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How to Get Along.

Do not stop to tell stories in business
hours.
If you have a place of business, be found
there when wanted.
No man can get rich by sitting round
stores and saloons.
Have order, system, regularity, liberality
and promptneSs.
Do not NEEDLE with business you know
nothing about.
Never buy an article you do not need,
simply because it is cheap, and the man who
sells it will take it out in trade.
Strive to avoid hard words and personali-
ties:
Pay as you go.
A man of honor respects his word as his
bond.
Aid, but never beg.
Help others when you can, but never give
what you'cannot afford to, simply because it
is fashionable.
Learn to say emo" No necessity of
swapping it out dog fashion, but say it firmly
and respectfully.
Have but few confdants, the fewer the
better.
Use your brains rather than those of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself
Be vigilant.
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Hearts and Hands.

One day teacher said to his class, "Boys,
you can all be useful, if you viii. If you
cannot do good by great deeds, you can by
little ones.
The boys said nothing, but the>teacher saw
by their looks that they thought he was mis-
taken. They didnot believe that they could
be of any use. So he said:
"YOu think it not so, but suppose you just
try it for one week"
How shall we try?" asked one of them.
"Just keep your eyes open, and your hands
ready to do anything good that comes in
your way, all this week, and tell me next
Sunday if you have not managed to be useful
in some way or another" said the teacher.
agreed" said the boys and so they
parted.
The next Sunday those boys gathered
round their teacher with smiling lips and
eyes so full of light that they fairly twink
led ike the stars. lie smiled, as he looked
at them and said:
"Ah boys, see by your looks that you
have something to tell me"
1--WE have, sir, we have, they said all
together. Then each one told his story.
81" said one, "thought of going to the
well for pail of water every morning, to
save my mother trouble and time. She
thanked me so much and was so greatly
pleased, that mean to keep on doing it for
her"
"And l, said another boy, Thought of
a poor old woman, whose eyes were too dim
to read. 1 went to her house every day,
and read a chapter to her from the Bible.
1t seemed to give her great deal of comfort.
cannot tell how she thanked me.
A third boy said, g was walking along
the street, wondering what l could do. A
gentleman called me, and asked me to hold
his horse. I did so. lie gave me five cents.
have brought it to put into the missionary
box"
81 was walking with my eyes open and
my hands ready as you told us, said the
fourth boy, "when I saw little fellow cry
ing because he had lost some pennies in the
gutter. 1 told him not to cry, and I would
try to find his pennies. found them, and
he dried up his tears, and ran off feeling
very happy"
A fifth boy said, 81 saw my mother was
very tired one day. The baby was cross,
and mother looked sick and sad asked
mother to put the baby in my little wagon.
She did so and 1 gave him a grand ride
round the garden. If you had only heard
him crow, and seen him clap his hands,
teacher, it would have done you good; and
oh how much brighter mother looked when
took the baby indoors again. "-Rev. DR..
Merton.
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How to Feed Horses.

The following concise suggestions with re
gard 10 the food Of horses, are from "The
London Horse Book.
All horses must not be fed in the same
proportions, without regard to their ages,
their constitutions, and their work; the i'm
propriety of such practice is self-evldent.
Never use bad hay, on account OF its cheap
ness, because there is no proper nourishment
in it.
Damaged corn is exceedingly injurious,
because it brings on inflammation Of the bow
els, and skin disease.
Chaff is better for old horses than bay, be-
cause they can chew and digest it better.
Mix chaff with corn or beans, and do not
give the latter alone, because it makes the
horse chew his food more and digest it bet
ter
Hay or grass alone will not support a
horse under hard work, because there is not
sufficient nutritve body In either.
When horse is worked hard its food
should be chiefly oats-if not worked hard
its food should be chiefly hay-because oats
supply more nOurishment and flesh making
material than any other kind Of food; hay
not so much.
For saddle or coach horse, halfa peck Of
sound oats, and eighteen pounds of good hay
are sufficient. If the hay is not good, add a
quarter of peck more oats. A horse which
works harder may have rather more of each
one that works little should have less.
Rack feeding is wasteful. The better
plan is to feed with chopped hay from a
mauger, because. the food Is not then thrown
about, and is more easily chewed and di
gested.
Sprinkle the hay with water that has salt
dissolved in it, because it is pleasing to the
animals taste, and more easily digested.-
A teaspoonful of salt in bucket of water is
sufficient.
Oats should be bruised for an old horse
but not for young one, because the former
through age and defective teeth, cannot chew
them properly. The young horse can do SO
and they are thus properly mixed with saliva
and turned into wholesome nutriment.
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;ST57--y;61lss,S

