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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
a Measuring Machine.

Men and women alike are interested
in one of the most convenient devices
ately introduced, a machine for measur-
ing cloth, whether cotton or wooden:
an apparatus which not only takes
the length of a piece of cloth. but also
records it, yard by yard, on the mar
gin; one of the chief advantages OF
the mechanism being that the opera
ton Of measuring never requires to be
repeated. That is, the retailer finds the
piece he buys marked on the wrong sido
Of the selvedge through its entire length.
and he has only to unfold the last ward
TO see if the length corresponds with
the invoice, and at any subsequent time
there is left. Thus, the whole trouble
involved in remeaSuring is done away
with, and also the liability Of making
mistakes in cutting lengths to supply
customers needs. The cloth Is not dam
aged in any manner. Many classes Of
goods such as silks, are woven with a
selvedge that has TO be cut off before
they are made up; while for others
an ink is used for marking the figures
that can be removed as easily and com
plctely az the tailors chalk from a
coat This useful machine can he
driven either by hand or poW.I.-New
York Sun.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
The sIasty Word.

To think before you speak is so wise
an axsom that one would hardly think
it necdful to emphasize il by repetition.
And vet in how many cases the hasty
temper flashes out in the hasty word
and the latter does its work with the
precision and the pain of the swift
stiletto, Singularly enough, the hasty
word oftcnest wounds those who love
one another dearly, and the very close
ness of their intimacy affords them
opportunity for the sudden thrust.
We know the weak points in the ar
NOR of our kinsman and our friends
we are aware of his capricCs, and ordi-
narly are tender and compassionate
even of his vauities and his small
fancies and whims; but there daWns a
day when it is written in the book of
fate that we shall be as cruel as we are
loving. We are cold, or tired, or hun
cry. We are anxious over unpaid bills,
or our expected letters have not
arrived, or one of the children is aiIing,
and We dread the outcome of the
malady. Our poIiteness fails us, forti-
tude is vanquished, philosophy is an
allowance, and we say that which We
repent in sackcloth and ashes. But
though the hasty word may be forgiven,
it is not at once forgotten. 1t has
ilawed the crystal of our friendship;
the place may be cementcd, but there
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
Big Fires.

Minneapolis was visited by a great
conhagration last Monday when one of
her big lumber yards was fired. The
fire spread rapidly and two gas houses,
the mills, sixty loaded cars and millions
of feet of lumber were soon in ashes
The explosions Of the gas tanks and the
big engine boiler of the planning mill
were terrific and it was miraculous that
no lives were lost. The loss is put at
100000. Four or five other fires have
been started in that city within a week,
and on Thursday morning some of the
fire alarm boxes were found plugged
On Wednesday a fire was started in a
lumber yard at Chicago and sixty acres
of yard ground piled full of lumber,
cars and buildings were destroyed in a
few hours, causing a loss of two million
dollars in money and several human
lives. 1t is believed that these fires
have been started by the defeated
strikers, out of revenge.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
Assessing the National hanks.

Pioneer Press
correspondent is seriously impress
ed with the belief that the national
banks are not doing their duty in that
they do not come to the relief of the
United States treasury by voluntarily
furnishing the gold necessary to main
tain the depleted reserve. Since they
won't do it voluntarily his idea is that
they should be compelled to by law
authorizing the United States treasury
to draw on them pro rata according to
their holding of gold for enough to
bring the government gold reserve to
one hundred millions. The warrant
Tor this summary assessment of the
Jank TO keep the government in funds
lie finds in the theory that, as the nat
ional banks get their existence from the
government, thus securing for them a
prestige for solidity over other banking
institutions, they should be considered
branches of tie United States treasury:
SO when the government needs any
money all it has got to do is to draw on
the banks for it. Our correspondent
doesn't say whether the government
Is to give anything in return for the
money thus taken from the banks or
whether it is to be coufscated out
right. But it might be as we'll TO call
his attention to the fact that if the Unit
ed States treasury had the power to
draw on the banks whenever il needed
them every national bank in the Unit
ed States would take immeditelV steps
to surrender its charter. They could
not do business ON such conditions
However convenient it may be to fancy
them branches of the United States
treasury, they are in fact association of
private person conducting banking
business for their own profit and not
for the profit Of the government. They
organized as banking corporations und-
er the banking law of the United States
because III order to do so they are oblig
ed to comply with rigid conditions
which imply their soivency. They are
subjects, too, to a rigid scrutiny by the
bank-eXaminers, the results 70 which
are required to be published. This is
another guarantee to the public of their
solvency. But it Is not the government
which makes them solvent or honest.
All the government does is to certify to
their solvency and honesty. This
gives the government no more claim
than the state government has upon the
oil or butter " hich has passed inspect
ion. 1t is one Of the functions of the
government to protect its cities from
fraud, but that gives it no right to de-
mand that the funds of the business
concern for whose honesty it youches
shall be at Its disposal and sub
jet to Its call. Our correspondent
should revise his theories on this sub
iect.
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The valley of IsumIlauon.
milwaukee Sentinel,

