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Tho Still Hour.

The Religious Herald remarks that it
is to be feared that great many Chris
tian people nowadays are forgetting the
Importance and value Of secret medita-
ton and prayer. Very much is made OF
what is called work. Our most popular
songs are work-songs. "Why stand yc
here all the day idle7" is favorite text
for sermons. Men arc continually ex-
horted to 90 into the harvest-feld and
gather sheaves for the Master. To secure
a proper measure of external activity
amongst the people is the aim OF mcst
pastors.
Now, this is all right if care be taken
that behind the external expression there
is spiritual power and life. We by no
means wish to depreciate the use of any
external agency by which men may be
reached and won to Christ. In this stir
ring age church whose members do not
work for the Master is, to say the least,
an anachronism. Anybody who has
come into real fellowship with the Lord
Jesus will want to bring Others into the
same blessed experience, and will, or
should ever be ready to lay himself, his
time, energies and money on the altar Of
Christian service. What we need every
where is more workers-morc men who
will devote themselves as energetically
and continuously to spiritual affairs as
they are accustomed to do to the ac-
QUESTION of pleasure or honor or wealth.
It deserves also to be said that work
is itself means of grace. There are
many protesting Christians living JOY
less and unsatisfactory lives who would
be made vastly more happy ifthey would
strive to do something for others.
The unused heart no less than the idle
mind is the devils workshop. Work
for Christ often scatters doubt and fills
the life with brightness. THERE'S gos-
pei of work which needs continually to
be preached.
But, while we are perfectly willing to
admit all this, and even disposed to in
sist upon it, it is nevertheless true that
in order to secure truly Christ-like life
and character, and make work what it
may and should be, there is profound
necessity for personal dcvotion--such
devotion as can only>be gained and
cultivated in still hours spent alone with
God.
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Stripping Fo lder from Corn.

The practice prevails in many sections
of pulling fodder from corn before CON-
plete maturity of the ear. The economy
of this practice is considered doubtful by
progressive farmers. To test the sd-
vantage Of pulling fodder and of allow
Ing the blades to remain on the stock un-
til the crop is made, experiments in this
line were made at the Georgia Expert
ment Station under the direction of Com
missioner ]. T. Henderson, Two plots
of land-upiand-one-half acre each,
contiguous and similar in position and
previous treatment, were similarly pre-
pared, planted and cultivated. In a
word the treatment of the two plats were
Identical.
From one of tn, pitts fod Ter was
pulled in the usual m amer on August "A y,
and when pronounced cured was &C
curately weighed. From the other plat
the fodder was not pulled at all. Corn
was gathered from both plats on Octobe;
IA, and was shuck;d and weighed on
October 81. The following results were
obtained:
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Farm and Garden Notes.

Waldo F. Brown says the best Lima
besn-poles are cut of the Usage orange.
Other advantages bes des keeping
down the weeds follow faithful hoeing.
The soil of a rich, well-tilled farm is
always ''ny dirt" to US, miners
phrase.
Glover growth is helped by lime and
plaster Glover absorbs nitrogen more
than most plants do.
Mulch the soil lightly with straw, be-
tween pea rows, and retard attacks of
mildew, ADVISES DR.. Sturtevant.
A few sods and little cow manure
made into heap now where you can
throw kitchen slops will make an ex-
cellent compost for your flower pots next
winter.
Watch young melon plants as they
make their appearance, and If insects
trouble them, dust th m freely with
ashes, SCOT or tobacco dust when wet
with dew.
The Grange County N. W Farmer
thinks farmers do too much guessing in
their business, trust too much to chance,
luck, and the moon. and do too little
close figuring.
Crops are generally reported fair
throug ghout this country. In France and
in England shortage is held to be i'm.
minent. Both these countries will need
to buy wheat largely.
tits known that if growing timber Or
wderbrush is cut during the latter part
of August or early in September there
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RELIGIOUS READING.
For Thee.

