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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-04-02
French Jests.

Fragment of dialogue
eyes, my friend, this idea has been
running in my head for six months"
"Unhappy idea It's wonder it didn't
die of ennui all alone like that"
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"What is Your fathers name?"
uNTt.. G.lI,-o- - ro,,I;oI ;11;

MARTIN SutllVan, rep1eI Lizzie.
"What - Martin - Martin Sullivsnl"
lie exclaimed, jumping up at the same
time and casting d piercing look at the
children, thoroughly frightening them.
His face grew red--tben tears came to
bis eyes-at last he sobbed aloud. He
took the youngest child in his arms,
pressed her to his heart and kissed her.
The child struggled and called for help
to her sister; she could not think what he
meant.
Then he put down the little one and
did the same to Lizzie, who took it more
quietly, as she had seen that the man had
rot hurt her sister. At last he became
more composed; be dried his tears and
said:
"Do you know my name, children?"
"No," replied Lizzie.
"How happened it, then, that you have
come to me?" he asked. "Has anyone
sent you to me?"
Nobody has sent Tie" replied Lizzie.
ave we're TO go to Kilburp, where
| brother of our father lives, and they said
he would gladly receive us. But L do
not believe it, for cur mother always said
he is hard hearted man, who does not
care for his relations"
your mother was quite right when
she said So" said the farmer. But
what will you do if the hard hearted man
does not receive you?"
"Then we snail have TO starve," an
swered Lizzie.
"No, no." exclaimed the man, quietly;
it shall never come to that-never. Dry
your tears. The merciful God has had
pity on you in your helplessness and has
made use of fierce brute to soften the
heart of your uncle, and therefore He
will never forsake you-Dever."
The children looked at the man in
utter bewilderment: they did not under
stand what he said-his words and his
behavior were alike strange TO them.
This be soon perceived. for he added:
{" You we're going to Kilburp to Pat
rick Sullivan; you are already there. L
am your uncle; and nov thGt I know that
you are the children of my brother Mar
tin, l make you welcome"
The children's tears quickly changed
into smiles. aud the meal which Biddy
just put on the table for them made them
forget their grief
Patrick Sullivan had taken this farm
near Kilburn about year before. A
kind Providence had directed the chill
dren's steps TO him; but if the dog had
not taught him lesson of kindness, who
knows what might, after all, have become
of the poor orphans? But he who is the
| Father Of the fatherless would assuredly
not have forsaken them.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
THE AGASSIz GLACIER.

The Agassiz glacier i'll Alaska is from
ten to twenty miles wide and probably
fifty TO sixty long, no doubt joining the
Maaspina glacier from off Mounts Cook
and Vancouver, where that mass OF ice
terminates on the shores OF Yakutat bay.
1t may cover thousand square miles of
territory-about one-fftieth of the State
of New York-but safety would say that
half Of that could be depended upon; the
equivalent Of a glacier about ten miles
wide reaching to about West Point on
the Hudson and debouchinP, or hav-
ing its terminal front, at New York
city, and burying that great city out of
sight under ice higher than any building
or structure in it. OF course thousand
ideal speculations could be made regard
ing it that might give better impression
to this or that person regarding it's vast
extent, but | think for the present it is
sufficient to say that it is probably the
largest glacier ON United States territory,
and the only chance of competition is on
the northwest slope of the st. Elias range
of mountains, not yet explored. The
Guyot glacier is not SO easy to describe
as to its extent (rough as was that de-
scription of the Agassiz glacier as the
other. 1t is about as far across in a
northern direction as Agassiz, but how
far it extends up the coast we had no
means, even of the most approximate
character, of knowing.
Probably the entire extent of country
around Mount st. Elias may equal four
to five thousand square miles Of country,
that is buried under snow and ice during
every month of the year. Frederick
SchVdtkG IN Nec York Times.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
HOME FIR ST.

