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MOORE’S RURAL NEAY-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE U. S. 
An article in the Westminster Review on 
this subject, notices in a very complimenta¬ 
ry manner the institutions for education in 
this country, and recommends the adoption 
of similar methods of instruction in Great 
Britain, to prepare the masses for the change 
constantly going on in the transfer of polit¬ 
ical power to their hands. After noticing 
the energy and zeal for the diffusion of in¬ 
telligence in the Eastern States, it speaks as 
fallows of Now York and tho Western States: 
While this remarkable activity is conspicu¬ 
ous in tho Eastern States and New York, 
the new States of tho West are not neglect¬ 
ing their duty. Congress has voted one 
thirty-sixth of all public jands for tho sup¬ 
port of education in them. In ail the town¬ 
ships occupying areas of thirty-six square 
miles, laid "out in exact squares—tho siddfe 
facing tho four cardinal points, and again 
subdivided into regular sections of one 
squaro mile—section No. 16, a central one. 
ii termed the “School Section,” and is al¬ 
lotted to tho support of schools. Rude 
enough indeed are often the school-houses ; 
improvised of logs, or provisionally occu¬ 
pying any house that can be procured, for 
tho use of emigrants, frequently very poor 
and very ignorant, but anxious to bo taught. 
“ I began school on the 23d November with 
four scholars,” writes a female teacher from 
Wisconsin ; “ the number soon increased to 
forty, between the age of six and twenty-two. 
The scholars are very backward.” They 
have scarcely any books ; four or fivo must 
use the same book. Then, too, “ my school- 
house is eighteen feet long, fourteen feet 
broad, and is built of logs, and cold, very 
cold.” But our brave friend does not des¬ 
pond. “Next winter,” she says, hopefully, 
‘ we shall have a well-constructed building 
for school and church.” Meanwhile all is 
going on well. There is a zeal for learning 
among tho poor, ill-clad children that come 
to her. “Two girls of the ago of twrolvo 
and fourteen have come a distance of a mile 
and a half through the snow, with no other 
covering than a little shawl not larger than 
a pocket handkerchief, the rest of the cloth¬ 
ing being proportionably scant.” No doubt 
this earnest, devoted school mistress will 
allure all the little ragged community to 
school. Nothing indeed is more curious 
than this missionary spirit of the American 
women in tho cause of education. Besides 
volunteers, as many as forty or fifty young 
women under tho auspices of the Ohio 
Board of Education, “collected from vari¬ 
ous parts of New England, assembled at 
Hartford in Connecticut, and after passing 
muster as duly qualified, and going through 
some little further training for five or six 
weeks, proceed, accompanied by one of the 
society’s superintendents, to take charge of 
their western schools. The wags, of course, 
say they go to get married; but though 
some, neglectful of their high calling, may 
now and thon fall at once into matrimony, 
the great majority do good service as pro¬ 
fessional teachers, before in another form 
they continue their instruction as wives and 
mothers. We had ourselves, recently, di¬ 
rect evidence of the zeal for teaching which 
is widely diffused in the States. Paying a 
visit to Rock City,* in Cattaraugus County, 
in the State of New York, we stopped at a 
lone farm-house, as directed, to take a guide. 
A young man presented himself, who took 
us through tho “ city,” and much surprised 
us by his intelligence and information, es¬ 
pecially by his accurate knowledge of vari¬ 
ous statistical facts respecting England.— 
Wo found on inquiry that he had been and 
was a teacher. On returning to the farm¬ 
house ho invited us to go in and rest; wo 
there found a vigorous looking man of fifty, 
who some years ago had come into the for¬ 
est, cleared a few hundred acres, and roared 
a farnib of ten children. All hut, two were 
there, verging from six to twenty years of 
age, and among them two pretty, well-man¬ 
nered girls, busily engaged in household 
work. Wo soon discovered that they also 
had been out as teachers, tho youngest as 
far as Wisconsin. They and our friend the 
guide had now returned to the homestead 
for tiie purpose of completing their own 
education in tho highest branches of in¬ 
struction, by attendance at the high or nor¬ 
mal schools. On asking them to insert 
their names in a pocket-book, that we might 
forward them a book that they wished to 
see, we could not help smiling when we 
found that one had written down her name 
Belinda, tho other Cleopatra. For these 
fine names, however, they weronot respon¬ 
sible. Modest, sensible, and sincerely de¬ 
voted to their calling, and as opportunities 
of acquirement admitted, well qualified for 
it, these young girls, like many hundreds of 
their countrywomen, will go forth to help 
to diffuse tho blessings of sound education 
throughout tho yet much neglected portion 
of their vast country. When will our farm¬ 
houses send forth such sisters of mercy as 
these ? 
