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Volume XXXIII.
IN ESSENTJ1LS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
• SUFFOLK, VA.. ETtI!DA.Y OCTOBER 1, 1880.
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"ANOrHEKJiEAPfcTH.”
John 4: 37.
J1Y THE BKV. T. H. NEWTON, D.D.
I’ve looked o’er acres rich and broad,
Well pleased to call them mine;
Mine b> my toil, a life’s reward,—
Home lor my lifo'i decline :
Yet title clear and deed iu fee
Could not return those roods for.me.
I’ve built a mansion neat and fair
Well fitted to my mind.
1 hoped to spend life’s sojourn there,
(To quietness inclined):
But others sleep whbiu my rooms
W hilst I seek rest in stranger’s homes.
I had two thousand books in store,
(I dread a vacant mind) —
My only sin ! I sought for more—
To knowledge well incline d,
But war cornea on with ’furiate pace
And burns my shelves before my face.
These lost—new projects to regain
What thus had fled away—
Bore my hope onward still in vain
For sickness needed prey.
She touched each fibre iu m> frame,
And left me not of health the name.
Thus one by one our hopes depart
And saddened leave the breast:
But as they go they teach the heart
To seek not here a rest.
We learn the worth of things on high:
Moue snatch our treasures iu the sky.
Tho’ spoiled of all not one thing sours,
Nor call I Cod unkind,
E'en deserts yield new crops of flowers
And thus new swee’s we find 1 »
God reaps our toils—they are not lost
He’ll give us more than the,) have cost.
But if He reaps, (yet drops no grain)
’Tis not that He's austere ;
He garners up our yearly gain
To make our profit clear.
All shall be trophies in lli3 train
When iie comes to own his right to reign.
So tho’ we call them losses now
It’s that we little know ;
Full soon He’ll tell us, strangely, how
He’ll make our profit show.
Those faithful in life’s toilsome hours
Shall rank as first of heavenly powers.
Jielectiong.
HOW COLONEL HUGER TOLD THE STORY.
BY THE HON. JOSIAH QUINCY.
I fulfil the promise matte iu my last
paper by giving the story of the at
tempted rescue of Lafayette, as told
by Colonel Huger, when diumg at m.\
father’s house iu Quiuey, October 3d,
1825. The report, of course, is not
stenographic; but, as it is chiefly ta
ken from very copious notes made ai
the tiuio by my sister, Miss E S.
Quiuey,. the reader may rely upon its
substantial accuracy.
•‘Aly first recollection of Lafayette
is that of a child three years old. By
a singular accident my father’s house,
ou North Island, South Carolina, was
the first American roof which shel
tered him. Late one night in the
year 1770, onr family was alarmed by
a loud knockiug at the door. Fear
ing au attack oi the enemy, we barred
oui windows and refused admittance.
At length we weie made to under
stand that the applicants wore the
Murquis de la Fayette and the Baron
de Kalb. They had taken to their
boat, to avoid British cruisers, and
had been directed by some of our ser
vants to uiy lather’s house. They
were, of course, admitted, with every
tokeu of welcome aud hospitality,aud.
accompanied by my father, left the
next morning for Charleston, from
whence they at ouce proceeded to the
American army. Young as 1 then
was, the incident made tt distinct im
piession upon my mind.”
After it abort pause, Colonel Huger
proceeded to the events that led to
bis second meetiug with Lafayette.
“Ibe merit of tbe contrivance to
rescue Lafayette from tbe Casfle of
Oluiutz belongs uot to tue, but to Dr.
Bollman. He was a Hanoverian phy
sician, of great conrage and address,
who bad been engaged by friends of
Lafayette to discover bis prison and
attempt bis rescue. Bolltu»io com
menced bis seurcb in 1793; but lor
some time could only learn that tbe
ltussian Government had given Aus
tria tbe custody of this daugerous re
publican, and that be was probably
somewhere in that country, 'lhe
next year, after many ineffectual at
tempts, bo found out tbi.t certaiu
French prisoners bad been taken to
Olmutz, a strong fortress in Moravia
Suspecting Lafayette might be oneol
them,Bollmaun at once repaired toOl
n>utz, where be managed to make tbe
acquaintance of tbe military sargeou
of the- fortress. Representing bim
self to be a physician, travelling for
improvement, be inquired oue day,
as if from idle curiosity, whether
there were any French prisoners in
the Fortress! ‘Oh! yes,’ was the re
ply ; ‘and Lafayette is among them.’
