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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-10-28

The Unseen Personality Of Man is known
thro the manifestations Of his nature in his
works.
The things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear. They
come from the unseen, flash into invisible
ity, and disappear.
Personality is known only when ii
chooses to show itself through and on
transient forms of matter. The works
of man embody his attributes. He
raises the point of ignition of certain
substance, gases unite, heat is the result
this passes into water and steam
is made. He arranges matter to convey
this energy, and from the one engine he
may cause the buzz of the saws, the pound
ing of hammers, the grating of drills the
burr of lathes, and the clatter of shuttles.
He places a metal and an acid together,
or uses the friction Of steam escaping un-
der pressure, and at his service darts the
same fluid which seams the cloud with
forked fire, and causeth the voice of the
thunder. With proper connections he may
from one place with this force send his
thought and power over mountains and
through oceans, light cities and reveal the
work of an opposing army, set in motion
electric ploughs, and make fields hum with
the activity of mower, reaper and thresher,
and may guide torpedo boat in the Med
iterranean, or fire a mine in Russia.
Personality here manifests itself as
Thought and Will showing plan and pro-
gress toward a definite end, from the light
| ing of the match up to the directing OF the
steam, or from the generating Of electrici-
ty, up to and into the possibilities of Its ap
plication.
In his statuary, we find his conceptions
embodied, his expression petrifed, his
ideas of symmetry and of proportion run
mig through the ideal forms and posing Of
his works.
In his pictures, he uses light and shade,
! form and color. relative distances, proper
tons and angles, and makes fiat surface
| sink into the perspective of landscape, and
the soul of countenance.
Or in music he uses sound waves and
certain proportions of vibrations, causes the
air to yibrate from reeds and strings, and in
! this way sends his thought warmed by emo
| otion to ripple INTO the soul of the listener,
carving him by sympathy into the agon-
les of losing soul, into calm of peace, or
into the ecstasy of a supreme moment of
| bliss.
All of the works of man are an insight
ficant portion of the plans, conceptions,
emotions. and ideals which have for ages
surged through the brain, and for every en-
bodied idea there are millions that never
have been expressed. In this personality
we find the busy world, of whose activity
the material life is only a feeble manifesto,
| ton.
But how can we find the source Of thes5
works? We see the sculptor at work on
his block, with marble spray dashing
about his chisel. The musician plays the
organ and it seems as if the pillows O
| Heavens praises must have rippled into
the masters soul to draw out such music
! We wish to know the man. We search
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
Lighthouse TerrOrs.

If those on shore are awed by the ter rible violence of the winds and waves during tempest, what must be the ex- periences of men who live in building exposed to the full fury of the heavy ocean breakers When we look at a lighthouse in calm weather, it is almost impossible to realize that the seas some times breaks over the lantern. Such is, however, frequently the case, and an instance of this occurred not long after the completion of the Bishops Rock Light, which is erected on rock be- yond the Scilly Islands, far out in the Atlantic. One of the builders told of a heavy sea striking under the lantern and carrying away the fog-bell, which hung by a stout arm of iron nearly three inches square. A few years ago the lighthouse keepers on this rock were in terrible predicament during hurri- cane, the violence of which was de- scribed as being fearful. The light house was struck by enormous waves in quick succession, each causing & noise like the discharge of cannon, and mak- ing the massive stone building rock to and fro, so that every article fell away from its place. One fearful sea broke the great lens in several pieces, and another broke the cylinders of a spare light, while sand from the bottom, thirty fathoms deep, was found heaped up on the lighthouse gallery. The power of these unbroken masses of water is so great that lately, at Wick, one of these shocks moved Ca concrete block of four hundred tons built up in stu. ''- Chana6ers's Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
COrnstalks as Fuel.

An Iowa farmer, who has both coal and wood on his farm, warns his house with .oornstalks, and claims that they make the best and ohea! est fuel he san get. He uses large stl ve, and burns the stalks in tightly .bou. d bundles, weighing about forty pounds each. A bundle burns three hours (without fiame) in an air-tight stove. The large stove offers so much radiating surface that it does not need to be very hot. Five bundles day, or 600 for the win ter, will suffice to keep the stove going and the room warm. The farmer, MT. Ruggles, says: 'I can bind up six hun dred bundles of cornsta alks in two days alone. I couldn't chop the wood to warm this room in a week. Then in the spring I have load of strong ashes for my wheat field, while my neighbors have to cut up the same cornstalks in the spring to get them away from the harrow. It makes me smile when I hear about these idiots up here in Min nesota who have fifty-acre cornfields, andstill go cold or buy coal. Why, I'd rather burn cornstalks than cut maple wood within sight of the house."
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
A Prize AnecdOte.

