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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
SWINE

Exclusive corn feeding is the cause of
more losses of hogs than any other
thing. 1t is because corn is one of the
hardest grains to digest, unless ground
and cooked.
Even ground corn is too rich, and is
apt to be over eaten by hogs, causing in
digestion. 1t is much better to give
growing pigs milk with a mixture of
oats and fine wheat middlings until they
are ready to fatten.
When SOW gets her full growth her
filters will be large, healthier and more
uniform. Keep such SOW for several
years, or until she forms some bad habit.
A three or four year old SOW. farrow-
ing two litters of pigs year. will often
give more profit than an average COW,
and will not cost so much to keep, nor
require so much labor in caring for her.
There is no question as to the value of
good pasturage for growing hogs. and
good green clover will not only reduce
the cost. but bring better health and
thrift.
IL we can give ample pasturage to
growing pigs in an orchard which has
been seeded down to clover, no addition
al food will be called for but bran and
middlings made into slop with milk.
1t is truly mistake to allow slop to
sour. Make up at one time of feeding
what may be needed at the next. 1t is
unwise to let them gorge themselves
with this. if they can be turned to
grass.
A hog should never die until his time
comes. The best protection is cleanli-
ness and plenty of wholesome food, in
suitable variety. Corn, fed exclusively,
converts a hog into large lump Of fat.
with functional degeneration.
A pig which is too fat is not growing
well. for it has not been receiving just
the right kind of food. There are just
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
ODDITIES IN ENGLAND.

Undoubtedly the most extraordinary
township in England is that of Skid
daw, in Cumberland. 1t contains but
one house, the occupier of which is I'M
able to exercise the Briton's privilege of
voting because there is no overseer to
prepare voters list and no church or
other place of worship or assembly on
which to publish one.
The most remote village in England is
that of Farley-cum-P itton. This truly
rural spot is thirty miles and half from
the nearest railway station. AS con-
trast to this may be mentioned the ham
let of Ystard, about ten miles from Car
diff. This tiny settlement possesses
two important main roads. two railways,
and two large rivers.
A very unique feature is exclusively
claimed by Trimley, small village in
Suffolk. In the one churchyard of the
the parish two churches are to be seen.
Service is conducted three times week
in each OF these churches at the same
hour.
The deepest we'll in England is found
at Hamilton, in Hampshire. 1t stretches
three hundred and fifty feet below the
surface of the earth. About half way
down this we'll shaft is subway, three
miles in length which leads to the sea-
coast.
On the top of the parish church tower
in Bicknoller, Somersetshire, is a yew
tree. now five feet high, and still grow.
ing in a hard fashion. 1t is generally
believed that the tree owes it's origin to
a seed dropped by bird.
Perhaps the most splendidlY decorated
church in he kingdom is that of Whit
ley Court. Worcestershire. 1T is en-.
tirely constructed of white marble, the
pews are chastely carved, and the pull
pit is of genuine Carrara marble, richly
paneled with precious stones.
On the village green at Meridian, in
Warwickshire. there is a large stone
cross. which supposed to mark the cen
trail point of England.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26

There is more importance in the size
into which potatoes are cut than in the
number OF eyes in the place. Uniform
ity in size produces the most uniform
and best crop.
The small farmer soon gets out of ruts,
for he can not compete with the thou
sand acre farmer. He soon gets more
from his few acres than a larger farm
would have yielded him titled in the old
way.
Navy beans is neglected crop in this
country. although one which can be
made profitable on almost any farm.
1t pays better than many field crops.
and yet we do not supply home de-
mands.
A firm, rich piece of land on which
stock has been pastured and fed is far
better for potatoes than dry, light loan
or sandy soil. Then the seed must be
good and the cultivation faultIess.
The man who is entirely content with
present methods never makes progress
He who finds question in prevailing
modes is in fair way to find better.
1t is the doubter who makes intellectual
growth.
Farmers must learn for themselves
what the needs of their acres are, and
there is no escape for it. 1t is a lesson
which no vender of fertilizers can learn
for him.
1t is not good farming which exhausts
land, but poor farming, and it is not &C
complished 30 much by taking out the
elements Of fertility as by locking them
up and rendering them unavailable.
The wasteful system of putting in
large crops and raising low averages has
produced the condition of things of
which we most complain; it has deter.
iorated soils and ruined thousands of
farmers.
Flax comes in nicely in rotation; it
is we'll to SOW it on corn land and before
wheat. Excepting BEANS nothing bet
ter fits field for good wheat crop.
Puts off until tomorrow what you can
not do we'll today. Drive your work,
and do not let it drive you, but do no
more than you can do well. If your
neighbor puts in 20 acres of corn rough
ly, you would better put in 10 properly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
HORTICULTUKE.