Bollmanu then mentioned that lie
i had some French hooks with him,
that he would gladly lend this famous
! prisoner. He was informed that this
would be permitted, provided the
hooks were inspected by the proper
officer. The books were accoidingly
sent; bat ill one of them, upon the
margins of separate pages, Bollmaan
had scrawled words which, when put
together, formed the following sen
tence: ‘If you read this book with
as much care as that lent yonr friend
at Madgebuig, you will receive equal
satisfaction.’ The person referred to
had received an account of concerted
plans lor his escape from prison writ
ten iu lemon-juice on the blank pages
of a book. Lafayette understood the
allusion, and, bolding it to the tire,
soon deciphered a request to instruct
his friends how to attempt his res
cue. ''
The book was then returned, and
Uollmanu, upon examiuiug closely,
found the words ‘Hold it to the lire’
written upon oue of its pages. On
obey lug t. e diiectioii, lie found that
lie had been understood. Lalayelle
mloiuied him tout he was frequently
allowed to drive for his health, and,
as he was personally uukuowu to
Bollmanii, he mentioned a signal by
wlii, h lie might he recognized, if they
should meet. This was all he couhl
say. Every thing else was left to the
courage aud ingenuity of this adven
turous doctor. Tue volume lent mid
returned was the only communication
he had ever had with Lafayette.”
“A short time after this,’’ o mtiuued
Colonel Huger, “1 met Hr. bollmaan,
at Vienna, wbeie he confided to me
his plans aud begged my assistance.
I felt it my duty to give him all the
aid iu my power. We hired a post
ebane and a servant; also two hors
es, oue ol them trained to carry’doub
le. We tbeu set off for Olmutz, a
distance of 150 miles. Upon our at
rival, we seut the servant aud the
chaise on to Hoff', a post-town twen
ty-five miles from Olmutz, ou the
road we wished to travel. We moun
ted our horses apparently to follow
bun ; but, iu fact, to endeavor to meet
Lulayette. Our pistols were not
loaded, aud we took no other arms.
We had uo intention of taking life to
forward our design. It was the burn
when we knew that Lafayette wasal
towed to ride. We rode towards the
Castle; and, upou nearing the walls,
saw an open carriage, iu which was
seated a prisoner in a blue surtout.
with an officer beside him aud au
armed soldier mounted behind. As
we passed, the prisoner gave the sig
ual agreed upon by raising his hai
aud wiping his forehead with his
handkerchief. The feelings excited
by this assurance that the prisonei
was indeed Lafayette I can never for
get. We looked, as indifferent as
possible, bowed slightly, aud rode on.
Fiesently we turned aud followed the
carriage. When it reached the open
country, Lafayette alighted, on the
pretense of taking exercise. He
gradually drew the officer who had
him in charge away from the high
road. Suddenly he grasped the hilt
of the officer’s sword aud drew it. At
that moment we galloped up to his
assistance. A scuffle ensued, the of
ticer was slightly wounded, and La
fayette's coat was stained with his
blood. The soldier meantime hur
tied back to the Castle, to give the
alarm. An unlucky incident here oc
curred. We had dismounted, and
oue of our horses, frighteud by the
sau gleaming upou the drawn swords,
ran away. The officer now seized La
layette by the collar aud succeeded
in throwing him. The latter exclaim
ie«l; ‘lie isstraughug we! V\ e then
attacked i lie officer, threw him, aud
held him down, calling to Lafayette
to mount the only remaining horse
aud escape. I said to him ‘Go to
fluff!’ a direction which Lafayette
most unfortunately mistook lor the
Buglish phrase ‘Go off 1’ If I had on
ly spoken in French, and said AUez a
Iloff, our plan would have succeeded.
Lafayette mourned aud rode slowly
away; but immediately returned,aud
declared that he could not leave us iu
such a situation. We reminded him
that not a moment was to be lost,
aud besought him not to frustrate
our design. With great reluctance
he then galloped slowly away. We
then let the officer escape, aud, alter
much difficulty, I succeeded iu catch
iug ottr other horse. We mounted
and attempted to follow Lafayette.
