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A Family Compnion, evoted to Literature, iscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 6,1874. No.18. THE HERALD! IS PUDLISnED EVERY WEDNESDAY M0l1NG) At Newberry C. 11-9 BYTH09. F. GRENEKRP Terints, 1 Z5 Per 4144 111114,y I.; triably iu A(Ivance Y'The pap.er is stopped at the expinttio2 Ot, limi- for which it is paid. Z?,~ Tht: ,.<inark dpDotes expiration of sub ttption. THIERE IS XK0 DEATH. BY E. U LWER LYTTO' . There is no de'.th! The Stars go down To rise upon some fairer sbore; And bright in heaven's jeweled crown They Ah ite for eve-. more. ~re is no deatii! The dust we tread ,%^all change b,_neath the summer show N-- ers, To golden grain or mellu%v fruit, Or rainbow-tinted flowers. The granite rocks disorganize To feed the hungry moss they bear; from out the -ri(wle-cs air. Thereiis no death! The leaves may fall, .The fir-wers way fade and pass awuy; They only wait through wintry hours, 1U~ coming of the May Thais no death! An angel form Walks o'er the earth with silent tread; He bears our best beloved things away, And then we call them "dead." He;,leaves'our bearts all desolate, N& Tuks'our faires4r, sweetest flowers; Transplanted into bliss they now '-Adorn immortal bowers. The bird-like Toice: whose joyous tone, 3Wde glad theie seenes of sin and strife, sings uo%v an verlasting song, Amid the tre of life. And where he sees a ,mile too bright, Or heart too pure for taint and vice, He bears it to that world of ig ht, To dwell int Paradise. "1 tell you, Lucy, we can't go on in this way, that's certain. Some. thing must be done. Why don't they get marriedf' But that was a useless question, for this was a New England State, and there were several thousand more women than men, and as one man was allowed only one wife, it was quite impossible that all could be provided with a husband. "Dear me, Solomon," said the lit tle wife, smiling humorously. "You forget that this isu't Utah-that there is actually no one to whom we may. seal the darlings ; that you, yourself, would quite disapprove of their going husband-hunting." Now, while Solomon had been talking thus complainingly and confidentially, to his wife, his five unappreciated daughters had been listening from the next room. "The old bear," cried Matilda, the oldest, under her breath. "Poor papa," said Lucy, the youngest, her blue eyes full of tears. "Poor papa, indeed," snapped out the second sister. "I do believe he begrudges us the bird's allowance which we eat." "Bird's allowance! Josephine, I'm sure there isn't a heartier family of girls in this country 'than ours. No Canary's portion would do for me-of that I'm sure! I do think it a shame. that five great girls, able to work as we are, should de pend upon one little, old broken down man for their support. Come now, 'Tilda, isn't it ridiculous? Dor.'t you think that we might do toething?" "Tm sure," Matilda said, "that I've been trying just the best that I knew how. You know I bought the machine, and then-then- " "Well," Lucy said, laughing, "poor papa had to make the pay. ments on it." "I'm sure I couldn't help that, because I had expected to get plen ty of sewing to do, and sewing you see "Is a drug in the market. No 'Tilda, and Josephine, and Sarah, and Flora, all of those pretty, tra ditional ways of a woman turning an honest penny are out of date. I've been thinking all this over, and I've made up my mind. Come girls will you stand by me ? Have you the courage to lay aside your dain ty slippers, to encase your feet in heavy shoes, to let the sun kiss brown freckles on your face, in fact -to wear a bloomer?" "A bloomer," the four cried to gether. "Yes, my dears, for of course the work, that I have laid out for us tc do, couldn't be done in trains. I have been thinking that we had bet ter take Jacob Sloam's farm for a year," and Miss Lucy as she spokE opened her pocket knife and com menced whittling a bit-of stick in true Yankee style. "Jacob Sloam's farm !" they cried aghast. "Yes, dears, I was over talkina to Jacob yesterday, and he's quite delighted that we should hav4 thought of miaking the experiment He is sure, he says, that it will bi a success. Only think girls, hou nice it would be, if we could hell the old father now, after all of th< trouble he has had with us ! Ani what a triumph, too, if we couk4 1prove to him, that girls are a bless ing, at least; if not exactly that still worth being born. What sa; you? Will you p)ut your names t< the contract. Come now, don't b cowardly, or try to find excuses fa shirking a duty. Jacob never ha< fie more able-bodied people thal we are." "What will the world say ? An< then, dear Lucy, you have had al offer you know. Will Frank Lan' ler be satisfied that his future wif *should engage in an unladylike o< cupation ?" "If he is dissatisfied