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The Wool Prospect.

1t is manifestly unwise to destroy an in
terest of such magnitude because circum-
stances, temporarily existing, have dimin-
ished its profits. 1t is unwise to abandon
it because its enemies have been able to
cripple it by excessive importation during
the tendency of the question of its protec-
ton. 1t is an old game, hitherto success
full with them first to glut the market on
the eve of the imposition of a duty, and af-
forwards to declare the resultant stagaation
in prices to be the direct effect of the law
All the mischief has been done that can be
done. The most potent element of cure is
time, in which to consume the immense
surplus of foreign woods which are thrown
upon the market, primarily for the profit
of evading the coming duty, incident
ally for the Encouragement such influx
would bring upon domestic manufacture.
Wool-growers who hold on may expect a
gradual improvement. which will be sure
to follow, unless financial disturbances I'M
expectedly arise.-Agricultural Report.
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Sayinu Queens.

Some time ago one of my colonies of
italian bees attempted to swarm out, but
1 arrested it, and prevented the desertion
by capturing the queen. On letting her
run back into the hive the returning bees
attempted to kill her. | Gagged her for
protection, placing the cage between the
two central brood combs. Next day the
same colony attempted twice more to
swarm out, but had to return, as the queen
could not follow the bees. As the queen
was very valuable one, removed her to
a queenless colony, and substituted for her
a queen cell nearly ready to hatch. Ex-
amining the colony the following day,
found that the queen cells had been de-
stroyed, and the bees were building others
from their own brood.
In every instance where a colony at
tempts to swarm out, the bee-keeper will
do well to take away the queen, and use
her to supply some queenless stock, if he
has any Such removal is useful pre-
caution as, with me, in number of instan-
ces, the bees killed their queens, when for
any reason she was unable to accompany
them in their proposed desertion.-Bec
journal.
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DANCING.

A distinguished clergyman, in one of his
sermons recently made these remarks on
dancing:
People ask, frequently, DO you think
there is any harm in dancing| No, do
not think there is much good in it. Do
you object, then, to dancing parties?' No
not of themselves | do not. But where
unknit youth, where unripe muscles, where
unhardened nerves are put through excess
of excitement, with stimulants, with irreg-
ular food, and food that is unwholesome;
where gayety that is excessive is indul-
ged in by the young all through the night
when they should be sleeping, l object to
it. why? Because it is dancing? No,
but because it is dissipation. 1t is taking
the time that God unquestionably meant
for sleep, and putting it to the highest state
of exhilaration and excitement. The fault
does not lie in the fact that they dance
Why, if it were as the peasants dance; if
it were in the open air, and under a tree,
and upon the grass, and in the comely
hours of a sunshiny day, it might be prai-
sed, even. 1t would not be virtue but
it would belong to those negative things
that are beautiful But the wassail of the
night, and the wastefulness, l will not say
of precious hours, but of precious nerves
for hours are not so precious as nerves
are-the eating out of life by indulgence
is dreadful. And to see it pursued night
after night, week after week, and through
the whole season, is painful in the ex-
| IRENE"
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Gooseberries Without MiIdew.

In reply to correspondent who asks if
gooseberries can be grown without mildew
ing, the Gardeners Monthly says Moth
ing is easier than to grow gooseberries. 1t
is a mountain fruit, and does not like hot
soil. Plant it so that the hot sun will pour
down ON the clearly cultivated earth, so
hot that you can fry beefsteak or poach
an egg on it, and you cannot get gooseber-
ries. But set your plants across the lot in
pretty thick row, and pile up above the
plants five or six inches deep of old wood
brush, old corn roots, old leather boots,
pots, or kettles, even, if you cannot get
anything else, so that the roots will always
be near the surface, and yet cool, and we
will guarantee you fortune, if you choose
to plant enough. In the best gooseberry
plantation of Philadelphia, it is no unusu-
al sight to see rows of them which have
been in one place perhaps twenty years, so
mounded up with rubbish that they look
as if they were planted ON ridges two or
three feet above the level of the earth, and
every year bearing abundantly. Not only
in the gooseberry, but in all fruits, the
public must come to this fact, that the
roots must be kept cool and at the surface.
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Butter---QuaIity of Cows.

