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THE CHRISTIAN SUN.
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY;
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
Volume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, VA., FRIDAY JULY 80, 1880.
TSTumber 30.
ROCK OF AGES.
"Rock of Ages, clelt for lue,”
Thoughtlessly the maiden sung,
Fell the words unconsciously
From her girlish, guileless tongue,
Sang as little children sing j
Sang as ling the birds lu June;
Fell the words like light leaves down
Un the ct rrent of the tune—
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Lot me hide myself In thee."
Felt her soul no need to bide;
Sweet the song as song could be,
Add she had no thought beside.
All Che words uuheedlugly
Fell from lip.'untouched by care,
Dreaming not they each might be
On some other lips a prayer—
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.”
"Roek of Ages, cleft for me,”
’Twas a woman sung them now,
Sang them slow and wearily—
Wan band on her aching brow,
Rose the song as storm-tossed bird
Beats with'weary wing the air;
Every note with sorrow stirred,
Every syllable a prayer—
"Rock ot Ages, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself iu thee.”
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,”
Lips grown aged sung the hymn,
Trustingly and teuderly ;
Voice grown weak and eyes grown dim—
"Lei die hide myself in thee."
Trembli.’ig though the voice and low,
Ran llieeweel .'train peacefully
1 Like a river in its flow.
Sung as only they cad sing
.Who behold the promised rest—
"Rock of Ages, clelt for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.”
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,"
Sung above a coffin lid ;
Under,.eatn all rcbtfully,
AH life's joy and sonow hid.
Never more, O storm-tossed soul,
Never more from wind aud tide,
Never more from billows’ roll
Will thou ever need to hide.
Cculd the sighilrss, sunken eyes,
Closed beneath the soft white hair ;
Could the mule and stiffened lips
Dove again in pleading prayer,
Still, aye still, the words would be
' Lat me bide myself in thee."
—LitlelVs Living Age.
^ election^.
HERE AND THERE.
—“CbriB'ianity,” says the world
ling, “is too insignificant for my at
tention;’' the trnib is, it is too high
for him.
—None more need sympathy than
young men battling for bread and
forexistence. They do not need alms,
bi’t they do need kind treatment and
good advice, and wise counsel. The
heartlessDess ol’ business men in their
relatious to the youth in their ser
vice is often the most depressing
thing in their arduous lot.—IT. 0. Ad
vocate.
—A Live Man.—A living is alive,
not in a single limb only, but in his
whole body. Iu like mauner euergy
of will is general and diffuses itseM
over all the mentqtaadMoral powers
of the soul. A majHjgfitbursues any
having one’s will steadfastly fixed on.
pleasing God aud doing some specific
good to men, one’s whole mental and
spiritual will be firm, vigorous,
sustained, and persistent. A heart
throbbing with the pulsations of a
heaven born love, will keep the purse
opeu, make the feet swift, and the
hands skillful. As one of the ancient
fathers wrote : “No labor is bard,no
time is long, wherein the glory of
eternity is the mark we leyel at.”—
y.inn’a Herald.
—1Teaching Mtnibtky.—A teach
ing ministry is the only truly success
fnl ministry . It may not always oow7
maud oveifiowing bouses, but the
work done will be genuiue aud last
ing. There will be sound conversions,
holy living, and uhaiacter developed,
and perfected under the power of
the troth. A corpse under the shock
of au eleotric battery starts into an
apparent, momentary life, but Christ
alone can raise the dead. Only the
truth, applied by the Holy Spirit, can
change add fashion the soul io the di
vine likeness. In the most inoaieut
ous of all things the people most be
taught by a living ministry. In
i'tend of seeking otit the queer texts
and noyel themes, the old aud muCh
nsed texts aud topics are the most
useful. The mere trimmings and ac
cidents of the gospel are hot as nutri
tious hs the heart and substance of
its dhctnues. Preachers hare' gifts
ditfering, but it is perilous ih; any to
make teaching a subordinate end.—
N. O. Advocate.
SINS AGAINST CHILDHOOD.
