank of the beautiful Hudson, leaving 
behind tbe crowd, din and tumult of the Met¬ 
ropolitan City for the plea aut quiet ude of a 
little country village sixty miles away. 
Rising majestically on our right are the Cats- 
kill mountains, covered with the boautlfu! 
green foliage of numerous treesnnd plants, and 
suaded here andtbere by thotliin pa sing clouds 
of tbo clearing sky above, and scat ered aroun l 
its base are the cottages of farmers and the 
mansions of New York merchants or of the 
wealthier class of country people. 
Ou <>ur left, sublime and picturesque, are the 
Highlands lu all their verdure and beauty, and 
probably looking tho same as when they shel¬ 
tered tbo great Washington Irving, and in 
eluding muny holy spots on which trod the 
“Father of his Country.” Flowing between 
these majestic higbt.-i are the clear iilue waters 
of that nobio stream, the Hudson, looking as 
picturesque, though not bo lonely, as in the old 
days when HENDRICK HUDSON passed through 
[tin his little bark, the“Half Moon.” For it 
now has on its sparkling surface numerous 
yachts with pleasure parties, and trading ves¬ 
sels and steamers. Instead of the frail canoe of 
tho Tndian. 
Oh! what beautiful scenery there is all about, 
and everybody and everything look smiling and 
so full of joy and happiness surely there is a 
great difference between City and Country lifo I 
Here tho people ar® strong and rosy-chcekod 
and go about, at, their ease, greeting each other 
with smiling faces, and always ready and will¬ 
ing to chat about th® crops and the weather ; 
but tho City folk, pale and wan-featured, flit, 
past you with a quick, nervous tread, throwing 
a nod here and there to a friend, and are soon 
lost In the surging mass of their delicate 
brethren. 
On arriving at ray destination I found my 
friends” making hay,” for It was haying time, 
and I set to work next day with all my might 
and main to make it-or mischief; but which¬ 
ever It was, it was glorious fun for mo. 
The two weeks 1 spent in tbo Country have 
been to mo tbo most pleasant I have ever 
known, for I adore Nature and she was thon in 
her bloom. I have been gunning, fishing, plow¬ 
ing, traveiingthe mountains, (or a part of t hem,) 
aud while up there saw one of the prettiest and 
cosiest of homes you could wish to see, dowu 
In a hollow between the peaks. I havo learned 
to milk cows also, while thefo, and think It good 
fun; but drinking milk is better-to City boys 
especially, whoso general milk diet Ischalkand 
water.— A New York City Boy. 
From a Dutchess Co., N. Y. f Olrl. 
Mr. Editor:—O ur folks have taken your 
paper a great many years. Wo have two large 
books of them bound and are going to have 
some more. 1 always read every portion or It, 
but T think tho Young Folks' Corner very in¬ 
teresting, and tbo Story Teller al«o. I would 
like very much to correspond with some of the 
oousins in tho Rural. I think that Maude 
Avf.rlkioh must be very smart to bo through 
with her studies when site is only twelve. I am 
nearly fifteen and do not pretend to bo through 
yet, I have told nothing about the country In 
which I 11 v<>, but I will leave that tor some 
future letter, guffloo it to say that it Is rather 
a pretty part, of Dutchon* Co. I agree with 
“Young Tom” about tho girls writing such 
short letters and then calling them ton long, 
if 1 boo this In print t may write again.— Caubfe 
Dayton, Stanford , Dutches Co., N. Y. 
SIhe fuller. 
HIDDEN BIRDS.—No. 2. 
1. John's property is all lost, rich as he was. 
2. D'd you notice how that Turk eyed us? 
3. The Jones's frequently have a domestio 
row. 
4. n® wrenched tbe pistol from his oppo¬ 
nent's band. 
5. Would you like t.o bo a gleaner of grain ? 
d. We spent, tho night In Galesburg. 
7, Hannah awkwardly walked be Lire us. 
3. See bov/ Lewis has grown this summer. 
9. We set out a p irsnlp every spring lor seed. 
£35?” Answer in two weeks. S. 0. 
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HIDDEN ANIMALS.—No, I. 
1. Ilion Is a village in New York State. 
2. He made a box of wood, 
y. Why did you go at two o’olook ? 
1. Tho man came late. 
ft. Wo aro going mining. 
fl. norses have blind staggers. 
7. Jeremiah, are you coming? 
8. Seal that letter for mo. 
9. I wanted a farm. 
10. Rattan is a kind of wood. 
Etu Answer in two weeks. h. f. s. 
CENTRAL PUZZLE.—No. 2. 
1. A river of Asia. 2. A river of Europe. 8. 
Often. 4. Not on. 5. A liver of Galicia. 8. A 
city of Wlrtomborg. 7. A mountain of Massa¬ 
chusetts. Tho answers are words of three let¬ 
ters, anil the centrals form a city of New York. 
Answer in two weeks. Little One. 
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DIAMOND PUZZLE.—No. 6. 
1. A CONSONANT. 2. A pronoun. 3. The skin 
of the top of the head. 4. A castle. 5. To pre¬ 
fer. 6. A light blow. 7. A vowel. 
Answer in two weeks. Solve To is. 
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NAME PUZZLE.-No. 2. 
Place five indies’ names so that they will 
form a sixth In the Iriii tal-. 
FAY" Answer in two weeks. l. o. 
PUZZLER ANSWER,■J.-Eept, 18. 
Name Puzzle No. 1.—Florence. 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 8.—New York. 
Diamond Puzzle No. 4.— 
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WORD-S’QCARB ENIGMA No. 4.— 
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