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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
Curing Timidity.

The Outlook contains a delightful
sketch of timid child; the kind of
sketch which deserves to be read by
children, and especially by fathers and
mothers. Few of us have the courage
to confess that we are towards; but
many of US are, and the wiser way is to
recognize the fact and take measures
for curing ourselves The little girl in
question was not only alarmed by palpa-
BILE terrors. but by the bogies of the
Imagination.
What could be done with her? II she
was told that her fears we're NONSENSE
cal, she would only sit more quietly bite
her lips harder. and suffer more intoler
ably. So her wise mother set about dis
covering a remedy for what was really
an inherited misfortune.
The mother never spoke of fear, but
talked about courageous deeds men.
toned in history or the newspapers.
Bags of candy or other delectable arti-
cles were left in dark and distant rooms,
and offered as a reward to any one who
would bring them; and meantime. after
the child had started on her dreaded
errand, the door was left sjar, so that
she could hear the sound OF voices, and
accomplish the deed without too great a
mental strain.
Favorite songs and pleasant stories
were kept for bedtime. and delightful
tales of an olden time for the night
hours when the poor little thing left her
bed in search of comfort.
Then, when she became older, she
was tempted forth into the dark, osten-
sibly to take care of another child, and
in travelling she was given charge of the
checks and tickets to occupy her mind.
Her reason was appealed to in the sweet
est snd sunniest way by her mother,
who graciously included herself under
the same disability.
Il fnd," she would cay, chat when
am frightened. | must act at once. IL
| think burglars are at the window,
jump up and get light to satisfy my
self. If an object in the dark makes
me tremble, drag my feet toward it,
touch and examine it; and nearly always
what seemed gigantic at a distance,
grows familiar when il is near"
Not all children have such home train
ing, but there lie much to be done by
themselves. The only way to lay our
fear forever is TO recognize him for an
unsubstautial bogy, and to resist him
with common sense and cheerfulness.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
Cultivating the Habit of PrOmptness

Elizabeth Harrison, in one of her
talks to mothers on child-culture. re-
lates the following incident:
"a friend came to me and said What
shall / do with my Willie? He dsllies
so about everything that he has to do.
II | send him upstairs after my thimble
and thread it may be half-hour or even
an hour before he returns. l have
scolded and scolded him. bat it seems to
do no good.
"'By scolding,' l replied, you have
emphasized the fault you wished to
cure, and have separated yourself from
your boy. Now. try to emphasize the
opposite virtue-promptnsss prais.
him for it when you have the opportu-
nifty.
"'Ah, thare's no use in talking of
that she answered.; he is never
prompt
"'Then,' said l. if he is never so vol
unfairly, make an occasion, Ask him
to go to the kitchen. or some other part
of the house, an an errand for you; tell
him that you will count while he is
gone. When he gets back, commend
MIN for having returned more quickly
than usual. At dinner tell his father. as
il it were fine bit of news. This will
make it meritorious achievement in
your sons eyes,
the next week she came to me with
her face fairly radiant, and said:
az have been counting, and Willie
has been trotting ever since last week.
laughed and told her that her mother
wit would soon have to hunt up some
NV device.
Mothers, 80 cultivate the rational
element in yourselves that you can see
that every fault in your child is simply
the lack of some virtue. In the inner
chamber of your minds study your
children, confess their faults to your
selves, not your neighbors. and ask what
is lacking that these defects exist Like
Nehemiah of old, build up the wall
where it is the weakest; If your child is
selfish, it is unselfishness that needs
cultivation; il he is untruthful, it is &C.
curacy that is lacking; perhaps he is
tyrannical to the younger brother or
sister; it is the element of nurture or
tenderness viii should be developed.
Build up the positive side of your
child 8 nature and the negative side will
not need to be unbuilt."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
POULTRY.

