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" Straininu at a Gnat. :"

He pay the 1.-THE of mint and aniSe and cum
min and have omitte the weightier matters of
the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. MATTHEW
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Two noted Greek pirates were once cap
tured and condemned to death at Malta.
1t was observed that the beefand anchovies
among the stores of captured English
ship had alone remained untouched. They
were asked the cause of this singular pro-
cedure, and replied that it was the time of
the great fast of the church. They would
not commit such 4 sin as tasting of fish or
flesh. They were plundering and murder
ing men, women and helpless children but
they would not transgress the canons of
their church by eating meat upon fast day.
They looked to their strict observance of
these things as a merit, for which God
would grant them success in their infamous
work
A man came down from the hills to a
Neapolitan priest to confess a sin which
lay heavy upon his conscience. In the busy
season of Lent, while engaged in making
cheese, some of the whey had fallen upon
his lips, and, miserable man that he was,
he had swallowed it.
Free my distressed conscience" he be-
sought, from its agonies, by absolving me
from my guilt"
Have you no other sins to confess p
asked the priest.
mo, I do not know that have commit
ted any other.
We often hear of robberies and murder:
committed in your mountains. Have you
never been concerned in these?'
''Yes, but all of us do these things. We
never account them as crimes needing con
fession and absolutiOn."
We may smile at such type Of eonsci
entiousness, but if we search strictly GU
own hearts, may we not find there SOM
similar "straining at a gnat,' which, witt
cur greater light, is far more ineXcusable
Are we not all tempted to think more of
strict outward observance of our religion
duties, than of deep, inward, hourly com
munion with Jesus IS s. Times.
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Albany Farmers Club.

The club is progressing finely. Last
Monday eve. the subject was FERTILIZERS"
and though there were but few in, by the
way several of our farmers were out of
town, yet the subject brought out several
valuable and startling suggestions touching
this important branch of agriculture. The
statement was made and well sustained,
that more than half of the fertilizing prop
critics of barn and barnyard manures were
allowed to go to waste, so far. The prac-
tice of fermenting and manipulating those
manures in the ordinary way, without the
use of powerful absorbents to take up the
volatile and liquid substances, together
with the injudicious methods adopted by
some farmers of misapplying these manures,
emphatically answers the important ques-
ton so frequently asked, viz: Why is it
that our farms are growing less and less
productive9 This waste should be redeem
ed, and how can or shall it be done is the
question.
Mr.. Marckris thought by the use of muck
corrected by a proper proportion of lime,
so as to receive the suds and other liquids
from the house, would be very great help
in this direction; also the use of dry pull
verified muck for bedding of cattle in the
stable, thus composing solids and liquids,
and saving the latter, which in point OF
fact is worth as much as the former, and
is generally lost or nearly SO.
J. c. Dow spoke of the practice adopted
by A n. Mason a few years ago. Thi:
was explained thus: Below his stable fool
were watts, or water-tight boxes, so construc.
ted as to receive the liquid excrements and
hold them. At proper times, with pump
this liquid was raised to cart, arranged
similar to those used in some of our cities
to dampen the streets. With this cart this
liquid was applied to the land as a TOT
dressing. The result was, an increasing
growth Of grass, till, as Mr. Dow says, Thu
farm was in reality the most productive
farm in that town.
Mr.. Sanders thought that all these ar
rangements cost so much that they would
not pay, but would go for using muck 70
an absorbent in the stable and also in tn
hog pen. 'Twould not do for farmers t,
hire help to carry out manure in pail
when wages are so high.
The utility of ploughing in green grass o
grain was well illustrated by Mr.. F. Ray
nolds. have not time to do his remark
justice on this subject. A. HI. Darling
said that he was aware from his own ex
perience that the loss of fertilizers from
the practice of throwing away the suds an
other liquids from the house was yer
great He had composted with the vie,
of saving this and found it paid
n. NJ. DARLING.
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Quickly.

