THE CHRISTIAN SUN.
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY ;
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS,’ CHARITY.
V"ol ume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, "VA., FRIDAY MARCH 53 1880.
Number 10.
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IF WE DIE SHALL WE LIVE AGAIN?
BY MBS. HARRIET WARD HOBSON.
The earth seems dead, as cold and white
It lies beneath my feet;
The waters seem transfix’d with fear,
Their voices hush’d, once soft and clear
In murmuring music sweet;
The flowers too have disappear’d,
Buried from out my sight;
Their graceful forms from us are fled,
Their name and fame are with the dead,
Enwrapt in death’s cold night.
The song of birds no more we hear
From out the leafy grove.
Whose warbling anthems fill’d the air
With music sweet beyond compare,
Of ccstacy and love.
The trees who hung their banners out
In soldierly array,—
Their uniform of living green,
And glossy, bright, resplendent sheen
Has faded all away.
The pretty fruitful vines are dead,
And withered is the grass
Tiiat lifeless rustles in the breeze,
And moans amid the leafless trees
Of winter's storms that pass.
I know that Spring again will come
With all her brilliant train,
And trees, and flowers, and singing birds,
And vine and grass, and flocks and herds,
With gently falling rain.
But man, whose days are spent in toil,
In sorrow and ill pain,
When he is call’d front this low sphere,
And those to him than life more dear,
Will He return again?
.May we believe Thy Word, O Lord ;
When free from this low sod,
Through merit of Christ’s dying love,
In faltlt arise to heaven above,
Ami dwell fur aye with Cod.
—Selected.
|jeUction^
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
—Don’t spend mon ey before earn
ing it. In other words, don’t run in
debt.
—In our thoughtlessness we |re
apt to connect reward only with ac
tivity. But Christ has connected
it with character, and that is at cnee
indicated and strengthened, by suf
fering and by patience, as well as by
work.
—How many good sermons are
smot hered in thick utterance, or star
ved in a thin one, or drowned in a
bellowing one. A good sermon will
no more go at its full value without
an equal utterance than a good song
will.
—Many a Christian trusts Christ
to carry him through the valley of
the shadow of death, who does not
rely upon him to take him through
the dread to-morrow. If you are
Christ’s, you have no right to worry.
He is a safe pilot. You can trust him
in the shallow, quiet river, as well as
in the sea beyond.
—It is not good to be angry even
with those who may seem with mali
cious intent to assail our most cher
i8hed belipfs. A few buroiug weeds
may produce smoke enough to hide
the stars, but the stars are shining
all the same. It is not wise to vex
and weary ourselves by angry de
nunciations of the smoke, which will
soon pass off without our labor.
Theie is a demand sharpening iu
the church that students for the min
istry shall be more severely examin
ed. And one of the most needed di
rections is this : “Can he talk 1” He
may write like Goldsmith, but if he
talks like Goldsmith too, he is a poor
preacher. Preaching is not intellec
tualizing iu a study. It is moving
an audience, aud the voice is one oi
the instruments through which the
moving is effected.
—The great want of the ministry
is a thorough religions experience, a
deep and prevadiug spirituality. My
sun of life is waning to its setting,
aud I take this occasion to testify my
belief in, the old Wesleyan doctrine
of Christian perfection. The work of
sanctification begins when we are
converted ; the work of entire sanc
tification follows.—No man cau suc
ceed in the ministry unless he throws
himself full length into it.—Bishop
Doggett.
We know of an old colored lady
who, when for prudential reasons she
wanted to compliment her pastor,
could think of no more superlative
expression of compliment than this :
“You was ’spired, yesterday—kuow’d
you was, aud said so. What a great
brazen face you had, aud what a big,
roarin’' voicet" The ministry sneers
at that kind of preaching estimate,
not knowing, apparently, that it is
not by any means confined to colored
ladies or to Iguorant people.—Inte
r», .
THAT DREADFUL BOY.
He was going from Boston to Old
Orchard with his mother. I w»as sor
ry to be in the same car with them.