milwaukee Sentinel
There is confusion in the mind Of Sen
ator Villas nowadays, and havoc in lis
soul. His anxiety to initiate the Di-
yinely appointed by striving to appear
better than his party has led him astray.
constituents that he is the impacable
foe of trusts this anxiety has brought
him to the edge of distraction.
lie started off briskly few days age
by moving to rccede from the onc-eighth
ditfcrcntial upon refined sugar. lie did
this To make people forget that his
friend and master, Mr.. Cleveland, had
cvinced disposition to deal lcniently
with the sugar trust. 1t is possible,
too, that the wish to pose as one fear
| less senator in Sugar-trust crowd was
not wholly without influence upon his
conduct, Then the astuter politicians
| in the senate took Mr., Villas aside and
| showed him what his motion meant.
If the senate receded from this duty
enough Democrats would vote with the
Republicans TO defeat the Tariff bill, a
contingency which had not suggested
itself to the artless Mr. Villas. After
the senators had labored with him a
few hours he saw the error of his WAYS
and promised to be better man. In
an elaborated speech, in which he init
mated that the country would shake a
horror-striken fist in the face of any
man who presumed to question Mr.
Cleveland's motives, Mr.Nilas withdrew
his motion and meekly scrambled back
into the party folds,
This was humiliation enough, but more
was in store for the Wisconsin senator.
Mr.. Washburn, of Minnesota, with a re-
prehensibie disregard for the sensitive
feelings of Mr.. Villas, made the very
motion which Mr.. Villas had withdrawn.
The chair ruled this motion, which was
IN the form of a instruction to the sem
ate conferees, out of order. An appeal
was taken from this ruling, and Mr..
Villas voted to sustain the chair in rul-
ing out of order motion which lie had
himself made. The chair being over
ruled Mr.. Villas had the further pleas
ure OF voting against his own motion.
All this may have been painful to Mr..
Villas, but it serves TO reassure the few
people who had begun to think him
irresponsive to the party lash. They
see their mistake now, Mr.. Villas is
II &,
foresight, and being unable to see where
his own motions will carry him he
sometimes butts his head against a wall.
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to take into his employ a man who has
done him an injury or claims the right
to do him an injury in the name OF
organized labor.
Capital and labor are as inseparable
as day and night. The one cannot ex-
ist without the other. Then why
should they continually be at war with
each other? Enmity and strife is al
ways injurious, never beneficial Fra
ternity, cooperation, union, in these
elements there is strength, prosperity
and good for all interested Why can
not these two elements which subdue
the forests and build up cities, states,
nations, come together on this latter
basis, and working together in love and
harmony and for each others good
and advancement accomplish such re-
suits in the future az the great present
has not SO much as dreamed of?
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THE Chicago ncraId'' as Il Prophet
American Economist.

American Economist.
In October, 1892, that great Demo-
cratic authority, The Chicago Herald,
eXhorted its readers to vote ror "a
CHANGE" and in order to catch the
votes of the farmers it used the follow
ing bait:
vote for Cleveland and 1925 for
wheat. Chicago Herald, 1892.
In less than two years we have seen
many changes" that have become
only too painfully familiar to the peo-
pie of the United States 1t is unneces-
sary to dwell upon these beyond draw
ing the attention Of the farmer 10 the
manner in which The Chicago Herald's
promise of Sl.25 for wheat has been
fulfilled. This We DO by quoting from
The Chicago Herald of July 6, 1894, a
telegram which it published as follows,
grammar and all
NANDALIA, Ill, July 5.-Wheat
threshing is in full blast in Favette
county. Six hundred bushels of the
new crop was brought to market TODAY
and sold at forty-six cents per bushel.
The berry is exceptionally fine, and
weighs over sixty pounds to the bushel
measure.-Chicago Herald, 1894.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
A FELINE AERIAL ARTIST.
This Cat Made the Fortune OF IA Fly
ing Trapeze Performer.

