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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
CORONATION OF JOSEPHINE.

When Napoleon entered. loud bursts
of applause rent the air. Forgotten was
all the split blood, forgotten or hushed
were memories OF the First Consul. The
spectators were fascinated by the little
great man clad in white satin embroider-
ed in gold, with a regal cloak of crimson
velvet covered with golden bee and bor-
dered with olive branches, oak and lau-
rel. Ermine edged the mantle and
formed the cape. On his neck cleaned
the diamond necklace of the Legion of
Honor, and on his head was Caesars
crown of golden laurel. Princes and
dignitaries attended him. and he moved
with stately tread.
The empress. always lovely. appeared
in silver brocade embroidered with
golden bees. Pink gems glistened in
her gold girdle and mingled with the an
tique canoes on her neck and arms. Her
diadem was pearl laden, twined with dia-
monds. At her shoulders was fastened
an ermine-lined red velvet train covered
with bees, and held by the Princesses
Eliza, Pauline, Charlotte, Joseph, and
Louis. David received the royal order
to transmit this days glory to flu
ture ages. The subject was manifold;
each act in the drama deserved to be
guarded for future generations to look
upon and ponder. But the artist gal
lantly chose to paint Napoleon i'll the act
OF browning Josephine.-EdithD Duff, in
January Lfppincotfs
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19

The SOW should be put in quarters
long enough before time for narrowing
to become thoroughly acquainted with
her surroundings. During the two
weeks preceding and following that
event she should have no more attention
than is actually necessary, The less she
is disturbed the better for her and her
pigs.
The SOW which has just Uttered is
weak and nervous, and working about
her pen is apt to irritate and excite her,
causing her to move about quickly and
without the usual care. and the result is
crushed or MANNED pigs. Keep her as
quite as possible; ward off the approach
of strangers.
We can not question these significant
fgurea Lard is worth 10 cents pound;
wheat As to 60. One bushel of wheat in
creases live weight in hogs about u
pounds. We can draw our own conclu-
sions. There is nothing like intelli-
gence in every step of our labors.
Brood sows do well when wintered
upon turniIs; they are not conslipated,
and do better at narrowing time. Some
depend almost wholly upon beets. and
do well. Bran is nourishing, cooling
and laxative, and makes good slop with
little oil meal. To any Of these add
chopped clover hay. and we have d prime
ration.
In cold weather little corn every d y
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19