Old Quimby was the queerest fish in all the odd school of longshoremen ; but, alasl his many radiant virtues were clouded with 8 few conspicuous vices. He would fish Sundays and get drunk every day that opportunity offered. We'll, one summer Sabbath morning, having succeeded in filling his market basket with large, live crabs, and him. self with rum, he began to zig-zag homeward. The day was superbly beautiful, with a sky of serenest blue and an air as balmy as the breath of Araby. Even the merry insects seemed to have mellowed their hum, and the old sea muffled its triumphant boom out of respect to the sanctity of the day. Keeling up hill, he saw approaching the venerable clergyman of the neigh borhood. and struggling to maintain a drunken dignity, he fell headlong, and then the crabs struck for liberty.
 My friend" said the elder, ssI see you not only desecrate the Sabbath with labor, but you also debase yourself by intoxication."
 Elder," hiccoughed Quimby, reach ing for runaway crab, eff you have as much trouble in getting your congre- gation together to-day as I do these cussed crabs, darned if I don't pity ye !-Chicago Nea0s.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
The Increase of Divorce.

Rev. Washington Gladden. discusses the "Increase of Divorce" in the J Janu- ary number of 7'he Century, in man. her which is pretty sure to attract wide attention and occasion some contro- versy. The facts which lie at the basis of the discussion have been, for the most part, presented in the addresses of the Rev. MT. Dike, and the reports of Col.
 Wright; but their significance is so ap- palling and the evil which they disclose so far-reaching that it is we'll to have them gathered up and presented again in MT. Gladden's very forceful and suggestive paper. Not to enter into them too minuteIy, let us give just a hint as to what they are, and what their meaning is for us of New England in particular. In Belgium the ratio of di- vorces to marriages, in 1874, was 1 to 200; in France, the ratio of legal separa- tions to. marriages, 1660-187O, was l to 152; in England, the number of peti- tions for divorce and separation-which was of course much larger than the number Of divorces-was in the ratio, in 1878, of one to every 300 marriages. These figures, in each case, show an in- crease over previous years, and they have been a good deal discussed by moralists and statisticians. But look now at New England. In Connecticut, the ratio of divorces to m arriages has averaged, during the last fifteen years about, one to ten in Vermont, in 1878, it was one to fourteen ; in Rhode Island, fourteen, and in Massachusetts, one to twenty-one, while in New Hampshire the number of divorces granted increased fifty per cent. in eight years, and in Maine, thirty-fve per cent. in two years. Making allowance for the fact that one- fourth of the marriages in at least four of the New England States are among Roman Catholics, who do not recognize divorce, we have the ratio of divorces to Protestant marriages one to fifteen in Massachusetts, one to thirteen in Yer mont, one to nine ID Rhode Island and one to less than eight in Connecticut When our social order has reached point where of every eight marriages solemnized, one is destined to be broken up by divorce, it would seem to be none too soon to call public attention to the ev,l and to seek for remedy. If the family is worth preserving, as the foun- dation of Christian civilization, it would appear to be time that some measures were devised for its preservation. .-Bos- ion L0,Lr1nL !
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

