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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-14

save himself in his frantic efforts to save
the factory, was fearfully burned.
1t was supposed that newspaper
which some one had pinned over a win
dow to exclude the sun, had been loos-
ened by the night wind and blown into a
gas jet close by, and taking fire, had fall
en- ON the bags containing paper. Had
Cora arrived at the factory only little
later, it would have been too late for
Apdy's efforts to have availed anything.
The picnicl Cora thought little of that
as she sat all day in her brothers dark
ened room, her heart wrung to agony as
she listened to the shuddering signs and
low means which, brave as he was, poor
Andy could not repress. Oh, how great
had been the cost of that favor she had
askedl How deep, how sincere, her re-
pentance.
She felt the cost, too, in many other
ways, for it was many weeks before Andy
was able to resume his duties in the fac
tory, and the wolf came very close to the
door in spite of James efforts to make
both ends meet. Sacrifices of every kind
had to be made, and Cora learned for
the first time in her life what self denial
meant.
Mr.. Grigsby bad told Jane that he
could not take Andy into the factory
again since he had proved himself so
Enthusiastically, but he altered his mind
when he heard from Cora why the boy
had failed to do his duty that night.
Painful and humiliating as it was, Cora
made full confession and did not ex-
cuse or spare herself in the least.
A more tender and sympathizing nurse
than she proved to Andy could not have
been found, and in that darkened cham
Der, during those long, hot summer days
she learned lessons of unselfshness and
patience which she never forgot.
And the Cora who wore the pretty
white muslin to a picnic year later was
very different girl from the Cora for
whom the dress had been made.-Stond-
ard.
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Candy Making.

In view of the poisonous nature Of so
much OF the candy sold in stores, and
the very high prices charged by the very
best makers, some of us may have to go
without candy or make our own. Mrs.
Gregory in Good Cheer gives this re-
ceipt for homemade cream candy: TO
a coffee cup of white sugar add two ia
blespoonfuls of water to dissolve it, and
boil without stirring in bright tin pan.
until it will crisp in water like molasses
candy. just before it is done put in a
teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon or pep
permint essence, and quarter of tea
spoonful of cream of tartar. When done,
pour out into buttered pan, and when
cool enough to handle, work as you
would molasses candy until it is perfect
ly white; then stretch and lay it on
board, and with ehopping knife cut
into mouthfuls, or you can cut with the
shears and lay on bnttered paper on a
plate. Grease your hands with butter
before working it, and it will not stick to
the fingers. Granulated sugar is not as
good as other white sugar."
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A THOUGHT FOR MOTHERS.

Talking The other day with one of the
most sensible women l know, one, too
whose large family is SO well ordered
that there never seems to be particle of
friction in its management, was pleas
ed with something she said about chill
dren, and / determined to repeat it to a
wider audience than the one my friend
had at that moment.
81 never fret about little faults of man
ner, nor even about transient irritability
in my children" said the lady. "Chil-
dren, as they are growing up, go through
many temporary condition which, if APP
parently unnoticed, pass away. In fact,
there are little moral disturbances to be
expected, like whooping cough and
measles in physical life, and if the gener-
eral home atmosphere be wholesome and
the trend right, I do not think it worth
while to be too much distressed over oc-
casional naughtiness."
Is there not comfort here for you, dear
friend, who cannot understand why John,
carefully trained as he is, sometimes in
the eager heat of play, bursts into the
room like tornado, or forgets to put
cap on nail or books on shelf, as an or
derby boy ought? And if Sarah is not so
patient as she should be with the young
er ones, sometimes has mysterious fits of
depression, or is hyster;cally gay with no
cause that you can see, summon your
own gentle self-possession to the front;
remember that the period between child
hood and youth, like all transition pc
RODS, is very trying, and while you pray
great deal for your darling, do not wor-
ry about her or talk to her too much.
Above all, do not suffer yourself to be al
ways censuring a sensitive boy or girl, to
whom judicious praise now and then will
be tonic.
Line upon line, precept upon precept,
we must have in home. But we must
algo have serenity, peace and the absence
of petty fault finding, if home is to be
nursery fit for heaven growing plants. -
Christian Weekly.
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stars shining, a large assembly were
gathered for ball in Sweden, and in the
course of tn, evening it became SO hot in
the room tina, aral ladies tainted. An
officer tried to ope- window, but he saw
that the pressure of tn, se was holding
it fast shut. So he broke pane, and the
rush of cold air coming from without
produced fall of snow in the room. The
atmosphere had been charged with watery
vapor, and this becoming suddenly con-
densed and refrigerated fell, under the
form of snow, ON the heads of the aston
ished dancers Pail MaU Gazette.
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THE FIRST TURNPIKES.

