Volume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, YA„ FRIDAY MAY 14, 1880.
IsPumbex* 20
SWEEP BEFORE_YOUR OWN DOOR.
Do w« tawd the homely adage bended down
from deye of yore ?
“Bre you sweep yonr neighbor’! dwelling, cleer
the rubbUh from your door;
Lei no filth, no roet there gather, leave no trecee
of decay, •
Pluck up every weed uneightly, brueh the fallen
leaves away."
If we faithfully hart labored thui to iweep with
out, within,
Plucked up envy, eril-»peaking, malice, each be
setting sin—
Weedi that by the lacred porUl of the inner tem
ple grow—
Potion weedi the heart defiling, bearing bitter
neu and woe;
Then, perchance, we may hare leisure o’er our
neighbor’! watch to keep—
All the work assigned ns finiihed, we ltefore hii
door may iweep;
Show him where the moil is clinging—token ev
er of decay—
Where the thistles, thickly springing, daily must
be cleared away.
But, alas 1 our work neglecting, oft we mount
the judgment teat,
With his failings, his omissions, we our weary
brother gteet;
In some hidden nook forgotten, searching with a
careful eye,
We the springing weeds discover—some slight
blemish there descry.
For his slothfulness, bis blindness, we our broth
er harshly chide,
Glorying in uur strength and wisdom, we cou
demu hint in our pride.
Ask uot why he hits neglected, thus before his
door to sweep;
Why grown careless, he has slumbered, failed his
garden plat to keep.
On the judgment seat still sitting,, we no helpiug
hand extend
To assist our weaker brother, his shortcomings
to amend ;
For his weariness, bis faltering, we no sweet
compassion show—
From our store no cordial bring him, no encour
agement bestow.
But, while busied with our neighbor, urging him
to ceaseless care,
Calling to the thoughtless tillers, to their labor
to tepair—
Lo I unseen the dust has gathered, weeds are
growing where of yore
Flowets rare and sweet were blooming when we
swept before our door.
Ah I how easy o’er our/brother faithful ward and
watch to keep 1
But, alas 1 before our dwelling hard indeed to
daily sweep;
Harder then to share the conflict, “by the stuff”
at homa to stay,
Easier far to sit in judgment than to bumhly
watch and pray.
HERE ANO THERE.
_The world judges 08 better tlian
we know, for though its bands may
feel the bands of Esau, its ears dis
tinguish the voice of Jacob.
_Every man or woman who turns
to Christ must bear in miud that,
they are breaking with their old mas
ter, uDd enlisting under a uew lead
er. Conversion is a revolutionary
process.
_The sweetest life is to be ever
making sacritices for Christ; the
hardest life a man can lead on earth,
the most roll of misery, is to be al
ways doing his own will and seeking
to please himself.
—Work for souls is the grandest
ever committed to man. To have a
share in shaping immortal spirits,
which are to live on unceasingly in
happiness or misery 1 Cau we af
ford to trifle with straws in this
workt
—It is uot in oor open, exposed
deeds that we need the still voice ol
the silent monitor, but it is in the
small, secret, every day acts of life,
that conscience should prompt ns to
beware of the hidden shoals of what
we deem too common to be danger
ous.
—Judson said, as he was approach
ing Madison University, “If I had a
thousand dollars, do you know what
I would do with itt” The person
asked supposed he would invest in
foreign missions. “I would put it in
such institutions as that,” he said,
pointing to the college buildings.—
“Planting colleges and filling them
with studious young «neu and women
jS planting teed-corn for the world.”
—A lowly Christian woman said
that she found it very easy to pray
always, for everything suggested to
her a new prayer. When she awoke
ahe prayed that she might finally
awake to the resurrection of the just.
When she arose, she prayed that she
might at last rise in Christ’s likeness.
When she washed, she prayed that
the blood of Jesus might wash her
soul. W hen she »te, she prayed that
she might be fed #ith spiritual food.
Thus every duty, ftery day, suggest
'd prayar.
1
"SENT."
