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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06

painted, as he burst into the house
without knocking.
The farmer took 1t mechanically
without thought that it concerned
those whom he had already looked
upon as in Heaven. Breaking the seal
he opened the folded slip OF paper, and
glanced at its contents. Then with a
fervent THANK God" he fell upon his
knees, and the feeling so long pent up
found vent in tears OF thankfulness.
The message was a brief one. ltran:
FREDERICTON, y. B., April 19.-JoHN AL
LEN: Your wife and children were picked up
at light this morning on a single-raft, three
miles above this city. All sale. Answer.
Swift as were the feet of the messen-
ger, they had hard work to keep pace
with John Aliens on the return. The
news spread like wildtire, and within
half an hour everybody in Woodstock
knew the contents of the dispatch.
Little more need be said. Farmer
Allen followed the message he sent
without the loss of an hour. That
was Sunday morning, and it was
Thursday night before the parted
household again met beneath the roof
whose few hours desolation made it
yet the more sacred and precious to
all.-Independent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
Where Are the Whistlers?

A correspondent of mine asks,
"What has become OF the whistlers? "
| cannot say for the life of me whether
they have gone, for hunt high and hunt
low, they are not to be found splitting
the air with notes like chanticleer as
was their wont when most of us were
in roundabouts. As my correspond
ent intimateS the race of whistling
boys, for the music is distinctly that
OF boyhood, has probably become ex-
tinct, for not once month does the
ear OF the passer-by catch the dulcet
strain, or once have a chance to curse
the mouth that gave it utterance
You don't hear people out nights long
after bedtime whistling to keep up
their courage, as they used to do when
the towns depended on kerosene for
light, and were not patroled by relays
OF policemen. Whistling is rapidly be
coming one of the lost arts. Manish-
ness is encroachingupon ouryouths so
fast that not many OF the playthings
and pastimes so popular with the boys
twenty years ago are in favor now.
Lads of fifteen whose indulgence in the
weed used to be of the most surrepti-
tious description, now puff tobacco
smoke under the very noses of their
lenient papas. They play polo or lawn
tennis In preference to trundling a hoop
or knuckling down to marbles. Kite
flying, which even before the time OF
Benjamin Franklin, was a boys most
bissful exploit, eventually fell into de-
cadence-one of the misfortunes of
discovery-as a direct result Of the APP
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
Foreign Divorces in Maine.

From the Lewiston Journal
A case involving several nice legal
questions bearing upon the legality of
divorce obtained by Maine people in
another state has lately occupied the
attention OF the supreme court in Ban
gor. A man named John n. Greg
DRY went to Chicago from Maine
in 1868, and the next year obtained
a divorce from his wife Mrs Gregory
alleges that he had previously vainly
endeavored to persuade her to apply
for a divorce, he having no case in this
state. Mr.. Gregory soon after died,
but before his death he decided certain
lands in his possession to his mother
The plaintiff thereupon brought an &C
ton to recover her right of dover,
claiming that the divorce was illegal
according to the laws of the state OF
Maine. DEFENDANTS counsel at that
trial claimed that section Is, chapter
60, of the Revised Statutes was uncon-
stitutional, and that faith and credit
shall be given in each state to the pub
lie acts ofanother state. Judge Peters
ruled that defendants grounds were
not well taken, and the jury brought
in q verdict accordingly. The case
was appealed. The full court over
ruled the decision and the case came
back for trial; the question now being
whether the man removed to Chicago
with the intention of making that
place his residence. Judge Peters
ruled Saturday that a man cannot 90
to another state to obtain a divorce
while he keeps his residence here. But
if he goes with the intention of taking
up his residence there it alters the
case. There must be real and actual
change of domicile. The real issue in
this case, therefore, is the intention of
Mr.. Gregory in regard to his future
residence. The change not being
proved, the divorce is void here, if it
was for causes which occurred here.
There was nothing, however, to pre-
vent his obtaining a divorcefor causes
which occurred here, but it is claimed
that these could not have existed, and
the records of the trial having been
burned the case is unknown. The
case was ended Saturday evening bp a
verdict for plaintiff, allowing her the
right of dover.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
A Profitable Milk Yield.

