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The intellect can never solve the prob.
lem o pain; only love can do it. We
know that EAU things work together
or good to them hat love God" is the
utterance, not of a clear comprehension
Of a consistent theory of the universe
but of a love that by faith knows the
divine love. The household interprets
fife as the father interprets God.
For we do precisely the same thing in
little which God is doing in the great.
In the family we deliberately put our
children to pain as a means OF impress
ing on their minds ideas that it is inais.
pensable for them to know, as a means
of bringing them to patience and cour-
age, of curing in them morbid tenden-
cies to which they are addicted. We
subject our children TO small but real
pains; ne are sorry that they cry We
We look with comparative compcsure
upon the suffering Of the child, because
we see the end, and know that the
trouble viii be transient, and that final.
ly it viii work out "a far more exceed
ing and eternal weight of glory"
While, then, we, lookingat the bottom
Of the cloud in our shert Ives, zee
simply that sorrow Is checking our tenn
porary joy here God, looking at Ii from
the eternal heron, sees that it is to
produce eternal ioy in Hesyep. WHIST
to US is misery is 10 God preparation.
What 10 ne seeb2s to II Tie e~xtinsuisb>
ment Of hepe is 10 Him Ike foundation
of an everlasting experience of bappine s
Therefore except as the parent sympa-
thizss with child ID an unnecessary
fright, aud waits for II to Gene cut If it,
God cannot feel about the N ign Il miseyy
in this world as We do; for He s4es that
u i marching ontsta crest triumph.
AL the soTcrs 81 the uuiver-e viii vrt
come into harnouy. The march ii the
universe is not be forever and forever
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Consumption Due to insufficient
NOuriShment.

The alarming increase of mortality
from consumption has aroused the atten~
ton OF many earnest thinkers outside
the medical fraternity. Statistics show
that this disease carries off more victims
in a year than most fatal epidemic; and
various plans are proposed by which the
power of the terrible scOurge may be in
q measure decreased. Especially in New
England, where the climate is severe
aud the people energetic and enterpris-
ing; "where it is considered efeminate
10 dress heavily, to have a sleeping-room
warmed, or to favor ones self in the
matter OF work." There consumption
rules and reigns. An editorial in the
July number of Scribner, commenting
on this subject, charges much of the i'll.
health Of New England TO the ''thin diet"
system of Graham, from which the people
have not yet entirely recovered. SUI
dents starved themselves, took long
tramps while fasting, sDd died by hun.
dreds. The writer considers sawdust as
wholesome and nutritious diet as buck
wheat cakes and molasses. Good bread
aud butter, milk, fruit, nutritious beef
Or mutton and nice puddings, these Re
considers the necessaries OF life, INSULT,
eient nourishment being one of the chief
causes of lung diseases. To increase the
vitality to a dominant pitch renders the
tubercles already deposited in the lungs
harmless. owe have seen CONSUMPTION
cured again and again" he says, by the
simple process OF building up the forces
Of vitality through passive exercise in
the open air, and the supply of an album
dance of nutritious food and we have no
doubt it can be prevented in most in.
by the same meant"
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RUSSIAN TACTICS.
Copying the Prussian System. How the Troops
are Handled in the Field.

Copying the Prussian System How the 1roops
are Handled in the Field.
rGen. HarmIey in Nineteenth CentuIy.]
The Russians are copying Prussian
tactics in their main featuresof company
columns and IN extended firing line.
Their fighting formation is a line Of
groups of skirmishers, four men in each
group, with supports and reserves; and
such a line may be extended till the
groups reach the limit of forty PAGES
apart, or closed to not less than six PAGES
apart and the parts of such a line need
not be uniform, but 50 varied as to adapt
the troops to the features of the ground.
This skirmish line is always followed by
part of the same company (unless the
whole company is extended) as support.
When the whole company is extended,
other companies Of the same battalion
form the supports. In attacking, few
skirmishers are extended at first, which
are gradually reinforced to requisite
strength during the advance. The sup.
ports follow in companies either entire or
broken, according to the extent of the
line or the nature of the ground. The
instructions for the Russian field maoeu-
vers are fairly level with the military
science of the time, and they grapple
sensibIy with the most important pro-
blem of minor tactics offered in these
days, namely, how TO form troops for the
attack of an enemy in position. Defense
is comparatively easy there is, o~fcourse,
plenty OF scope r)r judgment in placing
troops TO defend ground, but it is not
difficult to do this fairly well, and v e
troops with small training and little
power of maneuvering may be formida~
bic on the defensive. But for success
full attack it is ne essary not only that
the arrangement OF the troops shall be
good, but that they shall have received
that thorough training in the art OF a
well regulated advance under rife fire
over all sorts of ground which can alone
give them confidence in themselves and
in each other. Now, from all that has
been related OF the Russian attacks in
practice, as at Plevna, it would appear
that, however good their theory of in
struction, officers and men have been far
too spariDgly exercised in this most es~
sential particular.
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Fishing for MOmkeys.

