X
THE CHRISTIAN SUN.
i.
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY;
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
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Volume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, YA.,; FRIDAY MANY 21, 1880.
Number 21.
ON THE DEATH OF REV. S. I. ELLIS.
HY A FRIEND.
I kuow he has gone to the land of the blessed, ,
And we should not weep and be sad.
I know he hus gone where the weary do rest,
And the mourner looks up-and is glad.
He has gone to the laud whie Patriarchs dwell
Where the ransomed in pafadiBe sing;
Where the prophets of old, spd apostles do tell
The love of our Saviour aid King.
lie s gone where the tonguej of foul scandal is
still
F^om troubling; the wicked do cease :
Where blood, war and earn ate no longer doth
chill
The hearts of the children of peace.
He has gone ; his voice uow Pilate* us no more;
He meets not his brethren below—
His labors are ended on thisFinful shore,
The fruit ot his labor dothiknow.
He has gone buthispreachinginstructeth us still;
Those warnings yet sound jin our ears.
Oh 1 who can withstand thol* touching appeals,
And sink in the night of despair !
He’s gone, but we weep not ah those without
hope,
And we pray that his ,;maft!e*r may fall
Like thaj on Elisha; as Elijiii went up
Inspiring some voting man With zeal.
He has go«H*, and we bid our loved brother fare
well,
, Tn love nod friendship this tribute is given.
We hope in that t'egion of pleasure to dwell,
And meet utl the faithful in heaven.
election^.
HERE AND THERE.
—As sins proceed they ever multi
ply. Like figures iu arithmetic, the
last stands for more than all that
went before it.
—The Sunday is the core of our
civilization, dedicated to thought and
reverence. It invites to the noblest
solitude and to the noblest society.
—No mau can lift himself above the
world unless he takes hold of some
thing higher than the world ; he can
not lift himself out of himself unless
he grasps something higher than
himself. ,
—Would you have the peace which
Jesus gives! You will find it just
where you find him, in that child-like
spirit of faith that takes him, as your
Saviour from sin ; and then seeks to
live his life over again.
—When Christ implants the well
of living water in a man’s heart, it
-■will have not merely a refreshing in
fluence, but a cleansing and purifying
effect. If there be none of tbe latter
the absence of the living water may
well be argued.
—Do you wish to live without a
trial I Then you wish to die but half
a mau—at the best but half a man,
Without trial you cannot guess at
your own strength. Men do not
learn to swim on a table. Tbey must
go into deep watOc and buffet the
surges.
—If you long to bring forth all the
fruit oltthe Spirit, strike your roots
deep and wide in private prayer.—
That fai^h and support, that strength
and grace which you seek of God in
secret, that they may be exercised in
the hour of need, God will in that
hour give you before men.
“Did it ever strike you,” said one,
“what grand men we ought to be,
who have been praying so many,
years t If prayer to 11s has been a re
ality, if beside being petition it has
been communiou with God, how near
Him we ought to be by this time,and
how like him we ought to have be
come. Communion with Christ
should make us Christlike.”
—To consolidate and methodize,
and complete what has been most
successfully begun in former years—
to turn theory into practice—to at
tack with vigor the great task of life
—to cast ont old evils, and by grace
-to exhibit a holy character, these are
the duties of him who is growing old.
The whole prospect is deeply serious,
though it need not be alarming.
—To blaspheme against the Holy
Spirit is not to utter mere ribald
words of profane import. It is to
outrage the Spirit by refusing it ad
mission. It is to turn away God
from the heart’s doors with contume
lious rejection of his loving and sav
ing approach. To be accepted is al
God really asks from his children
their childish, ignorant, and perverse
denials aud aspersions'of bis majesty,
with all other wickedness, he can for
give, for his accepted presence will
purge all away ; but He cannot bless
with forgiveness the soul which per
sists in an attitude of hostile aliena
tion, for he cannot reach it with his
healing, reconciling influences, wheth
er in this world or another*?
SIX ONE THINGS.
A Sermon by Eev. D. L. Moody,
PREACHED AT ST. LOUIS, FEBRUA
RY 22D.
