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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
STOCK.

A few acres planted early and thickly
with corn or sorghum will furnish one
of the best and cheapest safeguards
from drouth. If not needed for summer
feeding, good supply of excellent win
ter food is at hand.
On high priced land summer feeding
of grain, especially to milch cows, is
often good economy. The acreage of
grass required is much reduced. The
extra food will show in butter, too.
The irregularity of supply salt is de-
trimental to the best results. 1t is es.
sential not only to health and vigor, but
it aids digestion. A mich COW will rap
idly lose if salt is withheld.
Save part of the pasture for July and
August. or put in some drilled corn,
oats, peas, or something of the sort, to be
cut when the dry. hot summer leaves
you without grass.
Put out some roots for the stock the
coming winter, and do it in time. They
will furnish relish which pays as food
better than even the corn or the hay.
Let South America and Australia
raise scrub ranch cattle and small
sheep; our markets have changed. Live
stock is essential to prosperity in agri.
culture, and to make it pay we must
breed good stock which natures early.
We must be more careful to burn or
bury all dead animals, now that we un-
derstand that the microbe is response
BILE for most Of the disease in stock. Let
no live animal get near them.
1t is too early in the day to talk about
slowing up on stock raising. The United
States has not much over so sheep for
every hundred of population, while
Australia has 5000 to the same number
of inhabitants.
Sheep climb over rocks and lodges
where cows would not venture, and al
most every herb which grows suffices
them for food; and they never crop a
pasture but to benefit it.
In the milk of COWS much phosphate
of lime and other saline matter. as we'll
as heterogeneous matter, are removed,
while sheep carry off only what is on
their backs.
When arguing in behalf of sheep let
us remember that they multiply faster
than any other animal; especially do the
large mutton breeds, which often pro-
duce twins.
Sheep fatten much more easily than
cattle, and when slaughtered furnish
not only meat. but wool. the latter not
only keeping indefinitely, but paying for
long transportation.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
THE QUEENS DIAMOND JUBILEE.

The religious ceremonies with which
the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
begins are to be held on Sunday, June
20. Monday, June 81, is what is known
as Ascension Day. At the Queens sug-
gestion more elaborate celebrations will
be deferred till Tuesday, June %, which
marks the actual completion of the
sixty years reign.
In the great procession of that day,
which is to start from Buckingham
Palace, more than 10000 of the regular
troops of the British Army will partici-
pate. This will be the biggest military
display in England since the Crimean
War. AS it has been found impossible
to quarter the troops in the garrison
towns within easy reach of the metrop-
oils. the soldiers will probably be obliged
to go into camp in the city parks.
The Queen and the Royal Princes, in
company with Albert Edward, Prince
of Wales, the Duke of York, and the
other princes. will leave Buckingham
Palace at eleven o'clock in the morning
and are expected to return to the palace
at about two in the afternoon. The six
miles of the route are to be lined by
$4,000 troops. The Queen will be driven
in open carriage drawn by twelve
cream-colored horses. By her side will
be seated the Princess of Wales, and as
an escort around the carriage there will
be, besides the princes of the royal fam
lily. the princes of all the reigning fam
lilies of Europe. The services in st.
Paul's will be brief. and after their con-
clusioD, the procession will proceed to
the Mansion House. where a banquet
will be ready. In the evening the city
will be magnifcently illuminated. The
display Of fireworks to be set off from
different points of vantage is expected
to surpass anything of this nature yet
seen,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
When Loving Mothers Grow Selfish.

