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True RELIGION.

A life of religion is life of faith, and
faith is that strange faculty by which man
feels the presence of the invisible, exactly
as some animals have the power of seeing
in the dark. That is the difference between
the christian aud the world. Most men
know nothing beyond what they see; their
lovely world is all in all to them-its outer
beauty, not its hidden loyeliness. Pros
perity, adversely, sadness, it is all the same,
they struggle through it all alone, and when
old age comes, and the companions of early
life are gone, they feel that they are soli-
tary. In all this deep, strange world, they
never meet, but for moment. the spirit of
it all, who stands at their very side And
it is exactly the opposite of this that makes
christian. Move where he will, there is
thought and presence which he cannot
put aside; he is haunted forever by the
eternal mind" God looks out upon him
from the clear sky and through the thick
darkness, is present in the rain drop that
trickles through the branches, and in the
tempest that crashes down the forest. A
living Redeemer stands beside him, goes
with him, talks with him as a man talks
with his friend. The emphatic description
of a life of spirituality is, "Enoch walked
with God:'
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those caused by boiling water, drops OF
melted metal, phosphorus, gunpowder, full
minating powder, etc, all have been cured
by this specifc.-JournaI Of Chemistry
Hon. to .Save Girdled Fruit Ifees.-A cor
respondent of the Nashua Telegraph says
Mr.. Lemuel Town, of that place, practices
successfully method of his own invention
for saving girdled fruit trees. His method,
which was first applied to fruit Tree IN
his own garden in Milford, is to graft ilVe
or six scions as large as goose quill ana
long enough to reach over the girdled place
into the tree The live bark is first notch
ed above and below the girdle, the sprouts
sprung into place and the ends fastened
with wax. These scions grow rapidly and
in time spread over the whole girdled sur
face Two thrifty apple trees standing up
on the premises of Mr.. Samuel B. Weston,
on Temple street, in Nashua, were com
pletely girdIed by mice eighteen years ago,
one of them having the bark taken off over
foot in width on one side, and were saved
in the above manner by Mr.. Town, and
they are still in good bearing condition.
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HoQs Want SULPHUR.

Whether hogs want sulphur as an essen
tial to their health, or whether it is sought
by them as condiment, may not be known
for certainty. But one thing is sure, they
devsur it with greed whenever it is to be
found. 1t is for this purpose, probably,
that they eat large quantities of soft COAL
which contains large amount of sulphur
Perhaps this is the most economical meth
cd of supplying hogs with sulphur during
the winter, when they require good deal
of carbon. But in the summer it is better
to feed it to them in substances which con-
tains less carbon on account of their pro-
ducing less heat. Mustard is one of the
best things for this purpose, and on that
account some of it should be sown in every
pasture into which hogs are turned. If
hogs are kept up, or are in small yards, it
is well to supply them with the wild mus
tard that grows in the fields, or highways,
or to cultivate some of the better varieties
for them. They will eat its leaves. flowers,
seeds and stalks.-Prairie Farmer.
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lrasbureh Farmers CIub.--Dist. No. d

Subject-The most profitable or best
paying stock for farmers to keep
ID. ii WEBsTER-Anything that | can
say or do to keep up lively interest in
our meetings am ever ready and willing
to do. think that COWS have paid much
the best for several years past and are like
~ to for years to come, though it is great
confinement and makes much hard work
Tor both man and woman to look after and
take care of dairy, but there is no bust
ness that is apt to pay well unless attended
to or looked after. But farmers have late
ly been going in more for COWS for the rea-
son that they think they pay the best OF
any stock they can keep. 1t is often the
case where farmer has good mare that
he can raise colts that will pay him good
prott, but not so sure as cattle / think.
Oxen, on many farms, are profitable to
keep for team.
ID. STEPHENs--I shall have to go in fol
COWS, as L know but little about the profits
in keeping any other stock. Besides the
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In which they shine are eagerly initiated.
Not, indeed. without occasional qualms of
conscience. and even revulsion of better
original feeling. Sometimes the nature of
the true, simple woman she once was, re-
volts against this garish, got-up constrain
ed existence of decorative art and make
believe devices; but then she aims at her
,children's good. She longs to have them
get on. The light of mothers love that
is in her is turned to darkness. She means
well, and she must be on good terms with
society. Alas for her She is going ''to-
ward Sodom"
Mr.. is an average intelligent, pros
porous man in early middle life-blameless,
good-tempered and social. He is liked at
his club. He does not play--that is, seri-
ously-but he likes game of cards. He
does not drink, but he is fond of glass of
good wine, he must say. He is not bet
ting man. but he sometimes stakes a trihe
for amusement. Let us pray for his safety.
Let us think, too, of his wife and his child
rem. He is toward SOdom. "-Rcr. Dr.
HoH IN Observer.
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The Soma of the Mill,

