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The handsomest lot of BOX PAPERS, en tirely new patterns, selected with a view to please a cultivated taste. MNIUATUR.E BOXES, for little misses, only 20 ets. Just received at the ERALD BOCE STORE. Sep.18S, 3-tf. W. H. WALLACE, Atoruey-at-Law, -NFa51sRRT~ S. C~ SITTING .%ROUND. They were sitting around upon barrels and chairs, Discussing their own and their neighbor's affairs, And the look of content that is seen on each face Seems to say "I have found my appropriate place." Sitting around. In bar-rooms and groceries calmly they sit And serenely chew borrowed tobacco and spit, While the stories they tell and the jokes that they crack, Show their hearts have grown hard and un doubtedly black While siting around. The "sitter around" is a man of no means, And his face wouldn't pass for a quart of whi'e beans, Yet he somehow or other contrives to exist And is frequently seen with a drink in his fist While sitting around. The loungers they toil not nor yet do they spin, Unless it be yarns while enjoying their gin. They are people of leisure, yet often. 'tis true, They allude to the work they're intending to do While sitting around. They've a habit of talking of other men's wives As they whittle up sticks with their horn handled knives They're a scaly old set, and wherever you go You will find. them in groups or strung out in a row, Sitting around. -Detroit Free Press. TiLE BEST WIFE. -0 'The best little wife in thp world !' said Herbert Ainscourt. 'Of course-I dare say,' respond ed Mr. Portcross. 'But what's your exact idea of the best wife in the world ? Jones says he's got the best wife in the world, because she keeps his stockinp darned. takes him to church three times of a Sunday, and never lets him have an idea of his own. Jenkins says he's got the same identical article ; but .Jenkins' wife keeps all the money, draws his salary for him, and makes him live in the back kitchen because the pai' lr is too good,for the family use.' 'Obh! but Daisy isn't a bit ogre ish-a little,subm issive, soft-voiced ting, that hasn't an idea except what is reflected from me. I tell you what, old fellow, I'm master of my own house ; I come when I please, and go when I please. Daisy noter ventures on a word of reproach.' 'Then you ought to be ashamed of yourself, larking around at the clubs as you do, dissipated bache lor fashion ?' 'Ashamed ! w bat of ?' 'Why, I suppose you owe some duties to your wife ?' 'Where's the harm? My wife doesn't care.' '.Proba bly you think so because she is quiet and submissive; but if she were to object-' 'Object !'I'd liko to hear her try 'Now, look here, Ainscourt, your wife may be a model wife, but you ertainly are not a model husband. People are beginning to talk about the way you 'neglect t,hat pretty little blue-eyed girl.' 'i'll thank people to mind their own business. Neglect her, in deed ! Why, man, I love her as I love my own soul.' 'Then, why don't you treat her as if you did ?' 'Oh, come, Porteross, that ques tion shows whbat a regular old bach elor you are. It won't do to make too mueb of your wife, unless you want to spoil her.' Mr. Poitcross shook his head. That sounds selfish. I don't like the ring of that metal.' And he went away, leaving Mr. Ainscourt to finish his game of billiards at leisure. 'What a regular old fuss-budget Portross is," laughed the latter. 'Always poking his nose in to some body else's business. There's one comfort-I never pay any at tentionl to what he says.' Manwrhile Mrs. Ainscourt was sitting a:one in her drawing-room, her too little white hands locked tightly in one another, and her fair head slightly drooping-a del icate little apple blo;som of a wo man, with blue, wistful eyes and curly flaxen hair, looking more like a grown-up child than a wife of twenty.ene summers. 'Oh, dear!' siged Daisy. 