that a w< man should do what she may d well, I'm very glad to ha-ve an 0] portunity of learning it before I'r Mrs. Frank Lawler, instead of Luc Brown. If I have girls, you ma rest assured that they shall be sel Isupporting, -quite independent < outside help towards gaining livelihood. If they have a talent fc music above the ordinary posse sion, they may become teachers; not, they will not spend four how a day, in useless beating of the: white, helpless fingers against son ill used piano keys. If they al greatly gifted with superior intel gence they may go into the profE siois, if not, they will learn trad -I don't mean milliners and dres makers, and so on-but nice litt light trades, like watchmaking, a engraving, and drafting and, i ftdeed, heavier ones, if they have t] muscle. We all have muscle. The is no excuse that we should remas idle. The world is full of woi [. and I can't understand why'-a eioetcligsol euwm ly oe girstcls, sole uwoand he ran em 1st na en and si: the contract, which binds us to work old Jacob's farm." --Dear me, Solomon," said the wife Lucy, in the. evening, "you could never guess what those girls have done." "Perhaps purchased each a new silk," growled Solomon, without lifting hi:; eyes from his paper. "No, indeed, not," cried the wife indignantly. "They've rented Ja cob Sloam's farm-eighty acres, and twenty of it in fruit." "What," cried Solomon, the papei falling helplessly at his feet. "You don't surely mean our girls, not Matilda, and Josephine, and Sarah, and Flora, and Lucy ?" "I mean no one else's girls sure ly," the wife replied, a little cross ly. "They take possession in the morning. Jacob Sloam is to find everything, and they are to have one-half." "I just tell you, Lucy, what it is. This is the most consummate peace of humbug I ever heard of. It will be a dead failure? and they'll make themselves the laughing stock of the neighborhood. Farming, indeed 1 Why 'Tilda is that afraid of her hand that she never sweeps even, without gloves; and Flora wraps her head in a towel to dust. 've seen Josephine do the breakfast things with the dish rag clinging to a fork, and Sarah wraps her fingers with a bit of cloth, each one separ ately if she has the vegetables to prepare. Brave farmers they will make !" And Solomon Brown went back to his paper with a scornful chuckle. Solomon, too, was some of a fogy. Women were women, and women they must remain to the end of the chapter. A great pity, he had often said, that i' was so. but nature could not be tortured out of her old, well worn channels by education. Eve, he considered, as having been a vi cious sort of little body, bending poor Adam's nose down close to the grindstone, and there her daugh ter's had relentlessly held it,through all of the long years since that first tragedy. Solomon believed in progession. He thought that the sciences might be better understood, that new dis coveries were to be made; that the Atlantic would be crossed in a bal loon ; but Solomon's radicalism didn't include the possibilities of the coming woman. She was to be what she had been from the begin ning. So he pooh-poohed at his daughter's farming, not believing that any good thing should come out of Nazareth. It was an up hill road to those five dainty daughters of Solomon Brown's. But in one thing they resembled their father. They were obstinate, anil when they learned his prediction as to their failure, they were quite determined not to fail. They were up early and worked late. Their strawberries were a success. They gave employment tc a number of girls in the village ir gathering their small fruits, thus re cognizing the true policy, that wo men must help each other. They kept one hired man, and under his in structions these young ladies learn ed to turn aready hand to all kini~ Sof farm labor. SOld Solomon Brown's "pooh poos!" grew less emphatic and h< began to speak with a sort of shame Sfaced pride of "Our girls' place." Then when the fame of these wo men farmers had traveled far, an< people came from a distance to in rspect personally their success, Solc mon began to feel proud in saying "Yes, sir, they are my girls." "Your girls are all boys then'? said one smiling, quoting Rip Val 'Winkle. "Just as good as boys," sai' Solomon Brown blushing, at th Sretraction of old sentiments. Bu theories must fall before convictionm and well filled wheat, fine potatoel 0good corn, etc., were more convii ing to Solomon of his daughter worth, than volumes favoring tl> "Subjection of Woman." Solomon Brown's daughters sti hold Jacob Sloam's farm. Luc the youngest, is married to Fran Lawler, but instead of her goin Shome to him, as is the manner< Sthe world, he came home to her. ifnder the homestead laws a w' man that isn't at the head of a fanm l-that is a widow-cannot pr empt land. If this was not i case, I do