A writer in Land and Water tells how
he caught monkeys with a fishing line:
Walking carelessly through their
haunts l strewed some grain upon a place,
on which I dug with my knife a few round
holes about four inches deep. Coming
back to the spot in a half an hour l drop
ped a grain into each hole and left 8 moose
round one of them, concealed with earth.
The other end of the line was in II bush,
Twas there in q short time, and mon~
keys were busy picking the grain. An
old fellow would look into a hole and chate
ter; others came and looked and all chat
tered. By-and,by a plucky little fellow
popped in his paw, and out again. Next
time he got the corn, then Others dipped
in till they finished that hole. In due
course they got to the moose, with some
chatter and the same results till the line
was pulled.
A sudden scream, a general hustle
while the captive was hauled home and
enveloped in a horse-rug. By this time
the troop ran up in the trees, screaming
and shaking the bouGhs most ferociously,
following me as I went away, with the
lost one kicking till he was tired. l be-
lieved this noo5e plan is frequently prac-
ticed.
1 once caught a monkey on the Trim
luck Hill Fort that fell down the face OF
the scarp, knocking his head against pro-
j~ections till he was brought up with a
thud on a slab. He was nearly sensele 4
when I picked him up. No bones wero
broken. In a few minutes l let him go
to his relations, who had never ceased,
letting him know wbera they were. He
crawled quietly up the scarp rock, and
seemed to be received with singer. Pos.
sibly they only wished to know what had
been said to him by the fellow without a
tail.
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MAINTAINING Ee,tiltu

The following thought on grain ma
nuring, by a correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentleman, is an excellent one:
When land has been thoroughly en-.
riched, 1t il very easy to retain its fer
titity by seeding frequently with clover
aud occasionally manuring. Only last
week | passed a field which seven or
eight years ago produced three hundred
bushels Of wheat on five acres, or sixty
bushels per acre, The wheat was OF the
piehl variety, as any other would grow
too rank on such rich land; In the
center Of the field are 3 dozen or fifteen
large apple trees, which diminished the
yield somewhat. The field faces two
roads, and | doubt not that the owner,
q Of the best farmers in the town,
takes much psde in its good appearance
II is seeded with wheat this year,
snd is as perfect a crop as / ever saw.
And yet | presume that the field hss. not
been MANFRED more than ono or twice
since the last wheat crop. Seeding with
clover viii keep such land fertile Tor
many years. sixty bushels per acre
must be nearly the limit for possible
wheat production in our climate, though
this crop has been much exceeded In
Englsnl. The farmer who has land
lEhieh will produce such crops, can grow
beat pFoRtahly, even at low prices. Ia
/ not better 70 concentrate effort on good
land until Il il brought up to the best,
rather than TO diTuse it over the whole
fstm, working all the land and getting
proft from none Ry increasing the
fertility Of the soil we may decrease the
cost Of production, which il the best and
Harest mode of increasing profits, not
oaly in farming. but everything else
n rncgs caunot we'll fx The ufcs At
which they vnbaH their products; but
II they lesrn bow to gEov crops ii less
cost, they reasht ne aams result in an
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FARM N HOME.
Weening Colts

