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HE BJJflAL WEW-YOBBEB. 
new-found land. Following, are accounts by Ca¬ 
bot, Dk Vaca, Cartikr, De soto, etc. The narra¬ 
tives are mainly as they come from the writers, 
with merely explanatory editing. The stories 
cover nearly the entire ground of our history, and 
we cannot but felicitate Col. Hiooresof on the 
Judgment with which he has executed his task, 
while heartily recommending the book to our 
young readers. The Illustrations are spirited, and 
the paper, press work, etc., all that could be de¬ 
manded. 
The Flirt i nr. The Life of a Younelisidy of Fash¬ 
ion, Bv Mrs. Grey. Pliiludolphin : T. B. Peter¬ 
son A Brother. Cloth, $1; pnpor, 75 cts. 
This Is the seventeenth volume of Peterson's 
“ Sterling Series,” which has met with so much 
success. The *• Sterling Scries ’ already comprises 
such standard novels as “Corrlnnc," by Madame 
De Stael: “ Cyrilla,” by author of “ The inlt lals: ” 
“ Edina,” by Mrs. Henry Wood; 11 First and True 
Love," by George Sand; ** Basil," by Wilkie Col¬ 
lins; “Pickwick Abroad,” by Reynolds; “The 
Mystery,' by Mrs. Wood: “The Steward,” by 
author of “Valentino Vox; " “ The Confessions of 
a Pretty Woman,” “The Wife's Trials,” "The 
Jealous Wife,” and “The Rival Beauties,” by 
Miss Pardoe; “ Whltefrlars," and “The Man 
With Five Wives," by Alex Dumas. All the 
novels In Peterson’s “Sterlingseries” are pub¬ 
lished In neat octavo volumes, In paper cover, 
with the edges cut open all round. 
Chedane ol Ivotoiio. A Stnrv of the Eirlv Days 
of the Rpputiho. Uv Ausuitiin Towner. 12ino, 
pp.HOB.; cloth. Mend & Co., V. Y. 
The upper portion of t he Susquehanna Valley, 
In Pennsylvania, was granted by the English 
King both to Connecticut and Pennsylvania. 
Settlers from Connecticut took possession, after 
which there was continual strife and bloodshed 
between the Yankees and the reunites, until the 
question of proprietorship was settled (unjustly, 
as many yet think) by the courts. The plot of 
thl3 story Is laid during the time of the contro¬ 
versy, and will be read by many with more Inter¬ 
est, on that, account. The Interest of the narra¬ 
tive 1» well-preserved and the. personality of the 
characters well-sustained to the end. 
A HI a n ii n I <>f E niflUli fli-torv. By E. M. LAN¬ 
CASTER, Principal of the Stouuhton School. Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. New York A. S. Barnes & Co. 
(Cloth ; pp. 320.i Price $1.40. 
The author has prepared a manual which is de¬ 
signed to meet the. wants of such schools as have 
only a limited time to devote to the study of his¬ 
tory. Ills Intention Is to present the facts of his¬ 
tory lu such a way that the pupil will retain 
something more substantial than dry statistics, 
and his execution haH ably seconded Ids Inten¬ 
tions. An Interesting mature la a table giving 
the names of kings and the loading events of 
their reigns, and In addition to a colored map, 
the book contains a full arid valuable topical in¬ 
dex. It Is an admirable text-book. 
The Cooking H1n.nnn1 of Practical Directions for 
KconomicMl Every-clay Cookery. By Jiti.ikt 
Cokson, Superintendent of the’ N. V. Cookorv 
School, l'-’mo, pp. 114; water-proof cloth. Mead 
& Co., N. Y. 
Whoever buys a copy or this book will get 
twice the money’s worth. The preface alone Is 
worth the price of the book, and certainly the 269 
sensible recipes—every one of which the aut hor 
assures us she has herself tested—are worth as 
much more. The book is intended for the nse or 
those housekeepers and cooks who wish to know 
how to make the most wholesome and palatable 
dishes at the least possible cost. 
Dot a ml Dline— Two f'lmrurtcrs in Ebony, By one 
who known nil about them. Loring’s Tama of the 
Dny. Boston. Boring. (Pitper-pp. 192; Price 
$ 1.50) 
This Isa pleasant story, light enough to float, 
and we suppose It will meet with a good sale. The 
writer lias apparently been Inoculated with the. 
