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HISTORY OF JOSEPH. Chap. xxxvii-x.
1. How was Joseph regarded by his breth-
ren, and why?
,. What were his dreams
3. Whittier was Joseph sent?
4. In what direction were Shechem and
Dotham from Hebron, and how far Z
). Relate what his brethren did to him
s. Who we're the IshmaeEtes and Mid
ianites?
Z. What do you learn here about the trade
of that early age?
s. What were some of the customs OF
mourning at that time?
9. What became of Joseph?
10. What kind of an officer is meant by
a captain Of the guard!
II. What is our only safeguard against
any temptation? Chap. xxx: 9.
L. What did Potiphar do with Joseph
when accused nsSR
IS. What prison was this, and whc
the keeper of the prison
IA. What is stated as the cause why
everything prospered to which Joseph put
his hand?
Is. Who was the chief butler? the chief
baker?
Is. What were their dreams?
II. What was the Interpretation of each
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Cut Feed for Horses.

An accurate farmer has furnished the
Country Gentleman statement of his ex-
pertinent with feeding cut feed and meal to
his horses, accompanied with weighing and
measuring. He cuts oats and straw about
an inch long with raw hide cylinder ma.
chine; and this chopped straw is then treated
with corn. meal and bran mixed in about
equal quantities as to weight, so that each
horse has about bushel of cut feed and three
quarts of the meal and bran twice in each
day. Sometimes hay is cut instead of oat-
straw or both are mixed. 1t is found that
two hundred pounds per week of this mixture
of corn-meal and bran, added to the cut feed,
will keep pair of working horses in the
best condition. This, he is satisfied from
experiment, is less than twO-thtrds cost of
keeping them on wncut, dry and wAole grain.
The corn-meal alone is not so good for horses
as when mixed with bran. An excellent
meal is made of ground oats. The fodder is
cut by horse power, on stormy or spare days,
and stored in large bins, SO as furnish always
a surplus on hand.
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Catching. the Land as it Flies.

Prof. Bierbower says in his pleasant ar
ticle on Holland in the Ladies Repository:
"Another way by which they increase
their land is to catch the sand which on a
windy day is blown in great clouds along
this coast. saw this operation at Scheven-
ingen, about two miles from the Hague. 1t
was on warm and windy day, and the sand
was drifting about in all directions, like snow
in winter, filling the air SO thickly that one
could not see ten feet before him, and heap
ing up in great banks or dunes at different
places. Formerly this sand used to extend
for many miles inward, being blown over the
whole country, aud settling sometimes several
feet deep on the soil, destroying the crops,
and rendering the land unfit for cultivation.
1t was the source of great evil, which only
the Dutch knew how to overcome. These
industrious people, however, not to be out
witted by anything, have set about to turn
this to their advantage. | accordingly saw
them, on this day, running around through
the drifts with handfuls of hay or grass,
which they stucE' in the new-formed heaps,
thereby preventing them from blowing away
and extending inward, and also, at the same
time, compelling the sand to heap up there
after on the ocean side. Great banks are,
accordingly, now heaped up daily close to
the ocean !; so that the land is gradually ex-
tending out, and filling what used to be the
bed of the ocean. Moreover, these bits of
hay and grass will soon rot, and thereby con-
tribute to fertilize the new caught land,
which is at once sown with certain kinds OF
grass which will grow upon sand, and planted
with trees, whose roots, sinking and inter
lacing in the tickle soil, serve to hold it to-
gether. 1t only requires few years until
this is fit for all manner of crops. The
Dutch, l may add, make further use of the
sand by catching it in their dikes.
by which means the dikes are more easily
constructed than if all the dirt had to be
raised by human hand. The lines of the
dikes, accordingly, are gradually extending
oceanward; so that no sooner does one be-
come Enthusiastically than it can be dispensed
with, owing to new one being formed on
the advanced ground Thus the land and
the ramparts of Holland are being gradually
pushed out into the ocean in the direction of
England; and the Dutch facetiously boast
that they will yet join their land with that
Of Great Britain. Thus the Dutch have
made and defended their land, and are still
making and defending it, being in contin-
lal contest with the water.
