THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
^catting for tljf goung. 
A SHOKT SERMON. 
1 
CntLpiiKit who read my lay 
1’iiiB much 1 have to any: 
Each day, and every day, 1 
Vo what Is right— ( 
Right thing* in groat and small; t 
Then, though the aky should fall, f 
Sun. muou, and stars, and all. ( 
Yon shall have light. 
This further would 1 say: 1 
Ho you tempted aB you may, 
Each day, and every day, < 
Speak what is true— 
True thing.} in great and small: , 
Then, though the sky should fall, 
Huu. moon, and stars, and all. 
Heaven would show through. 
Figs, as you see and know, j 
Do not out of thistles grow, ( 
And though the blossoms blow 
While on the tree, ' 
drapes never, never yet 
On the limbs of thorns;were set; 
Bo, if you a good would get, f 
Good yon must be. ’ 
Life’s Journey through and through, ’ 
Speaking what js Ju»t and true. 
Doing what is right to do 
Unto one and all, 1 
When you work aud when you play, 
Each day. aud every day; 
Then peace shall gild your way, i 
Though the Bky should fall. t 
[Alter Cary. | 
-- 
LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS. i 
- 1 
The Romance in a Quilt. 
Dear Editor 1 lnve been reading with much 1 
interest the bays' and girls' letters in the Re ka t., ' 
and am sorry to say that the bays ore rather hard 1 
on the girls la the nutter or bed-qullts. They 1 
seem to think that, the piecing- Of a bod-qfillt Is an ' 
insignificant atlatr. Let ino tell thorn how a | 
“ pieced bod-quill" saved a valuable life. During : 
the war there lay in a hospital, In one Of the 1 
Southern States, a fair, blue-eyed boy of eighteen 
summers, dangerously wounded, lie had gone ' 
out as a drummer hoy In one of our Now Eoglan 1 
regiments, and was shot, )o one or those tierce en¬ 
gagements tn which so many ot our brave men 
lost their lives. Ills wounds were healing, yet 
he lay there listless, without energy, gradually 
wasting away, not having vitality enough to 
make an effort to got well. Said the doctor to 
the nurse one day, as he stood looking at the pale, 
lifeless form, •• Can’t you arouse hi m in some way ? 
I see no reason why he should die If he would only 
try to live.” sue rapllad, •* I have tried In every 
way, hut nothing Interests him. Ho does not 
seem to c are whether he lives or dies.” 
“ Well," s ild the doctor, ** Tls a sad case. 1 am 
afraid we can do nothing more for him." And ho 
passed on. thinking the cot would be empty be¬ 
fore many days. 
The next day. In making his rounds, as he drew 
near, expecting to And Cu\ut.ie 1 > Iri c Just as he 
had left him, in- was surprised to see him silling 
Up In be 1, talking in eager tones, and pointing 
to something that the nurse held In her hands. 
Amazed, he Inquired what had wrought so great 
a change, and found that the nurse, the day be¬ 
fore, In helping to unpack a box that had come 
from the North, had happened on a pretty patch- 
work quilt, and thinking sadly of poor Charlie, 
had carried It and spread it upon his bed. Some 
hours alter, passing through the ward, she round 
him clutching it, and saying, "it came from 
home, It came from homo. Oh 1 I must get well; 
I must get well and go home.’ 1 And pointiug to a 
piece of pretty pink I n the quilt, no said, “ That Is 
a piece ot sister’s dress; she tore It In the woods 
the first time she wore It. And that Is a piece of 
Nellie’s; sue wore it to school the day she took 
the prize. And that Is a piece or mother’s. Oh! 
mother, mother—1 must see yon again. I must 
go home; I must sec the dour old home again." 
And he did get well, and he did go home. From 
that day he began to get better. The quilt, that 
had bdfen the means of arousing him by Its associ¬ 
ation, was a source ot pleasure as the days went 
on; and each day some new story or anecdote 
was related, as they were brought to his memory 
by the different pieces or calico that composed the 
quilt. 
Now it was a picnic on the mountain, when 
Katie Mat got lost; now it was a sail on the 
river, when .Jennie fell overboard. One piece 
brought to mind a sister that had married and 
gone to far-off CaUrornln; and another a darling 
baby-brother that had gone to sleep under the 
daisies. And so his energies awakened, his 
strength returned, and soon he went to that good 
old home whence had come the pieced bed-qullt 
that had saved a precious life. 
