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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
ODD CONDOLENCES,

An article in Good Words by the. ed
itor, DR.. Macleod, contains a string of
we'll authenticated condolences. These
cannot but encourage the novelist, who
| discovers that no invention of his can
be more improbable than reality. Thus
sailor idly cuts his name on piece of
wood on Spanish shores, and the waves
carry it to his sisters feet on the coast
OF Orkney. The Duke of Argyll startles
a bird which is flying overhead, and it
drops pine cone at his feet, the vehicle
of vegetable substance almost I'M
known to science. A lady loses ring,
and it is found next year by her servant
in a potato which she is peeling. In the
same way a sportsman is said to have
lost a ring on the moor. Next season he
found it in peat which he broke up
and threw on fire ia cottage.
This looks like variant" of fairy
tale, but the potato anecdote at least is
authentic. The same may be Gaid of the
Roman bracelet thrown overheard by
its owner in crossing the Firth of Forth
and lately discovered by aim in q shop,
where it was exhibited as relic of the
Roman occupation. Fishers had dredged
it from the deep, as in the case OF the
ring OF Polyerates. which may be true
tale. The Inverness ring story has prob
ably no evidence but that of tradition
A jewelers. boy dropped into the Ness a
diamond ring which he was carrying to
a customer. He fled the country, re
turned rich man. and walking by the
river he told his tale to friend. To
illustrate it he struck his stick into the
shallow water over the gravel, and there,
on the tip of the staff, was the diamond
ring.
Quite recently, it is said, young lady
was travelling in an omnibus. In her
purse she had all her portable wealth.
threepence in coppers. Near her sat an
i'll looking man, dirty, wearing large.
shiny ring, which she supposed to be
paste. When she alighted from the
omnibus. her purse was gone, her pocket
was picked, and she. with confusion of
face, had to go on credit for her journey.
Arrived at home she searched her pocket
afresh, and therein was the seedy mans
shiny ring. This was fair circumstan-
tial evidence against her unknown fellow
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the record OF its knocks. 1t vibrates in
the bright lines of solar and stellar spec
ira. In no less wonderful way molec-
ular knocks-most minute, but most nu.
merous-transmit and maintain the
heat Of the sun and of the stars. But
it may be asked, what are molecules and
atoms? Can we affirm their existence?
Can we measure their size or detect
their actions? Can we count them, or
determine the number and energy of
their knocks if they are so minute?
An atom literally means that which
cannot be cut. According to the atomic
theory of the constitution of matter, all
bodies are supposed to be made up Of
I atoms. An atom, therefore, represents
the smallest possible quantity Of any ell
ementary body-a quantity incapable OF
subdivision, if indeed, such conception
Of indivisibility is possible.
A molecule literally means a little
mass, and is considered to be an aggre
| cation of certain number Of atoms; in
| general. of atoms of different elements.
but in some cases, it may be, of atoms
OF a like kind. Molecules are held to
form the ultimate constituent particles
of compound body. The molecules of
such body cannot be divided il it is to
retain it's nature as a compound. They
will, however, be resolved into constitu-
ent atoms, if the compound body be re-
solved, by some process or other. into
its constituent elements. So long, for
instance, as water is water, its molecules
each consist of two atoms of hydrogen
joined to one of oxygen. But if vol.
ume Of water be resolved, by heat or
electricity. into two separate volumes Of
oxygen and hydrogen, each molecule Of
the water is thereby resolved into its
constituent atoms. All the atoms OF
oxygen go together to make up the total
volume of oxygen, and all those of hyd
rogen to form the total volume Of hyd
rogen, obtained from the given volume
of water. So also in other similar cases
Nineteenth Century.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
HOW A BOOK WAS WRITTEN.

