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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09

The plant food in the weed is not
available fertility like that which it took
from the soil during it's growth. The
time when weed can be destroyed with
the greatest benefit is Immediately after
it has terminated; this is also the easiest
time to kill it. Even the thistle, at it's
start, is as easily killed as any of the
ANIMALS.
To stand still while the world is NOV
ing onward is the same as going back
ward. The preservation of the straw
and fodder in good condition is the thing
which now confronts the farmer, wheth-
er he has full and bountiful crops or
whether he has not much else than that
straw and fodder. On the one hand he
can save his grain; on the other he can
do without it.
Often the difference between a good
and an Indifferent yield of wheat is due
to a difference in methods. July and
August are favorable months for break
ing the ground, as it is then done easily,
and soon settles into a firm seed bed.
Following good rain, apply the harrow,
and this will make a fine soil, which will
retain the moisture.
Sixty per cent of the worlds supply of
sugar is contributed by the sugar beet
much as this fact may surprise us.
Most of us would declare that we had
never tasted beet sugar, for, of course,
we would know it if we had! This does
away with the fallacy of beet sugar be-
ing yet but an experiment.
Crystallizable sugar, or cane sugar, as
it is called, is always the same, whether
extracted from the sugar cane, beets,
maple trees, sorghum or anything else
capable of producing it. 1t looks the
same, tastes the same. and is the same.
The cane belt is limited, but the sugar
belt is unlimited.
The crops this year will be strong
stimulus toward the raising of cattle and
hogs. The export demand for corn is
light, and there is no other method by
which such profitable returns can be
procured. Stock raising will see such a
revival as has not been noticed for a
long period.
From Consular reports we learn that
from the large quantities of apples re-
ceived from other countries into Europe,
American apples command the high
est prices. Forty five per cent of the
wheat and 90 per cent of the flour in the
Liverpool district comes from the United
States. Our cattle are superior, bat as
much can not be said of our sheep.
The hay crop of the United States is
only second to that of any other crop in
value. Departmental agriculture statis-
tics for 1890 give the value of the corn
crop, in round numbers, at 500 million
dollars, hay crop 81 millions, and cotton
crop 285 millions.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
STOCK

Animals can not thrive their best
when food is given them at any time of
day or of night which happens to suit
the convenience of the feeder. Irregu-
lar feeding disturbs and deranges the
organs of digestion and assimilation. so
that they fail to make the most out of
the food supplied. If food is given be-
fore its regular time there is over load
ing, and the organs are put to work be-
fore they have recovered from the pre-
vious meal. If delayed. the animal is
apt to eat too much and too rapidly;
there is poor mastication and digestion,
and. therefore, there is loss and harm.
If we stint a ration we fail to make all
which is possible out of the food and
out of the animal. 1t is food consumed
over and above what is needed to sus
tain animal life which gives return Of
profit; SO that fullest profit follows full
lest judicious feeding.
Variety of food necessarily lessons
waste, for the animal then gets all the
elements essential to animal growth. A
continued ration of but single item
will probably supply some elements to
excess, and that which is not made use
of is wasted; and a variety conduces to
good appetite, too.
The more we look into the fodder
question the more one is convinced that
if the intelligent. economical farmer will
save everything which grows on his farm
suitable for forage, in ten years he may
be independent, able to keep years
supply on hand to tide off an occasional
off year when it comes.
Why not save time and labor by hav-
ing some old wagon standing near the
stables, and plank reaching it on
which a wheelbarrow can be run, that
the manure may be dumped therein
directly. TO be hauled away as often as
full, and taken to the fields direct? Be-
side, the wastes of the barnyard will be
avoided.
Bright, fresh straw. with the chaff,
sells better when baled, and may be
stored under a shed and hauled off in
the winter. In this shape it is more
convenient for feeding, and will save a
lot of good hay which will sell for a
higher price. For bedding it not only
improves the coat of the animals, but
improves the manure for the fields as
we'll.
10 France they use donkeys in place of
our cheap horses, while in Belgium they
use dogs. That country has $4,000 draft
doge, drawing milk, bread and vegetable
carts. The pure breeds of the more val
liable kinds of dogs are worth too much
to put to such ignoble uses. They raise
none but the finest of horses, importing
some of our cheaper ones to be made
into sausage when done with them.
The station at Lafayette, Indiana,
finds that. other things being equal,
steers fed on cut clover hay will make a
better growth than those fed on the
whole hay. and in their experiment Of
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09

