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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agriculturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERSALIST."


throw away the S25 and be saved the
clre? And just such neighborhoods are
to be found everywhere.
1t was once usual thing to see the
farmers coming into town in the spring
and summer with the colts following
and the number of colts has become
very small. The low price at which the
services of first class sires can now be
procured and the stimulus of better
demand for good horses will soon make
change again.
Corn on the cob, we'll ground, with
half the bulk of oats, and mixed with
cut hay, makes a valuable rati on for
both horses and cows. The German
cavalry keep just such supply for their
horses. Not even the ruminant cow will
digest whole grains without waste. The
horse does worse.
1t is a mistake to train the young colt
too long with the old horse. Let farm
ere awaken to the fact that the fast
walker is the valuable animal, whether
for the farm. the road. the street or for
any description of work of practical
kind.
A horse in the harvest field will be
helped more by lunch" between meals
than by an increase of food at the regu-
lar times; in fact. his ration should be
fixed and never enlarged. in usual con-
ditions, and he should have ample time
ia which to eat it.
One great advantage to the common
farmer which draft horses have over
those of lighter weight is that they
need little or no training to fit them for
use. While to find ready sale the driv-
ing horse must be of some beauty and
style and developed speed. and taught
not to fear steam or electric cars, the
larger horse grows up to his work with
out special preparation.
When a horse is off his feed or slightly
ailing from any cause, bran mashes with
good nursing will usually bring him
around all right; and nothing is better
IOr QOrB6 Ludu an OCCdSlOudl leu Vi
roots, carrots, potatoes or turnipe. The
effect of half peck of these regularly
for a morning meal will be quickly
shown.
A horse is particular as to the water
he drinks, yet will become accustomed
to any fit for human use. Train him to
take it before feeding. The working
horse is likely to take more than is good
for him if given access to it while
heated; at such times let him Inoisten
his throat. and take his freer drink later.
In the.best managed stables grooms
are taught that horses can be better
managed by kindness than by severity,
and he who strikes or kicks horse, or
even swears at one, is promptly dis
charged. This is business, not senti
ment; and do not be cruel to the horse
ia the use of the currycomb about the
bonys partsof his legs.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
Danger In Woman Suffrage.

The spectacle of great numbers of
most humane and excellent women TAX
ing up such cause with passion that
would undoubtedly lead them, if they
possessed political power. to subordi-
nate to it all the great interests of party
or national welfare, has probably done
as much as any other single thing to
shake the confidence of cool observers
in the political capacities of women. 1t
is true that they are not alone in their
crusade; but it is only necessary to look
down any annual list of subscriptions in
such societies to perceive now enormous
ly the female element preponderates. In
the administration of justice; in meas
ures relating to distress and power y
that may be mainly due to improvideuce
or vice; in all questions of peace and
war, such spirit would prove most dan
gerous. There have been ages in which
insensibility to suffering was the pre-.
vailing vice of public opinion. In our
own there is, perhaps, more to be feared
from wild gusts of unreasoning, uncal.
culating, hysterical emotion. A due
sense of the proportions of things; an
adequate subordination of impulse to
reason; an habitual regard to the ulti-
mate and distant consequences of polit-
ical measures; sound, sober, and un-
exaggerated judgment, are elements
which already are lamentably wanting
in political life. and female influence
would certainly not tent to increase
hem.-W. E. Fl. Lecky. in democracy
and Liberty."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
THE GLACIER KING.

