them. With the help or my brother and hiB small 
wheelbarrow, I succeeded In drawing into the 
yard a large pile or rocks, I placed the large 
stones at the bottom so that they rormed a circle, 
and then filled in with rich dirt. Then a row or 
smaller stones just inside or the others, then dirt 
again, and so on, till 1 had rormed a mound, on 
top or which I planted Borne moss. I then pro¬ 
cured some rerns rrom the woods, which i planted 
In the crevices between the stones, also Wander¬ 
ing Jew, Creeping Charlie, and such plants as I 
could procure. 
The mouud must be well shaded rrom the sun 
or the rerns will not grow.— Jessie. 
once detected was rasped off, or otherwise rem¬ 
edied by the Boot and Shoe merchant at the time 
of purchase ; and I vainly calculated on immuni¬ 
ty from further annoyances. But It became again 
“ a thorn In the flcsb,” and was doctored by my 
cobbler, but on pulling off the boot I round the 
point was only bent forward and fastened into my 
stocking. What Bhall 1 do ? 1 appeal not to you 
friend Rural, but to fit. Crispin. J protest against 
nails In boots: they are good In their place; but, 
whenmadeor Iron they are not, good In one's feet. 
My wife, too, comes to me with u nail In her shoe, 
which Is worse than the corns on Her toes. I 
have tools, a cold chisel and a hammer, by which 
I can take off two of the four stories term the 
heel ol a fashionable boot, but with those nails 
In the sole I am powerless: It Is a part of my re¬ 
ligious creed that our Maker intended that man 
should walk erect, but, Its Impossible for one to 
do so with a nail sticking Into his root. 
VlEILLARP. 
“ABIDE WITH ME 
A CROWD OF BOYS, 
Abide with me: fast falls the eventide, 
The darkness deepens. Lord with me abide: 
When other helper* rad. and comforts flee. 
Help of the helpless, O abide with me. 
Swift to its close ebbs ont life’s little day; 
Earth’s Joys (crow dim, it? glories pass away; 
Change and decay in all around f Bee: 
O Thou who chamrcet not, abide with me. 
Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word, 
But os Thou dwell’st with thy disciples. Lord, 
Familiar, condescending, patient, free: 
Come, not to sojourn, but to abide with me. 
Come, not In terror* as the King of kings, 
But kind and good, with healing in thy wing. 
Tears for all woea. a heart for every plsa ^ 
Come. Friend of sinners, thus abide with me. 
Thou on my head In early youth didst smile. 
And, though rebellious and perverse meanwhile. 
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left thee: 
On to the oloae, O Lord, abide with me. 
I m-ed thy presence every passing hour, 
What but thy grace can foil the Tempter's power f 
Who like thyself my guide and stay oan be 1 
Through Cloud and sunshine, O abide with me. 
1 fear no foe, with thro at hand to bless; 
Ills have no weight and tanra no bitterness: 
Where is death's stiug? where, grave, thy victory ? 
I triumph still, If Thou abide with me. 
Hold up thy cross before my closing eyes, 
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies; 
Heaven’s morning breaks and earth's vain shadows 
flee: 
In life, in death. O Lord, abide with me. 
Apropos of this splendid production, there is a 
history connected with It. II. F Lvtk who was a 
Churon of England clergyman Had, like many others 
BY MBS. FRANCES E. POPE, 
Wk live in a bit of a cottage, 
With room* neither many nor wide; 
Yet we’re rich In possessions— at table 
Onr children count three on a side. 
Thore are brown eyos, and blue eyeB, and hazel, 
And with various gifts they’re endowed, 
But the school boys agree that our Benny 
la the Jolllest boy in the crowd. 
My neighbor, who hu» only daughters, 
Came In with her aewlng one day, 
And, while we were pleasantly chatting. 
The obildrsn came In from their play. 
She paused in the midst of a story, 
Unused to hear voice* so loud, 
But smilingly added. “ Your Benny 
Is the noisiest boy in the crowd 1" 
Their Grandpa drop* in of a morning, 
And Is often invited to stop, 
To tell them some story or other, 
Or mend up a wagon or top. 
He is always amused at their sayings. 
And seems of them all to be proud; 
But he says, unto voct. that Beuny 
Is the smartest of all In the crowd. 
And Grandma, who dwells in the quiet, 
Unmoved by earth'* clamor and noise. 
