THE CHRISTIAN SUN.
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY ;
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
Volume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, VA., FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1880.
Number 7.
I BORE WITH THEE.
"The Love of Christ, that passcth
knowledge”
BY CHRISTINA G. ROSSKTTI.
I bore with thee long weary days and nights,
Through many pangs of heart, through many
I bore with thee, thy hardness, coldness, slights,
For three and thirty years.
Who else had dared for thee what 1 have dared ?
I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above;
I not my flesh, I not my^spirit spared :
Give thou me love for love.
For thee I thirsted in the daily drought,
For thee I trembled in the nightly frost:
Much sweeter thou than honey to my mouth ;
Why wilt thou still be lost?
I bore thee on my shoulders, and rejoiced.
Men only marked upon my shoulders borne
The brandiug cross; and shouted hungry-voiced,
Or wagged their heads in scorn.
Thee did nails grave upon my hands ; thy name
Did thorns for frontlets stamp between mine
I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame ;
1, God, Priest. Sacrifice.
A thief upon my right'hand and my Mt;
Six hours alone, athirst, in misery :
At length in death one smote my heart and cleft
A hiding-place for thee.
Nailed to the racking cross, than bed of down
More dear, whereon to stretch myself and
sleep;
So did I win a kingdom,—share my crown ;
A harvest,—come and reap.
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CREAM OF_THE PRESS.
—Remember your Creator now
while you have opportunity—do good
to your fellow men and walk by faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
—But what vtO/wiaJj. tft make em
-’'phaticis the ,J&ef .snrfwh preached"
gospel;, for all these works of chari
ty and religion must cease, if the
'preacher’s lips are closed, and no one
stands iu his place to do his work.
And another thing we wish to make
emphatic; the power of the preacher
will be in propoftion as he preaches
the gospel and Jlot something else.
He is called to do that, and if he
does it -not, he is a fraud. And
where it is preached with greatest
fidelity, there it has greatest power.
There doubts are fewest, and unbe
lief the weakest.—Pittsburg Chris
tian Advocate.
—“A school-house is not a church.
He who says that a church is not a
better place for worship than a school
bouse knows very little about real
worship iu church, or school-house,
or any other place. We are crea
tures influenced by circumstances or
surroundings. "A school-house is not
the place in which to maintaiu a
church and have it grow. A school
house in which political meetings,
law suits, and any show that comes
along are held, is not the place for
divine worship; the association be
comes bad.”—Christian Intelligencer.
—These are the rules I have always
accepted: First, labor; nothing can
be had for nothing; whatever a man
achieves, he must pay for; and no
favor of fortune can absolve him
from his duty. Secondly, patience
and forbearance, which are simply
dependent on the slow justice oftime.
Thirdly, aud most important, faith.
Unless a man believe in something
far higher than himself; something
inftuitely purer and grandei than he
can ever become—unless he has an
instinct of an order beyond his
dreams; of laws, beyond his compre
hension ; of beauty and goodness aud
justice, beside which his own ideals
are dark, he will fail in every loftier
form of ambition, and ought to fail.
_The pieces of armor recommen
ded in the Bible to the Christian sol
dier are various, but there is only one
weapon named. Helmet, breast
plate, girdle, sandals, aud shield are
called for to enwrap aud protect the
soldier’s person ; but the single wea
pon to be wielded by him is “the
sword of the Spirit, which is the
word of God.” This suggests thut it
is a more difficult, a more complex
thing to take care of a Christian while
he is fighting than to do God’s work
in cue ngnt.
—Precisely in proportion as religion
is given up to tbe frivolous and pic
nioky style of worship and entertain
ment will it lose in real spiritual
power. Its earnestness all give way
under such treatment, and religion
without earnestness is nothing. It
requires rare skill to so mauage the
disposition to mingle social enjoy
ment with religious devotiou so that
there shall not be austerity on tbe
one side, or volatility on the other.—
United Presbyterian.
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SOUND HIS PRAISES.
