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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-07-13

ODNTENTSs
CHAPTER
l. The Way of the Intellect.--God L
Nature.
II. God in Consciousness.
p III. Personality and what it Teaches.
". Faith in Prayer. and its Foundations.
V. The Way Of the Spirit-The Door.
VI. The Way.
VII. The Child's Way.
VIII. Relations Of Prayer and Character
TX. Power Of Prayer.
X. Jesus and Prayer.
XI. Closing Reflections.
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CONTENTS.
Chap.
1. The Leisure of God.
II. The Inevitable Conflict
III. The Line of Least Resistance.
w. The Root of all Righteousness.
V. Severity in Love.
VI. The Law of Reserve.
VII. Yesterday, Today and Forever.
VIII. The Victory of the Meek
TX. Immortal Life and Eternal Life.
X. The Premature Judgment of Divine
Things.
XII. Some Things Settled.
XII. The Use and Abuse of Optimism
XIII. The Christ in the Creation.
XIV. The City that is to Come.
XIV. White Robes and Palm Branches.
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-24
Value of Corn Fodder.

Professor Henry, of the Wisconsin ex-
pertinent station, tested the value of cut
ting corn fodder by feeding one lot of
COWS upon whole fodder, bright and
sweet. Another lot of equal milking
qualities had fodder from the same NOW
cut into pieces half an inch long He
found that he obtained as much milk
from 721 pounds of cut fodder as from
l ,133 pounds of uncut fodder. Two tons
of cut would be worth more than three
tons of uncut.
This agrees very closely with the re-
suits Of our own experience when feed
ing by guess and not by weight. We
could only testify TO the best of our be-
lief, according to our judgment, but he
can now speak from positive knowledge
gained from daily weighing. The rich
est and most nutritious part of the corn
stalk is the coarser parts of the butt,
which the cattle reject when not cut for
them. If any is wasted after cutting, it
makes good bedding, and afterward is
good addition to the manure heap, but
long stalks in the manure heaps add
more to the labor of handling it than
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would be required in cutting it before
feeding.
Major Alvord goes still further, and
advocates grinding the corn fodder into
meal. We do not know of any mill that
would do this but there are machines
that reduce it almost to chaff. The gain
from doing this must arise from easier
or more thorough digestion, as the waste
not eaten when cut to half-inch lengths is
so small as to be scarcely appreciate.
Milking a cow is a simple operation,
yet it is notable fact that compare
lively few men ever learn to do it sue
cessfully. A vast majority of those who
and it is an insult to any good cow to sub
ject her to such incompetency. Careful
experiments have shown that compe-
tent, quiet and sympathetic milker will
not only obtain more milk from the cow
but richer milk.
Acase in point is reported in the sixth
ment station, where, in order to ascertain
the probable extent of the loss from
careless work on milking, five COWS were
given to one workman for two weeks
milking. Nothing was said concerning
the object in view. At the end of the
time the same COWS, with the same feed
and care, were given to another work
man, who was informed of the object of
the trial. Mixer No. l obtained 1871
pounds of milk from the five COWS dur
| ing the first two weeks, while No. OBJ
tanned | 1882 pounds from the same COWS,
under like conditions, during the next
two weeks, difference of 245 pounds,
two and one-half pounds per day for
each COW, in favor OF right methods.
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Fine Rice.

Mr.. Geo. E Macy left at this office
twenty-five stalks of Dwarf Japan rice,
the product Of four grains and growing
in single bunch. The stalks measure
from three and one half to four feet.
Though not yet ripe, the heads are we'll
filled with plump grains.
The twenty-five heads aggregate ap-
proximately four thousand grains, max
Ing the yield a thousand to one. He has
about five acres of this variety on one of
his places near the city, from which he
expects yield of fifty bushels per acre
Grown under same conditions of soil,
etc, AS the South Carolina rice, he finds
the Japan Dwarf the better of the two.
The Japan variety seems to stand dry
weather better and does not fire up as
other kinds do,-Orlando Reporter.
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Protection from lightning.


