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.”
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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.