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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-15
A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW.

Of the coast OF one of the Orkney
Islands. and right opposite the harbor,
stood lonely rock, against which, on
stormy nights, the boats of returning
fishermen often struck and were lost.
Fifty years ago, there lived on this
island young girl in cottage with her
father; and they loved each other very
tenderly. One stormy night. the father
was away on the sea in fishermans
boat, and. though his daughter watched
for him in much fear and trouble, he did
not come home. Sad to tell, in the
morning his dead body was found washed
upon the beach. His boat, as ne sought
the harbor. had struck against the
Lonely Rock" and gone down.
In her deep sorrow, this fisherman's
orphan did not think of herself alone.
She was scarcely more than child. hum.
BILE, poor and weak; but she said in her
heart, that while she lived, no more
boats should be lost on the Lonely
Rock" if light shining through her
window would guide them safely into
the harbor. And so, after watching by
the body of her father, according to the
custom of her people. until it was buried,
she laid down and slept through the
day; but when night fell, arose, and
lighted the candle. placed it in the win
dow of her cottage, so that it might be
seen by any fisherman coming in from
sea and guide him safely into the har-
Dor. She sat by the candle all night,
and trimmed it, and spun but when the
day dawned, she went to bed and slept
AS many hanks as she had spun before
for her daily bread she spun still and
one over. to buy her nightly candle; and
from that time to this, for fifty years,
through youth, maturity and old age,
she has turned night into day. and in
the snow storms of winter, through driv-
ing mists, deceptive moonlight and SOL
emn darkness. that northern harbor has
never once been without the light of her
candle.
How many lives she saved by this
candle, and how many meals she won
by it for the starving families of the
boatmen. it is impossible to say. How
many dark nights the fishermen depend
ing upon it, have gone forth, cannot now
be told. There it stood. regular as a
light house, steadily as constant care
could make 1t. Always brighter when
daylight waned, the fishermen had only
to keep it constantly in view and were
safe; there was but one thing to inter-
cept it, and that was the rock. How
ever far they might have gone out to
sea, they had only to bear down for that
lighted window, and they were sure of
safe entrance to the harbor.
But what do the boatmen and boat
mems wives think of this? Do they pay
the poor woman? No, they are very poor;
but poor or rich. they know better than
that. Do they thank her? No. Perhaps
they think that thanks of theirs would
be inadequate to express their gratitude;
or perhaps long years have made the
lighted easement so familiar that they
look upon it as matter of course, and
forget for the time the patient watcher
within.-Jean Ingeloto.
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THE MARCH WINDS MISSION.

Snug in its little wintry bed,
There sleeps a violet blue;
A warm brown cover DER its head.
And snow white blanket, too.
One day, trumpet blast was heard
That babe all earth rejoice;
The violet in It's warm bed stirred,
And hearkened to the voice.
The shrill March wind was telling Ger
The land to every one,
That Jack Frost reigned, as king no more
And spring time had begun.
1t told the violet IN its bed
That its long rest was Ger;
1t stirred the covering DER Its head,
And babe it ''sleep no more"
For balmy days we're Fastening on.
And gentle April showers;
Then, with rush and roar, twas gone,
To waken other flowers.
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BIBLE THREATENINGS
EXPLAINED