at is when children reach maturity
that the supreme test of parental love
comes" writes Edward w. Box, discuss
ing the home-leaving of children at time
of marriage, in the May Ladies' Home
Journal. "All through infancy and early
years the children are more or less care.
And then, just as the parents feel re-
lieved from cares and anxieties. and are
beginning to enjoy the companionship of
their children in the serene and COM
placent way which grown ups have
there comes fluttering of the wings,
remote suggestion of flight. The son is
no less his mothers boy than he has
been and ever viii be. But he is-and
who realizes it so quickly as motherr
in new and very natural sense, an
other womans hero; and that woman a
girl. With her he discerns, away out on
the horizon line. the shadowy lines of a
house that is to become a home, their
very own. The girl. too, whose going in
and out of the house has been daily
Joy to the parents-she, too, has become
heroine to some one other than her
father or her mother. 1t is hard for the
parents to realize that this mate of her
fight can care for her as they have; that
in her young eyes, in her young heart. it
is possible that he can be altogether
noble and capable!
And after the young birds have taken
fight the parents wonder if sometimes
they do not grieve in their new life. But
some fine morning a clearer vision is
given them. and they realize that. after
all, their children are only playing the
same role which they played few years
before. 1t is a magnificent quality in
parents when they so prepare them
selves that they can meet this inevi-
table time with the proper spirit-wheu.
in other words. PARENTAL love can get
the better of selfishness."
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of the grand Elizabethan era! To
think that the worky-da of modern
world should ever have tried to
doom him, Cecil Milford, with his
splendid enterprise and glorious po-
tentialities, to hundred and eighty
a year and a routine clerkship at the
Colonial Office
After while, however, mere nu-
merical cupidity began to get the
better of this heroic mood, and Cecil
Milford turned somewhat languidly
to the vulgar task of counting the
rows of doubloons. He counted up
the foremost row carefully, and then
for the first time perceived, to his in
tense surprise, that the row behind
was not gold, but mere Mexican pis-
toles. He rubbed his eyes and
looked again, but the fact was un-
mistakable; there was only one row
of yellow gold on the top layer, and
all the rest was merely bright and
glittering silver. Strange that John
Cam should have put coins of such
small value near the top of his box:
the rest of the gold must certainly
be in successive layers down further
He lifted up the big gold doubloons
in the first row, and then, to his
blank horror and amazement, came
too-not more gold, not more silver,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as it
seemed, appalling, horrifying "a
wooden bottom!
Had John Cam, in his care and
anxiety, put layer of solid oak be-
tween each layer of gold and silver?
Hardly that, the oak was too thick
In a moment Cecil Milford had
taken out all the coins of the first
tier, and laid bare the oaken bottom
A few blows of the pick loosened the
earth around, and then, oh horror,
oh CHASTITY disappointment, oh un-
speakable heart sickening revelation,
the whole box came out entire. 1t
was only two inches deep altogether,
including the covert was, in fact,
a mere shallow tray or saucer, some
thing like the sort of thin wooden
boxes in which sets of dessert knives
or fish-knives are usually sold for
wedding presents!
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
CHAPTER VII.

IT had been long job after all to
arrange fully the needful prelimina-
ries for the actual search after John
Cams buried doubloons. First of
all, there was Ethels interest to pay,
and horrid story for Cecil to con-
coct-all false, of course, worse luck
to it-about how he had managed to
invest her poor three hundred to the
best advantage. Then there was an
other story to make good about three
months extra leave from the Colonial
Office. Next came the question of
buying the land where John Cams
treasure lay hidden, and this was
really matter of very exceptional
and peculiar difficulty. The owner
-pig-headed fellow!-didn't want to
sell, no matter how much he was Of
fered, because the corner contained
a clump of trees that made a speci-
ally pretty element in the view from
his dining windows. His din
ing-room windows, forsoothl What
on earth could it matter, when John
CAMS treasure was at stake, whether
anything at all was visible or other
wise from his miserable dining-room
windows9 Cecil was positively APP
palled at the obstinacy and narrow
mindedness of the poor squireen,
who could think of nothing at all in
the whole world but his own ridicu-
Ious antiquated windows. However,
in the end, by making his bid high
enough, he was able to induce this
obstructive old curmudgeon to part
with his triangular little corner of
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
GOOD BLOOD is NECESSARY