In England early vegetables are
grown in large forcing houses, while
America is slow to adopt this method
because of supplies from Southern
States. Hot house vegetables bring
higher prices, and are more and more in
demand.
The statement was made at farmers
club in Great Britain that the income
from one garden of 10 acree, covered
with glass, exceeded that from 1000
acres of the best farm land of the coun-
try.
Grapes seem to ripen better with an
abundance of heavy foliage. No one
now thinks of trimming off the leaves of
grapes in order to assist in the ripen-
ing of the fruit.
The blacklist grapes are frequently
under the deepest shade of leaves; this
will also be found true in the black
berry patch. Chemistry, and not sun.
light only, is the chief factor at work.
1t is we'll in the early sowing of peas
to put little nitrogen in the form Of
nitrate of potassia or soda. While peas
are nitrate producers, they seem to need
some nitrate with which to make be-
ginning.
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his last bit of change he bought up
some pins, needles and thread, and
started out hoping to earn few
pence. To use his own words, he had
no luck, and might have starved but
for young lady, who was 80 kind
as to ask him if would not have
some breakfast, and then insisted
upon making coffee for one. Do you
recall the circumstances now, Miss
Lorne7"
"Yes. but why did he tell you all
this9 How did he know my namei
l did not volunteer the information,
and he did not ask me-"
81 am coming to that presently.
He inquired your name and circum-
stances at the very next house, and,
of course, did not forget it. 1t is
needless to say that he was not for
tunate in peddling, and finally drift
ed back to his room in tenement
house, and was upon the point of 60
ing to the Soldiers Home, when his
pension was allowed, back pay and
all, as he had hoped. The back pay
he did not use, as the monthly stipend
was enough for his needs. Well,
Calvin Conner died! [ was called to
draw up and execute his will, and
am pleased to inform you that as he
had no friends or relatives, he left
his little fortune to Miss Leora
Lorne, the girl who was willing to
make "coffee for one," and that one
seedy old peddler.
The lawyer ceased speaking, but
Miss Lorne could not reply. He con-
tinued: "Why don't you ask how
much you are to receiver" 'Of
course, it can be but little" Leora
said, "our poor soldiers did not receive
fortunes for their service, but l am
grateful for what he choose to leave
me, ana more than surprised TO thlnk
he remembered it at all. How much
is it,"
81 am happy to say that Mr.. Con-
nor succeeded in saving three thou
sand dollars for you, which am en-
powered to pay over to you today"
Three thousand dollars! 1t would
lift the mortgage on the farm. She
could bid Harold come and they
could all have home there together.
1t was the price of cup of coffee to
a lonely old man, and though it isn't
always paid in just that way, yet
when we do cast our bread upon the
waters, we may be very sure it will
return to us after many days.
LYONS, q.
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SHEEP.

yearliDg sheep which has had the
proper attention will sell in the market
with as much profit as any other ami
NAL which is kept on the farm.
A small sheep which is fat will sell for
more than a larger one which is thin.
Whatever we have to sell. let us present
some inducement to the buyer.
In order to bring good prices it is
necessary that the lambs come early.
make good growth, and are ready for
market in good season. A little delay
may make considerable difference in
the price obtained.
The time for lambs to come should be-
carefully considered, for, il convenient
to a city market, the raising of them can
be made decidedly profitable. A good
early lamb. in a marketable condition.
will bring higher price than a matured
sheep at any time in the year.
Sheep cannot always be held down.
for wool is one of the necessities of life.
and it can never be kept SO low for any
great length Of time that il must be
produced at loss. Even fine wooded
Merinos will be soon again in demand.
and fortunes will be made on wise FORE
thought in this direction. Beside, it
pays to keeps them as scavengers and
renovators.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
SOME OF CALIFORNIA; BIG
TREES.