Dear Savior, I have often asked Thee,
'sTell mo what to do to-day,
Show me how best can serve Thee,
Show ME some great work, I pray"
So each day I've waited, dreaming
OF some work to do for Thee:
Waiting still, but never seeking
Thinking it would come to mo.
So I failed to see the chances
That each day contained for me,
Where kindly word or action
Would be work if done for Thee.
But, dear Jesus, Thou hast shown me,
How tie love Of each You test;
That they who watch for little chances,
Are the ones who serve You best.
The Sheltering Arms.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Scabby Pigs.

, Pigs are much given to skin disases
because of the prevalent custom OF keep
ing them in filth and of overfeeding them
with sour or putrid food. If pig is
kept in clean meadow or pen and is
provided with clean litter, or even clean
dry boards, and sound food, it will not
suffer from any skin diseases, unless these
are inherited. To cure scab on the skin
the skin should be we'll washed with
water and carbolic soap-the scabs being
broken up with corn cob aud the soap
being well rubbed in the diseased parts:
After wiping the animal dry the diseased
parts may be dressed with mixture of
and one part of calomcl, we'll rubbed to-
gether. A dose of one tablespoonful OF a
mixture of four ounces OF powdered
charcoal and one ounce each of sulphur
and cream of tartar should be given
daily. No sour or fermented fool should
be given.-NeU York Times.
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THERE have been introduced in Con-
gress this session about $4,000 bills,
over 5000 of them in the House,
writes a Washington correspond
ent. OF these less than 1000
have been or will be passed by the
end of the session; so that the
second session of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress will convene with twice as much
business before it as it has been able to
transact in this long session. The list
of bills introduced in the Senate shows
fewer small jobs and unimportant meas
ures, and embraces fully as many.
measures of public Importance as the
list of House bills. The Senators who
seem to do the most business are those
who are on the Pension Committee, as,
for instance, Blair of New Hampshire
has introduced 447 bills, resolutions,
and reports, and Sawyer of Wisconsin
44S. Jones of Florida, who has not
been present during the session, takes
the cake at the smallest end Of the list,
as he has introduced no bills at all. >.
Next to him comes Kenna of, West
Virginia, who has introduced two bills
only during the session, one Of them
for lighthouse in his district. Ssuls-
bury of Delaware comes next with
three, Ransom OF North Carolina fol-
lows with five, and Eustis Of Louisiana !
comes next with eight. Up to date the
different Senators are credited each
with the following number of bills and
resolutions:
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SHORT-SIGHTED.

We take the compass of will
To guide us through life's unknown seas
And wonder when our sails o'erfill
With stormy passions fitful ''''%
Or, on the pinion of a thought
From earth to heavenly spaces bound,
~ find our garments, fancy-wrought,
Were never meant for holy ground.
short.siahtedl reaching for the gems
Tho hla7e of heavens own diadems
Unseen before our blinded eyes:
o'''''A Boston Journal.
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT,
What the Little Brook is sayin-