“Helen’s Babies”style, and makes the most of 
the Imitation. 
COMING EVENTS. 
Frank Beard, the artist, has just completed 
the manuscript and drawings of a book on the 
use of the Black-board in the Sunday-school, It 
Is Intended as a guide a rid help to superintendents 
and teachers who desire to use the Black-board 
in schools or classes. Those who are restrained 
from the use of the Black-board on account of a 
want of knowledge of drawing, will fi nd within its 
pages the needed Instruction -beside the applica¬ 
tion of the art to the ,Sunday-school work proper. 
The use of the Black board has grown largely 
within the past few years, and Mr. Beard has 
been honorably connected with Its development. 
The book will be Issued about the middle of June, 
In handsome 12 mo form; cloth, {1.50. Jesse 
Haney A Co., Publishers, 
The Lakeside Library is being Increased by a 
new novel every ten days. These works are all 
readable and good, comprising reprluts of some 
of the best English fiction writers. They are Is¬ 
sued In cheap form, but In excellent style, ranging 
In price from 10 to 25 cents each. Messrs. Don- 
klly, Loyd <fc Co. of Chicago deserve much credit 
for placing first-class works within the means of 
the most economical. 
TnE depression among publishers appears to 
have diminished considerably of late. Some ac¬ 
tivity Is to be observed in alt kinds of books just 
now and especially In reprints of English publica¬ 
tions. Subscription books ap pear to have been 
affected less than any others *by the hard times, 
and a prediction of plenty i hooks for little 
money, the coming year wou be a good one. 
THE GUEST. 
Out of the great world’s rush and din 
There came a puest. 
The inner court he entered in. 
And sat at rest. 
Then on the wild tide of affairs 
The gates were dosed; 
Afar the hungry cro wd of cares 
In peace repoBed. 
Then through the dim doors of the past 
All clear they came, 
Visions of boyhood floating fast— 
Ilis mother’s name. 
" All that this loud world calls the best 
I’d give.,” he said, 
“ To feel her baud-on her dear breast 
To Ir an my head, 
“ I cry Within the burdened day, 
What joy. what Joy; 
Within her arms to flee away. 
On co more her boy!” 
Across the faro that knows no fear 
A shadow swept fast. 
As if a following angel near 
That moment passed. 
Man’s strength is weakness after all, 
Ho stood confessed; 
None unite can still the heart’s wild call, 
None quite are blessed. 
Out to the great world’s rush and din 
Has gone my guest; 
The battle-path, the praise men win. 
Are his, not rest. 
Far out within the world's turmoil . 
A strong man stands. 
Upheld In triumph and in toil. 
By angel hands. 
The silent springs that feed his soul 
I see not flow— 
The mighty things that make his goal 
I may not, know. 
For who shall lift with subtle wand 
The masItB we wear ? 
I only know his mother’s hand 
Is on his hair. 
I only know through every harm, 
Through sin's alloy, 
Somehow, somewhere, the mother’s arm 
Will reach her boy. 
\ Muru Clem mer in Commercial. 
WOMAN’S RIGHTS AND WRONGS. 
I imagine 1 see the curling of masculine lips 
which will accompany the reading of this article; 
but, my dear brothers, just let one of the despised 
sex “ have her say,” and then you may scold me 
to your hoart’s content. I'll try to bear It, at least 
as patiently as your sex. usually bear disagreeable 
things. You may consider tlio word “ despised” 
out. of place, Used In tills connection, but what 
other term would describe the way In which we 
are treated, both by the press and In social life ? 
The wholo catalogue ot human weaknesses Is at¬ 
tributed to us, beginning with that unfortunate 
mistake of Mother Eye— by the way, 1 think Adam 
showed very little superiority on the occasion 
named—and ending up with tlm love of dress, 
which Is supposed to be an attribute of all the 
daughters 01 Eve. 