'It is so dull here. I wish Herbert would come home. He never spends any time with me now-a days, and I practice all his favorite songs, and read the newspapers, so. I can talk about the things he's interested in, and try so tard to. be entertaining. It's very strange.' And then her oval face bright ened into sudden brilliance, and the sparkles stole into her eyes;: for the quick ear had detected her husband's footsteps on the stairs. The next moment he came in. -Well, pet, bow are you?' with a playful pinch of her cheek. Tbere are some bonbons for you. Where are my light gloves ' 'Oh, Herbert ! you are not going away again ?' '1 must, Daisy. There are a lot of fellows going to drive to High Bridge; and I'm one of the party. You can go over to my mother's for dinner,.or send for one of your friends, or something. There, good-bye, puss, I'm in a deuce of a hurrv.' - And with one careless kiss pressed on the quivering damask rose of a mouth that was lifted up to him, he wa-; gone. Daisy Ainscourt neither went to her mother-in-law, nor sent for I one of her girl friends. She spent the evening all alone, pondering on the shadow which was fast overgrowing her life. 'What shall I do ?' thought the little timid, shrinking wife. 'h, what shall I do ' But, child as she was, Daisy had a strong, resolute woman's heart within her, nor was she long in coming to a decision. 'Daisy,' said her husband to her the next day, 'you haven't any ob jections to my attending the Orion Bal Masque ?' 'Are masked - balls nice places, Herbert ?' 'Oh, yes, everybody goes ; only 1 thought I'd pay you the com pliment of asking you whether you disapproved or not.' 'Can I go with you ?' 'Well-abemn-not very well this time, -Daisy. You see Mrs. Pen phurch really hinted so strongly for me to take her, that I couldn't help it.' 'Very well,' assented Daisy, meekly, and Herbert repeated within himself the pman of praises he had chanted in Mr. Portcross's ear: 'The best little wife in the world I' But, notwithstsnding gl! this, Mr. Ainscourt was not exactly pleased, when at the self-same Bal Masque, during the gay period of unmasking, he saw his wife's in nocent face crowr'ing the pic turesque costume of a Bavarian peasant girl. 'Hallo!' he ejaculated, rather un graciously, 'youa here ?' 'Yes,' lisped Daisy, with a girl ish smile. ,'You said everybody went ! And, oh, Herbert, isn't it nice?' Mr. Ainscourt said nothing more, but Mrs. Fenchurch found him a very stupid companion for the remeind,r of the evening. He was late at dinn.er the next day ; but, late as he was, he found himself more punctual than his wife, and the solitary meal was half over before Mrs. Daisy tripped in, her cashmere shawI trailing over her shoulders, and her dim pled cheeks all pink with the fresh wind. 'Am I behind time ? Really, I am so, sorry ! But we have been drivin'g in the park, and-' 'We! Wno are we!' growled her husband. 'Why, Colonel Adair and I--the Colonel Adair that you go out with so much.' 'Now, look here, Daisy!I' ejacu lated Mr. Ainscourt, risig~g from the table and pushingAack his chair, 'Adair isn't exadtly thbe man 1 want you to drive vnith.' 'J3ut you go everywhere with bim!' 'I dare say- but you and 1 are two different persons.' 'Now, dear Herbert,' interposed Daisy, willfully misunderstanding him, 'you know I never was a bit proud, and the associates that are good enough for my husband are good enough for me. Let me give you a few more oysters.' Ainscourt looked sharply at his wife. Was she really in earnest, or was there a mocking under current of satire in her tone! But he could not decide, so art less was her countenance. 'I'll talk to her about it some tine,' was his internal decision. 'Daisy,' he said, carelessly,' when dinner was over, 'I've asked old Mrs. Barberry to come and spend the day with you to-morrow.' 'Oh, have you? I'm sorry, for I am engaged out to-morrow.' 'You! Where?' 'Oh, at Delmonico's. I've joined a Women's Rights Club, and we meet there to organize.' 'The deuce take women's rights!' ejaculated the irate husband. 'Or course I don't believe in them, but it's the fashion to be long to a club, and such a nice place to go evenings. I am dull bere evenings, Hferbert,' Herbert's heart smote him, but he answered resolutely: '1 beg you will give up this ridiculous idea. What do women want of clubs ?' 