IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
Volume XXXIII. SUFFOLK, VAl.. FRIDAY JULY 2, 1880.
Number 27,
WORK
Anywhere, everywhere, something to do I
Something for me, and something for you I
Work for the hand and work for the head,
Work for the winning of daily bread.
Never a day dawns but brings its own task ;
What only for you and for me is to ask ;
Some are chosen to sweep and others to spin,
Some to sow, some to reap, while some gather
8ome must build ships, and some guide the
helm;
Some fashion onr garments, and tome rule the
realm;
8ome must fell forests, some the broad field must
till,
Some paint and some carve, some grind at the
Some must buy and some sell, some traverse the
sea I
Some God’s preschers and judges and singers
must be;
Let each to his taskwork list for the call—
Christ worked, aad the Father works high over
Some work in the shadow and some in the sun
Some in jo. , some in pain, but the Master is
Calling all to their tasks, portioning each his re
As he ceaseB his toil at the word of his Lord.
Work while the day lasts, work with a will ;
Soon will the night come, when all w.U be stid;
Sweet will it be, at the set of the sun,
To hear from the Master the welcome, “wel
in.
mill;
HERE AND THERE.
—Due honor to the worthy dead u
o^e way of securing worthiness
amoC.g the living.
_If oco is far behind his work the
thing to do is uot to worry or to wait
longer, but cool? aud rfesolutely to
push ahead.
— We pity the people whose let in
life Is so unhappy that thej Have to
veuture on doubtful ground, of even
worse, in pursuit of pleasure.
—What if seme did not believe 1
Bball their unbelief make the faith ot
God without effect! Shall the (ail
ure of a part destroy the troth and
fidelity of the whole !
To be business-like is one thing; to
snake a bustle and stir is quite a dif
ferent thing. Work is valuable not
according to the number of motions
made, but according to the results
achieved.'
—There are many unhappy mar
riages, but on the whole, the stable,
substantial commonplace people, find
in wedlock a constaut comfort which
Bbows that sin has not wholly obliter
Author of human nature.!
—Two eminent and respectable
. lawyers recently lost temper, and fell
under the severe censure of the judge
- in court in Trov. N. Y. For a time u
personal encounter was imminent.
The scene was a disgrace to both par
ties. Like fire, a keen temper is “a
good servant, but a bad master.”
—A grandueice of President Tyler
recently died in New York in very
reduced circumstances. Oue of the
misfortunes of her couditiou was that
“she could do no work, had no
strength, aud knew nothing of man
ual labor.” But she seems to have
beeu worthy and true hearted. The
case is a lesson to paieuts, aud to all
charged with the rearing of the
young.
—The experience of public men
ought to demonstrate to beginners in
the race of file the value ot a good re
cord. An ill advised act, performed
lu a moment of haste or passion, is
almost sure afterward to come up as
a bar to progress at critical moments.
On the other hand, a record or steady,
safe, prudent, worthy conduct., is au
incalculable force iu one’s favor.
How 10 Move the World.—A
lesson, which, if well learned, would
be of vast benefit to mauy theoretical
* reformers of the present day, is
taught in this incident, which we
take from a work on the life and say
ings of Socrates:—
A Grecian youth, who saw the er.
rors and follies or the people, aud who
wished to reform the world, ouce ex
claimed:—
•■Ob, that I were rich and famous
as some orator, I would move the
world se soou. Gere are sins to be
plucked up and truths to be planted.
Oh, that I could do it all. I would
reform the whole world and that so
soon.”
Socrates, hearing the youth,said:—
“Young mau, thou speakest as silly
women. This gospel, in plain letters,
is writteu for alt. "Let him that would
move the world first move himself.’ It
asks ueitber wealth uor fame to live
out a uoble life. Make thy light tby
life; thy thought aetiou. Others
will come round, and follow iu thy
steps. Thou seekest riches to move
the world. Foolish young man, as
thou art, begin now. Reform thy lit
tle self, and thou hast beguu to re
form The world. Fear not, thy work
will never die.”
A CONSTANT SALVATION.