Ought wo not in our Christian life
on earth to cultivate more the spirit
of praise t
See how emphatic the record of
the revelation, on this point, when
speaking of his apocnlytic vision.
“And Ij^ftfeld, and I heard the
voice ol'many angels round about
the throne, and the boasts, and the
elders: and the number of them was
ten thousand, times ten thousand,
aud thousands of thousands ; saying
with a loud voice, Worthy is the
lamb that was slain to receive
power, and riches, and wisdom, and
strength, and hor.or, and glory aud
blessing.”
How promiuenta place in the occu
pation of heaven is given to joyful
adoration of our Lord !
The act of praise leads the soul out
of itself, into the beholding of the
lovely and glorious attributes of
God’s character, as portrayed in the
life of Christ. Looking at self would
narrow, but this enlarges and waims
the whole spiritual being. It ii'the
upspringmg of a grateful heart to
ward its bounteous Benefactor, in
glad acknowledgment of His good
ness. It is the kindling of the scul
in responsive echo to the loving touch
of the Master.
Occasional hasty flings about the
employment of the saints in another
world, by persons more noted for
piquancy that piety, have of late, led
some persons to underrate the place
of “harpers, harpiug ; with their
harps,” aud to consider the singiug
and worship only a minor part of the
work of glorified saints. While we
do not contend that this is the sole
thing in the field of view opened up
for our contemplation in the life be
yond the river, we do believe that
Scripture aud a true Christian phil
osophy inculcate the duty and mag
uify the privilege of praise.
What makes the Psalms of David
aud the sublime poetry of Isaiah so
comforting aud inspiring to the juost
saCTetFnStrre’of the inner lifift~ Is if
not a breathing ,^
recognition of God’s 'good baud all
through the history of human experi
enee-f
What stimulated and promoted
the growth of the early Church but
the testimony of its disciples f “This
is the Lord’s doing: it is marvelous
in our eyes,” waS the substauce of
all their witness-bearing.
Cau we not, as churches and indi
viduals, do more toward exalting the
high estimate which the world should
have of Christ, by opening our lips
iu enthusiastic proclamation of the
Lord’s loving kindness to us f
Very often the fires which God’s
Spirit has kindled in the heart, il
allowed vocal expression, become a
burning flame, helpifig to warm into
new life other hearts shivering aud
freezing for its lack.
If, instead, cold conventionality be
counseled, and the fear of criticism
prevail, the heavenly’ Are, deprived
of its necessary spiritual oxygen, will
die.
As we value, therefore, the claims
our Saviour has upon us and the
world, let us pray with fervent desire
that God may inspire us with in
creasing appreciation of His charac
ter and love, and more cheerful read
luess in proclaiming it to others, that
we may better carry forward the
work His Son has put into our hands.
Let us not bo classed among those
who are too busy, or too indoleut, to
take the time or make the effort to
render unto God “the thanks due
His name.”—The Appeal.
FUSSINESS.
Thure ia a class of housekeepers
who are always iu tho suds. Some
how they seem to have a great deal
more to do than others who appear
iug to do little, accomplish every
thing. Those fussy housekeepers
weary the life of all quiet loving
folks who are so unfortunate as to be
iu their neighborhood. Instead ol
sitting comfortably down and inquir
ing what is to be doue, how it cau be
so doue that it shall have a logical
beginning, middle and eud; what
must be doue, what may be left un
done ; what is urgent, and what can
wait; they begin anywhere, every
where, and “charge all along the
line or, what is almost as bad, they
devote themselves to some trilling
detail which might have been omit
ted altogether, and let all the rest ol
the household machinery drift iuto
confusion.
The fussy housekeeper has special
ties and whims and notions. Her
plumage is always ruffled, her man
ner is always agitated, she is in a
perpetual stew, and unfortunately
never gets quite “done” till the last
quiet sleep overtakes her. The worst
of it is that these fussy folks always
persuade themselves, and try to per
suade others, that they are accom
plishing a great deal by their fussiness,
which is only true in that they make
total destruction of all peace and
comfort within the limits of their pet
ty sovereignty. Now, there is a
great deal to he done in every house
hold, however small, and it can be
done, all of it, without any fuss at all.