The Wholesale New York market quotations show:
 BEANS Prime, sS. 2O@s-; fair to good, $3.00@S3. 5 per bushel.
 BUTTER New York sold at 34@36c. for choice in pails, and 2u@34c. common to good i; Western sold at 40@41c., and the common Western at 14@20c.
 CHEFsE-Factory fancy, 131lc e.; do. fair to good, 1015@l1s4c.
 EGGs-Quotations ranged from 2lc. for or. dinary to 3lc. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 FLOUR -iSuperfne, s4OO@s4 Western. $5.0O@S5.00; extra New York, S4 90@$5 50. HAY-Shipplng, 65(075c.; clover, 7U0SOo.; salt, 65c.; straw, 40045c.
 HoPs-New York, 26@2sc.; Eastern, l6@ 25c.; yearliUgs, 10@20c.; olds, 7@15c. 2 PETROLEUM Refined, 65Sc.; crude, 61f@ { 7ac. in bulk in barrels, 714c.; naphtha, 71sc. PORK New mess, $16.755 5@S1775; dressed WHEAT-Spring No. 8, s1.21A@1 23; !; Mil waukee, No. ?, $1.36; amber, $l.32@S1. 40; w9,te, sI; 4oH@sl loaelA.
 WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, xxx, 43D46c.; XIX, 42@46c.; X, 42@4ec.; No. l, 45047c.; Mo- 3. 3S041c.; common, 33@35c. : New York and Western xx and X, 39@41c.' No. 1, 44@i5c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET. FLOUR State family, ..s6.S71a@S6 50: rye HOur, $9.b212 GSo.UU wheat, StaCe, Sl.4U00 $T.43; amber, $l.43s corn, yellow, 72c., mixed State, 67@6715c.
 PETROLEUM -Refined, 6%c.; crude, 6kc. ", oL State and Western xx, 46@5.c.; X. 479ISc., medium, 50@5lc.; coarse, 45c.
 BOSTON MARKET.
 FLoUR-From S4Oo@S55 50 for low and medium. to S5, Oo@S7. % for choice Minnesota Corn, 73@7415c. for mixed and yellow.
 BUTTER Common, IS (D25c. Vermont dairy, 26@3Sc.; choice creamery, 35@4oc. CHEESE 7@13Lc.
 BEANs-$2. .75@$3.4 40.
 HAY-Choice S20@$21.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, S5.80@ S6.75; hogs, fair to good, $6.45@S6 50; best, $6.75.
 EAST LIBERTY, PENN. Best cattle, S6.25@ S6. .75 ;mcdium to good, $5. .25@$6. .00; common to fair, S4.25@S5.O0; Hogs, Workers, S6S0@ $6.4o; Philadelphias, S6.20@s6.s0. Sheep, $40 @s5.5o.
 WATERrowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice, $s.75@ $o.25; extra, $s.00@$s.50; first quality, S'.00@S7.5D; second quality, $5.O0@S650; {; third quality S4.00@S4.75. Sheep and lambs wool sheep. S2.50@$50O; extra, S5 Oo@ .$5.25; spring lamhs, ,41S@e4c Veal calves,
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
The Moonshiners of Tennessee.

A writer in the Atkantic .Mo,at1aSaJ has been visiting the moonshiners of Ten nessee,l and has succeeded in putting their side of the question, just as they look at it. The ''moonshiner," that is, the manufacturer of-illicit whisky, who makes it chiefly at night, in order to avoid the vigilance of the United States excise, officers, is usually 8 small far mer, to whom his ssstill'' is no more than a cider mill to Northern man. Like his fathers and grandfathers: he has always made whisky. ''It don't do mo- body any harm, " said one of them, to the writer. 'It's about all the way we have of makine any money in this wood en country It don't go intoSthe gen eral trade of the country enough to amount to ything, '.which, if we hinasy believe what is said about it's merits, is deeply to be regretted; the liquor is made out of their own corn, and if the tax were actually collected upon it all. it would drive them out of the country What they most fear is disturbance from the outside-the invasion of railroads and commerce and improvements gen. erally. As one old man expressed it: g
 'But this hyar country's all goin' to change. It's goin' to be most ever lastin'ly improved, ye see. shan't never be improved; I'm too old. But the old ways is a comin' to an end. They's men buyin' up thousands of acres of this land. They'll be railroads built. direc'1y, hither an van, more'n Il do anybody any good. They'll cut oil the woods for fuel an lumbar. an they'll be mines an quarries up hyur. they say. An they'll be mean, dirty little towns laid out, all about. Then. instid O people drinkin' little healthy whisky, as we've always done,~ they'll be forty times as much .miser'ble. bison stuff sold an drunk, an whoever drinks it'll begin to steal an lie. I reckon they'll be some mighty fine houses built som'eres along this river, am they Il put big scientific locks on to their doors. an thieves Il come up from Cincinnarter an Chat'noog', an break into 'em. They ain't never ben lock on to aNdoor in these mountains. But they's goin' to be the all-6redest improvements about hyur, an I s'pose our people Il rarh to steal too; haf to, to keep up an live. An they'll be some O them city women hyur, reckon, from them big places, with their fine feathers. an, theirs dressoss draggin' on to the ground, ant they'll be the devil to pay among our young men. That's what they call civ'ly zation, ain't it. strangers tell ye, this coun- try Il soon be improvin' like fun, but shan't live to see much of it, reckon"
 The 'informer" is. known among. them as the "reformer," by an uncon-.: sclous mispronunciation of the name; and they account for his zeal in pursu ing them by the fact that s'the reformer oita half |"
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
A Fable.
THE WOLF AND THE PEASANT.