• i 
Going for Solomon Sap. 
Dear Editor :—I was looking through the col¬ 
umns of the dear old Rural the other day, when 
my attention was drawn to a letter from a re¬ 
markable personage calling himself Solomon Sap, ' 
I do not like to criticize, neither do i like to read 
criticisms; but I cannot resist glvlug him a few 
of my thoughts, even at the risk or Incurring his 
displeasure, ami perhaps bringing down the tor¬ 
rent ot his wrath on my devoted head. In the 
first place, be has written two very severe, If not 
rude and abusive, letters. Does ho think the girls 
arc going to sit tamely by while he airs Ills supe¬ 
rior knowledge and wisdom, and not say a word 
in defense? His last letter, particularly,*shows 
him to he exceedingly selfish; more t han that, j 
he has been ungr-ntlomanly enough to compare a 
girl with a monkey, simply because, as he affirms, 
the faculty of Imitation Is more largely developed 
in a girl than It Is In a hoy. l have no wish to 
dispute our Imitative powers, for f consider It a 
virtue to imitate and Improve. I would at any 
time rather he called Imitative t ha n conceited, 
and the average youth of to-day Is not possessed 
of that faculty. Oh. no! 1 am fully aware that 
the beard which Solomon so commlserattngly 
speaks of as something which nature has not en¬ 
dowed girls with,is one or a boy’s “ weak points.!’ 
fie Is not a man until he has by careful nursing 
and coaxing raised a mustache, even though It 
were necessary to look through a microscope to 
see It- Timt js not. conceit! 
lam not an advocate of women’s rights, for I 
think were women placed Inexactly the same 
position men are, they would no longer have a 
right to th it respect which Is always duo them. 
It, has always been conceded that a woman Is. 
physically, not as strong as a man; but the Idea 
of not having the strength of mind or Intelligence 
possessed by a man. 1 Indignantly reject. Woman 
is Invariably more refined than man, and with 
Intelligence comes refinement. 1 think, were Sol¬ 
omon to look a little closer into this subject, he 
would find many virtues in girls heretofore unob¬ 
served. 1 tun always an advocate or -“Fair 
Play,” Fayette, Seneca no., X, V. 
A New Cousin Cained An Old One Heard 
From. 
Dear Rural Cousins:—I may call you such, 
may I not? For truly 1 have grown to like you 
through the columns of the good Rural. There 
Is room for “ just one more," Isn't t here? I'm not 
very large, consequently won't take very mueli 
room, and with t he sanction ot our worthy and 
true Uncle, will write you “ a letter from home." 
Why Is It, my friends, there Is so much disagree¬ 
ment and warring ot words (o prove our supposed 
equality, discussion or wrongs, and so much ap¬ 
parent wrong feeling among the girls and Doys in 
this Cousinly circle 2 Has the spirit of our elders 
descended upon us that we, Wo, must Avar, If 
only at words? "The pen Is mightier than the 
sword,” I know, and as distance Is the great an¬ 
tagonist to contend with, and likewise possibly 
prevents a display of ducllstie propensities by 
contact with the latter part ot quotation, should 
war continue, 1 ask, let us have words, hut let 
t horn be peaceful ones, and good feeling aud amia¬ 
bility will result. And let us uJl ever remember 
this line of good Isaac Watts, “ Little birds In 
their nests agree.” 
A change of subject may not. here he amiss. My 
well-loved country home Is now, wo girls think, 
very beautiful, surrounded by the wealth of living 
green and luxuriant growth of (lowers, which all 
country girls may have by a painstaking and 
watchful care. And considering the pleasure and 
profit received, none should begrudge the time 
and labor spent in cultivating tho beautiful flow¬ 
ers. My favorite among all flowers Is the rose. 
One of the prettiest vines for hanging baskets Is 
the common Ivy, known here RSGfOUUd Ivy. it 
shaded well and given pluuty of water—tor It Is a 
thirsty little plant—It will grow rapidly, rampant¬ 
ly, and be very beautiful. Tula Is my first appear¬ 
ance among you, and it not to be my last, l shall 
ted, intUe sweet and rose-colored future. Of the 
grape-vine that has shadowed our home tor more 
than a quarter ot a century, and of the seeds— 
now grown to plants—that vvere furnished me 
through the kindness of the Florlculturol Editor 
of the Rural. —Young Farmerish, Locust Lane 
Home, Pa, 
Solomon, Where is Thy Glory ? 