'What men do, I suppose.' 'But I don't approve of it at all.' 'You belong to three clubs, Her bert.' 'That's altogether a different matter.' -But why is it different?' 'Hem-why ? because--of coarse anybody can see why-it's self evident.' 'I must be very blind,' said Mrs. Ainscourt. demurely, 'but I con fess I can't discriminate the essen tial difference.' Herbert Ainseourt said no more, but he did not at all relish the hange that had lately come over he spirit ?f Daisy's dream. She did change, somehow. She went ~out dlriving, here, there, and everywhere. He never kneyw when he was certain of a quiet vening with her ; she joined not nly the club, but innumerable societies for a thousand and one :urposes, which took; her away rom home almost con tiualily. .idr. Ainscourt chafed against the bit ut it was useless. Daisy always ad an excuse to plead. Presently her mnoth er-in-law bore own upon her, an austere old ady in black satin and a chestnut rown wig. 'Daisy, you are making my son wretched.' 'A m I ?' cried Daisy. 'Dear me [ hadn't an idea of it! What's he trouble ?~ 'You must ask hinm yourself,' said the mother-in-law, who be ieved-sensible old lady.-in young arried people's settling their own ifficulties. 'All I know is the are fact.' So Daisy went home to the rawing-room, where Herbert lay n the sofa pretending to read, ut in reality brooding over his trou bles. 'What's the matter, Herbert ?' said Daisy, kneeling on the floor eside him, and p)utting her soft, ool hands on his fevered brow. 'The matter ? Nothing much, nly I[ am miserable,' he sullenly mswered. 'But why ?' she persisted. 'Because you are so changed, aisy.' 'How amn I changed ?' 'iou ar-e never at home iyou have lost the domesticity which as, in my -eyes, your greatest harm. I never have you to my self any more. Daisy, don't you ee how this is embittering my f?' 'Does it make you unhappy ?' he asked, sQftly. 'You know it does, Daisy.' 'And do you suppose I liked it, erbert ?' 'What do.fou mean !' he asked. 'I mean that. I passed the first "ear of my married life in just 3uch a lonesome way. You had o 'domesticity.' . lg bs, drives, inlniapaing and champagne suppers engrossed your whole time. I, your wife, pined at home alone.' 'But why didn't tell me you were unhappy?' ;Because you would have laugh ed at the idea, and called it a wo man's whim. I resolved, when we were first married, to fritter away neither time nor breath in idle complaints. I have not com. plained; I have simply followed your example. If it was not a good one, whose fault was that ? Not mine, surely.' 'No, Daisy, not yours.' '1 don't like this kind of life,' went on Daisy. 'It is a false ex-, citement-a hollow diversion ; but I persist in it for the same reason,! I suppose, that you did-because it was the fashion. Now tell me, Herbert, whether you prefer a fashionable wife, or Daisy ?' 'Daisy-a thousand times Daisy!' 'But Daisy can't get along with a theatre-going, club-living hus baud.' 'Then she shall have a husband who finds his greatest happiness at his own hearthstor 3-whose wife is his dearest treasure-wWo has tried the experience of surface and-finds it unsAtifactory. Daisy, shall we begin our matrimonial career anew?' And Daisy's whispered answer was, 'Yes.' 'But what must you have thought of me all this time ?' she asked him, after a little while. 'I know what I think now.' 'And what is that?' 'I think,' said Mr. Ainscourt, with emphasis, 'that you are the best wife in the world.' SAV&GE MODES OF PRAYER. The Sioux Indians abusing their Great Spirit for sending them storms, or the Kamschddals curs ing Kutka for having created the mountains so high and the streams so rapid, expose a state of thought relating to the gods which is most difficult to reconcile with the savage's habitual dread of them, but which is too well authenti cated to admit' of doubt. Franklin saw a Cree hunter tie offerings (a cotton handkerchief, looking glass, tin pan, some ribbon, and tobacco), to the value of twenty skins, 'round an image of the god Kepoochikan, at the same time praying to him in a kapid, mono tonous tone, to be