His mother seemed to exist only to
he worried by this uneasy, distressing
boy. He had only one fault—he was
perfectly insufferable.
If I say he was “an unlicked cub”
I shall offend your ears. Lick is an
old English word that means either
to lap or to strike. Sbakepseare uses
uulicked as applied to the cub of a
bear; there was a notion that the
whelp was at first a formless thing
that had to be “licked into shape”
by the mother’s tongue. So it came
to pass that the vulgar expression,
“an unlicked cub,” was fittingly ap
plied to a boy whoso mother never
gave him the culture essential to
make him presentable, or even toler
able, in the society of well behaved
people. The two meanings of the
word are not very diverse.
This boy bad never been licked
into shape. He needed lickiug. I
use the word in its two senses. And
the use, if not elegant, is intelligible
and expressive, perhaps graphic also.
The mother besought him to be still
for a moment, but the moment of
stillness never came. He wanted
something to eat, got it; to drink,
and he kept a steady trot through
the car; the anxious mother prayed
him not to go to the platform ; not to
put his head out of the window ; not
to climb over the seats; all in vain.
She might as well have entreated the
engine.
One evening we were seated in the
parlor, in little groups, conversing.
Into the room rushed the dreadful
boy pursued by another whom lie
had bit, and both were screaming in
play at the top ot their voices. As he
was passing me I seized him by the
arm with a grip that meant business,
and said : ‘‘Here, my boy, we have
stood this thing long euougb ; it has
come to an end.” An awful silence
filled the room ; his mother, fright
ened, sat pale, aud not far away,
while I held the culprit and pursued
the lecture—“if you do not know
how to -behave in company, let me
tell you the parlor is no place for
such romps as we have suffered lrom
you ; go out of doors and stay out
for such games, and when you come
in here, sit down and be quiet.” He
wriggled to got away, but I led him
to the door aud left him on the out
side.
The next day I was sittiug on the
beach under a sun umbrella, when a
party of ladies and the dreadful boy
hr ve iu sight, aud sought seats near
me. I offered my seat to the mother,
but she found one at hand, thanked
me, and said:
“I am under great obligations to
you, sir, for taking my boy in hand
last evening.
‘•It is rather in my place,” I made
answer, “to apologize for laying
hands on the child ofkfuiother; but I
saw he was regardless of authority,
and thought to give him a lesson.
“Thanks ; but I would like to tell
you of him ; he is a dear child, an
only child, aud his father often and
long away from home on business, has
left his education aud care to me en
tirely. I have the impressiou that
the strongest of all influences is love,
aud that none is so strong as a moth
er’s love; I never speak to him but
in tones aud woids of affection ; I
never deny him any indulgence he
asks : I let him have his own way
and never punish him, lest he should
be offended with me. I wish that he
may not have any other thoughts of
his mother but those of kindnes, gen
tleuess, and love. Your sudden aud
decided measure last night startled
me, but its effect on the child was re
markable He has not yet recovered
aud this morning he spoke to me of
it, as if a new sensation had been
awakened. Will you tell me frankly
what your opinion is of the probable
result of the system of instruction
which I am pursuing?”
“It is not becoming in a stranger,”
I said, “to speak plainly ju regard to
the domestic management of another,
aud I hope you will excuse me from
expressing an opinion which it would
not be pleasant for you to hear.”
“But I want to hear it; the good
of my child is the dearest object in
this world ; I have liothiug else to
live for; but it seems to me that the
more I love him, the less he cares for
me or my wishes, the more unruly
and troublesome he becomes. Your
decided dealings with him has fright
ened me iu regard to my course of
training.” v,
“Bather you should say your ‘want
Viyv>w 5M>t>
correctly the words of the wise mau,
‘Train up a child,’ &c. You are let
ting him grow up without training,
and my fear is that ho will be huug—.
“Hung 1 bung! what do you mean ?
