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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07
Marriage of Newspaper People.

Charles U. Becker of the Kansas City
Star and Miss Eveline NJ. HoadIey Of
the Kansas City World will be married
on Thursday morning of this week at
the residence of the father of the
groom, in Lawrence, Kan. a short
honeymoon will be INDUCED in, after
which the couple will return to Kansas
City and take up their residence there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07
LEEDY'S DATES.
Populist Candidate for GovernorBook-
ed to Speak at Topeka Sept. Is.

The PopuIist state central commit
tee announce the following corrected
list of appointments of ]. W. Leedy.
Populist candidate for governor:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07
Henry Clews Partially With
draws His Statement
That Wall Street Would Start
a Rebellion
IF FREE SILVER WINS.
But Clings to the Main Feature
of His Threat.
Says Free Silver Agitation Is
Waning.

New York, Sept. THE following is
Henry Clews' weekly circular issued
from his Office, So Wall street, New
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
THIRST"

If, being aged thirty five or more, you
will consult the geography of your child
hood, there shall you find the words
american Desert" printed over a gen.
eral space between the Missouri and
California, with little else printed there
at all. To-day that vacancy upon our
map is filled with dotted towns, and
county lines, and nomenclature of every
size, and-upon paper to the untraveled
eye-the American Desert would seem
clothed with citizens and progress. This
is true in some places, and undoubtedly
will be true in more. A part of Utah is
now very garden; in Arizona the Salt
River Valley is another. where fruit and
crops and prosperity abound; others
there are that TEEN with both promise
and performance. And yet, suppose,
the whole watered area of Arizona,
where man and beast can flourish, is not
anything like two thousand square miles
while the area of that Territory in total
is close upon one hundred and thirteen
thousand; and so with New Mexico.
western Texas, Utah and Idaho, SIM
liar proportion between desert and fer
tility will be found; their plenty may be
called scarcely more than drop in the
bucket, while in Nevada the thing grows
worse instead of better. Here, save at the
edge, not a stream that rises has strength
to run out, but dies in the sand or in
some evaporated lake; the population
dwindles yearly, and Nevada at present
produces almost nothing except a Sena-
tor or two. So that, on the whole, the
old geography was right, and it is not
until you reach the coast States, Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington, where
there is real rainfall, that an honestly
productive region lies around you in any
abundance.
On Saturday, May %, 1894. man in
this plight was, luckily for him, found
near Fort Bowie by rsnchman, and
taken to the post hospital. where under
treatment he recovered. He seemed flor
his story was shitty, although his state
was pldluI W uhF0 tidNOlou dCHO5e All
IONA from Holbrook southwark, seeking
work. In the San Simon Valley some.
thing happened to him-Indians. or in
toxication, or mania induced by bad
habits; no one feels sure which-and he
lost his horse. and his money and his
way, and after many hours. perhaps a
part of two days, during which he walked
without shoes, binding dead cows hides
in strips about his feet, he turned up,
delirious, stark-naked, and roasted by
the sun over his whole body, so that
later in the hospital his skin faxed off
in sheets as big as ones hand. The
ranchman left him at water trough
below the post, and went for help and
clothes to cover him. Two soldiers came
down and found him tainted. having
drunk the water too freely. His appear
ance was rather worse than Mr.. Lun-
gren's man, for he had long red hair,
and had torn all his clothes off, instead
OF only his shirt. That is the way you
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
A VIEW FROM ARAFAT.

