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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1876. No. 13. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY NORNINGI At Newberry$ S. C. BY TH08*. F. GRENEKERt Editor and P roprietor. Terms, $2.zo per anumen, Invariably in -Advance. 17f The paper is stopped at the expiration Of ime for which it is paid. Gjm The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub scriptionu PAY THE PRINTER. I hed a dream the other night, A scene of awe and glory; It was not caused by fear or fright, It was not caused by fancies light, Nor is't a made-up story. I dreamt I was in spirit land, And saw the sons of men Walk in procession, great and grand, In numbers like the ocean sand, Ten thousand multiplied by ten. They came froW-,--ities far and wide, And went to Wtw their rest; They came as comes the roiling tide, The saint and sinner side by side, Expecting to be bleSt. But Peter stopped them at the gate, As Summer's stopped by Winter, And here he held to each his fate, He made him this-in clearness state: If he had paid the printer. And thiose who had he let pass in, But thrust the others back, And gave them each a warning grin, And smiled at- those who thus could sin, And .9hook h is head, alas! alack! And when I saw them doleful stand, As shut in fr-eezing Water. rWell, sir, I'll tell you. I was drawn into a scheme just like this of yours, to uproot one of God's ser vants from the field in which he had planted him. In my blindness, I fancied it a little thing to remove one of the 'stars' which .esus holds in his right hand, if thereby my ear could be tickled by more flowing words; and the pews filled with those who turned away from the simplic ity of the Gospel. I and the men that led me-for I admit that I was a dupe and a fool-flattered our selves that we were doing God's service when we drove that holy man from the pulpit and his work, and said we considered his work done in B-, where I then lived. We groaned because there was no revival, while we were gossippig about and criticising and crushing him, instead of upholdinghis hands by our efforts and our prayers, the very instrument at whose hand we harshly demanded the blessings. "Well, sir, he could not drag on the chariot of salvation with a half a dozen of us taunting him for his weakness, while we hung as a dead weight to the wheels; he had not the spirit, as we thought, and could not convert men; so we hunted him like a deer, till worn and bleed ing, he fled into a covert to die. "Scarcely had he gone when God came in among us by His Spirit, to show that he had blessed the labors of his dewr rejected servant. Oar own hearts were broken, and our wayward children converte 1; and I resolved at a convenient season to visit my former pastor and con fess my sin, and thank him for his faithfulness to my wayward sons, which like long buried seed had now sprung up. Bat God denied me that relief, that He might teach me E lesson that every child of His yught to learn- t h a t H e who boucheth one of his little ones toucheth the apple of His eye. "I heard my pastor was ill, and taking my oldest son with me, set ut on a twenty-five mile ride to see him. It was evening when I arriv ed, and his wife, with the spirit which any woman ought to exhibit toward one who had so wronged her husband, denied me admittance to his chamber. She said (and her words were like arrows to my soul) -'He may be dying, and the sight f your face might add to his an guish.' Had it come to this, I said to myself, that the man whose la bors had, through Christ, brought me into His fold, w'ho had consoled my spirit in a terrible bereavement, nd who had, till designing men alienated us, been to me a brother -that this man could not die in peace with my face before him. 'God pity me l' I cried; 'what have I done.?' I confessed my sins to that meek woman, and implored her for Christ's sake to let me kneel before His dying servant, and receive his forgiveness. 'What did I care then whether the pews by the door were rented or not ? I would gladly have ta. ken his whole family to my home forever, as my flesh and blood; but no such happiness was in store for "As I entered the room of the blessed warrior, whose armor was falling from his limbs, he opened his languid eyes, and said: 'Bro ther Lee ! Brother' Lee!l' I bent over him and sobbed out. 