In reply to the query "What quaint
ty OF milk should a COW give to be
considered proftable?" well known
dalryman answers $4,000 pounds
$500 pounds for the first 100 days,
1000 pounds in the 100 days follow
ing and 700 pounds between the COM
pletion OF that time and drying off.
Prof. Brown, of Canada, in reply to a
similar question, puts the figures at
1000 pounds for eco days and as
much as possible in the subsequent
165 days, and that every 100 pounds
OF milk should make three and one
half pounds OF butter. Leaving out
OF consideration the performances OF
phenomenal COWS, accurate records
are at hand of native COWS with rec
Ords OF from $500 to 1000 pounds in
the season, which shows that a steady
advance is being made in the yield OF
our cows. The improvement is very
slow, and will continue to be until
farmers raise their best heifer calves
from their best cows, and have the
sire with a mother OF milking strains
to more perfectly establish the milking
hablt.-F'arHner and Fruit Grower.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
Pruning Growing Vines.

Now, bear this in mind: One of the
most successful exhibitors of grapes in
England told me that ga man should
be able to carry all the laterals and
shoots he took off a growing vinein his
waist-coat pocket" | consider this
OF great moment. / once saw a splen-
did house OF grapes spoiled by the
check given in cutting off a lot of
shoots and laterals all at once, instead
of giving a quarter of an hour occa
slonally and pinching off the laterals
when they were small; they had been
allowed to run, and then the gardener
went at 1T with his knife, and almost
every bunch IN that house shanked, or
shrIveled, IN consequence.-Vic s
Floral Guide.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
For the Household

n brilliant black varnish for iron.
stone, or wood can be made by thor
oughly incorporating ivory black with
common shellac varnish The miy-
ture should be laid on very thin. Rnt
Ordinary coal tar varnish will serve
Olle same purpose IN most cases quite
as WE'LL and is not nearly so expen-
sive.
one OF the most delicious dessert
dishes Tor this season of the wear. and
one which has never to the WRITER'S
knowledge met with a word of anoht
out praise, is this very simple recipe.
Sllce an equal amount of oranges
and bananas, and add. to suit the
taste, little preserved pineapple and
powdered sugar. The resulting saiod
Is served cold.
Among the wall decorations which
are now IN greater and greater de-
mand is the cartridge paper-a thicker
paper than the ordinary wall naner
made OF a single color. The shades
ootalnable are very delicate. Few
positive colors are now used on the
walls. The old flower patterns in
wall paper have also gone out. If q
pattern Is used at all it is generally a
conventional or geometric one of q
lighter or darker shade than the
background.
a solution OF oxalic acid has been
used for removing ink stains from cot
ton, linen or the fingers, but it is at
tended with the danger of iniuring tex
Tiles and the skin. A much safer and
better treatment OF ink or rust
STAINS consists in the application of
two parts OF powdered cream of tar
tar and one part of finely powdered
oXalls acid. Shake up the ingredients
well together and apply the powder
with dry rag to the dampened stain.
When the spot has disappeared the
part should be very well washed.
TocoOk fresh mackerel: After clean
ing the fish, place it in a fish kettle;
Just cover it with cold water and a gill
OF vinegar, or with half water and half
white wine; season with three or four
ssprlgs OF parsley one of thyme, a bay
leaf, one Glove, one onion, half a car
rot I'm slices two cloves OF garlic,
salt, pepper and perhaps little tar
ragon, II the latter is at hand. Set on
the ire and boil gently till done. Dish
the fish and serve it warm with a ca
per or anchovy sauce, or with currant
iall,-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06

plicatlon OF his theory to the practical
purposes OF his race, for with the
heavens cob-webbed with electric wires
the KITE becomes an effete and useless
toy. lt seems to me, now that we
have all the facts before us, that the
Philadelphia philosopher served the
Kite myers very scurvy trick in put
ting the lightning in harness.i But
ohere Is the peg-top, the go-cart and
cross-Dow, all contrivances which any
boy might amuse himself with without
discredlt, virtually relics of another
epoch. | cannot believe that when
you and l We're boys We were any less
lhahly uhan youngsters OF this century,
ouI one would think, like Caesar, ali
mites l'i are now born with teeth, they
are SO exclusively wise in their genera.
tlon.-New York Cor. Syracuse Jour
nal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
Dog Farming.

