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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
THE CENTRAL STATE OF THE
UNION

The State of Kansas, the seventh in
size of the thirty-eight composing the
American Union, has a remarkable stu
alton. Lying in the western half of the
Mississippi Valley, it is midway between
the headwsters OF the great river, in Min
nesota, and it's embouchure in the gulf.
Its eastern frontier, too, is as far removed
from the bottom of the basin as its west
tern limits are distant from the culmin-
ating ridge of the Rocky Mountains,
which forms the western boundary of
the drainage area. OF the region Of the
"Great Palms." then, Kansas is central.
1t is also central with regard to the
whole country. The Red river of Mani
toba and the Gulf of Mexico are equally
| distant from it, and it is as far from the
Atlantic coast as from the Pacific shore.
A spot 10 Davis county near Fort Riley,
marked by monument to the memory
of Major Ogden, who located that mill
tary post, is within a few rods of the geo.
graphical center Of the United States.
Her citizens affection tely speak of Kan
sas as the "Sunfower State" but when
they think OF her pivotal position in his
tory, and her geographical situation,
then Kansas is the "Central State."-
| Hdrper's Maodzine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
FOR MOTHERS TO READ.

1 know family whose sweet faced
nurse was the admiration and envy OF
all who came to the house; it was never
theless not intended for an instant that
the power Of Furnishing should be placed
in her hands, nor was it discovered until
weeks after she had left the family that
she had been in the habit of taking her
little charge privately into the pantry
and putting mustard on her tongue by
way of punishment for such sins as can
be committed at three years old. The in
humanities Of parents, On which a bril-.
liant American woman once wrote An es-
say may be bad enough, but it has al
ways seemed to me that the worst inhu-
mainly in the long run, was to leave a
child to the unmatched control of hired
attendant. 1 say unmatched" but after
all, how can any watching be more than
superficial?-T. w. HSgginson an Har-
per's Bazaar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04

The women of the Vosges are up in
arms against demand just made by the
freethinkers of the department to with
draw the guardianship of the house in
which Joan of Arc is supposed to have
been born from the religious sisterhood
hitherto intrusted with it, and confide it
to male custodisn-some army pension
or who has merited the reward OF the
brave in the shape OF the Cross of Honor.
The ladies have forwarded numerously
signed petition to the Council General OF
the Voeges. in which they protest in the
strongest terms against the substitution
proposed. "Josn of Are they emphat-
ically assert, "lJelongs to the women OF
France. and to the women alone" They
recognize that it is desirable that the
emblem of the national courage and the
national honor" should be seen in the
house of the heroine; but then why not,
they ask, put one of the many sisters
decorated with the Legion of Honor or
the military medal in charge OF it,
Joan of Arc, IN the Vosges.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
WHATS IN A NAME?"

He sat in hammock, doing nothing
in particular. He had astick of red. and
white candy in his hand, but was not eat
ing it, for the simple reason that he had
already eaten SO much sweet stuff as to
be conscious of an uncomfortable feeling
in the region of his stomach; but he did
not like to put the candy out of his sight
A side door, belonging to the house near
at hand, opened, and woman's voice
was heard
"Wait, run and see if there are any
eggs in the nests"
"Yes'm," said the boy in the ham.
mock. "Wait a minute and will" But
he did not stir from his place.
"Waitl" shouted the voice of his broth
or from the distant bayfield,, "bring us a
fresh pitcher of water, can't your"
"If you'll wait till I've hunted the eggs
for mamma, WILL" shouted back the
boy, and sat as still as a mouse, taking q
suck now and then of his candy.
Some minutes passed, and his Aunt
Sarah appeared in the doorway: wait,
are you there? Can't you run to the
grocery and get me some lemons? need
another, and they are all ont"
"Why, il you wait little while will,''
answered the boy. "Ive got two things
to do first" But he sat still.
Under tree just behind the hammock
sat the new teacher, who boarded at the
house from which the calls had come. 1t
was Saturday, and he liked TO bring a
book and sit under the great old trees.
He was not reading now, but was look
ing at the boy with a curious smile on
his face. "My boy" he said at last,
Show do you spell your name? "
"Our name?" was the brisk reply;
B-r-y-s-o-n."
"Ohl but 1 mean the first name. 1
know how to spell the other one.
"Why, there isn't but just one way to
spell my first name; it is John. That's
all there is to it; no middle name, nor
anything"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
ghe Hume Pa9e.
T Fl E B r D S.
BY II. W. LoSGFELLow.

