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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31
HORTICULTURE.

If we desire early blossoms from our
winter Towering bulbs. the middle of
August is none too soon to give them
new quarters. Pot them in good garden
soil, with little sand at the base OF each
bulb. Give them little warm water,
and put them away in the dark until
leaves begin to show good growth.
To obtain fine. large. high favored
Strawberries, pinch off the runners as
fast as they appear. Every runner thus
removed produces new crown, and in
the fall the plants will have formed large
bushes or stools, on which the finest
strawberries may be expected the fol-
lowing season.
Where winters are severe slight COW
ering with litter or evergreen branches
will be of great service to the straw
berries. Do not place this until Novem.
Der or December. or after the ground is
frozen. 1t is common mistake to put
on too much or too early and to leave
until too late in the spring.
To keep the fruit clean, the ground
from baking and to lengthen the fruit.
ing season, before strawb berries begin to
ripen mulch the ground around the
plants with cut straw or hay or lawn
mowings. Thus managed. bed should
produce two full crops.
The extra care given during the sum-
mer and early fall to small fruits of all
kinds will be we'll repaid in the crops
next season. If weeds are kept out of
summer planted Strawberries from the
first, and they are well mulched in the
spring. there will be little trouble from
weeds until the first crop of fruit is
ripened.
In the early fall is the best time to
apply manure to fruit trees, that it may
get the benefit of the fall rains, which
wash its soluble parts into the soil. This
starts an early growth in the spring. 1t
is not best that the most luxuriant
growth be made while the fruit is ma
turing.
If the soil is rich. cultivation is the
best manure for cabbages during warm
weather; but if the soil be deficient,
nitrate of soda is one of the most effic-
lent fertilizers. 1t will make good heads
out of plants which without it would
furnish only bunch of loose leaves.
Well rotted stable manure is almost as
good.
Few things require more iudicious
pruning than the pear tree. The strong,
upright shoots will rob the lower
branches Of most of their vital power.
and these require to be kept in check.
The cutting out of these Tobber branches
in the summer is the essential point in
the proper pruning OF the pear.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31

