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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
4 Cool Husband.

From the Philadelphia Bress.l
A certain lady who is not unknown in
Philadelphia society has been twice a
widow, but is now the pride of a third
husband. The lady alludes to her hus-
bands as her first" former" and
present" She often relates pleasant
memories of husbands one and two.
The latter she describes as man who
always endeavored to appear perfectly
cool and collected on every occasion,
One summer they were staying at a
hotel and were aroused in the middle of
the night by an alarm of fire. The flames
were burning fercely but the husband
calmly said to his wife. DRESS care
fully, my dear, just as much as if you
were preparing for ball" Well, they
finally lett the room and got out on the
lawn in safety, with their portmanteaus
even rescued. The husband immedi-
ately began TO dilate on the advantage
of always taking things coolly, to which
his wife replied that she thoroughly
agreed with him, but still she begged to
remind him that he had forgotten to
put on his inexpressibles," and he had.
COMPOSED ri genuine French Grape Brandy
Extract of Smart-Weed and Jamaica Ginger,
with CamphoC Water. DR.. Pieree's Compound
Extract OF Smart-Weed excels as q remedy fol
collie, cholera morbus. diarrhoa, dysentery OF
bloodv-fux, or to break up colds, fevers oil
infammatory attacks.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Personal,

DANIEL STUART and his wife, of Troy,
Ala, have been married seventy wears
DIR. ATTICUs G.. HAYGooD is writing
the life of the late Bishop Pierce, OF
| Georgia.
Miss HEE KING ENG, recently from
CHINA, has entered the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware.
Miss FLORA UNDERWOOD has been
appointed teller in the Granite National
Bank, of Quincy, Mass.
Mas. JULIA WARD HOWE will be at
the head of the department of woman's
work IN the great industrial exhibition
at New Orleans, this winter.
Miss KATE BEACH, the alleged fan
Gee of President Arthur's son, will soon
go to England for the season, accom-
panied by her mother and sister.
The Crown Princess of Germany de-
| clares that during her recent visit in
England she enjoyed nothing so much
as her conversations with Mr.. Glad
stone on literature and art.
Mrs. SARToRIs, daughter of Gen.
Grant, is again settled il her English
home. She entertains great deal, and
her fathers army and navy friends are
| frequently her guests.
The report is current III English
royal court circles that the Duchess of
Albany, at the termination of her term
of mourning, will marry the Crown
Prince of Wurte mberg.
MAJ. DANIEL SIMPSON, for more than
seventy years drummer for the Ancient
and Honorable artillery of Boston, last
week celebrated the niuety-fourth ami
versary of his birth.
THE two daughters of John Bell, the
candidate for president of Bell and
Everett fame, are teaching school at
Chestnut Hill, where they keep young
ladies' academy.
Mr.. LIONEL SACKvuLE- WEST, the
British Minister at Washington, is men
toned as a probable successor to the
Earl of Dufferin, the British Minister
to Turkey.
The Cars wife, sister of the Prin-
cess of Wales, is extremely fond of
jewelry, and possesses the most ancient
patterns and artistic sets that money
could secure at Rome.
JOHN n. SToDDER worked hard as a
cutter in tailor's shop in Boston dur
ing a long life, only to fall heir the
other day, soon after the completion of
his 18th year, to $4,000.
ABBE GLoRIEUX, principal of st.
MichaePs College, Portland, Ore, has
been appointed by the Pope Apostolic
Vicar for Idaho and that part of Mon
tana lying west of the Rocky Mountains.
JEFFERSON DAVIS nephew having
died recently, none of LIS name or his
family now survive except himself. He
has been married twice, but has no male
descendant who bears his name, his
only son having died little while ago
LORD RossE, son of the famous as
tronomer. aud owner OF the largest
telescope in the world, is in Philadel-
phia. The Times of that city says
"He looks about 40 years old, is rudy
and has more the appearance of a jolly
farmer than stupendous Earl"
MARCELINo MoRFIN CHAVEZ, govern
or of Zacatecas, Mexico, and Julien Tor.
res, secretary of the governor, have both
reduced their salaries in favor of the
| Orphanage of Zacatecas. 1t is only few
days since that the city press abused
Chavez on the ground that he was ava
ricious, an opinion they now have
| changed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Feeding sheen.

