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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
POULTRY.

Were the wives to do all the caring for
the chickens, and have the proceeds re-
turned in such way that the husbands.
would have all the handling of the
money, the latter could be more easily
convinced of the profit of poultry on the
farm. Though itsupplies his table with
groceries for the most part, he does not
usually realize how great is the income.
Guineas are good insect destroyers and
good foragers. picking up good portion
Of their living from material which
would otherwise go to waste. They are
profitable to keep, where there is room.
They readily detect the approach of
strange animals or people, and give the
alarm quickly, by night or by cay.
After the number of geese is procured
which it is desired to keep. one of the
best plans of management is to keep the
older ones and sell the younger. The
older geese are better for laying. make
better mothers, and bring better price
when marketed. Geese can be kept for
a number OF years in this way without
change.
Young chickens are always safer and
stronger when made to betske them
selves to roosts at nightfall as soon as
they are able to look out for number one.
They lind better air and are out of the
reach Of destroyers. They were never
healthier than when compelled to take.
to the trees for protection. in other
days.
To prevent feather eating among the
fowls, take them when the habit is first
noticed and wash the plumage with a
solution of carbolic acid. Stir table
spoonful of the acid in quart of water.
and it is ready for use. This will usual
ly effect cure. and in no wise iniure the
plumage.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
STOCK.

The city market is good object lesson
for those who doubt the profit in raising
early lambs. From the LIST of February
until Mayit is seldom supplied with all
1t will take. and sometimes the scarcity
causes phenomenal prices.
Bee hives should be in an open, airy
place, but evergreens or other shelter on
the north and west aften make all the
difference between life and death. They
do we'll placed among lot of plum trees.
because of the fruit and its time of
ripening.
Good blood we must have, but the art
OF feeding is at the bottom of success
with any kind of stock; with cattle for
beef or the dairy; with sheep for mutton
or for wool; with hogs for the production
OF pork; and that poultryman is failure
who has not found this out.
We should aim to produce such stock
as will bring buyers to US; some one al
ways want good special purpose horse,
or an extra good milch COW. Neither of
these were over plentiful. The fairly
good we ever have in abundance. There
are many, both in the city and country,
who will never have anything but the
very best, at whatever cost.
Togrow two good lots of pigs year the
farmer who owns four or five sows should
possess boar or controlling interest
in one. 1t will not do to depend on bor-
rowing or hiring. The male should al
ways be good one and pure bred, and
such can not always be borrowed nor
rapfad
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Instructive Reading for AgricuIturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERsALIsT."

any whims try as hard to please her as
you do your family in the house. Do
not count it costing too much labor to
keep her from the flies and hot sun this
summer.
To buy just the cows you want is too
expensive and hard to accomplish. Bet
ter raise them on the farm. Procure the
best mixers you can for foundation
and then buy the best full blooded but-
ter sire you can find. Let him be at
least two years old, and he will serve
your purpose for four or five years.
Avoid sudden changes in feeding. but
experiments with different feeds and
different combinations are always in
order. One wishes not only to produce
the largest product, but to do SO at the
least cost. Sometimes it will pay to sell
the products of the farm and buv mill
feed. Know not only the value of feeds.
but watch the market fluctuations.
In most OF the dairy districts of Eur.
ope the cows are treated purely as 40
many milk machines, and every bit of
available force is conserved for the sole
purpose OF turning out one product
Bodily comfort is at all times considered
and cows are housed almost az caref,llv
as are their owners. Few of us are at
the top in this country.
Sometimes there is more to do than tn
turn out our cows to pasture in the sum-
mer and then milk them twice day.
Unless the pasture is ample it will nav
to feed also little grain. Even with a
full pasture this is sometimes advisable.
The more succulent food REQUIRES more
salt, too; and, above all things, see that
there is pure water in plenty.
The time is near at hand when the
good butter COW will sell on her merits.
Just as does the trotting horse. 1t is not
fair to ask the 300 pound butter COW to
stand in the market at the same price as
the one which yields but half as much.
no matter what the pedigree of the latter
or how fair to look upon.
A solid cake of manure covers the
quarters OF many COW which stands in
the stables. Yours are not so, of course,
out IL is impossible for your neighbor to
MIX his manure covered COW without
rubbing some of it off into the milk, and
you will find it there if you let some of
mat milk stand in a glass tube. If he.
expects to make fine butter out of such
stuff he is fooling himself.
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Selected Story.
LOVES SHELTERING WAY.
BY MATTY CHENAULT NASH.

