CHRISTIAN IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. XXXIII. SUFFOLK:, YA„ FRIDAY JANTJA^Y 3, 1880. Number d. |)oetrg. WRITE THEM A UTTER TO NIGHT. A curtain young man who does not Hvevy/fur fron\ the Bum office has nffSgflktg*} to write to his mother for some time. Recently bo received a letter Addressed in bis mother’s hand writing, within was nothing but (he following poem. Read and see what yon think that mother thinks of her son. Don't (O to the theetrs, concert or bsll, But slay in four route to-night, Deny yonrseir to the friend! thnt call, And a good long, letter write— W rite to the ltd old folks at homo, Who alt when the day is don«, With folded hands ami"downcast eyes, And think of the absent one. Don't selfishly scribble, "Excuse my haste, Sr the time! to write," ding thoughts go wandering bat*, •y gone night— t their needed sleep and rest reath was* prayer id leave their delicate babe ier love and care. - [ Don't let them feel that you've no more need Of their love or counsel arise, For the heart grow* strongly sensitive When age has dimmed the eye— It might be well to let them believe YoUBever forget them quite: That you deem it a pleast re when far away, Long letters home to write. Don’t think |hat the young and giddy friends Who make yonr past time gay, Have half the anxious thought for you That the old folks hate to-day The duty of wrifhu do not put off, Let sleep or pleasure w Jr. Lest the letters for tdfii j , - ; longed __ V ngliill, Rector. Will Paul’s Ubtrrcii, StfiToil uingand aU-to'4 in looked and Im< Church.—Rev, ,is CREAM OF THe —One by one come In) desolate da**. It is only to day tit'toucheth »1,AA I ore thee I w on thy ti.ee. Ldok straight Some guiding rays shin path. Go on with praisi that thon canst see.— Wi _When a young mam to wait, ho has mastereile hardest lesson in life. Few truljeain, but ka who does has gal' the light Gladden. s learned X of the fundamental pti iowledge of all lat all success, an'd need uoe‘*tn»l other things necessary be added to him. —There are a great many dead weights in all our churches—people who add nothing to their spiritual ac tivity or their strength in any direc tion. They are barnacles on the boat. They clog the voyage they are sworn to help. What we want is, not more fruit iu the garden of the Loidf^Cut better fruit; not more names on the charch regisi holier hearts among the peopli Interior. -Mr. Moody, in jhis late at Treraot* Temple, told a incident or a lady who hei come ont $8 a convert lest be debarred from going to tre. But Mr. Moody assn red lieifchat she might jg anything that dif not interfere with giving her sapOme love to Christ; and she came oit fi lally on the Lord’s side. Soon (iter , jbe want to the theatre, b| t inaead of any enjoyment in it shaiou adher er so tw ’’bled iCkst. tV ion!e'not stay through, and she afterward de clared that the whole thing was so changed, and looked so different from what it had formerly seemed that she had.iio relish for it whatever. Aud this is bnt a common experience of theatre-goers who become hearty and earnest^ Christians.—Congrega HonalUt. —It seem .to me nature designs very few people to be scholars, but when so man& make a failure oTlife we are greatly surprised aad say they had a good education when in reality it was, for them, the worst ed ucation in the world, because they were not fitted to do their work. The result of education should be to ele vate one’s uses, bnt sometimes stu dent himself reminds one of the cheap woodeu box in which his books are packed. We certainly have different capacities for assimilation of mental food, and I ftink that to be gifted with a tenacious memory and > well, a short time willy- AUo’ a fme parents to a BougSjfl importance t**r. how twfimss™* U9» as great aa the f ary "tl#r aeri J of OlctUH!*- . - rwr THOUSAND 'COPIES here been i i> thfpublle ichooiTof the U.8. «ow is the ti They must be s no28~4t For sALlk old—a spU }a1so, another s| second-hand T Spring \V agon l of which will t \ Apply to | J|[arm and jftre3ii(. •j j GOOD FENCES. Fences are still the fashion, ami will, we suppose, remain so for -geu jerations to come. He it so; they suit somo districts best, whether stock are to be fenced in or out. Per | haps nothing not directly connected j with tillage ha# so much influence ou | the prosperity, peace anil order of a 'community as the fences. If the fen ces are good, there is prosperity and j good order ; if they are bad, property is unsafe and society often disturbed. A neighbor who habitually keeps sorry fences is a public nuisance. He does not prosper himself, and he ruins the character of all his neigh bor’s stock that runs at large. If he shoots or maltreats stock for getting to his crops over bad fences, he make enemies, and renders intercourse be tween his family and other families unpleasant. He loses in a pecuniary and social way much more than good fences would cost him. It is plain that there should be good fences or none. It is a public necessity—one that the law has re cognized aud made provision for— but which, like many other laws, is not enforced as it should be. Every farmer has an interest in all the fen ces of his neighborhood, and he ought to let his example and counsel bo found on the side of good (ences. There is room for much improvement in the fences of our State. There are numberless fences t*at are absolutely unsafe; some are “high, safe and strong ; and occasion ally* we see one that is not a repulsive object in the landscape. Hut the number of neat ly kept, attractive l'euees is remarka bly small. Too often a wide border of briars, thorns, trees and bushes marks the line of the average fence. They become a wilderness for the harbor of vejmiue and “varmints.” It should not be. Besides the great waste in land, they are unsightly and extremely awkward to repair. It does not show' well for the good man agement and taste of the farmer; such fences rot down sooner; they are sooner destroyed in case of tire ; and they are generally unsafe for turning stock, especially hogs, as ma ny a small break and weak place is hid from the eye of the farmer that; hogs are sure to find. There is need ■ of reformation in regard to the fen ces. Let us have good ones or none : let the public sentiment demand it: aud let each individual farmer resolve to have as good fences as any of bis neighbors. It will be a vast^stride toward the good times we are alb striving for.