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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-12

Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, head.
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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
POULTR Y.

The great trouble is to have the hens
laying these cold days. Try them with
hot meal every morning of some boiled
vegetable. with bran or meal. If very
cold. warm the water, and supply them
often. Do not forget the chopped clover
nor other green food, and the green
bone. cut or broken fine. Feed meat
scraps, and. above all, keep the biddies
warm and dry.
Every breed has points of merit of its
own, with variety to suit every taste,
and the breeder who is versed in the
practical side of his business makes a
success of it. The laying qualities of
hens are susceptible of development
Just as is the milking trait in COWS.
Edward Atkinson says that the pro-
duct of the egg mines is greater in value
than the product of the iron furnaces;
is about twice the value of the wool pro.
duct, and three or four times that of the
output of silver. While the mines of
silver own our senators, there is no one
Growing for the American hen ia the
halls of Congress.
Sunhower seed is worth about IS cents
a bushel, and there is considerable de-
mand for it. At this price it should be
profitable crop. If an acre be grown
as an adjunct to the poultry farm and
fed to the fowls, a much greater return.
could be had from it.
A cockerel can be caponized at any
age but as with all other animals, the
best results are obtained by performing
the operation when they are young. No
definite time of the year can be desig-
mated, as it can be done in one month as,
well as another.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
1.-THE NEW WOMAN"

Our readers will surely enjoy the humor
of the following verses, which are clipped
from the Philadelphia Record:
Here lies poor woman who always was
busy
She lived under pressure that rendered
her dizzy.
She belonged to ten clubs and read Brown
ing by sight,
Showed at luncheons and teas and would
vote if she might.
She served on a school board with courage
and zeal,
She golfed and she kodaked and rode on a
wheel;
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen, knew microbes
by name,
Approved of Delsarte, was Daughter"
and "Dame;'
Her hildren went in for the top educa-
ton;
Her husband went seward for nervous
prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free
The shock was too great, and she died in
stantlee.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.

Sound, restful sleep. both by night and
day, is more easily induced if from the
first the child be taught to lie on its
stomach and face. The only necessary
precaution against suffocation is the pro-
vision of a smooth, fiat, somewhat hard
hair mattress without pillow. The ad.
vantages of this position are many. Some
one has said that half the diseases of in
fancy result from keeping the stomach
too cold, and the other half from over
heating the spine. By adopting the po-
sition suggested as the uniform one dur
ing the hours Of sleep, the stomach and
abdomen are kept 80 warm as to prevent
collie and stomach ache, and materially
to aid the digestive process. while the
spine and back of the head are no longer
overheated by the increased temperature
of the sleeping child. 1t may be coin
cidence merely. but it is at least sig.
nificant one. that all the children the
writer has known to rest habitually face
downward have been unusually sound
sleepers, and have enjoyed more than
average good health. 1t is surprising to
see how early child will discriminate
and show preference for the face posi-
ton, and how readily it accommodates
itself to this attitude. A child from
eight to ten weeks old will readily have
learned to turn its head from side to
side to obtain the relief of a change of
position. A young baby on it's back is
as helpless as turtle in the same posi-
ton; it's one possible motion is the
throwing out of legs and arms, and each
such movement uncovers the child and
exposes it to draughts. Placed on it's
face, babe two or three months old will
not only rest itself by frequent changes
of the position of all portions of the body,
but, since it is powerless to reverse it.
self, it cannot get uncovered nor lapse
into any unwholesome cramped position.
1t is quite otherwise when the infant is
lying flat on it's back. This position not
only invites indigestion. but it also
causes bad dreams and night frights,
and promotes the dangerous habit of
mouth breathing.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20

