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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-12
HORTICULTHRE.

The rich vegetable matter in the soil
into available plant material only by
coming into contact with the outside
air; whatever else we do, we should stir
the surface, that the air and rain may
penetrate.
Although sage is a hardy plant, it is
sown by gardeners near New York by
early May. and transplanted to the gar
den after the other crops have been
taken off in July; $500 or S400 is often
made from an acre.
Small plants are much more safely
transplanted from one place to another
than larger onos. Not only are they
more likely to live, but the check
caused by transplanting is comparative
ly slight.
When trees are small nearly all the
roots can be taken with the top. In re-
setting large trees nearly all the roots
procured are the larger ones, and are of
but little use in sustaining life in their
new position.
When large trees are removed they
have the disadvantage of being shaken
more by the winds. because they have a
greater surface; they are loosened and
greatly hindered in getting new start.
1t costs no more to raise good berries
than poor ones. neither to pick nor de-
liver them; freight and express charges
are the same. When sold. good berries
always go first and bring largest prices.
A quarter of an acre, rich and we'll
cultivated. should yield from 20 to 40
bushels of berries. These will supply
the table beautifully, and give a nice
surplus to sell.
Most fruit gardens are deficient in
potash. An application of wood ashes
will supply this want. and is especially
valuable for light. sandy soils.
II peaches are thinned until they are
four or five inches apart on the limbs,
every fruit is much more likely to be
perfect, aud the crop worth good deal
more than if every peach is left which
has set.
1t is hard to persuade grower to thin
his fruit, but no item of culture can be
followed with better profit. Try few
trees, and leave others to their own way.
and be convinced of the truth or the folly
of the suggestion.
II the weak canes are cut out and the
long. slender laterals pruned until well
rounded bush is formed, the fruit will
be improved not only in size and quality
but the yield will be greatly increased.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-12

The whey OF milk is not nutritious
when fed alone. but it is fattening, and
needs to be fed in rations of wheat
bran, ground oats or peas. all of which
abound in elements which promote
growth.
To make the most of the feed con-
sumed, horses should be given little
salt at least once day in their food.
Nature seems to have provided it as
promoter of good digestion.
The general principle prevails that an
animal possesses all the properties of it's
ancestors in an average degree. ALI the
Unbeatable properties are reproduced
by hereditary transmission.
The cheapest way in which we can
lessen the cost of production is to
shorten the time we take to make it
ready for market This we must do in
the keeping of all live stock.
Sheep and hogs should be as regularly
supplied with salt as other animals, il
we would get the best results of growth
and fat from the food and water con.
sumed.
1t is not much more work to run the
oats through the hay cutter than to
thresh them, and il the straw is clean
and bright it makes good food for the
horses. and saves just so much hay.
Railways are adopting larger freight
cars because it is matter of profit to do
so; the progress of the age demands
larger wagons and larger horses to haul
them for just the same reason.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-12
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK"
BY CHRISTIAN BURKE.

A human soul went forth into the night,
Shutting behind it Deaths mysterious
door,
And shaking off with strange, resistless
might
The dust that once it wore,
So swift its fight so suddenly it sped
AS when by skillful hand a bow is bent
The arrow fies-those watching round
the bed
Marked not the way it went.
Heavy with grief, their aching, tear
dimmed eyes
Saw but the shadow fall, and knew not
when,
Or in what fair or unfamiliar guise,
1t left the world of man.
1t broke from Sickness, that with iron
bands
Had bound it fast for many grevous
day;
And Love itself with its restraining
hands
Might not it's course delay.
Space could not hold it back with fetter-
ing bars,
Time lost it's power, and ceased at last
to be;
1t swept beyond the boundary of the
stars,
And touched Eternity.
Out from the house of mourning family
lit,
1t passed upon its journey all alone;
So far not even Thought could follow it
Into those realms unknown
Through the clear silence of the moonless
dark,
Leaving no footprint of the road it
trod,
Straight as an arrow cleaving to its mark,
The Soul went home to God.
calais ~ they cried, ''he never saw the
morn,
But fell asleep outwearied with the
strife''-
Nay, rather, he arose and met the Dawn
OF Everlasting Life.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-12
LOVES WITHHOLDING.
1.-THE END.]
BY JAMES BUCKHAM.

