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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-04-26

According to the accounts Of ex-
plorers, Siberia is not a very pleasant
country to travel in, and the marvel
Gus tales related are generally Of a
nature to discourage any one from
going there to prove or question their
accuracy. W. II. Glider, the New
York Herald correspondent who went
with the Rodgers expedition in search
Of those of the Jeannette's crew who
were in Lieutenant Chipp's boat, says
that on his trip across the country the
natives had very exasperating habit
of routing him out before the first
gray OF dawn to start on the days
Journey, but always managed to call a
halt and turn in soon after noon. The
drivers of the sledge teams had to be
watched all the TIME lest they should
abandon him, the lone passenger, in
any desolate place where he was not
ready to 60 at their convenience.
Along the coast the weather wds so
cold that some Of the natives were
frost-bitten. Many nights had to be
passed in the snow, and in various
bleak stretches the wind was so vic.
lent as to blow men, sledges and dogs
from the road into deep gullie'. Some
times the dogs refused to face the wind
and had to be dragged by the men.
In places the road was 50 blind that
natives could not follow it within a
couple of miles of I'll cir own homes.
On more than one occasion, Mr.. Glider
says, he removed from his face masks
of frozen snow half an inch thick. In
the light of these statements it is not
at all probable that Siberia will ever
be a popular winter resort, and the
reason Of mems continued efforts to
penetrate such regions becomes more
matter of wonder than ever.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
OverwOrked.

BY ELLA WHEELER
VI with the birds in the early morning
lhe dew-drop CLOVIS like precious gem.
beautiful hnts in the skies are dawning
out she's never moment to look at them
l ne men are waiting their breakfast early;
Sne must not Hnger, she must not wait.
For words that are sharp and looks that are surlv
Are what the men give when the meals are late.
Oh, glorious colors the clouds are turning.
ii sne would but look over hills and trees.
put mere are the dishes. and here is the churnipe
Ihose Things must always Weld to these
me world Is hlled with the wine of beauty
Ii she could but pause and drink it in:
But pleasure, she says, must wait for DUTY
Neglected work is committed sin
The day grows hot. and her hands grow weary:
On, for an hour to cool her head
Out with the birds and winds so cheeryl
But she must get dinner and make her bread
Inc busy men in the hay field working
If they saw her sitting with idle hand,
would thlnk her lazy, and call it shrinking,
ana Sic never could make them understand.
They do not know that the heart within her
Hungers for beauty and things sublime
Iney only know that they want their dinner
Plenty of it, and just = on time.n
ana after the sweeping and churnirg and baking,
- ana Gunner dishes are all put by.
she sits and sews, though her head ia aching
III time for supper and ''choresn draws nigh
Her boys at school must look like others,
she says, as she patches their frocks and hose
FOR the world is quick to censure mothers
FOR the least neglect of their children's clothes
her husband comes from the field of labor,
He gives no praise to his weary wife:
Sne,s done no more than has her neignbor;
lis the lot of all in country life.
But after the strife and weary tussle
With life is done, and she lies at rest:
lhe nations brain and heart and muscle
Her sons and daughters-shall call her blest
And think the sweetest JOY of heaven
The rarest bliss of eternal life
And the fairest crown of all, will be given
Unto the wayworn farmers wife
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29

lady with 3-year-old girl. she !
walking twice as fast as she sbould and
the child Is over exerting itself to keep
pace; every time the child lags. the
mother gives 1t Sudden and unexpect-
ed lurch which is enough to throw its
shoulder out, to say nothing of bruising
the delicate structures of the Joints. a
gutter Is reached; instead of giving the
little toddler time to get over in it's own
way or properly lifting it. the mother
raises 1T from the ground bv one hand
its whole weight depending from one
extremity, and with swing that twists
TIE chlld's body as far around az the
joints will permit. it is landed. after a
course OF four or five feet through the
air, on the other side.
Here is girl II years old with baby
OF a year in her arms. The babe sits on
the girls arm without support TO its
Dack. This would be hard enough posi-
ton to maintain were the girl standing
sun, but she is walking rapidly, and the
little one has - gather the entire
strength OF its muscular system to
adapt itself to its changing base of sup
port, to say nothing of adjusting its lit
tie body to sudden leaps and darts
on the part of its hayward nurse.
Sometimes during sudden advance YOU
will see part of the babe a foot in ad-
vance of it's head and trunk, which have
to be brought up by powerful and
sudden action of the muscles of the
trunk and neck.
Probably not one child in hundred
is properly handled.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
Nautical FlOuHencc.