Sugar OF milk is being made from
whey, after the butter and casein of the
milk have been extracted. Even for
pig feedsthis whey is of but little value.
yet in it lies most important product,
and oneswhich promises to create a great
industry.
When we figure the full cost of feed
and against it only the selling value of
the milk and butter, emitting all con-
sideration Of the skinned milk or but
termilk, we omit factor of Importance.
and one which has much to do with the
question of profit.
Winter feed will not cost much more
than that of summer if it is properly OBJ
tanned and fed. Good millet, hay and
corn fodder can be provided in abund-
ance. and the silo will yield enough sue
culent food to keep the animals in ex-
cellent condition.
1t is an important part of successful
dairying to select, for raising, heifer
calves with vigorous physical character
istics as well as with reputable pedi-
gree. Any COW, in order to be prolific
yielder of milk. must be hearty eater,
with good digestive powers.
Weedy pastures may explain why
much OF our butter is below, in quality,
the product Of European countries. In
many of their localities soiling is prac.
ticed. When the food is carried to the
COWS, depend upon it weeds are not fed.
1t is not hard matter to remedy the
evil of dirty pastures, and wise man,
will find the best way.
Good butter is at the end of chain Of
a dozen links of care. The thing to be
lifted by the chain is the price of butter
in the market. One imperfect link
jeopardizes the whole. With a whole
chain the price will be nearly uniform
the year round.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
GENIUS IN CHILDREN.

DIR. johnson defined genius as an sin
finite capacity for taking palms," He re-
marked. 81 am persuaded that had Sir
Isaac Newton applied himself to poetry
he would have made very fine epic
poem" In short. the Doctors opinion
was that man, by accident. is born
with more mind, with more powerful
mind. than other people, and the direc-
ton of this power, to poetry, war, law,
mathematics. politics, is quite an affair
of chance. But the power must be zap
piled with diligence" Now, in my opin-
ion, DIR. johnson was wrong, and would
rather define genius as IAN unmeasured
capacity for doing things without taking
palms." Moreover, fancy that as a
rule, the child of genius is born to do
but one set of things in this excellent
easy way. though there are exceptions,
as in Napoleon's case. DIR. johnson said,
eve may instance the science of num-
bers, which all minds are equally capa-
BILE of attaining. Yet we find a prodig-
ious difference in the powers of different
men, in that respect. after they are
grown up. because their minds have been
more or less exercised in it," Now,
surely, both schoolboys and teachers will
here disagree with the Doctor. In the
power of learning arithmetic there are
prodigious natural differences from the
very first. /. myself-this does not H.
lustrate genius!-could not be taught
arithmetic at all beyond the simplest
rules, and algebra not at all. AS to
mathematics, Macaulay was absolutely
incapable of learning them; so too. l
think, was Sir William Hamilton, the
philosopher. Meanwhile, many boys.
otherwise stupid, are fair, or even good
mathematicians. But the great argument
against the Doctor is furnished by cal
culating boys. About score of these
prodigies are known in history. At
very early age, say, five or six, they have
been able to do in a moment, and cor
rectly, calculations which, with pencil
and paper, would occupy mathematician
for long time. In this case genius was
capacity for doing things without TAX
ing pains at all. Out of about score of
such boys two or three have been almost
idiots at everything but calculation.
This, of course, again proves the Doctor
to be wrong. These boys had not large
quantities of mind in general, of mind
fit for all purposes; they only had arith-
metical genius without taking pains
Two or three Of these lads. again, turned
out great philosophers. or great practi-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
!. The rest we're on the cornmon