Let home stand first before all other
things! No matter how high your ambi.
tons may transcend its duties, no mat
ter how far your talents Or your influence
may reach beyond its doors, before every
thing else build up true home! Be not
its slave; be it's minister Let it rot be
enough that it is swept and garnished,
that it's silver is brilliant, that IFS food
is delicious, but feed the love in it, feed
the truth in it, feed thought and aspira-
ton, feed all charity and gentleness in it.
Then from it's walls shall come forth the
true woman and true man, who shall to-
gether rule and bless the land" Is tnis
an overwrought picture? We think rot.
What booor can be greater than to
found such a home? What dignity high
er than to reign its undisputed and hon
ored mistress? What Is the ability to
speak from a public platform to large,
intelligent audiences, or the wisdom that
may command a seat on the judges
bench, compared to that which can in
sure and preside over true home that
husband and children rise and call her
b essed?" TO be the guiding star, the
ruling spirit, in such position is higher
honor than to rule an empire Mrs.
Beecher.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
FRENCH MILLINERY AND BIRD
MURDER.

One of the leading American fashion
papers, says writer in the Washington
Star, at the bidding of the Paris millin-
ers announces that birds and feathers are
to be used on hats this fall more than
ever before. A year ago when people
did not know it's meaning, this statement
might have been Eead without question.
Now it must arouse the indignation of
every earnest, independent woman.
Shall we be dictated to by a few
French women where matters of con-
science are concerned? What is it they
are asking us to do? Are we to forget all
we have heard during the last few
months from the Audubon workers?
Can we ever forget that 100000 of birds
have been killed to crafty our vanity
to give us prettier hats? Can we forgive
ourselves for the desolation of bird homes
about the Long Island village that fur
nished 10000 skins to New York millin-
ers, or the massacre of innocents near
Philadelphia which lasted a month and
put an end to the lives of 100,000,000 birde,
half of which were amoug our Ioveliest
songsters? Can we forget that an Ameri-
can woman contracted in cold blood to
sell 10000 of our native birds to Paris
milliuer at forty cents apiece, as if it
were not enough that We should refuse
protection to the confding little creatures
that sing to us as they build about our
homes, and kill them simply to besutfy
our bonnets, but we must needs put an
end to their sweet songs and barter their
dainty plumage for foreign gold?
Do we disregard the losses which
threaten the farmer and through him the
industries of the country at large, as
we'll as the alarm OF scientists, at the ex-
termination of entire species, and the
apprehension of all nature lovers at the
prospect that the country will be left
without any birds?
Above ali, is it possible that earnest
women, having learned all the shameful
facts. should give up their sense Of right
at the first hint from French miIi;ners
and return TO the barbarously cruel fash
ion Of wearing the dead bodies of birds
to decorate their persons? What true
woman has not the moral courage to de-
fy custom which calls upon her to sane
ton deliberate wrong? She must GER
tainly merit, not only the SCOTS of the
men who call her the "slave of fashion,"
but the contempt of her sisters who
know that in reality she is the slave of her
own vanity.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30

the occupant could pull them to, but, this
being deemed unhealthy, they we're re.
moved and n couple of blankets are row
provided. Ire room has no other fufni-
ture save washstand, but in an inner
recess there is q writing table, with some
book-shelves over it, and this is literally
all excepting Of course a crucifix over the
bed and another over the writing. table.
The food is passed in through an aperture
in the door before the ground floor, as the
monks OF La Grsnde Chartreuse only take
their meals IN common refectory upon
Sundays and certain high festivals. and
when they do no CONVEX eation takes place,
a lay brother reading from lectern in the
gallery which overlooks the refectory
verses from the Bible or chapter from
one of the fathers of the church. Uoon
Sunday evenings each monk comes TO
the door of the refectory and asks as a
beggar in the name of Christ for aims.
the lay brother giving MIN piece Of
bread and saying: "Requiescat IN pace"
= Temple Bar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
SOME USES OF GLOVES.