In the national parks and forest re-
serves of California the big trees are by
far the most interesting and greatest
natural features. There are two varie-
ties. namely, SequOid semperUirens, or
dinarily known as the redwood" the tree
which has furnished most of the redwood
lumber of commerce, and Sequoid gi-
ganted, from which a comparatively
small amount of similar lumber has also
been made. The former is the smaller
variety, and grows on the foothills
along the coast; the latter attains con-
siderably larger growth, is more strictly
speaking, the "big tree" of California,
and is seldom found at lower altitude
than 5000 feet.
Scattered along the extent of the
Sierra Nevadas from north to south are
many distinct and separate groups or
groves of SequoiG gigantea. These are
generally known by names significant of
locality. az, for instance, "Calaveras,"
"Tuolumne," "Mariposa." and Fresno"
names of the counties in which the
groves so called are situated. The Tuo-
lumne," Grove is in the Yosemite Park,
and the Mariposa near by. This latter
is the one most frequently visited by
tourists. and contains the "Wawona"-a
tree with hole burnt in its base,
through which the stage road runs and
four horse stages are driven without diff
ficulty-and the Grizzly Giant" one of
the largest trees in the world.
The stately grandeur of these enor-
nous and lofty trees is so impressive it
seems quite fit and natural that some OF
the larger ones should have been indi-
vidualized and bonored with distin-
guished titles. Nearly every State in
the Union and every distinguished gen.
eral of the civil war has namesake
among them. The General Grant," in
in the General Grant Park. and the
General Sheridan" OF the Giant For
est" (situated in the Sequoia Park, are
individuals of the largest size. 1t is diff
ficult to determine just which of the big
trees is the largest, but these two and
the Grizzly Giant"-the gnarly base of
any one of which will exceed thirty feet
in diameter-are probably the biggest
trees yet discovered.
The trees often grow in such inaccess-
ible mountain retreats that some of the
territory covered by them has never yet
been thoroughly and Systematically ex-
plored. Outside the lands reserved by
the government, a California lumber
company owns several thousand acres of
these trees-enough to last forty years.
cutting many millions of feet per year.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
HABITS AND HEALTH,

There is another kind of asceticsm
which is nearly as foolish as neglect of
food. and which is enforced not by ones
own we'll guided or misguided judgment
but by external opinion. Almost all
men have certain ways" of living which
they have found conducive either to
health or work, and a very large section
of them suffer greatly from torrent of
criticism for those ways. There are
men who never need exercise, or. as Mr..
Chamberlain says is his case. do much
better without it. and il they escape
minatory lecture once week they are
greatly favored by fortune. There are
other men, quite numerous. who benefit
by exercise in big dIaughts. but not in
homeopathic doses, who exert them
selves furiously once a week or during
an annual holiday. but for the rest of
their time benefit most by bodily torpor.
They are not scolded because, as a rule,
they are considered too far gone for that
operation to be beneficial, but they are
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
HORSES.

Many good colts are injured by feed
ing which tends to keep them soft.
they do best on dry food. Ground oats
and milk or slop of any kind make
growth and flesh rapidly. but bone and
muscle do not keep pace.
Now that the good horses are gone
we will have to begin again and lay our
foundation work over. Breeding must
be resumed, but our brood mares have
been sold off.
Farmers have got rid of their prejudice
against draft and coach horses of large
size, but it will require management to
meet future demands. Fortunately the
experience is left. and work can be be-
gun intelligently.
There are brighter times coming for
the intelligent horse breeder if he can
hold on to his heavy stock and give
them plenty of feed and care for little
while longer; there will certainly be
rush for them.
Watering the horses before feeding is
a part of good stable management. Too
often on the farm they are watered
when most convenient, or according to
custom.
In working the colt do not let him get
into the habit of stopping Of his own &C.
cord when he becomes tired; it is good
way to develop baker. If you think
he needs rest stop him in time.
The roadster must have speed, endur-
ance and ability if he is to keep out of
the way of the electric car. If he is to
hold his place with his new rival, he
must be bred. developed and trained to
the highest possible standard of equine
excellence.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
MONEY MADE IN A MINUTE.