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Ansbaudtg.
Plant Trees.

In his continued agitation of the subject
of tree planting, General Brisbin is perform.
ing work of national Importance. 1t is
time that somebody should cry halt, and
that with emphasis, in the face of the insane
destruction of forests that is going forward
over the whole extent of this country. In
his last letter to the New York World, Gen
eral Brisbin not only reiterates his exhorta
ton to plant trees, but he gives much valua
bic information regarding the kinds of trees
that are most suitable in different locations.
1t is unreasonable for man to urge the slow
growth of trees as an excuse for neglect to
plant them. If be is so selfish as to say,
"After me, the deluge," he is hardly to be
reasoned with; but. even to such General
Brisbin presents inducements that must be
acknowledged valid. An Iowa farmer has a
grove of ten acres, thinned to six feet apart,
containing twelve thousand trees, which at
twelve years of age were eight inches in d.
ameter aud thirty five feet high The wood,
from thinning, paid all expenses, and the
ten acres of timber, twelve years old, were
estimated to be worth $4,000 In Des
Moines, says General Brisbin, chestnut trees
four years old from the seed have borne fruit
They should be set four thousand to the
acre, and gradually thinned, as they increase
in size, to three hundred to the acre. Tree
planting should be as regular branch of
good farming as the cultivation of wheat or
corn.
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ID edmond AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
ia, On and after MARCH 10 1875 the trains

IL On and after MARCH 10, 1876, the train:
on this road will run daily as follows:
TRAIN No. 1-CHARLoTTE EXPRESS, Westward
Leaves Richmond at sos a. M; leaves Burkeville
at 1875 a. m; leaves Dundee at 1856 D. m; leaves
Danville at p. M; leaves Greensboro at 3:37 m.
leaves Salisbury at 6:46 p. m arrives at Air Line
Junction at $3.50 p. M. arrives at Charlotte at 9:35
p. m.
TRAIN No. 2-NEw YORK and NEW ORLEANS
EXPRESS, Eastward-Leaves Charlotte at 8. So am
leaves Air Line Junction at 9.20 a. M; leaves Sails
bury at 1l.3S a. M; lie YES Greensboro at 2.16 D.
M; leaves Danville at 4:4S p. M. leaves Dundee al
4:57 p. M; leaves Burkeville at 9:17 D. M, arrives
at Richmond at 11:49 p. m.
TRAIN No. 3.-THRoyGR. MAIL, Westward
Leave Richmond at 1:3S cave Burkeve
at AL .. M; leaves Dund N. M; leaves
Danville-,ss.eo ~. ;'ls yYelo' at 10 40
a. M; leaves Salisbury at 5!3S a. M; leaves Air
40 a. m.
TRAIN No. 4.-THRoUGH MAIL, Eastward
Leaves Charlotte at 9.23 p. M; leaves Air Line
Junction at $50 p M leaves Salisbury at II. IL p
M; leaves Greensboro at 1886 g. M; leaves Dan
vile at $40 a. M; leaves Dundee at $50 a. M;
leaves Burkeville at 1885 o. m; arrives at Rich
mond 222 p. m.
TRAIN No. 5.-LYYCHBURG PASSENGER, West
ward-Leaves Richmond at 6. M; leave Burke.
vile at l:2O p. M; arrives at Lynchburg at 420 D. m
TRAIN No. 6.-BURKEvILLE ACCOMMODATION
Eastward Burkeville at 4:43 a. M; arrives
at Richmond at sos a. m.
All through trains connect at Richmond and Dan.
vile with trains on the Richmond, Fredericksburg &
Potomac railroad, and Washington City, Virginia
Midland and Great Southern railroad, to and from
Washington, Bal more, Philadelphia, and N. York.
Trains Nos. and connect at Richmond with
the Richmond, YORK River and Chesapeake railroad
trains to and from Baltimore and all eastern points
Trains Nos. and connect at Charlotte with
trains on the Atlanta and Richmond Airline rail.
road to and from Greenville, Atlanta, Montgomery,
Mobile, Pensacola, New Orleans, and all South.
western points.
