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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29
DALEY.


1t requires an exhibition of good, hard
sense in keeping dairy cattle. A good,
strong constitutional herd. which has
been properly kept, is just now a thing
more to be coveted than a lot of high
testing COWS brought up under unnatu-
raj and forced conditions as to feeding
and stabling. There are costly mistakes
in competition.
Stick to the special purpose COW. DO
not get it into your head that your
mixers must be large in order that by
and by they will make more beef. Re-
member that this extra weight must be
fed all the years until she is sold. Let
her be good mixer, bringing her profit
every year she lives.
Time is great item in the dairy, and
the little Jersey COW is desirable pos
session. in that she begins her work be.
fore she is two years old, usually, and
begins our profit from that time. She
is good and sure breeder, and we
can arrange our calving periods to suit
our business.
AS an outcast at home, and sailing
under false colors abroad, this cleo fraud
is obtaining for itself rather unenvia-
BILE notoriety, yet we exported over one
and one quarter millions more pounds
last year than ever before. Though
lodging butter rates at the custom
house, it is sold at the price of butter,
and consumed as such.
Half the milk sent into our cities will
deposit vile sediment after standing.
When stables are i'll kept and mixers
careless there is decided "off" flavor to
the entire milking. Offensive dust COL
lects upon the udder and finds it's way
into the pail. Part of it settles after
| passing the coarse strainer, and part will
be found floating on the cream.
Up to certain limit the more food
cow consumes the more profitable is she
to the owner, for che will convert it into
milk and butter if she is of the true
| dairy type. If she is not of this type,
she has no place in the dairy, and should
be disposed of at once.
Pin your faith upon bran-wheat bran
for the mich COW. This, fed with gluten
meal, will give the best of satisfaction
in any dairy; yet cotton seed meal corn
meal, linseed meal and roots are all
good. Whatever is fed, do not stint the
COWS; give plenty to satisfy them, and
next see they have all they want of good,
fresh water.
Doubtless thousands of children die
annually, in city and country, from the
effects of milk from COWS obliged to
| drink water contaminated with the
| germs of disease and the disease is oft.
en- traced to this source. Any standing
water exposed to the rays of the sun is
dangerous. Let your cows have no wa
ter not fit for you yourself to drink.
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NEW INTOXICANTS.

The alcohol habit, which has become
so prevalent III civilized countries, and
which has blighted almost every nation
of savage or primitive people that has
been brought in contact with civiliza-
ton. is by no means the only poisonous
habit against which the medical profess
sion should earnestly raise its voice.
New forms of intoxication are constantly
arising. livery new drug capable of
producing an artificial felicity is quickly
seized upon and made the means of
new poison habit. This is not the effect
of natural and physiological craving in
the human constitution, but of an I'M
natural and artificial appetite which is,
in large part, the result of the artificial
conditions of life which prevail among
civilized people. Through habit and
heredity. the use OF one nerve-tickling
drug creates demand for another. and
so the evil grows. A recent number of
the Medico, a French periodical, gives an
account of a new form of intoxication
which is becoming fashionable among
the ladies of Paris. This new mode of
dissipation consists in the inhalation of
the fumes of naphtha. The intoxication
produced by this drug is similar to that
induced by ether drinking. as it appears
in Ireland and Russia. It's effects how
ever continue for much longer period,
and are said to be very much more in
furious. The French authority asserts
that Partisan ladies are not responsible.
however, for the invention of this new
mode of intoxication. but that it was in
PRODUCED into Paris by American ladies'
~ who had long practiced it at their
homes in America.
America must be held responsible for
the invention of several new modes of
practiced in the South long before the
drug was used as an an@sthetic in sur
gerry. The writer once receil ed from an
eyewitness very graphic account of an
ether party held half a century ago in a
country neighborhood in the South, at
which negro was first exhilarated TO
wild delirium. and afterward rendered
unconscious by the prolonged admins
tration of ether, to the great dismay of
the reckless young people who had been
amusing themselves at the expense of
the poor negro. Intoxication by the
chewing of tea seems to have originated
in Boston, where a couple of servant
girls we're arrested few years ago for
being drunken and disorderly. The in
vestigation by the court showed that
they had become tipsy on tea. Tea ciga-
rets were. however. the ingenious irven-
tion of Partisan woman who had tired |
Of the ordinary forms of intoxication.
The morphia habit, the cocaine habit
and the chloral habit, and other poison
habits which are prevalent in this and |
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29
POULTRY