Takes up every so-called orthodox" text and
proves that all the passages that are ever en-
ployed as missiles against Universal Salvation
are perfectly In accordance with the promises
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and bible Threa enings' In the other any Uni
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think the law c0ntradicts the promises. 1t shows
cOnclusivey that there is not a text in the Bible
that sustains the doctrine of Endless Torment
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for themselves. For Pretty Flower
Woman was small Sioux maiden.
Her face was of reddish brown
color, and she had beautiful black
eyes and black hair, but her hair was
not curled and carefully brushed
every day like yours and sisters; it
was braided in two very tight little
braids which were tied in the back
with bits of red calico. She wore a
dark calico gown made in the same
style as her mothers and cape or
Jacket trimmed with elk tusks and
gay beads, and around her waist was
a heavy black leather belt studded
with brass headed tacks. On her
slender feet she wore pairo heavily
beaded moccasins, and altogether l
am sure you would have said, if you
had not looken closely into her face,
that she was a very pretty, sweet
tempered little maiden, and worthy
of her pretty name; but strange to
say, although she did not have her
face washed and her hair curled, and
did not have to practice on the piano
or go to school, Pretty Flower Wo-
man was not happy. There were two
things she was hiding away in her
heart, and breeding over them until
a cross, ugly, discontinued look was
coming into her sparkling black
eyes.
First, her father, whose name was
Standing Bear, had gotten some new
ideas of how he wanted to live and
wanted his family to live. Standing
Bear was an enterprising young man.
He cut wood along the river bottoms,
and in the winter time when the ice
was very thick on the river, he would
haul it across to the fort on the other
side and sell it either to the military
people or the post trader; and in that
way he had not only gotten a little
money, but had seen that the white
people, with their comfortable houses
to live in, and cook stoves on which
to cook their food, had much easier
and better time than the Indians in
their skin or cloth tepees, with a fire
in the middle for warmth and another
fire outside on which to cook. So he
had taken his ak and gone where
there was some long, big timber on
the river bottom, and he had cut
down enough of the big logs to build
himself a house. You would not
think it much of a house, just built
of rough, unhewn cottonwood logs,
the chinks between filled in with
mud, and the roof made of a thick
layer of earth spread over the small
er poles laid close together across the
ridgepole, and it was a rough sort of
house, but Standing Bear had bought
a window sash which he fitted in
tightly, SO it could never be opened
to let any air in, and then he had
bought door, and then an old cook
ing stove which he set up in the exact
middle of the one room of the
"house," and Standing Bear was the
proudest man in the village, for he
had the biggest and the most COM
pletel9 air-tight dwelling in the vii
lagel But it nearly broke the heart
of Pretty Flower Woman. She had
loved the old open-air life. She had
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bos,-BEHEADINGS.

5W.-BEHEADINGS.
1. Behead a girls name, and leave species
of insect; again and leave concerted sugar.
2. Behead a kind of grain, and leave to grow
warm; again. and leave to corrode.
8. Behead separately, and leave solitary;
again, and leave any.
4. Behead to absorb, and leave to roll in the
mire; again, and leave to abate.
5. Behead an arrow and leave hilt; again,
and leave astern.
6. Behead a disease of horses, and leave
edges of a roof; again and leave praye S.
CELIA GAM.
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ECHOES FROM PUZZLE-LAND.

IAN communications relating to this depart
ment should be addressed to Echoes from
Puzzleland," and mailed to w. III. EASTMAN,
East Sumner, Mel
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Answers next month.
ANSWERS.

501.-Beheld.
SOL. Madeline. O. Mildred 8. Martha.
4. Dlnah %. Eleanor. 6. Bridget. Z, Dorinda.
50s.-Poor workmen always find fault with
their tools.
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THE STORY OF PRETTY FLOWER
WOMAN.
BY MARY G. cRocKER

He Pretty Little Flower
Woman lived in a vii
lage on the west bank of
the Missouri River in
South Dakota. The vii
lage was composed of the
curious circular tents or
tepees of the Sioux In
dams, and a few log huts
which the people who
wanted to live like the
white people had built
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Universalist Publ'g House
Western Branch, Chicago.
In Preparation.
PRAISE AND THANKS.
arranged by
GRACE #. WHITE.

PREPARED with special reference to the
needs of our Young Peoples Chris
tiop Union, though available for gen.
eral conference and Sunday Schools
as well. 1t will include, in addition
to Hymns and Tunes forms for open
ing, closing and conservation services
1t will contain a number of original
hymns, composed by our young peo-
pleas well as those hymns recognized
as necessary to any successful devo-
tional meeting.
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DETERMINATIONS

OS.-DECAPITATIONS.
1. Behead to consume. and leave a preposi-
ton.
2. Behead negative, and leave an interjec-
ton.
g. Behead to be in debt, and leave personal
prOnoun
4. Behead enmity. and leave consumed.
s. Behead a small child, and leave an animal.
6. Behead course. and leave a card.
Z. Behead fanciful and leave to trade.
8. Behead a pledge and leave mature years.
9. Behead early spring and leave covered
way.
10. Behead a household article and leave a
fastening.
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5o7.-ENIGMA.

am composed of letters.
My243 is part of some animals.
My 6 Z is an attribute of some animals.
My whole is the name of song. I.E.H.
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p PRAYERS
FOR THE HOME.
Selected by Rev. L. B. Fisher.