Some COWS will make fine yellow butter;
others will yield equally much or more,
but it will be of a chalky, soft quality, and
in summer frothy. This is in the COW,
and we presume inherited. You cannot
change it, however you may feed or treat
the animal. The tenderest, sweetest gras-
ses and white clover, and the greatest
cleanliness and care, will have little or no
effect the butter will be white and soft
and unfit for use, and can be passed off on
ly when put 1.-THE milk or creamy with that
of other or better COWS.
This is our experience thoroughly.
3 brother of ours had two cows, one an
excellent one, giving, early in the season,
before pasture, twelve pounds week of
very superior butter. The cow, three
years old, having her second calf, was the
daughter of COW that used to make in
June fifteen pounds of butter per week,
and in quality unsurpassed. The daugh-
ter favored the mother in appearance also.
Here was true hereditary descent of good
qualities But the other COW was Of diff
ferent cast. She had the look somewhat
of Jersey, very quiet and pleasant and q
great yielder of milk We used to call
her the little Attorney. She surpassed the
other COW in the quantity of her milk, and
in richness also, it was thought So a test
was instituted. 1t was found, to the sur
prise of all, that the little Attorney" made
the very butter we spoke of, white almost
as the milk from which it was made, and
so soft it could not be packed. That Of
the other COW now showed its perfect quail
ity, solid, yellow, aromatic. 1t was this
butter that saved the other and made it or
dinarily good, but not superior, as wal
usual with cows kept on the premises
There are doubtless many such cows yield
ing bad butter, but apparently good milk
and it may be good for cheese. We have
had them in our herds, first and last, quite
a sprinkhng of them. 1t is the business o
every keeper of cows to see that these in
dividuals are weeded out, or at least no
bred from. In this way alone can the diff
ficulty be got rid Of Avoid male tina
has any suspicion of such blood in him
and dispose of the cows to the butcher
| Country Gentleman.
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Power in a Church,

The Liberal Christian now and then puts
point with great business and force. 1t
thus compares and contrasts the religious
work done at the gathering of multitude,
and that done through the faithful effort
of few united and consecrated souls:
A great audience wherever it can be
gathered unified. A great audience wher-
ever it can be gathered and worthily adj
dressed even for an hour, though the indi-
viduals comprising it never meet again on
earth. The TRANSPORTATION scene and ex
perience has paid for itself million times,
even though no tabernacle was built on
the sacred Mount The Pentecost is sub
lime, is poetry and prophecy, even though
no human chemistry has been able to crys-
| talize it into an institution. No way has
yet been discovered for instituting inspir-
alton, or organizing rapture, or taking out
letters patent for the Holy Ghost. Have
all the great meetings, all the enthusiasm
of freshly gathered crowds, all the fervor
that newly awakened minds and splendid
occasions give? We do not have halt
enough of them. Our religion is in the
ruts for the want of broad and solid road
bed of methods adapted to the larger wants
and special exigenees of a gregarious and
democratic people. We have yet to learn
the meaning and apply the practical truth
of the revival system. But this is not the
only, nor the most important, nor the most
effectual method of religious influence. AL
most every society that has ever amounted
to anything, has sprung from small begin
nings. Almost every church that is per
manence and power in the world, ha
grown up out of the cooperating faith ant
love of few congenial souls What i
wanted to build up a church and do grea
christian work in any and every communi
ty today, is not a crowd of people cravin
excitement, and eager to witness the las
exhibition of oratory; but a few earnes
devoted men and women, who know an
love each other, and count it a joy to wor
/, together, spending and being spent for
4 common faith and cause. A few such SOU
will make society, a church, reforms
ton, a new earth anywhere in time; an
$ they viii draw the like minded and the lik
e hearted, all who are fit for such compar
II ionship, into their circle. The nucleus
a permanent society or church, the hes
! and heart and soul of any effectual NOV
!, ment of reform, the organizing princip
:, which is the secret of growth, continuan
q and power, are always hid in the han
and faith of two or three
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The Golden Graf,