Whatever becomes of my body or my es-
tate, viii ever labor to find somewhat added
to the stature of my soul.-Bishop Hall.
And whosoever doth not bear his cross; and
come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke
xiv q.
Every Christian should be a martyr in
spirit.
Not as I viii, but as thou wilt. Matt. XVI;
50.
The poorest circumstances in life, with a
religious spirit of resignation, are far better
than the greatest abundance and highest
bOnOrs without it; for these cannot give that
peace of mind which the other can never
want owasoa.
"FOr as the sugsrings Of Christ abound in US, so
our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. - Cor.
/; 5
The harp of the human spirit never yields
such sweet music, as when its framework is
most shattered, and its strings most torn.
MeluU.
Voc unto TIE world because of offences Tor
il must needs be that offences come; but woe TO
thar man by whom the offence eometh Matt.
xviii: I.
Let US be an example of Goodness. Let
us be light to them that abide in darkness.
Let not the name of God be evil spoken Of
through US; his name is hOly,-Bisdop Ter
Ell.
"FOr here have we no continuing city, but we
seek one to come. Heb. xiii: IA.
Since we stay not here, being people but
of days abode, and our age is like that Of
Ay, and contemporary with that of gOurd
we must look somewhere else for an abiding
city.-Tqylor.
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Children in Church.

The Sabbath School Committee of the
Synod of Erie, emphasize an important
point, that children be trained to a regular
attendance on the ministrations of the pas
tor. They say:
"The Sabbath School takes not the place
of the parent; it only stimulates, guides and
helps him. And no more is it to take the
place of the pastor; it is only to fit the chill
dren for understanding and being more high
ly benefited by his ordinary ministrations.
The pastors ordinary ministrations may
more especially be directed to the adults of
the congregation, yet mischievous notion
is it, one highly hurtful both to the children
and to the Church, and that both for. the
present and the future, that therefore the
youth are not capable of receiving any benefit
from his minlstrations. TIE kids will grow
and thrive on what is good pasture for the
flock. Besides, children, as they attend or
neglect the regular ministration of the sane
tuary, are forming habit which will be
likely to follow them through all life in re-
spect to this means of grace. Trained in
their youth in the way they should 60, when
they grow old they will not depart there
from: while suffered in their youth to neg
lect the sanctuary, from every habit they
will continue to neglect it in their adult
years.
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Oranges and Lemons in California.

The oranges and lemons are, and probably
will continue to be, the more profitable or
chard trees in Southern California Sixty
trees are planted to the acre. They come
into bearing slowly, but at ten years from
the seed, or. eight years from planting out
the nursery trees, the lemon will bear 600
and the orange 1000 to the tree; and 1 have
seen 20O0, lemons or $500 oranges on a sim
gle tree at fifteen years of age. Now, le-
mons sell in San Francisco at $50, and or
anges at $25 to S35 per thousand; and from
the tenth year of trees age, with good
culture, irrigation, and in fit climate-that
is to say almost any where in California
south of Stockton-these trees are found in
practice to yield, at the very least, $40 clear
profit per tree, or 5000 per acre. This is
very low statement, far below the present.
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The Pledge of Safety.