In the time of Charles III. restrictions
were laid ON the weight of carriages and
their contents by limiting the number of
cattle by which they might be drawn !;
power was given to raise an assessment
for the repair of the roads, and the
plan of imposing tolls began to be
adopted. From this time we begin to
hear OF turnpikes, and, as time went on.
turnpike acts we're passed and turnpike
roads began to be talked about. With
increased traffic and better roads the
| stage wagon replaced the packhorses in
the conveyance Of merchandise = the
huge and tilted wagon that survived till
railway times, with 1ts six or eight sleek
horses, the smart WAGNER driving his
cob by the side of it, hourishing his long
cartwhip, as the road wound through
undulating ground with cornfelds and
pastures, still mostly uninclosed, and
by-ways branching off with way posts at
the junction pointing to some village
whose spire shows over the hillside. In
the year 1867 the system of collecting
tolls was extended to the great roads in
all directions, and the customary statute
labor was appropriated entirely to the
cross or country roads. This date marks
the beginning OF the era OF stage coaches
and the full development of an organized
system of posting from stage to stage
along the public roads From this time
the roads of England began to arouse the
wonder and envy of other nations. In
France, especially, just before the revolu.
tionary era, the roads were execrable, and
the few public conveyances clumsy and
badly horsed. Everything had to give
away to the equipages of the grand seign-
eurs, and the starving peasantry were
dragged from their sloppy fields to draw
the gilded coach of a marquis or count
out of the quagmires of the public road.
All the Year Round.
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EXTRAVACANCE AT HARVARD

However much President Eliot may
deprecate the charge, and however in
geDiously he may defend the institution,
the fact remains that brains rank less than
bank accounts at the leading college of
America. A young man whose capital is
OF the immaterial nature of the intellect
nal and moral capacity is surrounded by
a set OF Sybarites whose false ideals of
life impress Themselves as standard.
As the Boston Herald wisely pointed out
few days since, the re are feelings Of
personal pride common to most Amer
leans which makes it extremely distaste-
full for them to place themselves in posi-
tions that are considered degrading by
those win whom they are forced to ASSOC
ciate." La the end such test of moral
stamina may be an Invaluable discipline,
but it is one which has no proper place in
an institution of learning. The college
extravaganza is an increasing evil, but
nowhere is it so marked as in under
graduate life at Harvard. Intellectual
life is stihed IN materiaIistic luxury, and
these false ideals react to greater or less
degree on all who are in any way con-
nected with the college. The rooms Of a
large proportion OF the students are fitted
up like lady's boudoir; and clubs, the
horses and dog carts, the boating and en-
tertsining give the students life wholly
apart from intellectual pursuits, and
their connoisseurship in choice liquors
and fine brands of cigars excludes an
equally accurate discrimination in class
les and science. The man who "grinds"
is below par in social estimation, while
what is going on sin society,"" To the
undergraduate his college is, for the time
being, his universe, and it's social dis.
tlnctions are serious consideration.
The elective system of studies at Harvard
has, in our belief, been carried out to a
very injudicious extent as a method OF
offering a royal road to learning for the
sons of rich men who might reasonably
be expected to assist college endow-
ments. These false standards of life are
most pernicious, and it is serious mat
ter to the community whether Harvard
shall be restored to it's ideal possibilities,
or whether it is to degenerate into d
manufactory of scholastic degrees for
men whose bank accounts, rather than
brains, procure these honors.- Boston
TrdUeIler.
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CENSUS OF THE sPARRows.

