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doomed to neglect SO long as it is devoted
to that purpose. Weeds and bushes are
permitted to spring up and spread at will.
AS tne grass, in places, becomes killed
out, the spots are allowed to remain bar
rem; A large proportion of the stock kept
IN tie pasture are yarded at night, and
most OF their drOppings are left, whence
they are taken e cultivate fields. Even
those that fall on the pasture are not
broken up and scattered, as they should
be. The rank grasses which spring up,
but which are not eaten by the stock, are
allowed to seed, and in this way gradual
ly extend over large portion of the
ground. No Western farmer thinks to
apply farm-yard, mineral or commercial
fertilizers to his pasture. If portion of
1t happens to become rich by the cattle,
sheep or colts remaining on it during the
night, the chances are that he will pillow it
up and put it in cultivated crops; and
turn out another piece of land that is in
too poor condition to produce corn, grain
or hay
In England, pastures receive constant
attention, and increase in productiveness
year by year. They are generally in SO
high state of fertility that good crop of
hay may be harvested from them, if the
sum 10 tohcH vi, ~ ~ uOne occasionally.
They are MANFRED like lands which pro-
duce annual crops, the fertilizers being
applied late in the fall or very early in
the spring. They are ordinarily mown
at least once every season, so as to keep
down the weeds and coarse grasses. By
cutting them off, short grasses spring up,
while the weeds and rank grasses that are
cut down help enrich the SOIL. The turf,
once we'll established, may not be turned
during century; but it is occasionally
scarified by utensil made especially for
the purpose, so as to lay bare some fresh
soil, on which the seed of more valuable
grasses may be sown. A great variety of
grasses is produced on English pastures,
and attention is given to seeding peculiar
soils and locations with grasses that are
adapted to them. In this country little or
no attention is given to this matter, but the
grasses are left to establish themselves rs
best they will. In some localities white
clover, redtop and blue grass, all good
pasture grasses. will, by a process of
self-feeding or extension of their roots,
establish themselves over considerable
amount of ground. Under unfavorable
circumstances, however, sorrel, burdock,
thistles and coarse grasses will take pos
session of the land.-CAicago Times.
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Growing Weeds.

How MANY tons of useless weeds does
every farm grow annually? 1t would be
good exercise in arithmetic to determine
this problem. 1t is law of nature that
all spaces must be filled with something.
Nature abhors vacuum, and from the
opening spring, when every clod feels a
stir CT might" until autumn, the earth
cOntiL ues to send up into the air these veg
etable forms.
True economy in culture prevents the
growth of weeds entirely. If the ground
is frequently stirred weeds will not APP
pear at all. 1t is when the processes of
culture are suspended nature asserts her
prerogative and occupies the whole do
main. No one expects to rid his soil of
weed seeds to that degree that there will
never be any more to modest. Wherever
and whenever there are heat, light and
moisture, weeds will appear. The true
policy is for every farmer to provide him
self with the ready means OF destroying
them.
Among hoed crops cbeaply. construct
ed one horse harrow is very effective
implement. Any one can construct it,
and by the aid of a blacksmith in forming
the teeth the whole cost need not exceed
two dollars. This can he used among
small growing crops and among corn and
potatoes as soon as the rows are visible,
and even sooner. We have had a tool just
made in the form of an Old-fashioned one
horse cultivator with nine teeth, which
are made offive-ighth by one inch Swedes
iron, or horseshoe bar, rounded at the
top with nut and screw, and the lower
points drawn out forward little and flat
tened. 1t is an excellent tool for working
close to young plants. for loosening the
soil and destroying the weeds. 1t is made
without a wheel in front-cheap, though
durable; one cannot keep crops free from
weeds without good tools. We have seen
corn fields kept clean with nothing but q
common pillow and hoe, but the hand labor
was too great. As hand-tool, the COM
mon hoe is altogether behind the flat tined
potato hook One of these hooks will do
the work of two hoes.-Det10it Tribune.
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Management Of Fruit Trees.