From the Central Christian Advocated
speaker who attempts to use nauti-
cal metaphors should be thoroughly
familiar with the sea and the working of
a ship, or he will strand his speech. A
clergyman was once supplying pulpit
by the seaside. Thinking to impress
the truth more distinctly upon the con-
gregation, many of whom were seameD,
he drew the figure of ship trying to
enter the harhOr against a head wind.
Unfortunately for the success of his
metaphor, Ihe knew little of seamanship.
After putting the ship into several sin
gular positions, he cried ont in a tone
intended to be emphatic:
What shall we do next?"
The Lord only knows" exclaimed a
Disguised old tar, unless you let her
drift stern foremost !"
The prince of sailor preachers, Father
Taylor, was once sileuced by compli-
ment to his eloquence. He had depicted
tee impenltnet sinner under the figure
of storm tossed ship, with her sails
split, and driven by the gale towar.l the
rock bound coast of Cape Ann.
ooh, how" he exclaimed, in tones of
despair, " shall this poor sin.tossed sin
Ler be saved p
instantly an old salt in the gallery,
who had listened with open mouth and
straining eyes to the preacher, jumped
to his feet, and in a voice that would
have sounded above a hurric lne
shouted:
a." Let him put his helm hard down,
and bear away for Squam y
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
The Perils of Special Trains.
{ From the London Letter. J

A special train, which left CharIng
Cross at five minutes of 6 on Monday
evening to pick up returning excursion
lists from Gravesend, was considerably
delayed, owing to some unfolese cir
cumstances. The train was proceeding
toward Greenlite, when the driver OBJ
served a donkey on the line. An en-
deavor was made to stop before the animal
was reached, but without success and
the poor animal was dragged along by
the fire box of the engine. The train
was stopped, and, with great difficulty,
the body OF the animal, which was killed,
was extricated from beneath the engine.
While this was. in progress, balloon
called the Sunbeam passed over, going
in the direction of Northfieet. The two
seronauts in the car were throwing out
ballast, and Notwithstanding this the
balloon descended slowly, and when
some distance ahead of the train, was,
to the horror of the passengers, seen to
drop suddenly into the railway cutting
200 or 800 yards in front of the engine.
AS the balloon dragged the car and its
occupants over the downline there seemed
nothing but certain death for them; but
suddenly the balloon took an upward
flight, and, dragging the car clear off
the line, fell into an adjoining field Just
when the train was within hundred
yards of the spot.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
The SOn-in-LaW.
IFrom Llfe.I
What is this?


What is this?
This, darling, is the SON in-law.
Oh! he is the victim of a mother-in-
law?
Yes, dear, of a rich mother-m law, who
supports him.
That is what makes him so tired and
rickety?
Partly, my precious.
And the other cause ?
Well. he has been to dinner at the
club.
But why does he go home in that
condition?
Because all the other places are closed.
Gracious what will his mother-in. law
do?
She will help him upstairs and assist
i'll removing his boots.
Then the poor son-in. law will not be
dubbed with a soup -ladle, lectUrcd for
two hours, and scaldet half to death
with boiling tea:
Oh, no.
But If he is lIssi pated Why does the
poor mother in law put upwith him
Because be gives her daughter posi-
ton.
How position ?"
Well, before marriage the mother IN
law was very rich, but was not known u
in society.
Well ?
Now she is not quite so rich, but she
is known"
Through the son ,in-lsw?
Exactly.
But the poor whether daughter
1t is the same with her.
Are they satisfied?
Quite so
But IS getting into society 50 desir-
able that girl will marry such man TO
accomplish it?
Yes, my precious.
Ny But how for the poor girls who
can not marry such men?
They are unfortunate.
Have they no consolation
A meager one.
And that?
They can die and go to heaven.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
A Bad Memory,
[ From the New York World

