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THE HERALD I ADVERTISINC RATES. ISAdvertisements inserted at the rate P L$1.0 per square-ne inch-for first inertion, at. EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, jcolumn advertisements ten perenfton above At N wbery C.I.,Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribute --IT THOS. F. ORENER,Zpcantcsi oa on.s .i ap er isne ts Editor andProprietor. e o ens ot k thh fr - Terms, $2.50.per ehwum, Invario~ablyin Advatince. '. - A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. es ; oa ge-u: The p aper is 2pped atethe expiration ofa M rkdenctes expiration of sub- Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1874. Terms Cash. THE DOWN HIL - [UG. A-story they tell of a lumn'?uan, Who slid down hill in 'rming pan. He steered himself wAe handle, of course And chuckled way al would to a horse. His legs, it is yfi were somewhat in thi way~ eo Ld h ther tight, if a body migh nded all right at the foot of the hill And for all that I know is sitting there still You smile at the story, and wonder hov folks Can get from their brains such a terribh hoax; Bat sliding down hill is many a man On a much worse thing than a warming pan Some are going down at full speed on theii pride: And others who on their stinginess slide; But the strangest way of taking that ride Is to go, as some do, on a jug astride. Beware of such coasting, or like Jack and Gill You'll make sorry work in gett ing down hil: Beware, for with what other evils you tug, 'Tis nothing like sliding down hill on a jug, LOVE,DRINK AND DEBT. Son of mine! the world before you Spreads a thousand secret snares Round the feet of every mortal .fo through life's long highway fares. The especial, let me warn you, Are by every traveler met; Three, to try your might of virtue JThey are Love and Drink and Debt. Love my boy, there's no escapin.-, 'Tis the common fate of men; Father had it; I have had it; But for love you had not been. Take your chances, but be cautious; Know a squab is not a dove; Be the upright man of honor; AII deceitdoth murder love. As for drink, avoid it wholly; Like an adder it will sting; Crash the earliest temptation, Handle not the dangerous thing. See the wrecks of men around us Once as fair and pure as you Mark the warning! Shun their pathway, And the hell they are tottering through. Yet though love be pure and gentle, . -And from drink you may be free, With a yearning heart I warn you 'Gainst the worst of all the three! uny a demon in his journey "2abyan's Christian Pilgrim met; They were lambs, e'en old Apollyon, To ihe awful demon Debt! With quaking heart and face abashed The wretched debtor goes; He starts 't shadows, lest they be The -.:.; s of men he owes. ])owL SileLt streets he fur ive steals, The face of man to shun, 6He'sfivers at the postman's ring, And fbars the dreadful dan. Beware of Debt! Once in, you'll be A slave forevermore; if csadiC tempt you, thunder "N'o!" ,&iidshow it to the door. Cold water and a crunst of bread -May be the best you'll get; Accept them like a man, and swear ."l'l never run in debt!" WHICH RULED? 'fcou.rse yOu will come to our '(edding, old fellow ? You and I have nlot gone through our Fresh and Sophomore years together, topart now. Just as ifmy taking wife was any difference in our 'endship! Why the only differ there will be is, that while now have only my friendship, you will then have that of the mosi beautiful woman in the world be. sides." Thus spake Ned Ashley, my -closest friend. We had entered col. lege- together a couple of hot head ed youths, forever getting intc scrapes, and as readily out of them, a n d throughout maintaining a friendship that knew no bounds. I'had said "that I never could see Ned married." It seemed to me then, that all the friendship between us must be lost when another should claim him foi- a follower, and thai other a woma But his argument at last prevail ed and I consented to be present al the wedding ceremony-nay more, not only to be .present but act as a groomsman. One thing sorely puzzled me, an~ that was the future of Ned's mar rined life. I knew him to posses! an indomitable will, and subject tC slight fits of temper ; and then knew, too, that he held the falses: -of false ideas that a man should rule in all things. We had often discussed the mat r of "wives subjecting themselves un ' ir husbands" and as mybe lief differed somewhat from his had now and then, a rather lively argument. "I tell you," said he, one day a the end of these, "the woman tha' I marry must obey me in all things I never could submit to other thai my own rule. Every man is, o0 should be at the head of his owi family. His word should at al times be law. Just imagine m' boy, that your wife-if you eve: have one-should take it into he: head to invite a large party o friends to your home against