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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-19

Deputy United States Marshal A.
Cuyler Fen Eyck, United States Postal
Inspector T. Batchelder, and Postmaster
La Grange interesting themselves In the
case, have worked increasingly, the latter
at considerable personal expense. Through
information conveyed from the brothers
TO their sister, the officials have been
kept informed of every place :hey visited.
The las, the officials learned was that
the thieves were in Baltimore, on the
way to Richmond, Va, where they used
the names o. Clarence Becker and David
Williams. Marshal Ten Eyck telegraph
cd TO the United States Marshal at
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
LIVE IN LIGHT.

Instead of excluding sunlight from our
houses lest it fade the carpet and cur
tains, draw flies and bring freckles, we
should open every door and window, and
bid it enter. 1t brings life and health
and Joy +; there is healing in it's beams !;
it drives away disease, dampness, mold,
megrims. Instead of doing this, how
ever, many careful housewives close the
blinds, draw down the shades, lock the
doors, shut out the clarifying rays, and
rejoice in the dim and musty GOODNESS
and twilight Of their apartments. 1t is
pleasant and not unwholesome during
the glare of the noontide to subdue the
light and exclude the air quivering with
heat but in the evening we may freely
indulge the sun-bath, and let it food all
our rooms, and if at its very fiercest and
brightest it has full entrance to our
sleeping rooms, SO much the better for
u.s. Wire netting in doors and windows
excludes not flies and mosquitoes only,
but all other insects and those who have
used it once will continue to do 30.
With this as protection from intrusive
winged creatures, one may almost dis
pense with shades and shutters, and en-
joy the benefits OF an open house without
any annoyances so frequent in warm
weather. But better the annoyances
with sunshine than freedom from them
without it. Statistics of epidemics have
shown that if they rage in any part of a
city they will prevail in houses which are
exposed the least to sunshine, while those
most exposed to it will not be at all or
very slightly affected. Even in the same
house, persons occupying rooms exposed
to sunlight will be healthier and repulse
epidemic influences better than those oc-
cupying rooms where no sunlight enters.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
Ear11r, ftnn1e and 6arden.

SMALL FRUITS FOR HOME USE.
The strawberry that will prove equally
good on all soils, and under all condi-
tions, has not been produced, and proba-
bly, never will be. The thing is
true OF other fruits, which accounts for
the conflicting opinions as to the merits
OF the various kinds. If earlipess, pro-
fuse bearing and acidity be desirable, the
wants OF the grower would be supplied
by the crescent, may king and man
chester. II he requires quality with
earlinsss, cumberland would be better.
Ii quality Is more important than earli-
ness, downing, prince, belmont or bid
well would answer. If size and beauty
are wanted, jewell will furnish these, and
a good quality as well, and 30 will Jersey
queen, with higher degree of acidity
and flavor. IL extra size and sweetness
without high flavor are more desirable
than heavy cropping, they can be found in
sharpless or davis; and SO they might be
varied dd antinitum. Numbers OF new
varieties are being produced and tested,
but time is required to determine their
relative merits for general planting.
Those named are the leading kinds of
established reputation, and from them all
reasonable requirements for home use
can be fully met
1t is not advisable for the inexperienced
to con6ne his planting to one or two
sorts; half dozen would cover the sea-
son better, and if one or more should fail
from want of congenial soil or other
cause, the others would be more likely to
supply the deficiency.
As the strawberry supply draws to
close, the black cap raspberry begins, the
souhegan being among the earliest and
best. Possibly the new carman may
prove formidable competitor. 1t GER
tainly will if it maintains the promise it
made in its original home. The gregg is
the largest of the black caps SO far tried,
as we'll as the latest. It is less juicy and
more solid than the others named, and
the canes are not quite as hardy; other
wise black caps do not vary materially,
and all are 30 seedy that they are often
refused by persons of delicate organiza-
ton, or perhaps disorganization is bet
ter name for this weakness OF digestion.
The shaffer is a dull, purplish-red berry
OF the cap variety, of immense size, of fair
quality, and especially valuable for can
ming. 1t is the strongest grower OF all,
and very productive. The caroline, a
salmon yellow hybrid of the cap and ant
early as souhegan, and it's delicate text
ure, fine hay or, immense productiveness
and thorough hardness make it great
favorite. The new golden queen may
prove its equal, but it is difficult to i'm
imagine how it can be any better.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
HINTS FOR THE WELL.