believe, that one of Soli -mon Brown's girls would go wel Sand take up a piece of land. As is, they are all going in the sprin '-and Solomon will enter a hiundre leand sixty acres in his own nam dwhich in reality will belong to h n- daughters, as it will be purchas< ae with the profits of their farmii re Soam's land. 11Josh Billings says: There a S two things in the world that a y nQt safe to trifle with ; "A womar .i- opinion and the'business end of ~n wasp. ACTS PASSED AT TaE RE CENT SESSION OF THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY. AN ACT TO AIEND CHAPTER xLV, OF TITLE II, PART I, OF THE GENEIAL STATUTES, RELATING TO THE REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES. Be it enacted by the Senate and Eouse of Representatives of the sLte of South Carolina, now me: Lnd sitting in GEneral Assembly. and by the authority of the same: SEC. 1. That Chapter XLV, of 'itle II, Part I, of the General Statutes, be, and the same -is here by, repealed, and the following sub stituted as such chapter: SEC. 2. The County Commission ers of the several counties of this State shall divide their respective counties into highway districts, each district to contain not less than two miles of public highways, nor more than thirty miles, to be convenient for repairing highways, and from time to time to alter the same. SEC. 3. That for the purpose of keeping in repair highways, the County Commissioners of each county shall divide the persons lia ble to road duty in each highway district into convenient companies, and appoint an overseer of roads in each highway district, vhose daty it shall be to have the persons be fore named warned out to work the said roads whenever he may deem it necessary to repair the same. He shall determine the number of days for working at each warning: Pro vided, That not more than six days are required in a year. When the Commissioner having oversight of such sections gives orders to the overseer to work the road, and he neglects to do the same, he shall be I guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in a Trial Jus tice's Court, shall be fined in a sum not less than five nor more than ten dollars. SEC. 4. Any person liable to road duty, who shall have been duly warned two days before the day fix ed in his notice for such working, stating the hour and place of work ing, shallibe subject to the direc tion of the overseer in charge. If any person-of the legal age refuse to work upon the highways and roads (having no justifiable excuse), according to the direction of the overseer, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con viction thereof in a Trial Justice's Court shall be fined in a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than ten dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than five nor more than twenty days. SEc. 5. That on any extraordi nary occasion, when ar.y highway shall be suddenly obstructed by storm or otherwise, so as to require immediate labor to remove such ob struction, it shall be the duty of the overseer in whose district such obstruction occurs to proceed forth with to have such obstruction re moved, and for this purpose shall summon to his aid a sufficient num ber of workmen to open and repair such highway. If any person shall in such case perform more days' la bor than is required by law for the year, he shall be paid for any such overplus at the rate of one dollar per day by the County Commission ers, upon the certificate of the overseer showing that such over plus labor was performed. If on any such extraordinary occasion the overseer shall, for the space of a day, after application made to him for such purpose by any citizen re siding in his district, neglect to call out a sufficient number of persons tospeedily open and repair such highway, he shall forfeit and pay tc the County Commissiours of hih county, to be expended in.the re pair of* highways when and where necessary in his district, the sum o: fifteen ($15) dollars, unless the over seer shall show sufficient reason fo: such neglect; the said fifteen dol lars to be collected by an action foi debt in the name of such Count: Commissioners as plaintiffs befor< any Trial Justice in said county. If on any such extraordinary occa sion any person liable to work o1 highways, after being summone< for the purpose of removing snel eobstructions by the order of th< overseer, shall neglect to turn ou and assist in opening and repairini tsuch highway, he shall be guilty o a misdemeanor, and, upon convic tion thereof in any Trial Justice' Court, shall be fined three dollar perI day, said fine to be collecte< and expended as hereinbefore pro gvided in the matter of forfeiture c overseers. SEc. 6. If any-person receive bof Sily injury or damage in his perso: aor property, through a defect in th ..e,ai. of a