Gomes in with her sweet, placid manners. 
For an afternoon’s tulk with the boys. 
She seta them at peace, if a quarrel 
Breaks over their Joys llko a cloud, 
She's fond of them all; but thinks Benny 
la the prettiest one in the crowd. 
Aunt Jane, from her stately old mansion, 
O’ershadowed by poplar and elm. 
Came down to the city last winter, 
To visit my turbulent realm. 
" I am glad," she assured me, at parting, 
" Such blessings to you are allowed; 
But keep a tight reign on that Benny, 
He’e the luckiest boy in the crowd!’’ 
Ah me 1 what a mixed reputation 
For any one boy to possess ! 
As the others have laleuta unnumbered. 
We’re a Babel, 1 frankly confess. 
A philosopher, asked to appraise them, 
At the task would be puzzled and oowed 
Though at dluner might reason that Benny 
Is the hungriest boy in the crowd. 
At night, when all have beon settled 
In crib and in cradle and lied, 
I go on a tour of Inspection 
And pillow each slumbering head; 
And, while I commend them to Heaven, 
With spirit In reverence bowed, 
I am sure I can never determine 
The dearest or best In the crowd. 
Watertown Post, 
Writing Right Originally. 
.’Tls but right to try to write 
Uncle True. _Ji 
originally in order to be counted In with the lucky 
twenty-five, and therefore, as a right original 
subject to write upon, I take that of my own 
original right and proper self to do the writing, 
and likewise provide a right subject.. In lack of 
traditional originality, and holding right before 
my mental gaze that there’s “ nothing new under 
the sun,” 1 wonder how originality Is supposed to 
exist. And In lieu ol a better, rlghter, and more 
original topic, I return to the one originally 
started with, and In contemplating the right 
original subject In a right view to w rite upon,! 
find t,ne most original things contained therein 
are Original Sin, right good lack of originality, 
and a general desire to receive a “line engrav- 
i tl0 . <• Okki CUN An Sin. 
LETTERS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, 
ever so much. May I be admitted as a Cousin ? 
My home la In Honolulu, capital of the Sandwich 
Islands. It la situated Oh the Island of Oahu, the 
fourth in size. You see my letter has to travel a 
long way, and therefore if it Is a little lengthy, 
please excuse. Which of tUo Cousins are lovers of 
beautiful scenery / Insignificant us our Isles may 
seem to you, we cun boast of some lovely land¬ 
scapes, as well as the largest active volcano In 
the world. 
Last February, a submarine volcano burst out 
In a bay on Hawatl-the largest Island. Many 
residents from tuts Island visited It at once, and 
reported the sight as magnificent as It was won¬ 
derful. Home twenty cones throwing up black 
lava, and the sea surrounding In great commo¬ 
tion. We have some of the lava; It la as porous 
as a sponge, and ortttle; It comes from the bot¬ 
tom of the sea to the top. 
Young artist proposes that the Cousins con¬ 
tribute plans lor making uscrul articles. “ Spat¬ 
ter work" Is all the rage here. We have beautiful 
ferns, and with tasteful management pretty “ ti¬ 
dies, ” mottoes, Ax:., are made. I have Just finished 
several or eacn, a motto, “Aloha uul," (native for 
“ Much love,") and “ Simply to thy cross I cling" 
—these words surround a cross arranged with 
ferns. “Tidies” are made on thin white or colored 
CHARADE 
Away from mart arid busy town, 
Are pictures sweet and meadows green, 
With wavlug grain, and barren down, 
And lakes and woods and streams between. 
’Tls here my jtlrst In life is seen 
By babbling brooks and meadows green. 
A man of honest, happy face. 
He to no earthly king would bow; 
With Independence of his race 
He’d live by trade or speed the plow. 
An American, so proud and free; 
Nay, more, my second, too, was he. 
In many homes, in every State, 
A welcome visitor lias been 
My whole; pleasing the learn’d and great; 
In poor man’s cot It too Is seen. 
The best ol all Its time extant, 
’Tls what we all should ever want. 
&r Answer In two weeks. w 
THE HEART’S RELATION TO GOD 
HIDDEN FRUIT 
1. I shot a wild goose, Berry. 
2. See that chap run. Esther. 
3. Tristain, a rind la very unhealthy. 
4. The robber put In a green gag every time. 
5. The gods drank nectar In Easter tide. 
c. Give my hand a grasp, Herr, you noble fellow, 
7. Why can’t Alo up 7 Edwin wants him. 
8. will you go to the pump, kind rrlend ? 
e. Essie rail Berry Into the river. 