This Cat Made the Fortune OF "A Fly
ing Trapezc Performer.
Between you and me and the lamp
post it takes very little to please the
public" said a veteran stage hand to me
the other day. The sillier the play or
performance the more they laugh and
seem to enjoy it
The other night one of the stars Of
the gymnastic world, who was never
known to create a laugh, tumbled to a
piece Of business that has since made
him one of the most popular of the
profession. His business was simply to
perform on the trapoZc and make fly
inc leap, quite thrilling when seen
from the front.
lie was doing his act one night, as
usual, when he observed the stage cat
walking along the beams overhead He
didn't pay much attention to the cat,
nor did the cat notice him.
He continued his gyrations In the
air until 1t came time for his fyIng
leap. Meantime the cat had climbed
down a part of the stage setting to q
fly that was loose and sat there In full
view of the audience.
The fly was a little to one side Of
where the Symnast swung in preparing
for his leap, and as he passed he
thought it would be a good Joke to
seize the cat and take it along with him.
SO he reached out his arm, and before
the cat realized what had happened il
was accompanying him through the air.
The cat struggled so hard for liberty
the gymnast thought he had better drop
it into the net below, and he opened his
arm. But the cat wouldn't jump.
AS the gymnaSt had to lane on his
feet in a net a long way off he con-
Guided he had better jump with the cat.
since he couldn't get rid of it, and he
let 90.
He landed all right, and the cat
after steadying itself. calmly jumped
from his shoulder and disappeared in
the wings, TO the great amusement of
the audience.
The cat has since become accus-
toned TO the flight through the air and
is the side partner of the gymnast, who
never fails to make hit since he
adopted tn. Y. Herald
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
Permanently Closed.

MAEINETrE, Mich, July &d.-Supt.
Dunstan. of the Central Copper Mining
company in kewaunee county has re-
ceived orders from the directors office
in Boston to abandon the mine. This
closes forty year term of continuous
operation OF this mine, during which it
has returned to its stockholders 3. 900
coo in dividends on an investment Of
100000. The shut down Is due to the
utter exhaustion Of the vein and the
failure to find other deposits on the
company's property. -Four hundred
men wholly dependent upon the mine
are ont of employment. This ends the
copper mining industry in Kewaunee
county, which until the discovery of
the Calumet and HecIa controlled the
copper market of the world.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
CHINESE SURGERY
Fortitude Under the Knffe-AIcoh L
in China.

The fortitude and endurance Of Il
Chinaman under the surgeons knife
have long been known. The traits are,
of course. less noticeable now than i'll
the days anterior to the age OF chloro-
form, but even now they are frequently
put to the test of circumstances where
the surgeons in isolated situations are
compelled to undertake operations I'M
aided, or where otherwise the exhibit
ton of chlorofDrm is contra-indicated
and in the mino" operations Of surgery.
When 50 tested. the Chinaman will
endure without flinChing Il degree of
Pain that to the mere highly developed
nervous system of the Westcrner would
be well-nigh impossible. The fact is
to be discounted that, in the case of the
poorer Chinese, a prolonged course Of
low living and practical starvation has
frequently added its results to the orig
inal trouble (while the native practi-
tiCnerS are doing their best or wOrSN
before the case is submitted TO the
affects the progress Of many Of our
patients" DR. John 6. Thompson Of
Hong Kong, writes in the China Medi-
cal Missionary Journal: but. other
things being equal, recovery and con
yalesccnce are very much more rapid
and complete in the average Chinaman
than in the average Englishmn. Rea-
sons for this difference are not entirely
obvious, but the opinion may be hazard
ed that the simpler feeding habits of
the Chinese and their cquable mental
constitution form, at least some of the
causes of the higher vitality of their
tissues. The popularity accepted no
ton that the Chinaman lives on rice is
indeed, very far from the truth. since
even the poorest manage to add few
green vegetables and a little fish or
pork to the rice, which is the STAPLE ma
tional diet; but, taken all round, the
Chinaman'S food is certainly more sim
pie and probably more nutritious than
the food of an EngliShman under anal
agouS circumstances His use of alco-
hO1 is also much less injurious to his
tissues than is its use by a large pro-
portion Of Europeans. The native
spirit SamShOO. is very extensively con
sumed, but it is invariably in minute
quantities and never excepting with
meals, intOXication being a thing prac-
tiCally unknown in China. The tran
guilty of the Chinese mind is prov
erbial. A Chinaman is never In a hur-
~. Provided he be given a hope of
ultimate relief it rarely matters to him
whether his stay in hospital is 70 ex-
tend over a week or month, and this
absence Of all worry probably goes far,
along with other facts | have stated, to
account for the kindly reaction of his
tissues under the surgeons knife"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04