A clipper slrip crossing tbe Banks
of Newfoundland in heavy weather
strikes an iceberg. She settles rapid
ly at the bow, and her captain and
crew have barely time to leap into
the life boat. The question, “What
must we do to be saved t” is answer
ed by their prompt leap into the life
boat, which is an act of faith. They
trust their lives to it for salvation.
From immediate death they are sav
ed.
But after the ship has sunk tbe
crew are still out iu the deep aud
dangerous sea. There is a second
process necessary. Iu order to keep
out of the trough of the sea and to
reach the distant shore, they must
stick to the boat and pull lustily at
the oars. They must work out their
salvation” now by hard rowing. But
this is a contiuued process of salva
uou day after day until they reach
the shores of Nova Scotia. Never
fur a moment, however, are they in
dependent of the life boat That
must keep them afloat, or they go to
the bottom. At last after hard row
ing, they reach the welcome shore.
L’his is their third, Anal and complete
salvation; lor they me entirely be
youd any perils of the treacherous
sea. Now they are at lest, lor they
have reached the desired haven.
This homely parable will illustrate
w.tu millieieut ciearue.-s tire three
ways iu which the woid salvation is
employed ill God’s word and iu Itt.
niau experience. The first leap into
ihe lile boat illustiates that decisive
act of the soul in quitting all otbei
worthless leliunces aud tbiowing it
•eltou Christ Jesus, in simple, be
ueviug trust. Tilts is conversion,
iiy it the soul is ileliveied from I lie
juilt and coiuleuiiiatiou ol sin.
Hie Holy Spirit is active it: tins
step—cleansing anti reuewiug the
heart. By this act ol' surrender to
Christ the sinner escapes l'rotu death
into life. He may joyfully cry out,
“•By the grace of God I am saved !”
Yet this converted believer is no
more independent of Christ as a Sav
iourthau those sailors were of that
life-boat. For until he reaches the
consummate deliverance of Heaven
(v, hich is what the word “salvation”
signified *u Psalm xci, 16th verse) he
must be clinging to Christ Jesus eve
ry day. And it is this daily and
hourly salvation that we wish to em
phasize at present. Too many peo
ple limit the word to the initial step
of converting faith, and falsely con
clude that nothing more is to be
done. A certain school of rather uiys
tical Christians so magnify this act
of receiving the “gift of eternal
life” in Christ that they quite forget
the fact that a vast deal of head
winds, hard rowing, conflict with the
levil and remaining lusts must be
encountered.
There is a very important sense in
which every true servant of Christ is
ibliged to “work out his salvatiou”
jvery day of his life, if he lives a ceu
fury. It was not to impenitent sin
aers or to anxious inquirers that
Paul addressed the famous injuue
;iou: “Work out your own salvation
*ith fear aud trembling.” He was
addressing the blood-bought Church
rt Pbilippi.^And, if he were alive
to day, he might well riug these sol
jmn words into the ears of every
Christian in the land. For if our or
iginal deliverance from the coudern
nation ef siu aud desert of hell de
pended on our surrender to Christ.
*o our constant salvation from the
assaults of siu depends upon our eon
stunt cling to the Saviour and our
constant obedience to his command
ments. Faith without works is dead.
Brethren, we may he in the life-boat;
but the life-boat is not heaven. There
is many a hard tug at the oar, many
a uigbt of tempest, many a danger
from false lights, aud many a send
under bare poles (withpride’s “top
hamper” all gone), belore we reach
the shiniug shore. To the last mo
ment on earth our salvation depends
on complete submission £o Jesus.
Without Him, nothing; with Him,
all things.
Please bear in rniud that salvation
signifies simply the process of saviug.
