SEC. 25 
MOORE’S RURAL 
-YORKER. 
LAST WORDS. 
BY AGNES M. HURST. 
Kk held ray hand one raoraeut, 
Glanced onoe Into my eye, 
And then lie softly uttered 
That nail, sad word, “ Good-by.” 
" I'll see you in the morning, 
“ Good-by a little while !” 
These are my mem'ry'a treasures, 
These, and one tender smile. 
I searoe dare thin It upon them. 
Those months and years so rife 
With darkness and with tempest. 
That settled o’er my life. 
Time's tiding, driftlUK ocean 
Us purled at the shore: 
lie sank ’mid the commotion ;— 
( never saw him more. 
The storms are still around me: 
I think they’ll never cease 
Until 1 reach the haven 
Where he found perfect peace. 
But of faith and hove united, 
The happy Uope isboru, 
I’ll seo him, a* he prom-wed. 
In Heaven’s eternal morn. 
Oneida, Hi., Dec., 1875. 
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"JUST LIKE A MAN,’’ 
BY MAY MAPLE. 
Yes! he is a fine-looking child for a four- 
year-old, and he has a head for a statesman. 
But if you value bis Intellectual capacity, his 
uiaoly qualities and amiable disposition, do not 
drive him from you by telling him he is too 
large to sit on mama's lap, for now he la almost 
a mau. Don’t tell him to strike hie pa, because 
he does not obey childish orders. Do not teach 
him to say Mind yourown buaiueas," “ You 
dry up—I’ll tell pa on you, and he’ll jaw you." 
Don’t turn your head anil laugh when he says 
something you would consider rough in your 
neighbor’s boy, who Is a few years older, be¬ 
cause what be has said ls*‘just like a man," 
Don’t put a pipe or Cigar in his bands, and then 
tell your friends, In his hearing, that “ he put it 
right in his month and tried to smoke, just 
like a man,” 
When he is learning to ride or drive, it is not 
necessary to tell him to use the whip "like a 
man.” Don’t teach him to use the name of the 
Deity as he would that of a dog, Remember, 
the son who has no reverence for his Creator 
seldom has any regard for father or mother, 
and just as surely as you teach him or allow 
him to bo taught these things, Just as surely 
will he forget to love, reverence and obey you 
before ho reaches his fourteenth birthday. And 
truly, as you have sown to the wind will you 
reap a whirlwind or abuse, which will give you 
a pain in your heart that no pbysieiau can alle¬ 
viate. All his Goo-glven talents will be thrown 
away, or burled in the debris of vicious habits. 
It has always been a mystery why parents and 
over-fond relatives will continue to bold up 
such a distorted picture of manhood before the 
little buy’s mental vision. Whatever there Is 
in his childish character that is pugilistic, 
cruel, avaricious, selfish or mean in any way, is 
fostered and encouraged because it is “like a 
man.” What wonder that there are so many 
boys who are not only unmanageable, but per¬ 
fect tyrants at home and abroad, if to curse 
one’s father and mother, threaten one’s sisters, 
torture schoolmates, laali and kick the horses 
at every breath, goad the Oxen with sharp- 
pointed irons, rob beu roosts, orchards and 
melon patches, is to be a man, deliver us from 
the animal. IT there are no better portrayals 
of manhood than those to which we have al¬ 
luded, better let the bright little boys grow up 
without iiny Illustration of manliness. 
The little girl is taught from Infancy to be a 
lady, and, although the ideas of ladyhood may 
be more or less vague, t hey arc sure to exert a 
refining influence. When a cultured mother 
uses the term, the child soon understands that 
to “ be a lady " die must be gentle, kind, polite 
at home and abroad : not selfish and cruel; 
reverential, loving and obedient to parents and 
superiors. At the age of sixteen she is the 
pride of her father’s family, and frequently is 
quite a leader in society just for her gentle 
and graceful mariners. 