When an engine is running full speed,
every part in perfect play, the engineer
knows well that constant vigilance is the
price. IL he relax his care, to oil, polish
and examine, trusting to luck and good
chance to take him along safely, he will
soon be dismissed for unfaithfulness.
The human body, that perfect ma
chine, the man wonderful in the house
beautiful, must also be carefully looked
after by the engineer, otherwise the boil
or will run low when be wishes the pro-
polling power strongest, the tensions
snap when need of firm hold is great
est.
One is prone to forget the "ounc Q
of prevention" but it must be remem-
bered if good health is retained. 1t
pays to consider the matter. The "hints"
given are from good authority, and 1
think merit attention.
DO not wear tight clothing; the OBJ
vious reason every intelligent mind can
ses.Clea1llnsss is nsxs % Goodness
therefore virtue worthy of practice.
Do not eat too much. Each person
can best determine for himself when
that amount is reached.
Eat something within an hour after
rising, if obliged to labor or study, or
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
A HANDY DISINFECTANT.

Coffee Is handy and harmless disin-
fectant. Experiments have been made
in Paris to prove this. A quantity of
meat was hung up in a close room until
decomposed, and then a chatting dish was
introduced and 500 grammes of coffee
thrown on the fire-in few moments the
room was completely disintected. In an
other room, sulphuretted hydrogen and
ammonia were developed, and ninety
grammes of coffee destroyed the smell in
about half minute.
1t is also stated that coffee destroys the
smell of musk, castoreum and assafoetida
As proof that the noxious smells are
really decomposed by the fumes of coffee,
and not merely overpowered by them, it
is stated that the first vapors of the cof-
fee were not smelt at all, and are there
fore chemically absorbed, while the other
smells gradually diminished as the fumi-
cation continues. The best way to effect
this fumigation is to pound the coffee in
a mortar, and then strew it on hot iron
plate, which however, must not be red
hot
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
EATING In SILENCE.

There are." says Sir John Lubbock,
perhaps, few more Objectionable scenes
in this life than man or a woman eating
a heavy meal in perfect silence. 1t is at
meal-time when the spiritual element in
man should be most apparent. It is
easy enough to have great ideas and to
express them in the lecture room, the IL
brary or the drawing The animal
nature is practically dormant with such
associations; but at dinner, for instance,
the very contrary is the case, and it is OF
all situations the severest test of mans
claim to be master of his animal nature.
The man who can discuss home rule, the
conservation OF energy, or the anthem
ITCHY of the fourth gospel, over dinner
consisting of soup, game joint, and the
usual sweets, may fairly be considered
to come within the poets description of
man as creature looking before and
after. The two cardinal sins in CONVEX
sation are talkativeness and silence, the
rest are what might be called venial Of
fences Under this head would come the
man of one subject, the teller of stories,
the over-serious man and the man with q
passion for exaggeration. Take the man
of one subject. Whether that subject is
music or science in a man, or servants in
the case OF woman, their speech must
be. in both cases, alike without grace and
unseasoned with salt. Music, like beau
tiful scenery and architecture, should be
considered holy ground in conversation;
the enjoyment of all three is more mat
ter of feeling than intellectual analysis,
and they charm us most when we resort
to them at intervals, when, in hours of
weariness,' we wish to feel sensation
sweet But your typical musical bore
violates both these principles. He vii
dissect musical performance as if it
were human organism, and so far from
regarding music in the light have just
indicated, will, at all times and seasons,
In ungracious disregard of the tastes of
the company he is addressing, impose
upon them his own second hand reflec-
tions'
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
gT1e Hune PaDe.
MINNIE FREEMAN.
BY REV. PHEBE A. HANAFoRD.

