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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

disciplined band. Shelby was urged to
sieze the money in the Confederate
treasury at San Antonio for his sol
diers, but he was not plunderer and
! hesitated. Texas bandits carried off
the treasure before he could reach San
Antonio to protect it as he had protect
ed public funds in Austin. Many eXiIes
! We're awaiting Shelby at San Antonio.
From San Antonio Shelby led his
! band under military discipline to New
Braunfels and thence to Eagle Pass
| on the Rio Grande. Crossing to Piedras
Nagras. the fugitives sold the cannon,
the arms. the ammunition and the ac-
couterments to the supporters of Juarez
for $4,000, which was divided pro rata
among officers and men. Several shrewd
Germans attempted to take advantage
of Il Mexican law and seize all Of Shell
bys horses having Mexican brands, and
the treacherous Mexican soldiers sup
ported them in the scheme. Shelby
promptly sounded the call to mount
horses, and the 500 American veterans
only awaited the word to begin a
slaughter. The Germans fled and the
Mexicans wilted.
Shelby took vote Of his officers to
determine whether they would cast
! their fortunes with JuareZ, the Mexican
patriot, or with Macmillan, the emper-
or sent to Mexico by Napoleon. They
voted for Maximillian, but he declined
their services. The exiles buried their
battle SCARED flag in the waters of the
Rio Grande with fearful ceremonies
and started for Monterey to Join the
French legions. At Monterey the COM
md disbanded. Some went to Sono-
ia TO fight against Macmillan. Others
went to California, British Honduras or
Brazil. Shelby and trusty band of
fifty went to the City of Mexico and
then settled in the Cordova colony of
Carlotta. The expedition proved a fail
ure and Shelby returned to Missouri to
the peaceful pursuits Of the farm. He
was the owner of several Of the most
valuable farms in the State.
Warrior in Peace.
A visitor who recently called to See
General Longstrcet ut his farm near
Gainesville, Ga. says: Il looked for Il
large, old-fashioned Southern place,
with pillars and wide hall. Instead.
the house was an ordinary story -and-a-
half farmhouse, such as n Northern
carpenter might build. A board nailed
to n tree offered wine for sale at
very low price, and saw an extensive
vineyard across the road. A lean, farm
er-like person told me that Gen. Long
street was In his vineyard, and there l
came upon him, scissors in hand, bus
| lily pruning his vines. He Is big old
man, stopping little now, and slow
of gait. He wears long white whiskers.
cut away from his chin. His hair Is
white as wool, but his skin Is ruddy, as
| though sleep and good digestion were
still his to command. We talked for q
| time about his garden and vineyard.
| I get out every afternoon he said, and
work about. find the sun and air do
ME good One of his arms is little
| disabled, and he Is quite deaf in one
car. He could not hear very well In the
open air, and at his suggestion we re-
turned to the house. I live with my
tenant. He is veteran Of the North
ern army he said ut the door, and
there was q slight smile about his
eyes,"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

In 1920 the first large copper coins
were coined In England, putting an end
to private leaden tokens.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

after nFst day. use Of DR. Klinus Great Nerve r..
orer. send for FREE - 90 trial bottle ,reatae
Dr. H. II. KLINE. Ltd. 93l Arch 81. Philadel phA. Pa
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

Do as you would Dc done ny, II the
other fellow did you.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

To rob 1t Of love is the greatest wrong
that can he done n child.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

Hn0dse Ds01c are the only pulls In take
A1OOA . AAsS with Hoods SArsauarillA.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

Mrs. WinalOwa SOOTHING SlRuP for Ch,idrea
eethnR sOftons the gums. reduces IN animation aAy0
pain cures wind collie rs cents bottle.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 70 cents.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

nent positio IS in their respective com.
munities.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23
PROUD RECORDOF THE TWENTY.
THIRD OHIO.
daycs' Mckinley, Rosecruns, Stanley
Matthe VS. and Grant, Old Ins tr actor
We're Among Its OHicers-The Recent
Reunion ut Fremont, Ohio.
Saw Plenty of Service.