The whole operation of house clean'
ing can be gone through with by on
ly disturbing one room at a time, or
two rooms at a time, whilst the rest
of the house is kept in its usual or
der. There is no sense in tearing
things to pieces unless one can at
once put them to rights again, and
when they are torn to pieces, the
thing to do is not to fret nor to scold,
but set such agencies in operation as
will restore order and wholeness
again. It has always been observed
that all the great agencies are noise
less. Sleep, death, heat, light, elec
tricity, gravity :—u?St--a—sound does
either of these make as they all move
on in their mighty missions through
the earth. They come and they go.
and we know naught of their coming
or going save by the results they
leave behind.
Our most distinguished citizen is a
silent man. He is known not by his
words, but by what he is dud by what
he lias done. He lias gone round the
world raising a tidal wave all tiro
way, but a child can count all the
words he has spoken! The best
housekeeper we ever saw never rais
ed her voice above a whisper. When
she spoke you had to listen to hear
what she said. You could tell the
seasons by looking at her house The
various preparations for spring, sum
mer, autumn, winter were made al
ways in season, but so quietly that
everything was done without the
‘■stroke of a hammer.” No parade
was made about things left undone,
and thougli she often had to wait for
the accomplishment of her plans,
there was no fuss made about the
waiting, no»ttewtj$>n ealic-_
onhyshe herself knew that-every
-.<s she wished. The
secret of her success lay in the quie
tude of soul, the clearness of her in
tellect, and The patieuce of her dis
position, and these could not fail to
be impressed on all about her.
If the housekeeper would be a
homckeeper as well, she must avoid
fussiness. The home is iufiuitely
more than the house, and there is
such a thing as destroying the home
by what is supposed to be the very
perfection oi housekeeping. The
most immaculate of housekeepers are
not always the most lovely of women,
for they often tithe mint, anise, and
cumin, while they ueglecrthe weigh
tier matters of the law, justice and
judgment and the love of God. In
proportion as a woman is fussy is she
inefficient. The efficient woman has
an eye for the main chances, and
never sacriiices them to side issues.
The fussy woman is forever potter
ing over lion essentials, and, of
course, is forever behind hand with
the essentials. Fussy people are us
ually afflicted with a ‘-diarrhoea of
words,” and have no appreciation of
the maxim, ‘•Silence is golden ;” or of
the proverb, “A word fitly spoken is
like apples of gold iu pictures of sil
ver.” Promptness, punctuality, se
renity are utterly incompatible with
fussiness ; and here we give a hint as
to how those who are disposed to
overcome fussines in themselves may
do so. By b^ng prompt in the per
formance of duty, ignoring and neg
lecting all side issues and going for
the main chance. By cultivating
punctuality, timing themselves by
the clock, and forcing themselves to
he “ready ou tlie dot” invariably. By
keepiug calm and cool and undistur
bed in tbe. midst of confusion, beat
and irritation.— Weekly Tribune.
THE INFLUENCE OF SONG.
A wave of secret! song swept over
our land last year. Begiuuing in the
largo cities, it rolled on and on, till
now there is not a hamlet on remote
mountain-side, or by the sea, which
is not often vocal with the sweet
sounds of Gospel hymns. Passing
the little white school-house by the
lonely out-of-the-way road, you hear
blouded voices singing:
“What a frieud we have in Jesus,
All our sins nud griefs to bear ;
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer."
From cottages aud farm-houses, as
you ride by them in the dusk, you
are greeted by the notes of the piano
or the cabinet organ; apd if yon
pause and listen, there will fall upon
your ear words like these :
"It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine,
My Just's I Saviour ! yet this soul of mine
Would of that love in all its depth and length,
ils height and breadth and everlasting strength,
Know more and more."
