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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
WHY SHE REFUSED.

You say you went to the party last
night, and you saw Mrs. Smith, an old
friend, whom you had not seen since she
and your sister were at school together.
You had a very pleasant talk until sup
per, when you gave her your arm and
took her to supper. When some one
come along with few glasses of wine on
waiter and offered her glass, you saw
her shudder as she said, "Nol" and you
wonder why Mrs. Smith, who didn't use
to be so particular about such things, not
only refused, but shuddered when she
said, "Nol" You cannot tell why 1
can tell why. You went on with your
talk, and little Irritation, did you? L
won't say you didn't. She was very gay,
and seemed very glad to forget herself,
did she? Very well, am very glad that
You gave her that hour of the evening.
can tell you where she went after the
party was over. She went home the
latest person from the party. She was
glad it was late, for her husband had not
COnC AO0Cs OA0 Ecst tsiO tCdu tOI ttu
hour, and her husband did not come.
She wrote for an hour, and her husband
did not come. She sat at the piano for
an hour, but he did not come. At
length, between three and four o'clock,
there was a noise at the door, and two
policemen held him in their arms. She
knows them both we'll by this time. 1t
happens so often that she knows every
policeman on the beat. They babe her
good night She had locked her child's
room, that he might not abuse him. She
took the abuse as he flung himself on the
bed. She dragged off his neck-cloth and
coat, and sat there until he should fall
into stupid sleep. She is the woman
who refused the glass of wine with a
shudder. You thought she was gay and
bright. know her story because I am
her minister. They have sort OF skele-
ton in the closet, which we are permitted
to see and you are not. And, when we
see that skeleton, do you wonder that we
sometimes say pretty sharp things about
moderate drinking and the temptations
offered at psrties?-Rev. E. E. Hale, in
Public Good.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
MARRIED OR SINGLE.

Mr.. Charles Dudley Warmers humor-
GUS presentation in Hdrper's Magazine of
the difficulty in continuing woman's
identity with her maiden name, after it is
merged in that OF her husband, calls at
tention, incidentally, to real difficulty
in deciding, when a woman is to be ad
dressed by letter, as to whether sne is
married or has been married. This will
be recognized as having often occasioned
embarrassment, and sometimes ludicrous
and even awkward results. A charming
young lady of this city not long since,
who had hardly reached her teens, found
a letter in the postoffice directed to her
with the address of B. Hobart, Esq. 1--WE
do not, of course, give the real surname).
The greatest difficulty in the matter is
that single women are often offended in
having it supposed that they are married,
and married women are in worse state
of mind, if possible, at the suggestion
that they are in q state of single blessed
ness. The Springfield Republican sug-
gests that it is allowable and proper for
every woman, in addressing a stranger
to sign herself with her proper title Id
parentheses before the name. 1t holds,
indeed, that to omit it, in fact, is hardly
proper. Time will be required to edu-
cate the women to the point Of realizing
this, but it will be an aid to others and
may save themselves some mortificatio
if they take this course.-Boston Herald.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
ghe Ao1ne Girele.
THE REAPERS.

When the tired reapers,wi fragrant sheaves,
Come out of the corn, as the sun goes down,
And the sky is rich as the falling leaves
In crimson and purple and golden brown,
sit in the mellow and marvellous ewes
And watch, as the loom of the sunset weaves
Its cloth of gold over country and town.
And think how the summers have come and
gone
Since we saw the shuttle across the blue
That wove the colors of dusk and dawn
When the musk of the sleeping roses few
On the wings of the south wind over the lawn,
And the evening shadows we're longer drawn,
And the sun was low and the stars were few.
When Love was sweet in the lives we led
AS the leaven that lives in the latter spring
To grow in the flowers, the books we read,
The romp and rush of the grapevine swing,
In words and work, to be filed and fed
On brooks of honey AMI wasted bread,
And sung in the songs that we used to sing.
And out of the shadows they come to me,
AS flowers of the spring come. year by year.
The lovers we had when to love was free,
The stars were few and the skies were clear,
And we knew it was happiness just to be,
Through the sheaves of the cloud-land fair to
see.
While the weary reapers are drawing near.
Though the red and white roses have lost their
leaves
In the ashes of summers of long ago,
They come. through the mellow and marvel
GUS ewes,
With the harvest of love that we used to
SOW,
As rich as the garlands the sunset weayes
When the tired reapers with fragrant sheaves
Come out of the corn and the sun is low.
WA Wallace Hdrney in Hdrper's Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
THE BEGGARS OF PARIS.