One interesting point which appears
to be shown by statistical studies of
lightning stroke is the decreased liability
to accident in thickly-settled communi-
the risk in the country is five times
greater than In the city. For ordinary
dwelling houses, not unduly exposed in
city blocks, lightning rods are hardly
necessary, a very considerable protec-
ton being afforded by the tin roofing,
numerous cOrnices, cutters, etc. The
geological as we'll as the Typographical
conditions may have some influence
upon the frequency of lightning stroke.
According to the authority already
quoted, if l represents the frequency Of
lightning stroke in chalk formation, 2
will represent the liability for mari. 7
for clay, for sand and % for loan.
With regard to trees, the oak is most
frequently, and the beech least frequent
ly, struck The values are something
like, if one represents the frequency for
the beech tree, Is for pines, other trees
generally averaged at 40, and 81 for
oaks. Trees struck are most generally
those standing in the clearing or on the
edge of forests, and in height averaging
fir m Is to 90 metres (52 to sc feet).
The trunk appears to be struck about
three times as often as the boughs, and
generally the stroke seems to travel to
the ground. Only in three out of hun
dred cases did it jump to other trees.
lightning does sometimes strike
twice in the same place. Whoever
studies the effects of lightnings action,
especially severe cases, is aim ost tempted
to remark that there is often but little
left for the lightning to strike again.
No good reason is known why place
that has once been struck may not be
struck again. There are many cases on
record supporting the assertion.
AS lightning often falls indiscrlml-
nately upon tree, rock or building, it will
make but little difference sometimes
whether trees are higher than adioin-
ing buildings.
1t Is not Judiclous to stand under trees
during thunderstorms, in the doorway
of barns, close to cattle or near chimneys
and fire-places. On the other hand,
there is not much sense in going to bed
or trying to lnsulate ones self in feather
beds. Small articles OF steel, also, do not
have the power to attract lightning, as
it is popularity put, or determine the
path of discharge -Ex.
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FOR A THIRD TERM.
EX-JUDGe RAY THINKS CLEVELAND
WANTS A DENOMINATION.

Some Speculation With Reference to the
Probable Democratic Presidential Can
didate In 1S9G-Ex-Secretary Whitney's
Name Formally Mentioned.
Ex-Judge Ray of Indiana says that in
conversation with very prominent Dem
Oorat recently, ons who is familiar with
Democratic opinion among congressman,
shat politician told him that before the ad-
journment of congress a little informal
caucusing among the members indicated
that they were of opinion that the Democ-
raCy would be compelled to renominate
President Cleveland, and Furthermore that
Mr.. Cleveland expects a denomination and
as hard money! Democrat Those who
expressed this view did so with the same
manifestation of feeling which a New
York Democrat expressed in the st. Louis
convention of 1888. That Democrat was
asked whom the New York delegation was
going to support for the presidential nom.
ination and replied, why, Cleveland, of
course, confound himp'
These Democratic congressman were of
the opinion that it would be impossible
for the Democracy to agree upon any
other man, but they propose to nominate
Cleveland as a hard money" Democrat,
who would be likely to carry New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut, but to put
him on a soft money platform, just as
three years ago they put him on a free
trade platform. They said that it must
either be hard money" Democrat on a
soft money platform or soft money
Democrat on a hard money platform.
Tho impression, however, is that Mr.
Whitney, if hard money" Democrat is
to be nominated will be put forward as
the candidate rather than Mr.. Cleveland
Tammany will rejoice in any suggestion
made elsewhere that Whitney receive the
nomination Senator Hill, who still con-
trolls the Democratic organization in the
state, might show great repugnanCe to
that suggestion, and if he should deter
mine to do so could prevent the delivery
of the New York delegates to Mr. Whit
ney. Mr.. Hills friends say that he has
now little expectation that the Democracy
will do any better in 1896 than they did in
1910, after Van Burcn's first administra-
ton, when the conditions were SO similar
to those of today.
Mr.. Whitneys letter cabled from Ma
pies and written apparently in greater
passion than Whitney has permitted him
self for many years is regarded as an in
dicaton that he is willing to enter the po-
litiCal race as Democrat representing the
American idea, which has been so wholly
ignored by Mr. Cleveland and his admin
istration. in Philadelphia Press
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Homes OF Old Actors.

