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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-08
LIFE IN CHICAGO.

Country people have strange ideas of
city life," said the head bookkeeper,
learning back in his chair and address
ing the ledger clerk.
1--WE just received letter from a
friend" he said, "who lives in little
town in Indiana. He has been to Chi
cago few times, but never to stay more
than day or two.
az see by the papers, he says, that
you have had strike in Chicago and
that there is talk of calling out the
troops. What a strike ridden city Chi
cago is, anyway! l should think you'd
all begin to dread what the next day
might bring forth"
"Now, l can't tell what strikes he re-
fers to. l haven't seen the least evidence
OF one nor heard of it. The fact is, my
friend has the idea that / must be per-
fectly familiar with every murder, every
suicide and every bank robbery that
happens in the city, and that l attend
all the horrible street car accidents. On
the same principle that nothing happens
in the town where he lives even down to
the looting of chicken roost, that every
one doesn't know all about.
"Now, as matter of fact, he gets the
Chicago papers at his home every morn
ing earlier than l do, and he actually
knows what is going on in Chicago be-
fore do. Besides, he reads the papers
much more thoroughly than city man
ordinarily does. especially the details of
casualties occurring in Chicago.
"a countryman hasn't the slightest
idea how narrow the average city mans
life is. My friend often says; i envy you
your opportunities for seeing new things.
You are in the midst of the drama of
life where things are always happening.
You can 60 to theaters. lectures, parks,
museums and hundred other places of
amusement that country man cannot
enjoy
"Of course, have the opportunities
of doing all those things, but how often
do improve hem? You know live
down in 50th street. Each morning as
soon as l have breakfast / walk block
to the Cottage Grove avenue cars and
ride downtown. Like every one else l
read my paper nearly all the way and
don't see anything else. When / get to
Madison street jump off and walk four
blocks to the office. There isn't much
excitement in that, is there? sit here
at my desk until noon and then go down
and spend fifteen minutes in the restaur-
ant and come back up the elevator with
out once having been out of doors. At
5 o'clock go back along Madison street
to the cable cars. read the paper all the
way home and then play with the baby
in the evening.
"And that is the days program most
of the year. OF course l could go to
theaters and lectures. and my wife and I
are always talking about it, but in real
ity we go very rarely. We may be in
the midst of the drama of life,' but we
don't see much of it, Chicago Daily
Means
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-08
SHOPPING.

To the average woman shopping" is a
delicious cross. If she lives in the coun-
try-the real country and the village
store sells hams and calicoes with equal
impartiality, she feels that the coming
of spring or autumn makes necessary a
visit to the neighboring town to replen-
ish the household wardrobe. How much
that visit means! Fow weeks ahead the
costume of every stranger at church is
closely scanned; and it is to be feared
that sometimes attention is slightly di-
verified from the good minister's sixth or
seventh point by consideration If it is
best to buy challie, bingham, or a
wool black serge. and whether balloon
sleeves are going to last. And when the
eventful day comes! Those who live in
a great city cannot at all understand
what it means. The writer had the good
fortune the other evening to occupy a
seat in the railway train in front of two
New Hampshire women who were just
returning from days spring shopping
in Boston. 1t was no sin to overhear.
Indeed he could not help it. The even
ing paper lost all its attractions. He
learned in an hour more about the spring
fashions than he has ever known before,
and about the best places in Boston to get
bargains. They had had lunch at Parker's
tomato soup and chocolate cellars.
They said they were all "tuckered out, /"
but it was plain that they had had a
splendid time. and were carrying home
enough to talk about for month.-The
Waterman.
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CATTLE.

