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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
Bcautify the Earth.

Here in America we have destroyed
much of the original beauty nature put
into the landscape. and have not replaced
it with the beauty of civilization. The
SCARED. yawning face of the earth in
places where man has wounded it and
left it makes the landscape unsightly
throughout our whole country.
The sense of the beautiful should at
least prompt US to make our door yards
lovely. 1t is the time of year for this.
The living green of our own native blue
grass waits to be transplanted to spots
which man and woman have rendered
hideous.
In great cities door yard is luxury.
But in towns and villages it belongs TO
almost every home, however lowly. If
you have it, make it thing of beauty
Gather up the rubbish over it, every
scrap, and put it where nobody will ever
see it. Level off the yard, loosen its sur
face and cover it with the ever glorious
emerald sod. In one corner plant a
clump of old fashioned lilac bushes. The
children will carry the perfume of the
lilac blossoms in their hearts along past
many weary milestone on the dusty
road of life after you are dead and buried.
Plant roses, too, and other flowers, but
not SO many as to obscure the emerald
grass.
Plant trees and vines. Have shade
and greenness and bright coloring all
about your home, though it be rented
cabin of one room. Teach your children
to make their school house yards beauti-
full too,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

When Myra Clark first sued the city or
New Orleans, it was to prove herself the
legitimate daughter of Daniel Clark, and
to gain her inheritance. The property
she claimed had been sold to the city of
New Orleans by a man who bought it
from her father executors, disregarding
her claims as heir The property in 1861
was valued at 49,, 100000
When Myra Clark began her suit she
was Mrs Whitney, a fair young wife.
Mr.. Whitney died. In 1899 the widow
married Gen. Gaines. She was still fight
ing for her rights. In 1919 Gen. Gaines
died, but still the suit went on. In 1885
Myra Clark Gaines herself died, so years
old, with the vast lawsuit still on her
hands. 1t was inherited by her daughter
in-law, who went on with the fight, and
has brought it to final conclusion in
favor of the deceased Mrs. Gaines. The
daughter in-law is the only surviving
relative among all those interested.
The case has been tried ten times over
in the various courts. Mrs. Gaines in her
lifetime obtained part of the property.
The last decision gives to her estate more
than half u million additional. The law
yers' fees will probably make short work
of this,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
WhY He Vas Not There.

Sheridan Knowles had many acquaint-
ances, and his memory did not al.v~ IS
serve him in recalling their rs
as the following incident sho
never at loss in such circuu
1t is said that Knowles We 49, 10
n friend in the street, when q gentle. I'D
came up to him and exclaimed, in rather
an abrupt, anu even angry manner:
why did you not keep your promise
to dine with us last Thursday, Mr.
Knowles? 1t was q distinct engagement
made between you and me- You kept
the rest of the company waiting for near
ly an hour. 1t is really too
Me boy said Knowles, "ye don't
know how vexed / am No, did not
forget We. Ask Mrs. Knowles if We don't
believe me. was i'll, me boy; but it's
thankful am to say am better now
Give me another chance. Name your
own time. Any day next week"
You really will? Wen, say Thursday
again; and you viii not fail us? Same
hoar-G. VIII that suit your"
Perfectly. On, you may depend upon
me, never fear! III be to the fore that
day"
With n hand shake to Knowles and a
bow to his friend. the would be host
walked away. Knowles looked after
him, lost in thought, till he disappeared,
THAT mans face is familiar to mel Do
you know who he Isl" said the author to
his friend.
mo, | don't" said the friend.
Devil take me if l do, either" said
knowles.-Frith's "reminiscences
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
An UnSunr Martyr