Among those upon whom Harvard
University conferred honorable degrees
this year was John Muir, the naturalist.
He was friend of Emerson, of Agassiz,
OF Gray, of Sir Joseph Hooker, OF the
Lecontes, and of Professor Runkle. He
has given his life to science, away from
the companionships of learned men,
away from the centers of educational
activity. This man has located almost
seventy glaciers among the Sierra peaks,
where the leading biologists supposed
there were none. He roved among desc.
late canyons and had his bed in desolate
valleys. Twenty years ago he was in
Alaska. and discovered Glacier bay and
the glacier which bears his name. A
contributor to The Century once wrote of
him: "The name of John Muir is insep.
arably connected with the Yosemite
Valley and the Alpine regions of Sierra
Nevada, and the glaciers of Alaska,
the greatest Of which bears his name.
When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited
the Yosemite Valley. Muir was his guide
for week. and on his return Emerson
said of him: He is more wonderful than
Thoreau.' OF Emerson. Muir wrote:
He is the Sequoia of the human race
When Agassiz and Joseph Leconte met
in San Francisco. and were talking
about the glaciers of the Pacific coast
Professor Leconte remarked that John
Muir knew more about the subject than
any other man. Yes said Agassiz. bring.
his hand down on the table by way of
emphasis, he knows all about it,"
At sixty Mr.. Muir is still strong and
a good mountain climber. Seventeen
years ago he married fruit growers
daughter in Costa Rica, and has his own
vines and fig trees to attend to now. He
has written little. though his Mount
Shasta" condenses great deal of poeti-
cal beauty into scientific treatment of
nature.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
How the Savage Learned to Laugh.

just as the hoof of a horse is the
remnant of an original five toes. just as
the pineal gland in man is now said to
be the survival of prehistoric eye on
the top of the head, so perhaps, this
levity in regard to particular ailments
Tin others) may be the descendant of an
ab original ferocity in man. 1t is we'll
known theory that what we call humor
arose from the same source; that the
first human laugh that ever woke the
astonished echoes of gloomy primeval
forests was net an expression of mirth,
but exultation over the misery of tor
tured enemy. There is to this day
something terrible 10 laughter. The
laugh of madness or of cruelty is a
sound more awful than that of the bit
terest lamentations. By means of that
strange photograph that we call litera.
ture we can listen even now to the
laughter of the dead; to the hearty
outlaws or cynical titterings of genera
ton after generation of bygone men
and women; and if we are curious in
such matters we can probe into the ma
ture of the changes that have passed
over the fashion of mems humor. For
it has been said. not without the sup
port of weighty cumulative evidence,
that, as we penetrate further into the
past. we find the sense of humor depend
ing always more obviously and solely
upon the enjoyment of the pain, misfor.
tune, modification or embarrassment Of
others. The sense of superiority WAS the
sense of humor in our ancestors; or, in
other words, vanity lay at the root of
this, as of most other attributes of our
bumptious species. Putting ear to our
photograph we catch the echoes of a
strange and merry tumult; boisterous,
cruel, often brutal, yet with here and
there a tender cadence from some soil
tary voice. and presently this note
grows stronger and sweeter, as we tray
Ell slowly toward our own time, until at
length, through all the merriment, we
can hear the soft undermurmur Of pity.
Does the picture not sieze the imagina-
tion-the long laughter Of the ages
which begins in cruelty and ends in
e?-Westminster Gazette.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
ROULTKY.

Milet is an excellent food for poultry.
Nothing could be better for feeding
young chicks, or hens which are not al
lowed free range. 1t can be raised as
easily as rye, and yields good crop.
Why it is not more cultivated we can
not understand.
Early goslings are the best. but rails.
ing them is very difficult. They need no
mother except for few nights. to &C.
custom them to their coop, which should
be good one; after that they will do
we'll if properly attended to. II we'll
kept they will mature in two years.
Geese are not raised often, because of
the prejudice against them; becoming
annoyed with their noise, the owners
get rid of them before they know their
true worth. No matter how old. they are
desirable if they will keep fat on good
pasture. An average one should weigh
nine pounds. II we'll kept they will
raise two broods year.
Geese are more hardy and less trouble
than either chickens or turkeys, and the
profits are much larger. During the
summer all they need is good pasture.
They begin laying when but scar old.
and from dozen geese and three or
four ganders one should receive 400
eggs in season.
Express companies are fattening on
crates of live poultry which should be
dressed and shipped at half the expense.
and sell much better. Therefore. ship
more dressed poultry and pay less
charges. To get the best prices ship to
some large grocer. packing we'll in ice, if
too far to take in the wagon. The re-
frigerator freight car is cheaper than
express.
Men who ship live poultry 10 the
crowded condition often received at the
city market should be prosecuted fer
cruelty; and there is much suffering be-
cause of lack of food and water on the
journey. Thousands of fowls die en-
route. Better keep them at home and
bury them for fertilizer upon their ma
tive fields.
The average farmer does not care
much about color in eggs, neither, prob
ably, does the average country market
but for the fancy market they must be
of the required color. New York seems
to wish white eggs. while Boston prefers
the brown. Remember that a crossing
in breeds Of any kind will not give eggs
of uniform appearance.
While there is not so much money got
from the sale of poultry and eggs from a
single farm as from some of the crops,
there is more clear gain, and the receipts
are almost constant during the whole
year. II proper attention were given
the fowls. and proper encouragement
given the "women folks" the receipts
would grow surprisingly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
A6RICULTURE.

