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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
BY SARAH oRNE JEwETT.
(From Harper's Bazar.)

Dan Parish had gone to his we'd
ding. His mother was waiting for
him to come home with his wife to
the old farmhouse on Prospect Hill,
that high ridge of good farming land
which on their side sloped westward.
AS Ann Parish stood in her kitchen
doorway to look out, the low sun
blinded her eyes; the fertile fields
spread out before her like dazzling
green carpet. She watched the road
for minute and could see no one
coming, then she went back to her
rocking chair 1t creaked in quer-
ulous way as she moved, as if it tried
to express her own discomfort. 81
don't knows | care if their supper
is spoiled" said the impatient wo-
man aloud. "Madam'll take her own
time. I don't know as there's like to
be such meal spread in this house
again very soon. She'll have to see
to all those things for herself, and
then there'll be no fault-fndin' with
my old fashioned ways" And the
rocking chair creaked more angrily.
The supper-table stood in the floor
laden with the best that Ann Parish
could provide. She had made the
sponge cake by famous ten egg
receipt of her grandmother's, and
the short biscuit were also of that
noted housekeeper's fashion. There
were some rich peach preserves, the
asst jar of the last fruit which the old
blood peach tree bore before it fell;
in fact, this wedding supper was like
a commemorative feast, in memory of
past joys, and was offered more for
ostentation's sake than for loves
sake. Mrs. Parish's family, the Ken
ways, were renowned housekeepers,
and the deposed mistress of the Par
ish farm had fairly tired herself out.
in this great effort to keep up her
family's reputation. She had not
been very we'll in the last year or
two, partly from mistaken ambitions
and over-work in her youth. The
farm had been weighted with a
mortgage when she came to it, and,
later, her only daughter, a quick
scholar, must be kept at school and
generously provided with what she
needed, until too much study, and
too little wholesome work and exer-
else and outdoor air, fostered a con-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09

The fishermen sat with their nets all
night
By the shallow waters SIDE,
When the Master came with the morning
light
And their nets cast into the tide.
He said 'sOut in the deep the fishes are,
I, Where the waters are clear and blue, ="
And he filed their nets with great sue
cess,
For their faith was pure and true.
Sail out to the waters clear and deep,
And safe on the pillows wide,
You shall guide your ship, and the treas
ures reap
Which there alone abide.
For near the shores of the free deep sea
Lie the rocks and the breakers that
strand,
And the messy seaweed's tangling growth
Lies mingled with the sand.
Sail out from the shores of want ana woe
That come to the mind and heart
When duties are stunned and loved ones
go,
And you've failed to do your part
For all around are failures and needs,
They Turk in palace and lands
You shall lose your pain in another's Joy
When YOU give the helping hands
Go seek in the deeps of the inmost soul
For the sympathy, love and care
That your brother needs in his fearful
strife
With many a sinful snare.
Skim over the surface OF swallow heeos'
stand seek for the liberal store,.-
Only found in the deeps of a steaofasI
heart,
Away from the barren shore.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
POULTRY.

All summer long the housewife has
been laboring with chicks and setting
hens, only to find them shelterless and
unproyided for as winter approaches
A greater mistake farmer never makes
than in not caring for his poultry; but
there always have been those who
scoffed at poultry profits. and there al.
ways will be.
Fancy poultry breeding for pleasure,
profit or fame, and running a poultry
yard for market purposes and the money
in it. are very different things. The one
is fun regardless of expense; the other
hard work with an eye on the incoming
and outgoing Of every penny.
Economy is as necessary in the poul.
try yard as anywhere else, but it does
not all lie in the counting of the grains
as they are fed. There is a saving in
giving good food, pure water and clean
quarters. There is woeful waste in
keeping fowls one day after they are
ready for market.
The work is healthful. and it would
put color into many a pale cheek if
more of our suburban homes had poul-
try yards where they made it a business
to raise chick, for the market, and in a
business like way, which would require
close attention and thoughtful manage
ment. Playing at it would amount to
but little.
The color of the shell is not an index
to the quality of the egg, but. neverthe-
less, large white sheled egg sells in
almost all markets for more than does a
brown shell; but with the former great.
er care must be taken, for soiled spot
will show much more readily upon a
white surface. and eggs which are not
Immediately clean positively lose in
value. Do not wash eggs. but wipe them
with damp wooden cloth when taken
to the house, if soiled.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
STOCK.