highway, causeway c bridge, he may recover in actioi against the county the amount o damages fixed by the finding of 2 jury. If such defect in any road causeway or bridge existed befor such injury or damage occurred such damage shallnot be recoverei by the person so injured. if his loac excee.ded the ordinary weight of th< 'ounty when such injury or damag( )ccurred. SEC. 7. If, before the commence nent of an actiou provided for ir he foregoing section, the Countk 3ommissioners tender to the plain iff the amount which he might b( entitled to recover, together witl all legal costs, and the plaintiff re fuse to accept the same, and doei not recover upon subsequent trial i sum larger than the amount so ten dered, the defendant shall recovei costs, and the plaintiff be entitlec to the results of no verdict. If thf Commissioners of any county neg lect to have repaired any of th< highways and bridges which by la are required to be kept in repair shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction there of shall be fined in a sum not les. than one hundred nor more thai five hundred dollars, in the discre .tion of the Court. The Count3 Comni*issioners shall authorize th< overseer of any district to'allow i mian working one day, and also fur nishing a horse, plough or cart, tw< days' labor; and one working him self for one day,- furnishing a wagoi and two horses, mules or oxen, threi days'labor. SEC. 8. All able-bodied male per sons between the ages of eighteei and forty-five years shall be liabli annually to work on the publi highways and roads not less tha3 three nor more than six days, unde the direction of the overseer of th district in which they may resid In warning men to work upon th public roads, the overseer shaJ make out a list for the warner, rE quiring him to give to each persoi the kind of tool he shall use ii working upon the highways an roads. SEc. 9. That if any person,- has ing. been.notifiedmo warne.d,as herE inbefore provided, shall pay to th County Treasurer of the county i which he mayreside the sum of on dollar per day for each day's wor. required, the same shall be receive< in lieu of such labor, and shall b applied by the Commnissioners c such county to the construction ani repair of the highways in the die tricts to which they belong. SEC. 10. The overseers in thei respective districts shall have fu] power to cut down and make use c any timber, wood, earth or stone il or near the road, bridges or cause way, for the purpose of repairina the same, as -to them shall seem ne cessary, making just compensatio: therefor, should the same be de manded. Overseers' shall not at thorize the cutting down of an, timber trees reserved by the owne in clearing his land, or planted fo the purpose of shade or ornamneni either in the fields around tb springs, or about the dwellin houses, or appurtenances, nor th cutting of any rail timber, whe other timber may be procured, e or near the place, or take stone < earth from within the grounds< any person enclosed for cultivatioi without the consent of the owner< the same. If -any persons shall t any means hinder, forbid or oppo the said overseers, or either of ther from cutting down and making ui of any timber, wood, stone or earl in any or near said roads or .caus ways, for slight repairs of bridge for the purpose of making~or i pairing the same, or shall in ai manner obstruct the passage said road, causeway or bridges 1 gates, ditches, or any other obstri tions, except where authorited 1 law, or shall hinder, forbid or threr en any traveler from traveling al public road, and every person f such offense shall be deemed guil of a misdemeanor, and upon cc viction thereof ing.. Trial Justic< Court, shall be fined in a sum n less than five nor more than ten d ,lars. SEC. 11. If any person liable -perform such labor shall remo from one county to another, w Sprior to such removal perform the whole, or any part of it, or any other way has paid the who or any part of the amount aforest in lieu of such labor, and s,~lp: duce a certificate or reei of f Isame from the overseer of the d trict from which such persons hi removed, such certificate or rece' shall operate as a complete dischai for the amount therein specific The residence of any person w has a family shall be held to where his family resides, and i residence of any other person sh be held to be where he boal ein any couty of tisState. r m. 12. That the Connty Cc L missioners in this S t a t e ar F hereby authorized and empowere, to have special supe.vision of th building of new bridges over th rivers and creeks of this State; ala of extra and expensive repairs c old bridges. When such work i to be accomplished, the CommiE sioners shall give fifteen days' nc tice in the county paper and i writing, duly posted in the neigh borhood in which such is to b performned, giving