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itii wEiiLiliiei;times. ' Hotio^d lo immature, ?orliin?U?r^ J^aliti^s, and lfo{ <$urrrnl Unds o)f the gag. VOL. X.?Nett Sr.hies. ^ ^ ^ ^^^^j^jl^ijjPBP^^^BLC^J^LINAT^APRIL 11,1S79 The united Lenten service of the Episcopal Church was held us usual, and St. Luke's Church was tolerably filled. The congregation was composed chiefly o( ladies, to which circumstance perhaps touy be attributed the uiuuuer in which a subject requiring the most Convincing and severest logic was handled by the preacher of the day, the Rev. Dr. Prentiss. The subject was the Identification of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel with the Anglo-Saxon race now resident in Great Rritain and in this country. The subject was new to the audience, none of the clergy of the church in this city having us yet brought it to the notice of their congregations. Sympathizing with the preacher of the day in his views and efforts, I hope you will nllow me to reduce his matter into a more systematic and logical arrangement than his limited time and peculiar audicnced seemed to justify him in even attempting. And hero I would remark, at the outset, that in all investigations upon this subject it is of the V. utmost importance to remember, that in prophetic writings the descendants of Abraham appear as two distinct nationalities. To confound Judah, or the Jews proper, with Kphraiui, Israel, or the Ten Tribes, or sous of Isaac, as they arc sometimes called in the Scriptures, is to confuse the prophecies and render pi.:io words un intelligible. ? In many places in the prophetic writings these two peoples are brought into sharp i and distinctive coutrast. Iu the same sentence one people are cursed and some other people called by (Jod "my servants" arc uiessou. i nis uutercut nationality can only be the Ten Tribes, because no other nations on the face of the earth were at the tiuie of the prophecy even pretending to serve Jehovah, except these two people of Judah and Ephraiui. Take for example Isaiah, Goth chapter, llith to 15th verses: ' Therefore thussailh the Lord God: llehold my .servants (Ephraiui) shall eat, but ye 1 (Judah) shall be hungry. llehold niy servants (Ephraiui or the Tcu Tribes) shall drink, but ye (Judah) shall be thirsty, liehold my servants (Ephraiui) shall rejoice, but ye (Judah) shall be ashamed, llehold 1 niy servants (Israel, Ephraiui or the Ten 1 Tribes) shall siug for joy, but ye (Judah) 1 shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl 1 for vexation of spirit. And ye (Judah) ; shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen (Ephraiui.) for the Lord God shall I slay thee (Judah) and call his servants < (Ephraiui) by another name." llerc,then, wo have curses upon Judah and blessings upon Ephraiui joined together, and beginning at the same. If, therefore, wo can ascertain at what tiuie the curse be gins to descend upou Judah, wo discover, | necessarily, the time when the blessing upon Kphraiui commences. Now the curse begins to descend emphatically upou Judah, or the Jews proper, in A. 1). 70, when Titus took Jerusalem; and of necessity, the blessing upou Ephraim also. It is evident, from Acts 24, 0th and 7th verses, that the Apostle Paul well knew the place of Ephraiui's residence, and their religious character and condition. It is evident from 1st Peter 1, 1, that they were dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cnppadocia. Asia, (Roman, or Proconsular Asia,) and Bythinia, and also front verse 8th, that they had embraced Christianity. Thev had not eonsnntcd unto tlio /.f J ?? ?" ",,v Vi ,,I,V V1 Judah iu crucifying the Lord of (Jlory, but had received the Gas pel with avidity ; denouncing the Mosaic ritual and religion, finding the law a yoke which neither they nor their fathers could'bear, they were in danger of rushing into the opposite error of Autinouiiauisui, against which St James iu his Epistle addressed to them, (see 1st chapter, 1st verse,) cautious and reproves them. Joscphus, who lived about this time, testifies that the Ten Tribes were then resident in the East, and were a multitude which no man could number. From this time they begin to be called by another name.? Abandoning all their Jewish peculiarities, losing even their distinctive physiognomy, they become lost, while vot "the show of his countcnanco" continues to testify against Judah for his rejection of the Messiah. Now, to find theso Lost Tribes, it is only necessary to ascertain their history, characm.? i;?:..? ..u .I.