Weening Colts.
y correspondent of a Canada paper
has this 10 say on weaving colts:
Put the colt and it's mother in a stable;
tie both side by side in a manger, in 8
wide stall; have nothing between them;
give them an adequate supply of nutri
tious aliment for a few days, and the
thing is accomplished. ] prefer this way,
because it prevents fretting, on the part
OF both the mother and colt; and as an
Irishman expressed it, about the tive
pigs in the same pen, the one encourages
the other TO eat; so that the colt is not
reduced in condition, as is too often the
case during the weaving process. This
modeO of treatment helps to natter break
the colt, too, if it has not previously
been done.
Another plan l have sometimes adopt
ed, when l did not want to stable the
colt-that is, started the old folks away
on d visiting tour for a week or 80 with
Tue mare, leaving the colt in the pasture
ii9id with the ether colts; thus the two
are out Of hearing distance of each 9th
er, until the young one forgets its baby
notions.
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Artichokes FOR Hogs.

Experience has demonstrated The fact
that artichokes are excellent food tor
hogs, and that they are practically VAL
liable in those localities where corn is
the principal food. As more than a
usual quantity is likely to be planted
| this spring. a word or 80 of caution may
not be out Of place. 1t is not a good
plan to plant them in the centre OF a
| field, for when once established they are
very difficult to eradicate. A better
way is to plant them where they can
remain for any length OF tine desired.
We would not recommend planting o
than an acre or two, unless the person
has had some previous experiences with
them although those who make hog
raising a business, often plant as many as
five acres. At all events the artichokes
should be planted where it is convenient
to urn in the hogs, SO that after the
frost has destroyed the tops in the fall,
they will root up and eat the principal
part of the crop. Enough of the tubes
will usually remain in the ground at the
time WATER sets in to seed the ground.
From The numerous reports of farmers
how are now raising them for feeding
hogs, we infer they are probably as Valu-
able to the northern farmer as the stock
or field pea is to the southern one.
Col. Scott, Of Iowa, who is an extern
siye farmer 8nd close observer, SAYS his
hogs seem to thrive upon them as we'll as
when fed on corn, and for stock hogs
they are better. He regards them as be.
ing IN no small degree an antidote for a
disease known as hog eholora. When
digging what he desired to store away
for winter use for his hogs, he found the
yield per acre was nearly 1000 bushels.
After digging what he desires, the hogs
are turned in, and they complete the
work, and at the anne time their drop
pings enrich the land. He says the
white variety is not only mOre hardy,
but more prolific than the Brazilian or
red artichoke. The artichoke thrives
and does as well on nearly all kinds Of
lands as the common potato; in fact, it
proves to be a very profitable crop even
on thinner lands.
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The Prayer of Schiller's Father
for His Son.