keeps up warmth, and is desirable es-
peclally while the sows are sucking.
Do not keep brood sows in a pen to.
gether; change the bedding frequently,
to avoid dust and foulness. Remember
that the best developed pigs and the
largest growth will result from breed
ing mature mothers.
Sometimes it may not be thought
profitable to winter over late ltters of
pigs. These may be sold during the
cold season for roasting, if near a good
market. and as good price can be OBJ
tanned as for shoats in the spring, if
kept. Feed the sows we'll, that the pigs
may be fat Sell when about six weeks
old.
Mix your feed. Exclusively corn fed
hogs are often dwarfed in size and over
fat. Wheat makes strong frames and
large bones, more blood and better di-
gestive organs. Milled wheat. in any
form, is good for hogs. Moreover, this
year corn is an expensive food.
u,
to be the case in the fall, and you ex-
pect the pigs to show an increase, do
not depend too much upon the stubble;
few ears of corn, or little grain of
some variety, will add more to the
growth than the value of the corn.
One of the essentials in making profit
from hogs is to raise good ones. Then
there must be good treatment during
CESSATION, growth and the fattening stage.
No class of stock requires better care and
treatment. If no better can be done,
have a good boar at least.
The South is realizing her mistake,
and is now raising corn and fattening
her own pork. She is becoming ashamed
of the fact that Mexico is going RICH
through her territory to the West for
thousands of car loads of pork every
season. The South has been buying
everything but cotton long enough.
Spring pigs pushed from the start
often sell at eight months, and fall pigs
should not be over ten months old when
marketed, If a good breed is selected,
given plenty of feed, and they are we'll
taken care of. The quicker hog is
fattened the better.
The orchard seeded in rye or clover
will furnish most of the feed needed for
the fattening pigs. An occasional mash
of ground oats and bran or others of the
grains, is desirable addition to their
rations. Regularity of feeding is great
factor in the growth and cost of fatten-
ing.
An excessively fat hog will bring
less price, and it is no longer doubted
that it will cost more pound. The
profit is in breeding and feeding for a
quick growth and early maturity. Have
some to put on the market in August
and September, SO that there may be
two lots disposed of during the season.
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news. Sometimes he whistled to him
self breaking off short with a quick
smile at some recollection.
Once he stopped and laughed
aloud. Then he threw stone at a
rock which eyed him superciliously
from the top of turf dyke. He
made bad shot, at which the black
critic wiped the bare butt of his bill
upon the grass, uttered hoarse "a
haf' of derision, and plunged down
squatly among the dock-leaves on
the other side of the dyke.
AS Ralph turned up the manse road
to the bare front door, he was con-
scious of a vague uneasiness, the
feeling of man who returns to a
house of gloom from world where
all things have been full of sunshine.
1t was not the same world since yes
terday. Even he, Ralph Peden, was
not the same man. But he entered
the house with that innocent affecta
ton of exceeding ease which is the
boys tribute to his own inexperience.
He went up the stairs, through the
dark lobby, and entered Allan
Welsh's study. The minister was
sitting with his back to the window,
his hands clasped in front of him, and
his great domed forehead and enact
sted features standing out against
the orange and crimson pool of glory
where the sun had gone down.
Ralph ostentatiously clattered down
his armful of books on the table.
The minister did not speak at first,
and Ralph began his explanation.
81 am sorry" he said, hesitating
and blushipg under the keen eyes of
his fathers friend. 81 had no idea l
should have been detained, but the
truth is"
81 ken what the truth is, )" said Allan
Welsh, quietly. "Sit down, Ralph
Peden. / have somewhat to say to
you"
A cold chill ran through the young
mans veins, to which succeeded a
thrill of Indignation. Was it possible
that ne was about to reproach him,
as a student in trials for the ministry
of the Marrow kirk, with having be-
haved in any way unbecoming of an
aspirant to that high Office or left I'M
done anything expected of him as his
fathers sonl
The minister was long in speaking.
Against the orange light of evening
which barred the window, his face
could not be seen, but Ralph had
the feeling that his eyes, unseen
themselves, were reading into his very
soul. He sat down and clenched his
hands under the table.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
THE POET AND THE SOLDIER.
BY REV. f. W. GUNsAULUs.

A poets pipe lay lost within the wood
And dryads came and played about its mouth;
Enamoured breezes from the fragrant South
Found all its sweetness; then the dryads stood
To hear new music pour its gracious wine
Beneath a bower of rose and egaItiDe.
heros sword lay cleaning on cold groui d.;
Dry drops of blood we're brown OIL ed e and
sheath;
And near the blade ruined laurel-wreath
Lay rOtting on a mOss-grown burial mound.
Beside them, robed in garments for the tomb.
Sat lone maiden with passion-bloom.
Then wild and braZen Threats of righteous war
Shiyered the morning stiffness with their cry;
And where the truth paused tremblingly to die,
At that last stand, a poet from afar
Filled the lost pipe with music while YOUTH
Laureled and brave, waved the bare sword of
Truth.
poet-sOldiers, ye who sing and fig t!
Or pipe or sword was never lost in vain.
New armies form. RetreatDg DER Times plain.
Beside your graves THEY stand at last for Right;
And none may say if poets pipe, or sword,
Win the best triumphs grateful years record
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
A NOBLER FAITH.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

When shall nobler Faith return,
Its fanes purer gospel learn,
With holer anthems ring,
And teach us that our transit sreeds
Were but the perishable seeds
OF harvests sown for larger needs,
That ripening years shall bring?
Well let the present do its best,
We trust our Maker for the rest.
AS on our way we plod;
Our souls full dres ed in fleshly suits,
Love air and sunshine, flowers and fruits,
The daisies better than their roots
Beneath the grassy sod
Not bedtime yet! the full-blown flower
OF all the vear-this evening hour
With friendships flame is bright;
Life still is sweet, the heavens are fair.
Though fields are brown and woods are bare,
And many Joy is left to share
Before we say Goodnight
And when, our cheerful evening past,
The nurse. long waiting comes at last,
Ere on her lap we lie
In weaTied natures sweet repose,
At peace with all her waking foes,
Our lips shall murmur, ere they close,
Goodnight and not Goodsbye!
From Before the Curfew''
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19