'My pas tor ! my pastor!I' Then raising his white hand, L.e said, in a deep im pressive voice: 'Touch not mine annointed, and do my prophets no harm.' "I spoke tenderly to him,and told him I had come to confess my sin, and bring some of his fruit to him (calling my son, to tell him how he had found Christ.) But he was unconscious of all around him; the sight of my face had brought the last pang of earth to his troubled spirit. I kissed his brow, and told him how dear he had been to me. I raved his pardon for my un faithfulness, a n d promised him to care for his widow and his father less little ones ; but his only reply, murumed as if in a troubled dream, was: 'T ouch not 'mine an nointed, and do my prophets no harm." I stayed by him all night and at daybreak I closed his eyes. "I offered his widow a house to j. ein t.h remainder of her days; -but l i k e a heroine, she said: 'I freely forgive you; but my chil dren, who entered deeply into their father's anguish, shall never see me so regardless of his memory as to take anything from those who caus ed it. He*had left us all with his covenant God, and He will care for us. "Well, sir, those dying words sounded in my ears from that coffin, and from that grave. When I slept, Christ stood before my dream, saying 'Touch not mine annointed, do my prophets no harm.' These words followed me till I fully real ized the esteem in which Christ holds those men who have given up all for his sake; and I vowed to love them evermore for his sake, even if they are not perfect. "And since that day, sir, I have talked less than before, and have supported my pastor, even if he is not a very extraordinary man. My tongue shall cleave to the roof of my mouth,and my right hand forget her cnning, before I dare to put asunder what God has joined to gether. When a minister's work is done in a place, I believe God will show it to him. I will not join you, sir, in the scheme that brought you here; and, moreover, if I hear ano ther word of this from your lips, I shall ask the brethren to deal with you as one who causes divis ions. "I would give all I own to recall what I did thirty years ago. "Stop where you are and pray God if perchance the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. This decided reply put an end to the newcomer's efforts to get a min ister who could make more of a stir. There is often great power in the little word "no;" but sometimes it requires not a little courage to speak it so resolutely as did the si lent deacon.-Christian Messenger. IiseHaueous. [From the Lutheran visitor.] .WORLDLY PLEASURE. SPIRITUAL JOY ILLUsTRAT.ED-APPEAL TO LUTHERANS. Is it necessary to point out in stances of this spiritual joy in the history of chrisiianity ? The exam ples are innumerable how The men of grace have found Glory begun below, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Wickliffe, are distant, but splendid witnesses of happiness under perse cution and martyrdom. Think of Luther and Melancthon,who,almost in sight of the rack and the stake, established Lutheranism with songs of praise and acts of confidence in God. Look at Calvin and Knox, whose joys in self denial the world can never understand. If a number of men were brought to the stake to be burnt, and in their agony should sing bacchanalian songs, the world, which had often delighted to hear them in their revels, would now re coil in horror, and pronounce the,.n monsters without the pale of sym pathy. But if they, while envelop ed in flames, should exclaim,. Praise ye the Lord, ?raise Him for His mighty acts: Praise Him According to His excellent greatness. Let everythiug that hath breath Praise the Lord, the world would shout for admira tion, as it never had done in ban queting halls, at the recital of deeds of war-like heroism. Such was the case of the Smithfield martyrs. The temporary smoke of their torment carried up songs of adoration; and their spirits, purified by fire, prayed for blessings upon the head of the cruel queen who had consigned them to torture, while their blood wrote her character on the pages of history. Finally, let our thoughts dwell up on the twelve years ecstacy in Bed ford jail, that gave to us the Pil grim's Progress; and let us remem ber the calm satisfaction of John Wesley waving back a Manchester mob, while he preached to them a ?iigher standard of christian~ excel lence. These are only a few of the most conspicuous pinnacles along the vast range, without descending to the broad plateaus,or penetrating into the vafllav. In conclusion, I venture to ad dress a few sertences particularly to my brothers, the Lutherans. There is one thing we ought always to bear in mind, (and it is strange that we continually forget it, see -ing that it is palpably historical) namely, that Lutheranism was de veloped from the bold denunciation which Luther published against in dulgences. Oh, let us not impose upon the mildness of our Church, which has too much long-suffer ing to cast off. Let us not givd way to worldly pleasures. Let us end'eavor to abstain from Sab bath-breaking, from profanity, from play-going, from drankenness, from dancing, from frivolity, and from everything that can be grouped with the works of the flesh; for if we yield to sin, because our Church is loth to condemn us, we force her. to grant the very in dulgences which Tetzel sold, and which Luther crushed against the old cathedral door. Let us strive to remove all obstacles, so that the strokes of his hammer against ev erything that is -unscriptural, may, every succeeding year, ring louder and clearer along the century aisles of the