notice that th Commissioners of the section ii which such work is to be perforiue< will be at such a place on such day and hour, with suitable specif6 cations, to let out such work to th lowest bidder, and to take from thi 6 successful bidder sufficient bon for the faithful performance of hi duty. When the work is done, i shall be inspected by the Commif sioner letting it out, whose duty i shall be to report the results of hi investigation to the full board, wh shall accept or reject the same a< cordingly as, they may determin whether or not the constructor ha or has not complied with the term of his contract. If any bridge ove L waters of this State which const tute a boundary line between coux ties shall be necessary to be ereci ed or repaired, it shall be the. du Sty of the commission -rs of sue: counties to cause the same to b erect-.d or repaired in the mar ner aforesaid, each county bearin i an equal share of the expense iz 'curred. And when any such bridg 1alrea4y exists or shall hereafter b - built, it shall be the duty of sai i Commissioners to divide the sam a by measurement from the centr4 a and each board shali be responsib] i for the good condition of the ha e next adjoining the county in whic a they exercise the functions-of offic And when it becomes necessary I build a new bridge, or to entire] 1 replace an old one which has bee - carried away or destroyed, it sha i be the duty of the boards of the tW i counties to do the same as afori I said. SEC. 13. That all Acts or par Sof Acts inconsistent with this A< -be, and the same are hereby, repea 3ed i Approved March 19, A. D. 187, A BSENT-MINDEDNESS A N.] MIENTAL POWER. SIt is worthy of notice that growt of the mind is often accompanie Sby an apparent loss of power in pa 7ticular respects: and this fact ise: ceedingly important, especially 1 Fall who desire to estimate the col Idition of thcre own mind. TI mental phenomenon eglled (not veri 1correctly) absence of mind is ofte regarded by the person experiencin it, and still more by those who ol serve it in him as a proof of failin 1powers. But it often, if not gene: ally -accompanies the increase< Lmental power. Newton displaye I absence of mind much more frequen r ly, and to a much more marked d r gree, .when his powers. were their highest than in his youth, an e not only did instances becorr Smuch less frequent when he was e an advanced age, but the opposii "quality, sensitiveness to small a' noyance, began then to be displa; r ed. Even an apparent impairmel of the memory is not necessari ,indieative of failing mental power since it is often the result of '4 increased concentration of the a e tention on subjects specially callir for the exercise of the highest fori e of mental power as analysis, cor hparison, generalization, and jud ment. I have alreadynoted that pr , found thinkers often refrain frc exercising the memory, simply y avoid the distraction of t h e thoughts from the main subject ytheir study. But this stateme c-may be extended into the genei yremark that the most profoui students whether of physical scien< imathematics, history, politics, or in fine, of any difficult subject y research, are apt to give the men n- ry less exercise than shallow thir ers. Of course, the memory is< t erted to a considerable degree, ev~ ot in the marshaling of thoughts 1 >fore the theories can be formed weighed. But the greater part to the mental action devoted to I eformation or discussion of theor vei nyindirectly dependent up bthe exercise of memory. in A GiRL THAT BETs TOWs. le, John Fishback, proprietor of the. .'dianapolis Sentinel, wagered one hi ad dred dollars with a young lady ni< ~O- that she couldn't "hold her tongu he for a week. The young lady veryi is- expectedly "took him up," and un] eshe speaks within the next two hol ,t (it is now 4 o'clock P. M.) Mr. Fi ptback will have the one hundred dC ge lars to pay. During the week,:he1 x. escorted her to the opera, and ahthou ho he has done his best to get her espeak, and hired other memibers of i befamily to "trap" her, yet she has he sisted all their efforts. On Thurst all last the journalist offered to comp 'd mise the matter, and give lier.fi dollars, but the proposition.was saa m. n. l ;reece e RtEASNING IN A HARE. e The following circumstance was e related by a respectable farmer as happening within his own observa , tion, and in illustration of its truth s it may be proper to remark that in the country where it happened-in Cornwall-the hills, which are steep, rise so abruptly and near to each other that whatever passes on the a side of one may be easily discerned on the other. His attention was first i drawn to a hare, which he perceiv ed running down a slope, close to a the hedge in a field of tnnips, and . soon afterwards he perceivel that e in pursuit of her were a couple of a