It Is related that when a conquered
city was sacked and a brutal soldier
was striking down all before him a
child cried out, “Please, sir, dou’t kill
me, I am so little.” He must be a
brute that would Dot respect the fee
bleness of a child. It is one of the
fiendish features of alcoholic drink
that it often maddens a parent to
maim and to murder his own offspring.
There is a poor crippled lad in this
neighborhood whose spine is maimed
for life by the drunken father who
hurled him down stairs in a debauch.
Let ns be thaukful fur the organiza
tion of “societies for the prevention
of cruelty to cbildreu.” They might
adopt for their motto Keuben’s coun
sel to his brethren, “Ho not sin
against the child.”
There are many other sins against
childhood besides brutal blows or the
slow starvation which drunkenness
occasions. Nor do they spring from
wanton cruelty. Many of them grow
out of carelessness, or ignorance, or
utterly false views of parental duty.
Fully one half of all the parents in
the land need to have the solemn
caution whispered in their ears: lie
'ware how you sin agaiust your child !
Parentage involves a tremendous
trust. God puts into our hands the
most susceptible and receptive crea
tore on tho globo when he entrusts
to us a young immortal mind. No
photographic plate takes impressions
so readily or retains them so surely.
In geological museums you may see
stone slabs which show the prints ol
birds’ feet or of leaves which were
made in the stone when it was liq.iid
oumice, centuries ago. In like man
i,er we detect the finger muiks and
lout prints of pareutal iudhence upon
the character of their adult childien.
Very ugly are some of these foot
prints, too.
1, 1UU UliiJ 8IU
by seeding bis mind with l'alse teach
ings. It lies open before you like a
garden or a field in May, waiting lor
either the precious seed or the poi
sonous weeds. A bad principle drop
ped in will sprout. A sneer againsi
the truth of God’s word or a sly skep
tical thrust will insituate itself into
a boy’s memory and prepare him for
early infidelity. Much of the cavil
iug criticism indulged in by parents
after they come home from church
completely neutralises all the good
influences of a sermon. If the Holy
Spirit has inspired the minister’s
faithful message, then the foolish de
risiou throwu at that message is not
only a sin against the children, but a
sin against the Holy Ghost. In a
majority of cases religious errors are
hereditary. Dishonest practices de
scend in the same way from father to
son. Pareuts often corrupt their
children by taking them to impure
places of amusement. While the fa
ther is laughing at the play, the lad
beside him is inflamed by the inde
cent costume or the lascivious move
ments of the actress. The daughter’s
purity is soiled by the licentious bal
let or the immoral innendoes of the
stage. These impure sights and ut
terauces breed salacious thoughts.—
It is bad enough to smutch jour own
soul; but we beg you, do not sin
against your own child.
2. Nothing breeds so rapidly as
example. We all know how teuden
cies to character, either good or evil,
spriug from natural descent, and the
chief element iu moral heredity is
the force of example. There is a mo
notonous uniformity in the history ol
the Jewish kings. Each one “walk
ed in the ways of his father who cau
sed Israel to siu.” Observe that
vord “ways.” The iattier maaerue
path, and the son trod iu it. This is
as true uow as iu ancient days. The
most difficult cases which are brought
to our inebriate asylums are those ol
hereditary drunkenness. I have
worked hard lately to reiorin two in
ebriates, both very iuterestiug char
acters; bnt have about given up in
despair since I discovered that their
fathers were slaves of the bottle.