1t is the poultryman who pays no at
tention to minor affairs who fails.
Watch for the first symptoms of dis
ease. II you have not the bright red
combs, an active gait, merry cackle
and a free crow, all is not right in the
hennery.
II one has many fowls it is necessary
to clean the poultry house every day,
to fumigate and disinfect once month
and to thoroughly whitewash the inter-
ior twice year at least. There are
constant duties for the poulterer as we'll
as for the hens.
The poultryman who allows dirt and
filth and wood to accumulate on or about
the premises is only making comfort
able home for lice, mice, rats. weasels,
minks. skunks and other enemies to his
fowls.
1t is not economy to save the cost of
sbingling when the chicken house roof
is in poor condition; and he who will
not shut up the cracks in the walls will
expend greater energy in experimenting
with Group and kindred diseases next
winter.
II the fowls are moping idly abo ut the
corners Of their yards, if we find the
droppings piled up in pyramids under
their roosts, if the moment one enters
the coops he is covered with mites and
lice, we can have no question about the
shiftlessness of the man. He will never
find his profits.
Few will contradict the statement
geese can be raised on the farm at
less expense a pound than any other
meat
Char lot of corn occasionally and let
the fowls pick at it. Nor is it bad
plan to thus treat lot of cobs. The
will be giving them charcoal in valua
BILE shape.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
There Was a Lady Present.

"Never," said an elderly woman. "shall
forget the first time that | was called
lady which term, in my day, you
must remember, was all distinctive. As
very little and very green girl looked
forward to the far-awaY time when l
should attain it as nothing short of an
epoch. 1t came to me, however. much
sooner. and in quite different way than
had expected. l was travelling in the
far west and alone. My father had put
me on the train. the conductor was to
keep an eye on me, and my uncle was to
meet me at my destination. The train
was crowded with rough western miners.
Little as | was was the only represent
alive Of my sex on board. For awhile
the journey was uneventful. Then some
little alteration expanded into a dis
pute, and before you could say Jack
Robinson we were in the midst of free
fight. AT the first loud word l had
crowded behind a seat, and when the
pistols appeared | was nearly dead from
fright.
But before shot could be fired some
one grabbed my shoulder. 1t was one
of the onlookers, who had caught sight
OF me, and who, picking me up bodily,
now held me up so all could see. Gen
tleman! he cried, there are ladies pres
emit At the magic words the pistols
dropped instanter. The men turned
and saw me, poor, pale, miserable
morsel Of femininity. perched upon my
champions shoulder. The humor of it
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
A French Hero

Oae of the heroes of the Paris fire is
journeyman plumber named Piquet. He
happened to be passing along the Rue
jean Gonjon when the confagration was
raging and, with no thought of personal
safety, dashed in and out among the
flames, always returning with a woman
or child ia his arms. He must have
saved over twenty lives during the hour
in which he worked. Each time he en-
tered the people despaired of seeing
him return; but he always came back.
His face was enveloped in wet linen;
and the last time he rushed into the
flames gentleman put coat around
him. He returned with human form
developed in dress which was burning.
As he laid it on the ground carbonized
foot remained in his hand 1t was then
that Piquet had to stop. "My heart
failed me-" he said in tone of eelf-re-
proach; 80 he proceeded to the workshop
where he was employed When.his COM
rades piled him with questions about his
burned face and scorched hair, he tried
to give evasive answer. but the master
insisted on knowing what had happened.
Then the brave man, overwhelmed with
EN- notion at the scene he had witnessed,
b lst into paroxysm of weeping. Piquet
is to be presented with the Cross of the
Legion of Honor, so it is said, and, if
t. be true, never will a reward be bet
ter deserved Independent.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
New Style of Prison.