inexperienced persons often fail in the
matter of properly feeding sheep. 1t
will not do as in the case of hogs to
throw in a lot of corn daily, letting the
animals eat what they will. 1t is, in
fact, not the amount or kind of iced,
but the way of feeding it, that tells for
profit. If 1 could give one rule for the
inexperienced Il would be, Never feed
sheep too mach" Unless you can i1dge
closely it is better after each feeding to
have them seem hungry rather than
cloyed, but feed regularly morning
noon and night. A sheep will gain in
flesh if it can have somewhat near the
amount it will consume. What is more
important to the farmer, sheep thus
fed is getting into condition for heavier
feeding.
The poorer flock of sheep is the
greater care and skill are needed in
bringing them up. Too often thin flesh
is sign not of insufficient food, but i'm
paired digestion. OF all ruminants the
sheep is most apt to suffer from poor
digestion, and most needs careful, ngu-
lar feeding. The alienation of feeling
with scarcity is most injurious, whether
it be at nearly the same time or net.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Curing Beans.

In answer to an inquiry as to the best
way to cure and harvest beans the New
York Times says: Two rows are pulled
and laid in one, with the roots all the
same way. If the weather is dry they
remain until dry enough to thresh, when
they may be taken in and threshed with
fails o. machine; but in this case the
upper teeth of the machine in the con-
cave should be taken out to prevent
breaking the beans. If the weather is
wet the beans should be put up in
stacks, with the beans inside and the
roots outside, and protected with stra "
until fully dry. Rain is apt to discoor
the beans and spoil them for sale, as the
stains reduce the value considerably
No animal will eat our common beans
whole, but when they are ground with
corn the mixture makes the very best
animal food possible. Coarsely ground,
the mixture of corn and beans is exceed.
ingly nutritious for horses.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Windows That Perspire.


Glow will you keep your show win
dows from sweating?" "Wen, now
you've got me dead stuck, young man
and what's more if 1 knew how to an
swer you correctly could get $4,000
for the information"
The speaker was prominent painter
and glazier, and his remarks were adj
dressed to young man who had enter
ed his office and put the question to
him as though it was an easy one TO an
swer.
mo, [ don't suppose that you would
pay that figure to know the trick" CON
tinued the painter with a smile, as the
young man suggested thai he had not
800, 900 about him at that moment; "but
there are plenty of builders who would
be very glad to buy any patent for that
sum if it would answer all the require
ments OF the case"
"a sweating window" explained the
painter, as the young man went away,
lis one that dampens on the inside of
the pane during the winter months; the
dampness then freezes, causing the
glass to become clouded and hiding the
OobnCheo vi VIC NllltO" lIplli tLt pdSS-
ers-by. OF course that is highly obiec-
tionable to shop-keepers, and anything
that would keep their windows from
sweating would be hailed with Joy, and
make the fortune of the man that in
vented it"
Have no methods been tried?'
Eyes, dozens of them !; but so far moth
ing has been hit upon that will answer
in all cases. A great deal may be done
in the way of ventilation when the win
dow is built, and there are men who
make speciality of doing that kind of
work, but very often when two show
windows are built exactly alike, and
with the object in view of having them
sweatproof, one will give no trouble at
ali and the other will perspire like fat
man with the thermometer 80 in the,
4,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Small and Young Beef Best.

Fashions, habits and tastes are gener-
ally the result, to greater or leas ex-
tent, of caprice on the part of some
body. But the most capricious gener-
ally yield in time to circumstances, if
not to their own better Judgment. The
time when very large and very fat beef
OK beef-was in most popular de-
mand has gone by, although there are
many who from sheer force of habit
still prefer it. But the demand for
we'll marbled, juicy, tender meat, such
as is produced by thrifty young ami
mails of from one and G quarter to two
and half years old, of com
pact form, finely and closely
built throughout, is fast super
sedingi 1t. And so it should, for, from
every economical consideration, it is
much to be preferred. Circumstances
undoubtedly Justify, and will probably
continue to Justify for many years yet,
the feeding of strictly beef-producing
animals to much greater age than two
years, but every pound of beef pro
duced after about that age is made at a
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
VaIue of Corn C0bs,

