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Year: 1876

LIME AND SALT.-Prof. johnson recon-
mends for iertilizing purposes to mix one
bushel of salt and two bushels of dry lime
under cover, and allow the mixture to de.
compose gradually, thus forming chemical
union. For this purpose the mixture should
be made six weeks before use, or still better,
two or three months, the heap behind being
turned over occasionally. The salt and
lime mixture, when applied at the rate of
twenty or thirty bushels per acre, forms an
excellent top-dressing for many crops. 1t
acts powerfully on the vegetable matter Of
soils 6ity-six bushels applied to turnips
have produced as large crop as barnyard
manure. 1t is destructive to grubs and in-
scots in the soil. Like salt it attracts moist
ure from the air, and is useful against
drought. Its decomposing power is remark
able, and if three or four bushels OF it are
mixed with load Of muck, the latter will
be thus thoroughly powdered.
Year: 1876

The Germantown Telegraph agrees with
the FARMER as to shading the highway.
1t says;


1t has long been mooted point whether
or not shade trees are desirable along the
highway. There are two sides to the ques-
tion, both of considerable strength. We
have not ourselves been an advocate for
such trees. The shade is very grateful for
three or four months of the year, but the
rest Of the year they are a decided dsad-
vantage. They are very damaging to even
macadamized roads, not merely while they
are in leaf, but through the winter and
spring, as any one may see for himself
Stoned roads in winter where the shade trees
prevail are kept in a moist condition and re-
quire twice the expense TO keep them in re.
pair, than stretches where there are no trees.
In dirt roads the injury is still more clearly
seen, as they are nearly all the time muddy,
the sun having no chance to dry them up,
and they are generally next to impossible
in winter aud spring. The New York legis-
lature at its last session thinks with the
majority on this question, and has enacted a
law paying owners of property for planting
trees along the highways, one dollar for
every four trees at least one year planted,
to be set at certain distances, and protected
while young against cattle. This is an Off.
cial endorsement, but yet it does not disprove
word we say.
Year: 1876

Thick OR TuIN SKIN.--Almost universal
is the rule that the skin of fruits or vcge.
tables, has much to do with their value. A
potato with thin skin does not handle we'll
for market. The thick skin also acts as a
preservative for keeping. This rule applies
very generally, aud aids us in judging Of
their value but at the same time the thin
is an index Of fine quality generally. The
thick skin also ressts disease. Mildew and
scab, OF rust, do their work on thin skins in
fruit of all kinds, much oitener than on thick
In judging of new fiuit and vegetables, these
things help to decide their probable value
Many of our best fruits are too thin skinned
to be grown with profit The leaf must also
have substance to withstand the changes and
extremes of our climate. Now there is Q
moral to this that applies to the genus homo
Some Of our humans are too thin skinned, toe
sensitive, to be Of real use in this world
And there are those who, like some fruits
are too thick skinned to be of much value il
society.-Ne'o England Homestead
Year: 1876

HUNGARIAN FOR Cows-The following is
the testimony Of DR.. Loring respecting Hun.
garian grass; believe | can make more
milk with this grass, cut and mixed with
corn meal and shorts, that l can with the
best timothy hay cut aud mixed in the same
manner. And when you remember that
you can raise on ordinary land, by sowing
the seed of Hungarian grass late in June,
from two and one-half to three and one-halt
tons of good fodder to the acre, and this crop
can be sown after we have ascertained
whether we are to have good crop of hay
or not you will see the value Of this grass.
have such high opinion of it that on my
farm this year and last | raised from seven
ty.6ve to one hundred tons Of it for the pur.
pose Of feeding to my mlch cows during the
winter.
Year: 1876

Don't allow your carriage to rattle like a
threshing machine. Washers of sole leather
on the spindles of axle.trees will stop the
clatter caused by too much "play." A piece
Of rubber put in between the thill iron and
clip will silence matters and little coal oil
on the circle or fifth wheel, will stop squeak.
ing, Where nuts work loose, cut thread
10 front Of them with a cold ehisel after
screwlng them up tight.
Year: 1876