TARY WINSLOW hurried lit
Nl tie as she climbed into the ten
thirty accommodation train from New
Rochelle to New York. The accom-
mediation trains were always crowded;
and she wanted very much to get
seat on the side of the car from which
she could catch a glimpse of her
house, where her babies were. She
had almost missed her train lingering
over good-by kisses and baby love-
making.
"Ou won't 'tay away from Baby?
'Ou tum wife back adam, Mamma,
'tause Baby loves 'ou." And the soft
ditto of the younger baby-"Wite
back adam, Mamma, 'tause Itty Baby
loves 'ou."
They were such mites, these tiny
girls, it had always seemed prepos-
tsrous to call them by the stately
names that they had been christened
by. They had dubbed themselves
Baby" and Little Baby" and in
tender home parlance they were
called that.
Mary could feel their plump little
arms around her neck now, and their
soft baby curls against her cheeks.
She strained her eyes to catch the
last glimpse of the little gray-shin-
gled house as the train swept out of
the station. She had told the nurse to
let the children wave her "good-by,"
and she smiled as she saw two tiny
scraps of white futtering from the
nursery window. But even the house
was out of sight in moment, and
she leaned back in her seat feeling
tired and depressed.
She was doing very bold thing.
For the first time in her four years of
married life, she was undertaking
something without consulting her
husband about it. But it was for his
sake-for his dear sake-to save him
from terrible anxiety; and to do that
she would dare anything.
The tears stood in her eyes at the
thought of his shoulders already
stopped under their burden of care,
and his face so crossed with lines that
told as plainly as did the scantily
covered crown from which the curly,
boyish crop of brown hair had
slipped, how hard had been, and was,
his fight up the stream of fortune.
And his shabby coat and frayed
linenl David rarely got any new
clothes, and when he did he went to
a cheap tailor who did not fit him
very well. He was a little man.
Mary used to think if he had been a
few inches taller he would have cared
more for dress. But she was wrong
about that. David was very modest
and not wonderfully clever; but he
knew that it would have to be a coat
as beautiful as Joseph's TO make him
IN De respected at his office or more
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30

and there were many "cases" like her
in the city. The hospitals we're full
of people who were going to die
soon, were dying even now. As she
thought of it the black pail of death
seemed to settle over her and all she
saw, and smother her.
"My husband-my husband!" she
gasped; "can / bear it without youi"
Presently she sat down at little
table, and wrote letter to him. She
put his full address with careful
clearness on the envelope. Then she
wrote a note to the doctor, inclosing
her husbands letter in it.
She undressed, and folded each
garment neatly and laid it away in
her little trunk. After that she put
on her dressing gown, and lay down
on the narrow white bed in the corner
of the room.
She had never thought of dying
alone. In the feeting thoughts she
had had of death David had always
been there to hold her hand. But
now she was liable, even likely, to die
alone. Poor Mary "Alone" meant
to her without David"
"Mrs. Robinson" said DR.. Ellis,
when the assistant surgeons and
nurses had come, 81 feel it due to
myself to ask that you repeat before
these gentlemen what you said in re-
gard to your understanding of the
risk you run in undergoing this OPP
Grafton"
II know that may die, but wish
to undergo the operation"
She spoke slowly, with quiet dig
nifty. 1t was only in her heart that
she said: "Give me strength, dear
Jesus, for David's sake"
"There is no one whom you wish
to see, no one who should be con-
sulted?"
"No one"
She drew from under her pillow
the letter she had written, and hand
ed it to DR.. Ellis. "When the issue
of the operation is quite clear, I wish
you to open and read this she said
She lay quietly while they put the
ether mask over her white face, not
struggling against it as some people
do. Only once she sat up suddenly
and looked about her with wide open
eyes, stretching out her arms and
saying:
"Oh, if you will only let me lie in
my husbands arms l will bear any
thing" And then she lost conscious
ness.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30