Corn cobs contain 81 per cent. of al
kaline salts, of which 40 per cent. are
carbonate of potash. They also contain
7.50 per cent, of phosphate of lime, 2.20
per cent. carbonate of lime, 2 per cent.
sulphate of lime, 8 per cent. carbonate
of magnesia, 90 per cent. of silica, and
over per cent of carbon. This is a
good showing for corn cobs, and they
are consequently valuable for fertilizing
purposes when burned and the ashes
carefully saved. One ton of ashes is
worth about $50, and this is high figure
compared with other fertilizers. Not
only should corn cob ashes be saved,
but everything that is burned in the
stove. We are particular about cob
ashes because they are the most vala-
able of all, and are also more generally
wasted that anything else Farm,
Field and Fireside.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
! Cold Potato.

FTOM tTIe SHIIIIIIOTt liIIItII07''''I
Mr.. Sampson Hartz, who died last
night, arrived in this country on the eve
of the Hebrew New Year, and will now
also be buried on the day before the
same holiday, just 81 years thereafter
It is related that on his arrival at quar-
antine with his first wife, since deceased,
they had but one potato left. Belong
ing to the strict orthodox faith, they
had brought their provisions with them,
and refused TO touch the food which the
vessels larder afforded. On this single
potato they subsisted for the two days
they were required to lie in quarantine
Every year after that, on New Year
eve. during the life of his first wife, Mr..
Hartz had cooked potato, which they
ate as a memorial of the event.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Another Life Saved.

Mrs. Harriet Cummings, Of Cincinnati Ohio,
writes: early last winter my daughter was
attacked with severe cold, which settled on
her lungs. We tried several medicines, none of
which seemed to do her any good, but she con-
tinued to get worse. and finally raised large
amounts of blood from her lungs. We called
in family physician, but he failed to do her
any good. At this time friend who had been
cured by DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for the Lungs,
advised me to give it trial. We got bottle,
and she began to improve, and by the use of
three bottles was entirely cured"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
plain sight, yet it was beyond the range

OF the human voice.
The tide came in slowly, and after
awhile it touched him, and climbed up
his helpless legs and threw the radiance
of the sinking sun into his bloodshot
eyes. 1t jeered at him, and with tremu-
lous fingers reached up to grasp him by
the throat. He struggled and screamed
until his strength was gone Then he
stood still and waited. Higher yet
elm bed the green tide. Dumbly he saw
slender line of smoke rising up from
among the trees. Supper was being
prepared for him-for him who would
need 1t never again. He saw the flowers
nodding in the breeze. They might
wither and die. His hand would never
place them upon his baby's cradle,
Family he head his daughter Patty call
ing, Papa, papa" Did he hear his wife
humming an old tune or was it the water
gurgling in his ears? He raised his
arms still struggling feebly. A moment
later the only object on the
still surface of Dead Mans Greek was
tuft of brown hair mingled with drift
ing seaweed.
1t WAS high tide in Great South Bay.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Wintering Potatoes.

As to the best method of pitting pota-
toes for winter keeping ID. G. Harrison
in the Farming World says; Potatoes
should be left above surface of ground
for a day or two after being dug. Pro
tect at night from frost. Then olga pit
from four to four and half feet deep
and fill with potatoes to within about
two feet of the top. Then lay sticks
and boards across the pit, cover with
hay and then with layer of earth, after
which throw on a load or two of manure.
| have had great success with my pc a
toes protected in this way.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
In the Corntield.

They CO. in the April morning,
The father and son, afeld
And, blowing the greensward under,
Prepare for the harvest's yield.
The father is thoughtful, sober,
The son is blithe and gay;
And thus the hours fly swiftly
OF this gladstone, hopeful day.
They go again in the Maytime
And tickle the earth with a hoe
They drop the tiny kernels
OF corn into the ground below
The father tells his stories
OF the primitive olden time,
And the son, mayhap, is dreaming
OF the odors of rose and thyme.
Anon corn blades are springing
Out of the earths dark mold;
Unto the air aud sunshine
Their leaves they now unfold
The slender blades grow stronger
Under the dew and sun,
And the hew grows clearer, deeper,
OF the green stocks every one.
There's rustic of leaves in the cornfield,
AS the August breeze goes by,
Mid the stalks are the children playing,
And they look to the bending sky;
They ask whence came the voices
Of the winds in their mild, sweet mood,
And wonder II it's from heaven,
ii is the whisper of God
The field becomes forest
OF stalks, and tassels, and grain,
When skies have grown more sober
And falls September rain.
Then the reapers with their sickles
Garner the ripened ears,
Symbols OF lite's ripe harvest,
For the granary of the years.
-Detr0it Free PROSE-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01

