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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
HORTICULTURE.

Patent apple gatherers are little too
rough for fruit of the choicest quality,
and for any which must be kept long
time. The apples are shaken upon a
canvas. which rolls them to the foot Of
the tree; but many of them must be
bruised by striking the branches. Fruit
which must be kept must be hand
picked
The strawberry, when transplanted, is
the most liable of fruits to failure. It is
in full leaf, and is apt to be set too deep
and the crown will rot; or not being
planted deep enough. the earth settles
away. leaving the upper part of the root
exposed. causing the plant to dry and
perish.
The ounce is profitable fruit to
grow. as after the trees are in bearing
they rarely have an "off year." Because
they often die some imagine that they
are difficult to deal with. This is almost
always the result of carelessless and the
lack of proper cultivation.
A poorly bearing orchard can oftan be
redeemed. Manure heavil:, in the fall.
Let it lie on the surface ali winter and
in the spring plow Just enough to give
the manure coating of soil. Fruit
buds will probably show in the fall, and
il too much growth is made pinch back
the leading shoots.
When the trees are badly infected
with bark lice, there is perhaps no bet
ter remedy than to wash their trunks
with very strong solution of tobacco,
to which is added like portion of
equally strong soap suds. Put on thor.
oughly with an old broom. brush or a
cloth.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
Table Talk From Afar.

The English people are famous dinere.
Round tables are the most popular in
France.
The Persians are great lovers of con-
fectionery.
The modern dinner is a direct de.
scendant of the feudal feast.
Silence and expedition are the chief
characteristics of Turkish dinner.
In China there is no equivalent of
what is known to US as "the dinner
party"
The Chinese show their courtesy by
feeding their guests and visitors at any
hour of the day.
Raw fish, garnished with red seaweed,
is the browning feature of an "away up"
japanese feast.
In England the number of invitations
to dinner is good gauge of the indi-
vidual's popularity.
Forks are unknown in Turkey, but
good Mussulman washes his fingers be-
fore he begins to eat.
A French hostess is noted for her
careful personal attention to all the de-
tails OF her dinner. both before and dur
ing the eveut.-Good Housekeeping.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
SHEEP,

II lambs three or four weeks old are
fed lightly at first on bran and ground
oats, gradually increasing their ration
as they become accustomed to eating,
they can be materially helped in their
growth. Better err in having them a
little hungry than to give too much and
have them off their feed for week.
If a sheep is not likely to pay for its
feed in mutton or wool. it is better to
get something for its pelt. There are
constantly animals which should be
weeded out. il kept in numbers, to avoid
expense of feeding and to escape the
worse danger OF perpetuating it's poor
qualities by breeding.
The Shropshire has round, solid body
and good fleece Of six or eight pounds,
and is an excellent sheep for a small
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
Fighting off a Frost.

The idea is an old one of fighting off a
late frost through orchards. ETC.. by
building small fires. In California
where fruit growers have met with sue
cess, the best results have been gained
by burning damp smudge. Small fires
of damp straw or stable manure. it is
claimed, have saved plantations. Some
times bags of wet stable manure. weigh
ing about 80 pounds each, are distrib-
uted through the orchard. When frost
threatens, little kerosene is poured on
each sack and fred. The wet manure
burns slowly, sending off large quanti-
ties of moisture in the form Of vapor, and
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
it is this watery vapor of fog which pre-

it is this watery vapor of fog which pre-
vents the frost.
Different growers have different meth
DDS for creating this artificial fog. One
Of them uses frames made of chicken
yard netting mounted on wagons filed
with wet manure or straw. Under them
pots OF tar or petroleum are kept burn
ing, and as the heat sends up a cloud of
moisture the wagon is slowly hauled
about the orchard. Others employ sim
liar fires as stationary smudges, the wire
netting being stretched between four
stakes driven in the ground.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10

