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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT STOWA
WAYS.

Some novel facts about stowaways
are related by writer in Chambers
Journal. AS showing what number of
voyages can be made by one stowaway
within a short space of time, good illus
tration is on record. and is as follows:
1.-THE individual in question began at
Glasgow. and concealed himself on
boat about to start for Liverpool. Upon
reaching that place, he shipped himself
on liner bound for Boston, Mass. This
vessel had to bring him back again. by
direction of the United States officiale.
Again an Atlantic liner was patronized;
but he was discovered at Queenstown.
Some of the passengers. plying his
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21

desth of our editor-in chief. My
quick return to Tyre was imperative.
The boat was due in ten minutes.
With hurried consultation as to the
camping equipment on The Dot, and
general adieus, the time was filed,
and promising myself that would
write explanations / started. Alas,
that I did not write that night Ar
rived at Tyre found that the owner
of the paper had angered the acting
editor, and that he had decamped
taking the men with him, and leav-
ing sheet set up that would have
ruined us if printed. We contrived.
One does when in a hole. But I
scarcely slept or ate for fortnight,
and then came the news of Phebe's
engagement to John Morris. It was
Meigs who told me, and he may not
have been truthful. Perhaps the en-
gagement was later. Anyhow he
came into the Office stroking his brin-
die mustache and hung around till
he had chance at me alone.
"It may be my fancy" he said in
conclusion, "but think you were the
favored one till that little episode
about the fish we caught"
"We!" I shouted, and jabbing the
pen into my desk to keep from flying
at him. swell I caught those fish,
and you know it."
"Well, perhaps you did, he ad-
mitted placidly. "I'm sure I'm will
ing. But it made hitch, fancy.
l overheard her aunt saying that like
some other men you could not tell
the truth about fish, and the niece
may have been of her opinion"
The drizzle had become a down.
pour, and Babcocks was walled in by
vapor Mclaughlin began taking
the broken string from his banjo. 1
noted the white hairs were thick
among his glistening brown locks,
yet he had said he was but thirty
four.
at was tough" I ventured, "but
the world is full of women"
"Yes," he assented, "but they are
not for me. I went to Europe and
staid nearly four years. When re-
turned Phebe was dead. She never
married John. l never asked why.
I've been told he left her for another
woman. It does not matter. All l
wanted to prove to you was-the
power of lie." Just then Flash and
Spot and half a dozen dogs gave
tongue. The stage was coming, and
with it the outside world. McLaugh-
lin suddenly rose, his face full of Bit
ter merriment. "John ran for the
Assembly last year." he said, and
some paper started the story that his
grandmother was Catholic. 1t was
my grandmother Mclaughlin, and
of course she was no kin of his. But
his district is rural and it defeated
him. Oh, I could tell you stories for
week to prove the power of a lie.
Blessed is he who never has one to
fight" -Interior
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
Importance of Birds.

A paper was recently read before the
Biological Society of Washington. the
subject of which was the food of birds.
So much has been said about birds as
being destructive to fruit and vsgeta
ton that an investigation of this kind is
OF the utmost Importance. In the
stomachs of some OF the birds there were
thousands of ants. Over six hundred
stomachs were examined, and in almost
all of them insects formed the greater
part of the contents. Ants, esl ecially,
seemed to be popular, and in almost
every instance the other insects were of
harmful sorts. In one of the reports of
the Agricultural Department it is said
that each bird has it's favorite foods; but
when these fail, it casts about to find
something that can be substituted. An
other peculiar fact discovered in birdo-
logy, and the appetite of our winged
friends for ants, is that these industrious
little insects plant colonies of merely
bugs on certain varieties of the coffee
tree. These bugs are cultivated by the
ants for their food; and, as they flourish
and increase rapidly. they furnish
abundance of subsistence. and the ants
thrive correspondingly. 1t is suggested
by number of scientists that the wood
pecker should be encouraged and pro-
tected in every possible way, as many
circumstances seem to indicate that he
would be the very best assistant in get
ting rid Of the grubs that are destroying
the elm-trees all over the country.-Neae
York Ledger.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21