FROM ine New 1OTk NOrd.J
Her aristocratic MAI ner and rich.
elaborate toilet seemed lmewnat oft Of
place in the plebeian SURROUNDINGS of
the Fifth Avenue stage which she en-
tered at -rty-second Street yesterday.
Drawing her skirts about her she re-
tired as far as possible into a corner
seat. ADD gazed persisiently out of the
window. On the opposite side sat
neatly attlred you & man with carefully
waxed mustache, v. ry white bands and
an air generally suggestive of the cler-
gy. He glanced at the fair vision In the
corner from time to time in reproach-
full manner. She looked furtively at
him from beneath her shes, and WITT a
pretty puGkering of her brow seemed
trying to recall at which of the summer
resorts she had met him. Tba his face
WAS familiar was evident, and finally de-
Gliding that he rightfully belonged to
the army OF summer captivGg that had
laid their hearts at her feet, she con-
cluded to end his misery by recognizing
him. He was we'll dressed, apparently
we'll bred, and undoubtedly belonged to
Murray Hill. So, turning with little
start of recognition, their eyes met and
she bowed stlti1y. He SCENE. dellgh
ed, and changing his seat to her side, he
said:
"You are very kind to remember
me-"
"Oh, no, she replied, with an air of
polite reserve, as she tried to place
him. g recall perfectly the pleasant
occasion on which we met.
A few co monplaces followed aud,
emboldened at his success, the gentle,
man SAID gravely, as be drew forth
punk. tinted card:
Il hope you viii permit nae to call
upon you again, shall be happy to
serve YOU"
She glanced at the card, wave of
color swept over her face, AMI drawing
down her veil she ierked the strap, and
fiOunced OUT of the stage with the pre-
cipitaucy Of a batted base bail. The
address upon the card read " Fl. Bill
finger, chiropodist. Corns aud bunions
extracted without pain or loss of
blood.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
VIVA, Farmers should study.

The farmer should study the law of
concentration. He should learn how to
cor centrate his crops on the best paying
articles. Does he consider that butter.
beef, pork, and mutton represent only a
certain amount of hay, grass, or grain
that his farm produces? That instead
OF selling the raw commodities. he can.
by putting them into these articles, get
much better returns for his products !?
His study should be how to transform
the products of his farm into something
that is concentrating and will bring him
the most mdney. . What he raises has
got to go to some market. By copcen-
trating 1t, little freight will have to be
paid and thus much viii be saved. A
farm is not only farm; 1t is, or should
be, factory for changing the products
into articles of general consumption that
have a commercial value the world over.
that are of the best quality, that will
keep and sell well, and bring prices that
will pay well for the skill, labor and
capital employed In producing Them
Petersburg Messenger.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
Cairo nv Night,

From the London Graphlc.J
At every fifty yards or so blaze huge
bonfires of sulphur and tar, one instant
lighting up the street as clear as day, as
a mass of flame shoots into the air, and
leaving it dalk as pitch the next as fresh
fuel is thrown on and volumes of sui
phurous smoke roll forth. The town
has deserted look, and few people are
about the streets Here couple of
Arabs with their long falling robes move
silently along, there patrol of English
police, mounted on their big English
horses, clank down the center of the
road. At the doorway of Brasserie or
cafe.sits one of the mattresses, exchang-
ing few words with some French or
Italians, who for the time being haye
changed the usual topic, abuse of the
English, for the understanding theme
of tbe cbolaro
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
sise Household.

