THE CHRISTIAN SUN. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. Volume XXXIII. SUFFOLK, VA, FRIDAY MARCH 12, 1880. Number 11, TIRED_OUT. rr»n any one tell who is the author of these delicate and tender lines ?] He does well who does his best; IS he weary? lei him rest. Brothers I 1 hare done my best, I am weary—let me rest. After toiling oft in vain, Baffled, yet to stroegle fain; After toiling long, to gain Little good with mickle pain, Let me rest. But lay me low, Where the hedgeside roses blow ; Where the little daisies grow, Where the winds a-maying go ; Where the footpath rustics plod ; Where the breeze-bowed poplars nod; Where the old woods worship God, Where His pencil paints the sod j Where the wedded throstle sings; Where the young bird tries his wings ; Where the wailing plover swings. Near the runlet’s rushing springs I Where, at times, the tempest’s roar, Shaking, distant sea and shore, Still will rave old Barnesdale o’er, To be heard by me no more 1 There, beneath the breezy west, Tired and thankful, let me rest, Like a eliila thut sleepeth best On its mother’s gentle brenst. —jV. Y. Tribune. Selection^* HERE AND THERE. —A man may sit down with his conscience anil yet bo in very bad company. —The people who don’t think there is any honesty in the world have been studying themselves too closely. —It’s the same with meu as with eggs, you can't tell whether they are good or bad till they’re broke. —If our religion is not true we are bound to change it; if it is true, we are bound to propagate it.— Wliately. —By the will of Jacob Persiuger, of ltoanoke county, Va., recently ad mitted to probate, Koanoke College will receive about $10,000. —The Madrid Catholic papers have resolved not to report cases of suicide, their belief beiug that such reports suggest the commission of the act. —The Bible House at Constantino ple keeps on sale 1,082 different books in eighteen Oriental languages, and an unprecedented inquiry prevails for all. —Nothing will more mightily con vince a man of the truth of religion than to mark the difference in oue’s feelings when he does a kind deed and when he does a mean one. —During the last four years there have been 00 cases of cremation at Milau and 10 at Lodi—viz., 2 iu 1876, 14 in 1877, 15 iu 1878, aud 29 last year. Three have already occurred this year. —‘-When I was young,” said Mrs. Scoldwell to her little girl, “I used to love my dear mamma too well to act as you do.” “And did your mamma,” replied Bertie quickly, “used to be all he time telling you what she did when she was a girl 1” —Yang-Chin, celebrated in one of the Chinese odes on virtue, had a friend who brought him a bribe, say ing, “It is now eveniug ; take it, aud no one will know it.” Yang-Chin re plied, “Heaven aud earth kuow, and you and I know it. How can you say ‘No one will know it!’” Aud with this he refused the offer. —M. Cbavard, au old Catholic priest at Geneva, has resigned-on the ground that after six years’efforts be dispairs of a Catholic reformation iu its present bauds, the movement be ing without uuity of doctrine or litur gy, and perverted to political ends. He intends to hold aloof from all the ological controversies. —“Ob 1 how vam a thing is man, eren in his best estate, while he is nothing but himself,—while his heart is not united and fixed on God, and he is disquieted in vain. How small a thing will .do it I He needs no oth er than his own heart; it may prove di8quiotment enough to itself; his thoughts are his tormentors.”—Leigh ton. —When a man comes out from be hind a green shutter wiping his mouth with his hnudkerchief, and runs against his astonished wile on the side-walk, and tells her that the place is a barbershop, aud she looks up iuto his face with not a shadow of doubt iu her love-lit eyes, ought that woman to be trusted with the ballot t —Scientific American. —A congregation, anxious to get rid of their pastor, was considerably perplexed how to do it without hurt ing bis feelings. After considerable discussion, they concluded to inform him they were obliged to reduce his salary. A delegation was appointed to wait ou him aud notify him of the fact. “Brethren,” was his reply, “I have beeu with you in prosperity,and 1 will never desert you in adversity.” » %* - MAKE ROOM FOR CHRIST. Could Martha have done a better thing than make room for Christ in her hornet Sinner, can you do a better thing to-night than make room for Jesus Christ t It is the best thing you and I can do, in these hearts of ours, to make room for Him. The usurper came and crowded Him out; the world comes and crowds Him out; there is room enough in these hearts to take Him 1 Shall we not make room for Him t Shall we not unlock the door, pull back the bolts, and throw open the door and welcome, thrice welcome, the Son of God iu these hearts of yours and miue. He will come. Then give him a welcome. Oh, my children, will you not let Him comet Little children He will make your heart His home. What did He say t “Behold, I stand at the door and kuoek.” Does the heart thiobt That is Christ knocking. “I stand at the door aud knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come unto him aud sup with him aud he with me.” Oh, what a blessed truth that is: Christ com ing down to dwell with man, to be your Saviour. Dear young man, do yon want a deliverer! Make room tor Jesus CUrist to night. And you, young man in the gallery, do you want a saviour T Make room lor Him. Do yon want a Redeemer to redeem you from the curse of the law ? Make room in your hearts for the Son of God and He willeouie and break the power of sin in your heart, and give you the victory over your passions, over your lusts, over your depraved appetites, over your tempers, and over every besetting sin. He will set His love upon you, auil raise you up at the last day as Lazarus was raised. That is ouly typical of what He is going to do; the time is coming when the dead shall hear the voice of the Sou of God, and they that hear His voice shall come forth Yes, there is room in this world for everything but Jesus Christ; there is room for self; there is room for pleasure, for passion, for business, for making money; there is room for hate, for euvy, for jealousy ; there is room for every eouceu-able thing in these hearts of ours, B^t no room for Christ. He comes, young lady, knock ing at your heart to day. Will you say to Jesus, “There is no room for you here to day, I am so full of pleas ure of the world that I can uot make room for you.” As He comes, dear Father, knock ing at the door of your hearts, will you turn Him away and say there is no room 1 Oh, let us be wise to day and make room for Him; and He will make room room for us up there. He goes to prepare a place for you and for me. He has gone to make room in heaven, aud as you make room in your hearts, the order will go forth from the throne. “Prepare an other mansion; prepare another crown ; get auotker robe ready, for another soul has come to the world of light.” If you make room for Him down here, He will make room for you up there, in that pure and holy throng that gather around the throne forever and ever. My friends, will you make room for Him 1 Will you look up aud say, “Lord Jesus, I want to be thine; Loird Jesus, come aud be mine; I want to dwell with Thee.” Will you do it t You will make heaven glad if you do. There is hot a thing ajun ner can do to make heaven glad but that one thing; nothing will please Him like that; just recognized His love and His goodness, thank Him for His blessing, aud see how quick the blessing will come to your own heart. I was reading an account in a pa per a few years ago of a mother that had an only child, a child that was idiotic; and oue of her neighbors came in one day aud found the wo man weeping as though her heart would break. She asked her what was the trouble, and the woman said, “There is my child, for whom I have given up the world and society: I have spent fourteen years of my life with that child . I have refused to let her be takeu and put into an in stitution ; I have refused to allow my servants to take care of her; there has not becu one night for fourteen years but that sometime in the niglu I have been up with that child; she has been under my special care for fourteen years, and after watchiug over her all that time, and caring for her, she don’t know me from you or any other ueighbor; if that child would just recognize me once it would pay me for all that I have done; but to think that my only child don’t kuow me, dou’t recognize me, is just breaking my heart.” O, sinner, does not that apply to yon T Think or the blessings you have re ceived from God's Irving hand ; think of your life; think of your family; think of your family ties; thiuk of all the blessings that you have re ceived from a loving Saviour; and yet have never looked up to thank Him; you have never recognized Him once in all His goodness to wards you. Oh ! may God break every heart in this house to-day ; may the love of Christ reach your heart aud mine as it never has reached it before. Let us make room for the Son of God: let us serve Him and follow Him. To-morrow eveuing at 7:30 o’clock, we are going to have a meeting here for all those that want to make room in their hearts for Christ I don’t know how it is with you, but I uever in my life had such a desire that Je sus Christ should take full possession of my heart; I want Him to have every corner of it; I want Hun to have everything; I don’t want to give the world a particle of it; I want to be wholly His. There may be some here who are not Christians, who are hun gering to meet Him, and who will come as Christians to be. consecrated to morrow night. Let ns lay ourselves upon the altar of God and re entire crate ourselves to Him. If there is a lukewarm heart here; if there be a heart conformed to the world that the. Lord lias not blessed and has not used as He would like to, let us go to that meeting to-morrow night and re consecrate that heart to God. Let us pray that the world and pleasure, aud everything that is wrong, shall be turned out of that heart, and that Jesus Christ shall take full possession, and reign in our hearts without a rivalL. Moody, as rep ried in So utlie rn Ch u rch m a n. HINTS TO PARENTS. Always speak in a pleasant voice. Teach your children how to work; how to obtain a living by their own efforts. Teach them the nobility of labor, that they may respect and honor, the producer. Explain the reason why. The child is a little walking iuterogatiou point.