The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-06

| TO DISMISS despair forever
| Chase the sorrow from her eyes
And the tender words, revealing
| All the unspokeu love OF years
| Wake newer, holier feeling,
| Bring the priceless gilt OF tears.
Well may hearts cease all repining,
| In 4 mothers love secure;
| Love that needs no fires refining
Ever watchful, ever sure!
Love that's like a pure stream yelling
From a heaven-fed mountain crestI
| Love all earthly love exeelling-
| Love the truest and the besti
&C. WeatherIy.
| Right-Handed and Left-Handed
Every farmer and every laborine
man ought to acCustom themselves to
working both ways-that is, either
left-handed or right -handed, whichever
may be more convenient at the time
1t Is often exceedingly awkward for q
| person to be capable of working with
only one hand foremost all the time
This is particular y noticeable in cases
OF telling trees and in using forks. Ii a
| person has to fell a tree and is left.
handed only or right-handed only, the
stump will be au ill-shapen object, but
II the chopper can handle his axe both
ways the work will be neatly done
| When using a fork, it Is often necessary
to throw the hay or straw, or what
ever one is working with, to the side
| opposite the one which is to our hand.
when we are only single-handed; but il
we can change hands readily, the work
is easily done on either side.
There are a great many instances
where training OF the kind we suggest
comes in play usefully. The best time
to learn is in boyhood. Boys should
be taught how to work early and they
should be taught to advantage, so that
they will be ready to adapt themselves
to situations as they come 1t is not
hard to learn any kind of movement
OF the body and limbs when they are
young.
As to who is right-handeG and who
left-handed in work, " q right-handed
man is a man who takes hold of a hoe,
a rake, a spade, or a fork, with the
right hand down and the left hand up,
or nearest the body. A man who
| habitually puts his left hand down, or,
for instance, the man who places his
right hand on the top of a spade, and
grasps the handle or shake with his
! left hand, is left-handed man. And
so with an AK. A right-handed man
and a left-handed man can work to-
gether in chopping down a tree. Ii
they were both right-handed or both
left-handed. they could not do this I'M
less one chopped on one side of the
tree and the other on the other side
And so it is in loading earth into a
wagon. Ii the men stand face to face,
one should be left-handed and the
other right-handed. In hoeing a row
OF corn, the right-handed man will
walk on the left side of the row, while
the left-handed man will walk on the
right side OF it. "-kanSas Farmer.
Winter Hints for Farmers.
There are several small items of work
and farm operations which may or
ought to be performed during winter,
and on which we offer a few familiar
suggestions by way OF reminders to
farmers. Among these, easily per-
formed but important, are putting all
tools in good order by thorough clean
ing, polishing the metallic parts, oiling
or painting the wooden portions, re-
pairing fractures and selecting and Sc
curing the best in the market. A la
borer spends large amount of needless
work by using heavy, rusty, dull i'm
Elements, when he might as well have
light, sharp and efficient ones: Moth
ing pays better for the smaIlc cost than
soaking all wooden work liable to ex-
pOsure to the weather with copiOus
supply OF crude petroleum.
In those regions OF country where
wood Is chiefly employed for fuel, the
advantages OF using it only when well
seasoned should be fully understood.
Green wood contains at least one
fourth of its weight of such water as
thorough seasoning drives out. OF
the 128 cubic feet in a cord OF green
wood, there is at least twenty cubic
feet OF water, weighing / 200 pounds.
The teamster, therefore, draws over
half atom Of needless weight with every
cord OF wood, which be would avoid fit
were seasoned. For evaporating these
twenty cubic feet of water, the strength
OF the wood is wasted in changing it
from liquid to vapor. Thelatent heat
thusrequired would heat nearly 81 hun
bred cubic feet Of water from freezing to
boiling. THERE'S, however, one advan-
tage In using green wood. For open
fire places, largely mixed with other
wood, it regulates the flame and pre-
vents the heat from rapidly running
up the chimney, when very hot fire
is not wanted. But for kindling fire
on a cold morning most people will
prefer the dry fuel to the green. Farm
ers should, therefore, cut and split
their wood in time for it to become
well seasoned, preferring windy and
exposed places to shady and sheltered
ones for piling, where the evaporation
will be carried on rapidly.
In the orchard some useful opera
tions may be performed on the milder
days of winter. Where limbs have
been sawed off in pruning and the
wounds LEFT exposed, a coat of COM
mon paint will be OF great use in pre-
venting the water Of rains from enter
ing the cracks in the exposed surface
and causing decay. A light brown or
white paint is better than a dark col
or, which absorbs heat in summer and
coal tar, which would otherwise be
useful, does not answer well for this
purpose.
Orchards which were set in autumn
should have all the sorts registered in
book before the labels are lost from
the trees. II each kind has been set in
rows, the registering, will be compare
lively simple and easy. If this work
is neglected and the names lost before
the trees bear, confusion and mistakes
will be likely to follow.
In some winters mice are abundant,
and when they can get at the bark of
apples and pear trees they will do
great harm in short time. 4 neigh
Dor had over a thousand fine pear trees
just coming into bearing girdled under
! a temporary fall of snow in March, in
two or three days. Grounds clear OF
! weeds and grass are less liable to such
disasters. and small, compact, conical
mounds of earth beaten smooth, late
III the autunn, around the base OF
each tree, will shut out the mice. But