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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18
AGRICULTURE.

One reason why we do not all raise &C
bushels of corn an acre is that of all the
inexhaustible store Of fertility in the
soil less than one per cent of it is avail.
able. Apply lime to this soil, and it re.
leases potash from it's insoluble condi
ton and promotes the decomposition OF
all organic matter.
There is an old Scotch saying that
''lime enriches the father and impover-
ishes the son." This is true if vegetable
or organic matter is not applied with
the lime. Lime, also. has the property
of tightening heavy, clay soils and
giving tenacity to light. sandy ones.
1t corrects the acidity of "sour" soils,
and makes them yield immediate plant
fooo.
If, owing to the numerous rains, the
weeds by chance get the start of you,
there is no better time than the present
to fight them, and, if you cannot subdue
the entire field. better conquer portion
Of it, and see that it is we'll done. for a
little we'll done will give better results
than il all is but half done.
Popcorn will develop more rapidly
than field corn, and in central ATTITUDES
can be planted any time during the first
half of June. 1t is one of the surest of
crops, and in some regions whole farms
are planted to this cereal. For the most
part, it is shipped to Chicago and sold
on the cob.
Honey possesses one prime quality
it is easy of digestion. The nectar of
flowers is almost wholly cane sugar.
The secretion of bees changes this to
grape sugar, and SO prepares it that it is
almost ready for assimilation without
any effort on the part of the stomach.
A little will act like magic upon hun
cry, weakened man.
Careful cultivation increases the yield
of the crops by affording greater feed
ing capacity to the roots of the plants.
When the soil is worked to fine condi.
ton the roots penetrate the ground
more easily. procure greater share of
plant food, and grow more rapidly than
when but slight cultivation is given.
Remembering the amount of fertility
locked up in the soil, and remembering
that this may be made available, the
farmer may with propriety consider his
land his bank. If in this bank he
yearly deposits clover and manure, it
will never dishonor his checks or allow
his notes to go to protest.
Comb honey is an aid to the digestion
of warm bread and biscuit. 1t tends to
prevent packing" in the stomach, and,
melting away, leaves passages for the
gastric juice to enter the mass Of food.
The unpleasant symptoms from which
some suffer after eating honey may
often be removed by drinking little
milk.
Nothing like a nice coat of paint to
the farm buildings gives better i'm
preston of the farm. Large numbers
of old buildings can not be painted, ex-
cept at great expense, but these may be
given coat of whitewash, and the re-
suit will be very satisfactory. The lime
in the wash is a purifier and disinfectant,
and even the pigs will do best in tidy
house.
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Selected Article.
THE MINISTER'S HELPMEET.
By REV. ANNIs FORD EASTMAN.

A T an annual banquet, given
IA by a certain ministers club to
the wives of its members, one of the
reverend gentlemen responded to the
above toast.
1t was truly edifying to hear whet
a minister requires in wife, set forth
by one of them, to learn what she
may do, what she ought to do to aid
him in his glorious work, and to be
assured that if all these requirements
are faithfully fulfilled by her in her
"humbler station" it will always be
his pleasure "when crowned with
victory, at her feet to lay all his hon
ors down"
She must be, first of all, the speaker
suggested, a sort of combination
guardian angel and policeman,
excepting up" for him 'open roads
'twixt seen and unseen" by the high
range of her daily thought and con-
yersation, and defending him with
dog and gun if need be" from the
bore and the butcher, and all the
little pricks of household care and
parental anxiety, which not even a
minister's family wholly escapes. She
must assume entire charge of the
temporalities, even to the buying of
the minister's clothes; she must keep
the accounts; pay the bills, train the
children, and, in fact, stand between
him and all the hard realities of life,
30 that he may be free to dwell in
that upper and better air OF divine
contemplation in which sermons are
supposed to terminate.
But she must crown all these minor
Offices by that of critic-the kind
loving, appreciative, yet severe critic.
She must not attend upon divine wor-
ship for the nurture of her own spirit
ual life, that she must seek elsewhere
Gf she gets time), but for the sole and
only purpose of improving the min
lister. Indeed, the speaker so magni-
fed this Office of the minister's wife
as to declare that if he preached poor
sermons, contracted mannerisms,
failed in any way to edify and de-
light his hearers, she might justly be
held responsible for such failure; for
in this matter he was in her power,
as clay in the hands of the potter. In
short, a new commandment was pro-
claimed for ministers wives, "Six
days shalt thou labor and do all the
work, nor rest on the seventh day;
for it is thy lords, and in it he re-
quires thy undivided service"
SIN visions of the night" following
the aforementioned banquet, saw
the dim figure of composite minis
ter's wife standing at my bedside,
and she said, write:
Men and brethren, we have no use
for "your honors at our feet;" pick
them up and put them on your own
heads where they belong, but see that
you earn them in the real battles of
life.
God made woman an helpmeet for
man; and Mrs. Poyser has given us
the best commentary on that text.
"Yes; women are fools, God
Almighty made 'em 50, to match the
men,
So long as the man exists who
knows no better than to formulate such
aplatform of duties for a woman, the
woman exists who will try to carry it
out. Therefore, the appeal is to men
not to their chivalry, but to their
self-interest. Do you not see that
the above outlined division of labor
between the minister and his wife is
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18
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AN OLD GLASS.