A new style of prison has been dis
cussed at the meeting of the New York
Pathological society this week. The four
walls and roof which contain it may be
built of almost any material, as the
central revolving cylinder Of cells rem
ders it impossible for prisoner to es-
cape. This cylinder is made OF the best
iron obtainable, the whole mounted on
ball bearings. 1t may be revolved at
the will of the official in charge. A
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13

succession of crops which are the best
dairy foods, and can procure so per
cent more of food suited to dairy cows
than by keeping the same area in grass
This, and the English method Of feed.
ing, by which root crops and soiing are
made to play a prominent part. are
worth consideration.
The plan of allowing the calf to suck
at all is considered of doubtful expedi-
ency by many. Tie it to the cows head
and feed it. If it has never sucked it
will learn to drink readily 1t will be
less trouble to handle both COW and calf
by this method than to attempt to take
it away after two or three or more days.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
.ElHiIEz7 Fk I!l.77l:ll':jl F lIl;'I
rsw55zg11S 0zzaSga5z5I05T
eipal in THE UNIvERsALIsT
ON MY LAST BIRTHDAY.
BY CAROLINE A. soULE.

1 have had much to bear!
The wear and tear of the mother-paln
But every loss was made up in gain;
And comfort came with care!
I have had much to bear
To work all day and work all night;
But triumph came with the early light
And comfort after care!
l have had much to bearl
Beautiful homes were lost to me;
MY ships went down in deepest sea-
Then comfort with less care!
1 have had much to bear!
Under the grass the many sleep;
But count my jewels and do not weep;
God has them all in care!
have had much to bearl
But life is now far on its way
catch the light of the Heavenly day,
When hands are free from care
nd iov comes now with every hour,
For all dear friends do bring flower,
And softly say, as they go away,
GOOD Day''-"Good Day."
GLASGOW, Sept 3, 1897.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
STOCK.

Little moisture i n the earth means q
mild winter, with little enow. If there
be gradual evaporation during the COM
rain's, it will mean more cold and more
snow and more needed protection to our
focks and herds.
While the first cross between breeds
materially different in character uni
formly results in increased vigor of con
situations, it at the same tine does such
violence to the breeding characteristics
of the animals as to render their pro-
geny of no practical value for breeding
purposes.
1t is possible we all grow too much
corn. By gradually reducing the acre
age we can feed up all the fodder. This
means the use of more land for pastur
age.
Bran sells cheapest now, and it is the
time to lay it in for the stock and save
from two to five dollars ton. There is
no other food which can be stored in
bulk with the same safety.
Push the beeves now, aud have them
ready for the market before the old
cows are slaughtered. This slaughter
begins as soon as farmers find out that
their feed is going to be little short.
and no farmer likes to buy good food
for poor stock
First impressions are most lasting in
both man and beast. Domestic animals
can never be made to unlearn habits
once acquired. 1t is just as necessary
to cultivate the little intelligence they
have as it is to train the mind of the
boy.
A western farmer affirms that last
year a corn field of 120 acres. on which
no ears formed, having been cut up
green, shocked, made fine and fed to
fattening without any grain ration,
Melted him Sl,700, or more than S14 an
acre.
Whenever fodder crops can be used as
food for the animals it should be done,
as the grain can be otherwise disposed
of and an increase be made in the re-
turns from the farm. Every bushel of
grain unnecessarily fed, whether to fat
ten or to carry through the winter in
good shape is wasted.
That farmers mission is a success who
is shrewd enough to use his fodder as a
food, whether he cuts it up as wanted
or puts it up in the form of ensilage.
His farm will support at least one half
more stock. and this means a proper
tionate increase in fertility.
Permanent pastures may be made with
one species of grass only, but variety
much increases their feeding value. The
varieties should be selected with re-
gard to their habits of growth, the sea-
son of growth, and their respective feed
ing values.
1t will not pay to keep stock simply
for the purpose Of manufacturing fer
tilizers, but the man who neglects this
product of his stock entirely will find
that he sacrifices one of the important
sources Of profit. Were there no "by-
products" agriculture would be profit
less pursuit.
A good field of corn fodder helps to
make one somewhat independent of
drouth stricken fall pastures. 1t is a
good thing to have ready to fall back
upon in good many emergencies OF
stock feeding.
The selection OF the best materials for
good feeding is good beginning. but
the quantity, the mixing and the times
at which to supply it are almost equally
important. Haphazard work in these
particulars will result in the spending
of money for good feed and losing by
the operation.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
HORTICULTURE.