But, utifortuuutely, the horse that he
had taken was the one that we bad
trained to carry double. ■ The horse
we were compelled to mount, soon
loured, stumbled, and threw us. It
was impossible for both of us to e.s
cupe. 1 then insisted that Bollmanu
should take the horse aud follow La
fuyette alone. He declared that he
conld not leave me; bat, upon my re
minding bitn that he could be of great
assistance to Lafayette, throngh his
knowledge of the German language,
of which I was ignorant, he reluctant
ly decided to go.
“My situation was a forlorn one.
In a lew moments the whole country
would be in pursuit of ns. fiiut J re.
solved to lose no chance that remain
ed. I harried toward a consent,that
appeared upon a neighboring hill.
Boon I heard voices behind me, and
took refuge in a wood. I hid myself
behind a tree, determined to strike
the first horseman to the ground and
t.o mount bis horse, liut my pursu
ers were too numerous. I was iu
slantly surrounded, seized, aud car
ried to Olroutz.”
The characteristic delicacy of Colo
nel Huger led him to pass slightly
over his sufferings while iu prisou.
For ten days he was treated with the
utmost rigor. He was chained to the
fioor of a small arched dungeon, six
feet by eight, from which light was
totally excluded. His request to be
allowed to send the words “/ am
alive” to bis mother was rudely re
fused.
Colonel Huger continued his narra
tive tints:
“After t he rigor of my punishment
was abated by a removal front tbe
dark dungeon, I discovered that Boll
inauu was iu the apartment above
me. We soon contrived to hold some
communication, and from him I first
learned the total defeat of our plan.
He had reached Uotf; but, not find
ing Lafayette, be lingered on tbe
irontier till lie was arrested and sent
10 Ol muz. I have already explained
tne misnnderstai ding of my direo
non,‘Goto Hull!’ which frustrated
our design. Lafayette, thinking that
ne was only told to go off, wandered
into the village of Zagorsdorf, where
lie was stepped as a suspicious look
ing person, his clothes being stained
with blood. We were all three
brought back to 01tmitz,and confined
there separately, ignorant of one
another’s condition. When our trial
came on, a yonug man who served as
our interpreter became deeply inter
ested in our late, aud told our story
to Conut Metrowsky, an influential
person residing in the neighborhood.
Touched by the couduct and suffer
ings of two meD he had never seen,
I tliis nobleman gave our young inter
preter the command of his purse, and
the judges of the tribunal were bribed
to sncb effect that, after an imprison
ment ot eight mouths', we were re
leased. We had just cleared the
Austrian dominions, wheu an order
com mantling a uew trial reached Ol
inutz from Vienna. Had we been
(hereto meet it, there can be no
doubt that the result would have
been a sentence ol death.
“When I met Lafayette, the other
day, iu New York,I had uot seen him
lor thirty years. Determined that
our meeting should have no witnesses,
I went tu the house that had been as
-sgned to him early in the morning,
aud was admitted before he left bis
chamber. He remained in prisou
ihree years after the event I have re
lated. He was told that we had been
taken aud sentenced to execution,bnt
was uot informed of our liberation.—
For months he daily expected to see
us taken out to be shot.”
“While Colonel Hnger was speak
ing,’’ writes the lady to whom the
reader of this narrative is indebted
for its preservation, “the countenan
ces of bis little audience round the
table expressed alternate hope and
fear, joy and anxiety. The interest
of the most highly-wrought novel was
not surpassed by that of the story,as
it fell from the lips of one of the
chief actors, himself the best personi
fication of a real hero we had ever
seen."
Before returning to the cit.v, Colo
nel Huger amused the ladies of the
family by the account of a play then
very popular at'the theatres of New
York. It was called t he Castle of Ol
mutz, and he figured in it as a con
spicuous character. “But are you
not the hero 1” asked one of his ad
mirers. “Oh 1 no, indeed,” was the
reply. “Heroes are always married
at the end of the play, and I am not
so iortnuate. I am represented, how
ever, as desperately in love with the
daughter of the governor of the Cas
tle, atitf I am left in the same unhap
py situation at the end ot the play
l have always had a particular aver
sion to rumantic love stories, and lit
tie thought X should ever see my sell
figuring in oue of them.”—Indejtead
tut.
