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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
HORTICULTURE.

Humboldt said that in destroying the
forests upon our mountains and in our
valleys men have. under all chimes. pre-
pared for subsequent generations two
calamities at once-lack of fuel and a
want of water.
If you pasture the young orchard,
first put such guard about the trees
that the stock can reach neither trunk
nor branch. Even if not killed, many
young tree is thus deformed forever.
1t is not wise to bank the celery with
earth during hot weather. This way OF
doing is what makes so much celery
rusty. Use boards for bleaching un-
til cool weather sets in.
One of the many things which it is
necessary for the grower of Strawberries
to know is that pistillate varieties will
stand frost better than the staminates.
II planting in the fall, remember this.
Disease most readily attacks both the
plant or the animal which is the least
thrifty. Give the orchard or the garden
good start, and then push them right
along, and you are pretty safe.
Mulching of the berry patches may
often be delayed until January; then
apply thickly between the rows to retain
moisture in the spring, and light chaff
directly on the rows, to be rRked off if
need be.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
POULTRY Y.

Ia hot weather, in particular. sour or
fermented grain. or food spoiled or im-
pure is prime cause of disease if given
to fowls; it is almost equal to unclean
quarters and stagnant drinking water.
Neither are good eggs produced from
such food.
In hot, damp weather chickens are
subject to diarrhea. Do not become
frightened, mistaking it for cholera.
Put pulverized charcoal in their food
and a little alum in their drinking
water.
Do not wash the eggs. but rub them
with damp clotN when brought into
the house; they will then look bright
and clean when taken to market. There
is more than little in the appearance
of things
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
THE CURSE OF THE POOR.

| believ, the experience of everyone
who lives and has lived among the poor,
whether it be Catholic priest or Protee.
tant clergyman. Sister of Charity or dis
trict visitor. charity organization agent
or Brother of st. Vincent de Paul, will
bear me out in my conviction that nine
tenths. if not ninety-nine hundredths, of
the actual restitution among the poor
is to be traced, directly or indirectly, to
habits Of drink. 1t is not, as a general
rule, the drunkard himself who has to
pay the heaviest penalty, at least in this
world, for his intemperance. 1t is too
often the helpless wife and the neglected
children who have to bear the burden of
their fathers sin. There is scarcely a
city or town in the whole world from
which all abject poverty would not prac-
tically disappear if the vice of drunken
ness could be banished.
OF course there are, besides, a num-
Der of instances of restitution in no
way connected with drink. The sudden
death or long illness of the breadwinner
of the family will, from time to time,
cause very acute phase of misery and
want. The poor, helpless mother, with
her hungry brood, is as sad sight as
we'll can be. But such cases are excep-
tional. and men do not legislate for ex-
ceptions. Such needs can easily be met
and are met in every we'll. organized
community, by Christian charity. They
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agriculturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERSALIST."

return. Keep nothing on hand from
now until next April which does not
show some good earning capacity.
Hogs do better when fed in small lots,
for some fatten better than others, and
so get more than their due proportion of
food. The same hint will apply to the
housing and feeding of calves. The
stronger will drive the weaker ones
away from the feed troughe, and worry
and bully those which can not 80 we'll
defend themselves. Those not thrifty.
or for any reason needing extra care or
feed, stand even poorer chance than
they otherwise would.
1t is mistake to breed immature
animals, especially with pigs. The
progeny of such are usually weak.
scrawny, diseased mites, and make
poor showing when compared with pigs
of older and more mature stock. Shoats
from maturer stock ave better start
because larger, and are more proftablel
to feed.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
DAIRY.