* A remarkable denudation caused by some vast rush 
of waters, whereby an extensive formation of millstone 
Rrir lias been laid bare to a depth of several feet, and bro¬ 
ken into huge masses, the passages between which have 
been thought to bear a fantastic resemblance to streets, 
courts, and galleries. Hence it is is named dock City. 
LEARNING TO SPELL. 
Bad spelling is discreditable. Every 
young man should be master of his native 
tongue. Ho that will not learn to spell the 
language that is on his tongue, and before 
his eyes every hour, shows no great aptitude 
for the duties of an intelligent, observing 
man. Bad spelling is therefore an unavoid¬ 
able indication. It indicates a blundering 
man—a man that cannot see with his eyes 
open. Accordingly wo have known the ap¬ 
plication of moro than one young man, made 
with great display of penmanship, and 
parade of references, rejected for his bad 
spelling. 
Bad spelling is very conspicuous, a bad in¬ 
dication. He who runs may read it A 
bright school-boy, utterly incapable of ap¬ 
preciating your stories of science, art, and 
literature, can see your bad spelling at a 
glance, and crow over it. You will find it 
hard to inspiro that boy with any greater 
respect for your attainments. Bad spelling 
is therefore” a very mortifying and incon¬ 
venient defect. We have known men 
who occupied prominent positions so 
ashamed of their deficiency in this respect, 
that they never ventured to send a letter 
till it had been revised by a friend. This 
was. to say no more, sufficiently inconvenient. 
We say again, learn to spoil, young man. 
Keep your eyes open when you read, and if 
any word is spelled different from your 
mode, ascertain which is right. Keep your 
dictionary by you. and in writing, whenever 
you have the least misgiving about the 
spelling of a word look it out at once ; and 
remember it. Do not let your laziness get 
tho better of you. 
Learning will accumulate wonderfully if 
you add a little every day. Do not wait for 
a long period of leisure. Pick up tho hook 
and gain ono new idea, if no more. Save 
that ono, and add another as soon as you 
Srintiifk. 
istanniL 
CONCERNING COMETS. 
Tiie coment which is now visiblo in tho 
heavens, is fast disappearing from tho view 
in the northern hemisphere, its motion be¬ 
ing retrograde to the earth's orbit. Its nu¬ 
cleus appears like a star of tho second or 
third magnitude, with a luminous append¬ 
age some fifty or sixty times its diameter in 
length. 
Nothing is known of the composition or 
design of this singular appearance, but it is 
supposed to he a condensation of atomic mat¬ 
ter, commencing its career of forming a 
solid body—the incipient formation of a 
globe—a world, obeying the laws that gov¬ 
ern all matter—attracting and agglutinating 
atomic particles from some region through 
which it passes; a strata of space situate 
equi-distant between the attractive forces of 
two or moro systems—ours being one—re¬ 
turning after a voyago of hundreds or thou¬ 
sands of years to the great furnace, the 
sun, for consolidation. 
Space is supposed to bo porfect darkness, 
possessing no fixed matter to reflect or re¬ 
fract light.—a perfect aerial vacuum and in¬ 
tensely cold, and may be filled or composed 
of simple uncompound elements that form 
this globe and all its concomitants, of which 
wo know nothing. 
Tho singlo atomic gaseous particles of 
matter, may remain in equilibrium for mil¬ 
lions of years, too infinite to obey the laws 
of attraction or repulsion, till some adven¬ 
titious circumstance may cause two or more 
to impinge and adhere, when the double at¬ 
traction will attract others, and so on, till 
a mass shall secrete subject to the laws that 
govern all matter—motion commences and 
an orbit is formed of groat eccentricity.— 
At each periodic return it becomes more 
and moro condensed, and moro obedient to 
tho central power, receding less and less at 
every periodic revolution, and becoming 
loss of an oclipso and more of a circle, until 
in the millions of years of time, it is fitted 
to become a now world, or tho agent to de¬ 
stroy the old dilapidated ones, or take the 
place of thoso which will inevitably fall into 
the great attractive power, the sun. 