In dry weather keep the cultivator in
constant use in the corn field stirring
the surface soil, for this maintains the
mulch in the most effective condition.
Never plant any more acres with this
grain than you have teams with which
to stir aud loosen the ground promptly
after each shower, which compacts the
surface.
In Connecticut the law went into ef-
feet in July which was passed two OF
three years ago. allowing no wagon to
haul ton which has not three inch
tire; ton and half require one OF
four inches. IL the law would provide
that the rear axle must be six or eight
inches longer than the front one. such
wagons would become regular road
makers.
New Jersey has taken the lead in good
roads; every region where the improve.
ments have been made farm lands bring
better prices and farm products bring
larger profits, because more easily and
cheaply got to market. The same pair
of horses can draw double the load ii
could on soft roads, and regardless OF
the weather or rains.
Cut fresh meat into pieces suitable
for roasting or boiling, put into stone
crooks and cover with buttermilk;
if kept in cool place, such meat will
keep for week or two in the hottest
weather, and lose none of it's good quail
tiles. 1t is we'll to change the milk every
few days.
To measure your fields, put handles to
a bolt or pin running through the hub
of an old wheel; go around the sides or
across the field each way, pushing the
wheel before you. Have the wheel
marked that you may readily count the
revolutions; knowing the circumference
exactly, the length of the field is easily
calculated.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29

what became of the ring that Mr.. Bee
cher gave her. Il wore it for years."
she answered. "After his death be-
came more attached to it than ever.
But on the day that Queen Victoria
knighted Henry Irving took the ring
from my finger and gave it to him in
honor Of the occasion. Sir Henry now
wears Mr.. Beecher's ring. and will wear
it as long as he lives"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
SHEEP.


If you are not even able to buy small
flock of pure bred or high grade sheep,
put all you can advantageously in pure
bred ram, and afterwards do all you can
in buying good ewes. The flock will in
crease rapidly, not only in numbers, but
in worth.
II prepared to keep the flocks under
good shelter in all bad weather, the one
medicine which can be used to advan-
tage for almost all sheep diseases is sui
phur. Throw it in their feed boxes or
! on the ground where their feed is
thrown. Have no fear of doing harm
with it.
When sheep want salt they seem to
want it bad, and any disappointment
when they come to their clicking place"
seems to set them back. They need salt
as we'll as food and water, and need it as
positively as do other animals. Never
les the supply become exhausted.
One night of slush and cold north rain
will kill the lambs and impair the health
OF the older sheep if they be not shelter
ed in dry, warm place. Build the sheep
shelters where these northers can not
blow through, and where the heavy
rains can not drench them.
The farm which is run for all it is
WORTH" cultivated and cropped closely,
and stocked to its fullest capacity, may
yet have room for a flock of sheep. They
will crowd out nothing else, and will do
their full share in adding to the profit of
the seasons work.
With fair demand for mutton, with
fancy prices obtainable for early lambs.
with the small, but sure receipts from
the fleece, and with the rapid natural in
crease, there is but small chance for a
loss from a small number of sheep we'll
handled, and the care and room and cost
will be we'll returned.
Grow the mutton breeds of sheep if
you are near market where you can
sell meat, and let the fleece be second
airy consideration. Grow the wool breeds
if distant from market. or if you are go
ing to keep sheep in large flocks. This
is the long and the short of the choice
between them.
There is as good an opening for profit
able work in the breeding OF high class,
pure bred rams as in any branch of the
live stock business. There is steadily
increasing demand for them, and it is
quite time we gave up our dependence
upoh England for the improvement of
our fiocks.
When you dip sheep do it thoroughly,
that the preparation may have time to
penetrate to the skin and reach every
diseased or infested spot Protect the
ears, eyes and nostrils with the hand,
and souse them clear under. Even take
time to scrub the scabby spots with
brush while in the bath.
In trying to improve the mutton
quality of sheep do not lessen the value
of the fleece so much that you can gain
nothing in the end. With the Merino
for foundation, there is perhaps no
better cross than with the Shropshire
Downs. The bony Merino frame is thus
soon covered with plump, juicy meat,
while the fleece is not lessened.
The fine grass of the hills is especially
attractive to sheep, but the long wool
breeds are at home in the rich. level
pastures, and do we'll if the soil lie dry.
They are not such rovers as the Merinos.
but are content to fill up, lie down and
fatten and let their wool grow. They
make wool and mutton rapidly and pro-
fitably.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29