The grain the grain the beautiful grain
Blessing the furnishing earth in her pain,
Making her smile with glee.
Lifting in praise each bright golden crown.
As it drinks the dew the Father sends down,
Counting the SUMS warm lover-like frown,
Returning it smilingly.
The grain! the grain! the beautiful sheaves!
A song of joy their rustling weaves,
For the gracious gift the earth receives,
Given most royalty.
From every hill side, every plain,
Comes the farmers song as he reaps the grain
And the summer breeze watts on the strain,
In widest harmony.
He pOurs DER earth her trimming horn,
That the valleys may laugh with corn.
While hope, with her death trance, rises born
The brighter days to see.
Our Father, we thank Thee! the beautiful grain
Brings blessing like that, when the soft sum.
mer rain
Comes down on the parched earth, nor bids it in
vain
Rejoice and hope ever in Thee
Hope ever, and trust Thy thought. not like ours
Thou sendest the drouth, thou bringest the flow
ers,
Withholdeth the grain. then with magical show
ers,
A glorious harvest we see.
And ca for the grain the heaufifuI grain
The golden. the laughing, the glad refrain,
Blessing the furnishing earth in her pain
We offer our worship to Thee!
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The Apple Worn----Dr. Trimble's
Remedy.

We gave some notice few weeks since
of the successful application of the hay
rope az a trap to catch the larve of the ap-
pie worm or codling moth, as shown by
specimens of the bark and trunk covered
with the cocoons of the insects which had
crowded beneath these hay ropes as hid
ing place to effect their transformation.
Having since had an opportunity of visit
ing DR. Trimble's grounds at Newark, \.
J., he pointed out number of experiments
in the course of trial in his own grounds
and those of his neighbOrs; in these in
stances the ropes had been placed around
the trunks about week previously, and
had already caught large numbers, some
of which had changed to the pupa state,
and Others had just reached their hiding
place, and were yet Larvae. The whole
number of insects thus caught on one tree
in single season had in extreme cases
amounted to about thousand, proving
conclusively the value of tt, remedy. In
some cases the number of pears on young
trees which were infested with the worm
had been carefully counted when the ropes
were applied. The same, or very nearly
the same number of insects had been sub
sequently caught in the trap set for them,
affording satisfactory evidence that the
remedy might be relied on for effecting
their general destruction. Trees which
formerly lost their fruits were now, under
this treatment bearing tolerably fair crops !;
complete determination could not, of
course, be expected, while the neighbors
entirely neglected the remedy.
These nay ropes should be long enough
! to pass two or three times about the trunk
of the tree, and should be applied as early
in the season as the young fruit is observed
to be affected at the blossom or calyx end.
DIR. Trimble applies two belts of the kind,
one, two or three feet high, and the other
higher. Insects are found under both, and
he thinks those under the higher belt de-
scend the tree before the fruit drops, and
those found under the lower, crawl up from
the fallen fruit on the ground. As former.
ly stated, We have been less successful il
several trials of this remedy, but we in
tend to repeat it under varying circumstan'
ces, and perhaps may learn the cause o
the partial failure as applied by DR.. Trim
Bile, nothing appears simpler or easier, ant
| tn he attended with more uniformly favor
able results Country Gentleman.
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Virtues of Rorax.