No other matter about the farm will
so poorly stand being made thing of
secondary interest as the dairy. A very
little neglect will go long way toward
destroying the profit. Neglect is sure
to attend that which is not of first
consideration.
The best profit from dairying comes
from the manufacture of gilt edged but
ter for private customers Make this
your aim; and then do not be too indif.
ferent to hunt for the customers.
Wisconsin has become one of the
great dairying States of the Union, and
the cause is directly traceable to the
Institutes and the attention which has
been taken to educate farmers up to
the appreciation of the value of the silo.
No danger of her overriding the thing.
Never have two purposes about it,
but buy your COWS for the dairy with
express reference to the dairy type. If
you chance to get one which will make
good beef in the end, count that as an
extra gain, but do not expect it or buy
it with that in view. If the good beef
qualities predominant, lose no time in
making the good beef of her.
Do not put milk into closely covered
cans Immediately after milking, as by
so doing it will be forced to retain any
foul odors it may have absorbed. By
aerating, all animal and other odors
may be removed, and this is the better
way to treat milk which is to be set for
cream in covered cans, or to be put into
cans for immediate shipment or deliv-
cry; but some milk comes from the
stable too rank to be worth giving very
much care. 1t will be folly to preach
the finer principles Of good darying to
him who has never learned his first les
sone. Many farmer does not know
good milk from bad.
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A|lHE EkMlEYT 10INE
CARE AND cARELEssNEss.

I care not that the storm sways all the
trees,
And floods the plain and blinds my
trusting sight.
1 only care tLat DER the land and seas
Comes sometimes loves perpetual peace
and light.
care not if the thunder cloud be black
Till that last instant when my work is
done.
I only care that DER the gloomy rack
Flames forth the promise OF constant
I care not if in years of such despair
reach in vain and seize no purpose
vast.
7 only care that sometime, somewhere,
MAY find a meaning shining at the last
I care not if child in life's high tower,
l grasp in vain at many ropes above;
I pray to catch one dangling cord,-tor
power
To wiring one note of Gods unfailing
F. w. GUNsAULUs.
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are also OF their very nature only tenn
porary. Even the poor widow left des-
titute with half dozen little ones. il
she is at all deserving. is sure to find
friends and obtain employment. The
pinch Of poverty may be severe for a
time, but in our complex civilization
there is work for all who have willing
hands and an honest heart. Add to
this that the advance of habits of thrift,
the increased facilities for insurance,
and the growing sense of duty of pro
viding for such contingencies make the
occurrence of acute cases Of unforeseen
distress tend continually to diminish.
There is another point that is worth
considering.
Does large family tend in the long
run to greater poverty? 1t may for the
first few years after marriage. But this
is not, as a rule, the time when the
pinch is felt. Both father and mother
are in the prime of their health and
strength. and the difficulty of finding
sufficient means of support is, in the
case of the industrious and sober, ex.
ceedingly rare. 1t is usually in later
life that the pinch comes, il it comes at
all. 1t is when middle age, or life of
hard labor, or some unforeseen sickness
or accident. brings with it lessened en-
ergy and the need of more generous
living. 1t is when the hair begins to
grow gray. and the once upright form is
bowed by advancing years, that hunger
and poverty are most to be dreaded
North american ReUielU.
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Original Story
THE WAY CLIFF ARMSTRONG
FOOLED MRS. BROWN.
BY HELEN sTOwELL.