To the sea-shells spiral round
'Cis your heart that brings the sound;
The soft sea murmurs that you hear
Within are captured from your ear.
You do poets and their song
A grievous wrong.
If your own soul does not bring
To their high imaging
AS much beauty as they sing.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
Original in THE UNIvERsALIsT
CONTENT TO WAIT.
BY MARY c. BILLINGS.

Content to wait:
Nor seek the proof of life immortal
Beyond deaths gate.
In faith, believing that its portal
Will open wide;
When on this side
The earthly to its own is given.
And mortal ties that bind to clay, are riyen.
Waiting content:
While In that silent, long procession,
Our loved ones went
Beyond times sweep, to take possession
of heavenly homes,
Where grief neer comes;
Our severed lives still here remaining,
Yet, blest with certainty of faiths sustaining
Content to wait:
And thus fulfill our earthly mission
In lower state;
Until is reached glad fruition
Where-trias past
We riss at last
Thro' spirit-birth, to joys supernal,
And quaff full draughts of Life Eternal.
HICo, TEXAs
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
BRlLLIANTS.

Who reads
necessarily aud to his re tding brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior
land what he brings, what need he elsewhere
seek?)
Uncertain and uns ,ttled still remains.
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29
HORSES.

How many old horses can you count
in your neighborhood worth nothing?
Will they not each eat s25 worth before
next spring, and then either die or be
sold or traded for a song? Why not
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29

Mother was rapidly convalescing.
She was sitting in the south room
full of sunshine, surrounded by the
"little things" which make room so
attractive, and which had been ar
ranged with an eye to fitness of color
by the loving hand of Susan. On
the porch the daughter was sitting
near the south window with one who
loved her the best of all the earth,
and had hoped soon to make her his
wife. They we're saying their good
bye words.
''The dear loving old hearts have
been waiting and watching for my
home coming so long that l cannot
leave them yet, even though 1 love
you SO much, my dear. Do you not
think my first duty lies here for the
PRESENT. the young girl whispered.
Il suppose ought to say Yes to
that question, but it is so hard to go
away without you, my darling. 1
have never loved you 80 much and
appreciated your love for me as l do
since have seen you in your own
home. All my life long l have seen
SO much of the vanities and mocker-
les of life, 80 much that is spurious.
But here | have found the genuine.
Oh, the peace and quiet and sweet
ness of this dear old farm home, and
the pure, unselfish love in it! The
loyal daughter will make loyal wife.
May the waiting time not be for long,
dearestl"
When the goodbye kisses had been
given, and they two stood hand in
hand at the gate, the loving maiden
whispered:
"Dlnna be cast down. laddie,
God helps us do our duty, and not shrink,
And trust his mercy humbly for the rest"
But as she turned back and went
into the house, the tears would come.
But when it was time to carry the
mothers beef-tea into the south room
the mother, looking up to the daugh-
ter's face, saw no trace of them.-Su,
san Teal Perry, in Christian Work.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-29