Our Blessed Master means to save
us aud our lives for bimself, if we
will let Him do It aud will honestly
eo-operate with him. Yonder is an
acre of weeds, which its owner wish
93 to save from barreuness to fruit
fulness. So be subjugates it with
plow and harrow and all the proces
ses of cultivation. If the soil should
ary out against the plow share aud
the harrow aud the hoe, the farmer’s
answer would be: Oujy by snbmis
sion to this discipline can I rear the
goldeu crop which shall be to your
credit'and to me aglory. In. like
manner, by absolute submission to
Christ’s will, by constant obedience
to His pure commandment*, by the
readiness to be used by Him entirely
for His own purposes can yon or I be
saved to life’s highest end. The in
stant that I realize entirely that lam
Christ’s I must also realize that my
time must be saved from waste for
Him and my influence must be conse
crated to Him. All accumulation is
by wise saving. Sin means waste,
and ends in ruin and remorse. The
honest, devoted Christian is literally
“working out his salvation’^ when he
is daily striving to redeem his time,
aud employ his utmost capacity, and
use his every opportunity to make
his life.a beautiful offering aud pos
session for his Lord. If we were not
worth saving, out Lord would never
have tasted the bitter agonies of
uolgatha to redeem os1 If every
saved follower is by and by to he pre
sented by Christ- “faultless, with ex
ceediug joy,” then is a Christian life
a jewel worthy of His diadem. Ob,
my soul! let him work in me to will
and to do according to His good
pleasure, if I can bp made to yield
i his reveuue of honor to my beloved
Lord.
There is another sense in w hich
Christ furnishes os a constant sulva
tion. His presence saves me in the
hour of strong temptation. He keeps
me from ' falling in a thousand cases
where 1 do not dncctly recognize
Llis hand. When I wake up in the
morning, after a night ride in a Pull
man car, I do not know how many
human hands have been busy in or
■ ter unit l nn^nt rule saiely tlirougli !
tbe pitch darkness. And when 1 gel j
to heaven, perhaps 1 ma.v tiud out
how often Jesus interposed to save
me from threatened ruin and trom
unsuspected dangers. He was sav
ing me m a Lwiudred wa.vs that I did
not dream of. And the visible ae
kuowledged deliverances were all
due to him. bail} grace means a,
daily salvation. Paul lived thus in
constant dependence, realizing that
if Christ withdrew His arte he must
sink in an iustaut. Is'ot one moment
can I dispense with the life-boat un
fil my loot stands where “there is no
more sea/’
If these things be true, then we
ought to be ever praying : “0 Lord 1
what must I do now to be saved ! To
be saved from waste of time; to be
saved from dishonoring Thee ; to be
saved from secret sin ; and to be sav
ed up to tbe fullest, richest, holiest
service of Thyself f” He can help us
to accomplish all this, for His grace
can bring us a full salvation. When
we reach heaven we will no longer
need to be saved. The voyage will
be over, the dangers euded. The
multitudes who have been saved will
then walk in tbe light of the New
Jerusalem, and east their crowns at
the feet of Him who purchased for
ns so ineffably glorious and transcen
dent a salvation \—Theodore L. Cay
ter, 1>. D.
A sFftMON.
“For other foundations, can no man
lay than that is laid, Which is Jesus
Christ. 1 Cor. 3 : XI.
Upon this foundation, we as Chris
iiaus propose to staud, believe, obet\
and practi.ee, making Christ tbe head
ot the Church, and the only authori
zed law-giver.
Strife and divison cometh only of
those who are tleshly-rainded, who are
carnal and foolish ; hen e so many
different organizations and names ol
distinction amongst the people e lied
believei s.
This text is the language of Paul,
written to the church at Coriuth,
while at Philippi, by Stephanas, For
tuuatns, Achaicus and Timotheus.
There arose a dispute in that church
with regard to the ministers uuder
whose ministry they had been won to
Christ. One was for Paul and anoth
er for Apollos, aud so on. The news
of their division was born to Paul
aud it grieved him that such divisiou
should exist in the church, for it was
a very largo church, iu one of the
largest cities of Greece coutainiug
many thousands of iubabitants.
The object of the Apostle iu writing
the Epistle was to stop the further
spread oftbeir disseusions by explain
iug to them tbe cause that gave rise
to them, He tells them “they are
carnal,” “they are yet babes in
Christ,” “hitherto I have led you with
milk,” you are notable to bear strong
er food—you are yet carnal, “for
whereas there is among you envying,
aud strife, and divisions, are ye not
carnal and walk as men!”