l have not made less than SIG. 90 any day
while selling Centrifugal Ice Cream Freez-
ers. Anyone should make from IS to IS a
day selling cream and from 81 TO $40 SELL
ing freezers, as it is such a wonder, there
is always a crowd wanting cream. You
can freeze cream elegantly in one minute
and that astonishes people so they all
want to taste it, and then many of them
buy freezers as the cream is smooth and
perfectly frozen. Every freezer is guar
anteed to freeze cream perfectly in one
minute. Anyone can sell ice cream and
the freezer sells Itself. My sister makes
from $40 to SIS day. W. H. Baird & Co..
Dept 24O, Sta. A, Pittsburg, Pa, will
mail you full particulars free, so you can
go to work and make lots of money any
where, as with one freezer you can make
a hundred gallons of cream a day, or if
you wish, they will hire you on liberal
terms.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
.IHE EAMIEYTl 1QIN[E
SOMETIME.

Sometime, we shall know why
Our sunniest mornings change to moons of
rain;
And why our steps are Swallowed so by
pain.
And why we often lie
On couches, sown with thorns of care and
doubt;
And why our lives are thickly hedged
about
With bars that put our loftiest plans to
rout.
Sometime, we shall know why
Our dearest hopes are swept so swift
away,
And why our brightest flowers first decay;
Why song is lost in sigh.
Why clasping fingers slip so soon apart
Estrangement, space and death rend heart
from heart,
Until from deepest depths the tear-drops
start.
Sometime, we all shall know
Each other, aye, as we ourselves are
known
And see how out of darkness light has
grown.
And He-who loves us so
Despite our wilfulness and blind COM
plant
Will show us how His kind and calm re-
straint
Can mould human soul into saint.
Sometime, our eyes shall see
The silver lining to the darkest cloud,
While silvery echoes follow thunders
loud.
Sometime, our hearts shall be
Content, forgetting all our restless mood,
And knowing everything has worked for
good
The how, and when, and wi y, be under
stood.
LILLIAN GRAY, in Waterman.
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habitually and very openly disbelieved.
They are talking nonsense, it is held. on
a matter they know nothing about.
There are thousands of Englishmep
who are never at peace il they are not
warm, and are told by all sincere friends
that they are killing themselves with
"coddling;" and tens of thousands who
can neither think nor work unless they
are cool. and who are pestered by every
one who knows them, about wraps. We
used to lecture one old gentleman our
selves because he would ride on omni-
buses, wanting. he said, "full air" and
the lectures did not stop when at eighty
four he was more hale than the lecturer
at forty-fve. Modern biographers are
particularly impervious to reason on this
point. They note at once the smallest
departure from the usual in the habits
of daily life, as if it were an alteration.
never thinking that their victim proba-
bly, knows himself great deal better
than they can know him, or is obeying
an instinct as deeply planted and as ben
efic al as that which induces dog oc
casionally to eat grass. There are men.
Scotchmen and Scandipavians no doubt
mostly, who simply must get into the
cold" for few weeks every year. who
thirst for it like Swiss for mountains;
and there are thousands of women who
would live to hundred il they could
only have a month year in a place
where they we're warm all through. To
condemn such instincts as self -indul-
gence, unless they conflict with clear
duties. is foolish.-London Spectator.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26
A GREAT RIDE.