Without doubt great deal OF beef
goes to the market which has cost more
to produce than it will sell for. The
Virginia station made an attempt to test
the matter, and, feeding Is steers for
period of five weeks, found the cost
pound of increase in live weight varied
from to IS cents. What can be ex-
pected from the unsystematic feeding
by the unskilled farmer? Guess work
must be given up for the scales.
The first cattle were exported from
this country to Glasgow % years ago
two in one week. 1t soon reached so
head at cost of S4S66 head. and be-
cause of this excessive cost shipments
were stopped in 1874. The next year
they we're again begun, and have con-
tinued to increase, the freight being now
1913 head Prejudice against Ameri
can meat has given way to enthusiasm
in it's favor.
For some unknown reason our butch
ers discriminate against heifers, but the
English butchers pay one cent more
pound for them. saying that they have
less bone and will stand more cutting.
better roasts being got out of them than
from steers.
The South American States have large
herds and focks eager to reach the
European markets, but they are not yet
graded up in quality. They will some
day awaken to their chances and make
for us formidable competitors. The over
the sea markets appreciate quality, and
if we would hold them we must keep our
stock up to their standard.
Refuse garden vegetables Of the many
varieties make excellent food for cows
and Immediately increase the flow of
milk. If fed in moderation and imme-
diately after milking the danger that
they will give faint to the dairy pro-
ducts can be avoided. Fed with dry
food, they are valuable addition.
Prof. Berthelot says that the epicure
of the future viii dine on artificial meat,
butter. vegetables, bread and other
edibles, artifcially made into the form
of tablets. This theory seems plausible
in the face of the fact that we convert
the cattle of all our Thousand hills"
into beef tea. oleomargarine and canned
meat, and find smaller bulks into which
we place all our food stuffs.
When feeding. hornless cattle eat to-
gether like calves and sheep, take less
barn room, can not hook horses nor
colts, and can not hurt each other in
shipment. which has benefited our ex-
port cattle trade, as we see that most of
our fine high grades are hornless.
Dairy cows are fast dropping into the
fashion of wearing no horns; they are
more gentle, and the cruel stanchion can
be abolished. More humane methods
are in vogue than the use of the old
cruel saw, and chemical dehorners are
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-08
POULTR

For pleasure or profit no duck fills the
bill better than the PekiD. They can
be raised without pond of water, and
their meat is the sweeter therefore; but
the duck is thereby deprived of that
which makes life most worth the living.
Ducks in pond make picture of hap.
piness.
There is growing demand for ducks,
either alive or dressed, and especially
for dressed spring ducks; but for the
average farmer it is better to hatch them
in May and keep them for October mar
ket. at which time they bring nearly
equally good prices.
Ducks begin laying when about eight
months old. and keep it up for four or
five months. They make business Of
it. One drake with four ducks makes a
sufficient family to begin with If 30
fortunate as to have meadow with a
clear stream of water running through
it, the cost of raising them is practically
nothing.
Pekin ducks are more easily raised
than chickens, are not SO liable TO dis
ease, grow faster, can be marketed
earlier, and bring more pound. We
must not leave the feathers out of the
account, which bring as much as geese
feathers, an item not to be overlooked
when several hundreds are to be dressed
for market.
Before hot weather is upon us is the
time to extermipate the lice. Let BIZ
sulphide of carbon hang from the roosts
at night in the closed coop; the fowls
will not mind the smell, and the vapor
is death to insect life. Use it every
third or fourth night until effectual.
During hot weather keep in check with
carboate of lime and sulphur in dust
box, and coal oil on the roosts.
Raising squads for the market is a
paying business; they cost next to moth
ing, and bring large returns. See that
they have warm quarters, we'll protected
from the storms and from all marau-
ders. Ii you start with a few young
pigeons, they will need little care and
feeding of cracked grains for few days.
Pigeons multiply prodigiously, and in
the larger markets, especially in New
York, they will bring % cents each if
young and plump. They raise and care
for themselves. After the slaughter,
wrap them singly in soft paper and pack
in straw. The demand is never sup
piled.
If there are lice on the brood of new
ly Matched chicks little coal oil applied
to the feathers and wings of the mother
usually gets rid of them promptly. 1t
may be we'll to put drop of cream upon
each downy head. Then feed them corn
bread crumbs and sweet milk to drink,
and let them grow.
Poultry in large fiocks never do we'll,
for large proportion of them will al
ways be sick from self poisoning from
their excrements. Lice are also much
worse when numbers are kept together.
1t seems difficult to get farmers to real
ize the Importance of these facts, how
ever often repeated.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-08
AGRICULTURE.