How to M ake Sermons Short.—
We like to preach short seruious just
as much as you like to hear us j but
if von want lo have the sermon short,
\o‘u must look out for your owu sins,
for we have got to name them all be
fore we come to the application, and
the lei.gib oi the sermon depends en
titely upon yourselves.—B. E. Hale,
THI SKEPTICAL SHOEMAKER.
“I bare read," said the shoemaker,
“a good deal about the heathen gods,
and I believe the account of Christ is
taken from some of the heathen writ
ings or other.”
••Will yon abide by Jour own deci
sion on two questions that 1 will put
to you I” said the Bible-reader. “If so,
I will freely do the same. I will
abide by yonr own answer; by doing
So we shall save much time, and ar
rive quicker at the truth.”
“Weil, said he, “out with it, and
let us see if I can answer; there are
but few things but what I cau say
something about.”
“Well, my friend,” replied the rpiul
er, “my first question is, Suppose all
men were Christians, according to
the account given to us in the Gos
l>el concerning Christ, what would be
the state of society 1”
Lie remained silent for some time
iu deep thought, and then was con
strained to say, “Well, if all meu
were really Christiaus in practice as
well as theory, ot course we should
be a happy brotherhood indeed.”
“I promise yon,” said the reader,
“that I would abide by your answer:
will you do the same f”
“Oh, yes,” he readily replied ; “no
man can deny the goodness of the
system iu practice; but uow fur ttie
other questiou ; perhaps I shall get
on better with that; you have got a
chalk this time against me.”
“Well my next questiou is this,
Suppose all men were intidels, what
then would be tbe state ol London
and ol the world f” He seemed still
more perplexed, and remained along
time silent, the reader doing the
same.
At length he said, “You certainly
have beateu me, for I never before
saw the two effects upon society ; 1
now see that wheie the (_hri tiau
builds up, the tufidel is pulling down,
f thank you I shall thiuk of whal
has passed this afternoon.”
The sequel was that he was fully
persuaded iu his own mind to give up
all his iuBdel companions and follow
tlie Lord Jesus Christ. But tbe
change did not stop here. When
flrst the render called he had to sit on
an old, dirty chair, with a number of
half starved children sitting in their
rags on the floor arouud him, neg
lected and uucared for; uow they
have removed to a better home in a
cleaner street. Witbiu, all is cheer
ful and happy. The father, no long
er faithless, delights iu the company
of his wife and children, all of whom
are neatly dressed ; aud his chief hap
piness is to read and speak to them
ot the tilings which belongs to their
everlasting peace.
“Where the Christian builds, the
infldel pulls down.” Why is thisf
The fact cannot be denied. Infldel
France wrote, “Death is an eternal
sleep,” above her cemeteries, and
then tore down civilization auu
quenched the light of humanity in
seas of blood. And Freucb cominu
uists iu 1871, while arresting ecclesi
astics aud describing them as “ser
vants of a person called God,” dug
down the foundations of law, order,
peace and truth, and with lire and
sword destroyed their fellow men by
thousands, and made the stieeia ot
Paris red with blood.
The traits ot unristiamty are as
precious as those of infidelity are vile
Where the precepts cf Christ have
sway, war is uukuown ; robbery, dis
Uouesty, iuteiuperauce violeuce and
Inst are forbidden ; aud under their
benign influence, property is se
cure ; life is sacred; poverty is provi
ded lor; sickness is pitied ; infancy is
nurtured; old age is revered; wo
mauhood is cherished; aud inauhood
is euuobled. Such are the fruits of
true Christianity ;—and iulidei vir
tues mostly spring from Christian
roots. Skepticism cannot blot out a
father’s godly counsels or a mother’s
fervent prayers. And as a result
there are often traces of Christian
principles where there is no Chris
tian profession; as therV are plenty of
people who practice infidelity while
they profess Christianity. Do not
be deceived by names of professions.
Set genuine infidelity aud genuine
Christianity side by side, w atch their
fruits aud take your choice.—Ex
change.