“Only this, that you are allowing
him now to be a lawless, selfish,dom
ineering, disagreeable boy; he has
his own way always ; he tramples on
your wishes now, and will tread on
your heart soon aud love to doit;
such boys are bad at home and worse
out of doors ; growing up uugovern
ed, he will defy authority, be hated
by his couipauious, get into trouble,
become turbulent, riotous, perhaps
an outlaw, and will come to some bad
end, I fear the rope’s end. This plaiu
talk offends you, I perceive.”
“No, it doesi uot; I am thinking,
but I am not offeuded. I asked your
candid opinion and have received it,
and it has made me anxious lest I
have already done an irreparable in
jury to the dear clild. l)o you be
lieve in the corporal punishment of
children J”
“It is sometimes a duty. You may
restrain the waywardness of some
children without actually whipping
them, and if you can, by all means do
so. But the first duty of a child is to
obey its parents. Your - boy uever
obeyed you since he was born!”
“True, very true; he has always
had his own way.”
“Yes, and is therefore never happy;
he would cry for the moon, and fret
because he cannot have it! lie is no
comfort to you, and is a torment to
all about him. It you would make
him happy, you will make him mind,
and especially to obey his mother. I
do not believe that you will succeed.”
“Pray, why not, sir!'1
“Because, madam, you have views
that are opposed to these. You be
lieve only iu moral suasion, in the
largest liberty, and you cannot break
away from your opinions and sur
roundings, and persistently, steadily,
and faithfully pursue a new line of
life with that boy.”
••uni i win try."
“God help you, madam, and you
will need his help, for you have a
long struggle before you. Hut the
prize is worth it, and I wish you suc
cess with all my heart. Your child
will love you ten times more if you
teach him to respect you; -be will not
love you while you let him defy and
despise your authority as he does now.
Soon he will love you, and love to obey
you,and then he is saved. Solomon
wasa wise man, and spoke divine wis
dom wlieu he said : “lie that spareth
the rod bateth his son, but he that
lovetli him chasteneth him betimes.'”
The madam had a smile of con
tempt on her face, and said, “1 don’t
think much of Solomon.”
“Probably not,” I replied ; “did
you over read the Apocrypha 1 those
oriental writings are not inspired, so
you need not be afraid of them,”—she
laughed,—“and will give you the sage
advice of the Son of Sirach :
“Indulge thy child, and he shall
make thee afraid; humor him, and
lie will bring thee to heaviness. Bow
down his neck while he is young, and
beat him on the sides while he is a
child, lest he wax stubborn and be
disobedient unto thee, and so bring
sorrow upon thy heart.’ Which means
teuch him to obey, or he will govern
you and break your heart.”
The mother was silent a moment,
aud then spoke with quivering lips :
“Did you ever read Patmore’s lilies—
‘My Little Sou’—not well, I will say
them, for they are on my heart:
“My little son, who looked from thoughtful eyes,
And moved and spoke in quiet grown up wise,
Having my law the seventh time disobsye’d,
I struck him and dismiss’d
With hard words and unkiss’d ;
His mother, who was patient, being dead.
1 heu, fearing lest his griet should hinder sleep,
l visited his bed,
But found him slumbering deep, 6
With darkened eyelids, and their lashes yet
From his late sobbing wet.
And I, with moan,
Kissing away his tears, left others of my own ;
For, on a table drawn beside bis head,
He had put, within his reach,
A box of counters and a red-veined stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells,
And two french copper coins ranged there with
careful art,
To comfcrt’his sad heart,
So, when that night I prayed
To God, I wept and said :
Ah, when at last, we lie from traced breath,
Not vexing thee in death,
And thou remerabcrest of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatherly not less
Than I*whom thou hast moulded from the clay,
Thou’It leave thy wrath and say,
I will be sorry for their childishness.’ ”
“Thank you,” I said, as she paused,
her eyes tilled with tears,— “thank
you; no child should be ‘struck iu
auger aud dismissed with hard words.’
Puuishmeut in love and justice breaks
no child’s heart; that father was all
wrong.”