This hypothesis is deducted from thoself- 
existant laws of nature, that govern all 
matter, and not from tho rigid facts of ob¬ 
servation ; for tho infintessimal period since 
man’s advent, compared with the eternity of 
the beginning, has not permitted an accu¬ 
mulated series of observations upon these 
rare and itinerant strangers. 
That space is a vacuum—a region of non- 
resistance—is argued from a variety of facts, 
and none moro cogent than the stability of 
our own atmosphere, which becomes moro 
rare the further it recedes from tho earth, 
and at about 45 miles it is beyond concep¬ 
tion ethereal and rare, and yet passing thro’ 
space, at a velocity of thousands of miles 
per minute, it is not disturbed in tho slight¬ 
est degree—it has never lost ono particle in 
weight or hight. 
The tails of some comets are millions of 
miles in length, composed apparently of tho 
same materials that surround tho nucleus, 
or even the nucleus itself, through which 
tho fixod stars are sometimes visible. They 
are by some philosophers thought to bo the 
sun’s rays refractod from tho body, by oth¬ 
ers to bo atomic mattor drawn after it by 
attraction—tho same matter that forms the 
nebula) and star dust, visible in various 
parts of tho heavens, by tho now and pow¬ 
erful glasses lately introduced. 
These are all speculations, the truth of 
which wo ono day may know— Deo volente. 
August 25, 1853. L. M. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
"WISCONSIN.—No. II. 
Vegetable, Animal, Mineral, and Forest Produc¬ 
tions — Climate. 
The Vegetable productions of Wisconsin 
are wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, peas, 
beans, potatoes, flax, hops, tobacco, grass 
seed, buckwheat, hay and the products of 
the garden and orchard. According to the 
Census of 1850, this State yielded 4.286.131 
bushels of wheat; 1.988,979, of corn ; 81,- 
253 of rye; 209,602 of barley; and 3,414,- 
672 of oats. The crop of wheat and somo 
other grains was that year a comparative 
failure. This year the yield of wheat— 
which was never better — must bo an im¬ 
mense deal larger. Tho State is now yield¬ 
ing a million and a half bushels of potatoes 
annually, among which crop aro a thousand 
bushels of tho sweot kind. Upwards of a 
hundred thousand pounds of flax, and six 
thousand pounds of the seed, aro raised.— 
Tho annual value of orchard products is 
now about ten thousand dollars, and is on 
tho rapid increase; of garden products, for 
the market, thirty-five thousand. 
Tho Animal productions aro horses, horn¬ 
ed cattle, swine, sheep, butter, cheoso, do¬ 
mestic fowls, and eggs. The value of live 
stock three years ago, was estimated at $4,- 
879,385 ; and of animals slaughtered, $920,- 
178. These figuros may seom small when 
compared with similar ones in the Empire 
State, but the day is not remote, when they 
will bo quadrupled, and in fact rise above 
those of any of tho Middle or New England 
States. Nearly four million pounds of but¬ 
ter aro made hero annually, yet not one- 
fourth part of the grazing capacities of the 
State are brought into use. 
Tho Mineral productions aro lead, iron 
and copper. Of the first article tho yield 
is between forty and fifty million pounds 
annually. Tho amount shipped from Ga¬ 
lena alono, in 1852, was forty millions, and 
nine-tenths of it was probably produced in 
Wisconsin. Iron, heretofore, has yielded 
only fivo or six thousand tons, hut tho fig¬ 
ures will, from this date, be much larger.— 
An article of an excellent quality has just 
been discovered in Dodge county. It is 
said to bo equal to tho Lake Superior iron, 
and as soon as the necessai’y materials an 
fixtures for manufacturing it, can he placed 
upon the grounds, tho work will bo com¬ 
menced. The copper mines are attracting 
moro and moro tho attention of capitalists, 
and tho mining business in that department 
will no doubt soon become highly remuner¬ 
ative. 
Tho productions of the Forest aro im¬ 
mense, and just beginning to find a market. 