The most heroic life of modern times
ended recently at Kalawao, Sandwich
Islands 1t requires a high order of
human courage to face sudden death.
But to face knowingly such death as
the one which 1T last closed the life above
named requires courage superhuman. In
1878 Father Damien, n wealthy, highly
cultured Belgian priest, in the flower
of young manhood, suddenly appeared
on Molokai, the island of lepers in the
Hawaiian group. There were SIG of these
forsaken wrctches on the island They
huddled together on a peninsula of white
sand, washed by the sea on three sides.
They lived in state of loathsome misery
cared for them, or sought in any way to
alleviate their suffering. They spent
their time in playing cards, and in drink
ing themselves into drunken forgetful-
ness in 4 beverage they brewed from the
root of plant called Xxi The Sand
witch Islands had been ostensibIy Chris
TANNED, but the leper colony had
lapsed into barbarism. and were wor-
Shipping their old pagan deity, Laka, and
sacrificing to him. Their morality was
at the. last, lowest ebb which degradation
could reach
Father Damien's future would have
undoubtedly been one of the most bril-
liant the church could offer. He was
gifted. eloquent and very popular. He
gave up all his advantages and vowed
himself to life among the Iepers. He
knew he could never see his friends or
family more. He was indeed dead to the
world He knew, too, the horrible doom
that certainly awaited him. In course
Of time he too would die the loathsome
death of the leper.
He labored with the lepers sixteen
years. He first ameliorated their physi-
cal condition, then he taught them re-
GgiOn. He made observations on the
disease of leprosy which have lasting
scientific value. He changed the fright
full. dcbauched colony to "A cleanlv, de-
cent, Christian community, living in
houses and cultivating the soil In 1885
the doom he had invoked descended on
his head. He was stricken with leprosy.
'5ut he lived till 1899, working to the
cry last among those whom none but
himself would help.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
Annuities for Old Age.


The teachers in several of the larger
cities of the union have organized mutual
benefit associations, which are almost
models of their kind. The object of these
associations is to pay the expenses of
teachers in sickness, also to pay them an
annuity after they have retired on &C
count of old age. In Boston the annuity
is to be paid to a woman after thirtyfve
years continuous service, and to a man
after forty years.
An assessment of per cent. q year is
made on all salaries below 81 900. Above
$1,000 the assessment is $40 a year, with
fifty cents for each additional $780, The
teacher who retires will receive as an
annuity go per cent. of his or her salary
at the time of leaving, unless said annu-
ity would amount to more than 5000 a
year. The limit of the annuity is 5000.
a permanent fund of 100000 is to be es-
tablished as soon as it can be gathered
This plan furnishes some valuable fea-
lures. There are no officers with exorbi-
tant salaries to fatten off the organiza-
ton. 1t is far better than pensions for
retired teachers, for the annuities do not
come as official charities, but from the
savings of the teachers themselves.
There will thus be no charity in accept
ing the money, and nothing of the pater-
nal government idea in the payment of
it. Mutual benefit associations like this
would be excellent in the different trades
and professions. The members would
thus insure themselves, and they could
be sure of getting themselves the benefits
of the money they had paid.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
BiShop, the Mind Reader.

The Society for Psychic Research have
admitted that occurrences take place
which cannot be accounted for by the
ordinary laws of matter. Bishop, the
mind reader. SO called, gave the best
proof in modern times that there are
facts beyond the ken of the ordinary five
senses. Bishop always said that he per-
formed his feats in a semi-hypnotic con-
dition.
His mind reading was more properly
thought transference. If an article was
hidden anywhere, i'm the house in which
he was or out of it, Bishop, blindfolded.
who hid the article or one of his accom-
plices. would walk directly to the spot
and find it, In Boston he drove car
riage, blindfolded. through the streets
for several squares in quest of the hid
den object and found it.
The only condition he made was that
the person who grasped his wrist should
keep his mind on each step of the
road to the hidden thing, leading gradu-
ally, mentally, to the thing itself. BY
transference of nervous or psychic in
fluence from his leader to Bishop, the
latter, remaining quite passive mentally,
was drawn On till he found the article
This and like feats were called muscle
reading by many. Bishop always said
that anybody could do them. 1t is
fact that in a company of half 4 dozen
persons there will generally be found
one or more who accomplish these facts.
But latterly Bishop has succeeded in
some of his performances without any
physical contact at all. He has APP
preached the sphere Of a real mind
reader. 1t was in accomplishing his
most marvellous feat, reading thought
without physical contact, that he at last
met his death.
For some time he has been subject to
cataleptic seizures. At the close of the
greatest triumph of his life, he was taken
with one of these attacks and never re-
covered. His irregular habits of life may
have fastened his end. He was of
superlatively fine and sensitive nervous
temperament, exactly the organization
that cannot endure alcoholic stimulants
or excuses of any kind. But Bishop put
no check upon himself. His health was
uncertain, and it is said he was insane
for time. He was only Al years old at
his death.
The summing up of his case must be
that he undoubtedly manifested powers
which science cannot account for at pres
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
Civilization and Taxes.