SWIM
All Canadians know that pork made
from peas or beans is much tirmer in
texture than even corn fed pork. There
is special flavor or sweetness which no
other pork has. The fat does not fry
out SO much in cooking, and it makes an
ideal bacon for family use. Where we,
can raise the COW pea for hogs they will
prove economical, and healthful to the
herd.
Overlooking is as wasteful as under
feeding, and mischief usually follows
having feed constantly in the trough.
Moreover. such trough becomes stale
and uninviting even to hog. and that
figures not little in his growth. There
are gain and profit both in system and
regularity of feeding.
In the trying months of July ard Au-
gust there is not the amount of succu.
lence in the grass that there is earlier in
the season. and the hogs are likely to
become costive. Following this is our
greatest season for the ravages of chol-
era. Give shorts, bran and oil cake, and
begin with the new corn sparingly, using
plenty of salt.
Rye is more paying crop on poor
land than when sown on that which is
rich. We do not yet prize fully the
value of rye for hogs. 1t is through rye
and clover and hogs that many of our
exhausted regions of country are yet to
be reclaimed and rebuilt. It has been
demonstrated.
One of the great virtues Of rye as a
food for hogs is that it is grain posses
sing more of the elements of growth,
rather than fattening properties. and
the people now demand bacon hog
The day of large fat hogs is over, and
there is call for lighter and better de-
veloped pigs of but 200 pounds weight.
We must grind the rye for our pigs
but it is not wise to feed it dry. 1t is too
sticky to eat with comfort, and there is
danger of choking. 1t is doubtful if it
is wise thing to feed any young stock
on dry food. Make slop and have the
pig take good "belly stretcher' ration
every time, remembering, too, he can be
over fed.
Give the young pigs fair start in life
by feeding the SOW upon milk producing
rations. There is nothing much better
than skim milk mixed with shorts.
Mangolds are excellent. having cooling
effect upon the system and stimulating
the milk glands. After weaving. give
the pigs trough of their own.
Mix salt with the food of the growing
pig, and give him box of ashes, into
which little sulphur is thrown. This
prevents the loss of power in the hind
legs, SO common in highly fed swine.
Fed just right they should reach their
200 pounds in six months, and be sold,
for it will then pay better to give your
feed to younger pigs.
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Make fodder, too. while the sun shines.
Those who have the responsibility of
getting it into shape for the winter must
bear in mind that'frost is liable to come
at any time. AT best, there is sure to
be an immense loss of food because OF
failure to get it cured in good season.
For the good of the whole country
the Government should look after the
matter of irrigation in the West, lest
capitalists take hold OF the matter. and
then there will be no end to the expense.
Idle men will thus be employed, too.
Let those benefited pay in the way OF
taxes. This will be easy for them, and
will remunerate the Government.
Pillow in the late summer rather than
in the fall, il for no other reason than to
kill the weeds; putting them under the
ground at this time is pretty sure way
of eradicating them. Ground early
plowed will hold the moisture better.
for evaporation will be materially re-
tarded. Moreover, a good seed bed will
be formed, firm and clean.
Is timothy short crop over most OF
the country? but an acre of corn fodder
is worth two of timothy, and it is en-
couraging to know that we have thous-
ands and thousands of acres Of the
fodder, if not of timothy or any other
hay.
Buckwheat can come after another
crop very we'll without extra fertilizing.
1t is an excellent crop to SOW on land
where oats. barley or corn have been
destroyed by bad weather. Such land
seeded to buckwheat right away will
help the owner out of his difficulty, and
save him from the entire loss of his
crop.
The soil for buckwheat needs to be
only medium in fertility, but the cul-
ture must be good. Virgin woodland is
excellent for this grain. If the soil is
too rich the grain does not fill we'll, and
the stalks take all the nutriment. The
best time for sowing is about the last of
July, and garden crop or crop of
clover can be made on the same ground
earlier in the season.
Crimson clover makes a growth of
two feet, and is thing of beauty in it's
garb of red and green. 1t is winter
crop, and should be sown in July, Au-
gust or September. and it can be cut for
soiling by the Goth OF the next April, or
it will yield hay crop 20 days later,
and by the last of May will yield seed
crop.
1t is asserted that body of water of
an acre extent can be made more pro-
ductive than three acres of ground. 1t
may be made a pleasure ground for
profit, valuable place for fish, source
of ice for the winters supply, and with
small outlay can be beautified with
islands and fountains which will attract
for miles around. Can you do some
thing with your pond or rivulet?
The experience of those who have
made the test say that lumber is far su-
perion to masonry or concrete for silos,
because it is a nonconductor of heat or
frost; also that small silos are better
than large ones, because SO much ensil-
age is not exposed to the atmosphere
when using. OF course, this depends
upon the amount of stock fed but the
size recommended is u by 16 feet.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31
THREEsCORE AND TEN.
BY RICHARD HENRY sToDDARD.
BROOKLYN, N. Y

Who reach their threescore years and ten,
AS have mine, without sigh,
Are either more or less than men
Not such am I.
am not of them: life to me
Has been strange, bewildered dream,
Wherein 1 knew not things that be
From things that seem.
thought, hoped, knew one thing.
And had one gift when was young
The impulse and the power to sing,
And so sung.
To have place in the high choir
OF poets, and deserve the same
What more could mortal man desire
Than poets fame?
/ sought 1t long, but never found;
The choir so full was. and so strong
The jubulant voices there, they drowned
My simple song.
Men would not hear me then, and now
care not, I accept my fate.
When white hairs thatch the furrowed brow
Crowns come too late!
The best of life went long ago
From me; it was not much at best;
Only the.love that young hearts know.
The dear unrest
Back on the past. through gathering tears.
Once more i cast my eyes, and see
Bright shapes that in my better years
Surrounded mel
They left me here. they left me there,
Went down dark pathways, one by one,-
The wise. the great. the young, the fair;
But went on!
And go on! And. bad or good,
The old allotted years of men
have endured. as best could
ThreescOre and ten!
The Independent.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31
HOW INVENTIONS COME TO
PASS.
LUCY E. Keller. IN Outl'