DIR. Hoffman,. Of Frankfort, Germany,
whose "Shock- headed Peter" is one Of
the most famous child's books in the
world, tells as good joke how he hap
pened to make it; for he is quaint old
German scientist, though good humored.
One Christmas he had been searching
high and low for suitable picture-book
for his two year-old boy, but in vain. At
last he purchased blank copy book,
and told his wife he was going to make
a picture book for the boy. lone he can
understand. and in which the tedious
morals be obedient,' be clean be indus
trious,' are brought home in a manner
which impress the young child" DR..
Hoffman, was the head physician OF the
Frankfort Lunatic Asylum, and knew
nothing of drawing; but he set to work
and produced the gruesome picture Of
all the naughty boys and girls which
every body knows. His child was de-
lighted; and, when some of his circle Of
literary friends saw it, they urged him to
have it published before the boy spoiled
it, and DR.. Looming, the publisher, said
he would bring it out. WELL" said DIR.
Hoffman, give me eighty gulden about
twenty-five dollars), and try your for
tune. Don't make it expensive, and don't
make it too strong. Children like to
tear books as we'll as to read them. and
nursery books ought not to be heirlooms.
They ought to last only time" An edi-
ton Of fifteen hundred was quickly sold,
and now one hundred and seventy five
editions have appeared in Germany, and
forty in England; and it has been trans
lated into Russian. Swedish, Danish,
Dutch. French, italian and Portuguese.
and it has penetrated India, Africa and
Philadelphia Press.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
THE HILL OF GRAVES.

Only those who are thoroughly con-
versant with the innumerable highways
and by ways of Greenwood Cemetery, in
Brooklyn, know of a section called "The
Hill of Graves" The section derives it's
name from the fact that nearly forty
thousand unfortunates are buried there
in rows of fifty. One would never think
of looking for spot of interest in that
locality. To find any particular grave in
this public burying ground one needs
the aid,of cemetery guide. And even
such guide has difficulty. since the
graves are known only by numbers. Up.
on looking at the records of the cemetery
it was found that the special grave de-
sired in this instance was in Public Lot
No. 1899, and that the number of the
mound was 805. When the grave was
found it was not unlike the thousands
around it. The mound was sunken and
neglected; the grass, once green upon it,
is long since dead. A small white mar
BILE stone stands at the head on which is
inscribed:
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
STOCK .

When farmer expends an excess of
good feed in keeping his animals warm,
when it can be done at half the expense
by good warm shelter. he is working at
odds against him, which he cannot over
come. Five bushels of corn will make
as much pork or beef, with warm, COM
Portable quarters, as 10 bushels will with
out them.
Many an animal is kept over winter
only to consume more than its real
worth. An old animal is always sure to
be in better condition for killing in the
fall than at any other time. All the
profit possible has been made from most
of our working animals during the sum-
mer, and they should now be disposed
of in some way. Our greatest expense
is often in maintaining animals which
do not pay their way.
Without any fear of contradiction,
true economy in feeding lies in the
shortening of the fattening operations;
in other words early maturity is the
passport to success. The successful
feeder is the liberal feeder, who feeds
for immediate results. Feed is wasted
when stock is but holding it's own.
The entire removal of bees from a
neighborhood would ensure the entire
failure of more than one farm crop.
Many orchard and garden products de-
pend almost wholly upon the visits of
pollen carrying insects for their fertii-
cation. and some of the field crops are
better for these visits. II bees are kept
at home by wet season of blooming
the crops are often short.
Every farm has honey producing flow
ers, and often hundreds of pounds of
supplies for the bees. This represents
an important cash value which may be
saved by the keeping Of bees. without
one particle of extra drainage to land
or crop. but otherwise goes annually to
waste. As much as 80 pounds of honey
have been made by single colony in 10
days.
1t is an old maxim that half the battle
is putting stock. either young or old, in
to winter quarters in thrifty condition.
They are then half wintered SO far as
the consumption of food goes toward
bringing such stock through to spring
in good and profitable shape. Nothing
is greater help toward this condition
now than free rations of PUMPKINS. tur-
nips and beets, and every farm should
have generous supply of them.
From the nature of events we are on
the eve of renewed industrial prosper
ity, and there must be rapidly increas.
ing demand for good horses and the
best class of meat stock at increased
prices. The way should be led by
American skill and enterprise. We can
raise enough stock to supply all the
markets Of the world il it is the kind the
world is after.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
DAIR Y