1t may not be generally known how very
valuable borax is in the various purposes
of household use We find it to be the
very best cockroach exterminator yet dis
coyered-a half pound costing but fifty
cents, has completely cleared large house
formerly swarming with them, SO that the
appearance of one month is quite nov
city. There is something peculiar either
in the smell or touch ofborax which is GER
tain death to cockroaches. They will fee
in terror from it, and never appear again
where it has once been placed. 1t is also
a great advantage that borax is perfectly
harmless to human beings, hence no dam
ger from poisoning.
1t is also valuable for laundry purposes.
The washwomen of Holland and Belgium,
so proverbially clean, and who get up their
linens so beautifully white, used refined
borax as washing powder instead of soda,
in the proportion of a large handful of Boz
rax powder to about ten gallons boiling
water; they save in soap nearly half. All
the large washing establishments adopt the
same mode. For laces, cambrics, ETC., an
extra quantity is used, and crinolines ire
quiring to be made stiff a strong solution
is necessary. Borax being neutral salt
does not in the slightest degree injure the
texture of the linen. Its effect is to softer
the hardest water, and therefore it should
be kept on the toilet table.
As way of cleansing the hair, nothing
is better than a solution of borax in water
1t leaves the scalp in most clearly condi
ton, and the hair is just sufficiently stiff
ened to retain its place. This stiffness
however, can be readily removed, if objec
tionable, by washing with water. Bora,
is an excellent dentrifce. Dissolved il
water, it is one of the best of tooth washes
In hot countries, it is used in combination
with tartaric acid and bi-carbonate of soda
as cooling beverage.
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Fates of the Apostles,

Matthew is supposed to have suffered
martyrdom, or was slain in the city of
Ethiopia.
Mark was dragged through the streets
in Alexandria, Egypt, till he expired.
Luke was hanged to an olive tree in
Greece.
John was put in boiling cauldron at
Rome, but escaped death. He died a nat
ural death at Ephesus, Asia.
james, the Great, was beheaded at Je-
rusalem.
James, the less, was thrown from pin
nacle, and beaten to DEATH
Philip was beheaded.
Bartholomew was skinned alive.
Andrew was crucifed and pounded while
dying.
Thomas was run through with lance.
Simon was crucified.
Matthias was stoned.
Barnabas was stoned to death.
Paul was beheaded by the tyrant Nero
at Rome.
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Agricultural Facts.

A good definition of model farmer is
one that induces field to do double duty
without hurting ITSELF
The cream from which the best butter is
made does not become warmer than So de-
grees F., nor cooler than So.
The relation of forest surface to nude
surface on the earth affects rainfall, health,
happiness, and may check national devel
opment.
The crop returns for 1869, as compared
with 1868, condense as follows less corn,
more cotton, less tobacco, more wheat, more
peaches, more potatoes, more hay, butter
and cheese, less hops.
Three definitions: To mulch soil is to
cover it with some vegetable refuse; to
manure is to blend with soil substances
rich in plant food; to cultivate is to stir of
ten and root out weeds.
Good farming is thus defined: Itconsists
in producing as great quantities as posi-
BILE of vegetables that do not exhaust the
soil, and selling them in an animal rather
than a vegetable form.
In this month push forward the poultry,
grasshoppers they can find, but feed some
grain. 1t is easier to make pound of
poultry meat now than half pound in De-
cember.
There is no certain rule about plaster on
clover. In some situations bushel will
yield tun, in others it does no more good
than so much road dust Everywhereit is
worth trial.
High feeding is the secret of the model
farmers success; his COWS are induced to
| take another lock, his men are helped twice,
| his horses find full managers, his hogs full
troughs, he feeds his crops with good ma
nures, and his mind with good reading.
| Few can know the true condition of a
falling merchant, but bad farming is pro-
claimed from afar, the roadside thistle and
burdock show it, the tumble down fences
write out his shiftlessness, the squalling
pigs announce it, bony cows, leaning barns,
poor horses, an implanted house, and rag
weed everywhere are swift witnesses against
him.
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Ruskin on Judas,


John Ruskin, in the "Crown of Wild
Olives" characterizes in his trenchant
style those who like to make money as inn
itators of Judas:
Wedogreat injustice to Iscariot in think
ing him wicked above all commonwicked-
ness. He was only common money low
er, and, like all money lovers, did not I'M
derstand Christ; couldn't make out the
worth of him or meaning of him. He didn't
want him to be killed threw his money
away instantly and hanged himself. How
many Of our present money seekers, think
you, would have the grace to hang them
selves, whOmever they killed? But Judas
was a common, selfish, muddle-headed,
pilfering fellow; his hand always in the
bag of the poor, not caring for them. He
didn't understand Christ, yet he believed
in him much more than most of us do ;
had seen him do miracles, thought he was
quite strong enough to shift for himself,
and he Judas, might as well make his own
by perquisites out of the affair; Christ
would come out of it well enough and he
have 80 pieces. Now, that is the money
seekers idea all over the world. He doesn't
hate Christ, but can't understand Him; he
doesn't care for ILLNESSES no good in that
benevolent business, but makes his own
little job of it, atall events, come what will.
And thus out of every mass of men you
have certain number of bagmen-your
"free first" men, whose main object is to
make money; and they do make it, in all
sorts of unfair ways, chiefly by the weight
and force of money itself, or what is called
the power of capital; that is to say the
power which money, once obtained, has
over the labor of the poor, so that the cap
italist can take all its produce to himself
except the laborer's food. That is the
modern Judah way of carrying the bag
and bearing what is put therein
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How to Snail YOUR Preacher.

