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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. DEC. 10, 1896
Page One.


Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
James Whitcomb Riley's "Child-World.'
Notes from Japan. Our Work.
The Position of Women in Germany.
Page Two.
Sermon: The Perpetual Presence.
The Strength Of Life.
Preaching Universalism.
The New Books.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
EDITORIAL
"Noble Living"
The Congressional Restaurant.
DIR. edward Everett Hale ia Chic ago.
A Campaign of Education.
Uniyersalist Personal.
Exchange Notes.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
The Ohio Churches.
The General Convention.
Page Six.
The Famil, Page, Farm. Garden and Dairy
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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The Brooklyn CongregatiOnalist
(Cnristian Work.
TOKYO, JAPAN, Nov. %.

The Manhattan and Brooklyn Confer
ences-made two by the old-time Beecher
trouble-have row become one, and met as
such and transacted their business last
week. There were natural fluctuations
over the fact so happily accomplished, and
the prospect for its permanency in the fu-
ture. The separation was right in the
first instance; but the coming together
again is best of all
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DIR. and Mrs. E. c. Skinner entertained
at their home, on a recent Sunday, Mr..
and Mrs. Otis Skinner, who had been Civ
ing Detroit people splendid performances
at the Detroit Theatre. Mr.. Otis Skinner
and DIR. f. C. Skinner are cousins, and
several of the guests at the reception were
from the New England district, where the
old Skinner home is. The whole event
was very delightful one.
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"Well, John,
They're good old times because they're
dead and gomez
Not only does the poet describe
his home, true to the last touches of
living memory, but the reader be-
comes acquainted with "The Princes
Harvest" the apple tree that stood
beside the wood house, whose ap
Piles
Seemed just to fairly hurry ripe for him.
Even in June, impetuous as he,
They dropped to meet him, halfway up
the tree.
And o their bruised sweet faces when
they fell!
And no! the lips that feigned to ''kiss
them well!''
Then there was "The Old Swee>
Apple Tree" and above all, there was
the cherry tree.
There was cherry-tree. Its bloomy
Cool even now the fevered sight that
knows
No more its airy visions of pure joy
As when you were boy.
There was a cherry-tree. The Bluejay
His blue against it's white % blue as
jet
He seemed there then But now-Who-
ever knew
He was so pale blue!
There was a cherry -tree--Our child-eyes
saw
The miracle: e:-Its pure white SHOWS did
thaw
Into crimson fruitage, far too sweet
But for boy to eat
There was cherry-tree, give thanks and
joy!-
boy
There was Bluejay of the realest blue
And fruit for both of you
The old garden and it's stand OF
bees, it's "martin-box," the stable
where "Old Sorrel"
Munshed his hay,
And oats and corn, and switched the flies
away.
These and many other things the poet
takes us into his confidence and tells
us about first, and than in turn intro
duces us to the old home folks, "the
five happy little Hoosier chaps" and
Maymie and little Lizzie and all the
friends, playmates and compan.
ions of his childhood. 1t must
not be supposed that the poet
is equally happy il III his des-
criptions, or that 2is rhymes ano
metre are always above criticism
Some of the latter are bad, as where
he makes "trill a" rhyme with "wil-
low," and some passages will seem to
readers as mere prose masquerading
in poetical garb, as in the lines begin
ming:
''But Alex was affectionate beyond"
and others. All the little lyrics strung
through the main poem are not
equally happy-some, it must be con-
fessed, just little tiresome, but
where there is SO much enjoyment
given, it would be ungracious to
dwell on minor faults, "faultlessly
faultless" though parts of the poem
be.
The humor which the public has
come to expect from Riley is also tc
be found in this volume, and the skill
of the narrator of the story about the
''gobbelins" is particularly in evi
dence in Buds Fairy Tale" the beal
story that Alex "ist naked up his
own SELF" and the narration of the
"ventriloquist's" wonderful tricks
Maymie's story of Red Riding Hood
gives a new grace and humor to the
old nursery tale. But the whole
story is inimitable and must be
read in its completeness for full en-
joyment.
CHICAGO, Dec. IA.
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]ANToN THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL,

The Spanish newspapers publish bit
ter articles on President Cleveland's
message. They attribute the attitude
of the United States to selt.importance,
from the concession by Great Britain in
the Venezuelan matter.
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NOTES FROM JAPAN: OUR WORK.
BY REV. CLARENCE E. RICE.
(Missionary.)