The robin and the bluebird, piping loud,
Filled all the bossoming orchards with then
glee;
The sparrows chirped as if they still were
Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned
be,
And hungry crows, assembled in a crowd,
Clamored their piteous prayer necessarily;
Knowing who hears the ravens cry, and said.
"Give us, o Lord, this day our daily bread"
Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings
these?
Do you neer think who made them, and
who taught
The dialect they speak, whose melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought
Whose household words are songs in many
keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er
caught
Whose habitations in the tree tops even
Are halfway houses on the road to heaven
Think, every morning when the sun peeps
through
The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove,
How jubilant the happy birds renew
Their old melodious madrigals of Lowell
And when you think of this, remember too
IT is always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents. from shore to
shore,
So mewhere the birds are singing evermore.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
WITH HAWTHORNE,

"You shall sleep in Hswthorne's own
bedroom" said our hostess, ushering us
in, and we went up to it by the steep old
staircase-a charming room, with low
cottage windows, through whose latticed
panes the roses and woodbine peeped in
gsrrulously on the trees outside. The
house is a rambling one, with those
quaint little steps up and down between
the rooms inside which, not ungrscefully,
betray an architectural afterthought.
The pitch pines and locusts and silver
birch trees that now surround and close
in the house, as we'll as the larch wood
that chambers up the stoop behind, were
planted for the most part by Hswthorne's
own hand. One of the bushes is itself a
hawthorn close beside the pretty creep
er-covered porch. Everything in the
room and outside it seemed to us alike
beautiful-the delicate feeling OF a Guilt
waited and artistic home informed every
detail of the hanging and drapery. We
felt that HawthoIne's house has fallen
into good hands and that no tipge of its
special aroma would be allowed to escape
by unskillful treatment Dinner and
gossip in the dainty drawing room con-
Guided the Saturday, and on Sunday
morning we rose fresh, after all the ia
tigue of our week In Boston. At break
fast we were introduced to that immemo-
rial New England Sunday dish, Boston
baked beans, without beginning the day on
which no genuine Yankee of the old rock
could ever feel his Sabbath truly sancti-
fed. cannot cay thought highly Of
them; perhaps the dish is in reality PEN
tier tial one meant to assimilate the Mass
schusetts Sunday to Friday fast rather
than to a Dominica festival. After break
fast we strolled out casually into the
grounds, and our hostess led US through
tangled underground of sweet fern and
the crest of the ridge. There, on his Mount
OF Vision, as Mrs. Hawthorne used to call
it, the Concord dreamer dreamed, says Mr..
Bartlett, as many unwritten books as he
ever put on paper. His constant pacing
up and down as he worked out the de-
tails of The Marble Faun and the Tan
glewood Tales, have worn lasting foot
path on the brow of the ridge, from which
we looked down upon the waving grass
land of the Concord Valley. Low hills
grid it round on every side with almost
primevsl woodland; i'll the center the mar
row alluvial basin itself, deep in lush
meadows, makes up the intrusive wedge
of civilization which alone has yet pene-
trated the solid mass of Thoreau's wild
and unsophisticatsd forests. Dark pines
rise sombre in front of the house; ever
green's climb the slope Of the hillside.
The gloom of their shade seemed redo
lent of Hawthorne; it was a fitting place
for a man to meet those strange mysteri-
GUS witch-like figures that fit forever
through the pages of The Scarlet Letter
and the subdued light of the paths at the
wayside. Allen, in Fortnightly
ReUieaU.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04