All differences among believers
grow out of tbe same cause. Igno
rance aud carnality; and this is the
foundation of all creeds that are pro
scriptive in their operation. The ad
vocatcs of division and strife do not
understand the gospel; they may he
feeding off the mills,of the word, “but
the ‘ strong meats of the word they
cannot digest. They propose to lead
and say lo here, and lo there, bui
Christ says, “go not after them.” A1
strife that has ever marked the path
way of believers, has grown ont of r
fleshly mind. All divisions have beer
the prodnct of a foolish brain. Wt
are not able to govern our own house
hold right; and to assume to give
rules for the government of tin
church of God, and dictate faith foi
its members, is an insult to the di
viuity of Christ. There is no otliei
fonudation but Christ. Christ is not
to be found iu the stbrrny tumult*
and upheavals of denominational pro
scription, but in the hearts of true be
lievcrs.
Elisha said when the storm wa
raging and the mountain shaking, In
called for God and he was not there :
but when he did hear him, it was a
still small voice.
During all the centuries past, be
ginning with the first after Christ,
you find all the prominent leaders ol
of sects, men oflimited education, (01
nearly so) not capableoi comprehend
mg, iu what consists the strong meat*
of I he w ord. They blended with theii
creeds doctrines not sustained by the
gospel. They created laud-marks,
and built walls or partition between
them and others, which destroyed tin
fellowship of the sects to that degree
i hey organized separate communions
The Menupnites believed there was
no people among whom God was to
lie found but them—and therefore
were porscriptive and administered
the Sacrament to none but such a*
were found to belong to their church
The particular Baptists as they aig
cuiieu, are uu <>rt snoot ot tue uertuan
Mi-iiuoiiites, taking their rise about
the middle of the loth century—and
organized their Association about the
middle of I he Kith century—aud all
ate close coinuiuuionists, as were the
Menuonites from whom th y sprang,
and all of them rebaptize their prose
lytes.
There is no good historian that
does not know that the true Apostol
ie Church eanuot be traced, through
these centuries by all their church
creeds, lor they ate the works of am
bitious men, uuder whose leadership
the true principles of Christianity
eanuot be found, except in an isolated
condition. It is true that Waldo, ol
the 11th country, was a good man,
but whence came Waldo! His fol
lowers flourished for a time aud was
split up into factions, and so ot all
the rest that figured before and after
his day. As soon as the old leaders
passed away other ambitious men
took hold for themselves, found fault
with the doctrines aud substituted
new ones, each claiming apostolic
succession.
Taking the past as au example, all
the sects that are uow prominent will
sutler a like fate aud pass away. All
claim to be Christiaus, but each has
his prefix to distinguish him Irom
other believers, and each sits in judg
ment ou the other as to his ortho
doxy.
Mv object is to show that Jesus
Christ is the fouudatiou and his name
is the only uame uuder heaven
through whom men cau be saved, and
his church the only church that will
stand the test of ages—aud all that is
not of Christ will perish aud come to
naught, as the history of the past will
show aud has showu.
One w ill say, we are all Christians,
Well, lets, see. Christian Waideuses,
Christian Menuonites,Christian Hap
list, Christian Methodists, Christian
Pauls, Cbristiau Apolloses aud Chris
tian Stephauuses ; how will that do l
Paul did not like that and entered
his protest, aud called them all Chris
tiaus aL Antioch; he says you are
carnal. These men are God’s serv
auts. “Paul may plant, Apollos wa
ter, but God giveth the increase.”
Yon speak as meu and not as the or
acles of God.
There is no foundation but Christ
aud your divisions are carnal, fleshly
and foolish.
All that is not of Christ will perish
aud come to naught, as the history of
the past has showu ; yea, and all the
boasted sects of to day will as surely
fall, aud their history will be writteu
aud placed side by side with those
sects they have persecuted aud ad
horred. '
The success of no sect is evidence
of being the true church. Popular
delusions have the same effect as
though fouuded in fact, upou the
masses; but they are short lived aud
die almost without a struggle. What
is it for a sect to live two or three
hundred years, ft is ouly a question
of time as to its end. That that has not
the spirit of Christ in it can not en
dure. The spirit of Christ is not iu
division, it is not iu strife, it is not in
a fleshly mind, it is not in foolish
ness. How foolish it looks to set a
table and call it the Lord’s table, aud
turn two-thirds or three fourths o
his children out of doors without i
taste.