The Indians have recently vacated somo of 
tho best river valley in the northern part 
of the State, and those valleys in some parts 
are heavily timbered. Tho forest yield of 
the State in 1S50 was, in feet of sawn lum¬ 
ber, (pine,) 150,000,000; cubic feet of tim¬ 
ber, 20,000,000; number of staves, 100.000,- 
000; thousand shingles, 30,000; pounds of 
maple sugar, 610,976: also of wax and 
honey, cranberries, and a few other small 
items. Aside from the immense amount of 
pine lumber, oak scantling and plank and 
basswood siding and lath are manufactured 
in vast quantities. Wherever I havo trav¬ 
eled in the Stato among oak and basswrood 
timber, there is heard the clatler of the 
saw mill, driven oither by stoam or natural 
hydraulic pow’er. 
Wisconsin is unusually healthy for a 
young State. Tho atmosphere is pure; the 
summers aro not excessively hot; the air is 
dry during the winter; copious springs are 
numerous; tho large streams are full of clear 
water; and every thing tends to make tho 
climato salubrious. In the middle of the 
present summer, I have traveled hundreds 
of miles in different parts of the Stato, and 
havo found no unhealthy village—no pro- 
vailing epidemic. On this subject I hcliovo 
the following remarks of Mr. Lapiiam, au¬ 
thor of a work on tho Goorgraphy and Go- 
ology of tho State, to bo correct:—“Many 
of our most flourishing towns and settle¬ 
ments aro in the immediate vicinity of largo 
swamps and partially overflown meadows, 
yet no injurious effects upon tho general 
health, are produced. It has usually been 
found, in making now settlements in the 
western wilderness, that, as tho forests aro 
cleared away, and tho surface is thereby ex¬ 
posed to tho direct influence of tho sun and 
winds, a deleterious effect is produced on 
tho general health, tho decaying vegetable 
matter being thus suddenly made to send 
forth its malarious qualities. But in Wis¬ 
consin no such result is apprehended, or can 
be produced,—for a large proportion of tho 
country consists of oak opening and prairie, 
and may therefore ho considered as already 
cleared. The removal of tho few remaining 
* burr oaks’ cannot havo tho same effect up¬ 
on tho soil as tho cutting down of tho dense 
forests of other States. And besides thi3, 
the fires that have annually raged over the 
surface, often kindled purposely by tho In¬ 
dians, on their hunting excursions, have 
prevented that rapid accumulation of veg¬ 
etable mattor which is always found in deep 
shadvjwoods where tho firos do not so often 
penetrate.” J. Clement. 
PYRAMID IN THE AMERICAN DESERT. 
One of the parties exploring a railroad 
route to tho Pacific, has discovered in the 
vicinity of the Colorado, two hundred miles 
above its confluence with the Gila, a pyra¬ 
mid of which tho following brief account is 
furnished in a Iottor to a California news- 
paper : 
This pyramid differs, in somo respects, 
from tho Egyptian. It is, or was, more 
slender or pointed; and while thoso of Egypt 
are composed of steps or layers, receding as 
they rise, tho American pyramid was, un¬ 
doubtedly, a more finished structure. Tho 
outer surface of the blocks was evidently 
cut to an angle, that gavo the structure, 
when new and complete, a smooth or regu¬ 
lar surface from top to bottom. 
From tho present level of tho sands that 
surround it there are fifty-two distinct lay¬ 
ers of stone, that will average at least two 
feet; this gives its present height one hun¬ 
dred and four feet, so that before the top 
was displaced, it must have been, judging 
from an anglo of its sides, at least twenty 
feet higher than at present. How far it ex¬ 
tends beneath tho surface of the sands, it is 
impossible to determine without great labor. 
Such is the age of this immense structure, 
that tho perpendicular joints between the 
blocks are worn away to tho width of from 
five to ton inches at the bottom of oach joint, 
and the entire of the pyramid so much worn 
by the storms, the vicissitudos and tho cor- 
rodings of centuries, as to mado it easy of 
ascent, particularly upon ono of its sides.— 
Wo say ono of its sides, because a singular 
fact connected with this remarkable struc¬ 
ture is. that it inclines nearly ton degrees 
to ono side of the vertical or prependicular. 
There is not the slightest probability that it 
was thus erected, but tho cause of its incli¬ 
nation is not easily accounted for. 
By whom, at what age of tho world, and 
for what purpose, this pyramid was erected, 
will probably forever remain a hidden mys¬ 
tery. Tho party, in their unsuccessful at¬ 
tempt to cross tho desert at this point, in 
their wanderings, discovered other evidences 
of a nature that would seem to make it cer¬ 
tain that portion of country upon tho Colo¬ 
rado. now tho most barren, was once the 
garden and granary of the continent, and 
tho abode of millions of our race. 