~..~ -i -:e~ i esc islands is northwest of l'alcstino. See Jeremiah, 3?18. aud Isiah, 43?5. In this land God "speaks to them by another nauio." Here a partial blindness (as to their ancestry) "happens unto them." (Romans, 11?25) Here (Jod promises to load these "bliud by away that they know not of." Here, trno to their national instiuets, they yearn after an acknowledged relationship with Jehovah, saying: "Doubtless those are our father, through Israel acknowledge us not." Ilerc they are to increase wonderfully, "to belike the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured." (llosea, 1?10.) So large is their iucreuso that, when God gathers them again into their own laud, He can only take "one of a city and two .of a family" to restoro thorn to Zion. They are to become a multude ot natious, overflowing iuto colonies, because their place is too strait for them. Oue remarkable colony they arc to lose, (Mauassah or tiie United States,) but alter they have lost this "the children which she shall have shall say the place is too strait for inc." Isaiah 49?20. In order to aid them in subduing waste and desolate places by their colonics, their physical constitution is to adapt itself to all countries so that "the sun shall not "hurt thcui by day neither the moon by night." lu this insular residence they are to be unconquerable; "uo weapon formed against them is to prosper." They arc to rule the waves; "the deep is to couch beuealh them." Extraordinary blessiugs are to attend their agriculture, rjp'ir commerce, their miuiug operatious (Dout. i)o, 14?10;) to be blessed iu their basket aud their store ; in their uprising and in their down sitting; in their going ouc and in their coming in." Their coat-ofarms has on it the Lion and the Uaicoru. Deut. 13?17. With these horus Ephraiui is to push out the aborigines of every couutry which he colonizes. The Lord is to set Epraim "high above all the nations of the earth." lie is to be a great banker, "lending to many nations, and borrowing from none." lie is to be the champion of civil and religious liberty, "to break every yoke and let the oppressed go free." They are to make much of the law, "writing it upon the posts" of the churches. They are to observe the Sabbath conspicuously. ^They arc to have an established church, bocauso their kiugs will bury their dead there; in their exile God is "to be to them a little s.aiiet.unrv" Jinrt tliev will Ufrti J J ? " -J "w?ship towards Jerusalem, (i. e. to the East.) Find a people with these marks and you find the Lost Ten Tribes.?JVcics and Courier. Watermelons.?Editor Southern Cultivator.? Your correspondent J. 13. S. wants the best plan for raising watcruieljns, and when to plant. 1 don't know that 1 can [give him the best plan or best time to plant, but will give me own plau, which has proved quite successful. I prefer sandy soil, that grew cither sweet potatoes or cotton the year before?the manure to be ouelialf cotton seed rnd one-half horse manure, a horse manure by itself. I never succeeded with phosphate. 1 break the land in February or March, iu April lay it off 8 feet each way, dig out a hole iu each cross with a shovel, taking out about five shovels full of earth from each, put into the holcstwo shovelfuls of manure and two of earth, mix both well together with a pitch-fork, then raise the hill a little above the level of the earth. 1 then let it remain until the first of May, when I plant onehalf of my ground?the remainder to be planted the middle of May. I plant ten or twelve seed in a hill, about 1 or 1] itches deep. As soon as they get up, I hoc them; and continue to do so once a week until they arc laid by. 1 plough with a shovel plough once in two weeks, beginning one week after the first hoeing, until they begin to bear. If your correspondent lives as low down as I think, 1 would advise hiui to plant one month sooner. The melons must be thinne-l to two in a hill as soon as they have two leaves beside the germ-leaf. Anderson Co., S. C. T. II. ? Urns or Pullkts.?For breeders, there is little question that two year-old liens are preferable to yearling pullets?where only "fancy" fowls are cultivated. The eggs of hens arc larger. They are better developed. Tho