pr'o.pitious, ex plaining to him the value of his presents, and strongly cautioning im against ingratitude. If ,all the prayers and presents made to their god by the Tabatians to ave their chiefs from dying prov ed in vain; his iriage was inex >rabjy banished from the temple nd destroyed. The Ostiaka of iberia, if thing iv ent badly with them, would pull down from theiri lace of honor in the but and in i very way maltreat the idols they enerally honored so much ; the i idols, whose mouths were always o dilige.ntly smeared with #sh , fat, and4 withi1~ hosp reach a e onstant supply of snuff lay al- r ays ready. The Chinese are aid to do the same by their ousehold gods, if for a long time t tey are deaf to their prayers, e nd so do the Chinghalese ,so that t the practice is more than an im- e ulsive manifestation of merely t ocal feeling. Some Algonkin Indians, mis- a aking once a missionary for a e od, and petitioning his mercy, e egged him to let the earth yield e ,em coro, the rivers fish, and to yrevent sickness from slaying or c unger from tormenting them. a heir request they backed with r he offer of a pipe. The whole of L hc savage's philosophy of sacri fce is contained in this ridiculous ncident. Prescott coming with ome Indians to a lake they were r o cross, saw his companiodflight n heir pipes and smoke by way of v nvoking the winds to be calm. y And the Hurons offered a similar rayer with tobacco to a local od, saying, "Oki, thou who livest l< n this spot, we offer thee to- h acco. Help us, save Us fpona p ~hipu reck. Defend us from our r~ nemies. -Give unegood trade ad ADVERTISING RATE& Advertisements tserted at the r* 4 S1.OO per square (one inch) for first iaseOa, and 75 cents for each subsequent iniaIQ. - Double column advertisements ten per cent. on above.. Notices of meetings,obituaries andtriba e of respect, same rates per square as advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in all forbid,, and charged nccordingly. Special contracLs nde with large ader tisers, with liberal deductionson aboverazes JOB PRIKTW DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATC TERMS CASH. HOW TO BE A GENTLEDAr Do not betray the confidene any one. Never laugh at the misfortu of others. Never give a promise that y do not intend to fulfill. Never give a present. hopI for one irn return. Never faii to be punctual at time appointed. Never make yourself th of your own story. Never pick the teethor the nails in company. Never fail to give a polite swer to a civil question. Never question . a serian child about family matte-rm' Never presOnt,a gift sayi of no use to yourself. Never read letters whic may find addressed to others, I Never call attention to..' tures or form of any one Never refer to a gift Ton made or a favor you have ed. Never associate with pany. Have -good com j none. - Never appear to rotice deformity or defect. of any present. Never look over the h of' another who is readiing or" ing. Never call a new acquain by the first name, unless ed to do so. IN ever answer questionsi' eral company, but have then to others. Never pass between tw j sons who are talking without an apology. Never lend anarieyo - borrowed, unless yihv mission to do so. Never fail to tell the trath. truthful;you get you reward. will get your punishment i f deceive, - Never enter the room noil never fail to close the door i you, and never slam it, Never enter a room idled w people without a slightboA the general comipiny whe entering. Never fail to answ.orinda tion either personally or by!~ witbin- a week after the invitat is received, Never accept favors or hos talities without rendering an change of civilities.when,op tiunity offers. Never borrow moneyan lect to pay. If you do you soon be known as aperson of business integrity. Never cross the leg or put one foot over the other in the a car or places whei e it will troul. others in passing by. Never refuse to receive an pk ogy. You may not receive fria ship, but courtesy will = when an apology is -offeredy accept it, Never examine the cards. in card basket. While they may exposed in the drawing ro~' you are not expected to tur them over unless invited todZ so. . Never, when walking arm i~ arm with a young lady, beseon... tinnally changing and going roun > to the other side, because 7of' change of corners. It shows much attention to form. Two ladies met on the stre and one inquiredof the ote-j "Why, you look very happy ti ~ morning. Whit's -happened ?