Next to the concierges, perhaps the
beggars are the greatest nuisances in
Paris. They have been augmenting so
rapidly of late and becoming SO agrees
sive that the Project of Police-now that
the spirit is abroad = has resolved to ex-
pei them, and has issued instructions to
police sergeants to get at the number and
conduct of the fraternity in their respect
i've districts. Just before they received
the final coup de baldi the Temps had
been entertaining its readers with some
sketches of their private history. These
Partisan beggars may be looked upon as
the aristocracy of the mendicant world
Begging has become a fine art with
them. They take to the streets from
choice rather than necessity. They have
got sort of circular newspaper to keep
themselves posted in coming events, and
systematically take different beats. Rows
of them may be seen at church doors
when marriage or funeral is on, and
they hang around the doors Of fashiona-
BILE restaurants. The greatest nuisances
among the gang are those who do not beg
at all. There is an institution for the
manufacture and training of this species.
They play the role of distortionists.
Several ioiners are kept at work in max
ing small wooden carts, slaves and vari-
GUS contrivances for them. Their object
is to draw money from the public by
their piteous and excruciating positions
and not by solicitation. And consider
ing that so many of them are so palpably
frauds, it says great deal for the guilt
bility of the Parisisns that they succeed.
The culs-dejatte - those who squeeze
themselves into a sort of wooden bowl
and propel themselves along the pave
ment with their hands-frequently COM
bine the functions of thief with those of
beggar, as they are just convenient
height to reach ladies' pockets. Accord
ing to the Temps there were 2,765 beg
gars arrested in Paris in 1884, and 4, 1873
in 1885. When arrested they are first
taken to central police station, where they
are asked to give an account Of them
selves. Some are sent to the hospital or
to the Depot of Mendicity, others to
their native departments, and the worst
cases to the police court. There is in
Paris privileged or licensed class of beg
gars. The police have always had power
to deal with others, who, on whatever
pretense, receive aims; but the general
federation allowed on fete days seems to
have been allowed on other days as well,
until the condition of the streets has be-
come ntOlerable.-PaH Mall Gazette.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS.



A delicious dessert is lemon cream. 1t
is made by removing the skins from four
lemons; put this peel into twelve tea
spoonfuls OF water, and let it lie there
while you squeeze the juice over eight
ounces of powdered sugar; beat the yolks
of eight eggs, and to them add the water
with the peel in it; strain this through a
coarse muslin; put this in saucepan or
basin and set it in hot water over brisk
fire. Stir it nntil.it is thick; pour into GUS
tard cups; beat the whites OF the eggs stiff.
add three tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar, cover the custard with the mering-
ne, set all the cups in deep dripping pan,
and set this on the CRATE in the oven until
the meringue is Drowned delicately.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Broiled Chicken.

Do not attempt to broil an old or full
grown fowl; take young chicken, split
it down the back always, wipe the inside
dry after removing the giblets, and place
it on the gridiron with the inside down;
keep it SO until it begins to grow very
brown, then turn it, but the moment the
skin threatens to burn, reverse it again.
To find how it is cooking insert sharp
knife into the thickest breast. If the
flesh is pink at all, return it to the fire;
when well done and Drowned, lay it on
a platter, inside down; butter, salt and
serve.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Summer Squash.

Out the squash in quarters, remove the
seeds and skin, cover with sailed boiling
water and boil until done. When cooked
mash the squash and add one ounce of
butter for each small one. Moisten with
gravy or broth and put in little pans or
dishes; cover with bread crumbs. place
tiny bits Of butter on the top and bake a
delicate brown in brisk oven.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
IRELAND AND AMERICA.