Dear Editor:— May I come la ? Am I Avelcome 
to he one of the many cousins of the Rural? 
Last year, your paper did not find Its way into 
our household; but previous to that, It had been 
an Inmate of it longer than I can remember. 
Solomon Sap and R. 11. C. are rather ungentle- 
manly In their decisions about the girls, I think ; 
perhaps the former 13 h iving a dimoult time 
raising a moustache, and Is a little provoked at 
the girls for thinking him a trifle green. Eh, M r. 
Sap? l think Beauty must have a pretty good 
opinion at her looks; guess she never heard Hut 
“self-praise goes hut a little ways.” Young peo¬ 
ple of both sexes will do well to heed the advice 
given in Hayseed's and Prairie Chicken’s let¬ 
ters. Those that live on a tarm will not find it a 
difficult task to be useful. But I h id better draw 
my letter to a close, as I do not Avtsh to tire you 
the first time— m. a. n. 
would like to ask the cousins to answer this 
question, “Where is the command gtA’en In the 
Bible to ‘trim the garments with blue ribband ’?” 
This is getting too long and r must stop, or else 
t uts will certainly find Its way into the waste¬ 
basket.— Mattie F., Rochester, Minn 
Longs for a Battle Royal. 
Dear Rural Cousins :—If so I may call you— 
for I desire to be admitted to your ranks, 1 sup¬ 
pose what 1 have to say Avon't. be very interesting, 
—lor I am bashful, very bashful; but T hope J will 
get over that as vve get better acquainted. Now, 
boys, Just see how that Connecticut girl. Miss 
<_;lio, Is running us down, telling us Ave had better 
close our mouths about av Oman’s tongue, and s ty¬ 
ing when avc saw our hits about, to be returned, 
we fled from t.he field and dared not show our laces 
again, and shaming us, aud asking us if that Is 
our courage! Just as It we cannot, hold our line 
of battle as firmly as they can. Now Just go for 
them, every one of you. I want to see the dear 
old Rural mil of them, next week.— Arthur R. 
[Arthur R. wants to got up a club. We Will 
send all particulars If he will .send his full address 
to our Subscription Department.] 
Whore are the Lost Ones ? 
Dear Rural :—As the Editor was so kind as to 
print my first, letter, I avIU write again, hoping, 
In the meantime, to become a welcome visitor 
among the host, or Rural Cousins. Think Slay- 
krofconcejt had better look at home for faults 
before he t ries to LhroAv bis Impudence in the 
faces of his betters hereafter. Will Lenora W. 
write again, and give her Avbole name ? i hope 
to hear from Haysbgp aud Young Editor No. 2 
again, also Hooky Mountain Joe and Young 
Farmer. What has become of the favorite writ¬ 
ers, Young Storm and Editor Nn.1— have they 
deserted ua entirely V Step up to the lront, boys, 
and do not. let t.he girls thtnkyou have been driven 
from tho field by those whbnsteal-mlnded gills. 
It there must be war, I will remain true to my 
colons. Fearing my letter Is getting too long, I 
will close.— Ivy, West HtulHon, X, V. 
Well-Provided with Pets. 
Dear Rural: I srav letters tn the Rural that 
the boys and girls bad written, nnd thought 1 
would write one, too. I am twelve years of nge. 
1 study at home, as our school Is so far away that 
l cannot conveniently attend it,. I have a little 
mouse In a trap that, has a AvUeel at one end, aud 
when he wants to run, ho will t urn the AVheel 
like a squirrel. 1 have five lemon trees In a box 
In the house. I reared them from the seed. I 
also have some Jerusalem cherry trees groAvn 
from the seed. 1 have a sled and play with It 
out-ot-doors sometimes, l have a pet cat and 
also three dolls. I got a large wax doll last 
Christmas. I like your splendid paper, and love 
to read the letters from the children.— Lizzie B. R. 
®Ijf f ttgltt. 
An Experiment and Question. 