How silent we are to the ones we love
best,
Our souls locked and guarded, our hearts
unexpressed
We live on the surface, we speak with a
smile,
But o, the heart-hunger of dear ones the
while!
We write to friend-some chance friend,
it may be-
And all our soul-longings are open and
free.
We speak with a stranger, and when he
departs,
our hearts.
o. why should we keep from our loved
ones fore'er
The fondest heart-yearnings the visions
most fair?
Why shrink from revealing to mother, to
wife,
The sacred, the lovely, the deep things
of life2
Nay call it not weakness in love to
confde,
IT'S weakness that shrinks, and is will
ing to hide.
Speak out, and speak all, and speak ten
der and true.
Aye! render to love what love renders to
you'll
Christian Advocate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-12
AN OLD STORY.

Once upon time there was king of
India who felt that he was very great
monarch indeed; but he feared that his
people did not sufficiently realize his
greatness, and tried to think of some
way in which he could bring himself
more prominently before them.
Like great many people who live to-
day. he thought there was nothing that
attracted SO much attention as a great
noise. So, after bordering the matter
| for some time, he called his ministers of
state together, and told them that he
had an unqualified desire, They, with
one voice. eagerly requested to be in
formed of his wish.
81 DESIRE he said, "that great tam
bour be made; want it so large that
when struck the sound of it may be
heard at distance of ten leagues from
the palace"
The ministers felt sure that such a
drum could not be made; but the King
was little hasty in his temper some
times and they feared to oppose him.
Each man was afraid of the consequen.
ces to himself if he spoke alone. so at
last they all spoke together, saying:
"Sire, such thing is impossible"
why can't it be done?" cried the
King. angry at once. 1T must be done,
if l say 30. There is no such word as
impossible in my lexicon"
Happily for the frightened counselore,
an officer of high rank in the Court who
was devoted alike to the sovereign and
to the people, entered at that moment.
When the matter was explained to him.
he said at once: Sire, will undertake
to construct a tambour which will be
heard, not only ten leagues from the
Royal Palace, but from one end of the
kingdom to the other. But it will cost
very great deal"
The delighted King replied: II will
open my treasury to thee. Take all my
wealth. will give it all gladly for the
tambour. which l am determined to
POSSESS"
SO the King gave Kandon access to all
his treasures and awaited results.
Random had all the royal treasure ia
ken to the gateway of the Palace and
sold it, receiving for it large sum of
money.
This done. he had this proclamation
issued throughout the whole empire:
To-day his Majesty. good as the immor-
tai gods, dispenses favors. Full of affec-
tion for his people. he desires to relieve
the poor and suffering of his empire. Let
all the unfortunates gather at the pal
ace gate"
This necessitous at once set forth from
every corner of the empire, each person
carrying an empty sack.
They filled the towns through which
they passed to overlooking. and the high.
way was ever thronged with a moving
mass of people all Fastening forward
toward the palace gates.
The thought of the riches they were
TO nave SO nlleu the mlnus OF all That
they could think of nothing else, save
that, once in while. little feeling of
gratitude would creep in toward the
King.
This little feeling of gratitude grew
stronger and deeper as the days. weeks
and months went by. and life became so
rnush aaoiar opd mora oOpnRorfakIa T.,
them, until at last it grew so strong that
it resembled a feeling of worship for the
monarch who had so relieved their bur.
dens.
In about year the King asked Kan
don for the tambour. ut is completed.
Sire"
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Continued Story.
JOHN CANN'S TREASURE.
CHAPTER vII.-CONTINUED.
BY GRANT ALLEN.