cal men. The rest we're on the corhmon
level.
The most extraordinary genius would
be that which could do anything equally
we'll without taking pains. Out of this
class the standing example is Joan of
Arc. A peasant girl of seventeen, she
understood the politics of her day as no.
body else understood them. In war,
whether for gallantry and resolution as
leader, for skill in artillery practice,
for science in military combir ations, or
for Napoleon. like suddenness in sur
prises, she excelled all captains of her
time. She was an accomplished rider,
who had never learned to ride. When
questioned by theologians, she answered
with such mastery that they were intel
lectually powerless in her presence. Yet
she was an untaught peasant child who
could not read nor write. Here, then.
was genius, but the only pains she took
were pains to make other people carry
out her ideas. In this instance genius
conspicuously borders on the miracu-
lous. Indeed, genius always does border
on the miraculous. 1t is intellect and
power SO different in degree from that of
other people that it seems to differ in
kind, and to be sort of inspiration. or,
as we say, Intuition" Now, the word
intuition" means seeing" and it will
be found that persons of genius do see
in their minds eye with clearness un-
familiar to the general body Of mankind.
This curious gift OF mental. or inner,
vision is certainly more common in
children than in grown-up people. So
far, almost all children are children of
genius, and man of genius is often
what he is because he has retained this
gift of childhood AndreW Lang in the
North american ReUieiU.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
HOhsTICULTURE

Peach trees, to be healthy and yield
more fruit, require fertilizing and good
cultivation as much as any other tree;
nut when they receive this they grow
rapidly and form lots of wood. and this
should be kept cut back lust as should
any vine or shrub, by pinching or cutting.
OIL the surplus growth.
Keep the orchard fenced from all
stock, plant to hoed crops for three
years, and then SOW to clover. When
bearing give it load of manure for
every load of apples taken away. Do not
expect it to bear twenty years without.
food.
Combine bee keeping with fruit grow
ing, and you can more easily procure
two crops from the same land; and this
double cropping requires no additional
tertilizing. is not exhaustive, demands
no extra blowing or cultivation. Few.
crops ask so little outlay as the honey
crop.
Endeavor to plant out trees which are
not more than two years from bud or
graft. They are more easily dug, have
better roots, hold more firmly in the
ground, and start into vigorous growth
again with less check.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
STOCK.

The manurial product in stock grow.
ing should pay every expense but that
for feed. Being thus free from charges
for labor, care and housing, there should
not be much difficulty in making an
animal pay for its feed.
Every neighborhood has a farmer a
little more progressive than the average;
one who always has the best of every.
thing. These are the persons to whom
to go for improved stock, for advice as
to breeds. for lessons in the care of stock,
and for wisdom upon many points in
which you may be deficient.
Those who are competent become
breeders themselves. and it is difficult
to get skilled manager to handle
breeding stock for wages. Our agricul-
tural colleges offer remedy to our
farmers sons, and their advantages
should be better understood and appre.
ciated.
A deep chest and wide nostrils lnd;.
cate healthy lungs. and in selecting
horses or cattle for breeding purposes
these are essential points to consider.
coat of fat upon the outside and a
lining of the same will do much to keep
stock comfortable in cold weather, and
they are not apt to be profitable unless
they are comfortable.
Organize farmers breeders societies
to advance the improved stock business.
to make stock raising pay and to make
the farm pay. Prices for higher breeds
are within the reach of any who care to
improve, but these must soon advance.
as they are doing in some cases already.
Stockmen who continually proclaim
that there is no longer any profit in their
business should sell out and give place
to men who know that such enterprise.
properly followed. is as profitable as
ever, only that the changed times call
for changed methods.
Stock well wintered is half summered
When poorly cared for they grow poor,
and half the summers pasture is lost;
by the time the summer is ended such
stock has just begun to fatten nicely.
Treat stock we'll for profits sake and |
for humanity's sake.
Early maturity is especially important
in beef cattle rearing; progressive
breeders appreciate it, as do the buyers,
who pay the best prices for the early !
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
Worms in Furniture.