10. Spell It pome; Granate said so. 
11. I caught a crab, Appleadorf. 
12. You must stop, each and all. 
18. Asqua shall not be punished. 
14. Sec the meadow dew, Berryl. 
15. Jump up, Lantn, lu time. 
16. Do live and love me! 
17. on top of that pine apples were grafted, 
is. Let the poor man go home. 
UEf Answer In two weeks. Little One. 
THAT NAIL IN MY BOOT, 
After that Base-ball. 
Uncle True:— In the Rural of July 21 you 
offer a reward of a base-ball to whichever 
boy will acceptably explain why he thinks 
“ croquet" not much of a game any way. Now, 
l, not knowing whetherlcould dolt acceptably 
or not, am going to write a nd let you Judge for 
yourself. Croquet? (or Presbyterian billiards as 
It Is more properly called) how that sounds 1 
Why t the name of Itself Is enough to show that 
It is no game at all, Judging by the way most 
people talk about blllards. What fun Is there In 
knocking a wooden ball through pieces of wire 
bent up and stuck In the ground? Some say 
there Is a great deal of skill and tun in being a 
good “croquet" player. But I never could see 
where the skill and run came In, unless It was In 
the one who hacl the best gift dr speech and who 
could bluff the others down about some thing or 
other. As to the tun ; all the fun 1 could ever get 
out ol a game of “ croquet ” was to hear some ol 
Once upon a time, when 1 was a constituent < 
part of “ Young America”—say sixty-five years i 
ago—pegs were not known In the sole of a boos or 1 
shoe. There were pegs put, In the heels, wUlch 
were then but one or two stories high. The shoe- i 
maker came to the house of his patron, and in 
our case sometimes brought his wife, and they 
two made up the bools and shoes for the family, 
from the leather madeof che hides of the aulmals 
raised and slaughtered for our food. 
For pegs, the boys were Rent to the wood-pile 
to saw off a piece of maple, from which the Bhoe- 
maker made his peg with ills sharp knife, after 
seasoning the wood over the coals in the fire¬ 
place, on the fire-shovel. This latter Instrument 
we called a “peal," and I thought Justly, for It 
was made of iron by the blacksmith, and consisted 
of a blade about eight, inches square, with a han¬ 
dle about tour feet long; and its Its place was 
standing In the chimney corner, It was very liable 
to fall down upon the stone hearth with a noise 
like a homeopathic peal of thunder. This liabil¬ 
ity to talk and by Its metallic ring disturb the 
good wife and wake the baby, gave rise to the fol¬ 
lowing remark by one of our neighbors:—" There 
are three things 1 hate to hear—a woman scold, a 
child cry, and a peal fall.” 
In those times we did not have either pegs or 
nails In the soles of our feet, as we do now. In 
those times, too, t he celebrated Samuel Patch had 
not made the discovery that “ some things could 
be done as well as others," but eventually this 
doctrine came to light, and through a process of 
reasoning It was determined, that It pegs were 
good In the Ueol, they were also good lu the sole. 
This gave rise to the manufacture or pegs by the 
bushel as a distinct Industry, and It Is related of 
Queen Victoria, that when she first saw a bushel 
of them, she Inquired what kind of grain■ they 
were. Well, pegs In soles are uot. so had as they 
might be ; we can now go to ft cobbler and have 
them rasped oul, when t hey get driven In too far 
In the process or walking. Not so with that nail, 
m old times the sole was held to its plan while be¬ 
ing sewed by a steel " loch," which was afterwards 
pulled out and kept for tulure use ; but now It Is 
no uncommon thing topull off one’s boot, whether 
pegged or sewed, to see what the matter Is, and 
to find the sharp point of a nail sticking Into the 
middle of one’s foot. Such being my case at the 
present time, Is the cause of this article. 