chicks coming Irom hen's eggs are always strongest, the most mature at birth, and will grow up, generally speaking, more surely in the aggregate. Put hens two or three years old will not lay so great a number of eggs as will pullets iu the first twelve months after they commence to lay. In quantity, therefore, yearling hens will excel ; but not in quality, for hatching purposes. For setting, then, we recommend eggs of year-old past and two-year-old hens as the most reliable, where these can bo had haudily. If the novice is commencing fowlruisiug with a trio of young stock, however, it is perhaps as well to set the pullets, eggs iu this case. Tho earliest litters a pullet lays in that case should not be used. They are not so good for incubation as are tho later ones.?Poultry World. ?The cynical old cuss-toincr on the Hart, ford Timeit says: "Wedlock is like a bird cage ; those without peck to get in, and those within pock to get out." w i*uu VVUUIVIUH, (IO I m;"VJ Iliu Ut'SUI IUUU III prophecy, and see whether there be any people on the earth who can meet the requirements. The people that fills the prophet's bill is Ephraim. llosea (1st chaptor lUth verse) oives us the first mark by which we are to know them. They are to dwell in SDiiu: country in which they arc not to bo recognized as the people of God, (i. c. as Israelites.) but these arc to be noted for their religion. There it shall be said unto tlrein, "l'e are the sous of the living God." This land of their new habitation is insular, and in these islands the exhausted people are to find "rest and to "renew their strength." (Isaiah, N ? 1.) See the whole chapter. In this country they "shall lift up their voice from the sea," and "glorify the nam of the Lord God of Israel in ? PRUNING. The season is now at hand for comincnc ing gardeu operations, and the first in or dor is that of pruning. Most, shrubs on I] require to be thinned of irregular, strag gliug brunches, or of the suckers whiot spring up front the root6. Such shrubs ai bear flowers on the last years'growth shouk be pruued back but very little, as othcrwisi they could produce but few flowers. O this class are lilacs, syringes, spiraeas, vi burnums, cnlycuuthus, hydrangeas, dcutzias magnolias, rhododendrons and azaleas.? .Shrubs such as the althoei and roses, which bear flowers on wood of this season's growth should have last year's growth well cui back, say to within three or lour iuchcs ol the old wood. Hoses should have the shorl wood of last year's growth cut l/iick to tw< or three buds, nud the loug shoots short eucd from uoc-third to one-half their length all wood of over two years' growth shoulc be entirely cut out, as it never produces fim blooms. Honeysuckles are generally al lowed to bocouio too crowded in thcii growth; they will bear a goud deal of thin ning out, and last year's growth should bi pruued back to within an inch or two ol the main steins. If they have from ncglcei become uaked at the bottom, and only flow ering at the top of the trellis, one-half ol the maiu stems should be cut back to with in a foot of the ground ; this will cause t new growth of young shoots to fill up the vacancy. Wisterias should have last year's growth shortened back so as to leave onl) lour to six iuches of it, uulcss they are new running stems and it is desirablo to relate thcui; they may, however, be shortened back ouc-tbird their leugth. ?Ampclopsu (Virginia creeper), bignonia (truuipci crccpcr), and aristolochia (Dutchman') j pipe) only require the cutting back of the ' swinging forcright shoots, eu as to giv< theui a neat, tidy appoarauce. Akcbii and clematis scarcely requre any pruning all that is ucedcd being to cut out nuy iu terfcring growth that cannot bo laid iu oi; the trellis without overcrowding. In pruning fiuit trees reference must ol course be had to the kinds, their mode ol growtu ana ol oearmg. JMauj people thiufc that all the iutcrior branches must be cut out, to give, as they suppose, plenty of light and air to the center of the tree. This is nearly always carried to au extreme, and the consequence is that the weight of the foliage and fruit is thrown upon the outer ends of the branches, so that iu High winds or rain-storms they arc broken off at the trunk, to the eventual destruction of the tree. Largo branches shuuld never be cut off if it can possibly be avoided; wheu it is