Some time ago, 10 one Of our great ships
OF war, there was solitary sailor who was
not ashamed to own himself follower of
Christ. For long time he was alone, no
other sailor joined him. His place of prayer
was amid the noise and din of the sailors
One evening he perceived shadow by the
side of the gun. Another Jack Tar was
creeping along, and said, "May | come? ?"
Oh, the joy Of the young sailor to have a
comrade with him! They met for many
nights behind the gun, reading and praying.
They became the butt of the men in two or
three OF the messes, but still they continued
bearing and forbearing, 1t came to the ears
of the commander, who was Roman Catho-
lic-but mention this to his honor.


The moment he heard that two of his sail
ors we're meeting for reading and prayer be-
hind one of the guns, he sent for one Of them,
and instantly ordered portion of the lower
deck to be curtaned off, and gave orders
that no one should molest them.


For some nights they were the only occu-
pants, but by aud by the curtain was opened
and blue jacket said, MAY l come in?"
He was welcomed. Another came, and an
other, and the last account 1 heard from the
ship was this, that every night thirty-two
were meeting for prayer, and thirty of them
are believed to be converted charac.ers.-
And there, by " standing fire" by standing
firm, true to what was his duty. God has
blessed that solitary sailor, and made him q
spiritual father to at least thirty men on
board the ship.--Erchange.
Year: 1876

No true work since the world began was
ever wasted no true life since the world be-
gan has ever failed. Oh, understand, my
brethren, those two perverted words, failure
and success, and measure them by the eter.
nal, not by the earthly standard. What the
world has regarded as the bitterest failure
has often been in the sight of heaven the
most magnificent success. When the cap,
painted with devils, was placed on the brow
of John Huss, and he sank dying amid the
embers of the fame-was that failure p
When St. Francis Xavier died cold and
lonely on the bleak and desolate shore of a
heathen land-was that failure? When
the frail worn body of the Apostle of the
Gentiles was dragged by hook from the
arena, and the white sand scattered over the
crimson life. blood of the victim whom the
dense ampbitheatre despised as some obscure
and nameless Jew-was that failure And
when, after thirty obscure, toilsome, unre-
corded years in the shop of the village car
penter, One who came forth to be pre-emi-
nently the Man of Sorrows, to wander from
city to city in homeless labors, and to expire
in lonely agony upon the shameful CROSS
was that a failure? Nay, my brethren, it
was the life, it was the death, of Him who
lived that We might follow in His steps-it
was the life, it was the death, Of the Son Of
God. -Frederic ". Farar.
Year: 1876

4. After commissioners have been ap
pointed to a General Assembly, "any four
teen (14) or more of these commissioners, ont
half (7) of whom shall be ministers, being
met on the day, and at the place appointed,
shall be a quorum for the transaction of bus
mess" Here there seem to be no necessity
for elders being present, provided fourteen
ministers are there. If, however, majority
of those present were elders, they could not
elect one of their number to moderate the
body. This is evident from Chap, Kill,
Sec. 7.


Such facts seem to me to show very
clearly, that equality between the two classes
of rulers in our Church is certainly not rec
ognized Theoretically.


On the practice in our Church courts, |
shall defer what l wish to say for another
communication which will be forth coming;
provided you or your readers do not in the
interval declare yourselves weary of what
has already been said. Let me close by ask
ing you to give your readers the following
pertinent questions from the Southern Pres
byterian


"The Assembly at Savannah ordered one
thousand copies to be printed of the new
Book of Church Order, " and the Committee
of Publication has issued an edition of the
Book, and sent copy to each minister whose
name is on our roll. We hope it will be at
tentively studied by every minister and rul-
ing elder, so that all will be able to vote in
with reference to it, before the
meeting of the New Orleans Assembly,"


The above quotation is from your paper
of the 31st of August, and is most excellent
aud timely advice; but suggests few ques-
tions, which, with your permission, / will ask


1. How are the ruling elders to study
Book which they have not got, and no pro-
visioi made for them to get :?


2. What was the reason for sending copy
to each minister, and none to the elders


g. Have the elders that much natural ad-
vantage, or are they expected to vote upon
the judgment Of the e-ministers2


4, Would it not be well to put off the
whole business until the Assembly can order
another edition for the use and enlighten-
nent of the eldership?


know some elders who would prefer vot-
ng upon their own judgment, and they cannot
10 it VsU without the Book.