This book contains Prayers and Selec.
tions for Morning and Evening Devo-
tions during the month, and there are
also Prayers for special days, such as
Children's Day, etc.
1.-THE pastors who have written the
Prayers for this little book have done 80
with a great desire that they may be
useful in increasing the number of
homes where stated daily worship is
maintained"
RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY THE
Universalist Publishing House,
WESTERN BRANCH. CHICAGO.
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5O5.-One is bird in the hand" the other is
"heard In the band"
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5os.-woRD SQUARE

5os-wORD SQUARE.
1. One of the months.
2. A mountain chain.
8. Small horses.
A. Otherwise.
+. e. Liz.
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SOME TALL STRUCTURES.
An Ohio ITaterw orks Tower Higher Than
Washingt IN MoournPnt.


The tallest chimney was built at
Port Dundas, Glasgow, Scotland, 1857
70 1859, for T. Townsend. 1t is the
highest chimney in the world (454 feet),
and one Of the softiest masonry struc-
lures in existence. It IS, independent
of its size, one Of the best specimens OF
substantial, well made brick-work in
existence. In Europe there are only
two church steeples that exceed this
structure in height-namely that Of the
Cologne cathedral $40 feet}, and that Of
the Strasburg cathedral (469 feet.) The
great Pyramid of Tizeh was originally
$50 feet, although not so high at pres
ent. The United States OuttOps them
all with its Washington monument. $50
feet high, and the tower Of the Phila-
delphia public buildings, which is 537
feet high.
The Eitfel tower. at Paris, France,
surpasscs all other terrestrial metal
| structures with its altitude Of nearly
! ,O08 feet. The ''Great Tower" for
London, England, in course of con-
struction from designs of Mr.. Henry
Davey, c. E., will outtop all metal
structures. being built of steel, and it's
extreme height will be 1850 feet when
| finished.
The highest and most remarkable
metal chimney in the world is erected
at the imperial foundry at IIalsbruclzc,
near Frieberg, in Saxony. The height
Of this structure is 1926 feet, and l5 -
! feet in internal diameter, and is situ-
ated on the right bank of Mulde at an
elevation OF 210 feet above that of the
foundry works, SO that its total height
above the sea is no less than 7l1.75 feet.
The works are situated on the left bank
of the river, and the furnace gases are
conveyed across the river TO the chin
ney on bridge through pipe 3,22227
feet III length.
The highest artificial structure in
America is the WatcrwOrl1s tower at
Euen park, Cincinnati. 0. The floor d
the tower, reached by elevators, is 52S
feet above the Ohio river. The base is
4O4 feet above the stream. II the height
of the elevator shaft be added to the
observation floor the grand total height
is $50 feet
The highest office building in th'
world is the Manhattan Life Insurance
company Of New York city; its heigh
above the sidewalk is 347 feet, and it.
foundations go down IS feet below tht
same, being 90 feet below tidewate
level, making total Of 400 feet. Th,
foundations consist Of fifteen masonr,
piers, and are carried by the same mum
Der Of steel caissons The latter wor
sunk to bedrock by the pncUmati
process. The cantilever system wa
used for the foundations.-Mac
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conforming to the taper Of the forward
portion of the gun, is forced over the
rawhide until it's inner end fits snugly
within the groove or rabbet, c, of the
cap, where they are secured together
The cap, C, is provided with the usual
trunniOns.
The particular cannon tested by the
ordnance board was feet s inches
long, with 215 inches caliber, and
weighs 456 pounds. 1t ''looked strong
enough to stand an ordinary charge,
but not an officer present believed that
there would be much more than few
bits of the carriage left after the first
heavy tests had been made" 1t was
tried first, with fear and trembling,
with a pound of powder, giving a press
ure Of 5,471 pounds to the square inch;
then with ~ pounds, 16,840 pounds
PRESSURE; then with 2 pounds, 26, 706
pounds pressure; then with an extra
ball added, to increase the resistance
40,360 pounds pressure-and the gun
was at good as ever, and perfectly cool
Altogether, the leather cannon has
proved a surprise to the authorities.
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having been called to the egg capabili-
ties Of this breed, they have taken it
up and if it possess anything like the
merit claimed we may soon see it enter
ing into competition with the Leghorn
variety.
So far the Anconas are practically un-
known in this country, but we will
doubtless have them in time. They are
described as mottled throughout in
pIumage and of a neat and attractive
appearance. They resemble the Min
orcas in many respects, but are gener-