When chickens are seven or eight
weeks old the sexes should be separated.
and the cocks put by themselves where
they may have the benefit of large
yard, and have nothing 70 do but thrive
ard get ready for their market day.
There can be no overprod ucIion of
poultry and eggs, and a profitable farm
product. Let us not lose sight of the
fact that prolific America imports much
of both, and comes no nearer filling the
demand than she did years ago; and
then they should enter more largely
into our daily diet than they now do.
One of the principal advantages the
farmer has in raising poultry is that he
can give them such large range. Be-
cause this lessons so much the cost of
feeding, his profits are greatly increased.
Much of that which they pick up would
be otherwise wholly wasted. Moreover,
their life of freedom gives them variety,
health and thrift which confined fowls
may not get.
Chickens will not infect the stables
with vermin if their own quarters are
kept as they should be. If there is
objection to having them about the
house and garden. place a wire fence
about the orchard. and they will be
content there. See that they are not
deprived of pure water-a requisite the
most important of any.
Turkeys are an especially valuable
crop on the farm, and are easily raised
if one knows how. Five hens and a
gobbler should produce 100 birds every
year, worth anywhere from 81 to 81
each. Not more than 10 per cent of
this should be the outlay for expenses.
Induce early laying by having the fowls
in good condition. feeding them all the
corn they will eat during February and
March.
Select yearling turkey hens for setting,
for they are not SO apt to die on their
nests as the older ones, and invite them
to make their nests about the barn by
giving them suitable places. Avoid
having any broods come off earlier than
May l. for the young birds can not stand
the chill of the earlier months.
Except during very wet spells. it is
never well to confine turkeys at all, but
LET them ramble, save when they must
be protected from the heavy dews of
May and June. If freed. they need be
fed only night and morning; in the
morning that the mother may be con-
tent to cover them awhile; in the even-
ing that they may be induced to roost
at home, becoming tame, and staying
under control.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29

NOTHING more creditabie to the Eng
fish reading public has happened in
many day than the high favor which
it has accorded to the writings of the
group of Scottish novelists, Of whom Mr..
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Mr.. j. M.
Barrie and Ian McClaren John Wat
SOM are the most conspicuous represent
atives. Mr.. Crockett and Mr.. Watson
are both Nonconformist clergymen. men
of acknowledged piety, zeal and ability
in their calling. Their stories too have
all that sweetness, purity and high pur-
pose which should characterize the
writings of men Of their cloth; every
one is an orthodox sermon clothed in
flesh and blood; in them the Gospel of
Christ is preached in all it's purity. sim
plicity and strength. That stories
breathing such an atmosphere and hav-
ing such purpose should almost equal
in popularity the fiction of the Trilby
school, seems to argue paradoxical con-
dition Of public taste. 1t is disconcert-
ing at least to those whose literary judg
ments have proceeded upon the theory
that public taste is generally depraved,
and the only sure road to popularity in
fiction is by the way of Paris. The whole
truth of the matter is that the things
which the great reading public Graves
are freshness. originality and true art.
They have found these in the stories of
Mr.. Crockett and his associates as they
have found them in the novels of Du
Maurier and others of the French school,
and that is the reason why both are
popular. The meaning of this is that
novel need not necessarily be vicious in
order to make "a great hit" The great
reading public is not bad as some would
like to make it.
Mr.. Crockett lives in Penicuik, Mid
lothian. though the scenes of his stories
are usually laid in Galloway. He is
young man. for he was born in 1859, at
Duchral, in Galloway. His stories are
very Scotch, all except a little one, a
novelette,. called 1.-THE Play Actress"
which is quite free from dialect, and has
much Of London in it. Like Mr.. Mere
dith, Mr.. Crockett works in a little
house in his garden. Il am always ready
for work at 4;30 A. NJ. after six hours
glorious sleep and cold tub" he told a
recent interviewer, which shows that his
health must be as good as Stevenson's
was bad-not SO much because Of the
cold tub, that is daily necessity to
every man or woman not an invalid, but
the 4:30 NJ. The man who lives in the
country has the advantage over the man
who lives in the town. his sleep is better
and for that reason his health. Mr..
Crockett and Mr.. Watson were both
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29