There is apt to be fine irreverence
about the inventor which leads him to
suspect that any old way of doing
thing is for that very reason not the
best way. Often he observes some time
honored plan Of working, audaciously
makes up his mind to do the exact OPP
posite. and hits upon success. Guns
were loaded at the muzzle for ages, until
one day man Of originality thought of
loading them at the other end, the pre-
ferable end on many accounts, besides
that of manifest convenience. The same
path was trodden by the Frenchman who
first put the eye Of needle near it's
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31

point. He little knew that he was do.
ing great deal to make the sewing ma
chine possibility. One Of the notions
of the pioneer railway engineers in Eng
land was that the rails must be Hanged
so that the wheels of locomotives and
carriages should not get off the track.
But some of skeptical mind inquired:
Why not leave the top Of the rail fat. or
nearly fiat, and put the flange on the
wheel, an easier thing to do? Accord
ingly the fange was taken from the rail
to the wheel, and remains there to this
day, to remind the traveller that an East
ern philosopher said long ago: ITO him
that is we'll shod it is as il the whole
earth was covered with leather"
1t is a good many years now since
steam was first used for heating build
ings, and, as air when warmed ascends,
what more natural than that steam coils
should hug the floors just as the stoves
before them had done? But in some OF
the largest factories of this country the
coils are fastened, not to the floor. but
to the ceiling, which proves to be bet
ter place for them. AS everybody knows
who ever sat before an open fire. radia-
ton is a pleasanter means of warmth
than convection, than heat carried along
by currents of air; floor space is Incl /
dentally saved, and the risk of gather
ing combustible rubbish about the coils
is avoided. In the ages Of simplicity
which came down to Watts time and
the invention of the steam engine. when
a kettle was to be heated the proper
place for the fire was thought to be out
side. But when big boilers came in.
with pressing need that their contents
be heated in the shortest time possible,
it was found gainful to put the fire in
side. Stephenson's locomotive. the
Rocket, derived no small part of its ef-
ficiency from his knowledge to which
side of the boiler to apply the flame.
On somewhat the same principle Lord
Dundonald, one of the early improvers
of the steam engine, forced the hot air
currents under his boiler from above
downward, against their natural ten
dency to move from below upward. In
this way he made available much heat
that otherwise would have been wasted.
The steam engine, whether mounted on
wheels or not, always keeps its fuel out
side; furnace and cylinder are distinct.
Today the. steam engines primacy is
challenged by motor which uses it's
fuel inside. the furnace being no other
than the cylinder, precisely as in the
barrel of a gun. So much more work
does gas engine yield than steam en-
CINE, in comparison with the heat ap-
piled, that only the dearness of heat as
supplied by gas prevents the speedy su-
persedure of steam for motive power. AS
gas engines grow steadily larger, their
margin of economy becomes so decided
that it begins to pay to make gas on pur-
pose to burn in them.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31
THREESCORE AND TEN.
To Richard Henry Stoddard.
BY e. D. MORRIS +.

