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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-22
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The WooD QUEsTIoN.-The fact
that some of the owners of lands
near Superior have recently taken
steps to protect the timber thereon
has occasioned considerable COM
ment here lately. 1t has furnished
prolific theme for street-corner and
corner-grocery gatherings these
long winter evenings. AS major
ity of the workingmen here are at
fected by the s'new DEPARTURE .
which compels them to quit cutting
or pay for the stumpage, the weight
of the reasoning is generally ad-
verse to the owners. Novel, curl
Gus and oftentimes ridicuIously abb
surd are the arguments advanced.
1t is asserted that because the
owner may nave failed to pay the
taxes levied on the lands for year
or two, he has thereby lost all rights
that anyone is bound to respect !;
that having failed to look after his
timber for the past twenty years it
is too late in the day now to say
q word about it; that the timber
is injured by fire so as to have no
value; and, worst of all, that the
owners themselves really care moth
ing about the matter-that it is
their agents here who want to op-
press the ''poor men" and take the
bread out of their mouths!
The truth is, the people who thus
talk ought to be content to let
well-enough alose. For tpe,atv-
three years past they have been
allowed to cut and use, free of cost,
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not only the immense amount of
firewood demanded by the rigors OF
cur long winters, but also all they
could sell abroad to steam boats and
others, until now the 5000 and
more acres composing the original
townsite being denuded, they are
brought to a halt while advancing
far into the lands adjoining. In
many places the stripping of timber
has extended half mile and more
beyond the townslte, over and
through lands owned by individuals.
The chips and brush left by the
choppers have encouraged greedy
fires to run all over the country,
whitening everything in their path.
In this way the timber on lands for
miles and miles around the head of
the lake has been killed or destroyed
by fire, with the exception of an oc-
caslonal oasis here and there that
escaped. The owners of this scorch-
ed timber are thus forced to sell it
for what they can get, as in another
year or two it will be so dozed and
rotten as to be utterly ualueIess.
No man of sense ought to object to
the low price asked for the stump
age of this kind of wood-only ten
cents per cord. A sensible man
would much rather pay a fair price
for stumpage, and be Independent
about it, than to go onto another's
land, where he knew he had no
rights, and feel that be was stealing
the timber.
The day for getting wood fornoth-
ing has gone by in Superior. The
owners of lots and blocks have good
naturally submitted to be feeced
of the timber on them, without in
terposlng even a frown, but as to
their broad acres-purchased per-
haps 20 or % years ago at an enor-
nous price, as was the case with
Mr.. James Stinson and the fStuntz
land" mile from town on the Mill
tary road, for which he paid one
hundred dollars an ocre az 1857, and
paid the taxes ever slnce-they feel
differently. 1t must look to those
owners very much as if they had
paid taxes in here for 20 years to
feed and clothe people who were
keeping themselves comfortably
warm whilc seated by fires made
from wood cut on their other lands,
Qots and blocks) and that now these
same people wanted to gobble the
only present valuable element of the
lands SO taxed In other words,
having MIXED the good COW from
year to year, till now, she having
finally grown old and gone almost
dry, they propose to further utiliz
the clever old bose by making beef
| ~ hor oaroocc
| We will conclude by saying that
every man of sense must kseo2o that
the timber on a mans land belongs
to that man, and is as much under
his control az his wagon, his horse
or his cow, and that 10 one but
himself has any rights to it. Still, a
recent writer has said that :severy
man is born with natural tendency
to appropriate TIMBER" and per-
habs, after all, he is not 80 very far
out of the way. at any rate this
conclusion furnishes the caly rea-
sonable @ excuse that many men
offer for their conduct in this regard.
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is neatly printed paper filed with
carefully selected biographical, his
torical and literary articles. The
Introductory says SIT will be strictly
a literary and family paper, that no
parent will hesitate to take into his
family" Send cents for sample
copy, 25 cents Ter six months or SO
cents for a year.
Mr.. James Ready has opened
commission house in Duluth for the
sale of beef. pork, poultry, butter,
flour, feed, etc. He is well known
to the people at the head of the
lake as an upright honest square
dealing man, and is deserving of a
liberal patronage, especially from
his old neighbors of Superior when
they visit Duluth to buy goods in
his line. His store is in the Foley
building, on the corner east Of the
Hayes block
"A man from Boston would not
confess astonishment at anything
he saw in Nevada. AS he was pass
ing hotel in Virginia City the cap
blew from one of the chimneys. 1t
was a circular piece of sheet iron,
painted black, slightly convex, and
the four supports were like legs.
The wind carried it down street,
and it went straddling along like a
living thing. The Boston man
asked what it was. "a bedbug
from the hotel" was the reply. "By
George, | never saw anything like
that" he began, and then added,
''outside of Boston.
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have pictures of New Japan
''The Adulteration of articles in
Common Use," etc., etc., all of
which are very literally illustrated.
A new serial story, entitled can
American Countess" by the famous
Eta W. Pierce, commences in this
number and bids fair to prove high
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are the usual number of Short
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Address, Frank Leslie, 537 Pearl
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The communica tion of Mr.. I.
W. Gates, chairman of our town
and county boards, which appears
to-day on our first page, is deserv-
ing of careful perusal. That his
policies are in the main sound, and
the true ones to be pursued, cannot
be denied. Careful, honest manage
ment, and a cutting downof expenses
of all kinds are the only things that
will restore confidence, and bring
the finances of the town and county
into decent shape. Mr.. Gates
means well. and if he is encouraged
by those who are able to assist him,
must ultimately succeed, but we are
sorry to say that good intentions re
celve but very little favor in this
community when they conflict with
selfish aims. The first day of April
next will show whether his policy is
endorsed or not.
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
MRS. senator Jones,s Diamonds.