You stand by the dwelling or pov
erty, where a weary woman is toiling
over the wash tub to win her daily
bread. Her children are playing by
the door. There are six of them to
be fed and clothed and sent to school
and launched upon the world. Their
father is dead. There is nobody but
this mother, with her narrow oppor
tunities and scant education, to do
for those hearty, hungry boys and
girls all that must be done before
they will bo men and women. It is a
hard lot, and you pity her, and wou
der whether she is not discouraged,
whether she does not lie awake nights
and cry, and wonder where she is to
get flour and wood and coal next
winter. She, wringing out her cloth
es, and carrying a great basket of
them over the grass to hang upon
the lines, gives unconsciously her
answer:
‘‘In some way or other, the Lord will provide.
it may not be my wav ; it may not he thy
way ;
And yet, in His own war, ‘the Lord w ill pro
vide.’ ”
Perhaps there is an invalid’s cham
ber where you sometimes sit au hour
or two. You go to it, out ol the
bright world, so full of activity and
movement, and you are sorry for
your friend who has to spend so ma
ny monotonous hours—hours, too, of
suffering and weakness—ou couch or
chair. But though you may sympa
thize, you need not condole, for there
is a familiar hymu-book open on the
bed, and you see that a peucil-mark
has been drawn :
“No more heart-pangs nor sadness,
When Jesus comes;
All i ettee and joy and gladness,
When Jesus comes.”
Of course there were hymns before
Moody aud Sankey bound up their
sheaf and’ gave it to the Christian
world. There was the grand, sub
lime, all-comprehending liturgy of
the sacred Psalms, and there were
what we still have aud prize, the ly
rics of Ambrose, Gregory, Bernard
de Cluuy, Bichard of Olanvaux, and
.thfijaaittttjtlMMiang their lofty faith
-srrtrtffetf' nerofc^-cotiragtr from tft®
darkiigsS. of cloister walls. Tlijjfc
were the sweet hymns of Wesley aiiTT
Toplady, of Qpwper, Lyte, audKeble,
of Faber,_and—of—Bay—Palmer and
Horatius Bouar. All these speak ior
the heart when it longs to pour itself
forth in a passion of praise. But
what these later hymns have done
has been partly because they have
been wedded to fervent aud inspiring
tunes. The children catch them up
and sing them as they go to school.
The workman finds that their rhythm
wilt keep time to the beat of his bam
iner, while the mother lulls her little
one to sleep with their silvery cadeu
ces.
Is it not possible to make more use
in our homes of the power which
dwells in such melodies I Before the
work hegius in the morning, let the
daughter’s hand strike the keys,
while all the family gather around
her anki sing. At evening have au
hour of music. Sometimes drop the
sewing and the studying, the plan
ning aud contriving, and brighten
the busiest part of the day with an
interlude of sweet song. It will be a
tonic to the weary and a rest to the
toiUvoru.—Christian at Work.
Education in the Home.—There
is st process of education constantly
going on in every dwelling which
csire and thought can make an un
speakable advantage, and at the same
time contribute to make a happy
home. To keep objects of pure aud
high interest before the children’s
minds, in a natural and suitable way
—to have them supplied with such
books as will occupy aud interest—to
talk not so much to them as with
them about objects—to take note of
and encourage any advance they
make, and to direct the How, not of a
part; but of the whole, of their life—
physical, mental, moral, without ap
parent interference or violence, this
happy art—to be sought, prayed for,
labored for—under God’s blessing
goes far to make a happy home. The
tastes of ehildreu are naturally sim
ple. Your child’s wooden gun, cut
with your own baud, perhaps, and
made a link of connection between
your little boy aud you, may be more
to him, more influential over his
character, more potent iu binding his
heart to you while living his memory
to you wheu you are dead, than a
costly gilt that you ordered at the
store. Aud when you, liviug a lov
ing, natural life before you children,
aud with them, beud the knee in
their midst, and speak to God of
them and of yourself, there is a pow
erful restraint beiug put ou the na
tural evil, there is a pleasaut type of
heaven where the whole family that
js uamed after Jesus shall be gather
ed together.—Hr. John Hall.