“The wisdom of this world is fool
ishness with God,” and the Apostle
felt so when onder the inspiration ol
God. He preached Jesus, the head ol
the church, and the foundation upon
which we should build, but if we
build, thereon, wood, hay, or stubble,
it should be burned up. We take it
lor granted, the sects having built
upon the sand, the storms of time are
doing their work of destruction and
will continue to do so nuti! the church
of Jesus Christ shall be established,
and the Kingdom of God established
in every heart. Amen.
Jubilee Smith.
Richland On.
WHAT I HAVE SEEN.
I have seen a young man sell a
good farm, turn merchant, and die in
an insane asylum.
1 have seen a farmer travel about
so much that there was nothing at
home worth looking at.
i have seen a man spend more men
ey in folly than would support his
family in comfort and independence.
1 have seen a young gill marry a
young man of dissolute habits, ami
repent of it as long as site lived.
1 have seen a man depart from
truth where camloiyand veracity
would have served 'him to a much
better purpose.
I have seen the extravagance and
Jolly of children hriug their parents
to poverty and want, and themselves
to disgrace.
I have seeu a prudent ami indus
trious wife retrieve the fortunes of a
family when tile husband puiied at
the other end,of the rope.
I have seen a young man who des
pised the couusels ol the wise, and
advice of the good, end his eateer in
poverty and wretchedness.
a. iiti v c occu a Huuiau, (nuicaoiu^
love Christ more than the world, clad
iu a silk dress costing $73, makiug up
and trimmings of the same, 840; bon’
not (or apology for one) £35, velvet
mantle, $150; diamond ring, $500,
watch, chair, pin and other trap
ptugs, $300, total $1,100—all hung
upon one frail, dying worm. I have
seen her at a meeting iu behalf of
homeless wauderers, wipe her eyes
upon an expensive embroidered
handkerchief at the story of their sul
eriugs,aud when the contribution box
came rouud, take from a well tilled
portemouaie of costly workmanship,
twenty-five cents to aid the society
formed to promote their welfare.
“Ah,’’ thought I, “dollars for ribbons
and peuuies for Christ.”
1 have seen a man who had long
been a communicant rush to his bus
iness after a basty swallowed break
fast, without a prayer in his family
for God’s blessings through the day,
spend hours iugjager pursuit of that
which perishes with the using, speak:
lug not a word save of stocks, of
bonds and mortages, and when busi
ness hours were over, return to his
home exhausted and petulant, to turn
away from a sad story of want and
suffering with, “I am tired, and can
not hear it 1” I have seen him sleep
away his evening without a pleasaut
word lor wife or children and to re
tire to rest with uo more apparent
thought of God, liis maker, than it
Ins meeting him at the great daj
were au idle tale. “Ah," though: 1, j
“days aud ,\ears for mammon, but
not a moment for Christ.”
AN Angel Standing By.—'Ve
have read of a certain youth in the
early days of Christianity—those pe
riods of nistorie suffering and heroic
patience aud legendary wonder to
which 1 call your attention—we read
of a Christiaii youth ou whom his
persecutors put in practice a more
than commou share of their ingenui
ty, that by liis tormeuts—let those
who cau or will go through the horri
ble details—they might compel him
to deny his Lord aud Saviour.
After a long eudurance of those
pains they released him, in womlfer at
his obstinacy. His Christian breth
ren are said to have wondered too,
and to have asked him by what migh
ty faith he could so strangely subdue
the violence of the tire, as that neith
er a cry nor a groan escaped him,
“It was indeed most painful,” wtis
the noble youth’s reply ; “but an an
gel stood by me when my anguish
was at the worst, aud with his finger
pointed to heaven.”
