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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
“ Arc you Shirley Lecompte's son ? Where 
where Is your father ?" 
“My fat he* is dead. That was his name." 
looking straight into my fare .And then J 
dropped my hands. 
“ I was your father's friend, my boy. I—I can 
see his looks in you ; and your mother, Will 
you take me to your mother, Shirley?" 
*»•*»** 
Well, I have forgiven bim-the mail who stole 
the sweetness out of life for me; he is dead and 
buried, and E Inn is alive. Twenty years ago a 
forged letter told her that she was a widow, 
and the old man and his wire had their daugh¬ 
ter back again ; twenty yea « she kept her life 
sacred to my memory, and .©red me In her 
child, and waited for another world to give her 
Into my arms again. She told it all to me that 
day n long, long story; hilt this was the sum 
of it. I was dead and was alive again—was lost 
and was found. 
And my life had its aim and crown, even so 
lute; my love blossomed new, and toy heart 
warmed, freshed with the old dead fires— we 
wero happy, Edna and I. Out of the baby's 
grave rose my strong, manly eon to carry my 
name in honor and pride ; it will have a nobler 
meaning when 1 am gone than ever it bad In 
the past. 
--- 
JOHN CAIN. 
The Tale of a Defeated Candidate. 
AS 1IR WAS. 
.John Cain was a quiet, unobtrusive citizen. 
He didn’t long for fame and renown, and he 
didn't care two cents whether this great and 
glorious country was ruled by a one-horse Re 
publican or a two-horse Democr.it. 
HIS VIRTUES. 
He had a pow in church, gave sixteen ounces 
for a pound, and when a man looked him square 
in the eye Mr. Cain noser took a back seat. He 
was home at. a leasonable hour in the evening, 
never took part In the discussion, “ Is lager 
healthy?" and many a man wished that his life 
roiled on its eveuly and peacefully as John 
Cain’s. 
BUT, ALAS ! 
the tempter came, tu an evil hour John Cain 
allowed the politicians to get after him and to 
surround him. They said he was the strongest 
man in the county ; that he could scoop out of 
Ills boots any man setup in opposition; that 
hia virtues were many and his faults 00000; that 
it was his duty to come out and take a nomina¬ 
tion in order that this pure and incorruptible 
form of government be maintained pure and 
incorruptible. All this and much more they 
told him, and John Cain 
bkoAMe puffed up. 
It surprised him so to think that he had held 
his peaceful way along for forty odd years, 
like a knot-hole In a barn door, without any one 
having discovered what a heap of a filiow he 
was, but he concluded that there was a new 
era In politics, ami that it was all right. 
THET BAMBOOZLED HIM. 
The politicians covered John Cain with soft 
soap. They told him that theoanv.iss shouldn't 
cost him a red, and that he could still retire at 
K o'clock every evening and rest assured that 
his interest would he properly cared for. It 
was to be a still hunt—a very quiet election, 
and he would baldly know wind was going on. 
John was an honest, unsuspecting idiot, and 
he swallowed their words as the confiding fish 
absorbs the baited hook. 
THE PLOT THICKENS. 
John Clin was duly nominated and the band 
came out and serenaded him. With the band 
came several hundred electors, who filled the 
Cain mansion to overflowing, spit tobacco all 
over the house, ate and drank all they could 
find, broke down the gate, and went off with 
three cheers for John Cain. 
WANTED SUGAR. 
Before the c anvass was ten days old half a 
dozen meu called on Cain and gently hinted to 
him that he must c one down with the “sugar.'' 
He didn’t even know what “sugar" was until 
they explained. They wanted money to raise 
a pole, to buy beer, to get slips printed, uud to 
do fifty other things with, a'l Cur his particular 
benefit, and he had to band out money 
THE COMBAT DREPENS. 
In the course of another week they drew Ciin 
out to make a speech at a ward meeting. He 
tried to claw off, but they told him thatthe of>- 
posiug candidate would run him out of sight if 
he didn't com® out, and he went Out. When he 
got through speaking the crowd drank at his 
expense, and Mr, Ciiu was astonished at the 
way the liquor went down, and more astenishul 
at tlie way the bill footed up. He didn't reach 
home until midnight, and for the first time in 
bis life ho was going to bed with his boots on. 
H & wife wouldn’t speak to him, the hired girl 
It ft the house to save iter character, and John 
Ciin wished that ihe politicians had lot him 
alone. 
INCREASE OF CURRKXCV. 
More meu came and crooked their fingers at 
him and whispered "sugar." They wanted 
money to buy some doubtful votes, and to hire 
four-horse tenuis, ar.d to m il his slips, and be 
had to come down. Ho hesitated about it; but 
they told him that the opposing candidate felt 
sure of victory, and that acted as a spur. 
IV UIM HUAUTKD FRIENDS. 