"Johnl" said the teacher in q sur
prised tone; "why, how in the world do
your friends get Wait out of that? 1
have been here a week, and have never
heard you called anything but Wait"
Then the boy in the hammock had some
red cheeks. He laughed little, and
looked foolish, and wished he had gone
at that first call; then he would not have
had such a troublesome question to an
swer,
"Why, you see they just call me that
for nickname" he explained at last.
Everybody does, and don't think they
ought to, do your 1t isn't my name any
more than it's yours"
"But how did they get into the habit
in the first place? Nicknames generally
mean something; there was fellow in
college whom we called Solomon, be-
cause he was always giving us the bene-
fit of his wisdom. Why do you suppose
they took up the fashion of calling you
Waltz"
"Why," said the boy, looking down at
his feet, and wishing he was in the hay
field, "the way of it was, s'pose, Tor
well, they said was always saying Wait
minute when they called me, and 80
they began to cali me Watt and after a
while they couldn't help it."
OH and the name doesn't fit you now,
and yet they keep using it? That is a
pity. I should say il you had quite given
up the habit that prompted the name, it
was no more than fair that they should
give up its use."
just then they were interrupted; the
side door opened again, and the mothers
voice was heard
"Wait Bryson, haven't you gone to
hunt for those eggs YETI"
Yes'm, said Wait, slipping down from
his hammock, "Im going this minute!"
And as he walked away, he said, 1t isn't
exactly fair to make him think that I've
given up saying it, but I didn't tell him
any such thing. I wonder if he heard
me say it every single time this after
noon, and is kind of making fun of mef
wish they didn't call me Wait. 1 mean
to give it up, and see if they can learn
what my name is."-I'he PdnSy.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04
EFFECTS OF MENTAL OVER
WORK

Some interesting, though not novel,
observations on the symptoms of mental
fatigue were discussed at recent meet
ing Of the Archaeological Society. The
result of these Investigations goes to
prove that WEAKNESS of mind, the result
of work, like other forms OF exhaustion,
is recognizable under the two different
though related aspects of irritability and
of incapacity. Further careful inquiry
into the same subject would probably
show that here, as elsewhere, the former
of these conditions is Introductory to the
latter, and is the natural sequal of that
stage Of apparently successful over-action
which is seen when an organ still fully
capable is unduly stimulated. The OBJ
servations referred to were culled from q
series of reports by school teachers, and
included details of their own sensations,
as well as Of the children under their
care. The signs of mental irritability
were apparent in sleeplessness and nerv-
GUS laughter; of fatigue, in sleepiness and
incspscity for task work. Lolling, yawn-
ing, and lsnguid manner told that the
will was tagging. Headache suggested
overstrain in study, combined with defec-
tive ventilation, and perhaps too spar
ing diet; while some curious facts bear
ing on the causstion of color blindness
and somnambulism were also noted. Thus,
in one case, the blue color perception was
for time obliterated, and the sufferer
from this defect found herself painting
ivy leaves bright orange; while in an
other student, having retired to rest on
desk TO find that he had been busily en-
gagged in drawing humorous cartoons re-
lating to former conversation. Here
we have an instance of cerebral irritation
due to overwork, which suggests some-
what close connection between dreaming
and somnsmbulism, and affords clue to
the physiology of the latter condition.
Overwork, both mental and bodily, is
at once the most general and the least
regarded form of illness to which we are
liable in the present age. Do what we
may, it is next to impossible to escape
from it; but there is, at all events, a GER
tain satisfaction in being able TO recog-
nize its features. We must not forget,
however, that it is also to a considerable
extent preventable evil, and it is GER
tainly matter for satisfaction that this
fact is not ignored by the reforming par
ty in the legislature. Its treatment in
individual cases requires chiefly that due
attention be paid to the two great essen
tials of timely rest and wholesome diet.
Work, however irksome, may, it is gen.
orally allowed, be undertaken on a very
liberal scale, if only it is not too eontin-
uous, but is broken by timely and sde-
quats intervals OF rest. The value of a
plain and liberal dietary is hardly less,
and we may take it as maxim for the
times that, SO long as appetite and sleep
are unimpsired, there is no dangerous
degree of overwork, and, conversely, that
a failure in either of these respects should
be regarded as warning signal, to which
attention should be paid by relieving the
strsin Of exertion.-Lancet.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04