I. One tiling thou Iackest.—II.
One thing I know.—III. One thing
is needful.— IV. One is jour Mas
ter.—V. One tiling I do.—YI.—
Not one thing hath failed.
We have for our subject this after
noon sis one things that it is very
essential that every child of God
should have.
I. Ibe first is in the eighteenth
chapter of (he gospel according to
Luke, and the 'twenty-second verse :
“ONE THING THOU LACKEST.”
This young nobleman that came to
Christ to inquire what he should do
that he might inherit eternal life, was
a lovely character. It is written that
the Saviour Himself loved him. But
he lacked one thing ; he lacked salva
tion ; he lacked eternal life.
It is very often said iu our meet
ings by those coming to present their
friends and relatives for prayers:
“He is such a noble husband; he is
such a noble father; ho is such a no
ble young mail. He only tacks one
1 hing. Well, if he lacks that, it seems
to me he lacks everything.
All that a dc rd man lacks is one thing,
| and that is life. He would be alive
and walking around if It were not for
I that one thing. All that a drunkard
lacks from oeing a temperate man is
just to give up his cups, but then it. is
j a fearful thing to be lacking that one
! thing, and it mars his whom life. All
that, a beggar lacks is one thing, and
if he had wealth he would be a rich
man, be would nut be a beggar.
A loan may be a wealthy mail, he
may bo an honorable citizen, he may
be a cultured man, he may be a good
husband, a kind, gentle, loving son
and ail that, and yet it be lacks eter
ual life it wouid be better that he had
never been born than to die without
salvation.
Now let the question come home to
day, do we lack that one thing—do
we lack it T
II. Now, the next one thing that I
want to call your attention to, is that
one thing that the blind maa knew,
iu the ninth chapter of John:
Whereas I was blind, now I see.” He
says.
“ONE THING I KNOW.”
What was it T It was that
“I was once blind and now I see.”
He knew what lie had got; he knew
his eyes were opened. There is as
snrauce for yon.
This mail had an experience. Ho
had something to tell. “He answer
ed and said, ‘a man that is called Je
sus made clay, and anointed mine
eyes, audsaid unto me, go to the pool
of Siloam, and wash ; and I went and
washed, and I received sight.’” He
just told the simple story.
You need not tell any more, just
your experience. That is all the
blind man did and be had a good tes
timony.
“Then said they unto Him, Whore
is He ? He said, I know not.”
He didn’t tell what he didn’t know
He just told what lie did. Said be,
“I don’t know where He is.”
Now, I am afraid if he had been
like some of us, be would have said ;
“Now there is going to be trouble,
and I will keep still and have noth
ing to say. I have got my sight and
that is enough. I will go off home
aud.miud my owu business.”
See what he says : “They say unto
the bliud man again, what sayest
thou of Him 1” He might have said,
“I haven’t seen Him. I don’t know.'
All I know is that He just put clay
on my eyes and sent me to the pool
of Siloam to wash, aud I got my sight
1 don’t know ; I haven’t made up uij
mind yet.” He might have evaded
the question. He might have dodg
ed it. But he had took much cour
age, for this man had got a blessing
and be wasn’t going to conceal the
truth. He just spoke out what his
opiniou was, “He is a prophet.”
But they said unto him, “Give God
the praise; we know that this man is
a sinner.”
tney are going now to get bun to
testify against Christ.
"He answered and said, Whether
Ho be a sinner or no, 1 know not;
one thing I know, tifat, whereas I
was blind, now I see."
And all the philosophers of that
day couldn’t beat him out of that.
All the arguments they could bring
forward, couldn’t make him .believe
he hadn’t got his eyes open./
And when men try to tef^ ns that
we haven’t been converted, that we
haven’t a different experience from
what we had before we found Christ,
we cauuot help but laugh them right
in the face. Don’t we kuow t Didn’t
that man know that he had been feel
ing his way around Jerusalem, that
he was bliud, and was trying to feel
his way for twenty odd years, and
now he had his eyes open and walked
right straight through the streets of
Jerusalem without any one’s aid, any
one’s helpT
And so yon can call that assurance.