At last we stood upon the summit of
Ararat-but the sun no longer pierced
the white vapor; fierce gale drove
across the forbidden region and whipped
the eye, straining to distinguish the linn
it's of snow and cloud. Vague forms
hurried past on the wings of the whirl-
wind; in place Of the landscape of the
land of promise we searched dense banks
of fog.
We are standing on the spot where
the Ark of Gopher rested, where first
the patriarch alighted on the face of an
earth renewed. Before him lay the val.
leys Of six hundred years of sorrow; the
ARREST pinnacle supported him, a bound.
less hope filed his eyes. The pulse of
life beat strong and fresh around him;
the busy swarms thrilled with sweet
freedom. elect of all living things. In
the settling exhalations stood the bow
of many colors, eternal token of Gods
covenant with man.
The peaks which rose on the distant
borderland where silence had fret fal.
tered into speech were wrapped about
with the wreaths of fancy, palpable
world of cloud. Did we fix our foot up
on these solid landmarks to wish the
vague away, to see the hard SUBMITS
stark and naked and all the floating
realm Of mystery flown? The truth is
firm and it is we'll to touch and feel it
and know where the legend begins; but
the legend itself is truth TRANSPORTED as
the snow distils into cloud. The reality
of life speaks in every syllable of that
solemn, stately tale; divine hope burst
ing the bounds of matter to compromise
with despair. And the ancient noun
tain summons the spirits about him and
wells futile frown as the rising sun IL
lumines the valleys of Asia and the life
of man lies bare.-FrOm "1'he Ascent of
Mount Ararat by II. F. B. Lynch, in
the February Scribner's.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
REINFORCEMENT FOR THE
SOIL,

One is disposed to look at the ocean
as devoid Of vegetable life but in reality
it is stocked with plants which are con.
stantly busy separating materials from
the waste and placing them in available
shape for the use of man. Seaweed is
a very good fertilizer. Farmers pay 5
cents bushel for it. Its use was known
as early as the fourth century.
In 1885 $4,000 worth of seaweed was
used in Rhode Island, while the value
of all the other commercial fertilizers
used in that State was only S164,00O.
The weed is put to many other uses,
being used to stuff mattresses and pill
lows or burned to make soda, iodine and
bromine or manufactured into transpa-
rent leather or hardened into a substi-
tute for bone and horn.
The fishes of the ocean collect materi-
al.useful to man. Nitrogen and phos-
phorus. great elements of plant food
and therefore the best fertilizers, are
collected by oysters and shell fl h.
Some fishes are caught chiefly for their
fertilizing value. As long ago as 1875 the
value of nitrogen derived from menha-
den was estimated at 100000.
1t is believed that the vast phosphate
deposits of Florida are of animal origin,
Ages ago that land was under water in
which swan millions of mollusks. The
shells they left behind formed huge
banks Of lime which rose to the surface.
The rain falling on them brought ele.
ments which charged them with fertili-
zing powers. A professor in chemistry
says that with scientific agriculture and
the agricultural chemist thousand mil
lion people will not crowd the United
States.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
HEARING IN ANIMALS.
Peculiar Way in Which the Lower Order
of Beings Receive Sound.

Insects like grasshoppers. crickets and
locusts have their ears in strange places
some on the middle of the body, others
on the legs, says the New York Post.
Whatever other uses the creatures may
also make of these organs, they are YER
liable auditory organs. In them we find
membrane stretched across a cavity,
with an opening to the external air, and
within the cavity is nerve mass devel-
oped at the end of an auditory nerve.
1t would be hard, indeed, if the chirping
ccada-"the cricket on the hearth"-and
the querulous katydid could not be
heard by their companions. 1t is said
that those pests in the house-the flies
can hear by means of some rows of
corpuscles on the knobbed threads
which represent the hind wings of other
insects. 1t is uncertain whether bees
can hear, If not, then all the labor Of
the old-fashioned beekeeper in beating
tin kettle at swarming time is in vain.
Some naturalists who have tried them
with every kind of sound and noise deny
that they can hear. Others. equally
confident, assert that they are very SEN
sitive to the calls of their queen at least.
Some of the mollusks have very re-
markable organs for hearing. A good
instance is the garden slug. In its neck
you would see under microscopes pair
of globules filed with clear fluid. In
these are minute ear stones. which swing
two and fro, rotate and start off, first in
one direction and then in another, but
in no instance striking the walls of the
cavity. If the globules are ruptured the
motions cease.
A careful angler tells you not to talk
while you are fishing. Probably quiet
conversation will do no harm, but it
must be remembered that fishes have
ears, although sounds from the air may
not reach them. One Of the oldest ar
rangements of all is found in some fishes.
The air bladder sends off fibers which
are attached to membranes stretched
across cavities in the skull, and from
these membranes the vibrations Of sound
are conveyed to the air bladder. Such
is the case with the perch; while, more
strange still, in the carp, little bones aid
the transmission Of sound.
The ears of frogs and toads begin to
approach the type with which we are
most familiar, and very effective ears
they are, too, for pet toad 1 had kept
for several years would always come
from his hiding place when l made
low, kissing sound.
Adders may be deaf" or hard of hear
ing, but reptiles are furnished with ears,
and among them the crocodile has the
rudiments of an outer ear. Birds as
everybody knows, can hear very readily.
and the external cavity is easily found if
the feathers on the side of the skull are
raised. Any one fortunate enough to
get hold of an owl may see very re-
markable opening leading to the drum,
but the tuft of feathers which adorn
the head on each side in some species
cannot be regarded as in any way analo-
gous to our own folds of cartilage.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
STOCK
roll often