Glass, wherein Greek girls tears
Once were gathered as they fell,
After these two thousand years
Is there still no tale to tell?
Buried with her. In her mound,
She is dust long since, but you
Only yesterday were found
Irridescent as the dew
Fashioned faultlessly, a form
Graceful as was hers whose cheek
Once against you made you warm
While you heard her sorrow speak.
At your lips listened long
For some whispered word of her,
For some go silly strain of song
In your haunted heart to stir.
But your crystal lips are dumb,
flushed the music in your heart!
All! If she would only come
Back again, and bid it start!
Long is art. but life how brief!
And the end seems so unjust;
This companion of her grief
Here today, while she is dustl
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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18

White are the singing trees,
And every breath of the breeze
Scatters a drift of bloom e-'..
And honey-sweet perfume;
While above and all around
Is gentle murmuring sound.
In this music, so 10 and sweet,
Labor and pleasure mee,;
Every small minstrel goes home,
And adds to the great yellow comb
Stored for the mid-winter feast,
When the gift of the flowers has ceased
Hark to the singing trees.
So full of blossoms and bes
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18
IN A LlBR AIRY.
BY LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToN.

The living oftimes yex us,
The wise. long dead, are best.
When llfe's vain games perplex us
Let us come here, and rest.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18

The dog serves his master as faithfully
in one place as another.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18
THE SINGING TREES IN THE
ORCHARD.

BY EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
Question. Why Should Democrats Legis-
late in favor of the Canadian as against
the American Farmer?
A Pointer for Farmers.

I remember one instance that bears
particularly upon this question that came
to me today as / sat here, and that was
this: My father came from the New
England states upon this prairie in 1887.
He told me this instance once: That
after sowing a crop of wheat by hand,
cutting it with the cradle. binding it with
the rake, and threshing it with the ball
upon the floor he put it upon wagon
and drove it to this city of Milwaukee,
ninety-six miles away, and sold it here
for 46 cents bushel. This was in the
sos. and silver then was $1.3O an ounce.
Now tell the silver men to explain to you
how it was that i'll the early sos wheat
was 46 cents bushel, and silver 81. 30
an ounce. if the price of silver always
carries with it the price of wheat. And
when he hens and haws. say to him:
''It is not only confined TO wheat, but
that other commodity you yoke up with
silver, cotton: and tell him that for the
four years ending in 1915 cotton in the
city of New York averaged only cents
pound; and that for the four years
ending in 1894 the same class averaged
cents a pound. Tell. him to explain
that to you. That was when we had
free coinage and silver was then $1.30
an ounce. He cannot explain it. That
one illustration. my friends. utterly de-
stroys the whole silver heresy.-Con-
gresham Fowler of New Jersey.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25