Outbreaks of passion hove a terri
ble influence on our children, A wan
of culture, yet of most violent tem
per, pleads as his excuse when he
gets enraged, ‘*1 can’t help it. My
father was just so ^ his boys are all
so. We cannot live together in
peace; we never did, ^Vo are all
possessed of the devil.” This is a
frightful indictment for a living son
to bring against a dead parent. Aud
wbat penalty these living sons pay
for the sin committed against their
childhood by parental example I pi
ten, when I se a yonng man bring
ing disgrace upon himself, I think :
»*Tbat youth was as much sinued
against as sinning. He is walking in
the path in which his parents pnt
him. Thorn bueiws pever yield
grapes and figs do not grow if om
thistles.” The very word “iniquity”
means something twisted. It is some
thing bent or wrnng ont of a straight
line; hence the word “wrong.” Now
• his ugly twist is too often given by
a father’s ora mother’s hand. The
wrong which the child does proceeds
from the wrong done to them by an
evil example. Then comes the swift
and inevitable reaction, when the
reckless and disgraced son becomes
punisher of the parents’ sin and
wrings their hearts with agony. “Be
sure that your sin will find you out”
is not mote true in regard to any
class of wrong doings than those
which parents commit against their
own offspring.
3. It docs not require that we be
cruel in disposition in order to siu
against our children. The foolish
fondness which pets them and grati
fies every selfish whim and pampers
their pride is eveu worse in its influ
ence than hash brutality. No more
fatal sin cau be committed against
yourson than to let hira'have his own
way. Pride will grow fast enough
in your daughter’s heart without
your adding fuel to the flame with ex
travagant fineries and fulsome adula
tion. It is a curious fact that praise
when bestowed on noble conduct
humbles and sweetens a child; hut
praise lavished on mere externals
like beauty or dress—only puffs up
and inflames selfishness.
Parents, do you always make an
especial study of the peculiarities of
each child 1 Joseph was a very pe
culiar lad from his very excellencies,
and when his partial father ligged
him out hi his ‘-coat ot many colors,”
and lie began to have dreams of his
brothers “bowing down to him,” it is
not strange that their eitarse natures
grew jealous and revengeful. Father
Jacob sinned agaiust that, pine, sen
sitive boy before the churlish breth
ren began their villainous outrages.
sonic cuiiiireu are picKeu ar ana scol
ded, until they become sullen. Oth
ers are ridiculed lor their deficiencies
or dcformiuitics till thtey grow des
perate. Harshness always hardens,
and then parental phariseeisui prays
that God would soften the ,boj’s
hard heart! To train up a family
wisely and for the Lord requires
more sagacity than to wiite a book
and more grace than to preach a ser
mon. It is the highest trusteeship
in the world. The family underlies
both church and commonwealth.—
Wherefore, O father and mother, for
thy own sake, for God’s sake, for the
sake of the immortal sonreommitted
iothee,douot siu against the child.
—Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., in Inde
pendent.
THE BLUES.
As the spring season comes on, al
most every one begins to sutler more
or less from this intangible but very
decided complaint, It would seem
as if the lovely spring days,the warm
sunshine, the sight of budding trees
and springing flowers, would put new
file in our veius; and, to a certain de
gree, they do freshen us aud do us
good; but we almost all overtax our
selves in the spring. If there is any
season of the year when children
should be tenderly treated as to les
sons, it is in the spring. Housekeep
ers that are wise will clean house in
the fall; the spring cleaning is a sure
precursor of colds and nervous fevers
aud utter prostration. But before,or
sometimes in the place of, colds and
fevers, we have the “blues.” Things
■ire uo worse than they were a month
,igo, but we can only look ou the
dark side. If Bridget breaks a dish,
it is always, at this season, the one
you cared for most. The children's
mischievous pranks are almost un
bearable, and it seems as if John
whistles “Silver Threads Among the
Gold” so indefatigably just to aggra
vate one. “I feel cross and nervous
aud tired—you ought to feel so, too,”
is 1 fear, the secret opinion of too
many of us when we feel “blue.”
Mow a man when ho is in this mood
generally knows how te treat him
self. Ho will manage a half holiday,
by hook or by crook, and take a brisk
walfc, or, if that is impossible, he will
determine uot to think of his anxie
ties until he is iu better spirits. But
a woman—especially young women
and girls—act so differently.