Quickly young man. Life is short. A
great work is before you. If you would
succeed in business, win your way to honor
and save your soul, you must do with your
might what your hands find to do. You
must work fast and well. The sluggard
dies The wheels of time roll over him,
and crush him while he sleeps. Aim high
and work hard. Life is worth the living,
and heaven worth the gaining, and all will
be won orlost while the day goeth away.
Quickly, We men of business and might!
Your life is more than half gone already.
You have passed the crest of the hill, and
are looking toward the setting sun. That
young man who walks by your side, and
calls you father, is growing tall and man.
like, and begins to talk of the great things
he will do. He will increase, but you will
decrease. Ifyou have anything yet to do
for God or your own soul, you must do it
quickly. Shadows are falling, and the
night cometh.
Quickly, We aged men! Once you thought
three score and ten to be an endless time,
and that so many years would never pass
away. They have come and gone. They
have left their mark upon you. Have they
left any monuments of good done, or made
record of God glofifed? You have come
to infrmities and trembling. Have you
come to mastery faith, and hope that looks
steadfastly to the end?
All quickly We aged fathers and gray
headed siresl Already the messengers OF
death begin to tender their services, and
the end is at hand.
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WASHING SWeated Horses.

A correspondent of the London Field
says he washes sweated horses in cold wa
ter with beneficial results, both in summer
and in winter After washing, the animal
should be rubbed dry, as far as practicable,
and the legs especially. Should the hair
on them be too long to admit of this being
sufficiently done, flannel bandages should
be put on, and wooden rug thrown loose
ly over without a roller. In the course of
an hour the horse will be tolerably dry,
and should then have another rub down,
and be clothed in the ordinary manner
If horses were treated in a more rational
manner than is often the case, with pure
air and scrupulous cleanliness, disease
would be far less common,
What is more refreshing to man after
hard days shooting, or other luxurious
exercise, than a warm or cold bath? And
| believe it to be equally so to the horse.
To the tired hunter, warm foot bath and
fermentation, if the animal is sufficiently
quiet, is most refreshing.
Some years ago l visited the royal sta
bles at Buckingham Palace. There, as
was informed-and at the time myself
witnessed the operation-eyery horse, sum-
mer and winter, was washed from head to
foot with cold water, after returning from
work, no matter whether it had been out
one hour or six. After the ablution, scrap
ing, rubbing, etc, kind of web cloth was
thrown over to admit of evaporation, anc
the horse was afterwards rubbed down anc
clothed as usual in the course of an houl
or two consider the plan rational anC
conducive to the health of the horse, if on
ly ordinary care is taken.
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Poultry.

Feed your poultry on raw onions chop
ped fine, mixed with other food, about
twice week. 1t is better than a dozen
cures for chicken cholera. Fowls exposed
to dampness are apt to be troubled with
catarrh, which will run to Group if not at
tended to. Red pepper mixed with soft
feed, fed several times week, will remove
the cold. Pulverized charcoal, given oc-
casionally, is a preventive of putrid affec-
tons, to which fowls are very subject
Sitting hens can be cured by putting water
in vessel to the depth Of one inch, put
ting the hen into it, and covering the top
of the vessel twenty-fOur hours. The yes
sci should be deep enough to allow the hen
to stand. Pulverized chalk administered
with softer feed will cure diarrhpa. This
disorder is caused by want of variety in
food, or by too much green food. Garlic
fed once or twice week is excellent for
colds.-Gardsncr's Magazine.
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Abuse of Poultry.

\ writer in the Working Farmer ex-
claims: Eggs forty cents dozen And
the hens have no place open to them where
they can lay an egg that will not be frozen
in thirty minutes The horse has stall
the hog pen, the dog a kennel, all OF
them as warm as they should be for their
occupants comfort but there is no apart
ment about the premises for hens, whose
eggs are worth over three cents apiece
They are treated like feathered Ishmael-
ties by both men and beast. The horses
snap at them, if they venture near them to
find roost; the boys attack them with
pitch-forks, if they hy to keep themselves
from freezing by burying themselves in the
hay on the NOW; and the very dogs bark
at them" and bite them too, if they take
refuge under the barn or corn crib Of all
the living things about farm, there are
none, if we except the rats, that have SO
little attention paid to them as the hens. -
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A Complaint Answered.