Among the accusations brought 10y the
Berlin commissioners against the hapless
Samoans, one is that they are incapable
of forming a government. AS proof of
this Mr.. Thurston, the British commits
sioner. says: They have raised no
taxes" Their case must be hopeless if
they cannot levy taxes. When the Sa-
moan islands were discovered, 120 years
ago, the nude and graceful islanders
were indeed without a government, but
they were so happy without it that they
wcie not conscious of their sad state.
1t is truly deplorable that they do not
know how to levy taxes. When, under
the tuition of the three great nations that
have now taken them in hand, they learn
how to roll up n great public debt, and
how to assess taxes at three dollars on
the hundred, then they will begin to ap-
preciate the blessings of civilization.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

The Saturday Evening Call of the
18th INST, in two or three instances at
least, where it apparently alludes to
the editor OF the TINEs, speaks in rid
dies Ii closes one very silly and point
less article with these words:
Does he know other than Come
maras 10 have been worthless drunk
ards: Has lie not known that other
than Co0nemaraS who by their h ,llish
and Representatives, that have br ken
family ties that would have bt Ell fond
and loving:
Just what is meant by all this we are
81 a loss understand, We never had
any personal acquaintance with Con
pemaras" and certainly never accusa I'd
them Of beng drunkards, nor have we
e~gr accused any Of them of sundering
family ties, or anything of The KIND, or
even thought cf such a thing. Take
this fact. III connection with another.
VIZ that the silly tumble of words is
next TO being meaningless at best. per-
h2rS the article de,s not allude to Us
81 all
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
SlPERIOR. WIS.,. SATURDAY. HAY IS 1889
This Is The Day.

Today is the time fixed upon for the
final work of organizing the Superior
Consolidated Company" which, if or
gained upon liberal and mean bus
mess " policy, with an energetic, wide
awake management, will mark an era
OF uneqUaled activity in old Superior.
Men with capital are waiting for an
opportunity to locate and invest here
just as soon as an opportunity upon q
square business basis is offered. Today
the heaviest property owners, repre-
senting some 10000 lots, or about one
half of the original townsIte of Supe-
rior, meet in New York city to discuss
ways and means best calculated for
advancing common interest and for
making Superior what its founders
contemplated at the start, the great
lntercceanic city of the country And
thousands of people, with eyes fixed on
Superior, and ear alert to hear from
the assembly ia New York the bidding
" Come. behold all things are ready"
are patiently waiting the result of the
meeting. AS it looks to us, the day
has arrived when the breath of life
must be breathed into the dry and
bleached bones that they spring into
new life and take on new flesh through
some such process as this now contem-
plated, Or else they must moulder into
dust i'll the valley of desolation When
men are abundantly able to do and viii
not, they deserve to suffer and die, and
that is just the situation here. They
are able and can do! Will they? We
hope 10 he able to give favorable an
SWer next week
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

In the autopsy of Bishop, the mind
reader, it was found that the gray matter
of his brain was unusually dark colored
If, as Psychologists assert, the gray mat
ter of the brain is the seat of the higher
powers of man, then it may be that the
color of this gray matter should also be
taken into consideration. Possibly it
would be found that the finer the psychic
powers of the individual, the darker the
gray matter of his brain would be-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
The Gaines VIII Case