Mary “feels blue,” so she does not
exert herself to dress, but sits sew
iug, the very worst thing oue can do
when low-spirjtprjj or, being a very
conscientious girl, perhaps shp sf$
deuly remembers that she resolved
sometime ago to read Locke on the
(Judoratanrting, op Bacon on the Ad
vancement of Learning. She is gbogt
as tit to read such works us if she
should undertake to eat a pound of
beefsteak when she had not a parti
cle of appetite. She sits and pours
over the book, and wonders that
things look horribly dnll and fiat to
her all day.
I venture to say if Mary had given
herself a good day’s work, such as
sweeping and dusting her room,arran
ging her bureau, etc , and then taken
a brisk walk, taking a little thought
as to her “best things,” the blues
would have vanished.
But again, a young wife and moth
er feels blue. She has been looking
over the children’s clothes and sewing
for dear life for a week past. Bridget
is saucy, and somehow the pretty
home that she loves so much seems
narrow aud confining. J say to such
a one, at almost any cost, get out of
your own house, for a day at least.
It is good for ns to hold our children
aud our husbands otf at arm’s length
once in a while, as an artist does his
picture; we get a better view and
forget the little blotches here and
there that annoyed us.
1 have a friend who says whenever
she feels bine she puts ou her best
clothes, and really some of us will find
that will do us good. Find out some
one to help or to cheer if you can, but
do not refer to your own downheart
edness. The moment we confess a
feeling, be it love, hatred or low spir
its, «e intensify it. Act and speak
cheerfully, aud yon will Bud you are
feeling brighter soon.
1 should like to whisper a word to
some o f the husbands scattered
throughout the land. In the spring
of the icar “mother” gets nervous—
she snaps at the children, tells Torn
too sharply to “slop that whistling,’’
and perhaps suddenly breaks don ti
and takes to( her oed. The poor has
baud is completely surprised—can’t
understand the matter at all. He
goes to his business or Works upon
b<s larm day after day, and is in and
out from morning till night. He see.
it is business trifluds from day to day,
and seldom is troubled with the chil
dieti’s racket, for they are trained to
he quiet and to have everything in
order when papa comes home.
nui <111 l ii 1 u it ^ ii iuc mnj' niuici
liow different it lias been with the
wife ! She lias beeu from morning
till night, from week to week, from
mouth to mouth, with three or four
children constantly demanding her
care, her thought ard patience. Her
servants are a care, and part of the
time, if in the country, £he may have
beeu without any. In nine cases out
ot^ten she has not beeu free from this
care, away from the four walls of her
home, for two days at a tirno with
in six months. She needs to breathe
a new atmosphere, to see some other
scene than the home scene, bo it ever
so lovely.
You propose leaving home—she
“can’t manage it,” but this should
not be allowed. Let us women be
more unselfish iu the matter. If you
have a friend who is tied to tier home
by the care of two or three children,
can’t you offer to keep house for her
for a week or two? Even suppose
> ou merely exchange houses for a
time—any chauge is good.
li more husbands would but realize
that their wives must have their boli
day from the care of children and
servauts, and that this holiday had
better come >n the spring of the year
I am sure we should have fewer peo
ple suffering from the blues.
But there are some w ho are tied to
their post; who have no choice—is
there no help for them? He who
gave them their lot in life is ready to
give them strength to bear it ; but
they must ask for that strength, and
the great trouble is we forget that we
do not get strength tor tbe morrow’s
task. Go for tbe daily, the hourly
task, being sure tbe work we are do
ing isours, not another’s, aud we will
never be refused.
1 must add oue word to explain
that “n o t another’s.” Women—
Christian women—are so foolish in
this matter. Perhaps they are told
by a thoughtless husband to make
bricks without straw, and instead ot
just not doing it, they turu and twist
and coutrive and—what comes of it!
Having managed once, they may do
it again aud again. As long as there
is money for tobacco and cigars,there
is uo need of a womau weariug her
Streugth out day after day to do the
work of two. Where there is no
money, of oourse, the task is really
hers, and she must try to do it. In
the same way, many a mother toils
from morning till night, doing work
she should leave to her daughter.—
faking the burdens of others is uot
always pur dpty, ai>4 vl>®w we “re
not iu the path of duty we do uot get
strength.—Mope Ledyanl, in Chris
tian Upim,
Do uuto others as you would have
others do unto you.