The Lehigh Valley is wonder spot in
Americas scenery. The little towns far
down in the Valley look like the dots on a
map, as you whirl along in the palatial
vestibuled train of the GRAND TRUNK
RAILWAY SYSTEM, and LEHIGH
VALLEY r. r. This superb train leaves at
800 p. m daily from Dearborn Station.
Chicago; reaches N. Y. next evening.
Steam heat, gas light, Pullman Buffet
Sleepers and Dining Car. Ticket office at
1903 Clark street, Chicago; L. r. MORROW,
City Ticket Agent.
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the right rations to develop bone and
mucle.
With proper management the SOW
will commence gaining as soon as her
pigs are weaned, and, usually, the first
time she comes in heat is a good time to
breed.
Rake up the cobs about the feeding
yard, burn them until properly charred
and then put out the fire. II you OBJ
serve how often the hogs go to them you
will conclude they fill some want.
Do not sell either the bears nor the
sows when too young. In too many
cases they are sold before they reach
the best age for breeding to the greatest
advantage.
Breeding young animals certainly
lessons the vigor of the offspring; again,
it is the wiser plan to keep good breed
ing animals as long as possible after
they have proved to be such.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-26

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
local disease, and prescribed local rene
dies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to
be constitutional disease, and, there
fore, requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market, II
is taken internally in doses from 10 drops
to'a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case its fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, price zoe.
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controversial conversation. He
considered that religious opinions
should be judged by the fruits they
produced. II they produced good men,
they must be good. His codification of
the morals of Jesus was not known to
his family before his death, and they
learned from a letter addressed to a
friend that he was in the habit of read
ing nightly from it before going to bed.
His family believed him to be the purest
OF men, Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
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Original Story.
COFFEE FOR ONE"
BY ERMINA C. STRAY.

TIE came up the path, sadly
LII forlorn looking individual, and
vet with an evident desire to appear
jaunty and unconcerned. He was
dressed in a style that would have
been pronounced shabby genteel
and he carried basket ON his arm,
containing small supply of pins,
needles, thread, and few odds and
ends of other things, destined for
trade or to pay his way in the world
He whistled little, without much
time or tune, it must be confessed;
but it was a sort of accompaniment on
his lonely way, and it kept up his
courage wonderfully, especially when
he was nearing the house, as now. 1t
helped him to forget what he had
been, and what he was now.
Miss Lorne sat at the breakfast
table, either dreaming or in deep
thought. She had been sitting like
this ever since the men went out to
work, and the clock trembled upon
the stroke of eight, even now. She
had fallen into the habit of day
dreaming of late, of puzzling her
brain over the financial distress of the
farmer in general, and her own peo-
pie in particular. She had had her
ambitious dreams and sacrificed them
for her deaf father, her lame mother,
and her younger brothers and sisters;
and if Harold Worth figured in those
day dreams Leora Lorne did not know
it, for she put him resolutely away
long ago, and was wondering now
what would be done next to stem the
tide and exc out the family finances.
The quavering whistle of the Will
ON peddler broke upon her ear, and
Leora looked up, just as he stepped
upon the porch, and giving light
tap upon the door, said in his pitt
full jaunty air, GOOD morning lady"
"Good morning." Leora replied, ris-
ing from the table, and offering the
intruder chair. He took it with an
airy "thank you" that was in perfect
keeping with his whistle and manner.
"You wouldn't want to buy any pins,
or needles this morning, now, would
you?" he asked with an assumption
of don't-care.ativeness that told his
story palmer than words, it was SO
pitifully thin and weak, and showed
that he did care a good deal.
Hardly, 1 think, and yet, perhaps,
we'll yes, will buy some pins" she
said, knowing instinctively that he
had sold nothing as yet, and perhaps
would not He was not the material
that peddlers are made Of.
80 thank you," he said, "Its very
kind in you, and l an awfully OBJ
liged." He looked half wistfully
upon the remains of the breakfast,
still standing on the table, took the
money for the pins and turned to go.
Leora hesitated moment. 1t seemed
as though he was hungry. She said,
"Have you been to breakfast this
morning2" He turned and looked
back still with the same jaunty non
chalsnt air, and said, "Well no, but
then l don't need any, you see"
Give him cup of coffee" Mrs.
Lorne said, looking up from her
knitting.
"Yes, come back and have some
coffee. | will have it hot in a minute.
The fire is still burning in the kitch-
en- range"
He stood on the porch, looking at
her half curiously, half eagerly. His
eyes swept over the table once more;
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