Senator Jones, Of Nevada, has
been staying during the summer with
his family, at the Dorion House,
Gregory's Point, near South Nor
walk, Conn. The House is some
what isolated, but until Monday, no
danger from thieves was apprehend-
ed. Since Mrs. Jones arrived at
Gregory's Point, she has been con-
spicuous for the large number of dia-
monds that she had been in the hab-
it of wearing. Sunday evening,
wishing to take bath before retir-
ing, she placed the jewelry, valued
at So, 900, in bureau drawer, which,
in her hurry, she forgot to lock. In
addition to large diamond ring, she
placed in the drawer gold watch
and chain, and cameo set valued
as a present from her husband. At
ter returning from the bath she did
not think to ascertain whether or
not her iewelry was safe. After
dinner on Monday, wishing to wear
the jewelry, she found that it was
missing. Mr.. Dorlon, the propne
tor of the hotel, stated yesterday
that he did not suspect any of the
servants of the theft, as they had
been in his employ for years. tie
believed that some tramp must have
effected an entrance to the house.
Neao York Tribune.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
The Mule Strike.

Once there was a mule. He had
palr OF Timber legs with heels at
the end OF them. Mule thought his
master did not give him corn enough
to eat. So one day, as the boss was
passing behind him, he lifted up his
heels and boosted him to the other
side of the barn. This is what Mr.
Mule called a strike. He thought he
could get all the corn he wanted
now.
Presently he wanted water. H'
didn't get it, though. He wanted
more corn. He didn't get that. Ht
went to bed that night without hr
supper. Next day he didn't have t.
work; he didn't have to eat, either
He didn't have any company. Al
he had to do was to stand still anC
think. He couldn't think why tina
master of his did not come to feeC
him. The next day was the sam'
and the next.
Before that mule got anything Il
eat again, he had gIown So gaun
and gentle that he was willing tC
keep his heels on the ground. Th,
strike was ended.
DuquOin, Ill.,, Tribune.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
ssPersonal SACRIFICES, sah.''

An applicant for the San Antonio
Postofice is absolutely certain that
Hayes will give it to him. AS there
are twenty in hot pursuit of the of,
fee, we had the curiosity to know
what made him so positive.
care you a widow of a deceased
army officer, with a family to Sup
port?" we asked.
He replied that he had never tried
to be anybody's widow,
"Did you stump for Hayes, or were
you on the Returning Board, or did
YOU save the Union in the same regi'
ment with Hayes, or did you go to
singing school with Wheeler, or how
is it, anyhow, that you know Hayes
will appoint you p
swell, you will see Pve made per-
sonal sacrifices for Hayes"
GLOW so ?'
Mt's confidential, remember.
"Certainly, honor bright"
"Well, I lost five gallons of whis
ky and $50 worth of cigars betting
on Tilden. ] have sent on the re
ceipted bills with my application
San Antonio IeeaS) Herald.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
strange nalrOrmatlon in a Family.

Living near Englewood, in this
county, is family of father, mother
and twelve children, who count three
hundred and twenty-eight fingers
and toes as naturally belonging to
them. Each of the twelve children
have twenty-four fingers fully de-
veloped, but the parents only have
forty between them. Prof. Hungle-
ford, formerly of Calvert, but recent
ly teacher at Englewood, having sew
eral of these children as scholars:
One day, during recitation, one OF
this family was told to count his fin
GERS with view of impressing some
humber upon his mind. The child
announced the number was twelve.
The teacher said the Returning
Board was endeavoring to practice
fraud, and bulldozed the little fellow
into another count. The result was
the same. "Come here" said the
now irate teacher, "and let me count
YOUR fingers" HIS numbers cores
bonding with the child's, for on each
hand he found five fingers and a
thumb.-CaEUert Central Team.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
EnrIehIng Poor Soils.