"Ho, hol" roared the blizzard. and the prai-
ries swept by storm,
Felt the wind fiends widest fury, knew he
meant to mortals harm;
But mightier than the storm-king dwelt in
one brave maidens heart,
And her bravery and wisdom to our hopes
new strength inpart.
Love is mighty in its efforts, in the little or
the young,
And the storm-king could not brighten one in
loves own armor strong;
So when wild winds shook the school-house on
the prairie lone and drear,
And the door was torn asunder, and the roof
was borne afar,
Then the little teacher bravely Though she
was but in her teens)
Planned the rescue of her pupils, and by love
suggested means
Led them all along toward shelter, tiled by
Irvine and three abreast"
That no little feet should wander with the
danger unexpressed.
Then "the six-year-old," the youngest, and of
all the flock the pet,
In her own small arms she gathered and forth
on her journey set.
which all the flock were fast,
And her motto was: "I'll save them or die
with them at the last"
Small, white stringl how little, in the hour
when you were made,
Did the twisters or the mill hands dream you
thus to life would lead
Those whose safety on the prairie, in the
billiards. path that day,
Hung by such thread SO slender, tied in such
allowing wayl
On they pressed-that maid heroic spite OF
cold and drifting snow,
And her precious fock-to safety, on the well
comes warm they go;
Struggling, while the words of courage, from
the brave heart at their head,
Helped them brave the storms wild terrors-
on to safety they were led.
Now the name of that young teacher on pa
rental hearts is graved,
Since her courage wrote their children's pre-
cious names among the saved,
When the wintry storm in fury swept across
the prairie wide,
And the wrecks of life and comfort were be-
strewn on every side.
If the future for that teacher holds the bliss
of motherhood,
In her arms may children nestle who shall
share her fortitude-
Who shall grow to bless the nation, as sne
toiled those homes to bless,
And in whose long lives and useful she shall
gather happinessl
For the teacher brave and thoughtful, strong
and wise in holy love,
Is the woman of the future that we need all
else above;
And our land, with wives and mothers like
this Spartan of the West,
Must be leader of the nations, and of every
land the best.
-Womdn's Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF
AGREEABLE,

Very rarely, il ever, young persons &C.
quire the ability to converse with ease
and fuency. This implies, first of all
good ideas, clearly and sensibly express
ed. An empty mind never made good
talker; remember, you can not draw
water out Of an empty WE'LL" Next in
Importance is self-possession. "Self
possession is nine points in the law''-oi
good breeding.
A good voice is as essential to self-pos
session as good ideas are essential to
fluent language. The voice, from infancy
should be carefully trained and develop.
ed; full, clear, flexible voice is one Of
the surest indications OF good breeding
falls like music on the ear, and while il
pleases the listener, it adds to the con-
fdence of it's possessor, be he ever 90
timid. One may be witty without being
popular; voluble without being agreea
BILE; great talker and yet great bore
1t is wise then to note carefully the fol-
lowing suggestions:
Be sincere; he who habitually sneers at
everything, will not only render himself
disagreeable to others, but will soon
cease to find pleasure in life.
Be frank; frank, open countensnce
and clear, CHEEKY laugh, are worth far
more, even socially, than "pedartry in a
stiff cravat.'
Be amiable; you may hide vindictive
nature under polite exterior for time,
as cat masks it sharp claws in velvet
fur, but the least provocation brings out
one as quickly as the other; ill-natured
persons are always disliked.
Be sensible, society never lacks for
fools. If you want elbow room, Ego up
higher"
Be cheerful; if you have no great trou-
BILE on your mind, you have no right to
render other people miserable by your
long face and dolorous tones, If you
do you are gener ally avoided.
But above all, be cordial; true cordial.
ity unites all the qualities we have enum-
Grated,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
BLOOD EDUCATION.