ally rather smaller. They are great
layers and non-sitters. The eggs are
white shelled and Of good quality. They
are of rather small size when from pull
cts, but this defect is corrected the next
season. The breed is generally con
sidered to result from the crossing o.
blacl: and white Minorcas, but many be
iicvc that they are closely related to tht
Leghorns instead. This theory woulC
seem to find confirmation in the habit:
Of the birds, which possess the activity
and foraging qualities Of the Leghorns
They also mature early and are sElai
| eaters. turning their food into egg
| rater than into flesh. Of course, the,
| do not amount to much as table fowls
! n. Y. World.
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The French artists appear to have
gotten the art Of photography down to
a much finer basis than those Of Amer
lea and England. They were first to
photograph flying bullets, race horses
In motion and other rapidly moving OBJ
jects. The latest triumph reported
from Paris is photograph Of flying
dragon-fy by NJ. Marcy, in which the
exposure was the 1-25,0O0 part of a sec
ond. BY the aid of small electric
lamp inside the mouth of an assistant,
Marcy also claims to have photographed
The moving globules Of blood circulat-
ing in the veins, and to have detected a
difference in the motion of the colored
and colorless corpuscles.
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LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Low wet lands are no place for sheep.
The footing of sheep must be dry.
1t is an old adage that there is gold in
the track of the sheep, but it seems to bo
covered up these days.
1t is claimed that an acre of corn fod-
der is worth two acres of timothy. That
it is worth more is certain, if it is good
fodder, but how much more We are not
prepared to say.
The practice on some farms of throw
ing corn and stalks to the hogs so that
corn is before them all the time is bad.
Feed no fattening animal more than it
viii eat up clean.-Farmer's Voice.
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STRAW is VALUABLE.
When Mixed with Roots or Ensilage 1t Is
Good Ration.

SOpu
In many sections of the country feed
will be very valuable the coming winter,
and the man who has good lot OF
Oat straw, and even wheat straw, and
carefully saved, has the bulk Of the ma
terial which, if fed understandingly
will prove a small mine Of wealth to
him. Straw is deficient in feeding
quality, principally in albuminousm mat
ter and fats. The thing to do is to feed
some food with it SO as to restore the
Harmony" and to do this, II some sort
of succulent food is fed, as roots or
sllage, and, in addition, il two hundred
pounds of oil meal is fed with each ton
OF straw, IA very well-balanced ration is
secured, and one Oh which the cattle
will do very well if they are not COM
PEELED to expend the greater part of
their feed in protection from the cold.
The feeding of straw and other light
foods as the bulky part of the ration
calls for the best of housing, if the full
measure of the food value of the ration
is to be obtained. This is why straw Is
not regarded as satisfactory part food
for the winter milker, but where this
COW has succulent food in some form
and grain strong in proteins, and has
little exposure to the weath her of winter,
it is found that there is no objection to
moderate quantities of straw being
used. 1t is the abuse of 1t that has
given straw an unfavorable reputation.
Men use it as full feed with which to
cconomize, and, not properly combin-
ing it with proteins, failure results,
and the conclusion is at once formed
that lit is pretty good thing on which
to starve herd" Too much straw
with full ration of proteins Is apt to
aggravate this matter Of bad effect, but
| if a daily addition of roots or small
feed of silage is given it acts as laxa-
/ tive, and nature has natural way, and
then even dairy cows may be fed linn
tied amount of bright straw with com
mendable economy. Balance the ra'
ton in some way and save the straw te
feed and do not use it as bedding only
1t has a feed value.-Practical Farmer
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is released in an upright position, It
will remain so. Taking two one-half
by eight-inch bolts and cutting off the
heads, bent the ends so that they would
pass around the axle, and passed them
through the blocks and the board and
bolted fast. Then | made the handles,
as shown at B, and screwed them fast
to the upper end of the board. This is
not particularly beauty, but it saves
us many a hard lift in handling sacks
and barrels. Since the wheels are so
large we can even use it on the ground,
when it is solid, much like a wheelbar-
IoW.-Ohio Farmer.
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POPULAR SCIENCE,
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
4 New EIeCtro-C Che rrical Process When
Nav rrove Useful.

