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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
A Deaf Mans Musings

Go among great folks for great sinners
1t is good to be deaf when the SANDER
er begins to talk.
Love drifts into hate more easily than
indifference into animosity.
"Just one little drink" has made all
the drunkards in the world
He is no true friend who has nothing
but compliments and praise for you
Many people find their only happiness
in forcing themselves to be unhappy.
Sharp and intelligent rascals are more
respected by the world than virtuous
fools.
Half of the pleasure of riches consists
in seeing others suffer the pangs of pov-
erty.
To borrow pocket-knife and find it
will cut is one of the pleasant surprises
of life.
When religious society quarrels and
splits, it stands to reason that the devil
gets one of the divisions
1t is not difficult to do good, for the
means are constantly clustering about
every mans lips and hands.
He is indeed an afflicted man who can
pass beautiful woman without for an
ih0lt'hU lol HIS coiAO"o'
He who eats mince pie in restaur-
ant affords beautiful and touching evil
dence of child-like faith in his fellow
man.
If you would secure the favor of an
intelligent man, cut off your story as
soon as he smiles an understanding of
its point.
The physical attributes of man are con-
stantly at war with his moral and intel
lectual forces-notably in the case of
boils.
There is no sadder moment in poor
mans life than when he rakes together
the last few grains of a tifty-cent bag of
smoking tobacco.
Tears at funeral are sometimes a mere
disguise for joy; just as laughter and
gayety amid social festivities may mask
broken heart.
No man should be punished for his
crimes who was trained to crime in his
childhood. AS well blame the young
jocky for his bow legs.
Whatever may be the Individual fate
of women, nature proclaims aloud the
one great object of their creation. Watch
the little girls with their dolls.
A mans wedding-day resolutions Of
reform are never trustworthy, because
for time the wings of this great happi-
ness carry him high above all vicious in
fuences. The hour of trial comes later.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
SOMEBODY'S MOTHER.

The woman was old and ragged and gray,
And bent with the chill of the winters day;
The street WAS wet with recent snow
And the woInan'S feet were aged and slow
She stood at the crossing and waited long.
Alone, uncared for, amid the throng
of human beings who passed her bv
Nor needed the glance OF her anxious eve
Down the street. with laughter and shout.
Glad in the freedom of school let out
Came the boys like a flock of sheen
Hailing the snow piled white and deem.
Past the woman so old and gray
fastened the children on their way,
Nor offered a helping hand to her,
80 meek, so timid, afraid to stir.
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses feet
ohould crowd ker down in the slippery street.
AT last came one of the merry troop
Inc gayest laddie OF all the group;
He paused beside her, and whispered low,
IL heip you across If you wish to go"
Her eyed hand on his strong young arm
She placed, and so, without hurt or harm,
&c 6uiucu Tue trembling Ieta
Proud that his were firm and strong
Then back again TO his friends he went,
His young heart happy and well content.
i" She's somebody's mother, boys you know,
For all she's aged and poor and slow;
And hone some fellow viii lend a hand
To help my mother, YOU understand
Ii ever she's poor and old and gray,
When her own dear boy is lar away"
And somebody's mother bowed low her head
In her home that night, and the prayer she said
Was, g God, he kind TO the noble boy,
Who is somebody's son and pride and jeyr'
-Harper'S Ireekw.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
Horace Greeley as a Borrower.