Trains Nos and connect at Charlotte with the
Charlotte Columbia, Atlanta railroad for Columbia,
Augusta, Savannah Tallahassee, and all southern
points,
Train No. connects at Burkevie with the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad from Lynch
burg. Chattanooga, and all South western points.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and
West, and baggage checked through.
Unbroken gauge from Richmond to New Orleans.
Pullman palace-cars through from New Orleans
to New York.
T. NJ. R. TALCOTT,
Engineer and superintendent.
Il. T.. DOUGLAS, Master transportation.
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The General Assembly will meet at St. Louis. No,
on the third Thursday of May, 1876, at IL A. NJ
CLERKS.
REV. JOSEPH R. WILSON d. D., STATED CLERK,
REV. WILLIAM BROWN. d. d, PERMANENT CLERK,
Richmond, Va.
The Stated Clerk is Ex the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES
Hon. JAMES HEhPHILL, President, Chester, 5. O.
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TEEAsUAiH'
sUSTENTATIoN.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
0o REV. RICHARD McILwAINE, Coordinate sKcRE.
TARY and TREASURER, Columbia, 5. @.
FOREIGN MISSIONS
REV ]. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY
RGv RICHARD MoILwAINE, Co ordinate sRcRErA-
ny aud TREASURER, Columbia. ). c.
PUBLICATION.
Rev. E. THOMPSON BAIRD, D. D., SECRETARY, Rich
@. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION
REV JNo. N. wADDELL d. D., SECRETARY, Mem
JAMES ELDER, TREASURER, Memphis, Tenn.
Applications 10 the Executive Committee for aid
first to the appropriate Presbyteral Exec
utye Committees for their approval ana are to be for
warded by them to the Assembly's Committees
COLLECTIONS
The General Assembly has appoin the following col
lecons be taken up annually in all the churches
For Sustentaton: On the first sabbath in January
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief OF Disabled Ministers and the Widows
and Orphans Deceased Ministers On the first Sabbath
in July
For Evangelstic Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER.
For Education On the first Sabbath in November. S'
In where IL is highly inconvenent 10 take col
IecrIons these days. they shall mp
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends TO the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly collections
and that the thus collected be appropriated
objects, when necessary, OBJ
ects proportion session decide
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From the Missionary for September.
Letter to the Children, by Mrs. S. M. Lane.
NEAR SANTOS, June 10Th.

NEAR SANTOS, June 10Th.
lLy Dear Friends: A year ago Miss Hen
derson wrote to you from the seashOre.-
Some of you perhaps know that she has re-
Gently been very sick. She mas been gra-
ciously raised up again, and with the hs,I1
that the rest and change might giVS
strength to labor yet longer among the NJ.
tie children, she came down here with us a
fortnight ago. We have a rented house just
on the wide, smooth, sanded beach; brought
a little furniture with US, and have enjoyed
living in camp style.
The air is delightful; the restless rushing
of the waves ceaselessly fills our ears. The
irregular coast range of mountains lies be-
hind us, whilst above and below rugged pc
ninsulas iut out into the ocean. Gods works
around US are so grand that, though without
society, we do not have lonely hour. The
Mission work in Campinas was going on in
its usual channel when we left. The daily
exercises of the school, preaching publicly,
and visiting, with the numberlesS little du-
ties that cluster around life here, just as they
do in your own homes, keep each one fully
occupied. The congregation have been try
ing for some months to raise money to pur-
chase lot for church, and, if successful,
they viii do what they can to build, as the
uuceiled room which we now occupy, with
its earthern floor aud broad shutters, is rath-
er comfortless. We were obliged to give up
the one in which We had worshipped for sew
eral years, and the city was searched thor
oughly before We found even this ROOM
Some that were for rent were unsuitable,
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aunsehnld aFnrds,
NOT ONE TO SPARE.

(which shall it be2 Which shall it be?'
/ looked at Jobn-John looked at me,
Dear, patient John who loves me yet,
As well as though my locks were Jet;
And when found that l must speak,
Ny voice seemed strangely low and weak;
''TeI me again what Robert said!''
And then l, listening, bent my head.