“At mt/ Father hath tent me. even to
tend I you." John xx. 21.
Who have been.sentf You. You
disciples,you who have believed in the
Lord, aud acknowledge him as your
Lord : you, whom he called out of the
world, and redeemed from sin and
death. You, each and all, he has
sent. To each of you the Lord re
peats the declaration, irrespective of
sex, age, office, gift—“I send you as
my Father seut me.” The word is
not spoken to ministers only—we are
all his ministers. Hot to missions
ries alone: he intended that we each
should be a missionary. He inten
ded that every man and every wo
man born of the Father, would be
bis messenger, apostle,—that each
would be a centre of spiritual life aud
power : that each would be a prop
agandist. For this purpose he taught
us the troth; that we might teach
the ignorant of our i » n social circle
For this purpose he eulightened us ;
that we might be the lights of our
own small worlds. Matt. v. 14; Phil
ii. 15. For this purpose he implan
ted in onr hearts whatever life and
force are there ; that we might be
life-centres and sources of energy and
fertility.
That was the Lord’s plan for the
evangelization of the world, and the
establishment of his Church. —Not
that a few salaried and ordained men
should do the work, but that all
should do it. We have not followed
the Lord s plan. We have chosen
our own methods, with what poor re
sults is manifest. We regard with
pride and'complacency our societies,
aud alliances, uud large organizations.
1 do not say that we should not em
ploy missionaries aud evangelists, se
parated aud sent abroad; but for the
waste lauds witbiu the gospel’s pale,
or ou her borders ; for dealing with
that ignorance aud sin which, year by
year,ever renews itself with the birth
aud growth of meu,tbe Church ought
to have trusted to the individual, per
soual, aud direct efforts of all Chris
tian men aud women. Matt.xxv. 15;
1 Cor. xv. 58. She ought to have
seen to it that each man kept his owu
home orderly and clean, aud his own
bit of garden lair and fruitful. Let
us fall back ou the Master’s plan.
Let us each remember that the Lord
has sent me, eveu me. We have per
mitted that fact to drop out of mem
ory and sight.
By whom are we sentl Not by the
Church or the presbytery, or the
board of missions, but by Him who
is the King of glory; who is the
Prince of the kings of the earth ; who
is “over all, God blessed forever.”
The glory aud majesty of the Master
are reflected on the servants: be
gives diguity to the messengers, aud
divinity to their mission. We are
seut by him. No man should take
this office and errand on himself but
he that is called of God. If other
wise, let us not wonder should our
mission be a failure.
Fi ora whence have we been sent t
That we have been seut iuto the
world, implies tnat we nave, an some
period aud somehow, been taken
“out of the world." We have been
translated into the kingdom of heav
en. Like Isaiah, every true sent man
has first of ail been in the presence of
the glory that fills the earth. Isa vi.
He has been with the Lord, dwelt
with him, communed with him. Fain
would we remaiu forever on the ra
diaut height where we have been
transfigured j but the Lord, pitying
the world, crushed aud torn by cruel
aud tyrannous sin, sends us buck on
missions of mercy. v
We are the “sent” of Jesus Christ.
That truth is true of us, if we are
Christ’s, whether we have wrought
the truth into our beliefs and being,
or not. But when it is believed, aud
the power of it felt, how it stirs the
pulses, and braces the nerves, and
makes the whole spirit glow with a
vivid and joyous sense of strength
aud victory. We are not our ewu.
1 Cor. vi. 19. We are not alone. We
are ambassadors of the King aud the
King himself is ever with us; we are
his deputies and tellow-wotkers.
With us, and behind us, are the might
and resources of Almighty God.
“How shall they preach except they be
sent t”
RICHEST AND POVERTY.
BY DANIEL P. PIKE.
“There was a certain rich man.”—
Christ Jesus.
His home was a princely abode,
overlookirg a beautiful landscape,—
an earthly paradise. The owner,
clothed in purple and fine linen, re
clines in gorgenu* apartments, walks
enchanted grounds emblatoued with
the beauties of nature and adorned
ffitb decorations of art. Beautiibl
flowers breathe fragrance and per- ]
fume npon the slumberous air, and
water-fonntains send forth silvery
showers through dreamy light.