WHAT may be now tender, quick
growing sprout, will, in October, be a
strong, woody branch, and perhaps
branch just where it is not wanted, and
which must be removed by the use of u
saw or strong knife. At the right time the
shoot could have been rubbed of, and not
only the trouble of removing the branch
avoided, but the useless growth would
have heen directed to parts where it was
needed.
If one has a careful eye to his young
trees, he can, by rubbing off bud or shoot
here and pinching shoot there, so direct
the growth that by the time the trees come
into bearing they will be of proper form,
and very little work will be required of
the pruning saw and chisel.
If large limbs are to be removed from
neglected trees, this month or next lac
cording to locality-at any rate, when the
spring growth is made and the leaves have
attained full size and substance) is by
many preferred for the work, as wounds
now heal rapidly. Cut all large wounds
smooth with drawing.knife, and cover
with shellac varnish, melted grating wax,
or thick paint.
Borcrs do not breed in the tree, as some
suppose. Every bOrer in the tree soent in.
The parent winged insect laid the egg on
the bark. The little borer Matched out at
once bored its way into the tree, and there
it will stay until it comes out perfect in
sect, or is cut out, or is punched to death
in the hole. But please observe, no pat
EFT stuff that is to he laid In the crotch of
the tree, no stuff that you may paint on
the trunk, no invigorator," or anything
that you apply to the soil to be taken up
by the roots and thus poison the borer,
will be Of any earthly use. While you are
fussing with such treatment the bOrer is
quietly at work, perhaps stopping now
and then to laugh at the folly Of the per-
Torrance. Cut with the knife and punch
with wire.
The slug, so-called, but which is really
caterpillar, will appear, especially ON tho
pear and cherry leaves, and, unless
checked, often makes sad work. It is q
dark green leech- like creature, that leaves
q Shiny trail. Slaked lime, busted, from a
coarse bag at the end of pole, will soon
end it. In dry time fine dust from the
road may be thrown into the trees with
good effect.-N. 7. Independent.
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international Sunday School Lessons.
THIRD QUARTER, 1877.
A Visit to Bethany.

WE went over the hill to Bethany; we
had climbed up by the path on which
David flew from Absalom, and we were
to return by the road to the Triumphal
Entry. All along the ridge we enjoyed a
magnificent panorama; blue piece of
the Dead Sea, the Jordan plain extending
far up towards Hcrmon. with the green
ribbon of the river winding through it,
and the long, even range of the Moab
Hills, blue in the distance. The prospect
was almost Swiss in its character, but it is
a mass Of bare hills, with scarcely tree
except in the Immediate foreground.
Bethany is squalid hamlet clinging to
the rocky hillside, with only one redeem
ing feature about 1.-THE prospect. A few
wretched one.story huts of stone, and a
miserable handful of Moslems, occupy
this favorite home and resting place of
our Lord. Close at hand, by the roadside
cut in the rock and reached by steep de-
scent OF twenty six steps, is the damp and
doubtful tomb of Lazarus, down into
which anyone may 60 for half franc
paid to the Moslem guardian. The house
of Mary and Martha is exhibited among
the big rocks and fragments Of walls;
upon older foundations loose walls are
laid, rudely and recently patched up with
cut stones in fragments, and pieces OF
Roman columns The house Of Simon
the lepcr, overlooking the whole, is a
mere heap of ruins. 1t does not matter
however, that all these dwellings are mod
ern; this is Bethany, ami when we get
away from its present wretchedness we re-
member only that we have seen the very
place that Christ loved.
We returned along the highway Of the
Entry slowly, pausiDg to identify the
points of that memorable progress, up to
the crest where Jerusalem broke upon the
sight of the Lord, and whence the pro-
cession, coming round. the curve of the
hill, would have the full view of the city.
He who rides that way to-day has a grand
prospect. One finds Jerusalem most
poetic when seen from Olivet, and Olivet
most lovely when seen from the distance
of the city walls.-CAarles Dudley Warner,
IN atlantic.
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ReformatOry influence Of Music.