What the Little Brook is Saying.
What is the little brook saying,
AS it ripples Oh its way,
Refe ting thousand sunheams
In its merry, silvery play.
What is the little brook saying
To the bluebird lowering near
In the emerald willow bending
Just DER its waters clearl
What is the little brook saying9
Ah! It's singing temperance song.
Little bird, always drink cold water
II You would be well and strong.
Ella N. Truesdelt, in Temperance Banner
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A prudent man advised his drunken
servant to put by his money for rainy
day. The man earned good wages, but
the most of it went down his throat. In
a few weeks his master inquired how
much money he had saved. "Faith,
none at all" said he. "It rained ycster,
day, ard it all went"
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"The Star of Bethlehem of temper
ance reform stands over the schoolhousc, "
remarks Mrs. II. Hunt in the Eaucationas
Courdnt.
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In summing up conclusions on this
test, Commissioner Henderson says: ''The
plat from which fodder was not pulled
yielded 215.9O pounds ear corn more
than was yielded by the plat from which
fodder was pulled. The loss, 1878
pounds of fodder, was attended by q
gain of 2S5.90 pounds of ear corn, or
29497 pounds of shelled corn. Com
pared financially, assuming (Which is ap-
proximately true in this locality fodder
and corn to sell for the same price per
pound (s1 per 1907, there was lost by
pulling fodder, $3.50 per acre, in addi
tion to the cost OF gathering the fodder.
incidentally, may mention that certain
cars from plat ?, which appe red to the
eye to Re among the largest, were hastily
selected and exhib ted at the Northeast
Georgia fair in November. Fifty-nine
ears were found to weigh seventy pounds,
and received the first premium over six
competitors. York. World.
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garden to gather lilies, and mean to take
these I'D to higher terra,e and for the gar.
den around my palace, and there will plant
them, and in better soil and better air they
shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter
redolence, and no frost shall touch them for:
ever" And l looked up into His face and
said: "Well, it is His garden, and He has
right to do what He will with it. my va
be ilorem-the hardest prayer q man ever
made. -,
1t has seemed as if Jesus Christ took the
Lest: from many of your households the besl
ons is gone. You knew that she was to0
GOOD for this world: she was the gentlest Id
her ways, the deepest in her affections; ano
when at last the sickness came you had
faith in medicines. You knew that Jesu
wa, coming over the doorsill. You knew tne
hour of parting had come, and when througn
the rich grace of the Lord Jesus ChrSt you
surrendered that treasure you sad: Lolu i'a
Jesus, take tit is the best we haVe-taKs
il, Thou art worthy" The Others in the
household may have been Of groSer mould.
She was of the finest. One day man was
taking me from the depot to a village. he was
very rough and coarse, and very blasphe-
nous: but after awhile he mellowed down as
he began to talk of his little son whom ne
had lost. "Oh sir" he said, that boy was
different from the rest Of us. He never used
any bad language; no sir l never hearu MN
use Lad word in my life. He used to say
his prayers and we laughed at him, but he
would keep on saying his prayers. | often
thought, 4 can't keep that child, and l saia
to my wife: Mother, we ant keep that child
But sir, the day he was drowned, and they
brought him in and laid him on the carpet,
so white and so beautiful, my heart broke,
sir; knew we couldn't keep him."
The heaven Of your little ones will not be
fairly begun until you get there. All the
kindnessos shown them by immortaiS Will n2t
make them forget you. There they are, the
radiant throngs that went out from your
homes. throw kiss to the sweet darllGgs
They are all we'll now in the palace, Inc
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that capacity. No man who spends half
his earnings at saloon can get on in the
world, or has the least right to expectt to
get on. Nor can any body of men follow
the same course with better results. Pros