Now I am going to be honest enough to acknowl¬ 
edge that there lx loo much love or llnory and 
frippery, especially among the younger portion of 
our sex, and how could you expect it to he other¬ 
wise when It Is fostered and encouraged In them 
trorn their babyhood up? Take up almost any 
newspaper, and under the title, of “ Reading for 
the Ladles," or something to that effect, you find 
—what? Not useful Irdormatlon un the literary, 
religious or political topics of the day, but an 111 - 
slpld lot of nonsense about bon neks and bustles, 
silks and striped hose; Rather unralr, to say the 
least or It, to consider such stuff the only literary 
food relished by sensible women 1 Now 1 assert 
that mentally and morally, woman unspoiled and 
undwarfed by education, habit and prejudice, Is 
fully man’s equal. 
1 am aware that a great many have been spoiled 
in the way mentioned, but I think there are near¬ 
ly enough male voters who can neither read nor 
write, to balance that, and enough more whose 
faculties arc injut ed by whisky or tobacco, to sup¬ 
ply what Is lacking. 1 think there Is great, need 
of some effort on t he partot the sensible, thoughts 
rul women of our rank, to awaken to a sense of 
their duty the few who are content with the dolce 
far nitrite or a fool's paradise. Women, as any 
fair-minded man will readily admit, have stronger 
religious tendencies than men, a quicker sense of 
right and wrong—bring those qualities Into polit¬ 
ical life, and what would be the result? Yes, take 
the weakest aod silliest of them all, and In nine 
cases out of ten, you will find, under all the weak¬ 
ness and all the vanity and all the childishness, a 
heart truer and more unselfish than beats under 
the broadcloth of many a mile “pillar ot the 
Church!” 
Last summer I had the pleasure ot hearing the 
preaching of Mrs. VanCott, and after hearing 
her eloquence and seeing her hearty, earnest 
Christian work, 1 was but poorly prepared to 
hear, as 1 did, the many sneers and low, con¬ 
temptible Jokes at the expense of “ the woman- 
preacher.” How many or those men of society 
who considered that brave, good, beautiful woman 
out of place In the pulpit, would say (he same hail 
she stood on the stage or a concert-room, scream¬ 
ing sentimental songs with all the accompanl- 
mentsof paint, powder, low-necked dress and silly 1 
smirking ? 1 
YOU condemn the mind of woman as Inferior, 1 
yet when put to the test, you prefer the Inferiori¬ 
ty 1 Well, so do the Turks and some other heat hen 
nations; but, my dear sirs, the women of this 
country are slowly but surely “ waking up,” and ' 
we see clearly t bo Inconsistency and weakness of 1 
your arguments when you attempt, to define “ a 1 
woman’s true position,” which, according lo near¬ 
ly all that 1 have read on t he subject, consists In 
feeding and dressing her children and keeping 
her face distorted by an everlasting smile! I’ve 
actually got so tired of hearing and reading about 
that fearful smile, (hat It would be a relict to 
learn instead, that we ought to scream, bang the 
doors, throw the chairs about, -anything—any¬ 
thing, rather than that, horrible smile ? 
We adm 11 . that a woman’s h (ghost, duty Is toward 
her children; but how can we mothers best, fulfil 
that duty 7 Not by supplying their physical wants 
alone—a lioness would do Muil. as faithfully—but 
by Striving to make of them pure, noble men and 
women, Instilling Into tlielr minds the principles 
of Christianity and tempera nee. But how far docs 
a mother’s Influence go ? f may teach m.v boy all 
things that are lovely nud pure; 1 may set before 
him In strongest colors the evils or Intemperance 
and Immorality—but, alas! ho cannot always be 
the little boy at mother's knee; by and by he 
will be sixteen eighteen twenty and at. that 
most dangerous age, nut Into the world, away 
from mother's care, with the licensed agents ol' 
Satan on every side to lure him to his ruin, what 
can save him? t'nlcssliols a Arm. devoted Christ 
lOO, I fear for him. 
Where, then, can a mother’s Influence work 
most powerfully for good? At the ballot-box? 
Voting and working as well as praying for the 
cause of temperance and reform In all the evils or 
the day? Sirs, wo demand tlin right, to help save 
our children, to help save our country i Men have 
failed lode It, with all their boasted superiority. 
They do not rightly appreciate the grand, glorious 
privilege of electing nohle, pure temperance men 
to make the laws of our land. Even Christian 
men do not go to the polls as they ought, prayer¬ 
fully, thoughtfully, conscientiously -but bristling 
all over with a fanatical desire to work for “our 
ticket," regardless of the names that grace or dis¬ 
grace It. 