A ship had been wrecked off an island in
the South Seas. To the horror of the sail
ors, they found it was the same island where
a ships crew had been killed and eaten by
the natives. Weary with struggle in the
storm, their clothes drenched, they hid them
selves as best they could, with the scanty
stores, in caves along the shore. When
they could endure no longer, they crept
stealthily up the hill between them and the
town. Every cracking limb and rustling
leaf was fearful tell,tale to their minds,
and, when they reached the summit, the
terrors of death came over them, and they
dared not to go on.
But one of their number, more hardy
than the rest, kept on, and at the very point
where they expected his courage to fail, and
that returning he would bring upon them
the man-eaters, just then he rose from his
knees, and swung his hat and shouted, "Safe,
safe, all safe !"
He had not seen band of soldiers from
a Christian land, nor troop of his own
countrymen, nor even single living soul;
but he had seen little church spire which
rose from the village, and among their rude
homes was pointing toward heaven.
The Christian missionary had been there.
and Gods work among the people was the
pledge of safety to all the world; and so the
words came true" The beloved of the Lord
shall dwell in safety by Him"
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Hospitable Homes.

"Madam," said a plying neighbor to a
clergyman's wife, "they make your house
such hotel that you must be worn out with
so much company. 1t is shame that min
listers should beso imposed upon. -
81 don't quite view it so, replied she,
"for, although our household cares have al
ways been great, for the reason you men
ton, we have been abundantly repaid in the
pleasure we have received from so many in
telhgent guests, and especially in the uncon-
seious education which our children have re-
ceved by the table talk. No possible edu-
cation of ours, either through books or our
own family conversation alone, could ever
have given them this valuable culture"
Here was an intelligent woman's insight
and good sense. What is the use of money,
pictures, furniture, spare rooms, darkened
parlOrs, serving their highest use when visi-
tors and flies are excluded, or when made
mere occasional reception-rooms for stiff GER
emonious calls of etiquette! Let US live all
over the house, and have something cheerful
and inviting in every room. Why not have
the table always neatly spread, and ready
enough for an extra plate, without any ques-
ton or fuss, cake or no cake. Let us bring
up our children, not with one set of every
day manners and another for company, but
in daily atmosphere of hospitality.
One of our "self made" men, who oocu-
pied an eminent position in social and polit-
zeal life, revealed his good judgment and at
the same time one secret of success, in the
remark that he never permitted any respect
able and intelligent stranger to come into
town, whose conversation might add to his
own stock of knowledge, or sharpen any of
his faculties, or give pleasure and infOrma-
ton to his family, whom he did not, if posi-
bic, invite to his house. He we'll under
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Agricultural,

The monthly report, from the department
of agriculture at Washington, contains some
facts interesting even at this unpromising
season. Returns from various questions Of
the circular relating to comparative numbers
and prices of domestic animals show an in
crease in horses, cattle end sheep. The ad-
vance is not heavy, but is most apparent in
sheep, amounting to about one million, or
near per Ger, exclusive Of the territories.
The indicated increase in horses is about two
per cent, nearly the same advance in cattle.
The PRICES of farm stock are better sus-
tanned than the rates obtained for other pro-
ducts of the farm. Horses command i'm,
proved prices in nearly all sections OF the
country. Sheep are somewhat higher than
last year, the appreciation being quite gene
raj, though not equal in the different Sec
tions. Cattle have advanced in some States,
from local causes, and receded in others
mich COWS generally advancing in the South
and declining slightly in the North, while
other cattle have advanced in some some
sections, particularly in the States north of
the Ohio River. Swine are held at higher
rates in the Eastern States, though prices
elsewhere have generally declined. An in
crease is shown in the prices of horses of al
grades in New England, in New York, and
Pennsylvania, in the cotton States, and in
those of the Pacific coast. With a few ex.
ceptions, the prices of mich COWS are placed
below the rates of last year. In Maine,
New Hampshire, and Vermont, particularly
in the first named State, where cattle were
sacrificed last season on account of the par
tial failure of the hay-crOp, prices have raj
lied with the increase of forage. There has
been an upward tendency in this kind of
stock in all the cotton States, which keeps
pace with the movements toward improve.
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Jean Ingelow on Woman's Rights.