There was hard Is ft night Mat from 14 to 240 
friends did not call on Mr. Cain to inform him 
as to the “ prospects." They drank up the cur¬ 
rant wine Mrs. Cain had laid by for sickness, 
emptied her preserve Jars, and there wasn't a 
morning that she couldn’t sweep out 40 or 50 
cigar stubs and n peck of mud. They all told 
Ciin that, he would beat the other man so far 
out of light that It would take a carrier pigeon 
to find him. and he couldn’t very well refuse to 
go over to the errner grocery and “set 'em up” 
for the boys. 
THE CRTSU* 
finaoy came. On the eve of election Mr, Cain's 
friends called for “ sugar" again, and lie had to 
sugar ’em. A big crowd railed to warn him 
that he would certainly be elected, and the sa¬ 
loon bill was $38 more; 13 or 14 men rhonk 
hands with his wife, a hundred oi more shook 
bands with btm. and ho had to get up and de¬ 
clare that he didn't favor women’s rights and 
that he did ; that he was down on whisky and 
yet loved it as a beverage ; thut he wanted the 
currency inflated, ami yet favored specie pay¬ 
ment.-; I luit Im favored t he c 1 vll rights' hill, and 
yet didn't; and InTbis brief speech Mrs. Cain 
counted 3? straight Ilea besides the evasions. 
Mr. Cain wanted to hold popular views, and he 
bad to tie on ail sides at once, 
FLECTION DAY. 
Oti the day of election they dragged him from 
poll to poll, stopping at all the saloons on the 
way. He had to make fTid.flOO promises, pull his 
wallet until it was a° flat as a wafer, drink lager 
with some and cold water with others, and 
when night came he went, home and tried t> 
imc the hired g'rl, called Mrs, Cain his dear old 
rhinoceros, and fell over the cradle and went 
t-o sleep with his bond under the stove. 
now ICE 8COOPRD 'EM. 
When Mr. Cain arose in the morning and be- 
e mie sober enough to read the election returns, 
lie found he had scoop’d ’em as follows ; 
onnosieg candidate... 
John Coin.31,380 
Cain's majority fin a horn)... ,, ..... 35.0W) 
ASOLIAN HAFTS. 
Mr. Cain went out and sat dow n under an 
apple tree in his hack yard, and be gavo himself 
up to reflection and so-forth. Through the 
leafless branches sighed the November winds, 
and in the house sighed Mrs. Cain, and both 
sighs murmured gently in his ear: 
“John Ciin’s a perpendicular idiot!"—** M. 
Quad " in Detroit Free Prow. 
-* » » 
REMINISCENCES OF PRESIDENTS, 
The “ Hermit of Now York " is reminded by 
thedeath of ex-president Johnson, of Incidents 
connected with the departure of other- eh4©4- 
maglstratos. Throe died In Washington, each 
being in service, though one was a congress¬ 
man. Those were John Quincy Adam*, Z.ch¬ 
ary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln. Fillmore 
died in Buffalo, Buchanan at Lancaster, and 
Monroe in New York City. Ho w as t he third 
who expired on July 4, the others being Jeffer¬ 
son and John Adams. Our ex-presidents, with 
the exception above mentioned, died in small 
towns nr villages. The richest was Van Buren, 
who lert $800,000. The poorest was Monroe, 
who was nude postmaster of New York and 
died in this service. He lived with bis son-in- 
law, Samuel L. Gouvemeur, who was his official 
deputy 'Washington was a rich man, but Jef- 
fersou was pool, and the purchase of his libra¬ 
ry by <-ingress for $20,00(1 was au Important re¬ 
lief. Polk lntl. $150,000. Taylor was worth one- 
third that amount, and, upon the whole, the 
presidency were well-to-do In the world, with 
the exoep’ion above noted. Madison, though 
rich, became a .justice of the peace, probably 
for lack of employment. New York City has 
been honored by the burial of one president 
and one vice-president. The latter was Daniel 
D. Tompkins, whose remains were buried in 
St. Maik's church yard, where they still rest. 
The former was Monroe, who was burled In a 
amall cemetery near the Bowery. A short t ime 
before ilia rebellion his remains w ere claimed 
by the legislature of Virgiuta, and were borne 
there with a guard of honor. 
-- 
No chastening for the present seemeth to he 
joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward 
It yleldsth the peace hie fruit of righteousness 
unto them which are exercised thereby .—From 
the Bible. 
- +-*■+ - 
Everyone thinks his party has the kernel, 
and others only the shell. Whereas they are 
nil apt to let the kernal alone, and dispute 
about the shell, as if that were the kernal.— 
G«ss» cr. 
®he t JBtoptiflj t®0i[i<l. 
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Sabbath ^fading. 
“ ROCK OF AGES.” 