The minute holes often seen in the
wooden part of furniture are generally
caused by the ravages of a small wood
boring beetle, which, unless checked in
it's depredations. has very harmful
effect upon the article attacked. Many
people advise the use of powdered alum;
it should be rubbed into the holes &C.
casionally, and strong solution of it
should also be used for washing over
the furniture. Another way of killing
these tiresome little insects is to pour
boiling water over the worm. eaten parts
then rub them over with turpentine.
and finally fill up the holes with paste
made of white lead and lnseed oil. This
can be colored to match the wood.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
FARM. GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agriculturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR 1.-THE UNIvERSALIST."

matured steer, which always has a su-
perior quality when finished off for the
block before two years old. Still there
are thousands who do not seem to know
this.
Let the milk obtained from the beef
herd, or the beef sold from the milk
herd, be extra profit only, for to make it
profitable on either hand the stock must
be selected with reference to the special
ty in view.
There is no reason why number of
farmers cannot unite in buying a good
stallion or bull, as well as to pay some
one else for keeping it for them and
making profit from them. Cooperation
in buying blooded breeding stock will
save high service fees.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
LINCOLN.
FEBRUARY ~, 1909.

Nature, they say, doth dote,
And can not make man
Save on some WORKOUT plan,
Repeating us by rote:
For him her Old-World moulds aside she
threw,
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
Of the unexhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped hero new,
Wise. steadfast in the strength of God,
and true.
How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,
Who loved his charge, but never loved to
lead.
One whose meek flock the people joyed to
be.
Not lured by any cheat of birth,
But by his clear-gained human worth,
And brave old wisdom of sincerity
He knew to bide his time,
And can his fame abide,
Still patient in his simple faith sublime,
Till the wise years decide.
Great CAPTAINS, with their guns and drums,
Disturb our judgment for the hour,
But at last silence comes;
These are all gone, and standing like
tower,
Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing
man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not
blame,
New birth of our new soil, the first
Amer lean.
-Lowell's ''Commemoration Ode"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
Watches for the ButtOnhOle.

One of the latest fads imported from
France is the buttonhole watch. These
tiny little watches were first made for
the convenience of bicyclists, but other
people are beginning to wear them in
the lapel of the coat. The ordinary form
of buttonhole watch has a face about
one half inch in diameter, or even less.
1t may readily be seen that when these
tiny faces are tastefully decorated they
will be highly ornamental to the lapel
of most coats. At distance they might
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20

readily be mistaken for badge. The
works OF these novel watches are about
the size of an ordinary lady's watch.
The face. which is about one-fourth the
diameter of the works. is connected with
the mechanism by thin neck. The
buttonhole watches may be bought for
$40, although some of the most elaborate
designs are worth ten times that figure.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
Selected Story.
MARTHA'S PATIENCE.
ny rrrcv nuEETlOCK
BY LUCY wHEB1OCK.

Tarthsl Martial What does
lN keep you SO long?" called a
querulous voice from the doorway OF
little white cottage which stood at
the end of the village street.
1t was hot July day, and Martha,
who had stopped to restin the shade
of the willow-trees, drew little sigh
of discomfort as she fastened to fiA
the big white pitcher at the spring.
81 wish / could stop just minute
to get cooled off, she said to herself,
as she fastened across the sunny,
dusty street.
"Wellw complained Aunt Patty, as
she took the pitcher, did you stop to
dig new spring? it took you long
enough"
81 Just waited a minute to cool off
under the willows" said the girl
meekly. cts Sc hot"
"Hot! And you never thought of
me, 1 suppose, ready to perish with
thirst" said heraunt, peevishly. 'It's
always the way; no matter what be-
comes of an old woman like me-"
ooh, Aunt Patty" said Martha, in
the same subdued voice; 81 didn't
think you would care"
sob, / dare say not, was the reply,
"you don't stop to think about any
thing but dawdling; but you won't
have much time for that now, if you
expect to have your fathers dinner
by noon. It's eleven o'clock already.
And don't forget to have mess of
those late peas" ADDED Aunt Patty,
as she hobbled off into the cool sit
ting-room, leaving Martha alone in
the hot kitchen.
"Oh, DEAR" sighed the girl, wiping
her flushed face, "whatever shall |
do? She wants peas again, and how
can stop to pick them? There are
the pies to finish and the potatoes to
wash l wonder where Tom isf"
and she flew to the door and looked
up the long, shady street, calling
Toms name at the top of her voice.
"Let me play am Tom," said a
pleasant voice in the next yard, and
Mrs. Drew's summer boarder came to
the fence.
lis it peas you wants Oh, l see
the basinl I'm a master-hand at
peas"
"Oh, Mrs. Vance," said Martha in
confusion, "You mustn't, indeed. It's
so hot in the gardeni"
"Not in the shade of the plum
tree" said the lady, land l am long
ing for chance to get into your nice
garden again"
Before Martha could find words to
demonstrate, she had taken the dish
and was half way down the walk.
Martha hurried back to her pies
and was putting the last one in the
oven, when the kindly voice spoke
again in the doorway: "Now bring me
a dish, and I'll sit here on the step
and shell the peas for you"
"What busy little woman" said
Mrs. Vance, presently, as Martha
went flying from kitchen to pantry.
ais it hard work sometimes7"
"Oh, don't mind" Was the answer,
"when it isn't so dreadfully hot. Oh,
there's Aunt Patty calling" and she
ran to see what was wanted.
"Don't hold the door open and let
all the heat in cried Aunt Patty,
fretfully. 81 only wanted to charge
YOU not to forget the nutmeg on the
custard pies, They were just spoiled
the last time"
"She means patience to have her
perfect work in you," said Mrs.
Vance, as Martha closed the door. 81
have always had a fancy for your
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-20
AGRICULTURE.