TEXAS ELDER"


For my own part in this matter, 1 applied
'or copy of the Revised Book, as an elder,
,fering to pay for it. But two copies were
Ient, and no bill with them. So l suppose
hey are free, one for myself and one for the
session to which l belong. j. L. G.
Year: 1876

l. There are so many IN 1t noV who arr


not real Christians. 1t is sad to say the al


legation is true in point of fact. But Christ
never promised that the Church was to be a
perfect body. There will be found tareS
growing with the wheat until the final har-
vest. This is what the Saviour declared
would be. Your objection, then, demands
more than the Head of the Church ever
promised, and is reflection on His wisdom.


but, moreover, the fact that another en-
ters the church in the spirit of hypocrite,
is no reason why you should neglect your
duty. In that great day when Jesus will
deny before His Father and the holy angels
those who denied Him here, that will give no
comfort to your troubled soul. 1t will only
make your doom the more intolerable to
think that it must be shared with men who
were all along false at heart. Others say


2. l can liue a good life outside of the
Church. If you can, you can lead better
within it. But if you may disregard the
plain command of Christ, so may all; and
then what becomes of "the Church of God,
which he hath purchased with his precious
blood?" Can you safely, innocently thus
pass it by? 0 what sorrowful end will
one day come to such vain excuses, "when
once the Master is risen up, and hath shut to
the door" ECCLEsIA,
Year: 1876

A NEW missionary enterprise has been pro.
posed recently by the "Coumittee on Chris
tian Life and Work" of the General Assem-
bly, of the Church Of Scotland. The object
of it's promoters is not the evangelization of
the heather, nor is it intended to interfere
with that most important and most necessary
work but their aim is to advance the moral,
intellectual, and physical welfare of the poor
and ignorant among their own countrymen
and in their own congregations. The COM
mittee above named reported this year to the
General Assembly, "that there is great need
10 Scotland of a literature dealing with the
practical wants Of life, to instruct men and
women in household and domestic duties, and
in the laws of health and cleanliness" And
they further added that "there is almost re.
ally no public literature in circulation on the
subiact of household thrift aud economy"
but that, Gin all parts of Scotland, town and
country alike, there is woful amount of ig


norance about the commonest details Of
housekeeping" The report goes on to Ia


ment the intellectual and moral darkness Of
large bodies of the people in agricultural dis
tricts, and attributes ir in large degree to
the fact that they do not read books calcu-
lated to remedy their deficiencies, simply be


cause, either that such books do not exist, or
that books treating on the needed subjects
have never been brought down to the level
of their needs. And the committee proposes
to set at work earnestly and industriously to
remedy the evil. 1t is sensible project;
and has its application in America as we'll as
Scotland. We believe it would save thou
sands from the temptations of the saloon and
the corner grocery, if wives and daughters
could be taught to make home comfortable;
and it would be good work to circulate
along with the excellent gOdly tracts of our
noble tract societies, similar brief tracts con-
veying in plain language instruction in house
hold duties, in the laws of health and clean.
illness, in the art of good cookery and pro.
per selection of food; and in the principles
of thrift and economy.-C Intelligencer.
Year: 1876