Cuttings of the currant, gooeeberry
and grape may be made as soon as the
leaves drop. New growth should be
selected and made into pieces about
eight inches long. These cuttings may
be set at once, eight inches apart in
rows, leaving one bud above the ground,
or they may be tied in bundles, buried
in sand and kept from frost until ready
for setting in the spring.
There are advantages in propagating
your own plants. You can continue
those varieties which do best in your
own locality and soil, and can trans
plant them as soon as the ground is pre-
pared; you can use more care in trans
planting. and fill in the missing hills at
leisure. The care will also promote
love for the tender plants, and ensure
youssurer success.
Often those who should grow fruit in
most abundance must buy it or do with
out it. No farmer can buy fruit as
cheaply as he can grow it. No one is
going TO grow it at a less price than cost
and sell it to him. 1t is a fact that but
few farmers grow Strawberries even for
their own tables.
There will never be over production of
fruit in this country. That is the old
cry, but there has been steady demand
and increased prices, The increase in
population of towns and cities is away
ahead of that of fruit planting.
The autumn is an excellent time for
transplanting trees. 1t is not necessary
to wait until the leaves have fallen. but
transplant at any time from September
until the ground freezes, cutting off the
leaves.
Ii young trumpet vine is fastened to
a stake it grows to form a woody stem,
and will by and by become self sus-
tanning bush. Even without its bloom
it will be admired, but when full of
flowers it will be a dazzling sight. The
red, scarlet or orange can be selected.
Train the grape vine that it may be
laid down in the fall and covered with
dirt. After all weeds and rubbish are
removed cover the ground with finely
composted manure. A fruitful resur-
rection may be looked forward to with
confidence in the spring.
Grapes grow upon the new wood only,
and this years branches grow next
years fruit. Let the vines be trimmed
in the autumn, cutting away two.thirds
of the years growth. The object in
trimming is to get a we'll formed vine
and large yield of good fruit; neither
point will be procured if the pruning is
neglected.
Destroy noxious seed and insect eggs
by burning all weeds, dead brush and
vines, and save many times the labor
next season. Not weed should be left
in the berry garden this fall.
Even in localities where plants show
no injury the vitality is often affected
by the severe winters and the crops re.
duced. Protection for our growing
small fruits is an absolute necessity.
Let US not now neglect plants which we
have nursed and guarded SO carefully.
Plants which have been mulched in
summer with green clover clean straw
or coarse manure will require less COW
ering Of dirt in winter, but all black
berries. raspberries and grapes should
be laid down and lightly covered.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13

was too much for them. The next min
ute they we're laughing. The fight was
over; the day was mine. I'm sure the
good old term of restraint has never been
used with more telling effect. For more
reasons than one l am not likely to for
get the first time that / was referred to
as a lady "-NeW York Sun.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
Selected Story.
CATHERINE.

BY ELEANOR NJ. RUTHRAUFF.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-12-15
NEED OF EDUCATED FARMERS

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in
a recent address delivered at Tuske-
ge, Ohio, said:
There is a growing demand for
men educated in the sciences relat-
ing to agriculture. We want soil
physicist at the department in Wash
ington-a simple want, one would
say. There are 1000 people asking
places in the department, well-edu-
Gated people, but not one has studied
soils. An inquiry comes from a uni
versitv for a biologist; none of the
,000 is proficient along that line;
scientific dairyman is in demand;
very few are to be had, while the
country has a surplus Of men and
women well educated along lines that
do not apply to the farm and its var
ious departments. We must educate
young people to do something that
somebody wants done, where money
is waiting to pay them.
at occurred to the American con-
oress in 1868 that the tillers of the
soil would be benefited by education
along the lines of their life work.
The soil was being studied by geolo-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-12-15
WEDNESDAY,, DEC. Is, 1897.
Table of Contents.