as my son, and who love my daught-
er more than ten daughters who bear
no reproach, tell you, Ralph Peden,
that | can no longer company with
you. Henceforth | count you as
rebel and stranger. More than self,
more than life, more than child or
wife, |, sinner as am, love the honor
and discipline of the kirk of the Mar
row. Hence-forth you and l are
strangers"
The words fired the young man.
He took up his hat, which had fallen
upon the floor.
'If that be so, the sooner that this
house is rid of the presence of
stranger and a rebel the better for it,
and the happier for you. l thank
you for all the kindness you have
shown me, and l bid you, with true
affection and respect, FAREWELL
So, without waiting even to go up
stairs for anything belonging to him,
and with no further word on either
side, Ralph Peden stepped into the
clear, SOLDERING midnight, the chill air
meeting him like a wall. The stars
had come out and were shining frosty
clear.
And as soon as he was gone out the
minister fell on his knees, and SO con-
tinued all the night praying, with his
face to the earth.
Whatever is too precious, too tender,
too good, too evil, too shameful, too
beautiful for the day, happens in the
night. Night is the bath of life, the
anodyne of heartaches, the silencer
of passions, the breeder of them, too,
the teacher of those who would learn,
the cloak that shuts a man in with
his own soul. The seeds of great
deeds and great crimes are alike sown
in the night. The good Samaritan
doeth his gooo by stealth; the wicked
one cometh and soweth his tares
among the wheat. The lover and the
lustful person, the thief and the think
er, the preacher and the poacher are
abroad in the night. In factories
and mills, beside the ceaseless whirl
of machinery, stand men to whom
day is night and night is day. In
cities the guardians of the midnight
go hither and thither with measured
step under the DRILLING rain. No man
cares that they are lonely and cold.
Yet. nevertheless, both light and
darkness, night and day, are but the
accidents of a little time. 1t is
twilight THE twilight of the morning
and of the gods-that is the true
normal of the universe; it is this that
brings new life, as it did to Allan
Welsh.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
POULTR ".

The size of the egg has something to
do with its value, but as rule it is not
of so much importance to the buyer as
is clean, pure shell. Every customer
will in preference take that which pleases
his eye; the appearance will even create
a want.
Compared with pork, poultry meat
costs less and lie moro nourishing and
healthful. If too far from market to
make the business pay, the farmer
should find no excuse for not raising
enough for his own table, and that right
literally.
Do not go into turkey raising unless
there is plenty of pasturage, and remem-
Der that turkeys, being larger, require
more food than chickens; also keep in
mind that they bring more money in
the market. Do not feed to them or to
any poultry food which is muety.
Farm poultry caves from waste much
of the shattered grain, ard destroys
myriads of injurious insects and weed
seed, but do not let them scratch wholly
for living. One thousand pounds of
poultry will cost less to make than 1000
pounds of beef, and will sell for twice as
much.
The poultry interest is growing. but
there are too many scrubs raised.
Double the profit comes from good
breeds. A hundred chickens on a large
farm are not enough; the Frenchman
will have 500 on 10 acre lot. and hardly
a villager but raises enough to pay his
rent, like the Irish philosopher with his
pig.
Do not neglect that which finds
home market. Sending wheat away
while others are bringing poultry and
eggs from another State is poor plan.
Avoid the transportation rates, and hold
your own market against competition.
Women are suited to poultry raising,
but it is not beneath the attention of
strong men if it is to be made business.
Cash is the stimulant ever behind it,
and the hens supply their daily quota,
beside having something coming In
every day in the future.
Pure bred chickens bring the'best re-
suits, but, as they breed so fast. pure
bred males will soon grade up the flock.
Like in the dairy business, the improved
appliances bring success-the incubator,
the warm poultry house, proper food,
and the care and attention of modern
poultry breeding.
The low price of grain and live stock
has induced many farmers to go into
poultry breeding who formerly thought
the bushes too small; but, like other
stock, poultry has been improved. and
systematic breeding and management
bring results quite as profitable as any
other branch of farming. if capital and
experience are wisely utilized.
BY this time all the ROSTERS not need
ed for breeding should be fatted and
ready for market; but good way Of
making poultry pay is to always have
some ready for sale. Be ready whenever
the market lie ready. Broken rice is a
valuable food for fdttening quickly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19
BET WEN LOVE AND DUTY.
BY S. r. CROCKETT.
The new Scotch Author,