The old mans days wers shortened by
the big strides that youth was taking.
"Naebody can sing tn praises O God
wi pickle pipes" said one OF the group
of men standing at the church door to
consider an innovation about to be
made. An organ had been offered to the
kirk by friend.
They say there will be an engine tae
put in tn kirk tae ca'ed (blow it). Sic
dissertation O. the hoose O. God! never
heard the like!''
what ails ye, Handel?" she asked,
gently.
Il dinna ken. Peggy. 1 feel din DOT.
I'm auld, like yerse', Peggy, and maybe
MAJOR has came. I'm mair than three
score years and ten."
"Hoots, yer no that auld. Ma father
was ninety-eight when he was buried.
I'll max ye some beef tea, and it will
keep ye up"
Hoo many years hae led tn singing,
Peggy"
"Owre fifty, Handel, Ye ken ye be-
gun twa years after ye speired me. and
was daft no tae keep guide man when
had him." she said huskily. They'll
miss yer singin' at the kirk tn day,
Handel"
"Wull they, dae ye Think" he said,
pleased.
"Of coorse they wull. Ye ken that
fine, We old weasel. There's naebody
can lead them sac comfortably as yer
sell. l heard Lord Lea say ye MIGHT
hae been college trained, ye sang so
WE'LL"
"Dae ye think sac, Peggy?" he said,
asking a dangerous question.
FAY, and l hae thocht that mair than
aimee. / didna mean what 1 said that
NIGHT, Handel" And the tears stood in
her eyes.
mo, Peggy, 1 didna, either. l was
awful daft no tae speak ye after, but ye
touched me in sair place. and l was
owre prood.'
Il haze paid for my being silly. any
way she said, between her sobs. God
kens whaur we a. wild hae been, had it
no been for ye helpin', Handel. Ye hae
been mair than father an husband tae
me a these years."
She sat speechless by his bed, holding
his hand, and they understood each
other as hearts will understood each
other in eternity.
The wings of the angel of death hov.
cred nearer and nearer Handel's bed
side. There was no hope, and Peggy
daily watched by his side.
The sun began to set and send its fiery
rays into the little room, filling it with
unwonted glory. He looked at her and
beamed with Joy as she stroked his head
and called him Handel" She moist
ened his lips now and again as he tried
to speak.
'I'll sune-be in tn presence-o' God,
Peggy. Ye hae mani ken-but
surely God ill no ca it sin-if-ye but
gle me- kiss -before-I-dee," he said
with gasps.
And she knelt by his bed and pressed
passionate kiss upon his lips. The sun
was hid behind the hills, and M, ldrummy
was in darkness.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
THE FIRST SETTING OF THE
KOH-I-NOOR.

The Mogul emperors were wise enough
to realize that if they did not build their
own mausoleums they stood but little
chance of being buried with fitting mag
uifcence, and took serious pleasure in
rearing these stately sepulchers. That
at Secundra is like city in itself, placed
at the end of a vast park like garden; and
there is nothing funereal in its character
or surroundings, for these monarchs had
the pleasant Eastern fashion of looking
cheerfully forward to the inevitable, and
made use of their mausoleums while
they lived as pleasure houses, and the
surrounding gardens as apprc pirate
places for al fresco entertainments. 1t
was a poetic inspiration on the part of
Akbar to have placed his tomb out in
the sunshine and in the middle of the
wide marble court, with only the blue
vault of heaven over it. and the Kohl
moor flashing like star from the top of
the little marble column at the head.
FERGUSON does not mention the Kohl
moor, nor the little column four feet
high, said to have been covered with
gold; but it still stands there, with the
empty socket on the top, and it was at
all events unique and pleasing idea.
Few deserted cities are more impress
sive than Futtipoor Sikri and the splen
did gateway of the mosque which towers
to the height of one hundred and fifty
feet above the ground, dwarfing every
structure within the walls, is landmark
for all the neighboring country. Every
building which has in any me asure es-
capped the ravages of time is of the same
red sandstone, and the only exception is
the white marble tomb of Selim Chisti.
which stands in the court yard OF the
mosque. Such miracles of delicate
tracery and such Enthusiastically twisted
brackets we're surely never before
wrought in unyielding marble, and as
the sculptured cells in the temples of
Mount Abu represent the highest at
tainment of Hindoo art in this direction,
so the tomb of Selim Chisti may stand
as an example of what ingenious Mus
sulman architects may accomplish with
in the range of purely geometrical de-
sign, circumscribed as they are by the
limitations of their creed.
The most unique of all the little struc-
lures standing in the neighborhood, or
on the near margin of the tank in the
vast court enclosed by the palace walls,
is the one commonly called the sultana's
kiosk, and lovingly designed as the
boudoir of an imperial favorite. We
know little today of the jewel which it
sheltered. but one may at least hope
that it was worthy of such casket. The
red stone is peculiarly deep and rich in
quality of color, and as every inch OF it
is carved and fretted it resembles closely
a japanese bibelot Of vermilion lacquer.
The blouse of Beerbul's daughter"
and all the others, of which no two are
alike, show a similar exuberance Of
fancy so that no one of these fortunate
sultanas had reason to be jealous of a
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
SEHiTEz' EEK {lI7|I,ji.ill'Y 11Q (iI
AN AUTUMNAL SONG.