HEY call it Mckin-
ley'S now. Once It
w as k now u 4 s
Hayes Really it
was the Twenty
third Ohio Volun-
fperS hut NV what
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

prostration and
general debility,
caused by falling
of the womb. 1t
seemed asthough
my back would
never stop ach-
. ing. Icould
not sleep. l
had dull
headaches.
Twas weary
all the time,
4 and life was a
burden to me.
/ sought the
\ seashorc for
relief, but oil
in vain. On
my return l
lS\ resolved to
y give your
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-23

Never 60 70 lawyer when you want
assistance In settling fuss.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
HORTICULTURE.

Set out the Strawberries in the first
half of April. They come into bearing
SO quickly, the first cost is so small, and
the increase from the dollar or two is 30
large, that they should be freely plant
ed. In any event, few hundred will
multiply into thousands for transplant
ing the coming season.
Profit in fruit culture has it's begin
ming in the careful selection of the best
varieties. Investigate well before you
plant. Nothing is more discouraging
than to throw away two or three years
OF time and faithful cultivation and
care upon trees which prove worthless
at last
No one need hope for the best results
in gardening without liberal use of
manure. Twenty-Five to fifty large
wagon loads an acre each year is none
too much. To stint plot in the use of
this article is to be disappointed. Use
all you can buy, beg or get-somehow.
Most orchards. of whatever age, need
certain amount of pruning at this
time of the year; in fact, pruning should
be done frequently. that excessive cut
ting may never be demanded. To prune
heavily is to debilitate the tree and un-
fit it to resist cold weather, dry spells or
the attacks Of fungi and insects,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
That Tired Feeling.

There is such thing as good, honest
tired feeling, born of healthy labor and
cured by natural rest.
This is not THAT Tired Feeling'' which
so widely affects humanity in our bust
ling, Overweight life.
This tired feeling goes to bed tired and
wakes up tired.
The sleep is unrefreshing, tortured by
bad dreams.
The pressure is strong, well-nigh ire
sistible to spur the tagging energies Y
some unhealthful stimulant.
Just here comes in Hoods Sarsaparilla,
a tonic and nerve food without harmful
reaction.
The jaded nerves being properly fed by
blood purified and vitalized by Hoods
Sarsaparilla, become steady and equal to
the strain upon them. The muscles are
braced and ready for action THAT Tired
Feeling" disappears and the work of life
rolls lightly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
The Invention of the Wheelbarrow.

twas Leonardo ds Vinci who painted
one of the grandest pictures in the world
1.-The Last Supper picture that
has been copied many times and en-
graved in several styles, 80 that it is
familiar to almost everyone. The painter
of this famous picture did not, however,
confine himself to painting alone. He
was master Of many arts and practical
worker besides. Some one says of him
that he WAS musician, poet. painter,
sculptor, architect. botanist. engineer.
and inventor all in one."
Thousands of poor. hsrd-working
people owe to da Vinci debt to graft
tude, for it was he who invented that
very simple thing called wheelbarrow.
He lived in Florence. Italy, about the
time Columbus discovered America
The Sabbath School Visitor.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
Methods of English Girl Students.

The English students power of con.
centration is remarkable. They respect
perfectly the study hours of their friends.
and will tolerate no interruption of their
own. The English excel when tried by
two Of Prof. Kraepelin's tests of mental
capacity; amount of work done in given
time and power of concentration.
Wherein lies their advantage? They
will tell US that their strong and neces-
sary ally is vigorous outdoor sport. The
English girl has. of course. known from
childhood the habit of outdoor life. At
college she plays hockey or hand polo,
cricket, fives. and the games with which
we are more familiar, for at least two
hours day, and oftener for a longer
time. Two hours is minimum Of time
spent in exercise. At frequent intervals,
usually at the end of each week, she
seeks recreation from past and prepare.
ton for future effort by spending many
hours in the open air, in boating on the
river it may be, or in taking a tramp of
thirty miles or so. During vacations
she not infrequently makes walking
tours of longer or shorter duration. II
an English girl finds that her mind is
inactive and unreceptive, she recognizes
this as an indication that it needs rec
reation. She drops her books and puts
her brain in ft condition for study by
some vigorous play. Under like condi-
tions, the American student, not recog-
nizing Natures signal. mentally scourges
herself for dullness. and urges her jaded
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
AIHE EElK7N Il'l Tf li(I'|!
MUSINGS BY THE WAY.
BY PHOEBE CARY.

