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Volume
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS,
XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, YA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER
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1880.
Number 35
WHAT I LIVE FOR.
Dr. Guthrie used to say that there was more
religion And good sense and pcetrj in the follow
ing than in all other similar efforts he had ever
read:
I lire for those who lore me,
For those I kuow are true,
For the heaven that smiles above me
And awaits my spirit, too ;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task my God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that I can do.
1 live to learn their story,
Who’ve suffered for my suke,
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake;
ijprds, martyrs, patriots, sage?',
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown history’s pages,
And time’s great volume make.
I live to hail that season
By gifted minds foiclold,
When racu shall live by reason,
And not alone lor gold
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
As Kden was of old.
I live to hold communion «
With all that is divine,
To feel that there is onion
’Twixt Nature's head and mine,
To profit by affliction,
Reap truth from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction—
Fulfilling God’s design.
I live for those that love me,
For those who know me true,
For the heaven that smiles above
And wails my spirit, too ;
For the wrongs that need resistance,
For the cause that needs assistance,
For the future in the distance,
And tho gsod that 1 can do.
SHIPWRECKS ON THE COAST OF NOR
MANOt.
Iu the openiug pages of the life of
Jean Francois Millet, “ Peasant aud
Paiuter,” begun in Scribner for Sep
teinber, occurs tbe following simple
anil graphic description, by Millet
himself, a series of shipwrecks on the
coast of Normandy, which form one
of the most striking memories of his
childhood. There are not many re
cords of calamities, or series of Calam
ities, so extraordinary:
“ It was All-Saints’ day, in the
morning <ve saw that the sea was very
rough, aud every one said there would
be troublo; all the parish was in
church; iu the middle ot mass we
saw a man come in dripping wet, an
old sailor, well known for his bravery
He immediately said that as he came
aloug shore he saw several ships
which, driven by a fearful wjnd,
Would certainly shipwreck on the
coast. “ We must go to their assist
ance,’ said he, louder, ‘and I have
come to say to all who are willing,
thut we have only just time to put to
sea to try aud help them.’ About
fifty men ottered themselves, anil,
without speaking, followed the old
sailor. We got to the shore by going
down tbe clilf, aud there we soon saw
a terrible sight,—several vessels, one
behind the other, driving at a fright
ful speed agaiust the rocks.
“Our men put their boats to
sea, but they had hardly made ten
strokes when the boat filled with
water and suuk, the second was over
turned with the breakers,
and the third thrown qp on
the shore. It was easy to see that
our boats would be no use to the
poor people on the ships.
“Meantime the vessels came nearer
and weie ouly a few fathoms from
our black cliffs, which were covered
with cormorants. The first, whose
masts were gone, came like a ^-eai
mass. Every oue on shore saw it
coming; no*one dared speak. It
seemed to men, a child, as it death
was playing with a handful of men,
whom it intended to crush aud drown.
An immense wave lifted itself like an
angry mountain, aud wrappiug the
vessel and brought near, and a still
higher one tluew her upon a rock
level with the water. A frightful
and cracking sound,—the next in
stant the vessel was filled with water.
Tbe Bea was covere4 with wreckage,
—planks, masts, aud poor drowning
ereatures. Many swain aud then
disapeared. Our men .threw them
selves iuto the water, and, with the
old sailor at their hf-ad, made tre
mendous efforts to say* them. Sev
eral were brought by«k, but they
were either drowued yr broken on
tbe rocks. * \
“Tbe sea threw lip several hundred,
and with them mer^iaudise nud
food.
IOU.
“A second ship approached. The
masts were gone. Hvoryone was on
i\
I
deck, which wns fall; we raw them
sill on their knees, and a man in black
seemed to bless them. A .wave as
big svs our cliff carried her toward tis.
We thought we lizard a shock like
the tirst, but she held stanch and did
not move. The waves besit against
her, but she did not budge. She
seemed petrified. In an instant ev
ery one put to sea, for it was only
two gnu shots from shore. A boat
was made fast alongside; our lurnt
was tilled instantly; one of the boats
of the ship put off, threw out planks
and boxes, and in half an hour every
one was on shore. The shin had been
saved by a rate accident; ber bow
sprit and forepart had got wedged in
between two rocks. The wave which
bad t hrown her on the reefs had pre
served her as if by a miracle. She
was Knglisb, and the man who bless
ed bis companions was a bishop.