IT has been some time since | have
sent any word to our friends in Amer
ica, not because | have been unmind-
full of our people and their interest in
our work, but since Bro. Leavitt and
Bro. Cate had both written interest
ing accounts of what the mission had
been doing, any further word at the
time seemed superfuous. But now
that we are well entered upon our
new school-year it may be of interest
to our people at home to hear once
more of what is happening in this far
away land, and of what we are doing
as missionaries of the Universalist
Church.
A VISITOR.
The arrival of the Rev. L. w. Att
wood, as the guest of Rev. Mr.. Cate,
was a great pleasure to Us all. We
have piled him with questions until
he is surely convinced that the mis-
sionaries have not forgotten their
native land, no matter how long they
have resided in Japan. Bro. Att
wood has entered with quick sympa-
thy into our mission work and we
know that his years stay with us will
be all too short. We trust that our
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT /. NJ. ATWOOD, D, D.
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Special Contribution.
THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN

BY COUNT A. BERNsToRF'F.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Civil District Court, Division iCs'
Parisl, Of Orleans.
+. p. Serin persus No. 47,76S, His
Creditors.

TNAKE NOTICE: THAT PURSUANT TO.
Il an order and decree Of the above, Court
and to a commission to me directed in the
above entitled and numbered suit. I will
offer for sale 1T public auction pursuant to-
law, to the last and highest bidder at the
Court Hous In the tow of Thibodsux on
SATURDAY, JULY 18th 1896,
between the hours of ~ O'Clock .. m. and y
o'clock p. m., the following described prop
erty, tU-wit:
REAL ESTATE.
A certain tr act of land situated on the left
bank OF Bayou Lafourcbe aud twenty arpents
back from the bank of said Bayou at about
forty miles below the Town of Thib0daux 10
tho Parish Of Lafourche In this State, measur'
ing eleven srpents more or less trout by
twenty arpents in depth bounded above BY
lands Of Mrs. Martha Thibodaux. on the front
by lands OF Pail Lefort and below by those
Or formerly belonging to Francis r..
PARA. together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon.
Terms of sale Cash.
JAMES BEARY,
Sheriff of the Parish Of Lafourchs
June 9th. 1885,
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prucity attachment, while ho hat very
little tO cay on the money question.
The Major il very much at home with
the tariff Issue, whereas with the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver, he
aeems to be ~ shy ~ . young woman
If uncertain mind in :nve affairs.
Not knowing how it will affect his
chances Of election. he "a afraid to
tackle it. In that uncertain condition
Of mind, he aeeins to Ne pnrsning the
Wise policy of waiting Tor develop.
ment.
H. most likely will not have long to
wait. Ere Wa go tn press again the
Democratic Party in National Conven-
ton assembled will have spoken it's
mind on the issues If the day. If it
declares for free and unlimited coinage
of silver, as every indication points it
will. then n Republican friends can
prepare themselves to dance to diff
tereUt tune to the ohe they would
fain go by. Money. and not the tariff
will then he the main Issue before the,
great American people. To that issue,
the tariff and all other issues, will be
snbordinated. Major Mckinley will
have to face the music; silence will
he impossible under such a condition
of things.
1t is impossible this early in the en-
gagement to predict the final outcome
of sncll - struggle. II the Democrats
keep together and stand by the party
Loyalty, and the P"pnlists and Silver
Republicans endorse their nominees,
there ia a good fighting chance for
them. But if they split, or the Popu-
lists put ont aticket Of their own. then.
indeed, will the chances of the Demo-
cratic party be- slim.
However it may turn out, the money
issue is upon us and it is best to meet
it squarely. To evade or stradd.e the
question will be simply prolonging
the agony. If the majority Of the
people OF these United States, want
free silver, they will have it oone or
later,
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ENQUIRER" AGAIN.