“Fared sumptuously every day.”
Every luxury the seasons produced,
every gratification of taste, every in
centive to appetite and passion which
fertile, cultivated ingenuity could de
vise made this home oue of unweari
ed, enchanted delight.
The Bible condemns not the rich
because they are rich ; it does not say
it is a sin to gather or bold great pos
sessions; it does not say money is the
root of evil; it throws no contempt
upon inventions of genius or decora
tions of art. Nowhere do the Jewish
and Christian Scriptures teach that
the heart can be better fixed on God
when the body is clothed in sackcloth
or the home contains the least amount
of comfort.
The Bible calls the love of money
the root of all evil; but it presents
money itself as a precious gift of God,
to be received with thanksgiving and
used in God’s service with fidelity.
Money is filthy lucre when it soils the
band'of him who gives, gets, or holds
it wrongfully,—filthy to him who
stains it with pride, lust, and covet
ousness.
“There teas a certain beggar.”—
Christ Jesus.
Homeless,—not an inch of laud, no
cottage in the wilderness; dogs were
sympathizers; his poverty was a
great affliction ; he was a poor sutler
ef, helpless, destitute, waiting for
crumbs falling from the lap of luxu
ry ; his poverty was extremely incou
venient; his appearance was sad, de
jected ; he “was laid at the rich man’s
ga:e.”
There is one book (bat always svin
paihizes with tbe poor It. was writ
teu iu palaces, prisons, cities, deserts,
at lioure, among strangers, in the
sanctuary, and iu exile. Among its
thirty or more authois are the migh
ty, the feeble, the rich, the poor, the
learned, the unlettered, kings, cap
lives, judges, warriors shepherds, and
fishermen. It was written during a
period of fifteen hundred or more
years. It is the first voice that ever
dared to speak in loud aud earnest
tones for the poor and needy in a
sorrow stricken world. Its denuncia
tions of the projid, cruel and extoi
tiouate are tearless and terrible. It
overflows with tenderness and pity
for the poor, the ueedy, the dejected,
aud the lowly. The Bible is a foun
tain of justice, mercy, and love. The
poor, the unfortunate, the dependent,
and the afflicted are every way in
debted to the Bible. It has been
pleading their cause and enlistiug
help and sympathy in their behalf for
more than three thousand years.
Said the Christ: “Go and sell that
thou hast, aud give to the poor, and
come aud follow me.”
Richest and poverty end.
Rich and poor die. “The beggar
died.” “The rich man also died.”
The rich man was buried. The beg
gar was taken by angels. The beg
gar, says Christ, was carried iuto
“Abraham’s bosom.” The rich man
“lifted up his eyes iu hell.” The
earthly was ended ; the scene chaug
ed. Not crumbs trorn luxury's tame*
not sumptuous fare, but desire^cra
ter from the Auger’s tip of evea the
beggar’s band. Such is the state
ment. Eyes to see, power to con
verse, aud ears to hear after the bur
ial. There was also interest for the
living. Brothers were not desired to
come to that “place of torment.” Mo
ses aud the prophets were sufficieut.
it was uuuwAiiSsarj for ouci-w-rrae
from the dead. Therefore,give neith
er “poverty nor riches.” Live for
“A^braham’s bosom’ rather than for a
“place of torment” in Hades, on the
wrong side of the “great gulf,’—
Herald of Qospel Liberty.
GREATJVIEN.
Perhaps it was Dr. Thompson who
said, in substnuce, that all great men
were great because of one of two
thiugs either, first, they are great
because they are a bright auticipa
tionofone ideaj or else, secondly,
they are a beautiful representation of
a combination of ideas. One man is
remarkable in one thing, while an
other is respectable in every thing
aud remarkable in nothing.
