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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Old Spots Welcome to His Rider.

lFrom the Christian Register
Old Spot, Gen. Kilpatricks favorite
war-aorse, bore his master ga!lantlv on
long and perilous rides and in the thick
of many desperate fight, himself more
thar once feeling the prick of steel and
the sting of lead. Subsequent to the
war Gen. Fitzpatrick was sent to South
America. He left the old horse at the
farm, with orders that he should be
kindly cared for. Returning, after an
absence of several years, the General
reached his home near night and was for
some time occupied in exchanging
greetings with his family and friends.
He did not, however, long neglect to in
quire after the old horse. Learning
that Spot was at pasture in a distant
field, the General sent for him, and
little later was told that his favorite was
securely tied to post at the entrance
of the grounds, some distance away.
The General fastened out on to the
piazza, from whence, peering through
the shadows, he described the form of
the old veteran, who stood demurely
gnawing at the post Just the one word,
Spot" rang out over the lawn. Like
an echo came back the answering neigh.
With snort and bound the old
charger snapped the halter as if 1t had
been thread, cleared the fence at leap,
and, with arched neck and ears proudly
erect, spurned the intervening turf like
a race horse until he stood by the
piazza, where with joyful whinny he
laid his head upon his masters breast
Added the General: 1--WE Rugged and
caressed each other like lovers, and /
am not ashamed to say that no welcome
received that day warmed my heart
more than that of old Spot"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
A Substitute for Rain.

Hoeing, and the frequent stirring of
the surface of the soil, are good substi-
tutes for rain. Those parts of the gar
den that are most frequently cultivated
show the best results. It is probable
that corn, watermelons, tomatoes, Lima
beans and cabbages, and possibly other
plants, if well started, in good, deep
soil, may go through a two-months'
drouth without a very serious damage.
A deep, well-manured soil suffers much
less than a shallow soil. Sub-soiling
and manure are to a certain extent
substitutes for rain. Moisture comes
from below. UNDERMINING is also a
safeguard against drouth. The course
of the drains in the garden can easily
be marked in dry season by the rank
err growth of vegetables above them.
Irrigation in many parts of the North
will pay. The soil, if well prepared.
could use to good advantage twice the
quantity of water it receives from rains
during the dry and hot months of sum
mer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
American Breeding

The notion that imported breeding
stock is better than that bred on Amer
| lean SOIL and under American systems
| OF management was almost universally
held less than quarter of century
ago. With many the single word "im-
ported" was all the recommendation re-
CURED to effect a sale of an animal.
Even now there are many who are in
huenced to very considerable degree
by the magic word. Yet there is not a
single reason for the belief that Ameri-
can-bred stock is not fully as good, with
possibly the exception of half dozen
famous animals, as any in existence
| abroad. AS to Jersey cattle this is be-
coming generally understood, and there
is no longer an eagerness to secure at
long prices animals from the island I'M
less they have much more to recon-
mend them than the bare fact that thew
were bred abroad. The effort is. in
stead, to secure those animals which
have won for themselves c good reputa-
ton by doing something of practical
value. The butter test has done more
than has anything else to bring people
to their senses in this matter.
In the beef breeds there are, it is adj
mitted, as good animals in this country
as are to be found. 1t is not claimed
that there are enough of the best class
to satisfy the demand; probably there
Will never be enough of that kind in
the world to satisfy the demand at what
farmers generally will call moderate
figures. But there are plenty to i'm
prove the general stock of the country,
and these can be bought at prices SO low
that they leave no chance of loss. There
is no longer of necessity any speculative
element IN the purchase of breeding
stock Of the established beef breeds.
The experience of the last fifty wears
shows conclusively that the purchase of
cattle of pure breeding is among the
safest and most profitable of farming in
vestments. This has been the case
when prices have been high, and when
fashionable" strains of blood, having
much booming but little practical value,
seduced breeders into paying high fig
ures for paper cattle; there can, then,
be scarcely a chance of loss when sires
of good blood can be bought, as they
can now, for prices little higher than
they would bring in the market for
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Plaster BuStS.