dogs. As the dogs entered the field - he saw that the hare stopped for a a moment and lifted her ears. The t pursuers pressed on, but when they k had come within little more than t gunshot of their hope for prey, the a hare stopped, and then ran back for some distance along its former . track, when by a sudden spring it a threw itself on one side into the 8 midst of the turnips, and there re a mained crouched and still. The r dogs passed onward in their course at arapid rate; and as soon as they had passed forward on its track with another bound the hare sprang back to the place it had quitted, 4 and ran along the course by which e it had come down, with the evident intention of confounding together its upward and downward course. By this time the dogs had come to e the lower extent to which the hare e proceeded, and there they stopped d as not knowing what further cours6 e to take. It was thus the persecu ted creature secured its own safety; e and my informant was too generous to help them out of the difficulty. [Cor. of Land and Water. . A REcENi MRGE As SEE FaoM 0 DENvE-The mirage is frequently seen on the plains, and often, in the y early days when people traveled with ox-teams, it presented to the 1 weary, exhausted and thirsty gold o seeker the appearance of water, ap 3 pearantly within easy reach, yet, alas, a delusion and a snare, that led astray, disappointed and disgutsed s everybody. - But probably the most at perfect, picturesque -pkture, in the 1. line of optical illusion, ever seen in these parts, by'either old-timer or riei-b5mer,appeWWEs evening a little before sundown. A double or reversed image of the Rocky mountains, from Mount Vernon to the Cache-la-Poudre, and from the *foot-hills back to the grandest peaks was -suspended in the air on the east d of the city, and apparantly just be r- yond the outermost houses. The refraction was so perfect that the few who saw the image was actual o ly puzzled to distinguish between - the real and the fictitious mountains. e The lovely, but unsubstantial pic ture, with. its heaped up beauties in ewdless variety was quickly dissi pated, the white turban on Long's g peak being the last object to g C H E A P TRANsPORTATION.--The followinig resolution was offered by SGeneral Young, of Georgia, .in the d House of Representatives. April 20th. t. Whereas the great need of this coun . try is some well-devised -and sure sys temn of cheap transportation by water, twhich.will give not only cheap outlets d from -the interior to the sea, but the e meaiisofa freer intorchanre of products t between the States-a system which is needed by the whole country and had been demanded by the people of all ' sections. Therefore be it.. y- Resolvei, That-the Commiittee on it Railroads and Canais be instrudted to L prepare and report a bill. for the im urmvemient of the great national water s, iigh. ways of the countrj and their a connection by such artificial. cliannels ,as will give to our people the -cheap gtransportation wLich they demand; and that the 14th day of May be set n apart of the consideration of this sub ject, to the exclusion of all other busi g- ness, and orders, and each day there 'o- after until itis* dipsdof. mn On the motion to suspend the rules tto vote on the adoption of the resolution to the.ayes were 130, ne 4 n ofof Tennessee-voted no. One Wes nt tern Democrat--Mr. Holman-also vo -al ted no, and S. S. Cox, of New York. ad A good mother was trying to ex ye, plain to a young hopeful the othei >r, day about fighting against the dev of- il. After telling the little felloi to- who tha devil was, and .how har< Lk- he was to successfully resist, h< x turned around and said: "Mamma en 'd be scared of the old devil >e- but if I was to come across on< or of his little devils I'd knock the stui of fing out of him." les The most original spelling w on have ever seen is the following. It beats phonetics.-80 y6u be a tub. 80 oh ! pea-a top. Be 81 Ir. -bat. See 80-cat. Pea 80-pai [n- Are 80-rat. See oh ! double yoi in- -cow. See you be-cub. See a be ace -cab. Be you double tea-buti te" See a double eli-call. es "Did you hit him plumb in th a center !" asked a dying Omaha mai sh- of his son who had just come il lol- from a desperate street fight. "Yes, i was the reply. ."Then I die hap gh py," and a calm grin of pleasur to froze upon his face. re- A phrenologist told a manth lay he had combativeness very largel ro eeoe,n a fa ar l rt- develsiope,nd wTa ofmt a ursomS fthe disp,itingrly ."Tha ift yo, repe rit te manoc agy, "do.fyuee .711 kanak von down." THE POWER OF TRUTH. I Tie following beautiful illustia. tion of the simplicity and power of truth, is told by an eye witness of the scene in one of the higher courts: A little girl nine years of age, was offered as a witness against, a prisoner who was on trial for a fel ony committed in her father's house. 