CHAPTER vn.-CONTINUED.
THOR the space of three seconds
IL Cecil Milford could not believe
his eyes, and then with sudden flash
of awful viyidness, the whole terrible
truth flashed at once across his stag
gering brain. He had found John
Cams treasure indeed-the John
Cams treasure of base actual reality;
but the John Cams treasure of his
fervid imagination, the John Cams
treasure he had dreamt of from his
boyhood upward, the John Cams
treasure he had risked all to find and
to win, did not exist, could not exist,
and never had existed at all any
where! 1t was all horrible, incredi
BILE, unthinkable delusion! The hid
eous fictions he had told would every
one be now discovered; Ethel would
be ruined; Aunt Emily would be
ruined; and they would both know
him, not only for fool, a dreamer,
and visionary, but also for gamb'
Ter, thief, and liar.
In his black despair he jumped
down into the shallow hole once more,
and began a second time to count
slowly over the accursed dollars. The
whole miserable sum-the untold
wealth of John Cams treasure
would amount altogether to about
two hundred and twenty pounds of
modern sterling English money.
Cecil Milford tore his hair as he
counted it in impotent self-punish-
ment; two hundred and twenty
pounds; and he had expected at
least as many thousands! He saw it
all in moment. His wild fancy had
mistaken the poor outcast hunted
down pirate for sort of ideal crimi-
nal millionaire; he had erected the
ignorant, prosecuted John Cam of
real life, who fled from the kings JUS
tice to nest of chartered outlaws in
Jamaica, into great successful naval
commander, like the Drake or Haw-
kins of actual history. The whole
truth about the wretched solitary old
robber burst in upon him now with
startling vividness; he saw him hug
cling his paltry two hundred pounds
to his misery old bosom, crossing
the sea with it stealthily from Jamai
ca, burYing it secretly in hole in
the ground at Bovey, quarreling
about it with his peasant relations in
England, as the poor will often quar-
rel about mere trifes of money, and
dying at last with the secret of that
wretched sum hidden in the snuff
box that he clutched with fierce en-
ergy, even in his life less skeleton fin
gers. 1t was all clear, horribly, ire
trievably, Enthusiastically clear to him
now; and the John Cam that he had
once followed through so many
chances and changes had faded away
at once into absolute nothingness,
now and forever!
II Cecil Milford had known a little
less about John Cams life and ex-
PLOTS he might still perhaps have
buoyed himself up with the vain
hope that all the treasure was not
vet unearthed-thatth there were more
boxes still buried in the ground,
more doubloons still hidden further
down in the unexplored bosom ofthe
little three cornered field. But the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-12
The merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla

The merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is literally written in blood.
1t is traced in TIE vital fluid
OF millions of the human race.
Its positive medical merit
And curative power is written
Upon the hearts, and craven upon
The minds of thousands
OF people whom it has cured
And given good health
When there seemed nothing before
Them but darkness and despair,
1t cures all diseases arising
From or promoted by impure
Blood by its intrinsic merit as
The One True Blood Purifier.
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words of John Cams own dying d.
rections were too explicit ard clear to
admit of any such gloss or false in
depreciation. I'm a strong oaken
chest, bound round with iron, and
buried at four feet of depth in the
south western angle of the Home
Croft, at Bovey," said the document,
plainly; there was no possibility of
making two out of it in any way. In
deed, in that single minute, Cecil
Mitford's mind had undergone a
total revolution, and he saw the John
Cam myth for the first time in his
life now in it's true colors. The bub-
BILE had burst, the halo had vanished,
the phantom had faded away, and
the miserable squalid miserlv reality
stood before him with all its vulgar
nakedness in their place. The whole
panorama of John Cams life, as he
knew it intimately in all its details,
passed before his minds eye like
vivid picture, no longer in the bril-
liant hues of boyish romance, but in
the dingy sordid tones of sober fact.
He had given up all that was worth
having in this world for the sake of
poor Gypsy pirates penny-saving
hoard.
A weaker man would have swal-
lowed the disappointment or kept
the delusion still to his dying day.
Cecil Milford was made of stronger
mould. The ideal John Cams
treasure had taken possession of
him, body and soul, and now that
John Cams treasure had faded into
utter nonentity-a paltry two hun
dred pounds-the whole solid earth
had failed beneath his feet, and
nothing was left before him but
mighty blank. A mighty blank.
Blank, blank, blank. Cecil Milford
sat there on the edge of the pit, with
his legs dangling over into the hol-
low where John Cams treasure had
never been, gazing blankly out into
blank sky, with staring blank eye
balls that looked straight ahead into
infinite space and saw utterly moth
ing.
How long he sat there no one
knows; but late at night, when the
people at the Red Lion began to miss
their guest, and turned out in body
to hunt for him in the corner field,
they found him sitting still on the
edge of the pit he had dug for the
grave of his own hopes, and gazing
still with listless eyes into blank va
cancy. A box of loose coin lay
idly scattered on the ground
beside him.. The poor gentleman
had been struck crazy, they whis-
poIOu w OuO duObuOI, anu 81 luQ60u
he had: not raving mad with acute
insanity, but blankly, hopeless sly,
and helplessly imbecile. With the
loss of Jonn Cams treasure the
whole universe had faded out for
him into abject nihilism. They car
ried him home to the inn between
them on their arms and put him to
bed carefully in the old bedroom.
as one might put new born baby.
The Lord of the Manor, when he
came to hear the whole pitiful story,
would have nothing to do with the
wretched doubloons; the curse of
blood was upon them, he said, and
worse than that; so the Treasury,
which has no sentiments and no con-
science, came in at the end for what
little there was of John CAMS I'M
holy treasure.
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AGKICULTURE.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The herald., 1897-12-09
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT

1t is announced that Germany is salts
fed with the reparation made by Hayti
for the alleged indignity offered to Herr
Lueders. 1t might we'll be. The Hay
tian fleet has formally saluted the Ger
man flag, the band of the Haytian navy
has played the German national an
them, the Haytlan flagship has fired
twenty-one guns, and the German min
lister has been formally and solemnly''
received by the Haytian president, who,
in turn, has assured the German author
tiles that summary justice shall be
meted out to those officials who caused
the estrangement. All this took place
within the eight-hour limit mentioned
in the demand of the commander of the
German warships, whose guns We're
train upon the capital of the country.
1t Is signal triumph for the great Ger
man empire, and its significance is ac-
centuated by the fact that the entire
population of Hayti, mainly black, is
considerably less than that of Berlin,
and that It's entire navy could easily be
slowed away in the ample hold of the
Fuerst Bismarck. Herr Richter has the
fiOOri
The herald., 1897-12-09
A TWENTY-MINUTE HITCH

The city council has passed an amend
ed ordinance which allows teams to
stand hitched for a period not longer
than twenty minutes in the district
wherein hitching has for several weeks
been entirely forbidden.
The Herald strongly disapproves of
the amended ordinance for reasons
which it has already demonstrated. The
present measure will, if the history of
similar previous ordinances affords any
criterion, speedily become a dead letter
and the laughing stock of the conmun-
ity.
The new ordinance ought not to be al
lowed to meet with such fate. The de-
STABILITY, even the necessity Of an anti
hitching law, has been amply manifest
ed by the experience of the past few
weeks. The streets have been cleaner,
passage has been easier and there has
been less liability to accident. The all
around Improvement from the stand
point of the general public has been very
marked.
Now that the ordinance has been
changed in spite Of all the advantages Of
the former measure, it is to be hoped that
an honest attempt will be made to en-
force the present law. 1t will be un-
fortunate indeed If the old, objection
able conditions are allowed to resume
their sway. Health, comfort and safety
demand the enforcement of the ordi-
nance.
1t is not to be expected that the police
will put in their time exclusively in
watching hitched horses. That is OBJ
viously out of the question. The public
must do it's share If the best results are
to be obtained. The team owner should
take heed of the law and obey it without
waiting for 1t to be enforced upon him.
If both the police and the public will do
their best to observe the provisions OF
the amended ordinance there may yet be
some good results from it.
The herald., 1897-12-09