From the New York Mail and Express.J
A Broadway dealer says that the
house decoration mania runs chiefly to
plaster now. Busts, statuettes, plaques,
reliefs, antiques, urns, vases are few of
the things sold every day by the dozen.
They are all made in the Italian quarter
by newly arrived emigrants, and cost
almost nothingin quantity. Ladies buy
them almost exclusively. They take
them home, paint, gid, silver or bronze
them. They then look almost as hand
some as genuine antiques, and at one
twentieth the price. Of course it's
shoddy, but it brightens up sitting
room amazingly, and for people of limit
ed means it's good thing. Besides it
gives decent livelihood to scores of
young girls who would otherwise be
starving on needle-work. They'll buy
d dozen or two for casts for g, color or
fix them up for dollar more, and then,
if they have good taste, and are careful
in their work, they can sell them all the
way from a half up to 3 apiece.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Cyclones of Olden Times

/. correspondent of the Philadelphis
Press says truly that ga great many PEG.
pie appear to have an idea that cyclones
are something new. IL 1913 my father
was boy of thirteen years, and he and
his grandmother walked from this place
to Central Ohio to visit his grandmoth-
ers brother. They staid there month
and then walked home. His grand
mother was about seventy, and lived to
see ninety. [ have frequently heard
HIM speak of that Journey The farm
ers showed him in several places what
they at that time called windfalls. A
swath would be cut through heavy
tract of timber about 100 yards wide
and several miles long Every tree Law
fiat or twisted off, The country was
very thinly settled, but if house stood
in the track it was destroyed"
Twenty-Five years ago there were in
Michigan many traces, more or less dis
tinct, of these windfalls They gave
unmistakable evidence of the passage of
a cyclone. On one edge of the line of
those visited by the writer the trees lay
with tops pointing to the northeast; on
the other edge all lay pointing in the
opposite direction, while in the middle
they were twisted and piled in inextri-
cable confusion. That more traces are
not found in the west of the passage of
cyclones may be ascribed to the fact that
many may have passed over the prairie
regions where the ruin wrought could
have few lasting traces, if any, while
forest fires and the slower process of
decay would in comparatively short
time remove most indications of the
visltations in the forest.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Mitigating a Nuisance.
From the Philadelphia Record. ]

III
The suffering men and women who
have felt that there was no relief from
the prosecutions of the piano fiend
should take courage, for their deliver
ance is at hand Signor VALID, profess
sor of Music, of No. 1905 Arch Street,
has discovered a simple method by
which the volume of sound of any
piano may be reduced at will nearly
eight-tenths. He says it is impossible
to prevent one learning to play on the
piano from pounding on the instrument
and thus producing much more noise
than is necessary for successful practice.
1t is equally difficult to restrain child
from constantly pressing on the hard
pedal, thereby introducing continued
discords to increase the unpleasant
aural effect. Not only does the sound
annoy others, but from its loudness it
deafens the ear of the learner, making
it more difficult to acquire true musical
taste.
A reporter called on Signor VALID
yesterday afternoon and was shown the
method by which he reduces the sound
of the piano. 1t consists in adjusting
simple wedge-hke attachment between
the damper and the frame of the piano,
thus destroying to great extent the
vlbratory power of the chords. The
effect was to soften the tone till the
volume was about equal to that of a
guitar. One in an adjoining room could
scarcely hear the piano when played,
and the advantage of this when learner
is performing will be obvious. The
sweetness of the music was not lost, the
effect being simply to reduce the vol
ume. The attachment can instantly be
put on or off, and no injury to the piano
results from having restrained the
learners propensity for noise.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Corn Cobs for Fuel.

A Nebraska farmer, writing to the
Cultivator and Country Gentleman
about fuel, says: Some one complains
about having poor woodpile. We on
the prairies have no wood, yet we have
plenty of fuel ready for use. We buy
small coal for use in winter, but corn
cobs constitute the farmers fueli in sum
mer, and make us a good fuel, too. We
shell our corn in winter or spring; the
cobs are piled in some dry sheds or
crib, and there is no great woodpile to
chop or TO scatter over the yard. If
coal is scarce and corn very cheap, in
winter we think it no harm to burn a
few bushels of corn. Our prospect for
another heavy corn crop is very good
now.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
desire to have your freedom 1 have no