/ Much has been said of late concerning
Greeley's folly in lend such enormous
sums to worthless applicants who only
paid him with ingratitude. This was a
remarkable weakness, but it may to a
degree be explained. Greeley was, dur
ing the nrst seven years of his New York
life, poverty-stricken adventurer, who
failed In every effort. He had hopes of
making the Neao Yorker success, and
indeed it was the best weekly ever is
sued in this city, but it was swamped by
the hard times which followed the panic
of 1887. In 1910 he found himself with
outs dollar, and was glad to engage in
the service of the Wing party as editor
of the Log Cabin.
The salary was $40 per week for six
months, which was considered very lib
eral pay. When the campaign was over
Greeley determined to start the Tribune
but unfortunately he had no capital. He
tried every way possible to obtain a
moneyed partner, but was unsuccessful.
McElrath had few hundred dollars.
and at last Greeley was glad to accept
him, especially as he was a ready bust
ness man. When all other applications
ulu Idl1Cu, UuC dLiUlUlOuS 6uIUOT Tenlpnl
bered noted resident of jersey CITY
who had large resources, and he deter
mined to try another effort He there
fore made a call on this man (the
late Dudley S. Gregory, and having
mentioned his case, asked for a loan of
81 900. Alternate hopes and fears
moved his breast until he saw Gregory
fill up check for the amount, and the
editor departed with Ii ght heart. This
loan enabled him to start the Tribane,
which was the great success of his life,
and gratitude so wrought upon him that
he determined never to refuse any SIM
liar application. This rule not only
bound him permanently, but its power
SO increased that he at last lost all abil-
ity to refuse. He paid Gregory with his
first earnings, and after that he lent in
discriminatory to all who wished to bleed
him. Whenever loan was solicited he
always recalled the scene when he was
borrower. He remembered how he then
felt the immense Importance of those
little words yes and no. If Gregory had
uttered the latter the Tribune might
never have been more than young edi-
tors dream. That fatal word. however,
was not said, and Greeley ever after
wards followed Gregory's example, but
it cost him nearly one hundred times
the amount of the original loan.-NeW
York Correspondence.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
Diopenes in Texas
From the San Antonio Expire

From the San Antonio Express
Not long since party of visitors in
spected the poorhouse. Among the in
mates was venerable-looking old man,
whose face indicated perfect happiness.
He seemed to be perfectly contented.
Said one of the visitors: "You seem
to be satisfied with your lot"
LAM" he replied. 81 have source
of consolation that is denied to most
men,"
ALL" said the visitor, you look for
ward to blissful future beyond the
grave"
Yes" responded the old man, but
| also find much comfort in the proverb
that says one mans loss is another mans
gain. 1t makes me happy to think that
| never lost enough to do the Teller that
found it much good"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

AS the scholar sees in the vain but
beautiful mythologies of the ancients the
embodied expressions of the hungry human
soul, blindly cropping after the Infinite, so
the physician sees in that popular myth of
the sixteenth century the fountain OF per
petual health and youth-an expression of
the longings of suffering humanity for a
remedy that should forever prevent the in
cursion of disease. The wilds of Europe
were ransacked for this wonderful fountain,
and Ponce de Leon sought for it in the
cypress swamps and tangled everglades of
our sunny Florida. Men have searched for
1t everywhere and anywhere but where
it really is-in the human body itself. The
blood is the real fountain of perpetual
health and youth. When this source is
corrupted, the painful aud sorrow-produc-
ing effects are visible in many shapes. The
multifarious forms in which it manifests it
self would form subjects upon which might
write volumes. But as all the varied forms
OF disease which depend upon bad blood al e
cured or best treated by such medicines as
take up from this fluid and excrete from the
system the noxious elements, it is not OF
practical Importance that | should describe
each. Fer instance, medical authors de-
scribe about fifty varieties of skin disease
but as all require for their cure very similar
treatment, 1T is OF no practical utility to
know just what name to apply to certain
form of skin disease, so you know how best
to cure it. Then again, | might go on and
and describe various kinds of scrof
ulous sores, white swellings, en-
larged glands, and ulcers Of vary
ing appearance; might describe how
virulent poison might show itself in various
forms of eruptions, ulcers, sore throat, bony
tumors, etc. but as all these various APP
pearirg manifestations of bad blood are
cured by a uniform means, | deem such
course unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse
the blood, which is the great fountain of
life, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant
spirits, vital strength, and soundness of con-
stitution, will all return to US. For this
purpose DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and Purgative Pellets are pre-
eminently the articles needed. They are
warranted to cure letter, saltrheum, scald
head, st. Anthony's fire, rose rash or cry
sipelas, ring worms, pimples, blotches, spots,
eruptions, pustules, boils, carbuncles, sore
eyes, rough skin, scurf, scrofulOus sores and
swellings, fever sores, white swellings,
tumors, old sores or sweliings, affec lions of
the skin, throat and bones, and ulcers OF the
liver, stomach, kidneys and lungs.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