Dear Rural:— Seeing my other letter publish¬ 
ed, I will try again. I live on a f arm In the south¬ 
ern part of Minnesota, forty miles north of the 
Iowa line and fifty miles Avest ot the Mississippi 
River. We are not quite In ths grasshopper re¬ 
gion, but do not kaow how soon avc may be. J 
am a regular country girl, I will not tell you 
how large Tam. I will give the younger cousins 
something to try, Avhtch I think will Interest them, j 
the boys especially. Take a clean glass pint, bot¬ 
tle and put a little over a large tablespoonful ot 
sugar-of-lead Into It and fill It quite full with 
Clearwater; then take a long strip of zinc about 
a quarter of an inoh broad, fasten one end lu tue 
cork, and then bend tbc zinc In as crooked a 
shape as you know how: be sure and have It 
long enough to reach the bottom ot the bottle, 
then put It In the middle of the bottle and cork 
uptight; then put the bottle away where ItAvill 
not be disturbed, and In a feAv days you will have 
something which resembles an old stump of a 
tree. Try It and see: then get some one who un¬ 
derstands chemistry to explain it to you. I 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
1 am composed of 120 letters : 
My 39, 8, 5,15,1C, 40,10,7, l, 81 a city of Spain. 
My 70, 14, 42, 40, IS, 49, 26, 9, 61, 33, 31 a City Of 
Greece. 
My 32, 45, 89. 21, 2 - 1 , 55, 97, 91, 19, 60 , 4, 13, 115, 12 a 
wonderful place in Iceland generally visited 
by tourists. 
My B, 49.8, 5,9, 7, 12 ,91, 40, 55,15,82, 2 another re¬ 
sort ot Erin. 
My 114,84, 109,07.73,119 one of the Hebrides, noted 
for 03, 50, 29, 10, 6, 107, 91, 91, 40, 3, 2. 
My 25, 27, 23, 7T, so, 39, 92 a Scottish frith. 
My 89, 6. 22 , 11, 61, 30, 33, 9o a city or Scotland. 
My 37,52, 27, 116, 62, 110, 31, 112, 8, 70 a city of En¬ 
gland. 
My 4‘2, 85, 43, 64, 96, 57, 48, 82, 102 another city of 
England. 
My 70, 53, 36, 93, 44, 17, 66, 106, 71, 25, 56, 45, 83 a 
city or Wales. 
My 49. 65, 62. 91, 86, 94, 111, 93, 68 a city of England. 
My 54, 49, 101 , s, 87, 53, so, 5i a city of Finland. 
My 69, 23, 96, 72, S3, 25 a city of England. 
My 76, 97, SI, 108, 99, 63, 79, 75 a city of Belgium. 
My 104, 113, 118, 93,, 83, 64, 117, 115, 110, 114 a City Of 
Louisiana. 
My 59, 40 , 15, 100, 47, 34, 46, 76, 120 a town of Ver¬ 
mont. 
My 16, 103, 9, 103 , 107 , 73, 49, 41 one of the Sand¬ 
wich Islands. 
My whole Is wisdom from the pen of Scott. 
E»~ Answer tn two Aveeks. Little One. 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
l. A river of the Southwest. 2. Flowing out of 
the tides. 3. Pertaining to the olfactories. 4. A 
state. 5. To spoil. 6. A river of Asia. 7. Part of 
a pump (curtailed). 8. Anything ultra. Prlmals 
and finals form two cases of Latin grammar. 
I £»“ Answer in two weeks. b. 
CENTRAL PUZZLE. 
l. A beautiful Island. 2. A great massacre. 3. 
A historian. 4. A Mexican sovereign. 5. A Vene¬ 
tian navigator. 6. A tribe of North American In¬ 
dians. Centrals form the name of a confederate 
officer. 
(3T AnsAver in two weeks. Db. 
--—-- 
PUZZLER ANSWERS—June 30. 
Ouoss-avokd En ici ma.—A ntwerp. 
Double Acrostic.— Pj-iruals, Cancer; finals, Gemini. 
Sabball) JUabinn, 
THE MOUNTAIN OF SORROW. 
This is a dark and dreary mountain. 
Whose palbs arc Art Id and steep. 
In the mystic Land of Silence, 
Where shades are thick and deep; 
And 'tis there God’s holy antrete 
Their constant vigils keep. 
Thou hast never Been this mountain 1 
Art thou a child of God? 
For the fret, of all God's children 
Tliorfc thorny paths have trod, 
Bleedmir and More, hut yet upheld 
By his own staff and rod. 