desire to have your freedom have no
choice"
Il desire it greatly" she answered.
ut is yours" L said, with bow.
After that I think we were both hap
pier than we had been for days, and we
shook hands when we parted.
That night went up to the Vale of
Cruix, and [ told Mary that my mar
rage was broken OFF and that she was
the only woman l ever loved. She
tried to summon up her pride and
refuse me, but failed in the attempt,
and let me take her to my heart. To
day l am pastor of the church at the
Vale of Cruix. Mary is my wife, and
we are as plain and quiet pair as you
could fancy. l even help my wife pick
currants, and have taken turn nc the
garden when help was scarce. But do
not envy Mr.. s. his wife, nor pine for
the luxurious possibilities that l lost
with Angelina. Mary and my little
home content me.
But one thing is on my conscience
L have never been able to ask myself
the question, Did / fiirt with Mary ?''
lfnot what was it p English Magazine.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Bill NVe on PhrenOl0gy.
From the Chicago Eye.l

An erroneous phrenologist once told
me that [ would shine as revivalist,
and said that [ ought to marry a tall
blonde, with a sanguinary tempera-
lnent. Then he said: zone dollar,
please" ard / said: "All right, gentle
scientist with tawny name, Will give
you the dollar and mary the tall blonde
with bank account and bilious tenn
permanent When you give me a chart
showing me how to dispose of brown
eyed brunette with thoughtful cast Of
unguarded moment two years ago"
He looked at me in a reproachful
kind of way, struck at me with a chair
in an absent-minded manner and stole
nUaV.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Girdling Trees In August


The old rule to rub and girdle in the
Old OF the moon in August, is, although
an ancient notion, correct one. [ was
partly raised in the woods in Ohio and
we there proved that to girdle tree in
last half of August was sure death to
root and branch. Do the same in Julv
and the tree would grow again next
year. Hoe off sprouts of trees a few
times and they sprout no more. If an
OLD apple tree that never bears is
glrdled IN the middle of July, the sap is
forced into the forming of fruit buds
Tor the next year; girdle it middle or
last OF August and the tree is lost. A
man IN Iowa thought to initiate his
nelghSors in cutting off his young will
low hedge to make it grow thicker; did
the work toward the close of August
and killed the hedge. Yet people say
you cannot Kill the willow. Some wears
ago l took the advice of a successful
nedge-grower to cut off young Usage
Just after harvest, and it too died. I'm
believers may try this for themselves
and see if l am correct Prairie
Farmer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Rddishes in Late season

No vegetable grows quicker than the
radish, and few rows only are neces-
sary to supply quite large family.
Radishes are unfit unless grown quickly
and pulled at the proper time. As they
are grown ordinarily, the family is kept
supplied from the same bed until the
radishes are hard and woody. Instead
of so doing SOW only part of a row at
a time. The way to have them as they
should be, till late in the season, is to
procure quite number of packages,
putting in the seed from a package
every week until too late to SOW them
By pursuing this method they may be
had in crisp, tender state long after
the usual first crop is hard or gone to
seed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Teant Well, but Went Hungry.
(From the Gorham Mountaineer.l

tFrOm the GOrham MOuntaineer.l
Talking with friend the other day
about the tricks of youth and the dimly
remembered slipper, he said that he
recolected one day when his mother
was sick and his prim old aunt came to
preside over him, the older brother and
the table. Having leased his aunt past
al endurance, she tapped his seonce,
when he called her an old fool. At the
supper table his father was informed of
MS impudence, and VIII was told to go
TO the head of the table and tell his
aunt he was sorry. He went and full
filed the command, with hanging head,
by saying:
I'm sorry you re an old fool, Anntie. -
He got no supper, but meant well.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
MUSIC IN CAMP.
BY Ohm R. THOMPSON.