Good herders are necessary on the
sheep ranch. No other animal is SO near
an idiot. If they get themselves into a
corner they never help themselves out.
If one gets into trouble. the rest follow.
Even with the small farm focks it is
we'll to keep out watchful eye.
We know that sheep will quickly bring
up poor land; then why not recognize
the fact that they will make good land
better? In England the sheep is re-
garded as an important factor in inten-
sive farming. and there is no reason why
we should not come around to the same
view of the matter. We surely should
not look upon them only a. makeshift
by which we may procure some profit
from poor lambs.
Use thoroughbred buck, and soon
have flock of sheep which will show
you understand your business; have in
them not only source of profit, but an
occupation of pleasure. A good shep-
herd will improve his flock, and will
have some ideal which he will endeavor
to reach.
The Hanoverian cavalry is said to be
the best mounted in the world-the
horses large, strong. hardy and coura-
geous, the result of thorough and per-
sistent work in breeding. The govern
ment of that country esta blished stud
$50 years ago. and lent it's encourage
ment to breeding.
Success in bee keeping is not "luck."
Learn to have the hive full OF bees as
winter sets in, and breed them full again
in. the spring. Have the new hives
ready and the colonies running over full
when the honey flow comes, for there is
where the luck comes in, and the good
luck. too.
1t is not well to be given too much to
sentiment, nor from affection retain an.
imals after the period of profitable use
is passed; but, in truth. this error is us.
ually made because the owner does not
recognize that his stock is on the down
grade. On the farms Of thoroughly sue
cessful stock raisers one will find mainly
young animals.
1t pays to get reputation for a spec
ialty 10 stock raising established, either
for farm or a district, for then buyers
come direct to that locality for their
purchases. This holds good in a larger
scale, as witness the fame of Kentucky;
her renown for horses has spread as far
as japan. and the agent of the Mikados
government has been a profitable pa
iron.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09

Ii half the success in the dairy lies in
having lot of Jerseys or Holsteins. the
other half is surely in good feed and
care. Ii the COWS had the matter in
hand they would doubtless be calling for
an improved breed of dairymar.
More truly in the dairy, perhaps. than
10 any other line of live stock breeding
does like produce like. A milking strain
securely established through generations
OF ancestors does not easily run out.
The history of many brands of imported
mixers is long one.
The old Devons make a fine carcass
for the butcher, and hold their flesh
we'll, even on rough pasture and hay,
They are good mixers, and only excelled
in richness by the Jerseys and Holsteins.
Ii really good general purpose COW is
wanted we can fall back on nothing bet
ter than the Devon. There is profit in
early maturity for the dairy as we'll as
for beef. Feed the heifer calf from
which you hope to make the dairy COW,
for her best development; breed early,
and have her come into the dairy at &c
or % months of age.
Through the milk tester only can JUS.
tice be done at the creamery, and only
those seem to doubt its efficacy who are
consciously bringing poor milk. 1t con.
duces to fair prices for butter, for the
price at which poor butter must be sold
has tendency to keep down the price
for all.
The straw stack, without much of any,
thing else, is one extreme in feeding:
the elaborate use of highly concentrated
| foods is the other. Profit must be in
the nature OF compromise. Continued
high feeding is expensive. and will not
''pay out" unless more than average
prices for butter are obtained. High
feeding, too, is apt to injure the health
of the cows, for which much milk and
butter will be needed to compensate.
In many parts of the West the intro.
duction of the creamery has been the
means OF enabling farmers to get some
thing beside calf for their pay for
keeping COW during the year, and has
shown how farm may be kept stocked
with profit. Added results come as the
COWS are improved, and we are yet too
far from the 300 pound average.
If farmer proposes to engage in
dairying only to add to the stock of poor
butter with which we are already del
uged, he would better stay out; but
with our advanced knowledge there is
no use for this at all. There never was
time in which there has been an over
supply of really good butter in our
markets. The gilt edged article always
finds the ready buyer at a high price.
Good butter in winter will sell at a
price so much higher than in summer
that it will much more than balance the
difference in the cost of feed and care;
but it will pay no better to turn out a
poor product then than at any other
time. One must know his business
from beginning to end, even to the style
which is most inviting when his pack.
ages are put up for the market.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09