We find the following in the Rural
World: 1t would be well at this sea-
son OF the year for every farmer to get
his wits together and figure up the
profits of dog farming 1t is said that
a man in good circumstances usually
keeps a dog, a poor man will keep two
or three, and a very poor man usually
keeps a pack of dogs. The young
lambs that die and the after-birth
OF the ewes attract these worthless
ours, and the flock is often frightened
so as to cause serious loss. 1t is at
this season of the year that the depre-
dations of dogs usually occur. They
carry off many of our best lambs. In
some sections of the country it is
found Improbable to raise lambs on
account OF the damage by dogs.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
Why Preaching is Inefficacious.

Ill
DR.. Allon, the wellknown dissenting
minister at Islington, has just given a
very concise account of fact that
puzzles a good many people-namely,
that most preaching is completely in
efiicacious. 'Ihavegenerally preached
sermons" he says, clearing on great
public events, but | have always re-
stricted myself to the exposition and
enforcement of general principles, Just
as III intoxicating commercial right
eousness / have refrained from per
sonal Indictment of the individual
grocer or milkman concerning whose
authorizations | may have formed a
tolerably decisive Judgment" This is
not the method that commends itself
to all, nor does 1t conform, | should
have said, to scriptural usage. Ger
tainly 1t was not the general principle
of Nathan's parable that brought
David to repentance, but its personal
indictment. ''Thou art the man."
Indeed, whoever heard of q sinner
being brought to ''newness of life" by
''the exposition and enforcement of
general principles?" DR.. Atoms gro
GERS say amen" most fervently. | do
not doubt, to his sermons on adultera-
ton, but pass on the moral to the
milkmen
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
A Man in Corsets and Skirts.


George Dallmeter resides at 143
South Green Street, in this city, and
seldom ventures beyond the precincts
of the back yard fence or the front
gate, because he fears that the meddle-
some law will interfere with his harm
less recreation. His pet hobby is
female apparel, which he has worn
these many years in all its complete
ness, even to the corsets and hustle
He is about 80 years old, with smooth
face and long hair, which curls down
below his shoulders. He cooks and
keeps house for the owner of 43, who
boards there. Dallmeter keeps pace
with all the latest fashions, and gives
as his reason for doing so that wom-
ans raiment is more comfortable and
convenient than mans. tits said that
he served his country in the war of the
rebellion and received a wound for
which he gets p pension, and this, to-
gether with his homework, supports
him. The neighbors appealed to the
police to-day to arrest the aged mas
querader, but without avail. So long
as he remains within the premises
where he lives. he cannot be molested.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
English and American Girls.

John Thomas in Boston Globe
English girl Society can drink
American girl ''blind drunk" Rough
statement, but true. Wine plentiful
at receptions. Wants her glass filled
often. What's lacking in liberty she
makes upin toddy. Have filled it my
self till her eyes watered Roseate hue
tipped her nose. Fact. Repress hui
man nature at top and it bursts at
bottom. Philosophy. American girl
at eighteen knows more of life, its sur
roundlngs, embellishments, crooks,
cranks, turns, windings, highways and
byways than average English women
ever will know. Cause, more expert
ence. Trusted more alone. Can look
out TOR herself. Can distinguish a
helter from a hayrick and sense from
tatfy. More snap. More go. More
benzlne. More lightning. Usually
captures average Englishman directly.
Amazes, shocks, but delights him.
Can't make her out. But calls sgain.
Surrenders Internationally. Reason
why American girls marry so many
TITLED Britons,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
The Exquisite Pleasures Afforded BY
F FAMILY Reunions,