you wish, or rather without having con ted you in the matter, and tel truly, would you not assert you n-ty and forbid a like occur "It depends," said I, laughingly, for the fellow's earnestness amused me, "it depends on the quality of the metal of which my wife should be made. If she was one of your dove-eyed, moon-on the-lake sort of womaen, I suppose, like most men, I would ttke advantage of the situ ation; and issue my commands most royally, at the same time making 'dove eye' wretchedly miserable. "Then, on the other hand, if my wife should chance to belong to the eagle species, and possessed a will as strong as my own, and after I had issued my commands, should fly at me with distended claws and flashing eyes, I'd-" "What, tell me, what would you do then? "Strike an attitude, I suppose, and cry, 'Let us have peace" "Pshaw! too tame; you are quite too yielding a nature to marry. My advice to you is to remain single all the days of your life ;' saying which he was gone. Well, I went to the wedding of this matrimonial lion, and a gor geous affair it was. I learned after it was all over that it had been his wish to be married in a quiet manner; but his promised bride had set her heart on having a grand wedding, to which she could invite all her schoolday friends, and show to advantage her exquis ite beauty. "If ever a woman should look well, it ought to be on her wedding. day; and as to most women, this day comes but once in their lives. let me have my own way for the nonce," was the argument she used to win consent from the man who would always rule in matters be tween husband and wife. After their return from their wedding journey they went to house keeping; and, as I was a bachelor all forlorn, and out in the cold, and alone, since my friend had deserted me for this fairer portion of hu manity, they both agreed to turn "Good Samaritans," and take me in to sha - with them the comforts of a home. So behold me duly installed in one of the cosiest rooms that the house afforded. But do not expect, because you find me this morning sitting before a warm grate-fire, and inclined to be socia ble, that I am go.ing to tell you all the little ins and outs of my friends married life, simply because you have so good-naturedly asked me. There are certain things with which we of the outer world have -nothng to do i a the married life of our friends. I do not blame you, however, for wanting to know which of these two actually does rule. Not that it does to any great extent concern us, but Ned Ashley has so repeatedly avowed in our presence his determination to rule in all things that I will not hesitate to let you into a few of the secrets of a married despot's life ; and I think of no better way than by giving you a sort of diary of every day events. First, last Monday morning while we were seated at the table, Mrs. Ashley said: --Oh ! Ned, I want to go to the opera on Wednesday night, Kellogg is to sing in Faust, and I would not miss hearing her for anything." "But, my dear, you know it is the evening that we are to spend with Henry Lewes, and-" "Well, never mind, dear ; we can easily send him a note, asking t~ be excused. You know I have only heard Kellogg once, and Faust iE my favorite of all the operas." Tea time ! Mr. Ned Ashley walkf into the room, seats himself at his wife's side, and while one arm en circles her waist the other places in hers two tickets for the opera. Which? Thursdaynight, Mrs. Ashley; "oh: by the way, Ned, that odious Mr Thornton called here to-day to see about putting a new furnace in thE house ; he said that you had order ed it to be done. Well, I sent hin away by telling him that I did no want a furnace in the house-ani that there should be no furnaces in the house-and "But the deuce, Dora; I ordered him to do it, and picked it out, anc gave him part of the money down and-" "Yes, yes, my dear ; but then yo) know I never liked those horncd furnaces they always fill the housl with dust, and the dust gets int( -my throat, and then you know i will spoil my voice, and then I can' sing for you, and you know tha you can't get along without m:' -singig; and besides, I have alway had my heart set on a house heat ed with steam, and it's just too -too-ba-ad" (a few tears, whici Ned kissed away, of course, an< Iforbade any more to flow, then the: went out, andlI did not hear an; - more about it.) Tro weeks later ! With the es ception of my room this house of s the Ashleys is heated throughout't with steam, and even that has the e fixtures in it, if one should wish to v use them. Knowing -my decided I preference for a grate-fire, I have e been humored, and the grate has u been left. It all came about in such a quiet i manner, that neither Ned Ashley 1; nor myself knew that the thing was 1 actually going on, until one eve- 1 ning when we both came home to- 1 gether. Dora threw