Presuming that the sparrows were in
troduced into this country in the year
1870, the following figures will show what
the increase would have been from a
single pair of sparrows let loose in the
spring, giving six pairs of birds as the
annual increase, and the parent birds dy-
ing at the end of each year: November,
1870, the increase would have been 6
pairs; November, 1871, 36 pairs; Novem-
Der, 1872, 2l6 pairs; November, 1873
1895 pairs; November, 1874, 7,776 pairs;
November, 1875, 1856 pairs; November,
1876, 279,936 pairs; November. 1877, l.
679,616 pairs; November. 1878, 10077 500
pairs; November, 1879, 60,466, 176 pairs;
November, 1880, 1862, 797, O56 pairs; No
vember, 1881, ZIG, 7S2, 1856 pairs; Novem-
Der, 1882, 1900, 694, O16 pairs; November,
1888, 1880, 164,096 pairs November,
1884, 470,1S4, 9S4,576 pairs; November,
1885, 1881, 109, 907, 456 pairs. = Philadel-
phid Ledger.
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THE SILENT AZTEC.

The silence of dead centuries
That lie entombed on yonder hills
Is his. These dreamful poppy seas
Wave on; he lists! His silence fills
The land. He leans, as if he heard
God speak through some still gorgeous bird.
His babes about; the golden morn
Strikes godlike on you holy hill;
His wife and daughter grinding corn,
1.-TWO women grinding at mill.'
mysteryl Yon sun of old
Was god was god and ample gold.
Yon golden hills had flocks of snow;
These valley fields had far increases;
He saw his white sails fill and blow
BY poppy isles in flower seas.
The wood dove sang for him his loves,
His harshest note the soft wood doves.
The Spaniards hand is laid upon
His fields. his flocks. hard, fast, and tight
But, oh this glorious golden dawn,
The golden doors that close at night.
His gold.hued babes, her russell breast,
Are hisl The world may have the rest.
Joaquin Miller in the Independent.
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DIFFERENCE DINNERS.

We all visit at houses where a good
dinner is the rule; at other places it is
equally the exception, and calamity to
be invited if one must accept. Why does
this difference exist? From much OBJ
servance [ am convinced that it is the
fault of the mistress, who submits to bad
ly cooked dishes either because her own
appetite is Indifferent, or lacks fastidious-
ness, or she breads an earthquake in the
kitchen, or does not care to take the
trouble to teach Bridget (even if she is
willing to learn) the proper method of
cooking the more important dishes, il,
indeed, che knows herself. Often, too,
as L have said. we make the grave mis-
take of thinking it is of no consequence
We should make the cook understand
that we think a great deal of what we
eat, then il she can do better, she does,
and If not, she will soon leave, and in
such case we ought to feel the sooner
the better. Rembrandt married his cook,
thinking this more economical alliance
than one with a person Of refined tastes
and habits; but his cook must have been
more ekillful and frugal than the most OF
those who preside over our larders or the
scheme would have been ludicrous fail.
ure and rare piece of extravaganza
There is an old proverb which says, "The
beans will be threshed on me-" which re-
fers to an ancient punishment of bad
cooks. When the beans were not prop
erly prepared, but were hard or tough
she was sure to have them thrown at her
head. What a corner there would be in
beans if this punishment we're the rule in
our day.-Mag Riley Smith IN Good
Housekeeping.
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Female Farmers.

Land is cheap in Georgia and crops
reasonably certain. A support is always
certain when labor is given for it. Why
should not our young Georgia women
turn away from the cities and clerking
and teaching at $50 per month, and seek
the free, open and healthy life of the
farmer? Land, we say, is cheap, and can
be obtained in less time and with half the
trouble that town positions can; and we
venture the assertion that no woman who
has ever tried a year in the country will
want to come back to teach in school
rooms or clerk in stores. We do not
mean to say that all women can make
success at farming. BY no means. But
we believe that any woman of indus
trious habits and possessing the house
keeping instinct can make money upon
the farm. Indeed, we know now of many
who live comfortably in the country,
manage their own labor, make good
crops, and with their diaries, poultry
yards, orchards and gardens, secure not
only living, but lay up money. Bust
ness men who deal with these women will
bear witness to the fact that they pay
promptly and buy close. This is by way
of suggestion only. The idea must be
applied by those interested. Would it
not be novel sight if some day Bibb
county should have in her borders col
ony of refined female farmers, supplying
the city with milk, butter, eggs, vege-
tables, honey, preserves and other pro-
ducts9-Macon (Ga) Telegraph.
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LOST TIME.