public view, the finest collections OF
atrocities ever exhibited. Photograv-
ure copies of the beautiful painting,
The Sugar House and the " hite House,
given to every paying visitor. Don't
fail to take in the new Mcpherson Aut-
omatia Telegram Sender, the greatest
wonder of the age. Also the Voorhees,
Talking Hat. Protection guaranteedor
money refunded Pledges broken
while you wait. Highest prices given
for cast-off promises. Come early and
see the populist Wolf Show. No extra
charges. Woody Horse and Wild Ass
Amusement Company tLimltedl,
Washington, D. c.
P. S.-All obligations of this COM
pany will be promptly paid upon pre-
sentation on June 81 1893.
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Judge Holt Dead.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Judge Joseph
Holt died at his residence in this city
today. His death was due Indirectly to
a fall sustained few days ago, to which
he paid little attention.
Judge Holt had a long and distin-
guished career, but is chiefly remem-
bered for his participation as Judge
advocate IN the court martial which
tried Mrs. Suratt and the other conspi-
ratOrs executed for the assassination OF
President Lincoln. He was born in
Breckenridge County, Ky, in 1907. AS
a lawyer and as Democratic orator
in early life he was very conspicuous
and participated i'll events Of national
IMPORTANCE.
President Buchanan appointed him
commissioner of patents in 1887; in 1859
he became postmaster general and at
the outbreak Of secession, when John
B. T .oyd withdrew from Mr.. Buchan-
ans cabinet to 90 into the confederacy,
Judge Holt, who had unhesitatingly
declared in favor of the Union, assumed
charge of the war department.
President Lincoln made him Judge
advocate general of the army in 1862
and on the establishment of the bureau
of military justice in 1864 placed him at
the head with the title of brigadier
general. He favored Lincoln's enamel.
patton proclamation and also the en-
listment of colored troops lie was
brevetted major general in the United
States army in March, 1865, for faith
fuI, meritorious and distinguished
services in the bureau of military
Justice during the war;" and on Dee /,
1873, being then over the age limit, he
was retired at his own request. He
has since lived very quietly in this
CITY
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
Why Not ENpeI Anarchists.

Winona Republican: From this free
country of ours, we deliberately, by
act of congress, exclude the inoHcnsive
and industrious Chinaman alike from
citizenship and residence. To the idle
blatant and law-defying anarchist from
every country in Europe we give pas
siye if not cordial welcome. and, when
he asks for it, all the privileges that are
accorded to the most worthy and intlIi-
gent Of the native born.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
The Old.Time Town.
BY .. q. WALL.