lie Monday. and Is characteristic Of hi
bias in favor Of national bank autonom,
in this country. Aside from the sta
tistical feature Of the report. It consist
wholly in an attack upon the cur
rency system Of the country, which h
conceives to be wrong in principle ant
practice. and an appeal for an exten
sion Of the note issuing privileges O
the national banks, to which he woult
manifestly like to turn over the eartl
and its remaining possessions.
The Herald is gratified to be able t.
agree with Mr.. Eckels upon one point
however, and 1t hastens to record it.
concurrence in the conclusions of thai
gentleman regarding worldwide bi.
metallism. In an article in the current
number Of The Forum, reviewing the
work Of the Wolcott commission, he
says:
If an international agreement be-
from all the facts an impossibility, that
phase Of the money question ought to
be abandoned by the American people.
/. The question ought to be def
nltely settled, and should no longer en-
ter. as an element of doubt, into the
commercial life of the American peo-
pie.
We do not thus agree with Mr.. Eckels
because we believe with him, that "in-
ternational bimetallism is today more
hopeless than at any time in the his
tory of the government" or that bimet-
allists are not increasing in numbers in
any European country" On these two
points we shall be disposed to take the
testimony of Mr.. Wolcott, soon to be
made public. But we concur in Mr..
Eckels' conclusions because we believe,
whatever the condition of public senti-
ment abroad at this time, that inde-
pendent action by this country will the
sooner force European governments to
adopt bimetallsm as the best and surest
with silver using countries-a view that
is held by no less an authority on political
economy than President Andrews, and
shared by more than one bimetallist
of distinction on the other side of the
water. And we agree with Mr.. Eckels
that the struggle should be narrowed
down to the question of independent
because we believe that this
country will delay the departure at it's
peril, because we fear that an indefinite
Of the era of falling prices
with it's inevitable accompaniment of
business depression and commercial
side which, to employ the prophetic
anguage of Mr.. Depew, "the free coin
age of silver will be the smallest evil.''
The herald., 1897-12-09
A PRESIDENTIAL PREROGATIVEf

The presidents assumption that all
obligations of the government must be
paid In gold illustrates the progress of
his development along ultra eastern ed
ucational lines. Nobody better knows
the falsity Of the proposition. Not to
know that outstanding coin obligations
Of the government are payable in silver,
at the option Of the government, is to
confess an ignorance of the laws under
which these obligations We're created that
would Ill become president, and espe-
cially one who helped to create the laws
The president also we'll knows that
congress has refused to authorize a
strictly gold bond, even in the face of
extraordinary inducements in the mat
ter of interest offered by the gold mon
gers Of New York and London. A chief
executive should be a tri1e more circum-
The herald., 1897-12-09
PASSING OF ECKELS

One of the ablest attaches of the Sec
ond Cleveland administration was Mr..
James f. Eckels. Il gentleman with
scarcely more than local reputation
as q financier, whom the president dis
covered and placed in charge of the cur
.rency bureau Of the national treasury.
The ability at once displayed and main
tained by this western prodigy is es
teemed by the financial men of the
country as little less than phenomenal,
for he had enjoyed no extraordinary
educational advantages, certainly no
special financial training, albeit he
was known only as mediocre
country lawyer. 1t was evident
from the first, however, that he
possessed financial genius, for he was
not only able to conduct the affairs of
his bureau with singular distinction, but
as well, and at the same time, supply the
direct connecting link between the ad-
mnistration, which he represented Of
ficially, and the banking interest Of the
country. which he represented nomin-
ally. For four years he was Mr.. Cleve-
lands faithful messenger and trump
eter, eXpounding and calculating his
peculiar financial heresies, for the genius
he has shown has been as erratic and
one-sided as 1t has been spectacularly
brilliant. Espousing the ultra views of
the national banking interest, which de-
mands absolute control of the currency
of the country, and expounding them
with more than ordinary virlity upon
every public occasion, it Is not strange
that he became at once the idol of the
class to which he catered, while yield
ing nothing of loyalty to the convictions
of his chief. The office of comptroller
of the currency has been filled by many
able men, but the public has known little
about them. It remained for Mr.. Eckels
to add national oratory and the custody
of the national bank conscience to the
functions of the office, departures we'll
calculated to bring the office and
its occupant into conspicuous promi-
nence. There have been presidents, too,
without a policy to urge against the
will of the people, but this was before
the discovery of a Cleveland and an
Eckels. The necessity for peripatetic
apostle was coincident with the AFRO
CANT assumptions Of the chief executive,
and Mr.. Eckels may be said to have
faithfully fulfilled the mission. His term
of Office has Tapped over into the new
administration, and it is not recorded
that his publicly expressed financial
views since the Inauguration have UNI
dergone any change, or that they have
been less agreeable to Mr.. Mckinley
than they were to Mr.. Cleveland But
his resignation is in the hands of the
executive, and in a few weeks he will
transfer his allegiance from all of the
banks to q single concern in Chicago.
of which he has already been chosen
president and we shall presumably lose
sight of his distinguished figure at the
annual meetings Of the banking frater-
nifty of the nation and the periodical
banquets of the New York chamber of
commerce.
His last annual report was made pub