In this broad land, teemiug with a
wealth OF natural resources and advan-
tages, there's a lamentable tendencyfor
families to become widely separated as
its members arrive at maturity. IL fire.
quently occurs that mother must
travel thousand miles or more in order
TO visit her several children and their
families. The exquisite pleasure al
forded by family reunion is, alas! too
seldom enjoyed. Not always is it con
venient for sons and daughters to leave
their homes and little ones to gather
around the old hearthstone. Would
that the custom could more frequently
be INDUCED in. On many occasions Ill
ness in a family is a restraining cause
Too often the monster disease enters
an otherwise happy home, despoiling a
parent, affecting child. Our duty TO
ourselves and to our little ones demands
thatwe make good health the one grand
study and object of our lives. A ter
rible master Is disease, Unsuitable and
unrelenting. AS first with deceptive.
alluring ways he gains ioothold, while
his victim murmurs lit is nothing only
a little pain, only feeling of WEAKNESS.
only SHght disorder, uEtll eventually
disease assumes complete control.
Fight the monster in the start! meet
him at his first approach! by using
DIR. GUY SOTT'S YELLOW
DOCK AND SARSAPARILIIA.
1t viii make you feel fresh, the blood
will be made pure and circulate with
more vim. Sores and pimples will dis
appear; the urinary and digestive or
gans will gain strength, and perform
their functions without pain, while ro-
bust health, strength, freedom from
aches, etc, and happy content be the
reemlt. and longevity Nour reMnrl.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
STAY with the Mother


We stood in the press at the terry gate
Breathless, weary and just too late,
Watching the great boat plunge and strain
Through roaring chaos OF ice and rain
And over the sullen crash and din
OF the turbulent flood tide LAUNDERING in
Over the fret of the restless crowd,
young voice carrolng sweet and loud
Rose for a moment, and beat the air
Like the strong white wings of the angel PRAYER:
30 feet that are fain to 60 astray,
Stay with the mother when her hair turns qayl"
Only the words of a worn quatrain,
With pitiful plea in it's sad refrain:
Only lad voice, sweet and strong
Trolling the catch OF ii threadbare song
But ii nameless something, II might have been
The touch that maketh the whole world kin,
Quickened and warmed to a kindlier mood
The hearts of the listening multitude,
Crept with tender, If transient grace
Like gllmmer OF morning, from face to face
As the tired aud shivering crowd made way
For the pale little woman whose hair was gray.
The world may be crowded with sorrow and
But sweet human nature still thriyes every
No matter how careless and callous 1t seems,
Absorbed In Its pleasures, its gold-getting
schemes,
There are warm, living impulses lurking know.
Like daffodils blossomng under the snow
A breath of the south wind, a chance sunny raw
Ihrough some rift In the cloud, may release and
For behind the in1exible mask we put on,
Beneath the cold guse it may please us to don
All unconscious, 1t may be, some filament fine
Reaching out, links us still to the Nature Divine
There's an instrument locked in eaeh-oyrId
hardened breast
Whose compass may never be proven or guessed:
But the dominant chord of its grand master kew
In the score OF existence is sweet sympathy
Oh in spite of the corrosion of tears
OF the rust and the dust of our work a-day
years,
Though on our hearts altar the ashes maylie
Like the dead roses dropt from all summer cone
by,
In the gamut of life those electrical chords
Breath a music that may not be fashioned TO
words;
But the magical something that beats in each
breast
Ever thrills and responds to the highest and
best
AS the heart OF the multitude echoed that day:
Stay with the mother when the hair turns
grayl"
Emma Alice Browne, in New York Le}gar
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TRUE TO THE LETTER.
BY II. c. DODGE,

When VI T is your pocket-book
And c ID are your clothes,
And when you have an + d look
That health's d 4 50 shows,
VIII y f body C @ out
And q by the hand
And q how it came about
And show T grand?
VIII one old friend S A to show
That + A friend is still2
VIII one, to quick l. A your woe,
Send you L A dollar bill?
VIII one Y as your sad r A.
And, to Y l. the rest,
Help you to be again o X
And make L B his guest?
Not much you wouldn't get II l
OF 'baccy + when
You'd X friend for aid. Too true
No would you give them.
But in old A wealthy man
Can have friends in Y s;
So save up \ Els and you can
Have friend z q to bless.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
Important.