i said if might go back again
To the very hour and place of my birth
Might have my life whatever l choose,
And live it in any part of the earth;
But perfect sunshine in my sky;
Danish the shadow of sorrow and doubt;
Have all my happiness multiplied,
And all my suffering stricken OUT
If I could have known in the years now
gone
The best that woman comes to know;
Could have had whatever will make her
blest,
Or whatever she thinks will make her
so;
Veal said, if miracle such as this
Could be wrought for me at my bidding
still
I would choose to have my past as it is,
And to let my future come as it will!
NV past is mine and I take it all,
It's weakness-its folly, if you please
Nay, even my sins, if you come to that,
NAV have been helps, not hindrances!
If l saved my body from the flames
Because that once 1 had burned my
hand,
Or kept myself from greater sin
BY doing less-you will understand
1t was better suffered little pain,
Better sinned for little time,
If the smarting warned me back from
death,
And the sting of sin withheld from
crime.
Who knows it's strength, by trial, will
know
What strength must be set as ainst SIM
And how temptation is overcome,
He has learned who has felt its power
within;
And who knows how a life at the last may
show2
Why, look at the moon from where we
stand
Opaeue-uneven you say yet it shines
A luminous sphere, complete and grand!
So let my past stand just as it stands,
And let me now as l may grow old;
I am what l am, and my life for me
Is the best-or it had not been, hold!
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
POULTRY.

To keep the hen in good condition for
laying she should never have full crop
during the day. 1t is not hurtful to,
give light meal of warm mixed feed
in the morning in the trough, but such
meal should not exceed one-fourth the
quantity the hens require. Let them
hunt the rest.
A large fowl needs room to move
about and stir his blood by action. Buff
Cochins are especially fond of range,
and do better when given freedom daily
in the meadow or orchard. They are
too cramped il penned closely in run.
They are the steadiest layers of the
large varieties OF fowls.
All dealers in poultry supplies and
many country store keepers have sup
ply of crushed oyster shells; in any
event, they will il the demand arises.
Get them some way, and keep box of
them where the hens can help them,
selves. They will eat just the amount
they need.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15

governed by the inclination of the ami
NAL to drink. The dry grain fed cows
will come out ahead.
The Jersey, like most dairy Breeds is
native OF warm, moist climate. The
conditions favor early breeding, and
this ensures an early direction of the
digestive organs to producing milk in
the mammary glands, rather than put
ting it on the body in fat. The condi-
ton, which has given the breed it's
value should be considered in its fu-
ture life.
1t is claimed that the separator will
take onehalf pound more butter from
100 pounds of milk than can be taken
by the best churns and most careful
handling. AS many do not have the
best churns nor do the wisest work, it is
safe to say that the separator will save
10 per cent more butter fat than can
the dairyman by any other method.
When the milch COW is growing fat
she is not being fed right to produce
the largest yield of milk, or she is not
the right breed for the dairy. Since but
ter is the object, test her cream while
she is fattening. and after she becomes
fat, and decide her fate without any
scrupes.
Where the practical test comes for a
COW to prove herself good for the dairy
and for beef at the same time, she will
be found to lack in one or the other.
The requirements and physical endow-
ments necessary to sustain these two
relations are incompatible with each
other. Such physiological anomaly as
general purpose COW does not exist.
Cows give less milk in hot weather,
for they are lolling in the shade instead
of grazing, and it requires utmost vigil
ance to keep the milk sweet and un-
tainted for u hours. The advantage of
plenty of shade and pure water becomes
great in torrid weather, when we con-
slider comfort and product.
Bog meadow grass is we'll known to
have but small percentage OF nutri-
tive properties, but if cut early and
cured in the heap by sweating it, has
value as coarse fodder. A ration of it
can be brought up to the right proper
tions by the use of wheat bran and cot
ton seed or linseed meal and be made to
serve very useful purpose.
We must salt butter to please the
market. AS rule. three fourths of an
ounce of salt worked into a pound Of
butter is sufficient for our customers,
though some demand more. AS but
about half an ounce is dissolved by the
moisture in the butter, any excess is
placed there wholly to please the taste.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15