In selecting farm the subsoil should
receive due consideration. 1t ought to
be nearly or quite as rich in mineral
matter as that near the surface. If pos
sible, it should have drains of water
running through it. If an impervious
clay, it will need more thorough drain
ing than if mixed with gravel. II sand,
it will hold nothing, will be easy to ex-
haust and hard to renovate.
Nitrate of soda can be applied to the
best advantage Immediately upon the
growing crops, as it is available almost
at once for plant food. This salt is much
cheaper than it was in former years, and
consequently it's use is increasing.
Did you forget that one of your first
duties this spring was to "clean up" the
whole farm, but more especially the
dooryard? This is an easy task if the
yard is sward of green, and if not. it
is not yet too late to seed it down. and
for the future save yourself labor and
bring added comfort. We do not insist
upon flower beds, but we do upon a
smooth grass plot.
The principal injury weeds do to the
growing crop is to rob it of the available
nitrates contained in the soil. Weeds
feed with especial avidity upon these,
and when they have been taken up thus,
they are, of course, no longer available
for the crop. The loss which results
from growing weeds is not theoretical
it is real.
OF the 13 countries where potatoes
are grown extensively, there is none with
80 low an average an acre as the United
States. Great Britain, Belgium, Hol
land and Norway stand at the head in
productiveness. The two and half
million acres under cultivation in the
United1States yield about IT'S million
bushels; Great Britain, with one and
one third million acres, produces more.
The sole reason why the farmers of
the United Kingdom raise the largest
crop of potatoes is because they take
care of the soil on which the potatoes
grow; the American farmer raises the
smallest crop of all the nations because
he attempts it upon soil which fails to
furnish: Unnecessary plant food. 1t is alto
gether in the farming.
At..,the season in which the hay crop
begins to run short the farmer puts the
most value upon that article. Now he
begins to economic. The economy
would better begin in the manner of
stacking or.mowing his crop for the win
ter. The modern hay barn is contriv-
ance which is much commended just
now, but.much hay will be wasted this
fall, nevertheless.
The Wonderful" pea can be grown as
far North as the Ohio valley, and should
be sown on rough, plowed ground and
narrowed in. 1t should not be sown be-
fore June. For COW hay nothing can be
better, .and to mix with corn for ensilage
it is invaluable, as it will make COM
plete ration.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-08
THE MEN WHO MADE OHIO.