Church down to the uttermost ages. God was with Lutheranism from its very commencement. The pro tection of the reformers from mar tyrdom was little short of mira culous. God continued with the succeeding confessors, and sustain ed them through thirty years of sieges and massacres; and, by the peace of Westphalia, established the right of relgious opinion-a right which all denominations and sects enjoy at this day, and for which they are thankfal. God continues with Lutheranism, for with an army of one million of Lutherans, under the leadership of a Lutheran mon arch,he paralyzed Austria on theleft, and prostrated France on the right -the enemies of Protestantism. Would we have God to be with us in th future ? then "let us cleanse ourselves fi-om all filthiness of the fesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."-2 Cor. vii. 1. JOHN ARLND. NEURALGIA IN WoE.-A physi cian of a London hospital writes to an English medical jouXrnal as fol lows; There is no recognized rea son why of late years neuralgia of the face and scalp sould have in creased so much in the female sex, as compared with our own. There is no doubt that it is one of the most common of female maladies-one of the most painful and difficult of treatment. It is also a cause of much mental depression, and leads more often to habits of intemper ance than any other. The growing prevalence of neuralgia may to some extent be referred to the effect of cold upon the terminal branches of the nerves distributed to the skin; and the reason why men are less subject to it than women may to a great extent be explained by the much greater protection afforded by the mode in which the former cover their hea'ds when they are in open air. It may be observed that the surface of f,e head which is actu'lly covered in man is at least three times that which fashion al lows to women; indeed the points of contract between the hat or bonnet and the head in the latter are so ir regular as practically to destroy any protection which might otherwise be afforded. Milwaukie papers give this socie ty news: The lovely and accom plished Mrs. Crooked Bourbon was the admiration of all the indicted guests at the fancy ball last night. She wore 20,000 gallons of the fin est point lace, sent by her husband when he fled to Europe and forfeit ed his bail bonds, and a set of dia monds valued at twenty-five gaug ers and inspectors. One in every forty of the popula tion of Durham county, England, has been convicted of drunkenness within a year. The safest and best remedies in the world are warmth, rest and ab stinence-the brutes employ these. We know all about shooting stars but often forget that the earth HOW WILD BEASTS ARE FED. "We ar e getting along quite well, and will be able to make a right nice showing when our Cer tennial visitors arrive. How much have we spent, did you say? Well, e have already expended over $400,000." The conversation took place in a house kno5wn as the "Carnivora," and the parties Capt. Thompson and a reporter. "What's a lion like that worth ?" said the reporter,pointing to the fine male specimen that was engaged growling at him. "Well," replied the captain, "I couldn't say. There is no standard of valuation for such animals. rve bought one for $25, and have known them to sell for $2,500 and $3,000. You've got to buy them as best you can. There's no regular market value." "There's your old friend who held the Chesapeake," pointing to the latest acquisition in the leopard line. "He's just as cross as ever. He isn't fond of forming new ac quaintances. This one here is a fe male of the Japanese species. She's a bad lot. She's the one that ate her three young ones last week." "Suppose you enligthen the pub lie as to the feeding of these ani mals ?" "Well, all carnivorous animals are fed six times a week. We count one day out of the seven Thursday." "Why do you make them fast one day in the week ?" "You see we try to follow nature. None of these animals in their wild state succeed innding food every day. Then, again, we make the break in order to provide against exigencies tfar migh arise. Ton see-we get our suppl of meat from a butcher ing firm that is under contract to supply us. Well, now, suppose they should fail us for a day or two, or the meat should come in frozen,then, as a matter of course, the animals could not be fed and their health would suffer. Which is the biggest eater?i Why, the Bengal tiger. He and the lion are the heaviest eat ers. We are giving the tiger more than the lion. His allowance.is six teen pounds of meat per day. How much does it take to serve all the carnivora ? Well, let's see ; one hundred and eighty pounds." Counting fifty-two weeks to the year and six days to the week, this would make the total amount of meat used 56,160 pounds, which at six cents per pound, foots up a cost per annum of $3,369.60 for food for the carnivora alone. - "The hyenas you'd suppose to be big meat eaters, wouldn't you ?" said Capt. T. We answered