That man was sure that ho had got
his sight. And so we can be sure
that we have got the eyes of our soul
open, if we will. It is the privilege
of each child of God to know that h^
has been born iuto the kingdom of
ligh t.
III. Well, the next one thing that
is needful, is communion. The first
thing is to be born of God ; the next
thing is to know- it, and the third
thing is to just be brought iu com
munion with Him. Let me read :
Jesus answered and said to Mar
tha, “Martha, thou art careful and
troubled a-bout many things; but
ONE THING IS NEEDFUL;
and Mary hath chosen the good part
which shall not be taken from her.”
Mary has chosen that better part.
There was that one thing needful for
Mary. It was to sit at the feet of Je
sus aud to listen to him. Martha
was busy doing something for Christ;
hut Mary was sitring at His feel
learning aud receiving something
from Him. Now, there is not a thing
that 1 can do to please the Master so
much as to sit down and let Him talk
wilh me. a
There is nothing that will glorify
Him as much as to he in communion
with Him at least one hour a day ;
and I don't believe any man or wo
lmiu can be a healthy , growing Chris
tian that dues not have secret com
iuuuiou , With the Lord anu .Master.
That is God’s college. You may go
to all llie colleges in America; you
may go to all tin theological semiua
t ies, and still not learn this lesson :
and I believe that is one reason win
so many men stop in God’s work—
they don’t go through God’s colleges;
that is, they do not sit at Christ’s feet
aud learn ot Him, who is meek and
lowly of heart. Now, one drop of
God’s power is worth more than all
the power there is iu the world. It
it not intellectual power; it is not the
power of art or of culture that the
Churches ueed so much to-day as it
is the power of the Holy Ghost. That
is what we want. We want the Ho
ly Ghost power coming down upon
the Church. We can’t get that com
munion if we dou’t commune with
Jesus Christ; if we dou’t sit at his
feet and learn of Him as Mary did
aud let Him talk to our souls. We
can't get that power in the colleges
aud schools. We can ouly get that
iu God’s college.
IV. ONE IS YOUR MASTER.
That is the next thing. Now, we
have been brought through fellow
ship and through communion to sit at
Christ’s feet, aud if this idea that He
is our Master has taken lufl posses
sion of ns, then we shall live to please
Him aud uot to please the public.
One is your Master. Is it the Lord
or yourself! Is it God or is it pleas
ure ! Is it God or is it business ! Is
it the God of heaven or the God of
wealth! Now, what is it ! We have
only ono master. Now, a great many
people bow down to the god of fashion',
that is their god ; they worship fash
ion ; fashion is their master. Others
bow down to public opinion. “What
will they say at the club-houses!
What will they say in society ! What
will they say iu the circles of busi
ness, if I come out and identify my
self with the soil ot God aud'witb the
believers! What will they say!”
Nevermind what they say. If you
are to be a child of God you are to
tramplo public opinion under your
feet. Take care of your character;
your reputation will take care of it
self. Live for another world, uot for
this. You can’t live for both worlds
at the same time; aud if you want to
he an out and out Christian aud fit to
be used by God, keep your eye sin
gle ; let it be for the glory of God,
not for your own glory.
V. Well, the next one thing is,
“uow. .
ONE THING I DO,”
and I would like to give you right
here two C’s—uousecratiou and con
centration. I think that we Ameri
cans need to be preached to on this
very point—or these two points—
consecration and concentration—
There are so many professed Chris
tians who are attempting to do so
much ; they literally do nothing. If
they only concentrate their lives up
on some oue point, and direct all
their energies and strength right to
that point—just centralize their lives
upon some oue thing to do, aud thor
oughly do it, do it well—their lives
will tell, and wheu they are dead and
gone they will be missed.
if I am a Sunday-school teacher,
let me take a class and hold it. If 1
happen to be called out of town on
business, let me write letters to those
children; let me follow them np ; aud
if they leave this city and go to an
other city, let me follow them with
letters, feeling that I must answer to
God for that class; that I took that
class to train them for God and eter
nity ; that 1 am to do it thoroughly
aud well. Then God will bless such
labor, if you just keep it up and doit
heartily for him. “This one thing I
do.”
