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Whitefoord Smith, Professor wofFord Col.
lege. &,
Charles Taylor, President spartanburg Fc.
male College.
Joseph Gross, Professor spartanburg Fcr
male College f5
| II N Mood, President Davenport Female
| College
II H,Dumnt Agent Spartanburg Female
College. s@
Albert NJ Shipp, Professor University of
N. G. -@ -
Next Conference to be held in Charles
ton, s., G. ~
Two new Districts have been formed for
Presiding Eldcrsj they arc Camden and
Orangoburg.
Rev. Dr. Wightmanis is to be the biog-
raphcr of the late Bishop Capors, and we
look forward for an able work.
The Story OF THE HoRsE.SnoE. .-Thisis
simple legend. A good countryman was
taking rural walk with his son Thomas.
AS they walked slowly along, the father
suddenly stopped.
Look!" he said, 'there's bit of IRON
apiece of horseshoe; pick it up aud put
it in your pocket" ~
Poohm answered the child, cit is not
worth STOPPING for"
The father, without utterine another
word, picked up the iron, and put it in his
pocket. When they came to tho village,
he entered the blacksmith's shop, and sold
it for three fartlings, and with that sum
he bought some cherries. Then the father
and son set off again on their ramble. The
sun was burning hot, and neither house,
tree, nor fountain of water was in sight,
Thomas soon complained of being tired,
and had some difficulty in following his
father, who walked on with firm STEP
Perceiving that his boy was tired, the faith,
er let q cherry fall, as If by accident
Thomas stopped and quickly picked it up,
and devoured it. A little further, he drop.
ped another, and the boy picked it up as
eagerly as ever; and thus they continued,
the father dropping tho fruit. and the son
| picking them up. When the last one was
eaten, the father stopped and, turning to
the boy, said:
Look, my son. Ifyou had chosen to
stoop once, and pick up piece of horse
shoe, you would not have been obliged at
last to stoop so often to pick up the cher
ries !"-M T. Independents
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THE THREE GREAT PowERs.-T Press
Pulpit, and Woman, arc the three great
powers of the earth--the irresistible levers
which constantly raise humanity to higher
aud still higher degree of progress. With.
out them, the bottom of things would fall
out, and society be spilled out into origin
al chaos. And Of these great powers, wo-
man is the greatest. The press makes the
people Intelligent and patriotic woman
makes them industrious, generous and ro.
mantle The press rules our intellect, the
| pulpit our conscierces, woman our hearts.
The press sways public opinion, and the
pulpit moral convictions; but woman sways
all things. There would be falling off
even in church going were there no girls
there; and if woman is not F" first in war;
she is certainly "first in peace, and first in
hearts Other countrymen." And she has
her influence IN war, too men would not
fight merely for masculine applause. Its
for the girl he has left behind him." that
the soldier chiefly bears his burdens, runs
his risks, and deals his sturd lest blows; and
his laurel wreath of triumph would be but
a barren symbol could he not lay it at her
feet.
The world is governed more BY the heart
than the head; and the heart is womans
empire, wherein she rules to elevate and
refine. Without the sunshine of her in
fiuence, the heart Of man would be n. bog
filled with noXous growth--a mere fungus
oozing slime, in which the rose of affection
would never germinato, nor the flowers of
eloqnence bloom Woman is the engine
Of life-the great motive power of love,
ambition and civilization. May fortune
favor her, man protect her, and God bless
her So
A CHAPTER OF Fmsr TnINGs.-The old
est book known to be extant, Which has the
name of the place where it was printed, to-
ge.hcr with the date of the year when it
was executed, is beautiful edition OF
Psalms in Latin. 1t was issued at Mcntz
by Faust and Sclioeffer, in 1457, Just four
hundred years ago. The most perfect copy
known is that in the Imperial library in
Vienna. II is printed in folio on veIum,
and is superb specimen of printing. A
second edition of the work was issued in
1850, under the patronage of tho st. AL.
bans and beuedictine Monks, which con.
tanned probably, the first printed text Of
Anathanasan creed.
The earliest printed book containing text
and engravings, ia called tho Histories of
Joseph, Daniel, judith, and Esther, printed
by Jossph ,Pfister at Bambcrg, in l462.-4
1t is among the rarest typographical curl,