—To it all is new. Explain the reason. Your boy will some day re pay this trouble by teaching some other child. Teach your children the evil of se cret vice, and the consequences oi using tobacco and spirituous liquors ; teach them to be temperate, orderly, punctual, prompt, truthful, neat, faithful and honest. Encourage your child to be careful of personal appearance; to return every tool to its place; to always pay debts promptly; to never shirk a duty ; to do an equal share, and to always live up to an agreement. Teach your children to confide in you, by conference together. Tell them your plans, and sometimes ask their advice; . they will thus open their aearts to you, and wili ask your advice. The girl who tells all her heart to her mother has a shield and a protection about her which can come only with a mother’s advice aud counsel. Give your children your confidence in the affairs of your business. They will thus take an interest, aud be come co-workers with you. If you enlist their respect, then their sym pathy aud cooperation, they will quite likely remain to take tip your work when you have done, and w ill £o ahead perfecting what j-ou have commenced.. *. If you are a fanner, do not over work your children, and thus by a hard and dreary life drive them off to the cities. Arise at a reasonable hour in the inorniug, take au hour’s rest after meals, and quit at five or six o’clock ill the al'teruoon. Let the young people, in games and other amusements, have a happy time dur ing the lemaiuder of the day. I here is no reason why a farmer’s family should be deprived of recreation and amusement, any more than others. Teach your child the value of the Sabbath as a day lor the spiritual im provemeut of the mind; that on the Sabbath morn the ordinary work ol the week should not be resumed if it is possible to avoid it; that the day should be passed iu attendance upon religious service of some kind, or ex ercise that will ennoble aud spiritual ize the nature. While rest aud rec reation may be a part of the day’s programme, true philosophy dictates that the spiritual faculties of the na ture should be cultivated by setting apart a portiou of the time for their improvement. Teach your children those things which they will need when they be come men aud women. As Women they should understand how to cook, how to make a bed, how to preserve cleanliness and order throngh the house, how to ornament their rooms, to renovate and preserve furniture and clothing, how to sing, how to play various games, that they may enliven the household. They should be taught how to swim, how to ride, how to drive, how to do business, and how to preserve health. Ibe mother should early entrust money to the girl, with which to buy arti cles for the household, that she may learn its value. Think what a man or woman need to know in order to be healthy, happy, prosperous aud successful, and teach them that. Hill’* Manual. "ONLY LUKE IS WITH ME." So wrote Paul in his letter to Tim othy. it is readily perceived that the imprisoned apostle craved com panions hip. Grace does not destroy or weaken the social faculties of our nature. It tends to purify and exalt all noble smypathies. Paul was uo hermit, fleeing from the face of his fellow-men, as if their presence was a contagion and their fellowship a snare. His desire for fellowship aud sympathy comes out again aud again in his busy and varied life. In part this is due to his need of fellow labor ers that couid supply the pressing needs of the wide missiou field in which lie labored and directed the labors of others. But, it is also true that his heart, was hungry for trusted and true men that knew aud loved him. How kindly always does he mention his helpers, both men aud women. If he craved companions in the missionary fervor of his younger years, how much more when, as Paul the aged, he was in severe impiisou ment, uncertain as to what the issue would be, with reason to dread the worst. Sufi'eriug pleads for synipa thy. It is uo wonder, therefore, that like his Master under the olive trees, Paul longed for the preseuee of old time friends. You catch the thrill oi his rejoicing and gratitude as he speaks of Ouesiphorous, -‘for he-oft refreshed me,and was not ashamed of my ehaiti. Put, when he was in some, he sought me out very dili gently and found me.” “Do thy dil igeuce to coq^ before winter,” breathes the paiuful yearning of his heart for Timothy, his own son iu the gospel. God grant that when old age comes, with its infirmity and suf fering, we may have loVing friends to cheer and comfort us. May we never forget the gentle ministry of a thoughtful love to others. “Ouly Luke is with me.” Then Paul keenly felt the desertion of others. Others had been with him. Some had de parted on necessary work. Their absence brought