Bishop Clark once met female parish
Toner on the street whom he had not seen
for several weeks. His cordial greeting
was met by a frigid reserve on her part
He inquired the cause. She replied:
81 have been sick for three weeks, and
you did not visit me once"
Indeed" replied the Bishop, 81 am
sorry to hear that. Were you sick enough
to have physician"
Certainly; he came every day."
'How did he know you were sick.'
81 sent for him, sir" was her reply.
"True," answered the Bishop, "and if
you had sent for me, would have come
too" The point ofthe anecdote can pos
sibly be seen by people who sometimes
complain of the inattention of their pas
tors.
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Butter in Brine.

Messrs. Editors,-Your article on keep
ing butter in brine, in the Observer of the
18th induces me to give my experience.
l have kept house near 40 years, and have
always kept my butter in brine, with the
best success. But, instead of wrapping
my butter with muslin, keep my salt in
a muslin bag. The advantages are, that
you are always aware that there is plenty
of salt to keep the brine at full strength,
and no particles of salt, or dirt that may
be mixed with 1t, will adhere to the butter.
| think that no person who should adopt
this mode will try any other, and it will
be matter of surprise where the salt goes
to. The bag will need replenishing quite
often.-X. in ~ Y. Obsercer.
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PROGRESS in PRAYER.

When the daily noon prayer meeting
was started in London, everybody began
praying for the world, the whole world
About the second week the prayers began
to be limited, in the main, to Europe, the
third week to England, the fourth to Lon
don and about the fifth week the burden
of prayer began to be, 40 Lord, have mer-
cy on me; break up the fallow ground OF
my soul give me broken heart" And
then, and not till then, Gods Spirit came
down upon the meetings in power.
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A Form If CannibaIiSm.

II were to take you to my house, and
say that I had an exquisitely fat man, and
wished you to join me in eating him, your
indignation could be restrained by nothing.
You would pronounce me to be crazy
There is not man in New York so mean
that he would not put down man who
would propose to have banquet off from
a fellow man, cutting steaks out of him, and
eating them. And that is nothing but feast
ing on the human body; while they all
will sit down, and take mans soul, and
look for the tender loins, and invite their
neighbors to little tit-bits. They will take
mans honor and name, and broil them
over the Goals of their indignation, and fill
the whole room with the aroma thereof,
and give their neighbors piece, and watch
him, and wink as he tastes it. You all eat
men up, and you are cannibals, every one
of you-and worse. You will be glad to
get off, at Gods judgment seat, with the
plea: 81 only ate the outside" You only
eat the souls-the finest elements of men.
You are more than glad if you can whisper
a word that is derogatory to a neighbor, or
his wife. or his daughter.
And yet, by an oblique sentence, you
make unfavorable impressions on the mind
of the person addressed, in respect to the
subject fyour criticism. "Ah!' he says,
81 had not been informed" and he goes
to the next neighbor and says, "Mr. So
and-so says this and that about So-and-so."
And that neighbor says, Indeed" and
runs to his partner, and they both run to
their wives, and the thing goes all over
town. Everybody becomes an unpaid dew
IFS mail carrier, and goes here and there,
| the result? 1t is damnation to some poor
creature that is unconscious, or that is in
nocent, or that, if guilty, OughttO be pitied
and succored, rather than condemned. But
ali the morsel is too exquisite to be lost
Here is the soul of persons hope for this
world, and you have it on your fork, and
you cannot refrain from tasting it, and give
it to some one else to taste. You are can
nibals eating mems honor and name, and
rejoicing in it-and that, too, when you dc
not always know that the things charged
against them are true; when, in ninety
nine cases out of hundred, the probabili
ties are that they are not true.-Beecher.
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REGIMES.