When the board of trustees of Au
tioeh College were canvassing for a
suitable professor, and the name of
a well kuown minister of the Chris
tian Church was being considered,
the Hon. Horace Maun remarked that
“Mr.-was respectable in all
branches of learning, but reuiaikable
in no one of them.!’ Subsequently,
when au eminent ifbctor came to fill
the place of the great and lamented
Maun, and had become acquainted
with the versatile ability of this
brother, he had an occasiou to say
that “Mr.-was ‘remarkable’ be
cause ol' thm combination of respect
ability.” He could in a fery respect
able way teach any clast in the col
lege, bnt in a remarkable way he
could teach none.
The Ptolemaic syBteiu of astrono
my was an anticipation ot the old
system of astrology as tanght by the
Persians. Hence Ptoteme was a great
man because of this oue anticipated
thought. Copernicus was a great
man because he placed the last round
in the ladder which reached to the
stars, and thus reduced the vagaries
of astrology to a well-established sci
ence.
It is to be observed, however, that
these great men who strike out into
the future with one idea get only
about fifty or one hundred years iu
advance of their times. Socrates,
with all his greatness, was overtaken
by his lagging but nevertheless jog
ging compeers at the end of about
fifty years. Some who helped to put
the deadly hemlock to his lips lived
long enough to do him the honor of
laying the foundation of bis future
glory. Dr. Franklin was a great
man in that with his long arm he
smote the clouds and bottled the elec
tric spark. But when his successful1
kite was brought to the grouud his
wits were at an end. It required the
after genius of a Professor Morse to
manipulate this “child of sterms” in
to a lackey, w hose mission should be
to traverse sea and land, “quick as
lightning,” with tales of truth and
falsehood. Cod seems to say to hi.
child of special gift, “Thus lar shall
thou go and no farther.”
xjill, iiD r,llfeo''3icUj ouuic men air
great, nut because they excel iu one
particular biaucti of business or
science, but for tlie reason that tbe.v
ate the respectable embodiment of a
good I \ number of ideas. Washing
tor was a great man, not because be
was remarkable iu auy particular sci
ence, or even as a noted genius iu the
tactics of war. His greatness cousis
ied not only iu the fact that be was
the embodiment of the spirit of 76,
but he united respectable knowledge
of the living questions of the day with
indomitable will for honesty, truth,
aud the right. And these traits of
character constitute true greatness
in whomsoever found.
It is thus possible for every man to
become truly great. All men can not
get to be great in the riches of this
world. Comparative poverty seems
to be the uatural birthright of mauy.
All men can not, iu the very consti
tution of their minds, excel iu any
particular science or brauch of busi
ness. These must come by birth as
well as effort. Nor have all the abil
ity of respectable combination of the
world’s great thoughts. But all can
submit themselves to the law of
Christ, aud thus become honest truth
ful, aud loviug. Aud theu whatev
er the world may think, iu the eyes
of the great God we shall be looked
npou as the peers of poets, pbilau
thropists, aud the good aud great of
all times aud countries. The time
draweth nigh wheu true greatness
will be better understood than now.
Hence every honest, truthful, and
loviug sosl can well afford to wait
VTHE AWAKENING OF THE EAST.
The following is part ofan editoiial
in Zion’s Herald, of February 5. It
should stir thought and quicken our
missionary zeal. The Herald says :
“We are accustomed to consider
the Asiatic world as stagnant, or
asleep, except so far as its iuterior
^military disturbances- are concerned.
Our travelers and missionaries know
better. If you magnetize one end of
a needle, the other end becomes so
by ‘induction* from the atmosphere,
or other environments. While the
chief impulses forward, now actiug
ou humanity, seems to be in the Wes
tern world, the old, dead Bast is be
coming galvanized into energy and
motiou, dud at a rate which hardly
seems to be apprehended by the
West. At a late meeting of the Bri
tish Evangelical Alliance, iu Edin
burgh, Kev. Dr. Mitchell said, in an
eloquent speech, ‘We speak of the
‘awakeuing of the uations’ in the
West. -But the great awakening of
the nations is to be seen yonder, in
the distant East, where more than
half the human race is beginning to
shake off their immemorial sleep.’