One day Peasant who was laborine in his field was surprised at receiving a visit from the Wolf, and he was about to rush for his gun when the Wolf called out:
 ''Hold on, my friend-my visit is one of peace. I have come to have 8 serious talk with you.'
 "But you killed one of my sheep only last week." protested the Peasant.
 ''So I did, and that is the very matter I have come to talk about. I have felt conscience stricken ever since that event, and have firmly decided to kill no more sheep."
 "Well, I am glad to hear it, and hope you will stick to your resolution. 7"
 "Oh, I certainly shall, and I hope you will give me due credit in the fu- ture."
 The Wolf took his departure with a sweet bow and melting smile, and the Peasant softly scratched the back of his neck and did heap of thinking. That night he placed large trap at the weak point in his calf-pen, and next morning he found the Wolf held firm and fast.
 Excuse my embarrassment" began the Wolf as the Peasant appeared, "but why did you move this trap from the sheep-fold ?"
 Because" replied the Peasant, as he hunted around for club, experience has taught me that Wolf who is tired of mutton is simply working up an ap- petite for veal"
 MORAL;
 Don't put your foot in it.-Detroit Free P,esS
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
TPfStars Worth BshSlaiss.

Hanging between two small Wipdow9, and oatching the light from A1atker one opposite, in one of the ofioes Of Adams Express Company, at 59 Broad way, New York-the office occupied by MT. w. H. Hall, head of the delivery department-is a plainly finished but neatly framed chromo about 2S by 8 feet in size, which Is looked upon by hundreds of people daily, on many of whom it has a wonderful and salutary effect. It represents flight of half a dozen rough stone steps leading from the swarded bank of 8 placid lake to a little rustic temple set in the rugged side of the mountain which rises in stupendous proportions in the back ground all covered with rank luxuriant growth of foliage in brush and tree. In the open door of this little temple stRndsa hak concealed figure, jwith san. afmS s1d aIand extended {, ho olding Sforthl a small, dihay defined psokage, whiie. seated on the sward at the foot of the steps an aged pilgrim, barefooted, lame and decrepid, bears staff in one hand, and in the other holds tbefore his dim eyes a" small bottle, whose label he eagerly scans. This iahel be'rs the words St. Jacobs Oil the Great German Remedy" Simple as thls little chromo appears in it's un- oStentatious position, it has an influence which it would be difficult to estimate. cit is to that picture and the persua- sions of Mir. Hall, said Mir. Edward J. Douglass, a gentleman connected with Mir. Halls department, "that owe my present ability to perform my work. Some weeks ago was violently at tackled with soiatic rheumatism, and hour by hour grew worse, and nothing my family or the doctor could do gave me any relief. I began to think in a few days that my case was hopeless and that was doomed to be an invalid and helpless cripple for life. But at last 1 thought of that picture which I had SO often looked at with but little interest, and then MT. Hall came to my bedside. aud telling me how St. Jacobs Oil had cured him of 6 worse and longer standing case than mine, urged me to use the same remedy, I did SO that very night, directing my wife not to spare it but to apply it thoroughly ac- cording to the directions ;I this she did with large piece of flannel cloth sat urated with the Oil, and then bound the cloth to the affected parts, The next morning was free from pain, and though a little sore in the hip, was able to dress myself, and the next day resume my duties in the office as sound, as dollar. Here I am now in full health and strength, having had no touch of rheumatism or other pain since. Whenever I see one of our drivers or any other person who shows any symp- toms of lameness or stiffness, I point to him the picture in MT. HalFs office, and then direct him to go for St. Jacobs Oil at once. "-NesV York Evening Isle-. grd3a. "
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

ONE day Thad Stevens was practising in the Carlisle courts, and he didn't like the ruling of the presiding judge. A second time the judge ruled against "Old Thad when the old man got up with scarlet face and quivering lips, and commenced tying up his papers as if to quit the courtroom. "Do I un- derstand, Mir. Stevens, asked the judge, eyeing cold Thsd" indignantly, edo I understand that you wish to show your contempt of this court ?" "No, sir no, sirr' replied "Old Thad." Y" "I don't want to show my contempt, sir I am trying to conceal it"
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