her arms t around his neck, as we stepped into y the hall to divest ourselves of hats t and coats, and asked: --If it wasn't 1 just splendid !" Then she asked l us into the parlor, and showed us C the elegant register, and so on r throughout the length and breadth a of the house, chattering like a mag pie the while. "You see, I never, never could endure the idea of that old furnace; so I just went down I to Mr. Thornton's and told him I that we had concluded to have steam instead, and that it must be I done at once. So he sent the very next day, and every night when e they went away Bridget and I cov- a cred up the holes in the floor with d some carpet, and so the thing was c all done without your knowing a i thing about it." And what did Ned Ashley say? s Did he swear? Did he rave and o tear about like one mad ? No, in- a deed, not he; he did a much wiser s thing. He stooped and kissed his S wife, and said: "It's just splendid!" S Which? t [From the Temper.-noe Advocate.] JOHN BELTON O'NEALL, The son of Hugh O'Neall and Anne Kelly, his wife, both of whom were members of the Society of Friends, on Bush River, Newberry t District, South Carolina, and con sequently was, by his birthright, a member. His ancestry, on both sides, were Irisb, his paternal great f grandfather belonging to the an cient house of O'Neall, of Shanes Castle, Antrim, Ireland. His ma ternal grandfather, Samuel Kelly, was of King's County, and his grandmother, Hannah Belton, was of Queen's County, Ireland, so that he may rank as a full-blooded Irish American. He was born on Wed nesday, 10th April, 179:3, about half a mile below Bobo's Mills, on Bush River. At his earliest recollection, his father removed to the mills, and there his b)oyhood was spent. He began to go to school when he wast five years old- Young O'NealI.learn ed rapidly, but his subsequent life satisfied him that he went to school at least two years too soon- An attack of nervous fever, when he was three years old, rendered his hand so un-t steady that he could never wvrite ar good hand, though taught by the best teach'ors of penmanship- The other children of his father were girls. They were all remarkable for talent- His eldest sister, Abi~ gail, wrent to school with him. anda learned more rapidly than he did. She married John Caldwell, Esq. His two next sisters were named Rebecca and Hannah. His yoo1ng e.4t sister, Sarah Ford O'Neall, is a member of the Society ofr Friends, (1850). In 1804, a Library Society was organized at Newberry, of whicht his father was a member. This afforded to young O'Neall an oppor tunity of reading- He recollected to his latest day the avidity with which he read the first books placed in his hands, among them the 'Pilgrim's Progress-" He continued to go to English schools, with slight interruption, until 1808. He was occasionally employed as a clerk in his father's store, where he learned to abhor the liquor traffic. He acquired great facility in memorizing promptly whatever was put in his hands. He committed to memory, in an hour, the 9th chapter of 2d Kings. In) May, 1808, he became a pupil of the Newberry Academy, under care of the Rev- John Foster- He pushed his young pupil forward much too rapidly:; by January he had him reading Vir-gil, without at all un derstanding it. In 1809, Charles Strong, of the class of 1808 of the South Carolina College, became his preceptor, and in the next year, young O'Neall became a thorough Latin scholar, and was sufliciently instructed in Greeki, and all the branches of English, to prepare him for the Junior Class in the South Carolina College. During. this time he acquired the habit of extempor-aneouis speaking, by prac ,tising to speak every night, after he had got his lesson for the next day, before his uncle and grand mother, with whom he boarded, at Springfield. In the year 1810 his father wan deprived of his reason,j - id this ketim homfefrom schl1 everal months, to endeavor to clos [p satisfactorily his deranged mer antile affairs. But it was all II 'ain. Bankruptcy came down upoi Lim. and hiv creditors nearly crush d every hope, by sueing him in hij Lfortunate -insane condition, and orcing his property to a sale, at ai amense sacrifice. Thus the fami y were turned out of doors, an Lad it not been f6r the kindness o: is father's bachelor brother, musi ave been left without a shelter foi heir heads. In February, 1811 oung O'Neall was allowed to entei he Junior Class of the South Caro ina College. In December, 1812 e graduated, with the second hon ,r of that institution. His diplo aa bears date 7th December, 1812 ,nd is signed by Jonathan Maxy . T. D. Pneses, Thos. Park, Ling 'rof., B. R. Moutgoincry, D. D. Ior. Phil. and Log. Prof., Georgin: 3lackburn, A. M., Math. and Astron rof.; and by Henry Middleton )overnor, and President of thi 3oard, and twenty-two Trustees. "'he