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V PUBLISHED 1 -T7-/-XT r TWICE A MONTH.| V ULi. I. No. 9. {' A memorial Service 111 Mouth America. There is doubtless quite as much sincerity in the tributes which the native South American pays to a dead friend or chieftain, as in the more polished, though scarcely more elaborate ceremonies to which Chris tian nations resort in similar cases. There is perhaps no established natural language of grief, or signs by which it is testified. In that as nearly as all other matters of social life, the force of custom is absolute, the proper mode of expression is that to which we have been educated. Any other seems to us meaningless or grotesque, according to the degree in which it varies from our own practice. When Jules Crevaux and his companions, in our illustration. The actor for the time being,'held in his hand a whip with a lash nine yards long, and as he turned himself round stamped on the ground with his right foot, raised the whip, bent his body back ward, and with a sudden motion made a stroke which cracked like a pistol shot. Each member of the group in his turn was obliged to go through with this performance, the others squatting on the ground, clapping their hands, and crying “he! he 1" at each stroke of the lash. This singular ceremtmy, which is called the Pono-Dance, is graphically illustrated in our engraving. It does not appear that any but the male members of the tribe are allowed to participate in it. must confine his stock on his own land or hire pasturage for them from others. The natural consequence of such requirement will be a reduction in the number of stock kept and an improvement in their quality. More attention will be paid to providing suitable pastures for the stock of the farm, which will naturally improve the quality of the stock. It will compel the bestowal of more care upon the stock of all kinds, and those who can avail themselves of the servi ces of thoroughbred bulls will now have an opportunity of grading their stock, and will no longer be annoyed by the highway scrub. Cecil said: “Duties are ours; events are God’s.” A consciousness that we have dis- food did notsatisfy him and that all the water he drank ran out on the ground. As his master was away, he knew that he must take care of himself in some way. So whenever he ate or drank anything he ran to his bed in the carriage house close by, turned on his back, and remained so for an hour or more, or until he felt satisfied that it would do for him to get up. Coaxing, threatening and kicking by the domestics about the house or by those whose attention was called to his actions were alike unavailing to drive him from his place or his supine position. Finally, some one knew for what purposes the dog was used, examined his fistula and found the cork gone. This being restored, he was soon persuaded to go about as usual, A SOUTH AMERICAN PONO-DANCE—A MEM0RIAL..8ERVICE, in their journey through the northern part of South America, which he has so vividly described in his work entitled “ From Cay enne to the Andes,” arrived at a village called Caneapo, they found the natives keeping a solemn holiday, a month having passed since the death of a Tnmuschi, one of the dignataries of the tribe. In that community two festivals arc celebrated in honor of the dead, one called Pono, end the other Toule. On this occasion, all the men were dressed in coverings of long black strips of leather reaching from the neck down, and wore caps which Creveaux com pares to those of French advocates. Only one at a time stood up, the others remaining seated on the ground in the attitude shown Ntock Law and lla Influences on Stock Breeding. The practice of turning hungry cattle upon the public highways to steal or starve must give way before the wheel of progress and the advent of a more just appreciation of the rights of property. Grass, whether wild or cultivated, is as much the property of the owner of the land on which it grows as is corn, wheat, cotton, or any other produce, but hitherto our laws have required the land-owner to guard his grass by a most ex pensive fence, or have it depastured by his neighbor’s stock. Under the operation of the stock law, which has been adopted in a number of counties in this State, each stock-owner charged our whole duty to the best of our ability, and an abiding faith and trust in God, is the only condition in which we can securely lay down our beads and close our eyes in sleep. An Intelligent Bog. Dr. Bardeen, of Rochester, N. Y., tells an interesting story of animal intelligence in the Scientific American. At the mediical college where he studied there was a dog named Pon to with a gastric fis tula. The sil ver tube from \he animal’s stomach was stopped with a cork, which was removed whenevergastric juice was wanted. On one occasion when Ponto was in thecountry the cork was dislo dged. He discovered that his' and indicated by his actions that he under stood that everything was all right. Owe writer has said: “If you do not keep pride out of your souls, and your souls out of pride, God will keep your souls out of heaven. Solomon says: “Pride goeth before destruction.” What have we to be proud of? We are not our own. Wo are bought with a price. Two things are essential for the success of a religious pap»r: 1. That it carry to the reader a good supply of spiritual food. 2. An untiring, persistent effort on the part of the preachers and patrons to increase its circulation. THIS IS A. SPECIMEN COPY.