The tendency OF the SOW to destroy
her young is unnatural and comes large
ly from improper care and upsanitary
surroundings. 1t is hard to tell what a
SOW will do il she is feverish or worried,
Infanticide is not uncommon among
human beings who are surrounded by
filth and poor sanitary conditions, and
and we can not wonder at the poor
brutes doing the same.
We have learned how to take better
care of the hoge, giving less corn and
more of variety of food and constant
supply of pure water. and there is less
persistent inbreeding to destroy the
vigor and constitution of the pigs. In
other words. hog cholera has been al
most investigated out of existence.
Corn is undoubtedly the handiest aud
most palatable feed for hogs the farm
produces, but, either in the ear or in
neal, il is too rich in fat formers and
too weak in bone and muscle makers to
build up the strong frame and hardy
constitution which are essential to the
cheapest production.
In stock raising consider your tastes
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29

General Valerlano Weyler, of the
Spanish Army. the new Captain Gener.
al of Cuba, is said to be of Irish extrac-
ton, and extremely energetic. He dis
tinguished himself during the Carlist
war, and attracted attention during the
Spanish war against the Moors in Africa.
He is sixty years old. rather an advanced
age to undertake the serious work of
quelling the formidable instruction.
In the death of Philip Reclaim Ger
many has lost one of the great populari-
zers of it's literature. The series Of pa
per-covered German classics and trans
lations sold everywhere for about five
cents number, and of such convenient
size that they could be carried in the
pocket. brought the best reading within
the reach Of every one who cared for it.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
THE UNHAPPY MARIA GE.

When two people have entered into
the relation Of marriage, calling God and
man to witness, they have performed
an act as sacred as as sacrament-one
held in some forms of religious belief to
be indeed sacrament. 1t seems strange
that into the awfulness of anything ap-
preaching sacrament, relation reach
ing back among the mysteries of crea-
ton in its potent results, people should
allow small and trivial concern to make
diesidence.
But in too many marriages this is
what happens. A thoughtless wife
maddens worried husband; an exact
ing husband wearies and wears out
high-spirited wife. Sometimes they
fight it out in the union; and though
harm is done, it is much less harm than
comes in the more public way. Some
times the wronged party has regard to
the speech of people, thinks of others, of
acquaintance, friends. parents, children.
and bears the burden as best it may be
borne; sometimes thinks of duty, and
calls on Heaven for help; sometimes,
when love and happiness are gone, finds
comfort in the love of Heaven. Some
times forgetfulness is nearly attained in,
some one of the thousand pursuits of
science, art, charity, or business. One
thing is certain, that forgetfulness may
be found. And another thing is equally
certain that it is the duty of both par
ties to find it.
Because wife loses her first bloom,
because husband outgrows her intel
lectually, because another has come to
seem loveIier in his eyes, husband is
afforded thereby no excuse whatever
for absolvipg himself from his marriage
vows. Because husband is selfish, be-
cause he is parsimonious or mean, be-
cause he is tyrannical. because he OBJ
jects to her friends, wife has no more
excuse. Life may become all but up-
bearable with him or with her; but if
there are children with future to be
considered, it is to be borne, and duty
and decency must enforce a behavior
before the children that shall hinder
their injury from wrong influences so
far as possible. 1t may be hard to bear;
it may be almost impossible; but self
control is an invaluable ally. The ut.
most frivolity, the utmost indifference
to his wishes, does not justify hus-
band in pulling the cloth from the table
and all the china with it; his pulling the
cloth off does not justify her in putting
herself under the illegal protection of
another man. We do not say, indeed,
that if a husband persists against his
wife's wish in introducing into the fami-
ly an element or a person that the wife
knows to be poisonous to herself or to
her children, or that if the wife persists
against her husbands wish in any cor
responding course, that either party
may not be justified in the determine
ton to live apart from the other. But
there is, at any rate, dignity in separa-
ton that is entirely wanting in divorce.
And surely there is still great deal of
happiness possible in dignified and
virtuous separation, if it is only the hap
piness of acquired peace and freedom
Harper's Bazaar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
Selected Story.
WHAT SHE COULD DO.
BY JULIA S. LAWRENCE.