Loy Cake.-One pound of sugar, one
pound of butter, ten eggs, two pounds of
flour, one pound of English currants, one
pound of citron, flavor with vanilla, two
teaspoonfuls of baking powders.
Tea Cakes.-Six cups of -four, four tea
spoons cream tartar, mixed well into the
-four, one cup of butter, four beaten eggs,
two cups of milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda.
Crullers.-Two teacups of sugar, two OF
sweet milk, five tablespoonful of melted
lard, two eggs, two quarts of sifted -four,
five teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix
sugar, eggs and lard well together before
mixing milk and -four
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Experiment in Feeding Cows.

In the correspondence OF the Ohio Far
mer occurs the following: Il have had
twenty-five cows t. milk, and found timo-
thy and wild grass the best. To feed in
winter, use shorts, ground oats, shorts and
corn meal shorts make more milk than
clear meal oats ground do better than eli
Their; but corn meal with shorts make rich
er milk, but no more of it. have fed po-
tatoes largely; they do tolerably well, but
milk day or two old gets strong Ruta-
baga turnips and carrots would not do for
me to make butter from the milk; but OF
all the roots l ever tried. sugar beet is the
best. I heard pumpkins were good to
make milk and tried them. l had twelve
mixers; l divided them; fed six with
pumpkins three weeks, and allrun on grass
alike. Those that had pumpkins gave not
gill more milk than the others, but I be-
lieve it was little richer.
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Definition of " Happy.''

What does happy mean? A little girl
lately said it is "to feel as if you wanted to
give all your things to your little sister"
You may smile, butt scarcely see why you
should. This little girl feltthatt to be hap
py shemus be unselfsh. She was right,
and you know it. Did you ever feel hap
Ply when you had selfish feelings in your
breast? ! guess not.
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Gospel Addition.

