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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Other Girls than 0urs.

The notion that girls are too delicate
to be useful Is limited to comparative
ly small part of the globe. Throughout
Asia, Africa, and IL large portions even
of Europe and America, there prevails
an old belief that they are born to labor.
In Turkistan and on the Tartar steppes,
the Kirghese Sultsnas and their dsugh-
tiers, and princesses in whose veins fow
the blood of long lines OF kings, still
milk the sheep, cows and goats, and
perform the mental offices of the house
hold, as the Sanskrit maidens did siI
thousand years ago N the same looali-
ties. They cook, take care of the young
children, make garments, cure the skins
of the wild fowl, with the feathers ON,
for caps, spin cotton, weave cloth and
tan leather by means of sour milk. In
this delectable region the mother wears
rich attire, while the daughter goes III
humber weeds, like Cinderella. II
there is piano, the mother plays on it
in the front room OF the tent, while the
daughter brews the koumiss, stews the
mutton and broils the camel chops in
the back kitchen. This is the benighted
condition of patriarchal people who
adhere to nearly obsolete theory of
fihal duty. Similar ideas prevail
throughout India, China, and among the
native tribes of Siberia, who have been
driven northward by aggressive neigh
bors. The Tungusian girl gathers the
snow, melts it, makes the tea and the
fish soup, sews, and, being skillful in
archery, helps to keep the larder sup
piled with game. The Yakut and Samo-
yede maidens, and all who dwell alsng
the Arctic Ocean, help in summer to lay
up winter supplies, and in winter to
perform all necessary domestic duties.
The Abyssinia girl grinds corn in the
simple mills in use in that country. The
Kaffir girl weaves baskets and draws
water. The girls in the other part of
the Dark Continent pulverize the grain,
weave mats, make earthen vessels, and
are the matters of their tribe. The
theories of the tribes and nations of
Asia and Africa are shared by the In
dams of North and South America,
who compel the young girls to learn the
duties and hardships of life at an early
age Home Journal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
What a Kentucky BurgoO Is.

washington Letter to the Philadelphia Record
:" 1t you should go out to Kentucky
about this time," said the old Judge,
you would probably be invited to a
burgoo. You don't recognize him by
that name, do you? No? Well, a
burgoo (accent on the last syllable) is a
grand, good thing. 1t is an all-day pic
mic IN the woods, with a feast which
throws the clam chowder and the bar
becue into the deep shade of obscurity
In fact the burgoe usually includes a
barbecue as sort of incident. You 90
out to a corner of the woods, where the
thick underbrush has been carefully
cut away, and where there are trees
enough for shade, but not enough for
gloom, and there you sit and play poker
and smoke the finest tobacco in the
world and drink oily 10-year-old sour
mash and sniff the delightful aroma of
the burgoo until along in the afternoon,
when the niggers pronounce the burgoo
ready and ladle it out to you in big
bowlfuls. The burgoo is a delicious
broth, which is perpetual reminder of
the aborigines, who handed it over to
our forefathers when they began com
ing across the mountains from Vir-
ginia. You take-or, ra her, the darkies
take-a gigantic kettle and hang it over
a roaring fire. A light broth is made
first; then they throw in young chick
ems, young ducks, sucking pigs, and all
sorts of small game, with fresh potatoes.
green peas, string beans, corn and every
other vegetable. Everything is cooked
until the meat begins to fall to pieces,
Then the walters, with shining, smiling,
black faces and snow-white Jackets and
aprons, bear great bowlfuls of the tooth
some stew through the grove. Oh,
how good it is! Ny mouth waters as
tell you of it. Afterward there is more
burgeo, and then more burgoo, until
everybody has actually had enough.
Then the darkies satisfy themselves,
while you return to your pipe and your
glass, until the shadows of evening
gather sleepily around you" His voice
became low and his look became
dreamy. Suddenly he reused himself
and remarked as he turned away: "a
few weeks later the darkies hold their
camp-meeting on the same spot
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Beautifyingthe Capitol.

Workmen are now busily digging
down and hauling away the beautiful
terrace which slopes up to the front of
the north or Senate wing of the capitol.
preparatory to continuing the marble
wall which is to be built entirely around
the wings and west front, says Wash
lngton special to the Philadelphia
lines. The embankment viii be dug
away close up to the capitol wall, which
is about so feet from the marble terrace
that is being constructed. The terrace
viii be of various heights, sympathetic
with the embankment. Between the
terrace and the main wall of the capitol
will be fine promenade, whose tilling
Will cover numerous large storage
rooms. From the promenade there
viii be splendid landscape in view in
every direction When completed, the
terrace viii add greatly to the height
and general appearance of the capitol.
which now seems too low on account of
the large area over which it spreads.
At the center of the west front will be
the grand stairway, which will outrival
anything of its kind in the world. The
Senate appropriated S77S,000 for the
work, intending that that should com
plete 1t and that labor upon it should
not cease until it was completed The
House cut the appropriation down to
$4,000, which will hardly complete the
two hundred feet that still remain I'M
finished IN front of the north wing.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
w Fights of Sheen.