We take care Of our health, we lay up
money, me make our roof tight and our
clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely
that he shall not be wanting in the best prop
erty of -frends.-Emerson.
--"I will be meroiful to their unrighteous-
ness, and their sins and their iniquities will
l remember no more" What ripple of
divine music Let it flow on, carrying joy
and peace to dropping flowers by the edge
of life's stream. r. Macduf, d. d.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04

Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Ellen p. AllertOn-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-04

We cannot conquer fate and necessity
yet We can yield to them in such a manner
as TO be greater than if we could.-Landor.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
tess md Jlakptaiaa
rhe Tnoebes earsiue Oase.

Washington, Jan. 2I-Tha action of
the house In adjonrning to-day without
dispos;ng OF the Thoebe- Carlisle case
renduft 4 It impossible that the vote by
which the resolution for reopening Of
the case was defeated yesterday can be
reconsidered, except by unanimous coz
sent, the time within which such motion
conld have been entered as one of priv
ilege having expired with to-day's ses-
sion. Although the rumor that Mr..
Oarlisle will on Monday address q letter
to the house asking that the case be
rsopened is declared by that gentleman's
friends to be without foundation, even
ehould such communication be received
its suggestions could only be acted upon
by unanimous consent, unless the order
for the previous question, under which
the house Is now operating, should be
considered as Withdrawn.
Mr. Thoebe, the contestant for Speaker
Ca,lisle's seat, informed . reporter thus
afternoon that the speaker will, on Mon
day next, send a letter to the house, re-
questIng that the contest for his seat be
reopened and a committee sent into the
distrsct to make investigation.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
Eve BODIES sent Home

Huron. ID. IT,, Jan. 2I-yeBterday's
wind thoroughly blocked the west and
cast lines OF the Northwestern. The only
trains to-day were from the north and
south. The one from the south was due
here Thureday noon. 1t brought many
snowbound passengers and much delay
ed mail. A train was sent north this
afternoon, the first since Thursday. Also
one south later with two engines. On
this train were the bodies OF five storm
victims: Frank and Willie Rlerson, of
this county, destined for Chicago, Ella
Lamar, school teacher from Faux
eoanty going to parents in leighton.
To-, the:8 year old daughter Of
Harry Auman, OF Faulk county, CO.
ing to Freeport, Ill. the body OF q 10
year-old boy named May, Of Faux
county, sent to friends in Red Oak, 10.
The wind is blowing and snow is drift
ing badly tonight No trains are ex-
pected here from the east before to-nnor-
row. IL lie now storming east and south
from here,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
III. SIOUX Reservatfon IHi,,s.

Ea
Washington, Jan. 2l-All the bills
referring to the opening OF the great
Sioux reservation have been referred to
4 snb.committee consisting of Messrs.
Peel Of Arkansas; Hudd, of Wisconsin;
Moshane. OF Nebraska; Nelson, OF
Minnesota, and Clifford, Of Dakota.
The latter gentlemen said:
These gentleman are all favorably dis
poHed toward the general proposition OF
opening up the reservation, but they
may disagree upon details. There are
i: :s0 points DO
fore the committee now, but they. are
all aimed at the same end. just which
n will be reported favorably I cannot
say, but ] feel sure that the necessary
law to open to settlement those fertile
lands will be enacted before the close OF
the present congress.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
BAD ais MARCk.