Sunday was the anniversary of an
event pregnant with Importance not
only for the great State of Ohio, but for
all the human race. On April 7, 1888.
1O7 years ago, at Marietta, was made the
first settlement of the Northwest Terri
tory, from which has been created since
then the States of Ohio, Indiana, ILL
nois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Ohio was settled by the flower of the
officers of the Continental army. These
men who had been fighting seven years
for liberty, turned westward with the
dawn of peace to carry civilization and
religion and learning into the vast will
derness of the unknown west. Washing
ton gave them his blessing and the Con-
tinental Congress took its own President
and made him Governor of the first ter
ritory established-the Northwest Ter
ritory.
The western pilgrims came with the
Bible in one hand and the school book
in the other. and among their first acts
was the opening of school and a
church. The men who came to Marietta,
and those who came later to Chilicothe
and to Cleveland we're not ordinary men.
They were "the salt of the EARTH" The
best blood of New England and Virginia
met and mingled in Ohio soil. The union
of these two streams, or, one may almost
say, of these two peoples, made Ohio
great State and the breeding place of
great men.
Intimately and forever associated with
the settlement of Marietta on the 7th
of April is the ordinance of 1887. which
declared for religion, morality and hui
man freedom. 1t was the organic law of
the new Territory, and it has blessed the
whole western region.
George Washington said Of the OHIO
colony: mo colony of America was ever
settled under such favorable auspices as
that which has just commenced on the
Muskingum." In 1926 the Marquis de
La Fayette said, on hearing number of
their names: II know them all! know
them all! / saw them all at Brandwine,
Yorktown and Rhode Island They were
the bravest of the brave"
Senator Sherman says:
I believe that the ordinance of 1887
and the settlement of the Northwest
Territory chiefly by Revolutionary SOL
diers from New England, was one of the
most important civil events of the last
century, second only to the Declaration
of Independence and the adoption of the
Constitution. All that has happened
since that time, though not directly
traceable to these events, has been col
ored by the principles and ideas of the
first settlement at Marietta, and those
which soon followed along the valley Of
the Ohio.
How have the mighty builded! Today
the States carved from the Northwest
Territory contain 14.700,000 souls. In
1870, two years after the settlement at
Marietta, the total population of the
United States was 1925. 900 or about the
same as the population of Ohio at the
present time. The taxable property in
the old Northwest Territory is valued at
more than five billion dollars, and the
progress in the direction Of learning,
education and civilization has been al
most as rapid as the marvellous material
development.-Ak Beacon.
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the pupils. 1t has on some boys, l
am positive. There was boy, a real
good, loving, gentle, earnest, ambi-
tious boy. He used to keep tally of
the recesses he lost by being kept
in" Then when they amounted to
a half day, this boy, good and gentle
and in the main obedient, would
whoop off to the lake, "play hockey"
and fish all day, and so make it up"
he used to say. And I'd do it again
under the same circumstances
journal of Education
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A SONNET,
Oft have 1 wondered in my inmost heart
How men can tolerate such doctrine strange;
They cannot find within the boundless range
of thought and reason proof. in whole or part
That God does punish In eternal hell
Mems precious souls with everlasting fire.
On, impious creed! that God should SO re-
quire
Eternity his vengeance thus to quell!
What father could at death OF yilest SOIL
The veriesU wretch that man could ever be-
Consign to torments through eternity
For his misdeeds. though foulest ever done?
If man could not iniict in this frail state,
Then how could perfect God whose love is IN
j. BRADLEY.
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"KEPT IN AT RECESS"
ROBERT j. BURDETTE.

ILL the congregation
kindly step outside and
go away a mile or two,
while I growl? Many
thanks; it is not often,
nor even frequently, that
1 permit myself to in
dulge in a luxury SO ex-
pensive as a large, under
done porterhouse grum-
BILE, and when l do, l
like to have it all to my
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Instructive Reading for Agricultursts.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR 1.-THE UNIvERSALIsT"

used upon the calves during the first
weeks of their calfhood.
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convenient and desirable to the con-
tracing parties. Their claims Joined.
and esch needed the help that one
would bring to the other. Dick was
tired of cooking his own meals and do
ing his housework, and Mrs. Rudd felt
work on the claim
Having gone thus far in the matter,
Dick began to bring some other ques-
tions up for consideration. There was
just one little point that he could not
get over, but he had hopes that it
mig hit be adjusted with satisfaction to
both; that is. if she would consent to
listen to reason. This block in the
way of Dicks happiness was nothing
less than the fact that Mrs. Rudd was
the possessor of and kept four head of
horses on her claim. This was, Dick
reasoned with himself, piece Of folly
that nothing could justify.
lie would speak to her regarding this
matter, and have her dispose of the
useless stock. He was fully deter
mined on that point. The opportunit~
to breach the subject soon came. The
two were sitting before Mrs. Rudd's
cheerful fire.
I'm afraid this is going to be
hard winter" she said, land, as YOU
Snow, stock suffers SO in this west
ern country, where there are no good
barns."
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BY the simple Wine Of Cardui Treatment
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1t corrects the menstrual Irregularities,
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Elree's Wine of Cardm has saved my life.
l looked forward to each month and
thought could not endure such misery an,
other time. l can't express my gratitude
for the wonderful relief"
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CAUSED BY VACCINATION.
From the Journal, Detroit, Mich.