wretched appearance when brought on
deck, subscribed sufficient money to pay
the culprit's passage to New York. Two
or three more times he managed to reach
Liverpool, subsequently having his fare
paid, before again reaching American
ports. This game, however, got played
out. and he set out for the far West,
travelling as usual free of expense. Ar
irving at San Francisco. he slowed him.
self away on ship loading for Mel
bourne. Thence he got to Yokohama,
Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, Cal
cutta, Bombay, Port Said, and Malta.
At each place he landed and travelled by
another vessel At Malta, this enterpris-
ing stowaway actually concealed himself
on board British warship-H. M. s.
Scraps. At Port Said he was conveyed
ashore and given into the hands of the
British Consul with instructions to send
him to England. This was done; and
in due course the prisoner was brought
up at London police court, where be-
ing remanded, all the foregoing facts
were elected. We're the incidents not so
we'll authenticated, it would be very diff
icult to credit such story. In addition
to being nuisance and expense, stowa-
ways incur great danger of violent
death. In one instance man hid him.
self away in chain locker, and when
the anchor was hove up the unfortunate
creature was crushed to death, the noise
made by the steam winch and the rattl-
ing OF the chain drowning his cries.
Upon another occasion man was found
dead under the main hatch of one OF the
National Line of steamers. He had con.
cealed himself before the vessel left
Liverpool, and died of suffocation.
Curiously enough, in his pocket was
found novel entitled Doomed on the
Deep In third case, a man hid him
self in the forepart of steamer bound
for London. While proceeding up the
River Thames she collided with another
steamer, and the stowaway was crushed
to DEATH"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for AgrcuIturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR 1.-THE UNIvERsALIsTn
AGRICULTURE IL.

The sewage of our cities should not
be wasted. Properly handled it could
be made to tran storm thousands of acres
Of now comparatively worthless land
into the richest of cultivated soil. The
garbage of these cities is rich in nitro
gen, and should be put upon the land
instead of having costly furnaces built
in which to burn it.
So often the side branches of farm
work fail to pay because carried on neg
ligently, A dozen hives Of bees should
bring the farmer as much revenue as a
ten acre wheat field. The return the
care Of his chickens would bring is un-
derrated, and even the children are not
trained to proper interest in them,
When pine forest is cleared oaks at
once spring up in their places, and vice
versa; and when gap occurs in a hedge
it is useless to attempt to refill it with a
plant of the same species, but some
other kind must be used. In the theory
of rotation of crops the farmer only fol
lows nature.
We boast that our Nation feeds the
world, but it does not by any means.
We import farm products to the amount
Of fifty million dollars. There are brought
in more or less of all the grains; many
horses and mules, eggs, cheese, butter
and condensed milk; potatoes by the
thousands of bushels. Let us hope there
will be change some day.
Let neighborhood of farmers burn
over their wheat stubble in such seasons
as that pest. the Hessian fly. is most
troublesome. Then SOW some quickly
growing crop, and pillow under in the
fall One field not burned will harbor
enough flies to supply afresh whole
township.
No farm was ever yet made to do it's
best. Grumbling over unsatisfactory
results is useless and sinful, for bad
state of things need not be in ordinary
circumstances. The prudent and skill
full farmer will make it pay. and his
chance for competence is double that
of his city cousin. This is true, whatever
the world thinks.
After all hand picking is lighter and
better work than carrying the can of
poisoned water when we would destroy
the Colorado beetle. By spending few
hours. or two or three days during the
first week after the vines appear all the
old beetles can be gathered off a patch.
and there will bs but few young ones to
follow.
Proof is accommodating that it was only
revolution of methods which was
needed in New England to reclaim her
depopulated lands. There is in that re-
gion ample room for special crops for
admirable ranges, and the forests can be
replanted with profit. Our country has
no cultivable area that can not be used,
nor that will not be when we are driven.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
for it oftentimes gets into ones herd be-
fore he is aware it is in the community
DAIRY.