IL is not far hence
lin measured miles) that the mere stands
over which hang whispering woods
The fast-rooted forest
Thus the citizen may translate from
his Beowulf; or he may think it vastly
better to throw aside the old book, and
with his own eyes to see how a fast
rooted forest may overhang the mere in
Central Park, or the waters of Pelham
Bay. Did the poet who wrote those
words, at some time between the fifth
century and the ninth, have in mind the
twofold life of trees-the life Of the
branches in the air. and the life of the
roots in the soil-the almost equal do
main Of the tree above ground and be.
low! He 80 Justly balances his descrip-
ton. having exactly as much to say of
that half of the tree which is less in evil
dence as of that part toward which he
lifts our eyes. There is plodding half,
he reminds us, that holds the other half
to itself, and "fast-rooted" to it's place
and station. At other seasons of the
year this sort of thing may not be so
we'll worth dwelling upon, but fine day
in April will show roots and branches
most full of achievement and of news.
The business of the former is prospecting
that is plainly to be seen: there are
budding novelties on the latter from day
to day, if you are closely observant; from
week to week. anyhow. And we can't
believe the rusty half, making gains
through all sorts of tentative and diff.
cult outreaching down there somewhere
lis wholly selfish, although holding the
other half so fast. At any rate, the An
glo-Saxon epic poet does not take an un.
favorable view of his conduct 1--WE must
say it is his conduct) in thus holding for
his very own what he supports and
nourishes. If he were purely selfish.
would he be represented as holding her
1--WE must say herr where she hangs
and whispering too-over her mirror in
the mere?
Let no cynic assert that this is the
type of an American marriage. Cynicism
is out of season. We would only shelter.
behind three or four lines from Beowulf,
a suggestion that in April trees are in
teresting persons and are mot far
hence."-H0rper's Weekly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
Daley.

The greater number of stables have
no means of ventilation save through
cracks or the open door, and this is
against the adoption of the plan of
unbrcken winter confinement. The
warmer such stables are the fouler the
air. The daily turning out of stock in
such circumstances, even but for few
minutes gives change of air which is
highly beneficial.
Do not ask your cow to give her best
results on 10 pounds of grain feed day
when she is capable of eating and as
similsting 20. Make a study of her;
know all her peculiarties. II che has
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
BOBOLINK CHIMES.

whir of wings DER covered meadows.
The CLEAN of a harness and crown,
And low on the swaying maple
A bobolnk settles down.
A chime as if from bells of silver
Over the clover soft doth float,
Ere yet the rapturous song-burst
Outpours from the feathered throat.
A whir of wings, CLEAN of yellow
Faint-heard notes. and into the throng
OF clover heads gently nodding.
Drops softly the bird and song.
As Wordsworth saw in dreamy wakinss
Daffodis nodding in seas of gold,
For me the hills and meadows will ever
The chime of the bobolinks hold,
journal of Education
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
BY JOSEPH RoDMAN DRAKE.

When freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies
And stripped its pure celestial white
With streakings from the morning light.
Then from his mansion in the sun
She called her eagle bearer down
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land.
Flag of the brave, thy folds shall fly
The sign OF hope and triumph high!
When speaks the signal trumpet tone.
And the long line comes CLEANING OR
Ere vet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Has dimmed the glistening bayonet-
Each soldier eye shall brightly burn,
And as his springing steps advance
Catch war and vengeance from the glance,
And when the cannons mouthings loud
Heave in wild wreaths the battle shroud.
And CORY sabsrs rise and fall
Like shoots of fame on midnight's pail
There shall thy meteor glances glow,
And covering foes shall shrink beneath
Each gallant arm that strikes below
That lovely messenger of death.
Flag of the seas, on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter DER the brave!
When death, careering on the gale.
Sweeps darkly round the bellled sail,
And frighted waves rush wildly back
Before the broadside's Keeling rack,
Each dying wonder of the sea
Shall look at once at heaven and thee
And smile to see thy splendors fly
In triumph DER his closing eye.
Flag of the free hearts hope and home.
BY angel hands to valor given,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven!
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but tails before us
With freedoms soil beneath our feet.
And freedoms banner streaming DER us.
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1t was half past three when a
breathless messenger, rushing into
Mr. Winslow's down town Office,
handed him note from Doctor Ellis:
"Dear SIR Your wife has just I'M
dergone an operation. l have every
reason to hope it will be successful
one The inclosed note from Mrs.
Winslow will explain to you why l
have but now made you aware of
what has been done.
every sincerely yours,
~. HOWE ELLIS"
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The three doctors stood wiping
their cleaning instruments, talking
in half-whispers of the operation. A
uninterrupted nurse was unpinning
the sheets and padding from the
operating table.
At the side of the bed where Mary
lay another doctor and another white
capped nurse stood watching for the
first sign of her returning conscious
ness. She lay heavily and with mus
cles relaxed, with closed eyes, breath
ing laboriously, and white as the linen
on her bed.
David pushed open the door with
unsteady hand and came across the
room to the bed. Without a word he
dropped on his knees in a grief
stricken heap at the bedside.
DR.. Ellis put his hand on his shout
der, and he looked up, with anguish.
laden eyes, that pitifully plead for a
word Of hope.
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The other note runs thus:

Dear Doctor Ellis Il have not
told you my real name, for l did not
wish my husband to have the pain
and anxiety of anticipating this oper-
alton, nor the suffering of seeing me
suffer it; and l thought that if you
knew had husband you would be
likely to object to taking SO much re-
sponsibility without having him to
share it. If all goes we'll you need
only send him the inclosed note. If
l should die-tell him gently.
MARY WINsLow."
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"My Darling Husband You have
been so good, so tender, SO true to
me, dear one, and you have made me
SO happy always, that l have wanted
some way to show you how grateful
/ am. There has never been any
way before, but now there is way.
Thank the dear Father, you have
taught me to love and have helped
me to try to serve, / have been strong
enough to save you great deal of
pain"
"When you get this, my love, my
hearts dear, dear love, / will be quite
through with very bad operation,
which has been hanging over me for
months. l knew l must undergo it
or | must die, and yet it was so sweet
at home l could not come in here be-
fore; but the doctor said l could not
wait any longer, SO came in to day.
"Jane is good nurse; she will take
care of the children when / am away.
Aren't they beautiful
GOD bless you, my husband, my
love, MARY"
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"She will do WE'LL" said the doctor,
in CHEEKY whisper. THE operation
was success far beyond our expec-
tations. But it is important for her
to come out of the ether quietly.
Don't you think, Mr.. Winslow, it
would be good plan for you to stand
here at the foot of the bed where she
can see you when she first opens her
eyes? Then she will forget entirely
all the pain of her separation from
you, and everything will bequite nice
and comfortable"
David rose, dumbly obedient, and
stood where the doctor directed, de-
vouring with his eyes the pale, beau
tiful face lying amid the thick brown
braids.
Nov. Mrs. Winslow, is the pillow
right9" asked DR.. Ellis, trying to
rouse her. "Won't you let me try to
raise you up littlei"
1t seemed hours to David before
Mary, with deep sigh, lifted her
heavy white lids. A moment her half
conscious eyes rested on the doctor
who was speaking to her, and then
she looked at David. She tried to
make the nerveless lips move-failed
once, and then slowly, painfully, she
said:
Darling, love you"
"She's all right now" said DIR. Ellis,
in tone of relief.
In a few moments all the doctors
had gone, leaving David and nurse
to watch Mary.
ashes doing splendidly now, sir"
said the nurse, moved by the trouble
in David's face to speak to him.
"There is not bit more danger"
But David did not believe that.
The shadow of the terrible possibility
of his wife's dying had fallen across
his heart, and it would take more than
words to lift it.
AS the doctors went down the steps
of the boarding house one said:
"And yet we aretaught that women
are not brave"
ooh yes, they are brave or the
world would soon be depopulated,"
said the lyfedged doctor who
had administered the ether. "But-
er-Dr. Ellis, now what do you think
of that scheme of mine for removing
the vermiform appendix in infants
and doing away forever with chances
of appendicitis"
"a great scheme and great
schemer, Doctor" answered Ellis,
laughing good-naturedly. "When
you find a mother who will offer you
a subject to try, consider me at your
service gratis for the operation"
And the doctors went their several
ways.-Independent.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-30
TREES.
1t is not far hence