absolutely necessary to do so, they should be cut off" close to the trunk, without Laving any snags, and the wound should be covered with grafting-wax or some similar composition to keep out the weather. Apple, pear, cherry aud plum trees bear fruit on spurs, and care must be had uot to cut them off"; the young growth upon which the spurs are not yet formed should ouly be shorteued back about one-third of its length, as a rule, for, if shortened more than that, the whole energy of the tree will be expended iu produeiug now shoots instead of Bpurs. Quince trees produce their fruit on spurs which throw out long shoots, on tho ends of which the fruit is carried; the fruit-bearing shoots of the previous year should be shorteued back to ouly two or three eyes, iu order to produce new shoots fur next year's fruiting. Pruning peach trees should be delayed uoiil the buds begin to swell, as then the fruit buds can be distinguished P. it. - 1 - t i -* *" f t uuui ino icai uuus. > cry littiu pruning is required beyond shortening the previous year's growth and cutting out any dead wood. It is especially desirable to keep them compact in shape, as the weight of the fruit on the ends of long branches causes thein to split off or break. Every care must be had to so prune them as to keep the interior of the tree supplied with young bearing wood, and this is done by shortening back the shoots sufficiently to cause the buds at the base of the shoot to break and form new shoots; shortening back about one-half will be sufficient. There are two systems employed in pruning the grapevine; one is called the spur system and the other the long cane system. In the first the leading cane is cut back t; three or four feet, according to its strength ; the terminal bud continues the length of the cane, and should not be allowed to bear fruit; the buds below will throw out lateral shoots which will produce fruit; these arc pruned back the next senson to two or tliroe eyes, which again produce fruit, the leader being shortened back as before, aud so year after year. In the lollir C.llie bVStuill the fiams urn nrniliintd by pruning buck to within two eyes of the main stem, and when tbey havo made a year's growth, leaving the strongest caue tc bear fruit, but shortening it back to three or four feet, and let the weakest caue make a seasou's growth, and then pruning it back to three or four feet the succeeding year and cutting back the fruit bearing cane t( one eye to produco auother canc, and so al tcrnately. The spur system produces tin most fruit, the long caue system the largesi bunches. The currant and tho gooseberry mainlj produce their fruit on wood that is too ui three years old. After a branch has pro 1- -I.M . ?- i . ^ -J. - duced two or thrco crops of fruit it should " bo cut .out and a younger one bo allowed to" take its place. All the prining they P require is to cut out old wood, shorteu ' the younger shoots, and remove any suckers 1 and roots that are likely to inaka two ' crowded a head ; they should be so pruned 1 and trained as to give them plenty of air 3 and light. Raspberries only require the re1 moval of tho shoots that bore fruit last sea" son, and the shortening back of lost year's ? growth one-half to one-third its length, according to the strength of the shoots.? 1 Blackberries require the sauic treatment. ' All pruning should be done with a prun^ ing-knifo or with pruning-slicars, bu',never ' with hedge shears ; every branch or shoot 1 should be individually examined and pruned 3 according to its streffth, growth, or position. The operation should never bo iutrusted to ? any but an intelligent person, or at least under the iunnediatc'supcrvisioti of such a ono. 5 Ignorant, stupid laborers will often do moro injury in au hour at such operations than r can be remedied in a year ; because they can handle a shovel or a hoc, it docs not s r..ii au-A. ,\? - ? ioi;ww 111 iil wicy arc garuoncrs, auit wc thcrcforo advise such of our readers as arc 1 fond of their gardens to supervise 6uch ' work themselves, unless they can get the services of a regularly-bred gardener. Besides pruning the head or top of a tree, 1 pruning the roots is souietifries practiced to ! induce fruitfulncss in trees that are either in 5 too rich a soil or in a soil that is very poor. Wheu planted iu too rich a soil, fruit trees are apt to make too strong a