expenses of his collegiate edu ation were paid. in part, by himself id the balance out of his fatheri ilapidated estate, by one of hi ommitteemen, and which waE ot allowed in his accounts. Hij ither (in 1813) recovered his rea on. and. in gathering up the wrecks f his fortune. succeeded in being ble to reimburse Mr. Caldwell sucl ums as lie had expended on his on's education. In 1813, for abou ix months. O'Neall taught in th Zewberry Academy. At the end o hat time he devoted himself to th tudy oi law, in the office of Johr "aldwell, Esq. At that time, An erson Crenshaw, Esq.. afterward 'udge Crenshaw, of Alabama, live( a the village. He gave younr YNeall free access to his library nd imparted to him much valuabli astruction. In a debating society hen existing at Newberry, O'Neal mproved his habit of extempora Leous speaking very much. In August, 1813, O'Neall per ormed his first military duty as : aember of the artillery company muder the command of Captain Mc .xeless. Under the orders fron he Governor, the militia was classi ted, and the first class (to whic) tis company belonged) was calle< ato State service, and marche< or camp at Alston, in Beaufor )istrict, near Pocotaligo. The; vere mustered into service, unde ommand of Col. Starling Tuckei )'Neall was appointed Judge Ad -ocate for the command, but wa ,llowed to remain as part of the a2 illery company. Returning home n May, 1814, he was admitted t he practice of law and equity. H inmediately entered into pflrtnei hip with John Caldwell, Esq., (wh vas Cashier of the Branch Bank c he State, at Columbia, and had re aoved to Columbia.) He opene< is office at Newberry, and fror he commencement was honore< iha large and lucrative practice In October of that year, a volur eer company of artillery was raise ~t Newberrv. and he was electe aptain. To ~this point in his lif ~e always referred as conferrin core pleasure and pride than an >ther. His first speech in equity wa nade at Laurens, before Chancello 3eSaussure, at the June term c .814, for Washington Equity Die ;et. His first law speech wa nade at Union Court House,in Oct< >er, 1814, in a malicious prosecutio ~ase. His first law speech, at Lat -ens, was in November. 1814, in d< 'ense of a poor fellow for stealing sheep, who was acquitted. Thes vere voluntary speechies, and le :he way to reputation and futui ~mploymnent. In October, 1816, he was retur1 A third out of four mnem'~ ers of tb Elouse of Representa~tives, fror \ewherry District. On the 2d December. 1816, t1 :legree of Master of Arts was coi Eerred on him by the South Car< lina College. On the 7th August, 1817. he wa elected Colonel of the 8th and 391 Regiments of Militia. In the December session of ti General Assembly of that year,]1 v'oted for the increase of Judge salaries. The consequence wa thiat at the election of 1818 an 1820, he was left at home. In 1816, he was appointed 1 Governor Pickens one of his aid with the rank of Lieutenant-Colon This appointment he resigned, consequence of his ele.ction Colonel. In December, 1817, he was ele< ed a Trustee of his Alma Matt the South Carolina College, ai filled that station over forty yeai On the 25th June, 1818, he me ried Helen, eldest daughter of Cal Sampson Pope and Sarah Strothe his wife, of Edgefield. Togeth~ they toiled through life, enjoyii much happiness, and, in the dea of all their children, drank the cup of sorrow to its dregs. In June 1820, his grandmother, Hannal t Kelly, died. By her will, she de - vised to him "Springfield." Thither in August of that year, he removed I In 1822 he was returned to th< L House of Representatives, and b: - successive biennial elections, he waE I returned, in 1824 and 1826. I E 1824 and 1826 he was elected Speaker of the House of Represen tatives, without opposition. During , the four years in which he held tha great office, there was only a singl< - appeal from his decisions, and ir that his decision was sustained. In February, 1823, he was elect - ed Brigadier-General of the 10th Brigade, 5th Division, South Caro lina Militia. On 20th August 1825, he was elected and commis sioned Major-General of the 5tli Division. On the 20th December, 1828 John Belton O'Neall was elected and commissioned as an AssociatE - Judge. He rode the Southern - Western and Middle Circuits, ir the fall of 1830, the (then) Easterr Circuit, but at Chesterfield waE taken dangerously sick. As soor as he could ride, his friend Dr Smith, of Socie,y Hill, removed him to his residence, and gave hin every attention, which was rapidl: restoring him, when the sad intel ligence reached him that two o Ms children were dead, and a thiri at the point of time. He did no resume his circuit. His friend r Judge Johnson, of the Court o Appeals, he'd the Courts fron Marion to the close. On the 1s December, 1830, Judge O'Neal was elected a Judge of the Cour of Appeals. With