The contest which is before the
Church of Christ in this age is set
forth in some very vigorous words by
Bishop Huntington, of the Episcopal
church, as follows: “A barbaric
splendor,’ a sensuous and faithless
civilization, a decorated and hollow
worldliness, a society which, with its
mouth full of meat aud wine, and jew
els on its fingers, says otily, ‘Ear,
drink, dress, dance, tor tomorrow
ahull he as this day ; or, if we die, we
.die’—tlua is the heresy, the) horror,
the damnation thut American Chris
tians have to confront, to fight, ami
please God, to overcome.”—Exchange.
A LETTER FROM THE LATE JOHN S. C.
ABBOTT.
|The Methodist.]
Relieving some overburdened pig
eon holes of their accumulations of
old letters, this morning I came upon
the enclosed which I received from
the late Rev. J. S. G. Abbott, short
ly before his death. Mr. Abbott’s
literary position will make the letter
interesting, and its serenely ex pec
taut spirit helpful, I doubt nut, to
your readers. I am faithfully yours,
Jehu DeWitt Miller.
“Peppenegeck” X. V., July 22,1380.
The Letter.
*»#*•» Your kind letter of
the oth has just been brought me. 1
am pillowed upon a sick and citing
bed, with a little tablet in my bauds
1 can, without much dtliculty, pencil
lines to my friends. I sutler very
little pain. My mind, it seems to me,
was never more clear or joyous.—
The physicians assure me that 1 am
liable at any moment to die. I am
happy. 1 do not see how any one
can be more happy out of heaven.
1 am expecting every hour that a
group of loving angels will come and
say to me, ‘•Brother, God has sent us
to convey you to heaven—the chariot
is waiting.” All the infirmities ol
flesh and sin will vanish from body
and soul. I shall be the congenial
companion with the angels in that
most wonderful of all conceivable
journeys from eaith to heaven. 1
have several times taken the tour ol
Europe. Aud there was great joy
ill seeing the wonders of the old
world. But there were sorrows too,
the discomforts of travel, the need of
ecouomy; the mind burdened with
those earthly cares which never can
belaid aside. But when tbo angelic
summous come, I shall be an ‘ heir ol
God.” He will provide the chariot
aud will meet all the expenses. All
care, imperfection, pain will he goue.
The escort will be glorious, angels
loving me with a brothers love, and
God will have made me worthy of
i heir love. We shall pass Sirius, the
Pleiades, Orion aud firmaments, oi
as Herscliel calls them, other univer
ses of unimaginable spleudor. And
then we shall enter heaven 1 All its
glories will burst upou our euraptur
ed view. Angels and archangels,
cherubim and seraphim, will gather
around us with their congratulations.
W e shall see God, his tliroue, the
splendor of his court, uudersfaud all
the mysteries of his being, aud enter
upon blessings inconceivable, forever
aud forever.
All this I believe, my dear friend,
as fully as I believe in my own exis
teuce. Aud I may enter upon this
enjoymeut before uigbt shall darken
arouud me. In the religion of the
Son of God and in the atoueuieut be
has made for my sius, 1 fiud all that
my soul craves 1 am indeed happy
But writing these lines has exhaust
ed me. I hope to meet you iu heav
en. Then we will clasp hands aud
lovingly refer to this correspondence,
Yours affectionately,
Johns. C. Abbott.
Fair Haven, Conn., March 3, 1377.
GOLDEN WOKDS.
The habit, of looking on the bright
side is valuable. Men anil women
who are evermore reckoning up what
they want rather than what they
have—counting the difficulties in the
way instead of contriving means to
overcome them—are almost certain to
live on corn bread, fat poik, and salt
tish, and sink to unmarked graves.
The world is sure to smile upon a
man who seems to be successful; but
let him go about with a crest fallen
air, aud the very dogs in the street
will set upon him. We must all have
losses. Late frosts will nip the fruit,
the bud banks will break, invest
meats prove worthless, valuable hor
ses die, china vases break ; but all
these calamities do not come togeth
er. The wise course to pursue, when
when oue plan fails, is to form anoth
er ; when one prop is knocked from
under us, to till its place with a sub
stitute, aud evermore count what is
lelt, rather than what is taken. When
the dual reckoning is made, if it ap
pears that we have not lost the con
sciousuess of iuteutioual rectitude ; if
we have kept charity towards all men;
if, by various discipline of life, vve
have been freed from follies amt con
tinued in virtue, whatever we have
lost, the great balance sheet will be
in our favor.—£j>.