such an ancient garb. could only belong
to some old Champion OF a righteous
cause whom the oppressor's drum had
summoned from his grave. They raised
a shout of awe and exultation. and looked
for the deliverance of New England.
The Governor and the gentlemen of his
party. perceiving themselves brought to
an unexpected stand, rode hastily for
ward. "Are you mad, old man?" de-
manded Sir Edmund Andres. How
dare you stay the march of King James
GOVERNOR" II have stayed the march
of a King himself ere now" replied the
gray figure. II am here. Sir Governor.
because the cry of an oppressed people
hath disturbed me in my secret place,
and what speak ye of James? There is
no longer tyrant on the throne of Eng
land; and by tomorrow noon his name
shall be byword in this very street,
where ye would make it word of ter
ror. Back. thou that vast Governor
Back With this night thy power is
ended. to- morrow the prison. Back lest
foretell the scaffold."
The people had been drawing nearer
and nearer, and drinking in the words
of their Champion. His voice stirred
their very souls. They confronted the
soldiers, not wholly without arms and
ready to convert the very stones of the
streets into deadly weapons. Whether
the oppressor was overawed by the Gray
Champions look or perceived his peril
in the threatening attitude of the peo-
pie, it is certain that he gave back and
ordered his soldiers to commence slow
and guarded retreat. Before another
sunset the Governor and all who rode 80
proudly with him. we're prisoners, and
long ere it was known that James had
abdicated, King William was proclaimed
throughout New England.
Who was the Gray Champion? l do
not know, but have heard that when
ever the descendants of the Puritans
are to show the spirit of their sires the
old man walks again. When eighty
years had passed he walked once more
in King street. Five years later in the
twilight of an April morning. he stood
on the green beside the meeting house
at Lexington, where now an obelisk Of
granite, with slab of slate inlaid, COM
memorates the first fallen of the Revo-
luton. And when our fathers were
toiling at the breast works on Bunker
Hill, all through that night the cid war
rior walked his rounds. Long! Long
may it be ERE he comes again. His hour
is one of darkness and adversely and
peril. But should domestic tyranny op-
press US or the invaders step pollute
our soil. still may the Gray Champion
come. for he is the type of New Eng
lands hereditary spirit, and his shadowy
march. on the eve of danger. must ever
be the pledge that New England's sons
will vindicate their ancestry.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
PAUL AT ATHENS.
BY ANNE C. LYNCH.

Greece! hear that joyful sound,
A strangers voice upon thy sacred hill,
Whose tones shall bid the slumbering ma
tions round
Wake with the convulsive thrill.
Athenians! gather there; he brings you
words
Brighter than all your boosted lore affords.
He brings you news of One
Above Olympian Jove; One in whose light
Your gods shall fade like stars before the
sun,
On your bewildered night
That unknown God, of whom We darkly
dream,
In all his burning radiance shall beam.
Behold, he bids you rise
From your dark worship at that idol
shrine;
He points to him who reared your starry
skies,
And babe your Ph@bus shine.
Lift up your souls from where in dust you
The God of gods commands your homage
now.
Sages of Greece! come near
Spirits of daring thought and giant mould.
Ye questioners of Time and Nature, hear
Mysteries before untold
Immortal life revealed light for which ye
Have tasked in vain your proud philos-
ophy.
Searchers for some first cause
mid doubt and darkness-lo he points to
Where all your Wanted reason, lost, must
pause,
And faint to think upon
That was from everlasting, that shall be
To everlasting still eternally.
Ye followers of him
Who deemed his soul spark of Deity;
Your fancies fade, you masters dreams
grow dim
To this reality.
Stoic unbend that brow, drink that
sound
Skeptic dispel thos, doubts, the Truth is
found
Greece! though thy sculptured walls
Have with thy triumphs and thy glories
rung,
And through thy temples and thy pillared
halls
Immortal poets sung,
No sounds like these have rent your star
tied air;
They open realms of light and bid you
enter there.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
THE SEVEN STAGES.