Among other chronicles in Mr.. Christy' S
book are many items concerning tho homes
of various actors. William Burton is liv-
ing in "a brownstone mansion" in Hud-
son street, New York, and his country seat
is the Rosary, at Glen Cove. He is dis
pensing elegant and liberal Inequalities. 1"
Billy Niblo lives in little cottage near
He'll Gate, New York. Harry Placide re.
sides at his ferme ornee at Babylon, N.
Y; Joseph Proctor, 1.-THE original Jibbe
nainosy," has bought farm near Somer
Vile, Mass, and w. II. Hamblin has a
house in Williamsburg, Pa.
Mr.. Christy records a curious incident
at Wallack's in 1854. 1t seems that Wal
lack was playing the Poor Scholar" in
which he introduced a number OF recita-
tions from Shakespeare, which seemed ex.
ceedingly malapropos to the audience.
Some one hissed and Mr.. WallaCk came
down to the footlights and went into a
rhapsodical defense of Shakespeare. OF
course it was not the bard that was Kissed
at, but Wallack was now quite beside
himself. Finally, swapping his fingers at
the audience, he said tragically;
Hiss again!"
Although he then went on with his part,
1t was some time before the audience set
tied down to calmness.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES REDIVIVUS.
A Milwaukee Girl Puts the Famous De
tective's Plans to Practical Use.


In Milwaukee recently there was Gu
rious confirmation of the old saw that
truth is stranger than fiction" In an
important case an issue of fact turned
upon the alteration alleged to have been
made in typewritten copy of some specifi-
cations. This brought to the witness stand
a Miss Northup, who identified page of
typewritten matter, in which a word was
omitted so as to vitality alter a speciflca-
ton, as having been produced by her on
her typewriting machine.
The general impression in the court was
that the typewriter matter could not be
positively identified. That is the general
impression everywhere. But Miss North
up, being asked how she could swear with
positiveness that this particular page of
specifications was typewriter by her,
quietly dispelled this impression. She ex-
planned that in reading Sherlock Holmes"
she had observed how perfectly possible
it was to fix the authorship of typewriting
by comparing the peculiar defects of GER
tain letters in the copy with the CORE
spending defects of the types on the ma
chine that turned it out. Applying Conan
Doyles hint to her typewriter, she found
two types particularly defective, and in
the copy which she identified the CORE
spending letters showed precisely the same
defects.
Severe cross examination failed to shake
Miss Northup's testimony, which was
manifestly fact founded on fiction. Evil
disposed persons who have used the type
writer for unlawful purposes in the belief
that the authorship of typewriting cannot
be traced like handwriting will be startled
at this discovery.
Yet there is nothing strange about it,
1t is simply the application to typewriting
and typewriters of the familiar detective
theory that if a boot print corresponds ex-
actly to given boot the man who wore
that particular boot probably made the
boot print The world gets harder all the
time for bad people to live in.-New York
RppOrdar
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Life Sentence For Stealing Bacon.

Joshua Fl. Slower, an aged white man,
a carpenter, was recently sentenced at
Stanton, Va, by Judge Charles Grattan
to Imprisonment in the Richmond peni
Tertiary for life.
The accused is to be imprisoned for life
because a few days ago he was found gull
ty, in the same court, of having stolen 81
pounds of bacon from j. C. Whitlock a
local grocer. The evidence showed that
Mr.. Whitlock saw man pick up in his
store a piece of bacon, valued at 37K
cents. The grocer's son gave chase and
captured Slower.
Slower is a miserable, poor creature.
His wife, who had not lived with him for
Is years, testified that he was drunkard
and man of unsound mind. He had been
in the almshouse and in Jail repeatedly,
charged with petit larceny. And yet
Slower who has never been charged with
any crime higher than petit larceny, for
which he has spent two terms in the Rich
mond penitentiary, has now, under re-
markable law ON the Virginia statute
books, received life sentence.
Il all grows out Of repeated petit lar
cenies Under a section CT the code of
1887, when any such convict shall have
been twice before sentenced in the United
States to confinement in the penitentiary,
he shall be sentenced to be confined in the
penitentiary for life" 1t was under this
act that Slower received his life sentence.
The counsel for the prisoner made strenu-
Gus appeal for his client and insisted that
the conviction was in opposition to the
terms of the constitution of Virginia,
which declares against cruel anu unusual
punishment"
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Oscar WiIde's Latest.