light. you'll be better soon, dear,
and then what good times we will
have here together in the dear old
home-you and father and l."
"And we won't have to call you
another name? You'll just be our
loving little girl-our sweet Susan,
as you used to be before you went
away to school'"
"No, no, mother dear no new
name. l am your own loving little
girl-your own Susan-just as l used
to be before l left the dear old home.
But you must not talk any more. l
will battle your head now, and per-
haps it will quiet you SO you will
Sleep"
During the long and serious i'll Jess
that followed, it was not the fact that
the prize had been won for high
standing in scholarship that was the
happiest thought in that daughters
heart.
1t was the grateful knowledge that
the Giver of every good and perfect
gift had given her the gift of healing
ministrations, and that the Great
Teacher was ever at her side showing
her how best to use that gift to soothe
and comfort and strengthen the over
worked, loving, selfsacrifcing moth
er. What a wonderful revelation of
gratitude and JOY comes to us when
one whom we have seen go down al
most to the gates of death is given
back to US again! How anxiously
we listen to hear the physician say,
'The crisis is over; the danger is
past!" What blessed words were
those the old family doctor said to
the loyal, loving daughter on that
ever to be remembered morning:
"Your mother is going to get we'll,
and let me tell you that your good
nursing has done more to bring her
up again than my medicine
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

Mo-, are recent arsIvals Al tho MountsIu
houps, hot springs.
Richard Nun and daughter, Emma came
down from Trinidad aud are stopplng al
the Plaza hotel. Mr.. Dun Ia feeling much
better though still quite weak. He visited
the hot springs this morning.
e. H. Quilby, Chicago; Burt Allison,
Hutchinson n. l.. Caution. St. Joe; @. U.
Hoger, Topeka O NJ. Taylor, Ration; Jas.
schilIing, 81. Louis; Chas. Elder and wife,
are stopping at the Harvey house.
M. N. CIutes, Omaha; John Slack, San
Msrcisl; w. c. Robertson, Springfield, Mo.
O. @. Hawkins, Chicago, III. Fred Roedel,
Denver, Colo, and J. w. Matthews, Ration,
arc recent arrivals at the Stoner house.
Mrs. o. 8. TIGER accompanied by her
children, Of Trinidad, who had been visit
ing her mother, Mrs. Stoops and her sister
Mrs. A. B. Smith, left for Albuquerque
last evening to spend a few days with her
sister, Mrs. Sutton.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14
Republican Primary Convention.

EAST LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, September 18th,
1Se6.-Notice Is hereby given that the re-
publican primary convention OF precinct
No. 30, is called to meet at the city hall on
Tuesday evening, September 10Th, at 8
O'Clock. prompt, for the purpose of select.
ing twelve delegates to represent said pre-
cinct In the republican county convention,
which meets on the 21st, inst, in the city
OF East Las Vegas, New Mexico. All re-
publicans will please take notice and en-
deavor to be present. A. d. HIGGINS.
271-2t Chairman of Precinct COMMITTEES
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

Visitors to Albuquerque will find THE
Optic on file at the Armijo hotel, which
place, by the way, has been thoroughly re-
modelled and re-~furnished, and is now under
the management of Mrs. Henry Lockhart,
who is well known to all the old.timers of
New Mexico.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

The Presbyterian church will join thu
Baptist and Methodist churches In a, unior
meeting at the opera house ext Sunday
morning. Bishop J. H. Vincent will de-
liver the
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

In the case of e. u. Harsen Uersus the
Moreno valley gold gravel mining COM
pany, the sheriff Of Colfax county returns
the order of sale showing the sale of the
property for 1861. 80.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

The funeral of the late Jacob N. Straus
will take place from the residence of Mrs.
Fannie ColmaD, tomorrow afternoon at 9
O'Clock. Rev. l.. Schneider will conduct
the funeral services.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

Tickets for the Vincent lecture are now
on sale at the box Office and Murphey. Van
Petten's west side store.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

Elsewhere in to-day's paper will be
found a call for a republican precinct
meeting. Let every republican attend this
meeting or hold his peace as to its action
after it is over.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14

II the Bryan club meeting could be post
poned until Saturday evening, 1t would &C.
commodate many who desire to attend the
Hand concert, Friday evening.