WAS READING the other day that on the
shores of the Adristic Sea, the wives of fish
ermen whose husbands have gone far out
upon the deep are in the habit at eventide Of
going down to the seashore aud singing, as
female voices only can, the first stapza of q
beautiful hymn. After they have sung it
they listen till they hear, borne by the wind
across the desert sea, the second stauza sung
by their gallant husbands as they are tossed
by the gale upon the waves, and both are
happy. Perhaps, if We listen, We too, might
hear on this desert world of ours some sound,
some whisper, borne from afar, to remind US
that there is heaven and home; and when
we sing the hymn upon the shores of earth,
perhaps We shall hear its sweet echo break
log in music upon the sands of time, and
cheering the hearts of them that are pilgrims
and strangers, and look for city that hath
foundations.-Dr. Cumming.
Year: 1876

Don't make them an occasion of SHINING


by neglect of duty. Go to church at the


time for the appointed services. Your pas


tor will be there, why not you? His person


al comfort in reaching the place will be as
much impaired as yours he has no better
over-coat, over shoes, or umbrella than your
self. His health is as delicate as your OVID,
and he is as likely to take cold from expo
sure to damp weather as you are. It is, too,
exceedingly depressing to him to see small
audience. When the congregation dwindles
to small dimensions for triAing season, he
is forced to believe that either his ministra-
ton of the gospel il unacceptable, or that the
ordinances of the sanctuary themselves are
unattractive. Either inference is painful,
and cripples his usefulness. Then again, if
you stay away from church, your absence
will exert an unfavorable influence. Those
persons who are present will come to the con-
clusion that they have as good right and as
strong reason to remain at home as you
have. Your neigbbors will call you, or re-
gard you, as fair. weather Christian. Per-
sons in your employment will think that,
after all your talk about the Importance of
religion, you are willing to make but little
sacrifice for the cultivation and diffusion of
it. If you were certain Of fading 500 bill
in your pew on rainy Sunday, would you
not be found in your place in it 1t is far
better to please God, and prepare for heaven,
by obeying His command, than it would be
to come into possession weekly Of any such
amount. God is said to make the rain, hail,
and snow to praise Him. But what kind of
praising Him is it when men make these
agencies an excuse for moi assembling at the
appointed place and tips Tor His worship ?
Go to church on the rainy Sabbath, and 60
with reverence, faith and hope, for it may be
your last Lords day on earth.
Year: 1876

are doing;) but do not depend upon US for
motive, nor for the measure of your zeal
and conservation. No motive but loving
obedience to Christ will sustain either you or
US to the end of this mighty work. May the
whole church, in all lands, be soon brought
up to the requisite degree of faith and conse-
Grafton u
Year: 1876

TAKE notice that during the last century
the development of the Christian Church in
this country has been so much moro rapid
than the growth in population, that whereas
there was in 1776 but one Evangelical min
ister to every 2,4OO souls, there is to-day
one for every seven hundred.
Year: 1876

STRANGE WEDDING FEE.-A clergy
man who was formerly located in this
city, but Is now iu New York, married
little over a year ago, d couple who
at once started for Europe and have
recently returned. The bride groom
WAS gentleman Of wealth, and before
he presented himself before the bridal
altar he placed a 500 greenback in
his vest pocket to give the parson for
his marriage fee, and did pay it to him
as he supposed. While crossing the
ocean he discovered, greatly 10 bis as
Constituent, the bill in the pocket
where he placed it, and could account
for It's presence there only OIL the
theory that be must have had another
bill Of different denomination which
he had donated 10 the clergyman by
mistake On getting back 10 this
country be determined TO solve the
mystery, and waited upon the reyern-
ed gentleman, who did not recognize
hun, aud inquired If on certain date
he did bot marry certain couple.
The clergyman remembered the oc-
ca>ion yerlectly. " | know | am
about 10 ask an impertinent question,
said the visitor, but | should ike TO
be informed what fee Yu received
fur performing the ceremony The
clergyman was not prepared 10 make
any disclosure. naturally being as
touisheI that this interviewer should
PROFOUND such a question, but upon
an explanation being made that the
gentleman himself, whom he then rec
ognized, was the one he had married,
be SAID that he would, Of course, graft
fy him, since he was so anxious to
know. Il received" he than went
on TO say, very small quantity of
iue>cut chewing tobacco, folded In a
very small piece Of paper" Tn was
enough; the only thing remaining to
be done was to apologize, laugh hear
tily, shake hands, and make the 500
deposit good"
Year: 1876