They were taken to the village and
soon after to Cherbourg.
“We all went back again to tiie
shore. The third ship was thrown on
the breakers, hashed into littlo bits,
and no one could be saved. The bod
ies of the unhappy crew were thrown
up on tue sand.
“A fourth, tilth, uinii sixth were
lost—ship and cargo—on the rocks.
The tempest was terriiiA The wind
was so violent that it w|s useless to
try to oppose it. It carried off' the
roof and the thatch. It whirled so
that the birds were killed,—even the
gulls, which are accustomed, one
would think, to storms. The night
was passed in doleuding the houses.
Some covered the roofs with heavy
stones,some carried ladders and poles,
flnd^made them fast to the roofs. The
trees bent to the ground and cracked
and split. The fields were covered
with branches and leaves. It was a
fearful scourge. The next day, All
Souls’Day, the men returned to the
shore: it was covered with dead bod
ies and wreckage. They were taken
up and placed in rows along the foot
of the cliffs. Several other vessels
came in sight: every one was lost on
our coast. It was a desolation like the
end of the world. Notone could be
saved. The rocks smashed them like
glass, and throw them in atoms to the
cliffs.
“ Passing a hollow place, I saw a
great sail covered what looked like a
pile of merchandise. 1 lifted the cor
uer and saw a heap of dead bodies
I was so frightened that I ran all the
way home, where I found mother
and grandmother praying for the
the drowned men. The third day
another vessel came Ol this oue
they found possible to save part of the
crew, about ten men, whom they got
off' the rocks. They were all torn
aud bruised. They were takou to
Gruchy, cared for a month, aud sen:
to Clierbonrgh. But the poor wretch
es were not rid of the sea. They em
barked on a vessel going to Havre ;
a storm took them, and they were nil
lost. As for the dead, all the horses
were employed for a week in eairyiug
them to the cemetery. They wore
buried in uuconsecrated ground ; peo
pie said they were not good Chris
tians.”
The Theee Smiles.—A pious old
mail was dying, and around Lis bed
stood his children and grandchildren
He was apparently asleep, and, with
closed eyes, ho smiled' three times.
When he opened his eyes, one of his
sous asked him why he had smiled.
The old man answered :—
—dTho first time’all the pleasures ol
my life passed before me, and I smil
ed to tliink that people can regard
such bubbles as important.
“The second time, I remembered
the sufferings of my life, and rejoiced
that they have lost their thorns, and
that the time is uear wheu they shall
bring me roses.
“The third time, l thought of death,
and smiled, when 1 meditated upon
the fear men have of this good angel,
who frees them from all evil,and lends
them to a dwelling of eternal joy.”
1_
“Wf. know that when he shall ap
pear, we shall be like him, for we
shall see him as ho is.” 1 John iii. 2.
Have I a vivid and realizing belief in
the unseen world ¥ By faith do its
realities seem as actual : s those that
surround me herof In view of them,
do 1 think and plan and act, so as, by
grace, to be prepared for all that Is
before me there! Am I, in even
sonio laint degree, like Christ now;
and am I so united to him, that i
shall be fully like him wheu I shall
see him as he is !
No place, no company, no age, no
person is temptation free. Let no
man boast that ho was never temp
ted ; let him not be high-minded, but
fear, for he may be surprised in that
very instant wherein heboasteth that
he was never tempted at all.
TALMAGE ON REVIVAL?.
Brooklyn, May 9:—Services in
I the Tabernacle were opened this
morning with,,the singing of the
hymn:
I “Arm of the Lord, awake! awake!”
Dr. Taltrtage took his text from Lake
v., <*—“They inclosed a great multi
tude of flslies and the net broko”—
and spoke as follows on
“Objections to revivals.’’
Simon and his comrades -had ex
Ipericnced the night before what fish
ermen call poor luck. Christ steps
into the fishing boat aud tells them to
pull away, and directs them to again
letdown the net. Sure enough it is
very soon lull ed' fishes, aud tl.e sailors
begin to haul in. But there is such a
large school of fish that the hardy
men pull till they are red in the face,
and, just as they begin to rejoice at
their success, snap goes oue thread of
the uet, snap goes another thread. It
seems that they are not only going to
loose the fish, but the net. Without
much reference to how the boat tilts
over, or how much water is plashed
on deck, the iishermen rush round to
gather up the broken meshes of the
net and save the day. They see an
other boat near'by and. hail it with
“Ship alloy I Bear down this way.”