90 God, Thou knowest my poverty in
coed gifts for my sons inheritance. Gra.
cionsly permit, that ever as the want of
bread became to Thy bunger~stricken
flock in the wilderness the pledge of
ove1Howiug abundspee. 80 likewise NV
darkness may, in its sad extremity. csrrv
with 1T the measur of Tby upfstbom-
abe l'ght' apd, because | cannot give
to my foo the least of blessings, do thou
gsse the greatest because, in my hands
there Il not anything, do Thou pour ont
all Hhipgs from Thine and this ter,nls
1t q newborn spirit, which I eannot
ad"an evn sitb earthly ornaments of
d1fd sp' aehef, d. Thcu ir aIiate win
the celestial adornment OF Toy presence.
and, finally, With that peace which
passeth all understanding"
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world is probably that Of John r,
Young, ir., about two miles from Nor.
folk, Va. He cultivates $50 acres, and
the yield last season was over 100000
quarts.
No animals, unless well fed at all
times, can give a constant return for the
food consumed, and no pasture ia safe
from injury by over feeding if everrun
in dry weather by a herd of poor, hungry
animals.
1t is reported that SOC, 600 Texas cattle
are 'thoofug it" toward the Northern
markets, having started somewhat earlier
than usual. There are also nearly 10O,.
900 in Southern-K Kansas, ready for move
ment in June.
"Look where you will on the farm,
whether at its fruit gsriens, grains, or
animals, we shall find that whatever
reaches the highest fitness for its destined
purpose is beautiful; and whatever fails
of fitness is simply ugIy."-W Welsh.
Good corn can only be produced by
plenty of good timely work. Work it
thoroughly and often, early and late till
ready to hay by. Don't let the weeds
get any foothold. The greater the drouth
the more-cultivators should run through
it.
Don't let the grass get too ripe before
beginning to cut for Ray. Don't let it
be exposed to the sur too long. Pat it
in cocks to cure. Putt in good stacks,
or under shelter, as 0 as cured. Don't
let the storms bleach all the substance
out OF 1T.
A Nebraska farmer claims TO have
made 900 pounds Of bright sugar and
1853 gallons of amber syrup from two
acres of cane. The seed planted was of
the early amber variety. The sugar was
obtained by hanging the thick syrup in
coffee sacks aiterit began to granulate.
A Virginia correspondent of the
American Farmer says: owe have e
ten months old white calf that has been
wet-nursing a pair of motherless lambs
the past six week. They took to her
after the death of their mother, and
tugged away until they brought her to
milk, and seem to thrive as we'll as any
OF those nursed by their natural mother.
California hogs are small, but those
which are fed grain are hard feshed and
we'll suited for curing purposes. The
Chinese portion of San Francisco's pop
ulati N are said to consume, as fresh
pork, the most Of the acorn-fed or ; 1T
hogs which ale marketed there The
average + ,ss weight of hogs slaughtered
in San Francisco was 1856 pounds in
1877, 1856 pounds in 1876, l55 pounds in
1875. and 144 pounds in 1874,
The best preventive for worms in Gel
cry is to mix plenty Of salt, SCOT and fine
lime with the manure that is to be en-
ployed in trenches. This should be
added to the manure some weeks before
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixture
above named also benefits the growth Of
the celery Whic viii Iit clean lid
spoilers compared With thas grown in
the ordinary way.
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The Fruits Of Christianity

"No candid observer" Gays the
Springfield Republican, will deny that
whatever of good there may be in our
American civilization is the product Of
Christianity. Still less can they deny
that the grand motives which are work
ing for the elevation and publication Of
eur society are strictly Christian. The
immense energies Of the Christian
Church, stimulated by a love that
shrinks from no obstacle, are all bent
toward this great aim of universal puTi-
fcation. These millions of sermons and
exhortations, which are a constant power
for good; these countless prayers and
songs of praise, on whichthe heRvy-laden
lift their hearts above the temptations
and the sorrows of the world-are all the
product of faith in Jesus Christ. That
which gives us protection by day and by
night-the dwellings we live in, the
clothes we wear, the institutional of social
order-alI these are the direct offspring O.
Christianity. All that distinguishes
us from the Pagan word--all that
makes us what we are, and all that
stimulates US in the task of making
ourselves better than we are-is Chris
tian. A belief in Jesus Christ is the
very f~ountain-head Of everything that
is desirable and praiseworthy in our
civilization, and This civilization is the
flower of time. Humanity has reached
its noblest thrift, its grandest attitudes
of excellence, its highsWater mark,
through the inansnee OF this faith"
And If the tree 3 kuog7n by its fruits,
what can be said against the tree which
bears such fruits as these? We shall
be told that great corrupti0ns and gil
gsntic Iniquities prevail in the midst of
our best civilization but these iniqui~
ties were not intr sdueed by Christianity
though they may have accompanied it
in it's introduction. When the sons of
God come to present themselves before
the Lord, Satan also comes with them.
The iniquities which disgrace a s~o.called
Caristian civilization, are the remnants
of old heathenism never yet purged ont.
They are the works of the flesh, the
fruits OF that evil tree which is as deadly
to-day as it was when it first sprung up
outside the gates of paradise. The
crimes which are charged upon Caristen-
dom, and which are perpetrated under
the name of Christian civilization, are
committed in direct defiance OF every
precept Of the gospel of Christ.
All that is best and purest in human
civilization springs from Christianity; but
if Christianity prevailed absolutely, and
all things were subject to the dominion
of it's moral force, how soon the desert
would rejoice aud blossom as the rose,
how so0n the waste places of our ciVi.
l~ization would be built VI, how soon
the dark, and foul, and stsgnant FOOLS of
vice andsin would be dried, and days of
blessing would come such al this earth
has eve e He who spreads Chris.
advances the greatest moral ren~
ovation that the world has known; he
who s~catters the word Of Col in its liv,
ing, healing power, lows The seed for the
most glorious harvest that earth hasever
borne, and shalIresp a precious fruitage
in the great day of ingathering.--
Church Union.
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Agricultural Notes.