DLEASE do not think me rebel
i lious, Alice, that I do not ap-
preciate my blessings. l know |
have much for which to be thankful,
but one tires of the monotony of life
sometimes-especially when there is
no prospect of any variety in the
FUTURE" and unconsciously the
speaker glanced down at the crutch
by her side.
"The doctors give you no hope,
then, of ever regaining the use of
your limb9"
Ruth shook her head. "None
whatever" she said, with scarcely
perceptible sigh. Then she forced
herself to smile. at might be great
deal worse, though; I might be con-
fined to the bed all these years, while
now l can 20 about the house as |
please, and even walk on the veranda
pleasant days the views from our
south veranda are fine, you know"
Mrs. Wynn leaned forward to pat
the little hand which lay upon the
crutch.
"You are the bravest girl I ever
knew, Ruth Terrence" she said, inn
pulsively. 81 could not be half as
patient as you are"
"But 1 am not always patient"
Ruth persisted. Indeed, am very
impatient, just now. I long to be
doing something. can't endure the
thought of being dependent all my
days. l want to be independent"
Mrs. Wynn threw out both hands
with comical little gesture. $50
the craze has struck you'll" she cried.
"That is the war cry of the new wo-
man-to be independent Whether
they are happy or useful or-comfor-
table, does not matter, Isuppose. o
Ruth! You will be wishing to vote
next"
Ruth joined in her friends laugh,
but her face lost none of its earnest
ness.
"Surely, Alice, you know l appre-
ciate my home and my friends" she
said, gently; "but, at the same time,
it would make me very happy to be
able to help others who do not have
the comforts l enjoy. would like
to have some money of my own to
give-to earn it, mean. l hate to
be left out of everything SO. Why,
yesterday, when Mrs. Barr called with
her paper for the hospital fund, she
handed it to mamma and to Kitty,
but passed right by me, when, am
sure, | can sympathize with the poor
creatures if any one can. 1t is just
the same when the Missionary collec-
tons are taken; no one seems to
think l should enjoy giving also.
One woman-she did not mean to be
unkind, of course-said it would not
be right to ask Ruth for anything, as
her whole life was sacrifice"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
Instructive Reading for AgricuIturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERsALIsTo

and opportunities, and then follow out
the plan you have laid down until YOU
become known in connection with the
production of some specially, and when
any one wants thing in your line he
will come directly to you to buy, feeling
certain that it will always be of the
very best.
Where lands are high and the mark
cts good we must change our custom to
meet the issues of the times. and pro-
duce poultry, spring lambs, prime NUT
ton, high grade export beef, and high
class horses; we already raise the best
hogs in the world. This very procedure
is to yet redeem the New England
States.
1t has been demonstrated that, when
fed with heterogeneous foods, cornfodder
has feeding value equal to 90 per cent,
OF the same weight of timothy hay. You
farmers, think of this when you are feed
ing the hay which is worth from $40 to
500 ton while the cornfodder stands
wasting in the fields.
As grain growing becomes less re-
munerative live stock is essential to the
independence and prosperity of the farm
or, and to the keeping up the fertility of
the soil. No farmer can raise wheat and
buy his stock for meat and his horses;
neither can the Southern farmer raise
cotton and send North for his mules and
bacon.
The Australian newspapers recon-
mend quack grass as a valuable fodder,
thriving in any soil and coming up first
in the spring. and because cattle are
very fond of it. This may do while it is
grazing country, but when cultivated
crops take the place of sheep raising it
will be seen in another light. Let US
fight shy of it here.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29