Many of our most fatal diseases are
now known to be due to the feeding Of
bacteria upon the body. These bacteria
sometimes find nothing they can feed
upon, and the proper way of coping with
them, says Prof. E. Ray Lancaster, is by
educating the white blood corpuscles to
resist their attacks. The corpuscles can
be gradually trained by weak or small
doses of arsenic, to offer a high degree OF
resistance to doses that would have been
fatal if given at first. This is the princi-
pie Of preventive incubation, which has
proven remarkably successful in diseases
of cattle and sheep, as well as in small
pox in man. 1t is believed that the white
corpuscles can be trained to receive the
most virulent poisons, and it is hoped
that this training will be carried on so as
to deal with great number of diseases.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02

exposed to malaria or contsgion. II
possible, eat in pure air, and not too fast.
Nothing is gained by boiling food, and
much harm may follow.
Drink at close of meals, not too strong
or too hot; never full glass of very hot
or very cold liquid to wash down food
as the saliva is wasted and the stomach
flooded.
Keep the body scrupulously clean;
change clothes often worn next to the
skin, and do not economic in wash bills
Never sleep in clothing worn during the
day.
Ventilation can not be accomplished
by simply letting the pure air in; the bad
must be let out. IL rooms, especially
sleeping-rooms, are no constructed on
this plan, little contriving will find q
way.
Have stated time for going to bed
and il possible, adhere to it. Late hours
are shadows from the grave.
Fail not to take full respirations. Deer
breathing is one of life's stronghold
and pure air is free.
Watch the children in regard to health
matters Many delicate born children
have been reared to health and useful
ness by careful adherence to hygienic
rules.
Physicians differ widely in neodus oper-
a'adi OF disease, diagnosis and treatment
but all doctors Of all schools agree in
the beneficial effects of air. water and
sunlight, and the general hygienic prin.
ciples.- Christian at Work.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
IF YOU Would HAVE PEACE OF
MIND


MIND.
Use your brains rather than those of
others.
Keep ahead of rather than behind the
times.
Spend less nervous energy every day
than you make.
Think nothing in conduct unimpor-
tant or Indifferent.
Try to see yourself through the eyes of
those around you.
Learn to say no; not snappishly, but
firmly and respectfully.
Avoid passion and excitement; mo-
ments anger may be fatal.
Trust no secrets to a friend which, il
reported, would make an enemy.
Work to-day for you know not how
much you may be hindered tomorrow.
Pay your debts while you have the
money in your pocket with which to do
it.
In private, watch your thoughts; in
the family, watch your temper; in COM
pany, watch your tongue.
Garry sunshine in thine own heart, and,
like the perfume in flowers, it will breathe
fragrance everywhere.
Show your respect for honesty in what
ever guise it appears, and your contempt
for dishonesty and duplicity wherever
found.-Go0d Housekeeping.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
THE NEXT NEIGHRoR.

Some months ago lady moved from
the country to fiat in the city. She
came to the great metropolis with sin
cere desire and determination to do good
to all whom she could personally reach,
and especially to those in need of conso-
lation and aid. She was told by city &C.
quaintances that families in apartment
houses were not expected to know each
other, that for many and good reasons it
were better each family should keep en-
tirely to itself. Accepting this doctrine.
she sought opportunities of usefulness
and found them in mission Sunday
schools and in hospitals, but did not cuI
tivate any one Of the score of families
living under the same roof with her.
In one of these families was an invalid,
who from Christmas to Easter did not go
out Of her rooms She was stranger in
the city, and though church member
not being able to present herself to the
church Of her fellowship, she made no
scquaint ance with its pastor or member
ship. Her children were young and shy,
and slow to make advances to strangers.
During the long stormy days Of the win
ter she was not visited by single soul.
Her malady assuming more serious
form, physician in the neighborhood
was called in, and through him the lady
first alluded to heard of the condition of
her neighbor, just one floor below her,
and called on her. The welcome she re-
ceived was pathetic In few days the
visiting pastor OF the invalid's church was
notified of the condition and social needs
OF this suffering sister, and he called on
her and prayed with her. Friends null
tiplied. One took the children to the
Central Park and the museums in it
whence they came home with much to
tell that was interesting and beguiling to
the mother. Another took them to the
Sabbath school, others sent in flowers
choice dainties for the invslid's appetite
pleasant illustrated books and papers.
Under this sunshine of social sympathy,
the sick woman became stronger and bet
ter in health. She"had nearly persisted just
for some one to speak to-" she said. And
within calling distance, just one floor
above her, was one whose heart was 60
ing out with longings to relieve just such
cases of distress.
Acquaintance once made, how easy it
was to make that invalid happier. She
listened with delight to rehearsals of the
Sunday services in the church Of her
choice. The hymns sung were read to
her, the points Of the discourse given her;
size was told of the prayer. meetings, and
interesting testimonies, and incidents
given and occurring there were narrated
to her.
How often by foolish pride and un-
reasonable reserve we miss opportunities
OF doing good to those near us. We for
get that "every human heart is human
and, wrapped in egoism and isolation, let
slip the chances of doing good that angels
would hasten to improve-Neac York
Advocate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
NAIL-PARINGS.