SINCE fans still continue to be popular
as wall decorations, they can be made at
home atsmall expense. For foundation
get the cheap figured paper fans, paint
or gid the handles, aud cover the fan
with silk, satin, or any other handsome
material. These may be decorated with
ribbon or Kensington embroidery.
FRUIT cake fer a wedding or large
party can be made some weeks, and even
months, before using, and it will i'm
prove with age if it is well taken care of.
Last year the fruit cake for a December
wedding was made in September, and
was especially and noticeably nice.
Three times-that would be about once
a month-brandy was poured over ii; a
small quantity, of course, and it was
allowed to absorb it.
A PRETTY fancy for decorating picture
frames Is to plant the plain molding blue,
or any color you choose, and then dec
crate it with flowers. Small frames for
the pictures of authors, and intended for
the library, may be made suggestive by
decorating them with the authors ia
vorite flower. For instance, the frame
for Bryants pict re night be painted a
light blue, which would be a suitable
background for "the yellow volet's
modest bell" or a dull yellow would
serve as background for the gentian,
" colored with the heavens own blue.
THERE are people who are nervous
over the liberal use of Paris green in the
garden, believing that the tubers cannot
absorb the poison, and all that science
teaches In regard to it, and still enjoying
the potatoes far less than if they had
not been treated with the poison; for the
benefit OF one of those unfortunates
some experiments were tried in our gar
den. The use of the Dalmation powder
suggested the idea that any powder
might as effectually dispose of the bugs.
The experimenter tried common flour,
and 1t answered the purpose admirably
on both potato bugs and cabbage worms.
The -four was sitted on through tin
box with perforated top Tin fact, it was
on empty baking powder can, with an
extremely irregular looking handle sol
dered on by small boy. OF course,
this method would only be applicable to
a small garden.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
A Discounted Dude.

tFrOm the Boston Transcript
One of our Newport swells tells this
story of himself. 1t is his pet story.
1t impresses different listeners different
ly. Sometimes l think it doesn't ipa-
press them exactly as he expects it 70,
but it is his way of informing the world
that he dresses for the evening religious
~. I'll try to put it in his own words
Pm dueced absent-minded, don't you
know? dueced absent-mlnded. Did
something other morning, Just like me,
don't You know? Valet was knocked up;
lighted the gas myself when [ got up;
dueced stubborn mustache, mine is-have
to curl it on an iron-hghted gas to heat
iron and forgot to put it out. OF course,
a fellah don't put on his morning clothes
by gas light and L got into my evening
suis. BY Jove! opened the front..door
and stood in evening dress in broad day
light. Haven't got over it yet. Cad!
upset me entirely Felt like waitaw
or fool Dueced absent minded / am,
don't You know?"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29

Policeman ED. K. HEATH, % North Street, Port
land, Me- May IL, 1883, writes
81 have been troubled for good many years with
inflammation of the bladder, dating as far back as
during the tine was in the army. | suffered with
duii, heavy pan in the back and kidneys too IL
tense for me to describe and tried several remedies
that were recommended, and was examined bv one
Of our best physicians, who pronounced II iraam-
nation of the bladder; and / went 70 the bospital
for treatment, but all medicine and treatment had
seemed to fail. recommended to Try Hunts
Remedy, as il had been used in several srcb cases
here in Portland and vicinity. purchased bottle
at Smiths drug sore here, and found after usfpg
the.hrst bottle that It relieved greatly and after
using several bottles found that it did me more good
than all other medicines and treatment I have ~
ceived combined. And to add to my good orjnion
OF Hunts Remedy beg to state in closing that INV
wife has been for long time troubled with q weak
ness and Inflammation Of the bladder with n COM
plieation Of other diseases peculiar TO women After
using only two bottles she has been completely cured
and can say that my wife is loud in praise of this
wonderful medicine, and I would highly recommend
it to all who suffering from kianey diseases or
diseases Of the bladder"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
Increasing Lean Meatin Pigs.