Two armies covered hill and plain,
Where RappahannockS waters
Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain
Of battles recent slaughters.
The summer clouds lay pitched like tents
In meads of heavenly azure,
And each dread gun Of the elements
Slept in its high embrasuTe.
The breeze so softly blew it made
No forest leaf to culver;
The smoke of random cannonade
Rolled slowly from the river.
And now, where circling hills looked down
With cannon grimly planted,
Ger listless camp and silent town
The golden sunlight slanted.
When on the fervid air there came
A strain now rich, now tender:
The music seemed itself atlame
With days departing splendor.
A Federal band, which eveand morn
Played measures brave and nimble,
Had Just struck up with flute and horn,
And lively clash of cymbal.
Down flocked the soldiers to the banks,
Till margined by its pebbles
One wooded shore was blue with "Yanks,"
And one was gray with "Rebels."
Then all was still and then the band,
With movements light and tricksy,
Made stream and forest, hill and strand,
Reverberate with Dixie"
The conscious streak, with Furnished glow,
Went proudly o er its pebbles,
But thrilled throughout its deepest flow
With yelling of the Rebels"
Again pause; and then again
The trumpet pealed sonorous,
And Yankee Doodle was the strain
10 which the shore gave chorus.
The laughing ripples shorewa1d few
To kiss the shining pebbles;
Loud shrieked the charming boys in blue,
Defiance to the Rebels"
And yet once more the bugIe sang
Above the stormy riot;
No shout upon the evening rang
There Jeigneda holy quiet.
The sad, slow stream its noiseless food
Poured Ger the glistening pebbles;
All silent now the Yankees stood,
All silent stood the Rebels.
The unrespOnsive soul had heard
That plaintive notes appealing,
So deeply "Home, Sweet Home" had stirred
The hidden fOunts of feeling.
Or blue or gray, the soldier sees,
As by the wand of fairy
The cottage meath he live oak trees,
The cabin by the prairie.
Or cold or warm, his native skies
Bend in their beauty DER him,
seen through the tear-mist in his eyes,
His loved ones stand before him
As fade the iris after rain
In ApriPs fearful weather,
The vision vanished as the strain
And daylight died together.
ButmemOry, walked by musics art,
Expressed in simple numbers,
Subdued the steTnest Yankees heart
Made light the Rebels slumbers
And fair the torn of Music shines,
That bright celestial creature
Who still mid wars embattled lines
Gave their own touch If Nature.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06

THERE is great complaint among the
hay-harvesters around Reno, New, be-
cause of the prevalence of honey-dew
hay. They find it necessary every fif-
teen or twenty minutes to stop the
reaper and scrape the gum eff from the
knife, and then the raking process is
still more troublesome. The hay sticks
together SO tightly that it cannot be
handled with horse rake. One farmer
says when he first commenced cutting
his hay he made windrow about forty
rods long, which was allowed to remain
undisturbed for twentyfour hours, and
when they tried to cock it, in the ordin-
airy way for stacking, they had TO cut it
into sections with hayknife. 1t was,
in fact, a veritable hay-rope, which
could have been dragged all over the
arm without breaking
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Small PITY

Is generally felt for nervous people for since they
cannot lay claim to any on the score of absolute
pain, and are not suffering from any apparent
disease, their trouble is set down by the unre-
fecting as imaginary. 1t is far from being so,
however, as the nervous individual himself or
herself best knows Super sensitiveness of the
nervous system is a direct consequence of physi-
cal weakness and indigestion, and is therefore
remediable with Hostetters Stomach Bitters, a
medicine whose tonic properties specially fit it
for debilitated persons, nervous people and dys-
peptics. As a means of coUnteraCting the pros
tration caused by heat or excessive fatigue,
whether physical or mental, this popular invIg-
GRANT may also be fully Contided in. 1t stimu-
Iates digestion and asSimilation-twin functions,
the vigorous discharge of which is essential to
nerve Vigor and quiet-keeps the bowels and liver
i'm order, and is a benign source of relief TO the
Rheumatic and malarial-sricken.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
The Mormon Bible.

From the Plttsburg COMMERCIAL
Il see," said an old residenter, that
some parties are bringing to notice as a
fresh discovery that the Mormon bible
is only an old semi-religious romance
written by man by the name of
Spaulding, and at one time awaited
publication in Pittsburg. To many
old Pittsburgers that should be moth
ing new. The manuscript was IN a
printing office on the corner of Fourth
Avenue and Wood Street, where the
Tradesmen's bank now is. X. IL. Ii.
Dumas (Three Rs they used to call
him. was the foreman. Bob was last
in Elmira, New York, having become
Mai. Bob. for meritorious service in the
war. Many old Pittsburg printers
will recollect him. He could tell all
about it. Let them hunt up Dumas
and he can give the Mormon bible
pedigree"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
High Priced Butter.