But few farmers are aware of the
heavy weights sometimes attained by
the large breeds of sheep. Some of
the breeds, as managed in England.
exceed 300 pounds. The average
weights of tenmonths' lambs, at Smith
field, Eng, in 1884, show that the
growth of those lambs from the special
breed is very rapid. The lambs of the
Hamshire and Wiltshire Downs aver
aged 2O4 pounds; cross-breeds. 1SS
pounds; Oxfordshires. 17S pounds /:
Cotswolds, ITO pounds Shropshire,
l53 pounds; Southdowns, 161 pounds /;
Leicesters, 100 pounds. Al the age of
twenty-one months, the weights were
as follows: Hampshire and Wiltshire
Downs, 293 pounds; Oxford 292 pounds ;
Lincoln, 2S3 pounds; Cotswolds, 283
pounds; cross breeds, go pounds
kentish, 253 pounds; Leicesters, 244
pounds; Shropshires, 239 pounds I:
Southdowns, 216 pounds. Here we
notice that the Southdowns fell but
little below the Leicesters at twenty
one months and exceed them at ten
months. The above showingis a credit
able one for the Southdowns, and con-
firms their position as one of the best
breeds that can be used for improve
ment.- Farm, Field and Preside.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
The Farmers Friend.

A writer in the Rural New Yorker
has been making Investigations to dis
cover whether or not the robin is an in
sectivorous bird. The contents of the
stomachs of young robins in various
stages of development were examined
and OF these contents the main element
was the larvae of worms or moths. which
formed 81 per cent. of their food. Most
OF these were cut-worms, but there were
also measuring worms, and the larvae of
several species of moths. Disregardifg
leaves of grass, the average percentage
OF vegetable matter was Is. much of
which was probably introduced accident
ally with the other elements of the food.
The percentage of earth-worms was
much less than would be expected by
one possessing the prevailing idea that
these form the largest portion of the
young robins food. Some of the birds
had eaten none of them, while in others
they formed one-half the food. Taken
as whole, their percentage was only
10. Another element almost ALWAYS
presented, consisted of small snails.
These formed about l per cent. of the
whole. The only element which NAV
be considered really beneficial to the
farmer Is that of the carabida, a pre-
dacIous family of beetles. The per
centage of these, however, are only II.
These facts show that the young rob
Ia Is of.lmmense value in destroying
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Different Stomachs Differ Greatly

In point of digestive and assiulistive power, but
while it is easy to disorder and weaken the
strongest it is less possible to restore vigor to
one inherently weak, or the tone of which has
been impaired by departures from the laws of
health, or by the facilitating effects of high
temperature. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters the
leading American stomschic, not only stimulates
jaded appetite, but fits weak stomach for the
reception of food, and enables it to perform its
digestive and assimilative functions thoroughly
and without discomfort. Flatulence sour or
acid quotations and uneaSiness at the pit of the
stomach, arising from excessive fruit eating, ice
water drinking, or other causes, promptly
relieved by it. Disorder of the bowels gives place
to a regular and painless action of those organs
when it is used Bilious symptoms, sick head
ache, weakness of the kidneys and bladder and
intermittent or remittent manifestations of ma
laria are removed by it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Ladies' Remain Beautiful.

A petition addressed to the ladies OF
Paris, imploring them "to remain real
ly pretty" recently appeared in a
Partisan paper. The writer tells the
Parisiennes that they are the Beetho-
vens and the Mozarts who compose the
symphonies of the celebrated Paris
toilettes, and that their followers are
dispersed all over the civilized world.
But, he cries in horror, what structure
is that which of late makes them APP
pear of size which would have glad
dened the heart of any Roman matron,
but at the sight of which an Amazon
would hide her face?-that bag hang
ing down from collar to waistband,
which seems to have been initiated
from the opossum, and in which it
would be easy to carry a few "petits ?"
Then there is that movable coachman's
seat" ordinarily called crinolette. 1t
is growing and growing, and this year
it has assumed dimensions such as to
lead the writer of the humble petition"
to think that no one at Madrid, at
Rome, at Vienna, or st. Petersburg
Will believe that such fashion origin
ated at Paris, and did not arrive direct
from Berlin.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30