The afflictions, the troubles and the
perils that we encounter in this wil
derness of life ought, to lift us higher
and nearer to Christ, and not drive
us away from Him. If we keep our
eyes single on this one thing; ‘if we
keep our eyes on Christ, looking to
Him, Working for him, we shall not
be disappointed or discouraged.
VJ. Then the last one tliiug, is
over there iu the last chapter of the
Book of Joshua : Not one thing hath
failed of all the good things which
the Lord thy God spake concerning
you.”
NOT ONE THING HATH FAILED.
This old man was going to his rest
now, in the meadows of Hermon. His
locks had turned gray. Foroue hun
dred and ten years he had tried the
God of the Hebrews, aud had ioiiud
Him true.
Where has &od ever broken one
promise Ho has made! Man has
broken his word. God has never
broken His word These promises
are true, my friends, aud whenever
you come to the promises y ou may
know that they are going to be fulfill
ed. “Heaven and earth may pass
away ; but God’s word shall not pass
away ; not one jot, not one title offlis
word shall tail.
1 G<ni's promises are not doted, aud
j because l don’t get my prayers ans
j wered just the day that [ want them
1 and just the way I want them, it is no
sign that God is not going to answer
my prayers. Ho will do it iu His
owu time, aud all true prayer is aus
wered, because we finish by saying,
“Not my will but Thiue be done.”
So we must not doubt God’s word.
God’s word is true, aud all the prom
ises He has made are yea aud ameu,
and He will fulfill every word. Aud
what we waut is just to trust Him.
Some oue has said there is not a sor
row without a comfort; there is not a
desert without a fountain ; there is
not a night without a morning; aud
there is not a ripple or sorrow that
shall cross our path, but there is com
fort in Christ if we will go to Him for
it. lie has promised to bind up bro
ken hearts, and He has promised to
comfort those who mourn, and let us
take Him at His word aud believe
what He lias promised.—Ex.
TROPHIES OF SONG.
Directly after the visit of Mr.
Mostly and Mr. Saukey to Scotland, a
little boy passed along the streets of
Glasgow iu the evening singing,
'‘There is a fountain filled with blood.”
A Christian policeman joined iu the
song. At the end of the policeman’s
beat, ho asked the boy if he under
stood what he was singiug.
“Oh, yes,” said the little fellow, “I
know it in my heart and it is very
precious.”
A few evenings afterward some one
in conversation with the policeman,
said:
“Do you know that a woman stand
ing where we are was awakened aud
saved by hearing the other night a
by mu sung by a policeman aud a boy!”
‘‘E’er since by faith I saw the stream,
Thy flowing wouuds supply,
Redeeming love has been ray theme,
Aud shall be till 1 die.
“Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save,
When t^iis poor, lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave."
Id a religious awakening a pastor
invited a meeting of the young peo
ple of the congregation in the parsou
age. The room was thronged with
anxious inquirers. During the open
ing he observed a young lady deeply
aifected. She was one of the most
estimable young ladies of his congre
gation, one whose amenity ot manner
and purity of life might have been
copied to advantage by mauy of the
members of the church. Calling her
by name, he inquired, “What has
brought you here f”
“My sins,”was her deep and earnest
response.
“But,” said he, wishing to test the
soundness of her convictions, “what
have you done that you should feel so
deeply !”
“O sir,” said she, “I hate God aud
1 know it.”
Perhaps never before that hour bad
she comprehended how deep und fear
ful is the enmity of the carnal mind
to God.
“I hate God, and I know it; I have
a heart opposed to all good; I hate
my own life, and now see how empty
and worthless—nay, how insulting to
God—have been all my good deeds,
with which I sought to merit his fa
vor ! Oh, how ntterly wretched and
lost in my soul
She arose and went into an adjoin
ing room. There she paced the floor
to and fro in an agony ol sonl border
ing upon despair.