A REPORTER of the Chronicle who re-
Gently visited the Industrial School was
very much impressed by what he saw and
learned there concerning not only the tam
ing, but the reforming and refining influ-
ence of concord of sweet sounds" At
tached to the institution Is music teacher
who has at all times in active training a
number of boys, who perform on the va
riOus instruments that make up brass
band. This teacher, who is an intelligent
German. and, to all appearances, an able
instructor, testifies to the wonderful eff.
cacy of music in softening the rugged ma
lures of the boys who are sent to the
school, usually because they are unc0n-
trOllable by parents or guardians. He says
he has noticed the singular fact that boys
whose aSersi0n to learning Wasso great
that they could not or would not acquire
even knowledge. of their TAB, abs"
took hold with evident relish of the COM
paratively difficult study of theoretical
music, and in very short space of time
mastered the notes sufficiently to be able
to read q tOlerably hard score or piece OF
music. This seemed to him like . phe-
nomenal phase, and he can only account
for it on the ground that love of music
is inherent in the average bad boy. lie
has usually in training band of twenty
pieces, but he says that this number he
could easily augment at any time TO two,
three or even four times rs many, for he
very rarely finds q boy that has not q
taste for some musical instrument. The
greatest trouble he has yet encountered in
the fOrmafidn Qf M bands js,t6e tact that
as sOOnyas his rup15r D1cOme re4lly pro
fjcient thew nra rnSSlu.I efnr 4 6iAGG 70 for
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ON Il NACGHTLY LITTLE BOY
SLEEPING.


just now missed from hall and stair
joyful treble that had grown
AS dear to me as that grave tone
Ihat tells the world my older care.
Aud little footsteps on the floor
Were stayed. laid aside my pen.
Forgot my theme. and listened-then
Stole softly to the library door.
No sight! no sound! A moments freak
OF fancy thrilled my pulses through:
tho and yet, that fancy drew
A fathers blood from heart and cheek.
And then-I found him. There he Law,
surprised by sleep. caught in the act.
The roy Nandal who had sacked
His little town. and thought it play:
The shattered vase; the broken lar;
\ match still smoldering On the floor;
The inkstand's purple pool Of gore;
The chcssmen scattered near and far.
Stcwn leaves Of albums lightly pressed
This wicked Baby of the Woods
In fact OF half the household goods
This son and heir was seized-possesscd.
Yet all in vain for sleep had caught
The hand that reached. the feet that strayed
And fallen in that ambuscade
The victor was himself o'erwrought.
What though torn leaves and tatteretl book
stu testified his deep disgrace!
stopped and Kissed the inky
With its dcmure and calm outlook.
Then hack stole and half heguiled
W guilt. il trust that when my sleep
Shonld come. there might be One who d keeI
An equal mercy for His child.
-BTef Huyte. IN UdrDers Magazine for July,
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
ONIONS cure sleeplessness.


A GOOD way to clean black kid gloves,
says the Scientific american, is to take q
teaspOonfu] of salad oil (sweet OILY. drop
few drops Of. ink in it. and rub 1t over
the gloves with the tip of , feather; then
let them dry in the sun.
BOILED PARsNIPs.-Parec carefully, and,
if large, cut lengthwise in halves. Put
them into boiling sailed water, and cook
till tender. Serve them mashed. or plain,
with melted butter. They are a good &C
compartment to salt fish and boiled pork.
PARrs-aREEN is the only etfcctual rem
edy for potato-bugs. The safest way to
use it is with water, about q teaspOonful
to two gallone of water. "A fine wisp
broom Is a good instrument to apply it
with when the potato vines arc dry
Iosoa State Register. -,
Mrs. MILLER's Brown BREAD.-Ialf
cup flour; one cup Indian meal; two
cups OF Graham flour; two-thirds of cup
OF molasses; one tablespoonful of soda,
in sour or buttermilk to make thick bat
ter; teaspoOnful of salt. Steam three
hours, then put it in oven to dry.
Z. RUNAWAY CAKE.-One-ha half cup sugar,
one cup milk, two eggs, one spoonful but
ter. one teaspOonful soda and two of cream
tartar, flour to make stiff batter. This is
q good tea-cakc, plain or with berries
stirred in for the summer season, or cur
rants for winter. Being plain it is only
good when freshly baked.
POTATO PIE CRUsT.-Put a tcacupful
OF rich sweet cream to six good-sizcd po-
:atOes after they have been we'll boiled and
mashed fine: Add salt to taste, and flour
enough to roll out the crust. Handle it
as little as possible. This paste is excel
lent for apple dumping or meat pies, and
may be eaten by the most confirmed dys-
peptic.
Mrs. REA's MOLAssEs POUND CAKE.
One cup of butter, one of sugar. one of
mOlasses, one OF milk, one teaspOOnful of
allspice, one of cinnamon, half teaspoon
full of nutmeg, twC tabiespoonfuls ct GIN
ger, two eggs, ore teaspoOnful of cream of
tartar, one-half of soda, sufficient flour to
make the same as pound cake. Bake in
cups or small tins.
THE London Garden says that fine ef-
feet is produced by training petunias: He
prOcures number of hazel rods, each
about two feet long, bends them like
hoops and drives both ends of them into
the bed, placing them at suitable inter-
walls all over it. On these he ties and
trims his petunias, which blossom more
abundantly under this treatment. Petunias
have been successfully treated as if sweet
pea vines and trained on slanting trel-
lis. The trailing habit OF this plant, es-
peciafly late in the season, is not always
sufficiently considered.
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General Sunday-School Assembly.