that such was our opinion. "Well, it isn't so," said the cap tain. "They eat very little meat. We give them plenty of bones, which they munch and crunch and grow fat on. See how sleek they look. All the animals require more or less bone food for the lime there in contained. "Now, the birds we feed regularly every day. All the seed eating birds have enough seed set before themr each day to last them twenty-foui hours. The monkeys we feed twice a day. For breakfast they get bread and milk, and for dinner they gei vegetables, bread and milk. Then, you know, the visitgrs are continu ally feeding them." "Have they any special favoritt in the vegetable line, captain ?" "Oh, my, yes! They are extremely fond of sweet potatoes." "How about the snakes, cap tan?" "I can't say much about th4 snakes, as we hardly know wher they do eat We have to keej offering the food, and when it suite them they take it, and when it doei not they let it alone. Sometime: tL ey'll feed once in two or thre< weeks, sometimes every two or three months, and they have been knowr to doivith~out for six months." "What's' their bill of fare ?" "We generally give them rats guinea pigs, rabbits, pigeons, frogs mice, and small birds. The rattle snakes seem to prefer rats and smal birds. The pigs and rabbits we giv +o +.he boa All are givenl t Ihem alive. They wouldn't think of touching anything dead." "Where do you get your snpply of rats and mice ?" "Right here. Why, the grounds overrun with them. Why, sir, we've got some water rats over there," pointing to the beaver dam, "that come up and take the food right away from the beavers. The rhinoceros we feed on hay, bran, and potatoes. The bears we feed prin .cipally on bread. The sea lion and fish eating birds we feed on fish. We uEe about sixty pounds of fish per day. The eagles eat meat. In winter we commence feeding at three o'clock in the afternoon, and in summer an hour later." "How about the elephants, gi raffes, camels, buffaloes, deer, etc.?" "The giraffes and elephants and camels and deer and all hay eating animals are fed twice a day on hay and grain. We give the giraffes. carl ots occasionally, to regulate their bowels." 9 "Did you experience any trouble in moving that fellow ?" said we pointing to the rhinoceros, who seemed proud of his new quar ters. "No more trouble than is experi enced at any time in moving a weight of 6,000 pounds" replied Capt. T. UNCoRxING.-Prof Olney uses the following apt illustration: I want to tell you a secret, teach er. You can't fill a bottle with the cork in. Let the fountain be ever so abundant, and the pump be plied with ever so much vigor and per sistence, it is all in vain. Do you know what I mean? The philoso pher puts it thus: "Curiosity is the parent of knowledge." Your first business is to awaken a desire - kn6ow T is~ what a' few years ago we used to hear lectured about so much, under the phrase, '-vaking up mind." A large part of the fail ur,e.among Sabbath-school teachers comes from the neglect of this prin ciple. They know something to teach-they actually say excellent things and do excellent things, but their pupils don't care a fig for the wares they are asked to buy. Now, friend, you may go on in this way till you teach your class to death. You may pour your stream of knowl edge upon them till you drown them, or till they run away, and never get a drop of it into them, be cause their mouths are shut. A lady employed a young girt about fifteen years old to assist her about her house. One day she was making a cake, and, wishing to put some kind of plums in it, she set a dish down on the table with the plums and told the girl to stone them. To show her how, she took up a plum and took out the stone with, the remark. "That is the way." Thinking the 'girl under stood what she meant, she put the plum separated from the stone into her mouth instead of into the dish, and went away. What was her sur prise, a short time after, to have the girl come into the room where she was,and tell her she had eaten all she could. And when the lady went into the room where she had been at work, she found that she had put all the stones into the dish,and eaten all she could of the plums, thinking that the hard pieces-meaning the stones-would soften up when bak ed into a cake. Portress A HoME.-Children imitate nai.urally. They copy good manners as well as bad. If when mother's spool of cotton rolls from her lap, papa stoops to pick it up, bright-eyed Susie or Willie will be sure to see it and to do the, same thing next time. And if mama says "Thank you" when the spool is given to her, their quick ears will hear it, and their tongues will lisp it over again. If no notice is ta ken of kind acts, children will soon cease to perform them. An air loving thoughtfulness in the home is very contagious. The little brother will vie with the big ones in attention to their sisters,and the gen. tle sister imitating the mother, will curb the noisy rudeness of the bro thers. Children who do not learn to be polite at home, show it when they get out, and are often unoon scious but faithful tell-tales-of then nnnoo bringing up. ADVERTISINC RATES* Advertisements inserted at the rate of 61-00 per square-one inch-for first iasertion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements tenper cent on AbovS. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 15 cents perlHue, Adverfisements notmarked wMd the num ber of insertion& wil be kept In till forbid and charged accordingly. *Special contracs made with-- lag adver tisers, with liera daledtons, on-above raes Done with Neatness and Dispatch Terms Cash. HOW RICH MEN BEGIN LIFE. Marshall 0. Roberts is posses sor of $4,000,000; and yet until he was 25, he did not have $100 -he could call his own. George Law, at 45 yewrsof ag9% was a common day laborer on the docks, and at present counts his for tune at something like $10,000s000. Daniel Drew, in his early life, was a cattle driver, at the mnfcn sum of seventy-five cents 'a day, and he has driven himself into! an estate valued at from $20,000,000, to'$30,000,000. Robert L. and Alexander Stuart, the sugar refiners, in their.young days, sold molasses candy, which their widowed mother had made, at a cent astick, and to-day they ar worth probably $5,000,000 to $, 000,000 apiece. -H. B. Claftin the eminent dry goods merchant's -worth is estima ted from,.$10,000,000 to $15,000 000, commenced in. the .world. with nothing but energy, determination, and hope--- see how manicnt ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Some wise wag has summed up the changes that has taken place during a century, in this way: One hundred years ago wedding tours were not fashionable. One hundred years ago farmers did not cut their legs off with mow ing machines. One hundred years ago our mo thers did not worry over disordered sewing machines. One hundred years ago horses which could not trot a mile in 2:14 were somewhat scarce. Gbundred years ago it took several days to procure a divorce and find a congenial spirit. One hundred years ago there were no disputes about the impoliteness of street car drivers.0 One hundred years ago every young man was not an applicant for a position as a clerk or bookkeep er. One hundred years ago kerosene lamps did not explode and assist wo men to shuffle off this mortal coil. One hundred years ago men did not commit suicide by going up in balloons and coming down without them. One hundred years ago there were no third term millionaire bishops to stir up the waters of partisan poli tics. One hundred years ago there were no Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no Ann Elizas suing for the nineteenth part of a divorce. One hundred years ago England was not very far behind the United States in all that goes to make a nation powerful and progressive. One hundred years ago the Dutch had taken Holland, but they had not made France "come down" with a handsome pile of 'smart md& ney." - One hundred years ago a young woman did not lose cast by wetting her hands in dish water or rubbing the skin off her knuckles on a wash board. One hundred years ago a physi cian who could not draw every form of disease from the system by tap ping a~ large vein in the arm was not much of a doctor. One hundred years ago men were not running about over the country with millions of fish eggs to be hatched to order. Fish superinten ded their own hatching in those days. One hundred years ago people did not worry about rapid transit and cheap transportation, but threw their grain crops across the backs of their horses, and uncomplainingly "went to the mill." One hundred years ago every man cut his coat according- to his cloth, every man was estimated at his real value, shoddy was not known, nobody had struck "ile," and true merit and honest worth were the only ground for promo tion.. Two men I knew very well, some years ago on the streets of New York, talking about the matter of benevolence-one said to the other: 'You gave too much. I will wait until I get a .large pile of money, then I will give.' 'No,' said the other, 'I will give as God prospers me. Hear the sequel: T h e former lives in New York city to-day dol larless; the latter gathered two hun and fifty thousand dollars. I believe that the reason why many people are kept poor is be cause they do not give enough. If a man gives in the right spirit to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the church, he is insured for time and eternity. The bank of England is a weak institution compared with the bank that any christian man, can draw upon. That man who stands by Christ, Christ will stand by him. Mark that; the Man who stands by Christ will find Christ standing by him. A wilderness of uncertainty seems to environ the man who staggers over an orange peel, and catches himself on his heels five or six times before striking the pave ment. A Reading (Pa.) girl has knit a pair of stockings of her own har. Isn't that a pretty thinyvarn?i