Fifty Ave years ago Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines began against the city of New
Orleans the law suit which has become
celebrated in history as Americas Jarn-
dyce & Jarndyce. 1t has only just come
to amend now by the final decision in her
favor in the United States supreme court.
Thirty years ago Justice Wayne, of the
United States supreme court, said that
this case was already the most remark
allie il the history Of American law.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
Travelling ELECTRIC I.ir,It.

a travelling electric light has been used
in Germany with much success. The
arrangement is very simple one. a
dynamo, with an engine to drive il, is
mounted on a wagon, something like
that of steam fire engine, containing
boiler, fuel box and water tank, COM
plete for a nights service. a supply OF
wire and number of poles correspond
ing to the number Of arc lights required,
are added to the equipment, which is
then drawn by a pair of horses to any de
sired place. On arriving there, the poles
are set up where required and stayed
with wires fastened with stakes driven
into tho ground; the lamps are then
hung to them and properly connected,
and the engine is set in motion. The
lights Immediately kindle, and from one
to fifty lamps can be operated, accord
ing to the power of the machine. AS
the lamps can be suspended anywhere,
and are not affected by wind or rain, the
advantage Of the apparatus to contrac-
tors and others who have to carry on
night work is apparent.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
1t will require 10000 persons to take
the United States ce,s2s Of 1890.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
An inquiry instituted throughout the

An inquiry instituted throughout the
country by The New York Press results
in the expression of quite general prefer
ence among Democrats for the renomina-
ton of Grover Cleveland for president in
1892. Some Democrats in New York,
however, prefer Governor David B. Hill.
The Omaha Herald declares that, no
matter what the politicians say, the rank
and file of the Democratic party regard
Grover Cleveland as the a5lest living
Ilanppr1t
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

The Saturday half holiday for factory
operatives and laboring men is being dis
cussed. 1t is claimed in its favor that
by Saturday afternoon workmen become
so weary that their labor does not count
for much, and that with the prospect of
the half holiday before them they would
work with such alacrity i'll the forenoon
as to make up for all the loss of the re-
naming hours.
Incorporate Use of Coffee and Tea
lntoyication may ensue from drinking
either tea or coffee There has existed
for several years in London a club of
newspaper reporters, which meets every
Saturday night for tie purpose of in
dulging in tea drinking: its members not
infrequently become intoxicated. Cases
of delirium tremens from the use of tea
have been reported. The poisoning
qualities of tea are most apparent when
it is eaten When first introduced into
England about the year 1865 it was
served in a bowl like spinach, as an arti-
Gle of food; and the effects of eating it
were such that, for long time after
ward, it was considered to be deadly
drug, and it's sale was regarded as dis
reputable.
Those who chew dry tea leaves extract
from them the alkaloid, which is a very
powerful poison 1t first produces a
pleasant eXhilaration, but its subsequent
effects are sleeplessncss. delirium, an I'M
natural state of mind and abnormal de-
sires. The habit seems to be most in
dulged in by servants, who, having the
tea caddy at their disposal, sometimes
help themselves from it, a pinch at a
time. The smell alone of coffee, when it
is stored in great bulk-as in the hold of
ships-produces deadly nausea, dizziness
and faintness. When cargoes of coffee
thus slowed become shifted in o storm
one of the most dreaded duties of the
sailor is to go down into the hold and re-
store them to their places; the boys and
weak stomachs find it impossible to keep
at work above half an hour.
The habitual coffee drunkard has thin
features, a drawn and wrinkled face,
and grayish yellow complexion. His
sleep is troubled with anxious dreams
His pulse is weak, frequent and COM
pressible. It is asserted that coffee more
frequently Injuries peoples eyes and ears
than does either tobacco or alcohol 1t
does not produce absolute blindness or
deafness, but very annoying disturb
ances. That coffee is the cause is seen
from the fact that when it Is left off the
trouble ceases. The symptoms of chronic
caffeism, or coffee drunkenness, are loss
of appetite, insomnia, trembling of the
lips and tongue, dyspepsia, neuralgia,
pain in the stomach, giddiness, convul-
sions and obstinate constipation. Boston
Herald
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