Work for your church paper.
MEMORY IN OLD PERSONS.
Tile brain is tbe instrument of the
I wind. Every thought and feeling is
jdependent on certain changes that
| take place between it and the blood,
j .dental activity may be quickened or
i retarded, exalted or depressed, by the
act ion *nf drugs upon the brain". Sin
jgular effects are produced by cere
■ bral disease.
i
J Age works permqfent changes in
the brain ; it shrinks its bulk and
hardens its substance. In conse
quence of this there is a change of
mental manifestations. The mind
acts more slowly in old persons. It
does not turn readily to new subjects,
anil is not capable of as protracted or
as iolty efforts. The feelings, too,
are much lessened insusceptibility.
But in the memory the most marked
changes occur. Some persons who
have been more than ordinarily gift
ed iu this respect, in old age become
peculiarly deficient in memory.—
With the aged, recent facts and
events are not so readily taken up in
to the mental store house, and what
is learned is sooner forgotten.
At the same time the past stands
out in vivid contrast with file pres
ent. Early habits return again, i'or
instance, the pronunciation or tbe
spelling of youth often reappears, to
tbe sip prise of fi tends. Sins, early
repented of and forsaken, obtrude
themselves painfully on the memo
ry.
From this we see how important it
is that tbe associations and habits ol
youth are such as shall give only
pleasure in old age.
if one would not sink into imbecili
ty when the brain begins to shrink,
let him cultivate ail Ins powers right
along through life.
The aged should take special pains
to keep up their mental activity.
—JiEASOiNtf FOB TAKING A IiE
ligious I’APKK.—Tlie Religions Tel
escope mentions the following:
1. This is an age ol' reading; and
that family w hich does not receive a
religious paper is behind the age and
spirit of the times. It loses acquaint
ance with the channel of the best
thought of the day.
2. A religious paper is an educa
tor in the family, which unconscious
ly, silently, but ceaselessly mould’s
the thought, heart, and lile of the
members of the family.
3. A religious paper is a comforter
and friend in the family home, such
as cauuot be denied without sad
loss.
4. It eifeourages habits of reading
and studysiu the family, and comes
with a freshness evety week which
wins to reading where books are pow
erless.
5. The religious paper brings tid
ingsofthe work of God in all parts
of the church. It tells what God is
doing. Every family ought to know
what the progress of God’s work is.
6. The religious and church paper
furnishes the largest amount of valu
able and worthy reading matter that
can be secured for tbe same amount
of money. Preserve your paper,
which costs but two dollars per jear,
and see what an amount of cheery,
healthful, helpful, blessing has come
to your home.
COUNT THEM.
Conut what? Why, count the
meicies which have been quietly fall
ing in your path through every pe
riod of your history. Down they
come every morning and evening, an
gel messengers from the Father of
lights, to tell of your best friend in
heaven. Have you lived these years
wasting mercies, treading them be
neath your feet, and consuming them
every day, and never yet realized
from whence they came? If yon
have, heaven pity you! You have
murmured under your affliction ; but
who has heard you rejoice over your
blessings ? Do you ask what are
these mercies? Ask the sun-beam,
the rain drop, the star, or the queen
of night. What is life but a mercy?
What is the propriety of stopping to
play with a thorn bush when you may
just as well pluck sweet flowers and
eat pleasant fruits? Happy is he
who looks at the bright side of life, of
providence, and of revelation; who
avoids thorus and sloughs until his
Christian growth is such that, if he
cannot improve them, he may pass
them without injury. Conn: mercies
before you complain of atflictious.’
The missionaries at Oroomiah, I’er
sia, make an urgent appeal to Ameri
can Christians for means to relieve
the sufferers from famine in that
country. They represent that from
the failure of the wheat crop thous
ands are in a destitute condition, aud
a great calamity is impending.