Enquirer" has taken advantage of
our offer to publish additional views
from hun on the financial question
and has sent us another communica-
ton which will be found elsewhere.
enquirer" is disposed to be some
what personal but inasmuch as we had
extended him an invitation and do not
believe that he really Intends re-
Election by his fling at our Democracy.
we overlook this and accord him the
privilege of our columns.
As to some of the points advanced
by ''InqpireI" we shall have little or
nothing to say. We have stated our
views fairly in our last issue on most
Of these points, and we do not pro-
pose to reiterate them here.
enquirer" advanced the proposi-
ton, in his first communication, that
the value OF gold had increased 200
cents, and that free and unlimited
coinage by the United States alore
would reduce it to 100 cents. We
~eontroverted the assumption of the
increased value of gold relatively to
the value of silver, and offered as a
means Of disproof a comparison be-
tween the purchasing power Of the
gold dollar to-day relatively to certain
commodities of life and it's purchasing
power of same commodities anterior
to 1860. regard being Lad to the re-
duction in the costs Of production and
transportation.
In aswer to this enquirer singles
out land in this parish for comparison
and asserts that twice as much land
can be bought to-day for a given sum
as could have been bought anterior to
1860, and, ergo, he wants us to con-
clude, the value OF gold has increased
a hundred per cent. HBnE qHGt lAlAa
To say nothing of the non sequituy.
Inquirer has been most unfortunate in
the selection of his object for compar-
ison.
That sugar land sold higher prior
to 1860 than they do now, no one will
deny, but few. we opine, will agree
with Inquirer in attributing the fall IN
their price to rise in the value of gold.
for that fall took place before the per-
petratlon of what has been denounced
as the crime of 1873, and when silver
was at a premium. Need we remind
any one that this fall was due to the
abolition OF the Institution Of slavery
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ANOTHER PERIODICAL


Another one Of those hoodlumistic
outbreaks which now and then shock
the moral sense Of our community and
mortify the respectable portion Of our
population, III be recorded. 1t &C.
cured last Saturday night. and this
time the hoodlums did not confine
themselves to pulling down the fences
and gates of law-abiding citizens, but
descended to such low depths of
degradation as ought to damn them
for many years to come in the esteem
of respectable people and to take
many years Of amenas to efface their
shame.
Their dolngs were Of such a nature
as to preclude a relation of them in
II columns ; suffice it to say that
their action has been universally
condemned in the severest terms by
the good element Of the community
and that all parties concerned in the
d~isgraceful proceeding, including the
saloon keeper who lent himself to it,
were hauled up before the Mayor and
fined. Snch of them who could not
meet the Mayors forced contribution
were forcibly invited by his houor to
a short s%ojourn in the town lock. up
which they reluctantly accepted.
Some parents hearts are sadder now
on account Of the shame and disgrace
heaped upon their respected heads by
thoughtless ard worthless sons.
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july 4th. 500
The STATE OF LOUISIANA
18Th. Judicial District Court, Parish of
LafOurche.
Succession Of Lehman Meyer, No. 1889,
PrObates. =

TsAkE NOTICE. THAT PURSUANT To
an order and decree of the abo Va Cont
and to "a commission to me directed in the
above entitled ana numbered succession. I
will offer for sale at public auction pursuant
to law to the last and highest bidder at the
Court House il the town of Thibodaux on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9Th, 1896.
bet ween the hours of III o'clock a. m. and 4
O'Clock p. H., the following described proper
ty tO-wit:
REAL ESTATE.
tst. A certain tract of land in the Parish
of Lafourche, situated In the Chackbay Set.
Element. on the left bank of Bayou Lafonr-
che. at about eight miles from said Ba
containing eighty and lSlI0O acres, less two
arpents and 1t half in superficies belonging TO
Alphonse Borne and IF. Himel. now or for
merly, and the same is the East half of the
the southwest quarter of section No. Thirty.
one t3i) in Township 10, South of Range sew
enteen East with all the buildings and i'm
.proveusnts thereon.
Ind. ALSO, the Northern half of a certain
tract of land. situated in this Parish, in the
Chackbay settlement. about ten miles north
oil the town of Thlbodaux, containing Forty
and 2IlO0 acres, being the northwest quarter
section No. Six, in Township Fourteen.
south vi Range Seventeen. East,
3rd. The undivided half of another tract
land. being the west half OF the northwest
quarter Of section No. TLirty-one 1911 in
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PAUL LEBLANC, SR.