We all know how it is in Japau ; and
yet Japan seems au anomaly to us iu
this respect; as if all the laws of tra
ditional influence were there suspend
ed or reversed, and we wonder wbat
the strauge national eruption can come
to, though we see that every new
teudeucy is upward. Japan does, in
deed, move faster than the rest of
the East; but all the East is ia more
or less similar motion. The early
civilisation, aud then the strange ar
rest of all progress, in China, are two
of the most anomalous facts in histo
ry, and have been insoluble problems j
to Weatern thinkers. When all the!
West Tas in tbe night of the Dark
Ages, China had the mariner’s com
pass; had gunpowder, investing civi
lization with military superiority over
savage warfare; bad paper, for liter
ature ; had the art of printing ; had,
in line, the most advanced civilization
then in the world. By some myste
rious cause she suddenly paused, and
we have loug considered her stag
nant, if not dead.—But China has en
tered the race of nations, and the
awakened spirit of the age has brok
en iuto China; and she can hardly
fernaiu behind Japan in progress and
innovation. Like Japan sbe is now
opening all her interior to Christian
ity. At least two-score of her great
cities and nearly four hundred of her
towns and villages have become mis
sion stations. There are 23,000 of
her children in mission schools; and
some 1,300 missionary laborers, male
and female, native and foreign, are
abroad in her immense fields, prepar
ing to reap the harvest. Her language
has the whole Bible, and thus affords
it to at least a third of the population
of the entire world.
“Asia is thus astir in the East, and
meanwhile Europeau ideas are invad
ing it, by the British domination
iu the south, where 30,000 Euglisb
foreigners govern more than 240,000,
000 of natives; buildiug railroads,
extending telegraphs, multiplying
newspapers, establishing schools and
universities, and above all, convert
ing to Christianity thousands and
sometimes tens of thousands a year,
by missions. Russia is also bearing
European ideas into the very heart
of Asia, from the . west, by the con
quest—slowly, indeed and by the
baibarities of war; but God over
rules the worst policies of man. St.
John, iu the Apocalypse, saw an an
gel leading the great dragon by a
chaiu. All these causes are shaking
the Asiatic world to its very founda
tions; and Dr. Mitchel is not far
from the truth iu saying that ‘Yon
der in the distant East is the great
awakeuiug oi tire-nations.”
MY COMPANY.
I have read (said Mr. Spurgeon) of
oiie who dreamed a dream, when in
great distress of miud, about reli
giou. He thought he stood in the
outer court of heaven, and he saw a
glorious host marching up, siugiug
sweet hy in us, and bearing the ban
ners of victory ; and they passed by
him through the gate, and when they
vanished he heard in the distance
sweet strains of music.
“Who are they t” he asked.
“They are the goodly fellowship of
the prophets, who have gone to be
with God.”
And,he heaved a deep sigh as he
said : “Alas, I am not one of them,
and never shall be, and 1 cannot en
ter there.”
By-aud-by there came another
band, equally lovely in appearance
and equally triumphant, and robed in
white. They passed within the por
tals, and again were shouts of wel
come heard within.
“Who are they !”
“They are the goodly fellowship Qfj,
the apostles.”
“Alas,” he said, “1 belong not to
that fellowship, aiul I cannot enter
there.”
He still waited and lingered, in
the hope that he might yet go inj
bat the next multitude did uot en
courage him, for they were the noble
army of martyrs. He could not go
with them, uor waive their palm
branches. He waited still, and saw
that the next was a company of god
ly ministers and officers of Christian
churches; but he could uot go with
them. At last as he walked, be saw
a larger host than all the rest put to
gether, marching aud singing most
melodiously, aud in front walked the
woman that was a sinner; aud the
thief that died upon the cross hard
by the Saviour,—aud he looked long,
aud saw there such as Mauasseh aud
the like; and when they entered he
oowld see who they were, aud he
thought,
“There will be no shouting about
them.”
But to bis astonishment, it seemed
as if all heaven was rent with seven
fold shoots as they passed in. And
the angels said to him,
“These are they that are mighty
sinners, eared by mighty grace.”