a New Electro-CheInical Process Which
May rrove Useful.
4 curious and possibly important
discovery is reported by E. Andreoli, OF
London, in the Electrical Review. It
will be understood more readily if one
recalls the methods employed in elec-
tro-plating. If an acidulated solution
Of sulphate Of copper be placed in a
glass dish and an electric current from
Il battery or dynamo be led into the
liquid by one wire and out by another
(the two being kept apart caretul1y),
the salt will be gradually disintcgrated,
the sulphuric acid being liberated at
the positive pole, or ano1c. and the cop
per accommodating at the negative pole,
or cathode, where it will be deposited
in q thin film. Any chemical compound,
If properly prepared, could be broken
up in similar manner. Hitherto,
however, it has been supposed that the
elements into which it would be re-
olVcd would first make their appear
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Some years ago an old lady living in
Massachusetts, cast about her for means
to prevent the combs of her fowls from
freezing. Her pens were dilapidated
and she did not feel able to repair them.
At last the idea struck her of making
flannel night-caps for her birds, and
this she proceeded to do. Every cold
night after the fowls had gone to roost
this good old lady would go out and
carefully put on the night-caps. This
got to be very tiresome before spring
came, and the next winter the good
dame concluded to repair the house in
such way as to obviate the necessity
for making poultry night-caps.
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The Mosquito.

There are supposed to be about ono
hundred and fifty species of mosquitoes
in the world. Already twenty-one sDe-
cies have been identified as native to
North America. The largest varieties
occur in the tropics, where insect life
of all sorts obtains its fullest and most
pestiferous development. Nowhere.
however, are these bloodsuckers, moro
abundant than in far northern lati.
tudes, as in arctic Alaska, where they
appear in countless swarms during the
brief boreal summer.
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ance in immediate contact with the
electrodes or terminals Of the circuit.
But this has just been found to be an
erroneous conclusion.
Mr.. Andreoli divided a small vat into
three compartments 10y means Of porous
partitions. :nto the ends of this vat,
where his electrodes were immersed,
he poured solution Of common saly,
and into the central portion one of cy-
anide Of gold The current being
turned on, the same action occurred at
the terminals which would have oc-
cured had there been but a single tiuid,
the one first named, and no partitions.
Salt is chloride of sodium; at one pole
therefore, chlorine was liberated, and
at the other sodium. the latter, how
ever, combined with the water to form
a hvjlroxide, or caustic soca. No change
occurred in the cyanide solution in the
meantime until several clean metal
plates were dipped into the middle com
partment, parallel with each other and
with the ends Of the vat. The liquid
in the central receptacle was now elec-
! trolyzed also. and the gold was dcpos-
| ised on the basCr metal, as in ordinary
electro-plating, although there was nc
metallic connection with the terminals
| This phenomenon is called secondary
electrolysis" by its discoverer. lie !:
inclined to think that it may have prac
| tical uses in the arts.