used to pay the expenses of the govern.
ment." The tariff on some of the neces.
saries of life might be reduced, and tho
deficit made up by an issue of money"
Or, If this is not deemed advisable, gov.
eminent paper can be issued to pay for
special improvements; harbors can be
deepened and rivers improved in this
way" He introduced bill to issue
$7O,OOO,OOO- of United States treasury
notes, with which to inaugurate the con.
struction of the Nicaragua canal. He
further suggested that 1--WE can use any
available coin on hand to take I'D ma.
tured bonds and replace the coin so used
with paper money" He introduced an
other bill providing in this way for the
payment of the $25OO0.OOO outstanding
per cent. bonds. He did not stop even
at that point, but gravely proposed that
government paper should be issued in
the place of national bank notes, as thsy
are retired" His theory of the ultimate
redemption of government obligations.
as stated by himself, was that the larger
the issue of treasury notes, the smaller
will be the "coin" reserve required with
which to meet them. By 'coin'' he ex-
planned that he meant both gold and sil-
yer, wilfully ignoring the disparity in in
trinsic value between the gold and silveR
dollar.
And this is the financier and states.
man for whom honest and sensible men
are asked to cast their votes, next No
yember!
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
Cheap Dollars.

Everything is cheap or dear according
to what we have to pay for it. Sugar is
cheap at 5 cents Il pound, but would be
dear at 10 cents.
A cheap dollar. therefore. is one that
the merchant buys with less goods than
he would have to give for Il dearer dol
lar. If merchant now gives twenty
pounds of sugar for a dollar. and the dol
lar which he gets is a 2OO-cent dOllare
and if the 2O0-cent dollar is dishonest
dollar and ought to be replaced by Il 100
cent dollar, worth only half as much; in
that case, the merchant will give only
half as much sugar for the cheaper dol
200-cent dollar That is clear, is it not?
This is precisely what cheap money
means.
Is this what the farmer and the work
ingman really want?
Apply this illustration to labor, if You
please. The workingman buys dollars
with labor, Does he want a cheap Col
only ten pounds Of sugar? Or does he
want 2O0-cent dollar. for which the
merchant will give. twenty pounds of
sugar! Cheap dollars would cut has
wages in half. He surely does not want
that.
''0h, no., says the workingman, that
is not what | want but. if dollars were
cheap. Il WOulS gel twice as many OF
them for a days work.
Would you. indeed? Not on your life.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver. at
the ratio of Is to 1. is simply a scheme
to reduce your wages without your know
ing it or having an excuse for striking.
What good would it, do you TO get twice
as many dollars for a days work if 81
would buy no more sugar, and no more
OF anything else. than 81 will now buy?
Besides, if prices go up. under free
coinage. as they will-we admit that
does not the nottingham know that the
first thing to go up will be rents. the
next thing will be food and clothing. and
the last thing will be laior? Under free
COMA ge. instead of being better off. the
workingman would be worse off than he
is now.
Think this over. and see what it all
means to you and to your little family
Springfield GID Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25

There is abundant proof that Mr..
Bryan is an insincere politician and an
unreliable adviser of the people, He
was bolter in 1893 and in that year.
too, he made a speech in which he de.
clared that the eXchangeabe value of q
dollar depended on something besides @
congressional edict.
the Democratic ticke for judge of the
Supreme court Of Nebraska Mr.. Bryan
supported Populist. In reply to let
ter from MIR. Irvine, calling Mr.. Bryan's
attention to his unexpected position, the
present candidate for President on the
Democratic ticket wrote statement Of
his reasons for boiling which contained
the following cool remarks and assur-
ances of personal and peculiar esteem
for the Democratic candidate:
regret that our people chose for slaughter
so deserving man. They ought to
have selected some one of the numer-
Gus Democrats who are responsible
for the falling off of the Democratic
vote: l have spoken to you thus
frankly and confidentially, because
feel that you deserve better fate
than the one which fear awaits you
this fall.
During the extraordinary session Of
Congress of 1893, called by President
Cleveland, Mr.. Bryan made a speech in
which he declared that:
While the government can say that giveu
weight of gold or silver shall consti-
tute a dollar and invest that dollar
with legal tender qualities, it cannot
fix the purchasing power of the dol
lar. That must depend upon the
law of supply and demand
Ii the number of dollars increases
more rapidly than the need of dol
iars.as It did after the gold discover
les of 1S49-the eXchangeable value of
each dollar will fall and prices rise.
Thus it appears that Mr.. Bryan knew
what the eXchangeable value of a dol.
lar depended on. His change of tune,
therefore, is not because conditions have
but because he shifts his prin-
clples with the varying political Abreezes,
and that he is willing to do anything for
office.
In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared
in a speech made by him on the tariff
question that the fall of prices must be
To the inventive genius that has multiplied
thousand times, in many. instances,
the strength of a single and
enabled us to do today with one man
what fifty men could not do fifty
years ago. That is what brought the
prices down in this country and else
where.
At this time another change has come
over the spirit of his white house
dream. He and his fellow Populists
ascribe the fall in the prices of commOd-
tiles 70 the fall in the price of silver.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates declare
that ''the crime of 1873" which the
News has shown TO have been no crime
at all, has pulled everything down with
it.
How can the people believe man
who thus stultifies himself and puts him.
self ON both sides of vital questions.
while, at the same time, he proves UNI
true to his party associates Buffalo
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
What Stewart Thought in 1894.