Over 1000 farmers in Msine, have
taken hold of the beet sugar enterprise
and are raising this root f,r he factory
in that state.
Il is s dangerous thing, from a by
ginnic point, to dig a cellar in a wetsoiL.
Better not have a cellar il you can't be
ceItain that it will be dry.
The Argentine Confederation, santh
America, is estimated 10 contain over
10 coo coo sheep. u nearly dsuble tbs
number owned in the United States.
The largest strawberry farm m the
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Cheap Fruit Rooms,

There axe some patented frdthouaes
ta5assnds II dollars. and f6T
DE- privilege Of building them hundreds
sro sometimes charged. Farmers or
farming neighbOrhoOds want something
cheaper, Judge Stitzel stated at the
E0eting Of the Pennsylvania Fruit
Growers society that a gentleman of
"ra<Rsu@ mas a building holding 5000
usneTs, and keeping pound /" apples
until October of the following year, and
greetings till July. He charges Is cents
per bushel for keeping bis neighbor's
apples. The building is of wood, above
ground, and ice keeps the temperature
nearly down to freezing, the ice being
stored above-the ceiling is water. tight
to prevent moisture. The space in the
walls is filed with tan. The apples are
10 twe-bushel boxes, SO placed that the
bottom Of one ii the lid Of the next
below. The house cost $3.50. Mr.. Engle
built a house, half underground, the
body of ice being y feet deep. A part
Of the underground is partitioned or BY
a slauting division He finds no dif6.
Guilty in keeping fruit the year round.
The ice is carefully packed perfectly
tight. and the sides are watched to fll
any vacancy. or creyioe. Ice overhead
j. better than this, but more expensive.
Mr.. Tracy buried the barrels of fcuit in
the ground, covering LIGHTLY with earth.
He has buried maiden's blush 10 An.
gust and kept them till April, and green
ings till June.
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Beyond the hills that shut me in,
/ heard tn sOundo Of LABOR,
Worlds woe and pain and sorrow, too,
Seemed struggling with it's %neighbor,
For Love seemed dead and Peace had fed
FeT off TO fields Eysians
And might was right, and strength was law
Such was the earthly vision.
NY sorl was stirred prayed, "Let me
Do some great work SO purely:
To right life's wrongs that may know
That l have loved Thee surely
NY lips sent forth this Eager cry.
The while my heart b rat faster,
g For some great deed 10 prove my love,
Send me, send me, NY Master"
Butevery path was hCd yed with thorns,
Ny hands we're torn and bleeding;
Each gate was barred, aud hope, 1ll-staTTed.
Was from my heart Teceling. 49,
Night came on, within the valleys rim
The source of P in and s0IT0w
Grew faint with Idly folded hands
| waited for the morrow.
Then through the silence came r voice,
Saying, of God thou ~fearest.
Arise aud do, thy whole Iifg through,
The duty that lies nearest
The friendly word, the kindly deed,
ihOagh small the act in spemiOg,
Shall p owe at last I'M o thy soul
Far mighter than thy dreaming.
g The cup of water TO the faint,
The rest unto the weary,
TIE light thou giTest anOther's lie
Shall make thine 0 EB less dTeary,
And b0undless realms Of Faith and Love
Will wait orthy possessing
Not creeds but deAus, if thou Guilds win
Unto thystlf a be sing,
AMI so l Rait with p~ssceful hea. t,
COutent to do His pleasure
Not caring though the world may mock
At sm'l ness OF the measure
OF thoughts or dee Is, or d lily life,
He knows the true eDdeaVor
To do His will, and seek His iaca.
And He will fail me never.
sarah Il. Gibbs