Il.
1.-THE following beautiful answer to the abo,
poem of MIR. Stoddard appears in the Indepe
dent of August 22.]
To me the years have gentler grown,
And time more gracious now than then;
Though here sit and muse alone.
Threescore and ten.
The best of living is the last,
And life grows sweetest at Its close;
And something richer than the past
These days disclose,
/ mourn not now the silvered hair,
The trembling hand. the failing power,
As here wait and calmly dare
The coming hour.
What dreams of honor or Of gain,
OF wreaths or crowns to grace my brow,
Once stirred my spirit, none remain
To stir me now.
The tossing life, the hope and fear,
The strife, the pain of earlier days.
On these. all past. look with clear.
Unshrinking gaze.
And even when l sorrow most,
Yet happy are the tears shed,
And bright the memories of the lost,
The precious dead.
The increase of the corn and wine,
And growing gladness In the heart.
And woncrous grace and Joy are mine.
From men apart.
Alone, but not alone stand
Around. above Power divine
Is shining, and heavenly Hand
Is touching mine.
Strange glories gid nv closing day,
And one bright star from out the west
Calls me in tender tones away
From work to rest.
And voices which amid the din
OF outward life could not hear.
Are gently whispering within
Their words of cheer.
So, welcome is each flying year,
And welcome is this silent bliss;
Nor anght the noisy world can bear
Compares with this.
o Poet. sitting on the slope
of life. apart from busy men,
Receive with ne this larger hope,
Threescore and ten.
WALNUT HILLS, CINCINNATI. o.
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and cows. The German cavalry have
ordered just such a supply for their
horses. Not even the ruminant COW will
digest whole grains without waste. The
horse does worse, because he does not
remasticate,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31
Our Special Contributors---I8o5.
FAMILY LIFE OF BIRDS.
Bv OLIVE THORNE MILLER,

Author of "Nestng Time" the Air,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-31

OF the AZ, 900 inhabitants of modern
Jerusalem, three fifths, or fully $1,000.
are Jews.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-11
RACING STILL GOES ON.
Hawth Orne Track Open Despite the Raid,
But There Is No Betting.

Hawth Orne Track Open Despite the Raid,
But There Is No Betting.
CHICAGO, May 11.-Despite the civic
federation raid of yesterday racing at
Hawthorne was continued today. The
betting ring, however, was de-
serted, the track officials having
announced that no pool selling would be
permitted. There was no fear of another
raid on the track today as the Hawthorne
meeting closed tonight and the place
will not be reopened for two weeks.
Harlem, however, will begin a two
weeks meeting next Monday and there
was much speculation as to what action
would be taken then. 1t was the general
belief that Harlem would receive the
same attention as that accorded Haw-
thorne.
President W. T. Baker of the
civic federation, who is directing
the crusade against the tracks,
refused to go into details today
regarding the future movements of fed
take such measures as would absolutely
stop race track gambling in Chicago,
but whether or not he would raid Har-
lem next week he refused to say.
The race track, on the other hand, de-
clared that the crusade was only a spasm
of reform. and that after a temporary
rest racing would GO on as before
Ed Corrigan, the master of Hsw-
thorne, was reported this afternoon to
have offered to bet $4,000 that
the derbys would be run this year, as
advertised, and other members of the
sporting fraternity were equally conf
dent that pool selling would be resumed
| at an early date
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-11
TO Be ROBINSON.
Fresh Facts to Prove That A. A.
Robinson
Is Certain to Be the Santa Fe's
President
BEFORE MANY MOONS.
Mr.. Robinson Now in Europe on
Santa Fe Business.
Matters Soon to Be Fixed Up
Satisfactorily.

Mr.. A. A. Robinson, who was formerly
general manager of the Santa Fe and is
now president of the Mexican Central,
without doubt be president of the
road when the reorganization is
perfected, according to the latest story
which seems to be from a most reliable
source.
Mr.. Robinson, it is said, is already ac-
lively interested in the reorganization of
the Santa Fe, and while he is filling the
position of president of the Mexican
Central, is helping to put the Santa Fe
on its feet again.
Mr.. Robinson was in Topeka three
weeks ago and went from here to Chi
cago and then on to Boston.
1t is now learned that Mr.. Robinson
win before he returns to Topeka go to
Europe on strictly business
trip in the interest of the
Santa Fe road He will visit
the bondholders. Mr.. Robinson will
only remain on the European con-
tinent one week, but man of Mr.. Rob
inson's business ability can accomplish
a great deal in that time.
This is not the first time Mr. Robinson
has crossed the water in the interest
of the reorganization of the Santa Fe as
it is now known that he went on busi-
ness of that kind when he visited Europe
last fall.
AS the financial hackers of the Mexi-
can Central are the men who have al
ways been interested in the Santa Fe, it
appears to be reasonably certain that the
story is true. Mr.. Robinson is to be re-
turned to the Santa Fe as its preside Mt as
soon as the road can be taken from the
control of the receivers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-11
KILLING FROSTS.
They Are Reported for Fifteen
States Tonight.
Warnings Have Been Sent Out
West and North.
DAMAGE LAST NIGHT.
Frost and Ice in SeveralWestern
Kansas Counties.
IniuryWas Done to Small Fruits
at Sterling.
DAMAGE LAST NIGHT.