Johnson an< Harper, he encountered and per formed the labors of the Court o a Appeals-Herculean as they wer -until December, 1835. The Cour 1 of Appeals was then abolished, an< Johnson and Harper assigned t( Equity, and O'Neall to the Law. Ii - May, 1850, on the death of Judg i Richardson, he became Presiden of the Court of Law Appeals an< of the Court of Errors. In 1846 1 the degree of L. L. D. was confer - red on him at Columbia College i District of Columbia, and was re i peated a few years after, at Wak 1 Forest, North Carolina. t In May, 1847, he was electe, y- President of the Greenville an< r Columbia Railroad. . On the 31st December, 1832, t -save a friend, he abandoned th s use of spirituous liquors, and, i -June following, gave up the use c , tobacco. To these two causes L -> ascribed his health and ability t e perform more labor than most mer -He joined, soon after, the Head > Spring Temperance Society, Nev f berry District, of which he becam -President. He became a teetota: I1cr, and, in December, 1841, he wa 1 appointed President of the Stat 1 Temperance Society. In 1849 h .joined the Sons of Temperanc< .Butler Division, No 16, Newberra ] He was elected G. W. P. of th I Grand Division of South Carolim e October, 1850. In June, 1852, ai Sthe city of Richmond, Va., he wa y elected and installed M. W. P. c the Sons of Temperance of Nort s America. He attended, in 185 r and 1854, the annual meetings a f Chicago, Ill., and at St. John's, Ne' -Brunswick. Then he surrendere s his office to his successor, Samut a- L. Telby, of St. John's. In 1837 h a was elected President of the Nov tberry Baptist Bible Society. E :- was also President of the Bib] a Board of the Baptist State Conver e tion, and was. in July, 1858, el.ec di ed President of that Conventioi e and again in 1859. He was electe President of the Newberry Agr t- cultural Society in 1839, whic e office he probably held until ti a eid of his life. Judge O'Neall has written an e labored much for his fellow men. L- He wrote, in 1818, many articli >- on the increase of Judges' salar signed "Cato." In 1840, he wro s the "Drnkard's Looking Glass h and, afterwards, the "Wanderer with many other subsequent fug Le tive essays and letters, in the Tea e perance Advocate, the Newcbern s' Ri.sing Sun, the Greenville ratri< s, Patriot and Mountaineer and Sout d ern Enterprise. He wrote Remin: cences of the Revolution for t: >y the Southern Literary .Registe; s, Revolutionary Poetry for the Oric ci. and a sketch of Joseph M. Jenki: in for the Mlagnolia. He has delist ~s ed innumerable addresses on Tei perance, Education, Su.nday-Scho< ~t- and Railroads. He has pernmitt r, to be published an oration on Pt id lic Education, delivered before t s. Clariosophic Society of the Sou r Carolina College;_a.fourth of Ji >t. oration, in 1817, and another r, the 4th of July, 1827, on the des er of Jefferson ; another on Educati< ig before Erskine College, in 184 -h another on Female Education, MR. GILE'S 1101E. A "You have done the chores, Lven't you, wifet" said Mr. Giles, aing in one night about sun )IN11. ) V "No. dear, I had supper to get S td the baby was so cross." s "You haven't been setting sup b ,r all the afternoon, I hope."b "No ; I had some washing to do, n id the windows to clean, and pies bake, and-" "0, stop that, please. To hear a u talk one would think you had ' ore than your share of work. I'm re there is no man tries harder an I do to save his wife steps, a d this is all the thanks I get for a Don't go to contradicting me. b ive me the milk buckets; if I ask I u to milk, you will have a dozen h cuses. I want Katie to go with b e to keep the hogs off while I ilk." h Katie goes and her father keeps ,r three-quarters of an hour, and en tells her she can go and take i re of the baby while her mother tends to the milk. In about five C inutes Mr. Giles come in to su7 ,r. His wife is down in the cel h r. "Say, wife isn't supper ready ?" "In just a minute." I "Just a minute! Everything is mc in just a minute. Another e glit I suppose I will have to ,me in and get supper for myself, ter workirg hard all day. If you ied as hard as I do to make home easant, we would get along a great .al beter than we do. You are al Lys behind with everything, and en you grumble because you have C much to do. Well supper is ready last, is it? It is about time, I ink." They sit down to the table. "O Lord, we thank thee for this id all other blessings; feed us ith the bread of life and save us heaven. Amen. Is this the .st table cloth you have got ? It ? Why don't you buy another? in't got any money? what did >u do with the money you got for iose eggs ?" "Bought a hat for Katie." "Bought a hat for Katie, and me eeding I don't know how many rm implements ? I never knew ich extravagance in my life. It ould please me exceedingly if you 'ould consult me about