A theory may be all right but prove
a fiat failure when tried by some per-
sons. 1t is easy to see how thing
should be done. but the only way to
know how is to go to work and do it.
We may read much, and yet know very
little about the care OF stock. We can
only know the true value of theories by
caring for them.
Some men will spend day in de-
nouncing the railway for charging them
three cents mile covered in minute
or two of time, on their way to the con-
vention, but have not word to say
about the awful condition of the roads
which makes it cost them dollar or
two mile with load which uses up an
hour of time.
Usually the best profits from the farm
can be derived by growing variety of
the crops best suited to it, and then
feeding them out to stock on the farm
and marketing the same. The risks of
failure are lessened, and all the varied
products can be used to the best advant-
age.
Hard work and economy only will
not put the farmar ahead in the world.
knowledge is necessary power in ag-
riculture as in any other occupation.
Farmers must sharpen their wits by
reading; and it is almost necessary that
they become writer's and takers in this
age in which they are coming SO much
to the front.
Do not apply manure directly for
wheat nor oats unless the land is very
poor. In wet season it will cause the
straw to grow too heavy, and in dry
season the soil will be too porous to re-
tain the necessary moisture. None of
these objections apply to corn.
If you cannot haul the manure to the
fields as fast as made, and have no sheds
under which to store it, put it in piles
and throw few inches of earth over il.
This will preserve it in good shape and
will repay the labor required.
1t is folly to risk crop of wheat on
soil which we know to be better adapted
to the growing of some other cereal.
Wheat does best on land of heavy tex
ture, with subsoil Of clay. Should
this subsoil be of too tenacious tex.
ture, tile and the subsoil pillow will &C.
hieve wonders.
Because of the wastage from exposure
on the outside, those who keep but four
or five COWS can better provide food for
them in the old way. On the other
hand, by growing proper crops and fill
ing suitable silo the farmer can easily
keep two or three times as many cows
as he can by relying on hay for winter
food; and grain is more easily digested
where succulent food is added,
While the condition of agriculture is
anything but encouraging, it is we'll to
look to seed saving. The farmer should
have an ambition to produce the best
crops possible in order to make his in
dustry financial success, and he should
strive to produce something better and
which will be more profitable than he or
his neighbors had previously produced
Lessen the amount of dead capital. A
little planning of the work in advance
will SO distribute it that fewer teams
will be needed. and those kept will be
more steadily employed. and in this way
lessen the cost Of running the farm.
Keep no animal which will not more
than pay for it's keeping.
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The adult scalp should be thoroughly
washed occasionally to remove the oily
particles, then apply Halls Hair Remover
to give the hair a natural color.