FARM, GROVE & Guaranteeing the
Stock Law; New Variety; Cassava;
The Orange Worm 49,. 7S5
Transplant ting Trees; The Scuppernong. 7S6
Manuring Asparagus Beds; Dried Corn
Fodder VS.. Stage 49,. .....7S7
Advice; Nitrifca ton and Rotation OF
Crops; Some Foes Of the Cabbage Grow
Fright Cotton Seed Meals ................-. 1877
TOBAt .CO-Pecullarities of Sumatra To
baccO; T bacco on Teh antepec Tariff
on Cuban Tobacco ...........19O
FLORAI-Palm Seeds Not Dutiable; Wa
ter lilies; GloXinias from Seed. ...791
Ed rORIAL-Need of Educated Farm"
ers; Agriculture in Common Schools
he Velvet Bean.......... .......-.... .......|SA
HOUSE !OLD - Holiday Suggestions;
Home Made Christmas Presents; Souv-
enirs for Christmas Gifts; Perfect
Bread; A Novel Button Bag; Words
POULTRY Indica tons OF Lice: Cholera
or Roup Method Of Dressing Chickens
IL ERAKY.A Study of Hearts. ....796
WITH riIE IOKEkS ...................79
FlOR1D1ANA .-....... |9S
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-12-15

in this class. BUT the fact is that the
progressive farmer is about the
broadcast individual in thought and
views that there is on earth. And
every year an increased per cent. of
farmers are becoming progressive
Farming World.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-12-15
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| that con IrOlleu pant grown. HIdnCS
were being classified and the laws of
their growth made known. Congress
devoted public lands that were fast
being disposed of to the railway COM
panies to the endowment of colleges
that were designated to tell why one
cow produces $3.50 worth of products
in a year, while another produces
$75; why one farmer grows twenty
bushels of corn to the acre, while an
other produces ninety. They were
intended to teach the sciences that
relate to agriculture; what was
known regarding soils and climates,
their origin, composition and the move
ments of moisture through them, and
their relations to plants; what was
known regarding animal life and it's
development along the several Their
NAL lines.
Congress subsequently provided
for experimentation in the several
states and territories. We are fairly
in the front row now regarding edu>
cation of the young farmer at the ag-
ricultural colleges, and in research at
our experiment stations for the
benefit of our producers. It is a new
education not antagonistic to any
other, but absolutely necessary in or
der that agriculture may keep step
with the progress made in all other
industries.
Il see little distinction, north and
south, with regard to the necessity
for education of this kind. Alabama
is called an old state, and it is, COM
pared with Iowa, but the processes
by which Alabama's virgin soils have
been depleted of their plant food are
going on in all the newer states of
the northwest. The older states have
carried this process farther than the
newer, but the newer are Industrious
ly following the older, and that will
bring both sections to a parity if the
farmers are not taught to guard soil
humus as they would protect other
property. Farmers boys in all sec
tons of our country must master this
and similar subjects, so that they
may husband the common heritage
we have in the soil.
"Education toward the so-called
professions is fairly we'll provided in
the most of the states of our country
and as a people we are not behind
older countries in this respect; but,
with regard to the sciences that relate
to agriculture, we are beginning to ed
uca'te, while but a few foreign coun-
tries are doing anything toward it.
The American people, however, do
thoroughly whatever there is necessi
ty for, and good beginnings have been
made in all the states. We are learn
ing something about what producers
handle every day, something of the
climate that is so great factor in
farm operations, of the soils so init
mately affected by climate, and of
plants and their relations to animals.
eve pay $4OO,OOO,OOO annually for
agriculture products that we might
9row-some of them in the south,
some of them in the north, and on