How vast is the difference between saints .
on earth and saints in heaven. They bow
before God with pure devotion and wor-
ship him with perpetual rapture. They ,
peer into the marvels Of the Almighty's |
domain with eye uudimmed and even be-
hold his face with gaze which is at once
satisfying and transforming. They weep
no more, sin no more, err no more, are
tempted no more. They join, with voices
which not all the harmonious thunders of
heavens mighty minstresy can drown, in
that peerless anthem which goes up from
ten thousand times ten thousand, worthy
is the Lamb that was slain" Weworship
God, alas how poorly, and with how little
afluent emotion. Our views of him are
always narrow and often mistaken. We
are shut in by the limitations of time and
sense and sin. We grope and wander and
doubt. We hesitate to commit ourselves
TO infinite power and boundless mercy
We shrink from the embrace Of arms which
are almighty, even though they wait to
press us to heart which is all-loving. We
send up feeble, broken, discordant songs
into that ear, which, not all the perfect
praises Of the skies can begui!e from list
ening to our poor lispings.
How vast is the difference between the
most mature and the least mature disciples
here on earth. Look at that mature Chris
tian, whom many years of constant prayer
and faithful service have brought into won
drous sympathy with the Master, and in
TO prompt and habitual obedience to his
commands; whose great thought every day
is how to love and please him more whose
business and pleasures are all consecrated
to God. His richest joy is in divine COM
munings. He can say, with Paul, 81 live,
yet not /; Christ liveth inme." He great
ly enjoys the means Of grace, yet he is not
dependent on them. He welcomes every
spring of comfort which it pleases God to
open for him in the desert world but, il
he is cut off from the ordinances OF the
sanctuary, and his worldly comforts fail
20, listen at the door of that narrow cham
Der, where sickness confines him and pow
erty tries him, and you shall hear hi
tremulous yet trustful and Triumphant
song:
"Content with beholding His face,
My all TO His pleasure resigned
No changes Of season or place
Can make any change in my mind.
While blest with sense of His love,
A palace a toy would appear;
And prisons would palaces prove,
If Jesus would dwell with me there"
In contrast to this life-picture of wha
grace can do even here, look now at tina
immature disciple, who neglects so man.
duties and commits so many sins; witt
has so few comforts of grace and so man.
twinges of self reproach; who isso unsym
metrical and poorly established. You cal
asily find him. He belongs to numer
Gus family. The church is full Of grown
up babes, old infants, professors who hav
been in the church long enough to hav
reached ''the measure of the stature OF tn
fullnsss Of Christ" but who have nsve
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left the cradle. Paul cries out against
such with righteous indignation: "When
We ought to be teachers, We have need that
we teach YOU again which bethe first prin-
cples of the oracles of God; and are be-
come such as have need of milk, and not
of strong meat"
Why is this5 Because they do not prac-
tice gospel addition How few have any
realizing sense that there is such progress
in the divine life from day to day, or even
from year to year! Many look back to
their conversion as the brightest spot in
their history, and think that, if they can
occasionally have an experience somewhat
akin to that, they are doing finely. Gener-
ally they fall far below that low water mark
and groan out:
"Where is the blessedness / knew
When first saw the Lord ?"
When they get there, they sing,
"What tongue can expires.
The sweet comfort and peace
or a soul in its earliest lover'
And then they are only lisping the first
letters of the alphabet
Oh. how the bible stirs up such lag
CARDS. LET us go on to perfection" cries
Paul. add to your faith virtue" and the
whole catalogue of the christian graces,
shouts the fervent Peter; for, so doing, Eye
shall never fail" but have an abundant
entrance" into glory. Unceasing progress
ion produces astounding results. One cent
put out at per cent. compound interest
when Columbus discovered America would
have amounted now to more than our en-
tire national debt. If we grow in grace"
and keep growing, none can tell what full
ness of grace and nobleness of character
the humblest disciple may attain.
We are to think ofreligion no otherwise
than a life-work We are to make it our
daily and most earnest business The OBJ
ject of life, so far as we are personally con-
cerned, is not our business nor our pleas
ure, not society nor success but that by
no means of all these things as instruments
we may work out holy character. Your
pen, your checks, your houses, your shops,
your books are all your chisels, and your
soul the statue.
Said Carey, in his old age, when his
grammars aud versions of the Holy Scrip
lures i'll the dialects of the heather millions
he went to evangelize were almost library,
There is one thing | can do can plod."
Success for a time and success for eternity
alike are won not by those who under the
pressure of fierce impulse, put forth siren
uous but transient endeavors; butby those
who tirelessly toll on in the way they have
deliberately chosen. The promise of etern-
al life is 'to them who by patient continu-
ance in well doing seek for glory and hon
or and Immortality"
But let no toiling, struggling soul forget
that all this effort is to be put forth with
/ constant self distrust and trust in God
prayer and pains" wrote Eliot, at the end
of his Indian grammar-'Prayer and pains
through faith in Jesus Christ, can do any
thing" What did they do in his case
! He mastered an unwritten language, Gre
ated its alphabet, wrote it, made its gram
mar, translated the scriptures into it, and
| taught it to the natives; and in doing all
this he was himself immessurably blessed
-Rcr. Cyrus d. Foss in Independent.
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How to Do II,

A short time ago whale was stranded
on the coast, and purchased for a specula-
ton by sharp practitioner, who advertised
for information how to preserve it. A wag
replied to the advertisement, rendering the
desired information on receipt of half a
dollars worth of postage stamps, which
arrived, and the following receipt was du-
ly forwarded:
''Put the whale carefully into a glass
bottle; cover it over with spirit of wine
(strong whiskey may do j then cork and
seal up"
The postage stamps were handed over to
q charitable institution.
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ldleness and Religion.

Let us not be suspected of undertaking
that comfort and internal peace which the
world cannot give, and which are general
ly the portion of men sincerely pious. But
it is of consequence that all pious persons
should be aware that, if we are idle, even
religion cannot make us happy; and that
the most certain cure for low spirits and
constitutional detection is the Jealous dis
charge of our active and social duties. in
conjunction with and springing from re-
ligion.