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FLING OFF THE WEIGHTS.
The normal condition of a Christian
is work. A lazy, listless, idle Chris
tian has no place in the dispensation
of Christ. The Christian life is rep
resented to us in the .Scriptures by
those things which require the great
est exertions of bodily strength and
the keenest attention of mind; by a
state of war, by a combat, by wrest
ling, and by the running of a race.
Now, they who ruu a race divest
themselves of everything which may
add to their weight or hinder their
speed. And this isi what Paul rec
ommends to Christians, The race
they are called to run is the Chris
tian life—a lite of self denial and ho
liness. The prize they hope to ob
tain is eternal life with God. And
to obtain this they must live in that
state of holy obedience to God which
He has promised to accept through
the mediation of His Son. They
must repress every temper, passion,
and appetite, and forbear every ac
tion which may hiuder their pro
gress in this diviue life or be to them
like a weight to one that runneth a
race. Christ calls His disciples to the
renunciation of every worldly advan
tage and every temporal considera
tion that may come in competition
with their duty or divert them from
that holy life of active obedience
which His Gospel requires. A Chris
tian without even energy enough to
resist temptation to sin, who serves
the devil more than he serves God,
and whose soul is so hung about
with weights that it cannot lift itself
out of the vanities and worldliness in
which it is mired, is a very worthless
sort of a Christian. Away, theu,
with encumbrances! Let our loins
be girded afresh ! Let us quit our
selves like meu who have au object
in new, and strive for the mastery,
that, being victors, we may he crown
ed at last. Now it is preparation, it
is traiuiug, it ts getting ready, it is
starting, it is running the race.
Soteatimes-it j.s up._bl!k
therg are briers in the way. Some
-vs it is quick
sand, and it seems as if we should
sink. But God’s augel helps us out,
and on we~Tun. Dear Christian
friends, wreary, footsore, hungry,
thirsty, even fainting—courage! You
are nearing the goal. A little while,
and you shall be past all strife, and
shall obtain the crown of glory which
fadeth not away.— Christian At
Work.
BRING OUT THE ROPE.
The Swiss guides are heroic men.
Tremendous exploits of strength and
courage are the scenes which in old
age they review. Mountaiu climb
ers are dependent upon their skill
aud experience ; but uo matter what
their knowledge of Alpine safeguards
or perils may be, they cannot secure
even the hope of safety to .hose who
ask their help, except on one condi
tion, aud that is, their willingness to
be bound together in difficult pas
ses.
The party set-out in union, with
kindly intentions to be helpful to
each other. They have a book
knowledge of the way, but every
step is new to their feet, and they
must trust to their guide. For a
while a common bond of personal
welfare is enough. Hut see, the
guide has halted and waits for the
company to listen. They hear his
voice in that clear Alpine air, ring
ing in stirring tones, “Courage, gen
tlemen, there is danger here; we
must tie the rope, around each man,
aud protect each other 1" It is a de
ceitful snow-bridge over an abysstual
cleft in the blue ice! It one man
ventures to cross alone, lie may drop
between those frozen walls. Bring
out the rope and bind these adven
turers so firmly that if a man lalls
the strength aud steadiness ol his
fellows may hold him securely ! W oe
betide the man who goes over the
horrible glacier regions of Switzer
laud alone.
The experienced guides, who know
the dangers of this life journey, tell
us that union is strength, that ties ol
mutual faith and eouimou interest
are not all we need, and they • bid us
bring out the rope ot true-hearted
association, to double the force ot
each man’s weight. We have done
it in faith, trusting in the Lord—be
cause we kuow there are dangerous
passes iu the narrow way to the
heavenly heights.
Belt not on the companions of
your pleasure; trust not the associ
ates of your health and prosperity :
it is only in the hour of adversity
that we learn the siueerity of our
frieuds.
Children are sometimes more se
verely punished for accidently breal^
iu a cup than for telling a willful lie
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SKIPPERS IN BACON.