Now why may not Die little boy be taught to 
be a gentleman by placlug before hla mind’s 
eye the traits of a noble, geuerous, whole-souled 
manhood? By example rather than precept, 
teaoh him to be honest, Iruthful, gentle, yet 
firm to resist a bad action,—temperate, patient, 
geuerous and Just. To all these virtues add 
easy, graceful manners In all family intercourse, 
and your sou will be worthy to become the 
ruler of a great and mighty nation. 
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BE THOUGHTFUL OF THE CHILDREN. 
Poor Dora 1b buried to-day, and, as I am 
sick and cannot follow the poor child to her 
last resting place, I can only sit at home and 
think how sad her lot has been. Losing her 
mother when only twelve or thirteen years old, 
she was left with the care of four younger chil¬ 
dren, and a drunken father to lilnder instead of 
helping her. Then, later, she was disappointed 
In the one she had hoped to wed, and at seven¬ 
teen the tired spirit went to join the mother 
whose place she had so tried to fill. But the 
sad remembrance with which I feel condemned 
is the thought that I saddened one half day for 
her. While she was yet a little child, she came 
home with one of my children to seen new toy, 
but as I was visiting one of the neighbors I only 
let her stay a few minutes, and then she went 
home and I back to my visit. But even then I 
felt condemned, and, when it was too late, saw 
that 1 ought to have given her the time I spent 
away; and to-day, years after, it is the one 
drop In the cup of sorrow that 1 cannot forgive 
myself for. 
But the incident I have related helped to 
teach me to try and enter more heartily into 
the thoughts and interests of the little ones. 
Their joys arid sorrows are as real to them as 
are grown people’s to themselves, and let us 
try tn make them as happy as we can, even if it 
requires a little sacrifice of self. Lot us “ Speak 
gently to the little child—’twill have enough to 
bear," ami wbeu they are grown from little 
children to young people they require hearty 
sympathy to keep up the confidence that little 
ones will have in their parents, if parents only 
permit. But If a mother or father laughs and 
jeers at the little tilings a child will tell in con¬ 
fidence, how can they expect to be the compan¬ 
ion of young persons?— It Is so natural to tell 
so me one. How much better to let them come 
to yourself than seek a companion in one per¬ 
haps youugerand more giddy than themselves. 
How often my heart aches to hear a mother 
laugh Jeeririgly at a child, when all it asks for 
is sympathy, and it could be led wherever the 
parent wished. Let us try not to forgot when 
we were children, and we will be more suitable 
c mipanions for our own little ones, and not 
lose their love and confidence when they are 
grown. 8. A. 
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SUNSHINE. 
Did you ever notice what a different aspect 
everything wears in the sunshine from what it 
does in tho shadow? Aaul did you ever think 
what an analogy there was between the sun¬ 
light of the cloudless skies and the sunshine 
that gleams Into the darkened chambers of the 
human bouI? How bright and beautiful are 
the golden beams that break through Die riven 
Clouds to light up tho world again after a suc¬ 
cession of dark and stormy days 1 How peace¬ 
ful and happy are the blessed words of hope 
and cheer that touch the heart and fill the soul 
with emotions of peace and joy after a long 
period of sorrow! There are none living who 
do not, in a greater or less degree, have an In¬ 
fluence over tho earthly happiness of others. 
The sense of contributing to tho pleusure of 
others augments our own happiness. Unsel¬ 
fishness, Christian charity and loving kindness 
are sunbeams of the soul. 
SHORT COURTSHIP. 
Recently, a lady and gentleman of culture 
and refinement were married in Uranlville, Ga„ 
under peculiar circumstance.-. Dr. Beasley and 
Miss Lucy Pope, the latter of Washington, Ua., 
had met two weeks before the ceremony. At 
the time In question, Mr. Prank Perryman of 
Atlanta was to be married to Miss Alice Nor¬ 
wood, and Miss Pope was to lie bridesmaid. 