O thou, whoever thou art, that art
tempted to commit a sin; do thon
think on death, aud that thought will
he an angel to thee 1 The hope of
heaven will raise thy courage above
the fire-cast threatenings of the
world ; the fear af bell will rob its
persuasioos of all their enchantment
aud the very extremity of their trial
may itaell contribute to animate thy
exertions by the thought that the
greater will be thy reward hetdatWr,
fa ani
RUTA BA6AS IN THE GCP.NFIELO.
Southern farmers do not raise
; enough roots for tile benefit ot their
stock. This neglect of so important
■a provision is doubly inexcusable
when we come to consider the ease
aud very trifiing cost of som^of these
crops. A crop of ruta bagas, for in
stuace, may bp grown at absolutely
no cost, excepjdor seed, in the follow
ing way. Proenie the seed, and when
about to give tiie corn the last plow
ing, sow tne seed among the corn be
fore the plow, that the working
of the corn w ill ‘get the seed covered
They will come tip and grow off nice
!y, the slight sluice afforded by the
corn being favorable to the yonug
plants, and their presence among the
corn will in no wayj interfere with the
harvesting of that prop or detract in
the least from its yield. On the con
trary they will improve the land, and
as soon as the corn is removed h g-',
sheep and calves can he turned in to
feed on file tops and roots of die fur
nips, so that there need be no ox
| pease « hatever. either in cultivating
■or baivesting tbe hitler crop. No
crop could be raised ou a cheapei
plan, aud nothing is better to put the
; tings in good condition preparatory
; ‘o the fattening process, or ti! the
j sheep for winter. Of course other
: use could be made of the crop if he
j sired. On good hind several tones n!
loots may be counted oil as the pro
duct of an acre. Three to four pounds
of seed wii! sow an acre. — Rural Mes
senger.
WHAT ARE OiSliONS WORTH ?
Kot the price per bushel but their
value iu a family. They are
GOOD FOE THE CROUP.
Roasted onions saved a boy’s life,
who was dangerously sick with thal
fearfully dangerous and quick disease.
It was a long road to a doctor’s office;
so the mother was obliged to rely
upou heme remedies to save her
child. The ouions were thoroughly
roasted. A part made into a poultice
and laid upon his chest, and from the
remainder the j uice was extracted and
given him, which gave immediate re
lief and effected a cure.
GOOD FOE THE EAR-ACHE.
A gentleman was suffering most
intensely with earache. Curatives
of reputation failed. An onion poul
tice applied gave almost instant re
lief. They are good for colds, no j
matter whether roasted, boiled or
fried. They are valuable as an ap
petizer, briug sweet sleep and a per
fume unequalled in rank with any of j
the vegetable world. Give to the
poor abused onions a deep rieii cor
net iu your gardens.
KILL YOUR SHEEP WHILE YOUNG.
there are few animals kept on the
farm which, when they are in their
prime, pay as well as sheep and fliere
are very few, if any others, noon
which old age has such a damaging
effect. As sheep are much shorter
lived than ony o-her of our domestic
animals, it is not strange that many
farmers attempt to keep them too
long. At ten years of age the horse
isjuetiu his prime, and the Cow is
as good as ever, with the prospect of
remaining so several years longer.—
llut the sheep is very old wneu it I
reaches teu, the natural limit of the j
term of its life. After reaching this I
age sheep are very likely to be in
jured by the slight exposures which
do younger animals no harm. They '
are more liable to be attacked by
disease, and if they live they will be
likely to produce less wool aud sandi
er lambs than they have done pre
viously. We do not think it pays
except perhaps iu special instances,
to keep sheep after they are six years
old.
Lemon Ice.—One pint of rich lem
ouade with a little grated rind of
lemon iu it. It must^be very sweet
as it loses much in Treezing. Add
the whites of three eggs cut to a stiff
froth. Freeze like ice cream. The
juices of any fruit, with sugar and
water added, may be prepared iu the
same way.
Thumps in Hogs*— For this dis
ease, which is inflammation of the
lungs, or of the liuiug membrane of
the cavity of the chest and lungs,
nothing can be doue but to give good
nursing. Keep the patient warm,
give drinks of lukewarm gruel, ami
rub a paste of mustard aud water
upon the brisket and side of the
chest.