A selection from The Lilac Sunbonnet BY
5. r. Crockett. ID. Appleton & Co.Ralph Peden,
young theological student under the charge of
Allan Welsh, has just been of service to Win
some Charters, who has been insuhed by Agnew
Greatorex. Ralph returns to the parsonage,
where this scene with Allan Welsh occurs
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-19

GAIN it was growing
slowly dusk when Ralph
Peden returned from
visiting Craig Ronald
along the shore road
to the Dullarg and its
manse. He walked brisk
". as one who has good
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10
WEDDING DRESSES 70 HIRE.

New York Girls Can Have Nice Trous-
soaus Loaned for State Occasions.
From the New York Herald: Madi-
son street braces up" a little down
near the police station and thereabout
is a nest Of curious shops. One of them
has in the window, in English and He
brew, this sign;
Wedding dresses to hire"
l went into this shop the other day,
explained after struggle that 1 was
prompted by curiosity and not by de-
sire to prepare Cor approaching nup-
tials, and asked just what the sign
meant.
The proprietor led me into a rear
room-a sitting closet that reminded
one Of Turkish bath-lifted the lid Of
a big chest and pointed out a pile Of
white satin garments, little faded, but
wonderfully benounced and bedlzened.
There" he said.
"And do women who are to be mar
ried come here and hire these dresses
and return them after the wedding?"
MANY do"
"Why?"
SWELL, most women here can't afford
nice wedding dress, but they all want
to look beautiful on their wedding day,
so I have these dresses and SO they
come to me-"
"Then one Of these dresses has been
worn by several women?"
Maybe hundred. One dress costs
them dollar, better one two or three.
1t is great risk. They are not always
careful. Some, however, are very good,
and bring the dresses back to me with
their own hands the next day. do not
think there Is much money in the trade,
though. Perhaps not so many get mar
ried now. Is the East side getting rich
that 1t can afford wedding dresses of
its own, or poor that 1t cannot afford
to marry?"
And l, not knowing, had to leave him
struggling with his own problem.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10
The HOmeSeekerS Ideal COnntrH.

Cut this out and send Il TO II. <.
Hornbecls, Land Commissioner Of the
Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf Rail-
road, 7th and Wyandotte Sts., Kansaa
City, Mo-, giving your address plainly.
and receive in return handsome
column, page paper finely illustrated
infinitely describing a new Country
opened up from Kansas CITY to the
Gulf Of Mexico. The best agricultural
and fruit land in the United States ara
in Missouri and Arkansas. If YOU are
seeking health, you will find It along
this railroad. The finest climate. high
altitude, pure spring water, abundance
OF timber. Plenty of rain. No biz
yards. No hot winds. Winters mild.
Summers cool. The very best fruit
and potato lands in the world on the
sunny slopes of the beautiful Ozarks.
Handsome colored pamphlet and
descriptive price list of every inn
Imaginable kind of land sent free.
Come quick while lands are vet cheap.
With land from the SHOWS of the North
to the tropical Gulf to select from, you
ere bound to be suited.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10
GLIMPSES.

At Castle Hill, Maine, there are three
brothers, whose combined height Is
twenty-one feet.
The very oldest watches beay ing in
scribed dates are Of Swiss make and
bear date Of 1854.
There is a law which prohibits the
cabmen of Paris from smoking their
pipes while driving.
State Councillor Jermakoff, who died
a short time ago in Moscow, gave away
$5,OOO,OOO in charity.
Kate Field has gone to Hawaii to
write up the island for one of the
metropolitan journals.
A French taxpayer is obliged to work
eighty-six days in the year to pay off
what is due the treasury.
If all the thread used in this country
yearly were stretched out end to end
1t would stretch 100000 miles.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10