Once, when visiting a small town in
one Of the smallest German States, says
the Deutsches Montagsblatt, the SOW
ereign prince was received at the gates
by twenty young damsels in white. AS
a piece of cunning strategy, the ten
prettiest maidens were placed IN the
front rank, and the ten less pretty ones
in the second. Charmed with the at
tractive appearance of the vanguard, his
Serene Highness did what comported
itself well with his sixty years and his
princely dignity he kissed every one
of them on their beautiful foreheads.
At the end of the front rank he made
sudden pause only for a couple of
seconds, however; then he beckoned to
his adiutant; "Sparrenholz, here, go on
with the rastI"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
ON THE PIER.
BY ADA IDDINGs GALE.

Watching the boats I stood upon the pier
Midst all the busy, busting laughing lhrong;
Upon my cheek there drifted down Il tear
For one whose coming had waited long.
hea I'd the heavy engines pant and throh,
/ saw the human tide flow inland there,
But in my heart there swelled q rising sob
He will not come though winds and seas are
fair
Though skies are blue, and time and tide most
kind.
And welcomes wait that warm ana ardent De-
There is no sea, there is no fresh glad wind
That e'er viii bear him into port TO me.
lheard glad voices ring out on the air,
Saw lip meet lip, and happy tears arise
And hands embrace-but / stood silent there,
A mist not Of the sea dimming my eyes.
What if by some strange freak of fate
Thou should st pass through these crowds TO
NE
What thrills Of 10Y would animate
This dun, dumb heart-What ecstscy.
Olall forgot the past-its wound,
It's hurt would all forgotten be;
Forgot the distances profound
That widely parted them and me.
And should spring in glad surprise
And clasp thy hands in both of mine,
And rapturOus tears would fill my eyes
In gazing upward into thine.
And I should say knew e'er long
Thy heart would guide thee safely home,
and circled by the arm-clasp strong
Alas dream-thou ne'er canst come
For o. Beloved, know full well
Thou can st not cross the cruel sea,
Whose waves, like mountains, surge and swell
ForeYernore twixt thee and me.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Pennsylvania Farming.

The following is slightly suggestive
paragraph from letter describing an
excursion through a part of Pennsyl-
vania: "The Pennsylvania wheat
fields are continuous and immense,
yielding from twenty-five to thirty-tive
bushels per acre. Barns are large, well
painted, and well ventilated. An offer
was made to treat the car load of pas
sengers to cigars if any one of them
would discover weed in fifty miles
ride, and none of them were able to
find any. why is this thus?' said Dea-
con Ackerly. Because, when a farmer
in Orange County gets few hundred
dollars ahead he wants to invest them
in bonds or railroad stocks, while the
Pennsylvania farmer puts a large por-
ton of it in improvements on his farm.
Then, also, the farmers sons don't
grow up to despise farm life, and run
off to the city to become tapsters or
rag merchants, but they stay at home
and begin just where the father left off,
and so keep up progressive farming
Land is worth 5000 per acre, and very
little for sale at that" And Western
farms, with their broad acres and great
natural store of fertility, produce from
ten to twenty bushels as rule.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Country Doctors.

When Miss Harriet Martlneau visited
I this country, about forty years ago, she
came in the true British nil admirari
spirit, and of course wrote a Retro
spect of Western Travel" long dead, de-
funct and forgotten. The following
neat little story in connection with it
deserves to be embalmed. She wrote,
Country doctors are not unlike wild
country judges. Being obliged to call
in the aid of village doctor to my
companion, / found we had fallen in
with fine specimen of the class. I
was glad of this afterwards, but much
annoyed at the time by the impossible
ity of extracting from him the slightest
information as to my friends state. [
detained him in conversation day after
day to no purpose, and varied my ques-
tions with as much American ingenu-
ity as | could command, but in vain.
He would neither tell me what was the
matter with her, whether her illness was
serious or tritllng, or whether it was
likely to be long or short. All that he
would say was, Hope your friend will
be BETTER viii make her better if we
can,' Must try to improve her health
and SO on. / was inf rmed that this
was all / should extract if the illness
were to last twelve-month. He took
blue paper with some white powder
in it out of one pocket, and white pa
per with some other powder out of an
other pocket, spilled some at random
into small papers and gave directions
when they should be taken, and my
friend speedily and entirely recovered
/ never was so completely in the dark
about the nature of any illness, and l
am so still. 1 fancy hear now the
short, sharp, conceited tones of the
doctor, doggedly using his power of ex-
asperating my anxiety" SO FIR so good,
but here comes in the i alteram
partem, for the Village doc r" referred
to turned out to be a highly respecta-
BILE physician of marlborough, Va,
and this is his version of the story as
published in newspaper at the time:
II am not tamely to be held up to the
derision of England and America. 1t S
true did not tell her, although she al
most pestered my life out to be inform
ed. bore it all, and equivocated and
evaded, and all from motives of deli
cacy, to spare the woman's feelings. If
she has been so very much concerned
to know, and is yet in the dark, will
enlighten her darkness-her friend was
in the first stages of delirium tremens."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
Where Does the Seed Come From ?