TIE reign of Elizabeth may fairly be
considered the turning-point III the his
tory of gloves. Through long years, and
keeping line with the growth OF refine
ment and courtesy, the glove had been in
vested fret with one association aud then
another, given part and lot in this Gus
tom and that, until it had come to hold
very prominent place in the economy of
life. Both ut weddings and funerals
gloves were offered as gifts so commonly
as to be made a recognized feature OF the
social ceremonial proper to those occa-
sions. Either for peace and in favor, or
defiant and in deadly anger, it has come
to be as binding upon ordinary transac-
tions as written deed, and as evident of
purpose as if the presence of its owner
had enforced its evident intent. Partic-
uiarly as token of love, as though it
gave In pledge the hand and regard of a
fair lady, or as a cartel of war, threaten
ing so much of the vengeful punishment
as the hand it had covered could inflict,
did the glove play its part in times when
both these sentiments we're especially
cherished and avowed. 1t was made the
the @gis of trade, ensuring to chapmen
and chaffeIing purchasers of the wares
they offered peace and protection; and in
agreements of greater moment the glove
was made witness of promise given and
the pledge of its fultillment. The dona-
ton of land to church, and sometimes
even the offer of bodily service, was made
good by the placing OF glove upon the
altar; and in the transfer of land-or, in
occasional instances, of kingdoms -
glove was made veritable lease by Vir-
tue of which possession was taken and
held. AS securing safe passage, like
passport; as an offer Of amity. like as
though friendly shake OF the hand we're
proffered; even as bride, when it was
often "lined" with good gold pieces, to
tempt men from their allegiance, or in
duce them to view a suit favorably, the
glove had many momentous message to
convey, many an important negotiation
to open or to bind.-Md9azin of art
for November.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30

Queen Elizabeth, sent over with the gar
ter king of arms and long train OF
couTtiers to invest the Danish monarch
with the insignia OF the order, and there.
by cement friendship between the conn
tries of the two sovereigns. Here also
was celebrated, some years later, the
marriage of James vi, of Scotland, with
Annie, daughter OF King Frederick H.,
this marriage settling the yexed question
of the Orkney and Shetland islands,
pawned TO Scotland when Princess Mar
garet married King James III. In Elsi
more one etill hears tales of the drinking
bouts of the Scottish bridegroom, James
w., and his brother in. law, the Danish
Prince Christian-how they were wont to
fall intoxicated under the table in the
halls of Kronborg, or roll in loving
brother in-law embrace into the ditch
outside the walls.
But the castle holds other memories,
and of sadder sort than these. There
is pointed out an octagon closet in the
lighthouse turret whore, by permission of
the governor of the fortress, the unfortu-
nate queen, Caroline Matilda, sister of
George I'LL, and wife Ct Christian VII,
is said 20 have passed days gazing out on
| the waters of the sound, straining her
eyes to catch sight of the feet which che
had been secretly apprised her brother
had sent out from England for her iber-
alton. 1t came at length, but only to
bear her TO lie of seclusion in the
| Hanoverian castle of Zel], where she died
three years later, in the twenty fourth
year of her age. The memory of her
youth and beauty, coupled with her IN
merited fate, has well nigh consecrated
in the Danish popular mind this scene of
her suffering. Brooklyn Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
FATE OF KINGS.

The lot of the average monarch is not
an extremely happy one. An English
statistician has recently complied state
ment of the number of eovereigns who,
within the historical era, have come to
violent OF ignominious ends. On his
list are 1850 kings and emperors, reign
ing over "a nations. OF these 300 we're
overthrow, GA we're deposed, % commit
ted suicide, % became insane OF imbe-
cile, 100 were killed in battle, 1913 were
captured by the enemy, % were tortured
to death, l51 were assassinated aud los
were hanged, shot or beheaded by their
subjects. Less than ope-third lived out
their reigDs prosper ously. - The Amer
lean.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
HOW TO TREAT BOYS.