begin when you have reached the stage
where your tongue is black and too big
to move in the space of your mouth.
You see streams, and finally lakes, and
undress to battle in them.
This Fort Bowie man, with baths of
bicarbonate of soda and with dressings
Of oil, and with diet of cracked ice,
and later little milk, recovered.-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29

There's mine of comfort for you and me
In homely bit of truth;
We we're tenderly taught, at the mothers knee
In happy days of youth.
1t is, what If the road be long and steep,
And we too weak to climb?
OR, what though the darkness gather deep?
We take one step time.
A single step and again step.
Until by safe degrees,
The milestones passed, we win at last
Home, when the king shall please.
And the strangest thing is often this
That the briery, tangled spots,
Which cumber our feet, should De thlck ana
sweet,
With our Lords forgetme-nots.
1t matters little the pace we take,
If we journey sturdily on,
With the burden-bearer's steady gait,
Till the days last hour is gone;
Or II, with the dancing foot of the child,
Or the halting step of age.
We keep the goal, in the eye of the soul,
Through the years of our pilgrimage.
And yet, in the tramp of appointed days.
This thing must sometimes be,
That we falter and pause and bewildered gaze,
For the road has led to the sea.
And the foeman's tread is on our track
As once on the booming coast
Where the children of Israel, looking back,
Saw Pharaoh's threatening host
Then clear from the skies our leaders voice,
$50 forward" bids us dare.
Whatever we meet, with fearless feet,
And the might of trustful prayer,
SO, ever advancing day by day,
In the Masters strength sublime.
Even the lame shall take the prey.
Marching one step at time.
And what of the hours when hand and foot
We are bound and laid aside;
With the fevered vein and the throbblng pain,
And the world at its low ebb tide?
And what of our day of the broken heart,
When all that our eyes can see
Is the vacant space, where the vanished face
OF our darling used to be?
Then, waiting and watching and almost spent
Comes peace from the Lords own hand,
In his blessed will, If we rest content,
Though we cannot understand.
And we gather anew our courage and hope,
For the road so rough to climb,
With trial and peril we well may cope
One single step at time.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
AIlH}|IEz' EEk ]|I.jl,Ill }lF 1l(I'|!
THE QUEST.

o. Time, where hast thou laid
My Self of yesterday?
Where at his tomb prayed,
leone again to pray
'Tis empty! Who hath bither strayed
And taken him away?
London Spectator.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-29
ONE STEP AT A TIME.

BY MARGARET f. sANGsTER.
, 1896-09-12
From the Dominjcon 2OM AugtsL)


Tie Canadian liner "TNm1ath Castle.
returned from the South ON Friday last, and
took u for Bermuda and Canal" $50 casks
picked lines ! poncheoo, 3 hoSsaead" aud
20 casks ia" and Al ho-Sheld concentrated
lime JUICE 20 barrels and l9l bags sugar
II barrels aud 81 boX"s oranges; 3 bags
cooo', and II packages sun try and left IN
the evening fol Antigua.
-
u shortened by the want af encourage
mont that has attended the service Of our OLD
friend Tyne to run between Grenada and
Trinidad, with an occasional call at ports in
the South American Republics, the Royal
Mail team Packet Company determined to
discontinue her itinerary among those places ;
it having been found within the short time
of three months to have even been more
Improbable than when that vessel was
engaged III the service Of tho Colony of tho
LeewArI Islands, and her new contract with
the islands above mentioned ceased on Mon
Evening star., 1896-08-25

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