Jean Ingelow, in letter to Lucy Stone,
says she has not found time to give the sub
ject of womans rights such all amount of
study as to make it wise to utter her thoughts.
Other things, she says, appear to be given
her to do, and she takes them up to the
exclusion of whatlies beyond. But she takes
a keen interest in one problem which Amer
lean women have to work out, viz: How
domestic work is to be combined with high
culture. She says: So long as household
work is thought degrading land nowhere is
this so much the case as in America there
never can be anything like universal educa-
ton; there must always be some who work
all their lives, because others will not work
at all. 1t is Que of the great things that
you Americans, ! believe, are raised up for,
to teach the world how this is TO be done
but the teachers can never be those who are
poor, they must be those who are not obliged
to work at all. How to make clear starch
ing and ironing graceful and pretty occupa-
tons land such they were thought by our
great-great- grand-mothers how to keep a
house clean, aud to assist, even in kitchen,
without the least sense of being lowered, or
the slightest s,oonal deterioration, might
surely be mant ;ed if women gave theiTmind
to it,
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stands that such hospitality is a good invest
ment, while he undoubtedly makes his guests
feel themselves his grateful debtors.
"But this man is rich, he has the means:
He has the cake always ready" Yes, ard
so have we all the means, cake or no cake.
The poorest American citizen ought to have
home, and one that mortgages him to self
respect and good citizenship. And this al
ways may and should include hospitality.
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Central 4resbpterialr,
Office No. 1915 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.
TIE r n 8 4.

TERMS.
Three Dollars a year, paid in adrancs. If not
paid within the first tho months, 81.
PosTAGE.-Twenty cents year-to be paid at
the office where the paper is received.
PAYMENTS may be made to local agents wherever
practicable; all ministers of our Church are author.
ised to act as SUCH Or by checks, Posto6ice money
orders, or letters Registered by Postmaster Other
wise IT MUST BE AT THE RISK or THE PARTY SEND
ING IT.
OBITUARIES Charged at ten cents line The
party sending can make the estimate by counting
eight words to line. Payment Invariably in ad.
vance.
CoAMUHICATIoSs AND LETTERS ON BUSINESS
should be addressed to Central Presbyterian, Box
IL, Richmond, Va.
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actual yield of orange orchards Of Los An
geles and San Bernardino.
| know an orange orchard of nine acres,
near Los Angeles, which has brought its
owner $4,000 per annum clear profit, for
several years past One mans labor serves
to keep in perfect order twenty acres of any
of these fruits.
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Teaching Birds to Sing Tunes.


This is done in the town of Fulda, Ger
many, where they keep regular educational
institutions for bulfnches. They place the
young birds into classes of six to ten each,
and keep them in the dark, turning little
hand. organ for them when they are fed
Finally the birds commence to associate the
music with the feeding, and when hungry
commence to sing few notes of the tunes
they hear daily. Those who do this are at
once placed in room, where some light is
admitted. This encourages them and makes
them more lively; then they like to sing, and
are soon taught more. The most difficult
part is the first starting of the birds, some of
which have to be kept long while in the
dark, and on starvation rations, before their
obstinacy is overcome. In order to teach
them several tunes, they receive (after being
thus first taught in classes private instruc
ton from the little boys of Fuda, each of
whom has few private pupils of his sort.
Their education lasts nine months, when it
is completed, and the birds sent into the
world as accomplished performers. The
principal markets are London, Paris, and
New York. They are valued in Europe at
twenty dollars for every tune they can sing,
so one who can sing three tunes costs sixty
dollars.
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Proportion of Cream.