other countries, are only different mani
festations of wide spread and appa-
rently increasing love for drugs which
benumb or excite the nerves, which
seems to characterize our modern civil
zation. Indeed, there appears to be at
the present time, almost mania for the
discovery of some nerve-tickle or some
novel means of fuddling the senses. 1t
is indeed, high time that the medical
profession raised, with one accord. it's
voice in solemn protest against the use
OF all nerve-obtunding and felicity pro-
ducing drugs, which are all. without ex-
ception. toxic agents, working mischief
and only mischief to the human body
american Medical Temperance Quar-
terLy.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29

According to the census the nonpro-
ducers of food are increasing five times
as fast as the producers. Theoretically,
this will soon make us hustle to feed
ourselves. Despite the encouragement,
the wise farmer is now getting ready for
the coming demand by bringing his land
to the very highest state of productive
ness.
If the boys are given chance to do
something for themselves. and are to
have the profit, the farm will come to be
to them an intensely interesting place;
if they are treated worse than the hired
man-that is, worked just as hard and
paid nothing but their board-who can
blame them for taking any road which
leads from the farm and it's hard associ-
ations?
Tobacco dust, such as may be obtained
at any factory, is one of the best RENE
dies which may be applied effectually
against the striped cucumber bug. A
few handfuls of this thrown upon the
hill is almost specific, and is fertil-
izer as we'll. Ashes moietened with
kerosene have also been used with good
results.
Barnyard manure not only contains
ammonia, phosphoric acid and potash
in proper proportions for complete fer
tilizer, but it also furnishes the vegeta.
BILE needed to liven up the soil and give
it that capacity for containing moisture
which is SO marked an element of the
virgin soil.
Much of the time of late years rye has
been worth as much in the market of
this country as wheat or corn, and the
straw brings nearly as much as good
hay. So long as one has store Of this
cereal he is in no danger of starvation.
1t is healthful food and in Germany is
much made use of as an army ration
1t is really superior to wheat in health
fulness.
Calamities are often full of blessings.
The failure of crops in some regions last
summer has taught us many things.
Careful testing has shown that corn
where there was almost no ears at all,
but where the fodder was cut and
shocked before it was spoiled. was worth
nearly as much as the whole crop in
average years.
A Mr.. Brown, of Nebraska, after care
full experiment, says that his 100 acre
corn6eld on which no ears formed last
year, having been cut up green, shocked,
made fine and fed to fattening steers
without any grain ration, had Melted
him 81 ZOO, or more than S14 an acre.
Practical men do not hesitate to say that
two-fiths of the feeding value of corn
are in the fodder.
II the past year, with all its disap-
pointments and losses. shall have re-
buked the shiftless, prohigate and SLOW
emily ways and habits of our farming
masses, and taught them that there
must ever hereafter be more systematic
and frugal methods, it will be blessing
in disguise. We have been forced to
learn the value of many things which
have been heretofore wasted without a
thought.
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THE STORY OF AN EGRET'S
PLUME.
IN TWO ACTS.