Oscar Wilde likes nothing better than
an opportunity to get off one of his cpl
grams, and whether at dinner, reception
or any function he courts every opportu-
nifty.
Two or three weeks ago he was at a
dinner in Paris when a clever French
woman, sitting next to him. understand
Ing his epigrammatic weakness, said to
Wilde:
II shall have to confess 1 read Sheri-
Ian's plays before 1 saw yours, Mr..
Wilde"
Then this clever woman waited. She
was not disappointed in the answer.
"Oh, yes" replied Oscar lone must
So the Old Testament before he comes to
the New"
OF course all Paris is telling the story
-as Oscar wished it should
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What Would You Call 1t?

had a good look at something very
unique on Fifth avenue, writes a New
York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis
patch. 1t was a most exaggerated type of
Willie boy, chappie or Johnnie, perhaps
all tfSee rolled into one. AS it approached
it attracted marked attention. The face is
unfit for publication, but the expression
thereon conjured up visions of an insane
asylum. Clad in the latest cut of long
tailed, double breasted attire, a bell
crowned hat, loud trousers rolled up at
the bottom high above tan shoes, fashion
able gloves and carrying the regulation
cane, it came along. The gait was pecul-
lar, sort of cross between a single footer
and a spawned hurdle jumper. There
was sort of to and fro movement that
made pedestrians swerve to one side, fear
full lest COLLISION would wreck the outfit.
The left arm was raised above the hips
and crooked outwardly, the wrist timber
and the fingers dangling, very like the
pose cultivated by the chimpanzee when
at ease. This arm carrying act apparently
occupied all the creatures attention The
eyes were fastened on the left shoulder APP
pendage, and its swing and carriage were
constantly shifted, much to the amuse-
ment of the multitude. Many stood and
gazed and smiled sort of disgustedlike. 1t
was watched and studied until it got out
of sight. A policeman who saw the atten-
ton had been diverted from the shop win
dows to it also grasped the humor Of the
thing and said Its perfectly harmless.
Lots of money. Just sense enough to
know it's on the earth. Frequently for
gets where it lives, though, and has to be
piloted home" Such sight almost makes
one lose faith and doubt the statement
about man being made in the image of
the Maker.
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A Remarkable Man.

George w. McMillion of Friar's Hill, w.
Va, has had several offers from museum
managers and one or two from scientific
societies to appear in public and display
his wonderful feats of memory. He is
about 40 years old and has the gift of re-
membrance wonderfully developed. He re-
members everything he ever knew or read
and can perform the most remarkable
feats. He can offhand recite the names,
birthdays, hours of death, majorities and
the closest details of the lives of all the
presidents in regular order, can name all
the horses in his neighborhood can recite
poems of 5000 words without missing a
word, can recount the details of every
visit he has made in his life, can name all
the people he has met in two weeks and
every word every one of them said to him.
can quote chapter after chapter of the BIZ
BILE and has like penchant for repeating
history. He Is hardly human in many re-
spects, sleeping in the woods and often 60
ing for weeks WITHOUT washing his face
One of his most interesting feats is the
repetition of every word of a marriage
ceremony which he heard when 81, and
which united girl who was his sweet
heart to another man. 1t is said that this
ceremony was the first thing he ever tried
to remember, and that the circumstances
surrounding it are the cause for his pecul-
lar habits, having been very promising
young man before this girl Tilted him.
Since then he has given no attention to
his personal appearance and cares for moth
ing but reading and remembering things.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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A Couple of Eccentrics.