Few persons are aware, probably, of the
extent to which the percentage of cream is
Influenced by the conditions of the cow. 1t
is curious fact that any excitement to which
the animal is subjected causes very large
loss of cream on the milk At the Barre
meeting of the Massachusetts State Board,
DR. Sturtevant, of South birmingham, said,
Under the same food, and under the same
circumstances, the same COW gave one day
nine and half per cent. of cream and an
other day eighteen per cent. of cream. y
Thereupon, Mr.. Lewis, an old experienced
dairyman, said: 81 can tell bigger story
than that. have taken good deal of pains
to test the value of my milk that [ have
worked into cheese. have graduated glass
es for the purpose, and | have found COW
whose uniform percentage of cream was
eighteen per cent reduced to six in twelve
hours-not from any change of food, but
from little excitement. You gentlemen
who make butter, be careful to adopt my
advice and always treat your COW kindly and
gently; never get her excited, because every
ounce Of excitement will take from her milk
one per cent, of cream. | have known COW
abused By furious, brutal mixer, and the
percentage of her cream went down one-half.
1t is astonishing what an effect excitement
has on the percentage of cream in the milk
that cow produces. You will be astonished
if you will make the test, and make it care
fully. l have known COW, excited from
natural causes, drop in her percentage of
cream in her milk from fourteen to six per
cent in twelve hours. So l would again
repeat, whoever abuses his COW knocks out
of his milk large percentage of the cream.
1t will readily be seen how important it
is to keep the COW quiet and from fright and
all excitement. The worry of dogs, the hur-
rying and halloing of boys, when driving the
COWS home from pasture, the kicking and
pounding of an angry mixer, or any SINH
lar cause of excitement will be sure to reduce
the quality Of the milk to the extent of sew
eral per cent of cream. This fact is too
we'll attested by many careful and experienced
dairymen to admit of doubt, and the
first object Of concern with dairyman, espe-
cally, should be to see that his COWS are
treated with the utmost gentleness all the
time. The boy who drives the cows home
will make note of this, and when the Spring
comes and cows go out, just mark what we
say.-Mdss. PlOughnaan.
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not see him, but she knew he loved her; she

not see him, but she knew he loved her; she
heard his voice.
Listen, little children, to the voice of Je-
8us. He says, "Sufer little children to
come unto me" You cannot see him, but
you know he loves you. He has shown his
love in dying for you when you did not love
him. Trust in what Jesus has done-let go
every thing and fall into his arms.
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ment in quality and enlargement Of the dairy
interest Oxen and other cattle are held
at much higher rates in Maine. for the rea-
son affecting the prices of mich cows; and
an advance appears also in New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, and Rhode Island.
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ID edmond AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
III On and after SUNDAY, Dec. 22d, 1872:
COING WEST

GOING WEST.
TRAIN No. 2, Through Passenger leaves Rich
mond daily Except Sundays,) at 5:l0s. M; leaves
Danville at 1855 p. M; arrives at Greensboro at
$3.50 p. m.
Train No. 6, CIynchburg Passenger leaves Rich
mond daily at 9.25 a. M; arrives at Lynchburg at
5 p. m.
Train No. 10, Through Mail and Express) leaves
Richmond daily at 230 p. M; leaves Danve daily
at 1915 p M. arrives at Greensboro daily at l:SO
GOING EAST.
Train No. /, Through Mail and Express) leaves
Greensboro daily at l:40a m. leaves Danville daily
at 1882 a. M; arrives at Richmond daily at l2:45
p. m.
Train No. g. Through Pessenger) leaves Green's
boro daily Except Sundays) at ll:l0 m; leaves
Danvle at 1.52 p. M; arrives at Richmond at $3.50
p. m.
Train No. 9, Nynchburg Pessenger) leaves Lynch
burg daily at a. M; leaves Burkevle at 1906
p. M; arrives at Richmond at 3:45 p. m.
Trains Nos. and 10 connect at Greensboro with
Trains on N. Carolina Railroad for all points South.
Train No. 10 connects at Greensboro with train
for Raleigh; arrives there at 705a. m. Passengers
leaving Raleigh at 7.l5 p. m, connect at Greens
boro' with train No. for Richmond.
Train No. 6 connects at Burkeyille with Train on
the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad for all
points Southwest and South.
Lynchburg Accommodation Train leaves Rich
mohu at s:oo p. m oaly (except sundays arriving
at Lynchburg In time to connect with the Morning
Passenger Train the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio railroad for the southwest
Passengers coming east leave Lynchburg after the
arrival of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Pas
senger Train from Bristol, and arrive at Richmond
at 9:48 q. m.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and
South west can be procured at the ticket Office in
Richmond, and Of 4. +. WALKER, Agent OF At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, No. 1926
Main street, Richmond
JOHN R. MACMURDO,
General Freight and Ticket Agent
T. NJ. R. TALooTT, Eng'r and Supt. Jazz