“What mockery I” she exclaimed.
“How I have deceived and rained my
soul I My condemnation is just.—
But O, my God, where shall deliver
ance be found t”
Just then she took a hymn-book,
and her eye lit upon this stanza :
“There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins:
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains."
In oue moment she was enabled, by
faith, to plunge beneath that flood
Quicker thau thought light broke in
upon her soul; i he Divine Spirit tilled
her with his presence; and she burst
forth into an exultant song—
“My God is reconciled,
His pard'fting voice I hear ;
lie owns me for his child,
I can no longer fear."
PRESUMPTION,
13o you hear that torrent of oaths f
It is the creature belching out arrant
blasphemy against the Creator. One
clear thought reminds him that life,
and all else that he prizes, comes
ti'om the hand of the Infinite; and
yet with a defiant spirit he repeats
that very common and yet most aw
ful expression, “God damn my soul.”
This fearfully wicked sentence we
hear almost daily from the lips of
men who would accept it as an indig
nity if they were reminded of the fact
that the expression exhibits a degree
of ignorance and depravity which is
well nigh hopeless. What! A man
of sense (?) invoke such a curse 1 A
man not totally depraved be guilty of
such a seuseless petition 1 The exer
cise of a very little sense, with grace
sufficient to simply realize our depen
dcnce, would lead to deep and earnest
coutrition for such arrant and wick
ed presumption.
, l»o you observe that mau seeking
to hide his dishonesty 1 He looks to
the right and to'the left, but alas for
his hiding-place, he neglects to turn
his eyes upward! He thiuks to se
crete his thoughts, purposes,-- and
plans, but seemingly entirely forgets
that all all this inwardness is a per
fect transparency iu the eyes of the
All seeing. Either because of shame
ful ignorance or wicked presumption,
he seems to be wholly oblivious to
the accepted fact that “there is noth
ing hid which shall not be revealed.”
On the Sabbath morning the min
ister comes from his closet of earnest
seeking with his soul all aglow with
his heavenly message. With a Di
vine energy he urges the claims of
the gospel upon those who are shut
up to sin, and hence, of necessity,
shut out from God. But because of
some strange and unaccountable iu
fatuation they hear the message oT
mere* and voice of pardon with crim
inal indifference! Or utmost they
will say: “At a more convenient
season 1” Presuming upon the mercy
of the heavenly Benefactor, they say :
“To morrow will be as to-day—and
to-morrow I will seek to bring myself
into harmony with God.” Some one
has cited the case of “a young man
who had inherited an estate from an
uucle, and was exhorted to seek
Christ, but replied, lI will do so as
soon as I have paid off the debts that
encumber the estate,’ The pastor
said, ‘Young man, beware ! You may
never see that day ; while you are
gaining the world you may lose your
soul.’ The young man said, ‘I’ll run
the risk.’ He went into the woods
and was engaged felling a tree, when
a falling limb caused his instant
death, within a few hours of his bold
presumption.” The euignia of enig
mas is that helpless and dependent
man should be so criminally guilty of
this very eommou and yet most des
tructive sin of presuming upon the
forbearance of the Ever-present.
PREACH CHRIST.
A belligerent and critical ministry
is usually without fruit, because it at
tempts to destroy the weeds without
stocking th4 grouud with good seed.
The weeds are sure to spring up again
in the vaciut field. The positive
preacher has no such trouble. Every
available place being covered with
wheat, there is nockauce for the tares.
Filling the mind with the truths of
Christianity, evil influences are help
in check, and the virtues of the Gos
pel come to maturity. The Master
did not send you so much to fight the
devil out oi the world as to introduce
the Gospel into k. Bring in the full
ness of evaugelio truth and spiritual
influence, and the enemy will have
no occupation. It is not enough that
men get rid on Satan ; they need
Christ! To be Vemptied of evil will
avail nothiug without being filled
with good. Fill the minds of the
people with vitaland saving truths
of the Christian sjstein, and they will
prove an impervlus shield agaiust
the attacks of thekrch deceiver and
enemy ot mankind! Satan may come
but he will find nlthing in them as
he found nothing it the Master.—Zi
on' t Herald.