In dirty apartments and on dirty
utensils dangerous ferments are COM
mon, and in conditions which suits
them they rapidly increase in number.
These evil butter germs are able to
grapple with the Tactic ferment, which,
under clearly conditions. holds the mas
terry, and influence the flavor and quality
OF the butter produced.
A Yankee, by careful computation,
has found that he can produce butter
at a cost of 10 cents a pound. Every
farmer should make just such calcula-
tions. He must find the weak places in
his management. and remedy them. 1t
requires thinking to enable farmer to
change to suit changed conditions.
Cows which are full sisters, fed and
treated the same, develop, the one into
three or four pound a day COW, the
other barely getting into the IA pound
list. The force of individuality is SO
great and the laws that govern it so
unknown that our only safeguard is 'to
prove all things, and hold fast to that
which is good.'
With proper facilities, proper food.
| fair lot of COWS and careful man to at
tend them, the dollars will come in for
all extra outlay in winter dairying. The
cows will be dry in August, when feed
| is short and when it is the worst season
for handling dairy products; and the
early calves will be we'll started for win
ter and for the springs pasturage.
Whey, from closely SKINNED milk in
the cheese making process, possesses
but small amount of nutritive value.
especially in cold weather, when this
thin green whey is fed in half frozen
state, is it Of questionable value when
! fed to the swine. If warmed, however,
and enriched with little ground feed,
it will give growing pigs good start for
| winter.
While the cows are at water cut up
your pumpkins into small pieces. and
| place them in the hangers, where they
can eat them at their leisure after being
tied up. Thus they will be of much
higher feeding value, than when scat
tered about the yard to be trampled
upon befouled and eaten of in. irregular
| quantities.
Scrubbing and withdrawing the dirty
walls of the stable will rob it of much of
that tang and odor so readily absorbed
by the milk. Any thing which contrib
utes to the sweetness OF the atmosphere
of the stable adds to the health and
milk productiveness of the confined an
| imals.
In the care of the COWS we must re-
gard weather conditions, and not strict.
ly the time of the year. The cold, raw
days. bordering between fall and winter
weather, may do the cows more injury,
if long exposed, than would settled
winter temperature. Give the cows the
benefit of doubt, always.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
"I-called you names" gssped

"I-called you names" gssped
Classy.
eyes, 1 believe you did," said DR..
Hartford, smiling; and now that Cas-
sandra looked him directly in the
face, he had certainly very sweet
smile.
"And," added Cassandra, feeling
herself grow cold and hot by turns,
chit you with the lantern when
you were climbing down"
"And broke it-yes."
"And all the time you were trying
to do me favorl"
"In a mistaken way, as | now
think-yes, was" said the doctor.
81 should have asked your permission
to make myself of use."
"And, now," cried Classy, clasping
her hands, I've shut you up all night
in moldy ice house-and I've sent
for the constable-and I've behaved
worse than any gypsy girl, even down
to using opprobrious language and
committing assault and battery. Oh,
Doctor Harfordl 1 never shall dare
to look you in the face again"
And she fed to the house, burst
ing into a flood of tears as she went,
and ran straight down cellar to hide
herself.
"I'll go as female missionary to
JAPAN" sobbed Cessandra. "I'll en-
ter sisterhood; I'll never show my
face again to anything SOUL"
But she did. She neither set sail
for Yokohama nor entered cloister;
and the very next day she went out
driving with DR.. Hartford.
tBut why heve you always disliked
me SO? Why have you refused to be
introduced to me? Why have you al.
ways looked the other way when you
saw me coming, and run into the
house when l came near the garden
fence" asked he.
81 don't know" said Cassandra, in
a low voice.
'Is there anything SO disagreeable
about me?"
mo, no." admitted Classy. "But !
thought you looked naughty and
supercilious."
''Come," said the doctor, laughing
''that's funnyl 1 thought you de-
spised mel Was it because I was a
doctor?"
"Oh, mol"
'Have you anything against doc
tors, as rule?"
mo"
"Have you anything against mea''
he persisted.
mot in the least"
"Then, shall we be friends?" in a
'coaxing voice.
And Classy agreed cordially.
How slight is the dividing line be-
tween friendship and love, Miss Mar
ietta Carstairs alone can tell, for she
alone was the confidante of these
deadly enemies turned into excellent
friends. Suffice it to say, that when
next years apple gathering came
around, DIR. and Mrs. Hartford both
went out to superintend the opera
'tion.-Fdshion Bdzddr.
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passenger. but somebody had the curl.
osity to take the ring to a jeweler.
1t proved to be an excellent large die-
mond, but advertisement did not dis
cover the owner. He had stolen three
pence and purse, and had lost small
fortune, probably dishonesty acquired,
in the process. We would Judge no man
hastily, and there may be some other
explanation of the presence of the ring
where no ring should be and the absence
Of the coppers.
Such things as these keep occurring.
To the disinterested gaze of the science
of chances it does not seem odd that they
befall; the miracle would be if they did
Lot befall. For innumerabIe events are
eternally happening, and according to
Cocker, extraordinary events must nee
essarily be among them. 1t would be
extraordinary indeed if some events were
not neutrality-suspicious. Neacs.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
FARM GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agriculturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERSALISTv
Agriculture.