The boat comes to the rescue, arid
both fishing smacks aro filled with
tire floundering treasures. “How
much better,” says one, “it would
have been to have staid on shore and
lished with a hook and line, aud take
oue sinner at a time, rather than to
have all that excitement, almost up
setting the boat and breaking the
net and having to call for help, aud
getting sopping wet with the sea.”
Now, the Church is a ship and the
gospel is t he sea, and a great revival
is the hauling in of a whole school
with one swoop. We do not despise
the work of that man who Iabois to
draw ashore just, one soul. We ad
mire his skill in unwinding the reel
and adjusting the bait and dropping
the hook in some quiet spot oti a still
afternoon, but we like also a big boat,
and a large crew, aud a net a mile
long, and swilt oar and stout, anx
ious souls so great that you have to
get help to haul them ashore, while
tho net is strained to the utmost, aud
here aud there breaks, letting a few
escape, but lauding many thousands
into eternal safety. In other words,
I believe in revivals. The chief work
of saving men began with three tbou
sand joining the Church in oue day,
and if will end in a scene in which
perhaps forty or a hundred' millions
will be saved at once—nations born
in a day. ,■
Hut there are objections to revivals.
First—It is said that the candidates
taken at such tunes are in danger of
not holding out. While the gale ot
mtluence lasts they have the sails up,
iuit when the strong wind cease, they
will drop to a dead calm. What is
the tact! The vast majority of those
useful in all our Churches were
brought in during revivals. Those
foremost in prayer meetings, in Sab
hath schools and pulpits, who are
they but the product of great awake
nings! My observation has been
that those converted iu revivals are
more determined and uioro persistent
m religion than those who enter in a
low state of the Church. Perhaps
persons born in an ice-house may
live, but they will never get oyer the
cold they caught there. The greater
the impulse given to a camion ball,
the farther and the swifter it will go.
1’ho greater the revival forco with
which one is started, the more far
reaching the execution. Further, it
is objected that the cxciteincuts of a
revival are great, and people may
mistake hysterics for religion. I sup
pose in all revivals there is really sub
dued or demonstrated cxcitemcut.
A mail who can himself pass out of
condemnation into acceptance, or see
others doing so, and fee! no excite
ment, is in such an unhealthy nud
abnormal state he would not be more
absurd and repulsive if lie boasted
that he saw a child snatched lrom
under a horse’s hoof without any agi
tation, or a woman brought out of
the third story of a house on fire,
without acceleiatiou of his pulses.
Salvation from sin and death aud
hell, into life, and peace, and joy for
ever, is such a tremendous thiug, that
I have no confidence iu a man’s con-1
versiou who feels no cxcitemcut in
regard to it. In certaiu circumstan
ces nothing is more important than
agitation. In the effort to resusci
tate the drowning, or the freezing,
the one idea is to excite animation.
Before conversion we are dead, aud
the whole work cf the Church is to
arouse, aud awaken, aud startle into
life. Excitement is good or bud, ac
cording to what it drives you to do.
If to do that which is bad, it is a bad
excitement. But if it sends you to
Church and to yonr knees it is good
excitement. Some say “it is always
the ease that in such special times
very young and inexperienced people
flock to the altars, and they do not
know what they are doing.” l)o you
know that it is the history of the
Church that the younger the people
start the more usefnl they are T Rob
ert Hall, the prince of Baptist preach
ers, was converted at twelve years ot
age, Matthew Henry at eleven years,
Isabella Graham at ten years, Dr.