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PRUNING FOS TIMBER.
Bryant, in bis fbifcW Tree Cm.,re \
gives the following directions for pn. j
ning trees designed (for fence postal
and other timber purposes :
‘•In pruning .voting trees designed
for timber, the symmetry of their
form is the first consideration. When i
taken trout the seed bed, all side:
branches .should be ant off. Subse-1
fluently, an annual examination will |
be reijuired to see that they.grotv in j
proper shape, Only one leading shoot j
should be allowed, which must not be i
permitted to fork. All side bran
ches which approach in due and vig- ■
or to the leading slnmt should be:
shortened orient out entirely. The
hhtek walnut, butternut,! tulip tree I
and chestnut are apt to throw out
large side branches, which take too
much from the growth of tIk? leading
shoot. Stickers from the base of the
tree, should be cut away. Where
suckers are thrown out in conse
quence of the stem of the tree being
unthrifty or injured, the latter may
cut off and oue of the suckers allow
ed to take its place.
lu close plantations the trees may
be trimmed, up two thirds of their
height,but too many branches should
not lie taken off at once.
Some kinds of trees require tint lif
:le pruning. If properly treated
while small, they will require less at
tention in this inspect as they grow
larger; and when their branches in
unlock, and their stems arc thickly
shaded, they will need little if any
pruning.
It should always be borne in-mind
that the main object in pruning forest
trees is to give a proper direction to
their grow tit.
SPIRITS OF TIBPENTiNE.
One of I lie most useful articles for
a housewife to keep oil hand, is a bot
tle of spirits of turpentine. There
ue so many purposes for which it is
almost indispensable that it is wise
to have it on hand.
It is a sure relief for burns.
A lew drops in the bottom of a
drawer, or on the floor or a clothes
press or wardrobe, will effectually pre
vent months from inhabiting them ;
and a thorough application to bed
steads in the early spring will save
much annoyance and hard labor
through the loug summer.
Insects have a great aversion to
the odor of turpentine,and it is.a sure
death to those already in possession.]
It w ill drive red and black ants off j
the premises, if they get a foothold,
the quickest ofanythiug I have evei j
tried.
If I was ever troubled with roaches
[ should try spirits of tnrpeutiue.
Corn Heai, Pudding.—Stir three
tablespoohfuls of corn meal, previous
ly moistened with a little cold milk
into a quart of boiling milk; add a
pinch of salt. Keep stirring tin ti I the
meal is well cooked,then remove from
the stove. After it is quite cool, stir
iu four well beaten eggs, and sweeten
to taste. Bake in a custard tin. If
the corn is properly cooked it will
not settle, and the pudding will be
beautifully light. Eat either with or
without cream.
Rice corn weighs sixty pounds to
the bushe!, and it is stated by some
farmers who have, raised it that it
will largely out yield common coru.
It is excellent to feed to stock, as it
does not get so hard. Grasshoppers
and worms do not feed upon it, and
it is remarkable for standing a
drought. It should be planted in
hills three and a half feet by one foot
apart.
Fruit trees can be primed at
any time provided only small limbs
or twigs have to be cut. The rule
should be to so pruuo the trees that
no hc’ge limbs would have to be cut.
Outs made in June will heal sooner
than at any other time, but it re
quires more care at that time as the
bark peels so easily.
Cisterns should bo immediately
cleaned out ou the first discovery of
any unpleasant odors. These are not
^infrequently caused by dead insects
or vermin, and charge the water and
the atmosphere alike with the germs
of disease.
To destroy plantains, dandelions or
other weeds on the lawn, drop care
fully a single drop of sulphuric acid
into the center of the plant. One
drop will do the business j wane will
be likely to do lump,
Subscribe fgr tile Suu.
SELECTED RECIPES.
Jelly Cake.—Two cupfuls ofsu
U'ar, one cupful milk, old; one-third
•upfiil l)iiftert three eggs, three and
lire«- qnarter cupfuls floor, three tea
<poonfuls baking powder, leuion or
.'an ilia.