THE PEANUT CROP.
FOE BEGINNERS.
In Southeast Virginia, from the
10th to the 20th of May is regarded
by experienced growers as the best
time for planting the main bulk of the
peanut crop. Some plant a week or
ten days earlier, a few even the last
of April, but more is frequently lost
than gained by such early seeding.
Much of the crop is planted even as
late as the 10th of June, and the sue
cess of a Mr. Cockes, of Isle of Wight
county, who last year planted a crop
of peanuts after a crop of Irish pota
toes, and who made upwards of 150
bushels to the acre of solid peas, de
monstrates that the crop may be
planted any time in June with good
result, other things favorable.
Choose a piece Of gray or chocolate
sandy soil that is never too wet to
plow within twenty-four hours after a
big rain—such soil a3 will not adhere
to the peanuts or color them. Plow
this land—not deep necessarily—and
put it in ns fine friable condition as
harrow will make it. Lay off rows
any distance apart between three and
four feet. If the laud needs lime ap
ply from 500 to 000 pounds of Lee’s
prepared lime to the acre in the drill
and it not, use fertilizer—the phos
phates suits best—200 to 300 pounds,
according to tbe character of the soil
and then with a small turn plow lap i
two furrows over the drill, to form a
ridge for the peas. Just as you are I
ready to plant [having the peanuts I
previously shelled and all small and j
shriveled ones rejected] these ridges
are to be made flat and knocked dow n
to a surface but little above the gen
eral level. This is readily and neatly
done with a pole eight to ten feet
long and about six inches in diameter
to which shafts are attached, and
whieh is drawn by a horse that walks
up and down the rows. The marker
or'dotter is theu run along the beds,
making indentations from one and a
half to two inches deep, and the
plauters follow immediately,dropping
one pea in each place, and coveriug it
carefully with the foot. Instead of the
marker the planter may make a de.
pression with the heel into which to
drop the pea, but this way is not to
be commended, as there is liability of
getting the seed plautedtoo deep and
also very irregular as to distance
apart. The marker can be readily
made and will last a life time. It is
merely a wooden wheel 1C or 18 inch-:
es in diameter, to whieh haudles are ;
attached for pushing it along, and j
which pegs has been set into thecir- ]
cumference at tbe distance apart you
desire to plant the- pgas, which may
be anywhere from 14 to 20 inches.—
One hand carries this along the row
as fast as he can walk, and the plan- ]
ters follow to drop and covet,or mere
ly to drop the seed. Some plant two
seed in a place, but in onr judgment
it does not pay. The seed are readily
covered by sliding a weeding hoe over
the rows. After a little practice it is
easy to give just enough pressure to
setthesoil about the seed without
disturbing it from its place. It is i
better that the seed lie planted in soil!
just moved before it has time to dry.
A gentle rain just after planting is |
beneficial, but a hard rain injurious |
and somatimes disasterous. The j
young germ is very sensitive to cold j
and much water, and considerable:
pains is needed to get tbe crop plant- j
ed just at the right time and iu the!
right way.—Rural Messenger.
A person who throws away a bar-,
rel of soft soap, or a box full of hard ;
soap,would be called wasteful, as such j
material will operate like anexceUAt
fertilizer when spread around fruit
trees or any sort ef berry bushes.—
After a barrel of soft soap has been j
diluted and has passed through the i
wash tub, the elements of fertility- iu
the mass will be even more valuable
to growing trees and plants than if
applied iu any other way.
Virginia Biscuit.—Oue quart
flour, one balf teaspoonful salt, one
quarter pound butter; mix the flour
and butter with the hand, together,
and moisten with water; roll it out
very thiu three times, and heat with
the rolling-pin each time ; roll as thin
as a sheet of paper; cut with a saucer
and bake iu sheets. They are par
ticularly nice l'or lunch.
Boast meats should not be put iu
the pan with water. The water should
be placed iu the bottom of the pau;
the meat on a rack above >t.