Watts at nine, years, Jonathan Ed
wards at seven years. It is general
ly supposed that they all knew what
they were abont. Jf at such times
ihere arc two candidates presenting
themselves as candidates for the
Chtlrch and the one is ten years ot
age and the other forty, I have more
coniidence in the one at ten years
than in the one at i'orty, for the lat
ter has forty years of impulse in the
tyring direction to correct and the
-dther onty ton. Four times ten are
rwrty. There is four times better re
ligious prospect for the lad than for
the man in mid life. 1 judge of the
work of revivals by the mett who
have been most einiuent in fostering
them-*— Edwards, Whitlield, Wesley,
Fletcher, Griffin, Davis, Osborne,
Kuttpp and Mettle ton. From the
strength of their minds and the lioli
uess of their lives I conclude that
such men would not have given them
selves to anything ephemeral. A
ntan in Dawson’s time declared that
he liked the sermon, but did not like
the revival services afterward. He
retired to the gallery and looked
down disgusted. Mr. Dawson toM
him that he had gone up ou top of a
house and looked down the chimney
to see the fire on his neighbor’s hearth
and of course got only the smoke in
his eyes. We do not favor those ex
periments that impede the work and
make religion and the Church ridicu
lous. 1 am not speaking of nervous
derangements or temporary insanity
wheu 1 commend the excitement ol
great revivals,- but I mean an intelli
gent and intense and all-absorbing
agitation of body, miud and soul in
the work of spiritual escape and spir
itual rescue.
But I am- come to the chief objec
tion to revivals. It is the coldness of
the individual who objects. The se
cret, and hidden, and unmistakable
reason in every case is the low state
ofreligiou in the heart. Wide awake
useful and consecrated people are not
afraid of revivals. The man who is
dead is afraid that his own sepulchre
will be molested.
THE CHIEF AGENTS OF THE DEVIL
iii opposing revivals are uucouverted
professors of religion. As soon as
God’s spirit begins to work mightily
in the Church, there are professors of
religion who begin to gossip against
it. They run around with a pail oi
water tryiug to put out the fire here
and to put it out there. Do they sue
need ! When Chicago was on fire a
man with agardeu wateringpot might
have as well goue out to extinguish it.
You see that during a revival the file
starts at rnauy places,and by the time
one excited soul has been doused with
cold water there are fifty other souls
on fire. Oh ! how much more blessed
for us to pull the Lord’s chariot thau
for ns to fling ourselves in front of
the wheels hoping to block the prog
ress. Did you ever hear that once
there was a convention of icebergs in
the Arctic! It seems that towards
summer the sun increased In heat, and
tbere was danger that all the icefields
would be broken up. So the tallest,
broadest, coldest of the icebergs—the
Kiug of the Arctic—took his place
at the bead of the convention, and
called the members to order. But
the sau increased in heat, and the
warm winds continuing to blow from
the South, the icebergs begau to
griud agaiust each other and to move
out. The first resolution passed in
the convention was to abolish the sun
for making such au excitement. But
the sun icfused to be abolished. A
few of the colder icebergs floated
around as well as they could, trying
to freeze the Arctic up again and get
every thing quiet. Blit the sun got
warmer aud warmer, and the Kiug of
icebergs begau to perspire under the
heat, and many of the smaller mem
bers toppled over and dropped, and
cries of “‘order 1” order 1” were of no
avail. As a great monster of frigid
ity split into ten thousand flinders
the cry was “too much excitement.”
Soon the whole ice fields was in mo
tiou. “Where are we going I” cried
a thousand voices. And before they
knew it they bad floated into the
Gulf stream, aud there they melted
and floated together into the great
Atlantic ocean. The warm sail is the
Eternal Spirit. The icebergs are the
frigid professors. The warm Gulf
stream is the tide of glorious revivals.
The ocean into which everything
melts, is the great wide heart of a
panloning and sympathising God.
WORKING FOR POSTERITY.
There is a right way of looking at
the duty and pleasure of working for
the Item'fit of the men and women
who are to live in the years to mine,
and there is a wrong way. The
wrong way is the one which is too < f
ten followed. „
For instance, a great many people
who have failed to do anything, in
their chosen line of work, which hen
etits their teilow men now. console
themselves with the relied ion that
lutnre years will somehow or other
correct their present apparent, failure
and give them that posthumous re
uow n which shall pat to shame and
cruel neglect oi their contemporaries.