A\ HITE Cake.—One cupful white
batter size of an egg, nearly
'a ' "full sweet milk, one andone
1,1 tllr,ils flour, whites of three
eggs,one h->ping teaspoouful of lem.
on.
Soft Ginger
ake.—Two eggs,
cup sour cream, 01. ,
■ , „ ’ cup molasses,
three cups flour,one tea. , , ’
’ . oonful soda,
f"'o teaspoon fills ginger a ,iul#
salt. This is sufficient for twu
oaves,
and is a valuable recipe to any
iikes ginger cake.
Tei.low CAKE.-rOnc cupful su
gar, butter half the size of a butter
nut, two-thirds cupful sweet milk, one
and one-half cupfuls flour, good one
and one-half teaspooufuls baking
powder, yelks of three eggs, one tea
spoonful vanilla. This is nice for
jelly cake if one desires it.
Hard Hinder Cake.— Two table
spoonfuls of water, three of lard, one
teaspoouful of ginger, one of sulera
tus. Put all these into a cup and fill
the cup with molasses; to three
cupfuls add one egg and just enough
dour to roll; put in two long tins and
mark across about every inch with a
knife; bake half ah hour.
Sponge Cake.—Two cupfnls of
sugar and yelks of four eggs beaten
to a cream; pour on it three-quarter*
of a cupful of boiling water, whites of
four eggs, two cupfuls of tjour and
three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking
powder the last thing; lemon. This
is the nicest sponge cake I ever saw,
and I have tried many different re
cipes.
Orasoe Cake.—Two cupfuls of
white sugar, two cupfuls flour, oue
lialf cupful water, two teaspooufuls
bakiug powder, piucli of salt, five
eggs—all the yelks, and whites of
two—oue orange, grated rind aud
half of the juice. Bake in four sheets.
Iciug to spread between the layers;
whites of three eggs, half the juice of
the orange, oue cupful sugar.
To destroy red ants, moisteua
sponge iu sweetened water, putitiu
a saucer where the ants are. Iu an
hour the spouge will be fouud full of
them. Throw it iu scildiug water,
squeeze it out, and set it again with
the sweetened water.
Soft Soap.—When possible to
avoid, one should never use new soft
soap. I will give au eld frieud’a
method to increase the quantity and
add to the effect of any old soap that
may be left until this season : For
every 6 gallons of soap, bring to a
boil three gallons of water, in which.
dissolvo one-half pound of borax and
one-half pound of sal. soda. Stir it
thoroughly into the soap. If too
thick, more hot water can be added.
The soap must be at least two or
tiiree months old before before being
treated in this way.
Attend to Business.—Nothing
bat ultimate ruin stares that farmer
in the face who does not par personal
attention to all the most minnte de
tails of his farm. There are a thou
sand small leaks about the manage
ment of an ordinary farm, that if not
closely attended to will surely bring
thwmost hard-working farmer to rnia
and bankruptcy. Nine-tenths of Vhe
sinking farmers can attribute their
present distress to no other cause
than a lack of close attention to the
small details of the farm; a closer su
pervision of machinery aud tools, the
stock and their feed, a place for ev
eryth mg and everything in its place.
No one is as much interested in at
tending to these details as the boas.
Such a course will in a few months,
or a year or two at most, enable many
farmers who are now on the down
grade, to again begin to ascend. If
heroically persevered in, it willsuraly
make headway against what now
looks hopeless.—Ex. (
Tomato Catsup.—One gallon skin
ned tomatoes, three heaping table
spoonfuls of salt, same of black pep
per, two of allspice, three of ground
mnstard, half a dozen of pods ef red
pepper. Ste’v all slowly together in
a quart of vinegar for three hours;
strain the.; liquor, simmer down to half
a gallor,. Bottle hot and cork tight.
Many men claim to be firm in their
principles, when really they are only
obstinate iu their prejudices.
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