The march of months moves ever on
Spring, summer. harvest, all are gone,
The brilliant hues of autumn shine
From stately tree and clinging vine.
Fields. orchards, gardens stripped and bare
To garnered stores each yield their share.
Life is a march of months and years
How soon its spring time disappears!
1.-THE heat and burden of the day"
Its summer scenes, soon pass away.
For coming winter how may we
With precious things" provided be?
Have youthful days devotion shown?
Have faith and works together grown?
Then manhood's summer shall mature
Both strength and beauty; grandly sure
Shall open life's fair design,
Fulfilling all the will Divine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
POULTRY,

EOULIKH.
Regularity in feeding procures rapid
growth in chicks. More food of the
same kind given at long, but irregular.
intervals will not give them the same
vigor or size. The man who follows hap
hazard ways in anything these times
will get behind the procession.
AS a health measure, where large
numbers of fowls are compelled to range
on limited enclosure, air Stacked lime
should be literally used. Let it be scat.
tered late in the evening. after the
chickens have gone to roost. It will
greatly counterfeit the decomposinp
matter which is SO deleterious.
Let young chicks make their homo in
their own coops at night until cold
weather makes it necessary to take them
to permanent winter quarters. If thew
outgrow these coops, give them larger
ones in the same place. cleaning and
airing them often, and lining them occa-
sionally.
Inere is a surplus of small potatoes
this year, and they can be utilized as
poultry food. Boil, mash and mix with
meal and bran; feed while warm. Feed
moderately, and not every day. remem-
oering that hens need variety. Too
many potatoes will make light colored
yolks.
Keep the older geese and sell the Cos
lIngs. The older ones are the best breed.
ers. the best layers, and grow the most
and best feathers while the young geese
bring the best prices in the market. Two
or three weeks will get them in marketa
BILE shape. if fed freely, and at least five
times day.
There is nothing like going to market
with attractive goods. Eggs should be
clean and in tidy packages; but do not
make a rule of washing them. for it
takes away the appearance of freshness.
Ii the soiled spots are wiped off before
they become stains, nothing else is re-
quired.
Give the hens all possible freedom.
and there will be less trouble with soft
snelied eggs, and less danger of their
being eaten. The exercise and the lime
the fowls pick up, in various forms. are
both essential in overcoming these
troubles.
LII the hens stop laying at this season
OF the year, as is not unusual, change
OF feed for few days will often start
them into business again. Always. and
with any variety of hens, variety in feed
brings the best results. Appetites are
renewed and new elements supplied.
Edward Atkinson says that the pro.
duct OF the hen mines is greater in value
than the product of the iron furnaces:
is about twice the value of the wool pro-
duct, and three or four times the value
OF our output of silver. While the mines
OF silver own our Senators, he asks who
crows for the American hen in the halls
of Congress?
AS usual thing. scalded chickens sell
best to the home trade. and dry picked
to shippers. Dry picking is more easily
done while their bodies are warm. Be
careful not to break nor tear the skin.
The same directions should be observed
IN dressing turkeys, but always dry pick
than
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
IF l KNEW.