Who does not know some would-be
poet, or unsuccessful artist, or enthu
siastic inventor, or pretentions essay
ist, or ambitions preacher, who is
quite sure that, he lives in a world
which lacks the ability or the hones
ty to comprehend Iris genius, am!
which, therefore, lie must endure lor
a season, while he waits for posterity
to enshrine his work i-n some lofty
niche of fame ? In a word, a great
many workers tliink that because
they are not appreciated now, they
must be in the lutiiie, il tlieie is to be
any justice in the estimates oi the
wiser and .better generations which i
are to follow us. They never for a
moment stop to tkink, (hat perhaps
the current opinion concerning them
selves and their achievements is the j
correct opinion. Their assumption is j
founded in an egotism so lofty that ii ■
dues not hesitate to set itsc-il against
the conclusions of better and wiser
people, nor does it seek to proiit by
the picture of itseif which it sees u
tiec-ted back from the world in which
it lives. And so a is,in almost evety i
department of linmaii work, that s,,;
tuauy persons wind themselves in a,
sort of self-made shroud, and lay
themselves away as choice mummies
for future antiquarians to recognize
and admire.
This sort of working for posterity
is plainly a very different-thing from
that strong and serene trust which is
felt by the man who is trying to do
his present duty, independent of tin
effect which it may bring in the line :
contemporary admiration or future
praise. A present failure, ii st lie a
real one,—a failure from wrong me
tive or misapplied force, or inherent !
inability,—is never going to be trains
muted, by any relining process ol |
years to come, into a bright success.,
I he men whom the future will recog'
nize and revere are the men who are
now doing their duty; not those who;
are failing to do their duty, and cor
soling themselves with thoughts <>i
posthumous compensation. Ao man
ever succeeded in winning the up
pluuse of the following centuries In
deliberately setting to work to win
that applause. There is deep and
noble unconsciousness in all the great
achievements of the world. The
saints and martyrs of religious histo
ry; the inventors and discoverers
whose figures are landmarks in to*
progress of the human intellect ,vltlu
“workers of God’’ whose ashes mi,
dear to the very earth which enfolds
them,—were not the men and women
who, iu their day, indulged in fretful
complaining over lack of appreciat ion
on the part of their fellows or who
shaped their conduct of life with a fu
ture reputation iu view. They were
content, to do right; they knew that
God saw them and their deeds and
that his approval was enough,whethe*
or not men presenter to come should
bestow their commendation, or soj
much as know that such coiiiu-euda j
tiou was Reserved. Those who really
are working for posterity, are those |
who are trying to do just w hat is
right, and are not always seeking foi
the conspicuous or the commanding,
it we would bless those whose foot |
steps are to fall on the soil we have
trod, we must try to discover what!
God wants of ns today, and then!
seek to obey his will. Perhaps our;
fellows will therefore praise us Col
our actions; perhaps those actions |
will not be recognized until we have!
gone to the other world; perhaps!
they will never be known on earth.
But of one thing we may be quite
sore: that if wo work for our own;
reputatiou, present or to come, or;
even if wo follow our personal con
clusions as to what God ought to
want us to do for posterity, instead
of-striving to do just what the eter
nal Father does ask of us, we shall
surely miss the recognition we crave,
and the good we would accomplish,
aud the divine approval which is the
only true toward.—A’. A. Times.
We all dread a bodily paralysis,
1 and would make use of every contriv
| ance to avoid it, but none of ns are
troubled about a paralysis of the
I soul,
fit UUC0 C: WCr .uNG,
We IV III! nil '• V t ■ ]; :> !j;: 0 of i(lpa«
about i ho modes of working nn<l
Ilian:)'.’ i a g I In* iliflV: out el pa. U’e
emu-five I iiiii such an cxeYfiige would
lie mutually advanl cm is: to all par
tics, :i.s llicrc may lie Mime i Iiiii”.-; in
t he praet ices nl' all ; hat :li e bet;cc
than 'the ways generally followed. and
whom m av ia ale - an given he iu
telligeut farmer ca • »e rt t . Ia .t
ideas, a in! 1 e Ye! sr e;a.
And .atiiii: e a . d. ; in sea-on now,
that w >: a I -oiiii be f alder i
I.ct as have an e\< badge of plans for
pulling and avia .. h-d r.