Neglect of private duties is the
grcut reason why the hearts of many
are so dead aud dull, so loruial anil
carnal, so barren anil unfruitful un
der public ordinances. Oh ! that
Cbnstiaus would lav this seriously to
beau. Certainly that man’s heart is
bestiu public duties who is most fre
quent iu private exercises.
jarrn an A
HINTS TO LOVERS OF FLOWERS.
A most beautiful and'easily attain
ed show of evergreens may lie had
h.v a very simple plan, which |ia>
been found to answer remarkably wcj
ou a small scale.
It geranium branches, taken from
luxuriant and healthy trees, be cut as
for slips and immersed in soap watei
they will, after drooping for a few
days, shed their leaves and put.forth
fresh ones, and conHtiuc in the lines’
vigor all the winter. By placing -e
number of bottles thus filled in the
Bower-basket, with moss toeoncea1
the bottles, a show of evergreen is
easily insured for the whole winter
All the different varieties of the
plant being used, the various shape,
and colors of the leaves blend into a
beautiful effect. They require no
fresh water.
By striking young verbena plants
in the last days of July, and potting
them first into thumbs and then into
larger as soon as the roots have
reached t he sides, and keepiug then
in vigorous growth, pinching back
the leading shoots and nipping off
every-flower head, the verbenas may
be made to bloom in the w indow ab
winter, lucre is danger from over
w ateritig.
Sow is the time to sow Caiuatior
and Picotee seed for next summer’
flowers. Sow in a partially shf.dei
bed. As soon ^as the plants have
made the second pair of leaves, prick
out inton bed where they are wanted
to flower. Protect with a slight mul
ching ofdry leaves eftning winter,
INITIALS ON FRUIT.
Did you ever see a name printed on
a growing'apple, pear or peach ? No
Weil, if yon wish to have that pleas
ure, this is the way to obtain it:
VVLile the fruit yet hangs g'reei
upon the tree, make up your mim
which is the very biggest and mosi
: promising specimen of all. Next, cm
out from thin tough paper the initials
of the name of your little brother 01
sister or chief crony with round
specks for the dots after the letters,
aud the letters theuisehes plain and
thick. Then paste these letters aud
dots on that side of the apple which
is most turned to the sun, taking
care not to loosen the liuit’s hold
upou its stem,
As soon as the apple is ripe, tak.
off the papereuttings, which, having
shutout the reddening rays of tin
! sun, have kept the fruit green jus
1 beneath them, so that the name oi
initials now show plainly.
After that, bring the owner of the
initials to play near the tree, and sa.'
presently, ‘-Why, what are those
queer marks on that apple up there?”
You will tiud this quite a pleasant
way to surprise the very little one.
and, of course, you can print a short
pec name as easily as initials.
DEPTH OF SGWiNG WHEAT,
Farmers who are wide awake and
given to investigation don't so.'
as much wheat per acre as the.' lor
uierly did, and they don’t sow it si
deep. The great, heavy harrows oi
of ten or twenty years ago, are no
now employed by them in covering
seed, and t Lie drill, which can be de
pended on better, is becoming uni
versally popular. A Wisconsin wn
ter gives tbe result of an experiment
in planting at different depths—on
tbe sutface, bite-fourth inch, oue
half inch, three-fourth inch, and so
uii to several inches. That on the
surface lay two weeks before sprout
ingt that one-fonrtli to three-fourth
1 inches deep came up in litur or five
j days, and so on, getter later as the
■ depth increased.
I The last to come up was planted
three-aud a half inches deep, and
was fourteen days in reaching the
, surface. Jfoue planted deeper ever
j reached the surface. At the end 01
six weeks that planted one-fourth to
one-half inch deep stood way ahead
of the rest.
Dyspepsia Ocee.—In mild cases
i take one teaspoonful sweet oil, aftei
! eating, three times a day. lu severe
: forms take a dessert spoonful. This,
, followed up, has cured cases where
doctors have given them up. Ye
who sufier from this dreadful disease
don’t fail to try it; surely it can’t
hurt you.
To cool the blood drink cold water
acidulated witu pure,powdered cream
tartar. ' ’’
Friends, assist us in extending the
j circulation of the Sun.