In the animal and vegetable king
doms, notwithstanding the experiments
aud theories of Bastian, nihil nisi ex
ovo. has generally been accepted as a
rigid law of nature, at least as at present
established. But on the Western grassy
prairies of Illinois and Iowa, which for
many years, perhaps centuries, the an
nual autumn fires have denuded and
| rendered forests or tree growth impos-
slble, the writer has seen thick groves
of young walnut trees, which had come
up nearly simultaneously after the land
had been protected from the annual
burnings. Where did the nuts come
from?
On these same prairies the travelled
ways are first skirted by a thick growth
of mayweed, maruta cotula, which In a
few years gives places to white clover,
trifolium repens, of an equally thick
growth, and yet not a specimen of these
plants was found except around build.
ings and on travelled ways. Where did
the seed came from?
In Worchester County, Mass, on a
sandy soil, which had been cultivated
and pastured a hundred years, more or
less, and which, perhaps, as in other
known cases, had been occupied by oak,
the writer has seen white pine growth
spring up at once, and become so dense
that the little trees III struggling for
prominence and light, became as slim
as tropical canes, and were used, with
out reducing, for fish poles, and proved
to be very good ones.
On the ocean-formed and sandy soil
of Falmouth, Mass, which, when cleared
of shrub oaks, produces a natural but
thin and stunted growth of grasses and
wild flowers, may be found small tracts
of land that have received fertilization
from guano or other materials absolute
ly free from vegetable seeds, that pro-
duce a tolerably thick growth of red
clover, trifolium pratense, small but
brilliant variety, and yet this plant is
not even indigenous in America. Where
does the seed come from? The above
are but few of the sudden and myste-
rious appearance of unusual plants. Yet
1 believe, nihil nisi ex ovo. There is
no animal or plant that has not sprung
from an egg or seed New England
Farmer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
A Ouiet Pictura


The shifting shadows lay
In changing quaintness on the bare white foo
Creeping in softly through the open door,
In STILL drowsy way,
Coming through mazes of the iyy-vines
That fall in shapeless masses from the pines
The freight gay and bright,
With CHEEKY bushes for its rudy charms
Steals trembling from the old hearth's huge blacl
Where, in their own rich light
The giant logs in splendor fall away
In glowing shapes among the ashes gray
The baby on the floor
with tiny hands closed Ger her pearly toes,
Watches the iire-blaze as it comes and goes.
And wonders more and more
Whence comes the red light on the snowy feet,
And tries TO catch 1t in her fingers sweet.
The happy mother sits
With folded hands her weary work all done,
With the last smiling of the harvest sun,
And lists; her eyes love-lit,
To the low prattie of her eldest born,
Whose cheek is dewy as the early morn.
In homespun garb of gray,
The father sitting by the window wide
Unfolds his paper with an honest pride;
And, in his hOmely way,
Reads of the pomp of state-its wealth and art
With scarce one envious longing III his heart.
Upon the lowly steps
The grandame watches for the coming moon,
While murmurs of some halfremembered tune
Drop from her faded lips;
she dreams again of olden days more fair.
Nor marks the shadows fitting Der her hair.
o baby, glad with play
o mother, knowing not the hearts recoil
o father, wearied only by your TOLL
o grandame, old and gray!
Would that the quiet of your days decline
Night hush the throbbing of this life of mine!
Fiery other Saturday.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30

From the New York Evening FOstJ
Lieut. Schuyler, of the Sixth Regi-
ment of the Pennsylvania militia,
recently performed the singular feat of
shooting a man who was standing on
the opposite side of a stone wall sixteen
feet high and half a yard thick. He
vas at the 500-yard range. After the
report from his rife, Sergt. Decker,
the marker, proceeded to swing the
signal and was about to Zip ont from
behind the wall when he became con-
scious that ne mad been shot. The bull
let had missed the wall and gone to the
left of il, struck tree and richochet~
ted, ard in it's course struck the marker
in the right shoulder. The wounded
man was at once taken to doctor, who
cut the ball ont. 1t had fractured the
shoulder blade, but the sergeant is now
out of danger.