have come to the conclusion that
a man must have more manure on a
small farm. than he can make with
a small amount of stock | nave
therefore determined on the follow
ing course: l propose to sow rye
early in the fall; sowing about one
bus6el and halfto the acre, About
tho first of May following l shall
niow vlIo in the rye and SOW corn, about
one bushel and three pecks to the
acre, @ and harrow it in with two;
horse harrow. About July lst, l
will SOW it again in corn, going
through the same process, aud then
about the first frost, plow in the corn
and SOW to rye again. J think tnal
the land will then produce talr
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
A Lively adventure with a Bear,


On Thursday last young man
named Mcdonald, belonging to
GAYS river, had narrow escape
from being devoured by a bear in
the woods near his home. He was
walking through the woods, when
he heard a rustling sound behind
him. Turning around he saw a
large-sized she-bear coming toward
HIM. He had just time to spring for
the nearest tree and climb up 1t.
The bear sprung at him, and, catch
mo one of his feet with her paw,
tore off the shoe and stocking and
badly lacerated the flesh. McDon-
aid managed to crawl out on limb,
whittier the bear attempted to fol-
low, but the limb was too narrow
Fooled of it's prey the bear tore saw
agely at the bark on the limb, while
Mcdonald, holding on by his hands,
screamed Justify for help. A man
near by, hearing his cries, approach
ed Just as the bear dropped from the
tree. Mcdonald called out to the
new conner to look out for the bear,
and at that moment the savage AMI
NAL rushed at the man, who nlmbly
| climbed into the same tree, followed
by the bear. The new cOmer's only
safety was to get out on the same
limb as Mcdonald, and the bear, too
crawled out. Under the weight the
limb broke, and bear and men fell a
distance of some twenty feet. For
tunately the bear was stunned 6y
the fall, and the men, though badly
shaken, were able to get away. %
tanning arms, which they were en-
tirely without, they returned to the
place, but the bear could not 6t
found. ChartottetOao11( Va. HeraLd
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21

crop. have found this the cheap
est and best way to feed and keep
the land in order. We have a great
deal of half-starved land in our
county (half-starved land is land
that will not produce thirty bushels
of corn 10 the acre), and l think If
my plan is carried out for two year,
such land will produce sixty bushels
to the acre.-MuskiRg1tna County.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21
Wife and L.

She who sleeps upon my heart
Was the first to win IL:
She who dreams upon my breast
Ever relgns within it;
She who kisses oft my lips
Wakes the warmest blessing:
She who rests within my arms
Feels their closest pressing.
Other davs than these shall come.
Davs that may be dreary;
Other hours shall greet us yet,
Hours that may be weary:
Still this heart shall be thy home,
Still this breast thy pillow,
Still these lips meet thine as soft
Billow meeteth billow.
Sleep. then, on my happy heart,
Since thy love hath won 1t;
Dream. then, on my loyal breast
None but thou hath done it;
And when age our bloom shall change
With its wintry weather,
Nav we in the self same grave
Sleep and dream together.
There was Cincinnati man
Whose name was Uncle Dick;
He sold cove oysters by the can,
And candy by the stick.
And by the sale of groceries
He grew so rich and great,
For Governor he became the Dem
Ocratic candidate.
1t was the understanding then,
Among the party tramps,
That Uncle Dick would open out
And come down with the stamps.
And now they wait, and growl, and wait
But blamed if Uncle Dick II
Agree to set the lager up,
Or give single nickel
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-03

wood getting everything, but We are
growing slowly, but none the less
surely land must havc our repEesen-
tatives in all Black BILLS del,berative
assemblies from this time forward
ana not be entirely ignored as here.
tofore. A call was issued las, week
for meetings to be held in two of the
southern mining towns.to elect dele
gates to meeting to be held at
Deadwood. Why were not the citi-
zens of Golden City and Cnstleion
invited to send representatives also?
Spring and Castle Greeks are as much
entitled to delegates as are Battle and
French Creeks, aud their votes will
count rs strongly when the time comes.
(, is evident, to quote An old but trite
saying: 'Th res niger in the
woodpi!e," aid this plan of having
everything represented at the north
and but little or nothing at the south
shows exactly where he is, and cur
miners willnot fail to see it. We
are governed well enough and do not
need any new territory until We gre
older and stronger in many different
ways.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-03
PARAGRAPH1C.

Africa rrodccs the most undrcssed
black kids.
Deceased bad nature as sensitive
as sore thumb Omaha obituary..
Eaglishmen are no, supposed I'd be
wholly wise until they are Fifty fye
years old.
Arkansas has more newspapers in
proportion to the population than any
other state in the Union.
twill cost money to visit the Yo.
semitic Valley this year. There are
seven gates to go through.
When Mr.. Eyarts writes sentence,
he rolls it up like BEDFORD aud winds
the end half dozen times around the
middle, and then tueks it underneath,
SO that nobody can find it, and 1t
won't mraveI 1t is as simple and easy
10 understand as sliding down the
ragged edge of a cross-cut saw.