Let any young man pass all the even
ing in vacant idleness or in reading some
silly tale, and compare the state of his
mind, when he goes to sleep or gets up
the next morning, with his state some
other day, when he has spent some hours
in going through the proofs, by facts and
reasoning, of the great doctrines of nat
ural science, learning truths wholly new
to him, satisfying himself, by careful ex-
animation, Of the grounds on which the
known truths rest, so as to be- not only
acquainted with the doctrines themselves,
but be able to show why he believes
them and to prove to others that they are
true; he will find as great difference as
can exist in the same being--the differ
ence between looking back upon time un-
proftably wasted and time spent in self.
improvement; he will feel himself, in one
case, listless and dissatisfied, and in the
other comfortable and happy. - Lord
BrOugham.
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THREE CHINESE JESTS.

The Chinese have their stories and
their fun just as we have. Here now
follow three specimen jests from Canton:
A wealthy man lived between the
houses Of two blacksmiths, and was con-
stantly annoyed by the noise of their
hammers, SO that he could not get rest,
night or day. First, be asked them to
strike more gently; then he made them
great promises if they would remove at
once. The two blacksmiths consented.
and he, overjoyed to get rid of them, pre-
pared grand banquet for their enter
tsinment. When the banquet was over,
he asked them where they were going to
take up their new abodes; and they re-
phed-to the intense dismsy of their
worthy host, no doubt-"He who lives on
the left of your house is going TO that on
the right; and he who lives on your light
is going to the house on your left"
A literary man, while reading one
night, observed that a thief was busy
digging under the wall of his house. He
happened to have a teapot full of boiling
water; so he took it, and placed it near
him, waiting for the thief. The opening
being made, the thief first put through
his feet, which the literary man seized
and watered well with the scalding con-
tents of his teapot. The thief uttered a
piercing cry, and asked pardon; but he
answered him, in a grave tone, "Wait till
1 have emptied the teapot"
One night the Khoia dreamed that
some person had given him nine pieces of
money; but he was not content, and said,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-14
The Aone Circle.
THE VOICE OF THE STARS.

Beneath the everlasting stars l stood
The moon, frail thin shape, hung in the
west:
Within, Iknew a haunting, strange unrest
And fed for aid to night and solitude.
turned my eye upon the cleaning sky,
Where burned the far eternal sparks, that
God
Shook out on night, ere on the earth men
trod,
Shining as then, clear, calm, and steadily.
And to my heart they spake Gliding voice,
And canst thou not do even so as they,
As calmly move in thy appointed way
Nor pause to question. or to seek thy choice?
Canst thou not, cen as they, thy place full
fill,
Content in this-it is TIL Eternal will?
-Ad1 Iddings Gale, in the Current.
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THE LITTLE IRREPRESSIBLES.

Little Polly has neighbor who has a
little donkey team in which she often has
ride. One day as she was sitting with
her mamma, the donkey was heard to
bray, and Polly looking up, says: "Mam-
ma, like the donkey, but don't like to
hear him donk."
~.
President Dwight, of Yale, has schol-
arly stoop, and this is why little New
Haven girl, quite innocent of an attempt
at pun, said: mamma, I think he is
the stoopedest man ever did see."
~
The family of Mrs. Stowe hold her in
great reverence. Her little grandson, at
the age of five, swinging on a neighbor's
gate, was reproved by his mother, who
told him Mr.. Smith would not like it. 81
don't care for Mr.. Smith," said the UT.
chin, ''nor for his OK, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is his" willie" asked his
mother, do you know who wrote those
words you use SOP" 81 don't know" was
the reply; "Grandma Stowe, L s'pose.'
~
A little girl from the city was on her
first visit to the country. While riding
near Clifton Springs she saw lot of cat
tails near the road. "Ohl auntie," che
exclaimed, 81 never knew before that
sausages grew on sticksp'
~
A little York, Pa, girl, while lisping
her prayer at her mothers knee before
retiring, stopped in the middle of her de-
yotions and said: "Oh, Lord, please wait
a minute until scratch my toe"
The polite child is the latest in the ju-
venile world. She was strolling around
the neighborhood on tour of observa-
ton when she came across a colored man
sitting on a doorstep. She stood with
her finger in her mouth looking at him.
Finally she said:
you're colored man, amt your"
You're very polite, miss" he said.
Eyes, l am a colored man."
"Oh, yes, I'm very polite. call every
niger | see colored man."
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sNowsToRM IN A BALLROOM.