SEXTON, who was the engineer on the
train that ran in to sea of burning oil,
near Bradford, last January, and in
which five persons lost their lives, is at
the surgical institute in Elmira. Dir.
Sexton was frightfully burned. TIE
ends of all his fingers were burned off,
and his hands so deformed as to be use
less. His face is badly SCARED, parts of
his nose and ears are gone, while both
lower eyelids are burned away, leaving
no protection to the eye. The Adver-
tiser says that DR.. Updegraff has per-
formed plastic operation for the res
toration of one of the lids, literally
making a new eyeid. When this heals,
the same operation will be made on the
opposite side.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
All Thieves Together.



A Wall Street friend of mine, who
has Just returned from the West, told
me good story yesterday. Said he
Il went on to the Yellowstone with q
party, and we had a queer adventure.
There were in the crowd two brokers, q
bank cashier, railroad man, and 8
couple of Englishmen. In q lonely spot
we were suddenly held up by four
mounted road-agents, who, with car
bines leveled at our heads shouted tC
us to put up our hands Our party was
pretty badly shaken mp, 1 tell you. We
were ordered to step out while one OF
their men ransacked the coach. Louk
here, men, said one of the Englishmen,
you don't want anything of us. We
are travelling with just money enough
to pay our expenses. This gentlemen
here is the cashier of the-bank; but
he doesn't carry the bank funds with
him, you know
1.-THE fellows looked at him a mo-
ment; then one of them asked of our
companion: Are you really a bank
cashier?' Yes said he, rather family.
Then, said the leader of the gang
then, boys, we're off this hunt. Them
gentlemen kin go. We recognize pro-
fessional when we see him, and we take
off our hats to bank cashier because
he's the boss in our line of business.
You can have your wallets, gentlemen,
and we hope you'll have safe journey
"And by -! sir, would you believe
it, the rascals actually handed back our
things intact, lifted their hats to the
cashier, and dashed off like the mis-
chief. We were rather scary about
travelling in his company after that, but
the poor fellow assured us upon his
soul that he had never robbed bank III
his life, and he attributed it all to the
fact that few rascally cashiers had
made the banking business disreputa
BILE for person of refined instincts"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
The Most Obstinate of Endemics

OF all endemies-that is to say, of maladies
which arise from causes incident to the localities
where they occur-chills and fever is the most
obstinate under ordinary treatment with the
sulphate of quinine. That dangerous drug does
not eradicate the disease-it simply breaks up
the paroxysms for the time being, and neUer get
ksotUa to prevent their recurrence. Hostetter
Stomach Bitters, d matter of contrast, upToots
the germs Of the malady, counteracts its terribly
weakening and nerve SCATTERING effects upon the
system, and prevents the long train OF evils
which not only the disease itself, but the drugs
taken to counteract it, entails Unlike them, it
is not unpalatable and nauseating but agree
able. Unlike them, too, 1t produces permanently
beneficial effects, and it differs also from them
being safe. There is, moreover, no more reliable
curative for constipation, rheumatism, liver
complaint, dyspepsia and debility.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
A FADED LEAF.


Wandering in the wood one dav
In autumn's golden light so sweet
There fell from its dark bough away
yellow leaf down at my feet.
And thought as it fell heard
A sigh escape from out its breast.
Like the note of a weary bird
As 1t settles into its nest.
And STOPPING l tenderly took
The expiring leaf in my hand,
AND It seemed to give me q look
such as | could well understand
So ! said: 90 lea twill YOU tell
The history of your past lite,
All the way down Until YOU fell
A knight in the battle OF lite''
And its story it sweetlv told
OF Its birth IN the early spring
How it passed from its fringe of gold
Like child OF a rich old king.
And how il grew so broad and green
And was found by the gentle breeze
And DaSked in mornings silver sheen
And was taught by the grand old trees.
And how summer came with its heat
And the tempest with blaze and roar,
And how the storms did beat and beat
Until 1t was weary and sore.
And how little bird did build
It's nest Just where the leaf could see;
Laid its blue eggs and piping filed
The WOODS with sweetest melody.
And once beneath its bough there strayed
A loving pIir-a noble youth
nf by his side n star-eyed maid -
One soul were tn Y and that was truth.
But what they said il could not tell
And would not with its dying breath
only this. Full soon wedding bell
VIII peal OF love that knows no death"
and then it said: "My work is conc:
No more for me the birds viii sing
No more for me viii shine the sun,
For withered leaves there comes no spring
Vow lay me down and let me sleep
With the dead grass upon tile mold:
o er me the autumn rains viii weep
And winds will sigh in winter cold.'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
1t Was Pleasure to Show Her Around