''This is his letter: will give
A house and land while you shall live,
If, in return, from out your seven,
One child to me for aye is given. "
| looked at Johns old garments worn;
l thought of all that John had borne
OF poverty, and work, and care,
Which 1, though willing, could not share;
| thought of seven mouths to feed,
Of seven little children's need,
And then of this" Come, John" said |,
Gwen choose among them as they lie
Asleep so, walking hand in hand,
Dear John and | surveyed our band
First to the cradle lightly stepped,
Where Lillian the baby slept,
A glory 'gainst tSe pillow white;
Softly the father stopped to lay
his rough hand down in loving way,
When dream or whisper made her stir,
And huskily he said, " Not her, not her"
We stopped beside the trundle bed,
And one long ray of lamplght shed
Athwart the boyish faces there,
IN sleep 50 Pitful and fair
saw on Jamie's rough red cheek
A tear undried Ere John could speak,
"Hes but baby, too" said I,
And kissed him a. we hurried by.
Pale, patient Robbie's angel face
Still in his sleep bore suffering trace.
"No, for thousand crowns, not him"
He whispered, while our eyes were dim.
Poor Dick bad Dick our hayward son,
Turbulent, reckless, idle one
Could he be spared? may, He who gave
Bid us befriend him to his grave;
Only a mothers heart can be
Patient enough for such as he;
And sou said John, 81 would not dare
To send him from her bedside prayer"
Then stole we softly up above
And knelt by Mary, child of love.
perhaps for her 'twOuld better be, f."
l said to John. Quite silently
he lifted up a curl that lay
Across her cheek ia willful way,
And shook his head, % Nay, love, not thee y
The while my heart beat audibly.
Only one more, our eldest lad,
Trusty and truthful, good and glad
So like his father. mo, John, no
cannot, viii not, let him go.
And so we wrote, in courteous way,
We could not drive one child away;
And afterward toll lighter seemed,
Thinking of that of which we dreamed,
Happy in truth that not one face
Was missed from its accustomed place;
Thankful to work for all the seven,
Trusting the rest to One in heaven
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and the owners of others did not care that
their houses should be used for evangelical
worship, and so at last we were glad to get
the one we have, though at the extreme end
of the city.
The law does not allow open air preaching,
and it would have been sad for this little
flock to have had no place in which they
could assemble. 1t would be pleasant al
ways to send you news of great results from
the labOrs of those you so nObly aid in sus-
tanning here; but you know the "seed of the
word" like seed cast into the earth, often
lies for longer or shorter periods, without
giving any signs of life. Those who labor
rest in the promise, "my word shall not re-
turn unto me void, and SOW patiently, be-
lieving that many shall be gathered from
this land to join the innumerable multitude
around the throne. Let me tell you of a
touching instance of mercy in the case OF
poor woman living near the Chacora. She
is not very old, but her face is sadly marked
and bears the evidence of much suffering
she lives in little house entirely alone;
often you see her leaning upon her door, her
face half buried in her hands; she never
goes out; is separated from her husband;
cut eff from her friends, and entirely DEEPEN
dent for her food and clothing; she is
leper. Win you not rejoice to know that
- os .Ssu -. God" shines upon
!! - = !: !: +: +: s: ::
her ww OnS ohrist; and now though al
earthly friends have failed, she rejoices in
God. Not long since, standing before her
door, 1 asked if she suffered greatly; she
said, yes bpt it is only for this life; death
will end all my pains, and 1 constantly pray
God to take me to Himself. asked, "then
you have no fear of death ?" Her whole
face brightes@ with smile, as she answer
ed. No There are many here afflicted
with this feasfnl malady, and in its last stages,
the suffering is extreme.
We are often grieved by our inability to
do what We wish for the sick and suffering
poor.
Small pox has been prevailing for months
in various parts of the city. Some persons
are so much afraid of the disease, that when
any one in the house takes it, the rest move
out, and leave the smitten one to suffer with
out care. Others are cared for whilst theil
money lasts, and then put into the street
without mercy.