For strong nerves and mental and bod i.
lily vigor Pure, rich blood feeds every
organ, nerve, muscle, fiber and tissue,
nourishing, sustaining and supporting
the whole body in perfect health. Pure
blood comes by taking Hoods Sarsapar-
lila, the medicine which has given
strength, health, ambition, happiness to
thousands. Hoods Sarsaparilla promptly
eradicates the impurities from the blood
and cures the worst cases of scrofula
salt rheum, sores, pimples and all erup-
tions; banishes rheumatism, neuralgia,
dyspepsia; overcomes liver and kidney
troubles and is especially valuable for
diseases peculiar to women. BY its
great pow or to enrich and purify the
blood it accomplishes perfect and perma-
nent cures when other medicines fail to
do any good whatever.
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Because hog is to sell by the pound
almost any one will feed it we'll, but not
one man in ten will feed mich COW
enough to enable her to do half as well
as she might.
Guernseys win their way by their own
straightforward work in the dairy.
Their large size commends them to the
farmers who are grading up good butter
hards.
The dairy COW is an individual ami
NAL, and is to be found among several
Breeds Probably when the Guernsey
has had as much spent on her in forcing
and testing her she will outrank the Jer-
sey, for she has the size and constitu-
ton.
A heifer which has no calf until three
years old seldom makes heavy mixer.
Breed the heifers early, and cultivate
the habit of early maturity for other
than beef purposes.
The farmer who appreciates the value
of plump kernels of clean wheat for
seeding purposes readily comprehends
the worth of improved breeding in the
dairy, and his cows are of the same high
standard as his golden fields of grain.
An old dairy COW which has ceased to
be profitable as a mixer is usually
worth more for leather and for fertilizer
than for any other purpose.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05

Narrowing should be done so as to
make the soil fine as deep down as it is
plowed. The cross roots require a we'll
fined and compacted soil to do their
best, as they go down to greater depth
than blowing is ever done.
Within the exception of three or four
elements Of fertility. all ordinary soils
are practically inexhaustible. With
proper tillage land will wear thousand
years in general make up. save sandy
knobs, perhaps.
Have the rains and warm sun started
a growth of weeds and formed crust
over the corn fields? In getting rid of
the one we break up the other, and we
shall be all right for another ten days.
If there is any truth in the saying
that "a stitch in time saves nine" it is
right now the case in all patches of
plowed land which have not been mo-
Tested for ten days or two weeks.
Harrow before noon what has been
plowed in the morning. and in the even
ing what has been broken in the after
noon. Then the surface will not dry
out nor be cloddy, but be in the condi-
ton which will produce best.
For a stable manure to be used with
potatoes, horse manure is excellent, be-
cause it contains large quantities Of
phosphoric acid and potash, which are
two essential ingredients to their
growth.
The cultivation of the corn at the end
of the season is to control moisture.
Now is the time to attend to the weeds.
The very best work of the season is
being done right now, if the corn is up.
1t is true that all manures must be
liquid in form to be available as plant
food, but the teaching process should
take place in the field, and not in tie
barn yard.
Where possible, land should always be
kept in such condition of fertility and
supplied with the elements of plant food
sufficiently to meet the requirements of
any crop we may wish to grow.
Suiting the crop to the land, rather
than suiting the land to the crop, is the
easiest method of agriculture, but it is
not always the most profitable, The
owner is not then the master of the
situation.
We can not expect large yield of
tubers without good growth of vine;
yet, if planted too close on moist, rich
or too heavily shaded soil, the foliage of
potatoes may sometimes develop at the
expense of the crop.
If mineral food elements be scant and
heterogeneous matter in excess, potatoes
are apt to be most luxuriant in their
growth above ground. Especially should
there be supply of potash and phos-
phoric acid.
About the worst folly farmer can
commit is to spend time and money and
labor to produce crops, and then not
take the very best care of them after
they are grown and harvested.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
POULTk Y.