“I see it,” she answered, “and I be
giu to feel it also ”
We exchanged cards, and I hope to
hca*of the dreadful hoy again,—Neic
York Observer.
hidden rocks.
The world is continually startled
bv moral wrecks occuriug on every
hand. Men esteemed, honored aud
trusted, go down to utter ruin in a
day: without a moment’s warning,
they drop out of view, and leave no
memorial save the ripples and bub
bles which rise where they weut
down.
There are many wrecks because
there ayfmauy rocks; aud the wrecks
are sutWen because the rocks are un
seen. The policy of cloaking ^iniqui
ty, conniving at fraud, compounding
felony, aud covering up villainy,
which has prevailed so long and so
widely, bears very bitter fruits. The
wickednesses which have been so
carefully concealed at last flame out
into iniquities which it is impossible
to conceal. The mantle of charity is
stretched to cover wrongs until it can
cover no more, aud at last comes the
dreaded yet expected issue, and ruin
overwhelms those who perhaps by
timely and faithful admonitions might
have been rescued from so dire a
fate.
The world is full of concealments,
but he who trusts in concealment is
sure to be disappointed iu the end.
There is nothing secret but is liable
to be brought to light, even in this
world. He that eovereth his sins
shall not prosper. The day of uncov
ering will come, aud its revelations
shall bg dark aud dire aud terrible.
The man who puts a lighthouse on
a dangerous coast, or who sets a buoy
above the shaken rock is esteemed
as a benefactor to his race. The man
who undertakes to call attention to
the rocks on which men are wrecked,
is oirun regarueu as a ioe. mere
are, on some dangerous, coasts, men
banded together for unlawful purpo
ses, who hate lights and lightouses,
buoys and alarm bells. They live by
pluuderiug the wrecks which drift
upon their rockbouud shores, and
they regard any man who gives a
warning or utters a note of alarm as
au enemy who interferes with their
chosen means of livelihood ; and who
must at any hazard be silenced or
put out of the way. So there are
men in this world whose success de
pends upon 4he absence of the light,
men who live and thrive by secret
arts of craft and deception ; men who
are ruined when their character and
conduct are revealed, and who only
succeed so long as they can conceal
their acts and deceive others regard
ing them. Combinations exist which
prey upon the unwary ; which afford
advantages to the few at the expense
of the many; and which are sources
of profit so long as their true object
is unknown. A revelation of their
arts and aims puts a period to all
their undertakings. They thrive iu
darkness; in fair, open competition
they are invariably defeated ; but by
secret combinations they gain and re
tain an advantage.
Of course this advantage is appa
rent rather than real; it is temporary
rather than permanent. By and by
comes the day of reckoning and of
revelation, and then the winds blow
and the rains descend, and the house
goes down in utter ruin. He who
would serve his fellow-men must be
ready to lift the warning voice. If
he gives warning of rocks he may
save men from wrecks. If he neg
lects to do this shall not blood be re
quired at his hand?—The Christian.
FACTS ABOUT HYMNS.
“THE SPACIOUS FIEMANENT ON
HIGH.”
Addison is not the author of the
hymn, though from its appearance in
the Spectator very many have sup
posed him to be. The hymn is also
erroneously credited to him in very
many hymn books. Andrew Marvell
is the author. And who is Andrew
Marvell! A lawyer who would never
try a case opposed to his conscience.
He was called “the man who dared
to be honest in the worst of times.”
Ho occupied a mean lodging in the
Strand—
There lived he jocound,
And his thoughts were roses all.
When Charles II. attempted to
bribe him through Lord Danby, he
replied that he “could not accept the
offer without being unjust t® his
country by betraying its interests.”
He refused a gift from his majesty of
one thousand pounds, and theu bor
rowed a guinea from a friend. “His
heart was not buried in the rubbish
of this world.” Andrew Marvell died
iu the year 1677. What a pleasure
to look through the murky atmos
phere to-day and see such, a giant l
There is as great a demand for such
men now as ever.
“god motes in a mysterious ■way.”