1t has long been mystery to ordinary
travellers in Ireland how it is that girls
accustomed to starvation wages or none
at all at home as soon as they come over
to this country put on such airs and be-
come so insolently extravaganza in their
demands. Father O'Riorden, the Catho-
lie missionary at Castle Garden, who
lately made his first tour in the land of
his ancestors, without attempting to ex-
plain this mystery done SO most effectu-
ally as follows: at is the dream of every
boy and girl in Ireland to get to this
country. In every other cabin there is
hanging in the most conspicuous place a
photograph of a lady dressed in silk, with
a bonnet covered with feathers, or of a
young man with stylish trousers and a
cane. That's Mary or Terrence, who
have been in America only three or four
years, and these photographs and glow
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Cocoanut LAYER Cake.

Cream together one pound of pulver-
lied sugar and one-half pound of butter;
add six eggs, leaving out the whites of
two; then one cup of milk, two teaspoon
fuls of yeast powder and -four enough to
make tolerably stiff. Bake in three jelly
tins about fifteen minutes. For the fill
ing: the whites of two eggs we'll beaten,
one-half pound of pulverized sugar and
one grated cocoanut.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Boiled Cheese.

Put four ounces of good cheese, sliced
as thin as possible, two tablespoonfuls of
cream, piece of butter the size of two
walnuts, into saucepan and boil, stir
ring it gently all the time until it be-
comes thick and smooth, then add a raw
egg and little cayenne pepper. Put the
saucepan again on the fire, stirring as be-
fore till the whole is quite hot. Serve on
small squares of dry toast The above is
enough for four persons.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Green Corn Pancakes.

Take five good ears of sweet corn, just
too hard for eating but still in the milk.
CRATE into any convenient crock or pan.
scraping all milk and loose corn from the
cob, add two eggs, one cup of sour milk
or cream, one-half teaspoonful of soda,
enough -four to thicken as -four batter
cakes. Salt to taste and bake as ordi.
nary pancakes. Try them and think
you will want to try them again.-1he
Household.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Mead.

Boil well together three pounds of
sugar and one quart of water; when cool
add one ounce of tartaric acid and va
nilla to taste. 1t is ready for use at once.
II it is to be kept, bottle and cork secure
ly. When used put three tablespoonfuls
in tumbler, add quarter of teaspoon
full of bicarbonate of soda and fill the
glass with ice water.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09

AS youngster who has an original
way of putting things, got up from his
seat suddenly and began limping about
the room with a quizzical and painful ex-
preston of countenance, "Why, what is
the matter?" inquired his mother. my
foot feels dizzy" was the instant reply.
A very good description of the peculiar
feeling of the nerves when ones foot is
''asleep."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09

ing letters that come back about the eat
ing and drinking and high wages turn all
the young peoples heads. OF all The
girls / saw living in comfortable homes
there was only one who did not want TO
come to America"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09
Strawberry and Raspberry Acid.

Take two and half ounces of citrie
acid, sprinkle it over six quarts of the
fruit, add one pint of water, and let the
mixture stand for twenty four hours.
Pour off the liquid slowly, and to each
pint add one and half pounds of white
sugar; stir every day for a week until the
sugar is dissolved, then bottle, but do not
cork for day or two.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-10-09

steadier step when 1 recall
That, if l slip, Thou dost not fall.
"A. III. Clough.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04

been too overwhelming against the
ruled opposed to imposilions of the
ruling class. The present Ministers Of
Hawaii will show wisdom by directing
affairs for the good of the nation, by
refusing to truckle and cringe at the
foot of the throne for the sake of hold
ing place with but the effigy of power,
and by seeing the true glory of King as
well as country in well-governed, con
tented, loyal, devoted, prosperous and
progressive people.
Members of the Cabinet must listen
to reason and pay respect to the voice
of public opinion when it condemns
certain items of policy, proposed ex-
penditure or practices as being inexpe-
dient, improvident, foolish or inn
proper. They must in short be men
in the truest sense of the word, and
not puppets operated by string.
Their power should be recognized as
emanating from the people who pro-
vide the means of government, even if
their places are at the disposal of the
King whose prerogatiye is sought by
backstairs cliques to serve their own
selfish designs.
In view Of the attention being drawn
to Hawaii in both the United States
and England at this moment, and in
view of the spirit that is developing
among those who pay the larger pro-
portion Of the cost of government at
home, the present Ministry is on trial
in a more emphatic sense than any
preceding one. Let it be hoped that
the Ministers will be able to meet the
next Legislature with record and an
account of their stewardship which will
evidence that this Kingdom has enter
ed upon a new lease of life, possessed
of the elements of enlightened, ad-
vancing and independent nationality.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04
NOTES.