Do not put sweet and sour and every
other kind Of cream together when you
go to ripen it. If it must be held over
to have sufficient for a churning the
next day, let it be kept as sweet as pos
sible until the next cream comes from
the separator, and ripen all together.
1t is not always the housewives fault
that creamery butter can outstrip her in
prices. 1t may be in the selection of
the cows, in the quarters and care given
them, in the way the milking is done,
or in the place which is provided for
keeping the milk and doing the churn-
ing
Thousands Of farmers are keeping
COWS which do not pay for their keep,
and thousands more do not keep their
COWS SO that there is any profit resulting
from them. If it pays to do anything
we'll in any line, it is also true in regard
to butter making on the farm.
1t costs no more money to manufac-
ture oleomargarine in winter than in
summer, while this is not true of winter
dairying. In many localities this un.
equal competition has been stopped by
legislation. and no longer will organized
capital be pushing the honest, toiling
dai:yman and farmer to the wall.
Butter prices are likely to be higher
than for years past because it will cost
something to feed the cows. The num-
Der of COWS to be MIXED is already re.
duced by the short pasturage in many
regions, even before the usual end of the
flush milking season.
1t is as essential to economize with
the work in the house and the dairy as
in the fields. Even though not making
dairying specially, il the wife can have
the proper conveniences she will make
a surplus of butter which will be sur
prising help to the income from the
farm.
Neither atmospheric change nor the
quantity of electricity during thunder
showers causes the milk to sour, but the
bacteria to which we now attribute the
souring Of milk grow and multiply best
during the warm, sultry period imme-
diately preceding electrical storms.
Six per cent. Of the butter fat is lost
when it comes to the churning if the
cream is permitted to become too sour.
The fat is not destroyed in some mys-
FERROUS way, but it simply fails to come
out Of the buttermilk. Truly, most of
our losses come from lack Of care.
Bacteria, those microscopic forms of
plant life which produce the ripening
changes in cream. not only grow and in
crease with alarming rapidity, but each
exudes minute drops of acid, which is
SO sour that none of the commercial
acids can compare with it.
The temperature of the churning
room should be little colder than that
of the cream, that the butter may not
warm up and become greasy nor waxy.
II the cream is rich, containing third
of butter fat, it can be churned at tenn
perature of so degrees, or but little
beyond that.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
THE RED CROSS AND THE EN-
GlNEER'S RISK.
An Incident of the Red Cross During the
Yellow Fever Epidemic at the South.

Like an eagle flew the train,
In the warm November rain.
Through the sunny Southern land,
Blasted now on every hand
BY the fever's scorching breath,
booming multitudes to death.
Guaranteed on every side
Was Maccleny where had died
Many doctor, many nurse,
Till it seemed as If curse
Dark as the Almighty's frown,
Rested on the little town.
Not an engine Stacked its speed
To relieve the awful need.
For the order stern was given
That the iron horse be driven
At his very swiftest pace
Through the fever-stricken place.
But there came an evening, when
.'Mong the passengers were men
Wearing on their breast the sign
OF a ministry divine
Just a simple cross, blood red.
On fair white surface spread;
Emblem that they knew no fear,
Counted not their own lives dear,
Ready were for sacrifice.
Coming in whatever guise-
Famine. pestilence, or flood,
Or other i'll allowed of God.
Women. too. the symbol wear;
In its name they boldly dare
Ask to have the flying train
Slackened. while into the rain
Leap they, one by one. till ten
Women seven and three brave men
Stand upon the swampy ground,
Pitchy darkness ali around;
Nerved by their commanders word.
Family through the tumult heard:
Nurses, you know what to do,
Do your best, and God help yol !"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21