Aud theu he said,
“Blessed be God 1 I can go in with
them.” ‘
And he awoke.—Exchange.
It is *<|t that there is a Bible in
every ho^jp in Ieelaud, uot for orua
rneut, but for use. These Bible-read
ing peoplehavo no use tor theatres,
prisons, sheriffs, artillery, or sol
diery.
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HOG CHOLERA.
CUBE AND PREVENTIVE.
We are informed by one whom we
deem a good practical farmer, that
the common poke-root (PItytolaccodc
candra) is an almost infallible cure
for the liog cholera. His mode of
preparation is, to boil it with the feed j
or separately, and add a liberal quan- j
tity of salt to the mixture. It will
suffice te boil it with whatever vege
tables can be had at this season, and
add meal or bran to the liquor after
the mess has been cooked. This gen
tleman noticed that his hogs, when
taken sick with cholera, seem very
voracious after the root of the poke
weed, and those which could get it
usually recovered in a few days.—
Here is, then, a common natural re
medy for that scourge of the swine
on every farm, and it is seen that
there are other uses for the despised
poke weed than those we before knew
of. We doubt not that there are
natural remedies for every disease of
man and beast at our very doors, if
we only knew what they were.
But it is much better to prevent
this malady, if possible, than to cure
it, for it is said, with good reason we
think, that uo hog once attacked with
cholera is ever so good a hog after it.
For prevention we believe in giving
frequeut messes of ceoked food—veg
tables, with bran, &c. At this season
a liberal use of onions for this pur
pose would be very good, aim should
lorrn a part of every cooked mess.—
Besides being in themselves very nu
tritious, they seem possessed ol me
dicinal qualities of high value that
gives toue, strength, auil elasticity to
tiie system, and enables it to wttrd oft'i
disease. Every farmer ougktTo Lave |
a large boiler for cooking a quantity '
of stuff at a time, and tbeu the corn
aud all other feed could be cooked
eveu daily without great trouble or
expense. Bed pepper, sulphur, cop
peras, aud any medicines, as calomel
or quinine could theu be easily given
the animals in their feed as often as
might be deemed necessary, aud tlms
all diseases would be staved uff aud
the farmer would have healthy ani
mals and healthy poik.—Rural Mes
senger.
CULTIVATION OF ONE ACRE OF PEA
NUTS.
Spread forty cart loads (or more
wilt not hurt) of woods mould. Fal
low or flush as for corn. Sow broad
cast twenty bushels of agricultural
lime, aud barrow in well. Lay off in
iurrows with shovel plow three feet
apart, ('ibis is to break the ground
for roots to strike in.) Then, with
siDgle turning plow, ruu on each side
of furrow about six inches from it to
to make a ridge, open ridge, as for
corn from one and a half to two inch
es deep. Drop two shelled kernels
eighteen inches apart. Care should
be takeu, in shelling the nuts not to
break the thin skin. Cover lightly.
£$ant between the 1st and 20th of
'May. The drier the land the bet
ter.
1. uumvate vvueu peas show one
aud a half to two inches above
ground. Side down with single plow
as close as can be dene without cut
ting roots of plants.
2. Weed with hoe as for corn
when necessary.
3. When plants begin to ran,
throw earth to them with double shov
el plow, running once on each side of
row.
■4. ltun tooth cultivator between
rows,as occasiou may require, to keep
down grass.
5. Haul earth to each brl^fch with
hoe before peas begin to run too
much, and have grass taken from
arouud the plants by band. Ruu sin
gle plow between rows to drain off
water from the peas.—Religious Her
old.
In sections of Georgia the people
practice the following plan of prevent
ing the loss of fruit by late frosts,
with success: While the grouud is
frozen or rendered cold by winter the
ground around the fruit trees is cov
ered with straw to a sufficient depth
to prevent the sun, duriug the early
warm days of spring, from warming
the ground, and thus starting the
sap. In this way they keep their
fruit back until there is no longer
danger of frosts.