We may well suppose that the habit
OF the pig in laying GA an excessive
quantity of fat has been caused by long
and excessive feeding of fat-producing
food, and it is not likely that any sud
den transformation could be brought
about; but it is we'll known that the
pigs of different countries differ IN re-
spect to fat. We have only to contrast
fattened pigs of this country with those
IN Canada. There pork is fattened part
ly upon barley, but largely upon peas, q
highly heterogeneous food, yielding a large
proportion of muscle, and our pigs are
fattened almost wholly upon corn and
excessively starchy and fattening food.
The Canadian pork has a much larger
proportion of lean meat AMI less lard.
The difference is very marked, so much
SO that in a market supplied with both
kinds, purchasers easily select the one
or the other, as desired. Wild hogs do
not have such excess of fat, and the
southern hog, which is grown much
slower than those in the northern and
western states, and fed much less corn,
is comparatively lean.
There can, therefore, be little doubt
that the habit of depositing this excess
of fat is caused by long continued feed
ing adapted to That end. The hog is
naturally grass and root eating animal,
and in its domestication is fed almost
wholly, in this country, upon concen-
trated food. Hogs fed upon skinned
milk have less proportion of fat than
those fed upon corn. Ii young pigs are
kept upon food that will grow the mus
cles and bones and develop a rangy
frame, they will possess so much mus
Gle when half grown, that moderate
length of time in fattening, even on
corn, will not pile on an excessive
amount of fat.-Liue Stock Journal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
A Spectral Coach.


i spectral coach is said to travel about
the lonely country roads of Norfolk.
Who the restless spirit may be that oc-
cupies it, none can tell, or how long he
has been travelling about III his weird
conveyance; but that he has been long n
wanderer in his coach, which ever and
anon appears among us, none would be
so peTserve as to question. Indeed, the
phantom coach travels far and wide
through Norfolk and stops at people S
houses In the dead of night. Al unseen
hand let's down the steps, the horses
champ their bits and snort, the carriage
door Is slammed and the thing moves
off; but when people prepare to let in the
unexpected visitor with kindly welome-
20! there is nothing. The coach has
gone. On one occasion, my informant,
who lived In a lonely old farmhouse, saw
the flash of coach-lamps and heard the
chaniping of the bits. He opened the
front door. The night was calm and
still; there was neither voice nor any
that answered.
No harm seems to come to such as re-
ceive those nocturnal visits, but it is
the prevalent belief that the occupant of
the coach is condemned to walk like the
Wandering Jew. 1t is curious feature
of the story that the high-road, along
which the mail used to travel In the good
old times, passed at some distance from
the haunted way, which was certainly
called the coach-road some generations
back, and l have a suspicion that the
fact that no phantom having been seen
of late on the coach-road itself-though
they tell me it has been seen by "scores
of EN- " elsewhere-may be accounted
for; it is matter of history that some
thirty years ago the present Lord Dud-
ley drove carriage and four along the
coach-road, and, to the amazement and
perplexity of mankind, did lot perish
in the attempt. Since then the ghostly
individual shamed at being so maDifestly
outdone, has retired from this part of the
scene of his former charioteerhg.
ESeLASD's apple crop is the finest for
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
AfIer Meals. Torture.

such is tn lot of the dyspeptic Prevention,
where indigestion has not assumed the chronic
phase, and thoo ugh where it has is possible
OF attainment by those who resort to Hostettsr1s
stomach Biters, remedy of established reputation
botanic origin ana purity. Heartburn, fatu-
lence, pain in the abdomen after eating and a sink
ing sensation IN that region between meals are en-
tireiy ooYlated by this fine corrective Nausea bill
lous symptoms ana constipation are also entirely re-
moved by 1t. Lack of v.gor, loss of flesh and want
of appetite are usually troubles which contribute n
the discomfort of sufferers from Indigestion but for
These as well as other concomitans of the 1naladv
Hostetter's Stomach Btters is a recognized sppci6e
While 1t regulates it strengthens the system Fever
ana ague rheumatism and nervous ailments are eff
Iectualiy relieved by it, and it is an incopar able
sustaining cordial for infrm persons of advanced
years or weak constitution
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-29
Conscience Money.

From the National Republican,
Since 1861 unknown persons have
paid 1856, 359. OIL into the United States
treasury to quiet their conscience. The
largest revenue from this source in auv
one year was in 1868, when thu contri-
button to the conscience fund amounted
tc S29, l55. IL. In 1873 1913, 302.7 II was
added to the fund; in 1867, SD, 952 50;
IN 1869, ST., 4O3.21, and in 1878, S12,-
0ll.33. Last year the contributions
reached only 1881 40. and this year
the total VIII probably be less than that
unless somebody comes to the front with
a big sum.