l. Tell your neighbors that he is man
of very ordinary ability.
2. Keep it before the people that he can
do no good.
8. Magnify every fault that you see in
him.
4. Don't cooperate with him in any eff
fort he may make to advance the interests
of the church.
5. Stay away from meeting when you
can possibly find an excuse.
6. Show to the world that you have no
interest in his welfare.
The above rules faithfully followed will
ruin the influence of any preacher, espec-
tally if a large number of his Pensioners
follow them.
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-. aDe
Witty CIeruymen.

The Chicago Advance contains the fol-
lowing:
This seeking after wit and something
amusing by the clergy to secure popularity
is evidently falling away from the SIM
plicity and purity of the gospel. The teach
ers of christianity in high places, who say
that ministers must have meetings that
care to sparkle with intellectual vivacity,"
and that are "a feast Of reason and flow of
SOUL" and who depreciate the old way
which "led one from meeting of christian
ministers in any place to expect much good
and often the result was a precious revival
of religion, and who look on such meetings
as 1ugubrious, sanctimonious, wo-begone'
such men represent only an order of the
clergy who are eminently successful in
preaching religion out of people,"
The deep and awful earnestness of Paul
was what gave him influence. When ad-
dressing the elders of the church after long
laboring with them he appears in no mood
W HdNt Will tIel1l u llLQe Oh VIII anu uliTtu ,
but talks with the solemnity of the grave.
He says: "Ye know from the first day
that | came into Asia, after what man
ner | have been with you at all seasons,
serving the Lord with all humility of mind
and with many tears; how kept back
nothing that was profitable, and taught
publicly, and from house to house, testify
ing repentance toward God and faith to-
ward our Lord Jesus Christ; wherefore |
am pure from the blood of all for have
not Stunned to declare all the counsel
of God. Take heed, therefore, unto your
selves, and to all the flock over which the
Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to
feed the church of God, which he hath
purchased with his own blood Therefore
watch and remember that | ceased not to
warn every one, night and day, with tears. u
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The Hem of His Garments.

1t is good to bring such thoughts as these
home to us over and over again:
Jesus stood within the walls of his own
city; the babe of Bethlehem born in an
humble Manager, the son of carpenter,
had grown up to manhOod's estate; daily
he had walked their streets to his toll, I'M
noticed by the great world.
And now the "man of the wilderness"
came forth preaching of the same Jesus +;
they stood by Jordan's waters and Jesus
was baptized.
He taught at the corners of their streets,
he healed their sick from the lowly fish
ermen he gathered around him twelve dis
ciples who were to tread in his own divine
footsteps.
He had performed miracles until his
fame had gone throughout the land. He
had come down from the mountain, after
delivering that mastery sermon on thu
mount, and the sick and afflicted gathered
around him, and as he was healing them ,
woman, who had had the hand of disease
laid on her for twelve years, came ant
touched the hem of his garment
How weary she must have been. Sh'
had tried physician after physician; sh
had spent all her substance, and still he
disease had not left her, and now she ha
come to Jesus to be healed. What blesse
words these must have been to this weary
Borrowing woman, " Daughter, be of goo
comfort, thy FAITH hath made thee whole.
Jesus has left us, we may not behold hin
in our streets, or even touch the hem of h
garment, but his divine, tender words Al
left to US, and the faith Of that woman wi
make us every whit whole.--Fdleonridge.