Dr. Beasley went, to Granville and persuaded 
the latter to have him. He then rushed off on 
a train, got a license, and returned in time to 
be one of the attendants at the marriage of his 
friends, Perryman and Mias Norwood. The 
moment they were wedded, Mr, Beasley and 
Miss Pope stepped forward together in the 
presence Of the surprised assemblage, present¬ 
ed to the astonished minister their marriage 
license, and were Immediately Joined in the 
holy bonds of wedlock. 
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A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. 
DR. Chalmers beautifully says:—“The little 
liiat I have seen in the world and know of 
mankind teaches me to look upon their errors 
In sorrow, not In anger. Wliou I take the his¬ 
tory of one poor heart that has sinned and suf¬ 
fered, and represent to myself the struggles 
and temptations it passed through the brief 
pulsations of joy, the tears of regret, the fee¬ 
bleness Of purpose. Die scorn oT the world that 
li is little charity, the desolation of tin) soul's 
sanctuary and threatening voices within, health 
gone, happiness gone —1 would fain leave the 
erring soul of my fellow being with him from 
whose hands it came.” 
SORROW AND JOY. 
Reader 1 did you ever notice immediately 
after the “marriage” head, that the “obitu¬ 
ary” followed? Typical of the wedding hap¬ 
piness and grief in this life. The chants and 
songs and glee of merry ones to-day will be 
broken by walls to-morrow, for the soda will be 
piled on the breast of some we thought not so 
near the grave. We read who are married and 
wish them joy; a line below Is the record of 
deaths, and we say mournfully, peace to their 
ashes. Sorrow treads on the heels or joy ; songs 
are hushed by the footfalls of death; laughs 
are broken rudely—voices, no mutter how musi¬ 
cal, stilled in a moment. 
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Marian Sing er, daughter of the ovei.-mar- 
ried sewing machine inventor, has appeared on 
the stage in San Francisco, in burlesque. 
leading for ihg fgffttng. 
THE GOOD LITTLE SISTER. 
THAT was a hitter Winter, 
When Jenny was tour years old 
And lived lu a Lonely farm-house,— 
Bitter, and long, and cold I 
The crops had been a failure— 
In the barn there was room to spare. 
And Jenny’s hard-worked father 
Was full of anxious care. 
Neither his wife nor children 
Knew lack of lire or bread ; 
They hud whatever was needful, 
Were sheltered and clothed and fed. 
But the mother, alas! was ailing— 
’Twus a struggle Just to livei 
And they scarce had oven hopeful words 
Dr cheerful smiles to give. 
A good, kind man was tho father, 
lie loved his girls and boys. 
But he whose hands are bln riches 
Hus little for gilts and toys. 
So when It drew near tho season 
That makes the world so glad— 
When Jeuny knew 'twus tho time for gifts 
tier childish heart was sad. 
For the thought, “ I shall get no present 
When Christmas comes, I am sure 
Ah I the poor man’s child lenrus early 
Just what it means to he poor. 
Yet still on the holy even 
As she sat by the hearthstone bright, 
Aud her sister told good stories, 
Her heart grew almost light,— 
For tho hopeful *kio* of childhood 
Are never Quite u’areast, 
And she said, “ Who knows but somehow 
Something will come at last?” 
So before shu went to her pillow 
Her pretty stockings were tied 
Safely together and silly hung 
Close to the chimney side. 
There was little room for hoping. 
One would say who laid lived more years; 
Yet the faith of the child Is wiser 
Sometimes than our doubts and fears. 
Jenny had a good little sister. 
Very big to her childish eyes, 
Who was womanly, sweet aud patient, 
And kind as she wus wise. 
And she had thought of this Christmas 
And the little it. could bring, 
Ever since the crops were half destroyed, 
By the freshet In the Spring. 
So the sweetest nuts of the Autumn 
She had safely hidden away, 
And the ripest and reddest apples 
Hoarded tor many a day. 