hot slime that fill up like huge balloons
and keep up series Of constant explo-
sions, the intensity of the detonations
varying with the size of the bubbles. In
times past. SO the Javanese authorities
say, there was tall. spiral like column
OF black mud on the west side of the
lake which constantly belched pure
stream of cold water, but this has long
been obliterated, and everything is now
seething mass of bubbling mud and
slime, marvel to the visitors who come
from great distances to see it.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
FARM. GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agricuturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERSALIST."


Healthy hogs should be taken from
the sick, and not the sick from the we'll,
as in the latter case the excrement and
secretions containing the contagious
principles are left in the pen on the
ground, straw and troughs. 1t is fur
ther safety, during an outbreak, to have
the swine in small herds and in small
pastures.
1t is not every farmer who is suffic-
iently level headed to raise pigs and
keep them growing at the highest pos.
sib.e rate of speed. To do this means
only the right kind of feed. regular feed
ing and good shelter. 1t is not COM
plicated problem, Live up to it, and we
shall usually succeed.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
CAROL OF THE NEW YEAR.
BY EDGAR L. wAKEMAN.

o ring, old bells! Let all your widest
notes
Leap like impassioned love within your
throats
A worlds heart thrills; the meanest voices
sing:
1.-The Year is dead! Long live the new
born King p
o ring, sweet bellsl Let tenderest olden
tones
Blend with the new, through all the
circling zones.
To hearts of men in thy glad Ginning
bring
The best of old, to crown the newborn
King!
Ring, bells of Old and New All earth
Is born again with each glad New Years
birth
Beyond the bleakest Winter glows the
Spring;
Der Death eternal Life is poisoning.
Christian Advocate,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
GRICULTURE.

Not only is the quantity OF manure
increased by liberal use of bedding.
but there is an Improvement in quality;
the liquids are more thoroughly absorb
ed and retained than they can possibly
be when an insufficient amount is used.
We do not care so much for the price
of grain if the profit is all right; the one
we can not control. but the latter we
can to a degree, for so much depends
upon the cost of production. BY better
methods of cultivation larger crops can
be grown, and the more bushels an acre
the less the cost bushel.
After the wheat is we'll up, and when
the ground is dry, run over it with a
light harrow; repeat this just before the
ground freezes. and again in the spring.
Ii the plants can be made to stool out
by such cultivation a greatly desired
end is reached; and if few are pulled
up it is no cause for worry. Larger
stools are better than more plants.
After threshing clover for seed the
straw is not worth much for feed, but it
should always be hauled to the barn
yard and turned into manure by using
for bedding, rather than left to rot
down in the field. Hardly anything
could make richer addition to the COM
post heap, after being thus saturated in
the stalls.
Do not SOW timothy on light soil which
is not very fertile, as it will not fertilize
poor soil nearly so we'll as clover. This
is one thing which makes clover valu-
able hay crop. Timothy is the best
grass crop on dark loan or muck land.
as it is not apt to fall; if clover is sown
it should be with timothy.
If a small flock of sheep is turned into
the several fields successfully in the
fall, after the crops are off, they will
clean up hundred acre farm very sue
cessfully. They are worth keeping for
this purpose only.
IL weeds are mown when they are at
all approaching ripeness. the only safe
way is to burn them. If the seeds are
already formed they ripen enough to
terminate, and SO reseed themselves. II
not SO disposed of it would be we'll to
save the labor of cutting.
Few occupations demand a wider
range of knowledge or a greater adap-
liability in the Individual than farming.
Successful husba ndry permits the doing
of nothing by routine. New questions
require man of resources to cope with
them. 1t is an exploded idea that "any
fool can farm"
To mortgage farm for some unpaid
portion of it is honorable and business
like; the same can be said where it has
been done to place needed buildings or
drainage, which will give it larger earn
ing power; but to thus try to meet cur
rent expenses upon the farm which is
not self supporting is very great folly.
Cut down the expenses or lose the farm.
Every acre of waste land depreciates
the whole profit the farm can earn, for
there is constant expense for interest
and taxes. Even if it requires little
outlay such spot can be turned into a
grassy pasture lot or an orchard of some
description; in any event make it earn a
little money in some way.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-09
THE GALILEE FISHERS.