sorrow without bit terness. But those that deserted him touched the quick of a soul singularly responsive and tender. “But De mas has forsaken me, having ioved this present world.” This same De mas had been joined with himself aud the beloved physician in greetings to the Colossiau church. Yea, he had been with Paul iu his first imprison ment. Heavier than a chain must have beeu this forsaking, “this turn ing away from me.” Time and trials test as well as in teusify even Christiau friendship. Let us not be astonished if men fail, if faces that once brightened as we came, grow cold and hard,or are seen uo more. “Ouly Luke is with me.” Theu his misery was mitigated by mercy. Luke is with me. Probably the very best mau that Paul could have with him. .Let us mate loving meutiou of the good our Heavenly Father sends Let us sing of mercy aud judgment. Paul spoke justly aud with acute pain of those that had forsaken and none him much evil, but he does not rail at human treachery and disap pointment. His noble nature never lost its truth. His loving heart was never touched by scorner’s hate. The wind that sweeps away the chaff leaves the richer grain. The once distrusted Mark, who fell away at Perga, is now called for. It is pleasant in this immediate connec tiou to have this expression of res tored confidence in “Barnabas’ sis ter’s son.” Such aro the outcomes of life. Let us tliauk God aud take courage. ‘-Ouly Luke is with me.” Then God honors the faithful and the true. Luke, in a quiet, modest way, stood by his despised but ever dear friend and brother. He thought he was doiug the simplest, most un observed act. It was nothing, he could not do otherwise. But what an aureole of glory surrouuds the faithful friend—a glory from the Master’s hand. Churchly conouiza tious have been for deeds of doubt ful value, or alleged miracles more doubtful still. This honor comes from God, and for simplest deed of human love aud brotherhood. “Ouly Luke is with me” is such honorable mention as the Ciesar might never gain.—Religious Herald. PERSONAL WORK FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS. In reading snch books as the “Me moir ol' Harlan Page” and the Life of “Uncle John Vassar,” we are im pressed with their earnest, individual effort for the conversion of sinners. Ilarland Page died at an early age, he was a laboring man, rather scant ily endowed with mental strength, with but little education, &c. Still his life was a very useful one, and he expressed his gratitude to God, a short time before his death, that he had reason to believe his personal ap peals to individuals had been blessed to the conversion of a hundred souls. How is this to be accounted for? Very easily. His heart was full of love to Christ and to the souls of men. He believed the Bible, wbat it says about the ruined condition of sinners, their exposure to the wrath ol God, their perishing ueed of Christ as a Saviour, his ability to save to the uttermost, &c. As to these im portant matters he had no doubt, and, therefore, ho labored by person al effort to lead sinners to Christ. He was profoundly in earnest. He saw eternity with its solemn realities just before’him. All this may be said of j “Uncle John Vassar.” So active, so 1 , ’ I unwearied was he hi his labors of J love, so ready was be to speak of the | great salvation “in season and out of season,” that the epithet “crazy” was often applied to him. No doubt to men of the woild, fully engrossed! with the fleeting interests of time, he j appeared to be “beside himself,” while backsliders, in their coldness and apathy, by way of excusing them selves, tiied to think liim iusime. >0 higher compliment was ever paid to l he piety of Joint Vaasa r than when he was called “crazy.” We are sccus turned to apply this epithet to those who are not in sympathy and barrno uy with the masses of the people. Be ing in a small minority, they are put by the majority in lunatic asylums, and the stigma of craziness rests on them. John Yassar found the world opposed the God and neglecting the salvation of Christ. He found the masses of professed Christians luke warm and comparatively dead. He saw sinners ready to perish and very few earnestly at work for their salva tion. His soul was stirred within him. Heembraeed all opportunities of doing good, and when there were no opportunities, he created them. Winter and summer; spriug and autumn, day and night he sought the salvation ot souls with all the ear nestness he was capable of feeling. He was unwearied in effort,and pray ed to God without ceasing. Such men as Page and Yassar are greatly needed now—men who are ready to do personal work for the conversion of souls—ready to come into personal contact with siuuers of: high degree and of low degree, and ! to beg them to accept the Lord Jesus as he is offered iu the gospel. It is a j bitter reproach ;o Christianity for any sinner, though the vilest of the vile, au outcast, of outcasts to be able ; to say iu truth, “>'0 man cared for my soul.” Let no brother or sister say, “1 can- j not condescend to go into highways j and hedges, into crowded streets and j filthy alleys, into the cottages of the ■ poor and into the garrets of the sick.” Let not those redeemed by the blood j of Christ think it a condescension to go among those for whom Christ died, and labor lor their salvation. Per sonal work for the conversion of sin-> ners is called lor.