It is called tho Mount of Borrow, 
And on its chilly Light 
God'a patient child ren, weak and worn, 
Are toiling in the night; 
But near there stands another Mount, 
Shiulng with heavenly light. 
That is the Holy XI ount of Prayer, 
And oft a cheering ray 
Falla bright upon the children’s path. 
To guide them on their Avay; 
For there the light shineB more and more. 
Unto the perfect day. 
And between tbCBO mystic mountains 
A v alley calm and sweet, 
In soft nnd blooming fragrance lies; 
And Jesus’ blessed feet 
W’alk thro’ this bright aud sacred vale, 
Him stricken ones to meet. 
'Tis the Vale of Resignation, 
O hearts that ache- with care! 
Close to the dark Mount of Sorrow 
Stands the bright Mount of Prayer; 
Lift up your heads, ye mourning ones, 
God’s Holy Son Is there! 
[Religious Herald. 
ARMENIAN BELIEFS. 
They believe lu the unity ot Christ as one body 
of nature, and embracing tho Holy Ghost and 
God. They practice infant baptism, and admit, 
after profession of faith and conversion from 
Judaism, adults to baptism. They believe In 
transubstantlutlon, bur, strange to say, reject 
purgatory, and pray lor the souls of the (lead. 
These three doctrines are at. least Intelligible 
when professed by a Homan Cutholto. The rtoe- 
ttlnal belter of the Armenians Is at. least Illogical. 
They believe tn the everlasting virginity ol Mary, 
worship saints and shrines, make confession to 
the priest, necessary to salvation, and enjoin mor¬ 
tification. The traffic In Indulgences is unknown 
In the Church, and, taken as a whole, the priests 
are learned, liberal-minded and enlightened. 
Without entering upon a sketch of t.he history of 
this peculiar Christ Ian community, the antiquity 
of which Is undoubted, Ave may refer to the pecu¬ 
liar constitution of that branch or the Church 
Avhtch Is established at Constantinople, lor In this 
wc find a solution of the apparently anomalous 
conduct of the Patriarch. Tho Patriarch of Con¬ 
stantinople has probably under his cure about 
tAvo millions of people, and It is important to bear 
In mind that Uie Armenians are an exceptionally 
industrious and enlightened class ol Asiatics. IIo 
is not only the spiritual head of Lila immense dio¬ 
cese, which, with the exception of Jerusalem and 
Sis, embraces the AVhole of Turkey, but the civil 
head as Avell. 
--- 
THE SAFETY OF THE CHURCH. 
The safety of the Church lies In progress. It 
cannot become an intrenched camp. You can 
never so fortify It that the world avIII not storm 
over its Avails, and leave It, as an army loaves an 
enemy’s city, a mass of ruins. The Church Is not 
a walled city; It la a movable column, and Its 
safety lies In moving on continually. Those who 
anchor it to one fixed position, avUo would Avail It 
Id with formulas, and moat it round with orders 
and creeds, arc Its worst foes. If tho Church docs 
not lead the race, me race will walk over the 
Church, and go ou without It. Human advance¬ 
ment will not stop for any Institution whatever. 
If any should be foolish enough to array the 
Church against science, Avouid science stop ?—If 
against reform, Avouid reforms cease ? You must 
annihilate mind before you can check the progress 
of science. You must root out sympathy and 
humane Impulse and dlvlnely-lnsplred love from 
the soul ere man will tamely surrender hl3 
Inalienable right to expand and elevate himself 
and his kind. The prerogative of Immortality 
will be given up only with the soul’s conscious¬ 
ness .—Golden Rule, 
THOUGHTS FOR THINKERS. 
There are times in lite when It is quite as 
clearly your duty to depend as to be Independent. 
When God puts you where you cannot help your¬ 
self, take the help he sends and do not fret. It is 
right to help yourself with both hands as long as 
you can, and with one hand when you cannot use 
both, but If God bids both He folded and still, 
accept his decision and remember. “ They also 
serve AVho only stand and wait,” 
Some, valuing those of their own Bide or mind, 
i Still make themselves the measures of mankind. 
Fondly we thiukave honor merit then 
AVhen we but praise ourselvee in other men.—Pope. 
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks 
against hts own conscience, and therefore It Is 
certain no man serves God with a good conscience 
who serves him against his reason— Jeremy ray- 
. lor. 