When summer airs are fresh and sweet,
And clover blossoms new,
And birds rejoice, and young lambs bleat'
And skies are clear and blue;
How merrily the mill goes round,
How merrily goes the mill,
As the hopper clacks with CHEEKY sound,
And echoes DER the hill
When age sits shivering by the fire,
Andwintry worlds are white,
And youth doth chill his warm desire,
And frosty north winds bite;
Still merrily the mill goes round,
And merrily goes the mill,
As the hopper clacks with CHEEKY sound
When all the world IS still.
We know no strife that plaques the great,
No care that kills the small
We live above the reach Of fate,
And therefore fear no fall
So merrily the mill goes round,
So mcrrily goes the mill,
As the hopper clacks with CHEEKY sound,
And rings across the hill.
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The ChiId's Prayer.

The curtain drawn across the light
Made darkness in the room,
And IN our watching eyes and hearts
Fear wrought an answering gloom.
Grief wrung, we heard from lips we loved
The meanings of distress,
And vainly strove to stifie pain,
With helpless tenderness.
We scarcely marked the three years boy
Who stood beside the bed,
From whose wet cheeks and quivering lips
The frightened dimples fed.
Till, all at once, with eager hope,
A thrill in every word,
Our darling cried, II guess I'll speak
About it to the Lord"
He sank upon his Bonded knee,
And clasped his hands in prayer,
While, like glory, from his brow
Streamed back his golden hair.
40 Lord!'' he said, "dear grandma's sick;
We don't know what to do!
If could only make her well,
I'm sure l would. Won't you I"
He rose; Ger all his childish face
A subtle radiance shone
AS one who on the mount of faith
Had talked with Goo alone.
We gazed each in the others eyes,
We almost held Our breath
Before the fearless confidence
That shamed our tardy faith.
But, when our yearning glance
Sought the sufferers face again,
look of growing ease and rest
Replaced the lines of pain.
Quick as his trusting prayer to raise,
Its answer TO discern,
The child climbed up to reach her lips,
Which kissed him in return.
Grandma. the ringing accents struck
A new, triumphant chord
II knew you would be better soon,
Because l asked the Lord :"
Mary 4. p. Humphrey.
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Discussing the Richardson case, Zion.
Herald fitly saws.

Discussing the Richardson case, lions
Herald fifty says:
The system going on for years among
christian people, of going West for divorce
and remarrying, has met at last terrible
answer Better had that woman abode in
widOwhOod with a live husband. as many
another does with one that is dead, than
take step which killed one whom she hon
Ored, and made one to whom she was le-
gally married amurderer. That death bed
marriage, if a legal, was not christian
marriage. Christ teaches us self denial.
God sends sorrow, loss and pain. How
much better these than such calamity as
| this. A wife is under no obligation, per-
haps, to live with cruel husband. But
she is not released from her husband so
long as he llveth. We have seen men live
! scores OF years, with their wife hopelessly
insane. We knew one who lived till he
was seventy years old with his betrothed
insane, and never married until she died.
How much better these examples than the
multitude of contrary sort. Free love
grows legitimately out of the American
laws of divorce. So does free murder
May God teach US by these events to obey
His divine will.
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ReCineS.