Only true religion teaches US to comfor
and help the afflicted, and often by minister
ing to the body, the door is opened to Offer
the "bslm of Gilead for the soul. Die
you ever think how large portion of thu
SaviOur's time and strength must have beer
spent in healing the bodies of men? He ha'
left us an example to follow in His footsteps
as we have opportunity at home or abroad
and the same sweet assurance for each, Gin
asmuch as ye did it unto one of the least o.
them, ye did it unto me-.
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ID edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
III Route.

ON AND AFTER DECEMBER 18th, 1874, mai
trains on this road will run as follows:
2.35 P M. DAY MAIL leaves Byrd Street station
daily, connecting with the steamer Key
port at Quantico, with trains of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at their
wharf opposite Alexandra-due in Bal.
timore at 9:20 M; and at Washington
with the Baltimore and Potomac rail
road for Baltimore and the North and
West.
lilo P. M. NIGHT MAIL leaves Byrd Street sta
ton. Except on Sundays,) connecting
at Washington with the Baltimore and
Potomac and Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
roads.
6:05 P. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN for Han
over Junction leaves Broad-Street sta
ton Except on Snndays.)
sos A. M. NIGHT MAIL, arrives at Byrd Street
station Except on Mondays.)
1:30 p. M. DAY MAIL arrives at Byrd Street sta.
ton daily
8:S7 A. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN arrives
at Byrd-Street station Except Sundays. J
FREIGHT TRAINS leave and arrive at Broad
street station on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
nights for all points North and West.
Through bills ading and rates given to all princi
pal points North and West.
By order of General Superintendent.
G. A. TAYLOR,
General Ticket and Freight Agent.
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The VAST MAJORITY OF EXPENSIVE HOUSES
are curse to their occupants. The hus
bands must be worried and overworked to
the peril of health and life, virtual exile
from his family; the wife, so absorbed in
trifes that she ia as good as dead to the no
bier uses of life; the whole family driven
along the high road to social ambition and
worldlineSs. Just as God begins to fill their
hands with the means of larger usefulness,
they mortgage the home to the satan of 80
cial selfshness. But what little paradise
might your home become were every acces
sion of means followed by an increase of
Christian grace ! Lecture By Rev. Mr. Mayo,
Springfield.
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Train leaving Richmond at 80 NJ, runs daily
Sunday excepted.) stopping at all regular stations
Train leaving Richmond at 80 M runs daily
stopping at all regular stations west of Allegheny.
Accommodation train leaves Richmond for Cor.
louisville and all intermediate stations daily lex.
cept Sunday at 4;S0 P. M.
Pullman sleeping car runs on $40 P. M. train be
tween Richmond and White Sulphur.
For through tickets, rates, and information, apply
at 1928 Main street, at the company office, Broad
street near Sixteenth.
CONWAY r. HOWARD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
W. M. S. DUNN, Eng'r and Sup't Transportation.
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Birds the Farmers Friends.

Not long ago, near Rouen, in the valley
of Knoxville, the crows had for considerable
time been prescribed. The cockchafers ac
cordipgly multiplied to such an extent that
an entire meadow was pointed out to me as
completely withered on the surface. The
larvae had pushed so far their subterranean
works that every root Of grass had been
eaten, and all the turf could be rolled back
on itself like carpet. The multiplication
of insects is almost incredible, but our birds
seem equal to the emergency. Michelet
says: "The swallow is not satisfied with less
than LOCO flies per ID ta pair of
sparrows carry home to young 4 300
caterpillars weekly; to NIT, 800 daily
The maybe hunts after the insects which lie
beneath the bark of the tree and live upon
it's sap. The humming bird aud the fly.
catcher purify the chaice of the flower
The bee eater, in all lands, carries on fierce
hostility with the wasp which ruins our fruit.
A large number of insects remain during the
winter in the egg of larvae, waiting for the
spring to burst into life; but in this state
they are diligently hunted BY the mavis, the
wren and the troglodyte. The former turn
over the leaves which s'rew the earth, the
latter climb to the Hottest branches of the
trees, or clean out the trunk. In wet mead
ows the crows and storks bore the ground to
seize the white worm which, for three years
before metamorphosing into a cockchafer,
gnaws at the roots of our grasses.-Ihe An
imal Kingdom
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