NOU see it was this way. Our
i Sunday-school always gives
a cantata at Christmas time,-and
pretty hard work it is, getting every
thing ready, l can tell you.
We have to give our entertain
ments in the church room, because
there is no place else to give them.
Smithfeld is Just little country
town, you know. So there is the stage
to build, the curtain to put up, and
foot lights, and dear only knows
what all else to get into place; be-
sides making the costumes, and train
ing the children, which takes no end
of time and patience, as any body
knows that ever tried it. 1t wouldn't
be such hard work if everybody
would come and do what they could
to help along, but lots and lots of
the members never come near to do
a thing, unless you call dropping in
the church after the work is all done
and finding fault-doing some
thing.
So that is the way it happens that
nearly everything depends upon
Brother Banks and Miss Stanley
poor dear brother Banks who rides
circuit in all kinds of weather, preach
ing twice every Sunday and trying
with all his might to please every
body; and I will say right here, if
all his other churches are as poor
pay, and as miserable to get along
with as Smithfeld, | for one would
be willing to sit up nights sympa-
thizing with him.
AS for Miss Stanley, l don't see
how the Sunday school could ever be
kept up without her. Anybody else
going through what she does with
that class of bad boys would have
given up in despair long ago, but she
never seems to loose her patience,
and is always just as sweet and love-
ly as she can be.
The Sunday-school had been in
training for the cantata that l am
going to tell you about for weeks
and weeks, Miss Stanley leading
the singing and Brother Banks play
ing the organ until it had worked
round to the evening of the first
dress rehearsal.
The big boys had coaxed old Mr..
Dolberry, who is kind of carpenter
land never known to pay a cent
into the church, to help them build
the stage that day-and he had
growled, growled about it from the
time he commenced until he got
through.
Miss Stanley drove in early-she
lives quite out of town-her buggy
loaded down with boxes and baskets
holding the beautiful costumes her
skillful fingers had fashioned.
There were angel costumes with
great white wings, and costumes for
goddesses, and lovely fairy costumes
all bespangled with gold and silver
starr, and golden crowns and the cut
est little Brownie suits and-but |
couldn't begin to tell you half, nor
could you ever guess how trouble.
some and tedious they all were to
make, unless you have had some ex-
perience in that kind of work your
self.
am very much afraid there wasn't
anybody who quite appreciated how
much of her precious time Miss
Stanley gave to the making of those
costumes, for Miss Stanley is a hard
worked music teacher, with very little
time to spare.
But if ever there was a devoted
Christian she's one, and it isn't the
kind of Christianity that has to be
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abr. Temple" says the diarist of the
Speaker, sis credited with saying many
clever things in his harsh. abrupt way;
ard though most of these sayings, which
have been reported, are distinctly I'M
pleasant, they have no flavor of malice
or meanness about them. Only yester-
day heard story regarding his sharp
ness of speech, which. l believe. has
never been printed. A certain clergy
man who had been offered a suffragan,
bishopric. went to see DIR. Temple to con-
suit him on the subject. Like modest
man, he began by speaking of his own
deficiencies in respect to the high Office
which had been offered to him. Il am
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-19
AGRICULTURE.

1t is predicted that before many years
the sunflower will come into general
cultivation in this country. 1t has no
superior for vigor. rapid growth and
prolific yield of seed, leaves and stalks.
all of which can be utilized.
Farmers, as a rule, are honest and
trustworthy, and merchants are ready
to give them credit; but it stands to rea-
son that they must either charge inter-
est or add sufficient to the price of goods
to cover the loss from tying up their
money. Take no advantage of credit if
it can be avoided.
1t is much easier, quicker and cheaper
to husk the corn into boxes and load and
haul them to the cribs than to pursue
the old method. This also affords a
handy way for measuring the corn with
considerable exactness.
One reason for the low average of
many crops is that we do not fight in
sect enemies promptly enough. There
should be no delay in dealing with them.
No labor is saved in waiting to make
general onslaught when they are about
taking field.
In sowing grass or clover on poor land
do not be stingy with the seed The
poorer the land the more seed will fail
to terminate. This holds good with al
most any other crop, too; and the same
precaution must be taken with land
which has been but half prepared for
planting.
Ii you purpose to practice level cult.
walton OF your potatoes next season, be
very careful to drain your land properly
first. Otherwise the experiment may
prove very unsatisfactory.
No line of business undergoes more
legitimate changes than farming. No
class is SO slow to realize this, however
as the farmers themselves. The average
move in the tracks of their fathers, con-
tent with few acres of this and that
just state of ease and stagnation. This
barely living by the hardest has tend
ency to drive away from their rural
homes the coming generations, who
would be content to stay under more in
teresting conditions.
The best profits are procured by hsv.
ing good crops in poor seasons. He who
by thorough culture puts his land in
such shape that it will stand the bad
effects of severe rains or of unusual
drouths, and has it rich enough to resist
epidemics of insect enemies and disease,
is sure to avoid many of the misfortunes
of his neighbours; even when crops are
good universally his larger crops put him
10 the lead.
The capabilities of the soil are best
shown by succession of the various
crops to which it is adapted In this
way green manuring can be procured
with regularity, and without manuring
comparatively little farm land can be
made to pay at all. A good rotation Of
crops makes farming a much safer bust
ness than haphazard work.
One among the many hopeful signs OF
the times is the manifest effort of agr-
culturists, horticulturists and scientists
to determine positively what is the best
special manure for each of the crops.
The importance. indeed the necessity, of
this determination in the present condi.
ton of the business of huebandry is too
evident to need argument.
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AS A STAR.