THE TERRITORY 0E NEBRASKA. 
As tho white immigrants into the Indian 
territory have organized a provisional gov¬ 
ernment in Nebraska, and are about to send 
a delegate to Congress, and tho question of 
the legality of their acts will probably come 
before Congress, at its next session, the fol¬ 
lowing facts, from tho New York Express, 
are interesting : 
Nebraska is that region of tho country 
which, after Gen. Jackson’s onsot upon tho 
Cherokees and other Indians, in 1829-30, 
was consecrated for an Indian refuge—a 
perpetual Indian homo for all time and 
through all ages. This onsot, the history 
of it, tho excitement about it, and tho trea¬ 
ties after it, every reader of American histo¬ 
ry must know. Tho l’esult was tho conse¬ 
cration of Nebraska to tho Indians for over 
and for ever. There are altogethr twenty- 
four tribes, of greater or less extent, now 
on this land. They are the Delewares, un¬ 
der treaty of 1830 ; Shawnees, of Mo.; Os- 
ages, Seneca and Shawnee ; Senecas, Otta- 
was, Shawnees of Ohio ; Kaskias, Peorias, 
Wears and Piankesaws, Miss.; Sacs and Fox¬ 
es, Kicky poos, Quanpaws, Cherokees, Iowas, 
Sacs and Foxes, of Mo.; Miamis, Kansas 
and Potowatomios. Tho various treaties 
with these tribes commenced in 1818 and 
closed in 1846. In almost every treaty, 
there is this or a simizar clause on the part 
of the United States : 
“ Will grant by patent or foo simple to 
them or their heirs for over, as long as they 
shall remain a nation,” &c. 
In several of tho treaties thero is an ex¬ 
press guarantee that thero shall nover be in 
tho country so ceded any territorial govern¬ 
ment, and that “tho same shall never be- 
como subject to any Stato authority or 
laws.” Tho amount of land thus conveyed 
amounts to several millions of acres. 
Wo never supposed, and wo do not now 
supposo, that these were treaties to bo kept 
as stipulated ; hut wo havo nover supposed, 
and we will never suppose otherwise, till we 
are compelled, that they will bo broken 
without consent, without renumeration, 
without fair and full agreement. As tho 
Indians must perish, let us strip them with 
grace. 
A provisional territorial government, wo 
see, is organized in Nebraska, despite these 
treaties. Settlers are going and have gone 
thero, in the face of these treaties, and the 
strong arm of forco is threatened, if noces- 
sary, for their maintenance. Tho Federal 
Government has but ono course, if it bo just, 
to maintian tho faith of treaties while it re¬ 
negotiates. Tho Indians, foreseeing their 
fate, in all probability, will sell their soil; 
and if so, though wo rob and plunder, wo 
shall do it with something of grace if not 
of dignity. 
Wiiat is man without tho hope of futuro 
life ? How feeble ! how disconsolate ! how 
unsatisfied ! Earth it is true, has a thou¬ 
sand allurements, and opens to our tastes 
unnumbered sourcos of joy ; but in tho 
midst of them thero is a certain something 
wanting to gratify the soul, if tho hope of 
immortality be absent. 
LINES BY MILTON IN HIS OLD AGE. 
LATELY DISCOVERED, AND FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE RECENT 
OXFORD EDITION OF THE POET’S WORKS. 
I am old and blind 1 
Men point at me as smitten by God’s frown, 
Afflicted, and deserted of my mind,— 
Yet I am not cast down. 
I am weak, yet strong,— 
I murmur not that I no longer see,— 
Poor, old and helpless, I the more belong, 
Pa!her Supreme! to Thee! 
O merciful One! 
When men are fartherest, then Thou art most near; 
When friends pass by—my weakness shun— 
• Thy chariot I hear. 
Thy glorious face 
Is leaning towards mo,—and its holy light 
Shines in upon my lonely dwelling place, 
And there is no more night. 
On my bended l<uc-e 
I recognize Thy purpose clearly shown— 
My vision Thou hast dimmed that I may see 
Thyself, Thyself alone. 
I have naught to fear; 
This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing,— 
Beneath it I am almost sacred—here 
Can come no evil thing. 