PAUL LEBLANC, SR.
Paul Leblanc. Sr. one of the oldest
and most highly respected citizens Of
Lafourche, died last Sunday morning,
at his home in the suburbs of the town
at the advanced age Of 70 years, s.
months and Is days.
Paul Leblanc was Que Of the old
land marks Of the parish, and for many
years one of the most familiar figures;
in our town, where he had followed
the calling Of a gardener for more
than a generation. He belonged to-
the old school Of the honest yeomanry
of the parish-honest, upright, just
and charitable, he was loved and es-
teemed by all who possessed the ad.
vantage of an intimate acquaintance
with him.
The deceased had lost the partner
Of his life some two years ago, and
was living with his son, Paul, his only
child. at the time of his death.
His funeral took place Monday
morning at ST. Joseph's Church, 10
the presence of relatives and numer-
GUS friends.
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THE PENALTY-AN APPEAL

In view "f the wantOn destruction
of the property If law-ahidinc citizens
INDUCED in last Saturday night by a
lot of depraved young men, bent on IA
downward course, and in compliance
with the demand of some Of our
readers, We reproduce section 2 Of act
8 of the extra session of 1870, bearing
on the subject. and reading j: "That
whoever shall malicionalv or fraudu.
lentlv Y from the soil of another
any produce, or any fruit or crop
growing thereon or attached thereto,
or shall f%eloniously or mdlici0usly seuer
from any building or from any gate,
fence or other enclosure of another, any
part or n material Of ,rkick it is
formed, shall on coneictiOn thereof. be
Imprisoned at hard labor or otherwise
not exceeding trO years, and be fined not
exceeding ~ thousand dollars, at the
H%i.c,etion of the court"
Several months ago, the 81 NT1NEL
Inhlished this law aud commented on
it showing the wonld- he hoodlums that
the malicious breaking Of fences and
yates was a mighty dangerous u
Su " or NhV I I'LL vi Csl tuu
might entail a penalty Of two years at
hard labor and a fine Of $1,000.
Whether it was the effect Of that
publication or not, we have no means
of ascertaining. but it is nevertheless a
fact that for a good while we heard of
no more snch outbreaks as disgraced
the community last Saturday night.
Now, the SENTINEL does not believe
that all, it any, Of the young men
engaged in these reprehensihle esca-
pades, are hardened criminals. passed
all hone OF redemption, and it appeals
to their manhood and whatever sense
of honor they may have left. to pause
in their reckless and turn from
the path of destruction they are now
pursuing. Let motives Of selt-inte-
rest, if none other will actuate them,
prompt them to eschew the danger
which lies ahead Of them. Let them
think of the father and mother. the
brothers and sisters, their misdeeds
may plunge into grief and overwhelm
in disgrace, and reform. Let no
sense of fancied security from detec-
ton urge them on in their mad course.
ut is a long lane that has no tnrn,"
and the evil -doer, treading the devious
paths OF vice and crime, often comes
to the fatal. sharp turn Of the law
when he tancied himself farthest
from it.
This appeal may not touch all
those for whom it ia intended but
if it will save but one boy and be the
means of turning him from the crooked
way of vice into the path IF virtue,
the SENTINEL's labor will not have
been in vain.
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~THIBODAUx, july 1, 1893,
To the Editor Of the SENTINEL,