After a while is a beautiful day
The storm VIII be ended and brighter the sun:
The " arlness over, the task viii be done.
Some sweet thing is coming to every one,


After a while
After a while IS Prosperous day;
Then We shall have all the vision ne need:
Our earnest en5eavoss shall always succeed,
Til every IDEAL expand TO d deed,


After while.
After while is az affiuent day,
Then our fugitive treasure shall he secure,
And We shall forget that We ever were poor.
When patience shall blossom and friendship endure


Alter q wIiie-
After while is q Lalcyon day, QhIeSs;
When the love We have laviShed our bocoIas shall
Then shall be tue every hand that We press,
The hearts We confie n, the lips We cares,


After while
After while, is mercilul Gay.
Filled with all comfort AMI free from all fear
And thrilled with all love Al. only twas clear
What day OF the mouth, and the month of the year,


Aiter Il lgi.ile.
After while, 'tis a far away time,
For now, while IA patiently counting, I see,
lis not in the calendar open 70 M,
So it mus. be IL Coils IN the life that's to be,


After ii while
Year: 1876

Eighteen hundred and dseventy-sx is the Centennial
year. II IS also the year in which an Opposition
House of Representatives the first since the war will
be in power at Washington; and the year of the
twenty-third election of President of the United
States All these events are to be of great interest
and importance, especially the two latter and all of
them and everything connected with them will be
fully and freshly reported and expounded in the SUN


The Opposition House of Representatives taking up
the line of inquiry opened years ago by the SUN win
Sterny and diligently investigate the corruptions and
misdeeds of Grants administrations and will il is TO
be hoped, lay the foundation for and better
period in our national history. OF all this the Sun
will contain complete and accurate accounts furnish


ing its readers with early and trustworthy information
upon these absorbing topics.


The twenty third Presidential election, with the
preparations for It. will be memorable as deciding
upon Grants aspirations for third term of power and
plunder, and still more deciding who shall be the
candidate of the party of Reform and electing that
candidate. Concerning all these subjects those who
read the sun will have the constant means of being
thoroughly well informed,


The WEEKLY sun, which has attained circulation
of over eighty thousand copies already has its readers
in every Stale and Territory and we trust that the
year 1876 Will see their numbers doubled II will con-
tinue to be thorough newspaper All the general
news OF the day Will be found in It. condensed when
unimportant, at full length when of moment. and
always we trust treated in clear interesting and in


II is our aim to make the WEEKLY SIyN the hos,
family newspaper the world and we shall continne
to give in its columns large amount of miscellaneous
re9dlg such as stories tales poemS scientific intalli
gence and agricultural information for which we are
not able 70 make room in daily edition The sr;
cultural department especially is one of its PROMINENT
features The fashions also regularly reported IN
It's columns and so are the markets of every kind M


Inc WEEKLY SUN eight pages with fftysix broad
columns Is only S20 year, postage prepaid As This
price barely repays the cost of the paper no oo s
can be made from this rate to clubs agentS pt
masters or anyone. - ~eN"9' NVeF


The DAILY SUN, a large four mage newxno,sr os
twenty eight columns, gives all the news for Two cents
a. eSP subscription Hasr postage prepaid Sc month
We have no travelling agents Address Pc 'N'>''


jan SGT THE SIN NevS sss york Cit,
Year: 1876

A woman residing in Albany county, n.
Y, awoke one night lately with a severe
headache, and taking BOTTLE of salts from
a stand near by, applied it to her nose occa-
sionally. She soon fell asleep, and on
awakening in the morning found that she
had retained the bottle in her hand, aud
that the salts had drawn blister on her
thumb, which had covered the mouth of
the bottle. In short time inflammation
arose, gangrene set in, and in spite of every
effort to stop its progress her entire system
became poisoned so that she died.