perity is the reward of persevering, tenn
perate, ungrudging work. In these days
there is, however, great wind OF new
doctrine. We are asked to believe that
it is possible to succeed in very different
ways; that the less man works, for ex-
ample, the more he ought to receive: that
national prosperity can be advanced b.
diminishing production; and many other
| equally hard sayings. But it may be
| confidently affirmed that these new
theories are destined to be short-lived,
and that the world will have to be man
aged eventually upon pretty much the
old lines.-Atlantic.
Philadelphia has GAS churches, or ono
for every 27O voters; s45 public schools,
or one for ever 714; 1905 bakeries, or
one for every 100; 3,454 retail groceries,
or one for every fifty-one; and 5,959
liquor saloons, or one for every twenty
nine voters.
Mr.. Arthur, Secretary of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, says:
IF could, would inaugurate strike
which would drive the liquor traffic from
! the face of the earth"
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self into memory that never grew dim
until three weeks ago. Then palace
sleeper, a baggageman, transfer COM
pany and telegraph rubbed SO heavily
upon the indelible mark of Isl" that
now but the faintest outline OF the figures
remain. The terrible trials endured by
our pioneer women will never be appre-
ciated by the palace: hotel able-car-tele-
phone generation. The girls of to-day
cannot understand why their mothers
and grandmothers were in such a hurry
to get here. The fact that many came to
join husbands does not seem to figure
with Miss Shallow. But add year or
two and share of love to Miss Shallow 5
experience, and even in this 'goodmatch
day she herself might travel from ocean
to ocean to join dear one. Our pc
sent-day women are just as noble. just as
brave and inst as true as those who live
in the nauseatingly praised "g"cd old
times"
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The Art OF Dress in Woman is to Conceal
Defects.
The historian wonders why only very
thu ladies and very stout ladies battle al
Nautaskel? He has repeatedly noticed
this circumstance of late. Recently there
was, at the southern end OF the beach,
most remarkable gathering of ladies i'll
the surf. y sort OF female suffrage
Contention, If you We mind to cali it
50. And two Thirds of all the delegates
present We're stout that the tide, which
turned and began II wing in With consid-
cradle force as the ladies' entered the
water. to the great asIonlshment of all
the seaialing men who were hanging
around the beach Watching the-shipplug
IN the distance. But he other third IF
he delegates were So lean that. when
they began to stray out OF the surf with
their stnuter sisters. the spectator could
hardly help thinking of J"seph's dream
of the lean kline of Egypt
Perhaps, the historian thought, the
salt water is believed To have the effect
to make stout people thinner and thin
people stouter which would account for
the phenomenon.
LtCer.-Sacharssa, who has been con
suited on this point, disposes OF 1t i'll this
strain: You goost. Have you lived To
be? years old without finding out that
the art OF dress, except Ill the case of one
WON III III ten Thousand no has 40 visi-
BILE physict! imperiecrlouS, is to conceal
defec - Dress serves to make the stout
look not quite 50 stout as they are, and
the lean To look ii good deal stnuueI. |
this Way women strike Sort of general
average. 1uu-poor wholesale and re-
tail admlrer OF the faller and asiuter STA.
See women as they make Intensely
appear. and not as they really are. We,
who are more experienced. are able to
see through one another's di>gui,e.. But
when you go To Nautasket you see them
a good deal nearer To the condition in
which nature leaves them than than they
often appe II any where else.
N d ,ubJ of 1t, SdcnaI ,Ssa-no doubt
Of it "
keep still. And when they are pretty
saturated the truth of their
real condition as to flesh comes out And
that's what makes The average women
appear in the surf either stouter or leauer
than she does in the street, and causes
the ladies in the surf to look to you either
very fat or very lean.
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Read What Mr.. Clayton Says
About 1t,