'NowEnlv,' said the counsel for the prisoner, upon her being offered as a witness. -1 desire to know ifvou undei-stand the nature of an oath ?' I don't kunow what you mean, was the Simple answer. ,There, your Honor,' said the council, addressing the court, 'is anything farther necessary to de monstrate the validity of my ob jection? this witness should be re jected. She does not comprehend the nature of an oath.' 'Let us see,' said the judge. 'Come here, my daughter.' Assured by the kind tone and manner of the Judge, the child stepped .toward hiMn, and looked confidingly up in bis face, with a calm, clear eye, and in a manner so artless and frank, that went straight Io the hear. 'Did you ever take thd oath?' .enquired the 'Judge. The little girl stepped back .with a look .of horror, and the red blood mantled in a blush all over her face and she answered*: 'No, sir. She thought that he intended to enquire if she eVer blasphemed. 1 'I.do not mean that,' said the Judge, who saw her mistake. 'I mean were you ever a witness be fore?' 'No, sir, I never was in court bH fore,' was the answer. He handed hdr the Bible, open. 'Do you kno that book; my danghter ? She iookeatit and Enswered, Yes, sir, it is the Bible.' 'Do yd ever read- itr he ' ask ed. 'Yes, sir, every evening. 'Can you tell me 'w hat the Bible is ?' enquired the Judge. 'It is.tji.he,qr4of the great God, she .answer.ed. 'WelLplace your hand upon this .Bible and liste.n.to what I .say; and he. repeated slowly and so! emnly the oath usually administer ed to witnesses. 'Now,' said the Judge, 'you have sworn as a witness.- Will you tell me what will befall you if you do not tell the truth ?' 'I shall be shut up in the State'e prison,' answered the child. 'Anything else ?' asked the Judge. 'I shall never go to heaven,' she replied. 'How:do you know this?' asked1 th.e Judge again. . *The child. took the Bible, and turning rapidly to the chapter con taining the Ten Comimandmuenits, pointed to. the injunction, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,' 'I learned that be fore I could read.' 'Has any one talked with you about, your being a witness in court here against this man?' en quired.the Judge. 'Yes, sir,' she replied. 'My mo ther heard they wanted me to be a witness, and last night she egged me to her room, and asked me to tell her the Ten Commandments, and then we kneeled down togeth er and she prayed that I might understand how wicked it was to bear false witness against my neighbor, an'd that God would help me, a little child to tell the ',ruth as it was before him. And when I came up here with father, she kissed me,' and told me to remem ber the Ninth commandment, and that God would hear every, word that 1 said.' 'Do you believe this?' asked the Judge. while a tear glistened in his eve and his lips quivered with -emotion. . 'Yes, sir,' said the child with a .voice and mainner that showed ~her cnviction of its truth was per i feet. 'God bless you, my -child,' said the Judge,-.'you have a good moth ,er. This: witness is competent,' B he continued. 'Were I on a trial .. for my life, and innocent of the. charge against me, I would pray God for such a witness as this. a Let her be examined.' -She told her story with the sim -. plicity of a child, as she was, but [there was a directness about it .~ whieb earried conviction of its 1 truth to every heart. She was e rigidly cross-examined. The coun . sel plied her with infinite and in genious questioning, but she va ried from her fi:st statement in a nothing. .The truth as spoken by a that little child was sublime. False. I hood and perjury had preceded her testimony. This prisonrer had - entrenched himself' in~ lies, till he e deemed himself impregnable. Witnesses had falsified, in his fa vori, and villainy had 'manufactur ,t ed for him a sshame defene. But y 'beforde her -testimonky,, falsehood. es wa scattered dike eaff. The lit. a tie child, for whom a mother had i prayed frstrength. to be, given Aa oaaktetruth as it was ADVERTISINC RATES@ per square--one inch--for first inowdois, ad 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Dul i.-oamn advertisements teniper cent on AboTe. Notices of meetings, obituaries &W~ udbute I Df respect, same rats per xjuare 4w ordinmzy w1vertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked wftb *e Rum ber of insertions will be kept In. tM florbid and charged accordingly. Special co f-ag adver asers, with Hi o c,smv rates. beoreGoj, bioet ifii6ifig do vices of matured'villainy to-pees i'a potter's Vegsel'. The ftrength that her'nother"'rao 'r wa~ griven -her, And 06 845itne Lnd terrible'simpolicity-tiriWl, I nean, to the prisoner and"bis Ws 50cates-with whieh she spoke vas like a revelation from. God iimself. 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