Act l. Deep down in the shadows of
the woods-enlivened by little patches
of sunlight glancing and glimmering
through the foliage of the trees and up
on the greensward-t river ran merrily
on toward the sea. The air was fragrant
with all delicious odors of the woods,
and musical with the sweet songs Of
birds. Hidden amid tangle of reeds
and vines was an Egret's nest from
which four baby birds peeped out.
watching for their mother who was
busying herself on that sweet sunlit
day in bringing them food; and as she
lowered over the nest her looks and
tones denoted heart full Of happiness.
Bending over them, her long white
feathery plumes brushed them gently
like caress, and as she lifted her head
to utter forth her thanksgivings she
seemed proud of this new adornment:
1.-THE distinguishing badge of her
motherhood.] Suddenly her song ceased
and her heart beat with fear and trepi-
dation as she saw hunter slowly, but
surely, approaching. She crouched down
over her helpless little ones and spread
out her wings to protect them. His
hand was stretched toward her, but she
loved her babies with mothers love
and would not leave them-and 30 he
snatched her from her nest, tore the
plumes from her bleeding body, and
threw her to the ground. She died
within sight of her helpless young. The
shades of night hushed the songs of the
birds, but plaintive cries fell upon the
silence. They were the cries of those
four little birds = crying for their
mothers love and protection.
Act 2. Within the dim light of a
cathedral sits large and fashionable
congregation. The organ peals forth it's
notes upon the reverberating air. The
white-robed priests and choristers march
forth in solemn procession. Moving
slowly and gracefully up the aisle is a
woman richly dressed and fair to look
upon. In her delicately gloved hand she
carries prayer book with little gold
crosses dangling from the ribbon mark
ers. Upon her head is hat of velvet
and lace surmounted by an Egret's
plume. She makes graceful genufex-
ion in the direction of the holy altar.
and as she sinks upon her soft hassock
in silent prayer the priest in sonorous
voice chants the Litany - and as the
words From all evil and mischief-from
sin-from the crafts and assaults Of the
devil-from battle and murder, and from
sudden death'-fal from his lips-she
lifts up her voice and chants Good
Lord, deliver us!' The music rolls on
and mist comes before my eyes: for
out through the window = amid the
shadow of the grasses and reeds-I seem
to see the nest of those four little birds
their throats forever stilled - their
eyes staring up at the Heaven that
would not answer them-the mother ly-
ing upon the blood soaked ground-her
glazed eyes turned toward the nest from
which no sound comes-Mrs. o. B.
Champion IN Our Dstnlb Animals.
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entering France upon the pretense of
fear OF Texas fever and pleuro pneumo
MIA, while they know as well as do we
that this country is entirely free from
the latter malady, and that Texas cattle
are excluded from our exported herds.
Under this thin pretense they go on eat.
ing horse meat; but it will not always be
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29
FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agriculturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERsALIsT"
AGRICULTURE.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sFs5SsSsyss}ssSs}SsSsg}s
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-17
A Most vile Marlborourh.

When the duke of Marlborough Wis
tied America he stopped at one of New
York's swell hotels. On entering the
dining-room me evening he was seated
at a table opposite n occupied by
half a dozen Harvard students. Call
ing the waiter the duke asked for a
m%enu-card, and exclaimed on looking
it W. sis that all? Vile-simply
vile! Wine-list, waiter" After scan
ming the wine-list, he made the same
remark in louder tones, attracting the
attention Of the students, one of whom
Immediately cried, waiter, MENU
and on glancing at the card remarked:
sis that all? Vile-simply vile!!n
Another called for the wine-list, looked
it over, and. with disgust in every
word mimicked: ''Is that alp Vile
simply vilen' The duke turned an
grily In his chair, and, addressing the
students in naughty tones, said: care
you aware gentlemen, that you are
hooking the duke of Marlborough"
The six Harvard students looked at
each other with undisguised disap-
pointment, exclaiming in chorus: SIS
that all? Vile-simply vile!" while
the room rang with laughter-Argo.
nn1,t
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-17

n COMES Up BEFORE THE
UNITED STATES COURT.
= snit for m Estoppel ~ Tho Eureka
Chemical Company, OF (. Crosse,
Makss the Trouble.