Two eccentric feats are shortly to be at
tempted by Frenchmen on wager. In
one case NJ Durand, gentleman residing
in Marscilles, has undertaken to pose as
statue in a public place in that city for no
less II period than % days, the intervals
for rest to be enjoyed by him in the mean
time not to exceed 4S hours in the aggre-
gate. \ pedestal is being prepared for the
accommodation of this strange person,
who has been nicknamed in anticipation
by the French papers Durand Stylites The
other feat referred to has been undertaken
by NJ. Wiasemsky, a gentleman well
known in Partisan fashionable circles. NJ.
Wiasemsky has made a considerable wager
that he will ride all the way from Paris to
America on horseback The thing sounds
impossible but he says it is not So He
proposes to ride right across Siberia to the
point where Boring strait, which, sepa.
rates that country from Alaska in North
America, is narrowest, and then to ride
across upon the ice. He will be glad, he
says, of mpanion.-London Daily
News.
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The last of the old colonial Sunday
Blue Laws of Connecticut was repealed
in the Legislature of that State, last
week. The law, for years, has been prac-
tically dead letter until last fall, when
an extremely Puritanical clergyman of
Southington, discovered that it was as
good as new and stirred up the COmmun-
ity. The sale of Sundey papers was for
hidden, BARRIERS shops were closed, boot
blacks were taken up for plying their
trade, livery stables were closed, etc. In
fact. the clergyman tried to bring back,
as nearly as possible, the Sabbath of the
Olden days. The citizens of Southington
objected, but it did no good, for there
the law was, on the statute books. In
Hartford, the same thing occurred, so on
the meeting of the Legislature, Mr..
Southworth of SouthingGOn, introduced
a bill for the repeal of the law, and the
bill passed, there being but one dissent
ing voice.
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The Right Place For II.

Tommy" said Mr.. Figg sternly, "I
hung motto in your room to the effect
that little boys should be seen and not
heard "
"Yes, sir"
81 find that it has disappeared.
Eyes, sir.
"What did you do with itf''
IL took it down to the deaf and
dumb orphan asylum. - indianapolis
Journal
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BENNINGTON,
SPRING, 1895
ESTABROOK'S
Granite and Marble
WORKS.
MAIN STREET. DOOR WEST OF EXPIRES
AND Town CLERKS OFFICES.

To THE CITIZENS OF BENNINGTON
AND VIcNITY-I am prepared TO furnish any
thing wanted in the line of cemetery work at at
least 10 per cent less than you can buy the same
quality Of stock or work of any agent or outside
party, as that is the agents commission, or it
will cost party from away if they come them
selves to sell and set the work at least 40 per
cent more than it will me. as live here and sell
and set my own work, and receive my granite IN
the rough state direct from the quarres iu car
load lots at low rates. have force of compe-
tent workmen to cut polish and letter the work
here in my shop; have had four car loads of
rougi. granite IN the past two months: am fur
nishing 10 monuments and number of markers
and tablets from Landgon's best dark Barre
granite which are to be set before Decoration
Day Call and see my stock and how do my
work, and if YOU have work to buy give me n
chance TO figure on it. have nearly fifteen hun
dred dollars worth of marble monuments and
tablets on hand, and will sell you any of these at
a very low figure, as want the room for granite
work. TIE above are facts which will prove b
you if you will call and see me
Soliciting your patronage, L am very respect
fully yours,
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Great Britain's demand for damages on
behalf of her crippled Boring sea poaohers
is about as modest as would be the de-
mand of a burglar who might ask COM
pensation for being shot in the legs while
getting away from n house that he had
robbed. Scranton Truth
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A cuckoo organ informs us that Sec
rotary Gresham lis not disposed to reck-
less action" in the matter of the firing
IN the Alliance Who ever accused Mr.
Gresham of recklessness?
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The Australian ballot seems to have
had rather narrow escape in the New
Hampshire Legislature, but it would be
misfortune for any New England State
10 take backward step in that matter.
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AT the present rate, the Treasury &C
counts for March will show a deficit of
six million dollars. Micawber Carlisle's
surplus grows more and more remote.
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The Unknown Half.

There would seem to be a good opportu-
nifty nowadays to write an interesting Sc
res of sketches under the general title
unknown Husbands of Well Known
Wives New York Tribune.
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1t is to be hoped that the late Senator
Fair found making wills an enjoyable o.
cupation. Chicago Post.
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A Practical Lover.

Sho-Would you be willing to die for mel
He e-s-after you got too old to
marry again.-New York Weekly.