Women, as a class, do not care lor politics; on 
the other hand, they are the chief sufferers from 
the evils of Intemperance, if the tolling, weep¬ 
ing, starving wife of the drunkard had the privi¬ 
lege ol casting her vote for or against granting-, 
license u> liquor dealers, how would she vote, 
think you? But then, you see, she Is only a wo¬ 
man an inferior creature; hers are the tears and 
poverty, the wearing toll to fill the mouths ot the 
children whom her lord and master has left to 
Starve, or live as best they may. But will she 
over forsake them7 Never! 8hc will toll for 
them, cling to them, pray for them and him, 
until the poor lingers are forever stilled and the 
poor heart forever at rest. Yet the husband, be¬ 
cause he weal’s the form of a man, counts one ou 
elect Ion day, while bhe Is a cipher! 
Whose Is the “ superior” mind, do you think ? I 
am aware that a great many or our women are 
content to sit with a sort of sluggish indifference 
and sec our country governed by whisky and 
wickedness. Indeed, many of them neither think 
norcarcaboul.lt, but withthocow-llkesubmission 
and gentleness so admired in women by the other 
sex, accept the position accorded them by their 
lords and masters, and divide their attention al¬ 
ternately between crochet a nd pickles. However, 
that can be remedied, Just let the newspapers 
glvo ua fewer cake recipes and fashion notes, and 
devote that space to some thing that will stir up 
the slumbering mind; let husbands talk to their 
wives of something beside the pudding for dinner 
or the “set" of choir shirts; lot the men indulge 
In fewer witticisms at the expense ol those women 
who choose theology, law, or medicine as a pro¬ 
fession, instead of tho everlasting dressmaking or 
school leaching. Give us a chance to get, out of 
tho rut! Let ua have a, chance to lend >1 helping 
hand to save our sons and brothers and husbands, 
and 1 think I speak the sentiments of the major¬ 
ity of the thinking, reading, right-minded women, 
when I say that had we the right of suffrage, 
there would be no more unprincipled onice-seck- 
ers holding Important positions and winking at 
the evils which are ruining our land ; and. under 
our earnest efforts, I am convinced, the reign of 
King Alcohol would soon be over. 
Ekmengardk. 
--- 
SOME OF MY MAXIMS. 
It is all very well to say that real worth cannot 
fall to command respect, that talent will always 
be appreciated, that money does noL make the 
man or beauty the woman. These are all good 
texts to preach from; but when you Como to the 
practice In every-day life, rny text Is, that a good 
supply of brass, or, In other words, self-conceit, 
will do more than all of the rest, lr your educa¬ 
tion la poor, just put on a pompous air, talk about 
what you have read, use big words, and you will 
make an impression, if you are no preacher, dig 
up some sermons, study human nature a little, 
find a place, and then hang right, ou; don’t take 
the hint if all of your hearers go to sleep and 
everybody Is talking about you; put on all the 
brass you can, and you will grow old in the ser¬ 
vice. If you are no musician, ding Just as loud as 
yon can, aud slug every chance you get; crowd 
yourself into the clioir, and dray all you can, and 
you will get notice. If you aro lazy, call yourself 
feeble, tell how little you can endure, and people 
will help you a great deal sooner than they will 
any one who works all the time and never asks 
help, if you are poor, cut a swell, don't speak to 
everybody, carry your head high, give persons to 
understand you arc a little better than they aro 
and you will always get attention. 
Does some one say my maxims aro all wrong? 
Look among your own acquaintances and see. 
The best-educated people are the most, retiring; 
the most wealthy dress th • plainest; the finest 
orators and singers are the least. Inclined to dis¬ 
play their talents; the dross takes up a great 
deal more room than the real gold. 
We live tn an ago of humbug, and that person 
Is smart, who does not get humbugged every day 
he lives. Amelia. 
Cayugh. 
We are somewhat, surprised at our fair corre¬ 
spondent’s acuteness at. discovering tho weak side 
of human nature, though a resident of the coun¬ 
try, as wo supposed that It, was only city people 
who were so foolish as to admire “brass” more 
than pure gold.—[E d. Rural. 
» 
MABRY IN HASTE. 
I have been rending lu the Rural, Feb. 10th, 
and find that Grandmother lias favored us again. 