Get hold of the boys heart. Yonder
locomotive comes like whirlwind down
the track, and a regiment of armed men
may seek to arrest it in vain. 1t would
crush them and plunge unheeding
on. But there is little lever in its
mechanism that at the pressure OF a
mans hand will slacken it's speed, and
bring it, painting and still, like whipped
spaniel at your feet. By similar little
lever is the vast steamer guided hither
and yonder on the ocean, in spite of
wind and tide. That sensitive and re-
sponsive spot by which boys life is con-
trolled is bis heart. With your grasp
gently and firmly on that helm, you may
pilot him where you will. Never doubt
that he has a heart. Bad and willful
boys very often have the tenderest
hearts, hidden away somewhere beneath
the incrustations of sin or behind the
barbados of pride. It is your business
TO get at that heart; to keep hold of it by
sympathy, cOnfiding in him, manifestly
working only for his good; by little indi-
rect kindnesses TO those he loves, or even
to his pet dog. II you meet him on the
street, recognize him, shake his hand,
show that you have some interest in him.
Provide him some little pleasure; set
him at some little service of trust for you;
love him; love him practically. Amy way
and every way rule him through his
heart. His love viii be your reward.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
LIFE AT THE GRAND CHAR
TREuSE


Opening on to the cloister are the cells
in which the monks spend their lives, and
over each is some such inscription as so
bedta solitude, o sofa beatitudo" The
cells are exactly alike, and description
of one will do for all. There are two
stories to the cell, upon the ground floor
being a room for cutting and storing
wood, and another with lathe and car
penter's bench. Upon a level with these
but in the open air, of course, is small
garden, for the Carthusian rule is that
the monks should seek relaxation and ex-
ercise by gardening, carpentering, and so
forth, rather than by walking. Upon the
floor above, which is reached by mar
row fight of steps, is the room in which
the monk lives. It is divided into two
by a wooden partition, but the first room
is merely furnished with a table and
chair, and it is here that he takes his
single meal. For though the monks are
allowed little bread and wine in the
have only one meal day, and that, with
neither meat nor any of the luxurious
dishes which good Catholics partake of
with a good conscience upon fast days,
is but a modest one. The inner room
contains bed, which is inelosed in an
alcoye, and is not unlike those with
wooden skirting to the sides often met
with in old Dutch houses, and it is out
side this bed, which is innocent of sheets
or pillow-cases, that the monk takes his
rest. In former times there we're shut
ters to the bed, so that in cold weather
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
The fone Circle.
LIFE AND DEATH.
A REMEIBRAECE.
BY ROSE TERRY COOKE.

Do not think of her with death.
What 5 life? This flutteriug breath
Here moment, gone for aye,
Lost ';wixt now and YESTERDAY?
Life. all fool! tits all divine.
Not his gasp of yours or mine
Prisoned in a mortal form,
Racked with fever. spent with storm;
'Tis quenchless f1aT1e from Him
who created seIaphim
Babe his creature earth renew,
Ever to its cycle true,
Leaf and blossom from their grave,
Though the winter howl and rave.
What if buds be iron. bound
Deep within the barren ground?
There the life doth lie asleep
Till the spring rains DER it weep.
Then it rises food nor fire,
Fiendish wrath. nor mans desire,
That free spark extinguisherb,
Nor the dark that men call death.
So she liveth, and the prison
Whence her glad soul hath arisen,
Lieth in the dust to day,
Since she would no longer stay.
Do it honor, for it held her:
Through its dimness we beheld her;
Underneath its feebleness.
Guessing some sublime redress,
Yet to free that heavenly shape,
So to heaven it might escape.
In the pure CLEAN of her eyes,
In her laughs frank verify,
On the tablet broad and fair
Meath the ter drills of her hair,
Life immortal set its seal,
Dust no more could dare reveal,
Lest it's strong and glorious shining
Filled US with divine repining,
Made US mad to quit the strife
And the longing men call life.
Lovely souli Few days divide
Us thy kindred from thy side.
Lovely clayl What death can ever
Tender thoughts from thee discover!
Rest till Gods prevailing spring
From his holiest garden tring
With the violet and the rose,
Thy new fashion, and dis CLOSE,
In that resurrection hour,
All the hidinPs of his power.
Then those eyes shall shine again,
Free from shade of grief or pain;
Ard the triumph of that brow
Tells us life is victor now.
Life that rules, and Jeigns, and is
God and Gods eternities.
Speed the day and haste night!
Death is darkness, Life is light
hdopender
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
THE LENGTH oF DAYS.