BIZ Mrs. W o t I1I4INI71E1
of Omaha, Nebraska, on hearing sermon
bv Augusta j. Chaplin on Luke "
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
In the House.

Fifty-nine bills, II joint resolutions
and five concurrent resolutions have
been introduced in the house. Three
bills have been passed, in addition to
the senate bills acted upon. These
were Mrs. La Barthes theatre hat
BILL Calls bill providing for compen-
sation for election judges, and Thore-
sens bill making appropriations for
state institutions. Two joint resolu-
tions and three concurrent resolutions
have also been passed. Five of the
joint resolutions propose constitutional
amendments. Five bills and two reso-
lutions have been killed.
Among the important bills on the
house calendar which will come up on
lowing: Kenner's bill abolishing cap
ital punishment, made the special or
der for Wednesday at 10 o'clock; Cal
order for Tuesday; Shepard's bill to
or evidences of conditional sale, spec
riage bill, and Wilson's bill providing
for the summoning and drawing of
jurors, are also on third reading
Among the important measures in
the hands of the house committees are
the following: Kenner's bill for the
storage and use of silver bullion; Dot
sons mortgage tax repeal bill; Ben
MONS bill creating a state board of
horticulture; Kenner's income tax and
tax bill; two fish and game
bills; a medical board bill; Creer's ir-
rigation bill and Wilson's interest rate
hill
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
STAND BY AUGSBURG.
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS DIS
CUSS HIS DRAWING SYSTEM.
They Reply to Artists Harwood and
Evans and Declare That the Crit
icisms Do Not Agree With the
Practical Results.

At the meeting of city teachers yes
terday, the question of the recent criti-
cisfns of Messrs. Harwood and Evans
relating to the Augsburg system of
drawing, was discussed quite freely
and as a result the following resolu-
tions were adopted without a dissent
ing voice:
Whereas, Messrs. HARDWOOD and
Evans, artists of this city, have seen
proper to address a communication to
the board of education, denouncing
and criticising the present system of
drawing in the public schools of this
city, we, the teachers assembled in our
regular monthly meeting, deem it ad-
visable to express ourselves formally
upon this question.
Therefore. be it resolved:
First-That we consider the criti-
ciSm unjust and unmerited.
Second-That many of the adverse
statements 10 the Augsburg system,
which they make in their communica-
ton, do not agree with our experience
with that system.
Third-That we believe if Mr.. Augs-
burg be given the opportunity, he can
prove to the satisfaction of practical
people that said statements are not
based on a thorough knowledge of the
principles and aims of his system nor
on a thorough examination of its re-
suits among the majority of our pu-
pills.
The chief subject of discussion at
the meeting was child studv," in
which Mr.. Martin, principal of the
Grant school. Mr.. Merrill, of the Ere
mont, Miss Biggs, of the Hamilton, and
Miss Stokes, of the High School. par
Four different phases were
treated, each reading an excellent
paper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07