A little shrewd management is often
better than a years labor. We should
study the soil we cultivate. Let us al
ways endeavor to plant that which the
soil will produce best without robbing
it of all it's strength and fertility. 1t
takes brain to farm right.
In the cultivation of the small grain
our hope lies in improved seed. Let us
even select the heads of barley or wheat
which we are to SOW, excluding all other
for two or three years until we fix the
type. A single head OF barley has pro-
duced 1,600 bushels in four years, and
this alone shows the importance of care
full selection.
1t does not cost much in time nor
trouble to keep farm free from weeds
if it is gone at systematically. When
they get full possession of single field
the owner will lose more to have cleaned
the whole farm.
Good farm help can be had, and we
should not let few dollars stand in the
way of procuring such. He can add
more to farmers profit every month
than the excess of wages over ashiftless
mans hire. On the other hand, poor
hand will lose this difference quite as
easily.
Do not make the mistake of so care
lessly stacking the wheat or oat straw
that much of the time it can not be
used to advantage for either food or
bedding because too wet. 1t is too valu
able food to waste, and there is no bet
ter bedding if dry; but when wet it is of
no use whatever.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
RAINBOWS.
FROM THE GERMAN.

When storms are passed and sunshine
come again,
How oft with varied tints the dun clouds
CLEAN,
In gayest hues, like happy life-times,
TEEN,
Although the skies still weep with cease
less rain.
So human eyes oft smile midst binding
tears,
And Joy makes dimples in TIE quivering
lips,
Whilst still at Marah's stream the sad
heart sips,
And pains unspeakable in secret bears.
HONE JOURNAL
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
STOCK.

Grain crops sown for pasturage or to
be cut early for hay sometimes help
wonderfully. The wise stock farmer is
ever endeavoring to have variety OF
feeding stuff and to guard against suf
fering from drouth.
Attention cannot be fixed too intently
upon the importance Of knowing the
composition of food and adopting it to
the end for which an animal is kept.
There is no department of modern
farming to which there is so much diff
ficulty in making converts as in the
rationing of live stock.
When prices for stock are down farm
ers hasten to unload for fear of lower
markets, which their haste is sure to
bring about; when prices are on the rise
their scramble to stock up is equally
great, and they aid in carrying prices
still higher. There are DO greater bulls
and bears in the stock exchanges.
A little patience in the spring will
bring its own reward in the greater sus.
tanning power of the pastures during
the later season. To turn on too early
is but to deteriorate the worth OF the
pasture field throughout the whole sum-
mer.
If you have had more stock during the
last winter than you could keep we'll,
you have probably learned that this is
the reason you are to have minimum
profit from your labor. Overstocking is
as bad as understanding.
We can not afford to use cheap bed
ding freely which will ipiure the ma
nure pile. neither anything which will
not add to its value. Again. a good alb
sorbent is needed that stock may not
suffer in health. Nothing will clean out
stable better than good absorbent bed
ding.
Feeding is routine work day after day.
and, therefore, often carelessly done.
One advantage in having pure bred
stock is that it leads one to practice
pure bred feeding. There is such
thing as scrub feeding as we'll as scrub
stock.
Bees "are so much trouble"-to some
people. The same objection applies to
every department of farm life. Those
who find their business "trouble" are
not among the successful ones any
where. Never admit to yourself that
your objection to keeping bees is the
necessary attention required to make
the busir ess success.
The business of keeping bees has its
ups and downs like everything else, but
we seldom have a season in which a
careful and intelligent man will fail to
procure some profit. 1t is a direct COM
panion industry to fruit raising, and
some of our more successful small farm
ers rely almost wholly upon these two
branches of work.
Over feeding may develop diseases. A
great calf or colt, if very fat. is likely to
take a premium, but under that load
of fat but few are capable Of pointing
out the defects of the animal. Many a
common calf has been awarded the
prize, not because it was the best, but
because it was the latest.
Aside from all feelings of kindness
and humanity. there must of necessity
arise both thought and anxiety about
those animals through which is obtained,
in great measure. the income derived
from the soil; yet the interest and care
bestowed are not always all that could
be desired; not half the stock is managed
nor cared for as it should be.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
DAIRY,