The steamer W G Hall brought as36 bags sugar,
373 bags ava, 81 bags coffee, rs hides, horses as
head cattle and I4s packages sundries.
The steamer Surprise brought ago barrels molsssss
for this port.
The Schooner Wamalu took away $50 tons coal yes
terday.
The barkentine Geo c Perkins was taking in dry
hides all day She will sail for the Coast next week
The bark W II Watson has finished dischargng her
cargo, and will sail for the Coast by the first Of next
week.
The steamer Kiauea Hou brought 50 head cattle
from Kawaihae to Kalaupapa She arrived yesterday
morning with deck passengers Reports rough
weather
The steamer W C Hall reports fair weather on her
trip
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Our daily contemporaries are keep
ing up the discussion begun in the
HERALD, as to the advisability of put
ting the electric light in the lighthouse.
1t is not an idle discussion, for the
charters before the Legislature specially
mentioned the lighthouse in the propo-
sitions for lighting Honolulu. This
paper and the Bulletin simply gave
facts about electricity being discarded
for marine lights elsewhere, as eau
ton against its adoption here without
full investigation.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04

At the omoe, No. so Merchant st.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04
SATURDAY, DEcEMB'R 4, 1886
ON TRIAL.

Henceforth the reconstructed Cab
met may be fairly assumed to be upon
its trial. 1t has been too early hitherto
to have taken it into critical account.
Only in the midst Of the distracting,
not to say dissipating, influences of the
Kings jubilee birthday festivG.is was
the Ministry made complete by IT, %p-
pointment of an Attorney General.
The protracted festival being now at an
end, so far as the public are concerned,
the Government has to face the prob
lem before it. That problem involves
difficulties that more experienced states
men than the majority Of the Ministry
and ADLER ones than all of them, could
not afford to esteem lightly. They are
authorized by the Legislature to sx-
pend one and half millions of dol
lars more than the highest probable
revenue OF the period. Their discre-
tion is supposed to be exercised with
regard to the appropriations that are
least needful and may be left in abey
ance, so that the more necessary
services of'the country may be accom-
plished to the best possible advan-
tage.
There are many different items in
the Appropriation Act between which,
if the alternative presented itself, even
the very wisest men might find it ex-
tremely difficult to decide. On the
other hand, there are number of ap-
preparations that Ministers of ordinary
common sense might we'll be excused
for ignoring even if not impelled by
impecuniousness. Similar improper
and improvident grants we're made by
the previous Legislature, the same dis
cretion was enjoined upon Ministers,
but the policy adopted was to satisfy
the demands of folly and allow the
claims Of the general good to 60 beg
ging. Results we're evideut all through
the period, in the roads and bridges OF
the country going without needed i'm
provement, in very necessary public
works being made to wait for the good
time coming, in the most indispensa-
BILE servants of the state having fre-
quently to submit to postponement Of
pay day, and in persons who had done
work for the Government having to
undergo weary waiting for their com
pensation. Something better than that
is expected, and by the taxpayers de-
manded Of the present Ministry They
must choose between adopting the pub
lie good as their own interests, and
going down sooner or later, covered
with the contempt of their country and
the world, into oblivion along with the
whole anomalous system that makes it
hard for capable and honest men to
rule in this Kingdom
The general course of administration
during the past several periods, together
with the developments of tendency
to absolutism and retrogression from
liberal institutions, which have char
acterized the last two elections and
sessions of the Legislature, have
brought the principal taxpayers of the
country into way Of thinking and a
frame of mind which must before very
long, II the causes of dissatisfaction and
disafection are not removed, bring
about an irrepressible conflict between
People and Prerogative which can only
end as similar struggles have almost
invariably ended in every country and
in every age, where the odds have not
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04