Oh. if a man could be but as star,
Having his place appointed, here to rise
And there to set, unchanged by earthly
change.
Content if it can guide some wandering
bark,
Or be beacon to some home-sick soul!
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL.
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REQUIEM.

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did l live and gladly die,
And laid me down with will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where be longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
-RoBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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not good preacher he remarked,
plaintively. 4 know you're not; I've
heard your snapped the bishop in reply"
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LdGe SupplnS lOroedf
Wine and women l forswear;
My neck and feet keep from cold;
No marvel, then, tho l be old.
l am willow, not an oak;
l chide, but never hurt with stroke.
If thou be free, become not bound;
If wrapped in debt, or, likewise, found
Deceived by choice of wicked wife,
Thank God, but still beware of strife.
If she do chide, no answer give;
Her wants supply, her griefs relieve;
Rejoice in her, and please her still,
And always let her have her will"
Great Saint Helen's is done scant
justice by so cursory a note as this
amounts to. for it is so full of interest
to so many sorts OF specialists, and tc
the general public as well, that it is
easily third in importance among the
churches Of London. in spite of the fact
that no guide-book that l saw made
mention Of it.-Julian Ralph. Ia Har.
per's Weekly,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-02-21
fsaptist Church.

Services at the First Baptis, church
for Sunday as follows:
Sunday school $3.50 q. m.
Congregational singing from II q.
IN. to 1920, every body be on time
and bring your book.
1l:2O a. "a. if present the text viii
bc announced. Theme. "Can and
Should the Soul be Educated, and
if so Why
Sunbeam society p. IN, b. Y. +.
:. p. m.
To this society the cid and young
.re cordially invited,
Programs. ;. lesson songs and
tssays.
Prayer and praise service : p. m.
Preaching 1880 p. m. when will
the Manumissions of Soul and Bod
Take Place -
All are cordially invited and espe-
cially the strangers soiourning with
in the city and a kind and hearty in
vitation by pastor and members, "a
those who are not in the habit OF Al
tending services elsewhere.
j You've, pastor.
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Sunday services: Subject of morn
ing sermon, The Living Soul, 4"
Gen. ii, :.
For the evening, "True Religion, :"
Matt. VII, n.
Sunday school at e:45. We extend
a cordial invitation TO all to worship
with us. g.. {. MCKINLEY, Pastor.
causoerland Presbyterian Church.
Service for the Sabbath rs fol-
lows:
II =. ~ subject Against thy self
with God " job xxi, 2l.
1880 p. m. Ca song services, lbl
Sermon, and call to unsaved.
Sunday school and Endeavor rs
usual. Come and worship with Us.
J. +. AwBREY, Pastor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-02-21
THE TOWNSHIP CLAUSE.
The Dawes connissIon BIn a. Amended
b. the IadIsn Affairs ssb-co@nIttss .
-BeeIaIae Of Legislation.