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE signal Office
here predicted today killing frosts for
fifteen states in the west and northwest
tonight Warning signals were
displayed throughout the fruit
raising districts of Michigan
and in the cranberry country
in Wisconsin. The board of trade was
also notified of the expected frosts,
although the weather bureau officials
were unable to say whether wheat was
likely to be seriously damaged.
The weather in Chicago was clear and
cool, the negligee shirts and straw
hats of yesterday being succeeded by
overcoAts and gloves
OMAHA, May 1L-Reports from all
parts of Nebraska indicate that last
nights frost did comparatively little
damage. Vegetables suffered in many
parts of the state. In the northern part
of the state grain on low ground was
affected and will be put back a couple
Of weeks Snow fell last night at Fort
Robinson.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 11.-Various points
n South Dakota report light frosts last
light, hurting garden crops in low lands
1ut no damage to wheat is reported.
KANSAS CITY. May IA special to
he Star from Sterling, Kan, says: Heavy
trost last night and vegetables and small
.ruits suffered.
LARNED, Kan. May Lice formed
and there was frost in most of the west
ern Kansas counties last night Owing
70 dryness of atmosphere the damage is
not great
SIOUX CITY, Ia, May 11.-Dispatches
from points in Iowa, South Da-
iIota and Nebraska report frost
last night Garden truck and
fruit trees appear to have suffered most.
Corn and other grains were but slightly
damaged Water is reported to have
frozen at Jefferson, la.
most severe hail storm ever
known in this vicinity swept
the country west of here last
night. Market gardens were ruined,
Windows smashed. and small buildings
battered in. There was a tremendous
fall of hail larger than grape shot The
loss amounts to thousands of dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-11
WINNIEDAYIS TOBETHERE
Nearly 5000 Visitors Expected to Attend
Confederate Veterans EncamOment.

Confederate NoCSEaHS EnC&1n O1n0nEs
HoUsroN, Tex, May lit is expect
ed that $4,000 visitors will attend the
meeting of the United Confederate Vet
erans and state encampment of the Tex
as Volunteers Guard, which will assem-
BILE here on the 2Oth. An auditorium,
capable of seating 10000 people has
been erected at a cost of $4,000.
Indications point to a representation
from nearly all of the 700 camps. All
roads in the southern passenger associa-
ton have authorized rate of one cent
per mile from points east of the Missis-
sippi river The tickets are limited to
May 20, but fifteen days return will be
given to any parties desiring to go on any
of the excursions TO Mexico or any part
of Texas, at the rate of one fare for the
round trip.
General Gordon, ander-in chief,
Gen. George Norman, Generals Long
street, Lee, Sable and other noted CON
federates will attend with their staffs,
| besides several prominent ex-federal
generals.
Gen. Schofeld and Gen Wheaton has
just written that they will attend. Mrs
Jefferson Davis is unable to be present,
but her daughter, Miss Winnie Davis,
will be the special guest of the occasion.
Every company in the Texas volun-
teer guard with their bands, aud several
companies of the United States regiments
from Fort Sam Houston. at San Antonio,
will be camped at Fort Culberson, named
in honor of the governor. The audito-
rum has been christened "Winnie Da-
vis' and the camp where the veter ans
will be located will be known as albert
| Sidney Johnston camp"
Large delegations from the grand
army posts will attend, and the united
veterans association, composed of sur
vivors of both armies, will hold a camp
| fire