SELECTED RECEIPES.
If a groove is mode in :i lien roost
uid lilied with a mixture of lanl and
sulphur, the fowls will uot be trou
bled with life.
It is said that a tea made of ehest
mt leaves, and drank in the place of
'ater. will core the most obstinate
•use of dropsy in a few days.
lits can he in taut I v cored by
browing a spoonful of finesaitas far
nick into the month of the patient as
io.-sibie, just tis i lie in comes on.
In feeding bran to stock we obtain
r return almost equal to its cost in
rhe active quality of the manure. A1
lays bear this mind and feed yonr
stock liberally on it.
-Mixing fowls from different local
•ies is the most fruitful cause of
■lii iken cholera. The dilltrerit breeds
if game fowls seem less liable to this
lisease than any other, and if kept
ree from contact with “strau gees,’’ are
lot likely to contract this malady.
C'hqleba Infantum.—For chol
ra infanrum, the whites of two eggs,
veil beaten ; then mix with water;
o.ld one teaspoonful of orange tlower
'ater and a lrtf’.e sugar; a table
•pbontid every hour. It will,says an
xchauge,. cure the worst case of
cholera infatituui.
Diarrhea in Pius.—Chauge food
or a short time. Linseed meal one
part : bran seven parts; corn,ground
wo parts; mix aud add a little salt.
For one hundred pigs put two ouncts
of tincture of veratrum veride in a
rucketful of warm water, aud mois
• en their food three timesa day. Get
i quart of the veratrum.
The Queen of Puddings.—One
pint of bread crumbs, one quart of
uilk, six ounces of sugar, butter of
lie size of au egg, the yelks of four
Jggs, flavored with lemon aud bake
is custard.
Beat the whites of four eggs to a
.loth, aud mix with it a cup of pow
lered sugar and the juice of a lemon;
spread a layer of fruit jelly while hot;
cover with the lrost'iug, and bake nn
ll slight brown. ,
1 bis is to be eaten cold with cream
ir warm with any sauce.
To Preserve Quinces.—Pare
ind core them nicely, aud have some
i hole and some cut in large slices.
Putin a kettle aud bod until you
•au pass a straw easily tLrough
hem; tlreu put them on dishes to
coel.
Take some of the water in which
bey were boiled make a syrup of one
round of sugar to one popnd of fruit.
Boil it, aud when clarified put in the
quinces. Cover for a while with a
urge plate (it makes them light coi
ned), ami let them boil slowly until!
hey are dear. Every now and then j
ake them out of the kettle aud lay
hem singly ou dishes to cool a little,
and then put them back to cool
more.
llus process is suitable tor preser
ciug pears and peaches likewise.
Heal Hasty PtDDiNG.—Put
Keltic with the quantity of cold
erin it which you wish to have ct
pudding, put in salt: some like moY
some like less (uso your judgm£
tbout that). Wlien the water
gins to boil take the corn meal in on&e it.
hand and the pudding stick or spoon,^
in the other. Let the meal fall gent-res
ly through the thumb aud fingers,*^
stirring it all the time until it gets prove
eake when ready to bake. When
■hat thickness boil it about five new
utos, pour it out into a greased •fcbesi
not very deep. When wait$jgO
breakfast cut it in slices about han11 your
inch thick. Pry in lard a little a&tfU.
han is used for griddle cakes. So^a^t
like it tried or boiled iu fat as doug your
nuts are, but it is rather too rich. noney
“ jon
jou
11GH
Ueed Pied Dumplihg.—:
birds may be good roasted or **sme serv
but there is a little finish abort 14 caps
reed bird dumpling which ha 5**n trj"
charms. MITH
lingerie Sue tells about a £■'
iiuuter who in a wild boar pt^
key, iu the turkey a pigeou( •
that pigeon au ortolau, then i&oc. Better
the boar aud all, and threpo store.
everything but the ortolan
alone ate.
Reed bird dumplings $iea by Mr. J. B.
like this :
Take a reed bird aud %. L. D«ughtrey’«.
iu him. Make a dough r
bug and put him iusid*ARDBN * eley.
dumpliug ibercqgh1"
vour the dumptinj
kernel, whiuh
the oyster.
It was au
.tare riv
oooked