If knew the box where the smiles were kept
Nomatter how large the key
OR strong the bolt, would try so hard,
'Twould open, 1 know. for me.
Then over the land and the sea, broadcast,
I'd scatter the smiles to play,
That the childrens faces might hold themtaSt
For many and many day.
If knew box that was large enough
To hold all the frowns meet
l would like to gather them, every one,
From nursery, school and street.
Then folding and holding I'd pack them in,
And turning the monster key,
I'd hire giant to drop the box
To the depth of the deep, deep sea.
MAUD WYMAN, in the American Jewess.
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mine:"
l. I am happy; and one person
who is happy is worth two who are
worrying about making the rest
happy.
II. An ounce of humor is worth
pound of good humor. The ability
to turn everything into a jest IS
great deal better than the willingness
to "bear things" patiently or even
cheerfully. I never bear things, or
waste my energy and strain my
nerves in smoothing out difficulties
and keeping catastrophies out OF
sight, where they gnaw away peace
like the fox under the boys cloak. Ii
anything has happened we all know
it; and l manage to get so much fun
out of an incompetent servant or
refractory plumber that the family
are glad the thing happened. We
never have merrier dinners than when
something has given out and my tenn
per has given in.
Men Tire of Smiles.
III. | don't make point of sal
ways greeting my husband with
smile" find that men tire of smiles,
unless they come like the Aurora Be-
reals, unexpectedly. On the contra
ry, l manage to impress him with the
desirability of making me smile; SO
that husband and boys have all &C
quired the habit of being on the
watch for "good things" to bring out
for everybody at the dinner table.
". l mingle all my little atten-
tions with a good deal of wholesome
neglect. Every member of the house
hold feels at perfect liberty to say
"Please give me cushion" or 81
think should like this better hot"
or "would you mind shutting that
Windows" but we do not wear each
other out with saying, "Shan't l bring
YOU a cushions" or "Wouldn't you
like to have that heated?" or "Shall
I shut the Window" / was COM
pletely exhausted yesterday explain
ing to polite stranger in a carriage
that | really didn't mind riding back
ward. The secret of sympathetic
politeness is to feel sure that if you
do object to riding backward, you
can say to the stranger frankly,
"Would you mind changing seats
with me?" and feel sure of instant
appreciation and response. l always
remember the epitaph an unfortu-
nate man wrote for himself, 81 died
of being made comfortable"
Beginning in the Morning.
V. / begin in the morning with
having no regular breakfast hour,
when everybody is expected to be on
hand at a given signal. Nothing con-
duces more to establishing the day
comfortably than the knowledge that
you need not get up in the morning
till you want to, or till circumstances
outside the family regime oblige you
to. In our own home we have almost
as many breakfast hours as we have
persons. Everybody can have his
breakfast when he wants it, and any
two who wish to breakfast together
can; but my family love me because
l do not always insist on their gath
ering around me. Dinner ah! that
is a different matter. Dinner is a
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09

[SHING to make him
comfort a b lie; she was
perfectly sincere; but she
made the mistake of try
ing to make him comfor-
table according to her
own ideas of comfort"
Here was the essence of
failure; but I wanted the
essence of success. So
I asked another: "You
want a recipe? This is
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
Special Article.
A HAPPY HOME.

How it May be Made and Ho : il May be
Kept
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hundred days the gain was nearly 80
per cent. A slight amount of exercise
was found beneficial during the fatten-
ing process.
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BY ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
NEWS OF SATURDAY,
Denver is bllzzard-swept.