[trom the st. Louis Critic.l
What is that?" she asked, as they
entered the st. Louis Exposition, he1
great blue eyes locking trustingly into
his
THAT is the silk display"
Il know can see the sikh NEAR
those little things in the shells like"
ooh, those are worms"
"Worms!"
Eyes, those are worms-silk worms
you know"
Not made out of silk ?"
NO, not made out of silk. They pro
duce the fibre from which the silk il
made, just as a spider produces it's wei
do you understands"
"Oh, yes. Isn't that nice. And dc
they produce it done up in those sweet
little balls"
"Oh, certainly, of course they do
Why not. Some of them produce
it in balls and some on spools,
some in fiftyyard and some in one
hundred-yard lengths; some of them
furnish it in blue, others in red, yellow
purple, green, and so on. Ibelieve YOU
see through the whole thing now2"
"Oh, yes; isn't it stranger"
1T is pleasure to show you around
you understand everything so well
L do admire an intelligent woman. Let
me see, did you say you graduated
"Yes, at Mary Institute"
AOh, that accounts for it. What th G
graduates of Mary Institute don't know
isn't worth knowing. I'm tired; let's
go home
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
9rewinx Stoutness OF American Women.

DD00ADCB6
Ny recent visit to some OF the noted
watedng.piaces, and my observation OF
several large audiences since my re re-
turn, has impressed me once more WIN
the belief that the thinness and angu-
larity of American women, so much
commented on by Europeans IN the
past, is fast becoming traditional. They
seem to be competing for fullness, not
to say stoutness, with their Old World
sisters, who almost universally acquire
an excess of flesh with the passage OF
their youth. 1t is remarkable how few
native women, out of girlhood, one
meets nowadays, in the large cities, that
have preserved their slenderness. Twen-
ty years ago round, plump figure was
almost the exception. Now the ex-
ception seems to be the other way. The
increasing avoirdupois of the daughters
Of the nation is too conspicuous to be ig-
nored. 1t is probably due to the growth
of wealth, and, therefore, of ease and
luxurious habits in the community
n. Y. Letter Boston Advertiser.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01

In thirty years successful experience in the
manufacture of $50 900 instruments. the Mason
& Hamiin Company have accumulated fscili-
ties for manufacture without which they could
neither produce as good organs as they now
make, nor with as great economy. Said an ex-
perienced manufacturer in witnessing the OPP
Grafton of a single machine III their factory re-
Gently: "One boy with that machine does as
much work az ten skilled vorkmen could dc
without it, and does it bsireI at that"
These accumulated facilities, including ex-
perienced ana skilled workme, n are the secret
Of their producing organs which are unqu5s.
fionably the best, yet can be sold at price.
which are little more than those of the poor
est boston Traveller
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01
Are You Discouraged .

Has your physician failed to arrest the dis
ease from which you are suffering? Are you
losing faith IN medicines and growing alarmed
at your condition. Then give Compound
Oxygen trial. 1t Will vltalize the nerve centers
and impart new quality to the blood, thus en-.
aiding nature, the only true healer to do the
work of cure. Write to Drs. Starkey 4 Palen,
1109 Girsrd Street, Phila., for their treatise on
Compound Oxygen. Sent free.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-01

MEN SWANS Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only
preparation Of beef containing its entire nufrs-
ttous properties. 1t contains blood-maklng.
force-generatng and life sustaining properties;
invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration and all forms of general debility;
also, Ia all enfeebled conditions, whether the
work of exhaustion, nervous prostraton, over
work or acute disease, particularly If resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswel, Hazard
& Co., proprietors. New York. Sold by druggists