— ir«l(iaw Cotcper,
The original title of this grand eld
hymn,—‘-right Shining out of Dark
ness,’’ had reference to its remarka
ble origin. When under the influ
ence of the fits of mental derange
ment to which he was subject, he
moat unhappily but firmly believed j
that the divine will was that he
should drown himself in a particular j
part of the river Ouse, some two or i
three miles from his residence at
Olney. He one evening called for a
post-chaise from one of the hotels in
the town, and ordered the driver to
take him to that spot, which he read
ily undertook to do, as he well knew
it. On this occasion, however, sev
eral hours were consumed in seeking
it, and utterly in vain. The man was
at lcugth reluctantly compelled to
admit that he had entirely lost his
road. The snare was thus broken.
Cowper escaped the temptation. He
returned to his home and immediate
ly sat down and wrote this hymn,
which has miuistered comfort to
thousands, and wtll probably yet af
ford consolation to thousands of oth
ers even for generations to come.
“WHEN ISBAEL OF THE LOED BE
LOVED.”
— Walter Scott.
This poem first oppeared in “Ivan
hoe.” Itetiecca, a Jewess, had beeu ;
falsely accused of witchcraft and con
demued to die. She is in prison i
awaiting her execution, when she is
represented by the author as singing
these beautiful lines.
“PEACE, TKOUBLED SOUL, THOU
» KEEDEST NOT FEAU.”
Iiev. -James Huxley, about the
year 1806, was sent by a Methodist;
Conference to itinerate as a mission
ary in Louisiana, then chiefly inhab
ited by French Catholics. Jimmy, as
he was familiarly called, had small
expectation of comfort without pay
ment; and he seldom possessed any
money. He was one evening redu
ced to the very verge of starvation ;
he had spent the preceding night in
a swamp and had taken no food for
thirty six hours, when he reached a
plantation. He entered the house
and asked for food aud lodging. The
mistress of the house, a widow, with
several daughters, aud several negro
children playing about, recognized
his calling aud iusultiugly refused
his request, fie obtained, however,
permission to warm himself a few
minutes before the fire. As he sat
thus, he felt the demands of hunger
and sleep, and looked forward to an
other night iu the swamp. Feeling
this might prove his last night on
earth, he thought sweetly of the ce
lestial city to which he felt he was
traveling; his heart swelled with
gladness, and he cheerfully sang one
of his favorite hymns ;—
“Peace, my soul! iliou need'st not fear :
The Great Provider still is near/'
He sang the whole hymn ; aud when
he looked around him, the mother,
daughters, negroes, were all in tears.,
“Here, Sally,” said the mother, “get
the preacher a good supper. Peter,
pot up his horse; he shall stay a
week if he pleases.” Thus, in many
instances, truth goes through the ear
to the heart in the chariot of soug,
when its other approaches have been
utterly resisted. Many converted
souls can say, like the enemies of
Luther, “By their songs we are con
quered.”— Wesleyan (Canada.)
ALPHABETICAL MAXIMS.
Attend carefully to details of your
business.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide posi
tively.
Eare to do right. Fear to do wrong.
.Endure trials patiently.
Eight life’s battles bravely, man
fully.
Co not iuto society of the vicious.
Eold integrity sacred.
Jnjure uot another’s reputation in
busiuess.
Join bands only with the virtuous.
Eeep your uiiud from evil thoughts.
Eie uot from any consideration.
Make a few acquaintances.
Aever try to appear what you are
not. ^
Observe good miiffhers.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity of a
friend.
Eespect the counsel of your pa
rents.
Sacrifice money rather than prin
ciple.
Touch not, taste not, intoxicating
drinks.
Use your leisure time for improve
ment.
Venture uot upon the threshold oi
wreug.
Watch carefully over, your passions.
Extend to every man a kindly sal
utation.
Field not to discouragements.
.Zealously labor for the right, aud
success is certain.
Jpirm and Jiresid^.