To the Editor Of she SENTINEL.
In the reply that you made to nv
inquiries 10 your last issue, you make
the assertion ''that under and unlim.
tied coinage We would have silver dol
lars as legal tender for one hundred
cents when the quantity Of metal ia
them is worth to-day in the markets
of the world only about fifty cents"
but you were very careful to omit say.
ing that the silver in a dollar under
free coinage would he worth ONLY ffty
cents. Now in thus evadlng the issue
do you honestly believe that it. is fair.
that it is just, to compare silver as it
now is, condemned, kicked off the
money platform, q simple commodity
az cotton, corn, mules &C.. to silver
when it will be remonetized and placed
upon the same plane as gold The
bimetallists propose to give silver an
equal chance with gold as a circulating
money. Il asks 10 f~avors, it seeks no
indulgences. It only demands to be
replaced in the position that was as
signed to the white metal by Jefferson.
Alexander. Gallatin aud the eminent
fathers Of this republic, 100 years AGO.
Again, You claim that gold will not
purchase to-day more than it did in
1850. The conditions are 50 changed
oy the improvements of machinery.
decrease OF transportation charges
&C.. that no equitable comparison can
De drawn between prices of almost all
articles or merchandise between that
year and the present. But | remem-
Der distinctly that plantations along
Bayou Lafourche, with only an old
style primitive sugar house sold in
1861 at prices ranging from fifty to one
hundred dollars per acre, including
swamp lands. Are they selling for
any such prices to-day, even with
sugar factories costing fifty to seventy
five thousand dollarsf l recall ner
fectly numerous small tracts Of land
along the same stream that sold for
xloO per acre, including swamp lands.
during the decade between 1850 and
1860. Can such lands be sold to-day
at those figures
l am much mistaken if one hundred
thousand dollars to-day will not pur-
chas twice as much sugar land as that
sum would have bought in 1860 and
with vastly improved machinery npon
it. o'
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As IT SHOULUBE.

Mr.. Justice McEnery of the Supreme
Court, last Tuesday handed down an
opinion in the matter o: James Ken
nedy VS.. Criminal Sheriff Uniacke and
Judge Rightor, wherein Kennedy
sought to be released from custody.
Kennedy is the party who attempt
ed the life of DR.. William H. Harlan
and was acquitted by a New Orleans
jury on a plea Of insanity. Or. Har-
a caused Kennedy to be interdicted
by Judge Rightor, who ordered the
wOuld-be murderer sent to the insane
asylum at jackson, La. Kennedy
then applied to the supreme court to
be released and the judgment Of this
court is as follow i: "Where a party
has been indicted, and his counsel
suggests his insanity before trial and
a commission is appointed to INQUIRE
into his mental condition and reports
him to be insane and the jury returns
a verdict accordingly, and the Judge of
the criminal district court remapds
him to the parish prison without COM
mitment to the the insane asylum the
judge of the civil district court has
authority, under section 1858, r. S., to
inquire into the facts and circumstan.
ces OF the case, and if, in his opinion,
he is dangerous to the citizens and the
peace of the state, to commit hin, to
the insane asylum of the state"
SO kennedy must 60 to the insane
asylum, to be there confined and kept
out of mischief.
This decision will have a salutarv
effect and will decrease the populsri-
" OF The insanity plea in criminal
prosecutions. A sane man will Just
~ soon take the chance of a term in
the penitentiary as of life confinement
perhaps, in the asylum for the insane.
Yale, insanity dodge!
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THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
18th judicial District Court Parish Of
I.afnnrchp
Succession of Carroll Smith and hiss
w!te, No. 1880, Probates.

TAkE NOTICE: THAT PURSUANT TOt
1 an order and decree Of the above Court,
and to a commission to me director in the
above entitled and numbered succession. IL
will offer for sale at public auction pursuant
TO law to the last and highest bidder at the
House in the town Of ThibOdsux on.
SATURDAY, JULY 25th, 1885,
between the hours Of IL o'clock a. NJ. and 4.
O'Clock p. M, tho follow in. described prop
erty, tO-wit /:
REAL ESTATE.
A certain tract of land ar town lot. situa-
ted in The Parish Of Lsfourche. on the right
bank ct the Bayou Lafourche ut about SIX
teen (lhl arp.nie therefrnm. on the outskirts
OF the Town OF Thilsdaux; slid lot having
front 81 sisty-eisIit feet on 4 street or rad
bounding it On the South and separating it
from the lands Of Panl Leblanc, u front Of
Hundred and Eight feet on u street or
road bounding it on the West. u, Il separating
It from lot now or formerly belonging to.
Pierre Lagarde, a front Ut Sixtyeiyht feet On.
the North or towards Bayou Lafuurche xbut-
ting lot OF Anthony Granger, and !. back line
OF Two Hundred and Eigh: feet. this line
being parallel with and Sisty eight iset from
tue Western boundary; Together with al
the buildings and improvements thereon, on
the following terms and conditions, Wis: For
Cash to pay debts.
JAMES BEARY,.
Sheriff Of Lafosche.
June Goth, 1896.