How HE Cor A T1oKET.-Said the shrewd tramp: "No, sir; l never try to beat rides on railway trains. When want to get ticket to la'town go to the authorities of the place where l am taying and say: See. here, I'm . pauper belong to such town. think I'm going to have the small-po and I want to go home They are so anxious to get me out of town they shell out the ticket quicker than @ cat can dodge" To live is to work rackets. Boston Post.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

A D1sPLAY.-At the recent demon stration at Avondale, Mir. Parnell's res idence in Wicklow, there were 600 carts engaged in carting the manure and 1Ss blows in operation. The men were decorated with green ribbons and the horses with green boughs. Toward the close cart was paraded, from which rose the efigy of "The Last Landlord, " through which was driven 8 large four pronged fork, amid great enthusiasm.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

From time immemorial the horse has beerf mans best friend. But few years back we caut all remember the comparatively little attention paid 10 this most Indispensable of animals We say comparatively little attention, for the horse Moy and as tbon rcat ~ shows-you would see the pride of the county and State stables and farms assembled. But horses, and as for spoeders-well, ,240 was the great ultimate hnik that owners iti those days desired to strive f0y But ,neswae ae 2s40 animal is deserve the name when they can shade tho frst quarter of the third minute. There have beenim. melsc strides forward in the right tdcyelopmento ot horseflesh nthe civilized countries Of the WqrkiI as shown by the ume-records of the racers and
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

THE ELECTRIC CURRENT. At Hatfield House in England, the other day, Will liam Dimmock, laborer, was assisting in laying telephone wire when he slipped from a wall, and in falling took hold of wire used in connection with the Brush lights which are in operation at Hatfield House. He was imme- diately killed by the electric current. The medical evidence showed that death arose from shock to the system, causing paralysis of the heart.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
KID arabesques sewed with gold thread on plush ornament skirts of Paris suits.

NEW BLOOMFIELD, Miss, Jan. g. 1880.
 WISH to say to you that have been suffer- ing for the last years with a severe itching all over. l have heard of Hop Bitters and have has done me more good than all the doctors and medicines that they could use on or with me- I am old aud poor but feel to. bless you for such a relief by your medicire and from tor ment of the doctors.i have h4d fifteen doc tors at me. One gave me seven ounces of so- lutionr of arsenic another took four quarts of blood from me. llthey could tell was that it was skin sickness. Now. after these four bot ties of your medicine, my skin is well clean and smooth as ever. HENRY KNocHE
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18
BLACK satin shoes with Rhine .cfysta buckles are chosen for the house.

SYDNEY SMITH being ill, bis physician advised him to "take walk upon an empty stomach" !" "Upon whose?" asked Sydn.y. Still better steps to take would be the purchase of Dr. R.
 V. Pierces ''Golden Medical Discovery" and Pleasant Purgative Pellets," which are es- pecially valuable to those who are obliged to lead sedentary lives, or are afflicted with any chronic disease of the stomach or bowels. By druggists g.. ...- %. '.4 !.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

THE story is told of 0 minister who said, when one of his flock went over the financial deficit in connection with A Christian enterprise: "MJ dear friend, never mind the tears, this thing can't be run by water ]" This is valuable sug- gestion to some who give sympathy much more easily than they give money. -COnore00tioaalast,
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

FoR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, Depression ot Spirits and General Debility, in, the variout forms also as preventive against Fever and Ague and other Intermittent Feyers, the !" FIR, Ro-PBosPHoRATEDE ELIXIR OF CALIsAYA," made by Casweu, Hazard & Co.,, New York. and sold by all druggists is the best tonic and for pa Nents recovering from Fever or other sickness it has no equal.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

Too MUCH CHEEK. A San Francisco paper illustrates the cheek capacity of the California squirrel by saying that one of them, killed the other day while carrying away wheat from a warehouse on the San Joaquin River, was found to have 1,803 grains of wheat slowed away in It's mouth.
Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

A CoLoRED CH1NAMAN.- full blooded colored man was among the Chinamen who lately arrived in Den yer; but he wore the clothes, spoke only the language, and had all the ways of his Chinese companions. He had lived twenty-seven years in China having been captured in his youth by pirates.