Senator Stewart of Nevada made a
sneech in Congress February IL, 1874, in
which he said
Let everybody know what dollar is
worth. The farmers will then know how
TO measure the difference i'll price be-
tween his wheat i'll Illinois and the wheat
in Liverpool. The wheat will be meas
ured by the same standard-gold-in
Illinois as it is in Liverpool and any man
can figure it up. But now it is Il mys-
terry: the whole subject of finance is a
mystery. and what do we see every day :?
We scerthoSe who devote their attention
to it making large fortunes out of this
mystery.
have been doing from the beginning
measure our values by gold. adopt the
standard that all can understand, and
get rid of this mystery.
Mr. Logan-What does the senator
want?
Mr.. Stewart-I want the standard gold
and no paper money not redeemed in
gold. no paper money the value of which
is not ascertained. no paper money that
will organize IA gold board to speculate
with it. Who pays for this gold board I?
Who pays these immense fortunes? How
is it that millions and millions can be
rolled up annually there? Did anybody
ever calculate who paid for it? 1t
comes out of the producers. How do
these men exist? BY the latitude which
your deprecated currency gives to specu,
lation and nothing else.
Persons who are specializing in your
depreciated currency are making the
money, aud they will continue to make
it so long as you have deprecated cur
rency.
If the farmers would get rich they
have got to become skilled in this fuctuat-
ing currency and make corners and man.
ipulate the market, and if they do that
they cannot m.-(Congressional Rec
/ ord forty-third Congress, first session,
vol. 2, p. 1922
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
FARMERS EGG BASKET
The Mckinley Law Checked I'm
' portation and Gave a
. ~
HOME Market.
EFFECT OF TIE WILSON BILL.
The Canadian Farmer Has Protection
but the American Farmer
Has None.

There is no reason why Canada, Mexi-
co, China, or any other country should
supply the United States with a single
egg. Canada does not buy a single egg
from us, and there is no reason why we
should buy from her. When we do. the
American farmer loses the benefit of mart
of his natural market
The purpose of this article is to show
by few figures the benefit which the
American farmer derived from the Nc
hlnley law: not merely because the
law stopped imports from other countries.
but because under that law he received
an average of 10 cents a dozen for his
eggs all the year around. Under the
present WilsonGorman bill, he hardly
averages cents a dozen; and the people
could better afford to pay Is cents a
dozen IN 1892, than they can 5 cents a
dozen in 1896
From 1883 to 1890, there was no tariff
upon eggs. The Canadian farmer could
send his eggs across the line from Maine
to California: Mexico, China, France
Germany and other countries supplied
us with 15,5OO,0OO dozens of eggs, an
nually. on the average. We paid every
year to the foreign farmer on this small
product alone. at Is cents a dozen. So
9OOOO0. This importation of over l.
0OOOOO dozen month or $4,000 dozen a
day was felt, in the way of competition,
~ oul 1drners cnleHy III the large cities.
FARMERS can get the best prices for eggs
and their products in the large cities:
but when New York, Philadelphia. Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, San
Francisco and many other markets are
supplied with eggs, shipped at cheap
rates of transportation by water. how
can the farmer expect to compete who
mas to ship his eggs by rail?
Inc following statement shows impor-
ptrioc fho -
fore the Mckinley tariff went into effect
Tor the year ending June 30, 1899:
aaamportations of eggs, by countries, July1
1888, to June 80. 1889. oN' -
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25