1t will pay to gather up the dead
leaves from the woods, to add to the
manure pile. Large amounts can be
gathered up quickly and easily from the
hollows and the fence lines, especially
when damp from the fall rains. Use
first for bedding, and thus get them in
the compost heap. Such manure will
be fine and rich, and adapted to the gar
den in the spring
We waste enough of the soil products
of this country to make another Nation
rich. but we shall probably not mend
our ways until our cheap lands are all
taken up. and the multitudes are COM
PEELED to look for new occupations. In
some parts Of Europe even the roots and
stumps of trees undergo treatment for
the valuable products in them-oil, tur-
pentine, creosote, charcoal, etc.
So long as farmers must be at the ex
pense of maintaining fences of one kind
or another, the question as to how posts
can be made durable will be one of in
terest to them. There is no better nor
cheaper preventive Of rot than salt.
Bore two or three holes in the butt be-
meath the ground, fill with salt, and Sc
cure with an oak plug.
So far as can be deduced from expert
ments, the conclusion is that neither
wheat nor corn will return sufficient in
crease of crop to cover cost of any arti-
fetal manures. as prices now 60. If one
must do more than pillow under the green
heritage or haul the refuse from the
stables, let him test small areas at a
time.
Vegetable matter of any sort which
has produced seeds must be buried deep
to prevent termination, although the
seed may be very green. Remember
that wheat and oats, though cut in the
dough state, make good grain, and green
peas plowed under will often sprout and
cover the ground with vegetation.
If we wish to kill weeds we must not
be content to NOW them down just be-
fore the seeds have ripened, for if these
seeds have formed at all they will ripen
after the moving. We must not risk
this ripening nor their being blown
about, but sake them together and cook
them in the flames.
There is no item which we could less
we'll afford to have withdrawn from our
agricultural system than clover, and the
farmer who does not depend upon it to
some considerable extent in his feeding
and in whose rotation of crops it has nc
place, is making very serious mistake.
Cotton and corn must both consent that
clover be crowned "king."
Good, we'll cured clover hay contains
more nearly perfect food ration in
proper bulk than anything else grown
1t contains both bulk and nutriment in
right proportion to make it an available
item for the principal feeding for horses
cattle or sheep. With clover, less grain
is required to fatten an animal than
with any other food.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-28
POULTR