When you visit or leave New York city
save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire,
and stop at the Grand Union Hotel,
opposite Grand Central Depot; 900 elegant
rooms fitted up at a cost OF one million
dollars. reduced to 81 and upwards per
day. European plan. Elevator. Restau-
rant supplied with the best. Horse cabs,
stage, and elevated railroad to all depots'
Families can live better for less money at
the Grand Union than at an frst-class
hotel in the city.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostra-
ton and all forms OF general debility re-
heved by taking MENsMAN's PERFORMED
BEEF Tone, the only preparation of beef
containing it's entire nutritious properties.
1t contains blood-making force generating
and DEMONSTRATING properties; is invaluable
in all enfeebled conditions, whether the re-
suit of exhaustion, nervous prostration
overwork, or acute disease, particularly if
resulting from pulmonary complaints.
Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New
York
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
The Appomattox Annie Tree.

Letter III CINCINNATI Enquirer
There are but two or three obscure
looking houses to the north behind
the courthouse, and in a few steps
one comes in sight OF the two or three
memorable spots OF that brief occa-
sion. The first is the spot where Grant
met Gen. Lee for the first time during
the war. A thorn tree formerly stood
right opposite where is now a large
gum tree at the roadside. At that
point the road drops into the bottoms
of the Appomattox River, and right at
the crest it appears that Lee had
either come up with his horse or had
halted there, and Grant, coming
through the courthouse cluster, met
Lee at this crest. They saluted each
other, exchanged a few words without
any ceremony, and arranged where to
meet to complete the event, and then
Lee went off northward to his head
quarters, which were in piece of clear
woods about one mile distant, on the
top OF the opposite slope, to the right
of the road. The road from the spot
where these gentlemen first met winds
little downward, and is of a nearly
blood-red clay; hardly any stones are
to be seen in this vicinity. The APP
pomattox River is such a slim little
brook or creek that one has to look
carefully to distinguish it at the bot
tom of the fields. Just beyond the
stream which gives mere ford at the
road is q field of no great size which
had been plowed and narrowed day
or two before | came. In that field
stand a dozen-hardly more-large
old apple trees, probably the remnant
OF formerly large apple orchard.
The trees appear to have fifty years
growth. 1t is a tradition that Gen.
Lee raised a white flag, or that his ex-
ecutive officer did so, in this field by
one of the apple trees. The neighbors,
or the more intelligent of them, think
this is the only foundation for the
q rnr,la- or
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
The Russian Soldier.

The Russian soldier in the field is a
man OF many virtues At home in
peace, indeed, he has but one vice to
speak OF. He will get drunk when he
can and keep drunk as long as he can.
he is docile by nature, and he obeys
his otticer, whom, indeed, he addresses
as little father" as if he were a child.
He is contented in hardship, heat
takes no effect on him, and he has be
come well Injured to cold His weakest
point in campaigning is his susceptible
lty TO inconsistencies, of which malady
thousands OF soldiers actually died
while the Russian army was lying be
fore Constantinople waiting for the
ratification of the treatu Of Rerlin
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06

STRANGER, to waiter at the hotei;
Here | have made slit IN one OF my
boots. Send it to the shoemaker and
ask him to stitch it up" An hour
after. Errand boy TO porter Here 8
a stitched boot for No. 9; cost a pen
nv" Porter to boots: Here's
stitched boot for No. 6; ] had to pay
threepence; give me the money
Roots. to waiter; Here's a boot foT
No. 6; I've paid sixpenos for mending
it: pay up" Waiter, to stranger
Here's the msnded boot; cost
shilling; l paid it myself" Some time
later-Strapger to shoemaker. Il Say,
what did you charge for mendlnf that
boot?" Shoemaker: Nothing.
T,iverDOOI Courier.
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THE supreme {

THE supreme court has decided, on
a case of appeal, that a member Of
the Common Council is not competent
to serve on jury in case where the
city is concerned as one of the con-
testants.-BOstOn Post.
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Throw Away Trusscs

And employ the radical, new method, guar
antsed to permanently cure the worst cases
OF rupture. Send two letter stamps for
references, pamphlet and terms. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06

HER face 80 fair, as flesh it seemed not,
But heavenly portrait OF bright angel hue
Clear as the sky, without blame or blot,
Through goodIy mixture OF compilations
due,
And In her cheeks the vermeil red did show
This is the poets description OF woman
whose physical system wa. IN psrisesiy
sound and healthy state, with every innG-
tion acting properly, and is the euviable
condition Of its lair patrons produced by
br. Pierce's " Favorite Prescription Any
druggist.