Every one in the vicinity of Meldrum
avenue and Champlain street, Detroit,
knows Mrs. Mcdonald, and many neigh
Dor has reason to feel grateful to her for the
kind and friendly interest she has mani
tested in cases Of illness.
She is kind-hearted friend, natural
nurse, and an intelligent and refined lady.
To a reporter she recently talked at some
length about DR.. Williams Pink Pills, CIV
ing some very interesting instances in her
own immediate knowledge of marvellous
cures, and the universal beneficence of the
remedy to those who had used it.
II have reason to know" said Mrs. Nc
Donald, "something of the worth Of this
medicine, for it has been demonstratedin my
own immediate family. My daughter Kit
tie is attending high school, and has never
been very strong since she began. sup
pose she studied hard, and she has quite
distance to go every day. When the small
pOX broke out all Of the school children had
, to be vaccinated. | took her over to DR..
Jameson and he vaccinated her. l never
saw such an arm in my life and the doctor
said he never did. She was broken out on
her shoulders and back and was just as sick
| as she could be- To add to it all neuralgia
set in, and the poor child was In misery.
| She Is naturally of nervous temperament
| and she suffered most awfully. Even after
she recovered the neuralgia did not leave
her Stormy days or days that were damp
! or preceded storm, she could not go out at
all. She was pale and thin, and had no ap-
petite.
Il have forgotten Just who told me about
| a. T nd
they cured her right up. She has nice
color in her face, eats and sleeps well, goes
to school every day, and is well and strong
in every particular have never heard Of
ANYTHING to build up the blood to compare
with Pink Pills. l shall always keep them
In the house and recommend them to my
neighbors.'
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are considered an unfailing specific in such
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pale and sallow complexions, that tired feel
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overwork, or excuses Of whatever nature
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cot course we're goin' ter sell them

"Of course ye're goin' ter sell them
hosses?' said Dick.
why, whatever made you think
that?' she asked
II can't see what'd meek me think
ANYTHING else" answered Dick, with
some animation.
We'll, since l have no intention Of
selling them" she replied, calmly, we
NAV as we'll drop the subject"
This positive declaration served to
amaze Dick Holton, as we'll as to
render him speechless for the time
being. During his forty-tve years OF
bachelorhood he had learned to look
upon woman as weak, yielding
creature, who was ever ready to sub
nit to the will of man. Now he was
learning his error He had set his
head on having those horses disposed
of before his marriage, and he had
even limited as much to Jud Davis.
Should he now back down and &C.
! knowledge that he was not able to
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NEWSPAPER WAITS.

A SWALLOW may not make summer,
but frog makes spring. Stiff
ings.
FOND PARENT-'I wish, Bobby, that
could be little boy again" Bobby
II wish you could-littler than me-
Tit-Bits
THE REToRT CoURrEoUs.-Uncle-
"You only write me once every month,
when YOU want money" Nephew "a
studentJ-"I beg your pardon, uncle;
last month had to write twice. "-Lus-
tige Batter.
II AM on my way home, DOCTOR" said
parsimonious city alderman, who was
fond of getting advice gratis, meeting
a well-known physician, land I'm thor
oughly tired and worn out. What
ought l to take?" "Take a cab" re-
piled the intelligent medico.-TitB Bits.
Mrs. R. was very sorry that the
clergyman of her parish had been COM
PEELED to leave You see" she said,
1.-The poor man fell off his bicycle, and
his doctor has told him that for some
time he must try an incumbent posi-
ton. SO he has gone away for another
cure "-Punch
IN SwITZERLAND.-The landlord pre-
sents his bill to the traveller The lat
ter looks at the sum total and prepares
to pay without demur. Mine host,
stupefied at this unwonted prompti-
tude on the part Of a guest, stammers
ont: Beg your pardon, sir, will you
let me have another look at the bill? /
must have omitted something.