growth and ! run too uiuch to wood. Pruning the tops oi heads of the trees in such cases does not ' uiakc them fruitful, but has a tendency to aggravate the trouble by causing the tree J to throw out large numbers of new shoots 5 in directions where they arc not wanted. ' To counteract this a trench about eighteen 1 inches or two feet wide aud of correspond1 ing depth, accoriog to the age and size of the tree, should be dug out half way rouud 1 the tree, the roots should be carefully pruued with a sharp kuife, and the trench filled up with fresh soil, hut of poor quality ; rotted sods or the surface soil of au old meadow ' soil beingexcellcutfor thispurpolse; this uew ' must he firmly troddcu dowu as it is throwu in. The ucxt season the saute operation must he performed on the other half of the circle. Tho distance of the trench from the trunk of tho tree must he governed by the spread of the branches aud the uge of tho. tree; generally the trench may be dug at oue-third or one-half the spread of the tree?iu young trees nearer lhau in older ones. If the soil is uaturally poor aud cuunot ho readily curichcd in any other way, this operation wiil also ho ot great service, only filling up the trench with rich soil, or that more suitable to the tree thau that iu which it is planted. By these uieaus the growth of a tree may be readily controlled, and lar loss pruuing ol' the top be required The pruning kuit'e and shears will never | produce fruiil'uluess unless the roots, which promote the growth of the top, are ulso ' uudcr control.?Harper * Bazar. Items prom tiie American Aoriculi tukist:?Flax.?This crop promises to - become a staple, East as well as West, as i flax manufacturing is becoming established. - Low, moist ground, newly cleared swamp , or uieadow-land suits flax exactly. In the ( West, fresh prairie is suitable. 1 bushel ; of seed per acic should be sown this mouth. ' Raising Calves.?To purchase improved 1 stock, requires much money. But the same result may be gained by keeping a well 1 selected bull and raising the heifer calves 1 with care. Calves will thrivo well when taught to drink from the pail the third day. 1 It is well for them to suck the cow and sof1 ten the udder, for three or four days. Coirs.?There is no better feed, as a , steady diet for cows, than grass ; but there . may be cases in which sotno stimulating food may bo used with benefit. Early grass , is not healthful, being immature and too laxative. It would be better to follow the old English practice in this respect, and not turn cows to grass until May. Mayday is an ancient farmer's holiday on this account in England, and wo might well , follow their practice. This, of courso, refers to localities with tho same seasons? earlier at tho south, aud even later at tho | far north. /Torses.?As the coat begins to loosen, ! the skin is often irritable. This may be ' corrected by giving in the food daily one ounce of an equal niixturo of sulphur and cream of tartar lor a few days. Good grooming with a so't brush aud a blunt ! curry-comb should not be neglected. If the gums are swollen, rub them with a corn1 cob dipped iu powdered borax Cleanliness ^ is a great preventive of disease. As the * weather becomes warmer, uioro oats, rye, or barley, aud less corn may be led. Au oc* ' casional feed of cut ruta bagas will be use> ful. ' Brood Marcs.?As foaling approaches, brood inures should be turned into a loose box. The extra exorcise is beneficial and L (licy rest more at ease. Their work should be lightened. The most gentlo trcatuicnt should be exercised; the temper of the colt [ often depends upon this. A few wore subscribers wanted. SOT AT 10 If OP CROPS B88S1VTIAL TO UEF UP FERTILITY Or SOILS. The necessary steps toward an improved husbandry are: 1. To cultivate less land. 2. To make that which is cultivated rioh in plant food, so that it may produce large crops. 3. The practice of a rigid system of rotation of orops, and mixed farming. 4. The cultivation of the grasses and less of hood crops aud feeding upon the farm the most of its products. 