At London, England, and Bremen,
Prussia, the longest day has sixteen and
half hours. At Stockholm, in Sweden,
the longest day has eighteen and half
hours. At Hamburg, in Germany, and
Dantzig, in Prussia, the longest day has
seventeen hours. At st. Petersburg,
Russia, and Tobolsk, in Siberia, the long
est day has nineteen hours, and the
shortest five. At Torneo, in Finland,
the longest day has twenty hours and
half, and the shortest two hours and a
half. At Wardhuys, Norway, the day
lasts from the 21st of May to the 22d of
July, without interruption; and at Spitz-
bergen the longest day is three and
half months. At New York the longest
day, June 10, has fourteen hours and
ffty-six minutes; at Montreal, fifteen
and half hours.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30

Steady application is what counts iu
any business, especially in farming, for
in this employment day or an hour
wasted is usually more than loss Of time,
for it is opportunity gore.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
Seed termination in Emit.

A squash is reported as curiosity in
Ohio by the Cincinnati Enquirer. AS
stated, when the squash was cut the
halves fell away from each other, and
then it was discovered that nearly all the
seeds within had sprouted, and upon the
end of each tiny stalk was a pair of
leaves fresh-lo king as watercresses
just gathered" The sprouts were white.
A like process of growth, it is said, has
never before been noted. The latter
statement is incorrect. II is, however,
rare to find seeds growing within tbs
fruit. The reason of this growth is from
the breaking down Of the fruit, produc-
ing heat and moisture, thus the seeds
absorb moisture and air being present
the seeds will germinate. The same
phenomenon has been observed in bulbs
and tubers where the rotting of a por-
ton has taken place when stored in
barrels.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-30
Eart,t, ftnnre and 6arden.
FARM NOTES AND OPINIONS

Over 600 inches of rain (ffty feet have
fallen In some parts OF India within a
year.
1t is best to pillow heavy sod early in
the fall, il hoed crops are to be plantad
next season.
The richer and better titled the gronud.
the less seed will be required of small
gran. The roots do not have to forapa
so far.
Let every farmer resolve that he will
give no quarter next year to weeds. This
fall is good time to begin with the old
seed beads. Burn them.
Don't put all your chances, says cor
temporary, in one basket; diversity liz.
tie more. Fry to have something to sell
from spripgtime on till Christmas.
1t is never good policy to divide farm
in small fields, for IT is waste Of land
waste OF time and oppressive increaee of
fencing that becomes burdeneome tax
IN construction and maintenance.
This is the way one good farmer got
permanent supply of pure water: he
laid about 1000 feet of tile for draining
wet piece Of land on top of hill thirty
or forty rods distant from The barn, The
supply OF water was so permanent that
he set cask 60 receive the water at the
outlet OF the tile. and with lead pipe con-
Quoted it to his yard.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-16
A RAILWAY TlE-UP.
Futile Attempts to Get L., n. A. C.
Trains Out of Lafayette, Ind.

Futile Attempts to Get L., N. A. & c.
Trains Out of Lafayette, Ind.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. l6-All attempts
of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
management to get freight trains out of La
fayette. either north or south, have proved
futile About noon Tuesday train started
south, but the striking conductors persuaded
the man in charge to resign his appointment,
aud the brakemen forced James Rutherford,
the forward brakeman, off the car, handling
him roughly This act of violence on the
part of the hrakemen is deprecated by the
conductors who say they reply upon pacific
measures to accomplish their purpose.
Tuesday evening Conductor Matheri
brought in a train of two cars from Bloom
ing At the latter place stones were hurled
at the brakemen. Sheriff McCutcheon was
at the depot when MatherS arrived here,
and, taking him into his buggy, drove rap
idly away. Two men named LIE Bow and
Thomas. who acted as brakenen on Math-
ers' train, were Tuesday night waited upon
by brakemen and would have been roughly
handled had the men not protested that they
| merely acted as brakemen in order TO rid,
from Gos2ort to Lafayette, and promising
| not to 20 any father. There is a good dea
| Of bad feeling. and if the company attempts
| to run trains trouble is anticipated.