Give your children something to
read.
COTTON CULTURE.
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The great desideratum with the
cotton planter is to obtain the longest
possible period for his harvest sea
son ; consequently, during the fore
f&rt of the summer his policy should
be to push the crop, and obtain open
bolls as early as they can possibly be
produced.
Fifteen days after planting, a light
plow should be run close to the line
of plants, cutting away the weeds and
gr. ss and stirring the soil to a mode
rate depth.
Jioes siioiiid follow immediately
after the plow, smoothing the ine
qualities produced by the plow, and
chopping out the plants,leaving them
in small groups at points where the
afterwards chosen stalks will be re
quired to glow.
The crop should receive its final
tbiuuing in about two weeks of the
chopping out. At this time the sec
ond cultivation should be made, and
this should be the most thorough cul
tivation of any. The surplus plants
should be pulled out by the hand and
with great care not to displace the
routs of the plants allowed to remain.
A little fresh dirt should be drawn
around the roots of the plants left for
a stand, and the entire bed, as well as
the middles between, should be made
perfectly clean.
The middles may be scraped over
by a sweep, but the smoothing up
and most of the performance must be
wrought with the hoe. Oil good soil
and with a favorable season the
growth wiil be rapid after this going
over, and the subsequent cultivation
tliny be effected mainly with the plow.
Plow deep when beddiug up in tj,e
spring. At any other
plowing breaks
the plants and
growth. Auythi
growth curtails
and hence should
Jfot a few
gains but little
after the crop
but my
taught me to
ground is stirred
more rapidly will
the heat of
upon the roots
more rapidly
want for the
cau be laid down
times the
er, as the
the character of
condition of the s
iu the cottou field
that the force may pass over the crop
as rapidly as possible. Cottou is de
cidedly a modest plant and will not
struggle with weeds aud grass fsr a
divisiou of the fertilizing properties
of the soil. It will not grow unless
kept perfectly clean, and the full en
ergy of the soil kept eouceutrated up
on it.—Mobile Register.
roots of
their
retards
season,
ly avoided,
hat cottou
the plow
its growth
rvatiou lias
t the more
iri'aee, the
letrated by
beat acting
U tue -v^v*
what we
No rule
number of
orked ov
vary with
n and the
novemeuts
be brisk,so
Without a free use of whitewash
no poultry-breeder can expect to keep
bis fowls healthy for auy length of
time ; and to a neglect of this can be
attributed many of the the disappoint
ments aud much of the loss expe
rienced by amateurs, who do not real
ize, until they have paid dearly for
the experience, that cleanliness is one
of the first principles of success in
poultry-keeping, aud that lime iu dif
ferent forms is an invaluable agent in
promoting cleanliness iu poultry-hous
es and among fowls. .
Food and Drink for the Sick.
—Be careful to have everything yon
use very sweet aud clean, as the
seuse of taste and smell are very sen
sitive iu sickness. Never cook ar
ticles for the sick over a smeke or
blaze, as it will thus impart a smoky
taste. When the mixture is thick,
stir it to prevent burning. Be very
careful in putting iu the seasouiug
not to pnt iu too much, as it is easy,
to add but uot to subtract.
Wafers.—One pound of sift
flonr, two tablespoonfuls of butte
little salt, enough milk to make,
dough ; rub the butter with the1
ed flour; wet with milk; roil “
cut into small round cakes, ^
those again into cakes as laidura
tea plate and as thin as stoaf sec"
paper. Lift carefully to a
pan and bake quickly.
well.
U from
- • • 1 "'«iock of
Delicate Caxe.-Ts
pound of bntter, one ponntLKV.
one pound of flour, half a p-'
milk or water, four egga.<; n !_
butter^and sugar to a t
add tlie beaten eggs, the
or water, mix thoroughlKICE.
the butter into your pan,
gar over the top aud bs _
ately in a moderate oven.'i .
_ M 9 "3 of medi
.s addre?i
Pineapple MarmajMark*
and grate; take equal #my7~n
and fruit, cook slowly m priming
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