It is im.aii i ,mt tii.-i tills be
i
saved \\c4i aim i . at: shorles’ loot,
for the h e .: i It s t xpnsed to the
weather after it is pulled the gt eider
is the to •>! nutritious elements Ibid
the greater the r:-.k ol sai l:ms damage
from the tIU eis of rain. Please toll
a.-, gentlemen arm. i a iial you do
with the.fodder alter i; is pulled until
it is cured < nougb to house or stack,
and how Ion./, unde: lavunable coinli
lions of tin .learner. i’ takes it to
cure by your plan : a...o. your jdr.a ol
managing fodder that go's wet in the
held before it is ruled, We conceive
that in the prael as: of, say a d zen
men, there^ wijl be some iinei.rt.int
vaiiations o:t Uie.se points, and that
some plans are better than others.
Do not fear criticism, if you please,
but give ns your modes just pa you
conduct the .-.jieration in the fields.
-Vs genu i:u i ■. i i:: > : . •. ; i .f ; lie sit b
jeer, we tind in a l t, number of
that valuable S a:hern cotemporary,
tiie / ic i f. ..: c, wh r appears tons
to be some v. r.v sensible silggeslions,
which we here le-proiluec for the
uelieht of tiie leader:
‘•When tju* stalks ate large and
blades ate long, the Iodder is best
cured d' I he blades are pulled and
hung liy t::c sni::i! ee ls ni the stalk,
in nanils!ul of tie- leaves Horn about
two or three stalks. The object is to
dry out. tiie hiisi de in-list in e as quick
iy as possible. To do tins all the
blades slum d iie a.s i qoally e a posed
to the sun and a:r as possible. Ii
was our pi am tee on the la'nn to com
ineiiee ill the morning to pull uui
iiiing as-above desertinid until noon,
and s iinei imes for an iiotir or so in
lhe alternoon; then commenced ty
tttg in tiie iisu.il nay. This hist pul!
mg only was allowed to remain on
the stalks until the next alieruoou.—
Fodder not ovei cured, or too dry,
will usually tie into bundles by six
o’clock p. ni.. and at this hour the
whole force should woik with a trip
until all is taken up except the las.
two or three hours pulling. Some
tanners otu,\ i><ni imm noon, iuiijhij.
the blades from t.ic.a stalk mi itself,
and devote the entire afternoon u
taking .up and hauling home. Tin
prbee s, however, is no.cossai'ity slow
iiml tedious,-lint results in tl.e lies'
tedder, as tire blades are exposed the
shortest time possible to .the sun and
not at all to the dew
It is the custom with many fanners
in Virginiado pull and !;n upon tin
around, and then return in the even
mg and some!lines not till the follow
iug even it; ^ to t ie lip, and in J'eir ami
cfn'ei weather the plan Works well.
Itnf the result of.eti is rhe fodder is
scattered about by the wind, and
much uf.il is in.,i besides diving extra
trouble tying up, or else it is caught
upon the ground by rain, and thus
diets covered with grit. Somethin
boll) of these accidents occur at tin
same time, aiitl the cron is more 01
les' a failure. 1: seems to us the plan
of hanging the blades upon each stalk
as it is pulled is far the better one.
kite didder would cure faster thau il
spread upon the ground, and there
weald lie no chalice for the accidents
aln ye noted.
Mai, i farmers, hjnvevcr, prefer to
tie it§ hi fail humid s as fast as it is
pit! ed, and in this way some of the
nicest .foddei is saved. It takes a
little iOBgvr to cure, bur perhaps no
long*', to save the crop. Thedillicul
f.v in iyine, a bundle secure with
green, and brittle blades is the chief
objeotiourto this plan, if a farinei
desires ;.v*nre has fodder rcrti nicely
and ot a green color, and sweet as
cured led lor can be, the mode last
named is the best, but after tying it
should be taken at once to a shelter,
or other convenient pi.tee, and expos
ed to the air ;n the -shade. Large
shade trees that would protect the
fodder from sadden showers and ox
elude the sun at :h,/ same time, would
answer the |*tipo-,>. lint funnels
generally do not like to take so much
trouble. And perhaps there me bet
ter ways than at > . hole indicated
Let us have an djtehange of practices,
trieniis. Tell us'how you pud and
cure your fodder, and all about it. -
tiurul Mi'smii:. •.