Farm Items.—Guinea fowles will
keep all bugs and insects of every
desciipfion off garden vines. They
will not seralcli like other fowles, or
harm the qyrst delicate plants,
The average butter yield of the
Ayrshire cow is one pound from
twenty to twenty live pounds of milk.
From the Jersey it is one pound of
butter from eighteen pounds of milk.
Turnips ate healthful for horses.
These should be cut in slices, or, what
is better, pulped finely and mixed
with a little meal and salt, ltutaba
gas are better than white turnips.
A cellar that is cool, dry and dark,
and yet'well ventilated, Is the best
place for preserving potatoes in large
quantities. When small quantities
are to be preserved there is nothing
like dry sand. The same may be said
of fruits aud roots of all sorts.
Plant tansy at the roots of yonr
plum trees, or hang branches of the
plant on the limbs of the trees, aud
you will uot be annoyed with curcn
lio. An old, successful 'fruit grower
furnishes the above, aud says it is
the most successful curculio prevent
ive he ever tried. —•Exckange.
CULTIVATING THE SOIL.
The surface of the soil cannot be
too frequently stirred. “If I had to
preach a sermon ou Horticulture,”
says Downing, “1 should take this
for my text ‘Stir the Soil.’-’ As
soou as the plants are well above the
ground, tbqy should be thinned out,
■so as not to interfere with each oth
er’s growth. At the same time, the
soil may be loosened a little about
them, so as to break any crusts that
may have formed, without injury to
the young plauts : and the weeds may
be removed. A little later, stir the
soil with a narrow hoe, taking care
not to cover the young plants. Kve
ry weed should be cut dowu or pulled
up, uo matter how small. 'It is not
enough to keep the weeds down : dig
ging deeply among the plants admits
the atmosphere, and actually ma
nures the young plauts. In dry
weather it is very essential that the
soil be stirred often. The air waters
the fresh-dug soil much more effec
tually than we do. A man will raise
more moisture with a spade and a
hoe in a day, than he can pour ou
the earth out of a Wartering-pot in a
week. If the ground be suffered to
become close and compact, the cool
surface exposed to the air for the re
ception of moisture is smaller, and
what is deposited does not enter in
to the earth far enough to be appro
priated; but if the soil be loose and
porous, the air enters more deeply,
and deposits its moisture beneath the
surface. Almost any soil in which a
seed will germinate, may be made, by
continued hoeing, to produce a crop.
Above all, cut atcay every treed that
appears. “Oue years seeding makes
seven years weediug.” The only use
of weeds is to make a necessity of
tilling the ground more frequently.
Weeds will come up iu spite of our
care, but much can be done to pre
vent their spreading or maturing.—
Ferry & Go’s Seed Annual, 1880.
Curry Your Cows.—No animal
of the farm will show signs of neg
lect so soou as a cow. The coat gets
rough and dirty, aud the bones stand
out with irregular and peculiar prom
inence. On the other hand as a mat
ter of course, good care gives the op
posite appearance, aud the creature
is neat, clean aud plump. There is
much in a good supply of wholesome
food, but it, without occasional rub
bing and curryiug, will not make the
cow look aud feel comfortable. “It
pays to curry the cows.”
A great need iu the south is grass
for early grazing aud hay. Some of
the native grasses that have beeu
fought aud struggled with for years
as weeds are now found to be of great
value. By smoothing off a ]tece of
grassy laud, aud nsiu^lome fertili
zer and encouraging the growth, a
home supply of hay may be secured.
It if often the case that a treasure
may lie neglected under our feet, and
some of the Southern grasses, long
neglected, can be turned to profita
ble use.
Corn burnt on the cob, and the
refuse which consists almost entirely
of the grain reduced to charcoal and
still retaining their perfect shape —
placed before (owls, is greedily eaten
by them, with a marked improve
ment iu their health, as is shown by
the brighter color of their combs, aud
their soouer producing a greater ave
rage of eggs to the flock than belore
Subscribe for the Sun.
SELECTED RECEIPTS.
Sniffles in Infants.—Try
greasing between the eyes ami tbe
back of the neck with camphoiated
oil.