Subscribe for the Sun, $2 a year.
*
SELECTEDREClPES.
The white of one egg, beaten to n
froth with a little butter, is a good
substitute for cream in coffee.
I
Burns.—An application of oold,
wet common whitening, placed on
immediately, is an invaluable reme
dy.
Bran of middlings mixed with
whey and fed to pigs keeps them in
excellent health, and if mixed with a
little barley meal makes the sweetest
and best of pork.
Sunflowers are recommended for
bean poles, planting them at a suita
ble distance in the garden and plant
ing the beans around them when
three or four inches high.
A Gardner recommends that to
keep bugs off melon and squash vines
i tomato plant be set in each hill,
saying thiuf when be bad followed
this plan bis young plants were not
molested.
Paint the inside wall of a corn
'muse wnii coal tar and it will drira
weevils from the corn. It costs but a
t-\r dollars a barrel and a barrel will
'ast several y ears in heu bouses aud
| corn bouses.
To. prevent flies from injuring pic
ture frames, glasses, etc., boil three
or four onions in a pint of water ;
then with a gilding brush do over
our glasses aud frames, and the flies
will not alight on the article so wash
ed. Ihii^pay be used without ap
prehension, as it will not do the least
injury to the frames.
Currant Jelly.—The currant*
should he picked first week of ripen
ing; oiusii, heat gently bulfau hour,
strain, boil aud skim the juice; then
measure. To one pint juice add one
pound, or, three-fourths pound of su
gar; heat together for ten minutes,
try in a saucer; if not done, boil a
little more; pour into the glasses
while hot.
Blackberry jam or jelly is an ex
cellent medicine iu summer com
plaints or dysentery. To make it,
crush a quart of fully ripe blackber
ries with a pound of the best loal su
gar, put it over a gentle fire, and cook
it until thick; stir it awhile over the
fire, then put it in pots.
Ice Cream.—To make the best ice
cream, says the Scientific American,it
is nesseary that the cream should be
of the best quality ; and the utensils
m which it is made must be absolnte
ly clean. With every quart of cream
mix six ounces best pulverized white
sugar, a very little vanilla bean, and
the white of one egg. The latter im
parts a smoothness and delicacy to
the cream that cannot otherwise be
obtained. The prepared mixtqre is
then to be stirred in the freezer nntil
it is entirely congealed. Those whe
desire first rate ices or cream shonld
follow these directions carefully, and
avoid the use of corn-starch or other
thickeners. Instead of vanilla as a
flavor for the cream, a trilling amount
of any desired flavoring syrup or
jui e may be used, as strawberry,
pineapple, orauge, lemon, etc.
Fairs.—Tbe Southwest Virginia
Agricultural Association, Wythevillo,
will bold tbeir twelfth annual exhibi
tion ou the 6ib, 7th aud 8th of Octo
ber.
The Abiugdon fair will come off
September 29th aud 30th and Octo
ber 1.
The Lynchburg Agricultural and
Mechanical Society has decided to
hold tbeir next fair on tbel9th, 20th,
21st aud 22d of October.
Tbe Border fair will hold its an
nual exhibition September 22d, 23d
aud 24th.
The Piedmont Society have chang
ed the date of their fair, so as not to
conflict with that of the Lyuchbnrg
Agricultural and Mechanical. It will
begin at Culpeper ou October 12.
To Cure Colic in Horses.—
Take a piece of carpet, blanket or
any thick material, large enough te
cover the horse from his fore to his
hind legs, and from the spine to the
floor as he lies; wring it ont of hoi
water as hot as you can possibly han
dle it. You need not fear scalding
the animal. Apply this to the horse
and cover it with a similarly dry
cloth. As soon as the heat diminish
es much dip the wet cloth again in
hot water. This plan will within an
hour cure the worst case of colic.
Mixed husbandry is the most prof
itable, provided one knows how to
mix it, but unless there is judgment,
experience, and skill in the mixture
it will not combine to profit; bat, as
chemists say, it will “precipitate.”—
Then stand from under.