Boiled Onions.—Peel either out
of doors or near the stove, or hold
under water, cut half way through
the stem end, parboil, then boil in
milk aud water; when very soft,
drain, add a little cream, butter aud
salt.
STRAWBERRYSHORT CAKE.
For several years past I have
wished to give my method of making
strawberry short-cake to the Horae
Department of The Farmer, and each
year have forgotten if, until I was in
the act of making one myself, and
then of course it was too late to be
useful for that jear, and if sent then
it would probably fail to make an im
pression that would last until the fol
lowing strawberry season. This 1
trust will be just in time to catch the
attention to some practical purpose,
I hope the sickening mixtures of
sweet-cake and custards interspersed
with strawberries, and miscalled
“strawberry short cake,” will not
have brought the real article into so
great disfavor as to prevent at least
one trial of the simple directions
below :
Make a light rich short cake of al
most any kind. 1 prefer the soda
biscuit recipe with a little more
shortening added, ltoll the dough
rather tliiuer than for biscuits, and
shape it to fit your baking-pans.
Have ready a quantity of strawber
ries, the more the better; two quarts
will make it very good, with the
quautity of dough made from two
quarts of flour. Mash the straw ber
ries, make them quite sweet, (of
|course with white sugar;) add to this
i a pint of rich cream.
When the pans with short-cake
are taken from the oven thoroughly
done, split them open ; butter each
half liberally with yood butter) lay
one upon a large dish ; spread the,
mashed strawberries thickly over it;
lay the other half on the top of this,
buttered sides up of both. Again
spread thickly with the masked if.at.
You may, by having the baking pans
of uniform s;ze, make it with as many
layers as you like, i prefer only two
or three, as the pieces can thus be
kept in better shape when divided.
A little pure cream added after dish
ing out is an improvement, but not
at all necessary. Eat it while hot.—
Ceres, in Jut. Farmer.
Feeding Chickens.—For the first
few days of their existence young
chickens shoukLbe supplied with
bread crumbs. Alter that keep wheat
screenings scattered over the ground
where they ruu and they will thrive.
Haid grain appears to be the natural
food for fowls. Don’t, under any w
cum stances, feed corn meal it is heat
ing and not proper food for them ; it
is fat producing, while wheat, oats,
etc., make bone and muscle. The
best remedy for slight ailment, is a
pill made of moist bread and cayenne
pepper.
Soda .for Burns.—Ail kinds ol
burns, including scalds and sun
burns, are almost immediately re
lieved by the application of a solu
tion of soda to the burnt surface. It
must be remembered that dry soda
will not do unless it is surrounded
with a cloth moist enough to dissolve
it. This method of sprinkling it on
and coveriug it with a wet cloth is
often the very best. But it is suffi
cient to wash the wound repeatedly
with a strong solution.
acid stomach.—Acidity always
arises either from eating too much
food or of a - quantity of which the
stomach could not dissolve. The re
medy is, eat less aud less each meal
until there is no acidity, then you
know how much your stomach can
manage. To eat the same amount
aud as regularly take something to
correct the acidity, is certain to cause
dyspepsia or some other form of dis
ease.
Remedy foe the Potato Bug.—
A farmer who had ten years experi
ence in Colorado,claims to have found
a sure remedy for the potato-bug
scourge. His plan is simply to plant
oue or t wo flax-seed in each hill of po
tatoes. He says that the bugs will
shuu it every time ; and for ten years
he has thus been successful in raisiug
potatoes while others have failed.—
Troy Times.
We loosen a wet soil to facilitate
evaporation and roll or otherwise
compress a dry soil to retard it.—
When hoeing to destroy weeds be
careful to lighten up your own foot
steps or you will find the weeds
quickly germinate there. The soil
being compressed retards moisture
and facilitates germination.
To Prepare an Egg foe an In
valid.—Beat an egg until very light
add seasoning to the taste, then
steam uutd thoronghly warmed, hot
not powdered. This will ‘take about
two minutes. An egg prepar
this way will not distress even
sensitive stomachs.