No matter what sort of tale you tell
there's always a shallow-pate to ar
que, smoke means fire somewhere +"
had been reared to believe in the
potentiality of truth, and protested.
81 don't believe that. Time is sure
to put the truth in evidence. Now
at certain distance brass may look
quite like gold, but investigation dis
closes it is not. Just 80 with lie."
"Bah! What if the investigation
comes too lates" he broke in fiercelY
and snapped the E string with such
venom it broke. 'For instance, lie
about trife cheated me out of the
one woman ever loved"
Far below us glimmered Star lake.
Bald mountain and all its ethereally
tinted brothers were lost in mists. On
the pin cherry tree just beyond the
porch, head downward, a shy, tawny-
breasted nut hatch was timorously
looking for grubs. Somewhere hid
den in the mizzle throstle was fut-
ing its joy of the wet. Just then the
guests at Babcocks were, saving Nc
Laughlin and myself, elderly folk
who staid in when it rained, and
looked forward to the daily mail as
the one event of the day. They were
now all out on the front porch watch
ng for the stage, the women busy
with their interminable stitchery, the
men grumbling over yesterdays
papers. Mclaughlin had, like my
self, come to the woods to tone up
from nerve wear. Beyond this COM
mon WEAKNESS we had the bond that
he was on the staff of the Sidon Post,
and l was doing special work for
syndicate. When it was fair he fished
industriously. When it rained he
wrote. When he was distract, he
thrummed upon his banjo. He said
the noise "was soothing" I studied
birds and flowers, and experimental
in quiet way with camera. Before
l did anything public with that ma
chine was determined to know the
secret of getting good point of
view. This morning for some reason
unexplained we had drifted into that
corner of the porch. l had some odd
Alpine plants to draw. He had his
banjo. Despite the frivolous sugges-
tions of his favorite instrument, Nc
Laughlin was not man with whom
one could take liberties if inclined,
so l waited, looking sympathetic and
expectant no doubt, for SO felt.
"You asked me once why do not
go to the river" he resumed, after
few moments. at is because the event
to which l referred took place at AL
exandria Bay. To begin at the be-
ginning, my fathers second wife was
a widow, and John Morris was the
son of her first marriage. He is a
year younger than / and is as hand
some as l am plain; has those large
expressive brown eyes that seem so
full of tenderness, and a poetic brow,
and chestnut hair that waves. His
ways would circumvent a grizzly bear
if the beast did not know him, so in
gratiating and winning are they, and
/ am not sure if he were to drop in
on US this morning that by night
would not fall into the old habit of
believing him the pleasantest of fell
lows to have about. He was ten and
/ eleven when father married his
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21

A fowl which will lay 10 dozen eggs
in season is considered we'll worth
keeping. Although Pekin duck will
do this, most farmers forget that such
thing as a duck exists. They rear
great many young in season. and these
mature in IL weeks. sure to market at
good price.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
MCLAUGHLIN OF THE POST

BY ELIZABETH CUMMINGS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21

LIE is sure to get in a
certain amount of work."
said Mclaughlin, and
keeping up a monot-
onous stunning up
on his banjo. cit may
not do just what the liar
intands hut IL arrives.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-08-14
BOLRTIN lHRRCANTIh DE- PUERFoRiHN..

FEHlODICO CONcA0RADO a La DEFENSA De LOS IN
TEREsES NACIONALES IN AMERICA ORGANIC ia
DE Los EsPANOLEs INCONDICIoNALES EN- PTO-RICo.
GENERATES dcordddas pOr Ia Dareces6n
para tOd0 cIdse de remstidOs 0nuncos-
La pubLac6n de los nnuncos por prscios
convencionales determnsan s
Los comunados remidos gacsS dben
hra del autor umA Teaponasbhdad
mas con 10 de persona responsible de pago olss~
Los originates de comnDAdos gacetss
devusltos snnqus 20 90 PubnqueD. .@ras~@s.
No se Iesp0nds de extAvo ri rotuTn de cHchGs
La coumna del podico condsad
largo. -
I'll anunciante tendrG deho deinads Da
de Anuncos
10 por 100 sobre el presO de taffA r
tendfa una bonf6n de 10 p 100 sob los precios
Juando de
Huncan rccbrA un p6co de dA conto
Ward 81 primer .T70.91V " - .
Par. lCs no uscPres del BoLET nsa sucsta comunca-
remdo secc6n correspondents costarA DEZ OETAYOS
Los suscrpc tsndrkn 81 25 po
gnciias, comunicndos TE7'EfT8T
cados BerA anthipsdn 7T " '
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-08-14