The Jewish Talmud forbids the Jews
to leave nail-parings on the ground.
They should be burned or hidden away
Another old work says: "He who burns
the parings of the nails is pious man;
he who buries them is equally 80; but
he who casts them upon the earth is an
impious man." Many Jews still care
fully burn or bury these cuttings. These
are taken, inclosed between two bits of
wood, and consumed. The reason al
legged is that the body should be burned
or buried, and that nail-parings, being
left above ground, the soul of the pos
SCISSOR will wander abroad after his death
In Norway they are burned, or else one
will have to gather the pieces on the last
day.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
GUN-COTTON.

Mr.. Charles E. Monroe, of the United
States torpedo corps, says in Scribner,
that gun-cotton constitutes the best mill
tary explosive known, for while it's ex-
plosive force vastly exceeds that Of gun
powder and approaches that of nitro-gIyo-
crime, it is the safest and most stable ex-
plosive we possess, since it can be stored
and transported wet, and while in this
state, though it may be detonated, it can
not be exploded in any other way. AS
much as two thousand pounds Of wet
compressed gun-cotton have been placed
in fierce bonfire, where it has gradually
dried, layer by layer, and been consumed
without exploding.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02

Sim glad to hear that" said the caller.
"Can I be of any help to you in the mean
time? Jack can bring load of wood"
"Thsnk you, thank you kindly, Deacon
We've enough at present; we're amszin'
comfortable, an now we've heard from
Silas we're happy. Surely goodness an
mercy follers usr
They had the "biled dinner" and ii
was truly eaten with thanksgiving and
gratitude to the unknown giver, for in
the guilelessness Of their child-like hearts
they never suspected that the barrels
came from the Descon's.-Zion's Herald
Prize Story.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-02
A FoREST-CLAD CITY.

Canals run In every direction in Bang
kok, the capital of Siam, and are so nu-
merous that the Siamese are proud to
call their city the Venice of the East
Houses project over the canals, with
open balconies, and both sides of the
river for six or more miles are lined with
floating houses, used not only for resi-
dences, but for business. People do their
shopping in boats, and, while woman
sells to her customers in open view-for all
houses have open fronts-her lazy hus-
band fishes, sitting upon box of goods,
and his children battle and swim around
the house. Rivers and canals are always
filed by freight. boats, forty or sixty feet
long, by small peddler-boats, by canoes
of all sizes, from ten feet, barely holding
man, up to hundred or more feet, with
fifty or more paddles moving in state
with some high official. There are also a
large number OF small steam barges in
the city. Trees abound about the town,
many of them of good forest size.
Looking down from high pagoda one
can scarcely realize oneself in the heart
of great city. The ordinary house is
almost entirely lost in the mass of green.
Here and there one peeps out, looking
cool and shaded. But the lofty, snow
white pagodas, the tall, steep.roofed tenn
ples-roofed in tiles of many colors-
many of them in gilt-the beautiful
kiosk turrets of the palaces, the gilded
royal cenotsph, and the white palaces
themselves, make the city from an emil
hence look like a royal garden, with
prineely palaces and Oriental temples
nestled among ornamental tropical trees.