The County Commissioners in Trouble
The CouRty's Educator sued for n
Whisky Bill.
Bismarck, Jan. 19-Bismarck does not
lack for sensations this frigid month of
January. First. aud above all others
the Mackey. Witherbee development.
Se,ond, the indictment Of the two county
commissioners, Neal and johnson, for
all the sins OF the rogue's gallery; aud
third, the suit Of the bard wood saloon
ist, u. N. Griffin, against w. Fl. Win.
chester, lawyer, superintendent of pub
lilo Instruction for Burleigh county. and
superintendent OF the Sabbath school of
the Presbyterian church OF Bismarck, to
collect o bill of 50. 80. The county COM
missioners, two out OF three--three being
the full board-have been running
things on the plan of e1pedienoy since
1888, The law was all right in itself, but
it was o always conyeniant to
follow it. The people seemed to want
roads laid out and Improved, and the
commissioners, being farmers, thought.
they would comply With the popular re.
quest. To comply they mad to issue war
rants ID excess ut the assessment for
road purposes, and when they did they
violated the law. AS the matter now
stands. Judge Francis ia practically the
board. No bills are ALLEGED or paid
without his approval. In March the
question OF their suspension will be
passed upon by the court. Il is asserted
more serious action will be taken if they
are permanently suspended, and pfoba-
bly, some criminal oases made up. Neal
Is q Maine man, and Close to Blaine. Ii
Blaine became president, Neal might be
q power in Dakota affairs. His enemies
may care nothlng for that, but il they
are looking ahead tho present prosecr-
ton will be death to their hopes il Blaine
gets there.
The superintendent's case is q serioua
one to him. He is a model man from
st, Lawrence eounty,Ne York, and has
made Rg much Roadway In Bismarck as
hrs abilities would Justify. He repre-
sented the temperance and Sunday
school element in politics here, and was
accepted as such In making up the slater.
He was properly enough given the Office
of superintendent OF public instruction.
He was and in considered an industrious
officer, and ABOUT the flttest man for the
place in the country. A certain wspish
critic has now and then been heard to
say that no couldn's spell. But che idol
is shattered all In Q heap by che suit TO
|collect the price OFT gallon OF cheap
whisky. He denies the purchase gener.
ally. but failed 10 go nnon the s.ssd In
mis- wi Dehalf, and Judge Hare, city
justice, IL obliged SO decide that Win
chester, his WI attorney in other mat
tiers. owes the money and muss pay il.
To buy, or order the purchase Of . gallon
OF whisky Was the most unexpected
thing In the world, but TO refuse to pay
for 1t was more than his friends could
believe, His enemies say he has
'acandalixed the public schools, che
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
weston,s

P~ittshurg, Pa. Jan. 20-The board OF
pardona at Harrisburg to-dsy decided TO
hold 9 special meeting Wednesday next
to take action Oh Q number of cases SON
sidered at the meeting this week and ut
previous meetings. Among these is that
ri Milton Weston, whose application
y. . ~rehearing has been held under ad-
sisement for several weeks. Among
letters fed recently in the interest
OF the yjrisoner are two written
respectively by MIR. Jameson, a Chicago
lawyer, and his daughter, who both deny
in a most emphatic wey tho truth OF the
s~tatenaers made by the lstter's step-
mother, who has addressed several let
tiers to the board protesting against the
pasdon. rejecting 10 q scandalous man
mar ON MrB. Weston. The husband of
shia wonaa says her allegations are ont
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
raReous and warranted by nothing tina.

rageons and warranted by nothing thai
hes occurred. The daughter, to show the
character OF her etepmotker, states that
she had broken her piano with
an AK and committed other depre-
datipns almost as bad. The pro.
pristors OF nearly all the the newspapers
of Pittsburg have recently written let
ters asking for the favorable consider
alton of Weston's case. The board
would doubtless long since have
recommend the pardon OF the prisoner il
1T were not for the evidence adduced at
the trial that he had participated in the
attack upon those who sought to cap
ture the property in dispute, and that
he commanded the force under him to
shoot into the ranks of the enemy.
Wsston's attorneys think they will be
successful this time.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-23
An Extraordinary PAensmensn.

An EXTRAORDINARY EAcn0naen8M.
No other term than the above would
apply 60 the woman who could see her
youthful beauty fading away without e
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prematurely and haggard because Of
functional arrangement. What g pity oil
such do not know that DR.. Pierce's FR-
yerite Prescription will restore their
organs to q normal state, and make them
youthful and beautiful once moseI For
the ills to which the daughters OF Eve
are peculiarly liable the s.Prescripsion''
ID . sovereign remedy. II is the only
medicine sold BY druggists under 9 posi-
tive guarantee from the manufactures,
that IL will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be returned. See
guarantee on bottle wrapper.