The editor of The Paper Makers Circu-
lar says this is the age of pulp 1t is
everywhere; it seems even sometimes to
get into peoples heads.
An old fashioned tea drinker makes,
through the newspapers, very polite
and reasonable request of the great
houses that advertise to sell their staple
almost literally as cheap as dirt. He
would like them to furnish better tea
and fewer chromos.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

The transfer of tho money in the
United States treasury from Treasurer
Hyatt to Treasurer Huston will be sig
nalized by a recount of all the money in
the treasury, dollar by dollar. In round
numbers there are S200.000,0 900 in the
treasury. Nearly three-fourths of it is
in standard silver dollars. The COUNTING
will require the work of siyty expert.
four months.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

When a regular old c.ase. we
breaks out, he is apt to make lad
break. The Connecticut house of rep
resentatives, the very last body from
whom such conduct would have been
looked for, recently invited woman to
come in and participate in their debates,
suffrage.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

They grumble in any case. Peach
growers say now the crop will be SO large
that the price will be away down to moth
ing and will scarcely pay for handling.
Curious! But perhaps this summer the
children of the poor millions in cities will
get some of the fruit which is life and
health to them.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

In the witness box in London, Mr..
Parnell made a striking impression OF
personal beauty. His face is said to be,
next to Mr.. Gladstone's, the handsomest
and most distinguished looking in the
house of commons
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

For the first time in the history of ma.
tons, English has been used as the Ian.
guage of diplomacy. The Samoan nego
tiations at Berlin are in that language.
This is in Difference to the Americans on
the commission Americans are the
poorest linguists among nations, except
the French, and rarely know any Ian
guage but their own.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

There is now on exhibition at the Ma
tional museum at Washington the only
flying machine in this country that ever
flew, which it really did 1t is the in
vention of Mr.. Stringfellow. But it
was a failure. The birds ste D.
paratus had not been faithful
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

The actuary of the United States treas
ury is Mr.. r. B. Elliott. He has been
accustomed to figuring out population
statistics for so many years that his esti-
mates are usually very nearly correct
He says that the census of 1890 will
show a population of "a ,476,0 900.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

Fire and water proof paper is a new
German invention a composition of
asbestos, sulphate of aluminium and chic
ride of zinc is mixed with the paper pulp.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25

The Call says the TIMES sent up
the cry of fraud because the city coun-
c | did not designate that paper as the
official paper" Wrong again, Mr.. Call.
If we remember rightly we did not use
the word fraud" at all Robbery,
sonny, Robbery! was what we called it,
and robbery it was. 1t was taking
money out of our pocket which of right
belonged to us with the cool, calculat,
ing precision Of a professional cracks
man, and it was also robbing every tax
payer of the city of a given sum as vet
undetermined, but which Will agrre-
gate hundreds of dollars, simply to
foster the Call, the only paper in the
city which the council can use at Will.
We would have more respect for men
Who would attack us on the highway
and at the muzZle of the revolver bid SUI
stand and deliver" than we can have
for men who under the guise of "a re-
served right (and which right had
been previously surrendered both by
resolution and ADVERTISEMENT robs us
Ill the manner adopted by our city
council. They may be honest men, but
If they are, we thank God that we are
not honest according to their standard.
According to Webster an honest man
is one who is Fair in dealing with
others; free from trckishneSs and
fraud; acting, and having the DISPOSE
ton to act, at all times according to
justice or correct moral principles; up
right; just" Who has ever detected
in their official capacity, any of these
virtuess Certainly they have not been
seen III the matter under controversy.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-25
Ii NE

between these principal cities, the Chicago
& Northwestern system of lines composed
Of the Chicago, st. Paul Minneapolis &
Omaha. Chicago & Northwestern, and
Fremont, Elkhorn & Mo. Valley railways
(all advertised as the Northwestern Line,
traverses rich and populous country, and
offers the quickest means of reaching all
the larger towns or villages in the territory
intersected by it. Before selecting a route
travellers should get folder, with map OF
this line and they will quickly see the ad
vantages offered. All particulars, with
maps and time tables, may be obtained at
any station. or write direct to
IT. w TEASDEAJE.