Of congress and signed by the president
Inc records show no parallel to this
either on the part of a delegate from
a territory or on the part of a regular
voting representatives If greater evidence
We're needed of Mr.. RawlinS ability il
would be sufficient TO point to his work
at the Chicago convention, where. as q
member of the committee on resolutions,
he succeeded in having the plank of the
Democratic platform relative to tariff
oered. expressed the new principle that
no tariff act should be so framed as to
discriminate between the different sec
TONS OF the country. 1t was upon this
principle that Mr.. Rawlins as a Demo-
crat opposed the Cleveland policy of re-
moving the tariff from wool.
Mr.. Rawlins is a most sound and de-
termined advocate of the free coinage
OF silver, and in the senate he will do
much to replace the loss of Senator Du-
Dois- He IS not the dashing. brilliant
fellow that Dubois was. but he has the
nerve and grit that belongs to Senator
Teller and the tactical skill that will
make his efforts felt at the capital. He
Is one OF the few men in public life who
never quits until he has gained his end.
Many men now in congress know his
power, and there is probably not a gold
man among them that would not rather
nave seen any other candidate than Mr..
Rawlins chosen by the people of Utah.
Colorado's sister state is to be con-
graduated upon the naming of Senator
Rawlins. who is one of Utah's greatest
and strongest native sons.
Hanna, who thought he had well rid
himself of a sharp enemy when he de-
feated Dubois in Idaho, may find that
he has an equally doughty and elastic
combatant in Rawlins of Utah. The
blanket. can cover only a small section of
the United States at one time, after ALL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
PIONEER JUBILEE.
Regular Meeting of the Commission
Held Last Night.

The Utah Pioneer commission held
their regular meeting last night at the
headquarters in the Nauvoo building
and discussed advertising schemes. The
secretary was instructed to have 10, 900
slips printed to contain the date and
object of the celebration. The slips will
be sent out to the different loaDers of
the country and it is thought they may
be instrumental in getting many no
tees through local and editorial col
umns.
During the coming week the COM
mission will meet with the legislative
committee of seven of which Repre-
sentative Sloan is chairman, to con-
fer about an appropriation from the
state. The governor will also be pres
ent.
The secretary was instructed TO send
c. r. Savage a letter of regret deolor-
ing his resignation on account of i'll
health. Mr.. Savage will be given
hearty invitation TO be present at all
meetings to counsel and ad
wise with the committee.
The balance of the session was de-
voted to discussing designs for adver-
Using purposes, several sketches for
hangers as well as novel advertising
ideas being under consideration.
The commission will meet again next
Wednesday night
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
SALARY QUESTION.
An Opinion Given Out By Attorney
General Bishop.

Acknowledgement Bishop Yesterday
received a letter from State Superin-
tendent Park. asking to be advised
whether the county commissioned have
a lawful right to change the salary of
county superintendent of schools three
months prior to the election in No
vember, 1896, after having fixed his
salary once within 80 days after the
taking effect of chapter 124 Of the laws
of 1896, in accordance with section 4
thereof
In replying the attorney general re-
fers to section of the. same chapter
and saws, in part:
Under this section, the county COM
missioners attempted to again fix the
salary of the county superintendent of
schools, according to your statement
The time fixed by this section for fix
ing the salaries of county officers is at
least three months prior to the election
of county officers The county super
intendent is a county officer. See sec
ton "A, chapter CXXXI of the laws of
1896. His election occurs in July, 1898,
and the proper construction of the
above provision would be that his sal
airy should be fixed and determined at
least three months prior to that time,
and biennially thereafter, While as to
other county officers, it would be three
months prior to the November election
in 1896 and biennially thereafter
THE board of county commissioners
having once fixed the salary of county
superintendent, within 30 days from
the taking effect1of chapter CXXXI
supra, l am of opinion that no attempt
to readjust it three months prior to
the election in November, 1896, would
be null and void. The salary then fixed
would be the continuing salary of such
officer during the remainder of his
term -