—Rural Messenger. WATCH YOUR BIRDS. Keep a good watchful eye to your birds and for tlieir comfort and well being, aud they will amply repay you for your care and attention. A care less or indifferent persou is sure to lose, during the,season, many a flue aud valuable bird, aud often the breed is condemned as being so lia ble to sickness aud disease as to be practically valueless, when the reai blame for the undesirable result should be attached to the careless owner of tf#Jbirds. In the fall of the pr''there is always more or less sickuess amongst poultry, on account of the sudden changes in tempera ture, from warm to cold, aud the pre-1 valence of warm days and cold, damp i eveniugs aud nights. If the birds | are not carefully housed and protec- j ted, they are apt to contract some of! the disorders incident to poultry, and : then the breeder has to pay for his neglect. Doctoring sick fowls is gen erally very unsatisfactory, for it is dies before the remedies applied cau be made to reach and cure the dis so apt to iufect. the other members of! the flock that it is generally best to I kill the sick fowl aud thus save the j rest from infection. Cures may be! good enough ; but theu preveutativesj in the shape of good care aud mau-j agement, beats them every time.— American Poultry Journal. Ckeau Toast.—Take two quarts of milk, put a part of it iu a spider and set it off the stove to warm. ht or ten slices of bread, ^JKiem in the warm milk to soften j^Bkthem .toast dish and too often the ease that the sick bird ease. Aside from this, a sick bird is | “M 6a3 * hne lot of Horses iust e l0t aro wv*«l very fine mares. otof*JLES. GGORGE NUliNEY. » SIX years m animal ; * splendid *•% a good op-BOog , ar.d al >e gold It ^tew Linen may be embroidered by rubbing it over with corner Washing* »19 “ soap; it p re roots crackiug. the Flrtrrr~TA"ii1 ,A law supply of Gem and ti^IU V‘L'n, Ja'‘’- f heus will pay for them tbeiy are one year old, if *ily cared fee. little eoap to the hinges kdoowcnafc'imr^T French P a n • C a k es.—Ingre-# dientsr: Two eggs, one-half pint milk, twoounees granulated sugar, two ounces butter, floor and jelly. (1) beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; beat the eggs separately, the yolks to a cream, and the whites to a troth, aud add the yolks to the butter and sugar ; (3) stir the milk into these ingredients; (1) butter six tin pie plates; (5) sift two ounces of flour with a tea8pooufnl of baking powder, aud stir it quickly into the ^above named mixture, with • the whites of the eggs; put the butter quickly up on the buttered plates, and bake the pan cakes brown in a quick oven ; (6) dust them with powdered sugar, lay themoue over the other, with a little jelly betweenjdust the top with sugar, and serve them hot.—[Juliet Corson. How to Measure the Height of Trees.— When a tree stands so that t he length of its shadow can be measured, its height can be readily ascertained as follows: “Set a stick upright, let it be per pendicular by the plumb-line. Meas ure the length of the shadow of tbe stick. As the length of its shadow is to the heigth of the stick, so is tbe lengt h of the shadow of the tree to its height, l'or instance : If tbe stick is four feet above tbe ground aud its shadow is six feet in length and the 0 shadow of the tree is niijety feet the, height of the tree will be sixty feet; (G: 4: : 90: 60.) >fn other words mul tiply the length of the shadow of the tree by the height of the stick, and divide by the shadow of the stick.” Fob Weak Eyes.—Bathe the eyes in soft water that is sufficiently im pregnated with spirits of camphor to he discernible to the smell,—a teaspoouful of spirits of camphor to a tumbler of water. For iuflamed eyes use milk and camphor, adding a lit tle more of the camphor than above. Au excellent lotion, commended by a leading Boston oculist, is a solution i of 10 graius of borax in the officinal “canplior water (not the “tincture of camphor.”) Th^i is safe auc} benefi cial as an application in any slight weakness or inflammation of kite eyes due to exposure or weariness. In se rious cases professional advice should always he taken. \ .. To Soften Hahd Watbb.—Take two pounds of washing sod* and one pound of common lime, and boil in live gallons of water for two er three hours ; then stand away to setfl® »nd dip off the clear water from the top, - and put into a jug. Can be used for washing dishes or cleaning, and one teacnpl'ul iu a boiler of clothes, pat in after the water is hot, will whiten the clothes and soften the water, without injury to the hands or clothes. I use au old iron pot to make it in. To Tell a Horse’s Age.—“Af ter a horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes in the eyelid, at the upper cor jier of the lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one well defined \vriukle for each year of his age over uiue. If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkles he is twelve; if four, thirteen. Add the number of wrmk Keeping sheep is pleasant and profitable if attended to properly. A\ ool is a sure thing every year, and brings cash. It has its ups aud downs, but let any man make up his mind that uone but his wife or his administrator shall sell his wool for less than fifty cents per pound, and he will come out all right. Every man should be his own overseer. His eye should scan the whole area of labor and no detail should escape his obversation. He should commend the'deserving and reprove the lazy. So far as possible he should lead and not drive. It is essential that leather should have light. In the care of harness do not enclose in a dark closet or room. Of course harness should be oiled three or four times a year, first washtug with soap and water. .A. slow milker makes a cow imps* tient, which causes her to hold up lie milk. The strippings are the riches part, and if a cow is milked quietly as well as quickly, there will be more,’ as well as richer milk.