Especially where the market for the
table egg is being supplied, after the
breeding season is over, it is good plan
to remove the male birds from the hens
and give the latter as much free range
as possible.
1t Is better to use common soap boxes
for nests than to have a row of them
built, as they are more easily carried
out of doors and cleaned.
A scrub man will make scrub out of
everything he touches. This is certain
ly true in poultry matters. There are
as many mongrels on farms as there are
on dunghills.
KEROSENE emulsion is positive death to
lice. Add half gallon of kerosine to
as much boiling hot soap suds, and then
dilute with six gallons of water. If you
have no sprayer, use a watering pot.
To have good "luck" with poultry,
keep their houses clean, and give the
fowls good variety of food, with ground
bones and meat scraps. If given as good
care as other animals have they will re-
turn proportionate income.
fyour turkeys are kept growing from
the start, as they should be, three weeks
of extra feeding at the proper time will
put them in the proper condition for
market.
No farm is complete without poultry.
There is certain amount of food abso-
lutely and unavoidably wasted unless
there are fowls to utilize it.
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IN the evening when the Hon.
" Charles Barclay died Cecil Nit
ford went out for the first time after
his terrible illness, to speak a few
words in private with the negro sex
ton. He found the man lounging in
the soft dust outside his hut, and
ready enough to find place for the
corpse, (which would be buried next
morning, with the ordinary tropical
haste), close beside the spot actually
occupied by John Cams coffin. All
the rest, the sexton said with hor-
rid grin, he would leave to Cecil.
At twelve o'clock of dark moon
less night, Cecil Milford, still weak
and ill, but trembling only from the
remains of his fever, set out stealth
lily from the dead mans low bunga-
low in the outskirts of Spanish Town,
and walked on alone through the un-
lighted, unpaved streets of the sleep
ing city to the Cathedral precinct.
Not a soul met or passed him on the
way through the lonely alleys; not
solitary candle burned anywhere in
single window. He carried only
little dark lantern in his hand, and
very small pick that he had borrowed
that same afternoon from the negro
sexton. Stumbling along through
the unfamiliar lanes, he saw at last
the great black mass of the gaunt,
ungainlY Cathedral, standing out
dimly against the hardly less black
abyss of night that formed the solemn
background. But Cecil Milford was
not awed by place or season; be could
think only of one subject, John
Cams treasure. He CROPPED his way
easily through scrub and monuments
to the far corner of the churchyard;
and there, close by fresh and open
grave he saw the well-remembered
half effaced letters that marked the
Wondering upright slab as John
Cams gravestone. Without a mo-
ment's delay, without touch of hest
tation, without a single tinge of wo-
manish weakness, he jumped down
boldly into the open grave and
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
TWO HOUSES.
BY CHARLES MACKAY.
Bdzdr.

"'Twill overtask thousand men, with
all their strength and skill,
To build my Lord ere New Years eve,
his castle on the hill.'
"Then take two thousand" said my
Lord, land labor with will
They wrought, those glad two thousand
men, but long ere winter gloom,
My Lord had found a smaller house, and
dwelt in one dark room.
And one man built it in one day, while
bells rang boom and boom;
Shut up the door, shut up the door, shut
up the door till doom.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
THOUGHTS FOR THE DISCOUR-
AGED FARMER.
BIZ JAMES wHITCoMB RILEY.

The summer winds is snifin' round the
bloomin' locus trees;
And the clover in the pastur' is a big day
fer the bees,
And they been a-swiggin honey, above
board and on the sly,
Tel they stutter in theyr buzzin' and stag
ger as they fly.
The flicker on the fence-rail pears to jest
spit on his wings
And roll up his feathers, by the sassy
way he sings,
And the hoss-fly is a-whettin up his fore
legs fer biz,
And the off-mare is a-switchin all of her
tale they is
You can hear the blackbirds jawin' as
they foller up the plow-
Oh, theyr bound to get their breakfast,
and theyr not carin' how;
So they quarrel in the furries, and they
quarrel on the ng-
But theyr peaceabler in pot-pies than any
other thing.
And it's when l git my shotgun drawed
up in stiddy rest,
She's as full of tribbelation as yeller-
jackets nest;
And few shots before dinner, when the
SUMS a-shinin' right
Seems to kindo-sorto sharpen up feller's
appetite!
They's been a heap o. rain, but the SUMS
out to-day,
And the clouds of the wet spell is all
cleared away,
And the woods is all the greener, and
grass is greener still;
1t may rain again to-morrf, ut ] don't
think it will.
Some says the crops is ruined, and the
corn is drownded out,
And propha-sy the wheat will be fail
ure, without doubt;
But the kind Providence that has never
failed us yet,
Will be on hands onc't more at the lev
enth hour, l bet.
Does the medder-lark complane, as he
swims high and dry
Through the waves of the wind and the
blue of the sky!
does Jne Qudll Seb up anu Wits SCI III ii
disappointed way,
Err hang his head in silunce, and sorrow
all the day.
Is the chipmucks health at ailin'? Does
he walk, er does he run?
Don't the buzzard's ooze around up thare
jest like they've allus done2
Is they anything the matter with the
rooster's lungs err voice.
Ort mortul be complainin' when the
dumb animals rejoice?
Then let us one, one and all, be contented
with out lot;
The June is here this morning, and the
sun is shining hot.
Oh let US fill our harris up with the glory
of the day,
And Danish ev'ry doubt and care and sor-
row fur away
Whatever be our station, with Provi
dence fer guide,
Sich fine circumstances ort to make us
satisfied;
Fer the world is full of roses, and the
roses full of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly love that
dips fer me and you.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
Take Short Views.