There is warning conveyed to Ha-
waii, not to depend too much on one
industry, and to have her affairs OF all
kinds managed with the utmost pru-
dence, IN the story of the decay Of
Jamaica from the decline in sugar,
which is given elsewhere in this paper.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04

Fop rma PrOpmrrOR BY rnr Pass PunlIsHiNo Coz
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04
Vessels Erpeoted from FOREIGN FORT.

Am lrgtnl Ssna Blake, from San Francisco, due.
Am bk Martha Davis, F NJ Benson, sailed from
Boston, August 9TH, due December 1920 To { Brewer
& Co.
Br bk Martha Fisher, TO have sailed from Liverpool,
August as.
Am bk Saranac, -. from New York, due Nov.
ember 18th Castle & Cooke, agents.
Brit bk Clengaber, Roeston, from Liverpool, due
January 1890, 1887. I II Davies & Co, agents.
Am bkine S N Castle, Hubbard, from Port Town
send, W I, due December 1870, Castle a. Cooke
agents
Haw bk Lady Lampson, Marston from Newcastle
due February Io-ao. To Brewer q 20, agents.
Ger bk Hydra, from Hongkong, due December I.Is
Bktne Nellie May, --, from Sydney, due De-
cember I-Is. To Wilder Co. agents.
Ship Mercury, ----, from Newcastle, N S W. due
December 81
Ger bk Hercules, ----, from Liverpool, due Feb
ruary ao-3o, 1887. To Schaefei & Co. agents.
Bk Ceylon, - from San Francisco, due Decem
Der $40
Bktne W H Dimond, 49, from San Francisco, due
December $40.
S S Australia, - from San Francisco. due De.
cember IS.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04
Shipping Intelligence.
ARRIVALS.

FRIDAY, Dec 3.
Stmr Surprise from Kuau
Stmr w 6 Hall from Maui and Hawaii
Schr Leahi from Hanalei
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-04
DEPARTURES.
PASSENGERS.
Vessels in Port from Foreign Port

Ger bk Pacific, Olfmai from Bremen, Germany
Am bktne Geo c Perkins, Ackerman, from San
Francisco
Haw schr Jennie Walker, Anderson from Fanning's
Island
Bktne Mary winkelman, Backus. fom San Fran
cisco.
Ship 1heobald, Reed, from Newcastle, N SW.
Brit bk w II Watson from Liverpool
Am bktne Kliktat from Port Townsend
Am bk Forest Queen from San Francisco
Blk Edward Kidder from Portland en- route to Hong
kong.
Bktne Wrestler, Sehanane, from Newcastle, N w.
Bk G "A Powers irom Hongkong.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-26
Yes, Why Not.
From the Boston Courier


Why should writer who makes g.
new witticism about the sealskin
sacque, the plumber, the iceman.. the
coal dealer, the Chicago girls foot,
the skating rink, the beautiful snow,
or upon any other subject in which
humanity is interested, be accused Of
perpetrating what is termed a. chest
nut? Is not the subject OF love a
chestnut? Is not woman a chestnut?
Is not virtue chestnut? Is not vice
a chestnut? Has not every poet
and proser since Cadmus invent
ed letters harped upon these
strings, and isn't every poet and
every proser harping upon them still?
Solomon says: 'There is nothing
new under the sun. Is there anything
whereof it may be said, See, this is
new? It hath been already of old
time which was before as" Solomon,
who wrote B. C. 97e, was a para
grapher. Isaiah, B. C. 76O, criticises
feminine fripperies more severely than
the funny man Of to-day. What is a
Chestnut. Man, human experience,
life, death, all are chestnuts. Even
the little critic who is constantly
crying chestnut I, il 8 reproduction
of some other chestnut, and very.
wormy one at that.