And last she mixed some seed-cakes 
(Jenny was sleeping then), 
Aud molded them grotosquuly. 
Like birds, and boasts, and men. 
Then she slipped them Into the stockings 
Aud smiled to think about 
The Joyful wonder of her pet 
When she found and poured them out! 
And you couldn't have seen next morning 
A gladder child In the land 
Than that humble farmer’s daughter, 
With her simple gifts Ln her hand. 
And the luviug sister? Ah, you know 
How blessed 'fcls to give ; 
And they who think of others most 
Aro the happiest folks that live 1 
She hud done what she could, my children, 
To brighten that Christmas duy. 
And whether her heart or Jenny’s 
Was lightest, 'tls hard to say. 
And this, If you have but little. 
Is what I would say to you,— 
Make all you cun of that little. 
Do all the good you can do. 
And though your gifts may be humble, 
Let no little child, 1 pray, 
Kind only uu empty stocking 
On the morn of tho Christmas day! 
”l'l» yours and years since that sister 
Went to dwell with the just; 
A ml over her body the roses 
Blossom and turn to dust. 
And Jenny’s a happy woman. 
With wealth enough and to spare, 
And every year her lap Is tilled 
With presents flue and rare. 
But whenever she thanks the givers 
For favors great and small, 
She thinks of the dear little sister 
Who gave her more than they all 1 
[Phoebe Cary. 
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HOW TO BECOME HAPPY. 
Once there was a powerful aud wealthy king, 
full of care and very unhappy. He heard of a 
man famed for his wisdom and piety, and after 
diligent searoh found him in a cave on the bor¬ 
der of a wilderness. “Holy man,” said the 
king, “ 1 come to learn how I may be happy.” 
Without making a reply* the wise man led the 
king over a ruugh pathway, till be brought him 
In front of a high rock, on top of which an 
eagle had built her uest. “ Why has the eagle 
built her uest yonder?” be asked the king. 
“ Doubtless,” answered the mouarch, “ that it 
might be out of danger. “Then imitate the 
bird,” said the wise man. “ Build thy home In 
heaven, aud thou shalt have peace and happi¬ 
ness.” 
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ILLUSTRATED REBUS-No. 11. 
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Answer in two weeks. 
STAR PUZZLE. 
1. A man’s name. 2. A river of Virginia. 3. 
A city of China. 4. A River of Brazil. Arrange 
as a star. 
Answer in two weeks. Little One. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS.—L’no 11 and 18. 
Authors’ Conundrums.— 1, Chaucer; Ifrr 
den ; 3, l’ope; 4, Taylor; 5, Holmes ; (i, Holland ; 
7, Hood ; 8, Burns; 9, Abbott; 10, Southey ; li, 
Shelley ; 12, Coleridge ; 13, Young ; 14, Lowell; 
15, Campbell; Hi, Akeusidc; 17, Wordsworth; 
18,Goldsmith; 19, Harte; 20, .Spencer; 81,Cbat- 
terton ; 28, DoQutncey; 28, Bacon ; 24, ilunyan ; 
25,Cburcbtll; 20,Curtis; 27,Proctor; 88, W.-Sav¬ 
age Lander; 29, Steele ; 30, Tennyson ; 31, Wil¬ 
lis; 32, Browning; 33, Swift; 34, Cornwall ; 35, 
SbakBpeare; 30, Crabbe; 87, Cooke; 38, Dickens ; 
39, Stowe; 40, Lamb; 41, Beecher; 42, Milton ; 
43, Motherwell; 44, Addison ; 45, Howittzer; 40, 
Bryant; 47, Cowper; 48, Gray; 49, Longfellow : 
60, Whittier. 
Diamond Puzzle No. 9.— 
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DIAMOND 
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Miscellaneous Enigma No. fi. — Atlantic 
Telegraph. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 10.—Patient contin¬ 
uance In well doing. 