Apple Padding.-Fill a dish one and
half inches deep with sour apples, pared
and quartered. Spread over them batter
made of one and half cupfuls of -four, a
little salt, half teaspoonful of saleratus,
and wet with milk (lopperd milk is best,
to make it as thick as the batter can be
spread. Bake it in quick oven, and when
done turn it bottom upward on a platter
and sprinkle with sugar, or serve with any
sauce
Queen az Puddjngs.-Into one quart of
sweet milk put one pint of bread crumbs,
butter size of an egg, and well beaten yolks
of five eggs; sweeten and flavor as for Gus
tard and mix the whole together. While
the above is baking, beat the whites of the
eggs to a stiff frOth add a teacup of white
sugar, then pour it over the pudding and
when covered return it to the oven and
bake delicate brown. Some put layer
of preserved or canned fruit before the
frosting is added.
Tanning Small Skins.-A writer in the
Country Gentleman gives his plan for tan
ming small skins thus: put the skins in
to soft soap; let it remain "a or &c hours,
or until the hair will easily come off. At
ter removing the hair, rinse in cold water.
Then take equal parts of salt and pounded
alum enough to dust it over on each side
pretty thoroughly; wrap up in a cloth and
put away for two or three weeks, when it
will leather nicely by pulling and stretch
ing with the hands until it is soft as a glove.
Before tanning, be careful to remove all
flesh from the hide.
Recipe for Barns.-Make saturated So
luton of alum 4 OF. in quart of hot wa
ter.) Dip cotton cloth in this solution
and apply immediately on the burn. As
soon as it becomes hot or dry, replace it by
another, and continue doing so as often as
the cloth dries, which at first will be every
few minutes. The pair will immediately
cease, and after twenty-four hours of this
treatment the burn will be healed, espe.
cially if commenced before blisters are
formed. The astringent and drying quail.
ties of the alum will entirely prevent theil
formation. The deepest burns, such a.
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The HiQh Mountain.

"Get thee up into the high mountain. Is 40 9.
Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat
like climbing one of the Welsh mountains.
When you are at the base you see but lit
tie: the mountain itself appears to be but
one half as high as i. really is. Confined
in little valley, you discover scarcely any
thing but the ripping brooks as they de-
scend into the stream at the foot OF the
mountain Climb the first rising knoll and
the valley lengthens and widens beneath
your feet. Go higher, and you see the coun-
try for four or five miles around, and are
delighted with the widening prospect
Mount still higher and the scene enlarges;
until at last, when you are on the summit,
and look east, west, north and south, you
see almost all England lying before you.
Yonder is forest in some distant country,
perhaps two hundred miles away, and here
the sea, and there shining river and the
smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town
or the masts of the ships in busy port.
All these things please and delight you,
and you say, Il could not have imagined
that so much could be seen at this eleva-
ton" Now, the christian life is of the
same order. When we first believe in
Christ we see but very little of him. The
higher we climb the more we discover of
his beauties But who has ever gained the
summit? Who has known all the heights
and depths of the love of Christ which
passes knowledge? Paul, whengrOwn old,
sitting gray haired, shivering in dun
geon in Rome, could say with greater en-
phasis than we can, Il know in whom |
have believed" for each experience had
been like the climbing of hill, each trial
had been like ascending another summit,
and his death seemed like gaining the top
of the mountain, from which he could see
the whole of the faithfulness and the love
of Him to whom he had committed his soul.
Get thee up, dear friend, into the high
untain.-SpUrge0R.
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- Toward Sodom.n