To the dairy interests the bacteriolo.
gist holds out the hope of uniformity;
the butter maker will always make
good butter. and the cheese maker will
obtain just the kind of ripening he de-
sires. The fresh cream from the separ-
ator will receive its proper ferment. con-
sisting of a pure culture of the proper
bacteria, and will be ripened in that nor
NAL manner.
That slops do not increase the flow of
milk has been positively proved. The
best that can be fed to COW is a good
ration Of corn, silage. roots or uncured
grain folders. and the drink that COW
has is best in the form of pure water,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
Selected Story.
JOHN CAMS TREASURE.
BY GRANT ALLEN.
CHAPTER 1.
CHAPTER 1.
MILFORD sat at desk in

TECIL MILFORD sat at desk in
" the Record Office with a stained
and tattered sheet of dark, dirty brown
antique paper spread before him in
triumph, and with an eager air OF
anxious inquiry speaking forth from
every line in his white face and every
convulsive twitch at the irrepressible
corners of his firm pallid mouth. Yes,
there was no doubt at all about it;
the piece of torn and greasy paper
which he had at last discovered was
nothing more or less than John
CAMS missing letter. For two years
Cecil Milford had given up all his
spare time, day and night, to the
search for that lost fragment of crab
bed seventeenth century handwriting;
and now at length, after SO many
Disappointment and so much fruit
less anxious hunting, the clue to the
secret of John Cams treasure was
lying there positively before him.
The young mans hand trembled vio-
lently as he held the paper fast I'M
opened in his feverish grasp, and
read upon its back the autograph en-
dorsement of Charles the Seconds
Secretary of State-"Letter in cypher
from 10. Cam, the noted Buccaneer,
to his brother Willm., intercepted at
Port Royal by his Mates command,
and despatched by General Ed.
D'Oyley, his Mates Captain-Genl and
Governor-in Chief of the Island of
Jamaica, to me, H. NICHOLAS" That
was it, beyond the shadow of doubt;
and though Cecil Milford had still to
apply to the cypher John Cams own
written key, and to find out the pre-
else import of the directions it con-
tanned, he felt at that moment that
the secret was now at last virtually
discovered, and that John Cams
untold thousands of buried wealth
were potentially his very own al
ready.
He was only a clerk in the Colonial
Office, was Cecil Milford, on a beg
carly income of hundred and eighty
a year-how small it seemed now,
when John Cams money was actually
floating before his minds eye; but
he had brains and industry and en-
terprise after a fitful adventurous
fashion of his own; and he had made
up his mind years before that he
would find out the secret of John
Cams buried treasure, if he had to
spend half lifetime on the almost
hopeless quest. As boy, Cecil Nit
ford had been brought up at his ia
theirs rectory on the slopes of Dart
moor, and there he had played from
his babyhood upward among the
rugged granite boulders of John
Cams rocks, and had heard from the
farm laborers and the other children
around the romantic but perfectly
historical legend of John Cams
treasure. Unknown and incredible
sums in Mexican doubloons and
Spanish dollars lay guarded by a
strong oaken chest in a cavern on the
hilltop, long since filed up with fints
and mould from the neighboring sum.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15

mind on to over exertion. once heard
an English girl assert that she could
dawdle all day, but could not study for
more than two hours at a time.-Popu-
lar Science MOnthlY.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15

The request from Washington for
rs-inquiry into the Boring Sea fisheries
has been refused by Great Britain on
the ground OF expense.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-15
AGRICULTURE.
Prepared Expressly for THE UNIvERsALIsT.

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