Dairymen often wonder how their more ia.
vored competitors get such high prices for then
butter the year round. 1t is by always havUp
uuiform gilt edged article. To put the ''giIt
edge" Oh, when the pastures do not do it, they
use Wells, Richardson & Co.'S Improved Butte,
Colo. Every butt ter maker can do the same
Sold eyerya here and warranted as harmless as
salt, and perfect in operation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Expressiveness of the Japanese.
From the Lincoln News-l

From the LInCuIH Nt"o'I
The japanese language has no
equivalent for our word hell, but 1t has
the word iigoku. Jigoku consists OF
cd eight immense hot bells ranging
one beneath the other III tiers. Each OF
these hells has sixteen additional hells
outside it's gates, like so many ante
chambers, so that there are 1876 hot
bells. CD there are eight large cold
hells,a and (3) there are the same num-
Der of bells of utter darkness" This is
valuable information. Jigoku is just
the word we have been looking for to
give concise idea of the situation
when we arrive at the theater and find
we have left our ticket at home.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
How to Secure Health

Scoyiil's sarsapsrilIa and StillIngis or Blood
and Liver Syrup, will restore perfect health to
the physical organization. 1t Is, indeed, a
strepgt ening syrup, pleasant to take, and ha $
often proven itself to be the best blood purifier
ever discovered, effectullly curing scrolula
syPhilltlc disorders, weakness of the kidneys,
eryslpelas. malaria, all nervous disorders and
debiiItr, bilious complaints, aud all diseases
indicating an impure condition of the blood.
liver, Kidneys, stomach, etc. 1t corrects iudi-
gestion. especially when the complaint is OF an
exhaustive nature, having tendency to lessen
the vigor of the brain and nervous system.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
Fhe Harvest Hand.


MINNIE sTEBBINS SAVAGE.
With long, light rake he trundles
The rich swarths at his feet
Half into yellow bundles,i
And, stopping, binds the wheat;
How deft the great brown fingers
That knot the trusty band;
How true the hand that fingers
To test the faithful strand.
Behold the sickle, speeding,
Sweeps past him on its way,
Its noisy click receding
Adown the summers day;
The far-otf hill grows sleeper,
The worn sleeds disappear,
The music of the reaper
Falls faint upon his ear.
Wandering, his eye roves townward
A meadow-lark at morn
Sang where the plain slopes downward,
Dark green with waving corn;
Beyond the stream is flowing
Its scattering oaks among,
And DER its waters blowing
The wild hop-vine is hung.
Across and upward lying
He sees the little town,
Its gray roofs still defying
The charge of tumble-doWn;
Behind the wood approaches,
And then the open field,
Which evermore encroaches,
Displays its bounteous yield.
The scorching sun is telling
Among the harvest men;
The reaper's hum is swelling
Upon their ears again;
A little maid arises
And brings with many tug,
And sweet self-sacrihces,
The welcome water Jug.
To touch her shining tresses
The harvest hand delays;
Her in his heart he blesses
For all her childlike ways;
And then his glance returning,
gray roof finds, perchance.
Beneath which he is learning
The meaning of romance.
All, painter, poet, preacher
Now shall he follow you;
Scorn not to be his teacher;
His eye is clear and true;
He hears, amid his binding,
The music of the Spheres
He seeks, and To- is finding
The harvest-teld ofyears.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
1t Sold Them All.
From the Boston Bulletin. 7

A fun-loving farmers daughter re-
siding not twenty miles from Boston
decorated bush in the front yard with
white egg shells adroitly fixed on the
ends Of branches. Result: Pleasure
drivers from neighboring hotels would
first gaze. then halt and often alight fol-
a closer inspection of the curious
plant" which they would describe tc
their fellow-soiourners, who would be
sold u t',eir turn on their next drive,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
Another Life SaYed.

About two years ago prominent citizen Of
Chicago, was tod by his physicians that he must
die. They said - system was so debItstod
that there was nothing Lett TO build on. He
made up his raiud to try ''new departure. "
He got some If DR.. Prices Golden Medical
Discovery" and took it according TO directions
Re began TO improve at once. He kept up the
treatment for some months, and is to-day wei
man. He says the Discovery" saved his life