such things ~ter this. I guess Ill go to bed, tst patch that rent in my coat ; ad, oh ! ITwore ahole in mysocks >-day. You must either mend or1 et me cut a clean pair. There is chicken in the barrel by the hen ouse ; I want that for my break est. Come children, come and kiss apa. Good-night and don't for et to say your prayers." WOMAN'S RIGHTS. The following are the opening mtences of an address on this sub. j ct by Mrs Skinner. Mrs. President, feller wimmen, ad male trash generally: I am< ere to-day for the purpose of dis issing woman's rights, recussing leir wrongs, and cussing the men. I believe both sex were created I erfectly equal and the woman a ttle more equal than the man. 1 also believe that the world -ould be happier to-day if man nev L' had existed. As a success, man is a failure, and 1 bless my siars that my mother 'as a woman? I not only maintain these princi les, but maintain a shirtless hus and besides. They say that man was cr3ated rst. Well s'pose he was. Ain't rst experiments always failures? 1 If I was a betting man I would et $2.50 they are. The only decent thing about him1 ras a rib that went to make some liing better. And then they throw into our ice about taking an apple. i'll set five dollars that Adam boosted ier up the tree and only gave her he core. And what did he do when he was ound out ? True to his masculine nstincts, he sneaked behind Eve's 3recian bend and said : "'Twasn't ne ; 'twas her ;" and woman has had :o father every mean thing and mo ;her it too. What we want is the ballot, and :he ballot we're bound to have, if we .et down our back hair aad~ swim in a. sea of sanguinary gore. A student undergoing his exami aation was asked what was the ac tion of disinfectants, and replied: "They smell so badly that the peo ple open the windows, and fresh air gets in." A wag, one evening, pulled down a turner's sign, and put it up over a lawyer's door ; in the morning it read, "All sorts of turning and uitng done here." 1848, at Anderson ; another on Pub lie Speaking, in 1851. He has published the Annals of Newberry. He gave the people of h: South Carolina a digest on the Ne- C< gro Law, in 1848, and, in 1859, pub lished his Bench and Bar of South Carolina. a1 IIODELS OF PRAYER. p( Wehavebeen interestedinlooking ar through the Scriptures for the par- to pose of comparing the prayers there in recorded with those which we hear y< from time to time in public, and we m are astonished to see how they differ s1 in point, expression, directness, and, th above all, in length, from those a heard in threse days in the christian it pulpit. It is not exaggeration to say that we have listened to a single y prayer longer than the whole ten e that we find in the Bible put to- m gether. The first is in Genesis m xxiv: 12-14, and cntairs one hun dred and ten words, and it is not h( more than one minute in length. tb The next is Exodus xxxiii: 12-15, c and contains one hundred and ai eleven words, and is not over a m minute long. The third is in Joshua p, vii: 7-9, and contains ninety words. la The fourth is in 2 Kings xix: 15-16, the prayer of Hezekiah: it is com posed of one hundred and thirty-four words, and two minutes would be d( amp4e time to repeat it. Another ni is found in Nehemiah i: 5-11, and c< is about two minutes in length; al another is in Ezra ix: 6-15, and is tr about three minutes long; another p is in 1 Kings viii: 23-61, an im- d portant dedicatory prayer, ofered by Solomon himself, at the dedica tion of the temple, and it did not s occupy more than six minutes; at while that of Daniel ix : 11-19, was t. probably four minutes long. In the New Testament, the prayer of our Saviour (John xvii) is well known it a, is contained in twenty-six verses,and w is five minutes long, while the mod- i] el prayer-the Lord's prayer-is b far briefer still. Now here are ten is prayers from those who certainly A knew how to pray, and they are all y less than thirty-five minutes long, t) or an average of three minutes each; and yet we sometimes hear men pray thirty and forty minutes, n and after wandering all over the ff moral universe and wearying their s fellow-worshippers with vain repeti- , tions, utterly fail of the prime oh- y ject of all public prayer-to lift up a the hearts of men to commune wth ji heaven. It must be an extraordi- a nary occasion, equal at least to the t ,dedication of the Jewish Temple g e at Jerusalem-an occasion that none a of us shall ever see-to justify a b prayer more than five minutes long. fi There are few "Oh's" and "Ah's" in p these models. These authors do not g e often say "0 Lord, Lord," but ten -derly, filially, directly, quietly, sim a ply, they ask the blessing they de e sire as though they were children e who knew that they were address- S ing One who was more willing to J' give them good gifts than they were to ask them at his hand. a (Gospel Banner.] h tWi:v Euts SHOULD NOT BE BOXED. t -In Physiology for Practical Use we find the following: "There are p things ver-y commonly done that li are extreme'y injurious to the tear, and ought to be carefully v avoided. And first children's ears e :1 1have seen that the passage of the I e ear is closed by a thin membrane, v ~ especially that adapted to be influ e enced by every impulse of the air, r e and with nothing but the air to sup- l: port it internally. *What, then, can b)e more likely to injure this mem- f br-ane than a sudden and forcible fi d .compression of the air in front of it ? If any one design to break or i outstretch the membrane he could escarcely devise a more efficient i meansthan to bring the hand sud- t denly and forcibly down upon the passage of the ear, thus driving the f sair violentip before it, withno possi- 1 bility for its escape but by the mem- I brane giving way. Many childreni are made deaf by boxes on the ear '.in this way." 'The sea is the largest of all ceme Y teries, and its slumberers sleep ~without monuments. All other h- graveyards, in all other lands, show s- some distinction between tbe great 1e and small, the rich and poor, but 'in the ocean cemetery the king and n, clown, the prince and peasant, are 28 alike undistinguished. The same r- wave rolls over all-the same re n2- quiem by the minstrels of the ocean 1ls is sung to their honor. Over their* ad remains the same storm beats and b)- the samre sun shines, and there, u bie marked, the weak and powerful, the th plumed and unhonored, will sleep 7y until awakened by the same trump. flh Five of the sweetest words in the m, English language begin with H, 2; which is only a breath: Heart, Hope, in Hme, Hanniness. and Heavenl. NIGHT IN A BARN WIT it WOLV.S. We find the following in t he Pis ataqua Obserrer. Silas Wood. a rue born Yankee, tells to "Ihe a juire," one winter evening, the Ies .ory of his wolf adventure in tockville, Vt. le had been hired y one Dea. Nathaus, to watch a ewly raised barn frame all night, fre ad while there a prowling wolf M we ,ented him and called together be pack of twenty or thirty to help sic ,t him up. Ie says: in "The varmints were now close d y, and just when I had given up uo 11 hope, I felt something touch on ;'in my head-it was a rope as ad been fast to one of the rafters. guess, 'Squire, if that ere rope th ad been a foot shorter, I'd not een here now tellin' this story? if he way I went up that rope, ic and over hand, was a caution. .Ud I'd barely swung myselfor. the w Ifter and began lashin' myself ou Ul the beam with a rope, when, s ,quire-it makes my blood ran old to tell it-the barn was alive 'ith wolves, yelpin,' leapiri' and illin' over each other. I could .u ear them routin' among the shav- rik igs; and in a minute they had hem all spread over the barn floor. a h1 hen they began to muzzle the a tr arth and scratch it up with their te aws. up At last one of 'em scented me, ud told the others with a yelp.- 4 ben of all the yells I ever heard! c -'Squire, I most swooned away ; co nd if I hadn't lashed myself o the rafter, I'd ha' fell right own among'em. Oh, such a yell never heard afore, and hope I'll ever bear agin ! Though I knowed they couldn't a ;et at me, it was dreadful to be an here in the dead of the night, with " pack of hungry wolves lickin' co heir slaverin' jaws, and thirstin' ta an or my blood. They ran round a ,ad round the barn, leaped onto to ach other's backs, and sprang in o the air; but it was no use; and f ,t last I began to get kinder ..osy .nd I looked down on the !vowlii' a armints and bantered them. Squire, you'd ha' thought they hi inderstood a feller. Every time hollered and shcok my fist at a hem, they yelped and jumped s ouder than ever. c For all this, I wasn't sorry when n" t began to grow a little lighter P Lnd about half an hour before lawn they begau to see it was no tu se Ise ; so they give me one long, hI oud farewell howl afore they went. But, 'Squire, the most curious e >art of the story is to come. Some hi ime after they went, it had grownh o light I could see 'em plain, andd o ugly set of beasts they was, mnd no mistake. Well, I noticed 4 mne wolf separate himself from A he pack and try to slink away.-i Ic bad his tail between his legs, i ust like a dog when be's beaten 01 nd had a cowed look, as if be wer-e us shamed and afraid alike. All at an mee be made a spring out of theti >arn, but the rest of the pack was .fter hinm like lightnin'. ''Squire,' continued the Yankee, e aying his hand upon my sleeve, you may believe it or not, jest as -ou ldease: but beyond some hide in mnd hair, they didn't leave a piece if that 'cre wvolf as big as my hand. Ie was a scout as give the signal e o the others, and they devoured p st: iim out of hunger and revenge, cause they couldn't get me.' co IXFIm:rIrv.