To avoid pegs working into the flesh of my foot, 
I bought “ sewed boots” and the nail which I at 
among other things, careiuuy snuu an uuuae u.- 
cumstancee which are known to have a tendency 
to damp the fervor of love, or to extinguish t,ht3 
holy fire. Above all, avoid every sinful Indul¬ 
gence. Known, allowed sins of every kind, are 
as water to the fire. The love of Gob cannotllve 
in the heart where any sin is Indulged. The love 
of the world Is a common and Insidious toe. Ava¬ 
rice may be Indulged lu to a great extent, and 
yet no overt act committed which will alarm the 
conscience. We should remember that solemn 
warning, “ If any man love the world, the love 
or the Father Is not In him.” Detire or Che good 
opinion of meD, often leads even Christians to an 
undue conformity to the world. *• How can ye 
believe,” says our Lord, “who receive honor one 
from another?” 
The neglect, or careless performance, of the 
duties of the closet, cannot but have the effect of 
cooling the ardor of piety In the soul; especially 
the neglect of reading the word of God. Avoid, 
also, contention and strife, as exceedingly Inimi¬ 
cal to the peaceful spirit or piety. Every species 
of pride and valn-glory, tends to extinguish the 
holy fervorB of divine love. Ifl short, whatevei 
thought, leollng, desire, imagination, word, or 
action has a tendency to grieve the Holy Spirit, 
should be solicitously avoided. 
to keep ourselves In the love of God, we should 
often meditate on the superlative moral excellence 
of the divine character, as dUplayed m His works 
and word. The habit of associating the idea of 
God with every object or nature, is one of the 
happiest which can be formed. It b.lngs god 
near to us wherever we are, or whatever we may 
be doing. In all our blessings and enjoyments, 
we 9 hould gratefully acknowledge god as the 
Author, “ the Father of lights, from which com- 
eth down every good gift, and every 9, j:'. 
But nothing so powerfully affects the ltfitid 
Which has wu hill it t he prindplesof true piety, 
as a contemplation of the love orGO , )aaui..ni- 
fested In the gift of his only-begotten *®“ 
beloved Son, tu die on the cross tor ourj b» vatu n 
Nothing Is so powerful to excite leva «s the wej 
grounded persuasion ut the love of G 0 Dtous.Tm 8 
motive so frequently presented to the Mixtures 
should not he repudiated as , UI , 1 ^ r ^;? 4 en u j 
it Is a noble trait m any mind to b« Huscep ium 
of lively gratitude for benefits 
of true piety oo earth, and much Df the holy e\ei 
clses or heaven, consist u the °‘ 1 Jtj t n 
affection. “To Him who loved us, aud gave mn 
self for us, be honor and glory and P fike. * 111 ue 
the everlasting song of the redeemed. 
BOTANICAL ENIGMA 
I am composed of 38 letters: 
My 12, 7, 2, 3 , 9,15,1, 10 a plant whose leaves re¬ 
semble a lion's footprint. 
My 14,24,12,34 the empress of flowers. 
My 31, 32, 0 , 17, 20 , 26,30 the misanthrope’s flower. 
My 6 , 8 , 25,11, 36 a reliable florist. 
My 23, is, 35 a kind of fruit. 
My 36,18,4, 22 the queen of flowers. 
My 20, 21, 37. 9. 3 an unpleasant companion. 
My 28, 28, 20 , 14, 34 a plant much used for winter 
decorations. 
My 30, 10, 15, 31. 25. 38, 18, 2, 27 a noble American 
tree. 
My is, n, 36, 3 a delicate evergreen. 
My whole Is a beautiful passage of Scripture, 
car- Answer in two weeks. a. w. 
PYRAMID PUZZLE 
i.UU'1^1 a.i±KM. two 'UIMW V-Vi'.. 
about music, I will toll you my experience In the 
mustcalllne. 
I have a M abon & IT amlin organ and have taken 
about two and one-half terms of music lessons. I 
used Emerson’S Instruction book. The book 
called the “ Organ-ab-Hoiue” Is a nice book. The 
pieces are ail selected tor the organ and are very 
pretty. 
Will some of the cousins who have musical in¬ 
struments tell us about their experience V 
1 want to mention my Rockery, which I made 
last spring. 1 presume a great many of the cous¬ 
ins have made them, though none has told about 
WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA 
l. an imperfection. 2. A city of South Amer 
lea. 3. End of prayer. 4. Destitution. 
r*r- Answer in two weeks. Md. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.—Oct. 13 
Cross-word Enigma.— Lima. 
Transposition- 
In the garden of our Father. 
Where love’s flowers forever grow 
I shall find my happy darling. 
When 1 miss her here below. 