Those of our readers who may wish
to be sure of pieventing skippers in
their bacon hams the present .tear,
are advised tlint now is t he proper
time to attend to the matter. The
surest cheap prevention that we know
of is, to remove about two inches
depth of dirt from the floor of the
smoke house every winter, replacing
that carried away with fresh clay or
sand direct from the bauk. The hug
is now embedded, in its pupa state,
in the floor of the smoke houses, rea
dy to come out early in the spring to
lay its eggs in the bacon, and oi
course by removing the dirt you car
ry out the insect with it. This is an
easy and inexpensive way to get rid
of the pest, and as the dirt yon carry
out is a good fertilizer, it would be
advantageous in that respect alone to
do so every year. You may have a
few skippers even after taking up the
surface, as some will find their way
into the house at all events, but not
many, while if you let the floor re
main you will be sure to have a great
many. Ko preparation to put upon
the meat will prevent the bacon bug
from laying its eggs in the meat, and
covering with canvass is trouble
some. The best hams are those
which hang in the smoke-house just
as they are cured till wanted for the
table. They must have air, and there
fore to wrap them in cloth and paint
it works injury to the quality and fla
vor of the meat. The , right plan is,
to keep the, bugs from the meat, not
the meat from the bugs. Knowing
the habits of the insect enables us to
do this pretty effectually, as it byber
! nates iii the soil of the smoke house
floor in winter, comes out a full grown
bug in March aud April, lays its eggs
in the bacon, which hatch the skip
pe rs tb aMye-Jj.u+1-H-i s ■ i irmrc r -ttatHiiH?
I aud then goes out and dies. Better
remove flie floors in time before
spring work begins to push and the
bug awakes fioiu its winter sleep.—
Rural Messenger.
What One Lemon' Will Do.—A
| piece oflemou upon a corn will re
i lieve it in a day or so. It should be
renewed night and morning. The
free use of lemon juice and sugar
\ will always relieve a cough. A leuiou
j eaten before breakfast every day for
a week or two will entirely prevent
the feeling of lassitude peculiar to
the approach of spring. Perhaps its
most valuable property is its abso
lute power of detecting any of the in
jurious and even dangerous ingredi
ents entering into the composition of
so very many of the cosmetics and
face powders iu the market. Every
lady should subject her toilet powder
: to this test. Place a teaspoouful of
the suspected powder in a glass and
add the juice of a leuiou. If efferves
cence takes place it is an infallible
proof that the powder is dangerous,
j and its use should be avoided, as it
will ultimately injure the skin and
destroy the beauty of the complexion,
j —Concord Patriot. -—
j Sheep.—A flock of sheep may be
i made the most profitable of farm
stock, both iu return of money and of
manure. By feeding a small flock,
well, through the whiter, their value
may be easily doubled. Bui the feed
ing should be liberal and the care
unremitting. The chief requisites for
j success with sheep are, to provide
abundant good food and pure mil
water ; to feed and water regularly ;
to provide fresh pure air, and to avoid
dampness. When feeding sheep for
i market, it is well to try the weights
I every second week, and note the
i increase. The effects of the feeding
can thus be readily ascertained and
changes made if it is thought»neces
! sary.
It is said tliat four months of sun
aud rain on a manure heap will di-!
miuish its fertilizing value one-half. |
We do not believe this. A solid high !
pile of manure covered, with a strata
of dirt will lose nothing. A thin
pile of manure will undoubtedly
leach out soon, but if the manure
pile is large and high, the rain keeps
it from tiring.
Chicked Pie.—Make a goad bis
cuit crust; have the chicken boiled
and seasoued as for stewed chicken
put it in a pan lined with the crust,
addiug gravy to nearly cover the
chicken; put on a thickdop crust,
making a small slit iu it, bake till
you can scrape a fork ou the under
side of the crust without finding
dough on it.