-In fidelity i s an ~vil of short duration. "It has," Y7 s5 a judicious writer observes, "no ndividual subsistence given it tr he system of prophecy. It is not beast, but a mere putrid excres ~enee of the papal beast, which, bough it may diffuse death brough every vein of the body nr which it grew, yet shall diec along with it." Its enormities, as1 ve have lately seen in a neighbor. ng kingdom, will hasten its over throw. It is impossible that a n system, which by villifying every ' virtue and embracing the patron age of almost every vice and crime, wages n~ ar with all the order and. civilization of the world; which, i equal to the establishment of no thing, is ar-med only with the en ergies of destruction, can long re tain an ascendancy. It is in not shape formed for perpetuity. S3ud- 5 den in its rise, and impetuous in ~ its progress, it resembles a moun tain torrent which is loud, filthy, I and desolating; but, being fed by no perennial spring, is soon drain ed off, and disappears. By per- ~ mitting, to a certain extent, the V prevalence of infidelity, Provi- t dence is preparing new triumphs t for Religion.-R?. Hall. e This is the beginning of a Judge's f~ charge inI:>wa, recently: "Gentle- r men of the jury, you must now quit eating peanuts and attend to the 11E IABIT OF FRETTING. l'e.ting is both useless and un essary. It does no good, and reat deal of harm; yet it is al St a universal sin. More op s we are all given to it. We t over almost everything-in miner bccause it is too hot, in nter because it is too cold: We t when it rains because it is t, and when it does not rain -ause it is dry; when we are k, or when anybody else is sick ; short, if anything or everything "s not go just to suit our partic .r whims and fancies, we have o grand, general refuge-to fret r it. I am afraid fretting is * ch more common among women Ln among men. We may as 11 own the truth, my fair sisters, t is not altogether pleasant. rhaps it is because the little rries and cares and vexations of - daily life harass our sensitive -ves more than the more exten. e enterprises which generally :e the attention of men. Great .nts develop great resources: the little wants and wor. s are hardly provided for, and, e the nail .hat strikes against saw, they make not much of aark, but they turn the edgs ribly. I think that if we look )n all the little worries of one F as a great united wrong, self i(rol to meet it would be devel ,d. But as they generally no one or two little things at a le, they seem so very little that give way, and the great breach ee made in the wall soon grows ger. L don't believe in the cant that voman must always, under all d any circumstances, wear a iling face when her husband me home, or that she needs to ke her hands out of the dough, d drop the baby on the floor, run and meet him at the door. Lt I do believe-nay, I know, - I have seen it with my own es among my friends-that many voman has driven a kind hus nd away from her, away from 3 home and its sacred influences d caused him to spend his time a billiard-table or in a drinking loon, and their profare influen s,by ceaseless frettingover trifles 't worth a word much less the ace and happiness of a home. I know that many a mother~ has rned her son against her own x, and made him dread and dis :e the society of women, by her ample, constantly set before mn. I kaow that many a mother *s brought up and developed a ughter just like herself, who in r turn. would wreck and ruin the mfort of another fhmlly circle. 2d knowing all this, my sisters and brothers too, if they need -I know that we ought to set r faces like a flint against this eless, sinful, peace destroying d home disturbing habit of fret NEVER IRETRACT.-A distingnish editor was in his study. A long, thin, ghostly-visa~ged in. ridual was announced. With an asthmatic voice, bat a tone of stupid civility-for berwise the editor would assur ly transfixed him wvith a fiery ragraph the next morning-the -anger said: "Sir, your journal of yesterday ntained false information." "Impossible, sir ; but what do u allude to?" "You said t,hat Mr. M. had been "True." "Condemned." 'Very true." "I-ung." "Yes." "Now, sir, I am that gentle an." "impossible." "I assure you it is a fact. and w 1 hope you will contradict hat you have alleged." "By no means." "You are deranged." "I may be, sir, buttI will not take back." "I will complain to a magis -ate." "As you please, but I never re act. The most that I can do for ou is to announce that the rope roke, and that you are now in per act health. I have my principles ; never retract.'' A wealthy gentleman, who owns country seat, nearly lost his wife, rho fell into a river which flows nrough his estate. He announced 2e narrow escape to his friends, specting congratulations. One of iem-an old bachelor-wrote as >llows: "I always told you that ver was too shallow."