Papers have been fled in the United
States court of the western district of
Wisconsin, by Tarrant & Kronshage.
attorneys for the Sterling Remedy com
psny. of Chicago and New York. in q
suit for estoppel and damages against
an imitation of No-to-bac, the tobacco
habit cure. The action is brought
against a concern called the Eureka
Chemical company of La Crosse, Wis.
The principles involved in these pro.
ceedings are of the utmost Importance
to the proprietary interests of America
In general, and form in many respects. a
test case, the outcome of which will be
carefully watched by the many other
important manufacturing concerns sim-
ilarly initiated. Not only the question
of imitation o name, trademark. form
Of preparation and package. enter ineo
tine case, but also the proposition
whether the actual advertising litera-
ture used in establishing the publicity
of q preparation can be stolen with inn
punity, word for word, by all imitator.
The decision in this case will settle one
of the vital points in United States
trademark and copyright law.-Madi-
SON Wis., Democrat.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-17
FURNACE VEN QUIT.
Big Strike Amosg Workn.~n at the ! ltnois
Steel Works.

Steel Works.
Chicago, May S.-The strike which
was. begun yesterday at the Illinois
Steel company's works in South Chicago
by 100 yardmen quitting work, spread
his morning and 1000 men in the blast
furnace department went out.
Two furnaces have already shut down
md the strikers claim hat the other
four will suspend by night. The men
left their work quietly in little squads
and there a been no violent demon
STATIONS. The strikers say they are no
receiving living wages. They assert
that two years ago they received 500
for the same work which now only
pays them SLIGO. 1t is further claimed by
the blast furnace men that enough
hands are not employed to divide the
work fairly. The 100 yardmen who quit
work demanded q raise from 81 to
Sips per day. The company offered $1.10,
but the men declined it and quit work.
1t is though this offer of a raise made to
the yardmen inspired other departments
to hope for better wages n straight
the switchmen asked that their
wages be raised from $3.50 to s. per
day. This the company refused. It is
believed that should the switchmen and
quit work the company would
be compelled to shut down the entire
works, throwing out of employ ment be-
tween 1900 and 2,0Ge men.
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Almost Cheaper than walking

Are the low rates offered by the Bur-
lington Route Tuesday, May 81, when
round trip tickets to points in Ne
braslka. Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming,
South Dakota and Utah, will be on sale
ut half the regular tariff.
Think Of it-HALFth the regular tariff.
Travellers to whom economy is an
bblect-and that means every body
will take advantage of this money
saving opportunity.
For a time table of the Burlington
Route as well as for full information
about rates and trains, apply tosSthe
nearest ticket agent or write to- st K
]. FRANCIS, Gent Pass'r Ag't, Omaha.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-17
Quiet at Pocahontas.

~Pocahontas, Va, May S.-There is no
mining. The soldiers are having a quiet
reception and are mingling freely with
the people. They say they came here
under a misrepresentation, the belief
that trouble would occur The miners
convention will assemble today. No ar
rests were made last night, and all the
men who were charged with violations
of the peace have been discharged. Cap
tain Martin of the Farmyille company
is officer Of the day. The railway COM
pany is doing practically nothing and
no shipments of coal are making,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-17
Now NIexico's Mines.

There is reported a big strike over in
the Sulpher Springs Valley. Recently
some prospecting was done on a little
hill rising out of the valley. and a most
wonderful strike is reported. Owen
Williams picked up a sample of the ore
and sent it to be assayed out of curios-
ity. not thinking it of much value. The
result showed that it carried some six
hundred ounces of silver and eight
ounces of gold. The valley from Will
cox to Fuckers canon is now monu-
mented. AS an indication of the
amount of mineral in the valley it is re-
ported that some of the prospectors had
to haul the rock to build their monu-
'ments for several miles. If the excite.
ment keeps up there will soon be
enough prospect holes in the valley to
furnish graves for all the cattle that are
ranging there.