| Along the east a range of grassy hills:
| Along the west a river grown from rills,
| And west of that forest deep and wide;
| Along the north two valleys greet the eye,
With intervening bluffs and groves hard by,
| While on the south, and near. low hills
abide.
Within such vague and indefinite bounds
| There's perchance a thousand-ten thousand
towns.
| But only one whose panoramic view
! Lives in mem'ry and strides athwart the
mind.
4 Only one, just one, will my vision find,
And as, in years long gone rebuild anew.
/ The first school house where Cranky Dob
bins taught.
Where youthful minds in constant terror
wrought,
see. to even pictures on the door
! l catch as yet, the same old sing-sOnC tones
OF spelling class on summer afternoons,
/ And hear the plant Dobbins DER and DER.
l glance from "print-shop" window to the
skies
4 That charm the longing soul-rejoice the
1 And fain would bid Imprisonment adieu-
4 Hear restless lad to patcrfamilics say:
1 Is Pa. do you think the trout would bite to-
day."
My son, if you're at work, they won't bite
| you"
As in carly time, of balmy autumn nights,
! | see. like stalwart army. scaling heights,
The long dcvourng line of prairie fire:
4 And through the day l trace athwart the sky
I The Indian summer sun in crimson dye,
/ As on it speeds through space i'll daily gire.
l hear the morning bell that broke rcpose,
| Rung loud and long by he of pond'rous
noScl.
| call the natives in solemn. lcngthen'd
peals
| see, at sunny eve, come DER the hill
| The old-time coach, and hear, when else IS
still,
y mile away, the music of its wheels.
/ The grassy carpet long the winding stream.
| Can ever pleasing, ever-present dream;
The messy bank, the rugged. rocky shore;
! The blades of grass, jeweled with sparkling
dew,
| The wooded slope where anemOncs grew,
see as in the happy days of yore.
sunday Inter-Ocean.
THE editor of the TIMES has been close
| friend of the author of the above lines for
| nearly forty years. He succeeded US as
= devil in the old Chatteld tMinnJ Repub-
| lican Office in 1859, and it was from the dingy
/ windows Of that dear old "print-shop" he
did his monday star-gazing. The Cranky
| DobbmS" We did not know, his rise and fall
occurring the year before we struck the
, town, but he of pond rous nose" (alias
| one-armed GeOrge) who rang the 'Presbyte-
rian bell" at morning noon and night-in
season and out of season-the old-time coach
its rumbling wheels and foamy steedS; the
| brook, the trout. the messy banks and our
i first young loves (Which, we regret to note
| the poet forgets to mention), all pass in re-
| view before US as we read. Beautiful vision1
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
Republican Congregational Convention

The republicans Of the Tenth COngression-
al District Of Wisconsin will meet in dele
gate convention on Tuesday, August Z, 1894,
at | o'clock p. m. at the court house in the
city OF Chippewa Falls. Wisconsin. for the
purpose Of placing in nomination "A candi-
date for Member of Congress for said dis
triCt. TO be voted for at the next general
election, and for the transaction Of such
other business as may properly come before
the convention. Tie several counties in the
district Will be entitled to representation in
said convention aS follows:
Barron 9; bayfield, :; Burnett ,: Chippewa
u; Douglas II: Dunn II; Pierce T.; Polk Z;
St CrUiX T.; sawyer ,; Na>hburn ,.
:. J. BRADFORD,
a. X. HALL.
Dated July Z, 1894 Chairmen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04

The Republicans of this congress.
sional district will hold their conyen,
ton at Chippewa Falls next Tuesday
We have no demands to make on the
party at this time, but We most earn
estly request the party to spare us the
humiliation of having to recognize such
man as Mr.. f. q. Mills as our can
didate for the high place Of congress
man.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04

C. II. Patten: Trouble fear will
result from the decision of United
States Circuit Court judges, like Judge
Jenkins, of Chicago, that railroad men
can be arrested for quitting work. Such
decision believe to be unconstitution-
ri. and menace to our liberties, in
fact laboring man denied the privi-
lege of quitting work is worse Oft than
the seris of Russia"
We clip the above from the Press
News of Winnebago City, Mimi. The
authorities of that little city should
send its lunatics to the asylum.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
4 Strong One.

1t cannot be denied that the ticket
nominated yesterday by the Wisconsin
republicans Is a strong one, viewed
from strictly vote-catching stand
POINTS Pan. G.ubr Penn.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04

First Boy-You're 'fraid 10 fight,
that's what"
Second Boy-No, I amt; but If I fight
you. my mother'll lick me-
How viii she find it out, eh2''
shell see the doctor goia to YOUR
house. Good News
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
Democracy rs She 1. spoke at wash
Inoton

The New York sun on the Democrat
lc situation at Washington; i" old plat
forms removed in skiilful manner. es-
Inmates Of elimination furnished. On