Only baby,
Kissed and caressed,
Gently held to a mothers breast.
Only child,
Toddling alone,
Frightening now it's happy home.
Only boy,
Trudging to school,
Governed now by sterner rule.
Only youth,
Living in dreams;
Full of promise life now seems.
Only man,
Battling with life,
Shared in now by loving wife.
Only father,
Burdeped with care,
Silver threads in dark brown hair.
Only a graybeard,
Toddling again,
Growing old and full of pain.
Only a mound,
O'ergrown with grass;
Dreams unrealized-rest at last
Boston TRAVELLER.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10

1t is not the land, but the man, usu-
ally, at fault when the crops are
poor. and the man is to be credited
when they are large and profitable. 1t
is very certain that the success of a
mans work depends upon the amount
of intelligence possessed by the man
himself.
1t used to be the fashion to burn
straw stacks. 1t is now doubted il we
should ever burn the corn stalks from
the field. Too much is burned which
should be otherwise disposed of. We
will be the better off when more of these
"land marks" of the good old times"
are removed.
However low the prices may be, it
will always pay to do the best we can.
II the profit from good crop Of wheat
or corn. or from a good beef animal is
small, remember that it would have
been much smaller still il the crop or
the animal had been poor one.
When clover seed is sown early the
freezing and thawing of the ground get
it covered we'll before there is enough
warm weather to sprout it. When
sprouted it is so we'll protected that it
is not injured by freeze which would
kill it il the roots were exposed. Mr..
Terry says he would rather SOW at
Christmas than late in the spring.
Whan fha oorp orox, ;ea po;loI oo,- -
done in pleasant weather. and one opera
ton suffices for all. Otherwise, it must
be cut and shocked until cured; then
husked out and cribbed, and the fodder
stacked or stored under shelter; and
before being fed, all this crop should
be run through the hopper and the cut
ter.
The United States produces less than
one seventh of the sugar it consumes.
Yearly we make about 100000 tons of
cane sugar, but all suitable land is oc.
cupied; we are producing fewer than
10000 tons of beet sugar, while our
opportunities for raising beets are I'M
limited. Hasten the day in which we
shall need to import no sugar to these
shores.
Potatoes are not much injured by the
shade, and are good crop to grow in a
young orchard; and the potash, which
is good fertilizer for this crop, is also
good for the trees. Corn is also good
crop to grow there, and it can be grown
two or three years in succession.
Has your barn proved to be good in.
vestment. paying a fair interest upon
the amount of it's cost? 1t should do so
and will if you use it to fully protect the
crops from the weather, to shelter the
cattle from the cold, and to keep the
manure from wasting until it can be ap-
piled to the land.
1t is we'll, indeed, to be an honorable
and honored "horny handed con of toll !"
yet there is knowledge which does not
come to US by nature. but by careful
study. A successful man must discover
upon what foods his own plants feed,
and what degree of supply he has for
them. He must waken up to the facts
which surround him.
The potato is the most valuable vege-
table we have, and no pains should be
spared in its cultivation. The quality
depends much upon the land where it
is grown. Very heavy clays and low,
wet soils cannot produce mealy tuber.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
Selected Story.
A PREVENTING PROVIDENCE
SHELL, Eleanor, | think it is
W about time we had an ax-
BY MINNA G. DENTON.

SN7ELL, Eleanor, l think it is
w about time we had an ex-
PLANTATION. You haven't said dozen
words since you sat down to supper;
you passed me the vinegar when l
asked you for the cream pitcher, and
you put salt in fathers peaches.
What dire scheme can you have on
hand now, that has driven everything
else out of your head?"
Mrs. hilbert spoke playfully, but
there was look of real concern in
her eyes. Eleanor wore that absent,
far-away expression so often lately.
It must be the child was overworked.
Eleanor started and came back to
a consciousness of her surroundings.
81 beg all your pardons, respec-
lively and collectively" she said,
with an apologize smile and blush.
81 was trying to plan something new
in geography, to interest those wig
glesome boys tomorrow; and then l
then | got to thinking of my next ar
ticle for the Educational World, and
I forgot to stop when the supper-bell
rang. 1t was very rude of me, ad-
nit"
II am afraid you are doing too
much, Eleanor" put in the anxious
mother, again. 81 wish you would
stop writing those absorbing articles
until after your school is out, at
least. And surely your aren't going
to keep up your German lessons all
this month, with examination pa
pers to correct and the years report
to make out?"
"Nonsensew said Eleanor, laugh
ing lightly. "You don't realize what a
big, strong girl your daughter is,
mother. | don't look as if l were in
any very immediate danger of pining
away or going into decline, do L?
No, 1 can't think of giving up my
German now, if | am to enter college
in another year."
Mrs. Milbert's fears for her daugh-
ter's we'll being, it might seem, were
not altogether without foundation.
For not only was Eleanor an unusu-
ally conscientious teacher, devoting
a great deal of care to the prepare
ton of her work, but now, at time
when most of her colleagues were
making the strain of teaching an ex.
cuse for avoiding other responsible
ties, she was adding to her duties.
Gifted by nature with strong con-
stitution, steady nerves, and a quick
brain, she was able to stand under an
unusual amount of work without
hinching.
But the more she reflected upon it,
the less she liked to think about the
occurrences at the supper table
which had called forth her mothers
gentle rebuke. She was afraid it was
not so very infrequent happening.
To do her justice, she had no desire
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
DAXK y.