WliKN' a tuaa.n.bts d e rbeunuusiu
ia bis knees he know., the bean v of
a gait without lunges.
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CORN AND COTTON CROP.
GnRx.—The general average of the
<-niii crop show s some decline since
his! month, anil is for August 1st, 98
against 100 on July 1st, as compared
with the rendition reported August
ho. JS79. There is an increase of
live per cent, in 1,243 counties re
porting tlie crop on August. 1st; thir- ■
■ y-live report a lull average; 488 re
oi l aliove and 100 report, below ; the
Now England. .‘diddle and Atlantic
••states as lar South as North Caroli
n .. each show a high average; South
t -o'.dinu, Georgia and Alabama show
the eil'ecis of die.igiit; the whole
Mississippi \ alley shows an increase
dvttv last year, except Illinois and
iudtana. where there was too much
rain early m the season, followed hy
severe drought in*.Tittle and July.
< nT'i'i n.— Uetnia.-i to the Bepart
! men! -ince August 1st, show an im
i provi uienf. in the condition of cotton
since tiiose returned in July. The
uverflgc condition lor the whole conn
; tiy is iu2. The following are the re
j ports by States:—Forty couuties in
North Carolina average 106; 20 conn
lies in South Carolina average 98;
81 counties in Georgia average 98;
12 counties in Florida average 96;
, 28 counties in Alabama average 99;
127 counties in Mississippi average 99;
I Jo counties in Louisiana average 99;
70 counties in Texas average 110; 37
| counties in Arkansas average 106;
125comities in Tennessee average 107.
| Timely rains are reported in all sec
|lions; rather too much in States bor
dering on the Mississippi river and
1'exas: tlie stand is good and some
l ten days earlier than last year.—
Worms, rot and rust are mentioned
in every .State, but no material dam
age' is yet done,
BROKEN-WINDED HORSES.
Au English veterinary journal of
high standing has been investigating
broken-winded horses, and considers
as follows:
“Treatment of broken-wind and
roaring by means of drugs' is not usu
! ally'of much use, but regulation of
I the diet and exercise will, in many
instances, produce a wonderful im
provement in the breathing. A safe
rule in treating a broken-winded
horse is to avoid all bulk food ; the
less the stomach and intestiues con
tain, the more room there is for the
movement of the diaphragm. And
it is, therefore, always important to
use concentrated food. Bruised oats,
crushed beans, or better, peas, small
quantities of lmy, chaff, with a little
brati; with occasional addition of
very small quantities of green food or
roots will constitute the diet which
s most nutritive and least bulky.”
MANAGEMENT Or HORSES.
Food regularly, work steadily, and
■‘lean thoroughly, is my motto in the
management of* horses, The great
trouble is to have the horses rubbed
dry and clean before leaving them for
he night. When horses are worked
six days in the week, thorough groom
nig is absolutely essential to their
aealth. The more highly they are
led the more important to clean them.
Most men nse the curry-comb too
-.iiiii'li, and frho whisk too little. W#
j do not insist upon it, but believe it
i would pay always to take the whole
i harness from the horses when put in
j the stable at noon, and rub them dry,
j washing the shoulders with cold wa
S ter, afterwards thoroughly drying
\ them with a cloth.
j Get Kid of Rats.—“Four years
ago my farm was fearfully infested
with rats. They were so numerous
that I had great fears of my whole
crop being destroyed by them after
it was housed ; but haying two acres
of wild peperujiut that grew in a
bold of wheat, cut and boitud with
the wheat, it drove the rats from my
premises. 1 have not been troubled '
with them since, while my neighbors
have any quantity of them. I felt
j convinced that any person who is
| troubled with these pests could get
1 rid of them by gathering a good snp
[ ,ily of mint and placing it around the
; walls or base of their barns.”—Even
| :itj Post, Spearsrtile, hid.
Whitewash that will not rub on
your clothing can be made slacking a
peck of the best quality of lime to
! iie consistency of cream uud adding
"tie tablespoouful of sugar, ouo table
qioon lid of good ashes, and a few
drops of indigo to whiten it.
A Simple Way to Cook Eggs.
F atter a saucepan ; break iuto it t
j'Wi do not crowd them.; place
; sl,nv oven until the whites set
I treated they are more delicate
Lumch more wholesome than
foggs.
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