I think she has put a quietus upon you lor tha t 
which you seemed to ridicule, and you must own 
in your heart, that, her advice is true and sound. 
1 agree with her, that most marriages are among 
children they think it line tun t o be married, and 
have their names in the paper. They don’t think 
of the good, old saying, “ Marry in haste and re¬ 
pent, at leisure." In iny opinion It’s mostly the 
parents' fault. Some never think of Inquiring 
what their children road, and of course, these 
can’t he expected to grow up uninjured If they 
read all sorts of trash. It Isn’t wise to go lo the 
other extreme, either. Once In a while a good 
novel Is quite a roller. 
For myself, I would always be fashionable, 
provided I could be comfortable. No wonder 
there Is so much neuralgia among women with 
their hats on tho back of their heads. Their 
going Into "society " at sixteen and seventeen Is 
tho ruin ol many young girls. I know a young 
girl ever whose head twenty four summers have 
passed, who has been In society ever since she 
was sixteen years or age, aud now she seems Lo 
be thirty. 
I am no Grandmother, but a young girl who has 
been brought up lu a large, family by kind, loving 
parents who always studied our health an the 
most, Important requisite for our enjoyment. At 
the present day ll. Is the rule for the children to 
k tell their parents wbat they shall and shall not 
do, but 1 should like to tell Grandmother that 
this Is not the rule In one family. Among us “ no” 
Is “ no " and that Is the oml of that matter, l have 
enjoyed Grandmother’s communications very 
much, and hope sho will write again, r hope 
sortie of tho young people besides myself have 
road It and will profit by It. 
A Rural Reader. 
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LET’S BE ECONOMICAL. 
We have from sheer necessity begun to be eco¬ 
nomical. Let us continue It, Let us build smaller 
houses; let us furnish them more modestly; let 
us live less luxuriously; lotus tune all our per¬ 
sonal and social life to a lower key. We have 
bravely begun reform in public and corporate af¬ 
fairs. Let us continue this, and vigilantly see to 
It that our trusts are placed in competent and 
honest hands. We are committed to a reform in 
the civil service a reform which will extinguish 
the trade 01 polities that has done so much to de¬ 
bauch and Impoverish the country. Let ur> see to 
It, that this reform Is thoroughly effected, our 
cobble-houses have tumbled about our ears; let 
us not rebuild them, our Speculations He, In men, 
with the lives and fortunes they have absorbed. 
Our fictitious values have been extinguished: let 
us not try to relight the garnour that made them. 
Above all, let us be content with modest gains, 
cease trying to earn wealth In a, single day, and 
get something out or life besides everlasting work 
and worry. Fully one-half of our wants aro ar¬ 
tificial. 
-♦♦♦—- 
WRITING POETRY. 
On! you would-be poets, who can write, In 
black and white, neither rhyme nor measure, 
cease trying the virtue of patience, and make an 
Immortal poem of your lives, of every deed a 
heroic, of every day a rhythm! 
Oh! woman, sighing amid your pots and pans 
and slop and scrubbing-brushes, for sorne glori¬ 
ous harmonic of life and thought, here, in your 
borne-kingdom, Is ample scope for all the truest, 
loftiest, poetry ol your uoul. Make a malln-gleo 
of your break rast- table, a thanksgiving carol of 
your uoon repast, a song of praise of your evening 
gathering. Make un out-guslilug, musical, heart- 
reaching melody of every room lu your dwelling. 
If Poverty deny you that which Is edged with gilt 
and burnished with gold, Nature has furnished 
iree ami no less beautiful materials for the writ¬ 
ing. Make 0110 grand, living breathing harmonic 
In your wnolc household. 
And oh! ye mothers, who clamor for a higher 
sphere, who pine for an outlet to tho womanly 
rhythms and aspirations 01 your being, what won¬ 
ders of meter and harmony of all tho elements ot 
tho sweetest, subllmest poetry—even that which 
can be attuned to angel songs are yours. Not 
to be written with fading Ink upon perishable 
paper, but to be Indelibly Inscribed upon lmper- 
Lshablo tablets, clean and soft for your writing; 
but that win become lined and hardened, as the 
impressible clay becomes the Impressed and un- 
I yielding rock. Geraldine Germane. 