011 1 I seem to stand 
Trembling where foot or mortal ne’er hath been, 
Wrapped in the radiance of Thy sinless land. 
Which eye hath never seen. 
Visions come and go— 
Shapes of resplendent beauty round mo throng— 
From angels lips I seem to hear the flow 
Of soft and holy song. 
It is nothing now, 
When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, 
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow, 
The earth in darkness lies. 
In a purer clime 
My being fills with rapture,—waves of thought, 
Roll in upon my spirit—strains sublime 
Break over me unsought. 
Give me now my lyre 1 
I feel the stirrings of a gift divine, 
Within my bosom glows unearthly fire 
Lit by no skill of mine. 
COMING HOME. 
Coming home. Glad words! Tiro water 
dashes upon tho prow of the gallant vessel. 
She stands on the deck, and while tlfife winds 
woo her ringlets, look anxiously For tho 
headlands of homo. In thought thoro are 
warm kisses on her lips, and hands on hdr 
temple. 
Many arms press her to a throbbing 
heart and one voico sweeter than all tho 
rest, whispers, “ My child !” Coming homo! 
Full to bursting in her young heart, and she 
seeks tho cabin to give vent in blessed 
tears. 
Coming homo ! Tho best room is set 
apart for his chamber. Again and again 
have loving hands folded away tho curtains 
and shook out the drapery. Tho vases are 
filled overy day with fresh ilowers, and every 
evening tremulous, loving voices whisper, 
“He will be here to-morrow, perhaps.” 
At oach meal tho table is set with super¬ 
fluous caro. The newly embroidered slip¬ 
pers, the gown, the study cap that ho will 
like so well, aro prepared to meet his eye. 
That student brother! Ho could leap 
tho waters, and fly like a bird homo. Tho’ 
ho has seen all the splendor of olden 
citios, there is but ono spot that tills his 
heart, and that spot he will soon reach— 
“sweet home.” 
Coming homo! What sees tho sun- 
browned sailor in tho darkling waters ? He 
smiles ! Thero are pictures there of a blue 
eyed babe and its mother. 
IIo sees her watching from her cottage 
door; ho foels the heating of her heart in 
the pulso of his own, when a familiar foot¬ 
fall touches only the threshold of memory. 
Tho bronzed sailor lovos his home; as 
an eagle, whoso wing seeks oftenest tho 
tracks of tho air, loves his mountain oyrie 
—bis treasures are there. 
Coming home ! Sadly tho worn Califor¬ 
nian folds his arms, and sinks back upon 
his fevered pillow. What to him is his yel¬ 
low gold ? Oh ! for one sweet smilo of kin¬ 
dred ! But that may not ho. Lightly they 
tread by his bedside, watch the dim eye, 
moisten tho parched lips. 
A pleasant lace bends over him—a rough 
palm gently pushes back the moist hair, and 
a familiar voice whispers—“Cheer up my 
friend, wo are in port, you aro going home.” 
The film falls from the sick man’s eye.— 
Homo is near ! Can ho bo almost there ? 
A thrill sends the blood circling through 
his limbs—what! shall he see those eyes be- 
foro tho night of darkness settles down for¬ 
ever ? Will his babes fold their little arms 
about him and press their cherry lips to his? 
What wonder if now vigor gathers in that 
manly chest! Ho feels strength in every 
nerve ; strength to reach home ; strength to 
bear tho overwhelming joy of meeting those 
dear ones. 
Coming home! Tho very words are 
rapturous—bear import of everything sweet 
and holy in tho domestic life — nay more, 
they aro stamped with tho seal of heaven ; 
for tho angels say of tho dying saint, “ IIo 
is coming homo.” 
Jewish Worship. —The following is part 
of tho daily prayer of every devout Jew :— 
“Blessed art thou, O Lord our Cod, King 
of tho univorso, who hast not mado mo a 
woman.” Tho Jewess on the other hand, 
says :—“ Blessed art thou, O, Lord, King of 
tho universe, who hast made me according 
to thy will.” In a Jewish synagogue, tho 
fomales constitute no part of tho congrega¬ 
tion, consequently they are separated from 
the males—nor aro they allowed to join in 
any part of tho public worship. All tho 
dutios of congregational worship, whether 
in a private minyan , or in tho synagogue, 
devolve entiroly upon tho male members. 