Not in it, but in the rich plain on which
it stood, through which the river flowed
among the green pastures aud near enough
for friendly intercourse and good neigh
borhood. There Lot settled, after his break
with his uncle; and by and by it became
expedient to be in Sodom. Then the cap
tivity and the rescue; and then the return
to Sodom; and then the angel visit; the
hurried flight; the fiery rain; the swift de-
struction; and the memorable tragedy on
the plain.
Lot chose bad location" toward Sod
ON" and it is easy and common to follow
the bad example. A bright, young fellow
from a christian family is looking out for
a position. 1t must be good one that is,
it must yield large profits, and bid fair to
give him rapid fortune" Something
ofers--is examined and accepted. True
it brings him into contact with the unprin.
cipled, the reckless and the most devout
worshippers of Mammon. It associates
him, possibly, most closely with the open
ly goddess. 1t throws him upon them fol
society and countenance. 1t renders hin
minority of one in a company of practi
cal idolaters. Surely, he is settling to
ward Sodom."
Things go slowly in a small Eastern
town, and the store on which a WORTHY
man and his family depend does not brinj
in, in proportion to the growing wants o
the young people. He will make a move
There is a splendid opening West. Their
is, indeed, no church The Sabbath is no
known. There is no christian society
will not be for long He will miss tn
church that loved him as deacon. Tn
minister will be sorry, too, that those fai
young faces are to be withdrawn from tn
Sabbath school, And the good man ha
sore misgivings about the loss of his priv
leges, but he cannot bear to think that tn
children should not get on. So he move
away-not without expressed regrets-an
settles his young ones in the heathendo
where Plutns is the deity, with an hone
Intention meantime, to worship God. b
ali! these boys and girls 1t is dangero
for them to be toward Sodou."
A mother has adjusted all the nice ques
ions about her children's education, with
clear ideal of her future. She sees clear
enough the end-the present life-end to
reached namely, position, wealth and co
nection. The means thereto are not
clear. But among them is society.
her plans take shape. Thosegood, home
people who used TO be so intimate in {
house are gradually worked of, and t
exceedingly nice family over the street
assiduously cultivated. Anything til
suggest, in dress, amusements, or avo,
tons, opera or church, is accepted. c
fashioned habits which they do not sar
ton are renounced, and the stylish graz
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The Value of Wood-Ashes

Our best farmers and gardeners all be-
lieve that wood-ashes are valuable for as
sisting the growth of plants 1t is now a
good time to make experiments with this
material, and ascertain just how much it
is worth, and we advise farmers who have
the opportunity to spread ashes at the rate
of ten to fifteen bushels per acre upon their
fall-sown wheat or rye, The ashes should
be sown upon alternate strips, so that the
difference in growth and yield of grain can
be clearly ascertained. A few carefully
conducted experiments of this kind will
enable farmers to determine just how
much ashes are worth on their FARMS
Hearth and Home.
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The Purse.

A Methodist laborer of Wesley's time
Captain We6b-when any one would in
form him of the conversion of rich man,
was in the habit of asking, SIS his purse
converted" Without the conversion of
his purse the good Captain would give no
credit TO the conversion of the man. In
this he agreed with DIR. Adam Clarke. who
used to say, "He did not believe in the re-
ligion that cost a man nothing" The re-
ligion that cost man nothing is no relig-
ion at all; and the being converted, all but
the purse is no conversion at all.
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Do not Whitewash Trees.

We lately saw beautiful apple orchard
on Martha's Vineyard all whitewashed
We were sorry to see it. Do not white
wash trees. Apply whitewash to fences
and houses, but apply something more ap-
propriate on the trees. Strong soft soap
suds would be far more effective ana appro-
pirate. Suppose you were covered from
head to foot with coating of whitewash
Do you not suppose it would stop the in.
sensible perspiration? Spread ashes freely
about the trunks and under the trees. Dc
anything but whitewash. Pyoughman.
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We are truly sorry to learn, as we do
from the Brattleboro Phoenix, that Rev.
james Eastwood has rendered his resigna-
ton to the Universalist church in that
place.
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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-06
THE OIL EEs.
OEEICE OF

OFFICE or
PFTROLrrN CENTRE DAILY RFcnRD
PETROLEUM CENTRE July G\
The market has been strong and active
all day with an advance from S4,20 this a,
m. to 81, 80 this p. IN. The sales were 800
bills at 81, 20; 1000 bbls at $4 %. AS we
close $3.50 is offered bnt refused.
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E4ICItOLEUM MAtkKErS.-ssY TEI
S,GRAPB.
Reports of all the Sales of Petroleum
In New York Yesterday.
western Union Line nIarkct Report.
Special Dispatches 10 the Daily Record
Market very quiet tone with prices stead
ly held, demand mainly to ill few expor.
orders; crude bulk quoted l4@l4le; 500
bbls sold l41a; crude in shipping order sold
to ext ent of 2O00 bbls at tlSt5; at Oil City
1900 bb!s reported sold at $40; refined
quoted at 271aa, sales 1900 bbls 271a and
5000 bbls on p. t.
Philadelphia delivery steady market with
smell inquiry; sales 800 bbls refined S. W.
for July 27ls