~ "Oh, I've just been up having ~ fortune told," was the reply,'4, the woman says I'm tomar twice more, have diamonds anda~, camel's hair sbawl, and that I can go to the opera six nights ~n > week, if I want toi." "Darnm. -E bring us safe back to our villages." In the island of Tanua, the village priest, addressing the spirits of departed chiefs (thought to pre side over the growth of yams and fruits), after the first fruits of veg etation had b6en deposited on a stone, on the branch of a tree, or on a rude altar of sticks, would pray, "Coin passionate father, here is some food ; eat it and be kind to us on account of it ;" and in Samoa too, a libation of ava at the evening meal was the offering, in return for which the father of a family would beg of the gods health and prosperity, productive ness for his plantations, and for his tribe generally a strong afid large population for war. In Fiji, again, when the chief priests and leading men assembled to discuss pablic affairs in the yaquona or ka va circle, the chief herald, as the water was poured into the kava, af ter naming the gods for whom the libation was prepared, would say, "Be gracious, ye lords, the gods, that the rain may cease, 4nd the sun shice fortb ;" nd again~when the portion was ready, "Let the gods be of a gracious mind, and send a wind from the east." HINTS TO THOSE CALLING UPON THE SICK. 1. Only call at the door, unless you are sure your friend is able to see you without barm. 2. Enter- aid leave the house, and mov- about the room, quietly. 3, Carry a cheerful face ; and speak cheerful words. 4. In order to cheer, you need tell,no lies. 5. If your friend is very sick, do not fall into gay and careless talk in the attempt to be oheerful, 6. Don't ask questions, and thus 4blige your friend to talk. 7. Talk about something out side, and not about the disease and 3ircumstances of the patient. 8. Tell the news, bt not the list f the sick- and dying. 9. If possible, egrry something with you to please the eye and 'elieve the monotony of the sick 'oom, a flower. or even a picture wvhich you can loan for a few lays. 10. If desirable, some litd1e del cacy to tempt the appetite will be wvell b@stowed. 11. The perfume of some flow ~rs is poisonous, and they should 1ever be carried into the sick 'oom. IEspecially is this true of he tuberose, oleander, heliotrope, iyacinth, orange and 1ilac, syringa wd lilies. 12. Stay only a*.moment, or a ~ew minntes at the longest, anless rou can be of some help. Billings -has turned w'eather pro. >het. Witness the following: When roosters are observed be ore daylite in the morning, sore ng amung the klouds, and utter ng lamentashuns, then look out or sum sudden weather. When you see 13 geese, walkin njun file, and toeipg ii, ya kan [elibegely bet yure last survi ing dollar on a hard winter, and great fluctuousness during the iext season in the price of cow tide- boots. When spiders are seeo elimbing Lp the wall backwards, and frogs ough az tho they had the hick ps, look out fur rain i this iz also sure sign that children will have he measles light. If bees hang around their hives, nd mules are seen in a brown tudy, a storm ov sum kind is ooking, and yu will notis the market for herrings is very shifty. Jis before a heavy snow storm, v 3 foot deep, chimbly swallows re uncommon skarse, and in the ioral world there iz a great lazi ess in the agitasbun ov the temn erance question. If~ pigs squegl in the night, and 'rasshoppers cum oph ov their oost, and mingle in free fight, yu iay hope for high winds in a few reeks, and also the typhus fever in ur naborhood. "Isn't my peotograph excel mnt," said a yo'ung wife t'o her usband, "Well, my dear," re lied he, "thereW a little too much >pose about the month for ttI