Fried C akes.—Two capfuls of su
gar, two cupfuls of buttermilk, one
cupful of sour cream, one teaspoonfnl
of soda, and nutmeg.
To Cure Hoarse nes s.—Tbe
white of an egg, thoroughly beaten
mixed with lemon juice and sugar. A
teaspoonful taken occasionally is the
dose.
Ginger Cake.—Two eggs, one
cupful of sour cream, one cupful of
molasses, three cupfuls of flour, one
teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls
of ginger, and a little salt.
To Cure Croup.—Take a piece of
lard as big as a butternut, rub it full
of sugar ; divide into three parts, and
give at intervals of twenty minutes;
the croup will disappear gradually,
but surely.
To PREVENT lamps from smoking
soak tbe wicks before using iu either
strong vinegar or alum water; dry
them thoroughly, aud your lamp will
give a clearer light, and will not
smoke or smell disagreeably.
Repelling Moths.—If floe cnt
tobacco is sprinkled under the edges
of the carpets, and under those places
where book cases, bureaus, etc., make
it dark it will prevent the moths from
laying their'eggs in them.
Stings and Bites.—Carbouate of
soda wet and applied externally to
the bites of a spider or any venomous
creature, will neutralize the poison
ous effects almost distantly. It acts
like a charm in the case of a snake
Celery Sauce.—Cut a head of
celery very fine, boil in very little
water until perfectly tender, then add
a teacup of milk, piece of butter as
large as a hen’s egg, flour to make it
the consistency of cream; salt. This
is very nice for fowl.
Ginger Cookies.—One cupful of
lard or butter, one cupful of molas
ses, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of
sour milk or cream, one tablespoonful
of soda dissolved in warm water, and
one tablespoonful of ginger; mix as
soft as you can roll out, and roll quite
thick.
Salad Dressing.—Stir together
half cuptul of butter, three tables
poonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of
salt, and one tablespoonful of mixed
mustard; add to this the yolks of
two eggs, well beaten, and half pint
;of vinegar; cook the whole until the
egg seems cooked. When cold, pour
over the cabbage, lettuce or meat.
We use it mostly with cabbage, aud
it is excellent. ,
To Bake Shad.—Empty and wash
the fish with care, but do not open it
more than necessary, and keep on the
head and fins. Fill the inside with a
sufling made of bread crumbs, salt
pork, an onion, sage, thyme, parsley,
and pepper and salt; chop all togeth
er tine, till and sew up the shad, and
rub the fish over with the yolk of an "
egg aud a little of the stuffing. Place
it in a dripping pan with three or
four slices of the pork over it and
the roes at the side; bake one hour
in a quick oven. If pork is objec
tionable, use butter instead
To Distrsy House Insects.—
“To thoroughly rid a house of red
aud black ants, cockroaches, spiders,
bed-bugs, aud all crawling pests
which iufest our homes, take two
pounds of alum and dissolve it in
three or four quarts of boiling water.
Let it stand on the fire until the alum
disappears, then apply it with a brush
while nearly boiling hot, to every
joint and crevice in your closets, bed
steads, pantry shelves, and the like.
Brush the crevices in the floor Jof the
skirting or mop boards, if you sus
pect that they harbor vermin. Cock
roaches will flee the paint which has
been fished in cool alum water. If,
in washing a ceiling, plenty of alum
is added to the lime, it will also serve
to keep insects at a distance.^
To Boil Beef.—Corned beef re
quires five or six hours of boiling to
be good ; if too salt, pour off the wa
ter after it has boiled half an hour,
aud put on fresh, hot water. Fresh
beef requires about the same amount
of boiling ; let the water boil out af
ter it has become quite tender, and if
there is not much fat on it, put in a
piece of butter, set the kettle on the
top of the stove, and let it “fry down,”
turuiug it occasionally. To be nice
the meat should be boiled so it falls
| to pieces; gravy may be made of the
i sediment by adding water aud a little
1 flour.