oxford oarsmen beat the Cambridge
crew three lengths.
Judge Randolph Il. MARITIME, of New
York, dies of Bright's disease.
Another royalist plot against the Ha-
waiian republic was discovered.
The schooner Vine, carrying contraband
goods, was seized at Guyamas, Mex.
1t was claimed at Washington that Mr..
Cleveland would be a candidate for renom-
ination.
A S2OO,00O,OO 900 elevated electric railway
connecting Gotham with Chicago Is pro-
jected, at Chicago.
Mrs. Beatrice Brown, Of Philadelphia,
shot by her drunken husband who after
ward killed himself, will recover.
Near Reeds Crossing, Cal, the north
bound Oregon express train was held up.
James J. Bogard. the sheriff Of Tehama
county. who was a, passenger on the train,
was killed, together with one of the rob-
bers. The fireman, A. Nethercott, was Sc
riously wounded. The robbers got moth
ing of value
A Lehigh traction trolley car, coming
down the Janesville incline, ran away
Mrs. John Early, of Beaver Meadow, her
son Edward, aged years, and Mrs. Wat.
kin Il. Williams, of Hazleton, were killed.
Mrs. Joseph Evans and Mrs. John Wiel'
both Of Coleraine. were probably fatally
hurt. and the others injured included
James Evans, aged 10 years, head and face
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
OPERATIONS UPON IDIOTS
Interesting Work at the New York
Post Graduate Hospital.
ADVANCEMENT IN SURGERY
DIR. s. d. Powell Opens the Skulls Of Two
Infants and Removes Bones That
Prevent Brain Development.
Childrcn Are Doing Well.

New York, March 31.--The most In
DR.. S. b. Powell at the New York Post
Graduate hospital last Tuesday. If
they prove to be successful, as there is
every reason at present to believe will
be the case, two children may be trans
formed from idiots into beings possess
ing a fair amount of intelligence.
At the meeting of the county medical
society last Monday night DR.. Powell
read paper describing operations on
the Uranium for the purpose of aiding
in the development of the brain. This
operation, in brief consists of taking
out a piece of the skull bone from the
top of the head, thus affording the
cramped brain an opportunity to grow
and develop in cases where it's growth
has been obstructed in infancy by the
premature closing of the fontenelles,
as certain soft bones in the heads of
children are termed.
a large number ofsurgeons witnessed
the operation on Tuesday. The two
children were each years old and had
been idiots since birth. The head of the
child selected for the first operation
having been shaved, 1t was put under
the influence Of ether. A strip of mus
lin was bound around its head to pre-
vent loss of blood. DR.. Powell then
made long cut down the center of the
head, beginning at the forehead and
ending in the crown.
The Silver Shield.
The scalp was then laid back, and
Tour trephne openings made in the
skull, a broad strip of silver was then
thrust gently into one of the openings
and worked along between the brain
and the skull until 1t protruded from
the neck hole, thus forming a shield
betweent the brain and the skull OBJ
Waiting danger of accident if the saw
should slip.
A minute circular saw, operated by
electricity, was then brought into use.
A cut was made from one trephined
hole to the other, and second one then
made about one-eighth of an inch from
the first. The intervening piece of bone
was then removed, leaving the brain eX-
posed. Two more cuts We're made be-
tween the other two trephined holes,
the bone removed, the silver strips
withdrawn, the flaps of scalp drawn
back and stitched, and the requisite
bandages applied. The operation lasted
25 minutes. The second operation was
performed in a similar manner. Both
children are doing well. The ultimate
results of the operations will be
watched with much interest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
CONFESSEs; HIS SINS.
South Dakota Politician Asks to Do Re
instatcd in His Church.

Redfeld, s. D., March S1.-The big
gest sensation South Dakota has had
since the Pierce bond steal and the
Taylor defalcation was the appearance
on Monday before the full board Of
the Methodist church here at his own
request of Orville S. Basford, chairman
of the Republican state central commit
tee and political adviser Of defaulter
Taylor. Basford reviewed his past life.
confessed his backsliding, and begged
to be reinstated to fellowship, that he
might resume his fomer pastoral call
ing.
Basford has been a political leader
and schemer here for some years. He
was once a minister in good standing,
but went back into the world. He has
gone to Missouri, where he hopes to
get into the Methodist conference.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York. March 3O.-Speculation at the
Stock exchange today was active and a
confident tone characterized the trading.
The Improvement, which ranged from "a
to ga per cent, was well distributed. Jer-
sey Central advanced 21, Sugar ga, Lack
awanna l. New England q, Union Pacific
1ss. General Electric was the only stock
that showed weakness and fell a point.
Speculation closed firm with prices at or
sales, $4,000 shares.
The range of today's prices for the ac-
tive stocks of the New York stock mar
ket are given below. The quotations are
furnished the Tribune by G.. du b. DIM
mick, manager for William Linn, Allen &
Co., stock brokers Az Spruce street,
Scranton.