Let US take short views. Let US not
climb the high wall till we get to it, or
fight the battle till it opens, or shed
tears over sorrows that may never come.
or lose the joys and blessings that we
have by the sinful fear that God will
take them away from US. We need all
our strength and all the grace God can
give US for today's burdens and today's
battle. Tomorrow belongs to our
Heavenly Father Theodore L. CuyIer.
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III the very great excellence of Our
Home Granula' as food were generally
known the facilities of the plant at Dams
vile, N. Y, would be greatly over taxed.
There is a wonderful amount of nutri-
ment contained in every package of this
food, and the infinite number of ways in
which it may be prepared give il the ad-
vantage of seeming like an entirely new
dish Any of our friends who want more
vigor of body or mind would do well 10
eat Granula. New York Observer.
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DAIRY.

II running a dairy, perhaps you can
establish fancy trade" 1t may be
done with either milk or butter as
basis. Putting the milk in glass bottles
as soon as drawn, and carrying it to the
customers, is feature in some places.
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Prepared Expressly for THE UNIvERsALIsT.
AGRICULTURE.

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Continued Story.
JOHN CANN'S TREASURE.
CHAPTER VI.
BY GRANT ALLEN.

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-08
DERFECT and permanent are the
q cures by Hoods Sarsaparilla, be-
cause it makes pure, rich, healthy,
life and health-giving BLOOD.

The Sioux City Journal is of the
opinion that Iowa will not be repre-
sented in the Mckinley cabinet, 1t
thinks that Senator Allison could
have had place had he wished, but
hardly believes that Mr.. Mckinley
will offer position to any other man
in that state. La this same line Major
Handy, who writes Interestingly on
all political matters, gives it as his
opinion that Wisconsin and Mime
sofa stand in danger Of not being rep
resented in the cabinet because the
taking of the men Mr.. Mckinley would
be likely to select from either state
would cause dissatisfaction from an
important element in the party, and
the policy Of the presiden6-elect is to
avoid arousing such feeling if it is
possible. Should these prognostica-
tions prove correct, the northwest will
not be represented in the official
family of the next administration.
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Don't be clam and miss zine
Fairies arnival"-MankatO Theatre
tomorrow and Saturday evenings and
Saturday matinee-beneft OF the
hospital.
See the tiny little butterflies In
"The Fairies Carnival" Mankato
theatre tomorrow and Saturday night
and Saturday matinee, for the henent
of Tourtellotte Hospital.
One hundred and fifty boys and
girls in ''The Fairies Carnival at the
Mankato theatre tomorrow and Satur-
day nights and Saturday matinee,
gorgeously costumed and presentlng
| the finest entertainment of the KIND
ever given here. Secure seats al
| Griebel's shoe store.
Dainty dances, elaborate marches'
an interesting plot, catchy music,
beautiful scenery, gorgeous costumes
all in s'The Fairies Carnival" at Man
kato Theatre, tom orrow and SATURDAY
nights and Saturd ay matinee, beneh
of Tourtellote Fl ospital. Got you
seats yet? They are on sale d
Griebels shoe st ore.