CHESAPEAKE CITY, MD, July 26, 1856.
ID. SCOTT 4 BRO:
Gentlen,en:-I have bought Sure
Growth Super, Phosphate for three years
from your agent James A. Boulder. Ii
has been my custom to use Oh wheat two
or three'of the best known PhoSphates
on the market. Last year, along with
Sure Growth. used two other glades OF
goods of like character, both popular ~
this section-oue costing the same, ana
the other more money than Sure-Growth
NV wheat from seventy-nve acres yielded
all through over twenty bushels OF
red per acre, and about thirty bushels of
Fultz per acre. If there was any differ
ence in the crop from the three fertilizers
it was in favor of Sure Growth. | snail
use it again this Fall,
Yours respectfully.
WESLEY CLAYTON.
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TIE SLEEPING EAHE.

Gently and softly the mother bent
Over the baby in sleeps embrace,
Watching the rosy smiles indent
And dimple the little dreamer's face;
And the longed-tor kiss she would not take,
Lest preadventure the child might wake.
Gently the mother watched and wept
over the coffin where lay her CHI lid;
Only one thought i'll her bosom crept
As she bent To the lips in her anguish
wild,
Again and again the lost kiss to take
on. If the baby would only wake!
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rc-GroMth on Bohemia Manor.

ST.. AUGUSTINE, MD, July 26, 1856.
ID. SCOTT & BRO:
Dear Sirs:-We use about eight tons
of Phosphate in the Fall on our wheat.
and for several years past have divided
our order between Sure-Grnwth and
another fertilizer, popular in shis section
and of the same cost. After faithful
trial am satisfied that Sure-Growth is
equal to the best goods on the market.
We have had elegant results from 1t on
wheat, and the grass from it is heavier
than from anything else.
Yours respectfully.
ROBERT BAKER.
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Has no Superior in the Market.

Has no Superior in the Market.
ELKToN, MD, July Il, 1856.
MEssRs. D. SCOTT 4 BRO:
Dear Siys.-We used tweuty-one tons
of your Sure Growth Super Phosphate
last year on wheat, on our farms i'll SaS-
safras and Bohemia Manor. We have
used it for some years with good results
aud expect to increase our order this
Fall 1t is as good, il not better, than any
Phosphate we have ever used, and for its
price has not its superior in this market
Yours very truly,
JOHN ). WRIT.
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2S Bushels Wheat per Acre.

RED POINT FARM, ELK NECK.
CECIL Co, Md, July IL, 1856.
MEsSRs. d. SCoTT Il Bro:
Dear !Sjrs:-I have just finished thresh
ing one field of eighteen acres of wheat
on which drilled in last Faq 400 lbs. o
Sure Growth Snper-Phosphate, and il
averaged me twenty-eight bushels to the
acre.
We have used Sure Growth on al
crops tor years-and hope my landlorc
will continue to get it. He is as muct
delighted with it as am.
1"nrS respectfully.
ROBERT MCCULLOUGH.
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Knows the Sure Growth from =
Years Experience.

Elk LANDING, MD, July II 1856.
d. SCoTT n BRO
GehtlemeN.-l have used your Sure
Growth SuperPhosphate ever since il
was introduced into this market in 1878,
and it has uniformly given me and my
tenants eutire satisfaction. | use no
other fertilizer except your Standard OF.
Spring crops. Knowing its value from
eight years experience, am not dlspos-
ed to run risks when can secure a GER
tainty. Other brands of fertilizers ma,
be as good, bit | kuoW Sure Growth is
welI-named, aud prefer knowledge to
speculation. Yours respectfully.
r. G. MACKALL.
L. S.-Since writing the above we have
threshed, and got 400 bushels of wheat
from J6 acres, or p bushels per acre I.
Tie wheat Was cut fully bushels per
acre by The worm. r. Z. NJ.
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The Pioneer Women of California,

San francisco Rci pf.
Thirty-tive years ago an OK team was
creeping across the plains to California.
BY night the men walked, on guard
again the Indians. BY day the women
tramped beside the patient beasts Food
was scarce, and it was necessary to save
the cattle. AT the head of one of these
teams trudgcd young woman with eyes
alert for Toe in form of red skin or friend
III shape of water. BIlstered bare feet
for shoes were worn out early in the
tramp-sun-scarre faces and hands
rock hardened through constant exposure
bespoke the hardships of the trip as they
painfully dragged into Truckee after
months of travel That trip scared it.
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CEcILToS, MD, July -, 1856.
MEssRs. d. SCOTT Il BRO:
Gentlemeh:-I have been using your
Sure Growth SupelPhospnate on wheat
for the past eight years, and | presume
the testimonial | can give is, that | SUI
continue to use IL.
Yours truly,
DAVID Z. DAVIS.
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"SIy, why Is everNrhing

Either at skies or al SeVeiiS?'
Probably, my dear nervous sister, becaust
you are suffering from some OF the Diseases
peculiar I" your SIX. You have ii drag
lng-dow an feeling, the hack-ach-, you are
deblIltated, you have pains OF various kinds.
Take DIR. H. V. Perce's "Fav"rte Prescrip.
ton" and be ed. Price reduced To one
dollar. by druggists.