PHYSICIANS have long prescribed DR..
Graves HEART REGULATOR as a relief and
cure for Heart Disease, for the simple reason
that they have seen its favorable workings
in all the many forms of disease the Heart
is liable to, and it can truly be recommend
ed as a scientific remedy for that dreaded of
all diseases, whose subtle workings are not
usually seen until the patient is beyond or
binary help. Among the many forms of
Heart Disease are Palpitation, Enlargement,
Spasms of the Heart, Stoppage of the Ac-
ton of the Heart, Trembling all over and
about the Heart, Justification or Bony
Formation of the Heart, rheumatism, Cen
eral Debility and Sinking of the Spirits.
We can pronounce DR.. Graves HEART
REGULATOR a certain remedy, and advise
you to use it. Send your name to T. E. In
CALLS, Concord, n. H., for pamphlet con-
tanning list of testimonials of cures, etc.
For sale by druggists at 90 cents and 81
nor hottie
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
Cottage Gingerbread.

Take one cup of butter and lard melt
ed together, add one cup of New Orleans
molasses; stir into this one cup each of SUI
gar and cold water, two large teaspoonfuls
ginger, two eggs beaten, and four cups of
flour, having in it three large teaspoonfuls
DOoLEY's YEAST POWDER. Bake in mod
eratelY hot oven.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
Look Out for Them.

Certain unprincipled parties have been
for years flooding the country with immense
packages OF horse and cattle powders which
are utterly worthless. Don't be deceived
by them. Sheridan's Powders are the only
kind now known in this country which are
strictly pure. They are very powerful.
MOTHERS! MoTHERs!! MOTHERS! /!
Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup for all diseases incident to the
period of teething in children. 1t relieves
the child from pain. cures wind collie, regu-
lates the bowels, and by giving relief and
health to the child, gives rest TO the mother.
1t is an old and well-tried remedy.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

SQUIGGLUMs."-S chool-mistress Gust
beginning nice improving lesson upon
minerals to the juniors): Now what
are the principal things we get out of
the earth? Youthful angler, etat A
(confdentially): Worms!-Judu.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

If we had voice like thunder we
would use it to advise all people everywhere
to get at once bottle of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment or at least to find out about
it. AS a preventive of dipthheria, pneumo-
MIA, congestion and all dangerous throat dis
eases lis value is nriceleSS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

The Greatest Discovery OF The Age is DR.
Tobias Celebrated Venetian Liniment, SO years be
fore the public, and warranted TO cure Diarrhea
Dysentery, Collie and Spasms taken internally and
Group Chronic Rheumatism, Sore Threats. Cuts
Bruises, Old Sores and Pains in the Limbs, Back
and Chest, externally. 1t has never failed. No fam
lily will be without it after giving il fail
trial Price 40 cents. DR.. TOBIAS VENETIAN
HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint Bottles. at One Dollar
is warranted superior to any other, NO AY, foI
the cure Collie Cuts Bruises, Old Sores, Sold
by all Druggists Depot-I0 Park Place. New York
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
WYE VIII PAY the HIGHEST MARkET PR1cF fol-

WE WILL PAY the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE fol
w all Produce, &c &c, viii sell them for you
five per cent. commission. Liberal cash advances
made on large consignments of staple articles Farm
trs, shippers and dealers in General Merchaudis
should write for re ference price current stencil,
When writing us whether you v ish to ship
consignment sell. If wish To sell name the art
cles, of each and your cerg forrest price for
same, delivered free on b. ard cars at your
est shipping point; also, if pOssb send .ampe by
mail, if too bulky 10y freight Address, HI Liza SCOT
NEY. General commission and Shipping Merchants,
22I < 346 North Water Street, Philadephi Penn.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
WILLS, RICHARD

SON q COS PERFECT-
Ed BUTTER COLOR is
recommended by the agricnl
tural press, and used by thou
sands of the very best Dairy
men in this country. 1t gives a
perfect June Color and il as
harmless as salt. Warranted
to add cents per pound TO its
selling value. Ark your Drug
gist or Merchant for it, or write
to WELLS. RICHARDSON & Co,
Proprietors, Burlington, VT.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

isaac REyOLVERS. Price List free. Adore Q
VUC Great Western Gun Works, Pittsburg, Pa
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16