The Sunday. School Assembly to be held
1T Lake Bluff Camp Grounds promises to
be the most important meeting Of its kind
ever held in the West. 1t will be in charge
Of Rev. J. H. Vincent, d. D., under
whose management the Chautauqua7 As
semblies, for the past two or three years.
have been 60 successful. On the Board
of Instruction are such men as Rev. Jo-
scph Cock, Of Boston; Rev. DIR. Deems,
of New York, editor of Sunday. Aogassae;
Geo. A. Peltz, editor Sunday Sc1toos
Times, Philadelphia; M. G. Hazard, edit
tor National sunday School Teacher: B.
F. Jacobs, w. +. Crafts, and many other
distinguished Sunday. School workVs.
Lake Bluff il thirty miles north from
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Chicago, ON the shore of Lake Michigan.
The Assembly will begin July II and end
the 9th. Railroads will give reduced
fares, and ample provisions will Ike nude
to entertain, at small expense, all those
who may desire to come. For further in
formation, address John +. Miller, Secre.
tary, So Metropolitan Building, Chicago,
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the disease is sure to die out in the family
OF the victim. So lately rs 1875 lepcr
named Oomah, living and lingering at Sc
rohi, entreated his wife TO put an end to
his misery. A Bunnia, or tradesman, was
accordingly engaged to make the necessary
arrangements, which simply consisted in
hiring couple of lab0rers to dig hole,
into which they thrust Oomah, consenting
to his own death. The dubar, coerced by
the British Government, at length took
cognizance Of this, incident, and lined the
witness 100 rupees The Bunnia was Gen.
fenced TO three ears'aimprisonment, and
the grave-diggers each to two years, but it
Is very unlikely that they will undergo
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Burying Lepers Alive.

ONE Of our India correspondents writes
% US: Among the social peculiaritics of
kajpootana, leper- burial is entitled to no
tice. When leper is past ali hope of
living more than few days or weeks, his
nearest relations arrange, with his ap-
prevail. for his Immediate interment. Self.
destruction by burial is called samodt, and
is regarded rs 20 highly meritorious that
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Horse Hay Fork Patent Infringe.
memt2.

ments.
In the case of A. J. Ncllis rs. The.Ashland
Fork Manufacturing Company, in the United
States Circuit Court for the Northern Dis.
trict Of Ohio, decree has been entered in
favor of the patents, and an injunction issued
against the defendants, enjoining them from
making and selling the Harris Double Har.
pooh Horse Hay Fork. We notice from the
Court records that there arc over one hun.
dred suits now pending for the infringement
Of these patents, against parties in the State
of Ohio. Evidently the owners of the patents
are determined to protect their rights.
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NATURES REMEW>
YEGEYIMED
TnE GREAT BLooo PURIFIER
- s..As.s<<z..n1Asn
AN EXrEHHEVT RE ~ n nv