5. Enriching the land by turniug under green crops. All observation and experience go to show that those sections of the country are most pros! perous ffhere n mixed system of farming prevuils. The farmer who finds in his own garners mat winch is uoedod to supply bis daily wants, is far removed from tho vexation and losses attendant upon outside purchases, which so severely tax his means. It is not unfrequently the case, when he produces but a single article for the market, * that it commands a price which but poorly compensates him for his labor, while he has to pay exorbitant prices for that which ho is compelled to purchase. This is :(selliug the hide for n penny, and buying back the tail for a shilling," which surely is cot a profitable transaction. Mixed agriculturo necessarily leads to a system of rotation of crops, which is the key to successful farming. That there is a vast recuperative power in lauds where a succession of different crops is grown no one can deny in the light of universal experience. Thousands of those who have hitherto devoted themselves to a single production?cotton, tobacco or Igraiu?now acknowledge this error. Succosivo crops of the same obaracter * exhaust lauds of the particular food they require, with great rapidity. The aid which nature so freely renders, where crope rotate,, is withheld in such a system of cultivation^ because the farmer is violating hir laws.? To fight against nature is to war at fearful; odds, and it is not difficult to forecast tho j result. To work in harmony with her, insures a comparatively easy victory. Ono* of the most beautiful of her provisions is t ?9' that while one crop exhausU tho soil of that element which cutcrs most largely into its composition, by the operation of seme mysterious law it prepares that same soil for some other crop of a different character.? This is a very curious and interesting pro^ cess of nature, which results immensly toour advantage if we expect her aid. As an illustration of this principle, wo know that clover, does, not successfully follow itself, although it leaves the ground in tho best possible condition for corn or wheat. Que crop, therefore, restores, in a measure, what another has taken.? By raising continuously the same plant; you interfere with this beautiful contrivance of nuturo to rebuild her wasted strength. Nature, therefore, will do much of our work for us if wo only second her efforts, and give full scope to her beneficent laws. It is, therefore, a question for the farmer to determine whether he will, by a rotation of crops, have soil thus enriched by drafts on nature s treasury or draw entirely upon his own. I do not mean to argue that there is nothing for the farmer to do to make his lauds productive. Far from it. lfut I do argue that he may make nature a co-worker with him in attaining a desirable end.? Change is a prominout feature in nature's economy. Cut down the forest of hard wood and tho pines succeed. Again, remove the pine aud (be hard wood reappears. Ono kind of grass succeeds another, and nature supplies tho seed. These changes give tho soil rest, to the end that the process of rcinvigoration may go on. Day and night succeed^ each other, and each performs its function io promoting vcgctablo life. Eternal sunshine would result in eternal blight. The fulling dew brings with it the nitrogen from tho air to gladden vegetation. The sun appears. Its light and hent liberate the acids and gases which, enter upon thoir work of usefulness in proparing a variety of vegetable food. Winter and summer follow each other. Frost disintegrates and renders tho earth porous, opening the way for the heat and moisture of summer, so that chemical laws may work out their beautiful results. Thus unccasiugly, year after year, the silent agencies aro at work preparing the earth for man's use mat 11 may bring forth abundantly of evorything which is necessary for his support. ? Tim. Fuller ton iu Nexo York World. A Mother's Influence.?Thomas II. Benton paid the following tribute to his mother: "My mother asked mo never to I use tobacco, and I have never touched it from that time to the present day. Sbo asked me not to game, and I havo not, and I cannot tell who is winning or who is losing in games that can bo played. Shf admonished me, too, against drinking, and whatever capacity for endurance I may have at present, and whatever usefulness I may attain in lifo, I attribute to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinenoe, at a timo when I was sole constituent, adhered to it through all timo, I owo to my mother." Lawyers arc ncvor more earnest than when they work with a will?that is, if tho estate is valuable.