If the Mckinley law had been let
alone, the American farmer in 1856
would be supplying nearly every egg in
the American market. The farmers
wife would have felt encouraged to in
crease her stock of poultry, ON which
she depended for pin money to clothe
herself and her children. When the
if on eggs reduced from cents to 3
cents dozen, importation increased
1,OOO,OOO dozen in one year, at an in
creased price of $125,O00 Unless the
American farmer can see it to be his in
terest to vote for Mckinley and the
restoration of a proper duty on eggs, the
Canadian and other foreign farmers will
year and the price of domestic eggs will
continue to decline. as they have done
for the last two years.
Question. Why Should Democrats Legis-
late in favor of the Canadian as against
the American Farmer?
The American farmer could not sell
eggs in Canada, even if they had no
tariff on American eggs. There are only
a few large cities there, and they are
near to the Canadian cheap farms. The
half-a-dozen small markets in Canada
have a total population only one-quarter
A few election districts in the city of
New York. or in Philadelphia, or in
Chicago, afford a better market for
American eggs than the whole of Can
ada. Yet Canada imposes a duty of 5
cents a dozen on our eggs while we i'm
pose duty of only cents dozen on
her eggs.
The Canadians have protection, but
under the Wilson bill we have not.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25

viduals. A man who has repudiated his
debts is never trusted again and is re-
garded with contempt by all his neigh
bors. And so is nation.
A free-coinage law is reputation, and
that it is understood in that sense is in
dicated by such letters as the above.
For if under free coinage the silver dol
lar is to appreciate to the value of a gold
dollar how will the farmer get more of
them for his thousand bushels of wheat i?
How can he pay his debt any easier than
he can now?
No, it is reputation the silver men
want, and reputation is dishonor.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
A Question for Farmers.

If the volume of silver money controls
prices. as the free coiners would have
us believe that it does. so that the more
silver coin there is in circulation. the
higher is the price of wheat, and the
less silver coin there is in circulation.
the lower the price of wheat; then will
some farmer. who believes in the free
question:
How did it happen that wheat was
lower in price in 1894 than ever before,
while the amount of coined silver in the
world was greater than ever before =
Illinois State Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
is. 91S. SO9lS2. 418.976

1t would evidently be impossible for
farmers fifty miles in the interior of any
of the states bordering on the Great
Lakes. to compete with eggs shipped by
water from Canada.
The Mckinley tariff imposed a duty
of cents dozen on eggs. This law
went into effect October 1, 1890. Dur
ing the year ending June 30 $780, we
imported nearly 100000 dozen eggs less
than in the year previous, when there
was no protection. The Importation of
eggs steadily decreased until the. repeal
of the Mckinley law in 1894, so that
instead of nearly 100000 dozen eggs
being brought into this country, as here
tofore, in 1901 we. imported 100000
dozen; 100000 in 1892; 100000
in 1923; 100000 in 1884. BY 1894
nearly $2,OO0.00O had been taken from
the foreign shipper, which now went into
the pockets of the American farmer.
The following table shows the importa
tons of eggs since 1888:
Annual importations Of foreign eggs, 1888
1895.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25
BRYAN a Greenbacker.

Mr.. Bryan is not so much silverite
as he is a greenbacker. He said, on the
floor of the House of Representatives in
Washington. June 5, 1894:
.srhe issue of money by the govern
ment directly to the people gives US a
safer currency than national bank bills
and saves 20 the people as whole the
profit arising from its issue. When
bank issues money, you must pay the
market rate of interest to get it; but
when the government issues money, the
people save the interest. if the money is
afterward called In; and they save the
principal also, if the money is kept in cir
culation.
he asserted that greenbacks 'can' be