—K dig ions Herald, j What is Religion Worth f—In connection with the subject of giving.; Mr. Spurgeon tells tlie tollowiug an ecdote : A gentleman went round with a pa per to raise the minister's salary. He went to a poor man who had atten ded the church twice, who put down ; £10. The gentleman asked if he did not meaue 10s. “Shillings 1” said the man, “do you think that the spiritual benefit and comfort that a man gets from such a I mintster as ours through a year is on ly worth ten shillings? I reckou it to be worth a great deal more, but really I caunot afford to give more,”; “Well,” said the man who was col j lectiug, to himself, “if this man can afford £10 I can afford £-3.” He had uever before given more than ten shillings. When a man gives sixpeuce, says Mr. Spurgeon, who is laying up thousands of pounds I can only consider that he forms a pretty accurate measure of the value of his religion. A man who was pull ed out of the river by another, offer ed him fourpeuce. “No, thank you,” said the man, “I don’t want to take your valuation^ of what you are worth. Subscribe for the Sun. The ground now is in superb condi tion for plowing, and bas been for some time. Indeed, the winter has been, in most respects, highly favor able to farming and horticultural op erations. Abundant opportunity is given of getting laud iu order for the crops of the year, of seeding spring oats, clover and other grasses and of hauling out manure. To get before hand in his work is an important matter to the fainter. The work of the whole year may thereby be done with more system, more thoroughly, and, instead of that flurry and con fusion consequent upon hard, press ing labors, with calm deliberation and positive pleasure. Now is the time, also, to sow gypsum on clover and orchard grass. No fertilizer is so cheap as gypsum, except when freight makes it high. Gypsum is the sulphate of lime, and both of its constituents, sulphuric acid and lime, aro constituents of the ash of all plants, while lime is a very large con stituent in the ash of the grasses. When ammonia is present, the sui phurie acid combines with ammonia forming the highly soluble sulphate ammonia, admittedly one of the most powerful fertilizers. In applying gypsum, therefore, we are iu effect furnishing to plants sulphuric acid, lime and ammonia, the last being the source of nitrogen. Hie farmer, who neglects the kitch en garden, is wofully oblivious of his true interests, and criminally neglect lul of the health and haji[iiuess of his family, lie ought to have in abun dance all the vegetables in their sea son. He may be content with hog and hominy, but why should he so needlessly abate the pleasure aud in jure the health of his family, and cru cify the pride of his wife? A boun teous board is her delight; let he: have vegetables, aud berries, rind fruits in abundance, that she tu,^' make your house cheerful and happy, and give suitable entertainment to your friends’ Irish potatoes, onious, beets, peas, if not already planted, should be planted now. Hot-beds should be prepared, and cabbage and tomato seed sowu. Our own peas are up. We planted more yesterday (21th February', and shall plant agaiu. Don’t plant the abominable marrowfats. They are barely fit for hogs. We have found the ‘‘little gem” an excellent variety. It comes early, has a fine flavor, and does not need “sticking,” which demands mere time than all the labor of cultivation. Enn two furrows with a cultivator in your strawberry rows, and get out the grass with hand and hoe. Mulch about 1st of April with fiuely cut wheat straw or piue-tags, aud you have nothing more to do until the fruit comes in. Get all the grass from your raspberries, and keep them clean all the time. When tho leaves put out fully, you will be able to discover the dead branches. Clip them off with the pruning knife. The work is done-very rayidiy. But we need not go into details We simply say that, at this good time, you should make all necessary preparation for having a full variety and abundance of vegetables, melons, fruits and berries.—Prof. B. Pui-year. Warts on Horses. — Inquiries are made for a cure fdT warts of dif ferent kinds on horses, mules aud cattle.—Many remedies are prescrib ed—many barbarous and cruel to the animal. 1 will give you a remedy of ten tried aud never known to fail. Anoint the wart three times with clean, fresh hog’s lard, about two days between times. 