The Kansas Civ Journal of yester-
day. under a Washington date line,
published an outline ~ the amended
Dawes commission bill. which besides
the features given in the ARDNouErTT
of yesterday contains the town>itc
provision. That clause is a. 6 ..n
The tOwnsite clause psuy,-
commission. 10 b. seic- t.
Dawes cummi ,s1pu. The ,t...
Indians. shall apf.ss-.
he land upon wti s.4
ingS or Improvements al
estimating the value outside %. ....-
provements. aud the party occupying
the same j. given siX months 20
tender payment 20 cover rappFaiscment.
If the tribal council approves the
appraisement and the Occupal s
make payment. aud the trios gives
decd to the same. closing the trans
action, the United States Is not To
object or interfere. This provision
i inserted with the claim that IL will
give title to townsitc property. but ii
j. looked upon - cumbruu-. and u h.
thought that the tribal councils will
not approve, thus making u inopcr-
ative.
Arrangements were made for the
house committee on Indians aIairs
Ia hear the Dawes commission tumor-
row in support Of the bill This Is
the beginning of congressional work
relating 10 the Indian country.
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A Coming Event.

On Monday night February p,
the Ladies Aid Society of the Chris
tian church will give an entertain
ment at the opera house. The pro-
gramme is the most elaborate of
any similar undertaking ever at
tempted in Ardmore. 1t consists
of drills for children, ranking accord
ing to their ages; a military and
spectacular taper drill, by Ardmore's
most beautiful young ladies; panto-
mines and recitations by compe-
tent local talent. This promises to
be a highly delightful affairs and one
that should be given a liberal sup
port from our people. Encourage
home talent.
Mr.. and Mrs. W, a. Ledbetter
went to Gainesville yesterday after
noon, returning home on the mid
night train.
James Paulk, a leading merchant
and banker of Davis, was in the city
today.
Jesse L. Jordan of Marietta, is at
the Wisnor.
VIII Rennie, of Tishomingo, is at
the Wisnor.
Did you know that the ARDMoREITE
is headquarters for fine job printing
The best of stock and urequaled
workmanship.
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determined By jury. The News last
week contained an account of the
arrest Of trio of cattle thieves by
Deputy Jim Malta. IL rfht IN
Jesse Cav and J.a 8uus, e..e-f
three ehargcs- narNey sa-ys ~as
turned over 20 Preston Keys and
Frank Kimbler, who were instructed
10 20 10 John Clemens place with the
prisoner. They did uoI 10 this. but
put up for the night M Foster.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-02-21
THE DAWES BILL.
House Committee on indian Affairs Con
sIderinR Il. Chairman Dawes Cham
pIOns the Measure.

WAsHINGToN, Feb. Ex-senator
Dawes Of Massachusetts. chairman of
the Dawes Indian commission. today
appeared before the house committee
on Indian affairs in support of tie
bill introduced in the house Yesterday
embodying the views Of the commits
sion. He explained at great length
the situation among the five civilized
tribes and the manner i'm which the
white Indians were absorbing all the
best lands by obtaining leases. Ia
the Cherokee nation. he said. I.lOO.OJO
acres out of 3.CJO.C,J were leased to
siXty-Une firms and individuals. In
one case, he said. a white man mar
ried woman who was nre-sixteenth
Cherokee. BY that marriage. accord
ing TO the laws of the council. he BE-
came Cherokee and now holds 10000
acres without paying a cent into the
nations treasury.
lie described how PENNSYLVANIA coai
experts had told the Indians where
to discover coal and i'm view OF their
discovery" had obtained the use cf
the lands which they had leased 60
coal operators forever al a ridiculous
I " low figure. Every foot Of the vast
coal deposits was, he said. now cover
ed by these leaders. The trouble. ne
said. was with the Indian court :.
which were corrupt, and with the
councils. which were dominated by
the white Indians. whom he said
were The kccneNt politicians hc had
ever seen.
In support of his charge a. to the
corruption or the courts he described
how verdictS had been openly offered
for sale. lie said there was an utter
pcrvcrSiun OF the functions nf govern
mcnt in the nations and change
such a. was proposed ia the bin sub
mitted would require executive ap-
lproval % the acts OF councils. give
the United States courts jurisdiction
o.. an land questions and provide foF
the revocation uf certain leases and
would prevent the real Indians. fuI
whom the government was cstabli,ii-
ed. from becoming TIE prey OF dc>iga-
ing whites.