A good mich COW has broad hind
quarters and thin forequarters, thin and
deep neck, pointed withers, head pointed
between the horns, fiat and fine boned
legs and fine hair. Choose one with
udders well forward, wide apart and
large enough to be easily grasped. A
medium sized COW will give more milk
in proportion to the food she eats.
To procure the cream from COWS long
in milk, use fully one-fourth it's volume
of pure cold water to dilute it sufficient
ly to allow the butter fat to rise, and
then let it sit in cool place for SO hours.
The cream can then be easily taken
from the deep blue milk
Keep in mind that dairy we'll man.
aged will increase the value of the farm,
for, instead of hauling all the hay and
other feed to the city market you have
ready market at home. and the appar-
emit waste is used upon the land as
fertilizer, adding constantly to it's value.
The price for the best butter is always
high enough to insure profit to the
maker, and the price of the poorest is
always low enough to ensure loss.
These facts do not show that there is-
any trouble with the business of dairy
ing itself, but rather with the methods
of many dairymen.
Let us never stop preaching that it is
poor economy for farmer to keep poor
animals, whose feed costs more than the
value of the milk they give. Every step
connected with dairying must be con-
Quoted upon business principles in order
to get fair percent of profit.
Because feeding the cows liberal ra-
tions of highly concentrated food. there
is no reason for emitting plenty of hay
and fodder. All the hay they will eat
clean in the morning, the clean straw
they will pick at noon and good corn
fodder at night is about what they
should have.
Not the least important product OF
the dairy is the cattle manure. If this
manure. with the absorbents used to
save the liquids, be spread daily in a fat
pile under cover, with the deposits from
the horse stables in alternate layers, it
will compost into one of the most per-
feet fertilizers upon the farm.
Talcott says that many farmer wastes
more money than he earns every winter
by letting the water from the barn roof
wash the goodness out Of the COW ma.
nure, and by leaving the horse manure
in conical piles to heat up and go to
heaven in smoke long before the owner
gets there to see what pile of waste he
makes.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10

flock upon the farm and for domestic
use. Its size and the nature of it's NUT.
ton and wool suit the demand. and it is
most often seen at the fairs and in the
market.
Where sheepmen believe more in NUT
ton than 10 fleece they should show their
faith by breeding up with the best NUT
ton bucks. Indeed, when flock is on
this basis it will prove much more salts
factory than when the profit depends
wholly upon the idiosyncracies of the
wool market.
While sheep will get more sustenance
from poor land, and at the same time do
the land more good than any other stock
we may possess, it must not be forgot
ten that they will also repay liberal
feeding. Food wisely fed will always
come back to us doubled, if fed to
good animal.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
GRICULTURE.
Prepared Expressly for THE UNIvERsALIsT

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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-11-04
RESPECT FOR GEORGE.
A Hundred Thousand People Honor tn
Leader.