1 have had warts on my horses—bleediug warts of large size, rattling warts, aud seed warts —to the number of more than one hurdred on ouo horse’s head I have never been able to fiud the warts for the third .application of the lard. All disappear atrer the second appli cation. I have sent this prescription to several agricultural papers, Hop ing that it would be of some use to farmers. But they all seem slow to believe, perhaps because the remedy is at hand aud costs uothiug, I own I was slow to believe myself; but, having a fine youug mare with large bleeding warts, that covered parts of the bridle and girths with blood whenever used. I thought there would be no harm in trying lard on them. When the mare was gotten up for the third application there were no warts, aud the scars are there now, after more than fifteen years, with very little change. 1 may say that for cuts, bruises, galls, etc., the application of fresh lard—either for man or beast—is worth more than any patent liniments in use. It will remove pain iustautly, aud does not | irritate raw flesh, as all liniments do. ' —Farm Journal England. HOW TO TRAIN A GRAPEVINE. Oue of t.he old questions that i- ev er new, is how to train a grapevine. The books will t«ll you all about it. Oh yes, nothing easier. There is your renewal system, auil your alter nate system, anil your Thomeny sys tem, and dear knows how many oth er systems, that look so simple and beautifully in the cuts ; but when the ordinary man gets iu front of a ram pant vine that has had its own way iu the past, he fails to see how any system will fit iu. The fact is, lo carry out any systematic training one innst begin with a young vine and carry it through for several years.— With an old vine little more can be doue than to prune out the old wood and get the young wood evenly dis tributed over the trellis. Our stroug native vines refuse to be cramped by any cf the close pruning methods, and go eft'in a rush of water-shoots wheu so hemmed iu. The Delaware is oue of the best to try experiments on, as it yields kindly to any treat ment. Our viueyayiists have been in the habit of pruning back pretty closely, leaving only three or four eyes to shoot, but of late years they are leaving oil more w ood. Last fall a fruit grower from the Hudsou Ri ver told us of a system in use in Ulster county which took its name from the man who first intiodueed it, a Mr. Kuitteu. Only two wires are used on the tiellis. and these are four and six feet from the grouud.—The vine is lirst carried to tlie top wire; tIren four side shoots are grown and trained to'Tfla wires (or permanent arms. These are kept about two feet long, and from them aie grown the hearing shoots each year, four or live to each arm. These shoots are allowed to grow to their full length and hang down toward the grouud. Each fall they are pruned back to a single bud and a r.ctv get grown the— next year, this system has the mer it of simplicity, and can be readily tested in ilie vineyard or with a lew g. idea vines.— Christian Union. PLOW UP THE FOWL RUNS. Use the plow in the poultry yards —If the premises are contracted jspade up the earth thoroughly, so that the birds can have a spot of fre.-sh earth to run upon or burrow in as the weather grows warmer. If the lowl-house floors are not boarded over, these should also be cleanly scraped and similarly dug up, spade deep. Aud the same process may be gone over again aud again to advantage for the next three mouths. The benefit from this is two fold— the newly turned-up earth is filled with worms that fowls will devour with gus no, aud the top earth, that has been lying exposed for months, may thus be turned under, after the soil has been befouled by the pres ence of the birds upon its surface all the winter. The spading or ploughing of the grounds outside of the hen house (where the ruus are enclosed by fenc ing) is a necessity iu the spring and summer. Aud the stock will quickly show their appreciation of this meas ure for their accommodation by roll ing aud rubbing themselves in the mellowed soil, and thus cleansing their bodies aud under-feathers of the vermin that they may frequently have accumulated during the laying season. Nothing can be more grate ful to the fowls at this time thau this simple provision for their comfort. And where their range is limited to close quarters, the frequent turning over of the soil will prove highly ben eficial to them, as experience has am ply proved.—Poultry World. Rusty Tools.—Rust can be taken off tools or any implements of steel by adopting the following process: Place the article iu a vessel contain ing kerosene oil, or wrap the steel up iu a soft cloth well saturated with kerosene ; let it remain 24 hours or louger; then scour the rusty spots with brickdust. If badly rusted, use salt wet with hot vinegar; after scouring, rinse every particle of brickdust or salt off with boiling hot water; dry thoroughly; then polish off with a clean flannel cloth and a little sweet oil.—Exchange. A farmer iu Bangor, Me., noticing that wheat was being picked from the heads of standing grain, and finding flocks of yellow birds flyiug about, shot some of them* On open ing their crops, be found only three graius of wheat and, by actual count, 350 weevils. It is better that farmers known whether they kill friends or foes. To Remove Ink Stains_Wash the cloth thoroughly in milk, then iu | hot water, with soap, aud the status 1 will very soou disappear.

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