81 600 acre for Strawberries. 20 plant 81 Send
STAN for circular. f. B Underhill, Po'keepsie Ny
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26

Speaking of gall, J" remarked a printer
last evening in a O street beer-saloon,
talking of solid cheek, never saw q
man who had more of it than Pete
blvens, of Kansas City. Three of us
used TO room together there in 1872.
One night in July (it was 10 hot that If
you'd chuck water on the side of house
1t would sizz like so much hot iron) we
concluded to go down and sleep ON one
OF the timber-rafts on the river. Well,
we got on the raft with our blankets.
8 ust before turning in Pete Blivens said
ne guessed he'd cool off by taking swim.
l knew the current would snatch him
night under, but didn't want to give him
any advice, and he dived off the raft
The undertow caught him and sent him
quito sight in about three seconds. AS
soon as we saw he was drowned, me and
the other chap went for his effects. We
found eight dollars and half in his pants
pocket and an old watch. We took
them up town and soaked the clothes for
nine dollars and the watch for twelve
dollars. Then we went around town on
sort of jamboree and spent the money
About five O'Clock in the morning we
were drinking up the last dollar with
some OF the boys at the Blue Corner
Iwhen who should walk in but Pete him
ffelf, in an old suit of clothes that he'd
borrowed OF man three mi 'es down the
river. And hang me if he didn't de
mand his clothes, and next day he wa
|. round dunDiDg US for the paltry eigh
eight dollars and a hall. The gall o
some mems enough to paralyze Louisi
sna alligator."-[ Virginia (Nev.) Chron
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Agricultural Notes.

Over 1000 farmers in Maine, have
taken hold of the beet sugar enterprise
and are raising this root for the factory
in that state.
1t is a dangerous thing, from hy-
ginnic point, to dig a cellar in wet soil.
Better not have cellar if you can't be
certain that it will be dry.
The Argentine Confederation, South
America, is estimated to contain over
100000 sheep, or nearly double the
number owned in the United States.
The largest strawberry farm in the
world is probably that of John r.
Young, jr., about two miles from Nor
folk, Va. He cultivates 250 acres, and
the yield last season was over 100000
quarts.
No animals, unless we'll fed at all
times, can give constant return for the
food consumed, and no pasture is safe
from injury by over feeding if everrun
in dry weather by herd of poor, hungry
animals.
1t is reported that 100000 Texas cattle
are .'hoofing it'' toward the Northern
markets, having started somewhat earlier
than usual. There are also nearly IOO,-
600 in Southern Kansas, ready for move
ment in June.
"Look where you will on the farm.
whether at its fruit gardens, grains, or
animals, we shall find that whatever
reaches the highest fitness for its destined
purpose is beautiful; and whatever fails
of ituesa is simply ugly."-[W Welsh.
Good corn can only be produced BY
plenty of good timely work. Work it
thoroughly and often, early and late till
ready to lay by. Don't let the weeds
get any foothold. The greater the drouth
the more-cultivators should run throupb
it.
Don't let the grass get too ripe before
beginning to cut for bay. Dent let it
be exposed to. the sun too long. Put IL |
in cocks to cure. Putt in good stacks
or under shelter, as soon as cured. Don't
let the storms bleach all the substance
out Of 1t.
A Nebraska farmer claims to have
made 600 pounds of bright sugar and
l53 gallons of amber syrup from two
acres of cane. The seed planted was of
the early amber variety. The sugar was
obtained By hanging the thick syrup in
coffee sacks after it began to eranulate
a W respondent of the
salar says: "We have =
"a months old white calf that has been
vet-nursing pair of motherless lambs
he past six weeks. They took to her
fter the death of their mother. and ,
ugged away until they brought her 70
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Maintaining Fertility.