•' Rock of Ages, cleft for me.” 
Tbonabtlesdy the maiden sung. 
Fell the words unconsciously 
From her girlish, gleeful tongue 
Sang as little children sing; 
Sang as sing the birds in June; 
Fell the words like light leaves dowa 
On the current of the tune— 
‘ Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
Let me hide myself in Thee." 
“ Let me hide myself In Thee.” 
Felt her soul no need to hide; 
Sweet the song ns soug could be— 
And she had no thought beside . 
All the words unbcedingly 
Fell from lips untouched by care. 
Dreaming not they each might he 
On some other lips i prayer— 
“ Rock of Ages, deft for me, 
Let me hide mvself in Thee." 
•' Rock of Ages, cleft for mo "— 
’Twas a woman sung them now. 
Pleadingly and prayerfully 
Every word lier heart did know. 
Rose the song as storm-tossed bird 
Beals with weary wing the air. 
Every note with sorrow stirred— 
Every syllable a prayer— 
" Rock of Ages, cleft for me; 
Let me hide myself In Thee ” 
“ Rock of Ages, cleft for me,” 
Lips grown aged sung the hymn 
Trustingly and tenderly— 
Voice grown weak and eyes grown dim. 
“ Let me hide myself in Thee.’’ 
Tremhltng though the voice and low, 
Ran the sweet strntn peacefully, 
I,ike a river In its flow. 
Sung as only t hey can sing 
Who life’s thorny paths hare pre»*ed ; 
Sung as only they can sing 
Who behold the promised rest 
“ Rock ut Aces, cleft for me, 
Let me hide myself in Thee.” 
“ Rock of Ages, eleft. for me." 
Sung above a euffln-Hd ; 
Underneath, all reattully, 
All life’s Joys and sorrows hid. 
Nevermore, O storm-tossed soul 
Nevermore Irom wind or tide, 
Nevermore from billow’s roll, 
Wilt thou need thyself to hide. 
Could the sightless, sunken eyes, 
Closed beneath the soft gray hair. 
Could the mute and stiffened lips 
Move again In pleading prayer, 
Still, aye. still, the words would be. 
“ Let mo bide myself ip Thee." 
-- 
INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER. 
Young men should be deeply impressed with 
the vast importance ol cherishing those princi¬ 
ples, and of cultivating those habits which will 
recure them the confidence and the esteem ol 
tbo wise and the good. 
A young man maybe unfortunate, be may be 
poor and penniless, but if he possess unbending 
integrity, and unwaveriug purpose to do what 
la honest and just, he will have friends and 
patrons, whatever may be the embarrassments 
and exigencies Into which be is throwu. The 
young may thus possess a capital of which none 
of the misfortunes and calamities of life can 
deprive them. 
We bare k ntiwn men who have suddenly been 
reduced from affluence to penury by some over- 
whtdmlng misfortune, which they could neither 
foresee nor prevent. To-day they were pros¬ 
perous, to-morrow, every earthly prospect was 
blighted, and everything in thoir future aspect 
of life was dark and ilbm.tl. Tlinlr business 
was gone, their prosperity gone, and they feel 
that all is gone; but thoy have a rich treasure 
that nothing can take away. They have integ¬ 
rity of character, and this gives them influence, 
raises up friends, furnishes them with pecuni¬ 
ary aid, with which to c.ommenoo life once 
more, under auspicious circumstances. 
We cannot too strongly impress upon our 
young men the importance of abstaining from 
everything which shocks their moral sensibil¬ 
ities, wounds their conscience, and has a ten¬ 
dency to weaken that nice sense of honor and 
Integrity so indispensable to a good character. 
“ Integrity of character!" Who ever possessed 
it, that did not derive untold advantage from 
it? It is better than riches, it is of more value 
than " diamonds and all precious stonesand 
yet every man may possess it. The poorest 
may have it, and no power on earth can wrest 
it from them. Young men, prize Integrity of 
character above all earthly gifts. 
■--- 
A PERSIAN FABLE. 
A drop of water fell out of a cloud into the 
sea, and finding it&elf lost in such an immensity 
of fluid matter, broke out into the following 
reflection" A las! what an insignificant creat¬ 
ure 1 am in this prodigious ocean of waters; 
my existence is of no concern to the universe; 
I am reduced to a kind of nothing, and am less 
than the least »f the works of God." It so hap¬ 
pened that an oyster, which lay in the neigh¬ 
borhood of this drop, chanced to gape and 
swallow it up in the midst of tt iu its humble 
soliloquy. The drop lay a great while harden¬ 
ing in the shell, till by degrees if was ripened 
Into a pearl, which, falling Into the bands of a 
diver, alter a long series of adventures, is at 
present that famous pearl which 1* fixed on the 
top ol’ the Persian diadem. 