AN EXCELLENT REMEDY.
SPRlNGFIELD, o., Feb Is. 1877.
This 10 to certify that have used VEGETINE man.
ufactured by H. X. Stevens, Boston, Mass. for Rhen'
matism and General prostratiOn Of the Nervous Sys
tenn, with good success. Irccommend VEGETINE a.
an erceitent medicine for such complaints.
Yours very truly, G. w. VANDERBILT.
Mr.. Vandegrift, Of the firm Of Vandcgrift & HOK.
man, is ellknown business in this place. hav.
ing one of the largest stores in Springfield, Ohio.
NEGETlNE Is SOLD by ALL DRUGGISTS.
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READER,

Have you risen from your bed after Gyhofe seep "a
md yourself nearly suocatcd with Catarrhal natter
In your nose, head. and throat? Have you noticed
What depressing influence It exercises the pind,
we'll? How difficult to rid the head Of this foul mat.
ter al can testify who are afflicted with Catarrh. How
0Mcut to project the against its further pro-
Ersss towards re u1es and brolchiel fds. All ply.
out for reltsf dbe fteed from he daae& of oufo-
s Sanon wnM G snH doSn 70 breathe Vyy sleep
PnLrld matter dcnies the breath and undermines the
20 Know that the body does not through its
sstroy, T. indeed blessing: 70 purchasc infSntnfy
Ion sucn tate should BE- the object Of all aficted
Sians despair Of relief or cure They become incredu
our best citizens, physicians, and druggists in aHor Of
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Near Antelope, Wasco County, Ore,
on the 21st of April, Willia-n Robertson,
wife and Child, were riding in wagon
down a steep hill, when the little one saw
a rabbit, and in its delight slipped from
the mothers hands and fell out of the
wagon. Mrs. Robertson sprang out and
pushed the child away from the wheels,
saving its life, out at the sacrifice of her
own. Her head was almost crushed be-
fore the team could be stopped, and she
died shortly afterward. f.
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HOMES IN WESTERN TExAs.-The unprece-
dented large crops, and the completion of the
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Rail-
way, are attracting vast immigration into
Southwestern Texas. Observation-Disclosures
ted guides, maps and circulars sent free bv adj
dressing NJ. Whildin sos Market-st., st. Louis.
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Petty Frauds and Syvlndles.

1etey HIWuuS anu SVgHuU1eDs
Beware of Baking Powders which are put
up short weights. A manufacturer who
swindcs, knowingly, in weight will not hes
itate to sell adulterated baking powder. Doo-
LEY's YEAST POWDER has worldwide repu-
tation for perfect purity and always being
full weight 1t bears every test for superior
oXnallanno
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Inflammation Quicklv Cured.

Rheumatism Quickly Cured.
DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY, the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any
case of Rheumatism on the face of the earth,
no matter of how long standing. Price 81
bottle: six bottles, IS. Sold by all druggists.
Send for circular to HELPHENsTINE 81 BENT
LEY, Druggists, Washington, D. G.
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fremont HOuSos Ch1c0gOe
The reason of the unprecedented success
Ct this elegant house this season, is not alone
owing to its elegant appointments, its unsur-
passed cuisine, but is, in great measure, due
to the kind treatment received by its patrons,
which make it the most homelike hotel in
Chicago.
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KINesFoRD's OswEGo Corn STARCH for
puddi, gs, jellies, custards, ETC., is consid-
cred great dclicacv. 1t is highly recon-
mended by physicians, for invalids and in
fants, as nutritious food, very palatable
and easy of digestion. - -.-ft+
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Mothers, NIothers. Mofher..

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WINsIOws SoorH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain. CURES wind
collie, regulates tue bowels and, by giving relief
and health to the child gives rest to the mother
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The B." Boozcy Basllouks " IS the latest
and worst
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HOrMANN's HOP PILLS for Fever and Ague.
They cure at once and arc Il preventive.
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How TO take life easy-be careless with
oal-ojl,