Sunfower seed is good for the hens,
but only small quantity should be
given at time. One of the best ways
of feeding it is to throw we'll ripened
head into the poultry yard occasionally.
The fowls will quickly pick out every
seed.
Improvement in the poultry yard fol-
lows when the owner begins to be inter-
ested. He gathers ard classifies knowl-
edge about treatment of his flock. He
unconsciously puts into practice what
he has learned, and gathers multitude
Of hints from as many sources. Better
than all he, begins to learn from his
own experience.
Even if a stock is obtained of thor
oughbred egg producers, there will be
great difference in birds of the same
flock. Some of the non sitting breeds
will be inclined to sit, and should be
slaughtered; others of most correct
shape will be deficient in laying quail
ties, and must be culled out.
Some hens seem to be always above
the standard of the flock. They are
bright. active, happy healthy, and moult
early and quickly. They begin to lay
before the others, and keep it up all
winter and spring These should be
separated from the others and bred from
exclusively.
The largest Ingrt dients in eggs are
lime. nitrogen and phosphoric acid. We
have found that green bones, which
have been hitherto thrown away, are
the best and cheapest egg making ma
terial extant; and now know that this
is because bones are rich in albumen,.
phosphate of lime and phosphoric acid.
In short, actual waste has been con-
verted into eggs commanding a high
price.
1t is true that all which is consumed
by the fowls comes from the f, rm,
whether the birds procure it themselves
or receive it from the hand of the owner,
but turkeys are insect destroying birds,
and the larger share of their food is
composed of insects and seeds, while
geese are partial to young ard tender
weeds. pursaline being one of their deli
cacies. Thus they use that which is of
no worth, and serve as useful scaven-
gers; ard all this goes to market in the
end as very desirable meat.
Farmers who are most successful with
poultry do not cUnfine themselves to one
kind, but often try their hand with
hens, turkeys, ducks, geese and even
guineas. They can thus produce most
at least cost. No enterprising poultry.
man will attempt to make it pay with
other than the pure breede. 1t costs no
more to keep the best. Quality brings
the best prices Remember that feed
will not make quality. There is nothing
to prevent every farmer making a profit
on poultry, if he takes advantage of va
riety and methods.
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The Care of FlatirOns.

The negligent housekeeper is inclined
to let the flatirons take care of them
selves. She leaves them at the back If
the stove where they are never cooled,
and she secretly wonders why they re
fuse to retain the heat when she heats
them again for use.
Now, iron and steel possess a peculiar
quality which is called temper. The tenn
per of steel instrument which has been
repeatedly heated becomes lost, so that
the instrument will not retain a kee n
edge, no matter how carefully it is
ground. New irons, which are heated
to a high temperature, and are cooled
as soon as the user is through with them
will last for years, and the old irons be-
comes even more valuable, providing
that good care otherwise is taken of
them, such as keeping them when not in
use in cool, dry place. where they are
not subject to moisture or rust. If, how
ever, they are kept continually on the
fire, they lose their temper. A certain
quality departs from them. so that while
they may be brought to the highest de-
gree Of heat, they will not remain hot
for any length of time. Such an iron is
very annoying to an expert worker.
Irons that have lost their temper
would really better be disposed of, as
new ones cost but little. There should
always be dry shelf or closet in which
to keep the irons and other articles of
the laundry which require such tenn
perature. Boston Budget.
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THE SINGING IN GODS ACRE.
BY EUGENE FIELD,

Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein Gods
Acre lies,
Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lul-
labies,
Their radiant wings are folded, and their eyes
are Bonded low,
And they sing among the beds whereon the
flowers delight to grow
"Sleep oh, sleepl
The Shepherd luardeth His sheep.
Fast speedeth the night away,
Soon cometh the glorious day;
Sleep, weary ones. while ye may
Sleep, oh, sleep!"
The flowers within Gods acre see that fair and
wondrous sight.
And hear the angels singing to the leepers
through the night,
And. 10! throughout the hours of day those gen.
tie flowers prolong
The music of the angels in that tender slumber-
song
"Sleep, oh, sleepl
The Shepherd veth His sheep,
He that guardeth His flock the best
Hath folded them TO his loving breast;
SO sleep ye now, and take your resi-
Sleep, oh. sleep!"
From angel and from flower the years have
learned that soothing song,
And with its heavenly music speed the days and
nights along
So through all time. whose flight the Shepherds
vgils glorify,
Gods Acre slumbereth in the grace of that
sweet lllaby,-
'Sleep, oh, sleep!'
Tho STANDARD lcveth His sheen
Fast speedeth the night away.
Soon cometh the glorious day;
Sleep, weary ones, while ye may!'
Sleep, oh, sleep!"