GRAN VARIEDAD De TIPOS PARA CARTELONES PRO.
GRAMAS De CEATRO, CIRCO ! ANUNClOS.I
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-08-14

es mas atractiva mientras mas -,
ludabie. La belleza y Ia salud van
casi slempre juntas. LIS pximepa
depends muy q menudo de Il
segunda
n Cuantas caras sniutas y raquf6-
CAS- serian bellas con s6lo rseobrng
sus earnest Examfneae ell grabado
anterior que, dicho sea dc paso.
ilustra tin case real La primars
figura presenta q una i6ven raauf..
tica, extenuada. nt
N6tese ell cambio en- Ia hsononfn
segun van recobrandose las earnaa
La aPeriencia ffsica, sinembaree. NJ
es el don principal. La delaaaaE
no ssria question tan sSria Il ds ell
no procedieran muy frecusntsmenta
IL isis, la Escr6fula ' otwna enfnr.
medades extennantes.
Los raquiticos estan A esnsta,se
peligro- Por este moEve E1ne
tAnta fama csc medicamento ana
produce fuarzas y cFea carnos. IA
EMULSION De SOoTT de aceita a.
hgado de bacalao con hinofoaAtos
de cal y gosa. Exfiase YER IA
etiqueta del hombEs con u haoalao
Il cuaskan
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-08-14

DE CUENrAS FORMADAs

aplicables al cobro de jorna
les, fraccionados estos en- &,
tavo de dfa, princlpiandO pc.
un cuarto y terminando en- Z
dlas, con precios escalonades
desde IN real flerte hasta ire
pesos, y exProsanOO cau1 frc
ci6n su valoFintrfnseco en- pc
sos, centaFos y centinos de-
centay0. as .a.s $500
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ARTICUL0S &c M0DA ESpECIALMENTE RECONRMDADoS
s Ald Iada dpnhuk
apEa&
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49, sss @ Ss@ 80 1s.s = a 60 s : n~
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-01-24
Notice of Land Sale.

On Saturday the 18th day of January 1895 1T
the Court House door in the town of Maryvllle
Tennessee, will.sel at Public cutlery, to the
highest bidder.for cash in hard, the following
described tracts of land situated in the 18th
Civil District of Blount County, Tenn, being
the lands Of A. f. Waters, and joins the lands
of T. A. Burns John Jackson, W. t. Burns, J.
W. Burns, Jane Waters the Gillespiel Heirs,
and j. Il. Waters, and being the tracts of land
upon which the said A. F. Waters now lives and
being the lands that decended to him, in par
from his Fathers Estate, and gotten by him in
ering moot of the lands and is Grant No. S06S6
and dated June17th 1857, and for more speai-
fc description of said lands reference is made
to said Grant and the levey in this cause hereto
fore made by me on the Sth day of December
Is "a. A small portionof the land covered by
SAID Grant has been sold to T. J. p, Waters and
is not to be OLD by me. Twill sell said lar DIS
as the property of A. +. Waters, subject to his
Homestead rights in same to satisfy an execut
ton issued by J. &, Stan6eld Clerk of the Cir
of ]. P,Edmondson against A. +. Waters in
said Court on Judgment of said Edmosdsou
against said Waters for the sum of SlsS.40 and
the interest and costs. And said lands will be
sold to satisfy said judgment and execution
This the 26th day of December 1894.
S. A. Walker,
Sheriff of Blount County Tenn,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-01-24
Old People
o. n NdlhtT,
Sheriff Of Blount County Tenn.

Old people who require medicine
to regulate tie bowels and Kidneys
will find the true remedy in
Electric Bitters. This medicine
does not stimulate and contains no
whiskey nor other intoxicant, but
acts as tonic and Alternative. 1t
acts mildly on the stomach and
Qowels, adding strength and giving
tone to the organ, thereby adm
Nature in the performance of the
functions. Electric Bitters is an
excellent appetizer and digestion,
Old People find it just exactly
what they need. Price fifty cents
per bottle at George & Mont.
gomery Drug store. D