The following thought on grain ma
nuring, by correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentleman, is an excellent one:
When land has been thoroughly en-
riched, it is very easy to retain its fer
tility by seeding frequently with clover
and occasionally manuring. Only last
week passed a field which seven or
eight years ago produced three hundred
bushels of wheat on five acres, or sixty
bushels per acre. The wheat was of the
Diehl variety, as any other would grow
too rank on such rich land: In the
center of the field are dozen or fifteen
large apple trees, which diminished the
yield somewhat. The field faces two
roads, and doubt not that the owner,
one of the best farmers in the town,
takes much pride in its good appearance.
1t IL seeded again with wheat this year,
and is as perfect crop as 1 ever saw.
And yet presume that the field has not
been manured more than once or twice
since the last wheat crop. Seeding with
clover will keep such land fertile for
many years. Sixty bushels per acre
must be nearly the limit for possible
wheat production in our climate, though
this crop has been much exceeded in
England. The farmer who has land
which win produce such crops, can grow
wheat proftably, even at low prices. Il
1t not better to concentrate effort en- good
lard until it is brought up to the best
rather than to diffuse it over the whole
farm, working all the land and getting
profit from none? BY increasing the
fertility of the soil we may decrease the
cost of production, which is the best and
surest mode of increasing profits, not
only in farming. but everything else
Farmers cannot well fix the price al
which they will sell their products; but
if they learn how to grow crops at les,
cost, they reach the same result in al
equally satisfactory manner. On lanc
that is productive enough, prices of pro
duce can never go below the margin o
profit.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Butler and the Only jerks.

The following account OF a converse
tion whicI. General Butler had with Mrs.
.Ienks. after he had been examining her,
Is too good to be lost:
"Madame," said General Butler, in
bis blandest tones, did not ask you
inst now whether you considered the
things which you say you have done in
this connection were entirely proper "
jerks: ''I should have replied, had
vcu asked me, that all things that were
possible and necessary in Louisiana poll
tics we're proper; but, General" and
shs assumed her most dramatic air, "
assure you that if l did anything wrong
10 this connection, it was done in fit oi
abstraction"
Butler: "Of course. 1t would be
ungallant for me to think otherwise"
jerks: " Precisely"
Butler: But how and when do these
fits of abstraction possess you, and how
long do they generally last?"
jerks: "They come and go like my
emotions"
Butler: "This sort of an excuse may
be current with congressional commit
tee, but what sort of an excuse will you
give when you appear before the grea
Investigator up yonder ?" and Butle
turned his revolving eye upward until i
pointed towards the zenith.
Mrs. jerks smiled and remarked
" Don't very about me, General; whel
/ get up there L shall wait until yol
testify, and then 1 will follow your piou
example,"
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Cheap Fruit Rooms

There are some patented fruit-houses
that cost thousands of dollars, and for
the privilege of building them hundreds
70 sometimes charged. Farmers or
farming neighborhoods want something
cheaper. Judge Stitzsl stated at the
meeting of the Pennsylvania Fruit
Growers society that gentleman of
su-sj,,st has a building holding 5000
usneB, and keeping pound" " apples
until October of the following year, and
greetings till July. He charges Is cents
per bushel for keeping his neighbor's
apples. The building is of wood, above
ground, and ice keeps the temperature
nearly down to freezing, the ice being
stored above-the ceiling is water tight
to prevent moisture. The space in the
walls IL filed with tan. The apples are
in twe-bushel boxes, so placed that the
bottom of one is the lid of the next
below. The house cost $3.50. Mr. Engle
built house, half underground, the
body Of ice being II feet deep. A part
of the underground is partitioned of by
slantiDg division He finds no diff
u!ty in keeping fruit the year round.
The ice is carefully packed perfectly
tight, and the sides are watched to fill
any vacancy or crevice. Ice overhead
Is better than this, but more expensive.
Mr. Tracy buried the barrels of fruit in
the ground, covering lightly with earth.
He has buried maiden's blush in Au-
gust and kept them till April, and green
ings till June.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26

sive farmer and close observer, saws his
hogs seem to thrive upon them as we'll "a
when fed on corn, and for stock bogs
they are better. He regards them "a he
ing in no small degree an antidote for a
disease known as hog cholera. When
digging what he desired to store awav
for winter use for his hogs, he found the
yield per acre was nearly 1000 bushels.
After digging what he desires, the hogs
are turned in, and they complete the
work, and at the same time their drop.
pings enrich the land. He says the
white variety is not only more hardy,
but more prolific than the Brazilian OF
red artichoke. The artichoke thriyes
and does as well ON nearly all kinds OF
lands as the common potato; in fact, il
proves to be a very profitable crop even
on thinner lands.