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15alky Houses.—lbe Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
recommends the following rnles for
the treatment of balky horses;
1. Put the horse upon the neck, ex
amine the harness carefnlly, first on
oue side then on the othe-, speaking
encouragingly while doing so; then
jump iuto the wagon and give the
word go; generally he will obey.
2. A teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst balky horse by taking
him out o/ the shafts and makiug him
go round in a circle. If tho first
dam e of this kind doesn’t cure him
the second one will be sure to do it.
d. To cure a balky hors?, simply
place your baud over the horse’s nose
and shut off the wind till he wants to
go, and then let him go.
4. The brains of horses seem to en
tertain but one idea at a time, thus
continued whipping only coufirmshis
stubborn resolve, if you cau by any
means give him a new subject to
think of, you w ill have no trouble i,p
starting him. A simple remedy is to
take a couple of turns of stout twine
around the fore leg, just below the
knee, and tie in a bow-knot. At the
first check he will go dancing off, and
after going a short distance, you can
get out aud remove the string to pre
vent injury to the teudou in your fur
ther drive.
Chabcoal as an Absobbent.—
The absorptive power of charcoal is
well known in the aits. Its capacity
ia tiiis direction is most remarkable.
Accurate experiment has proved that
in twenty lour hours it would absorb
ninety times its own volume of am
lnouiacal gas, eighty-five times its *
volume ot muriatic acid gas, and six
ty-five tunes its volume of sulphur
ous acid gas. It is this remarkable
quality that makes it so valuable in
destroying odor, color, taste iu rnauy
substances, and preserving meets
vegetables and fruit, from rapid de
cay. Its use as a filter iu cisterns is
well known and its value., .here, de
[pends upon liie same quality . It se
parates and appropriates to itself tiie
decaying matter and other impurities
in water, rendering it pure aud sweet.
If placed ou the surface of the soil, it
will gather from the air moisture aud
gases and impart them to the grow
; iug plants. Ou the same principles
| its value iu the barnyard, stables and
hog pen, as an absorptive agent, is
incalculable. When used for this
i purpose to form the basis of manure,
it should be in the powdered state.—
Ohio Fanner.
Scotch Buns.—Take five pounds
of washed and picked currants, or
two pounds of stoned raisins and
three pounds of currants, twelve
ounces of butter, one pound of blanch
ed almonds and one pound of candied
peel. Mix these well together with
two pounds and a quarter of plaiu
bun dough, or the same quantity of
bread dough aud four-ounces of moist
sugar ; add a little ground giuger,
allspice aud cinnamon, to make the
whole a rich flavor. Make up the
dough along with the butter, roll it
into a cake, put the ftuit iu the mid
dle to the thickness of nearly an inch,
fold the dough round it, Patten the
top, then dock it and- bake in a mod
1 crate dVe1i, having just previously
j washed over the top with the white of
; an egg and milk.
Chicken Salad.—Boil as many
chickens as desired to use, and cut
j the white part up fine. Afterwards
prepare the celery, same quantity of
i as the chicken. To oue fowl, use
I eight hard boiled eggs, and nearly a
pint of good sweet oil. Kub the
; yolks through a colander aud mix
with them dry mustard and cayenne
j pepper to your taste. Add the cele
ry previously chopped fine, or about
j half inch pieces, mix all well, the last
| thing before serving, iu a large meat
| dish. Cold meats, lamb, mutton,
| turkey or any fowl, mixed thus for
| tea or breakfast, is very nice. A very
little vinegar may sometimes be ad
! ded ifliked.
Bark yard manure must remain
the backbone of profitable farming
hence it should be guarded with spe
cial care. Manures should invariably
be uuder cover, and in the absence
of proper shelter, they should be pro
tected by a thick coat of dry earth,
road scrapings of sods aud mold.
Do not permit your most valuable
aid to increased profits to blow off
with every wind, or wash away with
every rain.
I ' -—
! Stale Bread.—A good way to
| use up stale breads Take slices of
| bread and butter, chop fine, aDd put
into a pudding dish ; take two eggs,
beat them aud mix with milk enough
1 to cover the bread, and bake.