Every one has heard of dancing on the
ice, but dancing in ballroom under
snowstorm is not so familiar. This, how
ever, was what a party of friends found
themselves doing not long ago in Sweden.
The circumstances are thus described in
a foreign paper: During an extremely
cold night, but with the sky clear and the
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snake it ten" upon which he awoke,
and, finding his hands empty, at once
closed his eyes again, and stretching out
his hand, said, II repent, give me the
nine"
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''Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which
thou knowest to be dutyl Thy second daty
will already have become clearer"
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A little York, Pa, girl, while lisping
her prayer at her mothers knee before
retiring, stopped in the middle of her de-
yotions and said: "Oh, Lord, please wait
minute until scratch my toe"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-04
s.x.a nv III. nans,aehe.

In New York Monday Alfred Hahn was
saved by the color Of his m0ustache from
having TO support as his wife woman
whom be had never seen until few days
ago, but who claimed that be had married
Der eighteen years ago, and was the father
Of her six children. Last week the
woman's evidence outweighed that OF the
msD, aud the court sent him 10 Jail until
be should give bail TO pay his wife q a
week bali Of bis salary as insurance
sgeDt. Hsbn's moustaehe was let black
and exquisiteiy waxed. The woman,
MIS-. koenl, said that her husbands
was sandy, but explained that he was
an expert In hair, aud doubtless had
DYED bis moletsebe 10 disguise himself.
Monday two BARRIERS who had read Of the
essc In the papers came to the court and
fsktd 10 be allowed 10 examine Hahn's
moDstacbe. The ease Wa, re0peued, and
both the BARRIERS, having made separate ex-
smtuaiiops, swore that IIahn's black nous.
tscbe Was naturally black and not dyed. At
The same time other witnesses who had
known Koehl appeared and declared that
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NORFOLK NEWS.
.sx saxx cAsss 10 BIZ TRIED
TODAY.
pissinguisAsd Counsel Horrio'., Hurt by
Safe Falling on HI a-Navy.
Yard R,.ses
,oorrsspondsn. q Of the R,chmond pispa,chl
NoyrupgR 3, 1886.

tcorrespondsnr q Of the Richmond pispatchl
NOVEMBER 3, 1886.
T.eYe was some disturbance at several
rrecipcts In the county yests rday, and the
nsrtier were sent on TO the Uaited states
inurt by the Federal supervisors.
Tomorrow Is the time set for the trial OF
the parties indicted In the United states
Circuit Court for various offences IN con-
sci,on with the failure OF the Exchange
National Bank, which cases were continued
siom the September term. Judge Bona
rs expected from Baltimore tomorrow 10
slt with Judge Hughes. United-States-
Marshal Scott will arrive with jurors sum.
noned from the vicinity OF Richmond and
Alexandria. Hon. j. Randolph Tucker
and Judge W. w. Crump, OF Richmond,
are OF the counsel. Mr.. Tucker is to de-
fcnd ex.Mayor John Il. Whitehead, presi-
dent Of the bank. The trial Is hkeiy TO DC
lengthy and tedious.
The schooner J. II. Rapp, from ChicRa-
hominy river 10 New York, with cargo OF
wood, has arrived In port IN distress, anu
leaking badly. She put back from OH
Cbinsoteague island.
Milton Lennon, OF Portsmouth, son oil
Rev, J. q, Lennon, OF the Virginia Con-
ference, wss so badly crushed by ure-
proof safe falling on him few days ago a,
= store on Roanoke Island, n. G., that but
little bopes are entertained oil his recovery.
Another young man, named Samuel Grii'
fin, had his thigh broken, and negro
name Nicely had his right arm broken by
the same accident. The safe fell from an
ox.cari and on The men. Young Lennon
Is horribly hurt.
The commodore oi the nayy-yard was
notified Yesterday that two ships OF the
trimming squadron, the Saratoga and the
Portsmouth, have been ordered from New
York here 10 fit out for the winter cruise IN
the West Indies.
Thirty.odd boat-builders and saiimakers
were taken into the navy-vard to-day 10
work on the Trenton. Nearly five hundred
men are now at work on the Trenton.
Hon. John Goode Is in the city,.
Colonel William Il. Remey, iudge-adyo'
cate-general OF the navy. is Wishing his
brother, Captain George {. Remey, at the
pavy.ysrd.
ThIrty-eight thousand tons Of Pocahontas
coal were shipped from Lamberts-Point
piers In October, which amount was re-
ceived by eleven steamships, one bark, and
forty.fiye schooneTs. u.