1t is not far hence
lin measured miles) that the mere stands
Over which hang whispering woods
The fast-rooted forest.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-01-03
THE COMMISSION
Cleyeland's Appointees are Commended
for Ability.
A LESSON FROM TRANsvAAL
Parallel 10 the ysaeIuela SitustiOn-- Tend.
10 Justify Position Taken by the
United States.

Washington. Jan. z-The personnel Of
tho Venezuela commission was commend
ed today BY members OF the house, who
take particular interest In international
matters. regardless Of party Affiliations
The gentlemen selected are considered en-
trcly competent 10 conduct what the
president In his message expressed a wish
for. judicial examination Of the evidence
relating 10 the boundary. II is also
pointed out that while several members OF
the commission have participated in pol
itics. none can be- considered strong par
tlsanH at this time. 50 that so far as our
domestic Affairs are concerned they would
not be likely 10 enter upon their work
With any party ends 10 serve.
In speaking upon the Venezuelan ques-
ton. an authority upon international az
fairs pointed out that the present hostill-
ties In TransvaAl furnished a direct and
most opportune parallel to the South
American dispute. The note OF the Ger
man government 10 Great Britain. re-
questlng an explanation OF Jam!sson's ex-
pedliion into the Beers territory and pro-
testing against II. he thought. would tend
TO fortify the arguments OF the United
States In justification Of It's action re-
gardlng the Venezuelan boundary Trans
AahA - NNihlAAlig All AtAiNFNilNNHN ifpub-
lie. and Germany does not claim TO main
tain a protectorate over Il any more than
the United tSates does over Venezuela:
yet. Germany assumes the right to inter-
fere 10 check British aggression. Nor
can the German government claim that
It's own safety Is In any way menaced
by any steps which the English might
take against the Beers; IL can only as
scrt a right to interfere on the ground
that its interests are involved, which Is
thought by many TO be the only tenable
grounds upon which this government can
base its right TO be considered party TO
the dispute between Venezuela and
British dependency.
Following is the full commission: Da-
vid j. Brewer. OF Kansas. associate JUS
tice OF the United States supreme court;
Richard H. Alvey. OF Maryland. chief
justice OF the court OF appeals OF the Dis,
trict OF Columbia Andrew ID. White. Of
New York Frederick r. Coudert. of New
York. and Daniel C. Gilman. OF Mary
land Brewer aad White are Republi-
cans. and Alvey and Coudert Democrats,
while Gilman has never figured promi-
nently In politics. At the White House
4, Is stated that he has no politics, but
his procllvlties are understood TO be Re-
publican. Thus both parties, 1t will be
seen. are equally represented on the COM
mission, with the fifth member having no
outspoken policy. All will accept the
places to which they have been appoint
"a