you with most interesting postscrlpS.I
And he did.
His statement was based on official
documents and this is the gist of 1t.
When the terrorist movement was
at its height the leaders were invisible
and ubiquitous. We suspected that they
were In the university, but that was
only guess. Once or twice Kaffsly
appeared to be in the movement, but
we had no proof, and could get none.
1t then occurred to General o. Of the
secret department to employ spy who
had never played the part of a detective
before"
II know. You mean the scoundrelly
informer, Boorman,' l broke in.
"Boorman! Boorman! Was he? o, Of
course he was. Yes. No. Boorman was
not the detective. Boorman, see, was
nearly as dangerous as Kaffsky; he was
Kaffskys right-hand man, and he got
the same punishment"
This announcement took my breath
away, but 1t only deepened the mystery.
1.-TWO thousand three hundred rubles
was what 1t all cost, and dirt cheap,
too" he went on.
"You mean the detectives reward?"
asked.
Eyes, that, Of course, was over and
above her regular salary, which was
fifty rubles a month, 1t was the only
clever stroke Of business she ever did"
"She" repeated, "Was 1t a woman,
them"
20, yes; didn't tell you?--and a
woman with the making of saint in
her, too Ha, ha, hal She is now a god
fearing sectarian-a pietist Of some
kind"
"Well, I remarked, "she would need
n good long course of penance, were 1t
only to atone for the fate of poor Anna
Pavlona, whose life she snuffed out"
"Ea, ha, hal! he laughed, till the big
tears rolled down his furrowed cheeks.
"Why, hang it, man, Anna Pavlona was
herself the detective. But that was the
only clever thing she ever did. She
soon after left the service, found saliva
ton, as they term it, in some obscure
sect, and is pious bigot now"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10
RAMS HORNS.

A chorus in which many love to join;
Didn't tell you so?"
Self-assertive men often do large
business on small capital.
We must give Christ our burden be-
fore he will give us his yoke.
The man who would go to heaven
alone II he could, isn't fit to go.
Our loyalty to Christ is best tested by
the way we treat our enemy.
Whoever is like Christ will be found
trying to make earth like heaven.
A civil tongue is a better protection
than steel armor an inch thick.
There is nothing the devil makes
much more use Of in this world than a
tattling tongue.
Pray for your enemy, no matter
whether he Is trying to kill you with
his tongue or a gun.
The devil Is still making some people
believe that they can serve God without
belonging to church.
The man who can pay his debts and
won't do it, would steal If he could do
1t without being licked up.
Some people show that they are not
on the way to heaven by what they tell
others they must do to get there.
1t is a common temptation with the
Christian worker to think that God has
called him to raise the dead to begin
with.
The devil will not be long in making
some kind of a flank movement against
the preacher who makes sinners feel
their need Of Christ.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10

The police had made a tremendous
haul among the students the day the
university closed session, and many
were now in their distant native vii
lagos expelled from the university;
others in prison, others again on the
road to Siberia.
Kaffsky, we learned, was among the
latter-condemned to the mines as n
dangerous cOnspirator, in spite of the
intercession Of the professors; Anna
Pavlona was dead, according to others;
but 1t came to pretty much the same
thing in the end.
| had heard of many evil things done
by diabolical refOrmers, but this was
the most crying injustice 1 had ever
actually witnessed; and when talking
with friend who was relative of one
of the ministers l told him so.
He was astounded at what told him.
and asked me to draw up an account
of Kaffsky's case in writing. He would
see, he said, that justice should be done.
I had no difficulty in obtaining pre-
else particulars. l discovered even the
name of the forwarding prison, over
1000 miles away, in which Kaffsky was
then inferred, and having made out a
very strong case, gave my friend the
paper, and he presented it to his rela-
tive, the minister.
A week passed. then fortnight, and
still there was no answer.
One day my philanthropic friend
shook his head, said my data were all
wrong, said that Kaffsky was the most
dangerous conspirator that had ever
been tripped up in the very nick Of
time, and that he would advise me to
keep aloof from political reformers in
future, as it was evident they could
make black appear white without an
effort.
Six years later 1 heard that Kaffsky
was no more. He died Of disease, or was
shot in tumult, or disposed Of in some
such way. The particulars were not
very precise, but he was really dead,
that was certain.
Nothing else but death is certain in
Russia" L remarked to an ex-minister
to whom had been telling the whole
story after dinner.
$50 you are going to write about 1t,
you say" he asked me, Ito ease your
feelings"
II am" replied.
VERY well, then, IL you will come
here in two or three days I 6ill supply |