a Hundred Thousand feopio HONOR thc
Leader.
New York, Oct. 31.-A mourning city,
n grief-stricken people, to-day showed
honor to the man who had fallen In the
battle for what he believed to he the
right. Henry George, apostle of the sill
gle tax, leader of the new Jeffersonian
Democracy, stricken on the eve of e!ec-
tlon, wns hOnOred as no private citizen
of America was ever honored before.
Public grlcfs have been many In the
great metropolis OF the western hemi-
sphere: many have been sincerely
mourned, but none save lie who Went
TO eterpal rest after having served his
people as Il leader of soldiers and as
chief executive of the land, had laid at
his bier such evidence of public grief,
widespread sorrow and sincere grief.
az was laid at the bier of Henry George.
The body OF Henry George lay in
state to-day In the Grand Central pal
ace, and 10000 people reverently passed
the casliet and looked upon the face OF
the dead philosopher. From o'clock
in tho morning till 3 In the afternoon n
stream of men, women and children
poured into the hall.
A little before 3 O'clock the line was
stopped and those who could not get In
were compelled to turn back and get
out from the police lines. 4 careful es-
innate OF the number who could not get
in Is 10000. This number Is equal to
the number of those who passed the
casket.
In the vast auditorium where the
dead rested inspired men. teachers of
all faiths. Jews, Christians. Catholics
and Episcopalians, with hearts wrung
with pain, spoke words which confes-
scdly fell far short OF the great waves
of emotion that sought to find utter
ance.
Not n dissenting voice was heard TO
the declaration that Henry George was
lover of the people, who he believed
were being oppressed and that lie gave
his life, that humanity might live.
The eulogies uttered. the day gone
the streets became filed with people
who wished to see the funeral cortege
as 1t passed In solemn procession down
Now York's greatest streets, thence
across Brooklyn bridge and through
Brooklyn's streets to the Brooklyn city
hall.
There the public gave over the body
to the family and the caslet was taken
to the modest home in Fort Hamilton,
from which they will be borne to their
final resting place In Greenwood to-
morrow morning.
At the lowest estimate 125 900 people
saw the casket rs 1t wended Its way to
that point where the public was COM
PEELED to stand aside In reverence and
sympathy while the family claimed its
own.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-11-04
USE OF THE SUMS RAYS.
Tropical Rays Make Steam and Cool
Food.

Tropical Rays Make Steam and Cook
Food.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Elabor-
ate experiments with solar engines
have been made by the French In Al
gerla, where the sun shines at all
times, and with great power. The best
apparatus was found to be II simple
arrangement Of boiler and cOncave
mirror, the steam generated being con-
densed In coiled tube surrounded by
water. This was for dlstilling water
merely. In India, an Inventor named
Adams has obtained some very inter-
cstlng results with machines OF his
own contrivancc. One of these Is Il
cooking box, made of wood and lined
with rejecting mirrors. At the bottom
OF the box Is small copper boiler, COW
cred with glass to retain the heat OF
the rays concentrated by mirrors upon
the boilers. In this contrivance any
sort OF food may he quickly cooked.
II the steam Is retained the result Is
n stew or boil: IL allowed to escape II
Is n bake. The ratlOns of. seven men
can be prepared In two hours, includ-
Ing meats. The heat may be aug
mented Indefinitely. in increasing the
diameter of the box.
1t is reclioned that the heat OF the
sun would sufficiently warm and H.
lume 2,000.OO0, 900 globes as big as our
Garth. The solar orbs shrink in di.
ametcr at the rate of about ten inches
per diem. 1t will be 100000 or
100000 years before there is any
perceptible diminlshment of Its radia-
tion. Eventually, of course, 1t must
become dead and cold like the moon.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-11-04
Education and Teeth.

Education is playing snid hovoc with the
teeth of modern generations. So an expert.
enced dentist In the West end says, and he
ought to know. Formerly decayed teeth
were generally attributed to n secret fond
ness for bonbons, but the idea Is, 1t appears,
quite n mistake. In fact. sugar is rather
nourishing than otherwise. The truth !.
that the ancient sturdy square jaw OF the
English race Is changing through lesson.
and book learning to an angular or
shape. which presses the molars one upon
the other. does not give them room to grow
and will In time prevent some OF them cut,
ting ut all Indeed, this catastrophe Is npi
infrcquent already. In many cases the orig.
inal teeth are becoming less In number than
they ought 10 be, and often the 'wlsdom.
crs fail TO appear. This, In an "educafc,l
jaw" Is lamentable. The new facial form Is,
according to the dentist. much cultivated By
ladies. who find that 1t is popular among
gentlemen. The latter like women with the
"cdncated' angle of chin. which generally
carries with 1t pearly but very frall teeth.
II the specialist he right. this process OF
SELECTION. aided by further lessons and more
study, will. In the course of time. produce
n race without any teeth at all. Then will
the dentists make fortunes, for people will
require complete artificial sets from baby.
hood onward.-London Telegraph